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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oreffon, Sunday Morning, Febrnary 10, 1935
PAGE NINE
Safety Valve I
riiAY FAIR
It i said, "The world Uke
fighter". This does not necessar
ily apply to physical combat bat
to any struggle which ther think
to be right. Yet the world has lit
tle vse for a fighter who does not
fight fair. There Is a passage of
scripture that reads, "If a man
strive for mastery, he Is not
crowned except he strive lawful
ly". Equal rights to all Is a con
stitutional privilege. A -majority
- ml s Is true . democracy. ' This
should apply to th Townsend
plan of old age pensions as well .
as anything else. If It hat weak
points, let us know them that
they might be corrected. It Is a
poor policy to overthrow the
whole structure because of a
.weak point. If any one has a bet
ter plan to restore prosperity and
relieve the suffering of human
ity. ! why not bring it DUt in the
open. It is a poor thing that 'will
not stand investigation.. There is
nothing about the Townsend plan
to conceal or cover up. There is
no "ketch" in it. Its proponents
seek to defend it wherein it is
misrepresented.
It is a proven fact that those
who oppose the plan are a small
minority, most of whom oppose
It for personal interests and self
ishness. There are a few who do
not understand the plan, some
of them seem to want to display
their intelligence (?) by talking
and writing on the subject. It we
"play fair" we must acknowledge
that some who favor the Town
send plan belong to this class.
We must acknowledge truth re
gardless of which side it is on,
otherwise we can not hope to
have our opponents respect our
views. We must hold an open, re
ceptive attitude toward all truth.
and if we find ourselves wrong
on any line it js much-better for
us to -back up than to go ahead
wrong, even if it does take grace
and humility to do it. Some who
favor the Townsend plan, writing
under, "Safety Valve", claim that
an article which now costs $1.00
would then cost $1.02 or a 2
retail sales tax. Other proponents
claim it would be a 10 retail
sales tax. The facts are, neither
is right. These and other such
erroneous statements are detri
mental to the cause which they
are supposed to represent, eTen
though their motive is good
Their opponents, ttafce such state
ments and build around them and
. make the . Townsend plan look
ridiculous, when in reality the op
posers to the Townsend plan were
off of the trail altogether. They
were only fighting a straw man,
. with a spirit of "Whoop, hurrah
boys we knocked him out". True,
but who was it that was knocked
out? JuHa straw man, that's all.
How About "That Shirt" ,
The opponents, placing so much
emphasis on all of the supposed
tax connected with that shirt.
making It cost f 1.50 are still far
away in their guess of the Town
send plan, for iu tracing that
shirt bacJC from the retailer to
the wholesaler, and then the fac
tory and then to the producer of
the raw material, each transac
tion would be smaller, for the
amount the producer would get
for the raw material would
amount to only a few cents. It
Is not hard to see that the total
transaction tax would not amount
to more than about 5 for there
need not be more than fire or
Ix transactions. Some commodrTmiller. the jobber, th baker and
es wouia not taxe more than
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two or . three transactions from
the producer to the consumer.
For instance. If a farmer sold a
sack, of potatoes for 11.00 to a
groceryman and the groceryman
sold It to the consumer there
would be only two, transactions
with ' a - tax of about ' four cents,
bat if the farmer sold, it direct
to the consumer there (would be
only one transaction with a two
cent tax. There are very tew com
modities from the producer to
the consumer that would cost a
total of 10 tax. Probably aver
aging about 6. With; the pres
ent economic conditions too few
people can bny a shirt for even
one dollar, where If the Town
send plan was in operation and
every one could have a job with
good wages he could much
easier pay twice that 'amount for
a shirt. ?f !
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ritACTICES DIYISIOX
Woodburn, Ore.
2-8-85.
