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M"EDFORD MATT, TRTTUTNE. MT.nFOUTX OnFCOX. FlfTBAV, MAY 12, 1022
Medfokd Mail Tribune
HOFF COMES TOO HIGH.
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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Parry.
Complaint Is made throughout the
world that France is stubborn at the
Genoa confab. It is an old trick of
franco to be stubborn. For instance,
at Verdun.
A light rain fell o'er the vale Thur.
ere doing no damage aside from taking
the friz out of the Robted hair acreage.
Compelling bootleggers, when acci
dentally caught, to drink their own
products is barbarous cruelty, and may
lead to beanery props, being forced to
swig their own coffee, and candidates
to vote for themselves.
TIIK 11 ni-IC memory is tsuort when politics are concerned. It
it wore not 0. P, lloff, Kenuhlictm candidate for state treas
urer, would hardly allow liis heroic-sized lithograph to bo posted on
bill boards of Modford. pledging economy, efficiency, and claiming
he has saved the tax payers of this state thousands and thousands of
dollars.
We have no quarrel with Mr. Itoff. Ho is, we believe essentially
on honest man. Hut he is no more fitted to handle the finances of
this state, than the cinnamon bear in the Port laud Zoo, uud his record
demonstrates the fact. 1
This record is not a matter of politics. It is chiefly contained in
a report of the grain! jury of Marion county, which investigated Mr.
lloff 's dealings with Mr. Kthertdge of Morris Brothers a little over
two years ago. An extract from this report follows:
"State Treasurer lloff purchased from Mr. Ethredue from Jan.
. ISIS, to March IS, 120. bond of tho pnr vnlu of $l.l0o,62!.0
nt cost to tho Mate of Oregon of 11. if 2,223.13. which bonds cost
NORIUS BROTHERS 1.0SS..03, giving the enormous profit to
Morris Brothers of JS4.0T6.09."
"The records further reveal that bonds whloji were not In exis
tence had been sold by Mr. Ethredtre to the state treasurer at an
exorbitant profit and" payments in full made thoreon by tho state
treasurer.
"The most flagrant example of excess profits ia the sale of
$100,009 water bonds of Hoedsport to the state treasurer. The
bonds were purchased by the state treasurer at the enormous Rross"
profit to Morris Brothers of l,0 19.90. On June 1. 1919. Heeds
port was Incorporated. August Si following Morris Brothers en
tered Into a contract with said city for the sale of $100,000 bonds
for $32,320. Morris Brothers sold them to Treasurer Hoff on
October IS, 1919, for the sum of $108. 339. 90. 'and paid Kthredae
that amount on said day. On November 10, following the city
voted to djgsue said bonds and on December 34 following issued
and delivered them to Morris Brothers. .
"We criticise the riuht apparently given by the correspon
dence between Treasurer Hoff and Mr. KthredBe whereby secu
rities sold to the state were offered for .sale by Morris Brother
while they were yet fteld by the state treasurer. There should be
no strings upon any bonds purchased by the state of Oregon.
-We condemn the policy of the state treasurer In investing such
large sums in one investment; also CONDEMN his PltACTICE of
buying bonds that pay a high rate of Interest regardless of the
value of the property that must redeem the principal. SAFETY
FIRST should apply to Investment of public funds."
We admire the nerve which allowed Mr. Hoff to seek re-election
with this report a matter of public record, but hardly believe the
Republicans of this state will care to reward such nerve with renomi
natiou. . ,
Mr. Hoff makes a further bid for votes by declaring he is agree
able to a salary reduction. Mr. Huff could take office without salary
and still cost the tax payers more in a month, than a competent state
treasurer could possibly be paid in a year.
Ilonesty and good intentions are not enough in this position. There
must be business competence, or the tax payers pay.
COMMUNICATIONS
Colvlg Replies to Lampman
To tho Kditor: Mr, II. li. t.mupmun
In his reply to m request tlint cittHll
(lutes for public ottiiv should maM
Known their position in re tUo Ku Kltix
Klun, so iiu a to think that my objec
tions to this order rest outlrely on
vitKtie suspicion; and that I nutko mi
Invidious distinction between It and
other orders? i will admit that the
K. K. K. comes lutu tills community
under a cloud of well oannul HiisplcWm.
There were more than forty outrages
committed on private Individuals in
the state of Texas dnrlmr the year
iy"l, and in every tnstuneo the news
papers of the state rhaiKOtt these out
rages to the activities of the K. K. K.
The perpetrators In each of these
Texas cases wore white niashs ' nnd
hoods, and thus cott,"itei tlr Iden
tity. Suspicion? Uh, l utii always
Misplctous of a man who lmradis the
streets In tho night time with n mask
on his face and his person otherwise
disguised. In several Instances the
victims of these Texas outrages, and
others in the Vnited States during
1921. were branded "K.K.K." tm the
forehead with powerful ae.ltl, Mr.
