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CITIZENS who haven't figured their 1942
Income taxes will be wise to get at the
Job soon. These federal taxes pack wallop.
and a lot of folks will need
time to get over the daze, be
tween now and taxpaying date,
t. - , . ...- ana to devise ways ana means
I 1 of making the first payment.
une Denem wiiitu nmjr
sult from the high taxes is
IV r that they will make more peo
.fl pie tax-conscious. A great
many people, even though they
i paid taxes Indirectly, have
' harbored the idea that govern
ment expenditures were some-
thing somebody else had to pay, and took little
interest in resisting free-spending policies.
The nation is now in a great war and most
people realize that high taxes are inevitable.
But at the same time, there is every justifica
tion for citizens opposing reckless expenditures
which are not essential to the war effort or
to efficient operation of the government.
In peace time, this was a spendthrift govern
ment. "
Oregon Tax Problem .
OREGON has long had a reputation for hav
ing a high Income tax, but the federal
taxes this year make the state tax look puny.
Even so, there Is a movement on foot to reduce
the state income tax as a means of aiding Ore
gon taxpayers bearing the heavy load of fed
eral taxation, and such a plan was endorsed
Monday by Governor Earl Snell in his message
to the legislature.
A reduction of 20 or 25 per cent, as pro
posed in the program of the house taxation and
revenue committee, is not out of reason, and
would provide welcome relief to hard-pressed
taxpayers. It can be done without impairing
the state's finances.
A cut in the income tax rate would be real
tax reduction that people can feel. There are
always tax reduction schemes in the making,
but often the promised, effects are never real
ized. Another proposal by the governor, which de
serves earnest consideration, is to provide a
$5,000,000 ceiling on the amount of surplus
income tax money which can be distributed in
any one year to reduce property taxes within
school districts.
Behind this is a piece of sound reasoning to
the effect that the port-war years are going to
be tough tax-paying years. The governor's sug
gestion is to spread the property tax reduction
over a period of years, probably covering some
post-war years, instead of taking it all at once.
Sometimes, wishful thinkers get the idea that
as soon .as the war is over all our troubles
will be over, including those having to do with
taxpaying. That is not in the cards.
Sales Tax Talk
THERE is some opinion In the state that the
income tax should be abolished entirely and
a sales tax instituted.
At the first suggestion of a sales tax, labor
and grange organizations took a solid whack '
at it, following their traditional policy,
A sales tax is objectionable, as is any type
of tax. But it is a pay-as-you-go tax plan, it
catches those who earn their money in Oregon
in brief periods and move elsewhere before tax
paying dates, and. it could make possible an
Oregon tax program that would be more at
tractive to industries locating in the west.
Oregon lies between two states which have
sales taxes, California and Washington, and
Oregon has not fared too well in inducing in
dustries to come here instead of to the neigh
boring states.
But Salem dispatches indicate that Governor
Sncll did not mention the touchy sales tax sub
ject, and legislators will probably shy away
from it. .
use just as much strategy and just as many
tricks on the government side.
What he devised as a substitute plan con'
firms his promise, although no one, except
corporation lawyer, could present it without
laughing. He has suggested to the committee,
with straight poker face, that the way to put
taxpayers on pay-as-you-go, in the face of these
unprecedented war taxes, is to double the pay
ments this year.
Actually, his plan to ease the problem of
whether these war taxes can be collected, is to
collect two years in one, making 1942 and 1943
taxes payable this year, minus 19 per cent Only
those with incomes under $2000 a year would
fail to have their taxes approximately doubled.
To ameliorate the suffering, he would increase
the nation's load 81 per cent.
Champion Found
NOT even Mr. Paul can believe that this
could be done, but he has found a high
placed champion of his cause. It so happens
that Chairman Doughton of the committee actu
ally saved last year his taxes for this year and
he has them in the bank.
It would be no hardship for him to pay two
years in one, and he thinks everyone else should
have saved similarly. So he is backing Mr.
I Paul, with
! svmD&thetic sub
stitute.
The treasury
did not advance
its proposal for
another 81 per
cent increase in
taxes for this
year as a formal
plan. A smart
lawyer would
never do that, in
the face of public
enthusiasm for
Ruml.
He doesn't even
officially oppose
the Ruml plan,
and professes to
Ha 1 Ioita In no ir nr.
. . you-go. He mere-
nis ian unaer tut let himseU be
called as a witness and offered the doubling
Idea as a "suggested substitute" for Ruml.
Unfortunately, the tax lawyers representing
the public on the ways and means committee
have not had as much experience as Mr. Paul.
Suspicion and confusion have been spread
among them.
