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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1947)
y -TlU EtatotmdB.SaUm, Oregon. Sunday. Sept. 11, a&t dtcfiouQ$fatC8matt "tfo Favor Svay$ Us, No Ftar Shall Awe mm first SUteseme, Maret. mi THE STATESMAN PUBUSUIWC COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher tb et the Hm Aseedte4 rreea U eatltlei exclusively to the m for reMl eatia. aU the leeai eaws prbated la this MwitP M well M all AT sews dispatches. Measure of SlaU Industrial Progress Thanks to the statistical .records made available by the unemployment compensation commission it is possible to obtain : quite an accurate picture of wage and employment conditions in Oregon. The department maintains an active statistical divi sion which works over the comprehensive data received by its various offices and comes up with worthwhile information in usable and understandable form. Thus we find in a recent release that the total of wages and salaries distributed iiv Oregon during the first half year was at latest report $398,592,646. This is an increase of 27 per cent over the corresponding period a year ago. More persona havs been employed, and individuals have received substantial wage increases. For the second quarter the 295,000 covered workers received an average monthly wage of $233. " - These figures relate to workers in covered employment, such as factories, stores, commercial establishments. Not cov red are farm workers, domestic and government employes, and those in business establishments employing fewer than four persons. The total civilian labor force is estimated at 602.500, well over the peak of wartime. The heavy unemploy ment anticipated with the closing down of shipyards and return of men and women from military service has not materialized. . The UCC statistics are reported to bear out the estimates of the census bureau which show a population of 1,530,000 for Oregon, compared with 1,088,000 in-1940. The growth in labor force has been 41 per cent and the gain in number employed iO per cent. September reports indicate a continued expansion in employment and labor force, probably due to continued influx of workers for the harvesting of crops. These statistics ought to gratify ardent boosters of state development. They show we have taken in stride the ending of the war and demobilization, that huge sums are being dis tributed among our labor population, and that the growth Incentive for the state has notyet been blunted.! Wage Auction , Labor long fought being considered a "commodity." It con tended for a living wage, and that workers should not be con sidered in the same category as raw materials and plant ex penses. Labor has strenuously objected to purchase of labor by the "shopping" process in which wages would be beaten down and down. In these days of scarcity of workers and of tight organiza tion of labor we have the situation reversed. Labor sort of auctions itself. If one union gets a wage increase of 10c an hour the next demands an increase of 15c. When John L. Lewis gets a boost of 20c an hour he sets a pattern which be comes the virtual minimum for other negotiations in the period. Lately the non-operating railroad brotherhoods got a wage raise of 15 Vic an hour. The operating' brotherhoods however now ask for a 30 per cent increase which, would give more than 50c ah hour increase. At each negotiation the jack-screw is given one or more twists. With high living costs justice is seen in granting wage in creases. The trouble is that many become unbalancing, setting off fresh reactions of wage and price increases elsewhere. And the jack screw will not work in reverse without serious friction. The pyramiding is creating a condition of instability which is itself unsettling. Investors lack confidence, and people ap pear to invite a recession of some consequence that they may buy goods cheaper. Thus we build up our own depressions. Tax Question The state grange is out with a neat pamphlet which shows by specific cases how much additional tax the farmers will have to bear if the sales tax passes. So what? Of course they will have to pay more money, and why shouldn't they? Gov ernment costs more money than it did and we keep on de manding more government. How fair would a tax be that lightened the load on farmers in these days of piping pros perity for producers of grain and meat? All this is the wrong approach to the question of whether " to have a sales tax or not. The major questions are: do we need additional revenue, and is this sales tax the best and