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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1950)
1 R Hi t: I F ro NT. ME - 4 1 i . - F to '("' 9 I ' 3 JIM an Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher . Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che . meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want ; Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. BY H. T. WEBSTER Life's Darkest Moment Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press and The United Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper ond also news published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Carrier: Weekly, 25c; Monthly, $1.00; One Year. $12.00. By Mail to Oregon: Monthly, 75c; 6 Mos., $4.00; One Year, $8.00. V. S. Outside Oregon: Monthly, $1.00; 6 Mos., $6.00; Year, $12. Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, April 11, 1950 High Cost of Federal Aid Those who think that the states, counties, cities and local governments gain anything in the long run by federal doles in the way of project appropriations, especially by deficit expenditures from the federal treasury, should study tax figures compiled by the Oregon Business and Tax Research by its editor, F. H. Young, in its March Bulletin. The organization is a state-wide, non-profit, non-partisan group. Oregon's total 1949 tax bill amounted to over $613 million the statistics show, or $389 per capital, based on the state's last reported 1,573,000 population. These in cluded federal, state and local taxes collected. Of these the federal taxes amounted to $263 million, state and local taxes, $126 million. The report continues : "Total 1949 taxes collected from taxpayers' pockets and drained out of Oregon's productive capacity, amounted to 39.8 percent of the state's 1949 assessed property valuation. "Of the $414,826,268 of all federal taxes for fiscal 1949, $122, 209,141 came back into the state through all federal projects, grants-in-aid, payments to individuals, crop loans, etc. "Of your federal tax dollars, worth 100c to you when you paid them, 29 4c came back to Oregon. The 70.6c of your federal tax dollar that didn't come back paid for previous hot wars and the present cold one, for European recovery, for un salable dried eggs stored in Kansas caves, support for peanuts, A-bomb manufacture and H-bomb research!" Oregon's total tax impact for 1949, including previously reported individual and corporate income taxes, also Ore gon's share of all excise taxes collected at the source (on autos, cigarettes, refrigerators, etc.), but passed on to the buyers and including employment taxes, was $613 million, of which federal taxes took $414 million and state and local $98 million. The assessed valuation of property taxed was $1,539 million. So the total tax impact was 40 percent of assessed valuation of all Oregon property. This, as the Bulletin remarks, is a terrific drain on the state's productive economy and earnings of its citizens. Of the $414 million of federal taxes collected in Oregon, $122 million came back, some $25 million in grants-in-aid to individuals, $17 million in farm crop loans, $25 million for rivers and dams, $13 million. Combined rivers-harbors and flood control appropriations for fiscal 1950 exceed these combined amounts by $18 million. And the government has no money except what it raises by taxation or borrowing from taxpayers. The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce thus correctly describes federal aid: "Federal aid is a myth. It is principally a process whereby the federal government collects the money from citizens of each state, deducts some for administrative costs, and redistributes It to the states. This process adds more administrative costs, reduces the tax base available to the states, separates the collec tor (the U.S.) from the spender (the state), creates the illusion of 'something for nothing,' and encourages excessive spending by all levels of government." Less Money for New Highways Heavy truck traffic on Oregon's roads will force the state to put in more costly roads to withstand heavier loads. With this statement, State Highway Engineer Bal dock has implied that not as much new highway construc tion will be possible this year as planned. The severe win ter weather took its toll of road surfaces, too, so more funds than expected will be needed for repairs. So that means that what new state highway construction will be carried out this year will be only in the top priority bracket. As for Salem's needs, the Willamette river bridge work will not be affected by the forced