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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
JO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 3, 1945
(It was Saturday)
Rogue River High school bas
ketball team, led by junior
Dimick with 10 points, defeats
Merrill, 20 to 12, to win right to
play Arlington for berth in state
tournament.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: March came
in Thursday without imperson
ating any member of the animal
kingdom.
20 YEARS AGO
March 3, 1935
(It was Sunday)
P. O. Denson marks second
anniversary of active manage
ment of Medford hotel. '
Moving pictures showing in
Medford include Norma Shearer,
Fredric March, and Charles
Laughton, in "The Barretts of
Wimpole Street," at the Roxy,
and'After Office Hours," with
Clark Gable and Constance
Bennett, at the Craterian.
30 YEARS AGO
March 3. 1925
(It was Tuesday)
Jackson county Varmint rec
ord" broken during February
when $1,074 paid in bounties;
story says "If the coyotes and
wildcats hold out it will be a
prosperous year for agriculture."
John H. Carkin, Medford city
attorney, returns from Portland
where he represented city in
damage suit.
40 YEARS AGO
Mazch 3. 1915
(It was Wednesday)
Secretary of Interior grants
permit to Darling and Hodges
to operate "stage autos" from
Gold Hill to Crater Lake Na
tional park.
L. D. Dollarhide, owner of the
toll road over the Siskiyous, of
fers county court chance to pur
chase 12 miles of toll road ex
tending from Pacific highway
toward Colestin district for
$1,000.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. New Soviet prime minister
is Bulganin, Krushchev, Malen
kov, Molotov or Zhukov?
2. Does the Senate or the House
have more standing committees,
or do they have the same num
ber? 3. Most young babies can or
can't be made immune to whoop
ing cough?
4. President Eisenhower uses
.the two bowling alleys in the
"White House often, seldom or
never?
5. Were more TV or more radio
sets sold in the U. S. last year?
6. Secretary of State Dulles
calls the U. N. more success than
failure, more failure than suc
cess, or about 50-50?
7. Sigma Xi is a fraternity for
eminence in fine arts, dentistry,
law, science; or journalism? ,
The Answers: 1. Bulganin; 2.
The House has slightly more: 3.
Can; 4. Never; . they're being
moved out; 5. More TV sets; 6.
More success than failure; 7.
Science.
Carpets are not harmed by
radiant' floor heating. Tempera
tures of the heating system can-J
not rise high enough to cause
damage or danger.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Who Is
As before stated the Mail Tribune opposed the
Democratic income tax-cut, because the tax favored
only one group. For the same reason we opposed the
Republican tax-cut last year, because IT favored only
one group. . H
We believed then and believe now, that changes in
income taxes up or down, should not be on a flat in
dividual basis but a percentage basis and thus fair to
all.
THE opposition to the $20 cut from Congressman
Ellsworth however, with an able assist from the
Portland Oregonian, hits a new high in unconscious
humor. ,
With customary solemnity, for example, the Rep
resentative of the Fourth District condemned this ef
fort to reduce income taxes in the lower brackets as,
quote:
"In simple language this bill means the government will
borrow $2,300,000,000 and give each tax payer a $20 green
back." If that is correct then the Republican program of
tax reduction in 1954, in equally "simple language,
meant the government, borrowed $60,000,000,000 to
give a few taxpayers checks ranging from $700 to
$700,000 at least that is the estimate of one of the
tax experts in Washington.
There is no doubt of this much at least, that
tax cut, including elimination of the excess-profit tax,
was followed by the most sensational flurry on the
stock market since the 1920's and the greatest storm
of extra dividends and stock splits in modern history.
This result, proponents of the GOP program claim
not only helped. the big corporations and the big
stock holders, but the "little fellow."
CONGRESSMAN Ellsworth . maintains, however,
that this Democratic reduction of $20 in the in
come tax won't benefit anyone, including the "little
fellow."
Why not?
If Mr. Ellsworth had not received a pay raise of
some 60 per cent to a total of $22,500 per year, but
had to return to a cub reporters stipend ol say $5U
a week, wouldn't, he have benefitted by a reduction
of that amount?
There are thousands of citizens who pay less than
$100 a year income tax and that $20 reduction would
cut the total by 25 per cent in some cases might
cancel the obligation entirely.
