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'No Favor Siaays Vs; No Fear Shall Awe'
From Fint Statesman. March 28, 1851
THE STATESSIAN PUBUSHING CO.
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, President
- Member of The Associated Press
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news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
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What Price Freedom?
In the days of the Caesars only the precious
metals were money, and only money and slaves
were wealthy. That is, negotiable wealth.
Emperors fought and conquered lor gold and
laves. Masterpieces of statuary were melted
down without compunction for their gold. Men
of substance owned thousands of unneeded
laves, keeping them for their trade-in value.
It wasn't until the fourteenth century that the
Invention of double entry bookkeeping trans
lated land, buildings, machinery, warehouse
receipts in other words stored food and ac
counts receivable into values expressed in
money.
From that moment the character of money
became increasingly vague and elusive. Money
became a relative thing, subject to violent
fluctuation in relative value. Right today it has
less relative value than ever before. We are
afraid this discussion of billions for war is
going to bore you.
For, though the invention of bookkeeping
caused an immediate decline in the negotiable
lvalue of slaves, there has been a steady increase
'in the relative value of freedom.
Congress is going to consider seriously the
general sales tax as a means of financing the
. war -effort. Though the sales tax may finally
be rejected, it will play an effective role in the
development of the new tax law. To avoid
congress' threat of a sales tax the treasury will
be receptive to an alternative which tends to
ward the same result; a lower income tax
base than it otherwise would accept.
What is freedom going to cost in money? A
Wall Street Journal writer estimates that if the
war lasts as long as President Roosevelt guesses
it will, four and one-half years, the cost will be
225 billion dollars and that total cost of federal
government will be 260 billion. y-
Since John Q. Public will get only one bill,
we'll trace the total cost: For the 1940-41 fiscal
year it was 13 billion- for the 41-42 year now
closing.it will be 45 billion; next year 77 billion;
43-44, 87 billion; for the last half of 1944, 44
billion.
Government squeezed out in taxes the first
year 8 billion, the next 13 billion; plans to
collect next year 27 billion, the following year
30 billion, the last (we hope) half year 15
billion. Total, 83 billion. Sales of war bonds
will bring in another 38 billion so that in a
sense though government must later pay off
these bonds the nation will pay 132 billion
of the war cost in cash; approximately half.
That means that the government debt will
exceed 160 billion when the war ends but
that's the part that may bore you. It is more
Interesting to note that the price of freedom
will be about $2000 for every man, woman
and child m the United States. And cheap at
that. Do you have a relative on Bataan?
Wouldn't you pay $2000 for his ransom?
But the taxpayer isn't going to get off quite
so easily. The cost of freedom for each gain-,
fully employed American is going to be $5100,
if all these "ifs" and estimates are correct.
Of course he'll pay only half that in cash while
the war is on.
Next year, according to the schedulejavored
by the house ways and means committee, a
married couple without children and with a
$2500 income, will pay $219 income-tax, buy
$208 worth of war bonds and pay $90 in the
proposed higher payroll tax so that their in
come will dwindle to $2292 before they pay a
lot of hidden excise taxes and their state and
local taxes. The childless couple with $10,000
income would in like manner see it shrink to
barely over $6000. And besides, there's the
HC of L.
So you see, freedom comes high.
Having seen the price tag, are you interested
in the alternative?
Laughs
:lile
ields (the tall one): You look
ed room.
Weber (the fat one): Why do you go with
me, then?
Fields: Why? Why? Because I like you;
Mike, when I look at you I have such a
oo-oo-oo-oo! (Chokes him, then turns to audi
ence) Why do I go with him? When I look at
him by heart goes out to him. (To Weber).
When you are away from me; I can't keep my
mind off you. When you are with me I can't
keep my hands off you. (Chokes him again.)
But sometimes I think you do not return my
affection. You do not feel that something
that oo-oo-oo-oo! (Chokes him some more.)
They were cradled in the unspeakable Bow
ery of post-Civil war days and in more than'
half a century of entertaining they never spoke
"smutty" line nor figured in a suggestive
scene. They started their joint career as pro
fessionals at age nine in the Bower's dime
museums. Seventeen years later they reached
Broadway, an hour's walk from their starting
point.
