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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1908)
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30 THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. WEEKLY PAY DAY IS PROPER TIG WILL BRING BUSINESS TO PRACTICALLY A CASH BASIS, IMPROVING IT, . An editorial in the Astorian re cently on the weekly pay day and credit system in vogue in Astoria, -wherein the benefits derived from weekly pay duyn, ii deserving of more than passing notice. The credit sys tem has been the ruination of many people It incite extravagance in the coat of liivng and is the primary cause of the assertion, that the coot of living it higher in Aitoria than any other city, This is true. It costs more to live in Astoria than in the larger cities. The reason is iclf ev ident. In all large cities very little credit is extended to anyone, unless it be to merchants, but U generally denied to the laboring classes. In I'ortland, nearly all the retail bukiueis is done on a cash basis. By this system, merchants are enabled to sell good at a closer margin than in cities where the credit system prevails.. In ; Astoria nearly two thirds of the business is done on the credit system. The result is, that merchants lose a certain amount ev ery year. In order to protect them selves aginst the dead beats, they arc compelled to add at least 10 per cent to the cost of goods sold. Those who pay cash at the end of the month, or when they purchase the goods, are compelled to pay for the dead beats. In addition to supporting their own families, they have to pay a certain amount for the support of other fa milies, 1 Family extravagance to large ex tent ii due to the credit system. Many women who purchase supplies for the house, on credit, of times buy ' goods they do not need, or arc lux- l living will be considerably reduc ed.. The merchant can pay cah to the wholesaler and by doing a cash business, can afford to sell goods as cheap as they are sold in Portland or other large cities. A large num ber of Astorians purchase groceries mid other supplies from a certain house in Portland. This firm does a strictly cash business and by reason thereof is enabled to undersell the Ai toria merchant. The same rule will apply to Astoria if the same system Is adopted. When consumers have money they go to Portland and pay cash, and when they are broke they stand the Astoria merchant off. There is no reason why every mer chant, every manufacturer, every business man in Astoria cannot pay their .employees every week. If they pay their employee every week", the emptoees are enabled to pay cash to the local merchants, and this puts the business of Astoria on a cash basis. There is not a merchant in Astoria but will concede that he can afford to sell cheaper for cash, than for credit. As a matter of fact, cash customers are given an advantage over credit cus tomers. Cash customers are enabled to purchase supplies cheaper than those who pay monthly. Restaur ants and hotels are enabled to buy goods at least 25 percent cheaper than families who, j-un, monthly bills. If families paid cash they could secure the same consideration. These " are Indisputable facts. "When a strictly cash system is adopted in Astoria, the cost of living will be reduced and there will be more aetual cash for conduct ing business, If merchants can com bine to regulate prices, they can also combine to regulate cah payments, ft is not the merchant who loses by the credit system, but the people who pay their bills monthly. While this dissertation may not have any. effect on the merchants or the consumers, yet the facts are too apparent to re quire; any denial. . CASH. "ISLE OF SPICE." II. II. Frazce's r piquant musical mixture, "Isle of Spice," the merriest and brightest of all musical produc- Jy Pure - -j Baking powder The only baking powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar, the officially approved Ingredient for A wholesome, high-class powder There Is greater tfeceptloa ta tie tale of baking powders ffaaa ever before. . Closely observe tbe label ud be ccrtala of f ettlo Royal U. OF 0. NEWS. What They Are Doing At The Great School Up The Valley. UNIVERSITY OF OREGbX. Eugene, Sept. 29. The University will issue in a short time the second number jof its bulletin in Correspond ence Study Courses. The corres pondence work last year met with so encouraging a reception and the demand for it was so great that thii department has been greatly strength ened and many new courses are be ing offered. It is believed that 300 OUTLAWED GAS BILLS. Suit To Collect One After House - Has Been In Ruins Four Months. NEW YORK, Sept. 29.