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The War Today
By DeWItt Mackenzie
An Interpretative analysis of
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4 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 1944
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Tax Relief Law Voided
Insofar aa it applies to the equal division of income be
tween man and wife in computing their federal income taxes,
Oregon's community property law, enacted by the 1943 legis
lature, is void on the strength of the United States supreme
court's decision yesterday invalidating the Oklahoma statute
upon which Oregon's law was modeled. The validity of this
state's law was seriously questioned by competent attorneys
when the proposal was before the legislature.
At the same time and in the same opinion declaring the
Oklahoma statute void, the court recognized the validity of
community property systems in the eight states of California,
Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington
and Louisiana on the ground that in those states a traditional
system of marital property rights existed long before adop
tion of the constitutional amendment authorizing congress
to levy income taxes. The laws in Oklahoma and Oregon
provide that a husband and wife must formally elect to place
themselves under the law if they wish their property to be
on a 50-50 basis.
Simply because Oregon and Oklahoma make application
of the community property principle elective they are dis
criminated against in favor of those states which require it.
Justice Roberts in the majority opinion said that prior to
191(9, Oklahoma had no policy "with respect to the artificial
being known as a community," and added:
"Nor can we say that, since thai year, the state has any new
policy, for it has not adopted, as an incident of marriage, any
'legal community property system. The most that can be said is
thiit (hp ntnsiMit Dolicv of Oklahoma is lo permit spouses, by con
tract, to alter the status which they would otherwise have under
the prevailing property system in that stale."
In a dissenting opinion Justice Douglas, in emphasizing
the discrimination contained in the decision, pointed out:
l "The only apparent basis for such discrimination is that the
community "property system in the eight states is traditional; that
those eight slates have a well settled policy; that Oklahoma
merely gives its citizens a choice to get under or stay out of its
community property system."
' Justice Douglas declared that the distinctive feature of
the community property system "is that the products of
the industry of either spouse are attributed to both," and
that the husband or wife is never the sole owner of his ot
her earnings, but the mate automatically acquires a half
Interest in them from their very inception. "If Oklahoma
meets that test, then she should be treated on a parity with
Jier sister states," he said. "The fact that her system is
tnew-born does not make it any the less genuine."
It has been admitted by sponsors of the Oregon and Okla
homa laws that their purpose is to lighten the burden of
federal tax liability in self protection against those states
in which community property systems are recognized. In
the face of the court's decision, it appears now that the
fonly relief from such discrimination lies in some form of
'congressional enactment.
Our Two Front War Effort
In his annual report to the war department, Lt. Gen.
iferehnn B. Sommervell, quartermaster chief of army supply
' service, stressed the fact that "ours is a two front war and
that in no sense has the Pacific war been a minor one, as the
' figures prove. About 60 percent of all army cargo for the I
fiscal year 1944 went across the Atlantic, 40 percent across
the Pacific. Some-70 percent of all soldiers were carried.
across the Atlantic and 30 percent to the Pacific theaters.
These figures do not include the navy, whose major effort has
teen in the Pacific.
Some 5 million American troops are now overseas and the
army supply forces "have successfully met the challenge"
of supplying the world battlefronts, shipping in 1944 a total
of 40 million tons of cargo overseas as compared with 19
million tons in 1943. A total of 2,600,000 passengers were
embarked, including troop units, replacements and other
personnel compared with 1,200,000 the year before.
Induction in the army during the fiscal year dropped
sharply from the 4 millions in the previous year lo 1 million.
Gasoline and other petroleum products constituted half of
all cargo shipped overseas. Total deliveries from American
industry to army service forces amounted to $23,500 million
lis against 20 billion the year before. Some 5,400 million
worth of military supplies were procured by A.S.F. for
lend-lease.
A feature of the report is the statement that the American
army overseas is using scarcely a single weapon that was
'in use at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. All items
"have been improved. Among new weapons were the 18
different rocket items standardized during the year. Prison
ers of war in this country increased from 50,000 to 500,000
i during the year, about 75 percent of them Germans.
' Like all other branches of our war effort, both military
and civilian, the A.S.F. has done a magnificent job and em
i phasized the cooperation existing in our supreme war effort,
thai can only end in victory, providing that the home front
'does its duty by supplying the funds needed to continue a
I maximum effort by purchasing war bonds.
