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The situation is in no manner unusual other than the circum stances which led to the need for filling that high office at the 1948 elections the untimely death of the late Governor Earl W. Snell, whose term would not have expired until Jan uary 1, 1951. The anxiety of some people to succeed to the chair vacated by Snell, or to place there someone of their own choosing, led , il. L U f .wi;,l.ifaa Kfinfl, With h IflPA to tne customary iiii uj. tauuiutco during the days immediately following the upheaval in state affairs. From every section of the state came suggestions of aspiring candidates. Meanwhile, John H. Hall, speaker of the house and third on the list of gubernatorial successors, had taken office. To .1 1. . , ' L! 4.U: tnt- trn.r. better appraise tne cnangea suuauon which um u.i gave to the picture caused most of the self-starters and scheming king-makers to draw off in order to get a better view and to lay their plans accordingly. They did that under the guise of "giving the matter serious consideration," of "weighing the matter more carefully" or of "sounding out the wishes of the people. The call of their constituents would have been sweet music in their ears, but none heard it and none gave heed to it, except Slate Senator Douglas McKay, whose long laid plans had anticipated just such a turn of events. McKay had long planned to seek the office when Governor Snell relinquished it, and he made no bones about his ambi tions along those lines. A skeleton campaign organization had already been set up and his organization drive was set to go even to the extent of determining where the bulk of the money needed was to come from. The source and alignment of his support was well known and aside from the favor he enjoys among the veterans of two world wars, the regard with which he is held among OSC alumni, the active backing of such an experienced and effective political group as the State Automobile Dealers' association, McKay also stands out as the choice of most of the active workers in the Snell organization. That is an imposing array of strength for any opposition candidate to cast aside without serious consideration. But more impressive in making up the mind of prospective op ponents is the appearance of ready money for campaign pur poses they have at their command. A contest for the repub lican nomination for governor under existing circumstances is going to cost real money, ?50,000 to $75,000 estimated to be a reasonable guess. And money of that size and shape is going to be difficult to locate in the face of the potential strength and financial resources at the command of Senator McKay or Governor John Hall. It's not the voice of the people for which the boys are listening so attentatively, it's the music of their money they want to hear. Until they do the long list of prospective governors will remain in the category of prospects. Decrease in Lynchings An encouraging report on the decrease in lynchings in the United States for the year 1947 is furnished by the Tuskegee Institute. The long campaign against racial intolerance and mob law is having its effect in the increased vigilance of law enforcing officials in the south, F. D. Patterson, president of Tuskegee, finds that only one person was lynched during the year, five less than in 194G. The 1947 lynch victim was Willie Earle, a 24-year-old negro, charged with stabbing and robbing a white taxi driver. He was taken from jail by a mob which mutilated his body with knife and bullet wounds in South Carolina. The report continues: Borderline Cases. There were six borderline cases which are not included in the total number of lynchings lor 1947 becr.use, to date, sufficient evidence concerning them has not been obtained. These cases are as follows: Joe Nathan Roberts, at Sardis, Ga.: Red Marks, Tobe Marks, Joe Wickerson. and an unnamed Negro, at Oakwood, Fla.; and Charlie (Bud) Smith, in or near Angicr, N. C. Lynchings Prevented. There were at least 31 instances in which lynchings were prevented 24 by officers of the law; four by persons who saved themselves from mobs; two by persons not officers of the law; and one Instance in which the victim left as dead by the mnb, survived bullet wounds. Of these instances, 27 were in the southern states and four were outside of the south. A total of 3!) persons 33 Negroes and six whites were thus saved from death nt the hands of mobs. Punishment of Lynchers. During the year. 44 persons were under Indictment as participants in lynchings or attempted lynchings; and 44 were freed. Contrast those figures with those of the beginning of the century. In 1901, lynch victims numbered 115 and had been even greater annually in the preceding decade. In 1910 the lynchings were reduced to 76, in 1920 to 61, in 1930 to 21 and in 1940 to five. They dropped to three in 1943, to two in 1944, to one in 1945, but rose to six in 194G. The south, despite its Bilbos, Talmadges and other dema gogues, and their hill-billy following, has become a land of law and order and is solving its own problems. BY BECK Such Is Life IHS I HAVE GOOD NEWS. AFTER OUR 'I'h'wM I MONTHS OF WAITING, MR KARL, THE W I I imM AUTOMOBILE DEALER, SAID WED SET l.Wf ! Pli ! ill i' Wm7 V OUR NEW CAR NEf WEEK. WELL.. f (, I I f Af AT YOU PLEASED fA 1 J Im&JLmW 1 ' m ' KV J? !sg PAWA WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND 'Keyhole Congressman' Sees New Tax-Cut Bill BY DREW PEARSON NOTES FROM THE KEYHOLE CONGRESSMAN: Congress will enact another tax-reduction bill during the coming session and the inside is that President Truman, this time, will sign it. In fact, it appears that democrats may be outdoing republicans in the clamor for income-tax relief. However, White House adviS' Drew fearson THE FIRESIDE PULPIT these words in mind, may we all have a pleasurable and hap py New Year. NOVELTIES Marines Sent to Mediterranean The navy has announced the dispatch of an unannounced number of marines on January 6 to the Mediterranean for duty aboard the aircraft carrier Midway, and three light cruisers, one of which is at Piraceus, Greece. The navy's terse eight-line "memo to the press" said the objective is "to augment the shipboard training of marines." It likewise said that "the increase will restore the total per sonnel on board to approximately the normal over-all com plement of the ship." Dispatch of the marines to the troubled Mediterranean area is received in diplomatic circles as a pledge of American support for the communistic oppressed governments of Greece and Italy a psychological stroke to meet emergency conditions. Hence the exact number of marines crmicr over seas is classified as a "top secret." The Mediterranean fleet is from 15 to 20 percent undermanned. The marine reinforce ment woum make tne dillercnce between ships that could man their guns in an emergency or be forced to flop. Some high military officials believe guerrilla warfare will not be cleaned up in Greece until American rnmW tmnnt actually go ashore there. This, however, would take an act of congress. Boosting the navy to its full complement with marine fighting and landing forces was the only step that could be taken at this time. 'Waste' Time in the Way That Will Bring Happiness By Reverend George H. Swift Rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church How to Enjoy a Happy New Year A greater writer and lecturer once said: "We are born and we die; and between these two most mportant events of our lives, more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or prac ticing law, or reading, or play $ ing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings." We should be careful to note that the author of the above quotation does not say that all time between birth and death is wasted, but that the part of our time we do "waste" should be wasted in the way which pro duces the most happiness. Cer tainly there is nothing wrong about that. It is because people choose to spend their leisure time in so many different ways that life is so interesting. We can enjoy so many activities, hunting, fish ing, golfing, football, chess, reading, visiting, and even stu dying some profession or busi ness other than that in which we are engaged. Of course one must keep ever in mind the main ob jective in life the development! of character, the worship of God, and love for people, in cluding one's own family. Life should be more than a Hnilv DrinH it ehnnU Vim.. . spices, its moments of relaxa-jilri fUK iUrTtK nu, nnu ita iji'iiuu ui renewal of mind, and body and spirit.! Inasmuch as we shall, in spite of ourselves, waste some time it can be much more profitably spent in play than in worry, and in doing the things which we thoroughly enjoy. Life from the cradle to the grave can be a drab experience or a pleasant one, depending a great deal on our faithfulness to essentials and our use of the so-called waste or spare time. There is food for thought in what Epicurus once said: "It is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently, and justly; or to live prudently, and honorably, and justly, with out living pleasurably." With Wrong Door New York (U.R) Edward Sweeney, 48, awakened in his rooming house to find his bed on fire. He ran to the door, opened it, went through and slammed it behind him only to find he was in a clothes closet and could not get out. Other tenants smelled the smoke and summoned firemen, who liberat ed Sweeney. All in One Huron, S.D (U.R). C. W. Stitt is planning to rebuild the cross roads village of Bloomfield. The village was razed by fire. It con- jsistcd of Stitt's general store, gro cery, locker plant, beer parlor, lunch counter, service station and living quarters all tn one building. ers insist that the measure fin ally adopted must provide gen uine relief for lower-bracket taxpayers chiefly through in creased exemptions to get the president s approval. The treasury department, i n the meantime, is rounding out a confident lal study on the budget outlook for the fiscal years ending June 30, ' 1948, and June 30, 1 9 4 9, which dovetails nicely with plans of house ways and means commit tee democrats to come out flatly for tax cuts early in the session. House democratic leaders have kept it quiet, but there was some secret huddling during the Christmas holidays on proposed drafts of a democratic tax-revision bill. One reason for the mys tery surrounding these strategy sessions is that ways and means democrats don't want to antici pate the white house. However, they believe the president can be sold and will request a conference with him very soon to submit their ideas. Tax Highlights On the basis of current na tional income, the treasury es