DECEMBER 81.
INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE
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No Order too Large to Fill; No Order too Small to Fill
This Store Aims to Serve
the Public Pleasantly and
Well The Goods We Sell
are Just as Represented
and When Orders are
Given WE NEVER DUP
LICATE. We Send You
Just What You Order,
Never Send the "Just as
Good" Kind.
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LITTLE IS BEING DONE
AGAINST FERN EVIL
INSURANCE MEN DECLARE
TAX IS TOO HEAVY
New York A person holding a
policy in any one of the American
life insurance companies finds himself
subject, indirectly, to the imposition
of five, and perhaps six, federal taxes,
E. E. Rhodes, vice president of the
Mutual benefit life insurance Co.,
Newark, N. J., at its 14th annual
convention told the association of
life insurance presidents.
Although emphasizing the multiple
taxation of life insurance, Mr. Rhod
es urged that it is far better that
insurance men shall sincerely and
whole-heartedly co-operate with the
government in finding a reasonable
basis of taxation than that they
should take an antagonistic position
toward all plans that may be pre
sented. "What is the position of one who
has sought insurance protection, in
so far as federal taxes are concern
ed?" asked the speaker. "In the first
place, he pays a tax at the rate of
80 cents per $1000 0f insurance for
the privilege of insuring his life. In
the second place, he pays a personal j
tax upon so much of his income as i
is required to pay the premium upon i
his insurance. In the third place,
the amount he pays as a premium , is
again taxed when it reaches the com-
panv oi wnicn ne is a memoer. in me i
fourth place, if the assessment of an
excess profits tax is upheld by the
courts premiums is again taxed. In
the fifth place, so much of his pre
mium as is held by the company for
contingencies is being taxed as a
capital stock tax. In the sixth place,
when the amount insured is paid to
his estate it is again taxed.
"This is taxation with a vengeance.
The insured is caught coming, stand
ing still and going, in a transaction
which he does not enter into for
profit and in which there can be no
profit. "
Devoting his attention further to
a consideration of federal income tax
law, Mr. Rhodes not only called into
question its constitutionality, so far
as it effects life insurance, but gave
an analysis of the inequality which he
said results to the various companies
from the actual operation of the law.
"The income tax law applied to life
insurance companies," Mr. Rhodes
declared, "fails to meet some of the
most important criteria of sound
methods of taxation. It does not bear
equally upon different companies. It
does not provide any certainty of in
come to the government. The amount
of tax is not easily determinable, and
when determined it is not, as im
plied, a tax on net income. The tax
is collected only at heavy expense
to the government and to the com
panies. "It is not at all clear that in so
far as life insurance companies are
concerned the present law meets the
i costitutional requirements. '
Mr. Rhodes took a definite stand
! in opposition to the theory that
I premiums should be' taxed as income
! cf the insurance companies.
Bend planning 40 room
house to cost $150,000.
school
Albany working to
new furniture factory.
establish a
Bi'ownsville cannery burned to be
rebuilt fire proof.
The Dalles gets
and tile factory.
a concrete brick
Portland "There are more non
productive fern lands in western Ore
gon than Irrigated and irrigablo
lands in the entire state under the
present irrigation tyktema or n pro
jects already declared feasible," says
W. E. Lawrence, station eulogist at
Oregon Agricultural colletro.
That fire and fern are responsible
for non-productivify of large areas to
an extent not recognized, Profes
sor Lawrence is fliw need He says
that excellent progress hai beer mado
in reclamation of desr, swamp and
alkaline lands, but .that little has been
w r.e to bring ih ! fern areas into
profitable use.
Not all fern K.i nre considered
as waste lands, for in some areas re
forest ration has been undertaken and
a new crop of fo.i",t trees has been
started. The timl.t r crop is the most
important single crop in O'goti, Pro
fessor Lawrence rays, and lands de
voted to growing a now forest stand
are not to be regarded as waste
merely because of the ferns, which
are not a serious detriment except
ns they interfere with grazing.
To get an idea of the extent of the
reclamable fern lands Professor Law
rence cites estimates of irrigation re
clamation of 144,555 acres in Oregon
up to June 30, VMM, at a cost of $4.
000,000. It will call for many mil
lions more to reclaim lands now in
irrigation projects or proposed for
future reclamation. For a very much
less sum investigations could be com
pleted and tests made which would
result in reclaiming larger areas of
burned-over fern lands.
