Till BNDAY,
THE »AYTON TRIBUNE
PAGE SIX
Taxation, Capital and
the Oregon Farmer
I NTYKRNITY <»!•’ OREGON
NEARLY SOLD BY SHERIFF
04 TOBER m. •»**
Do You Vote?
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EU You boast that here the people rule.
GENE. ORE.. OCT. 19 (SPECIAL!
But do you vote?
Reminiscences of the days when That we'll be aoverned by no tool,
a loan of *2.000 saved the Univer
Hut do you vote?
sity of Oregon from being sold by You look for graft by high or low.
BY BRUCK DENNIS
the sheriff because contractors on While politicians run the show.
Author of the Itenni» Resolution
Heady Hall, the first building, had And doubtless all you say la ao,
During the heat and excitement of political campaigns and the
not been paid were given today by
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confusing statements that attend them we- are apt at times to
William Scott, of Creswell, the first
forget hard economic facts, and the bitter fruits of some pet "ism ’
student of the University.
By ballot you express your choice.
that look good in theory but do heavy damage in practice.
Not only is Mr. Scott the first
Hut do you vote?
For this reason it is time to begin telling
student, having registered on Oc- You're free lo make your primary
a few plain truths about land taxation, the
tober 16. 1x76. but he is a son of a
choice.
incomes of our people, corporations and indus
member of the first board of regents^
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tries, and again to bring to mind the fact that
William J. J. Scott, who then lived Your mouth with anger almost foams
capital dot's not need Oregon but Oregon does
: in Eugene. Mr. Scott's grandfather. When laws that regulate your homes
need capital.
And the reason why we should continue to re
Captain Levi Scott, who was the Are left to men with Ivory domna.
mind ourselves and our friends Is because an
founder of Scottsburg which was an
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other effort is being made to force a state in
important town on the Umpqua river
come tax upon our people despite the fact that
in the early, gold mining days, was "Let's act!" you cry. "For pity sake"
practically the same tax coat many millions in
Hut do you vote?
the first janitor of the University.
capital and improvements to Oregon and the
Oft and again you bellyache.
At
seventy
years
of
age.
Mr.
Scott
people of Oregon before it was repealed in
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keeps busy iu his spare time by
19 24. We cannot expect a proved breeder of
painting, an occupation he has fol You swear that we have much nt
hard times to bring good times, because it can’t
stake,
lowed a number of years. He was
be done. And here are a few of the reasons why.
born in Scott's Valley east of Yon To present Ills must be awake.
calla. Ore., and entered the Univer And in affairs more Interest take.
In all of Oregon's 96.000 square miles there Is an estimated
But do you vote?
sity when he was 20 years old.
population of only 825.000 people—less than 9 to the square mile.
Mr. Scott's father. William J. J. Initiatives are yours to use.
We have 55,157 farms—an average of one to every 15 people.
We have only 2500 industries that employ five men or more—an
Scott, is the man who loaned the
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average of one industry to every 330 people.
University *2.000 to keep the sheriff On referendums you may muse.
Out of Oregon's 825.000 people. 782,256 didn't have net incomes
from foreclosing a mechanics lien
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big enough to file income tax returns. Of the 42.545 who did.
on Deady hall. Purchasers on hand The cry "More bonds” still louder
one-half of them showed earnings ubder *3.000 and only 311 had
to take over the half constructed
gets;
earnings in excess of *10,000. Only one-fifth of Oregon's 5,000
building and property on the fatal When they exceed those foreign
corporations made enough to file returns and of the 1073 reporting
day.
but
the
timely
arrival
of
the
bling wasps.
The lava or worm
FARM POINTERS
478 made less than *5,000, and only 183 made in excess of *20,-
debts,
loan saved the institution for the Then you. perhaps, may have regrets.
does the damage
It Is elongate,
000.
pioneers who had worked desperate
If field selected need corn Is not white with a brown head and darker
But du you vote?
ly to raise enough funds by solicit
stored In u dry. well ventilated biting juw». It feeds on the Interior
Our farms and our industries are our two main sources for new
ing wheat, cattle, vegetables and hogs
place In non-freezing temperture It of the crown and tap root, eating
wealth. They both face hard problems on account of scant and
from farmers to nearly complete the
might not us well be picked, nays out the entire heart.
scattered population, long hauls, competition, insufficient capital,
the experiment station.
