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PAGITFOUIl r "4Y0 Favor Sway. No Fear Shall Ate Trent first Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. : Charles A. Spracne, President Mernbwr of th Asam-tated Preo TW AntclaUd Pa is si-luslvely entltUd to th dm for publics. ( all imws Vuafpatcboo erodtted to It or not otherwto credited la paper. TVA Raises Taxation Problem "Oa my desk now Is a printed amendment Intended to be offered which proYides that all property of the TVA shall be sub ject to taxation everywhere under the local laws of taxation. If we f o to that extreme, senators can see that the TVA would be out of business In three months."-pSenator George W. Norris (Congressional Record). Early in this session of congress, it is predicted, there is going to be a major battle over the payment of state and local taxes by the TVA in the area it serves. In Tennessee for instance, TVA has taken over 90 per cent of the electrical utilities.-The annual tax loss to the state of Tennessee and local governmental units will exceed three million dollars. On the other hand, TVA headquarters claims the great pow er system's operations will save to the people of Tennessee as electricity users, some eight million dollars, which would be .a 25 per cent reduction from the rates previously paid to private companies. There seems to be general agreement in congress that something ought to be done to offset this tax loss, but there i sharp division of opinion over the solution. The proposals may sound weird and the lineup may look even more so, at first glance. It is necessary to understand that under no circumstan " ces, at present, is federal property taxable by the states or lo cal agencies. In the case of the federal forests, payments in lieu of taxes are made to the states voluntarily through con gressional action. The amounts are not comparable to the taxes paid by private owners of similar property. Now Sen ator Norris, strange to say in view of the above-quoted state ment on the floor of the senate, proposes that the same solu tion be adopted in the case of the TVA property. But wheth er it is his viewpoint or not, it seems to be the congressional viewpoint that these payments would come out of general federal funds and thus would be paid by the nation as a whole. In the case of the federal forests, the theory is that the pay ments are made out of the government's revenue from these forests. In opposition to the Norris view which is reported to be shared by the national administration, Congressman An drew Jackson May of Kentucky who has fought TVA expan sion all along though he is better known for the drastic "May bill" for regimenting the nation in case of war, proposes that the people of the TVA states make up this tax loss, since they are the beneficiaries of the power rate reductions. May's formula" is a tax on the consumer an excise tax added to the electric bill. Normadly when the federal government buys property, a for a postoffice site, it is simply taken off the tax rolls and automatically, the loss is absorbed by the other taxpayers. Even in view of the rate savings this would not be practically equitable in the TVA case, for much of the property TVA ab sorbed is in sparsely-settled counties with few power users, which heretofore have depended largely upon tax revenue from the private utilities. But there is still another issue. The few remaining pri vate utilities will continue to pay taxes which will be includ ed in their rates. They must compete with TVA. It seems therefore that the May suggestion is the sound one. The tax should appear in the electric bill. As for the Norris plan, its intent is not really so obscure. His concern is with the out ward appearance of success for TVA ; public power is his pas sion. He wants the TVA states and communities satisfied, so he is willing that they be paid sums in lieu of taxes. He doesn't want those sums to show on the books as coming out of TVA income. Judging from the remark quoted above, he has little inner faith that TVA can succeed, standing on its own legs. The application to Oregon is plain. Electric utilities here pay, not three millions in taxes as in Tennessee, but close to twice that. If public power is to extend throughout the state, the tax loss will have to be made up somehow. The outcome of the TVA issue in congress may set a precedent for the oth er public power regions. If the Norris policy prevails, it will be nice for those areas until, perhaps, they encompass al most the entire nation. When that happens, the burden will have been restored to equity except for the few unfortun ate private utilities that may survive. Waterfront Hums Again San Franciscans, as has been their custom during the last stormy half-decade, drew a tentative breath of not too confident relief last Wednesday when for practically the nth time the inevitable waterfront labor situation appeared to be taking a turn for the better. For the first time since last No vember 10 the 650 striking ship clerks and the 4000 sympa thetic longshoremen returned to their inkpots and their handtrucks, while much of the rest of the city of some 650, 000 (not all of whom were inimical to the strikers) consid ered the matter of crying or