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MALHEUR ENTERPRISE
Saturday, January 1,
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
Boys and Mothers !
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YOUR BUSINESS
Your business is just as important to you as
John D. Rockcrfcllcr's business is to him. Re
gardless of the business you are engaged in or
the size of it you need the advantage of mod
era banking facilities such as we furnish. We
invite you to open an account with us and pre
pare yourself for any unlocked for adversities
that may be born of the present world's war.
Total Resources over $450,000
Wc pay 5 per cent on money placed on time
deposits with us for periods of six
and twelve months
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS '
M. G. Hope, President
I. W. Hope, Vice-President
J. P. Dunaway, Cashhr
B. W. Mulkey, Ass't. Cashier
Leslie L. Hope, Ass't. Cashier
T. W. Halliday
Geo. E. Davis
UNITED STATES
NATION' BANK
VALE. 01
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Take Notici !
2 boys' overcoats regular $7.50 values at $5.00
Three lots boys' mackinaws priced regular at
$4.00, $5.00, $5.50 now at $3.00, $4.00 and $4.50
all sizes from 30 to 34. These arc good values,
and all your gain
3 lots boys' suits, corduroy, navy blue, and dress
!x 1 I O-IJ 1 x or? An
j suus, guuu iiuuvy ones. ouiu regular ui qo.vv
now $3.00. AH sizes from 7 to 15 years.
Freeman's Store
Don't Bit our
LTJM HER
Before you see what
n do for you.
No matter what you need in lumber and building
materials, we can supply what you need, and we
think we can save you money. We may possibly
be mistaken about that, but it will cost you noth
ing to make sure about it
Lumber and service that satisfy is our motto.
All we ask is an opportunity to demonstrate to
you that these are not merely words, but facts.
Let us know your wants.
We also sell cord wood and coal.
The Home Lumber & Coal Co.
AY
.lions are to be
EMBlEpRMTSEPARArOR
I II at. V l(
A customer said, the other day,
"Farmers and Dairymen arc get-
c wise, i ney are learning now
to buy machines. They consider
I slit, easv runn ne the best dos
siblo evidence of Quality. This Is
especially true of nigh speed ma
chines like cream separators. The
CROWI EY
CROWLEY, Oreg., Dec. 27. Owen
'n gnvo a dnncc In his now house
mas night.
'. Venntor sent
on in the valley
K. Venator h&s
next thing they consider Is, how
long the machine has been on the
market."
Argument doesn't make quality,
does it?
A properly cared for EMF1RE Cream Separator will
start under the weight of its crank. You can hold one
ear close to an KUF1RE running at full speed and hear your watch tick at
your other ear.
UN ICS have been used by the fathers and grandfathers of many young
farmers who are now buying tUflRES for themselves.
Stop and.sce the t&IPIHE, or ask to have one sent out.
FOR SAI.i.
INTERIOR WAREHOUSE I itAIN COMPANY
Vale Oregon
mily to nil thp
or Xmas.
ust roceived a
h'fmpnt of lid: i summer hats
Cmm n a nn.l
-mo
. hov ire I'
aru tho ' latest
: Martin, Lord : aunders, Mike
ghcr, S. Zatuht 'a nnd Moose
ton went to tho danco at Mud
Flat and report that they had n good
) dance at Moo
as a blank.
villo on Xroas
Local Overflow
v 'l v be glad to eeo him when he
looa rattrn.
Sheriff Bon J. Br- v wont to On
tario Tuesday.
Mr. J. Ralph Wc.iver went to On
tario tho last of last wek, on a visit
with relatives at that placo.
Iwwla, proprietor of the Pas-
ool Hall, went to Boise early In
'.o week, returning Friday,
T)r C. J. Bartlett, of this city, went
Ontario Sunday.
Donald Mniterson, of Junturo, was
.. the city Thursday nnd Friday.
There may be nomo ditforenco of
the smartest man in tho world.
