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Newspaper Page TextALBANY DEMOCRAT " Entered at the pottoffir t Ajbany Oregonaa i'JhcI ' W. U Jacknon and Ralpa R. Croith Paul D. Murphy City Editor Daily published every evening except Sunday. , I.... V. 1 i -1 I T... 4 ...... lS4aw ESTABLISHED 11 i & . . DIUU rii mm niiwi la ordering changes of address, subscribers should always give old at well aa new address. Subscription Kates Dally Delivered by carried Pr month 60c j Per year in Advance $5.00 By Hail, In Linn and Route 4 Benton County, Per year, in Advance . .J4.00 Ootaide of Linn County and Rt. 4 Benton Co.. Per year, in Advance . .$5.00 ' Member of The Aoeiated Preaa The Associated Press i exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all newg dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All righta of republication of specialdpatches herein n also reserved. PHONE 96 ALBANY, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31. 1920 THE COLLEGE TAX If we are to have state colleges at all, and few will gain say that, we should support them in such a way as to insure their having instructors, equipment and accommodatons eaual to the colleges of neighboring states, and unless the people vote the 1.26 millage bill at the coming election this will be impossible. The State Agricultural College and the State Univer sity, with an increase cf more than one hundred per cent of students since pre-war times and only a four per cent in crease of income, face disaster should this measure fail to pass. The State Normal School will also be in desperate linancial straits should this bill fail, and good school teach ers, already far too scarce, will be scarcer than ever. Fortunately for the cause of higher education, with one exception (a so-called taxpayers' league meeting ' held at Salem) every organization or public body in the state that has taken action on the educational measures (and there has been many such) has unanimously indorsed them, and the prospect is that they wili pass by a large majority. The progressive state of Oregon, heretofore always in the lead in educational and patriotic matters, is not going to commit education hari-kari, just yet. If your tax is $40 on the thousand of assessable prop erty now, it will be $41.26 if the college millage bill passes. The state can not afford for that small per cent of tax in crease, to reduce our first class institutions of higher learn ing to fourth or fifth grade rank and students of Oregon should have an equal show with those of Washington, Idaho or California. o THE HOUSING PROBLEM nation Is willing to go to the length of actually subsidizing builders and contractors. That is the method adopted by England, which fore saw the need even before the war ended, and proceeded to meet it. The plan is to distribute a subsidy among build ers, building organizations and communities. Private erection of individual homes is encouraged by the offer of a bonus of $600 for every house completed within the next year. Large government loans are made for building opera tions on a larger scale, and the offer also Includes payment of one-half of the interest charges on the investment. Whether the United States government or the several states where the housing situation is especially desperate would be willing to go as far as the English have gone is a question. It is even questionable whether the plan yoiiw square with American ideals and conditions. But short of some such measure, legislation seems inadequate. Propos als for remission of taxes for a period of years on all houses built to meet the present shortage, as actually embodied in bills now before at least one state legislature, are essentially unfair. Just so much money must be raised in taxation in any given community, and if a certain new portion of prop erty is to be exempted, it can only mean a higher assessment on the remaining taxable vakies. There is enough ability in private initiative to overcome the difficulty if the building trade workers will agree to work and stick to it and if the building material men will agree to deliver the required goods at a fixed price and live up to it. will be expended on state highways through Umatilla county. East Ore gon Ian. TODAY'S EVENTS Wednesday. March 81, lttSO Hlr William K. Meredith. Chief of Ontario, is HO yours old today. The Prince of Wales, rn route to Australia, is to be the guest of Pana ma City today. ('(inscription, which en.illrd Crcat liiitun to rjUc and maintain hrr en tirmou war at my, will he alKiliahrd today. li iiiK'r.t, of Missouri arc to meet in stntr convention ut Joplin today to nunc the di lgateat-large to the na tional runvrntion. The twenty delegates who will rep resent Kansas In Kepulilicsn national convention ut Chicago will he named at a State convent lull to be held at Sulina today. McCLURE BUYS NUTTING FARM K. P. Nutting Iji so'd his twenty acre f irm near Palestine church in llenton county to C. II. McClurr who will preluibly occupy the same aa a horns while operating hit large farm a few miles