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Garland on Inoemt Tax
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The resolution for a constitutional
prohibition of income tajres for fif
teen years meets hard sledding at Sa
ten., even in a legislature largely
elected and controlled by tax-dodging
parasites and their slush fund.
In
pposing it Senator Garland of Linn
:ounty said:
“This resolution is in the interest
f the millionaire and adverse to the
joor,” said Senator Garlaad.
“Its
adoption would be equivalent to
promise of tax immunity fo r the
wealthy. At the time the state in-
.ome tax was attacked we were told
'hat its repeal would result in at
racting thousands upon thousands of
apitalists to Oregon. As fa r as 1
’.ave been able to determine these
apitalists have not yet arrived.
I Hours of Labor form ally
of the Little Ones
Are Increased
(Albany
Democrat)
HALSEY STATE BANK
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BIDDLE’S LAST VISIT
Seventeen states already had child
abor laws which were quite effective
“You have often heard of Biddle
looally as th e n u llified federal law Blrdsell. the cat,” said Daddy, “and I
«as expected to be. Therefore the )
have one m o r e
TRADING AT HOME
tetion of the supreme coi rt in declar- 1
story to tell you of
.ng th at law unconstitutional did not I
Biddle."
E E. Van Eppa of Crawfords
" O n ly
one
have any harmful effect on the child-
ville has a somewhat unusual side
morel” asked Nick
en in those states.
and Nancy to
crop which leaves him. as far as it
In the other 31 states, however, the
gether.
it goes, independent of the wheal
,‘OUit’a action appears to have opened i
“Yes,” said Dad
gamblers of Chicago and free from
.he way for a return of old abuses.
dy, “this is the
Last August 12 plants in Delaware
tribute to the meat packers.
story of Biddle'
la s t
adventure,
increased the hours of labor for child
Mr. Van Epps raises twelve or
and It Is a true
ren
from
eight
to
t
“n
per
day.
The
fifteen acres of broomcoro. He
story just as all
10-hour day has been re-established
dose not take the crop to market sodlike Charity
the animal stories
dso in Georgia, Louisiana and Rhode
are true, t r u e
end ask the market hugs “ What
Thursday was the anniversary of island. North Carolina is perm itting
stories,
will you give?" He does not give he birth of the man who, in the last in 11-honr day. Texas, South Dakota,
“As you know
a retailer a chance to charge ear of bis life, counseled - action Michigan and South Carolina have
Biddle was a real
twice ae much for allowing it to ‘with malice toward none and with aot been reported on yet, but are He Liked to Sit in cat. He belonged
to a little girl
a Big Chair.
pass through bis hands as the harity for all.” That this had been ;hought to be in the 10-hour day
named Gertrude,
lis
attitude
through
his
career
is
ev-
ranks.
producer gets for it, as id the case
She bad tried to say ‘Kitty’ when she
Jenced by a Lincoln document which
One outstanding result of the loss was a very small girl.
of that 7h-ceot box of Oregon
uet came to light. This is a copy of >t the national child labor law is the
“And ‘Biddle’ was the best she w oa
apples which cost the New York he last speech he delivered in the
.endency of certain industries to move able t6 do. So they had always called
consumer 15 After he raisee the ampaign in which Stephens A. Doug- -o states in which the laws are lax 41m Biddle.
"He was a tiny kitten when Ger
corn be makes it into brooms jn as defeated him for the ita te senat- n this regard. Some cotton manu-
_ He had
___ wandered
______ __
trude was a baby.
the dull time of year and sells rship in Illinois. In th at address he ---------------
acturers of —
Massachusetts
are
in- to the house where Gertrude lived and
_ —
raid :
Hl y|,F ercaalog their facilities for production us he seemed to be a little waif kitty,
them direct to the cousumer.
“ I have meant to assail the mo ,n the south on the express ground Gertrude's mother and daddy took him
Miss Elaine Woodworth, who
teaches school in Mr. Van Epps’ ives of no party or individual and if that they can take advantage of the In and gave him a home.
“Then when Gertrude began to talk
have in any instance, of which I am ¿hild labor there for a t least 10 years
district, has written the story of
she tried to say ’Kitty’ just as the
ot conscious, departed from my pur
Reports such as this should bring others did, but Biddle was what she
bis enterprise and it appears on ose, I regret it.
many recruits to the movement for a said.
page 8.
I have said th a t in some respects constitutional child labor amendment.
“Biddle was always called Gertrude’s
Mention of broome recall» to ie contest has been painful to me.
A national child labor law was en cat for he had arrived only a little bit
tbie writer an experience in Eu lyself and those with whom I get acted in Argentina last September. later than Gertrude had arrived.
"Biddle was a very remarkable cat.
gene a dozen or ao years ago. The ave been constantly accused of a It makes 14 the minimum age for in
He was devoted to the family and lie
merchants were making a buy-at purpose to destroy the union; and dustrial and commercial employment did many very clever things. He al
I espattered with every imaginable all over the country. It restricts the
home eampaiga.
