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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1928)
Earl C. Brownlek Sheldon F. Sackett . Publishers Salem. Oregon THTpSDAT ACQ, 1 tares Editoinisul I keep iIIniM about many things, for I do mot wane to pat people oat of countenance; and I am well coa teat 11 they are pleased with thing that . ; .- mmmoy me-3oethe. . .. A City Manager for Salem r took a tidal wave at Galveston to subject the traditional mayor-council type of city government to critical examination. In the face of . that great disaster the old govern ment was paralized and did! nothing. An emergency commission of business men took charge and under its direction the city was rebuilt. Hie restored city could see no rea son to go back to the old order. The new form of city government was adopted by many other cities and quickly won arroroval from students of government. The new government had the advantage of cen- trauzing responsiDuiiy. nneu tunupwuii was rampant the public could put a firm hand down on five men and feel them squirm, while under the old system the mayor blamed the council and it blamed the mayor. The council, if cornered, blamed its committees and so tne duck was nassea wun consummate skill until the public had some thing else to think about. Under the new system men were put on a salary to handle the city government as their i. j : i u i.i ii.:-.. ousiness ana not as an mciueuuii uuug 'crowded into their spare moments! as under the council type. Improvements fallowed in every city which adopted the commission .-form. Governmental costs were reduced and greater efficiency secured, but. the millen nium in civic affairs did not dawn. Political scientists went to work to discover why the maximum of expected improvement was not realized. They soon found it. Lender the theory of the commission form the commissioners individually are experts heading a highly specialized and technical department of government while collectively they formulate public policies. Analysis of city personnel in many different cities showed that the commissioners were largely the same men who held office under the old regime and were not the expected experts. It is seldom that men who are large enough to be trusted by the citizens to formulate public policy are in position to accept a full time job as a commissioner at the salary usually paid, especially in view of the ex pense and uncertainty of appeal for election at the hands of the electorate. So commis sion governments are often in charge of rather mediocre men who accomplish more than they would under the mayor-council type because they have better working conditions. What was to be tried next? Nowhere was rrtHE JL he On Farm Relief 1 7 V Oregonian of yesterday, under the heading, 'The Simplest Way says, among other things: "Mr. Hoover summar izes the proposals of the republican platform as pledging the party 'especially to build up with federal finance farmer owned and farm er controlled stabilization corporations which will protect the farmer from the depressions and demoralization of seasonal gluts ana per iodical surpluses.' . . The plan is to do through co-operatives what the McNary-Haugen bill would have done through a huge federal bureau for as sessment, collection and disbursement 01 an equalization fee on each unit of a crop where- of there was a surplus, a ieaerai revolving fund of several hundred million dollars would provide capital under both plans, .but the Jardine plan, which is in substance that ap proved in the republican platform, requires payment of , interest, while the last version of the McNary-Haugen bill does not. As the farm leaders desire surplus control 'without government subsidy they should prefer the Jardine plan, for it grants a loan, not a sub sidy or gift. .v If what the Oregonian says in the above two paragraphs is the correct interpretation of what the republican platform means, then it favors the McNary-Haugen idea , rather than the Jardine plan- For the McNary-Haugen idea is to not have any government subsidy at all, but to make the different farm groups producing major crop surpluses provide in the equaliza tion fees the funds to pay or guarantee against losses on products sold abroad. If the Jardine plan calls for interest, who is to pay the interest? And who is to guar antee the United 'States treasury against losses (and thus a government subsidy), un less there is an equalization fee, paid by the members of each farm group receiving the benefit of higher prices? The fact is, the original Jardine plan was for the government to take or risk the losses, with the belief m the mind of Mr. Jardine, secretary of agri culture, that there would be no losses in the operation of his plan over a series of years Which other people have doubted; which Senator McNary, co-author of the McNary Haugen proposal, doubts. "Taking wheat as an example, about 75 per cent of the crop would be sold at home, 25 per cent for export price," says the Ore gonian. At tirst, it would be more nearly SO per cent sold at home and 10 per cent "for export price.' There would be a tendency for the propor tion of the home sales to increase and the Cinderella and Her Godmother s . 1 . 