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LEAGUE OF OREGON CITIES
The recent appearances made before legislative commit
tees by representatives ot tne league 01 uregon ciues in con
nection with proposed budget legislation have led us to ask
Questions regarding the league's functions, authority, pur
poses and financial support.
Hflf still eroDine for some of
The league operates under a constitution in which various
worthy objects are set out. In it it is provided that "Any city or
town, or any board or commission of any city or town, ot the
, -1 s iit i t;UI Minikrilim " Tf iu finunnpn
stale oi tiregon smtu ue etijjiuiu u urcmua om. "
by dues paid on a per capita basis by the member cities and
towns and flat rees paia c-y ooarus or commissions, it ia man
aaiA hv an executive committee of nine consisting, of tne
president, -two vice-presidents, secretary, treasurer, three
members at large and an executive secretary. All of these
officers but the last named
nnintive nosition in a member
From the foregoing it will be apparent that the league is a
tax supported organization all of whose oflicers, except the
executive secretary, are duly elected representatives of the
people or appointees of those
All this wb have learned
stitution of the league and having learned it we have wondered
by what authority tax funds are used ror tne support or tne
league and if, assuming the authority exists, whether there is
any tax payer control over tne expenditures anu over league
activities.
We find nothing in the constitution requiring the publica
tion of reports of the league's doings. We have asked City
manager Keiter for copies of any recent financial statements
of the organization and find that he has none. We have asked
the executive secretory, Herman Kehrli, for recent activity
reports and assume that they will be forthcoming.
As to the authority to use tax funds for the support of the
league Mr. Kehrli has told us that it is based on implied pow-
ers of the municipalities and is upheld by opinions of the dis
trict attorney of Multnomah county and a decision in a circuit
court case (name not given), relying on the Oregon supreme
court decision in the case of West vs. Coos county. We wonder
why there has been no attempt to secure an opinion from the
attorney general or statutory' approval from the legislature.
The West case opinion seems to us a thin reed on which to
lean.
We have wondered, also, why the item covering Bend's
league dues is concealed in a general expense head. This
city's contribution to the league is $200.42 annually. It is
included in the budget item, "Expense General $345." Specific
as the dues figure is one would suppose that in a budget con
taining a ?15, a $75 and a $25 item to name but a few of
those under $100 it would be frankly presented.
We believe that an organization such as the league of Ore
gon cities can render a valuable service. It can collect and
exchange a great variety of information helpful in municipal
administration. It can act as a clearing house for its members
in questions of all sorts. In such work it would be serving all
citizens and tax payers. When, however, it moves into the field
of legislation In which opinion is divided is it not going be
yond any proper scope? - ,
The league, as has been noted in this column, has proposed
an amendment to the budget law that would give the tax
payer less rather than more information than he has been
getting. This, certainly, has not been done on the strength of
any tax payer instruction. Another league legislative proposal
has been on behalf of retirement pay for municinal emuloves
which, desirable as it may be as a social undertaking, is ob
viously being urged for the boncfit of those employes and at
the expense of the public. And it may be noted that if the
proposal is adopted it will mean greater cost to the tax paver.
And this on behalf of a group that in an earlier breath nro-
poses less cost in the budget
linancial activities.
To be compared with this
cipai employes at tne expense
of another group, chiefly highway department employes, that
is pursuing the same end but at its own expense.
By its action the league has brouirht its omriitinn mil
for scrutiny. We think it owes it to the tax payers of the
cities and towns of Oregon to present them with a full report
of its doings and statements in justification.
Depletion of the salmon run ia caused in some degree, so
the authorities say, by off shore seining but the commercial
fishermen object to legislation that would regulate it. At the
same time they ask for general fund support for the preserva
tion of their industry.
Hitler's Berehtesgaden hide-out is on upper Salt mountain.
And his ultimate end, obviously, is up Salt creek.
The Chamber of Commerce
FORUAA
will have as guest speaker
Dean Victor P. Morris
of the University of Oregon, school
of business administration, who will
discuss the industrial development
outlook for Bend. Be sure to attend.
Tuesday, 7:00 p.m.
at the Pine Tavern
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Spaco courtesy Consumers Gas .
As this is written we find our
the desired information.
must noia an elective or ap
city.
representatives.
bvan examination of the con
publication that scrutinizes its
undertaking on behalf. of muni
ot the tax nitver is t he ari v lv
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THE STORY: Frederic suddenly
blanches as three people enter the
cafe where he is dining with Jozel
Eisner and a casual acquaintance
named Sowlnskl.
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XVII
GEORGE SAND
"Ah!" Jozel Eisner said. "Liszt!"
Sowlnskl pushed his chair back
and turned to look.
But Frederic's eyes were not
tor Liszt. They were fastened on
the woman with him a woman
the like of whom he had never
before set eyes on. She was, not
beautiful in the sense that women
are usually judged to be beautiful.
Her complexion was dark, almost
olive-skinned. Her hair was black.
Her eyes, rather close together,
were clear without being lustrous,
and as black as her hair. Her nose
was thick and not too shapely.
