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Mil IV LIU JUL mfipnPo)( 0 Mil mm mm 3 mem mD0mxmi United Press Fuil Leased Wire 46th Year 16 Eisenhower's Political Creed Economy and Decentralization of Political Power , ' " By KEVIN MeCANN President, Defiance College (That articles are based on -the book. "The Man From Abilene." by Kevin McCann, to be published by Doubleday at Company.) "From the writings, public and private, of General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower there emerges this basic formula for keeping , the Federal budget in balance for maintaining a sound currency and for restoring the functional and geographical dif fusion cf political power envisag ed by the framers of the Consti tution of the United States: ' 1. "Practice Spartan frugality in non-essential matters, so that we may make the greatest pos sible contribution to the defense of our way of life. ' 2. Keen- watch on unification of the armed services, tignten- log, perfecting, making it more efficient; great savings on mili tary outlays can be effected. ' ! 3. Assign more powers and du ties to state and local govern ments; "local citizens will keep m closer watch over expenditures for any kind of purpose when paid exclusively by them than when the funds seem to come freely from a far-off Washing ton . ri the local government can not debase our currency in order to pay its bills." ' : Fought for Unification ; Gen. Eisenhower, when he was Army Chief of Staff in Washing ton, fought many battles for uni fication of the Army, Navy and Air Force. His primary interest was efficiency of our defense forces, but he estimated even then the possible saving of 25 per cent in men, material and money through operation of the proposed unification act. i Unification is now a matter of law but its mere enactment did not ensure the utmost in econ omy- Proper implemenation of the act, constant efforts to im prove the operations of unifica tion, could result in savings of 10 to 15, per cent on the , military What would tins' mean on the . projected outlay for the -fiscal year 1952-53? For military serv ices alone the administration has requested $51 ' billions of Con gress, apart from foreign and economic aid programs. Apply ing the higher figure the proj ected military outlay would be reduced by 7.6 billions. That is $2.5 billions more than the extra 5 billions in new taxes the ad ministration seeks. And it is ap proximately half of the $14-plus billions deficit estimated for the same fiscal year. Concerned on Tax Powers Gen. Eisenhower has been se riously concerned about the exer cise by the Federal government of the power to tax. In the recent letter setting forth his views he said that the framers of the Con stitution "wisely provided for dif fusion" of political power, not only among the executive, legis lative and judiciary .but among the state and local governments where it was not specifically ac corded, to the Federal . govern ment, "They were wise men," he ob served. ' After recalling that the origi nal Constitution limited the kinds of taxes that could be lev ied federally, he added that "the significant thing" about the amendment of 1913 that applied the graduated income tax -was that "it was, not felt necessary at the time to impose any con stitutional limits as to amount or percentage of income that could legally be taken, or to specify the Mail Loss in Said Largest Ogden, Utah (U.R) A postal inspector . said that ; Thursday's spectacular fire that swept through a mail train when it ran into an overturned, flaming gaso line tanker trailer east of here caused the largest single train mail loss in U.S. history. Nine cars, filled with mail and express, were destroyed by the blaze which enveloped Union Pa cific's train No. 5, westbound frjm Chicago. No one was in jured seriously. - - SO Per Cent Destroyed The regional postal inspector, R. B. Dunbar of Denver, said that approximately 50 per cent of the mail on the train-estimated at 350 tons by Utah authorities was destroyed or badly damaged. Five of the cars were bound for northern California by way of the Oakland terminal, one for Salt Lake City, one for Ogden Pages GEN. DWIGHT EISENHOWEh fields of properly states," taxation that should be observed to - the . "It was. assumed," he wrote, "that the good sense of our gov ernment and .the watchfulnes of our people would take care of this. But thus the way was open ed for a central majority to im pinge upon constitutional provi sions without appearing to do so. . "Our courts have stated that 'the power to tax is the power to destroy." A. corollary would seem to be: the power to tax is not only the power to' destroy the individual business or corpo ration it could also spell the de struction of the several states. "If the Federal government uses - its taxing power to the point that there is no money left to the " citizen for payment of taxes to his city and state these local agencies of the people will become helpless possibly even disappear. "Whether or not this truth was perceived by some of the young, eager academicians - swarming into Washington in the early thir ties, they proceeded, through use of the unlimited taxing power, to reduce the income available to the states. Their obvious pur pose was to extend the control' of the Federal