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fsgt 11, Reglster-Outrcl, Eugene, Ore., Sun., Nov. 81, 148 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER . . William U Tufman .UUaodaM Pros. Unltad Prtaa PITOR AND PUBUSHDS USMBEB - ..... Audit Buraau o ClrcuUllon Enuia4 at CM Foat Offle It luftna, Ortfon, ai ttcsnS- "h."lUrHr-Jiiaril'a pollcj la tha eomplaW "J lmparl ubllaaUon In Ita nawa paai of aU nawi nS alatamanu m aawa. On thla pan tha adltora of Tha lUfl.Ut-Gurd of(T th.lr opinions en avanta ol Oia dajt and itiattjrj of Importanra to Oia community. andaaTorlng to ba eandld bul Ulr ana halpful In tht davalopment of conitrugltv commuriltTpoIIE: YVJiat Future For GOP? Ai might be expected after the great de bacle, Republicans from one end of the coun try to the other are arguing the future of their party. Clarence Buddington Kelland, the author, who ii alio national commitee man from Arizona, has blasted Dewey and "the Albany group" in a letter to all national committeemen: "The Albany group provided the candidate with smug, shallow, iniincere speeches. It was a contemptuous campaign, contemptuous alike of our antagonists and our friends. The Al bany group proved themselves to be geniuses In stirring up and avalanche of lethargy. No Issue was stated or faced." No doubt Mr. Kelland feels better now, but ha has not thrown much light on the plight of the GOP. He has not made any suggestions for reconstruction of the party. There was another flareup in Portland where Don Van Bosklrk, chairman of the Multnomah county central committee Is re ported to have said: "Of course the .Republican party is the parly of big business and ought to be proud of it." Reports indicate that this extremely nar row view was challenged promptly by Other and more liberal members of the Multnomah committee. We hear that Senator Wayne L. Morse has been invited to speak to an assem bly at Reed College, arranged by the Young Republicans at Reed. In effect, they want him to answer Van Boskirk and that should produce plenty of fireworks. It is our prediction that the Republican party between now and 1952 faces a struggle for control much like that which the Demo cratic party has just survived. Remnants of Wendell Willkie's followers are already on the warpath to get rid of Robert Taft as head of the policy committee in Congress (although Taft by reason of his stand on housing, federal aid for education and many other measures is a flaming liberal com pared to many of the old roosters in Con gress). "Where will Wayne L. Morse fit In this struggle for OOP control?" His colleague, Guy Cordon, predicted be fore election that "If we lose this election Morse will be the new leader in the party." Of course Guy Is loyal to his fellow Ore gonlan. It will not be so simple as all that, Morse himself made a talk to Young Re publicans In Seattle tnis week which may Indicate his tactics. He told them: "Your mistake has been In building your organisation around men and not around measures. Your club has been a Stassen outfit. You must build around measures and then find , the man to fit the measures." That is sound advice not easy to put into effect (because most YR's, and YD's, for that matter are as barren of ideas as a foot ball rooting section). Maybe there should be a restatement of the Van Bosklrk proposi tion: "It is no sin for the Republican parly to be the party of Big Business, but Big Business must not be allowed to own the party or have any priority over labor or little business or the farmer and everybody else." The Republican party must be a party of all the people, if it is to survive. It can be conservative without losing the common touch. It can be the party of what Morse calls "constitutional liberalism" as compared to those types of radicalism which depart from American concepts. But perhaps there will first have to be some more highclass political funerals. There will have to be repeated transfusions of ideas. As of now, the GOP is pretty sick! Cities And Counties Can Do It In his admirable presentation of the In terim Committee's proposals for a long range consistent attack on Oregon's high way, road and street needs, Representative Ralph Moore, of Coos County', spoke quite plainly to the League of Oregon Cities about the poor quality of engineering methods and construction records in many cities and counties. There is a very practical way to solve some of these difficulties, especially in those communities where budgets for this type of work are very limited. We call at tention to three sections of Oregon Code: OCLA fli-13l Asrrrmriils with munici palities, dlnlrlcts or commlsMons for Joint per formance of administrative function!. That any one or more municipalities, districts or com missions sittiHtcd In any county, hereby are nuthoriterl whenever it Is deemed or their befl interests, to enter Into written agree ments with such county, or with each other for the Joint performance of any and all similar administrative functions and activities of their quvernments through consolidated agencies, or by means of institutions or buildings Jointly constructed, owned, leased or oyieratcd. OCLA S6-1K Requisites of asreement; Rpreadinc upon minutes. Such written agree ments shall set forth what functions or activi ties of local government shall thus be Jointly carried on, and shall specify definitely