not crying over some $100,000, 000 of spilt milk the strike is estimated to have cost. The ship clerk strike was an outcome of the delicate la bor balance which prevailed in the California city late in the summer, at a time when both employers and employes looked forward to the September 30 date of expiration for water front contracts. In August the employes gave notice of cer tain demands to be pressed prior to the making of a new se ries of contracts, and the employers for their part indicated an unwillingness t concede more than was included in the existing agreements covering 1938 and 1939. In September the breach appeared to be closed with the agreements of both tides to continue the status quo pending the conclusion of a new agreement by bargaining representatives ; but in Novem ber it widened again when the ship clerks failed to see eye to eye with their employers. The outcome was an open strike by the latter union, in which the longshoremen, under the happy aegis of non-Communist Harry Bridges, participated with apparent gusto. Thus the situation remained for 53 days. Now the ship clerks have agreed to negotiate a new agreement with their employers without recourse to strike ; and Dean Morse of he university law school has consented to act as arbiter should either side call him in to settle issues which have not been solved by negotiation. In the meantime the clerks and longshoremen work, and a glimmer of pros perity again appears mirage-like off the Golden Gate. Labor Relations Board Upheld t : logic, of the United States supreme court's ruling that the National Labor Relations board's acta are not appealable when they are limited to certification of a particular labor onion as the bargaining agency in a given jurisdiction, is in stantly apparent This isia phase of the board's work which does not relate to any of the niceties of the law. The proce dure Is simply that of determining by election which bargain ing agency a majority of the employes prefer, and issuing a certification accordingly. There is a conflict, more apparent than real, in case the board should certify one union in disregard of the fact that another union already has a closed shop agreement with the employer. In such, case conflict does develop ; but it is between the employer and the two groups of employes and does not af fect the board's right to make the certification. This decision and the others in the board's favor hand ed down by the high court on Tuesday do however serve to emphasize the need both for a board in which the rival labor rr-9n ? Mnn mw foav mnra rrmfirimv a 1a ftlniu. for amendments clarifying and making more definite and certain the rules under which certification is to be made. At present the board has too much discretionary power and too little discretion. . -' -- 0tatemuau Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS Pioneer Sunday schools; First one In Portland, and. rears before, first In Salem, which became First Methodist: (Concluding frorn yesterday: ) How did the First Methodist church Sunday school of Salem come to be the first Sunday school of any denomination In all the land above parallel 42 draining into Balboa's ocean? Well, when Jason Le respond ed to the western Indians' Mace donian call, in 1834, he brought with him, traveling in the car alcade of the second Wyeth par ty, his nephew, Daniel Lee, and P. L. Edwards, C. M. Walker, and probably Charles J. Roe, J. Edmunds and James H O'Neal. He brought also, as missionary teacher, Cyrus Shepard, quite prominent In the first years of the headquarters mission, 10 miles by water below what be came Salem. 7V u "n S When the party arrived at Fort Vancouver, on Monday, Septem ber 15, 1834. Cyrus Shepard was 111, fagged out from the exertions and hardships of the long plains journey, throughout which he had carried on horseback the precious garden and flower seeds which made the first considerable and complete vegetable and flow er garden and fruit orchard that ever grew in Oregon at the "old" mission, below Salem's site. Cyrus Shepard remained at Fort Vancouver; under the care of the physicians there, while the other members of the party ex plored for the location of their mother mission, and finally start ed It on Monday, October 6, 1834, when they landed at the site and began the work of preparing the materials for their first little log house, where the marker is now. A large part of their first furni ture was whittled out of goods boxes and native wood by Jason Lee with his sheath knife. ". Cyrus Shepard occupied him self at Fort Vancouver in teach ing the people he found there. Indians and whites and natives of far countries, lessons of Chris tian belief and behavior includ ing two natives of Japan who had been Bhipwrecked, saved from drowning and brought to the fort, to be eventually forwarded home, by way of England the first to ever carry the tidings of Christ's teachings to their hermit land; seed planted that started a great movement of enlightment in that island country.