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4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Tuei., Aug. 30, 1960
NATIONAL RETIREMENT HOME
By Charles V. Stanton
Orecon rapidly is becoming the "nation's retirement
home." Unless the state sets up a new tax base, one more
attractive to industry, our chief expectation for continuing
growth lies in the influx of pensioners and retired people
who will come into Oregon to escape taxation.
Such is the opinion of R. W. "Dick" Jenney, district
manager of the Pioneer Service Co., Inc., whose job keeps
him traveling over the state. He reports he is greatly im
pressed by the large number of people coming to Oregon
to retire. At the same time he notes much movement of
small industry out of the state, while most attractive in
dustrial sites go undeveloped because Oregon's tax climate
is unfavorable.
In fact, says Jenney, he recently traveled through a
part of the Wiilamette Valley with an industrial engineer.
The engineer expressed amazement to find bean farms,
hop yards, wheat fields and general farms tributary to rail
roads and highways sites that should be occupied by
Bmall industry.
Jenney's observations concerning Oregon were express
ed as we visited briefly in my office a few days ago and
found that we have very similar ideas about Oregon's tax
picture and our unfavorable tax climate.
Need For Jobs
We agreed on the statement I have made previously in
this column that what Oregon
would be paid by the man who puts in a business or a
factory should be small in comparison to the tax from a
dozen to several hundred workers.
It sounds far more pleasant to say that the taxes should
be paid according to a man's ability to pay. But the fact
is that taxes are paid principally by the laborer. It isn't
a bit popular to say that more of the tax load should be
imposed upon the man of
way the man of modest income will be relieved from the
tax burden is to get more people of modest income paying
taxes and thus obtain a wider distribution of the load.
The "Soak the Rich" philosophy has a lot of appeal,
particularly to the person on low income. But the so-called
"rich" usually can include taxes as part of the cost of
manufacture, of business, of services, etc., whereupon the
tax cost falls upon the consumer the man with the small
income.
If we could offer an inducement to people with money
to invest in Oregon, thereby creating more jobs, we would
have more people to pay taxes, which would lighten the
individual load.
We hear many people stating that Oregon's over all tax
is no higher thun elsewhere. That doubtless is a true state
ment. But we come back to the fact that it isn't the
amount of taxes that counts, but rather the method by
which taxes are collected. .
The "rich" are going to sites where the tax climate
is most favorable. By moving elsewhere they create jobs.
Do workers stay away from California and Washington, for
example, because those' states have sales taxes?
Future Looks Dark
A sales tax, in my opinion, isn't the whole answer. A
sales tax as an added tax is' not to be desired. If we are
to have a sales tax, or a net profit tax, as advocated by
the governor, the new method of taxation should be an
offset tax, not an added tax.
An interim committee currently is conducting hearings
and investigations leading to a report lo the next legisla
ture. It is considering many factors. It is my hope that
the committee will propose an entire new tax structure,
abolishing the patched up affair under which we now are
operating, substituting a tax that will be attractive to in
dustry, will create more jobs, will tax everyone, other than
the few, and will distribute the existing burden rather than
making it larger.
If something isn't done, and soon, there is good reason
to believe that Mr. Jenney's prophecy that Oregon is to be
little more than a national retirement home is more or less
assured. Our present tax structure is fine for the retired
person who has little income. One of the big attractions
of Oregon to the retired individual is that he will escape
taxes, because we have no sales tax and we propose to tax
at the top and not at the bottom.
It is fine to "have a lot of retired people. Oregon's
weather is ideal for the person in his "Golden Years." We
welcome the person who comes to Oregon to enjoy its cli
mate and its beauty in his closing years. But, at the same
time, while greeting the retired person, we shouldn't be
chasing out industry and business.
Grain Storage Wast e Inexcusable
Say Demo Senate Investigators
WASHINGTON (AP) - Four
Democratic Senate investigators
have charged there Is inexcusable
waste of taxpayers' money in the
government grain storage pro
gram. With some reservations,
two Republicans Joined them.
The six members of a special
agriculture subcommittee, headed
by Sen. Stuart Symington ID
Mo), conducted their probe over
the past year.
They also charged lax attention
to conflict of interest cases among
federal grain storage officials.
All six signed the subcommit
tee's sharply critical report, but
the two Republicans also died sep
arate statements of their views
saying most of the trouble comes
from a failure to improve the na
tion's farm program over the
years.
