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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
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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
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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
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. -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
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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" |
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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
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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
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of the best vote-getters in New York history and was
running against a man new’ to politics, he won by less
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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
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program through the next Congress. He is entitled to
do that. At the same time, those Congressmen who
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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,
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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.
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THE FIRST STEP
Lenin once said, in effect, that socialized medicine
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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
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ty is felt directly in every home, and by every individu
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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
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ment for assistance — and, incidentally, to paying the
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heavy costs through taxes of one kind or another.
Insidiously, almost unnoticeably, individual indepen
dence and self-reliance are broken down.
In this country, those who urge compulsory gov
ernment health insurance are also zealous partisans of
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all sorts of reforms and cradle-to-the-grave social se
curity measurers. Their program, in all its essential
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principals, is a blueprint of England’s. It is the sort of
program which has destroyed the liberties of the
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sistence level. It is a program which must inevitably
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make government the master and the rest of us the
servants.
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The fight against socialized or political medicine
is an important part of the fight to save the ideals of
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