Statesman. SaUm. Oi,TlwdaT NormbT 11, 1948 . "No Favor Sxoaya Va. No Fear Shall ' AvmT Press Tin SUUmmi. March ts. 1S5I THE STATES51AN PUBLISHING COMPANY - CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher Member-el Mm AfMcUtc4 Press The Asssciaied Trtm Is exclusively titled litktMiN awbOeallesi f aU aews dlspatchaa eretfitetf to tt er net stberwtse credited la this newspaper. .Federal Taxes and Spending Congressman Harris Ellsworth of Oregon's fourth district has a sensible approach toward the government's fiscal prob lem. Interviewed in Washington, he urges a survey to determ ine just how much government we need and what the expense of conducting it will be and then to levy taxes to raise the needed revenues, Ellsworth expressed t opposition to the pro posal of a 20 per cent cut in income taxes. From other members of the congress have come objections to Coocressman Knutsoo's plan of an immediate cut of 20 per cent in -personal income taxes. is premature, and some say that while the national income is high and use the surplus to retire Hpht Othr av mm should first) stud v what savings can be made in the federal budget 'before jumping in to cut taxes. Knutson is booked for chairman of the important house com mittee -on ways and means, but hd is not going to find smooth sailing for his tax reduction plan. We need not make too much haste in tax reduction. The lifting of the excess profits Uy was premature. It has enabled some companies which had no reconversion problems to pile up huge profits this year," far more than they need for" return on ' the investment or for reasonable reserves. If the excess profits tax had been cut to 60 or C5 per cent a lot of money would have accrued to the government. As it stands the huge losses taken by some companies like railroads and motor manu facturers entitles them to refunds of excess profits taxes which will serve to cut down the yield on corporation taxes by large sums. Republicans have urged for a long time a balancing of the budget.- That seems within the range of attainment next year and its accomplishment will: help to assure soundness for our fiscal system. We need to start whittling down our huge debt. Even new dealers who justified the deficits of the Roosevelt era said we should use periods of prosperity to recoup our prev ious leases. That time is now. we should make sure our budget will be in balance with a surplus to scale down our indebtedness. In. our program of retrenchment, reason must be exercised. Government is our biggest business. Its departments are pre sumably established' in the public service. Radical action .in lopping off bureaus, simple as that sounds, before an election, will not prove so easy when services are studied. As Ellsworth said, there is great room for retrenchment. War-swollen agencies can be shrunken to postwar dimensions. But the job should be done intelligently and prudently, to effect as great a saving as possible without destroying services which the public deems essential. The current economies temporary, because the government merely is postponing the spending. If costs decrease then the government will be ahead when the work is done. If it increases it will be behind. There is 'justification in postponing much work because of the infla tionary condition now prevailing, but the deferment does not mean economizing in the current expenditures of government. Republicans it control of congress have firm control of the purse strings. The wisdom they use will be a measure of their capacity to bt entrusted with further power in 1948. Big Nine to Participate Well, that's settled. We mean the matter of participation in the Rose Bowl game. The Pacific coast conference which stages the annual New Year's day event at Pasadena has made a tieup with the Big Nine of the midwest on a five year basis, the bid going to one of the Big Nine in the next three years and to one selected- by that conference in the remaining two years. This eliminates Army, which has the champion team of the year. The deal eliminates southern schools, like Georgia which has bad- a great team this year, and Alabama and Duke which have gotten the call in former years. Notre Dame, runner-up by a narrow margin, does not permit post-season play. The eastern schools like Harvard and Princeton and Yale sign off football with November. The west has long wanted participation by the midwest greats