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The TJHEGOi? "STATESMAN," JfcJaaT'rcscnTTcdatsAir Slornis?. February 13, 1333 pact: seven - i. RETIHJ IS Safety Valve : - S a I em Directors Petition . Legislature For State . - Pension Program . (Continued from pas I) . ' of retiring , teachers on ; pensions . ended a ions discussion that ap .. proached the proportions .'of " a dispute with the Saieta Teachers association representatives ' President Shannon Hogue and M. J. Elle orer the feasibility nod the Justice of the district's. 1tj ing -extra taxes to ; prorlde ' tor teachers retirement. " ... Director E. A. Bradfield de clared against setting np a local retirement fund because "I -don't think va hare any right to ask a local district to support It ail", and "we'll bare losses we can't meet," :-f Preliminary statistics pre pared by F. E. Huston, actuary, showed that : to "receire a ISO monthly pension upon retiring at 0 years of age, a teacher enter Ing the school system at 20 would be required to contribute 14.98 and the board $4.9 (10 months of each year. In case of the older . teachers the board's share would 'be larger.; ' ': :y ;-.;." Physical Education " Complaints Mentioned , V , '-: , '.To the directors apparent' sur prise, Huston in hi report billed : . the board f or 175 : for . serTlces. ; Vogue claimed the directors had . Incurred ; this obligation; .- the board declared it only had agreed to pay Huston's . expenses , incl " dental to working op a pension . schedule.. , . The request tor abolishing compulsory-physical education, came '. about bedaase,-, to quote Minler, 'we're confronted with .a let of complaint" regarding It. Ualser pointed oat it was not the inten tion to eliminate physical educa tion entirely. - Complaints regarding, heating service at Englewood school were . referred to the building-grounds - committee, j Employment of Edmund A.' - Carleton, Oregon State college graduate and a Salem resident in bis boyhood, to substitute in the ' high school mathematics depart , znent'thjs semester was approved. DICTATOR AHEAD? L t.-. .' I j Stayton! Ore, , Editor Statesman: - i ! Many. Including a Ben KeaL have asked for a reason why we oppose tho Townsend plan. Well. I would be a - beneficiary under this plan if It would . benefit? I am not going i to say all the sick or all the poor, ncr any other class are ell crooks or hypocrites. Far .from it. j I know there are good, honest, people in all walks of life who are, as the'sajring is between the devil and the deep sea. They are i harrassed'. and menaced on one side by crooked, unscrupulous" competitors;, on the ether by unwise legislation ; they mvst- either .; do business nnder conditions aal they are,' or get out of . business aliogether. I wrote two former articles in order to start people to thinking, but I see most people Cannot read the printed lines to say nothing about reading between the lines, so here goes: ' j -V'-v -L' Now,. in the first place, ' com pulsory retirement is Tery dis tressing to people who hare ac quired, the habit of being indus trious, besides; it Is impossible to improve conditions simply by re tiring one class to make room for another. We .must put more to work. And if ;yoa-really want to make old people happy, why tie a tin can. to your Townsend plan, ? compulsory and regulated spend ing." Certainly people of three score years are as competent -to spend wisely as the younger gen eration are. A friend of mine, well over three score and ten, told me be v would rather have fifty per month to spend as he needed then the two- hundred with the Townsend tin can to it. O, but you say that would not put enough money into circula tion! This forced spending would eDVERIVOR QUERIED ' . (Ooatlnaed freia pi I) - ' Governor Martin waS not: willing to ear-mark all snecial fiinda of expenditure only for the 'benefit of the groups from which the funds were ralsedTo -use these funds otherwise I -think; would be unfair, Hailett said: "I believe the administration will have suf ficient power' nnder - the budget control bill to supervise expendi tures without enacting House Bill 1.- : Governor Martin yesterday in dicated he would not ask the leg islature for additional administra tive measures,- with the exception cf a minor, measure to accom plish certain governmental econ omies. . en us ' GRAY BELLE. WORD make fine picking tor .money sharks till the babble busted as it needs most. After this money got to second and third parties it would soon find Its. way into old stockings and into the y already overcrowded bank - iraafts. The American banker 'compiled fig ures that show the deposits in our banks ' bare increased - by seven billion in 3 4. under our present inflation. . Banks are paying in surance, clerk nire and holding Ibis, mostly other people's money, at a loss. - They cannot lend it because ' responsible " borrowers don't want credit in these troub lesome uncertainties, except tor their barest necessities, and - to lend it to. Irresponsible borrowers would be suicide. Many ; banks got badly 'burnt and went nnder in better days than this .for this Tery cause. In fact, I