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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 4, 1945
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SPECIAL ELECTION TOO EXCLUSIVE
As long aa a special election was to be held this year
(estimated cost 575,000), it would have been highly desirable
if the questions to be presented to the people had not been
limited to the two tax measures which will appear on the
ballot. As an addition to these we are thinking especially or
the constitutional amendment which would make effective the
legislation for creation of the 25th senatorial district (by di
vision of the 17th) and the election of the new senator from
the new district. '
As enacted the -law calls for the election "at the first
biennial election following the effective date of this act.
That puts the election of the additional senator, should the re
districting amendment be approved, off until the general elcc-
tion in November, 1948. The time-table thus becomes: vote
on the amendment in November, 1946 and elect the senator
two years later. .
Voting on the measure at the special election this year
would have eliminated any such situation. But instead of this
there will be merely a cigaret tax, which will probably be de
feated, and a property tax for the benefit of higher education
as the issues.
You will be interested, we are sure, in the comment on the
senatorial district change made by the Oregon voter, thus :
Central Oregon Is entitled to one more senator, nd about
the only way It can get It Is at the expense of Northeastern
Oregon, which has four senators representlng,63,428 popula
: tion, less than the 72,966 represented by one senator, Cornett
of Klamath, in his district. Cornett's SB 271 would have
subtracted one senator from Northeastern Oregon (the seat
now occupied by that genial bulldozer Rex Ellis) and added
one for a new Central Oregon district to consist of Deschutes,
Lake, Crook and Jefferson counties, with Klamath made a
separate district with one senator. At one stage in the pro
ceedings Cornett had seventeen votes pledged for his bill,
but Rex is such a tough fighter that he got in the road of
some legislation wanted by some of the pledgers, so three
asked to be released from their pledges. Cornett is not nearly
so tough a fighter as is Ellis, so he one by one graciously re
leased them; then knowing he was beaten he released them
; all. Only twelve of the original seventeen kept their original
pledges.
To keep Rex Ellis and Umatilla county happy, Cornett in-
traduced SJR 21, to amend the Oregon constitution so the
. senate wilt have 31 members instead of 30, and a companion
measure, SB 313, to provide that the one new senator shall
be from a new district, Deschutes, Lake, Crook and Jefferson
counties, as contemplated in SB 271, but without wiping out
the Ellis district. Union, Umatilla and Morrow. SJR 21
passed the senate by a divided vote but passed the house
unanimously, so it will go to the people for ratification at the
November 1946 election. Thus, by refusing to fulfil its man
datory obligation to reapportion, the legislature shifts that
burden to the people for the sake of getting Central Oregon
its senator without disturbing Ellis and Umatilla county.
Presumably, every time the reapportionment comes up
and a reapportionment Involves disturbing a senator who
may be enough of a bulldog fighter to scare Into refusing to
reapportion at the expense of his district pr his sent, all that
- has to be done is to shift the burden to the' people by another -constitutional
amendment to add another senator to the
Senate. The people, out of good will to Central Oregon, may
set the precedent by ratifying SJR 21.
One incidental advantage to this is that on this one ad-
- justment the Senate would have an odd number of senators
so the election of a Senate president might not be held up,
but as the house would continue to have an even number of
, members, 60, it might get itself into an even-vote speaker
ship Jam similar to that which delayed organization of the
Senate two years ago In the valiant contest put up by Dorothy
McCUItouRh Lee with Its tie voting for some forty ballots.
But, after the precedent is established of good will to a new
district without hurting anyone's feelings, the 1952 election
: might add another senator, making an even number, 32, In
the Senate, thus losing any odd number advantage that might
be created by the 1946 election.
Rather than acquiesce In this laxity In dodging the con-
slitution's clear mandate, thirteen senators voted against
SJR 21.
The war news from the Pacific areas has brought a num
ber of new 50-50 names into prominence so that hereafter the
gag man need not use such combinations as Walla Walla nnd
Sing Sing to achieve his effects. Here we have Iloilo, Sangn
Sanga and Tawi Tawi, each available for the sake of variety.
