CLACKAMAS COUNTY NEWS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1928
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Clackam as County News
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the town
time by
I lived
near it.
In dur'
the
fall of the year there came a man
into that town selling roof paint. He
sold paint for four business build­
ings. This same brand of roof paint
could have easily been purchased lo­
cally in at least three different places
for exactly the sume price and the
local dealers could have made a fair
profit.
A few years ago while working
away from home, I had two pair of
carpenter’s overalls of a special make
ordered for me from a local dealer of
the town where I lived. This brand
of overalls wus advertised in the Car
penter’s Journal as worth $2 per
puir in the Pacific Coast states. This
dealer charged me $7 for the two
pair, nearly double the established
retail price.
After receiving these overalls I
sent to Portland and bought another
pair o f the same brand at retail for
$1.95. These were not purchased
from a mail order house.
Some time ago I was standing by
a pile of gravel in a small town. It
was very dirty gravel. Two men of
the small town had a contract, labor
only, for laying some pavement. I
heard one o f the contractors tell
some of that town's officials that the
gravel was not fit to put into the
pavement. The gravel was used and
the pavement did not stand up. To­
day I doubt if either o f those con­
tractors could get a job of that kind
o f work in that small town, although
they were in no way to blame.
The spirit of supporting the big
centers prevails in the majority of
the business men o f that small town.
Let any local man o f that town ten­
der a bid on any kind of work that
the business men may want done,
and you will see the mail order spirit
come out. They want the local man
to do the work with non-mail order
material for a mail order price on
both labor and material.
Let’s put the blame where it be­
longs— on the business men as well
as the people o f the community.
J. W. SAUNDERS.
Estacada, Ore., Nov. 24, 1928
G. E. PARKS, Editor and Publisher
C. REX PARKS, Advertising Manager To the Editor;— I have read with in­
terest the ad in the last issue of
MRS. J. M. C. MILLER, Sandy New» Editor
your paper under the caption, “ Back
Published Weekly on Fridays at Estacuda-Sandy, Clackamas Co., Oregon in Kansas There is a Small Town.”
When I read that ad I paused to
Entered in the postoffice o f Estacada, Oregon, as second class matter.
wonder as to its cause. There can
be only one reason for an ad of that
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
kind, and that is that the people of
In Clackamas County, one year, $1.50; Outside the county and in the state the community are losing confidence
o f Oregon, one year, $2.00; Outside the state o f Oregon, one year,
$2.50. F’oreign, $.'¡.00 per year. Subscriptions are payable in advance. in the business men of the town. It
is hard to ragain lost confidence.
Lost confidence means less business.
BOOSTING FOR THE HOME TOW N
Less business means toss o f prosper­
The “ patronize home industry” slogan means little ity in the community. Continued
unless the home industry can show that it really is to the loss of business means boarded win­
advantage of the public to do so. If a merchant depends dows in a small town.
on the loyalty of the people of his community for their Who are they that send the money
the large centers? I myself plead
patronage, and overlooks his side of the proposition, he to
guilty to doing that very thing for
will not last long in business.
some of the articles my family uses.
“ Service,” as a general rule, means more to the aver­ Is there a business man in this town
age purchaser than price, and if the home merchant gives who can plead not guilty o f sending
good service, and at the same time keeps his prices down his money out of the community for
to those of the city, there is little community business go­ mail order goods or mail order labor?
Mr. Editor, what is the function of
ing to the city.
a small town? Does it exist only for
There is just as much argument in favor of the mer­ a few business men to profit from
chant patronizing home industry as the farmer, or any one the community? Or must it, to be a
else. When the producer comes to town to sell a load of success, co-operate with the commun­
spuds, or apples, and the merchant refuses to deal with ity at large? Have the business men
him because he is stocked with similar products brought of the town a right to exepet the
into the community from some other community or state, support of the laboring men of the
he is convinced that the “ patronize home industry” prop­ town if they send out o f town for
osition is being used to the advantage of the merchant, the labor they need? Has the mer­
chant a right to the farmers patron­
only. To mean anything, this slogan must work both age if he refuses to help the farmer
ways. Loyalty to the home town must be practiced by market his produce?
the merchant, if he expects it from the farmer.