(There are some 14 Congregational churches in Tokio, Japan, now every one with a larger membership than either church of that denomina tion in Salem.) Shepard remained at the fort. which was British headquarters for an empire in extent, until a few days prior to Saturday, March 7, 1835, when he arrived at the mother mission. On the first Sun day in April, 1835. which fell on the 5th, he opened the Sunday school at the mission, with 13 pupils. . S That was the "first Protestant Sunday school in the Americas west of the Rockies;" quoting an authority on early Oregon his tory, it was the same for all the coasts of all the Americas facing the Pacific. But what connection had that Sunday school with the Sunday school of the First Methodist church of Salem? S a It was the mother of the last named Sunday school; the start ing school that became that school. How? Because, beginning in 1840. the mother mission of Jason Lee was gradually moved to what became Salem; that was called first. "The Mills,' for the grist and saw mill under one roof of the mission; what was called, next. "The Institute," for the school that became by change of name Willamette university, the building for which had housed, first, the mission Indian manual labor school, and was sold, 'with Its land claim, to the Oregon Institute, in 1844. Classes were started In the school that became Willamette university on August 13. 1844. In 1842, the Lee mission had built a house, now standing at 1325 Ferry street, which was called "the parsonage," because under its roof lired the Metho dist ministers who preached to the people of the place that finally came to be named Salem, which was in 1850. (Turn to page 7) Pride of American Merchant Fleet Her forward fannei already atemed. this I hew the United Rtat. months after her Unrtrhing in i iiai7 liner, hbj The OREGON STATESMAN, Sltm,JOresn, Saturday Morniri, January- 61940 Mis Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford (center) is shown being assisted by her father, Lord Redesdale (left) into a hotel at Folkestone, England after an ambulance breakdown delayed surgical aid 'for the 25-year-old blond friend of Adolf Hitler npon her return to England from Germany. She was described by her father as "very ill, but the exact nature of her ailment still was a mystery. Fho to radioed from London to New York.) Chapter 18 Continued From the narrow window the dam was barely risible, but Doug las could hear the confused shouting of men's voices, and soon across his field of vision the group of horsemen passed, then halted while several of their number disappeared below the level of the reservoir. Like a thunderbolt the purpose of their visit burst on Douglas they were going to blow up the dam! With a cry of anger he reached for his camera, wrenched open a compartment In the back and drew out a .3 2 automatic. Des perately he threw himself against the door, but the heavy four-inch timbers never moved, and level ing his automatic at the lock, he fired three times. With a shriek of shattered iron the bolt snapped, the door swung slowly open. Too late! Already men were scrambling hastily up the bank, jumping their horses and riding at full gallop for the edge of the forest, and before Douglas could take a single step a writhing cloud of dirt rose from the dam and spread fan-wise through the air. Broken, twisted timbers hurtling end over end flew up ward, hovered motionless against the sky, then slowly fell, and now the earth shook with a din that made his ear-drums tremble. Back to the farthest canyon, echoing from hill to hill, that deep resonance rolled and died away, while above the dam a cloud of yellow dust hung like a curtain, obscuring the forests and the retreating horsemen. Then, faintly at first, but ever growing in volume, another sound came to Douglas' ears the terri fying roar of rushing waters. For getful of danger he vaulted Into the saddle and spurred the fright ened horse to the very brink of the shattered dam. The center panel had ben blown asunder, and through the open gash ton after ton of swirling waters came rush ing toward the ditch. Like a low green wall the first wave struck the narrow sluice and curled angrily back, then with a groan the ditch Itself gave way, and now that precious, life giving water was wasting itself out over the countryside, tearing down the slope, ripping oat the sod, while minute by minute the level of the lake fell lower, leav ing about its banks an ever widening band of green that glistened with moisture and quickly dried beneath the blaz ing sun. The raiders had struck. Taut and deathly pale with anger. Douglas stood there, the full meaning of this new catas trophe searing itself upon his brain. Once he looked out over the valley to those waving fields of half-grown alfalfa shining in the morning sunlight, and he Newport Newt, Vfc, where the Is beinr mhsw sun wui accommoflsis iiit Hitler's Friend Returns - V f "Red Earth" By Tom Gill knew that before a month had passed all this green carpet of living vegetation would be burned to the parched brown of desert death. Within two weeks the waterholes for his cattle would be wastes of baked clay, trodden into dust by the feet of herds seeking helplessly to quench their thirst. Water it was the very blood of the border country, and it was draining away before his eyes. He turned back to the dam. The reservoir was already two-thirds empty, the angry swirl of the first great rush subsiding to a