BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE— Friday, August 11, 1950
! Perkins Realized Fortune
Awaiting In Cattle
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S A FE G U A R D OF CONTROL
The upward spiral of inflationary prices,
let the public be damned while “ they” fret
theirs, is speeding up. All levels and most
all industries are affected by the mad rush
to pump a little leavening into the purchas
ing dollar.
Printing and publishing now feel this
trend, by notification that all paper prices
tire advancing by an immediate 10%. Every
line, it seems, is under the influence that
now is the time to grab a little extra and
set up a little higher ceiling when comes an
expected freeze o f prices.
It matters little, apparently, that price
controls will lie accompanied by a roll-back
in prices to a certain definite date. The pro
cedure must have seeds o f hope that by
raising the prices of evep ’thing, some things
might not get caught in the eventual roll
back.
Price controls are cumbersome and re
strictive. They are theoretically imjiosed as
a protection for consumers who are not well
able to protect themselves in the purchase of
necessities. Rut the strange goings-on in
Washington D. C. point up the gruesome
probability that little bleeds the heart o f the
federal government at the nation’s con
sumers now pressed by an ever-increasing
upturn o f prices.
True, there are some legislators who have
made a bold, grandstand play of advocating
price-wage and other controls. Rut though
these characters fly the standards o f a pop
ular cause, some of the suggestions made
are somewhat suspect.
And stepping up with a measure which
purports to do a public service, yet is doom
ed to a quick casting-off, is no substitute for
statesmanship which honestly meets a need
and sees it through to acceptance.
Maybe we are becoming alarmed too easily
and too early. Perhaps the prices raises that
will come before a curb is made will so far
outstrip present expectations that today’s
fudging by 5 and 10 percent will seem as
the dearest of normalcy.
We are not gifted with second sight or
clairvoyance. It is impossible for us*to tell
what passes in the minds of our national
leaders. It is not impossible, however, to
know what will happen to the wage dollar
we grub out i f this fantastic inflation o f
rices for things we need in the conduct o f
usiness or supply o f the dinner table con
tinues much more.
Whether or not there is hard justification
for general price raises before the threat o f
a war-time economy might be debatable. The
matter o f business profit, as reported time
after time by company after company in in
dustry after industry, repeats a common
pattern o f greater and greater volume. Far
do these profits outstrip any estimate o f in
creased wages, no matter how generously
such figures might be padded.
The low man on the economic totem pole
has little hope o f getting by without the
safeguard of price controls.
K
TH E D EFENSE D O LLA R S
It is somewhat startling to regard the
rising demands for more taxes with which
to prosecute the action in Korea, after con
sidering how much money has been osten
sibly spent on defense since the day o f A r
mistice in August o f 1945.
New military funds are l)eing requested,
to pile upon the already dispersed fift y bil
lion dollars that marked the last four years
of uneasy peace. More taxation is being
pressed upon us all, even though there has
been practically no letup in the federal take
since the last war ended.
The appetite of the lederal government
seems to have been whetted and stimulated
by the last abnormal decade. Events have
conspired to encroach more and more deeply
upon the national income. Sometimes it
seems as though the end will never come to
the growing burden o f federal taxation.
The country is well united behind Pres
ident Truman in the action he moved to ac
celerate, in seeking an end o f aggression in
Korea. There isn’t even an excess of protest
at the bland call for more taxation— with
never a possible thought at repeal o f war
time excise taxes that never have l>ecn re
pealed or lessened.
It might l>e an extravagant gesture, at a
time like this, to just wonder what might
have happened to the four year accumula
tion o f taxpayers’ money which was allo
cated to national defense. In terms of na
tional defense which this money was sup
posed to provide, it took only the require
ments o f the Korea expedition to bring pain
fully home the realization that huge gaps re
mained in our means o f national security.
Could fifty billion have been spent wisely
and still not prepare us to a state o f readi
ness for "police duty” that the international
unrest might have well prophesied?
Somewhere, in the complex jigsaw o f na
tional affairs, there must exist a relation
ship between taxation and high national in
come. Whether 6r not the numerical ascend
ency of wealth produced is part and parcel
of the current, easy-s|)ending philosophy of
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old cattle days with the landlord, and began harassing the clerk.
I d Perkins never failed to point with inquiries^ Where was lh,
out to them the statue of the gild- steer which had adorned the tower
former
years
ed steer .n the tower, high above1* in - .......
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' ~ 7 Some how the
place didn't seem the same without
the busy street.
him.
At length, during the severe
So A. Everett Meyers, who leased
Mr
Perkins
be-
panic of 1803-4
the hotel for ten years, in 1924,
HUBER AND BEAVERTON
in financial dif-
came involved m ***‘~ "
brought the steer back from hi.
