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T— COQUILLE VALLtT SENTINEL. COQUILLE OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1982.
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If the state of Oregon would devise
a new system of tax laws, on a just
and equitable bams, everyone would
have cause for thanksgiving. But -o
continually hunt for additional in
come, or sources of tax funds, in ad
dition to those we already have, to
tiresome.
The burden is teeayy
enough now. Let’s not tinker, bat
adopt a comprehensive, sane and
logical tex system.________
There to cause for rejoicing in the
United States over the meeting of
President Hoover and President-elect
Roosevelt in Washington, Tuesday.
That is that the present head and the
future head of the United States arr
agreed in their opposition to cancella
tion of European countries war debts
to the U. 8. We may lees the friend
ship of some of those nations, but
they were glad enough of our sup
port and assistance during the war,
and should not be allowed to welsh
on their just obligations. Whether
the United States will ever make col
lection remains to be seen.
Mrs. Raymond Robins, wife of the
noted dry advocate whoso disappear
ance was so much of a mystery for
ten weeks and whose discovery in the
North Carolina hills a week ago was
Just as much of a surprise, is em
phatic in her defense that Mr. Robins
did not disappear intentionally; con
tending that it was a real ease of
amnesia. But that he should recol
lect and remember her a couple of
days after being found does seem a
little strange.
Such circumstances
have happened before but usually the
victim does not recover his memory
so quickly.________________
PROHIBITION, A FAILURE?
(The Pathfinder)
Is prohibition a good thing? No
body knows; it has never had a
chance.
When prohibition was adopted, all
good people assumed that the law
would be respected and that it would
at least be given a fair trial.
But
there were too many against it. The
police were down on it naturally;
they will arrest a poor autoist for
parking wrong and then let fleets of
boose trucks pass in the night, week
after week and year after year, with
out even seeing them.
The lawyers were mostly against
it, many of the judges also.
The
doctors hated the restriction on their
right to prescribe alcohol if they
thought it beneficial. The legislators
who passed the laws were themselves
largely opposed to prohibition; they
might like to provide it for others, but
they had no idea of accepting it for
If there was a “rain of meteors
last week, as it was announced there
would be, Coquille folk were denied
witnessing the spectacle on account of
the weather.
This particular phe
nomenon is supposed to have 33-year
periodicity and if it failed of appear
ance altogether many interesting ex
planations, alibis, etc., may be ex
pected from our scientists. There are
many theories regarding meteors, but
to be perfectly candid with the gentle n—
reader, neither Prof. Einstein nor
mysslf can tell exacts what they are.
At Klamath Falls the other day an
accommodating circuit judge con
vened court at 2 a. m. to hear a plea
of guilty to morale charges from a
prisoner who requested that he be
sentenced and sent on his way to the
penitentiary as soon as possible. This
fellow's time was doubtless worth a
lot of money and he did not wish to
be detained any longer than need be.
His idea of thé value of time was
irobably developed while driving a
flivver, and unnecessarily passing
>ti»er ears on the highway. We be-
:ive he is the same bird who has pass
ed us so many times.
Wo should like to hear explained
he high principle behind the law that
Term its the sovereign state to take
from counties, cash in advance, the
entire amount of state’s proportion of
the tax levy, when periiaps the county
has not succeeded in collecting over
a third of it, and never win collect
all of it.
Since
writing
word« the answer comes flashing
across the horizon of our intellect:
Tbs county gets to keep *U of the
The State of Oregon is entering the
real estate business on a large scale
through its World War Veterans*
State Aid Commission.
In almost
Ivory city in bhe state soldiers’ loans
are defaulting in both principal and
ntorest, and in addition the Commis
sion is paying taxes and improvement
'.ions. In a great many cases, it to re
ported, the borrowers are relinquish
ing titles to the Commission, making
foreclosure proceedings unnecessary.
For a time the Commission took the
attitude that it would refuse to pay
improvement liens, defying the cities
on the ground that they cotfid not
bring suit against the State. How
ever, the Commission has adopted the
policy of paying these improvement
liens and will not test the matter in
the courts, a position that to at least
morally sound. Otherwise the cities
would be compelled to absorb these
liens st total loss to the taxpayers.
