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i-'j ' ' , - -'i. .: t :: .f '- a; crrccn xtatztmail ra Cra-sa. iniiiy tis. Fucxy 23. isis it THE STATES3IAN PUBLISHING CO. CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher ' , ; Member of Tha 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. Taxation Discords j " The theme-song of the legislature, taxation, Is developing many sour notes. Some are sing ing off key, and there is apparent competition for solo parts. As early as a year ago taxa tion was proclaimed as the principal subject for legislation, and white there have been many changes in the score; it remains the; tuna most of the people at the state house are playing. (r i V'Y; -I , . The legislature itself has so far made littla of its own music. It has its 'Committees and these are well surrounded by tax experts- The governor has his tax expert. The committee has its tax expert. They all go to the tax com mission forits expert opinion. But now when the rehearsals ought to be nearly over and the concert ready to be. performed by the two houses, there is a rumble of percussion instruments, the trill of the piccolo and the sliding of the trombone in threatening discord. When the session started all awaited the governor's message, particularly for his taxation policies. These policies were property tax re duction and heavy frowns on income tax re duction. Gov. Snell acknowledged he was in debted to Guy Gordon, able Roseburg attorney, for his tax advice. But under newspaper needling the governor forsook the Cordon line and took up the Oregonian, et al line, and en dorsed income tax reduction now. So far he has not taken up the Portland Journal's sales tax line. j When the tax committee of the house, which has the initial say, cut the property tax relief to a limit of $4,000,000 per year for school dis tricts, and then said "no soap" on income tax reductions this year and only 10 or 12 per cent for next year, Secretary of State Farrell blew a loud trumpet, capturing the Oregonian head line. The governor, not wanting to drop the baton, called a muster of the experts; but at last reports the majority of the house commit tee was playing one tune and the governor and Secretary Farrell playing something else, though not a duet. The situation is fast developing into a regular Amos and Andy.wind-up. It's a mess "Ahwah, Ahwah, Ahwah. Gandhi and India Our best hope is that Gandhi, will fool his followers and not die as a result of his foolish fast. His death might start rebellion in India which Great Britain cannot cope with 1 now. The consequence would be, if the British are driven out of India, occupation by the Japanese which would then" be followed by the subjuga tion of China and final and complete Japanese supremacy in the western Pacific The British cannot, in view of their obligations to them selves and to the future of civilization, abondon India now. That is virtually what the Indian zealots demand, though they know Japan could then take over without difficulty. '."India," says Ian Yutang in a recent book, "is a land and a people intoxicated with God." But they have not drunk the same brand of soma-juice so their religious differences break out in riots. Brahmans, Buddhists, Moham medans, Sikhs, Jains. the native sects are often In violet conflict. To quote Lin Yutang again: The Hindu preoccupation with questions of the world soul and the individual soul is so intense that at times it must seem oppressive to a less spiritual people. It is this absorption in re ligion that makes difficult political adminis tration and development in India. j Few Americans can have adequate knowledge on which to base a judgment on the problem of relations between Great Britain and India. Here again there is radical divergence of opinion. Neither our sympathies for the natural aspiration of the Indians for self-government, nor" our understanding of the difficulties such a step would, create for India can be the sole basis of our conclusion. Tied in closely is the relation of India both geographically and Ideologically to the world war. We are in the war, and want no blunders made to threaten victory over Japanese aggression. Fasting Gandhi is just an incident, but if Gandhi dies and in his death loosens civil war and rebellion In India and induces waves of anti-British and anti-American feling all through the peoples of Asia then the consequences might be dis- astrous. That is why we hope Gandhi survives his 21 -day fast, so the crisis in Indian affairs may be averted. - Wooden Guns a-Capitol It means no disrespect to the congress to defend, the use of wooden guns and wooden soldiers on top of the national capitoL This means that the guns we have made are out where there is more immediate use for thera than in comfortably secure Washington. The defense: of Washington begins in Europe and North Africa and i in the seas between the hemispheres. Better have anti-aircraft guns on cargo vessels and ships of the navy than have them in Washington over the capitol. It is quite probable too that guns have been placed down Chesapeake bay and along the seacoast where they can be used to intercept enemy planes. What congress should pray f or and work for is that the enemy can be. kept far enough at bay that the wooden . guns will not need to be replaced with the real thing. . We wonder too if the complaining congress- man looked on the White House Those who thought Rommel's thrust In. Tu nisia .was merely- to- relieve pressure on" his own armies were mistaken. His strategy! was evidently- designed to cut' up" the whole allied' anry, roll up its pieces and drive the Ameri- cans .