Cottage Grove sentinel., June 17, 1914, Image 4

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Cottage Grove Sentinel
W E E K L Y N E W ftP A P E B
W IT H P L E N T Y Q /» B A C t V B O N E
ELBERT B k0 6 Edit«»
EDI ft GRANT RubiNKer* n
There ia n«> need of there being nnv
controversy an to whether the uiau or
woman ia hoaa—besides controversy
will never come anywhere near nettimi
it.
Whan a woinau nags her husbuud ehe
A arat ele»! puhbsatioo eutered at Cottage Grove aa aecond daaa m*U mattar. naturally driven him away from her.
Moat people are diagueted with them
SUBAORIPTION RATEA
One Tear...........................................#1 SO Threa M ontha....................................... 40 aelves wheu they fritter away valuable
time -and the uext time they do it right
Bis hiuatha ....................... .
.SO Siogl* C o p i a a S e
No aubacriptioa takaa untane paid for in advaaca.
Thia rula ia imperativa. over agaiu.
Being a creature o f habit inn’t ao bad
AD V EBTIS1NO RATEA.
Diaplay, 25 canta par inch; readiug uotice ad»., 10 ceuta per line; legai notice», |
,rwub** '*
for,u ,0° Ull*“ .v W
6 canta par lina; aurroundad ad»., 50 venta per inch; Claaaiiied tuia., 1 cent per habita.
word. Bpacial diaccunta oa contraete, t'arda uf Thanka and Keaolutiona, ti ceuta
It'll noon get »0 that a |>er»oti won't
per lina.
dare “ go up in the a ir " for fear of
26 SOUTH FIFTH STREET getting bumped by an aeroplane.
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HAMPTON’S
W e H ave Everything for That Summer Dress
Lawns, Flaxon, Ratines, N ew Cloth, Soisette, Marquesette, Silk Poplin and Crepe,
also Embroideries, Lace and Trimmings. All new and up-to-date.
A FEW OF OUR JUNE SPECIALS:
$1.25 White W aists............................... .......... 49c
f t . »>5 House I >ress
95c
1.allies’ 2Sc l; n»cy S to ck in g * ......................... I Oc
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at Cottage Grove.
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The personal property nametl in the proposed amendment would
lie exempt to the amount o f $1500, no matter for what purpose used
Be Sure to Get Stop Over or whether used at all or mit. Let us suppose then that all who can
at Cottage Grove.
posaiblv do so divide their property into lots of $1500. A man with a
wife and two children owns a building asaeaaed at $0,000.
THE OVER TAXED FREAK LAW FACTORY.
Oregon City, Ore., June 8.— (To the Editor).— In the Sentinel of June 3
your editonnl on the $1,500 T-.x Exemption does not stnte the measure fairly.
This amendment does not exempt nny other property than a dwelling house,
household furniture, live stock, machinery, orchard trees, vines, bushes, nursery
stock, merchandise, buildings and other improvements on, in and under his or her
lands made by clearing, ditching and draining, including only personal property
and land improvements made for the greater convenience and attractiveness of
the home or the gaining of a livelihood and only $1,500 of the above property.
This amendment will not exempt any land or lots from taxes. It is therefore
clear that another statement in your editorial is an error, when you say it would
leave only about a dozen taxpayers in Cottage Grove. This amendment will
help lighten the burden for the »mall farmer, home owner and wage worker. It
is intended for that purpose.
You state also that Oregon has tried enough “ freak law s." Will you be
kind enough to name the bills and constitutional amendments adopted by the
people in the last 12 years that you would put in the class o f “ freak lawsf *’
W. 8. U ’REN
Mr. U ’Ren has a consuming ambition to foist single tax upon
the State of Oregon, and anyone might have known without reading
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ing the property between the four it would I h > removed from the tax
roll. We would like Mr. U ’Ren to prepare a statement of how much
personal property could be removed from the tax roll by thi* method
How many building* in Cottage Grove would remain on the tux roll 1
How many stock* of merchandise would remain on the tax roll in Cot
tage Grovet How much tax would be paid outside of that paid on
real property f
We would also like Mr. li 'Ren to give us a list of property ow hers
paying taxes on an assessment of $1500 or more w ho have aske»l him
lo prepare his measure.
