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OUR INDIAN SUMMER
'God loans a little lower these few
days.
I Draws His green earth yet cloeer to
His breast,
Bidding the fruited trees and fallow
fields
After the Bonneville dam ia com Faipwell, ere winter folds them into
pleted, then what? An additional 31
rest.
million dollars and then another 31
There
is a oertain sadness in the sun,
million dollars on top of that will not
A
tenderness
unwonted in the rain,
begin to build the great transmission
lines necessary to bring the juice to As if one said to a beloved, “Farewell.
homes in southern Oregon.
Who’ll I shall, perhaps, not ses your face
again.”
run the business? A bunch of poli
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GLARING LIGHTS A MENACE
In a Kentucky cemetery there is a
gravestone erected to P. H. Nolen, as-
smtant game warden. After reciting
the facta of hie career, it is stated on
the marble, "The accident was caused
by the glaring lights of a passing au
tomobile.”
And there are a great many people
in Oregon who are injured from the
same cause; perhaps some headstone*
could be marked the same way. Too
many drivers are so heedless of the
rights of others that they don’t bother
to dim their lights. There is a real
need for state police checking up on
these thoughtless drivers who are a
menace to night driving.
ticians. Are politicians more honest
and capable than private business
men? If so, no one has noticed H.
What proportion of the taxes in Ore
gon ia now paid by the power utili
ties I About one-tenth. What will be
the cost per k. w. h. to the consumer
under state ownership? (1) A, rate
that will bring a fair return on the
state's investment (the same aa any
private business), (2) plus the loss in
taxes' that will result from putting
the private companies out of business
and off ths tax rolls, (3) plus depreci
ation and obaoiesence, (4) plus the
cost of frequent changes in manage
ment and (5) mismanagement. Pub
lic ownership may be all right in
some countries, but it has never been
a success in the United States.
T'.
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A World’s Fair Kitchen
; ... ■
A h if they touched, then turned aside
with tears,
The face of a summer breathing now
its last.
There will be other summers, other
years,
But this no more shall rise from out
the pust.
Frances Holmstrom
Liquor control and regulation of its
eale, old age pensions and the financ
ing thereof and the truck and bus
problem have intruded themselves in
to the forefront of current political
discussion to all but obscure the un
employment problem which now prom-
' ¡see to become only an excuse for the
HIS ia • picture of a “world'a fair” kitchen and yet there isn’t a thing
convening of the legislature.
in it that yon cannot have in your own home. To equip a complete All
For one thing the preliminaryskir
mishes of the governor's committee
Electric Kitchen of your own would coat no more than your automobile.
Few slogans are heavy with mean of 32 have pretty well demonstrated
Undoubtedly you have aome of the appliances co that it ia already partly
ing or sense. “Buy Now” is about as the futility of any program that in
paid for Why not start planning your jwn All Electric Kitchen now? Your
empty as any that have ever • been volves any considerable amount of
electrical
dealer er thio oompanj will be y.ad to furnish complete informa
new
revenue.
Under
the
circum
sprung. Americans are natural born
FIVE CENT HUSBANDS
tion, including
tar remodeling your prsssnt
if you wish.
spenders.
Ail they need is the stances, with Unele Sam threatening
“where-with.” „ Therefore “Buy New” to cut off his contributions to those
The NRA is beginning to work.
is certainly putting the cart before the states which »fail to make a sincere
Inflation also is starting.
effort at helping themselves about all
horse.
Here's the proof:
the Oregon lawmakers will be able
NRA officials in Portland have re
A certain nortorious woman who to do, assuming that they are called
ceived a letter from a woman in West
Virginia. Ten cento in silver was for many yean has lived by exploit into session, will be to impose a tax
enclosed and the woman asked the ad ing young girls has announced that on liquor, pasa a few resolutions of
dresses of two men who would be she intends to go into evangelistic confidence in th^tonmediate return of
suitable as husbands. She said ehe work. If she does, it will be because prosperity, admit their inability to
wished to write them with matrimon she believes it to be a more fruitful oope with the present emergency and
racket than her present occupation. trust that the federal government
ial intentions.
Two for ten cents is about the The sincere religious organizations of will recede from rto ultimatum with
present quotation. The market on thia country should bust «hat activity respect to future aid for the unem
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hiMb&nd* long hag 'btm in a serious before it gets started. But it is to be ployed.
