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Ha CZXZCH CTATE-IAII. CdLasu Oregon, Sunday Matting. Cepteaber S3, 1S11 r. r 'No, favor svays Vi No Fear Shall Am" From lint Statesman, March 28, 1851 i THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, President Member of The Associated Press --; The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all ' news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited fa this newspaper. Six Per Cent of What? With the principle of excess profits taxa tiontaxation v of unusual " profits derived thanks to the defense program few persons ' will quarrel and none will quarrel success fully. This is the variety of "conscription of wealth" which this column has heretofore en ' dorsed. .V s'::f:.-': ; :t, . . At the risk of being labeled one of those "yes, but" fellows whom the federal adminis ' tration castigated a couple or three years ago when the new deal brand of liberalism was a legitimate though elusive issue in this coun try, we feel impelled however to analyze Secre tary Morgenthau's proposal that all corporate profits be limited to 0 per cent through the effective device of a 100 per cent tax on all In excess. ' Morgentb.au would permit a corporation to retain profit of 6 per cent on "invested capital" . and right there is where the trouble begins. ( . What is "invested capital?" Any ardent foe of jthe capitalistic system will tell you that some corporations' stocks are watered and no one will question that the percentage of water may vary greatly among any handful of cor porations selected at random. If par value of outstanding stock is made the basis for com puting this tax, corporations with the most water will get off easiest. , I If on the other hand physical plant plus inventories plus active working capital makes up "invested capital," you would still have in justice as between corporations; for that for mula provides a fair appraisal of some busi nesses and not others. In some cases a great variety of intangible values lumped together and labeled "good will" account for a sizeable percentage of total value. Such a company would suffer serious discrimination under this formula, as would a service institution which simply doesn't need much plant to carry on a great volume of business, its intangible capital consisting of organization or the specialized knowledge and experience of its key officials. The federal government will need more revenue than it is going to derive even from the drastic tax law just enacted. If it is de termined that much of this additionl revenue should come from stiff er taxation, of excess profits, so be it. ' , , But the present formula of measuring ex- cess profits by normal profits of the years pre ceding institution of the defense' program, ap pears to be moire accurate and fair, though to this there are some necessary exceptions. If -a corporation did not .exist or was not actively engaged in business in that period, obviously the formula will not work. If it will go out of business when the emergency ends, losing most of the value now represented in the plant, that also needs to be taken into Consideration. Federal taxes are going to be tremendously heavy. . Taxpayers may demand that defense money be expended "for value received" and that non-defense expenditures be reduced; still the taxes will be heavy and there is no help for it. But taxpayers have the right to demand that the levies be fairly apportioned. College Enrollments There is a larger percentage of students in the university who. have come because they have entirely serious motives of preparation for life. When jobs are so plentiful as during a war-time . industrial boom, young men and women think twice before they choose be tween highly paid Jobs eH four years of col lege work. Oregon Emerald. Fall term registrations at the various in stitutions of higher learning in Oregon are not yet complete but it is indicated that in nearly every case they are below the comparable 1940 .figures, yet not much below. At Willamette the freshman enrollment was almost equal to that of last year; the contraction is principally in the upper classes and the law school. At the University of Oregon a 5 per cent decrease was Indicated but it is explained principally by in ductions into the armed services, and not by - the rival attraction of plentiful, well-paid jobs. As the Emerald