It is well to exempt a reasonable amount of household goods, but
an exemption of $200 or $.100 cares for those in need of such exetup
proposed amendment would give us something that would get ns no
where and we would lie compelled to adjust ourselves to conditions
that would do more harm than good. The tax rate would have to be
raised on the property left on the tax rolls. No outside money would
come in here for investment on that kind of property, we would not
put our money into it, business would be disrupted until conditions
readjusted themselves and by that time the uutaxed freak law factory
at Oregon City would probably have overtaxed its liraina to produce
something new in the single tax line for us to experiment with.
The Sentinel may have been unfair in its first comment on Mr
l Ren’s bill, but he might well In* satisfied if he made no greater mis­
take than the one of which he complains.
his fifteen hundred dollar exemption amendment that he would do
nothing to take taxes from real property. We do not understand how
The Sentinel could have made such a palpable error. This proposed
amendment, in which A. D. Cridge and some others have colahorated,
Mr. I''R e n ’s request to name some of the freak laws so much in
is an advanced step in the direction of putting all the taxes on real
vogue in Oregon will be attended to later. VVe don’t wish to devote
property.
As usual with Mr. U ’Ren, he puts his pill up in a sugar-coated this entire issue of The Sentinel to the one subject.
package. To quote his own words: "T h is amendment will help
Some time ago The Sentinel and The Portland Spectator had
lighten the burden for the small farmer, home owner and wage work­
quite a little difficulty in getting their ideas on organized labor to
er.
It is intended for that purpose.” In the measure itself he
jibe. At the start the two were about as widely separated as democ­
doesn’t use the same language, but he uses words adroitly picked
racy ami prosperity. Gradually, although somewhat reluctantly, The
to give that impression and no doubt the argument to appear in the
Spectator yielded to the persistent, patient, painstaking tutoring o'-
voters’ pamphlet will not go into detail as to the real menace con­
The Sentinel and finally acknowledged the error of its way. The re ­
tained in the phraseology of the measure.
formation seems to have become complete. Commenting on a recent
Of those who are reading these words we ask : ‘ ‘ Doesn’t a casual
editorial in The Sentinel, The Spectator saya: “ That is straightfor­
reading of the two paragraphs we have quoted from the measure give ward, sensible talk,”
you the impression that the author of the bill had in mind only the
Thank y o u !
G/lbsoIutelJ
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asks the Condon Time* ( Republican).
READY TOR SOMETHING NEW
“ Why not hnve one cleetiotif"
(Editorial in the Oregonian.l
Judge Lowell has started something
“ The recent primary in an expeu
by his reeent suggestion thnt IB" di » l i e bantling,“ »ays the Capital Jour
rect primary be abo|i»hed and that u nal (Ind Deni). “ If it is an improve
single election under the preferential ment on the old convention method*,
system be substituted. The Oregonmn no one hns yet discovered wherein it in
is surprised at the re»|iou»e that hit* so. ’ ’
come from the newspaper* o f the state,
The convention hits gone; the direct
wliirh, it may be supposed, refleet lo
primary is, apparently, to go. What
rul opinion.
next f
“ We agree with the Judge thor
oughly,’ ’ suys the l.n Grande Observer
Lane County Teachers Will Receive
(Progressive), “ for to our mind piimar
$221.000 Next Year.
lea are an entire wuste of men and
I.ane
county
will pay approximately
money.” The Observer is getting pret
$ ft not) more in salaries for school tench
tv fur away from Progressive party pro
fession and practice when it attacks the ers next year than during the wbiail
direct primary. Wc have no purpose year just closed, arrordmg to figure*
obtained at the ottice of County Hchool
however, to upbraid; only to express our
Superintendent E. J. Moore.
wonder.