steady flow. Part of the bank had slipped down against the dam, impeding the water's flight, and with new hope Douglas jumped from his horse. Gathering the shattered timbers, he thrust them across the open hole where the force of the flowing water held them in place, then working against time he made repeated trips along the bank, carrying down sacks of earth, piling ihem before the timbers. Steadily he worked for two hours, and at last, dripping with sweat, stopped to survey the result of his efforts. Only a thin trickle was coming through, and cutting huge squares of sod with his knife, Douglas stuffed them between the crevices. It would hold for the present, and enough water might be saved to serve the rancho for a few weeks. His boots were running with mud, his hands hot and blistered when again he mounted to take up the search for Paxton and the missing vaqueros. Eyes alert for every sign, he made two wide cir cles of the reservoir, thep back tracked along the trail of the raiders, but found no trace of any encounter. The growing possibil ity that Paxton had been taken prisoner made him at last aband on the reservoir, and riding at a fast trot, he followed the trail of the raiders down out of the foothills and across the cactus studded desert to the barbed-wire fence that marked the north boundary line of the Neale ranch, and here, to Douglas' surprise, they had cut the strands and gone through. Did it mean they were in haste, or was this only another instance of their con tempt for every rancher in the valley? Far to the right, concealed by the falling slope of the land. All son Neale's ranch-house lay, and looking down at that severed fence, Douglas wondered what she might know of Paxton's whereabouts. She might be able to help him, yet it was half re luctantly that he turned his horse toward her rancho. Not wholly had he been able to trust the girl, and every moment he was with her it would be necessary to hide the anger that burned within him and at all costs maintain the old Nearly Ready nm . . a outfitted. Newest and creates passengers and a crew ex 639. . , 1 ; - - ... " tbJ Home disguise. No easy task, yet even as he rode he realized that be cause of that disguise alone he was not lying beside the ruined dam with a bajjet through his lungs. In front of the ranch-house he halted, then seeing the girl com ing from the stables, Douglas called to her. "I have been worried for your safety," he announced, with that lazy, hesitating speech of his. "Why?" "Just across the arroyo I found the tracks of a band - of riders. They had cut the fence of your lower pasture and gone through." "Cut my fence!" Anger flashed in the girl's eyes. "Walt!" She disappeared into the stable, emerging a moment later on one of her swiftest horses. "Take me there." she commanded. He hesitated. "But there were at least twenty men " "Well, what of that? Their tracks can't hurt you." Impatient ly she turned her horse, and without further word Douglas led her at a fast lope across the green floor of the valley toward the northern boundary of her ranch. He turned in his saddle as they rode. "All morning I am looking for Ed Paxton at the reservoir. Have you any idea where he is?" Alison's eyes veiled instantly. "Perhaps I have," Bhe said at last, "but first show me that fence." Copyright by Tern Gill; distribute by King Feature! Syndicate. Inc. 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If yon want to know the inside on .Mr, Roosevelt's badget, my edrlce is that yon suppress this emotion, and torn now back to "Popeye" or "BHnrinr TJn Father," and en joy yourself. Exposing budgetary sleight-of-hand is like telling how to do a good card trick. It ruins the fnn. but if you insist: Mr. Roosevelt's hand Is getting faster aU the time. This budget is by a considerable margin the sleightest he has preparea. On its smiling; face it appears to be a stern economizing ven tnre. Actually Is contemplates the largest spending program in New Deal history. This can be proven. X-Ray pictures will not disclose anywhere within its proposed list of expenditures an item of $602. 800,000 which congress must ap propriate under the law for old age pension payments. The trea sury must pay this sum out to the old-age pension trust iuna, whence it will be piecemealed to such of the aged as fulfill re quirements. Mr. Roosevelt has put this ex penditure on the receipts side of his ledger, not as income, hut as an expenditure to be deducted from old are taxes. As a result he saved himself the embarrass ment of mentioning It among his expenditures. If he had listed it as the ex pense that it is, his budget would have shown an outlay of $9, 027,000,000, not $8,424,000,000 as the headlines have advertised. Thus corrected, his expendi tures will be approximately what he has been spending this year, the largest spending year of the government to date. His budgeted expense for this year runs $9,099,000,000 or $72, 000,000 over what is proposed for next year. But next year's prospective ex penditures go even beyond that. The president has omitted entire ly proposed appropriations for farm benefit payments, as advo cated by the agriculture depart ment and apparently certain to be enacted by congress. Agricul ture Secretary Wallace has been wanting between $225,000,000 and $250,000,000 for this pur pose. Mr. Roosevelt himself men tioned this defect in his figures by saying he would, have to ask congress for more irioney for this purpose if farm prices were not above parity payment level this spring. Mr. Roosevelt mentioned anoth er defect. His relief cuts he indi cated were perhaps too drastic. Most new dealers would have eliminated the "perhaps." The president cut relief one-third In the announced "hope" that the improving business cycle would curtail the problem, but he warn ed he would be back for more money if It did not. On the in side the understanding is com mon that in both these instances, deficiency appropriations will have to be made after the elec tions are over, possibly before. 