suggests, choice of college rather .than employment may be accepted as evidence, of "serious motives of preparation for life." This will not be true in every case; al ways there are a few students to whom oppor tunity for employment is no temptation. Yet it is clear that the Emerald has analyzed ac curately the trend. There will be more serious minded students because many time-wasters have succumbed to the lure of jobs and be cause in the college towns, self-support, jobs for students are more plentiful and some young people recently unable to finance an education, this year will find it possible. Fourth Term? I believe it to be my sworn duty, as presi dent, to take all steps necessary to insure the " , continuance of liberalism. in our government. Franklin D. Roosevelt ; '.-." The quotation is from the third of the Col lier's articles in which Mr. Roosevelt defends his administration. This particular, article, which seeks to justify the 1930 primary "purge" attempt, calls for no discussion other than the observation that it totally neglects to record y-the fact only two intended victims were actual-' ly "purged," - one of them Governor Martin of . Oregon. The single sentence quoted above, how ever, does raise a question. Supposing that in 1944 "all steps necessary Jto insure the con tinuance of liberalism" should include, in Mr. Roosevelt's opinion, a fourth term campaign? " Would he run? Your guess is as good as any body'8 ' - Norway's BhnLeU - " . . Ostentation of the German preparations for a winter campaign in Russia suggests that Hit-; lerV intentions are more or less the opposite; that as soon as Leningrad is taken naturally lie entertains no doubts 'of the result there Eome sort of winter line will be established r- i merely held while the main ! pressure is t hilled elsewhere. Much depend on the wea ther; frczen ground may make possible soma progress toward Moscow but duration of favor able conditions is uncertain and the nazis will hardly take that risk to the extent of delaying definite action-on a "winter front" farther south. - , .' . - v Because nazi progress in the' Ukraine has been greater than was, indicated two or three weeks ago, that winter front may be around the Black Sea and in the direction of the. Caucasus. Geography and the recent moves on the dip lomatic front suggest that at long last Turkey will be drawn into the struggle on one side or - the pther-and how would you like to be a re sponsible government official in Ankara?. Best guess only a guess is that the nazis will demand access to the Dardanelles if not the right to cross Turkish soil. If Turkey gives In it is swallowed up by the axis; if it refuses it . becomes an ally of Britain and Russia. And if it ' refuses there will be fine scorn in America. Well, we wonder if it is justified so long as we let United States government-owned ships bo sunk and do nothing about it because they flew the Panamanian flag? Guns. Not Gadgets Defense Slogan Editor's Note: Paul Mallon is III and his column which normally occupies this space is temporarily discontinued. It will be resumed as soon as possible. The article pre sented below is one of a series on the subject of "prior ities unemployment" prepared by Robert W. Horton, di rector of information for the Department of Emergency Management. V RE-TRAINING WORKERS Additional national defense and lend-lease ap propriations are coming up, and it now appears ' that 2,500,000 more workers will be required by, the primary defense industries by next summer. This will double the present number. The Labor Department has estimated that 19,000,000 man-years of labor would be required in primary and secondary defense production to meet the $47,000,000,000 in contracts and author izations made up to July S. (Since then contracts and authorizations have mounted to 860,000,000, 000.) The net annual addition to the nation's labor force, of young people growing up and leaving school and getting jobs, after subtraction of deaths and retirements, is little more than 500,000 work ers. - So most of the immediate and imperative de fense industry Job must be done by "non-defense1 industrial workers of the nation. - The men from the filling stations, the gadget factories, the soldiers who are released from the army, and the skilled workmen who have been producing automobiles, washing machines and the other useful implements of