timates that tax revenues for the present fiscal years, ending next June 30, may run as high as $44,000,000,000. This is $2, 300,000,000 greater than the last estimate, made in Septem ber. Against this revenue, the treas ury estimates that our (budget) expenditures will total around $37,000,000,000 for the same per iod, including $1,240,000,000 for foreign aid and a $1,700,000,000 credit on our loan to Great Brit ain. Unless foreign-aid spending runs greater than the anticipat ed $1,240,000,000. and if the Marshall plan (or a republican substitute) doesn't become ef fective before March 31, 1948, "combined additional expendi tures for the 1948 fiscal year will be no greater than $3,000, 000,000," the secret treasury study reveals. On the basis of these fig ures, treasury exports esti mate conservatively that our next surplus for the current fiscal year will be somewhere between $4-billion and 55-bil-lion which would leave the door ajar for substantial re duction in income taxes. The treasury study further shows that budget expenditures for the next fiscal year, ending June 30, 1949, will be around $34,000,000,000 exclusive of for eign aid. However, if the Mar shall plan and other foreign-aid expenditures run between $6 billion and $7-billion, the 1949 fiscal budget will be something over $40,000,000,000 for domest is and foreign spending. If current tax rates prevail and the national income continues to exceed $175,000,000,000 in the 1949 fiscal year, as it will this year, the treasury estimates that there also will be a revenue sur plus in 1949, probably between $3-billion and $4-billion. (Concluded on Page. 12, Column S) , i "i Mini'ii'n wiwiiwiiwiiTnrrirnw Twins! What to Do Now? It's a Matter for the Board Reading, Pa., Jan. 3 m Albright college hadn't counted on twins when It promised a scholarship to Berks county's first 1S48 baby. As a result the college board of trustees used to solvint things academic today has a human Interest problem, If no a technical one. Two boys were born to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Houck of Reading, Pa. The first boy arrived at 11:41 p.m., December 31 technically ineligible for the scholarship, His twin brother arrived 30 seconds after 1947 became history. Dr. Harry Masters, president of Albright college, said the matter of the scholarship would be placed before the board ol trustees. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Now He Can Quit Chewing Fingernails and Start Life Anew BY HAL BOYLE New York Wj We have a pretty "copy boy" in our office! She has dark curly hair and the kind of underpinning that made Marlene Dietrich famous in an earlier generation. A moment ago she curved past my desk, and I asked her what was her most important New Year resolution, and she said' ing my finger nails." She moved away, her rear bumper narrow ly m i s s i n g a typewriter, and I thought hea vily, "My how times do change." Nineteen years ago I was a co py boy, too in the primeval days when copy boys were really Hal Boyle HIGH-SKYING He's Not Dangerous Jusr a Bit Worried BY DON UPJOHN When you run Into one of your merchant friends these days who has a hunted look in his eye, is mumbling to himself and seems sorta trembly as he shakes your hand, don't worry too much about him. He's either just finished taking inventory or is right in the middle of it and will recover in due course. Pat him on the back sympathically and hurry $ away. Incidentally we ran Into 'Slim" Maw yesterday "Rus sell" he's known as among the elite and he too looked wor ried, was mumbling to himself and his hands a bit trembly. MacKENZIE'S COLUMN Princess Has Quality of Which Queens Are Made BY DeWITT MacKENZIE (AP rorelsn Affairs Analyst) I like that lyric line by Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma In affirming her love for Romania's deposed King Mihai: wnercver he goes. I will follow him." That's the sort of thing you want to hear from a Eirl when the man she loves is in trouble. And young Mihai has indeed fallen ft? TV .It 5. 1 I on evil days, for -- the royal world ! iTs"" in which he was roared has been pulled down suddenly about his ears. Worse yet, he is being sent inln evil from the land of his birth be cause he has committed the sin of being "' Macam.i. born to kingship. What a Girl! But what a girl he picked to be his queen! "Wherever he goes, I will follow him." It took cour age for a proud young woman to make such a public declaration, before her betrothal had been formally announced. That was her way of saying: "I'll stand by him, king or no king, through thick and thin." Now please don't get the idea that this column is grieving over the downfall of another ruler. We are for democracy as laid down in our United States, that is, government directly by the people. We don't happen to need a king In America, but if the people of any country want a king they can have him and still remain a democracy a fair ex ample being the constitutional monarchy of Britain. Whether the majority of the Romanian people would have liked to retain Mihai on the throne is an unanswered ones- machine without reference to the "proletariat" as a whole. Of course Romania doesn't have a democratic government, according to the standards of western democracy. It has a to talitarian communist government which dare not let Mihai remain in the country. So many