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The CILEGCII STATHIAII. Cdsxa Crecon, Tuesday JZotrZn, TeSniary V, 111
By ANNE ROWE
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. ;
CHABT.KS A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
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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.
YTinning the War '
l America is all out for winning the war at a
profit. " " ' 5 "
, i The hard coal miners want an increase of
$2 a day; the bean growers want an increase; of
$40 a ton. The milk producers want an increase
to $1.00 a pound butterfat. Business wants con
tracts with wide profit margins. !
We sure want to win the war at time and a
fialf or twenty per cent profit. j
Leland Stowe was correct in his article ; in
Sunday's Oregonian when he said what we .
lacked was not manpower but willpower. Fresh
back from Russia where he saw people working
a 72-hour week and actually winning the war,
he was pretty much disgusted with the Ameri
. can attitude. . .'' '; . . .
Do we get a questionnaire that's a bit 'com
plicated? We grouse. Do we have our fuel oil
supplies curtailed? We complain. Do we ha ve
to jump through the hoop of extra regulations?
We gripe. We want to win the war. Yes, but
Sit no personal inconvenience. f
There's no use talking. Americans are soft.
They accept war as a fact a fact several
thousand miles away. Now that the Jap threat
Is pushed back across the Pacific the war seems
far away. Well lose some lives of course; but
lives of other people who lived in Mattoon, Il
linois, or Corinth, Mississippi, or Superior, .Ne
braska. And we, we can go on cashing in on
high wages, high prices, big profits. Our sacri
fice, aside from those who have actually entered
the service and their immediate families, con
sists in sharing part of our increased incomes
with the government in the form of taxes, or in
war bonds at 2.9 per cent interest (that beats
savings account interest.)
! Yes, we are for winning the war, and cussing
the government at the same time.
! We are over our first mad; perhaps we should
be scared to make us fight to win.
Floor and Ceiling
Employers who are sponsoring a bill to elimi
nate the penalty rates for. unemployment com
pensation have a point which, in our opinion
they have not fully exploited, and for which
their remedy is hardly correct. They fear that
on the suspension of activity in war industries
the fund would be depleted so rapidly that some
employers would be hit by penalty rates right
at a time when they would not be able to bear:
them. Depletion of the fund is a natural ex
pectancy. It is being allowed to accrue for just
that purpose; to afford a cushion of income to
workers as they are .shifted from war to peace
time employment.
The; pinch comes because floor and ceiling
are tied to maximum payrolls. That is not un
- sound in normal times; it may be in abnormal
times like the Dresent.
For example: the, highest benefits paid in
one pre-war year amounted to around $6,000,
000. Suppose we say that for normal times our
fund should amount to twice that sum of $12,
000,000. Right now our fund is growing fast,
standing at around $26,000,000. It may go to
$50,000,000 before the boom ends. When that
time comes the depletion should start to get
back to the suggested normal of $12,000,000.
This depletion would merely represent the
meeting of the abnormal liability caused by the
war boom. There should be no worry as the
fund drops to $12,000,000, and no alarm until
it goes below $6)00,000.
But it is conceivable that penalty rates might
go into effect when the fund reached some in
termediate figure, like $20,000,000, when em
ployers in the penalty group would have to
contribute, even though the fund was adequate
and even though the additional sums exacted
from them would not be required.
This is the point which interested parties and
the legislative committees might well consider.
Would it be advisable to establish a fixed floor
and ceiling of say $6,000,000 and $12,000,000?
In this way the accumulation (and the liability)
created by wartime industry and prosperity
f would be taken care of without injuring the
permanent industries which will continue to
be the backbone of Oregon industry after the
war is over.
Congress Soft Too ' Z
This congress has started out being tough on
the bureaucrats, which is okay; but being soft
on Joe Doakes, John Doe and Richard Roe.
Congress wants to win the war the easy way.
There is disposition to lighten the burden'
of the 1942 tax laws in spite of the demand of
the president and treasury for $16,000,000,000
' more of Income. .
. Congress is hunting for a way to run selective
service itself by determining the times of call
for single and married men, when the job can
be done much better by the local boards who
know local people and local situations. .Ki
To date the congress has shown more in
clination to play 1W4 politics than to win the
war in 1943. I
t
The Statesman has lost a. good linotyper,
but the Jefferson Review gets a good-editor,
printer, and columnist (omitting the printer's !
devil) when Gladys A. Shields left to go back i
to the Jefferson paper which she will run while
husband Les continues work in defense industry :
in Portland. Good luck, Gladys; may the sub
scribers pay up promptly and the ; merchants
advertise. And please don't ration your Coffee
Cup Clatter."' That's our valentine to you.
ixaiurauy we are glad to see that Gov. Shell
In his special message virtually endorses the tax
program recommended by The Statesman. -We
understand the taxation committee had about
reached -. the same- conclusion; The houses can :
now ratify the program and adjourn. j
"f : -Z r ' ! i-. f
Germans are facing a terrible clothing short-1
age due to lack of wool and cotton. They will '
soon be down to their -bare skins' while the .