Even as we say this, however, we are rendy to agree that noth
ing has yet turned up with quite the effect of the D0-50-plus
combination of Walla Walla, Wash.
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' BY PETER EDSON
NBA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. C The possibility that the government may
again be able to proceed ngainst certain so-called monouulistie
practices of labor unions under the Slier;nan Anti-Trust laws is at
stake in two highly important cases now under consideration by the
u. a. supreme court.
Legal action against labor union practices alleged
to be in restraint of trade has been practically non
existent since the Supreme Court handed down its
Famous Hutcheson case decision in February, 1941.
Jn this opinion, written by Justice Felix Frank
furter, labor loaders and the public in general
were led to believe that union members cannot
be prosecuted for any conspiracy to restrain In
terstate commerce under the Sherman Act. Rather
quietly, however, two cases have come up through
the lower courts, one in New York City nnd one
in San Francisco, which may challenge this broad
interpretation and limit its application.
The San Francisco case grows out ot a union agreement made be
tween the A. F. of L. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
and the building contractors and lumber mills in the San Francisco
By area, in which it was stipulated that mill work the making ot
doors, windows, mantels, and such trim would be boycotted if made
under wage scales lower than those in effect in the Bay area.
Before this agreement was put into effect, 80 per cent of all the
mill work used in the Bay area had been made by lumber mills in
Washington and Oregon and sent to San Francisco pre-fabricnted.
After the contract went into cllect, only 10 per cent of tlio mill
work was done in the northwest, the other 90 per cent having to bo
done under the higher wage mills in the Bay area,
TNDIRECTLY tills was in (he nature of a jurisdictional dispute bc
A cause the northwestern mill workers belonged to CIO unions,
and by putting restrictions on the San Francisco mill production, the
A. F. of L. union was getting at Its rivals. But the whole affair was
a good examplo of union make-work policies, and U. S. attorneys,
taking action against tills practice as a conspiracy to restrain compe
tition from, other areas, won a conviction which was upheld in the
U. S. Court of Appeals. Counsel for the Carpenters then appealed
the case to the Supreme Court.
The New York case grows out of a contract between A. P of L.
electrical workers and contractors, under which the electricians in
New York City will not install equipment that lias been wired outside
the city.
e
rrHE two cases taken together have an obvious postwar significance
x in view of the tremendous possibilities of prc-fubricatcd housing
development. If the Hutcheson case decision is given a broad in
terpretation, prosecution ot labor unions for monopolistic practices
in restraint of trade will be impossible.
Fruit's Almost Ripe
Mm
Edson
THE STORY: Brenda points
out to Nick that motor trouble
needn't have kept her father at
The Ledges the previous evening
unless he had really wanted to
stay. The garage was full of cars,
any one of which he might have
borrowed.
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THE FOOTPRINTS
XV
Pat, Charley and Eric, bless his
ubiquitous little heart, were in
the kitchen when we came in.
Well," Eric said, "the early
risers.
Charley went over and put
some coal on the fire. Pat stood
over the stove frying some eggs
and doing a bad Job of It. 1 could
tell by her earnest air of preoccu
pation that she was a little angry.
But when she turned, there was a
faint smile on her Hps.
Have a fried egg, Nickr she
asked me.
"No thanks, Pat. We'vo eaten."
There was a plate of dough
nuts on the table. Eric reached
out and took one. As he bit into Tt,
he said:
"Where is your father. Miss
Temple?"'
1 havnn t the faintest idea.17
she replied.
"His car is gone," said Eric.
I pricked up my ears at that.
and Brenda glanced at me briefly.
Miner is a curious soul, she
said. "He must have his news
paper ihe moment he's awake,
lie's probably cone to- town for
The Times."
The furnace fire's out," Pat
called over her shoulder. "Run
down and build a new one, will
you, Nick?
