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"No Favor Sways Us;
first Statesman. March zs. ibi
Jthe statesman publishing cojipany
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
rSlM Amclilci Press Is exclusively
'f ail mm gtipataaas credited to It
Forestry Program
' The long awaited report of the governor's special commit
!tee studying the forestry question in Oregon is at hand. It covers
toonany subjects of such vital nature to be disposed of in a
.-single editorial. We expect to study it carefully and discuss it at
length in the interval before the legislature meets. Initial perusal
cd. the press summary provokes this comment: that the commit
tee has been bold where courage was needed. It has not hesitated
' ;to step out and propose radical reorganization of administrative
organization in forestry and related fields. And it has backed
up ita program of action with recommendations as to the proper
-.financing of the work that is needed.
I To handle the big job of reforestation of the Tillamook burn
it proposes setting up a state corporation and to provide it with
; funds from a bond issue of $25,000,000 to be spent over a ten-year
'period in bringing the area under proper forest management and
restocking it with trees. Revenues from timber salvage, it la es
timated, would be adequate to service this debt.
This is a constructive approach to the problem and of the
"bright dimension. The editor of this paper has urged time and
j again that here is a major postwar project, challenging in its needs
!and in its promise for the future of northwestern Oregon. The
committee notes there are other burned and cutover areas whera
I similar action is needed to restore them to timber production,
v A recommendation is offered for creation of a new depart
ment of conservation which would embrace forestry, fish and
" game departments, and other minor functions now separately
administered. With no final opinion on this consolidation wa
' would offer this thought that it may cover too much ground. The
i forestry problem alone is of great magnitude. To load its admin
rlstrators down with the intricate and contentious problems of
i commercial and game fish might be too great a burden. We do
! not condemn the proposal offhand, but think it should be care
t fully considered before cation is taken.
This report offers a program. Let it be thoroughly discussed
In "the months ahead. Nothing of greater importance has been
presented to the people since the highway program was adopted
in If 17.
v In the Bikini Lagoon
'f. One remembers standing as a child in mixed fear and wonder
near, the town battery before it fired a salvo on a patriotic holi
day. How big would the ' boom'' be? Would you get hurt?
Similar emotions attend the spectators of the drama in the
Bikini lagoon scheduled for 2:30 p.m. today, our own time. They
re all children if the face of the marvel of the atomic bomb.
While previous performance has demonstrated its power on land,
this experiment will show what it can do at sea. So wonder and
perhaps a trace of fear flutter the hearts of the observers.
As the tests go forward the statesmen are laboring to bridle
the energies which science has unleashed. For the statesmen,
located half the world away from the Bikini lagoon, are full of
fear, f desperate fear of the new force. They contemplate its
unrestricted use in a future war as most terrifying, threatening
devastation on a scale scarcely dreamed of. Bikini's once quiet
lagoon may be the focus of many eyes and ears today, but one
, with real sense of direction should turn his attention to what
the diplomats and the statesman are doing, or attempting to do,
to save the world from the woe which the exercise at Bikini will
undoubtedly prove again is within the potential of atomic fission.
Subsidies Out?
Presumably the' veto of the OPA extension bill puts an early
end to subsidies for farm products and metals which the govern
ment has been paying all through the war. This will be felt by
meat processors, milk producers, metal mines. They can move
prices up promptly to compensate this lo; but in the case of
fluid milk in Oregon state price control becomes effective and
dairymen will have to proVe their case before Agriculture Direc
tor JL L. Peterson.
Market will probably be topsy-turvy for days and weeks
until they settle down to solid ground. Of course the curbstone
market en automobiles, nails, plumbing supplies and other scarce
merchandise has heen ' topsy ' for some time and growing
turrier of late.
Consumer, if they start frantic buying, may do much to
speed up the spiral of inflation. If they would strictly limit their
buying to immediate needs they can do as much as anyone to put
teal price control into effect.
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WASHINGTON. Jane 29 Large quantities of sugar are stored in
Cuba, I am told by an authority who has seen and touched it. Pre
sumably this government, which bought Cuban crop, is itself awaiting
tU own favorable action or ai?manuing urn. wint-i
Stores of goods, including shirts and shorts, are sup
posed to be in hoarding at the manufacturing or
- wholesale level.
