THE BANNER-COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1922.
Page Nine
TRAINING LITTLE GITIZENS
These Articles published weekly in these columns are
Issued by the National Kindergarten Associ
ation, New York City
The Outgoing and Homecoming of
the Child
By Nelia Gardner White
Did you ever watch pigeons circling
about the pigeon house, and listen to
their cooing before they settled down
for the night? The flying in and out
of the pigeons suggests "the glad out
going, sweet homecoming" of child
hood, around the mother's knee. Froe
bel recognized in this scene a symbol
of life, a lesson for us, as mothers,
which we cannot study too faithfully
The 'outging' nado the 'homecom
ing', there is a world of meaning in
each word. Do you send your child
out each day, to school or to play,
happily, trustingly, lovingly? Is he
glad to go, but gladder still to return?
What sort of a homecoming does he
have? Aren't we, Mothers, too apt to
make that homecoming full of scold
ings for tardiness, or nagging over
table-deportment, or rushing the chil
dren off to bed so we can (have the
evening to ourselves? Thojje things
seem of small fmportance, but would
not it be of more lasting value to us
and to our children if, instead, we
made of that homecoming a happy
summary of the day's affairs?
There is no child who is not glad
to tell what he has been doing all day.
If he has been at school there are
often little difficulties, little vexations
that the teacher has not had time to
satisfactorily explain or smooth out.
A word or two from Mother may make
it all clear and right. And if he has
been at play there will be so many
things to tell. It is while out at play
that the child becomes acquainted
with the fascinating realm of out-of-dors.
Flowers, binis, trees, bees and
butterflies, he may become closer ac
quainted with them al lthrough the
retelling of his experiences among
them. Wouldn't he be more interested
in insect life if he knew the life his
tory of the butterfly or of the ant with
its almost human arrangement of
home and work? Wouldn't he find
moer satisfaction in the fields if he
knew that there were weeds that ate
bugs and some that lived on other
plants, like selfish folks? And
wouldn't you like to have him so form
the habit of telling them, eveD after
he passes out of childhood? Wouldn't
you like to be the one he always
comes back to for understanding and
intelligent enlargement of his small
ideas?
And isn't it in this deep abiding
faith in Mother and Father, and in the
intimate comradeship with the out
side world, that the faith in he Infin
ite is born? Perhaps, in childhood,
the connection between the Creator of
the Universe and a white-fringed, gol
denhearted daisy may not be overly
clear, but if the connection is made
at all, if the child sees the manifes
tation of the Divine in all the forces of
nature, it will not be such a far cry
to discovering such manifestations in
his own soul. Then, as you help him
to weave his daily experiences into a
happy whole at the day's end, so may
his larger experiences fashion them
selves into a pattern that he will not
be ashamed to show himself or his
Creator at the "twilight hour" of life.
THE PEOPLE'S SAY
Editor Banner-Courier:
Please publish this reply to the
Enterprise's misconstruction of my
communication which it used as the
basis of an editorial last week. Re
spectfully, Robert Ginther.
Editor Enterprise:
Your editorial comment on my com
munication of last week is certainly
a fine piece of imaginative thought.
It reveals a thinker whose conception
of things is "above the clouds." It
isn't real. Either you haven't lived
long in this country and know little
of its history, or you don't understand
the meaning of English words as ap
plied to political economy. You say
we are a nation of "inter-dependent
cooperatives." Do you know what
this means? It means that we are
all associated together voluntarily on
an equal basis in one organization,
each receiving their equal share from
the common soil. It means, for il
lustration, that every man who works
for John D. Rockefeller gets just as
much from the oil industry as John
does! That John and his million
"employees" have an equal say in the
management of the oil industry or,
coming closer to home,' it means that
the "employees" of the paper mill
here have an equal say in the man
agement of the paper industry of this
town and each gets as much per day
as the manager does and they all have
the same privileges in every way, that
the manager has. This is the mean
ing, Mr. Editor, of "interdependent"
cooperatives Not only Webster but
our political economists all tell you.
this You must have been in dream
land when you were writing your com
ment, lor nothing on this earth has
ever existed as you have expressed it
in your picture of hope". I regret to
note that you misunderstood my com
munication in spots. I trust your
readers have not.
It is certainly written in simple En
glish. Nowhere can you find that
I have taken "the principle of Ameri
can government to task" as you say it.
