44 Capital Journaf.'lgaiem, Oregon, Thursday, Oct. 31, 1948
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jAnti-Tax Trend Dangerous
J Confronted for the first time with the record number,
size and variety of the tax proposals submitted to them at
Jnext Tuesday's election, the voters are rapidly adopting a
'defensive attitude which has been noted in past elections in
Iwhich tax proposals predominate. Reports from all parts
Jof the state tell of a general tendency among voters to mark
a straight "No" ballot.
Behind this sudden resolve to economize is the fact that for the
"first time the average voter sees these tax proposals nnea up
(before him, and their financial impact when totalled is startling.
"The state ballot alone offers three proposals of alarming propor
tions. Two of them were initiated and the third was referred by
4he legislature. How large an inroad they would make on the
Mavnnvnr'e nnpket fnr stntn nurooses no one has estimated ac-
Vnr.-iiPlv Sinelv these Dronosals attracted little attention, but
Ihnv qvo chnrinK a nlaf-P In the limelight Of PUbl
Scrutiny alongside purely local money raising measures they take
jin a riistiirhine magnitude.
This attitude is not that of the good citizen, nor tnat of
Jthe careful individual who weighs each measure in the light
"rif its effect unon himself as well as the state, county or city
5with the time and facilities he has at hand the average
voter can determine for himself whether a measure con
Btilutes good or bad legislation. He owes it to himself to
"segregate the worthy from the unworthy and votes for or
aeainst each proposal on its merits.
The ballot for next Tuesday's election contains the normal
percentage of sound propositions. Noteworthy among them
is the request of the Marion county court for funds with
which to construct a modern courthouse on the site of the
nresent antiauated structure within the next three years
This measure is an example of necessary legislation for the
good of tho community which would suffer submersion under
the Vote No program.
Authorized by the people several years ago to devise ways and
means of replacing the courthouse built in 1874 with a modern
fireproof structure offering adequate facilities for the county's
expanded needs. The county court early in its consideration of
the project, determined to finance the new building by-means of
annual tax levies set up in a sinking lunu. to tins end it lias
accumulated $225,000 through a levy of $75,000 annually for
the past three years in the regular budget. It proposes to continue
this $75,000 levy for another three years in the budget, and to
supplement this is requesting authority to levy $200,000 a year
for three years or an aggregate of $600,000 outside of the six
percent lax increase limitation. This program will provide $1,050,
000 with which to start construction in 194!).
The urgency of the need for the additional room and
proper vault storage facilities is sufficient to justify im
mediate action were it not for the fact that building opera
tions of this type are impossible in the face of existing short
ages of materials, and excessive construction costs. Housing
irreplaceable official records which have accumulated during
the 72 years of its life, the destruction which could be caused
by a fire in the tinder-lined brick walls of the old structure is
appalling to even contemplate.
This project qualifies as an emergency condition justify
ing the court's request for funds. Vote 300 X Yes on the
special county ballot next Tuesday.
Preventing Fish Extermination
The only referendum on the ballot at the general election
Nov. 5 is that on the bill regulating fishing in coastal streams
and inland waters. The referendum petition was engineered
by commercial fishing organizations which habitually oppose
such fish protective measures.
The ballot title reads:
BILL PECULATING FISHING IN COASTAL STREAMS AND
INLAND WATERS Purpose: To prohibit commercial fishing
In Ncstucca Bay and tributaries, Euchre Creek, Hunter Creek,
Floras Creek and Pistol River; determining lime, manner and
type of lawful fishing in all coastal streams and along Pacific
Ocean coast south of Columbia River; and requiring stale fish
and game commissions jointly to conduct surveys of Oregon
coaslal streams south of Columbia River, submit findings and
report to the forty-fourth legislative assembly recommenda
tions respecting seasons, deadlines, limits and gear, considering
stcclheads primarily as game fish and salmon, shad and striped
bass primarily as food fish, and promoting conservation of all
species. Vote YE& or NO
The bill was passed at the instigation of sportsmen, wild
life and angling organizations by a vote of 42 to 17 in the
house and 24 to 5 in the senate after prolonged and acrimoni
ous debate and signed by Governor Snell after extended
study of the measure and several hearings of pro and con.
The bill is of course a compromise, not stringent enough
to nloase the anglers and too stringent to suit the commer
cial fishermen who would cheerfully exterminate all the
fish for today s profit, even if it involved tomorrow s loss.
