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Newspaper Page Text1 . I S i 1111' The Statesman. Salem, Oregon, ThttrsdaTt Octobr 11, 1943- THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COJIPANY CHARLES A. SFRAGUE. Editor and Publisher i ! - ; j (Entered at the post office at Salem, Oregon, as second class matter under act of congress March 3. It7t. Published very morning except Monday. Business office Xli S. Commercial. Salem. Oregon, xeiepnone x-mi. MEMBXm Or THS ASSOC1ATZO PUSS ; I . a As cUieS Press la tatMH exciastvcly the m far wysMtiMwi aC a tka as wan as mm Ar am any tcaes. j UXMBXS PACXTXC COAST DTVISIOJ OF BUKXAU OF ADVTRTISINO Advertising RepresenUUves Ward-CiifiiUi Ca, New York. Chicago. San Francisco. Detroit. UPfBfR AUDIT BUREAU OF CIXCUtATtON j By MaO (Is A4naci) Oreroo Offe month .7S .4.09 .aoo. Six months One year Seven State Tax Measures Of the eleven measures on the state ballot for this year seven relate to matters of taxation Some are good; some are bad. Some are quite complicated. It is going to be a hard thing for editors to explain the pros and cons of these measures so the public will have a clear un derstanding of them; yet that is indispensable if they are to cast intelligent ballot. Here "is the list of state measures involing taxation: 1. A constitutional amendment to modify the familiar 6 per cent limitation provision of the state constitution. This would permit voting dis tricts (not the state) to establish a new base on which the 6 per : cent would be computed. 2. A constitutional amendment authorizing the incurring of a limited bond indebtedness for reforestation purposes. 3. A constitutional amendment removing the property tax quilifiation now in the law for school elections involving taxes. 4. A bill to give every male person 65 years of age or over and every female person 60 years of age or over $50 a month pension if his or her present income is less than $50 a month. 5. A bill to increase income tax exemptions which would reduce the amount of tax paid by individuals to the state. 6. A constitutional amendment to provide a bonus for veterans of the second world war. 7. A reference to the people of a special levy to meet the deficit in the general fund. The Statesman will discuss these measures in the time remaining before the election; and make its recommendations to the voters. Meantime, we wish to impress on our citkens the grave importance of these tax questions. The first six of them are printed in the voters pamphlet, but in some cases no negative argu ment is submitted, so the pamphlet does not present both sides in all cases. The last is sub mitted by virtue of a special statue of the 1947 legislature. While our general recommendation is that voters should be conservative on matters of tax ation, there are some measures which merit ap proval. We shall give our specific recommenda tions as each bill is discussed. Cards on the Table If the United States will ban atomic weapons and-conquer technique, the nazis used. It is one year, "then we will put our cards on the table every single one of them," Andrei Vishinsky told United Nations. He went on: "It is possible to have cooperation between , countries of different ideologies, of different social structures, if there is a real desire for understanding. We want this cooperation; we yearn for cooperation . . . (because) We need railroads. We - need hospitals . . . doctors . . . horses and cattle. We have to haye all that be : cause we cannot live without them." ; And the Russian delegate said that to lift the standard of living of her 180,000,000 people the USSR would have, to shift her military expen ditures to productive efforts. ' The tne of Jus statement is conciliatory. It sounds as if Russia was ready to work for peace and understanding. And, recognizing some truth Dixiecrats' Source of Funds Studied i By Stewart Alsop ATLANTA Georgia, Oct. 20 Ellis A mail, former governor of Georgia, is, like most south erners, - an enthusiastic football fan. And thereby hangs a tale. The tale is amusing, but it also i casts considerable light on one aspect of south ern politics. Some time ago, Arnall or- ganized a party of friends to ' make the Ion? j trtp from At 1 lanta to see the V annual Sugar Bowl game . in - New Orleans. The party oc cupied a num-r. &wart A1&m4 ber of suites in : 11 - an expensive New Orleans hotel. So it was with some under standable misgivings that Ar nall, after the same, asked the hotel's lady cashier for his bill. He was surprised when she smiled prettily and replied, "That's all right