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hardened criminals. He cites its suc
cess in Canada and says a good
sound thrashing often accoomplishes
miracles where long imprisonment
has brought no reform. At once we
hear objections: that mankind has
risen above corporal punishment for
prisoners, that it brutalizes the of
fender, etc. Yet in actual practice,
Mr.'May says it has a salutary effect.
We have allowed high idealism to
sway our emotions in dealing with the
imprisoned and consequently have the
highest crime record in the world.
Let us have more wholesome sessions
in the woodshed and there will be
fewer problem children and less
grown-up bullies later. As for kid
napers, they are beyond the pale;
thqir extinction rather than their
reformation is to be desired.
NEW DEAL OR DEMOCRAT
Fatuous Fragments
"Wanting in courage, deficient in
tact, imbecile in execution, waver
ing in purpose, indifferent to par
tisan obligation, stupid in conception
and docile under insult, the present
’leaders’ of the Democratic party at
the national Capital owe it to decency
to die.”
No the above is not an indictment
of the present day democratic admin
istration but was an editorial utter
ance in the Port Orford Post of Nov.
3, 1881. But how applicable t is 57
years later!
of the situation as it was visioned
at the time the last legislature was in
Session.
Vacationists are showing unusual
Interest in Oregon this year.
In
quiries received by the travel bu
reau of the state highway department
between Janiiary 1 and June 1 totaled
38,058, an increase of 7500 over the
same period a year ago.
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Oregon counties, particularly those
in the western part of the state are
confronted with a serious problem
through the loss of valuable timber
lands from the tax rolls, County
Judge Guy Boyington told the State
Emergency Board here this week.
Thousands of acres are being de
nuded of their crop of merchanable
fir and pine each year, Judge Boying- I
ton pointed out. In spite of the fact
that the state has tried to encourage :
reforestation through the enactment
of a reforestation tax of only five1
cents an acre on these cut-over and
burned-over lands, many of the
owners prefer to let the counties
take the land for taxes rather than to
wait 75 to 125 years for a new crop. -1
Clatsop county last year acquired
title to more than 20,000 acres of this
land, Judge Boyington said. Other
counties are having the same experi
ence. Every year the timber counties
are getting deeper into the real estate
business. Records of the state forestry
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by the counties up to 1937. Most of
this land is located west of the Cas
cades. The coast counties of Clat- I
sop, Tillamook and Coos have been
especially hard hit
In the present condition the lands
are of little or no value. In an effort
There is. no statutory provision un to bring the lands back into produc
der which the surviving remnants of tion Clatsop county is conducting a
the proposed Northwest Oregon Bon reseeding experiment which gives
neville Peoples’ Utility district may promise of solving' the ' problem,
be organized. So Attorney General Judge Boyington said. A section of
Van Winkle ruled in an opinion to deforested land seeded to grass a
the Oregon Hydroelectric Commission year ago is now proviiing adequate
this week.
pasturage for more than 100 head
Promoters of the project had con of cattle and 1500 head of sheep. If
tended that the law permitted the another year's experience demon
commission to approve the organiza strates the success of the experiment,
tion of a utility district out of these] Judge
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Boytlngton predicts that much
parcels of territory which voted fa of this now worthies! land will be in Crow’s Digest Tells What’s
vorably on the proposed district in .demand for grazing purposes.
In
The Matter With Market
the recent election in which a ■»#-' that event the land will be taken over
jority of the voters returned an ad by private owners and restored to
C. C. Crow, publisher of Crow’s
verse verdict.
the tax rolls. Other western Oregon Pacific Coast Lumber Digest, and an
“There is no provision fopnd in the countries are said to be keenly in authority on lumber markets and
statute for forming a peoples’ utility terested in the Clatsop county ex conditions in the Northwest, In his
district of the entire territory includ periment.
weekly letter last Friday stated that
ed within any proposed district, or
“there is reason to believe,'at the rate
of that portion thereof voting in fa
The Capitol Reconstruction com business has been declining the past
vor of such formation after excluding mission has announced its intention few weeks, that the latter part of June
those muicipalities and separate par of inspecting the new capitol next and through July will probably see a
cels of territory which voted against Tuesday, June 21. If found satisfac condition worse than was experienced
such formation when the majority tory the building will be accepted by in 1932, if it is not already at that
vote in the entire district is against the state. . Actual transfer of de point.
the creation of such district,” the partments to new quarters, however,
"The disintegration of the lumber
opinion of the attorney general reads.
will not take place until about July 1, market continues and a careful study
The proposed super-district includ inasmuch as telephone service will of the under-lying influences, unfor
ed the major portions of Clatsop,
not be available before that time. tunately, reveals nothing upon which
Columbia, Clackamas, Washington,
Departments to occupy space in the to base hopes for an early improve
Yamhill, Polk and Tillamook counties.
new capitol include the executive, ment.
