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A Spoils System
Mutilated until scarcely recognizable for the original
cabinet form of government set-up proposed by Budget Di
rector D. 0. Hood and a group of Portland associates, a so
called consolidation measure slid into the senate yesterday
on skids greased by political log-rolling. As sponsors it car
ried the names of 14 senators and 17 representatives and was
accompanied by a message of endorsement from Governor
Martin.
Of the 31 members reported to have signed it, it is
doubtful if more than one or two had ever read the 21 page
measure, or had any comprehensive idea of what it is all
about.
. Launched prior to the legislative session as a cabinet
proposal, the bill as finally introduced is nothing more nor
less than a regrouping of administrative departments, boards
and commissions, aside from purely political concessions that
have been made to strengthen its chances of enactment at
this late date.
To the political machine built up by George A. White,
adjutant general, and represented in the legislature
by a bloc of senators and representatives who consistently
oppose any encroachment upon militia is conceded exemption
from the act.
To recruit the support of eastern Oregon and coast coun
ty members who since the first days of the assembly have
been trying to scuttle the state highway commission for its
steadfast refusal to concentrate the expenditure of highway
funds on eastern Oregon roads and to champion the cause of
toll-free bridges on the coast the highway commission is
singled out almost alone for abolishment. This notwith
standing that the highway commission has been outstanding
in fulfilling the functions imposed upon it, and has estab
lished an enviable record for efficiency and freedom from
corruption or irregularities in the handling of some half bil
lion dollars of state and federal road money.
In the place of the three-man commission there would be
set up a single, politically appointed director with power to
allocate funds and direct their expenditure.
It is unlikely that the plan as proposed would result in
any substantial economies in administrative expense, and
probable that it would involve the expenditure of more
money,, particularly in salaries. It does not consolidate func
tions, but simply transfers them from one control to another.
It creates five new executive positions at salaries rang
ing from $6,000 a year to $7,500, and transfers present de
partment heads along with their organizations to the super
vision of these additional executives.
It increases the salary of the secretary of state, desig
nated in the act as director of the department of state, $1,600
a year. This, incidentally, is included in the bill over the re
monstrances of the incumbent, Earl Sncll.
The politics of the proposal are further exhibited in the
treatment accorded the state treasurer, who is arbitrarily
shorn of all duties except those of custodian of state money
and a member of the board of control. The powers of the
board are also curtailed.
On the whole, It would be difficult to devise a more effi
cient political spoils system than is here contrived. By pre
scribing that the act shall go into effect at midnight, June
80, 1935, and that the terms of office of "every state officer
or deputy officer, state agent, state employe," except elective
officials coming under the scope of the act shall expire at
that time, the decks are automatically cleared for a house
cleaning by the appointive power. It is further provided
that such an automatic clearing of the decks shall take place
every four years.
Barring an unforseen revolt the proposal will pass both
senate and house propelled by political manipulation and ad
ministration pressure, and aided by the efforts of lobbyists
around the brass rail who have a vital interest in pending
bills. Several of them have already received their orders.
A Futile Gesture
The Oregon house of representatives has passed a reso
lution for the submission of an amendment increasing the
pay of legislators from $3 a day for a 40 day term to a flat
$720 for the two years' term, and this regardless of the fact
that eight times in the past 27 years, the people have defeat
ed, with emphatic majorities, other measures increasing the
pay of legislators.
The first of these measures called for $10 a day for 40
days. The second called for proportional representation, an
nual sessions and $350 a year salaries. The third called for
$5 a day. The fourth called for a 50 day session at $6 per
day, with members limited to the introduction of 4 bills in
session and committees to 3 bills. The fifth proposal called
for a 60 day session at $5 a day, and no bill introduced after
the 40th day. The sixth offered the same proposal again.
The seventh measure called for $10 a day for 40 days. The
eighth called for $500 salaries per biennium.