governor, youj bill ,has been taken care of." - He was even more surprised when he was told that it was the Mississippi Power and light company which had been so generous. i His amazement must have been obvious, and a sudden sus picion apparently crossed the j mind of the lady cashier. ; ' a a "You are the governor of Mississippi, aren't you?" she asked. This little story is not with out meaning. The present gov ernor of Mississippi is Fielding Wright. Governor Wright is also the vice presidential candidate . of the Dixiecrats or states' rights party. It is pretty generally as sumed outside of the south that " the Dixiecrat movement is sim ply the south's outraged re sponse to President Truman's j civil rights proposals. It. is that, but it is also a great deal more th.-n that. By and large, the democratic pai ty in the south has been con Wo Favor Stoays Ut,No Fear Shall Awe" First Statesman. March M, 11S1 Elsewhere in U.SJL ; One month 1 OO .oe 1X.M Six months . One year-i .in Vishinsky's plea (rjiilitary expenditures do f hinder social progress)!, we wish we could be lieve the same of his motives. But we cannot, j for Vishinskyis merely using truth as a means Jto a false end. It is part of the same confound - : and reduce; armaments! by one-third during one of those vacillating currents of the party line deemed momentarily expedient. But the rock of orthodox communist dogma stands unalterable; I cooperation and compromise form no part of l that rock, j j How do we know this? Whatever their cur rent line, communists never stray far from the f Marxist-Leninist philosophy clearly outlined in J the "History of the Communist Party of the So-. iviet Union! (Bolsheviks) Short Course" by Jo seph V. Stalin. Since it was first published 10 years ago this Red Bible has sold 34,000,000 .copies in 63 soviet languages and 17 foreign ! languages. It is to communists .all over the world what - 'Mein Kampf by Adalph Hitler is to nazis. Its lessons for; comrades include the following: 1. The dictatorship of jthe proletariat is impos sible without a revolutionary party, a vanguard 5 that is uncompromising toward the bourgeoisie ; and rejects all conciliation. i 2. A workers' party can conquer only by re volution, j ! 3. All other parties must be smashed. There can be no compromise and no respite in the : fight 4. The party must fight ruthessly against all weak and compromising elements in its own ranks and smash them (Continuous purge). 5. The party must bever become self-satis- v fied and must keep elbse to the toiling masses. i Thus, while Vishinsky in United Nations is calling for. cooperation! and understanding (and X disarmament), PravdaJ in Moscow is promoting ' Stalin's manifesto on tike anniversary of its pub lication because the book "arms progressive 'mankind against Unit4d States imperialism." Evidently, the cards! Vishinsky would lay on the table would, be face down. ; i Willamette Homecoming The Willamette university alumni who will ; return to the campus this week end will be re turning, also to Salem. Except for the sports! events, concerts, lectures !and other activities in which the townspeople ; can participate, Willamette operates largely in dependent of the cornrounity. Nevertheless, out-of-town Willamette students are Salem residents : while they attend school; they patronize our business and entertainment establishments and in many other ways contribute to make Salem what it is. j Thus, -former university students visiting here for Homecoming are jalso former residents of 1 -Salem, returning for ja few days to their old haunts. While leaving jit to the current student body to break out the brass band and the bunt ing, Salem, in its quiet way, welcomes the home comers and wishes them gridiron victory to crown the pleasure o their return. Philip LaFollette, e-governor of Wisconsin, has endorsed Dewey jfor president. LaFollette was the last wearer, of the Progressive party ; label but he isn't deciding his claim to the label to the Henry Wallace; hew party. trolled by a conservative oligar chy. In other time, the oligarchs were mostly big planters. Now the planters have been pretty much replaced by utility mag nates, textile men, industrial ists, and, more and more, the new oil barons of Texas and the gulf states. The states' rights party is essentially the response of this conservative oligarchy to the pressures which have been steadily pushing the na tional democratic party further 'to the left. Almost every states rights politician , speaks as bit terly of Franklin Rooseyelt, who never really pressed the racial