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numm is - . ! j . ' ' .:; : 1 T- "No Favor Sways U$; No Fear Shall AwT From First Statesman, March 23, 18S1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY ; CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Uitor and Publisher . f ' . " Jtfaabex o the Associated Press C Tie Associated Press is exclusively entitled to tt raw far publication t all news dispatches credited to it or not otnerwtse creartca m ms newspaper. Fourth Inaugural 1 : When Franklin D. Roosevelt was first inaugu rated, on March 4. 1933, the country was about t the bottom of the economic depression. Mercurv-ceU Batteries The trouble with flashlights is that when you want to use one you generally find its battery dead. Houses served with electreity, amd xnost Banks were closed on orcea no. . : . . .... try over people far removed from the excite ment of Washington sat in sober mood to hear by radio what the new president would say. Roosevelt on that occasion struck a note of con fidence "our only fear is fear itself ' and gave a measure of reassurance to the country. ' Saturday, in vastly changed circumstances. Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated for a fourth term. Now the nation and the world are locked in war. The flush of war prosperity con trasts sharply with the starved economy of 12 years ago. The spectre of unemployment which haunted the country for a decade has faded; and the congress, instead of being called on to leg islate to spread employment, is urged to 'enact service legislation to augment the supply of war plarjt workers. 1 This time the inauguration itself was a quiet affair. No parades and marching bands, no huge crowds, no climax of an inaugural ball, no celebration to mark the return of the democratic party to power. A simple ceremony; on the White house porch; a short .address a small crowd made up what is distinctly ah historic tvent. , " ; V""( - '. ' I ; ' T-'-;.-;- For us the scene is. foreshortened." Ten dec ades hence it "may be seen in different perspec tive. ; The people of that day will look back on the event as we now do on Lincoln's second, in augural. , One prediction seems safe and that is, that the mistakes and the blunders' of the war effort will diminish in significance as time passes. What will grow will be a sense of the difficulties and the achievements of this war. And in the center of .it all, of course, will be Franklin D. Roosevelt. jl History4 does not deal very kindly with those critics of George Washington during the revo lutionary war, with the cabal J of generals who tried to unseat him or with complaining mem bers of the congress. History gives little favor to Lincoln's critics, either, those who were dis gusted with Lincoln's mismanagement of the war, nor with the committee from congress which served as a rent for dissatisfaction. Washington and Lincoln stand out against the background of hardship and difficulty, rising high above their critics. With complete military success Roosevelt too will loom as a great war president. If to winning victory on the battle field he can add success in statesmanship then surely his place in history will be doubly sure. Ahead lies the last test, the test , of world statesmanship, with many dragons, visible and Invisible, lying in wait. Negotiating peace with victors and With vanquished, helping the peo ples of earth to realize their dream of a sensible world order, clearing the way back to economic health these are tasks which call for all that the man has of skill, of courage and df fore sight. That "the president realizes this task is dear from his own words Saturday the "su preme test," he calls it. So his inaugural, like that of 1 2 years ago, is really a challenge for -the whole "country to meet its obligation, now international as then it was national: If we meet that test successfully and hon orably we shall perform service of historic importance which men and women and chil dren will honor throughout all time. The Statesman hopes sincerely that the pres ident and the people will rise both to their re sponsibilities and their opportunities and meet this "supreme test" in the years immediately head. its failure is annoying. 1 Most every bouse Has a batch of flasblights,dekd, ji closets, base inents or attics, I which wOj belroundpd up and renewed come next camping trip, j " Those who have suffered frorn flashlight f ail" ure -and who hasn't?