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GOVERNOR MEIER AND
TAX REDUCTION PLAN.
JUST what sort of a law or a plan
J would result from a specially
called session of the Oregon legisla
ture to each and every citizen is yet
a mystery. It is quite probable that
Governor Meier has sold himself
upon the Indiana plan, and it is fur
ther possible that he may have
some additions or subtractions to
make. To be sure he has given the
subject considerable thought and
has formulated in his mind what
he thinks will be good for Oregon.
He is probably sincere in his ef
forts to reduce taxes, but there are
a great many people who are not
yet convinced that the governor's
plan is the road to salvation.
What is good for Indiana may not
be good for Oregon. In fact, there
are people coming out of Indiana
who say the Indiana tax law is not
what it is cracked up to be and
who openly charge that it is the
result of the urgent activities of
utilities and other interests seeking
self protection above the general
public good. These are questions
that this paper is not prepared to
take a positive stand upon, but we
do agree with the governor when
he told Senator Bennett of Multno
mah county recently in reply to
Bennett's demand for a special ses
sion to consider his paper money
gag for the relief of the unemploy
ed, that once every two years is
often enough for the legislature to
meet
We do not like special sessions of
any kind. They are generally an
extra burden upon the taxpayers,
called to lock the stable door after
the "horse has been stolen." So it
is In regard to the present situation.
It is a bit late now to lock the sta
ble door. The time to have saved
the horse was before he was re
moved from his stall and that was
when Oregon was enjoying pros
perous times. We all went on a
spending spree. There were many
things we had not had and when
conditions warranted an extension
of our credit we went in debt These
debts must be paid and there is
only one way to pay them and that
is through taxation that is the
government's way of financing.
This paper is in favor of a re
trenchment policy. It realizes that
there must be a saving in govern
mental business as well as in pri
vate business, but will a hastily
considered law or plan passed by a
legislature composed of individuals
who have politics more in mind
than anything else, be the cure-all?
We doubt it
Already the county courts of the
state are doing their level best to
hold down expenses. These bodies
actually have charge and the direc
tion over very small amounts of tax
funds. The state has already desig
nated where much of the tax money
must go. The salary roll is not
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CHRISTIANITY SPBEADINO
BY PERSECUTION.
Acts 7:59-8:4; 11:19-21
Rev. Samuel D. Price, D. D.
Progrses usually comes in con
nection with very hard experiences.
It has been so in the extension of
the blessings of Christianity. The
stand-patters In the old Jerusalem
church certainly made It hard for
those who were trying to follow
Christ's teachings. Persecution was
resorted to in order to stay the pro
gress of these humanitarian teach
ings which claimed the crucified
and rsicn Lord as their Teacher.
Special hatred centered upon one
of the seven deacons, by the name
of Stephen.
Again the Sanhedrin was sum
moned and Stephen was tried.
When called upon to make his de
fense the opportunity was used to
present a formal statement that re
viewed the leading facts in the min
istry of Jesus Christ and how He
had been treated by this same Coun
cil. In bold language Stephen charg
ed the Sanhedrin with the killing
of Jesus. Soon sentence of death
was given against him, also in the
hope that the Cause could be stop
ped by destroying Its able propon
ents. Death was accomplished by ston
ing. During the slaying Stephen,
like his Lord, prayed his execution
era might be forgiven. A profound
Impression was made by all these
acts on a young man named Saul,
who as a member of the Sanhedrin
had helped in the sentence and fur
ther assisted rb caretaker of the
garments that were laid at his feet
by those who did the killing.
Such persecution forced many
Christians to leave Jerusalem, and
thus the leaven of Christianity was
extended over a large area and "a
great number turned to the Lord."
fixed by the county courts and after
all there is only the miscellaneous
expenses which are absolutely the
business of the different courts.
