Sherman County observer., May 22, 1925, Image 4

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The Judge:- Maube If It Was Baited. With. A Cow-^y M.b
■oro, Oregon, Friday, May 22, 1926
The Power Behind
The Saving» Dollar
By WILLIAM E. KNOX
Fra aide nt Aimrican Bankers Asso-
-
elation
A recent compilation made by the
Berings Ank Division of tho Ameri­
can Rankare Association showed that
ta the six years
since the war our
total savings* de
posits have risen
from $11.600.060.
000 to nearly ML-
000.000.000, an tn
crease of some $9.
400.000,000. The to
tai number of sav­
ings depositors Ie
reported at abort
William E. Knox
88.906.000.
The full significance of this is real
toed only when we visualise sarins» '
deposits as meaning much more than
merely dollars in the banks. TTiey
really mean an increase in the accu­
mulated productive capital of the
country, since money deposited In the
banks as savings is promptly applied
by the bankers in tbe purchase of se­
curities by which plant railroad and
other Industrial development is made
possible. These figures mean, there
fore, that the small earings of msny
millions of people, instead of being
frittered away In - the purchase ol
goods that are Immediately consumed
which Involves a destruction of capl
taL are gathered together and applied
in the better utilisation of capita)
through the upbuilding of Industrial
equipment. This means the preserve
tion and perpetuation of the country’s
physical wealth and Its application to
the production of further wealth more
easily and in larger volume, resulting
in a higher standard of living for al)
classes in the country.
These tremendous savings figures •
Indicate sound hsbtts of thought and
practice on the part of millions of
people in their persons! economic af
fairs. This is an asset of no small
value In appraising our present bust
J. VAN A. MacMURRAY
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
Fred Weaver of Coos river was kill­
ed by lightning.
Roseburg’s annual strawberry carni­
val wilDbe held Thursday, Friday and
Saturday.
Otto Meyers, 14-year-old son of Mrs.
Nellie Meyers of Forest Grove, was
drowned while swimming In Gales
creek.
Wheat crop conditions are good in
Oregon. Spring grain is thriving, ac-
cording to the weekly^ summary of
the weather bureau.
J. Van A. MacMurray, assistant seo-
Coolidge to succeed Jacob G. Schur-
man as minister to China.
DONATIONS 10 AID
SICK AND ORPHANS
ARE EXPECTED HERE
FORCING LOWER TAXES
Gerard B. Winston. U ndersecretary
the American
Journal says,
"The burden of taxes must be light-
•nod. Per capita Federal
from M2 ta 1918 to M4 in 1926; then
I» ta the
will
be about m
With
Every Community Contributing
To National American Legion
Endowment Fund
the
tendency is disclosed. In 1912 their
per capita tax was something over
to |17. *20. M<. M2, and later figures
will undoubtedly show further in
He says of excessive death taxes
that “examples have been cited of
how the states and Federal govern
mors than IOS par cant of an estate.
If Federal and stata gorernments
take more than the particular source
mately destroy all revenue from thgt
source. After a man has provided
for ths reasonable requirements of
living, tbe impetus to farther produc
one’s family wall provided for. Bo 1
long as tho individual feels that he
|
täte to bis famlly, ho will incroase
bis eÄarta; bat a man wfM not senk
to build up a largo fortuna just to
•TORE
CREDIT COSTS
CENT.
26
PER
In a survey of BOO farms made by
the North Carolina Experiment Sta
••at of the total credit needs for the
farmer is for short term loans, either
through the bank er through merchant
advances.
Only oae-slxth of this
amount comes from banks and the
store credit tanners are paying over
M per cent Interest, and only a little
better than half of the farmers real
teed this fact The bank rate of In­
terest at the same time was only a
trifle above 6 per cent Practically
all merchants would be delighted to
The remedy lies In tbe production
of more food and food and in the dis­
continuance of shipping 1 n hay and
grata with their attendant high freight
tbe establishment of better working
relations between bankers end farm
ere. for there is great orro.T’ultv for
educating the farmer along the Une of
bank credit—Bauker-Farmar.
UNDER NATURAL LAWS
agricultural eitaatioa.
Gloom and
grouch are giving way to renewed
pentag.
