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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1908)
DAILY OAVlTAli JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 19G8 C0RVALLI8 BOOSTING FOR PAVED STREETS Will -Build a Magnificent Boulevard to the Collage Paving Boom Started Address on Civic Pride Corvallis, Ore., July 15. The mmmercial club of this city gave I 0 smoker last night to Btart a cam paign for civic pride and paved fctreets, and tho beautiful rooms of : the club were crowded with booster? for a greater educational center at thfl west side railroad Junction. A ihleh school and magnificent boule vard from the river to the college 'are talked of and the first Bplkea were practically driven at the meet ing last night which was attended by 300 of tho live men of tho Benton county metropolis. Tho principal ' address was as follews: Civic Pride nnd Pnvcd Streets. Civic prido and street paving are the first and tho last letters pf the alphabet of patriotism. All" pro gressive policies In a city must emanate from civic pride. Personal pride in your business, or personal ! enterprise in improving your prop erty or beautifying your premises are commendable private virtues of great benefit to tho public. But public enterprise, public spirit, civic pride arc a now nnd, In somo com munities, almost unknown virtues. Civic pride 1b the product of ed ucational Influences. Privnto enter prise Is n selfish virtue of which tho community getB tho Indirect benefit. Public enterprise Is an unselfish virtue, exactly tho reverse, of which the, community gets the direct ben efit nnd itho private citizen the Indi rect benefit. Hon Civic Pride Ts Developed. The influences that produce civic prldo or public enterprio nro the their tenure of offlce can be tormlnat press, trnvel on the pnrt of citizens, ed at any time. Thus tho govorn commerclnl organizations tind pub- Ing body Is alwnyB directly and im llc improvements. While the first mediately responsible to tho gov threo develop sentiment and produce erned. he community spirit that cventu-, By amendment to tho constitution Ucs in action on the part of tho all Oregon cities have tho powers majority, every public Improvement Is an object lcBson that spurs not I only (the community that makes it ! but every other community in the I state to simllnr action. Conimun- .ties like to outdo one another. Tho I oher dny a Salem man came home from a trip ncroEs tho continent ami Fold tho court houo at Fort Wayne, Ind , was tho most beautiful public ' building he was in. Less than two I weeks after publishing his Inter ' view the papers nt Portland are I ta'klng of erecting n $500,000 court ; hoiiBO at that city. Forty yenrs ago I Marlon county talked of hanging In ft'Tigy tho county court that ordered an $100,000 court house built. To- ' 1'ny wo nre studying how it mny be recons 'meted to nccommodnte the I growing public business. Set down th's axiom of public I policy Money honestly expended on any public Improvement is never I'ost. It Is the beit Investment that nnv MimmnnKv onn" mnViv nnil every ddlnr so Invested is a potent' influence in the development of a ' higher clvlo pride for the elevation of future cenerntlons. A single blcck of paved street is a silent nrg urnent dny and night for tho paving ff ether streets. There nro ser nicni in cold concrete, arguments in asphn't and books on civic pride In bitulithic pavement. Charters Must He Right. Tc achieve the highest results In kinv community, olvlc nrlde must liae free room for activity under a I -tessive city charter. Several 'hr Willamette valley cities have d f .-ted charters the pn6t yoar, but i ir probably due to lack of proper It r'"fnntlon rather than because '"' barters thomsolves were too m c rIvo Main lninti in snob charters prr ill be to take in all -the terri tory that u properly municipal or Ilke'N to be directly benefitted by 'I at policies and improve ment Salem hna n territory threo mlkd hr.g and two mjiQS Wlde. orrrrlv two-thlrds of the city ter- lor n .w la wns outside ,and paid io tasf? to keen' nn thn nftv while KCt'Jng benefits from nroximltv of jUrat-cn The second feature of the matter hould be sound fnance. A imdg distributee nnd Eecurine cqntrc' of expenditures Is absolutely necessary. This Includes power to make pub'.cs Improvements over, the protest of the dement devoid of all puouc spirit. JMilrd, the charter make publ'c ImiYoveraents over the important deparinents in one per son. l?OrftiauAiit YL rv. .