The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon
Friday, February 21, 1941
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sketch your world exactly as it goes."
This Dove of Peace
Belief is current in Washington that the crisis in the far
east has been "made in Germany." Probably, as most of the
crises of the past few years in all part of the world have been
and still are being made in Germany, Berlin seeks to get
Japan into the war and embroiled with the United States in
order to hamper American aid to Britain. That was the in
tent of the three power axis pact, which Japan joined to get
freedom for "expansion" in Asia.
What Japan can get from Germany and Italy, outside of
moral support, is hard to see but Japan is grasping at straws
and so acting as a catspaw to pull nazi chestnuts out of the
fire. When the showdown, which Japan is facing, comes,
Japan will be left out on a limb, as Italy was in Africa, and as
Japan was when deserted by Hitler in the anti-communist
pact, designed to curb Russia.
The views of the Japanese military group which rules
the government were well expressed by Major Kunio Aki
yama, army spokesman at Shanghai, who is reported by the
United Press as saying at a press conference :
British and Americans are placing snakes' eggs in a dove's nest. Japan
would like to have a dove of peace descend upon her, but the snakes' eggs
placed by Britain and the United States Include fortifications of Singa
pore and Guam, the support of Chungking and the arrival of Australian
reinforcements in Malaya. Britain mode her guilty move when she abro
gated the Anglo-Japanese alliance, the United States when It abrogated
the Japanese-American commercial treaty. Japan has always been vic
timized by Britain and the United States.
The seizure of Manchuria, the attempted conquest of
China, the threatened attack on Malaya and the Dutch East
Indies are part and parcel of the tactics of this "dove of
peace" masquerading as a vulture.
Warning, or Real Threat?
i. There is considerable speculation among house and
senate members as to whether the action of the house com
mittee on taxation and revenue in returning a favorable re
port on Rep. J. D. Perry's bill to abolish the state tax com
mission is to be construed as a warning to the members of the
present commission to "attend to their own knitting" or is
seriously intended to promote passage of the bill.
. Throughout the present session and during the last one there has
been evidenced a spirit of resentment among certain of the legislators
over alleged Interference In legislative affairs on the part of the tax com
mission which, by the very nature of its work and knowledge of tax mat
ters, Is drawn prominently Into the process of formulating laws so prom
inently that It may Innocently be placed In the false light of promoting
or opposing certain legislation.
Personal and political animosities toward members of the commis
sion and Its policies also influence a few of the law-makers to look with
favor upon the Perry bill, which would replace the existing board of three
with a single commissioner appointed by the board of control but re
movable by the governor alone.
Aside from the questionable saving to be made through
cutting off part of the salaries
work would have to be done by
In the way of economy or added efficiency in the tax depart
ment to be gained by the Perry bill. It would still reflect the
policies of the appointing power and would be even more vul
nerable to the taint of politics by making the commissioner
answerable to the governor alone.
Never Too Late
As in everything else worth while, it is never too late for
good, needed legislation. With the present session of the Ore
gon law-makers rounding the three-quarter turn into the
home stretch Rep. Harry Boivan of Klamath Falls, chairman
of the house alcoholic, control committee, is presenting a bill
to bring private drinking clubs under regulation of the state
liquor control commission by requiring them to be licensed.
Salem's experience with the only recently closed Web
foot club, target of four successful raids by liquor agents and
an abatement proceeding before it was finally cleaned out,
offers first hand evidence of the need for such legislation.
The fact that defenders of these speak-easles were able, through a po
Hlcal trick, to confuse the voters at the last election to defeat a referend
ed act of the 1039 legislature does not mean that the people of Oregon do
not want strict regulation of such places, If they are to be allowed to
operate at all. Given a fnlr chance the voters would overwhelmingly en
dorse even more drastic measures for the control of these "clubs" than Is
proposed by Boivan.
The best evidence that they are mere screens for the il
licit sale nnd consumption of hard liquor and mixed drinks is
contained in the strenuous opposition of their operators to
any kind of regulation. The simplest and most effective
method of contrrol is to vest the liquor commission with au
thority to issue, suspend or revoke licenses for them.
