The Sentinel
instead of “culture" will survive.
Medford Grocery
It has been suggested that the
laws be suspended for a time to per
mit the killing of game by those who
are in need of it for food. J. W. Laird,
a Coquille citizen, says he hasn't
hunted deer for thirty-five years, al
though he baa maintained the licensed
The special session of the state leg-
privilege to do so.
He thinks he
might have averaged one buck per islature which ended its week’s tabors
season, therefore his quota of game, shortly after midnight Saturday was
so to speak, still remains in the woods a |>0,000 fiasco.
Convened by Governor Meier to en
available for the needy.
act a sales tax or some other measure
Shorty Wilcoxon had a dispute as a relief to the state tax on property
with a neighbor a few days ago as to the session cost the taxpayers of Ore
the spelling of a certain word. Ho gon approximately 410,000 and ac
says he looked at Webster's dictionary complished practically nothing.
■y W. 8. Sickels
While the session enacted a bill re
and found the dictionary was wrong.
Just to prove his contention another pealing or setting aside the property
tax for state purposes as contained
County and city employees in many dictionary was consulted and that was
Petites
Therefore
hi the levy of the state tax commis
also
found
to
be
wrong.
*
sections of the country are receiving
sion, the legally minded members of
8horty
was
right.
for their services warrants bearing the
both branches declare the measure to
■ ',r \.
pleasant little phrase, “Presented for
Under the present system of col be unconstitutional and regard it as
payment, but not paid for want of
a futile political gesture. Governor
funds,” and further decorated by the lecting taxes in Oregon, the 8 per cent
Meier is generally expected to veto
penalty
feature
constitutes
an
induce-'
date of such presentation, together
Entered at the Coquille PostoAoo as
ment not to pay. If wo had a rebate the bill, unless ho, too, invites finan
with
the
treasurer
’
s
signature.
They
Second Class Mail Matter.
3
25c
cial chaos in state affairs, and should
cannot bo cashed at their face value feature for prompt payment of taxes,
he send it back to the lawmakers with
there
would
exist
an
inducement
to
OAce Corner W. Pint and Wfflard 84. because the banks in the various com
his disapproval it ia questionable if
munities cannot longer take them. This pay.
it would find sufficient support to
action by the banka is absolutely neces
In a report to President Hoover Sec
pass over his veto. Even if it did,
13 Years After Prohibition
sary, having been dictated by the su
retary of State Stimson points out
it is pointed out, it would not become
™ ; th.
v.rnment’semergency bars P*rvigin* »»«hority that
telle
bankers
it telle bankers
(Union Signal)
that the governments emergency bare ,
n-.v
effective until 90 days after the dose
how to ran their business. Back of
On the thirteenth birthday of na-
against immigration “during the eco
of fhe regular season which would be
Pure
Gdta Wwt, Vxwe Sx
this, however, is the sound policy that tional prohibition the eighteenth a-
nomic depression” than
have 500.^
resulted
in
too late to afford much relief thia
aH«;. IJ **
mendment has succeeded so well that
_.u -T___ u„
a...
i diversified manner. In other words. the liquor interests of the world are year. Should the governor sign the
who normally would have entered the
banka are not allowed to put too many banded together in a furious onslaught measure or permit it to become a law
country. ________________
without his signature, it will probably
eggs in one basket
to break down the safeguards of the
Investment by the public in oonds, American home against the greatest be attacked in the courts by some
What, we ask, is “Wholy Writ*!
■'"r-■■■>- .,____________ 1
as
a rule, is made from surplus funds evil the race has ever known. Every creditor of the state.
▼
In the last issue of «he Myrtle Creek
The only other^biil psaaed by the
of
individuals
and
institutions
seeking
pretense is now sot aside; the fight is
Mail, Editor Rice writes, “The human
special session was one authorising
heart is ’desperately wicked* we are earnings for idle money. These oUi- now the home against the liquor traf the state treasurer to stamp warrants
gstions
take
precedence
—
theoretically,
fic.
told in Wholy Writ" Wherever it
“not paid for want of funds” and to
was he read it, we cannot help agree- Jat *e*"t over tverf other, and failure
Prohibition has paased beyond the
TaH
ing with him in his argument that the
t*,em
8bey are due pro testing point and demonstrates its pay interest at the rate of five per
human race is better off when it is
***• condition known as “insol- value in the fields of economy, health, cent on warrants so stamped. This
bill, rushed through as an emergency
sociology and public morale. It has
working eight to twelve hours a day,1
measure, was regarded as necessary
than
it
would
be
under
the
techno-'
A
county
or
city
may
fail
to
pay
been assailed by the most heavily fi
than it would be under the techno-
to
the preservation of the state’s cred
cratie plan of three of four hours
«v«n to^the point of causing nanced world-wide organisation of
it With lees than «200,000 cash on
them
to
beoome
abject
victims
of
want,
liquor
men
our
present
civilization
has
daily.
