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From First Statesman, March 23, ' 1831 '
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THE STATESBIAN PUBLISHING CO.
1 'CHARLES A. SPHAGUE, Editor and Publisher '
Member of The Associated Press
- Tie Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publication ol all
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
Not a 20 per Cent Tax
The headlines necessary brevity and even
tome incomplete statements in the text of news
matter have misled some fraction of the public
as to the effect of the hew tax bill which be
latedly seems near to enactment The phrase
"20 per cent-withholding tax" has left its im
pression; a substantial percentage of the public
has assumed that it means 20 per cent will be
wnacKeu pxx wuu wtcu w cj. -.. ...
does not. ' - - '
Even a more careful reading of most news
dispatches will disclose that the 20 per cent de
duction is to be made "after specified exemp
tions reflecting family status." These exemp
tions are $524 a year for a single person, $1248
for married couples, plus $312 for each depend
ent.' Determining, those exemptions will be the
task of the already over-burdened paymaster
o payroll clerk but the employe impatient to
know what he will have left may figure it out
for himself.- The single person may subtract
$12, the married person $24 plus $6 for! each
dependent from his weekly wage; the remain
der is the taxable income and the worker will
know that 20 per cent of that, he will not find
iri the payr envelope. ' T- - J
"Thus if five employes of different status have
each a $40 a week income, the single person aft
er July 1 will find $5.80 deducted, the married
person without children $3,20, the married per-.
son with; one child $2, the one with two children
40 cents, the one with three children nothing
for income 'tax. But at this, point it becomes a
bit more complicated. The worker who owes
no income itax may still owe a victory tax, 'of
3 per. cent, rather than the present. 5 per 'cent.
This particular' $40-aweek employe with a wife
and three children will find 84 cents deducted
for victory tax. j 7r
Now for the bad news. The deduction of in
come tax from regular pay does not complete
the transaction. Next March 15, or on the 15th
of the third month following the 'close of the
taxable year, the usual income tax return will
have to be filed, the taxpayer taking credit for
amounts deducted and settling with Uncle Sam
for the difference. 7.- - 11
All this applies to wage or salary earners ex
cept members .of the armed forces, ministers of
the gospelv ; farm, workers, domestic servants,
casual workers and a few others in unusual cat
egories. As 'for persons whose incomes are from
sources othqc'.than wages or salaries or whose -
salaries run above the withholding: level, they
with the. exception of farmers will estimate
their ineripieVarid pay quarterly for the current;
year. FarmeVs will file 'estimates by December"
15 and pay the full estimated tax at that time."
But all these person will file) final returns at
the usual time after the end of, the taxable year,
and settle up. If their estimates were 20 per
cent too low 3314 per cent in the case of a
farmer they will ewe 6 per cent interest on
the difference.
! All persons who paid one-quarter of the tax
on their 1942 incomes by March 15, are required
to pay the second quarter by. June 15; in the
final settling-up process these payments will be
credited on their 1943 taxes. Persons whose
total tax for 1942 exceeded $50 will still owe
25 per cent of the tax on their 1942 or 1943 in
comes, whichever is smaller, to be paid in two
Installments March 15, 1944 and March. 15,! 1945.
1 The foregoing explanation is ? perhaps ; too
complicated and yet . some details have been
omitted. Two points should be understood: (1)
The 20 per, cent, withholding tax on 1942 in
comes of equal' amount, upon which the taxpay
er has been paying this year. The whole pur
pose is to make taxpaying "current.' , (2) Nev
ertheless, t the settling-up time on 1943 incomes
is, as in the past, the 15th day of.the third month
after the -taxable year ends. . - i
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Tribute to AP i .
The Statesman is one of the oldest members
of the Associated Press, having been a. member
of the old Pacific Associated Press, one of the
predecessors of the present AP. So naturally
we are interested in the pending case in which
the government is attacking the Associated
Press as a monopoly in news-gathering and dis-
tribution, and hence a Violator of the Sherman
anti-trust act.' . I
. Whether! it is a law-violator' or not is a ques
tion now demanding the attention of high-powered
lawyers and a panel of judges, and nothing -a
member-paper can say or do will have much
oonsequencer But it is significant that the gov
eprnment indictment and briefs are. most elo
quent and convincing testimony of the position
the Associated Press occupies and the work it
performs. Let us quote from the motion made
by attorneys of the department of justice:
? "It further stands admitted on the pleadings that
the Associated Press ranks first among the three
named news agencies in public reputation and es
teem; that the character of the organization as a
membership eorooratinn 1 an vii,inv.i. .
r-r M u.auuowic tutuuites
that the news which it furnishes will be presented
without any political or sectional bias, and that It
has the advantage of the good will resulting from
the fact that in the mind of the general public the
name 'Associated Press has long been regarded
u ajuuiivpi uiyieii suuraaras 01 accu
rate, non-partisan and comprehensive news report- :
; . , --" - " .... . . i :.'.'