4 .' $sL Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talk From the Statesman Oar Fathers Read August 16, 1003 Frank Curtis, shop guard at the penitentiary, haa been appoint ed first warden to succeed E. A. MePherson, resigned. . ' Councilman W. C. Hubbard and family bare returned from an. out-Ian- at Woods, on the Big Nestu- ea. J. H. Campbell has purchased the Joseph Be rani property at Lib erty and Union and is making ex tensive repairs. Prof. S. M. Parrin and wife hare gone to San Francisco where he will attend the G. A. R. en campment. Ex-GoTernor T. T. Geer has gone to Core, Union county, call ed by the Illness of his iather, H. J. Geer. Joseph Pulitzer has provided the sum of 12,000,000 to establish a school of Journalism at Columbia university, according to press dis patches from New York. C. D. Gabritlson returned yes terday from Ashland. The flax crop In this rtcinity amounts to about. 250 tons, ac cording to the estimate of Eugene Bosse, flax expert. A range war is raging in Lew is and Clark counties, Montana, according to press dispatches. This Date in- American History p A WASHINGTON BYSTANDER the voice of any recognized studer- - J??0 decrease fo.r the Population of the ernment raised for a return to the discredit ed mayor-council form. The council-manager type was offered as a solution! Under this system the electorate selects a small group of representative citizens, who con stitute the policy forming body in city af fairs. They are limited to stating policies and selecting a responsible administrator, called a city manager, to execute them. Such .v manager can be paid an adequate salary to acure an executive of large caliber and the ; ange of selection is nation wide. This man has full charge of the executive work of the city, with ample authority to control his subordinates. He can select his staff from men who are qualified to do their work and is not dependent upon the glad handers who have been elected to office re gardless of their qualifications. As long as the manager does, his work successfully he is left alone. If he fails it is up to the council to find someone who can do it. The plan is simply the way of every great corporation. ihe electorate corresponds to the stockhold ers, the council is the board of directors and the city manager is the general manager of ;he business. The experience, of every city which has tried it shows it works for the Mttty as efficiently as it does for business. Salem, being some miles from the sea, has HAT hsn O tinol nra va - wo m 4 itv a d aaw imu vtuai netve tu naive lk u ailU It has had no fearful abuses in government be cause it has been served by a high type of citizen, uut Salem, which has done remark ably well under the antiquated mayor-council form of government, will do better under the council-manager type. The city is grow ing and its problems will be increasingly complex. It deserves the best civic machin ery that can be furnished. . How The.Oc.ean Flyers Died- i TTTHAT are the last moments of an unsuc- VV cessful ocean flight like? What is the nature of the final tragedy in mid-ocean darkness?:. - . A lot of us have tried to picture it, since il j.1 XT 1 s-t: i Cue disappearance vi n uugcaacr auu vaju auiu the others who were lost at sea. Now comes Commander Richard E. Byrd's book, "Sky ward,' to tell us. w ' Byrd's plane, you remember, came down in the water of f the French coast. If it had not been close to land Byrd and his three com panions undoubtedly would have 1 drowned. Byrd gives a graphic description of the crash. ; The plane hit the water with terrific force. He was dazed by the blow; a moment later he found himself swimming around in fK a - tvafai TAtt-iIa : ha At flitAty pao A alt mKinw va navvtf Aviiro ujowimwu. vutuuui out of a window of the sinking plane ; Acosta and Balchen appeared a moment later, swim ming near the wreckage. Fortunately; they were able to get ashore. But that account of the wreck gives us an understanding of what the last moments of other less fortunate aviators must' have been like. ' ;l Under orders of the metropolitan commis sioner, London police are forbidden to chew gum while on duty. Is this an English slam against Americans 7 , London railway porters are protesting feminine styles. Women wear , so little clothes that they need no trunks and are able to carry their own-bags. What are hon est bag luggers, to do 7 New York clothiers are worrying how they can make men more "clothes con scious." : We should think that New York summer 'weather would solve their problem, United States is growing and will grow fast. It will not be long till no McNary-Haugen idea, nor any Jardine plan, will be needed, for we will have no major farm surpluses. We will be using all we produce. The protective tariff will be sufficient. The only use of either a McNary-Haugen idea or a Jardine plan is to render the protective tariff opera tive, against foreign competition. The Oregonan writer goes on at length in an involved argument in favor of the farmer owned and controlled corporations, backed by government money but in the mass of the argument it says : "There would be no direct assessment of a fee against each bushel of wheat or corn, each bale of cotton, or each pound of pork, but in the "final set tlement for each crop year the cost of hand