I
PAGE SIX
BY CONGRESSMAN
Washington, D. C., November 27—
Thii portion of Congressman Ells-
Livestock and poultry growers of worth's weekly letter was received
Oregon are troubled by a shortage of too late for last Wednesday’s earlier
>
protein concentrates for feeds. Next | publication.
to Washington, Oregon is worse off
Washington, D. C., November 20—
than any other state. A short time This is written Saturday following
ago, orders booked for delivery into two days of general debate on the bill
Oregon were only 88 per cent’of the for the continuance of the Commodity
1942 figure and the condition was Credit Corporation. 'The bill is called
tfie “subsidy” bill for the reason that,
critical last year.
Six week/ ago, I took this situation unless specifically denied in the law,
up with the War Food Administrai CCC funds could be used for the pay
tion, and steps were taken to increase ment of straight-out consumer sub-
the quantities to be sent into Oregon, sidles. The House Banking and Cur-
The total suply of soy meal will be rency Committee, however, wrote in
20 per cent more than last year, how 'the controversial section three of the
ever, due to the demands of increased bill which does specifically prohibit
poultry and livestock production, the use of any funds provided in the
there will still be an over all short bill for the payment of consumer sub
age similar to last year. The Com sidies.
The present discussion involves the
modity Credit Corporation will have
more meal available for distribution question of whether the government,
than it had last year. Beans pur in order to protect the citizen with
chased yby the CCC are being rushed small income, shall pay the grocery
to cjpshing plants and directed to the bills of the citizens fully able to pay
areas where the protein shortage is the extra three cents a day per person
worst. Effort is being made to bring which a readjusted consumer price
commercial and government ship- scale would mean. There is no threat
ments into Oregon up to a minimum of inflation. The real threat of ln-
• flation is much greater by adding
of 7,000 toils per month.
Shortly, local USDA War Boards ! $1,500,000,000 to the national debt,
and Advisory Feed Boards will be and to money in circulation, at a
asked to report on available supplies time when there is already too much
and future needs. On the basis of money. Those who oppose the pres
-this survey, shipments will be di ent “subsidy plan” want a price equal
production
costs _ paid the farmer.
rected according to need.
Local to
„
________ _____
Boards will have charge of the allo- They want less paid to the middlemen
cation of concentrates alloted by the 1 than the OPA haa insisted on paying
CCC. 'At best, the supply can be them.
In one commodity, citrus
expected to meet only the minimum fruits, the OPA itself reports 40 mil
requirements for good feeding prac- lions more paid to handlers last year
than should have been paid. This is
tices.
| a possible saving to the consumers.
The tax bill was passed by the The subsidy opponents want the ad-
House Wednesday afternoon.
The ministration of food centered in a
essential features of the bill have single administrator. They want ef
alreudy been ’adequately printed in ficiency in handling the administra
the news reports. Several points, not tion of food in wartime. All this is
considered of enough national impor in the argument. It is the argument.
tance to make the news service wires
By the time these words appear in
are, nevertheless, of vital importance print, the House will have voted on
to Oregon and the far west.
the bill—and will most likely have
In a previous revenue act, when it passed it. It is generally conceded
was decided to place a tax on freight that the Senate will also pass the bill
payments, the committee carelessly .and it is likewise generally under
set the rate of the tax on a percen stood “on the Hili’’ that the President
tage basis. The rate is a flat three will veto the bill if Jt prohibits con
per cent. The tax yields about *174,- sumer subsidy payments, which it
000,000 annually whjch is cqpsidered surely will.
an important amount of revenue. We
Then will comes the real problem.
people in Oregon would make no pro The debate Thursday and Friday re
test against paying a tax on freight,' vealed that a large number of the
or, for that matter, upon anything Democratic members ere opposed to
else, providing, of course, we are consumer subsidies. It seemed to me
taxed equally with everyone else more Democrats spoke against the
But to tax freight bills on a percen consumer subsidy plan than favored
tage
basis, clearly discriminates it Most Republicans are also op
against us. We have to ship our posed to subsidies—so it seems quite
bulky products farther to our market possible that the two-thirds majority
than other sections do. We have to necessary for over-riding the Presi
ship in manuafetured articles from dent's veto will be forthcoming. If
a greater distance.
