OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1916
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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
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tern is included with the club of four
magazines that we are giving in com
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"Hard buyers," men and women
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their pocketbooks, will be quick to
take' advantage of our four-magazine
bargain offer. See advertisement on
page 8,
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ier or renew your subscription at once
we will include four standard maga
zines, all one year, for only 25 cents
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Be careful you don't overlook our
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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. Brunn,
manager of the Blake-McFall com
pany, Portland; Captain J. T. Appor
son, Parkplace; George H. Tracy, Jr.,
assistant state bank examiner, and
C. II. Caufield.
At a stockholders' meeting last
week Mr. Caufield was re-elected
president, but is to resign after the
first of the year, and Will T. Wright
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