-.t .. ."V. ? S252rHiKt 1 Many American titles have adopt- ed tho plan of government by com missions of threo or five persons. Galveston, Texas; Los Angeles, Cal., and Des Moines, Iowa, are notable examples. If three county commis sioners can successfully govern a whole county, wh;' not a commission government for a clty Tho Des Moines, Iowa, plan has attracted widest attention. Two years ngo the entire city was put under the control of a commission of five men, of whom the maypr is one and la made executive of the Department of -Public. Affairs ,by virtue oft his office. Tho departments" are: 1. Public Affairs. 2". Accounts and" Finances. n ' 3. Public Safety, r 4'. Streets, and Public Improve ments. 5. Parks and Public Property. GIvo People Control, Tho Des MolneB plan combines with government by commission the initiative and referendum nnd the recoil, nnd direct nomination of can didates. Dy the initiative tho voter can force the enactment of legis lation demanded by the majority of the electorate even though opposed by the commission. By the referen dum the electorate can check unwise expenditure of public fundB, tho granting of improper franchises, or .the ndoptlon of an ordinance ob Jectionnble to tho people. Tho last provision Is considered tho moot im portant of tho three tho recall. While the commissioners nre elected iiv tho voters for a doflnito term. enumerated In tho Des Moines plan, and can adopt tho commission sys tom without recourse to the legis lature. " Xon.I'artlwm nnd lluslnesH. It Is now generally-conceded that good municipal government de mands non-partisan nnd business ad ministration. Tho bo:t advertise ment Mat any city can have,, tho greatest stimulus to civic pride and public enterprise, lies in the fact that partisan political rewordB for political activity be absolutely cut out of all tho calculations. Tho tlmo when n political machine levied tribute on vice to carry primnrios, and then oxneted contributions from nil Qfflce-holders to carry tho party ticket to success is happily past In most voll developed communities One of the greatest stimulations to the growth of the city of Salem la the establishment of a city and school government In which there to nni n ilnllnr nf craft n03Rlble. Ill a c'ty where graft dominates civic pride Is exhausted In combating boodle when it should be exerted in1 bulldlne un the community. Any partnership between municipal gov ernment nnd vice Is fntnl to real public spirit. A city that cannot make public Improvements without licensing vlco In somo form cannot expect to make any real and substan tial growth in any direction. Public Improvements Pny. Public Improvements pay on their own account. The city pf Portland owes much to publicity work, but a great deal more to the civic pride and public spirit of Its property owners who Insist on paving streets, constructing sewers, laying side walks and cross walk3, opening parks and boulevards, and building many bridges. From throe to flvo millions are thrown Into tho public improvement pool every year, and that money. circulates. Nine-tenths of it is expended for labor, common and skilled labor, and labor In nine cases out of ten live? from hand to mouth and the nimble dollar circu lates and benefits and blesses every hand through which it passes. These dollars very seldom get baci into cold storage. It Is the dollar that is salted down, that never moves but draws Interest, that enriches Us owner alone and tpo often impover ishes others, and the community that has the right balance between the active and the Inactive dollar !s the community where business prospers.-' property improves, and the sunshine of prosperity smiles on the efforts of the masses of 4he JTA. P0"0 Most Cities Too Easy. I Why Is Seattle the swift city of progress? Because all Improve ments ar$ very expensive. It takes three feet of foundation for nn as phalt pavomer.'. Tho city rests on soft, shifting, spongy blue cloy, that has to be taken out and rock ma terial hauled in. Four to six horses are employed to haul a cubic yard up these I1IU3. Ten dollars a load for gravel or sand. Three to six hundred dollars for paving in front of a C0-foot lot. Property of a half block was recently sold for $300, 000 street improvement nsseBsment. Queen Anno Hill pavement will cost $20 a front foot. At Salem, we groan over Blx dollars a front foot. If Corvallis were not so level, if it had more obstacles to overcome, It would be a better city. If It hnd to put In a $200,000 sewer system, or be exposed to an epidemic or waBhed away, ir It had to cut streets through solid rockB, if U had to bridge tho river Ao save its retail trade, there would bo h. demand for public spirit and civic pride would rise to meet it. It Is because you have had noth ing to do thnt you have done nothing, it Ir iinmiiRP so much linn been done rfor Salem that so- little has been done by tho city Itself. Corvnllls linn Prldo. Tho peoplo of Corvallis have more pride than almost any city In tlie .valley. They have put in moun tain water, which no other city but Portland ha3 in the