The Hermiston herald., January 28, 1921, Image 6

THE
REVIEW OF
LEGISLATURE
(Continued from page 1)
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Soldier bonus legislation is still at
un uncertain stage and it is uncertain
Just what the outcome will be at the
present session. Legislators seem to
be a bit chary about committing them-
selves, although the undercurrent ap­
pears to be against any cash bonus.
One soldier compensation act intro­
duced by Senator Dennis would make
available the sum of $30,000,000 as a
loan fund.
The measures provide that the credit
of the state may be lent and indebted­
ness incurred to an amount not ex­
ceeding 3 per cent of the assessed
valuation of the state for the creation
of the fund necessary to place the act
in operation.
If approved by the legislature this
measure will be referred to the voters
at the next general election.
A bill having for its purpose the
more stringent enforcement of the pro­
hibition law was introduced in the
senate by Senator Farrell of Mult­
nomah county.
This bill provides for the creation of
the office of prohibition commissioner,
to be appointed by the governor, whose
duty shall be to enforce the provisions
of the prohibition act.
A companion bill relates to search
and seizure. Under this bill officers
having personal knowledge or reason­
able information that intoxicating li­
quors are being unlawfully manufact­
ured, held or kept in any building or
premises or are being unlawfully car­
ried or transported in any satchel,
suitcase, grip, trunk, receptacle of any
kind, or any wagon, truck, automo­
bile, car, boat, airplane or other air
craft, or In any other vehicle, may
search such containers or carriers
without search warrant.
Legislature Aska Tariff on Poultry,
The legislature adopted a Joint me­
mortal urging congress to place a
tariff on poultry and poultry products
imported to American markets from
foreign countries.
It was explained that approximately
60 carloads of Chinese eggs had arriv­
ed In Seattle in one week recently, at
a cost not to exceed 7 cents a dozen.
With a continuation of these importa­
tions it was suggested that the Oregon
poultrymen would suffer serious finan­
cial loss, and that the industry
eventually would be ruined.
New Emergency Board .Created.
The governor, secretary of state,
president of the senate and speaker
of the house of representatives and
state treasurer would be removed from
membership on the state emergency
board under the provisions of a bill
introduced by Senator Bell. Bell’s
bill creates a new emergency board of
seven members, including the chair­
men of the house and senate ways and
means committees, with five other
members to be selected from the per­
sonnel of the joint ways and means
committee. These five members would
be elected by the ways and means
committee In Joint session, with the
president of the senate presiding. The
president of the board would be elect­
ed by the board, and the secretary
of state would be constituted as the
secretary of the board.
Church Schools Taxed.
Much of the church, schools and hos­
pital and other property In the state
which Is now exempt from taxation
will be made taxable if a measure in­
troduced by Senators Jones, Strayer
and Hume gets by both houses and is
signed by the governor.
The bill confines entirely to houses
of worship the buildings of church
organization that shall be exempt, and
adds church schools to the tax rolls.
An added clause exempts from taxa­
tion all property of all honorably dis­
charged Civil war veterans, sailors,
and marines to the amount of $1000.
Legislative Brevities.
School teachers in Portland are
maintaining a lobby In Salem to op­
pose any change In the tenure law.
Creation of a state board of aircraft
examinera to regulate and control fly­
ing Is provided in • bill introduced In
the house.
A bill providing for the election of
recorders In the counties of Clackamas.
Linn, Benton, Marion. Washington,
Yamhill and Umatilla was approved by
the senate.
Additional powers to county boards
of equalization, whereby such boards
may require the attendance of wit-
nesses, would be granted by a bill In
troduced by Representative Beals.
Any state bank may lend not to ex­
ceed 25 per cent of its capital, sur­
plus snd commercial deposits upon
notes secured by mortgages or other
form of real estate security, in case a
bill Introduced by Senator Hall be­
comes a law.
Following out the recommendations
contained in the special message which
Governor Olcott delivered last week
Senator Patterson introduced a bill
under the provisions of which $300,000
would bo appropriated for the con-
HERMISTON
strucuon or a training school for boys
to replace the present Oregon State
Training school.
Efforts to limit chaplain service in
the state penitentiary and the boys’
training school to members of the
Salvation army failed by a single vote
after a lively debate In which practical­
ly one-third of the house membership
participated.
HERALD,
Get This Idea!
Whether it is beter on the outside
looking in or on the inside looking
out may be decided according to the
circumstances. At any rate, with
the editor’s kind indulgence (if it be
that he will indulge the writer)
wishes to write one phase of the com­
munity developement from the stand­
point of the outsider looking in.
