V PAC2 roua ft 02301? ETATtSIAIT, fciUm. Oregon. Trii Oclob 13. IMS IS 4.;- si Y ravor Sway Us; No fear Shall Aww From first SUUcmu, Alaxch It. 1M1 ' TOE STATESilAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAOUK, Editor and Publlah ! Member of the Associated Preaa , Th Associated PTass Is exclusively entitled to the tut lor publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Tax Reduction in Sight ' , j ; Both houses of congress have passed a tax reduction measure. The j two versions will go to i conference committee where differences will be ironed out. These are not vital, and an early agreement my;b expected r Both bills provide1 tax reductions for Indivi duals and corporations and for purchasers of specially taxed articles. However pc distribu tion is not the same. The 'Associated Press gives ttis comparsion of the two bills: v; ;i I INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX Senate: Puts 3 per cent normal tax on same exemption base as surtaxes; cuts Stpercentag points off surtax rate in each bracket; tax paver pays only 95 per cent of tax figured under this formula. Estimated cut, $2,644,000,- . ooo.; .. . . '-' '. ; Reese: Puts normal tax on samcv exemption base as surtaxes; cuts 4 percentage points off surtax in each bracket; no individual to receive less than a 10 per cent tax reduction; Estimated , cut $2,827,000,000. I j I Under both bills, 12.000,000 lowjncome in-, dividual! would be swept from the tax rolls. v- ' " CORPORATIONS p -Senate: Excess profits tax repealed as of January 1, 1946; capital stock tax and de clared value excess profits tax repealed; reduc tions ordered in graduate surtax rates on small - corporations with annual income lesal than $60,- i '. 000. Corporations allowed $23,000 minimum in , credits and exemptions on excess profits tax on '; 1945 "ineome.j Total reduction $2.934,j00,000. House: Reduce effective rate of excess profits tax from 85.5 per cent to 60 per (cent next. January 1, repeal the tax January iL 1947; re- Q peal declared value' excess profits) tape and capital stock levy; Teduce combined normal and surtax from 40 per cent to 36 per cent! Total reduction, S 1.888.000,00. ; AITTOUSETAX ; Both senate and hoiise bills repeal he $5-a- year use, tax on automobiles and boats next July 1. Estimated cut $140,000,000. . . ; EXCISE TAXES Senate: N reductions In wartime levies en' luxuries and semi-luxuries. . vj. Repeal of 1941 excise taxes on snoring goods, i stoves, electrical appliances, business machines and photographic apparatus. $70,000,000. Houses Cuts back excise taxes next July 1 to their 1942 rates on such articles as- furs, :;' Jewelry, toilet supplies, liquor, admissions, rail, bus and air (travel, luggage and light bulbs. Esti mated loss to ( treasury In last half of 1948, '.' $695,000,000, including refunds on floor stocks. SOCIAL 8EqURITY TAX) . Both senate and house bills freeze Social Security payroll tax j throughout 1946 at its ; present rate of 1 per 'cent each on employers . and employes. Without such a provision, the . -tax automatically would advance to 2Vs per cent next January 1. I i 1 VETERAN8'j TAXES Senate: Enlisted personnel in armed forces forgiven all federal income taxes on service . pav for war years; extension of time given , officers to pay back taxes without interest noust No special veterans provisions. This offers substantial relief for j individual taxpayers and for corporate business! It is fully as far as the congress ought to go In view of the state of the treasury However,! if it pro vides stimulus to enterprise the results may be highly gratifying from a treasury, standpoint as well as from the viewpoint of the taxpayer, We cannot expect low income taxes "for L long time to come. Not only Is there a huge debt hanging over the government, but the spending psychology has such a grip that no one yet can make a definite promise the bud get will be balanced. This reduction is just one step-in problem of the government's ' fiscal is taken with very general agreement among the groups in congress. The real tests will come when congress" takes up its peacetime budgets. News Suppression in Middle East Throughout ithe war probably the tighest censorship of news was in Cairo, Egypt. Major General Giles, the American commander there, imposed the most rigid kind of censorship on news stories cleared through Cajro from all over the middle east- Egypt,1 Greece,: and coun tries MAsia - Minor,! The accusation has been, made that the news control was in behalf of British interests in that