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Tbm OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Orecon, Wednesday Morning, Mar ML 1912
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"No Favor Sway Us; No Fear Shall Awe"
From First Statesman, March 28. 1851
THE STATESMAN PUBUSHING CO.
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, President
Member of The Associated Press 1
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news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited to this newspaper.
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slaking the Budget Fit
The city budgeteers task has 4Jme resem
blance to that faced on all dress-up occasions
by women who sought, in the last half of the
preceding century, to be fashionable. A sort of
lacing-up process. It was about half -finished
Monday night but the last half is always the
more strenuous. Well, more power to them.
A tightly-laced budget is strictly in fashion,
this season.
: Never having enjoyed the confidence of a
fashionable lady of that period we' can't say
even at second hand, but from literary refer
ences we judge that the lacing-up process was
painful. Certainly it ,is when applied to a
budget.
For example,- take the matter of playgrounds.
For the reason that many mothers are going to
be working this summer, there will be greater
need than ever for supervised playgrounds.
Meanwhile due to the curtailment of all non
' war WPA employment, a move we strenuously
applaud, the playgrounds will be deprived of
the Federal assistance available ever since the
present program was initiated. "Each year the
city and school district budgeted more money
for playgrounds than they actually used, so as
to be on the safe side if the WPA aid was lost;
but up to this year it never has been. This
year it definitely will be "out" and the local
governmental agencies must bear the entire
cost.
This federal WPA contribution usually has
exceeded $4000. Last year the city's cost was
13353 and that of the school district $3650,
making the total more than $11,000. This year
it was proposed that city and school district
each budget $4568.50 ' for a total of $9137, a
substantial contraction from "the total 1941 cost.
The budgeteers Monday night tentatively re
duced the f city's share to $2753 last year's
mount minus an item of $600 for instrumental
music instruction.
We submit that in the matter of preventing
juvenile delinquency the playgrounds have been
si good investment; that for the younger chil
dren they will be needed more than ever this
year, and that there may be some moral com
pulsion upon the community to provide facili
ties at the playgrounds for soldiers' recreation.
The budget committee should make all possible
provisions for carrying on the playgrounds con
sistent with the general obligations and 'the
necessity for keeping taxes down.
The committee has tentatively made these
other reductions: Slashed the airport alloca
tion by $1300, leaving only $632; cut $40 worth
of supplies from the city attorney's budget;
eliminated the $375 itern for bicycle license
plates since none are available; reduced the
Waite foundation repair item in the band con
cert's budget but reinstated $600 for the junior
band; halved the civil service budget to $50;
pared the city engineer's office $243; reduced
from eight to four the additional firemen auth
orized, saving $6600; cut $100 for convention
attendance off the fire department expense
budget; pruned jail expense $100; cut down
.lighting expense $775, police department ex
pense $100, printing $500; eliminated most of
the Shelton ditch item in the sewers budget for
a $1250 saving; slashed $100 off the electric
traffic signals budget; dissallowed the new art
center item of $500; eliminated most of the
proposed item for' establishing a
volving fund.
To offset some of these reductions there were
increases in some items, mostly salaries. With
this we do not quarrel, though there is a
tendency to pay common labor more than cer
tain specially trained employes receive.
We have not yet been enlightened as to the
need for an increase in the building inspection
department in view of the lack of private con
struction, for the planning and zoning commis
sion's $150 item and for some of the items pro
Tiding for purchase of equipment such as fire
hydrants which may not be obtainable, desira
ble as they are in view of the defense need.
In view of the necessity for further curtailment
to get under the 6 per cent limitation, these and
other tentatively approved items doubtless will
be re-examined.
Jimmy Doolitlle & Co.
