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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER. OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER f!' page ;:vs:' D CROSS PUTS up mm Year Budget Stresses Re lief and Service at Home and Overseas. t Millions for Veteran Aid Over $J,OO0,O Allotted to the Dis abled .Foreign Work Leant aa. Washington. Expenditure! total Ing $9,739372.47 for carrying through iU program of services and relief during the fiscal year in the United States and overseaa are authorised in the budget of th American Red Croat effective July 1, 1922. Thli total it $2,735.B75 lets than the expenditures for the litt fiscal year, when dis bursements reached $12,475,847.69, it ia announced at National Headquar ters in statement emphasizing the necessity of continued support of the organization by enrollment during the annual Roll Call, November 11 -November 30 incluaire. This total for the budget is exclusive of the large financial operations of the 3,300 ac tive Red Cross Chapters, which, it ia estimated, will mora than double the total . War Veterana Have Flrat Call First call on Red Cross fundi ia for the disabled ex-service men, of whom 27,487 were receiving treatment from the Government on June 1 last Thit work for veterana and their families in a wide variety of service that the Government li not authorized to ren der and for which it hat neither funds nor facilities hat the call on 3,030,692.90 during the current year, or about 1366,000 more than waa ex pended last year for soldier service. Adding the fundi disbursed in this humanitarian work of physical recon ttitution following the World War by the Chapter! throughout the country will approximate a total for the cur rent year approaching 110,000,000. Thit work, in the opinion of the Sur geon General's office, will not reach itt peak before 1926. Through iti Chapters the American Red Cross it equipped to find the in dividual ex-service man, help him in hit problems and difficulties, provide immediately for his necessities, and open the way for him to the Govern ment compensation and aid to which he is entitled. The extension of thit work to the families of tuch men proves to them that the Red Cross hat lost none of its sympathy nor will to service manifested in wartime. Similarly the service goes out to the men still in the Army and Navy, 11, 087 of whom were under treatment In Government hospitals on June 1, 1022. Greater Domestic Program This year after five yeart of con ttructive effort during the war and after the armistice brings with it a greater responsibility for domestic service to the American Red Cross. The budget for foreign operations, however, totals $3,404,000, but of this imount $1,834,000 ii for medical re lief and hospital auppliei for Russia, which Is a part of the gift made by the American Red Cross in 1921 to the Russian famine relief work of the American Relief Administration pro gram. The child health service in Eu rope continues, moreover, and $664, 000 is appropriated for this work un dertaken in 1920. Other Items in the stringently diminished foreign pro gram include $2iM,000 to support the League of Ked Cross Societies, $22. 000 for nurses' training schools insti tuted by the Red Cross abroad, and $600,000 for liquidation of the general Ked Cross foreign relief program. Prepared for Emergenciea For disaster relief the Red Cross has set aside $750,000, and for emer gencies in Chapter work $500,000 to be available for domestic, insular and foreign demands This it more than $396,000 above last year's expendi turea. For service and assistance to the 3300 Chapters and their branches $1,293,000 it provided by the National organization. Other budget items of importance In the domestic program include $200,000 for assistance to other or ganizationt and educational institU' tions for training Red Cross nurses and workers; $190,000 for Roll Call assistance furnished to Chapters: $100,000 for unforseen contingencies. Of the total budget lest than $500, 000 ia allottted for management in the National organization No cash esti male, of course, ia possible to weigh tno value of the service by volunteers in the Chapters. , Democratic Nominee la Alleged to Have Evaded Law In Se curing Loans. By C. E. INGALLS Mr Pierce, has been weeping copious tears over the situation of the farm er for many years without offering any remedy for conditions that tend to create the difficulty from which he suffers, but, on the other hand, he has had more to do with increasing taxes by his legislative votes and by the introduction of foolish bills than probably any other man in Oregon. Among the things that Mr. Pierce has prated about to farmer audiences is the difficulty that the farmer has had and still has in obtaining money cheaply enough and for sufficient length of time to enable him to con duct the ordinary transactions of his business affairs. One of the funds which hat been created for the farm ers of Oregon, from