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Side Glances ' -EDITORIAL IAGE I ' it Washington MerryGoRound, r OMW PEARSON La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schlro, Publisher TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1943 Page Two Now Comes History's Grea test Buck-Passing Contest EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 Eitend the city limit. - - TODAY'S TEXT Doth the eii(;le mount up at thy com mand, and ni.'ike her nest on high? Job 39:27. School Taxes Oregon taxpayers and others inter ested in the welfare and progress of education will do well to re-examine at this time the entire system of finance ' of our public schools in the elementary and secondary classifications. This is the time to do it because prob-' lems which may become insurmountable " if allowed to reach a crucial static can now be solved with best results for our educational system and least cost to the taxpayers. Ileginninjr'willi the l!)l! biennium nearly 50 per cent of the total cost of school operiition in Oregon, or approxi mately 13 million dollars, will be fin anced through state income taxes, off setting property taxes. The important tiling is that these funds are being derived from surplus income taxes and are available only in sofar as surplus funds are available from income tax sources. If such funds diminish or vanish entirely, then, under the present situation, the burden will be thrust again on property. This will mean that nearly 7!) per cent of the total cost of education in these brackets in the stale will he borne by local dis trict taxing bodies and the balance by counties and the state. Sources of school money at present are as follows: 1. The so-called irreducible school fund from which about $300,000 an nually is now being realized. 2. The two million state elementary tax, from which about two million dol lars annually is now being raised. 3. The county school funds, from which about three million dollars an nually" is .now being realized. A. The school support fund with which five million dollars was set up by the legislature in 1913 and to which the legislature added three million dol lars in 1915 for a total of eight million dollars. The funds are coming from sur plus income tax receipts. The two million dollars realized from the two mill elementary tax and the three million dollars from the county school funds are also being offset by r surplus income tax funds. The difference between the sum of ., these funds and . the actual cost of school operation, estimated at 26 mil lion and expected to grow to 30 million,-' -. must be and is being paid by the local-"- : school district real property taxpayer. Wo reiterate what was said above: under the present situation nearly 79 per cent of the total cost will fall on the local district taxpayers at such time ns the surplus income tax funds are ex hausted. Union county this year will receive $213,097 from Oregon state income taxes during the 1915-2916 biennium. Of this, 539,373 will come from the state elementary school tax (two mill prop erty tax cancelled by state income tax revenues). A total of $70,959 will come from the state school support fund of five million dollars of income tax money diverted by the 1912 legislative meas ure. .'mm the school support fund added by the 1915 legislature will come $3h 078, which is distributed on a teacher unit basis. From the additional school support fund added by the 1915 legis lature will come 515,392. Set- KDITOIUAL . . . Page 4 Funny litwiness O SO THEY SAY II takes considerable Ingenuity for a Jap to surrender now. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, jr., U. S. Tenth army, Okinawa. The modrrn girl will go wilh oul food and sleep, but not with out makeup. Dr. Doris Odium, provisional national council for mental health, London. When the war broke out, my sun said Germany" would lose. When America rntered tho war 1 was sure of it. Still 1 would nut k to say anything against the nl- Grrma.nv. Admiral Nicholas Horthy. Hun- o gjrun regent. "It's a new tulcccpo chute in ca.j thoy ub.