4 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Monday, Mar. 31, 1947
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John L Lewis"'Holy Week"
The Centralia, III., mine tragedy has given John L. Lewis
an opportunity to demonstrate that despite the orders of the
United States supreme court, he can still call out his 400,000
miners to stop work for at least a week and thus satisfy his
ego, on the day he originally set for the miners to strike,
April 1. He also demanded the ouster of Secretary of the
Interior J. A. King on the ground of "crimnial negligence"
in failing to enforce safety rules.
Lewis' order to the miners to cease work at a time when
the entire world is suffering from a lack of coal, calls it "a
sacred coincidence that the greater part of this designated
period of mourning will be during holy week." It certainly
is an extremely inappropriate memorial, this shutting off of
12 million tons of urgently needed coal, for as has been sug
gested, the miners by remaining at work could turn over
their $15 or $20 million wages lost for the relief of the fami
lies of the victims of the 111 men lost in the mine disaster.
Lewis says that his shutdown order will not violate the
supreme court order which directed him to withdraw his
notice "terminating" his contract with the government
the signal for a strike and to issue no such notice again as
long as the government operates the mines. But Secretary
' Krug says, "All the cards are in Lewis' hands" and the gov
ernment has no power to keep the miners from staying out
indefinitely. One man still has the power to cripple the na
tion's economy.
It was Lewis who forced the government to seize the mines
from their owners and operate them in order to get needed
coal, so he cannot escape personal responsibility for the Illi
nois tragedy. It is also a demonstration of the inefficiency
of bureaucratic control and management. The bureaucrats
can enforce the observance of safety regulations on the
owners and operators, but there is no one to enforce their
observance oh the bureaucrats themselves. They have no
personal interest in the mines, except to get their salaries.
Mr. Krug is in charge of millions of operations on hundreds
of national projects and has no time for operating mines
8 r-. belonging to private enterprise.
duties of an overworked public
jr. utilize nureaucracy in management nas simuai ly uruKen
I h down as numerous instances during the war confirm.
House of Cards
After spending 12 full weeks, the longest time ever spent
by an Oregon legislature in a regular or special session, in
devising ways and means of proving that a sales tax is an
inescapable method of meeting the state's financial needs for
the next two years, house and senate tax experts launched
upon their 13th week by blasting at the house of cards which
they have so studiously toiled to create.
There is, it now appears, another means of funding the
budget deficit in the event the people turn thumbs down on
the sales tax proposal when it is submitted to them in June
or November. In fact, there are two alternate plans one
suggested by Governor Snell earlier in the session when he
proposed that the $7 or $8 million in the excise income tax
fund for use in offsetting property taxes, be transferred to
the general fund for expenditure wherever needed to avoid
the deficit. The objection raised against the Snell plan
was that it involved a questionable diversion of income tax
receipts to unauthorized purposes, although in the long run
the same result would be achieved.
The second proposed plan for circumventing the sales tax
Is built up largely along the same lines. It also foresees a
deficit of $7 to $8 million for the biennium, and is fashioned
around the cornerstone of a cigaret tax expected to yield
$4 million. It also embodies a $500,000 increase in pari
mutual betting taxes and transfer of the $250,000 collected
in pinball license fees. But that still leaves an anticipated
deficit of $2.5 million to be chalked up against the slate's
credit.
And here is where the tactics of financial ledgerdomain
are brought into play. The state board of control would be
directed to make a survey of the state's financial condition
sometime prior to June 30, 1948, to determine the likelihood
of a deficit incurred prior to the end of the biennium. If
such a dificit be indicated the state tax commission would
be required to call a special election for the purpose of voting
on the proposition of levying a state property tax sufficient
to cover the deficit, but not to exceed $8 million.
Approval of such a levy by vote of the people would make
it immediately eligible for income tax money under the offset
proviso. Thus the advocates of a sales tax as the only means
of meeting the state's finnacial needs are shown to be vul
nerable from two separate points.