And any such enactment by the legislature should carry
the emergency clause to make its application immediate.
Litvinoff is Lucky
Maxim Litvinoff, former all-powerful foreign commissar
and ace diplomat of the Soviet union, has been expelled from
the central committee of the communist party and demoted
to the rank of alternate, the stated reason being "inability to
discharge obligations."
Litvinoff fell from grace two years ago when Russia
started her withdrawal from cooperation . with the democ
racies. His resignation was announced as due to "ill health."
He was one of the most colorful of the "old bolsheviks " a
familiar figure at the League of Nations and other interna
tional conferences.
Litvinoff is one of the few original bolsheviks left alive.
Most of them have faced firing gqunds or been sent to starve
in Siberia, or mysteriously disappeared. Stalin, oriental in
triguer, is a jealous god and brooks no rivals. Probably Lit
vinoff owes his survival to his silence and inactivity since his
demotion and his devotion to the "party line."
Isrll Is Remodeling
Dallas Werner Iscll, proprietor of
tile Serve Rite arocerv and market.
has been carrying out extensive re-
noueung operations in his store. He
has changed the counter displays and
Editor and Publisher
of two commissioners their
some one else there is little
shelving and Is Installing a self
service system. He Is also Installing
a new fresh vegetable rack and
making other changes. Isell plans
rio have an odlclal oueiilno Uila
weekend.
A Dog's Life
By
Virtue Gets Rewarded Twice
Happy is the philanthropist who
can make his donations to the pub
lic and serve some good end to
himself besides the natural reward
which comes from doing the good
deed. Our old friend J. W. Maruny,
the landscape gardener, seems to
have worked tills out in one pro
ject, at least, where In Its early
stages It was working 100 per cent.
J. W. took the Job of pruning the
rose bushes around the courthouse
lawn and sent word out to any, all
or sundry who wanted rose cuttings
to show up at the courthouse today
and get the same as the pruning
was being done. He also offered to
give free advice on how to handle
the cuttings for best results. When
last we saw J. W. this a. m. the
response had been fine. He had a
good share of one section pruned
and was dishing out the cuttings by
the armload. Not a cutting was
left on the ground. So by this
piece of philanthropy he was giving
those who wanted them all the Car-
ollne Testout' cuttings they could
possibly want, and as for the phi
lanthroplst himself, he didn't have
to go back over the ground to clean
up his mess. And anybody who has
cleaned up a mess of thorny rose
cuttings can realize that theres
more to being a phUanthroplst than
Novelties
In the News
(Br tha Associated Press)
Scent
Dallas, Tex. Detectives George
Williamson and L. M. McKlnney
Just followed their noses and there
was the forger.
A storekeeper recalled cashing
$0.36 WPA check for a negro who
bought a large supply of lotus bios.
som incense. The officers sniffed
around the neighborhood until they
round the incense and a negro
who had forged a payee's signa
ture. Warning
Phoenix, Ariz Warning to back
seat drivers:
Perce Alexandcrson was fined $25
for reckless driving although he
wasn't at Uie wheel when the colli
sion occurred, The automobile
salesman was Instructing a novice
motorist but the highway patrol ar
rested Aloxanderson. He pleaded
guilty.
Feathered Friend
Vandnlla, III. A contrary chicken
was responsible for the discovery
of $375 in gold coins here.
Miss Lottie Lawler was attempting
to catch the chicken. It raced
through a flower bed. So did Miss
Lawler. She stumbled against an
object, picked It up. and opened a
sack containing the $375.
Authorities believe the money be
longed to a former neighbor of Miss
Lawler, Miss Tlllle Ernst, now of
Kansas City, who reported such a
loss some tUne ago.
Production Must Go On
Mitchell, Neb. A service station
attendant found Mrs. Albert Sess
lcr's Rhode Island Red hen perch
ed on a brace under the fender of
her car after an eight mile ride.
The fowl's head was cut by flying
gravel but when the ride was over
the hard working biddy Just cluck
edand laid an egg.
Turner Ballots Today
Turner Turner hlnh ho been
very enthusiastic for a whole week in
campaigning for favorites to repre
sent the King and Queen of Hearts
for coronation Friday afternoon.
