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THE DALLES DAILY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1921.
THE DAILY CHRONICLE
Bitabllshod 1890 Tim Dalles. Ore.
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SHALL WE GROW?
Peculiarly true it) it that every com'
immlly him chances galore to mako
or break Itsolf. In tho hands of the
dwellers of overy community rents tho
decision to grow or not to grow. If
the town does not grow, ol course, tho
residents hunt around for some e.v
cuse. They trundle out everything
that looks remotely like an alibi. Bu
they won't admit the fuct that spirit
kept them hack.
Jlesources help 10 build communi
ties. But spirit builds them.
Just now Tho Dulles and Wasco
county arc face to face with an epoch
day which falls upon June 7. Upon
that day Tho Dalles and Wasco coun
ty must decide what place In I ho coin
morclal and development suns they
shall take.
Shall The Dalles be a whistling
' post, hugging to Itself tho vanished
glory of the past, which redounds to
tho clly owing to the Oregon trail
terminating hero-which men follow
ed to iul ventures end. Uut tho old west
is gone. The old The Dalles lias pass
ed away.
Are wo to sit hero and vainly try
to materialize 'he nnclont glory which
shown upon this place?
Shall Wasco county cast her lot with
tho dead past or grow to ho ono of
tho most productive spots in tho stato
of Oregon, n region of contented fnrm
districts denooiy populated.
As sure as The Dalles-California
highway is bullded so suro will Was
co county and Tho Hallos grow by
leaps and bounds. Tho history of city
and county development may bo told
in terms or transport; I.n. Whoroso
over the transportation is rapid and
choap and roquont, there rears a
great city. New York Is an examplo
of this fact. Chicago Is an example.
Denvor, San Francisco, Boston, Tort
land, anil so on aro largo because their
transportation facilities are of tho fin
est. A new kind of transportation Is
about to revolution Izo commerce and
Industry motor truck hauling. Tho
era Is upon us. Indicating just how
important Is the whole matter is tho
$1,200,000 highway bids io bo opened
by the Oregon Stato Highway com
mission May 'J7. Highways mean auto
trucks and pleasure cars. Highways
mean more money In circulation.
Tho Dalloa-Californhi highway will
move the products of tho orchards and
truck gardens of tho tremendously
rich southern part of Wasco count v
Into the city Itself. Thus the espenv.e
of distribution will be cut down. The
grower and the ultimate consumer v!U
profit. Hut the big thing is that tho
highway will bring wealth to Wasco
county and Tho Dnllon dwellers. Mar
kets will bo supplied for all produce
ruined, When men know that Llbby,
MoNelU & Llbby and The Dalles
King's Food Products company aro
eager to contract for uvory ucro of
produco the mlnuto It s planted In
the soil, then more ncreago will bo
planted, more of Wasco county's land
will be utilized.
Few among us will deny tho bene
fits accruing from Tho DallesCallfor-
nla highway. The benefits are general
ly conceded. Tho block to tho whole
plan Is that voting JS00.000 bonds to
finance the nrolect will boost tnx
rates materially,
Hut let's go into this mutter cat
fully. For each unit of $100,000 uf
bonds sold, your taxes will increase
por year only 30 cents for overy $1000
of your assessed valuation. Tho $800,
000 bond Isauo should the entire Is
sue bo sold at once and it will not
'bo-'-wlll cost you per year only $2.40
a year for each thousand dollars of
assessed valuation. This outlay is an
investment, not a waste. Isthis too
great a price to pay for prosperity.
Consider that If you do not embrace
your opportunity to vote bonds and
build a great north and south trado
artery through Wasco county you will
send the great wealth-producing high
way through some other section and
you'll have to pay your share of ono
half the construction cost; the amount
of money furnished by tho state.
It is good business to vote bond?
for constructing a highway througn.
Wasco county. This county gets two
dollars worth of road for every coun
ty dollar expended. Besides the mon
ey Is left in Wasco county. (Tho state,
you will remember, matches the sum
raised in a county, dollar for dollar.)
