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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1928)
MM TM IMm ÖW* A» Well a Per»onal Duty Problem of Insuring Highway Carrier» Do The “Imponible Ruth Wilson spent the weekend Ogden L. Mills, Undersecretary of visiting with Mr. Lyda. United States Treasury, says^ that The Railway Age publishes an ex notable in telephone history. J^o long the tax problem in the United States cellent article by Henry Swift Ives, Joy Lathume will leave for Camas, ' er is telephone communication limit At the meeting of thè Moro Com mercial Club at Hotel Moro on Wed- today te no longer one of federal, but Vice President of the Casualty In Washington in a few days. ed by our country’s boundaries. ( needay avenid when the topic of rather of state and municipal fi- formation Clearing House, on the During the year, transatlantic serv Mr. and Mrs. Millard were visitors subject of “Insurance of Highway taxes was under discussion, it was ice was established and found practi in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. We have all been gratified with the Carriers.” ' indirectly brought out that Sherman cal, paving the way for greater speed ‘At the present time, one of the Addington, Sunday has an outstanding warrant continued reduction in the cost of -Says New York Herald Tribune and efficiency in international busi indebtedness of more than >17,000 running the Federal Government great problems confronting the stock A party was given in Mr. Deyo’s ness and foreign relations. \In addi . Ut • e But it is not yet generally realised casualty insurance companies is the hall, this last Friday evening. The which fa drawing interest at six y tion, the telephone lines of America cent and with no one in authority that so fast have the expenses of matter of supplying liability insur Indians from the One-O-One Ranch, were linked wi|h those of Mexico, and “The theory of regulation is that u^Iity service shall state and municipal government in ance to motor vehicle. common car _»__ .iivWt*st idea as idea tt having the slightest, as played for us. < Canadian service Was much improved whether this te the right amount oi creased that they have consumed all riers of both passengers and freight. be furnished at cost, which includes a fair return on and increased. Television became an .he Federal Government has saved. at a price which will not only attract Emma Sterling and Lois Fowlie . whether it is twice as large. actuality, and on April 7th, a group the value of the property used to furnish the service. Yet Sherman county has been em Mr. Mills states that, as a matter of the business but which will also be are again getting back to their music of people saw the face of Herbert - preying a county auditor each year t< •act, our total taxes in ^1926 were adequate to furnish sound protection lessons which they had to discontinue Mpover, 250 miles away, as he talked It contemplates utilities »uftcientiy protperou» to fw- / audit the books of the county an< higher than in any preceding year, and efficient service. Motor vehicle during the bad weather. over the telephone to Walter Gifford, vith the exceptions of W«0 *nd common carriers are faced with the ni»h high grade service, not corporations held down to has done so for a number of years Herman Birkett and son were president of the American Telephone 921 and but comparatively little problem of obtaining liability insur-1 The Sherman County Observer hv --- ------ Dsdlea Saturday, as al and Telegraph Company. Thus starvation rates.” .' ower than in the record high year, ance at • price which they think they| vUitor. in Jhe said in times past that the count? overcomes seeming^ impossi- so were Mrs. Fowlie, her daughU 1920. Duriflk 19« 6 ’ Fe deral Uxe8 can pay. The public, as a third party, audit was “bunk” and money throwi bility Moro than any other industries, vere 1,488 millions lower than in is desirous of protection against away and this seems to prove it. And at the same time state damage to property or injury to ] Audits have in the pasttbeen mad< 1021 Ted Elliott, Mildred Chase, Lois Such stability of service and capi we« 1,415 million- _______________ . sons resulting from operation of com- Fowlie and Owen Elliott enjoyed Tripartite Interest in Tariff of public funds in Sherman county the public, both in service and in tal dapend upon the continuance ligher. In other words, local tax ex-1 carr i e rs on the public highways, the books returned ps correct, an< fact. •' «4 • of the principle of individual in- »enditures offset Federal economy. - -- ---------- Mr. - Ives states there are •— two out- listening to mwic with Miss Ruth Mc then found to be wrong. The reaso Agitators have claimed there is a Fhr from being merg corporate Such statistics as these leave no standing difficulties to be overcome, Bain at the r JS s HbteT. is that the audits as conducted art abstraction», their capital is owned their present high eft conflict of interests between capital, need for comment — they speak for both of which are largely within the nothing more nor less than “getting labor and tariff. The mythical • Mrs. Fowlie. is once more visiting stocks holdings of mors than fir *he additional money something for nothing” through easy themselves. The voters have »^solute regulatory authority of state railroad control over the municipal and state and utility commissioner^: First, re her friends here. She surprised them barrier between capital and labor has 000,000 individual investor, in- electric Hghtgnd powe going slip-shod methods. eluding security holdings of banks, continue to This particular >17,000 debt ow governments and they can effect a re duction of accidents due to safety all, herself included, by stepping in bean exploded. The public now re ing by Sherman county is because of form. Action and not words will measures; Second, simplification and on a birthday party at Mrs. Starlings’ alises that neither labor nor capital warrants issued by the office of count. Tax reduction is a civic