Too Much Persistence
1 Another demonstration of how too much persistence on
and pressure behind an otherwise inoffensive legislative
proposal can bo exerted to its own death is contained in the
history of a senate bill to appropriate $50,000 for the pur
chase of a governor's mansion. The bill which the ways and
moans committee had previously rejected early last week,
was rescued Saturday afternoon through fast maneuvering
on the part of Senator Rex Kllis, its principal sponsor.
It happened that members of the ways and means commit
tee, who are also members of the taxation committees were
flitting back and forth between simultaneous meetings of
the two committees, and Ellis, watching for the time when
the right members of the ways and means group were absent,
moved that the mansion bill be reported out with a "do pass"
report.
So delicately timed was the
vnc ovim.c in.., ,u( mini i-uiiMiutTHiinn ny a seven to six vote
in the commtitce. Opponents of the billwhr-n nHviserl nf thn
Ellis maneuver, decided to make no objection, and immedi
ately busied themselves with the task of defeating it on the
Iioor.
If nothing else was achieved by Kllis' tactics, he made it
impossible for the governor to sign the bill if it ever reaches
his desk. It also brought to light for the infnrmntimi nf nr..
state senators the fact that the state already owns three
comparatively large and wholly habitable homes within a
block of the capitol building which could he ntilWoH ..
governor's mansion at least temporarily one of them beintr
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Bar Association
Opposes Court Cut
Portland, March 31 Ml The
Oregon State Bar association and
the Multnomah Bar association
OREGON
Editor and Publisher
entitled to the use for publication of
or otherwise credited In this paper
It should he no part ot tne
official and every attempt to
maneuver that it won a trip to
tne equivalent oi jfuo a month
were on record today as opposed
to a proposed legislative meas
ure to reduce the number of jus
tices on the state supreme court.
Each passed resolutions to that
effect here Saturday.
The proposed measure would
eliminate two justices from the
court.
That Guilty Feeling
By Beck
WiW& WHAT MRS AILEN WANTS TO SSSS. ijT
fjSSf BORROW A FEW EGQS' THAT TWICE S8S?S ,l",
1m THIS WEEK 5HE5 ASKED FOR THINGS .
llV WHY DOESN'T SHE STOCK UP WHEN 7'3S-$ySVT S:W'
JjlSHE GOES 5HOPPW6. f-UJ1 I)'
Quite a grim determination
was required to enjoy the
beauty of the blossoms on Blos
som day yesterday but we un
derstand quite a few did.
Joe Fclton, our well known
justice of the peace, has acquir
ed a Model A which we under
stand' he plans to use on fishing
and hunting trips. This acquisi
tion has black wheels in front
and red wheels in back and as
soon as Joe can pick up a couple
of squirrel tails, one to hang
from the radiator cap and the
olhor from the radio antenna
he'll make quite a dashing addi
tion to the already dashing bevy
of fishermen and hunters who
go out from here during the year
to the wild places.
Parking tickets were hung on
10 cars parked in the courthouse
grounds Saturday night inviting
them to make a visit to the jus
tice of the peace, reporls Sheriff
Denver Young. He says the
cars constitute a fire menace to
the building parked so they ob-
Noveltiee
No Telephone Calls
New York, March 31 UP) Mr.
Bear, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Fox and
company will not be at home to
telephone callers tomorrow at
the Bronx zoo. The telephone
company began screening April
1 telephone calls last year and
stopped 2708 of them from
plaguing unamused zoo officials.
Just Like Pop
Baltimore, March 31 IIP) Ac
cording to his parents, three-
year-old Staley Schaeffer likes
the ladies.
The youngsters disappeared
while staying with some friends.
Several hours later, three teen
age girls showed up with Staley
at police headquarters and ex
plained he had been following
them.
That didn't surprise his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schae-
fer.
"You see," Mr. Sohaefer re
marked, "he's always had an eye
for the girls."
"Just like his father," chimed
in Mrs. Schaefer.
Aumsville Man
Killed in Auto Crash
Elmer Huddlcston. 26, of
Aumsville was instantly killed
late Saturday night near Turner
on the Turner-West Stayton
highway in a collision between
cars driven by himself and Ger
ald Lcwin, 16. of Stayton.
