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f .1 - From First SUtesman, March 18, UtV
SjHELDON F., Sackett , -Editor and Manager,
"THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
Charles A- Sprague. Pres. - - Sheldon F. Sackett, Seer.
I ' Member of the Associated Frees , - -
., The Aassciatad Praaa Is exclusively entitled to the on for public
Upa of ell sews dispatches credited to it or not otberwle credited U
this paper.
By JU X BXNDRICKI'
When a mob raged 1-1-St
against the? dancer
of Salem stealing the
Santlam river, back la 'SO I
- V -'
(Concluding from yesterday:)
The mem who organised the' com
pany which erected and operated
in Salem the tint woolen mill -on
this coast were big men. George
H. Williams was a supreme judge.
oecame united states senator, at
torney general of the United
States, etc., etc Joseph a. Wilson
$56,000,000 Mistake
When the question of appropriating 1725,000,000. or
$875,000,000 for the WPA was before the United Stat ann
ate last week, Senator Adams of Colorado, in arguing for the I elected to congress; John rx
lower figure, chanred that CoL P. C Harrii.rTr. wh . f100 WM al Un territorial
H.mr WnW- wd a rZLs? rZ: 1' , ! """"er, Became first state treas-
IwwS rsis TftAfl TaaaT ""iw, aa maae an nrer; L. F. Grorer became mem-
error oi 56,000,000 In computing the amount necessary to her oi congress, governor, u. s.
operate this agency until the end of June, based iiDon already 8enator. etc. Joseph watt brought
eaiauusnea iizures as to navmpnt. nvprhpar. snH nrnntuii i . . " w-
m T w . vwnvuuvi
T 2 ..A . a." a j .
It is interesting to note that the .ntinvn. v . fi w" P1
TT-ti. J Oi a . - i ouvuuaiui iw inn erection OI ine
united states was, in round numbers, $56,000,000 in the year ml: Joseph Hoiman was one of
' l Th wV . e j v I a, .
erection of the
I860: Expenditures were a trifle more. $63,000,000. Kvprv Salem's Tery first town boosters:
year since, it has taken nine, ten, sometimes ll figures to m.e lth p?orta parlT of
represent either of these amounts. Of course, the United U'LZSSVl
Mates was much smaller in population and wealth in 1860. Bamum was a pioneer attorney
But the government revenue in that year was $1:78 per car- and orator: Alfred Stanton was a
ita. In 1938 it was $47.89. public spirited pioneer resident.
Think what a furor there would. have been in 1860 if mm waswted"nnNorthhsaiem!
someone had remarked in the senate, in rather offhand fash- That waB ri&t. North Salem did
ion, that there was a $56,000,000 discrepancy inhe natinnl not et toto the cIy limit ontu
nccounbi in nfhpi vnrHa ffco V,a " : . C many years thereafter.
v k. uauvu s ciilix c mcuiae iiati
been unaccountably mislaid! Now, $56,000,000 represents
slightly less than one per cent.
, Appropriately, the senate sDent almost ATI Pntirp lptrila
tive day discussing this alleged error and other matters in
volved in the varying estimates of WPA nooH Trio nota
fills 30 of the large, fine-type pages of the Congressional Rec- tne 801,111 Larmer warehouse is
ora. UUl me senate never came to unanimnna oTamnf uu.w- remission mills passed into
about this discrenanev. ArcorHir, fA St A-JL : ?mate. nand- These were the
- - i , ' . . . v Auouio, it, vYtta i men who in 1850 starts t a-
were
sioppea ty the mob.
The machinery of the mission
mills was sold and mmui r.w
and, when the woolen mills build
ing was erected, the same site
was available, and acquired, and
usea, ana tne same water uw
The first building by whites in
what is now Salem was for the
Jason Lee mission mills, saw' and
grist, under one roof; across the
street from present 960 Broad
way. Tnat building stood where.