If that wouldn't be a benefit what does the term
mean?
It would be only a "$20 greenback" it is true, but
there are some people who don't find many of them
around when they go to market, just as there are
some who regard a $20 bill as small change, to be
wrapped up in bundles for the hip pocket.
.
UOWEVER, why not be frank about it?
There are two differing schools of thought in this
tax business, the Republicans believe the more re
lief the boys in the higher brackets get the more they
will invest, and therefore, the greater the prosperity
for all.
The Democratic, theory is the more money you
leave in the hands of the rank and file the lower
brackets, the greater the purchasing power and so
also, the greater the prosperity for all.
Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey is of course
a strong advocate of the higher-bracket system, Mr.
Leon Keyserling, former financial adviser to Presi
dent Truman is just as strong a believer in the lower
bracket system. - - - -
Who is right?
Mr. Ellsworth says Secretary Humphrey is.
Speaker Raybum no doubt goes along with Key
serling. THHE Oregonian, however, goes along with neither.
It refuses to take sides. In fact it declares the
question is not a financial one but essentially a ques
tion of morals.
The issue is not one between one taxation system
and another, but between honesty and dishonesty,-
just as simple as that!
UOWEVER we won't pay any $64 to anyone who
"answers correctly the question as to which system
the Oregonian regards as morally right and the one
morally wrong! R.W.R.
Our Changing World
What a difference just a few years make !
Only about 10 years ago, there was general agree
ment among the free nations that the first step to
peace on earth and good will to men was the total
and permament disarmament of Germany.
Today there is similar agreement, that not only
MUST Germany rearm, but must join the free na
tions in the defense of western Europe against Soviet
Russia, if world peace is to be maintained, and anoth
er war prevented.
General Guenther declares that if Germany fails
to rearm and join the allied coalition, there will be a
fatal weakness in the defense line against Commun
ist conquest which might lead to serious consequences
if and when Russia declares the zero hour has come.
And now the latest report from Europe is that the
people of Western Germany will never sanction re
armament, they are at peace and prosperous. All they
want is to be reunited with Eastern Germany and be
left alone.
"1X7ELL we hope this report along with many others
is incorrect. The only point we wish to make at
this time is this: It is surely not a static cosmos but a
forever changing one, we live in. R.W.R. '
Thursday, March 3, 1955
Right?
King of Cambodia
Expected To Return
As Leader of Nation
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
King Norodom Sihanouk of
Cambodia is one of those men
who make big gestures
FX
In 1 95 3,
when, he
wanted to; put
pressure : on
France to
grant inde
pendence to
his little king
dom at the
southeast
corner of Asia,
Norodom went
across the
frontier
Charles McCann
to "exile" in neighboring Thai
land ..
He stayed there only a week,
then set up a sort of protest
capital at Siemreap in North
western Cambodia.
Within five months, Norodom
was back in the national capi
tal of Pnom Penh in triumph,
with a promise of eventual free
dom.
Last month, annoyed at his
political critics, Norodom called
for a national referendum on
his policies. He won 99 per cent
of the votes.
The critics were not silenced,
however, so Wednesday Noro
dom annunced his abdication.
"I will live in the midst of
my people a humble life like
that of my subjects," Norodom
said in a radio broadcast.
He complained that Son Ngoc
McCarthy Charges
Stevens Deceived
Congress, People
Washington (U.R) Sen
ator Joseph R. McCarthy (R
Wis.), charged today that Army
Secretary Robert T. Stevens
"deliberately deceived the Con
gress and the American people"
in the case of former Maj. Irv
ing Peress.
McCarthy's latest blast at his
old foe of the televised Army
McCarthy hearings also charged
Stevens with an "uncooperative
attitude" for delay in naming all
persons connected with the hon
orable discharge of Peress after
he refused to tell . McCarthy
whether he was a Communist.
The Wisconsin Republican
also charged that resigned Army
counselor John G. Adams and
Lt. Gen. Walter L. Weible, depu
ty chief of staff, , "exhibited a
contemptuous attitude" when
they gave Peress an honorable
discharge, ignoring McCarthy's
demand that the major be court
martialed.
Adams, also a key figure in
the Army-McCarthy hearings,
resigned in January.