road repair program. The money for the span has already been allocated. But what of the other highway projects of interest to the com munity and surrounding area? Still on the list of urgently needed road improvements are these : An adequate highway from Salem to the north. That is the number one need. As the Capital Journal sees this, the best route is still four lanes for Highway 9915. Development of the Lancaster drive route to permit truck traffic to by-pass the city. This particular project is a part of the Baldock traffic plan for Salem, but money for it has not been appropriated yet. Improvement of the North Santiam highway. The high way commission has already made a start on this with plans for the Mill City-Mehama section of the road. These projects will not come to this section by mere chance. If Sulem and the surrounding area want these projects, only proper presentation to the highway com mission of the community's needs will earn attention. The commission will be even more careful with expenditures this year because funds will have to be allocated for road damage repairs, and that will leave less than expected for new construction. Salem will have to build its case for the projects. A new chairman has taken over the commission and a new mem ber has been added. The city has a real sales job on its hands. New Mother-in-Law Angle Atlanta, April 11 m Mrs. Carlclim Doris Lee has come up with a new twist to the ninthcr-in-law angle. In a suit filed yesterday, Mrs. Lee named her mother-in-law as a defendant. She asked for a divorce from her husband, Marion, and for peace and quiet from her mother-in-law, Mrs. Kate Lee. She said that since she had stopped living with her hus band, her mother-in-law had called time and time again and demanded that she return her wedding and engagement ring. Fulton (Atlanta) county officials said It was the first time in their experience that a mother-in-law had been named defendant In a divorce suit. Judge Jesse Wood said he would hear the casa April 19. Twins Got Along With Bear Washington, April 11 (P) How the five-year-old twins, Jimmy and Johnny, managed to travel a mile to visit the bears in the zoo Is a mystery. The zoo keepers are happy over the bears' patient friend liness. The boys' mother, Mrs. Mary Rogers, had shut them in a bedroom to do penanee for some mischief. Her call to the police when she found them missing, and the report of zoo keepers that they had found a pair of twins within easy claw reach of the bears' cages, were almost a tie. so Ya use FtoiFuMe, huh? 'one of Dy' sissies, huh? , i dont like 5uvs wot SmixS 'of Poi fume. YA KNOW VJOT IM GCMWA por M tftWAW ' OUST one. The BOY WH7 WAS ASKED to vk his sister's frajch Poodle out for a walk Cr". ' w W T4wt he. 1 til he A WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Newsmen Explain Confusion At Winter White House By DREW PEARSON Washington One of this country's best friends and a courageous champion of democracy arrives in Washington tomorrow Presi dent Gabriel Gonzales Videla of Chile. With Latin dictators popping up all around him, Gonzales Videla has helped keep Chile as one country which warned off BY CARL ANDERSON Henry revolution, retained its par liament a r i a n system and' purged commu nists by peace ful means. Probably one reason the Chi- 1 e a n president has fought so hard against' commu n i s m is because he was ambassador to France during the Nazi occupation and saw the re- m nil Drew Pearson White House informed the press that Ambassador Jessup's post had not been filled. This played right into the hands of Senator McCarthy, who has been trying to get Ambassador Jessup out. Furthermore, it was not true. Jessup's post is not vacant and the state department had to is sue a press release correcting Key West and explaining this fact. Backstage reason for all this confusion is that too much li quor flowed at Key West. This KRISS-KROSS Acquire a Crab License And Squawk All You Want By CHRIS KOWITZ, Jr. You have no right to moan about the government unless you go to the polls and vote . . . that's the contention of Noble Stan ton, Grants Pass advertising man. But instead of just giving pep talks about voting, Stanton is giving licenses . He hopes his stunt will pull voters out of their shells and into the ballot booths on elec tion day ... it looks as if plan is working, too . . . demand for "crab censes" is grow ing rapidly. Crab licenses,' 4 he calls 'em. Each license Chrla KokIIi, Jr. running the school for a whole day . . . they handled all the teaching, principalship, office work, etc. The idea was organized in a Parent-Teacher meeting . . . the PTA group thought the best way for parents to understand teach ers would dimply be to have the parents take over the teachers' jobs for a day ... 