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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
MONDAY, JULY 23, 1951
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- Under the Oregon legislative system voters of the state
have the right to enactJaws and to repeal them, The ngnt is
implemented through initiative or referendum petitions.
It is one which assures popular control and we believe that no
thinking person would wish to withdraw it. There are times,
it is true, when review under the referendum does become
slightly annoying but the chief cause of annoyance, it seems
to us, is to be found in the delay which the referring of a
measure can bring about. ' : :
Bills which the 1951 legislature passed should become
effective as Oregon laws on August 2 unless an emergency
clause has them already at work or unless the referendum
'interferes Should the signatures of a sufficient number of
voters be attached to a petition asking a decision at the polls
then enactment has been blocked. The sad part of it is that
the block holds for better than a year. Measures which this
-year's legislature approved can be thus delayed until Novem
ber of 1952. -k.v ' r r
Sometimes the delay means little; sometimes it can re
suit in perpetuation of an injustice and in considerable mone
tary loss -as well,-The truck .limitation bill is of this sort.
Suspending the provisions of this bill would cost the state a
small fortune. The school district reorganization bill intended
to effect economies in school' administration and operation,
will have an equal time to wait if the Grange drive to refer is
successful, The cigaret tax which it was hoped would be im
mediately productive is being menaced. If it, too, should be
delayed serious financial planning which this year held the
legisature in its longest session can be set at naught as of now,
perhaps as of the future besides.
An extra election to be conducted in early autumn of each
odd numbered year if any measures have been referred is all
that is needed to end the delays that are coming to be expected
in especially important legislation. The cost of an additional
balloting is an argument which would certainly be advanced
against a proposal for such a change. . The saving by, getting
a needed revenue act in operation is on the other side, , .:
There is, moreover, the fact that at the time of our gen
eral elections so many measures, so many issues are being
presented, issues of state and municipality, and with them
: candidacies from national td precinct, that it is extremely
difficult to bring any one matter into clear focus, without
clouding another. The need for clarification rms been in
dicated in the results of many a jam-packed election. The
odd-year voting, it seems to us, could well answer the need.
. GUESSING IN BILLIONS'
In analyzing local budgets from time to time we. have
pointed out the ways by which a comfortable cushion for
municipal financing is provided through the over-estimating
of needs and the under-estimating of receipts. The result
is an accumulation of cash, proof positive tjhat taxes are too
high and that they can be reduced. Sometimes this follows.
Both the city .of Bend and the Bend school district were able to
reduce their levies this year in spite of a continued inflation
ary pressure; -.- ' ; ' ...
A comparison might be drawn between the local record in
taxation and that of the federal government but to make it a
fair one it should be pointed1 out that the local officials who
are chiefly active in budget making have had a pretty good'
idea as to what they are doing. If a local budget were padded,
it was because that was -the intention ; in that case there was
a reasonably close forecast of how thick the padding would
turn out to be. In federal financing, the record of the past
.16 years indicates that there was no such close knowledge
and that there has been and is a great deal of guesswork.
Presidential estimates have turned out to be quite unre
liable. For the most part actual expenditures have, exceeded
estimates by as high as 32 per cenb in peace years and as
high as 85 per cent in war years. But there have been years
also in which spending was under the budget figure. There
'were four such years one of them in war time with a 25
per cent difference and three in peace years running from
four to 10 per cent. ' V
, Estimates of receipts were as consistently erroneous, some
times far too optimistic, sometimes exceeded by actuality,
On this side of the ledger, too, the variation and the non-
uniformity .of variation have been such as to suggest the
grabbing of .figures out of a hat rather than painstaking cal
culation. With such inaccuracies it is only natural that the
estimates of deficits (or surpluses) Mould be undopcnclable,
They have been extremely so. When a surplus has been fore
cast it was just as likely to turn out to be a deficit or an
estimated deficit would turn out to bo a much greater one.
The difference between fact and fancy has run in excess of
eight billion dollars in a single peace time year.
Clearly our government is exemplifying neither business
ability nor financial judgment. '
WASHINGTON COLUMN
By Peter Edson
(NEA Watltlnghm ConaipontUnt) :
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ters should not be over 400 words in
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ASKS FOR PENPAL
633 Lava Roml
Bond July 18, 1951
To the Editor:
May. I, thru the kind of fires of
your news paper, make an ap
peal to some kindhearted young
person. We have just received,
from England, a letter asking us
to find a pen-pai for the writer
who has been hospitalized In
London for 2 years.
She pays I quote, "I have been
hospitalized for over two years
and six months and writing is get
ting to be my main hobby I am
19 years old. My name is Betty
Kcobbie, and I am five foot, four
Inches tall, blue-gray eyes, dark
brown hair, and would like to
write to a girl about my own
age" unquote.
.She lists her various bubbles
and closes by saying she used lo
swim nearly every night ami
danced too. She enclosed a small
picture of herself. She got our
name and address from a friend
of ours who was In the same
hospital ward. If anybody would
like to write her, we will Ire hap
py to furnish her address and
feel sure they would be giving n
Jot of happiness to a less fortun
ate person; .
