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ROADS IN SCOTLAND
Official figures as to the value oi
August's exports from the Oregon
customs distriot are 87.183.888. mak
ing the total for the 1»}« period up
to that time »41.887411. whereas for
the same period In 1 M the value of
exports was »18,113,270 and for the
corresponding time In 1924 was »88.
148,801. For all of 1918 the value of
exports was »41.818.347.
Poieoned Grain Not
Harmful to Birds
0 *7 bird* are the hardy athlete«
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The assumption that game birds
< the feathered world.’ according to A g u d W o m a n Says She N e v e r
may be killed by grain poisoned with
• theory advanced by C. H. Henshaw
S le p t in Bed.
strychnine and distributed to kill ro
a London natarallat.
dent pests has been found to be with
Male birds are forced to be dashing
Rannoch Moor, Scotland.—The most
out foundation. Feeding tests have
ly beautiful In order to attract the picturesque tramps of the Pelted
S TA N D BY Y O U R PARTY
shown conchutvoiy that the galllnn
tnore sober-colored females, Ur. Hen- Kingdom are Scotsmen who ply the
ceous
birds
as
'a
group,
Includlrg
shaw explains. But a bird that wears broad high road which runs along
quail, the prairie hen, sharp-tailed
•carlet. blue or orange feathers, and Loch Lomond and across the wild «»a
W ith 138,804 voters registered in grouse and sage grouse, possess
that sings loudly and otherwise makes desolate Rannoch moor to Inverness.
Multnomah oounty for the general certain Immunity from
himself conspicuous, must be sturdy
Probably the best known la "Long election November 3. republicans lead poisoning.
*nd alert If he Is to survive long Jock.” For half a century this
A striking test motto several years
enough to establish a home and raise ly blind mendicant has fiddled his way with a ratio of approximately three
a family. He Is as much a target for along the Perthshire roads, accompa to one, according to figures of regis ago In California definitely proved
his enemies as the warrior who used nied by two dogs. He shares all his tration. The republican registration that barley, poisoned according to the
te dash Into battle wearing a red coat meals with the dogs and at night was 88,380, of which number 61,810 bureau's standurtf' ground squirrel
formula In use In that state, hud no
and riding a white horse.
wraps Ills six-foot tartan plaid about are men and 88,081 women, while the effect on the abundance of the valley
How all this Illustrates the old prin them and himself and sleeps out un democratic total was J0.2S6, of which
quail. These birds were plentiful and
ciple of the survival of the Attest Is der a tree.
17.068 are men acd 13 178 women.
remained so In areas which were
ahown by Mri-Henahaw, who says:
“Old Johnson” Is another. He's a
The public service commission has heavily poisoned. Not a single dead
__ better mate an animal can get.
genial fellow In a Balmoral bonnet authorised the county commissioners quail was found, nor were any ob
the more chance Its descendants will and tattered frock coat He has a
served showing symptoms of strych
have ot survival, and It Is obvious wealth of humor and Is known to be of Multnomah county to construct an nine poisoning. Quail subsequently
that a male that has to face more a master of repartee. He has been overhead crossing of Capitol highway
over the tracks pf the Oregon Elec shot showed that they had been eat
danger and yet manages to'survive on the road for 80 yearst
ing the barley to a limited extent.
tric
railway, near Multnomah station
has In all probability a greater ca-
Highland trumps, or "tinkers," as
Some of the birds were captured and
parity for keeping alive thun one they are called around Rannoch moor, 84venty per cent of the cost shall be fed a poisoned mixture of barley. Ohe
which lives through less danger. speak the Gaelic language. They borne and paid by Multnomah county
udult quail ate 125 kernels of this
Therefore the female that chooses a move In clans and are known by the while 80 per oent shall be paid by the poisoned barley In 24 hours with no ! |
mate with a dangerous habit or struc family names, which often go back for Oregon Electric Railway company.
sign of 111 effects. This grain would
ture chooses what Is, aside from the centuries. The oldest member ot the
Work Is about to begin on the five- have killed 12 young squirrels.—Vet
dangerous part, a better and more fit clan Is the chief and his word Is law.
erinary Medicine.
mate.”
They are strict Sabbatarians and will mile graveling contract on Dry gulch
The
contractor
is
now
moving
his
This tends to raise the vitality of not even blow their bagpipes for aims
equipment Into place. The location
the bird species, he says, because the on Sunday.