Present indications are that even tai who claimed that one insane hos and all institution heads gathered the board institution superintendents
condition because of overproduction feared some of them will employ her.
the proposed new liquor tax will have- pital in that state had been closed as around the council table just aa they present their reports and discuss
and also somewhat because of under
The Oregon Journal has waxed to run the gauntlet of an attack by a result of the cures effected by the were wont to do before that old cus their* problems and troubles with the
consumption. This woman has be
This claim tom was abolished more than a year board.
come thoroughly imbued with the wroth editorially because the State other interests if it is to be saved in- practice of psychiatry.
NIRA spirit. She would take two of Highway Commission doesn’t get taot for the relief of unemployment. «as refuted by Dr. McNary before ago. At these monthly meetings of
Celling carde 50 for »1.00.
them. If every Woman in the United busy with Portland’s road cut-offs to County courts, beset with the problem’ the board of control with letter from
of
financing
the
new
old
pension
act,
Colorado
officials
to
the
effect
that
the
sea.
It
is
pointed
out
by
that
States should follow her example it
would not be long before the price newspaper that the Commission is ig are known to be casting longing eyes Coorado never had put one insane hos
would be much higher than two for noring the wishes of one-half the pop at this proposed revenue as a solution pital and that it was running full
blast and taxed to its capacity.
ten cento, although male helpmates ulation of the state. The attitude of to their problem.
The governor’s committee on liquor
might never be actually worth much the Commission is right. There are
The complete record of the lsst leg
thirty-five other counties in the state control in its report completed this
more than that
This method of reducing the sur that need development by means of week recommends among other things islature ia now available in book
plus ia much more practicable, to our improved highway«. When thia is ac that the eale of hard liquor be con form. The combined House and Sen
contains
782
pages.
way of thinking as a husband, than complished perhaps one-half qf the fined to state operated liquor stores ate Journal
plowing under every fourth row, al population won’t continue to be in the and that the local option law be in Copies are being mailed to each leg
voked to permit counties which so islator and are available to the gen
though there are many we could northwest corner of Che state.
desire, to bar the sale of liquor with eral public at »5 each.
name that should be plowed under re
A certain kind of men’s shirts has in their boundaries. State Senator
gardless of whether there is a sur
Vocational rehabilitation is now
doubled in price within the past sixty Jay Upton, a member of this commit
plus.
If women start demanding two days; women’s hosiery 30 per cent tee, took vigorous exception to the within reach of every physically dis
abled perJon in Oregon. This work
hukbands, and two should not be too Many other articles of merchandise local option provision, insisting that
many for an ambitious woman to sup have advanced unreasonably. Manu the liquor problem ia state-wide in ita is now under the direction of the state
port, there is likely to be a runaway facturers and wholesalers are doing scope and not at all local in character Department for Vocational Education
market, and the men are likely to get the chiseling and laying the blame on and will fight this recommendation with the federal government sharing
an inflated idea of their own impor NRA. Not many retail dealers es before the legislature. Hotel and res in th« expense on a 60-50 basis. For
tance that should greatly please pecially in small towns wHl arbitrarily taurant men are said to be girding for ty cases are now under training and
raise prices on their customers who a fight to the finish at any control Oscar I. Paulson, state supervisor for
Franklin Delano.
The husbands undoubtedly would also are generally friends and neigh feature which might tend to restrict vocational rehabilitation, is making a
bors. A lot of the price-raising by the sale of liquid refreshments to survey to uncover others who are in
demand a code of fair competition.
their patrons.
need of this survice.
The NRA has possibilities and wholesalers is just plain cheating.
Officials of the Truck Owners and
angles in directions we did not sus
Farmers Protective sMociation an
Textbooks used in Oregon schools
“Hort Show** at O. S. C.
pect.—Cottage Grove Sentinel.
nounced this week that they were pre may cost more as a resula of the
Reviving a popular practice of
pared to fight the present truck law NRA if the publishers are able to
many past years, the students in hor
to the finish, which is taken* to mean make their code stick. C. A. Howard,
ticulture at Oregon State college have
that unless the supreme court finds state superintendent - of public in-1
arranged to hold a Ufort Show" thia
the act to be unconstitutional they struction, together with superinten
By W. 8. Sickels
fall, and have selected the homecom
will demand ita repeal or at least Ha dents for other states, ia protesting
ing dates of October 27-28. Before
modification at the hands of the legis this and other provisions in the pub
A citizen of Coquille told me a few thia show was discontinued in favor
lators.