The only units favoring the project
“There is no question but that the
state and treasury departments, bud
were the rural areas of Polk and
get department, board of control in fir cargo mills are in a relatively
Yamhill counties, an isolated unit in
cluding the purchasing division and worse position now than they were in
Clatsop county and a few small mu
property control division, and the 1932 because, unfortunately, they are
nicipalities.
state land board. Space to be vacated the only lumber producers in the en
in the state office building will be tire United States who are caught in
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The State Emergency Board au
immediately occupied by the highway the labor racket and have up to now
thorized deficiency appropriation^ to-
department which already occupies been denied the right to adjust wages
I tailing *22,000 at a meeting in Salem
an entire floor in that building, the to meet the shrunken revenue for
last week. Largest item on the list
tax commission and the bureau of their product as their competitors
was a $15,000 appropriation to cover
have. The situation is getting des
labor.
maintenance of the new capital from
perate and many large operations are
the time it is taken over by the state,
With no general rainfall over west preparing to shut down between now
about, July 1
until the next legis
ern
Oregon since early in May and and July 1st to remain idle until such
lature' meets. Secretary of State Snell
with temperatures unseasonably high, time as they can open with a wage
had requested an additional 31500 for
conditions make for serious fire haz scale that will at least permit them to
capital outlays but the Board held
ards in the forests of the state, ac get back the cost of production. This
that this was a responsibility of the
cording to the state forestry depart makes it almost certain that the out
Capitol Commission since it includes
ment. Commenting on the Big Creek put during the next four weeks will
furniture and equipment for the
fire in Clatsop county which broke go far below where it is at present.”
building and disallowed the item. The
out on June 2 and burned over 2000
board also approved an item of 34000
acres before it was stopped, forestry Next Monday The Date
requested by the extension service of
officials pointed out that an almost
the State College in connection with
For Annual School Meetings
identical situation was experienced
a reseeding experiment in Clatsop
last year when the Pisgah fire in
county, and 33000 for the Department
(By Co. School Superintendent)
southern Columbia county burned
of Agriculture to be used in financ
Monday, June 20, is Annual School
over 500 acres during the first week
ing Oregon’s participation in the
meeting day all over the state of
of June.
'World’s Poultry Congress to be held
Oregon, At-this time a clerk and one
in Cleveland, Ohio, next year.
director are required to be elected
With a reduction of 40 per cent in
in each second and third class dis-
the number of highway fatalities
The grand review of the Oregon
trict. In a few districts where va-
Oregon ranks fourth among the 48
National Guard, now in training at
cancies have occurred out of season
states in the improvement of motor
Camp Clatsop, will be held on Sat
it necessitates the election of even
ing conditions, Secretary of State
urday afternoon, June 25, according
more. In a majority of districts the
Snell has just been advised by the
to Major General George A White.
budget is also voted on at this time.
National Safety Council. Snell attri-'
In addition to the review there will be
The attendance at the annual school
butes the big decrease in traffic acci
a combat demonstration by the 186th
meeting is a responsibility which
dents in this state in large part to
infantry, supported by the 218th
should be realized by all voters. In
field artilllery displaying various the campaign of safety education a few districts we find that the at
phases of fire power in repulsing a which has been carried on by his tendance is so poor at these meetings
department over the radio, in news
mythical enemy. At least 25,000 per
that it is difficult to find people to
sons are expected to witness the camp paper and through lectures before serve as board members. We wonder
With the crime of kidnaping again on this occasion. On the preceding schools, service clubs and other , if the right to vote at a school meet
a major topic of conversation, there day, Friday, June 24, the various groups.
ing were denied these people who are
are many theories for its suppression units will compete in a program of
now'not attending if they would not
expounded.
One is to repeal the military athletics.
feel that a grave injustice had been
Lindbergh law which calls for the
done them. The writer is hoping that
death penalty whether the victim is
a large number in each of the districts
slain or returned unharmed. The
in Coos county will be in attendance.
argument is that the kidnaper has a
The voting in a school election does
better chance to eseape detection if
not require exactly the same qualifi
he adds murder to the first crime
cations as voting in a regular election.
and that his punishment is the same
A voter in a school election for the
in either case. As to this, we wouldn’t
election of a clerk for director must
know. It is al) conjecture and no one
be a citizen of the United States; 21
Reception room jointly with
can guess what a degenerate might
years of age and a resident of a dis
Dr. J. R. Bunch
do under different circumstances.
trict at least 30 days preceding the
However, we were interested in
election.
reeding that Luke May, the noted
On all other questions, including
criminologist, favored flogging for
the voting on the budget the voter
AUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTORS
must have the qualifications men
tioned above and in addition must
have his name appear on the last as
sessment roll or be the holder of
stocks or shares in a corporation
whidh pays taxes in the district. The
attorney general gives an opinion
resting upon supreme court decisions
to the effect that this law has refer
ence to the assessment rolls as of
March 1937 and not 1938. The head
of family qaulification for third class
districts was done away with during
the last legislature.
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Blackboards Refinished
The Empire school is this week
having blackboards refinished. The
work is being done by George Entz
minger, of Portland, who for many
years has refinished boards through
out Oregon and Washington.
While in the county Mr. Entzminger
will estimate costs of refinishing for
all districts which care to have this
done.
Mr. Entzminger is highly
skilled and this affords a splendid
opportunity for the schools to get
some helpful service.
All school boards and other inter
ested will have an opportunity this
week to observe his work at Empire.
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