which they might obtain money at a lower rate of in terest, is the irreducible school fund. We have heard a great deal about the sac redness of this fund both from Mr. Pierce and from tome of hit Democratic allies. Mr. Pierce hat been very fond of this fund in the past much fonder than even his earnest speeches in behalf of cheap er money for the farmer would in dicate Let us illustrate Mr. Pierce's deep affection and abiding love for thii lource of cheap money The creator! of the irreducible school fund wished to provide loans for small farmers on the theory that the larger farmers such as Mr. Pierce is (the assessed value of his property being $253,000.00)- are able to take care of themselves. They passed statutory enactment to the ef fect that no one individual could bor row from this fund an amount great er than $5,000 j nor could he get hit loan for a longer period than ten yeara, and he should be permitted to borrow it at the low rate of 6 per cent According to the records of Union County (Book 36 of Deeds, page 5211, Walter M. Pierce aold to Charles M. Pierce, his brother, one of his tracts land, for the turn of $15,600.00. This transaction occurred on November Kth. l'.'"l. Seven days later, Charles M. Tierce borrowed $5,000,110, the limit that he could pet from the school fund, from the Slate Land Board. Seven days after the money was borrowed on this farm, Charles Pierce sold it back again to his brother Wal ter, for a connideration of $15,600.00 the exact amount that he paid for it and the record states that Walter M. Pierce assumes and agrees to pay the mortgage. iovemoer 18, 1903 on Hie tame day on which Walter sold property to his brother Charles he also sold an other farm to his lister, Minnie Pierce. For this farm he received $16,600.00. On the same day that Brother Charles borrowed $5,000.00 from the State Land Board, Sister Minnie alao borrowed $5,000.00 from the State Board the acknowledgment of this transaction being taken by Walter M. Pierce, himself, at Notary Public in Union County. For tome reason or other, Minnie B. Pierce did not like the farm the had bought from Walter, any more than Brother Charles liked hit farm, for on December 12 (19 dayt after she bad given the mortgage), the told the farm back to Walter for $16,- 600.00, the exact sum that she paid for it, Walter M. Pierce again kindly assuming and agreeing to pay the mortgage. November 16th, 1903, teems to have been a very busy day for "Wal ter M."; for, in addition to the farms that he sold to his brother Charles and his sister Minnie, he alio told, on the same day, another farm to hit brother George, for the consideration of $15,600.00. By a strange coincidence, George also had to borrow some money on hit newly-purchased farm and, on Novem ber 23, 1903 the tame day that hit brother Charles borrowed $5,000.00 from the State Land Board brother George also borrows $5,000.00 from the State Land Board. Evidently brother George didn't like hit bargain any better than the other relatives for, a few days later to wit: December 16th, 1903, he sold the farm back to Walter for $15,600.00, the same amount that he paid for it, Walter again assuming the $5,000.00 mortgage. This sum seemi to be a favorite in the Pierce family for it ii the same amount that Brother Chat, had paid for his farm, on th lame dRy. Evidently Walter did not care to show any partiality between his two brothers. It may not be of any tenfit to the account of thit trtiM action, but nevertheless it should be noted that these considerations, re ceived by Walter for the tale of these farms to his relatives, is slightly over three times the $5,000.00 mortgage. The State Law requires that the State Land Board can make no loana from the Irreducible School Fund for more than one-third the value of the prop erty involved, but that Walter should always sell for thrice the limit he could borrow, may be a mere inci dent. November 16, 1903, waa apparently a remarkable day in Walter's Real Estate career for, in addition to the three farms above mentioned, which he aold that day to hit brother! and sister, he also sold a farm to Thomas J Tweedy, a near friend of his, for the flat consideration of $16,000.00. It seems too strange to be true, but Thomas Tweedy, on November 23rd the same day that other mprtgagea were made to the State Land Board, also borrows $5,000.00 of the sacred irreducible school fund, and, to make the coincidence still more remarkable, on December 12th, he sold the place back to Walter M. Pierce for $16,000 the exact amount he paid for it the affable Mr. Pierce agreeing to as sume and to pay the $5,000.00 mort gage. Hut this does not account for all Taxes and the Governor When a candidate for the high office of governor bases his candidacy on certain claimi and promise! as to what he will do if elected, the public is entitled to have his claims analyzed and examined. In this campaign, Writer Pierce ha gone about the country meJo-dramatically tearing tax. billi