Mrlv t1a xj ' 777" , , " . I"eu. wfl m iao surted to
" 'J Iv; . " ""Kiun sammea naving iunus I ne ditcn to the Santlam, and
l" io reoruary v, but he figured from Febru-
VkJtf estate of needed funds. That accounted for
$45,000,000, and the remainder was accounted for in an allo
cation of WPA funds for 90,000 relief workers employed un-
uuicr leuerai oepartments, up to March 1.
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SOUTHERN CLIMATE COULDN'T TEMPT THESE Siberian hnskies who
rale supreme la the snowy kingdom. Mrs. Harry Wheeler of 8t Jorlte, Quebec, finds them gentle pets.
xiiwiuroverxiDie iacts tnat the day's discussion did r"; "u 8ame water Pwer
bring forth were that in the dead of winter, 1937-38, at the USerTht fiS V?".
low point of '-the "recession," there were only 1,900,000 per-KSTiotLVSi
sons on WPA, as compared to 3,245,000 on the Saturdav nine MmDie"' now.
days before the ireneral election last KnvamW
lact tnat there had been a marked imorovement in business.
The officers of the woolen mill
industrvariHAmnlnv-AA ti "iT Z ; 7. vu . were: Daniel
; vi-.wjiuvui ouiw wujjt. xiieie uau ueen a similar
increase m the comparatively prosperous year 1936 also an
election year.
waiao. president; John F. Miller,
ice-presiaent; Wm. s. Ladd,
treasurer; L. F. Grorer. John F.
Miller and Daniel Waldo, dlrec-
r n. n I " .MT5.r managing
vwuu i iuictuuu uuw J-esiraOie u josepn Hoyt. superin-
a J10 yeaS ag0 most r Proponents of Presi- J? "U'A
dent Kooseveit s mnrr narlrinap Kill
. j- , . , ra . . CiC cv"B ""ii un; woo! a year; malting 50,000 yards
power of judicial review of legislative action had been us- ' blankets. 129.000 yards of
uiyw uy me supreme court, me same group inferred that a . caMlneres, and 120,000
law as made by the majority, whether in congress or by di
rect vote, constituted the expressed will of the nation and
should m no instance be invalidated by a little group of nine
old men.
It is a bit amusing in the light of such reasoning, un
sound though it was, to note how fervently the opposition to
the anti-picketing measure in Oregon is appealing to the
courts for relief. The-arguments will be that the measure, de-
tnitA Rl flAA msinn'i.. ..J .1 1 a. ... .
toin inalienable constitutional privileges including the right th fiHaYn tSTST
of free speech. Either the Oregon supreme court or the fed- of Noyember 17, 1857 aji
eral supreme court, or both, ultimately will have before them 1r?gon of"didom and high so-
tne tiuesuon or laying the law alongside the constitutions and ury' dimitarieT a mU-
ZlZl W I youngs
" uB-ucc, vue tuiuu win oe msKea to wminis
ter judicial lethal gas to the initiative measure, no matter
now lartro -a? am Wa ma i.
. WHa Tnf n f aiL j 1 -wl. . I -world's greatest cailr, leaj
- - .v6-4-cu wMJi, ctass, was uui- er. tie was one of the thre em.
- - a.. , Hx mwwai ui xux. iwuacveii ana 1 jtckdi at Appomattox to
yards of flannels, and the goods
wB oemg sold "in erery town
and hamlet on the Pacific coaat."
Then what happened? The mill
burned to the ground on the night
of May 2. 187. That was the
greatest low eTer dealt to pio-
oaiem. r or a dosen years.
..-. tvwn languisned because
the loss.
of
10 ears Ago
February 1. 1929
The will of the late Eric Habs-
rer who died in Portland recently
Includes 1100.000 to Willamette
university according to an
nouncement made by President
carl G. Doney.