- and British out of North Africa if -he couldr TThile it appears the allies have stopped him r. J ; turned him back he certainly gave them tcrzz uncomfortable moments, and clearly. "No Tavor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Am From First Statesman, March 28, 13S1 t.:- : r r. fiaV ?3 V'Vk 7 " .a. r-ti( Urn Pi Manas 1 it W J place the responsibility in such a remote quarter. What happened on that front is explained here like this: Our heavy " forces were concentrated at the northern end of the line for a promised attack upon the Germans. The southern passes, which we had recently taken over from the French, were lightly held. The crafty nazis concentrated there a local superiority of planes and two armored divisions for a typical German thrust They had good roads leading back to coastal bases, whereas our much longer communications rambled circuitously back through the hills. They could and did throw power in faster than we could. An extraordinary phlegmatic attitude toward the set-back has been noticeable, not only in Ber lin, but in Algiers and Washington as well. Our official confidence is no doubt due to our superiority in planes, tanks, and men, from the northern tip to the southern, as a whole. Churchill said allied forces on both sides of the front (in cluding the British Eighth army) numbered 500, 000 against 250,000 Germans. You may have noticed our command did not rush superior reinforcements into the breach, but kept its troops placed largely where they were In preparation for our promised attack. From this, you would judge, our attack is still organized and ready to spring, despite the German diversion effort. Berlin's failure to propagandize the success may be attributed to the fact that this is a small story in Berlin, compared to what is. happening on the Russian front. It is our first land engagement in the eastern theatre of war and big to us but the number of troops involved is a handful by com parison with other wars Hitler is lighting. .It may prove true that Rommel has attempted more than a local diversion thrust and is bent on annihilation of our forces in all Tunisia, before he turns to meet the British on the Mareth line. He has possibly a week or more left in which to try this. The British have just arrived at the line and are several weeks away from us by any yard-? stick. Such a desperate, unorthodox strategy could logically be expected of a trapped and crafty nazl general. Also, Hitler might well attempt a simul taneous march down through Spain to Gibraltar where he could cut our best sea line of supplies, i Certain little unmentionable developments within Spain might possibly be interpreted in furtherance of this belief. , But: no one here has been able to, read such ominous Interpretations into the troop movements they are able to see. Hitler practically denuded the Russian front of planes for this campaign, but ho report suggests he has withdrawn any substantial number of fighting men or quantity, of other material "i If he has no more than 250,000 men in North Africa, he certainly has not switched his war em phasis from the Russian front f f Less than 150 nazi tanks appeared in the whole first week of the southern Tunisia operations. The whole series of North African battles has been unorthodox. Nothing exactly like them can be found anywhere in history. ; Our line actually hung in the air on its south ern extremity for several months in such a way as to make many amateur' military observers (in cluding this columnist) jittery in expectation of 'just such an attack.;--.j-; :f It seemed unwarranted to expect Rommel to wait to be overwhelmed. ' On January 21, thia i column, dated the previous day, said: f - x . , "Some amateur strategists think Rommel may cut straight west through Tunisia and attempt! ' to fall on our flank" and rear. iJ'':-; .:;.?: - ' Military men said our line had an anchor. If so, it was an invisible one resting on topography, because nazis were beyond our Hank; Apparently, . .military men just trusted that Rommel's army was too weak after its long flightio turn on us, or for other reasons did not reinforce the southern passes. ; There - was a famous occasion when Stonewall " . Jackson defeated two armies by, keeping them apart and. attacking one at a time, early in the Civil war,ibulhe had not retreated 1500 miles. - Sound interpretations, as well as the placet cf responsibility, must, however, await imminent de- roof. r veionments.,, , , fafesmait 3 f No Tax on Pinballs " The defeat of the bill to tax pintail ma 1 chines and juke boxes by the state was wise.. : For one thing the state . tax would have had the practical effect of legalizing the pinball devices, ia spite of the pious clause" that It did nothing of he kind. The licensee would construe the tax as the state's going into part nership on illicit take; and enforcement of ficials, already lax in many communities would : have taken the same view. : If the pinball machines operate lawfully, as i amusement devices only, then the state has no business taxing them. It is just petty chiseling. Some cities are levying fees on such machines, and the result is more or less tacit toleration of their running with pay-offs in hickeys. The state ought not to chisel in on the cities' racket. Those who are critical of point rationing might well remember that point rationing was first tried out at Valley Forge without any points. News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON (Distribution by Kins Feature Syndicate, Inc. Repro duction in whole or Id part strictly prohibited.