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PACZ FOUR Tlx OSZGrON STATESMAN. Gains. Oregon, fkrturdoy Morning, March I. 1841 '.A - MUM MM .- : i : ' 'Wo Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe' From First Statesman, March 23, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, President Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use (or publication of all hews dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in tiiis newspaper.' Due-Bill ! When Gov. Arthur Langlie of Washington an nounced several weeks ago that he intended to comply with the provisions of Initiative 141, the voter-approved measure setting the old age assistance amount in Washington state at $40 and removing restrictions as to need, there was a lifting of eyebrows throughout the northwest scarcely justified in view of the simple fact that if a disability exists which impairs efficiency,: that fact will become apparent without an ex amination. . . There is on the other hand a type of exam ination which . teachers should . be required to take at reasonable intervals; an examination which will reveal thj existence ofany nervous or mental disorder. r this is a type of ail ment which does affect teacher-pupil rela tions, and one against which, because 'trie this was the law, a part of the body of law which teacher is always . right" the pupil has little . i A 1 1 J 1 t nti! lli t . . . i iuicvuuu. juapeviaiir m large scnooi systems, the percentage of psychopathic teachers is con- - J mm . I - s the governor had sworn to uphold and enforce. Now"Gov. Langlie has presented the "due- bill." Appearing before a joint session of the legislature, he has recommended -an Increase in the state sales tax from 2 to 3 per cent, with the effective c ate set at such time as will as sure collection of the necessary amount within the biennium, the tax to revert to 2 per icent If and when the voters enact, an income tax law ' , - - . I The democratic legislature of Washington had thought to embarrass the republican governor in thislmatter;'had hoped in the first place, presumably, that he would refuse, to payj the ' increased pensions and thus get himself "over a barrel" or that in the unlikely event that he , proceeded to comply with the law, would get the state still further "in the red." Now it looks as though Langlie has crossed up the legislature by preparing to comply with the law and placing upon the legislature the burden of raising the necessary wherewithal. Of course the. (chapter is not yet ended. The contrast with the 'public welfare" policy in Oregon is Worth noting. Here, the legislature has allocated to old age assistance and relief all the funds it can spare out of existing jrev enues and apparently will refuse to raise ad ditional revenues. We have a notion the people will thank the legislature -especially about the middle, of this month when the federal taxation shoe does its heaviest pinching for this year and the people realize it is going to pinch even more painfully next year. Incidentally, persons disposed to deplore the alow progress: of major . legislation in Salem might cast- their eyes toward Olympia," where virtually no important bills have been ap proved in either house; the leadership has just . gotten around to drafting a "program." Our legislature is taking its time; at this distance it appears that the Washington legislature has not even been using its time. survey in New York pity siderable, as a recent revealed. btrange to say, it is rather difficult to deprive leacners pi their certificates if they are un- suited to the work for this reason; and if they law. It is difficult to re move them from positions held when the dis ability is disclosed. Oscars If ever there was an actor who merited ! the Academy "Oscar" it is Jimmy Stewart; not alone for his performance int "The Philadelphia Story" which set a new.highfor elevated comedy, but for everything he has done in the past year, j As for Ginger Rogers, from our way of thinking her selection was the case of a nice kid whom every body wanted to give a preak. And when it comes to giving "Grapes of Wrath" any plug at all, for its alleged artistic merit, that appears to be a confession that 194ft wasn't much of a year