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Thm CCZGOII STATCSMAIL Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning August 2. 1312
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'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
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(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
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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."
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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"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.
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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-
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J Salem has received, with much
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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.
We had a wonderful Christmas
party' here last year, before
Grand father: was ill we had
charades and one of them was
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