issue, as of Harry Tru man, who did. ; There is no doubt that there has been a particularly cozy re lationship between the Dixie crats and the. oil kings. South ern oilmen were more enraged by the supreme? court decision, which awarded to the federal government ownership of the last great national oil reserves in the tidelands. than by the Truman civil rights proposals. Nor was this rage confined to the gulf states, for there is good reason to believe that offshore oil deposits exist along the southern Atlantic seaboard as well. One indication of the in fluence of the oil men among the Dixiecrats is that the tide lands oil issue has received at least as much attention at the various Dixiecrat get-togethers as the civil rights issue. Just how much oil money has greased the Dixiecrat wheels is unknown, although the justice department Is now hard at work trying to find oqt. But there is no doubt that the oil industry's support of the I Dixiecrats has been more than 'moral. :- One leading I supporter has been H. R. Cull en, a fabulously rich Houston oil man (he is also fabulously generous he re cently made an outright gift to Texas charity of the fantastic sum of $160,000,000). Cullen ar ranged for a private plane to local aws armted la this newspaper. By CKy Carrier . i . . 1.00 . .M -ULOe take H. Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrat presidential candidate, to the Houston convention, and a special train to take Fielding Wright and his Mississippi co horts! to the same meeting. He is belaeved to be the chief spark plug lof the oil industry's back ing for the Dixiecrats. Among the oil corporations, the Humble Oil company has reportedly par ticularly interested itself in the Thurmond-Wright "crusade." Thi oil barons' generous en thusiasm for the Dixiecrats is now said to be waning. The republicans are sure to win, and they j are committed in their platform to removing offshore oil fijom federal control. Yet in most j southern states, the Dixie crat i organization will be kept alive after the elections, largely to ehsure conservative control : of the political machinery. . i There is nothing particularly unhealthy in the fact that the oil men, or the other business interests, should try to protect or improve their economic posi tion by political means. Every economic group in the United States does the same thing. Yet there! are some pretty unhealthy aspects of the Dixiecrat move ment! as an expression of south ern conservatism. All! the more malodorous hate mongers, from Gerald L. K. Smith to the decrepit "Alfalfa Bill"; Murray, have gleefully lept on the Dixiecrat bandwag on. The states rights propaganda paper is using the same mailing list as the "Southern Outlook," a revolting racist sheet which the ! "Montgomery Advertiser" accurately compared ..to the worst products of Nazi Ger many. In brief, the real danger is that the southern conserva tive oligarchy, in an effort to i preserve the threatened status quo, I will be tempted to turn more, and more to this sort of thing, to the end that every issue, from offshore oil to the minimum wage, may be hidden and submerged in the race issue. . ! (Copyright, 1948) grin Xnd bear rr "Is this show soy rood? ... Maybe we should have looked np Its rating en the financial page ..." Measures at Issue Nov. 2 TAX AMENDMENT Tea 300, Ne S01 Oregon's 6 per cent tax limi tation will be up for possible revision November 2. The pro posal is the first of 11 state measures on, the ballot. Oregon's present law provides that taxing agencies cannot levy a tax in evcess of 6 per cent of the highest levy in any previous three years. The proposed amendment would restrict the limitation to property taxes only, rather than to all taxes, and would permit the establishment of new and highest taxes based upon ap proval of the electorate. Voters would be authorized to create a new tax base equal to the average of whatever was be ing levied, currently and the two previous years, both special and regular but not including levies for payment of bonded indebted ness. Proponents say the measure would restrict the 6 per cent lim itation to ad valorem tax on Your Health At one time or another nearly everybody suffers from dizziness or vertigo. Usually it is a passing thing, but, if it persists, an ex amination is in order so that the cause may be determined. Some people find they are both ered in this way only when the head is held in certain positions, whereas others become dizzy only when the head is moved from' one position to another. The lat ter type of dizziness is usually accompanied