Commercial fishimr is already prohibited in the Nestucca,
Euchre, Hunter, and Floras creeks and Pistol river by vote
of the people. None of the other streams are closed but
limited seasons provided by the bill for the use of set and
drift nets and seines between which fishing is confined to
angling, that is hook and line.
The basis of the bill is that fish in coastal waters, espe
cially salmon and steelhead and other trout and adronomous
fish are being rapidly depleted and need increased protection.
Dams, power plants, pollution, irrigation and timber removal
as well as ovcr-tishing threatens speedy extermination.
Another recognized factor is that the recreational value of
these coastal streams is greater for Oregon people and
as tourist assets than their exploitation by a few com
mercial fishermen. In streams that have been entirely
closed to commercial fishing, like (he Nestucca, the Rogue
and the McKcnzie, even the erstwhile commercial fishermen
are making larger incomes as boatmen, guides and resort
keepers than they did as fishermen. So no one is penalized
and a natural resource preserved.
One of the best features of the fish regulation bill is the
scientific surveys and studies ordered by the game and fish
commission of the coastal streams, to find what is happening
to nsn and recommend luiure legislation lor their propaga
tion and the rebuilding of salmon and steelhead runs and
preservation of spawning grounds.
Vote 312 X Yes.
j The Boomerang j
By Don Upjohn
Oregon Authors at
Writers Conference
Portland, Ore., Oct. 31 VP)
Sixteen authors will speak at
a three-day northwest writers'
conference opening today at
Reed college.
Their papers will be used as
separate chapters of a book,
"Northwest Harvest," expected
to sum up their views of the
region's cultural progress.
Carl Van Doren, Pulitzer
prize winner; Luther H. Evans,
librarian of congress, and H. G.
Mcrriam, University of Mon
tana, are among the speakers
from outside Oregon and Wash
ington. Included In the two
state list aro Elizabeth Marlon,
Spangle, Wash.; James Stevens,
spinner of Paul Bunyan stories:
J. B. Harrison, University of
Washington; Ernest Haycox,
Stewart Holbrook, Richard L.
Neuberger, Robert Ormond
Case, Philip H. Parrish and Dr.
Peter H. Odcgard, Portland,
Geologists have demonstrated
that certain portions of the floor
of the Atlantic ocean once were
above the surface of the sea-water.
Our friend of the long and
unerring memory, Charley
Treacy, reminded us that it was
on October 30, 1935, when a big
snow started to fall on Salem
and environs. He said the le
gislature was In special session
then at the armory, held there
because it was in that year the
old state capitol burned. On the
next day, November 1, said
Charley, the snow really fell in
almost blizzard proportions."
"And," he commented, "when
I walked out into the east wind
and driving rain this a. m., it
all came back to me vividly
about that other October 30,
and it made me wonder."
A lot of others were wonder
ing, lo, save, possibly, that good,
reliable native Oregonian, Lee
Crawford, who commented as
his overcoat was whistled up
over the back of his neck, "Now
this is just the kind of stuff I
like, it's perfect." The doggoned
webfoot.
While we are indulging in
this sort of persiflage, we turn
to a dispatch from Chicago com
ing off the teletypes saying that
anyone who lives in foggy
damp climate like Southern
England is a vagotonic, a vago
tonic being one whose vague
nerve is overtoiled and as a re
sult he has a slow pulse, is a
shallow breather, sluggish and
a tendency to kick innocent
puppies. We take it from the
diagnosis that, perhaps, there
might be some vagotonic guys
around these rather damp and
sometimes foggy parts and it'll
be next month when it will
really get damp and foggy. If
you feel any vagotonic impul
ses come along keep away from
innocent puppies. A good sub
stitute is public officials.
We note from police reports
that a lady on route 3 reports
her bathroom sink was stolen.
That should just about com
plete the rounds of burglaries.
We've been plagued by sev
eral ladies today asking us who
the party was in the lower
courthouse picture in our favor
ite paper last night, the guy
shown holding a stick in one of
the pans of water in the court
house attic used to catch the
dripping from the leaky roof.
The ladies seemed all excited,
some of them insisting they
wanted to meet the guy, him
apparently being a new man in
town. We'll hunt around and
see if we can find out who he
was and if he's a right kind of
guy maybe can lake him around
and introduce him. Maybe he's
just up from Hollywood who
knows?