We deem it waste of timo to urge
The Dalles and Wasco county citizens
to vote the $800,000 bond issue and
secure the early construction of The
'Dalles-California highway. The need
for Hie bond issue carrying is patent.
Shall wo be a whistling post, an
isolated area, or a center from which
shall radiate the pulsing life of a
little metropolis.
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LEADS TO BANKRUPTCY
01' tremendous import is the an
nouncenient that the Japanese navy
plana to tio up it.i entire third squad
ron and a portion of tho second
squadron in the near future. Japan is
building just now the greatest battle
fleet In all the history of the nation.
With great plans laid out, she finds
that sho-must retire some of her ship'?
already constructed or go into bank
ruptcy.
The tax burden is throttling Indus-
try in Japan. Prices of goods have
risen to unprecedented levels. People
must charge enough for merchandise
to pay taxes and securo a living, it
would seem. Caught between taxes
an. I high costs, tho common pcopiu
unable lo pay sro driven to dospera
Hon. They aro rioting, killing officials
and breaking Into shops.
Japan Is fast drifting Into debt. Tho
powerful fleet which she is building
up Is as a yoke about tho neck of the
nation. With tho avowed purpose ol
roduclng oxponsos, Japan proposes to
Ho up some of her magnificent and ef
fective fighting units; one whole
squadron and part of another.
Tills is what her armament build
ing has brought her to. In the midst of
construction she is forced to retire
those fighting units already built and
disband tho crews which man thorn.
It is a sad commentary upon the
armament situation, It indicates to
what financial straits, this business of
competitive- armament building will
carry any nation,
About OS percent ol the taxes go to
financing past wars and preparing far
future ones. Tin; people pay for these
expenditures. Tho taxes of tho United
States this year will lie approximately
?:t,r.0l,000.000 Figure up what PS per
cent of tills aggregate sum. Is. That
much Is wasted for war, past and fu
ture. That much goes to no constructive
thing. Suppose this money wore di
verted to making the lot of mankind
easier by clearing land and develop
ing Irrigation projects, harnessing
rivers to do tho work of human be
ings and a hundred other worthwhile
objects.
But no, this great sum Is being de
voted lo war by the United State
.Treat sums are being slmlllarly do
voted to war by the other nations of
the world.
It appears that Japan has crackou
under the strain. While building groat
sho must retire ships already built
to cut down expenses.
What nation will bo tho next to
crack under tho strain? Or will tho
example of Japan put nn end to the
foolishness of urtnamont building
Wo are opposed to the United States
disarming before other nations do
but we do heartily approve the plan
to bring, about International disarm
ament or at least reduction of armn-
TO MAKE A LONG TAIL SHORT
ments so that the world may develop
its resources with the money now
dumped into the lap of the crimson
war god.'
LOOKING BACKWARD
(From The Chronicle, May 13, 1896.)
Twenty-four teachers aro being ex
amined before School Superintendent
Troy Shelley.
The Electric Light company is sink
ing a shaft at the location of the
plant. They have already proceeded
but. a few feet.
Mr.- V. C Lewis, nominee for joint
representative, has formally declined
tho nomination, and removed with
his family to St. Louis.
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Green peas were noticed in market
today. They were raised by Mr. Field?,
who usually leads the season In early
vegetables and fruits.
The condition of Mr. Biggs after the
exertion of yesterday, which it was
feared would be too much lor his
strength, is still improving. His
friends were more than thoughtful of
him yesterday, and many were tho
remembrances received, among them
a silver souvenir spoon, over 0u years
old, from his neighbor, Mrs. Meyer;.
Mr. R, Jacobsen returned from a
trip to Bakeoven, Nansene and Ante
lope la.-it night. While absent he met
Joseph Slierar, whom ho reports is
recovering from his injuries. He found
the weather cold and backward, but
prospects oxcollent for a good crop.
The new Shorar road from Antelope
to Bakeoven is a splendid' piece of
work, dispensing with many steep hill
sides. With tho Current creek road
next attended to, that section of tho
county will have little complaint to
mako regarding roads.
