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Fhe Capital Journal, Salem,' Oregon
Thursday, January 21, 1943
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Coal Strike Responsibility
The three-weeks-old wildcat strike in the Pennsylvania
anthracite fields the costliest in manpower loss since Pearl
Harbor apparently ended today a few hours before the
back-to-work - deadline set by President Roosevelt expired.
Of the 24,000 who participated in the revolt against United
Mine Workers' leadership and increased union dues, all except
3,000 returned to the coal pits, and these are expected to re
turn after balloting by the local unions. ,
Some of the strike leaders describe the return to work
as a "courtesy to the president" rather than an acceptance
of defeat. The net result is that the miners are out three
weeks' wages, the war industries and the public are out of
. coal m the coldest weather in years, while no issue has been
settled. On the contrary, unions generally suffer from a loss
of public sympathy by their irresponsibility and abuse of
power.
. The strike started as a- protest against an increase in
union dues of 50 cents a month. The operating companies
were powerless. Under the check-off system they are oblig
ed by the union to deduct the increased dues from the pay
checks. The strike is therefore due solely to new deal labor
laws. There is no provision in the federal laws which enables
the government to settle a dispute between the heads of the
union and its members.
Under the Wagner act, employers are compelled to
recognize unions, but the unions are not compelled to conduct
affairs democratically. The union is protected against the
employer, but there is no protection for the union members
against the union boss.. Coercion of union members bv their
officials, which caused the strike, is permitted, even endorsed
oy tne cnecK-oit or closed shop.
The blame for the strike rests squarely on the federal
labor laws, whose inequality and partiality have been fre
. quently pointed out, but every effort to amend has been re
jected by the administration.
Legalizing by Taxation
On the legislative drafting table there is in the course
of creation a bill to levy a state license tax on pinball games,
marble boards, juke boxes and similar coin-in-the-slot de
vices when played for amusement only. The professed pur
pose of the bill is to provide revenue, estimated at $2,000,000
annually, with "which to increase old age pensions to a mini
mum of $40 a month. .
The measure is said to have the blessing of Governor
Snell, who endorsed the $40 pension ilan in his messace.
With a few safeguards written into it, the proposal would
not make the slot machine situation any worse than it is to
day, except that it would tend to cloak these gambling con
trivances with a thin veil of legality and respectability. If
these devices are to be tolerated at all and they are now in
operation in almost every town, city and county in the state
it is better that they should be contributing something to
the cost, of government. -
It is too much to hope that simply by taxing them the.
purposes for which they are used can be purified.1 When util
ized as games of chance they are just aft illegal now as they
would be under the projected act. They are paying off
in coin or merchandise on the sly, in some places openly, now,
and they will continue to-do so as long as the local authorities
permit.
To protect those communities, such as Salem, which docs
not permit the operation of these machines even for amuse
ment, the proposed law should make their licensing subject to
approval by the city council or county court as the case may
be. And the cities and counties should he wvniHpH in Wv
additional licensing fees under their police powers if they see
Popular People
sss By Beck
Kelly Says
Congressmen Looking
For $16,000,000,000
People Cramped to
Prevent Inflation
Big Increase Coming
In Federal Payroll
Bv John W. Kelly-
Si
ps lor uppei?
By Don Upjohn
All those guys around here
who have been dreaming of a
white Christmas have found out
that dreams will come true if
they only wait long chough.
"Cold But Not Like This in
Salem," says caption on a pic
ture in the Statesman this a. m.,
same, being the O Yea item of
the week. ,
Picture in recent issue of Life
magazine shows the birthplace
of Herbert Hoover in Iowa. Same
also was birthplace of our old
friend E. J. Sccllars now insur
ancing in Salem. Which shows
as far as great men as concerned
lightning can strike twice in the
same place, even in Iowa, Also
that all great men born in Iowa
move- to the west coast as soon
as they can get the fare together.
walked down to Rotary club
from his Lafelle street home.
