THE BANNER-COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1522.
Paga Seven
TRAINING LITTLE CITIZENS
These Articles published weekly in these columns are
Issued by the National Kindergarten Associ
ation, New York City
By. Mrs. Chas. Robbing
Is there anyone more unwelcome in
any group anywhere than the child
who has been spoiled? Time after
time have I heard a mother remark,
"Well, you know how spoiled he is."
She acts as though this would forgive
his misdemeanors. The failure to do
her duty is expalined by adding that
his grandmothe ror aunt will let him
do such things.
Mothers, you may try to believe
that is so, but deep down in your
hearts, you acknowledge that the fail
ure in training points only one way,
and that is to you. If you persist in
training systematically your child will
show good results. My boy would
have been hopelessly spoiled had I al
lowed either grandmother to do as she
wished. In fact both objected if I
permitted my baby to cry. Later on
they complimented me on my well
trained baby. Why? Because he was
unspoiled, healthy and lovable.
That brings us to an important
point in the training of children. The
most beautiful child in the world can
be so reared, through neglect of his
parents to direct the small acts, of
childhood that he becomes unlikable.
Now we know the child is not to
blame. The moulding of every baby
boy to manhood, and every baby girl
to womanhood is absolutely in the
hands of the parents at the start. If
we come to this realization it is" not
difficult to understand how import
ant a factor training in the right di
rection can become. I might add that
this is one of the biggest aims of
kindergartens, the directing and start
ing of the child's habits in life in the
best way.
One often hears some mother relat
ing to a friends a cute remark made
.by her child or telling of some act,
while the child listens intently, even
smiling with self satisfaction at this
repetition of his smartness.
The child you may well know is im
pressed. The exact result of having
hear of his bright acts is this: just
as soon as a child begins to think
those things are cute he gets an ex
alted feeling that they are the means
by which he gets notice. Then he
loses the sweet, innocent ways of a
child arid becomes self-conscious.
One little boy I know is giving the
teachers in school a troublesome time
atad the mother declares she" is un
able to change him. When he was a
baby he was bright and attractive,
naturally imitating little things his
parents did. If he heard his father
swear occasionally or heard a slang
expression he repeated it, much to
the amusement of his audience. They
led him on and entertained friends
showing him off, but now the parents
are suffering. The child is not want
ed anywhere and proves a nuisance.
To laugh at or ridicule a child when
he asks some qeustion innocently, ev
en though it may be amusing, is a
crime. Your laugh, if he has asked
some queer thing, turns his grave
thoughts aside as worthless. Such
things may seem trivial to you, Moth
ers, but to him they are all small less
ons leading on to bigger ones in his
steps of progress.
Try to think as your child thinks
and try to see what has prompted his
action. This will help greatly in solv
ing many perplexing problems. Very,
very often he has a motive which can
be discovered if you watch carefully.
Does it seem a big task, "Mothers? It
is, but there is no greater happiness
for us than the knowledge that we
have done our best. If we have, the
best results will in all probability fol
low, and our children will be as we
want them to be, lovable and happy;
and the spoiled child will never be
among us.
Oregon City, March 5. To the edi
tor Banner-Courier I have read in
your paper the complaints of. differ
ent ones about the inequalities and
injustice of the automobile and truck
license or tax and have waited to see
if anyone would produce a remedy for
them or outline a new system of li
censing the automobile. , I would then
offer this, by way of a change: I
would repeal the present license laws
and substitute a system by which
each car seeking registration would
be charged 1 per cent of the cost of
a new car of the same make. Thus,
if a Ford owner sought registration
of his car, the present price of a new
Ford being around $575, he would be
charged $5.75 to register his car and
get a ilecnse plate therefor. In case
of a $1000, $2000 or $5000 car, or a
car of any price, the fee would be 1
per cent of that price, no matter what
that price might be.
