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A MATTER OF COMMON SENSE
. Just about the time of the police announcement that fire
works laws are to receive special enforcement attention this
season, the national safety council's annual plea for a sane
Fourth of July makes its appearance, serving to remind us
that accident prevention is not solely a matter of law enforce
ment. Much of it is bound to depend on the common sense of
the individual. ...
Tf a middle-aired office manaeer who does most of his train
ing at his desk, decides to prove
on a weeK-ena ana cnmoing a mountain, mere ian t ntutu umi.
the law can do about it. Still, it's quite likely that the middle
aged office manager won't continue to manage offices as long
as he would if he had left that, mountain alone.
If over-heated excursionists want to take chances in the
temptingly chill waters of ocean
nothing mucn tnat tne law can ao bdoui n. n me me numu
doesn't see them first, there may not be much that he can do
about it either. ...
Excesses not only in exercise but in eating, drinking, ex
posure all are dangerous, but it is still man's privilege to
make a fool of himself it he
here.
Traffic laws do not cover
And it is manifest that there
prevent. So much remains the choice of the individual ; so
much is his responsibility.
Of course it's still more than two weeks before the Fourth
when, in the exuberance of celebration, people seem especial
ly prone to take chances, especially inclined to do silly things.
But maybe it takes a little time to think things over, to reach
sound conclusions as to personal conduct.
If it does, let's take time and then be ordinarily careful at
least.
CODE FOR ATHLETES
From Klamath Falls there comes to us a copy of a code of
conduct for athletes, drawn by the Klamath union high school
coaches' board and approved by the board of education and
the high school administration. The code is an excellent one
but the fact of its enactment is rather discouraging in its tacit
admission that such a thing was necessary.
The code, which has to do with conduct of athletes on trips,
as well as at home, covers the following "areas of conduct" :
1. Stealing of school equipment.
2. Stealing on athletic trips or at home.
3. Violations of civil laws.
4. Smoking or the drinking of alcoholic drinks
during the high school athletic career.
5. The keeping of regular hours to be home by
10 o'clock week nights and 12 o'clock Friday
and Saturday nights. (Sunday is considered
a week day). ' ,i
6. Conduct above reproach at all times.
7. Irregular practice attendance. ,
The board of coaches will administer the code and enforce
it. We trust that this will not keep the board too busy and
that the rules will result in making Johnny a better halfback
or quarter miler or whatever it is that Johnny specializes in.
But, as we look over the rules once more, we wonder why they
should have been made for athletes only. Aren't they rules of
conduct which any high school youngster should follow? Isn't
it just as important that all should keep regular hours the
nights before school days, that they should follow common
sense rules of health, that they should be law-abiding?
If rules will bring about these things (of this we are not
entirely sure) it occurs to us that all should have the benefit
of them.
Others Say
WHEN NET IS NOT
(Astorian Budget)
Net, (adj) Clear of, or free
from all charges, deductions, out
lays, losses, etc. Webster.
The statement of Bonneville
Administrator Paul Raver to the
effect that the BPA is making a
"net profit of about $10 million
annually" is a glib halftrulh and
an abuse of business English.
Not that this newspaper is fun
damentally opposed to public
power. But we are infuriated by
Doctor Raver's gross attempt to
hoodwink the reading public by
use of an antiquated gimmick
of the political electricians the
unadulterated propaganda of a
trumped-up profit and loss state
ment. We contend that a politically
subsidized "business operation"
cannot possibly show a "net pro
fit" of any kind in comparison
with private companies. If Doctor
Raver wants to show a "net pro
fit" for BPA, we challenge him to
use the same bookkeeping meth
ods by which the private com
panies are compelled under fed
eral power commission regula
tions. For, if the BPA head wishes to
compare his operailon in trims
of the conventional meaning of
profit with business managed
power companies, he should use
the same method of computing
that profit.
Referring to I lie Webster defin
ition above, let us apply it to the
"Bonneville profit."
Klrst, the BPA pays NO federal
or state taxes on lis "earnings."
Since private companies pay land
ROOFING & SIDING
Terms Low as $9.00 Per Month
SERVING ALL CENTRAL OREGON
Gardner's Building Service
BULLETIN
OREGON PRESS
Th Runrl Uulletln (Dally) EL 1916
and Certain Holiday by Tint Bi-nd Bulletin
Bn. Oregon
fl, 117. at the Poatoffiee at Bend, Oreiron
March 8, 187U.
