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GATE CITY JOURNAL, THUKS., JANUARY 19,1933 THE GATE CITY JOURNAL W. P. AND ALMA McLING, Publisher* FARM MORTGAGES That the farm mortgage situation is as serious in other states as it is in Oregon is evidenced by a recent Oregon Farmer publication Which states that legislatures have passed laws which operate as a moratorium on certain farm mortgages until conditions change for the agricultur ists. A farmer of the Kolony brought the following letter to The Journal : A and B own a piece of property. It may be busi ness, farm or family iy home. We’ll say that A’s invest- ment is $2000 and he holds the deed to the property. B holds a mortgage on the property for $1000. He de cides he wants his money. Following the custom handed down, no doubt by the savages, he will fore close unless A secures $1000. So A goes to another money lender and from C secures $1000 for which he again gives a mortgage. Times go smaothly, then comes what is called a de- jression. C being a greedy man sees his chance. He cnows A is in financial difficulties so notifies him Te must have his money. He forecloses and the re sult is he not only retains his own investment but through the misfortune of A acquires the larger in vestment ¡ 1 » which A has his life work. Is not this a criminal game? We believe the Nyssa farmer, with others of Oregon, will find some encouragement in the plaif proposed by Paul V. Maris, director of extension work in Oregon. Maris would create a voluntary farm mortgage adjustment com mittee for Oregon and the respective counties. It would be removed from politics with its primary function to seek favorable adjustments between borrower and lender. If a borrower would be found deserving of adjustment and additional time, the committee would so recommend and in this way prevent unjust foreclosures, if unjust fore closures they proved to be. No doubt a more equitable div ision of the proceeds of a foreclosure could also be found. Voice of the Press SIX SCHOOL BILLS IMPULSIVE PEOPLE Did you ever see a person. Quite religiously inclined With a temper rather hasty Doing things sometime unkind? The Oregon Education Journal points Quick as they have done the mischief to six "destructive” measures which i There’s repentance right at hand Subscription, Y ea r-------------------- $1 50 have been proposed lor enactment by i You’re inclined to say within you, Subscrpitlon, 8 Months --------------- 75c the Oregon legislature. They were dis-1 "He won’t Join the angel band." cussd Monday night by Mrs. Victoria! But be careful, slower temper, Entered at the Post Office at Nyssa, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Schweizer at the Legion and Auxiliary! Once you lost your self control, meeting. And it stayed much longer with you 1. A bill to repeal the two-mill tax lor Bringing danger to your soul. SALES TAX WOULD ROB PETER TO PAY PAUL ellmentary schools. 2. A bill changing the minimum an- Oh, I mean, the sulk stayed longer, In your left-hand trousers pocket you have the sum of ual school term from eight to six Till your temper grew the stronger fifty dollars. In your right-hand pocket is another fifty. Until after while it flew months. For a period of time you spend entirely from the left 3. A bill to permit each of the 2,200 Then all the neighborhood felt blue. school boards in Orgon to prepare We must have impulsive people pocket, until the fifty dollars suffers alarming deprecia the course of study for its district. In this dear old world of ours, tion. Then you begin spending from the right pocket. 4. A bill to repeal the minimum sal They will be of the church and steeple Would you consider this economy and reduction of expen ary law. Push the plow and sow the flowers. 5. A bill to change the time of school ses? You certainly would not. It is unimportant whether board elections from the third They will see sometimes much quicker, the dollar comes from one pocket or another, whether your Monday in June to some time in Than the slower, meeker man, left hand or your right passes it out. March, with the provision that What the Lord needs in his vineyard teachers may not be elected until And will do it if they can. But, when tax commissions and politicians announce a after the new members of the rogram of tax reduction, it usually does precisely what But we need the sweet, calm spirit, school board are elected. as been described above. 6. A bill to repeal the high school And we pray for self control; When the Lord speaks then we’ll hear it It takes a dollar off the property tax and puts another tuition law. Considering these bills in the order If our names are on the roll. dollar on the gas tax. It shifts burdens from an inheritance listed, (1) The two-mill tax provides the —Mrs. Sarah L. McDonald tax to a sales tax. It discovers intangibles taxes—supposed only fund for equalizing the differences Apple Valley. to lower some other tax, but increases the total volume of in the valuations of the various school districts. If the law is repealed many of tax money taken from individuals and industry, And so it the poorer districts could not raise the goes. VALE MATRON DIES amount they receive from this fund, Such a tax and worse is the the now sugar-coated sales and would have to close their schools. Mrs. Margaret Hart. 87, died Satur (2) Reducing the school term to six day at the home of her son George tax which stipulates that a share of the receipts will go to months would place the children of Hart, caretaker of the courthouse the counties. This is the latest move at Salem to fasten this Oregon in the unemployed class for six properties. Funeral services were held method of increasing taxes on the state of Oregon. It is months of each year. Enforced idleness Monday from the Nelson Chapel with even said that monied interests back the sales tax because and removal from discipline would in Rev. John E. Garver In charge. She was crease juvenile delinquency. (3) The one of the oldest residents of the coun they are about to relieve