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Thursday, January 20, 1927 VERNONIA EAGLE and w mien who are engaged in the production of food and cloth ing for the world. It is also a From page 3 source of inspiration to hundreds United States. Another fireproof of b is and girls in the state io building should be provided for have held before them constantly throughout the year the possibili- housing the girls. The employment institution for ty of earning a free trip to these the blind, at Portland, fills an fairs. I ask you to make these urgent need. I recommend that the appropriations as they mean so activities of that institution be in much to so many people in the ereased so that the blind may learn humble walks of life. Old Age Penaion« more trades and thus become self- An old age pension should be supporting. adopteu by the state. There are Training Schoo! The old training school for boys, today many men and women in near Salem, should be convertid the state who have reached their into a reformatory, where should declining years and are unable to be confined the younger and un- support tnemselves. their unfor- hardened criminals sent to the pen cunate plight is due partly to econ- itentiary, and also the older boys onuc conditions and partiy to their who are now being sent to the inability to do the things worth wane at whicn tney can earn a training school. To that end I recommend thç livlihood. Many of them, in early construction of at least two new lite, held prominent places in tne buildings at Woodburn, The cot ousines and social world. It would tage plan is undoubtedly the best be far more dignified and better plan for caring for these boys in for society to provide for pension ing these dependent ones than to the state training school. nave them spend their last days Tuberculosis Hospital in a poorhouse. This is one of the Oregon now has one of the prices we must pay for living in finest tuberculosis hospitals in the a complex civilization. United States, and, it is most effi Irreducible School Fund. ciently managed. A new hospital I again call attention to the was provided by the people and has been located at The Dalles. fact, as 1 did two years ago, that Liberal appropriations should be there is a serious impairment in the irreducible school fund. The made for these institutions. loss m this fund may reach a total Industrial School For Girls The Industrial school for girls of $.11)0,000. This resulted from has been under most able manage loaning more money than should mt nt. I earnestly recommend the nave been loaned in certain coun full amount approved by the budget ties in the state, and the organi commission be appropriated for zation of irrigation districts, which included lands mortgaged to the tlu3 institution. school fund. Institution For Feeble-Minded The institution for feeble-minded 1 recommend that the legislature has been under its present official by joint memorial to congress, ask in: nagment for several years. The that body to pass legislation now st< rilization law passed at another pending so that title to school lands sision has been in full operation, will be confirmed to the state; and M hen once committed to this in that the federal government relin stitution the patients are not dis- quish its reserve çlaim claim for the ch rged or allowed furloughs until minerals that may be found in th y have been sterilized. In a few said school lands, It is not right years this will result in a marked or just for the federal govern- de. ease in the number of those *un ment to give to the school fund fortunate sub-normals. of Oregon, as it did, sections 16 Self-Sustaining Commissions and 36 of each township, and then From time to time commissions reserve to itself all mineral rights, have created by legislative act and coming back years afterwards and authority given to these commiss- claiming said mineral rights and ions to collect fees and license disturbing titles long standing in and to spend the money so collect private individuals. ed. I repeat my former reommenda- World War Veteran«' State Aid tions that all fees collected by Comminion thse so-called self-sustaining com It is probable that many loans missions be turned into the general made by the World War Veterans’ fund of the state treasury, and State Aid Commission will be that the commissions be obliged found to be over-loans. A num- to present their budgets to the have already abandoned their ways and means committee and re-.__ s and homes and have turn( ceive from that committee their j ed their property over to the ¡appropriations for the coming 1 state. The total loaned to date biennium. It is not good business' is about $21,000,000, and when •or good government, to allow a all applications are acted on this commission to collect fees, often amount will probably reach $30,- aggregating many thousands of dol 000,000. The impairment in this lars, and then vest in that com fund may amount to 10 per cent mission authority to spend the foes of the appraised value is decidedly as it sees fit, without audit or too high, and it is certain that supervision by elected state of- this result in serious losses to the state. 1icials. On account of the cash bonus New State Office Building I recommend that a new state paid there is a deficit in this fund office building he erected in Salem. of $1,499,088. The state is collect The necessary money can be bor ing onehalf mill on all assessed rowed from the funds belonging property in Oregon for this fund. to the State Industrial Accident It will require three years collec Commission. Interest should be tion to take up the present deficit. It is my judgment that $500,000 paid on the money so borrowed. The budding should be of modern must be contributed yearly from class A construction, and at least the general fund to the World six stories high. One floor each War Veterans’ State Aid Commis- should be given to the state li sion for eight years in order to brary, the highway commission, the to take up the deficit now exist- bonus commission, the acci ing and the further losses that commission and the motor vel will surely accrue in the future. department. State records arc Public Service Commission. Ry reason of various court de- •scattered through many diffe visions I know full well that the offices in buildings that are fireproof, It would be a sei Publie Service Commission is sev- disaster to have the records erely limittd in its power to grant relief to the people from excess any one of these departments ive charges and terms exacted by stroyed. A fireproof state bail public utilities. However, seriously is absolutely necessary to in handicapped the commission may the safety of state records. Fairs and Expositions be. it is nevertheless my belief me the ap- that it should either show a dis- 1 ask you to c< propriations for tin ncific Inti r- position to help curb and correct national livestock osition, the the arbitrary practices of the Paci ions county fic Telephone & Telegraph Com state fair and the annual visit pany and other utilities of the and district fairs. 