It is absurd that legislators should only be paid $3 a day,
which is less than their expenses, though sufficient perhaps
75 years ago when the pay was fixed. But the legislators
only have themselves to blame for the popular resentment
against them, for they waste their time in inconsequential
and unnecessary legislation accompanied by log-rolling and
bickering. Every session has to act on 800 or 900 bills, most
of them uncalled for and every session could be completed in
40 days. And the lack of efficiency is popularly resented in
the only way it can be, by refusnl to sanction increased pay.
There has never been any lack of candidates for legisla
tive posts, despite the inadequate wage. And there is noth
ing to show that increased wages would in any way remedy
the abuses that biennially reassert themselves. Longer ses
sions would simply mean more bills and increased racketeer
ing, as the public figures it.
Marlon J. M. Christopher, who
has been spending the winter with
his sister, Miss Annie Christopher
of Dundee on account of hta 111
health, has returned to his home.
He suffered a paralytic stroke last
September.
Oregon
Editor and Publisher
or not otherwise credited In this
nerem
ScravelhUl Dean Robinson came
home from the CCC camp at Reeds
port for a visit wltn his mother,
Mrs. Tessle Robinson. Archie Brew
er, from the CCO camp near Detroit,
visited his parents, Mr, and Mrs. E.
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A RAPID-FIRE
StoodsIs; The Montana Kid and
Mateo Rubrlz, famous Mexican Robin
Hood, have left Brother Pascual to
hold their horses, and are at a pos-:
tern sate of the fort of Duraya. Mon
tana has bribed Roslta, who tells him
how to tap bo that the gate will be
opened. The two men hope to recover
lor umnop Eminano me emeraia
crown of Our Lady, which the gover
nor has stolen from the church In
Duraya.
Chapter 17
OPEN DOOR
When they were standing before
the gate, Montana lifted his hand.
Rubriz at once stepped up against
the wall, flattening himself against
it. There he waited while Montana
rapped twice, paused, rapped twice
again, and then three times, rapidly
and lightly.
There was only a moment s pause.
and then a key was heard turning.
Great bolts slid back, one by one.
each making a light clanking sound
it disengaged; and finally the
heavy door began to sag outwards.
As it opened voices thrust out Into
the night.
"Be tender, Andres.
"Be kind, Andres."
"Be still, you fools!" panted a
quick, harsh answer from close to
the aoor.
It yawned wider, until the lamp
light was glistening over the. thick
iron plates which shod the inside of
the postern, studded with the heads
of a hundred rivets big enough to
have been worked into the side of
the mightiest of liners.
He who was thrusting the door
open could be seen at the same time,
one of those men who are big from
the waist up and bowlegged beneath,
the legs bending as though to sup
port and balance more easily the top
heavy bulk above.
He wore wrinkled cotton trousers,
but above the waist, where his body
became more Important, his uniform
grew splendid, also and wound up
In epauletted shoulders fit to have
graced a major, at the least. He
wore at his belt a long sheathed
knife and a revolver, and he carried
a rifle slung over his shoulder, for
that was the constant rule with all
men of that wary old fox, General
Estrada,
"Senorita Rosita my dear!"
whispered the panting voice of the
sergeant as he thrust himself at last
through the gap of the opening door
into the dark of the night outside.
"Where are you, my sacred beauty?"
The blow that fell on him made a
dull sound, because it struck on the
padding of muscles just over the
juncture of head and neck. Even
then, only the extraordinary flesh of
Sergeant Andres prevented him
from sustaining a fracture of the spi
nal column or the neck vertebrae.
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because Rubriz had struck from the
side and with much enthusiasm.
Montana, gliding forward from the
opposite side, received the toppling
weight in his arms and laid it in a
heep upon the ground.
"Well, close the door, at least,"
said a voice inside the door, "or we'll
have to come and look out, Andres."
"We've counted to ten, and the
door is still not closed. Poor Andres,
is this our fault or yours?"
The two began to laugh.
"Let me go first!" said one.
"Keep back, you fool I I've started
already!"
