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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1950)
4 Tim Xtatotmon, Salem, Ortw Tuetdgr, Ncombor 21 19S0- atcswau ;--f "No Favor Sways Vs, No Fear Shall Awe Item Flnt Statesman, March Z8. 1S51 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher rmbUhed every maralng. Cosiness office SIS 8. Commercial. Salem, Oregen. Telephone 1-244L Catered at the postoffic at Salem, Oregon, aa second elan matter under act of congress March 3, 117 TTorking Out a Tax Program A political baitle over an excess profits tax is shaping up in Washington. The house ways and means committee by a strict party vote has rejected a tax proposal of republicans and de cided to give its attention solely to an excess profits tax. President Truman calls for one which would produce an additional $4 billion in revenue. The "dope" is that the house will pass an ejt dux uui me sexiaiB wm uu uuuuus about it during the short period before the 81st congress adjournsThat would shift the whole tax problem over to the 82nd congress. Meantime the forces opposing an excess profits tax are being mustered, chiefly of businessmen and business organizations. Their arguments have been recounted previously in this column. Perhaps the strongest negative argument is the prospect that heavy taxation will be the order of the day-f or a long period. The excess profits tax is usually considered a special burden of short duration. Therefore it is proposed that taxing for the longer term should be worked out now. ,' , One of the best proposals as an alternate to the EP tax is that advanced by the Committee for Economic Development, a-middle-of-the-road business organization whose ideas on post war economics have been quite sensible. It would increase corporate and individual income tax rates for 1951 and then work out a long term tax program. ' . " It is generally agreed that taxes should be increased. Not only does the government need mors revenue but financing its needs by bonds and deficits merely results in added inflation, already serious. Taxes drain off excess buying power and should be applied rather generally. The need for this is greater when the supply of consumer goods is reduced as seems probable fn'th earlv future. -What the country needs is heroic financial leadership to : determine , policies which will safeguard our economy, our financial system, provide adequate revenues for government and not shackle too much the productive machinerey .of America which sustains the whole economy. The problem should not be handled just with en eye to a popular solution too much is at take. - compensation except to the individuals who get washed out. This Editor Was a Builder Oregon has lost an able editor and a progres sive citizen in the passing of Edward B. Aid rich, editor and publisher of the Pendleton East Oregonian. "Ed" as he was familiarly known, was a native Oregonian and graduate of Oregon State college. He devoted his mature life to one newspaper, serving as editor of the Pendleton daily from 1908 up to the time of his death. Aldrich definitely was a builder, working steadily for the development and improvement of his community and state. He served for eight years on the state highway commission. He used his paper constantly to promote projects to serve and to speed the growth of the country. The McNary (Umatilla) dam was one project he fostered. For years he campaigned for a flood protection and irrigation works dam on a trib utary of the Umatilla river. He was a staunch supporter of a Columbia Valley administration because he saw in it the prospect of more rapid and better planned development. A democrat, he was not narrowly partisan by any means . Ed Aldrich was honored and respected in his city and in the state and in his own profession. He had the satisfaction an editor craves of work ing and writing up to the last. Now other hands take over his duties. The term "blood strain" is just a metaphor. Family characteristics are unrelated to blood but are transmitted in the genes. Recognizing this scientific fact the board of governors of the American Red Cross has directed that reference to race or color of blood donors be deleted from report cards. It was just ancient prejudice which called for any segregation of blood of whites and blacks. Blood to save a life should carry no color label. Peking Rebuff Washington Radio Peking scoffs at the declarations of President Truman and Secretary Acheson deny ing any hostile intent toward China. The tone of the Peking broadcast is truculent,' much after the Radio Moscow model. There is no indication of friendly response to Washington's overtures In language like this: "America has lied and smashed her way across the world to Chinese territory and into it, has seized Formosa and is threatening an other neighbor, Viet Nam (in French Indo china)." This offers a gloomy prospect that the Korean war may not be confined. China, of course, is de ceiving, no one with its "volunteers" in North Korea, though its moves do not fully disclose Chinese intentions. "It does look as though the writer was correct when he said that Red China was not puppet of Soviet Russia but a willing ally. Floods in central California valleys belong in the "believe it or not" category; but press re ports and pictures give proof that they were