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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
TUESDAY. JANUARY 31, 1950
Conservation Farming Held
Cure for Oregon Croplands
"Conservation farmlne" is the
best cure for the ills ol Oregon's
farmlands in the opinion of J. H.
Christ, Pacific coast regional con
servator of the U.S. Soil Conser
vation service, with headquarters
in rornanu.
. The observation that good land
use win put an end to the prob
lems or the land, is not snap
.....-.
.1. II. Christ
Judgment on the part of the con
servator. He started building his
vast storehouse of soil and water
saving knowledge when he was a
freshman at the University of
luano, more than a quarter cen
tury ago.
Today, as head of soil conserva
tion operations in California, Ore
gon, Idaho, Nevada, Washing
ton and the territories of Alaska
and Hawaii, "Heinle" Christ is
finding plentyof use for the edu
cation he got at college.
The man who is charged with
finding the solution to the west's
biggest land, problems soil and
water erosion has one of the
country's toughest jobs. But,
"Helnie" has learned to take
tough conservation assignments
in stride.
One 'Handy Formula
Summing up his work, Christ
points out, "there's one handy
formula that can be used broad
side in soil conservation. The
same, working kit of soil con
servation practices can't be used
with abandon in highland range
areas, in the grain fields, row
crop regions, pastures and irri
gated fruit orchards.
"Conservation farming meas
ures, geared to one farming com
munity, might differ widely from
practices our soil technicians rec
ommend for use in California's
San Fernando valley citrus grov
es, or the grainlands of N e z
Perce and Latah counties. Soil
conservation is, indeed, a many
sided movement. We have to treat
the problems of each acre as they
arise."
In the Pacific coast region,
Christ supervises a highly train
ed field staff of engineers and
technicians. These technicians are
working directly with members
of 190 soil conservation districts.;
While soil erosion was' describ
ed by Christ as the region's No.
1 land problem, he said service
soils men are also assisting farm
ers and ranchers in stepping up
production of food, fiber and tim
ber. From the Moscow campus to
one of the top staff jobs in the
service, wasn't accomplished the
easy way for Christ. He graduat
ed from the University of Idaho
In 1919. He obtained his master's
degree in farm crops and soil
from Iowa State college in 1920
and almost Immediately began
delving Into crop and soil problems.
His first job was as soil tech
nologist with the Idaho state ex
tension service. Next, he was
placed In charge of the Sand
point, sub-office of the University
of Idaho experiment station,
where he served from 1921 to
1935.
When the U.S. Soil Conserve
tlon service began staffing lis
field offices, Christ received an
appointment as agronomist at
Colorado Springs, Colo. A year
later ho returned to Idaho as the
agency's state coordinator.
In 1938, Christ was named reg
ional conservator for the then
Pacific Northwest region, which
included Oregon. Washington and
Idaho. When that region was Join
ed with the Pacific southwest re
gion in 1942, Christ was picked
to direct the entire five-state soil
conservation program.
One of Christ's prize posses
sions Is his collection of 18,000
native Idaho plants reported to
be the most complete ever assembled.
Scientists Study
Ancient Tablets
Sofia, Bulgaria tI1 Questions
which have baffled the world's
historians for ages are raised by
the discovery of Europe's most an
cient writings by a Bulgarian
scientist.
Prof. Vladimir Georgiev, scien
tist who deciphered the 3,600-year-
old Minos (Creta) picturegraph
writings on clay tablets, has
thrown new light on the origins
of the alphabet and on the migra
tion of the ureek tribes into the
Aegean basin, archeologlst Ivan
Velkov said.
One important question raised
by the discovery is whether the
alphubet came originally from the
Cretans or the Phoenicians, Vel
kov said. It is already well known
that Cretan colonists settled in
Cyprus, Syria, Phoenicia, and Pal
estine, in the second millennium
B.C. It seems likely that the
Phoenicians got their alphabet
from the, Cretans, improved on it,
and passed it on to the Greeks.
The deciphering also puts "un
der an entirely new light the
firoblem of the Greek migration
nto the Aegean region,"- Velkov
said. It now seems that no man
lived there in the Paleolithic (Old
Stone) Age. The earliest popula
tion dates back only to the Neo
lithic (New Stone) Age, which
may be from the fifth millenium
B.C. It spoke some Indo-European
dialect, the archeologist said.
Ranged Afar
These tribes were not nation-
conscious at the time, he said.
They began to leave their homes
in the territory now known as
Yugoslavia and Albania, and came
from as far north as present-day
Hungary and Czechoslovakia, to
settle in northern Greece in the
13th century B.C. and later in
Thessaly.
The further Hellenization of the
Aegean region was carried on in
the 12th to seventh centuries B.C.
