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fags roun ' Th OZSGOTI STATEZMAIL Salem Oregon. Tuesday Morning. February IS. !Si3 ' It f Bod o ' QqZ9 By ANNE ROWE l' i - THE STATES3IAN PUBLISHING CO. CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher : Member of Th Associated Press T The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the us for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Dr. Raver's Reply j We publish on this page a letter from Dr. Paul " Raver, ; Administrator of Bonneville power project, in which he takes exception to an editorial which appeared in The Statesman on Feb. 4th. To his exceptions we offer com ment as follows: 1. Dr. Raver denies that he telephoned Commissioner Bean and expressed opposition to the proposed reduction of rates of Portland General Electric. j Here are the true facts: When the writer was serving as governor he received reports from Commissioner Bean from time to time on matters relating to the public utilities de partment. The rate reduction which had been promised by PGR was a matter of frequent discussion. The writer was hopeful it could be achieved before he left office and so advised Commissioner Bean and President Polhemus of PGE. Failure of PGE to obtain firm con- - tract for Bonneville power was given as a rea son for deferment, but finally PGE made a conditional offer to make the reduction under fiscussion. Commissioner Bean conferred with this writer. It was his opinion, and our own, that such a conditional filing would not be i acceptable. Whereupon Mr. Bean rejected the company offer and announced he would enter sis own order to enforce the reduction. Mr. Bean reported Dr. Raver's telephone call, end stated that he protested the rate reduction md that he wanted the earnings to go to reduce tompany liabilities so he could acquire it at lower cost. After retiring from office the writer felt at liberty to use that information, and did so. Subsequent to the publication Mr. Bean confirmed the accuracy of the report. Now Dr. Raver denies the accuracy of the report. This sentence in his letter is revealing: "I have since talked to Mr. Bean and he assured me that there is no misunderstanding about my views on rate reductions now, even though there may have been previously." There need have been no misunderstanding. Dr. Raver could have made it clear in simple language. Com missioner Bean was favorable to the reduction, the writer hoped for it; both were surprised when Dr. Raver appeared to take a different view. Perhaps the Statesman editorial clarified his expression. Oddly enough, while this matter was under consideration, the writer was visited by a per son unconnected with PGE or Bonneville but who was very deeply interested in the subject and opposed to the proposed rate cutand he stated plainly that Dr. Raver was opposed; to it. 'It is evident that Commissioner Bean was not the only one who got what Dr. Raver now says was a "misunderstanding about my views on rate reduction." . 2. Dr. Raver asserts that PGE never actually made the $485,000 rate reduction for commer cial customers which it publicized in early 1941. The company did put into effect the rate reduction it promised. We have only to look at our own power bills for proof. They are as follows: -January, 1941, $187.18; January, 1942, $142-41. February. 19 41, $182.50; February 1942, $135.88. The reduction is real to us, and presumably Is to the company. As to the issuance of the formal order by Commissioner Bean to obtain new rate reduc tion we find on inquiry that the company has demanded a hearing, as provided by law, and such hearing will be held promptly. ; . Dr. Raver states that our editorial comment respecting power contract negotiations between Bonneville and PGE misrepresent the facts. The particulars he fails to disclose, but says he will make his position clear before the SEC hearing, so we will have to await his testimony. Dr. Raver denies that he has a determination to destroy private ownership, and that he be lieves thoroughly in the free enterprise sys tem. Our editorial clearly referred only to his opposition to private enterprise in the electric utility field in the Portland area. Surely the various Columbia power authority bills off ered In congress, spawned by the Bonneville, staff and supported by it, all of which contain pow ers for arbitrary acquisition of private utility systems, , along with other activities j of - the Bonneville administration, are proof of