fairest way to get it? But how many people will vote October Tth except on the basis of how it hits their own pocket books? Visit of Senator Taft The journey of Senator "Robert A. Taft through the west draws far more public attention than the pilgrimage of Gov ernor Dewey. It even draws labor pickets, and no one thought of picketing Dewey's hotel. Taft is attempting to discuss cur rent issues from the standpoint of republican party policy. Ht is frank and his ideas inevitably provoke controversy because they deal with controversial subjects. Oregon will have a chance to see and hear the Ohio sena tor this week when he speaks at the state republican club con vention in Clatsop county on Friday and at Corvallis on Sat urday. His speeches need to be considered not merely in the light of his probable personal candidacy but also as outlining party policy? from the conservative standpoint. Crfri in United Nations jThe admission of Georges Bidault, French foreign minister and delegate to the United Nations general assembly that he deems it futile "to conceal the magnitude and seriousness of the crisis' confronting the United Nations due to the radical differences that have arisen between the United States and Russia. He has endeavored to play the role of "honest broker" between the- two countries, but confesses that "one does not aee how they can be reconciled." On the list of issues however he put France quite consistently behind the United States. The crisis Is one for the United Nations as a body and for the ! whole postwar world. But its failure need not of itself precipitate war. The greatest deterrent to war is knowledge of its direful consequences. Statesmen know that everyone loses rf war comes. Another ex-cabinet officer has written a book, this time Henry "The Morgue" Morgenthau, Roosevelt's secretary of the treasury. He spills more dirt, not about his chief, whom he visited in his bath, but about his colleagues in the government. The picture he gives of politics and relief and of Henry Wal lace's extravagances with government money give warrant to m lot of the republican criticism which was denounced by loyal new dealers as propaganda reactionaries. i . . ' Oregon ranks second, next only to New York, in the quan tity of its pack of green beans. These are now called snap beans. Grandmother! called them string beans, but that was before some plant expert "pulled the string." Oregon's yield averages 7 9 tons per acre, three times the national average, and Marion county is the prime bean-growing county of the state. Some one might figure i out how many banqueters are served with Ore gon-grown beans. The U of O Emerald reports that incoming freshmen seem .Iff-have more "Webfoot spirit" than for some years. It will s: its test when the varsity team takes a few defeats. 1117 AhmUM rreea ' 0tP 93GQ008 rrrmrrws (Continued from pyi I) Italy performed the miracle of establishing a new religion which was alive in the place of an old religion which was already dead. It is possible that the Negro slave immigrants who have found Christianity in America may per ioral the greater miracle of rais ing the dead to life. With their childlike spiritual intuition and their genius for giving spontan eous aesthetic expression to emotional religious experience. they may perhaps be capable of kindling the cold grey ashes of Christianity which have been transmitted to' them by us until, in their hearts, the divine fire glows again. It is thus perhaps, if at all, that Christianity may conceivably become the living faith of a dying civilization for the second time. If this miracle ware indeed to be performed by an American Negro Church, that would be the most dynamic re sponse to the challenge of social penalization that had yet been made by man." There is that chance, indeed, and Father Divine has certainly attracted a following among peo ple of both races. But there is also the chance that with education, with steady acquisition of com mon American patterns of life and thought the negro race may lose the spontaneity which has made it original. in our society. Its re ligious fervor may ooze away as has that of many modems. The evident conflict between practice and precept in the matter of the brotherhood of man would sure ly give it an impetus in that di rection. If Toynbee would extend his suggestion to Include' late con verts in other lands, his prophecy may come true, for they In their zeal often put to shame those who at home have sent out the missionaries. Oregon Vets' Readjustment Record Good Oregon's returned veterans have