Western world. (Bandon, Coos County, Or.) 1912-1983, October 03, 1918, Image 2

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    properly posted on your address.
Briefly stated, you MUST keep the
tax collector posted at all times, or
lose; if Uncle Sam falls to deliver
the notice as often happens, well,
you lose again; if the tax collector
fails to do his part, you lose a third
time—and the poor collector loses,
also. Can you beat it?
Jackson's scheme would end with
the sending of notices by the collec­
tor. The present law provides for ex­
actly the same scheme as Jackson's
but goes a step further in the direc­
tion of common sense, and requires
the tax collector to publish the list
which is still
delinquent
after
Jackson's method has been tried out,
thus giving the essential publicity to
protect the delinquent from the
wiles of the tax title grabber and the
tax lawyer. Of course these latter
gentlemen are working tooth and toe
nail for the law and believe they can
put It over this fall, under the much
abused
banner
of
"economy”
so-called. *
Certainly there could be no fairer,
more equitable scheme than the pres­
ent law. Let well enough alone and
help the state of Oregon protect the
holdings of its people from the tax
vultures. Watch for the "Jackson's''
label at the coming election and swat
the measure hard.
themselves against the risk of lose,
theft and destruction of their bonds.
Official Department circular No.
114, with forms of applicaUon, has
been distributed to Federal Reserve
Banks and banks and trust companies
throughout the United States. Those
institutions are asked as a matter of
patriotic service, to assist bond
holders in exchanging 4 per cent
bonds for 4 1-4 per cent bonds and In
registering their bonds.”
EXTENSION OF SABOTAGE.
DO NOT NEGLECT
YOUR TEETH
Clean Tooth Never Decay»
If you want work that lasts;
If you want It done with no
more pain than the prick of
the needle; If you want your
Pyorrhea CURED, or If you
want to KEEP FROM GET-
TING PYORRHEA, see
Having an.eight-hour day at wages
practically fixed by themselves, the
boiler-makers at Portland, Oregon,
started a new strike for a 44 hour
week, with half holiday Saturday.
Owned and published by
On the stickers employed by the I.
FELSHEIM & HOWE
W. W. under convicted Haywood was
the word ’ SABOTAGE” in large type.
L. D. FELSHEIM. Editor
Is not the above a form cf sabotage?
JAS. H. HOWE. Bus. Mgr.
The Haywood stickers bore the
legend: "Slow Down! The hours are
Entered as second-class matter at
long. The pay is small, So take
Ellingson Building
the post office at Bandon, Oregon,
your time and buck the all.” Are not
Bandon, Oregon
January 2d, 1913, under the Act of
the boiler-makers "bucking” produc­
March 3d, 1879.
tion ?
Contrast this with the hours of the ►ooooooooooooooooo
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
farmer or average business man who
One Year (in advance)
$2.00
is patriotic and devoted to the wel­ OOOQOOOO-QQQOOOOOO-
Six Months (in advance)...
$1.00
fare of the nation and winning the
war.
THE OFFICIAL CITY NEWSPAPER
The call for a 44-hour working
Phones: Office, 901 ; Residence, 311
week is the call to slow down and
increase double-pay—it is the exten­
HAISE MOKE WOOL.
sion of organized sabotage in the
Do you as an Oregonian know that
shipyards.—Pacific
Coast
Manu­
a great Industry is being virtually
facturer.
thrust upon you as a war measure?
Do you know that as a war
New Location
HOW MAY I SERVE?
measure warehousing and distribu-
TIMMONS BUILDING,
If readers are curious to ascertain
tion of wool has been largely central­
First Street.
their standing in a calling a note or
ized in Portland for this Northwest
visit to the nearest military bureau
territory, and as a result, 2500
will supply the information. , At the
Daily Papers Magazines
customers who probably never knew
This paper has enlisted Portland was on tlie map, have been University of California bureau four­
All Current Publications
teen committees are in action com-
with the government in the brought there to sell their wool?
J a o: sortadoheijcdvldrRgb dwact
Do you know that the 1917 clip
cause of America for the
posed of volunteer workers Including
handled through this district amount­
period of the war............. ed
professors and men of established
to about 20.ODD.000 pounds,
reputation In the professions and
wortli in rouud numbers some $10,- trades most useful iir war. Their re­
ANOTHER JACKSON SCHEME.
Saturday Evening Post 0
000,000?
ports regarding application fof’Wvrk
A few years ago the people of the
D<J you know that by manufactur­
state of Oregon, in a spirit of gentie ing this wool In Oregon er army in the fighting forces often cover-«
and amused tolerance, listened to tlio purposes that the government is twenty pages of typewriting. The
Portland Journal's campaign for saving thousands of cars that would result may be gratifying or disap­
single tax. It was Mr. Jackson's pet otherwise be required to carry the pointing surprise to the subject.