P. H. Sheridan, who danced with
the most beautiful of Oregon's
belles. Eight years later k. ...
oJJlhe implications of that legislation. Many union men were, f Lee's sword. The other
w argument warniade lhat the courts had grown stale, that ioHiTZTr Bd
xcjr were unprogressive, tnat. judges looked With jaundiced Oregon and WahrnVton "
The Thomas Kay Woolen mills
?lem now use only .about 400
000 pounds of wool a ymf .nW
theirs is a four set mill, while the
Directory reported the orlainal
yes at what was new and modern and necessary in legisla-
.LF VM n . j e a. a
xumi. ine wm oi tne people, whether expressed by congress in
hastily drawn NRA or AAA act, must prevail.
Now all that "new thought jroea out the window. Th
courts re again constituted as the last barrier of defense
Anti-picketing act in Oreron am mfn ti n.,AK.. f h nVi,f I!ct?,Z.?.7ve the ' " Pio-
.,, . . . v . : -- w.. i uor wiuametie mm at caaaa
gainst allegedly coercive legislation. No antaironists nf the mui Jam- But the Dt-
anu-piciceting act in Urejron ar mrinir to niiHnn th HW i : f,T'
f judicial review of legislation and its invalidation by the ontb. while that omVy miii
courts, if the legislation is found unconstitutional. nn oTeii2,oo a. month. Last
in tneiace uf what happened in Oregon last November. ?r; "!J? WM I?r
theportty to potest to Se courts noV appears a sacred SVuS waY S
privilege. That privilege would be sterilized if any governor leading woolen nin man o" tS
had power to pack the state jrapreme court;. if any president co"t the day. workedior
had power to make a hurried house-deanin of th M.W Mtalling machinery for
United SUtes tribunal. i .rHi",rr"!J' 800,1 aft" hU
Merit Rewardea L What ha FPned to the water
Felix Frankfurter la now an associate justice of the which ST SSJlJ ?nf
aupreme court, Tilling,the4uace made vacant by the late Jus-
tice Cxrdozo. A tribute to his ability was the unanimous vote " ta.atm to Tn Oregon
-received in the United SUtes senate. Often criticized in that KSTSfTt tTtheea
Doayits the lear who. sent so many young attorneys into why. when you pass that instito-
jrovernment service, when the test came on his confirmation. tlon at rou see its groands
' . A mmm . .. . - waII 1 a a . a .b -
no-fwr was wiuing-to say thathe was not a fit member w"VJ5": . wr Pwer
FrankfurtCT'a advancement is a-case of. merit Forty "d than is t.rnuhed this
I0Urearsaohe Waaan Immitrrant fnm AnefWa ntiM tA power eiDeciallT when tfa nv
f Pk wrd of Englirii. By intellectual force and through machlnery f fuU tut.
the drive of a splendid character. Frankfurter schiovpH n. th v.- --.!L lT. . .
. , nvuicu miu uses aoont
tional recognition as a lawyer and & scholar of law. The close "$ horse power. The city of sa-
xnendship he held with the late Justice, Holmes as well as le,a nsed to develop, from the
wn ms immeoiate predecessor on the bench were strong for at hu been tnsrrY ?ZL
ces in molding the character of the new judge. He will & lib- Sai 5SDnSfctoS
erai within the constitution but he will not be a judge who Pan an ned' largely for
iorsaices tne complete right and duty of the supreme court to ntna'Ir purposes; that it, surplus
nan .ia i i m I When other innriH f a- ..
me wjusuiuuonauiy oi laws. I n , .,w
"c vuon oi uie narvara proiessor to the bench is Then the Oregon Pulp and Pa-
proot anew tnat tne united btates recognizes merit. The sen- Per company, Salem's greatest m-
ate could have argued that his appointment was unwise be- ?U8imi "wutution. mm some wa-
cause the court wa lPff witk n i t , , I ter power, from the same eource.
, - --. Uv ivoM.n ureuiuw ii tuuiu l But the-amount la lnim.rik-
have argued that it was unwise to provoke the Jewish issue. I compa"d witll the wnoi? "ioS
I ITM III Tnjjen ITTaPVfl HFM ! A Ha m 1 v A I
-vi BMW.U " uuiuc uu uw new justice, lnrougn
out the nation the bar as Well as the public recognized super
ior ability in the latest nominee of the president That abil
ity makes Mr. Frankfurter a worthy successor to his mentors,
JHCf IKO Ullmo. .Jt-.
