FRIDAY
FEB. 20, 1914
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The Capital Journal
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SOME FIGURES AND SOME SATISFACTION.
THE editor of our morning contemporary in discussing the
proposed bond issue, and commenting on the sums indi
viduals 'would be required to pay, very rashly tackles the
mathematical side of the proposition. Mathematics is an
exact science, and should not be monkeyed with by the. unwary,
for, being exact, it compels exact statements, and these are not
within the scope of every editor's ability on some subjects.
In order to point out a few a few of the errors, and also to em
phasize the danger a tyro faces in tackling figures, and to avoid
the possible charge of misquoting, we print the Statesman's edi
torial in full, thus also doing a kindly turn to our neighbor and
giving his idea some publicity it would not otherwise obtain.
The editorial is a follows:
"In an interview with County Judge Bushey, in the States
man of yesterday, it was pointed out that the increase in
- taxes to pay the interest on the proposed $850,000 road bond
. issue would be .0015 mills annually, and that if one now pays
$10 a year taxes in Marion county, his additional tax would
. be about a cent and a half a year, and in twenty years he
would pay a total of not more than 30 cents. So if one pays
. $100 now, his increase the first year would be 15 cents, and
. for the twenty years it would be $3.00. Or for
the one paying $200 taxes now, there would be an ad
ditional charge of 30 cents now, and for the twenty years,
$6. Or it would cost the man now paying $1000 taxes,
. $1.50 additional the first year, and $30 in twenty years. But
these figures are based upon present assessed valuations.
, With permanent highways, the property valuations in Ma
. rion county will increase very fast, so that the $10 man
: would get off with about 15 cents for the twenty years, and
the $1000 man with about $1.50. And for this amount he
' would have good roads, and would transmit good roads to
his posterity. For 15 cents the $10 man would help in vastly
. increasing the earning capacity of all land in Marion coun
ty; in making for a higher and better civilization, and in a
thousand and one ways raising the standard of living. This
would be a satisfaction to the $10 man that would be worth
a million times his 15 cents. Transportation is the art of
getting things from where they are plentiful to where they
are needed, and upon this basis is builded all commerce and
. all civilization. The underlying necessity for the best sys
tern of transportation is the good road from the farm to the
market town or the railroad. That is what makes earning
capacity for farm lands. And earning capacity is what
makes values for farm lands. Marion county is the second
richest in Oregon, and it is capable of producing a dollar for
, every five-cent piece now produced. This can be done only
with the aid of good highways, for there must be markets to
justify increase of products, and there can be no available
markets without roads, and the better the roads the more
valuable the markets."
The assessed valuation of all property in the county is $13,
(529,94 8, and the total tax $996,8G0. This makes the average tax
rate for the County 23 miles. In the city it is more and it varies
somewhat in the different districts, owing to special road taxes,
etc., but this will do to make a few figures on. A cursory exam
ination of the Statesman's figures will, show that the writer es
timated amounts the bond tax would increase taxes, not from
the assessed valuation, but from the amount of tax. The man
who paid $10 tax would have been assessed, not counting cents,
$435, and if the amount required to pay the extra tax was a mill
and a half, as the article states, the sum added to the amount the
man paying $10 tax would have to pay would bo 65 cents. As
a matter of fact, the amount necessary to meet the annual yearly
payments would be only about one mill and the interest charges
for a while, at least, would require another mill, which would
make the $10 man pay, instead of a cent and a half additional, 87
cents. Instead of paying 30 cents in 20 years he would pay $13,
which, we submit, is some difference, and on top of this he would
pay nearly $10 interest, but, call it $7, and the amount is $20, in
stead of 30 cents.
The man paying $1000 taxes would, of course, pay 100 times
as much as the man paying $10, and his bill would be increased
$67.50, and the total tax he would have to pay would be $1350,
and, with interest added, he would pay $2000 in the 20 years,
instead of $30, as stated in the Statesman.