a high-standa rd -o f -living nation, are turning rapidly into defense workers. Plowshares are - being converted into swords. . : The plants that turn out tanks and guns and planes and ships and the parts that go to make up these weapons of democracy require skills which are different in most cases from those prac ticed in peacetime factories. And most of their workers must have at least some training for the new machines of defense. The need is for re-training men for defense, for the training of "non-defense" workers to do the production work of a new defense economy with different machines, working on harder metals " in most cases, but with the same American mass production methods. ; The efficient factories, which have been- en gaged In producing the semi-luxuries which have become almost necessities in this rich land, are the obvious sources of "defense" labor, especially since the defense needs for materials are restrict ing their output now. " . The OPiTs Labor Division a year ago set up a Labor Supply committee and a Labor Supply branch to meet this particular problem. It was a dual Job to aid workers to prepare themselves and to insure defense plant employer against a lack of labor force which would cripple their production. The OPM went to work, under the guidance of Associate Director-General Sidney Hillman, on the theory that it should operate through existing agencies, Federal state and local. The activities of the local public vocational schools were aimed directly at national defense training through the US Office of Education, and Congress generously provided for expansion of their program and fa cilities. The OPM Labor Supply and Training program also tied together the training programs of the US Civil Service Commission and the work experience projects of the National Youth Ad ministration, the Works Projects Administration, and to some extent the Civilian Conservation . Corps. Within OPM there was established a Training-Withm-Industry. Branch, closely associated with the apprenticeship program of the Labor Department and the states, which has worked inti mately in the field with manufacturers in de veloping progress of In-plant training. Specialists from private and public life were enlisted. Their aim throughout was "to insure an adequate supply of skilled and semi-skilled de . fense workers for the national crisis. A necessary part of their effort was to .utilize the resources available, to bring into the production effort v the. abilities of trained or available women, Negroes, ' or other citizens whose industrial abilities have not been used, and who can contribute greatly if their usefulness is recognized. , Now comes the great test of this program. Factories producing non-defense goods are about , to lay off their production workers. In some "one- industry" cities and towns, this may, face many, people with unemployment, or else the heartrend ing uprooting that goes with forced migration of - working people. . - , ' - A" program of re-training and placement of ; such workers in defense Jobs .has been worked : out, utilizing the combined efforts of local agen cies, the state and federal employment service, employers, labor unions and OPMs industrial ex perts all aimed toward the major goal. That goal is to match men with jobs, to contribute to the defense effort by increasing the effectiveness of manpower and woman-power and to - prevent any 'priority unemployment' which will throw workers out of jobs in one community in which ;no defense work has been placed.. ' The Federal government, having started the - training program and subsidized ' its operations, is anxious and ; willing to promote and adapt training to any speciaL situations. - Federal activities, however, depend upon local spark-plugs pubUc-minded citizens of a locality who are ready to devote their time and : their efforts to the mobilization of their schools, their ' civic groups, and their local activities. to the na tional effort to do something for defense and for their own people. vQ-JcP : x SS : 0 ' ? j : i . Wilh Winter Approaching A Hunter's Moon! OBifts uW BtreaCilrasiS: By R. J. HENDRICKS California Admission 9-28-41 Day Tuesday, September 9; Oregonians discovered their gold, broke state into Union: (Concluding from yesterday:) Oregonians did more than dis cover gold in California and break that state into the Union. Peter