Qt.
’
and stMl remain technically “solvent”; ever seen; and yet it has weathered hand to meet claims in excess of
but let them fail to meet bond maturi- these storms which would have suf «500,000, including the -December state
SPECIAL SESSION A FIZZLE
The special session of the Oregon **•"
¡nterest-^be requirements of ficed to overthrow a measure lorn payroll—this was Jtha only alternative
to repudiation of these claim«. It is
e.
legislature last week, ended just as
they lnun<^‘*t«1y become strongly estabtiehed.
... ——
estimated that in excess of «1,000,-
“
insolvent
”
.
The
major
claims
for
the
eighteenth
moot people expected it would, with-
"
000 in state warrants will be out
The tern “capital” does not apply amendment are:
out anything being accomplished and
standing before new revenues are a-
to
individuals,
although
an
owner
of
1
—
It
made
an
outlaw
of
the
liqtior
an expenditure for the week of «10,-
Swift
vsMable for their payment in April.
an abundance of money is often re traffic.
000.
Much
of
the
expense
of
the
session
2— It reduced drinking; it has
True, the house passed a sales tax ferred to aa a capitalist Capital, in
was represented by clerk and steno
i
bill which the senate refused to en the sense here usqd, is a thing—a duced drunlctnDoea
graphic hire, there being 94 of these
act, and a bill was passed exempting system—placid and unconcerned in the i 8—It has reduced death from al-
employees on the payroll of the House
presence
of
poverty
and
human
suf-
coholism
and
has
been
a
factor
in
real property from any state tax, but
and Senate. While the House voted
faring,
but
the
fimt
to
take
flightto-
'
during
tjie
general
mortality,
War Veterans State Aid commission [ a matter of history—how can the Te
Gov. Meier has intimated that bo
4—By diverting tremendous sums of a pay cut for these employees under
would veto it, and he should. Unless ward its strong-box should a small
disturbance ( money from the ‘barroom till to ex- the scale of two yean ago, the Senate as set forth in a resolution adopted by storation of a beer tax now balance
Ji
• business
i
there is ability enough in this leg- cloud portending
refused to follow thia, lead and con unanimous vote of the commission at the budget and bring back grain
lature to devise and enact an entirely appear on the horizon of hi lan af- pending industries, it has Increased
fined its economies in this direction executive session held in the office of prices, as many are telling us. Corn
i
American
purdhasing
power
by
at
;
new system of taxation, and it is to i
five bmton'ddtanT
«>' P*J-tor unearned Governor ‘Meier in which it was rep then sold at from 8 to IS cents, and
Most folks can have little in com- least"
_____________
_ ______ _ y«r L H U *•
be doubted that there is, the state will
_
A larger nunrber of the resented that the finances of the de yet horses were doing aM the work
capital. They do not go is wwwmwmJovsrttai®.
this economic factor which has help-
muddle through another two years moo with
— la
— X.V
__ *_ __ with
«.* un- ed . save the
. .
.am from a greater . l««*^**!** employees at this session partment were on such a sound foot now being done by tracks and auto
about «Jaaaml
slapping
it on
the _ S back
nation
or more of its unequal tax system.
due
and ' calling it by Its' ’ ¿.piston
*
* familiarity
- ■
of the law- ing sa to make the collection of ad mobiles and tractors. With no compe
depression.
i , than
. usual , were relative*
_
. \
We have no doubt but that a sales
I 5—It helped raise the American makers-wives,
^«rs-wivea, daughter,
daughters and sons ditional revenue from taxes during tition whatever from busses and
first
name.
Capital
is
shy,
distant
taxes la as just and equitable a means
‘_._J
__ L. of living;
__ u
A. —this
being justified
by the by the 1983 unnecessary.