Hursians get into their bear skins. -
"No Favor Sways Us; Ho Fear Shall Ato
From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
The . country
about as much
News
The News
By PAUL MALLON
Fael Malloa
tied with a rope for so long that if WPB in
creases repair: allotments, it still will not be ef
ficient. Live stock and poultry production cannot easily
be increased because feeding standards have neces
sarily diminished. Feed companies cannot get
enough oil meals and better high production feeds.
Then again, there is the old problem of farmers
gas rationing which needs to be corrected.
With butcher and grocery shops here covering
over their icebox windows with black cloth, and
their shelves empty of most meats and canned
vegetables, It seems quite possible that the food"
production shortage of 1943 will be appalling and,
in 1944, may approach disaster.
All the Food Czar Wickard has been doing about
it so fas is to allocate $100,000,000 or so for govern
ment purchase of vegetables at high prices to be
resold at lower prices, the taxpayers to stand the
loss for this method of increasing production.
That this bonus method of production expansion
will not serve its purpose is evident from the fact
that it does not furnish the farmer with what his
mail says he needs skilled help, equipment and
gasoline.
It Is increasingly evident to interested congress
men that the government should have declared
agriculture an essential war industry at the start
and given the farmer the encouragement and lead
ership that was given industry and labor for pro
duction. Difficulty of getting Mexican labor for AmerU
can farms is well illustrated by the inside story
of what happened to block the move last fall. The
farm bloc blamed the farm security administration,
which, in turn, blamed the state department, which
followed the usual course and blamed farm security
for the original failure to negotiate a prompt agree-
ment with the Mexican government L :
. After some weeks of such bouncing of the ball
back and forth, farm security, sent a delegation to
i Mexico City to write up a contract The delegation
at one time is supposed, to have reached the '
colossal strength of 47 able-bodied American ne
gotiators. -
They found the Mexican government wanted its
workers to have an eight-hour day, compensation
above usual farm rates, modern sanitary facilities,
etc Mexico intended to impose the maximum hour
provisions right back at us.
But a limited solution of some nature seemed
likely to be fulfilled until it developed .that the
laborers solicited for American farm work were
largely taxi-drivers and bar-flies from the Mexican
streets and bars. Mexico had no real farm labor "
In quanity which it was willing to spare.
Democratic House Leader McCtonnicW looked
dolefully at the approved resolution of the rules
committee allowing congressional investigation of
the orders of any bureau, and even, theoretically,
the president to see if they are legal and said:
1 am not the leader of mis house.'
TroJyi the southern democrats and republicans
have assumed leadership in all that has been done
" 8ession (Virginia's Rep. Howard Smith
was behind the rules committee action.) The new '
congressmen and, apparently, many of the ..old,
have rthe conviction, as one amid: - '
- "Thepeople sent us down here to do a job
on the bmucrats, and we are going to do It
Action along that line will accelerate from now
wvidtgh there is remarkably little that the
. correctionists can accomplish in one swoop. Mr. .
fT? te eondurt "
The field for correctionists' operations, therefore.
-Is somewhat restricted to piecemeal negative action!
Stabbing liquor Control .
Bouse bill 312, which passed the lower house
with scant debate last Saturday, stabs at the
heart of liquor control in this state. For it would
effectively destroy the "control the state liquor
commission has over licensees.
. At present if a licensee is apprehended violat
ing the control laws and regulations the com
mission, after hearing, can ' impose immediate
penalties, usually by suspension or revocation
of the license of the violator. This action is not
taken summarily. The licensee is given notice
and may appear or be represented by counsel.
The commission acts judicially and judiciously. :
The penalties they impose are not too severe.
The proposed bill, by making a court appeal!
operate to stay the hand of the commission,
would encourage litigation, cripple the effec
tiveness of the commission and encourage. law
lessness and abuse. The secret of effective con-'
trol lies in ability of the commission to suspend
or revoke a license. That is the best form of
discipline. The knowledge that that penalty
may be invoked forces the licensee to watch
his step. Cripple that control and liquor abuses
will grow.