HENRY N. FOWLER AasociaM Editor
the Square Deal, Clean Diulneu, Clean Folltica
One Year 110.00
Six Month. I 8 60
his manhood by stepping out
or of mountain lake, there is
desires, ine law aoes not enter
....
nearly all the traffic mishaps.
are many which they do not
deduct from profit) about 23 per
cent, this Item is not taken into
consideration In Doctor Raver's
net.
Second, the BPA obtains Its
necessary funds from the U. S.
treasury the taxpayers and
pays very little Interest on its
loans. Private companies include
in their profit and loss state
ments considerable Interest items
against their profits.
Then there Is the matter of de
preciation which private compan
ies must charge against their pro
ms before arriving at a net fig-
uie. Private companies must bug
get annually against the deprecia-1
lion of their plants. Bonneville
charges cit some depreciation,
but a large share of the original
plant Is charged off" in the be
ginning against navigation, flood
control, reclamation and other
"good causes".
If the power piogram Is going
to be seli svippotlliig, or at least
if the ailniinusiralois an' going to
try to convince the taxpaying
public that they arc, we should
see a true piolit and loss state
ment, not u propaganda and less
statement.
Public agencies should not at
tempt to use business terms in
depicting their success or failure.
Tney are not businesses and don't
operate line them.
NEW LIVESTOCK LAW
IN El I KI T
(Oregon L'lty Kutcrprlsn)
The new livestock identification
and theft prevention act passed
by the 1!1! legislature, Is in effect
as It carried tne emergency clause
and was signed by (jover'nor Mc
Kay March 1!).
Livestock men wanted this law
'Okay, I'll Just Say, You Were
WASHINGTON COLUMN
By Peter Edson
(NEA Washington Correspondent)
Washington (NEA) Nomina
tion of John Carson for member
ship on the federal trade commis
sion is being given the senate's
best "do-nothing treatment. Car
son's nomination was sent to con
gress by President Truman on
April 7. Not a hand has been
turned to do anything about it.
This system, of course, worked
well in stopping confirmation of
presidential pal Mop C. Wallgren
of Washington as chairman of
national security resources board.
The objection- of some senators
to Carson formerly an ace news
paperman is obviously that, he
has recently been connected with
the Co-operative League of Amer
ica. Many business interests op
pose his nomination on the same
grounds.
But the record of the federal
trade commission in recent years
indicates that some new blood of
this kind may be exactly what it
needs. Like the interstate com
merce commission and the mari
time commlsion recently written
up in this space FTC has fallen
Into a sad decline.
Lowell Mason, acting chairman
of FTC and its real live wire to-
and all concerned should under
stand it. In the first place the
brand inspection law becomes
state-wide in application instead
of by areas. The law also sets
up a livestock advisory commit
tee to heln iron out difficulties de
veloping, if any. It provides also !
for a certificate on all livestock
shipments within or without the
state and if moving out of the
state the livestock must be in
spected before being shipped.
There are provisions for refunds
of fees where the livestock in the
course of shipment reenters the
state.
Movement of livestock in any
manner is covered under the law
and when change of ownership
is involved a bill of sale must he
provided and becomes a part of
the necessary certificate for trans-
portation.
The whole purpose of the law is
to protect owners against theft
but full compliance Is necessary
to make it efficient as a law. The
department of agriculture has con
siderable police power under the
law and there are some Important
provisions where slaughtering is
Involved in the transportation.
Farmers should first be aware
of the new law; getting the facts
on it is a relatively simple thing,
from any state official, county
agent or department representa
tive. SLEUTHS MAKE GOOD
Indianapolis dl'1 B. II. Camp
bell received a pocket watch for
his GSLji birthday. It was the
same watch his wife had given
him ns a birthday gift 17 years
ago. The watch was stolen In 1932
and recovered. In good condition,
recently by Indianapolis delee
t i ves.
Brooks-Sccmlon Quality
Pine Lumber
Brooks-Sccmlon Inc.
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
, tiSft W r.n7 7
day, Is now 56. A great non-conformist,
Commissioner Mason
comes up every so often with a
new idea and a fresh viewpoint.
But one man alone can't make the
place hum. If he had someone to
help him like 'John Carson a
mere boy of 59 with an interest in
small business and the consumer
welfare s more Washington re
porters might again start paying
some attention to the.place.
Garland S. Ferguson is 71. He
has been on the commission since
1927, when he was first appointed
to it by President Coolidge.
Ewin Lamar Davis is 73. He
is a Tennessean who served seven
terms in congress before he was
appointed to FTC by President
Roosevelt in 1933. .
William A. Ayres of Kansas is
82. He served nine terms in con
gress before appointment to FTC
by President Roosevelt in 1934.
