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The increase from 23 to 33 i5\ the
number of pictures used daily by the
average metropolitan newspaper dur­
ing the past six years suggests that
people from Missouri are not the
only ones who have to be shown, says
the Christian Science Monitor.
John W. I^onhardt, of La Grande,
democratic candidate for state su­
perintendent of public instruction,
who was defeated at the general elec­
tion by Chas. A. Howard, is again
seeking the democratic nomination
for the same office this year. He is
43 years of age and has been an
Slowly but surely the political pic­
ture as it will present itself to the
voters of Oregon in the forthcoming
primary campaign is taking shape.
Speculations are materializing into
realities. Issues are being formed.
With lees than two weeks remaining
in which to file there was a- noticeable
spurt in formal declarations on the
part of aspiring candidates during
the past week.
Speculations as to the political in­
tentions of State Treasurer Rufus C.
Holman were definitely set at rest
with the announcement by Holman
that he would seek the republican
nomination for United States sena­
tor. Holman’s announcement is ex­
pected to put a crimp in the plans
of a number of other ambitious re­
publicans who had been looking with
longing eyes at the senate seat and
waiting only for the call to service
from the multitude before taking the
plunge. No man in Oregon is better
known throughout the state than
Holman who is now serving his sec­
ond term as state treasurer and mem­
ber of the Board of Control and no re­
publican is better able to weld to­
gether the various factions in that
party’s badly shattered organization
TRUC
NEW 1938
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unprecedented demand of the last several weeks«
Willis Mahoney,*of Klamath Falls,
There is "a "feUo^hTportland, Wal­ also took the public into his confi­
ter LLuhnow is his name, who is dence this week with the announce­
circularizing the press with attacks on ment that he, too, would Seek the
Gov. Martin. No, he does not call senatorship. Mahoney, however, is
him by name, but his references to out after the democratic nomination.
the inability of a man of 70 to proper­ The announcement sets at rest spec­
ly act as governor of Oregon can only ulation to the effect that he might
aspire to the governorship although
refer to Chas. H. Martin.
Whoever is paying this bird to get those “ in the know” have been con­
out his stuff should save his money vinced for several weeks that Ma­
for Gov. Martin has given the most honey would rather go to Washing­
efficient administration of anyone ton than to sit in the seat of the
who has sat in the gubernatorial chair mighty at Salem.
in Oregon for the past- quarter of a
Hall 8. Lusk, who was appointed
century. And that is from the time by Governor Martin to fill the va­
when Os West and Ben Olcott were cancy on the supreme bench caused
by the death of Justice J. U. Camp­
running affairs in Salem.
bell, this week filed his formal de­
WHY THE CONSTITUTION’
claration as a candidate to succeed
Something over eight months ago, himself. Justice Lusk before his ap­
- a German etttren, TheRewrefid Mar- pointment to the supreme court, was
tin Niemodller, an outstanding anti­ for a number of years a circuit judge
Nazi Protestant pastor, was arrested in Multnomah county. On the heels
in Berlin because of his outspoken of Lusk's filing came the announce­
opposition to the
dictatorship of ment from a close friend of Attorney
Adolph Hitler.
General I. H. Van Winkle that he
Later he was found guilty of the would oppose Lusk for election to the
"crime” of having discussed and criti­ high court.
Van Winkle, who is
cized government measures from the now completing his eighteenth year
pulpit- He was sentenced to seven as attorney general, refuses to com­
months in prison and a substantial ment on his poltical intentions but
z fine. Because he had been in prison it is expected that he will issue a
for a longer period awaiting trial statement within a few days.
than that to which he was sentenced,
he was set free. But—he was imme­
Secretary of State Snell may or
diately arrested by Secret Police and may not be a good poker player but
without trial was sent to a prison con­ at least he now knows what a full
centration camp.
house looks like. Snell hails from the
All too often we take our own Con­ little city of Arlington on the upper
stitution and the rights it gives us reaches of the Columbia river. Last
too lightly.
