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... . .w riMTABf Li A II D IT i AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER Alton F. Baker DlTOH-WiWiom M. Tugman MANAGING EDITOR-Allon F. Baker Jr. .ERVICB6 Tull Associated Press, United Press, Audit Bureau of Circulations. The Regitor-Guard' policv is the complete and impartial publication in its news ,as of all news and statements on news. On this page the editors of The Register Guard offer their opinions on events of the day and matters of importance to the community, endeavoring to be candid but fair and helpful in the development of con Zcive community policy. A newspaper is A CITIZEN OF ITS COMMUNITY. Entered at iho Post otlice at fciigenc, urcgon, s rei'iuiu-i'ims mom'. 1QA ECfiKNK. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1353 On Bayly Recall We Shall Vote NO ! Whpn the petitions for the recall of as foul a case of political misrepresenta- County Judge Day T. Bayly were insti tuted we expressed our opinion that this public weapon should be reserved for Mrtaus eases of misfeasance, malfeas ance or non-feasance. In the intervening weeks we have not uttered any opinion on Hi charges against Bayly or on his replies. We have insisted that hoth sides prepare statements and counter-statements for Hie news pages, in much the same manner as they would present a case hi court. Having seen and studied carefully all of the charges brought against Bayly by the Lane County Recall Bayly Com mittee, and having seen and studied Bayly's replies - and recognizing the right of every individual to disagree wc offer our conclusion that the recall of Bayly U UNFAIR and UNWAR RANTED, for these reasons: I l As to Ihe 10 major charges of the Com tnittee, it is not fair to hold Bayly solely re sponsible, because ; 2. At any time, Bayly's two colleagues -Commissioner Lee Raish, who retired at the fcnd of the vear. and Commissioner Robert Maclav who 'holds over - could have out voted Bayly and changed policy, and 3 After talking tn Commissioner Maclay he 'has authorized us to say that as to these 10 charges affecting policy, all three members of the Court could be held "equally responsi ble." 4 In our opinion these 10 charges are com pletely INSUFFICIENT and there if NO ADE QUATE PROOF of Bayly's responsibility. Tax Foreclosures Are Distorted Much more serious in their implica tion, hut damnably inaccurate and un fair are the published allegations of the Committee concerning Bayly's conduct In the matter of tax foreclosures of prop erties tn Springfield on which a $3600 mortgage was held by Eugene R. Walker and a property in Cottage Grove owned by Delia McC'ue. In both of these cases there is evi dence that. Bayly was RUDE AND DIS COURTEOUS wen these matters were brought to his attention, but the im portant facts are these: 1 Under Oregon law. it was NOT BAYLY'S RESPONSIBILITY nor had he any power to correct the mistakes which were made in the county's assessing and tax departments in these two cases. 2 In the Springfield rase, there seems to have been an error in descriptions of a house and two lots, raiding confusion in billing, and a tax charge of $3.22 tn go unpaid. 3. Under OCLA 110 002 and following sec tions, within four months afler the dolm quenrv day in each year the tax collector (sheriff) makes up the "delinquency list" and six months from that dale he institutes fore closure proccdings "with Ihe assistance of the district attorney." Notices of foreclosure must be published lor four weeks in newspapers of general circulation. If the owners do not ap pear, the Circuit Court not Ihe County Court issues the order lor sale by the sheriff and It is sold. If Ihe amount bid is more than the tax claims, Ihe sheriff gives a "sheriffs deed"; otherwise Ihe property goes to the county and the county may later sell Ihe property, in which case the county commissioners all sign Ihe new deed. The buyer must pay up citv or oilier local liens. i. In the Sprinufirlrt case the reported amount of Ihe bid was SI. 300 and the buyer paid off $100 in Springfield sewer liens, hut title had not been transferred when the mis take was discovered and Mr. Walker, the mortgage holder, recovered his property. He claims he paid the buyer Sinn to- clear the Innsle up. The buyer's $1,300 was returned hy the counly. 