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Newspaper Page TextThe Capital Journal, Salem) Oregon iahirday; December 21, 194G CapitalftJournal SALEM, OREGON ESTABLISHED MARCH 1, 188$ Kid Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday at 444 Chemeketa Bt. Teiepnones Business twice ecu I Newi Room 8672; Society Editor 9971 GEORGE PUTNAM. Editor and Publisher FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND TUB UNITED PRESS SUBSCRIPTION BATES BY CARRIER! Weekly, 1.16; Monthly, $.f One Year, 17 JO. , HI MAIL IN OREGON: Monthly, $.60; Six tWontha, $3.50; On Tear, 19.00. UNITED STATES OUTSIDE OREGON: Monthly, $.60; Six Months, $3.00; year, $6.00. . (The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of mil news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also local news published herein. "With or without offense to friends or toes I sketch your world exactly as it goes." (The Farm Headache The farm problem, the government' ever present billion " Hollar a year headache, will be up for aspirin at the next ses sion of congress. Our domestic farm situation has become more complex by reaBon of the closing last year of many ex port outlets, and the accumulation of large surpluses in nearly very agricultural exporting country. The department of agriculture, under the guiding hand lof its new secretary, Claude R. Wickard, has been preparing Ithe way before congress for the new so-called "income cer tificate plan." But little is known as to the details of the plan they are yet to be worked out. However, it appears that Under the "income certificate plan" an estimate would be imade each year as to the quantity of wheat and cotton that iwould be consumed domesticly. Since the estimated do mestic commercial consumption of wheat be, say, 500,000,000 bushels, and production 760,000,000, each farmer would re ceive a certificate fcr 100 bushels for every 150 bushels krown. Millers desiring wheat for domestic purposes, would buy from farmers, at going prices, sufficient certificates to cover their needs. While such prices would vary from month to month, it is believed that the price of the certificates would rest around "the difference between a fixed percentage of the parity price and the actual price paid for the wheat at the fcasic milling centers. The surplus, of course, would have to be disposed of in the export markets at any price it might bring, but the pros pects for foreign markets and fair export prices are rather slim. The plan Is far too complicated for farmers and news Jiaper men to understand. Only Harvard graduates and New .Dealers, who have never walked a plow, can figure it out. A Treaty Kept for 146 Years - A few days ago the United States government made its 146th annual payment of six yards of calico to each Indian of the Iroquois confederacy in accordance with the peace treaty of Canandaigua, signed Nov. 11, 1794. Bolts of bright printed cloth and unprinted muslin were handed the chiefs of the Six Rations in the Tonawanda community house near Batavia. Ceremonies resembling those of some of our secret so cieties, which probably borrowed them from the Indians, fea tured the presentation, low chants and drum beating, and characteristic speeches characterized to welcome the chiefs pf the wapipum;" the 600 Onondaga, "keepers of the fire;" i the 230 Cayuga, "watchmen of the inner house," tne 600 To nawandas, the 1600 Cattaraagas and 900 Alleghenies, three clans of the Senecas "keepers of the western door;" the 450 Tuscarora, "younger brothers who sit before the fires." When the calico ceremony was ended, Dr. Arthur C. Par lor, a Seneca, director of Rochester municipal museum, re minded the Iroquois that the United States had kept the faith and that it had lived up to the letter of the treaty as well as Its spirit through the 146 years, "remarking "Such faith is unique in a world of broken promises and of enslaved peoples." It is, indeed, one of the few Indian treaties this country ever lived up to. Peter Doctor, another Iroquois, concluded the ceremonies Vith speech ending: "Our people were civilized people, with a .Veneer of savagery. Over there," waving vaguely to indicate fcreat distance, "white men have turned to savagery, with a yeneer or civilization. Perhaps it would have been more civilized to have left the country to the Indians. We still have much to learn from them. i That Guilty Feeling j " By Beck t...H.tr..rr.r,t.,.i I i tytfa I Ull I I HEY BUDDY.rVE BEEN KJBBRJilii TO PEEK AT VDUR WTS , CHRISTMAS n&CKASM N j7 -ttJU IMS HER PKSflKHD CAR . y&ffli'r The Fireside Pulpit By REV. E. S. HAMMOND "I am the light of the world." Jno. 8:12. Nineteen and a half centuries ago there was born of an unknown mother In the obscure Roman pro vince