Thursday, Oct. 26, 1939
HEARTLESS REGULATION MUST BE KEPT
FROM RIVER CARRIERS TO GET BENEFITS
By GARFIELD CRAWFORD
(Editor's Note This Heppner
"Old Timer" at Dallas, Texas, has
teen making a special study for
inland waterway interests of his
section, and here shows how north
west river interests are closely cor
related with such, interests all over
the nation.)
With the convening of the next
Tegular session of the national con
gress, producers, shippers and con
sumers will unite on a solid front to
bring about the defeat of any ad
verse legislation to free and open
inland waterways. Organization of
the opposition forces is not . being
perfected and will include all of
the Inland Waterway associations
of the nation, consumers' leagues,
farm organizations, union labor and
every man and woman from the Pa
cific to the Atlantic oceans who are
opposed to paternalistic government
al management of business.
Recently there was held in little
Rock, Ark., a meeting composed of
representatives of the Mississippi
River Valley Waterways association,
the Trinity Improvement association,
members of chambers of commerce
and many different business organ
izations who banded together to
fight the encroachment of legislation
adverse to the free and open use of
the inland waterways of the nation,
Especially did this organization aim
its fight upon the further consider
ation of the Wheeler-Lea Transpor
tation bill. The Wheeler-Lea act
sought to place all inland water car
riers under the restrictive jurisdic
tion of the Interstate Commerce
commission.
Just why this sort of legislation
should be sprung upon the American
people remains more or less a mys
tery to the shipping public. The de
mand for the legislation did not
come from the shippers, the consum
ers nor the producers and surely the
working people of the nation would
not father a piece of legislation that
would possibly throw hundreds of
thousands of their people out of em
ployment.
The answer is: The railroads, just
as they have been doing over the last
fifty years, are attempting to force
regulation" of water earners in a
hope that this form of transporta
tion can be removed from compe
tition. In some instances certain
trucking companies have joined with
the railroads, but the burden of the
sponsorship is being carried by the
railroads.
Should the Wheeler-Lea bill be
come a law, it will prevent free com
petition on the rivers. It is designed
to freeze rates, both for the conv
mon carriers and the contract car
riers. It will force the contract car
rier, if he is to stay in business, to
first get a permit from the I. C. C
and then defend the rate to be
charged against the galaxy of at
torneys from the railroads who will
be on hand to contest every contract
rate quoted.
Again, it will be within the power
of the I. C. C. to set up a minimum
rate. Below this rate the contract
carrier cannot go. If he desires to go
below this rate he will be forced to
make application that the minimum
rate be lowered, and here again he
is immediately confronted by the
attorneys of his competitors. If the
carrier is a little fellow, and he gen
erally is, he will simply have to give
up and retire from the field. He
loses and so does the shipper, the
producer and the consumer.
It is the belief of those interested
in leading the fight on behalf of the
inland water carriers and the public
that these little men cannot be sur
rounded by these restrictions if they
are to hold their own against large
and powerful competitors. If they
: are left alone, just as they are to
day, they can live and at the same
time save millions of dollars to the
shippers, producers and consumers
by keeping freight rates down to a
reasonable level.
Perhaps the railroads desire to
have all forms of transportation reg
ulated because they themselves have
been regulated. If so, then I am re
minded of an old neighbor. This man
had three very fine milk cows. They
were equally good when it came to
production, but one of them had to
be regulated. This particular cow
kept breaking through the fence into
our garden and into other neighbors'
Heppner
gardens. Finally this cow had to be
burdened with a very heavy yoke
to prevent her from depredating up
on the neighbors. The other two
cows were competitors for every
blade of grass and every fork of al
falfa tossed to them. Naturally the
yoked cow was not always the first
to the feed, but that was a condition
she brought upon hrself. Neither
father nor any of the neighbors ever
suggested that the other cows be
yoked simply to put them upon a
fair competitive basis with the fence
buster.
The railroads would yoke river
transportation to even competition,
but the river carriers, the shippers,
the producers and the consumers
were not responsible for the fence
busting carried on over a long per
iod of years by the railroads.
The future, providing adverse
legislation is passed by congress, is
not so bright for the river carriers.
When the I. C. C. starts shelling
down with its rules and rates, the
little river man will be forced to
cut his trace chains and flee to the
hills. His boats and barges will
beach and decay and the public will
bow to the whip cracking of the
railroads and their master.
Congressman James W. Wads'
worth, former senator of New York
state, a former Texas cattle rancher
and one of the leading thinkers of
the lower branch of congress, in a
speech opposing waterway meddling,
said:
The waterway trade is divided
into three classes. There is the pri
vate carrier. He is a man or com
pany who carries his own goods in
his own vessel. He owns the vessel.
loads his own freight and carries it
to his own destination This man or
company escapes regulation by the
proposed act. The private carrier to
day carries comething in excess of
50 per cent of the tonnage on our
rivers. Tlte second category is the
contract carrier. He is the man or
company that owns a barge and
carries goods for people on contract
The third category is the common
carrier. He offers service to the
general public at published rates.
doing his best to conform with
scheduled operations. He carries
about 10 per cent.
