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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1944)
PXGEFOUS THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND. OREGON. FRIDXY. JXF1UXRY 2f. 19 THE BEND BULLETIN and CENTRAL OREGON PRESS Taa Baa Solatia (H-ktr) lMt . US1 Taa aa4 BolWcia (Dailj) 11 1111 S-aalhiil ftn Aftaraaaa Baaaj tada ant CMk EoJUata a Taa aaa BnlWua TM-TU Wall Ural , Orwa if as m ImI da Maw. Jwwr . Mil. a Mm foatafliaa at Baao, OnM Uaoar Act of Ibnk I. li'l BOBEBT W. IAWYXK Edlur . Ilauunv HKNBY N. FOWLER Aaaoclat Wttaf FRANK B. lOOOAH AratUaa mm I Kmmi Itaaolaa- (or tha ian Dm). Cltu CwkMH. CUao PoUUa In Mart W WM MM M UMW urasoa Om Tor....... fix Uoatha faraa Moatha., Br Ma AUDIT BOBBATJ OF OBCCLATION BUBscBirnoN bath .S1.IS .SUM Br Cutmt Six Month.., Om MoQth.. . .1 All lafeerlptlom an DUB ana PATABLB IN ADVANCE . Blatat aatlfj aa oi anr ehanaa M adaraa. ar lailara ta raealra Uw aapar ranlarlr JUVENILES AND THE COMMISSION The news of Wednesday night's city commission meeting and of the time taken there in discussing the enforcement of laws relating to juveniles leaves us both discouraged and en couraged. We think that our feeling is shared by a large majority of the people of Bend. It is discouraging to learn that after all that happened a year ago and all that then was promised regarding the enforcement of city ordinances there has been a lapse and a return to the very conditions so seri ously complained of at that time. It is eacouragiiiK to learti that the city commission seems moved to take positive action in the matter and the fact that it took grand jury criticism to promote commission action can be forgotten. Our news story says that there was heated debate at the meeting over the question. What, we wonder, was there to debate. The ordinances are on the books. The public be lieves in them or there would -be a demand for their repeal. The question of enforcement does not call for debate. A fertile mind can doubtless think of reasons why this or that may be difficult but. after all, enforcement is enforcement, and that is all there is to it We agree that juveniles may enter so-called pool rooms for many a harmless purpose. The ordinance, however, con templates protection against harm that may be in these places of resort. Those particular city officials charged with the enforcement of the law should enforce it or propose its repeal and give good reasons for the proposal.. The same is true as to the curfew ordinance. Let it be noted that the juvenile problem is not, however, to be answered by enforcing a series of "Thou shalt nots." There must be a positive program including healthy recrea tion opportunity and that is something that needs the thought or others besides the city commission. . UNSNARL IT? SORe IT'S Alt VSKV SIMPLE The Way It Will Probably Work Ouf . FtwryjuiAKE This END", f. r ia - Gideon planish y oitimirwft Cavrrtefct, IMS. Itaalalr 1.1 Mia Dl.trlaatra By NBA acrrlca, lae. ME. TOO ' It was to be expected that Secretary Stimson would back up the president's proposal for a national service law. It is surprising, however, that he sWbuld wait until the president spoke before urging publicly, before committees of congress and elsewhere, that industrial unrest at home threatened to undermine the morale of the fighting forces. The fact has been patent for months. '-Trainees ' have reported it when thejt.visited at home before taking ship for tfie fighting front. Letters from overseas have told what the boys out there were Baying. News correspondents have given prominence to the feeling in their dispatches. ; With the passage of time fuller implications of the presi dent's proposal have been realized and now there, is general agreement that what Mr. Roosevelt sought was to place on congress the apparent blame for failing to deal with indus trial strikes that slowed down war industry. In the three years that he has hesitated to recommend a national service law he has also failed to deal with striking labor vigorously and effectively. He has temporized, compromised and paci- iiea. me cmcKen ot nesitation has been approaching its roosting place of blame in the Roosevelt office and now the master politician tries to drive the bird down to the other end of Pennsylvania avenue. Secretary Stimson, of course, must now follow the White House lead. It is unfortunate, however, that regardless of politics he did not strike on behalf of soldier morale months ago. His present "Me too,'' argument is both belated and unbecoming. .'