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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
FRIDAY. JANUARY 27, 1950
THE BEND BULLETIN
and CENTRAL OREGON PRESS
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Published Lvery Alleruuun fcacept bluulay and Certain Holiday by Tile btmd iluilelin
1H -Tib Wall Street Bend, Oregon
Entered aa Second Claas Matter, January 6, 1911, at the Poatoflice at Bend, Oregon
Under Aet of March , l7t,
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' GETTING THE MONEY SOONER
Instead of transmitting payroll withholdings and social
. security taxes to the bureau of internal revenue quarterly, as
in the past, employers are now required to send in the money
once a month. Just to make things interesting, the quarterly
report will still have to be filed.
Comment on the change comes to us from a good democrat
ic newspaper, the Enterprise of Elizabethtown, Kentucky,
which remarks somewhat bitterly :
Surely the government is not so hard up for money that
: it cannot wait for a check until the end of the quarter, and must
have it in dribbles every month.
: But, we suggest, that may be exactly the case. In the cur
rent fiscal year, federal spending has been going on with such
sublime disregard for income that a deficit which President
Truman estimates at beyond five and one-half billion dollars
is in the making. In the executive budget for the next year,
fiscal 1951, there is another deficit, officially set up at $5,
133,000,000. All this on top of the quarter of a trillion dollar
debt already on the books. Doesn't that make a nation, even a
supposedly wealthy one, hard up?
. Bear in mind that the red entries have attained their pres
ent totals in spite of the system of current collection of indi
vidual income taxes. Before it became effective these taxes
were collected through the year following that in which the
taxed income was received. Under the liuml pay-as-you-go
plan, the accrued taxes were picked up and, by the operation
' of withholdings, current income also contributed on each
salary period. In the transition period this resulted in doub
ling federal receipts from the individual income source, which
should have made possible debt reduction. It didn't. Instead,
the red ink only flowed more treely.
Something similar to this plan has been proposed,to affect
corporations. It, too, would double payments for a time. The
, administration is known to favor the idea. It is one way to get
the money and to get it sooner than it could otherwise be had.
The spenders must fairly drool at the thought.
Pay-as-you-go taxation of corporations is not as yet in the
law. There may be difficulty in getting it there. But, in the
meantime, there was still a way to quicker money. Withhold-
t 'nigs could be called in every 30 days instead of every quarter
and, for the time being, government would be, relatively
speaking, in funds, although at the end of the three-month
period it would be no better off than under the former sys
tem. The man who draws against his pay check now and then
before pay day operates in much this fashion. He has money
at intervals before the "ghost walks" but receives less at that
time.
It should not be supposed that there will be any direct mon
etary loss suffered either by taxpayers or the employer who
is the government's unpaid collection agent through the oper
ation of the monthly instead of the quarterly turnover plan.
The withholdings, the minute they are made, are govern
ment's. From then on they are held in trust until it is time to
send them in. It will make more book work, more paper work
and, by just that much, increase private operation cost. If the
handling of withholdings has .been a nuisance (and it has) it
will become a greater nuisance; ?, v : r ;-...
v ' But, to get back to the Kentucky editor's statement which
started all this, the whole business is equivalent to admission
by the administration that government needs the money,
needs' it so badly that it cannot wait until the end of the quar
s ter and must have it "in dribbles every month". Yes, truly,
we Would say that the government is hard up and that this is
evidence very much in point.
WASHINGTON COLUMN
UllltUIIUIIUIIiniHItttllUtUIHI
By Peter Kdnon
(NEA Washington Correspondent)
Washington (NEA) It prob
ably never happened, but this
story has been brought back
from a conference of European
officials in Geneva, Switzerland.
At a final dinner, delegates from
the various countries were being
Introduced and asked to rise for
bows and brief applacsc. When
the Swiss introduced their "Sec
retary of the navy" many of the
delegates laughed. "I don't see
why," remarked an offended
Swiss official; "we didn't laugh
when the British Introduced their
minister of finance."