-.urjo before mtn returning late from shor leava arrive! o Chinj cannot pardon Hirohita and the civilized humgtw of the world, ca.inot be lenient with Hirotiito. He should be tried. He should ho executed. Hirohito's li'itly should then be on dis play on Sun Vat Sen road near Nanking. -C.jr.jX;.ng, Cj, World Daily rc s. WASHINGTON Senator George of Georgia certainly got his colleague. Con gressman "Muley Bob" Doughton, blazing mad by popping off about lowering taxes be fore the Pacific war is over. Congressman Doughton, who rides a white mule through his farm in western North Carolina and can be as stubborn as the ani mal from whence derives ills nickname, is Chairman of the ways and means commit tee which initiates tax legislation. George's finance committee in the senate can only amend taxes after Doughton's committee has written the first draft of the tax law. ' Doughton is definitely opposed to lower ing taxes until the entire war is over. But what really made him mad was that he and Senator George plus other members of the iwo tax committees were scheduled to meet at 1 p. m, one day last week to decide what the congressional tax policy should be. And on his way to this meeting, without waiting to see what the others thought Sen ator . George announced to the press that taxes should be lowered. You can Write it down how that they won't be lowered at this session if Muley Bob Doughton has any thing to do with it. President Truman didn't hesitate a min ute about opposing tax reduction until the entire war is over. When the question was put to him, he made his decision immediate ly, came out with an emphatic statement next day against tax reduction. , Labor at San Francisco To those who watched suave Ed Stettin ius operate behind closed doors at San Fran cisco the other day, it looked as if he hp.d taken some political lessons from Boss Hague of Jersey City or Boss Hannegan of St. Louis. He certainly used strong-arm po litical tactics to run .-ough-shod over the op position. It all started when Stettinius and Sena tor Vandenberg learned that the confer ence's social and economic commission had voted 27 to 3 to invite the world trade un ion conference into :hc United Nations as permanent observers along with the inter national labor office, the Hot Springs food conference, UNRRA, and other groups. The World trade union conference represents 60 -000,000 organized workers throughout the world, including the CIO in this country, but not the.AFL. ,.v As soon as Stettinius heard about the pro posed invitation to the world trade union, he had secretary general of the conference Alger Hiss call an emergency meeting of the powerful steering committee- i . i Stettinius also frantically phoned Anthony Eden, asked him to appear at the, steering committee in person and vote to reverse the earlier action of the BHtih delegation which' had favored admitting the trade union. Stet tinius also phoned Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, demanded that he support the U. S. position. Stettinius even called up Wellington Kooi acting head of the Chinese delegation and tried to get him to go along. Labor Fireworks The meeting that followed was one of the hottest so far held by the steering commit tee. Secretary General Hiss opened by call ing up not the first point of the agenda, but the second point, namely, the admission of the trade union to the United Nations as ob servers. Immediately t up sprang French Foreign Minister Bidault. -- - "Why does the secretary general propose that point two be taken up first? asked Bi dault. '' . "Because we put it on the agenda," re plied Hiss. ' "But why should point two be taken up before point one?" Bidault persisted, . . "Because we asked that it be taken up first," Stettinius replied brusquely. Hiss then called on Anthony Eden, who made a dull three-page speech asking the steering committee to reverse the vote of the social and economic commission and not seat the world trade union as observers. Mackenzie King spoke next, echoing Eden's view, He was followed by a Belgian dele gate who said the same thing in different words. China Backfires- For two hours the debate raged. Welling ton Koo surprised Stettinius by speaking in favor of letting labor sit in as an observer. Koo was supported by Soviet Ambassador Gromyko. Then Bidault arose said that French labor was backing the new organiza tion and that the action of the U. S. delega tion was most unusual. Prime Minister Pe ter Fraser of New Zealand shared the French view. Finally Stettinius rapped the gavel, called for a vote on the Belgian resolution to re verse the social and economic commission and refuse labor an observer's seat in the new United Nations organization. He called . up the Belgian resolution though three oth er resolutions taking the opposite view had . . See WASHINGTON Page 4 . WE; THE WOMEN Br RUTH MILLET? The point system-devised, by the army. to determine which men shoald be released now that war in Europe is finished, suggests a point system by which iar wives might See how their own length and ruggedness of "service" stacks up with the experience of other war