A few days ago a farmer had some
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good potatoes to sell. His grocer,
whom he had patronized for years,
W H Y A RED CROSS ROLL CALL?
said he could not handle them.
The demands for Red Cross service have increased
Should not the business men of
the town have enough confidence in
year by year and are still increasing.
It is a fundamental Red Cross principle that in all their brother business men to pat­
its services for humanity the Red Cross must continue to ronize them when they want some­
thing that they do not handle them­
act in the name of all the people of the United States.
selves?
To do so, it must look for increased participation on In every small town you will find
the part of the people through membership.
some merchants who are fair. You
From now until Thanksgiving the people of Eastern will also find some who are greedy.
Clackamas county are invited to join the Red Cross The ta ctics.of the greedy merchant
through the payment of membership dues, to have a vital hurt the ones who would be fair.
A few years ago I lived near a
part in the successful continuation and development of
SANDY LOCAL ITEMS
small town in Oregon. Now in that
the work locally and nationally.
small town there was a bakery, a
“ The American Red Cross has rightfully won an en­ good, clean bakery. That baker made
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Ganger had as
viable place in the minds and hearts of the American peo­ just as good bread as could be pur­ Sunday night supper guests Mr. and
ple. It is their recognized agency for extending to suf­ chased In a larger place. You could Mrs. William Ganger and Phyllis and
fering humanity everywhere the practical helping hand watch the bread wagons as they came Billy Ganger. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
of mercy. We have tested the Red Cross in war and in into that town from the big centers Ganger were with friends in the city
days last week.
peace. It has never failed us. It never wall so long as it and see how the merchants of that a few
The Charles Dubarko family, Mrs.
town practiced what they preached.
holds your generous support.”— Calvin Coolidge.
Who was to blame? Both the people H. Hamman and George Hartwig all
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spent Sunday at the Henry Hamman
and the merchants.
home in Portland.
There was a building remodeled in
MULTNOMAH COUNTY DEFEATS INCOME TA X
Miss Edna Thompson reports her
The income tax initiative measure, voted down by that town. The owner showed the commerce department at the high
mail order spirit by having outside
the people of the state on November 6, w as given a major­ laborers do the work when” it could ! school the largest she has had, and
ity of approximately 3,000 votes in the counties outside have been done just as well by local the majority are boys this year. The
Multnomah, but the measure was turned down by the men to whom this owner looked for total enrollment is 47.
voters of that county by about 15,000 majority.
Clackamas County News and the
patronage.
There were other buildings erected Portland News both one year for $3.
Clackamas county gave the initiative a plurality of
approximately two thousand votes, the largest given it by
any county in the state. This proposed bill was sponsored .......................................................... ............................................................................ m
by the grange, and has several times been submitted to
the voters, each time having been defeated, but the ma­
jority against it has been somewhat reduced. It is likely
that the grange will continue their fight and that the next |
time it is submitted the voters w ill approve it.
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Theoretically, the perfect tax would be a tax on in­
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action. The proper man to tax would be the loafer, not
the worker; idle land, not used land; inactive capital, not §
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Our present taxes are based on the opposite theory. I a su pp
write or see me,
We tax thrift, action, capital, enterprise.
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means that the harder a man works, the more we tax him; \ j; Box 53 Clackamas, Ore.
the more thrifty he becomes, the more we soak him; the
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more efficient he grows, the more we knock him down.
If a man saves his money and buys a house, he is
taxed; if he wastes his money in extravagant living, he
is not taxed at all.
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AMERICANISM DEFINED
SPECIAL ON
Dry Cleaning
Men’s Suits or Overcoats
Calls made at Carver, Barton. Katrle Creek, Sprincwater, Sanily,
Kelso and Estacada on Wednesday and Saturday o f each week.
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