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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1937)
"No Favor Sway Us; No Fear Shall Awe" ' From First Statesman. March 28. 1851 Charles A. Sfrague - - Editor ard Publisher THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Sprasue, Pres. 'Sheldon F. Sackett, Secy. Mt-nitter of the Associated Irra The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use foi publica tion of all new ditu-li credited to H r not atlw-rwlM credited In this pnper. ' .-.:'; ! 'i Pensions From Gambling I The impoverished aged, whose bread is now provided by the state's profits off of liquor, are id have it buttered by the profits off of legalized gambling if the amendment pro posed by pinball interests is adopted in Oregon. The bill it self is buttered with old age pensions of a minimum of $35 a month, with the obvious purpose of attracting the votes of the aged. I v'vV:--r -V----V ' :l " K The, amendment would repeal the existing prohibition on lotteries in the constitution, or limit its application to schemes of "pure chance." It would make lawful the licensing "bowling alleys, bridge pool and billiard rooms, horse rae ' Inc. dog racing, other forms of racing and racing establishments, : conducted under the pari-mutuel wagering system; bank nights, punch boards, pin-ball, collective pin-ball and collective skill games, and raffles and bazaars conducted by resident non-profit corporations for local charitable -purposes; and the legislative assembly may license, tax. regulate or prohibit any or all other games or devices of skill, chance or amusement." . r This is the ingenious method of the gambling interests to keep going their lucrative though nefarious business. If the profits are large enough to lift the pensions of all the needy aged by $7.50 a month, are in this business. Or perhaps the $35 is pure bait, no assurance of its being realized. J ; The state would thus appear in the role of a modern Ro bin Hood, stealing from the workingmen with families to money over to the pensioners. pate, will object to such a scheme of financing old age pen sions. , " Unemployment Roundup The long-deferred census of unemployment is to be made, on a voluntary basis. Next Tuesday postal carriers will dis tribute blanks to everyone. These are to be filled out and mailed back without a stamp) by dropping the cards in any postbox. Those who do not need to return the blanks are those who now have work, either full time, or part jtime and who want no more work; persons not working now be cause of sickness, vacation, strike or time off from a job to-which they will return; persons unable to work because of permanent disability; persons retired or not wanting work; juveniles. j Those who are expected to register are those totafly.un employed and who want work; those partly employed who want more work. Persons on WPA, NYA, CCC should enroll as unemployed. j This will be the first head count of the unemployed in of transients who will not be reached, and thousands of oth ers, no doubt, who will fail to return the blanks. It will how ever provide some definite information as to the extent of unemployment in the United States. -t' ' j Public cooperation, is urged to make the census as com plete, and as accurate as possible. The machinery is very sim ple. If the unemployed or partly employed will respond gov ernment agencies will have some definite information on which to go in planning for return of unemployed to steady jobs. ' -,- - y MultnomAh county by dint aged to includein its regular budgetthe deficiency in relief which it wanted the state to assume. Even'then the sum may not prove adequate because of the lumber mill palsy in Porf laruL The aggregate of all property tax levies will give Mult nomah county the highest tax millage in its history, and that despite the fact the state property levy has been eliminated. t Real property continues to be the patient packmule for carrying the load of government. Sorite new sources of rev enue have been tapped: incomes, corporation excise, intangi ble, liquor sales, gasoline sales.These have; supplied the state with revenue, but support of schools and cities and counties still falls on property. The mule is soon going to balk under the burden. : . - . Further demands must be