and In very humble circum stances, a little baby boy. He nev er sought for wealth nor earthly position or fame. After three years of public work he was put to death Ignomlnlously as a malefactor. And yet today that obscure boy and man of that obscure province of a despised race Is counted the world's chief leader, and wields a greater Influence than any other man who ever lived. Even those who deny the claims made for him by his fol lowers admit his preemmlnce as a leader. Dr. George A. Gordon In "The Christ of Today" quotes John Stuart Mill In his "Essays on Religion" "But about the life and savings or Jesus there Is a stamp of per sonal originality combined with pro fundity of Insight which . . . must place the Prophet of Nazareth, even In the estimation of those who have no belief In his Inspiration, In the very first rank of the men of sub lime genius of whom our species can boast. When this preeminent genius Is combined with the duali ties of probably the greatest moral reformer, and martyr to that mis sion, who ever existed upon earth religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice In pitching on this man as the ideal representa tive and guide of humanity. 'it would not be easv. even for an unbeliever, to find a better trans lation of the rule of virtue from the abstract to the concrete than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life." Now John 8tuart WU1 was not a Christian believer. He rejected the Inspiration of the Bible, and the supernatural character of Jesus. e have recently read a life of Thomas Jefferson. Next to Wash ington and Lincoln, he Is probably today the best loved American, He was not enrolled amongst the professed followers of Jesus, but he compiled a volume of the moral teachings of our Lord and rever enced Him as the world's greatest teacher. This list of non-Christian tributes to Jesus might be Indefi nitely extended. One saying of John Stuart Mill's Just quoted is significant. He speaks of "reli gion pitching on Jesus as the Ideal representative and guide of human ity." That sounds to me as if someone should say that we have made no mistake In selecting the sun as tne cniei luminary of our wona. me sun Is there Is no other possible choice. And so Is Jesus, as He Himself said, "The light of the world." It is heartening In these Christ mas days, when war and bloodshed are sweeping the earth, to recall that other dictators "have had their day and ceased to be," that Jesus has not ceased to be, and will rule and reign when Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini and their cohorts and allies have ceased to be, and are "burled In deep oblivious sea. And It Is still more Joyous to re member In this Christmas season that there are millions who accept irom ine neart tins Jesus, not only as a great moral teacher, but Savior and Lord, and who can sin exuuingiy: "I heard the voice of Jesus say, I am this dark world's light: Look unto me, thy mom shall rise, And all thy day be bright. I looked to Jesus, and I found In Him my star, my sun; And In that light of life I walk, Till traveling days are done." Christmas Tree Waste The annual slaughter of Christmas trees is on, resulting in offsetting to a degree conservation efforts for reforesting, mid the necessity for measures curbing wasteful methods in use. Concerning the latter, Lyle F. Watts, regional forester ni rortianu, says: or course, every home should have a tree. There Is no argument mat. runner, me Christmas tree Industry In Washington and Ore ion is a substantial one and gives employment to many people at a season when work Is scarce. Still, Christmas trees are a forest oroD. as leaitlmete as sawlogs or pulpwood. But as many letters received point out, three or juur munon trees represent 10 or 16 years growth on several thousand acres of land. As only aymmetrlcal trees are taken, they ordinarily come from open stands, already poorly stocked, or are the tope cut from the nest trees in me stand. Mucn waste Is reported. Like the rest of our for est crops, mere is room ror Improvements In methods ot harvesting. This mines back to the owners of the land. They have a valuable crop, and riii'iiiu piuu-ci 11, Oregon and Washington have laws imposing penalties iipon anyone cutting trees on the lands of another. Oregon prohibits cutting shrubs and brush from any right-of-way wiihin 500 feet of any public road. Washington imposes a severance lax of one cent for each Christmas tree, including Douglas fir, hemlock, spruce and pine, which is shipped out oi tne state, ana trees must oe tagged to show the tax paid. 