57 parents re- m a n problem without fitting it into the larg er context of a united Europe." And U.S. Sec retary of Slate Dean Acheson, by way of im plementing this idea, declares lhat the United c2AZl card has a picture of a crab and SDOnded the words "crab license" on the Each parent was given about front . . . the back of the card two weeks in wnich to consuit contains these words: wjlh the teacher of his assigned "I am entitled to crab about room parents prepared their roads, schools, county and state lessons ... and worked up their business . . . yes, I even have a nerve right to crab for or against na- L. d. Cody, school principal, tional and international goings was thoroughly pleased with the on ... for I am a registered experiment. . . . "They showed a voter, and I am going to vole. lot o interest and did some Won- Moral: Go to the polls and derful teaching, too," he said, crab all you want ... or stay The parents liked it, too . . . at home and clam up. and so did the kids . . . and need we say that the teachers appre- Several students at John c'a'ed a day off? Gumm elementary school in St. Everyone liked the idea so Helens forgot, and called their well, in fact, that they want to teachers "Mother" and "Daddy" make it an annual affair, one day last week. "Hey, Ma, how do I work the Parents tried their hand at sixth problem?" MacKENZIE'S COLUMN European Peace Depends on Disposal of German Future By DeWITT MacKENZIE ((F) Foreign Altairs Analyst) Daily it becomes increasingly apparent that the reeslablish ment of peace and prosperity in Europe cannot be acheived until the problem of Germany's future has been disposed of. Carrying us a step farther, America's high commissioner in Germany, John J. McCloy, tells us that "the fact is we cannot solve the Ger- "V--n 1 ern r.urope wmcn jnciuaea mem selves and Germany, but lacked full British support, would soon become unbalanced in Ger many's favor. That makes Paris ponder in terms of another World War, although the West ern allies have thumbs firmly down on Geman rearmament.. But assuming all these diffi culties have been ironed out, fhnro H11 rnmnina a nrnhlam States favors which is a potential breeder of immediate steps to fit Germany conflict. This is the division of into the organization of Western the Reich, with Eastern Ger- Europo. He wants Germany to many already virtually absorbed join the council of Europe, com- into the Soviet orbit as a satel- prising the 12 North Atlantic na- lite, tions, including the United StaCS' ., t , r- The Germans not only are As a matter of fact Germany . , impendent and nation, a ready has been offered asso- c.a e membership m that orgam- ' T t.on. but hasnt yet responded coalesce, just The council meets in London . . about mid-May and the matter " " lr " ?'?,f- f . j . ., , .. snort we cannot reconstruct a may be pursued at that time. ,. . , , peaceful Europe on the frame- , , , ., , , .. work of the division which now Problem and possible solution, exjs(s ns slated in those terms, don't ' ' " . seem particularly complicated. T"a brWW lls UP against the However, the underlying diffi- question of what hopes there are cultics are vast, and they arise "f sia and the Western from objections in both camps. Powers reaching agreement for Chancellor Adenauer of the 8 united Germany. The present West German government be- indications are that the hopes lieves Germany's future lies with are very sma11 indeed. Moscow Western Europe. However, he appears to be aiming at con presses for German equalitv and splidating its hold on Eastern security which the French, in Germany and then persuading particular, are worried, about. ,1,e ,hree western zones to unite It will be long before Western w,th the Eastern Red govern Europe rids itself of the fears mcnl- engendered by past German mil- Such an arrangement would ltary aggression as displayed in give Russia control of the key two world wars. position, economically and mili- Thc main issue, from the west- tarily, in Central Europe, ern standpoint, is whether John So the best the Western Allies Bull will throw his full weight can do at this juncture is to hold into such a union with the idea onto Western Germany, on the of counter-balancing German basis that half a loaf is better membership. Unless Britain docs than none. However, as I see so, France isn't likely at this it, that leaves us facing the like writing to accept Germany into