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■■■■ ■■I LUE SHERMAN COUNTY JOURNAL. MORO, OREGON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935 YAGB TWO 7 ^er^an Qlmuttg Journal SHEKMAN COUNTY OBSERVER, Established Nov. 2, 1858 GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct. 14, 1897 CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6, 1931 WASCO NEWS-ENTERPRISE, Established 1891 CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4, 1932 Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon, By Managing Editor GILES L. FRENCH NO 3 H Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice, at Moro, Oregon, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879- SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. “ One Year ..... ................ — - ......... ............................. 3150 SEPTEMBER 20, 1945 THE RIVER It appears that those working for the development of the Colum bia river have at last gotten out of the b.ush league stage and are ready io advance into a different class. Fc! many years the project has been accorded attention *in chamber of commerce resolutions, reports by farmers organizations, talks before scattered and unaffil iated groups. Now, through the action of the Inland Empire Water ways association, all these efforts are to be made cohesive and co herent. The above mentioned organize- tion is led by a board of directors that command the respect of peo ple throughout the district It has a definite objective. Because it combines the entire area which will be affected it is not subject to partisian or local antagonism. It should do much to bring about the development of |he river for navi- gation, power and irrigation if all these seem desirable. The program of the organiza tion at the time of its birth in cluded substitution of seagoing locks at Bonneville, which has been done, and the channel improvement of the river between Celilo and Umatilla rapids, the contract for which has been let. Thus two of the objectives have been realized or are on the road to realization. The next construction the asso ciation is asking for is the building of the Umatilla Rapids Dam and a dam on the Snake river to make river transportation possible as far as Lewiston. A vast mapority of the farmers of the inland empire have long held that navigation on the river was one of the most direct means of raising the price of their pro ducts. Our price is set at tide water and tidewater is 12 cents away. If through the use of the river we can bring tidewater three or four cents nearer it will be that much saved to the producer and consumer alike. The middle section of the river cannot expect to have a regular service unless the upper section is also usable. Boats that go to Lewiston will pass Biggs, both coming and going, and will be avail able for our use Up river traffic can be increased greatly if it can be made usable by people farther inland and the benefit will accrue to everyone living near the stream. For years we have used the river for the same purpose as the InJ dians did—to fish in. Now it looks as if we might at last prove more able than they to use natures handiwork? party. Everyone has noticed the pre ponderance of small cars among the bright and shining new ones that travel over the highways. That is. they are cars that were small when the name was applied to them some years ago. The well known and persistent depression has had something to do with the demand for lightness and low cost in motor cars. That is certain But it is also true that the de velopment in better cars in all classes has made people better sat isfied to drive the cars that were 1 comparatively cheap in the twen 1 ties. The best remark on the Italian and Ethopian situation we have heard was made by a Grass Valley man who said, “It‘11 work out all ’ right. Italy will go to Africa and 1 get more territory or it will lose a lot of men and won’t need so darn much territory.” Maybe the county could get a monoply on the slot machines and use them to collect taxes with. A whirl a day would keep the sheriff away. STATE AFFAIRS (Continued from page one) ballot at the Nov., 1936, election. Kent Auxilary Starts Winter Shaniko, little Wasco county town which had 100 residents when the 1930 census was taken, is the Aid Campaign envy of the state. The city has no taxes, no debts, and is on a cash basis, F» P. Wag ner, city recorder, wrote Secretary of State Snell. Shaniko has never had a budget and doesn’t see why it should have to draw one up now to submit to Snell in view of a law passed by the last legislature providing for auditing of municipal accounts. Governor Martin is getting ready to move again for the sec ond time since the capital fire. He and State Treasurer Holman and the board of control employee* will move from the supreme court li brary to the fourth floor of the main office building. There they will take over the offices of the" World War Veteran’s state aid com mission, letting them move up stairs to the state engineer’s quar ters. The latter will move ta’the Elk’s temple downtawiY. It’* all being done because the supreme court had complaints from attor neys that there was too much