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POPULATION STEADILY RISES
IN STATE INSTITUTIONS
“According to figures compiled by
the Oregon Voter the average daily
population ot the state penitentiary
of Salem has increased from 371 in
1912 to 859 in 1936.
In the state
hospital at Salem the increase dur
ing the same period was from 152!
to 2330, and at Pendleton from 34t
to-1321 The TB hospital at Salenr
had 50 patients, daily average in 1912
and now has 267. The TB hospital
•t The Dalles, opened in 1928, with
an average of 90, has jumped to 144
this year.
The blind school has increased from
26 to 67 in the 24 year period, the
boys’ training school from 99 to 117,
the girts’ industrial school from 18
to 61, and the total average of the
twelve state institutions listed, which
was 2895 in 1912, is now 6269. -
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WE LEARN FROM DICTATORS
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and Industrial problems, would ap-
pear, from this distance, to be fertile
ground for the sowing of seed looking
to governmental interference in ar
guments between employers and em
ployees. The attitude of the house is
more difficult to predict. Fifty per
cent of its membership is entirely
new to the legislative field. Among
the house members, however, there
arc known to be at least two aggres
sive labor leaders—Bull of Union and
Brady ot Multnomah—and a number
of other labor sympathizers who can
be depended on to follow their lead
in a fight to the finish against any
legislation that might in any way
.-lip the wings of organized labor..
Most interesting angle in the pend
ing battle over labor legislation, how
ever, is to be found in its possible ef
fect upon the Damon-Pythias rela
tions which have existed between
leaders of the farmer-labor group at
legislative sessions for many years
with Ray Gill of the Grange and Ben
3sborne of the labor unions, and their
satellites fighting shoulder to shoul
der for or against—as the case might
be—any proposal affecting the inter
ests of either group. Already Gill, as
master of the State Grange, has
warned against any attempt to inter-
'ere with the righto of labor unions
lo strike. This can be interpreted as
1 warning against the proposed com
pulsory arbitration program.
The
Warning has started rumblings of dis
content among Grangers in many
parts of the state, especially those
who belong to the wheat league or
the wool or apple growers who do not
propose to let Gill or any other leader
stand in the way of a program that
promises any relief from the present
lituation with its threat to the finan
cial stability of thousands of inpo-
.•ent bystanders.
Of course any legislation the Ore
gon lawmakers may enact to require
compulsory arbitration of labor dis
putes would only apply to local
strikes, such as that in the woolen
mills at Portland or strikes by team
sters, truck drivers or other purely
local groups. It would have little, if
any effect on the maritime strike
which is, after all, the one which is
pinching the producers right now.
That involves a national issue and
will require federal legislation if it is
to be reached. All the Oregon legis
lators can do in that connection will*
je to memorialize congress and even
such action can be expected to meet
with serious opposition on the part of
organized labor.
The world is learning from the dic
tators. It is discovering that by their
very nature dictatorships must be a
disturbing force. Quite apart from
the good or evil they work In their
own countries, the international sys
tem is too sensitive, too closely inter
graded, to stand the shattering shocks
of dictatorial methods. Dictators are
- too powerful, their tread is too heavy,
their voices are too thunderous, their
manners are too masterful, for this
tremulous and aging planet we in
habit.
The earth has no room for
giants any more.
We are learning that even the vir
tues of dictators are too much for us.
The internal order they enforce, for
Hereafter state officials and em
instance, only magnifies their capaci
ty to provoke external disorder. Their ployees yho tour the country at pub
decisiveness turns their every act into lic expense «tending conventions and
an ultimatum.
Whatever they ¡to, conferences must limit their expense
they do with an effect of violence. claims to $7 a day.- This amount is
Whenever they move, they move sud- expected to cover Pullman charges,
” dently and swiftly, in the manner of meals, hotel rooms, taxis, tips and in
a supreme command springing sur cidentals. If they can not live within
prises in war. The diplomacy they this allowance, the board of control
practice is not high-hat, not shirt ruled this week, they can make up
sleeve, not even the iron hand in the the balance out of their personal
velvet glove. It is the diplomacy of pocketbooks. If they can get by on
less the saving is theirs.
The state
the mailed fist, of naked force.
The dictators, in short, teach us to will allow them a flat $7 a day while
chalk up one more advantage for out of the state on public business.
democratic government. In the horse- Action to this effect was taken by the
and-buggy age they might have board as a protection against “chisel-
functioned without upsetting the uni ers," a few of whom persist in pad
verse. In the radio era they crowd ding their expense claims far in ex
up one another. They fill the air with cess of this approved allowance.
nols- and throat and turmoil. The "Deadbeats” also come in for a share
woi d has become too small for rule;» of attention at the hands of the board
with limitless and unquestioned pow when it was voted to summarily dis-
ers. If only to curb and slow down I miss any state employee who at-
the drive of nations to the speed liml’ | ! .empted to crawl out from urder a
where international traffic is possi-l I soldiers* bonus loan or to unload on
i or land
ble. we need the creaking brakes of.