It is being brought about
through the fmmBtahto and inexorable
natural laws. It Is as difficult to leg
(slate prosperity as to attempt by law
the last analysis operates under about
the same basic taws as any other bust
ness.—P B Doty. Agricultural Com
ml saloa. American Bankers Assoc la
on of Mark Twain
Mark Twain was not. affiliated with
any church or religious organisation.
ly called • -free-thinker’; that is,
be did do < accept th« Scriptures as
inspired er suthoritative spiritual
writings
Ho was often scented of
FMI Ifrtrwsst numssr.
WALKER D. HINES
Brief Resume of Happenings of
moot promising elements in the situ­
ation today. It means that we not
only have the resources 'tor prosper­
ity, but also enough common sense to
•re
OREGON PEWS ITEMS
CF SfE'M INTEREST
!
'
The fifth annual state convention
of the disabled American veterans of
the World war convened in Corvajlls
with close to 100 delegates present.
Walker D. Hlnea, ^former director
general of railroads, who has been ap­
pointed director Of the League of Na­
Automobiles will not be able to tions commission to investigate navi­
cross the McKenzie pass for a num- I gation condRIons on the Danube and
ber of weeks yet, unless the snow is the Rhine.
taken out by machinery. It is reported. I
Saturday after spending a year In tne
Fire losses in Oregon, exclusive of
east recuperating from Illness.
Portland, for the month of April ag
A two-day state conclave of the De
gregated $136,811.45, according to a
report issued by Will Moore, state fire Molay order convened In Medford
Friday with approximately 200 dele­
marshal.
%
gates and other members present
Blds for the construction of 40 miles
Oregon has one of the lowest In­
of road and several bridges will be'
considered at a meeting of the state fant death rates in the United States,
highway commission to be held in according to I>r. Frederick D. Stricker,
secretary of tbe state board of health.
Portland May 28.
In an effort to lesson the number of
After 17 years of active service as
deaths by drowntag each summer, the
adjutant-general of the G. A. R.. de­
Klamath Falls American Legion post
partment of Oregon, C. A. Williams
voted to purchase a pulmotor for the
has asked that he be relieved on ac­
city.
count of his health.
Featured by registration of dele-
Crews of the state highway depart gates, automobile trips to scenic
ment have oiled the macadam surface points of Interest about The Dalles
of the Mount Hood loop highway from and an address of welcome by Mayor
Hood River to the bounds of the Stadelmau, 300 delegates and__
mem-
_
Mount Hood national foresL
bers of Neighbors of Woodcraft held
Workmen have been put on the job their state convention In The Dalles.
at building foundations for the new
Fire, thought to have been caused
$10,000 bridge over the Cslapooia river by a spark from a locomotive, swept
_pt Albany. The new bridge will re­ Troutdale, 15 miles east of Portland,
place an ancient and unsafe struc­ and before it was extinguished, burned
ture now being used.
the principal part of the business sec­
This cotamunfty is expected, to give
its share to the national American
Legion Endowment Fund, as other
comnrunitles throughout the United
States are doing. Tho income from
this Endowment Fund is to be used to
assist and cure disabled former
service men and to provide homes for
the orphans and dependent children
of war veterans, and the Fund, itself,
is to be perpetual. A trust sgreement
provides that when death has wiped
The warm weather is making record tion of the town, as well as several
out the membership of the present^
American Legion, the income from fcr ripening red raspberries In the residences. The property loss was es-
the Endowment Fund shall be used Irrlgon districL Small pickings have timated et $75,000.
for purposes most nearly identical to already been made.
This Indicates
Frank C. Bramwell, superintendent
those for which it is needed today. the season Is about two weeks ahead
of banks, has am>ounced that the final
The person then president of the
of the past several years.
dividend will bj paid to the depositors
United States will name a board to
Wechter A Hughes, Salem contrac 1
determine the use of the income.
of the Nehalem Valley bnnk of Wheel­
Every person, regardless of creed, tors, submitted the lowest bld for thv er, which cloned s jvc.J years ago.
is concerned in the welfare of those general construction of the new home. Eight per cunt is being paid th« com­
who gave their all In the wo0d war. In Salem for the Young Men’s Chris mercial depositors art] 17 per cent to
Especially is The Legion concerned tian association to be erected thia the savings ¿epNLtors.
with those thousands of war veterans year. The bld was 189,320.