its' pur pose and desire to destroy private ownership of electric utilities in the whole Bonneville service area. y. ): ' :, - ,:X, J Dr. Raver and his staff have been interested and active in development of great industries utilizing electric energy and building up the economy of the northwest. We commend them for these efforts and stand ready; to cooperate In every reasonable manner. That cooperation will come more readily if Bonneville will leave k local decision such matters as public or pri vate ownership of electric utilities and control if existing municipally owned utilities. Butcher Business . ! ' " . . i . Perhaps the best line "of business to go into sow would be the butcher business. - We con : tlude so v because coming down Commercial rtreet Monday morning we saw a butcher shop srith the sigs "Open Thursday ajn." So if you Jure in the butcher business you are out' of the utcher business about half the time. ! When rou're in,' you're out; and when you're out rou're in just as much as the butcher is who 5 out when he'a uv And when you're open your frequent response to the customer is, "We're out At that"; so once again you're out when you're Jn. Really though there's no need to go into the butcher business; because when you're ; out you're out just as touch as the - butcher who us in but he's out, And you might as well stay out as be out when you're in. Take it away, Henry.... . - : . - 7hen a girl meets a sailor in uniform, it's "anchors away." io Favor Sway I, JVo Fear Shall Atoe From First Statesman, March 28, 1831 t Dlrtrfbutlon by aucuon in wnoi or m parr ttrteuy probntte4.) WASHINGTIN, Feb. 15 The Byrnes order was a move to core specific manpower shortages by p- - a buitm frnm Washington, decreeing an over-all 48-hour week. x. iTimarily, it was supposed to increase produc- fe i) i -mmmm mm i JmJ mainly to wide variations in pay rates. ; The average wage rate in aircraft, for instance, is somewhere around 81 cents an hour, and In shipyards, $1.20 an hour. Consequently, the turn over of employes in aircraft has been very high, many of them going into shipyards. In autos, the average rate is even higher. Job freezing was supposed to meet this problem, but did not The vital steel industry has been working fun, blast on the 40-hour week basis, with three 8 hour shifts and a swing shift of 48 hours. What the 48-hour decree will do to it, aside from mud dling up the shifts and increasing the labor cost of war production, no one seems able to explain. Certainly it will not increase steel production or solve any manpower problem there. How the Byrnes scheme 'was intended to work can be readily understood if you consider a sin gle business firm and its employees. One such firm of wholly white collar workers here .has figured the annual cost of the 48-hour week will be $50, 000 in its payroll. By switching from the 40 to the 48 boar week, it will have to pay them time and a half for the additional eight hours, increasing its cost about 30 per cent for each employe (an 8 per cent increase In the average hourly rate.) To make up this $50,000. loss, it will have to fire a number of employes. These employes are not suited, to fill any of the most crucial manpower deficiencies on the farms, for instance, or the copper mines. They will be mostly women clerks with the least experience and efficiency., They could only do precision work in factories after vocational training, but there are so many in dividual elements Involved, such as personal physi caj fitness, adaptability, distance of the Job from home, the ability of the individual to support him self or herself and family in the transition-apprenticeship, due to the differences in salaries, that even these most hopeful aspects of the move seem limited. - '. Certainly, the laying off of such a great group of workers in the 32 decreed centers, or later on a : national scale, will not meet the specific manpower .requirements in certain specific lines, even in a general way. The order also Is of doubtful personal value to those employees who remain in their jobs, since they will be required to do all of the work of their departed workers for the 30 per cent in crease in-pay. ' -' : ; Thus what sounded and seemed like a move to put this nation into a greater effort ion a 48 hour week and Increase our war production yet must prove its value in practice. The effect on inflation can hardly be measured. Salary increases for those employes who are not laid off wfll swell