and Uniformity of insurance regulations. given for her two children, Emma can exist alone. But there is still a tendency to pit county school superintendent in past personal duty, and the great instru He says that until accident reduction and Dickie Starling, where her are invested. . . - lag the cost of high grade is the farmer against the manufacturer daughter, Lois Fowlie, was .also years. These are issued, said Law ment of the vote should be used to is accomplished, there can be little The vision, courage, ability and Stabilizing as they do, through the present Thus: two surprised people, on the tariff question, when the farm hope of reduction in liability ratea. rence W. Rakes, present incumbent, that end. essential nature of their service, er’s best market is laboring men in Mr. Ives points out that insurance each year on bills presented from the entire social, industrial ana dustries. k - companies do not make rates, that each other. economic structure, they also must school districts where pupils from Many of our farm crops and in be assured of a stability of earning they are made by the assured, and at- * this county attend high school in dis Tom, Dick and Harry arc MUM to maintain the efficiency dustries could not exist under our long as accident toU is heavy the in tricts either in this county or in out- RUFUS SCHOOL NEWS of that service and protect the in- cost of service. Not Always Capable surance toll will be high. Several bus present wage and hour system in com side counties, from districts in this ‘ f petition with cheap labor foreign RHS * lines operated by steam or electric county that have no high school. The machinery of our government railways, during the last year, have Our school will play a practice competition, without tariff protection It is known that the warrant debt, ____________ accident prevention gpme of Basket Ball with Wasco to- equalising prices. said Mr. Rakes, at this time is about or of any other form of government made admirable For instance, one little beet sugar same is true of a night. >17,000 with no money in sight to known to man today is utterly in- rCvVlUB, an(j the ***• company in Utah paid >2,250,00« for capable of handling technical prob few scattered so-called independent RHS pay. This muddle is because neither labor and nearly >4,000,000 to the lems which require tihe highest type We girls expect to play Moro Wed companies. However, there is much the office of the county treasurer nor the school superintendent has a of training applied to the highest room for improvement, and for the nesday night tn a scheduled game of farmers for sugar beets, in 1927. Without a reasonable sugar tariff I - record of the warrants that are out type of intelligence,” sayF Professor general average of independent oper Basket Ball. , this beet sugar factory would not Michael Pupin, scientist and inventor, ators there isn ’ t mjiich to be said ex RHS standing. , . The Juniors and Seniors started have existed with resulting benefit to cept that they have a mighty hard . That is why we say that an audit of of Columbia University." Railroads, telegraphy and radio time getting any insurance, even at a with the Higher Arithmetics this labor and agriculture. Without this — ' * • a*' j/X * VLJf. r ................. ’v •' * * AT - , 1 t the books of Sherman county is week and all seem to think they domestic supply of sugar, our nation “bunk” and money thrown away. broadcasting, electrical lighting and high rate. - ' " would be wholly at the mercy of for- Regardless of the carefulness oL will like them fine. The way to reduce taxes is to spend electrical transmission of power ye eign producers. RHS public mouey in a manner that certainly public utilities, but the in the bus line, it cannot control mil The tariff is a business and not a telligent people-«®f the United States lions of private drivers for whom • secures the result that is desired. Sherman county has an unknown will never consent that these things, public highways were primarily built. Rufus and W»sco proved disastrous! political issue. It should be treated warrant debt of known dimensions requiring an enormous amount of ex It will always be subject to accidents for the forntr town, but we are up|M such in considering best interests ^ of American labor, agriculture and of about >17,00; it might be >70,000; pert knowledge, be placed under gov over which it has little or no control, and ready te go again. * RHS y' manufacturing. ernment ownership. due to private vehicle operators. no one seems to know. “AH these public utilities are full A railroad train or a fast interur- - The magasine subecriptions have - « how U Under the budget system tax Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repairing Theatre, February 2. money raised is for certain Tundk; to of complex technical problems which ban electric could not afford to oper at last been straightened out and if - be used for the purpose for which the cannot and never were intended to be ate on a track laid on a public high no other mishap takes place we will “ By an Expert Watchmaker money was raised; there is at this handled by any government. 