It need»
structure.
Infested plants look sickly and
and heavy and ever-mounting taxes. If our farms are to prosper
“There were three members of the I» MILK CAN FULL OF MINT
protection from weather and mice to on being pulled from the ground of
they have to secure outside money for loans and money to finance
crops. If our industries are to develop they have to finance their
faculty when I entered on the first ;;
insure good condition at seeding ten break just below the crown, ex
oil worth near si.ooo ;
purchases and payrolls. Both have to have markets and tint
day, and they were President John
posing the tunnel Allied with brown
time.
means new people and more industries.
son, M. Bailey, and Thomas Condon.
trass, or partly with the lava Itself.
OU of peppermint Is vulu- ' ’
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Mrs. Mary K Spiller had charge of ' ’
Attractive lamp shades are made The only control measures recom
That is what the Dennis resolution is designed to do. It is an
the preparatory department.
A- ! able. A grower and distiller ' > by first covering the frame with a mended now for unlrrlgated sec
invitation for capital to come in and help us all out. We desper
bout 40 students were registered in ' • from the Wapato Lake section ' ’ figured material and then stretching tions by the college entomologist Is
ately need new money to open up the state. We have to have mon
the collegiate department. My Sis i i brought a milk can full of the ! ’ over it georgette or chiffon of a plain digging up and destroying all in
ey for our farm loans and no matter how pretty this talk sounds
ter Mathilda and my brother Ron ' ‘ oil and deposited It In one of ; ' color. Hush shades are not difficult fested plants, "the best time to do
about a state income tax we cannot escape the economic and unal
were second and third on the regis I I the vaults of the First Nation- ! ! to make and are good now.
this la late fall. In Irrigated sec
terable fact that new capital which we require does not have to
■’ al Bank at McMinnville on '*
trar's books.
tion» a borer can be entirely con
and will not come to Oregon unless we make it advantageous for
<.
“When my father loaned the Un . > Wednesday.
trolled by flooding the ground for
it to do so.
The
strawberry
crown
borer
Is
While the quotation on pep- J ’
iversity that money he wasn't sure J J
three
days early In the spring.
We must remember that there are 120.000,000 people in the
for a while whether he was going to < > permint oil flucuates some- < , expected lo be a serious post of
United States. Of them one hundred and nineteen million plus,
..
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reports
B.
G.
Thompson,
assistant
what,
the
quantity
brought
to
'*
live out-side of Oregon. They have plenty of need for the same
get it back, but about five years
entomologist
of
the
experiment
sta
WHY
MM'AL
TAXI-»
INCREASE
money in case we of Oregon don't s^ow that we really want it.
later it was re-paid. But in those ■ > McMinm ¡He is valued at a lit- <i tion. Numerous Inquiries about
We tried it once—and before the people repealed the state income
days *2.000 was a lot of money, ¡J tie less than *1.000. Grow-
In our Federal Government, the
this pest have come Into the depart
tax it cost us millions: drove industries, payrolls, and taxable wealth
and it was especially difficult to col . , Ing of peppermint on suitable . . ment of entomology this month from 1 President and Budget Commissioner
out of Oregon and taxes still went up! Every farmer who had to
''
lands
Is
a
paying
indqgtry.
J
’
lect that much since everyone had
borrow money knows what it did to him, too.
The McMinnville National <> all parts of the Willamette valley. j make a constant fight to keep down
given his last cent in the campaign <>
Several Infestations have been found : and, werevor poalble. reduce the na
to get enough to start work on Deady ; ' Bank also has some 20 gallons ; ’
tional tax burdens.
near Salem.
No forward thinking and constructive citizen wants that dister
.
>
of
peppermint
oil
In
ten
cans
•
>
Hall. Mr Scott said.
The Federal Government la work
The
borer
usualyy
attacks
only
to happen again.