When you say "American govern
ment" this we all understand means
our political form, "and you ought to
know it. And I presume you know
as well as I that our political form is
as ileaiiy perfect as human intelli
gence has been able to make it. Our
economic system is not. In paragraph
three of your editorial you single out ,
my one illustration of collective effort
as though I meant it the only thing
we did collectively. The statement I
made just preceeding it shows you
plainly otherwise.
No, Mr. Editor, you are "off your
base" when you use and try to make
these two words "interdependent" and
"cooperation" fit our "complex civil
ization." Instead we are a world of
"dependents" economically, nine
tenths of us, and I repeat, our history
proves that we rather enjoy it.
ROBERT GINTHER.
for rate making purposes and the tax
commission fixes the value for taxa-
ion purposes. ' The state tax com
mission finds the value of public ser-
'ice corporations from the reports of
the corporations filed with the com
mission showing the gross and the
net income, after deducting operating
expenses and the various deductions
allowe d for betterments, replace
ments, etc. They formerly fixed the
value on the basis of 6 per cent, but
I understand that it is now fixed on
the basis of earning 7 per cent, while
the farm and other values are fixed
arbitrarily, and not on a dividend pay
ing basis. The tax commission also
fixed the ratio of the assessed value
of the property of each county. Clack-
lamas county's ratio being fixed at 50
per cent of the cash value for this
year. The Tax Commission having
determined that Clackamas County is
only assessed at 50 per cent of the
cash value of a corporation on the
basis of earning 7 per cent will re
duce that value one half. To illus
trate, if the commission found that a
corporation was earning 7 per cent
on $1,000,000 Clackamas County's
property being only assessed at 50
per cent of the value, the commission
would reduce the assessed value of
the corporation 500,000.00. Ask your
self how many farmers are earning
seven per cent, and then determine
whether or not it is fair and equal to
have the two standards of assess
ment, one for big business, and one
for the other fellow.
Take our largest public service cor
poration in Clackamas county the P.
R. L. & P. Co. The following are
the values fixed by the public service
commission for rate making pur
poses: Oregon City plant fl.912.771i
Cazadero plant 1.685,143
River Mills - - 2,059,483
Bull Run 2,040,728
Rail and Wire lines
in Clackamas Co 2,885,014
Total $10,583,139
In addition to the above values the
P. R. L. & P. Co. received $156,455.65
in 1919 for granting the Crown-Willamette
and Hawley Pulp & Paper Co.
permission to take water out of the
Willamette river, which the P. R. L.
& P. Co. received frcSm the state of
Oregon for nothing. If you would cap
italize that sum at 10 per cent (so as
to allow sufficient out of the earn
ings to pay taxes with) you would
have an additional value of $1,564.50,
or a total of $12,147,695.50, while the
tax commission has fixed the value of
the P. R. Li. & P.'s property in Clack
amas courity for 1921 at $3,561,333.25
instead of $12,147,695.50, which it
should be. This same condition ap
plies to all the 'other public service
corporations, not only in Clackamas
county, but all over the state. While
our taxes are increasing each year we
find that public service corporations
are well taken care of by the tax
commission. The following is a state
ment of the valeus fixed by the state
tax commission of the three public
service corporations in Clackamas
county for taxation purposes:
P. R. L. & P. Co. 1915....$4,432,697.73
P. R. L. & P. Co. 1921....$3,561,33.25
Valuation since 1915....$ 871,364.48
O. & C. R. R. Co. 1916....$1,035,447.90
O. & C. R. R. Co. 1921....$ 845,162.50
Valuation reduced since
1916....$ 190,285.40
S. P. Co. 1916-.$ 117,885.00
P. E. & E. C. now be
longs S. P. Co. 1916$ 109,591.00
1921....$ 129,722.00
Total redutcion assess
ment valuation.-.-$l,159,403.38
There has been a general reduction
in the valuation of public service cor
porations by the state tax commission
on the theory, that their net earn
ings have been less. This undoubt
edly is true, but the same rule should
apply to farm and other property. If
the state tax commission compiled
with the law and fixed the value of
public service corporations in Clack
amas county for taxation purposes,
at their dividend paying values, this
alone would add approximately four
and one half million dollars to the
tax roll in Clackamas county. The
values given in this letter cover what
is known as operative property of the
corporations, and is fixed by the tax
commission for assessment purposes,
but does no tinclude the non-operative
property assessed by the county as
sessor. One other great natural resource
that has been appropriated and is
held for speculative purposes, but
does not pay one cent of taxes, is
water power. The law provides that
water power shall be assesssed the
same as land. The argument advanc
ed by the private individuals and cor
porations who have appropriated the
water power, is that they should not
be compelle tod pay taxes on appro
priation water power until it has been
developed and pays dividends. What
about the farmer who has a lot of
unimproved land that does not earn
dividends? If any ont tried to pur
chase the water right from the per
son who appropriated it, even though
it was not developed, they would find
out that it was very VALUABLE
PROPERTY Ask yourself why the
samei rule should not apply to unde
veloped farm land that is now applied
to undeveloped water power.
