HEADLIGHT, ÀPR il 5. 1917,
T1LLAM0ÒÉ
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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
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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
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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
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• S have discovered it is the best invest where wc have enjoyed the benefit’s
a..— — Bruce
and
vv Dennis,
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LaGrande
ment they can make.
of good roads, and why he should
that * the
secretary, feels
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u~ conference is
has expended $85,000,000 want his farmer friends of Eastern
juiuui. that
• t th?**
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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.
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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.