"The function performed by the
contract carrier is very much like
that performed by the tramp steam
er or sailing schooner. The tramp
wanders slowly around the world
picking up cargoes where she finds
them, taking them to other port
on contract. She keeps the estab
lished line of steamers from over
charging the public so far as freight
rates are concerned. She is the reg
ulator of the rates for the high sea
commerce. If the big companies try
to charge too much, the old tramp
drops into port and picks up the
business at a lower rate. The con
tract carrier on the inland water
ways performs the same service. The
rates on the rivers today are regu
lated by competition and it is free
competition.
"Now along comes this bill whic.
confessedly is designed to prevent
for the future free competition on
the rivers. It is designed to freeze
rates, both for the common carriers
and the contract carriers.
All states with navigable rivers
or rivers that can be made navigable
find themselves with their backs to
the wall. Congressman Wadswort
knows that any attack upon free
waterways will imperil shipping on
the Hudson and forever close the
Erie canal and other water courses
his state has fought to maintain
New York's position it not one
whit different from that of Oregon
and Washington. The great Inland
Empire would be placed at the
mercy of a commission should pro
posed legislation become a law. The
Columbia, just now being developed
after years of stubborn opposition
offers a great territory a future of
growth and prosperity. The Snake,
winding its way deep into southern
Idaho, is capable of barge transpor
tation development from the ocean
to Twin Falls, at least. These rivers
offer the wheat growers of one of
the world's richest terrains, cheap
transportation and a chance to live
and prosper. They make possible in-
dustrial development the equal of
Gazette Times, Heppner,
which no other inland section can
surpass.
The Willamette river, sloshing
through the heart of one of the
most fertile valleys in the world,
can be easily made into a traffic
bearing channel to save billions for
the producers and consumers thru
out its great domain.
But the Wheeler-Lea bill, or any
other regulation, carrying the sanc
tification of the railroads, seeking
to remove the freedom of inland
waterway traffic, strikes at the de
velopment of the nation and seeks
enslavement of its people. Should
this iniquitous measure pass, or any
other supplanting it, traffic on the
Columbia, Willamette, Snake, Mis
sissippi, Missouri, Ohio, and other
streams, which have carried our
nation's trade for generations, will
dwindle and fade. The railroads will
be given the transportation monop
oly, rates will advance and the slu
pers of the entire nation forced to
accept their terms, with the result
that the producer and consumer
will be penalized and development of
the great inland empires will stag
nate.
Free rivers have become the fight
of all. Those who have joined in the
movement to save inland waterway
transportation are the Secretary of
War; the Secretary of Agriculture
who argues the farmers must have
decent rates for getting their prod
ucts to market; the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen; the United States
Maritime commission; all maritime
unions and the Central Trades Labor
council of New York City, with its
membership of more than 700,000,
The rivers can be saved to the
people providing the people make it
plain to their representatives in con
gress that inland water carrier ser
vice must not be tampered with.
URIAH MAN EDITOR
Oregon State College, Corvallis,
Oct. 25 Lloyd Waid, senior in for
estry from Ukiah, is editor of "Ho
Lead," forestry students' publica
tion, for this year. The first issue of
the paper was released October 19
and will be printed every Thursday,
The first publication contains ad
dresses of welcme by President Geo,
W. Peavy, dean of forestry, and Earl
G. Mason, assistant dean of forestry,
Cartoons, accounts of the Foresters1
ball, and other forestry events are
in this first issue.
Last year 3008 Oregon farmers
reseeded 588,000 acres of pasture
land in cooperating with the AAA
program.
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Oregon
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, Administrator with the
Will Annexed of the Estate of Eliza
beth Wente Bates, deceased, has
filed with the County Court of the
State of Oregon for Morrow County,
his Final Account of his adminis
tration of said estate, and that said
court has set Monday, the 27th day
of November, 1939, at the hour of
11 o'clock in the forenoon of said
day at the County Court room at
the Court House at Heppner, Ore
gon, as the time and place for hear
ing objections to said Final Account
and the settlement of said estate,
and all persons having objections to
said Final Account or the settle
ment of said estate are hereby re
quired to file the same with said
Court on or before the time set for
said hearing.
Dated and first published this 26th
day of October, 1939.
P. W. MAHONEY,
Administrator with the Will
Annexed.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
STATE OF OREGON FOR MOR
ROW COUNTY.
O. W. Cutsforth and James L.
Leach, Plaintiffs,
vs.
Childe & Browne Company, a cor
poration; Also all other persons
or parties unknown claiming any
right, title, estate, hen or in
terest in the real estate described
in the complaint herein,
Defendants.
TO: Child & Browne Company, a
corporation; Also all other per
sons or parties unknown claim
any right, title, estate, lien or
interest in the real estate des
cribed in the complaint herein,
DEFENDANTS.
