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Newspaper Page Texti pags rom Hi CUTSCIT Sdsia Oregon. TCatZaasdar I 'onilas, rt&ruary 24. 1S-SJ 1 f : "M Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Aw" From First Statesman, -March 23, 1831 ' THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editt and Publisher Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all pews dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Small Farmer Doomed? is the little fanner to go the way of the small business man? Will farming become more and more' industrialized under wartime pressures? Will the breaks in the way of ma chinery, credit, labor supply go to the "big operator"? - The magazine "Business Week predicts the little farmer will suffer, while the big farmer will prosper and expand as a result of the war. It sees in the moves of Secretary Wickard ; a . change of front in the department of agriculture adverse to the small farmer. The "family farm would give place "to the "factory farm where with power machinery, larger acreages, higher prices the food and fiber requirements of the nation will be produced. The retirement of Herbert W. Parisius as farm production; ad ministrator, is seen as a victory for, the big farm bloc The farm security administration which leaned oyer to give a lift to the little fellow, is being pushed into the background. The AAA, the farm credit groups are taking over. Congress, according to "Business Week, Is "getting ready to cut the heart out of FSA appropriations. " ' This may be the pattern, but if it is, the plan is of dubious merit and even more doubt ful of accomplishment. The small farmer is, in many respects, the hope for expansion of farm production. 4 Here is the dairy products situation, for instance. The dairies which are ; hard hit are the "big operators " the ones which buy: their 1 feed, hire their help to run 100 cownd up dairies. They are caught, between high - wages and high feed prices on the- one hand, and restricted selling prices on the other. It is the small farmers " who are buying up dairy cows and increasing their production. Likewise with hogs, poultry, vegetables, It will be the small producers whose enlarged pro duction will give the needed increases. It must be . remembered that power ' machinery comes in small packages as well as large, and the small tractor, : combine, feedmill, etc., enables the small farmer to compete successfully with the farmer running large equipment. Relying on his own labor and that of his family he is free of labor troubles. His unit costs of production may actually run less than those -of big-scale farmers faced with present labor costs. So don't consign the small farmer to the slag-heap yet. He isn't out of merchandise, like the small merchant. He may be tempted to take a job in the shipyards, but if he does he is probably leaving the wife and children to run the farm, with what help he can give on his time off. And the country may be mighty giad the small farmer and his family are carrying on, supplying, the eggs, milk and meat which city folk and soldiers need. Pass the Burke Bill The overwhelming majority which the Burke bill to put the sale of fortified wines back in state liquor stores received in the senate sets a pattern for similar approval in the house. This legislation would make a return to the original plan of liquor control which was amended to the serious increase r of intemperance by the legislature in 1935 to permit sale of these high powered wines in package stores. ; The theory of the control plan recommended by the Knox commission was that beer should be sold by the glass at bars, natural wines in private package stores and liquors of greater potency than 14 should be sold in state stores. The fortified wines now sold in the state are properly blended, but they run up to 22 per cent alcohol. Their sale then belongs with dis tilled liquors and should be confined to state stores. t Recent special editions of northwest news papers prove that newspapers and communi ties are carrying on, looking forward with eagerness to the post-war period when progress may be resumed. The Spokane Spokesman Review published a n attractively illustrated! edition featuring particularly Grand Coulee power. Now the Astorian Budget comes out with its annual development number, and j the Walla ; Walla Union-Bulletin with its. progress edition. These special editions serve as display windows for a community. Men, good navy men, have lost their lives that we in Oregon may live in security. A few weeks back a patrol bomber went down to: the sea off the Lincoln county coast. Last week a minesweeper capsized as it tried to ride the tide into Coos bay, and 13 members of the crew are dead or missing. We of Oregon are the beneficiaries of their sacrifice. The disaster brings home to us the cost of our own safety. A salute to the men of the navy who. on the sea and in the air guard our own coasts! ! For all the talk about the Ruml plan of "pay-as-you-go," the Oregon legislature slowed up its tax collections by postponing final pay ments on income taxes 90 days. The effect is to throw one quarter's collection into the subse quent fiscal year (or calendar year). Under the changed law we will be paying our last in stallment in 1944 on earnings of 1942. That's Ruml in reverse. ' - i .'