Tb OZSGON CTATJ3MAH. Salem. Onqoxu WSnes4ay Morning, July 13. 1912
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No Fopot Stray Ut; No Fear Shall Avof
From first Statesman, March 28, 1851
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Public Assistance ..'
In view of the current labor shortage in Ore
gon, we are confident that a great many citizens
are wondering what the state Public Welfare
commission and the several county commissions
find to do these days, whether or why there is t
any heed for their continued existence, or mora
temperately, just what the effect of this artifi
cial prosperity will be on the public assistance"
program in general. -
, In the BP years, meaning "before depres
sion" there wasn't any such program. Jlemem
ber? Logically, no one may be blamed for as
suming that the depression was its cause and
that when depression ended, public assistance
also would be liquidated. Whoever thought
otherwise a few years ago was branded a cynic
if not an old meanie. Who'd have thought that
so sooq, the old meanies' belfefs would be tested
and found correct?
Don't. jump to the conclusion, from those re
marks, that there has been and will be no t
shrinkage in thepublic assistance bill. There '
has been some shrinkage. How1! much more there
will be is difficult to gauge in view of the rapid ;
economic and employment changes still occur
ring. '
- Oregon statistics do not as a matter of fact
yet afford any competent basis for predicting
the correlation between' economic conditions
and the size; of the public assistance check. It
m should jbe understood first of all that old age
'assistance is the major item; and old age assist
ance, initiated in 1936 and expanding as appli
cations! were approved rather than in ratio to
need, has never become stabilized.
- The! same is true more or less of' aid to de
pendent children. General assistance on the
other hand has fluctuated in closer ratio to need.
The following table shows the number of per
sons receiving these three classes of assistance '
in May jof several representative years:
Year old ace general children
23,536
29,957
27,367
11,607
It 'will be seen that old age assistance and
aid to dependent, children are still expanding.
On the other hand general assistance has been
sharply j reduced. But when you start figuring
the effect of these trends on the total public as
sistance! bill, it is necessary to take note that
old age assistance now accounts for 68 per cent,
aid to children 12 per cent, and general assist
ance only about 18 per cent of the total.
In 1940 the total bill of a little over nine mil
lion dollars was divided as follows: General ,
assistance $2,233,340, old age assistance $4,956,
812, aid to dependent children $926,096, aid to
the blind $134,702, surplus commodities $797,
363. - I
j if the April, 1942, expenditures were
for this year, we could not expect much
.relief from relief, for the year's total would be
$8,990,172. One reason is that old age assistance
on this basis would cost in excess of half a mil
lion dollars more than in 1940, virtually offset- '
ting-the Reduction in the cost of general assist-'
ance. Though that reduction doesn't cut down
the total to any great extent, it does keep it
from going higher.
To what further degree general assistance
will be wiped out, its seasonal fluctuation in
other years affords some inkling. In 1938 for
example jthere was a 24 per cent drop from May
to September, the low month. On that basis
there would be only about 8800 persons receiv
ing general assistance in September this year.
But we rather fear thejaw of diminishing re-1
turns will take a hand. In other words, most
employables are now employed. The persons
now receiving aid are nearly all unemployable.
So you seei the old meanies were more right
than wrong. There is however, a slight rift in
the clouds and it will enlarge. Gradually, and to
the extent that persons now employed are cov
ered, old age assistance will be replaced by the
"earned" and more adequate federal old age
insurance.
United States citizens are the more culpable. If
they are guilty of any offense, that offense is
treason. Those saboteurs who are German citi
zens are patriots in Berlin; the others are trai
tors anywhere.
Of course if we were sentencing the ones
who are convicted, we would not provide a
more severe penalty for these citizen-traitors
than for the German saboteurs. We might at
that if we could devise and legalize a punish
ment more severe than death before a firing
squad. . -. r -. v
The editor of one Oregon newspaper was
orally smacked down the other day by a super
patriot. It seems there was a wire dispatch re
lating that American forces in the Aleutians
had sunk some Nip vessels and that others were
left "burning fiercely." The quotation marks
were there because the words constituted a
direct quotation from the communique, but the
indignant ' subscriber thought the editor put
them there to indicate doubt as to their truth.
And some folk think publishing a neVspaper in
wartime is "business as usual."
