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ALBANY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21
THE LAW OF EXPENSES ,
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"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.
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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. -.'
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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 ' -
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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.
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Who winds-the clock that points the. seasons? Snow
fell at Sweet Home last Friday. The cold midnight of the
year approaches.
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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. All that is necessary to get it is to do the
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Gloomy prediction, but probably truo
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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.
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