Some highly elated and some deeply
hobby and his official mouthpiece
wool east and the finished goods
humiliated persons have ehlerged
shouted long and loudly. When the weal?
from the now celebrated glass door
votes were counted, however, the
Do you know that Oregon has more
In the long white building on the
people breathed a sigh of relief, for
woolen mills than any other western
HAND-TAILORED
Berkeley campus where the sifting of
single tax and Oregon citizenship
state and that then we haven't
humanity goes on.
But it is en-
were found to have nothing in
enough to put in your eye when it
common.
heartening to know that all those
comes to handling the wool which
who have passed through the ordeal
For a time Editor Jackson sub-
could be produced here?
at this Far Western headquarters
sided. Unable to dictate the edltor-
Chew these ideas over a little and
lai policies of the newspapers of tlie
have eventually buckled to with a
let it soak into your head that Oregon
state, and stung to the quick at the
will, whether they were selected for
"Distinctively for Gentlemen”
is naturally adapted to wool grow-
decisive defeat of his pet scheme, lie
an important position where highly
ing and manufacture.
maintained an attitude of calm
specialized knowledge and great
Here we have a chance to enlarge
demeanor.
ability was required or for labor In­
an Industry that has world wide
SPRING STYLES AND SAM­
Now Mr. Jackson steps up to bat
volving merely powerful muscle« and
possibilities. The opportunity has
again, fostering and fathering a new
PLES NOW ON
stamina.
been thrust at us, will we be smart
plan of unfathomable and Inexpllc
DISPLAY.
enough to grasp it?
able legislation. In on tlie scheme
Work Must Be Respected.
with Jackson Is a Portland attorney,
Any painter will tell you that the
and the two have devised a plan tliat MINES MI ST HAVE MORE MEN
sketch he begins carelessly, with a
is unique to say the least, Just the
No government ever had more slovenly scamping of paints, ends by
interests of the lawyer has not been knotty or bigger economic problems disgusting him and Is frequently left
divulged. The proposed law bears to solve than those now confronting unfinished. Any embroiderer will ad
the Jackson trademark, and those this country.
THE TAILOR
tult the same experience. Work to be
who have familiarized themselves
Meli holding high executive posi­ a pleasure must be respected. It must
with the measure, state it is as full tions under the government are be approached us a dignified and au
CLEANING
PRENSING
of "Jokers” as some of Mr. Jackson's clothed with powers and burdened honorable affair.
single tax measure In the days of old. with responsibilities that make their
Jackson’s scheme Is to abolish tlie offices no sinecure.
delinquent tax law as It now stands
These civilian officers need and
and substitute in its place an impract­ are receiving the aid of all lines of
MICKIE SAYS
ical. etherlal scheme, cleverly framed Industry.
to lure the voters, but Intended as a
/
DAUBIN'
SIGN$~ON FENCES, \
Right now, government aid in
piece of radical anil vicious legisla­ mining is needed as never before. To
AN' BARNS AN' SIDEWALKS
tion that will benefit the lawyers, fix high prices for the metals is one
NVAN HAVE BEEN CONSlOEREO
the title grabbers, and others of their form of help that has’been resorted
ADVERTISING FORE THEN WUZ.
like, at the expense of the struggling to at different times, but this Is not
ANV NEVUSPAPER s .B u T T hev ’S
home and land owners. Such Is the sufficient. Tlie most serious problem
no excuse per such stunts
Jackson delinquent tax bill. There confronting the mines Is a shortage
anv saore , vni T h T his here
are those who intimate that Jackson’s of labor, which, as a large number of
GREAT FAXMLV JOURNAL
energy In working for tlie »»ill is due men enter tlie army, will grow more
REAL ESTATE
CONHN' OUT REGLAFU’
to tlie fact that his Portland Journal acute.
und
importantly
retard
HEN, BOSS ?
lias been overlooked in the publics- < production.
Insurance
Conveyancing
lion of Multnomuh lists In days gone
How tills situation is to be met is
by. and that his spleen against tlie one of tlie problems of the govern­
Abstracts
MlCXie! ABE
present statute Is inspired through ment to solve, and it is no easy one.
you TaviNO
and Notary Public
petty jealousy in tlie Portland news 1 unless foreign labor can be tempor­
TO tVOfte ME
paper field Tills may or may not be arily Imported. It would seem that
fob a oaise '1
the case.
this latter is about the only way to
Tlie present tax publication law for I 1 relieve tlie labor shortage, and it
Opposite Bank of Bandon
Oregon Is the ideal measure if public ■ might well be done as an emergency
service may be considered tlie crlter | measure, regardless of the opposition
Bandon,
Oregon
Ion. It is simple, practical and de of selfish Interests that would prevent
vf ed to protect the taxpayers from such a move
Anything that will
tlie title grabbers and oilier vultures help w in the war Is to be commend «1,
Briefly It provides that notice be sent I and tlie continued large operation of
by the tax Collector. THROUGH THE the mines certainly is a war necessity.