-- What was described by an American officer m Tunisia as a "Sunday punch" giving our troops a "bloody nose, has been' followed with A a sock in the Jaw. We don't like it, and know our fighting men don't like it. May be we decorated our North African generals too soon. Union Financial Report ' : "; ' . ! Down In Portland a member of the famous boiler-makers' union has. gone to court in an attempt to get a financial accounting from the officers of his union. The officers are resisting the attempt, and a long court battle is in pros pect. , ; Quite in contrast is the attitude of the United ' Steel Workers, CIO, which has issued a 56 page report. Its financial statement Is prepared by a New York accountant. The report shows $1,774,900 of assets, of which $1,415,000 is cash. Initiation fees, for the union are listed at $3.09 each, which is more reasonable than the charges imposed by many unions. " Secrecy opens the way to racketeering as the Willie Bioffs of the labor movement hava proven. Unions are no longer private clubs; they are mass aggregations of workers. The least they can do is to give complete financial ' reports to members at stated intervals. - " ' --r Pa ml Malloa A freeze. on dried beanS is understandable. Bear 3 -are still needed to help an army "march n its telly,"-: : 'jt.yy. -- h ; li i rcxh:js the Japanese papers are complaining tecause the silk used in our army parachutes -was imported from Japan. The vote of 28 members, only three short of a majority, for John Steelhammer's bill to suspend the milk control act for the duration of the war was most surprising. It shows the deep undercurrent of resentment against milk con trol, and a recognition that merely transferring authority to the department of agriculture of fers no solution. With any organized effort to support' the measure it would have carried. News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON V (Distribution by Kins Features Syndicate. Inc. Repro duction In whole or In part strictly prohibited.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 Rumblings of an in ternal discontent have popped out now into the news with Mr. Nelson's firing of his right-hand man, Ferdinand Eberstadt, published rumors that Baruch would take over the whole WPB works, and an extraordinary official White House denial of same. Sparse news accounts have given the public an impression that all tnls dis sention represents is a clash between Mr. Nelson's civilian control and the army and navy. What happened,' however, was that Mr. Nelson went up against the very portals of the White House itself, and came out not -only whole, but on top. His clash was not so much with the army and navy as with what might be more ac curately described as the Hop kins - Baruch - Byrnes - Somer-vell-Rosenman clique, which has exercised a great influence on both the civilian and military branches lately. Mr. Eberstadt was their man. His successor, Charles E. Wilson, selected by Mr. Nelson, is not Mr. Wilson (as well as Mr. Nelson) is reported to have been lax in following the unofficial cus tom of new dealers in seeking out the advice of Bernard Baruch, the old production war horse of World war I. Park benches in front of the White House are supposed to have been worn paintless by the government officials coming to ask this wise elder advisor about their problems. The economic stabilizer, Mr. Byrnes, who is said to sit now at the right-hand of Mr. Roosevelt, even closer than the president's old friend, Mr. Hopkins, is regarded also as a' Baruch man. They both come from South Carolina, and have traveled the same political ways. This does not mean Mr. Hopkins is in any way at a disadvantage at the White House, although he no longer lives there. He has an apartment at a new hotel, selected for reasons of comfort, rather than because his commitments to the Russians . seemed to follow his old lavishly exuberant spend ing policies of WPA leaf -raking relief days. - little competition could exist, therefore, be tween Mr. Baruch and Mr. Byrnes on one side and Mr. Hopkins on the other. The only point is that where Mr. Hopkins once sat alone, now sits also Mr. Byrnes and closer, along with the always close consultant. Judge Rosenman. Their man in the army is Brigadier General Somervell, formerly associated with Mr. Hopkins in charge of New York state's old WPA, and now handling just about everything in the army except the air and ground force phases. Apparently, Mr. Nelson felt even the absent influence of this reorganized group