H. Burnett, who be came the first governor of Cali fornia, made so through the in fluence of former Oregonians, furnished most of the early laws to the state of California. V - - As noted already, Burnett had been the author and Introducer of most of the first laws of Ore gon, passed by the provisional government legislature, of which he was an outstanding member. WelL in the gold rush to Cali fornia, in the fall of 1848, he took with him the printed laws of the Oregon provisional gov ernment, and so had them handy when the first California state legislature needed to enact laws for that commonwealth. V S General Bennet Riley, the last military (U. S. Army) governor of California, handed over the office of governor to Peter H. Burnett when the result of the Nov. IS, 1849, election, had been totted up. That transfer was officially made December 20, 1849, the legislature having met, as noted, on December 15. Before news came that Presi dent Millard Fillmore had sign ed the bill of Congress admit ting California into the Union as a state, the California legis lature had already chosen two. United States senators, John C Fremont and William Gwin. - v V . Another thing, it was the steamer Oregon that first car ried to the Calif ornians the fact mat President Fillmore had signed the bill of admission of ' California as a state. It was Oc tober 18, 1850, when that ves sel, with all flags flying, and every evidence of rejoicing, dis played; steamed into the Golden Gate, bringing the glad news. Much more of a complimen tary nature could be said about Peter H. Burnett, great Oregon ian, who headed the Oregonians who broke California into the Union. H S S Bancroft's Oregon History volume 1, page 583, tells of the Kadio IPirograms KSUf SUNDAY US Ke. SAO Flowing Rhythm. 8 JO Melodic Moods. 9KXV Voice of Tomorrow. 9:15 Waltz Ttm. S JO Popular Concert. 100 Sunday Reveries. 110 American Lutaera Church. 12.-00 Singing Strings. 13 JO News HilighU. 11:45 The Sons Shop. 1. -00 Young People's Church. 1:30 Hawaiian Serenade. 20 Marimba's Orchestra. ' J JO The Bible Hour. 3:00 Western Serenad. S JO Boya Town. 4 AO Gypy' Orchestra. 4 JO Symphonic Swings. 5:00 Variety Hall. . S0 Tonight a Headline. :1S Sacred Music. C JO Operatic Arias. 1:00 Organ Trio. 7:30 Special Philharmonic Orch. S. -00 The World Tonight. 8:15 The Eton Boys. 8 JO Tango Time. f :00 News Tabloid. 9:15 Muic at the Console. 9:30 Back Home Hour. 10.-00 Dream Time. KGW NBC SUNDAY 29 Ke. 80 News. - 8 AS Rhapsodies of the Rockies. :30 Church In Your Home. 9:00 Second Guessers. 9 JO Emma Otero. Singer.' 10 AO-Stars of Today. . 10 JO The World Is Yours. 1 1 :0 -Sunday Down ftmrth. 11:15 Concert Petite. 11:30 Chicago Round Table. 12.-00 18th Century Favorites. 12:15 H. V. Kaltenbom. 12 JO Sammy Kaye Orchestra. 12:45 News Headlines and Highlights 1 AO Home Fires. 1 :15 String Symphony. 1 JO Stars of Tomorrow. SAO Joe and Mabel - 5 JO Roy Shield's Rerue. SAO Catholic Hour. J JO The Great GUderaleere. 4 JO Band Wagon. 5 AO Charlie McCarthy. 8 JO On Man's Family. SAO Manhattan Merry -Ce-Round. 8 JO Albttra W Familiar Musis. T AO Hour of Charm. 8:15 Dear John. 8 JO Carnival. -, 9 AO Walter WincheO. 9:15 The Parker Family. 9 JO Edgewater Beach Hotel Orch; 9:50 Your Home Town News. 10 AO News Flashes. 19 -Xy Bridge to Dreamland. ' KEX NBC SUNDAY UN Ke, SAO Amen Corner Program. S JO Treasure Trails of Song. 9 AO Radio City Music Han. 10:30 Speaking of Glamour, r ' 10:45 Matinee With IorteU. 11 AO Wake Vp. America. :t-- Marals African Trek. 12 JO Weekend Cruise. -1 AO Sunday Vesper. 1 JO Behind the Mike. S AO Ambassador East Hotel Orch. SAO Music for Listening. 4 AO European News. - 4:30 Captain Flagg and ftgt. Quirt SAO Blue Echoes. 8 JO fantasy in Melody. 8 AO Southernaires. These schedules are applied by the respective stations. Aay varia tions noted by listeners are das to chaas es made by the stations with out ateCice to this newspaper. 8 JO News Headlines St Highlights. 8:45 BUI Stern Sports NewsreeL 7 AO Good WU1 Hour. SAO Inner Sanctum Mysteries. 8 JO These Four Men. 9:15 Eleanor Roosevelt. 9 JO Moonlight Sonata. 10:30 Hawthorne Temple Services. 11:30 War News Round Up. KOIN CBS SUNDAY 7S KC SAO West Coast Church. S JO Library of Congress Musical. SAO Music for Sunday. 9:18 News. 9 JO Salt Lake Tabernacle. ' -10.-00 Church of the Air. 10 JO Yom Kipper. 11 AO Spirit of '41. 11 JO The World Today. 