Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, Ju ly 18, 1946
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Congress Methods to Be Revamped
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B IG BUSINESS AND TAXES
WASHINGTON Juclest gravy In
tlie current tax legislation Is the
continuance of the curry-baek of un
used excess profits credit. The sen
ate finance committee, always
friendly to big business, not only
knocked out the excess profits tax
lust year, but retuined carry-back
refunds. This permits corporations
whose current earnings do not pro
portionately match their 193G-1939
earnings, to claim adjustments in
their 1946 tax payments.
ByBAVKHAGE
/Vetes A n a lttl and Comm entator.
W’NU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W.,
Washington, D. C.
nority rule was operating then. Mi-
nority groups nullified the wishes of
A bright young railroad executive the duly-elected representatives of
who has his cum laude in law from the people.
a famed university
My friend, with all his ve
w-as sitting with me
hemence, with his allegiance to
tn Burt's the other
management, made no claim that
day.
the demands of the railroad men,
Ttio curved front of the top rack holds
This Is one reason some Arms
Burt's is a sort of
the coal miners, were unjust. He
hats. The lower rack holds vo«r large
brief case as well us a wallet, small
greenroom for ra
didn't worry too much about
merely said that in order to obtain
purse or u p air of gloves The hoody rod
dio folk and others
prolonged strikes. General Mo
what they considered justice, the
below also has many uses. The nieces
w ho move and
tors alone will probably hit the
may be cut from scraps of plywood with
powerful leaders of the organiza
a hand compass ssw or a power saw.
speak and have
treasury for a refund of HO m il
tions to which they belong were able
• • •
their being in what
lion dollars.
To head off this
to play baseball according to foot
Pattern 283 with actual-slu* cutting
guides for all parts. Illustrated directions
drain on the treasury. Rep.
is euphemistically
ball rules—temporarily at least.
and complete list of muterlala Is 13c post
re fe rre d
to as
Cleveland Bailey of Clarksburg,
paid. Send order with name and ad
H E R E S TEXAS» F LO U R . . . Well, not flour, but the m akln’s. Ed
The theory that the creation of the
dress to:
Washington's
Ra
W. Va., Democrat, Introduced a
SUllw lta. Moore county wheat grower (left), and County Agent J. H.
laws of the land has been taken
dio center. Inspired
bill last January to repeal the
Walde craw l up on a mountain of wheat. Newly harvested wheat has
from the hands of the elected repre
M R ». R I T I I W YETH SPK A K 8
to r infuriated) by
carry-back provisions. On Jan
had to be dumped on the ground because the elevators are full to
sentatives of the people was put
Hedfuru H ills, N. » ,
Drawer 10
the presence of so
uary
23,
the
house
ways
and
overflowing.
forth by Crawford in "The Pressure
Enclose IS cents for Pattern Nu. 2U3.
many of the few who say so much Boys" seven years ago when he
means committee asked the
to so many, my friend launched said: “ It is improbable that a sin
N a n ie .
treasury for a report.
forth into a tirade on the respon gle important law enacted in the
Recently Impatient Rep. Wilbur
A ddresa_
sibility of the publicist
Mills of Arkansas, Democrat, pro
last 10 years has been written by
“ You can’t play baseball accord its congressional sponsor or its
posed that congress act independent
ing to football rules," he said, shak nominal
ly, without waiting for the treasury
author.
