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HEADLIGHT, ÀPR il 5. 1917, T1LLAM0ÒÉ - ■ -- püll TILLAMOOK OUT OF THE MUD ! Splendid Opportunity of Obtaining Hard Sur faced Highway Through the County with State and Federal Aid. Good Roads Oregon’« Greatest Issue. now, then in the very near future. can be produced will be sold at The time is past when we should con a that ——o------ profit. sider the advisability of paving our Fifteen years ago, when we began main roads if we have to consider to build good roads, we were selling motorized transportation.—F. S. Gun milk to the condensers at $1.25 per ning, County Judge of Wasco County. hundred, while the last quotation is about $¿.10. What is true of assisting and promoting the dairy farmer is “Pull Oregon Out of The Mud'* likewise true, in the fullest degree, when applied to the wheat, fruit and Washington has approximately 440 other farm interests.—John P. Hart miles of hard surfaced roads, built at man, Seattle, Washington. a cost of $6,boo,000, says the Pacific Homestead. Washington has approximately Jay Bowerman Speaks. 5,300 tniies of oil and water-bound ----- o----- macadam, gravel and crushed rock At a recent good roads meeting at roads, which, it is estimated by James Allen, State Highway Commissioner, Oregon City, Attorney Jay Bower State Wide Road Conference Post have cost $39,320,000. man, of Portland, who drafted the The expenditures of the State High original bonding bill, gave an inter poned. way Department in Washington the esting talk on the good roads ques past eight years represent a total of Instead of being held April 7 or $12,032,095.10 and the tax levies for tion. hollowing are a few scraps of April 14. as originally announced and county road improvement for the his speech, taken from the Oregon later amended, the state-wide con same period have been as follows: Voter: 1 can’t understand how Mr. Brown ference of good roads supporters has County road and bridge fund, $13,902- been postponed to a date to be an 812.81, and county road district fund, can consistently oppose this act and try to prevail upon his farmer friends nounced shortly. $19.707.420.79; aggregate tax levies As delegates have been elected for county road improvement for the that it is a vicious measure. Mr. Brown and 1 lived in the same county from nearly every county, indications period being $33,610,233.60. for a good many years, traveled over are that the meeting will be well at Washington continues to spend big the roads which were two feet deep tended. sums of money for good roads. The The Statewide Legislative Good people of that state are willing to tax tn dust on the level in Summer and Roads Committee, of which Dr. W. themselves for that purpose, fot they impassable muddy bogs in winter. Wc both moved to Multnomah County Hillsboro, A. Wood, wuvu, of --------- , t is chairman, " -- ----- - , of -c .,,1,. is • S have discovered it is the best invest where wc have enjoyed the benefit’s a..— — Bruce and vv Dennis, _ LaGrande ment they can make. of good roads, and why he should that * the secretary, feels LL- '.** u~ conference is has expended $85,000,000 want his farmer friends of Eastern juiuui. that • t th?** -J—-*-« to ar for California so important they desire good roads. That state plans to in il as such z a d~ date as will insure vest $15,000,000 more for good roads Oregon to be condemned to everlast range i. ‘- "■ “s best within the next two years. If these ing wallowing in dust and mud is be the largest attendance and ‘ ** the yond my comprehension. results. immense stitns had not proved good "Mr. Brown's chief objections to Text of formal call, as soon as it is investments, it is not reasonable to the bonds, so far as I could gather, assured, will be forwarded. suppose that the citizens of California was that they do not run long enough would continue to put their money 1 drew the bonding measure myself in more good roads. Cost Falls on Autos. and know that both interest and prin Citizens of Oregon, can you afford cipal will be taken care of under the The cost of this bond issue has been to ignore such a momentous issue? system laid out. There were no dark placed on the automobile and most Are you satisfied to remain in the mysterious star-chamber proceedings, automobile men are glad to pay the mire? If you want the state to devel as have been gravely hinted at. I cost. Why? Because we had rather op and keep abreast with Washington know what 1 am talking about and no pay our money to build good roads and California, it should be your duty one can justly accuse me of being than to pay it out for extra tires and to vote for the $6,000,000 road bond identified with the paving interests. ing act. Help ‘Pull Oregon out of Why I defeated the Warren Con repairs. Will the people from the interior be the mud.” struction Company in two separate benefitted? There is no question suit» in the circuit courts, Would they about that. The bonds mean better Mr. Spence’s Argument Fallacious. likely to regard me in a friendly Ijgh't roads for every section of the country in consequence? and better roads mean many things. “The legislature