week the Arlington basketball team
In contrast to Germany, the was nosed but of a chance to repre­
Reverend Nlemoeller under the pro­ sent its district in the state tourna­
tection of the American Constitution ment at Salem by a very narrow
would in the first place never have margin. Snell felt so badly over the
been arrested for criticising the gov­ disappointment experienced by the
ernment or its acts; he would not Arlington boys that he took his tele­
have been held for eight months phone in hand, called up the old home
awaiting trial and then upon his re­ town and invited the basketeeers, or
lease could not be arrested and sent as many of them as cared about it,
away to a prison camp without trial. to come to Salem for the duration of
All because such things are forbidden the tournament as his guests. The
by our Constitution.
next day the squad arrived, all nine
Truly, we take too lightly this doc­ of them, accompanied by their coach,
ument which guards our every right Vernon Barrett. Snell admits the
as Americans.
team made quite a houseful but in­
sists that a good time was had by all,
including the cook.
Cabell Reappointed
Highway Commissioner
money will be taken up by the state
this year. It is hoped that state funds
will enable Oregon to take up an­
other $3,000,000 of the federal aid
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Included in the federal funds allo­
cated to Oregon, however, will be
$1,254,044 of forest highway money
and $400,000 for forest roads and
trails, none of which is dependent
upon state match money.
Further legislative action may be
required before the state can acquire
an office building in Portland. At­
torney General Van Winkle in an
opinion to the Board of Control has
held that none of the rentals collect­
ed from departments housed in such
a building would be available for
operating expense under the pres­
ent law. In other words if a deal
should be made for a building all ot
the rentals would have to go toward
paying off the debt. There would,
therefore, be no money available for
heat, light, janitor and elevator ser­
vice.
Members of the board are
known to be seriously considering
the advisability of throwing the of­
fice building problem right back into
the lap of the lawmakers when they
meet again next January.
The storm of last week did ap­
proximately $50,000 damage to high­
ways in the coast counties, according
to R. H. Baldock, state highway en­
gineer. Slides and washouts dam­
aged the Roseburg-Coquille high­
way, the Umpqua highway and the
Oregon Coast highway between Co­
pital in Portland last week, had been
quille and Florence, Baldock said.
a member of the adjutant general’s
Governor Martin does not intend staff jn Salem ever since his return
to enter into any debate with Henry from th« World War in 1918. “Joe”
Oleen or any other candidate, he has as he was familiarly known to his
let it be known. Oleen also a candi­ thousands of friends in the guard ov­
date for the democratic nomination er the state had served in that or­
for governor, has challenged the gov­ ganization for 27 years, receiving his
ernor to appear on the public plat­ 25-year medal two years ago. In that
form with him to defend his record time he rose from the ranks to the
position of Lieutenant colonel.
as the state’s chief executive.
Henry C. Cabell—His reappoint­
ment as highway commissioner is
gratifying indeed. He is in the line
of distinguished citizens who have
given so devotedly of their time to
serve our state without compensation
or expense allowance In designing,
constructing and maintaining our
highway system. The roll is a roll
of honor indeed—Simon Benson,
John B. Yeon, Robert A. Booth, J. C.
Ainsworth, Henry B. Van Duzer,
Leslie Scott and their associates—and
Cabell's prestige and service have up­
held the tradition. Our state high­
way administration has been kept out
of pditics and has retained public1
confidence because of that fact and
the quality of its record. We are]
grateful to Governor Martin for his!
More than $2,000,000 in federal
original selection of Cabell, for the road funds may be loot to Oregon
loyalty with which he has supported next year because of inability of the
the commission's polities and for hÿ state to provide match money, ac­
having induced his appointee to ac­ cording to R. H. Baldock, state high­
cept another term. Oregon indeed way engineer.
can be proud of its state highway ad­
Of the $238,000,000 in federal road
ministration from its beginning un­ funds set aside for 1939, $4,842,984
der Governor West and Withycombe will be available to Oregon. Of this
right on through the perils of Pierce latter amount $3,188,000 is available
and of legislative raids fomented by only on condition that the state match
spoilsmen who would seise its pa­ it with $2,745,000 of its own money.