5. In the Cottage Grove rase, Mrs. MrCue ha tax receipts for the property posted as delinquent, but this tangle Is still unscrambled. Bayly Not Man to See In presenting their troubles to Judge Bayly, the complainants seem to have been misdirected because be had NO JURISDICTION. Some of the implica tion!! In the original charges of the Com mittee have been withdrawn because of possible libel. All that remains, when the law is examined, is Ihe fact that Bayly may have boon rude which he should not hive boon. We do not blame the people who have been Ihe victims of those fore closure mistakes. They could not be ex pected to understand complicated legal formalities. But we cannot find any excuse for the Recall Committee's vicious distortions of these incidents. It is about Grabbing for a dinner check only shown how important a part you think money playn in friendship. tion as we have ever seen. Bayly Is No Paragon, But ... . On more than one occasion we have crticized Bayly severely. When he chose tn be a candidate for Circuit, Judge against Judge Skipwnrth, before prov ing himself as county judge, we called it a serious lack of perspective and judg ment. We have deplored his unseemly brawls with Commissioner Raish, his contentiousness, his "pigheadedness" in many matters. It took him a good while bo realize that under the law he is just one of three county commissioners not "the boss man." Never have we ques tioned his integrity or his sincere de sire to do a good job for Lane County. If Bayly has been rude and tactless, if he has had the "gift of saying or do ing the right thing the wrong way," it is necessary tn keep in mind the. circum stances under which he has had to work. Between Bayly and Raish there has been "an instinctive antagonism." It takes two to make any quarrel, and much of Bayly's irritability is undoubtedly due to these constant "feudings." Any of us under similar provocation would be "touchy." (There is considerable to indicate, that al Ihough Raish has retired from office he has had quite a hand in this recall.) Will Bayly Learn to Get Along? Over and above any question of fair play for Bayly there is the. question of what will be BEST FOR THE COMMU NITY, and that takes the form of this question: "If Ihe people vote NO on this recall, and let Bayly finish out the four years remaining in his term, will he mend his manners? Will he learn to work with the other commissioners and department heads?" It is our belief that Bayly will have little difficulty working with Commis sioners Peterson and Maclay. Represen tative Earl Hill has a bill in the Legisla ture tn abolish the obsolete title of "County Judge," to make it. plain the three men are a Board of County Com missioners, of which Bayly would be chairman, the presiding officer, but with only one vole like the other men. Commissioner Peterson, we are fold, has some good ideas for revising pro cedures, with more frequent meetings of the commissioners as a board to hear Ihe public's troubles, with decisions made by the hoard as a board. Not so much of this silly business of each com missioner staking out a little province of his own. If Bayly is recalled, of course. Ihe Governor will appoint, and Governor Patterson has said that he will try to follow the recommendation of Ihe Re publican Central Committee, which is custom. Nobody knows what that recom mendation might be. It would be our hope that it could he a man of consid erable stature in the community, some body entirely divorced from Ihe court house brawls and bickerings of the last 10 years. Fair Play and Common Sense It is the wise choice, we think, to vote NO on this recall, and give Bayly his chance to work things nut with rotor son and Maclay. Within the next few weeks, preparation of the big budget will have to be under way with more than $3.nnn,nnn for road program and nearly SS.nnn. (WO for all county functions. The Q Street Project, the Dyke Road to Santa Clara and many other needs demand diligent attention. The Recall Committee have had At torney Harms prepare an opinion coun tering our contention that the INTENT of the recall was never lo gratify grudges. He has quoted a Supreme Court decision to the effect that it also covers UNPOPULARITY. That is the EFFECT; common sense says it was never the INTENT, otherwise all our officials would live in constant fear of this punishment. We shall vote NO on this recall be cause wv believe it, is best for the com munity, because we think this situation demands FAIR PLAY and common