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For nine years Oregon, in common with the other states
of the union, has been learning about unemployment com
pensation. When Oregon s first unemployment compensation
law was enacted in 19S5, knowledge of the Bubject was largely
theoretical. Since then experience has been the teacher. The
theoretical approach has gradually given way to tne practical
annroach. The law has been elaborated, corrected, liberalized
in the light of this progress. In every session of the legislature
eince the passage 01 the nrst Mil amendatory measures nave
been proposed and some enacted.
These, naturally enough, have not always been worthy,
Some have continued to be largely in reflection of theory or
of mere desire. Some have resulted from an imperfect under
standing of the significance of accumulated experience or
from a too hasty interpretation of experience too short to be
used in reaching a conclusion. The trial and error method
has been employed and the errors have pointed the need for
Bun mure Biiieuuaiuijr icgioiauvu.
Some of the bills presented at the present session seek to
enact still more errors. One of these has already been dis
cussed in this column. There are others which are remedial,
mtM.k amrirvrlv tha Ifloanna whieh tha pynfripnp of nina vnnrH
has taught Outstanding among measures of this type is
senate bill no. loo.
Briefly, the changes which this bill proposes are the elimi
nation of the "floor and ceiling" clause from the law, the
elimination, . also, of all employer "contribution" rates above
2.7 and provision that an employer whose excess or con
tributions over unemployment benefits charged against him
is 14 of his three year uverage taxable payroll may enjoy
a rate 01 y-yo. xne present minimum rate, Dasea on a i&'o
excess is 1. The present maximum rate Is 4.
All of these changes are justified. They will be of benefit to
employers and hence will tend to encourage the continuation
of Industry and employment at a future time when continua
tion of industry and employment may be of the greatest im
portance, in this respect, it is hardly necessary to point out,
they are in the interest of labor as well as in the interest of
employers. .
.Nor need anyone fear that the adequacy of the fund from
which unemployment benefits are paid will be in any way
endangered. The fund's total today is $63,000,000. By 1946,
when, it is proposed, the amendments would become effective,
it.will have reached close to $ 80,'000,000, or more than enough
to provide for two years of estimated maximum bencits
should a sudden and general condition of unemployment be
faced. The change to a 2.7 top employer contribution rate
w(U not influence the condition "of the fund, for 2.7 is the
highest rate now in effect. The addition of a Vi rate to the
present schedule would affect only a very small group of em
ployers, but would provide a greater incentive to the type of
business management which endeavors to insure continued
and steady employment, an objective much more to be desired
thao benefit for non-employment J'Ue floor' and ceiling pro
vision, which has as its purpose the automatic raising of em
ployer rates on depletion of the fund, has been proved to be
needless, but the high five year average payroll on which its
application is based, would make it operative while the level
of the fund was. still far above that needed to meet all con
ceivable demands. Elimination of this provision would aid
greatly in stabilization of industry.
Not to be overlooked is the fact that all of these changes
are in keeping with the principle of experience rating, a fea
ture ot the Oregon law since its enactment. By experience
rating is meant merely tnat to the extent that the employer
reduces the need for unemployment benefits his niton in
payment to the unemployment fund are likewise reduced. We
have pointed out earlier the eminent fairness of this to em
ploye as well as to employer, but it is more than this it is the
most vital, the most humanizing force in the statute.
Senate bill 186 maintains, increases this force. It removes
some of the unnecessary provisions in the old law. It recog
nizes and puts into practice the lessons that cxiici-ieine has
wub'h. it is it guou uui, deserving oi passage.
W VldtTA fia-iiVl 4 rtlfeftiV In ,... Jf ll. ' 1
V u nHiitu it bk ior mis column over
the fact that on the eastern front the Russians are fighting
over the Oder while on the west we are trying for Cologne. So
far we have been unsuccessful. You try jt.
Marshal Zhukov has damped a pincers on Frankfurt With
mustard, we hope. Hot diggety dog.
There's an End to All Things
i i.ia jatn'.j,
! do more. Part of the agitation In
the latter direction comes from
congressmen and others who feel
that the executive branch oi the
! government has usurped many of
the legislative functions and that
congress should regain lost pow-
ers. .