of White House top advisors, and took the position that he need ask only one advisor, the president himself. He did not regard his organization as being under the Byrnes setup on the one hand or army and navy on the other? He took the absentee but imminent bull by the horns, fired Mr. Eberstadt, appointed Mr. Wilson, and emerged with the singular White House denial that he was about to resign a denial which, in a negative but powerful way, established Mr. Nelson and his newly reorganized WPB as a- strong. In dependent unit standing on its own feet. The matter might not be worth mentioning were it not for all the various stories in circulation. All authorities here, in and out of the administration and congress, agree that WPB is getting the pro duction job done fairly well and will continue to do so. : ' " Its main trouble apparently is that its efforts do not mesh on all production phases and con siderable grinding of the gears can be heard in several quarters as, for instance, at the Ford Willow Run plant (a matter possibly attributable to the rigidity of Mr. Ford's production llneSystem as against this constant army changing of construction details of its bombers to an extent which might require constant retooling for Mr. Ford). Whether these developments will now cause the dust to settle and permit a peaceful coherent di rection of war production without continuous con flicts, is a question for a hardy soothsayer, WPB has agreed to let army-navy have procurement4 that is, whatever kind of equipment it wants and how much, but WPB will complain that army navy has loaded up plants with orders' for as long as 4ft months In advance. The army-navy group has claimed that such orders give the companies; a back-log, r enabling better.: planning of production. But 'other' plants i only have 30 days', orders ahead, and it is ap parent that prime contractors, sub-contractors, . etc., have not been synchronized.. Next steps are up to Mr. Nelson, whose position now has been strikingly re-established by direct ' word from the president . vaC 3Sia mi t$inm Tin 0rf - tX 'Killed, Wounded and Missing' Today's ESagfliio Pirogiramnis KSLM WEDNESDAY 139 Kc 7 AO News In Brief 7.-05 Rim 'n' Shine 7:30 New 7:45 Your Gospel Program 8:00 Stan Kenton's Orchestra 8:30 News Brevities 8:35 Tango Time S. -00 Pastor's Call 9:15 Dickson's Melody Mustangs 9:30 Popular Music 9:45 Uncle Sam. 10:00 World in Review 105 A Song and a Dance 10 JO Organ, Violin, Harp Trie 11 KM) Musical College 11:30 Willamette U Chapel 12 .-00 Organalitaes 12:15 News 11:30 Hillbilly Serenade 12 -.35 Willamette Valley Opinions ) 1. -00 Joe Reichman & Orch. ; 1:15 Mai Hallet's Orchestra 1 :30 The Goldbergs. 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Like wise, trades of a farm for city ' property, or of unimproved real estate for improved real estate, or of a rental house for a store .building, are all "classified as "exchanges of a like kind. Gen erally speaking, the use to which the properties aire put is a gov erning consideration 1 in de termining whether they are of like kind., '-' 0 .-V A second limitation oft . non- . taxable exchanges Is that the property exchanged musthave , been 'held for productive use In trade or business or for in vestment," " and the ; exchange must be made for property to be so ; hekL'.T his limitation ex cludes .various types of transac tions, especially trades of proper ty used or to be used for per sonal purposes. An Instance is aa exchange involving residential property. ! Since one's residence is not considered as held, for use ' in trade or- business of for in vestment, trade of one's resi- , dence for other property, 'or a trade of other property for a ' residence- Intended to be occu pied by the taxpayer, would con si tute in effect a a a I e of the property disposed of and a gals realized on the exchange 'would ; be reportable. , It should be noted also, in this connection, that in the case of a residence exchanged for other property any gain realized would be taxable, under "r the capital - gains provisions, but no loss would be allowable, since losses are not allowed to be taken on m personal residence property dis posed of. If, however, a busi ness : property were exchanged for a residence, the resultant gain or loss would be reportable. ' The third limitation on non taxable exchanges is that the ex change must be even, that is, no boot involved. If boot is taken, then a gain arises, the amount of .which, up to the amount of the boot, would be taxable. The amount of gain beyond the amount of the boot would be nontaxable. If boot is given, , however, rfo loss can be taken for the amount of boot given, - since this is regarded simply as ' additional investment in proper ty of the kind exchanged. - The fourth limitation on non taxable exchanges excludes transactions in stocks and bonds and other securities, as well as exchanges of property held as ' stock in