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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1930)
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1930 CapitolJlJournal Salem, Oregon lataniUhed Uaico L IMS Multnomah Bailey's SaysDonaugh; Cook Condemns Money Use An Independent Newspaper Published Every Allerooon Except Sunday at 1M 8. Commercial Street reiepnone II. new u OBOROK PUTNAM. Editor and Publisher PAGE FOUR BUBSCBIrTlON RATES By earner 10 cents week: 46 cenu a month; ISJW a rear In ad ranee By mall la Marlon. Polk. Una and YamblU counties, on month to ornu; I montha Ills; 0 month 12-13: I rear ti-OO. Elsewhere Me a month: monthi Mis: S5 00 a rear In advance. FILL LEAS LI) WIRE 8EKVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED PEESS The Associated Prea Is exclusively entitled to the use tor publication of all news dUpa tenet credited to It or cot otherwise credited In thli paper ana also local news published Herein. "Without or with of fen to friend or fort iketth your world exactly a it goet." Byroa It's Bailey or Meier What effect will the confessed desertion of the Portland Journal of the Democratic candidate for governor have? It is a fitting- climax to its campaign of hooey and if it has any effect at all, it will be beneficial, for the Journal has never said a fair word for Mr. Bailey and since the beginning has been devoted to the cause of its largest advertiser, both in its news and editorial columns. Of course this leaves Mr. Bailey practically without newspaper support, except a few country papers, but this also is an advantage this year, as throughout the country candidates have been successful' without press backing. The cases of James Rolfe, Jr., in California, Alfalfa Bill Murray in Oklahoma, Hucy Long in Louisiana, Judge Murphy in Detroit and many other instances offer testimony to this elfect. Mr. Metschan's candidacy has been hopeless from the start. It did not strike a popular chord or arouse any en thusiasm. His campaign has been a flop and his organiza tion so shot to pieces that even the rallying cry of "stand by the President" has little effect, for Mr. Hoover is at the pres ent time as unpopular as possible, and the label lost its lure. Mr. Bailey, against whom the most can be said is that he Is a poor man and a small town product, offers the only op portunity of defeating Julius Meier and rebuking his brazen attempt to buy the governorship by reckless expenditure of money. Those who oppose the merchant prince must con centrate on Bailey to insure his defeat and there are evi dences that the swing to Bailey is already underway, espe cially in Portland. The Astorian-Budget which has hitherto been neutral, is one of the few newspapers that have announced its support of Mr. Bailey declaring that it had been impressed by the argument of his mother that her son "is a man for whom no explanations or excuses need be made." The paper editorial ly characterizes this as: The most sisnlficant slnitle sentence In the whole political campaign. Coming from a woman who has no political backtround but who felt Impelled to speak out of the fullness of a proud motherhood, this simple tribute to a son has almost the flash of eenlus In It that It strikes clear through the tissue of confusing Issues right down to basic fundamentals. The A jtorian-Budget continues: "In contrast to the fact that no one has had to excuse or explain Bailey, the supporters of both Metschnn and Meier when they have not been making excuses for their respective candidates have been offering explanations in his behalf." The paper also says that only Bailey of the three has not been embarrassed to square present professions with past performances. The Income Tax Bill Our old friend, the income tax bill, appears again upon the ballot this year as a referendum on a legislative measure. This bill is one of three which were designed to complement each other, the excise tax on corporation earnings, the intan gibles tax on securities held by individuals, and the income tax on net incomes from salary, etc. The decision of the supreme court invalidating the in tangibles tax, because it did not include corporations, has demoralized the program. If this income tax is passed by the people, it will require a revision of both the intangibles tax. already necessitated, and of the excise tax. mis can be done by the legislature and will have to be done to equalize taxation, for the income tax puts tne ourucn on wage earn ers. , The income tax bill ballot title reads: Income Tax Bill Purpose: To levy and collect annually a progres sive state tax noon net Incomes of resident and non-resident natural persons and fiduciaries, from every source within the state and from property taxable therein; making exemptions to single persons 01 iijw; married person, head of family, or