6 TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 19^ ' of agreement with the world as now accept invitations to accredit members i! duced to something like innocuous Tillamook Co., Ore. Budget Estimate, 1924, PRIZE PEACE PLAN o-ganized, called the League of Na­ with like powers to each one of the : * desuetude. The only kind of compul- Showing estimated expenses .f the several offlees and accounts: to bet raisedI tn Don, as required by chapter 118, Laws of Oregon for 1^ welfare commissions. It has already ’ i sion which nations can freely engage land anu Cent*forStetTc;^ wuis ---- purposes, * HAS BEEN ADOPTED tions. By sheer force of soctel interna­ received invitations from two of the 1: to apply to each other in the name of gether with the estimated revenue from sources other than direct taxation. Peace is that which arrises from con­ ASSESSOR’S OFFICE tional gravitation such coperation be­ latter. 1923 1922 1-2 1923 1921 1920 ference, from moral judgmet, from comes inevitable. . ' . . $ 1800.00 Assessor’s Salary . $ 1800.00 $ 1800.« It is, secondly, immediately practi­ $ 900.00 1200.00 Office Deputy ...................... 1200.00 The United States Has Already Gone cable to extend the same kind of co­ full publicity and from the power of 600.00 800.00 Field Deputy........................ I 712.00 operation, whenever asked to do it, public opinion. 8004 Far in Cooperation With the 100.50 Lea Special help extending Tax so as to include participation in the The Leadership of the United States League of Nations 26.00 308.16 in the New World is Obviously 350.00 Assessment Rolls ................. 352.50 The United States Government, work of the Comissions and techni­ 3711 of a 376.50 Recognized by the League 300.00 Incidentals ............................ theoretically maintaining a policy of » I cal committees of the Labor Organi­ 304.89 185.20 325.« I. Another significant development in $ 4063.43 TOTALS ....................... 4500Í M isolation, has actually gone far, since sation. The record Bhows that such 4450.00 4394.99 2470.36 ? 5190.76 the constitutional practice of the March 4, 1921, toward “cooperation 'cooperation is already begun. CLERK’S OFFICE The with other nations to achieve and pre-1 The single common purpose of all League is the unwillingness of the Clerks Salary ........................ 1800.0 1800.00 1800.00 900.00 in any League Council to intervene serve the peace of the world.” these committees is the collection and 1200.00 First Deputy.......................... 12004 1195.00 600.00 In The most familiar part of the story I study of information, on which may American controversy, even though 1140.00 Second Deputy .................... 1140.01 othe 1140.00 570.00 is the work of the Washington Con­ be based subsequent recommendations all states in the New World except 1080.00 1080.00 Third Deputy . ....................... 1'1200 peac 519.25 three are members of the League. Il.Cooperate with the League of Na­ ference, wherein President Harding’s for national legislation. Fourth Deputy ...................... 443.23 85.00 This refusal became evident in the 900.1 Administration made a beginning of tions, without Full Membership All conventions and resolutions, Supplies, etc........................... 144O.(| not 1779.15 1500.00 700.81 Panama-Costa Rica dispute in 1921 1 naval disarmament, opened to China recommended by the first three con­ at Present TOTALS ...................... 75004 cone 7437.38 6720.00 8170.25 3375.06 8972.30 That without becoming a member a prospect of rehabilitation and join- gresses of the International Labor and in the quarrel between Chile, Peru and Bolivia, a quarrel which im ­ the of the League of Nations as at pres­ > ed with Great Britain, Japan and Organization, have already been laid COUNTY COURT ent constituted, the United States I France to make the Pacific Ocean before the Senate of the United States pelled the last two States to absent 2000.00 2000.00 County Judges Salary ......... 20004 to 8 1000.01 cone Governmen should extend its present worthy of its name. land, without objection, referred to the themselves from the Third Assembly, 4175.50 3500.00 Commissioners Salary, Ex. 1980.09 3500.0 Later came the recommendation appropriate committee. No different wherein a Chilean was chosen to pre­ cooperation with the League and pro­ 1476.77 2000.00 Office Expenses and Supplies 20004 as p 648.00 pose participation in the work of its that the United States should adhere I | procedure would have been followed side. 7652.27 7967.89 TOTALS ...................... 