The administration has planted the suspicion
that the Ruml plan would favor the rich (over
$2000) in some way or another not sufficiently
evident to be presented clearly and forcefully.
The committee, in turn, has become suspicious
of Mr. Paul's sincerity in backing pay-as-you-go.
What will come out of it, nobody knows.
The only thing certain to an observer is the
fact that the whole system of war taxation has
not been efficiently organized to get the most
money with the least suffering.
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Simple Solution
Treaty Rights
HERE is a new idea on draft deferment:
n A member of the Modoc tribe, who was
drafted into the army and doesn't do so well
in the damp atmosphere around San Francisco
where he is stationed, has written a local attor
ney about his plight.
"I want to know, can they keep me in the
army if I don't want to stay In?" he asked in
his letter. "Anyway, they signed a treaty for
us Indians not to fight with anybody no more
after they had the fight at the Lava Beds on
Tule lake, Calif."
This lad would rather work in a defense
plant In some higher and drier spot than the
bay region. That, he says, is the best way he
can help. And besides, there was nothing in
the 1873 Modoc war treaty that forbade an In
dian working in a defense plant.
News Behind the News
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 Mr. Morgenthau's
tax counsel, Randolph Paul, has taken
the smart lawyer's way of bawling-up the house
ways and means committee
about the Ruml plan and pay-as-you-go.
He has done a good Job of
It. The committee is bewilder
ed and the public, no doubt,
Is also:
V 'Wv I Mr' Paul got hl trainln8 "
Nv i $ti member t large New
if I York firm of tax lawyers and
lysV-nJ ,s supposed to have made a
fortune working on that side
of the KirAAt. f!nmlnff fa tVi
treasury last 'year, he indicated hs Intended to
MALLON
NEITHER the treasury nor congress has been
able to furnish the leadership for devising
new methods, but merely continued to increase
old taxes more and more each year toward the
breaking point.
A simple solution for the conspired con
fusion over the Ruml plan would be to simplify
it still further. Let Mr. Ruml eliminate the fea
ture of his plan requiring the taxpayer to
balance up with the treasury in 1944 on the
basis of earnings this year.
Then the taxpayer would pay this year ex
actly as at present on the basis of earnings
made last year, but let it be called this year's
taxes. Let each taxpayer in future years pay
similarly on the basis of his previous year's
earnings.
Eliminate only his obligation of being always
a year in debt to the government. When he
dies, or his earnings otherwise cease because
of illness or unemployment, let his tax obliga
tion cease. Or if his income is diminished let
his tax obligation diminish as of the same date.
This would put the nation on a pay-as-you-go
plan devoid of unprovable suspicions. It would
help the man unable to pay his taxes, but not
the man whose income justifies taxes unless
he dies, becomes ill or unemployed, or other
wise suffers reverses.
The man whose income is increasing might
get what Mr. Paul, would call an "advantage"
out of delaying a year in paying increased
taxes, but that is largely a lawyer's theoretical
prospect, as the national facts of the situation
suggest income now is at its believed peak, and
will start declining as soon as the war is over.
The advantage in truth, therefore, would
still be generally on the side of the treasury
where the treasury always seems to want to
keep it.
'
Goering Wind
GOERING tried to frighten Russians and
the world by saying Stalin was now throw
ing in his last reserves and the nazls would be
ready to strike back with a great spring offen
sive. Do not sit up and wait for it.
Last year, the promised German 'spring of
fensive was delayed until fall. This year It may
be delayed even longer.
Declining German production and man-power
reserves make the chance of the German's
rallying power for another Russian drive almost
impossible to conceive.
Some military men think Hitler has stores of
planes hidden away for a final concentration of
defensive effort, but there is no doubt he is at
the bottom of his offensive barrej
SIDE GLANCES
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Ct IN) tl NT MKVTCf. WC T. M. KfO
"Oh, Molher! Soim-body told Johnny Hint Admiral ,
Halsey called the Japs monkeys, so lie's starling for the ;
zoo with his air rifle!"
Roosevelt Meets Brazil's Chief
r
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Stopping on hii return to America. President Rootavalt mad
an inspection tour of the army, navy and air force oi the United
States and Brasil at Natal. Here with President Getulio yargas
of Brasil (civilian), rear seat FDR peers as a Braiillan officer
points. (US army photo from Owl).
Nazis Tried to Drop Bombs
On U. S. Heavy Bombers in
German Raid, Report Yanks
LONDON, Feb. 8 W3) Airmen
back from the American attack
on northwest Germany Thurs
day said the German air force
tried to drop bombs on high
flying heavy bombers in a des
perate but futile effort to thwart
the Americans. H
We expected a hotter recep
tion than at Wilhelmshavcn and
we got it," said Capt. Robert J.