..' Congratulations to the school children of Lanine. Thev have accepted the challenge of the paper salvage campaign and already collected over a ton of paper as their initial con tribution in the drive. As to this campaign it must be remembered that it is continuing. It's from now on. It is not enough to bring in your old magazines. You must save paper day in and day out. Others Say . BY DIRECTIVE (AstorUn Budget) Congress has been given, by the constitution, sole power to make all laws necessary and proper for the raisins of an army. See Ar ticle 1; Section 8, paragraphs IB and 12. preferably in that order. Congress has decreed, by law, that pre-Pearl Harbor fathers shall be placed ot the bottom of the list of selective service ellgt Dies. Thin, says President Roose velt, who signe4 that law, Is nothing but a "pious wish," with out binding fotcc. Congress also decreed, wisely or foolishly but legally, that Paul McNutt should be divorced from the administration of the draft. President Roosevelt, whose sig nature approved this decree also, says he Is going to take advant age of another law to continue McNutt's participation In the se lective service setup. Ain't we got fun? The Story: When Dr. Gideon Planish, editor of Rural Adult Ed ucation anr former Dean of Kin niklnlck College, learns that the present executives of the Heskett Rural School Foundation are not cashing in sufficiently on the Foundation funds, he sees infinite possibilities. He is offered and accepts the position of Managing Secretary. a a a . XVII ft must not be thought that Dr. Planish .did nothing at all as managing secretary of the Hes kett Foundation. He took part in conferences, almost weekly con ferences, promoted by colleges, libraries, municipal forums, state educational associations, and he unflinchingly told these confer ences that rural educ-itlon was a fine idea. He sat op. committees, and if the sitting was not actual and physical, at )ust he had his name on the rosters of commit tees, scores of them. He benevol ently allowed students to use the pedagogical library which Miss Nlmrock had collected, and he supervised the publication of three pr.mphlets prepared by uni versity instructors who had con cluded, after examining all the figures issued by the state gov ernments, that teachers could be better paid and better heated. This was called Research. He was fond of these pamph-' lets, because whenever his ac counts looked a little confused, he could always put down "printing ana promotion as an item oi ex pense. It was Indeed chiefly as a lit erary man that Dr. Planish mark edly Improved upon Miss Nlm rock. He gave no larger financial grants for school garden contests, but he increased fourfold the number of letters of advice sent out monthly to rural educators: advice on whether blackboards should be greenboards or blue boards, advise on reading poetry, advice on the established code for school Janitors. He sat dictating oracles all day long, stopping only to steal his Information from the publications of Columbia Univer sity, the Carnegie Foundation and the Association lor Adult t-duca tion. was as yet merely in his prophetic vision. Not for some time yet would Organl-cd Philanthropy rank eighth among the major in dustries of the United States. But already Dr. Planish could foresee a wedding of generosity and effi ciency which would make the Crusades look like a bonus march, and perceive that it was going to be valuable for a scholar with a wi!e and child to be stationed close to this waxing flood of gold, a a a Despite Frlsby's doubting, Dr. Planish prepared a new letter of solicitation for the H.R.S.F. Dear Friend of Education: This letter isn't for you. We know from our huge files that you are sound on the subject of rural education; you realize that unless our country schools are just as .well staffed and supplied as Hie snootiest city private school, there is no hope lor our neiovea Amer ica In its race against world an archy. But you have a friend who be licves just as you and I do, but doesn't know about the HES KETT RURAL SCHOOL FOUN DATION. He doesn't realize that It he will take a mere $10.00 a year from his cigar money, he can make that sum do $1000 worth of imperative national good and make him a proud contributing Member of the H.R.S.F. He'll get all our publications free, with the privilege of attend ing our Conferences and hearing the biggest men of tho nation ex plain the solution of all rural problems. And you, dear Defender of Education, will be doing the greatest good to the country by telephoning to that Unknown Friend of Ours and giving him our address and greetings. We can't locate your friend VOU CAN! While you're reading this, why not lift the receiver and call his number and tell him