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Financing Old Age Pensions
A contributor to our Safety Valve in an ad- f
joining column asks why the state is "broke"
when it comes to paying pensions under the i
new law, while bordering states are paying $60 f
a month in old age pensions. The immediate
answer is that both Washington and California
levy sales taxes which produce large sums in
revenues. In Washington it is suggested that the f
' state may find it necessary to increase the sales
tax from three to five per cent to finance a re- j
cently-voted increase in pensions there.
Oregon, it is not necessary to add, has regu-
larly voted down a sales tax or other tax even i
when tied to financing grants or pensions for 1.
the aged. J
It is true that we have an income tax which ?
currently is producing more revenue than can
be spent under present laws for support of state 1
government and school assistance. But it yields f
no sums which would finance the old age pen-
sion voted last week. Also, the voters, in the j
same election, voted to raise income tax exemp-
tions which will reduce the proceeds of the in- j
come taxi
As far as putting the burden on property the j
public reaction against the present property tax I
load certainly is not favorable to the increase ;
which would be required to pay $50 a month I
pensions to all eligible under the law that was j
just approved. Other attempts to increase state
revenues, for instance the cigaret or tobacco tax,
has regularly been voted down by the people.
Every tax bill passed by the legislature is i
subject to the gauntlet of the referendum. That j
handicaps the legislature from finding any solu- i
ygtion to the state's fiscal problems. Certainly the !
legislature should not pass a pension bill to be j
financed by a sales tax, because it would be re- j
ferred and defeated. That would be a transpar- f
ent fool on the old people.
What, the legislature will have to do is to re- j
vise the laws covering old age assistance. No-
thing should be done to put in jeopardy the X
amounts payable by the federal government. I
The principal problem is to provide revenues in
addition to liquor revenues to finance the pub-
lie welfare program. This can be done, but it
will require a reenactment of the corporation
excise tax (perhaps also of the income tax) to
permit receipts to be available for general ap- 1
propriation. We believe it will be possible un- j
der such a plan to bring up the average grant
paid eligible elderly persons to $50 a month.
It is important that the legislature approach )
the problem in the right spirit, not to ignore the J
, people's vote because the bill passed may be f
unconstitutional, but with a sincere . desire to 1'
deal justly with older citizens in need of public j
assistance with due regard, of course, to funds
' available and other obligations of the state.
American Education Week
American Education week currently being
'observed merits special consideration this year
in the light, of the growing schisms between
the enlightened western world and the curtain
which hides the truth from the east and its
satellites.
The week's theme, "Strengthening the Fourt-
Truman Mattes Moves to Aid China
Br Joseph and Stewart AJsoftO
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10-0P)-President
Truman has already
made his bow, inconspicuously
but significantly, Jn his new role
as the active aha per of American
l-?-- -0" T foreign policy.
" v ! Almost b e fore
fore the ballots
were counted,
he wired to
Wash i n g t o n
from Independ
ence, VLo that
in his opinion
the crisis in
China demand
ed positive
A mr4 n aw
I VKfiVk tion. The po-
licjr-making dovecotes were con-
siderably . fluttered by the pres
ident's unexpected intervention.
The situation had been review
ed, however, before Truman's
return in triumph to the White
House. Before his departure for
Key West, he issued his interim
directive. It was
brief order
that the Marine
- garrison should
not be 'with
drawn from the
cotnm unlit
thr e a t e n e d
North China
port of Tsing-
tag, and that all
taken tn vet 1
American arms artVlopJ
to the forces still resisting the
JT , I ,
3kD
communists In the North China
area.
The positiveness and the speed
of the president's action are
both worthy of remark. For three
years, the Far Eastern policy of
the United States has largely
consisted of alternate bouts of
hand-wringing and advice from
the sidelines. The theory that
the best policy was, in effect,
to have no policy at all, was
strongly held in the far eastern
division of the state department.
It was also stoutly maintained by
v- Secretary of State George C.