ling the surplus would be distributed just as equitably as by the levy of a fee, which would actually be a tax." That is clear it is just the same thing by another name. Somebody must pay the fee. or the tax. You may chase the simple thing all around Robin Hood s barn," but it comes back to this. The McNary-Haugen people simply called a spade a spade. All the rest of the farm groujs and experts have merely sought and are still seeking to take the curse off of the spade by calling it a farm implement, or some other name. ; Any way, Mr. Hoover promises farm re lief, and he will see that it is provided. And he will get to the point in the most equitable way possible; or several ways. He mentions a few of them in his acceptance speech, and he will likely further explain during the campaign , And, better still, he will act wnen he be comes president Women Find Better Jobs YOU know, of course, that there was a tre mendous increase in ' the number of American women who worked for their living between 1910, and 1920. Dont' you? Well, you're mistaken. --The Women's Bu reau of the Department of Labor reveals that the increase in the number'of women work ers' in that decade was the smallest in 50 years. . What really happened was that the num ber of women in some jobs increased enor mously, while the number of women in other jobs decreased. Women servants, - for in stance, declined in number about 14 per cent, while the shrinkage in the number of women in agricultural work was even greater. On the other hand, the number of women in' pro fessions increased 39 per cent, white women in clerical work increased 140 per cent. Nearly as many women were earning their own living 15 years ago as now, but they were doing it in less pleasant and remunera tive ways. nriHE Bureau of Railway Economics, at 'JL Washington, reveals that rail shipments of fresh fruits and vegetables have practical ly doubled in the last ten yean. The in crease is due largely to improvements in methods of transportation of such perishable commodities. .... This represents a real service to the nation as a whole. It has meant that, more: and more, people have: been able to enjoy such foods- "out of season" ; the housewife no longer has to rely on the can-opener between September and July. The inhabitant of the northern part of the country no longer finds his winter diet a vastly different affair from his summer diet. Both his health and his en joyment cf life have been enhanced. By KIRKEL I,. SIMPSON (Aasoriated Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON.' (AP) State department folk look at the "outlaw-war" language of the foreign policy planks ot both the Kansas City and Hous ton conrentions with wry glances. They detest the phrase as meaningless in fact and apt to create misun derstanding in the. p o p ul a r mind as to what treaties design ed to make ; wars less prob- Slmpson able actually do. But It's a fine sounding slogan and evidently is not to be'dodged. It eren got into the British ac ceptance of the Kellogg treaty signed by Sir Austen Chamberlain, who should know better. Department Looked On Incidentally, the department did not stand idle when the foreign plank was In the making at Kan sas City. One "Bill" Castle, assis tant secretary of state and a good lad when a little fixing of that sort is to be done, was very much in eridence around the resolutions committee there. The plank may be aaid to have full state depart ment approval except for that war outlawry tag end to its complete -:-: 4-..-.' I i. -r-mm Norman Davis, both former demo cratic under secretaries of state and Polk probably the most popular man personally with the permanent folks at the depart ment of all the political appointees from secretary down in the last decade or two, might be able to swing a little Influence. Wholly unofficially, they were approached. But Polk didn't go to Houston at all and the outlaw war thing bob bed up there, even lacking a Borah to ride it through. And that's that. Diplomacy and domestic politics may be on speak, ing terms at times; but they don't always see eye to eye. Kellogg's Future Speaking of the state depart ment, there Is considerable gossip about Secretary Kellogg's personal plans. Many folk, in and out of the state department and diplomatic corps, are wondering whether he might not ride out of office vol untarily on the ware of accom plishment signalized by signing of the new peace treaty in Paris. No body blamed him for sitting tight when the democratic-liberal as sault to oust him was going full blast just a few months ago. Who likes to quit under fire? But things hare changed a lot in the foreign relations field. Mexi can relations hare been Morrow ized; Nicaragua Stimsonized, with 'General McCoy mopping up: China i affords a tribute to Mr. Kellogg endorsement of administration " ucy,l."l' foreign policy. But Castle or no P""auc augers ana. w cruwu Castle. Senator Borah was not to " com" ?ece lucre Kcuia uiiiu icii ivi uu E. K. Bragg, state industrial ae cident commissioner, will return here Sunday after two weeks spent in eastern and central Oregon, Mr. Bragg formerly liyed at La Grande where he was postmaster. He also serred as county school superintendent of schools. Air Mail Making Steady Strides SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. A 10 per cent increase in air mail since establishment of the new fire cent rate was announced by W. C. Irving Glover, second as sistant postmaster general who ar. rived here today with Dr. Hubert Work, republican national chair man. He announced that the Boeing company has made arrangements for several new planes specially equipped for carrying air mail with capacities of 1800 pounds. These planes Mr. Glover said, ..will not be equipped for hauling passen gers. Cole Takes Post At Oakland, Cal. ROSE DALE, Aug. 15. Ken neth Cole left last Sunday for Oak land, Calif., where he is to work for Montgomery Ward and com pany. Kenneth Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Cole, and for the past several months has been working In the Ward Portland branch. AUGUST 18 1792 First theater la Boston opened. 185S First cable to cross the At lantic put in operation and Queen Victoria and Presi dent Buchanan exchanged greetings. 18 SI President Lincoln forbade business intercourse with the southern states. Barbs With all the advance polls be ing taken on the coming election, a lot of candidates are taking their medicine through a straw. A lot of political arguments are exceptionally dry conversation, and a lot ot them are all wet. Cleveland public schools plan to teach the art of talking plea antly. An investment in a cheery "Hello" is a good buy. Violinists are said to make pood aviators because ot their rhythm. Sounds reasonable unless they start to fiddle around up in the air. be denied a little canter on his pet hobby and in went the outlaw war tail to wag a dog otherwise irreproachable In state department eyes. Houston, for obvioas reasons. critics to carp about. But those who know the secre tary best believe hell be still on the. job up to March 4, regardless rf who wins the election. They was a more difficult diplomatic aeciare ue ua t nuuir . um task for a republican administer- thing to do with himself and that ed state department. Yet there he likes tne jod, ior mat u ror were possibilities. Frank Polk and ! no otner reason. Bits for Breakfast By IL J. Hendricks And so it goes W W The Miles linen mill is forced to build a new warehouse. V,: . : ' The state flax industry is build-iar-a new shed -for housing part of this year's crop And every day, in every way; our flax and linen industries are' gettiag- better and better and- big ger and bigger, and of the con tinuation of this growth there is to be no end in the present gen eration. The Brook farmers, the literary people who estabUshed a commun istic home near Boston, along the lines of Fourier's plans, would not wear cotton because it helped the cause of slavery In the south, nor wool, because It was cruel to- take tne fleeces from the backs of the sheep. So they wore linen. A re vival of transcendentalism might help oar flax and linen Industries. V A quiet resort Is a place where there's nothing else to do until dinner time except light another cigarette. , V "s " "At least St per cent of the peo ple are feeble-minded." That's right; you can tell by their un questioning acceptance of statis tics like this. - - ' y - "it That renewed animation shown by host and hostess as yow prepare to leave Is just their jeyona antic ipation ot relief. - - . m You can tell the historic spots at a . glance. Seven tourists are grouped there while another man ipulates a kodak, . Correct this sentence: "'There were eight women present," sai& she, "and while any one of them was speaking the others remained silent" v One fault of the times Is that our keen Interest in the other fel low's private business seems to end .when he gets robbed or shot. S m Going to 'his death in an elec tric chair -the other day, George Appel kidded the guard who tied his hands to the chair by remark ing. "Well, I'll soon be a baked Appel, won't I?" And he was. An other man named Graham went to death at the same time. He also laughed with the guards, but didn't, have the .Appel sauce to say that he would soon be a baked Graham gem. The removal of aeveral bad teeth cured Gov. Al. Smith's gout. What illnesses have your teeth brought you? Our advice is FREE! turns - Corner ef state and liberty; sts. Salem, Oregow SIS a for about l$ cent a day you can buy through an absolutely good Travel Accident Insurance Policy For $ f 00 a year Can You Really Afford to Wait Another Day? . It s not what it costs you but what you jret that counts. This i insurance will pay you 10 or $20 per week for disability, $7.50 per week hospital benefits, up to $100 emergency benefits and from $1,000 to $10,000 for death all as outlined and specified in the policy. Udl Orders Hat Pdd in Advance 1 Year 55.00 INSURANCE APPLICATION AND SUBSCRIPTION BLANK DATE.. If 21 THE NEW ORGON STATESMAN, t Salem. Oregon. Gmtltinen : ' - tT22!.f?ro",:,u,fr,m It to understood rsularlr each day by your authorised carrier and I par him for tba aam at tbm regular MttbUsM rata of pvrLnth. ''Jrr Aoeidaat Insurant Pol try teauod by tbo Nrt -Amorloaa Inauraaoa Company oC. Chicago, Ullnoto. I am not at present a subscriber to th New Oregoa Statesman. I am now a subscriber to the Nsw Oregoa Statesman. Name .....;,......,. Age Address' City State Occupation ....................... Phone ........