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PAG2C2 The CILEGCII STATHIAII. Cdsxa Crecon, Tuesday JZotrZn, TeSniary V, 111 By ANNE ROWE THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. ; CHABT.KS A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member of The Associated Press v : - The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. YTinning the War ' l America is all out for winning the war at a profit. " " ' 5 " , i The hard coal miners want an increase of $2 a day; the bean growers want an increase; of $40 a ton. The milk producers want an increase to $1.00 a pound butterfat. Business wants con tracts with wide profit margins. ! We sure want to win the war at time and a fialf or twenty per cent profit. j Leland Stowe was correct in his article ; in Sunday's Oregonian when he said what we . lacked was not manpower but willpower. Fresh back from Russia where he saw people working a 72-hour week and actually winning the war, he was pretty much disgusted with the Ameri . can attitude. . .'' '; . . . Do we get a questionnaire that's a bit 'com plicated? We grouse. Do we have our fuel oil supplies curtailed? We complain. Do we ha ve to jump through the hoop of extra regulations? We gripe. We want to win the war. Yes, but Sit no personal inconvenience. f There's no use talking. Americans are soft. They accept war as a fact a fact several thousand miles away. Now that the Jap threat Is pushed back across the Pacific the war seems far away. Well lose some lives of course; but lives of other people who lived in Mattoon, Il linois, or Corinth, Mississippi, or Superior, .Ne braska. And we, we can go on cashing in on high wages, high prices, big profits. Our sacri fice, aside from those who have actually entered the service and their immediate families, con sists in sharing part of our increased incomes with the government in the form of taxes, or in war bonds at 2.9 per cent interest (that beats savings account interest.) ! Yes, we are for winning the war, and cussing the government at the same time. ! We are over our first mad; perhaps we should be scared to make us fight to win. Floor and Ceiling Employers who are sponsoring a bill to elimi nate the penalty rates for. unemployment com pensation have a point which, in our opinion they have not fully exploited, and for which their remedy is hardly correct. They fear that on the suspension of activity in war industries the fund would be depleted so rapidly that some employers would be hit by penalty rates right at a time when they would not be able to bear: them. Depletion of the fund is a natural ex pectancy. It is being allowed to accrue for just that purpose; to afford a cushion of income to workers as they are .shifted from war to peace time employment. The; pinch comes because floor and ceiling are tied to maximum payrolls. That is not un - sound in normal times; it may be in abnormal times like the Dresent. For example: the, highest benefits paid in one pre-war year amounted to around $6,000, 000. Suppose we say that for normal times our fund should amount to twice that sum of $12, 000,000. Right now our fund is growing fast, standing at around $26,000,000. It may go to $50,000,000 before the boom ends. When that time comes the depletion should start to get back to the suggested normal of $12,000,000. This depletion would merely represent the meeting of the abnormal liability caused by the war boom. There should be no worry as the fund drops to $12,000,000, and no alarm until it goes below $6)00,000. But it is conceivable that penalty rates might go into effect when the fund reached some in termediate figure, like $20,000,000, when em ployers in the penalty group would have to contribute, even though the fund was adequate and even though the additional sums exacted from them would not be required. This is the point which interested parties and the legislative committees might well consider. Would it be advisable to establish a fixed floor and ceiling of say $6,000,000 and $12,000,000? In this way the accumulation (and the liability) created by wartime industry and prosperity f would be taken care of without injuring the permanent industries which will continue to be the backbone of Oregon industry after the war is over. Congress Soft Too ' Z This congress has started out being tough on the bureaucrats, which is okay; but being soft on Joe Doakes, John Doe and Richard Roe. Congress wants to win the war the easy way. There is disposition to lighten the burden' of the 1942 tax laws in spite of the demand of the president and treasury for $16,000,000,000 ' more of Income. . . Congress is hunting