The OSEGOII STATESMAN, Salem, Citron. Sunday Morning, February 23. 1911
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PAGE EIGHT
Gen. White, Chief of 41st,
Former Newspaper
Scrapes Tin Off Soldiers
Would Rather Live in Tent With Outfit
Than in Mansion; Treats His Men
as f;Happy Family Gets Results
-. By JACK B. BEARDWOOD
FORT LEWIS, Feb. 22 (AP) Unusual is the word for Ma
jor General George A. White,
manding officer of the 41st division.
Here's why:
He'd sooner live in a tent
$20,000 steam-heated home.
He started military life as a
plain buck private.
He has announced that when his
division runs up to its 25-miles-tter-day
marches, he will cover
the distance with them on foot.
He's a former newspaperman
turned soldier. Writing as a side
line, he's authored five books and
old articles and short stories to
most of the nation's large maga-
gines. His writing income has top
ped $30,000 a year.
' fHapPT Family' Concept
: He-has instituted the "happy
family" concept in his division,
eliminating confinement of men
lor military offenses and getting
the most out of them through a
"democratic philosophy
- He's the antithesis of a military
martinet and enlisted men in his
division refer to him as "a sol
dier's general."
- General White, an affable,
eulck-moving man of 59, has one
military "golden rule:"
"Th first duty of an officer
" I to look alter his men. If you
arouse their enthusiasm, disci
pline will take care of itself and
you'll get far better training re
sults. Democracy Is just as im
portant In military life as It Is
In civil."
The general's philosophy ex
plains whyr
,TH continue to live in a tent
With my division. It may be a bit
Inconvenient but it will keep me
in close touch with my men."
General White spends his days
in the field supervising training
of the 41st division which is made
up of national guardsmen from
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Mon
tana and Wyoming.
Enlisted as Private
Born at Long Branch, 111., Gen
eral White's military career began
at 16 when he enlisted as a private
In field artillery at Fort Douglas,
Utah. He served in the ranks six
years, rising from private to first
sergeant, before he got 'his first
commission in 1907. --
When the Mexican border dis
pute came up, he was a captain
of cavalry, serving at Calexlco,
Calif. In 1917 he was promoted
to major and went overseas with
the 41st division. Of his 18
months in France, General
White served several months as v
an adjutant general on the staff
of General John J. Pershing and
was promoted successively to
lieutenant colonel and colonel.
He was twice decorated for his
cervices. V
A graduate of the command
and general staff school at Fort
Leavenworth and the army war
college, he was promoted to briga
dier general in 1923 and, six years
later, received the double stars
of a major general as commander
of the 41st
Reporter In Utah
General White drifted into
newspaper work while he was in
Utah. He was a reporter on the
Salt Lake Tribune at 19 and be
came associate editor of the Port
land Oregoniah when he was 31.
'With his flair for phrases and
bis wji the author-general has
made his - "general's assemblies"
' events that the entire division look
forward to. The entire division is
assembled and the general talks
to them man to man, telling his
troops in vivid language what the
training "is all about"
.- Rather than put out : a routine
notice. General White assem
bled the division In mid-Decem- .
ber. After pointing oat the sac
rifice it meant to the guards-.
men to leave their homes for a
year's service and Inquiring .
bow. they felt with Chrirstmas
coming, the General announced: '
,,"Men, you are all going ' to
get 11-day Christmas furloughs! ;
. Ten can go homer '.
: The eheer . that went , up for
!the old man", made him grin
with delight.
As an ex-newspaperman, Gen-
aroT White has a knack at put-
ting mflitary ideas In layman's;
wuim. xie mpa miiiwrr aiiairg 01 1
their technical , phraseology and
pounds their significance home. '
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with his men than move into a
During last summer's "war
games" in southwest Washington,
a group of generals was being
interviewed concerning training
which receded the maneuvers.
Numerous involved explanations
were presented on hardening
marches, night bivouacs and oth
er routine.
Finally, General White inter
rupted: "This is what it boils down to,
boys. What we're doing is scrap
ing some of the tin off the sol
diers"
Defense Terms
Dictionary
Here's Explanation of
Numerous Things on
New US Program
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22
You've been hearing a lot of talk
about bottlenecks, ordnance and
material, but do you know exact
ly what they mean?