-iuiuva uuuuca cLuvl varuuzo, - i r, .
.-- rerenmal rmbaU Games
representative ; ureenwood's pinbaU and punchboard Z IZZ T.Tul-.!foe "
nni hill ahnnM Va triwn oAi.t- H.-itA. ai. i i j I . Haie prison, ana
n ,4 a tICiCT: j rrl" -ZZZZZZ 7t V, . . . I .nc. Sonth Mm creek
7. .1.. v iuccxicu. wo years a so tne utrney and the Mar I other North MUX creek In
Tin hill MKh harnima V.. LI- j. - 1 ,
" v4 wwuuig gauiuuuy enterprises irom ure-
thelr- courses to the Willamette
tnrougn saiem.
The amount of water power that
was available In drr seasons for
the use of the mission mills, erect
ed in 1840, coming from North
Mill creek, was Tery small. In
some periods, the mills were idle,
for want of adequate power. The
original race was where North
Liberty and Broadway streets
meet. In the old days it was neces
sary to maintain a second bridge
mere across tne race.
S S
Of course, some water power is
going to waste, at several points
aiong xsortn Mill creek.
The present Statesman building
was used, in the closing sixties and
early seventies, the basement and
part of the ground floor of it, for
a own town neaaqnarters and show
room of the Willamette woolen
mill; the second floor for the of
fices of the governor of Oregon
and his private secretary, the su
preme court and state library
rooms, and the office of state sup
erintendent of public instruction.
DGsaqflBfl) .Programing
Capital City Cooperative
creamery organised here in 1918
nas been taken over b Green
wood dairy and two Institutions
win oe conducted as one at 1220
state as announced by D. B. Mc-
&enxie, manager.
Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston.
former superintendent of pnbUc
iastrucuon in Washington, has
oeen a guest in Salem and is on
a lecture tour of country.
20 Yearo Ago
Febrmary 2, 1919
secretary of Bute Oleott is
oaniy u need of services of
James B. Young, chief auditor ii
secretary's -office, who has en
listed -for army service and gov
ernment baa not released him.
CHcott nas sent telegram to Sen-
. a rsa. .
wr aamoeriaia asung for re
lease.
unaries a. Johns lr.. bob of
judge and Mrs. C. A. Johns, was
a mem ocr or ine flatn coast ar
tillery which landed at Philadel-
pnia Tuesday.
witn a score of 25 to 14 th
saiem nigb school quintette de
feated the McMlnnvUle basket-
oaii team la the local rvnna.
slum. GUI and Latham were high
nturrn ior aatem.
employed by this plant, when an
parts of it are operating at' fan
capacity.
No power la now being. taken
from North Mill creek.' though
originally, when the first woolen
mill was erected, none other was
used. The stranger ahonld be told
that the mala Mill creek Is dlvld-
one
January Shipping
Angurs big Year
PORTLAND. Jan. S1-pi
Steamship men, reflecting upon
January s outward bound ship
ping from the Portland area, be
ttered today the year would re.
cord a steady trade increaaa.
aaeven cargoes of wheat total-1
ing .3vv,ooo bushels and valued
at $2,200,900 have been loaded
for England. China and Mexico.
mw exports to China and the
Philippines reached 160,000 bar
rels. The movement to other for
eign and domestic markets was es
timated at 190,000 barrels. The
value to the export trade was
aoont 11.000,000.
Scrap Iron shipments to Japan
w January reacned f 100,000.
Californian Head
Of Pro-Americas
- SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. JMflV
-Mrs. A. a Mattel of San Prat
Cisco was elected nresldent of th
National Association of Pro-Am.
erica today at the annual conven
tion r of the republican women's
organisation. .