-will be interested in new mercury-cell battery Which is said to last five times as long as the s andard type of bat tery. It's a war development with great peace time possibilities. So Important is the new style of battery that njercury which dropped from , around $190 a flask of 76 lbs to under $100 has now bounced hack, to $165. That in terests Oregon, which is a big producer of mer cury from cinnebar mmes. i 1 I Presently the new batteries aire used in pow ering walkie-talkie sets as well as in flashlights, After the war their use should be widespread, too. ; SP -!? ; i''' i Enabling Act Some one at the state house is quoted as say ing that there is nothing in the state constitution: that, prohibits the taxing bf federal property; The constitution is silent on the subject but one of the conditions of statehood included in the enabling act of Feb. 14 1859 and approved by the Oregon legislature June 3 1859 specif ie" "that the state shall never lax the lands or the property of the. Uniteji States in said .state. - i Incidentally, another 61 the provisions of the enabling act was that jail salt springs within the state, not exceeding twelve Jin number, with six sections of land adjoining, Were, granted to the state for such disposition' as the legislature might direct. - What, jwe wonder, ever became of the state's twelve salt springs? " I : : - i- Vw '& k w ' -4- f , - - ', 1- " : - t . . frrrr m 1 ftp MM pUIDEPOST (Continued from page 1) 1 F " nbtrfiwto4 hr Xiam Faatom AwmMimt fcf MTmfitit with TW Wrtilmiua Bt Actions Speak Loader The Oregon Voter commends Senator Ma -honey's bill to strike out the $40 limit from old age assistance legislation.' As the Voter says if a fixed limit is set, as proposed In some bills, then there is not the flexibility in case of change , "in the federal law. ,Li 194J the writer recom mended removing the limit, then $3d, but the pension advocates insisted on putting in a $40 figure. ' Now they want this limit changed. The figure is more or less a fiction anyway, be cause welfare boards 'have allowed - higher grants for medical or nursing care The real limits are needs of the individual and money . available. ; - J .. I Riding across the continent in 'an army plane was ' not . the only favor shown Mrs. Elliott : Roosevelt's dog. Delivery was made in an army; truck commanded by a major. f Your Federal Income Tax It e. 15 (Centiawed) laeesne to be Beperied Alimony and separate main- -1 ten anew payments periodically received by a wife subsequent to decree of divorce . or of sep- , ante maintenance must be re ported as income. If you are paid in whole or In part for, your services ! in any thing other than money, the fair market : value of whatever was . received must be reported as in come. This applies to. meals or living quarters furnished an em ployee as part of bis compensa tion, with the exception of the rental value of parsonages fur nished to ministers of the gospel, which is exempt by law. Where employees are on duty only part of the day and can, if they de sire, obtain meals and lodging elsewhere and yet perform the duties required of them the value, of food f and -lodging received . from the employer . Is regarded ' as additional compensation. - ; I If, however, meals & living quarters ' are " furnished to em ployees for ttie convenience of -the employer, they are not part' News Behind the; News I . By PAUL MALLON ' ; (Distrfbuuon by King Features Syndicate; Inc. Reproduction ta whole or in part strictly prohibited.) i ". - WASHINGTON, Jan . 21 Everything Is going to be a lot different in Washington in this fourth term. -You can see plain signs of the character and i scope . of the change be hind the action of the house in setting up this new j committee to. Investigate un American activities. ? The skillful parliamentarian,. Mr. Rankin, of Mississippi, who navigated the authorization for , tha committee through the ap parently confused and uncertain house, has made a speech indi cating he expects this to be a real investigation." His .voice sounded to me a little hoarse, as if he were expressing a wan The infighting r3 Panl MaIIa (with aid from the nominal ad of the compensation for services ! ministration leaders): and Ran- for income tax purposes, and f kin's Isomewhat cowed group' and this may - have .drawn m enough self interested votes for , "victory. ' ' ) " f "' .; ;. Smartly Mr. " Rankin framed his proposition sd. the admlnis tration leaders, 1 particularly Speaker Rayburn (who has had . some troubles from ; CIO in his .district) could not make the.ap- ; pointments The way he has- ' died it the appointing power was put in the hands) of the demo- era tic party leaders - as repre sented on the ways and means committee., j , S . . , The" investigating personnel they finally came up with was as surprising as the success of Mr. Rankin's' original proposal. It is the custom to name believ ers in an Investigation to the di rection of it, but! lor the first " time in my 25 years' experience here, this time four of the six ' democrats named, 1 including the chairman, already had ' voted ' . - J Uslnsi. the Investigation. (Ran- : between"' the kin could not take the chairman- CIO boys plus the new dealers ' because he already has the important veterans affairs com mittee.) . i " r - . ' Most popular number at a recent program presented for the entertainment of inmates at the penitentiary was the. song "Don't Fence Me In." -. I 1 - Interprefihg The War News By KIRKE ll SIMPSON I ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR ANALYST The Hood River News remarks that a recent picture of the. spouting horn a Depoe" Bay re minds folk who live east of the Cascades that It's been jlong time since they got to visit the Oregon 3pat. Same goes for valley folk whose A cards just won't stretch to distance driving. But same goes also for soldiers in France and the Philippines. The Russian winter offensive dominates the war news of the world this week end. I Reaching from the Baltic to the Danube, it out modes every previous operation of this or any other war in size, power and speed. s - - It hold uncalculable potentialities despite ofhY cial Allied reluctance to ascribe to it yet possibili ties for bring an early end to the war in Europe. For that reason it overshadows even the impending new Churchill-Ronsevelt-&ta1in mtlne nr th amazing- spectacle of Japanese failure I for many i com to the extent of their fair days to muster more than token resistance to Mac- need not be treated as income. In determining whether they are provided for the- convenience of the employer,-it is not sufficient, merely, to show that an employ er requires the emploee to eat er reside on the premises: provid- . ed, but it must appear that be cause of the nature of .the work it Is necessary lor-the employee to eat; or reside there In order properly ; to preform his duties and that' the value of the food and quarters are not considered in determining the wages paid for services. . ;:' ; i; ' . A farmer who trades or ex changes the produce of his farm for goods or i services must re-' port as income the fair; market value of the stock at the date, of receipt, regardless of its par val ue, i-, --:v: i So .also notes received in pay ment for; services represent In-' i The bill for a $100,000 governor's mansion j has stirred many native Oregonians to take pen. in hand and write letters to the editor objecting to such extravagance. The figure seems a bit ; high, but not when you hear what prices seven room houses 40 years, old are bringing on to day's market! With the republican legislature n Oregon and the democratic legislature in Washington ordering probes of the joint distillery deal truth b going to have to do a lot of dodging to escape detection. . Alcoholism is a disease and alcoholics are sick people, is, the current theory about an ancient "evil. , The worst thing about it is that the dis ease seems to be contagious, too. " Editorial Comment " NO TBIAL FOB HTTLEKT .4 j' : Word that the allied commission on war "crimes has decided against putting Hitler and : the top flight Nazis on trial after this war is shecking, for It indicates that the bigwigs are prepared, to make a worse' mistake than they did when they failed to hold the kaiser responsible for starting the' other war. For Hitler and his like are a hundred times more, deserving of capital punishment than Hohen zollern was. . - , V:".' :; " '? --: '- The plan seems to be to confine the big Nazis somewhere, maybe on an island as Napoleon was, without a trial, and presumably under, luxurious : conditions, which wouldn't be much further pun ishment after they have lost the war because they would be safe at least And after Hitler's death wt supposed his body would be sent back to Ger many to be placed in a marble tomb for the adula tion of all future Germans, as Napoleon's was tak en to Paris and put in a tomb that is one of the sights of the French capital today. If this is the final word on Anglo-American pol icy it is to be hoped that the Russians, vtith their rough and ready ideas of Justice, get to Berlin first and get hold of tiiuer and ins conorts urst. evi dently we are too effete to deal with such men as t American plans for renewing the assault on the Arthur's power-laden invasion of Luzon or to re act effectively to Admiral Halsey's surface and air sweeps of the south China sea. ' ' J Even the formal recapitulation IJof the battle of the Belgian bulge by General Eisenhower's head quarters, disclosing that the Nazi gamble "has not seriously affected our own plans and preparations for future operations," took a secondary news rat ing against the background of the Russian drive to end -the war. ". -k,;.'