Eajul C. Brownleb
Sheldon F. Sackett Hii?
f tnidA every day and be don with it. You have done
what you could Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt,
crept in; forget them as soon as you can Tomorrow is a
new day, begin it well and serenely and with too high a
spirit to be encumbered with your old noHsense. This day
is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, uHth its hopes
and aspirations, to xcaste a moment upon the yesterday.
Anon.
Oregon Is Not Unique
CITATE legislatures in all parts of the United States are
dealing with taxation in their current sessions. Oregon
is by no means unique.
The general property tax, as a rule, is the basis of state
revenues. This means of raising revenue long ago proved in
Adequate and most of the states have attempted to remedy
the situation by- adding miscellaneous taxes.
i The result is a confused jumble. The Maryland tax
commission has reported to the legislature that the tax laws
of that state are in the most execrable confusion of form
No one but a trained lawyer could conjecture from reading
them what the law is.
So taxation officials have been forced to build up a "kind
of customary law which is not reflected on the statute
books. Three Maryland surety companies have paid $S60,-
000 in taxes. The commission finds that had these compan
ies incorporated elsewhere their taxes would have been bu
$210,000.
Tax collections in this country increased from 6.4 per
cent of the national revenue in 1913 to almost 12 per cent in
1927. The nation's tax bill has grown steadily Since 1923,
and during the fiscal year 1927 the federal, state and local
governments collected a total of $9,074,000,000
The greatest total of taxes collected in one country dur
l ing one year in the history of the world. Since federal levies
. have shown a steady decline, the increased burden is laid at
the doors of state and local governments; in Oregon nearly
all to those ox local governments.
Taxation is an intricate subject, and it is worthy of the
profound study of the major committee of congress that has
it in hand, covering all forms of levies, from the federal ex
actions down to the road or school district
But that is a long range task. It may require years. In
the mean time, Oregon has an emergency, in the unbalanced
state budget, which will cost more the longer its solution is
delayed. ,
That it be. not delayed ought to be the chief concern of
the legislature now in session. There are men under the
state house dome who are the best experts in the world in
the domain of Oregon tax dif fciulties. Chief among them is
State Treasurer Kay. This chief task ought to have imme
diate attention.
Stop, Look, Listen
TX a window of the Standard Oil building in San Francisco's
X financial district is an exhibit accompanied by a sign stat
ing that during 1928 drivers of Standard Oil trucks stopped
more than eight million times along the Pacific coast to look
and listen at railway crossings before rvung over
In the aggregate lost a lot of valuable time
But as a result of this caution, the sign continues, there
was not a single accident to any Standard Oil truck or driver
during the year.
The lesson is that if all drivers would do likewise, the
frightful toll of creasing accidents woukl be stopped; many
people who will die sudden deaths in 1929 woukl be spared.
Is time too valuable for the reader of this, to waste a lit
vUe of it in any such foolish manner? Eternity is a long
time
It is well illustrated in the; way Professor Bailey of the
University of Oregon used to put it. a half century ago. He
ttsed to visualize the length of it by telling his students that
if one of them could visuahie an old man with a velvet rag
coming every million years and wiping the face of a steel
block as big a the class room
When The steel block was all wiped away it would not
yet be sunup in eternity! ,
1 1 The Girl We Thought We Left Behind Us The Grab Who's WHO & i imeiy Views I
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Edison at EightyTvo j
HTirlXTERlXG at Fort Meyer, Florida, Thomas A. Edison
iff arrives at the laboratory at 7 in the morning, beating
all his younger employees to work. This makes a good news
paper story.
But a writer in an exchange want to do a little analyx
icjr. from the purely human angle. He calls attention first
to the fact that Edison is S2. and deaf rhe is past the age of
frivoSty. He fires now for his work; has lost interest in
thoe recreational enterprises which keep people up late at
might, thus tempting them to sleep a little later in the morn-
?ing to make up for it
Hence getting down to work at 7 in the morning in
. SroJve no hardship in his case. What would involve a sacri
fice, in Edison's case, is staying away from his laboratory
when he might be there, employed on sorse useful task.
Edison is happy and fortunate. He has achieved that
highest of all human goals an interest in his work that is
v so intense that it absorbs everything else; is happier when
at work than at any othr time. He is doing merely the thing
he likes best to do harsoring himself, jast as less useful
peopSe humor theraselye by staying up late at night in or-j
cer t have a good time.