In the lace of shortages at the consumer level,
prices are, soaring I paid $1 90 for a pint of shrimp
here a4 seaboard where you could get the same
amount a few years back for one-fourth or less.
Now the theory of the new OPA law, worked out
finally by congress is ta- rei ease stores and force up
prices for a tme, (which will get goods out of stor
age). Three months from now prices are expected
to settle down to consumer demand, after the storage
am. That is the theory in general. (If I were
you I would tmjr mare now than necessary to my Past MaHea
lirrlthonrt and plan to purchase .unnecessary items later when prom
ised price reductions are to be effected.)
ArtaaJ Ostceaae BUH Ceajectaral
Bat will it work Will prices go up for a few months and then
r ' level off? Frankly f d not know. The liberals, conservatives or mid
dlL reader i do mmt believe congress has gone far enough with the
de-contral board (too hard to get to). They are suspicious of the new
formula eoctinuaag OPA indefinitely (another year is specified), pay
fcig out a cool MMiea d ollars from the treasury to producers NOT to
raie prices, and exempting only food (meat, poultry and dairy prod
ucts) Meat and butter are nearly extinct now in the east, and soon
will be sherter. Crsins are being shipped abroad. A balanced produc
tion anoV distribution program for food has not been worked out. No
agency is doing it or is assigned to.
The new OPA law is a compromise among politicos. OPA Itselr
""is htt firm, half lax. The theory of continuing price controls until
production is achieved is satisfactory to most people, but theadminis
tratiau has been week, neglected, spotty around the country (and has
really tandercd-paaduction which should be the goal).
The radicals are propagandizing for public effect. The Idaho
Senator Taylor we recently called for a buyers strike against prices
la the same unidentified senator mentioned in this column recently
as advocating conwminist doctrines regarding war. He tinpanned his
way to election with a hillbilly band. He and the child-like Orson
WeUee pot SO ta- their rally for unamended continuance of OPA, and
btasned front -pace aobtieity which is what they wished also.
TkaauMi ally they are right: actually they are wrong again when
conrnUU impede production they are not in the consumers' interest, as
Is charged to be the case in many items now.
Tuts is not a question of conservation or manufacturing lobbies,
as they think and yet. It is a problem in true economics, as the fanner,
butane and producer will tell you. Hereabouts they all want to get
rid af OPA. . w . ,,
Tew tfaa future rests with OPA administration. That this will
get production I am stat confident. Indeed it is not charged with that
duty. If we get pracfctcUon and a downward leveling of prices in a few
months it willue fcecewse of the natural energy of the capitalistic sys
tem, uad its deaire h make profit;.
Frankly, I fc not expect much change. All foods excepting vege
tables will l lis li liar short for the summer, and maybe winter. Produc
tion in ether items should be showing, bat is developing gradually
V- (refrigerators, auto, etc, but not radios). All we can do on this is
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had been badly mauled in the
house and senate The gangup of
pressures groups was crushing.
The growing contempt of OPA
regulation all over the country
made enforcement extremely dif
ficult. The bill which congress
finally passed, while shorn of
some of its debilitating amend
ments, so crippled control by in
terfering with its mechanics that
effective price restraint was ren
dered almost impossible.
The country runs a grave risk
of boom and bust, of skyrocketing
prices, labor unrest and damaging
inflation. It need not experience
that combination of calamities if
the business interests of the coun
try will get down to work, pro
duce merchandise, avoid price
gouging. Here is the opportunity
the free enterprise system has de
manded. Let free enterprise now
perform and through reliance on
the competitive system prove that
the prophets of disaster were
wrong.
Program is Given
By Swegle Pupils
SWEGUE Before their parents
and friends present for the pro
Kram Fridav night at the school
house members of the vacation
Bible school classes proudly sang
the new songs they had learned
and recited the many memory
verses given them.
Special parts on the program
were a story told by Janice Isom,
a number by a girls quartet; a
whistling solo by Mark Maning
and an illustrated story by the
Rev. Peter Becker.
