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About Aurora observer. (Aurora, Marion County, Or.) 19??-1940 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1924)
[People to Get Acquainted With The Safe W a y Oregon for Oregon BOTTLE FEEDING vrill be successful if Ask for Oregon Products Is the Sadler & Kraus Way druggists. OREGON M AKES IT We fit and suggest the correct Shoes for all occasions. Then guarantee the wear and assure you complete satisfaction. Our Shoe stock is replete with every need for Fall and Winter season. Also Rubbers to fit, all styles. Rubber Boots for Men, Women and Children. Let Us Show You Our W et-W ea th e r Clothing Sadler & Kraus THE BEST FOR THE PRICE FINANCES MANAGED f l l 1 1 1 KEEP Oregon Industries Deserve Oregon Patronage WITH RARE GENIUS f FREIGHT RATES UP Everytime you buy an article made Dennos. the milk modi fier, is used. Doctors endorse Dennos. At Sample on request. DENNOS FOOD CO. Portland. Ore. LO U IS W EBER! in Oregon, you are helping to employ Oregon people in the manufacturing NOTARY PUBLIC o f Oregon goods. You are keeping FIRE INSURANCE Oregon money in Oregon. A campaign REPRESENTING is on in the interest o f 1 ‘ Oregon Made Goods,” and “ Oregon Industries.” Pacific States Fire Insurance It is more than worthy— an idea that Company Portland, Or.— (Special.)—Farmers means money to you. Look at the Portland, Or. — ( Special.) — When label ! of the Northwest who expect La- Springfield F. & M. Insur President Coolidge said in his speech of acceptance that finances of the ! Follette’s plan of government owners ance Company country have been managed by the I ship of railroads to give them lower Fire Association of Phila. Republican administration with a I freight rates are dobmed to bitter dis- ALL KINDS OF TRUCKING genius unmatched since the days of ! appointment, in the event he should at Reasonable Rates AURORA, OREGON^ Hamilton, he meant just what he said j be elected and be in a position to THEODORE RESCH and gave facts and figures to prove it, : make his plans effective, it was de- Aurora, Ore. Phone 1115 L L. Patterson, chairman of the Re: I Glared at the Republican State Cen- publican State Central committee, de I tral committee headquarters here by Will pay highest market price clared in a statement given out here. I Chairman I. L. Patterson. for Hogs. The fsict is, Senator Patterson said, When it came into office, he said, the Republican party inherited a leg the railroad unions are trying to hood ATTORNEY-AT-LAW acy of debt that stood at about $24,- wink the farmers in the Northwest Oregon City, Oregon 000,000,000, of which $7,000,000,000 states into belief that lower freight Q R . B. F. GIESY was in.short term obligations to meet j rates will come along with govern- Estates, Trusts, Confidential Advice which no provision had been made. I ment ownership. It was said the con- Government bonds were far below par I trary would, in all probability, be the and war taxes still plagued the people. j . case. * ♦ More than $11,000,000,000 were due ' “ The LaFoliette platform says never I Asquith & Hocken * the United States from foreign coun a word about lower freight rates for tries. The:whole people were suffer farmers or anyone else, despite the ing from a tremendous deflation', fact they are highly desirable,” said Both Phones AINTIING Aurora, Ore. Money iwas scarce and interest rates the state chairman. “ If LaFoliette or Office at Residence APER HANGING his close advisers believed for a min high. An unprecedented financial AND TINTING problem was presented to the incom ute government ownership would ing administration. The sums to be bring about lower freight rates on t 411 Work Neatly Done dealt with were so huge that never farm products, the promise would un questionably: have been dangled as ^ Aurora, Ore. Phone 5012 before in world history were debts of DENTIST bait in the platform. such proportions to be paid. “ If one will look into the railroad Has established his Dental office in The administration promptly pro vided .a budget system and put it into question a little he will find that the the Aurora Bank Building, where operation. This was the keystone in chief obstacle in the way of lower he will be present each Tuesday, “ No Collection, No Charge” thel arch of Republican finances that freight rates, which our farms need Friday and Saturday, from 9 a, m_ Delinquent accounts collected