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Tbs OrTGCn STATCXAIZ. Salem' Oracjon. W!aMdar Morning, August S. IMJ
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. President
Member of The Associated Press
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use far publication of all
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited 'In this newspaper.
Help! Help Wauled!
Ten columns and more of "help wanted" ads
appeared in Oregon's premier classified adver
tising section last Sunday. This was the first
time in twelve years, to the best of our knowl
edge, that this classification required more than
a page. Nine years ago it had dwindled to two
columns, sometimes even less and the average
man seeking work wasted his time if he read its
contents. The job that sought the man was an
unusual job requiring rare skill or experience.
At no time since the '20'$ until just recently
... has the "help wanted" column's length been
a real criterion of the labor demand. Back
there in depression times the column, short as it
was, exaggerated the availability of jobs;
- whereas for some months afterthe pendulum
swung the other way, the column did not ex
pand proportionately, for much of the hiring
was done through the federal employment ser
vice or the unions. Most of the" ads early this
year were "marginal" calls for help, in one way
or another outside the normal routine. The
quite recent comeback of the "help wanted" ads
heralds a revolutionary breakdown in the labor
supply.
Mayor Elisha Large of Eugene has proposed
a conference of city, county and school district
executives for the purpose of studying their
particularly painful employment problem. This
primarily at least to the heads ofjocal govern-
. ment is a problem involving low salary scales
"frozen" by budget limitations. Recently-prepared
budgets called for increases but these
could not be sufficient to halt the exodus of
public employes to war work. Fire departments
in the Willamette valley have perhaps suffered
most,' men leaving to take better-paid work of
the same nature at Camp Adair.
It appears that Mayor Large's proposal con
templates an effort to obtain for "emergency"
use some share in the state income tax surplus,
in" line with the League of Oregon Cities appeal.
Coming up in just this shape, the appeal seems
inescapably to involve some distribution of tax
funds in disregard of the 6 per cent limitation
a solution both dangerous and unconstitutionaL
Any such movement deserves to be resisted.
V Yet the "help" problem persists, both for
governmental units and for private employers
who seek to continue supplying essential ser
vices which are not directly related to the war
, effort. People have to eat; yet farmers, dairy
men and food processers are not assured of the
' necessary . labor. Essential transportation and
communications services are in the same boat.
There are many jobs which can be filled by
women on the other hand there are many jobs
which women might fill but which involve
- skills not possessed by any available women
workers.
It is possible that some formula for relieving
the "help wanted" situation might be worked
out in conferences covering greater or lesser
areas, not limited to the issue of public em
ployment. Since the crisis is common to all
localities, it can be approached on a nationwide
icale. As a matter of fact we have on our desk
, a bulletin from the department of commerce,
outlining procedure for holding local "wartime?
business clinics" to consider t o d a y's special
problems including labor shortage. Through
such a clinic, something constructive might be
accomplished. "
Imperfectly, after a fashion, we solved th
unemployment problem of the '30s. There ought
to be a solution for the employment problem.
What we need is an APW the reverse of WPA.
Crisis This Month?
The experts, whose batting averages on fu
ture events, if they could be ascertained, might
be as high as that of the man in the street but
no higher, now are saying that the war may be
won or lost this month. If they are right, it goes
without saying that it will be won .or lost in
southern Russia. Incidentally the experts were
right when, for weeks prior to the opening of
this summer offensive, they agreed that the
; Caucasus was the key to this year's war riddle.
In being more explicit about the experts, it
may be said that .though inexpert hindsight
often proves them to have been wrong, at the
time of prediction they almost invariably seem
to make sense. Their forecasts have all the ear
r marks of reasonableness. That may be the
trouble.1 Often enough a brilliant, unreasonable
hunch will turn out better.
Trying even in our inexpert way to be rea
sonable, it strikes us that there cannot fail to
be a crisis, of a sort, this month. If the nazis
; don't strike Oil and knock Timoshenko for a loop
before September 1, that will prove reason
suggests that they won't be able to do it in
the remaining few weeks before winter sets in.
And if you object that the Caucasus is "away
down south" where winter doesn't set in so
early, take another look at the map and dis
cover that Maikop, nearest oil to the nazis now,
is in almost exactly the same latitude as Salem,
Oregon. And due to the Caucasus weather
; brake, more effective than the Caucasus, the
: steppes -north of the Caucasus have a climate
decidedly more severe than that of eastern
Oregon.
