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GRANI* P. PAGB FOUR SITIIIDIV. FEBRUARY 1», HMII DAILY OOIIUKK His Fondness for Children. 25c DAI LT COURIER By mall or carrier. per year *«00 By mall or carrier per month 50 WEEKLY COURIER Bty Ball, per year. I- oo MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated pre«« ia exclusively «•titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or «11 otherwise credited in this pnper and also the local news pub lished herein. AU rights of rep ibUcation of spe- dal dispatches berein are alee re- on-through the plea of necessity that •erred. might just as well be cut off. but of SATI RDAY, FEBRUARY 1». ItBU ten what is a luxury from one man's 44444*4444444444 ♦ ♦ point of view is a necessity from an ♦ other's. Taxes are hlsh. but wbat OREGON WEATHER ♦ we started out to say was that it is ♦ Tonight and Sunday, rain in ♦ the taxpayer himself and not the offi- ♦ west. Rain or snow east por- 4 cial who is most responsible. The ♦ 4 tlon. tax dollars are ordered 444444********* ♦♦ 4 most of the through the medium of the ballot A LAKtitC IfftH'li OF BEAUTY box. The legislature placed the stamp of its approval on the esthetic side of life when it said that trees and shrubs should not be cut from along the highway« Everywhere the value of beauty is being appreciated, for It has a value greater than the mere pleasure it may give the eye. It has Denver, Colo.. Feb. 19.—(A. P.)— a definite money value in that it will Bronco «Busters of the northern attract the tourist, and will cause Rocky Mountain states are about to go out of business according to re him to etop in his travels and enjoy ports from officials of wild west and surroundings Every frontier shows The reason is there agreeable springtime. and at various and di- aren't any wild horses to bust At verse times between springa. the least not around IWyoming and this I Courier has tried to impress this pert of the country. But down in Arixona they have value of pleasant earroundings upon wild horses to eat. There are 10,000 its readers. As a general thing, the of them. They belong to the San value ie appreciated, but occaslonal- Carlos Indians who have a reserva ly there is the carelees or the tion not tar from Globe. Bitt there thoughtless individual who does not isn't much chance of getting the Ari recognize the value or who is too zona ponies for the bronco busters of Wyoming for the Indians won't selfish to give it heed when the give them up value may be a community value and The day of the wild herds of horse« not an individual and a personal af roaming the plains of Wyoming and fair. We sometimes see this in the adjacent states has been growing neighbor who builds his barn or bis rapidly shorter with the encroach-1 ment of civilisation. More and more chicken yard where it ia offensive to ranches are being fenced in. herds of « the people over the fence. Or he cattle are reduced or confined and lets ramshackle buildings and fences to make the matter worse for the stand because they will still serve existence of the wild steers, oil drill his purpose. though property values ing camps have been extended over wide areas of Wyoming, northwest for blocks around are depreciated ern Colorado and Utah. through the unsavory surroundings. But down on the San Carlos In Here in southern Oregon we have a dian reservation there are 10,000 large capital stock of natural beauty. wild steen, roaming at will over the It will pay rich dividends if we give fields, destroying mile after mile of grazing land which might «be put Into it a chance. good use for cattle, and turning green grass of the prairie into a THE TAXPAYER AND HIS TAXES scrawny covering for their bones Elsewhere is published a «statement which hardly make even a decent regarding the taxes levied by the meal for an Indian. The cattlemen have tried to buy county, state and other tax asessing them, but the Indians wouldn't lie- bodies, the figures being supplied by ten. Tbe government, through A. the officials of the county. A study H. Symonds, Indian agent, offered to of this will show where the money purchase them at about *6 a head, goes. Aa a general thing the tax invest the money into cattle and save payer himself is responsible for the the meat from tbe horses, giving it back to the Indians for winter food. need for the tax. and the official who But tbe ndians would have none figures the details has