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.