'4 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, April 15, 1947
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Teachers Break Faith
Even among those who professed lack of faith on the
part of Oregon's school teachers, action of the state teachers'
association at their recent convention in Portland at which
they sidetracked a resolution pledging their support to the
campaign for enactment of a state sales tax at the special
eWtinn in October, comes scarcely as a surprise. Their
attitude of standing aloof from the task of soiling their hands
by active indulgence in politics is typical of the tactics
utilized by the teachers in the long, uphill battle to secure
greater state participation in the costs of education and im
provements in the standards of training required of teachers
in the standardization of salaries liver and above their bare
subsistence wage.
They have always been lonpr on advice in their demands
for higher pay, but short on suggestions for raising the
needed money.
In their attitude in refusing to support the plan so care
fully worked out by the legislature to finance their program
there is good reason to believe that the whole plan will be
defeated, and what ground has been gained in the past five
years will have been sacrificed.
With the state Grange and organized labor already throw
ing the weight of their organizations into the fight on the
sales tax. desertion of the teachers, PTAs and similar educa
tional groups of the program for better schools and higher
pay will have been lost before it even gets oil to a good start.
Nor can the pedagogues escape from sullying their hands
in politics when they so abjectly surrender to the demands
of such political macnines as tnose oe me legislative commit
tees of the Grange and the State Federation of Labor.
The fact that the unions, Grange and Farmers Union in
dorsed the teachers' program when it was before the voters
nt the last election does not justify the teachers in bowing
their heads before the demands of labor and the farmers that
helned to scuttle the sales tax. Especially is this demand
unreasonable coming from the farm organizations, most of
which voted against the school program when it was belore
the people.
But the teachers do have an obligation to the members of
the legislature who worked out the details for fianncing the
system for which the teachers themselves could offer no
workable financing plan. It was the assurance of teachers'
spokesmen that they would support the sales tax financing
proposal that the lawmakers enacted legislation boosting
the salaries of teachers to figures more than double their
average pay by putting floors of $2100 and $2400 under the
lawful compensation for teachers in Oregon. If by reason
of defeat of the sales tax this schedule of pay cannot be met
bv the schoo districts, the lawmakers at the inevitable
special session of the legislature reduce or entirely eliminate
the salary floors they will be acting with justitication. ihe
situation has developed into one in which those who asked
to dance must pay the fiddler.
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By Don Upjohn
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The fire chief looks so classy
in his new uniform we re sur
prised the fire house isn't in
vaded by a bunch of bobby sox
ers to do a little swooning. Also
we imagine that Police Chief
Frank Minlo has taken in the
new fire chief out of the corner
of his eye but like B'rer Rabbit,
old Frank he ain't sayin' nolhin'.
Frank's a plenty classy dresser
in his civvies but in a uniform
we bet he'd be a wow.
High Prices and Living Costs
Among the contributing costs to high prices, which seem
to have escaped the attention of both congress and the admin
istration are the support prices paid by the government it
self to farmers to insure high profits. A sample of how
it works out is given in a Washington dispatch stating that
the ultimate cost of the government's potato dumping this
year may run as high as $93 million instead of the estimated
$80 million.
This costly spending to assure farmers a good price for
their potatoes, which they over-produced in bumper propor
tions last year, is reported in many other farm products. The
government has been forced to supply potatoes as stock feed
at a loss, even to dump huge quantities of them at total
loss but there has been no reduction in the cost of potatoes
to the consumer. So the government must share the respon
sibilities for the inflationary price spiral.
Estimated direct government spending to keep farm prices
up this fiscal year (1947) was set originally at $89,986,000,
but the final cost will rise even higher, some estimate it nt
$97 million. President Truman in his new budget asked
congress to set aside $161 million to keep up farm prices in
the fiscal year starting July 1. This would allow over $10,'?
million for price supports under the Steagall amendment
which continues through 1948; $15 million for price supports
or loans on basic commodities, cotton, corn, tobacco, peanuts,
wheat and rice; and $470,000 for other price supports, in
cluding wool. .
Business is not alone responsible for price inflation, though
it shares the blame and should do everything possible to re
duce prices wherever possible, though it cannot alone reverse
the trend with the pressure of high wages, money supply in
flated out of all proportion to the available supply of goods
and services and inflated farm prices in the most competitive
sector in the price structure.