Their formal education stopped at about the
third grade, but they wrote in their early
"teens the skits and scenes which caused audi
ences on both coasts to howl with glee. Movie
fans within the last decade were favored with
a sample of their comedy and save for those
who sensed it through a nostalgic haze, turned
ud their nosps at it 'Rut - u
- - - . you cio muni ad
any other two human beings had helped to cre
ate a distinctly American theatre to rr.l9re
the exclusively imported entertainment of the
previous century. -
Their comedy consisted of slapstick antics
and pointless mutiliation of Noah Webster's
English and when you read their scripts today,
like the sample above, there doesn't seem to be a
laugh in a carload. But, Weber and Fields fans
Insist, you had to see and hear them to appreci
ate it Besides, theirs was the era on the legiti
mate stage of long, flowery monologues and
the stupid i-aside" which now are forbidden.
Today comedy isn't funny, nor drama impres
sive, unless you can manage somehow, to be
lieve in it. Well, there are exceptions. You
can laugh at Abbott and Costello i you're in
News
The News
By PAUL MAIXON
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Hitler by adopting national
socialism in one form or another, although they
do not seem to be conscious of it.
Maybe the British system is a failure. I doubt
it. I know ours is not.
The news of this trend rising in Britain comes
simultaneously with official reports that our pro
ductive system has just won the greatest success
in all its 166 years of trial.
After five months of war, it is producing in
every phase beyond the colossal and unbelievable
goals that Mr. Roosevelt set for it (that is every
line except ship building). It has met the test
of war and won. It has surpassed th feats of nazi
ism, communism and every other ism.
This was done by effective unity between indus
try and labor, not the way Hitler did it, with a
bayonet, but by the democratic appeal to reason,
with a little pressure here and there. - t
If this unity can be maintained the same way
in a post-war peace era, what a country this will
be! Real wealth these days as well as real security,
is the ability to produce. Money is worth only
what the government says. Prices likewise.
Taxes are destroying old wealth and will pre
vent any new wealth from accumulating. The
only thing you can really count on as an individual
is your ability to produce. So also with a nation,
which is only a collection of individuals.
The British trend, as manifest again in this
lady's speech, is the opposite. She thinks security
lies in supplanting individual initiative in owner
ship and work with the unambitious, static, nega
tive, reactionary force of government ownership,
out of which no one has ever made mony except
politicians.
Through socialism, labor in this country would
only acquire an interest in bankruptcy. Certainly
labor is not making any money out of the little
government ownership we have today (public
utilities, etc.)
Its organization advances have been less marked
in government than in any other line of national
activity (only about 50,000 government workers
have been organized out of the millions employed).
That is not the way toward labor advances or any
other advances.
Socialism may have provided an advance for
workers in Russia because anything would be an
advance over the economic standards of czarism.
It may even have been constructive in Germany,
where it supplanted a standard of living worse than
the level of our worst slums.
Here in America, where workers are accustomed
to automobiles, plunbing and good wages, it could
be destructive.
Our post-war economy should be founded pri
marily on the interests of our 50,000,000 or more
good workers, not directed entirely toward the
interest of a few million unemployed or unem
ployable. It must be aimed at keeping good jobs
for good workers, not at an unattainable security
through bankruptcy.
Peculiar wartime cross-currents are not con
fined to Britain. Someone started lambasting
congressmen a few weeks ago and since then the
popular movement has reached th proportions of a
campaign against congress.
Apparently it started out as a campaign against
the former isolationists, although God knows why,
because they have been as docile as if they were
in a concentration camp since the war started. They
have voted for every war appropriation, have made
few speeches.
However, a liberal magazine started off with a
purge list for the coming elections, and other
magazines got busy along the same line. Soon
some of my columnar colleagues were calling for
the scalps of congressmen in general, noCjust a
few in particular. ;
Congress is in disuse. If it also comes into dis--credit,
the main constitutional bulwark of the7
democratic way of life and the four freedoms, will
be lost . . v , . .
There are.' both-good and bad individuals LY
congress, but congress as a constitutional force, is
not functioning during this war. It has wisely
tased to be a restraint on the executive. It has,
like its isolationists, kept quiet and permitted the
swifter functioning of one-man government
Some minor officials (not many) in this gov
ernment think this would be a good idea to con
tinue into the future. They think congress is a
.failure. ' j
It is all right with me if you want to throw
anything you like at a congressman as an indi
vidual, but when you start throwing at congress;
you are most apt to bit yourself. ,
Like a furnish
the mood and they are no more credible than
Weber and Fields, though they employ a dif
ferent tempo.