Albert George Churchill
Out On the Farm
By IU S. Grant
July 23--The banly hen has
done it again. She cuddled all the
eggs in the laying boxes, so the
first week end of vacation we
Isolated her In the barn and set
her on half a dozen eggs. Ycslcr-
day she came off the ncsl, with
a .500 balling average.
The I hreo fluffy chicks are
bright-eyed and lively, and their
mother Is proud as a blue-ribbon
winner In a baby contest.
The corn Is resseling out, and
the green beans are outgrowing
their poles. The first mess of pens
Is ready for picking, and the car
rot thinnings are considerably
larger than bite-size. -
July is running on schedule.
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SIVY-DRY
Washington (NEA) CMP the
Controlled Materials Plan for
this present world war two-and-a-hall
takes effect July 7. .
While the name sounds ominous
government meddling with
business and all that it doesn't
immediately mean fewer automo
biles, television sets or toasters.
For CMP this time is being im
posed gradually,
The plan was originally . an
nounced in April. In May, forms
were sent to some 50,000 V. S.
manufacturers to apply for their
allotments of steel, - copper and
aluminum. This covered about 90
per cent of the U. S. metal work
ing industry. Smaller business
plants, using less than five tons
of steel or 500 pounds of alumi
num and copper per quarter are
so far exempt. ; .
Manufacturers of civilian con
sumer durable goods are also ex
empted for the next three months:
But some time in this period,
they, too. will be asked to f He "ap
plications for CMP allocations.
And in the last quarter of the
year It is possible that these in
dustries will be put on curtailed
production schedules.
The automobile industry has
already been ordered to reduce
menu consumption to tne level oj
1,200,000 cars in the third quar
ter. This is a drop from the over
2,000,000 cars a quarter In the
first half of 1950. Whether fut-
ther cuts - will be made for the
fourth quarter has not been an
nounced. - :
Other consumer durable goods
Industries now exempt but pos
sibly subject to CMP allocations
in the fourth quarter of 1951
would Include the manufacture of
household refrigerators, air condi
tioners, radio sets, TV sets, furni
ture, women's handbags, jewelry,
washing machines, toys and dolls,
athletic goods and vacuum clean
ers. .-. ' -.v ' ,.'...:
Manufacturers of - consumer
goods textiles and foods have
not so far been put on notice that
tney win be subject to (jmp. rne
construction Industry, however,
has been notified that authorized
builders may-apply for CMP allo
cations If they choose to do so.
But is isn't made compulsory.
or all industry, users of steel
have been notified they may have
on hand only 45-day supply of
steel and 60-day supply of copper
ana aluminum, this is to prevent
Inventory hoarding.
CMP allocations . now being
mailed out to these applicants will
control metals consumption rates
from about Sept. 1 on. As in
World War II, the first couple of
montns under UMr were largely
devoted to fact-finding and to
transition from earlier priority or
uu uerense urder systems. Al
so, the real impact of defense
production is not expected to be
felt much before September.
Even so, cut-backs are not ex
pected to be as sharp as they were
in World War II. At the peak of
war production . in 1943-44, about
half the economy was on military
orders. Today less than 20 per
cent of the economy is on defense
production. -
Another Important factor here
is that the U. S. productive capac
ity is now greater than it was
during the last war, though ac
tual production on only steel,
lumber and wood products, tex
tiles, processed foods,- petroleum
and coal products are higher,
production of machinery, non
ferrous metals and chemicals are
still well below the World War II
peaks.
The purpose of CMP, of course,
Is to schedule the flow oi mate
rials into essential production In
an orderly manner. This takes
considerable management and do
ing by the government agencies,
defense production administration
and national production authority.
,11 the supply of materials is
greater than total demand, well
and good. The civilian economy
can have all it wants. If the sup-1
ply is under total demand, then
cut-backs have to be made.
What CMP is Intended to do 1s
avoid the mad scramble for mate
rials and so stabilize production
and employment.
Brown Furnace -Company
Sold
Sale of Brown Furnace Co to
James E. Brown of Prineville, ef
fective today, was announced this
morning by Carl B. BroWn, who
operated the business for the past
five months. He bought it on
March 9 from his brother Rex,
now deceased.
The plant, formerly at 235 E.
Franklin, is being moved to 123
E. Greenwood.
James E. Brown has operated
the Brown brothers' heating com:
pany in Prineville for the past
three years, anfi before then was
associated with the late Rex
Brown in the Bend business. For
the present he will maintain both
the Bend and Prineville business
es, and will continue to make his
home in the Crook county town.
Carl B. Brown has been a Bend
resident 10 years. He has two
children, Antoinette and Marvin.
The family is moving today to
Coeur d'Alene, Ida., where Carl
will be associated with another
brother, Frank Brown, in a fur
nace business.
Bend's Yesterdays
'.'- (From The Bulletin Files)
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
July 2S, 1926
(It was Friday)
Three Klamath Falls men fi
nanciers of an air express and
passenger bustness, arrived in
the first monoplane ever to land
in central Oregon.