sense. More and more new cars ate coming out and more and more folks are driving not onlv in stvle but in debt. If you doubt it' the little things that Lean on other people and your count, ask any first-grade teacher. chances of success are leaner. AM, MM Marquis Childj New GOP Seeks The Middle Way WASHINGTON After Ihe long drought, the Republican rejoicing is full of a fine fervor. But when the bunting comes down and the paraders go home, this capital will see the beginning of one of the most inter esting experiments in gov ernment in many, many years. The outlines of lhat ex periment are already evi dent. In essence, it is an effort to apply the man agement techniques of big industry to big govern ment. ; The wisecrack about Ihe Jj&. Eisenhower cabinet con sisting of eight million- Marqis childs aires and a plumber or, more accurately, a steamfitter, misies the real point. These business men now in gov ernment have been handsomely rewarded for their ahilily. But the money reward has been secondary to Ihe fact of the power and Ihe skills they have wielded as the managers of industry financed by thou sands of investors large and small. They will now be managers nt Hie far larger enterprises of government. Often in the past the complaint about government administrators has been that they never met a payroll. The men in the Eisenhower administration have been responsible for meeting some very large payrolls. But with two or three exceptions they have not met the voters at the polling booth. Republicans in Congress, who feel lhat through the years Ihey put Ihe polit ical capital into this enterprise, look wilh skepticism on the experiment, of managerial government. The Senate, hilch over Charles E. Wilson's confirmation as defense secre tary because of his General Mnlors stock indicates the relationship between the man agers and the politicians may be difficult, THE MIDDLE WAY The new administration is not, however, without its political managers and very skillful ones, indeed. They come out of the hard-boiled organization built up in New York State hy Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. They also have roots in California, where Gov. Earl Warren has demonstrated how to build up a political following transcending the two-party system as we have known it in the past 20 years. Significantly, In this connection, it is in California and New York, the two most populous states in the country, that the decay of the Democratic party is most conspicuous. The aim is to go down Ihe middle of Ihe road with a party having few resem blances to the old Republican party. Thus a minimum of 10 per cent, and perhaps nearer tn 15 or 20 per cent, of the follow ing that has kept Ihe Democrals in power farmers, labor, minorities will be perma nently won over. This is the pattern evident behind many of the moves made since Nov. 4, and it promises to become increas ingly apparent as the new administration takes over. BIGGEST HAZARD One of (he able and successful member." of Ihe political team which will work to ward the long-lcrm goal is Sen. Irving Ives of New York. Ives won reelection last fall hy the huge plurality of 1.332.1SB. He car ried New York City, which Eisenhower lost, hy a plurality of 2.743. In a speech in New York last week, Ivos said in effect that the Republican Congress was Republican because of the personal popularity of Gen eral Eisenhower. The people, he said, were stilt progressive and there could be "no turning hack of the clock of progress." Then Ives spoke of what is Ihe biggest ha7ard faced hy the new administration: "With a spirit of mutual helpfulness and cooperation Ihe new administration can and will succeed. Without it, failure is certain and Ihe Republican party is doomed to de feat in MSB" A memher of Ihe Senate labor commit tee, Ives is hoping In head a subcommittee lhat will study discrimination in industry and business. The pnlitiral implications of this are obvious. The Republican majority is expected to agree on a compromise civil rights hill providing for a commission to educate and persuade omplovors that dis crimination is not only unfair, but that it rloes not pay. This would he labeled as a first step and it would he taken by men like Ives as a trial of what can be achieved by a law without power of federal punish ment. SHREWD OPERATORS Thus the paltern will be developed if Ihe able political managers working for the