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ditio or natural defects of any panon.
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and they often cost a tnan dear. Sir
Mattbav Bale.
FUTILE ADVICE
SENATOR BORAH, irreconcil
able extraordinary, say this
country should not enter European
affairs until Europe puts her own
house in order and until land forces
are reduced. .
v Europe isn't able to pat her own
house to ofdst. She has been try
ing fof four year and, instead, of
Conditions . improYing, : they have
been nearer collapse In the last 18
inonths probably than at any re
cent time. -
Ctiroper r is "nj6fer.oopetiHs;
ancev is 1lLsklh1p:fop'jBj5dlfs." 6reai
Britain Mtm "ao ttW toyspblls.
Neither Witt Italy. ' Gerrriany " is
restlteavAnd is ft, bne Of contention
ambiif tbe other, nation a ' Russia
hovers, ted on.-the irdgaf Europev
Thy Turk has advanced With' lack
of cooperation, Europe becomes the
scene.; of several ' n4tlon tkadln
alone, each with ; separate pro-
f gram, each with different, asplra-.j
Itiona.and . purposes and , aCh t-e-f
uslflg 't, ah-s with the plans of
I :. anyxother.-jK? -7 Jtjs j?: r" ;
1 1; lCfjr means poluicatTohaoa. Po
I Irfical chbs rwhi 1aT Continent is
!6pratlns unde k peace treaty with
reparations and other matters of
dispute to "be settled and enforced,
ineam financial and economic
chaoa.' If;there can be no agree-ment-between",
nations, there can
not well be settlemenU or stability.
But a poyaerful 'naUon, wielding
grreat moral mxiilence and support
lnr a Jflst cause, can do much to
bribe th otter nations together. It
can do much to .sefiure settlements.
It.caa. lead, the way to stability,
and 'Eutop i "cannot attain stability
without; leadership. . That is why
America. Is needed in Europe, and
why -Europe' is not able to put her
owr ..house in order unaided,
5 UA-s. for -Teductlotat of land forces,
I ms .Mr.'TBbralfairgests. does he or
a nyope else1 -think there will be a
further reduction. f forces in Eu-
I rope sd long as 'tile Turk is on the
march-.;so long- as Russia, maintains
I he .ertornous ,army, arld so long
as France maintains hers? Land
orv any 'other1 forces are not often
reduced; very tar, unless they are
reduced- by agreement, and it is
very: certain that, there will be no
agreement to reduce' so long as one
gigantic power is outside th pact.
,: It-is -easy to giva Europe advice
about cleaning house and reducing
fightlDat forces, but such advice is
futile so" long aa Europe is leader-
lehs and. drifting, and so long as
therar attcng armies threaten
ing the nations that might prefer
to disarm.
Agreement is the basis, and th
only, basis, on which accomplish
ment ia attained ' in International
Affair.
MISS MaeCONNELL
pURISTINA MacCONNELL. was
v-i an example of th good a teacher
may - do, . When, her death was
anaeunced. . fa Portland Wednes
day literally, hundreds of this city's
business" men,, mothers and. youths
paused jto pay to her life th trib
ute of affection and gratitude, f
'For 42 of her more than ; four
score year ah had been A -teacher
in the Portland" pula choc4s .Tho
students ef her earlier years passed
from under "her care and a -little
later their . children came to be
taught by the ' instructor of their
parents.
: She built into th Jives of s fine,
ever-growing body of young men
and, women high standards of ac
curacy,; Industry -and 'deportment.
She did not drive; she led. ' She did
not coerce; she won. She did what
a teacher who understands her op
portunity may do. Ehe multiplied
her- own energetic usefulness .by
thdusands ; who today - call . her
blessed. '
As a matter of spelling, there is
only a fa difference between im
morality and immortality-, - which
merely goea to lyroves all the or
thographers to the contrary, that
the, spelling may be the least im
portant part of a word." :
THE DAT REPORT
DAY'S tax' ' investigating
1 . CO
commission declares for aa In
come tax. i ' J - ;
That is something gained, but
it insists upon a. flat income tax.
That is a contention that th small
means man, -who can scarcely
scrape up the money to pay his in
come tax, should pay at th same
rate as the man who has bo much
income that he cannot find .ways
to .spend it- all. The United States
in framing an income tax didn't use
Lhat nlan. The British mvprnment
didn't use it. All just And advanced
governments graduate their income
tax rates on a basis of ability to
pay. - . ' j
Tour sraal-means man almost
universally creates his income by
productive labor of some kind.
Many a big-mcmey man gets his in
come from interest on bonds, notes
and mortgages. Many of-these se
curities are tax-exempt, and most
of the rest escape taxation by being
hidden. While your . small-means
man is working and producing,
many a big-money man is an idler,
a non-producer, a parasite, a leech
On the toil of those who do produce.
Often the' big-money man's in
come is an inheritance, handed
down from father to son. The
millions in securities are thus
passed into hands that did not
earn them and that neither toil nor
spin. To make the working, small
means man pay the same rate as
is paid by the lucky non-producer
whose, bonds, mortgages and notes
are unearneds iSs economically un
sound. It . is morally wrong.5 tt
helps build up class. i
It encourages investment In- tax
exempts securities. It induces, men
to become parasites on the toil of
other " men; and . when- our ' nation
gets ran overload of , parasite it is
headed for 'revolution, because by
and by- the undeivman ,wilf be Un
able to carry his burden and will
be driven to desperation. .
. Mr, Bay's investigating commis
sion defied the plain mandate - of
the Oregon people as expressed in
the late election , returns. The
People rejected the constitutional
amendment for & flat income tax
by a voto of two to one. They re
pudiated the flat . income - tax,' be
cause ;they Want a graduated income
tax; ;Th commission's j insistence i
on -a fiat tax In 1th face of that
vot is extraordinary v The commis-
ilon. seems to believe that the peo- i
pie do not know what they want.
an4 It ' proceeds to tell "them what
they oagnt to have.-: It is on the'
principle that . common, folks don't !
know enough ' to govern themselves
but have t be governed.