7500.00 6493.03 3628.92 Obviously the League intends to1 era. Asserably'and Council under the fol­ to the Permanent Court of Interna- if the United States were a member ! tional Justice COURT HOUSE AND JAIL lowing conditons and reservations: of the Labor Organization of the recognize the leadership of the United j The States in the New World precisely 1 Not long after that action Presi­ I League. Safeguarding of Monroe Doctrine 1125.00 Office Rent ............................ 1125.0 693.75 M 198.00 1. The United States accepts the dent Harding wrote to Bishop Gailor: An Immediate Step Is Adherence to as the United States claims it. This Insurance is nothing less than the observance 1095.00 League of Nations as an instrument I “I do not believe any man can con-1 1200.00 Janitor’s Salary .................. 1500.1 655.48 n. the Permanent Court 1073.25 of mutual counsel, but it will assume front the responsibility of a President! I A third immediately practicable of an unwritten law limiting the pow­ 800.00 Fuel ........................... 18.00 lOOtMi 781.89 no obligation to interfere with politi­ of the United States and yet adhere I I step is the Senate’s .approval of the ers and duties of the League Council, 444.70 700.00 Light and Water .... 8QM 432.35 cal questions of policy or internal ad­ to the idea that it is possible for our I I proposal that the United States ad- defined in Article XI of the Covenant, 200.(1 264.79 100.00 Telephones ................ country to maintain an attitude of iso­ I here to the Permanent Court of Inter­ to questions that seem to threaten the 2179.44 ministration of any foreign state. 2O00.il 800.00 Supplies and Repairs 3454.19 peace of the Old World. When the 1154.55 In uniting its efforts with those of lation and aloofness in the world.” 1000J 500.00 County Jail .............. 673.10 national Justice for the reasons and But since the proposed adhesion to United States is willing to bring the other States for the preservation of 6914.48 4348.35 4901.83 7925.ol oblig TOTALS .......... 6204.01 5225.00 under the conditions stated by Secre­ peace and the promotion of the com­ the Permanent Court would bring this I tary Hughes and President Harding two halves of the world together for prest SHERIFF’S OFFICE friendly consideration of common mon welfare, the United States in­ country into close contact at one time I in February, 1923. its 8 2100.00 1050.00 2100.00 Sheriff’s Salary .......... .......... 2100.J sists upon the safeguarding of the and point with the League of Na-1 These three suggestions for in- dangers, duties and needs, it will be untes 1675.00 1800.«! First Deputy ........................ tions, and since such action is strenu ­ possible to secure, if it is desired, 900.00 1800.00 Monroe Doctrine and does not aban­ | creasing cooperation with the family 1443.32 690.00 1500.00 Second Deputy ....................... 1500.«] don its traditional attitude concerning ously opposed for exactly that rea­ of nations are in harmony with poli­ closer cooperation between the League 953.65 383.65 1200.00 Stenographer ........................ 1200.«! American independence of the Old son, it is pertinent to inquire not only cies already adopted by our Govern­ organizations and the Pan-American 1305.00 900.00 1800.00 Traffic Officer ...................... 1800.«^^— World and does not consent to sub­ how much cooperation with the I ment, and in the last case with a pol­ Union, already a potential regional CHA 1833.87 823.66 mit its long established policy con­ league and its organs has been pro­ icy so old and well recognized that league, It is conceivable that the 1300.00 Gasoline and Tires, etc ....... 115.42 1190.«] • family of nations may eventually Supplies ................................ cerning questions regarded by it as posed during the life of the present it 785.86 1190.00 may now be called traditional. 70.00 purely American to the recommenda- Administration, but also how much 250.00 Extra Help Collecting Taxes 250.«] They do not involve a question of clearly define certain powers and 416.73 has actually begun. duties of relatively local significance ' 750.