The Salina Journal from Salina, Kansas • Page 10

The Journal's Opinion Fewer Houses, Prices Up It's still hard to find in Salina a good three-bedroom house that fits both purse and family. Fewer houses are being built here although the demand has not appre- "ciably slackened. One of the several reasons more houses are not being started is the of credit. Discount and interest rates are up. Builders are discouraged the high cost of financing.

Financing costs more because governmental agencies have planned it that They have upped the rates to head off inflation. So what happens? The supply of houses becomes inadequate, the and the trend of house rents ind house prices continues upward. In -this particular field, there appears more Inflation, not less, because of the controls. Now I'm not smart enough in economics to know whether this is happening all over, or what relation the lina situation has to the whole general problem of inflation. But I do recall from the text bodks that one of the recommended ways to keep down inflation is to produce more goods and distribute more goods at less cost through greater efficiency.

If there is an ample supply, the demand dosen't boost the price. Granted that some financial controls are necessary. But if we shrink credit to the point that necessary production is curtailed and prices rise, then we are stimulating inflation rather than discouraging it. The genius of America is in production and distribution. Perhaps we should encourage this genius by taking off the shackles restraining trade and production.

Some of these shackles are clamped on by trade agreements, by labor resistance to new techniques, by devices to limit competition, etc. And perhaps the job of the bankers and credit managers is not to hoard dollars but to promote their wise use in increasing availability of goods and services. this that by j.p.h. Ttw many of those who pitch their restaurants on the roadside operate on the theory that there no, reason to fret over what they serve because the tourists won't be coming back their way anyhow. One of the recent commemorative pictures of "the late Admiral Byrd is disturbing.

It shows him in the Antarctic cabin "where he lived alone for seven months." If he lived alone, who took his picture, a penguin? Between taking pep-up pills and tranquillizing pills, a hypochondriac friend feels almost as well as if he weren't taking any pills at all. J. p. h. Contempt of Coagrest indict- 1 ments these days are ground out at the rate of three or four a week, while in the old days -there weren't more than one or two such ci- tations a year.

One sincerely trusts this doesn't -mean Congress is more contemptuous than it to be. Midgets, It semis, have their conventions like i leveryone else and at their most recent one they a protest resolution against being charged for by the pound, just as their excess baggage is. Charles Van Doren wasn't nearly so smart as he seemed. Had he been truly smart, he would have figured some angle to avoid paying income tax on what he won. Some of America's favorite vacation spots have some unappealing likenesses.

What-is Miami but Atlantic City with palmjrees? What is Arizona but Florida without water? The President has again proved himself a man of strong character even if at times this trait makes him a nonconformist. He has gotten back from his most recent trip without appearing in public in a pair of Bermuda shorts. Letter To The Editor Confused Legislators Sir: find myself in agreement with The Journal editorials on the floundering efforts of the legislature to find a solution for the embarrassing tax problem in Kansas. Many members fail to face up to the solution in the interest of the general welfare and respond too easily to political pressure from special interest groups. Timid legislators have been voting against the general welfare and the low-income bracket taxpayers when they have supported increases in the sales tax, state income tax, real estate taxes and taxes on advertising.

Most of the oil producing states have enacted legislation placing a severance tax on gasoline, while Kansas has bottled up these bills in a tax committee controlled by oil lobbyists. A severance tax on oil and gas would produce $8.500.000 or nearly half the amount needed to cover the state tax deficit without falling back on a lot of little "chicken-feed" taxes. Some of our timid legislators need a "shot in the arm" from their constituents to allay their fears of professional politicians. A. Q.

MILLER, 914 Highland. Good Old Days: "VrS H. J. Taylor, Salina, was low bidder for three miles of pavement on US81 at Lindsborg with an estimate of Bob Carnie, Salina, was elected vice-president at the meeting of Sunflower State of the American Legion in Wichita. Kenneth Byler, head of the violin department, Kansas Wesleyan University, will be presented in recital.

Favorite Bible Verse As new born babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without Peter 2:2. We are loo casual hi our spiritual life. If we want to grow in grace we need spiritual food. Roscoe Drummond'ft Opinion Should VP Be Boss? WASHINGTON President Eisenhower in-tends to present to Congress a detailed plan -for a statute and, probably, a Constitutional which would repair the dangerous in the Constitution on Presidential disability. Mr.

Eisenhower's proposal will go to the Capitol at this session unless it appears that it would hold up urgent legislation. It shouldn't have that effect. The President's concern I ls lo press for llasty ac I tlon but, rather, to give Sress and the country all the Ht time needed to examine, Drummond bate and determine at I should be done. The reason somelhing needs to be done comes I from this sentence in the Constitution: "In case of. (President's) inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said fice, the Same shall devolve upon the Vice I Prsident.