RIGHT THIS MINUTBl-we want to send him, FREE, the four- color booklet "OUR SECRET SHRME." kick through, the cost of the cam' paign Is covered." To the gratification of the Doc tor's love for beautiful letters, 1.37 per cent of his prospects did "kick through," and showed their devotion to education by taking out Foundation memberships. Even Mr. Frisby was impressed. Dr. Planish had been truly or dained as a priest of Scientific Philanthropy. And as for the pamphlet Our Secret Shame which was sent out to prospects that was Bernar dine Nimrock's old tract. Statis tics on Salaries and Attendance in District Schools, with a new cover on it. (To Be Continued) cutback had been ordered because the army had all the engines and parts for training pUnes that It would need for the duration of the war. There was no need for military secrecy in this. This, in fact, was bad news for Germany and Japan. It could have been broadcast to the axis, without re vealing a single production figure, just to let the super-races know that ail this American productive capacity that had been going into training planes could now be con centrated in the production of combat planes. This thing that nappenea at Thompson Products is going to be repeated thousands of times in greater and less degree, all over the country, in the next few years. In the Detroit area alone, the end of the war will mean layoffs for perhaps half of the million and a quarter workers now in war production. Right now, the manpower re conversion problem provides no great difficulty. There is still a shortage of workers in nearly every industry. Over-all employ ment is still climbing. An optimis tic view is that it will reach a peak about mid-summer, then carry along at an even level .till the end of the war. Then watch for the drop. It can be a nose dive and crash, or a parachute descent with a happy landing. Such spotty unemployment as now develops from cutbacks is causing no great maladjustment Working wives who took war jobs out of patriotism are going back to their families, old men back to their rocking chairs, youngsters back to their schools and liking it. There are other Jobs for most of those who want them and need them. The obvious need is to plan and to manage the job shifts so there will be a minimum of un employment That reguires a tre mendous amount of Intricate doing. War Briefs (Br Ualtaa fnm) Bosaia Russians smash ahead on 110-mile front south and west of Leningrad, massacring thous ands of Germans in biggest battle of annihilation since Stalingrad. Western Europe RAF resumes blockbuster offensive against Ber- Germans reported preparing gen eral withdrawal on fifth army front; U. S. bombers raid four Italian airfields. . Pacific Japanese believed rush ing air reinforcements to threat ened south Pacific strongholds; British submarine sinks Japanese cruiser few hundred miles from Singapore; allied planes reveal ed to have sunk 10,000 tons of shipping and destroyed or dam- ;cu aa enemy pissss us mien lin with what may have been the raids on Rabaul and New Guinea. heaviest ram against tne naa capi- tal; lose 35 planes. There are 6307 hospitals in the Italy British advance north (United States with over 853,000 from Mlnturno on Appian way; i beds. City Drug Co. City Drug Co. City Drug Co. Washington Letter Edson By Peter Edson (NEA Staff Corraapondcnt) Telling the people the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the cancellation of war con tracts, cutbacks and reconversion to civilian indus try Is going to be twice as neces sary as telling them the facts about the war. Necessity for maintaining mil itary secrecy Is a perfectly sound reason for not revealing where all the war plants are and how much of what each is making. But in the re adjustments to peace time pro duction, there can be no excuse for failing to explain to the pub lic in the greatest detail why every shift in employment and production Is made. And if such explanations are not made the misunderstandings will be multi plied into a post-war confusion that will be far worse than any thing developing in wartime. - a fatu In nnltit fifvlnrv-H at thf end of the year in Cleveland, O, when Thompson Products, Inc.,' announced layoffs for 1500 em-1 ployes and shortening of the work week for 14,500 others, cutting them back from 13 days' work in Bend's Yesterdays FIFTEEN YEARS AGO (From The Bulletin, Jan. 21, 1929) I Children sliding down HiUi street and across The Dalles-Cali-! fornia highway, cause city- com mission to consider building a1 slide in a safer section of the! city. B. A. Stover, vice president,' makes principal speech when the Kiwanls club celebrates its 14th birthday. j As a blanket of fresh snow! covers the McKenzie pass area,1 scores go to the Skyllners slide. L i U. Hardendorf, of the skiing club, reports Ice is too thin for skat ing. Mrs. Batie Allen Is elected chair man of the Home Economics club at a meeting held In Terrebonne. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (From The Bulletin, Jan. 21, 1919) Police Judge D. H. Peoples warns motorists that they must get 1919 automobile, licenses or face heavy fines. A mixed pelt, indicating that black fox may be found in the Cascades, is received by G. C. Griggs, local dealer. Chiet of Police Nixon reports that he will ask the city council at its meeting tonight to enact an ordinance regulating the sale of preparations with a large al coholic content. County Clerk J. H. Haner passes through Sisters en route to the Metollus for an outing. Coke Is now being produced In Utah from the Geneva coal mine in the southeastern part of the; state, lor a steel plant near Provo which wl)'. supply ship plates for west coast shipbuilding. WIS wmm Display This Emblem BUY NOW! Spoct courtesy Tht Shtvlin-Hixon Company and Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company Inc. As a literary man. Dr. Planish alio composed the Hoskett Foun dation's, first aggressive series of fund-soliciting letters. Mr. frisby Insisted that the Foundation had enough funds so that it was not worth the bother "trf circularize a lot of fourfluxhcrs that you could n't pry a sawbuck loose from with dynirmitp," but Dr. Plani.sh saw it more professionally, with the eye of vision and of the Future. The Biblical virtue of philan thropy was In this era 'turning Into something far nobler thun the Impulsive handing out of a quarter. It was no longer emotion and friendliness, but Social Engi neering, Planned -Giving, with a purpose and a technique; It was Big Business. Dr. Plamsh saw that today the Good Samaritan would not do anything so silly and unsanitary as to pick up a man who had 'fallen among hit-run drivers. According to every rule of First Aid, thP silly suburbanite mlsht have killed the poor fellnw by moving him. Today, the Sa maritan would telephone to the nearest hospital and say, 'Take care of him. and when I come again, I shall Increase my sub script Ion to your nationwide chain ot hospitals, now headed by that great Organization Executive, lr. Gideon Planish." Thus di-eamrd the Iloctor, ten der heart and powerful bnin run ning strung and true, us he took his daily nap among the steel fil ing cabinet In his olluv. All tlili colonization of hor.plul a a a i eacn two weeKs to live ana a nan This letter was sent not only toJ days a week. This welcome little all members the Foundation. New Yeas greeting came be- but to all persons w ho had prom- cause oi a suaoen, snarp cuidbck isingly Inquired about its work, ln ordcrs for aircraft valves and and later sent to a general list. Dr. I parts. Kltto thought It a rather shocking On its face, this situation letter, and Mr. Frisby thought it funny. But. in the technical term, It "pulled." With the passion for exactitude and flapping charts which is part of the New Scien tific Philanthropy, Dr. Planish calculated that it cost ten cents to send out the letter, including sta tionery, postage, mimeographing, filling In, the booklet, overhead, and purchasing lists of persons known to have been philanthropic which were rather coarsely known as "sucker lists," and which were sold commercially, like fly-paper. As the professional saviors put It, "If one per cent of the prospects on the sucker list sounds completely cockeyed. Why, at- this stage of the war, should there be any cutbacks ln airplane engines? With aircraft produc-: tion goals I t 1944 set far above production in 1943, why should there be any layoffs and reduc tions In hours in any aircraft plant in the country"? To the employes In the Thompson plants affected by this cutback, the sit uation undoubtedly did not make sense, and If they were told no more than was in the company's announcement. It no doubt caused a lot of needless worry. A check up In Washington re vealed what had happened. The Thers Are Approximately 2500 AUTOS in Deschutes county operated without insurance. Is VOI R car one of these? State law requires a report on EVERY auto acldent. Mr. Uninsured. Before YOU have an acldent you'd better see your nearest Farmers agent Art today be safe to morrow! FARMERS AUTOMOBILE nr. INSURANCE ...,. 72Uttjftamw2 law1" iiuimnr.ti.i,-Al L G. BOWNS District Blanager I0M Bond Phone 331 -take LAillCwLD Wi hard to defend yourself against a cold. 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