Newell Williams dropped into
a local restaurant this a. m.,
where Joe Felton and Sam Har
bison, the local attorney, were
having a drop of coffee. Newell
stopped and said hello to Joe
and looked quizically at Sam.
"Don't you know this fellow?"
Joe asked Newell. "O, yes,"
said Newell, "I thought your
face looked familiar, Walter, I
knew your father." He'd mis-
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By J. 1U. Roberts, Jr.
(AP Foreign Affairs Analyst)
Many delegates to the United
Nations assembly feel that Rus
sian Foreign Minister Molotov's
Tuesday speech indicated dis
trust and misunderstanding of
the motives of the United States
and other nations, but they
were quick to jump on his dis
armament bandwagon.
Previously, general disarm
ament had hardly been consid
ered. Then suddenly it became
a general desire, but with the
proviso that it must be accom
panied by international inspec
tion and guarantees similar to
those suggested by the U.S. for
the atom bomb. That will prove
a tough provision when it comes
to convincing the Russians.
But Molotov's proposal could
hardly have been better timed
to fall in with the Austin re
statement aided by a brief word
from President Truman of
American policy. For those
who may have mistaken fre
quent failure to implement that
policy for a lack of one, a few
lines are sufficient to describe
it. It has always been the same,
both abroad and at home.
Austin said the U.S. is for re
moving the burden of arms, for
a decent life and for a rising
standard of living in the light
of the golden rule. Truman
said there was a special conno
tation in world affairs to be
drawn from those famous words
"government of the people, by
the people, for the people."
Whatever tangents may have
been taken in individual cases,
those points still remain fixed
and all-inclusive.
Mr. Austin was not inclined
to grapple with Mr. Molotov in
an atmosphere of recrimination.
But did get in some oblique
digs. Such as "the initiative of
the Soviet union in this (dis
armament) matter is appropri
ate, because of its mighty ar
mies," and then soften it with
"just as the initiative of the
United States was appropriate
in proposing measures to pre
vent the manufacture and use
of atomic weapons."
The size of Russia s army and
its deployment outside her bor
ders has been one of the first
causes of world nervousness. It
is one of the chief reasons why
the United States feels forced
to maintain the greatest peace
time forces in her history.
What Russia actually has,
and therefore what much be
kept to balance her, is not
known. In 1933, according to
best available figures, Russia
had an army of some 2,500,000
men. on which she spent about
$5,500,000,000 at the 1938 price
of the ruble. For next year she
plans to spend some $13,500,
000,000 on defense, at the cur
rent ruble rate which we have
no means of comparing with
1938. In a monopolistic state,
where supplies are produced for
need, without profit, under a
monetary system which has dif
ferent rates according to the
use to which money is put, and
where there is no outer yard
stick by which to measure the
pay and other remuneration of
troops, money figures don't
mean much. Except that Russia
probably maintains a greater
proportion of her war-time
strength than any other major
power.
Since all military prepara
tions involve obsolescence in
peace and destruction in war,
they represent a complete cap
ital loss.
They wrap themselves about
nations like old men of the sea,
choking the living standards of
the world. Any move to loosen
the grip is welcomed. But,
while to seek the means may be
good, there seems to be no rea
son to expect limitations or
controls to be any more effec
tive than in the past. Armies,
atom bombs and war materials
in general all fall into the same
category. Any plan which will
actually control them will con
trol war itself, and neither is
likely to happen before the
other.
Novelties
(By the Associated Prus)
Explanation in Order
Emporia, Kas., Oct. 31 VP)
Kappa Sigma Epsilon fraterni
ty at Emporia State college re
ceived a letter postmarked Al
catraz prison, expressing regret
of the writer that he would bo
unable to attend the fraternity's
annual reunion.
Fraternity men hastened to
explain that the alumnus was
the prison chaplain, Byron 14
Eshelman, an Emporia StatS
graduate.
Visitors from Halfway
Silverton Arriving Sunday
for a two days' visit with their
parents, the E. J. McCalls, and
other relatives here, were Mr.
and Mrs. Don McCall and small
daughter, Frances D., of Pendle
ton, and Mr. and Mrs. Leslie
McCall of Halfway.
Mrs. Ed Holden is 'an aunt ol
the McCall young men.
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