Clearing of the nine fairways
to be sown to grass is completed
at the Bend Golf club, and ar
rangements are made for the con
struction of greens.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
; July 23, 1031 ,
, (It was Thursday) -Mr.
and Mrs. Merton Sauers
leave for Portland, where Sauers
will enter the state rifle club
tryouts for the Camp Perry, Ohio,
matches.
Jobs Daughters complete ar
rangements for their fun carnival
at the Masonic hall. The program
committee includes Helen Walk
er, Helen Anderson, Charlotte
Red field and Hallie Dudley. ;
. Allen Willcoxon, proprietor of
resorts at Udell -and fc-lk lakes.
reports that reservations indicate
Elk lake will swarm with anglers
Saturday, Aug. 1, when the lake
will be opened to fishermen after
a two-year closure because of a
parasitic infection, now reported
ly cleared up.
Walter G. Peak, county treas
urer, calls for the payment of
all outstanding market road
luna warrants.
Between 1947 and 1949 exports
.from countries of the British
Commonwealth expanded by 49
per cent. Imports rose by 31 per
cent, i
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British Labor Party Still
Able to Avert Test at Polls
By Howard E. Scliuchnuuui
London, England Ever since
the labor party was reelected in
February of last' year with a ma
jority of only seven in the house
of commons the political experts
have been predicting Britain
would soon go to the polls again.
Thus far It hasn't happened, and
It may not for some time. The
reasons are quite complicated.
Under the . British system the
executive branch of government
Is formed from the leaders of the
majority party in the house of
commons. The only-elections the
prime minister and cabinet mem
bers fight are as ordinary .mem
bers of parliament.
As long as the measures these
leaders propose are supported by
the - majority they can stay In
power, up to a limit of five years,
when new elections must be held
in any case.
Split Necessary .
But if parliament rejects a ma
jor piece of legislation proposed
to it by the prime minister and
cabinet it put in office, new elec
tions are held immediately. Par
liament is only Jikely to reject a
measure if there is a real split in
the majority party. This system
insures that the executive and
legislature always work together.
A prime minister also may call
for a new election if ha feels pub
lic opinion in the country as a
whole has changed greatly since
the' last election. He may thus
increase the majority of his party
in parliament and give it a new
five-year lease on life.
Or he may, when he thinks the
public has heavily turned against
him and may blame his party for
clinging to office when they are
uuwanted, use this method to give
the opposition the responsibility
of governing. . .
Biff Issues Necessary
At its best, this system means
both the executive and legislature
stay closely in tune with public
opinion. Main elections come
when there are b.g issues to be
decided, not just according to the
calendar.
But a prime minister who does
not wish to hold new elections
need not do so, regardless of what
the polls show about public opin
ion, if his party still supports him
in the -measures he places before
parliament. ' This is the situation
Clement Attlee is in at the pres
ent time, i ' ,
. With a majority of only four
over the aanservatives and minor
parties (the seven has been re
duced to four by deaths and resig
nations), Attlee has to have every
member of his party in the house
on every decision. Churchill and
the conservatives have been- tak
ing advantage of this by constant
ly pressing matters to a vote in
hopes of securing an upset,
i Since Attlee cannot afford to
lose the vote of a single member
of his party In parliament, he
can only present measures on
which he is sure of unanimous
support. But there is also pres
sure on the members to conform,
because they don't want the re
sponsibility of turning their own
party out of power. ? . -
Government under such - con
ditions is still pretty shaky, how
ever. Most observers think Attlee
will wait until the moment he
thinks labor has the best chance
and then call an election. The only
certain thing is that the decision
is entirely Attlee's unless death,
resignation or a deep party split
take away his majority in parlia
ment. "' -
- There was a lot' of uncertainty
in April, when Aneurin Bevan
resigned from the cabinet and
seemed about to lead a few of his
followers out of the labor party,
at least temporarily.
He did not do that, however,
and still votes with labor in the
commons, probably because he
doesn't want to give Churchill
and the conservatives a chance to
get in office.
. Early this spring the public
opinion polls showed that for the
first time Since 1945 ah election
would put the conservatives in
power with a sizeable majority.
Recently labor stock has gone
most of the way back up again,
and an election now would prob
ably give the conservatives the
slim sort of majority labor has.
' Public Mind Made Up
This reflects the fact that the
British publis has pretty well
made up its mind which party it's
for, and the floating vote is get
ting smaller and smaller. As long
as this nearly 50-50 split remains
Britain may have what are for
-her frequent elections, but all
parties will steer from the middle
of the road.
Especially noticeable to the
American is how solidly the Brit
isher votes according to income
and occupation differences. Al
most every trade union member
and worker is a labor supporter,
while .business and pofessional
people are virtually all conserva
tives. These political differences ac
cording to job and Income mean
the parties use bitter terms of
class warfare between workers
and owners which make the Am
erican shudder.
Too often they seem to preach
that what is good for the one
must be bad for the other instead
of recognizing that for most mat
'ters they are all in the same
boat.
In contrast with America,
where union members still divide
their political support, the labor
party here is almost purely and
simply a wing of the trade un
ions Mixed in with the union lead
ers are quite a number of intellec
tuals, and it is mostly these who
have given the party its socialist
doctrines.
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