To the Editor: 'Hi
I see in your paper of the 7ih
a few lines by Pat M. Han. It
seems funny to me that any one
would kick on a handout like the
generous ones we get at present
time. For the month: of January
I received one whole 'cheese,
weight Vt lb., also; j 51 cans of
beef, and I have only a wife and
7 children to feed the same. That
means 27 feeds per day, not
meals you understand,! 30 days
per month means 810 feeds. Well,
now to divide this generous hand
out. I got an eye dropper, had
my wife melt the cheese and by
so doing divided it Up all O. K.,
Vt drop each till all was gone,
Next we made hash out of beef;
had spuds given us by good neighs
bors or ' wouldn't had so much
Grind beef good and fine then
mix with plenty of spuds. Of
course, this may not jwork so
good if company comes, as some
of the children might say as mine
did: "Mamma,-what Is the black
specks in with the spuds.". Of
course, I get relief work enough
to allow 4 cents per meal besides
my handouts. Well Pat; let's not
go hungry.
Miller Fryer.
GKTTI5G THE MONEY
Editor Statesman:
Assuming that ten I millions
would qualify for a pension, it
would require twenty-four billion
to finance the plan for a year.
It could be operated by the bene
ficiaries at small cost. Can this
huge sum be raised, is a pertin
tnt question. The writer thinks
it could without harm: toi the pub
lic. What follows is an attempt to
indicate the sources ;from which
the money could be collected. We
note first that emporiums of
trade, great and small, wherein
vast population gets! the things
necessary for their- support, com
fort and amusement, land the
utilities they use in their var
ious activities would furnish in
the aggregate- a -huge sum. The
rales tax and the sum of these
transactions Would net' a large
aggregate but not sufficient for
the demands of the plan. This
source of revenue is minor in any
adequate calculation.
We could get big wads of mon-
ey from grain, say wheat on Its
way from the grain fields to the
table of the consumer. Take
bushel of wheat the farmer, t&e
elevator man, the wholesaler, the
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the collector could clean a con
siderable sum. ; .The - bushel . of
wheat on Its way to the consumer
would have accumulated '"value
and probably would represent
three dollars or more. The col
lector of this revenue cannot be
blamed for these middle men. The
usages - of business put them
there. They are profit taken and
the- tax collector merely takes
the toll the taw requires. ,-
In considering this bushel of
wheat and the toll it pays don't
forget to multiply It by a' billion
which is the amount of wheat we
have or can produce,' and that we
could consume if. all the "hungry
mouths could be satisfied. Short
crops in this connection - would
have no significance for we could
get what- we need from ' abroad
with the same results as to rev
enue.; -
We could point to similar re
sults as the hog passes througa
the various points where profit
is collected on his way to our ta
bles. Enlarged sources of reven
ue can be pointed out on the oth
er meat products, as they pass
through the various ownerships
who handle that type of goods.
Also on wool, silk, linen, rayon,
to say nothing of such articles of
merchandise as fruit, cheese, but
ter, milk, poultry products and
seafoods.
We ' have not even suggested
euch gold mines as the board of
trade. Where grain is sold in
blocks of five thousand bushels
and resold as often as a hun
dred times over. You don't have
to have the grain in sight, it
doesn't even need to exist. You
can sell and resell as often as
you can get buyers. If you are
called on to produce the grain
and have not got it, you can set
tie in cash;; and if you have not
the cash you go broke. I had a
friend who bucked the market
for several years. He was a rich
man several times. His friends
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LOOKED tvtFtUMtKE FORTHt,
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LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY
the sheriff wiu. kill
OUT I WAS USTEMtKlG" BUT I NEVER COULD
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AS QUICKLV AS WE
COULD , CASPER
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COUUDMT MX) TELL.
ME ON THE
PHONE?,
tried hard to get hiraout of it;
bat he was charmed by the ex
citement. Lack is a fickle Jade
and turned on him. When I last
heard of him he was a fugitive
in Brazil. . ; - ,-.--
X knew another man quite well.
a banker in Iowa. He had accum
ulated a considerable fortune, and
had quite a bunch of idle money.
