Publithid by Southern Ortgon PublithliHl Co. 545 S.E. Miin St., Rouburg, Oregon Charles V. Stanton Editor George Castillo Addye Wright Aiiittont Editor Buiintis Mtnogor Jlembcr of the Associated Press, Association, the Audit Bureau ot Circulation Entered as second class matter May 7, 1920, at the post office at Hoseburg, Oregon, under act of March 2, 873 Subscription Rates on Classified Advertising Page EDITORIAL PAGE 4 Tha Newt-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Mon., Mar. 13, 1961 Economic System j By Charles V. Stanton Recently the assertion was made' in this column that people permit the state and federal governments to with hold a big chunk of their wages, then kick about high prices when the producer or seller must charge enough to pay the cost of the taxes he withholds for his employes. A reader very politely "called" me on that statement and asked if I hadn't made an error. It was indicated that I was in error because taxes are "withheld from wages." The employee, not the employer, pays the taxes, it was implied, and the increase in prices isn't required to cover the "cost of taxes." The reader is absolutely correct insofar as the with holding tax system applies ON TICE we find that the theory is true that the cost of taxes is er, but not until the cost has The employee is being "brainwashed' into believing that he is getting his taxes paid for him, then blames ' big uusi ness" because prices are so high. Wages Increased What happened when the federal government started withholding taxes? Immediately the employee demanded that his take-home pay be restored to its former level. The tax deduction resulted in an mands. Labor contracts were made with a provision that take-home pay not only be brought back to its previous lev el, but a general wage increase was demanded, and ob tained, at the same time in Thus, in effect, the employer was forced to assume the employee's taxes. He hnd to give as much take-home pay as he had previously. The employee, who formerly had to pay his own income taxes, now had gained an increase in wages, equal to the amount of taxes previously paid, while, at the same time,' he received an actual increase in his take-home pay. Thus, in effect, he had his wages boosted twice within a very short time. Organized labor convinced was a "slick trick. The load had been shifted to the em ployer, the working man was told. The withholding tax is a painless way for the working man to pay taxes. Actually he transferred his tax load to his employer.' His wages never went down for any great period of time. Rather, they went up. The New Deal, which put the withholding tax into ef fect, was an expensive form of government. It needed, a lot of money. We wouldn't have an expensive government if everyone had to dig into his pocket to pay his income taxes. But, because few people suffer directly from paying taxes with money they never get their hands on, we've permitted the cost of government to go steadily higher. Seeing the ease with which taxes could he boosted through the withholding method, states have adopted the Bame system. Complaint Transferred The public has been "brainwashed" into the belief that because of withholding taxes benefitted. The "Soak the of adherents. But, the fact is, saler, the retailer each must add into the price of his goods or his services the added payroll expense, including the taxes he withholds. And, all along the line, round number so that the ultimate consumer pays not only the tax cost but a little more as well. The public's complaint, however, is transferred from the extravagant, costly, wasteful government to a gripe about the high cost of living. abused because prices are so to believe that huge profits are being made, without stop ping to think that big profits are virtually impossible tinder our existing excess profits tax system. i There's a vast amount of policies propose on paper and what they really do when put into operation. "Economic systems" aren't always economical. Francis Stilley Cum-Up Of Little Things Make For Big Annoyances NEW YOHK (AP)-SomctiniM It's the little things that get a fel low down. There are plenty of them. To wit: Penny chewing gum machines that gum up. The steady dritzle which begins just as you get to the ball park. Waiting in a supermarket checkout line with only a ran of beans in hand while four people ahead get mountains of groceries toted up and racked. Trying to cash a check in un familiar territory, and the diffi cully of trying to keep from look- Cardinal Ritter Opposes Federal Education Aid ST. LOUIS. Mo. (AP)-Joscph Cardinal Bitter of St. Louis sav lie is opposed to federal aid to education but if it comes, Catho lic children should share it. Cardinal Ritter told the arch diocesan Council of Catholic Men Sunday: "Do we really want led rra aid? I personally am opposed to it. It'i my personal conviction the parents ought to keep Uie schools in their own hands. "Nevertheless, federal a I d might, before the year is over, become a fact. As it is now pro posed, there is no question in my mind but that it .discriminates against children who attend pri vate schools. If public