Taxes can be reduced at the ex-
pense of the county market road
system; through reducing salaries
in the schools and eliminating es
tablished branches of learning, but
if taxes are to be reduced material
ly there will have to be a number
of state laws repealed. We are won
dering if the people really want to
sacrifice institutions and services
they have been enjoying these
many, many years past It is up
to the people to decide and we be
lieve that the people should have
a voice in matters so vital to the
life and liberty of the citizenship.
A Mr. Robert Hougham, a school
superintendent from Indiana, in
Eugene recently, said he was sur
prised that Oregon was even con
sidering the Indiana plan. He de
clared that it was a scheme origin
ally adopted by the big corpora
tions who wanted to keep down
their taxes by restricting local im
provements such as roads, schools
and the like. He said that undoubt
edly the Indiana tax commission
had at times saved money, but there
had been a great many cases where
interference has done serious harm
because the men who come down
from the state capital to hold hear
ings on local budgets simply do not
know local conditions.
The Condon Globe-Times tells us
that it is difficult to believe that any
new plan will be needed soon in
Gilliam county for the county com
missioners there were reflecting the
desire of the people of the county
and had been practicing economy.
It holds that the budget boards
have already had their ears to the
ground and that they have been ex
tremely wary about taking on any
new items of expense. The story
of Gilliam county is the story of
Morrow county. '
It may be that the Indiana law
is one that should be adopted in
Oregon, but we do not believe it is
of such urgent nature that a spe
cial session of the legislature is
necessary. Unemployment is on a
par with tax reduction and the la
bor leaders have ground for their
contentions. We have noticed that
when people are employed, making
a good living, they seldom have any
complaint against the payment of
their pro rata part in maintaining
or their government
We believe that a special session
is ill advised. Let the people have
all the facts and then let the peo
ple legislate upon this all important
question. It is too big a proposition
for the present Oregon legislature
even though the governor may
think he knows all there is to be
known about it.
COUNTRY TOWN BELONGS
TO THE FARMER.
TT is claimed that a city is known
1 by the advertising columns of its
newspapers. Industrialists looking
for a new location will invariably
study the newspapers of prospect
ive cities. They want to know if
they move to a city if they will be
surrounded by live, wide-awake
merchants; that the new neighbors
have civic pride and community
loyalty and these attributes are gen
erally manifested through the ad
vertising columns of the local press.
A dead newspaper is always indic
ative of a dead town, yet in some
communities, in fact in most com
munities, the local newspaper is far
more progressive than is really jus
tified. Smart and intelligent busi
ness men will tell you this.
Great cities are merely a group
of small communities. In a success
ful and growing city one will find
these small groups bursting with
sectional pride and city-wide loyal
ty. They know that loyalty to their
particclar section means loyalty and
progress to their city, hence sec
tional development leagues, better
government clubs and numerous so
cieties formed for the promotion of
their particular section and their
city as a whole.
So the small town, the country
town, if you please, is the property
first of those directly dependent up
on it. The Times, Monticello, Min
nesota, in a recent issue has put the
claims of the small town forward in
a most logical and convincing way.
It is reproduced here and we com
mend it to every citizen of Morrow
county. Here it is:
The small town belongs to the
farmer. It exists mainly, if not en
tirely to serve him. It is the place
he goes for a loaf of bread or a loan
at the bank. It is there, usually,
that he attends a lodge meeting or
a chicken pie supper. If the far
mer never wanted a loaf of bread
or a chicken pie supper there would
not be any town. There might be a
filling station and a hot dog stand
for the convenience of travelers,
but it would not be a town. Time
was, in the days of mud roads and
plow-horse travel that we were
more or less bound to the small
village nearby. Now we can take
it or leave it. If we choose, we can
truck our grain and stock to a city,
and we can go to the city for our
clothes, food and entertainment. We
hold the power fo life and death
over the little local town. If we
neglect it it must surely starve to
death, for it has no means of self
support. A few small towns have
so died, but that most of them re
main show we still want them. We
may pretend to think lightly of that
town but still we want a location
for our churches, lodges and high
schools. We still want a place close
at hand where we can find a doc
tor, druggist, a veterinarian, a ball
of twine or a plowshare. The sort
of merchants we find in our town
are the sort we support with our
patronage. If we make a policy of
dealing orily with the man who car
ries a goodly assortment of depend
able articles he will stay in business
and prosper, and as he prospers he
will naturally offer better assort
ments and better service. So with
the kind of lawyers, of doctors and
dentists. In a city farmers may not
have much influence on the char
acter of business and professional
men, but in the little town patron
age is the confronting Influence, j
The little town is more than a con-
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venience for buying every-day sup
plies. It is more than a first-aid
station in case of a broken leg or
a broken binder. It is the commun
ity center where social life of the
farm people finds its most natural
and most potent expression. The
casual contacts of people mingling
with one another as they go about
their errands are what bind a com
munity with a character all its own.