- V-'-- ,: I . -:- j VThether the Nazi high command had ? sought to evade a total disaster in the east by a quick and deep retreat in the face of the Red army onslaught in Poland or been caught too extended to check the Russian juggernaut was still uncertain. t There was no doubt at the week endj however, that every eastern gateway to Berlin from the up per Oder valley to the Baltic coastal blains was being menaced by the Russians, some of than like the Breslau and Pozan passes, at5 ; perilously close range. Day by day the victory guns of Moscow ;j boomed ear-shattering salutes to new Red I army successes.:'...1 -1 y:- ;-i - Nazi evacuation of the Slovakian hump was re- ; ported by Berlin as the Russians drove beyond cap tured Krakow to sever its communicatioai life lines and outflank the vital industrial heart of German Silesia now in sound of Russian guns. t was al ready outflanked from the. north by Russian cap ture of Czestochowa. There seemed little prospect that tiie surging Red armies on the southern wing of the offensive could be brought to a stand short " of the Vak and Oder if mere, j r ff 4 ' It seemed clear that in less thanfa wek the two main Russian Vistula bridgehead drives; hid been welded into a single massive salient reaching 'clears across Poland. Northwest of recaptured Warsaw other Red forces -were seven-league booting their way down the Warsaw-Danzig railway and flank- ing highways toward a trio of critical German com munication hubs upon which contact between East Prussia and the rest of the. reich depends. " I -- In the west, crushing losses inflicted on the Nazis in the Belgian bulge battle' a revealed by Eisen hower's headquarters went far to Justify; the belief of his staff that the foe had been: stripped of the means of renewing his counter-attack anywhere on a major scale. . There was definite confirmation,, too, of the assertion that while the German gamble in Belgium had bought a little time at shockinx cost In casualties, it had not materially delayed British- market value when, received. If -a note does not bear interest and ' Is not j marketable at a fair dis count Value, there Isjno income until payments are received on It, but if a noninterest-bearing note Is regarded as good for Its face value at maturity, the fair discounted value of the note at" the time ; of receipt Should be reported as Income. Then when -payments are received on the note a part of each payment rep resents a part of the discounted i has been softshoed but clever; It started this Way.. i " When . Rankin first astonished his opposition by even daring i to propose an investigation, the . house leaders had it killed in 1 an unrecorded : vote the kind in which only numbers on op4 posing sides are counted but not the names. j You would think that" un- - American activities,, would ;.be the first subject congress would i want to investigate In war times! - but the Dies investigation, large4 ly of the communists and their activity within the CIO' and new deaL ; had been so bitterly op posed, that the Idea even oi a new fair investigation seems to have become repugnant to those forces, fresh, from what" they considered an election victory, j' Rankin, however, forced a roll call in which the names of those ' ' voting would be known to their r constituent ts--and he won then! An underlying, unstated reason - was that' such an inquiry actuf ally gives the house member a hold on the radicals in down ' town departments who are In , frequent . contest - with thern value previously reported as come. The balance is a recovery of discount originally deducted . and: hence it should be reported: . as income when received.. . "THE YOUNG IDEA" By Mossier ' - ... a ' they deserve. Baker Democrat-Herald, Siegfried line to match Russian pressure ia the east. TZave yea two seats In the last row of the second balcony behind a pillar, if possible T" If the hand of the White . House" or the CIO; was discern ible in the ways and means committee choices, it was not apparent to Rankin. He looks on the selections as "compro- mlses.- " j -! : His reason for ; placing even 1 that, bright; a lightj on what ap pears to be dull! prospects, is ; that with the three republicans, , himself and one other democrat, he may be able toj swing ma ijority of 5 to 4 in favor of some kind of Investigating, even ' against the wishes ! of the chair man (a Hague henchman) and the other democrats who simi larly, come from districts sub . Ject to tiie heavy CIO political pressure. ' 'i - ; v ;, The scope of whatever limited c Inquiries are to be made may be determined; in the end by the - popular demand created by the American Legion and other pa- u , triotid organizations interested In the subject In .his speech Rankin" asked' that they; write him any evidence they detect. Unquestionably jthe weakness ' of the old Dies committee was that it was not strictly legal or meticulous about all its: facts. On