When Pearl Harbor was bombed without
warning most Americans were amazed at the
perfect secrecy maintained while plans were
laid , and the cooperation of large numbers of
Japanese nationals, some of them in Hawaii,
obtained. In our three waves of elation over the
bombing of Tokyo first at , the initial news,
second at the confirmation, now again with
' the identification of those who participated and
the revelation that no planes were lost the
circumstance that equal secrecy was maintained
throughout by our orrn forces has been over
looked. As a matter of fact the enemy still
doesn't know- and neither do we where the
planes were based. The notion that secrecy is
impossible in a democracy is definitely quashed,
i We might have guessed if we had been con
strained' to guess that, a flier of pre-war
prominence had most probably, been chosen
to lead such an expedition. Now it is revealed
that the flight leader was renowned Jimmy
Doolittle, holder of numerous air speed records,
one of the nation's most noted aviators since
shortly after the previous war. The names of
some others in the party are likewise familiar
to persons who have kept touch with the his-
tory of aviation. : "-v:.;.; ...-:
And by the way, we recall that after Pearl
Harbor, numerous rewards were : posted by
patriotic groups and individuals, to be turned
over to the first flier r fliers to bomb Tokya,
or to bomb Japanese sooL It may be assumed
that pay-off day is tiht azmmd the corner, and
none of us will begruija the victor his reward.
Now is the proper fime for -a few snore-
yippees- and calls far n encore;
cores as .our air jseryices. can possibly provide.
If you z err - 'lon to the
occupied
seven citi
cf Hus-ia zi. Yugoslavia. In
Germans have executed 113.000
Russians, according to Moscow reports. Mean
while Berlin admits only 6000 executions in
Yugoslavia but the most bellicose of the Balkan
peoples claims it has lost more than 465,000 in
this grisly-fashion. Poland is in second or third
place with 103,000. -Western Europe has gotten
off comparatively lightly but we suspect that
is because the nazis are more conciliatory there.
The record up to May 6, according to United
States News, was 830 Frenchmen, 156 Belgians,
150 Hollanders and 114 Norwegians.
School children are getting report cards
which show whether or not they are promoted
to the next grade. Congressmen are getting
X-cards which may mean that they can't come
back to school next term.
News Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLON
(Distribution by King Features Syndicate. Inc. Repro
duction In whole or In part strictly prohibited.)
WASHINGTON, May 19 A plague of rumors is
flying out of Europe. Typical is the ane that Hit
ler has banished Goering, who is going to Lisbe
with Count Ciano to negotiate a peace through the
British ambassador there.
This unbacked tale has many ramifications, one
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nazi conquer-
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dicting a lew weeks back.
that the Italian ambassador in
Spain has been whispering
sweet "sell-out terms on the
sila in tVio Rritish riinlnmaL Sir
Samuel Hoare,at the instance
of King Victor Emmanuel, who
is supposed to be plotting a
coup to decapitate Mussolini.
Now no one knows where
these stories came from. They
generally appear in print as
. radio reports reaching Moscow
or London from Berne or Istan
bul. Never is any authority
given. Usually London and
Moscow pass them along with
smiling doubt, as if to say:
"We don't believe them either, but there might
be something in them."
The only thing similar about all these tales is
their purpose. They all create an impression that
the axis is wobbling on its last legs. Without a
single exception they all serve to sponsor the
notion that the end of the war is near and
therefore, they imply that foes of the axis need
not break their necks hurrying their production
or hastening to the battlefront.
That is enough to make anyone cast them aside
immediately, with the suspicion that they are
nazi propaganda designed solely to undermine our
war effort.
Take that rumor about Goering and Ciano going
to Lisbon. There are fairly good grounds for be
lieving Goering's influence has truly declined
since his air force lost the battle of Britain, and
that Himmler has edged him out of his position
as official heir apparent to Der Fuehrer.
Goering is primarily an army man and flier,
while Himmler, as head of the secret police, has
control of politics in the nazi party.
But if Goering is out, as the rumors say, he
could 'iot go to Lisbon as an emissary of the Ger
man government, or in fact, of anyone except
himself. He would merely be another Hess. The
rumor, therefore, does not even carry its own
eight.