real ever, the week end. The whole Pacific coast has been getting the full treatment from old Jupiter Pluvius this fall. But rain makes the grass and trees grow, which offers considerable The football season winds up except for the Bowl contests next Saturday, and a "civil war" climax with Washington vs. Washington State; Oregon vs. Oregon State; California vs. Stan ford; USC vs. UCLA. The second is to be played in Portland and offers a chance for consolation to teams that have been consistent losers this year. . Editorial Comment Vetera Befuddled Despite all the publicity, editorial comment and other effort made to acquaint voters with various measures the fact is probably very few voters thoroughly understand all the proposals which are placed before them at election time. This failure to understand is due in part, at least, to the average citizen's reluctance to devote the time necessary for study and consideration but most of all, it is due to obscure, confusing verbiage, double talk and in some cases purposely weasel words. Even the legal eagles are confused and unable to agree on exactly what results may be expected If such and such a law is placed on the books. It was interesting to note the analyses and recommendations of Oregon editors on the uniform standard time bill. There was considerable dis agreement as to its provisions and the voters were completely befuddled by its ballot title and wording of the law itself. To our mind a "ballot title bureau," might be a good thing but a clarifying commission for all measures up for public vote is needed even more. (Medford Mail Tribune) Russsia Capable of Dropping 70 On U. S. in 2 Years, Despite 41 v By Joseph and Stewart Also WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 Ac cording to the estimates on which American planning is based, the Kremlin has, today, a stock pile of between 20 to- 25-atomic bombs. If you ask the best of the air defense e x p e rts how many of these bombs could be expected to get through to tar gets in this rrwm tirr In rata of surprise at- &lrirarMlfS tack by the Soviet fleet of TU-4 strategic bombers, you will get a; rather bleak answer "Almost a all of them." As "this an swer suggests, the effective n e s s of . the American air defense today stands very close to zero. This is not the fault of the air force. During, the period when Louis A. w . t MAkti wonnson was L.r- secretary of defense, the air force, starved for funds, concentrated very largely on strategic bombing capacity. This decision was demonstra bly the correct one, for, as Gen eral Omar Bradley pointed out the other day, since Korea "the free world has been left with out adequate reserves except for the atomic bomb But the policy of concentrating on the strategic air force left this coun- try, when the Johnson regime ended, with a totally inadequate radar net, and without any mod ern radar-equipped night-fighter at alL , Under the new defense de partment regime, this situation is being, corrected as rapidly as VI it" i - I J possible. The radar screen Is be- in vastly improved, and it wilt soon be extended well out into the Atlantic by means of picket ships. Plans for the creation of an overall "theater of the Unit ed States," commanded by a single commander to whom all three services will be respons ible in case of attack on this country, are being studied by the joint chiefs of staff. The conti nental air defense Is being re organized and greatly strength ened. Plans are also being prepared fcr very strict air traffic con trol. This is a much more im portant matter than most peo ple realize. Obviously, the first requirement of a serious air de fense is to be able to distinguish between friendly planes and hostile planes. Any unidentified . plane may be an enemy plane. Until very recently, an aver age of about a dozen planes a . day which were never identified at all were spotted on the rad ar screens in the area assigned to one of the country's seven air divisions. This area included New York City, and the planes might, of course, have been Rus sian. The average has now been more than cut in half. But a serious defense will require that -. every plane flying over Ameri can territory . can be instantly identified. ... - Yet even the most serious de fense, the experts warn, can never come close to a total de fense, bar the discovery of some entirely new scientific principle. The very best that is hoped is that an air defense can be built within the next 18 to 20 months capable of knocking out between 20 and 30 per cent of an attack ing force. And those who should know, emphasize, with all the fervor of men who will be blam ed if disaster strikes, that even this ratio would be little short of miraculous , A-Bombs Defense Efforts This ratio must be considered in the context of a further fact that according to the accepted estimates, the Soviets should have a stockpile of between 100 and 130 atom bombs by the be ginning of 1953. Ift this estimate is correct .the Kremlin would thus have the capacity of deliv ering at least 70 bombs to select ed targets in this country in about two years from today. There is no use blinking the fact that this means the capacity to wound this country very ter ribly. Survival itself must then depend on the ability to recover from the initial wound, and to retaliate overwhelmingly for the