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JUSTICE E!CT B L IN D .....................................
Often ae have been diacourgaged ax -tax pass-» for as tic e,
*ben we se e some obrbxia -rongs passed o ter and grossed over,
and some borderline cases s .a t t c - d to the fWieet extent of the
letter of the law. However, last -eek in the Circuit Court p re
sided over by Jjdge Dal King, the real m eam ^ of justice a a s
firmly brought home.
We refer to the .ocally celebrated trial of four o u t-o f-s ta te
fishermen, who were arrested .ast summer by «»>»*• police on a
charge of Ulegai possession of silver salmon. The trial received
attentl.a from the entire fisting industry in California, Oregon
*nd Washington, and because the men »ere arrested in Che too
Cove it provided a great deal of local interest.
Th fishermen claimed that they were blown in here by ad
verse weather conditions, and a.though they could have made it
to Cr«-scent City it -ouid have been longer, and thus more haz
ardous to do so. The state police arrested the men. seized a
quanity of their silv er s, and required them to post ball. Later
J»»dge Hans Nelson held court on them, and fined them forbreah-
ing th* letter of the la»--having silver salmon in their p o sse ss
ion in Oregon at a time when such possession was Ulegai.
We don't have any quarrel with Nelson, or with the S t a t e
police, although we were more than a little agitated at the time.
We think that their Job is to uphold the law--aad that is what we
are paying them for--and we don’t ejq>ect le ss.
However, the facts are, and Judge Kh< was wise enough of a
jurist to see that, the men had violated ONLY THE LETTER OF
THE LAW, and not the INTENT. In other words--and we s a i d
this at the time the law was not meant to apply to distressed v e s
se ls, »hich put into Oregon waters with no intent to violate the
Oregon law.
If these men were caught fish k* for sUvers in Oregon waters
--and they weren’t, or if they were caught trving to sell »he s il
vers in Oregon, which they weren't--then we would feel justified
In lowering th»- boom. Technically, of course, they had broken
the Oregon law by having possession. But obviously these men
bad nt> criminal intent. They m erely put in at B rookins to get
out of a storm. This in our opinion does not constitute breakup
a law--and our opinion happily coincides with Judg* King We
find it darn nice to be right for once, and again we report that
true justice Isn't blind at all.
INVISIBLE ADVERTISING
There Is always something new and different in the world we
live in. Now a researcher in the east has come ip with a wooder-
ous develcpmeot. It is what you call a ' sneaky approach' to the
buying pub. ic . The product is flashed upon a screen, either in
th«- theatre or on TV at a thousandths of a second You can't see
it--but It hits your subconscious level, and then you are sigipose
to run out and buy something. It was tried first in a theatre and
It supposedly increased the sale of popcorn by 81 percent, ust
by flashing on the screen "buy popcorn" every few seconds.
People ta th audience craved popcorn, am went out and pur
chased it. We don't know what reaction the m« U d would get if
the words "Jump in the Lake" were flasbeo. alt ,rt we assume
that th. mind won't let the person do something i: doesn't want to.
Psychologists also report that It might work in a theatre, but
the craving won't last long enough to get you down to the corner
store for a new hat.
Personally, we prefer the old visual method, such as the P i
lot, where people can study the ads for an hour or so before thev
make up their minds.
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SKETCHBOOK
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for what it 's worth
(LIFFO RD ROWE
What with all the criticism
.eve.ec at television these days
it is rather heart-warming to
have a kind word spoken in its
beha.f even though =puch an oc
currence may be a rare one.
Sort of reminds one of »hat
ancient yarn related to a mean
old odger -ho had just passed
on and -hose mourners were
racking their minds trying to
find aosse redeeming quality to
offer in the deceased s favor.
F i n a l l y , after much h e a d
scratching oae fellow shattered
momentarily the o p p r e s s ive
g .o o m by asserttt^ proudly,
You know be was sure a good
•h istler '.
So I -a s somewhat pleased a
• eek or so ago to read about a
youngster in »ashn<ton -ho
having been kidnapped .ater ad
mitted that he hac been able to
effect his escape with a trick he
had learned on TV.
Now, of course, to say som e
thing of that sort about television
almost amounts to treason, for
today the twenty-four inch screer
is being b.anted for practically
every fating of modern society
In fact, ft is gradually taking th
Iim. .lght from the comic book.
Whether it be Juvenile delinquen
cy- the increase in the divorce
rate, or the alarming fact that
Rumors and denials of im
pending international currency
athletic events are suffering
revaluations are creating chaotic
financially because people pre
conditions in world monetary
fer to stay at home, the goat is
markets lately. A devaluation
always the name--old boogey
of foreign currencies would
man TV is the one to biame.
mean that more E i^lish pounds,
Germ an marks, or French franrt
If a kid steals a car, society
says he learned it from television could be bought with American
dollars.