Symington, In a slatcment re
leased Sunday with the report,
said "the huge surpluses and the
mismanagement In handling these
have not only cost the taxpayers
a great deal of money, but also
have interfered seriously with our
obtaining sound farm legisla
tion." The subcommittee said more
than $2,700,000,000 has been spent
just to store farm urpluses in the
past seven years, with the cost
now running about $1,253,000 i
day. It recommended these
changes:
545 S.E. Main St., Rweburg, Ore.
needs is jobs. The tax that
modest income. Yet the only
A renegotiation clause in grain
storage contracts "to insure the
recapture of any excessive prof
its." Cost studies by the Agriculture
Department beforo it signs storage
contracts in the future with some
11.000 commercial warehouses and
gram elevators.
Changing a uniform cost policy
in storage contracts to reflect dif
ferent costs in different parts of
the country.
Republican Sens. John S. Coop
er of Kentucky and Milton R.
Young of North Dakota agreed in
their separate views "the most
important conclusion to be de
rived from our investigation is the
need for improving our farm pro
grams." Young also said the huge storks
of farm surpluses were "not the
cause hut the byproduct of the
failure" to improve the over all
farm program.
As he has in the past Young
blamed reduced farm price sup
ports as a prime cause of buildup
of surpluses.
The general policy of Secretary
of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson
has been to reduce price supports
wherever possible, and this has
put him at odds with many Repub
lican senators from farm states.
The subcommittee report said
the Agriculture Department began
paying attention to grain storage
In Tke Days News
;By FRANK
Nelson Reed, Al Hattan, Laur
ence Shaw and the writer of this
piece have just returned from
Washington. Our purpose in going
to the national capital was to con
vince the Forest Service, if pos
sible, that a new National Forest,
with headquarters in the Klamath
Basin should be created out of the
Klamath Indian forest lands that
are now in the process of being
added to the National Forest area
as a result of the liquidation of
the Klamath Indian Reservation.
Why does the Klamath Basin
want that to be done?
The answer is quite simple. Over
the past half to three-quarters of
a century, the great Klamath In
dian Forest and the Klamath Bas
in lumber industry have grown up
together. The Klamath Indian For
est has provided the raw material
lor the Klamath Basin lumber in
dustry, which grew up in the first
place because of this large supply
of nearby timber. The Klamath
Basin lumber industry has provid
ed a nearby market for the Klam
ath Indian iorest timber.
That has been a perfect buyer
and seller relationship. Each has
helped the other as is always the
case where a sound buyer and sell
er relationship exists.
Over these long decades of the
past, administrative headquarters
of the Klamath Indian Forest lands
have been at the Klamath Aizencv
The Klamath Basin people want
the administrative headquarters for
these lands that are soon to pass
into uie hands o me forest Scrv
ice to remain where they have al-
James Marlow
Presidential Campaign May
Be Most Bitter In History
WASHINGTON (AP) This
presidential campaign may ex
haust the candidates, confuse the
Eublic, and even become the most
itler in history. But one thing is
sure: it's going to be rough on
the newspapermen covering it.
Already Vice President Richard
M. Nixon, the Republican candi
date, is a casualty with an injured
knee he hanged against a car door
while campaigning in North Car
olina, lie will he hospitalized per
haps two weeks.
A check on the plans of Nixon
and his opposite number on the
Democratic ticket, Sen. John F.
Kennedy, gives an insight not only
into the problems of the newsmen
traveling with them but into their
campaign techniques.
Roth men sometimes will deli
ver prepared speeches Kennedy
more often than Nixon, who ad
mits he'd rather talk off the cuff.
This kind of campaigning is rela
tively easy to cover.
But both men will do a lot of
whistle-stopping short hops and
quick talks off the cuff.
This means newsmen trying to
keep up with thcin must take quick
notes and write quick stories and,
having written them, dash to a
phone or telegraph office and then
dash back to be sure they missed
nothing.
In Nixon s case, particularly, it
may be difficult on anv Eiven triD
to find something new in what lie
says in each place.
I li i s . is because on one IriD
which may mean speeches in
three or four cities he probably
will limit himself to one or two or
three main themes and repeat
them all along the way.
This is what he did when, right
after the Republican convention,
he went to Reno, I.OS Angeles,
Honolulu, three other Hawaiian
Hal Boyle
Help May Be Near At Hand
For TV Western 'Addicts'
NEW YORK (AP) - Are you
an addict of television Western
programs?