Three great fires in the middle of
the last century resulted in destruc
tion of the following areas:
Yaquina burn, 1840, extending from
the coast to the Willamette valley,
450,000 acres; Cape Perpetua burn,
1843, in Siuslaw district, 207,000
acres; Nestucca burn, date unknown,
but between '50 and 'GO, 320,000 acres;
total of these three burns, 977,000
acres.
Scores of lesser bums have brought
the rentie area of burned forests to
about 4,000,000 acres, according to
estimates of the Oregon state board
of forestry.
Approximately all the burned-over
areas are potential forests, but many
of them are not being reforested.
Three things operate against the re
stocking of these areas seed trees
and seed bed were almost completely
destroyed, and growth habits of younp
ferns crowd out struggling seedlings,
and the practice of burning the ferns
each spring over much of the areas
kills the young seedlings before they
get well started.
Douglas fir and spruce covered
these large tracts before the forest
fires denuded the lands. The fine
stands of large trees on much of the
area would now, if living, be a fine
heritage of inestimable worth.
PABMF.11S NOW HANDLE
MUCH FA KM MACHINERY
Why man
we made this
cigarette for you!
if 11 " 'yai s n Q f H if.
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Con-allis "The farmer
ntwntes more kinds i
of today
niachinek-y
and has more responsibility in their
care and efficiency than the average
professional mechanic in the city
says W. J. Gilmore, in announcing
his tractor and farm machinery short
courses at 0. A. C, starting Jan
uary 17.
The two-week course i aimed to
help the farmer select the type of
tractor best suited to hia needs, and
to overhaul it and his other machines
for upkeep and repai""9- Mut'h ,rnc" i
tice will be given in operating single
and multiple cylinder engines, and
in running tractors in and out doors. 1
The 12 week course will give
instruction and practice in running J
tractors and in learning the construct
ion and care of tractor-motors and
other farm machinery.
"Many small repairs ami adjust
ments can be made only with, the
aid of shop experience," says Prof
essor (Jilmore. "This experience
can be obtained with comparatively
little training. Delays in making the
repairs, though, are often expensive
in both time and money."
Farmers and other students taking
these courses will have the benefit,
of 12 makes and models of tractors,;
provided for the purKse. Several ;
practical representatives of eastern
factories have promised to tie on'
hand to help out in the training.
Many types of farm machinery:
and equipment are brought in foi
overhauling by the students, under
supervision of the instructors.
A Happy f Prosperous
New Year!
We thank you for the business
given us during the past year.
Hartman Bros. Co.
Jewelers and Opticians
SALEM, OKKCION
FARM BUREAU APPRECIATES
WORK OF COUNTY PRESS
At the anuul meeting of the Polk
County Farm Bureau, held in Dallas
December ISth, the following reso
lution was reported out by the com
mittee and unanimously adopted by
the house:
"We hereby extend our thanks to
the following newspapers for their
active support and generous contri
butions of valuable space, it being
recognized that what progress has
betn irtu'e hn been due largely
to the support of these papers: Polk
County Observer, Polk County Item-
izer, Monmouth Herald, Indepen- ,,. t : jn.fai i(.rc.
INDUSTRIAL BREVITIES
Salmon hatchery to be asked for
on the Rogue river.
Sheridan Willamina farmers tele
phone compuny gets increased rates.
Ankeny grange goes on record as
opposed to any increase in salaries.
Florence 25 sections in Suislaw
forest open to entry January 12th.
Pendleton rod und gun club to
build $3000 club house.
Silverton cannery putting up 100
tons apples per month.
Klamath Falls mills cut itM.noo
000 fi' lumber, iner-i-e over ! .!?.
(lallce - OM i".u iin I niinc of ko!1
bearing gravel has been reopetvcl.
Seaside moving f .r a new grade
school building.
Echo-Pciidlotcii highway near.-
completion.
Enterprise Reporter under new
mnnagenie t.
Malin New 111 volt electrical
f
donee Enterprise.'
Women's Club Will Help
The women's clubs of America
have formed a working agreement
with the states relation service of
the United States department of agri
culture to cooperate in establishing
and carrying on home demonstration
work. Mrs. W. S. Jennings of Jack
sonville, Florida, will represent the
womens' clubs, and work with the
state college home demonstration
agents in furthering the work of im
proving farm home condition. She
will have an assistant in each state.
valuable Airplane Device.