( That this month will see a crisis, therefore
; makes sense. But note that we said a crisis, not
necessarily the all-decisive crisis. It makes
sense to say that if the nazis don't get there this
year, they axe eternally licked but no one can
prove it But it doesn't make sense to say the
United Nations are licked if the nazis win this
battle and their immediate objective; or even if
. the virtually unbelievable happens and Russia
is knocked clear out of the war. -
Now for a hunch but we don't claim it's a
brilliant one. Our hunch is that the nazis won't
win anything important in this campaign. May
be some oil, not enough to be a decisive factor;
and they won't knock out Timoshenko. .
Norwegians all over the world celebrated on
August 3, the seventieth birthday of King
"No Favor Sway Us; No Fear Shalt Aw f
From First Statesman, March 28, 1831
(Distribution
duct ton in who'.t
Paul MiIIob
Haakon VII. Due to rather peculiar circum
stances, this is an instance in which royalty is a
symbol both of democracy and of national in
dependence. King Haakon actually was elected
-in a plebiscite in which his opponent was the
idea of a republic without a monarch. This
occurred in 1905 when Haakon was Prince Carl
of Denmark, and it followed immediately the .
separation of Norway from Sweden by action
of the Norwegian Storting. Just now Haakon
is a king without throne and without nation
to rule but his people honor him just the
same.
The navy's feminine auxiliary is to be known
as WAVES. Corvallis Gazette-Times opines the
single girls in the outfit will be seeking to
change the "A" to "I." We have confidence
their deportment will be such that no one
will be tempted to ask, with the poet, "What
are the wild WAVESusaying?" 1
It was disconcerting enough to have a man
named Kaiser tell us how to defeat the U
boat menace, but now it appears that in order
to put his idea to work, someone will have to
introduce in congress a "Kaiser Bill."
News Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLON
by Kins Features Syndicate. Inc. He pro-
or in- part strictly prohibited.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4-Mr. Russell Davenport,
Editorial Offices, Life Magazine, New York City.
Dear Mr. Davenport:
You asked me, and some other Washington cor
respondents, to express an
opinion on the progress of the
US war effort, and to suggest
concrete steps to improve it
The question, as you put it,
is:
"If you were president, what
would you do, immediately, to ,
improve the war effort and
make more certain of victory?"
Let's get it straight at the
start that what I would do
must not be construed as level
ing charges at Mr. Roosevelt
and the government.
Perhaps we were so com
pletely unprepared, before we were plunged into
this war, that it would have been physically im
possible for us to accomplish much more than we
have.
No one has proved our government has not in
general done a good job. Only the government
ItselL can know all the facts, because it censors
the results of its efforts. The situation is that we
are impatient because we cannot see better results.
But I do not mind telling you what I would do:
I would switch this country from the defensive,
the "wait-awhile" attitude, into an aggressive of
fensive fighting spirit at once. I would start doing
this by selecting only strong and aggressive per
sonalities for every phase of government activity,
civilian as well as military. I would shake all
others out ". 1
I would choose men impatient to get at the
enemy, men who think courageous and daring
thfngs can be accomplished; not foolhardy dare
devils, but thorough, cool men of scientific action
the type of Doolittle, Admiral Byrd, yes and even
Lindbergh, if I could find anything for him better
to do than advising Henry Ford.
I would bring the army and navy up on their
toes and keep them there by entirely dissipating
the old school tie atmosphere of easy camaraderie,
indecision and compromise.
I would get the most imaginative military minds
together and ask them for their individual plans
of attack not a compromise reached by the general
staff. I would back the plans which had the ele
ment of daring and a corresponding change of
success.
I might decide, for instance, that two spots were
the places to hit the Aleutians in the Pacific for
invasion of Japan and the Norm African con
' tinent for invasion of Europe through Italy.
I would in that case call In forces from every
other spot and throw everything I had into these
two. And I would get a man to lead those attacks
who was enthusiastic and confident that they would
win.
I would not care whether Argentina liked me, or
Britain or Russia. I would stop diplomacy, and
go out to win the war. I would fire any official
who speaks of post-war problems, and would put
my thinkers to the single job of generating new
ideas as to how to win first.
I would employ a group of my 'own technical
experts on weapons and satisfy myself that the
army and navy are providing the best possible, "y
I would send Representative Lyndon Johnson
over to the air corps with bis charges that many
of our planes were inefficient in the Pacific and I
would insist on getting the matter threshed out
at once.
I would put fight into civilian activity by every
means I could command, including bands and
bunting. I would take every coast-wise ship away
from Sugar trade and bananas, and use these ships
in aggressive war action to support an attack. I
would expect toe people to go entirely without
sugar if it was necessary.