, But you might say that would re
duce he. income from that source for
the use of the highways and would
not produce sufficiently to meet the
requirements of the law in other re
spects. "Very well then: to make up
the discrepancy in that respect I
-would place a tax on gasoline . of 5
cents a gallon, thus placing more of
the upkeep of the highways on the
man who uses them, and not the
greatest burden on the man who goes
on the road with a Email car, and
goes but once or twice a week, and
then possibly not to exceed 50 miles
a week at that. F. H. KING.
THE PEOPLE'S SAY
Editor Banner-Courier:
Dear Sir:-
In my former letters I presented
the assessed valuation of public ser
vice and private corporations. In this
I will make comparison between busi
ness and residence lots, as well as
the method of assessing farm proper
ly. In discussing the sale of the North
erly half of Lot 6, Block 24, the City
Council estimated the value of the
half lot at $20,000, The building on
the lot is of very little value, because
it will be necessary to tear down the
bailding and replace it with a modern
structure before you could realize on
the investment. The city property is
inside property, and if the half lot is
"worth $20,000 Lot five beifig a corner
lot, is certainly worth $40,000, but it
is only assessed for $10,000.
Take business property on Seventh
Street. A certain organization tried
to purchase a lot in Block 54, the
price asked by the owner was $6,000,
the assessed value is only $700. Two
residence lots were sold for $1140.00
and assessed for $950.00. Other resi
dence lots sold for $800 and $850 and
are assessed at $500 and $550, and
some as high as $600, and in some in
stances the owner would be willing to
sell the property for the assessed val
ue. These are used merely as illus
trations. The same ratio applies prac
tically to all business and residence
lots. In examining the tax rblP you
find that business lots are assessed
from twenty to forty per cent of their
value and residence lots at sixty five
to one hundred per cent of their value.
Take the merchant he estimates his
overhead expense, including his taxes
etc., and fixes the sale price of his
goods so as to allow a sufficient profit
to conduct his business on a paying
basis. Some will say if you raise the
taxes on the business man, he will add
it to the price of his goods and the
consumer will pay it just the same.
That is true, the business man is en
titled to a fair profit on his business,
but if the additional amount were
added to the sale price of the goods,
a large number of people who are re
ceiving the protection of our govern
emnt, but are not paying a tax, would
help pay a part of the expenses and
reileve the small home owner to that
extent. I do not jknow the inventory
value of our merchants, but do know
the assessed value, and will venture
to say that the. assessed value ranges
from ten to twenty per cent of the
inventory value. They do .business on
a dividend, paying basis, then why not
pay taxes on a fair value.
Assessment of Farm Property
We have only two classifications of
farm lands, improved and unimprov
ed. The kind, of soil or 'contours of
the land, is not taken inip considera
tion. The value of improved and un
improved land in a community is fix
ed by the assessor, and Jl improved
and unimproved land is then assessed
at that figure to a certain definite
line irrespective of what kind of land
it is, be it rocky, canyon, hillside or
level. I have in mind a particular lo
cation on one side of the township
line. The improved land is assessed
at $100 per acre and just, across the
line it is assessed at $75.00 per acre.
The tax records are full of instances
where the choicest lands in a com
munity are assessed at the same rate
as the pooerst. The same discrepancy
exists between the large and small
farms in regard to the amount of land
incultivation. The assessor can make
a very fair guess as to the number of
acres cleared on a small farm, but
his guess on a large number of acres
is not so good, and the farmer who
has a large number of acres in culti
vation is assessed at a far lower ratio
for improved land than the small
farmer.
The small home owner, be he in the
city or in the country, is paying for
more than his share of the taxes un
der our present method of assessing
property.
Business Property vs. Farm Property
The men engaged in business, or
leasing business property, estimates
his overhead expenses, including
taxes, maintenance, repairs, etc and
fixes the price of his goods, or the
rental value of his property, as the
case may be so as to allow him a fair
dividend on his investment.
The farmer cannot fix the price of
his goods he must accept the price
fixed by the other fellow. Statistics
slv that the aevrage farm earns
only about two per cent on the money
invested, while the business man is
not satisfied unless his investment
earns from six to twenty per cent.
