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CHART.ES A. S PRAGUE. President
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Linn Pats Own Back
Linn county folk are happy and proud. It
was not found necessary to levy one cent of
property tax for the general fund in the half
year period which bridges the; gap between the
old and new "tax years." They are obviously
justified in being happy. Relief from any tax
burden at any time is welcome; twice welcome
this year though it would be thrice welcome
next year.
Albany Democrat-Herald is of the opin
ion that Linn is the only county in this favorable
position. It came about as a result of the accum
ulation of funds due to payment of delinquent
taxes. A part of this accumulation was utilized
in construction of the new courthouse but after
that was done the money continued to come
in. Uncle Sam deserves some of the credit. Per
sons seeking loans on their property from fed
eral agencies were required to clear title and
that meant paying up any back taxes. Accumu
lation of these receipts made it possible to fore
go the general fund tax levy for the first half
Of 1942.
We are not conversant with Linn county's
budget-making policies. Generally speaking,
tax-levying bodies list any unexpended bal
ances along with anticipated receipts from non
tax sources adding in also the anticipated col
lections of delinquent taxesand subtract the
sum from the total of appropriations which
however may include an item ot anticipated
unpaid current taxes, to determine the amount
f the current tax levy.
If we interpret correctly the Democrat
Herald's explanation of Linn county's curcent
good fortune, a surplus resulting from collec
tion of back taxes was applied on the 1939 bud
get but not on the 1940 budget. As we recall
It, Linn county obtained special legislation sev
tral years ago to legalize the use of the previous
. surplus in building the courthouse. Why, if
there were further collections in 1939 these
were hot applied upon the 1940 budget, we are
anable to say.
Linn county's 1940 tax for general county
purposes was 14.9 mills which was slightly less
than Marion county's 15.21 mills, but it was not
the lowest comparable millage in the state.
Without going to the trouble of double-checking
on assessment ratios, we observe that Baker,
Benton, Clatsop, Douglas, Gilliam, Grant, Jack
ion, Jefferson, Lake, Lane, Morrow, Sherman,
Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wheeler and Yam
hill counties had lower general fund millages
than did Linn. In other words Linn was ap
proximately the median county in that respect.
Furthermore in the matter of property taxes
for all purposes, taking into account school
levies which vary from district to district but
striking a median of these, Linn's millage ex
ceeded those of Baker, Benton, Douglas, Gil
liam, Grant, Jackson, Jefferson, Lake, Mor
row, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa and
Wheeler. i-
Numerous other factors enter into com
parison of government costs and we cannot go
Into them all. Linn county we have no doubt
is well managed, as Marion county is and has
been in fiscal matters in recent years. Marion
county has benefitted as it went along from
payments of delinquent taxes; Linn county has
saved them up for a 1942 Christmas present.
Linn county is entitled to be happy. Linn coun-
ty is entitled to be proud but not to bust any
vest buttons.
ManDower for War
Just now the United States is spending
half a billion dollars a week for war purposes
including both fighting and the production of
. fighting equipment, munitions and supplies. As
rapidly as possible this rate of expenditure
is to be doubled. As for production alone, now
one-fourth of the national total is for war and
three-fourths for civilian needs. The goal is to
equalize these two outlets. Germany's ratio is
CO per cent war, 40 per cent civilian and Jap
an s is 75-25 with war on the big end; but our
normal production is so much greater that on a
50-50 split we will be producing for war twice
the combined total of Germany and Japan.
That's why eventually we will win but it
doesn't insure early victory, for they had seven
or eight years head start, and we helped them
both.
Already there are more than two million
Americans under arms we couldn't give the
figure if we knew it and by the end of this
year! the number will be more than doubled.
Over two million more taken out of the labor
force. And thoueh war nrnrinrtinn is nnlv r i
be doubled, we are told that the five million
now working on war goods will not merely be
doubled; it will be increased to 18 million. From
what source will the additional workers come?
In 1941 the total labor force of the nation
was about 55.4 million including 44 million in
civilian industry, farming, trade, transportation
and the like, five million in war industry, say
two million in the army, and nearly four million
unemployed.