for a way to run selective service itself by determining the times of call for single and married men, when the job can be done much better by the local boards who know local people and local situations. .Ki To date the congress has shown more in clination to play 1W4 politics than to win the war in 1943. I t The Statesman has lost a. good linotyper, but the Jefferson Review gets a good-editor, printer, and columnist (omitting the printer's ! devil) when Gladys A. Shields left to go back i to the Jefferson paper which she will run while husband Les continues work in defense industry : in Portland. Good luck, Gladys; may the sub scribers pay up promptly and the ; merchants advertise. And please don't ration your Coffee Cup Clatter."' That's our valentine to you. ixaiurauy we are glad to see that Gov. Shell In his special message virtually endorses the tax program recommended by The Statesman. -We understand the taxation committee had about reached -. the same- conclusion; The houses can : now ratify the program and adjourn. j "f : -Z r ' ! i-. f Germans are facing a terrible clothing short-1 age due to lack of wool and cotton. They will ' soon be down to their -bare skins' while the . Hursians get into their bear skins. - "No Favor Sways Us; Ho Fear Shall Ato From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 The . country about as much News The News By PAUL MALLON Fael Malloa tied with a rope for so long that if WPB in creases repair: allotments, it still will not be ef ficient. Live stock and poultry production cannot easily be increased because feeding standards have neces sarily diminished. Feed companies cannot get enough oil meals and better high production feeds. Then again, there is the old problem of farmers gas rationing which needs to be corrected. With butcher and grocery shops here covering over their icebox windows with black cloth, and their shelves empty of most meats and canned vegetables, It seems quite possible that the food" production shortage of 1943 will be appalling and, in 1944, may approach disaster. All the Food Czar Wickard has been doing about it so fas is to allocate $100,000,000 or so for govern ment purchase of vegetables at high prices to be resold at lower prices, the taxpayers to stand the loss for this method of increasing production. That this bonus method of production expansion will not serve its purpose is evident from the fact that it does not furnish the farmer with what his mail says he needs skilled help, equipment and gasoline. It Is increasingly evident to interested congress men that the government should have declared agriculture an essential war industry at the start and given the farmer the encouragement and lead ership that was given industry and labor for pro duction. Difficulty of getting Mexican labor for AmerU can farms is well illustrated by the inside story of what happened to block the move last fall. The farm bloc blamed the farm security administration, which, in turn, blamed the state department, which followed the usual course and blamed farm security for the original failure to negotiate a prompt agree- ment with the Mexican government L : . After some weeks of such bouncing of the ball back and forth, farm security, sent a delegation to i Mexico City to write up a contract The delegation at one time is supposed, to have reached the ' colossal strength of 47 able-bodied American ne gotiators. - They found the Mexican government wanted its workers to have an eight-hour day, compensation above usual farm rates, modern sanitary facilities, etc Mexico intended to impose the maximum hour provisions right back at us. But a limited solution of some nature seemed likely to be fulfilled until it developed .that the laborers solicited for American farm work were largely taxi-drivers and bar-flies from the Mexican streets and bars. Mexico had no real farm labor " In quanity which it was willing to spare. Democratic House Leader McCtonnicW looked dolefully at the approved resolution of the rules committee allowing congressional investigation of the orders of any bureau, and even, theoretically, the president to see if they are legal and said: 1 am not the leader of mis house.' TroJyi the southern democrats and republicans have assumed leadership in all that has been done " 8ession (Virginia's Rep. Howard Smith was behind the rules committee action.) The new ' congressmen and, apparently, many of the ..old, have rthe conviction, as one amid: - ' - "Thepeople sent us down here to do a job on the bmucrats, and we are going to do It Action along that line will accelerate from now wvidtgh there is remarkably