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sas. THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1949 PAGE FOUR THE BEND BULLETIN ' and CENTRAL OREGON PBESS The Bend Bulletin (weakly) ISOH-mai Ths Bend Uulk-tln (Daily) EsOBU Published Evury Afternoon Except Sunday and Certain Hollows by The Bimil bulletin 18 - HH Wall SUeet Bund, OreKon 'Catered al Baeond' Class Matter, January C. 1917, at the Postofflce at Bend, Oregon Under Act of March I. 18711. BO BERT W. 8AWYEB Editor-Manager HENRY N. FOWLER Associate Editor a Independent Newspaper Standing for the Square Deal, Clean Business, Clean Politics . and the Best Interests of Bend and Central Oregon ' '' MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS By MaU , By Carrier One Year 17.00 One Year .., 110.00 Six Months 14.00 Six Months I (.10 Three Months (2.10 One month 1.00 All Subscriptions are DUE and PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Please notify as of any change of address or failure to receive the paper regularly! WELFARE NOTES In two recent issues (March 19 & 26) the Oregon Voter has devoted much space to the problem of welfare costs and the work that is being done at Salem by a ways and means sub committee in trying to provide adequately for welfare needs and, at the same timeto add no more than is absolutely neces sary to the tax payer burden. It is unfortunate war. news re ports of the legislature's work do not give the story in the detail provided by the Voter. Were tax payers more fully in formed the interest that will be developing at budget making and, more particularly, tax paying time would oe now in evi , dence. If we get the picture it seems certain that having done the very best it can the sub-committee and the legislature will inevitably leave things in a condition that two years hence will be even worse than that now facing the state. The f eV rays of hope are in the possibilities that costs may go down : and that a lien law affecting the property of welfare.recipi ents may be enacted. Even these, however, though much to be desired, will give comparatively but little help. A lien law was enacted by the 1947 legislature but Governor Snell vetoed it. It is now interesting to learn, as we do from the latest Voter, that Bardi Skulason, a member of the state welfare board by that governor's appointment, advised the veto two years ago and now believes he was wrong. Knowledge of the fact lends encouragement to the belief that there will be a new lien bill at this session and that Governor McKay will be ready to sign it. - t As one reads the Voter he gets something of an understand ing of the extremely heavy pressures under which members . of the state commission work. They carry large social respon sibilities that, we feel sure, they can never divorce from the routine of their daily lives and occupations. They receive no compensation other than the knowledge that they are giy ing the state a high service. , Full appreciation is due the members of this state board and, at the same time, to the appointive members of the county boards. These latter, also, receive no financial compen sation nor even, we believe, reimbursement for expenses in curred in travelling to commission meetings. ' Here in Deschutes the members are Mrs. B. A. Stover, J. R. Roberts, Ole Grubb and Craig Coyner. We think that they are . entitled to a salute and we offer one. - ' , v ' i! H. THOSE SAUCERS AGAIN ' We have never seen a flying saucer and, as Gelett Burgess once wrote in regard to a non-existent purple cow, we "never hope to see one", but that, of course, will have no effect on the yearnings of others who hope so earnestly that presently they are seeing the things where they aren't. Several times now reports qf saucers in the sky have become : current and have bred other reports until it seemed that the dish cupboards of the country must be well-nigh depleted. For long intervitls then there .would be nothing more but eventual- : ly someone would start fhe story, again and imaginative ob servers would pop up here, there and yonder with similar tales. - ' ' ' ' . ' An odd thing about the latest wave of saucer stories is the growing belief that the whole matter is a "top army secret", this springing solely from the fact that one of the "high brass", tired of explaining repeatedly that there simply wasn't any such thing, finally replied, "No comment", when asked about the rumors. So, it is argued, the army is hiding some thing of greatest importance. Because' people would like to believe this, they will convince themselves that it is so. Some have already succeeded. So far, over the months, there has been no affirmative evi dence that one could tie to. Some folks are 'sure they see saucers and others who aro with them, are unable fo. The only photographic record submitted was sad anti-climax; the "saucer" was a