Homes at Mist Get
New Paint, Roof Stain
Combining Started *
MIST — The Austin Dowling
folks are treating the exterior
of their house to a new coat of
paint, roof included.
Wm. B rid gers was a Portland
business visitor Tues.
Roy Hughes was in Portland
last week attending a three-day
convention of the Legion.
Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Hayden,
Joanne and Bobby went to Glen-
oma, Wash. Sun. and visited the
Don Hail family.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Wickstr om
drove to McMinnville Sat. to
meet Margie and bring her home.
Walter Mathews has recently
stained his house top.
Combining has already started
on the surrounding farms.
The blackberry season is about
over. Berries are getting mushy.
Van? Burt was in the village
from Rainier Sat.
Watermelon Feed at
Natal Grange Draws
Good Crcwd Wednesday
NATAL—Mr. and Mrs. Charlie
Bragg and daughter, Dorothy,
returned from Calif. Sat. where
they visiled with relatives for
the past two weeks.
Max Oblack has been quite
s:ck but is better now.
The watermelon feed and pro
gram put on by the home econ
omics ladies of Natal grange
Wed. night was well attended
and a good time was enjoyed.
Mrs. Victor Berg and children
Vernonia Eagle
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Thursday, August 17, 1944
visited with Mrs. Carmichael at
Big Eddy Fri. afternoon.
Lincoln Peterson drove to Port
land Mon. and again Tues, with
somp beeves.
Callers at the L. Carmichael
home Sun. were Mr. and Mrs.
M. B. Steers and children and
Mr. and Mrs. Noble Dunlap.
ARMY SAVES MILLIONS
Savings of $2,000,000 by the
army quartermaster corps dur
ing the past fiscal year by re
paying clothing, equipage and
general supplies for re-issue is
directly traceable to strict ad-
hereance to the war department's
extensive conservation program.
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Lousiana Applauded by Newspaper Editors
for Postponing Local Option Vote
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Wet-Dry Freeze
It seems to The News that the Louisiana
Legislature has acted both fairly and wise
ly in voting to feeze the present wet or
dry status in the parishes, municipalities
and wards of that state until one year
after the end of the war.
The broad underlying reason for the ac
tion was that so many citizens of the state
would be unable to participate in such
elections so long as the fighting continues.
This is sound ground and the extent of
supporting sentiment is suggested by the
fact that the resolution was passed in the
Senate by a vote of 32 to 5 and in the
House by 59 to 35.
It is necessary, of course, to continue to
hold ’elections for public officials during
the war and a state-and-national program
is directed toward making it possible for
men and women absent from home in the
services to participate in that balloting.
But there is no similar need for local
option liquor elections during the conflict
and of course absent voters could not be
given an assured opportunity to have their
part in such local decisions.
The Louisiana arrangement works fairly
for both sides in this issue. Dry advocates
in a wet county would have to wait for an
election, but, so would wet advocates in
a dry county.
Generally speaking, the local option plan
makes for an equitable and democratic
handling of the problem, but the absence
of so many voters from their homes at this
time stands in the way of a fair and pop
ular decision of this kind.
It would be unfortunate if it were feas
ible for Alabama to take such action.
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REQUEST OF SOLDIERS
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GRANTED
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(Special to the Journal)
The Army’s overseas news
paper, “The Stars & Stripes",
stated a year ago; “We can
remember the days of prohi
bition, when moonshine whis
key made quick fortunes for
bootleggers, crooked politi
cians and dishonest police of
ficials. As a result we claim
we know what we want in
the way of liquor legislation
and feel those at home should
wait until we return before
initiating further legislation
on liquor control.”
Taking note of this attitude
on the part of men and wo
men in the service that they
should have a voice in such
special questions, the legisla
ture has suspended the opera
tion of the local option Prohi
bition law (Act 17 of the first
extra session of 1935) until a
year after peace is declared.
