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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
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By MALCOLM EPLEV
THE two measures on the state ballot which
i.., etirrnH nn unusual interest arid dis-
msslon are the gross Income tax-annuity bill
nH lh state school support .i-; - -
imendmcnt. We have already
discussed the first, and it is
our Intention to comment on
the latter amendment tomor
row. We have been person
illy "lobbied" heavily by both
lides in connection with this
proposal, and have delayed
comment with the purpose of
hearing all the arguments pos
sible. In connection with these,
and nil measures, we aain
suggest that people read their Voters' Pamphlet
carefully. This is not a partisan publication,
but it is put out by the state for the benefit
of all voters. It gives the text of amendments
and bills and pro and con arguments on most
of them. In studying them, all voters should
consider carefully the difference between a con
stitutional amendment and a bill.
An amendment is a change In the state's
fundamental legal framework, and whatever
provisions it embodies are placed permanently
in the constitution, to be changed only by an
other vote of the people. The legislature cannot
alter a constitutional amendment. A bill is sub
ject to legislative change.
Sales Tax Proposal
SIXTH measure on the ballot next Tuesday
is a bill for a state retail sales tax of 3
per cent, to be collected by the seller from the
buyer. The measure was placed on the ballot
by reference from the state legislature,
i It does not impose a tax on manufacturing
or wholesaling, and provides Important tax ex
emptions, including retail sales of gasoline,
already taxed, sales of fresh sweet milk, raw,
Unprocessed fruit antj vegetables, butter, eggs,
cheese, canned milk, fresh meat, fresh fish,
bVead, drugs or medicines prepared "on pres
criptions. I It has been variously estimated that the tax
Will produce between $12,000,000 and $18,000,
000 annually. Twenty per cent of the pro
ceeds would go to public welfare purposes; 60
per cent of this amount going to the state's
Jliare of old age assistance costs and 40 per cent
to the county's share. Twenty per cent would
go to support of the schools. Sixty per cent'
Tould go to property tax reduction.
For many years, we have felt that Oregon
snould undertake a sweeping revision of its
rhole tax structure, broadening the sources of
revenue in order to equalize the .burden on all
4nd to ease the burden on real property. A
sales tax would fit into that picture.
J Unfortunately, the proposed scheme is only
art of such a revision, and it has little, if any,
qhance of passage at this time.. We believe it
would be better to wait until the general re
vamping program can be developed, and offer
the whole plan to the . people of the--state,
tracked by a wide educational campaign.
I The proposed plan is in some ways the best
Bales tax offered to Oregon people, and there
will be those, sold on the sales tax theory, who
ill want to vote for it. As for us, we intend
ip wait and urge the general tax revision in
dne sweeping program. So, on this proposal,
e vote 3U X NO.
political and economic system in the United
States."
"It may be necessary to make a public
utility out of agriculture. Every plowed field
would have its permit sticking up on Its post ."
"Regimentation without stint might Indeed,
, go farther here than anywhere else, if
once we took the bit in our teeth ."
Adolph Berle states: " the government
will gradually come to own most of the pro
ductive plants of the United States."
"If wealth is to be created by creation of
government debt, the scope of government enter
prise must be largely increased."
Business to Disappear
THIS from Rexford Tugwell: "It has already
been suggested that business will logically
be required to disappear. This Is not an over
statement for emphasis; It is literally meant."
" The unreasoning, almost hysterical at
tachment of certain Americans to the constitu
tion." Harry Hopkins says; "We will tax and tax;
spend and spend; elect and elect."
"People are too damned dumb to understand."
I could go on indefinitely quoting dozens of
leaders in the New Deal. Their trend of
thought is the same. They are unanimous in
agreeing that every kind of business, social,
economic or political activity should be con
trolled from Washington, D. C. They are agreed
that controls, set up as war time controls, shall
be carried on into peace time. They are agreed
that it will be necessary to create a large police
force to enforce these controls. Such a police
force is known In Germany as the Gestapo.
Dswey Champions
GOVERNOR DEWEY is opposed to bureau
cracy and regimentation. He is the champ
ion of free enterprise. Free enterprise cannot
exist under Bureaucracy and regimentation.