However, he didn't quite, get
there oh his first trip. He had
about reached the paper mill
when he happened to remember
he'd left his teeth at home and
a man without teeth is pretty
much lost at a Rotary lunch
eon. He hiked back home, grab
bed his teeth, and made it on
good time. Good going, Dan.
Dan Fry was saving gasoline
and tires the other day when he
Novelties
In the News
(By tile Associated Press)
Green Rookie
Fort Jackson, S. C. "Color of
hair?"
"Green."
"Cut the kidding," growled
the reception center sergeant
"I'm not kidding," replied
Pvt. Adlia Harwood of Asheville,
N. C. "I don't like it, cither."
The sergeant looked up.
Sure enough, the recruit's hair
was a grassy green.
. It got that way, Private Har
wood explained, while he work
ed with chemicals in a navy am
munition depot.
"I have washed my hair with
soap and lots of things, but it
just won't come out," the soldier
sighed.
Still Shortsighted
: 111 a Forum letter printed in another column todnv Ron
Joseph E. Harvey takes exception to the Capital Journal's
recent editorial assertion that his bill to levy a 50 per cent
tax on liquor advertising would destroy 90 per cent of such
advertising and result in materially reduced sales by the
J14UUI HLUICH,
Rep. Harvey says it is his "opinion lhat the men and women
who buy and drink whiskey do not care much whether it is this
Diana, or mat, as long as it has the 'authority' and furnishes the
'kick' which the alcoholic addict craves." He ignores the fact
that the liquor manufacturers advertise their product with the
sole idea of Increasing Its sale, and that liquor commission sales
records prove that the advertising of any particular brand usually
niu uuiiiiiiiit ior inai Dranu
If, as Kep.-Harvey contends, the advertising of liquors
docs not stimulate and increase their consumption, he and
his dry associates can have no reasonable objection to such
miviu-iising.
Kop. Harvey also points to the advertising of (he Con-
icicnce oi Aironolic Ucvcragcs, Inc., as being "paid propa-
,,, .iviciinti ut iiiu mjuor industry, let we are sure
j.u TOum among uie last to deny any American the funda
mental right to free speech and the opportunity to defenU
State Police Salary
Increase Proposed
licp. John H. Hall, Multno
mah, introduced a bill before
the house in the closing session
yesterday asking that the sal
ary of deputy superintendent of
state police bo increased to $4
uuu annually, with $2,400 for
privates. $2,700 for sergeants,
$2,820 for lieutenants and $3,
600 for captains.
The new bill replaced a bill
on the same subject Introduced
the second day of tha lcglsla-
U1I 201Q.
Sale of Wines Bill
Gets Approval
fho house alcoholic control
committee voted 3 to 2 yester
day to recommend passage of a
bill to permit sale of wines over
the bar, it they don't contain
more than 14 per cent alcohol.
The bill, by Rep. H. R. Jones
oi aaiom, Is designed to promote
the sale of sweet wine made
from Oregon fruits and berries.
Right at Home
Harrisburg, Pa. Pennsylvan
ia's new governor, inaugurated
Tuesday, ought to feel at home
in his official residence.
Most state linen, silverware
and other household equipment
is marked "EM" for executive
mansion.
The governor's name; Edward
Martin.
Military Warns FT & BA
Scotls Field, 111. (IP) Two sol
diers from here1 were given i
ride to town by a passing mo
torist. When the soldiers left the
car, the motorists, found a set of
upper tcetlt on the seat.
He returned them to the camp
officers, who pointed out this
moral:
When riding with strangers,
keep your mouth shut,
Gosh, we're chock full of
these FT & BA items today. As
another we hear that students
out in the Salem Heights section
among other things in the war
material line gathered up 24
pounds of old gold from old
teeth of our old FT & BA mem
bers in that district. Gosh, little
Fort Knox, as it were.
.party was telling us that a
friend of his, an Eastern Oregon
sheep farmer, wanted a priority
on some materials needed, for
buildings during lambing sea
sbn. His request finally got to
Washington and in due -course
came the reply according to the
story, "Materials not available
now,- will be a little later, better
postpone your lambing season."
