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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
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
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