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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1949
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WELFARE NOTES
In two recent issues (March 19 & 26) the Oregon Voter has
devoted much space to the problem of welfare costs and the
work that is being done at Salem by a ways and means sub
committee in trying to provide adequately for welfare needs
and, at the same timeto add no more than is absolutely neces
sary to the tax payer burden. It is unfortunate war. news re
ports of the legislature's work do not give the story in the
detail provided by the Voter. Were tax payers more fully in
formed the interest that will be developing at budget making
and, more particularly, tax paying time would oe now in evi
, dence.
If we get the picture it seems certain that having done the
very best it can the sub-committee and the legislature will
inevitably leave things in a condition that two years hence
will be even worse than that now facing the state. The f eV
rays of hope are in the possibilities that costs may go down
: and that a lien law affecting the property of welfare.recipi
ents may be enacted. Even these, however, though much to be
desired, will give comparatively but little help.
A lien law was enacted by the 1947 legislature but Governor
Snell vetoed it. It is now interesting to learn, as we do from
the latest Voter, that Bardi Skulason, a member of the state
welfare board by that governor's appointment, advised the
veto two years ago and now believes he was wrong. Knowledge
of the fact lends encouragement to the belief that there will be
a new lien bill at this session and that Governor McKay will be
ready to sign it. - t
As one reads the Voter he gets something of an understand
ing of the extremely heavy pressures under which members
. of the state commission work. They carry large social respon
sibilities that, we feel sure, they can never divorce from the
routine of their daily lives and occupations. They receive
no compensation other than the knowledge that they are giy
ing the state a high service.
, Full appreciation is due the members of this state board
and, at the same time, to the appointive members of the
county boards. These latter, also, receive no financial compen
sation nor even, we believe, reimbursement for expenses in
curred in travelling to commission meetings. '
Here in Deschutes the members are Mrs. B. A. Stover, J. R.
Roberts, Ole Grubb and Craig Coyner. We think that they are
. entitled to a salute and we offer one. - ' ,
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' i! H. THOSE SAUCERS AGAIN
' We have never seen a flying saucer and, as Gelett Burgess
once wrote in regard to a non-existent purple cow, we "never
hope to see one", but that, of course, will have no effect on the
yearnings of others who hope so earnestly that presently they
are seeing the things where they aren't.
Several times now reports qf saucers in the sky have become
: current and have bred other reports until it seemed that the
dish cupboards of the country must be well-nigh depleted. For
long intervitls then there .would be nothing more but eventual-
: ly someone would start fhe story, again and imaginative ob
servers would pop up here, there and yonder with similar
tales. - ' ' ' ' . '
An odd thing about the latest wave of saucer stories is the
growing belief that the whole matter is a "top army secret",
this springing solely from the fact that one of the "high
brass", tired of explaining repeatedly that there simply wasn't
any such thing, finally replied, "No comment", when asked
about the rumors. So, it is argued, the army is hiding some
thing of greatest importance. Because' people would like to
believe this, they will convince themselves that it is so. Some
have already succeeded.
So far, over the months, there has been no affirmative evi
dence that one could tie to. Some folks are 'sure they see
saucers and others who aro with them, are unable fo. The only
photographic record submitted was sad anti-climax; the
"saucer" was a flaw in the negative. And the only testimony
that one of the aerial oddities had been seen close up turned
out to be no more reliable. It was a pan cover tossed into a
a neighbor's yard that the observer had seen.
No, we don't seem to be able to get excited over the flying
saucers, Dut neither do we wish to be intolerant about it. If
any of our friends and readers believe in them and think they
see them and deVive pleasure and satisfaction thereby, we can
have no seriolis objection. But we do wish they wouldn't drag
national defense into it. That, it seems to us, is just too far
fetched. - '
Washington Scene
By lliirnian V. Nichols
(United l'roas Stall CorrcMlxiiulrtit)
Washington, March 31 lli
Your department ol agriculture,
which knows all about oats, peas,
beans and barley and how much
wool you can scrape off a lamb's
back, has come up witli a star
tling announcement:
Viz: 100 per cent of the men In
America wear underwear; not
only that, but 42 per cent pull on
the long fleece when winter
comes.
All of this Interesting stuff and
a lot more is contained in a lti
pago, single spaced document
(printed on both sides) which the
department just got out.
The agriculture people .said
they were working In the Interest
of the cotton, wool, rayon and ny
lon folks. During a six weeks pe
riod, agents of the department
surveyed the male population
(cross-sectionwl.se, hy net tin I
count, 2,203 from all walks of
life) for Information about who
wears what and who buys II.
