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History from the fileg of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 26. 1947 (Saturday)
Price cuts by manufacturers
and retailers which have spread
over the nation during the past
week are beginning to show up
In Medford and other coast
points.
Frost Arthur Ferry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Alfalfa
will be ready to cut in a couple
of weeks farmers report, "and
Gosh! how they dread it.
20 YEARS AGO
April 26, 1927 (Monday)
. Medford schedules will be in
creased as Boeing airplanes are
released for immediate service
and as traffic demands, accord
ing t V. A. Patterson, president
of United Air lines.
New iotor repair shop and
parking shed, replacing motor
transport building recently de
stroyed $y fire, is being built
at the sTackson county fair
grounds by the Medford CCC
district.
30 YEARS AGO
April 26, 1927 (Tuesday)
Southern Oregon Dental so
ciety plans health clinics for
children for Jackson county.
Drinking water from the Cen
tral Point water system must
be boiled due to contamination
caused by a sewage leak, ac
cording to County Health Of
ficer L. D. Inskeep.
40 YEARS AGO
April 26, 1917 (Thursday) .
Rural School Supervisor Pet
erson has been at .work among
Jackson county schools carrying
out industrial club work among
school pupils.
Potato auction at Page the
ater earns S59 for local Red
Cross chapter.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior; Sev
an or eight is excellent; five er
six is good.
1. Chicago, 1854: Over 900
died of cholera during July. Did
this cholera epidemic spread in
to New York?
2. Applying a beefsteak to a
bruised eye is the best way to
reduce swelling; true or false?
3. Bible: After his resurrec
tion did Christ appear before
any woman other than Mary
Magdalene?
4. Stones grow; true or false?
5. Name the book that is the
best seller tf all times.
6. A vetsran must have over
seas duty ki order to qualify for
benefits urster the G.I. Bill of
Rights; true or false?
7. To which government of
ficial did some American Indians
refer by the term "Great White
Father"?
8. The Coudersport mine is
famous for what?
9. Is the "h" silent or sounded
In the word "prohibition"?
10. '"For what were all these
country patriots born? To hunt
and vote, and raise the price of
corn." Were these lines written
by a 20th century writer?
Answers: 1. Yes. 2. False. 3.
Yes. 4. False, (actually they be
come smaller). 5. The Bible. 6.
False. 7. The President of the
XI. S. 8. Its ice. 9. Either (silent
is preferred). 10. No. Byron.
2f SIDETRACKED!
London (U.R) Police arrested
Ian Climie, 32, Wednesday for
jay walking. Climie was found
walking on the subway tracks
between Paddington and Kings
Cross stations to catch a train
home to Scotland.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Crusaders
It is amusing, if not exactly enlightening, to read
our "one-party" Republican press on the presently
all-absorbing problem of taxation.
Most of the same newspapers, not so long ago were
shouting from the house-tops for a state sales tax.
One of them, the enterprising Corvallis Gazette
Times, still is.
It declares it not only opposes the Democratic tax
program as now worded, but would oppose ANY tax
program for the state not built upon and around the
sales tax system.
Such candor is rare and highly commendable. And
as before stated in this department, while theoretically
such a tax is a bad one, as a practical matter experi
ence MAY prove it to be from a tax, solution view
point a "necessary evil," so to speak.
DUT what puzzles this department is that so many
u of the papers in the state that agree with the Gazette-Times
(but don't admit it) and that were a few
years ago so strong for the sales tax, are now up-in-arms
against the "withholding provision" of the
Democratic tax program, as an iniquitous attempt to
evade the "pure food and drug act" that is drug the
electorate into thinking that such a method of taxa
tion is "painless."
This, as the Albany Democrat Herald originally
maintained, would be taxation-wise a capital-offense.
THE estimable Roseburg-Review now falls in line
behind the banner-carrying editor of the Albany
paper, and presumably would also prefer flooded
basements and sewage contamination, to paying the
tax bill for eliminating them.
Here is the "Review's" opinion of "painless" tax
ation in general and the "withholding tax" in particu
lar, quote :
It is a vicious cycle. We should not be ignorant of the
danger that accompanies the easy tax program. It is like
taking dope to alleviate pain. The pain is eased temporarily
but is never cured until the cause is eliminated. We'll never
get economy in government while taxes are collected the
"easy way."