For the third-time this spring an
who are sick and helpleas, but who,
The Salem Amusement company । irrigation canal of tho Klamath irri­
because justice can never be made
automatic, are unable to obtain gov- with headquarters in Portland, ha? gation district broke through its banks
been Incorporated by A. B. HolL W and inundated .The Dalles-Callfornia
ernment aid.
T. Pangle and J. C. Heilig. The cor highway and surrounding country, ac­
Thousanda of Sick Aided
Those who are familiar at all with poratlon has for Its purpose the opera cording to reports received at Klamath
The American Legion work, know tion of a theater In Salem.
Falls, when D canal, 2V4 miles west
what this great organisation has done
Frank L. Chambers, Eugene banker of Malin, broke its banks.
to aid the disabled. Cooperating with has presented to the University of
Right pf way tor the purposed Mc-
government agencies, officials of The
Oregon a strip of land about 1000 feet
Kensie water pipe lino from Hayden
legion have made possible the hos­
pitalisation of thousands of sick and long and varying in width, along th? bridge to Eugene is now being ob-
wounded boys who, had it not been south bank of the mill race, where tained by agents of the water board
for a helping hand, would have been the annual canoe fete Is held.
and it is expected that the contract
lost to society long ago.
Protest against what Is regarded a? for the construction of the lino will
Other thousands need that same a duplication by the Oregon Agricul
bo let In the near tut uro. Bonds tor
help today. Many of them cannot be tural college of courses offered at the
this project were voted April 15.
given aid by the government under University of Oregon, has been mad?
Timber sales by the government on
•»(■ting laws, and while officials of
by regents of the university to the
The Legion literally have written
national toresta of Oregon and Wash­
state board of higher curricula.
most of the laws to take care of the
ington during 1924 totaled 7+4,856.000
Cleverly hidden in a cove on the board feet sad brought 21,449,898.48,
disabled, it is impossible to make leg­
banks of the Willamette river about according to statistics made public
islation serve all.
Many illustrations could be given. six miles east of Newberg, one of the by C. M. Granger, district forester.
Thousands of men hsve married largest moonshine plants ever uncov
United States forest service. There
since the war ended, when they ered in Oregon was found by federa
were 1692 sales during the year.
seemingly were sound physically, but and state officers and destroyed.
,
in reality were in a weakened condi­
Two addresses by Representative
Several hundred pounds of fiber Cawley, election of officers for the
tion from gas and exposure.
They
I
fell into the clutches of tuberculosis flax seed to be tried out on Lane coun ensuing year/ adoption of resolutions ’
and other diseases, and in a t few ty farms wore received by O. 8 and a banquet featufted the closing
years have passed away, leaving their Fletcher, county agent, and will be sessions of the annual convention at
widows and children at th« mercy of distributed among the farmers wh(,
Salem of the Oregon Retail Jewelers'
strangers. ___
have agreed to experiment with It.
association. A. Fred Glover of Klam
Good Home for Every Child
The three survey crews now at work ath
waa elected president of th«
The Legion is determined that every
between Bend and Klamath Paljg os association.
child of a war veteran shall have as
the proposed Oregon Trunk miiyoaf
good a home, and a real mother’s love,
Information received by General
as that child w6uld have had if his will bo joined shortly by a Courts Frank T. Hines as to the conclusions
crew, according to Guy V. Lintner
father had not died for his country.
. of Major Radcliffs, who has been
The United States Veterans’ Bureau chief engineer of the Oregon Trunk.
studying the proposed veteran’s hos-
Fer a consideration of about 1110,
estimates there are 5,000 orphans of
’ pltal site at Portland, la favorable.
veterans in the United States today 000 the Mealey brothers, timber ant
who need some degree of «<re. The sawmill owners near Foster. In east The completed report has not been
’ received, but it Is expected to contain
Legion
maintaining
one children's *»a
, •--------- — is
ogteT
ern
as Amasses
Linn vvuuiy,
county, uaiwv
have wiu
sold their
naval
tlm
villa
billet, now filled ttr-wapacity, ]Kh«ro ber holdings of 3104.96 acres to Louit ( the data and recommendations to jua-
such dependent children are given. w
head
the Northern Pa ’ tify the construction of the hospital
good homes. Other billets are being
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without delay.
clfic railway system.
established and will be in operation .