government over the. lives of citizens. But they covered their purpose, for pala- tability, with the cloak of emer gency, internal and external emergency, and with the asser tion that through their benevol- lent wisdom poverty would! dis appear, man would live and pros per without work, and Utopia would come to live among us forever. - ; , "They began to make inroads upon our local rights and free dom. Today the 'grants-in-aid policies of the Federal govern ment are defended on the allega tion that the states are too poor to sustain themselves. v .. ' Reasoning Justified ' aucn specious reasoning is justified only by one of two sup porting assumptions. The first is that the Federal government will create some of the money it in tends to give, since the Federal government can have no source of revenue no inventory of as sets exceeding the total availa ble to the 48 states. The other is that there was a deliberate pur pose to dilute the solvency of the states, so that all are dependent upon the beneficence of the cen tral authority. More than likely, both were counted upon to bring success to the doctrinaire Social Utah Mishap in History and one for Los Angeles. Dunbar said most of the mail originated in Chicago, where the train was made up. . : The ninth car was a railway postoffice and much of its con tents was saved by prompt action of its crew. Many government checks were visible on the scene, spilled from burned sacks, but Dunbar said he did not know if any specific government payroll was involved. One sealed car of all-registered mail was among those destroyed. - ' . N Undamaged Mail Forwarded Dunbar said undamaged mail already has been forwarded.' The damaged sacks, or their remains, were trucked to the Ogden. mail terminal for sorting and salvage. Ruins of the cars also were pulled to the Ogden shops. ! A .Union Pacific spokesman estimated total damage at more than $1,080,000. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, i 0 . ists responsible for such policies. "We reach the clear conclu sion that in those instances where circumstances appear to force governmental intervention into citizens' affairs, we should try, earnestly try, to assign the duty to a lower echelon of gov ernment. 'There is a vast difference be tween one of the several states supporting an activity and the Federal government performing the same function. There is, first ly, the certainty that local citi zens will keep a closer watch over expenditures for any kind of purpose when paid for exclu sively by them than when the funds seem to come freely from a far-off Washington. . . "Secondly, and far more im portant, the xocal government cannot debase our curency in or der to pay its bills. A Federal deficit is. blithely incurred be cause of power to make a new issue of bonds of currency thus hurting the standard of living of every citizen in the country. Un der this threat, each of the sev eral states is almost compelled to seek Federal grants in order that it may gain some material return for the losses forced unon it. The process is insidious if at first it seems painless its results can nev- ertheles be catastrophic. "Possibly, the false prophets of . bureaucratic control are no longer so influential as once they were. But danger still exists. It is found in peacetime budgetary deficits, in stifling Federal taxes, in the piling up of governmental debt. Our money grows cheaper and cheaper; and the only cure that the 'planner offers is more of the same, 'Give me more pow er, let me, whether m peace or war, control prices of materials and of labor, let me control im ports and exports, let me con trol production and sales, let me tissue more money, let me allo cate and apportion to each what I see fit to allocate and, I promise you (says the hardened bureau crat) all will be .well!' - "And the victim is not the wealthy man one who could possibly, in any case, live out his days, if he so chooses, in idle comfort. It is the workman, the mass of America, that is to pay the price; regimented labor is the inescapable basis of the socializ ed or planed economy! "For this development, so far as it has gone, possibly each of us has to shoulder a bit of respon sibility. We've liked the soporific effect of paternalism and wish fully hoped that somehow har vests would grow without plant ing; and, even if not, then that all of us might be fed without harvests. . "No one challenges the need of central controls in times of gov ernment crisis in -fact, we de mand them. But when they re main with us indefinitely, the citizens should beware!" (Copyright, 1952,' New York Herald-Tribune, Inc.) Means To Reduce Taxes Ruled Legal Los Angeles (U.R) A federal judge-Is ruling upholding an in dividual's right to form a cor poration to reduce taxes Friday brought the Treasury depart ment face to face with the pos sibility of lawsuits involving millions of dollars. And in his ruling, the judge gave support to every corner cutting taxpayer when he said an individual may "legally and honorably take measures to minimize his tax." Chief Federal District Judge Leon R. Yankwich ruled Thurs day, that - an individual legally may form a corporation to re duce, income taxes on a single business transaction and dissolve it after the transaction is com pleted. , Allied Guns Punish Enemy