Shoe store owner was telling
us that his phone was ringing all
the a. m. today due to people
inquiring if they could buy
goloshes or boots. The answer
was "No."
This all takes us back to good
old Charley Wilson and his fav
orite description of the Willam
ette valley, "where winter time
is always spring time.'
Praise the Lord and pass the
snow shovel.
Black Sheep?
Fan-view, Okla. Stormy wea
ther cut his church attendance
so the Rev. C. L. Moscr adver
tised in the lost-and-foiind col
umn.
His sheep had strayed, the no
lice read, and "only 23 came for
their feed in the morning."
Shortly thereafter his tele
phone began to ring. Each time
he said "hello" he got the same
reply:
"Baaa-a-!"
Ill-Wind Item
Independence, "Mo. The false
alarm wasn't a total failure, fire
men acknowledged.
Mrs. Alene Medley, living
near the scene of the reported
fire, had lost her cow. but
Frightened by the fire truck's
siren, it dashed back home again.
Guest of Honor
Kansas City No one noticed
the insignia on the naval uni
form of one of the volunteers
entering the blood donor center.
He said his name was Buck-
master.
After he'd gone and the re
cord was being .completed, the
Lobby Quartet
Enjoys Card Game
Faithful indicator of activity
in the Oregon legislature is the
lobbyist population puffing its
cigars outside house and senate
chambers.
Since the legislature opened
11 days ago," the lobby census
has been dwindling daily. Yes
terday it got down to four.
The quartet commandeered a
table, relieving its boredom with
a game of high, low, jack and
the game. The game was played
right in the main lobby.
"This session is so dead." ob
served President of the Senate
W. H. Stciwer, "that the lobby
ists' expense accounts have been
cut and now they're mooching
off each other."
More lhan 70,000 trucks, nas-imiral Kllot BuckninsW
sengcr cars and buses in itm. LimIh r ih. -i- .
. uen art using producer gas. . , I Yorklown, sunk in the Pacific.
com-
carrtcr
Legislators Ask
Pay of $12.50 a Day
Olympin, Wash., Jan. 21 MV-
A move was reported under way
in the Washington legislature to
day to raise the total pav. in
cluding expenses, of legislators
from $10 per day to $12.50.
The lawmakers now get five
dollars per day Jo expenses and
another five as salary. There has
been talk of trying to get a $2.50
per day raise either for expense
or salary total.
WHEN COLD MISERIES STRIKE
accfahtr
Gel Pouetro for coldl'
Rnifflra, rouel". Tho
tainlou salvo in mutton lutt bl, 2i-toc
Washington, Jan. 21. , They
are a sober looking lot, those
men on the house ways and
means committee. They are
wondering where on earth they
can raise IS billion dollars in
taxes as proposed by the presi
dent. Roughly, it means $123
per capita for each of the 130,-
000,000 residents of the United
States. Of course the tax can
not, be spread on a per capita
basis because of the varied in
comes of the people and, any
way, most Americans would be
tickled pink if they could escape
by: paying no more than $123.
Washington's share on a per cap
ita basis will be $213,551,493:
Oregons will.be $134,031,132.
Next March the new income
taxes will be due. These are
levies on the income of 1942. The
general public is becoming tax
conscious and will be much
alive and sensitive, to the sub
ject on and after March, 1943.
Sometime in the coming 12
months congress will have evol
ved a new tax bill to raise the 16
billion dollars on the income of
this year, and collections will be
gin in March, 1944. Those tax
es will be terrific. About four
months after the people begin
paying taxes next year the na
tional . nominating conventions
will be held. Without going into
details as to possible nominees,
the republicans are satisfied
that the taxes next year will
swing millions of voters to the
republican side. Politics - creep
into every discussion in the na
tional capital.