"There are only two county commissioners,
and one is too old and the other too small to
undertake a hand-to-hand argument with a po
lice officer under any kind of circumstances,"
says the Wood burn Independent in spiking a
rumor that one of the commissioners had been
arrested after a fight with a state policeman.
Though our commissioners doubtless are grate
ful to the Independent ior clearing them, they
may not appreciate the reference to their" al
leged limited physical prowess.
1937
1938
1940
1942
12,638
17,506
19,435
21,848
1330
3089
4713
4868
Now
average
Paul Mallon
State Fair Issue Settled
Writing finis to a series of conflicting ma
neuvers, the decision to dispense with the 1942
Oregon state fair has been reached.
In congress recently there was extended
debate on the general proposition of cancelling
state" and county fairs.' Well, debate may be the
" right word but it was almost entirely one-sided.
The congressmen, with an eye to the rural vote,
were largely united in criticizing the ODT
"request", that fairs be called off. It was one of
those things which just now reduce public con- r
fidence in congress even among those citizens
who are loath to criticize the only body of
spokesmen they have in government Congress
men just don't seem to realize there's a war on.
, One thing should be said. Defenders of the
fairs protest because professional baseball is
being carried on this season. As a matter of fact
baseball does not encourage a great deal of in
tercity travel; may save more rubber than it
destroys by keeping people in town to see the
home team play. Any fair, if it was a success,
would stimulate travel. ;
Here in Oregon, there is another obvious
reason why the state fair should be "out for the
duration." It was amply demonstrated last year
when the need was much less keen, that the fair
Interrupts harvest work at a most critical time.
City dwellers will do well this year to pick
beans, or whatever other crop is ready, on Labor
day- and take a "Salem day" off for the sane
"; purpose.'. :
The Greater Guilt
" ' Arrival by submarine of the eight German
saboteurs was spectacular and so was their cap
ture. The subsequent roundup of bundists who
allegedly aided them or otherwise lent aid and
comfort to the enemy is less so. "
But when it comes to assaying the relative
-guilt, we are strongly disposed to the opinion
that almost regardless of the nature of overt
acts, those among the entire group who are
The circumstance that allotments to service
men's wives and dependents will be paid the
day before the November election is a startling
example of coincidence but not exactly novel.
Seems as though a peacetime' version of the
same thing has happened once or twice in the
last eight years.
News Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLON '
(Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Repro
duction in whole or In part strictly prohibited.)
WASHINGTON, July 14 Congressman Andrew
Jackson May set the military men a-muttering
when he announced the war might be over this
year, certainly next.
Mr.. May is an exceptionally
able legislator and chairman of
the house military affairs com
mittee, but he is also known as
a teller of tall stories. He has
long insisted, for instance, that
down in Pike county,) Kentucky,
he never shoots at a squirrel di
rectly, but at the limb on which
it is perched, so he ;can kill it
by concussion.
An offset to Mr. May's amaz
ing prediction has been offered
by Senator Tydings,"of Mary
land, who thinks the war will
not end until 1944.
Everyone likes to hear good news, and such
statements as these are given prominence in the
press for that reason, although they are not worth
the breath it took to utter them.
No one in authority knows when the war will
end. No one can have a good guess. And such wild
stabs as are being made fluctuate from day to day .
with news from the front
One official, who knows as much about it as
either Mr. May or Mr. Tydings, says the war -will
last five years, if Egypt falls.
All that can be truthfully and safely said is this:
Many air-minded authorities hope for great
things from the second front of air bombing which
has been opened by the British. It has been- an
nounced this is to be greatly intensified with our
help soon. :
Those who think the war can be won this way
naturally expect an early conclusion. They are iny
the minority, The vast majority of authorities see
the end nowhere in sight.
It will snow gold for dependents in the armed
services next November 2, the day before election.
On that peculiarly timed occasion, around 1325,000,
000 of heldup allowances will be shoveled out of the
clouds here in payments to wives, children, fathers
and mothers. No payments win be made until then.
. The war department says it never heard of the
election which is to occur November 3. It says it
chose November 1, two days preceding keep a
straight face please because bookkeeping and in
vestigation will delay the preparation of checks
until precisely that moment from June 1, the date -from
which the allowances are to be made. ?
