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PAGE I diioiiaI (paqsi ' Our first opportunity to see Oregon's Gov. Hatfield in action at the speaker's rostrum was a rather refreshing experience. The gov ernor appeared at an unusual session at a meeting of Oregon editors at the annual Ore gon Press Conference in Eugene. Gov. Hatfield, in more than an hour at the stand, answered a multitude of questions on every imaginable subject. He did it with grace, charm and candor to an unmatched extent. There was no feinting and no attempt to dodge "on the record" unrehearsed queries by some well-informed newsmen. That the governor has a great awareness and appreciation of the problems and resourc- Reapportionment (Oregon Statesman) Since this is the first legislative session following the 1960 federal census the Assem bly is under obligation to reapportion the Sen ate and the House, effective in 1983. Failure to perform according to the constitution would throw the job to the secretary of state, or perhaps to the Supreme Court. Through its committees the present Assembly is making a study of its problem. Immediately they are confronted with the fact that application of the formula in the constitution will mean a loss of some scats to Eastern Oregon and cor responding gain in Western Oregon, simply because the great growth in population has been on the West side. There is talk of submitting a new amend ment which would give each county a senator. That would make 36. Then nine more would be allotted to the more populous counties, mak ing a senate of 45 instead of 30. The trouble with this plan, as with another type of fed eral plan to give each county a House mem ber, is that some of the counties have so small a population that their claim to individual representation can't be justified. The last census showed Sherman County with only 2,430 people, Wheeler with 2,709, Gilliam with 3,036 and Morrow with 4,850. These counties in the past have sent some very able persons to serve in the Legislature, and doubt less would do so again; but there is just no logical basis for allotting each a senator or representative. Preliminary to sustaining such a claim there should be county consolidation, which under modern conditions of communi cation and transportation is fully warranted anyway. We do not anticipate that any of the counties with small populations would willing ly relinquish their local sovereignty or iden tity. Until they do, or until there is substan tial population growth in those counties, the plea for one senator or one representative each will probably be rejected. MIAMI, Fla. - A Iroop of Girl Scouts came through the coral courtyard, neat in their green uniforms and Innocent of eye. They studied the splendors of Vizcaya. but they did not under stand the palace. Only one man does. He stood on the balcony watching them below. They did not see him because James Deering Is long dead, and Girl Scouts do not believe in ghosts. He stood quietly, an impeccable little man with mixed gray hair, a fresh white linen suit, white calfskin shoes, a malacea cane, and pince-nez glasses. Ho was amused. It cost Mr. Deering $9.. 000,000 to build Viicaya. Today, it is a Dade County park and anyone can sec it, in the heart of Miami, for $1.25. Mr. Deering walked down the stone spiral staircase. He passed Eustace Edgecombe, who was a young Bahamian Negro working as a houseman when the palace was first built. He also passed Sammy Sands, a gardener giown old in the Job. He nodded, but they did not see him. Now he wonders why ho built it. Mr. Deering moved into the palace on Christmas Day 1!S. He spent only 90 days each year in it and he died aboard tlie liner Paris in 1025. Altogether, the prissy bachelor who preferred bourbon to women, spent 810 days there. It U a big exquisite tombstone, one of the finest in the world. Deering had tlie money. He was a partner In the McCormick harvester machine company. Mc Cormick had the ideas. Deering had the money. He searched the world seven limes for beauty. He could not find it in a good wo. man: he could not see It in a chili , HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon impressive Conference JIM BISHOP: REPORTER... No One To Listen Jo Ghost Of Jim Deering So he roamed the glohe, mak ing notes on n formal Italian garden here, an oriental statue there, a stone model of Cleopa tra's barge somewhere else. He bought rare tapestries, w hole ceilings, ancient scrolled door ways, bronze gates, rich chairs, tables he even bought four gold goose heads and necks as hot and cold water faucets lor his marble bath. In Cuba, he saw a village with ancient Span ish tile roots. He bought all the roofs for an enormous price and i'0-rocfcd the whole village. He wanted that tile. Thin ho picked a place. Mr. Deering lived on Lake Shoie Drive in Chicago, but a huge Ital ian palace with formal gardens .md a stone barro would be out of place I licit1. In