by a disturbance of the eyes, known as nystagmus, -in which the eyes roll slowly to one side and then move rapidly Literary Guidepost By W. C. Rorers THE CORNER THAT HELD THEM, by Sylvia Townsend Warner (Viking; $3) Brian de Retteville caught his lovely wife Alianor with Giles and murdered the lover and the old bawd who sheltered the guilty pair. But cannily cooling his fury as he remembered that his wife had all the money, he spared, her and, when she died at a respectable age. founded the nunnery of Oby to receive her remains. That was in the 12th century. Then this absorbing novel iumps to 1349. when Edward HI was king and the Hundred Years War was a hardy 12 years old, and for three decades follows the fortunes of the succession of Oby prioresses, nuns, priests, bishops, friends, relatives, beg gars, townspeople. , Prioress Alicia builds a spire. The altar cloth must be sewn even by hands numbed by cold and calloused by hard labor. Novices must be trained, inheri tances spoken for and if neces sary fought for in law courts; the bishop and his minions pla cated; the beggars at the wicket fed; the bogus priest pampered with horse and hawks and tend ed in his madness. Dame Sa lome tries to fly. Dame Adela hoots like an owl. The nunnery is like a House of God one day, a madhouse another, a counting house on another and on an other the worst kind of house due to the flagrant sins of Ursula and Dame Pernelle and Sir Ralph. Children, whose prayers are potent, are beaten to make them pray. Hunchbacks, who are sup posed to bring luck, are rubbed against palace walls to save the dying prelate. A bottled tear of Mary Magadalen's or a tooth of a Holy Innocent is used to heal ailing cattle or cure the ague. This is no novel in the usua' sense, but it's a lively, exciting and vigorous creation, despite its unnecessary length. It's a clear, plain picture of a jumb led and chaotic period ushered in by the Black Death and clos ing with the Peasant's Revolt. Out of this band of women comes a 14th century decked in finery or in rage, as Miss War ner sees it, dedicated to holiness but lapsing into apostasy, filth and sin, living in wonderful wisdom and fearful ignorance. Bjr Lichty property, which they declare Is essential, and that it would also provide a precedure whereby any county, municipality or oth er taxing district v (except the state) may increase its tax base, without a special vote, when more revenue is essential. The measure was referred to the peo ple by the legislature. Signing the Voterss' Pamphlet affirma tive argument are Sen. Carl Eng dahl and Reps. Donald Heisler and Earl Hill. Opponents of the measure de clare it is a "booby trap"; that it would nullify the 6 per cent limitation and leave ho limit on what could be demanded in in come tax, and that local tax agencies could compound levies to "extreme heights." It is also declared there is no need for such legislation and that it puts a "floor" under high taxes. Op ponents' statements in the Vot ers' Pamphlet are signed by Sen. Frank Hilton and Reps. John Dickson and William B. Morse, and by Oregon Business and Tax Research. . . . Written by Dr. Herman N. Bundensen, HJ). in the opposite direction. a a a This symptom is very import ant in helping the doctor to de termine the cause of the dizzi ness. In carrying out an exam ination of a patient with nystag mus, the doctor will first test the hearing. Then the patient is stud ied to see whether nystagmus is present lying on the back. Then pressure is put on the neck over what are known at the carotid sinuses, which are a collection of nerves." Pressure on these sin uses may produce dizziness and fainting. The patient then turns to the right side, and then to the left side, and then the head is hung backwards; finally he sits up, steps forward, and shakes his head. During all these various move ments, he is studied to see if nys tagmus develops. If, in changing position, the nystagmus does oc cur, and there is deafness or ring ing in the ears, it indicates that there is some disease of the in ner ear. One of the conditions which may be responsible is known as Meniere's disease, in which there is ringing in the ears, deafness, and attacks of dizziness. In some cases, the disturbance may be due to an inflammation of the middle ear. In other cases, the trouble may have been caus ed by undetected hemorrhage in to the inner ear. Disorders within the skull more often cause dizziness with chan ges in the head position than general dizziness. a a a Dizziness without evidence of either damage to the nerve or the brain commonly indicates some circulatory disturbance or infec tion affecting the nerve cells. The usual cause is the disturbances of the circulation related to low blood pressure, or disturbances produced by the change of life. For example, the underlying cause may be an infection of the stomach, bowel or breathing or gans, poisoning from a drug, such as alcohol or streptomycin, or hardening of the arteries in the brain with high blood pressure. In cases of dizziness, a thor ough study is always necessary to determine the cause before pro per treatment may be carried out. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Worried: Is cancer contagious? Can a husband get it from his wife by kissing her? Answer: I know of iio evidence which indicates that cancer is in any way contagious. M. T.: What causes a heart burn? Answer: Heartburn comes from many causes, such as gall-bladder disease, ulcer of the stom ach, or intestine, chronic consti pation, and appendicitis. Eating too rapidly or eating wrong foods will also produce this condition. C. B.: Will you please tell us whether or not myopia can be cured? f .Answer: Nearsightedness or? myopia cannot be cured. Glasses may be put on which will enable J the individual with this condition j to see normally and help to keep New Trial Decreed In Suit on Estate An appealed suit for accounting on the estate of Stephen Hem shorn was remanded this week to Marion county circuit court for a new trial. The state supreme court reversed Judge George Duncan of the lower court. The appellant was Mrs. Alphon sine Lelek. ML Angel, daughter of the late Mr. Hemshorn, who had sued Hugo Hemshorn, ML Angel, a son and executor of the estate, for an' accounting. Property in volved is a family farm. Rotary Backs Manager Plan, Truck Bypass Salem Rotarlans showed them selves strongly in favor of city managed government and of a truck bypass route around Salem in polls Wednesday at their lunch eon meeting in the Marion hotel.. City manager government, as now operating in Salem, was fa vored by 104 of 115 present. Six voted against it and five did not vote. A city ballot measure next month proposes replacing city manager government with a three man city commission. The proposed truck route was favored by 98 members with 8 opposing and 9 casting no bal lot Mrs. Ernest F. Arneson, recent ly returned from a visit to Nor way, told the club of her trip. Phil Ringle was introduced as Sa lem High school Rotarian of the month. Folk Dance Clcss to Form Folk dances every Saturday evening, with the experienced students and the beginners alter nating, are planned for Salem YMCA by a new group which is being organized. An open meet ing is planned for this Saturday night, with dancing especially for the novices. John H. Black, Richmond school teacher, is chairman of the plan ning committee. Other members are Neil Brown, Parrish assist ant principal; Mrs. Helen Lovald, Sons of Norway; Carlton Greider and Robert O. Smith. YMCA? Mary Swigert; Ellen Sangster, ywca, and Sylvia njelstad, new comer to Salem who formerly taught school in Norway. Public Records PROBATE COURT Clara B. Danielson guardian ship estate: Order appointing Erma Rushold as guardian. Ruby Ruechel guardianship es tate: Order appointing Ruby Es ther Ruechel as guardian. Order authorizing guardian to accept compromise offer of $150 in full settlement of alleged claim against Clifford R. and Virginia Walling, growing out of injuries sustained by ward in auto-bicycle accident last June 13 at Front and Acad emy streets. William Zosel estate: Order admits will to probate and ap points Pioneer Trust company as administrator. DISTRICT COURT Philip Howard Barnick. Grants Pass, passing on right side, fined SI 5 and costs. Duane Harold Smith, 41C0 Dur bin ave., charged with contribut ing to delinquency of a minor, preliminary examination held, bound over to grand Jury, held in lieu of $2,500 bail. Vernon A. Beals, Silverton, and Willis G. Lorenz, Salem, pre liminary examination held on charge of larceny, defendants discharged for lack of sufficient evidence. Earl McLaughlin, 160 Union St., charged with assault with a dan gerous weapon, preliminary ex amination set for October 22, held in lieu of $1,000 bail. Ted Grover Royer, Salem route 3, no vehicle license on trailer, fined $5 and costs. Gustav Robert West, 715 S. 12th st.,. passing at an Intersec tion, fined $3 and costs. CIRCUIT COURT Specialty Sales Co. vs members of state tax commission: Plain tiffs file notice of appeal to state supreme court from decree of Aug. 23, 1948. H. A. Simmons vs C. V. Steer and C. J. Bressler, doing busi ness as Salem Excavation Con tractors: Complaint asks judgment of $4,800.11 in payment for mer chandise allegedly sold to de fendants. Kate McDougal vs Charles W. McDougal: Complaint for divorce alleging cruel and inhuman treat ment asks for ratification of property settlement agreement and restoration of plaintiffs for mer name of Kate Shoop. Mar ried Aug. 16, 1948. at Reno. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Walter R. Bilveu. 27, aircraft mechanic, 980 Parrish st., and Nina Beilke, 21, medical techni cian, 90 Abrams ave., both of Salem. Alvin Carey, 35. farm laborer,! route 9, box 212, and Joanne Appleby, 19, housework, 2235; Mission st., both of Salem. Lon James Rose, 20, marine; corps, 540 Gaines St., and Betty June Klein, 17, cannery worker,; 880 Cummings lane, both of Salem. j MUNICIPAL COURT Reinold F. H. Doberfuhl. Ore-: gon City, violation of basic rule! and failure to stop, posted total. of $12.50 bail. the condition from becoming any! worse. ' (Copyright 1948 King Features) Di Kalas Here ForChrisl Teaching Week Salem's week of the National Christian Teaching mission will swing into broadened" action today with executive meetings, follow ing last night's arrival of Dr. H. H. Kalas, national director, from the past week's mission in Seattle. First j Christian church has been chosen for tonight's demonstra tion meeting on the elf -evaluation study. Th executive committee, head ed by Dr. Charles Durden of Cal vary ; Baptist church will meet today for breakfast, followed by a 10 ajn. session with Dr. Kalas. Sponsor of the mission is the Sa lem Ministerial association. The leadership of First Chris tian church will participate in the demonstration session at 7:30 to night, in a -study of that church's fellowship and evangelistic pro gram; Pastors and guest leaders from ; other congregations will ob serve the procedure, which the guest leaders will conduct In their j churches Friday. Seminars for pastors and guest leaders will be conducted Friday morning and afternoon and Sat urday morning at Calvary Baptist church. ! All this Is in preparation for Sunday afternoon's survey of all homes in Salem and surrounding areas for individual church pref erences. The results jof the can vass jwill be turned over to the indicated churches for fellowship work during next week. j Added to the group of nearly 10 Down, Pay Monthly i Venetian Blinds And Shades Now Available - ELIIER -The Blind Han ! 1453 Huge SL, W. Salem i Slats in aluminum, steel, wood, j Choice of tape colors. j ' Measured and installed j within 30 miles. PbOne 3-7328. Call Any Time I For Free Estimates i Your Abv A Hr, the dimin- utive TIDY . . . new kind f above -the -floor cleaner. lfe? 3t9 Today - Friday . Sh9 and Saturday Onlyl 1 SLACKS One group, re?u,ar jj99 Comer Court & Liberty r Tidy, the 7 pound cleaning wonder that ling over your boulder by an adjustable trap. Complete act of light weight attach anents clean upholstery, lamps, draper tea dust floors, walla, stairs pray insecticides Snd light lacquers. Tall, a marvel of ease and efficiency cleans rugs to perfection. Handle locks in position for easy under-furniture and rug-edge clean ing. Dirt-spotter light hunts out dark -corner dust. Easy-to-etnpty, accordion-top bag. They're the "PERFECT PAIR" right for all your housecleaning needs. Other C-E up tight cleaners can also be bought in combin ation with the Tidy. SEE THEM TODAY AT 275 N. ! tmm m.r w II J " - i 1 i ' 30. .participating churches Wed nesday was the Foursquare Cos- l!;; I r Grading, Graveling of Mehama Area Road Set ! ;. Grading and graveling of a short stretch of road past the Mehama school was slated today following inspection of the area by Marion County Commissioner E. I. Rog ers. ; " j ; Complaint about the poot condi tion of the road was made; by the school board. I I j 'T , A" t i Being in the shoe business J . . naturally most of these columns are going to be about shoes i . . but not this one. No, today 'I'd like to tell you about a little radio show that Tom Bailey does for us over KSLM. .Every Saturday night at 11 o'clock, Tom sits down at the piano and hell play a couple of tunes and sing a couple (and in between he talks around about I Jim's Shoes) and it all adds up to a lively affair. So I'd like for you to make a point of listening. Of course I like the part about Jim's Shoes best . . . but I'm prejudiced . . . you'll probably like the music! - ... Tfio Answer to hl Housecfecning Heeds I Om fit flr, the distin guished ,TALL . . perfect foe rug cleaning, Liberty J1 Mi 1 i :