A tremendous amount of administrative labor
and bookkeeping is no doubt necessary to get such
a vast system going. But the most peculiar and still -unexplained
phase of the matter is, why payments
are not to be made as cases axe completed in the
corning months, but are.to be held up for one great
lump sum payment of five months arrears just
before the voters go to the polls to elect a new con
gress? .' , The inhuman aspect of the matter is that the de
pendents are assumed to be needy, else the payment
would not be made. These are not gratuities, but
are for subsistence. How the dependents will live
unta two days before election, is not quite clear.
Note The basic allowance for a dependent wile
is $50, the government contributes $28 and the sol
dier $22. In addition, the government furnishes $20 ;
for one child, $ia for each additional chad, $5 for
parents and other relatives, etc Maximum possible
payment is $112.
Any place, you touch the rubber situation, it
burns, with the usual resultant aroma. Only now
has the OPA increased the price offered for guayule
from 17 cents per pound to 28 cents per pound, in
order to get some of that rubber base product which
Mexico has been selling to others, i '
Our whole Latin American buying policy Is
still continuing along the same old faulty low-priced
line. Argentine, Brazilian and Chilean manufactur
ers have been topping our fixed tnintmTn and get
ting the rubber we need. ; ; vs ,
Incidentally, a large synthetic rubber interest
will announce within a few days a new plan for
supersynthetic production which is supposed to
provide tires capable of traveling 60 miles an hoar. "
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By KIRKS I SIMPSON ' j
Wide World War Analyst for The Statesman
The nazi war juggernaut has rolled another, long stride
down the Don to bring Stalingrad on the lower Volga as dose
to investment as is Moscow.
In the Rzhev area; where the Germans are already astride the
upper Volga 135 miles from Mos-
Another Battle of llie Pyramids
its for. Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
The pole log 7-15-42
houses and puncheon
floors and some peculiar
practices of our pioneers: -
Several articles preceding
this one told of pole log houses
in pioneer Oregon with punch
eon floors and houses that were
built entirely without nails.
No doubt there are high school
pupils in the Oregon of today
who would not be able to Jteti
of pole log houses with punch- ,
eon floors, to say nothing of
school houses with puncheon
floors constructed of pole logs,
to say nothing even of puncheon
seats or puncheon desks.
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'How does Webster's Un
abridged Dictionary define
puncheon?
, One definition is a dagger.
Another is a large cask of vary
ing capacity. Also it is volume,
as a measure. The legal value ,of
a wine puncheon in England was
84 gallons. In the old days there
the measure of a puncheon of
beer was two barrels, or 72 gal
lons. A puncheon was used by
goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.
Also, says Webster, a punch
eon was a split log or heavy
slab with a face smoothed. That
was a puncheon In the floor of
a round pole log house in pio
neer Oregon, or one with round
or square logs.
- Webster also called a punch
eon a pointed steel tool used es
pecially in marble work.
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This writer lived in at least
three pole log houses, perhaps
four, with three or four punch
eon floors.
What is a "pole" log house?
And what is a "puncheon'
floor? -
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Well, a pole log house is mere
ly one made with the round
logs directly from the trees of'
the forest usually small trees,
and brought generally from
near by forests.
A puncheon floor in Oregon
pioneer days was one made
from a log split in the middle,
with the split ide up, or the
smooth side made by hewing off
the upper side, thus forming the
floor of the room.
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The first pole" log house with
a puncheon floor this columnist
lived in was the one in which he
was born, in Cooper Hollow,
west of the site of Monmouth,
on the old road to Dallas on
the first road that led from old
Fort Yamhill' to Salem. That
first log house, that was the
first home of this scribe, long
ago went the way of all wood
and all flesh.
The next house was on Rock
creek, east of Fossil, eastern
Oregon; it was perhaps a log
house, bjt't may have been of
frame construction.
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The next was a log house, of
pole logs, and likely of tamar
ack logs. That . house was
burned, by an incendiary fire,
of which there is a story for
some other day. It was a mile
south of the then very small
town of Weston, Umatilla coun
ty, and its place was taken by a
frame dwelling, enclosed with
the first fence surrounding a
building in that neighborhood.
The next was a pole log house,
in what was then known- as
Walker valley, and later and yet
as the beautiful "Shoestring'
valley, seven miles east of Yon
calla, -which was in the Apple
gate settlement, where a lot of '
high and interesting Oregon his
tory was made. The Shoestring
log house, which was of round '
fir logs, was, soon,replaced by
a frame, house, still standing,
much improved.
