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4 o fogjofs Senators Favor Change in iys?em of Campaign Funds Br A. ROBERT 9UM Mail Tribur Corrospoateac Washington Both of Ore gon's senators support the idea of changing the prevailing system of elec tion campaign contribuptions to replace large private funds, put up by b u s i n ess and labor, with federal funds. Sen. Rich- t r A. Robt Smith ara i-.. IN e u- berger has worked out a de tailed bill, which Sen. Wayne Morse is cosponsoring, which would relieve candidates of having to go hat in hand to those economic groups upon whom they are now greatly dependent for the bulk of their operating expenses dur ing a tough election cam paign. As Neuberger has pointed out, this idea of federal fi nancing of elections is over 50 years old and was offered to Congress originally by Presi dent Teddy Roosevelt in 1907, who jjpid: "The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation fbr the prop er and legitimate expenses . . . whiift requires a large expen diture of money." Roosevelt in 1907 couldn't have dreamed just how large the costs of electioneering would get. Campaigning in those days was still largely a face-to-face affair between candidates and voters in pub lic squares, from the plat forms of railroad coaches and in public auditoriums. Campaign Costs Soar The high cost of using ra dio and TV to communicate with the voter9 today has made campaign costs soar. Billboard and newspaper ad vertising are the other media most commonly used at con siderable expense. "The time has come to rec ognize that j$ a democracy the presentation of political candidates fend issues to the voters in g campaign is not something done for the can didates, but for the publie who must exercise as in formed a choice as they can among them. The expense of making this information equitably available to the electorate is a legitimate cost of democratic self - govern-i merit," said Neuberger. There are many methods of carrying out this principle, he said, and it might take trial and error to hit upon the most practical plan. One would be to make direct pay ments to the political party committees before elections, allowing them to distribute the funds as they saw fit for use in what ever media is preferrable to the candidates. As it works now, candidates for Congress usually rely upon their national commit tees to supply them with sub stantial contributions. Neuberger has another idea for allowing tax credits to voters who make relatively small contributions say up to $50 or $100. This he thinks would provide incentive for more people to make contri butions to their favorite can didates and diminish the need for large contributions. This would continue the basic system of today of allowing private contributions, but in effect would mean the govern ment would be footing the bill because of the loss of taxes. Other Problems One problem is that even if federal funds are put up, how would private spending in behalf of candidates be con trolled, curtailed or elimi nated? That is, a candidate might receive his federal funds and allow private sources, either openly or on the sly, pick up the tab for extra expenses, such as print ing pamphlets in his behalf. Another problem is what to do about third party candi dates or independent no-party candidates? In both cases, Neuberger suggests that public funds could be withheld unless certain requirements are met. Private spending would have to be held to certain limits in order for a candidate to be eligible for public funds Third party candidates would have to win at least 10 per cent of the total vote, let's say, to qualify for public funds to cover their election expenses. This would weed out the fellows who just enter the campaign as a lark or for personal publicity with no thought of getting many votes, much less winning. In view of the Adams- Goldfine case, Neuberger this week wrote President Eisen hower urging him to recom mend a change in the pre vailing system, as his GOP predecessor did half a cen tury ago. Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- EX-PRESIDENT Harry Truman spent a couple days in New Haven recently, meeting with Yale students and faculty members. As was his wont, he took his vigorous "stroll" each morning, exhausting one and all by his breakneck pace. At a farewell dinner, everybody cheered when Yale Prexy Griswold award ed Mr. Truman a richly de served varsity "Y" for cross-country. Red Smith, ace sports writer, had lunch one day with a famous jockey. The jockey firmly declined a very wonderful mint julep. "Thank you, but give me a raincheck," plead ed the jockey. "I'm riding a nag this afternoon, and if I drank one of those juleps, I'm afraid I'd bet on him myself!" After the late George Jean Nathan had lived In one hotel suite for S3 years, somebody asked, "Isn't it time you were moving?" . "Moving," Nathan informed him loftily, "is for sailboats." 1958.- by Bennett Cci f. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, 6-2T o Before You Do Your KITCHEN REMODELING See Our Complete Kitchen Displays! Featuring ... . ' . YOU NGSTOWN STEEL KITCHENS Available with dishwasher, food waste disposer and range hood i . . also n EMPRESS Unfinished or pre-finished wood cabinets in Birch, Sen-wood (ash). 