The three per both Houses of Congress over-ride
cent tax is actually equivalent to a the veto and force the bill to become
tariff barrier against us, and in fa law against the will of the Adminis
vor of the east and south.
tration, some of the-Republicans fear
The simple equitable and proper the outcome of an unfriendly admin
way to tax freight charges is to tax istration of the law—with the blame
on the basis of so much per thousand then laid politically at the door of the
pounds—or per hundred pounds. A Republicans, if inflation is thus al
tax of 6*4 cents per thousand pounds lowed to take place.
would raise about the same amount
One thing should be made perfect
of revenue.
ly clear. Those who oppose subsidy
I talked to committee members, ap payments are also violently against
peared at the hearings on the sub inflation — no sane person would
ject and finally spoke about it on want to see inflation. But we are
the floor of the House. No one dis on the eve of a great political cam
puted the reasonableness of the con paign. The New Deal is all too obvi
tention that the basis of the tax ously attempting to place the Repub
should be changed—but the commit licans in a position 4o be branded the
tee did not change it It did con “party of inflation. ”>
sider the outright repeal of the tn
on freight charges and voted once to
Immedrftely after the commodity
repeal that section of the act, but credit—or subsidy bill—is disposed
later reversed itself and made no of, the new tax bill will be reported
change.
on the Floor and debate on it will be
The same injustice exists, and for gin. The Ways and Means Committee
the same reason, in the tax upon finished the bill last week, but the
passenger fares and telephone calls. subsidy
,UDBlay bill
olll was
was first
Ilr>1 on
on the
xne calendar.
caienoar.
These are annoying because they are | The tax bill, only about one-fifth as
unfair, but they are not quite s<Avital large as requested by the Treasury,
to our economy as the freight tax.
will not be seriously opposed on the'
Possibly the Senate will correct floor.
>
these Injustices when it considers the
Last week a deficiency appropria
tax bill. 1 hope so. I feel pretty tion'bill was cut from a requested
certain the House will agree to the $1,100,000,000 down to $¿87,000,000.
changes if the Senate writes them The cut was mostly due to the fact
into the bill.
X
that the Appropriation Committee un-
covered the fact that $750,000,000 of (
One oF the best laughs we have had the deficiency request could be (and
here in a long time was provided 'was) easily met by a simple transfer |
when W right Patman, who has made (of funds from one military bureau to
so many speeches against the bill another. No new appropriation was
which would ban consumer subsidies, needed—yet it was originally re- '
voted FOR the bill.
1 quested.
-o- -
I
Tills Wixk ¡1
luveukiM Uuil la
The House of Representatives was billions previously appropriated for
sadly shocked Monday by the an Army was not needed and was being
nouncement of the death of two of turned back to the Treasury.
With these revelations fresh in
its members. Both were able men
and among the leaders in the House. mind, the House will be in no mood
I did not know Mr. Henry B. Steagall to complain at the Ways and Means
very well, but J. William (Bill) Utter Committee for reporting a two bil
was a good friend. He was just about lion dollar tax bill instead of the ten
the ablest debater in the House, and billion tax requested by the Admin
*
his sharp tongue and quick mind were istration.
. W
¿J-—
not only respected* but often feared
by his opponents. Mr. Steagall was
The “Drive for Action,” which be
chairman of the powerful Banking gan about two weeks ago sponsored
and Currency committee, and it was more or less informally by a small
undoubtedly the strain of handling group of Republicans, but which has
the CCC or subsidy bill, as it was since included just about the entire
called, on the floor, that caused his Republican membership of the House,
heart to fail.
is making some progress. The ma
The death of these two able men jority leadership is obviously feeling
was indeed a national loss.
the sting of the criticism being hurled
and may prevent permanent de the Navy must have 20,000 more
at it—the accusations of “freezing" Torl*.L Cnca
legislation and refusing to permit ac- ■ CftFf* VsOaC V»
formity. Dr. Stark also points out + young women by the end of this year
for onmhr* ifrTiH"
_
tion. . A few minor bills were allowed I f■■■■ » j|■. p...
■
tha t tu gargle an d us e a n ti ee pt i ir in ■ tn rale.
WAVES are trained at Hunter Col
w out for action this werit. An- |
to come
the nose and throat is apt to weaken
other result was a lbt of petition sign- i
the tissues rather than to protect lege in New York. City and then as
Cops county has its tenth case of
ing—so much, in fact, that it is more Poliomyelitis, Dr. Stark, Coos coun- I them. In other words this should be signed to Naval stations throughout
the United States. Applicants for en
I than likely that at least one bill, the
ty health officer, states. However, I avoided. . ,
bill to adjust the price of crude oil,
Mrs. Georgia Hansen has returned listment must b« between 20 and 38
(he points out that there should be
years of age, and have had at least
will be forced onto the floor by pe
no fear of a widespread epidemic. It to her home and has almost com- two years of high school education..,
tition this co.-ning week. A total of
;
pletely
recovered.
is thought that most adults have had
Young women meeting enlistment re
, 205 members had signed last night.
the disease in a mild form where
quirements are urged to apply at
.Only 218 signers are needed to bring
there is no crippling and no damage Grey Hoiind U t OCS
Women’s Naval Reserve Headquar
I a bill out.
is done. They are therefore immune
i./«
a.