husband and wife together $2,300; and for each child or dependent under certain conditions, $400; and pro Tiding that the estimated amount of Income taxes for each year be de ducted from the total amount of revenue required for state purposes, and only the balance of such requited amount be levied as direct taxes on property. The intent of the bill is to shift taxation from property to the earnings of industry. It is the tenth time the income tax has been voted upon and it differs from its predecessors as it applies only to salaries, wages and the profits from gainful transactions of individuals. Railroads, public utili ties, private :ar companies, express companies and other semi-public corporations are assessed directly by the tax commission and are not included. Banks, manufacturing and business corporations arc assessed under the excise tax. In terest and dividends from stocks, bonds and investments of individuals were to be taxed under the intangibles tax, and 11 such income is excluded from the present bill. The rates are graduated from 1 percent to 5 percent, reaching the maximum at $1,000. Many penalties are provided. If a taxpayer fails to send in a proper return he may have to pay five percent of the tax and 12 percent interest, and in addition to this $1,000 where the failure is innocent. This is the minimum penalty. The maximum is doubling of the tax and $1,000 fine and possibly a year in jail if intent to defraud can be proved. Penalties are also imposed to prevent tax collectors and public officials from giving out information contained in returns. A new and obnoxious feature is a special proceeding in circuit courts for the issuance of a writ of mandamus against any suspected taxpayer to compel him to file a return. This writ may be issued on petition of the Commission or of any ten taxpayers. Appeals are allowed to the supreme court. In spite of objections, and there are many, the bill should pass and the legislature be trusted to reorganize the taxation program for intangibles and corporations, to harmonize. Vote S16X Yes. FREBER6 DEFEATS SHACK IN EIGHTH Vancouver, B. C. OrV-John Fre berg, Chicago veteran, took ene fall decision from Charlie Stride, Oklahoma strong man. In a feature wrestling' bout here Thursday night. Ir:b:rg gained tlx fall In the elfhtta round with a re Terse body and crotch hold. In ths Mml-flnal, Eddie Wlrth, Kansas City, took a one (alt decision from Louis UUler, San Francisco, with a reverse bodr hold. Chlkfrea of the Ylllnze school In Kington Magna, England, sing In several languages Htltsh, Ger man, Italian, French, Flemish. Gre ek and Hebrew, Portland Multnomah county is swinging; to Senator Bailey for governor, and in no uncertain fashion. Meier aup- port if supping to tne democratic candidate by the Hundreds, ana sianapat repuoucans are an-v nounrlng their Intention of sup porting Bailey as tht strongeit can didate from their standpoint. This was the announcement here of Carl C. Donaugh, chairman of the democratic state central com mittee. The Bailey strength upstate is tremendous,'' he said. "That is an undisputed fact. For Instance, In ClaUop county there are even money bets being made on Bailey to win. notwithstanding the propa ganda put out by professional gamblers In the city of Portland. Straw votes taken upstate shew the upstate candidate, in most places. having as much support as the oth er two candidate put logetner. 'Tne Muiuioman ami. to Bauer started sue weeks a so and Is pro ceeding with landslide proportions. noiwiuuianamg organization ei- forts to stop It. predictions are beginning to be made now that Bailey will carry Multnomah, even above Julius Meier, who has been considered the "home town' favorite. "All In all. at Bailey headquarters we are confident of the outcome," concluded Mr. Donaugh. Senator Bailey will go on the air Saturday night from 9:30 to 1:45 p. m. over radio station kjcu ana again on Monday night over me same station from 10 to 10:30 p. m. These two addresses will conclude his campaign. Portland Declaring an arrogant attempt Is being made by disap pointed office seekers, backed by wealth, to debauch the electorate of Oregon In the present campaign, Floyd J. Cook, chairman of the re publican state central committee, has Issued a statement appealing to voters to rebuke the effort of the Independent candidate for gov crnor to destroy the republican par ty with money. Cook charges the independent candidate's headquarters with defy ing public opinion In their open attempt to corrupt public morals by buying the office of governor through unstinted expenditures, the like of which has not been seen In the west since the days of the cop per kings In Montana. Success of the independent s cam paign, he said, would mean that a poor man could never aspire to the highest state office thtat only those