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MM The Bend Bulletin (Weekly Bditfoii) Published By ' THE BEND BUIiLETHf (Incorporated) Established 1008. ROBERT W. SAWYEn, Manager An Independent newspaper standing tor the square deal, clean business, clean politics and the beat Interests of Bend and Central Oregon. One yenr...............................1.00 Blx months.......... . , 1.00 Three months.................. ..- .60 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1921 DEVELOP THE SOUTH UNIT Of tho two Deschutes project units In which Dend Is especially Interested It now seems assured thnt one, the East unit, will bo developed. There Is needed only tho allotment of suf flclent water to make It possible for tho North canal company to proceed; It may take a fight to Ret this water but surely it will be forthcoming sooner or later. That, of course. Is what tho community wants. It has no Interest In tho North canal com pany but naturally Is favorably dls posed toward it and its plans. The other unit of local interest is the South unft, not in its entirety for it runs around back of Powell Butte and into the Princville territ ory. There Is a considerable section, however, lying to the east, adjoining the Arnold district and directly tri butary to Bend the development of which Is of the utmost local Import ance. This is public land withdrawn from entry pending reclamation and as matters stand today only tho United States reclamation service can proceed with its development. The Arnold Irrigation company Is in position to reclaim a portion of this unit that lying closest to Bend if water Is given it for the purpose and it is the logical authority to undertake the Job If the Reclamation serrice will not do it. The Arnold company has applied for this water but so long as there is In existence the ruling of the water board that water will be allotted only to those who own or control the land on which the water Is to be used it has no chance. It Is probable that so far as the Reclamation service is concerned its attitude toward this unit is affected by the statement made in the Des chutes survey report that it Is tho least desirable of the four units. Tak ing the unit as a whole this may be true but the portion irrigable from the Arnold system is extremely good land. This fact should be brought out. Under these various circumstances the question arises as to what can be done to obtain the desired develop ment. We suggest that the proper course for the Commercial club and its irrigation committee fs first to obtain a soli survey of that portion of the south unit tributary to the town in order to show its desirability for reclamation. This having been done the Reclamation service should be. persuaded to come in, obtain an allotment of water, Join in the Ben ham falls reservoir project and re claim this section. This, of course, being on the assumption that the water board rule still holds. If the water board rule Is changed aid should be given the Arnold in getting this land to reclaim, in securing a water allotment and the necessary storage either in the Benham Falls reservoir or elsewhere. Only in this way will this develop ment of such vital interest to Bend bo secured. x , , v t THE SCHOOL ELECTION Spite and antagonism lagalnst tho school board, rathur than opposition to tho tax based on understanding of tho situation, decided Saturday's elec tion. When it Is remembered thnt there was no word sntd against n higher tax proposed last Juno by tho board which Included leaders of last week's opposition no other conclu sion can bo drawn. Thoro was no discussion by a parents' association in June, no advertising, no distribu tion of circulars. Tho association had Its origin this fall in tho controversy over tho high school strlko and tho discharge of Mr. Paulson. In that matter it opposed tho board; It kept It opposition alive and defeated tho tax. Had tho board, as reconstituted after the June election, continued the fight against Superintendent Mooro and retained Mr. Paulson thoro would have been no parents' association to fight the tax. It is a sevcro indictment to say that spite ugatnrt the board rather than a deslro for lower tnxatlou caused Saturday's result but tho facts admit of no other conclusion. Tho standards, the progress, and tho ef- flcicncy of our schools, and the credit of the district have been sacrificed to vont ill-will against tho board. Tho results will tell. A commanding majority of the qualified voters have said that tho schools shall be run for a sum that the present