Willamette val ley. Salem will spend half a mil lion eome dny for that purpose, but it will not bo done until the state capital Is1 threatened to be taken nway from us. Snlem has put In n $70,000 high school and found it tho best investment ever made to bring peoplo to tho city nnd ndver tlso to tho whole state that we are becoming tho great educational cen ter. Corvallis could not mnke a bettor Investment ithnt to meet the demands of tho whole state that they ceaso to rely upon a Btato education al Insthitlon to do their high school work. A determination on tho pnrt of Corvallis today to orect n model high Bchool would go farther to bc curo liberal appropriations for tho Agricultural collcgo than any other step you could take. That would mnko Corvallis tho cducatlonnl cen ter of tho Willnmotto vnlley, and do you know that there is no nBset today that pays a community such large dividends as cducatlonnl en thuslnsm? You hnvo tho prldo and you should buy a llttlo enthusiasm to go along with It. A freo high school with fine ath letic grounds In n city like this Is n great drawing card that brings largo famtllOB to llvo In tho city. Tho parents figure that tho children can bo at homo and go through ithe high school nnd then they will know what thoy wish to follow for life, and tho high Fohool Is one of tho grentest sources of civic prldo for any city. It would build your city and build tho college Policy of Justice. One great fundamental reason why you should, pull for a high school, for a bridge across the Wll lametto, a sow'or system, and paved streets Is becnuso all Biich public Improvements Involve n policy of JiistUa that does not prevail In nny other system of making Improve ments. Tho Commorclnl club, the Btock company, tho cannery or tho now railroad aro all the result of effort on tho part of the public-spirited citizen who is In active business, who is too often paying rents, or strninlng himself with privnte cap ital to carry, on n factory 'or business in open competition with tho whole world. But when you develop pub lic spirit to tho point that some thing Is done by levying n tax for a special purpose you nre putting the whole community under the load Instead of a fow well-meaning cltlzonB. So-called public spirit Is often private robbery In which those least nblo to be robbed are the vic tims'. But when you build a bridge, dig a sower, construct a school building, or pavo a street everybody benefitted has to help'pny the bill. All Interests Taxed Alike. Paving a btreet or building a sew er levlos upon tho property of the railroad company, the lodge, the church, tho bank, tho city and the county, tho unsettled ostate, the non-resident, tho dead men wheth er physically or merely clvlcallv dead groat and small all are as sessed as muoh as benefitted and tho majority of such Interests would never of their own accord make any such expenditure for tho public good. Honco tho necessity of havinsj charters right, of having public sen timent right, of educating courts, city and county authorities and the conservative of every community, that the time has come for the com munlty to go forward. The beauty of this system Is that when you make good improvements and you cannot well make 4hem too good tho burden that falls heaviest falls where it 'benefits woW and- upon For Weak Kidneys Inflammation of the blad der, urinary troubles and backache use DeWitt9s Kidney and Bladder Pilla A Week's ial For 25c i i i i K. O. XJaWITT St CO., Chicago, X1L ALL DRUGGISTS thoso best able to bear It. We paved streets with 'gravel ten years J ago in Salem. That gravel pave ment left ub as nearly ns deep In the mud in winter ns wo had over been, and cost us half as much aB first-class pavement is costing u now. The lesson is plain that It pays to put down tho befit. IroRrnm for 'Coi-vnlllR. , I would recommend bb a program for Corvallis that you pnvo two street's at right angles, ono running from the river to tho Stnto college, and then your principal business street. Start In on tho business blockB where tho property pays tho highest rents, and pavo' at least three blocks. It will divert bo much traffic to that street that tho rest will be easy. There will bo somo mistaken opposition. Big proponty owners nnd big Interests mny resist any kind of paving adopted, but If you act wlBely and ndopt a high- class, expensive pavement that In a city like this will practically bo In destructible, tho property will .hnvo but one bill to pny for thin kind of improvement in the lifetime of prerent owners. Ono thousnnd feet of pavement on Court street, Salem, has converted the whole el'y to tho wisdom of paving tho principal streets, and if wo hnd paved thoso streets 20 years ago, Salem would now bo the lnrgcst inland city on the coast. Effect on Your