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BUSINESS METHODS
NEEDED.
SuBsUtntidl business intrests in all
sections o f the sU te heartily approve
the plan of Jay Bowerman, Acting
Governor and candidate for the Re
publican nomination for Governor, to
inagUJate a business system in the con
duct of the state's business affairs. Mr
Bowerman proposes, if nominated and
elected, to consolidate the purchasing
power of the sU te in a single board
through which supplies for all state in­
stitutions would be purchased in whole­
sale quantities and apportioned to the
different institutions as required. In
the short time Mr. Bowerman has been
serving as the state’s chief executive,
his observation has convinced him that
the inaguration of such a system would
effect a saving to the taxpayers of at
least $50,000 annually.
Under the system now in vogue, each
of the seven state institutions pur­
chases its supplies separately. As a
result, there is a wide discrepancy in
the price paid by the different institu­
tions for the same articles. For in­
stance, the state insane asylum, which
buys meat in large quantities, paid only
$7.87 per 100 pounds for the first six
months of this year while the blind
school paid $12 per 100 pounds for the
same period. Even a greater difference
is shown in the cost to the state of flour
used at these institutions. This pro­
duct at the asylum cost only $3.60 per
barrel while the reform school,, buying
in smaller quantities and at a different
time, paid $5.30 for the same article.
Rice, delivered at the asylum and pen­
itentiary cost $3.37 per 100 pounds while
at the reform school the same article
cost the state $5.25 and at the feeble
minded home $4.50.
“ It requires only a very simple
mathematical calculation," said Mr,
Bowerman in discussing this feature of
his platform, “ to show conclusively
th at an enormous saving of the taxpay
ers’ money could be made by purchas­
ing all state supplies together. That
is one of the reforms I shall advocate
and if possible inaugurate in my deter
mination to give to the people of the
state the most efficient, econom:cal
and business-like administration pos­
sible. In proposing this reform, I feel
that I am only responding to a demand
on the part of the people of the state
that the business of the state should be
transacted on straight business priori
pies.”
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RIGHT MAN FOR THE PLACE
member of the House in 1908 anti 1906
and of the State Senate in 1907 and 1909
and in the four sessions he made a good,
consistent record for intelligent econ­
omy in state affairs. He is a man of
fearless convictions and ever ready to
express them. He is a believer in tne
primary law anti refused to endorse the
assembly scheme from the start. He
is careful and successful in his own af­
fairs; he ia thoroughly conversant with
the business of the state institutions
and would conduct that business care­
fully and economically. We have had
occasions to bitterly differ with Mr.
Kay in the past, but that does not pre­
vent a recognition of his merits and we
know he would make an excellent cus­
todian of the state funds. “
T he vanguard of the fall colonist
travel from the East and Middle West
to Oregon is arriving on every train.
Reports from the immigration officials
of the railroads are to the effect that
this travel will be heavy and that a
large number of new citizens will reach
Oregon this year. People of the state
should make special efforts to welcome
the newcomers and make them feel at
home
in their new environment.
Help should be given in helping them
find suitable locations. Oregon people
as a whole have a distinct duty to per­
form in giving aid and comfort to the
homeseeker. Stayton, however, owing
to the fact that it has no commercial
organization and does not want more
wealth and population, will have no
entertaining to do.
T he S tate Good Roads Association is
very anxious for the people to become
better acquainted with petition 354 on
the ballot, which reads: “ No county
shall create any debts or liabilities which
shall singly or in the aggreate exceed
the sum of $5000, except to suppress
insurection or repel invasion or to build
permanent roads within the county, but
debts for permanent roads shall be in­
curred only on approval of a majority
of those voting on the question
Those at work for the passage of the
amendment permitting the bonding of
the county for road work say it will be
the biggest step Oregon has made to­
ward permanent improvement for a
long time.
M ax H. Gehlhar, candidate for the I
Republican nomination for county clerk,
is clean, able and deserving and should
receive a splendid vote in this end of
the county. Mr. Gehlhar is a self-made |
man and his education represents years !
of hard work and sacrifice. He is a
lawyer, has had experience in most of I
the county offices and is unusually well !
qualified to fill the position to which he |
aspires. The present incumbent has )
had two terms and now seeks a third.
It is time for a change and no better |
man can be found for the place than j
Max Gehlhar.
R oseburg is the latest community I
to testify that consistent publicity work
pays. Within the past month 44 fami­
lies have notified Publicity Manager !
Schlosser, of the Roseburg Commercial
Club, of their intention to locate in the I
vicinity of that place during the com-1
Ing winter or spring.
T here is no earthly reason why Tom
Kay of Salem should not receive the
vote of every Marion county elector
an! no reason why he should not receive
a great majority of the votes cast in
PREVENTION BETTER
the state at large for the position of
THAN CURE.
state treasurer, which he seeks. Tom
George M. Cornwall, publisher cf The
Kay has had long experience in business
Timberman, Portland, has proposed
and public affairs, and is a square, hon­
that the federal troops be encamped
orable and straightforward man
around the national foiests from April
every sense of the word. He has been
to October and that no one be allowed
for eight years in the state senate and
to enter without permission from the
has done splendid work in that body
officer in command. The suggestion is
Among the m atters of statewide im receiving considerable attention from
portance fathered by him was the flat newspapers and public men interested
salary bill, which places all but one in the preservation of standing timber
office on a flat salary and saves the and the lives of the homesteaders and
state every year from $30,000 to pioneers who are trying to build homes
$60,000.
in the wilderness. The following ed­
It is a notable fact that some of the itorial comment is from the Spokane
strongest praise that Mr. Kay has re­ Spokesman Review:
ceived during his campaign has come
The smoke of the torment of the for­
from former political enemies—men ests continues to ascend, until it almost
from whom he has differed bitterly on seems as if the fires would continue
questions of public policy, but who in until the Inst tree in the Pacific North­
simple fairness could not but admit west would perish.
that Mr. Kay is eminently fitted for the
Advices from the First District of
position he seeks. Such is the tribute the Federal Forest Service in Montana
from Frank Davey, former speaker of allege that the flics in that state have
the House of Representatives and now burned 126,070 acres, cost $72,000 to
publisher of the Harney Valley News. fight and destroyed $706,000 of timber.