area of the globe; and it does seem that the- United States has been .an active or acquiescent supporter of British policy there. : ' ;. : " f;i " . (A recent incident draws fresh attention to news suppression in the middle east. Constan- VvJs? tine Poulos. correspondent of Overseas News agency, was expelled from Palestine on British orders. He had gone into Palestine on a 30-day permit signed by Gen. Giles, stayed: there six day, written but one story, when the British kicked him out, routing the expulsion order through the-American public relations' office in Cairo. -Just a few days before a Reuter cor respondent was expelled, from Lebanon. So it isn't Russia alone which closes its doors to free observation and reporting. The middle east under the British-American combination Is still controlled, with British policy apparently directed toward suppressing free reporting in that trouble-area.; ' - Our state department has been working .hard to get Russia to admit American reporters into Bulgaria, Jugo-Slavia and others of the newly liberated countries within the .Russian orbit It might make representations to General Giles at Cairo and to the British in the middle east, to see if news freedom may not be restored there. h . ; i : ' i "i - I All At Sea mi wm Dm WMhtastoa Star Tho Literary GuidcpoGt By W. a SOGERS i - i : . ;- . . News Behind the News The next war's weapons, we are told,' will travel with "supersonic" speed. That means they go faster than sound which travels at the rate of 1090 feet a second. Surely ourscientists and inventors will not stop at that snail's pace. Why not shoot for the rate of light 186,000 miles per second? Then rockets would really be going places. The death rays of the Sunday supplements of course travel at light's speed. interpret! ing . ;. The Bay's News By JAMES D. WHITE SAN FRANCISCO, Oci aS.--Nothing Is sin, pi in the Dutch East Indies and it is getting less so daily. ij ''..:" . ' The equatorial sun is very hot right) now, but political-tempers seem to have cooled to the. extent that the Indonesian leaders trying to wangle inde pendence for 70,000,000 Indonesians now talk of mediation as desirable. 1 1 . " : ST They-continue to make frightful noises?however, about the bloodshed which will follow if the Dutch sena any more troops. In their bid for allied mediation, the Indonesians say they would welcome the efforts of j American, m 1 : '' - - - -. - I uninese ana nussiar omciais. There is no indication as to why they omitted mentioning' the Brit ish, and this is a curious thing as the British i are the only allied troops who have entered Indonesia in force. They now hold the four main port cities.' . Behind them have come small 'Dutch forces, with more on the way. British troops went in, follow- Japan's collapse, under the allied i. Dp Wtoila the whole policy. It J' Reconversion Retarded : Even the Oregon rains have the habit of com ing, to an end, and so. do-labor disturbances. Oil workers are back on the jobunder a navy takeover, while the companies and unions re new negotiations. The bus strike finally ended. The prolonged movie workers strike at Holly- had some Japanese support . 1 V 1 ..11 ft am t , a . , . Vmi n rt. TV.AaKma. ink.4 arrangement whereby that part of the southwest Padfic which had been undeijf General MacArthur's command was handed over to Admiral Lord Louis Mount batten. f : - - j Sent Small Farces to Indies ' v? No Dutchman has said so publicly, but privately some Dutch say they think things might have de veloped differently otherwise. They point: out that whereas Mountbatten rfoccupied the British Mala yan bastion of Singapore with an unmistakable show of fore, h sent force to both French Indo China and th Dutch j East Indies (because the; French and the Dutch didnt hav th shipping to get their own troop back fast enough Hand that; these British forcesmostly Indian Gurkhas, wer unable to stop outbreaks of native violence against flRfN A NT! RF. AR TT th return of their former masters. These outbreak v,"B-kr rMJ "LU11 A A THE GAUNTUTT. by James Strc4 r (Doubtedar. Doran; $2.75). ' James Street is known as a writerl who knows about boys and dogs and Southern history. On th basis of "The Gauntlett," he also knows, about religion , at least as the Baptists see it. Street goes far out of his pre vious path here, in the story of London Wingo and his trials as a smaltown, small church, pas tor. Yet he writes with a sound, sure hand of theology and creed, of practice and preaching. May be the answer is that Street him self once was