How may the people of Hermiston
BROWN AND GOLD LEAVES
be adequately complimented on the
Umatilla High School
far sighted policy of providing in a
By Lotys Davis
magnificent way for the tourist? Suf­
fice
it to say that they have appreci­
At the school election held last
Saturday, P. McNabb was elected to ated early the tremendous advantage
fill the unexpired term of Mr. Mer­ of the highway and the importance
rick, resigned.
of the tourist traffic. Of course,
Miss Jesse Jenks, third grade they had as guide the experience of
teacher, was called to her home in
Albany on account of the serious ill­ towns through which improved high­
a
ness of her father, who suffered a ways run.
parolytic stroke. Mrs. Ford is sub-
For instance, between Seattle and
: tituting during her absence.
The eighth grade agricultural class the California cities there is built a
has received samples of cotton in the great highway. Almost every city
different stages of manufacture fropi of any consequence along that line of
the Pacific Mills of Lawrence, Mass. travel has provided camping grounds
Several pupils are absent from the for the tourist. Some have provided
lower grades on account of colds.
The eighth grade has received cop­ wood, water, shelter, telephone, liter­
ies of examinations which are being ature and other conveniences. Even
given in some counties as regular ex­ in many of the smaller towns where
aminations. These are being used
as the semester tests for the purpose camping accommodations are provid-
of practice. The papers will be put ed there is an average of some two
on file, so that the county superin­ hundred tourists who make camp
tendent may look them over on his there each day during the summer
next visit.
Clara Park and Ralph Nichols are months. An added population of
200 make business for the town. Pro­
absent from the eighth grade.
The boys fresnoed the baseball dia­ visions, drygoods, accessories, gaso­
mond last Saturday and It is now in line, meals must be purchased. In­
excellent condition. They also pre­ deed there is scarcely a line of busi­
pared the girl’s basket ball grounds
The semester examination occured ness which is not materially benefit-
ted either directly or indirectly. It
this week.
is suprising to note the number of
home-seekers who now travel by auto
In some of these camps It is not
uncommon to see people from a dozen
states assembled. The cars bear not
only the license tags of the western
states but many have license under
the states of the Atlantic seaboard.
Cars of the expensive type are park­
ed with the humbler kinds, and the
wealthy fraternize with the poor.
Next spring the Columbia highway
will be open from Portland to the
east, The scenic beauty of the high-
way has been well advertised
throughout the country. Hermiston
is on the big east and west highway
through Oregon as well as one of the
principal highways leading from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. Few people
now form a true Idea of the Immense
volume of summer traffic which
there will be. Unlike the Pacific
highway, the towns are quite a dis­
You will get first-class
tance apart; therefore there will be a
work, and you will get
great need for camping facilities. The
it when promised, for
average day’s run will be from Port­
having work done
land to the Umatilla project. So it
comes about that my hat is off to the
when promised is one
men who have seen in advance the
of the rules of this office.
good business of providing a nice
If you prefer, send the
camp ground.
order by mail or bring
Now there is Podunk, a town of
it to the office in person,
which I have heard, which failed to
fully see the advantage of providing
nnne
camping privileges. True, the good
Let Ue Show You
people of that town often talked
What We Can Do
about the matter but upon an en­
deavor to establish a location the ad­
fillliiiiiiiiiiliiil
joining residents objected. Of course
Telephone
when you want
that next job of
Printing
HERMISTÓN,
OREGON.
this is a good American right, and
some of their points may have been
well taken, but the peculiar thing
was that the matter was dropped
right there. Instead of pursuing the
matter to its conclusion and selecting
a site upon which all could agree, Po­
dunk established the unenviable rep­
utation of being the one town of
hundreds that failed to establish a
camp ground and its neighbor Alert
got the business and interested the
home-seekers in the surrounding
acres. Hats off to Alert and Hermis­
ton.
Moral: A stitch in time is worth
two in the bush; or, a word to the
wise may sound fishy.—Contributed.
thought.
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“Roast” Handball Players.
The execrations uttered by the in­
dignant baseball fan against the un­
lucky or awkward player In America
are as gentle murmurs compared with
the epithets hurled by the occupants
of the gallery at the contestants in the
game of handball in the playgrounds
of Madrid, Spain. “Rogue!" “Thief!”
“Convict!” and “Idiot!” are some of
the mild terms with which the play­
ers are greeted when they miss a ball
or send It back In an easy position for
the opponent to play It.