There is something more power
ful than snow plows and more mov
ing than imprecations 10degreeJ
rise in temperature.
A
DAD GOES SHOPPING '
DAD hates, to ' go shopping. In
- Julv he has a. cam n tat at a.hrinr-
rence of the ordeaL When October
comes his emotions ha v merely in
tensified. But the mere suggestion
of shopping in . December of
threading-' crowded aisles, of being
buffeted, , crowded,; jammed and
squeezed is enough, to throw him
into a mental spasm, ',
Just the same.' Dad went shop
ping, and it was -no longer ago
than this week. It all cam about
with his mild criticism that th lit
tle folks of his home seemed to rec
ognise the existence of only a ma
ternal Saint Nick. Although h had
the" keenest impression of anybody
that Santa Clans operated exclu
sively on Dad's credit, the exclama
tion of childish delight was apt to
be, "Oh, see what mother brought
me for Christmas!
It is true that women exorcise 90
per :cent of th buying power of
America a most strenuous exer
cise at Christmas but the lines of
women shoppers are, after all, only
power lines. The dynamo is Dad's
pocketbook. . 1 " , viV'W'v
His dalicat criticism, by which
he meant : only to win a place on
th gift cards, was Instantly ac
cepted as JBhallenge.: Dad might
win" his place by the sweat of his
face, -or words to that effect, i "The
Little. Woman who guides his des
tiny guided Dad r. into Christmas
decked stores. Ho felt as if he had
suddenly walked, into the midst of
a cloudburst, a cyclone and a mon
soon twisted f into . on. As he
watched th Little Woman stem her
way sturdily through th tld,' tow
ing his hulk ' along, h pegarv to
wonder why they reserved th mU
als of honor exclusively for: heroes
of the war. . As .hc noted her un
perturbed ability to find what she
originally had in mind, his admira
tion. greWj for. the mind that could
hold so much, so 'tenaciously.:. But
the crowninr touch came when she
actually- invited his confused wits
into -conference on the selection of
a -wagon for th'noy and a black
eyed doll for the little gftL -iJ
Then the miracle happened. Dad
found he was enjoying himself. H
insisted on gifts about twice, aa
good as mother would have dared
buy. A grin . chased away his
moodiness. Ho didn't even mind
th crowding people. It suddenly
occurred jto him, that .you couldn't
find In all ..the world any other
cause - thai" Christmas . that could
bring, so man? people together so
closely, so happily and with so wide
an aftermath of good cheer.
Dad Intends to go shopping again
next Christmas.
; Th National Farm Bureau Fed
eration has highly and seriously
resolved to stay out of politics, i But
how , tan it sret into , Washington ,
D. C, and at the same time stay
out? . '
WHAT PORT
TWO ''engineers and two firemen
were killed In a recent accident
on the Great 'Northern railroad at
Gold Bar, Washington. , 1
A- report verified by a deputy
coroner, declares that the engineer
of one of the locomotives reported
that the enginewas not, fit to be
sent out. -The hub-liners on the
pony truck had worn out, he said,
allowing two Inches of dangerous
play. The engineer, was, however,
forced to go on with the locomotive
without waiting for repairs. Thel
wreck in which the two engineers
and two firemen were killed is de
clared to flave been caused by the
defective pony truck, which threw
the two "locomotives into the ditch.
The S. P. fc S. road is seiidiner 10
locomotives" to Dallas, Oregon, to be
repaired by contract work. That is
a Violation of the rules of the labor
board. It la also proof that the
shop force of the company is not
sufficient to keep equipment In re
pair. The company is relying n
inefficient strikebreakers to do its
shop work, while many idle expert
shopmen are ready to return to
work on an agreement which 141
American reads have pat into af
fect. - But th S. P. & S. line is
keeping these expert mechanics
locked out as punishment for their
walkout several months ago.
Th company's motive power is
in such bad order that two and
even three locomotives have been
used at times on trains where but
One locomotive is reanlred -nrhatn
the equipment is in good order.
New wheels Were put under a
gondola at Vancouver and the car
went to Fallbridge without having
the journals packed At Fall
bridge the strike-breaking inspector
old not discover the absence of the
packing until his attention was
called to it by a switchman. Run
at high speed, the unpacked jour
nals would probably have caused a
wreck. J" .
The locomotive on a -vassemfer
train fresh from the yards at Port
land broke down on the 10-mile
trip to Vancouver and had to. be
replaced with another locomotive.
causing a delay of an hour. The
list of similar cases is almost with
out end. Because of Inefficient
and hot infrequently with smuoh
steam.' escaping 'that the track can
soarcely be'seen by engineers ' and
firemen. t.. :: ' t
NO railroad has a right to operate
with ; defective equipment , ' The
sending Of .its locomotives to Dallas
for repair shows that the S. P. &. S.
has not a sufficient force of skilled
shop mechanica. It is also a yiola-
tion Of th rules of the labor board,
v In their, mad 'war on -their - a
ployes,' hw: !6ng Will4he railroads
play with the lives of the traveling
public? . ,
What are public service commis
sions and raQway" commissions for?
Now just suppose we could in
duce old Hr. World -himself to re
peat Dr. Coue'a formula: "Day by
day, in every way, I m getting
better and better." -
A ROYAL PREROGATIVE
KINGS have had rough" roads to
travel in recent yeara Mon
archies have gone upon the rocks.
Constitutions have been -adopted
and republics established.; h
Many a former ' king -or . king to
come is now spending his time In
. neutral country wondering, why
cruel peoples change their minds.
Divine-right rulers have become un
popular, j. -They have, in many
cases, rushed from their home
lands to save their lives. Anything
smattering of kings - or . the king
business has been the target of
popular hatred.
But there are some things about
kings and their ; prerogatives that
are not so. bad; Mayhap peoples
have dealt a little . harshly with
them. ' At least, there are some re
deeming features . about the king
business.