According to the table worked out by those in charge of the
bond issue, and in which they add $1,000,000 to the assessed
valuation of the county yearly, which is fair, but which changes
the abovo figures somewhat, the bonds would require an average
lax levy of one and one-third mills, or a to tal tax levy of about
27 mills, but this allows for steadily increasing valuations. On
the present valuations the above figures are approximately cor
rect. According to the tabulated statement above referred to
Ladd& Bush, Bankers
Transact a General Banking: Business
Safety Deposit Box's
Traveler's Checks
the total tax the man now paying $1000 taxes would have to pay
would be $1174, but this takes in the increased valuation which
equals an average of $10,00,000 during the bonding period of
20 years. '
Life is too short and space too valuable to waste in pointing
out all the errors in the Statesman's calculations, for they are
all errors. We cannot refrain, though, from calling attention to
the amount of satisfaction which our contemporary thinks the
$10 man, who on a total of 15 cents can get a million times the
value of his investment would get. A million times 15 cents is
$150,000, which is some satisfaction for the price, and well worth
the investment. At the same rate the man who would pay $1175,
as estimated by the committee, would get as many times as
much more satisfaction as $1174 i3 multiples of 15 cents which
is 7832 times, and the satisfaction he would get at the same rate
would be worth, according to our contemporary's figures 7832
times $150,000, or $1,174,800,000, which, we submit, is some
satisfaction.
Already there is a small-sized scandal over the Pacific high
way in Jackson county. It is claimed that an attempt has been
made to besmirch the character of County Judge TouVelle by
disgruntled contractors who failed to get contracts on the high
way work. The grand jury is investigating the charges, which,
among other things, assert that a Portland firm charged the
county judge with auto tires he never ordered, or got, in an at
tempt to show that he had received tires from the contractors
without paying for them. Anonymous letters concerning the
letting of contracts for the highway are also to be probed by the
grand jury.
Oregon has about one-fourth of all the timber in the United
States, and in the appropriation for national forests, made Wed
nesday, in which $5,500,000 was provided for their maintenance,
Oregon got $161,290. In other words, Oregon, with one-fourth
of the timber, got one 33d of the appropriation. Congressman
Hawley has not yet laid claim to having secured this great and
generous sum.
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The job of locating that auditorium in or about Portland is a
trifle compared to what the county courts along the Pacific
highway will face when it comes to selecting the roads on which
the money derived from the sale of bonds will be expended.
Then there will.be music in the a ir with bagpipe accompaniments.
Mr. Booth, candidate for the nomination for TI. S. senntnr rip.
livered an address at the First Methodist church Tuesday night
on the subject "The Things We Stand For." The results of an
election are always uncertain, and yet Mr. Booth, may be one of
tnem.
THE ROUND-UP. t
Six oik have been added to the zoo
in Portland. Thoy wero brought from
tlu Yellowstone park, and the verv
wild.
A Portland policeman jumped on the
back of one of tho horitoB of a runa
way team Wednesday, threw the horse,
stopped tho runaway and probably
saved the lives of tho woman and child
in tho buggy thoy woro dashing away
with.
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Tho mad dog epidemic at Baker gets
no better and a war has botn declared
on all dogs. Tuesday as tho poundmas-
ter was hauling a load of a dozen dogs
to the pound, ono of them went mad,
and bit several of tha others, lie is be
ing kept anil watched to unto his
symptoms. Since being put in the
pound ho hn.s hnd dozens of fits and
froths at the mouth continually,
F, L. Crnnfill, a pioneer of tho state
and a resident of Med ford for 2o years
died at tho homo of his sister, Mrs. K
.1. Crow neiir Eugene Wednesday morn
ing. He was 01) years old and was in
good health until a few moments before
ho expired. Ho was in bed and called
his sister early, Tuesday morning tell
ing her ho felt badly and In few min
utes was dead.
Mrs. Mary Hughes, wifo of 1?. II.
Hughes, editor of tho Pacific Christ'inn
Advocate, died Tuesday at the St. Yin-
T
cent hospital after a serious operation.
Sho was the daughter of Dr. D. L. Bart
er who up to tho time of his death was
editor of tho Advocato.
The "story hour" feature has been
established in the public library at
C'oquillo, nnd entertainers engaged for
regular Berviee.