The reason for this excitement is
the prevalent betting, in which the
women spectators participate as much
as the men. Professional bookmakers
attend all matches, and their shouts
of the odds for and against the play­
ers are mixed with the cries of the
gambling spectators, until the scene
resembles a bedlam.
Another Discoverer.
In an old Spanish geographical work
on America published In 1552 by Fran­
cesco Lopez de Gomera, a priest ef
Sevilla, It Is mentioned that Labrador
was reached for the first time by a
party of Norwegian sailors piloted by
John Scolvus or Jon Skolp In 1476.
The announcement was made for the
first time some years ago, but It was
greeted with skepticism that Colum­
bus had been anticipated on the Amer­
ican shorts by any but Leif Ericson,
but recently additional evidence has
shown that Columbus’ visit to this
country was antedated by Scolvus by
20 years and steps arn being taken to
urge the former’s claims for honors.
Pecks of Diamonds.
During the year 1919 South Africa
exported 1,124 pounds of diamonds.
This quantity represented Just about
125 quarts.
This vast quantity of precious stones
reduced to terms of bushels would
equal a trifle less than four, or what
would be two ordinary grain bags
full of them. Naturally the stones in­
cluded a great number of very large
ones as well as many medium-sized
and small ones.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Shaft for Hero Dead.
An obelisk of granite seventy feet
high Is to be erected in Denmark as a
memorial to the many thousands of
American and allied soldiers of Danish
descent who died In the World war.
It has been estimated that about 80,-
000 men of Danish blood fought in
the American armies in France and
that about 20,000 Danes fought in the
Canadian, Australian, British and
French armies.
Prosperity is a concrete condition,
not
an
Hermiston Auto Co.
We have a few 50 Gal. Oil Drums for sale.
While they last $4.50
Painless Parker
The Famous Dentist
eople
living
a hundred miles
or more away
come to my offices
to have their teeth
fixed up. I make it
a rule that those
from a distance
shall be waited
upon immediately
and their work be
completed first, so
they can go back home as
soon as possible.
Years ago I discovered how
to extract and fix teeth with­
out hurting, and was so
successful that people
called me “Painless”
Parker. My practice has
grown until I now have
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twenty-eight offices,
and all my associ­
ates in these offices
have been taught
how to practice
painless dentistry
as well as I can do
it myself. We have
fixed up the teeth
of over a million
people, and call our
way of practicing
“the E. R. Parker System.”
If your teeth are bothering
you, and you want them put
in good shape without hurt­
ing and without pay­
ing a fancy price, come
to our nearest office,
which you will find
located at
755 Main Street, Pendleton
3313 PER CENT OFF
Payrolls and Prosperity
Oregon needs more and larger payrolls.
HE highest human privilege is
to learn. We are learning now
that what we did last spring when
Jobs were plentiful was wrong.
Whenever we do anything wrong.
Nature holds court and assesses dam­
ages. Workmen said: “We have
got the bosses where we want them;’’
they quit on any pretext; per capita
production decreased. We should
have learned something, for the con­
sequences were not long in coming.
But no; we now hear the same thing
from some employers: “The tide is
turned; the workmen will have to
come to our terms.” This is not
“getting even;” it is doubling the
evil. Why match one folly by an­
other? Natural law will as quickly
penalize society for the unwise em­
ployer as for the unwise employe.
There are no “classes;” there is on­
ly human society. We prosper or
suffer together. Let us be wise.
Leather Vests and Mackinaws
abstract
It is created by the opportunity for work, the investment of money In new and enlarge­
ment of old projects, the development of trade, the meeting of producer and consumer, the exchange
of labor for purchasing power.
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, representing a payroll of approximately $3,000,-
000 per year in Oregon, has reached a point beyond which jt cannot go with its present income.
It
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and earn a reasonable return upon its investment in Oregon.
If it obtains this it can carry on its
construction program, offer more work In Oregon, enlarge its payrolls and take its proper part in
the progress of this state.
If it cannot secure ad equate rates it must limit its expansion in every
way, abandon its plans for extensions and lay off its construction crews.
The rates asked for will not work a hardship upon any individual; they represent but a small in­
crease per station over present rates, but in the aggregate would permit the telephone company to
continue to fully serve the public, carry out its p Ians for the development of Oregon, and do its part
In creating and maintaining the prosperity which is essential to this state.
Adequate service is dependent upon adequate rates.
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co
KINGSLEY MERCANTILE CO.
PHONE 171