Scandinavian American. [volume], October 01, 1948, Page 12, Image 12

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A GOOD GOVERNOR
Wallgren Describes
State Progress
November 2nd the voters will
decide whether Washington goes
forward with a governor who has
faith in the future or whether it
goes back to the same penny
pinching, do-nothing administra
tion the people voted out of office
four years ago.
The Republican candidate talks
about “good government" as if he
had a patent on it. As you know.
I succeeded Mr. Langlie as Gover
nor. and so I had the opportunity
to see at first hand some of his
so-called good government.
In the Department of Labor and
Industries. for example, we found
workers time—loss claims that had
been pigeon-holed for months,
piles of correspondence that had
never been answered, and legiti
mate claims of injured workers
stored away in orange crates.
The conduct of the department
was.so unbusinesslike that drug
gists had refused to give the state
credit on medicine for injured
workers.
It took five months to clean up
the mess and bring the department
up to date and that was only a
small part of the mess we found
in Olympia.
We felt like a housewife who
moved into a home and found
dirty dishes in the sink and dust
swept under the carpets. No wom
an would call what we saw good
housekeeping and we couldn't call
what we saw “good government."
By various generalities, Mr. Lan
glie tries to create the impression
that my administration is ex
travagant whereas his was econ
omical.
To dispose of his argument let
me give you two examples with
out resorting to generalities. One
example is a. little one and the
other example is a. big one.
Let's take the little example
first:
The State of Washington owns
some tide-lands that are known as
oyster reserves. e
During the four years of the
Mglie administration, the state
realized 26 thousand dollars from
the sale of oysters on these re
serves. The Langlie administra
tion then advised selling the re.
serves outright. estimating the
state would receive 50 or 60 thou
und dollars for them.
We looked the situation over
and decided to institute a. little
management—a little “good gov-;
emment." From 1945 through thei
first half of 1948, we have real-g
ized 270 thousand dollars from the
sale of oysters—five times what
Langlie would have sold the prop
erty for—and we still own the re-i
serves. 1
That example, as I pointed out.
is a little one~but it illustrates
the kind of applied common sense
you have a right to expect from
your government. It is the kind
of applied common sense you are
getting from my administration.
Now let me give you a big ex
ample of good government.
What bothers Mr. Langlie is the
fact that under my administration
we have spent money to do things.
That is not Mr. Langlies idea of
good government.
1 am talking tonight in Spo-’
kane. In cooperation with Spo-1
kane County we are building an
addition to the Edgecliff Tubercu
losis Sanitarium in this city. Whr-n
it is built. beds will be provided.
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for the first time to take care .of
tuberculosis patients in eleven
Eastern Washington Counties.
At Selah, in cooperation with six
counties we are building another
tuberculosis hospital.
We have cooperated with King
County and obtained use of a Na
val Hospital which takescare of
all cases on the West Side from
King County to the Canadian bor
der. ,
‘ With these hospitals we can take
care of all cases in Washington
except those in the southwest part
of the state. I intend to- ask the
legislature for funds to build one
more hospital in cooperation with
Pierce County.
‘ When that is *built. tuberculosis
ispecialists tell me, we can com
lpletely eliminate tuberculosis in
Ithis state in a period of from
ithirty to forty years.
‘ I told you my sectmd example
i°f good government was to be a
lbig one. This Tuberculosis Hos
lpital Building Program is just one
‘part of it. '
’ Eighty miles south of Spokane
lis Washington State College. We
‘have a ten million dollar building
‘program going on there.
‘ At the University of Washing
}ton we have an 18 million dollar
1construction program where.
‘among other things, we are build
‘ing the state’s first medical school.
‘ Other building programs are un
der way at colleges of education
at Cheney. Ellensburg, and Bell
ingham.
Under my administration, we are
building and doing.
‘ We were the first state in the
[union to provide housing for vet
terms returning to college.
We inaugurated the state's first
soil conservation program.
We opened 59 metallic and 37
non-metallic mining properties by
‘building mine to market roads.
For Sportsmen and commercial
fishermen we built seven new fish
hatchefies and have already in
creased fish plantings by more
than thirty per cent.