IBM. ho louuil a city of 8.000 persons called Miami. Ho moved south of the settlement and bought 200 a c r e s of scrub jungle. Mr. Deering hired 1.000 men to assemble his rococo palace. He bought a second tract of land so that men could quarry lime stone and coral. When I lie place was finished, he hired 25 ser vants for the house maids were paid $50 a month and board and 50 gardeners for outside work. One day he walked to the greenhouse and met Sammv Sands' father. Mr. Deering leaned on his cine and studied a tiny palm tree through his pince-nez. "What rare species is that'.'" he said. Mr. Sands snid: "That is country gentleman cunt, Mr. Deering." His favorite expression was 'My, my! Isn't that pretty!" Mi. Deering had a valet who shaved him before a gold-framed mir ror, and o young male secretary Monday. February 20. 15CI cs of the state was manifested by his answers to questions ranging in scope from the Board man project, down to problems of a purely local nature, such as stream pollution, and city annexation. In answer to a question about his political future, the governor indicated that he will be a candidate for reelection in 1962. He gave a good, honest reason for that, too. He wants to carry on with some of the ideas and philos ophies of government that appeal to him, and which he thinks he can implement as govern or. We did not detect too much enthusiasm on his part when the possibility of seeking the Senate seat of Wayne Morse was suggested. He did, however, suggest the names of several Republicans who he considered as potential opponents to Morse. For whatever significance it might have, the governor did not include the names of any newspapermen in his list. Regarding his reorganization proposals, the governor affirmed what most observers had suggested that he had not ever hoped to achieve all of the objectives of the plan in this session of the legiilatire. He expressed the idea that "probably four or five" of those objectives would be a realistic achievement this session. Retention of salmon fishing, air and stream pollution, the Boardman project, the seashore dunes national park, industry, farm ing, higher education, state services, de pressed areas, extension of the Mall at Salem these and other complicated subjects were handled by the governor with ease and aplomb. One thing in the discussion that particu larly impressed us was the governor's attitude regarding enticing industry into the stale. He said that he does not favor the "gimmicks" that so many states and cities are using to lure new industry. Among them, he cited such things as tax writeoffs, construction of build ings, leasing of largo plots of land for small sums (such as one dollar) and other variations from existing rules and regulations. These ex emptions and dodges can only lead to chaos and future uncertainty, he believes. And we are in accord with that thinking. If there Us a market, or if other considera tions are attractive to an industry, it is doubt ful that tax gimmicks are necessary to bring il in. Those stales and communities which at-. tempt to provide services and discharge their obligations to the people of their respective areas need all of the tax money they can legiti mately get for such purposes. It does not fol low, then, that they can afford to dilute the structure that brings the lax money in. We're much impressed with the governor, and encouraged with his decision now to be a candidate for reelection, if that is what the fu ture holds for him. who traveled everywhere Mr. Deering went. Sometimes he ar rived on Dec, 15th by special Pullman car which pulled up on a Vizcaya siding. Once, in a burst of economy, he rode down from Chicago sitling in a pat lot car. In front of the palace, on Bis cayne Bay. he kept his yacht 1 Nepenthe. It looked like a big houseboat between the dock anil the stone barge. The society col umnists said he staged wild par lies. Mr. Deering was opposed to wild parties. His guests were al most always the same conserva tive people: Mr. and Mrs. B, M. Winston, Mr. and Mrs. Gadslon Drake. Mr. Diehard F. Hull, the R. E. Daniclsons. and Mr. a.d Mrs. Chauncey McCormick. Ht- dined at an oval table in what he called "the breakfast room.'' Krom there, he could look out 1.000 feet at his gorgeous Italian gai-dens, the cascading stairway with stone ruts lor v hcclhaiTows, the arches w i t ti life-size Roman statues on top. By to ;to p.m. Mr. Deering ex pected that evcrvonc would be in bed. The Deering courlvard has full grown palm trees. Th. he sat at while wrought-iron tables lis tening to an automatic organ, with player piano rolls, iiitonitisi his favorite music. A sign in tl-.c kitchen sa.d: "There will he no whistling in the palace while Mr. Deering is in residence." One of the Girl Scouts loiJd up and saw a miniature Spanish caravel hanging from a ceiling. She emitted a little wolf whistle. Tlie ghost of Mr. Deering looked up tixim a rare orchid