for great motion pictures. i We hope, and presumably they hope, that the public has noticed all khe bouquets handed by luncheon-speaking legislators to the Marion county delegation, particularly Senators McKay How Salem schools '-.. ... By FRANCIS GERARD '-km: The jOld Man of Mare Nostrum on Der Fueher's Hands Bits ffoir BLreaEsffasft By R. J. HENDRICKS and Jones. arc News Behind By PAUL MALLON re- Distributed by Kinf Features Snydicate, Inc. production in whole or tn part strictly prohlbl WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S Next tough govern 3-1-41 est that ran along the east bank State street; afterward the Patton of the Willamette from near the book store, and A. T. Yeaton in the present paper mill on Commercial furniture business on the east side ancL Trade streets and the river of Commercial, between State and front down to where the Marion Court streets; nearest Court, county poor farm is now located? 1 " s The little, frame building that Jtr 00 e was the school house, etc., and 1858-60 period a few blocks hn.lwi hoir .t taught on the site of Salem, ex- ou&, to about the center of the down to become the Capitol Na cepting in the mission Indian man- on between Court and State tional bank building; that after- have grown; ; her public schools now are employing a total of 258 men and women: V "W m (Continuing from yesterday:) Who furnished the funds for erect ing that first little frame house In which the first schools were WAfcMUMUTUN. Feb. 25 Next tough govern- home o Oregon Institute that store. The 1871 Salem Di- kv its Dreset ouarters suu ku ment clampdown wOl be dropped on the nation's beca the first home of WUlam- rectory has a page advertisement ijberrTU lale! M? L major industrr. steel. Sham mandatnrv nrinHtiM .. - . . k . . v4 . ana UDen7 sireeis, in daiems . air. L, ; Chapter Z9 When order was' once 1 more restored and the two' men were sitting cupping two big, pot-bel- lied , brandy glasses in their hands, Captain Leer asked, "W hat are y o u - up to with Slimy? ', . - ; ; , "Stuck si gun in'my ribs the "other night," said Sir John Mere dith with an air of studied in dignation. -"'-." : . "What! exclaimed : the other. TThe impudent but I bet he had 'good t e a u s e," he ended shrewdly, f " "What's the name of your man at 'the Ministry' of Transport?' "Lee, said Captain Lee. "What another of you? I don't believe It" '' "No need, to he eoml c, frowned the othevAnd he's no relation. Fm the last of my line." "Yes," - chuckled Meredith. "The terminus all right, -buffers and all!' -'z-j- After his large lunch w i t h Captainf Lee, Meredith strolled I to the Ministry of Transport. It was In -. that ' somnolent hour about 3 p Jn, . when English thoughts veer towards tea, t Iva t J Meredith began his fifth Winter-1 view of the day. r T V Christopher Lee proved to be an 'old young man of the type found frequently In the civil servie. Possessed of a university degree and a calm official man ner, he looked sleepy but was not "Makyn's?" he echoed John's query. "Yes. I have assembled some data." he" pronounced it "datah" -"but it's not, as yet conclusive." . i"May I see what you've got?" "You may, though it's rather Irregular." "So is the fact that you're compiling this when you're sup posed to be working for the gov-, eminent" retorted Meredith. ."Quite. But I don't think we need go into that Here's the file." - - Meredith stared rather blank ly at columns and columns of figures, place-names, times and mileages. "All very interesting, Mr! Lee. "But what does It mean?" "Logs," replied the other. "It might just as well be loga rithms as far as I'm concerned. Come on, please explain these one Horror' -Not since the German Library of Information favored us with a disgusting study in 250 pages of "PoIish Acts of Atrocity against the German Minority, in Poland". have we observed horror' more carefully drawn and excruciatingly con veyed through the written word than iri the current offerings of Jan Valtin in his book, rOut of the. Night," and in current magazines, notably : Reader's Digest and Life. Mr. Valtin whose editors assure his read- ing public that he does not write under his real name . . . the OGPU, you know is reported to be a communistic secret agent