trade or primarily for . sale. : However, in the case of investment securities held, - an exchange may be non-taxable if , ; the securities exchanged are of the same corporation and of the same degree of equity (common stock for . common stock, , pre- f erred stock for preferred stock, etc) Also, in the case of re organizations, an exchange of securities is nontaxable if the exchange is made pursuant to a plan of reorganization, and stock or securities in a corporation a party to the reorganization arc exchanged solely , for stock or securities in such corporation or another corporation a party to the reorganization. Chapter tt Centlnaed J . . "Please, . dont h e s 1 1 a t a to mention my handicap. Everyone, knows about it" Gala smiled charmingly. "To answer your question: I dont mind walking stairs, and really get around very well, all considered. And to ask you- one: why the Interest in my visiting, or not visiting, , the Burton house?" ; The inspector actually seemed a little abashed by her unex pected frontal attack. "Oh Just to know," ha evaded. "My men found a hair jin to, the library. Sort of. the color of your hair. And er Miss Kay picked it up and hid it from me, when she thought I wasn't looking. So that made me think, of course." I could feel myself shrinking to defeat. What a fool I had been, to think I could do any thing without the inspector'a -knowledge! I might as well give up and make a clean breast of everything. My past my sus picions my secret conviction of Bruce's presence ' "I think that was very mean of you, inspector letting me be lieve I I got away with it,! I told him with an uneasy laugh. "Shouldn't try to get away with hairpins," he countered i with the special twinkle I had come to. fear. "Anyways, It's explained now. So no hard feelings?" . ' "No , hard feelings," I agreed. But in my heart I vowed: "Arid I won't let you trick me into telling you my real secret" "It really was a little mean of you," Gala told bim the . next ". moment with, a gently amused smile. "Those hairpins will get me into a scrape some day. I always strew them around. Thanks, Kay, for trying to save me from a police grilling Is the word, isnt it, inspector?" "No. Just a nice, neighborly talk," .the inspector corrected. "And I ain't through with It yet You know anything about that stone that lies on . your uncle's 9 desk In the library?" "Only that he brought it with . him from his last trip. Why?" Gala wanted to know. "Oh it may have been the murder weapon," the inspector said lamely. "Sure he never said " nothing to you about it?" "rm quite sure he didn't," Gala told him. "You see, we hadn't been on very good terms, for several years. The only time I saw him, after his return and before he died, was the day they ' took him to the hospital. He was in severe pain then and: only " She broke off and stared in front of her. "It doesn't matter does it?. Why he wanted to speak to me before going on " the operating table?" she asked after a while. "Guess not" the inspector agreed. "Pied of a bad appendix, didn't he?" "Yes. He'd neglected it The Central American jungle isn't exactly x a health resort, and he was on the trail of some great discovery he just wouldn't give up, I understand." . The inspector threw me a look: "Tallies with what we heard," and then asked Gala: "To come back to last night You seen nothing over to the Bur ton house from your windows? A light moving around in it or -Something?" "Sorry, I didn't In fact it was so wet and foggy, I had the. cur tains drawn early around six," 4:15 Johnson Family 4:30 News 4:45 Let's Learn to Dance 5 .15 Superman S JO Norman Nesbitt 5:45 Remember When AO Gabriel Heatter :15 Movie Parade - JO California Melodies ' 7 AO John B. Hughes 7:15 Music for Moderns 7 JO Lone Ranger 8 AO Symphony Hall 8:45 Repair for Defense, K)0 News :15 Today's Top Tunes) 9 JO General Barrows. :45 rulton Lewis, jr. 10 AO Jerry Sears 10:15 Treasury Star Parade . 10 JO News 11 JO Snub Mosley Orchestra 11 :45 Jan Garber Orchestra Today's Garden By L1LLIE Lv MADSEN Mrs. S., M. writes that she is finding 'a great number of holes, about, the size of "half dollars" all around her . bulb beds and wants" to know what is making them. rz,-- r::.: - ANSWER: I believe that field mice are doing the damage. They have been very numerous this year since the snow. You can tell easily if the runs still are being used. Some gardeners report that putting poison grain or baits down the holes Is the best con trol method. Care should be tak en not to spill the kernels around the outside so that the birds will get the poison. Mrs. S.CD. asks about pruning her f orsythia. Says it has grown a little scraggly and - that the blooms are quite - small much smaller than they, were the first time they bloomed. ANSWER: If you prune your forsythia now you lose - your blooms. Better wait until the shrub is to bloom. Then as you cut for bouquets also prune the shrub itself. Forsythia does well with heavy pruning. Cut out all old wood and cut it to the ground. Correct pruning : and -some fertilizer will help . bring . your blooms back to a good size. From your address, I take it you live on a farm, and will perhaps have , farm fertilizer at y our, disposal.