the national income and tend to increase inflation problems: . This wiS be of fset by whatever decree the in come of those who sore laid off is diminished In whatever new Jobs they find. The effect on Infla tion, therefore, depends on that incalculable point - The trouble with the Byrnes system Is the same old one of centralized government control. Here again is the typical economist and college professor approach. They never believe in curing any sit uation'by direct remedy. - . , ; They would . not think of fixing the shortage some soldiers with farm 'experience and putting of labor on the farm, for instance, by directly talcing them to a plow they know how to run. They have to devise cunning, national economic devices whicjb may be run on a button from Washington, y : Generally, they upset ten times more things and create ten times more problems than the one ;they are trying to cure.- 4 . ' - , 6 The hedging restrictions which Mr. LIcNutt : began to issue within 36 hours after delivery of the plan may eventually whittle its effect down to nothing by limiting the number of industries and areas affected. That may yet prove to be the best result possible. - But, if the prescribed formula does any of" the Jobs It set out to do. It will be a miracle, and' Mr. Byrnes will Indeed be a miracle ma bis natty blue ' . Brave, New World i . - The social engineers are busy blue-printing the post-war world. It is a worthy occupation. One dare not be too optimistic about it, but he shouldnt be too cynical either. For the next round table discussion group we will submit this riddle: , ' An English lord was riding in his carriage, coachman in the driver's box, footman at the rear. A heavy storm came on, a regular bliz zard. The coach got stuck in a snowdrift! So the footman got off to push; but still the coach was stuck. The lord was then greatly alarmed for fear he might freeze to death. So he got out and pushed. With horses pulling and footman and lord pushing, the coach got out of the drift, back on the main road. Then the lord got back in the carriage, and the footman s back in his outside seat, and the coach rolled on. When this war is over, where will lofd and footman ride? Or will there be any lord or footman? , The Arkies are being imported to serve as dairy hands in the northwest. They will take the places of sons who are "doing better in the shipyards." Some of these prices are ceiling prices all right for the third floor. ' News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON King Tcatarem Sf mtltaif, tna. ni4 ii uat k nui inui; bc complish is not dear evenyet in the inner discussions that have been going; on, or in the hedging announcements which Manpower McNutt has subse quently made. The most vital war" indus tries already are working 24 hours a day. All war plants that have been getting ma terials, such as autos, ships and aircraft, will hence get no in creased production whatever out of the new order. Their manpower problem ? is- due ttnrt WKa t STI 'Giddyap, Napoleon V .Badfo IPirograinnis KSLM TUESDAY 13t K. 7:00 New. 7 a Rise V Shin. 7:30 News. 7 :4S Your Gospel Program. 8M Bert Hirsek Novetty Band. 8 30 News Brevities. 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AO Battle of the Sexes. :30 Fibber McGee and MoDt. 7 AO Bob Hope. 730 Red Skelton. 8:09 Fred Waring in Pleasure Tim. . 8:15 Fleetwood Lawton, 8 30 Johnny Presents. 9 AO Mr. and Mrs. North. 9:30 Quiz of Two Cities. 10 AO New Flashes. Your Federal Income Tax .. "" i. . . . N. 35 - ' DEDUCTIONS FOE BAD - 4 DEBTS " 1 : 'TJl ;V(FAslTJ) . , If a. debt has, become worth- ' less during the year the amount may, with certain exceptions, be . taken as a deduction in arriving at net . income - for federal In come tax purposes. Bad debts occuring in course of trade- or prof ession are shown in Schedule H to arrive at net profit (or loss) from business or profes-. sion; other bad debts are shown in item 18 of the return, Form 1040, and must be supported .in all cases 1 with a-statement (in Schedule ' C showins; the circumstances. Losses from cor- porate securities . with interest coupons or "In registered form, ' which: become worthless during the year, and which are capital : assets,' are shown in Schedule T. In all cases el a deduction for ' bad debt, the explanation, must ; show (a) of what the debt con- . sisted, (b name and family re lationship, if any, of the debtor, i (c) when the debt was created, (d) when it became due, (e) what efforts: have been made to collect the debt, and (f) how it was determined to be worth- -less. A prcise,statement Is re-. quired because of the many dif- " ferent transactions out of which . the relationship of debtor and -creditor may arise and the cob- . sequent many definitions of the word "debt!" " ' " " In order to be an allowable deduction, a debt must become worthless within the year for . which the return is made. The determination of worthlessness .. is an taiportant provision In establishing the allowability of the; deduction. : The taxpayer must take reasonable steps to determine that there is no prob- - ie:15-LaborNew. 