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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1937 CapitaLjJournal Salem, Orejron ESTABLISHED MARCH 1. 1MI An Independent New, pa per Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday at 444 Chemeket Street Telephones-Business otfloe 3471 Mem Boom 7J; Boclety Editor 57S OEORGE PUTNAM. rWX LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND TUB UNITED PRESS SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER 10 cents week. 45 cenu month; $5.00 a year In advance. BY MAIL in Marlon. Polk Linn, Yamhill, Benton. Clackamas and Lincoln counties: One month 60 cento; 1 months $1.33; months 2.35: months tSM- I ear MOO. Esewbera 60 cenu a month; month $2.76; 5.O0 year in advance. Tha Associated Press U exclusively entitled to the use for publication of U newi dispatches credited to It or not other tee credited in thla paper, and also local news published herein. "With or without offense to friends or Joes I sketch your world exactly as it goes.' Bandon's Case A Washington dispatch states that no WPA assistance will be extended to Bandon, Ore., thus preventing Bandon from complying with the terms or the conditional loan of the RFC for 1200,000 for rebuilding. State Administrator Grif fith has telegraphed Senators McNary and Steiwer that it is Impossible for him to supply certified relief workers, stating: "We have several approved projects with prior claims for labor which we cannot start because ot labor shortage In their districts." The $200,000 loan approved by the RFC was conditioned on a fund of $117,000 being obtained from some other source and it was planned to secure this amount from the WPA in the form of labor. The loan also was conditioned on the use of $81,000 of it to liquidate in full the city"s indebtedness, totaling $258,000 at 25 per cent for the bonds and warrants at 35 per cent, the balance to be utilized for rebuilding pub lic properties and forming a nucleus for a model city as map ped out by the state planning board. With all the trivial, useless and wasteful projects the WPA is financing, it seems a shame that in a meritorious case like that of a fire-destroyed city, assistance is not forth coming and that red-tape stipulations render it impossible to utilize the RFC loan. Bandon should not, however, despair and resign itself to becoming a city of shacks. Other cities have survived simi lar disastrous fires and rebuilt themselves out of ashes, and that before the days of government aid. Expectation of fed eral largess has delayed Bandon's recovery and when it is realized that its citizens have been leaning on a broken reed, they may remember that the Lord helps them that help them selves and start to work In earnest. One thing Is apparent, the day of federal aid is swiftly passing, and states and communities and individuals expect ing Uncle Sam to perpetually play Santa Claus are in for a rude awakening. And this is as it should be. Let them solve their own problems as until the present era, they have always done, and thereby help avert national bankruptcy. Wizard of the Air Guglielmo Marconi, who died yesterday from a sudden heart attack, will rank among the great men of history, for he was the inventor of wireless telegraphy from which came the radio, wireless telephoning and television. His inven tions conquered the air for communications and rank among the most beneficial in human Marconi was the son of an Italian father and Irish moth er, and was only 22 when he was granted the first patent for a practical system of wireless telegraphy in 1895. His first tests were made in England. In 1800 he established wire less connection between England and France, and in 11)01 across the Atlantic In 1905 Marconi invented a directive system and a new persistent wave system of wireless and his system was used by ships at sea, saving, since then, millions of lives and bil lions of property. His perfection of "beam wireless" in 1923 greatly increased the life and ginal device. Us use by airplanes has made for safety in the air. Marconi was an inventive genius with a list of mvnm- plishments too long to state. day of his death, when he was working on three different developments of the principle he had discovered: television with the use of short ultra waves ; further development of the mircowave; a new type radio transmitter for airplanes. Unlike many inventors. Marconi was a cood business man, and amassed great wealth ceived the highest honors scientific bodies and governments could bestow for making the sea and the air safe for human ity. Wavering Walter Does anyone, not excluding the congressman and for mer governor himself, know just what sort of an administra tion and rate structure Walter M. Tierce would have set up for Bonneville? For months the congressman has been clamoring for "postage stamp" or blanket rates for the project, in which transmission charges for delivering power to points far distant from the dam would be absorbed and shared bv all consumers alike. By such a set-up he would deliver juice to his far eastern Oregon constituents at the same price paid by consumers in the area immediately adjacent to the plant and at their expense. But now comes Weeping Walter in a