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PAGE FOUR (Éottage tërove £entmd COTTAGE^ROVE^ENTD^FBIDA^NOVEMBER^IMS unsuccessful one, is not so fair to the successful concern as the prop erty tax. A flat tax undoubtedly would be more popular with industry and that kind of a tax was originally introduced iducod nt at tho the legi legislature. ______ That ___ was the t____ kind of tax Governor Pierce asked for. That a reasonable income tax would not keep capital out of the state is partially proved by the fact that an income tax on gross earnings has not kept industry out of Cali fornia. The fear of an income tax keeping capital out of Oregon has not pre vented the raising of $300,000 in Portland for the promotion of indus trial and other projects for the state. farmer is just as well off as the the lower price. This story illua- The sting was on the leg, which farmer in this section, and about all trates the whole cooperative movc- became very painful and swollen. A Weekly Newspaper With Plenty Lane county needs is more con >uent more than columns of argu- An hour later the symptoms of in of Backbone structive boosting. That is what meat could. fluenza succumbed rapidly, and has put southern California on the The potuto inspection and grad within three hours tho patient felt Bede 4 Smith---------------- Publishers map, and it will do the same for ing lew is becoming generally ob entirely well and surrounded a big Elbert Bede_________________ Editor Lane county. served by growers and shippers and dinner. Dr. Morris recalls that bee One thing southern Californians ■the sentiment over the state is very stings have sometimes relieved rheu A fint cl*»i publication entered at don't do is to advertiso their dis favorable to the new act. There is, matism, and suggests that the yel Cottage Cirove as second clan matter advantages. I was amused when I of course, the usual opposition on low jacket is worthy of considera Business Office_____ 55 North Sixth read a much more complete account the part of some to this law, as tion. It might be well to found a of the recent earthquake in Oregon there is to aay law that would new school of healing, with sting SUBSCRIPTION RATES papers than was published in any guarantee a standard product. Farm ing insects as the curative agents. One year___$2.25 I Three months 55c of the southern California papers. ers may obtain sack stencils, post Six months- 1.15 ! Single copy— 5c By the way, that was some earth-, paid, at 25 cents each by applying OREGON APPLE CROP IS quake, too! Mrs. Whitney and I to George R. Hislop, experiment sta ESTIMATED AT 6700 CARS Member of were both awake and had the plea tion, O. X C., Corvallis, Ore. National Editorial Association sure (7) of getting the full benefit Oregon Btate Editorial Association Marshfneld, Ore., Oct. 29.—Ore of the first shock we had ever ex Since its inception, the Pacific In gon ’s apple crop for this year is Oregon Newspaper Conference perienced. I can’t find words to ternational Livestock exposition has estimated at 6700 cars by F. L. Lane County Publisher» ’ Association Conclusion. describe adequately what occurred. developed one of the largest and Kent, statistician for tho depart FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 192X Governor Pierce, as well as others, At first we thought a very heavy one of the vory best dairy cattle ment of agriculture. Estimated in his talks upon the proposed in truck was passing down the street; shows in the world. We have the yields from producing sections range come tax has said that the proposed tho roaring preceding the quake fine dairy cattle here, for one rea from 3540 cars in Hood River and THE PRO AND OON OF THE PROPOSED INCOME TAX law is far from a perfect one, that sounded to us more like that than son. This is a Jersey state and the Wasco counties to 250 cars in the it will have to be immediately anything else. The roaring became world can’t beat us on production. Willamette valley. Rogue and Ump amended. The most foreeful argu more intense and when the house The last importation from tho Island qua valleys are credited with a to (Concluded from first page.) ment used for its adoption is that it began to move I thought 1 was in cf Jersey brought some remarkably tal of 1250 cars and Umatilla county is a step in the right direction, but a real wind and rain storm, such as fine type» here and these will be have tax-exempt securities for sale it seems more like a wrong step, even hits the Oregon coast occasionally. shown. Holsteins from the north with 1000 cars. Union, Baker and Malheur eounties will jointly pro we are anxious for buyers. In times though in the right direction. Tho dishes rattled in the cupboard west have wonderful type and pro duce 660 cars, according to the esti past we have said that buying of It was admitted