We have advertised Washington
in national magazines. and in 1947
tourists spent 113 million dollars
with us. ‘
i We sponsored and secured pas
sage of 8 Teachers’ Retirement
Bill that provides teachers one
hundred dollars a. month at age
60 or upon retirement.
1 We are building a. four lane
highway to speed traffic and re
‘lieve congestion on Highway 99.
1 We are constructing new form
to—market roads and improving old
ones.
Ladies and gentlemen, the list
I have just given to you is by no
means complete, but if Mr. Lang
lie is listening. I know he‘ must
be horrified. Such extravagance!
Building and spending doesn’t fit
his idea of “good government." It
doesn‘t jibe with penny-pinching.
Very well! We've done these
things and we intend to do more.
So let’s get down to the meat
in the coconut. Let's see what
kind of government we‘ve had.
Let's look at the condition of the
state‘s finances.
As of July 31, 1948, the State of
Washington's bonded indebtedness
is the lowest in 28 years with only
53.199000 in bonds outstanding——
5 million dollars less than when I
inok m'v r the administration from
Langiira
HOOKS _ LINES — NETS
GROCERIES —. CLOTHING
“Quality Always”
Explains Good Government
As to cash and bonds in the
treasury. we now have 232 mil~
lion dollars—74 millions dollars
more than the Langlie administra-
tion left in its treasury.
I told you I would give a big
example of “good government"—
a.nd the last few minutes have been
devoted to that example, which is:
We have done more, built more.
served more, and spent more than
the Langlie administration—and
we owe less money and we have
more cash on hand than the Lang
lie administration had. And we
have done all this with no increase
in taxes, but on the contrary, we
have effected the first substantial
tax reduction in the state’s history.
When you hear Mr. Langlie talk
ing about good government, don't
you forget this.
I said in the primary campaign.
and I repeat it now. I am the only
candidate for governor who has
faith in the future of this state.
Mr. Langlie says that if he is
elected he will fire four thousand
state employees. .
Does that indicate faith in the
future?
The state's population has in
creased more than five hundred
thousand since Mr. bunglie was
Governor.
Highway traffic has doubled.
Motor vehicles traveled 3 billion
more miles on Washington roads
in 1947 than in 1944.
Yet, in spite of this tremendous
‘increase our State Patrol has
brought Washington‘- from 26th
place in traffic safety to second
place in the nation and first in the
eleven western states.
How many state patrolmen does
Mr. [Anglie intend to fire?
0:- is he going to discharge cler
ical help and put the departments
back into the untidy mes: we
found when we took over?
When I speak of the achieve
ments of my administration I
speak of accomplishments made
possible through devoted team
work of state employees of whom
more than half are war veterans.
I have been in every part of this
state talking with the people.
They don't think Washington is go
ing to wither and blow away. They
share my faith in the future.
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As Congressman and Senator I
fought. worked, and voted for our
power dams and reclamation proj
ects. I fought for them when they
1were dreams—but Coulee Dam is
§here, and aluminum industry is‘
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of new people are here becausei
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When the last Republican Con
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I call that kind of work good
government. And I'll tell you right
now. you won’t get that kind of
public service from the Langlie,
Cain crowd if you live to be a
thousand years old.
They serve different masters.
Their bosses are private utilities.
ruthless timber barons, and giant
private monopolies. Those people
want Langlie type of government.
They've made theirs.
We’ve licked‘ that crowd before
——and we’ll lick them again this
year.
We’ll go on building.
We'll restore and improve the
social security legislation the 1947
Republican legislature wrecked.
We’ll continue to build new
schools and hospitals.
We’ll continue our fights for
more dams, for lower power rates,
for great rural qlectrification.
\Ve’ll build our‘ all-weather Cas
cade Tunnel to bring the markets
and the people of the east and
west side closer together.
We'll build more state parks.
such as that at Sun Lake, and
we'll build them on both the east
side and the west side.
We'll build more fish hatcheries,
plant more fish, and prbpagate
more game for sportsmen.
We’ll continue our highway
building to give fast transporta—
tion to every part of our state.
We'll ccntinue to advertise in
national magazines ~—- and when
tourist guests arrive we’ll be proud
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