Stc. 1 Vav 4 Hi OREGON STATESMAN. Satan. Oregon. Sunday Meaning. April 23. 1942 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, President Member of .The Associated Pren f The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Oregon's Peril Yes, Tokyo has been bombed, and our oriental enemy will strike back if he can at. cities on this coast. We ought to prepare for that, physically and mentally. But, taking into account the like lihood of an air attack and its prospects of suc cess, that is not Oregon's chief danger. Our greatest peril is from within sabotage. And the easiest target for sabotage in relation to the amount of destruction possible, is Ore gon's millions of acres of forest land. Getting Into the forests won't be as simple a matter this summer as it has been in the past but in view of their extent, entering and setting fires will not require a great deal of cleverness on the part Of a determined enemy saboteur. That it "will happen here" is almost a certainty and though the season in which serious damage, can be done Is still a few weeks away, it already has 'hap pened' in southeastern states where incendiary fires were raging over an extensive acreage this weekend. Well, we're not entirely helpless. Congress, blind to the reality of this menace, unfortunate ly has practiced one of its few economies in this matter of forest protection, perhaps in the mis taken belief that it is a "non-war" expendi ture. " But in partial compensation for congress' oversight, cooperating agencies here have per fected fire-prevention and fire-fighting ar rangements which are expected to be much more efficient than any provided in the past. There is, in the first place, a "unified fire com- mand" under which the facilities and manpower of the state and federal forest departments, the fire control associations and private operators will be pooled and marshaled for the most ef ficient service. The entire program has a single directing hand. Information as to condition of the forests, training and distribution of fire fighters, the shifting of equipment to meet need as it develops, all center in the state forester's Office. In addition to paid fire protection forces, the thousands of loggers employed in Oregon forests are being trained and organized and they are the best fire fighters obtainable. Thus Oregon is better prepared for the nor mal fire hazard than ever before. But in this unprecedented emergency there also should be . a large bodyof trained men for patrol and fire fighting duty, and meeting this need was the purpose of requests to congress for additional funds. Unfortunately it got tangled up in poli tics relating to continuation of the CCC and was defeated. There is something that civilians can do in this matter. They may not be able to prevent sabotage but they can at least, to offset it, cut down on the incidence of fires due to careless ness. The "Keep Oregon Green" educational pro gram, so successful In 1941, is being intensi fied; organization of the "Green Guards" among existing groups of young people such as 4H, Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, is progressing rapidly. Also there is another thing which a great many civilians may be called upon td do in an emergency. Situations may arise in which they will be called upon to drop normal tasks nd join fire-fighting crews. It would be a good idea to keep in good physical condition i, with this and other possible contingencies in view. Uncle Sam's Bounty Eighty years ago men who had accurate vision of the west's future growth and its trans portation needs were extending ribbons of steel across mountains and deserts to points on this coast which could not yet supply traffic justify ing the expenditure. Statesmen who shared that vision helped them with a federal subsidy paid in land, and assisted them in obtaining loans. Uncle Sam was big-hearted to a degree which prompted, then and later, considerable criticism. But it wasn't exactly a one-way deal. The railroads in their turn agreed to haul govern ment's freight at reduced rates. That wasn't much of a concession at the time, when gov ernment's business was largely a simple matter of preserving law and order. And even when 1 government went into many other lines of business in the last decade it didn't amount to a whole lot. Three years ago the railroads as a whole sacrificed only about $10,000,000 on that deal. Now, as you are well aware, Uncle Sam is the nation's biggest shipper. Civilian tonnage has dropped; shipments for war purposes have zoomed upward. As for the effects of this change upon the railroads, no doubt you are away ahead of us. The railroads are "enjoying" .. a rushing business but they aren't getting the revenue the interstate commerce commission , concedes they should have. . It's quite complicated, for some shipments are considered "federal" and others for similar purposes are not. But it is a headache for the railroads. Congress is considering legislation designed to relieve them