Every effort will be made to convince the voter that he
is getting a tax bargain. The surtax will be cancelled,
exemptions will be raised and, even though the Dooley for-
mula doubtless will be adopted in compromise form, the
blow will be softened by increasing the withholding rate
and the average taxpayer will be happy.
This doleful prognosis is headed "The End of
Economy," which would, in the school of the anti-
tax crusaders, undoubtedly be the "end of the world"
the world at least of rugged individualism, private
initiative and regular and unfailing ten per cent
interest. .
"117HAT is so difficult for this department to under-
stand is this aversion to a form of taxation that
would make the "average tax payer happy."
At tax-paying time we admit we have never seen
a really HAPPY tax-PAYER, but if the Democrats
have devised a system that will make them happy,
particularly as they PAY their taxes, we say more
power to them. Let the good work go on and on.
There is a consummation, as we see it, devoutly to
be wished.
The Roseburg paper disagrees. It says this would
be a calamity, in fact it is in favor, quote :
". . . of making taxes such a hardship that the more
difficult it becomes to collect taxes, the more economical
the government will be."
THIS paper can't qualify as a member of the "EX
. ERT tax-payers league," and we grant such a solu
tion of the tax problem has the virtue of novelty but
we shall be greatly surprised if the idea spreads over
this state or any other.
For most of us, tax-payers and non-tax-payers
if any alike wish to be happy and don't WISH to be
pained. So it is hard to believe that many voters in
this state, or any other, will go along with those jour
nalistic sadists who wish to make the tax-paying sea
son a more painful period rather than a lesser one.
DUT the most puzzling point of all is, that these
AJ same papers which are now so rabid against "pain
less" taxes, were only a few years ago when the sales
tax campaign was on, lauding that form of taxation
to the skies because it WAS relatively PAINLESS.
They supported it BECAUSE it would, as demon
strated in Washington and California, "raise mil
lions and millions," and the average tax-payer would
hardly be aware of it. In fact, as final proof it was
then stated that where a sales tax has been adopted
the same has never been repealed. -
This is hard to understand. If a sales tax SHOULD
be adopted because it is relatively so painless, WHY
should a withholding tax be so violently opposed on
the same grounds?
To this department that doesn't add up, or make
sense.
OOWEVER we don't wish
tion in Oregon from the standpoint of newspaper
unanimity.
There is one notable exception to the chorus of
condemnation of the present state administration's
tax proposals.
And this exception is probably, outside of Port
land, the most highly respected and influential Re
publican newspaper in the state, namely, the thought
ful and conscientious Oregon Statesman, edited by
former Governor Charles Sprague.
The former governor is not exactly enthusiastic
about the Democratic program, but he not only finds
little to criticize in it, his final verdict is, it is good
enough as a whole, to be called "REPUBLICAN."
MOW if ANYONE, considering the source, can con
- jure up a stronger commendation than that, we
would like to have it, and would take pleasure in
placing it on Page One in box-car type. R.W.R. -
Thursday, April 25. 1957
for "Pain
to misrepresent the situa
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8UIL0M' A f>VAyWROUGU HERE'
Matter of Fact
"RIGHT MONEY PLUS A
TAX CUT"
Wahington Any session of
Congress is a drama in two acts,
with the Easter recess as the in
ter m ission.
Act one of this
s e s s i on, de
spite the Beck
hearings and
the Eisenhow
er Doctrine de
bate, has been
o n e 1 o ng
yawn. Act two
may perhaps
be livelier.
Stewaif Alsop
One reason it may be livelier
is that the Democratic leaders
have obviously worked out an
over-all strategy, with an eye
to the 1958 elections, for deal
ing with the dilemma which
confronts them. The dilemma, of
course, derives from the fact
that President Eisenhower, with
his program of "modern Repub
licanism," has deftly made off
with all the traditional Demo
cratic issues. The Democratic
leadership's proposed escape
from the dilemma has been sum
med up in the words, "tight
money plus a tax cut."
A number of Democrats, like
Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minn
esota, have long believed that
the Democrats were missing a
big bet by not making "tight
money" their central issue. Sen
ator Humphrey pled in vain with
Adlai Stevenson last year to
grab the issue and run with it.
Now at long last, thanks in part
to the astute management of
Majority Leader Lyndon John
son, the Democrats may have
an opportunity to exploit the
issue, with Senator Humphrey's
namesake, Secretary of the
Treasury George Humphrey, as
the main target.