occasions, unquestionably it went. beyond the point where It could not be successfully re futed. j -;:( -; : V -. Particularly j it branded some" public people with, the commu nist .taiat ;on the ground that . they were under communist in fluence although they were pre- , sumably unaware if the nature of 'i. organizations' j which i they joined. The Dies bublicity was ." always handled Inj an accusing .rather than a factual way. The need for a fair and fac tual inquiry into tiie scope of all un-American influence ln this ; country is plain,' In! vlew ol cur- i U-ent war and 1 peace; conditions apparent to all. The FBI only : handles law violations. Congress could furnish a great resistance 1 to subtle propaganda- and meth ods. This need is likely to con : tinue to exist for a long time. ftlaybr , Commends Kiwanis Activities ( Commending the!t community service activities of Kiwanis Inter national,: founded in Detroit 39 years ago this month, Mayor I M. Dough ton has issued a proc lamation setting ; aside the period of January 21 to 27 as Kiwanis anniversary week iA Salem. He credited .Kiwanis" with helping to provide much of the moral Stimu lus for the world war effort, f The Kiwanis club Of Salem will observe the JOth . anniversary , of Kiwanis International at a meet ing to be held at noon Tuesday, Jan. 23, at the Marion IIoteL Teat community event," mused the. a T. Reporter, fla facW one "of my reerly. assignments t. a small "town daily was to cover' one. of these evangelistic cam-, paigna. They always rated, gobs, of publicity z J, "TaIk '-. about cooperation I and community effort your certainly; had plenty of bothon those ocv caslons, "fully as much as I see now. on some of these patriotic campaigns. They, had hist as many committees and they .held preliminary cottage prayer meet ings all over . the town.: Then tiiere was tiie-big union ehorusv They always made a. lot out of music at these meetings, Usually the evangelist brought with him hi own choir director. ; Sankey, you , know, was Moody's song leader. , Homer. , Rodeheaver you still see .his name on a lot of . church , music went along with Sunday and - some of the other big evangelists. If the - director could, blow a trumpet or a slip horn or if his wife could lead an 'Orchestra, so much the better. fYes, they counted a . lot j on music to gettthe crowd in tune, emotionally. After a half -hour of j singing by- congregation and choir, with perhaps i Nearer ;My God to Thee on a slidf trom bone, the evangelist would ap pear and go to work. - ! ( . "And believe me.it was work. Billy Sunday has his sermons down in a little-black book, but . that .Was Just for reference. .He had a flow of words and a flow of gymnastics too, and he poured himself out both ways. You could count on sermons on par ticular topics as regular as could be during the meetings. There would be one on astronomy, with figures ' about light years ' and galactic systems - to prove the glory of God and the insignifi cance, of mortal man. Always there was a stem-winder on liq uor, and usually in those days a healthy blast at dancing and card-playing. : . ' . "Then there were special meet ings a mass meeting for men on. Sunday afternoon; or one for women on . Monday afternoon. Friday night might be high school students night and . Wednesday night lodge night no group of size was overlooked.- s. "As tiie meetings advanced the pressure for conversions , would grow. There ' was mere exhorta tion to unbelievers to confess and to sinners to repent There were more appeals to hit the sawdust trail - to the altar where local ' preachers and church 'Workers greeted and registered the con verts. - ".. ' ' .vy .-'i "The last Sunday afternoon or night always allowed time for the freewill offering, which was the evangelist's compensation. Of course committees had previous ly done a pretty good job of canvassing, so the giving wasn't all spontaneous. In the aggregate the offerings j would run well into five figures. That would start a backfire of criticism over the take of the evangelists, j "There was always . an argu ment about how permanent were the conversions. The critics inT sisted that the meetings were just! an emotional orgy with very few permanent recruits to the church; but the defenders would claim there was some net gain. I suppose there are still a lot of men who trace their conversion to a Billy Sunday or a Gypsy Smith meeting. I don't believe tiie ! argument ever was settled; but; somehow the union evange listic meetings stopped. In fact I dont recall any since the first world war. Whether the preach ers finally concluded the results weren't commensurate with the effort or whether the supply jof great evangelists ran out I just don't know.