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About The Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 1915-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1916)
M 4 tV Bandoh Recorder Published weekly on Tuesdays by The Recorder Publishing Co., Inc. Entered at the Post Office at Ban don, .Oregon, as mail matter of the second class. RICHARD B. SWENSON, Manager Jake all checka payable and address all communications to the company. .Subscription price, $1.50 per year- "i advance. The Recorder s Forum Where our leader- max talk on t f imitu.il anj i.i'.ctal icili ct. pics PEACE RECESSIONAL (Apologies To Kipling) Goddess of Fortune, known of old, Fate of our thin brown battle lint Beneath whoso kindly hand we hold The lova of Peace from palm to pine; Goddess of Peace, make us aware Should we prepare? Should we pre pare? The tumult and the shouting dies The pcaco ship sails to foreign shores We hear the thundering protests rise We watch the flag which proudly soars Goddess of Peace, hear thou our pray er, Should wo prepare? Should we pre pare ? If deaf with din of war wo lose All thoughts of bitter sacrifice, Or miss the greater good and choose A golden calf to canonize, Goddess of Peace, do thou declare, Should wo prepare? Should we pre. pare ? which will win the first prize as the bore town grouch. If you talked with thein Around with her from store to store they knocked the town, they knocked While on a shopping tour, to see businer3, they knocked the mail order The many pretty things which she house. They were continually com- Would love to buy if she but had plaining tint ether pcoplo d'd busi- The cash, and with a smile so glad ness and made money but that they It almost made the copper sneeze didn't seem to be able to sell anything She thanked him, and with sprightly They guescd it was the town. es, ease that was it, the town. If you asked Tripped on to seel; another store tlmt tnorrhnni if he advertised, he Or two where she coultl shop gome innk-il :it von with nma-, more. zement. What was the use of adver-, Editor Utoorder: Again referring , , to the art uk- on mail order talk noue- tising when business was so bail. C V V T i in the lust Western World, wish to People who had money to sjiend, he Ngiyg Ql EflrllPlf iflVS hUtte thut 1 sti" takt" sol,u? uxcoptfi.is would tell you, were sending it to the , J regarding the matter wherein the odi- mail order house. No, he would say ! From the Recorder. Jan. 3, 1890 IJShr1 (1S he did or. auveuisc: n-- , 'selling price) which in the first case, throw good money after bad. On the The Parkersburg saw mill started makes millionaires out of the iudivid nilu.r hum), i'o into a live town and',,,, t,nr i,u Vnli.lnv vnmitnn tuni stockholders of tho mail order eon- what will you see? The merchants' i "" ,,u,,us "!', . w'"1 ' ' . . i i nasi: in tlu iriisn or homo Irnditnr Another Talk on Mail Orders 'And Taxes by John Kielson have attractive displays hi uic-ir stores cap. it. v. uiinhnm of Marshficid : mains in the ipecial salon or low priced goods. They are not afraid of the mail order houses THE DEAD TOWN Did you ever go into a town and, as you stepped from the trnin, have it strike you suddenly that the town was dead? Have you over had a town described to you as a "dead" town ? Have you ever stopped to analyze just what is meant by theso words "dead town?" In tho last analysis they mean just onethingr-nnd that is that tho merchants of tho town dor.", ndvor tise. A dead town has certain positive aspects of demise which arc as bald as a pieco of crepe hanging on the door of a private house. Tho stores seem to bo merely existing. Their helve9 aro covered with apparently unsaleable goods. The merchnnts seem to be vying with each other to see tho rc- cnmiinlnilv iinil iiiiv The daily or weekly newjp-ipcrs was in town looking after his business I rents, clork hire, taxes, support are filled with big announcements of interests. I churches, schools, libraries, etc. : iKiiniMij; hub iiiuucr, wish iu suuu ,...,.. ,, , , , , (that tlie people who send their money Material for the light house- fog,awav. ,'t t'heil. ,,00(i8 nt al)out th heccud.1 they have the same means to iignai had arrived and was transport- same price that the merchants pay for ... . i - .ti ' .1 1 1. .. , 1 l I., tlwii,. iriinda lilivinfi nf wliiil nun in reach the people advertising mat i-u uuiuas mu nvcr io u pm in jiui-, fy" "-v.. .... .......,..., u- . ii ..