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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
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