Different 0er There
TN Washington the. gas taxes go into the general fund. Ther
X may be used for anything in the way of expenses of Use
state government. 1 -
It is ah unwritten law, however, that the money shall
be expended for roads. 4
Kow there is ft demand in WashingtoA that the tax os
gasv-Une be doubled, in order to aid ia balancing Use state
1 Kidgetr It is argued that the motorist shook! pay for the
" conveniences whkh he. izss and which save 1dm more than
they-cost him; also that heshockl cttribcte socaethiEgbe-
skies to the expenses of the government that protects him
ia tus ngucs xxsscrsvx, itivvss cisi patsce jwwexxioo &eu raw?
' it safe to use the hirhways
That is, that the motorist ought to do it if the rest of
the people shoukl
That's Use cemana over there, and that s toe argumest
if"- it
Wbo am I? Wiiat
ality? In what famous school was
I trained?
Who was poet Laureate la Ens
lnd. uccedinr Wordsworth. In
the reign ot Queen Victoria
At what historic pass in Greece
did Leonid&j and 3d0 Spartan
seek to stem the tide of Persian
inraslon?
What is another name for the
Unas. a mountains?
v v Tk laSS. H wh
trim Hrnrd .d - J
4cat el Sa tBtaaaee toatpaay. was a
lr ef.tae w
tat till Is 111! B VH
. t. fill . wuim la ta SSU
Jiatrict tit ka rT4 eoatiaaaiiy atae
Ini fallawtac rwlrtio. H MrraS im
lb. amy Sar?4 W- , .
THE proposea comiuuuuuw
amendment for a referendum
on war Is the natural and
logical step after the ratification
of the Kellogg multilateral pact
to renounce
war as an ln-
trument of na
tional policy. X
am offering the
resolution at
this time, when
people are
thinking in
terms of peace
and the outlaw
ry of wars be
tween ' nations
except strictly
for leiwe-'
tense. vv- MtAtmuratt fismML.
pose to sk
the chairman of the committee on
the Judiciary to fix a time for a
public hearing. it
if it would consistent with tne
final action on the Kellogg pact
to be taken by the senate. I would
faror adding the words. or of
an established American foreign
policy." after the words "except
in the defense of the United
States." therebr providing more
specifically for our - traditional
rawwwiiaa"ansss t
policy to protect the live
.Pey.f.-.UrC,t.Ue?3 Uilai at
ukca. u iwreign isnais. and fin,
constitutional rrn,ru-K ''"S
- ""uug
sancuon io me Monroe
for the first time
"Am I a God at hand, aaith the
Lord, and not a God afar off?"
Where are these words found In
the Bible?
Today ia The Past
John Hancock was born on this
day. In 17ST.
The Way of
the World
XOT BAD FOR CHrRCHKS
IVBt worry. ane?r. or rejoice
too much about the stories you
bear that church tn this day are
aot dflajc well. Church member-
ahip tn this country baa Increas
ed ISt per cent since 1S91. walk
population has increased So per
cent. Ia ISSi one person ia six
belonged to a church; today It
os person tn three. Despite the
i5.M.o motor cars In the rait
ed States. 1 3.00 .w telephone.
lad ?e,e radios, people sU!
have time to Join a ebarcb. and
saaay ot them erea go to cbarcb.
iadeed. pay their dnea.
Will Miss Jim Reed
By rHARU p. STEWART .performances short, sharp and
uas&iaguMi C-or-rrpoBnJrt for terrible, rather but with inter.
IVatraJ Prew aatj Tbe Statwmaa ,ViU la between Uke a death chair
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2J. Itjthat seu its ricUm kicking time
will be a rood lik-Urter time, as the executor reseats
I Jim Reed of Missouri retires fromil.!- mkV enr h,m
. Today's Horoscope
Persons born on this day are
good at lnTenting excuses. They
make money easily, but are apt to
be slovenly.
A Dally Thought
The band that follows intellect
can achieTe." Michael Angelo.
Answers to Forefcoias: Qwestioas
1; Anna Pariowa: Russian: Im
tperial Russian Ballet school.