'. find it nocesnry to repeat
' the statement that you nro not afraid
of your enemies that Is a sign that
you are.
many men who do not do
".el! 11 ui'o It on to the government
ilthough thoy never had an object in
' - ' 1 i reason you should lovo
lies Is that they don't inter-
your work a great deal,
1 ii . . surprising how well your
sll'.y frloids seem to got along.
) prizefighters of Mooreville did
itterul tho Mud Vint dance on
night. They wero too busy
ng.
u largest deal over made in
'"ley was closed on Monday, Dec.
' 't, by tho M. L. S. Co.
TTtmlsome Hnlllo sold his entire in
terest in the Crowley rnnch. He will
now nut his. entire time in giving his
pur Us instructions in the now dances.
Ho is going' to build a new dance hall
309 by 500 feet to accommodate all
his pupils whilo teaching them tho lat
est, lord Saunders is making great
hoadvyay with tho Park.
Lord Saunders is not seen so much
up at the post ofllco. He is kept busy
rustling feed for tho wild animals in
tho Turk.
'' Martin has just returned from
' ' I'o Butte with quite n number of
ildo hill gougers and a few dry land
ddo winders. These aro the only ones
n captivity in Oregon.
i"1 C. Battle has gono .to Juniper
lounUln with n Hi horso team to
i r'ng down a few shrubs for the Park.
" H. Anderson has been fortunnto
enough to get the contract for sot
ting out tho trees in the Park. He
is sure of a grub stake for the win
ter. Miko Gallagher, the well known
landscape gardener of Ireland, has
finished mnrking out the grounds of
tho Park.
Leppee, tho famous cattleman of
Barren Valley, is busy riding, gath
ering in stragglers nnd strays and ex
pects to reap largo profits in the
spring.
Doc Yak is busy getting signatures
for his petition as roadmaster for
Road District No. 9.
Remember! Jan. 3-to-8. The dates
of the Big Sale at The Vale Trading
Co., Vale, Oreg. Adv.-lt
On the other hand, it is easy for
a man to be convinced that a baro
legged woman dancer is artistic, nnd
that the prudes should not attack the
artistic.
Musical Afternoon, Now Years day
from four to seven at tho Guild Hall.
Refreshments. All are invited. advlt.
With the avcrago person a dollar
isn't worth more than 75 cents, al
though every now and then you run
across a man who stretches one to
$1.25.
A boy likes to bring' homo a prob
lem that will puzzlo his father, but
his greatest mathematical delight is
to find one which worries tho teacher.
GOOD ROADS
(Continued from page 1.)
Senntor Bourne once evolved a plan
for selling United States road bonds
nt 3 per cent, loaning the money to
the severnl States at 4 per cent, and
compounding tho profit of 1 per cent
so as to pay off tho debt in 47 years.
I think that is tho ideal form for Fed
eral aid. The locality would get tho
road and never have anything but tho
interest and maintenance to pay. Our
States which can sell their bonds for
4 per cent can well afford to loan mon
ey to their own counties at C per cent,
and their profit on the interest, would
pay for our roads in full long before
they wero worn out. All the taxpay
ers would ever have to pay for a $10,
000 road would be the interest and
maintenance.
But how do wc know that our road
will outlive the debt? That is easy.
Wo know that the bridges of stone
built for tho Appian Way 2,000 years
ago aro still doing business. We
know that hills once cut to grade will
stay cut forever. We know that the
Cumberland Road in Maryland, built
in President Jefferson's time at a cost
of $13,000 per mile, is now being re
stored for $5,000 per mile after 100
years of neglect. To build macadam
and fail to maintain is to pass a debt
on to posterity while tho improvement
will have long since been dead, but to
pave with brick and concrete and as
phalt and to maintain will give us
roads which will outlive any reason
able debt, since the grading and the
foundations will last almost forever.
On tho other hand, to build for pos
terity out of this year's tax money will
never bring us even tho gratitude of
tho future generations as they pass
by our graves. By paying on the in
stallment plan instead of building on
tho installment plan we will get the
roads sooner and enjoy them longer.
