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Alderman Armstrong 8 Proposal
We do not think much of two moves by Alder
man Tom Armstrong at thf city council Mon
day night. One was to legalize pinball machines
In Salpm, whgh have been under ban here for
over a decade. Ostensibly run "lor amusement
rdy," they readily lend themselves to become
gambling devices. That is why promoters want
them in: They tempt people to play them, so the
take is large. ..'
The people here have quite consistently op
posed pinball machines; but, of course the ele
ment financially interested in their operation
has persisted in trying to get them in, legally
If nAeeiKI Kut to crt thm in. We hone the
council' will retain the present ordinance and
reject Armstrong's proposal.
However, we do believe Armstrong has a
point in objecting to the $60 fee for jukeboxes.
That seems exorbitant. While many people feel
like taking an axe to them, they are entirely
legitimate and should not be unduly penalized.
.Armstrong also recommended appointment of
another advisory committee on the airport. The
last one the city had, named by Mayor Dough
ton, came up with the plan which is now being
carried out. Armstrong, it is recalled, wanted to
keep the air terminal on the present east side.
United Airlines preferred the west side. The
committee after careful investigation recom
mended the west side, where there is more room.
That plan" was adopted and is now being carried
out. The city shouldn't back up on it.
Armstrong was elected b the people of his
ward and has full freedom to express his views
jgd propose legislation. When his ideas seem
.good we'll be glad to support them. On pinballs
and on a proposal which would gum up airport
development, we can't go along ,witA him.
burden of support should bet the property. The
amounts that might be recovered could go into
the welfare fund and thus help others who may
be in "need.
Warren's Medical Care Program
The California legislature will have another
round! in a fight over Governor Warren's pro
gram for prepaid medical care. For the third
time the governor is seeking to get a system like
industrial accident compensation adopted, to be
financed by a two per cent tax on payrolls.
The; program Is expected to provide for free
choice of doctors and hospitals; hospitalization
to a maximum number of days, so far undeter
mined), for every illness annually, with medical
services incident to such hospitalization; pay
ment of laboratory charges; a fee basis for pay
ment of doctors; maintenance of the present re
lationship between doctor and patient, and rec
ognition of voluntary hospitalization programs
that meet state standards.
The; California Medical association opposes
the program. In previous sessions it succeeded
in defeating Warren's bills. The doctors are
willing to support voluntary plans for met al
care, and themselves maintain a Physicians"
Service much like the one in Oregon which
the government is trying to break up.
The; plan that President Truman endorses is
similar to the California proposal in giving pa
tients .choice of doctor, paying the doctor on a
fee basis rather than salary, and raising the
money by payroll taxes.
What the both would do is to socialize 'med
ical costs.
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content. Farmers are taking CCC
loans on their wheat. They take
their tickets to the bank which
loans them the parity set by the
CCC. If the price should raise
the farmer has the option up to
May to sell and redeem and
pocket the difference. The gen
era! feeling is that the price will
stay at parity so the CCC will
take over the wheat, pay off the
bank loan. Banks net only one
and a half per cent on the deal,
but of course they have no risk
since the paper is government
secured.
Favorable weather permitted
general seeding of wheat last
fall which may give the Inland
Empire another big crop on
which the 90 per cent parity
price is guaranteed.
Hotels and restaurants are
moving to establish cocktail bars
legalized in the last election In
Washington. Famed old Daven
port's restaurant is doing re
modeling for that purpose.
General satisfaction over re
turn of Governor Langlie to of
fice at Olympia. There seems to
have been widespread distrust or
dislike of Mon Wallgren. Wash
ington state faces a tough finan
cial problem, too, complicated by
enactment of a liberalized pen
sion law
Washington's 40-mill property
tax provision is not copper
riveted.. People can vote extra
levies. I heard of total levies of
over 60 mills.' The state has a
sales tax but no income tax.
Coming up in the taxi from
..... i(it"i
the station at Portland were two 1
women who were complaining of
Portland's cold. I asked them
where they were from . . . i
Minneapolis, of all places! They i
said Minneapolis had had a very ;
. mild winter so far. Well,1 so has
Fairbanks, Alaska; but not west- '
ern United States, including Cal- :
if ornia.