5. AirreU Tennyson.
S. Thermopylae.
4. Great Smoky.
5. Jeremiah, xxili. 23.
and
ready, considered by the lnl.',
SUtes and admitted by the Z
powers of the world to be
established American foreign noi
ley based on the principle of
defense. If there is ar.v ambleu
lty in the multilateral treaty as to
our exact position this proposed
amendment would teed to mav.
plain to the people of the world
and In itself definite beyond aay
question of doubt the attitude 0f
the United States of Africa
The question of war is FO vit,i
and. so far reaching In effe t
on the welfare of V. e Arrriiaa
peopie inai 11 is oqv:ou.
flable to submit the l- jt
collectire Judgment of
iors. x qu uui ai in:s tine ?h
to discuss in aetau tr.
the proposition. If t:.
amendment were adop--constltute
another o
check on war. and th
bUlty tor the final dec:
be placed squarely on
would have to carry the r'.fie a:.i
bear the burdens.
The power to declare war rep
resents the highest act of sove
reignity and a self-goTirnlnt- p.
pie could well reserve, the rig: to
hare a Tolce la the final deter
mination of such an a:;-!r.vr;V:ng
power which mlfht jeoardiw
their collectire ltres and property.
5ti-
to th
e eiec-
r-erlr? of
p'-'Pvsd
"a:!e or
" would
who
Bite for Breakfast
By fL jjHeiidricka-
VOT SO GOOD AS TO MOUKR
While w are fooling alone with
ftgnres let's admit that some oth-
r things have grows bosid
hnrch naembership. The murder
rate pr I.e people ts twice as
rrt today as it was ia lt la
crtlary. highway robbery, and
ther crimes w lead the ctrQlsed
world.
Tke nnctTilised world has little
mate, so there are no available
attsUc. y ,
rns puick op rqg a..tr
The cost of maiautains: pri-
s and similar institutions U
about oaesixth off the rereene of
U tbe states! That's one reason
e pay taxesw And they are high.
oo. In two eastera states the cost,
f ntaintaiaias such insUttttioas
akes osve-third of the reTvnee.
v
-.
turning off the ectriclty when
the Tnlted States senate at the end
i of this session
of congress.
Everybody- on
Capitol Hill
so.
An extra ses
sion is to fol
low close on the
heels of the
present regular
one.
Bat no Jim
Reed will sit in
the front row.
second desk
front the aisle.
a the rfeatocra. .wKH A.EO
tic side, in the senate chamber.
Alas! aot a disseatiax voice is
raised it wont be the same ea
ate without him.
Yet it's tbe sreaerallT accented
theory that nobody is absolately
tadispeasahle that somebody aj
wav Ls ready to step Into air
jast-racated void, no matter how
seemingly noa-re&UabSe. and oc
cupy it adequately.
Jim Reed's retiresaejat will cre
ate a Tarawa la tbe post of srtn-
miutor-tn-rhief for the senate mi-
if
aorttr.
said tne eleven biilion doIUrs. pUc is Senator Thaddeas H Cau--raaced
to European natioasiawav of rt.t
rariag aad after tke World wr For a short spurt. Thsd Cars
s no more tSa the raited Stages; war aadoubtedle i a..
seta tilUtor ia national politics.
He is not J la Reed's exl in
a caarathon.
That U to say. Jia rairget up
eaaa saa&e a speech. latia hoara.
0ai darts forked tvghtaiar all the
His oat erery year in the war o
artae.
:
imG TtHXAY
Eaersoa beiierxsl ia tivi&g i&
ho rreoeaa aot la., the past or
fatare. He writes: "Mat is tiaidtiase tiU roar ere kart
and apologeOc; he as no longer ap-t Thad is better ia deha:-
-tght; ho dares aot sty "1 think,! so catatemptod as Jiaa. ia
asm.' oi qaoves sosae saa& or i
age. He b ashaned before thel
Ude of grass or the btowiag rose f
rte rooes nader say wiadow
3r to better oae; they are for
what they are; they exist with
God today. There is no time to
theaa. There Is sisxpty the rose; K
perfect tn every utc-sseat of its
xSstesee." ;
-not
his
yond peradventure
There are other senators who
can say strong things.
Senator Borah can. So can both
Senator Walshes. LUcewU HI
Johnson and young Bob LaPollette
aad moat emphatically Tncle
George" Korris.
Bat. they all lack Thad Cara
way's pungency.
On Thad's owa political side.
Senator Pat Harrison of Mississ
ippi has more of Jlmvs capacity for
a protaagod effort, but his effect;
is nosMar like as devastating as!
They Say...
Hips roslnas of Optnion Croaa
!ftfttrrs Readers are
WeJcoamed for Tso x thss
rrraai-i All letters Most
Bear Vritsrt Name.
Thonch Thia Xeadl Ke be
CAIAfi ATTKXTIOX TO
PLAGUE OF MUS.S1XES3
Salem. Jan. 21.