-i. i. reftTTi,.. ,lnn . quantities, consequently about the IllUriUS HIU lll.lli wwwi h"-11' merchants have their local association for mutual help, and behind the asso ciation the local newspaper is pushing pushing pushing. Everybody is work ing and everybody is happy and boost ing. If you wa-il a live lovn get be hind the newspaper and the newspaper will do the rest. Forget the timo .vorrn arguments that the paper is a lead one. The paper is alive enough f the people are alive. The surest iest of a live town is a live newspaper Hid a newspaper can't be .ilive unless .he town boosters do th. ir six.- c. tion. . .., : (twine tiiiiuuiiL VI UHiui' luijn uui, iia ... . stated in my former article; whether Will Langlom of Cape Itlanco wan the merchant sends it out or the peo in the city on his way to Heckoty ' pie, and the difference between the heads where he was to be assistant . fos' ""' tl' sul,l,i,nR1 rrico' (-'ni:ioVr1 . by the Western World, remains in the Keeper. . nockots of the consumers, instead of The young ladies of liandon were give a leap year ball on tho 20th of January. I the merchants, which is the only dif to ferenee thut I can see. And, in fact, SHOPPING She screamed iu terror when her purse Was snatched from out her jeweled hand, And hurled a modest semi-curse Toward the fleeing, bold brigand; And when the copper caught the thief t She seized the purse with anxious , I do not see how it can be figured out , tiiat it will make nny difference us far as the going out is concerned , . 1 My editor friend seems to have on .1. L. Coke of Empire city was in ,j8 mjn,i that the merchants make the town a few days this week on his way, town. How would a merchant live if from Curry county whore he' went to ora were no people? This in itseir - . , ... .. ' goes to prove that the people make the look after matters connected with the itjus Iln(, towns he mmlton wreck or the 1'nwnmore. i that count. Therefore it depends upon I tho number of producers that build a A landslide occurred at Prosper town when their business as a whole ...i.:i. i. i h. .,i. i,, ,ir.um is centralized. . i If we had five times ns many mills close to l'crshiiaKer s. 1U1( fact0ries together with other in dustries and they were all within tho The black sand miners of the Lane limits of llutidon, the business that mine were moling with good success, would be centralized and created here ( would be a great deal more than what . . . , . . c- it now is. it itr.ndou hud live limes as u. ii. uosa, iiMi.t. air, And breathed a sign of sweet relief To find her treasures all were thero. A penciled note Her fellow wrote, A sugar plum, A wad of gum, A hair-pin (bent), A copper cent, . A button hook With broken crook, A safety-pin, A curling tin, A powder rag,, A sachet bag. These were the trcasurca which she Lolig and S. j Danielson sold their interests in the i schooner R. .1. Long and Mr. Rosa started for San Francisco to close the many people there would undoubtedly be a far greater number of houses" and consequently the value in property would be higher but I can not see how vnll I'nn irivit llir. tnmvhn ill 111,, r.rnilil transaction. for the (inference there would lie in ' the value of the property or the iu A New Years evening evsnt was a creased - bushiest- that the (inference in quiet wedding at the home of Thomas the number of producers would make 1 . . rind crnn! 11. Lewis by which their daughter iMii.ua menhanUt who, t.omniiro(1 became tho wife of Hurt Harrington. wjUl