For instance, the king of Spain
has just exercised a bit of. authority,
and certainly lit a Worthy cause. He
has ordered that those who partake
of garlic shall remain out of his
presence until ail traces of the sup
posed relish have passed from their
breath. U '. ' f " : ' ' i
That is king business. That la
royal - power. That Is . absolutism.
But why cant more of us use regal
authority when i a knight -J of the
onion catches us in close quarters?
:if,'as'! stated by a. writer in ; Col
liers, there Is one clerk - f e r every
thi" farmers along the Jong, long
trail-;" l'rora? the farm to the con
sumer, you have one-little part of
the explanation of . why somebody
else getsmore out 3 of agriculture
than the farmer and his 'family.
With" every .'three farmers support
ing a salesman and probably his
family, it is time for agriculture to
think about -a new and better means
of sellicg. . It is.the selling: depart
ment of farm operations that does
moer to "break ' down American ag
rlcultur. - - ? '
COMMENT OF THE
; STATE PEESS
Summer Smoke the Tourist Traffic's
Deadly Foe The Home of the Fil
bert DefiniUly and Permanently
Located Aa Ancient Munitions
r Factory A Tribute to Methodism
of tha La Oranda DUtrict
' Modern IoomoUon and Un- - .
.. thrtft--PertlajMl's Uiacovery v
" . of the Oregon Farmer.
Bend Bulletin: Two years ago. and
afrain last summer, .smoke, from forest
(ires so filled the air throughout ail
or the Northwest that the scenic beauty
of the country was entirely obecurad.
For those of ua who find daily enjoy-
raent in this scenery, the situation was
bad enough, but to the tourist it meant
almost A total loss f enjoyment of bis
trip through the country. We, at least,
knew what was behind the smoke; the
tourist passed through and went away
with nothing more to interest hlin than
what be was told lay behind the has.
Insofar as he had been attracted to the
Northwest by accounts of the wonder
ful scenery he was completely disap
pointed. The underlying cause of this
disappointment was, of course, the for
est fires that made the smoke, f And
ths forest fire involves a double loss,
a loss of timber and a less of revenue
from the tourist who cuts his stay short
and tells his friends not to go into a
country where the trip is spoiled by
the smoke-filled atmosphere. f
If we want to make the most of Our
Umber' and if we' want to increase our
tourist travel, we must do- away with
the forest fires, -especially the 75 par
Cent which are man-caused. We have
pointed this out before and are led to
renew, the. warning by-. resolutions
adopted at the -recent meeting of the
Pacific Northwest- Tourist association.
In the preamble to the" resolutions it la
Said that the destruction of our ceni
rasouroes by fir -end 4 the obscuring
of our mountain scenery behind a pall
of forest; fire smoke constitute a seri
ous menace to the continued existence
and success of onf tourist Industry."
There is no denying the statement As
residents in a forest section where there
is beautiful scenery on every side, the
people of Bend-should and can do a
great deal to eliminate forest firea
. " v-, ---H,- ...
Eugene Register i " Speaking at a
luncheon held for advertising repre
sentatives of the Kill lines, George A.
Dorris of Springfield told Of the oppor
tunities for profits i filbert growing
in Western Oregon. He speaks with
authority, for he is: the pioneer filbert
grower of the Pacific Northwest In
all the United States, said Mr. Dorris,
the filbert can be grown commercially
only m the Willamette valley and- a
pan of Western Washington.-" This is
true because f the mHd,' misty climate
that is characteristio cf these lOcAiitiea
So -much for the possibilities Of pro
auction. Regarding possible markets;
Mr. DOrria told that a decacSe apo Im
portations of filberts to the United
States - were in the neighborhood of
10.000,000 poimds, while now importai
tiOhs have grown to 18.000,000 pounds.
In other words, American consumption
of ' filberts has nearly doubled in 10
years with no particular effOTr-tar pto
mote larger consumption. The filbert
is a commodity whose use is steadily
Increasing-. It can be grown in the
United States only In the Willamette
valley and a part of Western Washing
tort. It would appear, therefore, that
there will always be a good domestic
market for these nuts. Th filbert is
Worth a great deal of attention In th
Willamette valley's system of diversi
fied agriculture.
Corvanis Gazette-Times: Recently
In-Wales there was excavated a muni
tion factory eOOO years old. The fa.
lory covered hundreds of acres and em
ployed thousands of men making
Sftjn axes. Evidently the enemv had
captured the place, for there is one
enormous pile of finished axes all
broken in two. Perhaps they had a
disarmament conference ; anyway, they
scrapped-their weapons. But the in
teresting, thing is that here, 4000 years
B. C, was a. peonl animated bv the
same impulses that animate us today, j
wjsiory nas not changed. Human na
ture has not changed.- What this prim
itive war was about we -do not know.
Probably there Was' a dispute over
trads sones, whist in those days, 'was
merely called a dispute over - hunting
grounds.' That is what causes our
wars today, largely dispute , over
hunting grounds, trade hunting.' No
doabt rf w had the records we would
find that the proprietor of this stone
axe factory was a profiteer, that he
stayed home and gouged the: public
by, inflating the price of axes, i Per
haps, too the laborers in the ax fac
tories demanded - A- doubling: of I their
wages while their fellow-countrymen
were at the front fighting their coun
try's battles and cooties. ; if " j.
.What is the difference -between now
and then? Nothing but a few Inven
tions which have established what we
call civilization. Every - so often that
civilisation gets tophekvy; that is, be
yond the intelligence of the masse to
use it properly and then Bing! over it
topples and the cream of the race has
disappeared.
":;.--.
Le Grande Observer: Things which
we Jiaje with us all the time are too
often treated as a part of the com
munity without further consideration.
The Methodist cnurch is inclined to
steady, aggressive work, and therefore
when La Grande stops to think that
she Is head of Methodism in this big
inland ountry she is somewhat sur
prised. tut-it is a fact. Just the same.
