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4 The News-Review, Roiuburg, Ora.--TI.ur., Oct. 21 1954 'Look Folks, No Platform" In The .Day's News (Continued from Page One) ; (Bruce (BioMat Publiihod Dally leat Sunday- fcy Hi News-Review Company, Inc. . InUrod oa MO. .Iw uultar .. ' " BaMfcarf. Oruau, aar eat ot burr . IS'S. CHARLES V. STANTON, tdttai mi Manogar Mombar of the Aiwclattd Pr.M, Oraton Ntwip..r Publisher. AtMClatien, Hie Audit urM r Circulations ....... by wi.T-HOLUi.Ai co. a. ... .-J "" Su rraneUco. Lai Anfrfeo. ootMa. Portland. Denvar thrao monthi. s as. Ou(W CWfon-B VUil-Por V.r, ium. m 7 00; three month, 93.50. Br Nowe-Revl.-. Crl-P Vr. 1J.0 IU M. -. on. ah month, $1.15. - ( ' ' LEGISLATIVE SALARIES ' ' . By Charles V. Stanton Proposition No. 1 on your general election ballot is a proposed amendment to the Oregon - Constitution. It would give the state legislature power to fix salaries of its own members. . , ' In the "Good 01' Days" legislators were paid $3 per dav for 40 days. If the legislature remained in session longer than 40 days, members received no compensation in excess of the $120 maximum allowed for the .limited """An amendment in 1942 raised the pay to $8 per day and set the limit for the compensable session at 50 days. vnr later, in 1850. the salary was boosted to $600 per year and the limitation on length of session was whick voters will pass at the com ing election would permit the legislature to fix by law the rate of pay for its members. t , tu nvapf;nn immprliat.pl v is heard that the rate or pay would be boosted out of all reason. But it is pointed out on the other side of the issue that the right to fix compensaion has been held by Congress - throughout our national history, and the privilege has not been abused. People Would Retain Control It is characteristic of politicians to wat reelection. Representatives to the legislature are chosen every two years. Senators serve for four years. If legislators should boost pay higher than approved by the public, the public would show its disapproval at elections. This m ate desire for public approbation would, we believe, as sure a rate of pay within reasonable limits. Members of the legislature would be reluctant to seek more than jus tified compensation. . When a session of the legislature runs for more than three months, as was the case in 1953, members must rent houses, apartments, hotel rooms, motel cabins, or other lodgings, while paying for meals and other ex penses incurred away from home. The $1200 now provid ed for the two years of service fails to meet actual ex penses in most cases. A Legislator draws travel pay for only one trip to and from the capital. He normally, how ever, must return home several times during the session. Some members are called upon lor speaKing engagements in various parts of the state. . Many also serve on in terim committees with no extra pay, other than expens es. Altogether, the majority of the members must take money out of their own pockets in return' for the honor of being nublic servants. . Despite Oregon's tow rate of compensation for Its leor- isltttors, however, we have maintained an .Assembly of ex ceptionally high calibre. Oregon has many patriotic cit- izens willing to serve in the legislature and give their serv ices even though it costs them money. Danger In High Pay Douglas County, for instance, is represented by men of the highest integrity. State Senator Paul GqrJdeg and Representatives V. T. Jackson and John Amacher are men deserving of complete public confidence. The same is true in nearly every other county. A few members of our state legislature are subsidized. They represent special interests. But they are very few in number. . , We believe our Oregon legislature will compare very . favorably in the calibre of its members with any other state in the Union. There is danger in making the rate of pay too high. If the position were to be made profitable, it might cease to attract as many public spirited members and would draw more hack politicians. It is our opinion that a sympathetic public is more apt to boost legislative pay over the danger point than would legislators themselves. Legislators, constantly sensitive to criticism, would we believe, strive to keep com pensation consistent with actual express. The experience with congressional pay provides a good example. The amendment as it now stands is inflexible. Legis lative demands, however, are constantly changing. If legislators were permitted to set their own rate of com pensation. they could adjust it to meet changing require ments. The people would be spared having to vote on the matter every few years. At the same time they wo'i'd retain control through their ability to refuse . election to any legislator advocating compensation failing of public acceptance. , . Cordon Chairmanships Forecast Better Cains , EUGENE Guy Cordon, for many years past, has had morn influence than any other senator in getting the usually too inade quate initial appropriations as re ported Dy me (louse Appropria tions Committees raised to the point that Northwest power dams ana transmission lines coma oe kept on construction schedules Through ability and seniority he open meetings County Zoning Likened To Camel, Arab Story MYRTLE CREEK The mat ter of county zoning deserves more publicity than it has so far i ceived. It seems the subject is be ing explained by speakers to se lpct audiences Frances, cham- fbera of commerce, etc. Many vot ers do not belong to such organ izations,, nor is it always conveni ent or even possible to attend their is now chairman of two import ant committees, the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, and the Sub-committee on Interior AP' propria lions, both vital to the Northwest. It is imperative to retain the services of this man who holds sound economic ' views and knows intimately all phases of timber. reclamation, power, and other na tural resources' law. On the "promise of past per formance" we can expect even greater results through his new chairmanships, and close relation ships with the Administration, the Departments ot Agriculture and Interior, the Army Engineers, and the Bonneville Power Administra tion. - ' F. FORiD NORTHROP Eugene, Ore. 