north. Mr. MeClure is a brother of I. C. MeClure who 1 the owner of the Beauty Hpot farm In the same vicinity. BASKET SOCIAL NETS SCHOOL $114 Aah Hwalc school north of Browns ville staged a b.iakt soclul and lit miry program Friday night, unilvr the direntiun of the teacher Mlaa Hoy. lei, of l.ibunon and auld eighteen haskrst fur f 114.00. The sale wae cundiirled by C. Carlson of the dis trict with the view of raising money to apply for needed school Improve ments. The Aahawulr district Is one of the leading districts of the county and the people generally found in the progressive column on all nutters of puhlic good. Moone Dance I Don't forget that Moose Dane Thursday evening, April I, 1020. Come and have the time of your life. COMMITTEE. nival in Tibet thr people ait lute their superiors by taking off their hats and thrisling out their tongues three times Comments of the I State Press 4 1 Journal. Irishman Never at Peace- Ireland is in the throes of a bloody vendetta which is remindful of a state ment made by a native of that coun try to the effect that an Irishman is never at peace unless he is at war. Astoria Budget. Political Earthquake There were eighty-seven earth quakes in the Utiited States last year, according to the department of agriculture. These were only pre monitory to the big earthquake due November next. Oregonian. Oregon Sent Seven Million "Oregon sent seven million dollars to the national treasury in income taxes. That would build a One lot of roads. 'Thank God for Wilson. He kept us out of war.' " Corvallis Gasette-Times. Before Wilson was president we couldn't have sent seven million dollars out of Oregon for any thing because there wasn't that much real money in the state. Eugene Guard. , The whole world is facing a housing problem. American cities, almost without exception, are wrestling with it and, it must be confessed, without noteworthy success. New, York is trying to effect relief through legislation. Other states have appealed to their legislatures, and many bright : minds are studying the problem in its legal phases. It is a question whether a way out of the maze of diffi culties can be found in legislation, unless the state or the1 Rather Poor Grace Marion county and Salem are direct beneficiaries of the bulk of state taxa tion. Namely all of the money con tributed as taxes by the people of Ore gon is spent in Marion county in support of state institutions and state officials. It therefore comes with rath er poor grace for Marion county to take the lead in opposing taxation that means the expenditure of state money in support of the few state ins titutions outside Marion county. Capital Journal. Bacon War A "bacon war" at Albany in which the selling campaign of the army store has resulted in a reduction of the retail cost of bacon from 46 to 20 cents the pound seems to demonstrate that the army can bring the bacon rfnwn s vl a home. Oregon AGAIN - AJAX WINS! A JAX Tires for the second consecutive year, are crowned champions of America's dirt tracks. Gruelling, grinding contests at state fairs all over the country again prove why Ajax Tires stand first in favor everywhere. 58 Championships for Ajax Nine World Championships 49 Track Championships were won in 1 91 8 by demon auto racers using Ajax Tires. Ajax Tire outstripped competition. Thry von under severest service. Ajax Tires the same tires that won 58 great championships in 1918 wiU give you the same good service they give the dirt track racers. J&Hl ROAD KIIZG Ajax Tires win because of greater Inbuilt strength. They alone have Shoulders of Strength. See the shoulder in the picture. Note how it braces the Ajax Road King Tread. Shoulders of Strength give the Ajsx Road King more tread on the road, more strength where ttrennrth is needed. We carry complete line Come in. Let's talk Ajag. RALSTON ELECTRIC COMPANY AUTOMOBILE TIRES, OILS and SUPPLIES. 310 West 2nd St" roil .s.w.t. Rood 7 room plantcred dwelling at No. 1403 Kant Front Street. On two Kiverview Iota with about an acre adjoining land for cow or chickens. Immediate Possession. Worth $:t 000 .00 Our Price $1700 (. Pay us IHM) 00 down, then 115.17 per month No interest. -WHY PAYS ENTlJ? IIKAM LAM) CO. I S3 I. von Street Auto License There is quite a lot of solace in the increased price of auto licenses after all. Umatilla county has $18,0H2.I7 coming as its share of license money paid to the secretary of state up to March 15 and the state highway fund will get $56306.49 of this coun ty's money. Most of this, doubtless, "Gorgeous music and gorgeous weather" go to gether when you have the Starr Phonograph Hours indoors, too, are made enjoyable by the golden music of the Starr. It is the "singing throat" of the Starr, that adds so much to its richness. Before you do anything else, come in and hear the Starr's marvelous voice. Fortmiller Fur. Co TIRES At Less Than Cost 32x3 . S. S. Plain Casings List Price $26.40 OUR PRICE $17-93 WHILE THEY LAST Firestone Goodyear Goodrich United States ALL GUARANTEED TIRES . 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