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J 4 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, March 14, 1953
RICHEST CITY FACES BANKRUPTCY
It is a curious fiscal fact that the largest and richest
tax levying bodies have the biggest headaches, the smallest
and poorest the fewest.
Therefore it should be no surprise to note that the
world's richest city, New York, is edging right up to munici
pal bankruptcy. The city has gone to the State of New
York for help, admitting that it can't solve its own
problems. . ,..,..
New York has been the victim of misrule for years.
ti .nsnl. rnnra mnnV than tha Ktfitfl of NfiW York.
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more than any other tax levying agency in America except
" the U. o. government, more uuu on uui mo inrgcBb ivciju
nations. And now it is nearing the end of the road unless
, something really drastic is done.
Proposed are a city sales tax, a city income tax, higher
j real estate taxes and special business taxes. Some of these
are pretty sure to be adopted. . im
i What brought this gloomy condition about7 Tammany
corruption? Probably, but this is only a partial explana-
tlon. Waste is also only a partial explanation.
The biggest reason seems to be demand of the people
for service, coupled with unwillingness to pay for it, which
impelled the local politicians to try to render it for them.
The subways are being subsidized to the merry tune of
$117,000,000 a year, for instance, because politicians long
ago discovered the vote getting potency of the slogan:
"Six cents is too much to pay for a five cent ride." It made
o difference that it cost 10 or 15 cents to provide the
: ride.. -. .
; GOOD BIG MAN VS. GOOD LITTLE MAN
There's an old saying among sports followers that "a
i good little man can't beat a good big man," not quite
meaning that he never can, but that he usually can't.
.. Originally applied to boxing the maxim has a general
application ,
That it applies to basketball was shown last night at
' Corvallis when Seattle university and Johnnie O'Brien, as
' good a little school and as good a little man as athletics
have brought to light in many a day, proved unable to cope
with the big team from the big school, the University of
Washington Huskies and their Mr. Big of American basket
ball, Bob Houbregs. . , ,
Houbregs amply justified his ail-American rating with
a tremendous feat of 45 points, a new N. C. A . A. play-
offs record, while Washington as a team also set a scoring
" record for these games.
Make no mistake: These Washington Huskies of 1953
- are great, auite possibly the
in the Pacific Northwest. It
if they go on to win the national championship, though
they need only one bad night to falter in this quest.
Willamette valley people are getting an opportunity to
- see big league basketball this spring without fighting their
- way into the immense but still inadequate Gill Coliseum
at Corvallis, thanks to T-V
WHERE THE SCHOLARS COME FROM
Fifty American college are producing most of the top
scnolari of the country, according to a study just completed
by two Wesleyan University psychologists, who've just
published a book containing their discoveries.
Privately supported co-educational colleges in the east
and middle west lead, according to this study. The top
schools also charge tha top tuitions, by some coincidence,
or maybe it isn't.
Of particular interest here in Oregon is the fact that
Reed college of Portland is second only to Swarthmore of
. Pennsylvania in percentage ratios of noted scholars to
- graduate. The University of Chicago, Oberlin and Haver
ford are the others of the top five.
Among technical institutions the California Institute
of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology lead, but here Reed is among the top 20.
This study should focus the attention of discerning
people on the vital necessity of keeping these privately
supported educational institutions not only alive, but fully
up to their past and present levels during this difficult
period of low enrollments and high operating costs. For
they furnish the seed from which much of what will be
best in the America of the future will grow.
OPEN FORUM
Government Destroys
Wealth People Create
To the Editor: A government
is never a source of wealth.
Everything in the shape of
wealth la produced by the labor
power of the people, observing
the laws tnat government en
forces.
Government consumes and
wastes wealth. It has to take
that wealth it wastes from the
people. Under peaceful condi
tions wealth will accumulate in
volume and means will be de
vised to distribute the benefits
to the people.
There is no greater or faster
way of wasting and destroying
wealth, than war preparation. It
channels labor, the only produc
er of wealth, into production
for deitructlon and greater
waste till the expense and waste
is greater than the consumer
productive forces can carry and
revolt develops.
I recently read of an action by
our military forces that was
called operation "Smack," and
tha vast Quantity of military
auDDlles expended. Also most
of the boya engaged were in
lured.
Is there anything glorious in
avKlna men and wealth destroy
ed? Would it not be far better
to use the slogan "operation
cease fire" and stop this sene
waste of men and materials
Check the burden of debt that
has suddenly bean thrust upon
greatest team ever developed
will occasion little surprise
ua. This wealth that Is being
wasted would provide better liv
ing atandards for old folks and
greater security for all.