'JJaf (Bo ufe Appreciation Expressed By Jehovah's Witnesses EUREKA (To The Editor) ln behalf of more than 1.000 Jehovah's witnesses assembled here for their semi-annual Circuit Assembly, I want' to express our appreciation for the fine articles printed regarding our convention, as well as the feature article by Mr. Castillo. ... This service has certainly help ed the public because in calling personally on the householders many of them said that they ap preciated the information. We also want to thank all the pcop'.e of Rosoburg for the many rourtesies extended us and look forward to the time when we can vi;it you again. C. W. FISHER Eureka, Calif. Progress Made On Disarmament There never has been a slogan, "As Alaska Goes, So Goes the Na tion." But apparently there might well have beep, for. Alaska's elec tion results have for 20 years ac curately reflected trends in the continental United States. This fact, like the September outcome in Maine, can hardly bring comfort to the Republican Party at this juncture in the 1954 battle for control of Congress. The Democrats have just won a smashing victory in Alaska. The returns indicate the Demo crats have captured solid control of the Alaska legislature, and that the Democratic choice for delegate to the U. S. House has beaten the Republican by a margin of almost three to one. Two years ago the winning Democrat got just 56 per cent of the vote for delegate. The Democratic score on the territorial legislature, however, was more than just a change in percentage. Two years ago the Republicans swept the boards, winning 20 out of 24 House seats and 11 out of 16 Senate posts. Republican leaders in Washing ton are saying publicly that the Alaska outcome is not to be taken harbinger of things to come. that the issues in the territorial campaign had nothing whatsoever to do with national issues govern ing , the congressional contests across the country. . It would be a great surprise if they should be overheard saying the same thing privately. For the signs that the Democrats may gain substantial strength in the V. b. House and enough to take the Senate reins as well, are mounting steadily. A reversal in such a bellwether area as Alaska cannot help but be disturbing. If there are any strong indica tions of a contrary movement to ward the Republicans, the host of analysts, pollsters and doorbell ringers now combing the Ameri can landscape have so far failed to find them. That does not mean some mav not exist. We must always remem ber 1948. when all the signs seem ed to point toward the election of Governor Dewey of New York as President but Harry S. Truman I ritory. beat him out by two million votes. Nevertheless, no prudent politi cian who had read the aigns to date would go blithely about nuk ing rash assumptions of 'victory on Nov. 2. If the Republicans now go on to hold control oi con gress, or even just the Senate, they will have to be credited with confounding most of the experts and the grass-roots investigators. Fighting Chamber Gives Premier Confidence Vote ROME lifl A brawling chamb er of deputies gave Premier Mario Scelba a 295-265 vote of confidence Wednesday on Italy's agreement with Yugoslavia for the division of the Trieste territory. Fights between Communists and Scelba's coalition government sup porters broke up the session twice and it was nearly dawn before the vote was taken. Six deputies and five ushers were injured in the fighting. The fisticuffs started when Christian Democrat Deputy Giusenoe Togm accused the Com munists of "serving another na tion nther than Italv " and of hav ing among their number "a lot of former Fascist spies." The Com munist members charged from their benches and grappled with ushers in an effort to reach Togni. With Scelba reportedly insisting on completion of the debate and the vote of confidence "if it takes all night," Gronchi reconvened the chamber after a 5 W hour delay. The session remained noisy but the ballot finally was taken. The vote of confidence approved the agreement reached on the bit terly disputed area between Italy and Yugoslavia at the head of the Adriatic Sea. The agreement, in itialed Oct. 5, gives Italy the British-American occupied Zone A, including the port city of Trieste. Zone B goes to Yugoslavia. It has-been under Yugoslav occupa tion since the 1947 Italian peace treaty which created a tree ter- U. S. spokesman says the Rut sians have been notified of th desertion. . I certainly hope we don't aend him back. After the shooting war ended in 1945 we sent back thous ands of Russians who had surren dered to our aide, to get away from communism, and the record indicates that when the commie got hold of them they either shot them against a wall or aent them to slave labor camps. Speaking of war aftermaths: . Officials of the United States and Japan gather at