«] tion or decision of other Powers. 262.69 750 00 Miscellaneous ........................ membership in the League of Nations 770.45 Officially or Unofficially the United as now constituted, but it cannot be which may be developed upon local 1 Law Enforcement No Military or Economic Force 11683.44 12336.80 14953.47 States is Represented on Many 5795.86 TOTALS Il 190.« 2. The only kind of compulsion 11890.00 denied that they lead to the threshold associations or unions. But the world 1 of business and finance is already | League Commissions which nations can freely engage to of that question. Any further step to- SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT’S The United .States Government haslwar(] cooperation must confront the unified. The worlds of scientific I apply to each other in the name of OFFICE Peace is that which arises from con­ accredited Its representatives to sit problem of direct relations between knowledge and humane effort are I'OQ.wl Superintendent ’s Salary 900.00 1800.00 nearly so. Isolation of any kind is ference, from moral judgment, from as members “in an unofficial and con- the Vnited States and the Assembly 1140.«! 1. a » 540.00 1140.00 Assistant’s Salary ......... full publicity, and from the power of suiting capacity” upon four of the and Council of fifty-four nations in increasingly impossible, and world or­ 0 362. 79 ganization, already centralized, is no 1000.00 Supplies, Printing most important social welfare com-1 ¿fie League public opinion. F 92.10 Stamps and Stationery more likely to return to disconnected 2. The United States will assume no missions of the League, viz: Health, I In Actual Operation the League Em­ Express, etc. 19.25 4. effort than the United States is likely 1 obligations under Article X in its Opium, Traffic in Women and Child­ ploys no force 200.«| 5. 413.46 200.00 Travelling Expenses .... present form, or under Article XVI in ren, and Anthrax (Industrial Hy­ I The practical experience of the to to to revert to the Calhoun theory | 975.«| 6. Miscellaneous Office Ex. of States Rights and Secession. its present form in the Covenant, or giene) 15O.«| 7. Printing ........................ Our Government is a full member Lnague during the first three and a In Actual Operation, if Not in Origi­ in its amended form as now proosed, half years of life has not only 4067.14 10^ 5312.65 4581.09 2327.60 TOTALS ............... 4140.00 unless in any particular case Congress of the International Hydrographic I wrought out, in a group of prece­ nal Conception the League Realizes IL Bureau, an organ of the League. Ourj the Principle and the Hopes of has authorized such action. dents, the beginnings of what might SURVEYOR’S OFFICE The United States proposes that Government was represented by an be called the constitutional law of the The Hague Conferences 814.93 Surveyor’s Salary . 399.37 1000.« 1000.00 Article X and XVI be either dropped “unofficial observer” in the Brussels League, but it has also shifted the The operation of the League has 666.01 1000.« 13. C Assistant’s Salary .. 300.83 1000.00 Conference (Finance and Economic altogether or so amended and changed therefore evolved a Council widely 462.99 emphasis in activities of the League 400.001 14. b 46.23 400.00 Supplies, etc........... . as >o eliminate any suggestion of a Commision) in 1920. It sent Hon. and foreshadowed important modifi­ different from the body imagined by 872.49 500 « 1&. 216.39 Auto Operation ..... 500.00 .Stephen G. Porter and Bishop Brent general agreement to use coercion for the makers of the Covenant. It can 2667.23 3070.37 2816.42 cations in its constitution, the Cov ­ 962.82 TOTALS ....... 2990.« 2900.00 obtaining conformity to the pledges of to represent it at the meeting of the enant. employ no force but that of persua­ Opium Commission last May. the Covenant. sion and moral influence. Its only TREASURER’S OFFICE Our Public Health Service has I At its birth the Covenant of the actual powers are to confer and ad­ a No Obligations Under Versailles 600.00 1200.00 Treasurer’s Salary ... ......... 1200. League bore, vaguely in Article X taken part in the Serological Con­ Treaty 300.« 150.00 300.00 Overtime ................... ........ and more clearly in Article XVI, the vise, to create commissions, to exer­ 3. The United States will accept no gresses of the Epidenmis Commission impression of a general agreement to cise inquisitive, conciliative and arbi­ 200.