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Page Six STATE CAPITAL NEWS Martin's Move o Veterans' Home o New Capitol Offices By A. L. LINDBECK SALEM What part will Governor Martin play in the forthcoming cam paign? That is a question which leaders in both political parties would very much ilke to have answered, for, de spite his recent defeat in the Demo cratic primaries the governor is rec ognized as a vey influential factor in Oregon politics if he wants to exert that influence-r-with a large personal following awaiting his nod before definitely allying themselves with either of the contending candi dates. Three courses are open to the governor: . He can, as the nominal head of the democratic party in the state, come out with an endorsement of the candidates selected by his party, ' urging the voters to forget the bit terness of the primary campaign in the interest of a united front in sup port of the ticket. That, of course, is what the Demcratic leaders are hop ing he will do but which the Repub lican leaders are just as fervently hoping he will not do. Assuming that the governor is not willing to forget and forgive but that on the other hand he prefers to re member the treatment he received at the hands of his partisans and particularly the kick in the pants ad ministered by Secretary Ickes and other national leaders to which, in large part, he attributes his defeat, there is a second course open to him. That course involves a public en dorsement of the Republican nom iness, an action which could be de pended upon to carry with it thous ands of conservative Democrats into the Republican camp for the dura tion of the fall campaign. The third course open to the gov ernor is one of strict neutrality. This is the course which most informed political observers now believe that the governor will take. That instead of meddling in the affairs of either party he will elect to sit silently in his tent and watch the political battle from afar, giving aid to neither side, nor so much as indicating to his fol lowers with which faction his sym pathies lie. Two incidents of the past week have demonstrated very clearly that the governor is not ready to forget his treatment at the hands of Demo cratic leaders in the recent cam paign. Both of these incidents in volved public rejections of peace ov ertures tendered by these national leaders of his party. One was an in vitation to join President Roosevelt's party in California. The other was an invitation to break the fast with Postmaster General Jim Farley in Portland. Both rejections bore the "sincere regrets" of the governor and both gave "press of public bus iness" as the excuse for not accept ing, but it does not take a profes sional seer to read between the lines a meaning far deeper than this su perficial alibi. Friends close to the governor have let it be known that he is fed up with politics. Untrained in the wiles of the politicial, unwilling to accept the standards that make for success in politics and disgusted with the hypocracy and demagoguery that characterize the "game," all that he wants of those who pull the strings that make the puppets jump is to be left strictly alone to complete his term of office without further inter ference and then to be allowed to retire to a quiet private life to the enjoyment of the numerous honors that have come to him through more than half a century of public ser vice. Seven women were among the 100 law school graduates who took the bar examination here this week. Sixty-one of the applicants for ad mission to the Oregon bar are resi dents of Portland, 17 are from Sa lem, six from Eugene and 16 from various other Oregon communities. Fourteen law schools were repre sented among the applicants includ ing the University of London, Eng land. Resolutions adopted by the Veter Heppner ans of Foreign Wars at their annual encampment here this week call up on the legislature to establish and maintain a State Home for the care of aged needy veterans. The action is reminder of the fact that up until May 8, 1933, Oregon maintained such an institution at Roseburg where veterans were be ing cared for at a cost to the state of approximately $50,000 a year. At that time the Federal govern ment took over the institution with the understanding that it would es tablish a National Home on the site where Oregon veterans would con tinue to receive as good, if not bet ter, care than the state had been able to provide. Only recently the federal government has converted the Roseburg institution into a hos pital for the treatment of mental cases and veterans complain that no provision has been made for the care of aged veterans in need of a home. State Treasure Holman has a per fectly good office safe which he is willing to trade for a smaller one. The safe, which has done duty in the treasury department for many years, is to big for the new capitol. No door into the treasury department will admit the heavy piece of office equipment and careful measurments have revealed that it will not even go through a window as had been planned. Although Holman's depart ment is equipped with the very lat est in modern, fire-proof, burglar proof vaults, insurance companies still insist that the state's millions in securities must be stored in a fire proof safe to be installed inside the fire-proof vault. Just one of those things, Holman says, which bear no explaining. Earl H. Fehl, former county judge of Jackson county, lost his appeal to the supreme court The state's high tribunal has ruled that his committ ment to the hospital for insane was entirely regular. His ultimate re lease, according to the court, will be up to the superintendent of the in stitution. All of the state departments as signed to space in the new capitol are now at home in their new quar ters. The first floor contains the State and Treasury departments, the Budget department, Board of Con trol and Purchasing departments and the State Land Board. The exec utive department occupies a suite of offices on the second floor. A suite of rooms in the south wing of the third floor is occupied by the divi sion of audits and the State Police have taken over the corresponding suite just across the roof on the 4th floor. While there are two public elevators in the building only one is being operated, causing consider able confusion to visitors since the two elevators are situated some 50 feet apart and one guess is as good as another as to which one is in use. Owners of the Elks building in Portland are now offering the prop erty to the state for $660,000, remod eled for use as an office bnilding. This figure is $30,000 under the or iginal asking price for the building. The offer includes a hotel adjacent to the Elks building which would be razed and the ground used for park ing purposes. The Board of Control has announced that it would pass on the offer at a meeting scheduled for next