HERBERT DENNETT,
288 S. Cottage, St., Salem.
Morgan Authorized
To Speak for Grange
To the Editor:
This letter is written in
rect a misleading statement made
in tne daily press in regard to
the appearance of Howard Mor
gan before the Senate Commerce
and Utilities Committee on
March 4 in support of Senate
Bill 310.
The State Grans eiprntivo
board unanimously voted to au
thorize the appearance of Mr.
Morgan as the State Grange rep
resentative at this hearing, and
aiso votca unanimously in au
thorizing the position taken by
him In support of this much
needed legislation. Mr. Morgan
has been adviser to the State
Grange in transportation matters
for a number of years.
It Is hoped that In fairness to
Mr. Morgan and the State Grange
that this statement will receive
the same nubllcitv aivon
ously to a misleading report re
garding tnis matter.
ELMER McCLURE, Master
Oregon State Grange
The U. S. Military Academv.
West Toint, was founded March
16, 1802.
LEGISLATORS as Seen by Murray Wade
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BY DREW
Washington New York's bull
headed Congressman Dan Reed
is so determined to ram a tax
cut through Congress that, if he
doesn't get his way, he has
threatened to sidetrack Social
Security reforms in his power
ful ways and means committee.
This has President Eisenhower
so upset that he called upon
Senate Majority Leader Taft and
House Speaker Martin for help.
The President pointed out. that
he had promised in his campaign
to liberalize the Social Seour-
lty laws, so that 6,000,000 more
Americans would be brought
under protection.
As a result,' the GOP high
command has assigned tough,
lean Congressman Kean of New
Jersey to carry the Social Se
curity battle to the House floor
If Reed tries to bottle it up
in committee. Reed's strategy
is to turn the whole Social Se
curity question over to a hostile
subcommittee, headed by Con
gressman Curtis of Nebraska,
who will .try to sabotage Eisen
hower's reforms.
VELDE OVERDOES IT
Congressman Velde may not
know too much about it, but his
colleagues are secretly plotting
to kick him out as chairman of
the un-American Activities com
mittee. They have already con
ferred with House Parliamen
tarian Lewis Deschler on the
procedure.
Reason for this drastic move
is Velde's reckless popping-off
to the press and irresponsible
handling of investigations. The
last straw was Velde's threat to
Investigate the nation's clergy
a statement which he later tried
to tone down.
As result, Vice President
Nixon held a private conference
with Speaker Joe Martin, at
which he urged Martin to
"straighten out" Velde.
Afterward, a reporter caught
Martin on the run and re
marked: "I see that Velde is go
ing to Investigate the churches."
"The hell he 1st" snapped the
speaker.
Martin then cracked the whip
on Velde so sharply that the
Illinois congressman didn't even
wait to put out a mimeographed
press release toning down his
proposed probe of the churches.
He scribbled out a statement in
longhand.
Meanwhile, other congressmen
had become so fed up with Velde
that they began exploring the
possibility of ousting him as un
American Activities chairman.
The committee's senior Demo
crat, Congressman Walter of
Pennsylvania, went so far as to
suggest privately that it might
be better to abolish the commit
tee than let Velde go on "wreck
ing" its reputation.
The question of Velde's ous
ter was put up to Parliamentar
ian Deschler, who consulted his
books and ruled that it would
have to be done by a vote of the
full House, so the committee
members themselves couldn't re
move him. However, the parlla
mentarlan was urged to review
for Ohio
ago
- GO - ROUND
N. Y. Solon's
Income Tax Cut
PEARSON
the rules In search of an easier
method.
Note Meanwhile, the investi
gating fever has spread to Mich
igan's Congressman Kit Clardy,
a freshman Republican, who has
suggested that the un-American
Activities committee Investigate
the liberal, antl - Communist
group, Americans for Demo
cratic Action.
IKE LIKES TEDDY
President Elsenhower hung
Teddy Roosevelt's picture In his
office the other day, and was
promptly criticized by Republi
cans who still haven't forgiven
Teddy for bolting the GOP and
forming his own Bull Moose par
ty.
Ike ruefully told a group of
visiting senators about the inci
dent last week. Most of the por
traits in the White House, he ex
plained, hang there by tradition.
"The only place the president
has any leeway is in his private
office," he added. -i .
When Elsenhower moved in,
he found two stalwart Democrats
looking down from the walls
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew
Jockson.
"I decided to take the privilege
of changing the scenery," the
President grinned.