,
SOON after the Easter recess,
Secretary Humphrey will be
called as the first witness in a
Senate Finance Committee in
vestigation of the Administra
tion's fiscal policies. Chairman
of the committee is Virginia's
impeccably c o n s e rvative Sen.
Harry Byrd, whom Johnson per
suaded to take on the investiga
tion, is a close friend of Sec
retary Humphrey. Even so, fire
works are expected.
Most of the fireworks are like--ly
to be provided by Oklahoma's
Sen. Robert Kerr, number two
Democrat on the committee. Sec
retary Humphrey is a cat most
Democrats have feared to try
to bell, largely because he is so
able and forceful that any'politi
cian who tangles with him is
likely to come off second best.
But Kerr is a combative man
who has been a sharp critic of
the Humphrey policy since early
in the first' Eisenhower admistra
tion, and he is perfectly willing
to take Humphrey on.
Kerr really knows the com
p 1 e x subject of fiscal policy,
moreover, as he demonstrated in
a recent preliminary bout with
Under Secretary of the Trea
sury Randolph Burgess. Kerr
genuinely believes that the Ad
ministration's fiscal policies
benefit the big bankers at the
expense of small business and
the rest of the country, and he
will be no mean antagonist for
Humphrey to face.
FSOME ways, "tight money"
is an ideal issue for the Dem
ocrats. The Democrats are more
united on the issue than on most
others, since the conservative
Southerners, with their agrarian
background, tend to be easy
money men. Moreover, the issue
has traditional populist over
tones, with its suggestion of rich
bankers grinding down the faces
of the farmers and small busi
ness men.
YOUR GIRL NEXT?
GEO. N. TAYLOR
Will your daughter join the thousands who
make up the underworld? Comes fascinating
stranger; auto; joy-ride; dope and forever
after, you have but the empty chair and the
pain in your heart.
Now see God's watch-care for his people.
He gives them eternal life and they shall
never perish, nor shall anyone every snatch
them out of His hand. And why? "That in th
ages to come, God might show the exceeding
riches of his grace, in his kindness to us thru
Christ Jesus." See Ephesians 2:9.
Call the family together daily and may you
and Dad, by Bible reading and prayer, see
them grow and by God-power stand.
By Stewart Alsop
The trouble is that government
fiscal policy is so complex a
matter that very few people
understand it, and it is difficult
to dramatize for political pur
poses. This is quite aside from
the merits of the issue - and
some Democrats, like Sen. Paul
Douglas of Illinois, the Senate's
only professional economist, are
not at all sure that it is a good
idea to adopt an easy money
policy in the middle of a boom.
Even so, it is about the only
issue the Democrats have left,
and Kerr and his allies will do
their level best to put it across.
They may be helped by witnesses
who will follow Humphrey, esp
ecially if Cyrus Eaton, Chairman
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
way, is called to the stand. Eaton
is Secretary Hump hrey's bit
terest critic in the business com
munity, and his testimony might
well make quite a sensation.
IF ALL goes as planned, the
"tight money" investigation
will be the preview to a Democratic-sponsored
tax cut. The tax
cut is likely to take the form of
a $100 increase in personal ex
emptions. It is designed to antic
ipate an expected Administration-sponsored,
election-year cut
in 1958f and at the same time to
give the Democrats the desired
coloration as "the friends of the
little fellow."
It remains to be seen whether
the "tight money plus a tax cut"
formula will work. But at the
moment, though it may be bad
economics, the formula looks
like shrewd politics.
(c) 1957 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Briefs From
The Legislature
Salem (U.R The Senate Ag
riculture Committee voted Tues
day to recommend passage of
House bill 495, calling for a
usage audit of milk.
The measure was amended by
the committee, and if passed by
the Senate, will go back to the
House for concurrence. The
amendment was made for a more
effective administration of the
measure by the State Depart
ment of Agriculture, and had the
endorsement of its sponsors, the
Oregon Milk Producers Associa
tion. Salem '(U.R) House bill 655
requiring replacing of top soil
disturbed by dredging during
mining operations also passed
the House. Rep. Steward said
the proposed legislation had had
a stormy history in previous
Legislatures. Little opposition
was encountered this time.
Salem (U.R) With only one
dissenting vote the House voted
to memorialize Congress to
grant statehood to Alaska and
Hawaii during the current ses
sion o' Congress.