Wanting
i
odious epithet; and some who were gainful employment of children un ways wore a little collar with many
bella upon It so as to warn the birds
brooin, and knowing that there ■ ¡ends as it were, but yesterday,
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der 18 to six hohrs a cay, six days a that he was about.
wae a broom factory in town
have themselves been most active. I week, and prohibits night Work in
“Gertrude had thought that was only
•
made the rounds of a number of 1 ave cultivated patience and made nb certain dangerous occupations for fair to the birds and she was quite
right
■toree seeking for a Eugene-made ttempt to retort.”
boys under 18 and for girls and wom
"In time Gertrude grew up. She was
broom, but oould find none. At
en of all ages.
almost a ‘young lady’ now and Biddle
Defeat
Tuberculoeis
Law
the factory I learned the reason
This law is said by the children's was un old cut.
(Brownsville Times)
bureau at Washington to set a high
"Oh, Biddle didn’t care much about
Ae soon as the buy-at-home cam
Frank Cochran, J. S. McMahan, J. er standard than exists in any state adventures as he once hud. He didn't
paign had been announced a rep
cure to wander and play as he had
Wooddy, O. A. Overton, John in our union.
reaentative of a Japanese broom
when he was only u silly, playful little
Evidently Anglo-Saxon civilization kitten.
cits. Lee Miller, H. C. Thompson
faetory in Portland had visited all
id W. C. Templeton visited the in this hemisphere will have to hump
"He liked to sit in a big chair which
the dealers, offering brooms on
gislature Monday for the purpose itself to keep up with Latin civiliza- was always called Biddle’s chair, and
large-quantity order» at reduced ‘ showing up house bill 111, intro- ion, in the m atter of safeguarding there he would sleep—though when the
family told visitors of gome of the
price», end the stores had been
iced by Representative Tucker, re it» young people.
wonderful things Kiddle did lie always
tiring all bovine livestock over six
Blocked up heavily uud had no
half-blinked his eyes and listened to
There were ten counties represent what was being said about him.
need for the home product. The vonths of age to be tested annually
ed a t the meeting of the Oregon Hol
"Ills family had moved from the
manufacturers had to find a mar- (nr tuberoulosls.
By good team work the delegation stein Breeders’ association at Salem house where they had lived for
ket by expensive soliciting all over
C.R. Evans is on the board of direct great many years. They had gone to
western Oregon. Buying at home vas able to impress upon Governor ors. He and Adolph Mueller of Tan another house in the same town and
ierce the futility of the
bill and
wai a one sided proposition.
eat and H. R. Borovicka of Scio were Biddle had waited until the lust of the
ucoexafnl in o etu n g hie vetc.
furniture had been moved before he
This bill, if passed, would place a Idnn county members present. The went along too.
LET THE PEOPLE RULE
Oregon S tate hospital has a herd of
He was quite willing to go,w ith
gh priced veterinary in Linn county
Hoists ina.
them. He knew they must go. And he
to tax the already oVer-burdened
made himself quite at home In the
Some people worship representative stockmen to the tune of a t leiAt >3,-
Velora Majtwell of Tangent and new house—his old chair was there and
government, as their ancestors wor ■'00, being 35c per head for eight to
shiped aristocracy. Representatives ten thousand head of stock, not say Lyle Saylor got a m arriage license the family were there and, if he felt
sad at all, he made the best of things.
frequently go wrotpr, and in recog ing anything about the expense of Friday.
"He grew older and older of course
nition of the truth that all just pow handling said stock and th e injuiy to
nnd with age came great feebleness.
But he was very happy and very con
ers of government depend upon the a me.
tented.
Oregon the inialiartve sad referendum,
"He was petted a great deal. Old
f h o u t a n d i o f th o r n o o o lto d .
Jregon the initative and referendum Rural Routes Extended
age was as nice as youth he had de
bulwarks of the right of the people.
cided.
Extensions have been ordered on
The people are not subject to their
ebster s ew
‘One day he acted rather strangely.
oth
on
the
Halsey
rural
mail
routes
He seemed to be thinking very hard'
representatives. The latter aw chos
o
to
n
atio
n
a
l
ictionary
"Suddenly he got up from Ills chair
eh to be servants of the people and Route 1 will go north from Grasshop
r* .
Suddenly he moved, though for a long
Oot the
to do their will. When they fail fn per schoolhouse one mile, then west
“R e t t
time he had always moved very care
H e re a re
this the people, whose servants they to the George McNeil com er, south
fully. very slowly,
to
J.
W
Evans’
com
er,
west
to
the
a fe w »ample»
• re, huve a right to undo their work
" I tb a tremendous spurt be had
>iviT,
north
westerly
to
the
Will
n.id correct their errors. Ours is a
broadcast
abreaction
Jumped up and had bounded out of the
hepherd comer and thence go on
agrimotor
government "of the people, by
the
hot pursuit
house with all his one-time youthful
l he same as heretofore.