board feels Is Inadequate, It is manifestly too much to expect this board to handlo tho problems thrust upon it. Wo believe its mem bcrs will be wholly Justified In offer ing their resignations and electing in their stead thoso who have led the successful fight against the tax. Tho situation is one of their making. They should have tho responsibility of working It out. So far as the tax is concerned it has not been permanently defeated. It has only been postponed. Property owners will pay a lower rate next year but if they are wiso they will create a fund with which to meet the higher tax of coming years caused by cutting tho rate now. This, of course, assumes they expect to hold property which they now own. Ail who do not do so or who, having lots for sale, make sales before the 1923 tax Is payable are permanently ahead of the gdme. A .CONFESSION OF FAILURE The Portland 1925 crowd is get ting scared. Its leaders have begun to hear the anti-tax rumble that is rising from every quarter in tho state. They realize that while they may be able to Jazz Portland they cannot Jazz all of Oregon. Evidences of this realization ap pear In the latest proposals In re spect to the fair taxation plan. At first tho argument was that new pop ulation and new construction brought about by tho fair would mean more valuatipn and consequently lower taxation. That was the reason for the fair and the excuse for the tax ation It would cost. Now, however, the promoters aro not so sure of making the voters see that taxation will be reduced and so they are. proposing a means of Insur ing this result by more taxation Senator Georgo Joseph, right hand man to Julius Meier, chairman of the 1925 committee, has proposed thnt Iri 1925 tho gasoline tax bo iloa blod, to reimburse tho; general tuiti of tho strtto "ns n means of relief to tho tax payers from whatever extra burden 'may come from tho oxp'osK ion, levy." aonnior jobcpa wouiii cntch tho, motorist who' Visits' Oregon In 1926 and mako him pay ox'tra (or his gas surely n fliindvortlsoment for tho stnto and n treat Inducement to him to settle horo but ho forgets that iho tax would catch tho Oregon motorist nk welt. Tho extra tax on tho Oregon gasollno unci a would amount to $500,000, Tho Joseph plan Is a plain confes slon that tho fair will not reduce lav ntlon. It la, also a powerful argil' tnont In favor of a state tax for the fair. Is It not! CAUSES Wo nro criticised by our morning contemporary for "not daring to un cover tho rent cause of tho trouble" lying behind tho antagonism against tho school board which cautot Die defeat of tho proposed school tax on Saturday. It takes Issue with our statemout that spite against tho board rather than opposition to tho tax decided tho election, saying tho school superintendent and not tho board was tho object of tho animos ity that expressed itself In the vote. Tho Bulletin Is qulto ready to go a stop further back In tho analysis of the causes leading up to tho defeat of tho tax and to agreo that dislike of Superintendent Mooro was one of tho foundation stones tho corner stone, let us say, of tho structure of opposition reared against tho board. To say, however, as our con temporary does that this was the solo cause of tho opposition Ignores too much. Not only tho fouling against Mr. Moore but all tho other things that have happened this fall have been pooled' in an antagonism to tho board that found spiteful ex pression on Saturday. "Thero was tho celebrated Dewey case, there wos stnto counties as opposed to tho I'ortlAr boomers Ik Cvlilunt' In IW agreement signed by n majority of tho representative not to voto for a properly? tax for Uio fair, 'Thoso men known that tho xontlmont back 'homo Is OK"lnt any Increase' In tax ation and they have taken action thnt will effectually prevent it. Tho plan proposed by BecfotolT of State ICotor to ollmlnato Hems from tho present state budget In a sufficient amount to provide tho necessary $3,000,000 carries nut tho Idea of mixing thu money without additional taxation, Mr, Kozer would cut $5(1,000 hero, $100,000 thero and more somewhere else and then de vote thoso funds to tho fair. If thin worn dono thoro would bo no Inrroaso In tho state tax and a considerable body of objection would bo removed. In this plan wo also find confir mation of our statement that tho Ore gonlan was wrong when It snld that because of tho six per rent limitation law no tux could bo levied without a voto of tho people, The Kor.er plan contemplates exactly what wo said was possible, that Is, tho levy of a tux without