in two by way of illustrating what he will do to taxes U elected. The voter, then, should analyze the tax mat ter to the extent of becoming informed as to juit what part the governor play in imposing or reducing taxes. In the first place, the voter should know that the total levy In Oregon for 1929 is $40,473,906. This It a reduction of over $1,500,000 from last year, to that it will be seen the high cost of government following the war it already reced ing. Of this 19S8 levy of 40 million, over Jl mil lion was for county, city and school district purposes, over which the governor could have no possible control whatever. Of the remaining 9 million for state purposes, only i million are taxes over which the legis lature has any discretion, and of this amount,' only 2's million are for the actual expenses of state government and might, therefore, in even the remotest degree, be charged to the methods employed by the governor in administering the state's affairs. In passing, it should be noted that this state levy is an increase of 41 per cent, since 1916, and not several hundred per cent, as stated on various occasions by the democratic candidate. It should also be noted that less than half of this 41 per cent occurred during Mr. Olcott't administration. This ability to keep down the cost of the state government to so small an increase, when living expenses in the ordinary home in the same period increased over 100 per cent, it most creditable showing. MR. PIERCE'S TAX. RECORD It is proper at this point to examine Mr. Pierce't own record, on taxes and tee if past actions tt a legislator square with his words. Of the $0,37689 of state taxes for 192, which Include the millage taxes, MR. PIERCE SPECIFICALLY . HAS APPROVED OF $8,864,039, or 99 per cent He had no chance at most of the other I per cent Of the 1989 state taxes, Pierce Introduced bills accounting for $1,429,189, or IS per cent. In addition to this, he voted for tax billi introduced by othere to the amount of $6,114,- 109, and he has given his public approval on numberless occasions of measures passed since he was returned from the legislature causing taxes amounting to $1,020,804, making a total of state taxes approved by Pierce'of $8,564,038, or 92 per cent of the total 1922. There is no telling how much of the remainder he might have approved if he had had a chance, and it may be significant that the state taxes have decreased over 1 1 per cent since Mr. Pierce was retired from the State Senate. Mr. Pierce has always been a consistent tax booster. He voted against only three per cent of all the appropriations of the 1919 session of the legislature and voted for all the appropria tions of the 1920 special session. In 1917 Mr. Pierce Introduced a bill to exempt money, notes, mortgages and accounts from taxation. Yet he poses as being anxious to take the burden off real estate I He voted for submission of $400,000 bond issue to build a new penitentiary. Mr. Olcott, at no TAX expense and with prison labor, has fixed up the old penitentiary in excellent shape for another 25 years. Mr. Pierce voted against accepting road ma chinery from the government. That machinery now amounts in value to $1,800,000. GOVERNOR OLCOTT'S RECORD The above are but a few of the extravagances of Pierce. Mr. Olcott, on the other hand, has conducted the business of the state in an eco nomical, sane and business-like manner. He has saved the state thousands of dollars because of his level-headedness and his intimate knowl edge of state affairs. He built a new Boys' Industrial School Building by diversion of a millage fund, and therefore, without a single cent additional tax. He has insisted upon devel opment of the various state farms connected with the state institutions until the present year shows the unprecedented income from this source of $491,511. He is no talker, no politi cian, no idle promiser and is not seeking re-election under false pretenses nor catering to preju dice, but is going to the people on his own splendid record, confident that if he can but get that record and Mr. Pierce's record before the voters of Oregon that he will be vindicated on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 7th. Vote for Olcott for GOVERNOR REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE WALTER L. TOOZE, Chairman. C. E. INGALLS, Secretary. I Mr, Pierce's transactions on that buy i ,dy. Evidently, they were having a sell-your-farm day on November 16th, in Union County, for Walter on that day sells to one George W. Tate, a business associate, another of hi numerous Union County farms, re ceiving for this one $17,200.00. This amount received for this place would indicate that Waiter drove a harder bargain with his business associates than he did with his relatives. But, if November 16th wat "sell- your-farm-day" in Union eounty, Nov. ember 23rd was also "mortgage-your farm-day" for the State Land Board. For the records show that George W. Tate, on that day, borrowed $5,000.00 from the State Land Board, the mort gage note being acknowledged in stat utory form before Walter M. Pierce himself, as Notary Public for Union County. How the minds of the purchasers of these various tract! ran "willingly along together, ii indicated by the fact that Hr. Tate, on November 30th, seven days after he made his real es tate deal, sold his newly-purchased place back to Walter M. Pirce, for $17,200.00 the same amount he had paid for It, Hr. Piere again kindly agreeing to assume and pay the mort- caga. In spite of these large transaction! in Real Estate that occurred at that time, it will be noted that none of the parties to these transaction! made any money off each other all of them reselling the farms bought from Wal ter back to him, for the tame prices they paid for them. Evidently Walter did not propose to be outdone by those to whom he had sold hit property for, on Novem ber 23rd, the same day that the others borrowed money from the State Land Board, Book 29 of Mortgagei for Un ion County, thowt that the future non-partisan candidate of the Demo cratic Party for Governor, alao bor rowed $5,000.00 from the State Land Board, and, having assumed the mort gages of the other five farms which he had sold to hit relatives and friends, Mr. Pierce now had $30,000, 00 of the State's Sacred Irreducible School Fund for which he was paying interest at the insignificant rate of 8 per cent. There were other farmers, how ever, in Eastern Oregon who were not to fortunate at to tecure even $5,000,- 00 or smaller turns, from the State Land Board, or any other Board, at 6 per cent; but the records of that section show that loana were being made extensively at that time, at rates of interest carrying from 8 to 10 per cent In fact, the mortgage records show that John M. Lightfoot ond wife, on the 9th day of November that tame year, borrowed from Walter M. Pierce, the rum of $750.00 for a period of five years, at 8 per cent interest, giving a mortgage on their farm therefor. Hundreds of other mortgage records ihow that no money was being loaned in Walter's lection of the country at that time for lets than eight per cent. The state law requires that money borrowed from the sacred irreducible school fund must not be held for more than a ten-year period. The rcordt show, however, that all of the six mortgages, held by Walter M. Pierce, were not paid until September 1, 1915. In other words, because their relatives unloaded their mortgages on him Walter had $30,000.00 of the state's irreducible School Fund when he was entitled to only $5,000.00 for not more than ten years. Other farmers, in Mr. Pierce's section of the country, and other parts of Oregon, were making application! for loana to the State School Fund, and were un able to secure money because of the fact that the available money in the fund was all loaned out The records in Umatilla County show that, during this period, Eastern Oregon farmers, however, were not allowed to go without money entirely for Walter, himself, was. accomo dating a great many of them, with sums carrying up to twenty thousand dollars and that at rates of interest running for from 8 to 10 per cent. For example, on May 27, 1905, Mary E. Cooley mortgaged 1,120 acres of land to Walter in the sum of $20,000.- 00 for 8 per cent On November 2nd, the same month in which Walter conducted his nu merous deala in real estate, he loaned to 1. S. Shuterneal another sum of money, on a farm mortgage, at 10 per cent. In fact, there are so many rec ords of this kind, showing Walter's evident frantic endeavor to accomo date his neighbors at 10 per cent that, like the articles of the auction bill, thoy are "too numerous to mention." There are those tools of "the in terest" who have the temerity to say that Mr. Pierce is a lawyer and there fore not really the friend of the farm er but that he is merely pretending to be a friend in order to get the far mers' vote. Those who know point to his record in the Senate as evi dence that he has been the chief tax booster in the State of Oregon. But these unfriendly souls do not know whereof they speak for the above transactions in real estate and mort gages show, beyond a doubt, that Walter is a real honest-td-God-fnend of the farmer and that that farmer is Walter Mr. Pierce of Union County. OFFICIAL BALLOT FOR. .PRECINCT, MOR ROW COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 7, 1922. Mark X Between the Number and Name of Each Candidate or Answer Voted For UNITED STATES FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, SECOND DISTRICT... Raker, Crook, Des chutes, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Hood River, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, Malheur, Mor row, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wasco and Wheeler Counties. Vote for One 12 JAMES HARVEY GRAHAM, of Baker County. Democratic 13 N. J. S1NNOTT, of Wasco County Republican STATE FOR GOVERNOR. Vote for One 14 BEN W. OLCOTT, of