Few Salmon Survive
One old woman who has been on the Is on the Baker-Coraucopla highway
male bird’s vitality is Inherited by
both sexes of his family, although his tramp In the western highlands for about 86 miles from Baker. The con
Season of Spawning
hazardous beauty Is handed on only 75 years boasts that she has never tract was let by the state highway
It Is believed that all Pacific salni
to his male descendants.—Science slept In a bed. She has brought up a commission. The coet la approximate- on die.after they get through spawn
family on the king's highway and
Service.
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ly »13 000 of which the state furnishes lng. As the spawning season ap
wears a wedding ring that has been
»10,000
and the county the remainder. proaches these fish work their way
handed down from mother to daugh
as far as possible up streams It la
Would you scrap Oregon’s direct
Sale of 300,000,000 feet of virgin
ter In her clan for 300 years.
The Republican party In Oregon is
Excesa of Gratitude
a well-known fact that some species
primary law? Would you surren
They have a Jolly life. Every five pins timber to the Pelican Bay Lum of salmon work their way up Into
fortunate In having Mr. Patterson as
der
the
Important
committee
chair
Not a Common Fault or six miles along the road Is a ber company, largest lumber concern brooks so shallow that their backs
Its candidate for governor. Success
manships now held by Senator^ Mc
Gratitude. In many people. Is only a “tramp’s hotel”—a barn or hut where In Klamath, by the Day Brothers In stick out before they deposit their
Nary, Smoot, Borah, Johnson, Jones,
ful business man and farmer he Is
strong and secret desire for further they can rest for the night or find terest and Chester and Richard Hov eggs. When they huve spawned they
W arren and Oddle, all Western men?
favors. I believe It was Goethe who shelter from the storms. The high ey of California, was reported. The turn over and die, leaving windrows
equipped to meet and solve the prob
Would you reipirdiate the policies of
wrote: “He who Is not grateful for a land farmers and shepherds know
huge tract of timber is located north of rotting carcasses on the shore. Dur
lems that w ill confront him as Gov
favor may be likened to one who mud them by name and exchange greetings
President Coolidge?
ing
this
season
the
salmon
get
very
of Bonanza, adjacent to the Klamath
ernor. Economy, h6 has practiced In
dles the spring from which his thirst whenever they meet
thin,
their
eyes
become
sunken,
their
The fight for the U. S. Senator-
was quenched."
Taxes and bank failures never wor Indian reservation. Figured at »6 a appetites grow less and less, their
private life. Economy he w ill prac
ship is between the democratic nomi
When gratitude, 1 heard another ry them and at the end there Is a thousand, a conservative figure, the throats begin to narrow acd their
tice as Oregon’s chief executive.
nee and Frederick Steiwer, republi
tramp cemetery In Stirlingshire called deal involved »1.200.000.
say, has become a matter of reason
stomachs shrink until they become
can.
No
Independent
has
ever
been
“No
Man’s
Land.”
The only real pre-election promise
lng, there are many ways of escaping
entirely Incapacitated for receiving
elected to the U. S. Senate
Mr. Patterson is making Is that he
Its bonds. Tills Is only another man
food and they then die. This, however,
I f you believe in the direct prim
ner of saying that he who expects
w ill not follow established precedent
READ THE WANT AIM
—TRY THE HERALD WANT ADS— holds true only of the Pacific salmon.
ary— If you want the west to retain
gratitude Is a merchant, not a bene
and spend the people’s time and
All other salmon. It seems, do not die
factor. Gratitude, which the ancients
ltp power In notional affairs by rea
after spawning, but large numbers of
money traveling about the state
always painted in the brightest colors.
them, especially the males, do not sur
son of republican control of the sen
making speeches.?
Is one’s duty, but It Is not an Inalien
vive the spawning season.—Pathfind
ate— if you believe in the policies of
I f you want a governor who w ill
able right one Is at liberty to exact.
er Magazine.
Calvin Coolidge—-
be on the job attending to buslnesp—
Honors de Balzac, In probably one of
VOTE 15 X STEIWER, FREDERICK
his less lurid moments, wrote that
VOTE 18 X PATTERSON, I. L.
N o . U p to Rastus
gratitude was a foolish word; that,
Dovzn
at
Camp
Taylor
in
1017
a
though appearing In the dictionary. It
By B R U C E D E N N IS
negro outfit was lined up before the
could never be found In the hearts.—
clerk for preliminary paper work.
