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servers ascribe the paucity of bills to
he fact that groups with pet meas
ures to introduce, pack confidence in
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continue and the customary eleventh
Display Advertising 30 cents pet lour congestion avoided. This, how-
inch. No advertisement Inserted for jver, is too much to expect. The air
leas than 50 cents. Reading notices is filled with rumors of measures in
10 cents per line. No reading notice, he making, many of which will
or advertisement of any kind, insert Joubtless begin making their appear-
ed for leas than 25 cents.
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ince within the next week.
One of the most conti oversial bills
Entered at ths Coquille Postoffice as
if the session was put out of the way
Second Class Mail Matter.
hrough
indefinite postponement
i’uesday afternoon when the senate
.tilled the Lessard bill which would
PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING
>ave repealed the milk control act.
In the last decade, there has been This, however, does not tnftin that the
a wholesome revival of Interest by ittack on the milk law is at an end
the individual In what his govern for tills session. Defeated in their at-
ments—local, state and national—do. «mpt at cepealing the attack oppon
That interest should be encouraged ents of the control measure are now
and stimulated, for the American xpocted to amend the law in several
people are intelligent enough to sift >articulars.
A number of controversial meas
out the unsound and the silly when
ures are being nursed by the commit
they know all the facts.
It is, therefore, an obligation of the tees. These include the Carney bill
thoughtful and patriotic to assist in to repeal the criminal syndicalism act,
bringing about this public under .he Stringer bill to stop the extension
standing, and to make clear the worth of branch banking in Oregon, the
of our form of government, balanced Olcen bill to reduce the age of old
between the executive, legislative and age pension beneficiaries to 65 years
a couple of measures designed to curb
judicial.
Under our plan of government, un strikes and lockouts, a proposal to
like that of most others, the citizen is pension
policemen and
firemen
still the sovereign. He has establish through a tax on liquors, and occupa
ed a limited Federal government and tions, and several-others.
given to it such powers as he thought
Already some of the members are
it ought to have. All others he has talking about an early adjournment.
reserved to the states or to himself.
Sub-committees of the ways and
Some of his rights, the citizen has means committee are putting in every
denied to invasion by anyone. These spare minute at the task'of analyzing
are in the so-called “no man’s“land." budget requests and Senator Walker
That is not an accident, nor a product senior chairman of the committee,
of the courts. It is a deliberate reser has urged his colleagues to begin
vation, created by the people them bringing in their reports so that the
selves. It could be more correctly , appropriation bills can be whipped
described as “every man’s land” or ¡nto shape and sent into the house so
“no ruler’s land.”
| that this phase of the legislative pro
In coming months and years, there gram, at least, can be gotten out ol
doubtless will be many proposals to the way before the expiration of the
take those rights away from the citi-1 40 days for which the lawmakers art
zens. If, after understanding all the permitted to draw their $3 per diem,
facta, he agrees to yield them, his1
will must be supreme, for the United
It’s off again, on again for the stati
States is still basically a democracy. budget
In the meanwhile, though, he
When Governor Martin presented
should be on guard against move he document to the legislature on its
ments which would deprive him of opening day it was supposed to be
those rights through subterfuge. And balanced with a $500,000 surplus to
above all, he should fulfill his obliga spare.
tion not only to know what it is all
Then last week discovery of-a “mil
about himself, but to do what he can lion dollar error” In the estimated
to create a better public understand evenues threw it “off balance” with
ing.
i $500,000 deficit staring the ways
It those things happen, confidence md means committee in the face.
in the American system cannot wane.
Now it is balanced again with a
surplus of more than $340,000 avail
SIT-DOWN STRIKE
able for miscellaneous appropriations.
CALLED EXTORTION
The latest transformation was due
The “sit-down” strike was de to the discovery of some $800,000 in
scribed by David Lawrence, newspa hidden wealth by experts of the state
per columnist, as “extortion” which depart/nent and the state tax commis
is capable of being carried to fantas sion. Of this newly discovered wealth
tic lengths.