Coquille to in line for some heavy
payment«
from
the Commission,
which will be received at an early
date.
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Emporia editor and man of letters.
After the big meeting it was my privi
lege to be one of a small group that
had a pleasant visit with Robins.
This meeting of republican insur
gents was a most earnest and emo
tional affair.
Prominent men were
breaking ties Vith the “grand old
party,” in which they had been lead
ers for many yeans. Several of them
were shedding tears, and Henry Allen
and William Allen White were among
these. Hokever, as to well known,
they, and most of the insurgents, later
returned to the g. o. p. fold.
participation
to designate the new roi 'ule has with- tivities
drawn his suit and a new suit has the biennial
feast of legislative
been filed in the name of Duncan appropriations. Just what the legis
Bruce McDonald, Columbia county lature will do with the proposal, of
farmer and taxpayer. The ground for course, remains to be seen. The ac
complaint is similar to that set forth tivities and their budget needs fol
by Dunne. McDonald contends that low-: Bonus1 commission, 81,060,000;
designation of the Wolf creek high emergency board, 8150,000; predatory
way as a part of the iitate highway/ animal eradication, 8134,000; county
program wm a legislative function fairs, 8110,898; board Of health, 887,-
¿.nd not Within the province of the 026; state engineer, 867,621; state
’ highway commission,
fait, >76,000; Pacific International,
Removal of W. W, Ridehalgh from 875,000; battleship Oregon, 880,000;
the state payroll as supervisor of public utilities .commiMion, 827,947;
transportation was by the painless bureau of labor, 824,180; humane so
method. Instead of firing Ridehalgh ciety, 8104)00; Eastern Oregon live
the board of control merely abolished stock show, >10,000; alfalfa weevil
his job. Ridehalgh was employed 18 control, 810,000;
department
of
months ago to check expense accounts Americanisation, 88000. The amount
of state officials and employees. In a totals 91,869,969 with the big end of it
recent report to the board he claims represented in the bonus commission’s
a reduction of *126,000 for the bien budget.
Hansen, however, has ap
nium through a sealing down of hotel parently overlooked the fact that the
bills and automobile travel expense by bonus eommiseion’e fund to not a leg
reason of this scrutiny of expense islative appropriation but is provided
claims.
by a special millage tax set up in the
If Governor Meier decides to go
through with his proposal for the re
Obviously a clumsily disguised - bit
lief of the property tax, as he is ex
pected to, it to believed here that he of propaganda in opposition to the
will convene the legislature in special demand for a reduction in automobile
session to consider the enactment of a license fees, a statement issued by
Leslie M. Scott, chairman of the state
dales tax.
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The special session theory is based highway commission, « following
on the necessity for speedy action if meeting of the commission here last
the proposed relief is to be reflected week, calls for the expenditure of
in the 1083 tex payments. First half *15,500,000 in atote and federal funds
tax payments, it to pointed out, are on new construction work over* a
The program,
due on or before May 6. The coun period of six years.
ties must rdtait the state’s portion of which includes highways in every
the tax by June 6. Any legislation section of the state, is contingent up
enacted by the regular session would on non-interference with the present
not become law until 90 day« after volume of revenue of the highway de
automobile
license
adjournment of the session. A special partment from
election, in the event the act was re fees and gasoline taxes.
ferred, would occasion still ftutitesJ
Secretary of State Hoes is already
delay so that rt would be along about
the first of July before the issue could being besieged with applications for
be definitely- determined.
In the licenses covering the operation of beer
meantime the first half of the taxes parlors and other refreshment vend
would have been paid necessitating a ing resorts in view of the recent re
refund and readjustment of the pay peal of the state prohibition laws.
ments with all the red tape and in The secretary has advised all appli-
cento io far that the federal Volstead
convenience involved therein.