So we pay our respects to America's all-time
ail-American comedy pair, Weber and Fields,
the second of whom has recently departed from
among the living. They were funny in then
day and whoever can coax a laugh from
America's millions has accomplished something.
Besides, a few of their laughs are funny even
n6w. Witness the preliminary exchange of their
famous pool game scene:
Weber: I don't know dis pool business.
Fields: Voteffer I don't know, I teach you.
A headline in an eastern paper says "gas
rationing to take in northwest." We suspect
most headline readers, unless they read on,
assume reference was to Michigan and Minnesota.
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WASHINGTON, May 28 A female Scotch labor
ite made the best speech at the trades union con
vention in London the other day (so the radio
says) advocating nationalization of everything
mines, factories, property.
She wanted the government to own and run
everything. To none of her
audience, including the radio
reporters, did it occur that what
she advocated was a union
form of naziism.
Her speech was only an open
declaration of the popular mur-
ing up from the Cripps groups,
assuming that "our system has
Droxen down, mat "we must
provide a better one after the
war."
In all their proposals they
seem to want to out-Hi tlerize
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By KLRKE L. SIMPSON
Wide World War Analyst for!
The Statesman
i
Whatever else as to Hitler's
strategy can be read into the
renewed axis attack: in Libya on
British outposts for defense of
Egypt, It is clear that the To
bruk bastion is Marshal Edwin
Rommel's immediate objective.
Military opinion on both sides
of the Atlantic seems agreed that
the war-wrecked Libyan port,
scene of an unforgetable stand
by British imperials for many
months although completely cut
off except by sea, is the key
point of the fifth Libyan cam
paign. However, even if the
nazis capture Tobruk, they prob
ably would not try to invade
Egypt immediately.
Word that one of four armored
nazi spearheads launched east
ward had knifed to within 15
miles of Tobruk's inner defense
in the first rush strengthens the
belief that Rommel has strictly
limited objectives.
This belief Is based partially
on difficulties of hot season of
fensive operations In the Liby
an desert; bat even more on
the fact that within a month or
so the sand storm period which
makes an inferno of the track
less battle ground will be at
hand.
Nobody who has experienced
Libyan sand storms has a good
word for them. They not only
make desert life all but unbear
able but render war a blind-man's-buff
affair. Sand-laden
'Crime at
By EDITH BRISTOL
CHAPTER 27
Two significant things hap
pened next day. Both are re
corded briefly In my diary.
In the first place, after the
long delay, the Durfee inquest
was held and what an anti
climax that turned out to be!
With his face still puffed and
purple from his recent disad
venture with the hornets' nest,
the Gallina coroner tried to im
part to the hearing a feeling
of drama and mystery. But the
public interest in a mystery will
hold suspense for just so long.
An unsolved crime goes stale.
After a time another, more mys
terious, supresedes it. And that's
what happened in the case of
Worth Durfee.
Estelle's death, following so
closely on the killing of her
husband, had stolen the show.
It had more class, anyhow, as
I heard one of the reporters
whisper to another while we
waited for the arrival of the
coroner.
The finding of the body of
a middle-aged eccentric, not too
popular in his community,
whether by bullet wound or by
accidental automobile crash, had
no thrills to compete with the
mystery of Estelle's murder
if it was a murder. So the Dur
fee investigation became routine
question and answer routine
verdict J'death at the hands
of person or persons unknown."
I was fed up with courts and
coroners. I was weary of ques
tions and answers. I wanted to
get out into the brilliant Octo
ber sunshine and walk over the
hills to forget this atmosphere
of plot and counter-plot I was
not destined to be free from it
not yet, anyhow.
Something was brewing in
the Gallina court house trouble
was in the air. You could feel
it in the tension of the court
room. It was written on the
faces of the court attaches.
Whisperings and buzzings in the
corridors I was aware of it
the minute I stepped inside the
building.
And as we drove home from
tee inquest, Lance told me what
it was. He had managed, some
how, so that I rode in his car
and Sydney took Martha in his
roadster.
"Somebody's going to be put
on tee spot by District Attorney
Stevens," Lance said, swinging
his machine out of the town
traffic and into the broad rib
bon of the highway that led
toward Castaway.