Blue Croas
people, for the people,"
springiness.
mystery ship »
Route
2
goes
west
f»om
Brandon
rotogravure
>The luxkumption that the farm ers
He dashed across the street and
out of sight
Esthonia
aaiari
nnd common people do not know what iorner to the Pacific highway, south-
Fascista
altigraph
cyper
In a little while the telephone rang
they need snd are not capable of self wcsterly to the Alford station, north
Riksdag J
to the south com er of the Sudtell
Flag Day
aippio
Red Star 1 The people who now lived In the house
government was availed T f~ b T T in g . ' l.- ce, east to the Pacific highway
where Biddle had once lived were tele
mud gun
sterol
paravane I
and aristocrats before this people ab-
phoning.
an I then as heretofore.
Ruthene
Swaraj
megabat
S
«I Isheil them and is now approved of
’Biddle Is here,’ they said. ‘We
This will be appreciated not only
rollmop
taiga
plasm, n |
by bosses who control some of our
heard a cat purring and found him
augamo
ly residents on the route but also
Sokol
thonccn
1
outside the dt>«r.
i presentatives and aspire to control by local merchants. Goode will fre-
pnutuais
soviet
ptecool 1 He seemed
1.1
to
duvetyn
¡uently be ordered by parcel post
realtor
S. P. boat £ want to come In.
“Vox popuii vox Deli."
which, instead of goin» th a t way, to
Ciecho-Slovak
camp-fire girl B
He ran right Into
cascade
he left at a box a mile or two from
Air Council
(lie study and sat
Devil Dug
on the desk—Just
The promoter, the contractor and their destination, would have been
activation
where you once
Federal Land Bank
I he state engineer's office are all allowed to wait till the buyer had
told us he always
‘«»ion to come to town and
i nder fire as a result of the burst-
fe <We XtereAewM
need to sit, and
•Z /aZvrmetlM
ing of the Bully creek dam which haps to the county teat.
there he is now.
S o rru ta Y a u t .
t»-y»
damaged Vale and surrounding coun • K lW ielV s,
We thought yhu
try so severely Complaints of the
More than 200,000 copies of “So
might worry about
insufficiency of the dam had been Rig.” Edna Kerber's amaxing novel,
him as you said lie
never l e f t t h e
made repeatedly. It looks bad for have already been sold. Read it ser-
house these days.*
the sta te officials.
sily In The Enterprise starting with
“An hour passed,
the next issue.
Biddle had sat on
Our representatives at Salem have
the desk ell that
time, taking In alt
“economy” on their lips but not on
the dear familiar T h e re H e I t Now
th e ir program
They are seeking
walls, the dear
A CHHLD MAY EAT
new sources of revenue to finance
f
t
I
T
p
r>
A
V
n
v
™mu“
r 4|ow " n<1 sparkle from the fl
their extravagance and fill the void
'-’V ia VAIN D i piece. Suddenly tyla energy seemed
caused by the repeal of the income
have left him.
tax lew.
without U J injurious effects, for it
•Wearily he got down and dragged
i» al made of the pUre .t m aUrU, himself home He went back to his
« 3 >e trash .v e » , d a r Th,
u old chair. Yee. he was in n|d old
Woodrow Wilson once wrote: “ My
end tre ihn MS af our toofetiooary cat. snd his days would pet be mam
attitu d e toward the initiative and
ÌÒd‘i.Wh ”
c>or ,,rou « p°iu‘ ‘ more But he had teen his old 1 - .
referendum is th is: My judgment w a s 1
end it has always found ready fa- again- He had made one last spl-nd'd
Trough
’’¡¡T.?"'1
.“
’ r “ 1 h mm
l:
-,
vor with »h, ceody-eetmg publia ■
I have been very much Impressed
"Biddle had had bis last edventar»'
* kox *nd
coovijced it
by th^ sw cee. with which they have
si the best candy made.
b nn je«d ¡n Oregon ”
l a T a l e - f o i P aragraphs.“ ic a line.
« • advei ¡lu n g dlagulaed aa newa.
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Halsey, Oregon
C A P IT A L
AND
SURPLU S
$35,000
Commercial and Savings accounts Solicited
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* Dr. C. FIC Q , Dentist
’-•-•.•AM/if
“ PLATES
T H A T . F IT ”
Grown», bridge work and filling®. It wj,
pay you to get my prices on your dental work
Cusick bank building, A lbany
•
A m e ric a n E a g le
Fire Insurance Co.
Hay is worth ju st as much in storage as
you might get for it in case of fire. T h j
iAmerican Eagle Fire Insurance company
iwill pay you 85% of the cash value in case
rof loss by fire.
C. P. STAFFORD, Agent
Any Girl in Trouble
may communicate with Ensign Lee of the Salvation Army at the
White Shield Home, 565 Mayfair avenue, Portland, Oregon.
’ N
D
CA
‘ They r e n ili *, it at Salem.
EDNA
ferber
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Dooblsdsy, Paia a Co>
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