Concentration 8th 'Army Head Quarters, Korea (U.R) Allied artillery fired 4,432 rounds Friday in a blazing bombardment of the Chinese Reds -- on the eastern front' r The Reds started it, firing into the Allied lines in the old heartbreak ridge"-sector. . - Allied , artillerymen were or dered to fire 10 rounds for every one the -teds fired. The count of Red shells total led 476. Then the Red gunners gave up, and the Allies compro mised with ' a ratio of 9 1 shells for ecab. Red shelL South Democrats Rally to Support Of Sen. Russell Door Kept Open For Possible Revolt Washington (U.R) Southern Democrats rallied Friday around the presidential banner of Sen. Richard B. Russell and kept the door open for a possible with drawal from the Democratic party. In Washington, and in state capitals throughout the South, anti-Truman Democratic leaders enthusiastically pledged their support to the veteran Georgia senator who announced his can' didacy Thursday. Way Open for Revolt Russell himself left the way open for a southern revolt like that which led to formation of the States Rights party in 1948. He did not say he would lead such a third party but he care fully refrained from saying he would not. Pressed to say whether he would support President Truman if the President finally decides to run, Russell, declined to answer on the grounds that Mr. Truman is not yet a candidate and the party platform is not written. His evasive answer was inter preted as a bargaining maneuver to keep pressure on the Demo cratic convention to come for ward with a candidate and a plat form acceptable to the South. Taft Returns to Ohio In other political develop ments: 1. Sen. Robert A. Taft, R.-O., returned to his home state for a series of meetings with campaign aides. 2. California Gov. Earl War renlike Taft, an avowed can didate for the GOP nomination entered the Wisconsin primary and said he is not just "carrying the torch for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. - - 3. Eisenhower won top spot on the ballot ; for Pennsylvania's COP preferential primary. The general won the top position by a drawing. His name will appear over that of Harold E. Stassen. 4. The Minnesota Supreme Court removed the names of Eis enhower, Gen. Douglas McAr- thur. and Sen. Estes Kefauver, D.-Tenn., from that state's presi dential primary. All had been en tered without their consent. Ho Action Taken On Price of Milk No action was taken last night" by independent retail grocers who met here to d sciiss whole sale retail milk' prices. ' H. E. Carlton, secretary of the Oregoi. Independent Retail Gro cers association, said he under stands another hearing of the milk marketing administration is to be held concerning milk prices and the association will present evidence then. The organization approved . the two-cent margin to dealer allowed by the admin istration, but took no action to raise the retail price of milk. The two-cent margin is a cent more than Jackson county dealers re ceive. A grocers' committee consist ing of L. A. McCormick, Melvin Hall, Ed Link, Ed Milne and Carlson was meeting today with members of the meat cutters union to negotiate a new con tract. The present contract ex pires March 1. - Man and Boy Celebrat e 10thf J st Birthdays At Ages of 40 and 4 Gus WLtte, route 3. box 385V.. Medford, is celebrating bis 10th birthday today. And Robert Dreveskrachi, S25 Clark street, is celebrating his first. The thing unusual about these birthdays is that Witt is 40 years old and young Rob ert is 4. The answer, of course, is thai today is Leap .Year Day. February 29, which cornea only very fourth year. - The Dreveskracht boy was bora Feb. 29. 1948. the only baby bora that day la Jackson county. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dxevee krachi. He, will celebrate with a perry this evening. Wine, president of the Mad ford chapter of the Society for the Preservation ' and Encour agement of Barbershop Quar tet Singing in America, will be hMU, mi mm m ! J hosne for a party tonight. -. RIBXJIE 1952 As Meyftral Qs. IFddtoII Grants Pass Armory Rental to Jehovah's Witnesses Protested Grants Pass, Ore. (U.R) Nearly 800 Jehovah Witnesses are scheduled to hold a conven tion here this week-end although the Grants Pass Veterans' coun cil appealed to the governor and adjutant general to deny the National Guard armory to the religious group. Ed Armstrong, administrative assistant to Gov. Douglas Mc Kay, said that the governor's office and adjutant general could not intervene in the dis pute because renting of the arm ory was "a matter to be settled on the local level." Maj. Don Burke, battalion Weather Control Hearing Tomorrow Every firm, organization and individual who knows some thing about weather control is expected to be represented here tomorrow at a special hearing before a legislative interim com mittee. State Sen. Ben Day's commit tee will take testimony, begin ning at 9:30 a. m., from pro ponents of weather control through cloud seeding. The aft ernoon session is to be devoted to testimony from those opposed to what they term "weather interference."