Hi OREGON STATESMAN. Skxlea Oregon. Tuesday Morning, February 2. 1S43
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THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. 5
CHARLES A. SFRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
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 In this newspaper.
The Nazi Radio Line
The RAF did a neat job Saturday morning
when its fliers timed their arrival over Berlin
at the exact moment when Reichmarshal Goer
ing, second to the "all-highest," was due to
address the German people by radio on! the
10th anniversary of Hitler's assumption of pow
er, in Germany. Too bad they didn't drop a
bomb down Goering's throat; but the noise of
bomb explosions, was heard all over Germany,
i even to London. Goering's Cnerhour stutter
was more revealing than words that his, promise
that Berlin would never be bombed was just
another political promise. )
It's too bad we do not get to listen in on
more of the radio propaganda. ; Some people
here do pick up the Jap shortwave which is
jiere turpi;, up uw suuiknatc nun.u w .
sJiJSs, News
Japs are by no means as skillful
as the nazis.whose victories have been due hall
to their tactics in mass psychology and half to
blitzkrieg. . Just now the German propaganda
bureau is in bad shape. Its signals have been
mixed -so many, times that its results must be
woefully disappointing.
Take the Casablanca conference, Propaganda
Minister Goebbels and his stooges completely
missed that one. When Churchill slipped out of
the news for some days they had a hunch some
thing was cooking, and jumped to the con
clusion that he had gone to Washington. Then
radio beamed to the Slovaks that "Churchill
has once again gone to Washington to seek
help." The "Paul Revere" whoMalks to the
United States told us about "poor Mr. Church
ill's journey for the fourth time in 18 months,
this time to the very shores of the Potomac."
And the nazi propagandists speculated widely
on what Churchill and Roosevelt were framing
up. When the Casablanca story came out, the
' nazis of course had to adopt another line. But
their listeners over the occupied countries are
; hardly as agile as the speakers in making the
mental shift.
We in this country have been critical of the
overdone "build-up" for the Casablanca meet-
ing. However the material may have been
; designed most of all for radio attack on enemy
and occupied countries. The exposure of Ber
lin's phony line and the playing up of the
drama of the heads of two great countries meet
ing in a distant continent now very much in
the news, and the announcement of plans for
I big-scafe offensives undoubtedly had profound
effect on all the people in Europe.
Getting back to nazi radio, its propagandists
have had to eat their words about Rommel.
'Last June the line was: "Rommel is . at the
gates of Alexandria;" "He will take Alexandria
at once;" then on July 23rd "It was part of
Rommel's plan to halt temporarily at Alamein."
When Rommel attempted his break-through in
September radio Berlin "dared the British to
pretend that this was merely patrol activity."
When this failed it was described as a "testing
operation." After Montgomery's Eighth army
cracked the Alamein line nazi radio said Rom
mel was "disengaging himself;" and on Janu
ary 22nd "Rommel continues to carry out the
strategic moves decided by him," which meant
of course "disengaging" himself for 1500 miles
or so. Next the line was "Rommel has led his
troops towards Tunisia." Led them indeed,
with RAF and American planes overhead past
ing his truck columns and Eighth army mortars
. and howitzers and tanks cracking up his, lines
when he paused to catch his breath.
, Radio Berlin has been "off the beam" so
i much lately that even the dumb followers of
I Hitler know that der Fuehrer's intuition is
plenty sick. Now the news of the loss of the
army at Stalingrad will tax the ingenuity of
Goebbels himself to explain a way.
Defeat for FDR
The president suffered a disastrous political
defeat when he was forced to withdraw the
nomination of Edward Flynn as minister to
Australia. Flynn requested it, but not ' until
defection of democratic senators ruined his
chances for confirmation.
The virtual rejection is more than a defeat
for Roosevelt, it reveals a split within the
democratic ranks which may well prove fatal.
Here was the man who had served as chairman
of the democratic national committee through
the 1940 and 1942 campaigns, yet he is defeated
because his own party failed to stand behind
him. True, he was a New York political boss,
but he was more decent than the usual Tam-
' many bosses. True, he had no special qualifi
i cations for the job, though a man of 'excellent
education, but he was no worse off in ability
' than others who have been named to diplo
matic positions. True, he was being sent to a
most important war-time post in Australia,
but ignorant of Australia) as Ee is, he might
have done a better job than career diplomatist
Robert Murphy has in North Africa j 1
Get behind the political scenery and the re
jection is pretty much due to the revolt against
Roosevelt within his own party. Those taking
a stand against; Flynn7 were Gillette of Iowa,
Van Nuys of Indiana, who were once on the
administration purgee list. Then there was Sen.