,
standards
it ____
quadrupled
the nepotism
-Uis nepotism
being justified
trucks, one hundred and forty rail
of taxation as can bo devised, and if and reserved and doos not dull its
Now comes this firm qf public ac roads went into the hands of receiv
memberships and assets of the buHd-
legislators-is
palm
with
entertainment
of
those
po-
in addition an income tax could be
ing and loan associations; it has given ,<>o ■m*H to ¡»rmit any of the mem- countants with a report in which it ia ers.
enacted whieh would get its fair soesod only of deficits; it turns cani-
pointed out that not only was the
All these things happened at a time
share of- the* incomes of every Indi bal, too, at the eight of would-be com the city purchaser a greater purchas-
i the session without some such exped waiver of the tax levy unconstitution when the wets had full swdy; when
rades
Who
think
they
can
beat
the
ing
power
for
farm
products
at
a
time
vid
corporation in the state,
when agriculture needed every possible ient to supplement Ma regular salary. al, as this column has intimated before the railroads were not cursed with
it
>e -> vast improvement on stock market.
but that loss of this revenue threatens competition from trucks an^ busses,
This
writer
has
an
understanding
of
*
help. It has helped millions of child
our present system. The trouble with
Of a total of 4106481,154.1« spent the entire financial structure of the and when labor saving machiipes were
the income tax laws, both state and the view-point of men who manage ren to go to school for a longer period
on the state’s primary and secondary bonus department. At the beet, the only in their infancy. Unemployment
federal, is that tab many who shodd l fiduciary concerns and knows some [than they could have gone under the
highway system for new construction, auditors point out, gaiver of the bo was as great then according to the
thing
of
their
duties
and
problems,
and
home conditions of the saloon era.
pay, escape altogether.
additions and betterments during the nus ia merely postponing the day of population, as it is now. Thei point is
he has yet to meet one of these gentle
past 1« years, since the inception of payment. Ultimately it must bo made that practically all of the remedies
men who may be inhuman in thought
Ungrateful French
the state highway program in 1917, up through a levy against property now being offered to cure our pres
or purpose. Breasting the “slings and
We wonder why a great deal of the 83,440,«97.60 was spent in Coos coun or from some other tax source and in
I arrows of outrageous fortune” also
ent plight were in full force and ef
I gives one an understanding of the oth- French loan ever came to be classi ty, according to the biennial report the meantime the commission will be fect forty years ago, and the depres
| er fellow’s view-point, in case be is fied as war debts. After the war the of the state highway department. up against the necessity of issuing re sion came in spite of them ati.—Os
United States loaned that country Lib State funds alone expended on high funding bonds to meet payments on
| tempted “to take arms against a sea
borne, Kansas Farmer.
erty bond money to reconstruct her way work in the county hi the 1« year maturing bond issues.
■ of troubles”, due, as he may think, to
railroads, build public buildings, and period amounted to «2,017,657.80 with
For Figuring Farm Rentals
to buy surplus war material like loco the county contributing «825,197.50
Residents of northern Wasco comity
social structure.
motives, roiling stock, automobiles and and the federal government «575,817.- are now petitioning the state hydro
Uae of the farm price index is sug
other equipment on hand in the A. E. 07 in cooperation with the state. The electric commission for the organiza gested as a possible means of giving
F. depots. Wo did not want to ship figure does not include expenditures
tion of a peoples’ utMity district. elasticity to cash rental contracts on
this material home and France needed for maintenance work or the expendi This is the third attempt at organi f,rm* by L. R. Breithaupt, extension
it and she bought it at a bargain. Now tures of the federal government and
sation of one of these power districts economist at Oregon State college,
in effect she says that she believes counties in connection with forest
in Oregon since the ensetment of the who points out that wide fluctuations
we should make her a present of all highway construction work.
tew by the 1931 legislature. Both of in farm prices m recent yeans have im-
these things.
the other attempt« have been defeated preesod both renters and owners with
France made this country a present,
There were 36,145 fewer automo through failure of some of the dist the need of some leas rigid arrange
of nothing. We paid rent on every biles and trucks bearing Oregon li
ricts to be included within the pro ment.
foot of trench our army occupied, cense plates at the beginning of 1988
The Oregon farm price index is pub
posed project to accept the proposal.