Senate Concurrent Resolu
tion No. 3, which suspends
such wartime elections on
Prohibition states: “Where
as it is necessary to hold elec
tions for the selection of
state, parish and municipal
officers, regardless of the ab
sence of men and women in
the armed forces, it is not
necessary to hold local option
elections on the question of
prohibiting or permitting
beer, wine and liquor during
their absence for war ser-
vice.”
This seems to be a sound
conclusion. In those sections
of the state where a majority
of the voters wanted another
try at the “noble experiment”
they have had ample oppor
tunity in the years since re
peal of the Eighteenth Am
endment to vote local prohi
bition while a representative
number of citizens had the
power to vote. It is a demo
cratic concession to assure
the preservation of that
power for those who are serv
ing their country.
The Louisiana legislature just recently
passed a joint resolution suspending all lo
cal option elections until one year after
peace has been declared between the Unit
ed States and Germany, Japan and their al
lies.
This action was directed at control of
special balloting on controversial questions
until Louisiana’s men now in service can
return and voice their opinons on such
matters.
This measure became effective immed
iately without necessity of the governor’s
signature.
New Mexico, with such a provision now
being utilized by certain groups to promote
a ballot in some sections of the state, might
be benefitted by having this legislative ac
tion brought to the attention of the state’s
legislators at their next session, to be con
sidered in the light of the rights of our meh
who are showing loyalty to their country
and must expect some similar show of loy
alty from their state.
Roswell Diepatch
June 2, 1944
ELECTIONS ON LIQUOR LAWS
OUGHT TO BE DEFERRED
NY amendments to the laws as they re
late to the sale of alcoholic beverages in
the various counties and states ought to be de
ferred until the close of the war so that the
boys who are fighting the battles of our coun
try may have an opportunity to voice their
views upon the issue.
This has already been done in Louisiana,
where both houses of the Legislature voted al
most unanimously to “freeze" both wet and
dry parishes and wards and municipalities on
their present basis. That is to say. those units
that are currently dry and those that now per
mit sale of beer, wine and liquors will remain
as at present until the suspension is lifted,
The Louisiana act Is effective for one year
after peace is declared and was passed under
constitutional authority permitting the Legis-
lature to suspend the laws of the state.
Augusta Ga. Herald
June 4, ¡044
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Thibodaux Commercial Journal
Thibodaux, La.
June ), ¡944
Maintaining the Status Quo
Louisiana-F reeze
Last Wednesday a resolution passed the Louisiana state legis
lature by decisive majorities in both houses. Under that resolu
tion that state forbids all local option elections on the sale of
alcoholic beverages until one year after peace has been declared.
Sponsors of the resolution explained it is intended as evidence
the Louisiana general assembly wants to “keep faith” with the
thousands of servicemen now out of the state and thus unable
to participate in such elections.
Louisiana, like Georgia, has a system which permits legalized;
controlled sale of alcoholic beverages. It is felt in that state,
that any return to the handling of such beverages by the crim
inal element, inevitable under prohibition, would be a disaster
which should not be imposed for the returning soldiers and
sailors to meet when they come home.
Fanatic drys, ever eager to seize any opportunity to impose
their fanaticism upon other people, are again trying, through
various means to inflict prohibition upon as much of the country
as they can, while a large segment of the voters are away and
helpless to make their wishes known. The example of the Louisi
ana legislature might well be followed in other states, if for no
other reason than evidence of a desire for fair play on such
a vital issue.
The Atlanta Constitution
Map 10. 1944
The Louisiana Legislature's enactment
of a law postponing local option elections
until a year after the war is the first act
of this kind to become effective. In the
anti-roadhouse bill that Governor Willis
vetoed, the Kentucky Legislature had pro
vided for deferment of local option elec
tions uhtil 1945.
Wets won in Louisiana and Kentucky
Legislautres. Drys won in Kentucky de
spite the Legislature.
Louisiana lawmakers were impressed by
the argument that absent servicemen and
workers temporarily away on war jobs
should not be excluded from wet-and-dry
referenda. A factor that weakened the pro
hibition experiment of the 1920s was the
complaint of servicemen that it was en
acted while they were off to war.