Quite apart from any formal organ
ization, the community spirit that
centers in the farmer's town is the
fundamental unit in agricultural
life of our country. Our little town
represents us as do our red barns
and tall silos. It is our responsibil
ity and our opportunity. We can se
lect its business and professional
people almost as we cull our flocks
and herds, retaining those we want
and eliminating those who do not
measure up to our standards. We
can influence its citizenship by
choosing the doorways we enter
and the counters over which we buy
our goods. The little town is ours
and it will be what we make it.
Lawyer: And what was the de
fendant doing meanwhile?
Witness: He was telling me a
funny story.
Lawyer: Remember, sir, you are
under oath.
Witness: Well, anyway, he was
telling me a story.
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JOHN JOSEPH GAINESM.D.
Blood Imbalance
Nothing should be appreciated
more than perfect circulation of the
blood in the body; and, very many
times we, physicians, meet with var
iations from normal, which may be
called "imbalance," or engorge
ments here and there, which may
vary from congestions to actual di
lations of the vessels organic dis
ease. Peonle with big abdomens are
sufferers in varying degree, from
blood imbalance. There are many
great veins that traverse the ab
dominal wall and visceral content
there situated. Anything that may
cause "rush of blood" to these
blood-vessels, produces immediate
and very evident effect on struc
tures elsewhere. A hig meal is an
example overeating; intense deter
mination of blood to the stomach
and bowel, depleting the brain for
the time being, causing dizziness,
cloudy vision, staggering gait, stu
por, with heavy feeling throughout
the already overfleshed abdomen.
The symptoms may amount to a
W. C. T. U. NOTES.
MARY A. NOTSON, Reporter.
Ballot titles have been prepared
by the Attorney General for the
amendment to the state constitu
tion repealing the prohibition am
endment and for the measure re
pealing all the prohibition enforce
ment laws. The petitions will soon
be circulated to place these propo
sitions on the ballot at the next
election. This means that the voters
of Oregon are facing a straight wet
and dry campaign. The wets do
not aim to stir up the campaign
until the petitions are signed and
filed, but it behooves the dry forces
to begin at once. They should at
tack all along the line. The wets
will not submit any alternative
measure. They will talk one plan
in one place and another plan in
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temporary helplessness, not a very
enjoyable feeling in elderly persons.
I believe without accurate figures,
that one-fourth of the blood volume
may flow in a great tidal-wave to a
ponderous abdomen, from overexer
tion, overeating, etc.; and, that this
condition reacts heavily upon the
heart and brain; of course the veins
of such an abdomen become much
dilated from the constant sagging,
maning possiDle, II 1 may use the
term, "abdominal apoplexy." And
here it is that the "tubby" abdomen
is a very irouDiesome luxury.
Methods of correction
discouraging, and are seldom per-
sisiea in to get the relief possible.
Carefully practiced exercises are
productive of results. Of course
free daily evacuation of the bowel
MUST be maintained. Here it is
starches in the diet must be cut
down to a minimum. Indeed, the
diet must be just what is needed
and no more. In chronic cases pa
tients short of breath and who puff
with slight muscular exertion, may
wear a well-fitted bandage to sup
port the sagging, indolent organ-
another place just as it appears to
be to their advantage. Of course.
they will insist that as long as the
eighteenth amendment Is in effect,
the country is dry, but if Oregon
repeals its dry amendment, it will
be a tremendous argument for re
pealing the eighteenth amendment.