1030 Moonlight & 10.-45 Unci Sam. 11 AO Your Home Town News. 11:10 Muatrai Interlude. 11:15 Biltmor Hotel Orch. II 30 War News Roundup. 12 A-S a. in Swing Shift. atALE MBS TTJESBAY1J3 Ke. 6:45 Good Morning Club. , 7:15 Undo Sam. 7 30 Memory Timekeeper. AO Haven of Rest. 830 News. i .'45 Old Songs. 9 AO Boake Carter . 9:15 The Woman's Sid of the News. 930 Buyer's Parade. 9:45 US Marine Band. 10 AO News. t 10:15 Stars of Today. 1038.Tbis and That, n AO Cedric Foster. 11:15 BUI Hay Reads the Bible. 11 30 Concert Gem. 1235 On the Farm Front. 1230 New. 12:45 Shady Valley Folkav 1 AO News. j 1:15 Music. S AO Preatdenr Pre Conference. 2 A5 Sheelah Carter. 2:15 Texas Bangers. -25 News. ( S AO Phillip Keyne-Gordoa. 3:19 Wartime Women. 330 Hell Again. 3:45 Remember Whe. 4 AO Fulton Lewi. r. 4:15Johnson Family. 430 News. - . - 4.-43 Let's Leara to Dance. :0a Little Shew. 5 :1 5 Superman. 93 Norman Nesbitt. 53 Sin cine Sam. AO Gabriel Heattec :13 Movie Parade. 30 Murder Clinic. 7 AO John B. Hughes. T:15 Art Kassei Orchestra. - 7:45 Dick Kuhn Orehestf. .. 8 AO Jack McLean Orchestra. 8 30 Pass in Review. 9 AO New. :15 Ernie Heckscher Orchestra. " : 9:30 Manhatters. 95 Fulton Lewi. 10 AO Jan Garber Orchestra. 10:J5 Treasury Star Parade. 1039 New. 10:45 Georga Stemey Orchestra. 11 AO Johnny Richards Orchestra. 11 30 Snub Mosley Orchestra. 11:45 Jan Garber Orchestra, KO AC TUESDAY &5S Kc AO Music. 10 AO News. ' 10 :13 The Honemafccr'i Hour. 11 AO School of the Air. 11 30 Music of the Masters. I 12 AO News. 12:13 .Noon Farm Hour. 22:45 Neighborhood Leader Que- . tionbox.! . - 1:15 Today's War Commentary. 120 Variety Time. 1 :43 Victory Front. 2 AO AAUW Half Hour. 230 Memory Book of Musle. . ability of payment or collection,' and must have prima facie evi dence to prove that the debt has 'no value. Ifj in the exercise of sound business judgement a tax payer concludes, after making: . every reasonable effort to deter mine whether there is likelihood of recovery, that the debt is of . no value, a deduction for such debt may be allowable. Court action, such j as a legal judge ment or adjudication ia bank- . ruptcy is not necessary as proof. . that the debt, is- worthless,, aS 1 indeed it frequently happens that ' a debt may be worthless before the debtor has been ad- . Judged benkropt. ' A second important provision regarding deductibility for bad debts is that the deductions must be - taken fn the taxable year ' in whfch the debt becomes worthless. The fact that a debt is still held open on the books of the taxpayer -does not mean . that ft has value, and the law .does not permit a taxpayer to defer claiming a deductible al- lowance on that account, beyond the, year . In.: which it becomes ; wYMTthless. -.- - : iir. A further requirement regard ing deductibility for bad debts , is that a debt must have existed in fact and In law. If a debtor ' ' was not legally liable to the taxpayer, then there was no debt . to become worthless. Advances to relatives to : tide them over fmancial atraitay mad out f moral considerations and with out understandings regarding re- payment, are frequently held to be In the nature of a, gift rather than loan, and consequently no deduction Would be allowable . for nonpayment. However, when a loan is made to a relative in a bona fide business transaction a deduction may be allowed be- cause ei iaih3ectlSii2ir,; . ' v . Chapter U (Continued) r I was lucky too. Allan was in the, office shack and not, as I feared, somewhere on the exten sive strip of coast that was to become a navy yard. And luck ier stflV Dad was not with him. The result was a talk that was both long: and satisfactory, and full of plots of how to snare an hour together in the evening. For a short drive perhaps, if it didnt rato'agaln.''