If enacted at a special session in act still prohibits the sale and use of
December or early January the tax intoxicants and ne provision has been
act could become effective, run the made for licensing under state protec
gauntlet of a special election if neces tion.
state constitution over which neither
he as budget director nor the state
legislature has any control.
And while Hanaen is out with his
scalping knife arbitrarily triming off
a commicrtion here and pruning down
a budget there a number of legisla
tors are known to have their toma
hawks al) whetted up to raise Henry’s
scalp on the ground that the office of
budget director, carrying with it an
annual salary of 86000 is about as
useful as a fifth wheel on a wagon.
The work which now requires the full
time of a high salaried, official was
formerly done in three months’ time
every two yearn by a 8200 a month
clerk, these legislators point out.
Defeat for re-election, after 34
yearn of meritorious service in con
gress, was a blow that hastened the
death of Senator Wesley L. Jones of
Washington, who succumbed last Sat
urday in a private sanitarium in Se
attle. He was the author of the fam
ous “Jonee five-and-tan” law. With
all the talk about the “Jonee Act,” to
gether with the denunciations of the
law as a grossly unfair proposition,
there seem to be few persons who
know what the “Jones Act” to.
In brief, it provides that violations
of the Volstead act (illegal sale,
School Committees Thankful
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transportation or manufacture of in
The communities of Ashland, La
toxicant«), are to bo classed aa fel
Grande, Monmouth and Eugene, asso
onies, instead of misdemeanors, and
ciated together during the past sever
as such must be punished by the im
al months in a state-wide campaign
themselves. In fact many of our moat position of a fine not to exceed 810,-
against the Zorn-Macpherson school
000,
or
imprisonment
not
exceeding
active lawmakers are confirmed boos
moving bill, hsve expressed their ap
era, who can’t wax eloquent unless flve years, or both. The “must” tooth
preciation of the support and confi
has
since
been
extracted
from
the
they are tanked up.
dence shown by the voters of the
Finally, drinking was made fash law, however, and the amount of the
state in ’defeating the bill in a state-'
ionable, and sottish all-night gin fine or imprisonment is within the sary and be in operation, if approved,
ment recently issued by bhe joint com
Frank J. Lonergan, « peek er of the mittee. The statements reads:
parties became the accepted thing jurisdiction ef the trial judge.
well before May 6 so that the neces
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everywhere. Country clubs sprung up
sary adjustment could be made before House of Representatives, is now of-
"The overwhelming defeat of the
like magic, because this gave people A Tearful Time ta K umm Recalled the first half tax payments become ficiating as governor of Oregon in the Zorn-Macpherson bill was brought
absence of .Governor Meeir who is about largely through the whole-
a chance to drink without let or hin
The latest episode in the life of due.
In the meantime the state tex com-! •P*ndinK *be Thanksgiving
drance, under the guise of playing Raymond Robins, now in the writing,
hankegiving holidays
holiday« hearted volunteer effort of thousands
mission
will
make
its
annual
levy
in
Cal
'fomia.
f Lonergan « right to, of friend« of higher education in thia
golf.
(narrating his mysterious disappear
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assistance of the
In buaineM it has got so that the ance In New York ten weeks ago, and December as usual, pausing approxi-;the office “•
best way to secure a contract is to the finding of the noted reformer in mately *8,600,000 of the state load, Iney G«"»™1 Van Winkle who, in an preM, sUte and community amoeia
«•«»«»• office, ex- tions, clubs and societies, and the un-
pass a bottle or a case of whisky to North Carolina a few days ago, suf including special millage taxes, on to oPi",°"
the man (or woman) who has the de fering from alleged amnesia), recalls property. Any relief for this load Plain* thM ,hi’ R**®» as speaker of tiring activity of thosfe charged with
cision. Conventions of all sorts have » to my mind a pleasant contact with will depend upon what ia done later
House is not affected by the ex- particular
responsibilities
through
responsibilities
through
degenerated into drinking orgie* No Mr. Robins back in Kansas in 1912.
in the way of enacting the sales tax piration of hw membership in the ; the Association with committees and
Uxri.laturo
»ha terms „r
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legislature.