They are among the dozens of
industrial or military terms that
are coming into everyday usage
because of the defense program.
Let's trace the production of army
and navy equipment to find out
how they are applied.
First, congress must provide the
money. This is done in one of two
ways:
By an appropriation congress
can vote to take money out of
the federal treasury to pay, say
for 1000 airplanes. This money
normally can be spent within the
next fiscal year, beginning July 1.
The fiscal year Is the govern
ment's bookkeeping year and runs
from July 1 to the next June 30.
By contract authorization If
the expenditure will carry over
more than a year, such as in build'
ing a battleship, congress gives
the army or the navy authority
to contract for the product In ef
fect, it promises that in subse
quent years it will vote enough
money to finish the work.
What does the army buy with
its money?
A big share goes for: Materiel,
which is the name applied to all
army's physical equipment
Part of this is:
Ordnance the equipment used
in actual fighting.
Because of the success of ar
mored forces, the army has been
developing:, ;
Mechanized units troops whose
prime weapons are such fighting
vehicles as lanks,
Motorized units troops which
transport all or part of their sup
plies, weapons and men in trucks.
Military equipment doesn't last
forever. It eventually becomes:
obsolescent wearing out or pass
ing out of use.
Then it becomes:
Obsolete worn out or of a dis
carded type.
(Next week The Navy,
De-
fense production)
Junior Class
Slates Farce
WOODBURN Junior class of
Woodburn high school will pre
sent "Oh! Professor," a comedy
farce in three acts by Katherine
Kavanaugh, . on Thursday night,
March 6.
Characters are Jake, school
janitor, Richard Carskadon: Miss
Frederica, assistant to dean, Ger
aldine Wretling; Dr. Aris total,
dean, Robert Gorman; students,
Fluff, Helen Yoder; Bertha, Max
ine Richmond; Jean, Arlene Cole
man; Belle, ; Betty Moen; Michal
Pemberton, Leston Dun ton; Pro
fessor Perdval Courtwright Har-
I old Herigstad; Jimmy Anderson,
; Clifford Shrncltr PstrlHs PaffM
son. Jean Royce; Mile. Fifi, Co-
Tin-no Mjer
Miss Vera Hicks of the English
department is' director.
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Great Sugar Fields Spring From Plants Like These
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This is W. R. Daugherty (above) standing In his 10-acre sugar beet seed field near Brooks. This view
Indicates the height, rankness of growth of seeded -out beet plants. Seeds from here and other acre
age in Willamette vSUey is-sent throughout the Pacific coast area.
Cavalcade of Cockeyed Events
Brought to You
From "Screwy News" You Learn Everything
not So Serious or Depressing Laugh
and the World Laughs With You
NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (AP) You may or may not be safe
on the highways these days, but the way things have been going,
you ought to get a good vaudeville show anyway.
The cavalcade of cockeyed occurrences last week was mainly
a motorcade.
A truck in New York hit a
parked car and then five cars hit
the truck. . . A parked car rolled
down a hill in Idaho Falls and
disappeared in a haystack. . .
An Irvington, NJ, man who won
a national award for seven year's
safe driving was discovered to
have been driving without a license.-
. . A Santa Clara, Calif.,
motorist, arrested for going 60,
blamed it on a very strong tail
wind a very strong one. . . and
a Fulton, Mo., man got a $10.50
auto lincense for 50 cents, be
cause on the way to the license
bureau he hit a wolf, bounty $10.
The victims of a drive on il
legal parking in Boston included
50 policemen, the attorney gen
eral of Massachusetts, and the
governor. , . And a Pueblo, Colo.
Jury acquitted a man of a
drunken driving charge, but
convicted a back-seat passen
ger on the ground that he was
better able to pay a fine.
Discoveries of the week: . . .In
Waterloo, NY: A cross-eyed cat
with seven toes on three feet and
eight toes on the fourth. . . In New
York City: A man who makes his
living imitating a rabbit. . ,
Progress dept.: ... A Charlotte,
Vt, minister instituted "Town
Meeting" church services, where
the congregation can talk back.