reference to tho people and tho seeing to It thereafter that other expenditures were reduced so that tho six per cent limit wus not passed. Tho latest number of Tho Amer ican Legion Weekly reports thu turn ing out of nu edition of a local paper by legionnaires who took cluirgo for n day. Tho pnpur was entirely writ ten and edited by veterans, says tho weekly. It may ho proper to point nut that the entire news stuff of Tho Bulletin (m mndo up of members of tho Legion or the Auxiliary and that Legion man Is circulation man ager. Rfeaf Estate Farms Insurance Bend Investment Company (7'Ae House of Service) H2(( Wall Street, Heml Rentals Loans Investments are not bark woodsy, old fashioned "Juke," farmers. They aro men who Intelligently follow tho (mentions or the day and who In tho main, aro Just as well, or better Informed on cur rent topics than nro their city bre thren. The plea, from Portland, that they will benefit far more from it fair than tho tax will cost thorn, falls flat. They cannot sen I lie Idea at all. Near ly every fanner will toll you thnt ho favors a fair, will rontrllmtu Inwards one, mid will prtroulzn It; but the Idea of having a part of the bill as sessed against himself Just because ho Is a taxpayer doesn't appeal at nil. SKATING TARTY IS HELD AT DESCHUTES Speaking of "1925" hero Is what ono legislator has written, "Surely there Is some way to prevent Oregon from committing business suicide, fnr If tnnrn nrnnnrtv Inr inj,a nn vmi the strike, there was the discharge I know what tho result will be. I am of Mr. Rockwell, there wns tho re-; bitterly opposed to a property lax fusal of Mr. Paulson to allow Dewey to tako Rockwell's place, and finally the dlschargo of Mr. Paulson." To suy that the tax was beaten be cause of spite against Mr. Mooro Is an even more sevcro Indictment than there Is In the reasons we gave yes terday. It means that to "get" that one man, nnd for no other reason whatever, not becauso it was thought that Paulson nnd Rockwell were nils-1 for our pcaplo hero nro unable to pay what wo have alrendy placed upon them." Tho Oregon Journal says: "Tax- DESClll'TES, Dee. 22 A skating party was given Saturday evening on the Jim Lowe pond at Deschutes tliosu present were- Lylo Thurston, Fredrick Stanley. Francis anil Hal It McCormlck and Mrs. (Hull Cox I lie toucher of Deschutes, Mr. Mcltay was a visitor at the Lowe homo In Deschutes Hntiirday, Mrs. W, I. owe was a visitor In Do chutes Saturday Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cooler and children of Tiimiilu ware visitors In Bend Saturday, Wado Short and Mrs, K. H, Stanley were In He ml on business Monday. Mrs. C. W. Nelson and Mrs. I). I) Stanton utteuiled tho Ladles Aid so ciety in Tumalo Thursday. Walter Lowo was a business visitor In Prlnevlllo Thursday. Harold and Paul Cooko of Den chutuj wuro In Powell II ut t u nn litis Inuis Sunday, GIFT OF BOOKS MADE LIBRARY win: or cilmilkh a. iiiiows. jii:.i or it. w. i,. ,v p., hc.vms 17 VOl.t'.MKM ON' VAItlMII Ht lt JHCTS, MOM rilKUdO. Fifteen Years Ago TLhe Central Oregon JBanft D. E. HUNTER. President CARLETO.V B. 8WJFT. Vlco President E. P. MAUAFFEY, Vico Pres. and Manager 1 H. M. STEPHENS, Cashier BEND, OREGON THE RIGHT START is all important to yotsr children Give them a savinps . ccount in their own names for Christmas, and put them on the road to success. ($hti Ctatral COrec-nt curls U. li. iri.YTER, 13, . jHAKAt'CKY, ' Preslde.it , vie- Ir.-dent under the Impression that state taxes for 1932 would sliow a decided slump from tho burden of 1921, nro doomed to disappointment." They will bo still moro dlsap- treated, not becauso it wns thought ' Pointed If they voto a tax for tho the board erred In dealing with the! 1925 fair. striking students, not becauso of dls- agreement with any board policy, tho Parents' association was willing to wreck the schools by repudiating fi nancial obligations and refusing suf ficient taxation for running expenses. If opposition to Mr. -Mooro .were, tlje sole cause why was not the Paronts' association formed last summer and why havo board acts of recent months, acts wholly unrelated to any thing Mr. Moore has done, been the ubject of protest and condemnatory resolutions? So far as Mr. Moore is concerned the attitude of tho voters was ex pressed last June when they refused to re-elect to the school board direc tors whose only platform was that he be removed from the supcrln tendency. In this election all voters participated, not merely thoso with a statutory property qualification, and there was no outcry raised against tho