noise in the library what with all the stenographers and bookkeepers at work. The sensational Kellaher-Banks bribery case, involving an ex-state parole officer and a murderer, is be fore the Marion county grand jury. Dan J. Kellaher, Portland, for mer parole chief, was accused of agreeing to accept a $50,000 bribe to obtain Banks’ release from prison. L. A Banks, ex-Medford publish er, serving a life term in the peni tentiary for the murder of George Prescott, Medford constable, has repeatedly sought release from prison. Real estate is looking up, thinks The league for the Prevention C. V. Johnson, deputy state real of Noise is making a lot of it these estate commissioner. Oregon has days. 1500 persons in the business, some 12 1-2 percent more than the same It is most fortunate that the St time last year. Brokers report Louis Cardinals didn't go ahead more calls for property than at any and sell a lot of world’s series time in the last seven years. tickets. Wheat seeds that lay in the cor This legislature will have some- nerstone of the burned state capi thing to decide. Who is a member tol for 60 years turned out to be of the legislature, where the state dead. The state department of house is going to be and what it agriculture experimented on the shall look like. Its like the first the seeds, hoping to rouse them legislature gathering held in the back to activity. They were placed state in the corner stone by S. F. Chad wick, secretary of state in 1873 The dust was laid in part of the “Increased speed has definitely county last Friday when a series of little showers fell. At the sta boosted the percentage of fatalities tion fifteen hundredths of an inch in accidents on the open highway,” was recorded. While a much lar reported Secretary of State Snell. ger rainfall was felt at Kent there Experienced drivers cause 85 per was not enough any place to do any cent of the accidents. good to the land or to aid the next crop as the warm days that fol lowed took the moisture out of the soil in a short time. More is wanted. In Other Days * Beauty without grace is h{e the hcx^ I I-,..,.... ............. . ....... From The Observer Sept. 21, 1906. It is reported that O. L. Belshe has purchased the Elwood Thomp son farm near Spalding Chapel. Writing from Denmark to Judge Bourhill, Peter Knudsen says, “I am not making as much money here as I did in Sherman county, but I am having a better time.” Wm. Booth and family now re- side in Texas. Bill’s first invest ment in Texas realty was 20 cents, made in Wasco, from which he has realized $30,000 so far this fall and more in sight O. W. Axtell received some toma-’’ toes from Albany last week that were prize takers. Two of them fill- ed a 10-lb lard bucket. Richard Dingle’s crop off 500 acres netted 3676 sacks of No. 1 wheat and his unland orchard pro duced some excellent fruit, notably pears. From The Observer, Sept. 22, 1916 Sheriff McKean has sold his Ford runabout to F. E. Fortner and has a five passenger Ford to talfe its place. ■ • - / Max Pluemke, John Schassen and A. S Johnson are Kentites attend ing the "Round-Up from this county Carl Peetz was seen on the streets Wednesday afternoon look ing as hale and hearty as of yore, before his recent spell of illness. Members of the city council have arranged for the immediate repair and widening of the relic of the flood waters at the foot of First street. F. R. Axtell expects to leave soon for Kent where he has the contract to paint and finish the new home of Carson von Borstel. * On Wednesday afternoon. Sep tember 11, the American Legion Auxiliary of Kent its first meeting of the season. Eight members were p recent. Plans were made -for the dance supper for Saturday night and for an opening card party to be given on Saturday night September 21st at the Legion hall. Announcement hM-. been made that the history of our unit is now complete, i^.^Mir own Ale®« The Departmentof Oregon has had a complete copy of our history for some years but we failed to keep all our records. Tho^e lacking have been copied from |be Department files. This year we nope to add to dQr records the history of each past president of Our unit and per haps the history^of all charter mem bers. . , During, th^ next few months we hosmtgl chairman to 1 are ask by our hoap^ save chicken feathers to be used in making chair cushions for the veteran’s hospitals in Portland and Roseburg. Anyone in the com- munity, whether a member or not, leaving chicken feathers they wish to donate for this purpose may give them to Cassie Holmes, hospital chairman. Aay donations will be welcome. Cushions filled with chicken feathers may be donated. They are to be 18 in. square and of any suitable material. We will make the feathers into cushions and send them to the hospials as soon as possible. Roseburg hospi tal is in dire need of much help of this kind. It was only recently built and not yet complete with all the little comforts which we like to have those unfortunate souls who stopped the bullets In 1917 and ’18 Our next meeting will be Sep-j tember 26 at 8 p. m. joint meeting with the American Legion. The congregation of a little church gave a free-will offering of fifty dollars to their minister who had just joined the grand and glori ous order of parenthood. The, fol lowing Sunday before the service began, one deacon whispered to an other: “I’ll bet he thanks God for the money before he does the baby” The minister arose to pray. “Our Father.” he said, “we thank Thee for this timely succor which Thou hast sent us.” The deacons couldn’t decide who won the bet. Review ' of National History Shows Constitutional Changes By Wayne L. ,Motse adjudge them to be utterly void, ... ............ - jnp! :: ” for when an act of Parliament is . In order to uncj^rst^iul attempts to advance social ends through law against common right and reason in the United States, attention is or repugnant, or impossible to be directed to two of our basic legal performed. the common law will controls in America—written con control it, and adjudge such act stitutions and the dqcti ine of judi to be void.” This was a bold stroke on the cial review part of Lord Coke, aimed to estab- There is every indication that in lish a doctrine of judicial suprem- the months to come a battle royal acy in England, However, it so will be waged over,« these legal incensed both the crown and Par- strongholds and as in all wars, we liament that Coke was subsequent- can be sure that moat of the com ly removed from office, and the batants will not know what it is doctrine repudiated. all about. Lord Chief Justice Hobart and Although some oHHei countries several English judges thereafter have written constitutions and a ventured similar opinions but the few subscribe to the doctrine of doctrine never gained a foothold in judicial review, these two legal con English jurisprudence. trols are developed most highly in The modern English view con America. cerning the supremacy of Parlia- We speak of our government as one organized around a constitu- I tional separation of powers among the three departments; the exec utive, legislative, and judicial. Un- ' doubtedly the average layman and many lawyers think these de partments as co-ordinate and equal. However, in a very real sense our government is one in which the judiciary reigns suprikme. On the other hand, the English govern-, ment is one of parlimentary su premacy. The chief reasons for the vital difference are two: First: England has an unwritten 1 constitution and America a written one. Second: By long tradition and J 'historical precedent ftie courts of England have been bound to ac cept the acts of Parliment as the supreme law of the land. In Amer ica the doctrine of judicial review has prevailed whereby the courts have exercised the power of de claring void acts of legislative bodies which in their opinion con flict with rights guaranteed in our written constitutions. Legal historians - seem to agree that although the {doctrine of judicial review does not prevail in England, nevertheless its enuncia tion in England probably gave rise to its adoption in America. > Most influential statements of the dodtrine In England was made by Lord Coke in 1610 in the now- ,famous Bonham’s case. Coke as Lord Chief Justice of the court of common pleas found himself in con flict with the crown and with par liament as to the power of the courts to pass final judgment upon the validity of laws In the course of his decision in that case, Coke stated, “And it ap pears in, our books that in $nany ca^s the gPBUpCMkJnir control acts of Parliament and sometimes WE APOLGISE without the bait. ' It is written: To err is human. SEPTEMBER Proof of the human quality of 17—First air flicht across U. S members of this staff was given - 84 hours, 1911. last week by the committment of a very grave erron It will now be V txa ' 18—Start of the <reat Jay Cooke Panic on Wall admitted that we have at least one Street, 1873. human trait The error about which we are “Dixie" 1» fir»t sung in concerned was one that occurred public at New York, 1859. in the “People’s Column’’ in a let ter written by Marshal Williams regarding the good sportsmanship Right* Party, 1884. of Sergeant Grimm of the state police. When he was cautioned 21—New York's Trinity Church is burned to th» about parking Mr. Grimm made ground, 1776. the remark that he was a “scout” whereas we made it to read “scrub.’ 22 — Virgil, famed Latin poet, To those who have been wonder die». B C 19. ing all week why Mr. Williams 23—E. L. Ovine ton becomes should have saluted Mr Grimm for first U S. sir mail pilot. being a “scrub” let it stand cor ewwv 1911. SILVER ANNIVURSARY rected. He was saluted for being (25th Annual) a “scout’* Eureka Lodge No. 121 A-F & AM Newspapers are given to error Moro, Oregon for they are slammed together in Meets the 1st and 3rd a feverish rush—even the little Thursday evenings of ones There are from 12,000 to each month. Visiting 15.000 words in an average issue members cordially in EXPOSITO of this sheet and while grevious vited to meet with us. mistakes sometime« creep in the C. Sparling, W. M. percentage is not so large and when c. V. Belknap. Secy. it is considered that there is an Mor® Lodge No- 113, I. O. O. F. average of five letters in each word Moro, Oregon it is surprising that we don’t make Meets 1st and 3rd more mistake». Tuesdays in the But that is a reason, not an ex Doris: “How did you learn to IO.O.F. ball Tran cuse. We hereby apologize to Mr. kiss so well?