of the people want him on the throne that there might be danger of an uprising if he were allowed to stay in Romania. On that basis the bolshevists probably are smart to throw him out. No Other Way So since Romania can't utilize Mihai's capabilities in any other way than that of king, he must go into exile. The world ought to have some better niche for Mihai than just a spot where he can sit more or less in solitude with his princess. He has a wealth of knowledge tucked away in his youthful head. For instance, he knows the fiery Balkans as do few oth ers who aren't natives, and that information should be invaluable in these dangerous days when the gods of war are playing at bowls in that part of the world. What about enlisting his services in some job for the United Na tions which needs his specialized knowledge? Maybe that's too extreme, but in any event Mihai provides an excellent example of the point at which we are shooting: If we are going to have one world, and "Wot's the matter Slim?" we asked. "I'm starting out to find me a big slippery elm club," said Slim. "I gotta do something to fight off all these women now Leap Year's here." We hope Slim got his club, but confidentially, we betcha, if Slim just looks at em it 11 be enough. Or, even maybe, if they just look at Slim. Did You Know You Were Very Near Sun Friday? BY J. HUGH PRUETT Astronomer. Extension Division, Oregon Hither Education System Somewhat remiss is a planetary review for early 1948 that fails to consider that body to which 2,150,000,000 of our human rela tives are attached by gravitational ties. Our world, the earth, at times 3,000,000 miles nearer the sun than at others, on January 2 at 1 a.m. (EST) was closer to old Sol than it will be at any other time this year. And because of this "least distance" our planet is racing along its orbit at its greatest speed, 18.6 miles per second. (In July it will be going only 18.2.) Some may wonder why, with the earth at its present nearest approach to the central lumin ary, we are not having summer. Well, it is summer in Argentina and other parts of the southern hemisphere. But the solar dis tance is not the factor determin ing the seasons; it is the 23 Vs degree tip of the terrestrial axis which tilts the northern or south ern halves of the earth alter nately more directly toward the sun's rays. . Leaving our planet underfoot, let us look to the planets in the skies. Since these celestial ob jects are constantly changing their apparent positions, it is impossible to state a general rule which will locate them at the same date year after year as can be done with the "fixed" stars. Venus, the brightest of all plan ets and stars, is well up in the southwest at sunset, and can usu ally be seen shortly after that time. This splendid object will be the so-called "evening star" "Vi 1 "Hi all winter and spring. It will be interesting to watch it move gradually toward the north un til late spring, when it will be setting almost in the northwest. Brilliant Jupiter can now be seen low in the southeastern dawn. The bright planets Mars and Saturn still form an inter esting curved line with the star Regulus, which is between them. Red Mars is the lowest of the three. All will be above the hor izon and almost due east by 9 p.m. or very shortly afterwards. Let us note the positions of the bright stars at 8 p.m. or thereabouts. If we draw a line up from the southeastern hori zon toward the zenith we pass in succession brilliant, blue white Sirius, the short line of three stars forming Orion's belt flanked on the right by Rigel and on the left by red Betel gcuse, and orange Aldebaran, the highest of the line. Yellow Capelia Is a little east of overhead with white Castor and orange Pollux considerably lower and almost directly east. Lower and toward the right is Procyon. Low ir. the northwest brilliant Vega is glittering. A little high er, Deneb heads the Northern Cross. The women were standing in front of one of Bob Elfstrom's store windows admiring the fancy kitchen range and the even fancier trimmings. Some of them had a gleam of envy in the eye, others that certain look of acquisitiveness. But to one of them it was all old stuff. "No matter how pretty they make em, she opined, it s still just hard work." It's the Climate Again Silverton With such eviden ces produced by Mrs. Henry Oveross of the 500 block on South Water street, as violets, wild current and Japonlca in full bloom in her yard, a few early spring daffodils showing buds and lilac leaves in places ready to unfold, it seems there are har bingers of spring about regard less of the copious rainfall and the touch of hail. Doggone, after reading the above we have a hunch if may be we slipped down Grand Island way tomorrow we might be able to pick a ripe cante loupe or two. An Educational Loss Passing of Prof. Harvey E. In low of the College of Education staff will bring a feeling of deep regret to many Salemites who at tended his extension classes in Oregon history here. Perhaps no one in the state knew the sub ject better, nor could teach it better. His pleasant personality, his quiet sense of humor, backed with an intensely studious na ture made him outstanding as a lecturer, a teacher and a student. It's to be hoped that future gen erations at the Oregon school may be aided with the benefit of his notes and findings. "Great