It remains for the senate to defeat this meas
ure, to defeat it in the interest of good public
morals, to defeat it in the interest of the liquor
trade itself, which after all exists only by
public suffrance and once, it will be recalled,'
this suffrance was withdrawn.
needs a rationing of beefing,
as the rationing of beeves.
Behind
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 Masses of mail from
farmers are accumulating on official desks here
in such tone and volume to verify suspicions that
food production will not come up to quotas -this
year.
The farm bloc is out of the news, silently at
tempting to devise a workable
farm help campaign in lieu of
Mr. McNutt's proposal to mus-
ter a civilian army of unskilled
farm workers. The bloc is
about talked out, especially on
the subject of. prices, which are
apparently not the root of the
trouble this time.
In addition to the obvious .
farm manpower problem, the
mail points out many other rea
sons why the farmer cannot
plant enough for the nation's
needs. Farm machinery has
been soldered, baling wired and
Skinning Time! '
CadlDo Pirgirainnis
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7:15 Wake Up News.
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AO Kate Smith Speaks.
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Your Federal Income Tax
Deductions for CTentribotions
(Part 1)
Charitable contributions and
Sifts are deductible from gross
income, within certain limita-i
tions, and are shown as item 12
in return Form 1040. Limitations
as to deductibility are as follows:
2. Only - contributions which
re .actually paid dttting the
: year for which the return Is
' made are deductible. : Subscrip
tions or pledges ; made but not
paid are not deductible. . -
2. Gifts to an individual are
not deductible. - . 4
3. The amount deductible Is
limited to lSvper cent of the
net income before the deductions
for contributions . and medical
- expenses" are- taken. (That is.
the amount allowable tinder
item 11 of return Form 1040
may not exceed 15 per cent of
the difference between the
amount shown in item 11 and the
deductions taken in items 13, 14.
15, 18, and 17 of the : return
form.) - . j
4. Contributions to a political
party or to any organization, a
substantial pan of the activities
cf which' is carrying on props-
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AO Meet Your Neighbor.
9 :15 Woman's World.
30 Breakfast at Sardi's.
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even though the organization for
which the donation, of use Is,
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which contributions in cash or
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In the case of contributions -by
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Today oardon
By LILLflE L. MADSZN
Mrs. G. R.' C. asks for infor
mation on thyme. She fails to
state just what it Is she wants
to know about It. p
There are about 80 species,
most . of them originally from
-the Mediterranean area. Twd are
widely grown f o r ornamental
purposes as well as for their
fragrant ; herbage. Thyme likes
a very well drained situation and
'Considerable sun. In our coldest
. winters here, we find that it
. occasionally dies back, but most
' of the time it will live on year
after year. It grows readily from
seed and developes rapidly.
. Mrs. M. S. O. asks how long.
it takes for cyclamens j to bloom
; from seed.; v:"C i liXZ
Answer: as a rule 18 months
should be allowed for cyclamen
seedlings to reach the blooming
state. Cyclamens need plenty of
water but wm rot If the drain-
. age is not good. j '
J. J. P. writes that she recalls
in her childhood home in Europe
. something they called "scloni
cum, which she describes as a
small 'onion that was! used for 1
flavoring. She has asked for it
here but has been enable U
find It. She wants to know if ."
there is some other name for
Jt or if I know. . j . . --v
Answer: I have no personal
ncquai n tance with It, but my
garden encyclopedia refers to it
as a shallot. It is said to be
considerably milder than onions.
Taylor says - it Is -very similar
to the onion and sometimes the
"yoking onion bulbs are sold as
shallots and sometimes shallots
are sold for " young ; onions.? I -am
unable to locate any seed,
in my, catalcrjes. .
1 Chapter 11 (Continned)
He had driven from our house
straight to his office, where he"
had arrived at five minutes past
- . three the time could be verified
by several people "and telephone
calls and hadn't been alone all
during the afternoon and early
evening. He had been delayed at
his office until half past six. an '
hour past his usual time, through
pressing . work connected with
the shipyard transfer to the gov
ernment. Much to his daughter's
annoyance, who had come ; for
him between half past five and
six, expecting to be taken home
immediately. Amy had been
:- marooned in town through some
eccentricity- of her car, while on
a trip . to her hairdresser's, 1 it
aeemed. At half past six Forre
stall and Amy had driven home
' the ForrestaHs lived on a glor-
7 Wed farm a few r miles - out of
- town in the summer and spent .
- the rest of the time with his
family and a number of guests,
whose names he readily .gave.
Sc4inds fine. Sorry I bust up
your bridge game for you after
such a hard day. The Inspector
got up and held out his hand.