"The very Greek people of the
classic ages were the result of an
extremely complex mixture of
pre-Greek and Greek tribes," Vel
kov explained.
Much earlier, Crete had been a
center of a flourishing civilization
By the second millennium a.(j. it
had a well-developed society.
Slavery predominated and slaves
were highly praised as merchandise.
levied Tribute.
Kings or "passilos," 'as the
Cretans called them, headed the
state. Their palace possessed
well kept archives of clay tablets
which now serve as a source of
Information for scientists.
The palace also had a military
arsenal, probably the one- refer
red to In the notation on a ciay
tablet: "To Turanlk was given 1
war chariot, 1 mailed suit, 1
horse."
Mighty Knosos, capital of Crete,
spread Its power far into the con
tinent. Athens, Tlrlnt. and num
erous other cities were under Its
heel and they had to pay tribute
In kind. A deciphered tablet tells
us that "Tlrlnt delivered lou rams.
650 sheep, 30 oxen, 151 cows, 80
pigs, 0 mures."
The. subjugated tribes were
forced as well to deliver some of
their people as slaves: "Athens:
7 women, 1 boy, 1 girl," one tablet
roads. As Velkov remarked, the
legend that King Minos, fabled
King of Crete, levied on Athens
a yearly tribute of 7 young wom
en and 7 girls is seen to have
some basis.
Tax Dodgers Hit
By Rep. Mason;
Examples Cited
Washington, Jan. 31 IP Noah
M. Mason, R., III., charged today
that "lax dodgers hiding behind
tax exempt fronts" legitimately
beat the U. S. treasury out of
$l,O00,0O0,UOO In taxes each year.
Mason named lax exempt
fronts" organized by corpora
tions, churches, colleges, labor
unions and cooperatives.
Writing in the American Mag
azine, he cited, among many, C. K.
Mueller Co., one of the nation's
largest macaroni producers; R. H;
Macy & Co., New York depart
ment store; Lit Bros., Philadel
phia department store, and the
giant $60,000,000 Textron Corp.,
as being involved in what Ma
son called "deals" with charitable
or educational groups which per
mit them to escape paying some
taxes.
"I am not criticizing the organ
izations that make these profits
by taking advantage of the
laws," Mason wrote . .-. "It is the
law that needs changing."
Would Change Uw
President Truman has called
on congress to plug such loop
holes, particularly where charit
able and educational groups are
concerned.
Mason said that a "spectacular
example" of the way tax laws
permit business profits to go un
taxed Is the California & Hawaii
Sugar Refining company.
He said the company pays no
taxes, although it "makes mil
lions of dollars in profits," be
cause It Is a cooperative. He said
businessmen dominate the com
pany, but since tiiey also own
plantations they have formed a
farmers' co-op and the company
has not paid "a federal Income
tax since 1927."
Mason named Gordon Diesing
of Omaha, Neb., as an "enter
prising young lawyer" who has
turned the tax laws to good ad
vantage. He said Diesing had set
up two charitable organizations
which have purchased the fabu
lous Tom Campbell wheat ranch
in Montana and the 35,000 acres
of California cotton land in San
Joaquin valley owned by Russell
Glffen. The Campbell ranch was
purchased for $2,000,000; the Gif-
fen holdings for $4,800,000.
Retained an Manager
Campbell was retained as man
ager "at a very handsome in
come," and Glffen remains as
manager of their enterprises, Ma
son said. But both properties now
are exempt from the 38 per cent
corporation income tax, Mason
says.
In citing Textron Corp., Mason
said its president, Royal Little
and his aides "set up six tax
exempt charitable" trusts which
were given title, to much of the
Textron empire."
"These trusts have never paid
a cent of income tax," Mason
said. "Thus, by using this system
of charitable trusty, Textron has
gained an unfair competitive ad
vantage over the orthodox tex
tile manufacturers and the bur
den of taxation has been thrown
more heavily on the shoulders of
other taxpayers."
The "non-taxpayihg Goliath,"
Physician Hits
Senate Jackpot
Ralrf Lake City HI a Salt Lake
City doctor wrote to Utah's demo
cratic Sen. Eibert D. Thomas,
asking for 25 copies of senate bill
1581. A few weeks later he re
ceived a package containing the
following items from Washing
ton: Ten copies of senate bill 1581.
About 5,000 blank sheets of U.
S. senate stationery bearing the
letterhead of the committee on
armed services.
Twelve senate notebooks.
Five copies of senate bill 1C97.
Forty-three copies of senate bill
1456.
Eight copies of something call
ed a "PS."
.And 279 copies cf a speech by
Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon.
The doctor has written back
asking for 15 more copies of sen
ate bill 1581, and is eagerly an
ticipating the next jackpot.
