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Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40
-and SO years 40.
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10 Yire AGO
Feb? If. Iff )
qA $Je for rorld peace and
unity ffcroufch racial tolerance
and understating is voiced be
fore Wcifbrd Rotary $lub by
Gfgi T h o m a s,"representing
Oregftj Council of Churches.
From Srthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pat column: "FEW
COOttSD WAKE COFFEE"
(Hotrse&old Hints) A long
standing tuspicion is confirmed.
2 cMf AGO
F. 1. 13? (ridy)
ln4forti't net wateg, income in
1939 totaled $131,158.90 com
TaVe to $127,055.83 in 1935,
Caccordfrig to Bob Duff, water
feftitlTnission superintendent.
A. KMay inspection s Jack
"Son county is completed today by
C. ,M. Barlow; inspector of the
q state bureau of labor.
30 TEiBS AGO
Feb. If, 1927 (Saturday)
John H. Piper, regional scout
executive, Spokane, will be in
. Medford Sunday on his annual
inspection of the 11th Boy Scout
region. O
Fromrtocal and Personal col
umn: Johnson Produce company
is delivering sweet cider for 30
certa a gal ion any place in town.
40 ,YEAH AGO
Feb. 19. 1917(Voniay)
(Jpemobflization of entire Na
tional Guard force along Mex
ican border is ordered today.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Prof. J. H. Jansen of the
MeoKord Commercial college re
tarns to Mdfor today from
San Fiancisco.
ft baft Yur I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev
en or eight Is excellent: five er
six Is food
1. Negro slaves were first used
in a Southern colony; true or
false? o
2. In which of Scott's novels is
"Rebecca the Jewess?"
3. Bible: According to Deu
teronomy, were the Israelites
permitted 4o eat fish without
fins or scales?
4. Is the U. S. total of combat
casualties in men killed in the
Army and Navy during World
War II more than 250,000?
5. Name the Commodore who,
in 1853, first opened the port
of Tokyo to general shipping?
6. Is Dzugashvill the real
surname of Lenin, Trotsky, or
Stalin?
7. What does "gesundheit"
mean?
8. What is ihe correct title of
the presiding Justice of the
Supreme CourAif the U. S.?
9. Is "poorly," in the sense
of "not in good health," an ac
ceptable provincialism?
10. Where and when did Gen.
MacArthur say: "Let us pray
that peace be now restored to the
world, and that feod will pre
serve it always, hese proceed
ings are now closed." o 0
Answers: 1. False. In New
Netherlands (c. 1650). 2. "Ivan
hoe." 3. No. 4. Yes. 254,485.
5. Perry. 6. Stalin. 7. Good
health 8. G$fef Justice of the
United Slates. 9. No. 10. Abroad
the U. S. Missouri (Japanese sur
render ceremony).
ALLEN'S ALLEY
B:on AJ.PJ A newly dedi
cated street in downtown Boston
is "Allen's Alley," renamed in
hpnor of the late comedian,
fced Allen. IP formerly was
City Half) 4venue. A native
Bostonian. Allen walked
through it npiny time during his
MAIL TKIBUME
How About Harris Ellsworth?
The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., earned
the following editorial in a recent issue, quote :
WHY ELLSWORTH?
The President has chosen well in nominating Chris
topher H. Phillips to be a member of the Civil Service
Commission and in continuing Frederick L. Lawton for an
other term. Mr. Phillips, although he is only 36, already
has a distinguished career behind him in the State De
partment and the Massachusetts Senate. Mr. Lawton, a
former Director of the Budget, and the only Democratic
member of the Civil Service Commission, also has served
well and deserved reappointment.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the appoint
ment to the commission of former Rep. Harris Ellsworth
of Oregon. Mr. Ellsworth displays no particular qualifica
tions for this post, and his nomination contrasts sharply
with the other two. The Senate will want to question Mr.
Ellsworth closely, for example, on his general attitudes
toward public responsibility and the spoils system. His role
as a champion of private interests against public interest
in natural resources administration and legislation is not
reassuring. Far more than ideological considerations seem
ed to be involved in the Al Sarena mining case, in which
Mr. Ellsworth got the Interior Department to permit pri
vate exploitation of valuable Oregon timber resources un
der the cover of a questionable mineral claim.