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The first public school at
tended in a public school house
by the Bits man, in the Weston
section, Vas in the Wildhorse
district, of round tamarack logs,
and the seats of puncheon tarn-,
arack logs.1 , ' .J: .
The puncheon floors of pio
neer Oregon, in the houses of,
round logs, and . of hewn logs,
were often smooth and very well
constructed. It was not unusual
for them to make good dance
floors, for either "round" or
"square dancing, leading often
to a wedding that was the
founding of a fine family of pi
oneer leaders and statesmen.
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The country schools in the log
houses of Oregon's early days
were by no means poor . ones.
They depended largely, almost
entirely, on their teachers, who
in a majority of cases were fine.
This writer would like, if his
memory served him well
enough, to tell the stories of the
lives of his early day country
school teachers. They would
compare favorably with the av
erage city teachers of the pres
i ent day, or any day. He may
make an attempt at it, some day,
in this column.
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On Pae 8
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cow, a nan dent is aamiuea Dy
the Russians. Down the Don, the
foe has pushed on beyond Bogu
char to within 160 miles of Stal
ingrad and the lower Volga. He
is almost in sight tf a success
that would split, red armies of
the southern Ukraine and Cau
casus from their comrades to the
north and east.- .
- Short of a miraeuloos Ras
, sian resurgence in the south
or a successful Russian flank
ing effort from the Moscow
central . front, there A seems
small prospect that Marshal
Timoshenko) can a v, 1 d being '
driven behind the Don-Volga
line. Russian official bulletins
as well as press accounts nuke
no effort to conceal the serl-
of his plight.
Even escape behind the Don
Volga line for Russian troops in
the Don-Donets .basin and west
of Rostov In a sweeping general
retreat must be regarded as
problematical while the nazi
push southeastward down both
rivers goes on unchecked.
Which way the nazi war ma
chine will turn if it reaches its
Indicated first goal along the
Don-Volga line to knife Russia
apart to the Caspian seacoast,
isolating the Caucasus, is still a
matter of conjecture. It would
seem to depend upon which is
. Hitler's most urgent need to
reach oil soon to replenish di
minishing reserves, or to shorten
his lines in the east to conserve
manpower for meeting an anglo
American attack from the west.
If it is oil that is Hitler's most
pressing problem, as many ob
servers believe, the tide of bat
tle in Russia must inevitably roll
on southward toward the Cau
casus. If it is manpower to guard
all the vast territories he has
won against gathering Anglo-
American strength, the front m
Russia well might shift north
ward to the Moscow target once
the Don-Volga line was esiab
lished in the south.
: ' Thrown back behind the Vol
a ga all the way from the Valdai
.hills' northwest of j Moscow,
where the river rises,' to Astra
khan on the Caspian, where it
empties into the sea, Russian ar-
- mies could do little more than
harass the invader. The nazis
could proceed at leisure behind
such an eastern line to the cap
ture of the Caucasus and its, oil
treasures. ' . ,
V The Volga and an extension
of line from Its Valdai springs
to the Baltic would represent
a tremendous length of front
to guard, however. The Volga
Vis the longest river In Europe.
It runs 2409 miles from Itt
Valdai plateau sources te Its
Caspian outlet, sweeping a
vast curving line far eastward
- of , Moscow before It turns
: BOUth. i ,' ' ' :':
Extend that front another
400 miles to the Baltic in the
Leningrad ' vicinity . and Hitler
would be undertaking to hold
a virtual 3000 mile line in the
east which would outmatch his
2000 mile front in the west That
"seems to forbid . his airning at
sweeping the Russian resistance
back behind the Volga for .its
whole length. , , ...
The short line across Russia
from the Baltic to the Caspian,
however; runs from Leningrad
through or east of Moscow to
Astrakhan. It is an airline dis
tance of perhaps 1500 miles.
: Many observers believe it is on
the short line that Hitler hopes
to stand if he fails to smash
Russian armies in the field be
fore winter'.
Kamidoinni
By JAMES HILTON
yairvest
Chapter 10, Continued
"He didnt have far to come .
the library was only just across ;
the river in Lambeth. Of course
I took him for just an ordinary
visitor. He first of all asked at
the counter if we had any illus
trated books on English Villages.