McKellar of Tennessee, who got his instructions
from Boss Crump of Memphis. Compared with
Crump Flynn can wear lilies in his hand. Flynn
was a poor selection,- and it gave; the party
rebels a convenient paddle to use to spank the
president with. - ,
Modern Woman v
Our society page Sunday- announced that
the AAUW radio group would hear Dr. O. IL
Chambers of the state college speak on "Why is
the modern woman and what .axe her natural
"and compelling responsibilities?" Only a psy
chology professor would tackle that question.
You would think these university women would
know the answers already; but perhaps they
want a college prof, to "hold the mirror up to
nature." - - - - - '-
As far as we can observe the "why of the
rr.oerv woman U the same as the ancient
"No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Aws?
From First Statesman, March 2S, 1851
Get braced
oil goes on the
in propaganda
The News
By PAUL MALLON
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raal tunoB 13 furrnsning tne impetus
behind the move.
Congress is getting ready to diminish some few
of the extreme special privileges granted labor
unions beyond other citizens or croups by this
labor government. The house judiciary committee
has just reported a bill to remove the exemption
of unions from the federal anti-racketeering laws.
No effort has yet been made to make the
unions pay taxes, or submit their finances to
inspection, but congress might remove their ex
emption from the anti-trust laws which now ap
ply even to the American Medical association.
The labor leaders may be starting this wage
drive in order to conduct a fight to their own,
rather than to meet defensively the congressional
drive to remove one or two of their special extra
legal privileges.
But deeper than this, there is specific labor
politics inspiring the wage insurrection at this pe
culiar moment of national war peril;
The CIO outcast, John Lewis, made it very clear,
at the recent anthracite hearings before the war
labor board, that he would demand the terrific
increase of $2 a day for his restive hard coal boys
when the new contract comes up this next month
Mr. Roosevelt's "Little Steel" formula ; to the
contrary, notwithstanding.
The Roosevelt formula would allow the anthra
cite miners only a 5 per cent increase, and the
bituminous miners none at all.
Only a few days after Lewis decided to assault
the "LitUe Steel" formula, CIO's Phil Murray an
nounced he would call an executive committee
meeting here early this month to formulate simi
lar demands for his crowd.
As the anthracite outlaw strike showed, the
workers seem to have a little different attitude
toward this government than their leaders.
The leaders have been getting practically every
thing they wanted, quietly, piece by piece, from
the war labor board. Maintenance of membership
contracts have been' handed out right and left,
established practically closed shops, which suited
the union bosses perfectly, but did nothing for the
workers.
They see only that they must face a cost of
living which has increased 22.1 per cent since the
war began (department of labor figures issued
January 29) with a 15 per cent wage increase. They
figure that they are about 7 per cent behind, (hard
ly enough to raise a fuss about in times of national
sacrifices, but they are doing it) -
Murray was not going to let Lewis get away with
the political intra-union popularity of assuming
such , leadership, without getting in on the play
himself.
Bill Green's AFL has kept relatively quiet and
he might be smart enough to know that the tem
porary advantage of another 7 per cent increase
is nothing compared to the damage the worker will
suffer if Mr. Roosevelt's economic apple-cart is
upset and inflation grips this country. Union wages
can never go up fast enough to meet that pinch.
Green may have the sense and ability to show
bis boys that their kind of hypersensitive selfish
ness will dig the grave of labor in times like these.
But beneath him in the AFL are smouldering the
same fires which sent John Lewis out in front,
and caused Murray to follow him.
