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s PAGE FOUR THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON V WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8r1950 J - -i )( g tl P V o: ir w tl. tl tt ic h N ci tl tt ti. sr si Is Wl th as 40 fe tlr ha pli pr po to THE BEND BULLETIN V Mid CENTRAL OBEGON PRESS Th Bend Bulletin (weekly) 1908-11(81 The Bend Bulletin (Daily) Eat 11 S!ibl .!drvXr?. Adernoon Except Sunday and Certain Holiday by The Bend Bulletin 136 - 7o8 Wall Street Be-.id. Oreu-oo Entered aa Second Claea Matter. January 6. 1917. at the Poetuffiee at Buid, Oregon Under Act of Mari:h 8. 1879. . ROBERT W. SAWYER Editor.Manager HENKY N. FOWLER Aaaociate Editor An Independent Newapaper Standing for the Sciuare Deal, Clean rluaineae. Clean Polltica and the Beet Interests of Betd and Central Oretcon MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS By Mall By Carrier Cne Year 87.00 One Year 110.00 fa ix Month 84.00 Six Month! 8 6(0 Three Montha 12.60 On Month 81.00 , AH Subacrlptlone are DUE and PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Fleaae notify ua of any change of addreea or failure to receive the paper regularly. , APPROACHES TO THE TAX PROBLEM Generally speakinir. students of the increasingly vexed tax problem in this country are divided into two classes those seeking new ways of increasing the tax income to meet threatened deficits or to allow for greater spending and those seeking to identify expenditures for things and services not strictly necessary, elimination of which would lead to tax re duction. The two divisions may be tagged, again somewhat roughly, as the tax eaters and the tax savers. Grouping in this fashion, however, calls for qualification. The tax eaters, for instance, have a way of going on with their spending even if there is insuff icent income to balance. Defi cits do not deter them. The executive budget recently an nounced in Washington is an instance of this tendency. On the other side, the tax savers may supplement their efforts to ward actual retrenchment with equalization measures, to the end that the tax burden may be uniformly shared and hence reduced as far as those who are bearing an unfair load are concerned. In this, the method may frequently be indistin guishable from the spenders' unending quest for unexploited sources of revenue although the objectives lie in opposite directions. To date the tax eaters have been getting the more note worthy results and in federal affairs this is especially so. Figures produced in the Eugene Register-Guard last week give 20 year comparisons on this point which are illuminating indeed. Federal taxes collected in 1929 in Oregon were $6, 186,000, in 1949 $298,269,485; state taxes for the same years were $23,337,936 and $119,259,255, and local taxes $42,810, 153 and $79,179,455. Federal collections were 48.2 times as great in 1949 as in 1929, state collections 5.1 times as great and local collections 1.86 times as great. , The disproportion seen in these changes can be explained in part by such things as federal aid and state aid and by fed eral encroachment on' state and local functions but there are other reasons which must not be ignored and which simply boil down to outlandish extravagance. The report of the com mission on the reorganization of the executive branch of the government, better known as the Hoover commission, gave a glimpse of this in its report, which showed how to save $3,000,000,000 a year. That such a saving can be made and is not, while the national administration, predicting great things for the year 2,000, continues to pile deficit upon deficit, is appalling not only in the general economic situation but in the problem which it presents in state and local government financing. Plainly stated, national government, by grabbing the lion's share of the tax dollar and by exploiting every possible source of tax yield except that of property, has left the smaller gov ernment units in very sorry plight More, through forcing huge expenditures upon them, chiefly by social security regu lations, it has upset local control of budgeting, thus minimiz ing the means by which relief could normally be had. But let it not be supposed that national government is solely at fault. It is makinir biircer mistakes and more of them, but the financial dilemma which Oregon is facing to day is partly Oregon's fault. The readiness with which the voters, from time to time have made continuing commitments on state surplus without regard for the fact that that surplus might some day be non-existent is also a factor. These commit ments, made as levies on property, to be offset from that part of income tax yield not otherwise required, have been growing through the years. If all levies now offset were to revert to property, Deschutes county would have 28.56 mills to pay in addition to the .9.5 mills now applied to real and personal property. That reversion could come about. Beyond the situation as of now there are proposed new com. mitments to increase state support of public schools, for higher education, whose governing board continues costly duplication ot courses and departments