little that the . correctionists can accomplish in one swoop. Mr. . fT? te eondurt " The field for correctionists' operations, therefore. -Is somewhat restricted to piecemeal negative action! Stabbing liquor Control . Bouse bill 312, which passed the lower house with scant debate last Saturday, stabs at the heart of liquor control in this state. For it would effectively destroy the "control the state liquor commission has over licensees. . At present if a licensee is apprehended violat ing the control laws and regulations the com mission, after hearing, can ' impose immediate penalties, usually by suspension or revocation of the license of the violator. This action is not taken summarily. The licensee is given notice and may appear or be represented by counsel. The commission acts judicially and judiciously. : The penalties they impose are not too severe. The proposed bill, by making a court appeal! operate to stay the hand of the commission, would encourage litigation, cripple the effec tiveness of the commission and encourage. law lessness and abuse. The secret of effective con-' trol lies in ability of the commission to suspend or revoke a license. That is the best form of discipline. The knowledge that that penalty may be invoked forces the licensee to watch his step. Cripple that control and liquor abuses will grow. It remains for the senate to defeat this meas ure, to defeat it in the interest of good public morals, to defeat it in the interest of the liquor trade itself, which after all exists only by public suffrance and once, it will be recalled,' this suffrance was withdrawn. needs a rationing of beefing, as the rationing of beeves. Behind WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 Masses of mail from farmers are accumulating on official desks here in such tone and volume to verify suspicions that food production will not come up to quotas -this year. The farm bloc is out of the news, silently at tempting to devise a workable farm help campaign in lieu of Mr. McNutt's proposal to mus- ter a civilian army of unskilled farm workers. The bloc is about talked out, especially on the subject of. prices, which are apparently not the root of the trouble this time. In addition to the obvious . farm manpower problem, the mail points out many other rea sons why the farmer cannot plant enough for the nation's needs. Farm machinery has been soldered, baling wired and Skinning Time! ' CadlDo Pirgirainnis KSUt-TCESDAT 13 Ke. T .-06 Newm. - T5 Rise 1i Shina. '" ' 7 30 News. T 5 Your Gospel Program. S AO Bert Hirsch Novelty Band. 8 30 News Brevities. 833 Tango Time. 9.-00 Pastor's Call. ' ' J.S Dickson's Melody Mustangs. 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Dick and Harry. 2 AO President's Press Conference. 2A5 Sheelah Carter. ; tas Texas Rangers. 1 243 News. . - ' ! . 2 AO Phillip Keyne-Gordon. Today oardon By LILLflE L. MADSZN Mrs. G. R.' C. asks for infor mation on thyme. She fails to state just what it Is she wants to know about It. p There are about 80 species, most . of them originally from -the Mediterranean area. Twd are widely grown f o r ornamental purposes as well as for their fragrant ; herbage. Thyme likes a very well drained situation and 'Considerable sun. In our coldest . winters here, we find that it . occasionally dies back, but most ' of the time it will live on year after year. It grows readily from seed and developes rapidly. . Mrs. M. S. O. asks how long. it takes for cyclamens j to bloom ; from seed.; v:"C i liXZ Answer: as a rule 18 months should be allowed for cyclamen seedlings to reach the blooming state. Cyclamens need plenty of water but wm rot If the drain- . age is not good. j ' J. J. P. writes that she recalls in her childhood home in Europe . something they called "scloni cum, which she describes as a small 'onion that was! used for 1 flavoring. She has asked for it here but has been enable U find It. She wants to know if ." there is some other name for Jt or if I know. . j . . --v Answer: I have no personal ncquai n tance with It, but my garden encyclopedia refers to it as a shallot. It is said to be considerably milder than onions. Taylor says - it Is -very similar to the onion and sometimes the "yoking onion bulbs are sold as shallots and sometimes shallots are sold for " young ; onions.? I -am unable to locate any seed, in my, catalcrjes. . 