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NOT A REPUBLICAN-DEMO
CRATIC FIGHT THIS YEAR
Under the heading “The Great
Game of Politics,” Frank R. Kent, in
a copyrighted article in the Baltimore
Sun, very clearly sets forth what this
fall’s election really means to the
people of the United States. It ta not
a party fight between democrats and
republicans; it ta a battle between
forces going in opposite directions. To
the thinking man, one not blinded by
partisan fealty, the words of Mr.
Kent are worth pondering deeply and
with an eye single to the future of
these United States:
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that great group of self-supporting,
thrifty men and women who are able
to keep their heads above water
without help either from the govern
ment or from anyone else and consti
tute the real conservatives.
These distrust governmental ex
periments, dislike the Roosevelt ad
visers and allies, look with distaste
upon the great growth of the federal
Public
Utilities
Commissioner
power and are alarmed at the idea Frank C. McColloch, who announced
of changing the rules under which we when he took office last year that he
have functioned for 150 years.
would not harass utilities, has gotten
It ta unreasonable to doubt that the results—to the tune of $200,000 in
candidate elected president will pro rate reductions.
ceed in the direction indicated and
By negotiating with power and tel
desired by the forces which elect him ephone companies instead of going to
and with which he ta in sympathetic court, McColloch brought about sav
accord. It ta really a question of di ings to the public. Soon he expects
rection.
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to be able to announce still more rata
If Mr. Roosevelt should win he reductions that will save Oregonians
would be carried forward along the another $200,000 a year.
path he has been going In another
The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
four years it is reasonable to assume Co. came through last week with the
that long steps would be taken to biggest rate cuts, which will save its
ward the regimentation and national customers $90,000 annually.
Night
planning goals which, though blocked longdistance
lull4U1,la,1Lr discounts were made va
ef-
lor the time by the supreme court, I Active at 7:00 p. m. instead of 8:30
he has in no way given up. Even if' p. mi and made to apply throughout
he wanted to give them up, which he Sundays. Long distance rates were
does not, the forces behind him would cut for some calls as much as five to
sweep him toward them.
70 cents.
Some person-to-person
Should Mr. Landon win, the move daytime calls were raised ten cents,
toward changing the system would though.
be halted. The fight of the new deal
The 25 cents per month charge for
party toward returning conservatism hand-set or French type phones was
probably would intensify and the eliminated if the instruments have
class warfare continue.
been used 18 months and cut to 15
The new president might find him cents if the devices have not been
self helpless to do a lot of things, installed that long.
frustrated in various way. He might
“I find most utilities readily re
turn out to be a poor president and sponsive to negotiation as a substi
bungle the job.
But the direction tute for expensive litigation, long-
would be changed.
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drawn hearings and court appeals,
That ta the important thing. The and they «eem quite willing when the
control of governmental affairs and fact« justify it to devote the money
dominance in administration coun which would be spent in engineering,
sels would be transferred from the attorney fees and court cost to rea-
radicals, who want to rush forward «onabie'rate reductions for the bene-
into new fields, to conservatives, who ‘ fit of their customers." McColloch
don’t want to rush anywhere and' said.
would rather stand still than make
The Portland General Electric Co.,
mistakes. That, is the big thing this Otlifomia-Ore. Power Co., West Coast
time.
Power Co., Oregon-Washington Tele
Far more important than the man phone Co. and Idaho Power Co. are
elected is the character of the forces other utilities which have made rate
supporting him. The question the in cuts during McColloch’« administra
telligent voter has to decide is not tion.
what party he wants to belong to,
but what kind of people he wants on
Oregon has levied a gasoline tax
top in this country.
since 1919, but never until July was
Whether Mr. Roosevelt ta re
elected or whether he ta defeated, the
issues in this campaign will not be
over with the election. Forces which
in the last four years have arisen in
the country will continue to clash for
a long time to come, and the most ac
complished political soothsayers ad
mit it is not easy to see the final out
come.
Certainly this is no democratic and
republican fight. It is wholly differ
ent from the normal political strug
gles to which we have been accus
tomed. Partly it is a class warfare
and partly it is a contest between two
great schools of thought—the con
servatives on one side and on the
other the radicals or liberals or pro
gressives They sometimes call them
IMPORTS AT RECORD HIGH
selves by one name and sometimes by
America,
the Washington Post re
another.
The question of whether
Governor Landon, if elected, would ports, is about to break a 43-year rec
or would not continue certain new ord by buying more goods from for
eign countries than it sells to them.
deal policies is not basic.
Not since 1893, the Post says, has
Nor is the point that he could not
immediately balance the budget, re the United States had an “unfavor
duce taxe«, restore - ou» financial able trade balance.” In the first six
equilibrium or fulfill all the promises months of this year, however, Ameri
of the republican party the real point. can purchases exceeded American
The vital thing ta the character of sales. That was the first time that
the support which is amassed behind had happened since 1928.
A Commerce Department compila
the candidates rather than the can
didates themselves. They are repre tion showed that already this year
sentative and symbolic of the forces the United States has imported 63
behind them, and a clear understand per cent more wheat than it did in
ing of that should be useful to the the comparable period in 1935.