With the government itself making such an '
endorsement of the Associated Press little re
mains to be said in its defense. The AP has been "
in existence, with even more rild .limitations
ca ad rumens to membership, for virtually the
entire life cf the Cberman act, It operates as a
cooperative, cr-i of. the. first and most success-'
ful ccrrcr-tlvcs ever established in, this coun-!
try. 7 I i :, it in very large measure Is due cred-;
it for t." " ; ..; nior news service the new$papers'
c! Amerkd ere able to render. The public has
t en in the .I:r;c; run the great beneficiary of
V 3 AP. Tl h unique in leal history that an in
''tvl' ' -a hy.i'.i methods cf operation and
i' i int hs.J . made itself outstanding
i. .:;uIJ r.z.-: . '! .. 7: J a culprit at law. Its sac-
c : -1 is c; I r i r : :t cf ill rr-Ht!
The News
By PAUL. MALLON
riiw I fa m.m miwM
WASHINGTON, May 27 The new compromise
substitute for the Ruml plan was advertised as a
tax "abatement and forgiveness" t least to the.
extent of 75 per cent. 7 '' '-'' ' "l A 1 "' ' -
'More to the point, it Is a tax
Increase. : It will' increase the
taxes of nearly everyone making
over $30 a week by at least -'per
cent next year, and 12 W per
cent more the year following
(1944 and 1945K 1 4 iTr ;
The - government : expects ta
. collect $3,000,000,000 more from
the taxpayers of the nation up to
then, than ; if ' this "abatement"
and "forgiveness" had not been
FmL Maiio proviaeo. Ana xne increase may
be more than $3,000,000,000 in the end. - , 7 : :
' Figure it out for yourself. A man with an $1800
a year income pays $103.20 (married, no depend
ents, and not including the victory tax). Under the
"abatement,' he will pay $116.20 next year and the
same the year, after, and he will continue tq pay
this year exactly the same as usual $103-20 (plus
the victory tax). - : ' r Jii'.'; 777
This increase of $120 is compulsory, and is taken '
In cash, dollars and cents, coin of the realm. The
forgiveness part of it is back debt which does not
abate actual payments from now until the end of
1945 when, the war will be over, we all presume
and hope.
At that time, you will be even with the govern
ment Thereafter, wou will have to pay only on
what you earn as you earn it
If this is a rich man's bill, every single person
earning over $15 a week is to be considered rich,
(and every married man earning over $3P) because
a full back-debt abatement is provided only for'
those . owing the government less than" $50 taxes
. (meaning, a single person earning less than $800 a
year, or a married person earning less than $1500).
The Increase is apt to be even greater for most
of us than Is above represented, because we are
"abated" only on whichever one fit the last two
years we had the smaller income. ; :
If perchance your Income is smaller this year
than last a rare case you must continue payments
the rest of this year on last year's taxes the higher"
: year.-s777 '7,' ' ; i 7: 7-.; ; ; ,.; 7i;7-; r-1-'.?-:;.? . 7
If your income is. larger this year tha last, you
must revise your current payments upward on Sep
tember 15, and pay more than you otherwise would :
for the September 15 and December VS payments. . -
. This so-called "abatement plan is supposed "to
be a compromise substitute for the Ruml plan.; Yet
It does not meet the problems the Ruml plan was
, intended to solve. s
The Ruml plan was brought forward solely? on
the theory that taxes already were too high to col
lect fully, or that the end of the war would find
the taxpayer unable to pay the government his back
tax bnL; It proposed full back-debt abatement with
out increasing payments. 7i 7 - 7
This plan or any compromise requiring' any pay
ment on the back debt in addition to payments on
current Income, is primarily a tax increase, and If
the war ends anytime within the next two and a
half years, you will still be owing the government
some back taxes. -" v.:- .' 7 7: ; '
Naturally this side of the matter has not been
stressed much to the taxpayer, who has been pre
sented generally with the good features of the plan
the points that it will help to hold down inflation,
that the accompanying 29 per cent withholding tax
wiH soon enable the government to get its war mon
ey currently at the source ( preventing evasions by
workers shifting about) and so In.
