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The OZZGOH CTATZZMAIL Cdsa Oregon, Friday Morning. Fftbnxear 12. Hi
By ANNE ROWE ..
THE STATES3IAN PUBUSHINC CO.
r ' CHARLES A. SPRAGUZ, Editor' and Publkbcx
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.
tfhat Direction Now?
I There is a degree of : elation over the' Jap
tmese armouncement of tha "withdrawaT from
Buna and Guadalcanal. Gen. lie Arthur gives
taunt when he says General 1 Horii and his
army did not evacuate the Buna . area: they
"perished. The same Is true at Guadalcanal.
Capt Miles Browning of the staff of the navy
commander In the South: Pacific - says: fWe
are now going to take offensive action in which
complete seizure of Guadalcanal has an ; im
portant part, vZ am not at liberty to say what
Driving the enemy out of Guadalcanal "and
Papua marks success principally of a defensive
character. The Japs at Guadalcanal were poised
for thrusts at the New Hebrides, the Fiji islands
and New Caledonia lor the cutting of our sup-
ply route to Australia. At the tip of New Guinea
they were threatening Port Moresby and Aus
tralia. American-Australian action was de
signed to secure our lines and our positions,
with the supplemental benefit of securing ad
vance bases for further attack.
But the military-naval problem in the South
Pacific is not easy to resolve. It has taken us
six months to effect these conquests in that
length of time the Japs had largely completed
theirs. Where shall our arms point now? Gen
eral MacArthur in a recent statement indicated
a purpose of action swifter than island-by-lsland
progression. But where is the naval
and air force adequate to strike at the' im
portant centers of Japanese power? - Truk, in
the Carolines, the keystone of the arch of Jap
anese power in the South Pacific, is hundreds
of miles from Guadalcanal, and two thousand
miles from Pearl Harbor. Moreover in the pe
riod used for driving the Japs from the south
ern' Solomons and Papua the enemy had been
busy consolidating its gains, establishing bases
and airfields on all the important islands of the
western Pacific. To go forward anywhere will
be like trying to pick up a porcupine.
The most promising adventure appears to be
the recapture of Burma. General WavelTs drive
toward Akyab has made little progress. It is
not adequately supported. . A combined army,
navy and air action properly supplied and. di
rected would recover Burma, open the road
to China, give access by land to bases from
which the home islands of Japan can be bombed.
A coordinated move in that " direction would
hearten China, and give promise of early aid to
the Chinese armies who are eager to press back
the invader to the seacoast r -,
; '"Our victories in the war with Japan are
meagre nibbles thus far. They give little ground
for cimism.' Either we must crush Japanese
naval and air strength, which is a difficult task
In operating from remote bases, or we must
drive across the Asian continent from such toe
holds as we can obtain. The only other alter
native is the slow island-by-island advance
which MacArthur rejects and which would pro
long the war for years. In the western Pacific
there is hardly an "end of the beginning", of
the war.
French Fascism
Alphonse and Gaston bowing to each other
In polite deference ("You first Alphonse"
"After you, my dear Gaston") is a picture quite
out of style these days. Instead we have Jacques
and Gaspard in sharp and acrimonious debate
over who will be first to enter into power when
France is restored. !
Indeed the new picture of France is one
marked by strife and discord. "Popular front"
divisions continue though France lies broken
and dishonored, dependent for revival . on
strength of other arms. The chance for
France must lie in new leadership: assuredly
not in the men of Vichy nor yet in the pre
war communists. The fascist virus had ; pene
trated French life debilitating it for war, as had
the communist virui, The fascist virus persists
however, not only in Vichy but in North Africa.
The propaganda organ of the Free French re-,
ports a broadcast from Radio Morocco last De
cember 15 where the antagonism of the French
fascists to the democratic idea is revealed. The
following is .an extract "from the magazine
article by a Pierre BouUn, of "Action Fran
Chaise" (fascist), which was broadcast: p'
. "We shall create our own French freedom In
5 in the sweetness of spring in Paris. We shall
-.not need anybody else; todo It; we knew It
will not be for export. Our young and power- .
ful liberties will have 'nothing 'to do with the '
sad remembrances of liberal and bourgeois de
. mocracy. Before, this spring will be born tor K
us, we shall have to fight and France will have
: a hard winter, a wmter that may last more than
three months. You wm not believe the Csbt for ;
which we are preparing here Is that of Jew
and Liberals. We who fought the Red flag be--.