in the garden. He adjusted his glasses and frowned. Then he smiled. Wup would listen to him now? Anti-Trust Conspiracy Case Cost To Taxpayers $300,000 Editor Note: United Press In ternational reporters, headed by Jack V. Fox, have cheeked into the background, in various cities, of the recent electrical industry anti-trust case. Following is the first of three dispatches report ing on how the government broke the case and obtained convictions at Philadelphia Feb. 6. and de scribing the "organization" men involved. By JACK V. FOX United Press International It took the United States gov Other Editors' Opinions Disappointing View (MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE)' Over the years, the system of free public education that has developed in the United States has come to be regarded as one of the great sources of our na tional strength. Today this system is under se vere attacks from a number of sources, the most serious being the opposition of those in the south who are willing to aban don the system to avoid integra tion of their public schools. This factor helps explain why the na tion's parochial and private schools grew faster than the pub lic schools in 19ti0. In view of this situation, it is disappointing that Francis Cardi nal Spellman, in discussing the educational recommenda tions made to President Ken nedy by one of his task forces, has issued a statement which could be viewed as hostile to the American system of free public education. The cardinal was critical of the recommendations because they did not include aid for students in parochial and private schools. Federal aid to public schools as well as to non-public schools is a controversial issue, of course. But the cardinal's statement makes it appear that the only "return" any citizen can expect Music Making ACROSS 1 SinjtinB voice 5 Made music 9 Musical measure 12 Comment 13 Sacred image 14 Malt beverage 15 War minded 17 Educational group lab.) 18 Drawing room 19 Come ui again 21 Wan '13. 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One group met 26 times in 10 months to set prices, rig bids and divide up sales in the power swilchgear equipment field. They used ah elaborate formula known as "phase of the moon" from his investment (through taxes) in the public schools is the education of his own chil dren. -To those who support the present system, of course, this patently is not true. The "return" that all of us hope for fiom our system of free public education whether we have children in the public schools or not is a better ed ucated and better informed citi zenry which is belter prepared to cope with the manifold prob lems of oncoming generations. If federal aid is granted to parochial and private schools by the federal government, the use of public funds at the local and state levels to support parochial and private schools presumably would follow. And if public, pri vate and parochial schools were to be supported from public funds, a new divisive influence would be injected into American life with disastrous results for the public schools. It should be recalled that Pres ident Kennedy, in discussing his views before the American So ciety of Newspaper Editors last spring, made the following com ment: "Federal assistance to parochi al schools, for example, is a very legitimate issue actually before the congress. ! am opiroscd to it. 1 believe il is clearly uncon stitutional. ..." We agree. Answer to Previous Purile. 40 Shoe part 4 Network 43 More ecrtain 50 Food repim 45 Rosters 51 Departed 4fi Enthusiasm 52 Finishes 47 Play part &5 Worm R E g I N A BjElC A M E ofe. a t' o r EVA p e 5 P I )" V 1 Eg" tL Rlf JB O R N gffrj eBJI eU MTtQ . l e oig i-lfc. jy L, a yjki a I A T AW WAR sp a 'ifcfie'P i L. & tTb R'gfoBI"e g l. a v akJ a?r v kJRlMa o Jb. O ' T t R,p AIU.B E T E. R n 65t p l e a e aIl"I&& jlAjL-lTlelp i 12 i U 1 lb 16 17 18 I 9 110 111 i2 TT"" I? IT" r? !5 5" npr p rj 5 31 3 1? gp i Q5 m I' K 5J 5j bb 3 jj 3 3 Si 1 I I till I I I I y lo indicate whose turn it was to submit a low , bid and at what price in the S2 billion yearly heavy electrical field. Each com pany had its copy of the "moon sheets." Yet so complete was the Justice Department investigation that not a single one of the 45 men and 29 corporations 'doing 95 per cent of the nation's heavy elec trical business) entered a not guilty plea. Federal Judfio James Cullcn Gancy of Philadelphia sentenced seven men to a month in prison, suspended prison sentences for 23 and levied fines totaling $1,924,000. None of the top management of General Electric, Wcstinghouse or the other huge corporations was indicted. The government had these weapons in its inquiry: Expense Accounts. They showed the same executives present time and again in (he same hotels with their competitors. The Tennessee Valley Authority, "he huge federal power project furnished a mass of information on its own purchases w h i c n showed beyond a doubt there was a price-rigging plot. Informers. As the case de veloped, minor figures involvtd told on their superiors. The gov ernment, playing for keeps, grant ed them immunity from prosecu tion fur doing so. Subpenas. The simple power of subpena drew in corporation ac counts and forced executives to testify before grand juries. They could not claim the Fifth Amend ment clause against self-incrimination. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act excludes that. The prosecution began under Atty. Gen. William Rogers in tilt Eisenhower administration, and new Ally. Gen. Robert Kennedy got in only on the tail of the case but long enough to endorse the severe penalties the govern ment was asking. The man closest lo the case was William L. Maher, chief of the Anti-Trust Division in Phila dclnhia. Mahcr at one time had 2'l .histice Department lawyers work ing under his supervision. In his office last week. Maher described how the case developed. For years there had been com plaints about near identical bid ding on equipment for public agen cies. In laic 1957, the FBI started an investigation of certain prod urts. Then in May. 1959. the TV A furnished substantial information on its experiences with the big electrical companies. It was enough to call a grand jury, the first of four in tlie case. In all 75 w iinesscs were summoned. Maher said there was no wire tapping or ' bugging" of hotel rooms. Testimony of those in volved exposed the whole con spiracy. Members were known to each other by numbers. They wrote on plain stationery to each othcr'f homes and destroyed letters aft erwards. One gioup involved General Electric. Weslin;.'housc. Allis-Cha',-mei-s. I-T-K Cucuit Breaker Co. of Philadelphia, and Federal Pa cific Kleclnc Co. of Newark, X .1. During in and part of 1959. executives of those companies met in hotels in Philadelphia. Pittsburgh, Newark and Haddon field. N.J.. Cleveland. Milwaukee. Detroit. Saanton and Hershev, EDSON IN WASHINGTON Kennedy Proposas Sound Like Utopia Bv PETER EDSON Hashington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAi The pro grams which President Kennedy has so far mapped out for toe country are almost Utopian. Ev erybody can have everything. Both ways. America has the resources, he says, to meet the demands lor national security. At tlie same time it can have advancing well being at home. Thus has the familiar ring ot "We can have guns and butter both," as the saying was in World War II days. Some of tne optimists were saying then that the country could win the war with business as usual and with out sacrifice. Kennedy has altered that con cept by saying that he will ask for sacrifices where needed. But the assumption now seems to be that these sacrifices aren't going to be to many, too great, nor for too long a time. The country can have full pro duction, the President indicates, and still have "reasonable stabili ty of the price level." But what's "reasonable" to him hasn't been defined. In tlie eight Eisenhower years the consumers' price index ad vanced 12 percentage points 114 to 126 or 1.5 points a year on the average. This provides a bas is for future comparisons with the Kennedy administration record. The President wants to increase the 2.5 per cent average annual growth rate of the last seven years to at least 3.5 per cent. He thinks that personal income last year could have been raised 20 billion dollars and profits raised five billion at the same time. Some people hold to the old fashioned idea that higher wages mean lower profits. But that isn't the way it's going to work in the new Utopia, wlice higher wages and profits will mean higher tax collections to rebalance the budg et. Kennedy talks about balancing the budget "over the years of the economic, cycle." This means over a period of both boom and bust It means budget surpluses for debt retire ment in the years of prosperity, to offset the deficits in the years of depression. THE DOCTOR Irresponsibility Is A I I "s0t Aiconoiics i rait By HAROLD T. 1IYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. I'm turning today's column over to two correspondents who write with greater impact than 1 could ever achieve. "I have lived with an alco holic for 45 years." writes one who signs herself "A Drunkard's Wife." "He seems to me to have been an alcoholic from the first drink. We were married Nov. 22 Pa.. Louisville. New York and Chicago. They divided up the switchgear husincrs: Company Percentage General Electric 39 Wcstinghouse .15 l-T-E Circuit Breaker 11 Allis-Chalmers Federal Pacilic 7 When it was completed, il was the biggest anti-trust case in tlie 71-year history of the Sherman Art. There had been larger suits involving one or two companies, hut none of this magnitude affect ing an entire industry. The case involved only equip ment used in tlie generation, transmission and distribution of electricity. It had nothing to do with consumer sales of