Lampmau. will you please observe that
none of these outrages were charged
usalnst the Elks, tho Masans. pr any
other order than the K.K.K. ; and
that none of the victims had birned
into their flesh the symbol "H.P.O.E.,"
A.F. & A.M.V. "I.O.O.r, or "K.O."
HEAD-ON COLLISION
(Oregon City Enterprise) -Miss
Lena Wilbelm had an argu
ment with the McCully goat re
cently and it Is reported that the
goat had the best of the contro
very. ,
There is something to the credit of
' Peggy Joyce, the world's greatest vam
pire. She never went crazy over a
uniform. -
. Mons. Wig Aahpole is threatening to
go up Lake Creek and pick up Tom
Farlow's yearlings.
AN INSPIRED PRINTER
(Corvallis Gazette-Times)
PATRIOTIC SERMON
VICE AT OLD FORT ,
HOSKINS MAY 30
' A grand Jury report charges that
tadenls of Spokane get drunk during
school hours. This is quite a jump
from the days when it was the height
of Juvenile cussedness to hit the teach'
er with a paper wad. No wonder par
ents in a California town want to fire
a school ma'am for brazenly powdering
her nose in public.
. - 8everal gubernatorial aspirants are
suffering from a congestion of virtue
in the oratorical region.
f, WHISKER piSPLAY
(Sandy News)
' Chag. Scharnke was glad to get
home for a few days vacation from
jury work last week, and get out
wltb, big brush again.
The testimony in the Stlllman dl
vorce suit is so full of gents and ladies
. peeking through keyholes, that the
world wonders why somebody didn't
get jabbed in the eye with a hatpin.
(The sun is shining with all its might,
and a drive to buy old Walt Bowne
hat is in order.
; " It has been two days since Woodrow
Wilson has called Sen Jim Reed of
Missouri, a name, to send the rank and
file of the democratic party to the
dictionary,.
MERRY WIDOWS ANSWER
(Pendleton Oregonlan) .
WANTED Housekeeper who can
play piano wifh violin for
dances, who is neat and wants a
- good home where she can be her
, own boss. R. L, Bewley, Guler, '
. - Wash.
, FOR JIGQ3 FAN8 , ,
"s -' (Continued from Wed.)
J'He never would prey with an earnest
vim,
Or go to revival, or join in a hymn
While I the sins of ray neighbors borp
lie gadded about with Dinty Moore.
He made a practice of staying out late
Which is a sin all women hate;
Hut at last when he did come home
The rolling pin went straight for his
. dome.
"I know him, St. Peter, kpow hlra well
To escape from me he'd go to hell;
But, St. Peter, I need him here,
And hope you can see your way clear.
On earth I bore a heavy cross;
Give me In heaven still Jiggs to boss
I've brought my rolling pin, plates and
Jars,
To keep him dodging among, the stars
Quill Points
A kiss is just the triumph of nature over the germ theory.
The difficult part seems to be to love your neighbor as your pelf.
Beauty is only skin deep, and frequently its brains arc equally
shallow.
At any rate, the man who called these early ones strawberries,
was a good judge of straw.
If a man has never made an ass of himself, it is probably because
Nature beat him to it.
A man has arrived when the little fellows call him Mister and the
big fellows call him Billy.
"Higher education"-is the sort gained in the College of Experl
ence. "Higher" refers to the price.
Strange that Bryan doesn't believe in evolution. The Democratic
party was originally the Eepublican party.
"Whatever happens, the girl who accepts a ride in a stranger's
automobile is an accessory before the fact.
After long and careful study, we are convinced that artistic tern
perament is just a chronic case of ingrowing selfishness. , ;
,Wad rVfevCA iJK 3v3
Walt Maton
JOKING BARRED.
MY OLD FEIEND Volstead looked so sad, I asked him, "Are
you feeling bad?" And he replied, "It's pretty raw,' the
way they joke about my law; I'm weary of the ribald jeers of
journalists and pamphleteers, of tinhorn lawyers in the courts,
and all the cheaper grades of sports. The Volstead law is too sub
lime to stir up laughter all the time." "Oh slush," I answered,
"likewise pshaw! I've backed yon and your well known law,
I've urged the people to abjure their forty drops of spavin cure,
and make your law a shining light by which to guide their steps
aright. But if your law can't stand the gaff, and shrivels when
. thtj people laugh, it will not do for mirthful skates who dwell in
these United States, Your law with me has made a hit, and yet it
is not Holy "Writ; it is not sacred, you must own, like those famed
tables made of stone. . Vie are a jocund, jesting Jiand, we people
of this spangled land; we see the funny side of things, and we 1
must have our little flings; and when you write a heavy tome, or
hand us out an epic pome, or frame a law forbidding gin,' you
must expect to see us grin ; and if your law or pome or book our
little jesting cannot brook, drag it away from joking souls, and
have a tinsmith patch the holes."