3
ters, Central Tower Building, San
i The petition is a device to force a to a second aftack. In the worst WAVE Enlistment
Francisco, or any U. S. Navy Re
bill onto the floor when a committee
epidemic the United States ever ex l
cruiting
Station.
refuses to report it out. Petitions are I
perienced only two people in a thou- I , Lending aid to the V. S. Navy’s re
written and placed on the Speaker’s
cruiting program to enlist 20,000 more
sand were affected or crippled.
desk. Members must go to the desk,
The parents of one of our senior
The quarantine period is two weeks young women in the WAVES, Paci
ask for the petition and sign it. Such
for the people living in the house fic Grayhound is carrying a large ad- boys were forced to decide that he
petitions are not circulated, they are
where there is a case of poliomyelitis, vertising message in more than 500 could not have that convertible
never removed from the desk. Very ■
I The adults of the house are to be ex newspapers 'of California, Oregon, coupe for a graduating present. The
few bills are ever actually forced out
cluded from public gatherings and Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and reason? See why he won’t graduate
by petition. The device is princi
evening.
from handling raw food, such as parts of Utah and Texas, urging eli in i the Junior Play tomorrow
______
pally a disciplinary one «pplied
y
working in a restaurant or milking gible young women, not now engaged
majority
that
.. ..
. .
..
against a i..__
___ . leadership
__ ,
-Calling cards. 50 tor Sl.OC.
cows. If they work in the open in war work, to volunteer for naval
stops legislation by the pigeon-hole
, they can continúe their work. Chil- service.
process.
' dren are to be excluded from school
“In ships, planes, and fire power, >> ’ I
Pimples Disappeared
The “Drive for Action” campaign
two weeks and kept in their own state Lieutenant Irene Williamson,
is really showing results and I am
.
Over Night
who is the Twelfth Naval District
yards.
glad to report that I have taken an
■•' While there is much that is not WAVES procurement officer, “our
active part in the movement.
known about Infantile Paralysis, it Navy is now the greatest in the
that Urias up pimples ovar •• sht-
Those who .followed simple dlrec-
probably catinot be controlled *by world. But ships and planes are use-
tlonsaae *PPU«d Klesrsx upon re
Do you have a “Kid Brother” in I methods of quarantine. The smart less without trained men to man
tiring ware amaslnaly surprised
when they found their pimples had
your home that you do not know I thing to do is to observe general them. ThC Navy must use thousands
disappear«!. These ueers enlliulai.-
how to manage. If so, go to the Jun i rules of good health. Parents should of Navy men now filling shore bil- I tlcally praise Kleerex and claim they
are no longer embarraeeed and .are
ior play Friday evening, at the C.H.S. see to it that children wash tíieir lets to man our new fleets. If these , now happy with their clear complex-
Iona Don’t take our word for It. use
Gym, and see how Junior Jones, 1 hands before eating and that they.eat men are to be made available for
Kleerex donlaht. Only 40c. If one ap
played by Arthur Trepanier, manages well balanced meals.
plication does not satisfy, you set
The doctor combat duty, the young women of
your money back. There Is no risk so ,
—and is managed.
should'be called when they are ill, I America must step in and take over | do not hesitate. Sold and recom
because proper care and treatment i i their jobs. If scheduled offensives in ■ mended bF
Insurance Specialist, F. R. Bull, s usually bring about improvement this global war are to be carried out,
BARROW DRUG CO.
III 1(1(1 <116 rOTOlySIS
se«*6
ear *
LEAR*
inte
resting iob
YOU
«•rvelnfke
Novy as« WAV!
No greater privilege was ever offered any woman than to don a
Navy uniform and thus release a sailor to man our ships and fly
our planes. That’s what you do when you join the WAVES. You’ll
always be proud that you served, and the training, education and
experience will enrich your life and expand your personality.
The Navy needs you. Pay is good, even compared with high
war industry wages. Food, lodging, travel expenses and attractive
uniforms ($200 to $250 worth to start) are included.
Learn, earn and serve... side by side with the Navy’s fighting
men. Call, ’phone or write your nearest Navy Recruiting Office.
THE WAVES DEPEND ON
GREYHOUND
Greyhound serves the WAVES with vital transportation
to and from the many bases where they are on duty. In addi
tion, a large proportion of other service men and women
travel by bus to training centers, embarkation points and on
k^vc, auJ uituij buuu> M« u»eu exclusively to serve military
camps. This diverts buses from civilian service; however, we
are making every effort to take card of the traveling public
under these difficult conditions, and greatly appreciate your
cooperation.
>*M8M«^GJUEYHOU N DtÍNES
SfRVING ALL THI WIST WITH DIPINDABLI TRANSPORTATION