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
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have been proposed lor enactment by i You’re inclined to say within you,
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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
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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.
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Official Time Inspector for
friendly leader Russel McKennon, under whose supervis year and that the people will exercise
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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
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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.
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Nyssa.
Office Phone 35F2
Residence Phone 35F3
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Chiropractic
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NYSSA, OREGON
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Vale, Oregon.
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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.
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INTERNATIONAL INSINCERITY
The
New Year
Baby
If starting the New Year right, will be served all
the wholesome Sunshine Milk he can drink. For
the protection of our patrons, we have our herd
tested twice a year. We use milking machine and
refrigeration for cooling. In fact, every pre
caution is taken to assure
100 Per Cent Perfect Milk
No better, Inexpen»ive Food Than
Sunshine Milk
6c a Quart
Sunshine
Dairy
When a sound business needs financial accommodation, Meets Wed. Night at Eagles
it borrows money on proper security from another and
Hall—Visiting Eagles
more prosperous business. The time comes for payment,
Welcome
and the first business asks for an extension of time on the
grounds that it is unable to spare the money from its busi
Lloyd Marshall, Pres.
ness.
Then the creditor and debtor meet and talk the matter
W. R. Keizer, Sec.
over—on a purely business—like basis. A mutually fair
agreement is reached.
But when two nations become creditor and debtor the
A. L. 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
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