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Suite for Back Pay
Based on findings of the lupreme court in a recent case
suits are being filed against corporations which threaten to
run in billions of dollars. Alleged, to be due is back pay at
overtime rates, plus penalty (double or treble) for having
to sue.
The wages and hours act requires concerns in interstate
commerce to pay wages at time and one-half for all time in
excess of 40 hours worked in a week. Prior to 1940 the limits
were 42 and 44 hours. In complying with the act most com
panies went along on the former method of computing time
which made no allowance for time spent in punching the time
clock or getting to one's station in the plant. In a Michigan case
the supreme court held that this was time to be compensated
for. Hence the flood of lawsuits.
Here is a case where the penalties seem excessive. Com
pensation always was figured on the basis of time worked,
not on time spent getting to the job. To reverse long-standing
custom years after the event and to multiply the claim certainly
lays a heavy burden on industry. The result will be for the
future that much less time spent in productive work, because
employers will avoid the excess time at the penalty rate.
New legislation may clarify the statute, and may set a
limit of time on claim for back pay. It cannot however expunge
liability for past back pay. The question will be fought out
in couitx and promises to ,he one of the toughest legal battles
of rect history bee an so of the amounts at stake.
The Fair in 1878
Fiem Mrs. J. R. Hammer of Aumsville comes a copy of
a program for the Oregon State fair of 1878. It is a single
sheet, put out as a promotion piece for the "daily and weekly"
Oregonian. '
Prtty good purses were offered for racing: $500 for a
one-nruie running race for two-year olds; $250 for a trotting
race, wale heats, three in five. Also listed was a trotting race
for clootie teams.
Datt-s of the fair were October 10-17, which are a month-and-a-half
later than at present. Slower methods of harvesting
and tiavel probably forced late dates at that time.
In the layout of the grounds
aurant and the YMCA. The former was operated by the Aurora ;
rnlnnv thn in it nrime The
to that at prevent, but now the camp ground is gone and ex
hibit nn pavilions are greatly enlarged.
Liberty on Wheel!"
E&tly in 1947 a special train will start on a tour of the
nation giving people a chance to see originals of historic docu
ments Such important papers as the Declaration of Independ
ence in Thomas Jefferson's handwriting, official copies of the
bill of rights, the emancipation proclamation, the Gettysburg
address of Abraham Lincoln, and Madison's notes on debates on
the n-et for a bill of rights will be exhibited on this train.
A similar tour wis made a number of years ago with the
Liberty tll from Independence hall mounted on a car, with
stops at mar.y cities so people could see it. The purpose of the
new Wur is educational, to give knowledge of the documents
and hWmulate interest in these roots of our government.
No Varmints There
Wednesday's Oregon tan had a new story from Louisa coun-
ty. Iowa sporting that a lion
in that -eour.ty, supposedly released by a traveling showman
d'.itirts; the summer meat shortage. That happens to be the
county where this editor attended public and high school. Hunt
ing the woods and nv-c bottoms we never were able to turn up
anything wilder than a red squirrel or a cottontail, though rarely
a man -came to town with a timber wolf in a crate for exhibi
tion. Despite the testimony of a coonhunter and a Presbyterian
minister we are quite skeptical of there being any genuine
"varmints" in Louisa county. All we ever found were in Coop
er's Lttetherstockins tales.
Cities and Punchhoarf.
Heed lints like thewe in the St. Helens Sentinel-Mist prompt
ed a rebuke from the attorney generaT: "Punch Board Tax Fee
Is Inereased:' 'Pinball Boost Talked." Having just a few
months -t fore at the suggestion of the governor advised peace
officers to enforce the law against such illicit devices Atty. Gen.
Neuner could hardly let that pass.
In Inensing these devices the city (and sometimes the state
despite its legal disclaimer) share in the operation of
boards iMi machines which violate the law by giving a payoff
in hickeys or merchandise. They ought to refrain from joining
In deft-at of the law's purpose. Maybe the cities should be
"fined." -as accessaries.
W. C Field
The -only line that W. C. Fields followed, so he admitted,
were those of Dickens. That seems appropriate, for he himself
seemed -ao much si character out of a Dickena novel. Hia con
fessed ad well -advertised love of the bottle, hia rasping voice,
his salty earth inesa made him a character in his own right.
Ha eomedy Ue was authentic. Though his dialogue was j
not of Hke Bob Hove galling gun type, he had a sharp wit and
could Wen a response that would put his auditors in stitches.
Dsalh caught up with him on Christmas day. after many
month -of illness. Hia going leaves a real gap in the entertain
ment world.