Tirst year certificates were giv
en Mary Ellen Gilman, Janice
Isom. Margaret Ann Oilman,
Keith Nelson and Kenneth Clem
ens; second year to Larry Jayne,
Buddy Jayne, Gerald Gilman,
Darrel Clemens.
In the third vear class were
Jack Isom and Paul LaVene and
fourth-year to John Gilman. Jun
ior mwnhfn were Nancy Jayne
and Virgil Nicklin. Prizes were
given all members of primary
class for their hand work.
Janice Isom received first prtze
for hand work and John Gilman
for the most memory verses. Priz
es for work books were for Jack
Isom and Paul LaVene.
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EARTH COILD BK VMM.. Plarra
via Paaaaea (Dtal: S1.7J)
The shocking contrast between
how fair earth has been and
how, with the passive or active
support of most of us, it later
turned, in some areas into an
unspeakable abomination. Is the
subject of this book, neither a
history nor a novel but, in the
word of the impassioned and
sometimes eloquent author,
chronicle.
G or cum in the Netherlands,
with its old church of Sint Jan,
its Jews, Protestants and Catho
lics, its well-to-do, rich and suf
fering poor, and yet, above all,
its tolerance and Christian gen
tleness, is pictured as this book
anf"this century open.
Van Paassen and Anton Mus
sert wera boys together, and as
far apart then as when the Nazis
came.. And there were other
youngsters: Ary Brandt and Al
fons Boogaert and David Dal
maden, who in widely separated
places would give their lives for
the sort of world in which they
grew up; and Zeger van Rietvelt
who forfeited his to the under
ground. Out of boys and girls devel
oped worthy heirs to the brave
liberty - loving Hollanders of
former centuries. Viewing their
dreadful sacrifices, we find it
hard to answer van Paassen's
fierce indictment of democracy
supine when confronted by Hit
ler, capitalism scared at any
threat to corporate business but
blind to the abyss on the rim of
which an entire society trem
bled, churches willing to com
promise and appease. Rather
than ask whether we can ever
forgive the Germans, it is "more
pertinent," van Paassen de
clares, to wonder:
"Can we ever -expect to be
forgiven ourselves? Do we re
pent now for our sins of com
mission and omission in having
allowed everything decent and
democratic in Germany to be
covered by the Nazi slime?"
Though the book begins at a
leisurely pace, it quickly be
comes interesUng, then thrill
ing. It's more than mere chron
icle when van Paassen tells of
the refuge in Gorcum's subter
ranean paasages, of Dr. Mendo
z's valiant flight and death, of
Dalmaden's last stand in the
Warsaw ghetto, and of Father
Boogaert's martyrdom by the
Japanese at his mission post in
the Solomons.
Practical
Religion
tty Bee. Jean I Kalght. Jr,
Ci iiaaahw Rettgloue LM
WiUaoMtte jatveratty.
One of the most tragic errors
of Modern thinking is the deifi
cation of custom. That is, all too
often we assume that whatever
is customary or conventional is
right. We blandly approve of many
unchristian social, economic, or
religious practises simply because
they are the usual thing. In so
doing we are actually limiting our
Christian witness to the ordinary,
the habitual, the traditional.
One who seeks a practical ex
pression of his Christian convic
tion knows that he must go be
yond the conventional to the mor
al. God's moral order demands a
reexamination of all custom and
tradition in the light of higher
purposes. We modern Christians
would do well to face the con
demning observation that Plut
arch made nearly a score of cen
turies ago: "We are more sens
ible of what is done against cus
tom than against Nature."
NEWSMEN ATTEND TRIAL
DACHAU. Germany, June 20
(A-Twelve American newspaper
executives touring the U. S. zone
as guest of the war department
attended the trial today of 74
SS men charged with massacring
American soldiers at Malmedy
during the battle of the Bulge.
About 45 processes, requiring
six weeks, are necessary to finish
goat and kid skins from stiff hides
into shoes, bass, belts, etc.
IPraMU DI!(enirdl
Vernon A. Mouton vs Marie
Mouton: Suit for divorce charging
desertion. Asks for maiden name
Maria Gates to be restored. Mar
ried July 3, 1943, at Columbus,
Ga.
