PAGE FOUR t ottapr (Grorr £cntind You point out three error« into obey these fool laws and in this act zens. If he would get a few such which I have fallen. You did not we have the horrifying spec taele interpretations, let him start a traf­ A Weekly Nowspaper With Plenty say so but, presumably, as mea­ and disloyal example of an executor fic argument with a dozen citizens. of Backbone sured by your judgment. Now I of the law violating the same in One will state that 20 miles at in­ ..-Publishers got a modicum of satisfaction out two particulars in one act. Here is terseel ions for an experienced dri­ Bede 4 Braith.. ..........Editor of the fuct that there may be a a clear and forcible illustrat ion of ver is safe under any conditions. Elbert Bede----- vast difference in your judgment the folly of the law that I have Another will state that any kind of A first-class publication entered at and the truth. It seems to be your been calling attention to. Hi? could driving is not reckless so long as Cottage drove as second-clusa matter firm conviction that, of these three see, a half block before reaching no one gets hurt. Another will say errors, the most grievous is my the crossing, that for two blocks that the babe who runs out onto the Business Offiee____ M North Sixth failure to consider the human eie up the street the coast was perfect­ street has no rights which the mo­ ment. My dear man, the human eie- ly clear and that there was no suf er torist is bound to respect. These SUBSCRIPTION RATES ment is not the key note to this place in town to pass a car than interpretations are not the “conclu­ Ono year___ $2.25 I Throe months 65c song. The thing that w’e are so ser- that very spot ut that particular sions of an overworked imagina­ Six months.. 1.15 I Single copy— 5c iously menaced with, the element time, even at 20 miles an hour, . In tion,” as Mr. Kein is likely to sus­ that is strewing the way of - the doing so he did a perfectly i safe pect. They are statements that Member of safe and sane motorist with grief and sane act, endangering the life, have been made by highly re­ National Editorial Association Oregon Suite Editorial Association and tears and keeps him in a per limb or property of no one and spected citizens of Cottage Grove petual state of apprehension, is the there was no reason on earth i why who are considered men of judg­ Oregon Newspaper Conference Lane County Publishers ' Association inheuan element. The road hog, the he should not do it, with the one ment. speed maniac, the fellows who cut exception that he violated the 1 law, We repeat that Mr. Kern neglects FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1»23_ blind cornors and curves and pass and that sounds especially bad for and avoids the human element, or incorrectly interprets what is meant these spots, are not a magistrate. Under the law ’ as it other cars at ASTORIA RISES FROM ASHES. human. These are the inhuman ele- is, he is a fit subject for punish­ by the human element. The head of the state traffic de­ jnents on; two legs _ I am after and ment. Under my provision he would have committed no wrongful partment w’as in the city a few days That Astoria was not daunted by which I want you to help me get. Your jail sentence, I repeut, act, either morally or legally, but ago. When questioned on that point, the fire a year ago that almost wiped it out of existence is dem­ would be an improvement on the now', mark you, had he passed this he said that traffic regulation of onstrated by the fact that The As­ present inefficient methods, but to car at this particular spot when the kind suggested by Mr. Kem turian has just issued a fiftieth an­ be as effective as the perpetual other ears were coming down the would be impractical and would traffic anoth« r car was create chaos in the niversary and reconstruction num­ license annulment it would likewise cross street or another have to be made perpetual. But, 1 coining on the same street, or pe­ enforcement department. We are ber. The newspaper plants were com­ timidly suggest, it also might be destrians were ciose by, the act willing to take the judgment of a pletely destroyed but better plants unconstitutional and, in addition, would have been one of reckless man who has been the head of that allow me to suggest that we would driving and would have established department for many years and has have replaced them. Nearly all of the business district have to load an additional burden beyond any question of doubt that the respect and confidence of even was wiped out but the amount of on the poor taxpayer to feed the the driver was neither sane nor the traffic violators, a man who has advertising patronage in the special brute while in jail, while my plan safe in the mainjnilation of a gas made a reputation ns a safe and edition indicates that business hus would remove him forever as a wagon. Under my provision his li- sane traffic official that has spread risen from the ruins and is more menace to the traveling public and cense would be suspended for six beyond the state boundaries. We he would have to feed himself in months and upon a repetition of the did not question him as to the pro­ aggressive than before. It took 54 pages to contain the the meantime. 