Salem '(U.R) The House vot
ed 54-5 to establish a seven man
interim committee to study ef
fects of the termination of fed
eral control over the Klamath
Indian reservation in August,
1958. The resolution previously
passed the Senate.
Record 6,283 Persons
Tour UN Headquarters
United Nations, N. Y. U.R)-
A record 6,283 persons paid to
tour the United Nations head
quarters Wednesday. The throng
broke the April 23, 1955, record
of 5,739 visitors.
Since the guided tour service
was established in October, 1952,
a total of 3,253,458 persons have
paid to be taken through the
U.N. Building.
SL
Russia Carrying Out Military
Build-up in Satellite Nations
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Russia seems to be car
rying out a big military build
up in the Communist satellite
count ries of
Eastern Eu
rope.
The build-up
is reported to
include the
construction of
rocket and
guided missile
bases in Czech
oslovakia,' East
Charles McCann . Germany, Po
land and possibly Hungary.
The superhighway Autobahn
which extends across East Ger
many is being improved so that
parts of it wiU serve as land
ing strips for jet fighter planes,
according to one report.
Troop Build-up Reported .
Russian troop reinforcements
are said to be moving into some
of the countries concerned. In
others, according to dispatches
from West Germany, . garrison
troops are being replaced by
fresh units from Russia, which
would be more trustworthy in
event of trouble. ,
While this is going on, the So
viet government also is conduct
ing a somewhat puzzling and
contradictory diplomatic cam
paign. This includes threats to Allied
countries of frightful destruction
in event of war, bids for better
Morse Plans Fight
On Further Curb
To Douglas Region
Washington, D.C. Senator
Wayne Morse (D-Ore) today
branded as "another attmpt to
put the lumber industry of the
Douglas fir region at a further
competitive disadvantage," the
efforts to impose new restric
tions through the American
Lumber Standards Committee of
the Department of Commerce,
The Oregon Senator declared
that , the imposition of restric
tions on maximum moisture con-
tent, which are supported ' by
some competing softwood reg
ions, would result in increased
costs for Pacific Northwest
lumbermen, both for production
and transportation.
"Oregon and Washington have
long been subject to a number
of disadvantages imposed by
big business," Morse said. "The
railroads have maintained rates
that often make it difficult for
our products to compete. For a
number of years the railroads
failed to supply boxcars when
they were urgently needed."
To Fight New Effort
"We have long fought this dis
crimination," he added. "Now
apparently another effort will
be made to cripple our lumber
industry, and I shall fight it
with vigor."
Emphasizing the detrimental
effects on the lumber industry
caused by the current policies of
tight money and credit, Morse
said that "this administration
has perpetrated a series of deeds
designed to disrupt the entire
housing program needed for the
people of our nation as well as
the lumber industry."
As an example, he cited the
FHA attempt in 1956 to rule out
from FHA financing west coast
lumber covered by improved
grade stamping procedures.
"Now another effort, apparent
ly with some disguised admin
istration blessing, is about to
get underway which will hurt
the western lumber industry,"
he declared. "Frankly I do not
know why this industry should
be so singled out for discrim
inatory treatment."
"I serve notice," Morse con
cluded, "that any action which
is unreasonable to the west coast
lum.ber industry shall have my
wholehearted opposition, wheth
er it starts within the Depart-
m e n t of Commerce or else
where."
The Therapy of "GRIEF"
More and more common in magazines and literature there are appearing articles
based on the therapeutic value of grief; not only of grief itself but in giving
outward expression to that grief.
For a long time now people have gone under the impression that it it a
sign of weakness to allow any of our emotions to come to the surface where
they can be seen by others. Now it is being recognized that burying one's feel
ings is harmful both physically and psychologically. These is a cleansing quality
in tears.
That is why a funeral service, which allows the release ofpent up feelings,
provides an honest therapy for sincere bereavement.
DAY OR NIGHT PHONE 2-8030
Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
relations with the big Western
powers and hints of important
concessions in the current United
Nations disarmament negotia
tions in London.
What the whole business adds
up to, it is difficult to figure
out. But for one thing, it looks
as if the Soviet government is
really worried over the threat
it would face, if war came, from
the bases the United States and
its allies maintain in the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
countries.
