■ ■ •«J.- I s . -Jf;- ft 1 PAC» FOUR short of ready cash to draw against their per diem earnings. T.e slowness with which the ses­ A caso SAKS IS A 0000 TOWN sion has gotten under way may be II. A. YOUNG aad M. D. GRIME» i good «men. On the other l and, it 8. nay bo anything else but. Some ob­ H. A. YOUNG, Editor servers ascribe the paucity of bills to he fact that groups with pet meas­ ures to introduce, pack confidence in One Year---------------------------------- Six Months..... ................................. L00 their representatives and senators Three Months-------------------------- .60 ind hesitate to entrust the bills Into No subscription taken unless paid (or in advance. This rule is impera- heir keeping. U this mistrust con- inues the scarcity of bills will also tive. 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. . 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ave repealed the milk control act.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 , ‘ ■!*!* * ■ .' ■ 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 ■ • • ■ ' . i 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. «a 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 Ask for Cow Bell Dairy cream and nilk, the only milk and cream made