Retiring CSC Chairman Philip Young and Commis
sioner George M. Moore have made distinct contributions
to improvement of the Civil Service, although Mr. Young's
record is marred by his leading role in the security risk
"numbers game." Many important tasks remain for the
recognized Commission that will require the fullest mea
sures of dedication and integrity. A more than perfunctory
consideration of the nominations by the senate is in order.
On political grounds, we agree with the above.
But the fact is the appointment of Ellsworth was not
to a political but to a non-political federal unit, name
ly: the U.S. Civil Service commission.
In fact the "C.S.C." might be labeled an anti
political organization, for, in theory at least, it dis
regards the political label entirely, and makes its
decisions on individual and non-partisan merit alone.
THE Mail Tribune would oppose the selection of
1 former .Congressman Ellsworth to ANY political
post just as we have opposed him for reelection
ever since he went over to "McCarthyism," and cam
paigned on the ridiculous contention that the Demo
crats were not only soft on communism, but favored
a f oral of socialism that was equivalent to communism
the two terms, he said, being synonymous, etc., etc.
TTHE Mail Tribune had supported the former Rose-
burg newspaper editor nearly half a dozen times,
but when he descended to the "Joe McCarthy" level
for the sake of votes, we bid him goodbye, and have
opposed him ever since.
DUT this appointment is another kettle of fish.
u We never questioned Hams Ellsworth's es
sential honesty, his slow but sure ability, or his con
scientiousness, moreover always having had a friend
ly feeling toward the man personally we saw no
reason and see no reason now to oppose his ap
pointment to the U.S. Civil Service Commission.
Whether named chairman or not we believe Ells
worth will be a usefull member of that organization,
and are glad the boys have taken care of "Harris,"
after his 14 years of devout devotion to what this de
partment regards as the most reactionaiy and least
desirable elements in the "Grand Old Party."
flE CAN'T go along, however, with the many Re-
v publican papers in the state who are trying to
make people believe that as Congressman, Mr. Ells
worth was some sort of hero in the much-publicized
and unsavory "Al Sarena" case.
Probably more than anyone else in the congress
he was instrumental in securing favorable action
from the Department of the Interior, which allowed
this harvesting of federal timber worth several thou
sand dollars at the "give away" rate of $5 an acre.
Only after the horse had escaped from the stable
did he shut the door. And then by legislation which
will allow a repetition of this "deal" by any individ
ual, or group of individuals, who have enough ef
frontery to disregard the recommendations of the U.S.
Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and
enough cash in the bank to pay all the development
work in one year, instead of five.
OOWEVER, as strongly as we fought this sort of
"give away," we, never doubted that as far as
Congressman Ellsworth personally was concerned,
he was guilty of no duplicity, but was merely being
true to his weird conception of good government
from the standpoint of good business,' good profits,
and what the G.O.P. "Higher Ups" in the Lower
House desired.
Needless to say, not our idea of the type that
should represent this state in Washington. But, as in
dicated, in an administrative position on a non-political
board, we could not see, and still don't see, any
valid reason to oppose him. R.W.R.
Delay Proposed in
Guard Training Plan
Washington U.PJ Rep.
Overton Brooks proposed a one
year postponement today in the
Army's plan to require six
months active duty for young
recruits to the National Guard.
The Louisiana Democrat said
he might offer the idea as a com
promise in the controversy be
tween the Army and the Guard
over how much training young
guardsmen should have.
Brooks is chairman of a House
Armed Services subcommittee
which has conducted long hear
ings on the dispute.
The Army contends that 80
per cent of the guardsmen now
lack enough training and has
ordered all guard recruits to
serve six months active duty
after April 1.
Tuesday, February 19. 1957
Soil Bank Payment
Expansion Voted
Washington U.R) The
House Agriculture committee by
a close vote today approved a
Democratic plan calling for vast
expansion in soil bank payments
to farmers for taking land out
of production.
The measure was approved
over Republican opposition. A
bitter floor fight is expected be
tween Democratic farm leaders
and administration forces when
the bill is considered in the
House. One member said the
vote in committee was 17 to 15.
The Democratic plan would
set up two supplementary pro
grams of soil bank subsidies. It
also would grant, in modified
form, the administration's re
quest for restoration of last
year's soil bank benefits for
commercial corn growers.
Negotiations Slated
Between U.S., Poland
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The United States is prepar
ing to strengthen the Commu
nist government of Poland,
which a few
months ago
was R u s s ia's
No. 1 satellite.