$300,000 represents an increase in th.
It means, according to Lawrence, •stimate of unexpended balances in
that “a man who comes in to fix the -.he appropriations of state depart
electric light or the plumbing or to ments and institutions; $310,000 rep-
lay the carpet can demand an in ■esents unappropriated cash surplus
crease in his pay or refuse to let the which the budget director had not in
occupants of the house use the prop cluded in his estimate of revenues
erty in question.
and $212,000 represents an adjust-
“A group of employees of a store nent of income tax revenues which
can aeize the cash register or the keys mly an accountant can explain and
to the store rooms and keep the pro 'bout the use of which for appropria-
prietor from getting access to one or ■ion purposes even these experts dis
both.”
agree.
Another observer described the
Governor Martin in commenting on
technique aa similar to kidnaping a the discovery of the hidden wealth
person and holding him for ransom, declared that the “budget mountain
except that the "sit-downers” kidnap has subsided to the mole hill it al
a plant or property.
ways was,” and referred sarcastically
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to the “violent uproar from non-of
Whether you enjoyed the latest ficial sources” which followed dis-
Mac West picture shown in Coquille,
•overy of the “million dollar mis-
“Go West Young Man,” or not, you’ll :ake” which, by the way has been re-
have to admit she is honest.
The iuced to an error of only $766,947 if
lady of curves reported to the federal he figures of the tax department and
income tax department that her an date department experts stand up.
nual income was $480,833, being next
to the half million acknowledged by . To divert 35 per cent of the gasoline
William Randolph Hearst, lord of an
ax revenues to the counties as advo
empire of newspapers who stood at cated by the State Grange would
the head of those filing returns in the
top all construction on secondary
United States for their “salaries, com highways and mean a loss of federal
missions and bonuses,” which does unds ranging from $750,000 to $1,-
not include investment income.
>00,000 a year, according to R. H.
The Sentinel
taidock, state highway engineer As
• compromise to the Grange proposal
Baldock endorses the suggestion made
■>y the state association of county
judges that the county’s share of gas-
>llne taxes be increased by $400,000
o $2,000.000 and distributed on the
oresent basis.
Baldock estimates that gasoline tax
eceipta for this year will total $9,-
470,000. Thirty-five per cent of this
amount would amount to $3,314,500
or more than double the present di-
version of $1,600,000. In a tabulation
prepared at the request of E. R. Fat
land, of Condon, state representative
from the 39th district, Baldock calls
attention to the inequalities that
would result through a distribution of
this fund on the basis of county road
mileage as proposed by the Grange.
Multnomah county, for instance,
which win receive $603,562.88 under
the present basis would rfbeive only
$61,675.22 under the Grange proposal.
Malheur county’s share, on the other
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hand, wot... J be atcteased from $16.- I
910.63 on'the present basis to $271,-
892.15 and Crook county's allocation
would be increased from $4,809 to
$79,808.
Coos county which roceivgt $43,-
432.92 a year under the present allo
cation would receive $54,508.74 under
the Grange proposal and Curry’s
share of the gasoline tax revenues
would be increased from $5,408 54 to
$9,446.72.
Smith Wood-1 roducts, Inc
UILLE, OREGON
Notes From the Legislature
Outstanding development of the
legislative week was the discovery of
a $1,000,000 bookkeeping error in the
state budget.
The error resulted
through allocation of the entire rev
enue from income taxes—estimated at
$8,500,000 for the biennium—to the
general fund where it would be avail
able
for appropriation purposes
whereas approximately-$1,000,000 of
the anticipated revenue must go to
ward the reduction of special levies
outside the constitutional six per cent
limit. The terror which was appar
ently due- to a lack of understanding
of the operation of the “offset” pro
vision of the income tax laws means
that the legislature has just that much
-ess at its disposal than had been rep
resented—that instead qf a Mirplus of
>500,000 the governor’s budget as
presented to the lawmakers actually
ihows a general fund deficit of ap-
iroximately the same amount if ac
cepted at its face value.