The unanswered questions are: (1) Who shall decide when a President cannot discharge his duties? (2) How shall it be decided? (3) In the event of disability short of death, does the Constitution mean that the "said office" of President, or only the powers and duties of the 1 office shall devolve upon the Vice President? Mr. Etscnhowcr reached his own dcci- on two of these questions. He would like to see an act of Congress which would es- tablish: 1. That the Vice President shall become "acting taking over the "pow' ers and not the office, in of Presidential cfisaoility, 2. That a President may at his own inilia- tive delegate his powers to the Vice Presi- dent in the event of disability, and recover thwn when he determines he can resume.

Ttese two provisions would admittedly not meet all emergencies but they would meet most of them. The great gain would be that it would make that a Vice President could not seize UK "office" of President even while temporor- tty diKharflnf iu powers. This would reduce, perhaps entirely overcome, the disinclination of a disabled President to free himself of his duties lest he never get them back. This is no theoretical problem. After being seriously wounded by an assassin President Garfield was unable to perform his duties for two and a half months, but his staff was unwilling to allow him to delegate them to Vice President Arthur for fear the latter would decide to retain During the last seventeen months of his second term President Wilson was not a whole man and numerous White House decisions were taken by those whom few 'officials knew.

Lat- when Wilson learned that Secretary Lansing had suggested a cabinet meeting to consider whether Vice President Marshall should take over temporarily, Wilson fired Lansing for If a President knew that he could recover his powers if he once delegated them it would help remove the temptation lo cover up disability. There remains the other unresolved question. Who should determine Presidential disability when a President makes no move to do so himself? It has suggested that it be decided by the cabinet, by the Supreme Court, by the. Vice President and by a Congressional commission. All of these proposals and others arc now before Mr.

Eisenhower for his study. He has not reached a final conclusion, but my understanding is that he favors something very near to what the Washington Editor of the Saturday Evening Post, Beverly Smith, outlined in his article this week. Mr, Smith proposes a Presidential Disability Commission of nine members to comprise the Chief Justice and the two senior members of the Supreme Court, the two highest-ranking cabinet members, the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate, the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House. Us authority would be to decide on its own motion by a two-thirds vote in writing when a President was "disabled" and when he was The reason a solution like this appeals to Mr. Eisenhower is that it enables all branches of the government lo share in a decision which vitally affects the whole nation.

Art Buchwald KonSOHS Try Report. 1857, York P. S. FROM SWITZERLAND Among the newer and more interesting sports in Switzerland is landing on glaciers by airplane. It's a very inexpensive sport, since all you really need is a Piper Cub and glacier.

As everyone knows, Switzerland is lousy with glaciers, and Piper Cubs are also easy to find. The difficulty 'is to find someone to fly the plane. At the moment there are only two pilots in the country experienced enough to land on glaciers. One is Hermann Geiger, a professional pilot who earns his living at it, and the other is Freddy Wissel, a St. Moritz hotel owner, who does it for a hobby.

Mr Wissell, a former glider pilot, has made over 1,000 glacier landings without mishap, and since 1950 has made over 50 rescues of people stranded in the Alps. As a favor he offered to take us on a flight. He assured us that it wasn't dangerous, and even if it was he carried about $10,000 insurance on each passenger. He pointed out that since the Swiss franc was a hard currency our wife could very easily have the money transferred to the United States in case anything happened. He was so encouraging we decided to try it.

Mr. Wissel was waiting for us the next morning on the St. Moritz lake. His Piper Cub was fitted with special aluminum skis. We climbed behind him in the plane, and before we knew it we were up in the air making a steep bank over, the Palace Hotel.

We waggled our wings a few times to give the people on the terrace a thrill and then headed out toward the mountains. One of the exciting things you get out of glacier-landing comes from dodging mountains which seem to spring up on all sides of you. No self-respecting glacier pilot would think of flying over them, when he could fly through them. While we were maneuvering through valleys sometimes only 50 feet above the trees Mr. Wissel shouted: "Which glacier would you like to land on?" We didn't realize we had a choice and, since to the inexperienced eye, one glacier looks just like another, we said we would leave it up to him.

Mr. Wissel shrugged his shoulders and flew on. Finally, high up in the Alps he came to one known as the Pers glacier. "How about this one?" he asked. It looked all right to us, and we nodded okay.

He flew around the glacier three times, checking for any rocks, stones or rough snow. Then he started his descent. The trick of glacier-landing is to land full throttle uphill with your tail down. Mr. Wissel did just that, and we skidded across the glacier on the plane's skis.

