THE LANE COUNTY NEWS
tWILLAMETTF
W. A. DILL
Editor and Mnnngor
Published Every Monday nnd Thursday by the Lane County Pub
lishing Association.
HATES OK SUUSCMPTION.
One Year 51.60 Six Months .75 Throo Months .61)
Advertising Kates Furnished on Application.
Member of the State Editorial Association.
Member of the Willamette Valloy Editorial Association.
And Remember to Get a Stop-Over for Springfield.
SPRINGFIELD. OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 112, 1915
REGULATED TO DEATH
In 1S6S the value of American exports carried in Ameri
can vessels was one hundred and seventy-live million dollars.
In 1914 It .was one hundred and sixty-nine million dollars.
Meanwhile, total American exports rose from less than half a
billion to more than two billions. From the former to the
latter date the proportion of exports carried in American ships
declined pretty steadily year after year, says the Saturday
Evening Post.
Now this is mainly an effect of government regulation.
Say what else you please about it. there is the outstanding
fact that in one way or another Congress did most of it. Since
1868 we have built up a railroad system that Is equal to that
of all Europe combined and carries freight at the lowest ton
mile rate in the world. We have developed far and away the
greatest steel industry in the world. Other Items of American
achievement will occur to everyone. In the matter of ship
ping we were once in the world's van. That we should now
be at the tail of the procession, if American skill and enter
prise had been given a perfectly free hand to compete on the
sea with othr countries, is unthinkable.
We have tried a number of experiments in the way of
government regulation of business. For example, there is
our experiment of leaving private owners to raise the capital
for railroad expansion, while the Government fixes the rates
to which capital must look for its remuneration. On the
whole it has worked tolerably well, but less well latterly than
in former years. There is our experiment of trying to stop
the co-ordination of business into bigger units, which has
produced ony annoyance so far. But in our experiment with
shipping we were open to foreign competition all along the
line, and unless all forecasts- of the effect of our latest ad
venture in that field the Seaman's Act are false the result
is going to be pretty complete failure. It shows that a busi-
. ness may be regulated to death.
THE QUESTION OF ASSESSED VALUATION
Ira P. Holcomb, assessor of the new county of Jefferson,
gives the Madras Pioneer an interview on the subject of as
sessing property for purposes of taxation, in which he says:
"Some were of the opinion that if the assessment was
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raised that it would Increase the taxes. This is not the case;
for the taxes are only such as are required to meet the ex
penses of the state, county, school and road districts. If the
assessment is raised, then the millage is correspondingly low
ered; for the same amount must be raised whether the assess
ment is high or low.
"To illustrate: Suppose the tax tone raised by Jefferson
county for next year is $100,000 it would make no dlcerence
whether our assessed valuation was $1,000,000 or $2,000,000;
that same $100,000 would have to be raised. Certainly in the
one case the millage would be onyl one-half as great as in
the other; but the same number of dollars would have to be
collected."
Theoretically, (he Jefferson county assessor is correct,
but the dilliculty enters in determining the amount of money
that must be raised. People, through a series of years, be
come accustomed to paying taxes of approximately a certain
rate. If the assessed valuation of Springfield, for example,
were suddenly doubled, and the next year's tax rate cut in
two, there would be the tendency in succeeding years to
increase the tax rate to meet additional town activities. There
would be the tendency to resume activities that have been dis
continued, since the five-mill levy would look small after the
citiens had been accustomed to ten and twelve.
Another objection to making any razdical departure in
the basis of assessment is the possibility of inequalities creep
ing in. Assuming that property at present is assessed at a
fairly uniform rate, and one that is just to all concerned, and
decided change would impose the duty of carrying the in
crease uniformly to all.
It is not likely, however, that there will be any decided
changes in the basis of assessment In the older con n ties of
the state. The problem is an interesting one to Jefferson
county becouse it is just setting up housekeeping in the
family of Oregon counties.
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"California and Its Two Expositions" will Interest
you.
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attention.
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John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Ore.
Under a new law in Maine
editors and correspondent of
newspapers are classed with
policemen in uniform, firemen
on duty and in uniform in being
entitled to receive passes from
the railroads of Maine and the
trolley lines.
i The legislature took this ac
tion at the last session in re-
t
spouse to numerous uemamis
that the
the Probate Court of Lane County,
Oregon, and that all persons having
claims against said estate are requir
ed to file tho sume, duly verified, with
the said administratrix at Springfield,
Oregon, or at tho law olllc-o of Will
iams ii Dean Kugono, Oregon, within
six months from tho date of the first
publication of this notice.
Date of first publication, July 22,
101G.
VINA McLI'AN,
Administratrix.
WILLIAMS & II KAN,
Attorneys for Estate.
Th to8-19.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK, EUGENE, OREGON.
.'Established 1SS3
Capital and Surplus - -- - - $30",000.00
Interests on Savings Accounts a nd Time Certificates
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice Is hereby given that tho un
dersigned has been appointed admin-
laws be Changed to jjoei ,ioceaBGd. All riersonH havlnir
meet requirements of situations CluIms against said estato aro hereby
developing from duty calls of notified to present tho same, duly vor-
nn;, ,7,i r.fiuinii o,wl Vin rv- ",!U n,lu wiiii ma proper voucuers,
officers and firemen and the ex- th(j a(UnUlilitrtllr at' tho oinco of
igencies of the newspaper busi- woodcock, Smith & Hryson, 210 Har
ness requiring trips OI1 purely , nurd Hulldlng, Eugene, Oregon, within
urnffmairmnl luiKiiiPKK six months from the date of tho first
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Date of tho first publication of this
The subject has ben discuss
ed and argued for years, and the
action of the state lawmakers at
last settled a much debated
question of rights and privileges.
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Mrs. Jessie Jones.
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One cent due on all advertised
letters.
HARRY M. STEWART
Postmaster.
notice August 5. 19 in.
HEItENICE NOEL.
Administratrix of tho estato of Stan
islau K. Noel, deceased.
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