restricted to real needs. If the load of government is to increase then the costs must be as sessed against the flow of money: current incomes; sales and the like. "Mustn't say the naughty word" is thl popular slogan in Oregon with reference to a sales .tax. We dislike it; hope it will not be necessary ; believe it will not 'under careful economy and administration. But make no mistake : noi addi tional large and continuing burdens . can be placed on real preperty. The overloaded mule will not only balk, he will kick: . - - Lighter Corporation Taxes - News from Washington hints a lightening of the tax load on small corporations, affecting about 85 per cent of ! those bow existing. That might be expected to have a tonic effect on business ; and would have if it meant the reduction is made possible through a revenue surplus. If it means a dimin ished income for the government then that will make the bud get deficit greater, and in the end be worse for business. After all, if more money is to be derived for support of the federal government, it must come from somewhere; and since the small corporations make up. such a high percent age of the total number they will have to be tapped along with the big ones. . i "j Some better system should be worked but for taxing cor porations, particularly by modifying: or eliminating the tax on undistributed profits. Or if the corporation tax on small companies is lowered then heavier taxes should be, imposed on personal incomes in lower brackets, because some one has to pay, and there is the only field not fully exploited at present. -" ;: ; ,:; V v-y r - ' f r ; yl i Here It is. nearly two weeks after the New York City election and the results in the contest tor city councilmen j have not been an nounced. This Is the first election under the new proportional rep resentation plan. Persons mark the order of preference for the var ious candidates. The ballots are assembled, and the ' tabulation is complicated. It may be simple to do, but it is difficult to explain. The only report so far has been one of fraud in the canvassing of the Vote in some of the boroughs.' The country is Interested In the new "PR" scheme. If it succeeds in New York it will doubtless be copied elsewhere. How interesting it would be- to vote for the 14 members of Salem's council on a "PR" plan, h j- Six-man football it gaining wide vogue in the middle west: Points in its favor are that it enables! smaller groups to have teams, encour ages a more open style of play, and reduces injuries. It does seem to have possibilities. The trouble with football is that participation is confined to too few boys. Only those with fair chance at the first team or the "squad? turn out. Others miss their play in the fine fall season. Why not a litter of six-man teams with fancy names like "midgets," "rabbits,' "biekies," 'sparrows' recruited in leagues like the basketball leagues. Maybe the YMCA, which does a lot of pio neering in sports, might try out six-mas' football In Salem. A Marioh county turkey, grown by Fred W. Wagner of Aurora, is picked as the west's best to go giving. TVith that in the larder crow" this faU. ! . . ' The president of Brazil has made himself dictator of that coun try as a "corporative state." He insists however that the form is neith er fascism or communism, but democracy ini the modern sense." President Vargas has Mussolini's own sense of humor. It should be plain after three trials that the supreme court has no intention, engaging la a "Black out" performance), - there with weak - willed, the youths, the support, to turn part of the Most of the aged, we antici i - ' ' of paring here and there man-! to the White House for Thanks the president win not hare to "eat one realizes the stakes Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS Airs. A. N. Bush was 11-14-87 worthy scion of fine pioneer stock - settling Oregon: going great-loss: N ; The passing of Mrs. A. N. Bash is a sad blow to the loving mem bers of her own household, a distinct sorrow for s wide circle of : intimate friends, ; and a great loss by the community in which she lived and worked and exerted Influences for real good and pro- gressive growth all her days. She was a woman of culture and vision, of high Ideals and deep and "wide sympathies, ex tending to