Morgan, 23, of Asheville, N. C,
who piloted a Fortress carrying
Colonel Stanley T. Wryv38, of
Birmingham, Ala., leader'of the
sortie. Wry returned with both
feet badly frostbitten.
Morgan, who had participated
in nine previous raids, said "the
Luftwaffe pilots in my opinion
evidently haven't 'read the book'
or either were very courageous.
They took all kinds of chances.
One even flew between my ship
and another Fortress only 78
feet away. Maybe they had
never attacked Fortresses before
or thought we couldn't shoot. ' It
looks like the Luftwaffe had
been bawled out for making such
a poor showing at Wllhelmsha-ven."
Morgan's Fortress, named the
"Memphis Belle" after his fian
cee, Margaret Polk of Memphis,
Tenn.. was first over the target.
It returned with only a few flak
and bullet holes. No one was
hurt. Others In his crew includ
cd First Lieut. Vincent B. Evans
of Henderson,. Texas, bombar
dier, and Sgt. Robert Hanson,
Walla Walla, Wash-, radio gunner.
Oregon News Notes
By The Associated Press
Oregon College of Education
at Monmouth has been selected
by the war manpower commis
sion as a future training site for
WAACs and Oregon State col'
Jtje for training of army engi
neers. . . . Roscoe A. Day, Jr., of
the Bonneville administration
was named acting deputy coordi
nator of solid fuels for Oregon,
replacing David Eccles, who re
signed to become stale war bond
administrator. . . .
A Portland rationing board
decided to penalize motorists
convicted of speeding by taking
away a gasoline coupon for each
mile over the 35-mile limit, and
so clipped six coupons, repre
senting 380 miles of driving,
from the book of a motorist who
was caught driving 41 miles an
hour. , . Funeral services were
held in Portland for Dr. Hicks C.
Fenton, 74, eye and ear special
ist since 1897. . . '
Nccnnicum valley farmers re
ported that elk driven from the
hills literally ate up their lawns
and shrubs in the recent snow.
. . Paul J. Raver, Bonneville
administrator, said in Portland
the possibility was increasing
that factories would locate in the
Pacific northwest to extract
aluminum oxide from clay de
posits. Several thousand dollars
worth of damage was caused in
Marshficld by a fire that de
stroyed the rear of the Elks club
hall and spread Into the kitchen
of the 9han'l r hotel. ... A taxi
struck two pedestrians in La
Grande, fatally injuring Clyde
Shu for, 18, and inflicting serious
hurts on his 13-year-old brother,
Wesley.
HURRIED COURTESY .
CHICAGO, (Pi While run
ning to catch a bus, Lorctta
Stocker, a secretary at the Chi
cago servicemen's center, slip
ped and fell.
As she lay on the pavement, a
man rushed .past her, calling out,
"I'll hold the bus for you. Get up
quick."
rhone The Herald and News,
3124, to place a classified ad.
Telling
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HARDSHIP AND GREED
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., (To
the Editor) I cannot help but
comment on the dlffcrcnio be
tweeu your editorial of Febru
ary 8 about Eikllo Kickunbucker
and his tales of hardships suf
fered by our men in service ull
over tho world and the demund
o( the A. F, of L. Lumber Un
ion for $1.05 per hour mini
mum wages, 48 hours a week
guarantco and $1.00 per day
bonus. This amounts to $30.10
a week. Do our boys ovursens
get this guuruntce of pay, with
a guuruntco Ihut no una will
shoot at them, uud kill them?
Do they havo a guarantee of a
warm, dry bed every night, a
root over their heuds and all
tho luxuries we have at home?
Seems to mo that the greed
of some people tor money has
overshadowed their patriotism
and love for their country so
much that they have forgotten
their friends and relatives who
are fighting for us so that the.se
jame people who- aro demand
ing higher w lines during war
time might have tho liberty
and freedom which they now
onjoy.
Those ot us who fought in the
lost war and suffered a few of
the hardships that Rickcnbacker
speaks about know he is tell
ing the truth, and we realize
that those hardships are far
greater, than those of World
War One. Personally, I think
the rank and file of the unions
are not at fault, and that tho
leaders of these organizations
are to blame, but I still think
it is unfair to our boys in the
service.
Fred H. Hcilbronner.
coiin of
DUTCH NAZIS
AS5ASS
HATED
LONDON, Feb. 8 OP) Lieut.
