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PAGE FOUR (■■■■■■■■■■■I nVTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 28, 1924 ifottaqc (Grave Sentinel some returns from this laud which not personally told us so, but he hns has been producing little, do we refused to rid his cabinet of weak want to divide with those counties men at a time when charges were who have been each year taking a made against them that had not from their uutimbered been proved. Bode A Smith. ..Publishers fortune Undoubtedly he felt that it would Elbert Bede__ ____ Editor lands! Why should three-fourths of the be well for them to go but he A first-class publication entered at tax fruia any of Laue county’s would not be a party to declaring Cottage Grove as second-class matter property go to the state when no them guilty of crimes charged but Business Office_____ 55 North Sixth state tax is laid against the prod not proved. ucts taken from the soil of un They probably were burden timbered counties! enough to him before. To back SUBSCRIPTION BATES Another point worthy of serious them now, when doing so means ..$2.25 I Three mouths 65c One year..... Six months. . 1.15 I Single copy__ 5c consideration is that timber has hurting himself in the eyes of the beea for years paying a heavy tax multitude, merely because he be Member of —a tax which many claim has beea lieves in playing the game square, National Editorial Association Oregon State Editorial Association in many years greater than the in takes u high quality of backbone crease in the value of the property. and a high regard for the welfare Oregon Newspaper Conference Lune County Publishers ’ Association If the severance tax is now to be of others. Would that we had many laid against this timber, what ar more like him in the councils of the THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1924 rangements are to be made to re government and fewer of those turn to the owners the amount they ready to throw the first stone when have already paid in taxes! doing so means thousands of votes TAXING TIMBER. It appears that Lane county from the unthinking at home. should look askance at any proposal Denby has gone. Daugherty Lane county is deeply interested for a severance tax on timber un ought to go, we believe, but we are in all proposals looking toward the less a similar tax is placed upon all willing to let Coolidge select the taxation of timber. No section of products taken from the soil and hour for his going. the Butte is more heavily timbered waters of the state, and should not than that tributary to Cottage get enthusiastic for one even then. E. J. ADAMS FOR DELEGATE. ♦ ♦ ♦ Grove. No county of the state has a greater amount of timber than In addition to the proposal for E. J. Adams, secretary to Senator Lane. This fact means, of course, a severance tax, we have in Lane Stanfield, former highway commis that a large purt of the county’s county the proposal to increase the sioner and former resident of this tax money must come from timber. taxes upon timber. If timber is county, has announced his candidacy The larger part of the timber is not paying its share of tax, there is as delegate to the next republican owned by a few persons. When a no reason why it should not be convention, lie was a delegate to few persons own a large amount of raised, but we must bear in mind the convention four years ago and property, it is often the case that that we have hold down assessments at that time was largely responsible the many, having the voting power upon other forms of property be for getting inserted in the platform to do so, endeavor to shift the bur cause we did not wish to pay more a plHnk pledging the party to a den of taxation upon the few. than our share of state taxes. Being forest road program, as u result of Not even the timber owners will a largely timbered county, an ex which the sixtyseventh congress dispute that they should pay their cesslvo tux on timber means an ex appropriated $21.500,000 for this fair share of taxes. They expect to cess paid in state taxes, even purpose, $5.500,000 coming to Ore do so, but often tho few large prop though the state equalization board gon. erty owners have a difficult time endeavors to equalize assessments Coming from the greatest timber getting a square deal from the between tlie counties. belt in tho world, Adams is quali ninny owning comparatively small Tho inference has been made thnt fied to suggest timber for a plat pieces of prpoerty. This is not a timber is taxed at only a small form. Having served four years at condition peculiar to Oregon. This proportion of its real value. We do Washington, he is in a better posi condition is merely human nature not doubt that such is the case, but tion than ever to commit the party expressing itself ns it dees every an examination of the tax rolls will to legislation looking toward tho where else where similar conditions show mercantile establishments, man development of the Pacific north- prevail. ufacturing industries, professional wost. He should got a substantial In the mining towns of the great equipment, real estate and other vote in his home county. iron ranges of Minnesota little vil forms of property assessed at as lages have fine city halls and fine low as one-fourth, one-fifth and even Eugene Register: Commissioner school houses erected from the tax one-tenth of their real value. We Sharp announces that hereafter the money taken from the mining com doubt whether timber is getting nny roads are to be maintained. Patrol panics. Similar conditions prevail lower assessments than much other men are instructed to use district elsewhere. property of the county anil stato. funds for maintenance instead of Timber is different from many A