Other officers elected to tha u.
tional board Included! -ricm nmii.
dents, Mrs. Barry Carpenter, BI1-
uaga, jsonc, Caroline "Unander.
wwifcr, vvasn.
, ' f - i ww iutt were siuea uy me governor, ine ureenwood nas indicated the nei
referendumwas towkedagain the measures and the peo- behest of the "mama and papS
pie sustained them last November by substantial votes. Ore- need the additional revenues ninl
AYIYl fitiuil Va4-U -.. .M i . i m- I 7' 4 . . - ,;i ' - i
Vr ul4 y we governor, me I ureenwood has Indicated the new bfll was lrtrAHl if a
ma' .J..m.J a. a .
by direct vote on the Deration of thes t.ir mji u... XI uy w "?a.ie wmcn nas de-
, M . .. . - .vp . v -mmmmrm iwmi a UlAk LJJC UlUUVV KflllWTyjWI TTYITVI Ml Alf-MM Mwik &
?enU that they are rueprucers a
people and distressed tax-levying bodies fall on deaf ears.Mr.lmittee. aJuung uences. ine Dili should -die in con
SaUt WXDHSSDAT 1S7S Xs.
7:80 Kew.
7 :4a Tim, 0'DT.
8:00 Mora lag Mcditetiona.
8:15 Eisht o'clock Clipper.
8:10 Htb af Bctt
8:45 Nwa
9:00 Patr's Can.
9: IS Home Town.
:S0 Hit ni Eaor.
9:4& i'ricnaly Cirel.
10:15 Newt.
10:30 Professor Thompson.
10:45 Voics ot KzparisBc.
11:00 Tele-Topics.
11:15 "Man I Wouldn't Giro TJp."
11 :30 WiUanette Unirersity ChapaL
11:45 Muse and Masic
12:0O Vala Parade.
U:15 Kewi.
12:30 HiUbilly Serenade.
12:45 Maahattera.
1:00 Interesting Facta.
1 : 15 Midstream.
1:30 PTA.
1:45 Book a Week.
2:0O 8pice of Life.
2:15 Johnson Family.
2:30 AJnerieaa Legka Talk ea Amar
tcanism.
2:43 Helene Daniels, Blues.
8:00 Feminine Fancies.
8:30 Public Health Forma.
4:00 Fulton Lewis, Jr.
4:15 Jack McLean's Orchestra.
4:30 It's Box Office.
5:00 College ot Mnsic.
5:80 Johnnr Lawrence Club.
5:45 Dinner Hoar Melodies.
8:15 Shatter Parker.
:30 Legislative Roundup Statesman
ol the Air.
8:45 Tonight's Headlines,
T:00 Walts Time.
7:30 Lona Banger.
8 :00 News.
8:15 Betty Jane Rhodes, Chicce'g
Orchestra.
8:90 Dick Jargeni' Orchestra.
:0O Newspaper of the Air.
t:15 Masters wt the Batoa.
0:30 Crrstal Oardsna Ballroom.
10:00 Pair-O-Dice Ramblers.
10:15 Shep rielas' Orchestra.
10:80 Jiauny Orier's Orchestra.
11:00 Jack McLean's Orchestra.
WWW
XOAO WXSXXSDAT 659 Xs.
9 :03 Homessakers' Boar.
9 : Neighbor Seraolds.
10:15 Sterr Hoar lor Adults.
10:5S Today's Mews.
11:00 Tnp t rraaea.
11:15 Oldea Orena.
11:30 Your Sports IQ.
12:18 Safety Talk.
12f80 Msrket, Crap Seporta.
l: Variety.
2:00 AAUW Study ClaK
2:45 Oaara Teer Hwtlth.
8:15 Facts and Affain.
Ir5 Monitor Vrews the News.
4:00 Sysnhoaic Halt Boar.
4:30 Stories for Boys and Girls.
8:00 On tha Csmpasea.
:45 Vsspan.
8:15 News.
8 :8 Agrienltnre Viewed Vy Xdltort.
:5 Market Beriews.
8:18 DAB.