a Baptist preacher, and left the seminary just as London Wingo did and for th same reason: "I was broke and we were expecting our first .baby.lv Naturally that raises the ques- . tion: How much of "The Gaunt let,' H autobiographical? Street says he "never knew a preacherj like Wingo. I made him up out of several preachers." But 111. bet on of the several was James Street. Hi Allen Smith, of "Low Man on a Totem Pole" fame says this book is "A Protestant 'Going My Way. ? It -would be more apt to say that it's a Baptist "One Foot in Heaven." For on thing, as Street him self paints out, London Wingo "is not trying to persuade people to go his; Way, but is trying to find the way he wants to go." But th parallel with "ne Foot in Heaven" is inevitable to any one who remembers Hartzell Spenco's account of the Method . 1st small-town, small church, pastor Street's story, lacks th free, deft humor of the Rev. S pence's story. i Perhaps that is because, by the; author's admission, Lon don. Wjngo is several men rolled into one while th Rev. Spenc was burdened by no personality but his own. , Again, th f reader of "Th Gauntlet" feels some times that the author is leading him un duly by the hand, especially in . those paragraphs which obvious ly arc Street's own observations on what his characters should or should not do. The result is a loss tofobjectivity. ' But If'Th Gauntlet," Novem ber literary Guild selection, is. an ' engrossing, authentic story for all: thai TVier probably ar By PAUL -MALLON : i (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction In whole I or In part strictly prohibited.) WASHINGTON, Oct 25--Th papers amply reported what congressmen said about Mr. Tru man's youth i draft plan, but mor important was what was not said. ; ! Normally th democratic lead ers rush to Isay any - massage. from their president! was a great speech, often th great est ever. This time. House Leader McCor--mack told In quiring news men he wanted time to reald" th message thoroughly and Senate Importance of Money in War Told in Hollywood Lions l ain Tmnortanc of monv in waging war was explained and empha sized by Fred McKinney, assistant cashier of the Salem branch of th First National Bank of Portland as n spone weonesaay noon oeior the Hollywood Lions dub. Evn before the U. S. entered the recent war, the currency of this country had been partially frozen and im port or export of money was rig idly controled. with only c as which it could b proved had not passed through Axis hands allow ed to enter. . N ' ! 1 ' McKinney told how quantities Hi-Y Initiates To Be Inducted Nw members . selected at the meeting of the three senior Hi-Y chapters Wednesday night will be inducted during a public ceremon ial scheduled for St Paul's Epis copal church Sunday, November i. : J r". ! Elected were: : Harrison Elliott chapter Hugh Bellinger, Eldon Shafer, Jim Tsch antz, Dwight Quisenberry and four boys whose last names a re-Adams, Miles. Rankin and Johnson. I Abl Gregg chapter Dave Chamberlain, , Harold Culberton, Kennard Adams, Delwyto Kleen, Carlos Houck, Frank Prince, Jo WestphaL Bud Michaels and Paul Nieswander. I Arthur Cotton chapter1 Dale Cleaver, Dick Stewart, John Grif fith. Bob Ney, Col Stephens, Harold Littke and Howard HilL ' The committee in charge of th induction ceremony consists of Phil Welling, Dick Mae and Clar ence Hammer. A I Paal MaUo Leader Batkley could not be found around. A similarly was evident although h was significant void all down th in of both democratic and repub lican ranks, j where the men know ' the youth draft is not popular. ; Actually, only j those congressmen who had already committed themselves on both sides of the question chose to comment ' '" Actios Based en Rassla Any rush for action likewise was missing.' 'Acting Chairman Johnson of the senate military committee,: a democrat who Is against the Truman idea, said 'the matter' could not be consid ered until about January 15 when the chairman returns. Th Truman proposition thus did not change votes or arous supporting sentiment His basic between-the-lines idea . plainly was that Russia has not joined wholeheartedly in th peace, is the only competitive world mili tary power to its, has announced plans for a youth- draft of her own and i we should ilo like wise. .. jhj )' ': J Arc a men t tJnsearworthy This unspoken part of the pre sentation was th most impress ive. Th Written argument of th president cannot hold ana lytical water. J H says, for jnstaac, h wants a small army and navy, a big people like; London Wingo's