.:::,;;;; v:.7'-':; "Your father thinks he wants to work after dinner,' Allan in formed me. "But I have the sneaking feeling he'd call it off, if you could induce the beaute Aoua Gala to come down for chess." . The allusion to Gala made me I had totally f of gotten her over ' the occurrences of the day and, with her, the puzzling find of the gat hairpin. -All right. Ill do that little tiling. IH ask her for dinner, this very minute, I told Allen be fore hanging up. But I didnt have the chance to carry out my intentions. Just as I was starting to dial Gala's number we lived under the same roof Nettle knocked and . announced another visitor, , "Mrs. Avery calling, Miss . Kay,: she said with a wry face. 'Stella Avery had been shown' into the formal reception room . beside that front door a aur atgn that Nettie considered the call an inhusion and. took fori granted it would be short. Aunt Millie was with her when , I came down, sitting stiffly erect' under a bombardment of sibilant whispers, carrying much farther than an ordinary voice, but meant to convey the impression of secret confidences and dire ' warnings. The moment I entered, these doubtful attentions were trans ferred to me. . Practically flinging herself upon me, Stella Avery flooded me with assurances- of her "sym pathy in my "dreadful ordeaV . , and hints of valuable disclosures she could make. Tell me, tell me, both of you' she urged, including Aunt Millie In her plea. "What really hap pened? What did you see in that dreadful house? - "A dead man, I said calmly. S :1 5 Adventures in 2 30 The Concert Hall. 4AO Neisnborheod Call. 4 as Echoes of Waikiki. 4 30 Stories for Boys and Girls. 5 AO Private Pete Presents. 5:15 Ontbe Campuses. S30 Evening Vesper. S:4S Orientation Lecture. :15 New. 30 EventeK Farm Hour. T:Sa Learn o Speak Speadah. T :4& Neisnborhood New. SAO World ia Review. S:15 School of Music - S30 Higher KdocaHeai lm Wartaete. AO Pan American Melodies. . 430 News. - :45 Uncle Sam. 10 AO Hour of Great Music. 1030 Melodio Song. . 1 1 A Fa vorite Meiodtee. , The fSafetty Vaivc? Letters from Statesman Readers To the Editor: ;;'; An editorial entitled "Bonne ville and Power Rate" appear ing in the Oregon Statesman of February 4 has just come to my attention. Much of its content! grossly in error. It is quite true I have made statements publicly that I feel Portland General Electric com pany is reaping excessive war profits from the use of low priced federal power. It is also true I have stated that Portland General Electric company has ' been announcing so-called "newspaper rate re ductions" for purposes of strate gy and that I feel it is time some concrete steps are taken to place such rate reductions in operation; On February 8, 1941, the com pany publicized a $485,000 rate v reduction for commercial cus tomers but never actually made mat reduction. On January , 1943, the? Oregon utilities com missioner and the company pub licized a $700,000 rate reduction order but to my knowledge ho formal order has been issued and certainly the reduced rates have not been placed in effect, I feel, that actual rate reducUona-ttot newspaper rate reductions by Portland General Electric com pany are long overdue, and that until they are made the company is reaping excessive war profits. : ; With respect to the statements in your editorial of February 4 concerning my telephone conver sation with Mr. Bean, I must deny categorically that I made any statement or by implication indicated that I objected to rate reduction. -. - -. Here are the true facts. My telephone call to Mr. Bean was made on December t in the pres ence of several members of my staff. I phoned Mr. Beast to as certain whether he proposed to order the company to make a rite reduction and If so whether the order would be conditioned upon the eompairy obtaining a Bonneville power contract ; Mr. Bean said positively that he was going to order the rate reduction without regard to our power con tract negotiations; that the rat reduction was overdue, particu larly since the company had not made the rate reduction it had promised over a year ago; and mat our power contract negotia tions would ; have no bearing whatever upon his rate reduc tion order. I agreed with Mr. Bean and also expressed the view that rate reductions by the company art lonj overdue and That was all. There were no lights, you know." "Oh, yes, yes! But someone told me you heard a scream. And X thought?? She stopped; her voice suspendid in an ex pectant pitch. At first I couldnt Imagine who ' had told her. Then I concluded it ' must have been