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Sol. Ofqon. Friday. March 21, 1947 mXo Faior Strays Ut, No Fear Shall Awe" FtM first SUtnnuB, Marc 2S. 1U1 TUE STATEbAlAiN I'UBLISHINC; COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Miwbtr ( th Asasrtated Press The Associated Press It exclusively entitled laUwnttw pebMeatiea el mil mwi tfispelenes credited U II m Mi otherwise credited ta this Businc, Small anil Big Marquis Child, one of the better Washington columnists, U worried over Big Business getting Bigger. He calls attention to corporation mergers, which often consist of big corporations absorbing t mailer ones. That has been a peculiar phenomenon of the postwar period. Many small outfits, burgeoned during the war. Their bosses made a pile of money; they fear or are un prepared for competitive business, and so sell out for a fat price and retire. The big corporation gets a thriving plant which it can use or a concern with which it can diversify its line. Childs points out how this performance makes an easy setup for national socialism. If industry gets into hands of a few big concerns government can simply move in, take them over and dominate the whole economy. He credits Senator Joseph O'Ma honey of Wyoming with leading a brave, but so far unsuccessful fight, against monopoly which carries just this threat of ulti mate socmlixation. One factor that Childs touches on which encourages this current trend is the tax structure. With a heavy inheritance tax to pay the heirs of a family-owned business may have to liqui d'e H to pay the taxes. The owner himself might prefer to sell to some young men. perhaps those associated with him in building up the business. But they would have to pay for it out of the profits of the business. With heavy corporation and personal income taxes paying for a business now becomes a difficult matter. The owner finds it much easier to sell to the big corporation which can pay the cost out of its treasury and if it needs more money can negotiate a loan at a low rate of interest. Another thing which induces owners of small corporations to sell out is the labor problem. They get tired of the haggling Paul (Vlallon's BEHIND THE NEWS (Dtstrthettea ay ftlact Fearmret Sra Strata, lac KeorwSactioa la waala ar ai art trtctly arafctalteO. WASHINGTON, March 20. The American news dispatches from the Moscow conference said our delegation was "embarrassed" and "the Americans shifted un easily in their seats" when Molo tov pulled from ithe secret files of J the past, the Yal ta agreement, 'promising Russia it half of $20,000.- 000,000 repara tions from Ger many. There was no valid reason for any reason able person to be ji embarrassed or uneasy. The truth is Russia has orob- Paal huiioa ably already taken more than her allotted half more than $10,000,000,000 of the dollar value at the time of the Yalta agreement. You, who have read these dispatches, know she took the paper off German walls, machinery which we had to re capture to run the Berlin subway, everything she could lay her hands on. German machinery is today strewn out all over Russian rail road sidings. The inept Russians have merely made it lose its value by putting it to little or no use, because it can be no more valu able to anyone than the sum to tal of what it produce. Of course no one outside Russia knows the itemized list of it. items taken secretly as they were, behind the iron curtain of censorship. The astonishing phase is our "uneasy and "embarrassed" dele gation made no mention of this and strain of labor negotiations with the accompanying fears of matter, did not demand opening strikes and labor trouble' Not much can be done to mitigate ! of east Germany to find out how that under present conditions: but its does dispose an owner mucn nas Deen taxen or maze any to Kive up the fight, if he can do so at a comfortable profit. It is gcir.g to be hard to buck this trend to bigness among cirpw aliens. An easing of the tax burdens and some relief on the labor front would be helpful in enabling small corporations to it-main rmall and independent. Oil ami Politic Loinor Karl Warren of California touched a spark to tl" i ttutt pi ice increase for gasoline announced by Standard of Caiitoi n.a. the third price increase since the war. Warren ln a pfci ' h ular peeve with the oil companies because they hive b-en fighting his recommendation for an increase in the gi tax to ptrmil California to expand it highway program. A -p- lal w sion of the legislature he called for this purpose faii'-d to at, and now it i up in the regular session, and the g ri nor accuses 'slick lobbyists of the oil companies" with working to lefeat the tax irerease. Rtason given for the latest increase is higher prices for cvj-le oil The previous iruiease was attributed to higher