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Viewpoint
As members, therefore, of the universal society
) of mankind, it is our sacred duty to suppress pas-
sions among ourselves, and not to blast the con
. fidence we have inspired of proof that a gov
ernment of reason isf better than oneof force.
Thomas Jefferson, j,
" "I see you've got a bunch of knotheads here
trying to make some laws," observed the way
farer as he looked over the crowd in the hotel
lobby. "I was just through Olympia; there's an
other bunch of" knotheads fussing around up
there. Of all the . . ."
At this point he lapsed into profanity. One
might dispose of him as an individual lacking
in discrimination, inasmuch as he seemed in
clined to brand anyone a "knothead who was
silly enough to be a legislator. T
But jus attitude is all too prevalent, especially
at this season. You hear it even from legislat
ors about other legislators.
From here on, what we have to say fomes
more or less under the heading of "what every
legislator knows but there may be points which
some legislators have not thought out in detail.
For some of the ideas and for clear statement of
others we are indebted to T. V. Smith, recently
cbrigressman-at-large from Illinois, earlier a
state legislator, for many years a professor of
philosophy, and his brand new book "The Leg
islative Way of Life."
Prof. Smith makes something of philosophy of
the legislative system, and that fact in itself
may be gratifying to lawmakers somewhat cha
grined at the apparent futility of their labors.
Has it occurred to you, for instance, that the
problems the controversial ones that come
before a legislative body arrive there because
they are practically insoluble; because there is
no wholly equitable and reasonable solution?
That is why they are there because reasonable
men have not been able to settle them reason
ably "out of court."
Take a list of controversial issues: Milk con
trol, school tax equalization, legislative reappor
tionment, truck regulation, picketing control,
regulation of the healing professions, unem
ployment' compensation, fair trade, pensions,
sales tax, public power, trade barriers, liquor,
allocation of highway funds and fish.
Start down through the list and settle those
issues, one by one. Eeasy, isn't it? You are
now doing what a newspaper editor can do if
he doesn't talk to too many different sorts of
. people. But stop before you v settle the fish
" question and let's see what a legislator is up
against.
If you're a sport fisherman that one is easy
too. The steelhead is a game fish and net fish
ing is an indefensible wholesale exploitation of
a resource that belongs to all the people. All
right.
Now try to imagine that you are a commer
cial fisherman. You have worked hard all your
life taking a precarious and not too plentiful
living out of the water. You know that, ex
ploitation or not, you earn every cent you get.
Just let somebody try to tell you that your busi
ness isn't legitimate.
It's all in the point of view.
Now go back over the list again and discover
on each issue a point of view contrary to your
own. There is one, isn't there? But, you in
sist, you can recognize that point of view and
answer its objections. You can as you see
them. Hunt up someone who holds that point
of view and try it again. That's a totally dif
ferent matter. You were wrong in thinking
you could fairly assume that point of view.
That is "what every legislator knows." On
every controversial question there is not a right
side an da wrong side, but two or even more
right sides, each representing a reasonable
and legitimate point of view.
' What does a legislature do about it? It ar
rives, painfully, at a (compromise and enacts it
Into law by a vote of 32 to 28, and nobody is
satisfied.
j
What, then, has been accomplished?
A great deal has been accomplished. Every
point of view has .received recognition. No
point of view has been suppressed, along with
the people holding it. Nobody is satisfied, but
eevrybody recognizes that the "legislative way"
has functioned. .Everybody is willing to endure
its results until the legislature meets again.
Admitting that the legislative way is bother
some, suppose we consider the alternative. It
Would be simpler, wouldn't it, if it were possible
to recognize only one point of view? It would
be perfect, wouldn't it, if that were your point
of view?
No, it wouldn't, j
' Because your point of view would prevail only
so long as you were able to suppress all other
points of view. And when you were overcome,
some other point of view would prevail exclu
sively and yours, and perhaps you, would be
liquidated. !
- So, by limiting its power, the "legislative
jway" preserves your point of view, your right
to hold it, and you. t
The alternative?, No need to describe it or to
give it a name. It is a monster whose body has
crushed the life out of one continent, whose
tentacles axe reaching out to seize life on other
continents. Between this monster and us stands
"the legislative wayj and will stand so long '
as it functions and we accept it. y a ; '
And now what shall we say to those who call
the legislature a nuisance and its harassed mem
bers . . . what was that naughty word, again?
