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The Sand) (Ore.) Post Thursday, Aug. 8, 1963 (Sec. 1)
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August 8, 1963
This One Is Long Overdue
We heartily applaud Reps. Edith Green,
Robert Duncan and Al L’llman of Oregon
for bills they have introduced in the U.S.
House of Representatives.
Their measures, identical in wording,
would eliminate Congressional influence
in the appontment of postmasters. They
added further, that the bills “would prop
erly place the appointment of postmast
ers in the Civil Service and away from
the political influences of the past.”
To which we add, "Amen.”
We’re all too familiar with the way
postal appointments have been a political
football. Party loyalty, not familiarity
with the postal system, has been the
usual determinant in selection of a new
postmaster.
We remember one instance in Washing
ton state where a Republican who knew
about as much about post offices as a
penguin was put into a job over the
head of an eminently qualified Democrat.
The GDI’s were in power, you see.
A couple of years earlier a Democrat
with qualifications just as unlikely got
another postal job in a small town near
by. That time, the Democrats were call
ing the shots.
We don’t know if the bill proposed by
Green, Ullman and Duncan ever will see
the light of day. Congressmen long have
looked upon postal appointments as a
first-class means of awarding the faithful.
Many may be reluctant to give up the
largess at their disposal.
But from a practical standpoint, it may
not be as hard to pass as it sounds.
Thanks to the 20 years of Roosevelt-Tru
man tenancy in the White House plus
two more of Kennedy, Democrats fill the
vast majority of postal positions today.
Strictly on the basis of numbers alone,
Democrats would get most of the post
masterships, even under strict Civil Serv
ice. The Democratically-controlled Con
gress may just buy the bill.
This one we’ll watch with interest.
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Webster on Welfare
In all the fuss over "Gov.” Ben Musa’s
appointment of a Hood River man to the
State Welfare Commission, not enough
attention has been paid to the departing
words of his predecessor, Roy Webster.
Webster, Hood River orchardist and a
Mormon, is outspoken in his opposition
to present-day welfare. An interview pub
lished in the “Hood River News” just
after his resignation, gives a few of the
reasons:
“I think the whole concept of public
welfare is wrong,” Webster was quoted
as saying. "It’s creating a race of mor
al lepers. Nothing stands still, it either
goes ahead or backward, and I think it’s
time our welfare program came to a
halt and started going backward.
“It’s morally wrong to endorse the
giving away of public funds and taxpay
ers' money. Welfare is going only one
way — it’s expanding. If it was reduc
ing, I would be glad to serve.”
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Webster continued: “Welfare should
first of all be the responsibility of the
family; second, the church and frater
nal organization, and last of all at the
county level — or a combination of two
or three of these groups working to
gether. The state and federal govern
ment should never enter into it.”
Social workers probably will disagree,
but we suspect a majority of taxpayers
will agree with Webster. He asks, “Who
is better to judge our neighbors need?
Other neighbors or Washington, D.C?”
And hard on the heels of Webster’s
resignation came the news that the
state of Oregon leads the West in the
percentage of ineligible welfare recipi
ents. This dispatch, plus Webster’s de
parture, isn’t likely to build confidence
in the welfare program.
It’s too bad men of Webster’s stature
can’t be maintained on the Welfare com
mission.
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