' Marshall. Doubts as to this the-
Wo Faror Steoy Us, No Fear Shall Avof" -Frees
First Statesman. March tt, 1141
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
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Six anontfce.
orys validity have; ; only begun
to arise very recently, when to
tal catastrophe in China began
to seen imminent ' The presi
dent's intervention implies that
a serious search for a positive
China policy will now be made,
e
On the other; hand, the parti
cular steps the president has tak
en emphatically do hot constitute
such a policy, i The navy first
proposed evacuation of Tsingtao,
to avoid conflict with the com
munist forces, las long as six
months ago. The navy stand has
been strongly opposed by the
army.
The president has now settled
the dispute in favor of the ma
rines remaining at their posts.
Perhaps the 3.0P0 men who are
now at Tsingtda may even be
re-in forced, if Vice Admiral Os
car C. Badgor, f commanding in
China, considers this desirable.
But the president's order does
not require that Tsingtao be held
at all costs. On the contrary,
there is every reason to believe
that unless American policy
changes further,; the marines will
be withdrawn if and when a '
genuine communist offensive de
velops in the area.
The effort to f expedite Amer
ican aid to the non-communist
forces in North; China also has
peculiar overtones. The energetic
ECA administrator for China,
Roger Lapham, has recently been
in Washington, pressing a plan
to by-pass Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-Shek and to give direct aid
to local Chinese" forces resisting
the communists.; Lapham's main
motive is that the China leader,
General Fu Tno-Yi, is distrust
ed by the Generalissimo, and has
therefore not been supplied very
liberally. Apparently the germ of
Lapham's idea is contained in the
Truman order, although no one
seems to know whether or how
the Idea will be implemented.
e
It is thus obvipus why the two
steps ordered by Truman do not,
in and of themselves, constitute
a China policy. Holding the ma-
By Cats Carrier
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dations of Freedom,? is particularly appropri
ate. Our schools with their emphasis of indi
vidual liberties are a bulwark against the ig
norance in which all but a comparatively few
of the earth's two billion people are kept. And
in ignorance rests little hope for the upsurge
of free peoples. Rather, it is fertile ground for
the machinations of power blocs and the blind
nationalism which breeds the willingness to
war.
Only in the extension of education and un
derstanding, and the free interchange of infor
mation, is there hope for a lasting peace. Amer
ica Is proud of its place as a leader in univer
sal education. It is vital to insure its domestic
tranquility and to stand as an example in world
enlightenment.
Open house Is the order of the day in many
schools this week. Our attendance at such
events will lend encouragement to both teach
er and students.
"GangAftAgley"
So wrote Bobbie Burns many years ago about
the best-laid plans of mice and men. '
The device by which the last congress sought
to sever Mike Straus, commissioner of reclama
tion, and Richard Boke, regional director for
California, from the public payroll promises, as
a consequence of the last election, to prove in
effective. The appropriation bill carried a pro
viso that salaries would be paid only on condi
tion that occupants of these offices were en
gineers which Straus and Boke are not, with
January 31 next as the terminal date. Now
Straus says he and Boke have been asked by
Secretary Krug to stay on. He assumes the 81st
congress will provide salaries at least after July
1.
There were valid reasons for separating
Straus from his job, but the method used a
rider to an appropriation bill is not proper.
i -
When the editor of this paper came west In
1910 to be superintendent of schools in Waits
burg, Wash., he found that one of the high
school pupils was Genevieve Taggard, who had
returned to the states from Hawaii where her
father had been a teacher in the island schools.
Genevieve was exceptionally bright and dis
played literary -talent of unusual quality. She
was a frequent contriDUtor ox stories to ine
school paper. She went on with her education,
graduating from the University of California,
and continued with her writing. She became
a teacher at Mt. Holyoke college, later at Ben
nington college and afterwards at Sarah Law
rence school in New York City. She published
several volumes of verse and a biography of
Emily Dickinson. Her poetry was too intellec
tual in content and too modern in style to at
tract a large public; but she was highly re
garded among the literati of the day. Her
death, which occurred Monday, was untime
ly, for she was only 54. Lloyd Arnold, foreman
of the Statesman pressroom, was her first
cousin.