statement issued yesterday in Washington to say: "It (Bonneville dam) has been constructed for use as yardstick so that consumers can know the real cost of electricity and how those should be reflected in light bills." It is obvious to anyone that the real cost of electricity Is the cost at the switchboard and that the costs of trans mission are something entirely different and pronerlv chargeable to those served by such transmission. The real cost of power in Portland is the cost of generating at Bonne ville plus the expense of transmission for 30 miles, not the cost of that same energy delivered at Baker or Klamath rails. Walter, as is his convenient custom, seems to have for gotten yesterday the words of the song he was singing two months ago or was it onlv two weeks ago' Montana Vacation Trip is Started Silverton Eleanor Enerson. ac companied by her nephew. Edward Telawn. J. and Bonn Teigen. J. entrained trom Woodbum Mon day evening for a su weeks' stay at the former home ol the Tie tens and Enersons In Capitol. Mont, where they will be at the homes of the jrandparent of the children. Tha X. L Tehees, parents of Editor and Publisher history. property saving value of his ori His activities continued to the from his inventions and re Edward and Bonlta, arraneed (or the christening ol the youngest member of the family. Burton Lynn. Friday evening, with Rev, J. M Jenson officiating at the Teigen home. Sponsors for the ceremo nies were Mr. and Mrs. R o so lum. Mist Eleanor Enerson and Er nest Ertckron. rails City Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Deeta and Betty Chsppell returned to their horn at Wa.houal, Wn . Sunday. ALL IN A By XX SaxxXi thoroughbreds, but y.y,v'- Afc? XYXt XXVVYl AT LEAST YOU COULDN'T SjNVAV xyW vAi wCwOs KID u& WITH A PHONEY MfA1 UyViv Closed Shop Contracts Held Void and Strikes To Effect Them Illegal CmiMmir1 reaction " The vice-chancellor quoted the following from a U. 8. supreme court decision, handed down In 1892, to Indicated the change taking place in labor relations: "Whatever enthusiasts may hope for, in this country every owner of property may work it ax he will, by whom he pleases at such wages and such terms as he can make: and every laborer may work or not, as he sees fit. for whom, at such wages as he pleases; and neither can dic tate to the other how he shall use his own, whether property, time or skill." Commenting on the quotation, Berrv said: "We have cone far since those words were written. The boasted liberty of the citizen and the vaun ted security of individual property are no longer what they were. Both employer and employe now dictate to the other 'how he shall use his own. whether property, time or skill.'" New York, July 21 fP) The rul ing of Vice Chancellor Maja Leon Berry that labor contract provid ing for closed shops were "illegal and unenforceable was attacked today by Mrs. Elinore M. Herrick. regional director of the national labor relations board. "There are plenty of court deci sions in many states upholding the legality of the closed shop, said Mrs. Herrick. She asserted that Section 8. Sub division S of the Wagner labor re lations act includes m statement that "nothing in this act sha 11 preclude an employer from BOWBYTIMOLB sW 1 " 1mm i w rrr" wiwwmv nf njrvT vi sir n ishi ii LIFETIME BECK - I --- fmr.i rue 1 making an agreement with a la bor orsanization " " to require a condition of employment member ship therein.' Transportable automobile work shops are being made in Italy for use in its colonies. TOUGH XITTY. It's "Climax," Hon cub of "Jock- and "Juno." big specimens in the London zoo. The bone seems a bit large for such a little cat, but food of any size looks good to a jungle kitty. 4T . . -i in r LOT of water has gone over the !am since f. folks first sang OLD QUAKER'S theme song: "Th ere'sA Barrel Of Quality In Every Bottle, But It Doesn't Take A Barrel Of Dough -Re-Mi To Buy It." For fiftv-ninc rears they've arprrl If iV f)I D Dt'WTR ,V (S k' t aHljinij' STRAIGHT gQTJRBPN? WHISKEY BEHIND HEADLINES By IL R. Batik hate Copyright, 1937. by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. Washington, July 31 If the counsel of those who aren't afraid to take a long chance with the odds against them prevails, Republic Steel may meet with a daring at tack as a result of the hearings be fore the national labor relations board beginning today. The function of NLRB is, first to Investigate unfair labor practices; second to hold hearings; third to report their findings. If the testimony in the hearings just starting reveals information upon which It Is felt criminal charges may be based, labor sym pathizers may request action by the department of Justice. As pointed out in this column some weeks ago, members of the department of Justice have un earthed an ancient statute, passed after the Civil war to prevent Ku Klux and other interference with the voting by negroes. It is section 51, Title 18 of the U. S. code and it forbids conspir ing to interfere with the perform ance of a citizen's constitutional rights. The law was ased as an entering wedge in the Harlan county Ken tucky invest itiation. not yet con cluded by the department of jus tice. According to unquotable sources, an attempt