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.
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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
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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.
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" DIED OF PNEUMONIA. ,
CIUCAGO.SepTk-J, P. Smith,
president of the Hecla Mine Com
pany, Wallace, Ida., and for 30 years
a resident of Chicago died Saturday
aged 55 after an illness of three
months from pneumonia.- Formeraly
a bookkeeper, he amassed a fortune
estimated to be $400,000, ,, .,"
During the world's fair, Mr. Smith
and Frank Upham of Chicago were
at the head of the "Checking" depart
ment of the Exposition. He made,
money while the fair was in progress
and went west again and invested
in the Hecla mine.
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