There is another good future which also has not
been mentioned much. Passage of the till is ac
companied by a common understanding among con-,
gressmen that no attempt will be made to Liereas
inrfome.tax ratei unta the end of 1345. Corporation
taxes may be increased, a sales tax levied, etc, in
response to Mr. Roosevelt's appeal for $1S,COO,CCO,
00 more taxes, but Income rates will be left as
they are, if everyone remembers the unwritten
agreement
Obviously, however, it Ls fsr more accural t
call the plan a "pay-as-you-go sheme which wUl
require increased tax payments for two and a half
- years more rather than a "forgiveness cr z.n "tU'.e-
nest," which is enly its esccsiiry :?cct.
9
Gen. DeWilt
Secretary Stimson brands as . nonsense th.e
statement jof Congressman Welch of California
. that Lieut Gen. J. L. DeWitt was being relieved
of command of the Fourth army, which has
-charge of defense of the Pacific Coast Welch
claimed he was being relieved because the war
department disagred with his refusal to permit
the Japanese to return to the coast. The Welch
statement sounded like nonsense, when uttered,
-because the war department would, have pre
vented the issuance of the evacuation order if it
had thought it was unnecessary. It could not
now bounce Gen, DeWitt on this ground, be
cause it must share the initial responsibility. ,
General DeWitt has had to carry a heavy re
sponsibilitythe defense of the most exposed
. portion of continental United States. After
Pearl Harbor Jie lacked naval strength for off
shore support! He did not have any adequate
military establishment Great cities and war in
dustries were exposed, close to the sea. There
: was a considerable Japanese population, many
: of whom were loyal to Japan. 7 7
Gen.- DeWitt, starting almost -' from scratch,
had to organize his defense. Evacuating the Jap
anese was only one phase of his duty. He or
' dered the coastal dimout, fixed restrictions on
i movement of aliens, set up the military protec
tion for the coast as rapidly as possible. That
1 "nothing has happened" is not proof that these
measures were unnecessary. In view of the
military weakness on this coast right after Pearl '
: Harbor, he would have been notoriously delin- :
quent if he had not taken all reasonable pre
; cautions to anticipate attack and be ready to
: meet it if it came anywhere along, the long ex
posed coastline. It was prudent, remembering
. Pearl Harbor, to err on the side of caution than
on the sid of fit won't happen here. 7 77 f -7
"As far as the Japs are concerned," they have
j been evacuated and should not be returned un
til the military command is willing. There is
plenty of country open to loyal Japs without
'. their coming back while this remains a target
'area. . ." ; -:
Nevs Behind
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T W ' 7
Kentucky Derby ,
KSLM rai0 AT 13M Ke. -TrOO
New ia Brici.
7.-OS Rte Shin.
TO News. .
7. -4S Morning Moods. - "
8. -0O Rhythm Ttw. .
- 8:30 Now BrTKiea.
SJS Tanco Tim.
9 OO Pastor's CaU.
:1S Unci Sam.
30-Lest Wo Forget.
t:5 Round-up Timo.'
104)0 World tn Review. -
10 AS A Song and A Dane.
10-0 Lanrworth String Quartet
1IK)0 Maxine Buren.
It JO Htto of Yesteryear.
IS SXK-OrganaUtie.
1:1S Ne-w.
W:30 HUlbiUy Serenade. , '
IS 3S Matinee.
l$Q iMm n' Abner. " - .
, 1 :15 Rollo j Hudson's Orchestra.
10 Miladies Melodies. - : '
' IMS Spotlight on Rhythm. . f
tM Isle of Paradise.
1:JJ US Navy , -
S 30 State Safety Prorram. -
SMS Broadway Band Wagon. ;
3:00 KSLM Concert Hour.
4 AO Charles Magnante. .
' 4:1S News, s - .
. 4 JO Tea time Tuimi : y
: 5. -00 Merrick's Vocal Groups 1
S:1S Recopda of Reminiscence.