Monday. Determined to enforce the ob servance of safe speeds on the Ocho co highway leading into Prineville, officials of that city said they will ask the state police to put a stop to speeding, and declared they will sta tion a policeman at the city limits if the state police regard the prob lem as a purely local one. This ac tion followed a report on the situa tion at a chamber of commerce meeting. "I regard these efforts at enforcement as progressive and fruitful, and commend Prineville of ficials on their stand," Secretary of State Earl Snell commented. Clean windshields are highly im portant for safe summer driving, par ticularly in the early morning and late afternoon when the rays of the sun come directly through the glass into the driver's eyes, Secretary of State Earl Snell advises. Drivers should be careful either to have their windshields cleaned at service sta tions or do the job themselves, since avoidance of accidents often de pends upon 100 per cent visibility. Gazette Times, Heppner, o LOOKING o FORWARD By FRANKLYN WALTMAN, Publicity Director, Republican National Committee None will dispute that President Roosevelt is the greatest political showman in our history. Indeed, he could give lessons to that synonym for ballyhoo and showmanship, P. T. Barnum. In passing, it might be mentioned that for the first time in almost a century the great Barnum-Bailey-Ringling Brothers circus has been forced off the road and into winter quarters in the middle of its season a victim of hard times. Apparent ly not even the "greatest show on earth" could compete with the New Deal circus. But to return to Mr. Roosevelt. Like the illustrious Barnum, the President frequently is far more en tertaining and diverting than he is accurate. Like Barnum, Mr. Roose- velt is not above pious humbuggery and hokum not to say political hy pocrisy in order to hold the atten tion of his audience. Hokum at Oklahoma City Mr. Roosevelt's recent barn storming trip across the country af fords several illuminating examples of how much like Barnum his meth ods and technique are. In his Okla homa City speech Mr. Roosevelt pro fessed to "remember," and not too accurately, events in the history of that State which occurred when he was seven and eight years old. It is odd that Mr. - Roosevelt's memory goes back so far when it fails him miserably regarding events of less than six years ago. For in stance, in his speech at Covington, Kentucky, Mr. Roosevelt said: "On my Kentucky visit in 1932 my train moved slowly from Covington to Louisville and then in a south easterly direction through village and farming sections and mining districts. As we stopped at small stations crowds congregated. Hun ger stared out at me from the faces of men and women and little chil dren. "It was a chill day and for the ac tual want of clothes people stood there shivering." "Tears in our Eyes" Mr. Roosevelt went on to assert that as he and "dear Alben" Bark ley on that day in 1932 stood on the rear platform of the campaign train looking on these scenes "tears were in our eyes." As Mr. Roosevelt's voice, quiver ing with pathos, over the radio, de scribed that scene I was deeply af fected until suddenly I remembered that as a newspaper reporter I was on that trip with him. At once the events of that day stood out in my mind and I could not recall such details of misery. Indeed, I remembered it. was a bright day, marked by warm sun shine. I could not recall any tears in Mr. Roosevelt's eyes, although I had observed him at each stop we made. I recalled him as his usual gay, smiling self. Moreover, I re membered, we did not come to Louis ville on that trip by way of Coving ton. We came into Kentucky from the West, enroute from St. Louis. Memory, however, sometimes plays tricks on me, so I went to the news paper files and re-read the stories that some of my colleagues wrote of that day's trip. Their accounts coincided with my memory of that day. What Reporters Wrote Walker S. Buel, the veteran and able Washington correspondent of the Democratic Cleveland Plain Dealer, wrote that Mr. Roosevelt "received a typical Dixie welcome while he traversed Kentucky" and that "he had a day of brilliant sun shine and bright blue sky after crossing the Ohio River this morn ing." James A. Hagerty in the New York Times described the trip through Kentucky as "a cheering journey." Ernest K. Lindley, Mr. Roosevelt's campaign biographer, in the New York Herald Tribune reported that Mr. Roosevelt concluded his Louis ville speech that day with the line: "The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home." Most convincing of all, however, is the account of Ulric Bell of the Louisville Courier-Journal, one of the most ardent journalistic sup porters in the country, then and Oregon now, of Mr. Roosevelt Mr. Bell wrote that "the swing through the State prgressed under smiling skies" and he further reported that "all members of the Roosevelt family expressed delight over the cheerful warmth of Kentucky's greeting." Graphic substantiation of Mr. Bell's description was found on oth er pages of the Courier-Journal in photographs showing in the crowds greeting Mr. Roosevelt men in shirt sleeves and without vests and in the weather report showing the temperature was above 62 degrees and as high as 71 degrees during the entire time Mr. Roosevelt was in Kentucky, hardly the temperature of a chilly day. None Reported Any Tears Not one of these able newspaper men all friendly toward Mr. Roose velt reported the scene of misery he described six years later and not one reported detecting any tears in his eyes. What a crowd of punk re porters we must have been! But they did report that on that day Mr. Roosevelt at one of his stops told a story of a hitch-hiker whom he said he had met and who claimed to have managed to get from coast to coast in 10 days by holding up a sign which read: "If you don't give me a ride, Til vote for Hoover." Today the same story is being told about Mr. Roosevelt, except that now this mythical hitch-hiker is said to have traveled from the At lantic to the Pacific in four days by threatening to vote again for Mr. Roosevelt Arrival of better crop conditions throughout the dust bowl area of the middle west is keeping many farmers at home who might other wise have come to the northwest to settle, Secretary of State Earl Snell said in explaining a slight decrease in non-resident motorists' permits for the month of June. Snell pointed out that the states worst affected by drouth in recent years have contrib uted fewer than the usual number of non-resident registrants this year, while motorists from other sections have been more numerous than usual. George Ryan, executive secretary of Oregon Funeral Directors asso ciation, was a business visitor in the city Tuesday from Portland. Professional Directory GLENN Y. 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