Home, Sweet Home
I Sips 'for upgp.F
I By Don Upjohn
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Pretty nigh time now to be
gin worrying about the next
year's cherry crop. Might as
well have it knocked out now
and have it settled until harvest.
mistaken Identity
A local lady dropped into
Ladd & Bush branch of the
USNB yesterday as she wante''
to convey a message to a girl
employe at the bank. She be
gan peering through the tellers'
windows, first over the shoul
der of one teller and then an
other. "Just as I was about giv
ing up hope," she said a hand
some gentleman approached me
Novelties
In the News
(By the Associated Press)
Tobacco, Tobacco
Weston, Mo. A visitor in this
white burley tobacco center
bought the last pack of cig
arettes. Now tobacco workers
have to roll their own.
Persistent
Clovis, N. M. G. O. Mc
Crary, Grady, N. M., was acci
dentally wounded on the start
of a hunting trip. The bullet
was removed, he went back inlo
the mountains, killed his deer,
drove home and dressed the
animal before receiving treat
ment for his wound.
and asked if he could be of as
sistance. I told him my troubles
and he said the young woman
worked in the back room and
that he'd notify her she was
wanted. "Are you the floor
walker I read about every once
in awhile in Sips for Supper?'
I asked him. 'No,' he replied,
' My name is Eyre.' "
But then, of course, that can
happen In the best regulated
banks. A chap mistook us once
for the floor walker, when he
apologized said he noticed we
seem to shuffle along on flat
feet.
"A scientist says that the tall
of a comet Is around seven or
or eight million miles long,"
says the Corvallis Gazette
Times. "That will satisfy every
body but a Nudeal economist
who will want to know the ex
act length and appoint a com
mission to find out." Why,
Claude, do you think he'd mon
ey with one only seven or eight
million miles? We thought lt
had to be in billions.
Notice where Maxine Buren
in commenting on the fixing of
the Thanksgiving turk says,
"Stuffing is an important fea
ture." As long as we can re
member stuffing has been the
only feature at a Thanksgiving
dinner.
The nazi supermen look as
though they are rapidly getting
in the soup.
Talk of maybe reopening the
Western International baseball
league again next summer re
minds us dismally that we put
the old seat pad into the rubber
drive after Pearl Harbor.
At last it has been determined
that the people will vote on the
question of whether it will con
tinue to be a pasture or turned
into a park.
All those husbands and wives
who split up their incomes 50-50
to get out of paying Uncle Sam
it seems will have to merge
them back together again. A
case of mixing the dough once
more, as it were.
Conference at Lyons
Lyons The fourth quarterly
conference was held at the Ly
ons Methodist church following
the evening services, which
were in charge of Dr. J. Edgar
Purdy, district superintendent,
of Salem. The following com
mittee was appointed to assist
the pastor with the world relief
and reconstruction fund drive:
G. Paul Johnston, Mrs. George
Huffman, Mrs. Alex Bodeker,
Wallace Power, and Mrs. Glen
Julian.
Bond Promotion
Wichita Falls, Tex. W. T.
Knight told soldiers in a war
bond rally audience he would
buy a $25 war bond for each
G.I. who would buy one for
himself.
He had BR takers. Cost of the
gifts to Knight: $1,275 in war
bonds.
A Veteran Legislature
The electorate of Oregon has the right to look forward
to an experienced legislature when the 1915 assembly con
venes six weeks hence for only elevon of the ninety niem-
. pers, who compose ine senate ami House, win lie serving lorj
the first time. Of these two will be seated in the senate:
and the other nine will take their places in the house of
representatives.
Compared with the coming session is that of 1943 when
.thirty members took the oath of office for the first time;
one-third the personnel of the two bodies. This record was
slightly better than that of 1941 when there were 28 new
members. Seven members of the senate answered roll call
for the first time the last session and twenty-three in the
house. In 1941 there were four new senators and 24 new
representatives.
Inexperience rather than inability is one of the major
.blocks in early organization and with leadership of both
-houses already assured, if the candidates produce the niim-
i r t. u i i:. , ...
im-i ui iMiuKtn titiii iih.n puniK-iv announced, there is no
reason why the solons cannot get down to the business of
"awmaking, for which they are sent here, as soon as organiza
tion of both houses is perfected. At least the turmoil and
, uncertainty which marked the opening of the last session '
can be avoided.