The Methodists are divided into con
ferences and districts.. We are located
in the Helena conference, but in the
La Grande district. The La Grande dis
trict takes in Eastern Oregon and a
portion of Southern Idaho. ' Twenty
seven ministers and their charges are
under-Rev. Ira R. Aldrich, district
superintendent of the Methodist church,
who resides in La Grande 'and is one
of the most effective church builders
known in .the Inland Empire. He has
put the La Grande district to the high
degree of efficiency. It tops the con
ference of which :t is a member and is
recognized throughout the West as one
of the best Methodist districts. As a
city La Grande is appreciative of this
achievement ; she is appreciative of be
ing Methodist headquarters for the dis
trict, and ehe is pleased to have Rev.
Aldrich, whose: work is becoming so
well known, as one of her citizens. -
r. ..... . .v. ; .
iKoseburr News Review: ; Our errand-
fathers would open their eyes if thejJ
could come back to earth and see how
their descendants spend money. Take
the matter of walking and riding, for
Instance. The old-timers could give a
girl a good-time by taking her to walk
to a picnic, but now" she is critical if
the' automobile with which you call for
her Is net of the right make. Many
parents then not merely saved money
by going without any means of trans
portation other; than - their own feet,
but they had. their children walk bare
foot, to church to save shoe leather.
Today a host of people must have a
car to carry them short distances. If
they .go on sightseeing trips, they may
look; with contempt on a. man who
makes aa effort to join .with others
in hiring an automobile, aad feel that
he should spend his money like a good
sport aad engage a machine for his
own special use. The country will never
return to the old parstmoniotta ' days,
but it must make its resources go as
far 'as possible, or it will never enjoy
permanent prosperity.
, - '
, Wood barn I ndependent : Portland
has at last grasped -the fact that there
are Oregon farmers and upon ' these
farmers Portland' mainly depends. An
effort is now to be made, not to bring
more farmers in but to help those who
are now here, making the agricultural
situation more- secure and bringing. If
possible, an era of prosperity to tJaem.
The only way to do this is to nave a
better,, market for the farmers. . A
brisker Oriental trade would aid in
carrying out the program. Portland
miKBt have .a potato day or week: said
also establish, an Immense etarch fae-
ry. i v . i
Letters JVom the People
: ICoiaaiBjdaaOuaMi at to Tb Joamai fat
pnblieatkni ta taio departnMaa eboeld b writ
taa obj only oa aid f tba paper, aboold aot
xased S00 vorda ia lesrtb, aod taoac fea
ncBad by tba vriter. aoa aaad arttaaa sa
tail ana atroaapany tb oatoatkia. j .
'FAM AND.1 TX) WN" &.
This Writer Advocates - Almost the
: - Most Extrsm AppllOaUon of '
the Cooperative Principle.
Silvertoh, Dec 15. To the Editor of
The Journal The Journal man again
bits thbuUsey.. No better criticism,
in as few words, was ever before given
of the big Interests and their govern
ment of the-United States than was
thrown on thee screen in Thursday's
Journal, entitled "Farm and Town."
But, I wish, to put in a word for the
poor laborers in our large cities, s They
are ground down, in- soma respects
worse than the farmers, by special
legislation in favor - of corrupt and
greedy corporations. Th "Fsrm and
Tawn" article states that th cities are
growing seven times as fast as the
farm population. Now just think what
the rapidly ' increasing competition in
city labor means to all producers of
wealth in our cities, Of course, some
Of the boys who move from the country
to the city go into business, but this
only gives the workers so many more
families to support through profits that
come out of the wage-earner's one
fifth. Competition is said to be the
life of, trade, but merchants have
learned to cooperate when ft comes to-
exploiting the purchaser, and whole
sale dealers have learned to protect
their' merchant patrons and to-fix and
transfix the little devil Who dares to
undersell. . We hope the progressives
will do something great, . but we re
member the People's party, and the
Bull Moose patty and the other , poli
tical endeavors: yet. w do not de
spair, for- these educational movements
must some before we J earn the rreafc-
est of all lessons the ' lesson I of co
operation. The railroads, with i other
giant corporations enmeshed with them,
own and operate the government, and
of .course it operates for them and not
for the masses. W. J, Bryan once ad
vocated taking over the roads, but th
masters object, and so, we must take
over the government first then we, the
people.' can dd anything we want to do.
W can give our self every odd (end
every even) section of land, not Only
from Missouri to the Pacific ocean, but
from the three-mile limit on the At
lantic to the Hawalis n islands and
then some. When we learn how to run:
our government we can run our "own
railroads, and learn to work and vote
for ourselves. And perhaps, in a pinch,
run our own stores and factories.
Let's do it! J. E. Hosmer.
REPLYING TO MR. BEAVERS
An Advocate of Single Tax Essays to
Answer Certain Questions.
Portland, Deo. 15. To the Editor of
Th Journal John Beavers, in The
journal of December 14, asks 'many
questions ia criticism Of single tax. : I f
snail try to set him right on a point or
two. He asks why single taxers- do
not propose a law prohibiting any cor
poration or individual from owning to
exceeu su acres ox unaeveiopea lana.
That is not in our line: Wby does not
Mr. Beavers get a bunch around him
and propose such a law? Single taxers
of .this- state, to my certain knowledge,
for 12 years past have been pleading
with the electors to break the iron grip
Of landlordism by the only means by
which it seems to them possible! to do
it. If anybody else has e method by
which he thinks - this thing could be
better don, it should be his turn now.
I think, though, before h got far he
would, find that, while anyone may
conceive a notion, it takes courage and
conviction as well as money to carry
th thing through, 1 even it practical.
