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PAGE FOUR — legislation which strengthened th* J the legislature might do about young and weak federal government.' problem. C. A. Townsend, of Port Jefferson then took office. He hoped land, is understood to be heading a A GOOD SAMS I* A (M0 TOWS that with hto election, the Supreme movement to refer to the people an H. A. YOUNG and M. D. GRIMES Court would declare unconstitutional amendment to the milk control act Publishers these acts which he did not like. In which would take from the control H. A. YOUNG. Editor stead, the court followed the consti board the authority to fix the retail tution and repeatedly ruled contrary price of milk. Subscription Kates One Year....... ......... ..$2.00 to Jefferson’s wishes. 1.00 Six Months The State Fair, jfacific Internation Whereupon Jefferson inaugurated Three Months...... ......................... - Jto al Livestock Exposition and state as No subscription taken unless paid a campaign of criticism—because the for in advance. This rule is impera court would not hold laws unconsti sociation of county fairs are lined up tive. tutional. Jefferson’s efforts were Un in opposition to the proposal to in crease the state’s “take” from pari successful. Advertising Rates mutuel betting and let in a number of Display advertising 30 cents per — Several other times has criticism additional fairs and rodeos on the inch. No advertisement inserted for centered on the court. Once, in the The ^proposal was originally less than 60 cento. Reading notices Administration of General Ulysses S. “cut.” 10 cents per line. No reading notice, Grant, an attempt was made to made by the Portland Rose Show or advertisement of any kind, insert ■pack” the court by increasing its which wants to be cut in on the spoils ed for less than 25 cento. size. But the new members voted to the extent of $10,000 a year. In Entered at the Coquille Postoffice as with the previous majority and order to make the “pot” big enough to go around it is proposed that U m > Second Class Mail Matter. Grant’s efforts failed. . Never has the nation let anyone state take five per cent out of the bets Ornee Corner W. Flrot »nd Willard St hamstring the court for any length of placed on dog and horse races in lime. The people obviously realize stead of the present two and one-half February, the short month, ha; that time after time it has not Only per cent. • The Astoria Regatta, Lake more rest and vacation days than any saved the nation from disintegration view Round-up and Redmond Potato "month of the year, except November but preserved through thick and thin Show have joined in the demand for Two legal holidays and four Sundays man’s greSTest heritage—liberty. a share of the spoils and it is under cut the month's business days to And now Franklin Delano Roose stood that others are willing to parti twenty-two. _____ velt, whom R. A. Easton refers to in cipate including the Independence a letter appearing elsewhere on this Hop Fiesta, Molalla Buckaroo, Siletz The surest way to lose a friend and page as Public Enemy No. 1, is seek Rodeo and Taft Red-head Round-up. receive a stab in the back is to put ing to pack the supreme court with Present beneficiaries of the betting yourself out to accommodate him, re creatures of his own selection who money, however, are fearful that if lieve his suffering, or do him a good will approve the constitutionality of the state’s “take” to increased it will turn of any description. The rule all the communistic laws a subservi- discourage betting. holds good whether it is an individual ent congress may pass—at his de or a community. ___ _ Confronted on the one hand by mand. special appropriation bills aggregat He is the president; he tells con There is too much meddling in state ing more than $1,250,000—not includ affairs by those connected with the gress what laws shall be enacted; and ed in the regular budget—and on the university. Take this League of Ore he is attempting to complete his dic other hand by Governor Martin’s gon cities. According to our infor tatorship by declaring those laws con warning against deficits and new mation it was started by a research stitutional. revenue measures the legislative ways If the United States is a democracy, department at the university. Some and means committee is hard put to let ’ s keep it so. If its government is of the suggestions emanating there know which way to turn. from have been wise and wholesome, to be communistic it is time to abolish Pinching and scraping wherever congress and supreme court and name but this thing of sending propaganda possible the committee is paring a each week in an effort to disrupt the the United Stites’ Hitler on Musso lini or Stalin. Your guess is correct few dollars off the governor’s budget state’s highway set-up is nauseous. recommendations here add“ there but No smaller city in the state will re as who will be first U. S. dictator! for the