—too many crime pictures. If
a kid doesn't have his history
An American tourist in Europe
lesson prepared, it is because would find that hie dollar would
he was watching television In buy more. Foreign manufacturer
stead of studying. If the wife lets
and miners could sell their pro
her housekeeping go to pot and ducts at lower p rices in the
hubby packs up and leaves, TV United States. Our own man
is to blame.
ufacturers, however, would find
So naturally it was reallyen- it more difficult to compete in
cour aging to learn that the Wash b o th overseas and d o m e s tic
ington lad had acquired something markets.
beneficial from television. After
In spite of repeated denials o:
all, it does seem logical that if imminent devaluation by Peter
one can be stimulated to bad deeds Thorneycroft, British Chanceilo
from the flicker box, it must also of the Exchequer, fear for tht
follow that he can be pointed to
stability of the English pound has
wards some good ones also
been pronounced. This fright has
After all, it’s the good guy who been translated into an exodus
gets the kiss from the heroine from pounds into the German
Just before the commercial; and mark. The mark’s greater buy
certainly any moron who prefers ing power and strong gold reser
getting shot or going to jail rather ve position has attracted both
than doing some kissing certainly
timid and speculative capital.
deserves to get his wish.
In a frantic effort to preserve
th e purchasing power of the
pound, Great Britian took the
drastic step of hiking its bank
rate from an already steep 5 %
tqa stunning 7%. The bank rate
in Great Britian determines
JOE MURPHY
interest costs to borrowers.
England hopes that higher in
terest rates will pull back fund-
w h ic h h a v e been fleeing the
Naturally, a story like this has to come out durir^ the hunting
country.
Although some ob ser
season or it wouldn't be a real high class season. A very r<-l i
vers interpret the action as an
ab.e person told me that Archie Anderson is, or has been over
indication that the pound will be
in Eastern Oregon hunting deer. We don't know if he has nailed
stablized at all co sts, many are
one or not. At any rate this person told me that he has seen a
still skeptic.
big four point buck lunching in Archie's back yard, for three o r '
The inability of Britian and
four days in a row. McVay's borne is in the city limits of Brook
ings In other words it would have been cb eap er-bu t not so much France to hold the line on man
ufacturing costs has precipita
fun to lean out the living room window and shoot a deer.
ted the difficulty. Germany has
stoutly contained i n f 1 a t i o nary
We got to talking about Spudnik, the Russian built moon, and
pressures; i t s manufactured
naturally the talk got around to the possibility of ever reaching
s ^ lL T 'X '
Per9OD’ *b° 13 ° n the conservative s X
goods exports are lower priced
and more competitive than those
H ^ s ^ A « k V ^ i Ve
m ia Wt>uld ever reach the moon.
of Britain and France.
He said that he based his thinking along the same line as his con-
. e n „ , v e father. wbo after , U n , „ „
look a, “ a“ tomX
A solution to the problem is
not easy to achieve. Britian and
aa that eventual.y the -hom eless carria<e " might be practical
France are exhorting Germany
“ tn m v el
’ ,ree“ ' b“‘ “ " " " W6Uld W '“ ed for ln,cr
to raise the value of the mark.
Germany feels that it c annot af
ford to thus increase the prices
The Russian moon brings up a few other things also. Surely
of its e x p o r t s to the United
the songwriters will be able to do something about that Just L
of the p ossib E itles, like, Only a p a p e r l ^
States. German leaders content
th a t it is already difficult to
Harvest Sputnik’ , and "Carolina Sputnik".
earn enough dollars to pay for
The Pilot »as honored with ’a \7 s h from ‘the managing editor
.spiraling Imports of U .S. Coal
o^one of the W ilm e tte valley dailies, who c a m e ^ X t n Brook-
and othe r goods.
The root of the troubles is in
X 4 X d w^Zh
* W PrDduCtlon
Pilot. He -a s
impressed with the ae» operation. A few weeks ago anotherdsi-
flation, of course. Unless Brit
_X publisher from California came up sp ecifica lly to view the
ian and France attain some sort
plant and to see bow we were doing I*
of stability, the problem will
worsen as time p a sses. If the
We he-arc toll that there are more bratwurst sandwiches beinc
two countries are serious in theli
so.d at the ME-aukee baseball stadium than hot dogs Which
attempt to preserve current ex
,«U e . dfeh. M L . ^ e e U
,or ft, beer.
change ratios for their moneys,
go
right along with it. Which is leading le to the r. ,
deflationary tactics maybe nec
hj xh. time this paper hits the streets Milwauk^ -m
essary. Unpalatable wage and
** World S e r ie s - o r I’U have made a fool of m v -J i^
* On
price controls, discouragement
if they don't win about 95 percent of the fam»
‘ H° * ever
of excessive capital spending
be disappointed. It se^ms that X ^ l X S t
tariffs, import bans, or export
b e e « « they here heeb o„
fh r o J t^ ^
L e ' J ^ I“
subsidies might ensue.
<he uedertOf— hleh 1. the „ r y r e « o n that H.rry ? r ^ i
The business scene is review^«
the election way back in 1948 w»n r»
rum an won
weekly by the Research Depart
from Bratwurst to politics in th isp a r < r m h sT l
l" g
ment of J. Henry Heiser 1 Co.
while I'm ahead.
P
80 1 A b e t t e r quit
Investment Managers, with of
f i c e s in principal West Coast
cities.
PIPE DREAMS
FISHERMAN B HERE
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cobb of
Portland are in Brookings visit -
lng at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
W.V. Jones. Mr. Cobb p la n s
or staying for a w eek--or until
he can do some real fiahlK In
the Che too.