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About The Ashland register. (Ashland, Jackson County, Or.) 1927-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1927)
Mr. I ployed ern P »‘ Christmi ily on L Rever Zai»l*r visiting J. C. H P A C E 'F O U R T h e R E G I S T K R ’S E D I T O R I A L a n d F E A T U R E Faj>e C. J. READ, Editor and Publisher — — — — --T .I Utljr Aahlaitii iKpyiatpr OREGON S ta n i-W ffk lf P>p*r Publulicd at Ashland, Oregon Formerly the Central Point and Ashland American , r —— - . . . O ffic e at 372 East Main Street BCS1NKS A N U NEW S PHONE 95 . ........ .. .... Or a Romance and Adventure in and of the West O ar Year Advertising Rates Civea on Application By DAVID MARK Sintered at the Postoffice at Ashland, Oregon, as Second Class Matter, under the Act o f Congress of March 3, 1879_______ 216 Central Ave., Ashland, Oregon Member S TA TE EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Member N A T IO N A L EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION * - i IN T E R N A T IO N A L in i m p o r t a n c e Few of us, who live in Jackson county can ap- ireciate the significance, in Mexican eyes, of the light of Col. Lindberg from Washington to Mex ico City. Heretofore, the great nation to the North has pursued its way with little effort to cultivate intimate contacts with the Mexican peo ple. The Lindberg flight, is, in a meausure, a re cognition o f Mexico, and the wonder is, why \ve haven’t paid more attention to our neighbor in the past. That the modest, young American has captur ed the hearts of the Mexicans in the same man ner that he has captured the imagniation of the world, is apparent. President Calles, the govern ment and the Mexican people have given every demonstration of affectionate friendship and ap preciation of the undertaking. In fact the news dispatches from Mexico City, tellin* of the huge crowd that awaited Lind berg’s arrival is the first such friendly story that has come out of Mexico for American consumption in many, many years. As far as the Register is concerned this flight ranks high in importance not as an aviation ex ploit, but as an adventure in good will that pays big dividends. Our flying ambassador will yet take rank in AmeHcan history as a worker for in ternational understanding and friendship be tween the peoples of the world. The cities by cooperating with each other in movement o f pro ducts helped much in things com mercial. The people co-operatinp together could and did produce much more than they needed but there never was any over produc tion. Being a commercial as well as an industrial city all surplus wa? put into the marts o f trade and disposed of, for commercial se curities, credit Coin or other meth ods o f exchange. Production and trade were the two mighty arm.* o f an industria-eommercial city. f TO BE NO PO LL Much discussion followed an announcement from National Commander Edward E. Spafford that he proposed a referendum on prohibition among the members of the Legion. Opposition became rampant and the proposed poll was quickly abandoned. The arrangements against such an undertaking are overwhelming. In the first place, and of pri mary importance is the fact that such a poll could accomplish nothing. The method of determining what tne American people want has been the elections regularly held and no substitution is • apt to carry much conviction. Thoes in the Legion who opposed the proposal asserted, quite correctly, that it would make a political football out of the Legion. Gen. James A. Drain of the state of Washington, telegraphed • his opposition stating that the organization con sisted of “ over 700,000 men, associated in com mon to serve God and country in peace with the spirit that moved them for service in war.” To force a poll on such a "highly controversial na tional political question” was beyond the power of the National Commander. Answering his critics Commander Spafford said he had merely suggested that such a poll he taken but, in no sense had he ordered it. In view of the opposition which developed all over the nation. It may be taken as assured that there will be no such undertaking on the part o f the Legion. Among the states to register immediate objection were Nebraska, Iowa, New Hampshire, Indiana and Georgia. WANT AN INVESTIGATION The action of certain United States Senators in demanding a full investigation of the nasty charge that the Mexican government set aside $1,215,000 as a reward for four Senators for “ Pro-Mexican activities” should he followed by a searching investigation. In this connection, we are glad to note that the Mexican government, “ waiving its claims to im munity” has instructed its consul general in New York to appear before the special committee in vestigating the documents which it charges are “ gross forgeries." His appearance is important because it is charged that the money was sent to the consul ;eneral for distribution. While the names of the our senators connected with the alleged papers are well known they cannot be published. All of them insist upon a complete investigation. None of them has ever been touched by suggested scandal and one of them a Progressive, has been the subject of frequent comment for his honesty and sincereity. ? ABOUT EVOLUTION Not so long ago the people o f Jackson county in common with other Americans were discass sing evolution. Both sides of the dispute were P riv e . R morning I Copyright. W S U I championed with power but the disputants sel dom agreed upon the meaning o f evolution. If w accept as it’s definition the gradual de velops nt of higher from lower things there will not be much dispute. However, most