An official
Polish delega
tion is to leave
Warsaw today
for Wash ing
ton to start
n e g o t iations
for an impor
aid agreement.
Charles HcCaup
tant economic
There seems no doubt that the
negotiations will be successful.
The negotiations are opposed
both by many Polish Commu
nists and by many American
anti - Communists. Polish exiles
in the United States and Britain
are divided on the issue.
A Political Move
The Polish Communists who
oppose it are those who are still
fighting the breakaway of their
government from Russian domi
nation. The Americans in oppo
sition are those who, as Senate
Republican Leader William F.
Knowland put it, are against
aiding any Communist country
behind the Iron Curtain.
The Polish delegation will be
made up solely of financial and
economic experts. But the mo
tive behind the American deci
Matter of Fact
MEMO FOR BUSINESSMEN
Kemerovo On this Siberian
journey I have by now talked at
very great length with the lead
ers of eight
important bus
iness enterpri
ses, ranging in
size from the
local branch of
the Soviet In
dustrial Bank
to the vast Ku
zbas Coal
Combi ne,
which con
Joseph Alsop
trols all the mines in this great
regional center of the Soviet
coal and iron industries.
It has been a remarkable ex
perience in many ways, and not
the least remarkable for the
light thrown on the way busi
ness is don in this strange Soviet
society. So this is a memoran
dum for American businessmen,
who may wish to know how
their Soviet opposite numbers
tackle their jobs.
Soviet business, in the first
place, is overwhelmingly the
business of mining and industrial
production. The service indus
tries that all but dominate the
American scene hardly exist in"
this country. As for retail trade,
with every class of consumer
goods in more or less short sup
ply, the chief problem of the
trading organizations is to keep
reasonable stocks of goods in
their chains of shops.
Also each major Soviet in
dustry is organized under a
"Ministry," but this "Ministry"
is very unlike any American
idea of a government depart
ment. In fact, it very closely re
sembles the head office of the
General Motors Corporation in
all ways but one. Instead of do
ing half of the total business in
its industry, the Ministry does
all the business.
...
AS WITH General Motors,
there are also divisions and
subdivisions. An enterprise bear
ing the proud title of "Kombi
nat" deals directly with the Min
istry itself. A very big combine,
like the coal combine here, may
be further subdivided into
"thrusts" in which several mines
or factories are grouped to
gether. Or a combine may con
sist of a single gigantic produc
ing unit, like the vast cotton tex
tile plant I saw at Barnaul,
which will eventually produce
400 kilometers of finished cloth
each day and thus supply most
of Siberia.
The capital structure of these
Soviet enterprises is both simple
and logical. Funds for a new en
terprise are allocated in the state
budget, and advanced by the
Ministry through the local
branch of the industrial bank.
Once production has started
the plant director is expected
to make profits.
Out of his gross profit, he re
tains a relatively small amount
each year in a reserve fund,
which he may spend at his own
discretion for needed repairs
or improvement. He further
pays amortization on his build
ings and machinery into an
amortization fund at his Min
istry. And finally, he pays all
his remaining profit what
would be the net profit in the
United States into his Minis
try's profits fund.
H
E CANNOT count on the
sums he pays into the am
ortization fund being spent to
modernize his own plant. It is
for the Ministry to decide where
this money is invested. He can
not count, either, on the sums
he pays into the profits fund be
ing used to expand his own in
dustry. It is for the state to
decide which industries are ex
panded, and, the immense profits
earned by the consumer indus
tries are largely used to finance
the expansion of heavy industry.
There are two other kinds of
(Mi
sion to negotiate with the Polish
Red regime is political.
The American government be
gan considering aid to Poland
after Wladyslaw Gomulka
once called Poland's "little Sta
lin" was made leader of his
country's Communist party last
Oct 20.
More Freedom Noted
The State department an
nounced on Feb. 7 that it had
planned to start negotiations
with the Gomulka regime. This
will be the first time in recent
years that the United States has
conducted important negotia
tions with any Communist re
gime except that of Yugoslavia,
whose President Tito threw off
Russian domination in 1948.
It is not generaUy noticed that
Poland, since its rebellion, has
gone farther from repressive
Communist rule in a few months
than Yugoslavia has in nearly
nine years. Even though they
are still under Red rule, even
though Russian troops are still
on their soil," Poles have more
freedom than the people of any
other Communist country.