Eisenhower administration can bring it off. They will have many resources, particularly in the honeymoon phase, and they will be working with some shrewd operators. One of these is Gen. Lucius D. Clay, now retired, an old Eisenhower comrade with a unique influence although he will hold no office. Clay serves as a kind of bridge between Ihe business rnmmunily and Eisenhower's familiar military assncia. lions. A man of outstanding ability, as hp demonstrated in his military career which concluded with his appointment as occupy ing chief in Germany, Ciay is now chair man of the board and chief executive offi cer of the Continental Can Co. He is also on the hoard of the General Motors Corpo ration, which gives him a link with top Eisenhower cabinet officers. No one in the Eisenhower circle mini mi7es the hnrards ahead. Rut at least, thrv will tell you. we know the direction in which we want to go. Cepvrlsht, 1QS1, hv 1'nltM Foaltir SMi1lr'r, Inr FAVORS BAYLv CRESWrr, M So They Say- Wht wt really need this fall Is week end that list until about Wednesday. Poker players know that a good deal always depends on a good deal. The (Chinese) people are wailing for us tn come back. They are waiting for liber ation. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. I have every confidence that our suc cessors will continue to do the work we did in Ihe effort relating to this great or ganiration (NA.TO). Secretary of Stat Dean Acheson. AGAINST RECALL EUGENE (To the editor) Re garding the Day Bayly recall election, the danger as 1 see it is that many people, confused as to who is right and who is wrong, may slay away from Ihe polls and allow the election to go by default lo a small minority. That would be bad for at. least three reasons: 1. The Judge, according tn those -who know him best, is a con scientious man who "leans over backwards" to be honest and fair. Such an attribute is of sufficient rarity among humans as tn be encouraged wherever found. 2. The consensus of opinion, at least, among Eugene townspeople, is lhat in matters nt controversy Ihe .(urge has usually been in the right. 3. A recall election is a grave (and expensive) procedure. II, should be discouraged as a tool of a disgruntled minority. It seems that again we have a duty at the polls. Willard Berg BAYLY CRITICS Live stock of every nalure are dangerous, buck deer have been known to kill in I heir rutting sea son, thew are a few of the haz ards that exist bark on Hampton Road, yet Judge Bayly, along wilh school officials say it is not out of reason to ask first and Recond grade school children to walk 114 miles in the dark and rain to meet the school bus because this l' miles of Lane County road is un fit for a school bus. Some of these small children are being deprived of their schooling while we ob serve new county roads being con structed in new additions with Judge Bayly in the front row. To these who are interested, the Hampton Road is located 1 mile south of Goshen. W, G. Saunders, Ina Saunders, John E. Havves, Grare L. Hamer, W. D. Saunders, Velva Hatfield, Fav H. Robertson. Earl Robertson, F. L. Hatfield, J. W. Roberts, Mrs. Claudia A. Roberts. REVISED BIBLE EUGENE, (To The Edilor)-A sister of one of my ancestors was hanged as a witrh. They didn't get the other sister, so I am here! But people still hunt for witches; so as I have studied the Bible some, I would like to tell you Ihree things. First I don't believe Ihere is deliberate mistranslation of the Bible in any of the new versions. Using 1953 American language in stead of Jfill English just makes the meaning plain. Second I don't believe people have been- lurned to "moderin ism" by any new version. Third Our REAL enemies are infidel teachers, I don't say athe ist; but those who say the Bible has only literary value, and has. no binding moral force. Our children need the Revised Standard Bible, which they can read without continual explana tion from minister or priest; and if we prejudice parents against giving, it to them we arc commit ting 'a grcvious error. The most important part of the Bible is tne teaching of Jesus. Without that the world is lost. Betier read the Bible yourself and BELIEVE it. I want tn say that I believe in Ihe Virgin birth, the Deity of Jesus, and salvation by faith in Jesus Christ; and I know that if you lay aside preju dice and read the Revised Stand ard New Testament CAREFUL LY and FAIRLY, you can't find any different doctrine Ihere. But with some people: like the Jews "Rut even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart." Therefore FINIS. SETH M. HULBURT, 720 Ruby Lane, Eugene, Oregon. McHUGH CASE COTTAGE GROVE, (To The Editor)-Lsst Spring I went lo the office of Counly Owned Lands in the Court House in Eugene. 