Bnltota were cast for eight nomi
nees elected. Including Vera Mac
Hondrum and Robert Ball, seniors;
Stan Prathcr and Ruth Davis, Jun
iors: Clarence Cox and Edith Schil
frrer. sophomores; Bill Towery and
Mabel Ramey, freshmen.
Sips ffoir Supper
By Don Upjohn
Beck
Just giving something away.
Last week we gently gibed Gladys
Shields of the Jefferson Review
anent her poetic ability and her
lawn mowing proclivities, which we
seemed to think from wording of
her column, she handled on her
own. But It seems Gladys doesn't
lawn mow after all. She Just poets
and lets husband Les mow the
lawn. Explaining how she mows
her lawn she says In her column
That's easy Mr. "Sips" for the boss
does the lawn mowing at our house,
and we Just whiff the new-mown
grass. Which reminds us of the
Kansas friend, laboring and sweat
lng when the temperature soared
around the 100 mark (with no
shade), who remarked that the poet
who wrote the verse about the
"meadow sweet with new mown
hay" never worked at It himself or
he couldn't wax poetical about It.
Every spring we think We'U mow
the yard this summer for exercise,
but lawn-mowlig always comes on
the hottest days In summerland It's
so easy to put It off for the boss to
do.
Which leads us to lay down the
advice to prospective husbands If
you intend to marry a lady poet
you'd better prepare to do your own
lawn mowing.
Lawyer Bert Ford who has taken
to walking downtown from home
lias been clocking himself at Just 22
minutes a' trip, or 44 minutes for
the day, coming and going as It
were. We figured out that in the
IS years Bert has been practicing
law he would use up 237,600 minutes
walking back and forth, or 14,256,000
seconds, equivalent to about 14,
256,000 steps, based on the carefree
way Bert flings his steps about on
the sidewalk. That's a lot of steps
for a man to take, even In 18 years,
and should give most anyone pause.
We presume If Bert had known be
fore hand, and had It mapped out
to him how many steps he was go
ing to take, he might have been
given pause himself, considering the
shoe leather and all. This would
represent all told about 66 days ol
walking based on the current Idea
of a six hour day and a guy could
do a lot of things in 66 days besides
walk. Maybe Bert, who Is on the
city planning commission for the 10
ycar plan, will be able to plan It
different for the next 10 years.
Room and Board
WISH I HAD
TAKEN VDUR ADVICE
YESTERDAY AND
DIDN'T INSIST ON
YOU BETTING MY
$20 ON THAT HORSE
I PICKED
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Kelly Says:
Defense Contracts
May Breed Scandal
Board Member's Friends
Well Taken Care Of
Frankfurter Decision
Disgusting to Arnold
By John W. Ke!ly
Washington, Feb. I There are
the makings of a first class scandal
in the way national defense con.
tracts have been given, if Wash'
lngton rumors are correct. Direct
charges have been made by Senator
Truman of Missouri, and the house
committee on military affairs is
conducting an inquiry. The storm
evolves around the construction ad
visory board, composed of three
civilians, whose friends have been
furnished with mllliona of dollars
worth.
Every contractor, architect and
engineer who wants a Job files a
portfolio of information with the
quartermaster general, and this
material is turned over to the con
struction advisory board. When a
project is to be awarded the board
recommends three names and from
this list one is selected on a cost
plus fixed-fee basis. The assistant
secretary of war, Robert Patterson,
initials the contract recommended
(usually the one rated A by the
board).
Dresser Gets His
Members of the board are three
non-military men. They are Messrs.
Harvey, Dresser and Blossom. Dres
ser Is a former civil service employe'
who was with USHA, later operated
on his own hook, and is said to have
contacts with the Association of
General Contractors. Blossom Is f
member of a firm which has re
ceived $11,000,000 in contracts. He
has admitted this to the house com
mittee and says he will draw nine
per cent of the fixed fee or about
$1,100,000. Incidentally, he has been
drawing pay from the government at
the rate of $6,500 a year.
