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CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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By Lichty
that yea still regard 'Batch as
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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. Wied, administratrix
of Frank F. Wied estate, vs. Jim
Wied and Jane Die Wied: Defen
dants file answer admitting and
denying.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
APPLICATIONS
Wilbur L. Hamhire, 23. truck
driver, 3435 Silverton rd , and
Mary Virginia Schwarz, 24, comp
tometer operator, 650 Thompson
ave., both of Salem.
Willard L. Faulhaber, 22 cream
ery employe, and Frances Duman,
19, waitress, both of Mt. Angel.
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Chin-Uppers
Receive Aid in
Building Drive
Persons from a large number
of Oregon communities are serv
ing on committees, announced
Saturday, assisting in the build
ing fund drive by the ChinUp
Club of Oregon. A feature of the
drive is the selling of "brick" tags,
proceeds from which will go into
construction of a workship for
physically handicapped persons.
p.'rnbcr of the committees are
as follows:
Vv omen Mrs. Earl Adams of
Salem, Willamette valley chair
man; Mrs. Harry M. Lucas, Mrs.
Albert Fried, Mrs. Floyd Lem
mons, Mrs. B. E. Hallingsworth,
Mrs. Fred W. Lang. Mrs. Anna
Arnold, all Willamette valley;
Mrs. Lucille Garner, Mrs. Kas
son, Mrs. L. L. Hansen, Mrs. N.
Clemens, Mrs. Opal Bayer and
Mrs. Herman Hahn, all of Salem;
Mrs. Ruth Berry, Gervais; Mrs.
Bert Kraber and Mrs. Louise Will
iams, Albany; Mrs. Helen Cowan,
Woodburn.
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.
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Portland Man Held
In Woman's Death
PORTLAND, Sept 20 -(")-Rutherford
A. Beer, 4 1 -yea f -old
father of two, was held by police
today in connection with the
death of an unidentified woman,
found beaten in a hotel bed..
Detective M. A. McMeeken
said Beer admitted entering the
hotel this morning with the wo
man a middle-aged, gray-haired
woman he saw outside the hotel
and striking her when she reached
for his wallet
McMeeken said Beer then went
out became worried about the
woman, returned, and, realizing
she was 'dead, went to call police.
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Public Forum on
Military Training
Set Tuesday Night
A public forum on the subject
of the DroDosed universal mili
tary training bill, pending in con
gress, wui oe conducted Tuesday
at 8 p. m. in Waller hall on the
Willamette university campus.
Moderator for the discussion
will be Carlton B. 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.
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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.
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