Federal Lottery to Get Funds
For Treasury Opposed by Solon
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribun Correspondent
Washington What about
federal lottery for raising
funds to keep Uncle Sam out
of the red?
Percival F.
B rundage,
budget direct
or for the Ei
senhower ad
min istration,
a Republican
who hates red
ink as much
as his party
A. Robt Smita loves IO DOabl
of balancing the budget,
0 wouldn't mind experimenting
with something akin to a lot
tery. What irks Brundaga thfit
the chief "beneficiary of Oil
the gambling that goc on in
this country is th under
world. He wouldn't mind if
a little more of it could be
scraped off the table into the
U.S. Treasury.
"I wouldn't mind experi
menting with a bond issue
with a redemption bonus or
something like that," Brund
age said last week. "But I
don't think the secretary of
;the treasury would approve."
British Bond Lottery
He was apparently refer
ring to the British bond lot
tery. By this system, bonds
are sold to the public at
$2.80 each. They have a short
redemption period, but no
guaranteed interest payment.
The lucky ones get the inter
est some receiving as much
as $2,800 and the others re
ceive only their original in
vestment.
As for a national lottery,
Brundage said he didn't think
is was a practical idea.
The day after the New
York Herald-Tribune publish
ed a front page story on this
under the headline "Budget
Head Suggests Federal Lot
tery Bonds," Oregon's Sen.
Richard L. Neuberger took
the Senate floor "to state for
the record my emphatic op
position to the recent pro
posal of Budget Director
Brundage that we rely upon
a federal lottery to collect
funds for the U.S. Treasury."
Tfcre Reasons
Neuberger said the idea was
Urong for three reasons:
1. It would tap the pocket
books of our citizens not on
the fair basis of ability to pay,
but merely based upon who
was the victim of a gambling
neurosis.
2. It inevitably would en
courage state and local gov
ernments to depend upon a
similarly unsound method of
filling their coffers.
'3. It would have an unfor
tunate impact upon the na
tion's standard of living, be
cause many of those pouring
their incomes into the fed
eral lottery might be heads
of large families with only
limited financial means.
The senator said he- thought
Brundage would have done
better to "speak out in favor
of abolishing depletion allow
ances for a few favored in
dustries, or in favor of reim
posing the excess profits tax
on manufacturers of arma
ments and munitions a tax
which the Republican nation
al administration unwisely
permitted to expire."
Quotes Director
As for gambling itself, Neu
berger quoted the director of
the Chicago Crime Commis
sion, in a book called "Gam
bling: Should It Be Legal
ized?" as saying "gambling is
injurious to the morals and
welfare of the people."
"As I see it," Neuberger
said, "a form of federal lot
tery would put the imprint
of the U.S. government on
legalized gambling. The pres
tige of Congress and the
White House then would back
such a proposal. Once the fed
eral government had indorsed
this kind of operation for rais
ing federal revenues, how
could we censor any states or
localities which followed suit
by legalizing slot machines,
roulette wheels, pinball ma
chines or dice games? Gam
bling is gambling. How are
you going to draw the line?"
Neuberger said he found it
"inexplicable that a man so
highly placed in our national
government . . . would sug
gest the collecting of federal
revenues from a national lot
tery. How can a minor hood
lum or corrupt magistrate
now be assailed for voicing a
similar proposal, when it has
come from an office as influ
ential as that of the presi
dent's budget director?"
The senators from Nevada
offered no defense of their
state's most lucrative source
of revenue.
. Baghdad Pact Remains Weak
Despite U.S. Saving Conference
Ankara, Turkey API The
United States saved the Bagh
dad Pact conference from ab
ject failure.
But the "Northern Tier"
alliance is still a weak fledg
ling which could be pulled
apart by the conflicting inter
ests and fears of its members
Turkey, Iran, Pakistan,
Iraq and Britain.
As a collective security or
ganization, the Pact still has
a long way to go. It is beset
by problems which often
threaten ot obscure its basic
purpose defense against
the Soviet Union.
Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles, now en route
home, was satisfied, however,
that the four-day meeting
which ended Thursday turned
out better than he expected.
Two key speeches by Dulles
made the difference.
The Moslem members re
flected the changed atmo
sphere in their closing
speeches.
When the premiers and
foreign ministers met Monday
in the still unfinished Turkish
Grand Assembly Building
there was a definite feeling
that Dulles was bringing only
himself to the conference,
and that was not enough.
In addition to their own in
dividual troubles, the pact
members tended to feel they
were not getting either moral
support or the money they
needed from the U.S. to meet
the Soviet penetration of the
Middle East with its program
of threats and economic aid.
The turning point came
Wednesday, the day before
the conference ended.
On the opening day, Dulles
already had reaffirmed that
U.S. "mobHe power" would
be used under the Eisenhower
Doctrine to back the pact
members against any Commu
nist aggression.
