MALHEUR ENTERPRISE
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AND VALE PLAINDEALER.
Published every Saturday, by The Malheur Enterprise Publishing Co.
VALE. OREGON. SATURDAY. JANUARY 14. 1911.
B. M. STONE, Publisher and Proprietor
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WITH the completion of the new water and sewer systems this
coming: week a tremendous change should take place in
"The Last Frontier" town. The arid and frontier appearance
should at once become a thing of the past. Residents and prop
erty owners should wake up at once to
MAKE VALE THE the wonderful possibilities at hand' to
" CITY BEAUTIFUL" ward the transforming of this city into
a truly "City Beautiful." No efforts
should be spared until plans are laid that will within a few years
make Vale a city of beautiful homes, surrounded by many shade
trees and beautiful lawns. There will be plenty of water, and
with water this wonderful rich soil will grow trees and lawns in a
very short time
It is never "too late to mend. " The councilmen should see
their duty staring them in the face and thus should take the initi
ative in this campaign of beautifying the general appearance of
the city. The Ladies Civic Improvement Club has been working
on plans for the beautifying of the city park. The step is truly to
be praised. The city council and the Chamber of Commerce should
get in with the Civic Club on a special plan which would result in
the adopting of a general plan of good sense and beauty. The
working out of such a system of development speaks for itself.
To adopt a general plan in the early stages of a city's growth
is of great advantage, for the principle that "just as the twig is
bent, the tree is inclined" applies to cities as well as to trees. For
such a city as Vale which is in the earliest infancy of a great
growth, a permanent, definite plan of development along lines of
greatest beauty and utility would be of wonderful aid in promoting
civic pride and the highest welfare.
all right a hundred years ago, are in the light of present thought,
wholly inadequate to cope with and fit existing conditions. The
man who clings to old traditions and ideas forgets that this world
of ours is a progressive one, and that new conditions of govern
ment require new economic adjustment. Just as the pioneer' dis
cards the old school house for the new and comfortable modern
building when the country settles up, so are we obliged by the on
ward march of progress to adjust our political action to improved
and complex conditions, otherwise we should make no . progress.
Improvement and adjustment are forced upon us by the law of our
evolution. To deny this, is to defy the laws of our being, the
trend of which is never backward.
VALUE OF
ADVERTISING
WOOLGROWING is a big industry in each of these Western
States. In Oregon $30,000,000 is invested in the sheep
business. This industry in Oregon disburses an estimated $2,500,
000 in wages annually. It is one of the great assets of prosperity
and one of the great impelling forces of
THE GREAT progress. Such an industry as this is en-
WOOL INDUSTRY titled to recognition in National legislation.
"Tariff Revision" that will damage it for
other and manufacturing interests will be wrong and unjust.
Wool does not receive an undue nor an unmerited share of
"protection." There are many other products that should be "re
vised" before wool tobacco, salt, sugar, for example, says the
Oregonian editorially,
If cheap wool is desirable to Eastern citizens including man
ufacturersthen cheap goods will be desirable to everyone who
wears clothes and the wool producer himself will want cheap goods
in return for the cheap wool he is expected to supply. Those who
demand cheap wool from Australia and South America in competi
tion with our domestic product are laying foundation for a demand
for cheap clothing from England and for cheap goods of many
other kinds. This cheapness in materials will mean cheaper prices
in other directions in factory, field, forest and mine.
It is most unfair to single out wool for the revision onslaught.
Yet wool men will have something to say after the deed has been
done. This ought to be borne in mind by the selfish interests that
are trying to divert attention from their own "protection" by egg
ing on the attack on wool.
""TjlVERY woman is coming to know that advertising has value
to her. In olden days, under olden conditions, store ad
vertising was a very negligible thing. It consisted of either the
dull, formal announcements of the conservative stores, or of the
hysterical, misleading and "stampeding," style
of advertisements resorted to by the irresponsi
ble stores. In neither case was advertising im
portant to the housewife, nor of the nature of
service" to her in planning her purchases.
"Within the three decades just past advertising has evolved
from these olden conditions into its present status of store-service.
No worth-while store would think of omitting it, or of limiting it
too much in the scope of its usefulness. It would be as wise to try
to do business in quarters wholly inadequate or with no delivery
system, nor clerks, For the advertising is as much a part of store
service as any other phase of storekeeping.
Women have learned and, and are learning, that only stores
that are adequately advertised are able to give real values are
able to compete in value-giving with other stores that advertise.
The store that does not advertise is not considered at all except as
a mere neighorhood shop, to which we are driven by necessity
sometimes always to our loss.
"Women are learning that the advertised store, selling great
quantities of goods, is able to sell them at a much smaller per-sale
profit than the unadvertised store, which must make its profits
from a small number of sales. This truth makes store advertising
a real importance to every woman to every buyer."