The action of the Russian commander in Dairen ordering
an American naval vessel out of the harbor in 20 minutes
"or erse" ?r.kes ua as distinctly juvenile. He must have either
been strutting his stuff and swelled up over his position or
else afraid of a spanking by Moscow. With him so snooty we
almost wmh the Asnertcan commander had delayed his lifting
anchor a few minutes, and are confident nothing would have
happened. The U. S. must be patient. The Russians will mature
into better manners.
Caejsjressman Rankin threatens an investigation of "pink
profeseors." Education! institutions and professors as individ
uals should be spared this humiliation. Rankin's last round
with a extinguished Harvard professor of astronomy gives a cue
to the type of inquisition he would perpetrate. His tactics do
more eo -tweed reds than suppress them.
.Another indication of the high level of prosperity in Oregon
is the fact that 1944 had the fewest bankruptcies since the sys
tem was established in 1198. The total on December 24 was 213.
That probably will be a low mark. We can't help but be dubious
of the ultimate fate of a lot of these coffee pot sawmills we see
atarting on back lota and brooksides.
It must seem like old times to Leon Blum to be back as
head of the French government. The franc is sinking in value
as it did when he was premier ten years ago, and' the colonial
empire ie crack m in Indo-China. Probably he is glad his
tenure lasts- only XUl mid-January. , ,
Oregon. Friday,
27. 1948
Associates? Frees
is included the Aurora rest
lavnut of the Grounds is similar
and a panther were on the loose
Paul f.laUoiVs
BEHIND THE NEWS
(DMiikaOM ky a lag a rmim Sya
trat. lac fertM ha whole of
la part strictly arohthlieS)
WASHINGTON. Dec. 2 7. -Liberals
are not "Liberals" any more
since election they have become
"Progressives." The word "Liber
als" ill - fitted them. "Liberal"
means freedom,
f"1 1 " n but they stood
it bless central
it i x e d authorita-
tion democracy
in the New Deal
and they favor
ed single-minded
domination of
people in such
totalitarian
r. states as Russia,
vTna political ai-
jl lances with
ineir American
Pal Halloa r e presentatives
such as the Com
munist dominated American La
bor party In New York.
The Liberals must have been
reading this column. They must
have read particularly the one
published August 9 which point
ed out they could discontinue
their search for the answer of
what was wrong with the liber
alism, then being conducted by
their New Republic magazine now
openly under the leadership of a
politician who wants' to go half
way to Russian theories, Henry
Wallace. The trouble with liber
alism, I then reported, was that it
was not liberal. It did not stand
for freedom of individuals but for
the opposite totalitarism.
Chance Nasae. Not Policy
Now they have changed the
name, but not the policy. They
have neglected to correct their ba
sic mistake, but wish to perpetu
ate it by calling it ' Progressive."
This is somewhat reactionary.
The term "progressive" is hardly
new. It simply means progress.
In all my living days as a political
reporter. I never heard of a po
litico who did not advocate prog
ress. No one is against it. There
fore it embraces a scope which
depreciates its descripUve quality.
Utopians would be a better de
scriptive name for them, but they
lost under this title because they
only talked about Utopia and
doubt about their ability to dellv
er Utopia on earth became too
widespread
At any rate Messrs. Morgen
thau, Ickes. Phil Murray, et al,
decided after election to meet
here in January and call them
selves by a new name, "the Con
ference of Progressives." which,
as I say. is rather hopelessly re
actionary. In my lifetime, the ti
tle was used exclusively by the
late Senator Robert Lafollette
back when the 20th century was
in its 'teens. The Utopian ex -Liberals
are thus reacting in name
only to the Lafollette era, which
will be hard for them to do oth
erwise because Lafollette hated
and distrusted the very Commun
ists with whom they sympathize
and appease. "Progressive." there
fore, actually seems to mean pro
gress backward more than 23
years.
Russia Selfish
The reaction will be interesting
in Rlicia urhifh i trvirttf tn rI A a
litr everyone in the world who
does not want to give Russia what j
she selfishly wants as a reaction
ary. although Russia, herself, is in 1
truth the most reactionary gov-
ernment in the world toddy. It is, i
I believe, the oldest. It wants to
react the world to its 1917 revolu
tion and beyond that back to
Marx and his obsolete theories Of
100 years ago.
Russia is really reactionary be
cause it is the only major world
government which has not mod
ernized itself, but clings to its
backward and unsuccessful ways
an economic system which has
never produced comparably with
the rest of the world, and a po
litical system which has not been
changed in 30 years. Britain has a
socialist Labor government (Rus
sia does not allow a union except
meaninglessly under state con
trol). The United States had its
New Deal and reformation. Only
Russia has failed to progress.