Iowa had a bumper corn crop at
that time; prices were low, abun
dance, ' of splendid., corn but no
market The farmers were very
blue;' He conceived the idea Of
buying a lot of this corn and hold
ing it for a raise. The farmers
were glad to cell at 16 cents a
bushel. He got the carpenter's to
work to put up cribs and the
farmers shoveled in the corn, sev
eral hundred thousand bushels of
it. He held it till prices went up
to 60 cents a bushel. He sold.
bought back, and resold that corn
a great many times; and when he
thought he had enough of that
kind of excitement, he got the
trains to . work, shipped in his
corn and cashed in on his profits,
I knew that man when he owned
100 farms in Ida county, lows, as
good land as exists and a good
many more farms outside of that
county. He was not a hard fisted
skinflint. Inst a nice business
man, such as any town would be
proud of.
The board of trade is a small
baby in comparison with the New
York stock exchange. There they
deal In stocks and bonds; and oft
en the turn over In a single day
runs up into billions; and other
days enough to stagger the lmag
(nation ; when the whole country
seems to be dancing round the
auction block in a mad spree; and
vast fortunes are made and lost
in a single day. Long ago a wag
wrote the following:
"On Monday I dabbled in stock
speculations
On Tuesday worth millions by all
calculations
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us. vf he ever, fwds
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THAT
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CHILD
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A'LITTLe
FOR VOU,
COLONEL,
DANNY
AND
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Wednesday drove
out
spanking bay span ; ; - -. :
On Thursday my Fifth; arenas
palace began; i i
On Friday I gave a magnificent
ball. ' . - Ill r.
And on Saturday smashed with
nothing at alL !
It may be said that the deals on
the board of trade snd the stock
exchange is nothing else bat gam
bling and should not be permit
ted. This paper, it should be un
derstood, is not a discussion in
ethics. These deals are within
the law and can be enforced by
the courts as other business. My
interest in them is to call atten
tion to the gold mines from which
the government can get the funds
necessary to the working of the
Townsend plan. We have not dis
cussed the steel trust or the au
tomobile trust, or the; great ship
building trust, or those trusts
which specialize in munitions for
war purposes. - i
ROBERT SMYLIE.
OOW AND DONKEY
Feb. "6,1134
Editor Statesman: Hi
When some of you men get
down to business and ' sensible
thinking and study conditions we
are facing, from no fault of our
own instead of blowing off so
much steam (nonsense) through
the Sat ety Valve, we might get
somewhere. Mr. Hess,; It really
isn't good logic to compare a cow
like your grandfather's, with
present day conditions.'
Don't be funny! My grandfath
er had a cow that sucked her
self also, but he changed her sys
tem and that is why we who are
interested in the Townsend Plan
are trying to get honest figures
before the people so they will an
derstand it. A plan that will
work with the "new deal" and not
interfere in the least is not fan
tastic. Lok at the billions going
into relief every month, not get
ting us anywhere, only in debt,
He Can't
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VOU, MABEL!
WHY ON
EARTH DIDN'T
YOU WRITE
TO ANY OP
US?
I A LONur j
STOSY
1TO ANY OP V l-BCSUn
for generations to come. That's
what I call fantastic! Idiotic! If
yoa please. ;;v-.,: :'
Read Q. T. Neal's article.
That's sense; lie Is a sincere writ
er. - Some argue that this plan
will tax -us more. Yoa never no
ticed, I suppose, that the aged
who receive the pension will . pay
taxes with this pension; that's
one feature of the plan, every one
helps. Who can pay taxes on this
dole we are being handed through
relief t No one can; that Is why
we are losing oar homes. That's
what the dole system does to a
nation. And these old people
that this Townsend plan will
help who are being criticised be
cause they are old and have been
robbed of their life's savings
through watered stocks of oar
utilities can go right on helping
support our government, by
spending the amount of pension
received every month, and in do
ing so will be paying the tax we
all (not a few) will be paying and
will revolve the fund that makes
Dr. Townsend's plan so humani
tarian.
It is money that is keeping
this plan from being adopted be
cause it digs those big boys that
aren't as human as your grand
dad's cow. She used her own
milk, didn't rob the whole herd.