Attention was called to this trend,
voters.
Setting aside the purely partisan ♦he Post says, by George N. Peek,
backing, which in this campaign is former federal trade adviser and first
both diminished and diluted, it may chief of the AAA. The Post quotes
Peek as saying in his new book, “Why
pay to take a look at these forces.
For example, behind Mr. Roose Quit Our Own?*:
“For the year 1935 our country be
velt are the more aggressive and ex
treme of the union labor leaders, men came dependent upon foreign food
who see in him an opportunity to imports to an extent unparalleled in
create a real labor party in 1940 and our history. Since we curtailed pro
who formed an alliance with him duction, our imports of agricultural
more than a year ago, pledging their products increased by $248,000,000,
support regardless of who ran against while our imports of non-agricultural
products increased $155,000,000 We
him or on what platform.
The effort is to ally with the labor are no longer feeding and clothing
group the farmers and the negroes. ourselves."
The Roosevelt appeal is not to demo
crats and not to republicans—it is Advertising Brings the Tourists
In addition to the wide publicity
primarily to three three groups. Upon
them his strategy ta centered and his which Oregon has received this year
managers are entirely open in the through the Evergreen Playground
Association campaign, the state has
drive for their amalgamation.
In addition he has the support of likewise been publicized pictorially
the La Follette type of progressive, and in story by the Travel and In
advocates of still larger appropria formation department of the Oregon
tions for public works, and the na State Highway Commission, under
the direction of Harold B. Say. Cali
tional ownership of public utility
fornia newspapers including the Hol
people whose hero is Senator Norris.
While the socialists have a ticket of lywood Citizens News, San Francisco
Examiner, Fresno Bee, Long Beach
their own, this time Mr. Roosevelt
Sun. Oakland Tribune, San Diego
undoubtedly will poll many socialist
Tribune and Sacramento Bee, have
votes, and Miss Dorothy Thompson,
in one of her recent articles, asserts reproduced stories and pictures sup
Other
that the bulk of the communists of plied by the department.
newspapers and magazines using ma
the country will vote for him rather
terial of a like nature include the
than for Mr. Earl Browder.
Denver Post, Cincinnati Enquirer,
There is not much doubt about Chicago Tribune, New York Ameri
that. Some of the more influential can, Indiana Teacher, Sunset, Stan
communist leaders openly say so. dard Oil Bulletin, Sierra Educational
This is not because Mr. Roosevelt has News, Motorland, and Hunting and
either communistic leanings or sym Fishing.
pathies. He has neither. None-the-
Much of the 33 per cent increase in
less from the communist viewpoint motor travel to Oregon this year may
his re-election plays their game and be attributed to the state’s advertis
hta defeat would be regarded as un ing campaign and to that of the Ever
fortunate—a setback for them.
green Playground Association.
It is true that those who are dis
satisfied with the American system,
A recent survey shows that as of
impatient with the constitution and December 31, 1935, there were 11,-
irritated with the supreme court are 120,025 persons in the United States
on the Roosevelt side. They certain who were securing either their total
ly ar« against Lanodn. That is not income or part of their income from
a partisan statement. It ta a simple the federal government.
In other
presentation of a fact.
words approximately one person out
On the other hand, behind Mr. of 11 in the United States was re
Landon are massed with singular ceiving income from the public treas
solidity the so-called business inter ury which the taxpayers support.
ests of the county—big and little. Should the people support the gov
Behind him, too, are an over-whelm ernment or should the government
If one out of
ing proportion of the professional support the people?
rimes thu doctors, the lawyer, ar eleven is so supported why not the
chitects, engineers, clergymen and other ten!
more than $1,000,000 ever collected in
one month. Secretary of State Snell
counted $1,091,418.92 in the till last
month. The previous record month
was August, 1935, at $958,118 24
Since the first of the year, $5,769,-
755.36 has been collected—$757,879.40
more than came in during the ^jrst
seven months last »year. I? 17 yfari,
Oregon has received $75,1
gas taxes.
Smith Wood-Products, Inc
C
UILLE, OREGON
We are closing out our stock at the old
Prosper Mill and have some good buys
for quick sale.
Knotty Port Orford Cedar
T and G VIS
1 X 3^0 1 X 12 Clear Kiln Dried
4
Douglas Fir Finish
Douglas Fir Flooring & Celling
1x4 Tongue and Grooved
Port Orford Flooring and Ceiling
We carry a complete line of 1x3 to 2x12 No. 1 and No. 2 Common
Cedar, suitable for all building purposes, surfaced or rough.
Consult the Retail Department for our low prices on Cedar.
Let us show you our Lumber Stocks in warehouse
and on dock at the Smith
Wood-Products Plant
No Order Too Small—Stick or a Carload
attention, with the oppbsiion coming
CRACK CAVALRY AT STATE FAIR
from the Taypayers Protective Assn ,
Governor Martin has adopted a
headed by Harold J. Warner, Port
new policy of personally interview
land attorney.
ing every youthful first offender he
Directors of School District No. 1,
transfers from the state penitentiary
Portland, supported and the East Side
to the boys’ training school at Wood
Taxpayers opposed a tax limitation
bum. By calling the boys into his
amendment for the district.
