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THE ONTARIO AKG OS, ONTARIO, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 12 1922 (Ulje GDutaria Anjus County Official Taper An Independent Newspaper Published Thursdays at Ontario, Oregon, aud entered at the Ontario poat oitlco for distribution as 2nd class matter. Q. K. Aiken, Managing Editor SUBSCRIPTION One Year, $2.00 THINK STltAlGUT ON TAXES When inon aro despondent they do desporato things. How many times havo men in such a state of mind taken steps which they have afterward regretted? Had they stopped and pondorod well the re sults of their actions they would not havo gono on and In the end saved themselves much grlof. In other words tho trlto old adago to think twlco bofore spoaklng or acting would havo served them well. Today tho public Is in a despon dent mood when contemplating taxes; and well thoy may be; but aro tho mothods advocated likely to bring tho relief sought? That Is tho auestlon to consider. Now Is no tlmo to listen to tho siren voice of tho3o who have a motive for pan doring to tho popuar whim. It is tlmo to think clearly and think straight. Tho only way to romedy the tax situation Is to spond less money. That is what counts. It Is true that tlioro aro many Inequalities in tax ation, that somo men, moro adroit and sccrotlvo than their fellows havo hidden out property which not being on tho rolls, has escaped Its just burden of tho cost of government; othors have by exces sively low valuations ovaded a por tion of their duty and placed it on tho shoulders of othors, many times those who aro not ablo to boar tho additional bunion. This Is a com mon condition, and exists not only In Malheur county, or oven In Ore gon ulono, It Is n nationwide, yes a world-wldo condition. Human cu pidity Is Its cause. Until mon change their naturo It will always bo so. Uut stops .should bo takon to re duco tho possibility for such a con dition to tho minimum. Justlco in taxation should ho tho aim. Dut how to obtain Justlco is tho moot ciuostion. Mcroly shifting tho bur den from ouo sot of cltizons to an other Is not a certain method. It might bring about oven greater In justice. Tho facts of the case so far as Malheur county is concerned are the'se: Tho people of the county by their votes directly, or through tho action of the legislature) have or dained that certain functions be per formed in their behalf and paid for by moneys raised by taxation; they havo voted bonds for certain Inv provements; they are declared that a given standard of public instruc tion be maintained for the educa tion of their children; they have de manded and voted for tho construc tion of highway systems; thoy have declared that it is a public duty to regulate the flow of water In irri gation canals; thoy have declared that tho prohibition laws and other criminal statutes be enforced; thoy have ordained that tho widows and tho orphans be cared for from the widows' pension fund and a host of othor things which few will rise to say aro not the proper function of tho state, or It soveral subdivisions. In view of this program of stato or county activity assumed by tho poople to bo tho collectlvo duty of them all and made mandatory on tho part of tho officials to perform, how can tho payment for Its cost bo avoided? Manifestly it can not bo avoided. It takes real money to pay those bills, and ho who, In the face of the experiences of ItUBsIa and Germany would havo tho temerity to proposo that tho bill bo paid by tho lssuanco of county warrants Is either devoid of good common senso or is actuat ed by motives which are question able Indeed. Ho Is a false leader who would attempt to mislead the pcoplo into thinking that thus tho obligation of tho taxpayers can bo met. To attompt to buy an offlco by such spurious promises is more to bo condemned than tho outright uso of monoy. Theoretically It sounds fair to say that no ponalty ought to apply to thoso who can not pay their taxes; but what Is to bo done concerning thoso who can, but will not? If no ponalty Is to be placed on thoso who do not pay. Is that not placing a ponalty on thoso who do? Thoro aro two things absolutely nocossary bofore there can bo even an approximate arrival at a fair dls trlbutlon of tho tax burden: First; tlioro should bo made at onco in Malheur county, a classlfl cattlon of all tho property in the J county, Including the residential and business property of the cities and towns wherein there are gross In equalities existing. Tills classifi cation