on a to 6 p. m. was to bridge the chasm of debt. Tre- ^ery much, is the high scale of pay contingent basis. We do the work, PLATES A SPECIALTY jinendous savings were effected by it. that has been forced by the railroad shoulder the expense and make no For the fiscal year ending June 30, ; unions. AURORA, OREGON charge unless collection is made. “ We farmers have very little in 1921, the expenditures of the govern $100,000.00 Bad Accounts Turned In common with the railroad unions to Cash Since W e Started. Jot down ment were $5,538,000,000 and the sur a trial list of bad ones and let us plus was $86,000,000. Contrasted with when it comes to working together. Phone 5-51 Office hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. turn them into actual money. that was the year ending June 30, Our interests are not the same. What Evenings and Sunday by appointment 1924, when expenditures were $3,497,- we want from the railroads is lower Business Men’s Adjustment Co. DR. S. J. LEVITT 000,000 and the surplus exceeded $500,- freight rates. The unions are press ing constantly for higher wages, which 315-16 Masonic Bldg., Phone 911 000,000. This was a cut in the annual DENTIST cost of government of $2,041,000,000. I precludes lower rates. SALEM, OREGON I. O. O. F. Building “ The railroad unions are the ones Room T and 2 The public debt has been cut to Molalla, Oregon about $21,250,000,000, ,a reduction in who are getting the money from high- ' er freight rates. The . average wages three years of about $2,750,000,000, which means a saving in interest each per hour of railroad employes is now I 123 per cent higher than it was in year of about $120,000,000; The short-time obligations amount 1916 before any rates were advanced. S ill ing to $7,000,000,000 have been either Here we see, the chief reason why refunded or paid. Together with all ratés cannot go down. | “ Total earnings of the railroads in this, internal revenue taxes have been reduced twice and many of them re | .1923 were §2,666,000,000 more than in pealed, During the present fiscal 1916. Wages paid the same year, ex year, there will be a saving of taxes clusive of to officials, amounted to to the people of about $6,000,000 every $1,544,224,000 more than in 1916. Out pi every $1 in increased earnings day, compared with 1921. Of the amount of debts due this from more traffic and higher rates, country from foreign governments, 40 the, lines paid 58 cents out in higher per- cent have been liquidated and wages. “ Increase in freight charges on will provide funds for the retirement of about $13,000,000,000 of the prin farm products that moved to market cipal of our national debt in 62 years. between 1916 and Î923 amounted to During the Republican four years about $330,000,000. Of that amount, now ending, the government has taken the railroads at once handed over to a notable step toward economy of ad their employes $191,400,000, or more ministration, as shown in another way. than half. The railroads were able to In 1921, the last pre-budget year, dl retain none of these higher rates for the cost of government collected in Jhe companies, for net operating in national, state and municipal taxes, come has never been so high since after debt payments, federal expendi 1916 as in that year. ^ “Higher costs of operation cut down tures were 59 per cent of the total and those of the states, cities and the net, with increased expenses in all lines and more taxes. Wages and towns 41 per cent. But in 1923 the federal government taxes take two-thirds of the railway took only 28 per cent of the taxes and income. “ Another reason why rates cannot 72 per cent were, spent by the states, cities and towns. These bodies were come down is that the 26 months of shelving increasing expenditures, al government operation increased ex though the federal government has penses of the railroads from $8,106,521 a day to $14,310,449, or $6,203,928 a set an example of economy. Per capita expenses of the govern (day. “ In the first five months of 1924, ment in the fiscal year of 1910 were but $7.74. In the peak year of 1919, operating expenses averaged $12,550,- when public expense touched its high :000 a da,y, or $1,760,000 a day less est level, this figure had grown to than at the end of government control. ‘TH E STORE OF M E R IT ” the astonishing figure of $173.54. For So a cause of the higher rates we last year, they sank back to $33.44, a