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8 A THURSDAY. JULY 28, 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON 7 1' I J If I ' , V 2T My St W6! 1 Mi 4 SPEAR FOR BIBLE - Chief Jaun Ucayali of the Peruvian Nevati Campas, shows off the Bible for which he exchanged his spear, and by which he rules his tribesmen. The chief is a delegate to the 4flth quadrennial session of the World Or ganization of Seventh-day Adventisls meeting in San Fran cisco. (UPI) Capitol Memo ' First Draft of Communism Course To Be Ready Soon By DOUGLAS GRIPP i go before the State Board of Salem -iliPD- The first draft of a new course about Com munism for high school sen iors will be tf'ZuZWf rcady next MU'fV week, and the f ' '-'fA Oregon Edu I . -w. ,z.f cation Depart- Ilieill SdlU IU- day it is shoot ing for Octo ber or Novem ber to intro duce it in the Douilai Grlpp scnoots. The drive for such a course in public schools is growing nationally. Several states have adopted them. The position of many noted educators, including Dr. Leon P. Minear, Oregon Superin tendent of Public Instruction, is that only by learning about communism can students be made aware of its dangers. Oregon's course is planned as a three to four week unit in the "modern problems" course required of all seniors. It has not been determined whether the unit should be mandatory Education In September, and the board will decide this. The initial draft is being put into shape by Arnold Granville, Salem, curriculum supervisor with the depart ment. The ideas were approv ed in June by a four member committee of experts. Others on Commille In addition to Granville, the committee included three so cial studies teachers - Lor raine Muesey, North Salem High school; Joan Krahmer, Hillsboro High; and Easton Way, Lebanon High. Consultants included Ed ward Hollister, Corvallis High; Maurice Knispel, Sunset High at Beaverton; and three members of the Oregon Col lege of Education faculty, Samuel K. Anderson, Erhard K. Dortmund, and Lcland E. Hess. As a starting point, the group used a pilot course called "Democracy vs. Com munism" developed and taught at Parkrose High school last year. But the com mittee came up with a com- Ceremonies To Open Bridge Construction Salem - (IJPIl - The Oregon Highway Department will hold a ground breaking cere mony at Astoria Aug. 11 to signal officially the start of construction on the $24 mil lion Astoria-Megler bridge over the Columbia river. The proposal is expected to pletely new product, incorpor ating recommendations made by such organizations as the Oregon Bar, American Legion, AFL-CIO, church groups, and others. Minear asked a cross-section of the Oregon public to com ment, and make suggestions, which they did. Generally Favored The course was generally favored, and there was agree ment that it should not be made a topic of heated debate among students, but rather a forthright presentation of facts. Some expressed concern over whether teachers have the necessary background to teach it. A special guide for teachers is planned. The committee is recom mending that the course be titled "Communism in Today's World." It traces the history of communism to the present, and focuses on communism in theory versus actual prac tice, plus tactics. Optional reference books being recommended include the Communist Manifesto by Marx, and several volumes by Nikita Khrushchev. si 1 idea THREATS ALL BLUFFS - The president of the West Berlin Parliament, Otto Bach, who is in Chicago as a German repre sentative to the International Trade Fair, told a news con ference that "we don't believe events will lead to real ten sion, or the necessity of United Nations intervention. Up to now, Communist threats have been all bluffs." (UPI) Twenty-Six Persons Complete Driver Improvement Class Twenty -six persons who that he "would recommend completed the Jackson county the class to any driver . . but driver i m provement school 1 the chairs sure are hard!" Tuesdav will receive certifi-1 The school is held each cates, school staff members have announced. With this session, the sev enth four-class school this year, 202 Jackson county resi dents have successfully com pleted the school. i The majority of those at-' tending the last session had i been ordered to attend by either Medford municipal or Jackson county district court in lieu of traffic fines. Fol lowing the final examination, students are encouraged to comment on the school. These suggestions are not signed. Among Suggestions Among the suggestions re ceived Tuesday night one stu dent - evidently a high school student - commented, "Please ask my father to take the course!" All comments received were favorable and the gen- Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the courthouse auditorium for four weeks and Is open to all interested persons. The classes are taught by officers of the Medford police depart ment and Jackson county sheriff's deputies. Prices of Food Drop in Portland San Francisco - (DPD - Food prices in Portland averaged slightly lower in June than in May, according to the Depart ment of Labor's Bureau of Labor statistics. The Bureau's food index for June stood at 104.2, down 0.1 per cent from May, but up 1.4 per cent from a year ago. The major factor in the de cline was a drop of 1.1 per eral opinion was summed up i cent in the meats, fish and poultry group. Miscellaneous foods, eggs and dairy products were lower. Prices of fruits and vege