most part it is placing its ceive as its share of gas tax—should “okeh” on the budget items as con the League of cities have its way— tained in the governor’s budget. as much as the highway commission While some additional savings will be spends in improving and maintaining shown when the committee completes highways on streets through those its work on the regular budget re cities. quests it is not probable that the Instead of being a benefit as was budget surplus, finally established at no doubt contemplated, that research approximately $342,000 when the ex department is actually a menace to perts finished their budget juggling the best interests of the state, and of Old age pensions continue a major act, will exceed $500,000. Whatever the cities, except Portland. source of worry for the Oregon leg the amount it must be stretched to islators as the session grinds on to cover the special requests which have PRESIDENTS HAVE THREAT piled up since the session began and ENED COURT IN THE PAST ward the end of the 40-day period for which the lawmakers can draw are still coming in. In these social security days when their $3 per diem. Largest of the special requests is workmen are kicking about a de Governor Martin’s budget makes one for $250,00 to finance a vocational duction at one per cent in their wages provision for pensions only to needy guidance program. Approximately a which will go to a fund which may persons 70 years of age or over. There score of agricultural groups ar* in provide them with a small pension is, however, much sentiment, especi terested in a so-called omnibus ap in their old age, it is refreshing ally among house members, favorable propriation bill aggregating $144,500 to read a statement by G. F. Swift, to reducing the age requirement to 65 for the investigation of pests and dis union teamsters refused to allow Of the total value of $12,475,024 of Agricultural Interests Are president of Swift Co., stating that for years. This would increase the cost eases of plants, fruits, vegetables, Hood River frtiitmen to unload their tax reverted lands in Oregon, rural Asking for Union Regulation perishables there for shipment. 20 years Swift & Co. has had a pen to the state and the several counties bees, poultry, cattle, etc. Governor real estate is valued at $8,684,134, an sion system in operation to which the by more than $3,400,000 for the bien Martin wants $100,000 of the surplus Adams, appearing earlier before a average assessed valuation of $4.84. The voice of agriculture was raised employees were not contributors. At nium. Savings resulting through re for his new mining board and there above the tumult of Ray Gill and Ben senate committee remarked that: “If per acre. The total assessed valua the present time there are 3100 on the moval of the needy aged from direct are several bills for new state build Osborne at Salem last Friday night, in you gentlemen think Mr. Gill and tion of city lots amounted to $3,790,- Swift pension roll, 1817 of whom relief would amount- to approximate ings, including $200,000 for a tuber protest against the disastrous effect Mr. Tompkins represent all of the 890, an average of $24.65 per lot. were formerly employees but are now ly $1.000,000 for the biennium. This culosis hospital in Multnomah county, agricultural interests of the state, The total taxes, penalty, interest of labor strikes. unable to work, either because of old would still leave a net increase of $54,500 for a new 50-bed pavilion at and other, costs due the counties or» Before the house committee on la you are mistaken.” age or because of permanent disabil $2,400,000 in the relief-pension bur the eastern Oregon tuberculosis hos B. A. Green, Portland labor attor the rural lands at the time of fore bor and industries, large groups of ity. The rest are widows and minor den. One-half of this increase, or ap pital at The Dalles and $160,000 to farmers and orchardists urged the ney. spoke against the passage of the closure amounted to $3,558,705, an dependents of former employees. proximately $1,200,000, would fall on ipply toward the purchase of a build passage of anti-strike measures, and bills. average of $1.98 per acre. The total After four years of continuous ser the state. The other half would be ing in Portland to house state depart of taxes, penalty, interest, and other r—■ in no uncertain language. vice with the company all men are borne by the counties. Without addi ments domiciled in that city. Easton’s Public Enemy No. 1 charges standing against the city lots Oregon farmers cannot face another given a week’s vacation annually, tional revenue than that now avail situation like the recent record- In all that which has been said and at the time of foreclosure amounted to with pay, and after ten years the va able, such a program would plunge More than 260 bills poured in on breaking maritime strike, he declared, written about public enemies and of $3,592,669, an average of $23.36 