-. : -. ;rv ;. s "I do know this, meditated the j Old dime Reporter, "that, come late January or early Feb ruary, good oyster stew weather, when there's snow on the ground andja stiff wind blowing I think of those Biederwolf meetings back; in Fort Wayne. Maybe it's Just j nostalgia, but you know! if .Billy Sunday was preaching in this town or Sam Jones or Gypsy Smijth Pd go and hear him, though I confess I havent dark ened a church door for 20 years, except for funerals and weddings. "I guess styles have changed wiTHW rm CIRCLET .... iKlkut'ii K2.5SI. Dill - i V ' Thi ibrotralt of the Arctic is ; yn imprententious book. Its au-. ithor stays so modestly out of the. way ma i us iuuu u p she herself has actually been in : the northlands so famiuar vo ner '.lorer t husband I YilhjalmuT.-. ? But ahe takes you there, with . -.2vtext and photograph. You travel ? alohg-the land Tint of;tiie Polar! I- Mditerranean:' the '- present ; If emphasized, but there are exdt- ing glimpses into the distent past. : and reasonable guesses at the fu- - iiitV tt ISO oaieea of'informa-. " vUon served up agreeably ,f or ; : young and old both to enjoy, - HOW TO READ BETTER AND FASTER, y Nwrmaw Lewis ' (Thomas T. CroweD; SZM) .' Here's a five-week assignment for you, and though: I havent " been able to spend the required r time on it, it looks as though it l, would perform alt it : promises. x Most people's reading habits are -; - slovenly; they: don't use. their eyes efficiently, nor their brains. ; This book is full of exercises and tests. It takes time, , but it ought . ' to save time. Recommended es pecially for book reviewers. . . ; A tANOOAOI comi ASHORE," by JoanKa Carrer Cel ' - eord (CwraeO MaxlUma Praia .- szjcs). - It is surprising, as you wfU dis cover in this book, how many i words "and phrases the landlub 1 ber owes to the sea; railroad men, ' flyers, motorists, baseball play i ers, even newspapermen have ' picked up some of their vocab r ulary from the sailor.v ' This is really a glossary, but ; Miss Colcord so smartly turns . i nauticisms " Into witticisms i that ; most people wfll not be able to 1 wait until they need it for ref ef- ' ence but will sit down and read itl tr at once from clew to earing. The author comes frome 'f ive gehera- ' tlons of seafarers and was born at sea. Sailors, she says, are Nice , Nellies when women 'are about, but she managed 'to . overhear ! enough so that this work is far from prudish. - ' Practical Rolision 1 by &av. John U atxUght, 1rm . ,oumier on Heugiois Lola, Willatngtte jirwmty Someone has very aptly said, . r . i - . uraj maa woo grows oux I grows.,,.Here wb have the'basie? -' tirinciole that 'life la a mmrwaa I , of growth, and that he who fails to grow physically, morally. In--t teRectually, and spiritually, is - failing ; to make his adjustment to life.' We, need to outgrow old j Ideas,.' old" prejudices,- and old philosophies just as much as for healthy development we need to outgrow old clothes. The person . who falls to cast aside the gar-: : on the garments of maturity has ceased growing. And where there Is no growth, there is no life. ,v Saint i Paul expressed this pro- cess, of growth In the spiritual realm as he said. "Wtim T child I thought as a child, I spoke ait a child, I understood as a child, but "When I became a man I put away childish . things. His sue- -cess in the spiritual life was due to the fact that h Vnt trmnof O w ww aaa Rare Goose Wintering In Bend's Alirror Pond BEND, Jan-. 20-P)-Discovery w oiuSjc ua kuus among nu . t i . . . . - . siant uixus wintering at -Mirror pond here reported by H. H. Sheldon, naturalist and photographer.;'- ',: The rare specimen, whose nest ing habitat Is known to be in the Alaskan Interior, was named for oernara fc. Koss, British natural ist and pioneer of the Hudson Bay company operations. K Only two pther specimens : have officially been reported in Oregon area. lv :.: . -.f ..: ..... " . Anw ' TTi - AljtMi AL f - vuuca vuurcna seeni to have left the sinner-trade to the sects. rtn afraid even the -preacher would faint in one of the older denominations if a man , called out Lord, save me from - my sins.". ; H . "What's that? What's that youre saying? Wheres that In terview with the congressman?' Oh, yes 'Coming right up. "I guess .rm getting old, wool gatherine over ih r " ww t'UiJta J ill, way, did I ever tell you about those summer camp-meetings in Foster's Grove? STEVEIB Bracelets - 1", lrrmgs - ."! . - Rings- - . , cup. ; DiAi.:o:n)s . : ' WATCB23 -, irWELRY Stevens & Son has an outstanding selection of -. chic Costume Jewelry . . . youll find many; many pieces to add a sparkling . touch to your costume ' , for daytime and evening wear. - )4 Credit If Desired Diamonds Re-set WhQe Tea . TTait Etere noon: f:30. A. M. to C P. M. ? Not Open Saturday -