Administration i
Divides Spoils
ing a menacing fist at me, “ and bills are prepared by New peal ex
report. He pointed out that large
that is what Washington officials are perts in executive departments. I
credits can be claimed by corpora
Following n centuries-old cus
doing. You studied political science Legislation independently inaugu- '
tions which actually make more
30 years ago. I studied it only 20 rated is almost invariably pre- I
money this yeur than they did in tom the British Admiralty will di
years ago. And you know perfectly pared in the office of a lobbyist I
any of the years from 1936 to 1939, vide umong the m em bers of the
well that the present generation is Congress maintains a legislative
simply becuusc their capitul invest Royal Navy money derived from
the disposal of enemy ships and
not following the rules laid down by drafting service which writes bills CREDIT:
fired because of Communistic lenn- ment Is now larger.
cargoes captured or surrendered
our founding fathers. You ought to for committees, but it seldom is
ings,
as
intimated
by
Representa
Mills
charged
that
many
large
Paym ents Easier
tell the public about it.
called upon by individual legislators
tive Cox ID., Ga.), on the house corporations are taking advantage during the w ar, says Collier’s. The
The old days of “ a dollar down
"Now maybe the principles of our for assistance in writing any minor
floor. They were let go for econ of this loophole, and as a result the total fund, whose distribution is to
and a dollar every time we catch omy reasons, he said.
government are wrong. I am not de private bills."
taxpayer foots the bill for the expan include the Royal Air Force, will
you" are not back yet, but time or
fending them. But I am saying that
Of all the lists submitted by mem sion of private industries. He also amount to approxim ately $85,000,-
“ easy" payments have been liber
we are deserting them. Rule of the L a F o lle tte B ill
bers of congress and other persons, listed a long series of "abuses and 000.
alized on many items. It is expect
m ajority, a republican form of gov W ould Revam p
raising the Communist issue against transactions which w ill no doubt be
ed that charge accounts w ill con
ernment operated by the represent
Thomas Mechlin, writing on this tinue to rise also with relaxation of various permanent department per resorted to in order to create car
atives of the people, is a travesty, subject in the current Virginia
sonnel, he said, accusations against ry-back refunds or tax credits."
when
legislation
is
jammed Quarterly Review, touches on the . the 30-day rule under which all bills but one employee have been sub
• • . •
through by minorities. And I mean subject of readymade legislation. had to be paid by the 10th day of stantiated, and this person has been KANSAS ATO M IC STRAW
the second month after purchase.
bureaucrats as well as lobbyists."
The Eastman Kodak company has
discharged. The employee was not
He tells how a lobby “ gets its own
Under regulation W, federal re identified.
This happened when the senate staff together and knocks out a bill
been having trouble as a result of
was neck-deep in the final debate which the front office would like to serve system measure controlling
the first atomic bomb test in New
over the OPA and my friend see made a law eventually. It then credit, many items have been list DEGNAN CASE:
Mexico—one year ago.
Eastman
claimed
congress
was revolt runs the draft over to a large law ed under group A which required Killer Found?
found that, for some mysterious rea
ing against what he called the high firm which has one of its members a down payment of one-third and 12
The entire United States was son, some of its film was turning
pressure methods of the adminis in congjess. Although the con months' maximum maturity. Attic shocked last January when little black before exposure. Finally ex
tration. Since the congress was tear gressman cannot personally repre ventilating fans, automobile bat Suzanne Degnan was found slain perts discovered that the film had
ing the administration measure to sent the client, the method used in teries, tires and inner tubes have near her home in Chicago. The case been packed in straw which came
shreds at that moment I pointed out submitting the proposed legislation been removed from group A. Many proved to be one of the most stub from western Kansas.
that while it was true that congress through the ‘body’ of the firm takes household appliances are expected born police, the FBI and others ever
After the I-os Alamos bomb
was sore at Stabilizer Bowles for care of that. . . . If the lobby is to be removed within a short time. attempted to solve. Now, they be
test, radioactive dust from New
what they called propagandizing, well-organized, it w ill exploit high- Furniture is still under control when lieve they have found the killer.
Mexico settled on Kansas wheat
the example was not a very good powered publicity from then on sold on credit.
fields, and 1s still so powerful
William Heirens must face the
one. So he proceeded to develop his out.”