Governor Dewey has promised a house cleaning
in Washington, and, so far in his career, he
has always carried through that to which he
has pledged himself. Unless this sovietizing of
our American republic, unless our present do
mestic policies are repudiated on November 7,
by the election of a Republican ticket, we are
in danger of losing the peace at home. If we
lose the peace at home, the kind of peace we
get abroad will little matter.
The Republicans are offering to the nation,
TWO GREAT leaders, both of whom have
shown prodigious eaoabillties in their 'respective
jobs as governors of New York and Ohio. Of
course, Governor Dewey is young. He is, also,
vigorous. He can point with pride to HIS ad
ministration of the State of New York. We
need this kind of young man to help make .the
peace, in order to avoid the mistakes of the
last peace conference. We need this young man
to make a great house cleaning in Washington.
Also, it is very important to elect a whole
Republican ticket to back him up.
&uest Editorial
I (Editor's Note: A few days ago. there appeared
9n this page a guest editorial written at our
lequest by E. P. Ivory, county democratic
Chairman. Today, we have an article by Frank
. Howard, county republican chairman. The
Herald and News wishes to thank these gentle
ipen for their efforts in presenting their views
tjn the presidential election.)
j By FRANK Z. HOWARD
j County Republican Chairman
fc-rACE will not allow me to discuss matters
jj such as sale of scrap iron and oil to Japan,
Pearl Harbor trade agreements, isolationism,
Jhe national debt, etc., matters which all have
teen badly bungled or badly represented by
the administration. I wish to get immediately
into what I think is the most vital issue of this
iampaign. '
j Political philosophies have developed under
these twelve years of the New Deal which ,
threaten our whole democratic structure by sub
stituting bureaucratic directive for representa
tive government. This is not just a sensational
statement. These' philosophies are illustrated
ty the growth of bureaus in Washington; by
the heaping of alphabetical agency upon alpha
betical agency, to a point where the American
taxpayer cannot pay the bill even in peace
ime. Many of them are responsible to no one;
many do not have to make an accounting to
inyone. This concentration of power and au
thority in Washington threatens the very func
tions and authority of our counties and states.
It is putting its fingers into our individual lives
fnd telling us just what we MUST do, and is
encroaching upon and taking away many of
fcur everyday personal liberties. By directive
prder from Washington, individuals, cities, coun
ties and states are being ruled in a manner not
Contemplated by the laws setting up the agencies
Administering them, nor by the constitution
adopted by our forefathers. This, then, is the
Vital question before us. Are we to sit idly
py and allow ourselves to be completely regi
mented or not? Are we to be ruled by execu
tive or bureaucratic directive from Washington,
D. C, or are we to be returned to rule by
democratic processes of constitutional govern
ment? This trend towards centralization of ALL
fcovemment in Washington is being deliberately
Wanned. It is the intention of leaders in the
4ew Deal to completely subjugate the individ
ual, to inflate federal authority to a point where
fhere will be no local authority, to direct our
Whole system into state socialism. Their aims
are complete regimentation at home, the very
thing we are fighting against abroad. At least
these are the only interpretations one can make
of the philosophies of the New Deal, as drawn
from the utterances of its leaders.
Wallace Quoted
HENRY WALLACE says: "plain men trying
to gain by democratic methods the pro-
essed objectives of the Communists. Socialists
4nd Facists."
"We are not going to um the whole Russian
News Behind the News
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 Just adding what
they say on to what they have said: Ink
was hardly dry on Assistant President Byrnes'
naturally partisan headlines, "Dewey Election
Would Prolong War," before Mr. Churchill said
non-partisanly it would probably be summer
before the end in Europe and take two years
more in the Pacific.
No authority here would lay a non-political
guess after what has happened to all this year's
most optimistic prophesies. Few military men
believe the presidential election has anything
at all to do with it. -The length of the war
will be determined by military factors, no do
mestic politics. For instance:
Rouse Enthusiasm
GEN. MacARTHUR'S easy occupation of the
east-central Philippines and Adm. Kinkaid's
decisive destruction of the Jap fleets have
roused some highly enthusiastic expectations
which go far beyond the facts of the matter.