At a recent meeting of a group
of American salesmen who were
about to take off for England
to swap sales ideas with British
manufacturers, Marshall plan ad
ministrator Paul Hoffman told
how he used to decide whether
to hire a salesman who came to
him looking for a job. He would
have two vacant chairs available
Bend's Yesterdays
(From The Bulletin Files)
FORTY YEARS AGO
(Jan. 27, 1910)
Work on the power dam at
Bend is progressing steadily un
der the supervision of Superin
tendent Danielson.
A. B. Buck reached Bend Thurs
day evening Willi his Fierce-Ar
row car, bringing In several pas
sengers from hhaniko.
Lots on 1ho Drake lawn, re
cently placed on the market, are
selling rapidly. A. L. lluntrr has
already disposed of eight of
them. Purchasers Include, J. S.
Parmenter, A. C. Lucas, George
I-lobbs, W. B. Sellers, II. C. Ellis.
W. J. McGillvray and C. S. Hud
son. L. B. Baird and J. W. Masters,
new arrivals from Oklahoma, are
to start a banking business.
Chrysler May
Negotiate Again
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 27 Ul'i
Contract negotiations between
the CIO United Auto Workers and
the strike-bound Chrysler corpor
ation may reopen early next
week, labor mediators said today.
Federal and state mediators
met separately with union and
company representatives yester
day, bui revealed only that talks
may resume within the next few
days.
Neither side took any. action
toward reconciliation of lis views
on the method of paying $100
monthly pensions.
Industry observers estimated
that the three-day strike had
made 115,000 jobless, and sliced
the nation's weekly automobile
production by 35,500 vehicles.
Billy Rose, Wife,
Robbery Victims
New York, Jan. 27 (U') Half
pint showman Billy Rose didn't
mind today that bandits stole
$100,000 in jewels and furs from
his home.
But he was just as glad that
his wife, former Olympic swim
ming star Eleanor Holm, was out
on the town with him wearing
$250,000 worth of diamonds dur
ing the robbery.
"I'm sure happy my baby wore
her war paint," Rose said. "But
I don't care about the jewels as
long as no one was hurt."
Although the robbery took
place at I0!30 o'clock last night,
It was p't until the 50-year-old
Rose and his beautiful wife ar
rived home at 1:20 a.m. (EST) to
day that he learned of It.
"What's this all about?" Rose
asked as he stepped from a taxi
cab In front of his town touse on
lashionable Beekman place to be
greeted by a crowd of reporters
and photographers..
S Men Involved
Reporters explained that three
bandits, one armed with a gun,
had forced their way into the
house, tied up the negro butler
and proceeded to loot the third
floor bedrooms,
Rose, accompanied by his wife,
then went into the house with de
tectives to assess his loss. The
36-year-old Mrs. Rose was wear
ing a diamond necklace, a dia
mond bracelet and a square cut
diamond ring. She also wore a
mink stole over a low-cut gold
lame gown.
Police believed the bandits may
have been the same gang which
had carried off more than $1,500.-
000 in jewels in a series of rob
beries in New York in the past
two years.
The bandits apparently were
familiar with the layout of the
lavish 12-room house because
they went directly to the bed
rooms. They also chose the night
when all the servants, except but
ler James McDonald, were out of
the house.
Rose said the bandits left un
touched his $500,000 collection of
modern paintings and $75,000
worth of antique silver.
in his office one very comfort
able and the other very straight
and stiff. Hoffman aaiu he would
never indicate which chair the
applicant was to sit in. But he
never hired the man who chose
the easy chair.
Veterans' organizations will
probably fight it, but President
Truman's budget message con
tained a recommendation for cut
ting out all hospitalization bene
fits customarily given ex-soldiers
and sailors for disabilities not
contracted in military service.
The president's real purpose in
knocking out this free medical
service to vets as an economy
measure is believed to be a pre
liminary move in support of his
national health insurance plan. If
vets were denied hospitalization
for non-service connected disabili
ties, they might be expected to
become boosters for national
health insurance, under which
everybody would get the same
treatment they have long en
joyed.