the underprivileged and poor. t V V S " ' Born October 27, 1861, Into the family of John and Emma Pringle Hughes,- In Salem, Oregon, she inherited the outlook and stamina of her great grandmother, Tabltha Brown. ' - - ; . f The Pringles, including her mother, grandmother and great grandmother, arrived in the little settlement . that became Salem on Christmas day, 1846, walking into the Lee house, first residence of whites on the site -of the capital city, in drizzling rain and flurry ing snow, illy clad and hungry, j They had come j through the hardships and dangers of the part Of the 1846 covered wagon im migration, which took. the south ern route, by way of the Rogue; TJmpqna 'and upper Willamette valleys. They had abandoned their wagons and goods in the terrible South Umpqua canyon. v. News of their plight reached the lower-Willamette vaUey settle ments, including those of French Prairie, just in time for such re sponse of succor at the point where Eugene now; stands that, In forced marches, largely on loot, they were enabled to be under, roof and with available food supplies and warm clothing, so that they escaped a snow storm of three weeks duration. j An ever alight further delay wejild have meant loss of life to the whole Pringle contingent Grandma Tabitha Brown, safe in the Lee - house, still standing on the same spot, present 960 Broad way, took stock of her resources. Like a divine revelation, she found in a glove finger what she had thought was a button but turned out to be a picayune, a six and a quarter cent piece. She bought with it three . needles, traded some. illy spared pieces of old clothing to Indian women for buckskin and so started herself In business as a love maker. This In her 67th year! V S ' She saved enough money from glore making, above expenses, by eariy spring, 1847, so that she was ready for another needed enterprise. She had a little over $30, and with this, plus courage, vision, started the boarding school where Forest Grove stands that grew into Pacific university! She filled the needs of orphaned chil dren off the plains. They paid II a week when their relatives could aftord.it; nothing, or only labor. wnen they could not. Of auch heroic fiber and far vision was the great granddaugh ter of Grandma Brown constitu ted. Lulu Hughea Bush became a trustee of her church, the First Methodist of Salem, and of Will amette university; a working and giving trustee. Lausanne haU of Willamette Is partly a product of her aid and vision. When it waa finished, she helped furnish it; supplying both money ind taste for the beautiful and appropriate . things, for the generations of fine young ladiea to troop through those halls. One of her last departures from her home wa5 to visit Lausanne. She aided In gaherting the first supply of books tor the Salem public library; helped in securing the building site; went east and induced the Carnegie foundation heads to give for; the building twice as much as they proposed; nence twice the sized structure. That she had a true vision Is evi denced by the fact that the build ing is already short of ; needed room. ' '-.''' '- ... . 'V. -I--. Mrs. Bush helped in securing quarters for the Salem YWCA. When death to the! redwood tree at Summer and Marion streets was decreed, she saved its life. by providing a light for traffic safety. That tree is now in what is the smallest city park in the world. - ,,! ' Mrs. Bush had been an invalid for 10 years; ' leaving her room only when carried by her people. But tnrough all her physical pain and helplessness, she maintained a stout heart and a clear mind. She lost no interest In her sympathies. nor in her studies. She was a stir- dent to the last, j doing French translations and performing some writing within recent months. -: V ; : , She devoted every minute of her time to her family, her friends, her Interests and her work every minute ; her. physicians would allow from necessary rest periods. This was true up to the last. ' . : She lost no Interest in current! events .or in the progress of her city, her state, her world. When she could not read, her attendants! read aloud to her. V W She served and helped the park board. She wanted her Salem to be a beautiful city, j She knew Ore gon and world history. The Bush. home has perhaps the most com