'A similar law would help check the annual waste of conifers In Oregon. Too Late for Excuses Toor visibility due to fog and rain, and a slippery road urface undoubtedly contributed to last evening's fatal auto mobile crash between Salom and Silverton, in which four per sons lost their lives. But thnt does not bring the dead back to lifo, enhance the chances of the injured for recovery, nor does it excuse the carelessness of one or both of the two drivers. And carelessness on the part of one or both of the oper ators certainly did contribute to tho accident a type of care lessness that is common to practically all drivers, although most escnpo with less serious consequences. It is that form of recklessness which fails to take due cognizance of the extent to which rain, fog, frost, darkness and similar factors reduce the ordinary limits of speed for safe driving; failure to recognize and anticipate the emer gencies that may nrise and keep the vehicle under sufficient control to avoid them. It is not enough for a driver to explain that he could not or did not see the other fellow In time. It is every driver's business to operate his rnr in a manner which, Under existing conditions, will allow him time to see and act. ps s. or tinnier m m By Don Upjohn As we write the shortest day in the year, being today, Is galloping along at breakneck speed trying to get Its short life over with. As rule the shortest day In the year Is supposed to last only between day light and dark but up to this writ ing has been getting along with a very muggy sort of daylight hardly worthy of being called by that name. A lot of office workers who have Saturday afternoons off are complaining about the shortest day in Uie year falling on Saturday and that It cuts down their free after noon to a minimum. There seems to be Just no end of hardships for folks to compete against Uiese times. Anybody can write a letter to Santa Claus and most everyone does at one time or another. But there's darned few people get a letter from Sant Claus and when you do you can figure It Is a mark of distinc tion. So we think we have a right to bray a bit as having lust re ceived a letter from old Santa, even if Santa wrote it In one ot his off moods and In a slight peeve. The letter me old boy left on our desk yesterday in person, a real mark of distinction. In a way we were sorry we weren't on hand to receive It in person and in a way glad we didnt have to look him in the eye. Yeah, Santa was kicking about an item we had the other evening in this column about his going around town shaking hands with all the women and passing up Uie men. He sayj this Is a gross slur on him and his Christmas spirit and (list he plays no favorites, that he shakes hands with the men as well as the women. We apologise if wctc done old 8anta wrong and will do our best to make an honest Santa out of him. But, when he says he shakes hands with the men as well as he does with tho women, it de pends on what he means by that word "well." Hie few limes we've I noted him shaking hands with tin women he's well." been doing "pretty However, Santa In the wind up of his note made us feel a little more at ease by saying he "appreci ated tne little write-up and Is here to shake hands with everyone, men, women and children, and I'm sorry I missed you." So we feel better now. When we first started to read his note dog gone If we didn't feel as though we mlgnt as well take our sock and shove It away In a drawer Christmas eve and not hang same up at all. But with those last few words he left in parting maybe we 11 take a chance and hang It up anyway, God bless you, Santa here's to a happy Christmas all around even for us. Born Either Too Soon or Too lata Sclo. Ore. (P) If you're born on Christmas, you can't win. Six Sclo residents so testify. Short-changed every year on presents, they banded together for a mass birthday party, thinking to get their friends to equalize the situation. rltie friends Just ignored the party. "It's too near Christmas," one of them said, The boss has some camellias blooming In his garden and brought an especially beautiful one to the sanctum today to prove it the ear liest blooming on record, as far as known. What a climate. Church Circle Guest Dallas Circlo three of the Meth odist church met at the J. N. Mills home 'Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. W. H. Hill acting as co-hostess. Mrs. Levi Benge read the Christmas storv and Mrs. Prank Hull gave a reading. Present were Mrs. Hull, Mrs. Benge. Mrs. Ross Chapin. Mrs. W. 11. Marsh. Mrs. H. J. Elliott. Mrs Rov Plummer, Mrs. J. N. Hol man. Mrs. A. J. Brown. Mrs. C. S. Oravps, Mrs. Lillian Hubbs and Mrs. A. M, Larscu. Kelly Says: Shake-Up Proposed In CCC Organization Corps May Be Placed Under Another Bureau Committee Posts Waiting for McNary By John W. Kelly Washington, Dec. 31 Complete shake-up of the CCC camps Is pro posed