nothing to do of it. The horses are worthless, •with the amount. Thus good roads i even for hides. They cannot be do- are demanded by the public, and the , meet lea ted and the meat isn't much cost must be borne by the public. of a delicacy, but the Indians insist Better schools are wanted and order on their age old prerogative to have their herds out on the open prairie ed, and the cost necessarily attaches. even as their fathere did. Tbe In We vote for libraries, county fairs, dians also have about 2,000 wild «bur market roads, each of which we are ro« which they say they will keep. "And when an Indian makes up told will add only “a dime per thou sand” or so, but when all the dimes his mind," Mr. Symonds says, "you have got to have patience to get him are counted. It makes a "pretty to change it. They are proud of the penny.” The further we progress In horses and burros for some reason civilization, the greater becomes our and although some of their leaders needs. Our grandfather lived for have tried to persuade them to ac less, paid lees taxes, yet who wants cept the offers made, so far they have refused to sell.” to live as grandfather lived? Sometimes in the isolated moun If we have these present day bene tain canyons horses are found run fits and advantages, we must pay the ning loose, but while these might be price. There are many things tacked I termed wild, they usually belong to New Today BUSTER BROWN HOIMKRY BLACK, BROWN ANI> W HITE AT THE NEW 1X>W PRK’KB. Golden Rule Store While Washington had no chthlreo of tua own. he was blessed with luauy nephews and nieces, who. looking up to him as the head of the family, re <elved many favors from tila hand. Illa slater Betty, Mrs. Fielding Lewis, had several boys. Washington. jvhen nineteen, standing godfather to the eldest. Two of her boys. Howell and l^twrence made their home with llseit famous uncle at Mount Vernon at dlf frrent times Another nephew. Bush roti, a son of Washington's brother. John Augustine, was an «-»iieclal fa vorlte. His career as a lawyer was helped by Washington, who followed It with the greaiiwt pride and Interest, iiml frequently consulted him on legal matters. The Mount Vernon mansion. Its library and private papers and t 000 acres were left to this nephew. . . Of his brother Samuel's chll- <ren Washington helped educate Ihs I some rancher who has let them run •nree boys, and gave their elater Har riet a home under hl« own roof for loose Wild burros are frequent in. nine year«.—H. A Ogden In St. Nlch- various parts of Arisons and occa-| sionally are found In Utah. But the old wild horse herds of the mountain plateau regions have gone, probably forever. There is one safe place to buy your PIANO 4 Convenient Payments cArranged The Music & Photo House SUKUm Itoweil. I'ro|«rid«»r Grants Pass, Ore (Continued from Page On«) BY PROBE COMMIT TEE , _____ from u- And the foregoing is not all. Waahington. Feb. 19.__ (A. P.)__ national government has appropri- The house committee Investigating •,**1 nearly every conceivable tax ra the shipping boad issued a formal except those already appro- statement exonerating R. W. Bolling. Wlated by lhe state. Its taxes ex- the president's brother-in-law, from even to many articles of cloth- any wrong doing as treasurer of the ln* They are paid by everybody shipping board. Secretary Payne was directly or Indirectly. In the lhe last witness before the commit-1*00** °*1’ days before the war the national government touched Oregon tee today for not to exceed a million dollars * a year but in tho fiscal year of 19 20 Oregon paid Into the national treas i ury In miscellaneous taxes. Income and profit turn *17.500.000, or an Increase of over 3700 per cent Washington Type of Highest Citizenship In the formal observance of the an niversary of the birth of George Wash ington. It Is well to pause to reflect upon the character of the man te whom the American people owe the utmoet debt of gratitude. His serv ie»« were render»«! In the supreme hour of trial and In the dark days of national birth. As soldier and as statesman Washington «trod supreme ly the leader of the people. Putting aside all speculation as to what Washington would bave done tn this or In that specific situation of modern days. It can and should always be borne In mind that be would as suredly have been for a strong gov- , ernment. for the highest type of cltl- I zenshlp. for a devotion to a