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Tillamook Headlight, Octc
has imposed a war income
lia has a right to do this,
Russia is at war. Over here
dy have one "war tax” and
Is threatened. But we are at
(hat’s the answer?—Gervais
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Hl board menace has invaded
^^Krove. They came without
against the wishes of our
'people, and with the determination to
do about a
please. They put the
question squarely up to you, ‘what I
are youi.go>ng to do about it?—News-
blames this to improper returns. Evi-
dently he believes the republicans ex-
aggeiated the facts in order to retain
themselves in power. According to
Mr. Rogers’ system of addition there
arc 19,154 deaf and dumb persons in
the United States. However, the reas
on for this difference of 25,554 is
easily acounted for: They are former
mutes who have been shocked into
profane lingual activity by the devil-
ish antics of the democratic party,
and who are aurally alert to the pros
pect of the republican administration
in 1917. l he president once said that
the country was “vocal in spots".
Sam has put his finger on one of the
spots.—Astorian.
Many of the editors of the small pa
pers refuse to give their readers edi
Anent the short cuts different ed torials on the ground that editorials
itor* take. in their personals of the I are for large city papers and the pub
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movement of buzz wagon drivers lic does not care for the views of the
Carlton Sentinel sagely inquires country editor. As a mater of fact,
4 «5. 1 I “ the
if ‘Forded in Portland’is good form, the rural population are realy reflect
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why not 'Studebakered in Portland’ ed by the large editorials of the large
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(or anvFother place)’"—Hillsboro ln- city papers, which glean them front
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the country papers which run editor
dependptit.
nd 1
ials. lhe sound thought of the
lie
Multnom ah county farmers are country is to be found in the rural
en- I
kicking on the new hard surface districts. Here, in the more or less
road* because their youngsters im auiet of the country, men and women
mediately demand roller skates when read and study and gather data which
the hard surface is done. Roller skat results in conclusions founded on the
ing Qty-county roads is going some solid basis. Sometimes this thought
and’WiHbe good dope for next year’s may be biased by the enthuiasm
tooritt - literature.—Hillsboro Inde aroused by the impractical reformer
or selfish politician who runs off at
pendent.
a tangent with some new fad or
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Thiffireport of the various banks of ‘ism,” but generally such fads are
, the country at the last call of the con- short lived and the sensible thinker
troller'shows a grave situation. For | of the country returns to the sane and
instance 1 one of the large banks of solid conservative attitude which has
. Portiam
_._jnd is carrying a sixty per cent always distinguished him. The editor
re»drirt. It’s no wonder there are idle of the country paper, therefore, has a
men'when in one city alone more than duty to perform in crystalizing this
iifteeh million dollars are uninxested. thought and sending it out to the
nens
Wha t is wrong, anyway?—Amity world, as the contribution of this sec
tion of the country to the agitation of
Standard
the day. The country editor, usually
Aproaimately eight million people is a comparatively poor man, but he
attHKlconutry are now enjoying the has sand and independence and a
advantage es of automobiles. How long pride of work usually foundin profess
will it be j until the motor car is re- ions and he is brought into closer
sur
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garded j as
a an obsolete, as old Dobbin personal contact with his constituen
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today, and the ferorish public will be cy than the editor of the big city pa
contested with nithing slower than pers. It is safe to say that never be
air craft? Then after the air ship, fore in the history of Journalism have
SBkpt (Kxt? Will some Burbanknia bi editorials been more widely read, not,
ologist succeed in grafting wings upon perhaps as in the old days, to base an
oiogist
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the views
the editor,
of the human race pro- opinion on
■ami >. »the »boulders
sho
a people that is scarcely lower but for the purpose of getting all
id.
sides of the question.—Ione Journal.
t and
than „_ie
th angels?—Itemizer.
cing
The decision of the Suprc :me Court
■ that it is unlawful for cigar
■g grocery, or other retail stores
®ain open on Sunday and ex-
to
-O rema;
etMUtg drug stores, theaters, , doc-
tor’» «ft’ices, etc., is certainly a a most
b JBK .law. There are a large percen-
4f people who for various and
Seasons cannot make necessary
Kses during the week; on these
Krdship of the Sunday closing
Mt the hardest. But Oregon is
V all over the United States as
|Bk law state.—Coos Bay Har-
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en you see someone doing good
>ay so and say it so some one
(ear it. Don’t be afraid it will
ie the big head; that it will up-
jc judgment; that it will be tak
en for flattery; that it will be mts-
unddrstood. If you sincerely believe
^Tfood work has been done there
none of these dangers in say-
Probably one thing in the
Js history has contributed more
1 success, maybe after years of
(downs than ups, than the help
ed uttered by some one who ad-
the untiring zeal and pertin-
that proceeded final success.—
glens Mist.