They came, scuffling and struck
their shoulders against the door,
which shuddered open with a slight
groaning of the hinges. Into the wi
dening shaft of light which was al
lowed to escape into the night In
this manner, stepped the masked
face of Montana, with Rubriz scarce
ly behind him.
Their leveled revolvers drove the
soldiers back in a cen fusion. But
they did not actually flee. Rubriz
was cursing them by all the names
of his favorite saints.
"Run, you rats! Run, dog-stealers!
Run, brindled swine and give me a
chance to Jump on you behind and
pull back your heads to cut your
throats the better! Ay, run, fools!
Don't stand waiting."
But they could not run. The husky
sobbing of his breath paralyzed
them, for he seemed like a man al
ready drinking blood.
Montana, unaided, lifted up the
bulk of the fallen sergeant, dragged
him inside the door, and let his
loosened weight spill down on the
floor. Staring at him, he pulled the
door shut again to keep in the tell
tale, broadening arm of light that
advanced into the darkness.
Montana stepped over him and
saw that Rubriz had turned his men
against the wall and had taken
away their weapons. He was rapidly
tying their wlrsts together.
One of the soldiers was only a
boy. He began to weep in a small,
weak voice, getting out the name of
a saint or of Heaven every now and
then.
"Soldiers? I could make a better
soldier out of wet cornmeall" said
Rubriz. "Such men as these to be
In the uniforms of soldiers."
"Gag 'em," said Montana, and set
to work.
The second soldier began to
scream. He got but one half-breath
of sound before Rubriz beat out the
voice with a stroke of his fist and
then began to thrust a wadded piece
of cloth between the teeth of the
guard-
"Not too deep and not too hard,"
cautioned Montana. "We don't want !
to have dead men behind us. amigo."
"Will you tell me how to gag a
man?" exclaimed Rubriz, angrily.
"Remember, Montana, that I was
gagging men while you were still in
the cradle, and I have gagged them
ever since. If any man in the world
has the touch, I am he."
He finished trussing his man as
he spoke. They turned to the ser
geant. He was barely breathing. And
because of that, Montana took
charge of the gagging, making sure
that the wad of cloth was worked
well Inside the mouth, but that the
tongue was not thrust back into the j
throat, with a chance of strangling!
poor Andres.
Now three soldiers of General Es-,
trada lay on their faces side by side,
each tied to the other, so that move
ment would be Impossible for all.
"How much time has that cost
us?" muttered Rubriz.
"You've promised me, answered
Montana. "No murder Mateo!
"Call it what you want," said Ru
briz, "but the kind God who watches
us knows how much time we've
wasted here in His honor, when we
might have left them still forever,
with a thrust apiece. Come on. I
know the way. I've memorized ev
ery turn of every hall in the place."
He went on, leading straight up a
flight of stairs which was drilled
through the thickness of the great
old walls of the fort of Duraya.
Behind them, all the three men
lay still, but the sergeant was be
ginning to move his jaws a little.
He stirred them with care and he
began to push with his tongue
against the base of Ue wadding that
kept him from drawing a free
breath.
After a tune his tongue seemed
to swell with the efforts he had been
making. His throat appeared to be
closing, also. He had to struggle
to get any breath into his lungs.
Then he could not breathe at all.
With this, in a frightful panic, he
heaved himself to his knees so
strongly that the other two were
dragged out of place, also. The tug
ged with all his might. The twine
that bound his wrists cut through
the skin like dull blades of knives.
But every effort he made only stifled
him the more. This ne realized.
There were two pairs of hands
besides his own, ready with a gesture
to pluck the strangling thing from
his mouth, but all those hands were
helpless as his own.
The sergeant remembered an old
folk tale out of his youth. And sud
denly he saw that to struggle was to
kill himself. If he were to make
headway of any kind, he would have
to relax himself in every muscle
first. Then he might be able to
breathe.
So he dropped down. His face was
in the dust, but this did not matter.
He could feel the pressure of the
blood thrustiner up in his cheeks.
His neck was swellnig. Even to open
his eyes was difficult.