Wednesday he surprised
the Moslem members by of
fering another 10 million dol
lars for a project to improve
wire communications be
tween the Middle East capi
tals. Loans Promised '
He held out the prospect of
loans for other regional de
velopment projects for Pact
members from the American
Loan Fund for Economic De
velopment. The psychological
impact of the promise went
beyond the actual amount
promised.
Equally important, Dulles
answered the claims of So
viet "aid" with a detailed
analysis of how much and
how little it actually was com
pared with aid from the U.S.
and the Free World. It show
ed plainly U.S. aid was far
greater -than Soviet aid and it
satisfied the Moslem leaders.
The military part of the
conference approved holding
the .pact's first combined
staff exercises by its new
combined military planning
staff in the near future.
The planning staff is per
haps only a small step toward
a joint command, needed for
NATO-like solidarity. But
permanent planning to co
ordinate the defense plans of
the individual countries has
just begun, and any joint staff
is still a long way off.
Home Building Barometer
Of Business Conditions
Br ELMER C. WALZER
United Press Financial Editor
New York HPI The stock
jxchange firm of Green, El
lis and Anderson regards the
lome building industry as a
barometer of business.
Right noW says Miron Mac
Namie, analyst for the firm,
housing is one of the few
areas bucking the trend and
it "may be signaling a broad
recovery by industry."0
MacNamie holds that hous
ing often has shown strength
when the economy has been
in the doldrums and has
also been known to slump
when everything else seemed
right with the world.
He cites the situation of the
twenties when the building
boom reached its zenith in
1925 and then eased, fore
shadowing the lingering de
pression of the thirties.
A much more recent ex
ample, he notes the decline
from the . 1955 high of 1.5
million housing starts rate set
early that year and carried
over to 1957, a decline that
Woodland Owners Get
$331,408 in Six Months
Salem Farm woodland
owners throughout the state
received an income in the
amount of $331,408 from the
sale of forest products during
the last half of the 1957 cal
endar year through the assist
ance of the farm foresters, ac
cording to State Forester
Dwight L. Phipps.
He indicated that the pro
ducts included in the sale
consisted of 14,721,000 board
feet of timber as well as 17,
000 pieces of piling, posts and
poles. One item that has
shown an increase each year
has been the sale of Christ
mas trees and floral products.
During, the current season
this was fixed at 541,729 un
der the farm woodland pro
gram alone, Phipps stated.
Extend Advice
During the six-month per
iod the foresters extended
advice and assistance to 727
woodland owners represent
ing 31.492 acres of forest
land. Within the area they
demonstrated tree marking
procedure to be followed by
the owners in harvesting 3,
245,000 board feet of timbet
as well as 725 cords of fuel
wood, the forester added.
"One of the rapidly in
creasing activities of the farm
forester is the work in con
nection with the acreage con
servation program and the
conservation reserve pro
gram," Phipps stated. "Un
der the former the farmer is
given federal reimbursement
for following approved for
estry practices such"- as plant
ing, thinning, pruning and
similar activities, while un
der the latter he receives cost
sharing reimbursement and
annual payments over a per
iod of years for taking land
out of production and plant
ing it to trees.
"Under the acreage conser
vation program the farm for
esters have examined 622 dif
ferent woodland areas and
submitted reports to the coun
ty committees. Under the lat
ter, examinations have been
made of 61 separate planta
tions. "Just a short time ago the
state set up a statewide pro
gram under the conservation
reserve program, with forest
ers stationed at Salem, Med
ford and Prineville. With this
increased personnel we ex
pect a tremendous increase in
the activities under the con
servation reserve program."
foreshadowed the current re
cession. "The economy," he says,
"probably won't pickup a full
head of steam before the
fourth quarter of this year if
then. So producers of build
ing supplies will have to wait
a while to recapture fully
their peak earnings of 1954-55.
"But there's no mistaking
their better times. The pickup
began in October last year, is
gathering momentum. Predic
tions agree on a total of 1.1
million housing starts for the
year up seven per cent over
1957 and not bad for a start
er." He estimates total private
construction for 1958 at 35
billion dollars. Except for
housing starts, he sees the big
gest shot in the arm will come
from government. This will
include public outlays for
schools, and roads.
Add everything up, says
MacNamie and the public and
private building total will run
to some 50 billion dollars.
Housing will be the biggest
beneficiary. Added to new
housing starts, will be about
18 billion dollars in mainten
ance and repair work.
Also, he notes there are
missile sites to be built "they
are huge and call for many of
the materials going into resi
dential home construction."
The firm favors the gypsum
companies rather than ply
wood companies or makers of
asphalt products because the
gypsum group has come out
of its recent retrenchment
with earnings pretty much
stable and dividends secure.
Monday, February 3. 193t
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