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Newspaper Page Textit 1 Capital Adjournal , An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publiiher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publiiher Published every afternoon except Sunday at .444 Che meketa St., Solem. Phones' Business, Newsroom, Wont Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Pren 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 poper and also news published therein. n ""fc 4 Salem, Oregon, Friday, December 21, 1951 DORMAN TRIES TO CUT COSTS Harry Dorman, director of the state department of finance, is finding out how difficult it is to cut expenses in government. The jovial appearing man who has dedi cated himself to paring costs of running the state has come to the conclusion that he can't lop off thousands here and thousands there in bold sweeps. He has to cut small items wherever possible so that those small items will add up to large figures. His position stated early this week on the cost of ex cessive furnishings of state-owned homes at certain insti tutions in Oregon was an example of what he is trying to accomplish. Dorman said the homes in question, renting for $85 a month, were being equipped at state expense with frills that were unnecessary. He cited such frills as top grade dishes, appliances like waffle irons and expensive coffee makers, down or foam rubber pillows, linens, towels, sil verware and expendable kitchen utensils. These items alone, he contended, were costing the state about $745 for each home, over and above the other expenses of furnishings normally expected in a furnished place. If this $745 figure were extended for each of the 40 homes at state institutions, the expense for frills would amount to $30,000. But for suggesting that such- savings could be made, Dorman received criticism. The contention was that guch frills were necessary to help meet the pay scale for doctors and technicians at the institutions in Califor nia and Washington. But Dorman properly countered that if the state were trying to hide any salary disad vantages in such frills, it was making a mistake. The claim of salary disadvantage is one that should be checked, too. The furnishings for jkhe homes should be only the necessities and not frills such as carving sets and the like. California, for instance, has eliminated expendible kitchen equipment from furnishings at institution homes. Dorman's attempt at bringing some economies in state "'Institutions is not directed at individuals. It is directed at getting the costs of government in black and white figures as to salaries and expected furnishings. The rental figure, which happens to be $85, should be the proper rental figure and not one that covers rent and frills, too. That present $85 figure includes a nicely fur nished home, the food for the doctors and superintendents ind their families that the commissaries handle, lawn and (rounds care and utilities. I t Dorman is not hampering the buying of proper food Jor the operation of state institutions. His interest is in seeing that such institutions, as part of the expense : u ii Hn..nj rt;i un; ul AUJillijlg tlic nviiiC) ate lull uii n eituuu, cvuiiuuutUi uaaia. 4 For that, he doesn't deserve criticism. Dorman should have full cooperation in his attempts at cutting costs where such cutting of expense is sensible. If he doesn't get such cooperation, his attempts will seem mild compared to what the legislature that meets in Jan nary, 1953, will do. The state deficit in the two-year ywriod from 1953 to 1955 has been estimated from $40 ;'fl$80 millions. 'GOOD OLD UrtCLE JOE' Joseph Visiarionovich Djugashvili known throughout the world as Generalissimo Stalin, prime minister of the United States of Soviet Russia, became 72 years old today. Communists the world over are celebrating it with fan fare as a substitute for Christmas. As head of the Red hierarchy even the communist churches in Russia and the satellite states have replaced the paintings and statues and icons of Jesus and the saints with those of Stalin, while gigantic pictures and statues of the dictator are everywhere. The radios day and night echo Stalin's might and glory. If the people must worship a god, it must be Stalin, hence the elevation to immortality of the. anti-Christ, as the supreme deity, with a fake gospel of peace based on bloody purges and slave camps. . Stalin's 72nd anniversary was comparatively a quiet one, not to be compared with the tremendous celebration staged throughout the Red world on his 70th birthday. But the Soviet press observed it with announcements of the awards of Stalin prizes for "strengthening peace among the people." The six winners announced are Mrs. Monica T'cllon, housewifely British novelist; Anna Seghers, a German novelist; Fierto Ncnni, leader of the procomnnmist fac tion of the Italian socialist party; Jorge Amado, a Bra lilian author; Kuo Mo-Jo, president of the Chinese acad emy of sciences, and lkuo Oyama, Japanese professor. Prizes to each are a gold medal, 100,000 rubles (equal of $25,000 at the