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fi tt' GaSertacn.' Zc&vsv Oregon l7odnesccrTV 3Tm g, . 18S3 mur a w m. r r n vie am. em m m ,,vr er w m wst x sa wake:islani; "No Favor Sway Us, No fear Shalt Aue" ''.-- Fraa First Statesman, Much 28, US1 L THE STATESaiAN PUBLISHING COMPANY ' V CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher faMlshed every mo rain. Badness fflce tl5 8. Commercial. Salem. Ores en. Telephone X-244L Entered at toe poitoffice at Salens, Ores en, M sees a" class matter under act el centres March t, 1S7& An Excess Profit Tax? The argument for an excess profits tax is simple; why let corporations and individuals at home pile up huge profits while men go to fight and some of them to die in distant countries at $60 a month and found? There simply is no an swer to that argument. . The hitch comes however in writing such a tax law. What are "excess profits' and what formula should be used to siphon them off into the public treasury? yV;l ";V- - The method used in the last war was an alternate: corporations were allowed to earn a certain percentage of their invested capital, then the remainder of their profits were taxed "at 90 per cent. Or they were permitted to earn the average of their net incomes for previous years and then taxed on the excess. nis tax is a handicap to small and growing concerns and in practice has been hard to ad minister. It ignores diverse risks and ups and downs in business. As far as suppliers of war materials their profits may be restricted through renegotiation of contracts. But another argu ment against the excess profits tax is its induce ment to extravagance which contributes to fur ther inflation. If a company is "in the money" and 90 per cent or more of its excess goes to the government treasury it is under no special incentive to operate its business economically. Experienced with this form of taxation in the first and second world wars has been that it is hard to administer, leads to litigation which is costly and time-consuming. The proposed substitute, which has favor with tax specialists in Washington is for heavier taxes on business. This would use the present system of a normal tax and surtax; increasing the rates to draw in more money to the treasury. Since the added burden probably will be of long duration it is better to operate under this plan than an emergency excess profits plan. This would be simpler to administer but it would run into some of the objections to the EP tax. It would bear hard on small business and if the rates were too high would discourage -cpnomy in operation. vTbile the tax experts may prefer the latter method congress probably will insist on an ex cess profits tax that will sound a lot better to the voters and blunt the comparison of the sacrificing soldier and the war profiteer. ; by the treasury. They will remain in public ownership and be managed to yield recurrent crops of timber. This certainly is a wiser policy than to turn the clock back and parcel out these lands as homesteads; One felt a bit sad in hearing Laff erty on the air last Sunday berating the Portland dailies as "Pravda" and "Izvestia," accusing them of drop ping an iron curtain on his candidacy. Well, he used plenty of paid advertising space in those papers to get his message across, but it was motheaten to begin with. Laff erty was merely indulging his illusions, at heavy expense to himself. DuPonts Take a Contract The Atomic Energy commission has made a contract with the Du Pont company to set up and manage a new plant, presumably one for making the H-bomb. DuPont will perform this service for one dollar a year the same pay it got for similar service on the Hanford works for the Manhattan project. (Just recently it got the dollar. It seems rather inconsistent for one division of the government, the department of justice, to be seeking through court action to break up this corporation while another division is pressing it to undertake heavy responsibilities in behalf of the country. But in government the left hand tries not to let the right hand inter fere. At the same time the people can't help but realize that only large - corporations have the manpower with experience broad enough to carry out construction and operation on so vast a scale as these atomic energy installations. Cut ting them "down to size'- would result in cut ting the country down both for war and peace. Policing of corporations, yes; destroying them, no. i j 11,11,1 i. my SCOGLD8 TKD crocs Spokane is to be host to the National Reclam ation association next week, November 15-17. In addition, to usual sessions with speeches and committee reports, special trips are planned, to view Grand Coulee power dam, the Columbia basin irrigation development, and the Kaiser aluminum rolling mill at Trentwood. This will be a good opportunity to learn something about the nation's reclamation progress and plans and to view some of the great projects of the north west. ' A Candidate with an Illusion A pathetic figure in ; the late campaign was A. W. Lafferty of Portland who attempted after a lapse of 35 years to capture again the seat in congress, he previously held for two terms. He poured a lot of his own money into his lengthy, personally conducted campaign.