50 Gypsy Orchestra. -
,.S0 Tonights Headlines. s ...t
:15 War News Corpmentary. V
C:20 Evening -'Serenade. - - v .. - 't
SMS Popular Music. - .. -v
T -00 News in Bnei. " "
7:05 Clyde Ideas' Orchestra. "
730 Keystone Karavao. .
IM-Wtr rronta tn Revlaw.
S:10 Music. " ' .,-
- 8:30 Treasury Star - Parade.
: 8:45 Modern Choir. .
SKK News.
" 9 JO Guest Night.
10)0 Serenade.
10 30 News
KALJE MBS rmmAT 1138 Kc '
: 8:4 Uncle Sam. .
. 7S0 Around the Clock. -
- 7:15 Texas Rangers.
' 738 Memory Timekeeper.
- SAOOieer Up Gang.
. 8 -JO News.
8:45 What's New. ' -
308 Boake Carter.
9:15 Woman's Side of the News.
. 9 30 Edgewater Arsenal Band.
10:00 News. -IS
as Curtain Calls.
1830 This and That
11 AO Buyer's Parade. -
11 -J5 BiU Hay Reads the Bible -11
30 Concert Cema.
11:45 Rose Room.
13:09 Mustt.
1330 News
13:45 On the Farm , front
1 M Newt. -1:15
Music." '
1:30 Music.
20-SbecOah Carte?.'
. Next day's programs appear
co mica page.
1:15 Texas Rangers. .
330 All Star Dance Parade. :
3.45 Pat Neal and the News.
3:00 Phillip Keyne-Gordoik
3:15 Wartime Women.
. 320 HeUo Again.
3:45 Stars f Today.1 ' ' .
' 4.-00 Fulton Lewis. .,
4 :30 Johnson family.
4:45 News.
5.-00 Music. - - -t- -
8:15 Superman.
530 Hi-way Patrol.
5:45 Norman Nsbitt"
00 Gabriel Heatter.
8-15 News.
830 Movie Parade. -.:
. 7.-00 John B Hughes.
.' 7:30 Lone Ranger. v
8)0 Music. Depreciation.
8:45 Music Without Words. , ,
9.-0O New.
9:15 Speaking ot Sports. "
930 General Barrows. .
:45 rulton Lewis. ,
10 .-00 Night PatroL '
10:15 Treasury Star Parade.
1030 News. -.
11.-00 Shady Valley Folks.
KCX BN FRniAT 1198 Ka.
C 0 We're Up Too. -8:15
National farm and, Horn. $:
8 :45 Western Xgn culture.-"
1M SmiUn' Ed McConnelL
7.-05 Home Demonstration Agent
7:15 Music of Vienna. - - .
730 News. - ' - . . ' -
SflO Breakfast Club.
'9.-00 Meet Your Neighbor." :.vk
930 Breakfast at Sardt'a.
10)0 Baukhage Talking.
10:15 The Gospel Singer. . ' -
1030 Andy ' and Virginia.
10:45 Funny Money -Man.
11.-0O Woman's World.
11:15 Current Events
1130 Lawson's KnighbL
11:45 Your Hollywood News. :
13:15 News Headlines. .
1330 Organ Concert -
135 News Headlines. '-- -.
1 AO Blue Newsroom Review.
. 3-00 What's Doing. LadiesT
2-30 Uncle Sam. -3:55
Labor Mews. ....
3 AO MusiC.
3:15 Kneass with th News.
330 Club Matinee. ,
4 AO My True Story. ; 1 ,
: 430 News.. '
4:45 Three Romeoa.
SAO The Sea Hound.
5:15 Dick Tracy.
5:30 Jack Armstrong.
5:45 Captain Midnight
8 AO Hop Harrigan.
8:15 News.
830 SpotUght Bands.
8:55 LitUe Known Facta.
7 AO John Gunther. - .
7:15 Grade FleMs
lao close Your Eyes.,' s
DnGrprGting
TEu'g War Nevss
: , -
. .j "By GLENN BABB
. AP War Anaryfat for Tbm Statesman -
Japan observed navy day,
Thursday b u t apparently her"
fleets remained well away from
the spots, where they might have
gained fresh; g 1 o r y in battle.
1 There is, an; American naval
. force" somewhere off Attn, in,
the westernmost Aleutians,;
where a dwindling Japanese
garrison fights grimly on, des
pairing of the help that does not
come. We know that the Ameri
can ships are there because
Tuesday they contributed an off
shore bombardment. They would
be glad to oblige any .Japanese
sea force but this challenge goes .
unanswered although it is 1T
days since the Americans landed
on Attu.