And the Merchant Tailors associ
ation announced bright colored
linings for suits, so men can in
dulge their passion for color in
visibly. . .
A Detroit prise fight ended in
a double technical knockout. . .
A Savannah, a,, woman got a
letter that her husband mailed
her before they were married. . .
A St. Louis holdup man, asked
by a victim how business was,
replied: "Fine I'm making,
about $100 a day." . . .
And a Minneapolis man was so
exasperated by his in-laws that
he wrecked all the furniture in
his house.
If the Anti-Saloon league keeps
an eye on the animsV kingdom, it
must be alarmed at the tendency
to tipple that our furred and fea
thered friends have been manifest
ing recently.
A duck In Reno the other day
drank himself to death on antl
freexe solatia n. . A police dog
in Brockton,lMas& Imbibed so
freely of wtndow-cleanlnff Yluid
that he had to be locked op In
a cell. . . And officials at Gaff
ney, SC, found ar cow swollen
to twice her size from drinking
out of a bootleg still.
A cow in Parsons, Kas., went
overboard on oil drained out of a
tractor crank-case. .". And a farm
er, in Winthrop, Wash., reported
that a wild deer ate some cider
mash he left outdoors and got so
tipsy he shook both his antlers
off. Tsk-tsk.
The animals haven't been dis
playing much more discretion in
their eating than in their drink
ing, either. .
A cat in Lincoln, Neb., ate half
the tinsel off a Christmas' tree. ; .
A cow in Barbourville, NY, ate
her boss' "wallet, with $50 in it . '.
A goat In Wichita, Kas., was
caught nibbling the insulation off
the Ignition wiring of a car. . .
And a cat in St. Paul swallowed
a needle and. thread which pres
ently emerged from the top of her
head. ' . - ' t" ' '"" '
."All In alL It looks like the
guy who called them "dumb"
animals had something. For in
stance, the ' other day - In i Eed -Bank,
N J, a fugitive fox took
refuge In the doorway of a for :
store. . . A squirrel in Cornland, ';
I1L buried, a man's pipe la the
ground under the Impression
that It was a nut . A pack of
foxhounds m A delp hi a, NJ. ,
chased all over the countryside '
and ended up treeing a Feme
ranian dog. . , ;
And la a snowstorm In Buff a-
lo, two St. Bernard , dogs got
lost. ,.: : wj...
in Dizzy Form
Boogie-Woogie
New to Singer
Negro Soprano Reveals
Plans to Record
Old Spirituals
SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 22-JPy-Dorothy
Maynor, celebrated negro
soprano, knows even the un
known negro spirituals but she
doesn't know "boogie-woogie."
Miss Maynor, latest of her race
to achieve fame on the concert
stage, was asked about boogie
woogie while she was explaining
a plan for recording next sum
mer some of the "undoctored"
harmonies of the by-ways of the
south.
"Boogie-woogie? What's that?"
she asked.
"I hadn't heard of it. It's some
thing to look forward to," she ex
claimed with a laugh when it was
explained that boogie-woogie is
the latest in swing music.
Here for a concert, Miss May
nor talked enthusiastically of her
plan to record little known spirit
uals and other native harmonies
of her race, especially in the Bay
ou and island areas where white
influence has not reached.
"Some negro harmonies are so
strange there is no way to ex
press them on our music staff,"
she said. "An example is the quar
one, used by the negroes in em
bellishing their singing. The only
way the music can be captured is
by recording it as sung by the
southern negroes."
True spirituals, she explained,
cannot be sung as solos without
losing color as they require group
ed voices for full effect and are
sung without instrumental ac
companiment. The "undoctored"
spirituals, she added, can be play
ed almost entirely on the five
black notes of the piano scale.
Patriotic Theme
Used by Social
Science Classes
WOODBURN A patriotic pro
gram was given for high school
students by the students of the so
cial science classes, under the di
rection of Mrs. Amelia Auld Fri
day afternoon.