Frank Hanson,-In Los Angeles Times.
Author of the Dennis Resolution
“Name and address," demanded the
W hen .the people fo Oregon enacted a state Income tax In
clerk of one husky recruit."
1923 they did so because they believed it was Juet and right.
“Huh?”
A g reed W ith the Jury
They believed It would reduce taxes. A t that
"What is yogr name and address?1
A slightly deaf old man who had
time they had plenty of theory and few facts
”Yo’ ought to know,” said Rastus.
been making whisky all his life was
Paid Adv.—Republican State Central Committee, Phil Metachan, Chairman.
To’ sent fo’ me 1’’—Capper’s Weekly.
to guide them.
finally picked up and arraigned un
They repealed that law In 1924 because
der the drastic Colorado still posses
sion law. The Jury, without leaving
It was a proved hard timqs breeder. I t cost
the box, returned a verdict of guilty.
the people of Oregon the staggering total of
“Old man,” said his lawyer, “the
»40,000,000 to learn that economic conditions
Jury says you are guilty."
absolutely beyond th eir control are such in
“Hay?”
Oregon that a state income tax drives out In
"The Jury says yon are guilty,” he
dustries, keeps others from coming In, reduces
repeated loudly In his ear.
payrolls, makes It harder to obtain farm
"In what degree?”
loans, and strikes a t every home In country,
"There Is no degree In a still case.”
village, town and city.
"Guilty all over, then?”
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"Yes.”
"Hay?”
But our state is again In tuqpoil because a determined ef
"Yes,” shouted the lawyer.
fort Is being made to,force practically this same law upon the
“Well, that’s what I told you In the
state this year*. Our people are being asked to ignore plain
first place, but you said you could
fundamental economic facts. They are being asked to enact a
clear me. Wish now I ’d got that Judge
law on “ guens” th at It w ill bring good times now, when pains
to defend me. Get him next time.”—
taking, honest investigation proved th at the former tax did
Everybody's Magazine.
drive out industries, capital. Jobs and millions of taxable wealth
from Oregon, and a new state Income tax w ill do I t again.
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Rain and the Moon
Oregon Is fu ll of merltorous projects that phould be develop
Near the equator the position of the
young moon never makes an angle of
ed, Big public improvements are necessary to open up our state
more than 30 degrees with the hori
to bing the farms closer to their m arkto and cities eloper to their
zon, and It Is generally In an even
bases of supplies. W ealth untold lies idle in natural resources
more nearly horizontal position, so
aw aiting the magic touch of development capital to bring It to
that In a part of the world notorious
the tax rolks, to create new payrolls, new activities and better
for regions of heavy rainfall, the moon
livelihood for osr people.
Is, according to the proverb, always
a "dry” one. The final absurdity of
Since the last income tax law*was repealed m illions of dollars
the Idea that changes In the moon de
' note rain Is the case of llie crescent
have been loaned In Oregon by outside financial eoncarns at low
moon as seen from the North and
rates on long time and w ith repayment privileges never known
South poles, where It Is always what
to Oregon before. I f a new Income tax law la enacted, and this
the proverb describes as “wet,” for
discrimination aimed directly at thepe investors, rates w ill go
at those places the line Joining the
up, much of the unloaned funds w ill be w ithdraw n, and our peo
tips of the crescent always makes an
YOU ARE STILL PAYING ENORMOUS WAR TAXES TO THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT — NOW THE STATE
ple w ill again face the inescapable fact Oregon needs capital, but
angle of less than 25 degrees to the
WANTS TO TAX YOU AGAIN!
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capital
does
not
need
Oregon.
vertical; yet the polar regions are
characterized by so little precipitation
THE U. S. GOVERNMENT GETS 6 CENTS EVERY TIME YOU BUY 20 CIGARETTES. NOW THE STATE WANTS TO
This Is no time fgr prattle. I t Is Sigh time for plain speak
in the form of rain and snow that they
TAX YOU 2 TO 3 CENTS MORE!
,
rank among the arid regions of the
ing, straight thinking and recognition of the hard economic
EIQ ET EES CENTS GOES TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR EVERY POUND OF YOUR TOBACCO NOW TH E
globe.
fact that Oregon’s farmp, her industries, and her citizens dee-
Republican
ELECT
ELECT
Frederick Steiwer
I. L. Patterson
U. S. S E N A T O R
GOVERNOR
Every Forward Looking Citizen Should I
Fight for Oregon and Its Development!