plete and valuable library of Ore gon history In existence. At Mrs. Bush's funeral alt classes were present.' Represented were the lowly who la life h-vl received more th;a sympathy from the good - woman who had gone to her reward. The writer of this column Is f very proud to have known and counted her as a friend, over a long period of years. No one In that circle will while life lasts forget her or tall to miss .her throughout the days and years Army's Dreadnaught Fighter Takes to the Air r r Flyini over Dayton, Ohio, Is tha Army's newest and most powerful bomber-fighter, the Airocudo. Forward position of the two automatic cannon and the excellent vision of the cannoneers, due to the pusher-type pro pellen, makes this ship one of America's mightiest fighters. The plane designed primarily to fight the huge . . "flying fortresses' can speed at more tkaa SCO x&Ues per boor. j ; Radio Programs KSLK STnrDAT--lS70 Xe. 8:30 Morninf meditation, - j 0:00 -DrJ Charles Courboin, orctnitt, . MRS. 9:15 Baton melodiaa. j 9:49 Mtrthm and HaL MBS. 10:00 New World Chamber area, MBS. 10:30 Newt, 10:45 Mnaie maatere. I 11 :00 Americsa Lathcraa church. 12 :00 Muaical memoriae. 12:25 Oklahoma Outlaw. 12 -.no Popular tatata. 12:45 Vocal varieties. 1:00 Moods and melody, MBS. 1:30 Today'a tnaea. 2:00 LesilHite'e tea daniante, MBS. 2:35 Streamline Swing. MBS. 3:45 Rabbi Edrer Magnin, MBS. 3:00 Thirty Minates la Hollywood, MBS. S :C -Popnlar variety. 4:00 Staa Lomax sports talk, MBS. 4:15 Kaormond Gram Swing, news, MBiS. 4:30 CoraJ Stxande. i 4:45 Hollywood aevi, MBS. 5:00 By Dana' Stardust Barlow, MESS. 5:30 Heart songs. 6:00 MelSdie Gems. 6:15 De9. Sooth Kejrro Choir,. MBS. 6:30 SwjAgUme. T:00 6oai of the range.. 7:15 Tineent Lopes oreh., MBS. 7:30 Prident Rooeerelt fireside chat, MH&. 7:45 Olxftfashioned reriral. MBS. :30 ArKasaell'a oreh,. MBS. ' 9:00 Newspaper ot the air, MBS. 9:15 Thr Passing parade MBS. B:30 Wnrne Kinc'a oreh.. MBS. 10:00 Treadle Martin's oreh.. MBS. 10:15 Tedr Weems oreh., MBS. 10:30 Kajf Kyser's oreh., MBS. 11:00 WHite's oreh, MBS. KOlT SUNDAY 620 Kc 8:00 Press Badio news. 8:05 Weird and Many. 8:15 Neighbor Nell. 8:30 Susjiday snnrise program. :00 Defver string quartet. 9:30 Chit ifo round table. 10:00 8 tars ot today. 10:80 Morning concert. 11:30 Ba9c home. 13:00 Eddie Swartovt's music. ' 12:30 Eictcle party. 1:00 Bar Towers, troubadour. 1:15 Radio comments. 1:30 Stare of tomorrow. 2:00 Marion Talley. , 3 :30 Time ot your life, i S :00 Posey playlets. 8:15 News. 8:30 A nle of today. 4-:00 Prolesaor Pnszlewit. 4:30 Sunday, special. SKtO Cofitee hour. 6:00 Manhattan Merry-Go-Round. T 8:30 American album of familiar wan aie.i - 7:00 Hawthorne Home.. 7:30 Carefree carnival. 8:00 Int resting Naighhors. 8:151 Want a Drroreo. 8:30 Jack Benny. 9:00 Xigfct Editor.. 9:15 Treasure Ishrnd. 9:30r-On Man's asai!y. -10.-00 Kewa flashes. 10:15 Bridge to Dreamland. 11:00 Bali Tabarin orth. 11:3ft Strinrtime. 12:00 Weather reports. KEX aOKDAT 1110 Kc S :00 Thai quiet hour. 8 :30 Seettad gnsaaera. 8:45 Al and Lee Reiser, pianos. 9:00 Prophetic hour. : 9:30 Radio City maale kail. 10:30 Spoiling hoe. 11:00 Marie hey at RCA. 12 rOO Tempo for yeath. 12:15 Homo folks frolic - 12:30 Fisaf ace and Figsbottls., 1:00 Family altar hoar. 1:30 Beth Chariler. 1:45 Ranch bora. 2 :00 Metropolitan opera seditions. 2:80 Snashioo melodies. . 3:00 Health spot dream glrU 3:15 Sosigs of yesteryear. 3:20 Song cycle. 3 :80 Noeelty oreh. j 4:00 Popular classics. . 4A5 Catholie Trnth hour. 4:30 Concert trio, v 4:45 Silent t KOB. 8:00 Irene Rich. ,8:15 Ref. Richard M. Steiner, 8:30 Sporta by Bill Mock. " 8:45 News, i 9 :00 Ererrbody siar. ' 10:00 Rinhard Montgomery booY chat. iu :bu caKrery tSDernscm Jubilee. 11:15 Charles Banyan, organist. 12 :00 Weather and police reports. KOJN BWDAT ttO Kn. 8:00 West eoait church. j 8:30 CoWiica Braakf eat elnhj :P0 Major Bowea Capitol theatre tfsm- " uyjj '- .. .. . :i 9:30 Sat Lake tabemsets. j Ten Years Ago Tember 14, 1027 Twenty-eight killed, 485 hurt In blast at Pittsburgh; world's larg est gas j tank explodes; whole streets beared Into air. amous American ny In g ace. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, has been awarded the Hubbard Medal ot the Rational Geographic so- ciety.:-g , . -ls.j,-, 'i :" . - ' The Kiwanis at their! regular luncheon j today will hare for speaker, professor J. o; Hall, head of the public speaking department at Willasiette unlrersityj t - - i Twenty Years Ago Korember 14, 1017 Harold Eakln of Salem, organ izer throughout the Willamette ralley district for the boys' div ision of the army TMCA, is doing ef f ectire -work tor war fund cam- paign. Her. J. R.'Buck, became the pastor at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic ichurch in this city last week by; appointment of Arch bishop Christie of Portland. TJ. S. Senator Charles L. Mc Nary is leaving for eastern Ore gon and Pendleton to Investigate effect ot; embargo in wheat cen- ters. i " ",r' i I that are " left of this earthly pQ- grimageji - 10 :0O Chnrch the air. 10:30 Poet'a Gold. ! 10:45 Marshall Great, organist. 11:00 Kemany Trail. 11:15 Lewi White entertains. 11 :30 String ooartet. 11:45 Eyes of the world. 12:00 Mow; York Philharmonic oreh. 3:00 Jane Wyatt and Brian Aherne in "Honesty's PoUcy." 2 :30 Dr. Chriatian. 3:00 Joe Penner. ! 3:80 Romantic rhythm. 4 :00 Jeannette MacDonald. 4:30 Old aonrs of the church. 6 :00 Cohrmbia workshop. 5:80 ThelLeff Parade. 5 :45 Fireside quartet. 6:00 Sunday evening hoar. 7:00 8onday bows reriew, 7:15 Jolly ti ma chat. T 30 President Sooserelt. 7:45 HeadUnes and bylines. 8:00 Conceit oreh. 8:15 Rtudio. 8:80 inn F. Drews, organist. 8:45 Stadia. 9:00 Modern strings. 9 :80 Dorothy Dir. 10:00 Phantom violin. 10:15 Hollywood mwlody ahop. 10 :46 Boh . Crosby oreh, 11:00 Door to the Moon. 11:80 Sterling Young oreh. U3LM MONDAY 1370 Xe. 7:15 News. , ; 7:30 Sunrise aermonette. i 7:45 American family Robinson. 8 :00 Reminiscing with Uene LaVetle, MBS. 8 : 15 Big Freddie Miller, MBS. 8:30 Today's tunes. 8:43 News. 9:00 The Pastor'a Call. 9:15 Friendly Circle. 9:45 Coral btrandai 10:00 Oddities is the news. 10:15 Carson Robinson Bucleroos, MBS. M 10:30 Information bureso, MBS. 10:45 Neighbor Jim. 11:00 Kewa. 11:15 The, variety ahow. 11:45 Leo Frendners'a oreh- MBS. 12:00 Value parade. 12:15 News'. i ' 12:30 Musical memories. 13:4 Hite of todan. 1 :00 National emersreacy coancil, MBS. a.rwaiiBt owing, juioi 1 -.80 Popular as hit. 1:45 Frank Sortino a orch MBS. 2:15 Monitor news. 2:30 Kata on the I keys, MBS. S:4r-9klahoma Outlaws. 8:00 Feminine Fancies, MBS. .3:30 News. 8:45 Radio Campos, MBS. 4:00 Henry Weber a oreh, MBS. 4:15 The ln-laws, MB8. 4:30 Memory Cheat, MBS. 4:45 Thia Side of Twenty. MBS. 5:00 Charles Uaylord'a oreh, MBS. 5:15 The Story Lady-. 5:31 Tha Freshest Thing ia Town. 5 :45 -Swingtime. 6:15 The Phantom Pilot,. MBS. :30 Krank Bulla sports talk, MBS. 6:45 News. i 7 :00 Waltxtirae. 7 ;15 STATESMAN; OF THK AIB sports renew; Ron Gemmell. 7:30 Vocal varieties. 7:45 Spice of Life. 8:00 Harmony hall. 8:15 Sews. 8:30 Movie song hits. 8:50 Musical -waves. 9 :00 The newspaper of the air, MBS. :i Komsaue melodies. 9:80 Charles Gaylerd a -orcn., MBS. 10:00 Dick 'Stabile's oreh, MBS. i0:30 Ksy Kyser's oreh, MBS. 11:00 Les Hits' s oreh- MBS. 11:30 Frank Sortino a oreh, ME 3. XXX MOHDAT 1180 Kc. k -5:30 ilosical Clock. 400 Family Altar Hour. 7:30 Over the Breakfast Table. - 7 :45 Viennese Ensemble. 8:00 Financial Service. 8:15 Hollywood Hi Hatters. 8:30 Dt. Brock. 9:00 Home Institute. 9:15 Bailey Aatonj 9:30 The New World. 10:00 Lost and Found Items. 10:02 Crosscuts. I 10:30 News.! ! 10:43-Jack and Loietta. 11:00 Ureat Moments in History. 1 1 : 15 Radio Show -Window. 11:30 Western Farm and Home. 12:80 Xews. - I 12:45 Market Reports. 12 :50 Escorts and Betty. ' 1:00 Forum Luneheon. . 1:30 .Rochester Civic Orchestra 2:00 Xeiehbor KelL 2:15 Swingtime Trio. 2 :2j Financial and Grain Reports. 2:30 Julane Pelleiier. 2:43 AI Vierra's Hewaiiaas. 8:00 lr. S. Army Band. 3:30 Press! Radio t'ews. 3:35 Charles Searsl " 3:45 Did ton Like That 4:00 Ernest Gill sod Qrcbostrs. 4:80 Speed Giasoni 4:45 to 8 Silent lo KOB. ' " 8:00 Land of the Whatsit. 8:15 Luna and Abner. i 8:30 Sporu by Bill Mock. 8:45 Sews. - ' 9:00 Homicide Squad., 9:30 Mimory Lane, 10:00 Wrestling Boats. 10:30 Stetson. Varieties. 10:35 Biltmore Hotel Orchestra. . 11:00 Xews. I " ' 11 U5 Paal Carson, Organiat. To 12 Weather and i Police Reports. ) I KOW MO HD AY 420 Ke. 7:00 Jast About Time. - 7:30 Keeping Time. 7:45fXews. .-. I ' . 8 :00 Stars f Today. 8:30 Orgsn. . 8:45 Gospel Singer. 