McCarthy's newest blistering
of the Army came in the report
of the 1954 activities of the Sen
ate Investigating subcommittee,
which he headed last year.
Eden Sees Need
To Renounce Force
New Delhi, India (U.R)
British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden said today his search
for a Formosa Strait cease fire
would be helped greatly if the
two sides would give some indi
cation of their willingness to Re
nounce the use of force.
Eden made the statement to
newsmen during his visit to New
Delhi to discuss the tense Far
Eastern situation with Indian
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Neh
ru and to try to stretch the un
easy Formosa quiet into a de
pendable cease fire.
Eden said he thought that the
gaps between the United States
and British position and the In
dian position on Formosa "can
be bridged."
"What we are seeking is to
establish conditions under which
a settlement can be brought
about by discussion and concil
iation," Eden said. "To solve
the problem each of us must
contribute what we can to solve
the problem, which in any event
is difficult and could be dangerous."
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Thanh, leader of the Democratic
Party, was obstructing his' policies.
Among these policies is co
operation with the Western" Al
lies against Communist aggres
sion. Son Ngoc Thanh is a
"neutralist," who wants Cam
bodia to sit on the sidelines like
India in the cold war.
Itb happened, however, that
Norodom announced his abdica
tion just when the United
States and France are negotiat
ing on the training of the Cam
bodian army. The United States,
w i t h Cambodian approval,
wants to take over the training.
France is reluctant to step aside.
It seems just possible that this
has something to do with Noro
dom's decision.
It seems more than possible,
also, that Norodom will soon be
induced to reconsider his deci
sion. If not, a colorful country will
lose a colorful king.
Norodom was elected King,
by a crown council, in 1941 to
succeed his maternal grand
father King Sisowath Monivong.
In announcing his abdication,
Norodom named his father,
Prince Norodom Suramarit, as
his successor. But he may be
back before long.
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Tourists vs. Sales Tax
To the Editor: Having resided
in California when the sales tax
was initiated there, I can under
stand the feeling of some Ore-
gonians who cannot see the ad
vantage of a state sales tax.
It seemed to me then, as it ap
pears to most Oregonians now,
that this tax would be, not only
a burden but a nuisance. Howev
er, experience proved that near
ly everyone has a few loose pen
nies in ms pocket, which in most
cases is - all the tax amounted
to. It was spread so thinly that
no one actually felt it. Of course,
when a new automobile, truck
or tractor was purchased, there
was a more considerable amount
of tax. But on an article of that
kind, one seldom has the cost
so definitely figured out before
hand that $2 or $3 on a hund
red dollars of the price would
cause a hardship.
What seems to me -the most
important item that is being lost
sight of is the many millions
of dollars spent in our state
yearly by tourists, visitors and
transient workers. Most of these
come from sales tax states. They
do not object to also paying sales
tax in Oregon in fact most of
them expect it. Such a tax
would not keep a single tourist
from coming to Oregon. They
are used to paying such a tax.
I have yet to find a single
person who has been a citizen
of a sales-tax-state, who has not
heartily endorsed this as the eas
iest and most logical means of
meeting our ever increasing
state tax burden, and they fail
to understand why Oregon does
not see it.
The well-toio can afford the
tax without hardship, no matter
how assessed. As for the itiner
ant worker who comes in for
a short time and then carries
or sends away most of what he
makes in Oregon well, why
shouldn't he pay his part of the
tax expense?
It is the ordinary, middle class
salary earner, like myself; the
small business man or small
farmer (much opinion to the con
trary) who would benefit most.
It is gratifying to see that the
Chamber of Commerce has gone
on record in favor of the propos
ed 3 per cent sales tax, and as
editorially stated in the Mail
Tribune, a genuine emergency
exists which will have to be met
some way, and which no am
ount of wishful thinking can
help.
So it is to be hoped that our
legislators will have the courage
to pass the sales tax measure.
Frank H. Gray,
122 Valley View dr.,
.Medford, Ore. j
Matter of Fact
PITY THE POOR DEMOCRATS
Washington - The hassle over
taxes neatly illustrates the hid
eous dilemma confronting the
Democrats. The dilemma is so
seemingly in
soluble that it
has the Demo
cratic leaders
of the House
and Senate,
who are about
the shrewdest
politicians in
the United
States, baffled,
irritated, and
divided.