This year there will perhaps be 32 mil
lion in civilian occupations note the drop of
11 million from 1941 and 18 million in war
production, perhaps close to five million under
arms, and still, because of dislocations, two
million unemployed. That makes a total of WA
million in the labor force, an increase of three
million. Sometime in 1943 the labor force prob
ably will rise two million more to 59.4 million
with civilian production cut down to 23 mil-5
i lion, war industry boosted to 25, perhaps, ten
million under arms and still a million unem
ployed. Who are the four million not now included
in the labor force who will be in it by the end
Of next vear? WW -
- m - - 9 fcuuu uc wuinen
who don't really need jobs but who will be at
tracted by the desire to : help or by higher
rages; some will be drawn from the surplus
, rural population of some areas, heretofore
neither listed as employed or unemployed; some
will be boys and girls who otherwise would be
171 erVSW"vl a MnJ ' a - I
" uku
tms would be voluntarily or
retired due to age.
The fact Is that if our people
Statesman
NIMH tMi
rejsati
"No Favor Sways Ut; No Fear ShaWAiot"
From First Statesman, March 28. 18S1
wiui ms iorces,
rani Halloa
tag the jaws of
f Hk" ' '''
Even so, their predicament Is worth the cheering
the reds have given it
A slight push now should edge Finland out of
the war and into a separate peace. Their food and
equipment is running low. Trusted reports are
heard that the German troops among them are be
ing thinned out by Hitler in anticipation of Fin
nish surrender.
To knock the Finns out, however, the reds
may have to turn north and drive them from the
Ladoga and Onega lakes regions. This will prob
ably be the next move.
Those American coastal tankers being explod
ed without warning by nazi subs! off our east coast
are not armed. The sinkings are a violation of in
ternational law established in the treaty of London
and signed by the Germans and Japanese only
five short years ago. That treaty provided:
- "A warship whether surface ivessel or subma
rine may not sink a merchant ship without having
first placed passengers, crew and ships papers in
a place of safety (except in cases of resistance or
refusal to stop). The ship's boat$ are not regarded
as a place of safety." ' J
Explosion of a tanker without notice is an
specially cruel act of war as ordinarily the sur
rounding waters are , covered iwith burning ofl
through which escape is hazardous.
.who ui otaer
involuntarily
i .
uur sinkings,
w " accord
were to be-'
um
come as universally occupied as they were in
1918 at the height of the previous war effort,
the labor force would rise to 63 million. Looks
easy, doesn't it? But the difficulty will be get
ting workers and jobs introduced to one another.
Way down in Kentucky where white folfcs
treat the negro with consideration but ordinari
ly demand that he keep "his place," all the
troops at Fort Knox were lined up for a cere
mony the other day honoring a negro. Well,
the actual occasion was dedication of a new
parade ground; but the parade ground was
named Brooks field in memory of a negro sol
dier. Fort Knox is headquarters for the
Armored Force. Private Robert H. Brooks was
the first soldier of the Armored Force killed in
action in this war, dying near Fort Stotsenburg
in the Philippines on December 8. So nine gen
erals and the Fifth Armored Division band and
a lot of soldiers and civilians participated in
the ceremony at which Major General Jacob
L. Devers eulogized Private Robert H. Brooks,
son of negro sharecroppers.
War in Europe is like football; the idea is to
smash that line or get "over it with an aerial
attack. But war in the Pacific is more like
baseball; you have to have bases and then you
have to get on base before you can score. Here's
hoping we can get some men around to third
base before the first inning is over.
News Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLON
..Ptrlbuted by King Features Syndicate Inc. Repro
duction in whole or in part strictly prohibited ) .
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. Brilliant and sly
General Douglas MacArthur prearranged a scheme"
wnereby any units cut off by his
withdrawal would take to the
hills and prey upon the backs
of the Japanese in the manner
of the Philippine hero Aguinal
do, until their ammunition ran
out.
Behind the terse mention in
war department communique
No. 68 of an unidentified Ameri
can unit raiding a Jap airport
far in the north of Luzon prov
ince, lies the swashbuckling tale
of a cavalry unit, riding and
fighting in the depths of Japanese-occupied
territory, beyond
rescue or relief, preparing to
fight until the last man is gone.
Several such units are loose among the Japa
nese in Luzon and at least one more in Mindanao.
They are not wild mountain natives, but American
troopers and Filipino descendants of that same
Aguinaldo's band, mindful that their old hero de
fied the forces of the US government successfully
in those same hills for nearly two years, before be
coming a good citizen In 1901.
The semi-civilized mountain tribesmen still use
bows and arrows, are not accustomed to firearms.
It is unlikely that the isolated MacArthur forces
have cared to waste ammunition by attempting to
re-arm or enlist these tribes. But the lost regulars
obviously have radio contact with MacArthur.
