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MEDFORD MAIL TRTRUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1940. PAGE FTVE Drastic Cuts Urged In Farm, Relief and Public Work Outlay (Continued from race One.) Purpose: National defense Fiscal year 1941 $1,800,000,000 message official national Work relief programs 1,300,000,000 Agricultural programs 900,000,000 Public works and investments.... X.100,000,000 Pensions, social security, etc.... 1,200,000,000 Interest on the public debt 1,100,000,000 Regular operating costs 1,000,000,000 (The 190 tigures, noi in cluded in the budget are computed from sources). The proposals for defense included emergency funds for operations started since the European war in creased enlistments for the army, navy and coast guard, more anti-spy agents for the federal bureau of investigation, greater protection of the Pan ama canal, and recommission ing of old navy and coast guard boats. Income Tax Hinted Mr. Roosevelt did not tell congress how to raise the pro posed defense taxes except that they should "follow the accept ed principle of good taxation of taxing according to ability to pay and will avoid taxes which decrease consumer buy ing power." These specifications appeared to rule out increased excise taxes, and suggested to some officials the possibility of higher income taxes all the way along the line. Because Mr. Roosevelt spon sored a similar tax for New Fiscal 1940 $1,500,000,000 1,800,000,000 1,300,000,000 1,400,000,000 1,100,000,000 1,000,000,000 1,000,000,000 NERVOUS THE AWFUL PRICE YOU PAY FOR BUNG Read These Important Facts! Quivering nerves can make you old. haggard, cranky can make your life a nightmare of Jealousy, self pity and "the blues?' Often such nervousness is due to femalo functional disorders. So take famoua Lydia S. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound to help calm unstrung nerves and lessen functional "irregularities." For over 60 years relief (iving Pinkham's Compound has helped tens of thousands of grandmothers, mothers and oaugntera in lime 01 need. Pinkham'a Compound positively contains io ooiates or habit formin? ingredients it la made from nature's own wholesome roots and herbs each with its own special work to perform. One of the ntosf effective "woman's" tonics made! In liquid or handy to carry tablet form (similar formula). Try HI York when he was its governor, there was speculation that he might favor a flat tax of per haps S per cent on the amount of money now paid in income tax to be $100 and the extra tax was 5 per cent, he would pay $105. The new tax demand was only one of a number of challenges directed by the chief executive at congress. Jibes at Critics Turning on critics who have claimed methods of balancing the budget, Mr. Roosevelt jibed: "I constantly marvel at the glib generalities to the effect that if one has but the will to do so anybody can reduce gov ernment expenditures by vast sums sufficient immediately to balance the budget. It costs nothing to make such statements and they can be decorated to fit into the applause of many au diences. "But it is the old-old story of the man who loves to utter gen eralities and changes the sub ject abruptly when he is pinned down to hard facts. "In the proposed budget, I have tried to interpret the wishes of our people. They want to strengthen our national de fense and are prepared to pay additional taxes for this purpose. They wish to attain, if possible, an over-all decrease .in expen ditures. They would like to see a reduction in the deficit but not of a magnitude that would imperil the progress of recov ery." Based on Business The slash in relief spending, he explained, is based on the assumption that the business curve will continue upward and permit a reduction in the aver age number of WPA workers from l,Lw,,-iO a month this 'year to 1,350,000 next year. But, he said, if business should stop advancing he might have to ask for more relief money. Likewise, Mr. Roosevelt pro vided no new money for "par ity" payments to farmers a $225,000,000 item this year in the hope that recent improve ment in farm prices would make such payments unnecessary. This year, the payments were designed to assure farmers 75 per cent of parity (the pre-1914 level), and now cattle prices are above this level while wheat and cotton prices are close to it. But ii farm prices should fall, he made it plain, "future events may call for some appropria tions to this end." As in the case of the extra defense costs, Mr. Roosevelt sug gested that new parity pay ments, if they become neces sary, should be financed by ad ditional taxes. This renewed a recommendation which congress ignored in voting parity pay ments last spring. Deficits Serve Purpose Asserting that deficits of the past decade had accomplished their purpose of increasing pub lie purchasing power, the prest dent said that although people had to pay $3,000,000,000 more taxes in 1M7 than in 1933, they had $30,000,000,000 more money with which to meet the pay ments. Too-rapid fiscal retrenchment, he said, was a factor m the re. cession of late 1937, adding that renewed spending had shortened to nine months the business re lapse in contrast to the four year decline after the 1929 col lapse. "As the budget is being pre pared," Mr. ttooseveit said, "we are achieving the highest levels of production and consumption in our history. The extent to which recovery has progressed, and the degree to which specu lation and price increases have, on the whole, been kept in check have made it possible for us to consider a substantial lessening of government expenditures on activities not immediately essen tial for national defense. "On the other hand employ ment still lags considerably be low the levels of 1929. Many of our younger workers have not found employment. . . . We must, therefore, avoid the danger of too drastic or too sudden a cur tailment of government sup port." Debt Discussed The president concluded his message with a long discussion of the growing national debt. Without once mentioning the controversy over boosting the $45,000,000,000 limit, he said: "Those who state baldly that the government's diot Is 42 bil lion dollars and stop there- are stating a deceptive half- truth calculated to make our people apprehensive. For one thing, it would clarify the pub lic mind if it were pointed out that of the 42-billion-dollar fig ure the amount Incurred be tween June 30, 1933, and De cember 31. 