freight rj Tlie f.:st nvcrej was said to' be due to higher costs of Ot-t Ktlflg. Oil company earning have held rirind It per cent gratt;r than in 1945 for 16 companies, as accusaUons. (Our military has some of the facts ) Relates TLeetlnx Secret The inside reason for this strange omission of the plain facts of reparations looting to date Is possibly due to a quiet secret story, current in our official quar ters, as to the nature of the Yalta conference Mr. Roosevelt is sup posed to have been somewhat ill, as was also Mr Churchfll. It was once said Mr. Roosevelt forgot to have a copy made of the Yalta agreements, and a government of ficial once told me. the agreement at Yajta was recorded in Ameri can files only by certain personal notes of James Byrnes (then an unofficial adviser) which he made for his own use and placed In the safe at his home. Once Byrnes is supposed to GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty "Ne I haven't the slightest Mes where yea could reach my has hes! he Jaet said he'd be working late at the office!" DTP 0000008 ITrTDITT n (Continued from Page 1) chairman of the automotive divi sion. Hubbard, with Walter L. Sen rock as chairman, and Sidney, with Mrs. William Weiderkehr as chairman, were the other quota toppers. Public Records and the local units of govern ment. Wages are pretty good now I saw recently that the average James in coai-mining was aruunu iu a week. But too few of the mining families know how to budget their finances. They squander money on gauay lurniture, on drink or other indulgences, accu mulate little in the way of sav ings. Mine owners provide very crude housing, cheap shacks which they rent for small sums per month. The mining communi ties lack running water, sewage disposal, sanitary regulations. Op erators are indifferent as to how the miners live, say they wouldn't take care of good places if they were furnished. The publicly supported services MUNICIPAL. COURT John Venteicher, Sublimity, de ficient lights, posted $5 bail. C. H. Emery, Sweet Home, vio lation of basic rule, posted $23 B. Crenshaw, route 8, Salem, violation of basic rule, posted $5 bail. David Benjamin Hague, 1820 Ferry st., violation of basic rule, posted $10 bail. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Herbert J. Schwarz, 20, farm er, and Lorraine Maertz, 22, tele phone operator, both of Salem. Herbert C. Lucas, 23, student. Salem, and Mary Elizabeth Snow, ; 19. student, San Fernando, Calif, i Emmett L. Gilmer, 35, mill worker, and Margaret Wedel, 31, office worker, both of Salem. Kenneth L. Buchanan, 26, dep uty county clerk, and Jeannette Wieder, 23, bookkeeper, both of nave vrrcrii srin w ma --"" ( are not adequate. Truancy is lina residence hurriedly by Mr. i ,,, amnn .ki rhiiHrn i Roosevelt to find out what Mr. I kt , at high levels, for 194 ' Roosevelt did agree to " Yalu- vided. and children fwd lor them- James W. Moore, 26, truck me me..-.. u-imu. , selves for amusement, learn to driver. Junction City, and Luella : cow may have known this inside crr,. or.i ii,,m. ! r d-h i r-v. rvjrt-f in tr.e National t ity bank news-letter. Operating costs story and felt some embarrass-n-i iloobt are higher both because of hiijher wages and because ment about the entire subject for or :-ei1 to explore new fields. Drilling too must be deeper to b's reason. rtrit.-ri new ml-bearmit sarins. JTosnecti are for rontinura hi?h v" "rl al "IM"1M' 1- "J "''r- cnn-iimpiiwi anil volume increase should take care or some i lloveinc: Warren sdv he is calling on the federal depart-n.-r.t ol ;u:.ce to mvtstik;dte the companies and see if there i-i "lMfiipoir. r on of prions bv petroleum companies. Unless col 1 - on tin te thiiwn in violation of the anti-trust act nothing c j Id be ci! e by the ftxl.-i al government. The oil companies h rer wnl do well to give some heed to the reaction of Cov er. .r Wjiiit-i'.. who certainlv is no radical, for oil is still highly in '..minutbif in political prairie fires. Mr-nar of Foot-aiul-Moiith I)ieae I.jjt ar in the effort o provide more beef our government 041 t tl- Dorder for importation of cattle from Mexico. It w t Iiik however btfoie the gate was hastily slammed shut w'' n mmv (arne of the spread of hoof-and-mouth disease among Mfvuifi h 'i Ite!v the disease has been discovered 350 miles fr m the Texas border, and this has caused great alarm among a"Miwrt ciVlenvn Th.-v fear this disease which plays havoc w.th htds cf cattle S.nce Mexico is ill-prepared to stamp out the disease the 'ed Sliitts is b'ing asked to extend a neighborly hand skill tina: ans an.l vaccines) to stamp out the disease in .i.f) But Dr. B T Simms formerly of OSC. now chief of the culture (.department bureau of animal industry, reports ' the prcre5i.t in working out control measures with Mexico made an adequate legal and diplo- j matte answer to ivioiorov Dy pnni- i iiik l 1 1 111 1 l iri.