Since August, l!)!ti), farm prices have risen nealy 180 per
cent as compared with 59 percent for industrial prices. The
durable goods industry with their "administered prices"
have had comparatively little to do with the rise in the cost
of living, 70 percent of which has been accounted for by ris
ing food prices and another 13 percent by clothing. As the
New York Times says:
"In agriculture we have had a situation in which a tremendous
pent-up purchasing power was pressing on a sunDlv that coulrl he
expanded no further, with the result that the excess do.mand
could manifest itself only in rising prices. The advance in the
price of clothing reflects the post-war boom in consumer goods
generally, a boom accentuated by the fact that there has thus far
iicen a scarcity ot ouraoie goods. The administration has a duty
to make clear the Intimate relationship between mounting wane's
and mounting prices. It must drive home the axiom that wages
are pain oui 01 ine products (it laoor, and that a policy of expand
ing the volume nf such products through lowering prices is thor
oughly incompatible with a policy of wage increases which have
the ffcct of maintaining or increasing the prices of those prod-
Wharton Takes
Over Tax Job
Wallace S. Wharton, who left
his post on the state tax com
mission five years ago to go
into the navy, returned to his
position today, succeeding the
late tax commissioner Charles
Galloway.
Wharton served as a captain
in naval intelligence in Wash
ington, resigning his commission
to come back to the tax com
mission.
He is head of the assessment
division of the commission. Be
fore the war, he was head of
the commission's utilities divi
sion. Before his original appoint
ment to the commission, Whar
ton was executive secretary and
budget director under the late
Gov. Charles H. Martin.
We slipped into the post
office at 8:05 by our watch this
a. m. deposited a package and
when we came out the court
house clock said 11:20. At first
glance we figured we must be
slowing up to beat the band to
take three hours and 15 minutes
to drop a package in the post
office but when the courthouse
clock stayed at 11:20 the rest
of the morning we felt somewhat
relieved.
In Self Defense.
(Medford Mail Tribune)
The Salem press is critical of
the valley weather, insofar as it
concerned the Salem ball team.
If the ball team turns out as
good as the weather, the pitch
ers will all be Bob Fellers, and
everybody will be a hitter like
Babe Ruth.
Novelties
Real Emergency
Kansas City, April 15 (JP) Lt.
Roy Wigdon, stationed in Tokyo,
Japan, telephoned his wife yes
terday, despite the telephone
strike.
Later, Mrs. Wigdon, who is
planning to leave next month
with their 5-months-old son to
join her husband, was asked if
it was an emergency call.
"In a way it Was," she re
plied. "My husband wanted me
to be sure and take the wash
ing machine with me. There are
no proper facilities in Tokyo to
wash baby diapers."
The talk that is lost over the
country by having the telephones
out of commission seems to be
made up by the amount of talk
in the conferences had back in
Washington as to when the strike
will end. And if that doesn't
do it, the talk over what Henry
Wallace has been talking about
will fill the void.
Incidentally Henry Wallace is
establishing some sort of a re
cord as no matter how big asses
Americans abroad have made of
themselves on occasions there is
none of them who ever has come
near hitting the high spot reach
ed by Henry. Somebody should
get hold of him and wash his
mouth out with some good strong
laundry soap.
Deceiving Appearances
West Los Angeles, April 15
(fl "The world is gold." That
is what a burglar wrote, in
German, on a mirror in the
home of Prof. Max S. Dunn, af
ter pocketing some jewelry.
Now the thief can add to his
repertoire the saying "All that
glitters is not gold." The pro
fessor told police the loss was
entirely in costume jewelry."
In the Interest of Truth.
(Corv;'lis Gazette-Times)
The society editors always
have the bride walking down
the aisle leaning on the arm of
her father, whereas if the report-
were to tell the truth she
would say that the bride dragged
the reluctant old man down
the aisle with his knees shaking
together.
The sun has been shining like
all get out the past few days
just as though it was trying to
get it over with and drum up a
rain for the opening of the base
ball season here Friday night.
We want to warn it right now
if it docs it's going to make a
lot of people plenty sore.
Aumsville Mr. and Mrs. El
mer Klein have received word
of the promotion to S Sgt. of
their son Glenn A. Klein. SSgt.
Klein enlisted in the air corps in
November, 1945, and is sta
tioned at San Antonio where
he is in the office of the In
doctrination division of the
air training command.
