lAy, MAY iS, IM«
TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
3
and political happiness here below, what is goin< to happen to Oregon’s
Portland— Dormitory and garage
Oregon wool being marketed rapid
as wsil as reduce taxation to the nun biggest industry of this freak mea- TO THÉ VOTEBS OF TILLAMOOK keeping disease when once it gets a
COUNTY
foothold. Disinfection is highly ad- for Frazer detention home to be built. ly at 38 cents.
imum.
Alas,
exactly
the
opposite
s«e becomw law, for it will not be
Indepen^eBt Weekly Paper
visaBle for all barns, poultry houses,
have taken place.
Prineville— Oregon Western com
Florence—Construction os Umpqua
'JhshHi Every Friday by the
the timber owners who will pay the
I take this means of expressing my hog houses, pens and so on, regard pany to erect new sawmill.
jetties begun on large scale.
This
is
where
Oregon's
troubles
severance tax, for they will pass it appreciation for the ballots cast for less cf whether they qualify as clean
"•hl
Publishing
Company
The Dalles— Building permits for
* Tillamook, Oregon________ first commenced, with politicians and on to the logger and then to the mill me at the Primaries, May 16th.
Albany—Telephone company ex
within ths ordinary meaning of that
office seekers riding into office on some men and in the natural course of busi
1923 to date total $250,000.
pending $20,000 on local plant.
Contrary to some of the campaign word.
freak measure that was made a polit ness those who purchase timber will
rumors, my interests and my home
Though no epidemic be recorded,
f^d'titeeo^d ctass mail mtter ical issue at ooe election, and then have to pay the tax. This is as plain are in Tillamook county, and I shall
the annual losses htrough unsanitary
entirely
ignored
after
the
election.
as
the
nose
on
a
man
’
s
face.
But
why
t * V. S. P'*‘otfi<->'
TUtamook.
continue to boost Tillamook’s wond conditions surrounding our live stock
Any old thing to befog the voters is stop with a severance tax on timber?
erful, natural resources and its lum arc enormous.—Oregon Farmer.
the adage of those who have brought There is just as much logic in con
egon__________
bering and dairying interests. I am
the state into bad reoute by freak tending that the dairyman, the grain still unable to reconcile the difference
”"GUBaLlii*‘TlQ’» ïfcrtiM
Pendleton—County ettablishes road
legislation. Yet no one pretends to
_ Year, By "ail •—’" ' " ’11 82.00 forecast the time or how Oregon will and fruit grower, the stock raiser, between a farmer and a lumberman camp on Weston mountain where work
, jloaths. By Mail, ........ •• r- $1.00 be able to rid itself of freak legisla etc. should pay a severance tax as as I feel they are both manufacturers, will be done on market road.
the timber owners and then pass the one manufacturing the timber into a
Months By Mail ..... -r $ .75
Crater Lake park to get $293,800
tors as long as Oregon’s political sys buch on to the consumers. Well, finished product thru the medium of
W Pavable in advance
for
roads in next three years.
tem is decidedly out of joint, making why not? Most of us who pay taxes logging camps and sawmills, while
Astoria to get commodious new
Telephone
it easy for freak legislators to pester are wanting our taxes reduced, and in the other takes grass as a raw
passenger station.
and retard the industrial development striving to obtain this have no ob material and manufactures it into
pacific States, Main »8
Portland—Park Rose bank to erect
of Oregon.
jection to piling additional taxation on cheese thru the medium of the cow new home.
One of the burning questions at the the other fellow, and the freak Ore and cheese factories.
New S. P. Line, Eugene to Klamath
present time is the Oregon income tax gon system makes it possible to do
I again wish to thank my many Falls, requires 18 tunnels.
OUR EDITORIAL POLICY ♦ law, which is one of the freak mea so. Both the income tax and the pro friends for their interest and support.
Corvallis—O. A. C. to have new 3
-♦ sures enacted into law by the people. posed severance tax are measures to
RUSSELL HAWKINS
story pharmacy building.
♦
! To advocate, aid and sup-
Quite a number of our progressive raise more tax money. This is a
P. S. I never have been a resident
Gold Hill bank reopens.
Xt any measures that will ♦ citizens predicted that the law would fair illustration of how some per of the state of Michigan, and I hope
Pilot Rock gives Pacific Power &
¿ring the most good to the ♦ prove a boomerang. That appears sons propose reducing taxes. Most that Oregon will always be my place Light company 50-year franchise.
♦ to have become quite true, for C. C. of us remember at the last general of residence, and Tillamook county is
A STRONG BANK
WILLING TO SERVE
most people
2. To encourage industries ♦ Chapman, editor of the Oregon Voter, election great big promises were the best place in Oregon to live.
u establish in Tillamook ♦ makes the statement that he has on made that taxes would be reduced 50
R. H.
♦ record 100 cases of individual and per cent if some of the freak politi
county.
3. To urge the improvement * firms that had canceled their plans cians were elected. Instead of doing
KEEP THE PREMISES CLEAN
of « port for Tillamook City. ♦ for investments and expansions be so they introduce new measures to
4. To insist on an American * cause of the state income tax law and drag more money out of th^. tax • The outbreak of foot and mouth dis- i
ease in California and the possibility I
♦ that these 100 cases involved about payers pockets.
