4 Heppner Gazette Times, October 19, 944
EDITORIAL . .
ATTENTION LEGIONNAIRES
.American legion installation of
officers is scheduled for next Tues
day evening. Dinner will be served
Own Words Unpalatable
If the present campaign is proving nothing else,
it is giving editorial writers, commentators and
partisan statisticians and historians an opportu
nity to drag skeletons out of the closet, one of the
most potent of which are 'the statements of the
fourth term candidate whose noble purposes and
wise statements are reechoing to his embarrass
ment. At Sioux City, Iowa, September 1932, Candi
date Roosevelt, then on the outside looking in had
the following to say about government expendi
tures and bureaus: "I accuse the present (Hoov
er) administration of being the greatest spending
administration ... in all history. One which has
piled bureau upon bureau, comiiiission upon com
mission. Bureaus and bureaucrats have been re
tained at the expense of the taxpayers."
That was in 1932. Succeeding events lead one
to believe that Candidate Koosevelt merely held
contempt for Hoover, who was a piker, to say
the least. How do previous administrations rate
compared with the record of the fourth term as
pirant? There were created (approximately) un
der: Wilson 60; Harding 30; Coolidge 44; Hoover
tne wastrel) 30; Roosevelt more than 2,200. (We
have a list of some 150 of these bureaus, many of
them created for the war emergency and which
doubtless will be dropped even if Roosevelt is
retained.)
But" td quote the candidate further: "I know
something of taxes. For three long years 1 have
been going Up and down this country preaching
that government federal and state and local
costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chicago, July 1932. "The
people in America demand a,reduction of federal
expenditures. It can be accomplished by reducing
the expenditures of existing departments; by abol
ishing many useless commissions, bureaus . and
functions, and by consolidating .many activities of
government." Franklin D. koosevelt, Brooklyn,
November 1932. "But remember well, that atti
tude the way we DO things is nearly always
the measure of our sincerity." Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Brooklyn, September 1932.
oreat words, indeed. But do we have to probe
the record farther to tell you how those pledges
have been carried out? If so, look at this imposing
hsi ot toimer office holders rejected by tne
people but placed in lucrative jobs by the Presi
dent. Ihese are the better known names. The first
ten were icuiner United States Senators: Prentiss
Brown, Michigan, OPA, $12,000; Wall Doxey,
Mississippi, Sgt-at-Arms, $8,000; Clyde Herring,
Iowa, ur"A, $8,000; Josh Lee, Oklahoma, CAB,
$10,000; H. H. Schwartz, Wyoming, NrtMB, $10,
000; Henry .F. Ashurst, Arizona, Board of Immi
gration, ( f) ; 7.3d Brown, New Hampshire, Com
ptroller General, $10,000; F. Ryan Duffy, Wis
consin District court, $10,000; Sherman Minton,
Indiana, Circuit Court, $12,500; James Pope, Ida
ho, TVA, $10,000.
Congressmen: James M. Barnes, Illinois, Asst.
to President, $10,000; Thomas H. Elliott, Massa
chusetts, OWI, (?); John M. Houston, Kansas,
NLRB, $10,000; Raymond McKeough, Illinois,
OPA, $8,000; Charles McLaughlin, Nebraska,
Claims Commission,. (?); Francis Smith, Penn
sylvania, U. S. Deputy Marshal, $6,000; Thomas
R. Amlie, Wisconsin, ICC, $10,000; Alfred F.
Beiter, New York, Asst. to Secy. Interior, $G,000;
John J. Dempsey, New Mexico, Maritime Com
mission, i 10,000; Michael Igoe, Illinois, District
.Court, $10,000; George B. Kelly, New York, Dept.
c.:' Labor, $5,600; John C. Lchr, Michigan, U. S.
Aiioi-.ioy, 5.7G0-, Divid J. Lewis, Maryland, Natl,
i.led .a.Ou Board, $10,000; John J. McGrath, Cal
i. ,:n'a, Imr-inrat'on Commission, $5, GOO; Maury
.i.e-.'cs T::::-.s, VPC (?: Claude Parsons,
, Illinois, USMA, $8,000; John Ulterach, Maine, U.
S. iia sh.il, ik-,t.G0. The l.sf coulu be run into ,.iM
dreds by searching the appointments for judges,
postmasters, minor executive departments, bu
reaus, and countless other patronage jobs. Sena
torial and congressional lame ducks only were
checked. There are many names of defeated gov
ernors and other stale officers, among them Frank
Murohv who was defeated for governor of Mich- at 6:30 in the lodge building. All
l j it c- a n . o service men and their ladies are
igan and was later appointed U. S. Attorney Gen-
eral at $15,000 and then to the Supreme Court at
$20,000.
Professional
Directory
UNDERGOES OPERATION
Raloh Akers was taken to Eu-
Who should stand before the microphone and gene the past week where he sub
tell the people of this land that his opponents are mitted to a major surgical opera-
. , , . . . r r i i u tin- He was -accompanied by his
indulging in a campaIgn of falsifying and hypo- daughterS) HeaId md Mrs. R.
crisy. On the record can we not look forward to k. Miller, Mrs. Heald to nurse him
4400 bureaus by 1948 if the fourth term, aspirant and Mrs. Miller to take care of
P. W. Mahoney
ATTORNEY AT LAW
GENEBAL IJ.St7B.ANCE
Htppner Hotel Building
Willow St. Entrance
Mrs. Heald's children.