the big Amer ican naval base at Charleston, South Carolina, for a ceremony in which we turn over two American destroyers to the Japs to be add ed to their new navy. The destroyers are- the Ellyson and the McComb both of which fought against the Japanese in the Pacific. When we took them out of the mothballs to turn them over they were heavily decorated with symbols of their prowess in: bat tles with the Japanese ,navy. , We thought it best to paint these symbols put before giving tha ships to the Nipponese, and did ao. War is strange business. With the Russians as our allies, we fought the Japs and the Ger mans to a bloody standstill. Now the Russians are our enemies, and the Japanese and the Germans look like the staunchest friends w have in the world. Such is life. r Over in Utah, they've just has an interesting political experience. A demagogue by the name of Stringfellow was running for con gress on the Republican ticket. He dramatized himself as a war hero, and did quite a lot of chest-beating about his exploits. A few days ago it turned out that his much - publicized ac counts of his heroic conduct were all moonshine just a hoax to get himself elected. The heat was turned on him and he resigned from the cam paign. A college president has just been named to run in his place. You have to admire these Utah people. They take their pol itics seriously. NEW YORK W If all goes well, Claire Mann will re duce the supply of American womanhood by 125 tons by the end of this year. "it isn't very much, is it?" sighed Miss' Mann, founder of "Overweights Anonymous," and pointed out there are seme 18 million women in this country who have eaten rnemseives out of shape. Her goal is to get all these plump ladies to lose an average of six pounds each, or a total of 54. 000 tons of feminine fat. If loaded on the battleship Missouri, this weight would Drobablv link her. Converted into tallow, It could he made into a candle big enough to light a city. Might be a good idea. splendid monument too. Make a to the sex. Claire, who has a daily woman's show on station WABD-TV. atarted "Overweight Anonymous" three ycart ago, frankly patterned It after "Alcoholics Anonymous" In many ways. "Overweight and alcoholism, after all. spring from the same emotional causes," she said. "The problem is psychological, n o t physiolog.'.al." The main theory behind OA Is is that obese people who are un able to solve their problem on an individual basis often are able to do so when they attack it by group therapy. t "Sometimes you haw to identify yourself with other people'a prob lems In order to realize your own," said Miss Mann. "Over weight people simply have substi tuted the love of food for the love of life. By recognizing this, they can help each other to learn to do the reverse." The motto of OA is "Don't put off for tomorrow what you can take off today." la three years the organization has grown to 100,000 members. There are no dues. The members meet at each other's homes in groups of S to 10 twice a month, and Miss Mann distributes free diets and exercises at her own expense. But OA differs from AA In one important respect. If a member feels an overwhelming urge to in dulge in a chocolate eclair, she can't telephone a fellow member to come racing through the mgnt to save her from temptation. "As a matter of fact, if a mem ber scales down her poundage, she must maintain the weight lots for at least aix months or be dropped from the rolls," said Claire firmly. Those who do reduce lo the weight they desire are encouraged to be more active in community and charily work to give them an outlet for their new energy. Ninety -nine per cent ot OA are women, but a male member holds the weight loss champion ship. He Is an engineer who n three years dropped from 29.5 pounds to 17S a loss of 122 pounds, Just one more proof of the old truth that a good man cait beat a woman at anything. Miss Mann, a former ballet dancer and pianist, became inter ested in therapy as the result of an accident. The accident was a collision in which she suffered a broken back. She was told she would never be able to dance again, might not be able to walk. After six months in a hospital, she set out to rehabilitate herself. She went to Vienna and studied psychology and anatomy, worked out her own system of exercises to rebuild her wasted muscles. Her stubborn will worked a mir acle. She recovered completely, then opened a studio to help other people with physical and mental problems. She was among the first to recognize the therapeutic value of music and dancing. She is married to a psychiatrist, has made a fresh career for herself in television. "If it weren't for my accident. I'd have been only a second-rate dancer or pianist," she said. "It enabled me to do something new." An attractive green-eyed blonde. Miss Mann weighed 1S8 pounds as a dancer, now weighs 112. "The diet in my case," she said wryly, "wai pam." From what ideas I have been able to gather so far, it reminds me of a story:- Once an Arab had a willing and dutitui servant in the form of a camel. One time when the, Arab pitched his tent the camel pushed in nis iHj5e: or course, very nouie- ly and humbly asking permission. The Arab was quite willing, as the camel's soft nose would take ud little space. Indeed, the Arab was almost pleased for this much company. Soon the camel asked leave almost politely to enter his head (and ears). The Arab still gave permission, although not quite so happily as before. Everyone knows how the camel later pushed in his tormidaoie hump