The nazi scheme of propaganda has always. in
cluded the circulation of sly self defeatist rumors
to lull their foes into false sense of security.
Clever nazi attacks on the psychological front
have: always been divided into two categories:
(lj For home consumption, (2) for foreign ef
fect. !
Goebbels customarily tells the home folks all is
well with the world conquest, and passes to out
side nations such familiar stories as the one that
Hitler wants no more territory; that he would not
attack Russia, Czechoslovakia, Austria; that the
Magihot line was impregnable adding a little con
trary confusion now and then to cover his purpose.
The thing to remember about all these rumors is
that the only places in the world they are not being
freely circulated is in Germany and Italy.
Goebbels well knows it is human nature for
individuals to believe what they wish to believe,
even if it comes to them in the form of rumors.
Officialdom here is 1 naturally unable to track
down all the rumors to their source and show them
to be untrue. But most officials have adopted the
wise policy of paying no attention to them.
The fact is, whether true or untrue, they should
not make the slightest difference to us in our own
war purposes. They cannot be helpful, so we should
neither believe nor disbelieve them, but just refuse
to accept them until they have backing of authority;
just forget them, let them go.
They are simply worthless and should be treated
as such.
The current flock of intangible tales started after
Hitler's last speech. All kinds of stories developed
telling of unrest in Germany. President Benes of
Czechoslovakia was quoted as saying Hitler's speech
was a forerunner of a nazi attempt to secure a
stalemate peace.
Our papers of April 28 carried several such
stories. One from Berne expected a purge in Ger
many. One from Washington said Hitler was des
perate and had broken with the high command.
A few days later came the Victor Emmanuel
story, and hardly a day has passed since without
some similar story, the latest ones concerning nazi
attempt to kidnap Mussolini and "the possibility
that Von Brauchtsch bid gone to a sanatorium
with a breakdown. .. -
Before mat, came yarns from Buenos Aires that
King Victor had dismissed MussolSi; that H Duct
had permitted rumors -that he would sell to the
highest bidder. From Ankara came the story that
germs of revolt were spreading in the German
armitetc, etc h v--:--.;-U'V
. Those who say that where there is so much
snake, there must be fire, are playing with fire.
Ywl do not know whether there is the slightest
truth to any of them, andtaexa else does. All that
can lie -said is that in volume, size and smelL they
inppesirtu be nazi .stuff, t
JIf we ifall for them and it turns out eventually
they w snot true, we will have made fools of
uurselves like France, Korway, Holland, Belgium
and all Europe ! ' . ..
.Maybe this is the Hitler drive on the propa-
vice rresiaenz VV ailac) was pre
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SCHOOL TAX MUDDLE
To the Editor: The primary
election is over. We know who
will be the next governor and
we know what he said in his
campaign about the Tax Mud
dle." School budgets must be
posted for 20 or 21 days before
June 15. What to do?
Third class districts in the past
have estimated their expenses
for the school year, from one an
nual meeting to the next. They
all knew that about ball of the
tax asked for would not be col
lected and turned over until six
months after the end of the
school rear; the period covered
by the budget, In many tmses
mis difficulty was fairly . well
compensated for by the simple
expedient of leaving out of their
estimated receipts all mention of
the amount of the uncollected
portion of the previous tax.
- Of course It was necessary to
anticipate debt service require
ments far enough in advance so
that the money would be on
hand when needed. '
'. The new law makes the fiscal
year of the county the same as
. that of the school districts. The
whole amount of any . future ,
school tax will be due and pay
able during the period covered
br the budget. This should sun-
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plify budget making. But it of
fers to some school boards a
temptation to fatten their trea
sury while the change over is
being made, provided they can
take advantage of some legal
technicality.
Subject to the approval of our
higher-ups, the county superin
tendent, the state superinten
dent, the tax commission and
perhaps the supreme court; we
would like to offer to third class
district! the following sugges
tions: Estimate receipts and expenses
for the school Tear.
