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8 MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE- THURSDAY. AUGUST 25, I960 Capitol Memo Government Officials Strive To Keep Pace With Demands For Government at Low Cost Editor' note: This is an other in a series of guest col umns from the state capitol. Today trie speaner 01 ine Oregon House of Represent tives discusses three not-so little words. By ROBERT B. DUNCAN Written for UPI Salem - IUPD - Efficiency! Economyl Reorganization! Words such as these are read and heard frequently these day as officials of gov ernment at all levels strive to keep up with the increas ing demands for more gov ernmental services at less cost to the taxpayer.. "Efficiency" and "econ omy" are the goals. "Reor ganization" is the means most frequently used to achieve them. Study to develop new ideas, new techniques and a willingness to try them have enabled industry to provide better products at less cost.. Government can do the tame. The Oregon Legislature has provided the statutory tools for reorganization, of the schools, for county home rule and reorganization, and for reorganization of the ex ecutive branch of state gov ernment. New laws, court rules and good administra tion are speeding the work of the courts.' Increasing population and industrial development means more problems for the Legis lature; its techniques and or ganization must be 'Constant ly reappraised to enable it to correctly solve these prob lems and to avoid or slow down the trend to longer or more frequent sessions;, the governor's office and the ex ecutive department must be strengthened and realistic lines of authority and respon sibility established. Along with this must go a strong and efficient Legis lative branch. During the last session, un necessary record-keeping was eliminated; committee staffs were combined to eliminate duplication and uneven work loads, thus reducing the num ber of employees; printing and regulations were chang ed, greatly reducing costs; Senate and House Commit tees combined to eliminate duplicate hearings on the same bill, and tighter restric tions on the introduction of bills were imposed. The legislative counsel committee has to its credit a recodification of the state statutes. It is now moving to a revision of the slate code. Even now this committee is preparing r e c ommendations for further procedural chang es at the next session. The 1959 session took a tremendous step forward in establishing its permanent and nonpartisan fiscal com mittee. The governor disap proved but did not veto the committee, permitting the bill to become law without his signature. " . The fiscal committee func tions primarily in the field MATCH BOOKS About 13 billion match books are used annually in the U.S. The ancient Egyptians were expert gardeners. Remnants of funeral wreaths found in tombs prove that people of the Nile grew such flowers as the lily, cornflower, and nar cissus. . . , of budgets and state spend ing. Detailed Studies Made Already this new commit tee has secured a detailed study of the use which our colleges are making of their buildings. This has pointed up both shortages in housing and extravagances in other areas. Inquiries into the use of state funds by the mili tary department will result in tighter controls over their budget. These are examples of ways in which this com mittee will save money for the state and enable the leg islature to do a better job. If it can be said that the executive department has and will do these same things, the answer is that the fiscal committee has provided a necessary and desirable stim ulus. Beyond that, the important thing is not who gets the credit for improvements in government but that the im provements take place. Final Responsibility The final responsibility in appropriating and raising the money for ; state government and in deciding how it is to be spent is the legislature's. The governor's function is to recommend and execute the laws. It cannot be denied that the men and women who serve on a part-time basis and virtually without com pensation must have the inde pendent research and infor mation to enable them to dis charge their responsibility ef fectively. In no other way can the separation of powers between the three co-equal branches of government be maintained. Writer Recalls Roosevelt's Speech Technique By WILLIAM D. LAFFLER . United Press International New York -Wfli- A great na tion stood with its head bowed in despair. The year was 1933. Bread lines were long and jobs were scarce. Theaters in many sec tions of the country were closed. Respectable merchants stood in front of empty stores and begged for customers. Will Rogers cracked Jokes about the depression. Eddie Cantor tried to cheer the ra dio audience with a song that said "potatoes are cheaper, to matoes are cheaper," but few persons had money to buy them. The future looked bleak early in 1933. Then a voice rang out. "We have nothing to fear but fear itself!" The voice was clear and crisp. It exuded confidence with a blend of humility and authority. It was that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Sales in bakery products stores amounted to $751 mil lion for the first nine months of 1959. Much has been said about Sir Winston Churchill and his heroic oratory during the dark days of World War II. But tne voice of F.D.R. was equally persuasive during the months after the Pearl Harbor attack. It is possible now to study the speeches of Roosevelt with cool detchment 16 years after his death. With the permission of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, the president's widow, Washing ton Records has recorded many of them on six 12-inch long-play records under the title, "F.D.R. Speaks." . . "It will be historically valu able as well as give pleasure to a great many people," said Mrs. Roosevelt, who will turn her royalties over to a boys' home. Robert Bialek, president of the recording firm, and his staff explored every available tape or transcription of Roose velt speeches and pieces of speeches. Then Dr. Henry Steele Com mager, the noted historian, se lected and edited 33 covering the period from Roosevelt's inauguration in 1933 to his report to Congress on Yalta 12 years later. "This is the first use of the phonograph record for histori cal reporting in depth," Bia lek said. Though Roosevelt later was criticized by many disillusion ed persons as a Jeckyll-Hyde politician, and adored by oth ers, these records show that Roosevelt was a consummate orator. F.D.R. was the master of the . neatly turned phrase -"day of infamy" (Pearl Har bor), "a plague on both your houses" (Steel versus John L. Lewis), "the hand that' held the dagger" (Mussolini's en try into the war), just to men tion a few. Roosevelt used old tech niques, such as alliteration and dramatic repetition, to get across a point but his de livery made these techniques effective. TRUCK OWNERS One-third of all the trucks in the U.S. are on farms. The other one-third are based in urban communities. . Congress May Investigate Radiation Protection Guides Washington - (Science Serv ice) - Congressional investi gation may be expected be cause of an administrative or der permitting any Federal agency to set up its own ra diation protection guides. The individual jurisdiction and the "do-it-yourself" safe ty procedures for agencies In atomic work was recommend ed by the Federal Radiation Council and accepted and ap proved by President Eisenhower; The Federal Radiation coun cil through its chairman, Sec retary of Health, Education and Welfare Arthur S. Flem- ming, submitted to the Presi dent on May 13, 1960, a mem orandum on radiation protec- tioh guidance for Federal agencies. This was the council's first report on its statutory respon- sibility under executive order 10831 and Public Law 88-373 to"... . advise the President with respect to radiation mat ters, directly or indirectly af fecting health, including guid ance for all Federal agencies in the formulation of radiation standards and in the estab lishment and execution of pro grams of cooperation wun states. . ." Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D. -N. M.), chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, told Science Service that Congress had expected from the council more uni formity rather than diversity in setting up radiation guides. He said, "The trend should be toward uniformity; and one federal agency should de cide and be responsible for the establishment of radiation standards or guides. "If any deviation of these standards is deemed neces sary by an agency, applica tion should be made to the controlling agency which should decide the requested change and give written rea sons for its decisions." The council recommended in general terms "Radiation Protection Guides" to be used hv tho agencies "for normal peacetime operations." The final recommendation of the council states, agencies should adhere to the guides "with judgment and discretion" but that "the guides may be ex ceeded only after the federal agency having' jurisdiction over the matter has carefully considered tne reason ior ao ing so in light of the recom mendations in this paper." Dr. Donald Chadwick ot the U.S. Public Health serv ice and secretary to the Fed eral Radiation council told Science Service that this final recommendation does, in fact, allow each agency the free dom to determine its own safety standards "weighing the benefits against the risks." He justified the independence of judgment allowed the agen cies by the council on tha ground that one standard can not apply to all radiation uses. 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