Monday, March 21, 1938
Four
The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon
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and also local news puousnea aercin.
"With or without of fens to friend or Joe
I sketch your world exactly a it goes.
The administration's reorganization bill on which the
senate is about to take final action is designed to center u
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nuini inn li uiiit wnwo " . -
prive congress of its constitutional powers. It gives the pres
ident the right to transfer, consolidate, abolish and establish
bureaus without consent of congress or obtaining ratification
of congress, it increases Dureaucracy ana me cum ui govern
ment and hence is not a measure of economy or efficiency, as
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The reorganization bill is a more vicious one than the
resident's court reform was ana is aesinea lor me name
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ends, to ennance tne executive power, me me cum . om 11.
oaanM in innrpnfln nntnrrafv and destrov democracy.
gives dictatorship powers to the president which, if not
abused by Mr. Roosevelt, opens the way for abuse by some
more unscrupulous successor. It would do for the nation what
Huey Long s legislation am lor Louisiana.
The administration is using all of its power and prestige
to pass the measure. It is using patronage and appropriations,
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threats ana reprisals anu preaaure puuuta iu iwce me ui
through. It has so far been successful by a small vote in de
featinc the Wheeler amendment, which would have required
congressional approval before any reorganization order could
become effective. It has succeeded in passing the section
abolishing the civil service commission, replacing the merit
system by the spoils system.
Today the senate votes on the proposal to abolish the of
fice of comptroller general the "watch-dog of the treasury"
who safeguards expenditures and reports to congress on il
legal expenditures. It transfers his duties to the director of
the budget where expenditure would be audited after the
money has been spent instead of before, too late to check il
legal expenditures, so the president will have autnority, witn.
out otiestion over the billions of national disbursements.
There is only one way to prevent the passage of this dan
gerous bill that is bound to react on everyone, and that is by
pressure from people back home on their congressmen be
fore it is too late. Citizens should wire members of the Oregon
delegation especially the senators at once.
As the late Clarence Darrow said:
Free governments and their constitutions are not prostrated at a blow
by the onslaught of tyranny. They are attacked Insidiously, one right Is
taken away under one preten.se, and another destroyed under another
pretense. . . . Some great benefit Is to be attained; life Is to be protected
free government la to be conserved; the common people are to be saved
from the heresies of fake doctrines. Those forces of reaction and despo
tism are aver skulking along the line of progress ready for any occasion
that may come that wUl warrant an attack In the name of the very prin
ciples under which humanity la marching.
Frederick Stimson, in 'The American Constitution,'
says:
The English people In a thousand yeara experience have found that
their liberties were never so really In danger as when they knew It least,
never so nearly lost as under kings they liked best. When a people Is
unanimous on most of the things we desire, we may carelessly adopt a
meant that seems to be a short cut though It be destruction In later times,
or In other hands, of government by the people Itself.
"It can't happen here" but it can, and the skids are be
ing greased for it by our most popular and plausible "king.1
The Price of Nenlerr
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to correct conditions existing and rapidly developing along
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ujicit-uii uiiiu, wiuiii umuin cue suuLlienscerii LiHre- Ol ine city
and a vast area beyond, is exposing the city to the threat of
uaiiiuxea ir in excess 01 tne coat 01 its snare in remeaying
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TlilA nrinninnllir in Vi a ifnntniflAn f - :,,A.a:nH J ,
...... ...v utow uvmuii vi a uMciniuii until at
the confluence of the two waterways just east of the peniten
tiary grounds, me ntayton power ditch (better known as
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of surface drainage from the vast flats and hills southeast of
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urn cuy mco me narrow soit-DaiiKeo sneuon Ultcn with, every
heavy rainstorm.
The resulting torrent is doing thousands of dollars of
damage to bridges and property along the ditch with each
freshet, notwithstanding the tons of rock that have been
dumped at vital places to protect the crumbling banks. In the
Mast three mnntha hanka nf tho ilnnn v,o,. ... i
back until the ditch is twice Its last year's width in places-
mo atuumiK ueuig at tne expense of abutting private
property.
One concrete bridge has been completely destroyed, and
the paved dirt approaches of another so badly scoured as to
necessitate ripping up the pavement to make temporary re
pairs. The piling supports of two timber bridges were so
weakened or washed out as to twice necessitate their closure
to traffic. Private buildings close to the crumbling baoks are
being undermined and numerous trees have been torn loose
to topple into the stream. The old city camp ground has been
practically ruined as a park site turned into a waste of bare
rock.
