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From First Statesman, ' March 28, 185i
THE STATESMAN PUBUSHINC CO.
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
Member of The Associated Press
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.
Meat 'BeeiV j
The Statesman has not said very much edi-
torially about the "meat situation.' There have
been so many to offer diagnosis and cure, that
: it seemed additional comment would only add
to the confusion. Radio commentator Fulton
Lewis had his slick scheme to give everyone
meat. Spokesmen for the meat industry ; have
volunteered their ideas on what is wrong. Con
gressmen, editors, columnists have all ; made
then contributions. Now our columnist to the
right, Paul Mallon, tries his handat simplified
analysis of the "situation." From, perusal of his
copy we areot certain that his' contribution
is very illuminating. , " : !
It is true that the cattle and hog population
on the farm is greater than ever, before. This
is the livestock growers' response to demand
and to 'patriotic appeal. This means that sooner
or later all this livestock will come to market.
There is no place else for it to go. When stuff
is ready for market it goes to market. Growers
will hot hold on to cattle and pour expensive
feed into them for very long after they are
marketable. The hogs, which can be fattened
arid marketed in much shorter term than, cattle,
are coming to market now in big numbers.
Cattle take, longer, and the complaint has been
that cattle were being rushed to market unfin
ished, and not led up to proper weights.The
claim was that the margin in price allowed for
feeding was not sufficient. If cattle are being
withheld? from the market now, and are! being
'fed, consumers will get more and better beef
a little later. T
It is also, true that the uncertainties over sub-.
"sidies havejnterfered both with cattle market-,
ing and packing operations. The shutdowns of
local packing plants were due in part to ex
haustion of quotas at the end of the second
quarter. Given a settlement of the subsidy mat
ter, marketing of cattle will be resumed. What .
the civilian consumer gets will depend on the
quantities ; the military services take ; . and ; we
know their demands are increasing.
y Mallon is all wrong on his corn-hog idea. The
wide spread between the corn-ceiling price of
1.07 per bushel and the hog price has encour
aged breeding and feeding of hogs. Corn; mar
keted as hogs brings about $1.35 a bushel.
Spring farrowings were up about 20 "per cent
over 1942. So growers are not "dumping"' their
hogs. Average weights of hogs marketed in
Chicago have been increasing. J -
The real trouble in meat production is devel
oping feed supply rather than price or market
ling restrictions. The corn and wheat surplus
is melting fast and protein feeds are not suf
ficient. So the food administration is discour
aging any; increase uv poultry production, and
suggesting some reduction in fall pig-farrowing.
The interjection of government in the live
stock business has been foe two purposes: first,
to increase production, which is being accom
plished; second, to hold down prices to con
sumers, a very difficult -undertaking ; if the
first object is to be attained. As a matter of fact
the growers of beef cattle and swine, have been
treated pretty well. There is no ceiling on their -selling
prices; and the fact there were no ceiling
prices on meats at retail and a free market for
meat on the hoof has given the packers a
squeeze..
The immediate necessity is to settle this sub
sidy business, up or down. When that uncer
tainty is ended the various elements in the meat
business will know where they stand, and act
accordingly;' Meat production is at maximum
levels for available feed supplies. The . rest of
the problem is a matter of pricing and ration
ing. That will always be difficult; but from our
own, observation we are of the opinion that meat
distribution is better since OPA began ration
ing than it was before. And the people ought
to take some comfort in the fact that there are
78 million head of cattle and 73,000,000 head of
hogs on the farms. The meat will be coming
along, and well get our share AFTER the army
and navy take their cut.
YWCA'f have, long recognized .the need for
parlors where their women guests might receive
male callers; but the YWCA at San Francisco
has seen and seized its golden opportunity. It
is providing a small marriage chapel for ser
vice men. It is doing a good business, too, as
brides come from all parts of the country and
are at a loss on how to hold their weddings in
strange city. Salem women have come: for
ward on similar occasions and helped out with
wartime weddings, ': , , i
Eugene had one of the biggest segments of
the NYA program, which is now being liqui
dated. Not much local grief is reported by a
Register-Guard ; newsman who made a check
up. He " concludes :"If the . situation in; Eugene
is typical of that in other cities, congress has
saved the American people $45,800,000." And
the administrator admits he will have no trou
ble placing bis students In jobs. i
Oregom welcomes home its senior senator,
Charley JMcNary. It will best express that wel
come by giving him time, for af rest at his farm
north of town. After nearly two years of stren
uous work fin Washington he deserves , and '
doubtless needs a good rest. He hasn't invented ,
a better xnouse-trap,' so the world shouldn't
.beat a path to his door. Let him enjoy a real va
cation. - . .