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ie moonshiners of North Caro-
have invented a new drink called
¡key rum” that is 100 proof and
)s a man to see all kinds of ex
animals and snakes ouicker than
boncoction dispensed by the boot
Bs of Oregon. It is said to be
[of steeped tobacco water, mo
ll and stewed devils and a saucer
kill burn for five minutes when
Id. The monkey rum . jag lasts
1 times as long as a whiskey
It, and ends with a frightful
ium tremens. As a text for a pro-
on sermon it obscur s all the
of a silver-tongue'd orator.—
dan Sun.
ten Democrats sought power
pursued the trusts and promised
punishment for those responsible
hme and the high cost of living.
Jryan passionately advocated the
entiary for malefactors of this
, but the democratic administra
is rapidly approaching its close
a-e cannot recall a single instance
ein trust magnates have been
1 anything more severe than a
ocf whitewash. Mr. Bryan makes
e figure on the Chautauqu plat-
, and he leaks language just as
ive leakes water, but when it
es to carrying platform pledges
execution Bryan would rather
fn.—Lebanon Criterion.
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the city would only put in proper
ipment and do its own paving
k, what a lot more old _____
streets
Id come in, how much money it
Id save to the property owners,
what a lot more work it would
ride.
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them to pieces, and when properly
constructed, with flat crowns and
gritty surface texture, there is little
danger of horses and motors slipping.
In the long run the best road is
always the cheapest, and if it is built
economically and the farmer is not
required to pay more than his just
share of taxes it is sure to prove a
good investment.— Farm Life.
SUIT AIMS TO DEFINE
ROAD DISTRICT LAWS.
Conflicting Requirements cf Legi3
»-non iSesult in Embarrassing
Expenditure Conditions—Sen
ate Bill Expected to Prevail.
To reconcile conflicting legislation
adopted by the last legislature rela
tive to the districts in counties, a
friendly mandamus suit will be start
ed next week by District Attorney
Evans, as an officer of the State or
Oregon, against the Board of Corn
missioners for Multnomah County.
E. E. Coovert, as attorney tor
Roadmaster Yeon and a friend of the
good raods movement, will handle
the Board's interests. The object is to
have the case determined by the Su
preme Court with as much expedition
as possible in order that the boards
of the various counties of the state
may have clear legal ground on
which to work in the matter of road
districts.
1 he trouble arises through conflict
between house bill 91 and Senate bill
198, the former of which passed both
houses just a few hours prior to the
latter.
Senate Bill Expected to Prevail. . I
The House bill provides that “every
incorporated city’and town shall con
stitute a separate road district, and
the County Court shall not have au-
theory to divide such territory or in
clude, any of it in any other road dis
trict, while the Senate bill provides
for restricting annually at the option
of the courts, but does not require
that incorporated cities and towns be
made separate districts.
Mr. Coovert contends that the Sen
ate bill, the last expression of the leg
islature on the subject, undoubtedly
will be held to prevail, and in this
District Attorney Evans agrees, but
in order to eliminate the possibility
of illegal action on the part of the
County Board in road expenditures it
is necessary to have an expression
form the courts.
Save the Lumber Industry.
Expenditure . Embarrassment Caused
I
When considered in conjunction
The lumber industry is Oregon’s with the fact that the law also re
greatest commercial asset; when the quires 70 per cent of the road money
industry is sick, the state is in poor raised in a district to be expended
financial health. In the number of em within that district, the embarrassing
ployes, the lumber business ranks nature of the bill as far as Multno
first in the United States. In our saw mah County is concerned becomes
mill plants and their accessories— apparent.
wholly exculsivc of standing timber
Taxpayers resident within the City
and raw material—over one billion of Portland alone pay 94 per cent of
dollars, the amount that Great Britain the road tax of the county. Thus, for
and France need to finance their war, illustration, if $too,ooo in road reve
is invested. There is invested in the nue was raised, $65,800 of it would
standing timber and Taw material have to be spent in the city, leaving
$1,500,000,000. Nearly three quarters only $34,200 to be expended in the
of a million men are employed in the rest of the county.
lumber business.
