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"No Favor Sways Us; Wo Fear Shall Awe"
From First Statesman, March 28, 1831
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, President . .
Member of Tbm Associated Press
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news dispatches credited to it or not othenrlse credited la this newspaper.
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There's a right and a wrong way to take it,
but the story ot the Englishwoman who was dug
out of the ruins ot her home after an air raid
should appeal to a growing number of civilians
these days. Rescuers, .suspecting that her hus-
From headquarters of the 13th naval district
we are. in receipt of a bulletin explaining. that
the United States navy does not in any case
place its stamp of approval upon commercial
enterprises such as the sale of patriotic posters,
flags or advertising. Cases in which salesmen
have strongly inf erredthat their products have
band was also buried in the wreckage, kept navy approval have been called to the attention
asking the dazed woman: Where s your old of the navy department. Possibly there is no
man?" When she had recovered sufficiently she hard and fast ruli as to what if any commercial .
finally blurted out: In the army, the coward! ventures involving patriotic expression, are
Inference should properly be limited to the legitimate and in good taste. Commercial flag-
truth that civilian life is strenuous, puzzling and waving is always subject to question. Probably
precarious in these times, and Is going to be
more of each. And here comes price control; an
actuality rather than the much-debated possi
bility it has recently been. Obviously it was
to prepare us for this that President Roosevelt
sent his "cost of living" message to congress
and delivered his excellent fireside chat of
Tuesday night
I The time for argument as to the necessity for
price control is past. The questions now are (1)
-will it be effective? (2) what will be the effect
upon individuals and businesses?
Sugar rationing is just getting under way. Its
headaches will soon be apparent; thus this does
not appear to be a happy moment to suggest that
for all items which are soon to be scarce, ration
ing should be imposed. Yet it is difficult to see
how otherwise a nefarious "black market" is to
be avoided. As numerous news items under the
lesser headlines attest, patriotism is not uni
versally an effective appeal. What we mean is,
a declaration of war doesn't eliminate all the
crooks and tricksters.
As to the effect upon complying businesses,
no general statement is possible. The controls
and their effective dates were designed so far
as possible to avoid hardship. Manufacturers'
and wholesale prices are frozen on May 11, re
tail prices on May 18. The seven-day gap is
far from adequate but h will help some. The
oretically the price reductions on items which
have risen in price since March, are handed back
to the manufacturer. But it won't work out
altogether that way. Wholesalers' and retailers'
costs also have risen. Some of them are going
to be caught between the upper and nether
millstones.
The over-all answer is the one we have cited
heretofore. There will have to be adjustments.
The OPA will have to make some of them to
cure inequities; individuals who are in business
will have to make others in self-defense. Life
k a series of adjustments and whoever loses
the ability to make them is a goner. Canadian
businesses, we are reliably informed, have made
the necessary adjustments and do not find price
control a serious hardship.
Anyway there's no real occasion to fret and
complain. Despite the Englishwoman's appraisal
of civilian and army perils, most of us are
assured of three square meals and better shelter
than a foxhole. We have, and have a good
chance to keep, a lot of comforts and a degree
of safety and freedom that are denied to a huge
proportion of this earth's human beings.
a sale rule Is that If there
answer is "no."
Is any doubt, the
There are two aides to this "defense area
business. CorvaUis and Albany are included in
the Camp Adair "defense area" for housing
construction purposes; so far Salem is outside.
But now Benton and Linn counties have been
included in the "defense rental area" in which
rentals are frozen as of March 1 and that will
call for some deflation, unless we are grossly
misinformed. Marion county again is "included
out" We may be far enough from the camp
to remain out permanently especially if land
lords here take warning from what happened
in CorvaUis and Albany.
Salem and the USO
The visit of Mrs. Bartlett Heard, associate
regional secretary of USO, and her frank and
lucid statement of the conditions under which
Salem may or may not be allocated USO ser
vices and a so-called "USO building," did much
to clear the atmosphere although she was not in
position to give a categorical yes-or-no answer.
To begin with, USO which receives its funds
on a nationwide voluntary contribution basis,
Is not interested in serving communities but
rather, and properly, in serving the men in
uniform wherever they are. Furthermore it as
. sumes, properly, that communities in or near
which soldiers and sailors are quartered will
arrange locally to provide them with comforts,
conveniences and entertainment within rea
sonable limits.
Those reasonable limits may be somewhat in
definite but it was made clear that Salem
should expect to take care of these needs as
far as soldiers now quartered here are con-
- cerned. Portland is serving at least an equal
- number, In proportion to its population, with
little or no outside assistance.