No Corhfort From President
is successful in 1944? What assurance, have the
people that if certain New Deal candidates are SEWING MEETING
defeated they will not be appointed to positions bwing for child weHare m .be
.... , . the work of the American Legion
where they will pass upon the very existence or auxiliary in a meeting to heid
survival of those who have opposed them? at Ltegion hall at 2:30 p. m. Tues-
These are questions the people will have to day, Oot. 24.
settle for themselves on November 7. The Presi- visits PARENTS
dent's foreign policy is about the only leg he has to Florence Becket of Portland vi-
stand on and the New Dealers are working that sited her parents Mr and Mrs.
, . , . , Charles Becket of Eight Mile, over
overtime to camouflage his domestic weaknesses. e weekend.
The power-hungry crew will have to do something
. . . o-j .. AT CAMP ROBERTS
besides Clear everything with Sidney. . wnbur Worden who entered the
army during the summer, is now
stationed at Camp Roberts, Calif.
One may sense the political sentiment of his where he is living training in
... , the motor mechanics division. He
own community, or perhaps his . state, but often b Ae son of Mr mi Floyd
wonders what people in distant states think. There Worden of Eight Mile.
came to the editor's desk the past week a copy of chetwoods HERE
the Chicago Daily Tribune. It is with regret that Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Chetwood of
we cannot reprint much of the editorial page, for Baker are spending a few days
to do that would require most of the copy space here this week. Chetwood indulged
... . in some bird snooting and also took
in our little paper, but one item was pencilled the first degree -in Masonry Tues-
for our benefit which we will pass on to our read- day evening.
ers. It is headed as above and under date of Oct. MORE DRAFTEES CALLED
1 , is written by a Chicago woman. Ten draftees left Heppner Tues-
"One night, during the last week, my husband daJ morning rPrtland for Pre"
. , , ' 1 . induction physical xaminations.
and I sat in a darkened theater and the President mc of the group were transfers
of the United States was flashed on the screen, who were employed in the county.
f
' We sat up, hoping to get a word of comfort to
take home with us, but our hopes were soon dash
ed. He was playing to the grandstand as usual.
"With great tossings of his head and very coy
looks, he read aloud all the wisecracks, just to get
a laugh from his cohorts. His dog, Falla, seemed
to be uppermost in his mind.
"I thought of my two sons, one spending this
third Christmas thousands of. miles from home,
homesick and weary of the whole bloody business
of war; the other, just 17 1-2, putting away his
has been ordered overseas.
Opportunity
Knocks
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READ the ADS
the campaign at the Masonic hall in
A chestnut tice jn Sicily was 304 feet in cir
cumference in 1936. It's probably half that now
with all our GI's carving initials on it.
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There little lame duck, don't you cry;
You'll be a bureaucrat bye-and-bye.
J. O. Turner
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Phone 173
H'lifl Heppner Building'
Heppner. Oregon
Jos. J. Nys
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Peters Building, Willow Streat
Heppner, pregon
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HEPPNER. OREGON
HOME ON LEAVE
Russell O'Donnell came in the
first of the week to spend a short
Jeave with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Harry O'Donnell.
Dr. W. H. Rockwell
Naturopathic
Physician & Surgeor
227 North Main St.
Office hours: 1 p. m. to 7:30 p. m.
Exam free Ph. 522 Heppner, Or.
GO TO SEASIDE
Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Ready
have gone to Seaside to place Mrs.
Ready under the care of a physician.
Francis Bailey, is now a patient
at McCaw General hospital at Walla
Walla rprnvprint from a hroken
football regalia, his tennis racket, and all the oth- lcg which he sustained in action on
er things dear to the heart of a boy, 'to enlist in July 2. His parents. Mr. and Mrs.
the navy. N- D- Baiey drove over to visit
... , , , . . , , him Saturday and spent the day
1 couldn t help but think, how can any parent in Walla Walla;
vote for a man so callous and indifferent to the Rev. Bennie Howe, pastor of the
fate of boys in his own land that he could make Methodist church returned last
-i i-i , , , . Saturday from California where to
suc;i sorry jokes at a time hke this, while moth- he and yMrs Howc had been called
crs hearts are breaking over the fate of their to attend the funeral of her bro-
sons, killed and wounded in all theaters of war foer. n the return trip Mr. Howe
"How very nice it would be to have a family' in et, up. wHh a !r!out toUch ,f
, ,.r, . lantuy iood poisoning wmch has caused
the White House we could respect, one with dig- nim jv,th misery and confined
nity, a little humility, and some ordinary horse him to his b.d for severtal days. He
sense." hopes to fill his pulpit Sunday
morning after an absence of sev-
Should Hear This Man "lSutSy
, On the occasion of his previous visit to Hepp- home with her Prents, Mr. and
nr ;, m UnA . .. Mrs. Kenneth Blake as her husband
the voters, spending his limited hours in personal
contacts. There is no doubt but that that yisit
whittled down the majority that previously had
been allotted to Senator Holman and it is possible
that had Morse been privileged to meet more vo
ters his total vote here would have been larger.
While this paper did not support Mr. Morse in
the primary campaign it did not offer unalterable
opposition to him. In all candor, following the
primary, it was stated that his pleasing personality
and fairness in conducting his campaign were at
tributes which should send him to Washington in
the fall. We have not diverted from that belief. In
truth, we are more than ever convinced that he is
the man for the job and urge the voters of Morrow
county to hear. him Saturday when he will discuss
.ssjo; of
He.pacr.
A. D. McMurdo, M.D.
Trained Nnrse Assistant
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
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