THE GATE CITY JOURNAL
heagle. “Hit’s the hemblem of the
definite period, it will be much In use.
Again, the Legion took the stand that its first allegiance I
If a neighbor refers to you as a “chisel- country,” he points out.
er”—and you are not—step on his At any rate, the President and the
is service to disabled war veterans and their families. A
whiskers or tickle him on the chin. If General probably agree that the bird
governmental policy of compensation and hospitalization
to you as a "chiseler”—anti in question today is the hemblem
for veterans with war sendee disability was urged. The A rr-tel tvbe, cqxijpcd with n lm rs he you refers
are—it wl^f be weil to change your bird in question today !s the hemblem
» way as to give inside view of ways for the time Is fast approaching of their country's 'opes —Christian
Legion also took the stand that incapacitated " veterans In the such stomach,
W. F. AND ALMA McLINO. Publisher»
was slipped into the when a "chlsler” will be about as pop Science Monitor.
without means of support aie wards of the government, windpipe of Dolores
Perkins, 4-year old lar as a skunk at a church dinner.
$130
Subscription. Y ear........
not of ihe states.
Balter child. With another tube equip Webster defines a "chiseler”—the
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The public will approve other platforms of the Oregon ped with tiny fangs controlled by lev kind of a "chiseler" that President
on the other end of the Instrument, Roosevelt and General Johnson have in
Entered at the Post Office at Nyssa. O regon. as Second Class Mattar
department: ( 1 ) the immediate enactment of legislation ers
Dr. E. D. Norcott
a piece of glass was pulled from the mind—as
"gouges, cheats." As
which will repeal the issuance of tax-exempt securities; child's
throat. Portland physicians per related to one the who
recovery
employment
DENTIST Jregon
( 2 ) support for the national recovery program.
formed the feat.• • • •
THE LEGION PROGRAM
program the word fits it splendidly, Nyssa,
Believe
it
or
not,
but
the
price
of
gas
question
bobbed
up
and
men
who
refuse
to
play
the
game
Of interest to Legionaires and others was the commend at the convention. Delegates urged the federal authorities Arizona voted wet last week, the 21st fairly wi’l find that it will be ap Office Phone 35F2
to favor repeal of the 18th plied to them with characteristic Am Residence Phone 35F3
able program adopted at the Legion convention in Klam to continue and expedite their investigations of the state
amendment. Three more states vote erican
freedom of speech.—Caldwe’l
X-RAY EXAMINATIONS
ath Falls. It may have a far reaching effect upon the pub apparently illegal agreements on the part of major com this mpnth, Missouri on August 19, News-Tribune.
Texas on* August 28 and Washington on
lic as there are few oragnizations as strong and purpose panies to “unwarrantedly advance the price of gasoline” August
29. Repeal vote by 15 more
within
Oregon.
Efforts
in
this
direction
will
be
widely
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
ful as the American Legion.
states would add the 21st amendment
welcomed as it is too much problem for one communty or to the constitutions nullifying the
18th.
one section to accomplish.
President Roosevelt calls it an eagle.
Around the Country
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Cones, Sherbert, Popsickles Sold at
The
Nyssa Cafe
Lunches and Meals
Joe Ayre, Prop.
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It'» Too Hot To
Wash
Mrs. Margaret Pashley, Prop.
Oregon
Processed Milk
City Transfer
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TRANSFERRING
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Dr. C. A. Abbott, D. C.
Chiropractic
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NYSSA, OREGON
C.
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On the Old Job
H. D. Holmes
Anna B. Pritchett, D. O.
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public question is educative. The intricacies of taxation
NYSSA, OR.
PHONE 5
PHONE 201
that were brought out in the late grange discussions of the
sales tax were educatvie. The high principles, high policies
and high purposes of the grange organizations build char
Vale, Oregon.
acter. What is more needed in America than character OUR NEW WORD—“CHISELER”
building?