1 to these various ft in the fall commission should be abolished. Arbitrarily and unreasonably, I in the is- is the only bright with all the power of an autocrat. olated. lonely lives GOVERNORS MESSAGE COLLECTIONS NO COLLECTION—NO CHARGE KNIGHT ADJUSTMENT CO. We Get Results. nt McMinnville, Hillsboro and 502 Board of Trade build ing. Portland. State Laundry Company FOR GOOD LAUNDRY WORK i the telephone compels its patrcis National Guard is the finest in ter and unjust criticism has been schools and libraries everywhere, to pay for the use of the telephone the United States. The federal the cause of much worry and many, without tariff walls at state boun- before it is installed; rates are government expend» more than a headaches, but has in no way af-' daries, and with modern means for collected in advance; the patron’s million dollars a year on the guard. fseted my official course. I faced ' the transportation of freight and money is used without inters >L The perpetuity of American Jnr-tj- threat of recall because I would intelligence that are the marvel of Our Public Service Commission has tutions and of civilization itself pot bow to a powerful group that all the centuries. me., j £ extend to my successor the not made any effort to redress depends largely upon our schools. demanded certain action from me. »*♦ the timo /nil : : . kindliest . ... . T. knew at time fliuf that fKxiis* their full these wrongs, but sits idly by, Free institutions of government T I Vwzmj __ ___ i of greetings. It is niy condones, and at least tacitly right rest entirely upon the intelligence power and strength would be us sincere hope that his administration in allowing the local telephone of the masses. The centuries that ed to prevent my reelection. I felt may be as successful as I believe company to pay four and one-haif have rolled by bear testimony to their effectiveneness in the cam- the future historian will proclaim per cent of its gross earnings -o the immutable law that education paign just closed. In my inner con- mine to have been. Let me close the American Telephone & Tele- is the one great bulwark .of de sciousnesa I knew I was right, and my message to you and the final future. «noment of my term as governor I ghaph Company, under the guise mocracy; that mankind has pro I held for the verdict of the I believe that in the • years to of Oregon, with these thoughts: of “supervision," and then compel gressed in proportion to the de the local companies to buy all of gree that education has been diss come my administration i will be I hold that man alone succeeds, I their costly equipment and supplies eminated among the people; that given credit— Whose life is crowned by nobls at an unknown profit from t.ie civilization has stagnated and gone For arousing interest in hydro- deeds, Western Electric Company. The backmard when the least among electric development; Who cares not for the world’s ap- Public Service Commission of tl is the citizenry have been denied the For an earnest effort to bring plause, state has failed to regulate except right to knowledge. But scorn, custom’s outgrown in the interests of the utilities a.id Next to the homes qf the nation, about a state reforestation pro- laws. gram; against the people. public schools exert the greatest Who feels not dwarfed by nature’s For beginning the movement to I know the excuse is made that influences on the character of our show, the courts would set aside t.ie citizenship. They are the found Collect the money necessary for But deep within himself doth decisions of the commission, but ation upon which our intellectual stats activities from sources other know it would be a relief to have tne development la built; they aid in than a tax on visible property; That conscious man is greater far Public Service Commission evi- rounding out, the physical well-be For arousing the people to the Than ocean, land or distant star; dence a desire to try to help. I ing of the youth of the land ¿" they necessity for more equitable as Who does not count his wealth called the attention of the legisla call out the best ^hat is in the sessment laws ; by gold, ture to this matter two years ago. minds of the young and direct It For creating public sentiment for His worth by office he may hold, law enforcement, including pro- I now recommend that you ap into the proper channels. In brief, But feels himself, as man alone, propriate sufficient money to en they determine in large measure hibition ; As good as king upon a throne-, able the governor to conduct a the mental and moral character of For changing the policy in re- Who, battling ’gainst each seem hearing before the Public Service our citizenship. From the public gard to guaranteeing interest on ing wrong, Commission and in the courts, giv schools of our country have come irrigation bonds and the use ot Can meet disaster with a song, ing authority to summon witnesses, our leaders, our great men, those' state credit; Feel sure of victory in defeat, employ experts and engineers, a id who have left footprints on the And rise refreshed the foe to For initiating a program that compel the production of books sands of time. Our public schools will eventually make the peniten- meet, and records, that a full and com have been our salvation in the tiary self-supporting. Who only lives the world to bless, plete hearing may be had on tne past. They are the star of hope Can never fail—he is Success! For changing road construction doings of the telephone companies for the future. from “black-top” to oiled mac- in the state of Oregon. Oregon Agricultural College adams, and For SALE or TRADE To the end that responsibility The Oregon Agricultural College may be fixed, I recommend that stands at the head of land grant ■ •• For an active, earnest interest the elective public service co. < n- colleges in the United Stat«», For .in all matters pertaining