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H. A. YOUNG and M. D. GRIMES
H. A. YOUMLEditor
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the classified service Is the largest
since 1010," and that "during the past
fiscal year there has been an increase
of more than 43,000 positions.” Evi
dently the positions exist. More clear
ly it is evident the surplus positions
are given to political appointees. In
other words the okeh of Farley means
that the applicant must have a job.
Congressman Bolton makes the
charge “that the New Deal has built
up a political machine at the tax
payers’ expense and for its own polit
ical benefit,” and to prove it he points
out that in 32 or the 72 government
agencies listed in the Civil Service
Commission report that there is “not
a sihgle merit system employee.”
The conservative Washington Eve
ning Star regards as “unhealthy” the
increase in the number of non-civil
service establishments of the Govern
ment. Illustrating this point the Star
reports that in the United States
Treasury there are 37,060 Civil Ser
vice employees as against 33,020 fill
ing non-civil service jobs. The per
centage is even higher in the Depart
ments of Justice, Agriculture, Inter
ior and Labor.
¡of public instruction, is leaving for
the east to do graduate work.
You never miss the Oregon elunate
until you’ve lived in Central Ameri
ca, C. B. McCullough, designer of
Oregon's five coast highway bridges,
writes. McCullough took a leave of
absence to build bridges for the U. S.
government in Central America and
will return to the state highway de-
partment early in 1037.
Smith Wood-Products, Inc
VILLE, OREGON
No less a personage than former
Governor A. W. Norblad, of Astoria,
now a practicing attorney, brings the
latest legal action to delay building
of the new statehouse.
Norblad, acting for an inidentified
group of Salem clients, announced
he would seek an injunction to pre
Entered at the Coquille Postoffiee as
vent the state capitol commission
Second Class Mail Matter.
from building on any property other
than the exact ground occupied by
the old building. The proposed new
building is longer and lower than the
10.8**,*** STRAW BALLOTS
old one that burned last year and ex
The old political axiom, “as Maine
tends over more of the quadrangle
goes so goes the nation,” is not al
formed by Willson park.
ways borne out in the November
Attorney General I. H. Van Winkle
election, but as Andy »ays, “check
rendered an opinion July 23 inter
and double check." The Maine elec
preting the 1035 special session’s
tion will be the check but the Liter
will as being only to indicate that the
ary Digest poll will double check, and
•ry
capitol should be built on the ap-
while the partisans of either party
proximate location of the old one and
1 may whistle to keep their courage up,
the phrase “now owned” were meant
I they know that unless the poll is
only to identify the ground. Also,
unusually
close
that
those
two
politl-
1—-
-
said Van Winkle at that time, no
cal weather vanes are as nearly ac
taxpayer had the right to bring such
curate as any prognostication ever
a suit since no one could show finan
made.
The 75th Oregon state fair — the cial injury.
Digest ballots were received in Co
Diamond
Jubilee—ruled the capital
quille the first of this week and were
Oregon’s income from gasoline
as far as could be learned mailed city this week, bringing pleasant dis-
taxes for the first seven months of
back promptly. Ten million of these . uption to the routine of state offices
11036 totalled *5,760,001 on 115,308,-
ballots are being mailed out by the —especially in the agriculture build
020 gallons of gas, Secretary of State
Digest to all parts of the United ing.
Snell reported. The state hlghwi
"They’re all out to the fair,” was
States at the rate of 350,000 per day.
fund got *4,646,510 of that amount
The Literary Digest states that just ti>e invariable reply of the secretary
prior to the 1032 election it predicted who guarded the line of offices of
Marion county votes on local pro
Roosevelt would get 50.86 per cent of agricultural division.
hibition option in November, with
The
state
house
and
downtown
the popular vote in his campaign
petitions bearing 1500 signatures al
against Hoover. The official returns Salem shut up shop Wednesday for
ready on file. That news brought to
showed that Roosevelt received 50.14 Governor's and Salem’s day. Gov-'
pre-prohibition-day statehouse vet
per cent of the Rooaevelt-Hoover emor Martin took an afternoon off
erans memories of the famous li
vote, revealing an error of 0.73 per .rom his hard-working “vacation” to
mite jaunt over to Independence, in
make the rounds and watch the
cent in the magazine’s forecast.