9 :00 Virginia Lee ad' Snnheam. 9:15 Cadet ' Quartet, 10:00 Joo White. ( 10:15 Mrs. Wires of Cabbage Patch. 10:30 John's Other I Wife. ' 10:45 Just Plain Bflt. 11 :00 Grace aW Eddie. 11:03 Musical Interlude. -11:1 0 Hollj wood News Flashes. ' 11:15 Norman Clontaer Orchestra. 11:38 Hjjwjo Bo Charming. 11:45 ThrTrtheers.-- , ; 13:00 Pepper Yenna's Tanilty. ffSYJVUYA usmirom KSLftf 5:30 p.m. Moadaiy Tbrst Friday JOHSSY "75. hla 12:15 Ma Perkins. "i 12:80 Tie and Bade. ! 12:45 The O'Neilla. 1 :00 Bay Towers, Troubadour. : 1:15 Gaiding Light. 1:80 Story of Mary Marlia. 1:45 Refreshment Time, Singia' Saab 3 :00 Wife vs. Secretary. 3:15 Curbstone Qais. I 2:80 Monday Blue Chasers. 2:45 Gloria Gala. 3:15 Don Winslow. 3:80 Woman's Magazine of the Air. 4:00 Lady of Millions. 4:15 Back Sest Driver. 4:30 News. .1 4:45 Top Hatters. 4:55 Cocktail Hour. 5 :00 Stan of Todsy. i 5:30 Grand Hotel. 8:00 Alias Jimmie Valentine. : 15 Glen Gray's Orchestra. :3& Hour of Charm. 7:00 Contented Hour. i 7:30 Burn and Allen. 8:00 Amos n' Andy. 8:15 Uncle Exra'a Radio Station. :00 Fitter McGee aad MoUy. 8:30 Vox Pop. r 10:00 News Flashes. 10:15 Glean Shelley, Organist. 10:80 Deaaville Club Orchestra. 11:00 Ambassador Hotel Orchestra. 11:30 Vogue Ballroom. To 13 Weather Reports. ;. XOOT MOBDAY 940 Kc 8 :30 KOIN Klock. Ivan, Walter and Frankie. 8:00 KOIN New.s Service. 8:05 80ns of the Pioneers. 8:15 -This and That with Art Kirkhsm, 9:00 Mary Margaret MacBride, radio columnist. 9:15 Edwin Cv HilL , 9:30 Romance of Helen Trent. 9:45 Our Gsl Sunday. 10:00 Betty and Bob. 10:15 Hymns of All Churches. 10:30 Arnold -Grimm's Dsughter. 10:45 Hollywood in Person. 11:00 Big Sister. 11:15 Aunt Jenny's Benl Life Stories. 1 1 :30 American School of the Air. 12:00 8Uver Serenade. 12:15 Magaxine of the Air. 12:30 Jennie Peabody. 12:45 Newlrweds. 1 :00 Myrt and Msrre. 1:15 Pretty Kitty Kelly. 1 :45 Homcmaker'a Institute with Jean nette Cramer. 2:00 Red Cross Program. ,S:05 Studio. 1:15 Mary Cullcn. -2 :S0 News Through a Woman's Eyes. 2:45 HiUtop Howso. 3 :00 Western Home Hoar. 8:30 Judy end Jae. 8 :45 Holiday Hostess. 8:50 Newspaper of the Air. ;S0 Eton Roys. 4:45 Bookworm. 5:00 Maurice Orchestra. 5:45 News. 6:00 Radio Theatre; Edward Arnold and, Ann Shirley ia "Come and Get It." 7:00 Wayne King's Orchestra, i ' ' 7:30 This Brsve New, World. 8 :00 Scattergood Bainea. 8:15 Around the World with Boake Carter. ! 8:30 Pipe Smoking; Time with Pick and Pat, eomedisns. 9:00 Horace Heidt's Orchestra. . 9 :30 Leon F. Drews, Organist. 9:45 Castillians. 10:00 Five Star FinaL 10:15 White Fires. 10:45 Eyes of the World. 11 :0O Bob Crosby Orchestra. 11:15 Sot Hoopi Orchestra. 11:45 Serenade in the Night. e XOAC KOhTDAY 850 Kc 8:00 Today'e Programs. 9:03 The Horaemakera' Hoar. 10:00 Weather Forecast.: 10:01 Music 10:15 Story Hour for Adults. 10:45 Delbert Moore, Violinist. 11:00 School ot the Air. 12:00 News. 12:15 Neon Perm Hour. 1:15 Vsriety. 2:00 Home Visits with the Extension ' - Staff Helen Ann Thomas, home ' demonstration , agent - at - larre "Baying Household Linens, Blan kets and Mattresses." ;45 The Travel Hour. : 8:15 Tow Health. , 8:45 The- Monitor Views ths Sews. 4:00 The Symphonic Hour. 4 :3e Stories for Boys and Girls. 5:00 On the Campuses. 8:45 Vespers, Rev. D. Vincent Gray. 6:15 XewsJ .'j 6: Ftn Hour. 7:30 4-H Clue Meeting. 8:15 The Basinets Hoar. 8:30 Iean ! Victor P Morris The I ( World In Review. -.. 9:00 10:00 Cniveraity of Oregon, t Pension Quband Better Business Men Help Needy JEFFERSON Following ad journment of the Townsend meet ing Thursday night, mncli enjoy ment was had at the auction sale t which 129.70 was realized by the Townsend club and Better Business club for relief of a local family that Is passing through a siege ot illness. Dr. H- C. Epley of Salem and H. B. j Henningsen were the auctioneers. " One cake brought 17.65. W NEW tit. a na bbb m . ir- 453 Court On the e By DOROTHY Let There Be Light But How?j There are hopeful signs in Washington. It seems clear tnat the government, .recognizes that we are in an ec-p onomic c o n a j- tionf which de mands a recon sideration of im portant policies. There is also ap parent -, recogni tion! that the present ?reei- sion I of business cannot be halted j i . a . iw X1 another, Upward oetothy Taompcaa direction, except through