Thursday. July 6, 1939
NEWS
o New Commission
o Last Paintings Set
o Sprague to Fair
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem Governor Sprague left
Salem Wednesday for San Francisco
where on Saturday he will partici
pate in an Oregon Day program at
the Golden Gate exposition. It will
be the governor's first absence from
the state since taking over the reins
of government last January and, in
cidentally, the first opportunity Sen
ate President Robert M. Duncan has
had to officiate as the state's chief
executive. Governor Sprague plans
to return to the Oregon capital next
Wednesday.
The past week has been an unus
ually busy one in the life of Ore
gon's governor what with opening
the Wolf creek highway on Friday,
addressing the state editorial assa
ciation convention at Timberline
lodge on Saturday and making the
principal address at the "Happy
Days" celebration at Hillsboro on
Monday.
A protest by the Portland Build
ing Trades Council against the use
of convict labor on the new improve
ments at the penitentiary failed to
move the Board of Control. As Gov
ernor Sprague pointed out to the
protesting delegation the legislative
appropriation for the new peniten
tiary buildings was based upon the
use of prison labor. Furthermore,
work on the building projects will
provide much needed employment
for prisoners. Construction work at
the penitentiary has always been
done by convict labor under the su
pervision of a "free" superintendent,
with possibly one or two assistants,
specialists in their line, also from
the "outside."
Appointment of Irl S. McSherry,
Salem printer, to be assistant parole
director was announced this week
by Fred S. Finsley, parole director.
The appointment will become effect
ive July 10. McSherry was at one
time engaged in newspaper work in
Oregon, being connected at various
times with the Tillamook Headlight,
the McMinnville Telephone-Register
and the Salem Statesman. He served
as private secretary to Governor A.
W. Norblad in 1930.
Petitions are now being placed in
circulation in support of the pro
posed initiative amendment provid
ing for repeal of the milk control act.
The measure is being sponsored by
State Senator Thomas R. Mahoney
of Portland who made strenuous ef
forts during the recent legislative
session to have this law repealed.
Observe the humble oyster. Now
he is to be rehabilitated. The great
state of Oregon is taking an active
interest in his (or her) welfare. Gov
ernor Sprague announced this week
that he had been instrumental in
persuading the state fish commission
and the State College, cooperative
ly, in a research project which will
delve into the life and habits of the
lowly bivalve in the Yaquina Bay
region. Cost of the project is esti
mated at $3000 for the year, to be
shared by the two participating
agencies.
' Whales also featured in the news
of the week around the capitol. For
mer Governor Charles H. Martin
sent a letter to Governor Charles A.
Sprague suggesting that the state
waive its right, title and interest in
the carcass of the famous "Lessard"
whale, now reposing on the Les
sard ranch in Multnomah county.
Killing of the stray whale in Co
lumbia slough near Portland by Ed
ward Lessard in 1931, it is recalled,
raised a state-wide "stink" closely
rivaling that raised by the whale it
self a few weeks after its demise.
Lessard was made the target of two
criminal actions as a result of the
killing, both of which he won. Gov
ernor Martin said he refused to ac
cept the carcass for the state and
thinks Oregon should "wipe its
hands" of the whole messy affair
and let Lessard have it.
The long predicted reorganization
of the State Liquor Control com
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mission is at last an accomplished
fact. Governor Sprague last week
asked for and received the resigna
tions of Stanley Jewett (republican)
of Portland and James D. Burns
(democrat) of Condon. He was al
ready in possession of the resigna
tion of Arthur K. McMahan (dem
ocrat) of Albany, chairman of the
commission, who asked to be re
lieved of his duties several weeks
ago. Saturday the governor appoint
ed an entirely new commission com
posed of Lloyd J. Wentworth (re
publican) Portland lumberman,
chairman; J. N. Chambers (demo
crat) Salem, and Lowell Stockman
(republican) Umatilla county ranch
er. Organization of the new commis
sion is expected to be followed by
the resignation of Otto J. Runte as
liquor administrator and possibly a
few minor shifts in the personnel of
the organization but Governor Spra
gue insists that there will be no
wholesale housecleaning of the com
mission's employees.
Four hundred choice leghorn pul
lets destined for the laying pens at
the Cottage Farm of the Oregon
state hospital, will grace the festive
board instead. A patient of the in
stitution employed on the farm, hav
ing nothing more important to oc
cupy his time, wrung the necks of
the entire flock one day this week.
Another important change in the
state's official family is scheduled
for July 15 when Silas Gaiser, for
mer Salem school head, will succeed
D. A. Bulmore as administrator of
the unemployment compensation act
The post carries a salary of $4500 a
year.
In spite of the fact that the legis
lature frowns upon professional
lobbyists the state, itself, through its
numerous boards, commissions and
departments, is probably the worst
offender in this respect. This situa
tion is brought sharply into the
foreground just now through an
opinion by Attorney General Van
Winkle holding that claims present
ed by two Salem attorneys for "legal
services" rendered the now defunct
bakery board are legitimate and
must be paid. The attorneys in ques
tion were employed by the bakery
board to oppose the repal of the
bakery board act during the last
legisltaive session. Approval of the
claim was withheld by the budget
director on the ground that the
board exceeded its authority in em
ploying the additional legal talent.
Last of the mural paintings for
the new capitol were placed lasj;
week. One of these, portraying the
famous Champoeg meeting, adorns
the walls of the Hall of Representa
tives. The other recording the arri'
val in Salem of a courier bringing
the news of statehood, occupies a
place in the Senate chamber. Work
on the huge granite groups that will
guard the entrance to the capitol is
expected to be completed late this
month.