He admits the- state is overrun with
land hogs. He ' shOws them exacting
$50 ' an acre from the settlers for
logged-off . land worth only 95. He
Bays something about " going before
boards of equalization 'Well, all such
procedure is up to citizens who think
as : Mr." Beavers' does; but as for us
single tax people, we have long: ago
learned our lesson, that all such: ges
tures ar. love's labor lost. We believe
the only practical way to get the land
hog off the land is to tax him off, even
as we have proposed, , I Would reminl
Mr. JBeavers that there is no danger
of land evaporating or running away
because of any tax proposed to be put
Upon it. .. Like Uncle Hiram's prize
buggy horse, it will stand alone with
out hitching ; no one need holer' iU On
the other hand, if you tax improve
ments and personal property, especially
money, notes or such other liquid as
sets, the whole tendency Is to drive
them out of existence, into hiding, or
out of the state. Therefore, to remove
the tax entirely off improvements and
liquid wealth, and put it all on naked
land values, is to increase the sum to
tal of wealth which a. state wilt pos
sess within its borders." Untax things
that are made, and you have a mag
net that will draw such wealth tight
to us. - The thousands of parcels of va
cant land which Mr. Beavers assumes
would be made public property if ; single
tax were adopted would then be open
to settlement by anyone willing to pay
the state the rent therefor, which is
single tax. People who owned houses,
orchards and other improvements need
not ' worry, because their exemptions
would equal any increase in the ground
taxes upon which , those improvements
Were made. The effect of all this
would' be to .create the greatest boom
this state ever saw. Capital and labor
would , flock into the state the real
producers, who would do things. . not
idle speculators. :. ; H. Denlinger.
' TO AVOID DOUBLE TAX
Procedure Suggested in the Case of a
i!. Mortgage Given Back on Pur-
-: chase With Part Payment ,
- Waldo. Dec 15. To the Editor of
The Journal While there is mo much
being said about lowering taxation. I
don't see where anyone has said any
thing about the unequal taxation.- I
consider; the present sytem of taxa
tion a very unjust one, placing the
heavy burden upon, those who are least
able to bear it For example : A
buys a ranch of B for $30,000. A pays
B $10,000 as first payment and gives
B a mortgage on the ranch for 920,000.
B then deeds A the reach. Then A is
assessed for the full value of the
ranch, when be has only an equity of
one-third , of the ranch. . Then B is
assessed on the mortgage. Which makes
a double assessment on As equity in
the ranch which is all wrong - and
uniust. The remedy : Tax A for the
full value of the ranch. Exempt' all
mortgages from- taxation, - but make
tt lawful for A to deduct from his pay
ments made to B the amount el taxes
m proportion to B's equity in the ranch.
Such a : method rof taxation would
equalise that taxation and no mort
gage would escape its just tax, for the
A's could be depended upon to collect
the tax from the B's. A to retain the
deduction to com pan ate him for. the
tax paid by him on B's equity in the
ranch, IE. , M. Albright.
COMLIENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
Seattle has restored the Seent car
fare. Here's one ease where. we're
willing to copy the Sound city.
: !"--. - ..; . - a- - : at-w-: --, - iri';t-
Give the out-of-work buddy a steady
b at good pay. - What a whale of a
hristxnajt Dreaent that would be for
nun s .. -. -. , - -
v ;- . . - . -
State tax commission urges a eut In
tax assessment. Now they're shout
ing in a language we all can under
stand. -
When it comes to Christmas baying:
In snow, or wind or hail, the female
of the specine is more deadly than
the male, . .- . .y-s.. -
' Twenty years' ago, the papers say.
Portland police were having. troee
with gamblers. , Times don't change
much, after all.
-a ' '," - :-r-r-
When the time comes that We can
travel to work by radio, avoiding icy
streets and chilling fog, we'll pay our
full tribute to science- ..'
Over In Washington they've held that
liquor is personal property. That judge
apparently never opened ft . quart In
the presence of the gang.
MOiraiOR XjESS TPERSONAIi
Random ? Observations About Town
'Automobile - travel le temporarily
suspended in the vicinity of Heppner,
reports R. W. Turner. The cause ot
it are the big snowdrifts in the roads.
It Vok Turner several hours to come
from his place, about six miles from
Heppner,: out Butter Creek way, on
horseback; There Is considerable snow
on the ground and it' is drifted' worse
than for years.
Among .visitors from out of town
are R.-C. Harden of Marshfield, Her
bert Bung -wof lMilwaukie and H.
Nesbltt ot. Goldendae, Wash.
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Among out of town guests are the
following from La Grande: Cecil W.
Parsons, M H. AIlenNend Mrs. W. H.
Perry and son. v - ;
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1. D. Weed - and -H. C Nelson 'of
Condon are : transacting Business in
Portland. -- 'J " . ' . ---J'
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' C. B. Carstetis of Banks was among
those doing business in Portland Wed
nesday. . a
George Fitzgerald, who runs a res
taurant at The Dalles, is in Portland
on business,
a -'- -..
Among those registered at the Im
perial Is Mrs. C E. Jay of Klamath
Falls.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Townaley Of
Pendleton are visiting in the metrop.
oils. - .; ,
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Bennie were
shopping, in .Portland Wednesday.
. - a a a
-Among recent arrivals in the city is
J.W. Price of Albany.' -v i
. . . ..
R, Roy Booth is in from ToncAlla
to take in the sights. Of Portland.
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OEtffHE I JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
nMM'i Am nr- t)i. dan of t&e
roUinst atoaa, which aometimea, tru to the
iIiih.. ,it?M-Ml no mwa. Bat aosBCtimee
t did, Here W B--aapl of, the. latter
olaoa. Bead sow the aoneloakia of th bt
of the early and adrentoroue ttfe of John
ii. Wnsn ol Salem ana twtoi un Btares,
thoturn motuy Salan, and et lata years alt-
setaac .. , v ?-.,
- "I- started to business for myself ia
Salem in the spring of 1957," said John
O. Wright, when I visited him recently
at his offlc in the commissary depart
ment at the Oregon Stat hospital. "A
young man named Dodge and myself
started a grocery stor not rar xrom
where the Marion hotel now ia I was
ambitious to get ahead, and, wanting
to put back all the money I could Into
the business, I got a job in the nearby
hotel as night clerk, receiving; free
board '-and lodging for. my services.