Pasture lands are available for their horses
; and they can get food. Their problem will be am
munition. They may have to rely on what they
can capture from the Japs, although American
bombers are now within reaching distance of their
lairs and may be able to fly over and drop some
supplies.
Far to the south of Mindanao island in the
province of Davao another American unit was
forced by the Jap advance to retire to the hills.
Here as in Luzon, the Japs control the seaports and
bases, and1 therefore rescue is unlikely.
The stirring deeds of all these surrounded units
already have guaranteed them a special inspiring
niche In history alongside Stuart and Mosby, and
the garrison of Wake island.
Importance of the red capture of Mozhaisk
lies in its strategic geographic significance. From
that point to Leningrad run the Valdai hills, 1200
to 1500 feet high, and easily Wnrii ,v,i-
' A "V. TV UU1C
German defensive position on the Moscow-Leningrad
front rested upon these hills. The nazis could
not be driven out as long as they held Mozhaisk
and Vyazma to the south. But now, the reds may
be able to cut their way up past Vyazma, get into
the rear of the Germans in the hills and force their
withdrawal, relieving the whole Leningrad area.
No other good physical defense line is available
until the nazis get 160 miles back to Smolensk. As
the ground is frozen they cannot now dig in, can
not pour concrete. They are protected somewhat
by chest-deep snow. Their withdrawal from Moz
haisk was skillful. They had 150,000 men in the
pocket two weeks airo and nrvntA
the pincers and surrounding them.
in trie end they apparently escaped with most of mm . , '
the three divisions left behind as a rear guard. TO(CjV S Garden
Even so, their predicament is worth th nW- UVJII
as far as Is Jmown here, have
witn intarnatinrtat i
vaLWi, oiAixjwiAn. Solan.
Der Fuehrer Tires at the
Bits for
By R. J. HENDRICKS
Celebrate 1943 as a 1-24-42
centennial year, but do
not commemorate in doing
it a plain, barefaced lie:
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(Concluding from yesterday:)
Still quoting from the 11 year
old copy: "Jesse Applegate felt
this, as did the others. As he
was preparing to depart from
Missouri to the Oregon Country
in 1843, he wrote to his brother
Lisbon: 'Dear Brother: I will
start with my family to the Ore
gon territory this spring. Lind
say and perhaps Charley (broth
ers) go with me.
M "This resolution has been
conceived and matured in a very
short time, but it is PROBABLY
DESTINY, to which account I
place it, having neither time
nor good reasons to offer in de
fense of so wild an undertak
ing.' His brothers Charles and
Lindsay came with him. The
'destiny which he felt buoyed
up his spirit all the long and
dangerous way with the first
considerable covered wagon
train to the Oregon Country,
carrying 1000 precious pioneer
souls.
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"This epoch making reinforce
ment, at the right time, to the
struggling little colony, in the
right place, in the providence of
the Ruler of all destiny, as 'be
hind the dim unknown standeth
God within the shadow keeping
watch above His own,' was the
deciding factor in the sequence
of causes that extended the arc
of the Republic from the snowy
crests of the Rockies to the white
sands of the Pacific.
"Another mile post on Jesse
Applegate's path of destiny was
marked when he was in the
right place at the right time to
prevail upon Leander Holmes,
delegate from Oregon to the
National Republican Convention
at Chicago In 1860, to send his
proxy to Horace Greely, ; giving
him the point of vantage he
otherwise would have lacked
leading directly to the nomina
tion of Abraham Lincoln for the
Presidency, without which set
of circumstances; without which
divine ordering, the nail on
might have been divided into
weak and warring groups of
states; the black curse of slav
ery might still flourish, and the
royal prisoner of Doom might
yet be on the German throne,
By LTLLIE L. MADSEN
Answers to questions received
chiefly by postcards during the
past few days:
Do not prune your roses yet
Wait three or four weeks.
Do not spray your trees and
roses in freezing weather J
Lilacs or any other f shrubs
which have been hilled '4n can
smi be planted. Plant them as
soon as the frost Is somewhat out
of the ground.
Even though your holly tree is
quite small when plantitd, re
member it will, grow, so give It
plenty of room. A holly i$ classi
fied by landscape architects as a
broadleaved evergreen tree and
not as a shrub.
Carbon disulphide is used In
disinfecting dry beans for wee
viL The disinfecting is usually
done after harvest and not dur
ing the winter when the beans
have been stored.