Russian official exchange rate), and world recognition as favorites of world communism whether they want such recognition or not. Stalin was presumed to be spending the day at his desk in the Kremlin, but as his movements are kept secret, he may have spent it at his winter resort in southern Rus sia. His public appearances have been fleeting. His health is reported good for a man his age, but no new photographs are being printed only the touched up ideal ized old ones depicting him in glowing health. With his elevation to totalitarian godhood, Stalin has had to assume the powers that go with it, and has pretend ed supreme creative powers as well, having discovered that he is the inventor of every device known to civiliza tion and the greatest genius the world has possessed in art, literature and science as well as the greatest of conquerors of his fellow men. "And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all it knew." BY BECK WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND BY CARL ANDERSON Popular People I'VE BEEN BANDYING S'tm iff THE IDEA AROUND IN MV mMf Tt BecooC H Treasury Secretary Snyder Henry Pays No Heed to Tax-finagling By DREW PEARSON Note Today Drew wealthy pay lew taxes, the working class bear the chief burden. What Secretary Snyder also may not realize is the effect on the American workingman and the white-collar worker who read about graft in our tax collecting system today. He sees his own income taxes taken out in withholding taxes, have occurred, Secretary ol the hea the governent evn i( (Ed. Pearson tells the story ef tax collecting complacency in the treasury, In his series n how to pull wires and not pay taxes.) Washington It Is either a political miracle or a tribute to his mousey personality that the man in charge of the bureau where most of the tax scandals Treasury John Snyder, so far has managed to duck any large volume of criticism. His cabinet colleague, Attor ney General McGrath, has been he wanted to. In contrast he reads in the newspapers that millions of dollars in tax money are not being paid by those who ..in nflni.il t kl.. L8!!",.'".0;."?": lawyer, and take key officials POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER What Is Christmas? on junkets in private airplanes. This is what has encouraged communism In Europe, and, come a depression, it will en courage communism here. SERENE MR. SNYDER The tragedy is that Secretary Snyder, complacent as he some- VP) New York, Christmas? ' It is the time when people's hearts ring like bells. And legend says that oxen kneel in their stalls at midnight in memory. , Christmas is the anniversary of one kind of faith. It is the cism though less tax finagling has occurred in his justice de partment. In contrast, John Synder is much closer to the tax picture, much closer to President Tru man, and has held office much longer. However, he has travel ed on his official routine bliss fully ignorant or else indiffer ent to the fact that more 4imes 's. could have awakened crookedness was occurring in to what was going on in his own his department than at any department two years ago. All time since the days of President ne had to do was read the news U. S. Grant perhaps more than Papers. ev'nu in at any time in history. In column after column, be- Personally Mr. Snyder is an ginning exactly two years ago entirely honest man. The idea this month, I listed the amazing that dishonesty would occur tax-fixes that were going on T tu lDti. iimi na anu uuca onuun Jig" wnuci 7iiyucl a nose 1 ne ,I',"..t.hJC f..2fi!tti5"l?..0.f him. Yet he does not seem to big Guaranty Finance gambling realize that part of honesty is case in Los Angeles (Dec. 17, not complacence but vigilance. '49); the Gionottl and Geor- Secretary Snyder has been getti cases at San Francisco " " " " " PBA6ILE By HAL BOYLE What is Jesus did he might, ' these enlightened days, risk, a similar persecution. What is Christmas? hidebound prejudices and hav ing the courage to be sentimen tal and good. It is the time natal date of a lonely Jewish 7"Zt .rlr0m Avua tenacious about the necessity of (Jan. 16, '50); the bribing of nmnw ,hn in 33 hnr vim ieeung siar irom ine SKy ana .,. ,,, t . ... 4 , . Adding to His Score Atlanta, Dec. 21 W) Motorist Turner Galloway, 21, was late answering a summons to traffic court on charges of hitting a pedestrian. His reason; On the way, to court he got a summons from Patrolman E. C. Carter for hitting another pedestrian. Plight of Child, 7, Stirs City To Adopt Her as 'Sweetheart' V carpenter who in 33 short years of breath stamped an undying conscience on this world and promised all men life everlast ing through belief. make it a warm and stirring paying higheLr ta5ts in order t0 "ve "venue agents in New no., (np Aim Ki.rA mams rmm vrm VAnlr T on 1,111. 