Tomorrow wo proposo to publish
tho program for tho open air con
cert Sunday to bo given by The Dalles
band, it has been decided to play in
the public school yard Instead of the
academy.
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Still popular after running through
scores of hugo editions sinco Its first
mighty bid for ondurlng fame more
than forty years ago, "Black Beauty,"
by Anna Sowell, Is establishing a roc
oMd in another field of human Interest
Utcr forty years. "Black Beauty"
rrnks eighth in popularity among the
world's books. At tho beginning of
Its career In motion pictures Its ap
peal to the public promises to be even
stronger than the one it made through
the printed pago.
"Black Beauty," a Vitagraph nil-star
special production, will be shown at
the Empress theater three days start
ing Tuesday, (
(Extraordinary difficulties ww fac
ed and overcome in visualizing "Black
Beauty," but those whlcu at first
were looked upon as the greatest turn
ed out to bo the loast. Tin first filia
tion raised was, "Can Iioamm hi train
ed to perform exactly thb action of
Anna Sowoll's book, so t'ut tho story
In pictures can bo accural oh and
faithfully told?"
After long continued and :ttlnt ex.
perlmeuts, it was found that for the
most purt no training would be neces
sary, as all tho actions of horses in, the
wonderful book la natural to them at
certain times under certain c'.rcunv
stancos. The (act that the aci'on U
natural, spontaneous, is an J'mj ortnu
part In t!u tie;;. noes of Ar.:n Ff.w oil's
immortal work. The filming of this ac-
tion, therefore became largely a mat
ter of time and patience, and c.vplete
success was attained at Wsl.
The problem of presor-Ung "Black
Beauty" as a screen OraoM of the
strongest possible appeal, with a grip
ping, thrilling story, was inoro buttl
ing. Mr. and Mrs. George Kai dolph
Chester, -who prepared the screen ver-
, slon- were ."nwllllnS to take any llb-
ertles in altering the text or changing
the form of a work regarded with rev
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MME. CURIE, FRENCH
SAVANT, FRIGHTENED
BY NEW YORK SCRIBES
By Unltea News
! NEW YORK, May 13 . Mme. Curie,
co-discoverer of radium and the
1 world's foremost woman scientist, is
a little timid, gray haired woman, at
home in a laboratory groping into
atoms and ions, but amazed, abashed,
frightened by the roaring world of
New York.
She came up from her stateroom
Wednesday when the Olympic swung
into its berth here, to face the most
embarrassing situation of her career.
She had to meet the newspapermen.
She was shy, scared and weak from
her long voyage and the attendant Ill
ness of the trip across. She meekly
obeyed commands from camera men
and moved here and there, tired, un
smiling. She told, in her tired voice, what
she planned to do with the gramme
of radium America will give her. It
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WHY A BANK ACOOUNT
REACHING UP
IT'S only the bottom rungs of the ladder of success
that are crowded. The fellows who save or strive
in an indifferent, don't care manner are there.
Further up there's ldts of room for young men
and young businesses. And space near the top is
waiting for YOU at the French & Company bank
for that account of yours.
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HAN
i- looking
comfort-
quickly
adaptable
change.
yni-
will be devoted to research in cancer
diseases. And that is the sum total of
what she had to say about her visit to
America.
With her were her two daughters,
brimming over with fun and life. Eve
I is 15 'eara ld. studying to be a great
pianist; Irene is 20, and already Mme.
Curie's laboratory assistant. Thev
have none of ttfeir noted mother's
"grey" personality. They, were dressed
in the height of fashion and evidently
participate in none of Mme Curie's
ascetic tastes.
Eve and Irene are going to have a
lot of fun in America. Mme. Curie is
going to get very, very tired talking
to scientific societies and universities
and tho general public. She vlll be
glad to get baclc to her Paris labora
tory where she can work in peace and
quiet with her gramme of radium. And
it is easy to see that nothing this
country could have given her would
have touched her quite so deeply as
thi3 gift.
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