Full responsibility fr correcting these conditions does
not lie entirely with the city. The state and county are also in
volved or Interested. Rut the destruction and liability for
damages lies chiefly with the city, which should take the ag
gressive initiative to see that immediate steps are taken to
curb the threat of further destruction.
Young Will Argue
Against Utilities
Independence The chamber of
tommrrce will meet Tuesday even
ing at the Methodist church where
a dinner will be served by the Boos
ter's elub of the church. O. W. row
ler. new president-elect of the cham
ber, will be Inducted Into office, and
will read hit committers for the
tomlng year
Fred H. Young of Portland has
been Invited as a dinner guest for'
the evening and will apeak later In
tlie auditorium of the training
school building against the forma
tion of the seven-county utility dis
trict. He will represent what Is
termed as the "taxpayers aide" of
the Issue.
Lodge Plan Sanaa
Scotu Mills Butte lodge and Ivy
Rebrkah lodge have aet Saturday
evening, March 26. for a Joint father
and son, mother and daughter ban
quet.
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Sips for Supper
By Don Upjohn
Spring arrived last evening at
10:43. Pacific Standard time, ac
companied by the vernal equinox,
rain, snow, hail and temperature
getting down toward the freezing
point. Carrots, cabbage and other
spring bonnet decorations were
threatened with extinction, but are
expected to survive over Easter.
Spring poetry is omitted this
year as it Is hard to write while
the poet Is wearing mittens.
The state basketball tournament
also came to an end with Salem's
Novelties
In the News
(Br AMoeiatsd Prau)
Photo Finish
Erie, Pa Death snapped a photo
nnin ror Frederick Carter, high
school freshman and photograph
enthusiast.
He went to the railroad tracks
with schoolmate Lawrence Blesley
to take a head-on shot of an on
coming train.
The train rushed by and Plesler.
busy taking a aide view snapshot,
heard a scream. Carter had failed
to leap aside In time.
Late Decision
Fort Dodge, la. Peter Orell. 7J.
who married fifty years ago. Is
celebrating his golden wedding an
niversary thta year by asking for a
divorce. His suit charged his wife,
Susan, 72, with cruel and inhuman
treatment and desertion.
My, My, What Manners
Chicago Mel-Mel, baby giant
panda, made her debut before a re
cord crowd or 42,000 at the Brook
field loo, but went high hat.
After canting a disinterested look
upon her appreciative audience she
turned her back and became en
grossed In squirming through a
hollow log and playing with a baby
buggy and canvaa chair nailed to the
floor.
Mot So Good
Chicago William Burke started
In hot pursuit when he saw a young
man rapidly pushing the baby car
rtnge of his one-year-old son, Kevin,
down the street.
The youth had a good start, but
the baby buggy proved too much of
a handicap. He was brought down
with a flying tackle and turned
over to the police. His only expla
nation was that "the Idea seemed
a good one at the time."
chances likewise down around zero.
Ron Gemmell, sporting editor -of
the Statesman, who sat through
30 hours of basketball or there
abouts, suddenly remembered as the
tournament came to a close Sat
urday night that he had an en
gagement to go horseback riding
ounaay morning, witn spartan-like
courage he kept the date without
very many happy returns of the
oay.
A military conference scheduled
lor Washington, D. C, to outline
plans for mobilization In case any
unpleasantness should arise which
calls for action. It was stated In
connection with the announcement
that a mobilization could be had
within three or four months after
a declaration of war, but It seems
declarations of war are outmoded
and tha game Isn't played that way
any more. For Instance. Mr. Hitler
put up his Austrian bluff and made
it stick because he's been mobiliz
ing for several years before any de
claratlon of war.
Sergeant Farley Mogan of the
state police la reported by his bro
ther officers to be a model of sys
tematic neatness for his records.
According to them, he keeps his
records careiuuy tiled in his police
car and an Index of the file at home
so If he loses one he'll have the
other Intact Thia system also
flxea It so every time he wants
to find something in the file In his
car he has to run home to consult
tha Index. There's nothing like
having a place for everything and
everything in Its place.