the manner In which the expenses thereof shall be apportioned. Upoiysurh asreement being rati fied by the governing bodies of such munici palities, districts, commissions or county sub scribing thereto. It shall be spread upon tht respective minutes. OCLA 86-133 rowers vested. Whenever any such agreement has been entered Into, then the consolidated agency or institution set up to function Jointly for the municipalities, dis tricts, commissions or county which are party thereto, shall be vested with all the powers, rights, duties and functions theretofore existing by law In the separate gw' -n consolidat ed. In the letup of our Central Lane Plan- collected in each state and don't Oregon contribute. The fact that a bond company told a school board at Salem that they would have to have more than 2 23 interest isn't any thing to get startled over. The bond house was still willing to advance this largo sum at a little higher rate of interest, according to the most of the financial maga zines I read the whole country is about to undergo higher interest rates. I can remember when they paid 4 on savings accounts in Eugene and there was neither a depression or boom on at that have advanced wages and costs of living etc., and I see no rea son why Interest rates should not advance also. If the speculators had to pay more for money they might not be so keen to store stuff in warehouses and create artifi cial shortages on borrowed capital. But to get back to the pension ning office and the employment of Howard Buford and his staff we have just such an agreement between the county, the cities of Eugene and Springfield and their school boards and the Eugene Water Board. Could we get together to form an engineering bureau which could serve not only the county .but all of the cities, water districts, drainage districts and other agencies which now have either inadequate department or are compelled to hire their engineering done? Of course these sections cover such a joint understaking as a combined building to house city and county police, fire and motor vehicle activities and the state's as well.. These sections were enacted back in 1933 at the request of Hood River we have been told. Anyhow they open up many possibili ties for combinations which will save money for the taxpayers and produce much greater efficiency. Counties and cities are asking continual ly for more state support. The state has a right to insist that we "save pennies" and step up efficiency wherever possible. 4 Putting A Floor Under Pensions Putting a $50 "floor" under pensions for the aged of Oregon, as now recommended by Joe E. Dunne, is' quite different from the sweeping provisions of the initiated bill which was adopted by the people, as we un derstand that measure. On Page 1 today we print a statement by Mr. Dunne, through his attorney Barnett Goldstein, clarifying the November 6 story in The Oregonian in which .Mr. Dunne was quoted on the situation re- suiting irom tne passage of the measure (see Matlbag). It may be possible to put a $50 floor under old age assistance without eliminating the requirement of "need" on which federal aid to this and other states is based. It should be possible to eliminate the duplication of pensions for man and wife, or the pension ing of either one where the other spouse has ample means of support. If the blanket pro visions for housing, medical care and other generalized benefits of the bill are brought within the ability of the state to furnish such services, a program can be worked out which will accomplish the purpose of ade quate support for the needy aged without wrecking the state's finances or tax struc tures, Criticisms of Attorney General Neuner for his opinion, directing that the Act be suspended until the Legislature can straight en it out is entirely unwarranted. It is the attorney general's sworn duty to advise the governor and other administrative officials of the state in such a situation. Not even by vote of the people can an act be passed and put into effect if it violates any provisions of the Oregon constitution as the piling up of a debt for pensions would if this act were enforced ,now. Nor can the people of the state create a tax by merely directing large expenditures to be made for which no source of funds has been provided. If Mr. Dunne and his friends will work with the Legislature to bring forth a measure which Is within this state's means, or which can be financed with a tax which the peo ple will support then there will be little dif ficulty in clearing up this muddle. But let there be no misunderstanding as to the pres ent effect of this enactment: It Jeopardizes stale support for our schools from which we get one-third of our total school revenue. It Jeopardizes all state, county, city and school financing of necessary projects by means of bonds. Putting "a floor under pensions" is quite different from what the act provides. No doubt that is what the people who voted for the measure intended to do and no more. But they did a great deal more than they in tended through misunderstanding of the measure as it was presented. All Elizabeth wait for the bringing forth of a Rose Bowl r'al" ,n SM ot 0resn with Its grandeur. And no per team. gnnsllties should h nipntmnpH And please remember any child can tear down a bird's nest, crum ple a flower or break a watch. We In