result. Nor wus thero nuy outcry until this fall when "trouble broke loose In great gobs." trouble that had its origin In matters for which Mr. Mooro was absolutely not responsible. Hut thoso who dis liked the man and who saw the op portunity to mako trouble for him In jected him Into tho controversy. At every opportunity tho herring wns drawn across the trail; Mr. Moore's personality and every othor unrelated subject was brought In until all the real Issues wero obscured nnd actual school work, dlsclpllno and concsn tration, order and progress given, a set-back that the teachers have only Just begun to pull away from. For a tlrno following Saturday's election It seemed as though another blow had been dealt that would crip plo the schools on tho financial side, From this situation, however, tho best legal opinion in tho stutu lias found a way out. Hut again our con tompornry would drag In Suporln tendont Moore, an undoubted prl vilego but not, as matters now stand, of any Interest, Importance or valuo. A Christmas program will be given nf lilt Ttiniiim (tf-hiwtl linitH.i lirlilnl. u. w.hv... Tney win novo u Christmas trrti, pros ems iiiiu several piays aim pieces lor Uio children, Mr. Jack Andrews of Deschutes will spend tho winter at Kurt Itnrk witii his daughtur. OUR POSITION RIOIIT News reports from Salem concern Ing tho suggestions made for f inane- Ing tho 1925 fair and tho attltudo of tho legislators in respect to them clearly Imllcnto tho correctness of tho position taken by The Uulletln on the (mention. - i Whon wo first dhicusied tho ques tion wo said that we could not sup port tho tux plan unless othor statu taxes wero induced () that tho total amount paid would bo no- greater hun at present. In tho ab?onco of a provision for any such' nsrnrnuce- thero was nothlni; to do but oppose the tax. That this in the, view of the peoplo of tho Ptatef at Jargortha tip- (From the columns of The Uul letln of December 21. I90C.) James McOufflo of Redmond Is 111 with typhoid fever In a light form. The settlers on tho Columbia Sou thern Iirlgatlon Company's segrega tion have decided to call off nil deals! with tho company for tho purchase of Its works, nnd will carry the trou bles existing between tho settlers and company before the Interior de partment. A. II. Kstcbenot Is petitioning for a llccnso to sell spirituous, vinous, nnd malt liquor and fermented cldor. A drive cast of Rend a few miles will emphasize very clearly tho fact that the Iiond country Is gradually developing and that the sagebrush and Juniper must givo way to fields of grain and fruitful orchards, Tho largest load of lumber ever taken from tho Pilot Ilutto mill left the mill Tuesday morning for Hon land for tho now hotel. The loud contained 8,216 fcot. James Ilruon has gone out to tho Ilightower & Smith sawmill and will work thoro for somo time. O, li. Allen was In Rend this week from ills ranch at tho Dig Meadows. A. Drake returned Tuesday ovo nlng from his recent trip to Portland Misted a C.iih Sale. A clerk, who iilto delivers grind, Is coming In fur a lot of kidding about the follow I it tr cxiMTleniv lie hud one iifleriiomi reienlly. A woman riMiniier. tint very hefty as to pay, called up nnd nskiil that ii suit of underwear be seat to her house forthwith. Tin' rlerk did up llitt park age. but before he left lie reevhed In structions from tin- lions to get the ensh for the good. Arriving lit tin. home, he bunded In the package iitnt told the woman tin- ninoiicit of cash he re quired. "If I have to pay rash I'll know that they lit," she unpod buck, then went Into a room adjoining, "And would you hellee It," the rlerk Mild, "thnt woman kept me wall. Ing In the hut sun for half nn hour. Then she rume back and said curtly, 'I don't wunt f Iii-iii. Tluy are too short ntid clingy.' "Smith County (Kan.) Pioneer. 1925" (Tho Dalles Chronicle.) Tho Chronlclo is beginning to ro colvo somo response from residents of tho county an to their attltudo In regard to tho 192G fulr tax, and ovcrythliif: Indicates that public sen tlniont Is strongly ugaliiHt u property tax. So completely opposed are thoso from whom wo havo hoard that It does, not seem pnsslhlu that n straight luxation measure can possibly curry In till" county next spring for any such enterprise. Only yentordny wo talked with ono of' tho loaders of Wasco county ranch er?, a man who has taken a promin ent part In tho activities of tho 1'ur- mei'H' Dillon, and ho said that lio wns nbHolutoly opposed to tho proposed tn).v Ho would ruthor mnlto it it out right donation for tho fair, ho