by the American Youth com mission. Now that preparedness is the watchword, the AYC Insists that the officers reserve be discontinued: that the officers go into camp of trainees; that war department be relieved of the task of operating the CCC camps and devote Its complete tune to responsibiuty for Fort Lew- Is and similar mobilization cen ters. Another objection raised against CCC is mat approximately 60 per cent of the 25,000 supervisors are political appointees. Congressmen and former members of congress have chiseled In. All of the super visors, or employes, draw pay from one source head of CCC although appointed by agriculture. Interior and the office of education. Agri culture, as an example, uses CCC on forest projects; reclamation bu reau uses CCC on the Deschutes project; fish and wildlife (old bio logical survey) on projects with which It is concerned. These pro jects ara scattered throughout Ore gon, Washington, Idaho and the rest of the states, and criticism which applies to one takes In all the rest. Pull Brings Favors As AYC (headman Is Owen D. Young of General Electric company) figures out, approximately 31,000 in CCO camps are on the payroll be cause of a political pull of sorts. With war department, Interior de partment, agriculture department and office of education splitting charge of the camps, the wonder is that CCC has managed to get along as well as it has. Now, how ever, AYC believes a change Is es sential and would first lop off the war department and the reserve officers. Proposal is made that CCC be placed under federal security agency, which is now .under command of Paul V. McNutt, but with Director McEntee in charge of . all units. Aside from the officers reserve, the suggestions will be vigorously op posed. In an illustrated booklet, issued by the secretary ot the Interior, the question Is asked: "Do you know that the energy of the mighty Co lumbia river is being harnessed at Grand Coulee dam In Oregon and the Bonneville dam in Washington, and Is being put to work at con verting the Pacific northwest Into productive empire?" As this is an official statement, it should have Its fact straight. Foreign Loans Lift Taxes One reason taxes of the American citizen will be upped next year is to take care of the foreign loans being placed. These loans, to date, Include China, $145,000,000; Argentina, $140,000,00; Uruguay. $7,500,000: with applications coming from Cuba for (50,000,000 and Spain for $100,- 000,00. Spain agrees not to Join Hit ler and Mussolini If the loan Is ad vanced for food. Mexico is now ne gotlatlng for a loan, said to be about $100,000,00 that appears to be the minimum. For these amount Mexico agrees to grant naval bases; Cuba wishes to arrange Its sugar; Franco prom ises to purchase wheat; China will buy war munitions. There are a doz en other Latin American countries standing In line waiting their turn not to mention the British. When the price of bread goes up later these loans will have some thing to do with It also the defense program. New Senators Nervous Reclamation Commissioner Page, in his annual report to secretary of the interior, calls attention that ev eryone should be familiar with the anti-speculation act as applied to Grand Coulee, which limits land ownership to specified acres. Page reports that there are sections of Grand Coulee which may, and prob ably will, remain without water for more than 30 years. Commissioner Page Is Issuing the warning because ot reports that Intending settlers are now being offered land which has no prospect of water for some time. Land owners, he aays, have a right to dispose of their holdings, but unless they make an agreement with the goverment water will not be furnished. Senator Charles L. McNary. In hospital at Salem, Is making several new republican senators fidget, as they are anxious to receive their committee assignments. There Is nothing to be done about It, how ever, until the minority leader re covers sufficiently to return to his office. Incidentally, one ot the first tilings the President did when he returned from his cruise In the Car ibbean was to inquire about Mc Nary. Satem Sketches By Will Dandi "I think I'll let Roy Morrlss, the radio expert, look this set over. " -AU I can get on It are quiz programs!" jmmm SUDDENLY A GPEAT CIPO.E OF HP C&iPT AKJUND THE illV. The Story So Far: Eric, a fisher-. man's son. to Drove that he Is brave enough to be king, has defeated three giants. Now he sets out to help three brothers who had been under the spell or the slants. Chapter Eighteen Two More Princes Given Freedom The young men flew to the Iron Mountain quicker than It takes to tell. And there In the entrance, half way up the side, they could see another handsome young man waving