Assistant secretary of the army
Tracy S. Voorhees got this story
from a Japanese politician named
Yoshita: After the occupation,
Yoshita fully expected to be shot
by the first American soldier who
saw him. And as he was riding
in his car he came to a road
block of Yanks. As his car stop
ped, a GI opened the door and
reached for something In his
pocket. Yoshita assumed it would
be a pistol. .As the Japanese poli
tician prepared to join his ances
tors, the GI said, "Here, buddy,
try an American cigaret." Yo
shita says this experience is typi
cal of the surprise which all Japa
nese still feel over the way the
occupation has worked out.
Incidentally, U.S. electric power
consumption reached an all-time
record high in the two weeks be
fore Christmas. Electric power
generated by utilities didn't quite
reach the six billion kilowatt
hours per week figure. But It hit
5,997,000,000 kwh for the week
ending December 17 and 5,994,
000,000 the week following.
Basic American foreign policy
problem in the middle east and
southeast Asia is to find some
way to assist countries in these
areas without arousing their an
tagonism. Political leaders in all
these countries are said to be sus
picious that the United States is
merely trying to build up a power
block ana use them to tight com
munism. Possible exceptions are
Greece, Turkey and Iran, which
have been up against the menace
of Russian communism and know
that it is real. But all the others,
having just been liberated from
British and Dutch colonialism, are
more scared of exploitation by
capitalists than they are of com
munism. While all these under
developed countries envy U. S.
wealth and progress and would
like a share of both, their leaders
feel that the United States is too
closely allied with the western
European colonial powers. They
also reel that Americans are too
materialistic, and not spiritual
enough, not cultured enough -like
them. This is regarded as a
curious type of Inferiority com
plex, similar to the Latin-American
attitude, which it may take a
long time and the most careful
handling to overcome, f
MARCH of DIMES
Entire Gross Proceeds Go
to POLIO FUND
Everything donated, including music
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Safwdcy, Jan. 28ti
Sparc Courtesy
. CRCOXS-SCANLON, INC. and
THE SKEVUN-K.XON COMPANY
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300R0 Take Me Buck Into Your Heart (iene Autry
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57 40250 Whoa Sailor Betsy Guy
203232 Bull l ldille Boo;le Pee Wee King
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21 00.VI It Ain't Par to Hie Bar Johnny Tyler
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OUT ON THE FARM
By Ha S. Grant
Jan. 27 Last night we drove
a mile or two from home on an
errand, and on the way back, we
stopped at a neighbor's and or
dered coffee. In fact, in this
weather, we do most of our farm
ing with coffee cups in hand.
There's no need to offer apolo
gies. We admit that we spend
long hours planning what we ll do
in the spring.
Spring will come, and the frag
rance of apple blossoms will be
on the breeze, Just as surely as
day follows night. It's an affirma
tion of faith to look at the snow-
shrowded trees and know that
already the leaves and the buds
are there, Just watting or the sap
to rise.
Winter Is the time for philoso
phy, and for giving nurture to
the soul. There's time for visiting
and reminiscing, and for mixing
the dream-mortar that will ce
ment the
reality.
rocks and bricks of
, GUILTY PLEA MADE
Portland, Jan. 27 UH The trial
of unlawful child placing against
Mrs. Bea Roach of Portland end
ed suddenly yesterday afternoon
when she pleaded guilty to two
counts and was fined $100 on each
count by District Judge John R.
Mears.
When Mrs. Roach said she
could not pay the fine, the maxi
mum penalty allowed under law,
Judge Mears sentenced her to 50
days in the Multnomah county
Jail. However, her attorney,
Charles R. Harvey, raised the
money for the defendant.
The lawyer said three young
children, formerly under Mrs.
Roach's care, had been placed
elsewhere.
MINE WASHES ASHORE -
Depoe Bay, Ore., Jan. 27 W
A Japanese horned mine which
washed up on Gleneden beach six
miles north of here will be ex
ploded today by a demolition ex
pert. . .
Chief boatswain Francis E. Bar
nett of the Newport coastguard
station said the mine had been
under guard since it was discov
ered last Monday. He said a mine
disposal officer from San Fran,
cisco was called to explode the
mine.'
MINOR ERROR
Detroit, Jan. 27 UHiThe De.
troit Free Press printed this cor
rection today:
"The orange Juice In Thursday's
Brazil nut recipe should read
three tablespoons and not three
cups."
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