So he exchanged Jefferson
and Jackson for George Wash
ington, William Howard Taft and
Teddy Roosevelt. The next time
a group of Republicans came
into his office, one of them no
ticed Teddy Roosevelt's portrait
and remarked with dismay:
"Why, he's just like a Democrat."
"Well, he's my kind of Re
publican," the President said he
replied.
Note Actually, George Wash
ington was the only non-Republican
in the trio. Roosevelt
served two terms as a Repub
lican president before he was
steamrollered out of the nom
ination by William Howard Taft
and formed the Bull Moose par
ty in protest. ;
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DODGE DISAPPOINTED
Budget Director Joe Dodge is
quite unhappy because his pet
scheme for reducing government
expenses has Just fallen flat on
its face.
His plan was to do as much
budget-cutting as he could via
the painless, voluntary approach.
Following out this idea, Dodge
instructed the 18 big independ
ent government agencies to send
him, by March 2, a one-sentence
letter containing the amount of
money each agency could cut
from its 1954 budget. Among
the agencies asked to trim their
own budgets were the Atomic
Energy commission, General
Services Administration, Veter
ans Administration, Federal
Power Commission, and the Fed
eral Trade Commission.
By the March 2 deadline, all
the replies were on Dodge's desk
but there was one thing wrong
with them. Every agency had
written Dodge that it was re
grettable, they were sorry, but
they Just couldn't trim their
budgets by a single dollar.
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Salem 37 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
March 14, 1917
Construction of roads in na
tional forests of Oregon this year
will likely be largely confined
to McKenzie Pass road over the
Cascades.
..
President Wilson's message to
the 65th Congress, called into
extraordinary session April 18,
will be largely militant.
One of the most important
things before the people of Sa-
lem is the matter of crossing the
river since the closing of Wil
lamette bridge. Ferries are not
yet in operation although weeks
have passed since the service
became necessary.
.
When the bill Introduced by
Representative Al J o n e s ' of
Marlon county becomes effective
May 20, owners of dogs in towns
where a tax is effective will be
obliged to pay that license fee
and the county dog license as
well.
There are now 1800 automO'
biles in Marlon county,
If farmers in the vicinity of
Salem can see the advantage of
planting about 300 acres of
beans Salem Fruit company will
agree to build a grading and
cleaning plant in the city.
Cuyler Van Patten has been
chosen by Dr. R. E. Lee Stelner
as superintendent of the new
building to be erected at the
state school for the feeble mind
ed. Salem Floral society has de
cided to allow Salem folks to
ballot on their choice for Sa
lem's official flower.
Gilbert and Patterson receiv
ed by express this morning ship
ment of a pedigreed jack from
Kentucky. His name is "Sure
Paymaster," he is valued at
$1400 and it cost near $300 to
ship him to Salem,
Governor Wlthycombe has en
tered the campaign to save Com
pany M for Salem by Increasing
enlistments.
Four feet of snow still cover
the Black Rock locality in the
Coast Range.
In reply to a questionaire Gov-
ernor Wlthycombe expressed
the opinion that fear of capital
punishment has a wholesome ef
fect on persons planning mur
der.
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
No Deathless Words Uttered on
New York W Million of I
Americans today are locked in
a tortured grapple with a fed
eral Income tax blank, trying to
get it In the mall before the
deadline.
It la a time of tenie anxiety.
They are torn between honesty,
fear of family insolvency, and
strong unwillingness to sup
port the government in the style
to which it has become accus
tomed. .
Often people In moments of
great emotion make great utter
ances. They say things like,
"Don't give up the ship," or
"Hell, boys, do you want to live
forever?"
But nobody ever said, "I re
gret I have but one income to
give for my country."
The chances are at least 100
million to 1 against anybody
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Churches Aren't 'Failing -They're
Setting New Records
BY REV. GEORGE K. SWIFT
Itlctor, St, paul'i
Several months ago there was
a report In the papers of , a
forum held in a western city.
The subject was "The Failure of
the Church Today." The arti
cle stated that the conclusion
reached by the forum was that
"modern churches are being
forced into a position of insig
nificance because they are fail
ing to infiltrate through the
world, dealing with people as
individuals, rather than masses."
As a matter of fact, as far as
the churches in the United
States are concerned, all avail
able records would indicate that
there is no evidence whatever
that the churches . are being
forced into a position of In
significance." On the contrary,
churches are breaking all-time
records for expansion. One does
not have to look at church sta
tistics in Oregon to have con
firmation of this, he has only to
look around and see the church
building projects everywhere
due to the unprecedented growth
of the churches in membership
and Interest.
Forums have . their places.