Assessing for Special Benefits
So much for' financing a road so as
to tax the people evenly over the per
iod of timo in which it is to last. Now
for a distribution of each year's tax
equitably among the people near to
tho road and those farther away, ac
cording to the benefits they are to re
ceive. This is the big problem in road
finance, and I am not so presumptous
as to attempt a perfect formula, but
I do know that each man should pay
for what he gets.
To begin with the man that lives
on the road. He receives a special
benefit and his land should pay a
special tax for its special benefit.
Minnesota nnd Ohio put it at one
fourth, Wisconsin a third. He ought
to be satisfied with either, for it is his
land which rises most in value and he
obtains the most service from n pave
ment or graveled road from his court
houso to"his front gate. Back of him
the next neighbor stands next in bene
fit received, nnd so the variable of
special benefit diminishes until it
reaches a point midway between the
main traveled road improved and the
next main traveled road whoreupon
each resident then begins to receive
his special benefit from the next main
traveled road. That is the Utah sys
tem to assess for special benefit all
land which lies nearer to the main
road improved than to any other main
road, and I like id This zone of spec
ial benefit is then graduated according
to comparative proximity to the main
road. In Indiana they go back 1 mile
for special benefit It is not so Im
portant how it is done as it is that it
should be done in some way, for the
many voters who live on neighborhood
roads are not going to vote to build
high-class roads past tho few farms
that lie on our main traveled roads
if tho tax burden is to fall on them
with the same force that it falls up
on the few who receive the larger ben
efits. Where bond issues are neces-
E WISH you a Happy Now Year,
thanking you for the pntronngo
extended to us during the holidays
and it is our hopes that 1916 will
bring you a full measure of happiness
and prosperity.
McKAY'S VARIETY STORE
Wm. McKay, Prop.
s'ary, to equalize the cost as between
tho taxpayers of each succeeding year
the special assessment is necessary to
equalize as between the taxpayers of
today who receive benefits more to
one than to another. The speciaUas-
scBsment road-improvement district
Drovides the plan for meeting this pro
blem and should be ndopted in every
State.
Community Benefits.
An improved road with a hard sur
face good for travel at all hours in
nil kinds of weather in this day of
motor vehicles has become tho inter
urban track of modern times. Our
agricultural counties which have one
automobile for every nine people to
day the record for Buent Vista Coun
ty will have one for every family to
morrow. In a very few years there
will be two on many a farm, so as
to have one for the hired man.
Such a road, like an intcrurban,
brings business to any market town.
Cutting the costs of hauling has been
estimated by the United States Bu
reau of Roads to be possible up to the
full cost of the improvement on a
long-time road. It costs more in Io
wa to get to town with a wagonload
of wheat on an average than to ship
that wheat from New York to Liver
pool. Reducing tho cost of hauling
and destroying the isolation of the
farm, so that women will be content
to stay on the farm, offers one of the
most practicable possibilities for re
ducing the high cost of living in town.
Hard roads benefit a town, therefore
the town should help pay for roads
which lead into it Here, again, the
special-assessment improvement dis
trict which will include a town enables
is to tax those who get the benefit
from road improvement
General Public Benefits.
The same automobile which has clos
ed all the buggy factories in the land,
changed livery stables into garages,
slumped the price of steel rails, and
made of driving .horses an extinct
species, has made our people users of
State-wide and Nation-wide roads. No
longer are 6 miles tho limit of a man's
vision in this country. He travels
lcross his own State -in a day and ne
gotiates the next State on the day fol
lowing. High-class roads from hence'
forth are to benefit the people of all
the State, regardless of tho locality
!n which they are ouilt, just as they
benefit all the neoDle of a countv.
though built in spots, nnd" in financing
our roads we should provide for the
Stato at large to contribute and for
the county at largo to contribute. Aid
from State funds in a dozen States
has proved a powerful 'incentive to
high-class construction. It is a won
derful promoter for better roads. It
is sound and equitable in road finance.