** •lent and nb»itir< Grimih, and to Mr. Williams. We Ted: “Oh. I used to blow a brothers are cordi haven’t the temerity to talk to po ally invited to meet bugle.** lice officers that way. PORTLAND, OREGON with us. io A judge has recently said that Trait, Secretary. ha will let wives sentence their roof. ExMbits of poro-brod Livestock« own husbands who are convicted of Do««, Poultry, Pot Stock,Wild Lifo, Land wife beating and has allowed one Products, Manufacturad Products, 4-H woman to name the penalty She Meet« 2d and 4th Tu- decided that she could and would Education Work; Combination Horw Phone 345 The Dall«. 01 e wday« of each month Show and Indoor Rodoo. her pugnacious husband for a per- Visiting members wel LARDI PRIMIUM LISTS coma. ^EDUCED FARES-ALL LINES Florence Martin. N. G. easy on the judge who so calmly GRASS VALLEY PHARMACY Phona 222 PACIFIC M INTERNATIONAL IlW - ■ ment is well illustrated by the de- sat up by several states in this cisión in Lee v. Bude and Torring- country. ton Junction Railway Co., decided In the second pUce, Parliament. in 1871. In that case, Justice Wil- by general enactments, has 4»le- lis states: ‘ gated large powers of a legislative “I would observe as to those Acts nature to ministers and commis of Parliament, that they are the sions of the government. These law of this land; and we do not English ministers and conjmission- sit here as a court of appeal from ers for a long time have'sarved as Parliament... If an act of Parlia the “brain trust” of Parliament ment has been obtained improperly and around them has grown up a it is for the legislature to correct large body of regulation and or it by repealing it; but so long as ders, or administrative law com it exists as law, the Courts are prising their rules, regulations qnd bound to obey it- The proceedings orders. here are judicial, not autocratic, The great growth o/ administra which they would be if we could tive law in the United stiltes "dur make laws instead of administering ing the last ten years has a long- them.” ^accepted counterpart in England experience does To the same effect, Blackstone i and —— English — ------- .w — .not ----- wrote. “If the Parliament will posi- justify many of the fears of those tively enact a thing to be done who protest the growth of adminis- which is unreasonable, I know of trative law in this country no power that can control it; and 7In the third place, the fact of the examples usually alleged in parliamentary supremacy J^as help support of this sense of the rule ed to make politics a learped pro- do none of them prove that where fession in England with the result the main object of a statute is un- that many young Englishmen open reasonable the judges are at lib- | ly select politics as a career and erty to reject It, for that were to train themselves for parliamentary set the judicial power above that service. of a legislature which would be When we contrast that attitude subservient to all government. , with the typical American view of However, Parliamentary supre- political life, we can understand macy in England does not mean better the reasons for placing final that the acts of Parliament are not reliance upon our courts when it subject to judicial interpretation, comes to protecting our constitu- but it does mean that the English tional rights. Parliament is supreme in that it has final authority to determine U. S. LAND OFFICE . at The the validity of laws. Dalles, Oregon. August 23. 1935,. It remains for the courts to in NOTICE is (hereby . given that terpret and administer the laws. John Q McKinnon, of Kent, Ore When legislative acts are not clear gon, who on June 7. 1927, made on their face as to the meaning in. Homestead Entry under Act Dec. tended by Parliament, the courts 29, 1916, No. 025402, for NiNWi. so far as possible interpret the acts Sec. 27, NEiNEL Sec. 28, T. 4 8.. in terms of common law principles. R. 18 E., SiNWL SWi, SiSEL Sec. The English doctrine of parlia 4, SiSWi. NEiSWi, Sec. 3. and mentary supremacy has led to three NINWi, Section 10, Township 5 noticable trends in England, as I South, 'Range 18 East Willamette view the situation. Meridian, has filed notice of inten- In the first place, English stat tion to make final Proof, to estab utes are very carefully drawn and lish claim to the land above de considered before enactment. As scribed, before Register.,, United early as 1869 the department of States Land Office, at The Dalles, Parliamentary council was created, Oregon, on the 3rd day of October. . - * ~ S ’ / r charged with the responsibility of 1935. preparing government bills for all Claimant names as witnesses) the government departments of J. E. Norton, of Kent, Oregon. England This department serve« Benjamin Boswell, of Kent, Ore. as a legislative drafting bureau Roy L. Robinson, of Portland. for Parliament and was the fore Oregon. k runner and model for legislative John N. Maclnness, of Kent, Ore. drafting bureaus which have been W. F. Jackson. 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