Almost one-third of the nation’s counties,
embracing nineteen per cent of the popula
tion, have voted dry. While this movement
began before the war, it has doubtless
been expedited by elections in which old
er voters predominate.
Louisville Timet
June J. 1944
WAIT UNTIL BOYS RETURN
FAIRNESS AS TO OPTION
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Legislative eyebrows must have raised
when the news came from Baton Rouge
recently that the Louisiana State assembly
had, in effect, frozen the local option
status of each parish. The action was in
the form of a resolution passed by the
State Senate and House doing away with
local option elections, regardless of which
side desired to make a test, until at least
one year after peace has been declared
with both Germany and Japan.
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By their action the Louisiana solons
concretely demonstrated their belief that
voters now bearing arms should be given
a voice in any change that might be con
templated. The resolution is patently fair
to adherents on both sides of the question.
Wets cannot disturb the present status of
the dry parishes—or counties. Likewise
the drys cannot move in and require a
vote in the parishes which now permit
the legal sale of alcoholic beverages.
If any member of the Alabama Legisla
ture has commented publicly on the step
just taken by the Louisiana law-makers,
it has escaped our notice. It is known,
however, that a similar measure was in
formally discussed by a few members of
Alabama’s House and Senate during the
period of the 1943 regular session. No bill
was introduced, however.
It is our opinion that most straight
thinking residents of Alabama, whether
dry or wet, will concur in the aim and the
action of our neighbor State. Certainly the
least we can do for the gallant men now
fighting the great fight is to reserve for
them a voice in their own home affairs.
Certainly this is one of the principles
they now are so stoutly defending.
Montgomery Advertiser
Montgomery, Ala.
June a, ig44
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HOLD OFF ISSUES UNTIL PEACE COMES
The Louisiana legislature adopted an Idea the other day that
would be an excellent one for consideration by Arizona’s legislators
as well as a thought, for Arizonians trekking to the polls Nov. 7
to cast ballots on controversial issues.
The Pelican state lawmakers frown upon placing bills on the
ballot In controversial subjects while the boys are away from home
and many not able to vote. In Louisiana, the legislature adopted a
measure which prohibits that state from holding local option elec
tions until one year after the war with Germany and Japan ends.
The move is considered quite significant to hold up such situa
tions to let servicemen cast a more complete vote than through
the military ballots.
In Arizona there are a couple of issues on the ballot that, per
haps, should await a return of the state to normalcy—MO at M
and the socialized medicine idea.
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1‘hoenix Arizona Gazette
Mau 10. 1944
Protecting Their Right to Vote
The state legislature has passed a resolution suspending local
option prohibition elections until a year after peace is declared.
The proponents of the resolution stated that it is “as fair for
one side as it is for the other side" because it means that parish««,
wards and municipalities presently operating under prohibition laws
must retain their 'status as must those places permitting legal sale
of alcoholic beverages until men and women in the service of their
country return home and can vote on any change which may be
desired.
The local option law was passed during the first extra session
of 1935. DeSoto and the adjoining parishes of Red River and Sabine
were among the first to choose prohibition. Other sections of the
state, including Franklin parish, have voted from time to time in
the ensuing years on the question. The legislature has, in effect,
taken the position that any strong sentiment of the people should
have been expressed since 1935 and that wartime is no time for
local controversies of such a nature, particularly since so many
citizens are unable to vote at this time.
We know that those sections of the state traditionally opposed
to the legal sale of alcoholic beverages have taken action under the
local option law prior to the present war. Anyone opposing the
temporary suspension of this law during wartime lays himself open
to suspicion of wanting to deny America’s servicemen their right
to vote on an important social and economic question.
The Franklin Sun
Winnsboro, La.
June If, ¡044
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Paid Adv. by Columbia County Citizen’s Comm. William A. Russell, chairman, St Helens, Ore., B. E. Hughson, Sect., St. Helens, Ore.
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