of this burden on some equitable basis. It's just another case in which ; Uncle Sam's "bounty" proves to have a "catch" ?' that makes it much less attractive than it first appeared. Dehydrated Foods Shipping is scarce, so our gasoline supply is curtailed. . But- the scarcity of shipping is hav ing other results, some of which, are; of pri- mary signifinace to this community. One; of these is the trend to dehydration as a means not only of preserving foods but of conserving shipping space in their transportation. Dehydration of milk and certain .fruits such as prunes, apples and apricots-Is old stuff. But now the principle- is being infinitely expanded. Because someMdrying" has been done here In the past Salem should be in position to keep pace with the trend but it is essential to note that methods also are being revolutionized. - r 1 The advantage? " Suppose you wanted to ship 27 million pounds of potatoes overseas. Just de hydrate them and you have only three million pounds and can save S3 per cent on shipping 'No Favor Sways Us; No Fear ShaU Atot From First Statesman. March 28, 1831 f . 5r Paul Mallea censor). April 11 April 4 March 28 This may be eggs is equal to three dozen eggs in the natural state; a five-pound can of powdered chicken or vegetable soup will make 25 gallons of soup for the table. Do the boys ask for lemonade? . Two 11 -ounce cans of dehydrated yellow lemon crystals will make enough to serve 100 men. In - addition to potatoes, vegetables to be shipped in the dehydrated state include onions, carrots, cabbage, beets, rutabagas and sweet potatoes. This is a fast-moving development, Wall Street Journal reports. A month ago no meats had been dehydrated on a commercial scale. Now beef, mutton and goat's meat are being dried pork so far is a holdout, may never be dehydrated successfully because of its high fat content. The new dehydration methods are complex but the principle is simplicity itself. Most foods contain a high percentage of water and water is cheap most anywhere. Why ship water across the water? Take it out at the source of manu facture; when the food reaches its destination, add water and serve. Strange that it took a war to develop this sensible economy to its currently feasible limits. The current recidivation to the bicycle age is a boon, one might suppose, to the long-suffering pedestrian. A bicycle isn't likely to do as much damage as an automobile, even if it does hit one. However, there is one drawback. You can hear an automobile coming; a bicycle ap proaches silently without advance warning. And some bicycle riders' judgment of distance and timing is not quite equal to their venture someness. News Behind The Mews By PAUL MALLON - (Distribution by Kins Features Syndicate. Inc. Repro duction In whole or in part strVjtly prohibited.) WASHINGTON, April 25 Figures showing ex actly how many gallons of gasoline are available in. the eastern seaboard have been hard to find since the rationing discussions began. But the American Petroleum Institute, a private organization of the oil indus try, has some figures, usually considered very accurate: which indicate that Messrs. Henderson and Ickes were not only right when they repudiat ed the published unofficial statement from an official in Henderson's office threaten ins to limit motorists to 2 gallons but they were very, very right. Nothing like that kind of limitation seems justi fied. The institute figures show stocks were but little under last year, and, Instead of de clining in the last three weeks, have been increas ing. Barrels of gas on hand in the critical area the last available weeks to April 11: (These are two weeks behind because one week is held up by the This Year 17,035,000 17,519,000 Io,470,000 enough to justify Last Year 20,633,000 20,422,000 20,495,000 rationing but certainly not the kind the OPA official was talking about Furthermore, after all the talk that has gone on for weeks and weeks about reversing those three Pennsylvania pipelines so as to push fuel oil into eastern states, little has been accomplished. Two of the lines are still carrying gasoline west. The Susquehanna line is still running west to Altoona and the Tuscarora from Bayonne to Mid land and not much has been done about changing them. The third line from Philadelphia to Pitts burgh is in the process of being changed over, but the operation has not been completed The eastern seaboard usually gets around 1,400, 000 barrels a day of all kinds of oil including gaso line, light and heavy fuel. Of this amount about 600,000 is coming in tank cars, and 150,000 by pipe lines other than the three mentioned. The rationing question, therefore, rests with what has been done to our tankers by Hitler and what might be done with the tankers still afloat by authorities here. If any considerable number of them should be or have been diverted to other purposes, the rationing figures would decrease ac cordingly. If they had to be taken off entirely for any purpose, drastic rationing