I was glad to get out of that
atmosphere of bottlcclup animos
ity, wniie I was waiting for the
wood to catch, I stood staring at
the cellar floor. There was a thick
film of dust that must have been
weeks in settling during the long
days when the house had been un
occupied. I saw the tracks vhere
Mr. Hudson and t had ministered
t3 this hungry engine the night
before. They mlniiled aimlessly
and converged at (he firebox door.
Then I saw something else.
Willi a curious feeling of expect
ancy I went over for a closer look.
When I leaned down, I felt some
thing as Crusoe mast hove felt
when he saw footprints on his
desert isle. It was a very big foot,
bigger than either mine or Mr.
Hudson's, and I lie prints were
quite clear. They ran straight
across the cellar to the door thai
led to the bulkhead.
I had started to follow them
1 H. "
when there was the sound of
movement behind me. A swift
rush of air that made me duck
and whirl Just In time to receive
a soul-Jolting blow on the shoul
der with something hard and
heavy. I struck out viciously with
my right, felt a thrust of flesh
and bone on my fist. Then from
nowhere came a second blow. It
exploded with myriad lights, In
the dead center of my brain and
I dropped as If struck by a mallet.
"Put some
"Easy, old man."
It was Charley. A strained
smile was on his Hps and Just be--j"What has happened? You look
yond him I saw Pat's face, pale pale,"
and anxious.
"The fire,"
coal on it."
"Never mind the fire," answer
ed Charley. "What hit you?"
I sat up.
"Where's Eric?" I said.
Pat and Charley exchanged
glances. Then Charley said:
"Can you stand up, Nick?" He
took me by the arm.
As we went back through the
kitchen, Eric came in by the back
entry.
"It is not there," he said.
"What?" asked Pat.
"The axe," he went on suavely.
"I saw it by the carriage-shed
this morning, but now it Is gone."
"What did you want with the
axe?" demanded Charley.
"But to help our friend Nicho
las with the wood for the fire."
Woolf looked at mo round-eyed,
"Somebody slugged me," I said,
"in the cellar." .
"Slugged?" He lifted his hands
and a mystified expression came
into his eyes. "Just now, you
mean? Then we must have a look
around." .
"You look," I said. Eric was not
very convincing but by now I was
sure of nothing. 1 went into the
library and lay on the big divan
io front of the fireplace.
Pat followed me in with a basin
of warm water and some gauze.
"Let's have a look at your head,
darling."
"I'm all right."
"No doubt," she said cheerfully,
"but you're getting blood all over
the divan."
Then Fhineas .Hudson arrived.
He removed his cigar from his
lips and peered at me closely.
vVhat s wrong.'"
I'Someoody in the cellar hit him
over the -head," Brenda Temple
said. She looked at Mr. Hudson
steadily. .
"But then you would nave been
hit, father," said Pat, "and"
She stopped.- A dead silence
followed In which everyone must
have thought the same thing:
that Phineas Hudson s words and
tone seemed to imply that he was
in no danger from the attacker
in the cellar.
At that moment I caught sight
of Bruce Temple's figure as it
passed the tall Frencn windows
in the library. He had The Times
under his arm and he stopped to
light a cigaret. There was no
reason whatever for his being on
that side of the house. If he was
Just coming from Minot with the
paper, he would have had to walk
halfway around The Ledges on
either side to reach the library
windows. And he would have
passed both the'' front and rear
entrances of the house to do it.
(To Be Continued)
Others Say . . .
DEFACING THE CAPITOL
(Salem Statesman)
High school students who came
to Salem for the basketbaU tourn
ament caused damage to the state
capitol and grief to the secretary
of state's office when they de
faced Walls of the capitol on the
stairway leading to the dome.
Names of 141 persons were writ
ten on the walls with lipstick and
ink and some carving was donej
witn Knives, borne oi tnese names
were of Salem students. All
names have been turned over to
the superintendent of public in
struction and the officers of the
high school athletic association.
We had thought that youth had
outgrown the primitive period
which produced the couplet
Fools' names, like fools' faces
Are always seen in public places.
,. Evidently, that is not the case.
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