said, than 'to bo subjoct lo u tux. And thin feeling, ho said, Mi, ted also In tho minds of most of tho othor ranchers through tho, county. These Valley Lillet In Wlntrr. It Is no trick at all to have Dip frngrunt dainty white hell of the Illy of the valley In liloom In the window of the living room for the greater part of the winter, aeeorillng to the nntlonal garden bureau service. If j on have u patch of lilies of the val ley growing In your yard, dig up u few pips this full, selecting only the plump ont-N which contain flower buds, pot them up, suy eight or ten (ilps to un eight-Inch pot. Ix't them reumlii outdoors until thoroughly fnuzeu and then bring them In us they nro wanted. An soon as they thaw out the lilies will send up their bloom with surprising speed. A number of pots may he planted anil left outdoors to be brought In from time to time. Temperamental. "Wo have several famous movie stars dining with us this evening," whispered the waiter. "Would you like to huvo a sent near their lalile?" "Nu," replied the sour-fined patron. "I came In hero to eat, not to Htur guze, and liesldes If I wero In over hear them talking nhoiit Die xulurlcH they got, I'd he so dlNsutlslleil with my proHpoots In life 1 wouldn't feu I Unit I could afford to tip you." Illrmliiifliam Age-Herald. Origin of Co. Thero nr u tlimiNuuil use for gas today, both In the lion .mil fnUory, and yet only n cnmniii.itlvoly short lime a;jo the level hemleil Scotchman, Sir Walter Scott, wus sculling nt "miidmuii In London who wus trying to make light without a wlrk," mid people, thinking the gen pipes wero rilled with ill e, approneheil Hum with fear. insects Cause Small Lost. It Is said Insects culifce a loss of l,rV,00O,00fl nnniin!l;' In the United States, but that's n mere husfltclle cempuicd with the loss mused by human stupidity utirl Indolence. nouston Post, A list of 17 hooks covering a wide raiigo of subjects, has been received by tho Deschutes county library as a donation from Mrs. Charles A. Drown, of Chicago, wife of tho presi dent of tho Head Water, Light & Power Co, Tlmy hnvo been cata logued and aro now ready for circu lation. Mrs. Ilrowu was n visitor In Rent! last summer when she accompanied her husband on a trip taken for tho pur pone of making a survey of tho company's Interests, nnd became greatly attached to the Central Ore gon country. That llend and Des chutes county urn still fondly remem bered by her Is nvldonred by her gift to tho library. Tho hooks presented aro as fol lows: Altsholor "Sun of Quebec." Rnllaiityno "Light-house." Ilonsou "Kreaks of Mnyfalr." Ileyeus "lAlluiiiugmi Avant Lo Ouerre." Illanchard "Four Comers In Cal ifornia." Ilrhlgos "Martin Crusoe." Ilrooks "Hoy Kmlgrnuls." Catlln "With tlm Help of Ood and a Few Marines," Do Kuck "Memoirs." Dillon -"Inside Story of tho Poaco Conferonco." Diittou "t'nderwood Mystery."' Fletcher "Chestermarko In stinct." Ceorgo "Auatolo France." llnggard "Shu and Allan." Haggard "When tho World Shook." Haines "Dragon-files." Ilelth "Scully." Hiirgcshclmur "Three lllnck PeniiyH." Hill "Cosmic Law." "How Diplomats Mako War." Jelllcon "The Oraml Fleet, 15H- 19115." Jussernnd "With Amorlcnns of Past and Present Days." Keynes "Kconomlc Consequences of Poaen." Knyvett " 'Over Thero' With tho Australians." Harris "From Sunup to lown." Lucas "Ruii-nways and nways." Malot "La Petlto Sleur." Martin "Lucid Intervals." Montaigne "Kssnyes." Mooro "Esther Waters," Olllvnnt "(loiitleiiiun," Powers "Things Men Fight For " "Problem of tho Commonwealth." Piitnum "Watty and Co." Rhodes- "West Is West." Itlnehurt "Long Llvu tho King " Dlx "Lltllo Captlvo Lad." Root --"Over 1'erlscopo Pond." Rostand "Cyrano do llurguruc." Snudndors "Wundorlng Dog." Sownll "Neither Dead Nor Sleep ing." Snalth "Tho Council of Seven." Torhuno "Lad, n Dog." Trnln "Tho Earthquake." Turczynowlc "When tho Prus sians Come to Poland," Wallace "Jack o' Judgment," Wallaco--"Tho Socrot Houso," Hun. Cast- Uulletln Wunt Ads bring rosults try thorn. Winter Short Courses Corvsllli, Or., lire. 20-31, 1021 FARMERS' WEEK Put Helinc, Into rrm Practice I'rult ami Vcctbl Cournc !). S.17. '21 Trscti.r Mrchsulci Cuurie .Jan. 2-Mar. It, "it unity manuracture Couriw.Jan. 2-Mar. 18. '2t Altrlciiltuiv Cour Jan. 2.Mar. IB, 22 Ilulry Hinl4inn'a Court .Jan, 2,-Jun. It, 2i (irnlii flracllnv Court,., Jan. U-2I, '22 llwkiwpliiK Court Jan. 0-Keb. 26, '22 It im-niakcni" Conference Mar, 20-26, OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Full Information on an Court by wrlllnir TUB ItECJWTKAIt. 0 A. 0 Corvalllt, Or.