Hitler Planned to Seize Vatican
And Capture Italian Government
Frankfurt, April 15 W Adolf Hitler reacted to Benito Musso
lini's resignation with a grandiose plan to move into the Vatican
"we will apologize afterwards" and to capture the Italian
king, the crown prince and the
By DeWitt MacKeniie
(AP Foreign Affairs Analyst)
This is one of the notable days
of the year for England bud
get day the time when the
chancellor of the exchequer pre
sents to parliament an account
ing ol the country s financial
position and submits his esti
mates of income and -expenditure
during the ensuing 12
months.
Always it is an occasion of
vast importance for John Bull
because it's the barometer of
his economic well-being. And
it's a matter of moment for the
average citizen in a more inti
mate sense, because his personal
fortune may be affected by an
increase or decrease in taxation.
A penny a pint either way on
his beer, or a change in the price
of his all-important tea, is a
serious affair whatever way you
look at it.
"Toil, Tears and Sweat"
However, as I read the signs.
the anxiety this year is chiefly
on a national scale rather than
on an individual basis.
Naturally the man-in-the-street
is worried about his per
sonal difficulties. For they are
terribly hard. We should be
more than naive to think that
he has not thought of self but
all indications are that he
much more concerned over the
welfare of the country which is
still struggling with the "toil
tears and sweat" of war.
The Briton comes up to this
budget day with the full knowl
edge that England is in the midst
of a dangerous economic crisis
whose end cannot be seen. It's
only 10 weeks ago that Chancel
lor of the Exchequer Hugh Dal
ton said bluntly that the coun
try was living on borrowed
money and must produce more
goods for export or face "a low
er standard of life and more unemployment."
The rationing of food, cloth
ing and fuel is on a scale of aus
terity which would break the
morale of a less sturdy folk. And
the signs are that this austerity
must continue for a long time.
Still, there has been no indi
cation thus far of any consider
able break in the determination
of the majority of the public to
give the new socialist govern
ment a reasonable length of time
to try to overcome the economic
crisis or demonstrate that it
can't handle the job. It's held
that this crisis was a war be
quest which the government
didn't produce but inherited.
We have here a striking exam
ple of the national characteris
tic of standing together in an
emergency, or so it seems to me.
When I was in England a year
ago I talked with many conserv
atives who had voted against the
socialists in the general elec-
New Features
At Galleries
Scenes of old Mexico and the
northwest are featured in water
colors by the Seattle artists, Ber-
nice Huber and Nancie Stamps,
at the Elfstrom Art Galleries
this month. Members of ;
younger generation of atists, Hu.
ber and Stamps have paired to
gether to give a versatile ex
hibition. Both use the watercol-
or as a medium for strength and
ruggedness in tor.es.
While bright colors would be
expected in the Mexican scenes,
the present exhibition defines
the colors and atmosphere of the
southern country without an
abundance . of gaudy colors.
Greys and blues predominate In
the northwest scenes which are
typical of the Puget Sound area.
Miss Huber's painting of f"Elliot
Bay" with it stones of grey re
mind one of Corot's port scenes
of France. Although the two
artists have a mixed background
of . conservative and . modern
study, the exhibition shows a
modern flair that makes water-
colors refreshing and appropri
ate for today's scene.
They studied at the Chouinard
Art Institute In Los Angeles, in
Portland with Mildred Warner
and Paul Immel in Seattle. Both
are members of the Northwest
Watercolor society and have held
sxhibitions in Santa Barbara, Se
attle, Spokane and Portland.
Petrillo Subpenaed
Washington, April 15 U.
Chairman Fred A. Hartley, Jr
(R-N.J.) revealed today that he
has subpenaed James C. Petril
lo, head of the American Feder
ation of Musicians, to appear
before the house labor commit
tee and testify on the internal
conduct of his union.
tion and were fearful of the na
tionalization program. I asked
what they were going to do now
that the socialist government
was in power, and the invariable
answer was that they were going
to support it until it had been
given a fair opportunity to dem
onstrate what it could do. The
country needed a period of poli
tical tranquility.
That seems to be the explana
tion of the stoicism of the Brit
ish public as this fateful 'budget
day rolled around. Reports
that there might be some sort
of cut in taxation naturally
raised some hopes. Of Britain's
14,000,000 taxpayers last year
13,175,000 had incomes of less
than $2,000 after taxes were settled.-
And as for the wealthiest
group those with incomes of
more than $24,000 a year after
deductions of taxes it dropped
from 7,000 individuals in 1939
to a mere 45 in 1945-46.