1 0 Artbnr I in arte a.
T:15 Student As Ctab.
7 :45 Csn.aaers IWu.
8:15 Maaic of Caecheslerakia.
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UW WznmUDAT 829 Tm.
1:99 Btory at the Meath.
7:15 Trsil Blsiers.
7:45 Km
95 T4 Waita.
8:15 Virgir-U Laaa
8:80 Sure of Today.
9:00 Una Harding' Wife.
9:18 The O'Keills.
9:80 Tena sad Ttav
9 :45 Organ.
10:00 Jehn'a Otkwr Wifs.
io:i -jnst naia Bill.
10:80 DiQgerees Ratds.
10 US Dr. Kate.
11:00 Setty and Bob.
11 US ria'i Daaghtor.
11:80 Valiant Lady.
11:45 Betty Cracker.
12 fOO Story af Mary Msrlla.
12:15 Ma Perkioa.
12 :30 Pepper Toeag'e Faasity.
It :4ft Onidiag Li rat.
1 :w Bschstsg t Wife.
1J 5 Stella Dallas.
1:20 Vic sad Sada.
1:45 Olri Alone.
2:00 Houseboat Hanaaa.
2:15 Radio Review.
2:20 Leo and Ken.
2:30 Hollywood Fleshes.
2:45 Charles Sears.
3 :00 News.
8:15 I Love a Mystery.
8:30 Woman's MafazioV
4:00 Easy Aces.
4:15 Mr. Keen.
4:80 Orchestra.
4:45 Musical Interlude.
5:00 Stars of Today.
5:30 Hobby Lobby.
0:00 Paul Carson.
Biltmor- Trio.
0:30 Martin's Music.
8:43 Variety Parade.
7:00 Kay Kyser'a KoUege
8:00 Amos 'n' Andy.
8:15 Edwin C. Hill.
8:30 Toauny Doner.
9:00 Town Hall Tonight.
10:00 News Flashes.
10:15 Moods Mellow.
10:30 Orchestra.
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XOIH WEDVE8DAT 940 Kc.
8:30 Market Xeports.
8:35 KOIN Klock.
8 :0O News
8:15 Old Cowhand.
8:30 This and That.
8:15 Threo Merry Mea.
9:30 Helen Trent.
9:45 Onr Gal Sunday.
10:00 The Goldbergs.
10:15 Life Csn Be Beautiful.
10:45 Woman in the News.
11:90 Big Sister
11:15 Real Life Stories.
11:30 School of the Air.
12:00 News.
12:14 SiBgia' Saas.
12:45 Fletcher Wiley.
1:00 Kitty Kelly.
1:15 My rt and Marge.
1:0 Hilltop Hons.
1 :45 Stepmother.
2:00 Scattetfood Boiaes.
2:15 March at Games.
2:30 So You Want te Be.
2t45 Surprise Tour Hasbaai.
8:05 Lew Weber.
8:80 Newrpapar at the Air.
4 :45 Chiquito.
5:00 FWe 0'Oteck riaaa.
8:15 Howie Wing.
5:30 Clark Rosa.
5:55 News.
8:00 Star Theatre.
7:00 Leon F. Drew.
7:15 Rhythm Rhapsody.
7:80 Aak-It-Basket.
4:09 Little Shew.
8:11 law aad Abner.
8:80 Oreheatra.
9:00 Gaag Busters.
9:30 Sophie Taekar.
9:45 Orchestra
10:09 FW, Star TiaaL
10 :15 -Nihteap Taraa.
19 :30 Orchestra.
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r iui xs.
8 J0 MusUal Oaea.
7:00 Family Altar Hon.
7:89 Tiaaaeial Sarrtea.
7 ?48 Swerthearia.
7:55 Market Quotations.
8:00 Dr. Brack.
: Ranch Boys.
St48 Originalities.
9 :00 Alias Ceraett.
9:15 Show Window.
9:30 Tana aad Hoaaa.
10:15 Agriculture Today.