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uo^rd a piece of property which he
had purchased with a state loan and
on which he had allowed the inter
est and taxes to accumulate without
making any effort to discharge his
rightful obligations.
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Dellmore Lessard, state senator
from Multnomah county, has filed
suit in the circuit court to test out his
right to a seat in the forthcoming ses
sion. Lessard is an attorney for the
World War Veterans State Aid com
mission.
Attorney General Van
Winkle in a recent opinion to Thomas
Graham, Jr, senator-elect, also an
attorney for this same commission,
ruled that this position ceRstituted a
bar to membership in the legislature.
Lessard in his petition for a declam
atory judgment upholding his right
to the senate seat contends that he is
only an employee and not an “offi
cer” as contemplated by the consti
tutional provision under which the
attorney general would rule him out
as a legislator. Furthermore Lessard
contends he was not appointed to his
Labor disputes which continue to
hold the entire west coast in a state
of industrial stagnation will unques
tionably come in for considerable at
tention at the hands of the Oregon
legislature when it convenes this
month.
Producer groups whose
pocketbooks have been hard hit by
, their inability to ship their products
as well as by the decline in purchas-
/ Ing power on the pert of the strikers,
are loudly demanding action to bring
about speedy restoration of peace in
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the industrial world. With the Grow
ers Club of Hood River taking the
lead, the wool growers, wheat grow
ers, apple growers and other agricul-
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~pn l- port hut was "employed. ” With only
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sory arbitration of all strikes in which three weeks remaining until the leg
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MaAe public we l f a r e becomes involved. islature omv»«. IK. w..rt I.
Senator Best, of Umatilla county, pected to advance* the case for early
has publicly announced his intention determination.
of sponsoring a compulsory arbitra
tion measure in the forthcoming ses-
With five per cent of the motorists
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sion. Senator^Stringer, of Lane coun responsible for 90 per cent of the
ty, an active Granger himself, has traffic accidents, R H. Baldock. state
announced his sympathy. with the highway engineer, advocates perman
proposal. Other legislators from the ent revocation of the the operators'
agricultural districts can be depended licenses of accident-repeaters as the
on to support the idea, especially un- only solution to the traffic accident
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der the urge of their interested con problem. Oregon already has plenty
stituents. These Include Duncan, of of safety laws to protect the motoring
Harney; Wheeler, of Lane; Stadel- public if they were more rigidly en
man, of Wasco; Spaulding, of Marton; forced, in Baldock’s opinion.
Dunn, of Jackson, and many others
Reports from Portland indicate that
The senate, overwhelmingly conser
vative in ita attitude toward businaae the state will be asked to contribute
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! $3,000,000 toward the financing of the
proposed 1939 World’s fair to be held
in that city in celebration of the com
pletion of the Bonneville dam. Just
how the money is to be raised, has not
been indicated. When Governor Ol
cott convened the legislature In spec
ial session in 1921 to finance a pro
posed “Industrial Exposition” to be
held in Portland in 1925 the lawmak
ers promptly turned thumbs down on
any attempt to unload this burden
onto the property owners .through a
tax levy. A proposal to finance the
state's contribution to the fair
through an increase in gasoline tax
met with approval of a large major
ity' of the house members but failed
in the senate where it was impossible
to muster a constitutional majority
back of the program and the proposed
fair died a premature death.
Smith Wood-Products, Inc..
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COQUILLE, OREGON
All Grades and Patterns
Douglas Fir Siding
Farmers Need Inventory
Farmers in Coos county are being
urged to co-operate again in observ
ing the annual national farm inven
tory week which is scheduled for
January 4 to 9, acocrding to George
Jenkins, county agent.
This is the
third year that Oregon has joined in
the campaign to encourage the use of
farm inventories, either for its value
as an inventory or as a first step in
a system of farm accounts.
An annual farm inventory is easy
to make and is a valuable farm rec
ord. January is generally considered
the best month of the year for taking
inventories, although it can be done
at any set time during the year.
A farm inventory is simply a state
ment of all the farmer owns on a cer
tain date.
It lists all property, live
stock, equipment and supplies at their'
full value. By also listing all debts
and liabilities the net worth can
easily be obtained to be compared
from year to year to show the prog
ress of the farm business just as it
done with stores and other buisness
establishments.
A supply of inventory blanks and
farm record books may be secured at
the county agent's office at a nominal
coat.
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Congressman Wm. A. Ekwall has
offered to donate the services he per
formed for the state as’circuit judge
pro tern for Multnomah county, but
not until Secretary of State Snell had
turned down his claim for $10 a day
—the statutory allowance—for the
same services. Snell ruled that in
asmuch as Ekwall is still a member
of congress and drawing pay from
the federal government he is not en
titled to pay from the state.