. Ah well, let it go. That is their point of view
and they are entitled to it; are protected in main-
i ; tabling it, In truth, by "the legislative way." j -
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Skipping I x ;
, Sea tramps ships, , we mean-; are colorful in
direct proportion to their decrepitude. Joseph
1 Conrad pointed that out in "Lord Jim" and "Vic
tory," and the point j has yet to be contested,
c Old, d irty, grey, red-stained hulks, tied up at
"Wo Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Ato
From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 !
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, President
Member of The Associated Press
is exclusively entitled to the use for
wharves or heading into a choppy sea, they
embody more uppet-case romance than the
newest of the new maritime commission packets.
This is applicable, put in an unusual, mysteri
ous way, to the Russian freighters which have
been tying up in Pacific coast ports with in
creasing frequency jsinee January, when the
American government abolished most of its
"moral embargo"; on jthe shipment of machinery
and supplies to Vladivostok. !'
The Russian vessels, flying the gaudy flag
with crossed-hammer and sickle of their nation,
have come up the Cplumbia to Vancouver, and
even up, the Willamejtte to Portland. In greater
numbers they have come through the fog
shrouded Golden Gate of San Francisco, and
up past Alcatraz anjd Treasure Island to Oak
land and its close-thrust docks.
Many of these vessels, curiously enough, bring
with them cargoes of copra dried, broken ker
nels of coconut which they have loaded, ap
propriately, in the south seas of Joseph Con
rad's memory. This they have unloaded at
American piers, and, when the copra has been
processed in American factories, j taken on again
a cargo of the coconut oil. Then they have slowly
weighed anchor, set? their prows westward, and
steamed wearily away to the shores of Asia,
thousands of miles and many, weeks distant.
Not all of these jships, whose gangways re
main guarded wheit in port, and whose crews
often contain one or more women employed
as deckhands along' with Russian seamen, dis
gorge only copra. fTwo of "them, the Tranblat
and the Tbisili, each brought $5,655,000 in gold,
and one, the Minskf left Portland with a half
million in platinum aboard.
s r
Nor do they remain in port for long periods
merely to await the transformation of their
copra into oil. In jSan Francisco the Kim, 16
days out of Navaevcj, went at once into dry dock,
where she has renSained since mid-January
while her engines ire overhauled at a cost of
over $100,000. Wojd has come that she is only
the first of 100 or ijiore Russian ships to be re
paired and refitted in American ports "because
Soviet shipyards are in the midst of a five-year
ship-building program and have no available,
ways for bverhauls-f' One can take it or leave it.
This commerce rith Russia is nothing very
vital or even, when you get right down to it,
very mysterious, jit is only a placid chapter,
now rare, in the jsea-tale which slowly tells
itself through all he years and the centuries
that men have known and followed the ses. If
it were any more, jor any less, it would be not
half so interesting
Autonomy
When salaries of Marion county officials were
raised as of 1943-4-by the legislature recently,
this column remarked at some length upon the
unsatisfactory arrangement which conferred
this authority upon 1 the state lawmakers rather
than the citizens or government of the county
itself. ,
i . , .
Sens. Belton and lurcher have attempted to
afford partial cure lor this situation by intro
ducing senate bill 307, which is intended to pro
vide that the initiative for such changes shall
come from the coiinty budget committee or
group of 25 citizens
The Oregon City Enterprise suggests that "the
goose is cooked" inj the event this bill is ap
proved, which it deems unlikely, for county
officials who may seek salary increases. That
conclusion hardly sterns justified.
It must be taken! into account that half of
the members of the county budget committee
are county officials, and that they appoint the
other half. Thus $ would not seem difficult
to persuade the budget committee to sponsor any
justifiable salary increases for these officials.
What the bill will accomplish if it becomes
law and we see no reason why it should not
is a curb upon isolated requests by individual
county officials for Increases which would bring
their salaries out offline with the general county
schedule. It would also make certain that no
salary increases miiht be heaped upon a county
budget unprepared jto accommodate them. Be
fore a salary could! be increased, provision for
it would have to bejjrnade in the budget.
Day-Rooms
Stevens where
lem's National Guardsmen are stationed results
in a report by a member of The Statesman's
news staff that thejmen are comfortably quart
" ered and in good health and spirits. There was
no confirmation of j reports that the guardsmen
were victims of discrimination in comparison to
- the treatment of selective service enrollees..
