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Southern Oreguti Newa R e v ie w .Yahland. Oregon Southern Oregon News Review Aabland, Oregon 38 East M ain Street ■ntered as aecond claae m ail m atter in the post office at Ash land. Oregon, Feb ru ary IS, 1938, under the act of Congress of M arch 3. 1879 MR. and M R S J. L O G A N W H IT E J. Logan W hite •ai Fatua P ublishers M anaging E ditor (I ATIOM T hursday, Decem ber 8, 1949 A GOOD TIP City was com pensated for by and just on the busts of right, for arb itrato rs, and the defense iny salary, nevertheless my and should be authorized, or of a probable injunction suit. In any event, and in all fair representation of the Council the issues involved should be w ould full under the sam e cat plueed on u purely legal basis, ness, I ask thut bills on both egory us the representation of und subm itted to the C ircuit sides be given the sunn* tre a t the M ayor by opposing coun C ourt by the City as a proceed ment. If the M ayor hud a rig h t sel. In o th er words, the m em ing for a d eclaratory Judgm ent to em ploy cousel w ithout a u th bers of the C ouncil hud the and instruction from the Court orization by the city govern sam e pow er to em ploy coun as to th w h ether .paym ent is m ent, then the councilm en, as individual officers, had the sam e sel to be puid for by the City proper or not as did th e M ayor it is to be As I understand, paym ent right Sincerely, recalled th at 1 rep resen ted the w ithout suit w ould very possib WM M BRIGGS City, and also the individual ly be enjoined Paym ent o rd er m em bers of the Council ed by the court could not he It is possible thut some new enjoined. and D eterm ination by the court m em bers of the Council forget that the real issues in the suit w ould involve no expense other R O O M IN O HOUSE than the puym ent of a $13 60 w ere th e following: We Shave and Rest You (1) Could the M ayor force the filing fee in C ircuit C ourt De C ouncil to confirm his ap term ination by a r b i t r a t o r s 243 Fourth Street Phone 4411 pointm ents? It was answ ered would involve a double* expense, that the M ayor did not have this pow er. (2) W ere the councilm en c a p ri cious and derelict in their duty in refusing to confirm appointm ents m ade by the M ayor’ The court stated that this wus a m atter in the pow er of the Council, a legislative function, and could not be questioned. (3) Could the M ayor m ake sug gestions for an indefinite p er iod, am ounting to rem o v al’ The court answ ered no, he could not. In o th e r words, the only iss ues w orth fighting over w ere decided in favor of the council- men, and serve as a guide to all fu tu re relationships betw een the M ayor and Council A m inor issue, and w hat had becom e a moot question, as to w hether the ordinance re q u ir ing a hearing on suspension by 1 the C ouncil was valid, was de cided in fav o r of the M ayor Thus it can be seen th at all m ajor issues w ere decided in favor of the Council I know, as well as the C oun cil, th at if these bills a re allo w ed, paym ent thereof will prob ably have to be budgeted for the next fiscal year, and includ ed in the budget. I am w illing COR*®V to accede to any a rra n g e m e n t for paym ent th at is agreeable to foremost ex- v / ashiî Messrs. L om bard and S k erry . a ti° n S « i IS A t o d a y M n c v i ^ > the na< Now as to the reasonableness R oadside U b A i &nd girl of the bills on both sides. T here *'■ . -Truman. \ right to ert on R' can be ne questipn as to th a t I pcU ov/ f ««?."•. I ,boot know th a t opposing counsel's H e s®*1 bill is m uch less than w ould „ h o u lö J norm ally be charged in a law th e co«' suit. I know th a t my bill does new »® * House Presá,\ vuls and I not half com pensate my office d o It. for the tim e, w orry and energy 1 we°t involved. T here a re only two proper m ethods for consideration of can hre h V,. nos s the e e ' undeih' A these bills. E ither they a re fair pres'01 1 me ivory. - 1 rctary day’s dena. V" | Mirror Barber Shoo PLUS TAX! The Saturday Evening Post recently ran an amus ing cartoon in which a woman, with a look of joyful anticipation, is reading an advertisement offering some article she wants at a sale price. Directly beneath it is a second picture, showing her with a look of anger and disappointment as she reads the words “Plus tax.’’ This is an excellent commentary of those war-time excise taxes with which the country is still plagued. They apply to cosmetics, luggage, fur coats, and a long list of other commodities. Similar taxes also apply to transportation tickets. Few opposed them in war-time when it was necessary to curb production and use of everything except the bare essentials, and it was also necssary to raise incredible sums of money for the government and to reduce purchasing power. But the Attorney Fees Asked By Briggs last shade of justification for them has gone now. In a lette r to the A shland city ance C om m ittee for study and Spokesmen for retailing, who know what they are council and M ayor recently. W. report. talking about from experience, say these taxes are a M. Briggs, of the local law firm . It is tru e that the ordinance Briggs & Briggs, advised that, definite deterrent to sales of the affected items, and I ’ as providing for the salary for City legal counsel for the City of thus they reduce employment, the tax revenue govern Ashland vs. M ayor W illiams, he A ttorney is designated to cover rep resen tatio n of the City in all ment would get from increasd factory output, and are i would expect his bill subm itted m atters, but, of course, it was in said suit to receive the sam e a drag on the whole economy. Many people could buy consideration as the bill subm it contem plated th at this was to cover all routine m atters, and some item at the going retail price when they can’t ted by counsel of the M ayor no co n tract of this kind is, in afford to buy it after the government tacks on an ad The letter, wihch is self-ex- fairness o r m orality, deem ed to planaory. follows: ditional 20 per cent. cover unforseen and unusual N ovem ber 17, 1949 services not contem plated by the There was hope that these taxes would be To the H onorable repealed at the last session of Congress. That hope Common Council M ayor and parties. I base my right to com pensat failed to materialize. It’s up to the Congress that will Ashland. Oregon ion for this su it on the follow ing G entlem en: convene in January. grounds: Inasm uch as the question of (a) I was inform ed by every —o— paying a tto rn ey 's fees in con m em ber of the C ouncil th at if STILL ALIVE nection w ith the declarato ry suit paym ent was m ade to counsel As is to be expected, the advocates of the welfare of the Council and City of Ash for the M ayor, th at paym ent land vs M ayor W illiam s is now I w ould be m ade to me, which state are gleefully declaiming that the recent off-year being considered, I respectfully w ould bind the City to the elections amounted to great victories for their cause. ask th a t the bill subm itted by sam e e x te n t as any agreem ent However even a quick analysis of the results present me in connection w ith said suit m ade by the M ayor w ith his receive the sam e consideration counsel; a very different kind of picture. as the bill subm itted by counsel (b) The bill subm itted is reas The outcome in New York is most often cited. Mr. for the M ayor. onable: Lehman’s win is heralded is a blanket endorsement As I recall, the bills for both (c) If it should be determ ined th at my representation of the of the Administration’s social security program. But sides w ere re fe rre d to the Fin- the fact is that Mr. Lehman opposed at least two of - the planks in that program — the Brannan farm plan and socialized medicine. Moreover, though he is one THE HOME OF of the best vote-getters in New York history and was running against a man new’ to politics, he won by less SURGE MILKER SUPPLIES than 200,000 votes in an election in w hich nearly 5,000,- IN ASHLAND 000 votes wrere cast. In California there was a clear-cut issue, over a year-old pension law which represented “Social wel fare” in extremis. The voters repealed it. And in New Jersey a governor of comparatively conservative views was reelected. THE IDEAL FUEL FOR FIREPLACES, The President will make every effort to force his , TRASH BURNERS and HEATERS program through the next Congress. He is entitled to do that. At the same time, those Congressmen who GLASSWEAVE WINDOW FABRICS hold other views need not fear that honest opposition to a welfare state based on the British model will mean political suicide. The American people have not shown, PURINA FEEDS MT. SHASTA FEEDS at the ballot box, that they want a dictatorial govern ment which will do everything for everybody — and, necessarily, take most of our earnings to pay for it. And they have not shown that old ideas of individual initiative and self-reliance, coupled with local res ponsibility for local problems, have been abandoned. The American spirit is still very much alive. —o— HIWAY 66 PHONE: 8511 THE FIRST STEP Lenin once said, in effect, that socialized medicine Free Parking Free Delivery must be one of the first steps in establishing the socialized state. His vision has been born out. In England, for ex ample, state socialism began with the passage of com pulsory health insurance in 1911. Today most basic British enterprise is socialized and practically all the rest is regimented to the point where it might as well be. I t’s logical that government control over a nation’s health services should be the starting point for event ual wholesale socialization. The government’s authori CL zt RANGELV E N O U G H , T H E T O R P E D O ty is felt directly in every home, and by every individu F I S H IS A f l o a t i n g e t - e c T R - i c » A T T e e V . I T SECURES IT S F O O D B V al. The people become accustomed to looking to govern e l e c t r o c u t in g it from t h e s h o c k O F A B A TTSR V LOCATED O N B A C H ment for assistance — and, incidentally, to paying the L S tD E O ~ ~ S H E A D - heavy costs through taxes of one kind or another. Insidiously, almost unnoticeably, individual indepen dence and self-reliance are broken down. 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