FRIDAY. OCTOBER IX 1928. PAGI FOUR I isation Board, the 'Interallied Food I Council, the Supreme Economic a tese ram is a aaso rewa I Council and the European Coal Coun- I cil, and chairman of several of th«*te H. A. YOUNG and M. D. GRIMES I bodieg. He directed the organisation* Publishers I of food supplies for many of tfie Eu- H. A. YOUNG, Editor I ropean countries during and after the I Armistice and was chairman of the I American Relief Administration en- I gaged in children’s religf in Europe. I He was a member and vice ehairman of President Wilson’s Second Indus-•’ trial* Conference and chairman of the European Relief Council. He entered President Harding’s cabinet a* Secretary of Commerce, which position he held under Presi­ dent Coolidge and relinquished only after he was nominated for Presi- Ldent. As Secretary of Commerce he [ has been in close touch with all i Entered at the Coquille Pontefice aa business and economic conditions and developments in this country since Second Clue Mail Matter 1921, and has expanded the Depart­ ment of Commerce into what is t'lje most efficient governmental organi­ sation^ of ita kind in the world. COMPARISON OF THE TWO These eight years in Washington > The -average thinking voter, wheth­ as a cabinet member have given hjm er he is a Democrat or a Republican tnsight into and experience with all need but read one articfc that hkf governmental processes, especially in been been published during the pres­ their relations to business and econ­ idential campaign to convince him omics, and he w conceded to have a that Herbert Hoover is the man wlu, wider, more accurate and more varied should be chosen President, according knowledge of the necessities of busi­ to Phil Metachan,, chairman of the ness and trade in all their branches Republican state central committee as related to the Government, and The article referred to by the stat< the necessities and opportunities of chairman was written by Samuel G Government aa related to business Blythe in the September 15 issue oi ind traite, than any man of our pres­ the Saturday Evening Post, and ir. ent or our past. . He is fifty-four part is as follows: years old. Hoover is not a politician, His life interests and work have beer Therefore, let us regard these mer. in business, in production and distri­ ir. that light. Let us look them over bution, and for the past eight yeans and examine into them with a view he has been at the root of all our bus­ to setting forth their abilities and iness and economic conditions. capabilities, and especially their ed­ These, without embroidery, ar* the ucation and expericene along the records of the two leading candidates HB m that should be, considered for presidency, viewed in the light of ■— must be considered — by the the paramount presidential and ex­ average American voter if he M ecutive need of the United Stataaat to vote for what is mogt important to thia time’ and for the four forth­ him—his country’s prosperity and his coming years. The average Ameri­ own. can voter, having his own best inter­ First, what about Smith? What sets and his country’s highest inter­ is his experience and his education in ests at heart, desiring the continu­ affairs such as must be dealt with by ance of prosperity and the mainten­ a President who needs a business and ance of our supremacy, should study economic equipment in order to do his them carefully. great share in maintaining this There records and the men behind «country at Ita present high point o’I them are the brass tacks of this cam­ prosperity and to assure the contin-1 paign. Platforms, speeches, publi­ uance of this prosperity? Alfred E city, propaganda, radio, movies and Sinith waa bom in New York, was a all the rest of the ballyhoo are incon­ poor boy in New York and has been sequential. This is the vital stuff. elected governor of New York four tintas. He was educated in a pa­ DEMOCRATIC CONDEMNATION rochial school; and, after various jobs It’s something of a confession when in various capacities jn and about a protagonist of Governor Smith ad­ New York, went naturally and ef­ mits that the democratic national ficiently into the Democratic politics The Sentinel "used car” used cars transportation A. GOOD automobile is built to stand years of use. It will provide many thousands of miles of satisfactory transportation. CLIP THE COUPON Name. Addreaa.... i h 11 i n -- eleek in the office of the commissioner I But the Confession is nothing less than of jurors. This was when he was in startling when made by the New York hie twenties. He was a inember of the Assembly World, a newspaper which is the rec­ of New York from 1903 to 1915, be­ ognised interpreter of the Governor’s came Democratic leader there in 1911 vipws and which has devoted itself to and was speaker in 1918. He was a a diligent but unsuccessful attempt to prove that republicans are guilty of delegate to the New York State Con­ stitutional convention in 1915 