To the editor of the Statesaan:
Jim's, or Thad Caraway's. Shot Salem Is beautiful and yosr city
for shot. I doubt if eren Jim has tries to keep Its streets cieaa. But
Thad's power of peaetration. what can be the matter with peo-
thoagh he boats Thad la point of I pie who walk out of the postofrke
quantity.
' o
It should not be assumed, kow.
evor. that Senator Caraway -is de
ficient tn ability to continue tn
action as loeg as
repair.
and around the block and throw
envelopes down on thejawn and
all over the carbs by the busheL
Really, ft Is a poor citizen who
has no pride in his owa home
circumstances! town whea thoee in charge of the
i grounds do their nart.
At his own particular game, he The city cooecil ahoald pass a
is tireless.
to fine any ose
doing
la this respect he differs from;11'- evete?es picked o of-
Senator George H. Moses of the1 "S mJ UT
G. O. P. faction. Mose can ssayfnope tats may xaahe aoa of thesa
as mxrderos thtsgs as aay man i ashamed. We do not vaat to ?t
ia the Cap&o! bcildlag but not i rarage caa all or-r oar city-:?-.
often. IS takes him a long time taiblocis. CTTI PRIDE.
think thesa up. apparently. Thad
utters them as naturaXTy as kef
breaths and ahost aa rapLiry.f
when he feels like lt
Thad's also are a higher type J
than Moses. The Latter re per.:
sonai. Thad's tkaaderboUs always SAV UT i
strik ahovo the dUpkragm. i -l o firo aa d 3t
The senate will jsisis J!aa Red 1 i - m. k- -.-.
tn,. ' rat aim . kMh.
Stia. cocspiete esasi never wEsf ; "What is roar iMasem.
settle upon the soio&s chaser "ash"
while Thad Caraway resaaias t, t ..r-, .n
DINNER
STORIES
Much waiting time
a V
But that is unavoidable, the way
we do it In Oregon, especially in
the first days of the session of our
legislature, for the xnain work
must be done in the committees.
Otherwise, it could never get done
at all.
S
(n California they do tt another
way. Down thvre the legislature
after being in session two weeks
and introducing 2000 bills, has
adjourned for 30 days to think it
all over. The theory of the divided
session ts that sober second
thought is best. Presumably, it
gives the legislators time "to talk
to their constituents and get the
public's ideas as to proposed laws
But a much better and less ex
pensive device would be a steering
committee that. would steer.
It is too late to be applied to
the present Oregon session, hnt it
would be a good idea to work on;
a plan along tbe lines of efficiency
and economy for future seosfona.
If planning were efficiently done
in advance, the next session could
get along: with much less than
half the money that will bo ex
pended for clerk hire this time.
besides having the work perform
ed much more efficiently. Also
there could be a vast speeding up
of the labocs on necessary and im
portant tills.
IX this takes a law to be refer
red to the people, the voters wosld
welcome with threo cheers the
chance to vote favorably oa it.
S
Senators Staples and Stmyer
must tahe satisfaction tn the way
the revotvl&g fend law is worktsx
at the Orecon sniteatiar-r kru-4oJa- th oei? kjmr of t
lag cp iadsstraes thai will before
many years pay the whole -xpn
ses of the institution, betides pay
ins; a small wage to ill w-,r&er.
thus making the prison reforma
tory in Its treataer.: cf tbe in
mates, instead pt vindicative; a
provided by tbe con.su:
S "a
Senator Strayer. four . n;p
was Instrumental !a h:r :.r frr:
the present revolrl -z '. . r i : a - .
and getting its intent cla.-.f.-l s.r. 1
understood. Also in hav.ir ll
000 put into the facd: a av.-c ?m
the general expenses cf
on for the preceding bier.-:
that site.eee toot n ii: : ii
tax money.
s
Tw?ryears ago, seoat.-r ?:a;:es
helped in having t2.r ;ut in
to the revolving faai. La orier
provide for tbe expansion that :.aa
taken place goig frca a
handred acres of flax up to fojr
years ago to acres the ; res-
at year; likely to acres :ri:
year, and acres by
And the bensty of ft is that
f 199,999 is seeded for the pretr .
expansion; not n cent Is cedi
The rvrolTtsc fond will take care
of all that, om its own.- It ;
take care of the larger acri : -for
next year, and on to
final !, acres. And that mea-
a lot of money. There will haTe :
be stSl more retting taxks. s: r
sheds to store the flax, more wir
honsw room, more machinery - '.
appSiaxcen. More and mora. r'
rear's crop has to he sH paid ' vr
thin year, thoagrh the sas cf tbe
prod nets ds ae come H :eit
year. Them wCl b mIZisu ia-
vested by tho tie tt 1 i ) acre
Oax crop is renewed- Aid stiU. it
wCX be ,-asa Cs wn- Tiea wi.j
e 13-
stitntSenu '
enSren its proceediags.