Do you feel they are blighting
your life because you spend more
time watching them than you do
working at your job or entertain
ing your wife and children?
Ilo not despair. Hope may he at
hand. The ailment may cure it
self spontaneously. It did with me.
Today there are millions of
Americans addicted to liquor,
narcotics or gambling. But for
every one of these there are prob
ably five who are compulsive
viewers of TV horse operas.
; The disease is insidious in Its
onsel. At first the victim is su
premely self-confident.
"I can take this stuff or leave it
alone," he says, twirling the knobs
on his TV set.
That's the way I felt, too. At
the start 1 watched one. 1 dis
covered one Western program
wasn't enough.
One simply left me feeling
empty and unsatisfied. I craved
more gunfire, more stampedes,
more redskin raids, more U.S.
Cavalry charges, more rustlers.
Without knowing it I was hooked.
One led to another, and soon I
was thinking up excuses to leave
the office early so 1 could get
home early and switch on the kid
Westerns.
"Daddy, do we have to look at
any more cowhoys?" pleaded my
: 7-year-old daughter, Tracy.
"Shut up, kid," I grated, "and
I watch the posse."
"You don't eat dinner any
I more." complained my wife. "You
i just gulp your food In between
hangings and stagecoach hold
, ups."
I It was true. It got to I couldn't
even go to sleep unless I first had
i costs only after the inquiry be
) gan.
This, it said, resulted in a 19
per cent reduction in storage Tates
last July.
The report said this reduction
will save taxpayers about loo mil
lion dollars. This saving, it add
ed, could have been made in
previous years.
JENKINS i
ways been. They want no disturb
ance of the buyer-seller relation
ships that have existed throughout
the years.
lo them, that seems perfectly
reasonable. As of now, as has been
the case throughout the years of
the past, the Klamath Basin has
provided a market for at least 95
per cent of the timber marketed
from the Klamath Indian Forest.
they say tney are asking for
nothing new. They want only a con
tinuation ot me mutually profitable
relationships that have existed in
the past.
It might be argued that a NEW
Forest Service headquarters in the
Klamath Basin would involve AD
DITIONAL FEDERAL EXPENSE.
To us, that doesn't seem prob
able. It must be remembered, the
Klamath people argue, that these
lands have always been, for all
practical purposes, FEDERAL
lands. Their administrative costs
have been borne, in the final analy
sis, Dy me ieaerai government.
It should make no difference
they say, which federal pocket the
cost of administering these lands
comes out of that it is merely a
case of providing the best possible
administration. Over in the Klam
ath Basin, they feel strongly that
LOCAL administration will be bet
ter for everybody concerned.
That is about the long and short
of the Klamath request for a new
National Forest, with headquarters
in the Klamath Basin, to be creat
ed out of the Klamath Indian Res
ervation lands that are soon lo
pass into the hands of the Forest
Service.
islands, back lo Honolulu, and then
to Seattle.
This business of repeating the
same themes on any given trip
may be interesting to each audi
ence along the way. But it will be
tough on the newsmen looking for
a new lead at eacn slop.
Nixon is doing now what he did
in the 1956 campaign. On his plane
or train he finds time to sit down
and talk frankly about his tech
niques and views with news
men accompanying him. Kennedy
doesn't go in for much of that.
Nixon has prepared newsmen
for his method of repetition by
telling Ihem they may get a little
tired of it. He will oversimplify,
perhaps, but he has a reason for
this, too to get across a sense
of what kind of man he'd be in
the White House.
In Ihe 1956 presidential cam
paign Adlai Stevenson used the
"position paper."
From time to time during the
campaign he would release at
great length and in great detail
a statement of his views on the
major issues and how he would
meet them if elected. These were
prepared for him by experts in
various fields. Sometimes Steven
son failed to follow up these state
ments of his views in his speech
es.
lie seemed to think everyone
had read the "position papers"
which were too long for many pa
pers to publish and therefore ap
parently saw no need to dwell on
them later.
Nixon, too, will issue "position
papers" and then follow them up
in speeches, although he may only
touch on them in a general way.
Kennedy is not going to use any
such technique, one of his top
aides says.
He will outline his ideas in his
speeches.
a nightcap in the form of a late,
late movie.