radios. TV sets, toasters or refrigerators. The men convicted were among the most respected citizens of their communities with outstanding rec-oi-ds of civic service. Defense lawyers pointed to those circum stances in asking lor leniency. The highest-paid executive was William S. Ginn of General Elec tric. He ws boss of 17.000 men at the luihiiie division in Schenec tady, X.Y., and made $130,000 a year. He was and is held in high est rerarri An oflicer of the In ternational Electrical Workers Union, which was involved in i hitler, three-week strike against GE last year, said: "Locallv we found him a fellow ou could deal with fairly. Hes a veiy much respected man." Gov. Nelson Rockefeller recent ly appointed Cinn a member of the ,w York Commission on EconomV Expansion. But General Electric has been the severest of all on employes in volved, ge says the an'ti-tni-Jt conspiracy was in outright viola tion of company orders nd ha. cut salaries, demoted and trans Icrrcd men involved. The Eisenhower record ws 0UP years with total surpluses if Slx billion dollars, four years wh m. tal deficits of 22 billion. Imthcr words, the national debt ro. billion from 274 to 290 billn another basis for comparison. In these same eight years . ploymcnt went up from 60 to million, wliile unemployment ru from 1.6 million to 4.5 millio using the conservative estimate of the last Eisenhower econonu report. These are other measures to keep in mind. Hie programs which Kennedy has so far proposed to Congress for economic recovery and growth will not by themselves, he says, unbalance the last budget which Eisenhower submitted. No cost estimates for these Ken nedy programs were included in the first special message which he sent to Congress. Elsewhere, it is indicated that the cost may he under five billion dollars over the next year and a half. So the promise is to increase government expenses without un. balancing the budget another Utopian idea. But the prospects for this are admittedly fading fast. Some of the Kennedy proposals like early payment of veler ans' insurance dividends do not call for an extra government out lay. Others, like increased social security benefits, will be paid (or by later payroll deduction in creases. Minimum wage increases will be paid for by employers. Plac ing more defense contracts in de pressed areas means that the un depressed areas won't have it so good. In oilier words, you don't get something for nothing, not even in Utopia. : Back of all these proposals, moreover, is the idea that pros, perity can be restored just by in creasing government and private spending. It is a theory that has never been proved though it is now widely advocated by some of the new Utopian frontier econ omists. Kennedy says many of the measures he proposes are tem porary. Tlie need for them will disappear as the economy recov ers. The faster the recovery and the more temporary the measure, the more Utopian will be the counlry, anyway. SAYS ! I T l and the following Christmas he was brought home, completely passed out. He went beyond ex tremes with everything. He ap peared to be unsure of himself unless he was drinking. If we had important business to attend to, he always took a drink first. "Two years ago." she conlin ucs, "he had a very narrow es cape from death. He drove his car on the railroad tracks and, in stead of crossing, he turned down the track. A man saw him and called the station and trains were held up until they got him off the track. "I have noticed," she concludes, "that people who drink have no i sense of responsibility. They al ways expect someone else to shoulder their responsibilities (or them." "Please warn the public against X-ray treatments for acne." urges a grandmother. "My whole lil" was wrecked on account of such treatment when I was 16. My whole face was burned off. I'm the mother now of two grown children and I have seven grand children. Inside of two years 1 have had to have two skin can cers taken off on account of those ancient treatments. And. for the rest of my life, I'm going to haie lo watch for more troubles." I'd like to add a final word Very (ew of the thousands o( sufferers from acne have had the misfortune that was visited on our correspondent. On a percent ase basis, perhaps the incidents might be reckoned in the thud or fourth decimal place. But, (or our grandmother, the incidence is 100 per cent. And, in my view, that's too grave a risk for tlie symptomatic relief of an eiup tion that has a aipo mortality. Dear Reader: Dr. Hyman ap preciates your comments and questions but regrets that the hea vy volume of his mail doesn't permit him to answer each indi vidual letter or post card. How ever, he will comment in col umns like the ahove upon mat ters of general or unusual interest. For s copy of Dr. Hyman leaflet "What About Cancer"'' send 10 cents to Dr. Hyman. carl Herald and News, Box' 49. Dcpi B. Radio City Station. New York 19. XY. O