-, . . ; Gala said. - t "And you seen no one before that? Going in by the. en trance to the long rear wing, maybe ?T ,- 1 couldn't see anyone going to by that door, or any other, .she-assured him. "The ell of th house Kay's rooms are to it cuts off the view. And the part. it doesnt hide is screened by sl tall cedar hedge. I only can see the windows from the second floor up." . ? "Hmm. And the times you ' r was , in the house before, you neger seen anyone, or noticed they been -someone, using the 'little sitting room off the rear passage?" -: - Gala looked astonished. "Why, : , no. No, I never ' did," she told him. "Has someone been using -it?". ;:.iC - -. . "I was hoping you'd tell me," - muttered the Inspector disgust edly as ha gave us a gesture of dismissal. - ;- Before dinner Aunt Millie and I managed to snatch an hour , to the hennery our first undis turbed, peaceful time-out since the murder for a thorough dis cussion of the various incidents of the day, and to tell each Other what had happened to our respective absences. " Amy's staunch refusal to dis close her lover's Identity didn't Impress Aunt Millie much. The girl had been, meeting him In . secret f rosome reason or other, and her attempt at upholding -. the status quo was only natural But the scene Stella Avery had created, after her summary evic tion by the inspector, drove her into transports of eloquence. "I tell you, Kay, it was some thing! Only missed being a reg ular old-fashioned hair-pulling ; match by the strength of Serge ant Flynn's brawny right arm. Such vocabulary! Such flapping and cackling when the sergeant boosted her into her car! And Alice Forres tall gave as good as she got Not that I blame her. Any henll defend her" chick." - "Especially If she's thrown it into the old serpent's mouth her self I said dfryly. "What did she really come here for? The Avery creature, I mean?" . ?You. think her warning against Gala was a ' blind?". Aunt Millie ; asked, Instantly alert. - . . "What else? She couldn't ex pect we'd believe her uncondi-.. tionally, and rash to the police ' with a clamor for Gala's arrest No she wanted to find out something.' X don't know It's 1 only a feeling I have but I I thought she was scared."' "I didn't notice It" Aunt Mil-. lie told me. "Still, Jt's an idea. , Everyone else is using blinds: So, why not Stella Avery?" ' " "That's right Blinds blinds ' everywhere," I thought out 'loud. "My lost compact Roberts thrown-away stone Gala's bor rowing books " j I stopped with a sharp intake of breath. It wasn't lost on my astute aunt "You think she lied about when she was there? It , might have been she screaming and running away?" "No," I told her pensively. "No, I don't think that Who ever it was ran downstairs too quickly." ' "But with much stumbling and bumping, you said," Aunt .Millie reminded me. "That's , true. Still it was more the way you'd run, In the dark, If you weren't familiar with a place," I explained. "Oh, I don't know! I haven't an idea how fast a person can run with an artificial leg." 1 J "Then what did you suck your breath in for?" "Gala going there Thursday night I bet she went after a . book the way I did after the compact I hadn't lost" "Meaning: she went to see , Bruce?" v I nodded. "Yes. It may be the explanation to the whole thing. His staying here secretly. She went for a business talk with him. After all, they must know each other well, being relations by adoption, and she's next In line to inherit the estate. She'd ' know he was here when For restall knew it" , i "Why, certainly! Bright girl!" Aunt Millie applauded. "That's the whole thing in a nutshell! k Bruce came here to talk things' over with Gala. Probably didn't want the ugly pile. And didn't want all Cliffport butting in on his affairs either. That's the rea son for his secrecy! From what I've, seen old despot Libby, Stella Avery and so on I can't say I blame him." ; "It would also account for Forrestall's and Roberts com plicity, and I wonder if he's told her about me?" I ended Ir-J relevantly. - "I hardly think so. She'd have shown it by some look or re mark." Aunt Millie ventured. . "I'm not so sure of that but let's assume he hasn't Let's' Just stick to fact and the mur der." i .'.W "You ' mean: did he commit - It?" ' ' ".-" i - "Yes," I nodded. 1 ? Aunt Millie thought for a mo ment "I think he did. I think this is what happened: Bruce is to his : room upstairs w h e r e you've seen the light minding his own business, when, he hears a noise to the library.' He goes to investigate and finds . the goofy professor, hot after the stone and , radium map. And . well he knocks him down." (To be continued)