Instead his imperial Japanese
majesty's navy celebrated its
holiday, by fighting a doughty
war-over the ether, exchanging;
messages of fratenity and soli
darity with its German and Ita
lian allies also safe ' In their
harbors. ) 7
Japan's - navy ay Is .the an
niversary of the 1SC5 battle of
Tsushima" In "which Togo's fleet,
annihilated the Xlussians tinder
Eodjestvensky in the narrow sea.
between Korea and Japan. The
Russians fought under every'
disadvantage. Eoucd for Vladi
vostok, they Lad come all the
way from the ; Faliic, aroimd
Africa and Asia; tu&ir siiips bad
ly needed overhaul; men were
dyin of scurvy. "
Vevcr'Z.'.lczs Tsu-1'.aia wai a
great . Japanese victory. Com
authorities rate It the only de
cLIve cr.rj;r Lo.U'a tct'.veui sur-
1. v .. . j c. t.. 1 . z , i cen
tury -ruling out ; Jutland as in-,
decisive "and the various- battles
ot this war as involving 1 lesser
units, task - forces ' mixed with
land-based aircraft. At any rata
it gained Japan admission to the
select .circle of great maritime
powers. 7 ' "
From Tsushima and the leg
ends which grew up around it
sprang the ambitions which led
the admirals who were fledgling
ensigns in 1905 to believe them
selves possessed , of : sufficient
power to challenge the combined
navies of America "and the Bri
tish empire. There were a few
weeks -or months when they may
have had reason to believe they
had not miscalculated, but that
period is gone. ",.
One of those ensigns at Tsus
hima was Isoroku Yamamoto,"
who a generation later was com
mander in chief of the grand
fleet, the great Togo's own post.
He died last month in air com
bat, according to Tokyo's some
what mysterious account and
his -death threw a "pall over the
navy day .observance. His body
lies in state in Tokyo, with his
funeral a, great state funeral
like that given Togo and " only
tea other of the Z'Ikado's' sub
jects in modern Japanese his
toryscheduled for next week.
But this mourning is not suffi
cient to account for the somber
ness of the navy day proceediEs
rcnectcl Li Tckyo's cvn trcii
cits. There 1j the lericy
cf rrr.j.r.'.'z e, I varsity ar.i irn
pcndLrj defeat U.at Yarr.aric'.i
I;rt izx Lu r-ccc::
" 84)0 Karl Godwin. News.
8:15 Parker Family. . - . '
., 8 JO Gang Busters. '
8o Meet Your Navy. .
8JO News' Headlines. -'--
8:45 Down Memory Lena.
- 1020 Deep River Boys.
10:30 Eye Witness News.
-10:45 Modern Music Box.
lli0 This MoviDC World. -11:15
Organ Concert
llJO War News Roundup.
KOIlt CBS niOAI-878 Ka. 5
f .-uo Northwest. Farm Reporter.
8:15 Breakfast Bulletin. -
- 820 Texas Rangers. y
8:45 Koto Kiock. ' -
7:15 Wake Up News. '
70 Dick Jey. News.
7:45 Nelson Pringle, News.
80 Consumer News. - v
S:15-Valiant Lady. s
80 Stories America Loves,
v 8:45 Aunt Jenny.
m0 Kate Smith Speaks.
0:15 Bis Sister.
8.39 Romance of Helen Trent
8:45 Our Gal Sunday.
UrOO-Ui Can Be Beautiful. : -10:15
Ma Jer kins. , .
: 10 SO Vic and Sade
19:45 The GoMberRS. -
1 1 -Mi Young Dr MaloaL
11:15 Joyce Jordan.
II 30-We Lev and Learn. -
iih5 News T,.-,,:.i-ii-,'-:-r
, 1:15 Bob Anderson. Mews. ,"
13 30--Wm Winter.- News. 1 ' ; ' -12
:45 Bachelor's Children. .. ., , . , , .
1 MO Home Front Reporter. "
130 Uncle Sam. - ' " '
10 Newspaper of the Air. .
" 1 A This Life is Mlna.
0 Music. -
. 8:15 Today at the Duncan's.
' S 30 Keep Working. Keep Singing,
America. - - . '
5:45 News.