Closing out my entire
standard of labor.
that the trouble will cross state lines 1
5. To be politically indepen ♦ $10,000,000 of investments and pay
stock of groceries at
To get down to brass tacks there
should result in a widespread cleanup.
dent, but to support the can ♦ rolls of about $1,000,000 a year.
is only one sensible and practical way
Wholesale cost or less.
The Safe Deposit Vault at the
didates for public office who ♦
But that is not the only bad feature to reduce taxation, and that is to re movement, on the farms of this state. |
Disease, whether it be foot and
will bring the most good to ♦ about this freak income tax law. The duce expenditures in state, county,
First National Bank is designed
the people of
Tillamook * most remarkable and peculiar thing city, and school districts, cut ou$ the mouth, cholera or what not, usually '
to give to people in and near Til
county and of the State of ♦ about the law is that corporations are frills and get rid of a whole lot of results from lack of proper sanitation.
The
housing
and
penning
of
hogs
on
|
♦
exempt from taxation but individuals tax eaters who can be dispensed with.
Corner First St., First Ave. East
Oregon.
lamook a degree of protection for
the same ground year after year is!
♦ are not. This is a decision of the cir
Tillamook, Oregon
conducive to the contracting of dis-|
their valuables which they could
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ > * cuit court of Marion county, making
Wallowa—Minam river is scene of
that part of the law unconstitutional. great logging drive about 5 million eases. The same is true of poultry. 1
not easily provide at home.
Likewise, the unclean barn or barn- j
FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1924
This is only another illustration of feet timber being moved.
yard menaces the health of the dairy
Are you enjoying your share of
freak laws.
That freak politicians
Clackamas county buys 700 tons herd or the horses and sheep.
CIRCUMSTANCES
the air is clear again
have induced the people to vote for, asphalt for summer road work.
this protection? If not, select
Cleanliness is a first essential in i
ALTER RISKS
giving no consideration whatever as
An
insurance
policy
isn
’
t»
your Safe Deposit Box now. The
One of the most peculiar and hotly to the harmful effect this class of
something that you buy, put
intested elections in the county was legislation have in retarding the
away in your safe deposit
cost is only $2.00 a year.
•ought to a close Friday night, when growth and development of Oregon.
box and forget, except when
premiums are payable.
ie polls of the 1924 primary nomi-
There may be some merit in a state
Not property insurance, at
income tax law If it was properly
iting election closed.
any rate. Fire, theft and
drawn
and
all.
The
western
states
Quite a number of sore spots are
accident hazards change with
changing conditions, property
ft, which might be expected, but on had similar law», but Oregon was the
values increase, new hazards
ie whole everybody seems to be first western state to try the experi
ari a*.....______
.
itisfied. The voters have indicated ment, only to be ridiculed, for Calif
Let an Insurance Man go
ornia
and
Washington
are
now
giv
leir choice.
over your property and poli
cies at regular intervals. We
Member Federal Reserve System
As is generally the case the prim- ing Oregon the horse laugh because
make no charge for such ser-
those states are reaping the benefit
rj election determines the results of
vice.
*
ie general election in November, for of new industrial and home seekers
GILHAM-WHITE
getting
out
of
Oregon
on
account
of
>ere is only one political party of
Insurance Agency
ay rize in the county -and hotly con- freak legislation.
209 Second Ave. E.
isted campaigns between candidates ' No wonder that people' are asking
! different political faith are seldom “What’s the matter with Oregon?”
Quite »number of commercial organ
:en here.
izations in Oregon and especially the
Portland Chamber of Commerce, are
“WRATS THE MATTER WITH
putting for the great efforts and ex
OREGON?”
pending large sums of money trying
to induce new industries and home
mach Freak Legislation and Too seekers to locate in Oregon. Their
Many Freak Laws.
efforts to a large extent are frustrat
ed by freak politicians who care noth
(By Fred C. Baker.)
ing for the industrial growth and
“What’s the matter with Oregon?” prosperity of the state if they can
a question quite frequently asked succeed in inducing the people to vote
it few delvt into the matter and as- for their freak measures.
irtais what is the trouble that con-
Another freak measure that is on
mts the state.
the table is a severance tax on timber.
There is nothing the matter with If this measure becomes a law it will
le rate of Oregon but there is con- give the lumbre industry of Oregon a
Herable the matter with some of our black eye and be of considerable ad
’e»k citizens who are making Ore- vantage to Washington and British
on appear ridiculous by continually Columbia. Why so? Because Ore
producing freak legislation, some of gon inillmen will be handicapped with
hich become law. This is made pos- the additional tax when competing
¡ble by invoking the freak Oregon with Washington and British Colum
MM WHIIL* *34 tXTKA r.O.S.TOLIO*
F*tem which was predicted would bia, the latter country employing a
P* Oregon of all of its political ills, , large number of Hindus in the saw
•ake a little heaven of contentment mills. So it is not hard to discern
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