But the most remarkable tiling
was her appearance she was
dressed not as a woman but as a
man in irousi'ra, 111 a wuihiuuuL
and a high hat that set jauntily on
her head.
Sowlnskl said: "You arc look
ing. Monsieur, at the most scand
alous woman in Paris."
"Who is she?"
" Sand George Sand."
"The writer?"
"She's better known for other
things." Sovvinskl smiled mali
ciously. "As well, Monsieur, you
don't attract her attention."
"Well!" cried a startled Liszt.
"Chopin!"
Frederic rose.
"And Professor!" '
Liszt took Jozef Eisner's trem
bling hand. "George, there he is
this fine fellow 1 told you about.
Let me present Frederic Chopin
and Professor Professor
"Eisner - Jozef Eisner." I
"And llils," Frederic said,, "isi
Monsieur Sowlnskl." j
Franz Liszt said: "Gentlemen, i
George Sand. Gentlemen, Alfred
de Musset,"
Alfred de Musset nodded with
an effort.
"I hope, Monsieur Chopin, you
will like Paris." Gcomo Sand said.
I am sure Pal is will like you."
Frederic gulped as lie had
gulped first meeting Liszt. ';
Liszt, N-ind and Alfred de Mus
set moved on to their table. i
.... The concert !" called out
Liszt; I'll be there!" !
"Frederic, she is a man!" Sowln
skl roared. Piners turned to gape.
the waiter had brought the
soups, steaming hot.
Jozet Eisner said: "The woman
the man whoever what
ever
"Professor!"
" Ten, tell, I am only saying. .
No matter. You heard Llst? Eh?
Ho will lie there!" Jozef F.lsner
spilled some soup on his waist
coat. "Tch. ten!"
"So that's de Musset?"
"Never heard of him," Sowlnskl
said.
"Frederic, your soup! It's get
ting sold."
Frederic said: "What do you
know about her?"
Jozef F.lsner looked out of the
corner of his eye h! Sowlnykl.
"--Writes books. Wreck lives."
"She?"
"It's what they say."
"Humph." Jozef Eisner spilled a
little more soup.
Sowlnskl s.-tld: "It's what they
pay. Hut the way 1 look at it - if it
wasn't hue they wouldn't say
it--"
A waiter iutrmtptnl. "Your or
ders, Messieurs?''
Jozel Usncr was looking lor the
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menu. "The menu! Frederic the
menu with your music !" Jozef
Eisner looked with stern eyes at
the waiter. "It was here ".
'Excuse me, Monsieur I took It
away '
"Away where?" Jozef Eisner
half rose from his chair.
"It doesn't matter, Professor
I remember the notes "
Jozef Eisner puffed. "Not the
point! Not at all! This is a room
full of artists! and artists are all
thieves!"
Above the scraping of chairs,
above murmurs, a whistled tune
a melody
Frederic said: "That's it!"
It was his; the melody he had
noted down on the reverse side of
the missing menu. It was. being
whistled by of all persons the
podgy, midde-aged individual who
had so insultingly said the name
Chopin! and whom Jozef Eisner
had stopped to reprimand.
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Jozef Eisner reached the tahle
of the grumpy, middle-aged indi
vidual. He seized the menu on
which Frederic's notes were scrib
bled. "How dare you ! A man of
your type should have nothing
nothing to do with music!"
The fat bewhiskered face of
the grumpy Individual began to
quiver.
" Tch, tch it goes without
saying your whistle humph
was flat absolutely flat!"
" You say that!"
"I do!"
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5 OUN OR? Hf?
ISNT IN HIS ROOM
fl v . vow y . r : .
" To me with my ear tor
music!" .
"Your earl With both your ears!
I'm not through! That was written
for your information yes
written by Frederic Chopin!' And
he is my pupil my friend and
pupil I am Eisner Professor
Eisner, his teacher! Yes! And
you'll be reading about us, Mon
sieur!" , Jozef Eisner was working not
only his jaw, he was working his
neck also, to say nothing of his
hands.
The bewhiskered individual now
on his feet choked on words still
to be uttered. "Ort th contrary,"
he managed to say, "on the corv
traryr.ru not be reading about
you! No! I'll be writing about
you!"
1 ' "Yes, My' name,' Monsieur is
Kalkbrennerr"
It was Jozef Eisner's turn to
gulp. He gulped. He swallowed-.
He craned his neck. His jaw
stopped working. "Kalkbrenner?"
" Kalkbrenner!". . .
"Oh!" Jozef Eisner said in a
Whisper; "My God "
-, ! (To Be Continued)
Quill and Scroti
Selects Officers
Redmond, Feb. 23 (Special)
Officers elected by the Redmond
high school chapter of the Quill
and Scroll club, national high
school journalistic honorary, are:
Mavis Knorr, president; Orla
Bourland, vice-president; Mary
Louise Ohling, secretary; Mar
jorie Foss, treasurer; Mrs. Delia
Nance is advisor of the club.
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Washington
Column
By Peter Edson'
(NBA SUH Correanondent)
U..S. Army Air Forces Tactical
Training Center, Orlando, Fla.