might be necessary. Mr. Roosevelt has created a White House cast of fictional characters which he interviews in pri vate, with results given to the public by him. "The last two have been described only as "sweet young things" but there was "a business man" before them and "an economist,'' and so on back into new deal years. The tales of them are always told by FDR at his press-conferences. They are always the straight men in the conversation. They always ask him the darndest questions and he devastates them with his replies. - The president often asks the newspapers to name the authority " for their statements, but he has adopted a contrary policy for bis growing gallery of verbal straw men and young women (who so far have been both young and sweet). If the gallery gets any larger, someone Is going, to ask him to fill in the other half of the program with the names. .:. : Biggest hearted , thing . Mr. Roosevelt ever did for business in his life was the thing he has been most criticized- lor locally the construction at a cost of $800,000 of an information center, face tiously known in the. Washington Post as "Mel lett's madhouse' in honor of FDR's' informational adviser. ' .... -.-.... -. - .... . .. ..,... .. . .m .i,,-,, : The president did not want the poor business men running around Washington Wearing out shoes. He wanted to give him a centrally located place to go and ask questions. ? It now develops- that this favor, which was not specifically authorized by congress, came from suggestion dropped by one of those unidentified business men who came in to see him to complain of aching feet The trouble is the structure is just being com- ' a . at . The Fleet' In' Bits for .BireaEtfasft By R. J. HENDRICKS Two samples of 4-26-42 the work of Salem's poet laureate, Wlnfleld Taylor Rlgdon, gone before: (Concluding from yesterday:) As it appears below, Mr. Rlgdon in 1927 wrote on a subject with universal and everlasting appeal. It is found beginning on page 147 of Truth In Pleasant Rhymes,'' his book of that year: The Safety Valvo Letters from Statesman Readers -i RECREATION CENTER To the Editor: Soldier boys are wandering up and down our streets both day and night with apparently no very satisfactory place in which to pass their time when on leave. The number will doubtless increase with the com pletion of the cantonment Sons of Salem citizens are in other localities in the nation and abroad and it is certain that the folks at home as well as the boys are deeply appreciative of any recreational facilities that are furnished by local people that add to the comfort and good cheer of the boys. The morale of the soldiers and the citizenry must be maintained if we expect to win this war. It does not seem that Salem is do ing its full part along this line. Salem should have a recreation al center for our soldier visitors. The city owns an ideal loca tion for such a building on the block just back of the present water commission office. Other cities have met this need and Sa lem can and should do likewise. This is an ideal project on which the city, churches, service clubs and chamber of commerce could and should put forth an immediate and united effort PERCY A. CUPPER W. C. WINSLOW ROY HARLAND CARL T. POPE CARLE ABRAMS E. W. AC KLIN E. G. KINGWELL W. I. NEED HAM. n Ben are four of the latest types of Army uniforms in use by U. S. .soldiers. SCaJ. Gen. Jrtnumd B. Gregory, quartermaster funeral of the XT. S. Army, is fanpectiiuT-Jiniforms for, left to tight, tropical WHAT IS DEATH? O, what is death, that we should fear its power? Or even dread the pressure of the arm That bears us safely through the final hour And anchors soul beyond the reach of harm. Death is only the parting of the ways; An Angel pointing toward eternal life; The summing up of all our earthly days; The overthrow of all our fear and strife. It Is the terminus of this earthly road, . Where the conductor gives the parting hand; Where we will leave behind this carnal load, And start our journey to the better land. Tis but the chiming of the cur few bells. When toilsome day succumbs to restful night When sexton softly rings the parting knells. And joyful spirits take their peaceful flight Tis but an oasis in the desert way That separates our world from blissful Heaven; A prison-house for inanimate clay Until the resurrection word is given. Death is the silent place where active brain Will set the soul, its inmate captive brain Will set the soul, its inmate captive, free; Where solvent earth absorbs the dross again And holds it fast throughout eternity. Peaceful death! Thou are the si lent usher, At the closing hour of all .fit ful dreams, Where the great Angelic host will muster, And radiant lights of glory ever gleam. fern - a t After the trial scenes of life have passed; The shady bowers and haunt ing battles o'er; The burning fever, racing pain outcast Through death well find life forevermore. When this poor tenement of mor tal clay Becomes too weak to freight its carnal load. Through kindness Death will close the final day. And take this body to Its last abode. Death has no sting and grave no victory. When we have tried to live the life sublime; When faith and trust adorn our history. And all our songs with Heav en's anthems chime. So pass along in peace, unto the grave; Unfearing, bid farewell to friends on earth. 