MAIL to every delinquent taxpayer1
Mining men have been speeding
within 90 days from date of dello-i operations at the mines as best they
quency. Then, and only then, to could under tlie adverse conditions,
reach those whom the mails have | and merit praise for what they have
failed to reach, the law provides that accomplished. But they must have
Professional
publication shall be made In the more miners to extract tlie ore if the
newspapers.
Teacher of Piano
good work is to go on. Mining aud
Could any plan be fairer? Could Financial Record
,
there be any better scheme to pro­
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tect the unfi rtvnste delinquent front
B ond < xin \ FUSION
the malicious cunning sif the tax
title grabber who loves to work in
The Treasury Department again
the dark.
reminds holders of four per cent
Now conies Mr Jackson and the l.ibety Loan Bonds that these securi­
Committing of Solos
Portland attorney and Initiate a bill ties are convertible in 4 14 per cent,
a Specialty
to abolish the publication It requires bonds of the Third Liberty Loan, and
Teacher of All Gradea
no particular mental acumen to see extends a warning that this privilege
the result, to note tlie splendid op­ lapses November 9 and cannot be
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HTt’DIO ON
portunity for tlie title grabbers and renew ed.
CHICAGO AVENTE.
their legal friends to quietly "dean
A statement Issued over the signa 5
up" on those who have fatted to re­ Hire of Secretary McAdoo says
<[ Printing that will
E
IIANIHIN
OREGON
ceive noth v Theoretically tlie scheme
"Holders of these 4 per cent bonds 2
attract attention and
looks fine on paper
So did single ' los«> nothing by exercising the prlvi-
tax. So did other lilts of freak | : lege of conversion snd gain I 4 per
put your advertising
legislation that have been turned I ■ ent Interest per annum Holders or
of
in a class by itself
down cold by thinking voters
• per cent bonds should not wait ■
printingthatcon
tains
Jackson would have tlie tax colter tintII the last moment to exercise the
originality
in
con­
tor send tlie notice through the mall privilege of conversion but proceed to
't
AS HE NOW DOES I'NDER Till-: 'do so promptly. Delay wilt result In
ception
and
excel
­
»•RESENT LAW The law makes the overburdening the banking Institu-I S
lence
in
its
execution
burden obligatory on your part to lions of the country and the Treasury :
— this quality of
keep him notified of any and Mil Department by making tt necessary
Real Estate
chance In your address, otherwise to handle all conversions at the last |
ij originality and in-
you lose your defense In case of fore moment, and may result in the I om
Insurance Abstracts
a dividualitycharaCler-
closure, anil cannot plead lack of of the privilege of cotnerMon
Rentals
j izes all the printed
notice. In other words you are left altogether
holding the sack
To add insult to
work we turn out.
Notary Public
Holders of coupon bonds __
are
Injury Jackson would make the tax I strongly advised to request Issue <f
222 First St.
Bandon, Ore.
collector personally liable to keep registered bonds In order to protect
The Western World
TUTTLE
Cigars, Tobaccos
OXFORD
CLOTHES
Mark Windle
Wolverton
Prof. A
RICHARDS
DISTINCTIVE
Printing
o
The GeârmanToke
Never will the German yoke be fitted to
an American neck, but it’s up to you
to kill such German hopes by
Buying Liberty Bonds Until It Hurts.
BUY Fourth Liberty Bonds
Any Bank Will Help You
C. Y. LOWE, Rexall Druggist
Phone 191
your orders for all kinds of the
CHOICEST
MEATS and SAUSAGES
Our Bicycle Delivery will take
care of youi orders promptly.
• • •
City Meat Market
GEO. ERDMAN, Proprietor
z
OFFICERS:
T. P. HANLY, President
R. H. ROSA, Vice Pres.
W. J. SWEET, Cashier
FRANK FLAM,
CHRIS
RASMUSSEN
DIRECTORS:
FRANK FAHY,
C. Y. LOWE
Capital $50,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits $25,000.00.
Drafts on the Principal Cities of the World. A General
Banking Business. Accountsof Individualsand
Corporations Solicited.
Bank of Bandon
Bandon, Oregon
S. S. ELIZABETH
Eight Day service between Coquille River and ’Frisco
SAILS
FOR
BANDON
Large Two Berth Outside State­
rooms with running water.
FIRST CLASS Passenger Fare
$15.00
FROM
SAN FRANCISCO
RESERVATIONS: J. E. Norton,Coquille
Perkins’, Myrtle Point; Hillyer’s Cigar
Store. Marshfield; E. B. Thrift, Langlois
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TXXS ADTXBTISEMEHT CONTRIBUTED THROUGH TH!
FATBIOTIC CO.OFJJRATIOM OF
E. a E T. KRUSE, owners and manag­
ers, 24 Calif. St.. San Francisco.
J. E. WALSTROM
BAAGNEDN0TN
Central Transfer Co
QUICK. RELIABLE SERVICE
AUTO TRUCKS
HI.UN' ARTFIIS
CENTRAL WAREHOUSE
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