and rump without any politeness I and tha Arab was forced out. Some twelve or fourteen years ago, many of us were deluded into a sort of ' iliare the Wealth" meas ure in regard to our schools. We should have recognized it for what it. was the first "soft nose" ot state dictatorship over our schools. Too many of us didn't. The schools were to remain un der local management, with a state board to allocate the equalized i funds and "advise" districts as to building programs, teacher load, and other conditions. But in only these few short years the formid able "hump and rump" of the ad visory (?) board have pushed in; and I ask you taxpayers , how much local control you have left. If we refuse to raise more money locally for their expensive plans, they threaten to withhold the stale basic money our money which we nave paid into the common fund in one way or another. Some of your children are be ing loaded on buses as early as 7 a.m. a man s working day is eight hours. What is the length of day for these chhildren some of them only six and seven years old? And what do you parents nave to say or do about it? In Uiis county, at least,' the few districts which have dared try to maintain their local sattis in he innepeniieni American way are being slowly boycotted into sub mission. Our schools had always a measure of state and county su pervision, out no woip. Now we are being asked to vote on some sort of zoning plan for our homes in certain districts. wiui anouier advisory (?) board Is this another soft camel "nose?' Will the "hump and runup" of this advisory board appear a few years hence to push all of us about? Will it spread until all Our homes, like our schools, are cen tralized, equalized and standard ized until our American way of life is jeopardized and all we can do is live where we are told, build where and as we are told, raise crops and animals when and where we are told, and pay and pay? Mcthinks that Arab would have done well to have slapped the camel's nose and put that servant In its place, no matter how polite, humble, and submissive it ap peared. Advisory boards can serve ui well, so long as we keep them ad visory. keep them our servants not allowing them to enter their "noses" and later become our masters. For thus is life lived in UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. Iff! - British Delegate Selwyn Llovd said Wednesday progress has been made on disarmament, but agree ment still must be reached on es sential points of a worldwide dis armament program. Lloyd, who was to leave later Wednesday for London to take up a new post as minister of supply, told the U.N. assembly's Politi cal Committee that East and West have achieved something togeth. er and have put themselves in po sition to discuss the problem. He said the Russians have tried to meet Western views in certain ways. He said the Russians no longer insist on. a ban on atomic and hydrogen bombs before any thing else is done on disarma ment and also have accepted the principle of disarmament by stag- Umatilla County Will Build New Courthouse PENDLETON Wl - Award of a main contract of $575,680 for con struction of the new county court house here was announced Wednes day by the Umatilla County Court. Successful bidder was the V. W. McCormack Construction Co., Pen dleton. The Otis Elevator Co. got another contract, for $13,899. The total cost, $.589,569, was well under the engineers' estimated cost of $648,860. The balance will go mio me county general tund to off set property taxes. George Buckler and Co. of Port land will start Nov. g demolishing the old courthouse on a $10,010 contract. McCormack wiU- begin construction Jan. 1 and oompletion is scheduled before the end of 1955. Stringfellow Commended For Making Confession ROSEBURG Am wrilimi about the young congressman from tun wno got up before a TV and radio audience and admitted that he had deliberately misrepresent ed his war service. If he did it voluntarily, not un der pressure of anticipation of ex posure, it was an act of the finest and took the highest courage. It was evidently a sincere and pain ful confession. Politics is a queer thing. It looks like the hard Dressed ReDublirans might well have used this man to save them in the coming election. Under a different but very diffi cult position, Richard Nixon vin dicated himself and definitely turn ed the political tables on his vily tying opponents. Christ the Great Comforter while on mis eartn taugnt that it we confessed and repented our sins we would be saved. Not knowing n me tacis, Din wnat an oppop tunity was presented to the State Republican Committee of Utah, and what a chance all of our statesmen had, including our own Senator Cordon and Congressman Ellsworth, to rally to this young man s siae. It seems to me as though every thing nowadays is governed by appeasement and expediency. There is not near enough fight for downright principles. Like when Patrick Henry said "Give me lib erty or give me death." The young congressman Is not to be condoned but neither should he be condemned. You ask any old soldier who served during the last two wars if he hasn't misrepra sente his activities in some is stances. The writer pleads moat guiltyl MARK W. DUNHAM Roseburg, Ore. NATIONALLY FAMOUS ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES LECTRIC COOK GRILLS O FRIES O TOASTS O BAKES WAFFLES iL- y America's most versatile cooking appliance Lecfric Cook has 190 sq. in. of cooking surface (equal to 3 10-in. skillets!). 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