upon tho floor of and a pan of water in the kitchen duction and it is expected that mate. tax-exempt securities was a patriotic the legislature that if an offset were splashed about. Tho rocking motion there will be 356 of them here—the The pear crop is set at 2097 ears duty. We belabored the rich who did allowed for property taxes paid the cidn’t last long, but seemed long pick of the best. The Guernseys are and apportioned as follows: Rogue not invest in them to the extent we proposed tax would not raise enough enough to us. Huffice to say we going great guns and will be on and Umpqua valleys, 1750 ears; thought they should. Now we hold to bo worth while. Estimates have didn’t go to sleep again at once, hand in larger numbers than ever. River and Wasco counties, 275 such persons up to public condemna been made that it will not raise over for we thought there might still be The Ayrshire breeders expect to Hood ears; Willamette valley, 50 cars, tion. If they should dispose of such $60,000 from now sources, while the another quako. increase their numbers, as do the and Union, Baker and Malheur tax-exempt securities, someone else lowest estimate of the cost of admin To say the least, it was a new ex Brown Swiss. There has never been counties 21 cars jointly. would have to buy them. There would istering the law is nmout $150,000. perience to us and it should at least a dairy cattle show equal to it. In Reports received from the vari be no difference in the amount kept Wo repeat that the sensible thing bring a person to realize his frailty the dual purpose breeds the milking ous districts by the Oregon Growers’ off the tax rolls. A state income tux, to do would be to defeat the present and to a fuller realization that the Shorthorns are coming from as far eooperative association agree that with steep graduated rates, woulc measure and let tho legislature, with Creator is all powerful and that He as Massachusetts. The dairy prod growing conditions have been ex make tax exempt securities even all the information now at hand, indeed “holdeth the world in his ucts show is another feature of vital ceptionally favorable and that the more populur. The federal income frame a new law with the real prop hand.’’ Like a stern parent chas- importance to the exposition and to quality of the fruit will be high and tax bus made such securities so pop erty offset, probably with a flat tax teneth his child, the Almighty chas- the country as well. of large size generally. ular that large amounts in taxes and with ninny glaring defeets re teneth whom He will, and from tho have been saved by the lower rates moved. many things published about south Kindness to Animals. Wasp Sting Cures. of interest at which such securities We must preparo for an income ern California everyone will agree “Remove the sting of a wasp or Those who have had the personal are acceptable. tax eventually. It will bo a popular that they only get what’s coming to 8peaking of intangible property form of taxation with the majority them when they get a good slinking experience with a yellow jacket bee with a watch key, pressing the probably considered the insect but a place with it; then rub the sting that pays no taxes, the statement because it levies taxes that can bo up. peculiarly vicious variety of wasp. with u slice of raw onion, moist was recently mado by a Cottago paid and will bo paid. Tho income There is a use for everything, how tobacco or a damp blue bag. ’ ’—Dai Grove farmer, a substantial man who tax requires a contribution to gov has n reputation as a successful ernment expenses in proportion to t WEEKLY LETTER FROM * ever, and Dr. Robert T. Morris, a ly Mirror. “Press gently, dry, dust furmcr, 'hat half the monoy in the benefits presumed to be received, It [ STATE MARKET AGENT | New York physician, has discovered with boracic powder and return it that the sting of the violent tem tc the bee or wasp. ’ ’—Punch. Cottage Grove banks is monoy owned is coming, but it should be given to ------------------------------------- pered yellow jaeket is a euro for by farmers. We have no information us in a less defective form. Entries at the Pacific Interna Washington has put its coopera influenza and la grippe. At least us to tho truth of this statement tive hay association over and has he has discovered a case in which tional Livestock exposition last year but wo would be willing to venture 75 per cent of the alfalfa hay the sting of the insect affected al numbered 3816. Every year has seen tho guess that throe-fourths of the WHITNEY, FORMER LANE signed up to be handled through most immediate cure in an acute the number increase. This year the money in tho Cottage Grove banks, COUNTY AGENT. COMPARES pool selling. Tho organization will attack of influenza. His patient, officials expect the figures to run and all other blinks of the state, is LANE AND LOS ANGELES be financed through the intermedi says the doctor, was a man 54 years over 4000. owned by those bearing their share — ate credit bnnk. The same move of age. On the third day of his of the burden of taxation. ment is now under way in Oregon illness he met up with a yellow MONEY FOR YOU—PAY CASHi By IRA P. WHITNEY for your wantads and get three | and there is little doubt, say the jacket, which expressed its inborn Former Lane County Agent. Ratio of Income and Taxes. Bellflower, Calif., Hept. 18.