where football is a prime sport. The bid this year prob ably will go to Illinois or Minnesota j both good teams. Here the choice lie between UCLA and USC at the moment Whichever teams are matched New Year's day the customers are sure of a great game. A Healthy Picture The improvement of lighting on downtown Salem streets, a project talked about before, but interrupted by, the war, is a must on the agenda of civic progress, and the expiring city council does well to ready for its successor a comprehensive program to that end. Positive action on this and other plans, too, awgurs well for the smooth and orderly transition to the city manager form of government. The present council appears determined not to mark time merely because its regime soon will end. And the council -elect, led by Mayor-elect Elfstrom, is just as forthrightly setting the stage for its ascendaney. The picture Is a healthy one. The general extolling of motherhood, well warranted in so great a majority of cases, need not blind us to the fact that there are exceptions even in this great calling. Britain's labor government, in fact, is facing that problem boldly and is doing something about it. Women sentenced in court for neglecting their children are to be sent to school for training in homecraft and parenthood. Their smaller children will be with them and their husbands can visit the school. The results should be interesting. Editorial Comment THE LONELY GIANTS In the announced belief of Ilya Xhrenburg, the Russian journal ist who recently visited this country, American literature consists of s few giant works he mentioned those of Hemingwsy, Steinbeck and Faulkner surrounded by trash. Many American critics would agree about the relative stature of the authors he named, though they might be slow to underwrite the word "giant," not necessarily from a lack of enthusiasm but under the common rule that literary stature is best measured 100 years or more after the author is dead. Under shorter-term values, no one is likely to chide Mr. Ehren burg for slighting the work of Kathleen Winsor Herwig Shaw, but "Forever Amber" raises a point: if "Forever Amber" is trash, what is John Kersey's 'Hiroshima?' What is the serious literature some times written for the American stage? The writing of younger men like Irwin Shaw and Arthur Miller? The racial commentaries of. say, Lillian Smith and Richard Wright? Is "trash" the word? There will be many who think that the qualitative gulf between "The Manatee" and "Watch on the Rhine. for instance, is wider than that between "A Bell for A da no" and "The Moon is Down." Wfcat is really extraordinary about Mr. Ehrenburgs judgment is that be should have thought it significant that there are only a few literary titans among any people at a given period. By the test of time and breadth of acceptance, how numerous were Shakespeare's giant coatemporaries in England? Those of Hugo and Zola in France? Those of Dostoevsky and Tolstoi in Russia? If it turns out in the final reckoning that the American culture of this half-century has produced as many as three liters try im mortal any three ours will have been a fruitful age. Remember ing, too, that any contemporary predicting immortality for Will Shakespeare would have been hooted out of the Mermaid Tavern, we would like to own the survival rights to everything in Mr. Ehrenburgs American trash bin. (San Francisco Chronicle.) They think such a declaration we should keep up our taxes Before we rush in with tax cuts in capital expenditures are Oar Cm temporaries Paul T.lallon'G BEHIND THE NEWS (DtstrtseOea sy Klats rtsrarss irs- mtrmim, rate Mfwurtm ss Sf fat pmrt UrtctlT eyhJfcHeSl. WASHINGTON; Nov. 20 The allocator Mr. Small (CPA) was in a private meeting with mem bers of the American Railway Car institute. He wanted them to make more railroad cars. They said they could not unless he allocated more steel to them because more cars could not be made without more steeL - Mr. Small . I excused himself - J saying he had to fro to the White (House. . Behind him, Mr. Small left his assistant to talk f to the car people f He explained he V . . i ' couia not iucu r. x. "for CPA vet he , ?felt certain no increased alloca )tifn of steel for ui miUm cars would be . i made by the gov ernment because there was a good chance the White 'House would kick all government controls into the discard next January 1 lea