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fags roua Thm CCZGOII STATCSMAIL Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning August 2. 1312 n turn-' - " 'No Favor Strays Us; No Tear Shall. Aw f From First Statesman, March 28, 1891 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. CHARLES A. SPRAGUZ, President ' Member of Tb Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use far publication of s3 news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this newspaper. UnaulHorized' Strikes National leaders of both AFL and CIO shortly after Pearl Harbor went on record as opposed: to any strikes which would impede the war effort. Officials of greater and lesser rank In all unions affiliated with either major group and in the independent unions, all concurred. In justice it should be observed that the overwhelming majority of these unions and their affiliated members are making good on that pledge. Out of 41 million non-agricultural worKers in me united oiaies, wurtung appiuAi mately two billion hours per week, only about 11,000 were on strike in a recent week in occu pations affecting war production and the time lost was about 212,000 man hours so that the loss in hours was only a little more than one in ten thousand. Counting non-war-connected occupations, the time lost by strikes In May was at the rate of 576,000 man hours per week, or a little less than one in four thousand. Time lost to industry through strikes has dropped 80 per cent below peacetime averages. - Surely no one will argue that in war in dustry at least, labor has lost any of its "gains." Not only are the national administration and Its war labor board sympathetic to the cause of labor; there is at least ah equal advantage to the workers in the tact that labor is scarce; Tf ia a. "eollor market-" Whftllv Aside from the potency of collective bargaining, employers must bid for men's service and bid high. Viewed purely on the basis of hourly or weekly "money" wages in comparison to 1939 wage , scales, war industry pay seems to many per-. inn scandalously hi eh. These wages shrink somewhat when converted into "real" wages. But while cost of living is up 16 per cent from the 1935-'39 level, average weekly earnings in industry are up 45 per cent from the 'level Of June, 1940. How much unnecessary dislocation all this entails is not our immediate topic, nor is" its effect upon the inflation danger, nor tne long view wisdom of prevailing wage policies. The A ..A.'Mifl VmrA 4- smrli 4v t-vfrvlrza nra (1) that labor is cooperating in the war effort and (2) that in the aggregate, labor has lost nothing through this cooperation. That the overwhelming majority of work ers are cooperating in the war effort, is no . defense for the tiny majority of exceptions; quite the contrary. The nearly unanimous rec ord makes the exceptions appear all the blacker. There is no intention here to suggest that particularly in occupations only indirectly af fecting the war effort, there may not be just grievances. Of the merits-of any particular dis pute, we donot presume to judge. But when employes ostensibly acting with out the sanction of their unions go on un authorized" strike they merely shift the onus from the unions to their individual selves. They explain naively, 'to our view that the union is bound by its national leadership's pledge; but that -nevertheless the grievance exists and their only recourse is to strike in order to gain the prompt attention of the labor board con ciliators. Their action is automatically con demned by their own unions' position. At the same time they are not actually shielding the unionsfor the public is certain to suspect in case of a 100 per cent walkout, that union officials have a. sub rosa hand in it. This suspicion must be especially strong on the nart of Salem citizens who waited in vain for street busses on Saturday; for it was stated that the Salem bus drivers had no stake in the controversy as between the' mileage and the hourly basis of remuneration. To the extent that this strike affects inter city transportation, obviously it impedes the war effort since many commuting war workers were marooned either at home Or at the scene of their jobs. Just as obviously, whether it is 11 A.1 1 ' J- . 1 1 Uie union ' or ine muiviuuai uus company cm- - ployes, labors wartime. policy is Deing violated. Language If you read that the "Sammies" went "over the top" into "no man's land" while the enemy's "fourth arm" dominated the air with no opposition except from the "Archies" and that judging from the wounds suffered by some of the men who went to "Blighty" the "Boche" was using "dum-dum" bullets if you read all that, even if you were not "Hooveriz Ing" by observing a "meatless Tuesday" or a whea Jess Wednesday" you would know for certain that reference ' was not to this current war dui 10 une wiuiii wvurrcu 41101 ici via cemury gu. ' Now the-talk is of "Ack-Acks" and "Spit- fires') and 'fdive bombers" and "foxholes"-f-you can String it out endlessly; a brand new language 'of war except that there still is refer ence to