■ and re
FLUNG MEAT INDUSTRY
re- stored him to his place of honor
the lofty niche. And there he
the Willamette valley, driving them modeled the building in 1906 and ^
'“ ^en "today ^ h e ' hotel ^
| to the mines in Eastern Oregon ..legated the steer to
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Wash A Multnomah Counties
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Two Y e a r s ------------------------ $3.78
ihree Y e a r s _________________ 8.00
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government might lie subject for a good
(Continued from last week)
argument.
Basic mathematics bring the fact home to
When Joseph Gaston brought his
a wage-earner that the money withheld from Oregon Central (West side) Raii-
his weekly paycheck means a curtailment of road to Hillsboro, in the fail of
his spending and enough o f that m ight even 1872, Richard Perkins had a farm
start him to thinking. And at the rate o f on the present site of Huber, and
taxation in the last four years o f perilous f\he„
k.no" " a" Per* T
peace, certainly the prospect o f more deduc- school
' 38 ng'
er
ns
c
ren went to
at Beaverton, about a mile
tions is increasingly alarming.
further east.
I t ’s easy to couch an appeal for more, The annuaI school mee
ln
taxes on a matter o f m ilitary needs. Rut 1871> had been the occa8ion *of a
certainly a little closer bookkeeping or budg- relocation fight. Mike Kennedy
eting would be commendable, to bring us a and some of the other patrons,
dollar’s worth o f defense for a dollar’s worth who lived east of Beaverton want
o f military allocation.
ed to move the schoolhouse, which
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DON’T DLSTURB A D R E AM
O f all the fancy provisions put forward,
to the loud laments of real estate interests,
is the idea o f licensing all transactions, as a
W a r m easu re.
stood beside Johnson (or Ash)
Creek, Just west of the town, to
their own locality. Perkins led the
fi» ht to keeP *<■ where it was.
' The meeting was held on the
porch of Jesse Griffith's store, and
drew a large crowd. The arguments
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buying
cattle
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a "handsome'profit.h* ^
** TeUrementVr 18 years, until 1924
m etT^poUs^th
He continued in this bus.ness for
But cattlemen^ ,tll‘ ^ ‘‘“ '" b b y nearly 400.000 people, while I^ng-
| about two years, then went to the hotel, lounging In the lobt >
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Hnwn frnw, J .
Montana, where he followed about and swapping tales of the rango
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per ch to watch its growth,
the same line of work. H U new day., realized that •omethlni; * • *
(ContjnUed next week)
venture took him to Idaho, Mon- j missing about the familiar place^
tana and Washington, and south
into Texas and California. Often
he spent weeks at a time out on
the open range.
Frequently he drove his herds
to grasslands in neighboring states
and, months later, brought them
back again to the booming mar
kets of the Northwest.
Once he started for California
with 4400 sheep but sold them on
the way at a good profit; then
continued on to Texas, where he
bought 4000 head of cattle and
drove them back to Oregon.
In 1871, he came back to Port
land, bringing a herd of cattle
with him. It was at this time that
he bought the farm west of Bea
by Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation,
verton. The next year he bought a
herd of 800 cattle and drove them
an instrumentality of the United States Government
to Umatilla county, where he pur-
chased 80 acres for a corral; then
A tafe, profitable and convenient way to
turned his cattle loose and engaged
•ove or invest money.
in the stock business.
He continued to develope the
Beaverton farm, increasing his
herd to 5000 cattle and adding a
Current Dividend
herd of 500 horses. He became one
° f the most extensive stock raisers
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By the bald statement and sketchy de- continued nearly all day and endod and d“ J*™ ° n ‘ he Pacifi,c <roaat ..
scrintion a s carried bv the w ir e se rv ic e s in a comPromls‘*. Whereby the
He enjoyed the life of the trail
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k * school was placed just west of tht* and the roundup, and established
this seems to have a side that is not being Beaverton ditch where it. remain many life-long friendships with
protested. Yet, if indications are what th ey*cd for many years,
members of the cattle raising fra-
seem, this idea would hit a prospective home
P,
Perkins was an Englishman, who ' ernily- But the years began to
buyer right between the eyes and, at the bad COme to America in 1851, when tell upon him, and, in 1886, at the
Same time, put a heavy arm on his pocket- he was 28 years old He had learn- age of 63' he sold out and moved
book.
ed the butcher’s trade from his back to Portland. There he rented
Wartime revenue needs o f the govern- father in England, and was very a hotel, the Holton House and di
rected it for five years.
ment, all can but heartily recognize, call for good at it.