tl(, popuiatj,,,, 0f a cily Would bo The latter came here some time ago a small percentage. If Handon had Iu. wnnlon mill. This is five times the population and there . .1.. were enough indiiHtrics to support this urn mix person wonung m u.o ,mri!rcnco j,, tho population; and this mill who has found a wife or a bus- population sent their money away for band since tho mills woro built, event was celebrated New Year by a social dance. Tho night 3k umsm Special Feature Attraction! WILLIAM FOX presents The da Bara' The Vampire Woman in "A Fool There Was" in Alexandre Dumas' greatest Masterpiece "The Clemen ceau Case 99 A drama that scorches like living flame in five supreme acts DUMAS SAYS: The Clemenceau Case is a work that thrashes society with a living whip. "Theda Bara" is at her best in this great play. To be Shown at the--- Grand, Friday, Jan. ADMISSION IOC AfVf) tfc their necessities, I can not ueo whore it would make very much difference to the town us far as increasing its improvement:-, schools, etc. Of courue, 1 will have to admit that every bu.si- M':s !idl.s to the growth of a place: but the profit that the merchant puts :.. I.:.. .1 ... i ...I. it...j i. Ill Mill MllKei JIJML l.lhCH 111,11 UIIICII away from the producer which evi dently will make him poorer and the merchant richer, nnd if the proilucer i.ouid l.eop more ot his money to spend on himself, it is evident flint he would have more money to spend on luxur ies for himself, and the ino'-omonoy the people of the town or conimuiiily mal.o the beltur their living conditions nnd schools, lilirurics, houses and nu merous other things. If a Tew mer chants extracted all tho money for profits and tho masses had barely e- nough to live on. could better living conditions he expected? Let the mas- oh earn more money and olhor condi tions will take care of themselves, which has liocn proven time and time again. If a man woro able to earn per day, it is evident that he would have more of tho comforts and lux uries of good living but if he earns only two dollars a day how in the world at the present time can he have thoNo comforts? Whenever the homo merchant nuikos prices wherein there is too much dilferonce the consumer natural ly will buy whore his dollar will buv the most. This is human nature, taken fiXiia ' front n business standpoint, and any 3;fJ reasonable person will undoutodly Jf"! admit this. Another thing to consider in tho making of towns or cities wherein there aro high taxes. This is rot con ducive to tho building of towm;. Iu voslors usually look where tho taxes aro lowest. In order for us to make conditions favorublg for inve-.tors, it depends prbicipolly upon the citizens to Iihvp such n governmont whireby their taxes nro far cheaper than wo have or wo will have to o.tteh them on the run. What have we to ou"e- to in dustries here? Industries can save a bout one third of their taxes by build ing oii'fiido of tho city limits, conse quently how n you cxMot them to nunc kikI boar an excessive burden when it should not bo ne'-essary to have nueh conditions. When wo ex pect to interest investment, lot us make it attroetivo by kooping down our taxes instead of increasing them continually. Why iH it that California and Wush int'ton linve a larger population tlinn .vc have. Ono of the most miiUhle an- . . i . t : t . .t. .Hi,.. Hfdsitin tuxMtion. principally. Our .worst ,;-rp- iwuii in trying in iiioko ciui-s out in ! towns and trying to run tii'-m on tn u!iw m-mIo. If your Ini-ouie U a dollar don't try to xpeud five and oxpocl to keep "ut of debt. No on hit Un able to work this method succcrmfully yel nnd I do not o- why wt rhould atnrt in. If our y'' m of town tfoverruncrit l n ("mfilin ii f ttd by thit rditor o( 'th- Wh urn World why ntt makn it thut H citn !