When the doctor heard of my
vice, he snirl: "Wp'ro ppltino
lot of cases like yours lalelv.
You re simply suffering Western
hallucinations a form of TV
DTs."
He suggested that I taper off.
I couldn't taper off. The disease
got worse. Then suddenly one
night, while 1 sat watching my
fifth Western program of the
evening, I began to sweat. 1
trembled violently.
The hero was just about to gun
down the villain, but I instinctive
ly switched off the set. In a few
moments I calmed down and felt
better.
What had happened? I slill don't
know. But Ihe disease had ap
parently run its course. It is still
loo early to be sure the remedy
is permanent, but I feel it is.
If you are a helpless horse
opera addict, don't give up hope.
An overdose of the stuff mav turn
you into a teetotaler, too, and you
can start living a normal life
again free from the noise of
bang bang.
Army Orders Release
Of Congress Candidate
WASHINGTON lAP Th.
Army here ordered Pvt. Marvin
Owens released immediately so
that he may campaign for an
I uregon seat in Congress.
Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore
I said he was informed that Secre
tary o( the Army Wither M
i Rrucker had sent orders lo Ft.
! Ord, Calif., authorities that Ow
'ens, the congressman's Democrat-
, ic opponent, he "immediately
separated from the service."
Norblad and Rep. Edith Green
!(DOrei had asked that Owens be
' discharged before his two-year
term of servire ends Nov. 20.
almost two weeks after the Nov. 8
; election.
Officials at Ft. Ord. where
i Owens is siationrd, had turned
jdown a similar request. The two
Oregon representatives asked
i Brucker to reverse the decision.
EDITING WITH TAPE MEASURE
Salem Capital Journal
It's a presidential year and the
tape measure people are at work
again trying to measure newspa
per fairness by the foot.
Adali Stevenson, who talked so
much about the one-party press
in 1952, is out of the running and
silent on the subject. But the
Young Democratic Clubs of Amer
ica have picked up the gimmick.
They bave gone so far as to pro
pose a federal law denying postal
privileges to newspapers which
don't give candidates equal space,
the only measurement to be by
the inch.
Studies of the matter followed
the 1952 fuss, most of them done
by graduate students in political
science and journalism as their
degree theses.
They verified that most news
papers in the United States are
either ReDublican in leaning or
avowedly independent but usually
conservative. These studies show
ed that most newspapers gave the
Republican candidate the most
inches of space. Many Democratic
papers were included.
Lois of conclusions were drawn,
including the obvious one that Re
publicans made more news in the
'52 campaign.
Newspapermen, If they have any
enal bevond DlUKging the gaps be
tween ads, certainly work at fair
coverage of political matters, fair
imnlins eauitable. But equitable
shouldn't be made to mean physi
cally equal.
If. for example, Richard Nix
on Monday makes a five-minute
speech decrying cotton prices, and
John Kennedy divulges nis ois
armament proposal, newspaper
play should be unequal in every
way. Kennedy's story probably
rates the Iod of pace 1. with com
prehensive details in a second ar
ticle inside the paper. Nixon's
cotton comments rale the bottom
of Page 17 or perhaps the waste
basket at least outside the South.
And if Nixon is firing charges
in Salem while tourins the West,
and Kennedy is answering from
Boston, it is unlikely that they
should be given the same number
of inches. For one thing, interest
in a candidate is greater when
he is close. For another thing,
man on tour tends to make two
or even three appearances in the
area between publication times,
uttering perhaps 5,000 words in
the presence of reporters. A man
answering from Boston probably
does it with one 200-word tele
gram. A newspaper dedicated to
tape-measure equality and there
are some has a hard time re
peating the contents of the tele
gram in enough ways and whit
ling the 5,000 words deeply enough,
to make them come out even.
What the tape measure cham
pions forget is that newspapers
don't make the news, they only
tell about it.
Congressman Charles O. Porter
of Eugene, a Democrat, whose
district is Southwest Oregon
(touching the mid - valley only
along the southern fringe), proba
bly gets more inches of news in
the Capital Journal than does Rep.
Walter Norblad. a Republican,
whose home is Stayton and whose
district includes Marion, Polk,
Yamhill. Lincoln and other coun
ties of the home area. The reason
is that Porter is a controversial
character who makes news and
who keeps a staff of excellent
journalists on hand to be sure
people hear about it. Norblad is
a quiet fellow who whips up con
troversy reluctantly under the
nressure of a camoaign and who
doesn't much believe in keeping
a staff of any kind.