"Hope well find Roberts alibi,
as good as yours, when we check
up on him tomorrow. Goodnight
Mr. ForrestalV and - thanks for
v the co-operation.
The dismissal was so sudden
Forres tall looked positively stun
ned as he bade Aunt Millie and
me good night and stalked from
the room, and I must confess the
same sensation descended on me
when the Inspector said plain
tively to the closed door, a mo
ment later: "Now why doesn't
he come clean? s
But but it sounded like the
truth all. he said, I stammer
ed, almost dropping my notes.
"Sure it did. It was the truth.
The Inspector smiled paternally
at me. "Only, there was an aw
ful lot he wasn't saying. j-
"How do you know?" Aunt
Millie inquired, with a rapid,
glance at me.
The Inspector chuckled. 1 I
don't know how I know,' but I
do. I can always spot a lie
told in words or by keping still.
Always, Miss - Wentworth! '
Then he changed the subject.
"Got it all down. Miss Kay?
Good girl! Think you can have
it typed for me by morning? -
: Chapter 15
Aunt Millie and I stared at
each other open mouthed when
the Inspector had left
. "Now what do you think of
him! Aunt -Millie said at last
with something like awe. "Looks
so meek and mild, you think it's
no trick at all to bamboozle? the .
woolly lamb and then tells you
in so many words he knows
you're holding out on him!' ;
"But he doesn't know what
we are holding out," I consoled
her and myself. "And he won't,
through me. Did you lose your
lovely compact?
"I did. In the garden. Near the
spot where we cross the great
divide," she nodded. Think For
res tall Is keeping back the same .
thing we are?
Tm sure of it, I told her.
"Maybe Forres tall knows that
he you know who has done
it," Aunt Millie reflected on our
walk through the hall toward"
the stairs.
"Oh Lord! Then maybe hell
advise him to come forward and
confess, after what the Inspec
tor said!" I worried. :T
"Hen, now! Chin up! Don't'
paint things with such a big
black brush!" Aunt Millie scold
ed. "Go see if you can get a few
minutes with your Allan to cheer '
you up. Me, I'm all in. I'm going
to bed."
I took up her suggestion eager
ly, but without success.
When I peeked into the study.
Dad was expounding sometbirrg
to Allan at the blueprint-littered -drafting
table, and we could only '-'
communicate in pantomime Al
lan expressing his regret and
asking was I all right? And I '
telling him I was, and better -luck
tomorrow. :
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245 Remember When.
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445 Don Reid Orch.
8 AO Little Show.
5 a5 Superman.
530 Norman Nesbitt.
5:45 Singing Sam.
AO Gabriel Heatter.
:15 Movie Parade.
30 Murder Clinic.
7 AO John B. Hushes.
Tas Art Kassel Orchestra.
T:45 TBA. .
8 AO Jack McLean Orchestra.
8 30 Pass in Review.
A0 News. -0:15
Ernie Heckecher Orch as U a.
30 Manhatters.
45 Treasury Star Parade. '
15 AO Noble Susel Orchestra.
10:15 Treasury star Parade.
1030 News. . . - -' '
10:45 Al Trace Orchestra.
11 AO Jan -Garber Orchestra.
11 30 Snub Mosley Orchestra.
1145 Noble Sissel Orchestra.
KOAC TCCSOAY 54 Ka. '
AO Music.
MAO-Iews.
10:15 The Homemaker's Hour.
11 AO School of the Air.
1 1 30 Music of the Masters.
12 AO News.
12:15 Noon Farm Hour.
12:45 Neighborhood Leader Ques
tion box.
las Today a War Commentary.
1 30 Variety Time.
1 45 Victory Front. - ,
- I .ee AAUW Half Hour.
230 Memory Book of Musi.
2 AO News. r-.-.,.
2:15 Adventures In Research. '
230 Tne Concert Hall.
4A Neighborhood CaO. :
4:15 Echoes o Waikikt.
430 Stories for Boys and Girls. '
SAO Private Pete Presents.
5:15 On the Cam puses.
30 Evening Vespers.
-S4 OrientaUoa Lectures. i
:15 News. - .
30 Evening Farm Hour.
T 30 Music. :
745 BasketbalL
30 News.
45 Uncle Sam.
10 AO American Melodies.
10 30 Melod ic Son f.
11 AO The liour of Great Musi. - - -
It was two o'clock before I
finished my typing and dropped
into bed, too tired to worry any
more. But I couldn't have slept
very soundly, for th esoft purr
of a car roused me.