wives. i See how many points you have earned under this feminine point system: Ten points for every child of school age and 15 points for every chifd, under. Ten points for having a jaby without its father, being present. i ...... .Five points for every war-necessitated move. . . i . Five points for every serious illness of a child which you saw through alone. . Ten points if you liyed-rwithout .suppler rrientary Income on the pay of an enlisted man. Five points If you managed a way of liv ing alone (or with another War wife) in stead of going back to your husband's peo ple or your own. ' , ., One point for every month your husband has been in the service. One additional point for every month he has been overseas. . i .j Five points for every period when you went for a month or more without mail. Scoring yourself on those points ought to give you a fairly good idea of how your own "service record'.' compares with the records of the other, war. Aviyes you know,. ... Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, La Grand Evening Observer Washington Correspondent ' SACRAMENTO; Calif. Moves Jo effect closer relationships between federal and state governments on reconversion and post war planning are expected to develop soon in the three Pacific coast states of Califor nia, Oregon and Washington. State officials who have been working quietly for the past month or so to bring about closer local and national government cooperation are still reluctant to have their names associated with the idea, fearing their plans may be upset through political jeal ousies. But a closer tie-up of this sort would set a valuable pattern which could well be followed In other sections of .the country and might go far towards overcoming the hardships of post-war unemployment, popu lation shifts, public works planning and the reconversion of industry to civilian goods production. This west coast federal-state cooperation movement stems from two different things. First the somewhat loose working ar rangement which the thjree Pacific state governors have had with federal war agen cies during the past four years. This was carried on through the office of civilian defense set-up. While the war effort is still going full blast on the west coast, CCD lias become a bit of casualty here as rise where and that emphasircs the need for working council of federal and state offi cials to meet post-war problems. Second buijd-iip for this idea comes through .the recent confidence of eleven western state tovernors meeting in Carson City, Nev. They pasni a resolution calling for inter-state cooperation to avoid unem ployment of returning service men and women. Problems of the post-wjr period arc so muchotggcr and broader than throne Issue, however, and it is for this reason that lead ers in the western states (irnt to bring !! their pi(pram and planning into a better cdodinatcd, business opcrenVon. Cnllfornl,)ffers rxivTient example of the opportunity for this kind of federal state joint action on a regional b:Cs) The Golden states has its reconversion andre emfloyr.Kr.t commission which hiir.Adi' a number of good reports to the state legisla ture. But neither -this state nor any other state has a complete post-war program. . This is equally true of the federal agen cies. In fact, their situation seems to be even worse. Agriculture's forestry service, interior's bureau of reclamation, army's corps of engineers, the housing administra tion, war manpower commission and other federal departments which will have con tinuing jobs to do when the war is over, just aren't pulling together as effectively as they did on the war effort. They may all have their headquarters in Washington, but when their branch offices filter out in the big western states, they sometimes know less of what the others are doing than do their bosses in Washington. Congress doesn't seem to have a well focusscd picture of what goes on, either. Classic example is the cross - purpose working and planning of the army engineers and the bureau of reclamation. In the big western semi-arid areas where water re sources mean' everything, the conflicting viewpoints of these two agencies don't make sense even to an easterner. First interests of the army engineers are navigation and flood control. Reclamation, however, has the added interests of electric power de velopment and irrigation. Congress having given both agencies authority and money to operate in their respective fields,. an almost hopeless muddle has been created in which wallow opposing factions within the state, c There is further riling because the slate governments