turned nazi Gestapo manjunder German torture. He-is sup - posed to hav seen both the German an, the Russian secret police at their indescribable himself on a umber of occasions. He has much to say of physical horrors endured at their hands, though less of the more devastating gray; tor , tures of loss Of freedom and spirit. Only a fellow communist-nazi can properly judge Mr. Valtin and his writings. Very possibly ' he is what he represents to be. Very possibly the things he tells with a certain gusto inhu manities in German and Russian prisons, , suf ferings which make the fate of the Inquisition's victims seem like Sunday afternoon in Peoria,, brutalities more animal than human have actually happened somewhere, sometime. All an unknowing outsider can 'say is that Mr. Valtin's tales, like the composite pictures of world's fair fame, tell a little too much a little tod" beautifully. They are too - good or too awful to be 'completely true in the life of one man.." A collection of most of the horror tales, ; real and fancied, told for the last 10 years about ' the secret police methods of Europe, in fact If collected and woven together, would prob ably read bout like Mr Valtin's chef .d'oeuvre of brutality, inhumanity and treach ery. Truth may be stronger than fiction, but it .seldom sells jas well. production in whole or in part strictly prohibited.) i l,w ,. k, streets, west sirfp and hcam T T, ".' . " . . . Ptn -aT- . :." 1 ymm .. w oecame we j-itsi wauonai logs, preferably in words of M-t -vM A rtf r l.. Tk.J.. 4L A INM1K KmrR 1 n I H I IOTT1 I 11. .... . " " Lee regarded Meredith Unwinkingly; then said, "What exactly d'you expect to find?" Sir John smiled. "I donZt ex pect anything. I hope. Is there anything you can tell me about this company that doesn't cncax"- r M. major industry, steeL Sharp mandatory priorities r 7 1 of the' store of Yeaton & Bon ) 7 oAlyXsc ar rr-1 '-"-' I are in line for spring or early i .m. . fA. T. Yeaton n h n Ronnt ."rs na oni sfyscraper. . f summer. Not all at the OPM or de- though diligent Inquiry has been Commercial street boosting their fense commission- can yet see 1 ftu Halloa made, dating back to a long ago thla mi-Mmf .frCw aw. erriment men who are working Perhaps the labor was donated. up jthe needs of production (The ite net belong to any against capacity consider ft cer tain.) (Incidentally they forecast a month in advance the recent and hauling the logs to the mis mandatory priorities on alum- sion mill; perhaps the labor in the inumj and machine tools.) ' mill. It may be thai there was a A I 1 : . ' . SUbscrlntion. Hat of lahm- fnr nut- Tj neaded and snnar ihirwH naila ' uxi iu- W T 4 A e A.9 . . hook, .tatirm-r t.i me oaiem scnooi custnci menu;" "wholesale and retail - Z JS5J tfucT dealer in srhor.1 r,H M9nir vjrB Uorx 9 the "big Central" school toy and gift books, miscellaneous ous Y? cenfdLnd lt , aeement but not with labor. steel -employers strike, the law allows confiscation For modern wire nail with a of their property. If they even hesitate on gov- round head had not then been in- . . . -T " w J book Harrtinff' nhMmnh .1 lmisiiea in iao. oq aiem cnu- uiwics, naiuuig s xjiuitrs, plain, - the best variety of sUtionery in Next to the "big Central" school Salem, the largest stock of wall building was erected, in the 1860- paper and border in Salem, pi- 70 period, the "little Central" scnooi nouse, lor negro children. The Salem of those days had a . considerable negro population, the " slaves who were broucht in the t get a proper meal an4 sleep af ter he has been driving a icer tain number of hours.- That ap plies In ' the case of j these fel lows , driving up to Wick. We know their i time schedule." -"Ten hours of f," said . Mere dith.; "And f they get .there at midnight so you would expect them to be pushing off at 10, "next morning." 