lihood of another upheaval full partnership. which will grow out of the dis- ' memberment of Germany and The French are said to take the determination of her pco the position that a union of west- pie to reunite. suits of totalitarian rule first is something no one likes to ad hand, vertise about the president and Early in his term of president, his entourage but, on the other Gonzales Videla faced an all-out hand, they have an obligation to showdown with the communist the people who put them in of party and won. A wave of fice, who pay their salaries and strikes had swept the country, who expect leadership to remain followed by the most serious clear-headed and sober, strike of all by the coal miners. As the coal strike continued, Two Senators From Maine and as paralysis crept over Chile, The two republican senators the president finally decided to from rock-r i b b e d republican take things into his own hands Maine are sometimes in each and left for the worst strike hot- other's hair. Just at present not bed. Lota. Accompanied by his only Margaret Chase Smith, the wife, he flew to the Lota air- junior senator, but other pro port, then drove direct to the gressive republicans are burn chief coal mine, which extends ed up by the maneuver of Owen four miles under the Pacific Brewster, the senior senator ocean. There at the mouth of the from Maine, to stifle criticism of mine shaft he held a meeting the evasive GOP policy state with amazed miners who could , ment issued in February, hardly believe they were talk- So many republican gripes ing to the president of Chile in were registered against this the flesh. statement that, in order to satis "I did not come to challenge fy the progressives, a rewritten you or belittle you," Gonzales post-card version is now being Videla said, in an impromptu, mailed with an explanation by impassioned plea. "The proof is republican Chairman Guy Ga that I did not come with military brielson that the revision "grows escort. I came alone as a friend out of a suggestion by Senator to talk over your problems, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, which are my problems also." . who was consulted in its prepa- After he finished, the miners ration." wept back to work. That however, is not the case. That is the kind of friendly Tnough Senator Smith did sug- president who arrives m the gest revisions; actually her re U.S.A. tomorrow, again accompa- commendations were deleted and mea Dy nis wne, ana again un- toned down. accompanied by the trappings and folderol of high office. Confusion at Key West what the right hand was doing, On the night before John Fos ter Dulles was appointed to the state department, Charles Ross, presidential press secretary, was pointment and issued a catego ric: "It is not so. Several newspapers were al ready on the street with the Dulles appointment was a fact. they stuck to their guns. Next day the state department issued an official announcement con firming the appointment and making Key West look ridicu lous. Simultaneously the w i n te r n 1 pi 1 I I F w si 6H0O '-!sao r O OPEN FORUM Modern Painting of Christ To the Editor: I am looking at the picture of the Crucifixion. A modern painting by J. William Kennedy, member of the art faculty of the University of Illinois. If you will turn to the book of Luke in your New Testament, 23rd chapter, then read verse 44 through 49, you will find that Christ died. Then turn to the" crs of different books and so Book of John 19th chapter, shouM tum tQ the Bible reading verse 29 through verse and learn the true factg before ' T, k- m painting pictures that are not true to scriptures, and writing pierced by the soldier's spear. about different ople of the That picture was in the April Bible, and don't. know the facts. 7 issue of the Capital Journal. -HENRY H. FREEMAN I feel that painters, and writ- Box 69, Jefferson, Ore. Old-Time Gag Backfires The popular and courageous junior senator from Maine had proposed a 10-point liberal GOP nroeram. of which noint 10 read: newspapermen covering is.ey "Smashing the filibuster on ci West have only one explanation vji rights." However, when Ga for the flatly contradictory state- brielson and Senator Brewster ments issued from Washington got through toning point 10 on one hand and the winter doWn, it merely read: "Protect White House on the other. They jng the rights of veterans and were so contradictory that it minorities." sometimes looked as if the presi- Mrs. Smith's point 9, "Oppose aent s leic nana aian t Know any curtailment of veterans' be- Los Angeles, April 11 W) A blankety-blanked blank