He began to think of death, but
as he visualized it, and as he de
termined that he would beat out his
brains against the rock to shorten
the agony, he suddenly discovered
that a needle of coldness was thrus
ting into the fever of his throat.
And then he realized that it was
a whiff of air. It drew in audibly
through the horrible slaver that
filled his mouth. His whole throat
was growing cooler.
And presently he knew that his
life was saved. And he could actu
ally breathe. By degrees he was go
ing to reduce the burning agony of
fire in his lungs.
Instead of pausing to thank God
for his deliverance, with the stub
bomess of a hero, or of a brute, he
instantly commenced making fresh
efforts to work the gag from his
mouth.
(To be continued)
Fifty Years
of
School Work
A Series of Articles by
E. B. Fletcher
During part of the time I worked
in Umatilla county ex-Governor
Walter M. Pierce was superinten
dent of schools. He was also con
nected with the eastern Oregon
Normal school at Weston. My cer
tificate issued by him Is dated Sep
tember 14. 1888.
D. w. Yoder, of the SUverton
schools, was superintendent of Mar
lon county schools about this time.
One of my certificates Issued by
him is dated September 25, 1889.
Qeorge A. Peebles, a Salem teach
er, was Yoder's successor, as nearly
as I can remember. He worked for
a number of years in the Grant
building. A certificate during his
term Is dated March 28, 1890.
These and earlier certificates ex
pired in six months and fees of
3i0 were required for renewal. This
was so inconvenient and expensive
that I made application and took
examination for a two years' state
paper. This qualified the holder to
teach In any county of the state.
It Is dated August 27, 1892. The
state board of education who signed
this paper was Sylvester Pennoyer,
governor; George W. McBrlde, sec
retary of state, and E. B. McElroy,
state school superintendent.
When my two years' paper ex
pired 1 applied to the same board of
education for a six years' state cer
tificate. This gave me teaching ex
perience, and entitled me to use my
Willamette diploma for securing a
state life diploma. The state board
of education at that time was T. T.
Oeer, governor: P. J. Dunbar, secre
tary of slate, and J. H. Ackerman,
superintendent of schools. This di
ploma is dated September 9. 1901.
It was some degree of satisfaction
to be privileged to teach, without
the tiresome examination, in any of
the grades and high schools of the
state.
The longer I tauglit, the change In
text books became more frequent,
leaving behind the old blue-backed
Elementary Spelling book, Wtllson't
'UNDOWN'
THE RESCUE
By Mary Graham Bonner
Rip stumbled and fell
But as he fell he realized that he
had fallen against something rath
er soft. An even stronger smell of
burning tilled his nostrils the smell
of burning wool.
"Sweet Face I" gasped Rip.
A low, sad, mournful little wall
came to him.
"I thoughtI had gone," came
the timid, small, frightened voice of
the lamb,
"Rouse yourself!" cried Rip. "Take
hold of me and I'll lead you to
safety."
"I can't do "
Sweet Face was overcome again
as he had been before when Rip
was looking for him.
Rip dug his teeth Into a great
wad of wool at Sweet Face's neck,
and pulled and pulled and pulled.
"I dont know how I'll ever get
him out," thought Rip desperately
"Rip! Rip!" cried Willy Nllly.
who now wanted to rush into the
building. If Rip would not leave,
and If Rip still thought Sweet Face
was there, Willy Nllly was not going
to let him remain by himself.
"The building is going to col
lapse!" cried Quick-Dick. "Don't go
in there. Neigh, neigh, neigh. Rip!
Rip! Come out!"
"Don't come in, Willy Nllly!"
shouted Rip. "I'm coming out!" In
speaking Rip's throat became so
filled with smoke he thought ne
would choke.
He might and he might not escape
with Sweet Face who was too far
gone now to know what was going
on. But Willy .Nllly must not lose
his life too!