par ishioners right Jin the next pew to you. - ; I wood has been called off while thenval unions thresh out their differences within AFL coun cil chambers, John L. Lewis got his coal dig gers back in the mines. About the only remain ing, tie-up of consequence is the lumber workers strike in ithe northwest; Both sides seem to be marking time; but eventually they will get to- : gether and once again the saws in! the mills will begin to whine as they bite into! the heart. V f logs. ; - , ': j ' - j , ; i Looming are strikes in the motor industry and labor difficulties In steel millj. General Motors and U. S. Stee.1 Bye taking a firm stand , against the 52-40 formuta of the CO unions. These disputes may result in a long: deadlock. That Is especially-true in the moto industry where the companies and, unions are exceed ingly hostile in their statements. But there -again the shutdowns will terminate some, time. Workers must eat and companies must operate. r In the end they get together on some basis for resumption of operations, -i j '! Without doubt these labor disturbances have seriously delayed reconversion. Indjustry In stead oi swinging fast into civilian production . has been so hampered by. troubles land fears of troubles that the gait has been sadly slowed down. The automobiles in October may not be showing up for months. All of this has a dam aging effect orj the business cycle. White de !mand accumulates, today's loss of consumption is never fully recovered.. Full employment uf ,fers retardation. We will be, fortunate if the k damage from the disturbances does not serious- ' ly impair the postwar economy. You ask Dutchmen what th British motive, if ny, might be, and they reply only that British tin and rubber 'from Malaya is likely to get a head; start in reopening world markets over Indonesian products. . . " , C, ; ' j Dutch Rerose to Be Qaeted These Dutchmen refuse to be quoted and ex press their anxiety thai Ithe Indies be kept quiet! so that the Amsterdam (policy of giving Indonesia ! dominion status under the announced program can! get going and further bloodshed be avoided. How much of this and similar talk has reached British ears is unknown, but one can surmise that one British answer would be that the British sent what they had available? at the time. On Oct 5 the London Daily Telegraph; said ; "It woul have been preferable if French and Dutch troops could have been sent to take over their respective territories, but since that was not possible, the duty has had to fall on British! troops whose rule ' is strictly limited to two ob jectives: first to accept jthe surrender of the local Japanese, and secondly, i maintain law and order." Wuld Attribat Sinister Motives " , . . Those, at homel and abroad who make it their business to discover sinister motives in Brit ish policy have been as' active as usual on those occasions. v'filv ' . ": "... Anyone who Imagines that Britain enjoys th role of policeman in other people's: territories is completely wide of the mark. It is a thankless task." -!i -:r: i;v ; . .v- A political advisor to Admiral Mountbatten now has arrived on th seen in Java, where; violence appears to have subsided during the past' week. - If the Indonesians .really Want mediation of their . claims against th Dutch they probably Will, get i i -. ...... j.; 1,11 n .... it In the meantime it Is up to them to control , 'W can list this .stuff from a prevloos emergency: as snrplas war their own forces and cr a atmosphar where material. llaJr I believe adequate eater msaswreS for thfes wcsgaesi mediation can work. t - ;' -.shi btmm valtprirMiwiw-M--- train-w lore- thfirst new aggressor, national guard and a youth draft for reserves. His defense then would rest entirely on how big and good he made the national guard,, because he admits the drafted youth; woud only have basic training not the special ized training essentiorT for; mod ern war. - He claimed , the rockets and atom bombs have robbed us of time to prepare In the future. But he said the army and navy could, not use the youthful re serves until time was taken out to get an act of congress passed. By that time 1 the nation might be destroyed, i Sea Defense Destroyed ) He claimed : our geographical ocean defense had been de stroyed (directed missiles would come winging over the icy fron tier of th arctic to our mid-1 west),' but his; plan would risk our defense to "a small" army and navy, and ; national guard, which hardly sounds like . ade quate defense i and completely abandons' : attack possibilities which