The thousands of camp fires that
T^e
annual
session
of
group
2,
Ore-
as soon as possible. In addition to
(
will
burn In the forests of Klamath
gon
Benkers
’
association,
has
been
this. The Legion cooperates with
other child welfare organisations re set for May 22, afternoon and evening, during the summer months will be
■heckod by a United States forestry
alislng that every sincere effort to sid st Woodburn.
children Is of value, and that the field
Joseph B. Hill, well known resident nrevention officer. It is a new posl-
for this endeavor is unlimited.
of Lane county, died suddenly at his j tion, created by the forestry depart­
While under the care of the I^eglon
home near Eugene, where he was ment as a result of the heavy fires
the children attend public school, snd
t int prevailed not only tn Klamath
born 65 years ago.
Mvf In eottAM» OP 1^9 fWJily group
but In other timbered sections through­
PlM.
V i
Dr. Carl Doney, president of W1I-
out Oregon last summer
hyppttfi gnlrtnltr. arrived at Salem
Work has again been started on ’
th« Coh«n mine near Gold Hill. In
the *70s this mine was a large gold
producer, but has been inactive for
some years.
a-
Work on the 17¿-mile stretch of i
Save on Your Gas
and See the Scenery !
- By WILLIAM E. KNOX
Presi dont American Bankers Associa­
The DaUes-Californla highway from
tion.
Sand creek north, yhicb is being built ■
A long. long time ago, a very great
by C. Nyberg, will be completed by ! teacher said, “Man shall not live by
bread alone.** That la true. A man
September 1.
who lives by
Bankers from the eight northwest­
bread alone and
ern counties of Oregon gathered in
simply feeds his
Astoria Friday for the annual spring
body will be noth­
meeting of group 1 of the Oregon
ing more than an
Bankers’ association.
animal. There 1s
more than bread
The Hood River Apple Grower
that goes to the
sociation was notified that an avi
making of a lite,
of $4.26 a box had been received for
the
There
are
a carload of fancy Newtown apples
things of the
sold in New York city at auction.
mind and the
William E. Knox
spirit, and wears
R. H. Grefe, at present employed on
the Wenatchee national forest in m H of as making a great mistake if
Washington, has been assigned to the we measure success in this world by
material things
Material things sre
Cascade national forest as superin­
all right and ought to be emphasised
tendent of road and trail construc­ to 'some extent, but they should not
tion.
occupy more than their proper place
State bar examinations will be held In the scheme of things. Over and
above and beyond them are the things
In Salem starting Tuesday, July 14,
of the intellect, and over and above
according to announcement made by .
those are tbe things of the spirit, the
Arthur 8. Benson, clerk of the state Üner things of life. If, In reaching
supreme court. The tests win be con­ out for materiel prosperity, we forget
ducted, by representatives of the state those things, we may get the material
prosperity, but we will not get true
board of bar examiners.
toy and trne happiness out of lite. I
An act passed at the recent session
want to commend to every one that
of the stale legislature will create the in addition to striving for the good
office of county auditor for Clackamas things of this life which sre good tn
county May 28, and it is expected that their way, to remember the other
an appointee will be named by. the - things also
I promise yon If you do that, it will
county court so that he will be able
10t make any difference whether you
to take up his duties June 1.
,et great rewards or not; It will not
At a special meeting of the Pregon nake any difference whether you ar
City city commission Chris Schuebel, .-tve at high position or not. You will
city attorney was Instructed to start have Instead a great inward satisfac-
suit against Clackamas county for t)ie tion. and you will feel that you bare
coilaction of $39.635.49. alleged duo as lived a pretty good life and had a
the result of taxes collected by tho good time while you were doing IL
Have your good time as you go
sheriff in the last five years.
along
Don’t be tike the automo
The largest Douglas nr tree uuwn b 11 ista that go whluing over the coua
was dedicated at the Oregon cavea try at sixty miles an hour and arrive
Spnday when the Oregon Cavemen tt their destinations at tbe end of the
held their annual meeting at that lay's run not having seen the beautie«
placo. This fir, between 13 and 14 jf the country they went through, hav
foot in diameter, is said by forestry mg seen nothing of the birds or the
officials to be fully a foot more* tn flowers, of the streams and*the treee
and the hills, but having just totaled
diameter than the largest previously
ap so many miles on such sn expend!