Tomorrow "Pulling To Safety"
V ovum
Contributions to this col
umn most be confined to 30
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To the Editor: In the Oregonlan
recently appeared an article which
states that if Roosevelt's pension
plan is instituted lntu law it will
benefit 87,332 persons over 65 years
of age in the state of Oregon. The
same article fails to mention that
under the Roosevelt pension plan it
does not purpose to pay the pensions
until 1042. What good is any law
which might be madi in 1935 and
pays no benefits until 1942 goln?
to do toward lilting our country oui
of the present depression? It's Im
mediate benefits the country needs
and must have, the Roosevelt pen
sion plan would accrue too late, and
it is anyway Inadequate.
The only pension plan that can
be adequate Is one that will start
paying this year, and It must be
large enough to compel all who sign
for it, to Immediately quit working
and give their jobs to workmen
younger than the pension eligible
age. Modern machinery has thrown
our country into a panic, from
which we will never emerge, until
our legislators become wise enough
to institute laws which will make
the machines support the entire po
pulation. An adequate pension plan
is the only law that can possibly lift
our country out of the predicament
into which we have sunk, and Judg
ing from the number of persons
now on relief, the pension law we
need should not be less than (100
per month and It should pay all per
sons over 55 years of age, and com
mence paying them this year.
This country has already spent
enough money in the wrong direc
tion in an attempt to lift the de
pression to have financed an ade
quate pension law for a score of
years In the future.
Respectfully R. D. TURPIN,
Mill City.
P.S, If you want my subscription
you will print this letter.
Continuation of
Relief Bill
From page One
breaking down the $4,000,000,000
work relief fund into eight general
types of projects with a provision
giving the president power to shift
twenty per cent of the total of any
project to any other project. This
would give the president an $800,
000.000 flexible fund.
The allocations were:
Highway, street, grade crossing,
S800.000.000.
Rural electrification $100,000,000.
Rural rehabilitation, and relief In
stricken agricultural areas, $500,
000.000. Housing, $450,000,000.
Projects for professional and cler
ical persons, $300,000,000.
Civilian conservation corps, $600,
000.000. Public projects of states or polltl-
and McGuffy's readers, Ray's and
Brooks' arithmetics. Some newer
and better texts were adopted, such
as Barnes' histories. Monteith's ge
ographies and a set of readers and
spellers called Pacific Coast series.
These readers had a literature of
pioneer and adventure setting, such
as Francis Bret Harte's "Dickens In
Camp." Joaquin Miller's "West
ward." and Samuel U Simpson's
"Beautiful Willamette, very suitable
for Oregon schools.
In our next we will show some
more peculiarities in text books.
1
cal subdivisions $900,000,000.
Sanitation, prevention of soil ero
sion, reforestation, forestatlon, flood
relief and miscellaneous projects,
$350,000,000.
The McCarran amendment was
lost through the parliamentary
practice that a tie vote defeats a
motion.
' Senator Glass ID., Va.), chairman
of the appropriations committee, in
announcing the long awaited break
on the measure, said:
"The bill has been ordered re
ported to the senate with all the
alterations previously made by the
committee with the exception that
the Tydlngs amendment on page
three, which raised so much hell on
the floor of the senate concerning
the question of feeding the strikers,
was stricken out with the under
standing it would be revised by
Senator Tydlngs (D., Md.), and oth
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Q. When was the Crystal Palace
fire in New York City? H.M.
A. The Crystal Palace building
was destroyed by fire October 5,
1B58.
Q. How hot must a coal be to be
red hot? E.F.R.
A. The phrase is popularly used
for temperature between 700 degrees
C. and 1000 degrees C. Above 1000
degrees C. it is called white hot.
Q. How long has Antioch college
operated on the part-study part
work plan? A.M.T.
A. It was instituted 15 years ago
and put In operation in 1021.
Q. What kind of an animal is
a burro? E.J.B.
A. The burro Is a diminutive ass
of the southwestern part of the
United States descended from the
donkeys of the Spanish conquerors.
Q. What is an empirical formula?
K.M.
A. It is a chemical formula ex
pressing merely the results of a
quantitative analysis.
Q. What Is the American Veter
ans' association? L.V.B.