Reds Reactionaries
It is evident then that the Rus
sians and their counterparts in
this country are trying to got us
mixed up by false terms they ap
ply to us and themselves. A
stench, however, can not yet call
itself perfume. The truth is the
Russians who call every on else
reactionaries are the only reac
tionaries, the only current world
force against progress for- them
selves and for others, while the
Progressives who sympathize with
them are reacting away from even
calling themselves Liberals.
What I would call them all is a
bunch of political Barn urns who
cannot fool anyone any more
the abberationist school of poli
tics which can sell nary an ab
errationist. 66 Degrees in
South Dakota
RAPID CITY, S D , Dec. 28 -fP)
Continued mild weather
which has brought the buds out
on apple trees here sent the ther
mometer soaring to a record M
today, the warmest day after
Christmas in the history of the
federal weather bureau here.
Residents sauntered around in
shirt -sleeves, and fur coats looked
out of place although the forecast
called for a decided change to
morrow, with snow flurries prob
able. Adolph Rippe said his apple
tree was covered with buds, and
a lilac bush and one of his plum
trees are also in bud.
DU O WORKERS STRIKE
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. Z6-At
-Movement of pharmaceuticals
from three drug warehouses in
San Francisco was halted today
by pickets of the AFL Pharma
cists Local 838. on strike for a
shorter work week.
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Senator Claghorn
Divorced Persons fGood Risks9
As Future Mates, Study Shows
CHICAGO. Dec. 26-(P)-A university professor reported to the
American Sociological society today that studies he has made indi
cate that divorced persons have a good chance of being happy in
subsequent marriages.
Harvey J. Locke, professor of sociology at the University of
Southern California, said that interviews with 146 persons in Monroe
county, Indiana, who were di-1 -r " "
vorced and then married again
showed that 76.7 per cent of them
rated their subsequent marriages
as "happy" or "very happy."
In a paper prepared for de
livery before the society, dealing
with a study of 925 individual
cases in Monroe county, the pro
fessor said results of the 146
cases compared "rather favorably
with the 90 per cent of the most
happily married persons who
rated their marriages in these
two categories (happy or very
happy)."
"The conclusion that divorced
persons constitute good risks in
subsequent marriages seems war
ranted." Locke said studies made by in
terviews and tests of S2S divorc
ed persons indicated that "being
married by a justice of the peace
is not conventional and is un
questionably associated with un
adjustment in marriage. More
than one out of four divorced
men and women, as compared
with one In eight married men j
and women were married by a
justice of the peace," he added.
Varsity T
Has Election
JEFFERSON The varsity "J"
elected officers last week for the
year as follows: president, Wil
ford Ha worth; vice president.
Gene Pilcher; secretary. Dean Ab
ney, treasurer; Paul Specht; re
porter. Bill Barnes and serges n t-at-arms.
Charles Freitag.
Initiation of new members will
bo held the first week of the new
year.
Present at the meeting were Wil
fred Ma worth. Gene Pilcher, Dean
Abney, Paul Specht, Charles Trie
tag, Vern Harris, Lee Aiken, Leon
Hampton, Elmer Diereks, Matt
Schuld and Bill Barnes.
Coach Pat Beal is Varsity T
advisor.
GRIN AND BEAR
"Jaaler! Otis! Willlaaa
Fires Result as
Inflated' Yule
Trees Unsold
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26.-JP)
The western Christmas tree mar
ket which was asking as much
as $1.50 a foot went up in smoke
today.
In the San Francisco bay area,
an estimated 136.000 trees were
burned or dumped as buyers re
fused to purchase at inflated fig
ures. The average early pre
Christmas price for trees in San
Francisco was $1 a foot but few
paid it.
Less desirable trees were pric
ed from $2.25 to $5 and less as
Christmas day approached. All
told, about 750.000 Christmas trees
were sold in the San Francisco-
Oakland-bay region, distributors
estimated.
leO.Ott Left In Oregon
In Oregon, Deputy State Fores
ter George Spaur estimated 100,
000 of the 300,000 trees offered
for sale were unsold and burned.
The loss, he estimated, was $300,
000. Spaur said it was planned
to introduce a bill in the next
Oregon legislature to regulate tree
cutting.
Sacramento had about 20,000
trees left over, and the California
state division of forestry said the
percentage of unsold trees in Cal
ifornia was greater than any prev
ious Christmas.