Occupants of each car claimed
only one headlight was aglow on
Ihc other. In the Huddlcston car
were Anna May Huddlcston and
Ernest Dcnsen of Aumsville. In
the Lewin car were Kale Dec
man Lane of Stayton, F. Smith
of West Stayton and Norma
Strange of Lacomb.
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By Don Upjohn
struct ingress and egress and in
as much as it'll be three years or
so before the county gets a new
courthouse he'd like to see the
firemen get a chance at this one
in case of fire. He offers this
advice as a gentle reminder that
even the 10 didn't use up all the
parking tickets he's had printed.
Our mail brought an unusual
combination this a.m. One com
munication was from a gentle
man in New York who has for
sale a miscellaneous assortment
of such attractive pieces of liter
ature as copies of Nick Carter,
Buffalo Bill, Frank Merriwell
and the Liberty Boys of '76, all
of which were the nickel novels
of a far distant youth. Another
came from far off Ecuador, the
South American botanical ex
periment station there offering
to send us some free orchid seeds
provided we'd send a dime, this
says Juan Pastor, director of the
station, being in the interests of
hemispheric solidarity." We
understand it takes several years
for orchids to reach a blooming
stage, but maybe if we'd load up
with Nick Carters, Frank Mer
riwells, et cetera, we could en
joy sitting around waiting for
the orchids to bloom.
And also in the mail came a
letter from Lottie C. Ransdell,
well known to a number of Sa
lem people, asking us to invite
all and sundry in these parts up
to her town of Hermiston on
April 15 to participate in the
celebration for turning over the
first shovel of dirt on the Mc
Nary dam named after Salem's
own Charley McNary who pro
moted it through congress. She
says this dam breeds the hope
that they'll get the proposed
supersonic structure up there
which will employ 16,000 per
sons and develop quite a town.
This structure, she advises, will
have wind tunnels capable of
producing 1000-mile-per-minute
winds.
We could use a few of such
around our legislative halls if
they'd speed matters up right
now.
Waller A. Godscy Killed
Dallas. Ore., March 31- -Walter
A. Godsey, 35, clerk at the
Grande Ronde store, was killed
about midnight Saturday when
his automobile left the road a
quarter of a mile north of Val
ley Junction on the Tillamook
highway. He was alone and ap
parently had fallen asleep. God
sey was thrown from ih: vehicle
which rolled over him. The
body is at the Henkle &. Boll
man mortuary here; announce-,
ments later.
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By DeWitt MacKenzie
Fear of another world war is
a very natural public reaction to
recent international events, but
we shouldn't let that possibility
shocking as it is blind us to
an actuality which is of even
more immediate importance, and
it is this:
The Moscow-directed world
revolution for the spread of com
munism, which was born with
the establishment of the revolu
tionary Soviet government in
1917, is at long last in full swing
on a truly global basis. It is mo
bilized to the utmost strength
which Russia can muster pend
ing her recovery from the rav
ages of war.
I return to this subject be
cause I'm encountering people
who find it difficult to believe
that anything so terrible could
be a reality especially in the
United States. Well, it does seem
like melodramatic fiction, but
we shall be crazy not to rec
ognize its truth.
As this column previously has
pointed out, when Stalin came to
power in 1925 he temporarily
shelved most of the direct-action
aspects of this scheme that is,
the use of force pending the
development of Russia's industri
al and military strength. He
thought communism would be
putting the cart before the horse
to try to overrun the world
while Russia herself was still
weak.
Stalin's several five-year plans
did wonders in building up the
Soviet Union's strength. The
war, which Hitler unleashed as
soon as Moscow had signed the
non-aggression pact with him,
created exactly the sort of chaos
upon which communism thrives,
so now we see the red drive be
ing pushed to the utmost every
where in order to take full ad
vantage of that chaos.
Naturally the United States, as
the most powerful nation of our
time of all time, for that mat
ter and a "capitalistic" one at
that, is the main objective of the
communist drive. We are given
plenty of warning in the sen
sational testimony developed
last week before the congres
sional committee on un-Ameri
can activities, and in the report
of the committee to congress.
This report declared that the
communist party in the United
States is part of the world-wide
revolutionary movement, taking
orders direct from Moscow, and
that it seeks to overthrow the
Washington government.