Besides, it is simply cowardly for
a state to try to force all the dry
law enforcement upon the general
government. The W. C. T. U. has
always been on the firing line in all
the battles against John Barley
corn, and this fight will be no ex
ception.
A pamphlet entitled, "A State
ment of the Basic Issue Now Con
fronting the American People,"
written by one Charles Hall Davis,
is being circulated widely in the in
terests of the wet movement. It is
a direct attack upon the decisions
By ED KRESSY
of the supreme court He under
takes, in spite of the unanimous de
cision of the court to show that an
amendment such as the eighteenth
amendment can not be made unless
ratified by all of the states. He
leads one by a devious argument to
think that such an amendment
must be ratified by conventions of
the different states rather than by
the legislatures. If his argument
is at all valid, he might just as
well insist that the ratification must
be by unanimous vote in each one
of the conventions, and he might
go only a short step further and
say that the action of the conven
tion should be ratified by the people
and that by a unanimous vote. It
is strange that only when a corrupt
business such as the saloon business
was must be suppressed then It re
quires a very different kind of pro
ceeding to amend the constitution
in order to accomplish the result
And Mr. Davis concludes his argu
ment by saying, "That ours is a
scientific governmental structure,
with its foundations resting on prin
ciples of natural law, natural right
ana eternal justice." There Is
nothing in natural law, natural
right or eternal justice which would
authorize any man to sell or give
to nis neighbor a narcotic poison
which does the indivdiual an injury,
which may make him a menace to
the rights of others, which may
mane him a charge upon the tax
paying public, and which does him
absolutely no good whatever. While
the law does nto make it a crime
for a man to drink this narcotic
poison, you are impressed with the
idea that Mr. Davis seems to think
so. Do not swallow all of his wet
propaganda without first having
read the decisions of the Supreme
Court.
IRRIGON
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Chapman and
Mr. and Mrs. George Kendler Jr.
of Umatilla visited with Mrs. W. C.
Isom Tuesday evening.
The regular meeting of Irrigon
grange 641 was held in the auditor
ium Wednesday evening. A good
crowd was present. Refreshments
were served by the hosts, Mrs. Sam
Smith and Mrs. Harry Smith.
Jess Oliver motored to Golden
dale Thursday.
Mrs. Fred Markham entertained
the H. E. C. ladies at her home
Thursday afternoon.
Prank Markham who has been
ill with influenza developed a ser
ious case of pnuemonia early in the
week and grave fears were express
ed for his recovery. Latest reports,
however, state he is out of danger.
Jack White left for Portland with
a load of potatoes Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Markham and
family and Myrtle Markham left
Friday for a few days in the moun
tains near La Grande.
Mr. and Mrs. R. V. .Tnnpn mH
family motored to Huckleberry
mountain north of La Grande Sat
urday and expect to return with
lots of huckleberries.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Portland
spent Saturday night in the R. V.
Jones home. Mrs. Smith is a niece
of Mrs. Jones.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Isom, Don
Isom, Russell McCoy, Florence
Brace and Dorothy Dell motored
to Meacham for a company trip re
turning Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Houghton and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brace
and Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Williams
and family left Saturday for the
mountains near La Grande for a
week-end camping trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Root of Board
man were calling on the Isoms Sun
day evening.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors for their help and sym
pathy during our recent bereave
ment. We also wish them to know
that we appreciate the beautiful
flowers which were given as a tok
en of love and esteem for our de
parted loved one.
Clarence Nelson, Charles and
Dorothy,
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Warren,
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Warren.
"Why, yes, my boy; you may have
her."
"How's that? Have whom?"
"My daughter, of course. You
want to marry her don't you "
"No, sir; I just wanted to find
out If you would endorse my note
for $100."
"Certainly not. Why, I hardlv
Know you.