air"aces" and "Jerry" as well as some resurrected phrases from, still older wars, use ful again because this is on land a war of movement, and much more an active naval war in a way than that last one. And imagine calling aviation the "fourth arm Now it's the first.' ,; :,';:;;;';r'' ' . , Language is constantly changing, but new words are added much faster than old ones sink into disuse. But a war creates new words much faster than the normal evolution of habit. -custom and thought. And for technical reasons, the words a war produces are as obsolescent as that war's weapons, when the next war breaks out. " the other day that when he starts repaying RFC this month it will be at the rate of 20 per cent on sales. The company's profit before taxes is 20 per cent: So It will at best break even before taxes. The new tax law as it stands will take 87 per cent of net income. Hotchkiss estimates that he can just make the payments to RFC, or he can just pay the taxes but he can't do both. He'll have to borrow the full amount to pay the taxes. Says Hotchkiss: "The darned business doubles every three days. We can't keep track of it. All we're trying to do is survive." 1 4& i. Paul tanaa In This Our Life . . . Stow Manufacturing company of Gingham- ton, NY, has the largest volume of business in its 6-year history.' It is turning out flexible shafting; for war purposes. The company was doing all right in 1939, making: "orderly re covery" from the depression. Now the Stow company has -unfilled ord ers equivalent to 15 years production In nor mal times. But in order to expand it had to borrow from RFC an amount three times its invested capital. " . - " C F. Hotchkiss, president of the company, testified before the senate finance committee One Oregon newspaper describes a mail order catalogue as "a veritable encyclopedia of the things we are going to have to do with out If this war continues as long as those who hob-nob with the president predict." News Behind , The News Bj PAUL MALLQH , ' (Distribution by King Features Syndicate. Inc. Repro duction tn whole or in part atrtctly prohibited.) WASHINGTON, Aug, 1 The campaign of the New Republic, the Luce publications and some others to clean out this congress seems to have , fallen flat as far as the primar ies are concerned. No more than normal casualties among sitting congressmen are reported from the electoral front . A tabulation made by the' democratic congressional cam paign committee, for its own in formation only, shows that out V ipf . 4 of the first 115 congressmen to . face the voters in primaries thus far, no more than 10 have failed of renomination. Most of these were involved in personal sit uations, having nothing to do with the isolationist-interven tionist dispute. The temper of the electorate thus obviously is shown to be extraordinarily complacent. The antagonism to congress which has gained so much popular publicity has. nowhere been reflected in the -results. Furthermore, voting everywhere has been ex tremely light, and less than the usual number of congressmen are even faced with serious opposition. This seems to be a war without song. A war of grim public1 quietude. Public opinion on the surface seems confused, and at times embittered by such regulations as gas rationing anS other displays of Washington inefficiency, but so far it is wholly lacking in the enthusiasm required to go to the polls and vote "no." The politicos explain this phenomena with the assumption that everyone is busy in war work, in the army, or out of it. Farmers are -bearing . down harder than usual. No tax sales are reported in their communities. Other citizens, they say, are laboring so long and hard they take little time out for politics except to drop an Idle cuss word now and then at Washington. Four states in the south have now held pri maries, Florida, Alabama, Oklahoma and North Carolina, and only two congressmen failed. Pro Roosevelt Luther Patrick from Alabama lost be cause he made some facetious speeches which were not interpreted m the humorous way they were intended (say his friends) and Wilburn Cart wright lost in Oklahoma because he got into a personal row with the governor. Out in the middle west: All were renominated , in Iowa. In Illinois, a democrat, Leo Kociakowski, lost out because the Cook county machine had another job in mind for him, and he foolishly thought he could win anyway. One republican, George A. Paddock, lost because popular former Representative Ralph Church wanted his old job back. In Indiana only one lost, a democrat, William T. Schults, whose job was desired by the mayor of the largest town in his district and a superior political power. In Pennsylvania two democrats were beaten, one (Charles I. Faddis) because his district had been rearranged to take in some labor communi ties where his policies were not popular, and the other, Representative Guy L Moser, had barely skinned through- in previous primaries. A couple of republicans suffered from re-districting but none from the war issue. Robert F. Rich did not stand for renomina tion, because his