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A majority of state employees and
officials enjoyed a three-day vaca
tion lgst week. Several offices, in
cluding those of the governor, pur
chasing department and budget divi
sion, did not open at all Saturday
following the Christmas holiday,
while others maintained only skeleton
crews sufficient to keep the office
open and answer the telephone. The
only departments working a full
crew Saturday were the automobile
registration department which was
swamped’ with a deluge of applicants
for the new 1937 license plates, and
the state library which found it nec
essary to take care of heavy demands
for books from all sections of the
state. Employees who composed the
skeleton crews on duty last Saturday
will be given the day off next Sat
urday as also will many of those who
rested up from the Christmas festivi
ties last Saturday.
A report on state building needs
just released by the State Planning
Board emphasizes the immediate need
of a state library building and an
other office building. Replacement
of the present supreme court build
ing and office building by new struc
tures at some time in the future is
also visioned by the planners who call
attention to the need for purchasing
necessary ground for building sites at
this time, recommending the acquisi
tion of the four blocks immediately
north of the ' present capital site.
With federal grants available through
PWA the report points out the li
brary and office buildings could be
financed at this time with state ap
propriations of only $750,000 for each.
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the transaction of such other business
as may properly come before the
meeting will be held at the office of
said Bank in Coquille, Oregon, On
Tuesday, January 12th, 1937, between
IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE the hours of 10 A. M. and 8 P. M.
Dated at Coquille, Oregon, this 8th
STATE OF OREGON IN AND
day of December, 1936.
FOR THE COUNTY OF COOS
L. H. Hazard, President
In the Matter of the Estate of Fred
E. D. Webb, Cashier.
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Mast, Deceased.
Notice to Creditors
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___ HEREBY GIVEN, That WARRANT REDEMPTION NOTICE
the undersigned has been duly ap
Warrants Noe. 1207 to 1300 inclu
pointed by the above entitled Court, sive, drawn against Union High
as Administratrix of the Estate of School District No. 3, Riverton, Ore
said deceased, and has duly qualified gon, will be paid upon presentation
as such.
to the clerk.
NOW THEREFORE, all persons
Interest on said warrants ceases
having claims against said Estate are December 31, 1936.
hereby notified and required to pre
Mrs. Lillian Hanly,
sent the same, together with proper
Clerk U. H. No. 3
vouchers therefor, to the undersiged, 51t3 Bullards Route, Coquille, Oregon
at the offices of J. Arthur Berg, in
Coquille, Oregon, within six months
from the date hereof.
Dated this 30th day of January,
1936.
Phoebe E. Mast, .
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Administratrix of the Estate of
Fred Mast, ~
Deceased.
J. Arthur Berg,
. ' Attorney
Attorney for Administratrix, Resi
dence and P. O. Address, Coquille,
Oregon.
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Job, the 85 for high speeds and heavy
duty and the 60 for light delivery
service."
WARRANT REDEMPTION NOTICE
Warrants No. 368 to No. 374 inclu
sive, drawn against School Dist. No.
72, Coaledo, will be paid upon pre
sentation to the First National Bank
of Coquille. Interest will cease on
Dec. 14, 1936. - ‘
Mrs. L'orene Chard,
Clerk, S. D. No. 72,
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Coos County, Ore
WARRANT REDEMPTION NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that ah
warranto drawn against the General
Fund of the City of Coquille, Oregon. -
and endorsed prior to May 1,
1936, are hereby called for payment
upon presentation at my office. In
terest on such warranto will cease as
of December 18, 1936.
W. S. SICKELS, Treasurer.
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Bergmann Work Shoe
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NOTICE
Notice .is hereby rtven that the
annual meeting of the shareholders
of the First National Bank of Co
quille, Oregon, for the election of Di
rectors for the ensuing year and for
Ford Co. Sets Stakes High
The Ford Motor company has set
the greatest truck and commercial
car goal in ita history for 1937, ac
cording to R. W. Gilmore, commercial
supervisor for the company’s Port
land factory branch, who has just re
. turned from a meeting at the home
ornce in Dearborn, Mich., at which
the ^ program for 1937 was dfeE.
cussea.
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“Introduction of the 60-horsepower
V-8 engine, along with the improved
85-horsepower motor has greatly ex
tended the field for Ford V-8 trucks
and commercial cars,” stated Gilmore.
“At the Dearborn meeting it was
reported that the performance and
economy of the new 60-horsepower
are up to the company’s expectations.
Numerous users of commercial cars
r quipped with the smaller engine re
port 25 miles to gallon in routine de
livery service.”
“With the 60 and the 85-horsepow
er engines available, trucks and com
mercial can pay ba powered to the
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