19:89 New.
10:45 Hem laaUtatc
11:00 Xat are Tiail.
11:15 Melody Time.
11:80 Voica of Amerieaa Wi
ii:45 aadia Bartow.
11:50 Mariaa-Baaa.
xs.OO Dapt. Asricultar.
12:15 Orchestra.
12:30 Kwa
J3. 45 Market Keporta.
u:ao tfui liaar.
1:30 Club Mstinea.
9i09 O dMstra.
9:15 Tiaaaeial aad Grata.
2:20 Jire rire.
1:25 Taar Savy.
2:45 Onrbataae Quia
:00 Jasaa Crawford.
:15 Oreaeetra,
8:25 News
:0 Marlew aad Lyes.
Bj DOROTHY THOMPSON
m n i '
BeUeT aad RnploTroent
- What we need Is not a cat In
anoreoriations for Teller lint
analrsU of way tne relief rolls
remain so enor-
mous at all
points ot the
business cycle.
The center of
interest has
been the' appro
priation. . The. center of
Interest onght
to he how ' a
produce greater
productive em-
employment.
I .suspect that onr continued
sure unemployment Is not an act
ot God but the res ait of policies.
If It Is the result of policies, then
by all meant- let us reconsider
them. - .
The WPA Is an attempt to
create jobs for workers at sub
sistence wares. A real national
employment policy would concen
trate on creating an economic
situation in which. jobs for work
ers at normal wages woald na
turaliy ocenr.
It Is Just this economic situ
ation which has not, after six
years of reform an " recovery.
materialized.
We have a stagnant economy.
It has become stabilized and ri
gid within, of course, a certain
area of high and low.
This is, no doubt partly due
to the relative stability, at long
last, of our population.
It is also due, as Mr. Llpp-
sann pointed out the other day.
to the effort to stabilize all
prices at a high level, whether
they be prices ot farm and in
dustrial products or prices of la
bor.
The area in which the worker
can survive, employed, therefore
becomes smaller.
a e
Aoove ana oeyond that, we
have adopted anti-employment
policies. And we Bhall never
radically reduce the relief rolls
until we abandon these policies
ana remove the obstacles to the
functioning of the economic pro
cess.
One such antl-emuloyment
policy Is government competition
with private Industry.
From the viewpoint of obtain
ing the largest possible use of
capital and labor, a 'case can be
made for private industry. But
not case can be ' made for com
petition between them, as we at
present have in the utility in
dustry.
in our economy there is ten
to twenty times as much private
capital invested In the utilities
as there is government capital
and government competition
therefore prevents far more re
employment than it can possibly
auDsuiute.
By subsidies and rifts for dn
plication of existing facilities by
municipalities and other agen
cies, it prevents .the release and
expansion of existing utilities.
Nor is the answer for the gov
ernment to buy out Dart of the
utilities whether at a high price
or a low price. The latter ques
tion is not of the essence of the
matter.
ii tne government wants to
prevent a coagulation of the
blood of th utility tndustrr it
t either bur them all out or
buy out none, and stop compet
ing.
ror ir it burs out .soma nf
them, all the others will be af
fected.
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rar as teetmorarical anem.
ploysBent is concerned, nnmer-
government policies add -to
are hardly
cent.
more than 14 per
Our taxation policies also
ought , to be reconsidered for
their effect on employment.
I have always been convinced
that the financing of unemploy
ment insurance and old-age pen
sions out of payroll taxes, in
stead of out of general taxation,
definitely contributes to techno
logical unemployment.
It puts a premium on the use
of machines.
Some labor-saving devices ac
tually mean a greater use of labor
over the whole economy oth
ers mean less.
But a policy bent on increas
ing employment would not tax
ray rolls.
It would do the exact opposite.
It would grant tax reductions Zor
Increased payrolls. It would us
the tax power to create employ
ment Incentives.
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it.
For instance. It has been
ed that-feh development of elec
tric power by water uses far less
BOaa Power than the daralnnm..!