' To make a fair and equitable assess
ment on a dividend paying basis,
business property should be assessed
for one hundred per cent of its value,
while farm property sohuld not be
assessed to exceed one-third of its
value, then each would be paying his
just proportion of the taxes on a divi'
dend paying basis. Instead of this be
ing the case farm property is assess
ed at a higher ration than business
property.
I will later discuss what our money
is spent for, and a practical method
of reducing and equalizing taxation.
Respectfully,
C. SCHUEBEL.
New Auto License System
NOTICE :
Notice is hereby, given that the ap-
i portionment of the cost of the. im
; proveemnt of Sixth Street Oregon
I City, Oregon, from the Westerly line
of Main Street to the Easterly line of
j Water Street has been ascertained
and the proposed assessment thereof
has been apportioned, and is now on
file in the office of the Recorder of
Oregon City, subject to examination.
Any objections that may be made in
writing to the City. Council of Oregon
City and filed with the said Recorder
thereof, within ten days after the first
publication of this notice will be heard
and determined by the council before
the passage of any ordinance assess
ing the cost of said improvement.
The property assessed for said im
provement is as. follows:
All of Block 5 of Oregon City lying
between the Northerly line of sixth
street and the Southerly line of the
alley in said Block, and all of block 4
of Oregon City, lying between the
Southerly line of sixth street and the
Northrly line of the alley in said
block.
Notice is published in the Banner
Courier, the first publication being
the 6th day of April 1922, and the
council has set the 18th day of April
1922 at 7:30 o'clock P. M., at the
Council Chamber of Oregon City, as
the time and place for hearing said
objections.
C. W. KELLY,
2t. Recorder.
Oak Grove, Ore., Apr. 3, 1922.
To the Banner Courier:'
Please allow me a little space to
give vent to my feelings about the
Oak Grove dancing pavilion license.
I see by the Oregon City Enterprise
of April 2, 1922, that the Sunday
school convention held at Jennings
Lodge passed resolutions condemning
Commissioners Harris and . Proctor
for granting the license. I do not
wonder that a Sunday school would do
that as they are absolutely in the
right.
I believe in the old whiskey and sa
loon times that a well regulated sa
lon would condemn the Oak Grove
dancing pavilion or anybody that
would sanction it. Why? Because
the dancing pavilion is the attraction
for the young Portland hoodlums and
moonshine drinkers to get out and
away fro munder the Portland police;
to dance and drink monshine; get out
on the street corners, curse and swear
and talk vulgarly and we as taxpayers
have to sit by and listen to the stuff
and I suppose call it good and I want
to add one more name to that 86 and
make it 87 citizens of Oak Grove.
And yet Harris and Proctor will
grant the license over the judge's protest.
Now, readers, just such things as
that (speaking politically) is why I
sometimes think that I would like to
be County 'Commissioner. Whether
'judge Cross is a friend of mine or
not he would have had a man to stand
by him in that transaction. They tell
me that the proprietors of the dance
hall agree to police the ground.. (All
Bunk) but if they do what about the
highways after they leave the ground?
In conclusion we as a large majority
of citizens don't want the dance hall,
at least until we are incorporated or
can have the proper police protection
and policemen cost money. Yours for
clean citizenship.
E. D. OLDS.
on the 18th day of April 1922, .at 7:30
o'clock P. M.
C. W. KELLY,
Recorder.
ODRINANCE NO-
ORDINANCE NO.-
An ordinance estabilshing the grade
of; Molalla Avenue from Division
Street to Willamette Street. '
Oregon City does ordain as follows:
Section 1. The grade of Molalla
Avenue from Division Street to Will
amette Street, be and hereby is es
tablished as follows:
Beginning at the South side of Di
vision Street at an elevation of 383
feet on the. west side and 384.6 feet
on the east side of Molalla Avenue;
thence Southerly to the center of the
alley to an elevation of 386 feet on
the east side and 385.5 feet on the west
side; thence southerly to the North
side of Willamette Street to an eleva
tion of 390.8 feet on the east side and
391.2 feet on the west side of Molalla
Avenue.