1939, is just over 19 billion dollars. "For another thing, it would be more honest and more honor able for them to say that while one line in the national budget shows a national debt of 42 bil lion dollars, other lines indicate that the government has 7 bil lion dollars of cash, gold avail able for debt redemption, and proprietary interest in govern ment corporations, which re duces the net debt to 35 billion dollars. "In addition, of course, there are the billions of dollars' worth of durable, tangible assets con structed or purchased by the government that are a real off set to the debt, though never listed as such . . . "When the increase in the public debt is viewed against the background of what was accomplished by the growth of useful physical assets and of effective national earning pow er, and by the strengthening of the nation's credit and morale, there is no economic ground for anxiety, so far as the national debt is concerned, as to the nation's future. Kidd's Open Annual January Shoe Sale The annual January clearance sale of women's shoes at the C. M. Kidd and company shoe store opened today with a large assortment of styles and sizes being featured. The sale also includes a group of the well known Red Cross shoes. Each year the shoe sale at Kidd's is one of the out standing year end events which attracts shoppers to Medford. Traffic Toll Portland, Jan. 4. (P) Port land's 61 traffic fatalities in 1939 equalled 1938 but were 28 less than in 1934, the peak year. Thirty-seven pedestrians died last year. ON DAILY ROUTE BY SHEPHERD DOG John Crocker, city mail car rier, reports for several months now, a homeless but friendly, bob-tailed shepherd dog has been making his daily residential and business district rounds with him, with all the faithfulness song and story have attributed to dogs. The dog waits for Carrier Crocker every morning about a block from the postoffice and runs ahead of him, with an oc casional look behind to see if the mailman is coming. At the courthouse, the shepherd waits for Crocker to emerge, and then trots ahead throughout the residential district. The same procedure is followed in the afternoon. Crocker says the dog seldom misses a trip, and when he does, mail patrons ask where he is. Mild efforts to break the dog of his habit have failed. On his self-imposed journeys, the dog is well-behaved, and won't even chase a cat, Crocker says. At the end of the mail route the shep herd, however, will chase an automobile, if one happens to go by. Crocker says he has never spoken to the dog, and the dog has never barked at him. Housewives occasionally give the shepherd bits of meat and Crocker thinks this may be a partial clue to his loyalty. The dog apparently has ' no master and lacks a license col lar. McCRARY PLEADS GUILTY TO STEALING FROM AUTO William Elliott McCrary, 19 charged with larceny from a motor car, on a district attor ney's information, waived grand jury action and entered a plea of guilty today in circuit court. Passing of sentence was de ferred by Circuit Judge H. D. Norton until a later date. McCrary stands specifically charged with theft of a camera from the auto of William V. Jones, shortly before Christmas. ONE VIOLENT CRIME DURING PAST YEAR There was only one crime of exireme violence a murder and suicide the past year, accord ing to the district attorney of fice records. In the Medford district justice court, offenses involving money and traffic violations, including driving while under the influ ence of liquor, led the list. Forg ery and obtaining money under false pretenses through the me dium of bogus checks were plentiful. Just before a holiday was a favorite time for issuance of spurious paper. There were 356 complaints on traffic violations, which includes the drunken driving charges. Under this head also comes vio lation of the basic laws, reckless driving, non possession of a driver's license, void license plates and defective lights. Felony cases numbered 118, and game violations 40. Under miscellaneous there were 86, chiefly misdemeanors. Many of the defendants en tered pleas of guilty. In a num ber of cases either paroles or suspended sentences were grant ed by the court. Greetings From Finns Washington, Jan. 4. Hjalmar Procope, Finnish min ister to the United States, brought to President Roosevelt today a message from President Kyosti Kallio of Finland which he said contained new year's greetings. I AUTOIST IN DRIVE TO ENFORCE E PLATE L Harold H. Hasseman. rant 2 Medford, charged with operat ing an auto without a 1940 license or temDorarv stirkpr was fined $1 and costs in justice court yesterday. Costs amount to $4.50. It was the flr.t amri of the year for having no license piaies in this district. The sheriff's office rennriprf a county-wide campaign against autoists who have not procured 1H40 license plates or stickers would be launched. Similar up. tion is underway upstate by the state ponce. Tuesday was a brisk day for sticker applicants at the sheriff's office. There was decided slump yesterday and only a few applicants appeared this morn ing. Deputy Grenbemer said th.i was probably due to the erroneous report being circulat ed, motorists had been granted until January 15 to make the purchases. The sheriffs' office also re ports the license buying to date, is below the same period for last year. Buster Brown Sale Is Wizard Mystery The mystery of the wizard is solved today by the announce ment of the opening of the wiz ard of Medford's shoe sale at the Buster Brown shoe store. The prices of women's, men's and children's shoes have been reduced for this annual store wide clearance. The large as sortment of shoes on sale are all new winter styles, accord ing to manager Noble Vincent. Use Mall Tribune want ads. COLDS:; FIGHT MISERY right where' (. you feel lt-wlth swift-acting VICKS VAPORUB Hatching Healthy Chicks For stood hatches of vigorous chlckn, breeders must receive a ration of a higher vitamin potency. 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