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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
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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
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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.
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property tax payers bear more control of the St. Helens branch
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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