(hat the Kodak company has
music. He faces 21 burglary and
RUSS
ENVOY:
theme with specific references all
I am constrained to admit that
had to stop using Kansas straw
4 assault charges, to say nothing
Says
No
War
too fam iliar to me and my col much in all of these assertions is
for packing film.
of the evidence piled up connecting
leagues of the microphone and type true. But I would like to mention
The new Russian ambassador to him with the kidnap-murder of Su
writer.
three hopeful signs on the horizon, the United States, Nikolai V. No zanne.
TR U M A N W R ITES A VETO
minuscule though they may be. Two vikov, in one of his first statements
President Truman was convinced
Heirens, police said, once con
Tow n Seethes
were measures introduced but not promised that the Soviet Union “ w ill fessed the Degnan murder. But that the half-breed price-control bill
W ith Lobbyists
acted upon in this session of con never start a war against the Unit more often he steadfastly has would not work. The Taft amend k u p s
You, too, are fam iliar with the gress. They w ill be presented again ed States or anyone else.”
denied every crime of which the po ment, he especially argued, was ab
power of the “ pressure boys” as my and have a good chance of passing.
New cream positively stops
While he insisted that all differ lice have accused him. He was a solutely impossible, and he cited ac
friend Kenneth Crawford called
One is the LaFollette measure for ences between the two major pow student at the University of Chi countancy experts of various big
*underarm Perspiration O dor
them in his revealing book by that revamping congress, one provision ers could be ironed out, he cau cago.
manufacturing firms, all of them
name. Crawford estimated there of which increases the technical as tioned that solutions for many world
against OPA, who branded the Taft I. N ot illff, not messy — »odors spreads just
were 6,000 active lobbyists in Wash sistance available to members. The problems w ill require time and pa ATOM BOMB:
cost-plus formula as likely to Ilka vanishing err am I Dab it o n -o d o r so n s I
ington when World War II started. second is a b ill introduced by tience.
R. Actually soothing — Yodora can ba usad
bring chaos to industry.
And Human Beings
There are many more now. Speak Representative Sabath of Illinois,
right after shaving.
" I Just have to put what 1 con
The
extent
of
heat
damage
to
er Rayburn said the town was which provides for an all-inclusive COMMUNISTS:
3. Won't rot delicate fabrics.
sider
the
country’s
welfare
some of the more distant parts of
“ seething” with them.
investigation of lobbies. Most con In State Department
first,” the President told his
4. Keeps soft 1 Yodora docs not dry In Jar. No
the target fleet in Bikini lagoon,
We all remember the seven-digit gressmen don’t like lobbyists and
w a ste; goes far.
congressional leaders. “ Let's
Charges of Communism in the where the atom bomb test was made
sum of money contributed to a cam Sabath’s bill, as Mechlin admits,
not fool the country and give
Yet hot climate tests —made by nurses —
U.
S.
state
department
is
“
more
a
July 1, showed human survival
paign fund which came out of the was a crystallization of this feeling'
prove thia daintier deodorant keeps under
them
something that won't
m atter of alarm than of fact,” would have been doubtful. Ships a
members’ dues of one great labor
arms Immaculately sw eet—under the moat
The third indication was a Resolu
work.”
union. True, the head of the union tion introduced during the OPA Dean Acheson, under-secretary of mile from the center of the blast
severe conditions. Try Yodora I In tubes or
When
they
told
him
that
they
state, told the house foreign affairs were burned and blackened as
J srs-lO f, 30t. «Of. McKesson A Robbins.
later quarrelled with the president fight by Senator Taylor (D., of
though by a tremendous blast fur would not be able to persuade their Inc.. Bridgeport, Connecticut
whom he had helped elect because Idaho) authorizing the publica committee in Washington.
reluctant
colleagues
to
pass
any
sort
He
denied
that
300
of
the
state
nace.
the president refused to take his tion of a document on how each sen
of price-control bill, the President
Anyone on the decks of these replied:
orders. Nevertheless, this example ator voted on every measure. He department personnel had been
ships would have burned to death
illustrates what “ big money” at said that the people are becoming
" I f it ’s this or nothing, then
in an instant, those who inspected
tempts, and sometimes succeeds in more aware of their political re
we’ll just have to take nothing."