-Hidin aufi i ii' j : uiemsei'es i and nullified Yalta However his sanitation. was a sort or aeiensive answer, ' and if he had raised the question of how much the Russians have already looted out of Germany he : would have put them on the de ' fensive. ' Censorship Delusion Cited The Russians are getting away smoke early, frequent poolhal Is and movies. While health services are provided by company doctors the hospitals are inadequate. What is needed is an attack all along the line, and it ought to be gin with education of the miners in home-making, in n health rules, in budgeting finances. A much bet ter job should be done by the public schools if only to enforce attendance. Mine villages should get running water and sewage disposal. These things are of greater importance than wage in creases, because thousands of shire, Ore. JUSTICE COURT Lea till Sara Oden. 10 Williams ave., no operator's license, fined $2.50 and costs. Arthur Carl Kennedy, 2635 S. Approval of Sales Tax Held Possible (Story also on Page 1) Rep. Earl Hill of Cushman, a leader in the house -faction which pushed through the sales tax measure by a 38 to 22 vote Thurs day, told representatives there was little basis to the belief that the sales tax could not win state wide approval merely because it has been beaten previously (the last time 269,276 to 96,691). He said the income tax was up for popular vote repeatedly from 1912 until it finally was endorsed at the ,1930 referendum. Other proponents of the meas ure said it was essential because other tax measures, which sales tax opponents declared would meet the state's needs, also might be carried to referendum and the state left without adequate means of support. Special Session Feared Rep. E. H. Condit of Clatskanie, in explaining why he voted against the sales tax, said he planned to be married and go to the beach July 4 "and if there's a special session of the legislature! then I'm going to be hard to get along with." The possibility of a special ses-; sion also was voiced by Rep. M. P. Gallagher of Ontario, who : urged that other tax measures be , passed conditionally so they would become operative to pro- j vide needed revenue in event the sales tax issue was defeated in , referendum. Major opposition rested on contentions that the sales tax (1) j I Summer st., no operator's license, I fined $15 and costs. i Roy G. Petty, preliminary hearing set for March 28 on ! charge of escaping from Marion county Jail. CIRCUIT COURT Wilfred Weathers and Dorothy! Weathers vs. Lulu Marie Jerman and Portland Trust and Savings Bank: Order of dismissal, upon; settlement out of court Farmers Underwriters associa-1 tion, et al.. vs. Dent B. Reed and Claire Reed: Complaint asks judgment of $1000 in settlement of alleged indebtedness. 1 Delmer E. Wood vs. Vernon W. Hall ford: Plaintiff asks $1250: damages for death of two horses, ' allegedly caused by defendant's ' operation of automobile. j PROBATE COURT j Edwin H. Foster guardianship:; Order approving annual report. t Mary Engi guardianship: Order, approving annual account. D. Clifford estate: Order closing estate. Sally Bush estate: Report of appraisers. i Mathilda Spelbrink estate: Re-1 port of appraisers. ! Frank F. Rahn estate: Report : of appraisers. 1 ' would. ie defeated for the sixth time at referendum regardless of state's budget can be balanced : without it, by adoption of pro posals contained in the tax study commission's report of three months ago. State Needs Cited Rep. Lyle Thomas cited as the states needs another $2,000,000 for the school support fund, i around $3,000,000 additional fori public welfare, and $10,000,000 to; make up the present prospective j deficit. ) To meet these needs, Thomas j suggested: j ( 1 ) Transfer to the general ! fund of $7,000,000 in surplus ; funds of the corporate excise tax act, as earlier proposed by Gov. Earl Snell; (2) enactment into law ; of the house-approved cigaret tax bill designed to raise $4,000. 000 next biennium; (3) adoption of the house-approved 1 per cent ; withholding tax measure esti-! mated to yield $2,000,000 in two years; (4) placing the tax com mission on a self-sustaining basis' instead of appropriating $1,000.