work should bo done under stato supervision and not subjected to tho consideration of local poli tical or other pressure. In other words this classification should be made on a scientific basis. Secend: There should be passed an income tax law which will bring to the coffers of the state, county and other subdivisions some direct contributions from every citizen who onjoys the protection and benefits of government. This, income tax should be publlcaly administered so that evasion would bo almost hu manely Impossible. Wero these things done tbon tho burden on real property which is now out of all proportion to its earning power would bo relieved; but If the Income tax Is added the voters must so protect the expen diture of tax funds that tho addi tion of another source of funds will not be converted Into but another; pocket from which to spend the public's money. And while reforms In taxation mothods are under consideration would it not bo well to consider some changes in the machinery of tax collection and administration? For example; is it unreasonable to direct that all taxes be levied as of January 1, and that between that date and January 10, or somo other dato; tho tlmo is immaterial; evory citizen personally or by mall, fllo with tho duly authorized offi cials a completo statement of his or her property holdings and incoino for tho preceding year, instead of the present cumbersome method of having mon run all over tho county to securo data. Then let the officials appointed go ovor the county and check up the returns, they could do so much quicker than they could gather the data originally, and If tho penalty for a false, statement was mado suf ficiently drastic a fow prosecutions would havo a salutory effect and the cost of collecting tho nocded funds for governmental purposes would bo materially reduced. IDEAL AS FISHING COMPANION Disciples of Izaak Walton Will Aoreo With Opinion of Writer In East- ern Publication. It doesn't do to take politics too seriously. Some think thero has been too much taking things seriously In politics. Some think there has been too much taking of all kinds In politics. They say there are still men In some ugreeably remote regions still voting for Andrew Jackson ; and If that Is so we'd like to take a few weeks' rest there. We used to go fishing with Phln Klhbs up In the Berkshlres, and he as one of the most amiable political conversationalists (if you like the word) we ever knew. He was amiable because he never disagreed. He never disagreed because he rarely spoke at nil. He was a good Ushermiin. Some times we went after pickerel, drifting along the edges of the lily pads from the stern of a leaky and temperamen tal but very homelike and fishy-smell-Ing boat. After dark we sometimes sat in the same bout, the Ash being re lieved by the aromu of the kerosene lanterns set In the boat's bottom. Then we fished with drop lines ror duu heads a fish unlovely to gaze upon, unresponsive to human affection, but delectable to palate. One night n period of an hour's si lence was broken by Phln, who turned to us through the damp dark and ven tured to make audible a link In his chain of thoughts. lie said: "Say, who's President now, McKlu ley?" We answered, truthfully, as Is our habit. "No, Roosevelt." That ended the evening's political discussion. Admirable and much mourned fishing companion, Phln. He knew nil the politics necessary to run his farm and catch a few pickerel or a mess of bullheads once In a while. Boston Herald. Deposition of Metals. It Is reported that there has been devised abroad a new process for spraying metals onto surfaces of any kind. The metal to be sprayed forms one of the electrodes of an arc, and n blnst of gas Impinges on this elec trode, directed, however, In such n manner as not to play on the arc and extinguish It. The gas used for tho blast Is of u non-oxidizing nature, and Its effect Is to carry awny fine particles of metal, which can thus be deposited on any kind of surface, forming a very thin skin. When polyphase currents are used, the electrodes may cither be conver gent or so placed us to cross the streams of gas. In one form of the apparatus the arc Is started by means of the Instuntnne ous discharge from an auxiliary high tension circuit. Exchange. I IT'S TOASTED H ono extra procoss H whloh gives a H delloious flavor H VlUCKTu strikeA CHURCH NOW 225 YEARS OLD MAJESTIC THEATRE Friday - Saturday THE CAVE GIRL ROSTRAND "THE WIZARD" A Remarkable Program of Magic and Illusions. Mysteries from