lishers' code which, it is claimed,
days ago that he had been seriously of an all-college exposition, it was
With October half gone and Gov would tend to create a monopoly
widely
attended
because
of
the
beauty
considering the making an investment
ernor Meier laying plans for a visit to the printing of school books. -
that would obliterate an eye-sore at and educational value of the many ex
the national capital in behalf of an
one of the highway entrances to the hibit« of fruit, flowers, vegetables,
other slice of federal pork for Oregon
The authority of county courts
Elmer
town. The improvement he had in nuts and processed foods.
highways the political prognosticators compromise tax payments is limited
mind would use a large amount of Hanson, of Freewater, is president of
are preparing to again revise their to such taxes about which there ,
and Robert
building material. Although it was the Horticultural club
gueaees as to the if and when of the might be a real question of validity, I
to be a commercial enterprise it was Brown, Corvallis, manager of the
special session.
according to Attorney General Van.
to be attractive and far ahead of any show, which will be held this year in
Winkle.
The opinion was given in I
thing of the kind in the county. How ■the east room of the Memorial Union
connection with the proposal of Grant [
Claims by psychiatrists that the
No prises are offered,
ever, he has given up the idea for the building.
county officials to compromise tax
present. It only required a little fig though exceptional exhibits from any solution to Oregon’s insane prbolem is
payments with individuals because of <
uring to discover Chat a fair return on one will be welcomed and given good to be found ia a psychopathic hospital
are disputed by both Dr. R. E. Lee financial inability to meet the full
his capital would be taken by taxes. display.
Steiner and Dr. W. f> McNary, m - payment«.
In other words, he would bo heavily
The state police drivs against traf perintendents of the state’s two in
fined by the community should he go
Slowly but surely the state’s
ahead with the enterprise. Thus the fic accidents seem« to be making some sane hospitals. These two authorities
excessive cost ef government has par headway. Accidents on the highway on the care and treatment of insane WS1 fund is digging out from under
alysed the building industry particu thia year so far total only 13,742 com patients urgM upon the beard of con ita load of debt In the past year all
larly. At this time S3 cents out of ev pared with 15,473 for the same period trol this week the necessity for an- outstanding loans have been retired.
ery dpllar of national income in being a year ago. The number of persona other hospital, preferably located in These include $1,260,000 to Portland
absorbed by taxes. We cannot carry injured so far this year also shows a Multnomah county, to take care of banks, »700,000 from the highway <
such a load and prosper, nor can we decrease over the figures of a year Oregon’s rapidly growing insane pop- fund and $1$00,000 from the bonus !
fund. Payment of these loans has
expect capital to flow into building ago—8888
compared with
3254. uation.
construction or any line of industry Traffic fatalities, however, keep pace
Dr. 'Richard B. Dilehunt, and a been made possible only through the
unless there is some certainty that ex with those of last year with 1«9 dead group of psychiatrists appeared be endorsement of general fund war
cessive taxation will not make the this year and 170 lsat year.
fore the ways and means committee rants “not paid for want of funds.”
venture unprofitable.
,
of the last legislature in behalf of a Outstanding warrants against thia
If Murt L. O’Neill ie successful in large appropriation for the erection fund now total approximately pl,
To tax capital and industry is an his suit against the Portland Sand and of a psychopathic hospital In Pont 250,000 and will continue to grow un
Gravel company, cost of highway im land, claiming that such an institution til tax turn-overs in November make
attack on prosperity at ita source.
provement« in every state in the union would result in the permanent cure of possible retirement of a portion of
will be increased by ten cents for each a large percentage of insane patients this debt.
cubic yard of gravel applied. O’Neill and relieve the congestion of the two
charges infringement on a patent state hospitals.
The experience of
At last that long expected family
granted to Mm covering a prnrsss for Colorado in this connection was cited reunion of the board of control has
spreading gravel on highways.
materialised, with the entire board
At the city hall a few day» ago I
witnessed the little ceremony of
“swearing in” a good citizen who was
to serve for a day as an extra police
man. A part of the oath is to “up-
hold the constitution of the United
States.” Not one person in a thou-
sand has resd the constitution of the
United States.
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