1» way. The accident element would be probably have them in a few days. With 16 Years Experience in Watch Kepairing RHS Hm« time no monev money in this fund with Europe we see that where there is too great. Are not the bus companies governmental ownership the utilities faced with the same situation? Will Our eighth grade student, Irene which to pay these unknown are being run at heavy deficits. And they not eventually have to maintain Key, has been returned home from rants. -v* ALL WORK GUARANTEED FOR ONE YEAR only recently Mussolini has said that their own private right of ways if the hospital and is said to be getting Tie want« to get away from govern they are to operate economically, along fine. And we, the school, send We Buy, Sell or Exchange Watches ment ownership and accept the give the best service, and eliminate her our best wishes and congratula ¿4 A Freedom-loving Nation the accident danger which is such a tions. American system. Turn your old watch in on a new one The great achievements of science handicap to their successful and safe RHS The effect on American life of and ( industries are living illustrations operation today? — firearms has. always been a healthy of what can be accomplished when .one. The love of sport and hunting, the problems of science and of the Inspires Confidence Located at Main Street Barber Shop inherited from English forefathers, industries are intrusted to the intelli Ring Out The Old— • has made for both physical and men- gent care of trained hands and super- Ring In The New Within the past year the highest , tai alertness. ior intelligence. v courts have done much to clarify and It is this phase of the American “This illustration will soon demon “Farming methods are changing make mote definite and certain the character, the love of sport and strate, even to a mediocre mind, that acceptable ways of determining the the right to protection, that has made it is not true that any man can do any from the mule and small plow to trac independent and liberty loving citU job, as those who control political tors and modern equipment, as diver value of utility property. These decisions have served to in sens unfriendly to laws prohibiting patronage seem to think. There are sified farming replaces the old one crease confidence in the securities of the saje and use of small arms. Guns many things which Tom, Dick and crop system in eastern Carolina, my* gas and electric utility companies. Raleigh, N/ C., news item. have been used for unlawful pur- Harry cannot do; they lack both in Lumber Wood Mill Feed A. T. Holman, agricultural engi The high favor in which such securi «nd go have automobiles, telligence and training. Shingles Coal Family Flour neer at State College, states that the ties are held today is common know- ships and the mails; yet no one would Cement . Brick tractor that is adapted to planting, ledge- . tho nast Chicken Feed think of abolishing them. The fact A survey made mmShg Fire Insurance cultivating and harvesting as well as that crimhials are well supplied with Iowa Farm Bloc Leader Hay and Grain * year ahow.d that *5» Bnd.l« trie plowing, disking -and belt work is Sacks and Twine revolvers, knives, poison, hammers, Wants to Double Tariff Ground Bone, Etc. finding a warm reception among companies had »Id 4,ST».OOO . - axes, rope, wire, dynamite and sim- DR. G. WH1TFIBLD RAY of stock to employes and customers farmers. , articles, is certainly no reason Representative L. J. Dickinson of since the inauguration of the cukin- r^R. G. WHITFIELD RAT U» It would seem that the influence of for forbidding their use to law abid er ownership movement. One V been called the “Llrtngstone^ Iowa, a farm bloc leader, threw a the tractor on agriculture will be end ing citixens for lawful end necessary of South America ” He has spent bomb in the circle of house Republi less. Significantly, diversified farm pany published its annual statement purposes. Quicker and more severe the greater part of t^e past seven can leaders last week when he filed a ing and crop rotation increased along in 14 different languages. - punishment for the wrongdoer is a teen years in explorgUnn work, - bill to increase the tariff on farm with the increase in use of the trac and for many years was tbe offi- . better cure. . tor. Modern farming demands effic broadcasting by radio ^of annual rial explorer tor the Bolivian Gos- Crime waves have proven our products. Although the party chieftains are iency and speed that old equipment stockholders’ meetings san be ex- ernmsnt He is to speak, here many “concealed weapon” statutes desirious of doing something for agri soon on his strange and remark useless. And yet still more stringent culture, they are fearful that Miould was unable to give. able experiences. ones are being proposed, apparently they permit the tariff to be touched number of security holders. in the interest of the criminal, by pol .Fanning Mill at either me Last Lyceum Number NOT A BULLET HOLE for the farmers, the way would be - at the fair groutids during the fair. iticians who seem to have no know opened for a general assault on the Hotel Clerk: You’ve just arrived Moro Legion Hall ledge of the situation. A freedom The cowboys in^Happy Valley ea .entire tariff schedule. from Chicago I see, Mr. Browne. loving people will oppose them and ter a beauty contest — eee “ Galloping Dickinson’s bill calls for a doubling Browne; No; I burned that hole Monday, January 30th see that the honest citixen’s consti of the tariff on corn, vegetable oils, Fury.”. Tuesday. in my coat with a cigarette. tutional right to own guns is not im oil-bearing seeds, nuts and cattle. paired. ■ - 1 . and Ha» no Money to Pay Welfare of Electric Power Companies is Public’» Welfare Sherman Electric Co T v The Watch Shop » When You Need Farmers n ; LOCK ’EM UP a , Cooking Teacher: What is the best way to preserve cakes in perfect condition after they am baked? Student (with email brothers in •‘There’s only one Uncle John.” -Soe him in person February 2nd, at Moro Theatre. Mine of the needs of our time is to have the simple faith of our fathers poured into . Twentieth century mold, writes Merle Crowell in the American Magaslpe. . We old-fashioned religion—but dressed in a free and flowing robe and not tn the strait jacket in which the bigots would encase it We need more peo ple who can say, “Our Father Who Art in Beaten,” and really believe it. lÎllllllllllllîîllllllllllim!Tm Proxies’ A THREE ACT COMEDY ; is ■ ■* American Legion Hall Thursday, February 2nd PRESENTED BY The Pierriot Club The Moro High School Glee Club PKBSEÌTK a musical play in two acts entitled ‘Carrie Comes to College’ By Estella Merryman Clark and Palmer John Clark Moro Opera House Friday Evening, February 10th, 1928 of Cherry Park Grange, The Dalles Curtain at 8 o’clock . Admission 25c and 50c nim iiii Hill lllllll im,«»111111111111 l|tttTt Eight o’Clock Admission 60c and 35c