The Largest tree wholesaler in
San Diego said the surplus there
would amount to about 15 per cent
of the 150.000 trees in the San
Diego market. Most were brought
in from Washington state mar
kets. Extensive Tree-Burning
From Seattle the news was of
IT
By Lichty
MP? I
Tea leave that locomotive tight
extensive tree burning, too. Sales
lots contained thousands of trees
waiting to be hauled away. Oth
ers were burned on city dumps.
In Salt Lake City, a survey by
the Deseret News indicated that
30,000 of the 80,000 trees offered
for sale in Salt Lake City were
unsold.
Brawn Replaces
Dexterous Fingers
In Opening Safe
INDIANAPOLIS. Dec.
Even Frank T. Millis. Indiana
state treasurer, couldn't get to
the state funds when he arrived
at his office today.
The outer doors of the safe
refused to budge when he tried
to open them. So he sent for Car
ter Roach, a safe expert.
Roach took one look at the
doors and then gave the handles
a vigorous pulL The doors
opened.
Public Records
CIRCUIT COURT
Ella M. Dickinson vs Mrs.
Charles Duval, Charles Duval. Jr.,
D. M. Cunningham, and Irvin J.
Cutsforth: Order allowing and
denying certain motions by de
fendant Irvin J. Custforth.
Vernon L. Harris vs Agnes L.
Harris: Suit for divorce filed,
charging cruel and inhuman treat
ment; married April 29, 1944, at
Chicago.
PROBATE COURT
Edward H. Hagy estate: Peti
tion for appointment of adminis
trator. Peter Kufner estate: Petition for
appointment of appraisers.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
APPLICATIONS
Olaf L. Ware, carpenter, San
Pedro, Calif , and Esther V. Nord
strom, teacher, Silverton.
JUSTICE COURT
O. J. Morgan, Portland, passing
with insufficient clearance, fined
$2.50 and costs.
Jack Wilks, Fircrest auto court,
charged with obtaining money un
der false pretenses, preliminary
examination set for Friday, De
cember 27.
MUNICIPAL COURT
William A. Rock, 2210 Chemek
eta st., failure to stop, fined $2 50;
no driver's license, fined $2.50.
Earl Robbins. 495 N. 18th st.,
running Ted light, fined $2.50.
'Wayne Mahaffey. 1098 High
land ave., failure to stop, fined
$2.50.
Milton Larson, Silverton, driv
ing while intoxicated, fined $100,
driver's license suspended one
year, 30 days sentence suspend
ed. Red Wire, Salem, parking viol
lation warrant, posted $12 bail.
D. F. Plympton, Portland, vio
lation of basic rule, posted $7.50
bail.
H. D. Lurty, route 4, Salem,
charged with reckless driving,
posted $25 bail; no driver's license
posted $5 bail.
R. H. Laws, route 4, Salem,
violation of basic rule, posted $7.50
bail.
Calvin Wildt 1017 Elm st., vio
lation of basic rule, posted $10
bail. '
Clarence Primus, route 1. Inde
pendence, violation of basic rule, -fined
$23.
Herbert Owen Hunt. 2480 Trade
st., reckless driving, liquor involv
ed, fined $50.
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Canadians, U. S. End Dispute
Over Atomic Energy Controls
By Francis W. Carpenter
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Dec. 26.-0IVMembers of the United
States and Canadian delegations were reported authoritatively tonight
to have settled their differences over the Baruch plan to control atom
ic energy.
An informed source said that the United States did not give up
any of its basic principles in achieving the agreement.
City Manager
On Present
Job 21 Years
(Story also ea page 1)
J. L. Franzen, Salem's city manager-to-be,
was obtained by Ore
gon City as city manager 21 years
ago while he was working on an
engineer project on the Deschutes
river, and has held the position
ever since.
For two years during World War
II he was also city manager of
Vanport, once Oregon s second
largest city, but carried on his
Oregon Citydutiea at the same
lime, nt ten me vanport posi
when organizational work was
finished.
Franzen has built up a con
siderable reputation as a city man-
aer for effecting economies and
efficiencies. He had his own city
shops build a fire truck, saving
several thousand dollars, when he
thought bids were too high on
new equipment. His shops, too.
have constructed street-sign and j
fire-signal posts as economy
measures.
Instigated Aid System
The executive is credited" in Ore-
gon City with many cooperative
ventures, xoo, sucn as me lomid-
tion of the Clackamas county
wide mutual aid system, wherein
all police cars and fire trucks in
the county are radio-equipped and
there is a county-maintained fire
norated areas and which can call
I . .W , , , '
for help from any municipality
when deemed necessary.