12 AO Columbia Symphony Orch. 1 AO News, las Walter Gross. I JO Pause That Refreshes. 2:00 Family Hour. . 1:45 William Barer News. 3 AO Symphonettes. 3:15 Tim Out for Dancing. 2:30 Melody Ranch. J -.55 Dear iim.t 4:15 William Wallace. 4:30 News. 5 JO Castles in the Air. 8:55 Elmer Davis, News. . SAO Sunday Evening Hour. -AO Take It or Leave It. 7:30 Columbia Worshop. -S DO Crime Doctor. 8 JO I Was There.1 9A0 Leon F. Drews. 9:15 Claude Thornhill Orchestra. 10 AO Five Star Final. . ' 10:15 Cosm Jones. 10:30 Dick Aurandt Orchestra. . 10:45 Marin Corps.' 11 AO Ken Stevens. Songs. II JO Manny Strand Orchestra. 1155 News. KALE MB8 SUNDAY 1X38 Ke. : 8 AO Reviewing Stand. 8:25 News. i-.,.. -Vf-v ;-sj- 8JO Central Church of Christ. 9A0 Les Brown Orchestra. - ' ' 9:30 Vole of Phrophecy Choir. 9:45 Songs for Sunday. . 10 AO News. . 10:15 Romance of the Hi -Ways. 4 10JOCanary Chorus. ",,' 19:45 Los Angeles County Band. - . 11 AO Children's ChapeL 11:45 Hollywood Whispers. . 12 AO News. A-y-i: 12 JM Swedish Baptist Temple, ' 2 .OOHancock Ensembl. 2 JO The Green Hornet. 1 AO Portland Bible Ciaases. 2 JO Bulldog Drummond. 4 AO Contact, r 4 JO Invitation to Walts. 4 45 Around the Clock . jf SAO American Forum. SAO Old Fashioned Revival Hour, 7:15 Bands on Parade. T JO Cab Calloway's Qulszacale. -- S AO Hinson Memorial Church. 9A0 News. ; 9:15 Voice of Prophecy. ' 9:45 Music for Sunday. ' 18 AO I Aam An American, 10:15 LitUe Concert. 10:30 News. 1045 Clyde McCoy Orchestra. 11 AO Sun. Night at Cocoaaut Grove. first two general Fourth of July celebrations in Oregon, In 1848, one at Oregon City, the other at Salem Of the one at Oregon City, Bancroft's writer said: "There was erected a liberty pole presented to the committee of arrangements by William ' Holmes; a round of 31 guns was fired, and an oration delivered by Peter H. Burnett, which was followed by a dinner and toasts, with cheering and firing of guns; concluded by a ball in the even ing." Quoting Bancroft further: S "At Salem the management was . . In the hands of the newly organized military com pany, the Oregon Rangers. . . . The company was presented with a flag by Mrs. Horace Hoi den and Miss (Pauline(?) Loon ey. The' oration was delivered by W. G. TVault, after which a barbecue and public dinner was served, followed, not by a ball, but bya sermon, as was con sidered proper In a missionary town, delivered by Harvey Clark (Congregational minister.)- (The Oregon Bangers- com pany was captained by T. D. Kaiser, later by his son, P. C. Kaiser, of the Kaiser bottom historic family of Oregon pio neers. T. D. Kaiser furnished a valuable historic manuscript to Bancroft, kept permanently In the Bancroft records. Yet, some presumptious ginks . named the historic school the Keizer school, etc, etc It ought to be crime.) . s ... Oregon should have had the list star in the American Flag, instead of the 33d. That (the 31st) !s what California got, through the work and Influence of Oregonians.) Minnesota came in between, got the 32nd star. The three ad missions were: California, Sept 9, 1850, No. 31; Minnesota, 32, May 11,- 1858; No. 33, Oregon, Feb. 14, 185. : , ..- V M ; Next Were, 34, Kansas; 33, West'VU-ginia; 36, Nevada, 37, Nebraska; 38, Colorado; t- 39, North pakota; 40, South Dako ta;, 41. Montana; 42, Washing- ton; 43, Idaho; 44, Wyoming; 45; Utah; 48, Oklahoma; 4T, New Mexico; 48, Arizona, t ; What will be the. 49th state, and the 50th? This writer's guess Is Hawaii, and Alaska. Then what! ' . Win some one tell this writer, by phone, or other means, the exact date of the night of the fire thaf -destroyed the historic Bennett House in Salem? ; This column has it, but the index is lacking, or faulty at headquarters and in the librar ies. The nearest this writer finds Is this: The Bennett House was destroyed by fire la 1887" By the way, the last name of that historic hotel was the Ave ' nue House, for WiUson avenue, which it faced. WiUson avenue then ran clear to High , street The postoffice had not been erected. By the way, a son of the ar chitect for the old postoffice (now the Willamette University law school building) has become one of the great architects of the United States, of the world. By MARYSE RUTLEDGE SBENS Chapter 33 Continued "Good, idea. Kurt gave over the wheel, swung out TU look up friends Tve been wanting to see, and meet you here at say four?" His green