Of this latter amount a large pro
The condition of the business portion would have to be spent with
most disheartening to those engaged in the corporate limits of Gresham,
in it; it has had a depressing effect on Troutdale and Fairview, ail incorpor
practically all other industries. Under ated, and therefore, separate road dis-
normal conditions, it is the largest tric s, if this legislation were to pre
purchaser of farm products. It uses vail.
the largest number of freight cars,
Disproportionate Taxes Loom.
and is second only to coal in the ac
This result would be that to provide
tual tonnage given to the railroads. suitable roads for the rural distric's
The lumber freight bill—to the rail of the country the farming coinmun
roads alone—is $200,000,000 annually. ity would have to be taxed cxo’bitan-
Eighty per cent of the gross price of tly, while the city would either get off
lumber delivered to any one of the with little or no tax for road purpose
large consuming centers of the Unit or have a large surplus of money.
ed States goes for transportation,
Officers of several counties have
farm products, and labor.
made inquiries of Secretary of State
The business is in a bad way. It is Olcott regarding this conflicting leg
sick from over production and uncon islation. The test case to be brought
trolled competition and from a failure in Multnomah County will do away
of demand. Our bénéficient govern with necessity of similar friendly
ment, which passes laws permitting suits being brought for the individual
unions to continue to destroy porper- counties.
As far as Multnomah County is
ty without fear of prosecution, has
also passed laws that prohibit the concerned, the Board is satisfied with
lumbermen from combinin? to save the present road districts and does
their property. According to the laws not wish to redistrict.
House bill 91 was introduced by
passed by the politicians for the reg-
ulation of business, the lumbermen Representative Hunt, of Clackamas
may not agree to limit the output, County, a resident of the City of Es
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which would be considered an act in tacada.
restraint of trade, But, in their appli
cation to the lumber trade, these laws
Sunday Closing Law.
are not just, nor is the interpretation
of them wise. The lumbermen are not
Following is the Sunday Closing
trying to limit the output to destroy Law which the courts of Oregon
the business, but to save it. Their have upheld and which is the cause of
purpose is not to raise the price to stores closing on Sunday:
the consumer, but to reduce the ex
Section 2125 of Lord’s Oregon laws
pense of manufacture to themselves. passed in 1864, amended in 1903,
They are not trying to kill competi reads as follows. “If any person shall
tion, but are trying to prevent unions keep open any stere, shop, grocery,
and unregulated competition from bowling alley, billiard room, or tip
killing them. The Sherman law was pling house, for the purpose of
enacted to restrain the strong from of
labor
or
traffic,
or
any
destroying the weak; the lumbermen place of amusement, on the first dav
of
keeping
arc looking for a means
of the week, commonly called Sunday
the law from ruining the weak and or the Lord's Day, such person, upon
strong alike.
conviction thereof, will be punished
There are bénéficient as well a* by a fine not less than $5 nor more
maleficent combinations. The one the than$5o; provided, however, that the
lumbermen are trying to effect be above provisions shall not apply to
longs to the former category, lt theaters, the keepers of drug stores,
would permit some mills to shut doctor shops,
undertakers, livery
down without the aid of the sheriff, stable keepers, butchers and bakers;
and would, by reducing expenses, and also circumstances of necessity
save the leading industry of the" coun and tncrcy may be pleaded in defense,
try from what'now seems inevitable which shall be treated as questions of
bankruptcy.—The Spectator.
fact for the jury to determine when
the offense is tried by jury.”
Building New Road*.
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When there are 400,000,000 people
Illinois is planning to spend nearly in a nation it is helpless. Look upon
$200,000,000 to improve the roads of China and India.
the state. It is proposed to build these
Germany efficiency would do good
roads of the most durable materials applied to the Russians; but East is
known—that is, of solid concrete, or East and West is West; and Russia
of brick embedded in concrete. The is Oriental.
State Highway Commission promises
The British censor occasionally
that the tax on farm property for the shows gleams of intelligence. He was
pavement of these roads will not ex wise in trying to surpress the story
ceed 8 cents per acre, per year, at about King George proposing a toast
least 6o per cent of the cost being im to President Wilson.
posed on corporations and municipal
Don’t suppose those packers who
ities.
If the tax on farms is thus kept lost $15,000,000 worth of meat to the
down to a reasonable figure, these British Government will turn their
durable "roads wilt be a fine invest bank deposits over to the billion dol
ment fbr all country property. Good lar loan, and they have some weight
roads always increase the "value of in Chicago.
After all the talk of regulating the
land.
It is said that the cost of keeping jitneys, they finally regulated them
up a concrete road is less than $30 selves. There is just as many as there
per mile per vear, while the cost of is demand for, and no more.
These street cars which pull the
building may run from $7,000 to $12.-
000 per mile. The roads are passable hole in after them, are to be thanked.
at all seasons, and are free from mud Not so many people make a spectacle
and dust. Automobiles do not tear oi themselves chasing one.
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