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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1929)
Eajul C. Brownleb Sheldon F. Sackett Hii? f tnidA every day and be don with it. You have done what you could Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt, crept in; forget them as soon as you can Tomorrow is a new day, begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old noHsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, uHth its hopes and aspirations, to xcaste a moment upon the yesterday. Anon. Oregon Is Not Unique CITATE legislatures in all parts of the United States are dealing with taxation in their current sessions. Oregon is by no means unique. The general property tax, as a rule, is the basis of state revenues. This means of raising revenue long ago proved in Adequate and most of the states have attempted to remedy the situation by- adding miscellaneous taxes. i The result is a confused jumble. The Maryland tax commission has reported to the legislature that the tax laws of that state are in the most execrable confusion of form No one but a trained lawyer could conjecture from reading them what the law is. So taxation officials have been forced to build up a "kind of customary law which is not reflected on the statute books. Three Maryland surety companies have paid $S60,- 000 in taxes. The commission finds that had these compan ies incorporated elsewhere their taxes would have been bu $210,000. Tax collections in this country increased from 6.4 per cent of the national revenue in 1913 to almost 12 per cent in 1927. The nation's tax bill has grown steadily Since 1923, and during the fiscal year 1927 the federal, state and local governments collected a total of $9,074,000,000 The greatest total of taxes collected in one country dur l ing one year in the history of the world. Since federal levies . have shown a steady decline, the increased burden is laid at the doors of state and local governments; in Oregon nearly all to those ox local governments. Taxation is an intricate subject, and it is worthy of the profound study of the major committee of congress that has it in hand, covering all forms of levies, from the federal ex actions down to the road or school district But that is a long range task. It may require years. In the mean time, Oregon has an emergency, in the unbalanced state budget, which will cost more the longer its solution is delayed. , That it be. not delayed ought to be the chief concern of the legislature now in session. There are men under the state house dome who are the best experts in the world in the domain of Oregon tax dif fciulties. Chief among them is State Treasurer Kay. This chief task ought to have imme diate attention. Stop, Look, Listen TX a window of the Standard Oil building in San Francisco's X financial district is an exhibit accompanied by a sign stat ing that during 1928 drivers of Standard Oil trucks stopped more than eight million times along the Pacific coast to look and listen at railway crossings before rvung over In the aggregate lost a lot of valuable time But as a result of this caution, the sign continues, there was not a single accident to any Standard Oil truck or driver during the year. The lesson is that if all drivers would do likewise, the frightful toll of creasing accidents woukl be stopped; many people who will die sudden deaths in 1929 woukl be spared. Is time too valuable for the reader of this, to waste a lit vUe of it in any such foolish manner? Eternity is a long time It is well illustrated in the; way Professor Bailey of the University of Oregon used to put it. a half century ago. He ttsed to visualize the length of it by telling his students that if one of them could visuahie an old man with a velvet rag coming every million years and wiping the face of a steel block as big a the class room When The steel block was all wiped away it would not yet be sunup in eternity! , 1 1 The Girl We Thought We Left Behind Us The Grab Who's WHO & i imeiy Views I ; - ; -. : ; r oaff jSTSLJSZiA I - i I III . m I II S WTfl f v a. Jl t I V-,'.v..vV-.' i i : l m mo . w- x g j f vw sstTsrs j WTT V yS SSZZ I v