Republican Senate candidate
Elmo Smith probably has been get
ling more inches of space than
Democrat Maurine Neuberger.
Smith lives nearby and therefore
Demos Not Sincere
Says Gov. Quinn
SPOKANE (AP) The Demo
cratic party is not sincere in its
1960 plaliorm, oov. vtimam r.
Quinn of Hawaii contended in a
brief stopover at Spokane Monday.
"That thev are not sincere has
been evidenced in Congress where
the Democrats themselves have
repudiated their party's announc
ed policies, ne sain.
The Republican governor said
he would return to Spokane Sept.
29 for the scheduled dinner ap
oearance of Vice President Rich
ard Nixon, lie spone ounoay ai
Yakima. Wash., and conferred
with party leaders at the airport
in Spokane before continuing to
Washington, D. C.
Ouinn predicted that Nixon
would carry Hawaii by 10,000
votes next November.
Chrysler Files
$30-Millicn Suit
DETROIT (AP) - Chrysler
Corp. revealed it has filed a
30.niillinn.Hnllar lihpl and slandpr
suit against Detroit attorney Sol
A. uann.
ThA suit u-as filer! in Kntvrinr
tourt in vwinungion. uei , lonay.
Dann is a plaintiff in three
npnHinir Kuitv acainct Phrvlpr
cnrysicr said it cnarged uann
with attempting to undermine and
destroy confidence and faith of
Phi-Y.cWa Hnnlnrs oml elr,lf hnA.
ers. It asks 30 million dollars plus
puniuve uaiiutKi-s. vmjMcr sain
Dann has acted out of malice and
for tne neuoeraie purpose ot in
juring the auto company.
PERILS OF BREVITY
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Ted Car
penter of Marquette University
tells of two Roman Catholic nuns
who were traveling to Milwaukee
by train and were delighted when
the dining-car menu offered "Old
Fashioned New England Boiled
Dinner.
Ordering for the sisters, one of
them wrote on the menu card,
"Two Old Fashioneds."
And that's exactly what the wait
er brought in two glasses.
Editorial
is in the area more frequently. He
has as an aide an ex-newpaper-
man wno frequently comes Dy
with copies of speeches, li Mrs.
Neuberger has such an assistant
we haven't seen him. In fact, we
haven't seen Maurine since the
campaign btgan. Nearly all cover
age of her has had to be by press
wire which is of necessity some
what abbreviated.
Then there's the matter of in
cumbents. Office holders just
plain make more news because
they have so many more nays of
grabbing an audience and affect
ing public affairs.
During the late administration
of Democrat Bob Holmes an irate
Republican kept pestering us with
charges that we gave too much
publicity to Democrats.
That's just the way the press
releases accumulated. With most
agencies of state government led
by Democrats most news in the
capitol city was made by Dem
ocrats. The reverse situation now ap
plies. And no attempt should be made
to "equalize" this situation, for
equalization would mean distortion.
UNIFORMITY NEEDED
Astorian Budget
Multifarious management of the
Columbia river salmon has demon
strated its cumbersome ineffective
ness again.
The Oregon Fish commission
alarmed by the steady decline of
the fall salmon runs in the Colum
bia, has gone to the Oregon Game
commission to ask for regulations
restricting sports angling during
the fall to help preserve the runs
until the reason for the decline
can be discovered.
The game commission, after ex
pressing its own concern over the
situation, has decided it can do
nothing because Washington is
more liberal to its sportsmen al
Born at Nile, Ohio, January 29, 1843, Forced to leave Allegheny College Be
cause of poor health, he taught school. At 18 he enlisted in the army and served
through the Civil War, being promoted to captain and breveted a major. At 24 he
began the practice of law in Canton. Two years later he was county prosecuu'ng attor
ney. At 33 he was elected to Congress where he served 14 years. He then served four
years as Governor of Ohio, 1891-93.
As die Republican candidate for President in 1896 and was elected on a platform
opposed to the free coinage of silver. He was inaugurated the twenty-fifth President
of the United States on March 4, 1897 and re-elected for a second term in 1900.
During his administration capital which had been hoarded came out from hiding
and trusts were rapidly organized on an enormous scale. The Spanish-American War
united the North and South in arms, the U, S. flag was raised in the West Indies,
Cuba, the Philippine Islands and Hawaii.