It was through his efforts that
Oregon City last spring obtained
350 parking meters the pro
ceeds of which he aids in count
ing and sorting at 7 a.m. each
Monday and that a fire alarm
box system is being installed.
Franzen is described as an in
defatiguable worker, and admit
ted to a Statesman reporter who
called on him three weeks ago
that he was "in love with my
job a city manager would have
to be."
Many Duties Faced
Under the charter amendment j
setting up the city manager form;
of government. Franzen must re-
side within the city limits of Sa- j
lem. and, in brief, is charged with
these duties: 1
Name ail appointive officers of
the city; supervise and control
parks, airports, playgrounds, wat
er department, docks, public util
ities and all other city depart
ments; supervise and control all
administrative and business af
fairs of the city; see that all or
dinances are enforced; supervise
collection of all revenues; control
purchase, storage and distribution
of all s u p p 1 i e s and equipment;
keep the council advised as to the
needs of the city; appoint such
advisory boards "as he may deem
desirable."
The charter amendment abol-
Hshes the park and public play
ground boards and the water com
mission. Na Set Tenure of Office
The city manager, under the
charter, "shall hold office during
the pleasure of the council," and
has no set tenure of office.
The councilmen, one from each
ward, are to be elected to terms
of four years, but initially those
from wards 1. 3, 5, and 7 were
choeen only for two years so that
an entire new council will not
have to be chosen at any single
election.
Ready to serve two-year terms
are: James H. Nicholson, ward 1;
Claude W. Jorgensen, ward 3;
David CHara, ward 5; Howard
A. Maple, ward 7. Chosen for
four-year terms are Albert H.
Gille, ward 2; R. O. Lewis, ward
4; Daniel J. Fry, ward . -
Mayor-elect Qfstrom was elect
ed for two years. The office of
City Treasurer Paul Hauser re
mains elective. With, the excep
tion ef the treasurer, the mayor,
councilmen and municipal judge
(after two years), all other city
offices now are appointive.
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The differences were said to
have been mainly those of proce
dure, rather than fundamentals.
This agreement, if approved
finally by the heads of the dele
Rations and their respective gov
ernments, will go a long wajr
toward a settlement of the atomic
problem when the delegates of
the United Nations atomic en
ergy commission meet tomorrow
as a commit te of the whole for
a showdown on the United States
plan.
The political committee of the
commission approved a draft re
port on scientific and technical
features of atomic control at a
closed meeting here today, but
the major contention over the
Baruch plan has remained to be
solved.
Earlier, Canada's delegation
haH auhmittff a number tf orkm
; meTlts and proposals affecting the
Baruch phin. were Mid to
; . , . 4.i.1H - - mt-
ing of the "second echelon" of
the two delegations this afternoon
anrl Mtrlv tnniffht.
i well Satisfied"
j oth .id wer- reDorted "well
satisfied" after the long confer
ence.
With such agreement it was
predicted that Bernard M. Ba
ruch, chief U. S. delegate, and
Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton. Ca
nadian delegate, would approve
the settlement.
There is a possibility that other
delegations will bring uo new
at the meeting tomorrow
but with Canada and the United
States now in agreement the
meeting is expected to be much
smoother.
No Word from Reds
There still was no indication
as to the arutude Soviet Russia
will take in the important meet-
ing.
By a 10 to 0 vote, with Rus
sia not participating and Poland
abstaining, the political commit
tee today adopted every section
of the draft report on scientific
and technical features of atomic
control except general findings
and recommendations.
The commission is working
against time to complete a re
port to the UN security council
by Tuesday, Everything has been
acted upon except the really es
sential part of the report the
commission's general political
findings on atomic control and
tne recommendations as to just
how the atom shan be controlled,
'Annoyance Campaign
, Fails to Work Eviction
LOS ANGELES, Dec.
If F. E. Atha and his wife, Lena,
win this one, they'll be glad to
move out of Everett Clay's du
plex. Today they sued Clay for
$30,000, stating that he has been
conducting a "campaign of an
noyance" against them in the
hope of forcing , them to move.
They allege that Clay falsely told
Atha that Lena was entertaining
other men on the premises, hop
ing he could break up their mar
riage. Portland Buys Planes
To Spray Mosquitoes
PORTLAND, Dec. 2 6-P) -Portland
is going to make war on
mosquitoes via plane next year.
The city council today ap
proved purchase of two surplus
planes for" a total cost of under
$4000. Aerial spraying was ex
pected to prove far cheaper than
an infantry attack.
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