Dr. Sears Heads
Medical Society
Dr. James L. Sears of Salem Is j
president of the Marion - Polk
County Medical society following
an annual election this week.
Other new officers are Dr. How- '
ard Kurtz, vice president; Dr. Wil- :
liam Crothers, secretary-treasurer;
Dr. IL A. Gueffroy, counsellor.
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State Claim on Property
Governor John Hall made a good suggestion
In his message when he said, relating to those
getting old age assistance:
. Under the present law a beneficiary may own and
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encumberances and which has a value of several
thousand dollars. By virtue of the fact that that
person has no income s he or she is entitled to a
monthly payment, from the state for old age assist
ance. When that person dies the. state of Oregon
should have a lien on the assets of the state and
the moneys so advanced should be reimbursed to
the state before the assets of the estate are distri
buted to the children of the deceased.
The last legislature passed a bill to impose
such a lien, but it was. vetoed by Governor Snell,
mistakenly in. our judgment.
The law puts a burden on children to support
their parents if needy; but many children are
unable (or unwilling) to do this. Ifthe state
contributes this support it should be reimbursed
when the recipient dies, if he leaves property.
One cannot see why the children or other re
latives who have been spared or escaped the
Spend and Spend; Tax and Tax
Any doubts that the new deal was rolling
again are removed by a look at the federal bud
get for the coming year. For the sixth year
' after the war it rises to nearly $42 billion, the
largest in peacetime. Burden of the national
debt, support of the military establishment and
care for war veterans, aid to Europe are the
major; item, but other expenses are augmented
on the president's recommendation. To make
good on his campaign promises will cost over
$6 billion.
The; tax increase far exceeds the $4 billion
previously mentioned and runs to nearly $6 bil
lion. If that is to come from corporations and
persons of large incomes the squeeze is going
to.be hard, for already they are heavy taxpay
ers, j
One might expect congress to cut the spend
ing; but past experience indicates it may be in--creased
as congressmen and senators boost the
ante fpr favorite causes.
At least no newspaper man makes enough
money to scheme how he can transmute himself
into a j capital gain. .
French Still Cringe at Soviet Menace
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By Joseph Alsop
PARIS. Jan. 12 If France
means anything and France
in fact sums up the inner trag
edy of our times the keystone
Is still missing- in the arch of
the future that .
America is-1 r "S.
seeking to V f 7t
build. For any r I ' f
French recov- - - y-
ery. if French A T" (Zti
recovery occurs X i
at all, will al- ? " '
ways be tern- yr j J Z
porary ana ie-4
brile, until the fl
Frenchman in
the street again
sense of secur- JP1 A1
ity. And as long as Frenchmen
believe that Soviet armies can
march at will "as far as Brest,"
as one hears it put over and over
again, no sense of security can
exist in France.
The foregoing rather obvious
statements , have genuinely vital
meaning for the United States.
They mean, first, that the Zuro-
Ean recovery program will be
ely to resemble the Berlin
air lift until a sense of security
has been - recreated here. like
the air lift, the ERP keeps things
ticking. But people who think
total disaster may occur the
next morning are hardly likely
to resume long-term investment
and the other habits of the nor
mal economic life that ERP is
Again, this desperate need for
a sense of security here means
that President Truman is blindly
torpedoing his own program, by
so sharply reducing the tempo
of American rearmament. There
are likely to be grave repercus
sions, when Europeans realize
that the president's budget ceil
ing allows for only 48 air groups,
instead of the much-advertised
70. and less than 700.000 men
instead of more than 900,000 in
the ground forces.
o o o
President Truman's action is
all the more incomprehensible
because it comes at a moment
when the whole outlook is be
ginning to improve. Given the
absence of any sense of secur
ity, the European recovery pro
gram, here brilliantly adminis
tered by Averill Harriman and
David Bruce, has thus far ae
comolished all that, could be
reasonably hoped.