Do Your Duty-Vote Next Tuesday
VOTE 323 X NO!
Do you want to pay Two Taxes
For Your Smokes
STATE PROPOSES TO ADD ABOUT 9 CENTS EXTRA!
Buried Treasure
A grim statistician announces that
nnder the sod In the cemeteries of
, this country a treasure estimated at
S $20,000,000,000 has been burled since
A the beginning of American history
No one can dispute these figures. No
one will care to analyze them care
fully.
The ancient tombs of Egypt have
given up treasure of priceless value.
Excavations In burled cities have
shown that man has ever held to the
custom of hurylng Jewels and baubles
2 and valuable trinkets with the dead.
The sword and helmet of many a
1 warrior have gone with him Into his
dark and narrow bed.—T hrift Maga
Effect
’ said the college
to lessen the endur-
other words,” butted
I n the
__
student, "the more one alts, the
less one can stand."
“Exactly,” retorted the lecturer;
"and I f one lies ■ great deal, one's
standing is lost completely."—The Out
Judge the W hale hy One
A
Itself
corporation may spread ____
over the whole world and may employ
one hundred thousand men, but the
person will usually form his
of it through bis contact
_______ individual. I f this person Is
rude or Inefficient, It will take a lot
of kindness and efficiency to overcome
the bud Impression. Every member of
an organisation wbo In any capacity
- cameo to contact with the public is a
' t l'iiu n r and the Impressloo be akes
z is an advertisement, good or
ta n d o rd Data Ctgest-
W e can drive capitx.1 out, but we cannot force It to come in
unless we make it advantageous for It to do so. Oregon, ninth
state in area. Is relatively Insignificant economically. 119,00,-
000 of America’s 120,000.000 people reside outside at Oregon.
Let us remember the industrial city of Detroit has over 100.000
more people than the state of Oregon, w ith Its 98,000 square
miles. Let us remember th a t 782,256 people here didn’t make
enough to file Income tax returns, and th a t only 311 pjeople In
the entire ptate had earnings In excess of »10,000; th at of Ore
gon's 5,000 corporations only 1073 ade euomugh prolft to file
taxable reoprts that ,478 mad» less than »,5000 and only 183
over »20,000, including a ll public utilities, lumber mills, flour
mills, factories, railroads, and other industries.
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W e have 65,157 farms, one to every 15 persona, 2500 Indus
trie», one- to each 330 persons. W hat would onto Industrial cen
ter like Detroit -mean to our farms, our home owners, our work
ers, our state? Oregon wants them, Oregon wants capital and
wants to go ahead. Oregon wanta to avert economic disaster,
and Instead wants to o ffw capital, new people, new Industries,
opportunity to help us grow.
That is what the Dennis resolution Is for. I t guarantees that
no state Income tax can be enacted to discriminate against de
velopment and prognsw before l»<0. I t guarantees to every
Oregon fam ily that the state w ill not tax its accumulations when
the bread w inner dies. As a prosperity m aking ndsasure It de
serves the support of every forward looking citizen.
V e t . 30« X YES— DewHs
V eto 328 X NO— O ffset Ii
V eto 33S X NO
Paid Advertisement
Greater Oregon Ass’n.
J. O. Elrod, Chairman
It means that you will have to pay ten to fifteen
per cent more for your smokes
IT MEANS THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY A SPECIAL TAX FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF SMOKING!
IT MEANS AN ADDITIONAL HORDE OF REVENUE COLLECTORS WHOSE SALARIE8 YOU HAVE TO PAY.
IT * £ ¿ » 3 THAT THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF SYSTEM OF STATE NUISANCE TAXES—NEXT
CANDY, THEATRE TICKETS, 7 COSMETICS,
ALL FOR YOU TO PAY.
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J. B. Yeon
G. G. Guild
W. 8. Babson
» I» Oregon Bldg., Portland, Oregon
THEN GUM
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IS IT FAIR TO SINGLE YOU OUT TO PAY A SPECIAL TAX JUST BECAUSE YOU ENJOY A SMOKE?
VOTE NO ON THE CIGARETTE
AND TOBACCO TAX
• Tax BUI.
Tax BUI.
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M . S. Hirseh
Ira F. Powers
R. L Macleay
J. H. Burgard
H. J. Frank
CIGARS.
(Paid Advertisement)
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