Presently my partner decided ne would
go into, something else, so I bought him
out. AJittle later I had a chance to
sell at a good profit., so 1 did so. and
put the money Into a half ' interest in
a bakery and grocery store -owned by
Charley McGinn, whose- soa,,, Judga
Henry McGinn of Portland, is one of
Oregon's ablest jurists. -Charley Mc
Ginn was a good old. scout, and we got
along fine. He had a big heart, just as
his son has. That fall I sold my in
teract in the bakery and store to Char
ley McGinn's half-brother, Louis Burns,
and with the money I bought out the
Usaf ovage grocery, as Usaf ovage had
been offered a job as purser on the
steamer Clinton, After a year on the
river, Usafovage got tired of steam
boating and paid me a good profit
for a half interest to the business. We
gradually spread out, investing our
money where we saw that every dollar
we sent out would come back leading
another dollar or maybe more with it,
until we were doing more or less of a
commission and shipping businesa ' .
a. a . .'
I saw where I could make some
extra money by buying a half Interest
In Jasper N. Matheney's wharf, ' so I
did so. The high prices being paid for
supplies in the newly discovered mines
In Boise basin and throughout the In
land Empire caused my partner and me
to decide to get into the game. I was
24, and an outdoor man ; so we decided
he should stay and run the Salem end
of the business while I went up to
Orofine with a- stock of gooda .After
selling out my .stock at Orofino at ; a
very satisfactory mArjrin of profit7 1
Ordered a big Stock fo? the winter. . It
was delayed, and, finding it Impossible
to set roods in to Orefino. I took them
to Walla Walla and started a ' store
there, That, winter, 1861-62, was - one
that old-timers will never forget. It
was so cold and the snow waa so heavy
that most of the stock in Eastern
Oregon and Washington either starved
to death or frose. end in the Willam
ette- valley it was the year ot the big
"News traveled more slowlv i-n- th
day of the pack-horse, the ox team
and the canoe than it does todav. when
it is broadcasted by radio ; so the first
I knew ol the biK flood in the Wil
lamette valley was when - a miner
brought to a copy of Bush's Oregon
Statesman from Salem and let me read
it Almost the first thing I saw was
that Matheney A Wright's dock had
been washed away, causine; a loss - of
over 110,000. We had a lot of wheat
and other stuff stored on the dock, all
of which waa lost That of course,
was. something of a financial Jolt, but
x xigureo mere was lots more gold Is
the around, and I . would -et
of it to reirrmurse me for the damage
the high water had done me : mo, early
the next spring, I pulled out for Lewis
ton with a stock of goods. I built the
Erst frame building in Lewlstont The
other store were tents or log cabins.
say, tt you want to know what
really wide- open town waa. Just talk
to some of the old-timers about the
early days of Lewiston, with Its sa-:
loons running z boars out of every
24. and its shooting scrapes and lynch -inga.
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"In the fall Z went back to Salem to
winter,- tXhe next spring ' Isaac Ma-j
2SEWS: IN BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS
'."You never 'know - how much pride
mere words can express- until yon hear
a young business man speak of "my
stenographer,' La Grande Observer. ,
. ,--.; ;-j --V:"
. Th junior seed sender from Oregon
Is eull misaina; from Waahington. .
tX. and wUl evhow up is tima-to vote
to adjourn, V it don't conflict with the
spring lamoifac Medford Mail-Trib-nn.
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' The governors eonventton at Wheel
ing wtU talk prohibition. What - the
governor of North Carolina once said
to the governor of South Carolina be
lonrs to e getutration. that knew - uo
Voistead. Kugene Guard. . '
"What : America Needs' is for thelAouaal
- .m. . . . w w . t. . . r At"ln
due regard for th fundamental prin
ciples of government and -more than
ail revive in their hearts the true
spirit of the Gold u Rule. Baker
Democrat.
Nearly 1500 prisoners et San Quern tin
have been restored to youth through
the use of goat glands, . Th warden
should be more careful about giving
this publicity. It sounds like an in
vitation to commit crime so as to break
Into California's fountain of youth.
CorvAllia Gasette-Timee.
Jutes Pradel. asltiaan of . Pnnn. ku
coma ell the way from the battle
scarred fields of the Marne to find
a home in Oregon. Ha is a guest of
the Multnomah.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Hubbard of
WaUa Walla are among Visitors from
out of town.
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S. B. Harrison and O. EL Dorsey are
down from La Grande .to attend to
Some -business.
a
L . C. Constance of -Medford was
tiansactihg business in Portland Wed
nesday, - . -
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Among out of town visitors is Wil
liam G. Kreitser of- Marshfield. .
a -j . '
John M. Brady of Ashland was
among arrivals in the city Wednesday,
a a a
J. H. Meeks ot Junction City is a
guest of the Imperial, .
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IV O. Rooney of Coos Bay is a
recent arrival in .the city. -
a
Alex Slgurdson of Warren ton' Is
making a brief visit to Portland. .
a - a . .
L. A. Duncan .. of Th Dalles If
among out ' of town visitors. .
a . -a. .
Among recent arrivals In the metrop
olis is R. M. smith ot Bend.
W, B. Ramsay of Kelso, Wash., is
transacting business in Portland.:
, ,. a .
C. A. Hayden of Bend Is a recent
arrival in th metropolis.
a a a ; . . , .' ..
W. W. Poland of Shedd is among
out of town visitors.' -
a ' a .