district was split in twain and attached to two adjoining districts, and Benjamin Jarrett was defeated due to four new counties being attached to his district All were renominated In Oregon, but in Maine one fell (James C. Oliver), Some down-easten? attributed Mr. Oliver's defeat to his isolationist Stand. Wiser politicians who go below the surface for their answers think the republicans there were foxy. They did not want Oliver running against the strong Brann in November, but picked a can didate with less of an anti-Roosevelt foreign pol icy. A local political situation likewise defeated one republican In North Dakota (Charles R. Rob ertson). Of the above-mentioned, Faddis was a strong pro-war man; Moser and Schulte were classed as Isolationists. ; t " Certainly it is cleat the democratic voters were not mad at the democratic congressmen, and the republican voters seemed generally satisfied with their .republican representatives. It may be different in November when the democrats come up against the republicans, but for the present all is extremely quiet on the political front , Half-hearted gestures nave been made by the . administration, suggesting Mr. Roosevelt might go after the old opponents of his foreign policy. A New York leader who came out of the White House recently said the president wanted the test of a man for the New York gubernatorial race to be made on the basis of support of the Roosevelt foreign policy before Pearl Harbor. But the democratic machine there went ahead plan ning to nominate one who did not fill that par ticular requirement So it goes everywhere. The administration well knows if It opens . a campaign of bitter parti sanism to. punish its old political opponents, they will fight back with the evidence of Inadequate administration prepara tions for war before Pearl Harbor, and a political melee disastrous to unity, will ensue. E Traffic Situation In Far-Off India IainidloDini IKJairveoti By J AMES HILTON Bits for Breakifast By R. J. HENDRICKS An Oregon pioneer 8-2-42 boy, a truly terrible day and night endured near the site of Eugene: S (Continuing from yesterday:) "Under adverse and discourag ing circumstances he (James L. Collins) has worked his way up In life; unaided, has risen to his present position. Following is a brief resume of his life: "Judge Collins is a descendant of English ancestors who emi grated to Virginia during the reign of George II, and were actively identified with the his tory of the Old Dominion (Vir ginia), and took part in the Revolutionary war. - v "His mother's people traced their ancestors back to the Wy atts of England and the Camp bells of Scotland, prominent and influential families. His great grandfather, William Collins, and his grandfather, George Col lins, were natives of Virginia and soldiers in the war of 1812. His father, Smith Collins, was born in Orange county, Virginia, December 25, 1804, and emi grated to Warren county, Mis souri, in 1827, where he married Eliza Wyatt a native of Mont gomery county, Kentucky, in 1829. They resided in Missouri until 1846. "That year they came to Ore gon. After a long and tedious Journey, fraught with many dan gers incident to travel across the plains at that time, they reached their destination and settled in the beautiful Willamette valley. Mr. Collins took a claim of 640 acres located on the south line of Polk county, and there he lived and prospered, acquiring other lands and valuable prop erty. S "He also retained his property In Missouri. He was generous and public spirited and did his part toward developing the vi cinity in which he resided. Re ligiously, he was a Methodist His death occurred in 1862, and his wife's two years later. Mrs. Collins, like her husband, was a typical pioneer. A kind .heart ed, Christian woman, she was ever ready to relieve the sick and needy. "Their eldest son, J. L. Col lins, the subject of this sketch, was born in Warren county, Mis souri, May 0, 1833, and was 13 years of age when he arrived in Oregon, late in the fall of 1846. Their company was the first to cross the plains with ox teams by way of Klamath lakes and across the Siskiyou, Umpqua and Calapooia mountains ' into . the Willamette valley; and young Collins often drove the foremost team that broke down the thick age brush upon the trackless waste. N w s "He left the place of his birth April 20, 1846, and after suffer ing many hardships and depri vations arrived in Polk county, Oregon, March 5, 1847, having spent the winter in a cabin they found unoccupied, near where Eugene City has since sprung up. The winter was a severe one. Harrison, Turnedge remained with him, and out of compassion they took into camp an old sailor, Samuel Ruth, who was badly crippled. Mr. Turn edge was sick a greater por tion of the time, and it de volved upon Mr. Collins, then a mere boy, to shoulder his gun and wade through the ice and water in the sloughs and streams, often waist deep, in order to reach good hunting ground on the shore and secure game in sufficient quantities to meet the necessities of himself and his unfortunate companions. "In