1 Chapter 11 (Continned) He had driven from our house straight to his office, where he" had arrived at five minutes past - . three the time could be verified by several people "and telephone calls and hadn't been alone all during the afternoon and early evening. He had been delayed at his office until half past six. an ' hour past his usual time, through pressing . work connected with the shipyard transfer to the gov ernment. Much to his daughter's annoyance, who had come ; for him between half past five and six, expecting to be taken home immediately. Amy had been :- marooned in town through some eccentricity- of her car, while on a trip . to her hairdresser's, 1 it aeemed. At half past six Forre stall and Amy had driven home ' the ForrestaHs lived on a glor- 7 Wed farm a few r miles - out of - town in the summer and spent . - the rest of the time with his family and a number of guests, whose names he readily .gave. Sc4inds fine. Sorry I bust up your bridge game for you after such a hard day. The Inspector got up and held out his hand. "Hope well find Roberts alibi, as good as yours, when we check up on him tomorrow. Goodnight Mr. ForrestalV and - thanks for v the co-operation. The dismissal was so sudden Forres tall looked positively stun ned as he bade Aunt Millie and me good night and stalked from the room, and I must confess the same sensation descended on me when the Inspector said plain tively to the closed door, a mo ment later: "Now why doesn't he come clean? s But but it sounded like the truth all. he said, I stammer ed, almost dropping my notes. "Sure it did. It was the truth. The Inspector smiled paternally at me. "Only, there was an aw ful lot he wasn't saying. j- "How do you know?" Aunt Millie inquired, with a rapid, glance at me. The Inspector chuckled. 1 I don't know how I know,' but I do. I can always spot a lie told in words or by keping still. Always, Miss - Wentworth! ' Then he changed the subject. "Got it all down. Miss Kay? Good girl! Think you can have it typed for me by morning? - : Chapter 15 Aunt Millie and I stared at each other open mouthed when the Inspector had left . "Now what do you think of him! Aunt -Millie said at last with something like awe. "Looks so meek and mild, you think it's no trick at all to bamboozle? the . woolly lamb and then tells you in so many words he knows you're holding out on him!' ; "But he doesn't know what we are holding out," I consoled her and myself. "And he won't, through me. Did you lose your lovely compact? "I did. In the garden. Near the spot where we cross the great divide," she nodded. Think For res tall Is keeping back the same . thing we are? Tm sure of it, I told her. "Maybe Forres tall knows that he you know who has done it," Aunt Millie reflected on our walk through the hall toward" the stairs. "Oh Lord! Then maybe hell advise him to come forward and confess, after what the Inspec tor said!" I worried. :T "Hen, now! Chin up! Don't' paint things with such a big black brush!" Aunt Millie scold ed. "Go see if you can get a few minutes with your Allan to cheer ' you up. Me, I'm all in. I'm going to bed." I took up her suggestion eager ly, but without success. When I peeked into the study. Dad was expounding sometbirrg to Allan at the blueprint-littered -drafting table, and we could only '-' communicate in pantomime Al lan expressing his regret and asking was I all right? And I ' telling him I was, and better -luck tomorrow. : 2:15 Wartime Women. 230 Hello Again. 245 Remember When. 4 AO Fulton Lewis, r. , 4 asJohnson Family. .430 News. 445 Don Reid Orch. 8 AO Little Show. 5 a5 Superman. 530 Norman Nesbitt. 5:45 Singing Sam. AO Gabriel Heatter. :15 Movie Parade. 30 Murder Clinic. 7 AO John B. Hushes. Tas Art Kassel Orchestra. T:45 TBA. . 8 AO Jack McLean Orchestra. 8 30 Pass in Review. A0 News. -0:15 Ernie Heckecher Orch as U a. 30 Manhatters. 45 Treasury Star Parade. ' 15 AO Noble Susel Orchestra. 10:15 Treasury star Parade. 1030 News. . . - -' ' 10:45 Al Trace Orchestra. 11 AO Jan -Garber Orchestra. 11 30 Snub Mosley Orchestra. 1145 Noble Sissel Orchestra. KOAC TCCSOAY 54 Ka. ' AO Music. MAO-Iews. 10:15 The Homemaker's Hour. 11 AO School of the Air. 1 1 30 Music of the Masters. 12 AO News. 12:15 Noon Farm Hour. 12:45 Neighborhood Leader Ques tion box. las Today a War Commentary. 1 30 Variety Time. 1 45 Victory Front. - , - I .ee AAUW Half Hour. 230 Memory Book of Musi. 2 AO News. r-.-.,. 2:15 Adventures In Research. ' 230 Tne Concert Hall. 4A Neighborhood CaO. : 4:15 Echoes o Waikikt. 430 Stories for Boys and Girls. ' SAO Private Pete Presents. 5:15 On the Cam puses. 30 Evening Vespers. -S4 OrientaUoa Lectures. i :15 News. - . 30 Evening Farm Hour. T 30 Music. : 745 BasketbalL 30 News. 45 Uncle Sam. 10 AO American Melodies. 