labored along for The Pacific Interstate says C. E. The farm or ranch can be sold for Spence, master of the Oregon State 35 days and had a road code and more money if one wishes to sell. Grange, has filed an argument with everything worked out except the Marketing is facilitated and the cost secretary of State Olcott against the means wherewith to build the roads. per- is lessened. The sooner we get ---- $6,000,000 road bonding act to be us I concived the idea of capitalizing the manent roads the sooner will the ed in the voters pamphlet. He says he tax levy and the automo taxes grow less. Good roads cost less favors good roads, but he urges the bile license revenue whereby we could to maintain. If we dump our money people not to vote a debt upon the realize a large amount of ready cash each year into a few mud holes and state for what he calls a "luxury.” and a splendid system of good roads keep it up from year to year we have immediately and could take our time If that is the main argument Mr. benefitted no one not even the men Spence has against the measure, every in paying for them without costing who fill the mud holes for they have one of his friends who does not own the taxpayers a single cent. to pay part of the taxes too. “I will admit that I am a little an automobile especially should vote for the bonds. If an automobile is a proud of the idea and cannot see for Automobile God’s Greatest Gift To “luxury”, possibly a paved road is a the life why the farmers, the very “luxury.” The quarter mill levy on ones which the measure is designed The Farmer. taxable property now is being applied to benefit and in whose behalf the peo ----- o----- ple of the state have so generously The automobile is God’s greatest to road construction; the law doubl voted to permit the state to bond it gift to the farmer. It has brought him ing automobile licenses was enacted self for $¡8.000,000 to provide them more benefits than any other civiliz by the last legislature and will be with cheaper money, should arise ed agency. Coupled with jpood roads, come effective August 1, 1917, but and condemn this proposition, when it is the greatest force of the age for the new scale of fees generally is not they have everything to gain and ab bettering the farmer's living condi oprative during the present year. The solutely nothing to lose. tion. It puts him within easy i%ach of interest and principal of the bond is “The trouble with Mr. Brown is, as town. It gives him the advantage of sue are to be met mostly out of the he confesses, that he does not know the city. It has taught him to live the fund created by motor vehicle license. much about the bill he is condemning. It therefore follows that the burden hours he used to spend in waiting be I think he is acting in very poor grac fore he learned to live on pneumatics. is placed on the men who have the when he claims he is representing the It takes much of the drugery out of ability to pay for paved roads, "lux farmers, the very people you and I ¡arming. It keeps the young people or. uries,” at it were, for the big propor helped to secure cheap improvement the farm. It keeps him in touch with tion of the people who are not taxed money, in opposing something we I what others are doing—gives him a for the additional cost of permanent want. chance to get the outside viewpoint, highways, except that they shall pay now “To show that he does not know I and by placing him in frequent con their quota of the quarter mill levy much about the bill, he asserts that tact with his fellows, puts him in a for road work anyway. We as yet the only roads of first importance position to take advantage of what haven’t found the owner even of a designated as the hard-surfaced roads they have learned. It makes better "flivver” who is not supporting the Section 6 of the measure clearly pre school attendance. It has made a real bond measure. One of the results of good roads, scribes that all of the roads desig farmer out of him, because without nated in Sections 6 and J of the an automobile he spends half of his as proposed under the bonding act, bill shall be known as ‘roads of time as a teamster.—W. S. Allen, would be to develop the rural com the first importance.’ Section 7 munities. The main proportion of the ramhill County, Oregon constitute cost will fall on the shoulders of the prescribes what shall urban population. It is simply a prop- post roads. Doesn't that look like osition where the farmer is to be all of the roads in the measure, with Auto Pays The Bonds. benefited in a tremendous way at a the exception of the forest roads, are of the first importance? “That $6,000,000 is a large sum to minimum cost to himself. “As to the whole matter being put Mr. Spence, we reiterate that you take away from the taxpayer,” is an assertion being made a good deal in are trying to hoodwink the grange up to the counties, as represented by commenting upon the pending road and to play politics at the expense of Mr. Brown, Section io of the act pre bond issue. the state’s real progress and develop scribes that the Highway Commission The assertion is based upon a prev ment. Again, we suggest