En terprise, Hnlsey. Oregon, April 12. 1928
We hold th at law enforcement
officials
who connive with law­
Published Thursday at Halsey, Oregon
breakers are the most dangerous of
H P and A. A. LAKE
all criminals. Where such betrayal
Publishers
of trust exists we believe it far
Entered at the postofflce at Halsey
more im portant to secure the con­
Oregon, as second class matter.
viction and punishment of guilty
$1 a year In advance. Arrearages 124c
officials than of the lesrer criminals
a month. Stops when time expires
whom they protect. Experience
unless continuance is ordered.
Advertising 25c an inch; no discount bae shown that UDder uniformly
for time or space; no charge for honest adm inistration, even though
composition or changes Announce­ metgerly supported by public funds
ments of entertainments, food sales, enforcement of the prohibition law
etc , whose object is to raise money, ’ is comparatively easy. Criminals
charged at regular advertising rates.
in office constitute the only really
Announcements of religious meetings,
serious menace to the euccesj of
not exceeding four Inches, free if
prohibition.
copy Is received before Tuesday.
We believe it the duty of the cit­
izen,
upou becoming aware of the
Dry Forces to Try New Plans violation
of law, to give informa­
Through the apathy and ind'ffer- tion and assistance to the authori­
mce of good cilizeua, and ih^ *U- ties. If they lack power to act,
jinecess of many officicale the strengthen their hands. If they
are corrupt, rsmove them from of­
orces of lawlessness are making fice. Only officers can deal with
aeadway in our country. Not 1 quor criminals. Only voters can deal
awa only, but all laws whose vio- with derelict offers.
ation may yield a profit are com­
The Anti-Saloon league of Oregon
ing to he held iu contempt. Corrupt is resolved th at hereafter it will
officials find in thise lawbreakers center its efforts upon the commen­
dation and support of officials who
i source of profit. Honest but are faithful to their duty, and upon
imid officials hesitate to incur their the detection and punishment of
those who betray their trust.
inmity.
(Signed)
K. E. Close,
Having contended earnestly for
Superintendent.
he enactment and strengthening
if the laws against liquor, the bead-
Who remembers when a girl
platters committee o, Ihe Anti- could carry a setting of eggs in her
S »loon league desires to make a s k i r t . ________ _____
itatement of its position and policy
Americanism: Listening over a
a regaid to their enforcement.
$300 radio set to hear a record
We believe that enforcement of played on a $75 phonograph,
uw should be entrusted only to
The House of Representatives
ifficials regularly elected or ap- continues as tbe unfailing refuge of
jointed, and charged with th at
the lame ducks. But then its mem­
Inly. The private citizen can act
bers have three cbauces of getting
inly through the regularly coneti-
that way to a senator's one,
uled authorities. If these lack
Lyle Womack, husband of famed
money or men their needs should
je supplied. If they are corrupt aviatrix Ruth Elder, got into the
>/ incompetent all attem pts to news last week in his own right.
He won a prixsfight iu Panama,
work with them must fail.
which
with former victories gives
We particularly disapprove the
him
the
middlwcight championship
employment of special officers
of
the
Canal
Zone. Womack is
ivljoae individual compensation is
only
au
nniateur
boxer. His reg-
made dependent upon fines collect­
ular
job
is
in
his
uncle’s distillery,
’d from lawbreakers convicted by
one
of
tbe
largest
in Central Amer­
heir efforts. Such a system is
ica.
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unsound and will firing any law
What was onco thought to be a
into disrepute.
We deprecate the formation of dead baby is giving several fr.vor-
locielies whose professed intention ite sous considerable worry just
s to do the work neglected by those now. Will Irwin reveals in a recent
vliose duty it is. The Auti-Saloon biography that when a little more
eaguo has had experience in this than a year old, Herbert C Hoover
egard, and has learned the futility had a (*esperate attack of croup and
>f such etToits. Attempts to en- was laid out for dead. His demise,
orce law while corrupt otTuers re­ like that of Mark Twain, was foi.
sin power to nullify it inevitably tunately found to hare been great­
ly exaggerated.
•esult in disappointment.
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