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Page Six SBFalNEWS o Thirteen Measures o New Hospital o Capitol Occupied By A. L. LINDBECK SALEM Thirteen measures will be on the state ballot next Novem ber. Four of the number are meas ures that were referred to the voters by the last legislature. Two others are enactments of the last session which have been referred by petition of the people. The other seven are initiative measures. Three of these made the grade during the closing hours of filing last Thursday. The list of initiative measures on which the voters will be expected to pass judgment follows: Stream Purification bill, creating state sanitary authority and commit' ting' state to a policy of stream purl fication; sponsored by Stream Puri fication League of Oregon. Anti-picketing and anti-boycott bill, defining labor disputes and reg ulating picketing and labor boycotts; sponsored by Associated Farmers of Oregon and other agricultural groups. Columbia River Fishing bill, pro hibiting the use of fixed fishing gear on the Columbia river; sponsored by Oregon Wildlife Council. Anti-liquor bill, regulating and re stricting sale of alcoholic liquors for beverage purposes; sponsored by Anti-Liquor League of Oregon and affiliated groups. Gambling bill, legalizing certain forms of lottery and gambling; sponsored by Frank B. Watson and a group of Oregon merchants. Townsend Recovery Plan bill, re quiring Oregon legislature to petition Congress to call national convention to sponsor a constitutional amend ment embodying principles and phil osophies of Townsend Recovery plan; sponsored by Glen C. Wade and others. Citizens' Retirement plan, provid ing for transactions tax of two per cent, proceeds to be pro rated among Oregon citizens 65 years of age or over upon condition that they cease gainful employment. Sponsored by Elbert Eastman, Portland. Constuction of a third state tuber culosis hospital to be' located in Multnomah county is now practically assured with word from Washington that the Public Works administration has approved a grant of $90,000,000 for the project. Location of a hospital in Multno mah county was authorized by the voters at a special election in May, 1934, but no money was available for the project until the last legislature appropriated $110,000 contingent up on a federal grant of $90,000 which has just been approved. Plans for the new institution which will consist of a hospital building with beds for 75 patients, have al ready been drafted and the Board of Control has announced its readi ness to award the contract as soon as details in connection with the fed eral grant have been completed. The State Planning Board spent nearly $236,000 in the 21 month per iod from July 1, 1936, to March 31, 1938, according to a report of the audit division of the State depart ment. Of this total, however, only $38,000 came out of state funds and a little more than $6,000 out of the several counties. The remainder was financed through federal funds. All three members of the State Board of Control Governor Charles H. Martin, State Treasurer Rufus C. Holman and Secretary of State Earl Snell were in The Dalles Saturday to help celebrate the opening of the new inland seaoort. Oregon's new $2,500,000 capitol is now fully occupied that is as fully as it will probably ever be except during legislative sessions. Secretary of State Snell started moving his office force into the new quarters last Wednesday and com pleted the transfer Friday. The State department, including the motor reg istration division, occupies the en tire basement and first floor of the east wing of the building. State Treasurer Holman also moved into the building last week as also did the State Land Board. Governor Martin deferred moving Heppner until this week as also did the State Purchasing department, including the Property Control division and the Budget department While all of the state officials con tinue to praise the beauty of the new structure a number of weaknesses in the more practical side of the building have already developed to dampen the enthusiasm of those quartered in the new capitoL For in stance while the designer was care ful to provide private shower baths, lavatories and elevators for some of the higher officials no cloak rooms were provided for the convenience if the small army of employees who do the work of the state. Janitors are also complaining that the build er skimped so much on their store rooms that there is barely room enough for their necessary equip ment. None of the doors in the treas ury department being large enough to admit an pffice safe, State Treas urer Holman found it necessary to import a safe moving crew from Portland to boost that heavy piece of equipment through one of his windows. The new building was treated to a shower bath Friday afternoon when a valve in one of the tanks connected with the air-cooling system stuck, allowing the tank to overflow and send a shower of water cascading down from the roof to the floor of the rotunda. No serious damage re sulted, however. Earl A. Fehl, former county judge of Jackson county, has appealed to the state supreme court for release from the state hospital for insane to which he was committed several months ago by Circuit Judge H. D. Norton. Attorneys for Fehl told the court that the entire proceeding leading up to his committment had been illegal. Oregon's automobile license plates for 1939 will consist of black figures and letters on a yellow background. This will be the first departure from the black and white combination in several years. Secretary of State Snell explains that the black and yellow combination makes for better visability, besides which it costs less money. Budgeting days are here again for state officials. Forms on which to list their anticipated financial needs for the next biennium were sent to all department, bureau and institu tion heads by Budget Director Wal lace this week. The forms, containing estimated needs and a tentative ap propriation request, must be return ed to the budget department by Sep tember 10, after which it will be subjected to careful scrutiny and possible pruning before it is includ ed in the biennial budget to be pre sented to the next legislature. PINE CITY NEWS Neills Attend River Celebration By BERNICE WATTENBURGER Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neill of Butter creek attended the celebration at The )alles Saturday. Mr. Neill is a county commissioner. Mrs. Mary Buseick and family are spending a few days at the A. E. Wattenburger home. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Finch and family and Burt Barnes spent Sat urday evening at the Clayton Ayers home. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Wattenburger and family and Mr. and Mrs. Clay ton Ayers and family spent Sunday evening at the H. E. Young home. OSC Honor Roll Shows 27 Perfect Records Oregon State College Twenty seven students at Oregon State col lege made perfect grades during the spring term, and 207 others were list ed on the honor roll as making 3.5, or almost perfect grades. Philip Ac kerman of Corvallis, as a senior in pharmacy, made the perfect list for the sixth time, while Ray Siegen thaler of Portland made it for the fifth time. Every school in the college except forestry was represented on the "straight A" or perfect list, engin eering and home economics leading with four each. Eleven of these per fect students were seniors, eight were sophomores, three were juniors, three freshmen and two graduates. Gazette Times, Heppner, o LOOKING o FORWARD By FRANKLYN WALTMAN, Publicity Director, Republican National Committee In his recent fireside chat Presi dent Roosevelt undertook to describe the attitude of the opposition to the New Deal on various questions. In doing so Mr. Roosevelt painted a false picture, attributing to those who oppose him attitudes not in ac cord with the record. , Only one of the President's points will be discussed here that relating to the issue of monopoly. He is just as vulnerable on his other points as he is on that, for where can the President find a record to sustain his contention that the organized op position to him has called for repeal of legislation providing old-age pen sions, unemployment insurance or regulation of security trading? Mr. Roosevelt said the school of thought opposing him proposed to "let monopolies thrive unchecked." Where is there evidence to prove that contention? Can it be found in the 1936 Republican platform? G. O. P. Renounces Monopoly No, it cannot, for that document denounced monopolies m ringing terms. Let me quote from the plat form: "A private monopoly is indefen sible and intolerable. It menaces and, if continued, will utterly destroy constitutional government and the liberty of the citizen. We favor the vigorous enforcement of the crimin al laws, as well as the civil laws, against monopolies and trusts and their officials, and we demand the enactment of such additional legis lation as is necessary to make it inv possible for private monopoly to exist in the United States. "We will employ the full powers of the Government to the end that monopoly shall be eliminated and that free enterprise shall be fully restored and maintained.' There is a clear cut, unequivocal declaration of principle, and it con stitutes the last word Republicans as a party have uttered on the subject of monopoly. But can the President point to evidence in the past history of the Republican party to indicate that this declaration constituted a thought of the eleventh hour? End of Robber Barons He cannot. It was a Republican Congress and a Republlican Presi dent who in 1890 gave this country its first anti-mnopoly legislation in the form of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Prior to 1890 there was no Fed eral legislation regulating industry and commerce. The Republicans act ed in that year to put an end to the era of the robber barons in business and they did. Moreover, Republican Administra tions undertook to enforce that law. The period of "trust busting" fol lowed its enactment under the Ad ministrations of McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and Taft. In that period the Standard Oil, American Sugar and American Tobacco trusts were laid low by action of the Federal Government. Meantime, between 1890 and 1914 the Federal Bureau of Corporations, established in 1903 under Theodore Roosevelt, continued the study of monopolies, trusts and restraint of trade problems studies which laid the foundation for the Federal Trade Commisssion and the Clayton Acts of 1914. Stone Hit Hard But it is not necessary to go so far back to demonstrate the Republicans have been vigilant against monop' olies. In the two years and five months of the Harding Administra tion 48 civil and criminal actions were instituted under the Federal anti-trust laws. In the Coolidge Ad' ministration the number totaled 82 with the then Attorney-General Harlan F. Stone, now of the Supreme Court, striking hard. In the four years of the Hoover Administration 25 actions were instituted More recently was it not Senators William E. Borah and Gerald P. Nye two Republicans, who battled against the monopolistic features of the N, R. A. and what that legislation was doing to the little business man? Contrast this record with that of Mr. Roosevelt in respect to monop lies. The N. R. A. was Mr. Roose velt's favorite piece of legislation it not only encouraged monopoly, it Oregon actually relaxed the anti-trust laws. It encouraged industry to do the very things for which Mr. Roosevelt and his ardent Solicitor-General now are denouncing them. When the Supreme Court set aside this act Mr. Roose velt unloosed a tirade against that tribunal which culminated in his abortive attempt to pack the high Court Roosevelt Aided Monopoly And was it not Mr. Roosevelt who signed the Robinson-Patman Act? Was it not Mr. Roosevelt who failed to veto the Tydings-Miller price- fixing rider? For four years Mr. Roosevelt encouraged monopolies and monopolistic practices as no pre vious President of this country ever has. The truth of the matter is that un til the New Deal fell into the pit of its own economic fallacies eight months ago, neither the President nor anyone else in the New Deal in a position to influence policies show ed any sympathy whatever for re stricting monopoly. All of which leads to the conclu sion that Mr. Roosevelt is far more interested in distracting public at' tention from the failure of his New Deal and his economic misdeeds than he is in breaking- up monopoly. Uniform Finance Told in U. 0. Report University of Oregon, Eugene, July 13 Uniformity of procedure for handling public funds by finance of' ficers of the state, in accordance with legislation, is now possible since methods and proper forms are con tained in a bulletin just issued by the Bureau of Municipal Research and Service of the University of Oregon. Following preparation by the bu reau staff, the bulletin and accom panying forms were thoroughly re viewed by representatives of the Oregon Finance Officers' associa tion. All have concurred in the pro cedure set forth in the report, Her' man Kehrli, director of the univer' sity bureau states. Some procedural irregularities have arisen in the past due to a dif ference in interpretation of legisla tion between banks and treasurers, Mr. Kehrli points out The report is expected to eliminate these irregu larities. Professional Directory GLENN Y. WELLS ATTORNEY AT LAW ATwater 4884 635 MEAD BUILDING 6th at Washington PORTLAND, OREGON A. D. McMurdo, M. D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Trained Bune Aisirtant Office In Masonic Building Heppner, Oregon Morrow County Abstract & Title Co. INC. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE TITLE INSURANCE Office in New Peters Building F. W. Turner & Co. FIXE, AUTO AND UFB INSURANCE Old Line Companies Beel Estate Heppner, Oregon Jos. J. 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