to educ- I have a 40 acre ranch that 1 will sell, or trade for town property. mission be abolished, and that ; the twenty years no educational insti ation. I am laying down my work as members of the commission be > ap- tution has had more able manage i Thirty acres under cultivation and pointed by the governor. ment. The entire state has been governor of this state with ill will 10 acres in timber. Good house and Particularly interested in this benefited and vastly improved toward none, with friendship for nicely fixed inside. all. I again reaffirm my faith in telephone matter must be the large through its activities. It is the former Mellinger ranch American institutions. I am grate delegation from Multnomah county University of Oregon ful for the opportunity to live in If you know where it is call and see in this legislature, for in the city Gur stale university at Eugene it. It is m miles from town on of Portland the franchise of the is une of tbe great educational this wonderous age of human act stony point road below city resevoir. ivity, in a country of which we Pacific Telephone & Telegraph institutions of America, made so are all a part and ind parcel, reach- If you don’t know where it is, in Company expires in a short tin.e, largely by the leadership of its ing from ocean to tc shining ocean. and the city council of Portia id late p.esiuent. Under new manage, using one language, of practically quire at the Eagle office for Rat should, have the assistance of tl is men. ns power and influence one religion, with free public cliffe and I will be glad to show you where it is. , legislative body, so that the new should continue. franchise granted by Portland to Normal Schools the telephone company will prop Our normal school ’at Monmouth erly and adequately protect the ha;, i.uuu students. Thia ia a very people from excessive rates aid fine institution fur the training ot arbitrary practices. The city coun grade teachers, tn oruer to provide —to give better service in the lines we handle— cil of Portland can refuse to grant necucu uuuu.iig» aim equipment, the franchise unless the “sup< r- muie money must be given for FEED vision” charge of t the American this institution than ia collected HAY Telephone & Telegraph Company by the milluge tax. I recommend COAL is omitted, This is a matter af- tne full appropriation that was ap BRICQUETS fecting the pocketbooks of many proved by the budget commission. people, and should you fail to apt SAND The new normal school at Ash » the people will have the right to GRAVEL land has exceeded the anticipation believe that you have forgotten of its friends, and new buildings CEMENT I your duty and the interests of the and equipment are necessary. LIME . i •: common man in your desire to The new normal school located - » i serve the special interests. BRICK at La Grande should have an ap J.. Some years ago many of tne DRAIN TILE propriation of at least $175,000 pub.ie ’ utilities and corporations DUPONT POWDER for the construction of the nec winch depend largely for their < x- essary buildings. These normal CAPS and FUSE ! islence upon the good will of the schools are necessary to train prop POTATOES people began selling their shai es erly the teachers who work , so of stock, using “high-power” sales We endeavor to sell cheaper than can be laid faithfully in the grades with the men and effecting their sa es down from outside. chiefly among the most influent.al thousands of future citizens of our country. citizens of the community. One State Library hundred dollars in stock, paying The importance and value of the cent interest, often n- 7 per library is equaled only by the com fluences several votes on election mon grade schools. It is reaching, day when the utilities desire to helping, assisting and inspiring nominate or elect a friend on in thousands of people in- home and important commission or to a high communities isolated and distant office. In this distribution of stock from the educational centers of it is noticeable that the cont ’01 the state. I recommend the full never passes from the hands of a appropriation approved by the bud select few, and the wider the d is- get commission for this deserving tribution of stock the easier t.-ie and valuable state activity. control. If the American people cm Wonsan la Public Life be duped by this scattering of Since women have been given the stock throughout the country, then privilege of voting, anl have taken the administration of government their places in various vocations by the utilities and for the util in the business world, I have watch ities will be perfected. Now is the time of year your battery should ed with deep interest the ability Consolidation of State Actitiv •* displayed by those who have been , be kept fully charged and in tip-top shape. It seems to be utterly impossible placed in charge of important fun Your Dattery recharged, painted with acid- to bring about consolidation of ctions of government. I wish to roof paint and acid adjusted, all for ....... state commissions in Oregon. I n >w testify that ray observations are recommend that you make a sti.rt that they have made good, and I tadio batteries and others not requiring by consolidating all agricultu al know of no position in the af removal or installation in car activities under one head. This fairs of state government that a Rent Batteries, per day 25c effectives ss will demonstrate the woman cannot fill creditably, pro and the economy of such a system. vided she has the proper training Stream Pollution and peculiar qualifications for the Whole hearted support and as- work. There are several outstanding sistance should be given to our ars state board of health and to other examples that may be soon by calm efforts toward the prevention of ly and impartially appraising the million dollars a year in Oregon work peformed by women of Ore to help train and equip these men. gon, 1. e., secretary of the state We are not a war-loving nation; fair board, district judge, superin we do not believe in militarism, tendent of the girls’ training school, but simple precaution dictates that regents of the university and agri we at all times be prepared to ie- cultural college, and state librarian. FADA ATWATER KENT fend our country and our institu- No quixotic spirit of gallantry is tions of government, whether it needed to codunend them for their be from foes within or from the loyal service to the state. 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