A financial advertisement .offered State of
Oregon bonds due in 1953 on a 1.30 per cent'
yield basis, and State of California bonds due
in 1957 on a 1.60 per cent yield basis. This shows
: the value of conservative policies in public ,
finance. Higher credit 'rating means lower in- ;
i terest cost. " 1 ' - - i -
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In" Edinburgh, Scotland the authorities have i
resorted to whippings of juveniles in an effort
to stop their thieving. Six to 12 strokes of the -Izsh
are the punishment. Earlier parental chas
tisement rr.:ht have been a better preventativev '
OWI Conforms
The initial moves of Palmer Hoyt 'in taking
over4 the domestic section of OWI are sound
j and practical First, he has 'discontinued t all
pamphlets and booklets and posters, announ
cing he would rely on established media news
'. papers, magazines and radio. Second, he has
named an advisory committee of able news
t paper, editors with whom he will counsel. 1 -
'As to the first decision that will save the
i government hundreds of thousands of dollars,
and will remove the - criticism that OWI . was
being used to propagandize for Roosevelt's
fourth term by means of pamphlets. The estab
' lished media accept the responsibility of carry
' ing news to the public, and get it to them in the
, quickest possible time, by radio and daily news
I paper, supplemented . by weekly and monthly
magazines. '"''zll :i
On the second move that should keep OWTs
operation fresh, giving him the day-by-day
criticism of men whose business it is to handle
' and distribute news, men who know the feeling
of the public and have made a success in the
news field. r
j V Hoyt's start is encouraging. Maybe OWI wilt
j get somewhere now. r
Salem provides pla grounds and. swimming
pools for children's recreation; but it isn't du
.; plicating the ' provision ' made .by Mansfield in
England, of a dozen donkeys for children to ride
In lieu of vacatiohs-in-the'-ountry.
WevG Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLON '
(Distribution by King features Syndicate. Inc. Repro
duction 'la whole 'or in part strictly prohibited.)
I WASHINGTON, July 7 This country has I the
greatest population of cattle and hogs in all its
entire history now, at a time when slaughter hous- ,
es are going out of business in droves, housewives
are unable frequently to get beef and pork at the -
; butcher shop, and the value of beef rationing points
had to be increased by the government because of
shortage. , . H
The cattle population is about 78,000, and hogs
73,000,000, both more than -enough
to furnish half a cow
and half a hog for every man,
woman and baby in the Unit
ed States.' ' j. -- ; " j. ''
The cattle population is 2,
000,000 over last year and 12,
000,000 ; above ' normal (1939)
while hogs actually are 13,000,
000 above last year and 23,
000,600 above the same normal.
The enigma of why you can-
Paai Maiioa not often get the minimum ra
tioned amount Is generally attributed to adminia
: trative inefficiencies or, as a Norwegian farmer
put in a letter to Senator ' Shipstead, "Too much
f orth and back talk in Washington." m f :
But no one seems to have explained in simple,
.unargumentative language just what has hap
pened so the public can understand it. Take beef
for instance. Messrs. Prentiss Brown and Jesse
Jones announced weeks ahead that roll-back sub
sidies would be paid to processors to inspire meat
production beginning June 15. The government
would pay the meat packers a bounty out of the
treasury so they could pay the farmer more and
thus induce the farmer to send more meat to mar
ket But when June 15 arrived, the government forms
which the packers were to fill out to get this mo
ney, not even had been printed and distributed by
the government These have been printed, by now,
and partly distributed, but the uncertainty as to
congressional approval of the subsidies scared the
packers out of increasing the price to the farmer.
Indeed, the price of beef fell $1 to $1.25 per hun
dred pounds about three weeks ago, and the far
mers naturally are sending fewer and fewer xattle
to market (total price has been $16 or $17 on high
grades). The packers themselves are frozen against
a fixed ceiling price of meat and, therefore, can
not pay the farmer enough to bring in the cattle.
Frequently of late,' little items have appeared in
the newspapers about packing plants here and
there losing thousands of dollars a week tin their
operations due to this cause. An industry report in
dicates only nine out of the 39 packers in Detroit
were operating this week. . ; ? f
The situation on hogs can be just as simply pre
sented, minus all the intricate, detailed orders and
counter orders of government 'administrators. The
government fixed the corn price at $1.07 per bushel,
and then fixed the feeding price of corn to hogs
at $1.35 to $1.40 per bushel by Its price on finished
hog products. ; ...