funds are raised for the educational benefit of the children of America, then all children should share in that benelit." Oregon Newspaper Publishers PAPER. But IN PRAC is completely fallacious. It paid eventually by the work been magnified several times. immediate round of union de most cases. the union member that this the working man has been Rich" policy has gained a lot the manufacturer, the whole. the price goes up to a good Big Business is roundly high. The consumer is made difference concerning what ing like a suspicious character. The mosquito which pounces in the middle of the nicht then, in cowardly fashion, hides out when you get up and try to find it. mat wreicn who. upon Doing told he has the wrong number, hands up with the sarcastic im plication that it a ail your num. Garbage collectors who start clanking at 4 a.m., S a.m., 6 a.m., most any time. Shoes that are too tight. People the sumo way. Burned toast. Scraped burned toast. Too much work. Much work. Work. Crash Injuries Fatal In Motorcycle Wreck MEDKORD (API-Mrs. Elmer C. Dalton. 30, Ashland, died in s hospital here Saturday from In juries suffered when thrown to the pavement from a motorcycle. Mrs. Dalton was Willi other memlwrs of a motorcycle club making trip to Portland when1 her mutorcycle suddenly fell over, on a street in downtown Central Point Friday. . I Police Chief Wallace Rowrn laid s tire apparently came off the run Mrs. Dalton is survived hy her husband and two tons, aged 3 months and 3 yean. It was Oregon's 72nd traffic fatality of the year and the 12th in M, rch in the Associated Press com:t. In The Day's News (y FRANK In a telegram to the Radio and television r.xecuiive society U'hirh is hnldinp ils annual mm-t- ing in New York, . Ex-Vice-Presi- ucm iiixon say; leievuiun is powenui mm yet it is only an infant factor in politics. Its full force is yet to be seen and employed. "But it will never supplant the printed word." It is generally agreed that TV was the factor that upset Mr. Nix on and elected Mr. Kennedy. Wide use of television in a political campaign tends undoubtedly to put a premium on personality, skil ful use of it gives an advantage to the finished actor just as skill ful use of radio a couple of dec ades ago enabled franklin D. Roosevelt to capitalize his excep tional ability as a persuasive and appealing public speaker. But The printed word has this in its favor: YOU CAN GO BACK AND READ IT AGAIN IF YOU GET TO WONDERING JUST WHAT THE MAN DID SAY. That is important. Among other things, the REC ORD of the printed work tends to make orators who are seeking voles more careful in what they say. Without the record of the printed word, they would feel freer to soar off into the wild blue yonders of political showmanship. We have enough of that already. May heaven save us from MORE of it. From Washington : "President Kennedy yesterday sent to congress a $3.25 billion save the - cities housing pro gram, to be run by a proposed James Marlou) Nixon Suggests New Blood For Republicans In 1962 WASHINGTON (AP)-Richard M. Nixon has urged Republicans to look for "new blood" and new "talent" to help in their efforts to beat the Democrats in the 1962 congressional elections. The former vice president, making his first political speech since losing the presidency to John F. Kennedy, was not re ported as having urged the Re publicans to look for some new ideas, too. The Republican leadership in Congress represents i conserva tism which the voters have re jected all but twice in the past 15 congressional elections, going back to 1932, and four times in a row since 1954. ' The Republicans could not even Support Increase Price For Products Ordered WASHINGTON (AP) Secre tary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman has ordered increases in government support prices for dairy products, rice and peanuts, a move ho says will boost farm income by from SI to $2 billion. Freeman said Friday the in creases will have small if any ef fect on per unit consumer prices. He denied there was any con nection between hit action and Senate debate on President Ken nedy's emergency feed grain pro gram. Eastern senators have argued the feed grain bill will increase feed grain costs for the dairy industry. Sen. Geo"c D. Aiken. R-Vt., said during ihe debate that since the hike in dairy support prices was planned by Freeman he. was dropping his effort to force this action by amendment to the feed grain bill. The support price for milk used for manufacturing was set at $3.40 a hundredweight, up 18 cents, The support for bulterfat was put at tiu.4 rents a pound, compared with the old rate of 59.6 cents. The Cartoonist JENKINS new cabinet-rank department of nousmg and urDan anairs. i'tn - rnnA;ni in.nnin .w. Kennedy called for prompt housing legislation to spur the economy and reinforce tne c i u e s in their DKSPKRATE STRUGGLE AGAINST BLIGHT AND DECAY. Hmmmmmmmmm. One can't help wondering how Portland and San Francisco, to mention just a couple of our cites, feel about this sweeping inclusion of them in the ranks of the blighted and the decayed. Portland, for example,' growing and burgeoning as it hasn't