The dilemma
Stewart JUsop
can be defined in. a couple of
questions: How are the Demo
crats to win back the White
House when it . is seemingly po
litical poison even to criticize
the well-liked President? And
what issues are Democratic Con
gressional candidates to run on,
when the 'Administration keeps
snatching all the best issues out
from under their noses?
There are two theoretical solu
tions to these conundrums. One
is to use every means to present
the Eisenhower administration as
the friend of the rich, casting
the Democratic party in the role
of the defender of the "little
guy." Meanwhile, the Democrats
should be ready to stand up and
slug it out with the President
when need arises. Chief propon
ents of this strategy are Paul
Butler, chairman of the Demo
cratic National Committee, and
his assistants. With modifica
tions, the Butler view is shared
by House Speaker Sam Raybum
and the other House leaders.
Solution number two is to
avoid direct conflict with the
President, concentrating instead
on building up the' Democratic
party as unified and responsible
and the Republican party as irre
sponsible and divided. As for de
feating Eisenhower (everybody
assumes he will run again) that
is a nasty little problem for the
Democratic candidate, I whoever
he may be.
Chief proponents of this view
are Senate Majority Lyndon
Johnson and most of the senior
Democratic Senators. This is not
to say that there is any row
brewing between Johpson
(whose illness has complicated
matters) and his fellow-Texan
Raybum. But there is a distinct
and important difference of ap
proach. There are good reasons
for this difference.
.
170R one thing, only a compara-
tive handful of Democratic
Senators need to worry serious
ly about the next election. More
over, the Senate leaders are by
no means starry-eyed about
Adlai Stevenson, most probable
Democratic presidential candi
date. This gives them a rather
relaxed attitude toward 1956.
By contrast, Butler and the
National Committee officials
are Stevenson men, and they are
quite aware that Stevenson can
hardly hope to win if Eisenhow
er is considered above criticism.
The House Democrats, what is
more, feel the breath of 1956
already hot on their necks.
In fact, many House Demo
crats are worried sick at the
prospect of running in 1956,
with the popular Eisenhower
heading the Republican ticket
and with no "gut issue" no is
sue that really excites the voters
to use against the Republi
cans. State delegations have re
peatedly passed the word to Ray
burn: "We've got to have an
issue."
This is one reason why Ray
bum and Butler are natural
allies in the Democratic war
council. It is also one reason why
Raybum and Company decided
to spring the $20-for-everybody
tax surprise. .
The surprise was most unwel
come to the Senate leaders. As
the saw it, instead of giving the
Democrats the needed, issue, the
move unified the Republicans
and hung the ."irresponsible"
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By Stewart Afsop
label on the Democrats, all at
one stroke. As this is written an
effort is being made to patch up
some sort' of compromise which
will save face for1 the House
leaders without giving the 'Ad
ministration a political bonanza.
This will be a neat trick if
it can be done, but it will not
begin to solve the Democratic
problem. The Democrats thought
they might have the essential
"gut issue" in aid for education.
But Sens. Ives, of New York,
and Smith, of New Jersey, nee
dled the Administration to jump
in . with an education bill of
its own. Democrats angrily de
nounced the Administration bill
as a phony. But the . bill has
nevertheless robbed them of the
clear-cut issue to use against the
Administration which they are
seeking. And the same thing is
true all the way down the line.
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OERHAPS events may solve
the Democrats' problem. An
ugly little war in Asia, for ex
ample, might change the politi
cal climate. Former President
Harry Truman has reportedly
written Sen. Wayne Morse con
gratulating him for his anti-administration
stand in the For
mosa crisis, and accusing the
President of "abdicating his re
sponsibilities." The time might
come when some such line would
be politically effective.
Or a worsening economic situ
ation might do the trick for
the Democrats. But House Mi
nority Leader Joe Martin often
remarks' to friends: "Give us
peace and prosperity in 1956,
with Ike heading the ticket, and
nothing can beat us." And many
Democrats privately agree at
least as regards the White House.
Copyright, 1955.
New. York Herald Tribune, Inc.