per cation period is two weeks. the state deeply into the “red.” Sev the legislature last week—174 in the The grand total of delinquent nor can they see eye to eye with Gill, the ability of the different individuals lot Approximately nine and one-quar eral proposals for new revenues to House and 87 in the senate. taxes, penalty, interest and other master of the strate grange, who has to soar into the stardom of public en ter million dollars has been paid in cover pension needs are also before issued a lengthly statement that the emy No. 1, it has been learned that it costs resting against all these tax re death benefits by* an old line com the sessions, including an increase in The senate rule against long winded verted lands as of time to foreclosure pany to workingmen's survivors income tax rates, taxes on fuel oils, speeches became operative Wednes farmer and labor have common was not the superior knowledge in crime that public enemy No. 1 had is approximately $7,151,374. The company participates in payment etc. But Governor Martin has warn day. Debates on bills now, except for ground. When Gill was openly opposed on over hto criminal associates, butthat of premimums and the rate of the ed against new tax laws as well as the author, are limited to five minr I Had to Call the Strike Off premiums is unusually low for the against any deficit in the general fund utes. Speakers who crave more time, ,the floor of the committee room, the he outclassed them in the ways of galleries resounded with cheers from massing unseen retainers, in the way insured. Just what did the maritime strike and any measure involving either of however, can usually borrow some The Employee Representation Plan these programs would probably en from other members who do not care the husky throats of strike-suffering of “good citizens,” lawyers, doctors, accomplish for labor? This is a ques farmers. to do hto bidding and give him face in tion that will keep labor leaders busy is a Swift idea that has eliminated counter his veto. to use theirs. G. B. Adams, of Moro, speaking for the community where he had sought explaining for some time. Everyone strikes in their plants and produced The house, strongly pro-Townsend the Oregon shippers and producers refuge. harmonious conditions for both em in its sentiments, might pass a bill re knows that it cost the Pacific coast Governor Martin sent a special and the Eastern Oregon Wheat ployee and employer. And thus Public Enemy No. 1 could many millions of dollars. At the end ducing the age requirement in spite message to the legislature this week "I can raise better men than I can of its financial aspect in fulfillment urging passage of the administration League, said: play hto “good neighbor," good citi of the strike Harry Bridges, the alien “The press tells us that the present zenship act for the reason so and so hire.” These were the words of Gus of the pre-ejection promises of many bill creating the new department of leader of the longshoremen’s group, strike settlement is only for one year. had endorsed him.______ tavus Franklin Swift, who, fifty years of its members. The senate, however, geology and mineral industry. announced that the strike would be Gentlemen, the men who produce our To .the best of my knowledge and over because it was imposible to keep pgo. founded the organization. This moreebnservatTveTn Its make-up, pioneer of the meat packing industry could be expected to block any such Representative Grant want to bring agricultural products cannot face this belief it is not gansters of gangland , the men from returning to work. In We cannot that threaten the stability of govern not only knew his business—he knew program or at least to uphold the the “insidious” interests that back devastation every year. other words Bridges would have liked have the menace of a strike always ment in the United States of America. his men. governor's veto if it should reach that many of the legislative measures out to prolong the strike but couldn't I ahead. If we cannot pass bills to A short time ago a survey was point. But, when a president of the United keep hungry and penniless men from into the open. Now when a legislator protect agriculture, if this is what States trios to corrupt the courts of made of the executive force of the As a compromise it is now being does not want th assume ful respon working. And they returned to work organization of 60,006 employees. It proposed that this session content it sibility for a measure which he drops democracy gives us, if a highly or his country by blackguardism or by —the longshoremen—at the identical was found that 80 per cent of the ex self with reducing the age of pension into the hopper he merely adds the ganized minority Is to rule, we must asking congress to give him power to wages they received before the strike. ecutives began at the bottom of the beneficiaries to 68 years with a grad notation “by request" after his name. look