cause it did not belong to our race and our
history shall not be takes m by the threat of :
- Freemasonary.' We know how to deal with it
and that disorder when it is not supported by
the Government is easily swept away by a few
squads of bold young men. And, besides, what
- disgrace if - we expected from the Germans
; protection against our Jews and our revora- ,
; tionaries! We have fought in civil struggles r
- against the conception which finally surrenders
man to gold. We are not going to change our
opinion, but it is clear enough that Paris and ;
Marseilles are being occupied by Jews and i:
- Freefiaasone who have dismissed our last source
of strength and independence in the mother
country the Army. ;
- You have no right to hestitate. Do not let any-
, body rob you of your hope. You have hated
- French democracy out ' of your nationalism
and a healthy awareness of the German men-.
ace. I know you cannot wait any longer, i This '
war, which has held its origin in the American "
war, wl be long, hard; it will cause the libera-' i
tion of the mother country, and If certain "
people may call it a war of democracies it Is
up to us to act in such a way that as far as
r ranee concernea, jt, wm give birth, to an
'; : aristocracy. ' " -r,' 'i. V' i';; - ;'"''"
' Tie reprint this to show the mental outlook'
cf the French lea3ership t)f which Laval is the1
conspicious example. It is a leadership which
will poison France and Is unworihyof American "
trust. - -
,mNo favor Sway 17; No Tear Shall Awe
Jrom lint. SUUaaua, .March 23 1831
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raat Manoa sory man me omer ne
spoke. These words were that
the 48-hour week was being ordered "without af
fecting the workers' existing right to overtime
pay."
Say the worker was getting $1 an hour on the
old 40-hour week for a wage of $40. For the ad
ditional eight hours now, he will not receive $8
more, but $12.
The union contracts all require at least time
and a half overtime, and the additional eight hours
are to be paid at that rate. This 1s a wage fa
crease of 30 per cent on the weekly rate, and
actually another 8 per cent increase on the hourly
rate of the week ae a whole.
Instead of being an anti-inflationary strengthen
ing of the union wages ceiling therefore, the move
inwardly provides another 8 per cent increase in
the rate, and promotes inflation to that extent
Even so this might look like only a typical
Roosevelt move to thwart the Lewis-Murray cam
paign to break up the government "Little Steel"
formula, and hold the union increases down to
per- cent while getting another day's work out
of the men.
By cloaking the new wage increase in the garb
iOf a manpower and anti-inflation decree, Messrs.
Roosevelt and Byrnes may have gained the tactical
personal political advantage of thwarting the
union drive with labor approval.
; Their coup might further appear to the radio
listeners and headline readers as being as good
as they say it is, because industry joined labor
In its approval.
The truth is the cost of the increased wages
will not come from industry, but from the taxpayer,
whose approval is never sought.. Most factory work
now is being done for the government, and paid
for, by the people m taxes.
As the war production outlay is $100,000,000,000
a, tha cost of this wage increase may be several
billions a year to the treasury of the United States.
Labor costs go into calculating prices (most war
contracts are on a cost plus basis . anyway ) so in
dustry has little to lose. To whatever heights union
wages are run up, the government will have to pay
most of the bill in the price of tanks, machine guns
and weapons of war. ' "
Naturally, however, industry prefers this covert
method of a wage increase over the Lewis-Murray
Proposals to boost the hourly rate directly. -
Fven so, you may glance hastily at the proposi
tion and view it as. fair enough in the face of ris
. ing costs of living. But from the standpoint of
fairness, the most vital .factors were emitted fey
Mr. Byrnes. . j .. . . :
When the unions got the 40-hour week some
years ago, they insisted it should not be accom
panied by a decrease la pay. If they worked 48
hours before the new law, they wanted 48 hours
pay for the 40 hours. So they received a pay In
crease, in effect, when the work week was cut, and
now they are getting another wage increase when'
it is restored. .
Also, the great bulk of the workers of the coun
try are not in the unions, but pay taxes as clerks
and white collar workers. Their taxes to the
treasury will pay 4he increased union wages and
their benefits are nil unless they have a contract '
calling for time and a half for overtime. " -
If toe government intends to extend its decree
to them and require the small business man "to
increase his wage costs, the government will pro
mote inflation further, and grind the vanishing
small business man even further into the dust.