One indication that the Polish
negotiations are advisable is
that the Russians and their re
maining satellite leaders do not
favor them.
, Their only present hope of get
ting Poland back under Russia's
thumb seems to lie in the possi
bility that Gomulka's regime
will break down.
By Joseph Alsop
I decisions that the head of a Sov
iet piuumixig eiiieiiJiiae uucs
not have to make, either. He
does not have to make decisions
about sales. He maintains con
tact with his customers, but
actual sales are handled by his
Ministry's nationwide supply or
ganization. And he does not have
to make decisions about build
ing new plants or greatly ex
panding old ones.
Any major capital investment
has the status of a "project," and
projects are prepared by the Ap
propriate Projects Institute at
tached to the Ministry. But the
head of an established enterprise
for which a "project" is being
drawn up will of course be con
sulted by the institute in charge.
And the men who consult him
are likely to be old friends of
his, since the higher staffs of the
projects institutes are recruited
from among the most successful
heads of producing enterprises.
pPRODUCTION is in fact the
chief business of the Soviet
businessman. To be sure, he
must deal with his bankers like
his American opposite numbers,
getting short term loans at low
rates of interest frbm the state
bank to finance inventory; ex
pansions and other transactions.
To be sure, he has certain pol
itical and social responsibilities.
As head of his factory or mine,
he is the master of a virtually
self contained community, with
its own housing, social services,
centers of amusement and so on.
And in addition, he is very like
ly to be a member of the district
committee of the Communist
party.
But all these other activities
of the Soviet businessman are
completely subordinated to the
central activity of producing
more and more at less and less
cost with fewer man hours of
labor used on the job. The trend
of the gross national product of
this iron society indicates the
results achieved.
1957 New York
Herald Tribune Ine.
Higher Disability
Payments Approved
Washington U.R) The
House Veterans committee to
day unanimously approved high
er benefit payments for disabled
veterans.
It voted without dissent to in
crease by more than 25 per cent
payments to totally disabled
veterans and to hike payments
by 10 per cent for other veter
ans with service connected dis
abilities. Chairman Olin E. Teague (D.
Tex.) pledged to do everything
he can to get speedy House ap
proval of the bill.
The new measure would raise
from $181 to $225 a month pay
ments made to veterans with
100 per cent disabilities received
in service. It would increase
payments for partial disabilities
by $2 to $16 per month, depend
ing on the degree of disability.
Eagle Point Man Is
Sentenced in Court
Lowell Oakley Pogue, route
1, box 134, Eagle Point, was sen
tenced to 90 days in the county
jail today after he pleaded guil
ty in district court to a charge
of petty larceny.
Pogue admitted taking 11
manganese plates belonging to
David McCormick, route 1, box
125, Eagle Point, earlier this
month. According , to sheriff's
deputies, McCormick claimed
the plates Vfpre valued at $520
Pogue allegedly sold them for
S7.
District Judge Rawles Moore
said Pogue would be eligible for
parole after 30 days.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
I suppose you are wondering
what this Arab-Israeli ruckus
that threatens an explosion in
the Middle East is all about.
It's a LONG story. It began
awa-a-a-y back in 1400 B.C.
when the Jewish people under
their great leader Joshua con
quered the land known as Pale
stine and took it away from then
Canaamtes and the Philistines.
For some 1500 years, it re
mained the undisputed" home of
the Jewish people. Then in the
year 70 A.D. the Romans con
quered Palestine and destroyed
the Jewish state. The Romans
muddled along with it for some
600 years, and then it fell into
the hands of the Moslems, who
were then embarking on a world
conquest bender. In the course
of a century they built up an
empire that stretched from
southern France to India. Pale
stine was a tiny part of this vast
domain. It remained under Mosl
pm rule until World War I. when
the British drove the Turks out. i
It should be added that there
was plenty of fighting during
this long period, including the
wars of the Crusades.
IN 1917 (after having driven the
Turks out of the Holy Land)
the British government issued
the famous Balfour Declaration,
which promised the Jews of the
world that they could build a
national homeland in Palestine.
That was the beginning of what
is now the state of Israel.
Thousands of Jews began to
flock to the Holy Land, and that
aroused the fears and the anger
of the powerful Arab leaders.
Wars followed. The British
toughed it out for some 30 years,
but gave it up in 1947 and laid
the problem in the lap of the
United Nations.