The farmers naturally are not going to feed hogs.
They have been dumping their surplus hogs on the
market lately in order to avoid feeding and because
warm weather makes hog. care in summer difficult
Some have to be washed daily with warm water,
and there Is a shortage of feed. Yet the closing of
slaughter houses keeps even' this plenty from fully
reaching the people. ' '. - ...;. .;- -., v :
The situation holds the price unduly low to the
farmer and is Torcing disposition of hogs which
should be kept for winter supply. fu'HhU
Congress Is threatening to go to the extent of pas-
sing a law forcing the administration to move the
corn price up to $1.37 In order to encourage feed
ing and provide a more orderly condition. :.- J -i; V
; Here you have two opposite, results of the same
managed economy. A shortage of beef in the face
of almost plenty, has been promoted by inefficient
price management A v dangerously . over-plentiful
supply of hogs caused by the same mistake.
The original price fixing policies were such fail
ures that the administration openly conceded them
as such in moving to try subsidies. ; ,
' But these failures have been aggravated sharply
by the six weeks of argument over subsidies, and
now there is no one here who will say that these
matters can in any way be satisfactorily straight
ened out even if the .subsidies start working, and
even if a single over-all food production chief tries
to start smashing botUenecks. . ,
,This experience, should be enough to prove, even
to national planners, that post-war national econo
mic planning like this is impossible. Our methods of
production and distribution are' like a high brick
wall built gradually by years of custom and ex
perience In details. . '
' When you try to pull a brick out here and there,
you weaken the whole structure to the point where
it totters and may fall down upon you and destroy
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reting
The War News
By GLENN BABB
AP War Ana ly 1st for The Statesman
Conflicting Moscow and Ber
lin versions of the origin of ' the
three-day-old battle on the
Orel-Belgorod front in Russia
make wholly clear only one as
pect of what may be the most
crucial conflict of the war in
Europe. . j
If it Is what Moscow says it
Is the beginning of a long
"awaited third nasi attempt to
blitzkrieg Russia out of the war
it has been launched under a
significant I change in German
propaganda technique. It is- be
ing pictured to the German pub
lic as a defensive fight, not a
nasi offensive.
That has one distinct advan-
, tage. If Moscow is correct and
the nazis have started a new
power drive : but are checked
short of any I decisive results
again, the! result still can be
nazi-heralded at home as a vic
tory. . -.. ---;..v);;ir-.;a:
Certainly there Is yet to come
from Berlin any echo of the
buoyant confidence of impend
ing complete and final victory
in Russia which was so marked
in 1941 and 1942. That r might
.mean that German military pro
fessionals, not Herr Hitler and
his propaganda crew, are in . the
saddle this time.
Yet it also must reflect very
grave apprehension on the part
of the German high command
- as to how the war-weary Ger
man public might take another
military , defeat piled on top of
, the Stalingrad disaster, the Tu
nisian debacle and the fact that
Italy and Germany itself are be
ing ripped by Anglo-American
bombing attacks day and night
on an ever rising scale with no
more than feeble token reprisals
by axis air power. " - -
So far as developments on the
Orei-Belgorod front are yet re
corded by either side, they lend
' full color to Russian insistence
. that another nazi c attempt to
- smash through to - the . Don 'or
beyond i in progress. They tend
to bear ; out reports that sub
stantially . half of the more than
::3 nazl ! and satellite divisions
on the Russian front are con
centrated on the southwest ap
proaches to - Moscow and - th
Orel-Kursk hinge between the
central and southern' fronts.
The attack seems a three
pronged drive. Its left flank ap
pears based on the Orel salient,
its center pressing against the
Kursk sector and its right surg
ing eastward in the Belgorod
area. Some progress In each
area is R u s s i a n -admitted or
German-claimed. - :
What that looks like on the
maps is a new and wide pincer
move against Voronezh on . the
upper, Don, the stumbling block
to the lasf nasi drive at the in-,
dicated t binge between . Russian
armies f of the Moscow bastion
in the center and those of the
southern soviet ' command. : The
Russian stand at - Voronezh and.
along the general line of the
Voronezh-Yelets railroad to the
head waters of the Oka river
east of Orel deflected the 1942
drive , from Moscow and sent' it -down
the Don valley to Stalin
grad. , .' That nasi break-through to
the upper Don .was made on a
relatively narrow, front between
- Kursk, and Kharkov. This time
the base seems to : have ' been
widened northward to Orel for
, the f purpose : of turning ? the .
