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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon, Mar. 24, 1 949
French
Reviews the
Legislature
It d'X'sn't look as if it were go
ing to end very sunn. Ways and
means has nm boon able to cut
down the budget. In fact accurate
reports are that the budget has
grown frntn its oriental SllS.flori,.
000 to a figure between $12S,000,
000 and $130,000,000. That is not
uncommon for often the "hard,
touch" men of ways and means
prove themselves to be compara
tively easy marks for the spend
ers. Netiher is it settled how either
the original budget nor ihe addi
tlonal sums are going to be paid.
It must be realized that the S12.
000.000 increase for the basic
school fund, the building funds
for higher education and state
departments, and the possible
veteran's bonus have not boon
met. That will be more.
Whether the legslators will
have the' fortitude to send the
levies to the people over the six
percent limitation or perpetrate
some hocus-pocus with the in
come tax is not known either.
Probably the present tendency
is to do some sleight of law and
use the funds in a moment of
both illegality and immorality.
It is the easy way.
In any event the taxpayers can
reconcile themselves to spending
more money for the state. Big
money. They can either resolve
to form a real taxpayers group
and hire some able and exper
ienced lobbyists and thus spend
dimes, or they can continue to
let the minority groups do all
the talking and pushing. The lat
ter way causes big budgets and
big taxes.
Towns, especially in the val
ley, and particularly Salem, are
opposing the senate bill that
would stop highway work in cit
ies until the state's major high
ways are completed. It isn't such
a crazy proposal. The present
plan of the highway commission
is to spend S7.5O0.0O0 right in
Salem in a big, wide by-pass
arrangement that would speed
traffic through the town.
That is more money than the
commission would receive in one
year from the new axes on gas
oline and licenses. Sixteen sen
ators think that is poor business
and they will undoubtedly be
joined by a like proportion in the
house unless the commission
changes its plans. Intent of the
bill, of course, is to obtain a
hearing and a resultant change
of plans.
The FEPC bill has finally pass
ed without fanfare or gallery
crowds. It is the best of such bills
that have been proposed over a
long period. It works in New
York, New Jersey and other states
where, oddly, there are few ap
peals to the board. Up-state leg
- Club Awards Stress
Farm Woodlot Management
.? Wis
arm young people everywhere are taking tnvtcaed interest in forest maa
gement. These two youths are receiving a lesson in the use of the increment
xirer, an instrument used to determine growth rate of treej. Professional
orester, right, instructs
For the second straight year local farm boys and girls have a chance to
compete for state and national awards in a 4-H club forestry project.
Three hundred dollar college scholarships plus all-expense paid trips to
the 1949 4-H Club Congress in Chicago will go to four national winners
in the forestry contest.
Fouf-H Club members interested io
forestry are eligible to compete. In
addition to the four top awards, to be
distributed on i regional basis, each of
the state winners will receive a gold
medal.
The 4-H forestry project emphasizes
youth's stake in the woodlands of this
ftate. Farmer owned woodlands today
constitute a major portion of the Na
tion's commercial forest area. They
represent also a steady source of wealth
to their owners that in many cases is
virtually untapped.
American Forest Products Indus
tries, a national, non-profit association
of wood-dependent industries, is spon
sor of the 4-H forestry awards. Last
year 18 states participated in the na
tional forestry competition. College
scholarships went to club members
representing Idaho, Georgia, New York
and Wisconsin.
"Opportunities for farmers, who
manage their woodlands for continuing
forest crops, are greater today thin
ever before," Charles A, GUlett, man
aging director of American Forest
Products Industries, declared in an
nouncing his organization's sponsorship
of the 1949 award. "The importance
of good forest management practices
on the Nation's farms cannot be over
emphasized," t
Detailed information about the 4-H
forestry project may be obtained from
the county extension agent.
islators voted for it to let Mult
Inomah county stew in its own
: juice and for purely political rea
sons. The breast beaters had the
chance to prove their superiority
to the minority groups by efforts
to uplift them, the minorities
have a law which will do little
if any good and will do little to
soften the inferiority complex
which resulted in the .agitation.
Probably it will seldom be heard
from again.
There is a better opportunity
for passage of the bill revising
the method of distributing high
way funds than ever before. Some
adjustment is distinctly possi
ble as the highway interim com
mittee of last session found great
inequities. What it will be can
not be foretold at present but
before another week rolls by it
should be decided. Lake county
made a good presentation at the
hearing and other counties
should have done so.
I0NE NEWS
Miss JuneGriffith and Dwight
; Haugen of Portland spent the
jweek end at the home of her
, mother, Mrs. Elmer Griffith, of
Morgan.
I Funeral services were conduct
' ed for John S. Johnson, 75, Friday,
j March 18. at 1:30 p.m. at the lone
Cooperative church -with Rev. Al
ifred Shirley officiating. Mrs. W
IG. Roberts and Mrs. Paul Pettv-r-john
sang "In the Garden,'
"Beautiful Isle of Somewhere."
I They were accompanied by Mrs.
!Cleo Drake. Pallbearers were G.
