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
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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
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