tables rose 1.3 per cent. Prices of cereals and bakery prod ucts also increased. in one comment, "1 am happy it was necessary to attend." Many students thought the course was educational and informative and felt that they understood the Oregon traffic laws much better. One stated Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. Bsas8itMiaasffiiiMiirw SOCIALIST SWEDEN 'BUSINESSMAN'S PARADISE' Sweden, birthplace of the cooperative movement and of much of the most advan-ed social welfare legislation, mother land of the Social Democrats and of direct economic controls, has long been known as the land of the "middle way" be tween the communism of the Soviet Union and the free en terprise of the United Slates. This was its boast in the 1930s, in fact, and I recall vividly how we studied her laws then to see how much Franklin D. Roosevelt was modeling U. S. welfare programs after those of this small northern European nation. . It was the "middle way" then. It isn't now. Sweden has moved so far away from socialism and toward private enter prise that Business Week recently quoted a British banker as saying, "Sweden is a businessman's paradise," and experts who are analyzing the growth in the European economies in recent years to see what Europe is doing that we might copy here are Increasingly urging attention to many of Sweden's policies. Item: Sweden has the most liberal rules in the world governing the tax deductions businessmen can take when they invest in machinery and equipment. In comparsion, our newly liberalized depreciation schedules still appear ex ceedingly tough and restrictive. For instance a Swedish corporation can fully write off whal It spends for machinery and equipment within five years, thereby lower its earnings subject to tnxei and slash its tax liability. It can. if it wishes, write off 51 per cent of the equipment's cost within two years. Within these liberal limits, it also can arrange its depreciation ; any way it prefers. Admittedly, a reason Sweden can afford this is thai she relies much less th;in we do on corporation income taxes to balance her budget. Bui the key point is that, primarily as a result of this enormous incentive, private industry's gross investment in Sweden amounts to one-third of her total output, and her growth rate last year was an enviable 4'a per cent a goal for which we are striving, but failing miserably to reach: Item: Sweden is still strongly pushing social welfare programs and her welfare spending this year will be 9 per cent above last yenr's. But- and this is the crucial but - to finance these programs. Sweden is levying sales taxes on consumers, not hitting the businessman. This alone shows how far she has traveled from the system which, as Business Week put it, "once appealed to have-nots the world over Today, Sweden is more like a giant corporation whose em ployes pay for most of their natonal 'fringe benefits' out of wages freeing management to provide for a growing eco nomic pie." Item: Since the 1950s, Sewerien has been shifting the burden of paying for welfare programs to those who benefit most from them. She cut the corporation tax rate from 50 to 40 per cent In the late 1950s, the top individual tax rate from 80 to K5 per cent. (Our rates are 52 per cent on corpora tions, 01 per cent top rate on Indviduals ) Her general sales tux is. now up to 0 4 per cent. New direct taxes on Sweden's businessmen amount to 2.4 per cent of her total output against 4.5 per cont here while her direct taxes on Individuals amount to 14.5 per cent of output versus 9.5 per cent here. Item: Sweden has swung away from low interest rates to the orthodox policy of high interest rates to control in flation. Her interest rate levels are far above ours, but al the same time, she pays any interest on housing loans above 4 per cent, and thus subsidizes home building. Item: Most significant of all, though, is the extent to which the Swedish government and businessmen are coop erating to speed and maintain the economy's growth. This is what the First National City Hank. In another reference to Europe's growth, calls the "something intangible in the atmosphere, a spirit of positive encouragement to enter prise." This also is the point which German Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard makes in his book "Prosperity Through Com petition," when he says "It is considerably easier to allow everyone a large slice of a bigger pie than to gain anything by discussing the division of a smaller cake." What glorious irony it would be if Just as we followed this Arctic Circle land to the "left" in the lOlllls. we follow her to the "right" in the I Otitis! We very well may too Quemoy Buildup Said for Defense Geneva - tl'fli - Communist China has told Britain that Peiping's military buildup op posite Quemoy and Matsu is for defensive, nol offensive purposes, informed s o u rces said Wednesday. The sources said Red Chi nese Foreign Minister Chen Yi gave tilts explanation to British Foreign Secretary Lord Home here. Chen Yl none to Geneva for the sign ing of 1 lie Laos agreement. 7'hp two leaders met for wide ranging discussion on 1 international p r o b I e m s at Chen Yi s resilience Monday Chen Yl was said to have stated that the milil,ii build up had been necessitated by the thre.ileaing attitude of Marshal ('hint: Kai-shek's re gime in ViMe) The C.w, le.Mr dis missal ru-!mms tint the ! 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