- roddiiv hi 'l i f'Mt4 l-y nil? Thx lwt wv i 11 i inv by il i'iif and pot try t ' H i lv unlit' i,ini' that mi IX ii' klui w!,t II i, , ,'i, in vi nit hi iMviiiii I i I 1 1. ill i' IM V .lili'l I i , , ll I I II' . I i I ' Aulil. ,1 I . i . i , ' II, I il. I 7?m lj"'Tlty MM cent interest on the cost of the prop erly together with insurance, I figure that it costs me about ?2fi to $20 to live in my own home whereas I can rent what 1 connider good enough for me for S15 a month. Is this nny in ducement to own city property? The IMfi taxes will evidently amount to cbout GO mills a-id the occupation tax on the r.sseasNl valuation of my prop erty will amount to nearly lb mills and I have somo property bonded on which the interest amounts to ten mills and this will bring the total up to about l.'tO mills that I am charged on some propery that 1 own in this town in order to own it. Is this any in ducement to own property and have to pny 1!1 percent in order to have the priviledge of keeping it. Can one ex pect u city or a town to grow when such conditions exist? Last year taxes hit the prople pret ty hard in the county as well na in the towns, and many of them hud to pay their taxes in two iustnllmeuts mid a number did rot pay their taxes at all. This year the earnings of a majori ty of the taxpayers is far loh than it was last year nnd owing to Hits fact do you blunv? a good tunny of t'H'iu for kicking about their taxes? I frol that 1 am better siturted than a groat many but I do not have the money to pay my taxes unless 1 can borrow it and' if I am situated iu thiii way, how about the majority? As r.tated in my former aiticle, tuxes usually go up when tho conditions aro bad. There nuifit lie a reason for this. At least I should think so. It is evident that if our towns and counties did not try to do too much business in "ood imes with tho expec tation that tho limes woro to continue indefinitely and tho officials were fore sighted enough to begin to curtail ex penses when Use hard times began to bo evident, taxes would bo loss. In oth er words, if our muiiicip.tlitii-s and counties ran their business us any other private business should ho con ducted, our taxes would be in propor tion to the conditions; but a majority of tho odicii.ls appear to believe that hard titne.i aro never coining while they are handling the people's busi ness and seem to not to bo able to real ize what the conditions are ii'itil the people begin to kick. It is evident al so that tliev aro in better position to know hose fads than the ordinary layman. As an example the town just recent ly advertised bonds for sale to tho a mount of $K0,0()(l fW.OOO to tal:o up general find warrants and ? 10,000 to bo used for tho improvement of the water r.yst-m. The $10,0110 to take up the general fui.d warrants 1 would consider all right as wo aro paying the same interest on the warrants, but in stead of having the bonds lm.Uiro in oiie, two, throe or four years, wo have to pay interest on them for twenty years and if they were r.o that a cer tain percent could be takon np every year, wc could make a big saying on the interest. What you save is what 'ouuts and not what you spend. Ke- riling the water bonds, would have thought that the city would have ad vertised $10,000 bonds and when they wurc .used up, advertise for more, and by doing this we would bo saved tho payment of interest on what we do not use. If the money is on hand for say I wo years, wo would have to pay two years interest for tho pleasure of knowing thut wo have tho money. I'er .oually, I consider this very great bus iness judgement. This is un example of why taxes increase and presume more could be cited. It puis mo iu mind of the $1 10,000 that somo of the business men of the county wanted the county bunded for to build roads, and in order to get the use of thin money had to pay $528,(1(10 inlci est. In other words had to pay $L20 to use $1,00 of borrowed money. Some people seem to thi.ik that af ter your property and mine are mort gaged and i get the money, our troubles are all over witlr. There is where they aro mistaken. That is just the time the trouble commences. When you mortgage