' In 1948, the Jews of Palestine
proclaimed the state of Israel,
with Tel Aviv as its capital, and
organized a provisional govern
ment. This provisional govern
ment was made permanent in
1949. But it'donl stop the fight
ing. The Jews and the Arabs
have been fighting more or less
continuously ever since.
THE . Jews brought- modern
methods- and business prin
ciples to Palestine. They built ir
rigation systems and provided
modern agricultural methods
and machinery. The desert
began to blossom like the rose.
They built factories and began
to make things for people to use
--modern things, such as we
have in America. They profited
employment and good wages for
Jews and Arabs alike. The coun
try began to prosper as it had
never prospered before.
All this INFLAMED THE
FEARS of the medieval Arab
rulers, who could see their pow
ers and their perquisites being
steadily eroded if things like
that were permitted to go on.
So the fighting continued,
more or less without cessation.
The situation came to a head
when Egypt's Nasser seized the
Suez canal and the Israelis and
the British and the French
launched their ill-starred re
taliatory war a few months ago.
1I7HY should we mix into this
centuries-old mess?
I tried to explain that in this
space a few days ago.
SINCE the dim beginnings of
history, this Middle East area
has been the most strategic spot
on earth. It is now more strateg-
ic than ever before because of
the recently developed fact that
perhaps THREE FOURTHS OF
THE WORLD'S KNOWN OIL
RESERVES ARE LOCATED
THERE. The modern world de
pends on oil.
' We face this brutal iact:
If somebody doesn't prevent
it, Russia will move in and
TAKE OVER this Middle East,
with its strategic location at the
crossroads of the world's great
trade routes AND ITS VAST
STORES OF OIL.
w
HO will be the somebody?
It looks like we're elec-
ted.
Nobody else in the world is
strong enough. Britain hand
led the situation for a long, long
time. But Britain is GONE. She
knows it herself.
We stand alone as the only
nation powerful enough to do the
job. If we don't do it if we lack
the courage to face our respon
sibilities Russia may be able
to gain the resources that will
enable her to conquer the world
INCLUDING US.
Suit Says Planes
Disrupt Home Life
KnoxviUe, Tenn. (U.R) The
U.S. Court of Claims conducted
a hearing today in a $50,000
fede-al law suit in which a sales
engineer claims Air Force planes
have disrupted his home life.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wright
sued the federal government,
charging low-flying jets at near
by McGhee Tyson Air Base have
cracked plaster, interrupted
television programs and scorch
ed tree tops -at their swank
Mimosa Heights home.
Wright testified the noise of
one jet frightened children at a
birthday party, sending- them
running and screaming to "their
mothers like chicks to a ben."
Legislative
By ERIC ALLEN JR.
Mail Tribune Managing Editor
Salem Few people here
wish to predict how long this
49th session of the Oregon state
legislature will last, but none
of them believe it will be any
shorter than the 1955 session,
which wound up in May.
A lot of work has been done
so far, but much more remains
to be' done. And the 90 mem
bers have yet to come to grips
with the big, central problems
which must be solved before the
session can end.
One can find heated discus
sions in the legislative halls and
committee rooms and in the lob
bies on almost any subject. But
agreement is general that tax
ation is the biggest question
mark of the session.
Appropriations Pose Problem
And taxation that is, how
much is to be raised, and in
what way in turn is intimate
ly related to the biggest state
appropriations, which this year
as in most years, are education,
both on the lower and higher
level, and public welfare.
The public welfare budget
will not be markedly different
than the one in past years
perhaps a million or so dollars
more.
But the state system of higher
education has requested a
"shock budget" this year, much
of the increase for faculty sal
aries, and the rest to prepare the
state's university and colleges
for the vastly increased enroll
ments coming in the next few
years. The budget presented by
ex-Gov. Elmo Smith cut the re
quest by a few million dollars,
but Gov. Robert Holmes has in
dicated he supports the full bud
get. And legislators who have
studied the budget in detail de
clare, perhaps with reluctance,
that it appears to be sound and
well thought out.
School Support Hike
The third item and perhaps
the "iffiest" one of the lot, is in
the basic school support propos
al, which would raise the pres
ent state contribution of $80 per
census child per year up to $120
per year, or some amount in be
tween.
School people are fairly unan
imous that this S120 fieure.
i which would make the state's
contribution y primary and sec
ondary education about 50 per
cent of the cost of educating a
child, is a "must" if schools are
to continue doing a good job.