may be made to show conspiracy under this statute on the part of Republic Steel. But here is the long shot: Conservative legal advisors of la bor have been urging against an attempt to launch any further at tacks on this ba.sis until the Ken tucky case goes to court and Is rul ed upon by the supreme court. They wlil be surprised if the NLRB testimony is used to this end- Edward F. McGrady. ace concili ator of the department of labor as well as assistant secretary, who it is alleged, has resisted more tempta tions to give up his public service (at $9,500 a year) than St. Anthony jmsTmu n mi i i r7 M.rk lh. M.ril i. th,. "Mukof Mnt" bitirr. BRAND . cor kh.ht nrvfjr.t ITW -fcj l I 1 I 1 SKY HOBO. Merrill K. Riddfck and his hobo plane got started in a driving rainstorm from Angola, N. Y., on the second leg of bis projected night from Blasdell, N. V., to Bombay, India. The ship's insignia shows two hoboes astride a donkey. did in his particular line, has been tempted again. The salary was to run to fifteen grand, if necessary, and the job was to take over for Major Berry, president of labor's non-partisan league, that organization which gave such enthusiastic support and took such generous credit for the re-election of President Roosevelt. Major Berry, who. you may recall, is now junior senator from Tennes see, thinks that his duties, holding two jobs, may be conflicting. Mean while, looking for his successor, the league apparently feels that it needs not only an efficient head, but alM a man with a reputation for non partisanship. Hence the of fer to the labor department official. According to best advices, Mr. McGrady regrets. Friends say that Ed McGrady Is one of the most self-sacrificing pub lic servants that Uncle Sam has had in the last two decades. They predict that, if he goes, it will be only because he feels that things just aren't working out so that his services are still of value. Other wise, he'll continue to keep St. An thony No. 2 man at turning down attractive offers. Mr. McGrady started in makme sacrifices earlv. He believed in strikes when tliev weren't as popu lar as they are today, and. as a re sult, Is tolerably familiar with the interior of a lot of lails whre hp lfP VACATION I I May we suggest that you have the Capital Journal delivered to your vacation address every day that you are away thereby keeping abreast of the times at home. 2, weeks for LET THE CAPITAL JOURS AL BE A DAILY VISITOR TO YOUR VACATION ADDRESS Telephone 3571 or give your vacation boy and any issue of the Capital Journal 1)1111!. sL? I was dumped for doing what's per fectly legal today participating In labor activities. Now he considers his Job slop ping strikes, not prolonging them, and he has by no means lost the confidence of the workers. eithcT. He's solved the problem of serving two masters he can often get a better bargain for both employer and employe than either could get alone. Uncle Sam as a demon rum dis tiller is seeing things on the walls. Not pink elephants, say the folks with their eye to the bunghole of the Virgin islands' rum barrels, but handwriting in red ink. Not that government house rum isn't good. But it isn't smart, say the epicures. And it isn't the sins of the spirit. either, but the body. The body of the rum. It's too heavy for the effete American taste, is the crit icism of the critical. Apparently, the distillers followed an old pro verb and went wrong. They thought it wasn't wise to try to teach an old rum-hound new tricks, so they made their product well, but not so wisely. They recreated the bever age of the type tlm gave old Ad miral Grog his reputation, put the punch in rum punches and made rum sauces saucy in the bad old davs before prohibition. But tastes, it seems, have chang ed. Palate have bmmo frtvo!nn ANY PLACE ANY TIME address to your carrier you'll not miss and lighter minds and morals of the po&t mar era demand, a lighter body. These are the sober facto. y As usual, figures conceal tha story. And the offciial distiller don't admit it-openly. (Import of the O. H. rum for May were only a little over $5,000 less than April, end well above the previous months. Nevertheless, say the eye-to-the-bungholers. the government 1 tn a rather tough spot. It must either put on an Intensive advertising campaign to sell the ancient vir tues of the fluid that made ten nights In a barroom possible (nd profitable) and probably draw down another volley from the W.CTU, or face expensive alterations. The latter would mean switching to the frivolous "light bodied" itutf that goes with hors doeuvres and olives on toothpicks instead of the kind that floated a thousand hips. Silverton Shooters Make Good Scores Silverton Silverton men were 100 per cent efficient when all three who attended the shooting contests at Camp Whtthycombe made a place for themselves for the Camp Perry. Ohio, trip in August. These were Osmund Olson, Rudy Schenk and Donald Christenson. Chris tendon had the additional honor of being the youngest man at the match and the youngest to gain the right to compete at Camp Perry. Q ... SUI YAM A. Gen. Gen SHglyaoM, Japanese minister of war. acted In the North China erisis while diplomat- ourht a peaeefni ellma. I ys i 6 -J fj i' 1 l For Your I