Counter to this is in tne sounaer
belief that reforms of congress
should he aimed at taking if fur-
igton, D. c. yje,. out 0 the executive business
will Probably have before war ow. ng
law-
Washington
'Column
Bv Peter Edson
(NEA 8taff Corretnondent)
Washington, D. C. me (inn
congress win propamy and keeping it what the
It th s year no domestic tasu of Pmnded t0
IMEMDER
Copyright, 1945, Willard Wiener)
attributed by NEA SERVICE, INC.
THE STORY: At the age of 10,
Frederic Chopin's dexterity at the
pianoforte had already made him
person oi note in tne uttie foiisn
village of Zelazowa Wola. But
music wasn't Frederic's only in
terest. He and his young friends
would hold secret meetings, de
termined to fight when they grew
up for the freedom of Poland,
which was then ruled by the Rus
sian Czar. Professor Eisner, his
teacher, was sympathetic to his
Ideas, dreamed oi the day when
the Paris musical . would would
acknowledge Frederic's genius. ' '
e w e
VI
MANHOOD
The years left few scars on the
ancient village of Zelazowa Wola.
The houses were a little more
weather beaten but hardly to a
noticeable degree. Pigs wallowed
After a while the coughing was
over and the young girl was quiet.
Her body was still, a smile on her
cheeks. But Emilia was not there;'
she was gone, no longer of this
earth.
. Then at night in the dark Fred-,
etic sat lor nours at tne piano,
'ihey could not tear him away.
They let him be. He improvised,
he labored over the keys until he
had finally the deep rhythmic,
tones for which he had been eron-
inE-fheavyY slow, steady,- rhylh-l
mic tones a march funereal that
would forever echo down the
years to keep alive .the memory
of the loving dead.
e e
At the age of 22 there was a
look "more spiritual than dreamy"
In the blue eyes of Frederic Cho
pin. His nose, "slightly aquilinei""
was not so prominent as It seemed
In the fifth and goats made their 1 10 navo bccn m his boynood. Hp
Bend's Yesterdays
district out of Crook and Jeffer
son counties.
The serious rabies conditions Is
Indicated by a report from Pry
lake that a boy died there from
dog bites.
The first dinner of the Hend
Swarm o( the Order of the Honey
Urc Is held at the Emblem club,
with E. M. Lara as toastmnster.
J. A. Eastes talks on "What the
1IFTKKN YKAItS AGO
(Feb. 10, 1930)
(rrom The bulletin HIm)
Swooping down on 21 Franklin
avenue, Sheriff Claude McCauley,
Chief P. A. Thomas, Patrolman
r ncy Mns to Bend
, a large still and whiskey-making
materials.
In Redmond, Theo. Wells, W.
H. Hobbs and Dr. George Mallett
head a chamber of commerce
committee to raise funds to nan
dlo the stale grange convention
aue soon.
Arthur Stipe and familv return
from California, where the furni
ture man attended markets.
TWENTV-I IVK YKAKS AGO
(Feb. 10, i;20)
(From Tne ttuiletm r'Uee
O'Donnell brothers announce
plans for the carl yconstructlon
of a $50,000 theater on Wall
street, Just north of the Prlngle!
ouuning.
R. A. Ward of the First Nation
al bank, announces plans for a
tour of shorthorn ranches, Includ
ing, the J. N. Jennsen and the
Dick Biggs ranches.
THIKVT 1'IVK VKAKS AGO
(Feb. 10, li10)
(From ', tiuiiulm rilwt)
Sheriff Elklns and Deputy
Cadle make numerous arrests for
gambling and Illegal liquor sell
ing at Madras.
1'he Deschutes Land company
announces selection of the name
of Laptne as a new townsito on
Its 2S,tXX)acte Irrigation project.
L. F. Wakefield, railroad survey
engineer, buys the Charles Graves
ranch at Crescent.