But I would make speeches to them regularly
and take them into my confidence on my problems
and on what I expected from them. I would con
sider them my willing aides, but I would appeal
to them in a democratic way, rather than pursue
the Hitler tactics of regimentation.
I would practice democracy to the fullest possible
extent I would expect patriotic cooperation on a
voluntary basis and take nothing else. I would let
citizens themselves make Sunday drives or wasters
at the dining table or in business life, very un
popular. . I would cut down or out all these cards for
rationing and get more conservation by democratic
enthusiasm. X would choose a man to handle the
rubber and gas situations who believes rubber
tires and gas can be produced.
. I would not countenance negative leadership
anywhere in my government I would have frozen
prices and wages six months ago.
In short, I would get tough. I would put some
fight into this thing everywhere by active stimula
tion and assertive democratic leadership. I would
get off the defensive. In Washington, in the country,
on the high seas, everywhere, and stay that way.
-Yours sincerely,
PAUL 1IALLON. .
High Explosive!
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Bits for Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
An Oregon pioneer 8-5-42
boy; a truly terrible
day and night endured
near the site of Eugene:
(Continuing from yesterday:)
"In 1869 he (J. L. Collins) was
appointed judge of Polk county
by Governor George L. Woods,
to fill a vacancy caused by the
appointment of Judge W. C.
Whitson to the bench in Idaho.
"Judge Collins filled this of
fice with such distinguished
ability, fairness and justice that
not a murmur of disapprobation
was ever heard against him,
even from his political oppon
ents. He has held the office of
the United States Circuit Court
for nearly twenty years.
m
"From the beginning of his le
gal practice his career has been
marked with success. He Is still
engaged in his profession at Dal
las, having a large and lucra
tive practice and enjoying the
confidence and esteem of all who
know him. He and his wife and
five of the children are members
of the Methodist church.
"Politically, Judge Collins is
opposed to free trade and slave
labor,' and believes in such a
system of protective duties as
will encourage American manu
facturers, furnish profitable em
ployment for poor laborers, and
build up a home market for the
benefit of small farmers. He is a
Republlcan."-
"a
So ends the biographical mat
ter concerning J. L. Collins in
the "Illustrated History of the
State of Oregon."
The "Portrait and Biographi
cal Record of the Willamette
Valley, Oregon," by the Chap
man Publishing Co., 1903, has a
more lengthy biographical
sketch of "Hon. J. L. Collins,"
beginning at page 1128, a few
excerpts from which will follow,
quoting:
"Prominent among the repre
sentative men of Polk county is
Hon. J. L. Collins, known not
alone as one whose name was
among the first to be identified
with the American settlements
of Oregon, but rather for his In
timate relations with the per
manent history of our common
wealth. "Beginning in pioneer days, in
the midst of undeveloped re
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sources and a rude civilization,
he gave himself wholly to the
western cause, faithful in the
pursuit of duty, whether in
camp or field, as, a soldier In the
defense of the settlers or as a
citizen in the material upbuild
ing of the country; through the
changes of time and progres
sion he has advanced his own
. interests and those of his adopt
ed state by lifting himself to a
position of exceptional promin
ence among the many who are
entitled to the esteem and admi
ration of the present generation.
V
"The interest which attaches
to the pioneers of Oregon is not
inspired by curiosity, but rather
by that affection which centers
about the lives and deeds of
those who blazed the trail for
the westward march of progress.
"Before touching upon the life
of Judge Collins we will give a
brief outline of the ancestry to
which he owes those character
istics which have enabled him
to become a power among many
hampering conditions.
"His maternal grandfather
was a descendant of Thomas
Wyatt, a man well known in the
history of England through his
opposition to the marriage of
Queen Mary to Philip of Spain,
and who was beheaded by her
orders for his particiption in the
rebellion which occurred about
1554. Sir Henry Wyatt the fa
ther of Thomas Wyatt, was a
member of the privy council of
Henry the Eighth. His maternal
grandmother, Elizabeth Sea, was
descended from the Duke of Ar
gyll, while his father's mother
was Jane Eddings, the represen
tative of an old Virginia family.
"Smith Collins, the father of
Judge Collins, was born in Or
ange county, Va., In 1804, the son
of George and the grandson of
William, both of whom were na
tives of the same location. The
latter ws n intimate friend of
General Washington and served
under him in the Revolutionary
vflr
"Smith Collins was a boy of
ten years when the British
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burned the city of Washington,
and he heard the cannonading
and saw the conflagration. . . .
His home remained in Virginia
for many years, and at the age
of 18 he learned the tanner's
trade at Port Republic, that
state Then he went to Fay-
etteville, N.C., where he worked
as a journeyman for a Mr.