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 Commentators, par ticularly on the radio, have adopted the habit of attributing our surprise set-back in Tunisia to "green troops." There was nothing wrong with those troops. They were no greener; In bat tle than their generals. Every report agrees they fought welL There were just too few of them at the particular point in the line where the surprise at tack was made. Troops just as green did all right on Guadalcanal, in New Guinea, and at Midway. 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Swing Shift. - KALE THURSDAY USt KS. -:45 Good Morning Club. Your Federal Income Tax 1 No. 41 COMPUTATION OF TAX For persons ' ding on Simpli fied Return Form 1040A, the computation of tax is shown on the reverse of the form and-all that is necessary is to take the figure shown in the appropriate exemption column opposite the amount of income block, and en ter the amount on the face of the return. ' - For persons , filing on return Form -1040, the computation of tax is shown in Items 10 through 33.The tax is levied in two parts,, the normal tax and ''the surtax. The normal tax is a flat 9 per cent of the "normal tax net in come'; the surtax is at variable rates, depending upon the am ount of "surtax net income.1 The sum' of the two taxes (Item 30) lesseredits for income tax paid at source (item 31 V and income : tax paid to a foreign country or United States possession: (item 52) constitutes the balance of tax (item 33), or the net amount of , tax payable. ? 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S2J0 Leas personal exemption. 500 Balance f surtax net Income) 2,000 Earned Income : credit 350 net income subject to nor mal tax 2.S50 Surtax upon the surtax net ' : - Income: . On the first t2.000. 250 On the balance above S2A0S -(t000) at,M per cent 10 42 15 Normal tax ( per cent of $2850) - Total normal tax and surtax 71 Taxpayers ' are urged to read carefully alt the instructions ac companying the in com a tax forms before preparing their re turns. If they need any help they can get it without cost by con sulting the nearest collector of internal revenue, deputy collect or, or internal revenue agent in jchargs By ANNE ItOWE Chapter 21 Co-nllnoed "Yes. And knocks too hard, I agreed, , Right And when be sees he's killed a man; be gets pan icky as who wouldn't and . runs away. Say-y-yi I bet you put a worse spoke in bis wheel 'than you had any ideal I could swear be and bis Roberts put . ' their beads together and, : if tilings had gone their way, there wouldn't, have been a corpse in the Burton house. The dead pro cessor would have been found somewhere on the cliffs, or In bis own house". Then you think Roberts alibi isn't so watertight as it ap pears. Be was in his room and not" ' ' Oh, bis alibi's all right, tip to a point, Aunt lUUle inter rupted me, with conviction. "He came home when he said he did. Right after seven. But from , seven to nine is two hours. Plenty of time to dismantle a room and get a man out of a house, especially" with the help of three willing confederates your Nettie and Mae, and 'Gala's Aggy." - C Thats right Maybe Bruce was in Roberts' room, over the garage, when I was looking for him,". I suggested. . MAnd the lunch basket your, two kitchen paragons were handing Roberts was for him," Aunt Millie nodded. "And Gala wasn't ill. She was ' preparing to drive him away. She'd come back from where- ever she'd taken him when I saw her car. ' We stared at each other, sur prised at the ease with which, we had solved the mystery. . "Well, thank the stars he did get away, from -'some distant station or airport or bus stop," Aunt Millie said at last By now he's probably at the other end of the country, from where . hell arrive, in due time, openly and quite- oh, quite! ignorant of the murder in his house." "I hope you're right" I said fervently. "Of course I am,"" she insisted. "It's really a very simple story, complicated by an accidental killing. Buck up, Kay. It'll all come out right for you, if you don't weaken and give yourself away." I'm afraid the smile with which I answered her optimism was pretty anaemic. I quite agreed with her and had no intention of giving myself away. But with so many others bent on doing the same thing how could I tell when my secret would conflict with theirs to my disaster? Chapter tt Somehow it was impossible to talk of anything but the murder during dinner that evening. A question of Dad's, about our act ivities of the day, brought up the subject with the soup, and It stayed with us to dessert and , after-dinner coffee. Perhaps it wasn't ethical or correct but Aunt Millie and I , talked freely of what had hap pened in Inspector Pettengill's so-called office, relating Kirs. TJbbys strange tale of poor Stod dard and the radium In great detail, and only keeping quiet by tacit agreement about Amy's predicament and Stella Avery's unwarranted meddling. Both Dad and Allen were def initely excited about the adven turous aspect of the supposed radium discovery. 