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Remov Taxes on Margarine
For sixty years the dairy industry ha fought margarine
through punitive legislation. Federal law Imposes heavy license
fees on manufacturers, wholesalers and-, retailers of unoolored
"margarine with lighter fees charged wholesalers and retailers
on uncolored. In addition 10 cents a pound is levied on each
retail sale of colored margarine and Mi of a cent on uncolored.
Some states have additional taxes or bar margarine altogether
Oregon has defeated attempts to levy such taxes.
Various arguments were used originally against margarine:
It was manufactured in unsanitary conditions.
It used foreign oils.
Coloring it like butter was am attempt to deeeive the con
sumer. Margarine was deficient in food values.
Time has pretty well removed these objections. Margarine
now is manufactured from domestic vegetable oils, from soybean
or cottonseed, in modern sanitary plants. Through addition of
vitamins it has been made fully equal to butter in food value.
Both butter and margarine are sold now in carefully labelled
cartons; the public is quite familiar with each; so the chanee of
deception is pretty well erased. As for coloring, butter itself Is
artificially colored most of the year. We cannot follow the reason
ing which gives butter an exclusive claim to yellow as a color.
In view of these facts it is difficult any longer to defend
the legislation against margarine. It seems like putting sn unfair
hobble on a competitive product.
The dairy industry is hoi.estly fearful that taking off the
taxes and permitting the sale of colored margarine will "jeop
ardize the whole dairy industry," as Congressman Murray of
Wisconsin says. But that is taking far too gloomy a view. Butter
has an important place in the diet and will retain it. It may be
that the ratio of margarine consumed will increase, but that
need not sound the doom of the dairy industry.
Butter has long been the backbone of dairying, but its rela
tive importance within the industry is shrinking. Fluid milk
for consumption, ice cream, cheese, evaporated and powdered
milk offer presently huge markets which will permit great
expansion, pver the years it should be possible to lower produc
tion costs of butter and thus prevent losses of sales.
This is a great dairy country and a great butter-producing
state, and our personal sympathies are all with the dairy indus
try. But we can't justify now the artificial protection afforded
by government under pressure of the dairy farmers and butter
makers. And we have full confidence that the dairy industry,
shorn of this prop, will be fully sble to stand alone in competi
tion with colored oleo.
The issue comes to a head in congress with hearings on II
bills to repeal the discriminatory taxes.
The Man from Waukegan
Name-it-and-you-can-have-it lotteries have become part of
the American scene, like double-features and singing commer
cials. The "Walking Man" contest was the epitome-it was. In
the vernacular, "real gone':
How America loves a Cinderella story! Little, old, gray
haired Mrs. Florence Hubbard nothing ever happened to her.
But she had a good reason why people should support the Ameri
can Heart association; her husband died v of heart disease. Now,
with $22,500 worth of prizes, she can cast off her humdrum
existence with Chicago's proletariat and take off for romance
and high adventure. Just like millions of housewives and shop
girls dream of doing.
How America loves a ' worthy cause! Contributions to the
heart association fund for research in heart disease, the nation's
No. 1 killer, came to $1,300,000. Contestants who didn't place
can feel like good scouts. Donors of the prizes got their share
of publicity, and MC Ralph Edwards has it made as an all-time
promoter.
And how America loves a good gag! Comedian Jack Benny,
his fiddle and his "hmmmmm" quartet, are welcome Sunday
afternoon visitors in millions of homes, as sure of a laugh as
Junior's first bright saying. The contest will give Jackson's joke
smiths raw material for weeks, i.e. Rochester: "Hello, master,
this is metropolis." And, hence, Benny can begin with, "L3MFT
Let s Sit, My Feet're Tired." Etc.
But if these shenanigans continue indefinitely, the listening
public, brain-weary from trying to decipher obscure riddles and
car-sore from straining for that phone to tins;, will react to
contests like they once did to auctions at war bond drives
they'll start walking . . . the other way. Then the "guess who"
games will be real gone for good.
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religious movements as the Ref
ormation; or art without refer
ence to sacred art; or literature
without reference to some of the
great sacred writings; or biological
science without getting into con
flict with fundamentalists groups
that deny Darwin's theory of evo
lution. Surely the schools should
not be required to tear out all such
pages from textbooks.