W. W. Dickey of Monument is mak
ing a short visit In Portland,
Lockley
' thanV and 1 bAuarbt ra rlr tnln mir
x. stock of goods and started for Boise
-JB.B1U. we star tea very eariy, Dexore
ihe weather was settled, so that we
9nt Ca.llp-it in th, tnnw IX. Tt1A
mountains. I led the' bell mare through
me snow ana sleet dear from The
Dalles to Bote Basin. No, it was no
Pleaaura trin. bnt w nM to l. ah
th ground early ; sows: wasted no time
seating sorry xor ourselves, but camped
iu ;the mud and snow,-with wet blan-
iceta and ornfr h,M 1m
sized up Boisa to see if that would
maae a gooa business point,.-but, de-
ctoea mere wouia never, o a town
there- sa Wa ar,ni nn tA nni,. -K.
When we were at Boise there was only
a run-down fort there and no indica
tion that one of the finest inland cities
m tne wesr would later rise there.
a a .... -' : -"Lata
that fall arm -wt .V.
Salem to winter there. & The next spring
I boUsrht th intern, ne mv u
Jasper Matheny, In th steamboat dock.
aura oecam agent tor mo peoples
Transportation company, organised by
the McCullys of Harrisburg. . I turned
over the dock work to my partner,
Usafavage, while I ran the store.
When Ben Holladay built his railroad
from East Portland to Saiam and
the valley to Albany it put a crimp In
over vraxxio , so we Oia out - th
dock and dissolved partnership. Usa
fovage started a boot and shoe store,
while -I took over the grocery business,
the name thereafter being th John G.
Wright Grocery company. v
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big flood of 1961-2 our only heavy loss?
a snouia say. not' in 186S ear place
was burned.' . Thle was on April 17.
The fire started in Plamondon's saloon
and burned . everything between Hol
man's brick block, on Ferry sjtreet, and
Griswold's block, at the corner of But
and Commercial strewta. - Iab tmnn
without a cent of insurance. ., '
Tel. lit ! salatri: liu li.l - -v.--
of : fire and flood. - .Tha rimut n ru.
comber, 189L was so high that It would
wun a norae near-ine courthouse. Tee,
Salem was a city e.tf the time of the
018? flood: Tt wa (n aTrVnal4aaj4 aV.AlM
after Oregon became a state. The first
election, held on the first Monday in
voceraDer resulted in Luclen
Heath beincr elected KiUm'. e..t
mayor. , In the spring of 1861 Salem
had a Are that nearly wiped the busi
ness section ' off the map.. It started
in Bvraas aalnnn , Tt ,i
Ualpn houUand a lot of stores. In
juty, leoa, -mey laid the cornerstone of
Willamette university. It was on June
20, and three dan 1ati- i.-
big - fire that started in the Mansion
xxouse. at.-. i-Joerty. ana - state streets,
snd burned the whole block. Naturally
I Was - interested In rs-a e t
organised the Salem fire - department
w was cmex engineer, of the depart
ment at the time of the Intense rivalry
between the Canltata an ,.-. ri-.
Along about I860 end 1970 it looked as
ir xne xown was going to build away
from where our property .was : so we
Orsanized A nmnnnv a m, ,.m ' f.
hotel at Commercial and Ferry streets.
was one or the directora We bunt
a fine brick hotej, 100 feet frontage
on Commercial street and 165 feet deep
ny. n cost us 925.000. We
named tt the Chetneketa hoteL . C. A.
Cutting was the first , manager;' but
he Was anon .annvadMl K, niwkw IT...
hart- I loot 97000 on ny hotel stock,
w - nipeo tna town, so - I .was
satisfied v In September, 1970, Reed's
fine brick amra twwiov -iam tini.vuu
and that gave Salem a big boost
5-v--. . a . . . ' .. .
'T hav seen wonderful changes-in
Salem during the; nearly -70 years I
have . lived her . Ra.lr i V- 'CA.
,lf anyone had told, me I should live
to . ea Salem ortwt I. v). -, i. A
-is I should have thought he had been
onnamg, ana. jet it go at that - I
have seen the railroad come, the tele
phone and telegraph, the bicycle and
the aatomobile, the wireless, the radio,
the electric light, the airplane and
hydroplane, and a score of other things
undreamed of when X settled here in
1SSJ. - ,
The Oregon ; Country
North et Bappeniaci In Brief Form for the
Busy Header.
f OREGON -
A recent test 'of the 703 cows sap-.
Plying Ashland with milk showed only
tour that , had any .signs ot tuber
cuIosIbv :.' ij'irtt,.,;:-,
Ae an indication of the growth - Ot ;
Beedsport - tt .-is noted -that the poet
office receipts In 191$ were 114.28.
This year they are estimated at 94520.
A traimoad of cattle sold by W, A.
Gover to a Los Angeles buyer left
Eagle VaTtey Saturday. Twenty car
load, consisting ot S00 head, made up -the
train. -. " - ,
The Eugene Fruit Growers assoela- :
tlos - hi planning the enlargement of
the -Mnction City cannery and the erec
tion of a new concrete and. tU ware-
-Prominent business men of Ashland
have organized the Community Hotel
corporation, . the object of Which is
to build a 9300,000 tourist hotel In
that city. ' ' ....
- 3. S.,Fiatland of th State bank at
Drain has sold his Interest in the Mill
City State bank to W. W. Allen and
p. B. Hill, -who will conduct the bank '
in future. :
, Walter Toose Sr.. who has been rkd
ing clerk of the state senate for many
years, will be elected again ia Jen
wary, as there is no opposition to his
candidacy, -.. . ;
During ' the year Just closlha the '
Winchester Bay Lumber company at
Reeds port has turned out 100,000 board
feet of lumber daily, with S3 to 70
men employed.. ' - . ; -.The
annual Christmas luncheon of
the Salem Chamber of Commerce was
held Monday, with Fred Williams, ex
member of the publier service commis
sion, as th principal speaker.
Ernest FDlcfc Bend man. who dis
appeared last week from a Portland
hospital, has been located' at a hotel
In Hood River, where he has been suf
fering from a nervous breakdown.