grown and burgeoned in half a century. The big, new, modern Lloyd Cen ter, which is expanding the busi ness district of Portland, as th e Wilshire Boulevard shopping dis trict years ago expanded the busi ness district of Los Angeles. The glittering new Sheraton hotel that is already built and functioning. The big new downtown Hilton Ho tel that is being pushed along as fast as men and money can push it. New shopping centers all over town. And San Francisco, with Its new and fabulous Jack Tar hotel up on Van Ness avenue, already com pleted and functioning. The new multi-story Fairmont Tower, long discussed and often delayed, foutjnave tried to find out ws can now in the finishing stages. The "bout Steve and his problems. big new plans for city transporta tion, including SUBWAYS that will put the City on the Golden Gate on a par with New York and Lon don. And so on. City "blight and decay?" Where? Certainly not out here in the Far West. win in 1956 when President Ei senhower was recapturing the White House overwhelmingly. The same conservatism is now being expressed in joint TV ap pearances by the Republicans' leaders in Congress: Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, and Rep. Charles A. Hallcck of Indiana. They seem to appear as regu larly' as "Gunsmoke" to express their views on President Ken nedy's programs. Their en thusiasm is always restrained and they sound rather doleful. While "new blood" may help the Republicans, it can be pointed out that the idea- of youth-in-gov-ernment, which occurred this year, is still pretty much limited to Kennedy's executive branch. The age level in the Supreme Court and among congressional leaders of both parties is still not only high but shows no signs of stepping aside so youth can be served. ' ,; Dirksen, for instance, "is 65. Hallcck is 60. But' older than either of them is Rep. John W. McCormack .of ' Massachusetts, House Democratic leader who split with Kennedy on the school aid bill. He's 69. It would not be politically proper to limit leadership of the House Democrats to McCormack. There the speaker, Sam Rayburn of Texas, is more powerful than McCormack in Democratic af fairs. He's 79. On the Senate side the Demo cratic chiefs are a little younger. The leader. Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana, is 58. And powerful ly in Ihe background, is Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson at 52. It's in that third branch of government the Supreme Court where youth is truly in a minor ity. There the average age of the nine justices ranging from 46 to 78 is 63. Chief Justice Earl Warren is al most 70. The other justices and their ages are: Frankfurter (78), Black (75), Douglas (62), Clark (61), Harlan (61). Whittaker (60), Brennan (54) and Stewart (46). Says: War, Paint Communist 'Dupe1 Issue Fans San Francisco Fires Editors Note a film called "Operation Abolition" is proving one of the most controversial in years- 11 was made b Washing Reader Opinions Reader Says Steve Eats Pretty Expensive Meat To The Editor: Move over as I would like to get on the band wagon and ex press my opinions of Steve Solo vich. First I would like to thank the people of Roseburg and vicinity who understand our problem and have openly said' so. 1 thoroughly agree with the teacher who ad vised her sixth grade students. "Think logically and openly ana get all the facts before coming to a conclusion." Our problem has been made worse by people who don't know the facts yelling that the man should be left alone. Since we have been living with Steve's presence, we in tins area But it seems that even those in the "know" disagree. As nearly as we can find out, me man never served any time overseas but de serted within seven months of the time he was inducted into the U.S. Army. .The man apparently was in Europe before the war broke out. We do know that this last year the man's mental condition has become steadily worse. He de finitely needs medical help. Several men in this area have talked to Steve, some at gun point, and his mind goes from rational to irrational in seconds. He con siders all people wearing yellow hats or sweatshirts as members of the "American Gestopo" and is trying to liberate us from them. He also seems to think that we are peasants working for him and that lie owns the whole country. So, in his mind, he is only tak ing what belongs to him. From what he has said and our experiences we know he spends a lot of his time watching us or our neighbors. Ask yourself how long you could stand tins strain! It is even suspected that he has watched T.V. with some families. How would you feel to lock your house up tight when you leave home and come back to find it unlocked? If Steve isn't doing these things something should be done to find out who it is. Steve has been known to "bor row" someone's cow for milk, and in one instance used a horse to move something heavy. He even told one neighbor that he (the neighbor) would "live longer" if he minded his own business All the while Steve was living on the man's place eating the man's sheen. I don t think anyone would be grudge Steve a few wethers but gosh, it's the breeding