with huge campaign chests cot: Id hope to mahc a successful race. Cook's statement follows: "The republican party Is engaged in conducting a campaign to elect Its regularly nominated condldates at the general election November . We have with us the usual contest with our time honored opponents. the democrats. We are also con fronted with an effort on the part of a crowd of disappointed office seekers, backed by wealth, to dis rupt the republican party In this itato. "Last July In Pendleton one of the close advisors of the independ ent candidate made the statement to a group of republicans tliat the nomination of Julius Meier would mean the expenditure of $150,000 In the campaign. Any one at all fa miliar with campaigning knows, with the evidence of lavish expen diture of money by the Independ ent headquarters on every hand, that this amount has been equalled or exceeded. "In Pennsylvania two years ago William 8. Vare wai elected to the United States Senate and was re fused a seat In that body on the grunds of excessive use of money. The records show that through the different organised committees ap proximately $700,000 was spent in that state for the election of the entire republican ticket, Including state, county and city officers. There are ten million people In the state of Pennsylvania and there are ap proximately one million people In Oregon. Thus It will be seen that the Meier independent candidacy Is costing more than twice as much per capita as was spent for the en tire so-called Vare ticket In Penn sylvania. In the course of the sen atorial Investigation which result ed In Mr. Vare being refused a seat In the United States senate the three afternoon papers of Port land cried out in righteous Indigna tion over what they termed the de bauching of elections and the pur chase of high office by moneyed Interests. Compare th?lr attitude then with their attitude now. "Not since the days of the cop per kings of Montana has the west witnessed such a reckless attempt to buy an election. Use of money contributed by others than the can didst Is belde the Question for HEAR A. R. SHUMWAY State Grange Leader speak in behalf e 1111 li METSCIIAN and against TIIE GRANGE POWER HILL KE FRIDAY NICHT 9:35 to 9:50 ISlj Adv., n.publlrsn ainl. Ctnlral Commuter. Kit ph. A. H.kr, HccrHftry, Hurt,, Hi t. . rvrtlsna Che fact remains, and la becoming generally known, that his head quarter, are boldly Ignoring public opinion la an undisguised attempt w corrupc puoiic morals by procur ing his election through use of money in a manner oarer before witnessed in this state. -Our election laws. If adhered to. guarantee clean elections and make It possible for men of small means to become candidates. If the peo ple permit this attempted debauch ery of the electorate to go unchal lenged, they will have destroved the purpose of the Oregon election system and served notice to the world that hereafter only men with huge campaign chests can hops to nuia w uce in uregoa. WEDS FORTUNE, KEEPS HER JOB New York She's married to sw.ooo.uoo out aba continues as a reporter. She ridec to the office in a lim ousine but gets out of It around the corner and "walks to work." She has a house with 10 servants but her typewriter is as battered as any. She's Mrs. 8ilas Newton, nee Nan O'Reilly, and one of the few women sport writers In the country. She's been married for IB months and even her closest friends appar ently didn't know about It. And how was It kept secret? Mere ly by not attempting to hide It "You won't fire me will you?" was the first question she asked when her editor found out she was married. Assured her Job was safe, she heaved a sigh of relief and asked for a vacation. She and Newton are on It now, somewhere in the middle west. They were married Just before they sailed for Europe for the Bri tish open In 1928, he to participate, she to write about It. In addition to being a well known amateur golfer he Is president of the Indiana Oil and Gas corpora tion. He gave her a million dollars as a wedding present. Admiral Dunbar-Nasmlth of the British Navy recently ured an air plane from Portsmouth to Torbey, England, to Inspect the second sub marine flotilla. Against Excessive Public Debts and Unlimited Increases in Yom' Taxes The power districts amendment would permit political speculation and "high finance". . . without any limit ...at the expense of every taxpayer in the state. PsiJ Advertisement UTILITY TAXPAYERS COM.MITT! 11 H. L WALTHER, Manse.tr 205 Sixth Street, Portland, Oregon SAVE OREGON FROM BEING SOLD FOR TAXES! ml 1W DRAI N FILL Colder days will soon be here. The oil yoti used this summer should not be expected ! fully protect your engine, any uora than light summer clothing should be expected to proteet you In the frosty days la come. 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