Th Sitverton Pig club, which has a ;
membership- of-15 boys and girls be
tween th ages of 11 end 18, has won
this year four championships, 10 first
prices and U second prizes hnd ha .
mad a profit from hogs of 149 1.91.
Union boasts of one of th oldest
women in the Grand Ronde valley
fn.! iP? in Oregon, Mrs. Eliza
beth Godfrey, who will be 104 years
of age in April. She is hale and hearty
and worked all fall at picking apples.
-'' WASHINGTON : "
Charles Wlfiiams, Under arrest at
Seattle, has confessed the robbery
of 11 stores and poolrooms. : .
Fire SrUttAd thA mnnnfoMnrin 1 - n .
of the Washington Wood Products com-
lacoma, ounoay nignt, caus
ing a loss estimated at 997,000.
,N.W5 13 received "from Washington
that Wesley Vandercock has been an-
iviiBi.er. lur xjonayview. tne
new lumber town in Cowlitz county.
'aTV r - x I - at A .. .a. . A
. ix. xiasungs. ei, was xataiiy in
jured at Seattle Saturday night When
he was struck by an automobile drlVen
by W. W. Phllllpa
A silver fox farm for the PUyallup
of Sumner.who has purchased five
wub uwB nuuam . xtamoo.ot Bpo-
Th Utah-Idaho Sugar1 company has
paid Yakima growers for - beets this
season more than ,i70,000.; Besides
this, another 990,000 was paid out by
the factory for labor. -. :
John Wachel. 24 years old. died in,
a Seattle hospital Saturday night from
Injuries received earlier in the day"
when he fell from the roof of pier 1,
which he was painting, , i -
The 9(0.000 Henry Ford grade school,
just completed at Kenton,. Waa thrown
open Friday night for inspection. It
has It classrooms and an auditorium 1
capable of seating too. r
W. B. Hudson , of the Highlands,
northeast of Kelso, has' given a plot of
ground 50 by 126 feet as a site for a
community house which will be erected
in the spring by the Mothers' club.
City detectives and the coroner are
investigating th death of Mrs. Ethel
Brew, 60 years old, who r was found
Friday in her apartments at- Seattle
With' two bullet wounds in her body.
The parents of George Melntlre, an
employe of the Eastern .Railway aad
Lumber company, killed. July 17. are
entitled to compensation for the. death
ot their son. according to ther Lewis
county superior oourt.-.-v-fe"T-5!,,5'".'
Spencer Con row, assistant manager
of the Bank of California, who disap
peared from Tacoma August 9, is ac
cused Of embezzling 96000 of the bank's
funds, and a reward Of 500 is of
fered for his apprehension. . .
? Held up by two masked men at' Ev
erett. Alex It- Orsland was shot in
the arm and severely beaten-when he
showed fight and attempted to Wrest
a pistol from one of them. ' The ban
dits fled without robbing him, . v
- Cittrvrtm' V ftvelatlanann n, VllW,.,
county, sole representative of the
wi,n, av luirijr- ,ii next rvaLsmna;- .
ten itltn aansta.-mill' n.ln uv
committee assignment he wants, ae-
at w o jS .
wrum5 w jieuuvn&nc vjovernor uoyie
Becau of th voluim ot traffic and
the crippled motive power of the rail-
aAa t- will .JTa.MiBvl a ,
veus, at,. v in JTJ UiUUDolUiq VI WVCI
come the shorte.ffe of cafe within the
MAvt CaA JVaauaa Jk : AV. -, 1 j-v
"UAfc 7V UaTa.ayaS. OJl Uli() V"a Vs
C<Aerheatl, rate expert of the itata
- ...1.11. .u.t-
UtCpftl VJLUCaXb UaV fUUll; WV7otaS ;. ,
" ' IDAHO
To prevent the snread of what im
thought to be cholera, four hog herds
in the vicinity of Nampa have been
placed under quarantine by th state
veterinarian. . - - , . - - . , v
Captain L. L. Montromerr ofGald-
well received word Friday evening of
the electrocution at Pittsburg, Cat,' of
his brother. Georsra W. Mnntsromerv.
and the latter's wife.
The Idaho Cannlnar rwtmnaev nt '
Payette last week shipped a carload
of canned corn to Seattle.5 The corn
is of an excellent grade and the de
mand is greater than the supply.
A car eontainlns : 60.000 sounds of
butter was shipped Friday to Loa An
geles by tho Farmers Cooperative
Creamery company of Payette. Tn
price received was El cents a pound.
Blinded br the licrht of an aDTiroarrh
ing car, J. W.. Handy drove his auto
mobile into the biar canal at Jerome.
Saturday evening. His daughter, grand-.
daughter and tumseii were thrown into
the water, out an managea to .escape.
While going from Gooding to Boise
recently, J. M. Gooding of Gooding,
son of Senator Frank R. Good in r. was
badly Injured-when his autmobile col
lided with a oumry. ne euiiered a
broken collar . bone ana mtsmal in
juries. -. K
Once Overs
Are You Drifting Off Your Course?
Perhaps yoa have awakened to the
fact that you are drifting In a direction-you
should not go, year by year
getting-farther away from the thing
for which you know you should steer.
Just what is to be your destination.
at this rate? -
There is a point of reckoning for
very man...
It is a long, weary way back from
the -point " where you are now, to say
nothing Tot Jiow- far it is back .to
where you. started off t'e track.
You have been doing little dishonest
acts, which are accumulating end are
getting yott in deeper and deeper. -
Perhaps it is spending money fool
ishly which you ought to save
Perhaps you- are engaging in an ap
parently .harmless flirtation. -
Perhaps you are neglecting your
health, or not giving attention to some
ailment which yearly gets v stronger
bold on your system. -
iWhv isn't It -better to want to be
rfeht;;to want to follow, the- right
track, to want to have a clear coo-.
science each night before vyou aleep?
And the day of reckoning la cure.
Change your course. .!
tCoprrtsnt, r Xntaraational
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