Marion County Republican 15 WALTER M. PIERCE, of Union County Democratic FOR STATE TREASURER Vote for One 16 Q. P. HOFF, of Multnomah County Republican 17 F. L. TQU VELLE, of Jackson County Democratic Red Cross Roll Call Heard World Around The Annual Roll Call of the Amer ican Red Cross for registration of the membership for 1923 will begin on Armistice Day, November 11, and close on Thanksgiving Day, November 30. The ground work for this stu pendous task of re-enrolling the mem bership throughout the world has been laid in a plan for the first com plete and comprehensive system of registration of the Red Cross mem bership in all its 3,300 active Chap ters at home and abroad. An important feature of the round- the-world Roll Call campaign will be a universal effort to re-enlist the ser vices of war-time Red Cross workers in the peace program by their partici pation in the Roll Call. In this way the vast army of volunteers will once more affiliate with the work of the Red Cross in its manifold phases. Co operation also has been assured by Government and private maritime in terests in a deep-sea Roll Call that is designed to reach every member or potential member in every part of the world who may be en voyage or tem porarily in any port. Thousands of Chapters will adopt the home canvass plan of enrollment which originated in Pittsburgh, where last year it resulted in a membership increase of 50 per cent. All records in this year's campaign will be kept on standard size cards to be filed by each chapter for future use. Apples I am offering Spltzenbergs $1.00 a box, f.o.b. Hood River,' terms, cash with order. Sent by freight un less otherwise stated. Parcel post is 64 cents to Heppner. Orders received before Saturdays, shipped the follow ing Monday. B. L. Clark, R. 1, Box FOR JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT. Vote for Three 18 GEO. H. BURNETT, of Marion County ' Republican-Democratic 19 JOHN McCOURT, of Multnomah County Republican-Democratic 20 JOHN L. RAND, of Baker County Republican-Democratic FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC IN STRUCTION. Vote for One 21 J. A. CHURCHILL, of Baker County Republican-Democratic 22 S. S. GEORGE, of Lane County Independent FOR COMMISSIONER OF THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS AND INSPEC TOR OF FACTORIES AND WORK SHOPS. Vote for One 23 C. H. GRAM, of Multnomah County Republican-Democratic 24 B. H. HANSEN, of Multnomah County Independent FOR COMMISSIONER OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF OREGON. Vote for One 25 THOMAS K. CAMPBELL, of Multnomah County Republican 26 GUS. E. ERICKSEN, of Multnomah County Independent 27 T. M. KERRIGAN, of Multnomah County DISTRICT FOR SENATOR, NINETEENTH SENA TORIAL DISTRICT. Morrow, Umatilla and Union Counties. Vote for One 28 COLON R. EBERHARD, of Union County Republican 29 H. J. TAYLOR, of Umatilla County Democratic FOR REPRESENTATIVE, TWENTY-SECOND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Morrow and Umatilla Counties. Vote for One 30 JAMES T. L1EUALLEN, of Umatilla County Democratic 3 1 ALFRED J. SMITH, of Umatilla County Republican COUNTY FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. Vote for One 32 RALPH L. BENGE Democratic 33 G. A. BUEAKMAN Republican FOR COUNTY TREASURER. Vote for One 34 LEON W. BR1GGS Republican FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR. Vote for One 35 JESSE J. WELLS Republican-Democratic FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR. Vote for One 36 JOS. W. K1RSCHNF.R Republican FOR CONSTABLE. Vote for One FOR JUSTICE OF PEACE. Vote for One Referred to the People by the Legislative Assembly Submitted by the Legislature AMENDMENT PERMITT ING LINN COUNTY TAX LEVY TO PAY OUT STANDING WARRANTS Purpose: To amend sec tion 10 of article XI of the constitution of the state of Oregon so as to require the annual levy of a tax of two mills on the dollar on all taxable property of Linn County, Oregon, until all warrant of said coun ty outstanding December 31, 1921, are paid with legal interest and permitting such levy to be made in excess of the limitations fixed by aaid section 10 of article XI Vote YES or NO 300 Yes. 301 No. Submitted by the Legislature AMENDMENT PERMITT ING LINN AND BENTON COUNTIES TO PAY OUT STANDING WARRANTS Purpose: To amend sec tion 10 of article XI of the constitution of the state of Oregon, so as to require the annual levy of a tax of two mills on the dollar on all taxable property of Linn County, Oregon, until auch time a all warrants of said county outstanding December 31, 1921, are paid with legal interest and to permit an issue of bonds by Benton county when authorized by a ma jority vote of the people of aaid county voting there on, in the amount of said county's warrants out standing December 31, 1921, for the payment of which no funds were then available. Vote YES or NO 302 Yes. 303 No. Proposed by Initiative Petition Initiated by the Oregon Single Tax League: Arthur