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INTERIM STUDIES
By CHARLES V. STANTON
Interim legislative: studies covering 11 specific subjects
will be made during- the ensuing two years.
Major investigations will embrace highway development,
taxes, revision of legislative procedure, feasibility of a de
partment of natural resources, public welfare, schools, and
streamlining state government. Other committees will study
proposed consolidation of City of Portland and Multnomah
County governments, feasibility of establishing a junior
college, animal cruelty, feasibility of a state botanical garden.
Interim committee studies in past years have had records
both good and bad.
Particularly outstanding in the interim preceding the last
legislative session was the work of the committee on high-
ways, which conducted most exhaustive study, including
expert engineering, and developed recommendations for
long-term highway system improvement.
Recognizing the excellent results from this study, the
legislature has authorized continuation of the committee
during the coming two years with substantial appropriation
for financing.
Another committee which made an exceptionally fine
start, and then permitted conflicts between personalities to
wreck much of its effectiveness, was the interim group
which studied fish and game management and policies. This
committee, after conducting hearings throughout the state,
and obtaining recommendations from Dr. Ira Gabrielson,
internationally famed conservation expert, began to squabble
over recommendations, experienced personality conflicts and,
as a result, brought in majority and minority opinions des
troying the effectiveness of what started out as a very
promising program.
. It is our opinion that well-organized and efficient interim
work could greatly simplify legislative sessions.
The committees studying reorganization at state govern
ment and revision of legislative procedure should, we be
lieve, take into consideration the opportunity for shortening
regular sessions of the legislature by doing much prelimin
ary work through interim activities.
Heretofore it has been the practice of interim committees
to bring in reports but to leave preparation of actual bills,
executing recommendations contained in those reports, until
after the legislature is in session.
We believe these committees after reaching conclusions,
based on their studies, should have bills prepared by the
Attorney General to carry out recommendations and policies
agreed upon. The legislature, of course, would not be ex
pected to pass the bills without careful study, public hearings
and committee action. But, by having the bills prepared in
advance, the legislature would have plenty of work at the
start of the session instead of having to wait until late in
the period before major legislation began to appear, as is
now th usual condition.
The recent session furnishes a good example. Although
exhaustive studies were made by the two interim committees
previously mentioned, the bills to put their recommendations
in effect did not get before the legislature until the session
was half over.
One requisite to more extensive use of the interim com
mittee plan, however, is that legislators be placed on salary
rather than per diem compensation. Given a fixed amount
for their services, they could be engaged in studies and in
vestigations at intervals throughout their entire terms, with
the only additional cost covering actual expenses incurred
in travel, meals and hotel accommodations while employed
in committee work.
If the committees then prepared reports on their studies,
and introduced with reports proposed implementing legisla
tion, sessions could proceed with little loss of time while
waiting for major bills.
Subjects proposed for interim study are very Important
to the state as a whole, particularly those on reorganization
of government and revision of legislative procedure, taxes,
schools and welfare. It is to be hoped that each committee
accepts its assignment seriously.
Gentlemen, Be Seated!
I Redwood Forest Land Purchase By
Federal Government Recommended
v4m By Viahnett S. Martin If jf f '
Shanghai Fears Ruthless 'Defenders'
More Than Red Forces At Outskirts
By TOM LAMBERT
HONGKONG, May 16.-0T Shanghai today Is a city ruled by
guns.
Iti nearly 6,000,000 resident art more fearful of their trigger
happy Nationalist defenders than of the Chinese Communists prod
ding at Its outskirts.
Harsh and bloody measures
taken by the Shanghai garrison
are converting from contempt to
anger the feeling residents nave
for the men assigned to defend
that greatest Asiatic city.
Military edict, enforced by
arms, is now the law for Shang
hai. Legal looting by soldiers
who never were distinguished for
their respect for other people'
property now goes under the
alius of "requisitioning."
Through a tightening censor
ship the garrison decides what
Shanghai and tne worm win
know about the war and about
conditions in that city.
The garrison is following un
swervingly the military patterns
of Pelping, Tientsin, Suchow and
Nanking, all of which have fallen
to the Reds.
With "volunteer" laborers, the
army Is gouging out trenches,
erecting pillboxes, uprooting vij,
luges and burning down houses
on tht outskirts of the city.
Tht military and those political
figures who art allowed to speak
all prattle solemnly about a "last
ditch" stand and boast that
Shanghai's defenses are like
Stalingrad's.
Yet nrohahlv no more than a
handful of Shanghai residents be
lieves the garrison will even try
to defend the city. They expect
that ns the Heds appear, as many
of Shanghai's remaining defend
ers as possible will scramble to
follow those who already have
departed.
Shanghai may be In for hard
time when the Reds do come
and no one doubts that they are
coming but Shanghai will not
soon forget its last days under
tht nationalists.
"Gruesome murder set com
plete, 3 cents with approvals, sat
isfaction guaranteed . . ."
What under the sun would you
guess that advertiser Is offering?
