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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1935)
THURSDAY, MAY I. 1935 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. PAGE THRBD LIFE OF A LEGISLATOR By Clinton P. Haight YOUR DOLLA BECOMES A COMMUNITY A WHEN SPENT IN YOUR HERMISTON TOWN DO YOU KNOW UMATILLA THAT ... THESE CONCERNS ARE ALL OPERATED BY HOME PEOPLE? Business Houses THAT ... THE PROFITS ACCRUED FROM YOUR TRADE DOLLAR SPENT AT HOME REMAIN TO BUILD YOUR COMMUNITY? THAT . .. LOCAL MERCHANTS ARE ALWAYS ON THE SAFEWAY STORES LOOKOUT FOR BIGGER AND BETTER BARGAINS, QUALITY AND MARKET CONSIDERED, WHICH QUALITY — SERVICE ARE PASSED ON TO YOU? Abundant Variety at SAFEWAY THAT ... YOUR TRADE DOLLAR SPENT AT HOME KEEPS A full line of groceries at a price CIRCULATING TO THE BENEFIT OF EVERY IN to fit your purse. DIVIDUAL, THE FARMER, THE RANCHER, THE Hermiston Phone 241 BUSINESS MAN AND THE LABORER? - THAT ... YOUR TRADE DOLLAR SENT TO DISTANT CIT. IES FOR GOODS DOES NOT BUILD OUR ROADS, 1935 — FORD SEDAN - Reduced Price. 1933 — PLYMOUTH SEDAN .................... $550.00 SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, PAY TAXES OR RELIEVE 350.00 1931 — CHEVROLET COACH ................. EMPLOYMENT? 1930 — GRAHAM COACH ........................ 200.00 180.00 1929 — FORD TUDOR ...... .......................... THEREFORE ... TRUE CO-OPERATION WITH YOUR COM 1929 — FORD ROADSTER ........................ 135.00 MUNITY, FORGETTING ANY SELFISH INTERESTS, 1927 — NASH COUPE ............................... 100.00 WILL ALWAYS PAY BIG DIVIDENDS IN RETURN. 450.00 — WHITE TRUCK .......................... 1932 3 - 1929 FORD TRUCKS it--- ---------------- Rohrman Motor Co.||| A. W. PRANN FUNERAL DIRECTOR Hermiston, Oregon Co-operate with these Merchants HERMISTON SERVICE STATION MOBILGAS & MOBILOIL Jimmie’s Barber Shop HERMISTON, OREGON “It Pays to Look Well.” HAIRCUT - 25c SHAVE - 26c Umatilla Service Station GAS — OIL — CABINS GROCERIES Mrs. Pearl Jarvis Umatilla, Ore. TOURIST CAFE Comfort — Cleanliness — Service And above all - Good Food. UMATILLA, OREGON II STANFIELD M. REFVEM RED and WHITE STORE GENERAL MERCHANDISE — DRY GOODS SHOES — HARDWARE — GROCERIES You serve the best when you serve Day or Night R. S. Walker, Proprietor — Hermiston SHOE SHINE - 10c Red & White Foods. Hale’s Confectionary MODERNIZE YOUR HOME By USING ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT Hermiston Drag Co. D. H. JONES The Communty Store Where You GENERAL BLACKSMITHING & ACETYLENE WELDING Telephone 801 ebes bucili SPORTING GOODS M bus V* : 6 1 " 5 — Recreation Center — rse 3511 COOLEST DRINKS IN TOWN. Hermiston Mercantile Co-operative “Farmer’s Cash Store” Low Prices, Yes! It’s a Fact. — A COMMUNITY STORE — Oregon Rose Butter Manufactured by Umatilla Co-operative SEE YOUR LOCAL DEALER or Hermiston Light & Power Co. MOYER’S Men’s Store FOUNTAIN — DRUG SUPPLIES KEEPING YOUR SHOES LOOKING EERMISTON, OREGON Smart and Comfortable Where you are assured of the right quality, price, and personal service. IS OUR FIRST RULE Men’s Dress & Work Boy's Dress & Work Clothing Clothing Locally Owned "Lee” Overalls Weyenberg Shoes & Operated Hermiston Auto Wrecking House E. F. PIERSON. Prop. "THE HOUSE OF BARGAINS.'' Locally Owned and Operated by its members. Feel at Home. IN SHOE REPAIR. Bowman’s Shoe Shop Proper Lubrication — WILL KEEP UPKEEP DOWN — We ran give the modern motorist Lubrication with the Shell Certified System. HYDRAULIC HOIST INSTALLED THIS WEEK! HERMISTON, OREGON — See Ut for a Good Used Car — IN Black & White Station — Coragorators Built to Order — P. O. Box IS Stanfield, Ore. Twin City Creamery Co STANFIELD, ORE. Cash Buyers of Cream and Eggs. G. G. Smith, Manager Hermiston Herald Your HOME TOWN Newspaper Post Mortem on Legislature. Canyon City, Oregon—After we play a hand at pinochle or bridge, we hold a post mortem, and then play the hand over again. We ar gue the rules of the game and still no one is convinced, and so, we play another hand, and then, go into a bigger and better argument than ever. It is from the poet mortem* that we hold over the hands, from which we. learn the technique and the .rules of the game. For the past 60 days we have been playing the game of law-making; the cards have all been dealt, the hands have been played, and now it is time for the poet mortem. We have the corpee ot the legislature before us. What did it die of? What was the malady? Why are legisla tures what they are and will they ever be better or worse and why does the man down on the street say that the legislature is all the bunk? We are told that the legislature does not do anything, and in the same breath, condemn it for doing too much. We eat in