eyes didn't : warm to his smile. ; . . Jane nodded with a nameless sense of depression.' ' Kurt ' waited until the little car started off. Then he hailed a taxi and followed. - She went first to an old brown-stone' house In 38th street, off Madison' avenue. Its former grandeurs were humbled by the faded gilt of a sign: -"Rooms to Let . : ' Kurt watched from the' taxi. A woman opened the door; talk ed briefly. to Jane. Then Jane, was off again, the taxi follow-' Ing. She drove uptown, on the extreme East , Side, to the wide courtyard of the ultra-conserv- - ative Rio House, where apart' ment were tiered over the East river. .' ; She didnt come out Kurt Helm snapped the i name of a hotel In the East Forties to the taxi driver and sat back, his mouth twitching. Richard Gar rison lived in Rio House. "What trail had led Jane there? Wires were criss-crossing. Helm's temper grew vicious. He -wanted to know, himself, why Farland had been attacked, and by whom. He wanted to know where the Sweitzers stood in all 'this. So he hurried to their "apartment , As Helm entered room 912, Anna Sweitzer lay. on , the bed In a flannel robe, i Her throat was circled with bandages. Fred Sweitzer, scowling, turned from the window. He snarled, "I caught Anna blabbing on the telephone. He shouldered for ward. "We know your new set up upstate. We know about the Givens and the Rider girl as a front But Anna had no busi ness " "Fred nearly killed me." Anna sat up, grotesque, with her mussed hair-do and her gog gling eyes. "I did telephone that girt" Her voice scratched from a swollen throat "You've .done enough harm, Kurt- Helm." "I guessed as much." Helm sounded dangerously quiet Fred Sweitzer said savagely, "Anna was wrong. But I'm sick of doing your dirty work. It was some Job getting into that snooty Rio House - the other night : ;. "So? Helm dWt raise bis voice..' "They let me up." Sweitzer'g heavy face was sullen. "And I had to knock out Mister Garri son's fancy valet; I couldn't find the envelope,! ! he grumbled "Speaking of double-crossing, perhaps that young Farland was in league with Carlie. Perhaps there were two envelopes the dummy I lifted from Mm with that crazy music stuff scribbled on it and the well, what we're after. He may be holding ft for a price. , XTid you say we? Helm lit a cigarette. . - - Anna Sweitzer spoke shrilly. "We're in it, arent we? We helped you, didn't we, when you took in all those contributions money you never accounted for? We sponsored-the group, didnt we? Your soliciting list your ' private -account books, pamph lets Heaven knows what concern us, . too." She began feebly - to cry. "I cant -lorgcl Carlie" i;rs,- -'.- ' . Jane's mind whirled. The landlady at 38th street had been kind, informative and curious. She had seen Jane's photograph on David's dresser. She told Jane all she knew. Mr. Farland had come back Thursday night paid his rent, packed t and left He looked awfuL His : head was bandaged. He had left a for warding address;; care of a Mr. Garrison, Rio House, Jane's heart pounded as she rang me Den or tucnara Gar rison's apartment' She remem bered Garrison at the inquest as a distinguished, gray-haired, gray-eyed man who was Mat tila Breanu's attorney. The door was answered by a man in a white coat, who an swered her trembling question by ushering her Into a beautiful room. Then everything was blurred. David came quickly for ward. His arms closed around her. , "You!" His voice was lost on the breath of his kiss. He led her to a chair. Through the tears she saw his anxious face, and the red forelock he never could keep in place, ' straying across his forehead where an ugly gash was healing. "Oh, David!" She clung to him. "I was wrong. I didnt mean it I love you." Then panic swept over her as he drew away. (To be continued) a IV; S I T S TO F I T After the high-backed swivel chair tradition aUy vsed by speakers ef the Hoes had been returned -free aa verba oling. Speaker Sam Eaybora. Texas Democrat tested lis r "feet" The chair Is est the Heose regfrtua. ' ' -f ' 1 , o ;. 4 v " . '.. ' . is Bound for the east to relieve the defease shortage on the Atlantic coast this on train burst into flames when tt was derailed northwest of Columbus. O. The fire spread from car to car, enveloping 11 out of 61 in the train. Each car contained 10,000 gallons of oil. For e time the vlSags of San Marghuerita was threatened,