I Just read it in a twice-a-wcek
newspaper, the only one of Its
kind in the world, that goes to
"over 34,350 subscribers," all of
whom without a doubt know just
what the advertisers mean.
"Western Stamp Collector" is
published right here In Oregon
Albany, to be specific. I hope we
can stop in next time we go
through there on 99. (By the
way, "99" has an attractive fold
er, too, but I can't see any ad
dress on It other than the local
Chamber of Commerce. I'm glad
so many of you wrote In for the
"101" folder! It does make the
way so much more interesting,
doesn't It!)
Well, Ye Editor, William Wylie,
certainly sticks to the point, even
if this columnist doesn't. I could
not find word In the copies he
sent me by request that didn't
relate strictly to stamps. Every
real philatelist must have a close
touch on world events through
their stamp work!
Someone writes In that the
"radiant sun" is' no longer on
Chinese stamps is that signifi
cant? Thinking back from two
months later, I can well believe
it was, can't you?
There Is a most interesting
article about Finland's fight to
keep her own stamps! She did
not wish to have her postal Issues
submerged into the Russian even
if her monetary system was. So,
Intensely nationalistic, the Finns
protested by issuance, by private
enterprise, of what was called a
"mourning stamp." In August,
1900, says the writer in Western
Stamp Collector, "these labels
were affixed to most letters
mailed abroad or to Russia. (Im
agine! to Russia, too!) "On a
background of intense black the
coat of arms of Finland is shown
In red and yellow ... the label
is usually affixed to the face of
the envelope with the stamps
paying postage stuck on the
back."
I remember two small stamp
collectors who would have said
happily, "That's telling 'em!" I
know nothing of philately. But
oh, I do remember how much
good comes to children from even
a short-time craze for "collecting
stamps!"
Roseburg Choral Society
Holds Final Dress Rehearsal
For Tuesday Night's Program
Final dress rehearsal will be
held tonight by the Roseburg
Choral Society In preparation for
its first concert Tuesday at 8:15
p.m. in the Junior High School
Auditorium. The 50 singing mem
bers will wear white robes for
tht program.
Under the direction of C. A.
Rlcketts, the Choral Society was
organized last fall and has been
holding weekly rehearsals. Fea
tured soloists include Hershel
Scott and Dorcas Johnson, vocal
ists, and Mrs. W. Sherman Plymp
ton, pianist.
Officers Include Eugene A.
Springer, president; Llsille Mar
tin, vice-president: Vena M. Scott,
treasurer, and Amy M. Robin
son, secretary.
The roster of singing mem
bers Includes: Sopranos, Leslie
Ellen Brown, Frances Brown,
Dorothy Dlmlck, Hetty S. Ed
wards, Roberta B. Erlikson, Lois
Fltzglhbons, Cecllc Gardner, Bet
ty Jean Grady, Henrietta S.
Greenlee, Helen Hanford, Inez
Hitchman, Dorcas Johnson, Bar
bara Lamb, Jackie Lamb, Jonn
Lashua, Emma McClellan, Elsille
Martin, Ethel Nielsen, Lois rink
erton, Edith Radabaugh, Amv
M. Robinson, Rachel Root. Zolda
Sanders, Verna Taylor, Bonnie
Tvrcr, Charlotte Wallin and Fayc
Vhlte.
Altos, Cynthia C. Balmer, Ruth
Benecke, Fern Bruland, Freda
Daugherty, Ruth M. Gibbons, Vera
Gee, Yvonne Hlatt. Jean Jossc,
Thora Lelken, Lillian Msrsters,
Dorothv A. Moore, Maud Pat-
tlson, Martha Jane Plimpton,
Kalherlne M. Robertson, Vena
Scott and Corinne Graves Wood-ard.
Tenors, Rav Bentson, W. Thom
as Coates, Harold (.ox, Wendell
A. Johnson, Willis F. Erickson,
Norman D. Root and Earl C.
Steward.
Bass, Rov W. Barnhart, James
R. Daugherty. Elwyn E. Jones,
George W. Loeper, Wally Over- were unavailable.
ton, Edward B. Row, Hershel D.
Scott, Eugene A. Springer and
Franklin Voyt.
PROGRAM
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0 Lovely Hurt Floberton
Dirk Water James
1 Thought That Love Had Bean
a Boy Bjttd
One Little Hour Dlrhmont
P" Curran
Curran
Mr. Scott
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Hear My Prayer. O Lord SVholln
All In the April Evenlna Ronerton
IV
Intermlaalon
Partita In B-Ftat
Prelude
Saraband.
lue
Deux Arabesques .... Debuiay
Mra. Plimpton
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Now Let Heaven and Earth
Adore Thee Bach
We Thank Thee, Lord
Bnrlnlansky-Tkarh
VI
On Wln of iont Mendeluohn
KaMhhnlrl Love Song .Woodforde-Finden
My Hero Suausa
Mra. Johnson
VII
JuMlee Smith
I.cxmI Newe Smith
Mary Had a Little Lamb Murrav
The Glory Tram Cain
.. Bach
Three Loggers Drown At
Boat Upsets in Rapids
LEWISTON, Idaho, May 16.