- He carried on extended advertising, hired circulators to get signers for his nominating petitions, used some radio time. And all the while every informed person knew he hadn't the slightest chance of election., , -"i His appeal for votes was on an ancient issue. Lafferty claims to have had an important part in the Tevestment of the O & C grant lands in the federal government. Taking off from there he demanded that the two and a quarter mil lion acres of these lands be disposed of to set tlers, presumably at the original price of $2.50 per acre. Long ago the era of homesteading such lands as these "was passed. The lands are prim arily timber lands in hilly and mountainous country. An agriculturist would starve to death trying to farm most of these lands. BUT the settler who won the lucky number in a draw ing for these lands would get a veritable gold mine if he got 160. acres covered with a fine stand of timber. At. present these lands are being administer ed for the good of all the people. Half the pro ceeds are paid to the counties and half retained "For a big league player life may "end? long before 40, but for managers there is a "stay of execution. Here's Branch Rickey, age 68, who has just signed a five-year contract to manage the Pittsburgh Pirates, with an extension clause for another five. And there's octogenarian Con nie Mack who has just retired after 50 years with the Philadelphia Athletics. Umpires how-, ever don't last that long poor eyesight. tat u A new company has filed a petition for au thority to lay and operate a pipeline for de livery of Canadian natural gas to northwest customers. We've been getting assurances of de livery of natural gas from Alberta or Texas for months and months, but so far it's been nothing but "gas." Canada hasn't even made up its mind whether to let its gas go into export. A new method of appealing to the voters has been employed: television. By this means a can didate may be seen as well as heard. This will help the photogenic candidates, and looks will be graded as well as the radio voice. But the cost . . . running for office is fast becoming a luxury. An industrialist raises the question: "Where in the world are we going?" If he doesn't know he hasn't been reading the signboards on the road we have been travelling. , United Nations Withdrawals in Korea May Be Strategy, Not Direct Result of Fighting 1 i ' i i ' . ; i 1 J Br 1. M. Roberts, Jr. AP Foreign News Analyst WASHINGTON, Nov. As the United Nations begins consideration of the intervention of Chinese com munist f o rces f M .1 V - war, the main ; U questions seem .. to lie not so M ... v. . ' r the ? organiza- i tion can do, but in what otner f v participants can I and wui eo. I . . Doe i China ;.. l 1ntnd n all. out commit ment, meaning "war with the United Nations, or merely. an -unofficial" effort in North Ko rea to be carried out by limited forces? i If the latter, can Gen. Mac Arthur throw the "limited" fore m out and complete his assign ment of clearing all Korea? , Will Soviet Russia encourage it permit the Chinese to continue an operation which carries a grave threat of general war? . . At the moment, every move of the United States will be directed towards its- war-long policy of preventing the conflict from spreading. Great hope is being plaped on MacArthur'g ability to go ahead with the job before there is direct involvement with China. One line in bis report to the U.N.,; gave some support to this hope. That was his reference to the allied escape from what appeared to be a trap and consequent mili tary disaster. This could mean some of the" retreats have been mare for the purpose of regroup ing to meet a changed situation than due to direct fighting. Al though allied losses are admit tedly heavy. Russia's attitude, however, was widely believed to be the key. At the U.N. it was said that if Rus sia was no more openly Involved , with Peiping than she had been with the North Korean commun ists, the matter would resolve - into the continuing military pol icy of clearing Korea, even though additional allied strength might be required. More direct Russian support for Peiping, however, would be taken as notice that Russia was prepared to risk world war III, and that there was no great hope of delaying its start much longer. Military observers in the far east still find it hard to believe that Russia and China will take all-out risks now, when they did not do it while the allies were pinned to the small bridgehead in South Korea. Some, however, feel that the present degree of Chinese inter vention already signifies a will ingness on the part of the Krem lin to go farther than -had been expected. Sen. Wayne Morse, winding up his reelection campaign in Salem, told a Chamber of Commerce audience how he personal ly verified one of many stories going the rounds these days. Morse said he checked parents of one youth and found they had given their consent to their 17-year-old son's joining an army re serve unit. The recruit drilled a grand total of six times at weekly sessions of his outfit, then was tapped for active service. Three weeks lat er he was in front lines at Seoul in Korea. Later talking with friends Sen. Morse1 made a low bow to American youth. Said questions from a school audience were at least the calibre of those from a chamber of commerce or, say, a Rotary club. Morse