Furthermore, Mr. Lewis is likely to get some
anthracite increase. He can show that WLB has
not kept very religiously to its own formula. v
Only the other day, the board granted another
$1 a day. increase to metal miners, making , their
jump somewhere near 50 per cent This was done
at the recommendation of Manpower McNutt, who
could find no other means of keeping men at work
; in that unpleasant, but vitally necessary occupa
tion. '
As WLB well knows, men cannot be frozen into
the similarly hard job of ; coal mining. Further
more, the operators want a two-year contract
out of Lewis, and may be willing to let the public
pay for It They like long contracts with Lewis
because he keeps them, whereas the radical CIO
auto workers and some other unions have a reputa
tion for walking out from contracts and seeking
increases whenever they feel like It '
One current such' case is that of the New York
Dress Makers union, an affiliate of the Interna tion
, al Ladies Garment Workers. Last week they jumped
a contract extending to 1944, and,' in a strike, de
. manded a wage increase.
Gothing prices are fixed, but win be lifted, no
doubt If the garment workers get their Increase,
after the manner in which Lewis recently forced
', an increase in the price of anthracite coal in re
turn for allowing the miners to work a six-day
week of seven hours' a day, of the SS hour-
week they enjoyed during the first year of war.
; Labor , leadership, playing politics, seems likely
to create a situation that no one here may be able
,v to stoD. ' - -
woman. Just at present, like the Indian squaw,
she is doing the work while the men folks arc
off fighting. - ;i : l h;. .
: Anyhow we wish Dr.' Chambers, luck. Wo
once joined him in a forum at an OSC home
makers' clinic, and our guess Is he will be able
to take care of himself without having rolling
pins thrown at him- yes, the "modern'! women,
AAUW included, know how to use them,
Radio Jap claims the sinking of two American
battleships and three cruisers. Probably just
another Midway victory for the Japs.
for another questionnaire: fuel
ration block this month. .
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 If you did not see it
you would not believe the unions are getting ready
to campaign for another wage increase beyond the
15 per cent Mr. Roosevelt granted these privileged
workers.
They indicated operJy, however, that they want
to upset the loosely assembled
economic apple-cart (chiefly the
"little Steel" formula) which
the president erected against
inflation.
Congressmen are convinced
the reason for the campaign is
that labor is out to off-set the
income taxes now reaching
down into its class of workers
for the first time in history.
The increase might just pay
their new income taxes.
1 rather believe labor poli-
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Letters from Statesman
Readers
ENGLEWOOD FIRE
To the editor: Referring to
your article in January 27th
issue of your paper inregard to
the Englewood school fire. If
you want the real facts con
cerning the fire at Englewood
school on Monday, January 18th,
and how things were managed
at the school during the fire,
please answer the following .
questions.
Why was the regular bell rung
at 9 o'clock calling the more
than 400 children into a burning
building?
. Are there any teachers in the
Englewood school, if so, where
were they?
- Your article does not mention
the teachers. It does, however,
mention a dentist being in the
building at the time of the fire.
. What caused, this dentist to
cough and the tears . to flow
down bis cheeks?
j Why not ask neighbors - and
fire chief how things were man
aged during fire? .
s Who were the kind people
who took children, without
wraps, J into their homes and
cared for them? .
. How long were children and
teachers kept standing outside
in the severe cold after the fire
department arrived?
.Did the fire chief request the
principal to ' the children
when he noticed that children
were suffering - from the ex
treme cold, some without wraps?
Since I am interested in the1
welfare of our "children and am
a taxpayer, I feel that I have
a right to know the answers to
the above Questions.
- MRS. - D. . J. I CALLAHAN ,
Editor's Note: The Statesman
made no independent Investiga
tion of. fkiglsnrooxt school - fire. .
The article referred, to was the
report ot the school board meeting-
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Spring on tftxy? 1
PORTLAND, Fek. l-CTV-Twe
' stens f Spring- were Veerresl
la Oreg-en Memday Shedd, tsi
- the wniaxnetie valley, reported
large flocks of docks wlagtag
terthward 'and Grants Pass km
seBthera Oregon skM a local
resident mewed his dawn.
Republicans Elect
PORTLAND, Feb. l-(JPh Alan
Brown, Portland, was elected pre
sident of the Multnomah, chapter
of . the Oregon Republican club
Monday; . succeeding State Sen.
Jack.Lyncb,'.,i-,'N''WJ-'.'" "ivs-
Chapter 10 Continued
From the valley,1 1 ipresume
Forrestall shrugged. "It doesnt
look like much of anything, but
then, rm not a geologist Per
haps Professor Stoddard can tell
us whether or not ttere's any
sense in keeping it?