Sunshine Dairy vs E. L. Peter
son, director of the state agricul
ture department. Plaintiff files
demurrer and demurs to the com
plaint In intervention.
Doyle G. Porter vs Morlis A.
Porter: Suit for divorce charging
cruel and inhuman treatment asks
for custody of three minor chil
dren. Married July 22, 1832, at
Santa Monica, Calif.
Ray H. Stanford vs James
Thomas and Val D. Sloper. Order
allows defendant's motion to
strike. i q
Margaret Hunt vs Fred Hunt:
Suit for divorce charging cruel
and inhuman treatment asks for
custody of one minor child. $50
a month support money. $2000
alimony, $50 a month alimony and
household goods. Married March
10. 1928. at Salem.
Harvey Wheeler vs William
Rhoadea: Complaint for $2500
general damages, $63 special dam-
eneral damages. $63 special dam- p-rkjn(t violation, posted J ball
ges. $205 general damages for ( wuiiam R Hamilton, route 2
njuries and damages ''e1,y j posted $2.50 bail for running traf
ecelved in auto accident May IS. f. .. M d f5 bail for n
a
in
r-e
1948, on Silverton-Stayton high
way.
Esther Wheeler vs William
Rhoades: Complaint for $5000
general damages, $50 special dam
ages for Injuries and damages al
legedly received in auto accident
May 13. 1946. on Silverton-Stayton
highway.
Elaine Hoffman vs Dale Hoff
man: Suit for divorce charging
cruel and inhuman treatment asks
for custody of one minor child,
$50 a month for care of child,
household goods. Married April
12. 1941 at Brush Prairie. Wash.
Katherine Frances Wright .vs.
Gilford Allan Wright: Order of
default.
State of Oregon vs Franklin
Norwest: Order allowing attor
ney's fees.
Marge Konrad vs Grace E.
fhrapp: Complaint for return of
purchase price and lot which
Will-Drafting
Contest Set
For Attorneys
A state-wide will-drafting con
test calling for $1,500 in cash priz
es was announced today for 1946
eraduates of Oreeon law schools
and all attorneys practicing inj
Oregon who were graduated from
schools inside or ouside the state
from 1940 through 1945.
The announcement was made by
Karl Wenger, trust officer of the
Pioneer Trust company; David D.
Eyre, vice president of the Salem
branch U.S. National bank, and
Guy N. Hickok. manager of the
Salem branch. First National bank
of Portland.
Wenger. speaking for the Trust
Companies' association of which
the three Salem institutions are
members, said the contest would
be open from July 1 to October 15
of this year.
Firt prize will be $500. second
$400. third $300, fourth $200, and
fifth $100.
Deans of the three law schools
in Oregon will name a committee
of judges for the contest. Orlando
John Holus, University of Oregon,
Eugene; Ray L. Smith, Willamette
university, and James W. Craw
ford. Northwest College of Law,
Portland
Application forms may be ob
tained at the three Salem institu
tions and must be filed with the
Trust Companies' association, 325
S.W. 4th ave . Portland.
Jones Will Attend
Farnier8 Union
Directors Meeting
Ronald E. Jones, president of
the Oregon Farmers' Union leaves
today by plane for Denver to at
tend the organization meeting of
J the new board of directors of the
I National Farmers' Union.
The board will function under.
the new constitution adopted by
the members in the states where
the Farmers Union is organized.
The old board of directors of five
members will transfer authority
to a new board of 20 state presi
dents who will draft new by-laws,
including one regarding voting of
women and junior members.
State presidents comprising the
new board include Jones of Ore
gon, Homer Duffy. Oklahoma;
Don C. Chapman. Montana; Glenn
J. Talbott, North Dakota; Oscar
Fosheim, South Dakota; Harvey
Sol berg. Colorado; Chris Milius,
Nebraska: E. K. Dean, Kansas;
Franklin Clough, Minnesota; Fred
W. Stover, Iowa; Simeon Martin,
Michigan; Kenneth W. Hones,
Wisconsin; Charles Few, Ohio;
Archie Wright, New York; Waldo
R. McNutt. New Jersey; Evon
Ford. Mississippi; J. J. Berg. Tex
as; Jesse Vetter. Washington-Idaho;
W. C. Cravens, Arkansas; Au
brey E. Plowman, Missouri.