The following editorial appeared in a
Over 1,600 men are struggling to save
recent numberd of the News:
the Montana forests, 100 more have
“ Hon. T. B. Kay, president of the been summoned, and the Western Pine
Salem Woolen Mills, has announced his Manufacturers’ Association has re­
candidacy before the direct primaries quested President Taft to order the
for State Treasurer. Mr. Kay was a Federal army in the mountain states to
defend the National Reserves in them
against Are.
Prevention, however, would be better
than cure, especially as the "cure" in
this case, despite heroic and intelligent
work by the fighters of fire effecta so
iittle.
The forest fires luridly illuminate
Francis Perry Elliot's question : Shall
the Nation take thought for the mor­
row? They sharpen the point of George
M. Cornwall's proposals: Encamp the
troops on or around the National Re­
serves between ( April and October,
ami allow nobody on them without a 1 with their work ami that as a general
^ thing workingmen do not attend church,
permit from the officer in charge.
Central Asia and the Mediterranian i On the other hand the workingmen re­
lands teach the terrible meaning of de­ tort that the churches are not aympa-
1 thetic with them, that employers of la-
forestation.
U>r guilty of extortion and of unjust
LABOR IN THE PULPIT.
dealings with their men are prominent
I t it a good deal of an Innovation to
church members, ami that ministers as
have labor representatives preach labor
a class, are subservient to men of
doctrine from the pulpits of Christian
wealth.
churches but this was done on a recent
While there Is doubtless considerable
Sunday in Chicago. Not unlikely good
may result from it. Churches have truth In the charges made by both sides
nut nearly so biui as represented. What
is needed is a better understanding be
tween the church and labor, and the
occasional admisalom of labor speakers
to the pulpits of churches may tend to
clear the atmosphere and promote that
understanding. And rerluinly what­
ever cleavage there may be, if any,
between the two bodice the fact looms
out large that the great Founder of
Christianity was a carpenter ami that
he loved the common |ieople and sympa­
complained that labor is not sympathetic | It is very probable that conditions are thized with them.
CLOSING O UT
GOES MERRILY ON.
Every day sees bargain after bargain picked up.
Come early and get first choice.
If possible , we want to make a wind-up by October 1st
Do any of these prices look good to you?
SHOES.
DRESS GOODS.
$1.00
$2.00 yard Black Dress Goods
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1.12
1.60 - 62 inch Blue •
.45
.75 “ 38 inch Red -
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.40
.60 - 35 inch Grayish 6oods
.57 - 36 inch blue, Green, White, all wool Albatross .42
250 pieces Dress Goods at 20c to (2.50 per yard,
going at similar reductions
$5.00 and $6.00 Ladies’ Shoes .
4.00 Ladies’ Shoes
2.50
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1.75
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$2.75
198
1-75
1-25
"
1 lot Ladles' Oxfords, $2, $2.50 and $3.50 On
1.00
1 lot
50
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“ $1, $1.50 and $1.75, good sizes On
$3. Brown’s Star 5 Star Blue Ribbon School Shoes
CALICOES.
2.50
Nobody wants Calico now— what little I have Is yours at
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1.55
All Blue Ribbon Shoes at like reduction
1 lot Men's Packard Shoes at one-half price
4
100 pairs Men's and Boy’s heavy Shoes at less than cost
100
cents a yard while it lasts
OUTING FLANNEL.
7c at 4c, 10c at 7c , 12 j4 c at 10c.
Remember this is a wjnd-up.
A Few of My Closing Out Prices
on Ladies’, Misses9, Child­
ren’s Cloaks
$8.50
9.50
6.50
2.50
3.50
2.50
7.50
19.85
12.50
18.00
13.00
5.00
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$2.
Misses’ C l o a k ........................................................................$4.15
Young Ladies’ C l o a k ....................................................................5.50
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3.25
Child’s Coat
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1.45
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2.75
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Misses’ “
4.25
Ladles’ *
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9.50
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8.15
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Misses’ “
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2.50
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Dress Shoes at a saving of 30 to 50 percent
SHIRT WAISTS
\ lot 50c, 75c, $ 1, $1.50 and $2 Shirt Waists, Small
Sizes and Soiled
.25
1 lot 85c and $1 Shirt Waists, Good Sizes
.45
UNDERWEAR
Children's Heavy Fleeced Cotton Underwear, 2<;c and
3qc garments, at
.¿0
Children’s Heavy Fleeced Cotton Underwear, 3<;c, 4uc
and 4t;c garments, at
2<;
HOSIERY
1 case Heavy Cotton Hose, never opened, to go at
closing out prices
2gc Burson Hose, pair
.13
Everwear Hosiery at prices so low that you can’t
afford to go barefooted
My closing out prices are so far below the other fellow’s ability
to buy that he can have one of our I5 or 25 cent hammers for the
knocker, for the asking.
Remember it is a case of sour grapes.
I could give a big American silver dollar for 75 cents and the other
fellow would say “ no good” because he has not the sand or the salt.
A case of sour grapes.
Does an $8.50 Misses’
Cloak took good to you at
$4.15
How is WO lbs good dean
j F2 ground SALT at - -
40c
G. D. Trotter
STAYTON
OREGON