The ag survey people got pret
ty nosey. They asked about busi
ness shirts, summer spoils shirts, I
extra pants, summer suits, socks,
underwear, pajamas, robes and
rnlnt'oals. The department tig
mi's the cross-section speaks for
some 50.000,000 males over the
uge of 16. i
In a Nummary, II says that
while all men own underwear,
socks and ut least one Sunday-go-to-meetln'
suit, only about "half
have a wool shirt, or a bathrobe
or a cool suit for summer.
Of the cross. section, it says on
page seven, omy sm p,-r cent of
our men folks own pajamas. Ap
parently 47 Kir cent sleep in the
rw, although my agents say
"I his may vary horn California
to Arkansas, to Texas."
Sixty per cent of our men are
prepared when It rains, although
it isn't known how many have the
raincoat at home or at the office
when it rains in the morning and
vice versa. Thirty-six per. cent
wear aiy old tiling in the rain
and the other four per cent In
terviewed didn't know whether
they owned raincoats or not, not
having looked in the attic or base
ment recently.
Climax of the report was most
fascinating. "Do you select most
of your clothing or does someone
else buy It for you?"
r'lft.v-nlno per cent of those
polled won't let the little woman
go along to help 'cm pick out -a
suit. As a matter of fact, except
lor pajamas and bathrobes, most
guys don't want mama anywhere
near when they pick out things
to wear.
Some of the, fellows admitted
Hull they took their mothers
along, hut our agent said most of
these guys were the 'teenagers
in the survev.
Mlhni'u fi,U (t,1Mllln,! tl,t II..,., !
took their small daughters along.
1 am one guy who has never
been polled lor anything to
name a political candidate, to ac
cept a give-away prize on Hie la
dio, or to say whether 1 eat hay
or eggs lor breakfast.
And when I go out to buv a
pair of underwear shorts, which
nil of us guys are supposed to
wear, 1 Just ask for size 42 mid
leave mnmii al home.
After all, she doesn't take me
along when she wauls to buy u
new girdle.
The average yield of mush
rooms produced by commercial
growers Is from one tu oneliall
pounds per square loot.
WASHINGTON COLUMN
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By Peter Ed son .
(NBA Washington Correlondent)
Washington (NEA) Secretary
of state Dean Acheson got right
down to basic English when he
unveiled the text of the proposed
North Atlantic pact. He was ask
ed whether this treaty would lm-
nose a moral as well as a legal
obligation on the United States to
go to the netense oi European na
tions attacked by an aggressor.
The secretary drew a homely
parallel. Suppose a man makes a
contract to buy a cow for $100,
he began. You could consider this
entirely a legal contract. IX either
the buyer or the seller of the cow
backed out of the contract; the
other could go to court. And the
Judge could force the two parties
to live up to ineir contract,
Decent people carry out their
contracts without going tp court,
the secretary went on. When de
cent people do live up to their
-nntt-i.rtc it Hnpsn'r makp flnv dif
ference whether they do so be
cause of their moral or their legal
obligations. -
Tf nil nnnnrripR wpre enuallv as
decent, there would be a lot less
trouble In the worm, me secre
tary observed. But in internation
al contracts thorp Is no sheriff sit
ting on a high cloud to make na
tions live up to their agreements.
So it's up to the nations them
selves to make good on their
promises, regardless of whether
it s a moral or a legal oDiigauon.
In this North Atlantic pact, the
United States. Canada, Britain,
Belgium, France, Luxembourg
and the Netherlands have propos
ed a legal contract to do certain
things. They have invited Nor
way, Denmark, Italy, Portugal
and Iceland to Join them in this
Undertaking. If all 12 govern
ments ratify the pact, they will
have a contract to consider an
armed attack on any one of them
as an attack against them all.
Their contract would commit
them only to consult whenever the
territory, independence or secur
ity of any one of them is -threatened.
(Art. 4.) They leave to broad
lnterpretion what shall be consid
ered an armed attack. Art. 6.)
If there is any doubt about
whether any incident is a threat
to the peace if it is just a border
flare-up or an entirely internal
golitical revolution, no action need
a taken. If, however, a revolu
tion In any country is stirred up
by a foreign' power or if there is
an all-out attack such as Germany
launched against France in 1914
and 1940, then the other countries
would take action,
Whatever action Is taken will be
decided on .by the constitutional
process of each country. (Art. 11.)
For the United States, this means
that any decision to go to war can
be taken only by act of congress,
as provided in the U. S. constitu
tion. This settles for all time .the
great to-do made by Senator Van
denberg a few weeks ago. Each
country is to be left free to Judge
its own course of action.
I IKE DAMAGES SHOP
Fire of undetermined origin
caused extensive damage to Val's
Repair shop, at 1245 Jacksonville,
shortly after 3 p.m. yesterday.
The building was badly damaged,
and a used, car and a number of
tools were destroyed, according to
firemen who answered the call.
Vai Stokoe is owner of the garage.
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