The little professor produced
a pair of special glasses, adjusted
them on his pudgy nose,, bent
closely over the object of our
' curiosity lifted it-put it down
r-agatojry;,;.';: -
A common , fieldstone," he
pronounced scornfully. . "It may
' comet rom. Central America or '
from around the corner. At any
rate, it certainly has no intrinsic
value. What did Mr. Burton say
about it in the er 4etter be
left?".' - "'. ' "
JI wouldn't know," Forres tall
toid him coolly. The letter was
sealed and addressed to his son.
All I ; did was put. it in the
safe." ' r
"In your office, iiaturally,"
Professor Stoddard supplement
ed with an approving nod. J; ,
"No. In this room, as directed
in the wiU," Forestall told him,
a little wryly. "Everything was "
to be left in the house. The safe's - -
- an old crate a child could open,
but it is absolutely fireproof, and ' '
so well hidden it's practically
not there at all. So why not?"
Followed idle conjectures
- about the concealed . safe, and -presently
we were. back in the
hau. . - , :, .'v;
My nerves had been, twitch
ing ; the longest, .time over the
delay, and Aunt Millie too' had
given signs of restlessness. No
wonder we were making a bee
line - to the upward liight of
stairs now. Arm in arm, for mu-'
tual support. . . . '
We only got . to the bottom
step. . . Roberts,,, wordlessly but
firmly, barred our way, and For
restail called to us: .
"Nothing to . see up there,'
ladies. Only,' servants' quarters
and a few stripped guest rooms.
That right, ItoDerts?"
Roberts said "Yes sir" "for a
third time. But he didn't budge
from his post and there was
nothing for us to do but turn
back.
It was a dead give-away. For-
restall might as well have said
There's something us there I
don't want you to see."
Aunt Millie and I exchanged
a glance. Then she saaid sweet
ly: "Too bad. I'd hoped for an"
attic full of discarded treasures
I could wheedle out of you!" and
walked downstairs, pulling me
with her.
I said nothing. I was too busy
thinking of the tall, narrow
windows with the primitive fast
enings. How could I open one,'
unnoticed?-' ' .. "
The - weather, for once, was
my ally. It had started to rain -during
our explorations and was
pouring now, causing a lively .
debate of how to get home.
"It wouldn't, be a great way -from
the rear' wing. Isn't there
a door there?" Aunt Millie
asked.
-1 darted across the back parlor .
to a window. Presumably to look
if such a door existed. .
TTes, there Is. At the very
end of the wing. Come on, every- :
body!" I sang out as if I had
made a rare discovery
A minute later, we were all
scuttling through the downpour.
Aunt Millie and I under her
umbrella. -
"I opened the catch of" that
window X was looking through,":
Your Federal Income Tax
, DEPRECIATION (PART 1)
v Among the deductions allowed
in arriving at net income for
federal . income tax purposes is
depreciation. . Depreciation may
be sustained in connection with
property giving rise to rental in
come shown' in item six of re
turn. Form 1040, or property.,
. used in business or, profession,
the net profit (or loss) from .
wbich is shown in item nine. The
property must, of course, be -owned
by the taxpayer. ,
As relates to federal Income
taxes, depreciation Is an allow- v
ance for exhaustion, 'wear and
tear of property used In a trad
or business, or of property held
for the production of Income. -
.The purpose underlying allow
ances for depreciation is to per
mit the taxpayer to recover over
the useful life ot the property the
capital , sum invested . therein. '
The terms "used in trade or bus
iness" or "held for the produc
tion of income" would include
property held for such purposes
though actually not in use dur
ing the taxable year. Deprecia
tion deductions are not allowable
on property used for personal
purposes, such as one's residence -i
or its furnishings, or automobue 1
or pleasure craft. However,, if .
a taxpayer eaoves out of. his
house and rents it, It would be
come : a rental property upon
which a depreciation deduction
would be allowable; or if a tax
payer used his car iq part for
business purposes, then a portion
of the depreciation on the car,, :
depending upon the relative use
for business purposes, would be
allowable.