1 think you must offense,, which would prove him a posed license suspension. Mr. Kem wishes to know why, if interesting data about the city of see quite clearly that your jail sen- degenerate, he would be eliminated Astoria and surrounding country tenee will not do, so come down for all time. That is if you did not the state does not say that over 30 and to accommodate the advertising. now and fess up for the good of interpose a constitutional objec­ miles is dangerous speed, it should set that as a speed limit. He fails The pioneer history of this earliest vour soul and, incidentally, the pub tion. Ila! Ha!. You hold that if this remedy to see why the state should set a of pioneer far west settlements IB lie. Inasmuch ns you and I have escaped the constitutional objection SAFE speed limit, instead of a dan- especially interesting. agreed as to what constitutes care­ it would be of no avail for the rea- gérons one. Really that is quite son that the full penalty of the simple. If the state is going to pro- Corvallis Gazette-Times: There ís less and reckless driving, is it too law would not be carried out. Now tect the lives and property of its much to conclude that the speed be a possibility that the state may 1 am going to turn your own guns citizens what is there for it to do getting on to the solution of the cops and tho courts could do he on you by quoting “Bede versus except to set a SAFE speed limit. uuto accidents. This colm has rid­ suine? You certainly are not egotis­ Bede. Turn back to issue of August If it be proved that a higher speed iculed the idiotic driver’s license tical enough to assume that our 3, page four, third column, near limit is reasonably safe the speed law a number of times. Now corner» sense of proportion is superior to bottom, and you will find the fol- limit can bo raised. The Sentinel a front page article in the Orego­ that of the executors of the law. lo wing. “It is quite true, as Mr. has the best of the argument in one nian is a result oi of an accident in Any casual observer can know when Kein says, that restrictions against detail: There always will be what that town, or rather a series of a driver is careless and reckless, in speeding have not (Hit ¡rely elim- is considered a SÁFE speed limit, them, that could not have occurred fact he could not help knowing it inated speeding. But is that a good provided the speed maniacs and if the drivers had had any driving when seeing him perforin. There is argument why restrict ioiis should reckless drivers do not get control sense. Tho articlo places the re- u difference of opinion among these be raised?’’ Now, if your argü­ of the law-making bodies. More sponsibil'ty squarely on the law officers as to violations of the ment is good for tweedledee, why strict regulation is likely to come. that permits anybody to secure a present traffic laws and there isn’t it good for tweedledum? Don’t The “fool” speed LIMIT is here permit, to drive who has 25 cents, would bo some difference under any answer hastily or with rancor. o stay. law code of laws but 1 can see no rea ilia) s practically ..................... . ail the You say that I err seriously when son why it should be greater under We have seen people amounts to. ™ ’ I say tho present speed limit is u with a driver’s license who were the proposed change. Fool officers, That I presume, will continue to slip into not able to park a car. v , if true, offiee just us they do in all walks 2 Things Others Think ind What We However, up to date, of life. I think it is »safe to predict Corvallis Gazette-Times: When our that tho time will never come when I see no reason for modifying that Think of ths Things Others Think oil gusher gushes and Cottage Grove all of the element of danger will be statement except to make my mean produces gas, says the ’ Cottage ~ ‘ _ eliminated more clear, if 1 can. Our ing a little moro from motoring. Grove Sentinel, it will not be cheap problem is to select a plan or meth- Perhaps I should have said it is a While traveling through this vole gas, but gas of the highest quality. <>(1 that will eliminate the most. pleadable defense and, in closely of tears we can at least supply dry Is that a promise of the C. G. You seem to contemplate with balanced trials, might clear {he cul­ handkerchiefs to those less fortu- editor to quit talking? much satisfaction that all tho wind prit. It gives the accused a stand natc than ourselves. has been taken out of my sails. O ing in court that he otherwise KEM ADMITS ERROR; WANTS no, son! this is just the conclusion would not have and properly backed HARD WORDS by other evidence, would have US TO DO SO ALSO. Tho Scotch come naturally by of your overworked imagination _ weight with the jury, I recently their hard-headedness. It was nec- which has ’led you astray several Cottugo Grove, Ord!1, Hept. 4.