Howard W, Turner Is named
first mayor of Madras.
homes in the dirt floor rooms of
the poor. Peasants stil toiled in
tne neins nnn me iruits oi me
earth belonged as always to the
lorjl of the manor and to the mem
bers of his household. There were
dry days and wet ones. And in the
rainy season the deeply rutted
road to Warsaw was virtually Im
passable. It was the same from
year to year. The summers were
hot, the wirtlers cold. The silence
of the countryside, broken by the
song of birds, spelled peace, but
only to a stranger's ear. Soldiers
of the Czar, with whips and sa
bers, had only recently put down
an uprising of the downtrodden,
and any Pole with an ear to the
ground might still hear the sick
ening cries of the wounded and
the womenfolk whose men had
cither been taken prisoner or
struck down.
The village survived. But faces
that yesterday were young, were
old today. You had only to look
on the face of Mamma Chopin to
see that. A dozen years had left
their Indelible mark on her fix
tures In the lines about her
mouth, in the creases that already
beRan to lie In the folds of her
neck. In her hands that were no
longer smooth. In Nicolas Chopin
mere was also a marked change.
He walked now with a sloop and
stood erect only when his mind
was on It, and then only with an
effort. His hair was still thick,
thoiiRh beginning to gray. Yet his
sideburns were as trim as ever.
And Emllja had now been dead
for five years. She had been Fred
eric's favorite sister.
The child, she was fourteen.
natt neon
was neither tall nor short. His
legs, however, seemed not to have
aevelopcd fully, and his hair was
not so black as the Jet of his
youth.
Tin? year was 1832 and in his
home village he was a man of
distinction and among a limited
circle in Warsaw something of a
celebrity as a composer.
"Frederic, are you in love?"
Mamma Chopin one day asked
him. "I do believe you are."
"You have sharp eyes," he said.
Then he took Mamma to his arms
and hugged her light.
"The girl!" Mamma Chopin de
manded, putting her son at arm's
length. "Who Is she? Some little
Warsaw witch who has set her
cap for you?"
"Now, Mamma, don't be hard
on her. She's a wonderful girl
the most wonderful in all the
world, Mamma "
"Frederic, give me a straight
answer. Don't go around the ques
tion. It is only to be expected that
some day "
" I will never marry her."
"Your Papa and I will decide
that, Mamma said.
" But my darling, you can
decide."
"There Is nothing your Papa
ana i can t ao, once we have put
our minds to it."
"Don t nut your minds to this.
Mamma. The lady who has my j
heart already has a husband " I
"Frederic!" j
"True." I
"Terrible!" j
"No."
"Frederic, wr.cn I tell you it Is :
terrible, it Is terrible. What else ,
instantly to forget her, that you
will not give her another thought
not another though. Promise.
Le me hear it now instantly "
"How can I promise that. Mam
ma?" "You must. It's not to be
thought of that our only son
should give his heart No, Fred
eric, I I can't even say it "
"You look in my eyes, Mamma.
What do you see?"
': Please, Frederic, I am in no
mood for that." , . .. i
"Mamma, I want you to look."
"Well. I am looking."
"Yes. But not close enough,
Mamma."
He took her into his arms again.
He caught her tight about the
waist.
"Frederic, what are you do
ing?" . " Only this, Mamma I am
kissing the only woman- I will
ever love omy you, mamma
only you. And I am wondering
what the lady's husband will say.
Do you think he will object ter
ribly?" "
(To Be Continued)
greater importance than its own
reform.
The house has approved & pro
posal by congressman A. S.
(Mike) Monroney of Oklahoma,
calling for a joint committee of
six senators and six representa
tives to study congressional reor
ganization. Senate confirmation is
expected and the new joint com
mittee is expected to organize a
staff and make its first report
by April 1.
Every one of the more than 500
congressmen has a few ideas on
how congress could be "stream
lined" but that is only the begin-,
ning. Books have been written
about it and magazine articles by
the score. Private organizations
like American Political Science
association and National Planning
association have made Independ
ent studies.