More important still, sound
steps have already been taken,
by President Truman: himself
among others, to recreate that
sense of .security which is so
urgently needed. The president's
personal contribution was an or
der, courageously given in Oc
tober at the crisis of the polit
ical campaign, to release Amer
ican supplies to place the three
French divisions in Germany on
a better fighting footing. The
: job was done in the usual un
necessary hole-and-corner man
ner. But the fact that these
French divisions are -using im
portant quantities of t mainte
nance and other, equipment from
us and have been promised fur
ther installments of tanks and
the like has already significantly
affected the thinking of the lead
ers of the : French government
and armed services.
The president's decision (tak
en on the urgent advice; of Gen
eral Lucius D. Clay) is of course
only a single incident iri a much
broader pattern. This Is the pat
tern of western European union
and the Atlantic pact. The na
tions of Western Unioni Britain,
France and. the Benelux coun
tries, have already agreed upon
practical, extremely conserva
tive plans for restoring i western
Europe's powers of self kief ense.
2 i
The plans go by stages. Very
roughly speaking, the first stage
Is the creation of j strength
enough to defend the line of
the Rhine. In terms oi ground
forces, the plans call i for ap
proximately 35 European divi
sions (10 less than the! original
estimate) to hold the Rhine. For
these- divisions, light equipment
will be mainly provided here
while heavy equipment comes
from the United States. Rather
more than half of these divi
sions will be French, the other
powers making larger contribu
tions to other arms. And if
American peacetime lend-lease
operates rapidly, all the divi
sions can be ready h about two
years or a little more, t
;. f
In the case of the! French,
for instance, - their army now
consists of 20 divisions, or '
enough in theory to provide the
French contingent of Western
Union's ground forces and meet
other French needs. By fthe bold
decision of Western Union's
ground commander. General de
Lattre de Tassigny. this new
French army has not been train
ed in the old routine way in
squalid urban barracks. It has
been trained hard, chiefly in the
country, and as nearly as possi
ble under combat conditions.
American observers think these
French forces excellent except
for one defect they must
still be armed.
Because of this want of arms,
no snore can be done until the
projected Atlantic pact has
bound together Western Europe
and the western hemisphere,
and peace-time lend-lease has
been voted. Preparations for
these great events have already
been made, however.
By quiet agreement, for in
stance, the planned response to
any military emergency by the
American forces in Germany
has already been fitted into the
combined staff plans of Western
Union. Again, it seems to have
been a condition of French ac
ceptance of Field Marshal Mont
gomery's appointment to West
ern Union's present top com
mand that in case of emergency
an American will once more be
named to lead the allied forces,
as General Eisenhower . was last
time. And intimations have al
ready come from Washington
that when congress has acted,
the first annual installment of
peace-time lend-lease will be
one billion dollars' worth of new
materiel and an equal amount
of American stocks. This may
not be. enough to asure most
rapid European rearmament, but
fit is at least a substantial con
tribution. In short, every essential ele
ment is already present in the
situation for the restoration of
the non-Soviet world to strength
and therefore health. Ther trag
edy of our times, of course, is
that these simple measures of
military security should still be
so necessary, after two world
wars. But this fact must be
faced. The fact also must be
faced, moreover, that no ERP
or Atlantic pact or peace-time
lend-lease or Western Union can
ever make Western Europe se
cure without a strong America.
This is the first of all essentials.
We have started to build the
arch of the future. We must
provide the keystone at what
ever cost.
(Copyrlfht. IMS. Mew York Herald
Tribune. Inc.)
The
Safety Valve
Agamsf Uea ea Property ef
Pensioners
To the Editor:
After reading the recommen
dations to the new legislature,
by ex-Governor Hall, it's my
opinion the state of Oregon is
lucky that it can say ex-oov
ernor instead of "incoming
Governor Hall."
There isn't room in this space
to discuss the merit if any
all of his recommendations, but
one of them, the old age assist
ance, does call for some com
ment
Mr. Hall's suggestion to place
a lien on the old folks' property
Is not only unfair to all con
cerned, but would soon put the
state of Oregon in the real estate
business trying to dispose of ac
cumulated property.
Forcing the care of old people
on relatives is quite often an im
position that relations can't
handle. The average private
home is not designed, or built,
so as to be turned into a nursing
home or hospital for the aged. In
many cases the beds, bath and
toilet are all on the upper floor
where old and infirm people can
not get to them; also some are in
wheel chair, or bedfast, and the
$50 per month is not sufficient
for their care when help has to
be hired.