While the
of 1 leg-'
president would dare enforce prohi
It was during a big meeting being or some other form of new revenue.
groups organized to .»rry on the
bition, as it would hit too many good held in Topeka, for the purpose of
A tax of one percent on gross re islatons expired November 9, or the campaign,
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To those persons who
friends.
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organising the Kansas division of the tail sates in Oregon, H is estimated, day after the general election, the '. gave ■ so unselfishly
so that the present
attorney
gene^ldi^rentia^
between
tortjtutions'might
"r^ta
Even if the 18th amendment isn’t Bull Moose party, supporting the would produce approximately 92,400,-
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formally repealed, it will no doubt independent candidacy of the beloved 000 a year under present «editions. legislators and officers of the legista-
legtola-1 ' t
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continue of service to the state, and to
become a dead letter.
It will be Teddy Roosevelt for president I at If applied to utility sates this figure ture, who, he explains, hold office until the organisation) and th* press
nullified, like some of the other tended that meeting as a member of would be increased by about 8600.000, their successors are elected and quali-, wi)lh to express our
appre
amendments. The supreme court has a large delegation from Independence, bringing the total up to approximate fled.
Strengthening
Lon er gin’s cion.”
admitted that a constitutional amend Kansas. In that delegation was Alf ly >8,000,000 or nearly, if not quite right to the1- office, also, is the fact
ment doesn’t enforce itself and that if M. Landon, now the governor-elect of enough to cover the current needs of that the necessity for an official ex
Share in Forest Receipts
the people choose to forget it or evade Kansas. Landon was a mere boy the state. The Mississippi sales tax ists, no other provision is made in the
it there is nothing to do about it. Bo then, but was a very promising young art, referred to by Governor Meier, constitution for filling the vacancy
For the fiscal year ended June 30,
if Congress passes a bill doing away politician.
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applies to til iretail sales, including and Lonergan is on the job as “de 1932, the state of Oregon received
with the Volstead act, as appears like
The meeting was attended by fee* of professions] men such as facto” governor, with plenty of “color 830 547.68 and Washington 848,46237,
ly, we may look for the practical end thousands. Robins was the principal doctom, lawyers and dentists.
of title” by reason of the speakership being one-quarter of the annual gross’
of the “noble experiment” of prohi speaker—truly the “spell binder” and
to give him a decided advantage in receipt, from the 22 national forest,
bition which never prohibited.
the “silver-tongued,” he was unsur
Opponents of the Wolf Creek high Iny dispute' that might arise over his located in these two states.
Th^v
A sad. sad affair, for all concerned passed in that time. Other speakers way have adopted a new plan of at authority to act
amounts, to be used for road and
—except the bootleggers, who have wore Henry Allen, later governor of tack. State Senator Joe Dunne who
echool purposes, were returned to the
built up one of the biggest industries Kansas and United States
filed a complaint against the highway
Budget Director Hansen proposes counties in which there are national
ia the country in spite of the laws.
and William Alien White, the
ission attaeking their authority
eliminate
ac- forests.
Finds Partridge Does
Little Harm to Crops
The Hungarian, or European gray,
partridge In the United States to not
particularly harmful to crops, studies
of 80 birds by the biological survey.
United States Department of Agricul
ture^ Indicate.
In the fall and winter these birds
feed largely on green leaves, grains
of wheat, corn, oats, barley, and seeds
of ragweed, foxtail grass, and bind
weed. The cultivated grains seem to
be picked up mostly In stubbl. fields,
and the Investigators believe this Indi
cates no Injury to growing crops.
Content's of the crops and gizzards
of the birds examined showed that
animal food made up 0 per cent of
their food. The young birds, tn par
ticular, displayed a liking for grass
hoppers, beetles, and other injurious
Insects.
This partridge has been Introduced
into numerous North American locall-
ties and has become well established
in some of them, particularly in south
western Canada, Washington state,
southwestern Wisconsin, southwestern
Michigan, and • northwestern Ohio. As
It to a comparatively new bird In this
country Its habits are Interesting to
sportsmen, ornithologists, and farmers.
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