1 1 J - " . beacon on a tree. Mainly the grownups "Christmas is for the kids." But he has knocked the a'al out of Mobile (Dec. 18, '49). I even th-v themselves pntov it mnat na own "x program rjy lau- namea some of pay for our huge arms program. York (Jan. 30, '50); the fixing But he has not realized how of the Bipps-'Mitchell case in By RICHARD CONNOLLY Of The Portsmouth Herald (Written for th jVuoclated Preu) . Portsmouth, N. H., Dec. 21 A) mas eve. A chPArflll VnimCctor nf Ulisn Parnlvn um. ,.Hnwu , ! i the revenue ,h ,. u. ,. i o - j HUW.....U hi a u, "Li wwii iicr .jMj oaiiia viaus He died a radical upon a cross altnough oftcn m ing to collect taxes on an honest agents and told in detail how widne s, and pa ly- Tthe HeraVdVmtcd a 1 o ?',,Wta,"ShbJC'd'"5 ashamed to acknowledge it. In whn People see tax- they appeared to be fixing the sis nas become Portsm0uth's gilts ,ne Mid she'd like. . , T j . December their crust of foolish -" ' " -v. "'" .uu onyaer sat. "Christmas Sweetheart." Even before Santa could read hstenedTo his'meTe n h "PhisUcatio" the "ust C8rUm ' ,Pread at the """ sh- Carolyn' Lee Plante, the list, Portsmouth residSnti H h. Hiri . ln tn grow to protect themselves from bottom. He could not have helped . partially blind since birth and deluged the youngster with a nay. ne aiea a minor gaany 10 riisnnnnintment wears thin. ... . knowing that si ranWnt almost tntallv iurglH . nj ;, i . . 1 i - j fw.H.juwu " "... ,.vuw "i su.a ,ii a auuuiaiicvui a Roman word. They light a silent candle to an GRAVE EMBARASSMENT veloping right under his nose recent attack of polio, shower of affection. Christ to a gigantic stature so know quite what to do about it. wnicn according to some peo: ing up all through tax evasion, the rehabilitation center where number of presents there's that todav more than 600.000.- . . ua ....i i i , . enA ,B M,,.!B AanK j i. j... ' , M c ' - One of many martyrs to many old belief, that most men really m- t..,'. n.. v. and that a new class of hlark. Carolvn lives in a Pnrlsmnnlh faiths, time has raised Jesus do wish each other well but don't j... . , , market millinnairai omu,. nursint hnmc sn h ran ha n. mub a imauiidi wcdaiieaa. " 1 " " . . 000 people, one-fourth of all mankind, celebrate his ory. More men follow him than any man who ever lived. In the 1,951 years since his birth he has become the greatest reli gious figure in history. What is Christmas? What is Christmas? It is pie, isn't kosher to mention. Me musl nave known,.if he read sne Is carried each day for hardly any need for Santa to Hnuava, uihor. niim.j i the DaDers. that around t inn treatment. visit her this vear. mem- season when they can cast away . n ,h . . . .. tax cases at one time were stal- That is unless the old eentle- their mutual doubts and really fired whfin g motorist drinks led in the justice department Her father is dead and her man can bring one gift to Caro do cometning for one another. whie driving he is jailedes. and 1,200 in the treasury; that mother, totally blind, lives in lyn, the courage to keep smiling IT t h I pecially if there has been a nis internal revenue bureau was itocnester with Carolyn's mruusn a me jiiiea wim con prophet, have their ,... Thorofnr Boine after the little taxmvars brother, sister and erandmother. tinuous hardship. of the 10 top members of gov- and tne b'S taxpayers were get- She has been through a lot ernment, charged with collect- tlne off almost free. ot suttering since last Christmas. The Jews, who regard Jesus as only a own festival this time of year. It is called Chanukah, the festi val of lights. It last eight days. vn ui ugiiu,. iai uaja. . ,. ,.,. . . . Th- h hnv- M In the DBSt e Bht months h It is his spirit and his philo- On each day they light another . ..., ,.,,,."" because thev hart HvlnnJ T fh contracted polio, her evesieht U .. 1U.I Hi i . U1 J nflnJU nii.A annthar rt'itt to give than to receive." The other day a Jewish friend ' 1 ,f puonc Today the celebration of his of mine, whose children go to a """" . birth, as is his death, is crossed public school and love the fes with old pagen ceremonials. But tival of Christmas, told me the his' inirit and his examnle in- dieht of his voune daughter. flame the day. She came to her father and ySIem. Some times reliKious leaders said: Unfortunately, is entitled to technique of hiring tax lawyers Erew worse, sne naa acute ap and buying influence. The tax pendicitis, her tonsils had to be For with Snyder at the wheel lawyers ask for conference after taken out and she got the there has been a disastrous conference, haggle with govern- measies. smash-up in our tax-collecting ment attorneys, wear out their sne wears thick glasses and patience, iinauy get a civu "v c..,.tn. fraud Denaltv settlement th.r- muscles are so weak that she . . .! .... J i : . ran harplv tnimh (ha tino nf Vor get cross with Santa Claus and ."Daddy, I was chosen to be snycer, periodic drinking not "J f, together " say he takes the honors that an angel in our Christmas play, only has caused moments of S" o jail. " . , belong to Jesus. But no one but do I have the right to play embarrassment before the gov- ihose are some of the in- ' who has read the life of Christ it?" "nors of the World Bank and equities in our tax-collecting thir m "Sr h - . could ever think of him as being And her father, knowing her at the French embassy, but