his red cap from side to side to attract their attention. Eric reined In his flying horse so that they settled down easily to the narrow ledge where the young man stood. Eric's friend leaped out of the saddle with one move and threw his arms about the second young man. They both shouted, "Brother, Eric grinned happily at their pleasure. Then the two turned around and said, "A thousand thanks to you." But now how shall I tell you apart?" said Eric. The two youths laughed. The one Eric had found inside the cir cle of fire bowed and said, "I am Harald of Thurlngla, heir to the throne." The second lad bowed and said, 'And I am Peter, his brother, sec ond In line." "Now the troll in the castle be hind the East Wind must be your other brother," said Eric. "Let us hurry there." Waves Blue Cap They all three Jumped onto the back , of the winged horse and hur ried to the castle behind the East Wind. As they circled down over It they saw a young man excitedly waving at them with a blue cap. Eric brought his horse down be side the young man and, sure en ough. It was Conrad, the third brother. There was Just enough room to seat him on the horse. So now the four young men de cided to find out what had hap pened to the kingdom of the three brothers during the hundred years they had been bewitched by the giant who had no heart. They flew straight to the capital of their kingdom. They could recog nlze that easily, because their fath er had built three castles on three hills so that each of his sons would have a fine home when he took a bride. They soon saw the city where three castles stood on three hills. But when they looked down onto the streets they saw grass choking up the thoroughfares. Windows were broken in homes. There was no smoke from any of the chimneys and they saw not one single person. Great Green Snakes instead, tney saw great, green snakes slipping In and out of door ways, lying coiled tip In the sun, or slithering up tree trunks to steal eggs from birds' nests. The three brothers lamented loud ly, but Eric was silent and thought ful. He didn't dare ask his horse to settle down into one of the streets for they might all have been bitten by snakes. But he pulled the black coal from his pocket the one he had picked up on the mountain top and threw It down on the out skirts of the city. Suddenly a great circle of fire crept around the city and grew as high as the houses. Snakes tumbled out of all manner of holes. There were so many that the sidewalks were black with them. They all tried to get out of the city and back into the hills. But as each came to the end of a street there was a wall of flame. One by one the snakes were bumed. And then Eric whispered to his winged horse to set them down in the square. The three brothers dashed in and out of houses. But everywhere they went there was the same desola tion. They didn't find a soul in Uie city. Tomorrow: The people return. Novelties In the News (By tha Associated Prcii) Cold Tip New York The bomb squad, al ways alert these days, rushed to the natural history museum, where a "suspicious" suitcase was found In some bushes. It contained a prescription for nose drops. Two Birds, Etc. Snow Hill, Md. B. Clay Chap man says this happened to him: Driving along a highway, he saw two pheasants flying over a field. He got out of his car, unllmbered his .22 and fired one shot. Both birds fell dead, the slug passing through the head of one and Into the head of the other. Ask and Receive Amarillo, Tex. An Amarlllo boy handed his teacher a note from his mother, "Please send the fire department to our house" It read. Shortly, a roaring fire truck stopped at the woman's front door. Startled, she held out a sack to the firemen and told them "This Is what I wanted. Here are some toys you can fix for poor youngsters." Smiths Entertain Grand Island Mr. and Mrs. E. E, Mason of The Dalles and their son. Garold Mason of San Diego, Cal., were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert Smith. Mrs. Smith was a neighbor of the Masons In her girl hood days. Garold is In the navy and has been stationed at Ban Diego but was on a fullough spent with his parents and with them was enroute to Portland to entrain to his base where he will go on destroyer service for a six year en listment. Mr. and Mrs. Smith ac companied Mr. and Mrs. Mason to Portland Thursday evening to see their son leave. Vitamins A, B, C, D and B all are found In milk. m I KNOW YOU'RE "RICH, CHIEF, - rtirr wii f tiMii nliTr tav -ri it- ' OUl ivu jnuuiM rv-w i nc JUDGE AND 'ROBIN A DOLLAR TOR EACH OF THOSE INDIAN HEAD PENNIES THEY'RE COLLECTING FOR YOU .a NICKEL A PENNY IS PLENTY,-- BUT A DOLLAR IS TOO f ' MUCH, YOU SAWY ? 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