We carry a complete line of 1x3 to 2x12 No. 1 and No. 2 Common
Polk county, especially around elec
A staff of more than 2,000 addi horses run in his own “Governor’s
tion and legislature time in the old
Cedar, suitable for all building purposes,
rough.
s, surfaced or rough,
tional employees is reported to have Handicap.”
days.
Consult the Retail Department for our low prices on Cedar.
been engaged by the magazine for the
Oregon City was the site of the
mailing of the ballots and the tally first fair in 1*61. Not quite $800 in
The state board of forestry may
ing of the returns in the forthcoming prize money was scraped up for pre
recommend to the next legislature
Let us show you our Lumber Stocks in warehouse
miums. The following fall the fair
presidential poll.
____
acquisition of tax delinquent forest
was moved to the grounds where it
*nd on dock st the Smith
lands. A committee of three mem
ACCIDENTS DUE TO EUDENE88 has been held ever since.
bers of the board is studying the
Wood-Products Plant
Many persons who would never be
question to report to the lawmakers.
Secretary of State Snell and State
discourteous in theirhomes or in
Purcliasing Agent Dan Fry brought
their daily activities forget them
HOME FOLKS
back
the most hair-raising vacation
selves when they get behind the
OUB GOVERNOR
story of the capital crew.
steering wheel at which time seem
“This is a land of promise and it
Clipping up the Oregon coast from
ingly they are rude and ill-msmnered.
be my home,” said a young Wert
Taft to Astoria in a 47-foot sailing
“The ten greatest public enemies
graduate gazing upon the dr? W—
would not be classified as such if they yacht Snell and Frey were enjoying
» tie Governor Martin received two with distinction and was one of the
a short vacation. E. L. Van Blari gon country.
Joba Have Increased Faster
would improve such a simple thing
Oregon may justly be proud and citations.
cum, Salem, was helping reef the
two members of the Oregon delega
as their manners," indicates the re
Jobs
in America have grown faster
mailsail when he was swept over grateful, too, tor that young man’s
"After the war Governor Martin’s tion who obtained authorization fot
port. These enemies are classified as:
than population, particularly since
board into rough seas.
Charles decision.
the
construction
of
the
Bonneville
company
returned
to
Vancouver
“The bluffing road hog, the impa
the development of the Machine Age,
You know and revere Governor barracks, and the governor was de dam on the Columbia river.
Dewey, owner of the boat, leaned
tient driver, the careless pedestrian,
a recent study by the National Asso
Martin. Many of you had the pleas- tailed as construction quartermaster
down
to
pick
up
Van
Blaricum.
Snell
“
In
1034
at
the
urgent
request
of
the driver who will not signal, the
ciation of Manufacturers has reveal
held Dewey’s feet. Fry held his as ure of seeing him at the recent bridge for the post. He had charge of the his friends Governor Martin consent
double parker, the driver who will
ed. While the population increased
tion at Cooa Bay.
sistant, Don McCleod, who also
ed
to
become
a
candidate
for
the
modernization
and
reconstruction
of
not dim his lights, the driver who
218 per cent between 1870 and 10*0,
ly indebted to Wallace the buildings on the poet.
helped
drag
Van
Blaricum
aboard.
governorship
of
Oregon,
and
was
He had
turns in the middle of the street, the
executive secretary to various tours of duty in the period electAl by a substantial majority the number of gainfully employed in
driver who weaves in and out of
or the following blo- between the war with Spain and the November 6, 1034. He took office in creased 203 per cent.
“Fish fights,” the perennial ba
traffic, and the horn blower.”
and personal glimpses entrance of the United States in the January, 1035, for a four-year term.”
“Certainly fewer accidents would between Columbia river purse seiners
NOTICE OF CITY CAUCUS
; Compelling in inter World war, among them being a two-
I asked Mr. Wharton what the
and gillnetters, upriver and down of the gm
occur, many lives would be spared
Notice
is hereby given that the
est,
inspiring
in
thought
is
his
life
year period of service as colonel of governor's favorite flower was and
and injuries prevented if users of the river interests, are viewed with some
history, so perfectly disciplined are the famous Third Oregon regiment.
distaste around the capital
I wasn’t greatly surprised when he regular caucus for the nomination of
highway would observe the simple
candidates for City of Coquille, Cooa
This was demonstrated again last the steps of achievement.