and the same cheap conduct which it now was elected sheriff of New York in finds |n the democratic committee. The World, in an editorial captioned that yqar. He served as sheriff until 1917, when he became président of “Can It,” thus rebukes the leaders of the board of aidermen of Greater its own party: "For several days note the. demo­ New York. He was first elected gov-1 cratic national committee in Wash­ , ernor in 1919, and with the exception of two years, when he was defeated ington has been digging up old bones by Miller, has been governor since and displaying them with gusto' that time. During the two years These treasures consist of remarks — Governor Smith was out of office as made by various republican states­ ^-’governor he was in the trucking busi­ men, either in the ancient past or the more recent past, which are highly ness in New York City. These two years in the trucking jnflattering to Mr. Hoover. Some of business comprise the entire business them are not only very old but very experience of Governor Smith, except cheap and very silly. It is difficult to that attained in his -casual jobs as tell from the manner in which this a boy and young man before he went material is published just when the democratic committee Is quoting some into politica. He is an able political administra­ republican and when Jt is adding some tor and has ma«le an excellent record brilliant footnote of ita own, but in as governor of New York. He is a either case there are references here man of courage, attractive personal-1 to Mr. Hoover which are both infair ity and large poltical attainments, and vulgar. “For the democratic national com­ He is ar active i member of Tammany Hall. His rise from a poor boy on mittee to peddly such stuff is indecent, the East Side of New York io re­ stupid and contemptible. ' “If this is the best the committee markable even I in this country, where so many poor boys have progressed can do, It had best shut up ita shop to high place, He has a large and and go home.” loyal following in New York, where Wis life has been lived. He has not traveled much, either at home or abroad. Smith's competitor, ' Herbert Hoover, is a graduate of Stanford University, of California, and has . honorary degrees from twenty-nine other universities, including fiv^ de­ grees from European universities. His training and life work have been along business lines rather than in politics. He is a mining engineer and has engaged in professional work in mines, railways and metallurgic works in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Italy, Great Bri­ tain, South Africa, India, China and Russia. He first stepped out of his profession and became a world figure when, at the beginning of the war in 1914, he became chairman of the 'American Relief Committee at Log- don. He then became chairman of the Commission for the Relief of Bel­ gium, and when we went into the war in 1917, was made American Food Administrator by President Wilson. | He was a member of the War Trade Council, the United States Grain Corporation, the Sugar Equal- Oregon Not the Highest “Oregon motorists do not pay the highest automobile tax in the coun­ try, despite figures which indicate that the average license fee in this state is the-Aiigheet of the 48 states in the Union,” asserts James H. Cass­ ell, editor of Automotive News and member of the Executive Committee of the Oregon Good Roads Associa­ tion. “Statistics dealing exclusively with license fees are nqt only mis­ leading but are unfair to Oregon, which ranks eighth in motor vehicle tax per car, but gives the Oregon mo­ torist mixih more improved highway thaii the vast majority of state.” “It is true that the average Oregon license is the highest in the Union. Unquestionably thia situation will be corrected at the next session of the legislature. But when other license fees are added to the gas tax, and the personal property tax levied in the majority of states, Oregon ranks eighth in the list df 48,” explains Cassell. — “Oregonians pay only 25 per cent more total automobile tax than Cal­ ifornians, despite their boasted 83 li- mu. pBVe Thompson property tax of 110.07, To the People: Having been honored with the nom­ R. A. Easton’s Weekly Letter ination of the Republican party at the If I were a gambler I would bet. Primaries.... for the office of County even money that each of the New Judge, I consequently aspire to be England states and New York, Penn­ elected, and my greatest ambition egard for he exalte homes and home with railroad The costs and estimated damages crosrmg collisions acres each. Seventeen burned from due to these fires are timber des­ life, not the appetite of the rabble. avera«* »7 to every 100,- >ne-fourth to ten acresK Twenty­ troyed, 8200.00; forage 825.00, other 000 motor vehicles registered, accord­ R. A. Easton. seven were put out before reaching property destroyed 831,000.00. 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