Capital journal., October 21, 1936, Page 4, Image 4

THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM OREGON
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 21,' 1936
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1 sketch your world exactly as it goes."
Back to the Old Bogeys
HavinK rambled all over the country sayinif one thinK
n the east and another in the west, denouncing in some
places New Deal measures that as governor of Kansas he
ardently championed and in others admitting their merit but
londemning their administration, Governor Landon swings
oack at Los Angeles to a defense of a constitution which is
not endangered and clamors for a return to "Americanism"
which he sees threatened, presumably because the racketeers
of privilege have been curbed without depriving any individ
ual of constitutional liberty.
Governor Landon is never specific, he confines himself
to generalities without committing himself to a definite pro
gram. At Des Moines he stated that "after four years in
power, the administration is still without a settled, workable,
national policy for agriculture." The answer is of course the
prices the farmer gets for his produce compared with what
he got when the president was inaugurated. And all the ad
ministrative farm policies originated in the national farm
groups and received their approval. They increased the cash
farm income from $4,337 millions in 1932, to $7,400 millions
in 1936.
.' In his Columbus speech, Mr. 'Landon said "the present
mess and muddle at Washington extends as much to conser
vation as it does to other matters under the New Deal. It
is my purpose to straighten out that confusion. I will insist
on the fullest cooperation with the states and will support
and advance the work of the national park service in protect
ing the beauty of the great outdoors." Yet during his four
years as governor he did nothing along this line, while Presi
dent Roosevelt has doubled the area of national forests, car
ried on an extensive program of improvement, introduced
soil erosion work and farm conservation, created bird and
gams preserves, and has done more for conservation than
any president since Theodore Roosevelt.
At St. Paul, Governor Landon denounced the reciprocal
trade treaties as "injurious to American citizens and offens
ive to American principles" and proposed a return to the old
log-rolling methods of tariff making that contributed so
largely to bringing on the depression by destroying foreign
commerce, which the new pacts are gradually restoring, as
. increased exports and imports show. '
At Milwaukee, Governor Landon described the Social
Security act as a 'fraud on the working man and a cruel
hoax." Yet It was enacted by an almost unanimous vote by
congress and is recognized as a legislative contribution of
permanent value in establishing social justice.
In his California speeches. Governor Landon has gone
back to Liberty League scare campaign, raising the old bogeys
of destruction of Americanism, originating in the fact that
the government has been taken over in behalf of all the peo
ple from the special pressure groups who were using it to
further their own ends which accounts for the trumped-up
alarm about communism, regimentation, collectivism and
scrapping of the constitution.
The republican nominee has gone through the campaign
without presenting a constructive program or standing for
anything except "turning the rascals out." Perhaps under the
compromise republican platform, definite only in its hymn
of hate, he feels justified, but that he has not measured up
to presidential statesmanship even his supporters admit.
As old "Crack-Down" Hugh Johnson puts it:
But Imagine Mr. Ijmdon In defeat. What Is he in the day of his
aarandancy? An amiable synthesis A creature of expediency. In the
eomplett Pauline sense, "all things to all men."
In the east he la a budget-balancer and a penny-ptneher. In the agri
cultural west he out-Herods Herod in spending from the public treasury
more prodigally than anything the New Deal dreamed.
He swallowed George Peek's "peekenomlcs, whole without taking the
trouble to have anybqdy check up on their benighted absurdity. His Is a
complete analogy to a vacant billboard owned by a great advertising com
pany at an advantageous location on country road ready and available to
receive and publish the great patent panacra of any person who has the
pelf and patronage to pay for It. what would such a man amount to In
defeat? In the poetic words of that inspired satirist on Gertrude Stein
and the neo-modermsts in poetiy:
"High heels In the ash-ran
Wldlh of 'A width of A ."
A discarded domino a set of false whiskers thrown In the garbage
at the end of a revel resting there among the grapefruit rinds and coffee
grounds.
Constructive McNary
Contrasted with the rainbow-chasing, vote-baiting vis
ions of his opponent, which could only result in greatly in
creased taxes for the people of Oregon and the nation as a
whole, it is refreshing to find Senator Charles L. McNary
adding to his already imposing record of constructive thought
in the interests of his constituency by advocating extension
of existing legislation whereby the federal government re
imburses the counties and state of Oregon for tax monies lost
on lands held by the government.
Addressing a conference of representatives of 16 Oregon
O-C land grant counties at Roseburg yesterday Senator Mc
Nary pledged himself to strive for the enactment of federal
legislation providing for payment by the government of tax
lieu money on all lands owned by the government.
What Senator McNary now proposes is but an extension
of the principle involved in the plan under which the govern
ment for several years has been reimbursing the 16 Oregon
rounties for taxes lost on revested Oregon-California rail
road grant lands out of the proceeds of the sale of timber
from those lands.
It was chiefly through the efforts of Senator McNary
that thp O-C rebates were secured on the theory that the
counties were being unjustly deprived of tax revenues on
lands held in trust for present and future generations of the
entire nation.