ihown a htar nnitmar read justment record in the past three years man nave veterans In ma ny other states, the state unem ployment compensation commis sion reported Saturday. The proportion who have ex hausted benefit rights within the first two years after V-J day is among the lowest in the nation. The number of veterans aeeklne aid because of small earnings dr oecause or sen - employment . is much below the nation's overage, the commission said. Probably 100,000 returned vet erans are working either for themselves or others best ob tainable figures indicated. Anoth er 15,000 are or will be in schools this winter, while an additional 15.000 are in on-thaloh training Although the proportion of those gaimuny employed is nigner-tnan anticipated at the end of the year, emDlorment officers renort vet- trans' job referrals still running ai ine top level of about 600 per month. So far. the commission's record show, only about 2.2 per cent of uregon s veteran - claimants have drawn their entire allnwinm compared with an average for the nation oi per cent. This state's percentage of bene fits exhaustions is li per cent or less than any other state ex cept Idaho, Utah and .Wyoming. In some southern states as high as one-eighth of the unemployed veterans have drawn their entire allowances, while in Mississippi nearly half of the 47,964 self-employed can receive no further monthly payments. MOTHERS GO HOME Taking home baby daughters from Salem General hospital Saturday were Mrs. Jack Daniel son, Newport, and Mrs. Chester Weber, Salem route 8. Mrs. Elmer Overgaard, Salem route 4, was dismissed with her baby son. GRIN AND BEAR The treeble with yen, dear. Is Coming to it Boil THE WUOIEP&ZMO TWA 6 '3 laL E TO GlOW OP f YiWPMCef Council to Talk Of Changes in Street Names A lone parking meter bid, re commended changes in street names and bus and taxi matters will occupy the Salem council at its regular meeting Monday at 8 p. m. in city hall. The Park-o-Meter company of Oklahoma City, which supplied the 300 automatic meters most recently Installed here, submitted the only bid on the project of replacing approximately 1,000 manual meters which the council at Its last meeting voted not to retain beyond the six-months trial" period. Both motorists and traffic officers have expressed general preference for the automatic type. A large number of proposed changes in street names, to elimin ate confusion and duplication, have been recommended to the council by the city planning and zoning commission, which received them from an unofficial group of city, county, postal and utility of ficials. The aldermen are expected to discuss the proposals prelimin ary to future action. , Of four ordinance bills up for final reading, action on one grant ing Oregon Motor Stages a 10 year franchise for city buses and another raising from 75 cents to $1 maximum taxi fare from State street to north or south city Unfits is expected to be deferred for further study of the measures by city officials. The other bills would make unlawful the burning of any re fuse creating a bad odor and would accept a deed from Otto Busch to property extending Ne braska avenue one block east. OSC Enrollment To Near 8,000 CORVALLIS. Sept. 20 - UP) -Student registration at Oregon State college reached 7,105 today at the end of Freshman week and college officials said graduate students and late comers would IT By Lichty that yea still regard 'Batch as w sowv ii I i i iiir rsssr i -- - OO 1 I I fill ' SSS I boost enrollment to a r-w record clone to 8,000. The registrar's office reported 5,294 men and 1,911 women en rolled. Last year the final term registration totaled 7,133. Freshmen elected Dave Palmer, Portland, president of the class today. Helen Briscoe, of Lake view, vice-president; Barbara Bournes, North Bend, secretary; Jim Rigs, Portland treasurer; Jim Wikander, Portland, sergeant-at-irnu. Public Records MUNICIPAL COURT Robert H. Bergstrom, Portland, violation of noise ordinance, post ed $5 bail. James A. Stillwell, Sheridan, violation of basic rule, posted $7.50 bail. Richard W. Kluser, Portland, violation of basic rule and failure to stop, posted total of $27.50 bail. James Porter, Los Angeles, vio lation of basic rule, posted $7.50 bail. Zola M. Gilmour, Jefferson, vio lation of basic rule, posted $5 bail. Donald J.. Kenaghy, 851 Rose mont st., West Salem, no opera tor's license, posted $2.50 bail. Tred OUon, 3514 N. Cottage St., charged with driving with de fective brakes, pleaded innocent, released on $10 bail and cited to appear in municipal court Octo ber 3 at 1:30 p. m. Tony Baca, Lebanon, violation of basic rule, posted $10 bail. DISTRICT COURT Normal William Walkup, Al bany, charged with driving while intoxicated, 30-day jail sentence suspended on payment of $250 fine and costs; placed on one year's probation. Ernest 'Charles Cole, Silverton, sentenced to 30 days in county jail on charge of carrying a concealed weapon following dismissal of former charge of illegal possession of firearms. PROBATE COURT Samuel Kauffman estate: Final order. CIRCUIT COURT Sylvia I. Grosser vs. Bernard G. Grosser: Default order entered. Rachel A. 