A dim streak around the blinds
announced it was dawn, and the
luminous hands of my desk
clock pointed to twenty of five, f
Was that Allan leaving? Had he
and Dad worked until now, prac
- tically the night through?
' Still half asleep, I tumbled
out of bed, went to the side win
dow overlooking the garage, and
lifted the edge of the blind. The
sky. was a dull sheet of lead gray, .
but the fog had cleared.. A strong .
wind had sprung up and blown
it away. The branches of the in
; tervening trees stood out sharply
as a blark-lace screen, behind
which I could see a car moving
into the garage. Not out of it.'
Gala' Burton was " returning
from one of her night rides.
" ' I dropped the blind and crawl
ed back into bed. Strange her -habit
of turning night into day.
Such a damp, disagreeable night
too. When she hadn't felt well
yesterday, had been in bed at
.uut
"Oh, well, .it's none of my
business," I thought drowsily be-
"Wonder if someone's told - her
about the murder?" ? -
In spite, of turning in at such
a late hour; I was downstairs at
my usual time. j
Nettie informed me that the
Inspector had already been ask
ing for me, and so I hastily bolt
ed my breakfast, grabbed ' my :
typing, and ran over to the Bur
ton house, my heels sinking
deeply into the sopping wet
gravel. v
The Inspector and Sergeant
Flynn. were standing on the
back porch, right before the win
dow I had used, and that was
open again. I didn't like It
"Good, morning. Inspector. ,
Here are your depositions," I
called to him.
- "Good morning, Miss Kay.
Nice of you to be so prompt
Come here. I got something to
show you," he called back.
; ; I obeyed with a sinking feel- ;
ing in my middle. "Yes, Inspect
tor?" I -asked, with a great show
' - of eager, if impersonal, curiosity.
- He pointed to the porch floor..
"Footprints. High heels. Small
size. Could be yours. Sure you
didn't run up here by mistake,
first, last night?
"T frwanAWaVv Kemfljul nwetfu 1TI 4
, e ev ew va I Ve AWawC ff Uctk
a fool 'I had been to feel safe,
because someone had closed the
window, when here, for all to
read, the story of my. entrance
r was written in wet garden earth!
. "Why er no, I went straight ,
1 to the door,"I lied with all the
bravado I could muster.
"Hmm. Must been another
woman around then," the Inspec
tor mused, his eyes glued to my
feet "Funny part is, they only go
to the window and don't come
back. They wasn't a trace of
mud in the passage either last
night, until we tracked it up," he
digressed, glancing at me ques
tioningly. I willed myself to glance back
. at him unflinchingly, the same
way and won. the endurance
.contest : -. "7
"Shows you're a mighty neat
girL Scraped your feet, before"
going in," he said, ducking his
head and itnninff mmm
suX "Well, do it again and come
in." -
I was meekly trotting behind
him, toward the hal, when all of
a sudden he stopped and turned.
"You got me stumped," he an
nounced with his most affable
grin. "One minute I think you're
okay, and the next I get leery of
. you again. -j " .
"Leery of me why?" I gasp-'
ed.
"Well, they's your story of that
compact and them footprints on
the porch. But the compact part
is true. We found it"
"You did!" I had no need to
disguise ray emotions this time.
My lovely compact was suataanw
My Joy at knowing Aunt Millie's
Invelv l'iYnifftrf aueaa ' . .
genuine. "I'm so glad! Where
was ItT" I asked happily.
And then my face fell and the
hand I had stretched out eager
ly dropped to my side. I had nev
er seen the small box the In
spector held out to me: a flat,
round gilt case of Chinese work
manship, with, an embossed dra
gon curling around its rim.
"That isn't : my compart," I
stammered disappointedly.
"It ain't?" The Inspector look- .
ed incredulous.
"No. Mine is square. Black
enamel with a jeweled tree. Real
jewels. Smal lemeralds and ru
bies and diamonds. I'd . admired
it for; years, and my aunt gave
it to me when she came." . i '
"That's the deuce of a note!"
xne inspector scratched his head.
"We found it in one of the small
rooms off the rear passage.
slipped back of a chair seat Now
how'd it get there?"
"I wouldn't know. I've never
been in any of those rooms," I
assured mm.
"Hmm. Have to keep looking
for yours then, he decided. "But
first, come upstairs to the' lib
rary, will you?"
In the library Sergeant Hatch
and a uniformed policeman were
laboring to restore order, under
the guidance of Roberta, who
was leaning in the door, arms
folded and gloves prominently
displayed. But they all melted
away at a sign from the Inspec
tor. , (To be continued)