The visit of several Salem men did however
, disclose one serious lack in equipment for the
t men's relaxation; in the matter j of furnishings
for the day-rooms - And this is a matter in
i which the home folk, anxious to do their part
for the men's comfort, may assist without seri
ous sacrifice on thir own part. ; One has faith,
' in view of the jseryice these men are perform
ing and the sacrifices they are making; that the
: home folk would be glad to help even if it did
require of them, in turn,' a sacrifice, fir
Relatives of the) artillerymen have initiated,
? and the junior chainber of commerce has agreed '
to sponsor, a "FortjStevens fund" to remedy this
f lack. In addition -to funds, it is apparent that
in part it may be remedied by donations of sub
stantial and serviceable equipment such as ash
" trays, curtains, irjagazine racks, radio-phono-,
graphs, records, reading lamps, magazines, card
- tables, books, gams and billiard tables. -
A word to the
's:
Monday, March
Bulgaria, The
help the Buigars
CO.
publication of
all
in this newspaper
First-hand observation of conditions at Fort
a considerable number of Sa
willing should be sufficient. '
3, was Independence day in
nafzis moved in just in time to
Celebrate it. . I - .
first. - : - y ' ,J
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Can Roosevelt Make 'Em Get on the Same Nest?
Bits if or Birealkifasft
By R. J. HENDRICKS
Justifiable nostalgia, 3-9-41
as told by Daniel Poling,
head of the International
Society of Christian Endeavor:
. S S
(Concluding from yesterday:)
Still quoting from the article in
last Monday's Portland Journal
by Daniel Poling:
"Here (in Oregon) I joined a
Christian Endeavor Society and
In which I found Christ.
S
"Here are the choicest friend
ships that one Oregon boy ever
made.
"Here are men and women, or
their sacred memories, that
have made me a better man than
without them I ever could have
become.
V
"There is, I suppose, a temp
tation to become emotional, if
not sentimental, about such
things as these in such a time
as this; but, facing even that
temptation, I amglad and eter
nally grateful for these returns,
for each fresh renewal of the
old Eternal Good.
"To all of my friends in the
state of my birth, I repeat the
words of Tiny Tim, Dickens' im
mortal child, 'God bless us, every
one.' "
V
Dr. Daniel A. Poling, presi
dent of the International Society
of Christian Endeavor, and edi
tor in chief of the Christian En
deavor Herald and the Christian
Endeavor World, was born 'in
Portland November 30, 1884.
He received his A.B. at Dallas
(Oregon) college in 1904, his
A.M. in 1906. He was a student
at Lafayette (Oregon) seminary.
.Besides these Oregon schools, he
attended Ohio State university,
Albright college. Defiance col
lege, Hope college, Syracuse uni
versity of Vermont, Temple uni
versity and Phillips university.
He is author of several books,
among them "Mothers of Men,
"Learn to Live, "John of Ore
gon, "Radio Talks to Young
People" and "The Romance of
Jesus.
m
Dr. Poling pays Oregon a
very pretty tribute in what has
hereinbefore been quoted from
his words; and he shows a justi
fiable nostalgia.
Every true son of Oregon will
uphold his right to use the words
employed, in comparison with
all the land or lands that any
one in history has wandered
o'er. ,
W
In comparison with any land
under the bending skies or any
rtfr " " "Tn" 'h,"l"t' "
I ' " aga m ajMpssagfA -j vmmm
Ipfei JdV obegoii . "
How Ores ceanties. populations changed in the 1939-40 decade is
shown by this nap. Each black 'igre represents a 5 per cent
: : tain, each atlined flgwe a per rent loss. - -
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continent or any isle.
But our great friend Poling
shows a slightly imperfect slant
on the history of his native
state when he says:
"He (Dr. Marcus Whitman)
rode the mightiest ride of his
tory, TO SAVE THE HERITAGE
OF ALL AMERICANS."
Dr. Whitman in that winter
journey of 1842-3 rode one of
"the mightiest rides of history,
but not "to save the heritage of
all Americans.
'm S
Dr. Whitman made that great
ride in Order to save his mis
sions, if possible, and he never
claimed anything else. Out of
that ride grew the "Whitman
myth," something after the pat
tern of the "Champoeg myth,"
made up largely out of whole
cloth.