A total of 275 extra workers were
employed by Secretary of State Earl
Snell last week to handle the elev
enth hour rush of renewal of oper
ators' licenses. The extra crew was
divided into three shifts in order to
expedite the handling of the huge
flood of applications that poured in
on the department as the dead-line
for renewal of the drivers' permits
approached.
State Educational
WPA Project Set
Washington, D. C. (Special to the
Gazette Times from our Washington
D. C. Bureau) A statewide educa
tional program has been approved as
eligible for WPA funds with an es
timated allotment of $281,858. This
project, under the state department
of education, is for supervision of
educational activities for underpriv
ileged adults in literacy, vocational,
parent, workers and public affairs.
Also approved is a statewide pro
ject under the state board of control
for educational and informational
service for roadside beautification.
This is to consist of typing, filing,
mimeographing and sending pub
licity to papers, the project to be
operative in every county where an
agency can be accommodated. Es
timated cost $21,645. 1
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Washington, D. C, July 3 Presi
dent Roosevelt is irate at congress
and with reason. Just before going
away for the holidays congress ad
ministered several blows. He was
forced to sign the relief bill despite
his objection to many of its pro
visions; he was, apparently, deprived
of his control over the dollar; the
neutrality bill he wanted was so
amended in that house that it con
tains the mandatory embargo fea
ture he didn't want. Three strikes
would make any president mad.
Mr. Roosevelt did not spend the
Glorious Fourth reading the Declar
ation of Independence to his neigh
bors or popping strings of firecrack
ers. He was running up telephone
bills consulting with his lieutenants
and planning a campaign to make
congress gig-back on neutrality and
the monetary matter. Mr. Roosevelt
refuses to "take it." He refuses to
admit that he is licked and is pre
paring to go to the mat immediately
with the legislative branch of the
government. When Mr. Roosevelt
believes he is right he keeps right
on fighting. He has what the sports
writers call "a fighting heart."
Reason the president regards con
tinuation of his control over the dol
lar and the sort of neutrality bill he
favors as vital is based on confiden
tial reports that in late August or
early September the long-expected
war will materialize. All the inside
information Mr. Roosevelt has re
ceived says that as soon as the har
vest is over in Germany, Herr Hitler
will start shooting. Mr. Roosevelt
wants authority to meet the situa
tion. This accounts for the unpub
licised conferences he has been hold
ing.
What caused the senate to join the
house in prohibiting any relief funds
for the federal theater project was
a book and a manuscript. The book
contained photographs of nude girls,
a catalogue of models available for
WPA art workers; the manuscript
was of a theater project play with
plot and dialogue so "strong" that it
made hard-boiled legislators blush.
Theater project produced many ex
cellent and standard plays but it
also took taxpayer money to spon
sor several plays which were strict
ly propaganda for communism and
against the American form of gov
ernment. These few bad apples soiled
the barrel of good ones. Workers on
theater projects were pampered; they
were paid twice as much as the ev-
eyday reliefer and given vacations
on pay.
HOLC has foreclosed on 692 homes
in Oregon since it began refinancing
distressed owners, June 12, 1933.
These are the foreclosures out of
9416. On this total the federal agen
cy loaned $18,821,240 and March 1,
this year, there had been repaid 24.9
per cent, or $4,681,395. John H. Fa
hey, headman of HOLC, a former
newspaper publisher, points with
pride to the manner in which the
Oregon clients are taking care of
their installments. Incidenally, of
the money loaned, $1,771,000 was
used to pay taxes. President Roose
velt designated Fahey as chairman to
clean out the politics which filled
HOLC originally.
Sponsors of WPA projects under
the new law must, after August, pay
25 per cent of the cost. From Feb
ruary this year Oregon's local con
tribution to the projects has been
23.2 per cent; Washington's 24.4 per
cent, so the new requirement will
not be much of an added burden.
But from the beginning of WPA to
last December the average local
contribution in Oregon was 18.9 per
cent; Washington 16.5. All told, as
of December 1, 1938 (reported by
the federal treasury), Oregon re
ceived federal WPA funds amount
ing to $36,363,621; Washington, $77,.
044,955. It aveages about $36 for ev
ery man, woman and child in Ore
gon. !
Here is what the row over the de
valuation of the dollar means to the
Pacific Northwest wheat farmer:
Before 1933 the farmer received
2580 grains of gold for 100 bushels
of wheat: todav under full devalua
tion (the president was authorized
to reduce the dollar content ou per
cent) the farmer for 100 bushels re
ceives 1290 grains of gold. The fight
is whether the president or congress
shall say how many grains of gold
the farmer shall receive for his gold
en grain.
A filibuster is merely a device to
delay a vote on a measure which a
number of members do not want to
come to a vote. Technique in the
senate is talk to kill time. This is
impossible in the house where a
speech is limited, frequently to 10
minutes, therefore a different meth
od is used to attain the same result:
those seeking delay demand a roll
call, which requires more than an
hour. Then after a few minutes a
quorum call, then another roll call
and these tactics are as effective as
long-winded speeches in the sen'
ate. Both methods are now being
used.
Greatest development the federal
government has ever undertaken in
Oregon is the Willamette Valley
project, which will start immediately
transforming the valley on a basis
of flood control. . . . Efforts will be
made at the next congressional ses
tion to initiate broad, heavily con
structed national defense highways,
one running from Kelso, Wash., to
Medford, Ore., another along the
Old Oregon Trail. Present highways
are too crooked, narrow and light
to serve mobile artillery and bri
gades of troops. . . , Third term
boosters assert Mr. Roosevelt now
has 280 delegates in the nominating
convention next year, which con
vention will consist of more than
1000 delegates.
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