doing.
the damage believe. While some
sponsibilities, that politics is no
Among other things, the Presi
animals survived on most ships, the dent figured that during the chaot DEODORANT CREAM
We know, too. that when the en longer solely in the hands of politi
fate of human beings might have ic period sure to follow if the poly
tire economy of the country was cians, ward-heelers and lobbyists.
been different. Studies of animals’ glot price-control bill were passed,
locked to a dead center by strikes
Congress is sensitive to the need
in two essential industries, coal and of a restoration of m ajority rule,
injuries m ay show
w h e th e r congress would claim it was his
transportation, and that when the but the only real hope lies within
enough crewmen could have lived fault for not making the bill work,
TOMORROW ALRIGHT
government itself gave orders, the m ajority itself. Unfortunately,
through the blast to operate the when, in actual fact, the bill was
bepe'tdable
those orders were disobeyed. Mi- the giant sleeps.
stricken ship. Making the study is unworkable. He felt also that if
4//-VIG ITA B U
LAXATIVC
Dr. Carl Compton of the Massachu congress did dare to go home with
S V tlO M . ( a l l o s ti» • » • « • « < * « •
setts institute of technology.
out a price-control bill, things would
GET A 25' BOX
be hotter for them in their districts
U. S. FILMS:
than in Washington. He also warned
Shown in Paris
that in this case he would call a
They were gayer than ever in special session of congress.
Two recent visitors to Washing man strolled from the White House
One of the best home ways to
e e •
"Gay Paree” when the first “ new"
ton, Mrs. Evelyn Baker and Mrs. to the treasury portico to watch his
American films to be imported to W IIO WON T H E WAR?
James Magee of Custer and Belle St. Louis crony take the oath as
France under the terms of the
Fourche, S. D., can tell their friends head of the treasury department;
It is now getting close to a year
French Ioan made their appearance. since the end of the war with Japan
back home in the Black Hills region and they observed tall, young-look'-
Well, maybe the films weren’t exact and yet the strategic bombing sur
that while they were here they took ing John Steelman’s swearing-in as
ly the latest but—
in three events which might set the reconversion director.
vey for Japan has not been made
If you lack BLOOD-IRON
tone for all such future events.
The pictures shown during the public. Inside reason is a vigorous
Having observed these impres
You girls and women who suffer so
opening
week
included
"Citizen
backstage
tug-of-war
between
the
The ladies, winners of a radio con sive occasions, the Black Hills visi
from sim ple anem ia th a t you're pale,
Kane,” “ K itty Foyle," "Too Many army and navy which boils down to weak, "dragged o u t”—this may be due
test to honor women who did their tors could appreciate the widely,
to
lack of blood-iron 8o try Lydia E.
Husbands" and “ Dangerous Adven the basic question: "Which of them Plnkham's
bit during the war years, visited whispered remark of Undersec
TABLETS—one of the beat
ture.”
All
are
in
English
with
won
the
war
in
the
Pacific?"
Washington during the week when retary of Navy John Sullivan. (Sul
home ways to build up red blood— In
RESIGNS . . . Chester Bowles
such
cases
Plnkham ’s Tablets are on s
French subtitles dubbed in.
Civilian members of the survey
three top-drawer government offi livan got his swearing-in done quiet
the greatest blood-iron tonics you
resigned as economic stabilizer
The new movies made their ap staff, however, summarize the situ of
cials, all close friends of Harry Tru ly and traditionally on June 18.) As
tan buy I At all drugstores
in protest of the OPA extension
pearance in the middle of a bitter ation:
man, were sworn into new jobs.