"When the United States entered said, “The violet, because of its mod County, Oregon, for elective offices
rules of courtesy that they would not
Quoting from Mr. Wharton:
the World war, Governor Martin was esty and gentleness.” From this, a to be filled at the regular election
violate in their homes, their offices, week when an injunction suit was
“Governor Charles H. Martin of in command of Leon Springs, Tex., beautiful thought came to me—A November 3rd, 1036, will be held at
or their businesses,” concludes Mr. brought to keep from the November
ballot an initiative to bar fish traps Oregon has had an unusually colorful
man who has faced two wars, led the Community Building on Septem
Snell in his analysis of the results of and seines from the Columbia Since 1 »nd full life in the service of his na- an officers’ training camp. He was
ber 22nd, 1036, at the hour of 7:30 p.
thousands of men into duty—a man, m.
promoted
to
the
rank
of
major-gen
the survey.
.
tion
and
his
state,
having
risen
to
the
Secretary of State Snell was one of
eral in the national army and placed a loader of men, further signifying
Officers to be nominated are as fol
the defendants ex rel the suit was high rank of major-general ln the in command of Camp Grant, Ill., his greatness by admiring moot, not lows: Mayor, City Recorder and
41 YEARS TO FAY IT
_______ he __________________________
filed In Marion county.
Circuit regular army, having served two where
trained some *50,000 men the showy flower, but the sweet little Three Councilman; by order of the
Council, Sept. 8th, 1036.
A reporter got curious in Washing judges L. G. LeweUing and L. H. ; terms in congress and now occupy- for combat duty with the American violet. Ostentation does not clothe
F. G. Leslie,
ton, D. C. about assertions that the McMahan were disinclined to hear ring the position of chief executive of Expeditionary Force.
the noble.
35t2
city Recorder.
..j|e organized the 86th devision at
existing federal debt would be re the suit and asked Chief Supreme ' the state.
"The General's hobby is poker,”
tired by children and grand children Court Justice J. U. Campbell for a i "Governor Martin was bom on a the camp and as major-general took said Mr. Wharton, “and he has a rep
His father,' the division overseas, where he utation of being an unusually able
of present taxpayers. Here is what change of venue and a new judge farm near Albion, Ill.
Samuel H. Martin, was a leader of served until late in 1*10.
he found:
in Multnomah county.
and skilful player
His favorite
the democratic party in that state,1 “After return to the United States sport is golf and his only regret is
The post-war federal debt reached
its high of *25.234.000,000 in 1010.
It costs about *30 to see Oregon, and served jwa lieutenant injhejeg- 'Governor Martin’s rank reverted to that he does not have more time to
army
Mex
..i
_ during the war with »•
ot colonel in the regular army play it.”
By 1030, it had been cut down to reports the travel department of the ular
*16,1*5,000,000. That was a reduc Oregon State highway commission. ico, and after his resignation became like thousands of other officers. He
The Governor has three children,
tion of *822,636,000 each year.
That is the average expenditure of county judge for White county, and took charge of the nation-wide re the eldest, Ellis Hughes Martin,
The present federal debt is around more than a million tourists who will served one term as president of the cruiting campaign in 1920 and 1021 named after his maternal grand
Illinois senate.
*35,000,000,000. If times again be have entered the state in 1036
when the army built its force up to father, is an engineer in the National
"Governor Martin was selected as the mark set in the National Defense Park Service. He was bom in Van
came as good as they were on the av
Tourists will drop about *35,000,-
erage from 1010 to 1030—when the 000 in the state this year, the depart the member of the family to be dedi- act of 1020.
couver Barracks.
’ rated to the service of the nation, al
United States experienced the great ment estimated.