increas ed and- more rigorous privaU en terprise. The condition of the na tion! debt and of the budget will not allow another i pump-priming action of the sort initiated in 1932. There is more reason and realism manifest ; iu Washington than we have seen in many a long! day. -j:-- -Wyi - X - " : i But thia column will continue to insist that we will see no im presaire economic -recovery and no permanent- economic reform without a radical change in the methods that have been employed for the last five years. The change that is needed is, funda mental. It is the in trod action into government of 'reason, fair ness and objectivity. This gov ernment has tried ; to go forward in economic reform while it goes backward in liberal, ethical and political standards. But no one can fwalk backwards into the fu ture".. , W ' .j.- r - "Social progress Is nothing more than the growth of social character," j says the English lib eral I economist, George TJn w in. NO government will ever suc ceed; in . reforming j the social or der, however much it may crow for a time some of its component parts, unless that government sets for Itself standards ef rea son, 'thought and behaviour come- what higher than (the standards of those whom it ia trying to govern. A government is in a hopeless position in bludgeoning private enterprise for unsound financing, imprudent investment, hasty and wildly speculative ad ventures and grossly unfair treat ment, if the same accusations can Justly be made against its own behaviour and the argument that it Is behaving badly for a good end8imply does not hold water in a world with a ! shred of com mon; sense left, i I , ; o o - The most obvious place for Im mediate expansion ot private en terprise, with increased capital expenditure - and Increased em ployment, is in the field of util ities. Utility construction expen ditures come Within the classifi cation of j "durable goods": and "building activity, in which both government and business atrree that there! must be marked etlm ulatlon if we are to prevent fur ther business recession. In 1929. the utility industry expended 1900,000,000 in the construction of distribution ana transmission lines and generating plants, in 1937. although its sale .of 'elec trical energy is' 40! per cent high er than in 1929, tit is spending only about half a billion. In line with its i previous history, It should be spending at least a billion and a quarter dollars. Now why isn't it? It isn't be cause tha industry has been harassed by an almost daily bar rase of criticism from federal of ficials; because drastic reform atory laws, such as the holding company act, demand difficult re organization of financing meth ods and corporate structures, and, finally, because of unfair gov ernment competition. These facts canj and will be, demonstrated in greater detail in future columns. Forj the time being, we will con fine! ourselves to remarking that the i acceptance of the terms laid down to the utility companies in the j president's press conference, would not settle the difficulties of the utilities, and any reason able and permanent settlement, satisfactory to anybody, delud ing,! in the long run, the govern ment. . j ! ' The president states that the rate which the utility companies charge for power j should be cal culated on the' basis ot the actual prudent investment, as! against a rate! of calculated j on the cost of reproduction, which, he says, has been the basis accepted by the supreme court la the past That last! statement needs qualifica tion). . The - supreme court - never has accepted reprodction costs as the sole basis for calculation. And if one is familiar j with the bases for rate establishment used in ether countries, which appar ently have been more successful than we in working out a settle ment between government and utilities, one will! find that no such simple formula has been used anywhere. I - ! The question of what should constitute the basis for the rate is an old fight lBf! American pol Kir sick evtstaB.iig ptr.orn.icft as thl A COMPUTE UNE OF ZENITH 29 ARM CHAIR MODELS TO CHOOSE FROM GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, Inc. ZENITH HEADQUARTERS R d Recor THOMPSON itics. The j reproduction theory was invented, I believe, by Wil Jiam Jennings Bryan, In order to