flaw in the negative. And the only testimony that one of the aerial oddities had been seen close up turned out to be no more reliable. It was a pan cover tossed into a a neighbor's yard that the observer had seen. No, we don't seem to be able to get excited over the flying saucers, Dut neither do we wish to be intolerant about it. If any of our friends and readers believe in them and think they see them and deVive pleasure and satisfaction thereby, we can have no seriolis objection. But we do wish they wouldn't drag national defense into it. That, it seems to us, is just too far fetched. - ' Washington Scene By lliirnian V. Nichols (United l'roas Stall CorrcMlxiiulrtit) Washington, March 31 lli Your department ol agriculture, which knows all about oats, peas, beans and barley and how much wool you can scrape off a lamb's back, has come up witli a star tling announcement: Viz: 100 per cent of the men In America wear underwear; not only that, but 42 per cent pull on the long fleece when winter comes. All of this Interesting stuff and a lot more is contained in a lti pago, single spaced document (printed on both sides) which the department just got out. The agriculture people .said they were working In the Interest of the cotton, wool, rayon and ny lon folks. During a six weeks pe riod, agents of the department surveyed the male population (cross-sectionwl.se, hy net tin I count, 2,203 from all walks of life) for Information about who wears what and who buys II. The ag survey people got pret ty nosey. They asked about busi ness shirts, summer spoils shirts, I extra pants, summer suits, socks, underwear, pajamas, robes and rnlnt'oals. The department tig mi's the cross-section speaks for some 50.000,000 males over the uge of 16. i In a Nummary, II says that while all men own underwear, socks and ut least one Sunday-go-to-meetln' suit, only about "half have a wool shirt, or a bathrobe or a cool suit for summer. Of the cross. section, it says on page seven, omy sm p,-r cent of our men folks own pajamas. Ap parently 47 Kir cent sleep in the rw, although my agents say "I his may vary horn California to Arkansas, to Texas." Sixty per cent of our men are prepared when It rains, although it isn't known how many have the raincoat at home or at the office when it rains in the morning and vice versa. Thirty-six per. cent wear aiy old tiling in the rain and the other four per cent In terviewed didn't know whether they owned raincoats or not, not having looked in the attic or base ment recently. Climax of the report was most fascinating. "Do you select most of your clothing or does someone else buy It for you?" r'lft.v-nlno per cent of those polled won't let the little woman go along to help 'cm pick out -a suit. As a matter of fact, except lor pajamas and bathrobes, most guys don't want mama anywhere near when they pick out things to wear. Some of the, fellows admitted Hull they took their mothers along, hut our agent said most of these guys were the 'teenagers in the survev. Mlhni'u fi,U (t,1Mllln,! tl,t II..,., ! took their small daughters along. 1 am one guy who has never been polled lor anything to name a political candidate, to ac cept a give-away prize on Hie la dio, or to say whether 1 eat hay or eggs lor breakfast. And when I go out to buv a pair of underwear shorts, which nil of us guys are supposed to wear, 1 Just ask for size 42 mid leave mnmii al home. After all, she doesn't take me along when she wauls to buy u new girdle. The average yield of mush rooms produced by commercial growers Is from one tu oneliall pounds per square loot. WASHINGTON COLUMN IIIIIMItlllUIIIIMhiUimillltHlHlllH uiiiu'iluuluuuiJiuiiliJiiuiiliiiiMiuiiiiiiimmmMiiii By Peter Ed son . (NBA Washington Correlondent) Washington (NEA) Secretary of state Dean Acheson got right down to basic English when he unveiled the text of the proposed North Atlantic pact. He was ask ed whether this treaty would lm- nose a moral as well as a legal obligation on the United States to go to the netense oi European na tions attacked by an aggressor. The secretary drew a homely parallel. Suppose a man makes a contract to buy a cow for $100, he began. You could consider this entirely a legal contract. IX either the buyer or the seller of the cow backed out of the contract; the other could go to court. And the Judge could force the two parties to live up to ineir contract, Decent people carry out their contracts without going tp court, the secretary went on. When de cent people do live up to their -nntt-i.rtc it Hnpsn'r makp flnv dif ference whether they do so be cause of their moral or their legal obligations. - Tf nil nnnnrripR wpre enuallv as decent, there would be a lot less trouble In the worm, me secre tary observed. But in internation al contracts thorp Is no sheriff sit ting on a high cloud to make na tions live up to their agreements. So it's