The fairness aspect crumbles even more when
you, consider Mr. Byrnes words:
VrSmn"cxl be drafted and sent abroad at
$50 a month." : -,: : - . , , . . . ;
Tha congressional reaction to the move was
hesitant and. mad, but the above are' some of the
unstated factors which are being mulled over in
tnemmds of congressional authoriues. -.
With industry, and labor, apparently for the
move, and no one pressing: the cause of the tax
wScSS5T Bj2es-ay "We must not shrink from
XJI durfn wrtime". object may be
allowed to pass unappreciated In Its subtle aspects.
Arnold Named for Judge
.: Thurman -Arnold has been nominated ; for
judge of the circuit court of appeals for the
district of Columbia, to succeed Wiley B. Rut
ledge, new supreme justice. This may be the
'traditional ' case of kicking the man upstairs,
Len to get rid of him by giving him a pro
motion. Arnold has been; busy enforcing the
old Sherman anti-trust act, moving in on com
binations of corporations m most ell fields of
enterprise on labor unions and other groups.
Public reaction has depended on whose ox he
was gorging for the moment. His drives have
made him unpopular - in wartime, ' and the
administration is probably anxious to unload
him without ' giving him his walking papers.
Hostile as we are to monopoly, it is most diffi
cult for 'modern industry to operate without at
least speaking relationships among competitors.
Enforcement of the Sherman act has been a
headache whenever attempted. The supreme
court tried to distinguish between "reasonable'
and "unreasonable" combinations, but no sat- ,
isfactory rule has ever been worked out. Mak
ing a judge out of Arnold will not change the
law or make its enforcement any easier.
Count Ciano, kicked out of Mussolinfs cabi
net, has been made ambassador to the Vatican.
That doesn't mean that playboy Ciano is "hit
ting the sawdust trail." It's the safest-job fa
Italy, and for Ciano the least work.
News Behind
The Nevo .
By PAUL MALLON
King Feature Syndicate. In.
auction in wnoia or m part trsuy pranionao.f
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 Mr. Byrnes did not tell
the whole story of President Roosevelt's 48-hour
work week decree.
The radio-listening and headline-reading public
a. m a a a a. a.
gov xrom nun me picnire mai
the government was cracking
I down on the unions , at long
lasi, increasing xne worK weear
to promote war production and
solve' the manpower situation.
I The way he told it, this gov
ernment is determined to nra-
I vent further wage increases
hfrmd tha "Titfla Steal" for.
inula, and ia emiallv daad-aat
against price increases.
Nine little words in Mr.
Byrnes speech told a different
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10:00 World In Review.
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Concert Hour.
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SAO Breakfast Club a
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40 Meet Your Neighbor.
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11:15 Current Events. .' '
ljaa-James G. MacDonald. News.
Ji-Keep Fit Chih with Patty Jean
12 AO News Headline. T
is: IS Cote Glee Club.
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12:45 News Headlines. 4
1 AO dub Matinee. ,
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1 -gJ ' rejTWy .. g
Jh Baby Tnstitirie.
3:15 Clancy Calung. '
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S:15 Knaaae with tha News,
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5:15The Sea Hound. I
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6:15 News. , i
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8 30 Spotlight Bands. i
6:55 LitUe Known Facts.
TA9 John C wither. -105
Graci TteMs.
Hitler
These ' seaefales are saaplied ay
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7 JO Your Income Tax.
7 :45 Construction Goes ta War.
SAO Earl Godwin, News.
8:15 Dinah Shore.
8 JO Gang Busters.
8)0 Meet Tour Navy.
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10O5 Deep River Bay.
1830 Bye- Witness Him.
18:44 Modern Musie Box.
II .-00 This Moving World.
11:15 Organ Concert.
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SOW CBS rSUPAV 878 Ke.
S J8 Wutthw t Farm Reporter.
8:15 Breakfast BafleSjn.
6:20 Texas Rangers.
85 Kata Klock.
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SAO Coaaamar New.
8:15 Vaaant Lady.
8 JO Stortas America Loves. '
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8:15 Big- Stater. ? -
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9:45 Our Gat Sunday.
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11:45 News.
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13:15 Bob Anderson. News.
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3 AO Newspaper at tha Air.
2 JO Are Yow A Geniu7
2:45 Ben Berai.
SAO Meet Mr. Bramel.
3:15 Today at tha Duncan's.