- The meeting is to be held in the courthouse audi torium. Medford Pilots Harvey Bran- dau and Eugene Kooser are ex pected to be the first to testify before the eight-man commit tee, since they are the originators of the controversial hail preven tion project in the valley. Farm groups and others opr posed to the work will state their cases later in the day. Senator Day has asked that tes timony be restricted to known facts about weather control rather than expressions of opin ion. Mahoney Free on Bond After Assault Charge Portland (U.R) State Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney was free on $50 bond Friday following his ar rest on an assault and battery charge. Taxi Driver Wayne Hull ac cused Mahoney of refusing to pay for calling his cab to the Oregon City Elks Club Wednes day night after he discovered he would have to ride with another passenger. Hull asserted that someone else gave him the half dollar but that Mahoney knock ed the money out of his hand and pushed him into the gutter. The Oregon Democratic leader denied the charge. He said the cab driver "grabbed me by the arm and insisted he was entitled to a fee." Burglary Suspicion Holds Man in Jail A man who gave his name as Louis Stitzer was booked in county jail last night on suspi cion of burglary. , City police reported the man approached an officer and at tempted to confess a burglary he saia ne committed in 1949 at a north', Medford night club. ' - They said Stitzer was turned over to; state police who took him to county jail. He had not been arraigned by noon today. Salem (U.R) State Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel issued an order Fri day granting request of common motor carriers performing dray age and cartage -service within the city of Portland and the commercial area adjacent there to to increase their rates and charges by 10 per cent Radia Highlights : Secretary of -.State Dean I Achesoa win be beard , on a broadcast over radio station ; KYJC (1230 kc) from 10:30 ' 11 pja. today. ' United Press Full Leased Wire commander here of the 186th in fantry unit, said the papers ap proving the rental were handled two months ago and approved by the adjutant general's office be cause the three-day meeting did not conflict with drills. Veterans of Foreign Wars post No. 2302 said it wanted the rent ing of the armory cancelled be cause the Witnesses are a group that refuses to salute .the Amer ican flag. x " H. F. COPE Files for Treasurer . H. F. Cope Filer For County Post H. F. Cope, 66, of 24 Quince street, today filed his candidacy for the Republican nomination as county treasurer. It is his first venture into politics, he said. '. A native of Pennsylvania, he received his education there and entered the teaching profession!, He moved to the state of Wash ington during the World War I period, and obtained bachelor of arts and master of science de grees at the University of Wash ington. Near the end of the war he became a science instructor at Oregon State college, but came to Medford in 1920 as head of the high school science depart ment. He taught here for 30 years. In the summer, for 22 sea sons, he worked in various capa cities in the fruit growing and packing industry, including spray residue work.' For the past two years he has been an appliance salesman for Montgomery Ward and company, and has taught mathematics and acounting during evening classes at Medford Business college. He is married and a son lives in Seattle. Only other announced candi date for the treasurer job is In cumbent Ralph Sweeney, who seeks the Democratic nomination for reelection. Seattle (U.R) The Navy Transport Sylvester Antolak ar rives here at 4 p. m. Sunday with 1,360 rotation troops from the Far East ',. - Firemen Break Sewer, Rescue Trapped Boy " ' i Five-year-old Steven Clark will pick a roomier place to hide next time. . .. - Firemen reported that the youngster, son of Ray Clark, 1032 West 10th street, picked a drain file at 1111 West 10th for a place to hide from his . playmates this morning. He got stuck. . '. " I A crew of firemen and tele phone company -employees was called upon - to set him free. They succeeded after dig ging around - the pipe , and breaking it off. The youngster's legs were stuck at the' bottom of the Hie which was three to four 'feet, deep and 14 inches in diameter. . .-: Participating in the rescue., were LeRoy Williams. Floyd Courtwright and Wee Cole man, firemen, and Frank Lit-' tie and Bill William. . tele- phone company men. FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night ani Saturday. Patches of foe Saturday moraine. Slightly cooler. Low 2S-30 to night. High Friday S. Temp. Highest Yesterday 61 Lowest this Horning 27 No, 297 Further Debate Completely Futile, UN Officer Says Would Rather Fight Than Accept Russia Panmunjom ty.R) The Unit ed Nation told the Communists "finally and irrevocably" Friday that they never will agree to let Russia police a Korean truce. The near-ultimatum indicated the UN would keep fighting rath er than accept Russia as one of six nations on a neutral truce supervision commission. "Further debate on this sub ject is completely futile," a UN staff officer, Col. Don O. Darrow, told the Reds. Decision To Be Unchanged "Under no circumstances will there be a change in the decision of the UN command to reject the Soviet Union as a member of the neutral nations' supervisory com mission." Communist staff officers at once attacked the UN attitude as "unreasonable arbitrary and aloof," but they