Brock, President, 666 Harold Avenue, Portland, Ore gon; Alfred D. Cridge, Vice President, 954 East 22nd Street North, Portland, Oregon; Christina H. Mock, Secretary, 316 Stock Exchange Building, Portland, Oregon (residence address, Umatilla, Oregon); and J. S. Hermann, Manager, 316 Stock Exchange Build ing, Portland, Oregon SINGLE TAX AMENDMENT Purpose: To amend section 1 of article IX of the constitution of the state of Oregon to read as fol lows: From July 1, 1923, to and including July 1, 1927, all revenue for maintenance of state, county, municipal and district government shall be raised by a tax on land irrespective of improvements there in or thereon, and thereafter the full rental value of land, irrespective of improvements, shall be taken in lieu of all other taxes for the maintenance of gov ernment, and for such other purposes as the people may direct. Vote YES or NO 304 Yes. 305 No. Initiated by the Atlantic-Pacific Highway and Electrical Exposition: Franklin T. Griffith, 679 Elliott Avenue, Portland, Oregon; Geo. L. Baker, 945 East 28th Street, Portland, Oregon; Emery Olmstead, 635 Tilla mook Street, Portland, Oregon; Wm.' Hanley, Burns, Oregon; A. H. Lea, 550 Thompson Street, Portland, Oregon; J. F. Daly, 625 Halsey Street, Portland, Ore gon; Guy W. Talbot, 252 King Street, Portland, Ore , gon; W. W. Harrah, 616 Tustin Street, Pendleton, Oregon; F. G. Deckebach, 940 D Street, Salem, Ore gon, constituting the Managing Committee 1925 EXPOSITION TAX AMENDMENT Purpose: To authonie the city of Portland to raise (3,000,000 by levying and collecting a special tax of $1,000,000 each year for three years beginning hot later than 1924, and expend the same as authorized by the voters of said city at any general or special election, to pay the expense of holding an exposition in the year 1925 or as soon as possible thereafter to advertise the re sources, products, commerce, industries and general advantages of the state of Oregon and city of Port land, and validating any preceding or concurrent city legislation carrying same into effect Vote YES or NO 308 Yes. 309 No. Initiated by State Taxpayers League of Oregon: W. J. Fullerton, Warrea. Oregon; Wm. Hanley, Burns, Ore gon; C E. Ingalls, Corvallis, Oregon; E. C. Judd, Astoria, Oregon; H. L. Kuhl, Canyon City, Oregon; A. M. LaFollett, Salem, Oregon; E. W. McComaa, Pendleton, Oregon; Clyde M. McKay, Bend, Oregon; George Miller, La Grande. Oregon; B. W. Sleeman, Portland, Oregon; H. C. Stearns, Yoncalla, Oregon; L U. Temple, Pendleton, Oregon; Chas. H. Wieder, Al bany, Oregon, Legislative Committee INCOME TAX ' AMENDMENT Purpose: To require that one-half of the tax levy for state expenses each year be levied on net incomes of natural persons and corporations beginning with 1924, the annual rate of income tax to be fixed by dividing the amount of tax required by the total net amount of all incomes subject to such tax; providing personal exemptions of from (800 to $1,000 for unmarried persons and from $1,000 to $1,500 for married persons and $200 additional for each dependent, also life insurance, gifts, bequests, devises and inheritances, and charitable corporations and corporations exempted by United States income tax law. Vote YES or NO 310 Yes. 311 No. Initiated by Ira. B. Sturges, Baker, Oregon; Dr. Robert C. Ellsworth, Pendleton, Oregon; Harold Baldwin, Prine ville, Oregon; W. B. Daggett, Redmond, Oregon; Lewis H. Irving, Madras, Oregon; Collin E. Davis, The Dalles, Oregon; Leslie G. Johnson, Marshfield, Ore gon; C. A. Swope, Grants Pass, Oregon; W. F. Harris, Roseburg, Oregon; John R. Penland, Albany, Oregon; J. R. Jeffery, Seaside, Oregon; F. C. Holibaugh, St. Helens, Oregon; O. O. Hodson, McMinnriile. Oregon; E. L. Johnson, Hillsboro, Oregon COMPULSORY EDUCATION BILL Purpose: Requiring any parent, guardian or other person having control, charge or custody of a child over eight and under sixteen years of age. from and after September 1, 1926, to send such child to a public school during the entire school year, excepting: (a) children physically un able; (b) children who have completed the eighth grade; (c) children between the ages of eitrht and ten living more than one and one-half miles, and children over ten years of age living more than three miles from a public school, except when transporta tion is furnished; (dl children taught by parent or private teacher. Vote YES or NO 314- Yes. 315 No. Local Initiative Petition Initiated by C. C. Calkins, County Airent, et al MORROW COUNTY MEASURE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF PREDATORY ANIMALS AND RODENTS Purpose : To levy a tax of live-tenths of a mill on all taxable property of Morrow County and to provide for the expenditure of money derived therefrom under the direction of the county court, in co-operation with the Federal Government and farmers and stockmen of aaid county in the destruction of predatory ani mals and rodents. Vote YES or NO 318 Yes. 319 No.. I, Hood River, Oregon,