A. It is a newly organized corpor
ation of about 1000 veterans who are
against payment of the soldiers' bo
nus. Q. How many Japanese are there
in California? R-M.
A. In 1930 the number of Japan
ese in California was 97,456.
Q. What forms of animal life are
found near the North and South
Poles? MR.
A. In the inner Arctic regions
there are several species of higher
animals, as for instance, the rein
deer and the musk ox. also the pol
ar hare and the lemming. Besides
these there are several predatory
animals and a number of lower
forms, such a$ land birds, beetles,
etc. In the Antarctic zone, lacking
vegetation, all higher land animals
are lacking. Of lower animals, be
sides some semi-microscopic ones,
only a wingless mosquito is known.
Q. What non-corrosive alloys can
be used for statuary instead of
bronze? W.E.R.
A. The national bureau of stand
ards says that one of the latest me
morials to be erected in Washing
ton, D. C the navy and marine
memorial Is made of aluminum al
loy. Aluminum alloys have also
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ers and offered on the floor."
The Tydlngs amendment would
have prevented the granting of re
lief work to those who recently quit
jobs. It was eliminated when the
measure was In the senate.
The committee also eliminated
from the preamble of the measur
three of the four purposes of the
bill.
It now merely provides "that In
order to provide relief and work re
lief there is hereby appropriated
out of any money In the treasury
not otherwise appropriated, to bi
used In the discretion and under tht
direction of the president, to be Im
mediately available and to remain
available until June 30, 1937, the
sum of t4,000,M0,000."
It also provides, however, for the
reappropriatlon of the $880,000,000
for direct relief.
Questions
been used abroad for similar pur
poses. Stainless steel has been used
for small statuary groups princi
pally to show that this use of stain
less steel is a practicable one. Lead
(preferably hardened with anti
mony) has been and still is used
widely for garden statuary. Its
softness as compared with bronze is
its principal drawback.
Q. What was the value of every
thing produced in the United States
in 1934? J.G.
A. Complete figures are not yet
compiled for 1034 but on the basis
of what is known so far it is indi
cated that the national income (tht
value of everything) was $60,000,
000,000. Q, When was Col. Charles Lind
bergh's father in Congress? C.B.T.
A. Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., wa
Representative from the State of
Minnesota from 1907 to 1917.
Q. Wtiat is included in the term,
the modern fairy talc? A.M.C.
A. The modern fairy tale is us
ually considered to have begun with
Hans Christian Anderson. It is
distinguished from the traditional
of folk tale in that Is is the known
creation of a modem author where
as the folk tale has come down to
us through the centuries by oral
transmission.
Q. How many copies of the New
England Primer were printed? M.S.
A. This was the most widely used
text book ever studied in this coun
try. It was in use for two hundred
years and more than three mil
lion copies were printed.
Now softly Puff opens the door bat
It SQUEAKS.
Puff's heart's In his throat, but h
cautiously peeks
And finds that the way to the out
side is clear
Unless there's some noise that the
kidnapers hear.
13. Past
18. Mother of
Helen of
Troy
22. Incomes
24. Part of a
curve
26. Cubic meters
28. Pacifies
30. Portent
32. Possesses
34. Vale
36. Brings Into
line
38. Soak up
39. Toward the
stern
40. Old itlece of
cloth
12. Crusted dishes
43. Composed of
selections
44. Tavern
45. Pedal d iff It
50. Self
52. Unwilling
54. Take out
56. Hocks
58. Pointed tools
5:, Ward off
60. Long narrow
piece
63. Remainder
(14. So he It
05. Breezy
67. Mountain (a
Alaska
69. Philippine
eavaga
71. Men's nntrtotl
orpan lo
tion; abbr.
73 While
DOWN
1. Pulpy fruits
2. In no way
3. Turkish title
4. Division of a
school year
B Precipitous
fi. Kxtol
7. Slow: musical
fi. Kptc poem
3. flardon plot
10. Short for a
mnn's nni
11,
Crente violent
disorder
Fieure carved
In stone or
othr hard
material