vine only the housing adminis tration in which materials could be allocated to the most needed production. It meant Mr. Truman was contemplating following up the abandonment of OPA with the civilian production administration. thus leaving everyone to scramble for short materials in a sort of devil-take-the-hindmost scramble, although usually the devil g c t s more than the hindmost in such sn affair. Haste Appeared Essential The very next day the news papers published stories obviously inspired by the government sug gesting Economic Stabilizer Steel man would even fly to Florida with a directive abandoning di rectives, so urgent was deemed the need for haste. Certain business and objective thinking authorities outside the White House have thus begun to wonder. Several peculiar little things have happened since elec tion to suggest dejection or per haps anger or resentment among White House t advisers or an in clination to go too far. One source had quoted Paul Porter, the OPA administrator, saying he would like to stay around to see the re publican senator Taft break a bot tle of champagne over the first soup kitchen. Some of the papers have suggested Porter has become the fairhairad lad of the White House, which, if true, would be unfortunate because s defeated negative policy, such as ha has ad vocated, could hardly be expected to generate production or national hope in a time like this, of eco nomic crisis. Mr. Truman would have to get advisors who thought there was a chance to succeed be fore he could hope to inspire any one with thoughts of possible suc cess. Such thoughts are being privately expressed here. Cart Lacks Insprat&M Whether or not the published reports are accurate, the stock market certainly has lacked in spiration the past few months. The talk around Wall street indicates the financial bettors think we sre in for a period of profitless pros perity. Not even the republican promise of an individual Income tax reduction raised hopes there or prices. A fear certainly exists that some administration leaders may have interpreted the election returns too deeply. While the prominent and highly regarded leaders cer tainly can eb expected always to place national welfare above their personal political dejection, they are subject to pressure and influ ence from some aides who might not want to straighten things out too much "for republicans" (real ly the country itself), but would rather prove themselves right A .politico, is a human being, and a human, after a crushing de feat, even if it is due to his own mistakes alone, is hardly in a men tal position to generate inspira tional impetus for an economy. rrodaetioa Big Need The problem before the country is restoration of production. The consideration of how to get it should dominate all jolicies ex clusively. OPA was abandoned in accord with that theory belated ly on the eve of an election to push out food. It did exactly that. Food snd meat are now available. But it is an entirely different thing to remove all government controls on the allocation of materials to essential use before any worth while degree of production has been achieved. If we need railwsy cars, the government should allo cate as much steel as It can (de ciding on the basis of supply and need) to get as many cars as it considers to be necessary. To throw the steel market open (a sellers market, mark you), would not be in the public interest No one has economically dem onstrated it would get more pro duction, but would only remove w. . - ; l. : - . i i nun utuuicN una uvuuicwmc government restraining nana. Es sentials and necessities should get first call until the time production is able to take care of mere than these vital needs. The government is in no position to do it fairly in the public interest. Shift la Aatherlty Seen The government, for an instance from its own history, did not turn rents loose for bidding and be deviling while there are not enough houses to go around. How much a footloose distribution of gravely short materials would help production s certainly open to question. The thing has gone further than you think. Indeed, an AFL offi cial. Robert Watt, has told the grocer manufacturers (New York, Monday) in another connection, that the greatest danger today to both management and labor is that the politicians will try to shift the weight of government authority to someone else (he said to