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ALBANY DEMOCRAT 'Entered at the poatofftca at Albany, Oregon. mtcr. W. L. Jackie and Ralph R. Croaiae Editor and Managers ' Daily published every evening except Sunday. - Semiweekly publiihed Tuesdays and Fridays. ESTABLISHED IMS Buaineaa Matter III ordering change of address, subscribers should always five old aa wall aa new addraaa. ' Subscription Ratea---l)lly " Delivered by carrier ; Per month 50c: Per year $5.00 By Mail, Per year At end of year 14.50; In J"jX!!?Jl-Pg Meaiber of The Aaociatcd Prcaa The Associated Preaa is exclusively entitled to the una for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All right of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. PHONT 9 ALBANY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 THE LAW OF EXPENSES , . o "The cost of living is just what it ought to be," declares Franklyn Hobbs, a Chicago economist, adding, "You can't any more legislate the cost of living down than you can leg islate the moon out ofnhe sky." Perhaps this statistical gentleman is a bit extreme in his views, but on recovering from the first shock of these blunt statements an open-minded person can find a good deal of sense in his manner of reasoning. Being scientific, possibly he is too much inclined to-regard economic laws as immutable laws of nature. As a matter of fact, they only represent tendencies of human nature, and are therefore changeable, subject to the will of human beings, exerted legally or otherwise. But with this reservation his philoso phy may be accepted. , It is really a hopeful philosophy, too. He insists that the economic law is not evil, but fair and just, and that alarm over the cost of living is a mere "bugaboo." Disaster is im possible, because wages continue to match living costs no matter what the conditions may be. There may be tempor ary inconvenience "while the adjustment is being made, but it is soon made, and in general the two lines of income and cost of commodities run together. Here is the principle of the thine: "Cost of living is based on the average amount of mon ey earned by an average man in an average hour's work." At present, he says, wages and expenses are both go ing down. This will disappoint those who have hoped to keep wages up while expenses dropped, but it is a. part of the natural law. Besides, expenses are going down faster than wages. Mr. Hobbs adds the optimistic comment that from his , oDservation tne average American is not content to remain just average," which seems to mean that American effort is continually becoming more productive, creatine more wealth in a given time, and thus earning more money, hav ing more purcnasing power and commanding more of the necessaries and comforts of life. This accords with most people's practical observation. In spite of troublesom fluctuations and disturbances in the relation of earnings to expenditure, most of us are actually gernng aneaa, year oy year and generation by generation. Radicals deny this, but facts prove it on all sides. ' ' o THE SUGAR TAX It has been discovered that a New York broker has 13, , 440,000 pounds of raw sugar stored on ships in the harbor, on which he is trying to make an illegal profit of more than 4 cents a pound. A "sugar party" seems in order, after the fashion of th, "Boston Tea Party." A sugar tax is, no fairer than a tea tax. However, it would be some job to throw overboard 13, 440,000 pounds of sugar, not to mention the fact that the public needs the sugar, and is inclined to be more practical about such matters than our revolutionary forefathers were. New Yorkers might compromise by throwing the brok er into the harbor. ' : , V digging systematically, in proper season, accompanying the process by putting seed into the ground, and then reaping the crop when it is ready. The delving pastor, If he had practised this method assiduously for tne same period he spent in futil spade-work, might have had by this time a dig ger chest of gold than any pirate ever buried on the Jersey coast. ..,. As a matter of fact the gold business, legitimate and Ille gitimate, has been tremendously over-played. All the gold ever ferried from the New World across the Spanish Main was worth less than the fish swimming in that same Main, and worth a great deal less than the useful native products that might have been carried home to the Spanish people from Mexico and Peru. All the gold ever dug in California is trivial compared with the wealth produced there when men turned from- placer-mining to plowing. Mountain streams run into irrigation ditches have made more money than they ever made when their sole use was washing yel low dust out of sand. ' Every man who owns a farm owns a gold mine. Every man who owns his home' has buried treasure in his back yard. - A FEMALE SOLOMON Mrs. Walter B. Beal of Seattle, who is a lawyer and a judge, says that she fears she disappointed extreme fem inists when she ran for office, because in tier campaign speeches she declared that "the greatest happiness for a woman lies in married life." . "With so many millions of girls in industries," she says, "there must be women correspondingly in higher places. But at the same time, I do not think a young wo man can look forward to both a career and a home, and in most cases she will be happier if she chooses a home." ft would be well if more of the women in public life were us level-headed as this feminine jurist in their attitude to ward feminism.. - But perhaps there is little need of worrying about the matter. After all the arguments pro and con regarding "careers,' and ."woman's place," it is likely that nature her self will take care of the matter with her usual competence. -.' . o Some Englishmen are Dronosin? that Great Britain pay her war debts by selling her churches, auctioning them off to the highest bidders. Many an American millionaire would doubtless pay a fancy price for M. Paul s or west minster Abby, quite regardless of what he would do with it when he got it. - ' 4 ' - -. o- The newest an.d most aristocratic form of robbery ap pears in the theft of movie films valued at $500,000. Mere gold is so cheap it no longer tempts the highclass burglar There's a theme for a new detective story. o Who winds-the clock that points the. seasons? Snow fell at Sweet Home last Friday. The cold midnight of the year approaches. o Fiume is costing Italy a couple of billion dollars, when the whole town could he bought outright for a few millions BURIED TREASURE More "Captain Kidd" nonsense! ; It develops that a preacher, with two helpers, dug up a whole sixty-acre farm in New Jersey in quest of pirate gold. He didn't find any gold. And yet there was buried treasure on that farm. There is on every farm. 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' Joke A Wyoming bandit held up a train and robbed the passengers of money and valuables day before yesterday, but was frightened off before he got to the real treasure In the express car where they carry butter and eggs. Register. The Wrong Program . Any organisation that adopts such an economic fallacy as sabotaga aa a standard of perfection, -has outlived its usefulness and cone to seed. I there no program In this Imperfect world of sorrow to remedy and better humanity's condition other than or ganised aaxyness T ' Finish 'Km Up Here, j One box factory at Klamath Falls, Oregon, la doubling the capacity of ' Its plant, and employs hundreds of men and women. That la working along the right lines. Oregon Is shipping too much raw lumber out side to be manufactured Into the fin ished product elsewhere. Eugene ought to have hundreds of men en. gaged In the manufacture of aash and doors and furniture. Guard. Alao Sad , Now that the Oregon-O. A. C. game has passed Into history, the peace con- Life" ' . " It Is one of the perplexing problems of life that we 'only succeed In eolv. lna one nrohlem when stralirhtwav 1 there arises another to confront us, I rnmini.tita t hi. Hvumhi. Aerlanf w.ipL ers In the temperance cause used to think that when national prohibi tion had been gained that the task would be flnished. Now cornea world wide prohibition. For Christmas Time Your friends can buy any thing you can give them except your photograph. ' We are net so busy now aa we will be In December. - Studio completely equipped for taking pictures in the even ing. Opea by appointment enly. CLIFFORD STUDIO . S3 W 1st. 8t Used Car Exchange We Pay Cash We will pay you cash for your osed car. Fords Only. . We also sell on commission Bring yoar car la and receive caoh for It. 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