F. N.
private office one at a time and hav
Derby, of Salem, and other tax con
ing heart-to-heart talks with them,
servation league members advocated
the governor hopes to get them start
a property tax limitation which la
ed on the right track and a useful re
bor, the grange and the Oregon Ad
turn to society.
visory council on Public Schools at
When the population of the peni
tacked. Dr. 8. T. Donohue, Eugene
tentiary zoomed to 1001, a condition
dentist, supported hta constitutional
unprecedented in Oregon history, the
amendment to repeal the so-called
state parole board began to loosen "advertising dentists” law and per
somewhat. On the board’s recom
mit truthful advertising of a business
mendation, the governor in two days’
or professional, but the Portland Bet
time signed conditional parolee for
ter Business Bureau filed against the
28 men and one woman, but didn’t measure.
let them all out in one day. Some of
Formation In the mucical drill to bo given at ths Diamond Jubileo
The anti-Columbia river fish trap
the payrolls will not be effective for
Oregon Stato Fair In Salem September 7 to 13 by tho 11th Cavalry
.and seine bill, advanced by gillnet
Exhibition Plateen, Freddie of Monterey, Calif. Drillo and etunto
several months. Many are given on
fishermen, was opposed by seiners’
by tho eavalrymen will bo a fosfuro of tho night horoo ehow.
the condition that the convicts leave union, although the bill may not get
the state immediately. The governor
on the ballot.
Optional military
often adds this provision himself.
Dr. G. C. Stem, chiropractic physi
training in institutions of higher edu with 205,433 pupils in school. County
Pencilled on a number of documents cation was opposed by five persons, school superintendents in all parts of cian. foot correctionist. electro thera
when they come from the executive’,
including men high in the ranks of the state have reported to Howard pist, 292 Moulton St., phone 86J 22tf
desk is this notation: "And leave the American Legion. Sponsors of that several thousand children have
state. CHM.”
Other convicts are the bill were too late to get their af come ino Oregon in recent months
Buy local bread and support homt
turned over to federal officials for
Sill
firmative argument in the pamphlet come Into Oregon in recent months industry.
deportation or released to other states
areas of the middle west.
where they will immediately enter
The state liquor control commiasfop
other peniteniaries to serve time for
Oregon has gained 204 doctors of
'made |111,177.26 last month by sell
previous crimes.
G. T. COOK
ing $589.437 85 worth of bottled medicine and surgery, osteopaths,
The governor is determined to have goods. So far this year, the profit has chiropractors and naturopaths in the
Brick Mason
the fame of Oregon's state peniten been $770,914.99 on sales of $3,857,- last three years, according to the state
tiary spread far and wide as a tough, 947.25.
board of higher education.
That
Fireplaces and Chimneys
hard-boiled place, not easy to get out
many persons out of 236 who have
P. O. Box 62. Coquille
of. “Then the lawbreakers will think
Emergency freight rates on hay and taken the basic science examination
twice and pass Oregon by,” the gov
other feed from Oregon to drought since the “healing arts” law was
ernor said.
regions of Montana and the Dakotas passed in 1933, have been given cer
have been put into effect by three tificates. Examinations are given in
.The first court attack on Oregon's railroads. Rates were cut from $13.50 human anatomy, physiology, path
jobless insurance law failed to worry to $8.50 per t<fi.
Oregon farmers ology, chemistry and hygiene.
the state unemployment compensa were said to have 50,000 tons of sur
tion commission.
Southern Oregon plus feed on hand.
Calling cards. 50 tor $1 on
fruit packing plants filed the suit in
Jackson county circuit court.. Ex
Engineers of the state highway de
emption of packing house employees partment have begun to chart road
as agricultural workers was sought in routes through the air. Aerial recon
the suit. D. A. Bulmore, administra naissance is speedy and covers a lot
tor of the law, «aid he did not believe of territory, R. H. Baldock, chief
constitutionality of the entire act highway engineer, admits, but can
Load & Long Distance
would be questioned.
never replace actual surveying on the
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ground the road is to cover. A pan- .
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The voter’s pamphlet which Secre ora ma from the air, and pictures tak
tary of State Snell wiU issue prior to en from a plane can be helpful, but
Moting a Specialty
the November general election will engineers still need to cover the
contain 19 arguments on initiative road’s location on foot and study |
measures, seven affirmative state scores of maps in their offices before
ments and nine negative.
starting work, Baldock said.
The state grange power bill attract»-
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ed the most attention. The grange
Charles A. Howard, state superin
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filed two affirmative arguments and tendent of public instruction, believes
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■ group of citizens and Oregon Busi Oregon may have more students en
D. E. STRONG
ness & Investors, Inc., at Portland, rolled in its grammar and high
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filed three opposing statements. The schools this year than ever before.
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grange’s state bank bUl gqt double Record year to date has been 1933-33
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