A a a
oi anecuic power by steam
iaeiy-two per cent of the en
of hydro-electric DVr la ranL.
aavt caargea- ana amorutsflnn
Capital charges for steam power
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The liberalization of Our taxa
tion structure would also give
incentives to capital employment
Actually, both eovernmem
budgets and corporation taxe
oug&t to be planned over a bust
ness cycle.
British corporation t are al
lowed to average their taxes orei
a certain number of years six i
believe. They can therefore af
ford to spend money even on the
downgrade of the cycle, because
they get credit on th-i UDsrrade
Our industries, because of th
tax system, cannot do this.
Britain actually h. i a higher
rate of corporation tax, but be
cause the Industries can averaee
it they really pay this rate,
whereas in this country, over
period of several yean, in which
years of loss predominate. It is
possible, that with rate of 15
per cent, an industry may actu
ally pay in taxes SO per cent ol
its averaged earnings.
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We also need a radical recon
sideration of trade-union poli
cies and plans for the training
or retraining of workers for in
dustries where they will be
needed.
if, for instance, we should go
into a great housing expansion
the effect would not be, under
present conditions, a vtst expan
sion of employment.
The effect would be to raise
the pay of a limited labor mono
poly. jTrade-union policy at present
makes it difficult, if not impos
sible, to shift workers from de
pressed industries to reviving
trades.
In Great Britain the unemploy
ment assistance boards constant
ly moved workers from depressed
industries to the expanding
building trades, and the result
was that, despite and enormous
housing boom, wages were kept
relatively stable, whili employ
ment was immensely augmented.
An unemployed worker can
not take a job in the building
trades here without paying his
back dues, and these may be
more than he can earn in months
ot work, and certainly he will
not hare them on hand.
Such union restrictions are anti-employment
measures and a
way whereby a privileced olicrar.
chy of workers condemn their
brothers to the WPA.
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We might also consider. In th
place of some of our WPA m-
penditures, giving g ants-in-aid
to industries for the tralninr of
apprentices. Including, of course,
safeguards that workers passing
certain tesU would be retained
by the industries und the auhai.
dies for them stonned.
The present system of work
relief is denrirlnjr thousand nf
the skills they possess and, with
very lew exceptions, oroducinc
no new skills for those who come
on the roils without eauinment
for modern industrial life.
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Henry S. Dennison. Lincoln
Filene, Ralph E. Flanders, and
Morris. E. Leeds have done ex
tremely constructive thinking on
this matter ot unemployment in
book which has been recently
published by the MeCraw-Hilt
Book company, and which is
called "Toward Pull Employment.
Written by liberals who are.
at the same time, practical busi
nessmen, it certainly does not
support our present means of
dealing with . nnemsloTtnenu -
nor do the Tesults.
It wild, seem adrkahle for
the competent committees of con-
to equip themselves with
an expert commission to dtaw up
report and recommendations
oa the whole subiect. which t
easily the most vital one in
American life.
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If the experience o" Europe 1
any criterion, free democracies
8Und or tall largely by their
competence to deal with this
crucial problem.
Catting 1160.000,000 off the
relief appropriations is not deal
Ing with It one way or another.
Copyright, 1939. New York Tri
bune. Inc.
Seals' Trip North
Held Spring Sign
NEWPORT, Ore.. Jan. 31-(F-The
Pacific ocean hung out its
own sign of spring today. Lincoln
county beach residents sighted
thousands of. seals migrating
northward. i
The seals, maklnr their annual
journey earlier than usual, were
feeding on small fish about hall
a mile oft shore. .
ASTORIA. Ore.. Jan. 3lax
Observers here were skeoticsl to
day ot reports from Newport that
the annual migration of seal was
under way. They pointed out that
the northward trek usually oc
curred late In March or early it
April and that seal hahitnaiir
gathered off the coast before re
turning north.
The COast guard cutter Onan.
daga will convoy the seal herd tn
northern Washington, where an
other cutter will guard the playtal
bwbibiu on nona.