threat of devastating retali ation will then be our only real safeguard. : That is why those who have faced up to the facts are becom ing convinced that it is time to begin to think very seriously In deed about a real, rather than a fake, civil defense. The first ne cessity is to protect by disper sion or by other means such ab solutely essential facilities as telephone exchanges, power sta tions and marshalling yards. The ability to come back and win after a surprise attack would depend on an industrial econo my which, however badly hurt, still functioned. ' Perhaps it is also time to be gin to think very seriously in deed about what Winston Chur chill has been preaching for a good many years now: "Wt must never abandon hope that a peaceful settlement may be reached with the Soviet govern ment if a resolute effort is made not on the basis of our present weakness but of American atomic strength. This is the poli cy which gives the best chance of preventing a fearful war and of securing pur survival should it break upon us." Churchill has been right very often before, and we will not have "the best chance for very much longer now. .. . TOMBSTbNES ' MAKE ' POOR ' BUILDING FOUNDATIONS' 'If flfefl tt. iComes rr at1 'A Macy, Gimbel Better Than Auctioneers By Henry McLemore NEW YORK, Nov. 20 We took a look around the apart ment and SHE decided what we needed. Two buffet sort of businesses for the dining room. An easy chair in that corner. Anoth er one over there. A little table and mir ror to go in the foyer and a much bigger sofa to break the wall space. I agreed with her. Com pletely. And X told her, as I thumbed through the newspapers, that New York was the place to buy things. Nowhere else in the world would you have such a choice. Macy's, Gimbel's, Blooming dale's, and all the other ten thousand and one stores in this town. Turn a Russian loose in Gimbel's and he'll never be a Russian again. Enter sex. Female sex. This is exactly what Jean told me. ; Henry, Charlotte furnished her whole apartment at auction sales. We are going to buy ev erything we need at auction sales. She has a chest in her dining room that she .paid $70.00 for that you couldn't buy for three times that much in a store. Just as surely as the sun rises in the east, we took off to an auction. Thirty miles from New York. Rudeness predominated. I told a man that I was there to bid. He said he didn't care what I was for, but I was not to block the aisle. Jean's eyes glistened when the auctioneer put up a cloverleaf table that was a mess of scars. . "Twenty dollars!" she yelled. A man in the front row yelled, "Twenty-two dollars. . I looked, quickly, at my wife. Jean got the table for forty bucks. A bargain, mind you, if you have an uncle who runs a furniture repair shop. : Bidding was going on all around me when I sang to Jean what I thought was a sensible song, i 1 "Honey, honey, bless your heart, you're the honey that I love so well . . listen, child, and I said that with all the love my heart will ever have. I said, "Jean, try to believe me. Try to believe that ' no one ever gives you anything for free. The auctioneer ; knows what the maple chest is worth. Please, child, remember that he has not devoted his life to giving away bargains. She didnt listen. So I got in the spirit of the thing. ! I bought a green glass plate with half of General Grant's face on it for three dollars. Don't ask me what I'm going ; to do with it Jean bought a chest of draw ers which I swear wont hold Frank Sinatra's chest, which is a very little chest, indeed. We left the auction joint with everything. We're holding an auction next Thursday. i Moral: You can't beat New York's department stores.: . If you think you can, try to name me an owner who is starv ing. Even see a thin Macy? Or a hungry Gimbel? (Distributed by ! IfcNauxht Syndicate. Inc.) Your Health 1 Written by Dr. Herman N. Bondeasea i Regular, thorough, and careful brushing of the teeth not only discourages decay but promotes health of the gums. Normal gums are firm and of a pale pink color. Deep-red, soft, or spongy gums which bleed easily are almost al ways diseased. To maintain health and clean liness, the teeth and gums should be properly brushed three times daily, three to five minutes at a time. The brushing is best done after meals. The dental treat ment of gum disorders cannot accomplish permanent results unless the patient is willing to cooperate by good toothbrushing procedures at home. ECUS C0JE1 All types of tooth brushes have been recommended. One which Is favored has an inch-long head. with one-half Inch bristles. The bristles are of medium stiffness. The. brushing must be carried out In such a way that the ends of the bristles do not irritate the gums; Instead, the sides of the bristles should be pressed again st the gums, i There is ho one manner of toothbrushing which is preferred by all dentists, so each person should follow the recom mendations of his dentist in re gard to the procedure to be em ployed. For children, it Is suggest ed that the brush be pressed against the teeth and gums and moved in circles. 