"How?"
"Well, there's a first rate feud
on between tea district attor
ney's office and the sheriffs of
fice. It's been going on for some
time and it's coining to a crisis
now. This case or rather these
eases are going to make it
si knockdown,' drag-out scrap
between Stevens and Nathan
Anen.'
-Tell me about it." I aaid. "I
havent heard anything about
such a feud between officials.'
'There's not an awful lot to
telL except that I feel sorry for
the fellow who' gets caught be
tween the two sides ! of . the
scrap.'' There was nothing in
Lance's words right then to
sound prophetic, 1 hut j looking
back on it there might well have
been. "Stevens is a young man,!
Lance went on, "eager , to get
air obscures the' vision both oi
troops on the ground and of air
observers soaring above the grit
ty clouds. Even the desert land
marks by which tank pilots and
airmen check their positions art
subject to the whim of the winds.
Great sand ttunes disappear at
one point to rise at another as if
by magic.
That Rommel can hope to
break through British defenses
and into Egypt deep enough
within the next four weeks to
get beyond range of the sand
devils b wholly improbable.
The troth appears to be that
he Is now seeking only to seize
the Tobruk outpost which
Jammed Iikea poisoned thorn
Into the sea flank of his last
abortive offensive In order
to prepare the ground for later
major operations.
Nazi possession of Tobruk is
essential to an invasion attempt
on Egypt. It would require some
thing more than mere holding of
the port, however, to implement
a drive far beyond it into Egypt
effectively.
The previous Libyan cam
paigns have demonstrated that
aggressive mechanized action in
the desert has a strict limit It
Is fixed by communications with
the rear. It has worked out each
time at about 400 miles.
The fasgt that made the heroic
British stand at Tobruk possible
was British sea control. The To
bruk garrison was supplied by
sea at night when darkness ren
dered nazi planes all but sightless.
Castaivay'
ahead and ambitious. A good
official, too. But you know how
It is with district attorneys "
"Not very much," I said. "You
forget that my only experience
with courts of any kind has
been since I came to Castaway."
Lance explained. "When a dis
trict attorney comes up for re
election and Stevens will next
year he makes his campaign
on the number of convictions..
He asks people to vote for him
on the grounds of the number of
people he has convicted."
"That doesn't sound quite fair
to me," I said. "Suppose some
of them shouldn't have been
convicted "
"That's the way it's done, fair
or unfair. He's supposed to con
vict. That's his duty. And Stev
ens is after Allen's scalp for
being too easy- on the criminals
in these parts."
"Would Stevens rather have
Allen arrest a man who was
innocent than not to arrest any
one at all?" To me, it sounded
infamous, this system.
"I wouldn't say it quite as
strong as that But Stevens Is
determined to have somebody
arrested and prosecuted for the
killings of my uncle and of Dur
fee. About Estelle he's not so
, much concerned "
"Why not?"
"Because that, my sweet child,
took place outside of his Juris
diction. And I must state, in
my opinion which may not
be worth much in law that
Stevens is more concerned with
getting somebody convicted in
Gallina county than he is with
finding a murderer. Or two mur
derers." "Wasn't that what the city de
tectives tried to do? They tried
to hang something on you
whether you were guilty or not."
(To be continued)
Today's Garden
By LII.T.IE L, MADSEN
G. W. reports that her flow
ering almond is wilting at the
ends of all the branches.
Answer: This shrub seems to
be given to dying back in this
community. Other communities
report that It is not so affected
there. Best thing seems to be
to cut it back severely each
season as soon as it is finished
blooming. Spray the shrub with
bordeaux after it has been cut
back. In autumn, just before
the leaves fall, spray with lime
sulphur and again before the
plant starts growth In the
spring use a lime sulphur dor
mant strength spray.
H. S. reports that she plant
ed lilac shrubs two years ago
but they have not bloomed.
Says she bought them from a
. reliable grower.'
Answer. Rholin Cooley of the
Cooley gardens at Silverton re
ports that lilacs are slow to
establish after transplanting and
may not bloom for two or three
years. Lilacs should be grown
in the sun . in a well-drained
soil. Fertilize them with a com
post or a balanced fertilizer at
once. The old established bushes
seem to thrive best if .given a
good feeding of bonemeal each
autumn. Lilacs do not want as?
add soil.