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Athena, Oregon January 18, 1929
SAFEGUARDING OUR RIGHTS
- AND, LIBERTIES
No man has ever stated the fund
amental principles of our theory of
government or the ideals of its found
ers in clearer language than President-elect
Herbert Hoover. : Hia
words lift themselves above partisan
politics and lay down fundamentals
which every American citizen should
read and study from the standpoint
of their bearing on his daily life. In
his New York speech, Mr. Hoover
said in part:
"The Government in commercial
business does not tolerate among its
customers the freedom of competitive
reprisals to which private business
is subject. Bureaucracy does not
tolerate the spirit of independence; it
spreads the spirit of submission in
to our daily life and penetrates the
temper of our people not with the
habit of powerful resistance to
wrong but with the habit of timid
acceptance of irresistible might.
"Bureaucracy is ever desirous of
spreading its influence and its power.
You cannot extend the mastery of
the Government over the daily work
ing life of a people without at the
same time making it the master of
the people's souls and thoughts.
Every expansion of Government in
order to protect itself from the
political consequences of its errors
and wrongs, is driven irresistibly
without peace to greater and greater
control of the nation's press and
platform. Free speech does not live
many hours after free industry and
free commerce die. ""
"It is a false liberalism that in
terprets itself into the Government
operation of commercial business.
Every step of bureauratizing of the
business of 'our country poisons the
very roots of liberalism that is,
political equality, free speech, free
assembly, free press and equality of
opportunity. It is the road not to
more liberty but to less liberty.
Liberalism should be found not
striving to spread bureaucracy but
striving to set bounds to it. True
liberalism seeks all legitimate free
dom, first in the confident belief that
without such freedom the pursuit of
other blessings and benefits is vain.
That belief is the foundation of all
American progress, political as well
as economic."
TAX THE LOAFER
One of our exchanges sums it up
in this manner: Theoretically, the
perfect tax would be a tax on in
action. The proper man to tax would
be the loafer, not the worker; idle
land, not used lund; inactive capital,
not active capital; lack of enter
prise. Such a tax would not be practical,
but it would be a just tax.
Our present taxes are based on an
opposite theory.
We tax thrift, action, capital, en
terprise. We levy taxes in proportion to
ability to pay, which means that the
harde r a man works, the more we tax
him; the more thrifty ho becomes,
the more we soak him; the more ef
ficient he grows, the more we knock
him down.
If a man saves his money and buys
a house, he is taxed; if he wastes
his money in extravagant living, ho
is not taxed.
None of our taxes encourage pro
duction by the simple process of dis
couraging idleness, shiftlessnesa, in
efficiency. The devil himself could not do o
neater job of hobbling tha race.
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When a big electric , locomotive
burst through sheeting, covering the
west portal of the Great Northern
tunnel at Scenic, Wash., Saturday,
the first train had been drawn
through the longest underground
bore in the Western hemisphere
nearly eight miles in length, complet
ed in approximately three years at a
cost of $14,000,000. The new tunnel
rcute lessens passenger train time on
the Great Northern one hour and the
time of freicht trains three hours. A
system of switchbacks on the Cas
cade mountain grade is done away
with, and before the Great Northern
completes improvements of its line in
connection with the new tunnel route,
which includes the complete electri
fication of the entire Cascade moun
tain division, the cost will mount to
$25,000,000.
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Wyatt Earp, who boys of 50 and
over used to read about back in the
late TO's, when he was a gun toting
peace officer of Dodge City, Kansas,
and Tombstone, Ariiona, and whose
colorful career led him through sev
eral fatal conflicts with "bad men"
is dead at the age of 78. His later
years were spent in California where
he vu interested in sports. Among
riamtttfttfc wlfelt'l he jfottettW was a
Colt revolver with a number of nicks
notched in its handle, each recording
the demise of a lawbreaker.
The Oregon legislature convened
Monday. It faces a number of per
plexing situations confronting the
state and which of course its august
body is expected to satisfactorily un
ravel. Perhaps the principal problem
before the lawmakers is that of les
sening the tax on the fellow that pays
by buckling up the cinch on the fellow
who should pay, but doesn't.
Everybody in England with the
possible exception of General Bram
well Booth, himself, are in favor of
his retirement as head of the Sal
vation Army. Maybe in time the
general will be attacked with the
same notion.
The man who wrote the Nebraska
game warden, asking forgiveness
for shooting a prairie chicken out of
season back in 1893, cannot be class
ed as a "game hog."
With regularly clicking shots in
the movie news reels, we are con
stantly being reminded that Mus
solini is still mussolining over there
in Italy.
A bankruptcy ring has been un
earthed in New York; as though it
were not easy enough to go through
bankruptcy without wearing a ring.
Medford school district, home of
the state's champion football team,
shows an increase of 244 pupils over
the number listed last year.
And so; after the late lamented
democratic campaign, Jim Missouri
Reed is still able to go, and go
strong.
Forty-five hundred ewe lambs
were recently sold at Klamath Falls
for $45,000. Can ewe beat that price?
The Nugget (in rough) Corporation
of Baker, has been incorporated with
$50,000 capital.
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NOTICE OF GUARDIAN'S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
In the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Umatilla County-.
In the Matter of the Guardianship of
the Jferson and instate of Mary
Emma Price, a minor.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN :That
pursuant to an order of the County
Court of Umatilla County, State of
Oregon, duly made and entered in the
above entitled cause, a license duly
and regularly issued out of said court
on the 31st day of December, 1928,
under the hand of the clerk and the
seal of said court, licensing and
authorizing the undersigned, as
guardian of the person and estate of
Mary Emma Price, a minor, to sell,
for cash, at private sale, for the
best price obtainable, all the right,
title and interest of the above named
minor of, in and to the real property
hereinafter described, and to invest
the funds arising from said sale in
some good interest bearing securities
or upon mortgages upon real proper
ty; that before fixing on the time or
place of sale I took the oath re
quired by law and gave the addition
al bond required by said court. Now
therefore, I will, as such guardian,
from and after the 9th . day of Feb
ruary, 1929, sell at private sale,-for
cash, at the best price obtainable all
the right, title and interest of said
minor in and to the said real proper
ty, to wit:
A one-fourth undivided inter
est in and to the South Half of
the Northwest Quarter and
Northeast Quarter of the North
west Ouarter and the Northeast
Quarter of the Southwest
Quarter of Section Six (6),
in Township One (1), South
Range Thirty-two (32), E. W. M.,
and the South Half of the North
east Quarter of Section Six (6),
in Township One (1), South
Range Thirty-two (32), E. W. M.,
in Umatilla County, Oregon, sub
ject to the dower interest of
Harriet A. Price, widow of Roy
J. Price, deceased.
A one-half undivided interest in
and to the North Half of the
Southeast Quarter and East Half
of the Southwest Quarter of Sec
tion Thirty-one (31). Township
One (1), North Range Thirty
two (32), E. W. M., in Umatilla
County, Oregon, subject to the
dower interest of Harriet A.
Price, widow of Roy J. Price,
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The South Half of the South
west Quarter of Section Five
(5) , and the South Half of the
Southeast Quarter of Section Six
(6) , Township One (1), South
Range Thirty-two (32), E. W. M.,
in Umatilla County, Oregon, sub
ject to the dower interest of
Harriet A. Price, widow of Roy
J. Price, deceased.
HARRIET A. PRICE,
Guardian of the Person and Estate
of Mary Emma Price, a minor.
Peterson & Lewis, Attorneys for
Guardian. Jan. 11,18,25, Feb. 1,8, 1929
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