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He may have done something else also, but even the budget office can not explain it fully. Facile also was his withdrawal of $700,000,000 from the recon struction finance corporation and other lending agencies. The presi dent explained they did not need this much of their capital which had been appropriated previous ly. But Instead of counting this as a receipt, he omitted any ref erence to it until he came to next year's deficit and then he deducted It from that. These two steps the seizure of cash from the till for debt retirement and the recapture of capital from the lending agencies make the budget look nearly $2,000,000,000 better than ordi nary receipts and expenditures would have made It. Main purpose of all this fun with the national books was to get the president out of the jam he was in, with the debt ap proaching the $45,000,000,000 statutory limit. FDR has thus relieved himself of the necessity of asking for an Increase in the debt limit until after election by altering the bookkeeping total of the debt, the expenditures and the deficit. He has done more. He has figured everything out so that congress would appear tq be required to grant him a $460, 000,000 Increase in taxation un less it wants to assume the odious political responsibility for in creasing the debt an odium It refused to bear last session even under administration pressure. All the fun is "in accordance with law" as the president once said about the Panama ship deal. You may smile at it, but you cannot stop it, and you might not do it if you could. , Only thing it proves is that you should have followed my ad vice in the first place and turned back to "Popeye." Doctor Is Speaker SILVERTON Dr. Joseph from the state tuberculosis hospital was guest speaker Wednesday night at the dinner meeting of the Silver- ton Active club. New officers in charge of the meeting were presi dent, Byron Gordon; vice presi dent, Sherven McCurdy; secre tary-treasurer, John Nlchol; sergeant at arms, Elmo Llnd- holm; historian, John Bowman. 10:00 Music for Moderns. 10:30 From Ho .y wood Today. It. CO S art of Today. 11:30 Chicago Sound Tabl. 12:00 Gateway t Musical Highways. 12:30 News from Europe. 12:45 Eyes of th Wrld. 1:30 Stsrs of Tomorrow. . 2:00 EoUI Edison Orchestra. 3:15 Dog Chats. 2:30 News. 3:45 Campos Alumni Reporter. 3:00 Musical Workahop. 8:15 Radio Comments. 8:30 The Grouch Club. 4:00 Professor Punlewit. 4:30 Band Wagon. 8:00 Don Ameche. 5:30 One Man's Family. 6:00 Manhattaa Merry-Go Round. 6:80 American Album. T:00 News From London. T: 15 Armchair Crui ess. 7:30 Carnival. 8:00 Fight Editor. 8:30 Jack Benny. 9:00 Walter Wine hell. 9:15 Parker Family. 9:30 I Want a Dirorc. 10.00 News Flashes. 10:15 Bridge to Dreamland. 11:00 Bal Tabarin Cat Orchestra. 11:30 Florentine Gardens Orchestra. KBX SVMDAY 1160 Zv T:45 Down Melody Lane 7:50 Ski Snow Reports. 8:00 Dr. Brock. 8:30 Th Quiet Hour. 8:59 Arlington Tim Signal. 9:00 Radio City Masie HslL 10:00 Pilgrimage of Poetry. 10:15 Th Vass Family. 10:33 Metropolitan Moods. 11:00 Great Plays. 12:00 Proper Housing Talk. 12:15 Foreign Policy Association. 12:80 Let's Go to Work. 12:45 Tspestry Musicals. 1-00 Family Altar Hour. 1:30 Th World la Your. 2:00 Th Vagabonds. 3:15 Along th News front. ?:M,,.ro,pollB P Auditions. 3:00 Catholic Hour. 8:30 New Friends of Mast. 4:00 Uaiden Deaign. 4:15 Newa Fro Europe. 4:30 Kathleen Connelly Present. 4:65 Dot and Fi Dash. 5:00 FestiTtl ef Music. 5:30 Voir of Hawaii. :00 Bookman's Notebook. 6:15 Mslodies tor Milady. : 30 Paul Carson. Organist. :45 Sports Newsreel of th Ate. 7 :00 Hour of Charm. T:30 Everybody Sing. 8 :CO News. 8:15 Lexington Hotel Orchestra. 8:30 Dr. Brock. Mr. District Attorney. 9 HO Hotel st. rraoeis Orehettrt 10.00 Psul Martin's MuiltT 10:30 Family Altar Hoar. 11:15 Portland Polieo Reports. 11:1 Charles Runjan, Organist. KODT SrhTDAT 940 K, 6:00 West Cosst Church. 6:30 Major Bowes. 9:30 Salt Lake Tabernscl. 10:00 Church of th ,Air' 10:30 Interlude. 10:35 Grand Hotel. H:?2Ee"oer"r ,m Action. 11:55 News. i " Tot Philharmonic o:o,l,8 church. 2:0Pla8 Beeliner. 2:45 Denis Dreams. 8:00 BiWr Theatre. l Hollywood. 4:0O The War tils W,t 6:30-William Waljac 1. RoeitnL 4:45 News. :0O Adrtnlores of V3rr' fret an 8:55 Newt. ',M" TroO Thoatn. ' . a.-oow Honk i-My. ' .ioH- 10:00 TiT Star FlnaSL - JS'iitiT ,r"."3r Orehostra. i?:"V,i,l!. koP Orchestra. 11:00 Clark Sons. Soars. " at lO Harry ,Owonv Omkostxaw