S
One of the mightiest fides of
history was that of Jason Lee,
more than eight years before, in
his journey of 1834, answering
the Macedonian call of the In
Wotaini's Wedge
By FRANCIS GERARD
Chapter 29 continued
"Right," mused the other, still
keeping the pistol in his hand.
"And in return. 111 send you
north where you can remain,
Charles Stigger. But bring me
that stuff, understand? Ill get
you away from London."
"It's a go," agreed Beef.
The following night found
him in the driver's seat of a
lorry going up the Great North
road
Though there is a permanent
intelligence department staff in
England, there is a considerable
impermanence in what might be
described as the "firing line of
that service. The arch-spy ...
the hero of an endless saga of
dramatic exploits. . . . is al
most entirely a fictional char
acter . . . the ace man of the
"Secret Service," so often and
comically described by various
authors as "the well known se
cret service agent," is a ridicu
lous anachronism for the very
good reason that if he were a
well know secret service man,
the mere fact of his being well
known would raider him com
pletely useless. Similarly, in fic
tion, these super-men have an
ability to disguise themselves
as anything from a one-legged
greaser on a Greek olive boat
dians of the westernmost West.
Lee, with the blessings and
with the afterward watchful in
terest of President Andrew Jack
son, Inspired and started all the
movements in the Oregon Coun
try "to save the heritage of all
Americans" In the lands lying
between the snows of the
Rockies and the sands of the Pa
cific; with the sanctions of the
General who led the American
troops in the Battle of New Or
leans. S S
Lee sought to Christianize this
"heritage of all Americans," and
at the same, time to Americanize
it-
And the movements he started
. and fostered added to the Old
Oregon Country all the lands of
the states draining into Balboa's
greatest of the oceans. The re
sults would not have been dif
ferent had Dr. Whitman delayed
his coming entirely. And this is
not saying a thing against' the
great goodness, the fine service
and the genuine greatness of
Whitman.
to a two-legged or even three
legged cabinet minister.
In actual fact, the intelligence
service is obliged constantly to
change its operatives for the
very good reason that men can
remember faces, even disguis
ed, and It would be useless to
send somebody who had
brought off a successful coup
in, say, Germany, - back to the
reich in the hope that he would
bring off a second. He would
not. He would stay in Germany
permanently ... in all prob
ability, in an unnamed grave.
False whiskers, wigs, grease
paint, etc., are useless except
in a dark room.
It was with this in mind that
Sir Hector McAllister in his of
fice chair the following morning
pondered a certain amateur per
formance which he had wit
nessed a few months before at
the Colchester Garrison Officers
club. He smiled at his own idea,
then mumured, "Not such a long
shot. Well try it, at any event"
Hence Hector got Military In
telligence S on the telephone,.
. speaking for a few minutes. . .
Within half an hour he was at
the war office. A colonel of MX
5 rang up the garrison adjutant
at Colchester.
Twenty minutes later the re
ply was "phoned back after the
garrison adjutant had searched
for and found a certain officers
club theatrical program.
"The name, said the war of
fice colonel to Sir Hector, "is
Conran. Mr. G. F. Conran. He's
now a captain."
"Regiment?" asked Sir Hec
tor. ' ' "East Surreys. . ;
" "East Surreys?" echoed Sir
Hector. "Oh, yes," he nodded. "I
remember . . . Think 111 go
- down to Colchester. And I'd
like to have a look at the confi
dential report on Captain Con
ran ; r:- v--y'-l,
When : later Sir Rector read
the confidential report in ques
tion, he was .much pleased. "I
think this young man will do.
very well," he declared in re
turning the report to its keeper.
, That afternoon Sir Hector ar
ranged with the commander of
Ute Fourth Division to meet Cap-
tain Conran at the general's pri
vate residence that night. . . -.
' . (To be -continued) -
From Other Papen
SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND
Now Is the jtime for all good
pension seekers to band together
and descend in a body upon the t
Oregon legislature, . for L that
group is " in a benevolent mood.