yjmm&z? Edison at EightyTvo j HTirlXTERlXG at Fort Meyer, Florida, Thomas A. Edison iff arrives at the laboratory at 7 in the morning, beating all his younger employees to work. This makes a good news paper story. But a writer in an exchange want to do a little analyx icjr. from the purely human angle. He calls attention first to the fact that Edison is S2. and deaf rhe is past the age of frivoSty. He fires now for his work; has lost interest in thoe recreational enterprises which keep people up late at might, thus tempting them to sleep a little later in the morn- ?ing to make up for it Hence getting down to work at 7 in the morning in . SroJve no hardship in his case. What would involve a sacri fice, in Edison's case, is staying away from his laboratory when he might be there, employed on sorse useful task. Edison is happy and fortunate. He has achieved that highest of all human goals an interest in his work that is v so intense that it absorbs everything else; is happier when at work than at any othr time. He is doing merely the thing he likes best to do harsoring himself, jast as less useful peopSe humor theraselye by staying up late at night in or-j cer t have a good time. Different 0er There TN Washington the. gas taxes go into the general fund. Ther X may be used for anything in the way of expenses of Use state government. 1 - It is ah unwritten law, however, that the money shall be expended for roads. 4 Kow there is ft demand in WashingtoA that the tax os gasv-Une be doubled, in order to aid ia balancing Use state 1 Kidgetr It is argued that the motorist shook! pay for the " conveniences whkh he. izss and which save 1dm more than they-cost him; also that heshockl cttribcte socaethiEgbe- skies to the expenses of the government that protects him ia tus ngucs xxsscrsvx, itivvss cisi patsce jwwexxioo &eu raw? ' it safe to use the hirhways That is, that the motorist ought to do it if the rest of the people shoukl That's Use cemana over there, and that s toe argumest if"- it Wbo am I? Wiiat ality? In what famous school was I trained? Who was poet Laureate la Ens lnd. uccedinr Wordsworth. In the reign ot Queen Victoria At what historic pass in Greece did Leonid&j and 3d0 Spartan seek to stem the tide of Persian inraslon? What is another name for the Unas. a mountains? v v Tk laSS. H wh trim Hrnrd .d - J 4cat el Sa tBtaaaee toatpaay. was a lr ef.tae w tat till Is 111! B VH . t. fill . wuim la ta SSU Jiatrict tit ka rT4 eoatiaaaiiy atae Ini fallawtac rwlrtio. H MrraS im lb. amy Sar?4 W- , . THE proposea comiuuuuuw amendment for a referendum on war Is the natural and logical step after the ratification of the Kellogg multilateral pact to renounce war as an ln- trument of na tional policy. X am offering the resolution at this time, when people are thinking in terms of peace and the outlaw ry of wars be tween ' nations except strictly for leiwe-' tense. vv- MtAtmuratt fismML. pose to sk the chairman of the committee on the Judiciary to fix a time for a public hearing. it if it would consistent with tne final action on the Kellogg pact to be taken by the senate. I would faror adding the words. or of an established American foreign policy." after the words "except in the defense of the United States." therebr providing more specifically for our - traditional rawwwiiaa"ansss t policy to protect the live .Pey.f.-.UrC,t.Ue?3 Uilai at ukca. u iwreign isnais. and fin, constitutional rrn,ru-K ''"S - ""uug sancuon io me Monroe for the first time "Am I a God at hand, aaith the Lord, and not a God afar off?" Where are these words found In the Bible? Today ia The Past John Hancock was born on this day. In 17ST. The Way of the World XOT BAD FOR CHrRCHKS IVBt worry. ane?r. or rejoice too much about the stories you bear that church tn this day are aot dflajc well. Church member- ahip tn this country baa Increas ed ISt per cent since 1S91. walk population has increased So per cent. Ia ISSi one person ia six belonged to a church; today It os person tn three. Despite the i5.M.o motor cars In the rait ed States. 