With each momentous turn in the
K
affairs of this nation some new word is
Constantly in the picture at grange gatherings are the coined
When in the Market for t)
to
meet
the
needs
of
the
time.
fundamentals of good citizenship, love of country and af-| President Teddy Roosevelt 'egitama-
S WOOD AND TIMBER ' ■
fection for the flag, respect for the law, deference for sac tizrd and popularized the words "mol-
■
red things, loyalty to home and community, and a respect lycodd'e”
and "bully.”
Wm. McBRATNEY n Fence Posts, Corral
President Harding, when the seas
for the rights of others.
Derrick Poles ■
soothed with Teapot Dome oil
Funeral Director - Poles, W
These things not only stand out in the policies and pur were
r it e -
«
and a somnambulant peop'e believed Licensed
and Embalmer
poses of the grange but they are taught youth from 5 to 14 that all was weii,, gave us the word
years of age in the juvenile grange, which is a department •normalcy.”
AUDY BAZE
Frank'in Roosevelt Call S. D. Goshert or Nordale “
in the great grange organization. They are fundamentals has Now made President
his contribution—the word Furniture Co., Phone 94, ■ WE HAUL CHEAP
well worth bringing into the lives of all youth, whether in “chisel"—and It is splendidly suited to
Nyssa, Oregon
3 Box 85, Vale, Oregon
needs. "Chisel” is anything but
the city or out on the farm, whether of one party or an present
a
soft
word.
In
truth,
as
used
in
the
other, whether of one people or another.
now app’icable, it Is, eplthetically
On its history of actual and admitted accomplishments sense
little less than a cuss-word. And it
the tongue with something
for better and cleaner government in this state, why comes from1
'
Try it. Now, try It again. Are
should not the grange membership in Oregon double or of we a not hiss. right?
Let
Us
Mill
Your
Dr.
J.
A.
McFall
treble, or more—Ex.
Reader, familiarize yourse'f with the
word “chisel." Henceforth, for an in-
Flour, Cereal and
Evesight Specialist
SOMETHING TO CONFISCATE
Poultry Feed
In passing the death sentence on Joseph Zangara, the
ROBT.
D.
LYTLE
Specializing
murderer of Mayor Cermak of Chicago, whose body stop
on the care of NYSSA FLOUR MILL
ped the bullet intended for President Roosevelt, Jude Uly Attorney and Counselor at Law
O. Thompson of Miami, Florida, urged that congress en First National Bank Building
< Children’s
* Pliin Warren, Prop.
act legislation for the confiscation of all arms illegally
Eye.
“Our Prices Are Right”
Phone 66
owned.
Why not? Previous congresses and previous legislatures Vale
ntario,
-
Oregon
Oregon
NYSSA
ORE.
have brought close to confiscation legitimate property
by means of taxation. Here is something that ought to be
confiscated.
To Please You is
Judge Thompson pointed out that assassins roaming at
will throughout the land have killed three of our presi
Our Purpose
dents and still are permitted to cany pistols. He might
have gone further and pointed out that one of the largest
industries in the United States, the industiy of crime, is
made possible by the promiscuous carrying of fire arms by
MACK’S
men who ought not be at large.
BARBER SHOP
This is something to which government must give ser
ious consideration.
Agent for
Ontario Laundry
BANK DEPOSITS
The latest report of the Comptroller of the Currency
contains some illuminating facts concerning the concen
tration of wealth as revealed by bank deposits.
>VtWE
There are 30,556,105 deposit accounts in more than
5,000 banks that are members of the Federal Reserve
Evert] Iw c Minutes
System. These deposits total $23,542,307,000. Of this
ANOTHER HOME BURNS
staggering sum—sufficient to pay off the national debt
and leave a handsome balance—45 per cent stands in the
names of less than 1 per cent of the depositors. Their ac
/ F you are underinsured, or if you let
counts average $224,000.
«I W*
** your fire insurance lapse even for a single
The disparity between the few at the top and the many
day, your property values are exposed to
at the bottom is further emphasized by these figures: Only
loss.