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Men Dr. Fred W. Lange of Sa lem, chairman, Guy N. Hickok, Paul R. Hendricks, Earl Adams, Harry M. Lucas, all of Salem; Jack Gisham, Lebanon; Bert Kra ber, Albany. BABIES DISMISSED Dismissed from Salem Deacon ess hospital Saturday with baby daughters were Mrs. Daniel Wid mer, Woodburn, and Mrs. Lyle Banning, 715 Columbia st. STEVENS & THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE know the con venience of a charge account at STEVENS, It takes only a few minutes to open one. You can pay a little each week or month to suit your own requirements without inter est or carrying charges. ' THOSE WHO KNOW US KNOW OUR DIAMOND REPUTATION THEY KNOW that the diamonds we sell are chosen with the utmost care and selected for perfection of quality, cut and color. THEY KNOW that our diamonds are faultlessly mounted in settings that answer every test for striking beauty and Wyle. THEY KNOW that In diamonds, as In every thing we sell, we earnestly strive to win and daserve the confidence of our customers. 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Greider, vet erans counselor at the Salem of fice of the state employment ser vice. Taking the stand for UMT will be Rex Kimmell of Salem, assistant state attorney general and immediate past commander Of Capital Dost ft. American Ia, gion. Speaker in opposition to the measure will be John M. Swom ley of Washington, p. C, acting director of the National rmmril Against Conscription, and form erly laenunea with the Fellow ship of Reconciliation. HOME ENTERED Dr. George Bishop, 2020 Myrtle ave., reported to jcity police Sat urday that someone had broken into his home sometime Friday night Investigating officers found the house had been entered by way of a window and was thor oughly prowled, but said that ap parently nothing was missing. Call 8095 857 Court St f A d Service 1ST Ntf unaania Jf$ Service for Oiher Hakes V APPLIANCE 260 State Salem - Jewelers & Silversmiths YOUR INSPECTION FOR CHRISTMAS Store Hours 9:30 to 5:30 339 Court SL Salem, Or. Firms in Slate Increase 50 In Two Years Marion county is one of the ar ees making the principal contri butions in new firms whose em ployment Is covered by the state unemployment, compensation law, according to compensation com mission officials. Firms under the law have increased by 4,471 in the past two years to 15,166, about 50 per cent above any period pri or to 1945. In the first year after V-4 day, 2,384 more employers came un der the law, while an additional 2.887 joined in the past year. The steady increase of about 200 new employers shows little sign of subsiding, although the 302 in crease this July and August was considerably under the 669 gain in the same two months in 1946. New postwar concerns are be lieved to have hired about 45, 000 of the 310,000 workers cur rently reported by employers. An analysis of the new firms, soon to be repeated, showed a year ago that each one created an av erage of 10 new jobs. Lumber, construction and trade each accounted for about one fourth of the added employment with the remaining fourth scat tered among other manufacturers, transportation and service groups. Principal gains, other than in Marion, were made in Lane, Douglas, Jackson, Clackamas nd Linn counties, in meet of which timber concerns are prominent NOIMA JONES BETTEA Norma Jean Jones, 14, Salem route 4, was in a "much im proved" condition in the Salem General hospital Saturday night attendants reported. She was critically injured in an auto-bicycle accident August 30. and was unconscious for nearly -three weeks. How Deafened People Now Hear Clearly Science has now made it possible for" the deafened to hear faint sounds. It is a .hearing device so small that it fits in the hand and enables thousands to enjoy ser mons, music and . friendly com- -panionship. Accepted by the American Medical Association's Council on Physical Therapy. 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