A distinction must be made
between depreciation and ' what
may be called fluctuation in val
ue. In the case of an automobile,
At Is rornmonly said that once a
car has been driven from a deal
er's show room it becomes a second-band
car, and by "that fact
I told her under our common
shelter ',;:: .v) - ' :
"Swell- I hoped you would,
she whispered back.
- - The moment Forres tall and
Professor Stoddard had gone.
Aunt Millie and I put our heads .
together.
If there had been a faint
doubt in our minds, there was
none left now. Bruce was hiding
on the top floor of his house
and with the full knowledge and.
connivance . of his , stepfather's
.executor.;'
"What does it mean? What's
behind all the secrecy? And
what's Baldie Stoddard's game?" ,
Aunt Millie thought out loud.
I Was too concerned with my
own affairs to bother about a
stranger, or bis motives. "Never
mind Stoddard. When do we go .
back? I must see Bruce. I must
get my life straightened out."
, The decision was simple: To
night, after dark. As soon as the
light was on in the attic win
dow. The conditions were ideal for
our purpose. Dad had called up
In our absence, leaving a mess
age to have dinner at seven
sharp. He'd have to rush back
to work in less than an hour,
and Allan wouldn't opme at alL
. That meant no one to watch
us or ask : questions about our
movements, the whole evening.
And peace of mind, the security
of freedom, for ever after!
And then, all our beautiful
plans went smash. Dad did not '
go back to the shipyard. An ex
pected long-distance call from
Washington tied him to the
house."".,--..; ; " . ; :
It depended an the length of a
certain conference whether it
would come early 'or late.-And
either way it kept him from do
ing what he'd intended, and got
on his nerves. And when some
thing getson Dad's nerves, he
has to be entertained.
Aunt ; Millie slyly suggested ,
chess with Gala, and Dad J
jumped at the idea and to the
phone. i
But he put the receiver down
shortly, with a very long face.
: "Miss Burton Isn't feeling well,
it seems. Her maid says she's
already gone to bed and can't
be disturbed he told us de
jectedly. Now whatH I do until
that- confounded call comes
through?" '
"Play chess with" me," Aunt
Millie offered resignedly. "I may
not be so good as Gala Burton,
but-X still know how."
: I almost cried, X was so dis- '
appointed. liven . a . whispered
Buck up, Kay. . Allan's coming
later to report to your father. We
can go then," didn't help much.
; Later might be too late. Rob
erts might have made his rounds
and closed the open window
latch.
I felt tears sting my eyelids,
no matter how I tried to appear :
cheerful, and at last I fled to my
room with a murmured reference
to a book, in sheer self-protection
Of course. I was much too
keyed-up and miserable to read,
and stood at the window, staring
out into the night, listening to . .
the rain on the young leaves and
watching the light that wouldn't
do me any good now.
It shone faintly through the
'dimming curtain of fine spray ,j
that filled the air. Taunting
mocking me.
may lose a considerable amount
of its value. ' However, only that
part of the loss in value which
Is due to actual exhaustion, wear
and tear in business use, during
the year, may be deducted as de
preciation. '
A further requirement In de
termining depreciation Is that
the property must have a limited
and determinable useful life in
the trade or business. Land, for
: Instance, upon which a building
is erected. Is not depreciable,
since it has no determinable life,
and In setting up depreciation
on real estate, a segregation must
be , made between the cost or
other basis for the land, and the
cost or other basis for the build
ings. . .
The length of useful life of a
property is often a difficult mat
ter of estimation. The useful life
of a building, or a machine, the
furniture used In a physician's
office, a lawyer's professional li
brary, or a tractor on a farm,
depends on particular circum
stances, including the character
of the property and the charac
ter of its use. A well-built brick
building may have a useful life
of SO years and a frame house
25 years, a piece of machinery
five to ten years,, but In particu
lar Instances the useful life may
vary ; considerably,
; In depreciation deductions, the
mount claimed must be' sup
ported by the data called for in
Schedule J of the return Form
1040. This schedule requires a
statement of theJdnd of property
being depreciated, the date ac
Tiired, the cost or other basis
used in Cftnputlng depreciation,
the depreciated value at the end
of the year, the depreciation al
lowed or allowable In prior
years, and the remaining cost or
other basis to be recovered, as
well as the estimated life used
in accumulating depreciation and
the estimated remaining life at
the beginning of the year.