Come Thanksgiving democrats will be eat
ing turkey; republicans crow because.
rines at Tsingtao is a gesture, in
the last analysis. And pressing
lor direct aid to such regional
leaders as General Fu means en
couraging the present tendency
for these men to break away
from the Generalissimo's nation
al government. If this happens,
the national government will col
lapse. China will be divided be
tween a number of war lords
and the communists. And the
communists, being far the strong
est and best organized single
SSg-SFSTiSS: S.X
one, until they control all of
China that matters.
The tragedy is that if the pres
ident had only ventured to beard
Secretary Marshall in his den
six months ago, instead of last
week, an American effort in
China might well have borne
important fruit While the state
department stood for the policy
of having no policy, the defense
department, and especially the
army, continued six months ago
to advocate preventive Ameri
can action. Now, however, the
China situation has deteriorated
to the point where even those
who used to plead most strongly
for action have begun to feel
that American intervention will
be a waste of effort and re
sources. see
The gravity of this fact is
hard to exaggerate. President
Truman may want a positive
China policy, but a policy can
hardly be evolved, when even
China's friends assert that there
Is almost no hope. The predic
tion now Is that the Chinese
communists will eventually take
all of China down to and includ
ing the Yangtse valley, which is
approximately like Communist
occupation of all of the United
States as far as Kansas and Neb
raska. By accepting this outcome,
we may avoid a heavy invest
ment in Chinese aid. But the
altered world strategic situation
will then demand far heavier in
vestments elsewhere.
Tribute, toe.)
(Copyright, ms. Mew York Herald
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The Lincoln Highway
Literary Guidepost
By W. G. ROGERS
THE YOUNG HENRY ADAMS,
by Ernest Samuels (Harvard:
$4.50)
Descendant of two presidents
and son of the Charles Francis
Adams who was a Massachusetts
congressman and Civil wartime
minister to England, Henry
Adams wrote about himself in
"The Education." It is, thanks
In large part to what Samuels
calls Adams' "obsessive interest
in effectiveness of expression,"
one of our most absorbing
books. But it is not, Samuels
finds, wholly dependable.
Whether Adams' own picture
for all its inaccuracies is not
more praiseworthy than anyone
The
Safety Valve
Government For the People
To the Editor:
This is one woman's opinion,
on a very recent issue namely
the old age pension law, which
was on the ballot in our last
election, and was passed by a
vote of the people. Now the
state claims to be so near insol
vent they are looking for a way,
out of paying the pension, but'
I wonder if they will tell Doug
McKay, yes, sure, you were
elected governor, but you will
have to find a way to pay your
salary.
This la supposed to be a gov
ernment of the people, by the
people and for the people. The
question arises why are we
broke, as a state? We have
revenues the same as our bor
dering states and they are pay
ing $60 a month old age pen
sions. The democrats took most of
the stages in the recent election.
Oregon still remains republican.
I wonder if they are proud of it.
Under existing circumstances I
say let's give it back to the
Indians If we can not take care
of our older citizens, who are
the background of our country.
I do not receive a pension nor
have any relation who do. I just
like and' respect old people.
Stella R. Evans
2162 N. Church.
GRIN AND BEAR
'What a doll bridxe party and such
gorgeeas cobweb hi""f from
C 1 94$ Sub m4 Tim, Cm
else's packed with all the truth
is beside the point. We do have
here, in a volume meritorious
in itself, a retouched picture of
the young man who turned to
teaching at Harvard, to the
editorship of the North Amer
ican Review and eventually to
writing because fate turned him
from a political career. If that
was no credit to our politics, it
has been very fortunate for our
letters.
Adams was1 a better Harvard
student (1854-58) than he later
pretended, says Samuels; he was
less of a Darwinian than he
would want to be thought; it is
probable that, despite his de
nial, he had at least heard of
Marx and Comte; he was in
fluenced by Guizot. historian
and statesman with the get-rich
philosophy, or cant, and by
James Russell Lowell from
whom he learned "the interest
ing possibilities of sheer opin
ions tiveness."
Out of Harvard, and after a
passing-1 bow to the legal life,
he went to Washington and lat
er to London to serve his father
as secretary and the Boston Ad
vertiser and the New York Times
as anonymous correspondent.
His first magazine publication
appeared in 1867 and it was
followed by many others on po
litical and economic subjects.