In my next I will take up the as
sessment of some of the private cor
porations in Clackamas county.
C. SCHUEBEL.
FIVE STAR POINTS OF THE
RED STAR
DETROIT VAPOR OIJJ STOVE
FOR BETTER ROADS AND
LOWER TAXES
To the Editor Banner-Courier.
There seems to be considerable con
traversy over the road question. I
have studied this subject both pro
and con and the main fault I find with
the present road system is in not
keeping them up after they have them
finished.
They make no provision whatever
to keep up the roads. I have a plan
whereby these new roads which are
being built and has been built in the
past few years can be kept up and
made better al lthe time and at the
same time save the county money.
My plan is this. When the coun
ty builds a piece of road such as our
market roads are or even the com
mon crushed rock roads of which we
have so many in Clackamas county,
when finishing a road say five or six
miles long, leave a good big truck load
or two of fine, not the finest but next
to the finest which goes through the
sieve, every two o rthree hundred feet
apart along the side of the finished
road. Then hire a man and pay him
a flat salary not to exceed one thou
sand dollars per year, give him a
wheelbarrow, a shovel, pick and a
rake and have him put in all his time
on said road, when there begins to be
a little depression or small pocket,
fil lit up with gravel when a few
loads with heavy trucks begin to cut
ruts, take his pick and rake and fill
them up.
One man could easily keep up at
at least five or six miles in good shape
for say $1000 per year and maybe
less.
A good reliable man, who has been
road supervisor, told me that it cost
at least $1000 per mile to re-dress one
of our minor 10-foot roads which had
been let go for two o rthree years.
This was before the war when labor
an everything else was cheaper. Now
if it cost $1000 to re-dress one mile
it would cost $100,000 to re-dress one
hundred miles.
If one man can keep up five miles
for $1000 or less, 20 men would keep
one hundred miles for $20,000 and for
one hundred thousand dollars one
hundred men would keep up 500 miles
of road and it would be in better shape
that at first
So you see in one year's time one
hundred miles of road the county
would save $80,000 under this plan.
I have been told that this system
would break up the county. I hope
that the county commissioners see
this article and give it a careful study.
Yours for better roads and less taxes,
J. F. DIX,
Parkplace, Ore.
Security Folk Plan Special Meet.
At the meeting of the Security Ben
efit association which was held Mon
day night at Moose hall, arrangements
were made for a big meeting, which
will be March 20, when the degree
team of Anchor council, Portland, ac
companied by a 20-piece band of the
same council, will be here to initiate
a class of 15 new members AftQ
the business is finished dancing will,
indulged in and refreshments be serv
ed. A committee appointed to take
charge of the affair was Mrs. C. All
dredge, Mrs. C. O. Dryden and Mrs
Otto Smith.
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Mitor Banner-Courier:
I read with a great deal of interest
your articles on taxation, and will av
ail myself of the opportunity offered
to express myself, through your col
umns, on the taxation question. I
agree that our overhead expenses in
the management of our government
is greater than it should be, and if
the business of the state, county and
city were conducted along the lines
of private business, large savings
could be made, but there always has
been, and always will be, more or less
waste in the management of public
affairs under our system of govern
ment. The two main causes for
high taxes are:
1st. Inequality in assessing, and
2nd. The increased demands for
education and roads. In this letter i
I will discuss the public service cor-1
poration and later will take up the
private corporations in Clackamas j
county. There are two values for
every public service corporation, one"
for rate making purposes and the oth
er for taxation purposes. The pub
lic service commission fixes the value
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