Joe "I hear Jones fell down on
the state pharmacy examination."
bam "Yes, he got mixed on the
difference between a club and a
western sandwich."
CALL FOR BIDS.
Notice is hereby given that the
Board of Directors of School Dis
trict No. 9, of Morrow County, Ore
gon, will receive sealed bids for the
transportation of pupils of said dis
trict to lone, for the school year
1W31-1932. Bus to go to the homes of
Llsh Sperry, Neil Doherty and Edw.
Rietmann. All bids must be In the
hands of the Clerk of Dlstrfct No.
9 not later than August 4th, and
Board reserves right to reject any
or all bids.
Dated at Lexington, Oregon, this
20th day of July, 1931.
LEO GORGER, Dlst Clerk,
19-20. Lexington, Oregon,
NOTICE OP FINAL SETTLEMENT.
Notice is herehv eiven that the under
signed has filed her final account as ad
ministratrix of the estate of Julia Ann
Mutteson, deceased, and that the Coun
ty Court of the State of Oregon for
morrow uounty has appointed ruesduy,
the 8th day of Seotetnber, 1931. at the
hour of iu o'clock in the forenoon of
said day, as the time, und the county
court room in the court house at Hcpp.
nor, Oregon, as the place, of hearing
and settlement of said final account.
Objections to said final account must
be filed on or before said date.
SYLVA CASON,
Administratrix.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Notice Is herehv given that the under.
signed has been appointed by the Coun
ty vjouri oi the atute oi uregon tor
Morrow Countv. executrix of the estate
of N. L. Shaw, deceased, and that all
persons having claims against the said
estate must present the same, duly ver
ilied according to law. to me at the
oltice of my attorney. S. E. Ntoson, in
Heppner, Oregon, wtihln six months
frum the date of the first publication of
this notice, which date of first publi
cation la the 9th day of July. 193L
CAS HA F. SHAW.
Executrix.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT.
Notice Is hereby given that the under
signed. Executors of the Last Will and
Testament of Phlll Cohn, deceased,
have filed their final account with the
County Court of the State of Oregon
for Morrow County, and that said Court
has set as the time and place for set
tlement of said account, Tuesday, the
Eighth day of September. 1931, at the
hour of Ten o'clock A. M. in the court
room of said court in Heppner, Oregon.
All persons having objections to Bbld
final account must file the same on or
before said date.
H. A. COHN,
HENRY P. COirV
Executors of the Last Will and Tes
tament of Phill Cohn, deceased.
Date of first publication, July Ninth,
i1- 17-21
NOTICE OP FINAL ACCOUNT.
NotiA fa VlArahv criiran Vw. tl.A . l
- Liitn. mc unuer-
signed, Executrix of the Last Will and
wiaiuciu ui uiuenxie m. r arnsworm,
deceased, has filed her final account
with the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Morrow County, and that
said Court has set Monday, the 3rd day
of August, 1931, at the hour of 10:01)
o clock in the forenoon of said day at
thfl fVMllltV Prtll, mn, rf. .
uuu, fc .wig !. uiu vun
House at Heppner, Oregon, as the time
ji naming uujueuuns 10 saia
final account, and all persons having
nhipctinna thor-otn m. h. . J
said estate are hereby required to file
same on or before the date set for said
hearing.
JJated this 1st day of July, 1931.
MARY H. THOMSON, Executrix.
NOTICE OP FINAL ACCOUNT.
signed administrator of the estate of
Albeit Williams, deceased, has filed his
final account with the County Court of
Tllfl Statu if (r-r,,r ,-, ..
and said court has set Monday, the 3rd
day of August, 1931, at the hour of 10
r. lUKjiiwuii ui Bam any ai
ui. 1110 tuur.
House at Heppner, Oregon, as the time
and place for hearing objections to said
final account, and all persons havlnir
nhidi-tii-inia tKawntn L l ...
iii c "cieuy required
to file same with said court on or before
tiio nine set ior saia nearing.
uaiea mis 1st day of July, 1931.
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