V or on esh-Yelets-Oka front
while the southern. jaw of the -pincers
pushes forward in the, .
" Belgorod sector. ";.
' The essential fact about this
; battle, however, is that on this
July 7 the nazi thrust Is stm
more than 160 miles distant from
the Don at its closest point on
the anniversary of the Berlin
. claim 'that Voronezh had been
- captured. The north and south
- pincer 5 Jaws are even:, farther
away, from 125 to 150 mile. -:
. t By. .any reckoning, , there re
, main not more than .11 weeks
of certain good fighting weather
: for the Germans in that section
of.iwtb-cenbnul-Russia.---?1'. 1
I That .limits rigidly the time
" on.si which "nazi generals can
- count to gain any final results
. in Russia. ' " -
Foa that reason if no other,
the Orel-Belgorod drive cannot .
yet be set down as a full scale
nazi. off enslvei nor its real sig-
ciTicanc be appraised.
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! Chapter 22 Continued
! "Oh, I don't expect well be
' meeting in the ring." Chrlsto-
pher smiled good-naturedly. T11
be thankful if we take our class
today." m
j "Oh, 'the poor Baron's death
t- Brenda made a business ol
looking sad. "It'll be a shame not
to have a Wain dog out in front
!at the final judging. Except that
there will be a Wain dog," she
added softly. ml mean, It's all In
- the family." "
Christopher wanted to tell her
' . that he'd have none of Kons tan
tine's monkey meat under his
- kennels, but he refrained.
! "Oh, and before I forget,"
Brenda gave out as a parting
. shot, "year Miss Rivers certainly
4 has adopted the Wain touch with
. the claim price she's set on her
dog"-v;l --.r ;1 y"'1 -' A '
-1 "She's not say Miss Rivers," he :
retorted angrily, r -L.-t. -t'
j Brenda gave her tinkling laugh,
fWell, things . are serious with
you. You- needn't bite my head
' off. She's somebody's Miss Riv
; ers, and ! Just made her yours -in
a manner of speaking." '
j "You're a person of hasty con-
.tluiorisrrem1a."..'-V..V
' j "I hope you prove me wrong,"
she returned. fWell,7 anyway,
' . . good luck " She waved archly.
f Christopher ploughed oh' thru
the ; aisles like la preoccupied x
thundercloud. Brenda made him'
angry, and he wanted, to wring
Ann's heck, which .. was rather
, , ridiculous, - since being angry
at Brenda should, by all that was ;
logical, make him want to wring
Brenda'g neck. . J . - ':V-,l
j After a man's made a mess of
one marriage, he's prone to look
into his soul before jumping in-
to another one. He'd been look-
ing into his soul pretty ruthless
ly, on and off, and he didn't like
What he'd found. There was a
lot of room' for improvement.'
Well, maybe that was. the silver
lining to '. a second marriage -practice
makes perfect"
i On the other hand, he wasn't
the sort to go around snatching
engaged - females out of v other
men's arms. Still, if this Barton
fellow wanted to hold on to a girl
like Ann, he -wasn't going about
it the right way. For one thing,
he ought to have been her with,
her today. The thought that Tom
Barton might show up did not '
dissipate the gathering thunder
- : clouds. - - i -..j ; r
He found Hans polishing Gre- :
tel as if she were, a brass door-.
knob. "Can you get along with
out me? Tve got to see: some
Tho
Safoty Valvo. -
( Letters from SUtesniaa
' ! R dra . --- --;- -.
HERE ON FEOBATIOH
To the Editor: ,
j I noticed .'some very harsh
Criticism T of - our governor ' in
Statesman Safety Valve July 2.
Well, our governor must "make
the best of a bad situation. When
we lay the old folks at the gov
ernor's door it is evidence we
have repudiated our responsibil
ity. The old folks are with us
always, j We can do them good
whenever we choose, and dont
blame bur sins on SnelL
. I am past 78 and I have seen
liquor benefit old folks. Our
doctor ordered me to get liquor
for , my $ wife time and . again.
Both liquor . and tobacco have
their legitimate use, why blame
mem if i some nitwits abuse
them?. Now I would like to ask
Sister Rockhill a question. Why
did Jehovah plant the forbidden
tree in the midst of paradise or
why did he not tell Adam to
dig it up root and branch and
burn it before he created Eve?