The number o f teachers to lie added
“ The direct prim ary," says the Pen
to
the list in U n e County is almut 12,
dleton Tribune ( Republican), “ serves
no real pur|Mi»e except possibly as a nnd the sularte» will average about
The average school
sort of elimination and endurunce eon $60 per mouth.
term is eight months.
teat in the political prizering.’ ’
.It is e*timnted that there were about
“ There is a growing di»safisfaetion
with the working of the direct primary, 425 teachers in I.ane County in artive
particularly the financial aid* o f i t ." work during the lust year. Including
lectures the MrMinniillc Telephone the city teacher* the salaries average
Register < Independent). “ It is a very nliout $65 monthly. Counting an aver
pertinent question why it should be nee age o f eight months lo the term l.nne
County pays about *221 .lino yearly in
esaury to hold two election».“
“ The primary has never been n snt teachers' salaries. Eugene Register
isfactory system ," says the Cottage
Grove Hentinel (Republican).
“ The
Twirr or three times a* many people
.owell suggestion is in line with what will be in Cottage Grove on Bnrgsiu
The Hentinel has said b efo re ."
Carnival Ibiy a* on any previous Hnlur
“ The primary election has cost the day in the hi«tnry of Cottage drove
state $200,000 und what is the result f “ I Join the u o s il, Saturday, June 27.
BEAVER
welfare of the downtrodden one who is struggling to keep body and
soul togetherT” Certainly that is the impression you received, and
that is just the impression you are expected to receive. But Mr.
a
U ’Ren and his associates ate not engaged in any such small business
as that. The Fels fund was not put at the disposal of men of such
Editorial from
caliber.
For many year* The Guaid ha* been
The property the proposed measure would exempt from taxation
running at the head o f it* editorial
is stated to be: “ Household furniture, LIVE STOCK, MACHINERY,
column a daily »creed written by one
ORCHARD TREES, vines, bushes, shrubs, nursery stock, merchandise, Walt Mason, o f Emporia, Kansu*. These
Kersmith
Kickshaw”
Eugene Guard
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lion and carries out the purpose for which the exemption ia intended
An exemption of $1.500 is not desired by a majority of those who
The Sentinel is glad to make the correetion to which our atten­ would come under such exemption and would not carry out the pur­
tion has been called. There is enough fault to be found with the pose for which intended. As we have said before, an exemption of
measure without adding anything to it. A* many thousands of others tnis size doesn’t exempt except in an indirect way. The taxes have
misunderstood the proposed measure, two paragraphs are quoted:
to be paid and thoae who don ’t pay direct must pay indirectly. The
Section lb. Every person is exempt from tax on fifteen hundred dollars
o f the total assessed value of his or her dwelling house, household furniture, live
stock, machinery, orchard trees, vines, bushes, shrubs, uursery stock, merchandise,
buildings and other improvements on, in and under his or her lands made by
clearing, ditching and draining.
It ia especially intended to include within this fifteen hundred dollar ex
emption all kinds of personal property and all said land improvements made for
the greater convenience and attractiveness o f the home or the gaining of a
livelihood.
$5 00
$3 50
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Men's #7.So l'animili*
Men's f.VOO I’anntua*
Men's $1,50 Straw Hals
Wednewday, June 17, 1*14.
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WHERE CASH
BEATS CREDIT
Beaver Board make* a moat satis­
factory wall and ceilings, and the
most attractive show windows.
Now is the time to think about paint­
ing. We have the best quality, prices
and stock of Sherwin-Williams’
Paints, Prepared Lead, Oils, Varnish­
es. Let us figure with you.
I Cottage Grove Manfg. Co.
paiut the village pump or build a fence
around the dump. I f our old burg were
blown awuy they wouldn't care a b-ile
of bay. Kersmith It Kickshaw ought to
regular contribution* are alway* in a get the local trade, already y e t.”
buildings and other improvements,” etc.
jingle that rhyme* and while they can­
That is not only a correct satire on
Not a word there about these things being used for the purpose of not be called poetry, It i* »afe to »ay
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a great many American communities,
gaining a livelihood. Were there no limit to the exemption, all they contain more common *enae nnd but it is also sound economic doctrine.