themselves have no clear-cut water policies. California's legislature now has before it a couple of bills to create state water authorities which could gradually ac ouire federal, investments in water resources. But the battle over any such claniicaticn cf the issue is splattered by proponents of pri vatc(v public electric power. These people never do sCcm altfe, to gt together.' Issus of this kind have tbvir counterparts in other areas of the country and they all point up the need for more national and local Cooperation if there is to be any domes tic order brought to this bright new world after the fall cf Japan. com iw rt ta a u met . mc i. m. reo. u. s. pat. orf. "I wanted to poke him' all winter but he helped me. with my homework and now thai vacation's coming, he's got ihe only decent ball and bat in the neighborhood 1" .l ,: . O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority CHOICE OF OPENER CUES N. T. DEFENSE (This is one of a series of hands from the recent world's championship master's individ ual tournament.) A newcomer to eastern tourna ments is David Clarren of St. Paul, Minn. He held a unique position in the recent world's championship masters' individual. At the end of tho first session, A 73 Q6 K974 4 1087 4 3 A K 10 8 6 I N I QJ 2 54 UJ PVKJ109 2 s 5 Q83 Dealer A106 852 Dealer x AQ Clarren A9 VA 8 7 4 3 4 J 5 2 KJ8 Duplicate Neither vul. Sooth West Ncrtli East IV 1 Pass 3 N T. ; Opening J: t ' 23 he was third and he held that position straight through the five sessions, thereby finishing third in the tournament. Hs opening lead on today's hand was most unique and prov ed to be the killer, of course. West's 3pade bid told him the spade lead was no good. East's jump to three no trump eliminat ed the heart lead. Questions & A nswen Q What percentage of the world's ' ocean shipping is con trolled by the United States? A The U. S. now has two thirds, more than the rest of the world combined; in 1939 U. S. controlled about one-seventh. The question was whether to lead a diamond or a club. He correctly analyzed that, East, in all probability, held, the ace and queen of clubs but you can see what happens: . ,." East wins the opening lead with the queen and then. plays a spade which Clarren wins. Clar ren plays the king of clubs but before East can cash nine tricks, he has to let Clarren in with a heart and now a small club to his partner defeats the contract. O IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago ' C. C. Pennington and Charles McCrary returned from.ta busi ness trip to Walla Walla. Ladd creek was very ('high as a result of the hard rains for sev eral days. Farmers were jubilant over the alfalfa growirigVfter the cut worms had threatened to des troy the crops. .'I"'n'.' , " . Friends of Joseph Ingle' receivf-1' ed announcement of his prospec tive graduation from the Los An geles School of Osteopathy. He is the son of Mrs. Stella Ingle, and a graduate of LraGrande u:u ' Dr. IS Years And C. W. Erwin pi(foto .En-. gene to attend a sirte.ricntal con vention. . . Mrs. L. C. .Morehead was in Portland attending a Rcbekah as sembly. Mr. and Mrs. W. -M." -Pierson and their three sons rcftifhed af ter spending a few d.iyitfin FascO Wash, where they wiWesed the air mccfc -siit Q What is- the status of an American merchant seaman? A Ha is a civilian, serving voluntarily, and though often un der enemy action, has no mili tary status. Q What members of the cler gy were excluded from Hitler's home guard army? A The Jesuits. Nazis were said to be afraid the latter might seek to spread religious faith among Nazi youth taught to be godless. 10 Years Ago The La Grande board of educa tion reached an agreement with the LDS c.iurch for full-tjme use of the LDS rocreatiqnahall for the ensuing school oaT. .Prev iously the hall has been shared with the normal school, but with the building of a gymnasium on the campus this was no longer necessary. t ' Ira C. Woodie, coa'cnVat La Grande high school, spoke at the weekly luncheon Of the Rotary club on the state trackInert in Eugene in which La Grande high athletes placed seventh,'" " BEEFSTEAK MUSHROOM 6ETS IT NAME BECAUSE OF ITS RESEMBLANCE TO A PIECE OF This Curious World .COnutMS iY MCA SCR, ICC INC. V v ( OF THE A S LAMINSO' r I IS NOT DUE TO AN EXTRA Ljt J NUMBER OF VERTEBRAE, ) I BUT TO THE EXCESSIVE ) LEN&TH OF EACH BONE.. C "A RAK8EB 6IVES A MAN A SHAVE , "Them aukis mu dav to ,r - ta.. CAU U AIAHUIIIA 1 IK FLAMINGOES" ARE ONLY RARE VISITORS TO THE U.S., AND WO LONC-ER BPEEOON THE WAiNLANO. THOSE LIVING IN FLORIDA ARE IMPORTS. T.M.ftCG.U.S.MT.O?F. NEXT: . Woman suifrdge oa Okinawa.