the Orient A Drama of Youth gone wild. A Romance of Silent Trails and Rushing Waters. Special Added Vaudeville Attraction Coming SUNDA Y The PILGRIMS Adapted from "PASSERS BY" by NIGHT OF THE E. Phillips Oppenheim Trinity, New York's Most Venerable Religious Institution, Received Charter From William III. NOT ENOUGH TO KNOW RULES ORIGINAL ESTIJLITE AND ACCOUNTING SHEET School District No. 8 This original ostlmato Is mado in compllanco with section 231-A of the school laws of 1921 and shows In parallol columns tho unit costs of the several services, matorlal and supplies for the throo fiscal years next pro ceeding tho current year, the detail expenditures for tho last one of said threu preceding fiscal years and tho budget allowances and oxpondlturcs for nix months of tho current year. ("Six months of tho current year" ineaiiH six months of tho last school year.) JiXPENMTUHES Expondlturcs for three fiscal years next preceding tho last school year Estimated Dotallod Second yeai expenditures expenditures Glvo for tho for tho last ITEM, ensuing year of tho School year throo-yoar period yearly Totals First Year Give yearly Totals Successful Authors Have to Pass Very Far Beyond That Stage of the Writing Game. PERSONAL BEWICK: 1. Suporlntondont ....1 2. Principals 3 2,700.00 !,3GG.OO 3 500.00 3,903.76 3. 'Teachers 4. r. Janitors Clork ..1 ..1 ..1 1 ..3 ..4 ..3 ..7 Total Personal Services.. 2,000.00 1,700.00 1.530.00 1,440.00 1,350.00 1,125.00 1.080.00 990.00 2,325.00 300.00 $35,080.00 29,GS8.30 I 3,000.00 1,800.00 1,350.00 ... 700.00 25 956.94 MATERIAL AND SUPPLIKS: 1. Furniture, (desks otc.) $ 500.00 2. Supplies, (Chalk, otc.) 276.00 il. Library books 400.00 . ..4. Flags 10.00 6. Playground oqulpmeut .. 0. Janitor's supplies 2G5.00 7. Fuel 1,500.00 S. Light 1S5.00 9. Wator 300.00 10. Postngo & Btntionory 60.00 Total Material & Supplies $ 3,485.00 MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS: 11. S. Buildings & grounds $ 760.00 Grd. Iluildlngs .fc grounds.. 750.00 Imp. buildings & grounds .... Total Miiluteiiuiiro & Ropatrs $ 1,500.00 1N11ERTEONE8: 1. liomled mid iutorost thereon $ 2,805.00 2.Vnrrants and iutorost thoreon , Total Indebtedness $ 2,805.00 2,949.00 275.00 $40,431.05 $ 285.00 352.24 353. CO 24.35 234.03 1 394.CC 182.87 308.CS 33.03 $ 2,870.45 $ 1,084. 08 602.94 30.50 2,756.50 $35 838.44 ? 2.176.52 46S.44 539.57 40.00 153.31 422.01 1,249.31 134.93 344.9C 39.70 i 5 567.80 1,704.09 3.96C.3C 152,00 $27,405.49 "A man," said the Schoolmaster, "may know all the rules of poetry and never write n poem; know nil the I rules of art and never paint u pic ture; know all the laws of harmony, thorough bass and counterpoint mid never write or slug a song that touches u man's soul nnd starts him drifting on gay dreams or reveries that are sad. "The reason Is thnt these people never progress farther than rules. Knowing rules Is but the beginning. Perhaps a man cannot write with out huvlug learned certain rules, though that Is debatable, but to write well, a mini must have passed so far beyond rules that he does not think of them. Hut pardon me for speaking at such length on this subject. I was led to thinking of It by hearing so much talk of what is called 'news paper English.' "You have all heard men and wom en say, uiul giving nn upward tilt to the nose or brow, 'Oh, It is news puper English I' Somotluies they say with u high air, 'Oh, no. I do not write for tho newspapers. I contribute to the magazines.' Why, bless your dear hearts, the best English today Is writ ten for newspapers and much of tho rottenest written Is found In hooks and magazines. There is a wider aud a deeper knowledgo of tho English language In a newspaper olllce than In ai.y other kind of olllce. "lliere are too muny 'professors of English' handing out bunk to a gullible public." Uoston Herald. The 225th anniversary of the grant ing by King William III of a char ter to Trinity was celebrated the other day In the old church at Wall street and Brondwny by services In the morn ing and afternoon, says the New Yoric Herald. More than four thousand per sons attended. Tho Right Rev. Wil liam T. Manning, bishop of New York, returned to the pulpit from which he had preached for one-third of his min isterial career and delivered an ad dress In which ho outlined Trinity's history and painted a glowing future of patriotic, religious and benevolent services for the church. The sermon was delivered by the Most Rev. Daniel Sylvester Tuttje, bishop of Missouri. The present church edifice dates from 1830, the one built after tho Revolution on the site of the original Colonial structure being torn down be cause It had been found unsafe. Rlshop Tuttle, eighty-five years old, who worshiped In Trinity as a young man, recollected that he sat In a rear pew while down front knelt the prince of Wales, later King Edwnrd VII. The original charter of the church and relics of the first communion serv ice were exhibited In a side room. i!li!i! H Just received a large ship I ment of I Swifts Premium Ham $ 4.C35.CG $ 2.31S.12 ? 