; All that's needed is a little sucker
bait and a good loud voice and
the way is clear. At least we can
ay that much for the house of ;
representatives although the sen- ; :
ate hasn't as yet. lived up to ex- .
pectations. In .fact the . future "
looks so good in that line that
binding together of decrepit
newspaper editors to get them a . :
pension , as ex-community serv
ants is being considered. County
officers, city officials and sundry
other job and ex-Job holders
might as well get together, too,
and be in on the gold rush. -
February 25 the house passed
the bundle of political dynamite,
house bill 284, providing for ben-,
efits-to firemen, their widows
and orphans. Two years ago both
houses passed a similar bill, only
to have it vetoed by the gover
nor. They seem to be -on the
same track once again, apparent
ly depending -upon the governor
to kill their mistake and allow
ing them to go home, and tell
their cohstituents-"welL at least,
J voted for it." Apparently the
house of representatives is afraid
to stand on its own -two feet and
cast aside such legislation. .
In the first place, and worst of
its multiple bad features, house
bill 264 is distinctly class legisla
tion of the worst sort! The ed
itor who said Oregon is trying "to
"Outdeal the New Deal" must
have been thinking of such ac
tions as this by our lawmakers.
Why should one small group of
public servants - firemen be
granted pensions that are not al
lowed other groups of men and
women whose work is just as
essential in many ways to the
community?
Next, house bill 264 is not de
signed as a statewide benefit to
firemen but is primarily set up as
an aid to Portland firemen with
a little bait to outstate depart
ments thrown in. Portland pres-
sure groups have been attempt- !
ing to get such a measure
through for many years. They '
seek a percentage of fire insur
ance premiums from the state
general fund plus small pay
ments by firemen under the act
and proportional payments from
their employing city. The bait
is a 10 per cent total of the
amount collected from insurance
premiums to be placed in funds .
for volunteer, fire departments,
from which they can draw as
long as the fund is able to pay!
On the other hand, departments
with paid firemen and how
many of consequence are there in
the state outside of Portland?
get SO per cent of the insurance
premium taxes. In addition, there
is no limit set form in the bill on
pensions which may be paid ca
reer firemen, their widows or
children. The law, however, def
initely states the amount that can
be meted out to volunteer fire
fighters and heft .of these
amounts aren't particularly star
tling. Continuing to follow the lead
of the new -deal this measure
would provide similar high ad
ministration costs with 40 per
cent of the monies collected to
go toward administering the
fund, with all left over to go
back into the general fund of the
state. How, much would be left
over?
The question of the general
fund is another stickler. The
measure is definitely a raid upon
the .fund and would be taking
money from programs where it
is now being used. There is no
method prescribed to make up to
the fund what the pensions
would take out and in addition
we would have another bureau
to be spending, state money on
adnunistration costs.
If Portland wants to pension
its firemen, let -that city go ahead
with its program and not expect
the rest of the state to foot a
large share of the bill from the
general fund. . ' :
Fire 'insurance . companies are
not fighting the measure this
year since it does not make an'
additional charge upon their pre
miums. They do, however,- ex-
pect it to be vetoed by the'gov
ernor or declared unconstitution- 1
al if it gets past his pen. The
legislature expects, evidently, the
same thing. It is not fair to the
. governor, however, to go on ask- .
ing him to take the brunt of kill
ing such poor legislation and lift
responsibility from their shoulders-
McMinnville Telephone
1 Register..
' THREE PUBLIC SERVANTS
Yesterday there died three
men who, though they were res
idents of Portland, had in their
lives . in greater or less degree
touched the lives of all of us in
Oregon. They were Samuel C
Lancaster, Joseph J. Hague and
Claude C Hockley. :
Sam Lancaster was an engi
neer. He designed and built the quarrel to get publicity, but fol
Columbia river highway. Though lowing his own" method we do
time . and the development -: of
,. the motor vehicle soon outmod
ed the- highway in : which he
rightfully took so much pride
bis appreciation of the beauties
of nature, his recognition of the
importance of preserving . them
; and the example, he set in the
Columbia -high way construction
. will never be outmoded. The
whole sto ry ; of an outmoded
highway, so far as travel is con -
. cemed, and yet of jme whose
beauty can never be "but of date
is told today in that old road.
Mr. Lancaster did a great serv
ice to Oregon. .. .
Joseph J, Hague was brought
out of a well-earned retirement
to serve as administrator of the
Oregon state liquor control com
mission. In his short year of act
ive service : he established and
enforced standards of honesty
and public morals that are the
foundation of the high regard
in which the present administra-
i k.Tt ..: ii .v.
come in con tact, with iL He was,
moreover, an able business man
and - executive whose methods
KniitM ut iffloorunt CMnotniM
and the development of high ef
ficiency. '.' .