It's the sort of vague request
you fairly often get from peo
ple, so I picked a few books off '
the shelves and left him at a ta
ble with them. Presently, he
handed them back with 'H- few
words of thanks, and out of po-
liteness I then asked if he'd
found what he'd been looking
for. He said well no, hot exactly .
he'd Just thought the pictures
and photographs in some illus
trated bdbk might happen to in
clude one . of a place he'd seen
but had forgotten the name of.
They hadn't though, and it did
not matter." . -' t
"You must have thought It :
curious.
"Yes, but the really curious
thing was that Td just written a
short ' story based on a similar
idea. He seemed quite interested '
when' I told him this and we
talked on for a while then fi
nally he stared round ' rather
vaguely and said I'm supposed
to see a man who works here
called Woburn. I said I was Wo
burn and he pretended; to be
surprised and pleased but some
how I felt he had known all the
time, though '.his pleasure
seemed genuine. He then said
his wife had talked about , me
and thought I might do some
cataloguing, and of course he
had to say then who he was. I
told him Fd be very glad, and
he said that was fine, he'd - let
me know, then he shook hands
hurriedly and left
"Did he let you know?"
"Not immediately. After a few .
weeks I wrote to him, because I
really wanted the job if I could
get it I was only earning three
. pounds a week. -Of course I'd
found out all about him in' the
interval about his Fleet street
interests that's really why I
sent him that short story I'd
- written, because I thought may
be he'd pass it on ij one of his
editors." Woburn r smiled. "He
returned It a few days later,
without comment, but said I
could begin the cataloguing any
time I liked." .
Tell me about the story."
"Oh, it was nothing much
just a rather feeble, yarn about m
Russian soldier returning from
' the front after the revolution.",
"What happened to him?"
"Nothing exciting. He j u s t
roamed about the country try
ing to find where he lived."
Had he had he lost his mem-'
ry?" -w.v-.- .
"No, he was Just a simple fel
lowcouldn't read and write
all he could give was the name
of the village and a description
of it that might equally have ap
plied to ten thousand other Rus
sian villages. The "government
officials wouldn't bother with
him, because he couldn't fill out
the proper forms, so he just had
to go on wandering vaguely
about trying to find the place."
- "And did he eventually?
"He was run over by a train
and .carried, to a neighboring
village where he died ; without
knowing that it actually was the
one he'd been looking for . , !. .
of course you tal ght .have
guessed that" " N
"Having read Gogol and Chek
hov, I think I might."
"I know it was just an imita
tion. I haverit anv real nri fin
ality only a technique. I sup
pose Rainier realized that So
Td better stick to the cata
logues." . .. It seemed to me a courageous,
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Today's Garden
By LIIXJE L. MADSEN ' .
Mrs. G. A. S. asks what to do
about the blight which hits ma
donna lilies,, says the foliage
looks pinkish and ot green at
all. Reports neighbor lost all by
foliage trouble a few years ago.
She also wants the name of a
:. good red rose whih will bloom
' most of the time. r
Answer: The lily plants should
be sprayed ' from ; early spring
when growth first starts to early
fall when it stops: Bordeaux
mixture, while it does discolor
the foliage a little, wfll do about
f the most thorough Job. Digging
some of the dry mixture into the
ground around the lily will also
help. Spraying must be done ev
ery ten days. Now Mrs. CAJS.
should carefully remove all dis
eased foliage and burn at once.
When the lilies are finished
blooming, cut the tops off and In
early fall dig them up shake the
. soil off and reset at jonce in a
new location. But even now it
Will help some to start spray
ing. Be -careful not. to get the
spray material on the blooms or
directly on the buds of those not
yet in bloom. Continue spraying
after the faded blooms have
. been cut off. V ; ; r i-r
There are many: good J red
roses, most of which will broom
. more or less continuously if giv
en proper care. Crimson Glory .
is a vigorous and free blooming
rose. Mary . Hart is one of my
favorites, although at times the
buds do change colors. But it is
a very good keeper when cut."
Matador, is , another ' good rose
which is darlc red and a free
bloomer. Christopher Stone is a
favorite of many. It opens semi
double and . as a , vivid scarlet
( cast when fully open. Etoile de
Hallande is a good deep red and
a free; bloomer. J Hadley and
Hoosier Beauty are older 4 va
rieties but still among the best
3?
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