4 OO Raffles.
4:15 News. -
430 Easy Aces. ;.
4:45 Tracer of Lost Peraona.
: 840 Music.
530 Harry Flaanery. ..
- 8:45 News.
535 CecU Brown. News.
8:15 Oregon at War.
... 830 Thai Brewster Boy.
y 70 Caravan. -7:45
Elmer Davis.
. 8O0 I Love A Mystery.
8:15 Secret Weapon.
830 Playhouse.
80 Kate Smith Hour.
8:38 Adventures oc the Thin Man. -
10. -00 Five Star Final. - -10:15
Wartime Women.
1030 The World Today.
10-3O News.
1835 Air-Flo ec th Air.
. 19:45 Orchestra.
1130 Manny Strand Orchestra.
1135 News.
Midnisht to 60 a m. Muale Sx News.
KGW NBCFRIOAT 828 K.
4)0 Daws PatroL
835 Labor News.
8 0 everything Goes. - s.
830 News. - '
8:45 Labor Newa.
830 News Healines and Highlights.
7:15 News -
730 Reveille Roundua.
7:45 Sam Hay-s ,
80 Stars of Today.
8:15 James Abbe Covers tfee News.
8 30 Rose Room.
8:45 David Harum.
80 The O'Neills.
8:15 Louis P. Lochner.
.... 3 Music
8:45 News. . "
100 Benny Walker's Kitchen. .
10:15 Women and Warpower.
10:45 Homekeeper's Calendar.
11. -0O Light ot the World.
' 11:15 Lonely Women.
1130 The Guiding Light.
' 11:45 Betty Crocker.
120 Story ot Mary Marte.
12:15 Ma Perkins.
1230 Pepper Young's Family.
125 Right to Happineaa.- -
1 0 Backstage WUe.
1:15 Stella Dallas.
130 Lorenzo Jones. ....
. 1:45 Young Widder Browa.
2 0 When m Girl Marries. .
8:15 Portia Faces Life.
2 :30 Just Plain Bill.
8:45 Front Page FarrelL -30
Road of Life.
3. 15-Vic and Sada.
330 Snow Village.
3:45 Judy and Jane.
4 Dr. Kate.
- 4:15 News ot the World. -'430
Frank Hemingway.
4:45 The Personality Hour. .
. 5 J5 H. V. Kaltenoora.
S30 Allan Sheppard Commentator
. 5:45 By the Way. -
8 Walts Time.
1 830 People are Funny.
, 7,-po Tonuny Riggs and Betty Loa.
131-OWI- Reports. - -
7:45 Talk. '"
.80 Fred Waring in Pleasure Tun.
8:15 Fleetwood Lawton.
- 83 Your- All-Trne Hit Parada. 1
80 Furlough Fun.
830 Hollywood Theatre.
10 -OO News Flashes.
10:15 Your -Home Town News.
10:25 Labor News.
10 30 Gardening for rood.
110 Uncle Sam.
11:15 Hotel Biltmore Orchestra.
11S War News Rounduo.
llli t&i ajn wing Soift , -.
KOAC rS3AT-Ka. '
10 w New.
10:1 'i he Knemakers Coor.
11 t nnoi of tae Atr. .
1 1 :i 1 -i usc of the ViasterSL
12 ' Wewt
12:' isOn Farm Hour. " ' '
-1jl An..Bt In Rectal.
' 1:1S Todsv's War Commentary.
1 :2i Variety Time. '
j :&H omemnakers Half Hoiv.
2 :?. 1 1 uc.
3.") News . :
. 5:13 American Legion Auxiliary.
3:. i Concert' .
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- Ctisxiir It. Ccs.iIace-1'
It hurts," h adolttad
. through pals l!;s. mZat It's mora -Uiaa
worth it."
Ann turned away to hid the
warm Cuxh that crept u? to her
checks.' C-8 hurried down to tha
kitchen, glad tojquiet tha sweet,
. turbulence wlihin her by having
'.'.aomethiaj.to do. -While she was.
waiting for the water to boil she
;. had a strange Impulse to tele-.:
phone Helen. It was as if she.
- wanted to gather about her those
who were close to her, wanted
to share tha well-being and hap
piness that was suddenly hers.
She put the call through from
' the pantry extension. There was
' the rapid relay of hollow ope
rators, voices through to New
TLondon, to Boston and then -
"Myles calling Mrs. Huston in
' Bar Harbor." . - ; , -
: A brief pause, follotred by
Helenas reserved voice: "Hello?