1 (ContinuM from page one) court administration over the state as is strongly urged, an additional administrative officer would be required. A new build ing could make provision for such expansion, just as the new Marion county courthouse makes allowance for four circuit court rooms. The worst feature of the pres ent building is not the leaks, in the roof, annoying as they are (Judge Lusk says he has the promise of one legislator of sup port for the purchase of a larger bucket). The worst feature Is the noise which disturbs hear ings and conferences. This can't be remedied short of sound proofing the whole structure and that wouldn't eliminate vibra tion from the passing of trains. The court has been altogether too modest in presenting its claims. Friends of the court should appear, "amicus aixULt," at the next legislature and make a strong plea for a new supreme court building In the new capi tal group. As to the dentifrice to be em ployed, this Is also a matter which should be left to the dentist. Many are used because of their pleasant taste; others, because of their cleansing qualities, Inflammation of the gums may occur because of infections, in cluding trench ' mouth, which cause jthe formation of ulcers or sores ion -the gums and lining membrance of the cheeks. In most cases this condition is satisfac torily I treated with penicillin When inflammation of the gums occurs, the dentist should, of course be consulted at once, so tnat ne may find the cause and prescribe the treatment to be us ed. i QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS T. X.: Is there any medicine which can be taken for a nervous .stomach? . Answer: It Is not clear what is meant by "a nervous stomach.'" There are some persons who suf fer from discomfort in the abdo men with occasional attacks of sickness of the stomach and vomiting, all of which symptoms may be due to some nervous dis order. Correction of the cause for the nervousness will usually relieve tne cumcuity. (Copyright, 1890 King raaturea) The eruption of Katmal volcano in the Aleutians in 1912 was one of the most violent volcanic out bursts in modern times. GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty II II 9 Ill - s , Fire sirens blew in Woodburn Sunday afternoon, but no fire trucks took off. Reason Members of the volunteer flame and hose department, all except one (Tom Donnelly) were ia the woods gathering cedar boughs and other . material to decorate streets there for the Yule tide. Well, someone called the Gervais fire department which whipped a truck to the scene of (yes, you guessed it) a minor chimney blaze, woodburn FD laddies, who have a i good record for answering fire Calls, feel that, in some way or another, they went to blazes ; Sunday. , ." . r Junior departments of three, Salem Methodist churches Jason Lee, First and Leslie plus a group from Albany, staged a unique re ligious experiment recently. They attended on orthodox service at the Salem Jewish Synagogue and were permitted teachers said they were never better instructed than by the Jewish laymen and clergy. ' ' ; v. . . ' . : .-. , Things have been happening in Lebanon, too First, the Town Tavern there has been displaying in its window a large placard calling all Alcoholics Anonymous to' a meeting in Al bany. . . The attendants at the city dump, hearing screams of rage and pain coming from a burning dump heap, fished out a cat imprisoned in a wooden crate two women (human) had deposited the pet on the blazing pile along with household trash. . . When John Griggs, 90 years old November 7, walked into polls to vote, the election board all stood up and gave out with a solid chorus of "Happy Birthday To You. , A big flock of geese was seen headed due north Monday evidently they prefer mild Alaska weather to the smog, floods and rain in California. . , f When a group of foreign students from 15 countries visited Salem recently they set the theme for Thanksgiving. When Gov. Douglas McKay joined them he was greeted by calls of "Hi, Doug!" from fellow Salem chamber of commerce members at the table. Later one of the students from a far-away nation said: "One thing we like about your democracy. Here is a high state official ami you greet him with cheers of Hi, Doc!' In my country is not so. igfcgasasi! Better English 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "We must find out right away where the children have gone to." ' .2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "chamois"? 1 . 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Measurement, measurable, mean ess, mediocre. 4. What does the word "im pending mean? . - 5. What is a word beginning with le that means "trifling gaiety? ANSWERS 1. Say, "We must find out at once where the children have gone (omit to)." 2. Pronounce sham-1, a as in am, I, as in it, accent first syllable. S. Mean ness. 4. Threatening. "I had an uneasy sense of impending dis aster." S. Levity. PASTOR CALLED SIL.VERTON The Rev. Arthur W. Nelson, now with Lutheran World Relief in Germany work ing with displaced persons, has accepted a call to serve Imman uel Lutheran church at Silverton. While no definite time has been set zor nil arrival u was expected to be in early January, Dr. R. J." VanCleave, secretary of the call committee said Monday. ' Conscientious, Dignified Service IMMe ijiiMsiiiffi Map mm mm 545 North Capitol ToL 3-3673 Your Savings Are Safe Isaum MoeitAi sAviNOt '"'Coah) tae State Street Saleifl Oregaa Telephone X-413S , I am net yelling ... Tm Just snaking mysalf clear . . 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