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White J. n i pro spective extension of the con tinental United States to the hard, icy underbelly of the Soviet Union no doubt will have debatable strategic meanings. Its already visible political significance is the point of this piece. For what is un folding as the Union expands northward is a quickening rear-march of the Deep South erners. A S RECENTLY as a year ago there would have been only the barest possibility that any Alaskan statehood bill could pass the Senate. There would have been no possibility whatever of passage without a violent Southern filibuster or a deliberate time-killing maneuver to prevent a vote that might have hardly been worth the cost. But this time there is al most certainly not going to be any real Southern filibuster. The more traditional South erners have already put their heads together. They have gloomily concluded that they cannot successfully launch an all-out attack against what now seems to be the manifest destiny of the Alaskans to have a state capitol and all the rest to fit. What has so altered the out look in so short a time? The answer is that most of the Southerners themselves their basic attitudes, their ba sic understanding of their own power limitations have greatly altered. This process, with its un- Proposed Budget For EP Adopted Eagle Point A proposed city budget for the 1958-59 fiscal year was prepared and adopted by the Eagle Point council at a special meeting June 11. A budget meeting is scheduled for Thursday, July 10. at 8 p.m. in the Eagle Point city hall. Copies of the proposed bud get are Dosted in Brown's Market, the Little Butte Gro cery, and the Eagle Market. At the regular June meet ing of the council, members of the council and of various organizations called for strict enforcement of the city s traf fic laws. Council meetings are open to the nublic and "citizens are invited to attend and express viewpoint on problems which arise. . 4-1 CLUB NEWS Elk-Trail Forestry Squirrels The Elk-T rail Forestry Squirrels met at the home of Margaret and Leonard Han son's, June 17. Their roll call topic was a test on trees and shrubs. They discussed , h o w to mound forest. ' specimens to exhibit in the fair. The next meeting is planned to be at Lois Rogers', July 9. Leonard Hanson served re freshments. Cheryl Miller, Reporter G. E. Stitchers The G. E. Stitchers held another all day work period Saturday, June 21, beginning at 10 A.M. - The club met at 1:30 p.m. on May 24 for a work period with only seven members pre sent. Measles and mumps af flicted the other members. Diane Wheeler was our host ess. We met again on June 7 beginning at 10 ajn. with a business meeting Mrs. Gard ener gave a few tips on bias tape and showed the girls how to cut it and sew it. At our next meeting some members will be responsible for a de monstrattion on bias tape. A swimming party climaxed the meeting but we were rained out. . Vonnie Lee Goehring served as hostess and treated us to cookies. Connie Rae Goehring Reporter More than a million acres of Australian land were treat ed by aircraft in regular com mercial operations during 12 months. mense implications for the future, began last summer in the great debate over civil rights. Then, the more mod era Southerners at first agreed to examine and at length agreed to grant Federal en forcing powers in this field fPHOUGH these powers were - deemed by Northern all- out civil rights people to be inadequate, .they were still of a kind that had been unthink- ably unacceptable below the Mason-Dixon Line through the eight decades that had gone before. All but a handful of the Southerners were coaxed into this withdrawal from their old position of absolute and total opposition by some of their own people, chiefly Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, the party leader. But the process was power fully and probably decisively aided by Western liberals like Senators Joseph C. O'Maho- ney of Wyoming and Frank Church of Idaho. These West erners understood, as many did not, that the real question was not whether an ideal or even a very good civil rights bill was to be had. The vital point was to have any kind of civil rights bill at all. For any kind of action, as they foresaw, would open the way to a gradual chipping, a slow fissuring, of the old Southern political monolith that for nearly a century had held an ultimate veto simply by reason of its utter unity of purpose and action. THE alliance of the new South and West sensed, in short, that a historic oppor tunity had come. This was the opportunity to begin to bring the South, with all its back ward-looking ideas but also with all its political grace and skill, back into the United States of America. Thus the story now comes up to date. For Alaska's fore shadowed victory is an in stance of the old, obstruction ist South. Having found through the civil rights accomodation a means for doing business with the Southern moderates, the Western liberals and other more-or-less liberals have found, too, a means for pro gressively isolating the South ern ultra-conservatives. The existence of this new point of reasonable contact is proving useful in other ways. For an illustration, influential Alaskans have privately indi cated to the moderates a reas suring belief that if 'Alaska does indeed become a state, she will not straightaway send two extremist Senators here. This has helped to weaken opposition to statehood. 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