. : Mrs. ' Huston speaking." :-
"Hullo! Mrs. ; Huston's sister '
. Ann speaking!". y . :
"What's wrong, Ann?" Helen
quickened with her usual con
con at the unusual. - .
"Nothing's wrong. .Why should
there be?"
"Wall, I'm sura Z dont know.
Where are you? It gave me a
: start hearing from you, when I
wasnt expecting to." 7
Sama old Helen, Ana thought;
, same old conventional fuss-bud-.fet.
Chapter IS Ooattnaesl . -
-rm in Mylea." Ann avoided
a discussion of giving Helen a
start "And 1 want - to tell you ,
- that. I've rented the place to a
very nice man who raises dogs. -And
rve got a Great Dana of
my own, and that probaDly puts
ma ia tha dog business, too, in
which I everybody ' loses their '.,
shirt, but it's fun anyway. And -so
everything's all right, and
rm not going to sell tha placa i
after all and ' oh, I flrad tha
. farmer, he was drunk And the
new tenant really is a very nice
: man, f and I'm awfully lucky to
have ; found nun."
Helen was some minutes get
ting straightened out on the sto
ry. But after she did grasp It
she bad quite a lot to say. Ann
. rolled her eyes and prayed :f or -patience.
No, . she didn't know !
anything about Mr. Wain, ex
cept that he raised dogs. . . . No,
she didn't think he could be any . ;,
of the , Wains Helen . met at "St. '
Moritz ?. years;' ago. ; he .- didnt i
somehow look the part . . , Well,
you didnt have to know a man;
aU your life to rent him your
. farm, did you? ... . Yea, she had
' ' been introduced to him at a ken-
nef V WelL youad to. meet "
.' peibpiel somewhere; ..telen ,had ;
i met her husband at a flower (ex
. hibit, so what?,. . . No, she was
n't bringing that up again -but
nevertheless . . Yes, ha was
taking the place . .right away,
there wouldn't b any slip-ups;'
Today's Gordon
By LILLIE L. MADSEN
in fact, he was already installed.
"YTfcere?"
"Here."
Now?"
... ."Yes." ..
"Ana Elvers, are you insane?
You can't permit him to stay
there with you' alone! .
, "Cut it's either this house or
a hospital." (Ann explained
briefly, about tha "dog 'fight,)
"He's safe la bed at this mo
ment in on of your husband's
sky-blue pajamas. Co you dont
have to ba upset"
- Helen, however, who was es
sentially a canary-and-goldfish-person,
was more upset than ev
er at this point Great Danes,
aha held f earth in agitation, were
notoriously fegocioMs, and Ann
must rid 'herself of the animal
immediately. As for having a
strange man there It was un
heard of! If he wasnt abl to ,
leave, Ann must call in Emma J
Jeeves at once, who would b
glad to look after him at fifty
: cents an hour, and. Ann hsould
jump in her car and drive else-
whera without delay.
"Promise me!" Helen finished
urgently. "Ann, I want you to
promls met Tm la . the mlddl
of a thousand odds and ends as
you can well imagtna on a rush
trip up here, but I shall stand
at this phone until you promls!"
"I promise," Ana meekly said,
and finished under her breath,,
"nothing of tha sortl" ,
Helen, no wiser, and a great
deal happier for not having
hearcTth tail-end of th pledg.
returned to her thousand - and
one ocTds and ends, and Ana r '
'turned to th task of preparing
supper for' two.1 All in aU, ; she
reflected dourly, it hadnt been
too smart an impulse to call Hel
en. Sh should hav known bet
ter. . 7;:, ? ' iT.-' ,-.
-Ann was pleased with th ap
pearance of th tray, and th .
coffee smelled marvelous. She
was about to carry It upstairs
when the telephone rang. For a
moment sh was tempted to ig?
nore it Ten to on it was Tom;
ten to . one Helen . had lost no
time in getting J in touch with
him. Ten to on Tom was going .
to personally, supervise her safe
return to New York. "Not It I
know it" she muttered wrath
fully, set fh -irajr Aovm- and
stalked across . th room to in
form Mr.' Tom Barton that sh
was perfectly capable "of man
aging her own' affairs. ' ' ,'?'".