people have the idea that evolution means that man came from a rqonkev. To them we direct this evidence, from Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, the president of the American Museum of Natural History. “ The better we understand human anatomy and the mechanism of both the hand and foot, and the more we lesrn o f the fossil ancestors o f man, the less close appears our relationship to the great anthropoid apes, the gorilla, the orang and the gibbon.” SMOKERS HELP GOVERNMENT Not all the money spent for tobacco goes up in smoke. Almost forty per cent of the vast total goes into the treasury of Uncle Sam, and this per centage is increased in the few states that tax their smokers with a state stamp before they can buy what they smoke. In the last fiscal year the devotees o f th e« “ noisome weed” contributed $” 76,000,000 to the Federal Treasury. That is an immense sum, al though only a small part of the estimated value of the tobacco manufactures in the nation A people who are willing to spend close to*i billion dollars a year for the pleasure o f smoking ought to be able to pay for anything that becomes necessary. They hardly have the right to complain o f hard times and high taxes! The World W ar did much to make the cigar ette and its spread has been universal. Women, too, have joined the ranks of the users to an ex tent undreamed of not many years ago. Even the doctors, have to some extent, foregone their dol- orus complaints. In spite of using tobacco the Americans seemed to he hardy and energetic. In 1919 tobacco manufacture stood sixteenth among American industries. Last year it had dropped to twenty-first place. Although its in creases in the years had been phenomenal. Evi dently some o f those who smoke, work. OUR NAVAL PLANE Last week Secretary Wilbur laid before Con gress the second largest naval building program in the history o f the nation, li was submitted with the understanding that it “ is not in conflict with the financial program o f the president.” The new construction, asked for within a five year program, hut the building o f which would require eight or nine years, includes 25 light cruisers, 9 destroyer leaders, 32 submarines and 5 aircraft carriers. No major construction is per missible under the Washington treaty and there fore none is asked. t It will be observed that the proposal provides the United States with scouting units which are badly needed. It would enable us to approach British construction of the smaller units and is merely an open declaration by this country that if there is no limitation of armament that the navy of the United States will be the equal o f any in the world. 1927 is a good year: it ends on a pay day. hold in trust manage ami main tain auch properties as may br necessary to give employment to all residents that may seek employ, meat or work: Sec. 2 the State Labor Commis sioner shall be the head of th* Department o f Industry and Com merce. Sec. 3. The electroate may or the Legislature shall enact such laws and provide for such official.- as may he necessary to enforce thr provisions o f this Artiele. The effect o f the adoption of this amendment was to give birth to or create a new Ofegon. Horn ever, he was not only a new born child but fo r the second time, ar when the electorate in 1902 adopt ed the Amendment known as )ir Initiative and Referendum, the new Oregon had a different form from his predecessor. Before its adoption he had a P o litic o -d e m o cratic republican form. Subse quent to its adoption. Oregon had and now has an Industrio-comi mercial, democrato - republic* it form. Politics had been discarded Dropped into hell, from which he or it had come, Industrio-com« mercialism has succeeded him, or it, the gender is immaterial. The parties with a vision and people, Through their collective owner who could see and desired better Oregon wage earners increased ship o f productive and distributive things who had been called ali from 28,800 in 1914 to 59,500 in property, the people owned then commerce through Christian, co- 1925. Their products have more jobs. Profits, dividends or interest the names in the calendar, except than trebled. could not be demanded as a right patriots or Christians were the r-»l to work or as a price o f a job, lovers o f their kind, and o f fdto Reedsport— North jetty o f Um Thus the people through their poli- country. It was, as it often is. the pqua harbor will receive $440,000 tical franchise had through theii other fellow that was the villian. federal fund. own initiation secured ‘ heir indus For many years before the amend trial and commercial franchise. ment there had boen a State Labor State will improve 12 miles of The establishment and growth o* Commissioner. His office was not Frement Highway, near Silver these cities had much * i do with' provided fo r in the Constitution Like. , what followed. By the end o f tho hence; he was a municipal offi first century o f Oregon existence cial connected to the Executive Fossil— Clarno oil test well at as n municipal state many, very Department, his official duti«» tracts widespread interest. many o f such cities were flourish were to assist the Executive to ing in all parts of the state. Port regulate labor and capital, but if Milton— Gargus Logging Co. is land. Salem, Ashland, Medford, he ever did do so we are not aware delivering logs to local box mill. and Klamath Falls were amonjl o f it, but maybe he did. Maybe them. Cities in adjoining state:1 the creation o f the office was in Nyssa— Construction begins on were falling rapidly in line and tended as a check on the preda 25 mile railroad to Awyhee dam. had adopted Charters, the adop tory forces but if it did it likely tion o f which created similar cit kept capital out o f the state to the Oregon banks have on deposit les. 1 injury o f business. Any way Ore $310,654,231, largest sum in As a savior o f society and as * *f°n as 8 'eK8' person Was not ef- state’s history. hope o f civilization the movement | ^ecte<* him or his h* appeared as the only one th.