Conley Forres- taiL via zus wue or aaugnier. . ; -- "You'll have to excuse me, Mrs. Avery," I said briefly and rudely. "But no dice. Finding the body doesn't make me a : guidebook for murder detection." - She glared at me venomously, and X was preparing myself for . an - answering insult, topping .. mine But it didn't come. The venom gave . way to sly cunning. "What a fool you are, to shield her!" she said pityingly. "Why wfll you not learn from my experience? Why do you wait until she's done you a harm?" " , "I dont know of whom you are speaking," I assured her curtly. "Oh, yes, -you do!" Her head jerked ceilingward significantlyi "Who had a better chance? I bet . she has a key to every door of ..that house and has been using it for her unspeakable purposes all : - along. Meeting men. Her kind wont even let a cork leg inter fere with that. And poor Profes- , -sor Stoddard may not have known about the leg. But mark my words: if a man like him tried to break, into a safe, It wasnt for himself. She made him do It, For her. She was scared young Burton might come back, and wanted to safeguard . herself by stealing what she could. Heaven knows why she r murdered him, but I'm sure she 'did. Perhaps he didnt want to "do it after att. Perhaps X had had enough. And so had - Aunt Millie. We exchanged a a. 9 loos ana got up, in unison. , -I wish you wouldn't make my aunt and me the recipients of all your suspicions,' Mrs. Av : ery," I cut into her ugly tirade icily. "It really puts too much responsibility on us. The proper person to confide in is Inspector PettengilL Will you come with me to his office, please?" She got to her feet reluctant- , ly. "Inspector PettengiU's office? But I have no desire of going . downtown, to headquarters - "You needn't. The inspector's office is here, in the house.- This way, please.".. . ' I firmly grasped her arm and steered her diagonally across the hall, with .Aunt Milly, grinvf faced but enjoying herself, fol- lowing close behind, to prevent a possibly contemplated .escape. "But I don't want to 1 have only been telling you what I thou eh t" Sten Avnv nmbMrbvl , in a sickly voice. , I merely smiled at her in answer, kept a firm grip on her arm and knocked on the drawing-room door. " " (To be continued) that the company Is making ex cessive war profits on Bonne ville power, instead of vine- ultimate consumers the benefits. This was the substance of my conversation with Mr. Bean. r If you were given any different re port, and were advised that I : protested a rate reduction, your informant m i s u n d e. rstood my views. I have since talked to Mr. Bean and he assures me that there is no misunderstanding , '.about my views on rate reduc- tions now, even though there ' may have been previously. , i , ; In the future X trust that should you, or someone in your posi . tion, receive any reports or ru mors concerning the Bonneville" . administrator which are So ob viously in conflict with his du ties under the Bonneville act, you will feel free to talk" to me ; directly about the matter. With respect to the statements ' in your editorial concerning Bon neville's power contract negotia tions with Portland General - whhmiiij, uicjr mo mis represent the facta. I expect to ' make my position clear on this matter in the hearings before the - Securities Exchange commission on 'the reorganization plan of J ruiunu uecinc fowcr com pany which begin February 15. VJ : Finally, I must deny category ically that I have a "determina tion to destroy, private owner- -ship." I believe thoroughly in the free enterprise system. Bon neville power, which is one of . the northwest's greatest natural resources, is opening up vast new industries under private owner- ra n 4i lit w mm z ay a a v ca ve reus j companies,, our eiiorts to nego- tiate contracts with them which l would permit them to distribute -government power and at the same time protect the public in- tereat hav Aot been very suc- r cessful thus far.- The Columbia river power de- ? vdopment program by the fed : erl covemment is of such great importance to the people of Ore gon, both during the war and In Pt-war reconstruction,, that the leaders .of Oregon should unite , on a prcft-ram to bring to Oregon "the full fruits of low-cost hydro electric power. - - . . X sincerely hope that you will take the necessary steps to cor- ' rect the impression left by a reading of the editorial. A copy of this letter is being sent to Mr. . , Bean. PAUL. J. RAVER, - Administrator.