While at tne Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, where he had delivered an
address, he was shot by a fanatic. Eight days later on September 14, 1901, he died,
aged 58.
oARRET AUGUSTUS HOBART
Born in Long Branch, New Jersey, 1844. He graduated from Rutgers College
in 1863. While teaching school he studied law. I le was admitted to thehar in 1869
and established his practice in Paterson, N. J. At 40 he had achieved a state-wide repu
tation in his profession and financial success. He had served as city attorney of Pater
son, as a member and Speaker of the State legislature and as President of the State
Senate.
Hobart (pictured above) was nominated and elected Vice-President of the United
States in 1896. I le died in office on Nov. 21, 1899.
Theodore Roosevelt was McKinlcy's second-term Vice-President.
MRS. WILLIAM McKINLEY
Ida Saxton, bom in Ohio in 1847, was educated in private schools and then be
came a cashier in her father's bank. A vivacious and lovely young woman, she was
married at twentv-scven to William McKinley. The death of two young daughters left
her in impaired health. Duting McKinlcy's governorship in Ohio she became familiar
with official social life. Fifty-three and frail, when she went to the White House, she
nevertheless presided at most state dinners and receptions, strengthened by the devoted
attention of her husband. After McKinlcv's assassination she returned to her home in
Canton, Ohio. She died in 1907.
CarrlfM IMC, Tum-M, SrWic.
Comment
ready than is Oregon.
There is no uniformity of game
fishing regulations between t h e
two slates, as regards me Colum
bia and adjacent waters, as there
is with respect to commercial fish
ing regulations.
In compliance with an inter-state
compact ratified by Congress some
45 years ago, which says that no
state can make a regulation con
cerning fish in the Columbia river
without concurrence of the other
state, the commercial fishing regu
latory agencies of Oregon and
Washington always make their rcg
ulations iointlv.
The same situation obviously
should apply to game fish regula
tions. The late A. W. Norblad, who was
in the Oregon legislature, when
the interstate compact was writ
ten, has told this newspaper that
in his opinion the compact covers
SDort fishing rules as well as com
mercial fishing rules Ihe com-
pact s text just says tisn and
doesn't distinguish between sports
and commercial catches and that
the sports fish authorities of the
two stales are in violation oy max
ing their own independent regula
tions.
Whether in violation of the law
or not, the sports fishing agencies
certainly ought, as a practical mat
ter, to collaborate in nroviding un
iform regulations, the same as the
commercial fisfting agencies ao.
Then we would not have a situa
tion such as the present one, ir
which the game commission pro
fesses itself helpless to do any
thing for the fall salmon runs be
cause Washington isn't doing any
thing.
BEWILDERED ELK
Klamath Falls Herald & News
Up in Portland the other day the
police felt called upon to shoot
down a bewildered elk that was
roaming around the Baldock Free
WILLIAM McKINLEY
way at about SW 60th Avenue.
1 wonder wny li is mat wnen
creatures of the wild show up in
the haunts of civilization the uni
versal cry is to kill them?
Does it ever occur to anyone
that if those animals were left
alone they would find their way
back to their woodland homes? In
the case of this particular beast
the cops stated that he "was in an
ugly mood."
Shucks, I'm in an ugly mood
every time I have to get on that
frightful speedway up there and
defend myself from thousands of
other drivers, most of whom are
apparently taking dead aim at me.
So why shouldn't an elk be in a
bad humor? But is that any ex
cuse for killing him? If someone
had gone out and shot an elk for
food he'd be tossed in the clinic
for ninety days and fined.
But when a forest animal starts
fouling up traffic then he has an
automatic death sentence passed
on him.
I don't get it.
Bill Jenkins
PLYWOOD PRICES
Salem Oregon Statesman
The Coos Bay World, strongly
Democratic in its editorial policy,
looks with some fondness on "ad
ministered prices" for plywood,
though the term is one of opprobi
um in most liberal circles. The
World is disturbed because the ply
wood price goes to pot so often,
causing losses of employment and
profits. The trouble with the ply
wood business is simply that it is
too easy lo get into, and its profits
have been so lush as to attract
new investment. Consumption of
plywood keeps mounting, but pro
ductive capacity splurges ahead.
The old law of supply and demand
goes to work. Prices can't be "ad
ministered" in plywood, not until
industrialists quit putting up new
mills.