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EASTERN Eastern Clackamas News Lloyd George, tht late premier of England, seems to think that ( a man may be down but never out. He is going to make a strenuous fight to get up, but he has much to contend with, and probably the greatest obsta cle will be his long tenure of the office of prime minister. The English people have a habit of changing tht ir ministers eve'y s> often on general principles. Published every Thursday at Estacada. Oregon ___ UPTON H. GIBBS Editor and Manager. S ubscription R ates - * . . * . N E W S , T H U R S D A Y , O C T . 26, 1922. i Entered at the postoffice in Estacada Oregon, as second-class mail. One year Six month* CLACKAM AS $1.50 .75 Taxes In this campaign, Walter Pierce has gone about the country melo-dramatically tearing tax bills in two by way of illustrating what he will do to taxes if elected. The voter, then, should analyze the tax mat ter to the extent of becoming informed as to just what part the governor plays in imposing or reducing taxes. ‘Great is truth and it pr<- Is.” is a scriptural n ixsn , which we commend to the at tention of politicians. A B O U T G H O STS The Eve of All Hallows ap proaches when according to tra declared: dition, witches, sprites, hobgob “ I am thy father’s spirit; lins and ghosts hold high carnival Doom’d for a certain term to walk the night A t least in certain localities ma And for the day confined to fast terial signs of their supposed in fires, presence are discerned the fol Till the foul crimes done in my days o f nature lowing morning. De ghostibus Are burned and purged away.” non est disputandum, as some "Th e evil that men do lives are entirely skeptical, while oth ers believe in them. The writer after them,” and causes disqui professes to belong to the latter etude and distress to those they class, for although many spec leave behind as well as to them tral appearances may be explain selves. It is not surprising if ed away, yet there are a large they retain any knowledge of number which cannot be dismiss their past lives, that they should be earth bound. But then the ed as hallucinations. question arises, why should some The mystery attaching them return and appear and not others possesses a peculiar fascination who likewise suffered or were for certain minds and tempera guilty of grievous wrong? And ments. Europe, whose history so we find ourselves as much in dates back for centuries, is rife the dark as before about the mat with stories about them. In ter, and fail back on the obser England and Scotland hundreds vation o f the melancholy Danish o f castles and mansions are re prince to his friend; that: ported and believed to be haunt ‘There are more things in heav ed, and when their history is en and earth, Horatio, known it is not surprising. Of Than are dreamt o f in your phi course allowance must be made losophy.” for the play o f imagination, which under certain conditions A friend told the writer the is most active. A friend of other day that he could not vote the writer officiated at the fu for either candidate for goverU neral o f a Mrs. A and the night nor, nor could he support the following was entertained at the school bill, and at the same time home o f the deceased. He was did not wish to knock it, so he put in the bedroom formerly oc would not vote either for gover cupied by her, though not the one nor or on the bill. How many in which she died. On being will do likewise? asked by the writer the next day how he had slept, he replied. “ Not at all well, for I kept see ing a thousand Mrs. A ’s.” This was o f course due to a nervous temperament, heightened by the knowledge o f some distressing features connected w i t h her death. Í In the first place, the voter should know that the t al levy in Oregon for 1922 is $10,473,906. This is a reduction of over $1,500,000 from last year, so that it will be seen the high cost of government following the war is already reced ing. O f this 1922 levy of 40 million, over 31 mil lion was for county, city and school district purposes, over which the governor could have no possible control whatever. O f the remaining 9 million for state purposes, only 3 Y t million are taxes over which the legis lature has any discretion, and of this amount only V /i million are for the actual expenses of state government and m ight therefore, in even the remotest degree, be charged to the methods employed by the governor in administering tho state’s affairs. Mayor Baker of Portland in handling the 1. \V. VV. shows himself as fortitcr in re but not suaviter in modo. Cheer up, in two weeks the agony will be over. Mrs. J. E. Shibley, with her little son, Norman, came from Cortland, Saturday to visit her husband who is at work in the camps above Faraday. She re turned to her home in Portland. Sunday night. In passing, it should be noted that this state levy is an increase of 41 per cent, since 1916, and not several hundred per cent, as stated on various occasions by the democratic candidate. It should also be noted that less than half of this 41 per cent occurred during Mr. Olcott’s administration. This ability to keep down the cost of the state government to so small an increase, when living expenses in the ordinary home in the same period increased over 