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Nobody talked much an the way in to the county seat Martha sat very still, her brown hands folded in her lap, and gazed off at the rolling hills and I looked at the hills part of the time and part of the time at the strong tanned neck of Lance Gregg, sitting in front of me remem bered how decent he had been about the cameramen. And won dered what he was thinking as we neared the ordeal of the cor oner's investigation. It was my first visit to Gallina and I had a blurred impression of white houses built for the most part in Spanish style, of green gardens, of a wide plaza in the center of the town, be fore we turned into a side street and came by a back way to the courthouse. I had dreaded the ordeal but it was not as bad as I feared. I was beginning to think things never are. The coroner was a fat, pudgy little man, dreadfully impressed with his own import ance at playing a role in a sen sational murder ease. But he treated us all as if we had been made out of cut-glass, gave us every possible consideration. All arrangements had been made by Allen to make the investigation easy for us. And even the jury and the Gallina people who packed the small, hot courtroom seemed more sympathetic than curious. One of the cameramen who was at Castaway the day before lifted his camera in my direction just as we came in before I could turn away Lance was be side me. "Remember me?" Lance said to the photographer. Tm the chap you made a bargain with yesterday." The stocky little cameraman with black hair only grinned and looked smug. I understood that grin better next day when I found my face with every one of the freckles showing across the bridge of my nose looking at me in a pose so life like it was startling, from the pink front page of an evening paper. He got it after all, in . spite of Lance! 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AO "What's en Your Mind." 38 Heathmaa. . ' sfCwT Qwwjawl f - CONDUCTED BY Gastovay' ing called to Castaway by tele phone, early in the morning; Identified the body as mat of Walter Gregg, told of Its pod. tion in bed and with moderate amount of technical .detail de scribed the" death wounds a gunshot fired through the head from a thirty-two calibre revol ver. Two other shots had been fired, the doctor said. "Describe them," ordered the coroner. "One passed over the head of the bed and the bullet was bu ried In "the wall; the other graz ed the cheek of the victim and was found in the pillow." "Is there a possibility mat these wounds might have been self-inflicted?' asked the coro ner. "Positively none," said the doctor with emphasis. 'The bul lets were fired from a distance of twelve to fifteen feet that is the width of the bedroom.' Kobe's discovery of the body of his employer was told In three sentences, and the little brown valet came through the question ing very well, although his voice quavered. "Was there any money in the room when you found the bo dy?" "I saw no money," said the boy. Sheriff Allen was sworn and told of the search of Gregg's room. He described the finger prints on the furniture among them prints of Martha Gregg, of Zstelle Gregg, of Lance and Kobe; and, of course, many of the dead man's fingers. Nothing that might provide a clue to the presence of any outsider was re vealed by the fingerprints, or anything else. Worth Durf ee was next on the stand. Again I had that haunting feeling that he looked like some body I knew but ,who? I couldn't tell. It bothered me. Durfee's testimony was practic ally the same thing I had taken down the afternoon before. "You called on the deceased the night before he was found dead? "I did." "Please tell the Jury the rea son for your visit and why you called after the rest of the house hold were in bed." "I wished to discuss a com promise settlement of a damage suit that has been pending be tween Walter Gregg and myself; and I wished to avoid seeing other members . of his house hold." Durfee was composed and self-oppressed and I was so in tent on watching him that I did not notice anyone else in the courtroom. "Will you please explain io the Jury the nature of the case and the settlement you wished to effect?" Durfee gave a skeletonized statement of the long litigation between himself and Walter Gregg and ended as he had end ed yesterday. "Nobody but the lawyers was getting any good out of our quarrel. So I wanted it ended." (To be continued) 10 AO Five Star Final. 10 :13 Cosmo Jonea. 11 AO Voices la Song. ' 11:15 Melody. 1130 Strings In Bwmgtlm. 11 .-45 Hollywood Whispers. Th Americas Speak. IS JO Mews. 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