OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1916 5 Your Glasses To Order Our registered Opto metrist will examine your eyes without charge, and advise you regarding the exact error or refraction to be overcome. Then we grind the lenses to exactly fit the requirements you need. Your glasses are perfectly adjusted, and you are re lieved' of any danger of eye-strain. By thus having your glasses made to order you are assured of getting the very help your eyes need. Our charges are very reasonable. Burmeister&Andresen Oregon City Jewelers Suspension Bridge Corner COUNTY AND CITY LOCALS Do you know, that a free dress pat tern is included with the club of four magazines that we are giving in com bination with the Courier for only 25 cents extra. Send your order by mail, or phone us. "Hard buyers," men and women who buy with their heads as well as their pocketbooks, will be quick to take' advantage of our four-magazine bargain offer. See advertisement on page 8, Neal & McClatchie make a special ty of repairing watches, clocks or anything pertaining to the jewelry business. tf If you will subscribe to the Cour ier or renew your subscription at once we will include four standard maga zines, all one year, for only 25 cents extra. Be careful you don't overlook our big club of four magazines which we are sending our subscribers this year. A bargain is not merely low price. Only when you get low price and high quality do you have a bargain. Call at our office and see for yourself the club of four magazines that we offer for only 25 cents more than the cost of our paper alone. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Jordan of Port land spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, Henry Henningsen in Oregon City. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan formerly lived in Oregon City, but moved to Portland ten years ago. Probably the first coyote shot this season in the Maple Lane district was brought down on Sunday morning un der the aim of C. W. Swallow. Mr. Swallow and other Maple Lane farm ers report seeing many coyotes this year, although few have been killed, and report considerable loss in the poultry yards as a result of the visits of these wily animals. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. King and son of Portland and Mrs. P. Hedley of Olym pia, Wash., were guests here on Sun day at the home of Mrs. E. A. Os burn. Mrs. Hedley appeared here some years ago as a lecturer for the Industrial Welfare Commission of Washington. v Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Jack, of Sil verton are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jack in this city. The gentlemen are brothers. Mrs. N. M. Alldredge, Mrs. J. E. Downey and Mrs. Rosina Evans, del egates from the Oregon City Wom an's club, attended the state enven tion of woman's clubs at Seaside this week. John M. Richardson of Wingo, Ky., spent several days of this week among Oregon City friends. Henry Perry of Beaver Creek was a county seat business visitor on Monday. Miss Alma Moore has returned to her home in Oregon City after spend ing five weeks visiting in Washington cities, including Everett, Seattle and Tacoma. r. N. Fleishner and F. M. Warren, members of the state fish and game commission, and Carl Shoemaker, state game warden, were in Oregon City on Monday. Otto Barthold of Eldorado was a business visitor in Oregon City on Monday. . , , Mrs. E. C. Warren of Oak Grove visited on Monday in this city. Ernest Hampton of Salem visited with friends in Oregon City yester day. Mr. Hampton was born in Or egon City and has not been here since he left with his parents more than 20 years ago. Miss Iva Benson of Logan, who spent several days as a guest of her sister, Mrs. E. B. Anderson, has re turned to her home. . Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Todd and two children of Independence have returned home after spending some time with Mr. Todd's mother, Mrs. Andrew Todd, in this city. They were accompanied by Mr. Todd's sis ter, Mrs. Harry Jones. Mrs. D. R. Hughes has departed for- San Francisco, her home, after spending a delightful month with relatives in Oregon. Mrs. Hughes has a number of relatives in Oregon Do Your Children Suffer from EYE-STRAIN? Theodore Roosevelt could not see what other boys saw, but he did not know it for a long time. His parents did not know it until he told them. Watch the symptoms of eye defects frequent headaches -holding books close slow progress in school. OPTOMETRIST 612 MAIN ST. OREGON, CITV Successor to Wm. A. Schilling City and she was a guest a short time at the home of each. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Donovan, who have been visiting at Deering, Alber ta, are guests at the home of the for mer's brother, Frank C. Donovan, in this city. They are en route to their home at Lone Rock, Iowa, where Mr. Donovan only recently' disposed of ex tensive farming interests. James M. Sieberling of Reno, Nev., has been with friends in Oregon City for several days. Mr. Sieberling re ports upon the present occupation of the facous or infamous Fritz Boysen, who is in business in Reno. MrSie berling says that the Boysen tavern is bceoming quite an institution in the underworld life of the Nevada metropolis. C. E. Ramsby of Molalla transac ted business in the county seat on Fri day of last week. J. B. Lewthwaite, superintendent of the Crown-Willamette mills, and Gordon A. Pell of Portland are spend ing the present month on a hunting trip that has taken them to the head waters of the McKenzie river. , Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Boylan have returned to their home in Oregon City after a very pleasant visit with the former's mother, Mrs. S. S. Boylan, at Kelso, Wash., and with a sister at Castle Rock, Wash. Miss Pearl Rassler of Ladysmith, Wis., is a guest at the Oregon City home of Mrs. Rachael Pursifull. Miss Rassler expects to remain here for several weeks. Fred (Jerry) Jones, who was a well-known middle western jockey in the days when the famous Dan Patch was in his prime, has been renewing acquaintances in Oregon City this week. He formerly lived in Clack amas county for a brief period and is now in business at Omaha, Neb. N. H. Nelson of Carson, Wash., has been a guest this week of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Anderson and also visited his sister. Mrs. B. A. Anderson, at Maple Lane. Levi Erb of Aurora was in Oregon City on Tuesday. Miss Ada Bidwell, who has been enjoying a respite from her duties by visiting friends and relatives at Port, land, Dundee and Albany, has re sumed her position as night operator for the Pacific Telephont company in this city. Mrs. C. 0. T. Williams, who has been confined to her bed for several days with a very unpleasant attack of grip, is rapidly recovering her health and is now able to be up and about the house. Mrs. T.. F. Meeds and Miss Mary Conyard, her sister, of Spokane, Wash., have returned to their home after spending some, time as guests of Mr. and Mrs. 0. E. Freytagand Mrs. E. M. Meeds at Gladstone. W. E. Myers left on Saturday for Bend, where he will make his home. Mrs. Charles W. Cole of Chicago is a guest at the home of her cousin, Miss Eva Moulton, at Fern Ridge, near this city. Norton Brallin, Astoria business man, has returned home after a visit in Oregon City. G. E. McGruder of ' Seattle spent the week-end with friends in Oregon City. Mr. McGruder was in business in this city a number of years ago. Mrs; Raleigh Quinton has arrived at the home of her sister, Mrs. Lake May, at Canemah, to spend a month. Mrs. Quinton's home is in California. The Courier $1.00 per year. WHAT ONE FARMER THINKS Notice Mr. Farmer, we want your horse I shoeing and have made the price as iormeny, lour new snoes z to ana including No. 6; No. 7, $2.25; No. 8, $2.50, resetting $1, to and including No. 6; No. 7 and 8, $1.25. We are prepared to sharpen your disc harrows. Give us a call and be convinced. Satisfaction guaranteed. SCRIPTURE & MAY, tf 108 Fifth St. The spectacle of the "unholy alli ance" between Colonel Roosevelt and the very men whom four years ago he denounced as "porch climbers," "second-story men," and as "grafter9 and crooks" continues to gain in in terest and impressiveness each day of the campaign. r The Proposed People's Land and Loan Law is Supported To the editor: It seems strange to me that when it is simply proposed to put the tax relation between the individual and the state on a sound business basis, such as is almost universally used and recognized as just and proper In pri vate and corporate business transac tions of all kinds, then we are deluged with the darkest kind of dismal pis tures and dire disaster is seen ap proaching from every direction. About the first thing thrown on the screen in large letters is the word "confiscation," and it appears fre quently during the performance. Then we are told the measure means government ownership of land and farmers will be nothing but renters; that it means socialism; that it is revolutionary that the promised ben efits are visionary and the charge that is supposed