a swivel chair, in the front row of the house of represen- tatlves at Salem for the past 80 days and watched the parade of 1000 bills and laws go by, and that will make a big book for nobody to read and on an infinite variety of subjects of no blundering confusion, correcting, particular consequence—just laws, amending, repealing, struggling with the Imperfections of government and trying to correct the inherent faults, evils, errors and general cussidness of man. who is the integral part ot the composite whole, which we call government. Government is an evil, reflecting all of the errors of us all. Perfect men would need no govern ment and no laws. They would need no legislature: no regulation, no courts, no police and no administra« tive direction. But ah. there is the rub. Men are not perfect: they must be restrained and therefore we have legislative bodies to blunder and stumble along with the rest of blun dering humanity, and so we would say that the chief value of a legis lature lies in its faults. A perfect legislature to regúlete imperfect man would be a failure, for after all, it Is only imperfect men who are capa ble of regulating imperfect men, and so let us repeat that the prime value of a legislature lies in its faults. It Is men, humanity, democracy, Amer ica. If you believe tn democracy you will believe in the legislative branch of democracy, which functions just as well as the judicial branch ot a democracy and better than the ad ministrative or executive depart ments. The house of representatives at Salem, composed of 60 members, was a cross section of the men and wo men who are In the last analysis— America.,They come direct from the busy marts òf men. They bring into legislative halls your ideaa, your no- tions, ybur likes and dislikes, your prejudices, your Interests and they mix them all up with selfish inter- ests, false reasoning, good intentions, parliamentary trickery, cunning lob- bies with the commercial clubs and all of the organizations and varied interests back home, wiring, writ- ing, phoning and sending delegation* down, pleading, demanding, threa tening, promising, scheming, job- bing, planning and that is America, Democracy, legislatures. The legisla- ture of Oregon Is no better and no worse than you are—for it is you. Out of the 60 members in the house -some. 4.5. wera never In a leg islature before. They did not know whether Roberts' Rules of Order was a song or something to eat. They were fresh from the people; right from the soil—Democracy. They stumbled and blundered along just like a good legislature should do, guided by the notions of the people back home, reflecting the farm, the field, the office and the shop. The house of representatives should be kept close to the people, and elected every two years, and it is our opin ion that more than half of the mem bership should be new or raw hands each -session. Don’t let them stay too long or long enough to become sophisticated and so smart that they become adept at parliamentary tric kery and legislative legerdemain, and with too long a service, the ten dency is to lose the common touch. Keep them fresh from the soil and they will reflect Democracy, with all of its errors, evils and blunder ing and vain efforts to restrain the strong and protect the weak. If leg islatures arc a failure It is because men are a failure and it men are a failure, then Democracy is futile, and what you need is a Dictator— a Hitler, a Mussolini, a master or an overlord. But we love humanity; we beliv* In men and in him is our faith, and upon this faith we base democracy with its blundering, struggling. striving legislative bodies, whose life impulse is to restrain the strong and protect the weak. Don’t take your legislative bodies too lightly for when you accept them as an evil or a joke, you are Indicting your« selves, and you are confessing that you are incapable of self-government and that you are by nature, a slave. seeking some master. whom you would adorn with a jeweled crown the symbol of sovernty. You are king and the legislature is your fingers and toes. In this post mortem we shall not attempt to analyze any of the 1000 bills that passed into legislative re- view. But we will show you how roy alty still aspires and how the funda mentals of a democracy are in con stant danger from sinister, cunning aud designing Influences that lie dormant, slumbering in the legend of petit princes and bejeweled grand dames ever eager to ascend the dais of a royal throne. In this session there was an attempt to place qual- ifications upon the voter. Make pro- perty rights a qualfication. That strikes at Democracy. The Jury sys- tern was attacked, free press, free (Continued on page four)