every barn, chicken coop or other bil than there were at the beginning of
One of these was in Tillamook county; lished each month by the extension
let our soldiers slept in, freight on her 1932, according to figures compiled by
the other in Hood River county. The service and constitutes a seasonally
railreads after rebuilding the road Secretary of State Hoss. Total reg
proposed Wasco county project would corrected average of the farm price
beds and even for the privilege of istrations for the first half of the
include approximately 500 square of 16 commodities that accounted for
blowing up bridges across rivers be present fiscal year were 206,908, com
miles of territory and it is proposed more than 80 percent of the farm cash
ing used by Germans in the march on pared with 242,053 for the same per
to
develop
approximately
10,000 income from crop and livestock pro
Faria
iod a year ago. Receipts from motor horsepower in a 81,000,000 plant to be duction from 192« to 1980.
All other countries in the war re vehicle registration for the six month
Thb five-year period is takeh at
constructed on the Deschutes river
ceived territorial concessions out of period totalled «5,290,176.10 or «907,-
with aa additional «400,000 to be spent normal, or 100 percent. Assuming that
the German colonies. This country 70842 under that of last year. Com
in the construction of a transmission * given farm would have rented is
neither asked nor received anything. mercial vehicles show the heaviest do
line to carry the “juice” to the ul ti normal times at «600, then under
We owe no country any debt and aM erease in registration, the losa being
mate consumer living within the Prices ,uch aa prevailed in 1929 when , -
we ask is that they pay what they owe 23.32 percent, with the only increase district
tM index was 100, the rent would
us. — Springfield News.
automatically raise to «545. But un-
in registration being shown by sea
“*r prices such as a year later when
sonal trucks.
T«D
This
to
Congrem
The public', rv^xmsibility for edu-
Pred’lct M*ker8
Me<t
»• index was only 84, the figure
Along in the early Wi wheat sold
If there was any element of sur
cation of the young—that necessary
Butter and ice cream makers of
automatically reduced to
For October 1981 the index
for good citizenship—ends with the Oregon will gather February 20 to 23 prise contained in the report of Goo. at 30 cents; rye, barley, com and oth
high school. Beyond that it is neither st Corvallis for the annual convention Black and company, certified public er grains at from eight to 20 dents; was down to 55 which would put the
lr“t*nce given down
equitable nor fair to the majority of of their state association and for a aceomtanta, on the condition of the hogs at less than three cents, and “’Ll?"1 *“
tax-payers, many of whom are being short course in dairy manufacturing funds of the World War Veterans cattle at two and a half cento. In to 1275.
Such a ¡dan ia actually being follow
rained by excessive taxation. A part methods which is conducted in connec- State Aid commission it was found to those days every brewery and distil
of their tax burden goes for educa- tion with the business meeting by the be only In the fact that the report lery was running and the consump ed already in some parte of Iowa
tional frills that are unavailable for dairy department of Oregon State cel- was made public. The report of the tion of liquor was in no way hindered
contr,cU have been writ-
It has the advantage of removing
auditors only served to lend official except in Kansas, and yet this condi £
their own children through inability to lege.
•
tion
did
not
bring
big
grain
prices,
»e element of risk and therefore en-
pay the expense of sending them
Professor W. C. Cole of the Univer- and authoritative confirmation to ru
away to school.
sity of California is being brought to mors which had been current about and neither did the revenue on beer u
«ood farming from a long
A few years ago I might not havo the meeting as special lecturer hi tee the state house for weeks, and to “de and whisky prevent the federal treas ue viewpoint which is an «iv.nt.ge
had the courage to express these cream making methods. Committees bunk" propaganda which had been put ury from being drained dry. The “ ow"*r’ ¿«»ter and the community
Cleveland administration issued bonds * ner*Hjr, Breithaupt explain*.
views, although I have always held are already at work preparing tar «he forth by the commission itself.
Two weeks ago the state tax com to the amount of «362.000,000 to
hem. Now 1 have a helluvalot of com- various conteota and entertainment
mission in promulgating the annual maintain the gold reserve and pre- Bid?^’ A**"cy Mot** ~ 00,11(1
pony. I believe the end of football- features of the annual gathering.
the country from going off the
levy foT state purpoaea waived the
one-half mill levy for the bonus com gold standard.
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