Communist China
Draft Evader Has
Uncertain Future
Honolulu (U.R) Tsay Yu-
Chen, a former art student who
fled Communist China six years
ago to avoid the draft, sailed
last night aboard the liner Pres
ident Wilson for an uncertain
future in his homeland behind
the bamboo curtain.
U. S. immigration officers put
Tsay aboard the Orient - bound
vessel after he lost a three
month legal battle here to es
cape deportation. Tsay claimed
he 'faced persecution and possi
ble death if he were forced to
return to Shanghai, his home
town. - - -i
However, immigration offic
ials in Honolulu and San1 Fran
cisco turned down his . plea. Fed
eral Judge J. Frank McLaughlin
dismissed a writ of habeas cor
pus that freed Tsay from a
China-bound ship last Decemb
er. .
Tsay had been ordered deport
ed in New York on grounds he
was illegally in the United
State's and had poor morals. He
was sailing for Hong Kong when
Honolulu attorney Clarence
Fong obtained the writ.
Tsay had one more chance
of escaping Communism. He
has asked the Chinese National-;
ists to let him go to Formosa,
but so far they have not replied.
Police Give Up Watch
On Bank Too Soon
Mansfield, Ga. (U.R) Police
watched the Bank of Mansfield
for several days after an anony-
ous telephone caller said it was
gcing to be robbed.
When nothing happened po
lice decided the tip was a prank
and ended their special watch.
Wednesday the bank was held
up and robbed of $6,300. 1
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!n the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Fiscal note from New Delhi:
Prime Minister Nehru's gov
ernment asked the Indian parlia
ment to approve the first billion-
dollar budget in the seven-year
life of the Indian Republic.
Expenditures for the 1955-56
fiscal year, which starts on April
1, are estimated at $1,047,000,
OOP. LET'S see.
India's present population
is about 400,009,000.
Its anticipated expenditures
for the upcoming fiscal year will
be a shade over a billion dollars.
When figures get even that
large they're over my head, but
I think that amounts to about
$2,50 per person.
GOING on from there:
The present population of
the United States is about 160,-
000,000.
Anticipated U. S. federal ex
penditures for the upcoming
fiscal year will be in the neigh
borhood of $65,000,000,000 or
thereabouts.
Those vastly bigger dollar fig
ures are still rather over my
head, but the fancy computing
machine I keep on my desk for
such mathematical emergencies
tells me that the anticipated cost
of our federal government for
the coming fiscal year in our
country will be about $400 per
head. .
WHAT do these fancy figures
aHH lin tn?
They add up to this, I'd say:
India needs to spend consid
erably MORE (if the spending is
done wisely) on its federal gov
ernment.
The United States needs to
spend CONSIDERABLY LESS.
T SUPPOSE the thought will
A occur to you (especially if
you are approaching retirement
age) that it might be a good idea
for you to move to India. With
the federal government nicking
you for only $2.50 per year in
the way of taxes, you ought to
have quite a little left over to
pay for your necessary food and
shelter and -clothing needs.
Before you go off the deep
end, let me offer a little .advice:
Take a trip to India first.
Take a careful look at what
is to be seen there including
the splendor of the upper classes
and the unbelievable squalor of
the lower clossesv ;
After doing that," I think you'll
decide to remain in the U. S. for
the remainder of your days
taxes or no taxes. It isn't so
much WHAT YOU PAY in the
way of taxes that counts as
WHAT YOU GET FOR WHAT
YOU PAY. ;
I'D like to make another sug
gestion: - .
Before moving to India or
even going there first for a look
see DO A LITTLE THINKING.
India, for hundreds of years,
has had CLASS GOVERNMENT.
Always in India's affairs, , the
upper classes have been pitted
against the lower classes and
vice versa.
What India is today is the. re
sult of this pitting of class against
class.
HERE in America the dema
gogue politicians are striving
increasingly to PIT CLASS
AGAINST CLASS in the hope
of garnering votes thereby.." ,
Ifs BAD. business.
If you want to see just how"
bad it is, you'd better take a
trip to India, where the results
of centuries of pitting class
against class are clearly evident.
I don't think you'll like what
you see.
EDITOR DIES
Indianapolis (U.R) Gord
on Cummings, financial editor
of the Indianapolis Times and
veteran of other Scripps-Howard
newspapers, died yesterday oi a
heart attack. He was 61 years
old. -
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