I The bill to let the people vote
on the county unit plan for
schools Is out of committee with
a 6 to 5 vote. It now bears the
referral clause. There are many
good reasons for it especially as
j the state is pouring so much
' money into a school system that
everyone admits is wasteful. But
prejudice may win.
DANCE
Evening r 2L
MARCH A, CO)
Willows Grange Hall
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Music by
The Scatternotes
Lunch at Midnight
Admission: $1.25, Tax Included
The oAmerkcin Way
LETS QUIT FOOUNGI
By Dr. Alfred P. Haoke
duction per man per hour. We
talk about the "abundant life"
and then see to it that it is kept
from being abundant. We damn
the old-fashioned monopolies
that used to add a nickel or two
here or there, and we stand in
fearsome awe of the modern
monopoly that can treble cost of
building through its control of
workers and the amount of work
(Editor's Note: Alfred P. j
Haake, Ph.D., Mayor of Park'
Ridge, Illinois, is a noted Econ-'
omist, Business Consultant. Lec
turer and Author.) I
President Truman has asked;
Congress to underwrite a pro-1
gram of a million Government-1
financed low-rent housing units , 'hey do.
to be built in seven years. He ac-1 The plain reason many people
cuses the building industry of cannot buy houses U that, par
putting up too many high-priced . ticularly in the larger cities, the
houses. And he urges everybody orkers who make the materials
10 lower costs: mat is, everybody
except the people who CAN low
er costs it tney will. The presi
dent does not dare point his fin-,
ger at them.
Politicians are notorious cow
ards when it comes to telling the
public the truth, especially to
those segments of the public
which control large blocks of
votes.
In Egypt they used to worship
cats. In India it was cows. But
in the United States we have de
veloped a yen for curtailed pro-
A. Petteys, Otto and Walter Riet
mann, Cecil Thome and Johan
and Carl Troedson. Interment
was in the lone I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Robert York and Creston Black
called on E. S. Stultz one eve
ning last week. They are former
students of Mr. Stultz.
Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Crawford
Jr. and daughter Nancy Jean of
Portland spent the week end at
the home of her mother, Mrs. Ida
Coleman.
Mrs. M. E. Cotter was home
from The Dalles for a couple of
days last week where she is tak
ing care of Mr. Cotter at The
Dalles hospital. She reports that
he is better and that her sister,'
also a patient there, is improving.
Mrs. Minnie Forbes returned
last week from Oakdale, Calif.,
where she spent the winter with
her son-in-law and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. John Osteen.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ely spent
last week in The Dalles where
Mrs. Ely received medical treat
ment. The lone P-TA ladies served
over 100 persons at the speech
festival at the school house, Fri
day, March 18.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Palmateer,
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Thome, Mrs.
Walter Corley and James Barnett
attended the Legion convention
from here, Sunday.
and who build those houses get
about 76 percent more wages,
have curtailed their output about
3S percent since 19-10, and so hase a day and lays only 5-10 bricks.
lifted the costs about 180 per
cent. Deliberate slowing down, insis
tence on antiquated methods, re
straints on wholesaling of build
ing materials, and building codes
that hold open the buyers' pock
ets while sellers dig out extor
tionate rates, all contribute to
the high prices of buildings.
No one begrudges men higher
incomes to meet the increased
cost of living and to raise that
standard of living for his family.
But when we raise the wages
without increasing the output we
simply make other workers pay
more for that product in terms of
their own work
It is reported that in 1941 a
bricklayer received $13.68 for an
eight hour day and laid 1,000
bricks to earn that money. When
I 'was a boy he received less
money and laid 2,000 bricks a
day. But, today, he gets S189
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He could lay a thousand bricks,
or even two thousand, but he
lays only 510 in order to "protect
the Job." At those rates he is
charging 3.5 cents to lay a single
brick. If he would lay only a
thousand bricks, the cost of
bulding would be reduced to 1.9
cents a brick He has almost
doubled his share of the cost of
building.
Cement finishers are reported
as doing 35 H-rcent less work per
day than before the recent war,
plasterers 37 percent less, paint
ers 40 percent less, electricians
41 percent less, carpenters 43 per.
cent loss, plumbers 44 percent
less, and tile setters 50 percent
less.
It is a mixed picture. In some
of the smaller places men are
doing better than that, but even
there the builders have to use
materials which are manufactur
ed in high-cost areas. Where the
unions have control, as in the
larger cities, the prices of most
products are higher because of
the needlessly high cost of pro
duction per unit of output. The
men could have the higher wag
es, and costs could still be reas
onable, if they were permitted to
do more work per hour for those
higher wages pej hour.
Why not tell the people the
truth? The president could ren
der a vast service if he would
add his voice to those which are
trying to correct the fallacious
idea that we can have more with
out doing more work. If this is
to be a fair deal, it ought to be
a fair deal for everybody, and
not merely lor those who can
bring pressure on the president
to keep foolish promises made
without regard for their conse
quences. The way back to prosperity
and world restoration is through
plain, old-fashioned work. Let's
quit fooling ourselves.
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