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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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, 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. ,
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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.
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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. '
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