As far as church groups are
eoncerned they will have to re
organize their programs. Funda
mentally they will have to stand
on their own strength. Childrmn
do need instruction in religion;
but the responsibility talis back
on the home and the church. The
school can no longer be used as
a prop to lean on.
A somewhat different dash
a fees recently In Newark. N. J.
There the superintendent oC
schools, a Catholic, banned the
magazine The Nation from the
schools because It published a se
ries of articles which offended
many Catholics. That ami ma
arbitrary exercise of authority.
While the church may ban the
magazine for reading by Its com
municants It does not seem Just
that non-Catholie students should
be denied access to the magazine.
The basis of the success of the
American system is tolerance. Our
constitution guarantees freedom of
religion The public schools which
are open to children of all sects
have to delete anything which
might carry religious bias. With
out doubt this leaves a great void
ka youth education; but the court
ruling makes It clear that Instruc
tion in religion must be carried
on outside the public schools.
Trade in China
An AP writer from Shanghai reports that extensive private
trading Is carried on in China between areas controlled by the
government and those dominated by the communists. The latter
control mostly the rural areas. They bring in their products
to the cities and take back with them kerosene, farm tools, some
times American-made weapons or jeeps.
This should hot be surprising. The Chinese have operated
like that for centuries. Generally they have had some war lord
or bandit on their backs. They have learned to carry on their
occupations and trade regardless of what general was boss of
the countryside. They had to do this to survive.
China will somehow manage to go on no matter which side
wins in the current civil war, and even If neither wins and the
strife goes oa and on as it has, in some form or other, for
centuries.
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Minister of the Interior
In this country the secretary of the interior is administrator
of public lands, of reclamation, of unorganized areas (Alaska,
Puerto Rico) and a medley of other bureaus such as mines, fish
and wildlife service, etc. In continental countries of Europe the
minister of the interior has a different function. He is chief of
the internal police system. The countries being smaller the police
system is usually nationalized with the minister of the. interior
at its heed.
That is why the communists make a grab for this office at
first opportunity. Once In control of the police they have the
grip for the final coup to gain control of the government. The
only competent opposing- force woui be the army. In Czecho
slovakia they put their man in as minister of 'the interior and
a stooge in as head of the army. The pushover under such a
deal was easy.
The base of communist control is control of the police.
With 101 inches of snow reported at Santiam pass the fUh
will not have to swim on their sides 'this summer-, to keep
submerged. it"
Highway Department
To Consider Road Bids.
Bids lor -highway department
projects aggregating expenditures
in excess of $1,000,006 will be con
sidered at a meeting of the state
highway 'commission In Portland
Thursday and Friday. ; ?
. This will be one of the Unrest
contract settings In the history of
the : commission. Included in- the
proposals is construction of the
new highway from New Era to
Oregon. City.
Scout Circus
Plan Aired by
Committeemen
Rough plans for the Cascade
area Boy Scout council's fourth
annual Scout circus on May I
at the state fairgrounds were out
lined at a meeting here this week
by circus committeemen.
Floyd Bowers and Floyd Seam
ster, co-chairmen of the major
activities committee of the Salem
Lions club, which is helping
sponsor the circus, appointed a
circus executive committee.
The committee consists of Lions
Roy Stewart, Julian Burroughs,
and Seamster and Jerry Scott, as
sistant scout executive, and Gard
ner Knapp, acout council camp
ing chairman. Advisers are Bow
ers and R. W. Land of the. Lions
club and Gordon Gilmore, council
scout executive, and Harry Mich
elsen, assistant executive.
The circus will be held in fair
grounds' horse show pavilion as
it was last year when 2,500 scouts
performed scout skills and con
tests for 4.000 spectators. A par
ade through Salem streets be
ginning at 10:30 a.m. on the 8th
will precede the circus proper
which is to start at 8 p m.
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Comedians Muff in jTFU Play
Ray Later (left) and Ray Yecam, Willamette anlversity seniors,
ehaaan clears and sztert straw hats la a scene fceias; rehearsed for
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Great Expectations
MATTER OF FACT-
Even More Misery in Store for
Truman as Political Meet Nears
Apartments on
Permit List
A four-court apartment con
struction project and two moving
projects were among building ac
tivities approved by city permits
issued Tuesday by the building; in
spection department.
Emma Blixskth received a per
mit for the apartment construc
tion, estimated to cost $7,000, at
1842-4 S. 13th st.