IN THE NAME OF THE STATE
OF OREON: You are hereby re
quired to appear and answer the
complaint filed against you in the
above entitled Court and Cause
within four weeks from the date of
the first publication of this sum
mons and if you fail to appear and
answer, for want thereof, the plain
tiffs will apply to the said Court for
relief as prayed for in the said com
plaint, to-wit: for a decree that the
plaintiff is the owner in fee simple
of the following described real
property:
The Southwest quarter (SWA)
of Section numbered Twelve
(12) and the Northwest quarter
(NWV4) of Section numbered
Thirteen (13) all in Township
One (1) South, Range Twenty
five (25) East of the Willamette
Meridian in the County of Mor
row, and State of Oregon.
And that the plaintiff is the owner
in fee simple of the said land free of
any right, title, estate, lien or in
terest of you and each of you and
that you or any one of you have no
right, title, estate, lien or interest in
the said land or any part thereof and
perpetually restrain and enjoin you
and each of you, your heirs and as
signs, from asserting or claiming any
right, title, estate, lien or interest
in the said land or any part thereof
adverse to plaintiffs.
This summons is served upon you
by publication thereof for four con
secutive weeks in the Heppner Ga
zette Times, by order of Honorable
Bert Johnson, Judge of the County
Court of Morrow County, State of
Oregon, and which said order was
made and entered on the 23rd day
of October, 1939, and the first date
of this publication is the 26th day
of October, 1939.
P. W. MAHONEY,
Attorney for Plaintiffs.
Postoffice Address: Heppner, Oregon
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned was duly appointed by
the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Morrow County, admin'
istrator of the estate of HILDA A,
KLINGER, deceased, and all per
sons having claims against the es
tate of said deceased are hereby
required to present the same to the
undersigned with proper vouchers
duly verified, at the law office of
Jos. J. Nys, at Heppner, Oregon,
within six months from the date
hereof.
Dated and first published this 19th
day of October, 1939.
CHARLES KLINGER,
Administrator.
Page Seven
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, Administrator of the
Estate of William W. Windsor, de
ceased, has filed with the County
Court of the State of Oregon for
Morrow County, his Final Account
of his administration of said estate,
and that said court has set Monday,
the 20th day of November, 1939, at
the hour of 11 o'clock in the fore
noon of said day, at the County
Court room at the Court House at
Heppner, Oregon, as the time and
place for hearing objections to said
Final Account and the settlement
of said estate, and all persons hav
ing objections to said Final Account
or the settlement of said estate are
hereby required to file the same
with said Court on or before the
time set for said hearing.
Dated and first published this 19th,
day of October, 1939.
H. J. BIDDLE,
Administrator.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has been duly appoint
ed administrator c. t. a. of the es
tate of J. A. Adams, deceased, by the
County Court of the State of Ore
gon for Morrow County, and has
accepted such trust. All persons hav
ing claims against the said estate are
required to present the same, duly
verified, to J. O. Turner, Hotel
Heppner, Heppner, Oregon, within
six months from the date of first
publication of this notice.
Dated and first published October
19, 1939.
FLOYD N. ADAMS.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, Executor of the Estate
of James W. Cowins, deceased, has
filed with the County Court of the
State of Oregon for Morrow County,
his Final Account of his adminis
tration of said estate, and that said
court has set Monday, the 13th day
of November, 1939, at the hour of
11 o'clock A. M. in the forenoon of
said day at the County Court room
at the Court House at Heppner,
Oregon, as the time and place for
hearing objections to said Final Ac
count and the settlement of said es
tate, and all persons having objec
tions to said Final Account or the
settlement of said estate are hereby
required to file the same with said
Court on or before the time set for
said hearing.
Dated and first published this 12th
day of October, 1939.
WILLIAM H. COWINS,
Executor.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
that the undersigned was duly ap
pointed by the County Court of the
State of Oregon for Morrow County,
executrix of the last Will and Tes
tament of LILLIAN COCHRAN,
deceased, and all persons having
claims against the estate of said de
ceased are hereby reqired to pre
sent the same with proper vouch
ers duly verified to the undersigned,
at the law office of Jos. J. Nys, at
Heper, Oregon, within six months
fromVthe date hereof.
Dated and first published this 19th
day of October, 1939.
SARA McNAMER,
Exectrix.
NOTICE OF SALE OF
COUNTY PROPERTY
By virtue of an ORDER OF THE
COUNTY COURT, dated October 19,
1939, I am authoized and directed to
advertise and sell at public auction,
at not less than the minimum price
herein set forth after each parcel:
The South one-half of Lot 4,
Block 7, except Tract No. 174
to the City of Heppner. Mini
mum price $10.00 cash.
The Southeast quarter of the
Northeast quarter (SE'ANE'A)
Section 10, Township 1 South,
Range 24 East of Willamette
Meridian. Minimum price $40.00
cash.
Lots 6, 7, and 8 in Block 6 to
the City of Boardman. Minimum
price $10.00 for each lot, cash.
THEREFORE, I will on the 18th
day of November, 1939, at the hour
of 2:00 p. m., at the iront door of the
Court House in Heppner, Oregon,
sell said property to the highest
bidder, for cash.
C. J. D. BAUMAN,
Sheriff, Morrow County, Oregon.