are often the dest defense. Frankly, It seems to me, Mr. Truman was sold an obsolete youth draft system by the old-' time. crowd in the war depart- ment, and he dressed it up with his national guard enlargement idea, and presented it as an answer for a job it will not do. From his own evidence, we will have to be; ready to act faster than his plan would allow action. I Conscription Dressed Up Then again he said "universal military training is not conscrip tion," assuming apparently that conscription; applies only to di rect service in : the army and navy. ' ; Conscription i means "enlisted by compulsion" for anything, whether civilian ; service, youth camps or the democratic party. It is the Russian ; way,- the com munist way, the old" Prussian way and the objection that will unquestionably., sway congress against it is that there ar many democratic- ways: of doing the same job better, v . What we need for defense is a scientific army for this ' scien tific age. First there should be- a aingle department of the armed j . ; forces with a co-equal air fore jr Zfl ? to fight th very things which S V LlCntV Jr- Truman envisaged. J J ' Mere Reserve Needed . Fossilized ideas like youth drafts, should be shoved out with th fossils, and; a new enlight ened spirit generated through out our defense system. This armed ' force Should not be" fsmall" or "large" but enough. Behind this armed force, a bet tor system for! more reserves could be built in a democratic way. .We are a democracy favor ing utmost liberty for the indi vidual and should practice, what w preach. j 1 . ' . By the youth draft, the armed . forces would only give 'basic training to a little mor than ' 1,000,000 youngsters a year, tak ing them from their homes, their lives, the development of their talents and delaying their econ omic contributions as workers In the nation by a year. Training Needed la SeheeU If: military j training wer brought to them in the schools in their home towns, millions of youngsters could get baste train- -ing and be kept trained through out their high school and college years. Indeed they could get specialized 'training in scientific warfare ' subjects-t-at' a fraction of the cost of the draft program, because their families would be supporting them; instead of the government f V vi . Fbr those who do not go to school the national guard de- veibpment 1 logical- They can Credit Policies For Salem Are To Be Discugsed The Salem Credit association will meet , at noon today in I the luncheon room of the credit bur eau, with Guy Hickok, manager of the Salem branch , of the First National bank of Portland, as prin cipal speaker. : I Hickok will lead a discussion on "The Salem Community Credit Policy." Chief question to be dis cussed hinges - around the maxi mum credit terms which should be allowed consistent with the pros pective government full-employment program. Credit on home ap pliances and other durable goods, as well as on perishable products, home repairs and new construc tion, will be discussed: f ! of currency were supplied in North Africa imprinted with a yellow instead of the commoff blue seal of this country's paper money. As the Allies moved on into lands which had been occupied and strip ped 1 of money by the Axis, the temporary "mints went: to work. In Franc and Germany bills in the prevailing style were imprint ed with A. M., a guarantee by the military; government Hawaiian currency, like that of the U. S. except that the seal is brown in stead of blue was all tailed in and overprinted "Hawaii? on both sides. All money in the Philip pines was called in and receipts given the owners; copies of the receipts put in afe keeping in this country. Invasion money losses its value if its sponsoring c ountry lis driven out, but it must be printed with care to avoid counterfeiting. Cur rency of this .cou itry never fully dries", its ink, even when a bill is old, will make a mark on a white surface, McKinney said. Public Records DUuitiff chars cruel and treatment. Married March 34. CURCLTT COURT Carrie M. Thomas v Lura A. Thomaa inhuman 1907. at Stavton. Ore. Vivian Story vs Lettle L. Loose and Loren Loos doing business as Cap- itot uty Transfer company:: piaintirr demands judgment for $2363.55 for goods deatrojred in a fire on December 13, 1944. Wfnnifred D. Inglis vs AkJen C. In glis;: answer admitting and denying. State or Oregon -vs Dean Anderson. court to con- inue trial of this case to November Bolivia's Lake Titicaca, at an ele- vation of 12,500 feet, is the highest lak in the world on which