1 went with neighbor to help her straighten out her property mess, mess ii Ihe only word lhat will describe it. Here are Ihe facts to the best of my knowledge: The County Owned Lands had sold to Mountain States of Albany a portion of the property thai Mrs. McHugh has a deed for and has paid laxes on said properly for several years. Mountain Stales lawyer had written Mrs. McHugh that, his client, would sell K back to her for $190. Mrs. Sorensen suggested we go with her to see Judge Bayly and Ihe Counly Commissioners about it which we did. Mrs. Sorensen suggested lo Judge Bayly lhat she thought, Ihe right thing to do would be for Ihe County to re fund Mountain States and give Mrs. McHugh a deed to this prop erty. Then Judge Bayly forgot he was supposed to be a gentle man. I won't attempt to use his exact words as I was dumfound ed that a County Judge would talk to a woman like he did. He said she had no business making .such a statement and practically told her to shut her mouth. - He said that the man knew what kind of a deed he was get ling when he bought the property and that we have no time to waste on such things. I spoke up and said, "Then you will allow an elderly woman to be cheated out of her property and do nothing about it"? He said, I've, no time to waste on such things and stomped out of the room. Mrs. Sorenson and Ihe Com missioner who was present said Ihey were sorry but you can see we can do nothing about it. We went to see Mountain States lawyer. He said he'd go talk to Ihe Judge so we went hack wilh him but we waited in the hall, hut he was only in Judge Bayly's nfice a minute or two. Judge Bayly wouldn't talk tn him at all about it. The lawyer said, I'll make him listen to me. I'll pe tition the Court for a hearing and he'll have tn listen tn me. I do not know whether he did this or not. Do we HAVE to have such a Bull Headed, unreasonable man, one who would sland by and al low an elderly woman cheated out of her property at the head of our County Court? WHO ordered her property sold for taxes when her taxes were paid in full and had been paid in full every year for at least 10 years? She has the tax receipts to prove this. I know, I've seen Ihe receipts. Do our county employees have tn take insults to hold their jobs? I don't believe the majority of decent people of Lane County would vole yes to keep this man in office if they could have been a witness tn his statements to Mrs. Sorenson. MRS. GRACE HARLOW "SOUTH OF BORDER" EUGENE (To Ihe JSditor) Should we pay taxes or not? South of the border just 4 miles from Eugene shall we call it Mexico? No. Why? Because it is within 4 miles of one of the most progressive communities in Ore gon, still in this, we have no law enforcement. We have a herd law on stock, which never has been enforced. There is stealing and hunting deer nut of season continually twelve, months out of the year. During World War II did the men Soulh of the Border, have to go into the. armed services? No. Why? Because they were rodeo clowns, draft dodgers, or had Ihey bought protection from the draft board? Why cilicize the only honest man we have had in office? Why not: let D.T. Bayly have a little rest and begin on the D.V or J. P. or maybe Ihe district judge? In our County Court we i.ould weed out our weak ones not our good ones. I have been a taxpayer here far the past. IS years and would like lo see some action and not so much criticism. LEE I. TAYLOR RESPONSIBILITY EUGENE (To the Editor) "Responsibility is Ihe theme." Thus endeth Sunday's leading editorial. This same subject was repeatedly mentioned during the campaign. Naturally, your read ers expect you to be, on guard on this matter of Responsibility. Is it. possible lhat, you have already missed one chance tn write a stinging editorial on the subject as it pertains tn the failure of the Senate and the party in power to change its rule, per mitting what amounts tn unlimit ed debate hence Ihe filibusler. Who was responsible for this? Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in 1R93 (he frequently forgot his own words afterwards) said: "There is another right more sacred in a legislative body than the right tn debate, and that is the right tn vote." Very truly yours, WALDO SCHUMACHER. IR0O Columbia. P S. When you miss an oppor tunity In write; on Responsibility, I may have occasion to remind ywi of this fact. PATRIOT PORTLAND (To Ihe Editor): The other evening one nt your contributors railed on me. I was amazed at Ihe information this fellow has of our pnlitiral situ ation and the very astute way he presents it. We shudder tn think what can happen to our country and this should be a good reason to listen to facts even though they may seem impossible or perhaps remote. This man from Eugene should he called to ad dress gatherings all nver nur slate and may we soberly heed the warning. His every thought is to save our country. Oh yes, his name is Dave Hoover. HOMER L WEBBER, Park Plaza, Portland. --"uo BA.yiy CRESWELU.. "ailhag. Getting P ,n "'My Recall i1, l: everyone Wn ' 1 Recall PeSlt"??' '"K so hasty Hfe the m ' ""'inn did no J'' fot sucha'biiT. 5.000. Then BM,S,!;' whnt will it cost man in his ni.., N': " only ., ..... moncv on ,.. s a help it Judge Bayly fe,,, W'rt I" repairing' each I mo i with hi ' . "" Bayly has been , v man tn rioi .i,l . '.'! lias eranln,l II,. .. 1 Iho . l' W'V w h ' Our (' I hem Pin h.m.1..'. l that if he is' recall' .. uu is step . ' 1 inn 5M, everyone who goos to the ;J win in selves, "Is it richt to vot, out of office just bt,9 i" tmn i jiKe hir; Emery Collisnn of Fill you are right! E- L. HEVSfi; THOSE PETITIONS EUGENE, (To The E-: The letter on petitions vr a lady who was not alniJi up in mpeting brought 1? somewhat similar case is -tion with the ssrop petiti'- A friend of mine pjiit in Ihe upper end ol m morning hefore the lin closed. Parking place u place, only one I so (art that, bears a faint rewit) old lime Skid Rows. Osi there if interested life being, rusted, two, three -ters pooling their funds . cure a bottle of wine, r same being passed Iron: hand on the .sidewalk. No sooner had my frier: his car there than one characlers came slazEer; the door, paper in W. sign this paper'' was hr gun. "What is iir'saiitr; "Ah. a pppcr to git ridel' Bayly, the old so and c character apparently r,; member of the fralerr beyond compare, old ' open, loggers shoes eld 1" open wilh the strings smollcd like a spoiled Worst of it was he hi: names on his paper, toe. Further reimmenls ire ant and .superfluous cv.w James Morlow Ike to Carve Another Niche in History WASHINGTON tfi Gen. Eis enhower in later years may look hack upon his life up till noon Tuesday as almost carefree when compared to what lies ahead. His whole life had been a pre paration for military eminence. He attained it. If he had retired from public life when he relired from military life his place in history would he unquestioned. It would have been military his tory, of course. Any fault found with him in that field, such as in tactics or strategy, would have been only a minor footnote in the fat volume of his achievements. His was military success nn the grand scale. Rut the affection he won from a grateful nation was for more than just his victories in battle. I I' Off on the Big Game Hunt 1 ': In his aonearancelur-: ed the military side of df" at its best. He was ing man. On Ihe nt nacinne h seemed and familiar ! the door. D.,1 1,,. Oio verr 01 military life; and of the f a military man 1 there was always fewf' him to giv e final appn" final order, for I made. When me was S"' was the caplain: w'' general or chief el s' Ihe Presinent. "- ; .inut hetwW the final critical jd' always i hp 1 1 r 1 1 1 1 1 1. 1.-, tnrv on w hatever hf Thai is nn longer ir noon Tuesday, i " the government, nf sponsible for leaders; lems greater lh knew as head of""1' they were. Wilh the presidentr h; fnr ron;W irfiut-r .-ii'i- ,. people nn earth l"ci' V. trv has interna" that part of mar .,eclHo communisf1- TRniN r.ROI-NI" j'rrwm .... tfrniinrivsnrk ft" m L: Hill Tl . w ill he up I" ff hat has already wj improve upon It- ...i four i" 1 nrsc " Ihe turning P0inl- r: other, in the .W,. may rteprnn n-" vision and his decifl He didn't have denrv. He ! " where he was. V would always deil kindly. He cannot, that inMsnrvras'if If he surf f"1'-"J'.,", even more honor I lory. If nf' ,r m.,ure the ff L sequences of W speakswellf';;,,, in himself. hi, countrymen w , . . the pec .. age. nr ..- . , in what i, i m