-; 000 from the general fund, and (5) 1 subjecting to state income tax the now-exempt federal income tax levy, estimated to raise $8,000,000 the next biennium at a cost he estimated at less than $5,000,000 i to taxpayers who would have more deductions from federal tax. Other Bills Proposed j Rep. Giles French, terming thei sales tax measure the worst bill he had seen on the subject, sug gested passage of other pending legislation, including proposals to ; tax slot machines, reduce income! tax exemptions, and levy a 10 , per cent tax on liquor. i The sales tax was endorsed! earlier this week in an address byfj Gov. Earl Snell. who said he i never was "enthused" about the ' plan but indicated he believed it 1 now necessary. Public Urged To Discuss Medical Plans. Discussing pre-paid or social' ized medical service plans before the Salem Lions club Thursday, Dr. W. W. Baum urged all citi zens to interest themselves in the subject and to discuss their opin ions with their doctors and legis lators. Dr. Baum. Salem physician who pioneered In hte development of Oregon Physicians Service, spoke at the noon luncheon of the club in the Marion hotel. The medical profession gener ally oppose over-all "socialized medicine sponsored by the gov ernment. Dr. Baum said, because it considers such a plan unwork able. Principal objections, he ex plained, are the limited number of doctors and the unlimited de mands for service which likely would result. Dr. Baum pointed out that a municipal medical service plan had to be abandoned in Detroit, Mich., when the normal demand for medical service increased fourfold with advent of the plan. He added that treatment of spe cific illnesses or injuries, which may be predicted in a given popu lation, constitutes only 20 or 30 per cent of the total service, the bulk of which consists of con sultation and non-predictable services. SORBOE EXPECTS 125 PULLMAN. Wash.. March 20-(JPj- Coach Phil Sorboe said today . he expected 125 candidates next ; Monday for the opening of spring j football practice at Washington 1 State college. 1 Rose Society Plans Show Plans were made for the annual rose sho wto be held at the YMCA June 7 and 8 by the Salem Rose society at the society's meeting last night in the "Y. Howard J. Grady. Portland, of the California Spray Chemical corporation, spoke on "Pests and Diseases of Roses and Their Con trol and a round table discussion on fertilizers was led by Earl W. Benbow of Dallas. Dr. E. E. Boring See Better Look Better . . . with glass from Boring- Optical Co. Yes, now Is the time to let Dr. Boring or Dr. Hughe, registered opto metrists, give your eyes a thorough examination. Dignified Credit BORING OPTICAL COMPANY SB Dr. Ssss Hagbes 383 Court Phone CMS similarly with many delusions on j families on smaller incomes live the American public and this more Recently and comfortably, may further explain our embar- , proving it can be done, rassmer.t in Moscow. The key de- 1 Here we are remote from coal lusion behind all this may be the , mming districts, but we are dis fact that most of the American tressed to see pictures of the people believe Russia ha lifted . strjngy streets, the unpainted one porthole in the iron curtain shacks. the outside privies, the to let the world see freely without j fUes tne wallowing hogs, the un censorship its own conference. j kempt dooryards. We'd like to see In a way it has Yet the whole, ; h H,t,c- I V e M a 4 th t d! truth is the American newsmen must use Russian facilities to get out their news, Russian telephones, telegraph instruments, radio all manned by Russians. The Russian government, which controls all these instruments knows instant ly every word sent out by the con ference if not before. No words have been deleted the last check I made. F niarr Regret Held Possible The enlightening articles in the LHJ reveal the facts, and make it clear that joint effort is needed to eliminate the conditions which are a disgrace to America and really are not necessary. ter 'rtifMnr! . ''.gly kIow Tlte menace is gen' i me and if the disease gets a start in T -tas it mignt spread to the dairy and beef herds of the north. II -:e is e 'orm of isoltionim the whole country should ap- might have ideas he would regret pi.iv- lieiom from this hihlv infectious disease among cattle; a'o one ftim of in turrit tion.ili.sm it should approve: helping the M -can get rid of it in their country Pheasant Dinner For Patients But the overall truth of the mat- 4 CM r is that In Moscow a reporter, OllVCriOII l et Hub Bill l).Y About the only bill making a change in our system of liquor cor Trol v, I.k h is alive is MB 207, now in the hands of the sen s' alho..c traffic committee. The bill seeks to loosen some of the reMr.c tion on club-; and really opens the way to con sil 'tiitlc ;r...e The prt-ser.t law requires clubs really to func tion a plairs wh.'re meals aie served before obtaining club I ic-". . Iiom the commision MB 207 would require them to hi.e kitctwn and rfmin room equipment and space and food or. hand, but these could be mere window dressing, for there is no requirement that the club function as a restaurant. having had once he gets home I SILVERTON Silvetton hos- heard a great leader once say he pital folk dined on wild pheasant used to go out to California an- and quail Tuesday which cost Joe