—Al promoters, that it will go over jrouch in thojcharneterisricnianner. 2nsertions forjtlie£rieeof tw2L-A£El Reliable data prepared by tho Ore gon Voter show that tho non farming though I am many milew away I am easily, when there will be coopera class of tho state pays 10.7 per cent ntill keeping in touch with I Anu tion of the two state associations of its income in taxes and tho funn county affair«. I have now been nnd 75 per cent of the hay grown ing class 0.6 per cent. Not a great in southern California long enough in the northwest will be committed to gather reliable data from which to a definite selling pjun. When discrepancy. From the siuno sourco wo lenrn to draw Home more or less definite Oregon's 75 per cent is signed up, that tho non-farming class has 78 concluHionH. Homo of the conclu joint price fixing and selling will per cent of tho income of tho state «iotiH will be of interest to my ninny bo worked out. This is u demonstra tion of farmers operating their own and the farming class 22 per cent. Lane county friends. Southern California is really a business rather than letting the Tho farming class would then pay land. ’ ” ’ We reached here brokers run it for them. It cun be 22 per cent of the income tax. These “ ‘ wonder hind. figure» uro baaed upon the statistics April 3 and have had but one applied to almost any product grown shower sufficient to Iny tho dust. in sufficient quantities to warrant of tho federal government. Actual income is undoubtedly n That was on the night of April 5. nn organization. A few yenrs ago tho poultrymen billion dollars. Our taxes arc possibly To us it is truly a land of sunshine $45,000,000. That would givo us and so far we have enjoyed it im of Oregon shipped their eggs to 45-1000 of our income paid out in mensely. If I am correctly in .he commission houses und packing taxes, or $45 in taxes on every $1000 formed wo may look for n rainy concerns and asked, “How much of income, not including federal la- season here in winter that will com will you give!’’ Today the poultry- coma taxes—not so largo a propor pare in length with tho dry season men have a strong cooperative asso tion ns we might easily have believed in Lane county. We haven’t ex ciation which fixes the price on tho perienced any hot woather. They eggs and the dealers have to meet from some talk we have heard. say this has been n cool summer, it. Further, tho deniers consider the and I am inclined to believe it, for price of the cooperative association Would Capital Be Driven Away. quoting prices to those who are It is doubtful whothor capital I have Meon hotter weather in the in not members of tho organization. would be kept out of tho state were Willainetto valley than wo have The association fixes the egg prices the proposed income tux exactly had hero. In looking after the production of Oregon. what nn income tax should be, Industrial prices nro abnormally but it is not. In the last-minute rush activities of n crenmery coni- high and agricultural prices abnor it was jammed through the legisla pany my work has taken mo into mally low. This puts the farmer in ture with many glaring defeets. six counties and I have personally a tight hole and it would seom that There in much question hh to whut inspected over 250 dairy farms. through group action lies his only many provisions of the proposed law Practically all of the milk produced hope in adjusting these conditions. uro likely to do. Thoro is much doubt within n rudiuM of 100 inileH of Los Tho cotton growers, tobacco raisers ns to exactly who will have to pay Angeles becomes a piirt of the city and fruit growers of the south have u tax und ns to exactly who and milk supply. In fact, this is tho pulled their industries up from loss whnt will be exempt. Capital will first season for several years that to profit by united action. In this not come hero to be (icniilized. tho supply has exceeded tho de era of combinations and price fixing Neither will it hasten to conie un mand. Tho average dairy farm near tho the Industry that throws its prod dor conditions nbout which it knows ucts on tho market and takes the nothing. Some cupital is likely to city is, of necessity, small because buyers’ price stands a slim ehnnee wait mid soo tho tax law in opera of the high priced