busi ness against labor because he was speaking about the union phase of the matter). American f Indians in Pennsyl vania dux pits to collect oil for medicine. j .. , . ri V ft ''fit n 4I - Hi & This One's liable to Hurt Public Records circuit court Francis Pulse vs Roy Pulse: Suit for divorce charging cruel and inhuman treatment; married Feb. 17, 1940, at Portland. Ruby Osbum vs LaVern H. Osburn: Suit for divorce charg ing cruel and Inhuman treatment; married Aug. 2, 1345, at Van couver, Wash. L. W. Hall, O. E. Slocum and Chester Stephens vs S. P. Ma th eney, and Oregon Pulp snd Pa per Co.: Suit for collection for services. Melbourne Rambo and Goldle Rambo va W. S. Remine: Suit asking court to enjoin defendants from use of log pond adjacent to plaintiffs property, and asking $5000 damages. Clinton G. Kuhn vs Margaret B. Kuhn: Decree of annullment grants return of maiden name of Margaret Lillian Benson to de fendant. Nellie Iagara vs John Lagaza; Order of default. Mabel L. Smith vs Ray T. Smith: Order permitting plaintiff to file supplemental complaint. Ralph Colvin vs Vinita V. Col- vin: Order directing county treas urer to pay money deposited by plaintiff to defendant. Marie Guild vs Robert E. Guild: Suit for divorce charging cruel and inhuman treatment; married Dec 2, 1943, at Salem. MAKKIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Donald Behrends, 22, student, and Alma J. Jones, 21, stenogra pher, both of Salem. Glen Sparks, 28, carpenter, and Darlene Stanley, 19, clerk, both of Salem. Paul r. Reidy, 36. state high way, and Ann L. Bialey, 33, book keeper, both of Salem. ntOBATE COURT Wilfred H. Epping. guardian ship estate: Order for sale of ward's real estate. Frank P. Wolfe estate: Order fixing final hearing December 23. Fannie K. Wain estate: Order appointing J. D. Minto, L. Fisher and W. H. Gardner as appraisers. JUSTICE COURT Ernest W. Beamish, route 4, box 146, pleaded guilty to charge of disorderly conduct; 30 day jail sentence suspended upon payment of $30 fine and costs and placed on probation for one year to sub mit to order of interdiction. Cleo B. Brassier, Brooks; void GRIN AND BEAR we get free elcctiat? . eJecsesl east aae "Who said foreign license, fined $1 and costs. MUNICIPAL COURT D. J. Seller, Gervala, violation of anti-noise ordinance, posted $3 baiL Alfred P. Jensen, Newberg, failure to stop, fined $2.50. George K. Wilson, Dearborn avenue, no driver's license snd failure to signal for turn, posted $10 total baiL Elizabeth Wilson, 280 Waldo rt, violation of basic rule, fined $7.50. States' Racing Revenue Tops Prior Years Distribution to the counties of parl-mutuel racing revenues, ag gregating $213,800.04, was an nounced here Wednesday by Sec retary of State Robert S. FarrelL jr. Each county received $5933.80 ss the balance of its 1940 share for the support of county fairs. Racing revenues totaling- $513, 117.28, apportioned between the counties, the several fairs and livestock shows and to the gen eral fund for the year 1948, ex- ceeded by 28 per cent such totals for any previous yesr, Farrell de clared. The counties received a total of $9,775.58 each for the year, amounting to $351,200, while other fairs participating included Eastern Oregon Livestock Show $5,000, Northwestern Turkey Show $1200, Pendleton Roundup $0,000, Pacific International Live stock Exposition $35,000 and Ore gon State Fair $35,000. The apportionment to the state general fund was $80,717.29. The distribution In 1945. runner-up to 1948, aggregated $398,755.95. Belton Calls Procedure Committee to Meet The 10-man legislative commit tee appointed to consider changes in procedunr st the 1947 legisla ture will asset here Friday at the call of State Senator Howard Belton. Belton said the committee might consider reducing the number of legislative committees 'and other amendmenta to the existing rules which would speed up the work of the session. IT Bj Lichty leak at these Mils! retting a fsrtaae! UtP rTaI m a V gj M rt n I in ran bbbst bsbv sra - am sai rrpmnm 3 rj (Continued from page 1) seems probable that a frontal at tack on any of these four laws would succeed in the next bien nium. As to the Murphy opinion it may be modified ia a future ruling of the court because some of the Judges who wrote concur ring opinions did not agree with his extreme interpretation. Some of , the proposals ad vanced for new legislation only touch the fringes