farmers and others of vast real constitution of Oregon states that the ty. estate holdings and they want real estate and other prop public school system shall be uniform. erty relieved from taxation before they acquire it by fore (4) The minimum annual salary for teachers is $75 per month for eight closure. In any event, the state property tax will cost the months, or $600 per year. In one school small owner of property far less than the sales tax. E. M. Blodgett board convention directors stated that The average tax reduction program is a farce and mis they would not pay more than $40 per HOW FARM COMMUNITIES CARRY ON Attorney and Counselor at Law month, or $320 per year, if they could representation. It robs Peter to pay Paul. secure the repeal of this law. Schools in Practice in ail Courts Lights gleamed in the Kolony schoolhouse in the fine ij'iiiin i!!!i:i;iii:m in i!i[n ii;iii:i!i:iit:iiiiii:i;t!i ¡ i;i 11 iimimii ni i:i i!i;i:t:i!t iii;i!ii:i:i!i i : i iti i : ii : i:i:ni üi iii iü i : i i : i iiM iim m rM ü.m .iii iiiiiirg fanning community south of Nyssa Friday night for par the outlying districts would be let to the lowest bidder. (5) Years ago the annual NYSSA. OREGON ents and friends were gathered in honor of4-H achieve school meeting was held in March. The date was changed to the third Monday ment day. Their boys and girls were to receive awards in in June in order that the results of the recognition of a season’s work—useful work they had entire school year might be calmly sur and that definite plans could be Guarantee Work 3 grown to love almost as much as play such a game it seem veyed, made for the coming school year. Time ed to be. has proved that the budget for the com WYCKOFF A Specialty, at Hoxie Garage w i t h Herman The boys and girls marched up the aisle to receive ing school year can be planned more JEWELRY STORE achievement pins when their names were called by their efficiently near the close of the school Towne in charge of our repair department. = = : Official Time Inspector for friendly leader Russel McKennon, under whose supervis year and that the people will exercise 2 S better judgment in electing a director Union Pacific ion club work is earned on. They had learned to do a task — ¡at that time. There is no good reason All Our Work Guaranteed Ontario Oregon thoroughly and well and found that such an effort brings for changing the date back to March achievement at the end. Their reward will be far greater (6) A repeal of the high school tuition - law would amount to class legislation. than the pin which now delights their eyes for tomorrow All of the children living in rural dis 5 they will be the fanners in the field, the mothers in the tricts woud have to pay high school Fletcher Gas and Veltex Oils homes. They will be better and more useful citizens by tuition. Only the more wealthy could do Wm. McBRATNEY The poor would be denied an edu NYSSA OREGON reason of the training they have received in their own little this. cation.—Oregon Education Journal. Licensed Funeral Director E Dr E. D. Norcott DEN TIST Nyssa. Office Phone 35F2 Residence Phone 35F3 Jregon X-RAY EXAMINATIONS Dr. C. A. Abbott, D. C. Chiropractic Phone 29— Res. 25 NYSSA, OREGON Anna B. Pritchett, D. O. Osteopathy and Electrotherapy PHONE 201 Vale, Oregon. MALHEUR TITLE & ABSTRACT CO. Vale, Oregon R e liab le A b s tra c ts of T itle 1 C A R R EPAIR IN G I HOXIE GARAGE 21111,111111111.111111.11111111 i.i ili ni imi in ¡ i ri ri h unii i.i m iii in in in iii mm m 1,1 n m m illu n i m unni 11 m m mmnumr communities. A good foundation has been built. Lights gleamed not only through the windows of the Kolony school but in the eyes of the men and women who lead and sponsored club work. Club work is project No. 1 of the Kolony P.-T. A. Every spring leaders are found. Money is raised for the expense of sending one boy and one girl to 4-H summer school at Corvallis each year. Par ents and teachers know 4-H club work is giving their boys and girls a better chance to meet the problems of tomor row. And so, they carry on. Read The Journal Ads. Nyssa Aerie F. O. E. 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FLETCHER result is very different. Business methods are forgotten. I. O. O. P. Building Politics rears its head. The debt is made a plank in politic al platforms. It is wrangled over and settlement blocked Attomey-at-Law for purely political reasons. Vale, Oregon That is the trouble with the war debt problem. Instead of being treated as a matter of banking it has been turned into a political football. The decision of France not to pay, after her Premier had worked to save his country’s credit, was an entirely political decision, having nothing to do with the merit of the debts. France, indeed, is in a far better position to pay than either Italy or England, both of which met their obligations promptly. The war debt question should be considered by a busi ness commission, made un of men who understand the problem in all its phases. It should be immune to political influence. COMMENTS BY CLARK WOOD Many a hopeful Democrat now dreams that when hi§ ship comes in it will be a postmastership. There would never be an inflated dollar if we personally were depended upon to give it the air. Dorothy Dix says a wife can help her husband by “just believing in him.” And a lot more by just believing him. Professor says the human race will last 500,000,000 years. Shucks! We’re too late for the start and can’t stay for the finish. Al Jolson is quite an artist, at that. He draws $15,000 a week. F. W. OSTERKAMP, Proprietor Technocracy might result, too, in perfecting the chisel- errs technic. and Embalmer Call S. D. Goshert or Nordale Furniture Co., Phone 94, Nyssa, Oregon \ R em vm b cr ua th e n ext tim e ou with any print- ag.O urequipm ent enables us to turn o u t fir s t q u a lity work— o u r e x p e ri ence enables us to i n t e ll ig e n t l y a id y o u in p la n n i n g your circular,letter or whatever print ing you wish done. 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