Tho rrjoont lnglowood trntsody In
California Is not cliniBcd iiualiml tin
Klka, Mnsous or Odd Fellows. You
say, "Why sIiikIu out tho K.K.K.'s us
tho Rint?" What poison Willi n thlni-
bio full, of Urn his would liuvrt mason
to suspect any other order. Robbers,
burglars aud niUlnUlit sssasHius K
out Into tho darkness under cover of a
mask in ordor that thoy may nt l
identified. A great fraternal . noctety
IM should not copy after outlaws in
the mutter of roKallu. Masons. Klks,
Odd Follows, and mouthers of Iho other
Hivat tvatiM-ultltjs am always pleaum!
to lot ptniplo kiioy that lliti btlon.
They bavo nothing to conccftf In the
matter of tholr activities. Dm mem
bers; of the K.K.K. Vnnoortl their bleu
tlty, Thotr real . work seems to be
mostly dime tinder Covor of darkness,
disguised ami hoodml features.
In the matter or giving alms they
make a notable exception to this rule.
In order to advertise their donations
to charity they go In tho day rime,
wear hoods and robes, so that the
public may sen what order it Is that Is
helping the widow and orphan. There
ere two notable Instance of that
kind In this city within a few days
following tbo llaln outntKe and last
Sunday In tho city of I'oitland menu
bers if the K.K.K., completely hooded
ana roueu, went into more than a
doxeti of the churches of that city and
In each left a small contribution to
charily. I would recommend that r
thoy havo a chivplutn that ha read to
them what Christ said about tho giving
of alms as recorded In Matthew. Chiiu-
t"r VI, whurcln lie sityn: "TaUo heed
that you do not your iiluis bedim men,
to be seen of them, ! ! Therefore,
when thou dmmt thine iilms do uot
sound a trumpet before llioo us lh
hypocrites do In the nynHgoguoa,
but vlien thou doeth alms, let not thy
left hand know what thy Unlit hand
doeth." VM. M, COLVIU.
Modioid, May 11,
Kelly Answers Anderson.
To the I'Mitor:
Iteit Anderson's eommiiulentlnii ,o
gi-oMMly misrepresent my altitude in
the iiiittifltiiiulB fimlrovei'sy tlint is
now milium Hie imlilie mind timl I
fuimnl paw the sumo iiiiiinllied. The
ioltleii I have taken deplores and
d''nmin.i'H liioli vluletice mid tho fiis
terliiK nf reunions and iio lal hatred
as Ik'Iiik wholly mi-Aniei'lrun. Mr.
Ailileimin's reiiHomns Is no Itlotdml
ll to raise tlu Bll.-lon that It lias
been Inriueitied by Ms Intense par
tisan feeling.
I have always ream -ded iimml
eouiiiiie as one of thu lllwlleHt or
A 1 1 1 1-1 1 1 ' a i Ideals. Tho editorial mi
liums nt your paper, supported by
sttilwiui iliHeiiK, whose patriotism
Mod elllKrlixhlp ii iv iilmve it'll I, Ihni
have ileiimnili-d f the raiidlilutea
fur offtee that they detlmn tlieiil
vlvrx (in this vllul insue that striken
nt tin. very mot of law and eonsii-
tuted uuttuirity. To refuse to take a
ittitml en such Mtsl lsu is to toy
nilnd nil ' cvlneement of moral .ow
Hi'dlee unfitting a enndid.ite for pub
Ik! oftlee. ,
Mr. Anderson's statement that tin
Is in in li "fiirioiuite position" as to
KiU'W thtf certain cnnilliliitim do nut
belong o the K. K, K, fail lend In
but one eoiH'tUMlon. Thai oritanlwi
lion, ns I iinderslit ml ll, is oulli Pound
not to dlvultiit the Identity of Us
members and to deny for them iiieni
liersblp In tb" organism Inn, In view
of which Mr. Anderson's denial that
bis cumllilnle Is mil a liiemlier would
ruem to reoulle annul further ulld
more specific explanation.
Very Truly,
I!, i:. KKI.LY.
Hun I'liisslfled mis Ret results.
ANNOUNCEMENT
STATE HEPBESENTATIVB
I hnodiy announc my candidacy for
tho republican nomination for rcprn
suntattv In lb siuto lenlsluturo at lb
May prlmrtry.
Adv. JOHN II. CAUK1S.
I announce myself a a candidate
(or Ittipreserttstlvo In tbn I.eKlslntiiru,
on tho llcpuhllnin ticket, subject tu
tbo primaries In May.
Adv. UALI'll COWUII.U
COUNTY COMMItSIONER
Tim. II. Simpson, of Ashland,
authorlaA hi announcement as a Can
didsta for lbs nomination fur tbs oflb s
of t'miuty C(immlasii:er of Jackaon
Comity, subjscjl to th decUlon of thn
Republican voters of said county st
the I'rliusry ICluctlon, Wsy Mth. 192L
Ady.
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