Today's Garden
By LJLLXE L. MADSEN
J. S. writes mat she has always
wanted one of the little trees
which grow in tubs and are used
at entrances. She wants to knew
what kind of tree to plant
The bay tree (Lauras nobilis),
the true laurel of history, is per
haps the most popular of all
tubbed evergreens. It - grows
readily and may be sheared to
any desired size and shape.
While this will flourish with con
siderable neglect, tt does much
better if given enough nioisture.
It should never be permitted to
dry out during- its growing
Mr. O. F. writes that she has
sosae tulip bulbs left ever from
last autumn and wants to knew
tt she should keep them unto
next autumn or plant them. ' -
' Answer: , I would plant . them
as soon as the ground is work
able. They will not bloom as
early but it wBX.be better for
th bulbs. I have aeen tulips
plan ted ' in . early March which
produced some blooms. October
is of course, the proper tulip
planting month.
Mrs. S. S. K. asks , if other
plants than roses are patented
and when plant patenting first
came into effect 'r,W:r-r
Answer; Yea, a miraber of oth
er plants are patented, . among
them cryvanthemnms; earnatioas
and fruits. There may be others,
too. So far as I can learn, plant
patents ; came into being in the
spring . of 1930. There are many
roses patented now. Both sports
and new seedlings of roses may
be patented.
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10 d5 US Marina Band.
10:30 Homekeeper Calendar.
10:49 Dt. Kate.
11 AO Light of tha World.
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11:45 Betty Crocker.
12A0 Story ok Mary Martin.
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1 AO Backstage Wife.
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Chapter IT Centlnaed
, Dont I know it!: Mae wailed. '
That's why I'm so scared. Oh,
; I wish he'd leave ns alone. You
WoMt tell on uav Miss Kay, new
mBX you, pleaser -..
"Of eotxrse I "won X prom
ised a second time.
How couldTI tell on anyone, I
thought on my way back to the
drawing room, when I was hld-
' log to much myself? I
Soon after his futile attempt
- at finding enlightenment In our
back-stairs regions, the Inspector
left for a while, and Aunt Millie
and X had a breathing spell and
could indulge in plots and de
.' liberations -'?':
-It's simply disgusting how all
eur plans have gone haywire
Aunt Millie complained. rHere
I thought it was a bright idea,
- getting jnto that bouse, and now
. look what Tve let you In for."
' "It- doesn't matter, so long as
.the Inspector doesn't know why
I sneaked back in," X consoled
her. -. ;V-;-v,":: y:
"Give him time and he will,
she prophesied, "He can see we
- and all the others he's ques
tioning are hiding . something.
Bell put two and two together
all right and 'guess we're all
. hiding the same thing. Or don't
- you think wa are?" -
"It looks that way, I agreed
morosely. To bad we can't have
a ''general get-together on it"
"Don't you do it! Don't you
give yourself away to anyone,"
Aunt Millie cautioned me in open
' alarm. "We are only hiding the
suspicion that a certain party has
been holing up in his own house,
and we may be wrong at that r
The police must have searched
the third floor," and we'd have
heard if they'd found signs ' of
recent occupation. But Forres
tall and Roberts and yes, your
maids also God knows what '
they're ; hiding!. Probably the
saurderev himself.
"You mean- Bruce?"',! asked
warily. ;
"Who else? Who had a better '
right to smack down the thiev
ing little professor?" Aunt Millie
wanted to know. "If only he
hadn't smacked so hard! And
the worst of it is, I daren't
take you to Reno now."
"You mean, the Inspector
wouldn't let us go?"
Aant Millie sniffed. "Wouldn't
let us go? On the contrary! He'd '
' . tell us it was a grand plan, and
then he'd have us shadowed all
fne'way." '! -
V fTse and 'if he found outJI -was
in Reno, divorcing Bruce
Jollimar, he'd 'guess' what I
had lost in his house," I fol- ,
lowed up the' thought.4 i "
"That's only tha half of it im
agine if it was Bruce, and they
arrested him for murder just
when the judge pronounced you
free. Would that be a Roman
holiday for the tabloidsT ,
The words conjured up vision -of
clamorous repot teis and lur
id headlines all highly Injurious
to Dad's position and Allan's fu
ture... "Itothing to do but stick it out
then," I said resignedly.
Nothing but brazen It out,"
Aunt MiHie corrected.