He now proposes that the federal government pay simi
lar rebates in lieu of taxes on government owned lands, even
where the land is acquired by purchase, extending the bene
fits now enjoyed by the O-C land grant counties lo practically
the ntir state.
Life's Little Dramas
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Landon and Icke
Exchange Thrusts on .
Charges of Socialism
(Continual from page 1)
ness to tret wind of it," Ickes said
"Mr. White unloldcd a plan by
which Kansas, as a state enterprise,
would build a pipe line to the nat
ural gas field;; in southwestern Kan
sas and market that natural gas in
competition with private industry.
"It also developed later that Gov
ernor Landon did not propose to
take the people of his state into his
confidence until It was too late for
Continuation of
Spaulding
-From Page 1
Bush of Salem.
Default on debt payments is said
to have resulted from a succession
of wn all looses from 1934 to 1929
culminating in a heavy loss in 1930,
large expenditures on renewals and
additions to the plant and invest
ments in the Spaulding Pulp fc
Paper company. Impairment of the
logging company's finances left it
in no position to witlistand the en
suing depression. Another cause
was purchase of outside timber in
stead of using the company's own
supply, forced on it to a large extent,
says a prospectus of the situation,
because of prohibitive high rales
for log shipment. These rates have
been in litigation with court orders
favorable to the company's conten
tions. The plan of reorganization In
cludes a loan of $3.'U).000 from the
RFC for payment of taxes, rehab
ilitation of camps, plants and
equipment, payment of current in
debtedness and the balance for op
erating expenses,
All indebtedness shall be subor
dinate to the RFC loan. Under the
amended plan in event the debtor
is forced Into voluntary liquidation,
the loan will be paid first, the bond
holders receive (100.000 as a prefer
ence. Unsecured creditors receive a
payment of 45'r In cah when the
plan becomes effective, the balance
payable over a period of two years
in installments.
Twenty days are given from the
date of the order approving the
amended plan for a.senting cre
ditors and stockholders who filed
acceptances to the original plan to
withdraw their arcepiaiues. Those
who have not withdrawn such ac
ceptances prior to November 9.
shall be deemed to have accepted
the plan.
Bridge Club Guest
Stayton Mrs. Earl Yoetvmn and
Mrs. Ernest Regtmbal were addi
tional guests when Mrs. Ernest Doss
ier entertained members of her
bridge club. High acore was held
by Mrs. Martin Oehlcn and low.
Mrs. Ernest Rrgimbal Club mem
bers Include Mrs. Vincent Merti.
Mis Eleanor Stewart. Mrs. A. M.
Dozler, Mrs. Gilbert Wourms, Mrs.
Ralph Scran ton. Mrs. Henry Ges-
cher. Mrs. Martin Oehlen and the
hostess. Mrs. Ernest Dozler.
them to block his ambitious plan
. . . The cost of Mr. Landon's little
pipe dream would be $35,000,000."
"How does it happen." Ickes
asked, "that the state socialist of
1935 Is the republican candidate lor
president in 1936 on a platform of
rncon trolled privre initiative? Is
it possible that the governor of
Kansas was willing to tear his prin
ciples from the shallow soil in
which they were rooted because of
the lure of the greatest office in the
world?"
Landon. in a statement Issued in
Los Angeles, said the gas negotia
tions were undertaken in a success
ful fight to obtain lower gas rates.
He said he favored "public owner
ship as a gun behind the door" in
adjusting rates.
The reason he asked Ickes to keep
the negotiations secret, he said, was
that if they had been made public
"the private gas interests' would
have pre-empted all the available
gas reserves and we would have
been out of luck.'
"But we were finally able to ob
tain the lower rates, with a large
saving to the gas consumers of Kan
sas, without resorting to the la.t
weapon that should be resorted to-
public ownership.' he added.
SHOP BUILDING FOR
NEWSENIOR HIGH
A shop building. 99 feet long. B9
feet wide and two stories high will
probably be built adjacent to the
new senior high school at 14th and
D streets, according to action taken
by the school directors. The struc
ture was made possible when an
additional PWA grant was allowed
some time ago. The new building will
be of concrete construction and will
house the agricultural shop and
classroom, auto and machine shops,
storage and wash rooms on the first
floor. The second floor will be de
voted to three class rooms, mechani
cal drawing, woodworking and fin
ishing shops.
Plans for the new building have
been submitted to Hoffman and
company for estimates of cost. This
roncern has the contract for the
high school.
Razing of the wooden Lincoln
building on South High is scheduled
for early next week as a WPA pro
ject. Material which is found suit
able will be salvaged and used in
connection with playground rest-
rooms.
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
RICHARDS WATCHES BALLOT
Lyons Mr. Richards of Albany
was the speaker at the Lyons Town
send club. He stressed especially
to watch closely the ballot if the
Townscnd plan is lo win
Turner Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Krn
dall of the Cottage Court motored
to Portland PYlday returning home
Sunday. They visited with Mrs.
Kendall's sister, a bo other relatives
and friends at Oregon City and Os
wego lake. Mrs, Kendall is Instruc
tor of the Turner Arts and Crafts
club.