of the problem. Such would be laws to require unions to Incorporate, to publish financial reports, banning strikes until after a 30-day cooling off period. They may have virtue but would not of themselves prevent strikes. Another proposal which has been worked on , a good deal is for government mediation boards or fact-finding panels. In the re cent past both employers and unions hsve not accepted the findings of such panels, snd me diation boards are toothless as far as enforcing their decisions goes. Compulsory arbitration is urged, or a system of labor courts. This would be spplied initially only to essential industries, public utili ties, coal-mining, etc. Labor, of course, will never abandon its asserted right to strike, even in the case of public utilities. Tried in New Zealand, compulsory ar bitration did not prove too suc cessful. In desperation, however, it may be attempted here. Senator Ball of Minnesota is quoted as saying that he plans to introduce legislation to ban the closed shop. This is s keystone in the arch of labor union phlloso- j phy. Already the closed shop is under attack in the states. Florida has a law prohibiting it which now is being tested in the court. Nebraska adopted a constitutional amendment which prohibits "the denisl of employment to nv per son Decs use or membership or nonmembership in a labor organ ization. Arizona and South Da kota adopted amendments along similar lines. The current demand for "fair employment practice" legislation can easily be extended to include protection of the "right to work," which now is denied by the twin methods of picketing to close down industry snd the device of the closed shop. This protection might include prevention of mass picketing which denies Ingress and egress at struck plants. Other legislation which may be considered would be to put finan cial responsibility on unions for compliance with contracts; de fining and banning of "unfair" labor practices by unions which would include jurisdictional strikes, secondary boycotts, slt downs and quickie strikes. Reforms are needed within unions to permit greater democ racy and prevent graft and rack eteering under cover of unionism. The task of writing new labor laws should be approached sanely and soberly with the primary pur pose of serving the whole people. we need to end labor monopoly and labor union oligarchy, but we do not want to faster corporate monopoly or destroy the essential freedoms of the workers of the country. BREAK-IN ATTEMPTED An attemot to break into the State Tire shoo at 710 State st Tuesday, was reported to city po nce, a wukiow was broken, but the establishment was apparently not entered, according to the re port. .; : , LICENSES ISSUED V A, marriage license application was issued ia Portland yesterday to Henry : Stenseth, McMinnville, and Charlotte JU. Trappy- Vanport. Tax Exempt List Totalletl Tax exempt properties In Ore gon for the year 1946 aggregate an assessed value of $582,472,430, the state tax commission announ ced here Wednesday. . The summary shows federal government exempt properties with an assessed value of $332. 713.485. state $40,763,941. coun ties $33,217,131. cities and towns $40,08249. school districts $52. 870,732, water districts $1,465,361. Irrigation districts $1285,606, drainage districts $2,029,390, ports $21,330,365, other municipal corp orations $330,019, literary, bene volent and charitable organiza tions $22,161,663, church and re ligious organizations. $20,270,079. burial grounds, tombs and crema tories $1,436,685 and public libra ries $1,313,460. The total exempted property by counties: Benton $10,461,739, Clackamas $58,918,580, Lane $53. 781,980, Linn $7,661,610, Marion $13,180,329, Multnomah $162,176. 039 and Polk $2,228,200. New MacKine Plants Readied Roy M. La Dow is announcing the opening of the Capital City Machine Tool and Engineering works st 3042 Portland road. It will be equipped to handle gen eral and precision machine work. Two carloads of equipment have been shipped from Detroit snd is to be installed at the new plant. La Dow has followed work ss tool and die machinist for 30 years, the past 14 years ss su pervisor of the tool snd die di vision st General Motors corpora tion at Lansing, Mich. Previously he worked in government arsenals in machine work. Besides custom work along ma chine lines, the new plsnt will be staffed with men qualified to as sist In machine design. PA8SES TEST John Anholm, Salem, passed the Washington state dental examina tion at Olympia, Wash, on Octo ber 21, State License Director Harry Huse, reported Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. Births MATUTEC To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Mstuyec. 