to be the sum of all the horrors and that is thought to be suf ficient to make any farmer throw a cat fit, is reserved for the windup: we are solemnly and impressively told that it is a single tax measure. Yes, and another charge that I forgot to include is that it is experimental. By the way, it has passed through seve ral years of experiment in some plac es and the people liked it much bet ter than the old original experiment, which has proved itself largely a fail ure. We are also told that it is not a proposed system of taxation, but an economic theory which suits me bet ter than an uneconomic theory under the old disagreeable name of taxa tion. Democratic government was revo,- lutionary, experimental, visionary, etc., and so was the Oregon system of direct legislation; so was woman suf frage; so was prohibition; but in all these cases it is now pretty generally conceded that the revolution was needed, the experiment a success and the vision true and in my humble opinion like results would follow the adoption of the ground rent system of collecting state and county funds. It would" be socialism to the extent that A j'lil TAe OaJUL Store 1 'WMFmWWPM,fJ Jill a ISSO THREE DAYS ONLY Thursday Friday Saturday Oct. 19-20-21st We have the most up to date line of men's furnishings in town. Our Shirts and Ties are of the finest shades and latest patterns. The best dressers in town patronize us. II I i u H m 13 rusty tin cup with a clean glass at hand ! Well then, why pay as much, or nearly as much, for a pump with a metal valve seat iLLsJi AS FOR A wtSSfiw' lll 1 IS tla Myers Pump with the PATENTED GLASS VALVE SEAT ? Metal Valve seats may corrode or rust. GLASS VALVE SEATS CANNOT. Metal Valve Seats harden the check leathers quickly. GLASS VALVE SEATS DO NOT. The patent Myers Glass Valve seat Is well protected and Is as last Ing as any metal seat and far superior. For the sake of CLEANLINESS and service BUY a MYERS PUMP ft" iT J.!'l Portland - Spokane , W. J. Wilson & Co. Oregon City, Ore Implements Vehicles Wa will gladly mall you a copy ol our now Pump catalog upon rocalpt of your noma and addraas. Ask lor cata log No. J, and atata purpoao for which pump la wanted Geo. Blatchford Molalla, Ore. What is a One Cent Sale? It is a sale where you buy an item at the regular price-then another item of the same kind for 1 cent For instance: the regular price of Rexall Tooth Paste is 25c You buy one tube at 25c and we sell you another for lc or two for 26c Our Third lc Sale This is our third one cent sale each larger than the other. This time we will have about 150 dif ferent articles that you can buy for lc and every one a standard article. See our big announce ment next week and plan to store in the benefits of this sale II you want a copy oi the complete list before next Friday drop us a post card and we will mail you one it will be worth dollars to you if you use it. Huntley Drug Co. Oregon City, Ore. :illllllll!lllllllinn!!llll!l!!lll!:!lllllll!i!ll!lli!l!!l!i:iil!!lll!NI!'ll!l! r it would prevent one man from col lecting unearned profit from the oth er man's labor. It would be demo cratic because it would be true to the party slogan, "equal rights to all, special privileges to none," and it would be republican because it would provide a tariff to protect home labor in every community. By the way, our republican friends believe in com bining an economic system with tax ation through the tariff in national affairs, but like our republican friend, Assessor Reed of Multnomah county, object to it in the state. Now, to return to the beginning, in any business transaction outside of paying taxes, it is supposed to be a matter of exchange of equal- values. If a man buys or sells anything he is expected to pay or receive the market value and his ability to pay more or less is not taken into consideration. If he is a party to either side of a renting or leasing transaction, he generally pays or receives a certain amount and the on who pays takes his chances on doing much business, little business or none at all. This single tax measure simply proposes to hve the state adopt the same sys tem of doing business. The govern ment ownership confiscation bugaboo has no foundation in fact. You will search the measure in vain for any thing that will disturb the perpetual tenure of the lease you hold, which is all our vaunted titles amount to. The government owns the land under any and all forms of government and the use of the land is apportioned in the way that is thought will t best serve the interests of all and