1 ' . ' ' ..: "Not quite," replied Lee. . "They're allowed an . hour for - - loading, filling up with . petrol, ;. and so on." "So there's still two hours Un . accounted for. Is that what you are trying to .tell me?" : c "Exactly," nodded Mr. Lee. -"t cant see the 'significance of that" Meredith observed. "Itr may merely mean that Makyn's are kind employers who giva . uiux m xunjgcr tj sleep. "My dear fellow, ' said Lee ; suddenly "if I weren't actually ' Fd use some rather, ugly lan- . t iiui uwTi mv.c, jwuiu li . ; ployera, eh? . .' Something hap pens, during : those ;two hours. -That's my hunch anyway." After leaving the Ministry of ' visited a discreet house In Pont street It . housed, the offices vpf Rogers, Peabody and JSmithson, Solicitors, upon the eround floor. and also the headquarters of the Intelligence Departments -of both - foreign and Colonial offices on r vthe first second and third floors. - Meredith produced a visiting Card UDon whlrh ti Hivv hm small, concentric circles. He handed it to the solicitor's clerk and asked if he might see Mr. r-eaDoay. a nunute later Sl-r Hector McAllister was shaking hands with him across his desk. "What is it John?" asked "the chief Of th TAt!1tcrmA n ment "I can ee from your ex- " pressioh this Isn't a social can." - . Meredith lit a chrarette. "Sir Hector, I've got a strong hunch ana u s leading me somewhere." ' r your department ever com I across a fellow known as Sieg fried Kloffer? No? Well, d'you know of a gentleman called Igor Levinsky who calls himself a Russian?" V ; .. '.'- "Yes, -I know of Levinsky. He's a Bolshevik with a differ- himselT?"" . , . v it Is possible," he said, "for -a German to be called Levinsky, particularly If he's a German Jew; but I've never heard of any " "-'w.il: T 1 m . ... "Doesn click?" echoed the jui Germany wija a duelling other. .. -"Anything odd," explained John. "Yes," said Lee promptly. "Ah, now we're going to town," said Meredith slangily. "Tell me" " "Some of Makyn's lorries run to the north of Scotland. The furthest point according to their log-books. Is Wick in Caithness. That's 15 miles due south from John O'Groats." Meredith looked Duzzled. Vt - i A. w ernment work, mandatory priorities can be in- vented, or thought of. It is poss- nTTY . - "gon trains- and voked. But no rule or law in any way restricts ible that the work in making the 1" .Vir the children: by that time having be steel workers who do the same thing doors and window sashes was do- f scli?(A budding that origin- come free. But the white people 1 nated: it i liiri thv aUy tood what became the of that short period would not al. CIO is headed for a lot If trouble when its newly fedar wood, for cedar trees were SL?!0 'L!? .ha 4about thI n-A nran r i. .t then plenitful here, esoeciallv on of Marion square. those of black parents. Hence the O'Groats?" - "Well, according to these logs. Ariaxyn-s lorries usually reach Wick about midnight. Now, III The 1874 Salem Directory shows H. D. Boon with a book store on aDoointed organizer of th vital aviation induatrv. - "len Pienuiui nere, especially on Richard Frankensteen, firkt starts exerting pressure thewest ide of the Willamette, involving defense contracts. The Dies committee above and near where West Salem has a record on him a yard long. Privately com- J now. mittee authorities say the record does not indicate S Frankensteen is a member of the communist party ( Political meetings were held in but wedges him so deeply into that crowd, the j the little frame building in the difference will hardly bej perceptible to the naked forest that was afterward reduced eye- j , v j to the trees in Marion squarePer- DUTY OF THE STATES Union sources explain his prominence in articles ! nap slavery and anti-slavery doc- , in the opening days of the Ore of the Daily Worker an4 in suspected communist : trines were discussed there, for,gon legislature now in session peace propaganda societies by saying he needed some slaves had been brought to scores of bills were introduced. A communist support for his drive to gain control : Oregon with the covered wagon considerable proportion of them of the United Automobile Workers at the time of trains. involved l revenue and! taxation; the break to the AFL. j Their story is that the The general elections were held With but one exception- mea- ThaWHr!fH tl"8 llow travelers m that little fr a m e building; sure, proposing to reduce the state I Za ?V ' ey T certainly have lowing .that it was evidently re- gasoline tax by one cent a gallon with whn who was traveling garded as a pubUc buUdini, In a" of them would, if passed, im- which all the people had