the spring of 1847 his father settled In the northern part of Polk county. He worked hard every day, helping to build their rude but not comfortable home. Being too poor to procure lamp oil or candles, he pursued his studies at night by the pitch wood fire in the fireplace. S "After a few years, when the family could get along without his assistance he was permitted to attend the Institute (now Willamette "University), where, by working hard at whatever his hands could find to do mornings, evenings and Saturdays, he made his way through a few terms of that school, then under the management of Prof. F. S. Hoyt and his excellent wife. "While at Salem he read law for a time under the instructions of a Hon. B. F. Harding and Hon. L. F. Grover. (Harding be came secretary of state and Gro ver governor and United States senator.) S S m "In 1853 Mr. Collins went to California, where he made and lost a considerable fortune In mining." (Continuing on Tuesday.) "US ADD BITS Oregonian editorial of yester day on the Nips, or Jips, or Japs, is severe, very severe, though wonderfully well written as usual. Perhaps the writer would like to know that Harry Miller, builder of bridges, president of Oregon State College, outstand ing American, after he had served as U. S. Ambassador to Japan, told this columnist that the business classes of Japan are ALL dishonest; that they think it is silly to not be slick in tricks. And that the business class of China Is honest, as a rule. Radio Programs KSLtf SUNDAY 1334. Ke. S:00 JLanfworth ttmla Trio. Goapvt aintdmL 08 J3mui HwBin's Cffchotra. 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NBC " 9 AO Star Spangled Vaudevtlli. . 30 On MaiWs family. KBC AO Manhattan Merry-CrO-Raend. 30 American Album . Familiar MusK-. KBC -" 7 AO Hour of Charm. NBC Radio Programs Continued Chapter 17 Continued And so on. What had happen ed, clearly, was that Truslove, having lost his battle with the doctors, had talked the family into an equity settlement - each of them agreeing to sacrifice a seventh part of his or her be quest in order that Charles should acquire an equal share. Dressed up in legal jargon, and with a good deal of smooth talk about "justice and "common, : fairness," the matter took ten minutes to enunciate, during which time Charles sat back , in his chair, glancing first at on face and then at another, feeling that nothing could have been less enthusiastic than (except for Chefs and Bridget's) their occasional smiles of approval. Chet was expansive, like San ta Claus basking In an expect ed popularity; Bridget was sweet and ready with a smile, as always. But the others were grimly resigned to doing their duty in the most trying possible circumstances each of them ayipg goodbye to forty thou sand pounds with a glassy de termination and a stiff upper lip. They were like boys at a good English school curbing their natural inclinations In fav or of what had been successfully represented to them as "the thing to da" Truslove must have given them a headmaster -ly pijaw, explaining just where their duty lay and how Inevit ably they must make up their minds to perform it; Chet had probably backed him up out of sheer grandiloquence "Drat ft all, we must, give the fellow a square deal;" begun under such auspices the campaign could not have failed. But when Charles looked at George, and Julia, and Jill, and Julian, and Lydia, be knew they were all desperately compelling them selves to swallow something un pleasant and get it over; which gave him a key to the mood in which be felt most of them re garded him; he was just a piece of bad luck, like the income tax or a horse that comes in last. Suddenly he found himself on his feet and addressing them; it was almost as if he heard his own voice, spoken by another person. "I'm sure I thank you all very much, and you too, Truslove. The proposal you've outlined is extremely generous too generous, in fact rm a person of simple tastes I need very little to live comfortably on in fact the small inccsne I already have is ample. So Vm afraid I can't accept your offer, though I do once again thank you for making it He looked round their faces again, noting the sudden amaze ment and relief in the eyes of some of them especially Chefs wife, Lydia. dearly they had never contemplated the possi bility of his refusing. That be gan to amuse him, and then he wondered whether his refusal had not been partly motivated by a curiosity to see how they would take it. He really hadnt any definite inclination, either' to have the money or not; but his lack of desire for it himself was certainly not balanced by any particular wish that they should be enriched. Truslove and Chetwynd were on their feet with an instant chorus of objections. Truslove's were doubtless sincere after all, he had nothing to lose. But Chet was it possible that his. protests were waging sham war against an imperceptible hope that had dawned on him, a hope , quite shamelessly reflected in the eyes of his wife? "Was he seeking to employ just a feath erweight too little persuasion to succeed? Charles