Charles Filbin, master of cere
monies, introduced Anita Hoefer,
who led Star Spangled Banner
and America. Ambrose Asper
gave the American prayer and
Rose Bruenninger the American
creed. Opal Eppers and Maxlne
Richmond played several accordi
on solos. The American life was
told by Jack Sorenson, Arlene
Coleman, Geraldine Hahauska
and Doris Jones.' Lincoln's "Get
tysburg Address was given by
Harold Tilden. Dorothea Koenig,
accompanied by Millicent Even
den, sang ."Stand By America."
A reading, "No Slaves Beneath
This Flag,; .was given by Corrine
Miller. Jack Sorenson and Mar
Jorie Seely sang several duets and
the program "was concluded by the
band -playing ."America' and the
"Star Spangled Banner."
Mill City News
MILL CITY Mr. and M.
LeRoy Dike entertained, with a
500 Darty Satuodav. Guests wtr
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Johnson,
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Heath, Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Davis, an of Cat-
Mrs. A. Hoenig, Mrs. C, C Por
ter, jars. a. Holthouse, -Bert
Morris and LeRoy Graf e. Mn.
Davis and Mrs. Johnson won hon
ors In 500. ,'
Mrs. R. D. Tumla went tn
WestfiT Monday to visit her kon.
Frank Klein and family.
, Mr, and Mrs. Jake Fettenmaier
of Wauna visited at the ham nt
Richard Saucier, Wednesday.
1
California Has
"Different"
Earthquakes
Savant Explains Shake
as Horizontal Slips;
Mexico Moves North
PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 22
(JP) A thing Calif ornians 'could
boast about, but are inclined to
shush -shush, says Dr. John P.
Buwalda, is that in all the world
this is the only area where the
earth slips horizontally in earth
quakes. "The shock in the Imperial val
ley last May 18 put a 15-foot jog
in the Mexican boundary," said
the chairman of geology, Califor
nia Institute of Technology. "I un
derstand the United States gov
ernment plans to let the border
monuments stand where the earth
slip moved them.
"The earth's crust cracked for
a distance of 40 miles, not wider
than inches, but to a depth of 20
or 30 miles. On the west side of
the crack canals, highways and
railroads which crossed it moved
northward a maximum of 15 feet.
Slipped 21 Feet
"lr- the San Francisco earth
quake of 1906 the earth slipped
a maximum of 21 feet for 200
miles. There was a 35 foot slip in
the Fort Tejon shock of 1857.
"Some of the streams on the
Carriso plains 20 miles west of
Taft are offset as much as a
mile, evidence of earthquakes of
earlier days. Sandstone forma
tions in Cajon pass north of San
Bernardino Indicate a total slip
page of 23 miles over a long
period of time.
"These horizontal slips occur
along the San Andreas fault, the
longest in the world. It begins in
the Pacific ocean 60 miles off the
southwest corner of Oregon, strik
es land just north of San Fran
cisco and continues down through
the Salton sea to the Gulf of Cali
fornia. "We suspect that it continues
across Mexico and Yucatan, con
necting with some of the faults
in the Caribbean. This fault has
been active millions of years and
likely will be for years to come."
Coast Moves North
Why is the coastal area of Cali
fornia traveling northward by
jerks, a few feet at a time?
Dr. Buwalda said geologists and
seismologists have evidence that
the Pacific ocean basin is moving
northward with reference to the
North American continent, and-4
the San Andreas fault might be
called the boundary.
This movement he described
as due to a sub-crustal flow 50
to 100 miles beaeath the earth's
surface.
"Rocks win flow under tre
mendous pressure," he said,
"like, for instance, putty."
Dr. Buwalda is one Californian
who does not believe that Cali
f ornians should shush-shush
earthquakes.
"An earthquake alone never
killed anybody," he declared. "Not
a single person met death in the
Imperial valley, the Long Beach
or the Santa Barbara shocks
through the collapse of a resi
dence. "People were killed by falling
bricks or cornices, and in the col
lapse of public markets or other
buildings with no interior walls.
"After the Long Beach shock,
te state adopted a law requir
ing the strengthening of school
buildings; As a result, not a
single school came down in the
Imperial Valley, although gen
oral damage there ran to more
than $5,000,000. ' ,
. What. California needs is a
fairly sharp shock about once a
year. Then we would adopt need
ed building ' codes and what is
more important, enforce them. The
slight Increase in cost of build
ing earthquake proof structures
would be largely offset by lower
insurance rates. Progress has been
made, but not enough.