No other |>HjH*r, daily or weekly, reaches one quarter ns
houses used for dwelling purposes would be taken from the tax practical philosophy than the majority The dollar sent away from this city
o f poetry published.
will never come bark here— it is gone many jteople in the ( 'ottage Grove country aw does The Hentinel.
rolls, the person with 20,000 head of live stock would pay no taxes
Last night Walt Mason ’» contribu­ for good. But the dollar left with the
thereon, a stock of machinery of any kind would not appear on tion wa* entitled “ Buy at Home’ ’ and local merchant will help pay many bill»
while we have no doubt he ha* a great
the tax roll, commercial orchards would be untaxed, the merchant daily clientele who never mi»* him, we in the course o f its wundering» in our
home community from store to bank,
with $300 worth of merchandise would pay as much for the support want to call this particular subject from bank to farmer—to the carpenter,
and hi* handling of it to all the reader* laborer, millman, grocer, butcher, and
of the government as the largest department store in Portland, the
of thia paper. Here it is;
so on. It would be mighty instructive
twenty-story brick building would pay no more taxes than a one-
“ Kersmith tc Kickrhaw deal in wm to watch the course o f a dollar spent
D on’t apply when buying meat.
and Chinese egg* and carpet tack*. at home— to see how many people ben
story dilapidated shack.
They are good »port* in every way; efit from it and for what a great many
Y ou should always get fresh meat—and you
Read that amendment over again carefully and you will see that they cough up money every dny to make
purposes it is used. You can trace the
always get it when you buy from
this is exactly what it says— with the provision that only $1,500 of the town a better place in which to live dollar spent at borne— yon can wntch it
and push your face. They hire a dozen and see the good it does. But the dol
such property comes under such exemption.
clerks or more, who wait on patron* in lar you send away from home to buy
The second paragraph says: “ It is especially intended TO IN­ their store. Oor cross roads burg they something that your local merchant
BARTELS A ERNEST, Props.
CLUDE WITHIN this $1500 exemption all personal property would upbuild, and see it with glad peo­ sells is gone for good and for aye—
ple filled, and to that end they blow gone from you and gone from your :
and all such land improvements made for the greater conven­ their scads like truly patriotic lads.
community. Read Walt Mason over
ience and attractiveness of the home or the gaining of a livelihood.” But when we need egg* a few, we send again and see if it isn’t the right thing
Had Mr. U ’Ren, et al, not intended to purposely deceive the awuy to Timbuctoo; and when a carpet to do to buy your necessities and lux
tack we wish, it's shipped from Ypsi- uries from the merchant who is helping
voters he would have said that this fifteen hundred dollar exemption Irinti, Mich. Each has the notion in his to make your city a bigger and better
was intended to include ONLY property and land improvements made dome that things are best away from place to live in.
home, and so we order hods and hats,
or used for the greater convenience and attractiveness of the home and hummingbirds and Maltess cats,
Bargain Carnival Day, Haturday,
or NECESSARY in the gaining of a livelihood BY THE SMALL FAR- from strangers in some town remote, June 27, is the uniquest sale day ever
who wouldn’t know us from a goat. We
MER, HOME OWNER AND WAGE WORKER.”
ship away our hard earned kale, and put on in the history o f Cottage drove.
The words printed in capitals were overlooked—and they wore get our fourthrate junk by mail. Hay Read the leader* in page ad. in tbia is­
overlooked purposely and with pernicious intent. Even had they ar" w® "eer*> or *re WP tooht Tho,"! sue and then come in and aee the bar
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stranger* don’t support our schools, or gains that are not listed. This is going
been inserted, a supreme court decision would have been necessary to keep the p,ei„r on hii b„ati or hHf) to to be on# great big gala day. Every
interpret the measure.
pave Commercial street. They do not body and hi* dog will be there.
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Full Line of Winter Samples Now on Exhibition
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