Your estimated receipts must
include an estimate of the
amount that win be on hand on
July 1, 1942. Taxpayers may
check this item in the budget
against the amount on hand at
the time of the annual meeting.
Your estimated receipts should
also include the amount of the
uncollected portion of - the tax
voted last year. This should be
done this year only, because the
whole of the new tax will be due
and payable during the school
year. It will not be six months
late as it has always been in the
"past. ... ...
If your total tax, exclusive of
debt service, is more than S3 per
cent of your last year's tax (ex-
By KIRKK L. SIMPSON
Wide World War Analyst
for The Statesman
Whatever the actual purposes ,
of which a powerful American-British-Canadian
striking force
is being mustered in the Brit
ish Isles, there is sound reason j
to believe It is giving Hitter's
generals a taste of the invasion
jitters England has endured since
France felL And that is a far
cry indeed from the war scene
as it looked just a year ago.
Last May 19, the air above ;
Crete, Britain's last meagre is- ;
land foothold In Europe, was
blossoming with thousands of
nazi parachutes. The first air
borne invasion in history was on;
another British disaster in the
making.
Invasion apprehensions in Eng- .
land reached a new high. Visions
of mightier air-ferried armies
deluging the tight little isle with
German parachutists were con
jured up to increase the gloom
of the developing Crete disaster.
That was a black day in England.
Its first anniversary saw the
announcement of safe arrival
In northern Ireland of strong
reinforcements for the Ameri
can expeditionary force al
ready there. Invasion became
again the mam' theme of par
liamentary debaters in Lon
don; but in reverse. It was
not fear of attack; bat ardent
hope of an impending Anglo
American thrust Into the con
tinent that key-noted discus
sion. Prime Minister Churchill's
spokesmen were non-committal.
Second-front possibilities, they
told questioners, were "in our
minds" and also "in the minds
of the German general staff." '
Yet it was added that practical
execution of any such project to
aid Russia's valiant stand against
'Crime at
By EDITH BRISTOL
Chapter 23 (Continued)
"You'd better call the police,"
the doctor said, briefly. "There's
nothing I can do. And let me
have the box." He slipped it into
the pocket of his coat and wait
ed with us until the men from
police headquarters arrived it
was a surprisingly short inter
val. I had been through so many
hours of questioning in the past
week, that I was not surprised
at my own calmness while wait
ing for the officerx-to come.
It was a uniformed policeman
who came in first. After him
came two detectives from head
quarters. The doctor turned the box of
sleeping tablets over to them
with unnecessary formality, I
thought. Then, with extreme re
serve, he said goodbye to me
and to the still stunned Syd
ney and left us. . "
I wished mat Sheriff Allen
had been there he was so
friendly and helpful. Or Lance,
with his quick temper, would
have been better than these two
strangers. They looked at me as
if they were sure, already, I
had given Estelle Gregg the
overdose of medicine that caused
her death.
"What's her name?" the first
detective his name was Howell
asked, Sydney told him.
"Gregg? Gregg? Any relation
to the Gregg family down the
peninsula? The, one where the
contractor was found shot?"
His wife I mean his widow,"
Sydney said, dully.
The two detectives exchanged
glances. "Better have a man from
the homicide bureau," Howell
said to the other officer in a
veice.
So another officer came. And
the Gregg case, with all its
mystery, with all its angles of
riches and unsolved shooting,
was in the hands of the city
police!
Now things would be settled
elusive of debt service), then you
are probably in excess of the 6
per cent limitation. In mat case
you should post a notice calling
attention to that fact and ex
plaining why you need so much
money.
Contrary to popular opinion
the per cent limitation does
apply to third class districts. You
must notify the taxpayers about
excess levies. Excess levies may
be necessary because of higher
teachers pay and higher fuel
costs, etc .,
. The writer does not claim any
special knowledge about legal
technicalities and offers what he
considers a common sense solu
tion of the difficulty in third
class districts. It might or might
not apply to first class districts.