% I e'*her F°ocf or bad. Oregon state highway budget promised surccss. The danger However; now all was different fo r 1928 is $3,898,000 including threatened by,the growth o f col- Transplanting or transfering thl $740.000 for oiling roads. lossal and ever accumlating State Labor Commissioner from • wealth in the hands o f huge pri municipal official to a constiutiR- Salem— Honolulu buyer buys vate corporations was much \n al one i. e. One that is provided $15,000 Marion and Polk county serious for e :ther comfort or safe fo r in the constitution one made » Jerseys fo r export. ty. E fforts it regulation and rc- great difference. The change ef Portland has 10,012 business striant were dismal failures. Such fected Oregon as a corporate mun concerns, gain o f 1693 or 20 per j Corporation« were legal person ( icipality or. legal person for te hi* | that had nt soul. No corporeal good. It is hard at this time to cent since 1923. ! body, that could be made to suf estimate how much. I realize the Being amount is almost incalculable. Junction City— Move made for fer for their iniquities. paved highway through Coburg to incorporeal corporeal punishment Taking his o ffice from the exe could not be administered. TrmJ Eugene. cutive Department and placing him they could be fined fo r violations in the Department o f Industry and Astoria— Tice Lock Washer Co. o f restraining laws and other law* commerce changed him from s will build factory at Port o f Astor- but such fines were post-act li passive official to an active one. cense, subsequently paid for by Sec. 3 of the amendment read*. plucked people. Big business a* “ The Legislature shall enact such Fertilizer factory at Portland represented by private corpora laws and provide such officials a* buys 800 wild horses« at Maupin tions had no fear o f government, may be needed to enforce the adopted the plan. and Gateway. provision o f this Article. This sec The movement to public munici tion was compiled with at the Canyon City telephone service pal initiation in industry and com first session o f the Legislature merce through Christian co-opera following the adoption. The o f rebuilt and modernized. tive industrio-commercial citie* fices o f a County Labor Commis Post O ffice to be established a( met with much opposition hut the sioner and IJibor Commissioirr- | movement grew. Once started o f each Justice o f the Peace Pre- Pistol River. Curry county. I nothing could stop it. cftict was provided for the offices Oregon City— Site bought for In 19 The people by their own o f County Judge and County com rebuilding old Oregon City found I initiative adopted an amendment missioners being abolished an f ry. j to the constitution. The amend* their duties were given to the ' ment provided for a 4th depart County Labor Commissioner ami Salem— Peppermint oil plants I ment in the state constitution. The his assistants, the chairman o f the established here. | department is known as the De» Board o f Precinct Labor Commi*- partment o f Industry and Com -loners who had added duties som# RATS MARCH AS ARMY merre The adoption o f merce. said o f which were to acquire and , amendment and what followed is manage and maintain such prop London.— Driven from their » possibly the cause o f our being erties and conduct such enter- homes by rain and flood, thous j here. It is certain that if it had prises as were necessary to g i' I ands o f rata marched in what not been adopted the late trial, in employment to such London along the Lea Valis/ Road which the most o f us figured. employment within <w seemed military formation out of would not have been. Aa it is fresh *h o werr wl *“ -1- * men in my mind I can repeat it word cincL and b o ;* seeing the rata, armed for word. | <T. ContfWMd) themselves with rifles and shot Sec. <1> reads. There is hereby 1 _ s*;, guns and spent the day hunting crested a Department o f Industry Cottage Grove will vo J rata in the forest, destroying hun- and Commerce the power, and d «. i 0 0 « bonds to e**e»d — Municipal Governments being organized on lines suitable to modern economic conditions were a great blessing to the people liv ing within the city. The refusal o f the peoples to change gosern- ments to meet changed economic conditions had nearly wrecked so "frE OLP RELIABLE- ciety. The World W ar o f nineteen fourteen had been the result of this refusal. Within ten years OREGON IN D U S T R IA L NEWS from the first incorporation of Christian co-operative, Inuustrio- Klamath Falls— Great Northern commercial city more than seventy will have terminals ready for tra f five such cities were '•redited or fic in January. born. Politics was being crowded' out o f organized society. That old Pendleton — Oregon Wool serpant, the devil, the deceiver Growers meet here Jan. 13 fo r an o f the whole world Rev. 12,9 was nual convention. being cast or crowded out. J-J • ** Sunda T. S. H i A t 11 Famous conduct favor us This v sermon Convert* tionally experiem To an famous i mCntion hand jus you will never he opportur pastor o Vancouv Bussey , be prose o f the si Young P. M. A t 7:: vice folb M. M. Bi fornia. There night at Rev. I known f cessful 1 many st these Sp Come n — 1 ____ l -r-i-s I ----- Nev you da 1 prie dept brin non- — ei h om kno' ei Che [*ture not beai tht A Á