5,822.47 2,151.97 $..3,056.98 $ 5 142.8S 197.60 3,254.58 $ 5,142.88 $ 3,153.35 1,000.00 1,000.00 035.00 935.00 Voc. 177.50 177.50 235.75 235.75' 523.75 $ 523.76 $ 255.00 255.00 TRANSPORTATION OF PUPILS High school ........$ Total Transportation of Pupils $ INSURANCE! Total I iihu rauro $ MISCELLANEOUS) Home Economics, Mus, & Art Ag. Phy. Training, Sclonco, Com. Dept, Prlutlng, ami R. O. T. C $ 1,020.00 Total Miscellaneous $ 1,920.00 KMIUKiENOl'i ...$ 500.00 Total Emeruvncy $ 600,00 GRAND TOTAL $47,215.00 $52,037.65 $56,495.80 $41,278.37 I, W, L. Tumor do hereby cortlfy that tho nbovo etttlmato of oxpondl turcs for tho year 1922-1923 was prepared by mo nnd that tho expendi ture J nnd budget allowance) for six months of tho current year and tho ex penditures for tho throo fiscal years, next precodlng tho current year as shown above have been compiled from tho records in my charge and are truo and correct copies thereof. W. U TURNER. District Clerk. $ 3,300.52 $ 3,376.89 WILL CLOSE HISTORIC ALLEY London Pathway Which Figure In Pepya' Diary Gives Way to March of Improvements.' Pope's Head alley, n turning off Corn hill, a picture of which appeared in the Times on April 11, will shortly disappear. Lloyd's Dunk Is going to rebuild It premises nt tho end of Lom bard street, between that street and Cornhlll, and to make this possible Pope's Head alley will have to be closed und another thoroughfare con structed lu Its place, says the London limes. Tho alley, -which dates back to the days of Henry VI, and Is named after a noted tavern, Is mentioned several times In tho "Diary of Samuel Pepys." In his time tho footway was famous for Its cutters. -Pepys reports that he went to Pope's Head nnd "bought an aggate hafted knife, which cost me 3c." Another dy some one took hln Into the tavern and gave hint wine, when, they dis cussed affairs of state. "So home," writes Pepys again, "on my way call ing at Pope's Head alley and there bought mo a pair of scissors and a braes Fijimre." In 1013 It Is recorded.swtne was be ing sold ut the tavern at n penny a pint. It was at tho Popo's Head tav ern that Qutnn killed Rowen, a fel low nctor, in a duel. The first print sellers In London are said to have oncned thalx shona In the allay. Attempt Crossing Sahara. Twelve motors will shortly start from Tuggurt, the terminus of the Algerian railway,' In an attempt to cross the Sahara desert. The leader of the expedition will be Commandant Lafargue and It will Include a dozen members, representing various gov ernment departments und other Inter ests. A motion picture operator will Join the party. The proposed route lends by Insalah, the Hogger region, nnd Adar of the Iforas, to Uurenl on tho Niger, 120 miles enst of Timbuktu. Precautions have been taken to pre vent the evaporation of the motor fuel In the torrid climate thnt will be en countered, and It Is believed thnt this difficulty has been overcome. Experts point out, however, that there Is n vast difference between tho excep tional use of motor traction In this region for a special purpose, which may he feasible, and Its regulat com mercial use. Science Service. Premium Bacons 1 There positively i? nothing better and while the Hams are selling as cheap as the inferior kind - why not have the best. E.A.Fraser a CONDENSED REPORT OP ONTARIO NATIONAL BANK AS REPORTED TO THE COMPTROLLER SEPT. 15TH, 1022 RESOURCES: Loans and Discounts 1461,769.76 Overdrafts , . 780.48 Bonds and Securities . . 47,657.44 U. S. Donds , 63,100.00 Stock In Fed. Reserve Dank 2,700.00 Roalty and Fixtures CASH .. 61,898.81 80,807.02 $724,804.11 LIABILITIES Capital Stock ; 60,000.00 Surplus and Profits 32,513.04 Bills Payable NOne Federal Reserve Bank ...,llo 213 42 Circulation .. OO.OOoioO DEPOSITS 402,077.05 ?724,804.11 j...i We" art loaning more money to far men and business men than any other bank In Mainour County, and art endeavoring to assist in all pos sible ways to brine prosperity to our county. Oldest Bank in Southeastern Oregon