and schools in Oregon institutions, and for veterans' loans and bonuses. Pressure of such demands will, without question, reveal the inadequacy of income taxation even at the present high rates. And so there is presented once more the conflict between the 'two schools of thought which we mentioned at the outset of this discussion the one accepting desire for greater ex penditure as certain of fulfillment and questing for some way of getting more money to pay the bill, the other supporting the need for reduction of expenditure Or at least the avoid ance of further increase. We prefer the latter. jBSggr w. WASHINGTON COLUMN 2 Men, Girl Held ', Following Holdup Portland. Feb. 8 P Three young men and a girl were held In custody today after an armed, $33 holdup In the downtown Rose land hotel, detectives said. Thff men were picked up a few minutes after the 1 a.m. holdup and were identified as Robert Lee Robison, 21, Okemah, Okla., Ray mond Levoy. 19. New York City. and William Franklin Mullen, 25, Ft. Lewis, Wash. The girl, Maxlne Mary Mulaley, 19. was arrested in an auto court cabin where the four were believ ed staying. Police quoted night clerk Alva R. Fetch t as saying Mullin and Robison entered the hotel and to hand over $33 from the cash drawer after he said he did not have the keys to the safe, they said. WEBSTER APPOINTED Washington, Feb. 8 LF Wil liam Webster, 49-year-old execu tive vice-president of the New England Electric system, was named by President Truman to day to be chairman of the re search and development board. Webster, of Wellesley, Mass., will fill the vacancy caused by the recent resignation of Dr. Karl Compton, former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Webster has had several civil- WARNING SOUNDED Portland, Feb. 8 UiDr. Har old M. Erickson, state health of ficer, today warned Oregonians planning winter vacations in Mex ico to be vaccinated because of an epidemic of smallpox On Mexico's west coast. Use classified ads in The Bulle tin for quick results. By Peter Edson ' (NEA Washington Correspondent) Washington (NEA) The one vote house of representatives de feat of a Korean Marshall plan appropriation caught the econom ic co-operation administr a t i o n right in the middle of its recovery program. ECA had laid out a $120,000,000 program for Korea this year. Half of that sum was appropriated last year and the senate had approved the other half. Unless the house reconsid ers its killing of the second $60,. 000,000, South Korea is in for an economic relapse. It would be wrong to give any impression that this $60,000,000 will finish the job and make Ko rea self-sustaining. The prospect, says Dr. E. A. J. Johnson, former U. S. civilian governor of South Korea and later adviser to the Korean Government, is that $115.- 000,000 U. S. aid will be needed in 1951, and about $85,000,000 in 1952. There is a hope that the Korean economy will be able to sustain itself by 1953, though it may still show a small dollar gap between its exports of rice, fish, tungsten and other metals, with the imports of fertilizer, machin ery and raw materials necessary to keep the country going. The whole ECA effort in South Korea has been directed at mak ing this area self-sustaining. It's an area about the size of Virginia, 39,000 square miles. Only instead of having 3,000,000 people. Korea has 20,000,000 three-fourths of them farmers and fishermen. Rice and fish are the basic foods. In 1946, $40,000,000 worth ol foodstuffs had to be imported, This was cut down to $26,000,000 in 1948. But last year by dint Of Importing U. S. fertilizer, South Korea was able to export 100,000 tons of rice to Japan. A key recovery project now Is to build Korean lertinzer plants so as to make further imports Lfrom the U. S. unnecessary. Also, flood control and irrigation prol ects to bring 195,000 new acres into cultivation are under way, When the Japanese, moved out of Korea at the end of the war, they took all the fishing boats with them. So another major re covery project has been to build up the Korean fishing fleet South Korea has 44 fish canneries, and building up the fish export bus! ness principally to Japan is the oojecuve. Before Korea was cut in two at the 38th parallel, TO per cent of Korea s electric power came irom hydro-electric plants In the north ern, Russian-occupied area. The whole country was tied together in a power grid. In 1948 the Rus sians cut off power supply to South Korea. South Korea has good coal de posits. Production was only 250,- 000 tons in 1946, but was raised to 1,250,000 tons last -year. By 1953 it is hoped to have production up to 30,000,000 tons a year. ECA is building 92 miles of connecting rail lines, through difficult moun tain country, to connect coal mines and power plants. As coal and electric power pro- auction are stepped up. boutn Korea's Industrial production is being increased. The area has rubber factories. 14 textile mills. a silk mill, five Iron mills and a small machine tool industry. All have obsolete' Japanese machin ery tnat needs modernizing, and tt A nas oegun tnis tasK by con tract with American firms. Since, the U. S. military govern. ment and ECA have moved into South Korea, total Industrial pro. duction has been stepped up 28 per cent in 1947,. 