tronage and contracts or divert its Because of inabiity to provide this
revenues.—Thé Oregon Voter.
match money only $500,000 of this
f Vea£e/L
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A st|te subsidy ot $10 for each
child on the school census rolls is
provided tor in a proposed constitu­
tional amendment which will be
placed before the voters of Oregon
next November. A portion of the
subsidy would come from interest
earnings of the irreducible school
fund. The remainder would be a
direct appropriation from the gener­
al fund. Based upon the 1837 school
census and the allocation of irreduci­
ble school fund interest for last year
the measure would require an an­
nual appropriation of more -than
$2,500,00 to be distributed among
the various counties for support of
grade and high schools. No provi-
sion is made in the measure for
raising the additional revenue, spon­
sors of the measure declaring that to
be a problem for the legislature to
settle The proposed amendment is
being sponsored by the Parent-
Teacher Council, the American Le-
gion and Legion Auxiliary and the
State Federation of Women's clubs.
Agricultural groups and organized la­
bor are also said to be favorable to
the program.
Of the seven persons who lost their
lives as a result of traffic accidents
during February six were pedes­
trians, according to records compiled
by Secretary of State Snell.
The
ages of these six pedestrians ranged
from 65 years to 83 years and all of
them met their deaths in accidents
occuring after dark.
Approximately 30,000 claims for
unemployment compensation insur­
ance have been approved to date, ac­
cording to D. A. Bulmore, adminis­
trator for the Oregon Unemployment
Compensation commission..
New Laws Make Little
Change in Fann Benefits
While laws passed recently by con­
gress will make some changes in the
Agricultural Conservation program
in Coos county, they do not affect the
general principles of agricultural con­
servation, according to Willis Boegli,
representative of the state agricul­
tural conservation committee, when
he met with the Coos county com­
mittee and county agent recently.
According to the estimate of the
county committee the total benefit
payments which will be made to farm
operators in the county will be about
the same as if the changes were not
made. The tendency will be to in- |
crease the payments on small farms
and decrease them on larger farms. ■
The operator of each farm included
in the Agricultural Conservation
program will receive notice through
the county office, in the near future,
whtch will give the total allowance
for his farm and the practices which
may be carried out to earn this allow­
ance, according to W. E. Cross, chair­
man of the county committee.
Calling cards. SO for gl.00.
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Army Day Proclaimed
Governor Charles H. Martin has
issued the following Army Day
proclamation:
“Wednesday, April 6, has been
proclaimed by the President of the
United States Franklin Delano Roose­
velt as Army Day to the end that we
may observe the entry of the United
States into the World War by turning
our attention to the value of the army
as one of the mainstays of the nation­
al defense.
As throughout the nation, obser­
vance of the day in Oregon is spon­
sored by the Military Order of the
World War to the end that the im­
portance ot preparedness as the best
means for preservation of peace may
be emphasized. The day is not one
to be observed in a warlike manner
but to demonstrate anew the fact that
we Americans desire peace most of
all, but not peace at the expense or
sacrifice of the principles we hold to
be fundamental those of our people.
I therefore urge the citizens of Ore­
gon to observe Army Day in this
spiiii and to co-operate by displaying
the United States flag at their homes
and places of business.”
to N. Y: Times.
Casumuniam Old Staff
(Here's what they thought of it the
year the Pilgrims landed).
What is a Communist?
One who
has yearnings
For equal division of unequal earn­
ing»;
Idler or bungler, or both, he is
willing
To fork out his copper and pocket
your shilling.
—From the Com Law
Rhymester of 1820
Complete assortment of Easter
bunnies and toys at Norton's. Buy
the children one and make them hap­
py at Easter.
IIo Hum
Travel the
The other day an invalid friend of
mine expressed the wish that she
might go out somewhere In the bright
sunshine.
Her charwoman, over­
hearing the remark, spoke up: “My
husband could take us. He's on re­
lief now and we have a car.”—Letter
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