The land ahead lies like this:
The Japs have 4,000,000 in their armies, most
ly in China. The figure of 225,000 estimating
their forces on l,eyte (which has been published
widely), really applies to all forces throughout
. the Philippines, mostly on Luzon and Mindinao.
Ihey had only a division or parts of a division
on Leyte.
True enough, they tried no bloody suicidal
death stands there, but this may not neces
sarily be a symptom of fully deteriorated
morale. Here they had a chance to get away to
other nearby islands, whereas in their earlier
death stands on the small Pacific dots they had
no place to go except to their ancestors.
Conquest of Luzon (Manila) itself involves
such a tough prospect that MacArthur might
yet . decide to by-pass it. However, the next
jumps to Formosa and the China coast are be
yond the range of our land-based fighter planes
and would require naval air coverage, and
therefore would not be easy or swift operations
either. -
We have the carrier aircraft with which to
dp it, but when we do, we will still not have
defeated Japan. In short, MacArthur wisely
picked the softest spot in the Philippines and
from here on the going will become increasing
ly difficult.
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Clearer Sea
"j"HE sea before us is practically clear except
I for land-based Jap planes. Main pending
sea question is how the Japs could have been so
stupid as to send 70 of their biggest ships into
two narrow straits where we could damage all
but two (with naval aircraft using only one
landing field on Leyte then open).
Docs it indicate desperation? The answer
considered most likely here is that the two
straits attack was a battle plan worked out
earlier in the war by the Jap admirals and
they just pulled it out of the desk when we
went into Leyte, not thinking of our new naval
carrier plane and ship strength which has so
recently grown to overwhelming pfonortlons.
Need Bases
THE nearly open sea lane to Japan, however,
probably will have to wait until we get
land air bases from which to give full air cov
erage to landing operations. Most discouraging
news in this respect was the recall of General
Stllwell from China and the elevation of Chiang
Kai Shck to greater military authority.
Stilwell is as great a general as China could
ever get to direct her war effort. Therefore,
grave doubt is justified as to whether the
change is an improvement.
But even if we conquer the Jap mainland we
have not defeated the Jap armies or destroyed
their war industries which are largely In Man
churia. We desperately need air bases either
on the China coast or in Russia (which is still
neutral in that fracas).
Telling
The Editor
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timr TOR CHANGE
vt.am ATH FALLS. Ore. (To
the Editor) Some folks want
Mr. Roosevelt in omcu iur n
fourth term because they give
him full cromi tor mo mnni in
forms of the first years of his
presidency and they talk as
though another president might
mean soup kitchens and bread
lines for them. In the first place
thev can't depend on Roosevelt
all 'their lives, because he is not
likely to live thut long.
Moreover, Miss Perkins, In
Collier's for August 5, 1944,
claims credit for direct relief,
WPA, CCC, NRA, wage and hour
act, unemployment and old age
insurance, and the federal em
ployment agency. Strangely,
from her comes, the fenr that
"continued invasion of private
rights and the growth of bureau
cracy will ultimately bring
about regimentation of the peo
ple by the government." Be
that as it may. Some of the New
Deal legislation was very good
and some not so good.
However, Mr. Roosevelt has
lost interest in social reforms;
and idealism is used only in
catch phrases. His government
is now one of expediency. You
know how he has played foot
ball with labor, and Miss Perkins
is only a little shadow, with a
title but no responsibility. You
know how he has kicked the
idealistic Wallace overboard with
the Atlantic Charter and the
four Freedoms. You know that
even Mr. Roosevelt said "The
New Deal is dead," so you who
are clinging to that banner, are
clinging to a banner your leader
has trampled underfoot.
Some people have the distort
ed notion that Roosevelt is win
ning the war, and that without
his leadership we might lose the
war or the peace. He is not
winning the war. The generals
and the admirals and our boys
(God bless 'em) are winning the
war, and not because of Roose
velt's leadership, but in spite of
it. Listen to the bitter Gi com
plaints about Roosevelt's blund
ers and you'll see what I mean.
Events seem to show that
Roosevelt is losing the peace
point by point to the more astute
Stalin and Churchill; that we
are likely to be left holding the
bag as at the end of the last war
umess we replace Roosevelt with
a more capable diplomat.
Some folks say that another
four years can't do any harm.