You know it was that forbidden
fruit that brought all these evils
on us,; or was it?
t We, are here on probation to
exercise ; self -control. Whether
.we are capable of ruling our
own spirit, and , this would be
topossible without the forbid
den fruit and free wfiL Anyone
- that rules their own spirit win
have, their own hands full, not
much Inclination to rule ethers.
God gave? us- free will and gov
ernments are instituted to pro-:
,.tect us in those rights, so dicta
tors and prohl cranks and intem-
' perate or drunkard cranks do
not infringe on those rights,
i Let us be honest with our
selves, get the facts, then look
them in the face whether we
: like them or not. Too many ' of
us deceive ourselvesV We imag-
. me that ! we have much faith
when we merely took things for
granted.
j - A. P. KIRSCH,
! ' . .'. Rt 1, SUyton,.Or.
one. -;"
"Cure. Didn't I work on her all
yesterday?" Hans smiled.. ,
Christopher strodt cit fci the
direction of the steward's of rice.
He knocked on the door. A tat
ters all waistcoat with a chubby
little man inside it locked up
from a desk. Christopher made
short shift of his business.
"fra Christopher Wain. You
' have a Dane on your lists owned
by a Miss Rivers, and entered
, with a claim price of five thous
and dollars." r " .
The chubby little man was
ready to smooth Christopher
down. "Yes, yes. It's ridiculous,"
he propitiated hastily. "First
time the dog's been shown. Slip
ped by while we wer en i lainx
- ing." He ,waved to a group of
reporters' and camera men in a
corner, and ' made a series of
1 little fat clucks with his tongue.
"I agree with you," Christopher
said loud enough for trie news
paper men to hear. Tin claim
ing the dog at that price. That's
the way I like to pick them."
There was ar gasp from the
tattersall waistcoat There was a'
gasp from the reporters. "This Is
' ettina to be a real story." one
of them announced.
v "You call this a sotry?" Chris- '
topher scoffed. "This is just the
beginning." - , - V
He could have kicked himself
as he left the steward's office.
- Paul and Ann bad prepared a
beautiful " spot for ' themselves,
and - he had ' walked ' in and
usurped it Well, If jackasses
were . In the making today, 'he
was going to be one of them.'
But at least he was going" to get
a dog and a wife out of it! '
. The moment this show was
over he was, going to go ahead
with the figurative wringing of
Ann's neck and then he was go-'
ing to bundle her and herf high
ly publicized pooch into hs car,
and head1 for some 'other state.
He tried to remember which of
.i : f . . . ' ' . .
iam neinDorins; siaies wouia
serve his purpose. New York and
Connecticut were out they ap
parently didnt believe in hasty
marriages. Maryland was in the
wrong: direction. He'd have to
look into the question of Rhode
Island. ri, ,
Chapter 22
r Paul had picked a private little
corner for. himself, and fitted tit
out with: a Anll4Irwi of nail
towels and instruments' worthy
of a field hospital. Ann watched
his sure, swift strokes. ; There
was something of genius in what
be was doing.': :t i --To
be continued) i -
Today'o Gardoh
By LIIXJE L. MADSEN .
Mrsi -P. Hi asks If there are
ny seeds she may sow now for
autumn flowering. Listed as 'au
" tumn bloomers from seed sown
in July are salpiglossis, cosmos.
Lobelia and stocks. Special at
tention must be given watering
if these are to bloom in autumn.
Small snapdragon plants if -you
are lucky enough to have them
eet out now and kept growing
vigorously will bloom in Sep
tember.. If you happen to have
some late flowering gladioli and
plenty of water for irrigation,
set these 1 out now. Glads, : too,
must be kept free from disease
: and growing well throughout the
season. The name holds true of
-dahlias. Unless one can water
;; these two plants, it is very little
use to .'plant them late in the
season. In fact unless one is
prepared to irrigate thorough
ly, do not plan for much sum
mer bloom. Arrange your bloom
for spring and very early sum
mer and then again for autumn
- bloom.:
Mrs. S. T. complains of no
roses during the summer be
cause of lack of Irrigation and
fears they wul not bloom again
in autumn. J ' ;
Last autumn I visited a large
commercial rose garden which
had neither been watered nor
sprayed ? during .the summer
months. I saw a number of
lovely blooms. In fact the roses
seemed to be almost better. The
stems were stronger than were
many which had been irrigated.
But unless you can Irrigate, do
not plan much on summer roses.
Personally, 1 like to have roses'
dusted during the summer if at
all possible. It throws them into
autumn with better foliage. If
you cannot irrigate, then keep
the weeds out and loosen the1
ground whenever It : becomes
. crusty.
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