that is generally what is called private own ership, which is really a perpetual lease to run as long as the tax (rent) is paid. We now pay rent, not only on the ground, but' also on the im provements on the land and on our personal property and the land is held responsible for it all and' is "confis cated" for the rent on personal prop erty, if not paid. What is proposed is for the state to do as an individual would under the circumstances and would rightfully be expected to do, simply raise revenue by renting the property it owns and has provided, by charging the full value for the op portunities it has provided in connec tion with the general collective in dustries of the people, to live, do bus iness, make homes and enjoy life. If a man rents his farm, the first thing he does is to see that the renter pays the tax and enough more to pay his profit and this applies also to lots and buildings for dwelling or busi ness purposes. Thus the renter pay.? the entire tax and pays it in the form of rent and no confiscation, socialism, government ownership or any other dreadful things are discernible. But to propose to charge the owner of the land just the entire rental value of the land without any improvements and allow him to keep undisturbed whatever he can make out of his per sonal property and improvements, either by his own labor and use of it or by renting, tnat woum Dring a train of disaster worse than the great European war and worse than the imagination of Dante. The present system of general property tax is wrong in theory and a great deal worse in practice. It is no more right to make a man pay tax ccording to his ability to pay than rt would be for him to have to pay for cow according to his ability to pay. He should pay for what he gets, no more, no less. And the greatest abil ity to pay is accompanied by the greatest ability to avoid payment., and the average man, whose property is tangible and visible and who is a little more conscientious, he is hit hard. Personal property and improve ments are an unjust basis for taxa tion, first, because of their perishable nature as compared with land, and second, because taxation improve ments and community improvements do not increase their value for taxa tion purposes but does increase then value for use. Any certain personal property or improvement would pay about the same tax whether owned by a business man in the heart of Portland, a dweller in the suburbs, a farmer in the grain belt or a ranch er in the foot hills, and anybody knows there is a vast difference in the percentage of profit. Now, Mr. Editor, if you do me the honor to publish this, I hope you will mark a copy and send it to Henry E. Reed, assessor of Multnomah county, with an invitation to enlight en myself and other readers of the Courier wherein I am wrong and es pecially to point out the part of the proposed measure that would cause government ownership to be adopted and also to show specifically how de stroying the speculative values of land, that is, making it impossible to hold for future values, would make it any the less desirable for home mak ing development and use. Also I should like to have a detailed discus sion from C. E. Spence to make the matter interesting. I want to get rid of my ideas on this subject if they can be dispelled by reason and logic. Mere statements of what will come to pass on adoption of the single tax does not accomplish the object sought; I want the reasons why these things will be thus. .. O. D. R0BBINS. will be named in his place. The oth er officers are: George H. Tracy, Jr., vice-president; Mr. Wright, secreta ry; Chester D. Phillips, San Francis co, cashier, and S. L. Stevens, assist ant cashier. The same meeting in creased the capital stock from $50, 000 to $100,000, to be brought up by the present stockholders as much as possible before offered for sale else- . where. Mr. Caufield denies rumors regard ing the possible connection of Leroy "D. Walker, late president of the Bank of Commerce, with the staff of the Bank of Oregon City. Mr. Walker also denied the rumors. DIRECTORS NAMED C. II. Caufield Re-elected President to Serve Until January The new board of directors for the re-organized and enlarged Bank of Oregon City was announced on Sat urday by C. H. Caufield, who also made known the action of the stock holders in increasing the capital stock of the institution from $50,000 to $100,000. The board members are Will T. Wright of Portland, ex-state super intendent of banks; C. D. 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