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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1921)
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OLD MAN OREGON IS A LOAFER THE Oregonian objects to the claim that in Oregon we hag gle too much over taxes and in the way of development polish pebbles while the diamonds remain undug. The lituation as it apepals to the Portland paper is summarized as follows: To resume, we-protect, regulate or encourasre forestry, fishing, agriculture, riortlculture, livestock growing. Irrigation, dairy4ng, mining, inanufactiiing. labor, health and education. We have a paternal eye on every fundamental In dustry, occupation and profession and n numerous minor professions and occupations. And we do support an association to attract tourits to the state to see its wonders and enjoy its climate. It is asking for $100,000. f. Perhaps here is nothing more that could be done. We doubt it. We ex pect to hear again, as we have in preceding years, of some new activities, some glorious new enterprises which ought to be paid for out of the public treasury or by imposing some new form of fee or license. Forty-five millions in two year for state fundamentals, improvements, inspection and regulation ought to be enough. But the Oregonian presents no evidence to justify the belief expenditures may be cut Nor does it offer any concrete sug gestions to that end. Shall we fail to protect our forests, , our fishing, agriculture, and other lines of industry whereby the state subsists? Would any one abolish education, refuse to care for the indigent or insane, or for wayward girls or incorrigible boys? Shall we cut out road improvements? , Of course not. There is not much room for economy for the reason that in many respects the state is already on a parsimo nious basis. Our officials are underpaid and state institutions are generally not improved as they should be. No one will question the need of closely scrutinizing public expenditures and of avoiding waste and punishing graft. But ,we can do all that, if it is not already done, and you will find the Uix bill no smaller, except as reductions may occur because of falling prices. The way to reduce the tax levy in Oregon is to increase the wealth, the business and the population! of the state. Convert desert acres into taxpaying farms. Harness some of our great water power and get it to producing. Make Oregon a- tourist paradise, which it really should be, and let some of the tourist money help bear our expenses. The Oregonian is long on economy talk but short on devel opment talk. Not two weeks ago it assayed to say it was not worrying over the hotel shortcomings at Crater lake, that the responsibility was not on Portland more than on other Oregon towns or upon California. Here is one place where a diamond is being overlooked. After a visit to our great scenic wonder Irvm S. Cobb wrote in the Saturday Evening Post: One of these days hundreds of thousands of Americans will visit Crater lake every summer. For Ha size, I am quite sure that Crater lake is the most wonderful thing in this world. X dare affirm that it is the most gorgeously beautiful Like on this planet About its shore, in places where the rock shelves come close to the surface, is the greenest green that ever was, on land or sea. but where the bottom drops away with incredible abruptness to Incredible depths it becomes a marvel of indescribable blue a purer, richer, more radiant blue than any other blue ever wis. One has the feeling that a cup of it dipped up would reveal these tints, blue or green, depending on one's dipping. And from persona) observation I am willing to state that on being splashed with a canoe pucftlle its spraying drops are not like water,, but like jewels like flawless fcmeralds and perfect sapphires. , .Having such a natural wonder with such tourist possibilities, what about the mind that entertains the view our one big city is under no pressing responsibility on the score of accommoda tions? It is up to Portland to lead in this move and Portland fhould jump at the chance. There is vastly more money to be made by building up Oregon's tourist business than can ever be made by crying down taxes. Oregon feels pinched because we have failed to make use of cur natural chances. We let California and Washington have the tourists. We leave about half of the state to the jackrabbits and allow millions of good electric horse power go to waste while we import coal and oil from outside the state.' Our em pire builders are loafing on the job and are trying to make Mother Oregon save the day by wearing old clothes and doing the family wash by hand. Old Man Oregon should go to work. Next to having a local man named for the vacancy on the highway commission the best solution for Umatilla county was the appointment of a man living in Wallowa Baker or Union counties. In Mr. Dobbin the governor has made a highly cred itable choice. , . . . r High water is fashionable just now and the old Umatilla has the correct season's color. Those March wheat prices are not so bad. THE FUNNYBONE No hucli MoUjt r. The teach-r was trying to give her pupils an illustration of the word "per aoverance. "What is It?" she asked, "that car ries a man along rough roads and smooth roads, up hill and down, through the Jungle of doubt and through the swamps of dtupair?" There was a silence, and then John ny, whose father was a motor car deal er, spoke up. "Please, ma'am," he sard, 'there ttin't no such car." Kerolite News. An tiiin. "I think this trial marriage Idea is Just horrid." "Oh. they have been working out so-o- for a long while." "Nothing of the sort! It is a new Ides." Hid as the hllla. Do you mean to say that every marriage isn't a trial to one of 'em anyway?'- Philadelphia Ledger. economy, "when I was your age I car ried water for a gang of brick layers.'' "I'm proud of you, father," answer ed his offspring "if it hadn't been for your pluck and perseverance I might have had to do something of that sort myself." Irish World. " 28 MS AGO "My boy." said the inilHonaiie, lee (From the 'liist Oregonian, January 5, 18!i3. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hagen enjoyed a visit New Year s day wHji Mr. and Mrs. Hagen's parents at Aflffms. The Kast Oregonian is conducting a missing word contest, for which the prizes will be made up of the entrance fees. The complete article with the word supplied, is In the hands of S. P. Kturgis and will be opened January 31, 193. Dr. and Mrs. C. J. Whltaker are vis iting friends at Dixie. Washington. Mark Hturdivant is here from Pilot Ro.k. T. D. Page has returned from a trip to Portland, Tacoma and Spokane, In honor of his Inauguration an mayor of Pendleton, It. Alexander was extended a serenade by the Pendleton A . 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