But even here there are dis
agreements, and these stem in
large part from the way in
which this big state appropria
tion should be divided. Most
downstate school districts do not
favor the present formula under
which the money is distributed.
claiming that metropolitan areas
(chiefly Portland) get an un
fairly large portion of the
money. They have presented a
new formula for distribution.
which puts more emphasis on
the equalization factor of the
formula than on outright per
pupil grants, as does the present
formula.
But under the proposed for
mula, PorUand would receive
less money, proportionately,
than it does now, unless the ba
sic school support basis is raised
from $80 to about $112. Work
ing out the relationship be
tween these two proposals,
therefore, is one of the things
which must be accomplished be
fore the total tax needs of the
state can be known.
The same complicated inter
relationships of a hundred dif
ferent proposals are similarly
slowing the process of the legis
lature.
The people who are depend
ent on state funds for their jobs
(such as the educators and school
people), are not hesitant in ask
ing for the money they honestly
believe necessary to do their
jobs well. It is the job of the
legislators (and principally the
members of the Joint Ways and
Means committee) to weigh these
requests, and then balance them
against the arguments against
them, and against expected in
come. As the budget is taking shape,
the taxation committees must
try to figure out where to raise
the money to meet the budget
needs.
It is in this role that they
have hardly done more than
skim the surface so far.
The House several weeks ago
killed, by majority vote, a com
bination sales tax and income
tax proposal, against the ad
vice of some members who
wanted it sent back to commit
tee where it could still be re
vived if necessary.
It also appears probable that
the property tax will be elim
inated as a source of stats funds,
Hear
REV. ROBT. CRAWFORD
General Overseer
Tonight - Tuesday - 8 p.m.
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"MARTIN LUTHER"
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being reserved to local units of
government. As a result, the
legislature faces 8 situation
where the only major way of
raising the money to pay for
state needs is through greatly
increased income taxes.
There has been considerable
talk about increasing exemp
tions for dependents, thus ad
ding to the number of low-
bracket taxpayers who would
have to pay little or no tax,
which would result in lowered
income from this source.
Double Question
The question, at this moment.
is a double one. How much
money should the state spend?
And how should it be raised?
The answer to the first ques
tion ranges from $259 million
(as proposed m ex-Governor
Smith's budget), to some $318
million, which is one estimate of
the amount which would be re
quired to finance Governor
Holmes' proposals including
the increased basic school sup
port fund and the bigger bud
get for the system of higher education.
The lower figure ($259,000,- I
000) could have been raised by
income taxes at present levels.
plus using some of the state's
$30-odd-mulion surplus expect
ed at the end of the biennium.
The latter figure cannot be
raised by present methods. And
now before the legislature are
bills which, if enacted, would
increase that total even higher
such things as more than half
a million dollars for a meat in
spection program, a couple of
hundred thousand for starting
state support of local and re
gional libraries, more than $300,
000 for construction of new 4-H
facilities at the state fair grounds
and a number of others for small
er amounts all for purposes
considered both worthy and im
portant by their supporters.
County's Legislators
Jackson county's legislators
Sen. Philip B. Lowry and Reps.
Robert Duncan and Al Littrell
in common with other mem
bers of both House and Senate,
have devoted much thought to
this basic and continuing quan
dary of popular government.
How much do the people real
ly want their state government
to do in the way of spending t
for increased state services? And
if they want these services at a
high level, how do they believe
they should be paid fori
They all would appreciate
hearing from people at home on
these questions. They say they
feel "cut off" from public senti
ment at home, and wish they
could return to Jackson county
more frequently.
Considerable Pressure
They have been under consid
erable pressure to approve the
4-H fairgrounds building, the
meat inspection measure, and
others. At the same time, Jack
son county is one area of the
state which seems, generally, to
favor some form of sales tax
which is now dead for this
session (except by a two-thirds
vote of the house to reverse it
self, which is highly unlikel.
In addition to this basic dil
emma, of course, are literally
hundreds of bills, each of which
someone thinks should pass, and
each of which must have some
consideration, even if only
enough to bury it in a commit
tee. These range through the
entire field of legislation, from
agriculture to welfare, and from
commerce to local government,
to military affairs.
The wonder, to some observ
ers, is how the legislatures turn
out as much basically good leg
islation as it does and how
little poor.
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