Place the beans In a paper
carton and pour a small amount
of the disinfectant in a shallow
oisn. ace thli on top! of the
... . .
Orexjoa, Saturday Morning. January It. 1942
m SHANK ov ulmWill
"Dance of The Hours"
Breakfast
the military master of the
world.
m
"Plato proclaimed the idea for
the ideal society, the formula
for the highest happiness of the
earth's peoples, to be the orient
ing of the right man in the right
place, always and everywhere.
Four hundred years before the
birth of Christ, he said:
"'The perfect society would
be that In which each class and
each unit would be doing the
work to which its nature and
aptitude adapted it'
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"May we not again reasonably
conclude that true and fixed star
of destiny guided Jesse Annlp-
gate's course, and piloted and
prompted him, the right man in
the right place, to perform his
divinely directed duty?"
The above Is the concluding
paragraph of a series of 11 Is
sues of this column, beginning
with that of Tuesday, January
13. It was begun and has been
carried on to prove the utter
fallacy contained in the state
ment of a propagandist for the
proposed centennial celebration
of .the year J843, based partly on
these words, printed in a letter
to the Portland Journal:
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"IN THE SPRING OF 1843
THE SETTLERS OF THE WIL
LAMETTE VALLEY ORGAN
IZED A PROVISIONAL GOV
ERNMENT AT CHAMPOEG,
THE FIRST CIVIL GOVERN
MENT WEST OF THE ROCK
IES." That is a barefaced lie, cooked
up and published 20 years after
the May 2, 1843, meeting was
held at; Champoeg. No reliable
historian will substantiate the
lying statement Every posted
and hohest person is disgusted
with the ignorant repetition of
the threadbare falsehood.
"m
The Oregon Provisional Gov
ernment was founded Feb. 18,
1841, at the Lee Mission, as re
corded and attested by Geo. W.
LeBreton, Oregon's first secre
tary of state, who was also pres
ent and recorded and attested
the meeting of May 2, 1843, and
Your Federal
Income Tax
EARNED INCOME CREDIT
The law allows in computing
the normal tax of an individual
an earned income credit of 10
per cent of the earned net in
come, but not In excess of 10
per cent of the net income.
"Earned income' Is defined In
the law as wages, salaries, pro
fessional fees, and other
amounts received as compensa
tion for personal services ac
tually rendered. Where a tax
payer is engaged In a trade or
business In which both per
sonal services and capital are
material income-producing fac
tors, af reasonable allowance as
compensation for personal serv
ices actually rendered by the
taxpayer, not in excess of 20
per cent of his share of the net
profits i of such trad or busi
ness, Is considered as earned
Incomes. "Earned net income" :
means jthe excess of the amount
of the! earned income over the
sum of the "earned income de
ductions," which are the ordi
nary and necessary, expenses
properly chargeable against
earned income. The entire
amount of the taxpayer's net
income; up to and Including
13000, regardless of the source,
is considered earned net income.
In no case is the earned net in
come to be considered to be ' '
more-than $14,000., -
all the rest till his death from
the bullet of a hostile Indian.
The Provisional Government
had been operating for two
years, two months and 22 days
when the meeting at Champoeg
was held.
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The coming of the 1843 cov
ered wagon immigration, and
numerous other high events of
that year in Oregon's history,
justify a centennial celebration
next year.
Many matters of high history
in uregon s beginning days were
witnessed at Champoeg, and It
is not even worthy of sane think
ing to include the long ago ex
ploded lie contained In the state
ment of the founding of the Pro
visional Government mere. No
honest man will justify the lie.
No sane person will excuse it.
Distributors9 Sugar
Supplies Are Slashed
PORTLAND, Jan. 23-()-The
Journal said rationing of sugar
was becoming common in leading
retail stores here Friday because
of a government order limiting
supplies to 60 per cent of the
lowest monthly consumption of
1941.
The newspaper said this effect
cut distributors' supplies 50 per
cent.
ffiadio (Pro
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By PETER MUTB
CHAPTER -TWO
David looked up a moment
from his work, then back again.
"I was spending - a couple of
years in France, he said.
"There, that's done." He had
finished stopping the oil leak
and straightened Itt p . So did
Wendy, and he noticed that she
was nearly as tall as he, and
quite slender. He was an even
six foot, and made a mental cal
culation that she must be only
three inches shorter. He liked
tall girls, especially when they
had dark chestnut ; hair, down to
their shoulders,- and dark, half
smiling, half serious eyes. It
flashed through his head - that
this was the type of girl he had
always most admired, only a
little different, a little he
searched his mind; for a phrase
a little more so. f
She seemed to expect him to
say something else in answer to
her question, and stood waiting.