1 3.00 .w telephone. lad ?e,e radios, people sU! have time to Join a ebarcb. and saaay ot them erea go to cbarcb. iadeed. pay their dnea. Will Miss Jim Reed By rHARU p. STEWART .performances short, sharp and uas&iaguMi C-or-rrpoBnJrt for terrible, rather but with inter. IVatraJ Prew aatj Tbe Statwmaa ,ViU la between Uke a death chair WASHINGTON. Jan. 2J. Itjthat seu its ricUm kicking time will be a rood lik-Urter time, as the executor reseats I Jim Reed of Missouri retires fromil.!- mkV enr h,m . Today's Horoscope Persons born on this day are good at lnTenting excuses. They make money easily, but are apt to be slovenly. A Dally Thought The band that follows intellect can achieTe." Michael Angelo. Answers to Forefcoias: Qwestioas 1; Anna Pariowa: Russian: Im tperial Russian Ballet school. 5. AirreU Tennyson. S. Thermopylae. 4. Great Smoky. 5. Jeremiah, xxili. 23. and ready, considered by the lnl.', SUtes and admitted by the Z powers of the world to be established American foreign noi ley based on the principle of defense. If there is ar.v ambleu lty in the multilateral treaty as to our exact position this proposed amendment would teed to mav. plain to the people of the world and In itself definite beyond aay question of doubt the attitude 0f the United States of Africa The question of war is FO vit,i and. so far reaching In effe t on the welfare of V. e Arrriiaa peopie inai 11 is oqv:ou. flable to submit the l- jt collectire Judgment of iors. x qu uui ai in:s tine ?h to discuss in aetau tr. the proposition. If t:. amendment were adop--constltute another o check on war. and th bUlty tor the final dec: be placed squarely on would have to carry the r'.fie a:.i bear the burdens. The power to declare war rep resents the highest act of sove reignity and a self-goTirnlnt- p. pie could well reserve, the rig: to hare a Tolce la the final deter mination of such an a:;-!r.vr;V:ng power which mlfht jeoardiw their collectire ltres and property. 5ti- to th e eiec- r-erlr? of p'-'Pvsd "a:!e or " would who Bite for Breakfast By fL jjHeiidricka- VOT SO GOOD AS TO MOUKR While w are fooling alone with ftgnres let's admit that some oth- r things have grows bosid hnrch naembership. The murder rate pr I.e people ts twice as rrt today as it was ia lt la crtlary. highway robbery, and ther crimes w lead the ctrQlsed world. Tke nnctTilised world has little mate, so there are no available attsUc. y , rns puick op rqg a..tr The cost of maiautains: pri- s and similar institutions U about oaesixth off the rereene of U tbe states! That's one reason e pay taxesw And they are high. oo. In two eastera states the cost, f ntaintaiaias such insUttttioas akes osve-third of the reTvnee. v -. turning off the ectriclty when the Tnlted States senate at the end i of this session of congress. Everybody- on Capitol Hill so. An extra ses sion is to fol low close on the heels of the present regular one. Bat no Jim Reed will sit in the front row. second desk front the aisle. a the rfeatocra. .wKH A.EO tic side, in the senate chamber. Alas! aot a disseatiax voice is raised it wont be the same ea ate without him. Yet it's tbe sreaerallT accented theory that nobody is absolately tadispeasahle that somebody aj wav Ls ready to step Into air jast-racated void, no matter how seemingly noa-re&UabSe. and oc cupy it adequately. Jim Reed's retiresaejat will cre ate a Tarawa la tbe post of srtn- miutor-tn-rhief for the senate mi- if aorttr. said tne eleven biilion doIUrs. pUc is Senator Thaddeas H Cau--raaced to European natioasiawav of rt.t rariag aad after tke World wr For a short spurt. Thsd Cars s no more tSa the raited Stages; war aadoubtedle i a.. seta tilUtor ia national politics. He is not J la Reed's exl in a caarathon. That U to say. Jia rairget up eaaa saa&e a speech. latia hoara. 0ai darts forked tvghtaiar all the His oat erery year in the war o artae. : imG TtHXAY Eaersoa beiierxsl ia tivi&g i& ho rreoeaa aot la., the past or fatare. He writes: "Mat is tiaidtiase tiU roar ere kart and apologeOc; he as no longer ap-t Thad is better ia deha:- -tght; ho dares aot sty "1 think,! so catatemptod as Jiaa. ia asm.' oi qaoves sosae saa& or i age. He b ashaned before thel Ude of grass or the btowiag rose f rte rooes nader say wiadow 3r to better oae; they are for what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to theaa. There Is sisxpty the rose; K perfect tn every utc-sseat of its xSstesee." ; -not his yond peradventure There are other senators who can say strong things. Senator Borah can. So can both Senator Walshes. LUcewU HI Johnson and young Bob LaPollette aad moat emphatically Tncle George" Korris. Bat. they all lack Thad Cara way's pungency. On Thad's owa political side. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississ ippi has more of Jlmvs capacity for a protaagod effort, but his effect; is nosMar like as devastating as! They Say... Hips roslnas of Optnion Croaa !ftfttrrs Readers are WeJcoamed for Tso x thss rrraai-i All letters Most Bear Vritsrt Name. Thonch Thia Xeadl Ke be CAIAfi ATTKXTIOX TO PLAGUE OF MUS.S1XES3 Salem. Jan. 21. To the editor of the Statesaan: Jim's, or Thad Caraway's. Shot Salem Is beautiful and yosr city for shot. I doubt if eren Jim has tries to keep Its streets cieaa. But Thad's power of peaetration. what can be the matter with peo- thoagh he boats Thad la point of I pie who walk out of the postofrke quantity. ' o It should not be assumed, kow. evor. that Senator Caraway -is de ficient tn ability to continue tn action as loeg as repair. and around the block and throw envelopes down on thejawn and all over the carbs by the busheL Really, ft Is a poor citizen who has no pride in his owa home circumstances! town whea thoee in charge of the i grounds do their nart. At his own particular game, he The city cooecil ahoald pass a is tireless. to fine any ose doing la this respect he differs from;11'- evete?es picked o of- Senator George H. Moses of the1 "S mJ UT G. O. P. faction. Mose can ssayfnope tats may xaahe aoa of thesa as mxrderos thtsgs as aay man i ashamed. We do not vaat to ?t ia the Cap&o! bcildlag but not i rarage caa all or-r oar city-:?-. often. IS takes him a long time taiblocis. CTTI PRIDE. think thesa up. apparently. Thad utters them as naturaXTy as kef breaths and ahost aa rapLiry.f when he feels like lt Thad's also are a higher type J than Moses. The Latter re per.: sonai. Thad's tkaaderboUs always SAV UT i strik ahovo the dUpkragm. i -l o firo aa d 3t The senate will jsisis J!aa Red 1 i - m. k- -.-. tn,. ' rat aim . kMh. Stia. cocspiete esasi never wEsf ; "What is roar iMasem. settle upon the soio&s chaser "ash" while Thad Caraway resaaias t, t ..r-, .n DINNER STORIES Much waiting time a V But that is unavoidable, the way we do it In Oregon, especially in the first days of the session of our legislature, for the xnain work must be done in the committees. Otherwise, it could never get done at all. S (n California they do tt another way. Down thvre the legislature after being in session two weeks and introducing 2000 bills, has adjourned for 30 days to think it all over. The theory of the divided session ts that sober second thought is best. Presumably, it gives the legislators time "to talk to their constituents and get the public's ideas as to proposed laws But a much better and less ex pensive device would be a steering committee that. would steer. It is too late to be applied to the present Oregon session, hnt it would be a good idea to work on; a plan along tbe lines of efficiency and economy for future seosfona. If planning were efficiently done in advance, the next session could get along: with much less than half the money that will bo ex pended for clerk hire this time. besides having the work perform ed much more efficiently. Also there could be a vast speeding up of the labocs on necessary and im portant tills. IX this takes a law to be refer red to the people, the voters wosld welcome with threo cheers the chance to vote favorably oa it. S Senators Staples and Stmyer must tahe satisfaction tn the way the revotvl&g fend law is worktsx at the Orecon sniteatiar-r kru-4oJa- th oei? kjmr of t lag cp iadsstraes thai will before many years pay the whole -xpn ses of the institution, betides pay ins; a small wage to ill w-,r&er. thus making the prison reforma tory in Its treataer.: cf tbe in mates, instead pt vindicative; a provided by tbe con.su: S "a Senator Strayer. four . n;p was Instrumental !a h:r :.r frr: the present revolrl -z '. . r i : a - . and getting its intent cla.