steam ships regularly ply. j plaintiff - requests the ti XS. 14S. Mary Matheny vs Robert D. Math any; defendant demurs to complaint C plaintiff on the erounds that it does not state facta sufficient to con stitute a cause of suit. PROBATE COURT 1 Alvin B. Good in. guardianship es tate: report of Walter H. Bell, guar dian, on the sale of real property. George C. Will, estate: order author izing United States National bank of Portland as executor to execute agree ment ending litigation and to com promise, disputed mitten. Also supple mental appraisal by George H. Grab enhorst. Milton L. Meyers and George H. Riches at S3U0 49. Mrs. Mae A. Abbe, estate; petition for 'Prank E. Perry for appointment as administrator of estate. JUSTICE COURT State vs Orval Dale Tull. jr.? reck less driving; 125 and costs. State vs R. L. Moore: plea of guiltv to charge of writing check with in sufficient funds; sentenced to 60 days In jail and committed. 1 MUNICIPAL COURT Troy D. Connelly, route four, box 295. Salem: violation of basic- rule. 40 MPH. bail S7.50. Boy Jean Day. route nine, box S7S, Portland; defective muffler, SS paid. Albert Lengren. route seven, box 928. Salem: failure to give right of way: bail $10. 1 MARRIAGE LICENSES' ' Prank LeRoy ' Beckwith. SO. U. S. navy, Aberdeen. Wash., and Betty Lou Smith, 20. teacher, 112 S. 13th St.. Salem. Charles H. Fair, 35. farmer, and Gertrude S. Seguin, 34. sergeant tech nician, U. 3. army, both of Salem. The Safety Valve LETTERS FROM STATESMAN READERS ADJUSTMENTS ARE NEEDED To the Editor: Headline in the "Salesman" today, BUS STRIKE SETTLED. Port - of the story reads "Th strike started at midnight Sept. S, after wage negotiations broke down. Drivers drove their busses -to the. nearest station and left many passengers stranded, some of them in isolated communities with no other means of trans portation available - - -" j Strikes as they ar conducted today usually hit th general public harder than either party to the controversy. Friends of or ganized labor find it hard jto agree that this is the way jto settle disputes, while Mr. and Mrs. Public have just about lost all sympathy, During the war we frequently heard comments on the indiffer ence to customers by sales peo- r : - i f- ' j ing at nights, on weekends, iin . summer maneuver . without quitting their Jobs, lives end . famine. j But they should be furnished th best officers, with war train- : Ing and the latest equipment )k they will know how to us It. Their aviation branch should not be a flying club, but a combat t service. ' . j Wld Reaair Cars 1 ! ; These twef steps woud cover the entire youth of th country with a truly democratic kind of compulsion, by making military service a required subject in the schools and national guard or army service obligatory for those who do not go to school. j For officer personnel, Anap- . oUs and : West .Point should b duplicated to whatever extent : necessary.- . I - There is need for haste as Mr. Truman said. A long time will be required to get these things going efficiently. Many bills to carry out some phases of. such a democratic training program ar pending In congress, but j there is no democratic program a a whole. This is the gravest faul of current situation. Botch Jab Feared i If the bulheaded war depart ' ment - will not' work , out what congress wants, and is abl to control Mr. Truman, congress Is , likely - to ; work out a piecemeal substitute which will not do the . job either. .' , A .- : . It Is a condition screaming for skilled democratic leadership, which unless furnished might " well cause this nation to fall be- pie; jokes were turned ion this unusual situation. Striking work ers must give consideration to their customers in the Conduct of a strike, likewise management in their activities, if public sup port is worth anything. - Adjustments in pay-take-home and in price control are desper ately required nor can Ihese ad justments be long delayed. The best minds of the country ' should be at work on these problems in the public interest. Present methods seem to have been out moded with war's end. We hav something, about to burst, which is a second atomic bomb and this one is . not a secret, j Labor leaders, and employer repre sentatives, and official Washing ton do something about this in Jth public interest and do it without loss of any mor timet William H. Crawford. 1 BUILT LIKE A BATTLESHIP 3t Ualcrprooll Walchcs W- have a ale seleeU fa stainless steel e 14-kt. gold aUasenably Priced aasseaasBBee e Bmdget TersM samsasnaglEsaDammemi V I 1