burned Bernie from behind, so now circus clown Bernie is taking a vacation standing up. Bernie Griggs, 50, is with the Clyde Beatty circus. He bent over during Saturday night's show and another clown hit him with a slapstick in one of the big top's time-honored gags. A slapstick (paddle) has a blank .38 cartridge on one side, when whacked, it makes a loud noise and the customers love it. But this time, said Griggs, the cartridge was acci-' dentally pointed toward him. nefits," was completely omitted. So was her point 5, which read: "Making foreign policy truly bi partisan . . ." However, the post-card state- queried about the reported ap- ment being mailed by the GOP national committee makes it look as if Mrs. Smith had endorsed the entire new platform. ,JrY5, Af iha lTaV.,.,. nno Dulles story at the time of the meetingj Brewster and Gabriel- UV....O., u u ,.uv..b son proposed a plank for Sae. guarding liberty against social ism." But this was opposed by even such a solid conservative as Sen. Arthur Watkins of Utah who argued: "After all, recla mation projects are a form of socialism." (Copyright 1950) POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER GET A FREE VACATION when you buy Possessors of Green Thumbs 1 YOUR NEW CAR! Irate at Columnist Hal Boyle By HAL BOYLE New York W) I will never again make jokes about spring gardeners. . ' I will never again make jokes about spring gardeners. I will never again, etc., etc., etc., etc. The reason for this penitent resolution is simple my eyes are full of g r e e nm, mm r i tion, one carrying real merit, too, arrived on a postcard from an anonymous philodendron lover. It said: "Why don't you try growing something useful yourself say another head? Then you could save the one you have now for emergencies." thumbs, s t u c ki- there by people who garden for fun. A week ago I wrote a piece lightly ribbing I thought the foibles off the suburban ites who ply thegm H jgJ A letter from a lady admirer gooa carin inis H Bm1s . m Cincinnati she also thought time of year in lessly forgot to sign her name quest of crocus and artichoke. or enciose a presSed flower The gist of my thought was said. that they spent a buck growing ..Go climb your own redwood a tomato they could buy for a tree, and I will be happy raising dime at the corner grocery. smali daisics and tne ike ,, And I wound up by suggesting More frjendiy was a missive that instead of Bragging about from sherrill Ellsworth of minor victories over bugs and South Bend, Ind., which bore rose blight they should grow his thumbprint in green ink to something really impressive like prove he was a true-blue gard a redwood tree. encr. "What this country needs is It turns out that it would a benefit fund for underpriv have been better far, far bet- ileged newspaper columnists," ter if I had attacked mother- he said. hood or proposed changing the "Visualize, if you will, the en American flag from red, white slaved, impoverished journalist, and blue to taupe, beige and His lot casts him into an airless ivory. den of clacking typewriters. The reaction couldn't have While we watch the unfolding been more virulent. For- the of another rosebud, this mort man with a hoe is a man with- gaged soul is watching the ap-' out a ha-ha at least he won't proach of another deadline, stand for any ha-ha's about his "Let us arise and rehabilitate hobby. this forsaken occupant of the Without meaning to do so I crowded apartment that his seem really to have browned smoke - dimmed nostrils may off the green-thumbed gentry, feast upon the delicate aroma And more in anger than in sor- of the newborn rose. Give us row they have been writing me the opportunity to sooth his all week, hinting just what I jaundiced outlook to relax and other jesting non-garden- his hypertension." ers might do with ourselves. I will never again make jokes The most intriguing sugges- about spring gardeners. FLY UNITED TO THE FACTORY DRIVE YOUR NEW CAR HOME! By picking up your car at the factory instead of at your dealer's showroom, you save enough money in freight charges to pay for your flight to the east and for a leisurely vacation in your new car on the way back home. You buy from your dealer m the usual way. He gets his regular price less freight charges and will arrange to have your car ready when you arrive at the factory. For complete details, see your dealer. For reservations on one of United's luxurious Mainliners to Detroit, Chi cago or South Bend, stop in at your United ticket office, or at any travel agent. UNITED AIR LINES Airport Terminal. Call 2-24S5 or an authorized travel agent.