that it shall designate the routes and pre alent misunderstanding of what the would be a patriotic act on your part pare the plans and specifications for all of the roads constructed in the act involves. to take a protracted vacation. several counties. The county has Nothing in the act requires any in nothing to do with it and does not crease of taxation in order to get the »,000,000. It is the automobile which Washington'« Great Dairy Progress have to prepare any road for hard- surfacing if it does not want to." pays the money. Auto license fees Due to Good Roads. “You are not going to have contin "ave been doubled, and with a nor ----- 0------ uous roads then,” interrupted Mr. mal increase in the number of ma Probable the most notable develop Brown. chines owned in Oregon, the fees "That's a matter that is left entirely will more than cover the interest and ment incident to the building of our the sinking fund payments to retire fine highways 1 dairying. When we with the counties,” replied Mr. Bow the entire bond issue. Should there be commenced this development about erman. "But I’m here to tell you that no increase at all in the number of 15 years ago, we had about 10,000 there will be very few of the counties autos used, it would still be unneces- dairy cows on the western side of the that will not be ready for the pave aary to raise taxes, for the extra Cascade range, and one little conden ment when the time comes for laying I money needed would come from the ser at Kent, producing about two it. Present quarter mill road tax. Sup carloads a week. With the building of "As to the legislators all voting for porters of the road bonding measure good roads, the products could be the measure because the roads were »'11 do well to correct the misundeer- brought to market, the farms were laid out ‘past their doors’ I will call cleared and the dairy herds increased, your attention to the case of Repre ‘tanding. so that today we have in western sentative Sam Brown, of Marion Washington some 13 condensers to County, who owns a big loganberry Permanent R°ads are Inevitable. two in Oregon; a hundred or so good ranch near Gervais, and the highway The hardsurfaced road is inevitable. creameries and cheese factories; more passes in front of his house. He hauls than 100,000 cows, with the grade }ou can't get away from this fact. It changing from 2.7 per cent butter fat hundreds of tons of berries over this highway with his big auto truck at “as been proven so conclusively so to 4.5 per cent. In these condensers low expense and he voted against the fatty times that those who cannot I I we are now putting up approximately bill in the legislature. As a matter of •e* the writing on the wall look with too carloads of evaporated milk per closed eyes. The “all-year” road that fact hard-surfaced roads reduces the besides sending out large quan •’ll let the farmer haul his produce day, tities of butter and cheese. Nearly all hauling cost to the farmers by at least 0 market without making a day's job product is sold outside our state. one-half the present cost. . tt; the road that will bring the this Oregon has as great dairy possibili “I feel ill-at-ease in opposing the ounst travel to our state; the road ties as Washington, and perhaps interests of the farmers, if they are at will develop Oregon as nothing greater. Western Oregon today ought correctly represented by Mr. Brown, '.’e.will develop it—is the permanen- to be evaporating 200 carloads of milk and it is hard for me to believe that y unproved road. We must educate every day, or 4,000,000 pounds. For they do oppose the bonding measure, People to the truth . of this. We this product there is an unlimited for 1 was born and raised upon a (-.u,t ’how them that it is the time for market. Reports show that evaporat farm myself, my father was an active I regon to come forward with a com- ed milk from Oregon and Washing member of the grange, and he was I Ptenensive system of state highways, ton is the very best that goes on the laid to his final rest by the farmer s ’y’tem that will include all our market from any point in the world. organization. I trust we will all look market routes. All our road Therefore, if we keep up the grade, at this thing from a purely business *Penditure from now on should be conform to the Government stand standpoint and not be guided by I •<>e on the basis that the main roads ards and make an honest product, all short-sighted prejudices.” ” be hard surfaced, if not right Good roads is the most important issue before the pcople^of Oregon. There is no other question which de mands such earnest consideration. It means so much to the development of our state—so much to the tillers of the soil— that it must be met square ly. The automobile and motor truck are reaching out and changing con ditions in the rural districts. The change ha» been so complete in plac es that we have before us such con crete examples of vital need of better roads.