for some other form of govern pack the courts with hto satellites ladder, as messenger boys, laborers, ual reduction to the 65 year mini Grant wants his colleagues, both in ment. That to something that should that he may thereby gain his owi) or clerks; 15 per cent began in slight mum, effective January 1, 1940, when the house and senate, to elaborate a n’t even be voiced, but this to a seri personal ends, to enlarge the bound G. T. COOK ly higher positions, such as assistant this provision will be necessary in or bit on this "by request" and tell just ous situation." aries of hto raw deal without let or Tounis Wyers, former member of hindrance, then does the president of foreman; and five per cent entered der to conform tb the federal require who requested the Introduction of the Brick Mason the organization in various man ments. bill. The suggestion is said to be the legislature, speaking for the Hood the United States become Public En Fireplaces and Chimneys agerial positions. Thia five per cent anything but popular, especially River growers who sponsored bills 56 emy No. 1. And the .congressmen and 57, pointed out that under house P. O. Box 62, Coquille consisted largely of those with special who back hto lust for power are of Bills now before the legislature among the interests back of bills to knowledge and training, such as pro provide for readjustment of* the sal legalize pin ball games, slot machines bill No. 56, the only way an industrial the same breed and type as the silent organization can lose its license, is partners of gangland.—R. A. Easton. fessional and technical men. aries of county officials in 17 coun and other forms of gambling. through the courts. The bill demands I------------------------- ties. Most of these readjustments, SWIFT A CO. HAS PENSIONED When will the sesison end? No one that all organizations of workers or according to sponsors of the bills, Tax Revested Lands in Oregon Some members employers register with the corpora- . ITS WORKMEN FOR YEARS merely involve restoration of county knows, of course think it will continue another three ion commissioner, and make annual Tax reverted lands in Oregon now More than 130 years ago, the Su salaries to their pre-depression level. weeks at least, while others, mon mancial reports compose 1.795,675 acres, valued at the preme Court of the United States was In many of the bills the pay of only Ben T. Osborne, executive secretary time of foreclosure at $12,475,024, it optimistic, believe that it will not subjected to a wave of criticism. Its one or two county officials is in Local and lx»ng Distance continue more than a week over the if the state federation of labor, who was revealed in a report just com chief critic was none other than the volved. In others, notably those from 40 days for which th* legislators are >pposes the passage of any of the pleted by the Oregon State Planning third president of the then / very Malheur, Clackamas, Clatsop and paid. measures now before the legislature, board, entitled “Statistics of Tax Re young nation—Thomas Jefferson. In Lake counties, the entire county sal expressed the opinion that such leg verted Lands in Oregon.” teresting are the facts surrounding ary schedule is being revised upward. Purchase of the Oregon building in islation wbuld fail; that labor had also 1 Reverted lands now total 2.95 per If all of the proposals are approved Portland for state business is pro that situation. failed in its efforts to arrive at ami I cent of the total rural area of Oregon, Jefferson was an ardent “states’ they will involve an aggregate in posed in a bill introduced by Senator cable settlements with employers the report shows. The ratio of pri rights” man. He opposed extension crease of approximately $20.000 a Chaney. The state board of control, without inconveniencing anyone. vately owned land to the tax-reverted year in the salaries paid to officials of federal powers, and followed into which now rent the building, is said Gill reiterated his contention that area to approximately 14 to one. the presidency George Washington of these 17 counties. to be opposed to the plan. On the he believed the farmer and the labor In Coos county tax reverted lands and John Adams, both of whom fa other hand, the joint ways and means er were big enough to settle their dif total 64.400.54 acres and 22,753 city vored a strong central government. It now appear* as though the voters committee favors the idea of trans ferences around the council table. He tots, the total assessed value of which Toward the close of his term, of Oregon would have to pass on the ferring the state property control to made no mention of the situation at to $1.604,483.44. Chargee against the Adams succeeded in putting through milk control act regardless of what the purchasing department. the Oceanic dock in Portland when property total $1,092,878 53. The Sentinel Mansell Drayage & Delivery Co HAUUNG COAL, FUEL piL , and MILL WOOD