TE X A C O
3.5 per cent of the depositors have accounts totalling
$2500 and over, but they represent 76.3 per cent of the
Fires occur unexpectedly and destroy
total.
much valuable property in a brief time.
GASOLINE
The remaining 96.5 per cent of the depositors have only
You owe it to yourself to be carefully
23.7 per cent of the deposits, and their average is only
Havoline
Wax-Free
Oils
protected.
How could you be adequately
$19. ‘‘utting it another way—less than one-twenty-fifth of
Washing
and
Greasing
compensated
for your loss if you were
the depositoirs have more than three-fourths of the de
uninsured or underinsured?
posits while more than twenty-four-twenty-fifths of the
See Ed. W. Pruyn
depositors have less than one-fourth of the deposits,
Let us help you obtain an ap
it is not necessary to ‘interpret” such figures. They For Batteries, Battery service,
praisal,
make suggestions, and
speak for themselves.
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PHONE 16
General Johnson calls It his blue hawk.
Meanwhi'p we recall an old story of
three British sailors, puzzled before a
New York shop window in which
stands a stuffed bird. One sailor says
It’s a 'awk. The second sailor says It’s
a howl. But the third decides it’s a
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NYSSA
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Our Low Price* Will Please
We Deliver Twice Daily
•
Voice of the Press
At Home These Hot Days, so let the
laundry do your washing. We a r e
equipped to do it nicely and cheaply.
Nyssa
•
While working with a survey crew
GRANGE MARCHES ON
in the interior of the Kooskla, Ida.,
Harold Houston, son of Mr.
There is a new grange in Malheur county, in the north country,
Mrs. John P. Houston of Caldwell,
ern Malheur community. And another in Baker and an and
formerly of Malheur county, was
other in Tillamook.
stricken with appendicitis. He was car
on a stretcher 13 miles to a road.
A growing sentiment favorable to the grange is spread ried
He
was
ing through Oregon. Leadership by the grange in defeat recovering. operated on at Lewiston and is
• • • •
ing the sales tax is recognized, not only by fanners but by
County Engineer J. .Edwin Johnson
many city people, as a splendid example of high service by received
word last week of the death
the organization. The work of Grange Master Ray Gill and of his sister
Lillian LeMoine at
other grange leaders in overwhelming the plan to tax “the Rogue River. Mrs.
She accompanied her
to Malheur county when they
last rag from the back and the last bite from the mouth,” parents
at Vale in the early days. Her
as Lord Pitt described the sales tax to “my lords” in the located
father John E. Johnson was in Rogue
British parliament generations ago, is generally accounted River
at the time
* • of • her • death.
an outstanding act of citizenship in this state.
The pass A Jolson made at Walter
And how completely they and the other opponents of Winchell
in Hollywood recent'jy has
the sales tax were in harmony with the best judgment of been
passed right back to him in the
the folks is evidenced in the defeat of the tax by 4 to 1. form of a $500,000 suit for damages.
turned from the paid pug
The mysteiy in the situation is, Why do not all fanners Spectators
ilists
fight
in
July 21, when
have membership in the grange? It is non-political. It is a the actor and Hollywood
the columnist mixed at
non-patrisan student of public affairs. Partisan politics in I the ringside. Jolson admitted the
saying he did not like a scenario
the organization is banned. The contact of the member punch,
ship in grange meetings and out is educative. The study of Winchell wrote about the Jolsons.
NYSSA, ORE.
FIRE-CHIEF
r
EDITORIAL COMMENTS BY CLARK WOOD
If there’s to be a blanket code for the stock market, no
doubt there’ll be lambs enough to furnish the wool.
Often enough a chap comes back to earth without going
up in a balloon.
The “little red schoolhouse” is apt to turn blue when
railroads and utilities are no longer able to pay taxes
required to maintain it
welding.
—AT—
TAYLOR GARAGE
One-Stop
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Don M . Graham
Fire Insurance Bonds
NYSSA
Notary Public
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