10 30 Melod ic Son f. 11 AO The liour of Great Musi. - - - It was two o'clock before I finished my typing and dropped into bed, too tired to worry any more. But I couldn't have slept very soundly, for th esoft purr of a car roused me. A dim streak around the blinds announced it was dawn, and the luminous hands of my desk clock pointed to twenty of five, f Was that Allan leaving? Had he and Dad worked until now, prac - tically the night through? ' Still half asleep, I tumbled out of bed, went to the side win dow overlooking the garage, and lifted the edge of the blind. The sky. was a dull sheet of lead gray, . but the fog had cleared.. A strong . wind had sprung up and blown it away. The branches of the in ; tervening trees stood out sharply as a blark-lace screen, behind which I could see a car moving into the garage. Not out of it.' Gala' Burton was " returning from one of her night rides. " ' I dropped the blind and crawl ed back into bed. Strange her -habit of turning night into day. Such a damp, disagreeable night too. When she hadn't felt well yesterday, had been in bed at .uut "Oh, well, .it's none of my business," I thought drowsily be- "Wonder if someone's told - her about the murder?" ? - In spite, of turning in at such a late hour; I was downstairs at my usual time. j Nettie informed me that the Inspector had already been ask ing for me, and so I hastily bolt ed my breakfast, grabbed ' my : typing, and ran over to the Bur ton house, my heels sinking deeply into the sopping wet gravel. v The Inspector and Sergeant Flynn. were standing on the back porch, right before the win dow I had used, and that was open again. I didn't like It "Good, morning. Inspector. , Here are your depositions," I called to him. - "Good morning, Miss Kay. Nice of you to be so prompt Come here. I got something to show you," he called back. ; ; I obeyed with a sinking feel- ; ing in my middle. "Yes, Inspect tor?" I -asked, with a great show ' - of eager, if impersonal, curiosity. - He pointed to the porch floor.. "Footprints. High heels. Small size. Could be yours. Sure you didn't run up here by mistake, first, last night? "T frwanAWaVv Kemfljul nwetfu 1TI 4 , e ev ew va I Ve AWawC ff Uctk a fool 'I had been to feel safe, because someone had closed the window, when here, for all to read, the story of my. entrance r was written in wet garden earth! . "Why er no, I went straight , 1 to the door,"I lied with all the bravado I could muster. "Hmm. Must been another woman around then," the Inspec tor mused, his eyes glued to my feet "Funny part is, they only go to the window and don't come back. They wasn't a trace of mud in the passage either last night, until we tracked it up," he digressed, glancing at me ques tioningly. I willed myself to glance back . at him unflinchingly, the same way and won. the endurance .contest : -. "7 "Shows you're a mighty neat girL Scraped your feet, before" going in," he said, ducking his head and itnninff mmm suX "Well, do it again and come in." - I was meekly trotting behind him, toward the hal, when all of a sudden he stopped and turned. "You got me stumped," he an nounced with his most affable grin. "One minute I think you're okay, and the next I get leery of . you again. -j " . "Leery of me why?" I gasp-' ed. "Well, they's your story of that compact and them footprints on the porch. But the compact part is true. We found it" "You did!" I had no need to disguise ray emotions this time. My lovely compact was suataanw My Joy at knowing Aunt Millie's Invelv l'iYnifftrf aueaa ' . . genuine. "I'm so glad! Where was ItT" I asked happily. And then my face fell and the hand I had stretched out eager ly dropped to my side. I had nev er seen the small box the In spector held out to me: a flat, round gilt case of Chinese work manship, with, an embossed dra gon curling around its rim. "That isn't : my compart," I stammered disappointedly. "It ain't?" The Inspector look- . ed incredulous. "No. Mine is square. Black enamel with a jeweled tree. Real jewels. Smal lemeralds and ru bies and diamonds. I'd . admired it for; years, and my aunt gave it to me when she came." . i ' "That's the deuce of a note!" xne inspector scratched his head. "We found it in one of the small rooms off the rear passage. slipped back of a chair seat Now how'd it get there?" "I wouldn't know. I've never been in any of those rooms," I assured mm. "Hmm. Have to keep looking for yours then, he decided. "But first, come upstairs to the' lib rary, will you?" In the library Sergeant Hatch and a uniformed policeman were laboring to restore order, under the guidance of Roberta, who was leaning in the door, arms folded and gloves prominently displayed. But they all melted away at a sign from the Inspec tor. , (To be continued)