weather for ducks.' Film Capital Wife Can't Mix a Career With Marriage, Aherne Says BY PATRICIA CLARY Hollywood U.R) No career woman can make a good wife, says Brian Aherne, who once was married to one. "I'm convinced that no marriage can be a success unless the woman is prepared to put her'S home, her husband and her mar riage first and everything else second," Aherne said. "A career woman can't do that." The actor says marriage is a career in itself. "Being a good wife requires as much thought, effort and persistence as any business," he said. "A wife must give a man com panionship, comfort, sympathe tic understanding and help when the going gets rough. A career woman is too wrapped up in her own business to have time for it." boys and could spit between their teeth and the lipstick era in tne city room hadn't even dawned. It was to read Leo Tolstoi's "War and Peace" clear through wunout ludgmg. It was this resolution that , started me chewing my finger nails. It may not sound like 4 much of a resolution to vou hut "War and Peace" has turned me into a hideous hy pocrite and put callouses on my conscience thicker than the barnacles on Noah's ark. For nineteen straight years I have made this same resolution and failed to keep it. So this year I am going to reverse the field and say flatly that I never intend to ead "War and Peace." I am done forever with Tolstoi and his long-winded epic, and I don't care if I never find how the story comes out. My long struggle with the book began after a high-school English teacher mentioned off hand it was undoubtedly the greatest novel ever written. So whenever any of my bugle-browed friends remarked, "Doesn't So and So remind you of the character Ilya Ilyavitch in 'War and Peace?' " I lied back quickly: "But of course. Who else but Ilya Ilyavitch, indeed?" It isn't that I haven't tried to wade through "War and Peace." But it has more char acters with difficult names than "Anthony Adverse" and "Gone With the Wind" put together. And I am allergic both to strange names and ciimcaa V use, jiuwevrr ooa, "War and Peace" is so heavy you have to hire someone to hold up the book while you read it. Even so I once got halfway through. Any number of times I have burrowed one quartet of the way. From 1932 to 1942 I was undoubtedly the world's greatest living authority on the first four chapters. In recent years, however, I have fallen asleep every time after the tenth page. This year I don't care if Tol stoi replaces "Mother Goose" in the primary grades. I am through with false pledges and broken promises. I can't, don't want to, and won't read "War and Peace" in 1948. There at last I can quit chewing my fingernails and start life again as an honest man ried people must give to each other." Aherne is happily married now to the former Eleanor de Liagre, sister of New York pro ducer Alfred de Liagre. His first wife was actress Joan Fon taine. No Justice Atlanta, Ga. (U.R) Roy C. Tip- pin is executive secretary of the Home Builders association of At lanta, which builds 90 percent of the city's homes. He has just been evicted from his house. DANCE SATURDAY NITE CRYSTAL GARDENS MODERN AND OLD TIME 2 Floors 2 Bands 1 Price Aherne, who stars with Con stance Bennett and Barry Sulli van in Allied Artists' "Smart Woman," a movie about a career woman, says making a home de mands as great ability as mak ing a career. The same qualities demanded ; M by business also are required by , a well-run household, he said. s? "A woman must know how to shop well, how to handle a budget and have an excellent knowledge of values," he said. "She must be butcher, baker and candlestick maker, and do gj with a budget what a business man does with his assets. ' rti "If a wife can't do all this and '? can't provide the thinking and S" planning necessary, then theij house will go in the red quickly M Even among people who are 8 well-off. finances cause most of! tne divorces. "Holly" Says Boy am I sick. I can hardly write this but the show must go on. That little flu bug hopped aboard some where, sometime and I didn't pay much attention to it Started in my ankle and then went up to my knee and when he said to his little friends "let's go up to the next ioint for Christmas" then I went home and went to bed. The store is open and the kids down there are doing a real nice job running the business. You can help them a lot if you go in and buy a handful of diamonds, or some wrist watches or other wise spend that money you received for Christmas. It makes them feel good when they can do a good business without me being around and believe me it sure will not hurt my feelings any and it may help Dr. Donicker get his money too. See you next week I hope. a democratic one then eiot,. W --.-. j . - iu'RS the nrei'nlpnt romarlr nn .m tinn Um im W1. J u . i.an i uc iCJiuuieo lO nv Single- ' " ion He is beloved by a host of iclassifi,Rtic,n, Th . . 8 streets yesterday. But we doubt ni, lormer subjects, but he has place for all. thoi-gh with special , it even been deposed by the ruling red'privilege for none. of it i.t. I He added that incompatibility was a ciose second. "And that develops among couples so wrapped uo in M tViA.f iniifii)..Ai Wf .duck would like some ih," ? ' j g Jackson Jewelers 225 No. Liberty Near the place where you pay your lite bill, If yon do. the time and consideration niiS&SSlSg (.