-According to the evidence brought out in a suit in the Ninth Municipal court, the New Amsterdam Cas Company holds that it can collect for gas alleged to have been consumed in a house more than four months after it has become blackened ruins. At the . beginning of last year Jacob and Herman Baum had a music hall in Broom. Street. It was totally desrtoyed by fire in the A SUMMER DM Unfermentcd Grape Juice absolutely non-alcoholic Concord .....,.5oc quart Catawba.... Goc quart Welch's Grape Juice Nips 10c AMERICAN IMPORTING CO. 589 ' Commercial " Street ITHE TRENTON First-Class Liquors jandCCigars . - . M2 CotumtcuJ Street..;:; J;!" " X Corner Commercial and 14th. , , ASTORIA, OREGON ? HMWHtMMHHHMMMttMlMHWiHHI ' -' -"" 1 - - - -. . SSSBSIBsWSW(t..'"SWSS . . - ' i ' 4. . s'h r t-f t vht" V .Vv - !mhk h h't -4 i,J ' T:; v!!f i' V$ ' 4riaiinii)i i rr- -' .1 ' v-i i" " "n? '"'ri " .Mi' y " ' ' - ' g1 ' '"-' - ' ' F"" SCENE FROM THE "ISLE OF SPICE" AT THE ASTORIA OPERA HOUSE FRIDAY EVENING. uries, which poor people .cannot af- toru, simply because they are buying on credit, whereas, if (hey were pay ing cash, they would not purchase everything , that appealed to their fancy. The result is, that when the monthly bill comes around and , has to be, paid, they are supriscd at its enormity and wonder how they could . have consumed so much in provis ions. They enter a protest with the 'merchant at the prices charged, and ; claim they can buy cheaper In Port land. The merchant can give them' no explanation or satisfaction, except, that is the price and they cannot af-. 1 ford to sell cheaper. This is due to . the credit system, although the mer chant does not admit it. We are confronted with the state ment, that the grocers and butchers have formed a trust. That they rcg tions, will be seen at the Astoria Theatre next Friday with the same cast nnd company, together with all the scenery, electrical and mechanical effects and beautiful costumes, which characterized its successful ruris in Chicago, New York and Boston. The book and lyrics were written by Allen Lowe and George E. Stoddard, the music penned by Taul Schindler and Ben M. Jerome, and the production staged by Gus Sohlke, acknowledged to be one of America's greatest stage directors. The company is a large one and the cast" contains players well known in the theatrical world, among whom may be mentioned Harry B. Watson, Harry La-Velle, Sanj Rose,f , Harry Williams, Percy Bacon, Edwin Lang, Roberta Wil son, Marie Watson, Lorette Broad- w'cll, and a beauty chorus of singing "ulate the prices to be charged, and an(1 dancing girls. The following are there is no question but the prices a few of the big song hits: "The Goo are considerable higher than in Port-,Go Man," "The Broom Stick Witches," "Peggy Brady," ,, "Uncle Sam's Marines," : "You and I," and "How Can You Tell Till You Try." land, where the credit , system has been almost entirely eliminated. . Gro cers and butchers are compelled to form a trust -in order to protect themselves aginst a certain class of people who never pay their bills. As stated, the loss of these bills does hot fait altogether upon the merchant, but upon the class that pay cash or pay their monthly bills on .presenta tion. : ' , ' , In order to obviate this condition of affairs, a weekly pay day should be established. This will enable pur chasers to pay cash for their house hold necessities, and when they pay cash, it will be found that the cost students will enroll for this work be tween now and the first of February. The first two days' registration at the University of Oregon has been the greatest in the history of the in stitution. Already nearly 475 students have enrolled, which, is greater than the total enrollment for the whole of last year. A large number of old students will return within the next early hours of Feb. 25 and by nine o'clock in the morning the blaze was put. Consequently the partners were surprised when they received some months later a notification from the New Amsterdam Company that they owed it $71.30 for the consumption of 71,300 cubic feet of gas between Feb. 20, 1907, and July 5, of the same year. Jacob Baum testified that the gas me- two weeks and the total enrollment ter was destroyed with the building for the year will reach 550, or an in- and judgement was ordered for the crease of 30 per cent over last year. ' Coach Robert L. Forbes, the fa mous Yale end, who was hired by the Associated Students of the Uni versity of Oregon to coach their football team, is making a great hit with his men.. Fifty men are turning out for practice daily. The Freshman class at the Univer sity of Oregon numbers nearly 250 members. For c Sprained Ankle. A sprained ankle may be cured ii about one-third the time, usually re quired, by applying Chamberlain's Palm Balm freely, and giving k abso lute rest. 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