691 Highland a vs., a son. Wednesday, November 20, at Salem General hospital. JONES To Mr. snd Mrs. Vsl teen Jones, 913 S. 12th st., a daughter, Wednesday, November 20, st Salem General hospital. POMEROT To the Rev. and Mrs. Clay J. Pomeroy, 436 N High st., a daughter, Wednesday, November 30, at SalemGenersl hospital. WATSON To Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Watson, 1456 Chemeketa St.. a daughter, Wednesday, No vember 20, at Salem Deaconess hospital. BALDWIN To Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Baldwin, Stayton, a daughter, Wednesday, November 20, at Salem Deaconess hospital. HITT To Mr. and Mrs. Vance Hitt, Turner, a son, Wednesday, November 20, at Salem Deaconess hospital. KELLE To Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kelle, Lyons, s son, Wednesday, November 20, st Salem Deaconess hospital. FtMtt Oag-Uait HaariagUd! Utttol Light I Efficient I ttnm nttt mo extra baiury S tStT warn! Jaat pnrtrel m BmU Jory 1L afedry, Cosuraltant A free audiometrie test of your hearing will eliminate guess work as to your hearing loss. We are now looasei in our new office and offer professional service to the hard of hearing. MEMBER JAMES TAFT ASSOCIATES 21$ Oregea Bldg. Stale as High SaJess, Oreg Phene 3-4191 Batteries fee ail Hearing Aids Amazing aotv THE I BT 9sr Another Large Shipment Just Arrived!, snnccii noTon co . 31 9 N. Church St, Salem, Oregon, Phone 8502 I!, L. Wysc, Former Salem Man Dies j Henry L. Wyse, 64, carpenter and resident of Salem for three years, died Saturday at his home in Portland, He had resided in Oregon for seven years. Services will be at 10:30 o'clock Friday morning at the Glough-Barrlck chapel with Dr. Joseph Adams officiating. Interment will be in Belcresf Memorial park. He was a brother of Mrs. ' E. L. Moor of Salem snd Mrs. Lena Roth, Mrs. Dan Alllman, Mrs. Dsn G. Widmer, Miss Eliza Wyse and Samuel Wyse, all of ' Way- land, Iowa. CAP to Seek AAF Liaison Expansion of the Civil Air Pa trol activities In Oregon coinci dent with closer llason with the army air forces was announced in Portland Saturday by ! Col. Harry K. Coffey, Oregon wing commander of CAP, according to. Lt. James C a n n o h and 1 C. R. Llndstrora, of the Salem, CAP squadron, who attended the meet. At a meeting of squadron 'com? msnders and staff officers of the CAP at the-Aero club in Portland it was decided to continue a pre flight course on training persons 15 through 17 years of age, Lt. Cannon ssid Wednesday. ; j Perfection of search and rescue work of CAP wss also discussed at the meeting. Weekly meeting of the local CAP squadron are held at the Salem t senior -j high , school shops every Thursdsy eye ning beginning at 7:30 o'clock. Mrs. Louise Lovelaml Dies at Salem Resilience Mrs. Louise R. Lovelandj wife of Horace G. Loveland of 405 S. 25th st died Wednesday at her residence sfter living in ; Salem for 29 years. Final rites will be held st 1:30 pjn. Friday at the Clough-Barrick chapel, with in terment at City View cemetery. Surviving are the husband, a daughter. Mrs. Delmar Bond of Camas, Wash.; a son, Phillip H. Loveland of Yakima, Wash., and six grandchildren. OSTS ESCAPEE FOUND . Fourteen-year-old Thomas E. Elliott, who escaped from Ore-' kgon state, training school Monday, was found by city policemen Isle Tuesday night, sleeping in the basement of a Ferry street resi dence. LEAVE DEACONESS Mrs. William Burrlght, route 6, box 324, Salem, with her infsnt daughter, and Mrs. r Clarence Thomas. 1824 N. 4th st., with her son, were dismissed from Salem Deaconess hospital yesterday. YULETIDE TREASURES Precious Jewelry from Stevens Matching 14 XL Cold Wedding Rings for the Double Ring Ceremony transportation MOTOR i - , ..... 4; , Makes your Biko a Here's dependable, door-to -door transportation for everyone. A new WhUaer motor (easily in stalled on any baUoonvtwcd bike) will carry you wueietct you want to go. Whisser is precision engineered, trouble tit I amies r snore per gallon I to 3S amies Berhour! Pom fid? Vrm MtUml takes the kills esetlyl Open up sew avenues of ad Ventura yoar Whisaerl