-.f.-l s.r. 1 understood. Also in hav.ir ll 000 put into the facd: a av.-c ?m the general expenses cf on for the preceding bier.-: that site.eee toot n ii: : ii tax money. s Tw?ryears ago, seoat.-r ?:a;:es helped in having t2.r ;ut in to the revolving faai. La orier provide for tbe expansion that :.aa taken place goig frca a handred acres of flax up to fojr years ago to acres the ; res- at year; likely to acres :ri: year, and acres by And the bensty of ft is that f 199,999 is seeded for the pretr . expansion; not n cent Is cedi The rvrolTtsc fond will take care of all that, om its own.- It ; take care of the larger acri : -for next year, and on to final !, acres. And that mea- a lot of money. There will haTe : be stSl more retting taxks. s: r sheds to store the flax, more wir honsw room, more machinery - '. appSiaxcen. More and mora. r' rear's crop has to he sH paid ' vr thin year, thoagrh the sas cf tbe prod nets ds ae come H :eit year. Them wCl b mIZisu ia- vested by tho tie tt 1 i ) acre Oax crop is renewed- Aid stiU. it wCX be ,-asa Cs wn- Tiea wi.j e 13- stitntSenu ' enSren its proceediags. It ij off enfd to the zsesbers of tbe Onrxoo icsi&tsre fart vhatt it i wtfxih. WHAT gS IT AJJL ABOTT? Ton ask: what as H all ahont? Take this .ocatia as a Una! word from today colsmau The writer does not know to whoa to rivo credit: tumi from n world where wo hav known jncredtbU sxan iarda of exsean. And we dimly Pnmemher henntien which we have aot aelaad again. And we g s to that W .' ' - 5 - . aNIiary.Has Stage Fright KITIXG oa bis trip throcxb CiliferriaL, FVask Jealdua. editor of the Eagene Besistier seaib tMi: -Marr rrkrd atfaeid bvfswe h ltiibini tke holiday aad greeting cards. Old Oregon's Ycstcrdaj-s Tnlkn that there was aa arparest short age ia the wood supply of the county when Tsids were oriered for the aaaaal reastrssests of I the instiistloas, THE ONE aUNUTE PULPIT I . . " nreiilag e2dec Ca, my nosv to hoar the ta le? the Epicene district fr tno.r stre&aa ttt mmw VOODBlTtX An armed p; Method it ciarch. ts a vtsstac X the wwrda of hw&edi. Aa'ast-t a.isj; jumai awaen ia. aa,- vs.. If-sJy wStaess ssorseth jgma I v . rnre two men wgso? j 1 ;ad the moth of tko wacked 4e rbhed Aastin and FInserx stare. I WODtl OP I f itxity. Prtert. w MiHf orai axa Ktcjea tse, I " -" i i.-jj. tJirshal. II THH VVICD rbuKi itiv(c Masrfee Wlprot. the clrar doai-i . S IjOXTOX. J- .ar r. left fera three weeks' visit lnl ' X1;T The timant of Irak, the i&i. San Franeisea. ?7 ..' W" t2h protectorate it avethwt - ; nogona-raas witi Creas firs- Ll Lt?Jrt. -rTnJL" --taaa east Irak cah ha re. State institution are peairij-e to nAopl coal aad oSl for faei. Tbef ntake a crab waU I tain aad la part to the fcr"" Is di 6?rv Keeps Yarn Hacas Cocsfortable Prompt Sernos The Best in Wood and Hl!.I.MAIrS mm Plxae 1855 High Pressure Pete pa WLiaSd assd had no seanaon on Irr the ear at a doctor for aeveral dtexa. For snore yearn than ease realty core So hoe hnonsw Mary hoo. fNea afneoasng, aerore the cam us. aaq boo th incbt naUsng at St- Ban hn ssse boat to tase Tatr voire whike ah as an iiimsj, Tbtfaia th roan eras aao m aa srared that ah km aw. a EL - - - Taooe naadetaity f raenmnrnt feefse who hare sat ess the fdat Tnataisj of aluTttac eyea, base were -mratysed wth imiaiiaiami a the fmot tmne they hod So naai ess theor feet bedoro eeeai a am Tt amtl eaw aaal aay ismi thine, wfil aympathtse unit Mary' feeifiiameal mawai asm woo itaand mot oady on act boa no tnPc ; j -: - V v;v- -X- ' . ' I- Tt lt V-crmrk et tbe year is the truthfd cocarsect cXdt iAwTtaaee?, KtBan. pkytr trhkjt says that at saxhooc b iS orJr irisirurrcfit coe caxt kartt to rtr oa that doesat nxs&l y verse mbite ceejsfearrds tlaa it k afterwoTvi iTxar at the seke xfter roKtScal rie. are foUomixr ilr. IItr ts Flaiiih. Tbey prcfcxbrr thisk that passu- ct rie it part cf tbs jb of sa rc-food aisdsidtrator. -Ex- By Swau wtvUATtajct- i ea -obnoU. no 5-d ! A I? .".. -i." j " . - - - - - - 9 t f. Ifaii tK. I WATXXiTCfV VI ctV 62: krkOrr tk oe-friL -cito-r L WF Mr. mr