As sized up by men who do bus
iness before tills venerable com
mission, its main trouble is that it
is bogged down in the red tape
of its own minor cases involving
complaints against falst claims in
advertising, trade practice rules,
wool labeling and trade marks.
Last year FTC had 2000 applica
tions for complaints before it. Of
these, 463 cases were docketed
for disposition. It settled 143 and
had 320 left over as unfinished
business at the end of the year.
In this process, the principal
functions of FTC advising con
gress on economic developments
and recommending corrective lo-
gislation
have been given second
place.
Federal 'trade commission was
created in I'.Uii to operate "in the
public interest" and to "foster the
American economic system of free
competitive enterprise." In short,
it was set up under the anti trust
laws to check monopolistic and
unfair trade practices, such as
price-fixing, boycotts anil combin
ations in restraint of trade.
That the commission has not
been successful on this last point
is perhaps best shown by its own
reports to congress on the growth
of monopolies. For years the com
mission ha been recommending
revision of the Clayton anli-trust
act to check mergers by purchase
of assets. Nothing has over come
of it. FTC hasn't pushed.
In its early years, FTC showed
great promise. When Robert E. I
Healy later with SEC was
counsel for FTC, lie conducted Its
power trust Investigation. This
investigation was first proposed
by the late Senator Walsh of
Montana. The senate shifted it to
FTC, thinking it would be buried. ;
Healy brought it to life. It result
ed In the passage of holding com
pany regulatory leglsltion. !
Pressure groups now operate ;
before the commission with great
skill and cfiectiveness. There Is 1
no pressure group representing ;
the public. The only way the In
tent of FTC laws can be carried
out is to create a commission
which Is Itself active in the pub-.
lie interest.
Against It!'
Out On the Farm
By Ha S. Grant
June 18 People can live In
town and seldom see folks at the
other end of the block. But in
the country, your friends come
from miles around to visit.
Neighbors drop In once in
awhile to pass the time of day,
and there are lots of callers from
town, who enjoy a drive to the
country. You never get lonesome
on a farm. It's just like Grand
Central station, and we love it.
It doesn't take long to make a
pot of coffee or a pitcher of ice
tea. Sometimes there's cake or
cookies and sometimes there isn't.
But the sharpest farm women I
know have reputations for being
good cooks, and it's just because
they know how to open a pack
age of cake mix or whip up a few
tidbits from scratch, at the drop
of a spatula.
The other night there were 11
callers at Calico farm, in four
batches. Five of them stayed
long enough for coffee, and I
made a pan of popcorn-ball sort
of stuff out of rice cereal. It
tells how right on the breakfast
food box. You melt 32 marsh
mallows and one-fourth cup of
butter in the top of a double boil
er, then add a teaspoonful of
vanila and pour it over the cereal,
in a big bowl. You stir it up and
then dump it into a buttered pan,
and press it down evenly. When
its cool, you cut It in squares.
It goes down very easily, too.
Cooking plays second-fiddle to
gardening, though, these days.
The little flower garden around
i the cistern is beginning to look
jcared-for, but it needs some flag
stones lor a path.
At the edges ' there are mar
guerites, marigolds, stock and
asters. We transplanted the mar
guerites while they were In bloom,
and they didn't even wilt. The
marigolds were sowed in the open
not long ago, but they're grow
ing nearly as fast as the weeds.
I bought the stock and aster
plants last week, and they're hold
ing up in good shaiw. Noticed that
a few of the leaves are perforated
with round holes. There are a
million kinds of worms, I bet,
and most of them have ingen
ious ways of being destructive.
There's a DDT spray that I'll
have to look into.
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Behind the Scenery
By Phil F. Brogan
Oregon's stately North Sister,
massive mountain of the mid
state Cascades, possibly frowned
not so many centuries ago, then
pulled a veil of Pacific clouds
over her white head. At her very
feet, a group of upstart volcanoes
were at war. They were only
small volcanoes, compared with
the towering Three Sisters, but
they belched cinders, sent lava
flows tumbling into canyons,
tossed rocky bombs at each other
and rent the earth.
When the battle of the minia
ture volcanoes ended, the great
Ahalapam cinder field of the Mc
Kenzie Cascades remained as evi
dence of a war between volcanoes
that was possibly witnessed by
redmen of early Oregon.
The volcanic disturbance oc
curred at the very base of the
North Sister, where that proud
mountain's glacial robe reaches
to a point not far from Collier
cone. The war of the little vol
canoes apparently broke out
along earth fractures extending
northward from near the snout
of Collier glacier. At one end of
the firing line was Collier cone.