— (To times in this discussion. Just, a ease read of just such a case. cssary that they have thick skulls You say hat the state has apt to keep their vocabulary from punc- the Editor.)—I am pleased to admit, of mistaken identity, us it were. Mr. Editor, that 1 am learning us The wind will not all be out of said that n speed exceeding 30 turing jagged holes in their era we proceed with this discussion and them till the evils I have repeatedly miles is dangerous but that it has iliums. » if you and tho public are doing called attention to have boon re- adopted that limit to protect the likewise 1 fuel that these articles moved. You cuino nt me with the lives and property of its citizens. Ananias was the first man to will not have been in vain. There law, red eyed and grinning, just us In tho name o’ mud and the seven adopt the policy that any kind of are but two ways that 1 know of though it contained nono of these horned spoons, what kind of talk is freo advertising pays. by which one may acquire knowl­ objectionable features, that the rem- this? If an excess of 30 miles an edge. One is to learn something edy lies within the law as it is and hour is not dangerous how could The man who tellH lies that please never thought of previously and the I did not know it. True tho law the lives and property of the citi­ is sometimes more respected than ho other is to learn thut. you have recognizes tho safe and sano fea zens be in danger? Stop splitting who tells truths that have n sting. been mistaken. 1 am always pleased turo, of which 1 was not aware, hairs and grabbing nt straws and to acknowledge an error when 1 am but it provides no adequate remedy come up to the help of the weak Wo know some people who ought convinced of that error, because in lor violations and has the useless against the mighty, let us push to go to heaven—and some others. so doing I am the gainer, 1 so m e- and burdensome speed limit in mile- these inhuman dry land navigators times am in error and make mis­ hi The person naturally inclined to Tho fool provisions relating to off the map. We will not allow the takes, however, I would not accuse school grounds and cross roads and constitution to save them. If it is growl and grumble always has his in the way, we will just push it you of doing a thing like that. troubles. requiring one to buckle down to 12 « • • « 1 am free to confess that I did miles at intersections, even though aside. Don’t, bo stubborn just be­ not know that the law embodied tho there is no one within 40 rods of cause you inadvertently got on the A man is never too busy to stop wrong side. sane and safe features so much dis you, is there also. O. M. KEM. and toll you how much work he has cussed and 1 have a suspicion that to do. The voluminous mid technical pro- • • We regret that wo un intent ion you did not know it either in the v inions of tho law, ns 1 have al- beginning of this discussion. If you rendy pointed out, make law break ally led Mr. Kem to believe that SUPINENES8 NOT POPULAR did know it you would certainly ors of us all, including tho execu the statute books did not contait* The person of keen judgment who have quoted it and saved all of this utors of the law. Just recently I the law about which he so volubly does just about as he pleases seems agony, otherwise you place yourself had u practical illustration of the vociferated. When he stilted that to have as many friends as the one in the position of purposely and truth of this and also of the folly a strict observance of speed limits who doesn’t act until nfter consid- feloniously—yen, feloniously—inak of tho law milking it illegal for a was u defense in court. we inline- ering whether such action will of- ing, in the language of the immor­ driver to drive his car in a sane diately understood that he had fill fend anyone. tal Shakespeare. “a great todo and safe manner. The day my last [leu into the error that so many oth about nothing.” However, I am article appeared in print I was era have in believing that the speed glad to know that this is a part of coming down town behind a car limit gives permission to drive nt the law, ns our task will bo easier. driven by one of tho magistrates that speed under all conditions. 