« 11.89 200.00 Supplies, etc............... ......... 2004.66 1767.31 1791.18 responsibilities under the Treaty of and has helped in the experimental enforce and coerce. Both of those tral functions, and to help elect TOTALS .......... ......... 1700.« 761.89 1700.00 Versailles unless in any particular work for the standardization of ser­ Articles suggest the action of a world­ judges of the Permanent Court. COUNTY GENERAL EXPENSE case Congress has authorized such ums. In other words, the force of cir­ state which never existed and does County School Fund ........... 46800 < Our Government collaborates with I 43000.00 action. cumstances is gradually moving the High School Tuition Fund .... 18900.« 1 the League Health Organization I not now exist. How far the present League into position upon the founda-' League Open to All Nations 16000.00 League is actually removed from County Institute Fund ......... I. The United States Government through the International Office of I functioning as such a State is suffi­ tions so well laid by the world’s lead­ 300.00 1737.50 1578.43 1833.33 22.25 proposes thut Article I of the Cove­ Public Health at Paris, and with the ciently exhibited in its dealings with ers between 1899 and 1907 in the' 600.00 Advertising ........................... 1733.75 3200.00 Agriculturist __________ ..... 2600.« 1150.00 nant be construed and applied, or, of Agriculture" Committee" of the League 2300.00 Lithuania and Poland over Vilna and great international councils of that Armory 10000.00 necessary, redrafted, so that admis­ Labor Organzation through the In­ their common boundary, and with period. The Assemblies of the League 10000.00 200.00 400.00 250.00 sion to the League shall be assured ternational Institute of Agriculture Greece and Italy over Corfu. 550.00 Auditor ................................ .. 550.« and the Congresses of the Interna- ■ 72.90 40.25 342.23 at Rome. Bounty .................... ............. 100.« 36.25 to any self-governing State that wish­ 1000.00 tional Labor Organizations are suc ­ 5833.67 3855.94 5696.47 In February, 1923, Secretary! Experience in the last three years cessors to the Hague Conferences. Circuit Court ......................... 6000.« 4046.39 es to join and that receives the favor­ 5000.00 has demonstrated probably insuper­ 1700.00 750.00 able vote of two-tliirds of the Assem­ Hughes and President Harding form­ The Permanent Court has at least 1500.00 Club Work ............................ 1200.« able difficulties in the way of fulfilling 120.36 271.00 330.40 ally recoinmended that the Senate* ap- I 250*« 130.70 bly. . begun to realize the highest hope and 200.00 Coroner ______________ ___ in all parts of the world the large 1579.58 3013.36 1500.00 Development of International Law prove our adhesion to the Permanent County Fair .......................... 1500.« 200.00 purpose of the Second League Con­ 1500.00 promise of Article X in respect to 6071.97 8389.93 7590.20 5. As a condition of its participa­ Court under four conditions or res­ 3978.41 7500.00 County Poor ........................ 8000.« either its letter or its spirit. No one ference. tion in the work and counsels of the ervations, one of which was that the Recrusing and obtaining esti­ The Secretariat and the Labor now expects the League Council to League, the United States asks that United States should officially par-1 mate on Timber for Assess­ Office have become Continuation Com ­ try to summon armies and fleets, 20201.74 ♦he Assembly and Council consent— ticipnte in the" election of judges by 11358.70 ment Purposes _________ mittees for the administrative work State 20000.00 since it utterly failed to obtain even 2439.60 2450.00 2100.00 2100.«^^^ or obtain authority—to begin collab­ the Assembly and Council of the 1050.00 Dairy and Food Commission of the organized world, such as the 2100.00 an international police force for the 3690.60 3876.58 3484.30 3600.0« ! that ta oration for 'the revision and develop­ League. sitting as electoral colleges Vilna district. 1770.48 Hague Conference lacked resources Í 1848.01 3600.00 Dairy Herd Inspector ......... 2305.23 2619.16 ment of international law, employing for that purpose. 1121.40 2220.00 District Attorney ................. 2250.