Fear German Uprising
Further, though Communist
ruled East Germany seems to
be quiet and tough "Stalinist"
leaders are in control there, the
Russians seem to fear the possi
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Watch Jordan.
Something is boiling there
that could blow the lid off.
lyHATS cooking?
Dispatches tell us Egypt
and RUSSIA have opened up an
all-out propaganda war in Jor
dan, calling on the Jordanian
people to stand united in opposi
tion to an "Anglo-American
plot" against them.
The immediate purpose of the
propaganda campaign is to get
former premier Nabulsi a PRO
RUSSIAN, back into the driver's
seat in the little Jordanian king
dom. Young King Hussein, who
is anti-Russian, tossed him out
of office the other day.
VHY is Jordan so important?
" A look at your map will
tell you. Poverty-stricken little
Jordan, living on handouts from
its Arab neighbors, touches on
every important country in the
Middle East. It has a long fron
tier with Israel, which the Arabs
yearn to destroy. -
Key District Bill
Amendment OK'd
Salem '(U.R The House Edu-
cation Committee Wednesday
night adopted an amendment to
the so-called key district school
bill to ease its effects on dist
ricts that stood to lose millions
from the original version.
The amendment was written
by Rep. John Mosser of Wash
ington county and was adopted
by a committee vote of 5 to 3.
The key district battle has
ranked second only to taxes1 as
a source of controversy at the
1957 Legislature. It arose from
the state's effort to revise the
formula under which it distrib
utes state aid to school districts
The original key district bill
would have resulted in sharp fi
nancial losses to Portland
schools and to several eastern
Oregon districts. The first ver
sion would have resulted in a
$2,750,000 loss of revenue to
Portland schools the first year
of operation. Under Mosser's
plan, Portland would lose about
$900,000 in state aid. Portland
legislators on the committee op
posed the Mosser amendment.
As amended, the bill would
subtract a $4,500,000 fund from
total state school monies, which
total about $40 million. The bal
ance would be split 50-50, half
distributed on the basis of prop
erty evaluation and the other
half distributed on the key dist
rict mills ge formula. Portland
would still be used as the key
district.
A 'PLUG' NICKEL
Fulton, Miss. (U.R) O. R.
Cooper rode into town Wednes
day and tied his horse to the
nearest thing to a hitching post
a parking meter. He returned
later to find a parking ticket
tucked under the bridle between
the horse's ears. Cooper forgot
to put a nickel in the meter.
bility that an uprising might
break out there at any time.
It must be remembered, too,
that the satellite countries have
become economic liabilities since
the Polish and Hungarian re
volts, and that they are likely
to remain so.
Hence it may be that the re
ported build-up of military
strength and striking power in
the satellite countries is largely
defensive.
It may be also that the recent
optimism over the possibility
that a start may be made toward
disarmament is justified.
That would mean that the So
viet government is ready at last
to agree to limited aerial inspec
tion of military facilities.
JENKINS
If shooting started in the Mid
dle East, Jordan would be stra
tegically important.
rjNE more point:
If shooting starts in Joran,
Israel is expected to STRIKE
INSTANTLY. In every armed,
clash so far Israel's tough, dis
ciplined, do-or-die army has lick
ed the socks off its Arab op
ponents. To the Arabs, that is a sober
ing thought. It may be a sober
ing thought to Russia.'
TACK to the home front and
" spending and taxes:
In a speech to the Rochester
New York Rotary club. Presi
dent Eisenhower's welfare secre
tary, Marian Folsom, says the
President's record peacetime
budget is quite in line with a
growing and prosperous nation.
He added that it's only natur
al that the budget should in
crease as a nation grows.
1" ETS take a look at the other
side of the picture.
The government says ' this
morning the, U.S. cost of living
index reached a new record high
in March for the seventh con
secutive month.
The report added that the
PURCHASING POWER of the
average factory laborer's pay
check DIPPED in March for the
second month in a row.
THAT is to say: ,
Fnr t.wrt mnnthe in a mw
the cost of living has risen fast
er than factory wages. Factory
wages, of course, can be RAIS
ED but that simply means
speeding up the inflationary spi
ral. What that means is that the
kitten chasing its tail will have
to run faster in the vain hope
of catching up with it.
TNSTEAD of spending more and
more as we get bigger and
allegedly more prosperous,
wouldn't it be better if we
started paying off our debt and
reducing the tax load which in
itself tends to force prices high
er and higher?
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