Before the assistant secretary of
war okehs the contracts the con
tractor has been selected from the
three recommended by the board
A Mr. Loving, who was secretary to
the General Contractors in the
south, makes the selection. One of
the first contracts was awarded to
T. A. Loving Sb Co., of Charlotte,
N. C. Although this is Mr. Loving's
name and residence It is said there
is no relationship.
Senator Truman asserts that con
tracts amounting to millions of
dollars have been given to friends
of Dresser and that little attention
has been paid to awarding con
tracts within a state to contractors
residing in that state. Tills has
been the practice in Missouri, at
least, where Michigan and Minne
sota 'contractors have been given
jobs, and in New England are sim
ilar Instances. And, Incidentally,
outside firms have captured con
tracts in Oregon.
Truman Wants Probe
A resolution has been presented
by Senator Truman asking for the
appointment of a committee of five
by the president of the senate to
make a thoroughgoing probe into
the contract awards. Meanwhile the
house committee on military affairs
is doing its digging without request
ing a special committee.
During World war No. 1 there
was waste, Inefficiency and favori
tism, but the public was not aware
of the inside story until 1020, when
It was disclosed by a senate Investi
gation. There is a disposition in
congress to get at the facts now,
not in the distant future.
Associate Justice Felix Frank
furter's decision that Jurisdictional
disputes, strikes and boycotts can
not be Interfered with by the fed
eral government has thoroughly
disgusted Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Arnold, in charge of trust
busting. Arnold throws up his hands.
says there Is nothing to be done un
less new legislation which Frank
furter cannot liberally Interpret is
enacted. Judiciary committee of the
house Is preparing to explore the
subject to see what can be done. In
I TOLD SOU ALL HE
COULD PUN WAS A
TEMPERATURE. '
I SHOULD LET YOU GO
INTO A DARK CORNER,
SPIN A WEB AND SULK.
BUT THIS IS WHAT
I DID, PUT YOUR
$QO ON ANOTHER
AND WON
YOU 342. '
1 ' I
Hold Far East
Crisis Made
In Germany
Washington, Feb. 21 (flV-The be
lief spread In some congressional
circles today that the administra
tion regards the tense far eastern
situation as something made In
Germany.
The administration, In the opin
ion of these legislators, has reason
to think that Berlin has been ex
erting pressure to get Japan Into the
present war and then embroiled
with the United States In the far
east in order to hamper the British
aid program.
This interpretation of the recent
abrupt turn of events in the Orient
was one reason, it was reported, why
the decision was taxen to dispatch
immediately a number of the latest
army and navy planes to reinforce
American air strength at Pacific
bases.
When General George C. Mar
shall, army chief of staff, testified
yesterday at a secret session of the
senate military affairs committee,
one committee member said he left
the Impression that these were le
gitimate conclusions.
Marshall was said to have told
the committee that he considered
the situation In the far east "ser
ious."
When Japan signed the three
power axis pact last September.
officials here construed the alliance
primarily as an attempt by Germany
and Italy to create the threat of
war in the Pacific and thereby im
pede the flow of American aid to
Britain while at the same time al
lowing Japan freedom for "expan
sion" in Asia.
German and Italian papers and
periodicals have from time to time
pointedly cited the importance of
the pact with Japan. Very often
the main theme of these articles
has been criticism for the attitude
of the United States on the war,
ana poucy of BMtisn aid.
Scoffs Mills Man
Killed by Log
Silverton, Feb. 21 Charley Ennls
27, was killed at about 11 o'clock
this morning at Scotta Mills when
a log fell from a log truck and
crushed him. He had driven a load
of logs Into the lumber mill at
Scotts Mills and started to unload
when the accident occurred, accord
ing to information had here.
Puncel is Honored
Clear Lake W. F. Puncel,
farmer In Clear Lake district for
about 36 years, celebrated his 81st
birthday Sunday, It was the first
time in several years that all of his
children were together. Those pres
ent were: sons, William Puncel and
wife, Arthur Puncel and wife and
children Virgil, Doris, and Jane,
both families of Clear Lake; Edgar
Puncel and wife and children Leo-
na, Leoto, Freddie; and daughter,
Mrs. Ella Lee and family, Harvey,
Violet, of Portland. Additional
guests were: Mrs. Tiffany, of Port
land, and Miss Minnie Lee of Alas
ka. Jurisdictional dispute, according
to Frankfurter, although Interstate
commerce Is stopped, goon squads
run riot and small business and the
general public suffer, the unions
are immune from punishment They
are, he contends, above the law.