would like to see old people getting a still larger pension If it could be done without, robbing the- cradle and other needy mouths.. - ; Some time ago the Pathfinder said, "The only thing: that has not been suggested for relief is to kill off the old people, but . we are ready for that; nothing -can sur prise as any more. This : seems to be the day of rackets. There is the life insurance- racket, : to get a pile after yon are dead. In the peak- years enough -money was paid tor insurance' to pay all orer sixty in Oregon MO per month. Most of US old people would be pfetty well cared for "With that just now. Then there is the min imum wars racket which the U. S. supreme court ruled oat some fifteen years ago, as unconstitu tional and unfair, that - it inter fered with , personal liberty, pre venting one from selling their ser- vlce for what be chose or could fOontlnn4 from pngt 1) s in the main dining part; a front entrance to the downstairs ban quet room, -i i . 10 addition, all kitchen . equip-2 ment will be modernized, serried will be arranged closer to the main room, which will be rear ranged to seat 86 persons. The entire establishment, including the Crystal room, will be redecorated.,.,- i j - : ,: ' The business i will reopen under the name of ; Frank's restaurant, and Mr. Chatas hinted yesterday that serving f will be something entirely -new for Salem. Chatas sold the Pendleton cafe last No vember 1, 'and i has been looking about since 'then for a suitable new location. He spent nearly four weeks- in 'and out of Salem be for he decided this would be his hew. home. i V Coming to Salem with him is Mrs. Chatas. Their two children. a son. 17," and daughter; 14, will, remain -in Pendleton until close of the school year. Mr. and Mrs. Chatas are staying at the Palace apartments nail they are able to locate a hpme. ; i 'Latest available figures for comparative quarters in. 1933 and 1934 show than In Japan proper there was a gain- for the last quar ter of 7933 deaths, causing a gain in deaths over births of 7112. Gross-Word Puzzle By EUGKNrJ SHKFFKI5 '11'' 21 30 yffi 3 i 32 33 34 4ft At Z SO 51 52 "I 111 wr ywfYV . HORIZONTAL . 1 dance step 4 lad . 7 accumulate . 12part of -to be -13 rvexation 1 14 refuse 15 covered with wis . 17 penetrate 18 cluster of fibers occurring in wool staple 19-total 21 incapable of hearing , 22 eornmeal bread 23 female of the deer 24 weapons of i .offense . 25 employ -2ft like 27 consume 2d names 31 divisions f Attica 35 likely 37 an inter national lanrnaee " 23 beverage -' 39 bodies of ' 1 . water 1 partly enclosed by land . 42 Arabian garment 44 fortified ' , Algerian seaport , 45 reposes 46 resinous .substance 47 existed - 48 vehemently 50 governors -, 53 work for ' 64 ostrich- - like bird , 65 bind , ,r 68-T-doctrine 57 haunt ' 58 playuur i card VERTICAL .1 moccasin - like shoe : 2 sandy 8 more calm 4 portion ; 5 mountain -. - nymphs , - 8 former ; name for ' Tokyo ; ' T fear . 8 order 0 a flower Herewith is the eolation to terdays puzzle, u.s -.-f-. ---;."-4- yes i 1 10 water, in -i the form of 1' vapor " Jl peasants 18 monkey " 20 river in" i Scotland 22 place 20 venomous . ! serpent . "28 fuss . ' 20 huso 82 genus ' I spiders 83 springy-' 84 Japanese. , coin 80 Hindu cymbals llSriiTIQNiitil ?. 87-a centri. petal BlATFIARTTCWtNOTIEl IMS, ! flower l duster - t 33 snddea S r ' wind 40 feminine i 1 - name . jj 41 long for , I 43 disclosed U 44 be indebted .;! t- tO If 43 free from h everythiajt - i - extraneous : 81 weapon - 52 percaive get for it. And besides it was all Class legislation of which we bare too much. -. Now, take a man with a small factory, he is making a living, so are els men: hat bow eomee tne minimum wage racketeer. There mast be a minimum or a union wage. - Bat this firm la not up- to-date in modern machinery: cannot compete, closes down. Is out of business and bla men -out of a Job. -.Bat the manufacturer mora favorably situated adds more labor-saving machinery, dis misses, abou one-half or more of his men, . selects the ' most" etfl- eient and .goes into -mass produc tion. But these people with no lobs cannot purchase his goods. Would it . not be better for one hundred men to work for two' dol lars or leas per day. than ten men at ten or twenty per day? Why not make a minimum wage for the farmer or a minimum bag limit fqr our sportsmen Compel everyone who takes out a same license to bag two bucks, four coyotes, six skunks and so on all down Ah line, - with heavy -i. ine and penalties if be failed? Don t yon see it would drive all ont of the game business but a tew very skilled - and resourceful. We bare sense enough . to make - laws to keep a tew front hogging all the game, why not have sense enough to- make laws te keep' a few from bogging all the wealth, There must be a bag limit tor prof ir; ' income, salaries and nat ural resources and it mast be drastic. ; - There- mast be - a back to she land movement and that will come as soon as it Is safer and profitable to own and till it. Just look at the delapidated and deserted farms and oar overbuilt cities, r-mate evidences of the follies of the last few decades. Bat