slock he kills that gets us. This way you loose your ewe plus the spring's wool and lamb. Registered bucks cost from $75 on up and these Steve seems especially to favor. Pretty expensive eating wouldn't you say? Anyone care to toot me bill? If you have raised the sheep that Steve kills, instead of buying them, you Hon t even have the sal isfaction of being able to deduct the loss from your income tax. If this was possible the federal gov ernment might have something to sav about this menace. In one case Steve cut out a sec tion of a man's fence to make a holding pen so that it would be more convenient to keep the sheep handy for butchering Children play "Button, Button Who Has the Button," but in this area we get up in the morning and sav.' "Steve.' Steve Who Has Steve Today?" Steve is a luxury thai we can t attorcl any longer, either mentally-or financially. , Airs. Don Wright Little River Rt. - Glide, Oregon , , , j ton, DC, firm from newsreels subpoenaed by Ihe House Commit tee on Cn-American Activities and concerns the riots at San Francisco's City Hall last May. Robert Eunson, chief of bureau for The Associated Press in San Francisco, attended a showing of the film Friday night and reports on a debate which followed. I By ROBERT EUNSON SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The question of whether college stu dents were "duped" by Commu nists during the City Hall riots here last May has been strenuous ly debated at the Press and Union League Club. A former FBI agent, a San Francisco business man and an attorney said the students and their leaders "did the work of Communists" when they picketed a meeting of the House Commit tee on .Un-American Activities. Fire Hoses A student leader, a San Fran cisco attorney and a representa tive of the American Civil Liber ties Union blamed San Francisco police for the eruption which led to fire hoses being turned on the demonstrators. The forum followed a showing of "Operation Abolition", contro versial film being circulated throughout the country with the committee's endorsement. Fred Dupuis, the former agent for the Federal Bureau oX Investi gation, when asked specifically, said he had no evidence to prove that there was Communist activ ity on the University of California campus. Dupuis, now a fire in surance underwriter, called atten tion to the film which showed a student being questioned by the committee on his Communist par ty affiliation. Not Duped Richard Chesney. a senior at the university, said the student in question was "not bright enough nor old enough" to dupe him. Chesney said he acted as liaison man for the press and police dur ing the demonstration. He declared that if there were "two or three hard core Commu nists" on the Berkeley campus, he doubted they could influence the 20.000. other students. Chesney said academic requirements at California were such that students usually were above average in in telligence. 'Communist Work' "The House Un-American Ac tivities Committee and the Com munists need each other," de clared Ernest Besig, executive secretary of the American Civil Liberties Union. He blamed the committee and the police for al lowing Communists to demon strate within Uie chamber and said the disruption was allowed "to get the headlines." Edward P. Heavey, a San Fran cisco attorney, when questioned, would not say the leaders of the riots were Communists, but added "they were doing the work of lommumsis ana pernaps know ingly." "Police brutality" was deplored by James Thatcher, another at--torney, who was taking the stu dents' side of the argument. Thatcher said he saw welts on the limbs of girls who were taken to the city jail. Embattled Seattle Judge Free On Bail SEATTLE (AP) Seattle's- con troversial traffic judge, William H. Simmons, convicted of con tempt for refusing to step down from the bench, was free on bail Saturday awaiting an appeal to the State Supreme Court. Superior Court Judge Lloyd Shorett cited Simmons for con tempt Friday for violating a court order to stay from traffic court. Simmons announced he would appeal and posted $1,000 bail, -lie had spent Thursday ' night in jail after refusing previously to post bail until the contempt case was heard from Judge Shorett. Attorneys for Simmons also an nounced they would ask the Su preme Court, probably late next week, to decide whether me city can remove Simmons as traffic judge or whether only the legis lature could put him off the bench. The City Council declared Sim mons' office vacant because he was convicted of attempting to as sault a housewife who went to see him about a speeding ticket. The mayor appointed another judge. Rut Simmons said he still con siders himself judge and indicated he might try to hold court again Monday, Federal Information Flow Increase Planned WASHINGTON (AP Tierre Salinger, While House press sec retary, says he will examine gov ernment information practices with a view to increasing the flow of information. Salinger will work from a de tailed list of instances in which information was withheld in the last six years. The list will be prepared by Rep. John E. Moss., D-Calif., chairman of the House government information subcom mittee. Freedom of information was the subject of a 3' j-hour closed meet ing Friday. The session, called by Moss, was attended by Salinger, congressmen, government press officers and newspaper officials. After the meeting. Moss told newsmen he had promised Salin ger he would supply the list. Sal inger said his office would "see where in the list of particulars there are, government practices we can correct to increase the flow of information." CLUB PARTY PLANNED The Oakland Garden Club is holding lis annual Si. Patrick's Hay card party Friday, reports Kdith Dunn, correspondent A complete 12 30 luncheon will be served at the Masonic Hall. Tables of bridge. 