If it should develop that five thousand or
more soldiers from Camp Adair will make
Salem their off-duty recreation center, Salem
may reasonably expect a USO unit but not
necessarily a new building. At this point it
may be well to explain that a "USO building"
is built not by USO but by the Federal Security
Administration with federal funds. If no build
ing is allocated, even though a large number of
soldiers visit Salem regularly, Salem may how
ever expect FSA to allocate funds for rental
and renovation of an existing building or rooms.
4 With all this Salem ought to be satisfied
with one exception. Contrary to Mrs. Heard's
explanation that FSA delays making any pro
vision for accommodations until soldiers or sail
ors actually are on the scene, CorvaUis has the
promise of modest $45,000 USO building.
Salem may rightfully argue that there is as
much certainty of soldiers visiting Salem, as
there is that they will visit CorvaUis.
; In view of all this, Salem's immediate course
seems well defined. It will pay this city to toot
its own horn to FSA and USO, lest it be over
looked. Definite representations as to the need
should be made in the proper quarters but
frequently. Meanwhile, the local committee
whereby Salem proposes to meet this problem
on its own hook should proceed with its ar
rangements as though it expected no outside
. aid.. Already there is need of a service men's
center,' downtown or thereabouts. The policy
should be that of doing it-ourselves"--and
hollering for help with any breath that may be
left over.
The motorman of a Hudson river tube
train which piled up Sunday night killing five
persons and in jurying 262, faces charges of
operating a public conveyance while under the
influence of liquor The damage a drunken
driver can do is limited only by his opportuni
ties. News Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLON
(Dtrtr Ibntlon by King features Syndicate, Inc. Bepra
duetlon ta whole or in part strictly prohibited.)
WASHINGTON, April 2J The lack of enthus
iasm in congressional comment on Mr. Roosevelt's
new price-freezing apparatus forecasts trouble on
the few features which congress was called upon
to enact
It was quite evident from what some of the
prominent leaders did not say,
and from what others said be
hind their hands, off-the-rec-ord,
that aU three of the presi
dent's suggested courses of leg
islative action will encounter
difficulties.
The farm bloc will strenuous
ly resist the suggestion that its
110 per cent of parity goal be
moved back. Instead the senate
appropriations committee is ex
pected to write into the agri
cultural appropriations bill a
restriction against government
dumping of surpluses.
The proposed $25,000 limit on income found an
equally unwelcome reception, although this was
not quite as evident. The restriction smacks too
much of confiscation.
No doubt congress will enact some kind of addi
tional excess profits tax, but not one as drastic as
the treasury and the president have in mind.
Thus on all three points the president's purposes
will be moderated.
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Weather censorship runs into practical dif
ficulties in baseball season. It really doesn's
camouflage the situation much to announce that
ball games have been called off "because of un
favorable conditions." Of course thpa condi
tions might vary in nature. -
The prevailing opinion In the congressional
cloakrooms is that Mr. Roosevelt weU knew that
these three suggestions would meet a cold reception.
The general thought was that the message was
intended to prepare public opinion for the price
fixing and to stop the congressional drive on labor.
From the first standpoint, the program let con
gress and the country have a real understanding
of overall economic policy, thus softening the effects
of the stringent price ceiling imposed by Hender
son 24 hours later.
There is o question also that it served to wrap
a wet blanket around the already cornered move
ment for labor law revision. There is even less
chance of action in the house now than before
on the Vinson bill to establish a 48-hour week.
, Senator Connelly's prompt withdrawal of his
plant-seizure bin in the senate, on the ground
that he did not wish to get into a scrap with the
president, will have a similar dampening effect
on efforts to restrain labor in that branch.
The economic freezing apparatus offered by the
president was, as a whole, delicately balanced po
litically from the radical-conservative and compulsion-voluntary
standpoints. It was a typical
Roosevelt contrivance devised as a compromise be
tween conflicting elements.
The course of radical compulsion was offered on
prices and taxes, but the method of voluntary ap
peal was suggested for bond sales.
The interests of farmers and labor were like
wise finely weighed. An indirect "stabilization"
of wages will offend labor little and satisfy farm
complainants, while the further limitation of farm
prices (which cannot be expected) will satisfy labor
and not make the farmers angry very long.
In all essentials, the plan is thus just as out
lined in this column on April 23.
Whether the plan will work can only be de
termined by experience. The British have had in
effect the same mild indirect wage policy, yet
hourly wages have risen on the average 8 per cent;
in the last year. As 6 per cent is the average, many
rates have risen considerably more.