As a rule the care of aged par
ents falls on to the burdened
housewife who, with, the extra
work and worry, is soon made an
old woman before her time.
The care of old folks is insti
tutional and the money paid out
for pensions and assistance
should be used to build institu
tions designed for that purpose
and maintained in an efficient
and sanitary condition.
Not many children can afford
to pay the hundred, to a hundred
and fifty dollars that it now
takes to keep aged parents in a
private nursing home every
month.
Our legislature consists of
well-selected men, and with a
sympathetic governor I feel that
our old folks, and all concerned,
will be cared fof in a fair and
honest way.
Wilson Miller.
(See Editorial Comment on
Hall proposal).
Ashamed ef USA account China
To the Editor:
I cannot understand how you
can take such an attitude toward
China, either morally or practi
cally, as per "Bullitt reports on
China."
You say, let the Chinese settle
their own affairs. What chance
for that with Russia just the
same as occupying the commun
ist territory? "And do business
with whatever government they
set up." Do you actually try to
suggest that, you don't know
what government would take
over China?!
I see that you do admit there
are communists in China for you
say our supplies trickle through
to them. What supplies? We
withheld all for 10 or 11 months
while trying to force Chiang to
accept communists into his gov
ernment. And what a spectacle
that was. We had only all of
Europe to prove to us that that
was a fatal mistake.
We have betrayed, short
changed, double crossed Chiang
Kai-Shek in every possible way,
since we didn't need him to fight
Japan,. as well as before. We ex
pect him to produce a miracle
of democracy while fighting two
wars though we go into a dicta
torship (almost) to fight one, and
when he fails of that we throw
him to the wolves, no, we kick
him down and leave him for the
wolves to swallow. I am so
ashamed of my America I could
weep. What kind of honor have
we in Washington? What kind of
fools? For communism will take
the entire continent of Asia
while we brag 'about our smart
airlift to Berlin!
Mrs. E. M. Runyan
Rt. 6, Box 437
Electric Devices
For Measurement
On Display Tonight
Electrical measurement devices
will be displayed and exhibited in
Salem Chamber of Commerce
rooms tonight at 7 o'clock for in
dustrial and utility engineers and
executives.
Some 150 devices for measuring
electrical quantities or electrical
devices for- measuring quantities
will be shown by J.. L. Wright,
General Electric Co. engineer for
the Salem area.
Devices will include switchboard
and aircraft instruments, photo
metric devices. Dortable testine
machines and remote position in
dicators. The display moves to
Corvallis Friday.
WOOL GROWERS TO MEET
PENDLETON, Jan. 12-(P-The
Oregon Wool Growers will con
vene in Portland Jan. 13-15, with
grazing, taxes, predatory animals,
and wildlife among the key sub
jects on the agenda.
Diary of
A Sidewalk
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January 13th
Must check the new Stev
ens and Son Jewelry Store
. . . find out about the
marble floor. When the
bank was there, the mar
ble just went up as far as
the teller's cages and stop
ped. Suggested they might
use a strip of red carpet to
fill in the space. Probably
grabbed my idea, because
I saw them measuring to
day. But wonder why they
brought in that special lin
oleum to measure with?
Better send Sid Stevens a
note before they do some
thing I don't like Keeps
me on the go, keeping him
on the go!
Exchange Club Hears
Seminary Professor
All persons have untapped men
tal and physical reserves which
are summoned up in cases of
emergency and are always poten
tially available. Dr. J. Hudson
Ballard, professo rat San Fran
cisco theological seminary, told
Salem Exchange club members
Wednesday.
Dr. Ballard called inspiration,
through contacts with such things
as art, music and religioun, the
key to releasing the reserves.
Taxpayers Mention
HARRY G. EWLNG
Tax Consultant and Adviser
Three out of five taxpayers received refunds last year. Did you?
Have your state and federal income tax prepared by me to give
you maximum refund and tnlnimum tax owed.
Hours 8 to 10 p. m. weekdays
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