Prince, and later removed to
Cher aw Hill, S.C., and became
foreman for H. G. Nelson. In
1827 he located in Missouri,
where his father had previously
settled. ... He brought with him
a little mare for which he was
offered 40 acres of land now in
the heart of the city of St. Louis,
which was then only a little
French village. . . . When the
Collins family left the state, 19
years later, St Louis had be
come an important city. . . .
"On his arrival in Missouri,
Mr. Collins became superinten
dent of the Stevenson tannery in
St. Charles county. ... In 1829
he opened a tanyard and shop
near his father's home on Bar
racks creek. He married the
same year. Later he established
a tannery and operated it in
connection with farming. In 1846
he outfitted for the trip across
the plains. ... One week was
consumed in passing through the
Umpqua canyon, a distance of 12
miles." . . .
(Continued tomorrow.)
ADD BITS
It is most fortunate it as now
seems certain, the people of the
United States, including their
federal officials, will cease list
ening to the Various croakers
and smart Alecks who have been
trying to get the ear of the gen
eral public to sway opinion
against the idea of Kaiser, the
world's swiftest -:ship builder,
who now proposes to build air
ships big enough to haul men
and supplies over the oceans to
wipe up the forces of Hitler and
the Nips and other international
assassins and robbers. The gen
eral bunch of "it can't be done"
ginks do as great harm as the
outright enemies of order and
honesty. Ttaus mit 'em!' To the
hot place with them!
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By JAMES HILTON
Chapter If (Contlaaed)
Still, Fd rather you sell. Fm
not interested la speculation and
share movements. I really mean
what I say, so don't wait for me
to change my mind."
"Of course If you give me di
rect instructions, I can't refuse. .
But you realize that. In addition
to any question of capital value,
the Income from government
stocks will be very much less?"
"I don't mind that, either. ITl
probably live very, well on a?
fraction of it. Matter of fact,
you might as well Imow my
plans. I'm going to Cambridge."
Cambridge?" v
I was going to go there, you
know, when war broke out Fd
really taken the entrance exam
ination. Not a bad idea to go on
where you left off, especially If
you cant think of anything else
to do."
His rooms at St Swithin's ov
erlooked the river and the Backs,
and from the first January day
when he settled in, he felt peace
surrounding him. It was not that
he himself was at peace often
the contrary; but he always felt
the rooms and the college "weigh
ing with him, as it were, in the
silent pressures of his mind. His
rooms were rather austerely
furnished when he took posses
sion; he made them less so by
books, pictures, and a couple of ,
easy chairs, yet they still re
mained as Herring, his gyp, re
marked a reading gentleman's
rooms. After half a century of
experience as a college servant,
Herring counted himself ' fortu
nate whenever a newcomer to
his staircase entered that cate
gory. Charles had visited Cam
bridge for a week during his
last term at Netherton; he had
then put up in back-street lodg
ings while taking the Littlego,
which had left him no time to
make acquaintances or get much
impression of the place except
that he thought he was going to
like it He was glad Of this now,
for it meant that no one remem
bered him and that his past life
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Letters from Statesman
Readers
YOU WONT DARK PRINT
THIS
To the Editor: I noticed in
today's (July 31) editorial "Rail
Crossing Stops" you take a very
peculiar attitude.
You say "Conceding that rail
way companies have been less
than lily white should we for
that reason refrain from precau
tionary action now?" Certainly
not but why not precautionary
action by the RR also?
We can guess what the RR
will do in the future pretty well
by what they have done in the
past Is this record such mat
we need not protect ourselves?
Let us suppose that at one of
the "Stop" crossings there is an
accident and someone Is killed.
No visible or audible sign from
the train and burden of proof is,
on the victim His relatives had
better forget it.
If the RR wants the public to
stop is it unreasonable that they
should at least put in wig-wags?
Time wasted by the public in
"Stops" in a year would equal
the cost of the wig-wags.
Sometimes stopping would
only add to our hazard. But the
law would probably clear the RR
of any responsibility. That's
what they want The RR hire
the best attorneys they can get
Fortunately for us not the best
attorneys for some refuse to do
the RR dirty work. And dont
get me wrong I know whereof
I speak. When you say my letter
printed July 12 "scarcely needs
an answer" it only means, that
you are unable to answer it
but dont apologize the RR at
torneys are in the same fix and
they probably receive more from
the RR than you da Do you ad
vocate taking away the rights of
the people without anything
whatever in return.