(Exchange)
"My grandad, viewing earth's worn
cogs,
Said things were going to the docs:
his granddad In his house of logs.
said things were going to the dogs;
His grandad In the Flemish bogs,
Said things were going to the dogs;
bb granddad in his old skin togs.
Said things were going to the dogs:
There's one thing that I have to
state
The dogs have had a good long
wait,"
At any rate, no matter what
happens, Softball la Just around the
corner.
Schlador on Vacation
Sllverton J. Cal Schlador Is
spending a two weeks' vacation from
his work at his Sllverton home
Schlador la In federal employ, In
charge of telephone lines with head
quarters at the Triangle lake CCC
camp. Though of equal altitude
of the near-by Sllverton districts
where several feet of snow haa fal
len, Schlador reported no snow In
the Triangle section and the weath
er mild with many wUd flowers In
bloom.
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CROWDS SAW RtD kwtn me m a geod eaaat wheat
Danla, Fla.. staged Tomato Day festival duel, wltk (heat m.
(tanas getting aawayed a llvta ripe taaaal haa.
Washington, March 21. William
Green of A PL walked out of the
White House a few days back,
chuckling. He
announced only
that he expected
something might
be worked out
on the stalemat
ed wage -hour
bill.
l I What he did
lVJ not say was that
I Vl if H he had received
I A 1 ternu of com
ciklJ Prom'' from
vile pre tioini
which may give
him more than half a loaf of the
kind of a bill he wants instead of
the kind of a bill which the CIO
White Ho'ise combination has tried
unsuccesstully to get through.
No stenographic notes were taken
for future publication, but authori
ties with normal hearing facilities
report the dialogue went something
like this:
Mr. Roosevelt greeted Mr. Oreen
with an announcement that differ
ences of opinion over the form of
federal wage-hour action would
have to cease. The president asked
Mr. Oreen what he wanted. Mr.
Oreen recited the well known AFL
program, and then they got down
to business.
No Federal Board
When it was over they appeared
to have come around definitely to
a bill which may be as significant
for what it does not include as for
what it will contain. There will be
no federal board for one thing, no
wage differentials between various
sections for another. Instead there
will be a fist wage rate of soirie
thlng less than 40 cents an hour,
and a flat hour rate, the exact
amounts to be determined by nego
tiation. Enforcement will be left to
the department of Justice. Labor
will be authorized to report viola
tions. Basic idea Is the maximum hour
minimum wage figures will be cut
low enough so differentials will not
be demanded, and thus enough con
gressional votes may be rounded
up to reverse the action of the house
killing the earlier wage-hour bill.
To Handle Bill
The administration also Is sup
posed to have a neat plan for han
dling the bill in congress. The house
calendar will be cleaned up as far
aa possible so that only this one
piece of legislation will stand be
tweert the house and adjournment
for summer campaigning. Then Mr.
Roosevelt will turn on the adminis
tration Turkish bath system with
direct sweltering publicity pressure.
Administration strategists think
it will work, and It probably will.
A French mission has been confi
dentially flitting in and out among
government authorities here trying
to make arrangements to buy 300
American airplanes quickly. The
Frenchmen want delivery within 30
60 days, apparently intending to
send a bath to the Spanish loyal
ists, and keep others for themselves.
To Buy Airplanes
First, they tried American manu
facturers of pursuit and combat
types, but were told deliveries could
not be offered within a year. The
factories are overburdened with u
S. government orders. Some effort
then was made to get the coopera
tion of U. S. officials so the French
order could have priority but this
failed. The French will therefore
have to be satisfied with a few
bombers upon which they have been
promised early delivery.
Tha world is arming so fast that
airplane manufacturers of the ma
jor nations everywhere are unable
to keep up with the orders of their
own governments. Only the other
day. the opposition In British par
liament protested because the Brit
ish government let other nations
have a tew planea of a type they
did not need.
But what puzzled some U. S. of
ficials was why the French want
so many planes so fast. The Span
ish loyalist explanation did not
seem to cover the situation fully.
Bridges Case
Forthcoming deportation hearing
of Harry Bridges may be more diffi
cult for him than has been gener
ally supposed. The labor department
haa come Into possession of some
confidential information Indicating
Bridges Is officially a member of
the communist party and has a card.
This has somewhat tempered the
enthusiasm of labor Secretary Per
kins who had been led to believe
he was not.