The Editor's Mailbag law. We intended no property tax, i tangible or intangime. " juai wanted to show pensions are a problem of the whole people. He said it was contemplated that leg islature would re-phrase the KB OLD AGE PENSIONS I PENSIONS EUGENE (To the Editor) FLORENCE ( To the Editor) A peculiar thing is no one has j We are subscribers to your PPrj measure. Ho said he would go to written an article against it to: for many years. I am very much!ie,iSature tn& 'see that what we publish over their own signature, interested In an old age pension.' ajt wrjtten into the bill is writ- When I hear talk about some peo-as my age is past seventy-five. I ,en ,n(j oniy the people who are pie being lower down than a cannot work on account or rny,u,nrhv and needy will get tne snakes belly snd desreving tar and sickness, and receive no old age pCTSjon. We have no desire to learners i can easily imagine wno assistance irom uregon. ni i"vc bankrupt the state . they refer to. (resided in this state for thirteen i Another thing said is that the;years. We have a small nome ana gEX MATTER credit of Oregon was ruined on paid for. In regard to the state- new YORK VJ. The of- account of the 3 to Z vote for it ment m today s paper, wnicn At- fleers and crew of the freignier and almost the same week the;torney General George Neuner , Lyngenfjord which brought five planners announced an improve-! was the man pointed the way out. I male and four female polar bear ment to Columbia River to cost The expensive pension plan, ap-lcubs here from Norway didn't about 3 billion dollars the greatest proved by the voters, could not;now which was which. Dr. amount of money for a project in be put into effect. This, to my es-j Leonard Goss, director of the New the Northwest. It don't look like :timation, is rediculous. There arejyor Zoological Park, was called our credit was all gone yet. jnow over forty million dollars m to tell them before the bears But some wise guy will remark, ; laying in the treasury. Why not i were taken to Chicago. that ain t the state of Oregon's put it in circulation and help the money, that is the U. S. Govern-1 needy? You cannot turn down an ment. Well don t the U. S. Gov-1 act of thirteen thousand people, ernment got Its money from taxes who voted for the passage of this bill, and who mean business. If this voting by the people is not legal, and can be changed or thrown out, then none of the vot ing November 2nd in Lane coun ty is legal. All the old . people needy should write In to the legis lature to get this bill through to people we voted for. They are now in office. In our neighboring state, California, they find a way to pay the old age people, and is considered for all first in line in the state. Why not Oregon find the same way. Please print as open letter. Would be appreciated. OTTO W. MOMSEN, time (I have lived around hugene : republican Precinct Committee approximately 46 years). In my; rr,an Florence, Oregon, opinion there is no cause lor com plaint. For a long time the rent 'four FREEDOMS on money has been too low. They I The Atlantic Charta we thought was fine, It looked so good all down the line, With freedom from those things all fears, was taken from the world for years. It spell ed relief for years to come, we could relax all war was done. If all those freedoms came I guess we would bid goodbye to war's distress. No more our boys would have to fight, for then the world proDiem-wnen iney es imatea it w0Uld be alrignt. ..Ah m .. what would take 50 million to pay 50.foo5 we morlals b ,Q think M dollars a month to needy persons natjons ,d to tt,e over 60 and 65 according to sex L wi,h h , wouW the counted the census of all the L(g the rebuildin of man. people. Snmonn. ,u euro in then aslH. .blSCS ffid would not by such rules abide persons receiving the aid must show that they did not have an income of that much ($50 a month) and of course people who are drawing several hundred a month would not be eligible and should not claim or receive the pension. Now a recipient of $50 a month will probably have to spend it all to get by (and will be doing well if he does that) so the money will be kept in circulation and a good many merchants will look forward each month to getting the most out of the check for the aged. We still could initiate a petition to raise the money by gross, in come tax if the lawmakers want to have everything specific might not be a bad Idea at that. It is my guess that the rich money bags would like to spend more money lo defeat tne measure than pay It to, the old people It might be another good thing to Invoke the recall on Attorney Nuener for the flimsy excuse about the measure being a request of the people to the legislature to enact legislation etc. We all know from past history about what the legislature will do for the old people. There is no use talking to them, we have got to make our own laws to get what we want and I think we will eventually win. Yours very truly GEO. E. HORTON 482 East 8th Ave., Eugene, Ore. OFFER EUGENE (To the Editor) I am glad to see that someone has started to write a state song for Oregon. Although somewhat crude and reminding us of a child throwing mud it is at least a starter and that's something. The first steamboat built was a crude affair and "when the whistle blowed the boat stopped" we are told. That is a good point in