Suggestions range all the way
from removing the snuff box
which by senate rule must be
filled daily with fresh sneezes, to
removing many of the congress
men themselves, making the con
gress a smaller body, paying the
members more money, giving
them pensions to boot, and pro
viding them with more help at
higher pay so they can do more
work and keep a better check on
the rest of the government. The
problem is going to be one of
getting any kind of agreement;
on wnat ii any cnanges snouia oe
made, boiling down all thp pro
posed reforms into a program ac
ceptable to practical politicians
jealous of their historical preroga
tives. That being the case, many of
the suggested alterations simply
aren't going to get any place at
all. Many of the things which
seem the silliest like the senate
snuffbox and the right to filibust-i
er are a part of now-traditional
rules which will be changed only ',
over some solons' dead bodies.!
Proof of that is the fact that al
though several hundred bills and
resolutions to change the struc-i
ture of congress have been intro-
i duced by congressmen in the last
50 years there were 50 reform
bills offered in the 78th congress
the last reorganfzation was in
1921.
This whole business of congres-.
sional reform in Its broader as-1
pects is hinged on what you want
your congress to do. That's why
you find suggestions for giving
congressmen less to do alongside
suggestions that congress should
making and a policy-making
group, leaving administration and
execution of its orders to others.
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Bend, Oregon,
Feb. 10, 1945.
To the Editor:'
'iNo Flowers" that was the re-
auest of my dear friend, Mrs.
Flora E. Wiest. How like her, for
she scattered her flowers as she
went through llte-pleasant deeds,
eheerrui imues igvuig runanesses,
making w nappy experience
for all those with whom she came
in contact
Always when a loved one
passes, friend long to show their
sympathy ior the bereaved and
their love for their friends. Why
not revere Mrs.-Wieet's memory .
by donation to the fund being
raised by Beta Sigma Phi sorority
for sending blood donors to the
blood bank in Portland. That
would be a spendid memorial an
everlasting tribute to this splendid
pioneer woman, who so often gave
of her strength to the Sick and
dying in the early days of Bend. .
That kind of tribute to Mrs.
Wiest's memory would be par
ticularly cherished by her grand
son, Sgt. David Coe, and her be
loved granddaughter, Phyllis, now
with the American Red Cross in
England.
Eleanor Bechen, director of Beta
Sigma Phi sorority, will be happy
to receive your memorial offer- '
ings at The Bend Bulletin for this
dear friend, Flora E. Wiest.
- Anne Forbes
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TOO MANY REPORTS
(Corvallis Gazette-Times)
A well-known Corvallis business
concern sold its industry shortly
before Christmas. The purchaser
made a $1,000 down payment to
bind the bargain, saying he would
be back in January to complete
the details of the transaction. He
came back, all right, and the de
tails were almost completed, when
the would-be purchaser made
some inquiry which caused the
seller to say something about the
reports to be made out to the gov
ernment. The would-be purchaser
then made inquiry as to what
these reports were, and when
shown the long list of red tapj
reports, he began actually to get
sick at the stomach, turned pale,
and forfeited his down payment!
Thus and in such manner has the
Nudeal bui-cacracy tangled up
business transactions in such a
manner that industry is discour
aged and afraid to operate.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
Salary, Cigarets
Offer Is Made
tilnn ixliU a.t..l .
wirvt l vi. ,1 .linili11J I. 1 ,. ,,, ,
couch nnd hod been confined m ! vuu,u " uc: iou w Promise me
her bed for four weeks. She had,
begun to spit blood. Mamma was
in a panic. The girl was attended
by one Malez who ordered an Im
mediate blood-letting, and that
was done, not onre but twice.
I Hut It did not help any. Noth-
lug that was dune did any good.
Charles E. Boardman
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
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f.re riparrts. S.'Vl week I v jinl
Dan Heislng is a Bend visitor1 every other Saturday of( brought
tne applications pouring m to the
(.niter Manufacturing Co. today.
The l'. S. employment service,
Interviewing the Hist applicant,
Miss Virginia Walden, ID, asked
Irom Sisters
Mr. and Mrs. Frank McBroom
are visitors here from Silver
Lake.
T1I1KTY YKAItS AGO
(Feb. 10, 1915)
(From Una Bulletin Kiln.)
In Salem,-Rep. Forbes advo
cates a bill creating a new judicial
II she would like the job.
"You bet," she replied. "I don't
rnioke and my boy friend doesn't
either, but dad sure burns 'cm up
when he can get 'em."
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