says youth exert , more influence on voting habits of their parents than vice versa. Cited an example: in furious presidential primary campaign of 1948 an Oregon State student told his business man dad that he ( dad) was working for the wrong man. Dad mulled it over and finally swung around to his son's views. On the other hand dads seem to feel that youths make good voters, fathers and soldiers but poor campaign fodder, Busiest spot in Salem on Election day was, as usual, Marion county clerk's office. Staffers were swamped with calls from persons who wanted to know where to vote many of them had moved and failed to re-register. One male caller had the mumps and wanted to know how he was going to vote. Staff told him of lady who had mumps last year and threatened to go to polls and give the election board the mumps if someone didn't come to her house and take her ballot . . . Mrs. Gladys White, in charge of elections said the absentee ballot from GI's would be heavier this year, but many applications were refused because lots of the GI's had not registered to vote. The hands that rock the ballot box When Statesman fotog Don Dill asked Gov. Douglas McKay when he would vote Tuesday the governor said he'd have to check with Mrs. McKay ... at the Harry Collins home Mrs. Collins answered the phone and did not hesitate in setting a time . . . AI Louckj also checked with the little woman in the background before committing himself. A rumor that General Motors was going to expand out this way was squelched in a recent letter to Gene Malecki from the company's realty division . . . the letter said the company had no plans for this area "at this time." . . . Harlan Judd, Marion county clerk once removed by the army, now at Fort Worden, Wash., is president of the special courts martial at that camp and is summary court officer . . .' Harlan said enlisted men sit In on the court and everything works smoothly ... If housing plans turn out right Mrs. Judd and family will move to Fort Worden about December 1. Henry Wishes Gotham Was Lonely City By Henry McLemore NEW YORK, Nov. 71 want to give the lie direct to those peo ple who throughout the years have said and written that New York City is an unfriendly city. A city where every man is too busy thinkin&gf himself to give so much as a nod to a stranger. A city where hundreds of fa- GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty Ways in Washington ' By Alexander B. Geerge (For Jane Ea4s WASHINGTON -W)- Planning to wed this winter? If you are married before this year ends. Uncle Sam indirectly may help finance your honeymoon. The idea is you may save a tidy chunk of income tax money by hastening the wedding. If you are married on Dec. 31, 1950, the tax law considers you as married for the entire year 1950, regard less of how long or short a time you actually have been married. So if your marriage takes place Dec. 31, you may claim $600 ex emption for your wife in making out your 1950 tax return. You al so may make a joint return for 1950, which in most cases is as cheap, or cheaper, than a sepa rate return. But if your marriage takes place on Jan. 2, 1951, you are not allowed to claim the $600 exemp tion for your wife on your 1950 return. And you can not file a joint return for 1950. This is not a new provision of the tax law. However, internal revenue of ficials say that many taxpayers are unaware of it If a person is divorced or leg ally separated from his wife on or before Dec. 31, 1950, he is considered single for the entire year from an income tax stand point He is not allowed to take the $600 exemption for his wife, even if the separation did not take place until the last day of 1950. On the other hand If the tax payer's wife dies during the year, they are nevertheless considered married for the entire year. The . taxpayer then may take the $600 . exemption for his wife and file a joint return. . A taxpayer also may take a $600 exemption for a dependent child born Dec. 31, 1950. The tax law treats children born during the year as if they were depend ent for the entire year. 1 . A crSA,t. 5NJ '. -.JJSS tlGL "Defease needs are beginning to hart . ... I can give yea . Immediate delivery, but only in 1 er 3 colors . . . milies live in an a p a r t m ent house for. years without even .-V I knowing who snares tne building with them. A city where it is too Ifor men and Jl I women to pay I heed to others. What a lie! What a laugh! I only wish this were true. If it were, a man could move to New York and go through the miseries of unpacking and get ting settled in some sort of peace. i The movers arrived yesterday, and anyone who has ever moved a lifetime of possessions knows what sort of mess we were in. Movers hauling in boxes, barrels and crates. Workmen waxing and polishing - the floors that were supposed to have been waxed and polished a week before. Painters touching up the baseboards and doors, plumbers plumbing in ev ery bathroom. Handymen screw ing in light fixtures, the dogs and the cat romping through the Ut ter, which equalled that of Wa terloo after ,'Boney" had with drawn. And, who do you think visited me during the height of this con fusion? New,' Yorkers. And more New Yorkers. More of these sup posedly callous citizens tramped Into my apartment than there are inhabitants of