Taking everything under consideration, the 1915 session
of the legislature, by taking advantage of the experience of
the personnel, should make a record for itself from an
efficient and economical point of view, The material is
available and under the direction of the probable leaders in !
both house and senate the public has the right to expect;
one of Hie best handled and productive gatherings in his
tory us conditions are propitious for an efficient session.
A Vote a Day
St. Joseph, Mo. It's 14 days
since the Nov. 7 election and
final returns show that Earl C.
Borchcrs, democrat, has de
feated Lieut, (j. g.) Lewis Wal
lace, republican, in their con
test for Ihe slate legislature.
The margin: H votes.
Pilgrim's Progress
McGregor, la. A rural school
teacher was a bit startled by
Ihe statement in an examina
tion paper that the pilRrims
were an orchestra that came to
this country. Summoning the
writer, she inquired where he
got the idea.
"The book says so." he re
plied, pointing confidently to
the sentence beginning "A band
of Pilgrims landed x x x."
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We are taking our text today
from the Eisenhower communi
que which says that allied
troops on the Cologne plain
east of captured Geilengirchen
"are meeting fierce enemy re
sistance." With cities, towns and ham
lets falling like tenpins in var
ious sectors, and allied forces
making sensational advances,
we are in danger of slipping into
the over-optimistic class again.
Mind you, optimism is warran
ted, for things are going well,
but we shall be smart to stick
with facts a plague on 'em.
The Geilenkirchen -Aachen
sector, opposite Cologne and
Germany's all-important Ruhr
industrial center, is the crucial
zone of the moment along the
erupting 400 mile battle-front.
General Ike Is employing great
striking power there in an ef
fort to break through to the
Rhine, and naturally that's
where the nazis have concen
trated all the strength they can
spare from their depleted for
ces. Route Most Promising
Of course, this doesn't neces
sarily mean the allies won't
achieve a breakthrough at some
other point or points. However,
it's the most promising route
into Hitlerdom and' as such is
being exploited. '
Now in order to meet the ter
rific pressure on this strategic
sector the nazis have been com
pelled to withdraw troops and
equipment from other sectors
which are less vital. They lust
haven't the soldiers to man their
entire front adequately, and
many of the forces which they
do have are scrapings of their
man-power and are being sac
rificed as cannon fodder.
This shifting of German
troops was exactly what Eisen
hower figured on, and his army
commanders are taking advan
tage of his successful tactics.
Thus we see spectacular allied
gains at poinls which we had
come to regard as inland Gi
braltar, and in fact would be
if held in full strength. The
nazis have been forced to fall
back at numerous places, aban
doning powerful positions and
that's the point I want to make.
Some of the sensational allied
gains have been due in part to
the fact that the enemy was
retreating to fresh defenses.
Not Over-Optimistic
That in no way detracts from
the magnificent work done by
the pursuing allies, for it has
taken bloody fighting and su
perb leadership to oust the
Germans from these strong
holds and drive them into re
treat. However, we should
recognize that he who runs
away lives to fight another day,
and the nazis who are retreating
still must be dealt with further
back. Let's, not get into the
rf i 1 W. .wJi
Watching for Snipers iP) An American soldier attached to the
95th division of Ihe 3rd army crouches down as he peers cau
tiously around the corner of a building on the lookout for German
snipers during the advance towards the center of Metz. (AP
wirephoto from signal corps radiophoto.)
frame of mind of some folk
back at the time of the Ger
man retreat from Normandy,
when wishful thinkers were
saying the war would be over
in three weeks.
Elis Pleased But
Reject Bowl Bid
New Haven, Conn., Nov. 21
UP Yale's athletic association
big-wigs are "extremely flat
tered" over the bowl game "feel
ers" being extended to their
undefeated and untied football
ers but Director Ogden G. Mil
ler today said the Elis "posi
tively" would end their eight
game slate here Saturday against
Virginia.
"It's a new feeling to me, and
we're extremely flattered," smil
ed the Blues' athletic boss, "but
we positively couldn't play a
post-season game this winter,
even if we wanted to. Most of
the squad are navy and marine
trainees and they are subject to
a 48-hour navy rule governing
absence from the post.
"That would Droclnde anv nn
sibility of our going to any bosd
game, and Desides classes are"
scheduled to be held on New
Year's day."
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