(.VV Three members of a log
drive crew apparently drowned
late yesterday when their 16-foot
row-boat capsized in the Clearwa
ter River rapitls at Lenore. Idaho,
23 miles east of Lewiston.
Believed dead are I.eonard
Chase. 2S. Orofino; Walter An
derson. 42. I'ierce; and Ray Fit
ting, 3-'. Stltes.
Four others In the boat grab
bed an overhanging tree and
clung there for two hours before
other crewmen were able to res
cue them. Tom Klskella and Ben
Larson were two of the men who
were saved. Names of the others
In the Day s Hews
(Continued from Page One)
Communists always seem to be
well provided with.
A
WASHINGTON dispatch sums
up the latest details of the af
fair and adds:
"Except for the principle of the
thing, the Government could save
quite a lot of money by just Ig
noring Elsler's flight.'
That is certainly true. We're
well rid of him, and if he'll just
stay away we'll be happy.
STILL, you can't Just ignore the
principle of the thing. If we
let the Idea get around that
troublesome offenders against our
laws can get rid of trouble by
skipping out when the going be
gins to get bad, we'll have more
offenders.
We used to shoo bums and
minor criminals from one city to
another to escape the cost of
punishing them, and it never
seemed to do much good.
It would be likely to work the
same way with Communists.
WASHINGTON, May 16. UP)
rne fubiic Anairs institute pro
posed Thursday that the Recon
structlon Finance Corporation fi
nance the purchase of up to 2,
100,000 acres of redwood forest
land in Northern California.
The Institute, a private re
search organization, recommend
ed that Congress and the Cali
fornia Legislature pass concur
rent legislation to set up a Na
tional Redwood Forest, extend
ing 250 miles from the Oregon
border to the San Francisco area."
It said the redwoods are threat
ened with destruction.
California, the Institute pro
posed, would pay the Redwood
corporation 525,000,000 lor 124,
000 acres of "the very best old
reciwooa areas to De used as
parks.
"This wpuld give California a
redwood park system many times
larger than the present one and
would preserve forever the finest
stands of Sequoias," the Institute
said.
It proposed that the U. S. For
est Service operate the forest sec
tion of the lands on a sustained
yield basis, and that the four
California counties Involved
Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino
and Sonoma receive a total of
$1,000,000 a year "in lieu of taxes
normally collected from the for
est operations a sum substan
tially more than the average of
tax receipts from these sources
will be if the forest remains In
private hands."
The Institute's plan was pre
sented by Dr. Dewey Anderson,
L,os Altos, (Jalii., executive di
rector, at a conservation con-
Body of Boy Found As
Search Made for Grandson
LEWISTON, Idaho, May 16.
UP) The body of a boy about 14
years old was recovered from the
Snake river near Central Ferry
Saturday by a Clarkston, Wash.,
man searching for his grandson.
ine Doay iuuiiu mis morning
by William Jones was tentatively
identified by Lewiston and Pom
eroy, Wash., officials as that of
Pat McLendon, 14, an Orofino,
Idaho, youth who drowned with
his 17-year-old brother Bob m
April.
Jones was searching the river
banks for the body ol his grand
son, Monty Jones, a Clarkston
high school senior, who was De
lieved to have lost his life in the
Snake when a boat capsized last
week.
ly used that a typhoid epidemic
might hit Portland. In that case,
the city would be merely jump
ing out of the financial frying
pan into the financial fire.
A
LL this, of course, is specula-
stretched pretty thin, at that. Our
only excuse for dealing with it is
that it does call attention to the
tax crisis that is rapidly approach
ing in this country. Especially
the municipal tax crisis.
One reason why our munici
palities are in financial hot wa
ter is that we pay so much money
in federal taxes that we haven't
enough left to run our towns and
our counties and our schools.
P
1ORTLAND, whose financial
troubles are more pressing
than those of the smaller towns
merely because Portland Is bigger
and needs more money, has been
considering a scheme to finance
itself by quadrupling water rates.
(Portland owns Its water system,
and it Is argued that nearly every
body uses water, and so by in
creasing water rates everybody
would be tapped for the addi
tional money needed to run the
town).
Commissioner Bean objects
on principle.
He says the city charter didn't
contemplate use of water sales to
raise revenue to run the city and
adds that only a vote of the peo
ple could authorize such a sbarp
Increase In water rates.
"Besides," he says:
"The unfair and inequitable
distribution of the tax burden
would more than offset Its value
as a revenue raiser."
T
HAT is to say, people would
would start looking around for
ways to beat It. Somebody, for ex
ample, might dig a well in his
back yard and thus escape his
share of the water rates tax bur
den. Let's pursue that thought a lit
tle farther:
The water In the well might be
come polluted, and the users of
it might get typhoid. It Isn't im
possible that the neighbors might
try to escape their share of the
water tax by making arrange
ments to use the well. .In that
case, typhoid might spread.
Water from wells, or creeks, or
what have you might be so wide-
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cost $125,000,000 to buy the de
sired lands.
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