100 per cent, is a most creditable showing. MR. P IE R C E ’S T A X RECO RD It is proper at this point to examine Mr. Pierce’s own record on taxes and see if past actions as a legislator square with his words. Cement O f the $9,376,289 of state taxes for 1922, which include the millage taxes, MR. P IE R C E S P E C IF IC A L L Y H AS A P P R O V E D OF $8,564,039, or 92 per cent. H e had no chance at most of the other 8 per cent. Of the 1922 state taxes, Pierce introduced bills accounting for $1,429,126, or 15 per cent. In addition to this, he voted for tax bills introduced by others to the amount of $6,114,- Lime Brick Drain Tile 109, and he has given his public approval on numberless occasions of measures passed since he was returned from the legislature causing taxes amounting to $1,020,804, making a total of state taxes approved by Pierce of $ 8 , 564 , 038 , or 92 per cent of the total ?922. There is no telling how much of the remainder he might have approved if he had had a chance, and it may be significant that the state taxes have decreased over 11 per cent since Mr. Pierce was retired from the State Senate. Mr. Pierce has always been a consistent tax booster. He voted against only three per cent of all the appropriations of the 1919 session of the legislature and voted for all the appropria tions of the 1920 special session. In 1917 Mr. Pierce introduced a bill to exempt money, notes, mortgages and accounts from taxation. Y et he poses as being anxious to take the burden o ff real estate! He voted for submission o f $400,000 bond issue to build a new penitentiary. Mr. Olcott, at no T A X expense and with prison labor, has fixed up the old penitentiary In excellent shape for another 25 years. Mr. Pierce voted against accepting road ma chinery from the government. That machinery now amounts in value to $1,800,000. GO V ERN O R O L C O T T ’S RECO RD The above are but a few of the extravagances of Pierce. Mr. Olcott, on the other hand, has conducted the business of the state In an eco nomical, sane and business-like manner. He has saved the state thousands of dollars because of his level-headedness and his intimate knowl edge of state affairs. He built a new Boys’ Industrial School Building by diversion of a millage fund, and therefore, without a single cent additional tax. He has insisted upon devel opment of the various state farms connected with the state institutions until the present year shows the unprecedented income from this source of $491,511. He is no talker, no politi cian, no idle promiser and is not seeking re-elec tion under false pretenses nor catering to preju dice, but is going to the people on his own splendid record, confident that if he can but get that record and Mr. Pierce’s record before the voters of Oregon that he will be vindicated on election day, Tuesday, Nov, 7fJj, Vote for Olcott ALWAYS ON HAND At Prices that are right ■ H H H a M n for GOVERNOR I P. E. TRANSPORTATION Co. f G Sometimes appearances are purely trick3 o f the memory or the subconscious mi n d . The writer had one such experience. He was calling on a lady who had lost her husband a f e w months before. This had occur- cured when he was at school away from home, and it happen ed that this was his first visit to her, after his return home for the holidays. He was standing looking out o f the window of the reception room, when he turned around toward the fire place, and for a minute or two, he could have sworn to seeing this lady’s husband sitting by it and looking toward him. It is :: perfectly easy to account for the above from natural causes, but it is not so when reliable peo ple testiv to having seen appari tions o f those o f whom they knew nothing whatsoever. Is it possible that there may be such t h i n g s as atmospheric films, which retain impressions, which under suitable conditions become manifest? The weirdest place in which the writer has ever been, was the cell in the tower of Lon don, in which state prisoners, ■onie o f whom were o f the high est lineage, and bearing historic names, were kept, awaiting ei ther trial or execution. The walls are covered with carvings, in the making of which these pris oners had sought to while awav the time. The atmosphere of this cell is most favorable for pscychic photography. Only a man o f the strongest nerves could stay in it all night, without seeing, feeling or hearing some thing uncanny. The reason usually attributed for the unrest o f these departed spirits, is for some grave wrong done to or by them during their lifetime. The ghost in Hamlet Governor When a candidate for the high office o f governor bases his candidacy on certain claims and promises as to what he w ill do if elected, the public is entitled to have his claims analyzed and examined. vj Thursday. October 26, 1922. and the f Y J *: t Ï T R EPU B LIC A N STATE C EN TR A L COM M ITTEE W A L T E R L. TOO ZE, Chairman. C. E. INGALLS, Secretary. Y for Economical Tr importation * * l à Y . 1 . : For Many Years i' Y : Y Y This Bank has been the careful custodian of the funds of its customers and has provided a service for which we have receiver! m my expressions of appreciation. The satisfaction of our old patrons is the best justification for new ones. 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