At the other stood the symmet
rical cone of Yapoah. Between the
two was no-man's land, a curious
hummocky ridge heavily blan
keted with scoria a sort of vol
canic shrapnel.
Scattered over the old battle
field are many large volcanic
bombs. Some of these volcanic
missiles are eight feet in diam
eter. They weigh tons.
What was the source of these
huge bombs? Geologists can only
guess the answer. They suspect
that the earth-mortars from
wntcn tney were thrown were
not far distant from their pres
ent resting places. It is believed
the bombs were hurled from a
series of fissures along the
length of the hummocky, barren
ridge.
From the foot of Yapoah cra
ter, named by Dr. E. T. Hodge,
Oregon State college geologist,
issued streams of flaming rock.
Describing the rock flows from
the warring cones, Dr. Howel
Williams, University of Califor
nia geologist, writes:
Obeying the dictates of topog
raphy, the currents poured into
valleys and eddied around ridges,
icavmg mem as green islands
enveloped by black lava. .Near
the McKenzie pass, the flows re
united into a single stream." B y
that time, Dr. Williams noted, the
supply of lava from Yapoah was
well nigh exhausted.
At the other end of the firing
line, Collier cone was also ex
periencing trouble. The north
west side of the- cone was
breached by an explosion, and
escaping lava turned west, to
flow six miles down White
Branch creek.
Their ammunition gone, the'
warring volcanoes apparently
agreed on an armistice.
INCORPORATION FILED
Salem, June 18 IW The John
Wetle Co. of Bend, organized to
"establish and conduct a general
department store" in Bend, filed
articles of incorporation here this
week. Signing the articles were
John L. Wetle, John L. Wetle Jr.,
and Robert J. Wetle.
Papers filed in Salem consist
of an application to change the
John Wetle Co., Bend, from a
partnership to a corporation, with
July 1 as the proposed effective
date. No change in the opera
tion of the local store is planned.
HOW TO KILL SCORPIONS
Chicago ll'' The Pasteur In
stitute of Algeria reports that
scorpions succumbed to a five per
cent mixture of DDT powder, but
resisted sprays of the same
strength in suspension, according
to the Journal of the American
Veterinary Medical association.
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Danes to . Re-Enact
Invasion of England
Copenhagen OB The Vikings
will be going to southern England
this summer as they did 15 cen
turies ago.
Two Viking chieftains, Hengist
and Horsa, from Jutland, Den
mark, began their series of
bloody raids then, making the
Danes a feared and hated race
throughout southern England.
A Danish contribution to the
anniversary will be a historic
pageant, portraying the arrival
of' the two Danish adventurers.
A Viking ship, made as nearly
like the original as possible, is
being built in a Danish shipyard
and will be. launched shortly.
Measuring 82 feet in length and
weighing some 15 tons, the vessel
will have 32 oars and a crew ol 50
men.
The Viking ship will leave for
England July 20, sailing along
the coasts of Jutland, Germany,
Holland and Belgium to France,
from where it will proceed across
the channel and make its first
landing on a small island in. the
mouth of the Thames the same
island upon which Hengist and
Horsa went ashore for the first
time. The ship will then proceed
to England.
The Danish Rowing associa
tion hopes it will get experienced
rowers of the right "tough" type.
All the modern "Vikings" must
be tall, fair-haired, blue-eyed,
strong and suntanned. All must
agree to let their hair' and beards
nam. nnQt
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SATURDAY, JUNE 18. 1949
PLAN BIBLE SCHOOL
A two-week vacation Bible
school will be held at Trinity
Lutheran church, beginning Mon
day, June 20, with classes five
mornings a week.
Bible-centered studies, hand-,
work and a visual education pro
gram will be featured, according
to Rev. Vincent Larson, who will
be in charge of the senior depart
ment. Others who will be in
charge of departments are Mrs.
Larson, beginners; Mrs. Verne
Payne, primary, and Mrs. Ernest
Rixe, junior.
WILL SEND DELEGATION
Prlneville, June 18 The staff
of the Crook county agent's of
fice has started preparations for
sending a record large delegation
of 4-H boys and girls to the Sky
liner camp in July, to participate
with 4-H club members of Jeffer
son and Deschutes county in an
annual summer recreational pro
gram. grow from the day they are se
lected until the end of the trip.
Wolves are said to mate for
life, and the father helps raise
the pups.
Vacation
Bible School
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June 20 to July 1
9:30 a. m. 12:00 Noon
Children Ages 4 to 14
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