STATE OF OREGON STARTS
A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
Baker county has an irrigation pro
ject on foot involving the expenditure
of $4,000,000.
About 200,000 apple trees are being
planted in Douglas county this sea
son.
An oat meal mill is to be estab
lished at Baker.
Eugene is to have a match factory.
Polk county will have the largest
English walnut orchard in Oregon.
Recent purchasers of the Hart ranch
at Falls City will plant 6,000 walnut
trees.
Oregon produced this year iS034
bushels of corn and 17,000,000 bushels
of wheat.
Oregon shipped green fruit during
the past season amounting to 3,S0(
cars.
Orchards in the Ontario district
produced at the rate of 1,000 boxes of
apples to the acre.
The Columbia river output of sal
mon for the season was 290,000 cases,
valued at $3,500,000
The value of traffic on the Columbia
river increased $3,200,000 in 1910 over
the same period in 1909.
Oregon grows more hops than any
other state. 90,000 bales produced in
1910, valued at $3,000,000.
Eugene reports that- 3,000 people
have been brought into that city dur
ing the past year.
A sale of southern Oregon sugar
pine covering 40,000 acres, is reported
from Medford to an eastern syndi
cate. The purchase price was $3,500,
000. The IIooJ River Apple Growers'
Union paid $201,000 to orchardistf
during the three months commencing
:V. September.
TROFESSOR Henry Jones Ford of Princeton College, an alleged
authority on political economy, and about two, centuries be
hind the times, in real economic understanding, is in Portland,
studying what he terms our "freak legislation." Of course, he is
of the opinion that it will not be a
YEA, VERILY, success, although he says the old
"THE WORLD DO MOVE" convention system is rotten, and
ought to be abolished. There is
nothing freakish about Oregon's progressive laws, any more than
there is about those of New Zealand, or Switzerland, or other pro
gressive countries, where monopolies and corporation rule are un
known. The Princeton Professor will notice that Oregon's laws
are in the interests of the majority of the people, and if that is
"freakish," he should make the most of it, It is well known that
the professors pf political economy in the big eastern colleges us
ually shape their views on such questions to suit the opinions of
the millionaires who contribute most to the support of such snsti
tutions. The college faculties naturally want to keep on the "good side"
of the millionaires who aid their institutions, and it would not be
trange if investigating professors of political economy sent out to
tudy conditions, were instructed beforehand in what their verdicts
should be. In fact the salary of the investigating professor may
hinge entirely upon his erudite conclusions. Most of the college
professors of the present day are radically conservative, and their
opinjons are not of much value except to the class which they"are
Identified with and represent
The principles of political economy which were thought to be
THIS YEAR'S STATE
LEVY IS 1.6 MILLS
Salem, Ore., Jan. 10. (Special.)
Final apportionment of the state taxes
for various counties of the state was
completed today. A levy of 1.6 mills Is
made to cover taxes for general state
purposes, as against a levy of 2.2 mills
for last year.
Considering differences In valuation
this is a decrease of 0.6 mills. State
taxes for every county in the state
chow a decrease from last year, though
there is an extra 1.25 mill to be levied
for the Monmouth Normal school.
Total Tax Is f I,8S:.615.
The total state tax to be raised. In
cluding the normal school tax, Is Sl,
35,615.84, against $1,628,400.79 raised
last year. The Monmouth Normal
school tax will amount to $33,759.50 and
for general state purposes will be $1.
351.620.98. Valuations have shown a remarkable
Increase under the flint year of tlie re-
jf'me of the tax commission. At'unl
total valuation this year according to
c-fflc lal figures as given out for the Hi t
time Is $844,887,708.74, as agnlnst f'il'l.-
727,631.90.
fountlcN Show 7I7,6-.M.0.
. Valuation by county sksobkoiu Is
$747,624,404.74 and valuation or public
service coi-Mratlous by the tax com
mission Is $97,263,304, which is a great
Increase over the assessment of the
same corporations by county atmesmrs
CHEAP LEGISLATION
"These eight cost several times what
the entire legislature cost the com
monwealth," declares the News-Reporter
of McMlnvllle, telling of the
eight Initiative measures. Nothing ot
the sort. Those eight measures did not
cost over $50,000, even with the wildest
eckonlng, and that Is what the last leg
islature cost In mileage, salaries and
contingent expenses. The workingmer
of Yamhill county will be ahead that
amount with the abolition of local poll
taxes, liabilities of Injuries, etc., In a
vory few months.. It should not be
forgotten that the legislature for two
sessions had refused to pass any legis
lation providing for liability of employ
ers to Injured workmen.
the preceding year, exact figures as to
this not being complied as yet, however.
Thfl general state levy Is one of the
lowest, If not the lowest, In the history
of the state. It Is for five years at
leant, levies before that time not being
available.
The tax commission has been work
ing for many weeks equalizing the
taxes and making the apportionment.
Malheur county's figures being $14,-9M.I8.
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