His studied reviews of history
books evolved the principles on
which he himself would write
American history, in particular
The History of the United
States" under Jefferson and
Madison.
Samuels doesn't make us like
Adams and "The Education" any
more or less, but he makes us
like Samuels.
THE UNPREJUDICED PAL
ATE, , by Anrelo Pellegrini
(Macmillan: $3)
Angelo Pellegrini . . . gay,
tinkling and savory name . . .
doesn't dine. He eats. To him
a dish is a feast, and a fetish,
and cooking is more a cult than
an art. He admits there's a
slight danger he might turn
mystic as he plants lovingly in
his garden, hoes and weeds and ,
waters and mulches with devo
tion, presses wine ritually from
IT
By Licbty
awf al food . . . bat wasn't that a
her living ream chaarillerT
v Y
his grapes and prepares a meal
like a sacrificial offering for an
altar.
The pleasure of eating what
he raises' matches "the pleasure
of raising what he eats." In a
land where assembly belts
stretch farther than the eye car
ries and skyscrapers are lost in
the clouds, the business of grow
ing a carrot- or a cabbage is
pretty small potatoes, this immi
grant thinks, and yet he elo
quently and obstinately begs us
to hunt in the home and the
garden for "the felicity we can
not find in the market place."
The world doesn't need an
other cookbook, said Pellegrini
to himself, though there are
cookbook tidbits in this happy
little volume; but it can use, he
hoped, a "book on bread and
wine in relation to life,' and
.that is really his subject Be
sides directions for growing fruit
and vegetables, and recipes for
minestrone, lamb and kidney
stew and dishes made of veal,
pork, tripe, spareribs and other
food, Pellegrini serves us most
ly food for thought
Born in Italy, as a child he
was taught by necessity the
many varied pleasures of rigor
ous frugality; he picked up sticks
for the family fire, helped his
father make wine, climbed the
tallest trees for nestling birds to
eat and he tells, in an innocent
and earthy and touching passage.
how he and his playmates or
workmates followed cattle to
collect the steaming manure on
which a peasant economy de
pend.
These habits persist today,
though the author teaches Eng
lish at the University of Wash
ington. Peasant and professor
together are responsible for the
unique qualities of this delight
ful book.
DTP
SOQDOQ0
EDI
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(Continued from page 1)
desire of the peoples to avoid
armed conflict and the verbal
profession of all responsible
neaas or state that such is their
objective. Consciousness of the
caiasrropiuc nature) ox moaern
warfare, destrovine vinouihrl
and wrecking the victor, serves
as a Drake against nascent bel
ligerence. War has now become
a game in which all stand to
lose.
What jwe have learned is that
peace does not come from pious
nope or irom abiding fear.
Peace is a product of conscious
effort in the highly complex
field of human relations. It is
the outgrowth of countless ad
justments by which individuals
come to live in reasonably com
ity, and then groups and nations.
The charters and the cove
nants we fill with resonant
phrases are not self -executing.
They must be given bone and
sinew in the flow of events, in
the day-to-day relations of peo
ples, in ! adaptations which com
pose differences.
Always we must keep this in
mind that peace is a means and
not an j end. It Is a road to
human progress and welfare, not
to suppression and repression.
When the prospect was for loss
over the world of basic freedoms
in 1917 and 1941 the United
States became a participant' in
war. It fought each war through
to victory. It labors now for
durable i peace, but that peace
must be one based on justice
and human rights.
We may not have kept the
promise of 1818 to preserve
peace; but we have preserved
our heritage of liberty and hum-1
an dignity.
EEC
SeaBee Unit to
Be Activated
Friday Night
: Activation of an organized sea
bee unit here will be accomplished
Friday night In ceremonies at
building T-514, Salem airport,
when about 20 enlisted men are
expected to be sworn in by Lt
Comdr. J. K. Jackson of 13th navy
district headquarters in Seattle.
The unit already has five offi
cers and will have places for 40
enlisted men for training in sea
bee special tie sduring monthly
training sessions for which mem
bers will draw service pay. The
Friday meeting will open at 8 pjn,
The sea bee veterans formed a
volunteer unit in Salem a year ago
last month. Officers now are Lt
William C Hill, commander; Lt
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