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PAGE SIX VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1934. ducers, the commission expects to pro rate the milk production among those already What Squeals Louder than a Pig established. It will prevent people enter Caught Under a Gate? ing the field where the supply is already adequate.” The Argus truly hopes this plan will Member of Oregon State Editorial Association. do all that it is hoped to do and will be of Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922, at the post office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the real benefit to the dairymen of Washington act of March 3, 1879. county, who are certainly entitled to a Isuued Every Friday $2.00 Per Year in Advance break. Right thinking people do not mind Temporary rate ................................. $1.50 a year paying a fair price for any commodity if Six months ......... 75c Two years ......... $2.50 they have the money and they most cer Advertising rates—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, tainly should not begrudge money spent 28c per inch; legal notices, 10c per line first in sertion, 5c per line succeeding insertions; classi for milk, which is so important to the fied lc per word, minimum 25c first insertion, I health of the public. Hundreds of dairy- 15c succeeding insertions; readers, 10c per line. ; men in Washington county have gone to RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher I great expense to equip themselves in ac cord with city milk requirements and should Concerning the Sales Tax not be compelled to operate at a loss. —Hillsboro Argus The communication from the Jackson ------------ § — § — § ------------ County Farmers and Home Owners’ associ THE BEER GARDEN MENACE ation, printed in another column, deserves careful attention. So many have been the The Salem Capital Journal rightfully arguments deluging the state against the sales tax for relief of the schools that calls attention to the laxity in the enforce many of us, viewing the proposal from a ment of the law regulating the sale of beer. distance, are apt to think it an artful Speaking of the sale of beer and whiskey by scheme of wealthy tax dodgers to thrust the glass to boys and girls in so-called beer Talburt in St. Louis Globe-Democrat upon farmers, laborers and the profession gardens, it asks, “why are they permitted al classes in the lower or middle brackets a to conduct places in comparison to which greater and more unjust share of the tax the most bawdy and disreputable saloons of state. Last summer when it was first put on it was quite unpopu burden than they already have. The mem pre-prohibition days were mere tea rooms?” lar, but when tax paying time Why indeed? In a village not far away bers of the Jackson County association, , came this fall and people saw however, are not viewing the sales tax from on a dance night recently swarms of young i that their tax statements had ac afar. California, where a higher rate is in boys and girls, many of them undoubtedly tually been cut from 30 per cent effect than is required in the new Oregon minors, hovered over a disreputable looking TO FARMERS, HOME to 40 per cent almost a complete bar, gulping down drinks between dances. reversal of sentiment toward it law, is not for away. OWNERS AND ALL PRO- A sales tax as an added tax deserves In the old days sons and daughters of re PERTY TAX PAYERS: came about in a few weeks. The California rate is 2%! per cent all the unpopularity it incurs, but as a tax spectable families shunned the saloons, and while Oregon’s proposed rate is We are addressing this to you the lad who had the effontery to come to a to reduce substantially property taxes, now 1% per cent, but even 1% per strained beyond the breaking point, it has decent dance with liquor on his breath was as a home owner, fanner, proper cent will help considerably. Our plea to you is simply this: given to understand that his presence was ty tax payer, or representative of distinct merit. such a group, asking that you Such the present sales tax measure not desirable. In contrast to this attitude your best efforts to delay the Do not permit any hasty conclu to be formed relative to this provides, the reduction in the Vernonia the lad who is three sheets in the wind now passing of any final judgment sions bill, or any hasty actio« to be tak grade school district being estimated at seems to be marked for social distinction. or the taking of any action en until you have had full oppor Dozens of these dives have been opened against the present sales and utili tunity to study the bill and how 2.26 mills besides 1 mill county school fund since the return of beer. “Within a radius ty tax bill, which is now threaten»- it will apply to the relief of real tax. Not a heavy reduction, that, but ed with a referendum, until a full enough to more than offset the one and a of a few miles of Salem,” declares the opportunity has been had to give property and also the relief of schools. This bill is not at half per cent sales tax. In smaller dis Capital-Journal, “there are several beer gar the bill and its effect on our the all the same thing that was voted property taxes a thorough analy tricts, in which the $400 per teacher unit dens and road houses operating in open down last July, either in its ap goes far towards paying the total expenses defiance of law and decency. In them sis. plication or its purpose. While it is of the greatest im Respectfully yours, of the school, the reduction would pro anyone with the money can buy beer or portance to