Vernon Wiscarson was author
ized to move a house from 1130
Marion St., at the site ef the pro
posed retail trade center, to I860
N. Cottage st St an estimated cost
of $2,000. Chandler Brown was
permitted to move the small res
taurant building Just east of Cap
itol theatre, around the corner to
139 S. Church st, at a eost of
$1,500.
Repairs ranging la value from
$50 to $250 were approved for
the Salem YMCA garage. 141 S.
Winter st; George Grabenhorst,
for an office at 360H State it,
and Catherine Shand for a house
at 45 S. Commercial st.
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LAV
Br Jeseeh and Stewart Also.
WASHINGTON. March 0 The
miseries of Harry S. Truman are
becoming so numerous that it is
almost inhuman
to report them.
Nonetheless, it is
an i n e v It a bly
significant polit
ical fact that the
pres i d e n t has
more misery in
store for him
when the great
est satraps of the
democratic party
rather in Wash
ington March 11. - Stewart Atop jf
This is the date-' "'- -5
of the meeting of
the executive committee of the
democratic national committee.
Several of its members have al
ready let It be known that they
will seize the opportunity to tell
the president a
' four KstnrtA V
I The o p i nion
that home-truth-telling
ia need
ful arises from
the man Tru-
il man, which the
Yi sa trans also com-
plain of. Initial
yACly, Truman
seemed actually
to dislike the
Joseph Alaop t the change in
- " immense burden
that had been laid upon him.
There followed a period when be
simply and rather admirably re
solved to bear the burden as
best he could, letting the ships
fall where they night. The re
sults of this approach to his
duties were good. These good re
sults were in turn gratifying, and
now the satraps complain that the
president is suffering from a bad
case of president! tlx.
Nothing is more difficult to
penetrate than the obscurity
which inevitably surround the
personality and state of salad ef
a president. It does seem to be
true, however, that the president
has met his recent misfortunes,
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GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichtj
I r4 a bit
te people avetatag seer
his run of bad luck and his chick
ens coming home to roeet with a
curious mixture of complacency
and sense of, being unjustly per
secuted. He is no longer so eager
to be advised as in the past He
is not even aware-how desperate
his political situation Is. Indeed
he has ao one to tell him how
bad things are, for the voices of
the few really competent men
with continuing access to the
White House sre daily drowned
by the smoking-car Jollity of
Brigadier General Vaughan and
the smooth reassurances of the
pursy Dr. Steelman.
Hit the President with Facts
The first stage of the satraps'
reaction to this situation will be
to beat the president over the
head with the grim facts. It may
be expected they will tell him
he has almost irretrievably lost
the south. (There is a faint hope
that the southerners may be woo
ed back: by naming a southern
vice president and re-using the
1944 civil rights plank in the
1948 convention platform. But
even this hope is too dim to be
voiced with real enthusiasm.)
What is almost worse, the satraps
will also tell the president that
he is losing the mass vote in the
north and that nothing can win
this vote back except strong
leadership.
The difficulty la that telling
tne president large numbers of
home truths like these, even In
the loudest and most menacing
posaiDie voice, wui neitner alter
the man not simplify his prob
lem. At this Juncture, In the opin
ion ef the most competent demo
cratic strategists, there is really
nothing muca that the president
oan do te restore himself. The
real prlee of the southerners Is
the resaeval of Truman from the
head of the ticket The only real
means of regaining northern mai
support, la present circumstances.
Is actually to put through the
aoeial and other measures which
the president has advocated. And
he would have to. JaU most of the
congress to pass these measure
The strategists close to the
White House count on the inevit
able worsening ef the foreign sit
uation to bring their man baek.
But the more impartial demo
crats are even unable te see hope
in this grim remedy. "Truman
isn't the kind of men," one of
them admitted bitterly the other
day. "that people think they've
got to keep in office Just because
there's a crisis.
reUttoal Blgwif Uneasy
If all this is so, moreover. It
is necessary to look forward to
still another stage in the reaction
of the great democratic satraps.
They made Truman, and he has
not used the presidency in such
a way as to prevent them from
un-making him. On a recent trip
around the country, one of the
president's closest political advis
ors was shocked to discover how
many party leaders , wistfully
speculated on whether Truman
might not be induced step aside
in favor of General Eisenhower.