Of course you wont dare print
this but I just want you to know
that some of the public knows
what it is all about anyway.
D. A, FISH.
i
Seized by FBI
fa ;
ju
J
Mime de Gsbnua, FClpine, dis
honorably discharged from both
the US nary and coast guard,
who was arrested for draft
. evasion and held as ene ef the
alleged organizers of a Jap-sponsored
fifth eolnma la the United
States.
was neither known nor inquired
about To be" a younger son' of
a rich Industrialist counted for
nothing among dons and fel
low undergraduates; that he had
served In the war merely placed
him among the vast majority;
and that he made few friends
and liked to be left alone was,
after all, the not unusual char
acteristic of reading gentlemen.
He told his Senior Tutor, a
- harassed little man named
Bragg, that he would like to take
history; and a further interview
rwith Werneth, the history don,
decided him to try for the tri
pos instead ot an ordinary de
gree. So he acquired the neces
sary books, began to attend rec
ommended lectures, i and dined
in Hall for the required nights
each week which, is about all a
Cambridge life need consist of
structurally, until the scaffold
ing is removed later and one
sees how much else there must
have been.
Sheldon sent him news from
Stourton fairly often, generally
to aay there wasn't any news.
Still reading, however, between
the lines, Charles gathered that
Chet and Lydia were failing to
evolve a well-controlled house
hold, and that Sheldon was less
comfortable than in the earlier
days of despotism.
Chapter 19
Truslove wrote, reporting
propress in his own sphere;
transfers of property took time,
and it was March before the
lawyer could notify him that he -no
longer possessed' any finan
cial interest in the Rainier en
terprises. The shares had been
sold for 70 shillings (fifteen
more than the-price at Christ
mas), and the purchaser had
been none other than Chetwynd,
who had apparently been glad
to add to his own already large
holding. Truslove added that he
regarded the price as satisfac
tory, though he still thought the
sale unwise In view of a prob
ably much higher price even
tually. ;
Charles wrote back that he
was perfectly satisfied, and that
if his "unwise" action had been
the means of obliging Chet so
much the better. Just about then
came the Easter vacation; he did
not visit Stourton or see any of
the family, but spent the three
weeks in an unplanned trip
around northern France, visit
ing Chartres, Lisieux, Caen and
Rouen. Returning ta London the
day before the Cambridge sum
mer term began, he bought an
evening paper at Victoria Sta
tion and glanced through what
had come to be the almost usual
news of famine and revolution
somewhere or other on the Con
tinent; not till late at night in
his hotel room, did he happen to
notice a headline oni the finan
cial pgae "Rainier's Still Soari.
Ing: Reported Terms of Bonus."
He read that the shares had
topped five pounds and that
there was talk of an issue of new
stock to existing shareholders in
the proportion of two for one.
It wasn't all very clear to Mm,
for he never studied the finan
cial columns and did not under
stand their jargon; but he re
alized that from the point of
view of immediate profit Trus
love and Chet had been right
and he himself wrong; which
didn't trouble him at all. He
was almost glad for his own
sake, as well as Chefs for ho
would have had no use for the
extra money, whereas Chet en
joyed both spending and tho
chance to say "I told you so, old
chap." In fact he-felt so entire
ly unregretful about what had
happened that he sent both Chet
and Truslove short notes of con
gratulation. , (To be continued.)
Today's Gordon
By LILLIE L. MADSEN
B. F. asks when peonies should
be planted.
Answer; September is said to
be the only reel peony planting
month. Order those you wish
early so the grower can send
them to you for early September
planting.
L. M. asks when to plant Ori
ental poppies.
Answer: August Is the correct
month to plant the poppies.
There are many new lovely va
rieties in the .salmon pinks. Try
some of these for autumn plant
ing. M. Lf R. asks if he can use
Italian rye grass in his lawn.
Says he has been told that It
grows rapidly and will remain
green all winter. He came hero
recently from Minnesota.
I understand that In some
places the Italian rye grass Is
used for a winter lawn. It comes
-up very quickly, stands clipping
well, and is not injured by
frosts. Also it is an annual grass
and will, if not permitted to go
to seed, disappear when the
regular grass comes through.
However, in this section we
usually plant 1 our permanent
lawns at once. The first ' two
weeks in September and the first
week in April are reported as
the best two grass planting per
iods here. There are a number of
varieties of grass which do well '
- here, although the Bents and
Chewings Fescue are most com
monly used. Onrof the mixtures
now ; most highly recommended
by , lawn experts Is 75 percent
blue grass and 25 per cent red
top at the rate of one pound to
350 feet This will give you t
very green lawn.