Gen. H e n d r i k Alexander
Scyftardt, 70, commander of tho
Dutch Nazi Legion, was fatally
wounded by revolver bullets in
front of his home late Friday,
Aneta said today, quoting a
broadcast by the German
controlled Netherlands radio.
The broadcast said Seyffardt
died Saturday. It did not specify
where he lived, but Netherlands
In London said his last known
residence was in the Hague.
Cabinet Member
The first report gave no In
dication ot the identity of the
assassin, Aneta reported.
The Netherlands news agency
said that General Soyffordt wos
appointed only last week to the
personal cabinet of Anton A.
Mussert, chief of the Dutch nazl
party and Hitler-named "fueh
rer" of the Netherlands people,
and assigned to mobilize armed
forces to Join axis armies on the
soviet front.
ATTEMPT TO BURY
St. Barnard Takes
Hor Share in
Caring for Needy
PORTLAND, Fob. 8 OH
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Hocken
told today of their St, llerniird
dog who found a hungry fam
ily In the snow two weeks ago
and has protected und brought
food to the family since.
It Is u dog family, half
wild Alrdalo and her three
pups. The St. Bernard, High
land Ludy, found them hud
dled in ii rotted stump.
The RoeltoiiB' noticed Lady
whs making frequent trips In
to tho brash, often carrying
bones there. They followed
and discovered' tho family,
over which Lady was standing
guard.
They called In the Immune
society, but this organization
hits been unable to move the
iimlly to bettor shelter since
tho mother flees on approach
of men.
Mciinwhlla Lady continues
her self-assumed responsibilities.
PILOT TRAINEES
ESTABLISHED IN
NEW QUARTERS
SALEM, Feb. 8 (VP) Sen. Tho
mas R. Mahoney, Portland dem
ocrat, threatened today to make
a motion to take his bill to abol
ish milk control from the senate
agriculture committee.
He charged the committee
with attempting to bury the bill,
and demanded that It be report
ed out to give the senate a
chance to vote on it. He said it
doesn't make Bny difference how
the committee recommends, Just
so it sends the bill to the floor.
An earlier bill by Mahoney
would transfer the milk control
board's functions to the state de
partment of agriculture, this
measure being in line with Gov
ernor- fincll's recommendation.
But Mahoney got this measure
tabled and then Introduced the
measure to abolish milk control
entirely.
1745 LEND-LEASE
Kltimoth's pilot trainees are
now established in tho Sunmicrs
school property, and arc leading
a lifo of senil-mllltury routine.
All 30 men taking tho flying
courso at the municipal airport
are living together on the school
property. Classrooms have bren
established In tho brick build
ing, and tho wooden building is
being used for dormitory pur
poses.
Shower rooms aro being pre.
pared and mess arrangements
will be completed this week.
The trainees will receive all
meals at the school property,
beginning Wednesday.
Uniforms hove arrived for
tho trainees. They aro green
garments of CCC issue.
The day's program for the
trainees includes calistenica and
military drill in addition to
their ground school and flight
lessons. Harold Sherman, ser
geant ot the Oregon State
Guard, is In charge of tho mili
tary drill and other routine.
The Summers school property
was leased from tho county
school district by the University
of Oregon, sponsor ot the pilot
training program. The two
parties were brought together
by the aviation committee of the
chumber of commerce, after it
wos learned that the govern
ment desired to have trainees
kept together In semi-military
style.
Since the step was takon here,
the CAA has stopped many of
the civilian pilot training
schools, and It Is believed here
the local program would have
been stopped had not the move
been made to the Summers
school location.
HAN BAPS
FOURTH TERM
PUBLCATIONS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (IP)
A contention that government
motion pictures anil inugnzlnos,
ostensibly produced to further
tho war effort, wore being used
to promote a fourth term for
President Koosevelt was made In
the senate toduy by Senator Dol
man (It-Oru.).
Iliilimiii fieemtiiuiiilf-il hla aa.
sortiun with tho Introduction of
u rrnoiuuon io nuinorir.o uio ap
propriations committee to inves
tigate the production and distri
bution ot government magazines
and films and their cost to the
taxpayers.
Window Druilng
A viewing of the uovnruinent
film. "A Prohlrli, In War " nn.l a
reading of tho nmitazlne, "Vic
tory, iioiniiui loin in col
leagues, would convluco any one
"Mr. Franklin D. Hoosevelt Is to
seek a fourth elcclhm to Uio
presidency."