cruise of all the property of the new construction, and the county other forms of property. It brings state might bo a good thing. machinery is to be dragged from its no returns to the owner until it is idleness in the shed and put to work. removed and when it is removed no There is even hazy talk of saving ENGLISH COMPULSORY. taxable property is left. The timber out some maintenance money for companies do not wish to remove next fall and winter. It appears Tho University of Oregon is going that after all there is some merit, in all their timber ut once. Neither do the people want it all removed at to compel the study of English upon the recall as an institution. It is a once. This means that the owners the purt of all students. That pity somebody didn’t launch a recall must pay heavy taxes for years seems a wise thing to do. We find movement while we still had some while getting no return from their many studying foreign languages roads left to maintain. who can not write their own. We property. This condition makes a severance find woefully few entering college EDWIN D. HANDY, G. A. R. who can write a news story for a tax seem the plausible kind of a MEMBER. DIES AT ROSEBURG tax. No tax would be paid, its country newspaper and we find, SPRING WASH FABRICS exponents tell us, until the owner many who have graduated from col Edwin D. Handy, for many years lege who would rather leave spelling got his money out of his property There’s a touch of spring freshness in every piece of a resident of Cottage _ Grove, died and with no tuxes to pay until the for others to correct than tuke the Thursday last at the soldiers ’ home these new tub fabrics—goods that will sell quickly for property has been removed, the trouble to go to tho dictionary. at Roseburg. The funeral was held making up into dainty and serviceable spring and sum owner would have no particular Thoro is a. woeful lack of pride in hero Bunday from the Christian mer frocks for women’s, misses’ and children’s wear. the use of the English language reason to hurry in removing it. church, Pastor J. E. Carlson offi It is apparent, however, that and none realize more than those ciating. Among the new tub fabrics on display here are the new Interment was in the much thought should bo given to who are continually writing it how A. F. & A. M.-I. (). O. F. cemetery. Sunfast fabrics in plain colors, yard-wide Ponjola cloth the subject before wo rush into a many mistakes are ignorantly made Members of the American Legion (light weight as silk), Linweave fabrics, new crepes, by those who really have a splen severance tax. acted ns pall bearers and members new silk striped madras, silk plaid tissue ginghams, etc. We have already stated that a did command of the language. Mis of the G. A. R. as honorary pall- large part of Lane county’s taxes takes in pronunciation are legion on bearers. We invite you to view these new tub fabrics today. must coino from its timber. If we tho part of gifted public speakers; Mr. Handy was born in Otsego take the timber from the tax rolls errors in spoiling appear repeatedly county, N. Y., May 15, 1847, and Price range the yard 35c to 90c and substitute the severance tax, in the great newspapers; grammat was aged nearly 77 years, He was where will wo bo at I We may be ical errors are common in the books a member of Appomattox post, in a worse fix than when wo insist of noted writers. In the latter cases G. A. R.. and for years active in ed that the Oregon & California the orrors not only get by the its affairs. The wife and the fol Pretty Cotton or Silk Trim grant binds go back to the govern authors but also by the proofreaders, lowing children survive: George E. meat. Wo immediately removed the who ofton have a better oommand and William H. Handy and Mrs. mings—As You Like. of tho language than have tho au source of n large projKirtion of our, Eva Scott. thors whose writings they proof - taxes. À A Pretty puffed silk ribbon and We would have no way of know rend. James Palmer Is Indicted. braid trimmings, new imported By all means English should be ing how much timber was going to Juinos Palmer, the youth who on swiss trimming, new embroid be cut during a year. We might get made a compulsory study. January 10 stabbed Ralph Ln minors only a small proportion of the to death, has been indicted by the ered motifs, new wash braids DENBY AND DAUGHERTY. amount we get from a property tax. Limo county grand jury on a charge for the tub fabrics. Priced the Wo are complaining now about the of murder in the second degree. He yard.......................... 3c to $1.00 We must admire the backbone luo<2>londednotirmlrv. amount of our taxes. It behooves us to move carefully in regard to a and patience of President Coolidge severance tax lest we unwittingly and his evident unconcern about his double the amount the rest of who own renomiuation when a question FORD TRUCK AND TRACTOR Castor Car Hit by Train. own no timber will have to pay. of right is concerned. SCHOOL HERE TOMORROW A Chevrolet car driven by Roy lie could have won the plaudits Under any severance tax yet pro Castor was struck by a Southern posed the state is to get tho larger of the multitude by playing horse The Ford truck and tractor school, Pacific train at the Main street part of the nioaey—the latest pro the way many senators have been now touring the state, will be here crossing on Wednesday evening of posal is three fourths to the state doing. He could have had the rab tomorrow. The entire day will be and one-fourth to the county. Inane ble shouting themselves honrse with given to demonstrations of the county, as one of the heaviest tinv his praiae had he been willing to Latest equipment for Ford products. bored counties of the state, would sacrifice