As a reward for tho cleaning up they
gave tho town last week the manager
of a show house at Falls City invited
tho Boy Scouts to a performance, free
of chnrgo.
"Basing its estimate upon tho Bandon
spirit toward educational advancement,
the World predicts that tho town will
soon "be ready to entertain tho idea
of a Carnegie institution."
Improved railway schedules, the new
Kra believes, will make Umatilla quite
a transfer point for mail and express
matter, as well ns a distributing point
for river freight and passenger busi
1 no .Inaction i lty grnngo is coming
on very strong with its cannery pro
ject, with nlmost twice tho necessaiy
starting capital subscribed. The mer
chants of .In net ion City are vigorously
cooperating,
Springfield is to have two papers
notwithstanding tho recent consolida
tion of the News and the Star. J. link
er and H. I'. Uudworth of Portland
propose the founding of a new publi
cation, which they announce will bp in
dependent in policy.
Girls! Bonutify Tour llalrl Make It
80ft, Fluffy and Luxuriant Try
The Moist Cloth.
Try as you wiH, after an application
of Pnndcrinc, you cannot find a single
trace of dandruff or falling hair and
your scalp will not Itch, but what will
please you most, will ho after a few
weeks' uso, when you see new hair, fine
and down' at first yea but really new
Imlr growing all over tho scapl.
A little Pauderine Immediately
doubles tho beauty of your hair. No
difference how dull, faded, brittle aud
craggy, just moisten a cloth with Tan
gerine and carefully draw it through
vonr hair, taking ono small strand at a
lime. The effect is Immediate and
tmaxing your hair will be light, fluffy
and wavy, aud have an appearance of
abundance; an Incomparable lustre,
lortnces and luxuriance, the beauty and
himmer of true hair health.
Got a 25 cent bottlo of Knowlton's
Pandcriuf from any drug store or toilet
ountor, and prove that your hair Is as
pretty and soft as any that Is has
been neglected or injured by careless
treatment that all.
MATRON OF WOMEN'S
DEPARTMENT DISMISSED
t'NITKP l'HESS LEASED WlttlS.)
San tjuentin, Cal., Feb. 20. Mrs.
flenevive Smith, for the last seven
years matron of the women's depart
ment of the state penitentiary hero,
wns dismissed yesterday by Warden
James A. Johnson. Miss Jessie Wh.il
en, formerly matron of the southern
California state hospital, was named ns
her successor.
"The change was for tho good of
the service,'' said Warden Johnston.
"1 have no fnnlt to find with Mrs.
Smith other than that I find it impos
sible to replace her by a woman bettor
nbb to fill the position."
PANAMA CANAL WILL BE
OPENED LATE THIS BUMMER
Ivniteh rnrss 1 eared wins.)
Washington, Feb, 20, President Wil
son's lntest information is that the
Panama canal will be opened to com
merce late this summer. For this reason
ho thinks early action on the repeal of
the exemption clause necessary.
The president told callers late yester
day that practically all of the world
lowers supported England In its con
troversy with the United States tolls
question and for this reason thought
the exemption cUum should be repealed
at this session of congress.
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of High-class Spring Merchan
dise is the greatest in the his
tory of our store. Quick safes
and small profit is our motto.
Come and see the New Silks, the New Dress Goods, the
New Coats, the New Suits, the New Laces, the New Em
broideries, the New Millinery, the New Wash Goods, the
New White Goods, the New Hosiery, Gloves and Under
wear; the New Shoes for evening wear and street wear,
the New Spring Men's Goods, the New Corsets, the New
Muslin Underwear, the New Shirtwaists, the New Dress
Skirts and hundreds of other of the New Spring Goods,
Remember, our motto is quick sales and small profits.
We allow no store to undersell us. Before you buy come
and get our prices and see the money you can save.
We Always Lead Never Follow.
12 and
15 cent
Dress
yard
9c
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OREGON
TORE
Ladies'
75 cent
now
25c
WILL PROBABLY DECIDE
IN REGARD TO RAIL RATES
UNITED TOSS LEASED WIHE.