The British national arbitration tribunal (cor
responding to our war labor board) has used only,
official announcement that government policy fa
vors stabilization. ,.;v.;,
British experience on prices is not comparable
to what Roosevelt proposes to do. The government
there started out by merely asking merchants not
to increase prices unless individual costs of pro
duction increased.' . 1
This proved wholly unsatisfactory, and on July
22, 1941, the board of trade was given the power
to act arbitrarily. But all the board did was to
elect a limited list of commodities upon which
ceilings were placed. No general freeze order was
attempted. r ' , -";::U-."
During aU this period, the cost of living rose
from an index of 174 in January, 140 to 195 in
December, and finally got up to 200 in Hay, 1941,
although it has receded slightly since then.
The British system, of course, was reinforced by
. ; Stricter rationing than Is contemplated here. ,.
terly destroyed or salvaged from
the wreck of time even the
remnants of it saved no man,
though he be a prophet or. the
son of a prophet, raises his voice
anywhere to foreteTL
That's what we were thinking
of there a while back In the
night when the world was asleep
and the last wanderer had re
treated from the noise and the
. clamor of the city or the green
lanes of the country , to seek a
waiting bed in whatever shelter
fate could effer him. They were
somber thoughts indeed in our
mind and heart that followed us
to our own waiting pillow and
the blessed forgetfulness of
sleep. But, even as day always
follows night, there came with
the dawn to us a ray of hope and
comfort In the maflsack was a
poem from Sister Ruby Berkeley
Goodwin, who not only aits regu
larly in the Synagogue but also
is a member of the inner circle of
the Congregation of the Faithful,
which Is to say that she says her
prayers every night and every
morning, something that every
living human being should do.
Two human interest 4-50-42
installments from the
facfle pen of the poet
laureate ot California:
. ,
This columnist, pressed with
other matters, overlooked two
interesting installments from the
facile pen of John Steven Mc
Groarty of California, author
and director of the great Mission
Flay detailing the beginnings of
civilization and progress In that
part of the -United States. .
v The reader should bear in
mind that McGroarty calls his
home in the suburbs of Los An
geles "the Utile high house in
the green Verdugo nflls"; that he
calls his vast audience, the read
ers of his Sunday column in the
Los Angeles Times, his syna
gogue whose roof covers the
whole , earth, and takes other de
lightful privileges with the peo
ple who read his column,
throughout aU the hemispheres.
The Bits man proposes In this
case to use the original quota
tion marks, or none at all) as the
matter appeared In the Times.
The first one, from that newspa
per of February 22 last, reads:
The new year is still young.
Many of us not yet have become
habituated to writing 1942 in
stead of 1941. Not all the Christ
mas bills have been paid. There
is a long way ahead of us be
fore another new year dawns
and only God knows what Is in
store for a torn" and bleeding
world. "Whether this civilization
that we have known Is to be ut-
There Is the old saying that
"He who In the morning for
gets to pray bids himself not
good morrow or good day."
If you were to make a survey
of all the people with whom you
are acquainted, or to send out to
them a questionnaire, it is to be
feared that only a few of them
all take the time to pray. They
swagger along with their little
breath of life as though they had
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Crime at Castaway'
By EDITH BRISTOL
Chapter 16
"Yes, I said. "But the sher
iff told me not to mention it"
"He's trying to trace it he
doesn't want the public to know.
But the bank did cash a check
for Durfee that morning, in
twenties and hundreds, just as
he said. And he might have left
it there" he checked himself
again, as if he were thinking out
loud and something broke his
train of thought
"When I heard Mr. Durfee
say that," I said (I was thinking
out loud, too) "I was surprised.
For I didn't think lr. Gregg
would accept money like that
he was too businesslike. He'd
want it done more regularly."
That's the devil of it all,"
Lance said. He flicked the bridle
rein against his hand as he spoke
as if he would brush away
something unpleasant "He need
ed ready money. He always kept
a good substantial balance in
the bank. Always had plenty of
ready money. But in the months
he was in the hospital things
got involved. That's why he sent
for me. He didn't entirely trust
Harry Craven."
It was on the tip of my tongue
to speak pf Gregg's conversa
tion with Craven, that last af
ternoon. But I checked it. Per
haps I was being too much in
fluenced by this personable
young man, so tall and strong.
striding beside me. Anyhow I'd
told Allen I could tell Lance
later, if needed. And there was
always the memory of the bit!
of conversation I'd heard from
Lance, as welL That always
bobbed up to bother me.
That final payment on the
Gallina Dam construction isn't
paid yet it will be due in a few
days.' And in the emantime if
you could know the demands
for money "
1 made out his cheeks and
wrote letters," I said. "I do
know."
"Yes. You would." Lance
agreed. "He needed ready money
right now. So he might have ac
cepted it and signed that i
ceipt it was an emergency, you
know. Durfee must be telling
the truth about that"
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