an in- Pose a further drain on the tax- , terest. What became of the fttle payers. Perplexed defense promoters have been trying building iurmunrii hv k- That is the normal Ipnn nt bv x. uii aj vr uiat lrUXJ ttiMUI DldXU VUjriXlg "little Central" school house. (Concluded tomorrow.) Editorial Comments From Other Papers . iiwwuun oi uregon s scenic highways have held to the hope that sooner or later, a majority of our legislators would be able to see billboards on our high ways as they really are, not only an eye sore but a definite hazard to safe driving. But the majority of member of the house in the present ses- tell you an extraordinaW thint Lee . looked as though he were about, to disclose a cabinet sec ret "They arrive about midnight but they don't leave Wick on their return until one the follow ing -afternoon." scar. Sir Hector's eyes never left the other's face. "What's this all about John?? . ; "Well, it started down in Bat tersea with a coroner's inquest," said Meredith who told- Sir Hec tor al) he had learned up to his arrival In McAllister's office that afternoon. . ( When he had finished the big Scotsman pressed a bell button on his desk. When his 'secretary came into the room. Sir Hector said, "Get me Chief Inspector Hailey'of the Special Branch on the phone." . Y "What are you ringing Hailey for?" asked Meredith curiously. "Fm going to get him down here," replied the other. "We're" going to have a three-cornered conference Special Branch, In telligence and Sir John Mere dith.? . . ! Chief Inspector Hailey of the Having said this, Mr. Christo- f Special Branch was not at. Scot- pher Lee sat back with an ex pression compounded of pride and anticipation. "Very interesting," said Mere dith. "Very interesting, indeed! What does it mean?" , Dont you know about the sion, intent on knocking down law?" asked the other Asscffcismen The Salem! water board, the city of Salem, the Salem school district and Marion county are all tangled up in litigation relative to the collection of taxes alleged to have been, due "when certain properties changed rom private ownership, uider which they were taxable, to public ownei ship which exempts them from taxation. - r - . ' - ! Though thi agencies governing thes several governmental units and the attorneys who ad- new passenger airplanes fn England with our money after purchases here had been denied them on the ground that everything we had here must go : to England. They cannot prove anything definite -about the 21 planes, butfthey have found the equal of that story has either happened or could happen' and they are trying to reform their policy. This much they proved: , , The Brazilians bough tj 80 to 100 airplane engines from England recently, f The British accept the or der to help Latin-American trade and to prove to the Latins they were well enough fixed in air- . planes to make- such a sale. r Lockheed aircraft has asked approval to begin negotiations to sell abojut 21, small transport ships I to Latin America." Th American concern wanted : a ruling from the priorities division on such sales to Latin-American countries. Apparently U the priorities division was willing, but the war depart- Your Federal Income Tax state legislatures thoughout the country.. But in these highly ab normal times, the lawmakers face an obvious duty which so far seems to have been generally over looked. That duty is to pare state expenditures to the bone. v This jekr we will all pay high er federal axes. And, as every in- person knows, the in creases so far approved by con- the ears of leftist Neuberger, are losing signt of the main issue the welfare of the public at large. Which any way one looks at it is unfortunate: Hood River News. "I used to," smiled the .vet eran minion of it - Then Lee explained. "Accord ing to law, a lorry driver is en titled, to ten hours in which to land Yard when Sir Hector Mc Allister's secretary telephoned and It was not until after din ner that night at McAllister's house IfFGrosvenor Square, that the three noted detectives got together. Meredith had dined with the chief of the' InteUigence Department When Hailey ar rived he found Sir John and his host settled in deep chairs drawn up to the fire in the library. . (To be continued.) ( r