By the flickering light of tallow J; placed there by patrons for safe J
Instead of making things hard for everybody—farmer, merchant
j ’ keeping,
• • older plants. Plants more than two ing for direct reduction of taxpay
tips
and
in
rooms
heated
by
stoves
industrial worker and citizens in general we want to have a purely
At The First National Bank ‘ ‘ years old are usually most suscept ers' burdens, while most state and
the students recited their lessons, < >
economic problem taken out of politics. The way to do it is to
the
pungent odor of pepper- •> ible, but this year many of the young local politicians sent unable to re
according to Mr Scott. There was
vote no against both the Grange Income Tax Bill and Offset Tax
trench. and can only think up
er plants are Infested.
no place at the University for them . > mint is noticeable when the ‘ ’
Bill and vote yes for the Dennis resolution. By this means we
The adult of the borer belongs schemes to Increase official functions
•>
guarantee to every citizen, industry, and to capital that there will
to study so they did that work at '• big door swings open.
• I to the family of clear-winged moths, and heap up now burdens of taxes
be no income tax before 1940. It further guarantees to every
home. On the way to class they
family that they will not have to pay taxes on their savings when
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- which are beautiful In color resem and debt
would pick up a few pieces of wood
their bread winner dies. It is a prosperity-making measure—it
to feed the stove in the classroom.
is sound business policy and deserves every progressive citizen's
“President Johnson, we students
support.
thought, was a bit old fashioned.
He was straightforward and very
Vote 306 X YES —Dennis Resolution.
thorough.
I remember several
things happened which made him
Vote 329 X NO —Offset Income Tax Bill.
loved by the students. W’e thought
As a progressive Dairyman desiring to secure maximum profits from
Vote 335 X NO —Grange Income Tax Bill.
that Friday night was ours for a
my milk herd, I realize the necessity of adhering to an organized
bit of recreation. Often the late
Paid Advertisement.
Greater
____________ schedule of care, feeding and handling.
Judge McGinn of Portland was my
Oregon Assn. J. O. Elrod, Chair
man; M. S. Hirsch, H. J. Frank,
companion when we visited the places
Ira F. Powers, J. B. Yeon, R. L.
down town where we bought beer.
Macleay, G. G. Gund, J. H. Bur
There was a rule that students should
gard, W, S. Babson,- Executive
not frequent saloons, and when one
Committee.
night President Johnson came in and
419 Oregon Bldg., Portland, Ore.
caught us there. He never said a
word, but next day in class he told
qu«llfiraUaoe shall an*
us he wanted to talk with us. And
(tergo a fair, but thor
ough test What I spend
“Now is the time we move our he gave us a lecture that I will never
HERE'S A HOT ONE
on
my hard must rame
bees in Oregon,” says H. A. Scullen. forget. He told us that a man
back to me at a piufll
bee specialist of the experiment sta could not drink and get an education.
A doctor rushing to a hospital to tion. “We do not move them dur After that fine talk we were his ad
operate on a patient, was delayed ing the winter. If it is not conven mires for life.
by his car breaking down. He man ient to move them now they are left
“Then once I went on a camp
fully cranked, but she refused to until spring. If they are moved a ing trip with him and he endeared
start. Deciding that the bus was distance less than two miles they are himself to me then, for there never
month«, whenever poo-
cible. I «ball cuppty
just dead from old age—he hadn’t thoroughly aroused and disorgan or a truer friend,” Mr. Scott de
my hard with a eoo I.
had a new one in six years— he ized by pounding on the hive and clared.
clean, ou tel da re .ting
walked to the nearest state road to smoking. This is to induce them
My first «tap should
“Who were some of my class
place, where they may
ba tha seiaction of a
hail a car going in his direction. to make new observations when mates? Well, I have forgotten
ehow their rude In
trua type herd sire• -
peace
and ruminate on
Down the pike came a beautiful, leaving the hive or many will re most of them but there was Thomas
a
selection
which
the hlcMinse of belog
puring, shiny new Packard hitting turn to the old location. Placing Cader Powell, of Portland, 80, and
should always com
a pnnlihr rather than
mand great earo and
softly on all eight as she swerved grass or weeds over the entrance Anne Whiteaker, of Eugene, 81, and
a parasita.
good judgment.
down the hill. Answering the doc also helps.”