"Who knows maybe there'll
be something I can uss in the
next batch," he smiled. t
Australians, New Zealanders Aroused by CommunistThreat
however, is the Mueller Maca
roni company. Mason wrote. He
said it used to pay $300,000 an
nually in taxes until it was sold
to a non profit foundation act
ing in behalf of New York un
versity.
Others Listed ,
In addition, NYU has "bios'
somed out as quite a protector''
of tax-escaping factories, he said.
Its affiliated foundations, he said,
own and operate a $3,000,000 pis
ton ring manufacturing company
in Missouri, "a $3,300,000 pottery
factory and a vast $35,000,000
leather goods company."
He said other schools Involved
in like real estate deals include
Gonzaga college of Spokane.
Wash., which, owns a radio sta- j
HUH.
Mason also took a healthy
swipe at "so-called little" coop
eratives. He said there are at
least a dozen co-ops which would
have to pay at least $1,000,000 a
year each if taxed on the same
basis as their competitors. He
said an example is the California
Fruit Growers exchange, a coop
erative which did a $300,000,000
business last year. and paid no
taxes on the incdme.
By George McCadilen
(United Prctt Stuff CMTCponlrnt)
Sydney, Australia H Concern
Is mounting in Australia and New
Zealand over the southward push
of Asiatic communism and other
far eastern political develop
ments. Conservative governments of
these countries "down under"
were swept into power by the
recent ousting of entrenched so
cialist labor regimes. Now they
are recasting their foreign poli
cies and checking their defences.
Both countries are looking to
the far east and northward to
America, and less to Lorjdon and
Europe. Both want United States
protection as a cardinal point of
foreign policy.
The communists are driving on
ward toward the borders of an un
stable French Indo-China. The
United States therefore refuses to
become involved in Formosa.
Australians and New Zeaiandei's
therefore remember with growing
uneasiness their predicament on
Dec. 7, 1941.
Isolation Feared
Unrest in Burma, Malaya and
Indo-China remind these people of
the frightening isolation and the
"out on a limb" feeling they en
dured when the Japanese attack
ed Pearl harbor.
Their mounting fears are re
flected in the growing space de
voted to discussion of Asiatic
events and backgrounds in news
papers which a few years ago
virtually ignored the far east.
It is reflected also by the ex
traordinary importance govern
ments and the press attach to the
British Empire conference of for
eign ministers at Colombo.
The drift of events today is re
calling nostalgically to the people
how the United States came to
their aid in 1942.
They acknwoledge that Britain
is deeply committed in Europe
and is preoccupied with her recur
rent economic crises. These loyal
British dominions' therefore now
hope they can, work out effective
defense arrangements with the
power that saved them once be
fore, the United States.
Security Wanted
They also seek closer security
arrangements within the British
empire as well as some kind of
Pacific pact among democratic
countries.
But without U. S. support, ob
servers say, the Australasian gov
ernments feel a Pacific past
would lack real substance. They
also feel they can contribute most
in the way of trained men, ma-: only to increased integration of
me empire as dominant points of
foreign policy.
In New Zealand, Prime minister
Sidney G. Holland and Foreign
minister Fred W. Doidge are mov
ing cautiously in foreign policy
They are not expected to make
any important moves until .they
assess the work of the Colombo
conference.
Holland announced upon elec
tion he would follow, In the main,
the foreign policy of his predeees'
sor, Peter Fraser. He did, how.
ever, announce the New Zealand
legation in Moscow would be clos
ed and representation there and
possibly income other areas turn
ed over to the British foreign of.
fice.
teriel and experience to such a
pact, next to the U. S. and Canada.
There has been the rise of
each new nationalism in Asia and
the shrinking of the British em
pire through the defection of In
dia and Burma, as well as the
Independence of the Philippines
and Indonesia. The realization
has deepened, therefore, that an
old order has changed and plans
must change accordingly.
Although concern was not so
keenly felt a year or two years
ago, labor governments "down un
der" began looking to their ram
parts. Their successors are build
ing on these foundations, but
with greater pace and increased
alarm because of the growing
communist threat in Asia.
Seek Allies
To date, the most marked
change in foreign policy has been
in Australia a decision to play
down the United Nations in favor
of more "realistic'' potential 41
lies. All-out support of UN was
the favorite theme of Dr. H. V.
Evatt, one-time president and a
founder of UN.
Prime minister Robert G. Men
zies and Foreign minister Percy
C. Spender put- close cooperation
with the United States second
FIRE DESTROYS SCHOOL
Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 31 tip) a
two-alarm fire Monday destroyed
a new 12-room semi-permanent
school building in the Salishan
housing project area here.
The building was not yet occu
pied by students. School Supt.
Howard Goold said damage would
be "at least $100,000."
No injuries were reported.
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