«] Su Each Assembly of the League has to create but would have rejoiced to| 87.72 98.58 101.46 Unofficial cooperation from the for this purpose the aid of a commis­ 102.5# see. 46.75 102.50 Dstrict Sealer ................... witnessed vigorous efforts to inter ­ 2920.38 sion of jurists. This Commssion United States with the work of the Elections ................................ 3000.« . _ j The Council, resolving loose and pret and modify Article X. In the would be directed to formulate anew League includes membership in five 172.00 Enforcement Prohibition Law Fourth Assembly an attempt to adopt large theories into cleancut and mod-1 834.41 existing rules of the law of nations, of the- social welfare commissions or 100386 Emergency Fund ________ est practise, has been gradually rec­ an interpretation of that Article in 832.22 894.04 1114.64 to reconcile divergent opinions, to con­ committees of the* league, in one" on Fire Warden............ .............. onciling the League, as an organized 490.12 essential agreement with the Senat ­ 1740.82 456.43 737.01 sider points hitherto inadequately pro­ economic reconstruction, and in one 395.60 Health Office................ ... orial reservation on the same subject world, with ideals of international i 161.16 65.00 141.35 vided for but vital to the maintenance (Aaland Islands), which averted « Insane ..... .................. ............ interdependence, temporarily obscured 35.00 in 1920 was blocked only by a small 948.71 753.54 war. American women serve as ex ­ 1599.34 of international justice, and in general 165.55 Justice Court .... . ...... ......... group of weak States like Persia and since 1914 by the shadows of the 36.00 33.70 112.05 to define the «octal rights and »luties pert Assessors upon the Opium and Great War. Juvenile Court ................. ..... 218.53 Panama, which evidently attributed to i Traffic in Women Commissions. of States. The recommendations of No one can deny that the organs of Library Fund ........................ Article X a protective power that it 2822.75 2757.50 Two philanthropic agencies in the 2722.50 th*" Commission would be presented the League have brought to the ser­ 1807.50 Mother’s Pensions ................. possesses only on paper. 1671.83 312.60 689.02 from time to time, in proper form for United States have between them vice of the forces behind those ideals Printing _________________ 178.09 Such States, in possible fear of un ­ 1054.64 3001.77 1102.58 consideration, to the Assembly as to pledged more than $400,000 to sup­ an efficiency, scope and variety of ap­ Stock Indemnity .................. 1341.46 132.18 70.43 a recommendng if not a law-making port either the work of the Epidemics friendly neighbors. must decide i peal that in 1914 would have seemed 75.63 Truant Officer................ _..... 64.50 whether the preservation of a form tommission or the l-cague inquiry body. incredible. To Retire Outstanding War­ There i* not Room for More Than into conditions of the traffic in women i of words in the Covenant is more vital It is common knowledge that pub­ rants ........................... ........ 40000.«1 to their peace and security, and to the and children. 40000.00 line Organisation to Bromote In- lic opinion and official policy in the I Total General Expenses peace and security of the world, than ternational t'ooperslion Ilow Can Increasing Cooperation Be­ I nited States have for a long time, (exclusive of County In­ thj presence of the United States at Five-sixths of all nations, includ­ tween the United States and the stitute, County School the council table of the family of na- without distinction of party, been ing about four-fifths of mankind, Organised World be Secured? Cions. favorable to international conferences and High School Tuition have already ?reat<-d a world-organ- The United States being already for the common welfare, and to the Funds) 115077.5# As to Article XVI, the Council of itat ion. the purpose ot which is “to *0 far committed to unite»! counsels ROADS AND BRIDGES establishment of conciliative, arbitral Total County General Purposes promote international cooperation with League-agencies for the common the league created a Blockade Com- Garibaldi-Wheeler Road and AMOUNTS NECCESSARY TO BE and judicial means for settling inter- High School Tuition Fund and to achieve international peace and social welfare, al) of which have som. | mission which worked for two years national disputes. RAISED FOR VARIOUS FUNDS State Cooperation on same 17000 00 County School Fund and security." | bearing upon the preservation of to determine how the “economic weap­ 3000.00 rhere is no reason to believe that Lindsey Road State Tax _____________ 155000.0# Those nations cannot and will not'w«r' ____ , 1451700 General Expenses _______ _ 02857.M and 15 ............................... 