An unmarried person earning
$400,000 has been taxed $376,
700. No wonder the landed
airstocracy is disappearing, and
great fortunes are on their way
out."
Budget day in the house of
commons produces an amazing
parade of figures a supreme
moment of showmanship for the
chancellor of the exchequer. I've
reported the presentation of
many budgets, but the most
amazing of the lot was one by
the late Andrew Bonar Law dur
ing the first World War. As I
recall it he spoke for more than
an hour, pouring out figures in
torrent, and didn't refer to
notes once. He later became
prime minister.
1947
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Telephone Pickets
Routed by Citizens
Denver, April IS (U.R)-A
union leader said today that
irate townspeople had broken
nn nirkpt line nf strilrmc tola.
phone workers in one Colorado!1"' J . .
ors (IND), said picket signs
were ripped off strikers in front
of a telephone building in La
mar. Colo., and the picketers
routed. He said the lines had
not been re-established there
early today.
But the fire-hose treatment
dealt striking telephone girls in
community and another group
had used a fire hose to sweep
telephone girls off picket lines
in St. George, Utah.
L. C. Purdy, Colorado presi
dent of the Mountain States
deration of Telephone Work-
failed to halt their picketing
The drenched strikers quickly
reformed their lines, he said.
Colombia Is the only South
American country which has
both Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
whole Italian government.
A frenzied scene at the fueh
rers headquarters on July 25.
1943, is reflected in stenograph
ic notes of the occasion which
were found by the American
army.
"Tomorrow I shall send a man
down who will order the com
mander of the third panzer di
vision to go down to Rome with
a specinl command group to ar
rest the entire government, the
king, and the whole gang, bu
primarily to get hold of the
crown prince and Badoglio and
his gang," Hitler declared.
"They will see and get weak
in the bones and within two or
three days there will be another
change."
Ambassador Hewel, German
foreign office liaison officer at
Hitler's headquarters, suggest
ed:
Should we not say that the
exits of the Vatican will be
guarded?"
"I don t care, go into the Vati
can immediately,' Hitler re
plied. "Do you think I am afraid
of the Vatican?
"We'll get in Immediately be
cause the entire diplomatic corps
sit there, and I don't care. Thei
gang is there, the entire dirty
gang. We will get them out.
What does it matter? We will
apologize afterwards."
At one point, the plotters
picked up cues from one an
other as in a stage play.
Hitler: "I must get the crown
prince first of all."
' Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel:
"He is more important than the
old man."
Bodenschatz: "That must be
organized. They must be packed
Into a plane and flown away
immediately."
Hitler: "Into the airplane.
Away with them immediately."
ANNOUNCEMENT OF POLICY-
This sale is designed to move these vehicles
without any delay there are NO restric
tions of any kind. The highest bid will
get the award IMMEDIATELY. Inspec
tion dates: April 23 and 24. Bids will be
awarded April 25, 1947. You name price...
If your bid is highest, you'll get the award.
12 Chevrolet 154-Ton Cargo Trucks
65 General Motor 254-Ton Cargo Trucks
8 Army Staff Sedans Chevrolet, Plymouth, Ford
12 Willys and Ford Jeepe
20 Pickup Trucks Dodge, GMC, Ford
1 Carryall
4 M-Ton Command Reconn. Cars
1 Weapons Carrier
1 4-Ton Dodge Ambulance
23 154-Ton Combination Stake and Platform
Trucks
6 5-Ton Combination Stake and Platform
Trucks
2 254-Ton Tractor Trucks
2 1 $4-Ton Tractor Trucks
3 214-Ton Dump Truck Mack, International,
Federal
9 1 J4-Ton Dump Trucki Dodge, Chevrolet
7 Harley Davidson Motorcycles
1 154-Ton 29-Pasienger International Bus
I 154-Ton 29-Penger Studebaker Bui
Miscellaneous Trailers 2 Semi Bus, 3 54 -Ton,
i S-Ton Semi-Cargo, 1 23-Ton Platform.
3 7-Ton Semi-Cargo, 1 Semi - Stake in
Platform, 2 354-Ton Semi-Cargo, 18 22tf
Ton Low Bed Semi-Cargo.
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All of this equipment has been used ind In most
cases repairs required. No warranty is made as
to condition. Sales tax will be charged wherever
applicable.
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