While the maciizine and knnin
of the pictures lire designed for
uio education or troops abroad to
convince them of tho righteous
ness of tho American cause, Hoi
man asserted the members of tho
armed forces were potential vot
ers and much of the Information
contained was "window dress
ing," hiding the mil purposa.
nov Terrifying
He said he lind arianued for
Prelude to War" to ho shown in
seuutors in the caucus room of
the senate office building next
week so that they could see the
"personal, political propaganda"
he charged it contained.
llolman told his colleagues
that the magazine "Victory" was
published by the office of war in.
formation and distributed
abroad but not in this country.
Ho quoted from an unsigned ar
ticle describing what It termed
President lioosevrlt'a uarm.
hearted personality.
"How terrlvlrm that mn.i h
to tho Japs," llolman remarked.
rtnoiner section of the article
said that often at a party Mrs,
Roosevelt left a conversational
group to go over and mnke some
lonely person feel at home with
a tew words.
"I can lust see Cnrmanv an.
rendering rlaht now." llolman
commented.
'ThlS Is a Want nl mihll.
funds," he doclorcd. 'This entire
mogazino Is merely window
dressine for a norsnnnl nninu.i
. ..
campaign.
I don't be leva Ilia nm.U..I
could have had a bolter driver.
my son s commanding officer at
Fort Leonard Wood
wos the best driver he ever had.
mother of Staff Sgt. Oran
Loss. Who ehnnrfrarf tl. a
dent at Casablanca.
WASHINGTON. Fob. 8 (IV)
War shipping Administrator
Emory Land disclosed today
that American-controlled ves
sels, In the year ending October
31, 1042, had made 1745 sailings
loaded with lend-lease material
1378 for Britain, 304 for Rus
sia, and 68 for China.
"Unfortunately, not every ves
sel that sailed arrived at her des
tination, but by far the largest
portion of them did, he told the
house foreign affairs committee
in urging continuance of , the
lend-lease act foryinother year.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 VP)
Charging that newsprint slashes
"as high as 80 per cent are be
ing planned by federal rationing
authorities, a group of approxi
mately SO representatives today
formed a committee to protest
further cuts "until full reasons
for such actions are explained
to congress."
A committee of 20 republicans
was appointed to call upon
Chairman Lea of the house in
terstate commerce committee
this afternoon.
Rep. Shafer (R-Mlch.) said he
had been told by Donald Sterl
ing, WPB consultant on news
paper publishing problems, that
the offico of civilian supply had
recommended , a. "precipitous
cut" in addition to the previous
newsprint slashes.
"Furthermore, I havo reason
to know that they're planning
as high as B0 per cent cuts,"
Shafer said. "That would mean
absolute elimination of practical
ly every newspaper In the coun
try." Repealing the contention ho
mndo recently on the house floor
Shufcr said that the nowsprlnt
slashes wcro "part of an In
sidious movement on the part
of long-haired government the
orists to control the press by
whatever methods possible."
Courthouse Records
Monday
WRIGHT-A R N O L D. Robert
Cleveland Wright, 61, fireman.
Native of Georgia, resident of
Klamath Falls. Jennie May
Arnold, 89, laundry worker.
Native of ,Orcgon, resident of
Klamath Falls.
NYOREN-POOL. Billy Ken
neth Nygrnn, 23, soldier. Native
of Oregon, resident of Fort Stev
ens. Barbara Clara Pool, 20,
housewife. Native of Oregon,
resident of Hildebrand.
Man of the Year
By EARL WHITLOCK
I'm a little late with my
nomination. "Time" chose Jos
eph Stalin for Man of thn Y-nr.
Many chose President Roose
velt. This month
millions will
think ot Gcorgo
Washington or
Abrahum Lin
coln as tho man
of this or any
othar year and
will wish for
their wisdom to
guide us through
our crisis.
But I'd like
to nominate, even at this lata
dato, plain John Q. Citizen,
right here In America, Ho's the
tunny tittle guy in the cartoons,
struggling along under his bur
den of tuxes. Ho's tho boy who
goes into the army as a pri
vate he doesn't know the right
peopto to step Into any com
mission. He's that boy's fa
ther saying, "Woll, good by,
son. Tako caro of yourself,"
and hiding his heartache and
loneliness with a grin, while he
works harder than over at his
business or on his farm, or goes
and gets him a Job In a war
plant to do his share.
The troublo is, you cannot get
a picture of John Q. Cillzon. It
would have to be n composite
picture of 130,000,000 of us,
men and women, too. Come to
think ot It, though, that could
bo expressed by Just one pic
ture tho picture of that chin
whiskered, fighting, down-to-
earth oldster who wo know and
lovn os Uncle Sam.
There's tho composite Ameri
can, And there's my candidate
for Man-of-the-Year.
Next Monday Mr. Whltlock
of tho Eiirl Whjtlock Funeral
Home will comment on Good
Intentions.