In 1890 he began the construc-
extra effo rt and added donation by the tax-
After coming to this country, he
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agreement for any adventure in war-making where he went he heard people was ° P ened February 4, 1891 and
is an expensive matter calling fo r all out talking about the wonderful op- was one of the most imposing
support.
portunities in t he “golden west" buildings and one of the best ho-
Rut when it comes to putting blocks and and "he decided to go there to tels in the etty, handsomely fur
nished and provided w’ith all mod-
obstacles in the matter o f home-buying— if make his start,
such is the intent o f the proposal— the ac
He
realized
that those who ! ern tmProve*T>ents
He wanted it to serve as the
sought fortunes in the mines were
tion might well lie a little far-fetched.
rendezvous for his friends, the
not
always
successful
and
believed
One o f the traditional dreams o f any
cattle. ™en' and he ° rdered * Sild'
American citizen is to eventually own a he would be more certain of sue- ed
statue of a longhorn steer,
home. Trading on this tradition, there was cess 11 he stuck t0 hls trade. Hav- carved from native cedar placed
sprung up a veritable forest of houses, fi- ‘n* hea,d ma" y 'av° rAbl* * 7 or‘ s in a nich in a corner of the tower
nanced by F H A or other means, which has
“ K',n e 1 " l<,‘ to
near the hotel roof.
Range acquaintances came from
fulfilled that dream to varying degrees.
Early ,n Aprll 1M2> he set out
OlK? who is consigned to eternfllly paying across the plains, driving four yoke near and far to stop at the Per
rent is hampered from realization o f home- of oxen for Robert Perry, to pay kins and spend an evening rem
ownership, ending up with bundles and for his board and transportation, iniscencing the experiences of the
bundles o f worthless rental receipts. And SO, The long and dangerous Journey
by whatever means, the urge is somehow to was accomplished without unusual
incident or hardship and the party
get a house to call your own.
arrived
at The Dalles in early N o
Supj)ose the pattern o f war-earnings com
vember.
pares to the past. Say it. Most people are
With $16 in hls pocket, Perkins
thinking it, anyway.
proceeded to the Cascades, where
To the appeals fo r war savings bonds, he worked for a while in a board-
which right-thinking citizens will gladly ing house; but, before the end of
purchase to aid the war effort, there should the month, he w u in Portland
not be tied a restriction that home purchases working for Albright and white,
are out. It is too undisguised a denial o f a ] butchers. After a few weeks, he
gave up that Job and. ln partner
most worthy urge.
There m ight be people who would plough ship with A H. Johnson, started
ill-gotten gains into real estate, rather than the Empire Market, under the firm
name of Johnson and Perkins.
following the more decent pattern o f buying
For about ten years the business |
war-bonds (whose dollars will go to back up prospered, while a great tide of
the country’s figh tin g men). Let the restric immigration swelled the population
tions be made on them, rather than the of the city.*
small home seeker.
Watching with keen interest the
The American economy is largely based growth of the town and the de
upon a free nation at whose core is the small velopment of its markets, Mr.
and large property owners. Real estate tax Perkins began to realize the grent
ation is the backbone o f government rev possibilities in the cattle business
and decided to turn drover and
enue.
: cattle buyer.
Let’s not disturb the one American dream
In 1862 the firm of Johnson and
so significant beyond others.
Perkins was dissolved, and Perkins
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began
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P O W E R F U L O PPO SITIO N
When jail doors clanged on Harry Bridges,
the success o f a long campaign had finally
reached its culmination. Repeated attempts
to deport this president o f powerful West
Coast labor union now seem to have paid off.
Except for his alleged political persuasions
— for which, i f true, there can I k * no toler
ance— Bridges has won respect o f the ma
jority o f his followers. His influence, in one
field, has been and is felt in many commun
ities o f the West.
It can be no more than just to admit that,
with all his hullabaloo and despite the pow
erful enemies he made, that Bridges brought
to the once-lowly "dock walloper” , a dignity
and a social identity totally lacking before.
Because o f this, attempts to carry through
on de-naturalizing and deporting Bridges
will meet powerful opposition.
W H E R E DOES IT GO?
A hospital o f the area is in the throes
o f labor trouble with statements put forth
claiming and denying that service and main
tenance employees are underpaid.
W ith the high level o f hospital rates, it
seems unbelievable that any employee re
ceives less than $1 per hour.
Where does it all go?
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F A C IN G U P DECISION
The Billy Graham phenomenon continues
unabated.
In Portland, no doubt attracted by revival
ballyhoo and mob psychology, attendance
might indicate a soul-searching out o f pro
portion to the comparatively few converts
to faith.
Is this the sign o f facing up a decision of
private or personal dedication, a desire of
people to believe and a looking for comfort
and guidance?
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