suffer is the fact there is still left a u r o r a ; ORE. very gratifying improvement over the almost $4,500,000 a day of the increase in operating expenses ■ that occurred post-war year. Without the budget, the savings under government control. “ When the farmers understand the that were effected would never have been realized. It brought order where reason for high freight rates and real confusion had been before. It pro ize, that railroad labor takes more vided for the balancing of revenues than half of rate increases for itself, and expenditures and lighted the way they cannot make common cause with the rail unions and ^ expect to get any out of the financial swamps. thing in the ,way of lower rates. Un questionably, \if the policy of govern Your HENS and PULLETS will lay more, War Coats Slashed. BuSiness-like methods by the Repub ment control, under which expenses If an EGG MASH you’ll keep before. lican administration has saved $85,- were vastly increased, were restored, Just keep before in hoppers dry, 000,000 in department of war expendi as LaFoliette proposes, rates would And you’ll get the EGGS, “ OH M Y!” tures in 1923i Expenditures for 1924 go higher.” were reduced $752,985,235 as compared I’ll tell your friends it’s not a joke, to those for 1921. There were 90,106 National Finances Restored. Mix your own MASH and you’ll go broke. civilian employes in the department As a result of the financial policies Our MASH will give your hens the pep; March 3, 1921. On January 1, 1924, of the: republican administration since there were 42,458. This was an annual March, 1921, the United States has To get the eggs you’ll have to step. saving of $51,000,000. taken the position of the leading com We also have a good SCRATCH FEED mercial and financial nation of the Which will bring eggs from any breed. world. The dollar has become the Costs of Government Cut. They gpt red combs and scratch and sing, The bureau of the budget, under international standard of value. With General Dawes, put the government on possibly one exception, the United To get MORE EGGS it is the thing. a sound business basis, resulting in a States is the .only nation that partici And if OUR MASH and SCRATCH you’ll try, pated in the. world war that has re reduction of public expenditures from Right back you’llcom e and more you’ll buy. §5,538,000,000 in 1921 to S3,497,000,000 duced its expenditures, its debt and in 1924, a decrease in the annual cost its.itaxés' since ¡the war. It was the You’ll GET RESULTS and always will, first of the nations participating in the of government of $2,041.000,000. If you will trade at our FEED MILL. war to get its budget balanced. Il CALL ON US OR PHONE US Naval Expense Cut Down. , Republican Party Has Saved! Farmers Cannot Hope For Any Big Sums to American j Relief If LaFoliette Taxpayers. Is Elected. O. D. EBY Physician If you have anything to be hauled. If you have anything to be shipped, If you have anything to be transferred to or from Portland, I Call • E. ' M | S . . H U R - ' ST . ■■ <| Aurora Telephone 615 Portland Telephone Broadway , 7660 Portland Office: 73 Front Street \ . Baggage at Dock or Depot in Portland carefully looked after.. •: RATES REASONABLE and Surgeon SATISFACTION GUARANTEED H# G| ZIEGLER DEALER IN Grain, Potatoes, H ay and Feed SEED AND RE-CLEANING OUR SPECIALTY ALL KINDS OF TRUCKING DONE IN CON NECTION WITH WAREHOUSE. AURORA, - OREGON Dr. C. Am m eter I AURORA MEAT MARKET A il U p-to-date Sanitary M eat M arket th a t handles every thing b e s t i n m e a t s fresh and cured. OPEN EVENINGS DURING HARVEST SEASON W U R S T E R B R O S. Aurora, Oregon Chilly P I IB Protection Against the Rain for Little [Folks Bobby H ats Rain Capes Umbrellas Rubber F oot-W ear W ill Protect Your Health and A d d to Your Comfort at Will-Snyder Co. Evenings Coming IlillllllllilllHllllllillllKHUnfll OUR POET’S MASH Come and Select Your Heating Stove While Our Line Is Complete. Prices Lower than Past Season Hardware G. A. EHLEN X^W N Cffàsnìr% STORJt Implements Postal S avin g s Effected. As a result of the Washington con Three years of careful and econom ference for the limitatioh of arma ment, called by President Harding, the ical administration by the Republican United States Was saved $500,000,000 party has cut down the deficit'! in the postpffice department $117,489,609. annually in its naval expense. AURORA F E E D MILL IN THE GIESY BUILDING