It means
hat the legislature must either pare
$500,000 off the approved budgets,
nany of them already pared to the
.one, and approve no new activities,
ind some new revenues as yet un
earthed, or restore the bookkeeping
deficit from wiiich the general fund
■as only just been rescued.
In spite of four defeats in the past
IS years advocates of the office of
lieutenant-governor are again pre
dating to' present the issue to the
voters of Oregon again at the next
lection.
Fifteen members of the
iou.se have affixed their name to a
esolution calling for an election on
he proposed constitutional amend
ment.
The public hearing on the milk
.'ontrol bill Friday night found the
dairymen lined up in support of the
•ontrol idea with the consumers sup-
-orting Senator Lessard's proposal to
epeal the law and wipe out the milk
ontrol ,board
While many of the
lairymen favor minor amendments to
he act it was very evident that none
if them wanted to discard the control
dea which has stabilized the dairy
industry since Its enactment in 1933.
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The first real coup of the session
vas staged in the house this week
when the Harrison-Miller bill which
/ould have barred liquor ads. from
lewspapers and magazines circulat-
ng in Oregon was killed through in
definite postponement. Action on the
till came as a surprise move after its
riends had secured consent to post-
>one action on divided committee re-
>orts for one week. Organizing for
iction during the noon recess oppon-
•nts of the measure took the reports
rom the table at the opening of the
ifternoon session and adopted the
najority report of the committee on
ilcoholic traffic that the bill “do not
pass.”
Oregon Air Mail Minded
The greatest air mail in its histor.
as recorded by Oregon in 1930 wher,
its citizens sent 229,329 pounds of
correspondence over the airways, it
was reported today in official figures,
released by Postmaster M. O. Haw
kins.
The record-breaking total repre
sented a gain of 13,323 pounds, or
more than six per cent, over Oregon’s
1935 air mail volume. Of the total.
197,470 pounds were dispatched from
Portland, 10,532 pounds from Pendle
ton and 21.327 oounds from Medford.
Knotty Port Orford Cedar
T & G, V 1 Side
Full Line of
Douglas Fir Moldings
1 x 3 to 1 x 12 Clear Kiln Dried
Douglas Fir Finish
1x4 Tongue and Grooved
Port Orford Flooring and Ceiling
We Carry Portland Cement
Let us show you our Lumber Stocks in warehouse
and on dock at the Smith
Wood-Products Plant
No Order Too Small—A Stick or a Carload
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.
as the three points in Oregon at which
air mail planes stop.;?L\
Still further gains in the speed of
air mail service, plus added schedules
and a continued growth of the na
tion’s vast airway network are ex
pected to contribute to even larger
air mail loads in 1937, Postmaster
Hawkins said.
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Secend and Collier Streets
Sabbath School (Saturday)
a. m.
Preaching service 11:00 a. m.
9:43
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nilk, the only milk and cream made
<afe by pasteurization.
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CHEVROLET WORKERS MASS TO PROTEST AGAINST ENFORCED IDLENESS CAUSED BY STRIKERS
More than 9,000 men, virtually the
entire personnel of the Chevrolet
Gear and Axle Division of General
Motors Corporation, staged a demon
stration last week against the strikes
which have shut down General Mo
tors plants and thrown out of work
nearly 119,000 workers. The demon-
stration shown above occurred at the
main plant of the Division's four units
in Detroit. The employees assembled
after this demonstration to receive
their pay checks, their last pay until
the resumption of operations.
The
employees' committee voted to pub
licise their opposition to the strike
through personal telegrams to Gov
ernor Frank Murphy of Michigan and
to President Roosevelt.
The mass
demonstration of protest was held
under banners carrying these legends:
“We don’t want a strike,” “We want
our jobs back,” “We object to min
ority rule,” and "No labpr dictators
for us.” In order to alleviate dis
tress, the Corporation proposes to re
sume operations on a reduced basis
in plants not shut down as a result of
these strikes.
Dr. C. G Stem, Chiropractor.
Moulton St., phone MJ.
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