300, canasta and pinochle are planned For reser vations call Oakland 2907 or 342. Pigeon Controversy Stirs Bay Area; Verdict Awaited SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Don't mention this to the Chamber of Commerce, please, but San Fran cisco is divided roughly into two kinds of people those who feed pigeons, and those . who flinch when they fly over, . The city fathers held another unsuccessful conference Friday on what to do about pigeons, but un like previous meetings, . this one ended with an idea for a tort of bird Alcatraz. ' ... . Pigeon Cage The meeting considered a pro- Flood--Of People Invades Northwest PORTLAND (AP) A flood hit federal forest lands in Oregon and Washington last year a flood of people. . ' Swarming over national parks and forests in the two states in 1960 were about Hi- million sight seers, hunters, fishermen, skiers, campers, hikers and other, per sons, the U.S, Forest Service said today. That was 16 per cent more than the previous year. , Regional Forester- J.. Herbert Stone said creation of new facili ties has not kept pace with the deluge of visitors, and added that the pressure will be even greater in the future. "Recreation use of national for ests throughout the nation has quadrupled in the .past 15 years, and is expected to be 9 times greater by the year 2000," he said. Durno Seeks Halt To Floods In Basin WASHINGTON (AP) The Army Engineers have been asked to do everything possible to prevent a recurrence of floods that swept through part of Oregon's Willam ette River Basin this year. The chief of the Army Engi neers, Lt. Gen. E. C. Itschner, was asked by Rep.' Edwin R. Durno, R-Ore., for a report on flood damage and emergency steps needed to provide revetment and bank protection works. Durno also urged the Engineers to speed up authorized projects and studies which are designed to provide permanent flood con trol. Many persons have advised him that flooding was extensive, and that water in some parts of Linn and Lane counties reached great er heights than in the flood of 1861, Durno told Itschner in a letter. Shell In Coos Oil Exploration COOS BAY (AP)-The Shell Oil Co. is surveying the Pacific Ocean floor of the Oregon coast with an eye toward exploring for oil. One 100-foot boat, the Miss Jan et, has been making surveys in this area for two weeks, and may be joined soon by three other boats from California, the firm said. Shell has proposed leasing all of Oregon's offshore lands, but no agreement has yet been signed be tween the state and the company. The 10-man crew of the Miss Janet is conducting tests to deter mine the composition of trie ocean floor. Trucks equipped with radar have been stationed on shore to help mapping. The vessel will work its way north along the entire coastline in the next two months, ranging as far as 25 miles at sea, said E. M. McCracken, a spokesman for Shell. Shell also wants to conduct seismic soundings, he said, using explosive charges in the water. A license from the Oregon Fish Com mission would be needed for that. Similar tests in California, al ways conducted with a state fish ery biologist aboard the ship have caused scant damage to fish life, he said. Going to build, buy, refinance or remodel? Then see Equitable for a fast, low cost loan. Make no mistake. Equitable has the money, terms and evperience to help you get the right home loan. 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' , "There are literally thousands of senior citizens," said Miss Blodgett, "to whom feeding nieeons is the only purpose in living." ' '" ' "We are- not in a position 10 maintain a bird zoo," said Sheriff Matthew Carberry, who runs the county jail near San Bruno. Angel Island City Health Director Ellis Sox said he had asked authorities of San Mateo County, where the jail is located, what they thought of the idea and they replied that San Francisco's pigeon problem was San Francisco's, not San Mateo County's. . '.' . ' " Then someone suggested Angei Island. This is a square mile of ilnnl 1,-lntf 4tict' Tmrth nf AlfB- traz, another well-know island in the bay: v ; "Angel Island," said Miss'Blod gctt. "That's just the place. Yes, we could out a sanctuary on An gel Island." ' : - '' Pigeon lovers could ooai over and visit them on Sundays,' she went on. .'.-. She said she'd look into. it. TO YOUR HOME Have you longed for tha warmth nd comfort of a fireplace in your borne? 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