Read first time at a regular meet
ing of the city ocuncil held on April
5th, 1922, at 7:00 o'clock P. M., and
ordered published to come up for sec
ond reading and passage at a special
meeting of the city council to be held
An ordinance declaring the assess
ment for the cost of laying and con
structing the sewer in Sewer District
No. 13 Oregon City, Oregon, and de
claring an emergency, s
Oregon City does ordain as follows:
Section 1. The assessment for the
costof laying and constructing the
sewer in Sewer District No. 13, Ore
gon City, Oregon, be and hereby is
levied and declared in accordance
with assessment roll No. C, New
Series and the whole cost thereof is
$1313.62 and the same be and hereby
is declared to be an assessment and
lien upon the parts and parcels of
land described in said assessment
roll in the respective amounts there
in stated, said sewer District No. 13
being bounded and described as fol-
Beginning at the Northwest corner
of Lot 6, Block 5 of Oregon City, Ore
gon, according to the duly recorded
map and plat thereof; thence Easterly
to the Northwest corner of Lot 4.
Block 25 of Oregon City; thence
Northerly along the Easterly line of
Main Street to the Northwest corner
of Lot 5 said Block 25; thence Easter
ly on Westerly line of Lots 5 and 2,
said block 25 and on a projection of
said line t to the center of the main
line of the Southern Pacific Railroad
as now located and constructed;
thence Southerly along the center line
of said Railroad's main line to a point
of intersection of the North line of
the alley in block 26 of Oregon City
extended Easterly; thence Westerly
along the North line of said alley and
of the alley in Block 4 of Oregon City
to the Southwest corner of Lot 7 of
said Block 4; thence Northerly along
the Easterly line of Water Street to
the place of beginning.
Whereas the real property embrac
ed in said district is business proper
ty located in the business center of
Oregon City and is without adequate
sewers and the immediate construc
tion of a sewer system therein is nec
essary in order to protect the health
of the people residing therein, there
fore an emergency is hereby declared
to exist, and this ordinance shall be
in effect upon its passage and approv
al. Read first time at a regular meet
ing of the city council held on April
5th, 1922, at 7:00 o'clock P. M., and
ordered published to ocme up for sec-
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N
ond reading and passage at a special
meeting of the city council to be held"!
on the 18th day of April 1922, at 7:30
o'clock P. M.
C. W. KELLY,
Recorder.
ODRINANCE NO,
An ordinance transferring the sum
of $2000.00 out of that part of the gen
eral fund set aside and held as a pro
pertyf und, to the City of Oregon City
$30,000.00 refunding bond fund, for
the purpose of providing sufficient
funds 'to retire 12500.00 of prinicpal
and of paying $1800.00 of interest of
said bonds coming due May 1st, 1922,
and declaring an emergency.
Oregon City does ordain as follows:
Section 1. That there be and is
transferred the sum of $2000.00 out of
that part of the general fund set aside
and held as a property fund, to the
City of Oregon City $30,000.00 refund
ing bond fund, for the purpose of pro
viding sufficient funds, to retire
$2500.00 of principal and of paying
$1800.00 of interest of said bonds com
ing due May 1st, 1922, and the Mayor
and Recorder be and hereby are au
thorized and directed to draw a war
rant transferring the same. r'
Whereas $2500.00 principal and
$1800.00 interest of the City of Oregon
City $30,000.00 refunding bonds will
be due and payable on May 1st, 1922,
and on account of the manner of col
lecting the special tax provided for
the payment of the same, sufficient
money will not be on hand for such
purpose and it is necessary that
money be provided for the same from
another source, and said payment is
necessary for the health and safety of
the public, in the judgment of the City
Council of Oregon City an emergen
cy exists, and this ordinance shall
take effect and be in force immedi
ately upon its approval by the mayor.
Read first time at a regular meet
ing of the City Council held on April
5th, . 1922, at 7:00 o'clock P. M. and
ordered published to come up for sec
ond reading and passage at a special
meeting of the city council to be held
on the 18th day ofApril 1922, at 7:30
o'clock P. M.
C. W. KELLY,
Recorder.
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