In spite of the heavy bomb blast
ing given Germany and Japan, top
strategists and tacticians at this
aerial warfare planning headquar
ters now teach the doctrine that
it is impossible to completely
knock out a nation's industrial
capacity by air attack alone. This
being the conclusion of t h re e
years of concentrated 'attack on
Germany, all the pre-war talk
heard in this country about "Ger
many can be bombed to defeat" is
at last reduced to its true and
negative importance. '
In planning the combined Amer
ican and British attack on Ger
many the Royal Air Force was
given the assignment of dislocat
ing German industry and the hous
ing of the German worker popu
lation to lower German morale,
while the U. S. army air forces
were given specific targets for
strategic bombing of highly In
dustrialized areas.
In three years of concentrated
attack, however, the RAF has
been able to destroy only about
15 per cent of Germany's indus
trial capacity for war production,
i The U. S. combined air, sea, sub
marine and ground attack on Ja
pan's shipping has in three years
reduced this maritime nation's
shipping from seven million tons
to four-and-a-half million tons a
year ago, and an estimated two
million tons today. This has put
the Japs up against the tough de
cision of whether to stop imports
of raw materials or cut down on
supplying her troops in the field,
but it has not knocked Japan out
of the war.
These results support the Amer
ican strategical belief in the bomb
ing of selected bottleneck targets
which will most seriously cripple
an enemy s war production capac
ity. One-third of Germany's air
craft ball bearings and two-thirds
of her industrial ball bearings be
ing concentrated in. the Schwei
furt area, this was a natural tar
get. Nearly 95 per cent of Japan's
coal, coke and power production
being concentrated in six main
areas, they have been natural tar
gets. . '
The ability of an industry to re
cuperate from bombing loss is
still another factor In determining
whether it will pay to bomb it. In
attacking the German aircraft in
dustry, the army air forces let
the final assembly plants more or
less alone because they were easy
t replace. Instead U. S. bombers
-were sent after the engine assem
bly and tne finished parts assem
bly plants which, because of their
specialized tooling, were harder to
replace.
All these facts are analyzed
here at the Orlando tactical center
not to minimize the part the army
air forces have played in this war
or will be capable of doing in the
next. But they do show that the
aerial branch of military science
is still in the process of develop
ment, and many of the early and
fantastic claims made for air
power have not been realized.
HEALTH CLINIC HELD
Redmond, Feb. 23 (Special)
At a recent child health conference
conducted here by Dr. Wayne
Ramsey, county health physician,
assisted by Miss Mullens, health
nurse and Mrs. George Fairfield,
17 children received physical ex
amination. Thirty immunizations
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Five children were vaccinated for
small pox and seven for whoop
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Others Say . .
BURKE SHOWS HIS HAND
, (Oregon City Enterprise)
When the so-called wine bill was
on the ballot last November The
Enterprise pointed out that many
good citizens Were supporting it
for what appeared to them to be
good reasons. The Enterprise said
it had no humor for the bill be
cause of the Implications behind it
and didn't like the idea of develop
ing' the habit in wine drinkers of
going to the liquor stores. It will
be recalled the Burke bill on the
ballot last November took away
from the grocery stores the handl
ing of certain wines of fixed alco
holic content.
Now-Senator Burke has a bill
in the legislature which would re
quire the purchasers of any im
ported, naturally fermented
(light) wine to buy it at a state
liquor store, and again develop the
habit in those who never bought
"hard liquor" of going to the
liquor store. The house .wife who
serves a dinner wine or uses a
light wine for cooking would have
to go to the liquor store for it if it
passes.
We have no confidence in Sen
ator Burke's newest proposal and
we hope the legislature will ap
praise it as a misguided overvzeal
ous attempt on. his part to be his
brother's keeper in the wrong
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Bend's Yesterdays
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
' (Feb. 23, 1920)
(FTm The Bulletin Jftlea)
Charles W. Ersklne reports that
his law partner, H. H. DeArmond.
Informs him from Salem that the
public service commission has set
a date to hear the C.OJ.'s plea
for increasing maintenance rat
from 80 cents to $2.00.
Defeat of Prineville 29 to tf
puts the Bend high school in lino
for the Central Oregon basket
ball pennant.
Manager A- J. Harter of the
Farmers National Telephone com,
pany at Tumalo, files a petition
with the public service commis.
sion asking permission to increase
rates.
The McKlnley-Hampton com
pany announces plans to begin
milling operations for the Tum-A.
Lum Lumber company south of
the Tumalo reservoir.
Sickness among school children
causes cancellation of a Washins.
ton day program.
Mayor J. A. Eastes announces
the appointment of Dr. c A
Fowler as city health physician!
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ward an
confined to their homes by illness.
Walter Coombs returns from a
business trip to The Dalles
Mrs. J. B. Hall of Seattle, is vis
iting at the home of her parents
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Selk.
Community-owned forests are
not only areas for trees and tim
ber but also homes for wild flow
ers, small ground and tree ant
mals and birds, and are used b
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