—From an address by Gover- „or Withycombe. Fallacious INSURANCE PROTECTION Mutual Fire Policy Holders “Pay Up.” ASSETS, $121.71. LIABILITIES, $11,238 Often Repeated Story of Mutual Fire Insurance Difficulties to Pay Losses : Mr. I. C. Rowe, who lias a small farm north of town, lias sup plied this office with the following information, which passed be tween the MUTUAL EIRE COMPANY, of Portland, Oregon, and himself, and of which we will only give a portion of to cover the essential points : In August, 1914, Mr. Rowe secured from the above company Policy No. 9604 covering $1,400 00 insurance on his house for 3 years. The assessments made on this policy amounted in the first payment to $13 60, which was paid. Now, before September, 1915, in less than one year, the assessments made against this policy amounted to a total of $33.50, which were all dtdy paid, the last payments being made under protest ami cancellation by Mr. Rowe of his policy, being duly acknowledged by the company on October 11th, 1915, as follows ; “Mr. I. C. Rowe, Tillamook, Ore. Dear Sir,—We ask you to regard this letter as official notice of the cancellation of your policy, No- 9604 as per your instructions. Yours truly, Mutual Eire Co., by Hamilton Waguon, sec.’’ When the above notice was received Mr. Rowe supposed that this finally disposed of the matter as far as his insurance was con cerned, and, to be fully protected, secured “OLD LINE’’ protec tion in this agency. NEW READ THIS (dated March 1st, 1917). I What Do You Think About It ? Mr. I. C. Rowe, Tillamook, Oregon- Dear Sir,—The records of the Mutual Fire Company, of Port land, Oregon, show that Policy Number 9601 was issued to you for $1,400,06. and as per Court order herewith enclosed, your assess ment under this policy amounts to $13.10. This amount is now due, and I request that you send your check or money order in payment at once. Yours truly, Lester E. Thompson, Receiver Mutual Eire Co. The Court order is a follows : In Re William Anderson, plaintiff, vs. Mutual Fire Company of Port land, Oregon, a corporation ct al de fendants. To the policy holders of the Mutual Fire Co:—This is to notify you that on the loth day of December 1916, the Honorable Circuit Judge of De partment No. 3, of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for Mult nomah County, duly made and enter ed an order in the above entitled cause, that undersigned, as receiver of Mutual Fire Company, of Portland, Ore., should levy an assessment on all policy holders of said company, in the sum of $11,238.08, which sum is ex pected to be sufficient to cover all fir«* losses, liabilities and accounts payable owed by said company, and which estimate includes overlay and ex penses in administration, which order is as follows: "Wherefore it is ordered and ad judged, and this does so order and adjudge, that said receiver levy upon such policies held, or heretofore held by members in said company, and liable therefore, an assessment amounting to $11,238.08; that said assessment be based upon the books and records of said company, and that each and every of said policy holders assessed in accordance with this order be required to pay by vir tue thereof.” “T here is no assets in the hands of the receiver except $121 71, and this assessment was ordered by the court for the purpose of paying the proven established indebtedness of the com pany and expenses herein, and was made under the authority of section 8, of the bylaws of the company, which section is incorporated into your policy contract, and is as follows;” "Section 8. The mutual contingent liability of each policy holder for as sessment for losses or expenses shall not exceed one full standard annual premium, in addition to the unpaid portion of the premium as is now charged by standard insurance com panies.” “Enclosed please find statement of amount due from you as your part of said sum assessed, and please remit same promptly by check or money order to the end that said indebted ness be paid at an early date, and the affairs of the company wound up. Signed, Lister E Thompson, Re ceiver, of Mutual Fire Company of Portland, Oregon. Now Where Are We At ? What would Mr. Rowe’s Insurance Have Cost Him to Date : $33.50 previously paid. 13.18 assessment wanted. Total $46.68, for $1,400.00 insurance. If admitting that this insurance had been in force for 3 years at above cost, the company that wrote the insurance have been in solvent and unable at any time to meet its liabilities. In an Old Line Company, this insurance would have been carried for the past three years at a standard rate for this property for $28.00 with no assessments and ample assets to meet all losses. There is a Difference- In insurance, as in all business matters. We are in a position to serve you on all matters pertaining to insurance. Now, under the by-laws of this Mutual Company the policy holder is liable for the amount of TWO ANNUAL RATE of an Old Line standard company, which would total 156 00. Your Insurance is Safe with this Agency. All Losses and Claims are satisfactorily adjusted and settled promptly in cash. No Assessments. One Payment. Low Rates Phone Us. Call on Us. Write Us. When your next Mutual Assessment is made, Cancel and get an Old Time Policy. ROLLIE W. WATSON, Tillamook City, Oregon. The Insurance Man. Court House Square.