50 per cent in 1948, 82 per cent in 1949. This record can be continued this year witn American aid. Korea's president Syngman Rhee, who spent the war years in Washington working lor recogni. tion of his country's 'indepen dence, boasts that it is today the oruy country in Asia wnicn is sue cessfully fighting off armed as. saults and subversive infiltration directed by the soviet. American am nas neipea in tnat fight. But whether or not the aid is continued, the Korean presl dent says his people will keep on iignting. MISSIONARIES MISSING Prague, Czechoslovakia, Feb. 8 tin The American embassy an nounced today that it had asked the Czech foreign ministry lor in formation on the whereabouts of two American Mormon mission arles who disappeared in Czecho. Slovakia "on or about Jan. 28. The missionaries were identi fied as Stanley E. Abbott of LehJ, Utah, and C. 'Aldon. Johnson of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Out on the Farm By H 8. Grant " Feb. 8 March weather in February leads one to believe that there will be an early spring. The "spring" snow storm this morn ing, accompanied by blustery wind, seemed to lack the determ ination ol a typical winter storm. One ol our neighbors has bought quantities of annual seeds, and her husband is making cold frames. Next month they'll sow the seeds indoors, and they'll have all kinds of little plants, to transplant later. i nave a new recipe lor lang. or Italian custard, given to me oy maniu zauman. u s reany something special. Break a dozen eggs into a bowl, beat well, strain and measure, and add an equal amount of scalded milk. Add cup sugar, and a teaspoonful of brandy flavoring, caramelize cup of sugar and pour into but tered pudding dish. Add custard mixture and bake until firm in slow oven, in pan of water. Un mold and serve with whipped cream. REPEAL STILL GOOD Miami Beach, Fla., Feb. 8 ilPi Most executive councilmen of the American Federation of Labor headed for home today, their sights set again on congressional repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. The group wound up its winter session here last night on a pre diction by President William Green that the law would not stop the coal strike. The council meets again next May in Philadelphia. Except for the few councilmen who are remaining here to meet Secretary of labor Maurice Tobin tomorrow, they will not come to gether again until next May' in Philadelphia. GIVE NEW BEAUTY TO YOUR DIAMOND! Have it set in a modern mounting. EXPERT WATCH and JEWELRY REPAIR All Watch Repairs by Registered Watchmakers. NIEBERGALL, JEWELER "Next to Capitol Theater" ,.. ian Jobs with the government. He has been in public utility work pointed guns. They forccdj Feicht 1 since 1928. Science at Work Rv Paul F. Ellis (United Preea Scli'iuc Writer) New York (U'iSn you think you know how to drive your car over icy pavements? If not, here are some tips from a University Of Wisconsin engineer: First, on the matter of "step ping on the gas." 1. Treat the accelerator pedal as carefully as you do the brake pedal. Sudden release of the ac celerator may be as disastrous as sudden application of power. 2. If the rear wheels do begin to spin, release the accelerator pedal, but not too suddenly, until the wheels regain traction. The words of advice come from. Archie H. Easton of the univcr sity's college of engineering. His findings are based on results of a series of exhaustive tests run - at different times last winter on Wisconsin roads. Reduced Speed Necessary Easton says that when driving on an Icy highway, motorists should drive at a speed which is well below the maximum attain able under the conditions. "That is just plain common sprint." he said. Ho also warned thai if the road is crowded, rough, or there is a side wind, motorists should be careful not to apply excess puwer. Easton reported that the testa also show that turning the front wheels in the direction of the skid will aid in regaining control un less, of course, the skid has gone too far. The one thing to remem ber, he said, is take your foot off the gas slowly anil carefully when the rear wheels begin to skid on slippery pavement. Thai helps the wheels regain traction. Even An Expert Driver Can Get Into Trouble Easton gave a warning to all drivers that once a vehicle is In a bad skid or a flat spin, there Is little that can he done to re cover even by an expert test driver. On the manner of braking, he recalled that the stonnlni: dis tance from a given speed on Ice is as much as 12 times greater than that on bare pavement and mat a driver must anticipate slops. Should an emergency arise, he advised pumping or fanning the brakes instead of "freezing" to the pedal will help to meet it. The method, he said, requires practice to become etlective. It consists of rapidly applying and releasing the brakes to take ad vantage of rolling friction. It also has the advantage, he said, that steering control is maintained which in some cases can be used to avoid an accident. 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