Your Federal Income Tax
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, 4 INTEREST DEDUCTIONS ;
(PART 2) ''-''
While Interest paid or accrued
during the year Is generally de
ductible from gross income, for
federal income tax purposes,
certain interest payments are sot
allowable deductions.
Interest which is not deducti
ble Is interest paid on behalf e
another where there Is no, legal
obligation .to make such . pay-"
ment. Thus, , interest paid on
behalf ' of a relative to avoid the
foreclosure of a loan, would not
be deductible,' unless the tax
payer were liable for the Interest
under the terms of the loan (as
co-maker or aa inaorser). In the
absence of a legal obligation on
tne part of the taxpayer, suclt
payments are regarded in - the
nature of a gift to the 'person
liable on the loan. . . -' ,
; Interest payable to a life in- ,
surance company for a policy I
loan is not deductible if the
amount of the interest Is simply
added to the amount of the loan, i
nor is Interest deductible if on
indebtedness incurred or con- ;
tinued to purchase a single pre '
mium life insurance or . endow
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- . Dad and Allan didn't come In
for lunch, but the Inspector ap
peared just as we were sitting
down to ft and was tempted to
Join us. I will say he was a
charming guest and didnt once
mention the murder at the table.
Or afterwards.
The latter, siasply because
there was no afterwards. Ha
proceeded straight from the dia-
' ing room to his temporary office,
.. without demanding my assist
ance, or Aunt MUlie's company.
. It gave us the foolish idea that
the afternoon was to be ours, and
- we were deep in. a debate what
to do .with it whether to re
turn some calls or take a drive .
into the country on this miracul
' ously rainless day when the
terrace door burst open and Mrs.
Libby walked in. This time her
escort was Dr. Spencer Woodill,
the Boston diagnostician. , .
- "Glad to'fbd yoa la mjr
dears,"she told us jointly and
' tersely'. "Bat I'm not calling on
you. One of the policemen over
at the Burton house said I'd
find . Inspector Pettcngill here.
Where is he? In the drawing .
room? Tine! Come along them .
I want you. as an audience for
what I have to say."
Ia the drawing room she In-,
stalled herself in the most com
fortable chair, waved the Doctor
- to another and told the Inspector
peremptorily:
"You're a nincompoop, Joe
PettengiH. Calling a murdeT
murder, when accident or sul
cde would have been much more
convenient"
(To be continued) " .
Safety Volvo.
Letters from Statesman
Readers...'-. -. . ,
SHOE NEKDS ' T-
To the Editor:
May I be permitted to say a
few words m regard to shoe ra
tioning? Aa for being allowed
three pairs a year, it may be all
right for. some "city : workers?
who spend moat of their time In .
an office and ride the bus, bat.
what about farmers and de-.
fence workers, or people who
have six children walking three
.miles te school, then- another,
mile to pasture for the cows,,
plowing, picking fruit in season,
and hundreds of other things
All walking and oftentimes m
mud. Many people too can only,
afford to buy such cheap shoes
that they are not worth re-soU
lag, and with no gas we must
walk more than ever before.
And the loggers who climb,
steep hflla over rocks, ia mud
and snow. Do not think me un
patriotic, t have two sons and
three brothers m service and If
it would help them I would
gladly go barefoot, but I dont
believe its necessary yet
Mrs. Dee Brown.
Editor's note: No ; one will
need to go barefoot Local ra
tioning boards have authority to
meet cases ' of special need.
ment contract Interest on in
debtedness incurred to purchase
I or carry tax-exempt securities
Is likewise not deductible. Such
loans include in general state
and municipal bonds and certain
obligations of the United States.
- The only exception to this pro
vision is the case of loans to
purchase or carry tax-exempt
obligations of the United States
issued after September 24, 1917,
, to which the taxpayer was an
original subscriber.
.' Interest paid on a note, ex
ecuted as a gift, is not deductible
since such promissory notes are
kekt . to be a mere promfae to
make e gift la that future; and
ot a legal .obligation. ;
To be deductible, mterest must
be paid or accrued during the
year for which the return is
made. If the taxpayer Is on the
cash receipts and disbursements
-basis, -i then i the . interest must
have been paid during the year.
Back Interest, not paid, and de
ducted in a prior year, would
however, be allowable. If the,
taxpayer is on the accrual basis,
the Interest must have accrued
during the year.
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