VFW Delegates
Attend Conclave
Approximately 5 delegates
from Salem's three Veterans of
Foreign Wars posts are attending
the five-day state convention at
Corvallis.
The recently formed all-navy
post. No. 7775. is sending Irvin
F. Bryan, captain. Rex Lambert
nd Jack Hyder as delegates.
Meadowlark Post No. 6102 sent
seven members and Marion Post
No. 661 is represented by 55 del
egates. The convention, liberally at
tended by World War II delegates,
began officially Saturday, but the
heavy work is not expected to
start until Monday, local VFW men
said Saturday.
plaintiff alleges was misrepre
sented in sale.
Martha Baker vs Deena Hart
and others: Answer of Thomas
Owens defendant denies allega
tions. JUSTICE COURT
Salve Toregson, sentenced to 10
days in ojail for vagrancy.
Frederick J. Kilday, held to
answer on charge of assault, being
armed with a dangerous weapon;
held in county jail, under $1500
bail.
Otto Verne Brown, no opera
tor's license, fined $1 and costs.
Deral Jones, violation of basic
rule; fined $10 and costs.
MUNICIPAL COURT
Frank Page. 1255 Court st.. vio
lation of basic rule, fined $10.
Donald Colvin, 474 Mill St., dis
orderly conduct, fined $10.
Ralph Colvin, 474 Mill st., dis
orderly conduct, fined $10.
Donald L. Madsen, 896 N. 17th
st., four in driver's seat, posted
$2 50 bail.
Loyal G. Garboden, Junction
City, violation of basic rule, post
ed $10 bail.
Dale McDannell, 493 Ford St.,
fic light and posted $3 bail for no
driver's license.
Daisy M. Chance, Salem, park
ing violation, posted $3 bail.
James A. Stewart, Salem, park
ing violation, posted $3 bail..
Wayne A. Rebo, route 1. Auma
ville. violation of basic rule, post
ed $7.50 bail
! Glenn L. Clark, 1108 Lewis t.,
four in driver's seat, posted $2.50
bail.
Harold C. Damm. 1570 N. Win
ter st., reckless driving with li
quor involved, fined $50.
George R. Ray. route 4, failure
to stop, posted $2.50 bail.
Ollie IL Hazelwood, 2074 N.
Capitol st., illegal reverse turn,
posted $1 bail.
Theodore C. Fox, 290 Main st..
Independence, reckless driving,
poeXed $20 50 bail.
Billy Sparks, route 4, illegal
muffler, fined $1.
PROBATE COURT
Nathan E. Cole, estate: Decree
allows final account of Frances A.
Cole, executrix and Order of dis
tribution fUed.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
APPLICATIONS
William E. Lukrs, 28, pharmac
ist; Betty Jean Driggs. 21, secre
tary, both Salem.
Hilary J. Etzel. 28, bank clerk
and Irene Marie Berning, 26, sec
retary, both Salem.
NEW CHUTES -NEW GRANDSTAND
5 ACRES OF FREE PARKING SPACE
lancing Mighlly Concessions
Yhe Best in Western Oregon
General Admission, $1.50j incl. Tax.
Children $1.00; incl. Tax.
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Carl Perier. district manager far
Warner' Brothers la Salem far
1$ years, waa last week a
neaneed he . was resigning that
pesltlea ta take care af his ewa
business Interest la this Hty.
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County Dump
A; tract of land has been located
norfhwest of Woodburn for use as
a garbage dump by towns and
cities in the north end of Marlon
couhty. Commissioner Ed Rogers
announced Saturday.
A committee from me norm eni
towns headed by Gui J. Moiaan of
Gervals located the spot, following
plans for county rural dumps
discussed several months ago.
ly by the cities and towns and the
Marion county court. A road will
have to be built into the site
while the owner of the land has
agreed to keep the refuse covered,
the commissioner said.
ITALY PRESIDENT NAMED
ROME. June 29-(AVEnrico De
Nicola. 68-year-old veteran Nea
politan statesman, became the
first elected president of the new
Italian republic yesterday.
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