The JACKSONVILLE MINER
Friday, August 24, 1934
The Jacksonville Miner
Fuhllalind Evrry Friday ut
JA< KNON VILLE, OREGON
seekers of Paradise have resorted to the
old American stand-by, "there ought to
be a law."
And with everyone having a tax to
grind, there probably will be.
LEONARD N HALL
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The Fable of Tax Reduction
Man always has some ideal, some
Utopia, for which he strives, to little or
no avail. A few centuries ago alchemy—
the making of gold from base metals—
was a dream of the wise. Later, the up­
lift of the world depended on migrating
to the newly found American continent.
And today those who did cross the wat­
ers are seeking another fancy, that of
tax reduction.
The American people, for years with­
out end, have been talking tax reduction
with one hand and signing bond issues
with the other. Every election they have
voted for candidates w'ho promised lower
taxes, and then stood by to watch the
millage mount as an ever increasing lien
against what projierty they own. To the
close observer, and ardent Utopian, it is
positively disgusting the way we talk
about the weather and high taxes, but
never do anything about either one of
them.
As another step toward the goal we
have watched over our shoulders comes
the 20-mill tax limitation bill which will
be voted on this fall. The measure, no
doubt drafted in the sincerest and most
earnest of spirits, seeks to limit by law
the tax on projjerty to 20 mills and no
more, by cracky! It would clip more
than half off the property taxes in most
localities just like that.
Of course, where the remainder of the
tax revenue would come from which our
state government has become accus­
tomed to is a wide open question, for it
is quite unthinkable that legislators and
taxing bodies will ever consider for one
minute living within their reduced in­
come should the measure pass. Only or­
dinary, common people ever try to live
within their means, not great sovereign
states the likes of Oregon.
One school of thought believes the
only way to reduce taxes is to quit talk­
ing about slashing the pesky things and
actually do something about it. Too log­
ical, however, to be without a lot of imp­
ish little complications which will be
pointed out by expert pointer-outers
from now till polls close in November.
Though the only way we can reduce
taxes is to reduce them, the only way
this state can continue to live in a man­
ner to which we taxpayers were never
accustomed is to continue property tax,
until some other method of legal pocket­
picking is put into operation.
The sales tax was recently defeated
by Oregonians probably because, instead
of either raising or lowering taxes, it
merely juggled the burden about a bit.
We Americans are action lovers, and
will tolerate nothing that neither moves
us definitely forward nor backward.
More taxes or less taxes are clear-cut
issues that even the man in the street
can grasp, and the 20-mill tax limitation
is so darned definite in its whack at
property tax that those who like to see
the dollars roll in every tithe-paying
time had better look out.
There is no denying, however, that the
20-mill property limitation is quite
somewhat of a slash. More than half the
present property tax whacked off at one
time hardly could be called looking be­
fore leaping. The idea has to be right,
however, for so many other sure-fire
tax reduction measures have failed that
LEGAL NOTICES^
NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE
By virtue of an execution in
foreclosure duly issued out of and
under the seal of the circuit court
of the state of Oregon, in and for
the county of Jackson, to me di­
rected and dated on the 20th day
of August, 1934, in a certain ac­
tion therein, wherein Jackson
County Building and Ixian Asso­
ciation, an Oregon building and
loan corporation as plaintiff, re-
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<»l••HI I AI. NEWNPAI’ER OF .1 A< KM»> VII.I.E
Entered iih a«con<l*ci*M matter February IV, 1932,
ut the postoffice ut Jacksonville, Oregon, under
the act of March 3, 1X79.
Page 3
Harping on Hitler
Nearly every editorial writer in the
country has had something to say con­
cerning Hitler’s sudden ascention to
power in Germany, and his heavy wield­
ing of the sword. He is quite thoroughly
put on the pan in the American press.
First, The Miner would like to admit
it knows practically nothing of Ger­
many’s problems and why Hitler has be­
haved as the papers say. The average
reader, we believe, knows little more
than what he has learned from stray
bits of news, sketchy and prejudice­
forming, and to that has added his own
personal and quite unauthoritative opin­
ions regarding Germany, Jews, any col­
ored shirt order, and some vague person
named Hitler.
There is one thing certain, however,
and that is that what Hitler is doing in
Germany, although it may affect us in­
directly, is just about none of our busi­
ness. We would resent writers from
across the water having a lot to say
about our president, and applying their
habits of thought and accepted customs
to our way of believing and doing things
to justify their condemnation of Mr.
Roosevelt. It is quite possible we have
very little understanding of what Hit­
ler’s problems are, of his real aims, or of
how situations now developing have to
be handled in Germany.
Jackson county citizens should know,
by now, that even people no farther
away than Portland get some mighty
funny ideas tucked away in their heads
about how we run our political affairs
here from reading newspaper accounts
and harboring uninformed opinions.