protect our common portionately be much greater than in Ver wine, and in several hard liquor of various schools from having to close Jackson County Farmers and Owners Association. nonia, and all the more advantageous to kinds and of questionable quality—man or their doors, it is of no less im Home By A. C. Hubbard, chairman woman, boy or girl, drunk or sober.” portance that we relieve our home the taxpayers. C. C. Hoover, secretary Contempt for temperance, bred, perhaps owners, farmers, and other pro ------------§—§—§------------ tax payers from a complete Escaping from the Oregon state peni by wholesale flouSng of the prohibition law, perty collapse. If our present property tentiary is a futile pastime, says a news seems to have found its lodging in the tax system, which is more than item from Salem. Twenty-four prisoners youth of the land, a situation that bodes no 40 per cent delinquent now, does tried escaping in the last eight years, and good for coming generations. At any rate collapse not only the schools but decent society must recognize the danger all other functions of government none succeeded. If only the escape of uncaught crimi and insist upon the elimination of offenders are As sunk. Stockholders of the old St. the matter now stands we referred to. —McMinnville Telephone-Regis home owners, farmers, and all Helens creamery will take back nals were likewise futile . . . ter. ------------§—§—§------------ property tax payers bear more control of the St. Helens branch ------------ §—§—§------------ than 97 per cent of the whole of the Lower Columbia Coopera Insurance of deposits, now effective, cost of the elementary and high tive Dairy association. Because may not make much of a hit with the It Could Only Happen in a Public Office schools. More than half of the of the lack of interest in the part bankers, but the depositors are certainly We publish below a dispatch by the people who send their children to of the dairymen the association going to like it if it works. United Press from Salem without comment: our schools own no taxable pro had decided either to close the ------------§—5—§------------ The state treasury yesterday mailed perty and consequently pay noth plant or return it to the original The mill whistle, extending its annual to the Lane county treasurer one of the ing at all toward the support of stockholders. greeting at midnight Sunday, is evidently smallest checks ever issued in Oregon: for the schools. From 40 per cent Columbia county is one of the to 45 per cent of our total taxes in good order. Here’s hoping it will get 1 cent. worst breeding areas in the are for schools only. We do not some real exercise three times or so daily Lane county yesterday paid the state ask that property owners be ex state for mosquitoes, declared Roberts of Portland, assis in 1934. $6,000 completing the first-half property cused from supporting schools. Joe tant state director for mosquito We are quite willing that they ------------§—S—S------------ taxes due, although the amount owed was control, at a meeting of the St. We can stand a little gentle rain, by only $5,999.99, making a refund voucher should still bear by far the big Helens chamber of commerce ger end of the burden, but in way of contrast. necessary. these times when property is al last w’eek. He stated that the In making the refund, the treasury most a liability and when we are government has appropriated $160,000 to be used on the Ore used a 3-cent postage stamp and 2-cents sinking under the road; when we gon side of the Columbia in are 40 per cent delinquent on! worth of labor and stationery. An addi fighting mosquitoes. our taxes and cannot even bor tional 2-cent tax must be paid when and row the money with which to pay The McCormick Lumber Co.'s if the check is cashed.—Rainier Review. DAIRYMEN NEED A BREAK them, we think it is no more than St. Helens pland resumed Tues ----------- §—5—§------------ fair that the present big group i day on a 30 hour a week basis. Regulations are peculiar things. Com of non tax payers should contri-; Although the allotment of lumber E. G. Harlan, administrator of the law declaring milk a public utility, gives mercial steelhead fishing in Washington is bute a little something to school i to be manufactured was increas support. This sales tax bill offers I ed for January mills have been hope to dairymen in a statement that milk forbidden yet the Chinook Observer carries us, we think, the first opportunity- prices in the larger cities of Oregon will ! a letter from the department, charged with we have had for shifting a little; not been advised as to a change in forking hours. be established within a few days by the enforcement, saying that Washington fish of our tax burden to other shoul milk commission. Harlan says: "The com ermen can catch steelheads in the Wash ders. It will relieve the property I The state highway commission mission will strive to maintain adequate ington waters of the Columbia as long as tax we now pay for schools atj has let to Lindsrom and Seigen- one third. son the contract for constructing milk supplies at a fair price to the producer, they will see they are not delivered for least Living near the California line a new bridge over the Clatskanie distributor and consumer. In milk sheds, consumption and processing in Washington, as we do, we are watching a simi river at Clatskanie. The amount where there are already too many pro but are taken to Oregon.—Astorian-Budget. lar sales tax operate in that was $21,404.50. VERNONIA EAGLE The Open Forum - - Among Our Neighbors • • What Other Editors Say