City. Your principal business streot pnved and a beautiful boulevard to thlB magnificent Farmers' collcgo that the state and tho United States aro building and maintaining for you, every foot of property would double in vnlo tho first year. Forty blocks now worth $00,000 to $80, 000 would bo worth $120,000 to $100,000 and half of thorn would chango hands Inside of two yenrs, net profit to tho owners of tho prop erty $30,000 to $40,000 or more ,thnn tho cott of putting down tho "mot expensive paving. Tho proper ty that did not sell at advanced prices would cost tho owners more for taxes, and yet their comfort would bo enhnnced ten t'mes nB much ns their Increased taxes would r.mount to. Grfntest KiTcct of All. But tho turning looo in yom midst of money for this Improve ment would hnvo the best effect of nil. Most of this money would bo spent for common labor and mater ial that 'QU hnvo right hero nt homo, and tho Inborors and mechan ics would immediately spend It for necewnrles for better clothing nnd furniture, for now stoves nnd foot wear and millinery, and pay old bills which they ennnot pay without some form of public employment. Moro laborers who have no homo of their own would buy cheap lots and erect llttlo homes In your suburbs nnd your churches nnd your lodges would all thrive, nnd Corvallis would be a hive of Industry, n hap py busy place, where men and teams would not starve half tho tlmo for want of employment, as has too of ten been tho case In our valley cities at certain times of tho yoar. The one-lunged town whero peoplo struggle for an existence without nubile Improvements In the employ ment fund, nre a sorry place for the i poorer class of citizens. G. F. Mason Box Co. 247 Miller St., South Salem, manu facturer of all kinds of boxes, crates nnd fruit dryer accessories. Phono 308. Salem Fence Works neailquarters for Woven Wire Fencing. Poultry Netting, Pickets, Gater Malthoid Roofing, P. & D. Rcadj Roofing, 8creea Doors and Ad Justable Window Screens. CHAS. D, MULLIGAN itttecior WALTER MORLBY. MM Ort'BtV W-, Or MIDSUMMER DRY $1.00 each White Shirt Waists Selected from our regular $1.50 lines; reduced to $1.00 ench. CALICOES : ... MERCERIZED PRINTS 75c each Black Sateen Underskirts, reg ular $1.00 values,, two ruffles and only 75c. Heavy unbleached muslin. 'drillings and canvas for tents nt r - . reduced prices. R0STEIN & GREENBAUM, ISsLS BANK TALK No. 18 By the UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK, Salem, Or. Points That Should Interest You WE provide nn nb&olutely safe plnco to depoBlt your money. WE are not an experiment but a grown, really existing reality. WE return your money (all of It) on demand. WE nro prosperous as well ns progressive nnd MERIT WINS. WE givo you the best of servlco nB tho result of long experience . WE do not mimic, or meet, but WE have a largo capital, surplus and profit account, thus Insuring safety and llbcrnl treatment to our patrons. WE Invito new business: upon our own merits for strength, aupo- rior facilities nnd courteous trcatmont. United States National Bank of Salem, Ore. t We Launder Ladies' Shirt Waists and White Skirts Just Right. Wo gwnrantoe to. All of our shirtwaists nre care fully wnshed with a Bpcclal noutral soap, stnrchod just whero they should bo starched and Ironed by experts who hnvo inado sh'rtwnist Ironing a apodal study. We nre pleaBlng tho moat enreful dressers In tho city with our 6blrtwaUt work and are sure wo can please you. May wo have a rlnl SALEM LAUNDRY COMPANY Tel. 25 E. ECKERLEN Family Liqtio State J 44 Commercial St. The Want Advertisements are "Humanizing" When more people come to uso and answer clnsslflod adver tisements, more peoplo will fcnow each other More People with Mutual Interests WilliJMeet- more peoplo will find channels and opportunities lor rcclproca' service. , Trulyr tho want ads. are "humanizing" peoplo shaming away the scorn of small things, the acorn of "bargaining," of exchang ing useful but not used hlnga tor useful and usable ones. GOODS BARGAINS $1.00 Each Nice White Parasols Ono row of embroldory lnecrtlon, whlto enamel stick; a bargain at $1.00. , 5 A YARD ,QQ A YARD Straw hats, 10c up. Best cambric muslin, 12 c yd. 40-inch Bhlr.ting, lOo yd. Boys' overshirts, 45c each. MILLINERY. Wouare closing out nil of this ( season's goods nt a fraction of their real vnluo. 240 and 246 Gcmmcrclol i crento, oflglnato nnd ralBO. ' . V " -L 13G-10G 8. Liberty St. Free Delivery IT MAKES FUN TOR THE ROYS, ns well os for tho wholo family, when you hnvo a Grnphophono in tho houso. It Is tho twentieth con tury nmuior, nnd many a dull even ing In the wlntor can be passod pleas antly with n Grnphophono. Wo hnvo thorn at all pr!co nud with both comic and uacred aotiga, just as you deslro, P. J. BAVAGK, 217 Commercial Street.