single al legiance. and for the broadest possible | spread of education. He could not have favored or fostered a spirit of revolt against the established Institu tions. save by lhe legal and definitely appointed means. He had rebelled against the tyranny of British rule. He had ted the American colonists In to a victorious Independence. But he , could never have sustained a move I ment of mere dissent, conducted out- i side the pale of law or employing the , weapons of sedition. George Washington was a patriot In . the truest sense, true to hfs convic tions. true to the Institutions that had I been set up here In substitution for the colonial administration which of fended the sense «if justice even of Britons of that day. He guldeil the new government capably, without » chart, finding the way carefully an«! Sagaciously. He felt that though this new government had been set tip In revolt. It must be conduct«! In a spirit of universal acceptance by the people of the principles that had been adopt- I j ed as Its foundation. There is n<> support for the radicals j of today In the fact that George Wash- I Ingtort was a r« be! agnlnat the rule of | King George. His example will never : serve to Justify sedition or Intrigue or ! •elfish class alignments seeking to overturn that which has been renred through nearly a century and a half of ¡mlnstaklng, consistent develop ment based upon the principle of the general welfare an«l the co-operation of all the people. I WASHINGTON IN PRIVATE LIFE Gladly Gavs Up High Estate for the More Tranquil Pleasures of Mount Vernon. Returnlng to Mount Vernon after the surrender of Cornwallis. George Washington wrote to Lafayette. "I have become a private citizen on the hanks of the Potomac In the shadow of my own vine and my own fig tree, free from the bustle of camp, and the busy scenes of public life. I am solacing myself with those tranquil enjoyments, of which the sol dier, who is ever In pursuit of fame— the statesman, whose watchful days and sleepless nights are spent In devis ing schemes to promote the welfare of his own. perhaps the ruin of other countries, as If the globe was Insuffl- llI ' i dent for us all. and the courtier, who Is always watching the countenance of his prince In the hopes of catching a gracious smile—can have very little conception. I have not only retired I from nil public employment, but nm I retiring within myself, and shnll he able to view the solitary walk, and tread the paths of private life, with heartfelt satisfaction. Envious of none. I am determined to be please«' with all. and this, my dear friend, he Ing the order of my march. I will movjl gently down the stream of life.” COMING CVENTS Feb. 30. Saturday — Meeting of mon* Grange Io take action 192) county fair. Feb 3«. Saturday—«Home talent at Merlin school house Mar. S-4-5, Thursday, Friday, orday—Courtney's Big Fun at Opera House. Played weeks In Balt Lake Mar. 13, Saturday—Rummage for library fund Mar 19. Saturday Faster Baxaar by ladle« of Bethany Presbyterian church. stf ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ AMUHEMKNTM ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦,♦ ♦ The Rivoli theater takes eon* ¿er- able pride in announcing "Under Crimson Skies.'* as Ila attraction to morrow The many reports re «Ived concerning this feature assure the patrons of thia playhouse one of the treats of the year. Elmo Lincoln. the Colossus of the screen. Is Its featured player, sur- rounded by an exceptionally strong cast. Theatergoers who enjoy a story of romance and adventure, an unusual plot and characters that differ from tboae one moots In everyday life, wilt he sure to enjoy a treat In "Under Crimson Skies.*’ Beautiful scenes al see, « raging storm on the deep, a terrlffic fight In the waters of the Pacific and a hun dred other unusual scene« add to tho effectiveness of thia feature. A * February Wk Fl IZ ’ C L 1— I a O February MINSTRELS Two and a half hours of Gloom Dispelling Fun by FIFTY REAL BLACK FELLOWS. The End Men are Past Masters in their line and will produce a laugh where no laugh exists. THURSDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 24th 4 Music, Pathos, Humor, Tragedy, Romance Romance, Beauty--Everything to make life worth living Any Elk will sell you a ticket or you can get them at most of the principle business houses. Remember Thursday •T’Zr>l_^4. -j Evening, February 24 * ILKvlS ip JL RIVLOI 4