land. In most to succeed. tion. The graduated feature, which cases there is no pasture. The cows Tho Agricultural News, Washing takes a largo slice from the success are kept in a dry lot and fed alfalfa ton ’» state grange publication, ful concern mid nothing from tho hay and mixed grains. Tho manure prints a story that should sear itself is sold to the citrus grove owners mid brings a return of from $12 to into the mind of every farmer who $50 a cow per year, depending upon reads it. A wheat-raising commu tho location and tho way it is nity in Canada was paying 16 cents handled. In the more distant dis for binder twine, when the farmers tricts the dairy herds are found formed a cooperative company and where alfalfa is being grown and built a twiuo factory and sold the the dairymen plnn to grow corn or same twine nt 8M1 cents, the actual cost being 8 cents. Tho big ma sorghum for silage. Green allAlfa is used as u Boil chinery corporation, which had for ing crop during a portion of the years sold the farmers twine, at vonson nt least and the silage sup once cut their price from 16 cents plies th-» succulent portion of the to 8 cents, one-half cent lower than ration during the remainder of tho tho farmers’ cooperative price, and thia price prevailed until the farm year. Thu dairymen are paid a good era' factory was struck by light price for milk, but feed costs are ning and burned, then the corpora nigh and it takes a real dairyman tion put its price back to 16 cents. to make a success of tho business. Fully insured, tho farmers rebuilt Good alfalfa land in the best dairy their plant and again put their districts is worth from ♦500 to 1700 twine on the market at 8 to cents, per acre. Hoven to eight cuttings when tho private corporation once of alfalfa uro inode during tho sea more reduced its price from 16 to 8 and tho Average is about ii ton cents, hoping to induce the farmers — because, when the body son of cured hay to the cutting. With to desert their own organization by chills, the nervous system puts the cost of land and feed incroas the muscles in motion, This ing from year to year, the poorer “exercise” drives the heart dairymen are gradually crowded out and those engaged in dairying are faster and hastens the flow of of necessity becoming more effi warm blood. A rub with cient. Tho cow testing aaaociatior.» have done more than nil else com Take it hone te bined to put tho industry on a pay ing g basis. the kids. Thousands of dairy cows are shipped into southern California Nave a packet la beats a shiver every time Its every year. Tho demand ns well as the price for really good ilairy cows your pocket for an an aid to circulation. is increasing, while it is getting to ever-ready treat. be risky business to ship in inferior Excellent for limbering up cows, for they may return tho dial athletes and relieving strains, er dflicioiis coflffie- A a loss instead of n profit, with stiff joints and lame muscles. the Jurymen educated as to the two and an aid Io Immediately remove» pcrapl- real value of a cow. tho tooth, ooootito. ration odors, Adopted by kad- Berries and small fruits are grown to some extout in this section. but ing athletic cluba, hoapitala they don't compare with the l-aue and training camps through- county product. Perhaps more than out the U. S. anything else we have missed tho berries and small fruits that we One of 200 Puretent prepa- always had in such abundance in rations for health and hygiene. I»»• county. Tho citrus fruits take Every item the beat that skill first place in this section, with wal nuts, apricots, peaches and pears in and conscience can produce. abundance in sections favorable to their growth. After all, there isn’t much dif ferenee in the crops grown in lwne county and southern California, cit An< JBkW ms fruits excepted. I am inclined to believe that the Lane county! do we shiver 9 WRIGLEYS Rubbing Alcohol Kem’s for Drugs W here M oney B rings B ig V alues .................. $5.50 Ladies’ suede pumps... ........... ...... $4.50 Ladies’ patent pumps .. $3.95 to $4.50 Ladies’ kid pumps....... .................. $4.85 Ladies’ satin pumps.... .. $3.65 to $5.95 Ladies’ oxfords........... . Misses’ shoes, patent suede top priced at.............................. $3.50 to $3.95 Misses’ oxfords................. .... $2.75 to $3.25 Children’s scuffers............... $1.45 to $3.10 Men’s dress shoes................. $2.95 to $7.50 Men’s heavy work shoes...... $2.95 to $5.25 Men’s pacs...................... $7.65, $8.75, $10.50 Loggers................. $10.50 to $16.00 Boys’ high tops...................................... $3.98 Boys’ heavy shoes..................$2.45 to $3.95 Boys’ dress shoes....................$1.95 to $4.50 Men’s overalls................ „,$1.45 C J. Breier Co A. W. SWANSON, MANAGER Say It With Printe r ’ s Ink