There seem to be two or three prob­
lems of state left to solve in this country
and, no doubt, enough German citizens
are worrying about Hitler, one way or
another, to spare us for concentration on
our own troubles. Charity, and quite a
few other things, should begin and stay
at home.
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Notice Is hereby given that, pur- hour of 10:00 o'clock a.m. at the | for the hearing and settlement of
suant to the terms of the said exe­ I court room of the above entitled any objections to said account.
cution, I will on the 22nd day of court at the Jackson county court
MARK BURKHART,
September, 1934, at 10:00 o'clock I house at Medford, Oregon, has
Administrator de bonis non.
am., at the front door of the been fixed as the time and place I (Aug 10 17 24 31)
courthouse in the city of Medford,
in Jackson county, Oregon, offer
for sale and will sell at public
auction for cash to the highest
bidder, to satisfy said judgment,
together with the costs of this
sale, subject to redemption as pro- i
vided by law. all of the right, title
and interest that the said defend­
ant, C. A. Bennett and Maude B.
Bennett, husband and wife, had on
the 22nd day of November, 1927,
or now have in and to the follow­
ing described property, situated in
the county of Jackson, state of
Oregon, to-wit:
Lot four (4) block three (3)
A safe, sane and economical
Walnut Park Addition to the city
administration of state af­
of Medford, Oregon, as the same
fairs in the interests of econ­
is numbered, designated and de­
omy and reduced taxation.
scribed on the official plat there­
Application of the New Deal
of. now of record.
principles to Oregon by an
Dated this 20th day of August.
administration friendly to
1934
and cooperating with Presi­
WALTER J. OLMSCHEID.
dent Roosevelt.
Sheriff of Jackson County, Oregon.
Increased Federal economic
By OLGA E. ANDERSON.
aid to Oregon through sym­
Deputy.
pathetic cooperation with
(Aug 24. 31, Sept 7. 14)
the national administration.
A new “Rooseveltian” deal
In the County Court for Jackson
for Oregon and its people.
County, State of Oregon
Pd. Adv. by Martin Cam­
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES­
paign Comm.
TATE OF GLADYS TREFREN,
DECEASED.
Notice is given that the under­
signed administrator de bonis non
of the above entitled estate has
filed in the above entitled court
and matter his final account of the
administration of said estate and
by order of the above entitled
court September 8, 1934, at the
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Majesty of Justice
It was a year ago last March 10 that
a criminal kidnaped a federal officer in
Bellingham, Washington, chained him
to a tree near Yreka, and there shot
down and killed Officer Kent and Lester
Quigley when the former attempted to
arrest him after a chase through town.
The murderer was sentenced many
months ago to die, but just a few days
ago, as another noble gesture of justice,
he was granted another 50 days of legal
red tape.
It must be disheartening to those who
knew the slain men, and to the officers
and jurists who attempted to administer
justice to the criminal who, to save his
own skin, shot two and kidnaped another
with utter abandon, but who is taking
advantage of every possible legal tech­
nicality to prolong his own life.
It is little wonder we often see offi­
cers who think "what’s the use” when
making of themselves a target for some
hoodlum. The law—the same law they’re
attempting to enforce—will shield the
murderer with iron walls and still more
secure technicalities while the drop of a
hat, or the mere pressure of a finger
against a trigger will settle once and
for all the fate of a defender of that law
who deserves to live.
It is such ridiculous delays and dis­
couraging weight of the wheels of jus­
tice that incubate crime and give too
much advantage to the fellow it should
be used against.
It seems, sometimes, that courts make
much more fuss about the disposition of
a worthless killer’s life than is ever
made over a good life murdered.
covered judgment against C. A
Bennett and Maude B. Bennett,
husband and wife, the defendants,
for the sum of $800.00 less the
sum of $193 32 paid on stock, less
the sum of $42.89 accrued earn­
ings on said stock, being the sum
of $563.79 plus interest on $800 00
from the 31st day of October, 1932,
to the 9th day of January, 1934,
at the rate of 10% per annum,
being the sum of $94.37, plus in­
terest on $563.79 from the 9th day
of January, 1934, to the date here­
of at 10% per annum, being the
sum of $34.42, plus $15.00 for in­
surance premium paid by plaintiff,
plus $5.00 for continuation of ab­
stract of title, plus interest on said
judgment at 10% per annum from
date of decree with costs and dis­
bursements taxed at forty-five and
80/100 ($45 80) dollars, and the
further sum of seventy-five and
no/100 ($75.00) dollars, as attor­
ney's fees, which judgment was
enrolled and docketed in the
clerk’s office of said court in said
county on the 18th day of August,
1934.
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