Well, it is Just the four years
the communists want to complete
their program of taking over the
government and converting it to
a dictatorship. Read Alexander
Barmlne's article "The New
Communist Conspiracy" in the
October Reader's Digest. Bar
mine isn't the only one who is
trying to warn us of this danger
and being scoffed it. Remember
the warnings we scoffed at con
cerning Japan. . Remember Pearl
Harbor.
A communist dictatorship
might be all right in Russia, if
that is what the people want,
but as for me, I want good old
Constitutional Democracy re
stored to the people. I want the
Bill of Rights honored in this
country. I want the right of
access to the courts restored to
the American people. I want
free enterprise and free labor
restored to the people. I want
freedom of speech and freedom
of the press restored to the peo
ple. I ask for the abolition of
"special privileges" and the res
toration of equal opportunity for
all. v
Under this administration we
are ruled by presidential direc
tives, and OPA directives, and
NLRB directives, instead of by
constitutional law, and if we
don't live the directives, or If
we are caught breaking any of
them we are subject to fine and
punishment by the very bureau
issuing the directive. If we at
tempt to take our case before a
court we stand a very good
chanco of being turned down as
was Montgomery Ward. This
denial of court trial hus been
perpetrated against private in
dividuals in this country in ro
cent months.
Give Dewoy and other new
and able men a rhnnce to clean
up this mess. Four year isn't
enough time to build up a power
ful machine, but sixteen years is
enough time to build a machine
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9U UUWCU HI". .ww
can bo abolished. The democrats
and their communism dickcio
tried that this time.
Sincerely.
MHS. G. E. LEWIS.
Estimated production of auto
mobiles for the first postwar
vein- is two million curs (ullow
lng six months for conversion)
the second year four million
cars, and the third year five
million curs.
A Gem of Thought From .delta's.,
There was an old Termite named Pratt
Who was asked to Christen Ship that
Had bean named after her Spouse,
At the swung the bottle, she said, "You louse,
Take THAT and THAT and Thai."
Good Hamburger
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any dlfTeion. vr1'
voto-thclmporlani thin-UJ2
you Do vote. Call u
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In the bctlrnrk of . .' l0.m1lt
of democracy. Un
Most of tlio polltlcnl convontlona
In our town aro hold around
the cruckor-barrol-ln Sum Abor.
nothy'a store.
We were settling how the
country ultould be run the otlior
night when Jtomor WaUon
gtarU to nut In n word.
"Walt a minute, Homor," Sam
said sharply, "did you voU la
tho last olcctlon?"
"Well," Homor fumbled, "1
was awful busy Just at Uio tlmo."
"Thnt dont mutter," Hani Ira
alsto. "Free nnecch around thl
No. 10-i of a Serial
Ccpytighi, 1944, Unig Imlumy
This is No Time to Play Politics!
It is No Time to Gamble with the Lives of Our Boys!
Would You Vote to recall
GENERAL EISENHOWER
Would You Vote to recall
GENERAL Mac ARTHUR
Would You Vote to recall
ADMIRAL NIMITZ
Would You Vote to recall
GENERAL MARSHALL
OF COURSE tWT!
Then Don't Change Your Commander-in-Chief
Vote for PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
. . . then back the President up with a
Vote
for
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for U.S. SENATOR
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1 1 DIrMtor Mhonty-forStnt-Commltt J I
VOTE FOR
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FOR MAYOR
Shephen
BECAUSE
He has been a business man In Klamath Falli
for 17 yean and hai been active In elvla and
fraternal affairs,, giving generously of his time
to matters of public welfare) and because hit
business experionce and civic activities have
made him conversant with the many problems
of our city. HE IS FITTED AND QUALIFIED
BY TEMPERAMENT AND SYMPATHETIC
UNDERSTANDING TO DEAL WITH OUR
PRESSING JUVENILE PROBLEMS. He Is a
family man with three children one a first
lieutenant In the army air corps) a daughter,
attending the University of Oregon, and a son
In tha sixth grade In Klamath Falls. And be
cause he has a constructive program for the city
of Klamath Falls. As an exsmplei Will Imme
diately put Into at fact ordinance No. 3420,
and thereby terminating the BLACK SNOW
MENACE. In Klamath Falls.
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