song writing, have plenty of steam and now It seems we've drifted far and don't know where . those freedoms are. It seems like history repeats, and unity must get defeats, and like we read In Holy Writ, when people built a tower and it in stead ot bringing unity, brought confusion of their tongues you see. And ever since that ancient day, it seems they've been con fused to stay. We, like our inde pendence yet, while others think they better get the State to take on full control, and be the guard- ian of their soul, and do what: leaders say to do, the Nation ruled by Just a few. I think the good Lord made us free, we should j not sell our liberty, if we do it seems a shame and man, not God must take the blame. I wonder when we'll get some sense, when John Q. Public won't be dense, or, must we wait until too late, and God will leave us to our fate. Those freedoms all we re so well meant, but now it seems there's been a dent, made in each of them today, and where the end is, who can say? I read the Sermon on the Mount, it makes so plain the things that count. Two thousand years have passed away, and see what we have got today! Confusion everywhere around, while what we need is solid ground. T. E. HAYES, RL I. JOE DUNNE EUGENE (To the Editor) In our issue of November 18 of the Editorials entitled "Old People Feeling Bitter," I wish to remind you that you are correct in that they ara feeling bitter about such misleading statements that you make in your editorials. Mr. Joe Dunne never said he was sorry and would take anything he could get,, instead he has employed a very able lawyer to help defend ,1.:. will -1 ,i. r , .1. . .W,. dn'' m"ke the ip of .TeraV goorn whistle" to large. So I will jay to Grace Morley and any others who wish to try their poetic fancy to try asain. I will donate ten dollars ($10.00) England "agonized" over the birth of ,1 or $50aiscd? eth's baby. Huh! They just ought to subscription. But the song must Portland and Los Angeles are yak-yak- i -u,,t t n. .ni ni.i! pie a i lower or c """-" """-""""i need constructive builders. The tree which reminds us not to forget the song must touch the heart and if Lookouts and our Community Christmas. Wayne L. Morse will be home for Thanks giving after his tour of the country trying to elect Republican congressmen. He has real reason for Thanksgiving. : One diagnosis of GOP's troubles is that Dewey put too much faith in Santy Clans. At last somebodv shot Santv Claus. the words or tune will make a lot of girls weep so much the better. I thank you. Dorvin Dudcck. P.S. If Grace Morley or some other lassie will write help prepare this bill and it was presented to your Attorney Gen eral, Mr. Neuner and he referred it back for some minor changes and it was then presented to him and he said it was OK and was a good bill and further over 300,000 of the Dunne and his "ilks" voted for the bill and J don't think they were so dumb as you try to make them. My experience of voting In Oregon for 40 years Is that if peo ple do not understand a bill, they always vote NO. Now, in our last election, they had a bill that pro vided the funds and you fought that and said it would bankrupt the State, so this time they have decided our State Legislator can provide the funds and ycu are afraid they will bankrupt this sons::.. . c.-.I -j ... ' that will make us bachelor, ,i ?"a '""V"? Peo- I will donate an extra ($10) ten dollars. This last offer Is uncon ditional. D.D pie has made possible for you to enjoy and build your fortune. Now. I paid over $400 taxes this year and have paid taxes for 40 years in Oregon and never expect PROTEST EUGENE (To the Editor) W:o get an old age pension, but do not like the stand you took onlh,v bee" helping pay for pen. tha llnnnr rtiiatlinn n, ,ha A i sions for State tmnlnv. rrtnntv Princess Elizabeth's baby is reported to printed, neither do we like your , employers, fireman's postal, gov". weigh about "half a stone," which is seven "" on lhe 0,(1 " pension plan, iernment school teachers and 7. , , . ,, , , , , ,. 1 ' From the way the votes were many others. I refuse to liy idle pounds six. which is worth about $29 at the cast on each issue, your advice did ;nd see the older people that current rate of exchange. jnot have much weight. jshould come first on the list and George W. Stone I am willing to pay a little more Dewey stirred up "an avalanche of Ieth- .? rlS argy," says Bug Kelland. McGurk wants to XrECT A I OT dumb people as you do in your bet it looked like a nest of hornets to Dewey. LvE US ZTLZi' filotitl-1 have Tn. h'.',pjng - , Somebody said Pewey Joked i to support vou to about $30 a . . T ., , . jabout the "voters voted for my , week, so print this and oblige. An oyter CANT be human it keeps its brother, not me. it was all a mis-, f w wikr mouth shut part of the time. take." I Editor's note: In the Oregonian i iiy comment on tne election:: for rov. 8 Joe E. Dunne was People used to wonder what to do With LM th Democrats cook in their quoted: "The Interpretation is so I nu'n ttitu nm.' t.- .... i i j. sidents; now the problem is what to: w. ,m . .vtK,n. " - .... imi, ecu nraroiii. nc said m T from Dewey if he had been elect- intent was to put floor at $50. "it ed. because he would have the lis the draft of 66 people and shows House and Senate against him. it. 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