known. It is about a quarter of a ture of gas. Save on your gas and on
mile from tho entrance to the caveo.
joy tbe scenery as you go along
Tho Apple Growers’ association, tho through life. Just put that Into oper
only Hood River sales agency hand­ ation—save on your gas and see more
ling strawberries tn cariota, has an­ of tbe scenery I
nounced tho following wago scale for
Forfunate Thunder-Guit
Che season: Pickers, 10 cents a car­
He that has neither fools nor beg­
rier of six pint hallocks, with a bonus
gars among his kindred Is the son of
of 2 cents a carrier to pickers who
thunder-gust.—BenjamltT Franklin.
remain through the season with a
grower; packers. 18 cents a crate, with
a 4-cent bonus.
Three families In Oregon contribute
approximately 60 per cent of the in­
mates of the state home for the
fwblp-minded and 40 per cent of the
wards of the state training school, ac-
oardlng to a statement made by Dr.
J. N. Smith, superintendent of the
feeble-minded home, In an address be-
fore the students of Willamette uni­
varsity at Salem.
The Oregon state school for the
deaf at Salem ranks among the best
of such institutions in tbe southern
and western states, according to Her­
bert E. Day, representing the national
research council, with headquarters at
Washington.
Mr. Day is «asking a
survey of all doaf schools in the west­
ern and southern states with relation
to the advantages extended to th«
THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat — Hard white, $1.65; hard
winter, $1.56; soft white, $1.57; north
ern spring, $1^7; western white,
$1.58; western red, $1.56.
Hay — Alfalfa, $20021 ton; ▼alley
timothy, $20021; eastern Oregon
timothy, $23024.
'' ' *
Butterfat—42c delivered Portland.
Eggs—Ranch, 26 028c.
Cheese—Prices f. o. b. Tillamook:
Triplets, 26c; loaf, 27c per lb.
Cattle^-Steers, goodr$9.50 010,00.
Hoge—Medium to choice, $11.000
12.00.
Sheep—Lambs, medium to choice,
•settle
Wheat—Soft white, 91.62; western
whit«, $1.60; hard winter, $1.62; west J
ern red, $1.59; northern spring, $1.59
Hay—Alfalfa. $24; D.
M8; tlm-j
othy„ M<; D. C.. $28; mixed hay, $24. |
Butterfat—48c.
Eggs—Ranch, 27082c.
Hogs—Prlffi« light, $14014.25.
Cattle—Choice stears, $9.50010.
He par lb.; do standards, tic; Wash-!
ington fancy triplots, 25c.
. - Spokane.
to
choice 112.75012.
A. M. HICKS
Plumbing and Heating
Sells and installs the
famous Mueller pipe
or pipeless furnace
D. LINDQUIST
JEWELER
Watch Inspector for the
O.-W. R. & N. Co. *
Jewelry and Watch Repair­
ing given special attention
The Dalles, Oregon
WHEN
IN THE DALLES
Royal Cafe
Open Day and Might
Back Hotel
Formerly the Albert
The Dalles’ Newest and Best
Hostelry
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Sherman County Headquarters
H il l Il I II I HI i I I I 1 1 1 1 I $
CRANDALL
UNDERTAKING
COMPANY
7
THE DALLES, OREGON
Say It With Flowers
BUT
Say It With Oura
Hartwig’s Flower Shop
Sam Brisbine, Agent
Moro. Oregon
*-H4<l4H4l <
••Merchant» of Beauty’*
I 'M I'
H »♦♦♦<
11
The Dalles, Oregon
Opposite First National Bank
Phone 794 '
Night phone 690W
New and Used
Parts for all Cars
FOR 8AIX
BY
Sherman Electric Co
The Motor Market
The Dalles, Ore
Phone 6i8 603 E 2nd
NEW
ROTEI PERKINS
A E. Myers, Proprietor
FIFTH AND WASHINGTON STS
PORTLAND. OREGON
KEPT
RIGHT
Pass it around
the benefit of its
In . the
house.
Renovated Throughout
FB.
WRIGLEYS
V
SPECIAL
RATES
Room with privilege of bath, tingle,
$1.00 up; doable $1.50 ap
Room with privete both, tingle $1.50
up; double $2.50 up.
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