The world is covered with a
rash of events which are devel
opments of the world revolution,
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some representing bloody vio
lence and others tactical politi
cal maneuvers. Typical of the
latter class are the food demon
strations in the British zone of
occupation in Germany. Some
100,000 people in the great Ruhr
mining area have been making
public protests over the quantity
of the food they were receiving
and there was an ugly climax
Saturday when 4000 miners re
fused to resume digging coal,
which is the economic life-blood
of Europe because of the eco
nomic crisis.
Authoritative sources say this
trouble has been inspired by the
reds, who exploit every situa
tion which is a potential trouble
maker. Such communist tactics
serve a double purpose; the pub
lic agitation creates public un
rest and tends to break down
government, and if the food sit
uation is overcome the commu
nists will claim that they forced
government to act. This sort of
thing is being carried on inten
sively by the communists
throughout Germany as they
maneuver to gain control of the
entire country.
Such operations are the indi
rect action which is used as a
softening up process before the
direct-action is applied. There
are plenty of examples of direct-action
governments es
tablished by force and the liqui
dation of the opposition.
The United States is now in
the softening up stage. The gov
ernmental drive to clean house
of the communists is calculated
to prevent the development of
the direct-action stage in Amer
ica. It will, too, if the public
recognizes present dangers and
keeps on the alert.
Record "Wheat
Crop in Texas
Fort Worth, Tex., March 31 W)
A record Texas wheat harvest,
estimated at 110,000,000 bushels,
is expected to begin May 20,
but a desperate shortage of box
cars faces growers, Gi E. Ble
wett, secretary-treasurer of the
Texas Grain and Feed Dealers
association, said last night.
The bumper estimated crop is
more than twice the average
over the last decade and the
start of harvest 12 days later
than last year, he declared.
Near-perfect climatic condi
tions and a tremendous increase
in the amount of land put to
wheat production has given
Texas its biggest crop, Blewett
said, but added:
"We've never had a situation
like this before such an in
crease in wheat and no increase
in the amount of equipment to
move it."
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Blossom Day Successful
Despite. Handicap of Rain
Salem's annual Blossom day Sunday went into the records as
hugely successful notwithstanding the handicap of a rainy day
and short publicity notice, and going into the mail as a result for
distribution among people off
other states is a large amount
of Salem and Willamette val
ley literature that was given out
by the Cherrians.
"The Cherrians," said King
Bing Bill Dyer, "gave out 2000
Oregon magazines, and had to
quit at that when we ran out at
3:30 o'clock. le could easily
have given out another thou
sand, and if the weather had
been good there would have been
a demand for possibly 6000. In
addition to the magazines we
gave out over 2000 route maps.
"The magazines requested
were from people who have re
cently moved here and who
said they wanted to send them
to relatives and friends in Cali
fornia, Nebraska, Maine, Ver
mont, West Virginia, North Da
kota, Kansas and Iowa."
Of the two blossom routes,
west and south of the city, the
west route seemed the more
popular. A check of the traffic
showed almost a continuous line
of automobiles on the west
route from 1 to 3:30 p.m. It
amounted almost to a conges
tion, King Bing said, as the cars
crossed the bridge, turned on
Wallace road and then into the
Eola hills. A very large num
ber of cars came from Portland.
Guides at the state house
showed hundreds of persons
through the capitol during the
afternoon. At no time were
there less than 100 about the
building.
Cherrian groups in uniform
were stationed at the state house.
Center and North Capitol, and
at Center and North Commer
cial, assisting in directing the
visitors and giving out maga
zines and maps.
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Umpqua River Bill
Sent Governor
The house passed, 39 to 19,
and sent to the governor late
Saturday the bill to close the
Umpqua river and its tributaries
for six years to commercial fish,
ing.
The battle over the bill lasted
for an hour, with sports fisher
men winning over the commer
cial fishermen.
However, before the bill goes
to the governor, the senate must
act on a house amendment which
provided that the Smith river
also be included in the closure.
As originally passed by the sen
ate, the Smith river was the only
tributary which was exempted
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