Washington, Feb, 20. Before the
interstate commerce commission ad
journs for the summer July 1, it prob- j
ably will decide tho request by cer
tuin big railroads for permission to
make a five per cent increase in freight ,
rates it was stated here today. I
The two important considerations j
upon which tho decision will depend,
according to Commissioner Harlan, are; I
"Are tho carriers' present revenuo
adequatot"
"If not, how may they bo supple
mented?" On tho first point Harlan said the
railroads had introduced quantities of
evidence but their witnesses had not
been cross examined. On the second,
inquiries have been sent to the lines'
managements which they have yet to
answer fully.
It was no secret that no inereaaa
will be agreed to until the commission
had shown they are giving no free
service to large shippers.
DIES AS RESULT OF INJURIES.
OF
If Your Back Is Aching or Bladdor
Bothers, Drink Lota of Water
And Eat Less Meat
When your kidneys hurt and your
back feels sore, don't get scared and
proceed to load your stomach with a
lot of drugs that excite the kidneys
nnd irritato the entire urinary tract.
Keep your kidneys clean like you keep
your bowels clean, by flushing them
with a mild, hnrmless salts which ro
moves. tha body's ruinous waste and
stimulates them to their normal activ
ity. The function of the kidneys is to
filter the blood. Iu 24 hours they strain
from it 500 grains of acid and waste,
so wo cau readily understand the vital
importance of keeping tho kidneys act
ive. llrink lost of water yon can 't drink
too much; also get from any pharmacist
about four ounces of Jnd Salts; take a
tablespoonful in a glass of water bofore
breakfast each morning for a few days
and your kidneys will act fine. This
famous salts is made from tho acid of
grapes and lemon juice, combined with
Hthifl, aud has been used for genera
tions to clean and stimulate clogged
kidneys; also to neutralize the acids in
urine so it no longfr is a source of
irritation, thus ending bladder wenk
ness. Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot In
juro; makes a delightful effervescent
lithitwater drink which everyone should
take now and then to keep their kid
neys clean and active. Try this, also
keep up the water drinking, and no
doubt you will wonder What became of
your kidney trouble and backache.
TS1TED 1'IIKSH LEASED WIIIE.l
Spokane, Wash., Feb. 20. Mrs.
Thomas Hooker, wife of the veteran
business manager of tho Spokane
Chronicle died yesterday from injuries
sustained several days ago in a fall
down tho cellar steps at her son's
home. Her skull wns fractured. She
had been totally blind several years.
PLOT TO ESCAPE JATL,
UNITED MESS LEASED WIRE.
San Francisco, Feb. 20, A plot to
escape from tho county jail was re
vealed hero yesterday. Twenty pris
oners are were Baid to be involved in,
tho plot. Chief Jailer MeQuade frus
trated the scheme as the men wore,
sawing awy at the bars on the night
of February 8.
IMPEACHMENT VERDICT SOON.
UNITED rilSSS LEASED Willi
Washington, Feb. 20. Decision on
charges against Judge Spoer of Oeorgia
will be decided shortly by the House
judicinrv sub-committee, The time for
filing a reply brief expired today, nnd
the committee expected to get down '
:o work immediately now that it has!
all tho evidence in hand. Indications
point to clean slating the judge on the j
count charging use of drugs, but the
disposal of the other counts now stands
in a more or less speculative position.
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OPPORTUNITY FOR
YOUNG AND OLD
is to be found daily in
EVERY LINE OF,
THE WANT ADS :
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W0im
House of Half a Million Bargains
Come and see the biggest wonder in the history of Salem. We buy nud
sell everything from a needle to a piese of gold. We pay the highest
cash price for everything. Complete tinshop set tools for sale.
H. Steinbock Junk Co.
Z33 8tate Street. Salem, Oregon.
Phone Main 224
j Marion Second Hand Store
A new store just opened. A great opportunity for Salem people. We sell t
new goods. We buy and sell second hand furniture, stoves, clothing,
X tools, hardware and men's furnishings. We pay highest prices for
a clothing, shoes and furnishings. Come to us for bargains.
I MarionSecond Hand Store I
I 44a Ferry Street Flone Main 2329 .
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