failed to sway the Allied negotiators. "I think the next move is up to the Communists," grimly com mented the official UN spokes man, Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols. The next meeting of the staff officers will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, 6 p.m. Friday, PST. i: Asked . if the UN statement meant that there will be no ar mistice unless the Reds back down, Nuckols merely said: "The statement speaks for it self." Nuckols said the UN was tak ing its strongest stand since last July when it refused to accept the 38th parallel as a cease fire line. The Reds yielded on that occasion and finally agreed the war should end on the existing battleline, far north of the paral lel in the center and east. Biggest of Deadlocks The Russian question thus took its place as the biggest of four deadlocks now blocking a Ko rean cease fire. Also still unre solved are the questions of forci ble vs. voluntary repatriation of war prisoners, the right of the Communists to build airfields during a truce, and the number of ports through which troops may be rotated. Submarine Sets New " Underwater Record New London, Conn. (U.R) The submarine Flying Fish, which sank 15 Japanese vessels in 13 patrols during World War n, made its 5,000th dive Friday, marking the first time in his tory any undersea craft has gone below the surface that many times. Father Seeks Just Trial For Son Convicted by Army Alloway, N. J. (U.R) An an gry father vowed Friday he would get a just trial for his son, a wounded veteran of Heart break Ridge, now serving a 10 year prison term for sleeping on his guard post in the Korean front lines. Dorsey McConnell said his 20- year-old son, Warren, had work ed 72 hours without sleep be fore he was posted on all-night sentry duty last November 10. Boy Didn't Get Chance "The xourt-martial did not give the boy a chance to tell his side of the story,", McConnell charged. "I feel the boy should have another triaL" "An Army spokesman said in Washington Thursday that young McConnell got a fair trial and the sentence handed down by the court-martial was upheld by the Army Judge Advocate General board of review on February 6. McConnell, who has until March 6 to appeal the sentence, said he would take the case to President Truman "as a last re sort," to clear his son's name: Said Out of Proportion - . The sentencing is out of pro portion," McConnell charged. "My understanding is that the maximum sentence would have been one year in prison. I don't believe Washington - knew the Operators' Deaths Claimed Part of 'Tough' Campaign Job Said Lost When Order Refused Norton, Va.-(U.R) An ousted United Mine Workers official charged that a personal agent of UMW Chief John L. Lewis order ed him to murder two mine oper ators in a "get tough" organizing campaign. Charles Minton, former UMW field worker, made the charge in a civil suit filed Thursday in Wise county trial Justice court here, asking $350,000 damages from the UMW's district 28. . Dynamiting Blame Placed in a statement to the common wealth attornev. after filinf tha civil suit Minton named himself, two UMW officials and three other union members as being involved in the dvnamitine of coal tipples at three southwest ern Virginia mines. Minton and the five men upr arrested and released on $5,000 bond each pending a preliminary nearing March 28. Murder Order Refused Minton claimed in his suit ha lost his UMW job because he re fused to murder C. P. Fncafo and Harry L. Turney, owners of the Gladeville Coal Co scene of one of the dynamitings. Lewis and UMW headquarter! in Washington had no immediate comment on Minton 's charges. Log Truck Driver Found Innocent in Jump Scale Case Port Orford, Ore. (U.R) Nor man Gene Storm, charged Au gust 8 with driving a log truck with a combined gross over weight load of 13,200 pounds, was found innocent Thursday by a justice court jury here. The jurors indicated they con sidered Storm innocent of the charge because his truck and load were weighed on "jump scales," a portable unit which can be transferred from place to place. Unlevel Ground Charged Storm contended that the scales were not set up on level ground. Justice. of the Peace Arthur F. Niemann presided over the long-delayed trial The original trial resulted in a hung jury, and was repeatedly delayed on motions of both the defense and prosecution until yesterday. The state highway department maintains no platform scales in Curry county. The nearest plat form scales are at Bandon, in Coos county, about 21 miles north of where Storm's- truck was weighed by the jump scales. BULLETINS Salem, Ore. (U.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee Friday became a candidate in Oregon for president and said by telephone that he Intends an active and intensive cam paign in this state. Paris (U.R) Paul Raynaud, who was premier when the Germans invaded France la World War II. accepted a pres idential mandate Friday night to try to form a government and solve one of this coun try's most serious post-war crises. WARREN McCOirNELX. ; Sleep on Duty Costly state of exhaustion under which he was at the time." Army spokesman said Warren got off lightly. They emphasized that tinder the articles of war which apply in Korea, the sleep ing sentry could have been aen- tenced to death. ,