your property yourself you begin to realize the fact that your trouble haw just commenced. .Such is the case when wo bond a municipality' nr 'county. It moans more taxes to take care of a sinking fund to pay these bonds together with tho accru- ng interest. I don't want it understood that I onilemii the building of good roads. Knr from it, as any ronsoiinhlo citizen realizes that good roads rao the best investment that can be made, but let us get the most for the money to got tho use of more money than the roads osl. I presume that the county Is pending upward of $200,000 each year on ro;ul:i and what have they to diow for tins expenditure? It is evi lont that if we used more of Ibis mon--y for piTiuanont loads we would get far bettor results and eventually would begin to have something to diow; but as it is, wo have no more to ihow this year than last, and con.se piently what aro we getting for the money .' When conditions get to this point. my editor friend, there is something wrong and it iw about time to find out what it is. Whitewashing accomplish' es nothing and we had hotter have the facts and find out what is the matter mil the sooner tho bettor. JOHN NIKLSON BLOCKADED lJvi)eyC5 ' V ' ,, c. i IMIOPKSSlbNAL C.VKDS : G . C. R. WADE Lawyer HANDON, OKHdOV DR. H. L. HOUSTON Physician & Surgeon Office, in First National Until, build ing. Hours, '.) to 12 a. m; I'M) to 4 p in; 7 to 8 in the evening HANDON. OHKGON DR SMITH ,1. MANN Physician & Surgeon Ofli?e in Kllingsou lluilding llou'- o 12 n, in; 1 to 5 p. m UANUON. OUIUION L. P. SOKUNSHN Dentist UIIUm in First National Hunk Inn'.! ollUe ing- Telephone at house i nd HANI ION OltF(JO Vi. K. V. LEI'iP 'Physician &, Surgeon OnUvx in lOllin.-Miu building, l'lioi HANDON, OKKCON TM. ARTHUR GALE Physician & Surgeon lillildli ir (Mil, t Kcsidcucc phono, .to HANJON. OltlUiO - OOicu iu FNingsou phone, 1152 DR. 3. C. ENUIC0TT Dentist Oluce in Flliugs"n building OllK nhone 1211. Residence phone, llnl HANDON. OUHOO 1 .JR. I. L. SCO FIELD Dentist Ollico iu KlllngKou Jliiililiiu in rooiiH lutely occupied bj Attorney Feeit Phono 1141 HANDON. OltliOON CHATBURN & GARDNLR Attorneys at Lnw Juit No :t Pirut Nut Hunk Hldg., HAN !)().. (v W W (u W fei l!' 1. 1 0 LOIHJK DIKKCTOKY A & 'il ffl &U I M a Mini c. Bundon Lodge, No. I.'IO, A F & A. M. Stated communications Hut Friduy after the full moon of each month. Special coiiimunicatioiu Master Masons coidially inited. W. A. LeOOUi:, W. M C K IIOWMAN, Sec. ICaslcrn Star. Occidental Chapter, No. 45, O iff S. moots Friday evenings nolor" and after stated communications or Masonic lodge. Visiting member", cordially invited to attend JULIA VAVE, W M MARY OALLIICU, Secret! ry I .(). (. F. Jlmtdoii Lodge, No. 13a, i O. P., meets every Wednesday ovenln' Visiting brothers in good standlim -ordiully invited. GF.O. II. SMITH, Secretary. l. i. wiii:i:li:h n livery IIoih.i hold in Ibindoii Should IVIIOH llllrt In ItcMist It. If your back ih-Iicn becauso tho kid neys aro blockaded, Will Nhou'd help the klduevw with thoir woil.. Doiin'i Kidney I'll m hid uMPocially fur weak klihwya. l!eciiiinie.i.ii by tboiuaniU here twhtiinonoy fioin this vicinity. Mia, W. A. Tiofiuii.TUI llighhuid Ave , (iranl , I'tti.n, Oih., auyii: "My inilm and miklof mn nwolloii mi lunl ly that I wuhl hardly h1 hiouikI. My back mmi nut ruiiatuilly. I lumw m uw iriaKuiiii neuun of inv h d my Uial Uwy wra at fault. Dnnn'n Kifltiny rill rmu-M iiw awwliug in my limln and an' U uial Ml my lal in y. arlliiir M ' bliMuU," Tir IM4 , al all Ui al i J Wl im t ai tut u ( iiliu y immmJv ui ttmit't li'ln' M' id. nairii- I Imi Kclukiih ycean Hubukah lxlge, No 1211, i O. O. V., meets second an I 'ui 'i TuduyM at I. (). O. F h.ill fri'i ciiit inemberH cordially Invito. MAUY C. HAHItOWS. Sitnt.ir MAUI AM WILSON H M"H- HI'4H- I Hotel Bandon A.MLHH'AN I'LSN $1.(10 1 und 1.50 per d.i I'.liropcdll Plilll, inoiii- r 50i , 7?i i pi r ihv 5 Kitloi) fit Rriiw, ProptJ Tlio Baiidon Wmmh i r " ' 1 ' ' 1