Budget Fantastically High
The war budget for fiscal
year 1944, which starts July 1,
1943, is in excess of 104 billion
dollars. This is five times more
money than England will spend;
three times as much as Germany
will spend; six and one-half
times what Russia will spend;
twenty times as much as Japan
will spend, and about the same
proportion to what Italy will
spend. Of, course what makes
the war cost the American tax
payer so much is that the Uni
ted Stales is the "arsenal of de
mocracy '. and as such pledges
have been made that this coun
try will furnish tanks, planes,
guns, ammunition, food and
clothing to our associates in this
global war, plus American sol
diers on all battlefronts. And to
move these supplies and men
means more merchant ships and
transports.
Reduced to fundamentals, the
new tax bill has two objectives.
(1) Pay as much as possible to
ward the cost of the war. (2)
Leave the people as little money
to spend as possible to prevent
inflation, which is another way
of saying the high cost of liv
ing. Civilians' Held Down
It . is estimated by the presi
dent that there will be only
about $500 worth of goods and
services available per capita for
the civilian population. With
high wages in war Industries
there can and will be competi
tion for these goods and services;
not everyone can enter the com
petition, but a sufficient number
may to run the price beyond
the reach of persons with aver
age income. This is one of the
things the administration hopes
to prevent by tapping the purse
heavily through various types of
taxation. -.
Compulsory savings, consid
ered and discarded a year ago,
has bobbed up again, This would
be a tax to make people save
whether or not they wanted to;
money withheld by the boss and
turned over to the federal treas
ury to be returned to the Invol
untary saver some years after
the war. It would work some
what similar to the Victory tax,
which takes 5 percent of the
salary at the source and some
day a percentage will be re
funded. (A minister protests
that his church is being used as
a collection agency when the
treasurer is directed by the In
ternal revenue bureau to deduct
the Victory tax from the clery
man's salary). It is a fairly safe
bet that compulsory savings will
dc a part of the" new tax pro
gram; principal question to de
cide is the percentage to with
hold. It is claimed that approx
imately one-half of the 16 bil
lion dollars can come from com
pulsory savings.
More Government Jobs
With new taxes to be gathered
this year there will be a great
increase in the number of gov
ernment employes. Thousands
will be hired to handle income
tax returns and keep track of
the Victory tax. A senate com
mittee which is watching the
upbuilding of all agencies in
government and noting the in
creased cost is preparing to cur
tail new employment to the min
imum. In the course of the months
to come, as appropriation com
mittees hold hearings, 'it is al
most a certainty that the presi
dent's budget will be whittled
down a few billion dollars. Pres
ent reaction against the fiscal
1944 budget is that, by compari
son with what all other nations
are spending in the war effort,
it looks as though Uncle Sam
is entirely too big-hearted for
his own good. (A government of
ficial is sounding out members
of congress whether the people
will adopt two meatless days a
week in order to send more meat
abroad. Meat is now so difficult
to obtain that the replies have
been unsatisfactory).
OPEN FORUM
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be plainly written on on lid ol
paper only, limited to 1M words In
length and timed with the una of tt writer. Artk'lM not meet
ing thru peelflcmtlom will be rejooted. If rstnrn of nnpablithrd
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OlOMd.
To the Editor: Will you be
good enough to permit me to
reply to the editorial "Short
sighted Legislation" published in
your paper, referring to the
bill which I Introduced in the
legislature this week in an ef
fort to place part of the cost
of increased old-age Derisions
upon the wealthy non-resident
brewers and distillers who ad
vertise their wares in Oregon?
I. assume full responsibility
for this bill, but I cannot agree
with your contention that it
would destroy 90 per cent of the
alcoholic beverage advertising
now used in Oregon, any more
than the statement that it would
materially reduce sales of the
liquor commission. It Is my op
inion that the men and women
who buy and drink whiskey do
not care much whether it is this
brand or that, as long as it has
the "authority" and furnishes
the "kick" which the alcoholic
addict craves;
During the prohibition era.
when all liquor ads were rjro-
hibited, the newspapers seemed
to thrive all right. They got
more grocery ads; and clothing
and other ads from business that
were respectable,, but which
suffer when they must compete
with the alcoholic beverage bus
iness which only destroys. Ad
vertised whiskey docs not make
a person any more drunk than
whiskey that is not advertised,
or vice versa.