others for his own political A free motion picture show will be have to pay a state tax out of all gain, but he has preferred to play given in the evening at the high proportion to what untimbered the game square and take the con- school auditorium. Lectures will counties would have to pay. sequences. be given in connection with Do we want thntf Unquestionably Denby and Daugh the motion pictures, the speakers Untimbered counties have been erty are weak me a for cabinet being experts who have been in «ho for years getting returns from their positions. We believed, long before employ of the Ford company for lands far in excess of what we have the Teapot Dome scandal, that many years. The pictures and lec been getting from our timbered Daugherty should have stepped tures will describe the many uses of lands. Now that our timber is about down and out. Neither man, in our Ford equipment and the op.uation to be cut and we are about to get opinion, was big enough for the and care of same. A Weekly Newspaper With Plenty of Backbone a Dries ror UfrmfuuiL tables from fruit? INSTRUCTOR IN AGRICULTURE TAKING HIS OWN MEDICINE 'Pu/ieiebl E. J. Edwards, instructor of agri culture in the high school, believes that a doctor should take his own medicine. Carrying out his belief, he is now settled on a little place five miles south of the city on the CoaBt fork which is a part of the old “Uncle’’ Jim Short ridge place. It was purchased from E. W. Hin shaw. 8. C. Lowry, manager of the J. C. Penney store, has moved into the Woolley house on Birch avenue vacated by Mr. Edwards. Vandal Robs Mail Bex. Mount View. Feb. 25.— (Special.) —Some vandal seems to be nibbing mail boxes in this section. A pack age was removed from W. D. death’s box. The wrapping of the ¡package was found tho next day a short distance away but there was no sign of the contents. LAXATIVES differs from the others in ac tion, yet all are effective, pure and safe. Pure test Epsom Salt An epsoin salt at last that is easy to take. Double Shift on Planers. Pure test Mineral Oil, Russian The Anderson A Middleton Lum Type A gentle intestinal lu her company has put a double shift on its planers at the Latham mill. bricant. requiring the employment of several Puretest Castor Oil Posit iv« extra men. This was found neces in action and easy to give to sary in order to keep this depart inent up with the operations in children. other departments. Three of 200 Puretest prepa-| rations Every item the best Hospital Garments Shipped. that skill and conscience can The Red Cross sent a shipment of hospital garments last week to ex produce. Kern’s for Drugs The New Domestic and Imported Voiles You will be pleased indeed with these voiles for the spring and suinmy dress—then« are plain voiles in bright colors, white dottei® voiles and pretty figured voiles—all a yar< wide. Priced a yard..............................35c to $1.0( New Flannel Checks for Skirt or Suit These new checked flannels are the last word foi suit or skirt—the fabric is soft and drapes very prettily and will wear well—the checks are blue checks on tan, black and henna check on tan> background, brown check-on background of tan] etc.—-each pattern 50 inches wide. Priced a yard......................................$3.65 to $5.5C ----------------------------------------------------------------- - SPRING SILKS ARE READY HERE- COME IN AND SEE THEM TODAY An array of silk fabrics that will call forth the enthu-l siasm of women who view them and will supply the opportunity for selection for the new spring blouse, the new dress and other apparel for spring and summer. We are surely showing a varied collection of exquisite patterns and colorings. Pongee, yard wide, a yard..... $1.00 to $1.75« Crept' de chine, a yard......... .»... $1.95 to $3.50 Printed silk crepes, a yard..... $1.50 to Satins and messalines, a yard $2.25 to Dainty New Collars for the New Spring Frock The new collars (ready to wear) and collaring (by the yard) are surely meeting with favor by the women who view them here—just now they are fashionable on all fabrics—see thmn today. last week. Mr. Castor heard the warning bell ringing and drove onto the tracks slowly. As he looked in __ direction ________ k_______ ... one he was __________ struck from the other side by a train switching on the sidetrack. Mr. Castor, wl was alone in the car, escaped wit out injury but the car was bad damaged. rast Color Suiting er because, in general, vege tables (radishes) are, or grow on, plants that die after yiehi- j mg once. Fruits (apples) grow on plants that keep yielding, year after year. Each of the following A splendid exhibition of new spring fabrics await your inspection here Hundreds of yards of imported an< domestic fabrics in decidedly beau tiful jiatterns and colorings tha will be desirable and wanted foi making of garments for this spring and summer, 1924. service men who nre ill and await ing their eompenration. Mrs. Walter Fullmer eut the garments, the anxil tary of the American legion did the sewing and the Red Cross ex iwaded $50 for tho material. Active Children Are Sensibly * Dressed in Fast Color Suiting You need have no fear for the youngsters’ play clothes when they re made ot sturdy FAST COLOR SUITING. Hours in the bright sunshine, tree climbing and romping over hills will leave the little garments of FAST COLOR SUITING good for long wear afterwards. The color is garanteed to be absolutely fast Besides the children’s clothing smart sport suits and frocks for the older members of the family can be made of this popular ma terial. Come in today to see the color range and to feel the close, firm weave. Guaranteed fast color suiting not so good as this is usually sold for 60c. Our price only 50c. Powell Burkholder^