reduce the, railroad! rates; and recognized in the Ames case, handed down in the 90a. In the wake of declining price levels, the radicals always tried to sub stitute reproduction costs for his toric investment. Then came the concern, inj the first decade of this century, with railroad abuses, and Senator LoFollette got through a law demanding the re valuation of the railroads. The process took about twenty years, and was completed only shortly before the j great despression be gan. It cost the government and the railroads chiefly the rail roadsabout half a billion dol lars, and demonstrated that the railroad investment book value was not actually too high, taken as a whole; In the wake of the inflation of commodity prices during the great war, loth the railroads and' utilities demanded increased rates, and in the case of the util ities, the upward trend of growth in electrical development actually threatened jto bankrupt them at the old rates. The utilities' de- mand, in tace of the fact that commodity j- prices had doubled, seemed Just, and after years ot litigation was granted at a time when war inflation was declining and! prices had become stabilized around 156 per cent ot pre-war. This gave the utilities a break, because they -were also in a dy namic phase ot power develop ment due to technological genius and new financing methods. Then came the deflation, and the rad icals again! asked adjustment to the 1 new level of declining com modity prices., m I; All of which simply means that whether the radicals 'want rates based upon . "prundent invests ment" orj- upon "reproduction costs" is entirely a matter of the price level-Uthey want whichever will; give the utilities the worse break, or. jas they think, what ever will five the consumer the Lest one. And their " attitude of the utilities is the same. Neither is the basis for any permanent, or any really equitable settle ment. The; moral is that neither standard is fair. The British socialists have .v,,t fair Vvosla an mrc;u u j iub uui. which to evaluate utility invest ments for j the ; purpose of trans ferring them from .private to pub lic ownership. Their conclusions will hardly be thought to be the propaganda of economic royalists Ernest Da vies, of the New Fabian Research bureau, a realistic so cialist economist, has just pub lished a paxphlet entitled "How Much Compensation?" He makes the following statement: fThere are four possible bases of valuation, viz: (1) Stock ex change' values, (2) asset value (accumulation of historic price levels 'varying with each com pany, (3) capitalized earning power, . (4) a global sum based cn the value that would be fetch ed in a sale between a w'lling seller and willing buyer. Wher ever the last $i practicable It should be I preferred; where it is not, a combination of (2) and (3) provides the best method. Compensation should, then be based on a combination of cap ital valuation of the whole con cern and its potential earning power." i - So much for this idea of a so cialist. But the New Deal is not socialist. It is only, ofen, sadis tically anti-capitalist though de pendent on the capitalistic sys tem! ' As for the basis of "prudent investment." Would the T V.A. want to be investigated, and have its ! rates fixed on that basis? Or, for that matter, on the basis of reproduction costs? If it did, either way, it would he produc ing. I wager, the most expensive power on the face of the earth. There Isn't any simple formula for an enuitable settlement. And yet a settlement, aad a fair one, can be arrived at, i provided the approach is objective. A confer ence 6lmilar to the one which broke up in childish pique some months ago neers to be recon vened, with utility executives, economic authorities In this field, and officials of the interested government agencies sitting at the same table. They need to de termine a fair method for the sale of power fromf federal pro jects to existing public and pri vate agencies, without ruthless competition; amendments to the holding company laws to permit utility financing while fully safe guarding the public against re currence of past abuses, and, fin ally measures to stimulate utility Investment and building. - j There are over $1,000,000-000 ready tomorrow if such a settle ment can ha reached. FOR 1938 Phone 9611