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
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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.
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