Some day maybe we can safelr
say to people of other states d
uome out ana enjoy with us the
adventure of an earthquake.'
Returns to Hospital -
KOBEKTS Louie Zielko w
taken back to Salem General hoc
pltal for a few days of special
treat, nts. '
WiUametteV
Iqeal f or Raising Stock,
Asserts Firm Manager.
Gross of $300,000 Expected by Farmers of
Valley From July Harvest; County Has
592 Acres Under Cultivation .7
By DONNELL SANDERS
Raising of sugar beet seed, an infant industry for Willamette
valley which is fast out-growing the baby class, will gross valley
growers between $250,000 and $300,000 when' the 1941 crop , is
harvested in July.
It would not be out of line to call Salem the center of beet
seed growing for the sugar beets industry of the Pacific coast.
The head office of the West
Coast Beet Seed company is lo
cated here in the new Bligh build
ing and beet acreages are under
contract to the company from the
Mexican border to the Canadian
line, according to George T. Scott,
general manager. The main-office
was formerly located in Berkeley,
CaliL, but was moved here in Sep
tember of 1S40.
Willamette valley land under
contract to the company for 1941
totals 1250 acres. Of this amount
502 acres are located in Marlon
county. The balance extends
from Newberg to Springfield la
Lane county.
Marion county growers can ex
pect an average yield of 2500
pounds per acre at a contract price
of 7 cents per pound. Yields of
3500 pounds are not uncommon
and a phenominal yield of 5300
pounds was made by one grower
in Josephine county on one and
two tenths acres. However, Mr.
Scott warns Marion county grow
ers to expect no such poundage
as conditions have to be practic
ally perfect
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Beets for seed are planted in
August and harvested the fol
lowing July. They require much
irrigation and for that reason most
of valley acreages are located on
bottom soils.
- While beets for sugar are raised
as an industry in eastern Oregon,
Idaho, Utah and other mountain
states, Scott reports , that the mild
humid climate of Willamette val
ley is ideal for seed growing.
Strangely enough, there is no by
product from beets raised for seed.
The pulp is worthless.
Regarding the future of the
Industry, Scott reports that as
consumption of sugar advances
so will seed raising. However,
he states that sugar production
Is so thoroughly regulated by
governmental agencies that the;
beet sugar industry will have to
wait for an increase In popula
tion or a readjustment of the
ratio of production between the '
eaae industry of Cuba, Hawaii
and insular possessions before
sugar beet growing can be ex
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Mehama 'Journalism
Class Reports".
4H Activity
MEHAMA ' Pupils of Mrs.
Clark's room. at Mehama school,
who are interested in Journalism,
report that hot lunches are being
served to 4o children by Bert
Quick, cook, ; under the WPA
lunch project sponsored by! Me-;
hama Woman's club. . . j i
Pupils having perfect attend
ance in Mrs. Clark's room dur
ing last month were Leon ; Me
Carley, Douglas Thomas, Duane
Wagner, Wava Bass, Mabel Han
gardy, Ivan Clason, Gilbert Wag
ner and Joyce McDonald. 4
Mrs. Clark attended the 4H
Club Leaders' meeting last Sat
urday and the meeting of prin
cipals and upper grade teachers
at the Golden Pheasant in Salem.
The Wide-Awake ' Health 1 dub
Voted last Friday Ho enter the 4H
health . competition of Marion
county to improve rating by cor
rection of physical defects. ; ,
Mothers attended the health
club meeting Friday. Roll , call
was answered with sayings ap
propriate to the holidays of j the
past week. Special numbers about
Lincoln, SL Valentine and forests
of Oregon were given.
acreages. i
While at Berkeley, the West
Coast Beet Seed company operated
as an association Upon removal
tq, Oregon, articles of Incorpora
tion have been filed and the com
pany, is now corporate. Salem
staff ofifcials, other than George
T. Scott are G. E. Gale, treasurer.
and G. L. Stokerj agronomist.
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