Sullivan congratulated John Steel
bill. In a radio address Bowles
attack by some French writers on
1. Heaviest damage to Japan was WNU-13
’ The swearing-in of a cabinet offi man after the rose garden cere
29-4«
said the nation owed President
what they termed the “ assassina inflicted by U. S. submarines. They
cer used to be a rather modest af mony, he asked, "Well, are you the
Truman a vote of thanks for ve
tion” of the French movie Indus had just about shut off all Jap sup
fair. The swearinee, his family, a last of the June brides?”
toing the bill.
try.
plies toward the end of the war and
few friends, and his office staff, a
Japan was paralyzed.
few of the press, usually gathered
2. Next greatest damage was
in his new office, and the whole af
done by long-range army land-
fa ir was over in about the time it
based planes.
takes for bride and groom to say
And Your Strength and
3. The navy’s carrier - based
"I do.”
Energy la Below Par
planes were Important, but ranked
True, Fred Vinson and Lewis
It may be caused by disorder of ktd-
second
to
the
B-29s.
function that permits poisonous
Schwellenbach did travel to Capitol
Waste to accumulate. For truly many
H ill for their inaugurations as treas
people feel tired, weak and miserable
WASHINGTON —The senate has part of the United States have al
which westerners believe Is the prop DIPLOMATIC POUCH
When the kidneys fail to remove excess
ury and labor secretaries respec tacked a rider to the post office ap
acius and other waste matter from the
ways resented the old ratio of about
I t ’s only been a short time since
tively. But those events occasioned propriations bill which would boost 32 to 1, which was the relationship er balance in a world where bimet
Mood.
allism is used.
You may suffer nagging backache,
the war, but two former enemies,
,no such hoopla as did the cere the price of silver to 90.3 cents an
rheumatic pains, headaches, dizziness,
between the two metals when Bryan
Italy
and
Austria,
now
earnestly
monies which made Monday—Tues ounce for the next two years. After
etting
up nights, leg pains, swelling.
While most countries are now off
made his famous "Cross of Gold"
S ometimes
frequent and scanty urina
seeking to become democracies, w ill
day — Wednesday Washington news that the treasury may begin buying
the
gold
standard,
silver
is
still
used
tion
with
smarting and burning is an
speech.
New mines had been
be
proposed
by
the
United
States
one late week in June.
other
sign
that
something is wrong with
the white metal at $1.29 an ounce.
opened and silver had become more in almost every country. In some for admission to the United Nations
the kidneys or bladder.
J Mrs. Magee and Mrs. Baker and
If the senate b ill comes through abundant.
countries,
such
as
India,
nickel
and
There
should
be no doubt that prompt
The silver producers
treatment Is wiser than neglect. Das
five thousand other spectators, plus conference and becomes a law, the have tried for years to restore the other metals are used. For many next September. Truman o.k.d this
? PM b . It Is better to rely on a
the navy band, gathered on the old W illiam Jennings Bryan ratio old 16 to 1 ratio which prevailed be years the U. S. treasury did not pur move last week. . . Prime Minis
medicine that has won countrywide ap-
ter De Valera has decided not to
roval than on something leas favorably
White House lawn to watch Mr. Vin of 16 to 1 may yet prevail. Before fore 1873.
chase silver in quantities sufficient apply for Irish membership in the
E nown. Doan'a have been tried and test
son take over his new office as chief the devaluation some years ago, the
ed many years. Are at all drug a to m .
The only stickler now is that gold to hold prices up. The silver pur United Nations. . . . The pro-Soviet
Gat
Doanra today.
justice of the United States; they price of gold was $20.67 an ounce. is priced at $35 an ounce. Even If
chase act of 1934 was designed to Mongolian peoples' republic, how
¡saw John Snyder’s big moment One-sixteenth of $20.67 is $1.29.
silver advances to $1.29, it w ill not aid the white metal regain some ever, thinks otherwise about the
made bigger when President Tru-
Silver producers of the western be up to the coveted 18 to 1 ratio of its old prestige.
United Nations.
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R6O 61000
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