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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
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sidents; now the problem is what to: w. ,m . .vtK,n. "
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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. When we were trvine to m.lt.
we can expect a lot frjm a plain statement, we msde it so
Democrats row jplain It is ambiguous. We did not
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