up to the nations them selves to make good on their promises, regardless of whether it s a moral or a legal oDiigauon. In this North Atlantic pact, the United States. Canada, Britain, Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands have propos ed a legal contract to do certain things. They have invited Nor way, Denmark, Italy, Portugal and Iceland to Join them in this Undertaking. If all 12 govern ments ratify the pact, they will have a contract to consider an armed attack on any one of them as an attack against them all. Their contract would commit them only to consult whenever the territory, independence or secur ity of any one of them is -threatened. (Art. 4.) They leave to broad lnterpretion what shall be consid ered an armed attack. Art. 6.) If there is any doubt about whether any incident is a threat to the peace if it is just a border flare-up or an entirely internal golitical revolution, no action need a taken. If, however, a revolu tion In any country is stirred up by a foreign' power or if there is an all-out attack such as Germany launched against France in 1914 and 1940, then the other countries would take action, Whatever action Is taken will be decided on .by the constitutional process of each country. (Art. 11.) For the United States, this means that any decision to go to war can be taken only by act of congress, as provided in the U. S. constitu tion. This settles for all time .the great to-do made by Senator Van denberg a few weeks ago. Each country is to be left free to Judge its own course of action. I IKE DAMAGES SHOP Fire of undetermined origin caused extensive damage to Val's Repair shop, at 1245 Jacksonville, shortly after 3 p.m. yesterday. The building was badly damaged, and a used, car and a number of tools were destroyed, according to firemen who answered the call. Vai Stokoe is owner of the garage. SPRING SHOES? YES! Shingler's , , town & country Footwear WHX OPEN TUESDAY APRIL 5th At 1001 Wall St. for years the "Style Corner of Bond" - ' at Wall and Oregon. USE BULLETIN WANT ADS FOR BEST RESULTS! 1 Furnishing Your Home Is Fun at Bend Furniture ' fmmmmammmmmmaimKm U$ fa&&$$f .? BEND FURNITURE CO.-A SMART NEW STORE ... A FINE OLD NAME I .SH'iill Resenting ... S& )1h ' gest Stocks - gkA - ' A J : t:MP-f Coverings I C;J I ''"V O Beauty You Can See V ' (i 0.ffuality You Can Trust " LACIUHA group A deluxe Smart Set dinette. Graceful,' oval end. r Sttl I ' I A X fj I large center leal. 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ROSEWOOD A r e in a rkajile vahio better than ever at this economy price. 39.50 Cotton Felted MATTRESS $a.r)lr no lb. eollon felled mattress. It.iill for comfort ami lo.iK wear. Now 16.50 Double Deck Coil Springs $M.".V-ltonhr iIimU toll NprlliK I.I cither Iwin $t "TC or full M.o. Our price IWs One Lot Box SPRINGS lines lo $Ml.oll III imp mill croup of l;o springs . $00 C rail or Iwin nI.c s473 Shop Bend Furniture Co. NOW In a new modern rug department arranged for better displays and conven ience, Bend Furniture boasts one of the largest stocks of fine rugs in the en tire state. Encased now on our racks are 24 of the newest in Broadloom in 9. and 12 foot widths. Rugs by Bigelow James Lees Gulistan Mohawk and Alexander Smith. In addition, we now have a special order service with complete mill patterns. New 1949 Broadlooms are priced from . . . Square Yard 6.95 to 16.95 SPRING VALUES IN ROOM SIZE RUGS We're featuring many exceptional values in choice Axminster, Velvets and fine Wilton Rugs. Nearly all sizes are available including 9x12;' 9x15, 12x12, 9x24, 10x2 and many others. Check these special values: 89.50 9 x 12 Axminster Rug 59.50 $128.50 9 x 12 Wilton Rug . 79.50 5202.50 12 x 12 Wilton Rug 159.50 Use Our Convenient.Credit Plan 03 Housewares Department Make your selections of Rifts with full- confidence in your new housewares department at the Bend Furniture. Also needed items for your home. ' Many new and beautiful Items have been added for your buying pleasure. Electric Appliances Toastmastcr, Westliighouse, Sunbeam and Hamilton Beach electric appliances, all at fair traded prices. Spun Aluminum Spun Aluminum in Klcam Iiir satin finish, made up in rake, sandwich tray, nen bon dishes, napkin holders and many other lovely ac cessories. Prices from 1.03 to 4 Pottery Utensils Sllnuilalhiir black and yel low call, call imtlcry vanes, figurines and flower howls. I rom tlio famous Sylvans Ceramics, I.B5 to 2.55. Helpful Suggestions You will find a full line of Keverc, Wcarevcr, and I'.v rex at your disposal. Among the many beauti fully styled Rlfls '"" see a new line of smoking accessories In leather and copper. Triple baked enameled Ml chen tinware,, every piece a perfection of (IcsIrii and true color. I'or Ihe Ki't Ibal Is differ ent and Ihe price thai is right, shop at the nrw housewares department in the Bcnil I iirniliire.