Al. Powell and Chris. Workman."
tor's hail, the car stopped and the
The main student activities were
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doc leaped in. And lo, and behold,
those connected with the two socle-
The “Dolman” sleeve is good this i ties of the University, the Laurian
the driver was a man who owed him
five hundred for an operation on > fall. A dark dress is brightened up and Eutaxian literary organizations,
his wife over two years ago. What and changed by inserting this type Mr. Scott said. When they met it
each man thought for the next few of sleeve in contrasting material was usually for a debate.
miels is a difficult piece of guesswork, Figured metal brocade is especially
“I remember one night there was
A dirty eon di lien like that
pictured here cheli never pre-
but the fact is that neither said much attractive with black or navy blue a debate on woman suffrage, a rad
Proper «election of dem«
vail in my herd. Bather than
also
will
bring
It*
own
material.
Cilia, curry »nd hruah end-
—just sat. Naturally.
ical subject in those days. My grad
ily, I cheli dip and qutehlv
reward« tn more milk,
«lean thoroughly by wiping with
father had given me the keys with
batter milk and belter
a damp doth.
which to lock Deady after the de
animate.
«
bate which I did, not knowing that
Mrs. Robert S. Dean and another
Tha comfort of th«
girl were left in the building. Late
animal 1« important.
I
at night Dr. Condon got to worry
Thorough cleaning
ing over where the girls were and
aided by periodical
walked down on the campus. He
clipping about fianke,
IS THE KIND YOU WANT
udder a aid under-
let them in and the joke was on me
■nd no milk-
Ini within an
Unes during stable
more than on them,” Mr. Scott
hour nt t—ti
month« and al! over
AND THE KIND WE DO
smiled.
the body when turn
part of the
ing out in th« epring
which * chah
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•hall ba part of my program.
enforce ri gid -
Clean animal, clean milk with
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PRINTING, PERFORATING, BINDING,
NUMBERING, AT REASONABLE COST
See Us for Anything in the Line of
LETTER HEADS, ENVELOPES, STATEMENTS,
CARDS, SALE AND DANCE BILLS, PROGRAMS,
MENUS, TICKETS, DODGERS, LEGAL BLANKS,
CHECKS, WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENTS AND
INVITATIONS,
MEMORIAL CARDS,
LABELS,
SHIPPING TAGS, ETC.
WE NEVER TURN A JOB DOWN BECAUSE IT IS TOO LARGE
OR TOO COMPLICATED
DAYTON TRIBUNE
Rainier — Contract let for grad
ing 1 >4 miles streets In West Rain
ier.
—
Portland plants paid *29,000,000
in wages last year, and products were
worth »160,986,959.
Sutherlin — Local cannery ships
prunes in car lots to Germany and
Holland.
Lumber cargoes on Columbia riv
er are 13.5 per cent ahead of last
year's record.
—
Oregon's customs exports already
this year are (41,297.215, against
8 18,133,270 for the name period last
year.
Troutdale — Best celery crop on
<- .rd is grown here, with 300 cars
1 in prospect.
The dairy or
creamery that
buya my m!1k
I m u • t
raluo
quality and
sanitation a«
much aa I do.
They must car
ry on from the
point beyond
which I have
no oootrol.
I
Tha growth In the
number of cow test
ing associations con-
vlnoM mo that member
ship In one Is a good
thing. I pledge my as
sociation full support
and ou operation.
—r-r
Proper feeding Is
«•oentlal. Therefore
I shall always pro
vide a carefully
balanced ration
to my herd, a«
welt aa a plentiful
supply of puro,
clean water.
Then when my
milk Is bottled I
ahall know I am
repaid for my
efforts. I ahall
get more milk
and more money
for my milk and
tho g o s p . • of
dean an< hotter
milk ahall spread
throughout
tha
land.
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