tMl! ha. resulted in part from ambituitjr or hlu iwed that vn our own eommertal air- m me vpj ooscuruy ox me present law. Competent, advice is to the effect that this ambiguity orj rfscurity is corrected by : legisla tion which; has passed the house of representa tives and wis at least reported in the senate Assessment ahd taxation committee, i This leg Islation also fchanges the official date of assess - ment and it is understood that this feature has drawn objection but only ffom tax, collection A a1aA .. i M . , - - a. . .have the sujjporfc of all groups interested I in making assessment and taxation of real prop erty more orderly and equitable, and this ob- 4u!... 4. :t i. . . jcvuve uuiwens any minor inconvenience to m m m . fa . ' ... ... - sneruis tax i oeputies. Examinations The medical examination required by law for TEeachers! will consist in future only of a- tuberfculxn test, according to a t measure! ap proved by both houses of the -legislature. This is perhaps proper; with the exception cf tuber culosis, no chronic ailment the teacher may have is likely to be transmitted to pupils, arid , lines limit replacements. TRAVELING EXPENSE . To obtain a deduction for tra veling expenses, which form an important item in the returns of formd many taxpayers, certain remila. creases tions must be observed. The tax- SesM mark but a very short step payer is required to attach to his along, a very long jroadL; Further return a statement showing the X!- b008 cannot ; be postponed nature of business iri which en- or hg federal income is now gaged, number of days away not meeting the regular expenses from home during the taxable f oyernment, to say nothing of year on account of business, to- the tremendous appropriations tal amount of expense inciden- made tor defense. In short we are tal to meals and lodging, and to- Soing to pay record-breaking fed tal amount of "other expenses" eral taxes, and the general stand incident to travel and claimed as arJ ot living will suffer accord- a deduction. Among the "other "lgly, No leaks ever develop from appearances of State ; etpnses" . - tips, provided J "f dc't P7 for war ma- Secretary Hull in secret sessions of congressional committees. He has a system. After testifying ; he calls for all copies of stenographic transcripts and locks them in his f personal safe.. Then he re quests that the stenographer's notes be burned. . Hull did precisely that . with his , testimony in secret on the sell-lend-lease-or give away bill; - they are reasonable in amount 3 chines. The world emergency ; has Traveling expenses are deduc- imposed no special , burden on tlble only when the trip is ori them. And that goes for towns and business. : They are limited to school districts and counties and such expenses as are reasonable U t other myriad Uxing bodies rTkmA - BENTON VnSWPOlNT v ;". Representative Rennie voted against" the congressional, redis tricting bill because he wants Benton county left in the first district where most of the Wil lamette valley counties are. Dean Walker will make an attempt to have the county transferred to the first district i when the bill reaches the senate. In that effort our representa- ? tives nave the backing of every Benton county citizen with whom we have talked and we have 1 made it our business to talk to nuny of them. In addition, we have had a lot of telephone cabs asking us to protest against the placing of 'Benton county in 7 the fourth district. It Is to be hoped that the legislature will remedy the house bill. Corvallis1 Ga zette-times. , With the Troops CAMP MURRAY, Feb. 2Z-X) .Visitors from ' Oregon to the tent city of the 186th regiment of the 4 1st division always no tice the nearness of the streets, the orderly and cheerful appear ance of! the men, and the little signs that hang at the end of each line of tents, proudly show ing from what Oregon city that 'certain .company Originated.' Col. Ralph P. Cowgill of Port land, commanding ott icer of the ' 188th Infantry, claims the esprit de corps of his outfit is the high est of any regiment in the 41st division. And probably, if push- -ed further on ; the point he show, here, but I'm not sura yet." ' ' . . j . .The . little signs read .like an Oregon road map - Woodburn, ; Eugene, , Medford, Portland, La Grande, Grants Pass, Baker, Pendleton, . The Dalles, Forest Grove, St, Helens and Astoria. Each, of these places .has fur nished at least one company -to' the 186th. V ' - At the present time, according .to CoL Cowgill, the 186th infan try has lost nearly one third of Its regiment to the new training center at the 41st division can tonment A : training cadre, ; un der the command nf Cant t.,. .1 1 : is. . .1 ? l . fc i wuum j it w ne jugnti jtnc Devlin of Portland, are T v. . a. . . i . . the business and directly attrib- ernment must retrench as it never tu: , t.iU T131 utable to it' . . - retrenched before. The best brains law abigh school Traveling expenses incurred in local governments, from gov- Z.r11 Jf? adora brber a Journey to an- ernors down to village officials; utin tL - M 5 pt-or seek em- "t figure .out how Ux savings ' lSSSS Most effective of all speeches for the nresident's " "aveiing exp bill for all-rait aid tn.h-ttf u- tt;i connection with - -"i fa m tfMii wm a-a W aVSSaatK. U W A11L1C1 . . .. . and Matsuoka. . J . . i otner lty accept or seek em- Jnust ligure out how Ux savmgs -Wan7,3TZ7 The Hitler speech pfcainung the doom of capi- . Ef? ? deductible.Su- can be madeMt Angel News. . rea;SLC. VUIVWI1U3 . woo commute iaiiv s - ' , . .. . talism has been used effectively in the cloakrooms by the administration' workers as absolutely requir ing us to defeat hirnj. r But even better use has. been made of the Japanese foreign minister! speech in which he said thai! the 'white race Would have to cede all Oceania ltd Vae 'Japanese. Both foreign relations chairman. Walter, George, and the presi dent have waved. Matswoka's ultimatum around in private to convince . senators the. Ellender amend ment (preventing FDH from sending troops abroad) must be killed, or else we leave undefended our possessions iri Oceania. . . , from their homes to their places of business are not permitted to deduct the cost of transportation, . it being a personal expense. Claims for deduction for trav eling expenses must bei subsUn tiated, when required' by the commissioner of internal reve nue, showing in detail the amount and nature of the ex penses Incurred;, r J-.- . " ; legislation is not available at TtSJfAAS GPD - tmornmt butitdoesapras Possibly because it was heart- one of those freaks which blossom , ily endorsed by freshman house forth every session, to make the member Neuberger, the bill to voter wonder if some legislators, banish billboards along our really are worth more than a state highways has been con- day Stayion Matt. . - signed to indefinite postpone- - r i . . ; - -; -:-;.?' ment afe Salem, the vote being , The Oregon : Statesman this 51 to 7, ' week underwent a major opera- ;For several years groups who tion, having her face lifted, her are opposed to commercial ex-i , eyebrcws arched and er figure in the .entire army. : "I regret the fact we won't be ' able to advertise the different cities in Oregon from where we , come," said CoL Cowgill recent J,ly, '"whea : we move down Into . the new cantonment, because I know the : boys are . proud of their, .home towns and are try ing to make their; home, towns feel proud of them. The new barracks at ; the ; 4 1st division cantonment ; t however, . ; might still display the little signs we streamlined. She now looks like a debutante ready for her first coming ,cit larty, dolled up as she Is in her new type face, cap tion style, makeup, etc. "Yes in deed, we do like her new Easter outfit! Jefferson Review.. btlSilv MIMnul (raining .- . yaaaiiinia ..which will soon bring the regi ment up to a war time strength of 2260. Its present strength -is . about ,1600. .v . . ; ; When : the. recruits . have re , ceived. a four weeks' basic train ing, the rest of the reriment will ' , Join them in the new barracks tor the huge 1000 builctfn can tonment, located about five miles frorothe ' present tent city. CoL" Cowgill, '.who comes from Portland, was insistent about the subject of regimental morale in his organization. . "I don't think the morale can be beaten anywhere," he said, "even If you take in the entire army. . We have been compli mented as being one of the highest on that score.? ...- - ; ;