nually and make great decisions j Charles Bello $100 and Gaylon swiftly in the balmy air there. Duane Amon $25 in justice court. But when he came back to New York and started thinking his de cisions over, he changed every one of them back to his original idea. Travel mav broaden one too Bello and Amon, both from Sa lem, were arrested Sunday by Chief of Police Victor Grossnickle for having the pheasant and quail in their possession. Additional much and travel to Moscow might i charges on Bello were killing and even broaden s logical man into . hunting game out of season. Both embarrassment and uneasiness. I pleaded guilty and Bello was fined For this reason you may see a ; $100 and costs, given a 60-day surprising bit of news develop j suspended jail sentence, besides shortly. It is possible the delega- ; having his .22 standard pistol, tion may find it necessary to move . with which he did the shooting. the conference to some other place, j confiscated. Amon was fined $25 say, for instance switzeriana, and costs and given a 30-day su 0teiwic!v proposed in behalf of veterans the bill makes where it is really beautiful in the j pended sentence for being in the spring, it ts possible tnis may oe i company of Bello while in the done long before the allotted time I possession of the out-of -season no reffience to veteran. It would be well to let this bill die in conimU-e Present laws are liberal enough with respect to clubs. Editorial Comment Frem Oar Cen temporaries ST. rATTUCK Greet as he ws m a miioiiary to Erin. St Patrick is equally sini(i.a)t ctside tt his sttndir.g as the foremost Irish religious fi i:e 1 an .mpoctan necuiar sense he was a preserver and fur ther of civile tion He did moie than Christianize Ireland; he brought tht tled, mhlch up to his lime had been exceedingly dim in the w--ern eeeen. into cluee contact with Europe and especially with R me. Fr Ike tenefit crt civilization this was just in time. The lamp of education was lighted in Ireland to burn brightly there during th- per wi when the grent barbarian migrations almost blacked It out on the asManUnd of Europe and in North Africa. Britain as welL DoriMg the Dark Ages Ireland was the educational center of the w i 'd. The monastic schools carried on the Latin culture and fos ter trl tfae arts and the sciences. In their turn, before the Anglo N r man iaticoiu upet the traditions! life ef Ireland. Irish scholars m.ed eowei fully in the Caioungian revival of learning on the Continent. As a personality Patiick was remarkable. His power of per suasion, lor that was all he used, must have been immense. When he returned as a mi uji:M"y to the country where he had once been a slave titer were few Chiistians there. The people and their rulers weie dotnsMted by the Druids, who did not willingly give up their powers privileges. Yet Patrick overcame them all; when he died the Irish people were Christian. He had wiped out not only hed'hertiam but sieverr This gentle though Bold soul wss a great liberal o& his time. In his own words he was "Against every knowl edge that binds the soul of man.'' (San Franci-co Chronicle.) of the conference. Marshall is known to have intended to re main six weeks at the start. The delegates might be able to think with less embarrassment, more ease and above all with greater clarity in Switzerland or even in a telephone booth at the south pole. Ram Donated as Prize for Show A registered . Romney ram do nated as an award by Dr. C. H. Seagra ves, Clackamas county vet erinarian, has given impetus to plans (or the Clackamas county spring lamb show, sponsored by the newly organized Clackamas county livestock association. The show will be held the last week in May at the Canby fairgrounds. Those who already have indicat ed they will sho ware Harms Bro thers, Rufus Kraxberger, John Weber. El wood Feist. C. E. Kraft birds. The birds were shot late Sun day afternoon from Paradise road. Judge Alf O. Nelson turned the birds over to the hospital and the pistol to the game commission. Also fined in justice court were George Hayes. $5 and costs for having no operator's license; Al bert Hauck on a charge of driving with four in the front seat, $5 and costs; Norman McAllister, $49.50 on a charge of driving an over loaded log truck. Red Cross Drive Hits 70 Per Cent Approximately 70 per cent of Marion county's $49,000 quota in the current Red Cross fund drive has been turned in, Fred Star rett, general chairman, said Thursday at the Lions club lunch eon. With the Salem automotive and Fred Diety all of Canby; Wil- section over its $2800 quota and liam Staehelv of Oreeon C i t v. I two rural areas toooing their i Louis Schwabauer of Hubbard and marks the total yesterday was IV. C. Dopplet of Molalla. nearly $34,000. 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