Of nil the Inventions conceived dur
ing the last decade, in the lioie of de
creasing the landing speed of air
planes, none lm promised more In
preliminary tests than n device re
cently evolved by the United Stall's
bureau of standards, says popular
Mechanics Magazine. It is nothing
more than a simple, variable camber
ril). which is used Instead of the or
dinary rib, In llie construction of one
plane of a biplane, or of the top jiiid
bottom planes of a trlplano. One pe
culiarity of construction i tlmt the
nose oftMs flexible rig is flxel to
the front spur, while the tailpiece Is
rigid and slides on the rear spar. An
other peculiarity Is that the rib struc
ture between the spars Is normally
symmetrical, or uncambored, but is
deformed by nonsymmetrical air pres
sure until it becomes a rib of most
pronounced camber.
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they were made to meet your taste!
Unique flavor, fragrance and mellow-mild-body
due to Camels qual
ity and expert blend of choice Turk
ish and choice Domestic tobaccos
are a revelation! You will prefer the
Camel blend to either kind of tobacco
smoked straight!
With Camels you can go the limit
without tiring your taste. They
leave no unpleasant cigaretty after
taste; no unpleasant cigaretty odor!
To get a line on why Camels win
you so completely compare them
t putt-ior-pun witn any cigarette in
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Rival of the Potato.
The first carload of American-grown
dasheens, Introduced Into this country
to supplement the potato, arrived on
the New York market recently, ai:i be
cause of the limited rjuantltles shipped
and the demand they sold as high as
15 cents a pound. The dasheens were
grown on the east coast of Florida.
The Trinidad dasheen, which Is a
particularly line variety of the taro,
Is one of 40,000 foreign plants Intro
duced into the United States by the
Department of Agriculture. It was
brought here In the belief that It would
yield the South a tuber crop which
could he used to supplement the po
tato. It contains 50 per cent more
protein than the potato, according to
the Department of Agriculture.
Sf, IteVm, '-v mill will kiiou be
ready ."oc operation.
Toledo- Seven new building are
under construction at the old gov
ernment uairy three miles from
here.
Albany- New plant being erected
by Alco Wood Products company
nearly completed.
Albai.y Sunt: im bridge to open
soon.
Marsidielil Smith River Timber
Co., with capital stock ?.".OII,IIOII in
corporateil. Pendleton Kight thomimd dollars
subscribed toward erection of S'.'i'i
field Flour and Feed mil!. Ware
house being built.
Medford Quicksilver to be mined
near here,
Roseburg New I. O. O. F. building
completed.
(.'orvailis Minimum water rat cm ; -
up from 75 cents to $1 to co' cr im
provements. Pendleton -$22,000 to be spent on
paving in tin city.
Oregon City Four bun
ami to tot hilo ii have In ru .
California cut porntioti.
The Ihilles City's ineoim
$100 n day from rock hob!
highway comtnisnion.
Ashland paving 1!M0 feet
leading to park.
ism pa.sMMi ( (itiirret. ext.Bn
July 1 Mt. annual mire at
work.
leer Creek unwmill. Wali ifn
ly, runs all winter on radroajl
Highway from Item! to I:
has been rrmpletely gravelrf.
M; r: 'ificld t t:d t r will
two milld, highent levied.
Co'l'.iille gets a new
phone budding.
Salem tax levy is equi.'
a live per cent interest fa 'J,
Prilling for ol on Newtiiii
south of Amity.
I'Kging loud to be bllil
ber on upper Crubtrce, I.ittn t .
Car surpluM in eastern
neither whe;t tint lumber
ilaiiks dairymen put up t
a to-operntivu cieanury.
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"You Save Money
says the Good Judge
And get more genuine chew
ing satisfaction, when you use
this class of tobacco.
This is because the full, rich,
real tobacco taste lasts 60
long, you don't need a fresh
chew nearly as often.
And a small chew gives more
real satisfaction than a big chew
of the ordinary kind ever did.
Any man who uses the Real
Tobacco Chew will tell you
that.
Put up in two styles
W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco
RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobac
His Mission Wasted.
An Irishman made his way to a
country jail and asked to be allowed
to see the governor.
On being ushered Into that function
ary's presence he begged for the favor
of an Interview with a prisoner who
was to suffer the extreme penalty of
the law In the course of the morning.
"No, my man," said the governor,
"you cannot see the prisoner. He's
to be executed In half an hour, and
visitors are not permitted to Bee a
prisoner on the day of execution. But
what might be your business with
himr
"Shure, sor," answered Pat, "It!
his birthday, and I was after wlahlng
bun many happy returns."
The Season's Greetings
We hope the New Year will bri
peace and plenty to all of
our customers
The City Meat Market
Gus Miller