Mr. Hull's exposition of foreign
policy was addressed ostensibly to
the National Press club, but really
to congress The point escaped
popular attention but the speech was
Tht Momirrj After Tiklrrg
Cjrttrs Little Liver Pills
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'MISUNDERSTOOD' NOT WAYWARD'
Is term Supt Byron D. Paddon prefers ta apply to youngsters at
Berkshire Industrial farm for bays at Canaan, N. Y., where voca
tional training la stressed as remedial measure. Above, "Inter
mediates" listen earnestly as Paul M. Williams conducts wood
working class.
Intended as a defense of the exist
ing Anglo-American "understand
ing," which was called traitorous In
the house a few days earlier.
Hull's Explanation
Hulls Indirect explanation was
that the two governmenta are ex
changing Information and confer
ring constantly concerning world
problems affecting them both with
the purpose of proceeding along par
allel lines. But he Indicated this
government Is "retaining at all times
Its Independence of Judgment and
freedom of action."
He put the Idea in a single sen
tence saying the momentous ques
tion today is "whether the doctrine
of force shall become enthroned
once more and bring .... interna
tional anarchy and a relapse Into
barbarism; or whether this and oth
er peaceful nations . . . shall work
unceasingly singly or In coopera
tion with each other, as circum
stances, their traditional policies
and practices, and their enlight
ened self-interest may dictate to
promote and preserve law, order
morality and Justice as the unshak
able basts of civilized international
relations.
This abstraction will not satisfy
Eugene Man Held
For Auto Crash
Dallas, Ore., March 21 Alfred
George Tebault of Eugene wa ar
rested by state police Saturday night,
charged with a violation of the mo
tor vehicle laws after he had been
involved In an accident about three
miles north of Rickreall on the West
Side highway. Mrs. Emily Snyder of
Aloha received shock, concussion and
head lacerations In the accident.
She was In a car driven by Henry
Lowry of Aloha, which collided with
the Tebault car. She was taken to
Dallas General hospital. Richard
Livingston, also in the Lowry car.
and Mr. Lowry received minor In
juries.
Tebault was released Sunday on
$500 bail bond and a date for hear
ing is to be set.
critical legislators, even though It
accurately presents the situation
What congressmen want is a state
ment naming names so it will con
stitute a promise not to go any
further.
Electricity a
Consumption
Tops Records
Electricity consumption m uregon
last year set an all-time record of
1,018,283.273 kilowatt hours, an 8.12
per cent increase over 1936. N. Q.
Wallace, public utilities commis
sioner, said today.
Revenues of electric companies
were $19212.901 last year, 7.56 per
cent more than In 1936.
Residential and rural consumers
used 13 8 per cent more electricity
but paid only 9.4 per cent more for
it, the difference reflecting rale
reductions during the year and the
increased use of energy In the
lower priced brackets of the rata
schedule.
The average residential consum
er used 1.300 kilowatt hours for
1937. compared with 1.166 in 1936.
He paid 2.83 cents a kilowatt last
year, and three cents In 1936.
Wallace said the average Oregon-
domestic consumer used 75 per cent
more electricity than the avernae
American consumer, but his average
rate was 70 per cent le.ss than the
average rate for the entire nation.
Commercial and industrial con
sumers increased their kilowatt hour
consumption 6.85 per cent, while
the amounts paid for the energy
increased at the same rate.
Wallace said the haziness recession
was responsible for the decrease In
industrial consumption during the
last three months of last year.
Reilings Entertain
With Dinner, Cards
Woodburn Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Relllng entertained at dinner Sat
urday evening at their country place
south of town in honor of the birth
day anniversary of Mrs. L. R. Gil
bert. Covers 'wore placed for Mr. and
Mrs. Gilbert. Mr. and Mrs. Prank t
Proctor, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Rell
lng. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gibbens, Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Irwin of Portland
and Mr. and Mrs. Relllng.
Three tables of cards wire in play
during the evening with prizes for
high score going to Mrs. W. E. Irwin
and Earl Gibbens and for low score
to Mrs. Frank Proctor and Norman
Relllng.
GONE! THE HIGH COST
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from stomach pains, indigestion, due
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weeks' treatment only $1.25. Relief
or your money back. J. C. Perry,
Druggist.
Tiis plan
may solve
YOUR
problem
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