8» All we will have to do now is to of our city and caught him rod­ many lose the significance of that lop off a few of the useless up handed passing another car at a word, “limit.” Mr. Kem hud not peiidaiiges thut do tend to hobble street intersection mid doinf ‘ ig it, too, before referred to his safe and sane the movements of the safe and sane nt n clip of 15 miles per. ’ They w w just features except in connection with motorist. can’t help it, you see. No one can lifting the speed limit and we had not the least idea but that he knew that careful driving always has been required. Mr. Kem is both reasonable and unreasonable. He is unreason able in the fnrt that he takes so much of our avail­ able space to make his argument SCHOOL WORK CANNOT BE CARRIED ON PROP that he leaves us little space for a reply. ERLY WITHOUT EFFICIENT TOOLS TO WORK He is reasonable when he admits WITH, THEREFORE, YOU ARE REMINDED THAT an error. We are in doubt whether it is reasonable to ask us to do like KEM’S for DRUGS wise. ( AN Sl’PPIA YOU WITH JUST SUCH TOOLS AND At least Mr. Kem is shrewd* ns HIE NECESSARY AtXESSORIES FOR YOUR witness the fact that he has turned our own guns on us. We arc in­ SCHOOL PERIOD. WE MENTION A FEW BELOW: clined to be convinced by our own argument. His explanation of how Waterman Fountain Pena .................... $2.76.. to $5.00 he turns our guns onto us may not Dunn Fountain Pena.___ ........................ $2.76.. to $8.00 be clear to many. For thut reason Ever Sharp Pencils........... —................ 50c to $5.00 we explain that he means that we Ingersol Pencil*................. .......... —................. 50c to $2.00 have admitted that we are not willing to do away with other Common pen points Loose leal' binders and laws that do not accomplish their purpose, therefore mid fur that rea Cotninon pen holders filler* son our argument that his proposed Lead pencils (wood) Ihmk pencil sharpeners law might not accomplish its pur- Pencil tablets Legal cap paper pose is no argument against it. Ink tablets Fools cap paper Xery well, Mr. Kem, we surrender Composition books before the thunder of our own guns. Typewriter paper Bring on your perpetual license bus Note books Paper clips anti fastener» pension law and we’ll try it out Memorandum books Loose leaf rings —ns nn additional punishment to those we already have. We believe Lraaers, Inka, Pen and Pencil Holders, Cravolas, Water that this is your intent. ( olors, Paste, Mucilage, Glue, Thumb Tacks, Compasse«, But, if the punishment is to be Dividers, Drawing Pencils, Drawing Paper, Dictionaries so severe, and we are perfectly willing that it shall be, we can not Rubber Bands, etc. throw the burden of making law onto traffic officers and ¡»el ice ________ LET US SUPPLY YOUR WANTS ___ _____ judges. Even wen* we ... ........ do so, there is not one chance in I fifty million thnt a sane legislative I body would enact laws making such; i a thing possible. j Mr. Kem should bear in mind | Cottage Grove j that, under his proposed change!* ini 6th and Main I traffic laws, every citizen would i ’continue to have the right to cause) 1 the arrest of reckless driven». W»» I would htve as many interpretations I |ef reckless driving as we have citi-1 THINGS WE THINK C • • SCHOOL DAYS Call for School Supplies r YOL'R STOMACH KNOWS There is considerable discussion as to whether that delectable cheese concoction should bo pronounced “rarebit” or “rabbit.” Our hum ble opinion is that the pronuncia­ tion is not nearly so important as the digestion of it. • • • One thing some folks like about having their nose kept to the grind­ stone is that they don’t have time to spend the money they earn. x • • • It does you no good to hate a man, and it does him no particular harm—so what’s the use! • • • With the reported sausago trust active, everything of which food is mado is under control. WOULDN’T EVEN PROVOKE »SCRATCHING A noted savant claims to have created a soft shell crab from chem­ ical compounds. The doctor claims that any form of life can be pro­ duced by taking the saino chemical compounds found in the natural body and evaporating ths water therefrom at the natural tempera ture of the organic body. He says his experiments have been success­ ful only during the three summer months. We have seen some human crabs that were apparently pro­ duced in this manner, but the coni pound used was evidently improper­ ly mixed and the experiment tried at sonic other time than the throe months which the doctor has found to be the only ones in which the operation can be successfully per- formed. • • • Don’t help a man up so for that he feels above you. It is usually those perfectly able to read and write who invoko the aid of the unwritten law. • • • With the schools advocating soil a „ girl really loves her hub- When _ culture, how is the poor, over­ worked mother ever to keep her by she can see no need of saying horpra^er^^lurin^^2^^i2iì£ii™«!siìi children clean! Wisdom wouldn't bo so noticeable if it were more plentiful. WILD, WILD WOMEN A foreign critie has looked over the millinery styles and draws the inference therefrom that woman is still a savage. We must admit that, the preBent styles are far from tamo —and we’ve often seen a woman go wild over a new hat. • • • An anomaly—a woman convicted under the Mann act. « • « The higher living gets the more we want to live. • • • A SERIOUS OVERDRAFT It is well for tho young man to iearn that the man who overdraws on his surplus energy is in as much or moro danger of punishment than the man who overdraws his bank account. Tho latter deficiency mny bo easily replaced but not so the former. A man is seldom overbearing to goo^lookin^wtomeu^^^^^^^^^