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Washington, Oct. 21. There is a
popular notion that President Roose
velt, if re-elected, will ease- down
"-and swing to the
rignt. ine aosence
of promises in his
j campaign speech -fes
has encouraged
ihhat general be
lief. The president
has suggested
nothing new from
ihe stump except
a long range crop
insurance farm
program.
If you want a
PAUL MALLON tip on this from
the inside, read the Detroit speech
over again.
In it you will find such significant
hints as: "There are a thousand and
one things still to be done. . . . There
are many problems not yet solved.
... It is not enough that w-e have
ended the days of 1832. ... It is not
enough that we have saved many
homes and put thousands of people
to work. . . . The automobile indus
try and every other Industry still
need great improvements in their re
lationship to their employes. . . .
Certain steps looking toward that
end (spreading of the work) have
been taken, but they are not sufli
cient. . . ."
Mr- Roosevelt did not say what
would be sufficient. Nor did he men
tion any of the 1,001 things. The
simple truth is he has the purpose,
but not the program that is, not
yet.
Circumstances Presidents.!
in their first terms, usually live for
re-election. In their second terms,
they live for history. At least, they
are subject to these highly impor
tant considerations.
The few around Mr. Roosevelt
who really seem to understand him
know he has not been wholly im
mune to the usual requirement of
the first four years, and do not be
lieve he will be different from most
presidents In their second terms.
Consequently, they expect him to do
anything except swing to the right.
The program to carry out his purpose-,
they say. will be subject pri
marily to circumstances. The big
ger circumstance to be considered
is congress. It will be more con
servative and less amenable to
White House discipline. (The last
republican canvass is said to have
indicated a republican catn of 71 to
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84 house seats, which is probably too
high by 25 per cent or more, but,
nevertheless, an indication.) An
other circumstance is the supreme
court. The size of his majority, if
any, also may determine, to some
extent, how he chooses to move.
One thing is clear. He is getting
through the campaien without hea
vy promises and would have com
plete freedom of determination.
Enthusiasm Certain presidential
advisers were dismayed that the
president chose to say so much at
Detroit. Some of those phases were
not in the original drafts of the
pepch which h took with him on
FORGET SOMETHING?
the train. Thty say the enthusias
tic crowds he met along the way im
parted some of their enthusiasm to
him and he wrote in a few extra
paragraphs under the excitement of
the campaign traveling.
Animiu Some of thtse current
stories about changes to be expected
in the cabinet, if Mr. Roosevelt is
re-elected, come from a lofty author
ity; in fact, no lower than national
Democratic Chairman Parley. He
told some of his friends, off the rec
ord, who would probably be dropped
from the cabinet, and he mentioned
at least three names.
All it really means is that this is
what Mr. Parley would like to do.
He would have done it long ago if
he had been running the cabinet.
But It really does not mean the
changes will be made.
Wrecking Started
Aumsville What was one of
Aumsvllle's big business places
known as Hien's store and hall is
being wrecked. Before the automo
bile and paved road this was a gen
eral merchandise, ready-to-wear,
urocery and produce store. The hall
was used for clubs and amusements.
Stayton Harry Humphreys la on
a business trip to Boise. Idaho.
FRANKLIN T OfttFPITM
Portland Gemebal electric company
Electric Builoin
POftTLAND. orcoon
October 21, 1936.
To th Voters of Mwion Countyt
Neither the State nor Marion County can go into the business of di8
tributing electric energy without raising large sums for capital investment.
To supply transmission lines, distribution lines, transforming equipment and
standby servioe will require the investment of millions of dollars. This will
be true whether the existing lines and equipment of private companies are Ac
quired or new lines and equipment are constructed and purchased.
The proposed state measure and the district act provide for the issuance
sf State and District bonds to enable the State or the District to meJce such
capital investment. There is no other certain means by which the initial capital'
could be raised to enable the State or District to make these initial investments.
It is urged that revenue certificates secured by the revenues of operation
may be sold to raise money for initial plant investments but, in an experiment of
this kind, it is ertremely doubtful if any market can be found for the sale of
revenue certificates which are only secured by the revenue from a prospective plant
which has no record of operation and which will be subject to the waste of political
control and management.
The State measure provides that general obligations of the State for such
purposes may be issued upon a vote of the people to the extent of 2Ji of the
assessed valuation of the State, or in the amount of 18,000,000.00. The District
Act provides that Marion County, as a People's Utility District, may issue, upon a
vote of the people, general obligation bonds for said purposes to the extent of
10?. of the assessed valuation of the District. In other words, the passage of th
two pending measures would subject every piece of property in Marion County to
possible mortgage of 12 of the assessed valuation thereof.
The irrigation districts and the port districts of Oregon are good examples
of the honest enthusiasm of the promoters of those municipalities. Today we find
that many of the irrigation districts are bankrupt, with bonds defaulted, and both
port and irrigation districts are saddled with an indebtedness for the interest and
principal of said bonds which can only be paid by direct taxation of the rident
of those districts.
Onlees we put the brakes on this bond and tax orgy, Uva answer will be
found in the bankruptcy of our smnicipal communities.
(raid Adv.)
In ny letter next week 1 will discuss immioipal ownership.
Very truly yours.
President