They are good as safety-valves.
But unless carefully guided by
Korean Children Greet
Governor Stevenson
Pusan, Korea JP) Adlal E.
Stevenson arrived by plane from
Japan today for a five-day tour
of this war-ravaged country.
Thousands of Koreans, many
of them school children with
American and South Korean
flags, lined Pusan's streets and
cheered the 1992 Democratic
presidential nominee as he drove
through this teeming war-time
provisional capital.
SURGICAL SUPPORTS
Of all kinds. Trusses, Abdominal
Supports, Elastto Hosiery. Ex
pert fitters, private fitting rooms.
"Ask Your Doctor"
Capital Drug Store
405 Stat St.
Corner of Liberty
SAH Green Stamps
By HAL BOYLE
saying anything memorable
about taxes between now and
next Monday midnight. Some
how tax payment time takes the
cleverness out of even our great
est literary figures. They either
are struck dumb or say things
that are unquotable.
An exception was James Otis,
who in 1761 cried;
"Taxation without representa
tion is tryanny."
This got a lot of applause at
the time. But the net result was
we got representation. And Mr.
Otis, if he were alive today,
might regretfully have to re
cast his historic remark as fol
lows: "Taxation with representation
is no guarantee against personal
bankruptcy either."
Probably the only other fa
mous saying about taxes that the
average man remembers now
IpUeopil churoa
professionals in the subject be
fore it, the meetings, all too oft
en, degenerate Into an exchange
of ignorance. They should never
presume to arrive at conclu
sions. Imagine a group of citizens In
Salem getting together as a
lorum to discuss the effect of
some new drug, on the tissues of
tne pancreas, no doctor of medi
cine being present. They would
undoubtedly have a lot of inno
cent fun expressing their views
on the subject, and it .would
give a number of people a
chance "to appear" before an
audience. The whole thing
would probably be beneficial,
and could do no harm, providing
the forum didn't take itself seri
ously enough to arrive at some
conclusions.
Forums, are Indeed of great
value, and have a proper place
in a democracy, out dogmatic
conclusions should not be in
dulged in. Such conclusions
should emanate from profes
sionals In the subject under con
sideration. As for the churches
being forced into a position of
insignificance, that time is ap
parently not here at present. It
remains a molder of character
and the spiritual guide of God's
children.
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from the ranch and hauled in our own trucks.
Buy and savt at Packing House Wholesale Prices. Cut
ting and wrapping, smoking, curing. Free deep freexe
service. Custom killing.
NOTHING DOWN 6 MONTHS TO PAY
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STEER BEEF
Cut and
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Half or Whole
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Income Tax
was made by Benjamin Frank
lin, who wrote a French friend
in 1708:
"Mats dans ce monde, 11 n'y
rlen d'auure que la mort et les
impots." .
As this kind of talk Is hard
to unaerstana on a crowded but
most of us translate it: '
"But in this world, no thine !
certain but death and taxes."
The literature of the world is
lull of more praise for love and
motherhood than for taxes, but
there are a few consoling re
marks on the subject for almost
anyone. .
- For the congressmen who vote
the taxes "to tax and to please,
no more than to love and to be
wise, is not given to men." Ed
mund Burke.
For the fellow who thinks he
nas to pay more tnan his share
"The corruption of democ
racies proceeds directly from the
fact that one class Imposes the
taxes and another class pays
mem." uean w. a. inge.
For the man who is sure taxes
are ruining the nation "Neith
er will it be that a people over
laid with taxes should ever be
come valiant . . . no people
over-charged with tribute is tit
for empire," Francis Bacon.
For the angry farmer "All
taxes must, at least, fall unon
agriculture." Gibbon.
For the weary tax collector
himself "Men , . . prefer anv
load of infamy, however great,
to any pressure of taxation, how.
ever light." Sydney Smith.
For the taxpayer who is
afraid his return will be ques
tioned "Taxation must not lead
men into temptation, by requir
ing trivial oaths, by making it
profitable to lie, to swear falie
ly, to bribe or to take bribes
, . Taxation must not take
from individuals what rightful
ly belongs to individuals."
Henry George.
For the grudging taxpayer
who wants a pat on the back
"The marvel of all history is the
patience with which men and
women submit to burdens un
necessarily laid upon them by
their governments." William
H. Borah.
For the- government official
Still trying to inflict new taxes
"It is the part of a good shep
herd to shear his flock, not to
flay it." Tiberius Caesar.
For the completely busted tax
payer "What am I now to take
out of all this scarcity?" Ter
ence. Wrapped '
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