We came to a gentle halt. Before he could warn us we jumped out of the plane and sank immediately into five feet of snow. "That's the trouble with glaciers," Mr. Wissel said as he pulled us out. "You never know how deep the snow is going to be." (Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune, Drew Opinion Beck A WASHINGTON It has been known for some time that Dave Beck, potent, harassed, and harried head of the Teamsters, was under income- tax scrutiny.

But it has not been known how the investigation started. It can now be revealed that it was actually ordered by President Harry Truman and has been continued by Internal Revenue since. Income-tax troubles are considered to be the reason why the big Teamster boss has been so frantically selling off big wads of real estate and why he also went before the union's executive council to sell his home and his furniture to the union, even (hough the union had already paid for various repairs on the home, and thus paid for part of it twice. The skein of Beck's farflung business operations is difficult to unravel. The tax agents have been working on it for some time and find that he has real estate all the way from the Washington, D.

suburbs to the west Pearson coast. Here is a quick look at part of his financial empire: Early in Beck's career his family got into the beer business. Not content with organizing the beer-wagon drivers, Beck organized the brewery workers. They had their own union, but he moved in and made them part of the Teamsters. Then Beck's nephew, Norman Gessert, became president Sunset Distributors which handles Rainier beer in north Seattle.

Beck himself, with his wife, has owned about 1,000 shares of Rainier stock. Butlweiser And Beck Jr. Dave Beck is also president of and Beverage which now handles Budweiser. For a long lime, no eastern beer was allowed to enter Seattle. The Teamsters wouldn't permit it.

It was not distributed. But now Dave Beck's son has the distributorship for Anheuser- Busch of St. Louis. Dave Beck's wife. Dorothy, also holds stock in and Distributors which sells not only beer, but whisky and wine as far north as Alaska.

So the Beck family is right in the beer business from bar back to the brewery. The Teamsters' constitution, by the way, requires that its international president shall "devote all his time to the service of the Another part of Beck's financial pir which the tax agents have taken a look at is his real estate and his finance agency. The latter, the Northwest Securities is an automobile finance agency which does about $2,000,000 worth of business annually on new and used cars, plus auto insurance. Beck has borrowed part of the money for his business ventures from, his own union, as he himself said, to the tune of 5300,000 to without interest. He has also borrowed from the Occidental Life Ins.

Co. of California, which handles the health and welfare funds for 300,000 Teamsters in the 12 western states. It has been glad to lend Beck money at around percent, even at a time when veterans were paying 4 percent. With this financial backing. Beck has acquired a large interest in the swankiest apartment house in Seattle, Grosvenor House.

It's a 356-unit building located across from Teamster headquarters worth about $3,500,000. A group of local businessmen built it, made Beck chairman of the board, and he is now probably the chief owner. Beck also organized the and Investment Corp, and owns part of the LEG Realty Corp. Through them he has acquired apartment houses, parking lots, beer-distributing buildings, all around Seattle. Family Sales Some of these were sold in a hurry when he was reported to be anxious to raise tax money.

They were sold in many cases to his family or to family corporations at very nice prices. For instance, Beck owned a piece of property on 14th avenue in Seattle which was being used by Sunset Distributors, which is owned by his nephew, Norman Gessert, by Mrs. Beck's niece, and by a Teamster official, Albert Irvine. Beck had purchased the building for $45.000 in 1951 and sold it in 1955 to his family beer-distributor company for $100,000. He doubled his money in four years.

Beck also sold two lots on east Marginal Way to another of his family companies. A family firm, the and Distributing had been occupying the lots, and Beck sold them to the Cosmopolitan of which Dave Beck is president, with his nephew Gessert and a Teamster official, Simon Wampoll, offirers of the company. Thus it was hard to say where Beck's interest began and left off. At any rate he made a profit of $134,000 on the lots," having held them eight years. The Union Buys Another interesting real-estate transaction was Beck's sale of two lots to his own union for $107,000.

The deeds show that Beck paid $1 each for the lots, which are located right across from Teamster Seattle headquarters, therefore obviously property the union someday won 1 need. However, Beck bought them in 1951 for the registered price of $1 each, though there may have been some other unrecorded consideration. At any rate, the Teamsters considered them valuable enough to buy them from Beck in 1956 for £107,000, which made some people wonder why they hadn't bought the lots in the first place. As president of the union, Beck could have let his union buy this valuable property instead of acquiring it himself at a recorded price of $2. All this is part of the farflung ramifications of Dave Beck's financial empire.

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