For the present, of course, this Is
a mirage. But for the future It
will certainly have meaning.
It does not mean, of course,
that General Eisenhower, Is any
more likely to want to run as
a democrat than as a republican.
Nor does it mean that-the presi
dent will --actually be replaced at
the head of his party's ticket in
the election. It is simply., a sign
of very bad further trouble
ahead. The southern governors
are meeting Immediately after the
Ed Kellys, Frank McHales, Ed
Flynns et si gather in Washing
ton for the satraps rally. It is
almost inevitable that the sa trapes
best efforts will not disclose a
formula short sidetracking Tru
man for bringing the south Into
line again. The real trouble will
start at the governors' meeting,
when the southern rebellion is
quite likely to become formal and
official.
Then, if the deterioration con
tinues, st least a few of the north
ern satraps sre quite likely to
Join in a putsch, sometime in the
spring, to make the president re
quest s successor. The betting is
still ten-to-one that the demo
crats st Philadelphia will nomi
nate Truman. But after these pre
liminaries, the convention should
be s somewhat melancholy gath
ering. (Ceerrlfht, IMS, Nw Terfe sTeMUS
Trtaaaa, lata.)
Lincoln Woman
Told of Death
Of Husband
LINCOLN, March Mrs.
Oeorge (Annie) Walling received
a message Monday of the death
by accidental drowning of her
husband, George Leland Walling,
42, st Richmond, Calif.
Walling was fireman on the
S. S. Bryant at the time ef his
death. He had been around the
world several times on voyages.
With his parents, Mr. and Mrs
Tracy Walling, he had moved to
Lincoln from Portland when 19
months old and received Ms edu
cation at Lincoln school and at
tended Salem high school.
Surviving are his widow; small
daughter, Marion Ruth; parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Walling; a
brother, John Walling; and sis
ters, Mrs. Juanita Upham, Mrs.
Thelma Fisher, Mrs. Genevieve
CamiUo. Dorothy Wallint Marion
walling, and aunts, nephews and
ni
The body will be shinDcd to
Salem for buriaL Funeral ar-
rangasasnts are ta charge of the
Clouan-Bexrtek company.
Isssso Tax
B3 b 4:23 Daily
Saadsy and Kvealag
appalaliaeiile Made
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asr eoadlttsatas; la ear well
esjalased school sheas. Kefrla
erattoa and air eonrttrloatng
year faiare with
Bred table trade.
Fee fell laf a
representative
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IS a. sa. ie"S iv as.
Taeeday, Wodanediy aad
TTsarsday at the Marlea Betel
For Civilians aa4 CL La
Matched Hardwood
Chests of Drawers,
Kitchen Cabinets
and Bailt-ins.
I Made to Order
'Filsinger's
Cabinet Shop
. ISO Se. 28th St.
, Jest Off inssiea
Gale. eeeaedy te be
day. March 12, te benefit the 'U
servtee fend.
Glee Pay-offs
To Be Part of
Friday Play
Toujours Gale," musical com
edy to be presented at f alaas high
school auditorium Friday. March
12 by the world students service
fund group of Willamette univer
sity, will feature payoffs on Fresh
man Glee bets between the acts.
Bill Smith. WSSF publicity di
rector, announced xeatarday.
Ray Tocum. Riverside, I1L, and
Ray Loter, Portland, who play
leads ia the musical, have offered
to pay off their losing Glee bets
on the stage, as neither is a mem
ber of the Glee-winning freshman
tod by seam stadeats Fri-
fer the world stadeat
Tocum. senior class president,
and Loter, who heeds the campus
Sigma Chi, wrote the script, and
Bob Johnson, Kodiak, Alaska, and
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Glen Wnilama. SIau, arranged
the musie. Williams band will ac
company. I
Tickets will be on sale on the
first floor m Eaton hall daCy
until Friday,:!
1,000th Vet
Receives Lroan
The 1,000th Oregon war veteran
to obtain a state farm or home
loan is Pete Herman, Sheridan
route 2, It was reported Tuesday;
by , W. F. Gaareastroom, director
of the state veterans affairs de-i
partment. ' '
of $400 for the purchase of a
sixroom frame house property,
including garage, chiokea house,
ban and four-acres a mile west
of Sheridan: The state department
appraised the property at $6,000
and gave Herman the full 79 per
cent allowed. - "
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