f3"tem which developed under mouth Herald published a story jealous. Santa is just HIM with problem, said: sometimes has caused him to re- the nose of the secretary of the T,'n thA, c,n',ds a beard on. "Honey, be their angel." main in bed away from his treasury and the attorney gen- The PaPer Pointed out that Perhaps, if Santa Claus press- I think that is Christmas work for periods of time. erai inequities which will be '""'" ul, " ""T EARN ed his views 365 days a year, as and America. Sooner-or-Later Department Bedford, Ind., Dec. 21 W) Thomas Todd, who wanted to sell his house trailer, put a "for sale" advertisement in the Bedford Times-Mail, but responses all came from persons who wanted to rent it. He advertised again, in the "for rent" classification. The first call came from a man who wanted to buy it, and did. (Copyright 1SSH Not Lucky Twice It happens that collecting ced chapter and verse in to- taxes is a tough, day-and-night morrow s column job, requiring vigilance and great strength of character al most 24 hours a day. It requires the eagle-eyed watchfulness that Henry Morgenthau became fa mous for. And Secretary Sny der, with all his personal hon esty and all his good intentions regarding higher taxes, simply has not been alert. In fact, he has been a dismal failure. caps, should be given extra special attention by Santa Claus when he makes his visit Christ- Smotth as Ocean-Rocked Whiskies of Old Newinglon, Conn., Dec. 21 u.l! Five years ago Mrs. Ida Swanson, now 77, fell from a third-story window while hang ing clothes. She got up and walked Into the house, unhurt. Recently Mrs, Swanson tripped on a twig and landed In the hospital. HITTING MIDDLE CLASS Both in St. Louis where he was a bank cashier, and in Washington, Secretary Snyder has been a political conserva tive. He would be horrified at the idea that he had done any thing to encourage ' commu nism. Yet history will probably Bv MIKE FORBES show that, more than any other A GHASTLY THING has was in an old residence cabinet officer, he has helped happened to us! We have dis- bought with one half block of plant what could become a covered that they used some land from John Albert for basic cause for communism, truth serum in our anesthetic. $10,000 I.O.U. For Snyder's unfair, unequal What a horrible thing to do to r.,I, . tax-collecting system is wiping newspaperman! So far there mtr.i ir sas me nos- out the middle-class of Ameri- Mikerographs h i nm-m nn eitu snins ML NSTM DISTIUrj IK, NSTM, UUS. rIN If $3 I 4s or. V e e I $2ES$) I Inqujre Today! Willamette Valley Bank MM Falrrrsnnds Rd. Ph. 3-9281 Solem have been no tragic results. pital wns overcrowded at the canSi the normal bulwark But the anesthetist has been su,rl anQ "'ways nas oeen. ine against communism wearing a smug smile! Boys Will Be Boys Dept. Ottawa, Dee. 21 (n Viscount Alexander, Cannda's governor-general, has fulfilled a long-standing ambition to slide down a fire station's brass pole. It happened over the week-end at a (ire station where he opened an exhibition of Christmas toys made by Ottawa firemen. As he was leaving the station Viscount Alexander spotted the brass pole on the second floor, used by firemen to reach the main floor In a hurry. "I have always wanted to go down one o( those things," he confided to Fire Chief Gray Burnett. The chief Invited him to go ahead. To the astonishment of spectators on the main floor the governor-general suddenly arrived among them rla the brass pole. THK MOST VALIANT war riors here in the constant fight for health are the Ladies. When they go to surgery they wear full makeups. Their lip stick is on perfectly, cheeks neatly rouged, every lock of hair in place, and they always smile. They can endure pain sidered like an Apache brave! ONK OF THE busiest fel lows here is Louis Panguini, operating room attendant, who wheels the patients to r,nd from the surgery. He operates an efficient taxi service. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to end our sojourn at this health fac tory without mentioning Sis ter Anna Duerksen Hayward and three other Mennonite deaconess nurses who started the hospital Dec. 3, 1016. F. B. WEPEL was manager. The hospital was called the Deaconess Hospital. The other nurses were Sisters Marie and Martha Wedel, daughters of the manager, and Sister Jus tina Duerksen, Anna's sister, THE ORIGINAL hospital structure as it now stands, Salem Memorial Hospital, is monument to faith, she avers, the What Secretary Snyder may not realize is that, in Europe, the countries with the" unequal tax systems are thoses showing the greatest leaning toward comunism. Outside of Russia, the two countries with the greatest communist populations about one-third each are HERE SISTER ANNA Is con- France and Italy. And in both the dynamo of per- countries the tax systems are severance and faith that has notoriously unfair, unequal and made the institution possible, dishonest. In both countries, the THE LITTLE Mennonite sis ter still is on active duty as a registered nurse. 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