It ij off enfd to the zsesbers of tbe Onrxoo icsi&tsre fart
vhatt it i wtfxih.
WHAT gS IT AJJL ABOTT?
Ton ask: what as H all ahont?
Take this .ocatia as a Una!
word from today colsmau The
writer does not know to whoa to
rivo credit:
tumi from n world where
wo hav known jncredtbU sxan
iarda of exsean. And we dimly
Pnmemher henntien which we have
aot aelaad again. And we g s
to that
W
.' ' - 5 - .
aNIiary.Has Stage Fright
KITIXG oa bis trip throcxb CiliferriaL, FVask Jealdua.
editor of the Eagene Besistier seaib tMi:
-Marr rrkrd atfaeid bvfswe h ltiibini tke
holiday aad greeting cards.
Old Oregon's
Ycstcrdaj-s
Tnlkn
that there was aa arparest short
age ia the wood supply of the
county when Tsids were oriered
for the aaaaal reastrssests of
I the instiistloas,
THE
ONE aUNUTE
PULPIT
I . . " nreiilag e2dec Ca, my nosv to hoar the ta
le? the Epicene district fr tno.r stre&aa ttt mmw
VOODBlTtX An armed p; Method it ciarch. ts a vtsstac X the wwrda of hw&edi. Aa'ast-t
a.isj; jumai awaen ia. aa,- vs.. If-sJy wStaess ssorseth jgma
I v . rnre two men wgso? j 1 ;ad the moth of tko wacked 4e
rbhed Aastin and FInserx stare. I WODtl OP I f itxity. Prtert. w
MiHf orai axa Ktcjea tse, I " -" i i.-jj.
tJirshal. II THH VVICD
rbuKi itiv(c
Masrfee Wlprot. the clrar doai-i . S IjOXTOX. J- .ar
r. left fera three weeks' visit lnl ' X1;T The timant of Irak, the i&i.
San Franeisea. ?7 ..' W" t2h protectorate it avethwt
- ;
nogona-raas witi Creas firs- Ll
Lt?Jrt. -rTnJL" --taaa east Irak cah ha re.
State institution are peairij-e
to nAopl coal aad oSl for faei. Tbef ntake a crab waU I tain aad
la part to the fcr""
Is di
6?rv
Keeps Yarn Hacas Cocsfortable
Prompt Sernos
The Best in
Wood and
Hl!.I.MAIrS
mm
Plxae 1855
High Pressure Pete
pa WLiaSd assd had no seanaon on Irr the ear at a doctor for aeveral
dtexa. For snore yearn than ease realty core So hoe hnonsw Mary hoo.
fNea afneoasng, aerore the cam us. aaq boo th incbt naUsng at St- Ban
hn ssse boat to tase Tatr voire whike ah as an iiimsj, Tbtfaia th roan
eras aao m aa srared that ah km aw. a EL - - -
Taooe naadetaity f raenmnrnt feefse who hare sat ess the fdat
Tnataisj of aluTttac eyea, base were -mratysed wth imiaiiaiami a
the fmot tmne they hod So naai ess theor feet bedoro eeeai a am Tt amtl
eaw aaal aay ismi thine, wfil aympathtse unit Mary' feeifiiameal
mawai asm woo itaand mot oady on act boa no tnPc ;
j -: - V v;v- -X- ' . ' I-
Tt lt V-crmrk et tbe year is the truthfd cocarsect
cXdt iAwTtaaee?, KtBan. pkytr trhkjt says that at saxhooc b
iS orJr irisirurrcfit coe caxt kartt to rtr oa that doesat
nxs&l y verse mbite ceejsfearrds tlaa it k afterwoTvi
iTxar at the seke xfter roKtScal rie. are foUomixr ilr.
IItr ts Flaiiih. Tbey prcfcxbrr thisk that passu- ct
rie it part cf tbs jb of sa rc-food aisdsidtrator. -Ex-
By Swau
wtvUATtajct- i ea -obnoU. no 5-d
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