It you don't wake np pretty
soon and learn why this plan re
tired those 60 and over, patting
the young people to work earn
inr a living making helpers of
boih old and young to support
our government we will face the
worst chaos ever known.
We hyper-critical readers, as
yoa call us, see the nonsense in
your article "A cow on pension.
We hare heard donkeys bray be
fore, but they don't call them all
donkeys. .
Ida B. McCulley .
1155 Nebraska Ave. City
Take It!
Musketeers
"The Bogey Man
Telegraphy
J HEARD EVERY WORD-tUE
ANY TOO PLEASED BUT HE
SAID HED DO HI duty-xxj
MUST HIDE THS LTTTLE
SEND HER. OUT OF THE
Surprise
drOSH.WE WERE
6E6NNlN6r TO -THINK
YOU TWO
TURTLE-DOVES
HAD COME TO
THE PAirnfitjr
OP THE
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PMCTICEMmS
FOR III LISTED
OAK POINT, Feb. t. Miss
Ethel May Taylor, critic teacher.
has been in Salem for two weeks
to receive treatments for an at
tack of flu. Mrs. Dewey of the
normal staff, is substituting for
her. Students from the Monmouth
normal who are doing practice
teaching here this semester are:
Primary, Iris Fitch. Eugene;
Jerry Hawk, Lebanon;-Pearl HoK
llngsworth, Portland: Alfa
Knotts. Pendleton: Mary Roberts,
Oregon City; Le Roy Scott. Port
land and Estol Sly of Eugene;
upper grades.' Ralph Nelson, Port
land: Morrell Gorsllne. Indepen
dence: Marian Good. Monmouth:
Thea OdelL Garden Way, Eugene;
Nell McGlasson, Forest Grove;
Olivia Torgensen. t Point Arena,
Calif.: Bond Whitmore. Portland
and Ruth Bailey of Buxton. Ore
gon.- ,---!
- Louis Reece Is erecting a house
on his palce near Oak Point
ub
By
By
lOEE. ZERO.
SHERIFF NWVSNTJj
NO.HANNAH-
MOARLAND
FREEZING
THAT VJOULD
BE AOMrmNu
Dig IF HE
THE UTTLE
GABY WAS
AN ft TOO
cuiiny
AlT LOOKS LIKE
MABEL S STEP
MOTHER tOTENDED
THE
TO CZPARATE US,
BUT IT DIUNT
WORK WE'LL
TELL YOU ALL
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school. His house burned about a
year and a halt ago, and they
used a granary tor the living
quarters and a cook wagon for a
kitchen.
Bride-Elect is
Guest at Shower
.WHEATLAND, Feb. 9. Miss
rurcilln ' Davidson, dan filter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lave Davidson, was
honored Tuesday afternoon at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Mag
ness. Thirteen friends presented
her . with a miscellaneous . bridal
shower. Miss Davidson announc
ed - her engagement to Frank
Hers ha, the marriage to take
place, Friday, February 15.
Eight members- attended the
quilting at the Wheatland com
munity hall and worked on the
Wheatland Social Service Shower
club quilt Thursday.
A lecture and :ides illustrat
ing bis talk will be given at tbe
Wheatland community hall, Mon
day nignt. Benruary 11, y Kev.
I O. P. Harnlsh of Portland, who
Is a world traveler.
mama
CLIFF STERRETT
By WALT DISNEY
By SEGAR
DARREL McCLURE
fM'GETTlNQ THE W!H-rVMS-l
IS WHERE lTS SNOWING AMD
AN' THE DOCTOR. SAYS- HE'LL.
OONT GOTO A WARM QJMAT&-
DUMB TO HELP HIM
By JIMMY MURPHY
J&ND BACK HOME THE
rTT?o.MrrruS3.APTER READtNir
WOTE THAT MABEL LEFTl
IS HASTILY PREPAR1NCT
TO CATCH THE AFTERNOON
TRAIN FOR THE CXTX'
S30W WHAT HAS SHE
UP HER
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