Budgets in the latter including
the non-high are most important
because the taxpayers have no
direct control there;
School boards should be able
to play fair with their taxpayers
if they choose to do so. ,
v . W. R. BAKER, -.
Route C, Salem, Ore.
the common 'foe must be "con
ditioned by transport problems."
That is true. It is equally true,
however, that the first and long
est step in mastering those trans
port problems has been takes
successfully in safe passage t
the British Isles, through sub
marine infested seas, of not only
American - but Canadian force
and their equipment for of
fensive action.
When the day ef Invasion
will dawa Is another matter.
The timing of a second-front
operation would be condition
ed by more than transport
problems alone. It would de
pend as much upon what hap
pens in the weeks ahead in
Cassia and upon the effective
ness of the British air offen
sive, soon to be supplemented
by American army bombers
ana! fighters.
It has seemed quite clear to
this observer that the timing ol
any Anglo-American counter in
vasion designed to squeeze Ger
many between two f runts must
depend upon the extent to which
German armies in Russia are en
gaged beyond withdrawal, rtercb
and Kharkov are at best but th
preliminaries of the battle to
come in the east.
Neither the scope of the Ger
man summer offensive nor thi
dent the Russians have put in it
at Kharkov are yet clearly
enough defined to warrant im
mediate second-front expecta
tions, unless in strictly limited
form. Yet northern Norway of
fers an increasingly inviting ob
jective as summer draws on to
safeguard Atlantic-Arctic com
munications lines with Russia.
And it is there, in rocky and
remote upper Norway, that nazi
fears of an early allied invasion
attempt seem most apparent. .
Castaway'
and in short order, too-the
very attitude of the three de
tectives seemed to say.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
I asked the homicide special
ist he was Landers, a tali .man
with a grave . face and absent
minded manner if he would
telephone Sheriff Allen.
"In time. Miss Lane, in due
time."
Howell was inclined to be
sarcastic: "Down in your part of
the country your peace officers
don't like to make an arrest if
the suspect happens to belong to
the old county families," he said.
"Let's get on with Miss Lane's
.statement ' ' Landers was
abrupt
Sydney was little help and
because I had been the last per
son to talk with Estelle. before
she went to bed, the brunt of
the first questioning fell on me.
Was Mrs. Gregg blue or de
spondent yesterday? Had -she
said or done anything that would
lead me to believe she contem
plated taking her own life?
Whom had she called yesterday
on the telephone? What had she
said?
I had a ready answer for all
of these questions and I did
not tell Detective Landers why
my replies were so complete.
(To be continued)
Today's Garden
By LTLLIE L. MADSEN
F. R. asks how to control flea
beetles in "victory" gardens.
Answer: Flea beetles in any
garden are being controlled this
year by a new product called
cryolite. It Is made up of two
' ounces of sodium fluosilicate,
two tablespoons of wheat flour
and three gallons of water. The
dusting powder is made up of
1 part of the sodium fluosilicate,
2 parts of . wheat flour and 1
parts of talc. It can also be
purchased in prepared form in
the seed stores. The dust Is
' really the most easily applied.
F. T. reports that the ends
of her rose tips are full of
"masses of, tiny green bugs."
She reports that she is a new
gardener this year and doesn't
know how to control Insects and
other garden pests but wanti
to learn.
Answer: The "masses ol
green bugs" are likely aphid
and must be controlled by t
contact, spray. A Black Leaf 41
T apray, one teaspoon ful to a gal
lon of water and a little laun
dry soap to make it stick, is a-
food spray for aphids.
'u With certain spray materials
; becoming more scare, clean gaf
dening must be practiced to an
ven greater extent Every in-
- sect or pest seen running loose
; ahould be corraled and dona
away with at once so that if
will not increase. Do not leav
rubbish about in which such
pests i can hide and ?. multiply.
When sprays are used they must
be -used to count their very
. utmost .
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