Claude : C Hockley's public
service was as .director of the
nubile works administration. In .
that position his influence ex-
munity of Oregon. He also had
been an engineer in private life
and his training gave him a for
tunate background for the con
struction work of every charac
ter undertaken with PWA aid in
his administration. The most
important work under PWA su
pervision and the one in which
he took the greatest pride was
the new state ' capitol in Salem.
Others associated with that work .
will never forget his coopera
tion and his assistance in .secur
ing a tempering of the too often
rigid and arbitrary Washington
regulations to meet the practical
and reasonable needs of the job.
Public officials; all . over. Oregon
and scores i of . other" friends :wiU
regret his passing. Bend Bulle
tin. ANOTHER WAR STARTS
Have you ever had this ex
perience?
A neighbor drops in to see you
and you have a friendly argu
ment with him. In your, excite
ment you find you have been
talking loudly- because you were
interested in what you were say
ing. Suddenly you hear sobs, and
immediately, you discover you
hiave awakened junior, trying to
sleep in an adjoining room. He
grumbles and growls , a while,
then goes back to sleep.
Baker as a community has un
wittingly committed such an er- ,
ror. Baker and Pendleton began -
talking about their qualifica
tions for the location of a gov
ernment munitions plant. Neither-was
tip-toeing around, for
that is not the custom these war
ring days, even in an orderly de
mocracy. Baker and Pendleton
should at least have .gone into a
huddle - and whispered, ; instead
of shouting .boisterously, right
'over the bedroom of LaGrand.
For even the soundest of sleepers
can be disturbed.
I Is there trouble? Yes, a little.
LaGrande is awake now, rubbing
its eyes, sobbing, grumbling and
growling just a little. , Neither "
Baker nor Pendleton, it has dis
covered, had any right to be
lieve that a munitions plant was
going to be located anywhere in
the Pacific northwest. Their sub
mission of data to Uncle Sam
was all a lot of useless "pala
ver," as the LaGrande Observer
styles it Then the same news
paper thoughtlessly admits that
the site locations board will ex
amine and survey fully1 each site
that - has been offered in the
northwest. -
No one can believe that either -Baker
or Pendleton erred in get
ting alive . and supplying com
plete information, which is ex
actly what the government
wanted them to do. The error
was made in temporarily awak
ening from its slumber our well
meaning city in between. It was
wholly unintentional on Baker's
part. So sorry, please! Baker
Democrat-Herald. -
1 Secretary Ickes abuse of Ore
gon's Governor Charles' A.
Sprague for disagreeing with the
Ickes policy allotting Bonneville
power follows the oblique meth
od characteristic of the genial
keeper of the vitriol pot. He does
not accuse Mr. Sprague of being
an advocate for monopoly. He
merely says he talks Uke.oae and
from that point argues forward
'that the governor's denial he is
speaking for the Aluminum
Company of America's interest,
he indicts himself as an advo
cate for the power trust and con-.
victs ; himself by continuing - to
disagree with Mr. Ickes.
1 a. .1 mt M. Al . .
r I iius is not uk ursi uiue jaox.
Ickes has tangled with aa Ore
I gon governor. - The Bonneville
project provides an ever present
subject for controversy, a fed
eral enterprise but with great po-
the state and the people who live
there. Mr. Ickes traded abuse
with Mr. Sprague's predecessor.
Governor Charles H. Martin
who, if memory serves, did not
come off second best,
j The controversy ' with Gover
nor Martin kept Mr. Ickes in the
headlines for some time,, as his
other verbal blitzkriegs have
served to do. He has been graU
zyingly absent for some time. We
uvt wua m? occuse curecuy
Mr. Ickes of picking the current
not hesitate to remark that pub
licity is something from which
Mr. Ickes does not shrink, and
mat calling names Is the way he
gets it-San Francisco Chronicle.
i The - Oregon House of Repre
, sentatives very sensibly, defeated
a measure to levy a tax, on Ore
gon operating corpo rati ons.
These dividends, if any, are al-
corporation and again when dis
tributed to the stockholder. The
measure was introduced by the
Portland left wingers, of course.
-t-Corvallls Gazejtte-Times;