During July the
The second child, Samuel Holly
In 1021 Governor Martin was made
est prosperity of its history and when tourist business flourishes at an ap though the young man desired to be a brigadier-general of the regular Martin, named for his paternal
come a farmer-writer and succeed hla
taxes were rolling in faster than ever proximate *111,000 per day.
army. He served a tour of duty as grandfather, was bom in Ilo Ho.
father in politics,
However, after
before—it would take 41 years to pay
assistant chief of staff under his old Philippine Islands. He is now first
one year at Ewing college, young
the existing federal debt. ■
Small towns of Union and Baker
friend and classmate, General Per assistant regional attorney for the
Martin received an appointment to
county got a nice present from Pub
shing, and in 1024 was promoted to Federal Re-settlement administration
West Point. There he
__ was a
_ class
____
lic Utilities Commissioner Frank Mc-
the rank of major-general and as with offices in Portland.
mate of a young cadet from Missouri,
Colloch
when
he
announced
a
rate
signed
command of the department of
The third child is the charming
ago
i John J. Pershing. The two men be
reduction of 7.3 per cent in rates of
Panama, which post he held until his daughter, Jane, who is now Mrs. I
came lifelong friends.
the Eastern Oregon Light A Power | “Upon graduation from West Point retirement in 1037.
Schuyler Pyne. Her husband is a
Co. The cut will save 1520 custom
Lieutenant in the Construction Corps
“
Immediately
after
retirement
in 1887 Martin was commissioned as
ers *3100 a year.
of the U. S. Navy."
Governor
Martin
and
his
family
re
« second lieutenant and assigned duty
A prominent Oregon citizen said to
with the 14th Infantry, then stationed turned to Portland to make a home
Two stiff lawsuits now challenge at Vancouver barracks.
. in the state that had so attracted him me, “I first met Governor Martin in
ALL WORK
the constitutionality of Oregon’s un
“In 1807, shortly before the out-j*" hi’ youth , He. e’^*»ed ln v,rio'u Washington, D. C., there as a side
employment insurance law. A group break of the War with Spain, Lieu civic enterprises, including work with liner I saw men, leaders of the world,
GUARANTEED
of 18 electrical wiring and contract tenant Martin married Miss Louise the Chamber of Commerce, the Port —none excelled Governor Martin.
ing companies in Medford are suing Hughes, daughter of Ellis G. Hughes, land Rose society, the Red Crons and He is one of the very few men In
FREE
in Jackson county for an injunction pioneer attorney of Portland, and the the American Legion.
politics who has ability; a good level I
restraining
collection
of payroll man whose fighting ability resulted
He ir a
“In 1030 he was persuaded to run head, and not a grafter.
ESTIMATES
taxes, joining the group of Southern in creation of the Port of Portland
on the democratic ticket for con genuine American, wonderful man;
Oregon fruit packers who sued two
“Governor Martin served, with gress, and was elected by a substan a great governor.”
weeks ago.
combat troops during the war with tial majority to the 72nd congress. He
I have scanned the Pacific states,
Spain in the Philippines, was in was re-elected by a larger majority the west, yea and the east, too, for a
school charge of the sanitation and recon in 1032. In congress Governor Mar man, unselfish; possessing love for
Representing THE HUB
in the struction of Manilla afterwards and tin had the distinction of being the humanity; ability to land and cour-
Radio Service by
K Dr. took part in the Boxer rebellion as fourth major-general of the regular I age to lead; honest in word and deed,
army
to
serve
in
that
body.
The!
1
found
him
in
the
Emerald
state
of
commander of Company M, which
D. E. STRONG
Phone 10-J
won distinction as being the first others were Andrew Jackson, Wil- the west—Oregon’s Governor!
First Nat Bank Bldg.
unit to breach the walls of Peking. liam Henry Harrison and Daniel E.1 In appreciation,
For his gallantry on the field of bat- Sickels. White in congress he served
Sincerely, Elisabeth Gormley
We are closing out our stock at the old
buys
Prosper Mill and have some g
. for quick sale.
Knotty Port Orford Cedar
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1 x 3 to 1 x 12 Clear Kiln Dried
Douglas Fir Finish
Douglas Fir Flooring & Celling
1x4 Tongue and Grooved
Port Orford Flooring and Ceiling
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