"A couple of years in France,"
he repeated. "Studying, you
know. Perfecting! tny French,
my skiing and I flying." He
laughed, showing 'hard, white
teeth and small - shadows on
each cheek that he would have
sworn were not dimples. "I'm
afraid I spent more time on
the skiing and flying than I did
on the French. However, I've
spoken It since I was a boy, so
I'm pretty fluent I If not gram
matical. I'd just gotten my pi-,
lot's license down at Cannes
when the war broke; so the rest
was fairly easy."
From very far off came the,
drone of airplane motors. They
stopped their conversation to
listen Intently. David automat
ically picked up his helmet, but
did not don it as they stood mo
tionless, tense, j
"They're coming our way," he
said at last. "Fighters. See
them?" He pointed to four black'
specks In the south. One was
in front, closely! followed by
three others. A burst of ma
chine gun fire came feebly to
their ears. "It's ope of our fel
lows in trouble. He put on his
helmet and started to climb into
the cockpit "Three to one
against, as usual. If he can hold
out until "
The end of" the sentence was
drowned out by the starting
motor. He waved good-bye,
turned, and roared up the fair
way upon which he had landed.
The girl watched, her lips
slightly parted in, wonder, as the
tiny ship skimmed off the
ground, gained altitude, banked
sharply and headed In the direc
tion of the four planes now cir
cling madly for position not half
a mile away.
Wendy stood motionless, grip
ping her golf club so tightly .that
her knuckles showed white, fas
cinated as a bird 'charmed by a
snake. For the life of her she
could not have taken her eyes
from the tiny specks in the sky,
their motors whining and machine-guns
barking as they en
deavored with attj their skill and
daring to destroy one another.
The three Messerschmitts would
almost certainly bring down the
lone English fighter if David did
not arrive in time. He was
climbing hard, but the four
planes were now; moving off in
the other direction.
She could see the tracer bul
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lets r from 1 the Germans, passing:
dangerously near the lone RAF
man anct prayed silently and
intently for David to hurry and
join in th fight He had gained
sufficient altitude and was lev-
filing off, motor wide open. He
would be within range in a mo
ment noW. - "Go on, go on, for
Gcrscsakjer she urged. "Hur
ry! HurryJH David was pressing
hard on the tall of the last Mes
serschmltt and she saw tracers
as he opened up with his eight
machine-guns. Then the planes
were swallowed by a bank of
, fluffy white autumn clouds, and
she could ho longer see nor hear
them. f
Just how long she waited,
standing there on the links,
gripping her club with both
hands, hardly breathing, listen
ing, Wendy could not say. Per
haps it was ten minutes, perhaps
. an hour. Time meant nothing to
her. Only those little specks
that had J disappeared into the'
clouds, Whirling and diving
messengers of death, had a
meaning. ;The rest seemed un
real. Or Was it the planes and
their pilots that were unreal?
She could; not decide.
Had there actually been a
handsome boy, covered with oil,
standing there, smiling and chat
ting, a few moments ago, or had
he been a phantom? Instinc
tively she, looked to the ground
where th4 plane had been and
saw its tracks on the fairway.
He had been real all right very
real. And now he was off fight
ing In the clouds, fighting for
his life.
The thought came to her that
he might even then be lying on
the ground somewhere, mangled :,
and burned beyond recognition,
and the tears welled up, blind
ing her. Why, she asked herself
a hundred times as she stood
there motionless except, for her
hair which the light breeze
played through why, oh why
must this flower of youth be
destroyed burned, mangled?
They were so brave, so utterly
without fear, so selfless. There
was great beauty in their unaf
fected courage, but all this did
not answer her soul searching
question.
Wendy remained rooted to the
spot by the expectation that the
planes might return, and that
she could count them, see their
markings and know if anything .
had happened. She fully real
ized that 'the chances of such a
return were very small indeed
with the speed of the modern
fighter planes.
Finally she renounced this
faint hope, picked up her golf
ball, and started walking slowly
In the direction of "The Downs,"
her home situated on a slight
rise to the west of, and over- '
looking the links. As she walked
along, following the direction by
instinct I for she saw nothing
about her, the smiling presence
of David- Hutchinson seemed to
accompany ffer.
r.
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