There was a break in the Owy
hee reclamation project more than
a year ago and about 33,000 acres
(the crop) was destroyed. Hundreds
of claims have been listed, ranging
from $75 to $2,000 by settlers. Set
tling a claim with the federal gov
ernment Is like pulling teeth. Usu
ally several years are consumed in
the process. Recognizing this. Rep.
Walter M. Pierce wishes to make a
short cut, as the damaged settlers
are in his district. He proposes that
the settlers be given credit for the
damage and this credit be applied to
the reclamation project charges
against them.
By Gene Ahern
HAVE YOU TORSOTTEN ,
ROBIN , THAT VOU ARE
A PUET-LE ?
PUTTING A TARNISH
ON OUR NOBLE
ESCUTCHEON WITH
GAMBLING
-fie!-
HM WISH I
HAD SOME
MONEY TO
PLAY HIS
TIPS
A
Saiem belches By Will Danch
"I'm quitting this hermit life. It's not worth It when you consider
It means missing those swell card parties Al Adolphson and his
pals give I"
To Coordinate
ifish Efforts
In Near East
By Frederick Kuh
London, Feb. 21 (U.R) Great Bri
tain's military strategy and politi
cal policy, offensive and defensive,
for the entire near east is to be re
viewed at Cairo during the visit on
which Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden and Gen. Sir John Dill, chief
of the Imperial general staff, ar
rived' yesterday, It was understood
today.
A Belgrade report that British
forces had landed on the Greek Is
land of Lemnos, commanding the
entrance to the Dardanelles, was re
garded as evidence that Britain was
taking every means of strengthen
ing its position In view of the pos
sibility of a German march into
Bulgaria.
It was believed also that British
Empire forces were advancing
steadily on Tripoli, capital of Libya,
and that exciting news from that
front might arrive at any time.
Eden and Dill are to bring em
pire commanders in chief and other
authorities in the near east in con
sultation at Cairo, it was under
stood. They will have the reports of the
high British army, navy and air
forces who recently visited Turkey
and Inspected Turkey's defenses in
the Bulgarian frontier area.
It was believed that plans to co
ordinate all operations In Africa
and thi Aegean sea area would be
discussed, Including greater aid" to
Greece If Greece wants it and aid
to Turkey in any emergency which
might confront it. .
Students Are Hosts
Lyons The children of McCulley
Mountain school and their teacher
Mrs. Mary Lovette entertained their
parents with a Valentine party held
at the school house. Games furnish
ed the entertainment after which
refreshments were served. Sunday
dinner guests at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. George Nydlgger were Mr.
and Mrs. John Trask of Mill City,
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mason and
daughter Pauline of Detroit and
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Gessher and
children, Donnie, Judy and Garry,
of Sublimity.
Distributed by Gideon Stolz Company
Social Security
Benefits Huge
Washington, Feb. 21 W) The so
cial security board estimates that
nearly $1,400,000,000 was disbursed
under public social Insurance pro
grams In the United States and Iti
territories during the year ending
January 1, 1940.
Unemployment compensation am
ounted to $435,587,000. Oregon re
ceived $4,114,000 under the federal
state unemployment and railroad re
tirement acts. In Oregon 29,383 per
sons exhausted their credits under
the unemployment compensation
laws during the year.
Old-age and survivor insurance
payments totaled $124,263,000. Of this
$1,034,000 went to Oregon residents
under the railroad retirement act
and social security law. .
Under the other Insurance pro
grams, over which the social secur
ity and railroad retirement boards
have no jurisdiction, payments were
estimated as: disabled veterans of
the World war and their survivors,
$400,000,000; state workmen's com
pensation $250,000,000, and retire
ment systems for public employes,
$180,000,000.
Japan has banned the smoking of
costly cigars or cigarettes. 1 '
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Pepper
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