did not be lieve that Chet would have at tempted this balancing act If left to himself, but there- was Lydia by bos side, and be undoubtedly afraid of her. Nev ertheless he kept up the pro testing, and Chm-les kept up the refusal; the whole fazoily then began to argne about it, with more vehement generosity bow that they felt the issue was al ready decided; but they made the mistake of faeping it up too long, for Charles suddenly grew tired and rT.laimefc AI1 right. then. If you all insist, JH agree to take it" Truslove beamed on what he :. imagined his' own victory; Chet, after a second's hesitation, came across the room ; and shook Charles by the hand, "Fine, old chap. . . Now we're all set and Truslove can do the rest But the others could . only stare in renewed astonishment as they , forced deadly smiles Into , the supervening , silence. ; . : There were papers they all had to sign; then Charles "es caped upstairs. " His room was the one he had slept in as a boy, though It hid since- been refurnished more opulently; it expanded at one "corner Into a sort of turret, windowed for three-fourths of the circle, and from this viewpoint the vista of gardens and skyline was beau tiful even towards dusk on a . . . A , . . rrnv nav n was siannsr be 11 when Kitty entered. "Oh, Uncle Charles, I must snow you this it's In today's Times. ..." She held out the paper, folded at the column of obituary appre ciations. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The item which Kitty pointed to ended as follows: - "A lifelong lndividualits, there was never any wavering in his political and economic outlook, while his contributions to the cause of Free Trade, both finan cially and by utterance, were continual and ungrudging. A man whose character more ease ly won him the respect of his" foes than the applause of the multitude, he rightly concentrat ed on an industrial rather than a political career, and though his representation of West Lytham shire in the Conservative inter est had been in the strictest sense uneventful, his influence behind the political scene was never entirely . withdrawn, nor . did bis advice go long unsought" "Uncle Charles, what does it mean?" . "Its just something that somebody's written." "But I can't understand it at least, I can understand some of the words, but they dont seem to mean anything. It's about him, in't it?" He answered then, forgetting whom he was addressing: "It's a charming letter about my father from a man who probably knew him slightly and disliked him Intensely." "Why did he dislike him?" He tried to undo the remark. "Stupid of me to say that may be he didn't dislike at all. . . . Run along haven't you had tea?" When he had been her age there had been a schoolroom high "tea, with Miss ' Ponsonby dispensing bread and jam cakes. "They're serving it now on the terrace. Aren't you coming down?" Self-possessed little thing; not quite spoilt yet "IH probably miss tea today." "Dent you feel well?" "Oh, I'm alright" "Did it upset you going to the funeral?" Funerals are always rather upsetting." She stffl stood by, as if she wanted to be friendly. Suddenly she said: "Julian's very funny, isnt he?" "Yes he's quite the humorist of the family." ""He's going back to Cannes to night" . ' r "Oh, is he?" "Do you mind if I smoke cigarette?" "A cigarette? Well "V "I do smoke you know most of the girls at Kirby do as soon as they get Into the sixth," She had taken a cigarette, out of her bag and was already lighting It "You don't mind doyou?" Not particularly." I knew you wouldn't. You was dont give , a hoot about any- ttmg," ... j Do they also say lioot' In the sixth?" ! 43afs what mother said to uncle Chet about you."" law, . . Well . . ." ;; But IW got to stay here now till I finish , , . Dont you think Sheldon's rather marvel- OA Page 9 EclitoricI :a m morris NOT ALL IS GOLD , J Salem has received, with much A.TM1 . t IV.fc I. wuiucuw, nuuiiciuun uiai it has been included with Albany, Corvallis, Independence and Monmouth within the Camp Adair "critical defense area." Such designation is presumed to unfreeze building materials and open the way for construc tion of homes to accommodate defense workers. . We congratulate the capital city upon its good fortune, and welcome her with extended arms into the fold, but warn that the grapes really VtTrTot as tweet as they appear to be. ? v Albany and Corvallis have been Included .within the same critical defense area for many months, and both towns have suQered dire need of additional housing, tiut thus far the bene fits have been extremely limit ed. We have found that to get a priority is one thing but that to get the goods is another. , '; . ' It is to be hoped thtd Salem has better luck at breaking the ice than we have. Then perhaps we can all jump in. Albany Democrat-Herald. : "Not eedy rather, but quite." "X think he's the one who real ly ought t write a book abce Oranrrtathcr.- . , , -; "Not toad Idea Why dont yoa tell him?" l ; "I did, but he only smiled. He's so nice to everybody. Isn't he. 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