Your paper today carried a
big ad sponsored by the Con
ference of Alcoholic Beverages,
inc., paid propaganda of an or
ganization that sees the shadow
of coming prohibition for the
duration, of a business that has
been weighed in the balances and
found wanting. Nothing good
can be said of it. In his inaur
gural address Governor Snell
said there would be opposition
to, and arguments against, any
method of taxation proposed.
do not blame you for not liking
my bill, but I hope enough
members of the house and sen
ate like it well enough to pass
it. I like your paper.
Joseph E. Harvey.
State Capitol,
Jan. 16, 1943. '
To the Editor: We read In
The Oregonian of January 15
1943, where Mr; A. M. Bangs of
Seattle, district supervisor of the
bureau of narcotics, headed the
investigation. We are glad to
hear he made this investigation
bo far we never have had re
cord of farmers of Oreeon or
California who ever produced
poppies for the manufacture of
opium. Besides opium is not
made from blue poppies. What
does produce opium? A white
poppy. There are four varieties
of poppy, gray and brown, which
are flower poppies. White is for
opium. The blue poppy is grown
for food. The white, grown in
China, Turkey and Iran, is used
for opium.
Mr. A. M. Bangs forgets that
we are connected with China and
South America by airplane. He
should not accuse the Oregon
and California farmers of grow
ing opium, poppies. They grow
poppy seed for food purposes
only. Before farmers grew pop
pies here smugglers sold many
hundreds of thousands of dol
lars worth of opium in the Unit
ed States. Mr. Bangs can ask
all poppy seed growers in Ore
gon and California who lost
poppy for opium, and we are sure
they will all agree they never
lost a single stalk..
Nine million pounds of blue
por-y: seed are imported from
Europe each year. No one can
produce opium from blue pop.
pies, only oil is produced from'
the blue poppy seed. Therefore i
there is no need to blame the
Oregon farmer for being a smug
gler. The farmer has never
been found guilty of breaking theA
law by producing opium. The
Oregon and California farmers
grow blue poppy seed for food
purposes only,
Oregon produces the best'
quality of poppy seed of any state,
in the United States, so why not
let the Oregon farmer grow the
blue poppy seed and pay off his
mortgage and buy bonds? New
prosperity for Oregon. We hope,
our governor and the members,
of congress will help the farmers
to grow poppies for food.
Corn, rye and prunes are used
in the manufacture of whiskey..
There is no law to prevent the
farmer from growing poppy seed
for food purposes only. We live
in a free country and no law says
we cannot grow seed, only do not
produce opium or moonshine,.
Corn, rye and wheat will make
whiskey, so if you produce
whiskey you are called a boot-,
legger, if you make opium you
are called a smuggler. Violatioa
of the law produces this. . tJ
We have explained to you the
difference between opium poppy,
and food poppy. So why not let,
the farmer grow the blue poppy
and help bring prosperity to this:
country? , - -
Very truly yours, 1 :
HUGO NEUMAN,
Corvallis, Ore;
G.M.GORMAN,
Jefferson, Ore.:
Perry Resolution
Asks Tax Hearings ;
Rep. J. D. Perry, St. Helens j
democrat, introduced a resolu-
tion today calling for a series of
public hearings in th ehouse j
chamber for discussion of tax
legislation. Perry said such hear-
ings should be held so that the !
public can learn about tax mat- i
ters. '.1 ,
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Sleepless Nights
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tqaiBtimca ahowa there la something wrong;
with your Icidneya or bladder. Don't negiecfc .
thfr condition and tone valuable, restful aleep.
Whan diantvUr nf IrirJn. f.
poiaonona matter to remain in your Wood, it
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pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy,
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in uniform at the year's end. Many then patriotically '
postponed essential journeys, hoping to travel later.
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