some will aay: "Overproduc tion .already. Oh, baloney! X lived to see three major panics and every time the same baloney. With millions poorly clad, and Ousts Colonels . . - : : -. - , : X-. -: r y V" am am iii sin - v r -1 1 vii i ii I I Cevemor Raby Laffooa : '-'':'' ; , . Because he believes many persons have been commissioned Kentucky : Colonels v. who ," bavent .been "worthy of the honor, Governer Euby Laffoon of Kentucky has decided to institute a system 'of merit ratings for candidates - la the future; and 'cat down the wholesale appointments, - Persons holding commissions in the Ken tucky regiment now total aboufc 4,000, appointed mostly upon rec hungry, but. 1 1 never found one with too mnchJ i Sure. X foand many with a surplus who were anxious to exchange same- for other commodities, bat the high tariffs have . wrecked ' our t ex change system, both home ; and abroad. He is plundered going to and coming from the market. When he gets 'back home he has nothing left', and so aarplases do pile np because they do not reach the. consumer. I just warn -you If we don't-soon get wiser and saner lawrvery soon we will hare a Mussolini or Hitler in the White House, , - '- 5 " A. P, KIRSCIL i '- WE FAIL TO DODGE : i To the Editor: . r- ... X was pleased to read your edi torial -(February 7th with assur ance that It was a complete and final .' analysis - of the Townsend pension plan. The flourishes id mental arithmetic were practical ly perfect, whatever .If' anything that has to .do -with pension "phil osophy. - V;v X have paid but little attention to the Townsend plan. . Guess. I took it for granted that it was Just another Utopian ..dream and assumed that some one -.would eventually expose the fallacy of the idea. Silence, however, ex cept for bald declarations of im possibility and a few asslnine blurbs has made me a bit curi ous about the proposition. : As the pension allowance would be - spent at 6nce, it boils ; down to virtual payment of the pension in goods and services. If goods and aervlces are available, or can be produced with reasonable' fa cility, the plan Is well worth con sidering: while in - case the re quisite commodities do hot exist and can not be produced, there la no purpose la farther - contem plating the subject. How about that? Staart Chase says that In the past five years we have "failed to produce 8300.000.000,009 worth of goods for which the physical plant was tally equipped. This .would be at an average rate of CO billions per year or three times the amount of gooes necessary' to satisfy the estimated demand of 'the Town send . pension, ; And besides, Mr. Chase does not include enormous quantities of goods actually pro duced and wantonly wasted..-. In short" we call millions of destitute people np on deck, to shiver In the cold and to look on helplessly while wV damp their food, clothes, shelter, gadgets and pleasures overboard to destruc tion; : all in stupid obedience to a business custom too feeble and cowardly to face responsibility. K proper use of goods and services will bankrupt -the coun try, by what kind of arithmetic do you figare that destruction of goods will avert the disaster? ' I pat , this question to the Capital Journal a. couple -of .weeks ago. No reply. And I suspect that The Statesman , will also find It more restful to pass the question. Considering several recent con tributions to the Safety .Valve, however, it would not be surprising-it some irate reader, would wish to sing once again the theme song from statistical percentages. It goes like this: - - Eight millions times XI timet 8200 equals 119.200,000,001 which is two per cent of 3960,-. 000,000,000 (almost a trillion) which in turn is more - than 20 times the 843,000.000,000 " busi ness of the United States in one punk; year.,. Also, by' deduction, two per cent of 69" shirts is o&e shirts. So what? The .problem' still remains to ; find some Idiotic excuse for aum--marily wasting more goods than would be required to guarantee -physical ; security to- every .one. 4 t T 1 J., Cooper, . . : . iVRoate 4, Box -19, - l Salem, Ore. '(Editor's Note:- Mr. Cooper's ' approach" to the problem, is cor rect. It is essentially one of -capacity to produce and ability to distribute. , The Statesman - has consistently, opposed - the ' ' crop production program and theory, believing where so much want ex- -lsted, distribution should be lm proved to satisfy the wants rather than destroy goods. . Chase'e sta- -tistics do not agree with estim- -aes in recent - studies - of the Brookings Institution.) - wmmm CLIFF STERRETT DONT BE SJLLy SUSIE. A r-AJK caCHAn&E A1KT NO ROBBERy TPLLVANDHER.PALS'' . y:&XfV... --By C- ' 11 iriv '-v I 1NSW -NUDIST m yrTtir V rWhrHZRS!J2l7 1 .q.ssa (J MICKEY MOUSE ; a Word to the Wise By WALT DISNEY f DAT DAWS o;MiSTAM X . .. t . '.X I P HEVo! POUCH STATION ? THlSV J iH I T can't EXPLAIN NOW BLTT " WBUCKrl NaSUH! AM'rt CTR1NCIN IS MICKEY MOUSE CAHKxA? ( ISZT!t7 f ) t LE5ZAYPWI5 "lS- c3 WIO OB WISE MQNET I HAVE A COUPLE 0OeTECTlVEsJ , IM PRBTtY SURE THEVU. 1 s ; l -j jj THIMBLE THEATRElarring Popcye. 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