4 "If that pitchblende is really so rich in radium that handling it has ruined Robert's hands, it's the find of the century!" Dad pronounced, and then teased Gala "If your cousin doesn't return, and it falls into your lap what will you do with it?" "Yes what would 1 dp with It?" she echoed with a wry smile. "Can you see me go exploring In the jungle?" The quick shadow that passed : over Dad's face told me what I'd been wondering about: he knew of Gala's terrible accident x "Why should you do any such thing? Someone else can do the , exploring for you, he said cas- exploring ior you, nc wua w ually. "The thing is much too big for any individual to handle anyway. If I were In the lucky heir's shoes, . Id go straight to Washington with it Let the gov ernment worry about getting the radium out of whatever coun try it is in." "How do you think Professor . Stoddard got wise to the stone being uranium before examining it?" Allen asked when the con jectures about the treasure hunt were exhausted. "That s simple, . Aunt Millie told him. "He came here with the knowledge and the Idea to exploit it What else should hava drawn him to this out-of-the-' way dump? He told Kay he'd been traveling in Central Amer ica. That's probably when he heard of Mr. Burton's supposed discovery. And when he didn't succeed in locating the valley himself, he traced his fellow ex plorer to his home town, figuring he'd worm his way in on the thing some way or other. Only Mr. Burton was dead when ha arrived." "And so he settled - down to wait for the heir and discuss -matters with him," X contributed. "But he cduldnt have had any proof." Gala said thought fully. . "Not until he saw Roberts gloved hands." I told her trium phantly. "I was there when ba .didAnd did- tK .acUoonjC Ay- ?? -'V i , "The man must have had ra dium on the brain constantly, Dad agreed. "And be must have ' known a great deal about it But someone else did too. That's the ' interesting point Stoddard was murdered when he went to har vest his illicit find." I- That doctors squabble over Roberts' hands, at the Libby par ty, Aunt MiiOe reminded us. "Stoddard listened to it and how! But so did a lot of others. The rn.urderer may have been among them.".; - . , . Who were the lot of others'?" Dad inquired. :- v "Every physician in the party. Allen Informed him. "And al most everyone not a. physician. It was one pf those crowds that grow,, and grow. I know I - was trying to break through it on one side, to reach Kay, while she was trying to fight her way out of on the other. You certainly have a wide choice, If your suspect was - in that mob." All during our talk I kept watching Gala surreptitiously waiting for a sign of conflicting knowledge. But her lovely face . showed nothing but natural in terest in an unexpected and thrilling development and when a little later, Dad brought out 'the .chessboard she abandoned the murder talk without a trace of relief or reluctance, and sat down to it with the whole heart ed, pleasure of the addict Either Gala was much less In the know of 'what had been go- - ing on than we'd thought or she was a consummate ' actress. At the moment I couldn't decide which, " and soon afterward I stopped wondering about it al together. ' ;. Because, for once, our plans went well. ' Dad only nodded absently when Allan announced he'd like to take me for a drive, without so much as mentioning work, and we left quickly, joy ously, and with Aunt Millie's : blessing, i f ; - "Don't you worry about me," - she told us, when we apologized . lamely for leaving her alone. "I have letters to write, for one thing, and for another I'm all set to do a spot of Lone Wolf ing." . When I returned quite late, I am glad to confess-rGala had gone, and Dad also was no long er in evidence. But Aunt Ma li was waiting up lor me in my room, flushed and very charming in a fetching night en semble. Cutting short my rhapsodies about moonlight on the bay, the combined perfume of lilac and . Jasmine, and Allan especially Allan she told me pridefully: "News, Kay! The Rorrestalls are going to present their future son-in-law to us tomorrow. His name's Robert Jordan, and he's something or other in a bank. Something lowly, I fear me." That was news indeed. "So they got the name out of Amy at home! How did you hear the glad tidings?" I asked, get ting out of my clothes. "From Conley Forrestall, the not-so-proud father, himself," Aunt Millie told me. "It's part of a long story. "Sounds Xhat way. Go on, don't leave me dangling in mid air,"! urged, half amused and half serious. "Well, I told you Td play Lone Wolf." she began with her cutest ' gnift "And I did starting with a walk in the garden among the lilacs and jasmines you caroled about so poetically just now. And naturally, my walk took me near the Burton house in which all the windows were . lighted." "The Inspector was there, grilling Roberts?" I asked. "And Forrestall," Aunt Mil lie supplemented. "Very decid edly Forrestall! Without kid gloves and at the top of his voice. It. didn't take any j eavesdrop ping to hear him, I : assure you. ; He bellowed: m run you both in as suspects if you don't coma dean" (To be continued) mm 'af OQQV O laQruCtl By l.IT.T.TrT. L. MADSEN Mrs. R. B. E. and Mrs. V. M. ask ma to tell them through this column where they can obtain certain varieties of roses. Answer: I cannot give . the names of commercial growers in this manner. However, I - am sure that ba both cases the bush es desired can be had from any . of the reliable growers. The two letters '" came' from Salem and I believe if the women will watch the nursery advertise ments in the Sunday paper they win find the names of growers who can supply the bushes. If they do not have these particu lar varieties on band, they prob ably can order them. Mrs. R. D. R. asks if it is too late to plant roses this spring. ' Answer: Not at all. They can be planted quite late. How ever, the earlier they get into the ground and established the better earlier blooms ah will have this season. Brs. B. S. A. asks when she should prune' her , roses. Says she forgets from year to year. . Answer: Roses may be prun ed now. Some growers already hava pruned theirs, while others wait until around the first of March,' Last year I didn't prune mine until mid-March, but I bepa to get It don earlier this