And so is a vehicle tax, especially a
motor-vehicle tax, for motor vehicles
need hard roads more than any other
vehicle on earth. We are killing ma
ny of our citizens every year in Iowa
because the automobile on a wet clay
hill becomes immediately an engine
of destruction. Here in Iowa we pay
more for our auto license than almost
any other State, and yet the complaint
of our auto owners is not that they
pay too much, but that they get too
little for what they pay. I can finance
GO miles of single-track paved road in
overy county in Iowa on the motor
vehicle tax of this State alone, and ij
am not sure but that I could obtain
from the auto owners themselves a pe
tition to double their license if I would
only guarantee them 100 miles of pav
ed roads in every county. It is equit
able to tax the vehicle which needs
n hard road most, and then the man
who uses the road is paying for what
ho gets. 1
Taxation Need not be Burdensome. I
Finnncing a road then simplifies it-'
self into a distribution of cost over,
tho years during which the road is to
serve and the subdivision of the an-'
nual fixed charge as between 'the pub.
11c benefit to the State at large, the
community benefit to town, county, or
township unit, and the special benefit''
to the man who owns a farm near to
the road as well as to the man who
drives his nuto upon tho road. Fin
ancing which will cover these points
will build hard roads of some kind in .
any man's Stato without burdensome
taxation. In our own State it will do
it without an increase in taxation.
With 30-year county bonds in thia,
State, I could replace every tempora
ry bridgo and culvert in tho State dur
ing the next five years and pay off the
debt with interest and maintenance
without increasing the present county
bridge levies. Population doubles ov
ery 30 years in tho United States.
Whether it doubles in Iowa or not it
affects our land values, for wo occupy
the heart of the granary of tho world.
Our property subject to taxation has
doubled in Iowa during the past 30
years, and it will double again during
tho next 30 years. New property,
new values, and new people yet to
come should help to pay for the roads
which they will use. We bought and
paid for in Iowa this year one-tenth
of all the automobiles that were sold.
in the United States. Given a normal
I increase in property subject to taxa
tion and an inevitable increase in au
tomobiles licensed', we could pave one
third of our main traveled or county
road system in Iowa and meet the fix-'
ed chargo for bond retirement, inter
est, and maintenance out of our auto
license money. We could then gravel
all the rest of our county-road sys
tem and meet its fixed chargo out of
our property tax without changing a
single county-road levy. That would
be financing. Ohio and Indiana have
each done twice as much as that in
the number of miles surfaced, and the
annual tax bill in neither State today,
is as large as it is in Iowa.
Gentlemen, do you get me? Fin
ancing a road means something more
than taxing a people. It means sci
ence nnd sense in tho distribution of
the taxes that are already being levied.
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FARMERS' AND HOME-MAKERS' WEEK
ana KUKAL LIFE CONFERENCES
January 3 to 8, 1916
Live Information, rractical Help for the Home
uc r.iui, tuc wuxumumiy,
Conventions of Oregon1 Greatest Industries
Conferences on Oregon's Most Vital Problems
LECTURES DEMONSTRATIONS
KA.muiuu.is-an IKKTAINMBNTS
two thousand people attended last year. It is a
great place to make friends-with lire
i,iut is nuu live laougnis, good
workers, and good work.
WINTER SHORT COURSE
January 10 to February 4, 1916
A Practical Agricultural Course in a Nut Shell.
Applied hcience In Actual Work, of
the Farm and Household.
Courses in 1'RUIT RAISING, FARM CROPS.
bOILS. STOCK RAISINO DAIRV WORK
POULTRY RAISING. GARDKNINC, COOK
INO, SKWING, HOUSEHOLD ARTS, HOMK
NURSING, HUKINKSS MKTIIOD3. ROAU
BUILDING. FARM KNGINKHRING. RURAL
ORGAMZATIONS, MARKETING,
Correspondence Courses Without Tuition
Expert Instruction in Music
Reduced railroad rates.
For program write to The College Eiehmrs, Orsre
Agricultural College. Corvalilt. ilw.il to f Ij
THE VALE HOT SPRINGS SANITARIUM
' ' Medical Baths and Health Resort. Rooms and Board. Treatment of Rheumatism a Specialty
, For Information address DR. THOS. W. THURSTON, Superintendent
VALE HOT SPRINGS SANITARIUM COMPANY, VALE, MALHEUR COUNTY, OREGON