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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,
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ALASKA AND THE SOUTH
Washington Alaska, which
so long has been knocking
wistfully on the door, appears
about to be brought at last
into the Union of the States.
There are indications that
the Senate is going to change
its mind a
heavy, convul
sive process in
itself and
put. Alaska's
star into the
flag as its
4 9th. The
House has al
ready voted to
do so.
WilUm S. 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. .
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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. Most
of all, however, it has become
possible because Southern
leadership is in a phase of a
changing of the guard, from
the old to the new.
(Copyright, 1958, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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