Bloomington, Illinois. I met more New York ers yesterday than there are res idents of the little Florida town from which I have moved. v Around 10 o'clock in the morn ing, when we were at our dirtiest and worst the first caller arriv ed. He was a man of distinguish ed bearing, wearing a well-cut suit and with a Homburg in bis hand. j Jean took a look at him, slicked her hair back in place, tried to rub the shine off her nose, and whispered: "Why do you have to have your fancy friends call on us today?" - t " Welcome to New York," the visitor said. "You're Henry and that's Jean, i I know. That was a big blow that you had in Flor ida, wasn't it? Glad you came through it all right May the Lord bless you here in our city. I am the Fuller Brush man. Here Is my card. Call upon you any time you say. Anything I can do to help you now?" After him, on the second every second, came more men than MacArthur has reviewed in a lifetime of soldiering. They all greeted me as a long lost brother. 1 The man from the meat mar ket The man from the delicates sen. The man from the news stand. The man from the grocery store. The man (how he found out I have a fireplace remains a mystery) from the wood yard. The man-from the nearest fu neral home, and the man from a "convenient' cemetery. The thing is, there was noth ing professional in their ap proach.. Not 'until they had em braced me, shaken hands with Jean, admired our dtgglng? and said what lucky folks we were to have such a nice place in such a nice section of town, did they bring up the matter of trade. ' They sent up complimentary cases of ginger ale, brooms, mops and flowers. Oh yes, let's not (Continued from page one) analysis that if another 10,000,- 000 voted the votes would divide about the same way." This 19 48 election should puncture' the oft-made comment that a big turnout of votes helps the democrats.- The 1948 vote was relatively light but the dem ocrats came through with a sur prising victory. Long years of study of voting leaves me mys tified as to why people vote as they do. You often note odd swings in votes in adjoining pre cincts where conditions are quite similar, for which there seems no accounting. And often trends set in which you cant detect be fore the election or explain after it is over. Doing a job of after- forget the florist He arrived with a bouquet of autumn leaves which he said would look per fectly beautiful on the mantel piece. How he knew this must be laid to intuition, because the mantelpiece at the time was smothered bx canned goods we had brought with us. Mushroom soup, Worcestershire sauce, lima beans, chili mayonnaise, and two loaves of bread which the May flower movers, in its thorough ness, had packed. Night fell Finally. We said to ourselves that at last we were alone. That no more of New York's "unfriendly" folk would visit us. We were wrong. Near midnight the owner of an all-night hard ware store (and. where else in all the world except New York will you find an "all-night" hard ware store) called with hammer and nails and sandpaper. ' "I am from the France-Fraley hardware store," : he said. "Thought you good folks might be needing some of these things." New York a hard town? No, the softest , town of them aii. - : Distributed by McNaufht Syndicate. Inc. -eleetlon- eartevbacklmg-ls. nardex i man tot xootoau: you cant see the plays, all you have is the score. But it is fascinating and the student occasionally comes up with some nuggets of truth on why people vote as they do. The really remarkable thing is that our system has lasted for 163 years and has succeeded in giving us a pretty good brand , of government Only a handful want to change the system. The secret of its success is that when .. the election is over the people abide by the result The dis appointed do not foment revolu tions; instead they look forward to another day (as republicans have for 18 years) when they may achieve victory. 4 Another election is over. Now let us get on with our work; Better English 1, What Is wrong with this sentence? "They promised how they would be there, and we were awfully glad." 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "venison?" 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Racketeer, railery, rationalize, rapacious. 4. What does the word "signi ficant" mean? ' 5. What is a word beginning with my that means "to make difficult to understand?" , ANSWERS 1. Say, "They promised that they would be there, and we were very glad." 2. Pronounce ven-i-z'n. and not ven-l-son. 3. Raillery. 4. Having a meaning; expressive. "He made a signifi cant gesture, and I stood pre pared for any emergency." 8. Mystify. , ; . .- All Union Barber Shops (AF of L And Master Barber . I . Will Be Closed Sal IIov. II -Araislice Day- GETTING A LOAN FOR THE FIRST TIME? C It Allen THE -YES- MAN n Knows earerai eonsiaerauon is necessary. Hell be glad to give you helpful friendly ad- C. R. Allen er single. Personal said "yes" to ever a million customers last year. vice. He specializes in loans to people married fljLAHtl it. Loans $25 to 8508 On Auto ; Up to 8300 on Salary - Furniture fH eemarTnMr ufil TO sat rtt FINANCE COL Just Phone 2-2484 and Ask for C. K. Allen. Manager - I'm "Yes Man" at. Personal Finance C&. 183 S. High St Lie. 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