;.., (To b Continued) ,','
-y
VXD HPS
far Tirada,
Mrs. " M. A. A. asks how ' to
place the fertilizer on her garden '
beans and peas. Reports this "is
her first year of gardening and
wants to know how close th
fertilizer can be put without dan
ger to the vegetables. --
ANSWAR: O. T. McWhorter.
extensioa horticultu-ist of Ore
gon Stat college, suggests put
ting it in bands two inches on
each side and two inches below
the level of th seed. In this way
it gets to the roots through which
the plants feed, Prof. McWhorter
reports that fertilizer placed on
the surface of the ground along
the "plants after they so up, does
very, litU good. However, if It
is watered down it does benefit
some. " : . . ."
O. K. A. asks what fertilizer
was ' suggested in this column
a year ago to break up the clods
and loosen the soil. - . -r C ':
ANSWER: X imagine the ques
tioner refers to one of the potas-, -slums.
I used to use potassium
sulphate, especially for. the. roses
as mine are planted in a very
heavy clay. Last year I was un
able to obtain tha potassium sul
phate and instead used the po
tassium muriate and -found that
it worked almost equally well. I
believe ihat the sulphate wiU al
so help control the blackspot on
roses. .
Safety Valvo
Letters from Statesman -.
Readers . 777;- '"77 r-.
TXSED Or "OLD JUDGE" -
-Dear Editor: People, are get-"
ting pretty - tired of - the "Old .
Judge." Will you please tell
him to take his "Booze" to the
top of some high mountain and J
enjoy it Our boys wont need
it where they are going.
Tell him also that our govern
ment receives annually , $1,000,- !
C0D.CC3 annually from th sale of
lixjuor, while , it spends '$75,000,- 7
CD0 annually for advertising th
stuff. - Our - government , ' also .
gper.fj ?:3,C03,CC3,C;0 annually
to keep uj prisons, hccpitala and
insane asylums,' which are large
ly pr 'ucij cf the liquor trafTic
- . :.. : .ct:u::7,' '- y.
- " . ZITJZ. LCLTISi: REES.
7 . ' Calem, Oregcm. -
tt -. 'r r'rm liar.-
7 ....' cf 1 fL;ovit
i..fpa Lute CoiU'- r.iCca-
L" ) elite. -
8:" -"i-.tT r ''jtcstion tn Wartime.
9-- .) tes A!wL '
- -S.
i .v ...... CX
, (Continued from Pag 1)
th ' municipal body Is abl to
earn very little on th accumula
tion. If th project is of. much
size this accrual must go on over
th years, and work deferred un
til th money ls in hand.
When bonds are sold and th
proceeds immediately applied to
the construction, then the project
Is completed and can be paid off
over tha years. It Is true thera
is interest to pay, but the mu
nicipality gets the lowest rate of
interest; and if th bonds are re
tired serially, as !s proper, tha
collections may b scheduled so
excess funds are not kept on ,
hands. Under this plan the net 1
cost to the' community in terms
of interest paid may be eonsid-.
erably less than th amount, of
interest lost to taxpayers where
th , taxes ar levied and funds
accumulated. . 7 "? ,
There is on other advantage
to th bonding method of public .
financing, and that is, voters as a
nil ar rather conservative 'In
financial matters, and will hesi
tate longer to authorize bond is
sues than they, will to authorize
accruals from taxes for projects.
And blanket . levies for general
building purposes lead to easy
spending.
- The main trouble with public
borrowing in the past was that
provision was not made for re
tirement of the debt, and often
the practice was to renew th
debt at maturity, until some
times the debt was still outstand
In though the Improvement ft
originally 'purchased .was gone.
But look back at our developing
cities and school districts. How
could they have provided school -houses,
townhalls, paved streets
without borrowing the money?
And' all these years the people
have been enjoying the use of
what the borrowed money pro
vided. In the vast majority of
cases the Improvement has long
outlived the debt and still ren
ders good service. While th
need for borrowing is reduced as
communities mature and wealth
accumulates, it still Is the most
convenient and generally th
most practical means of meeting
the growing capital needs of
communities. ' The provision la
the state constitution restricting
state and county indebtedness is
an anachronism which tLe peo
ple themselves have modified a
eu Ler cf times. .-.'
- Debt may be a millstone
around a community's neck; or it
may be a powerful lever-lifting
it 13 letter tttaL;.n:;:.nt3. ' 1