25131.00 Less Estimated Receipts be expedited. - — .I of the ation of nation's could be formed, su»*h j forma acceptable to the people of the for itself whether a breach Balance for County Purposes Sandlake Road ........... ........ To Retire Outstanding War­ 10000.00 In no other way can the organized hopes were di»p,lle»l during the Wash­ •United States ami hopefully prac- Covenant has been comi mitted. Blaine Road ........ ........... __ rants ___ _________ __ __ 40000.## County School Fund High 1000.00 The Second A» World, from which the United States embly adopted a ington tonference by plain intima­ ' livable ? East Beaver Road _______ _ 25000J# Market Road Fund___ School Tuition Fund and 500.00 tion» from other Powers that there The United Stales 'an Extend Its radically amended form of Article cannot be economically and spiritu­ Blanchard Road _.......... Interest on Bonds_______ 9800.1# County Institute Fund to 100.00 XVI from ally separated, belt the power of pub- is not room for more than one organ Present Cooperation with »he Lea­ reference t which was removed all | lie opinion to the new machinery, de­ Little Nestucca Road To Retire County Road Bonds 3000'0# be raised by Tax ............. 374508.50 500.00 o the ponsibiliey of employ. itation Hit» the League of Nations. gue» Social Welfare Activities 153970.45 Recruising and Obtaining ing military . 7...e, force, and anC in L which the vised for the pacific settlement of con* Cloverdale-Woods................ 1000.00 State Tax ........ The States outside the organitcl Pacific City _____________ 2000.00 lr.tvrest on Bonds __ ’ ithout any change in its present abandonment of uniform ad Estimate on Timber for As­ world are net of such a character that ^Policy, already describe,!, the United — ---------1 obligation troversieo between nations and stand- General Maintenance and Re­ To Retire County Road sessment Purposes ____ 300< “ provide,! for. The Brit- , ' ng always ready for use. the United States coald hopefully co­ I States Government could, first, show was dire, ■ctly pairs. Dists. 3, 16, 17, 18, 19 30031.00 Total Estimates 583.8 25## Bonds __ ------- — has j since proposed to The I nited States Should Participate operate with them tot tire purpose |Its willingness to cooperate similarly ish Government -. 30000.00 TOTAL ------------------ 135393 00 Less Estimated Receipts .... 14517.0# in the League's Work Under TOTAL named. w< aken the form of requirement still ... 568278.95 with the other humane and recon­ Net Amount ______ 569.3''8 J# Stated Conditions Therefore, the only possible path structive agencies of the League. To further. A'tuos X and XVI, m their origi-- I The I nited States Government to cooperation in which the United four of these agcnctee that Govern room in Tillamook. Tillamook 'countv* he,rin8 • session of the County < '«ft ---------- County^Oregon on Monday the 4th day of Febt na! forms, have therefore been prac­ sh. uld be authorised to propose co-1 heard in favor of or again* t'a ñv h — " -u States can take an increasing share i___ nd any amoo* taxpayer, su£j< men! had already sent delegatee with thn above tax levy, when made, may te tically condemned by the principal ___ or-' operation with the Uague and par­ Dated thia 10th £y o? J.n^yTok^'^ brdei ta that which leads toward s» tne formadvi ” r> pvweis It .„uld as properly ..____ °* «*• Budget Committee. rs n. of th. league ami ar, today re-_______ (Continued on w 7) The substantial provisions which constitute the plan selected by the Jury of Award, and upon which the vote of the American people is asked, are hereby submitted by the Policy Committee as follows: L Enter the Permanent Court That the United States adhere the Couri. ol luusruiiUonui Justice for the reasons and under the conditions stated by Secretary Hughes and President in February, 1923. F I Fc H. V. ALLEY Secretary of Budget Committee