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Four The Cooital Journal, Salem,' Oregon" Thursday, August 21, 1941 CapitalMJouraal SALEM, OREGON ESTABLISHED MARCH 1. 188a An Independent Newspaper Published Every Alternoon Except Sunday at 444 Chemeketa St TelephonesBusiness Office 3571 News Roam 8572; Society Editor 3S73 GEORGE PUTNAM. Editor and Publisher FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED PRESS SUBSCRIPTION RATES BI CARRIER: Weekly, $.15; Monthly $.60; One Tear, VIM. BY MAIL IN OREGON: Monthly, 1.50; Six Months, 12.60; One Year 15.0). UNITED STATES OUTSIDE OREGON: Monthly .60; Six Montns. $3.00: Year. $6.00. The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publication ot all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also local news published herein. "Wtt or without offense to friends or foes I sketch your world exactly as it goes." British and American Unions Vincent Shcean, noted foreign correspondent and author, has an article in the current Saturday Evening Post entitled "They Also Fight," describing the mobilization of workers in Britain for national defense. The unions, though as strong in membership as before, have surrendered temporarily many of their rights, including that of strikes, to speed up produc tion. Mr. Shecan says: "A worker on any fundamentally important Job cannot leave his Job. A worker can bp transferred from one Job to another. . . Right to strike Is not exactly abolished, but It has become so remote . . . that It practi cally exists no longer. . . . This arrangement, which has been brilliantly successful and has saved England, has not a parallel at any other period or place In human history." British labor is not slave labor, nor are the workers mere automatons and servile robots, as in Germany, but intelli gent, skillful and individualistic. Above all they are patriotic and intent on preservation of their liberties. One cannot help contrasting the attitude of British trades unions with the attitude of labor leaders in the United States, many of them lawless racketeers and intent on utiliz ing defense for profiteering. No sooner is one defense strike broken than another one is fomented, and frequently the re cently signed contract violated almost as soon as signed. One of the reasons for the difference between British unions and our own is that the former are much older and hence more conservative, that they are legally responsible for their actions, that officials must account to their mem bership for dues and expenditures and file a public account ing, whereas in this country labor bosses rule for years by terrorism, amass great fortunes individually, and spend the union revenues for all sorts of extraneous things without ac counting. The rank and file in many of our unions have little or nothing to say. Power Crazed Ickes Secretary Ickes; in his Spokane speech", declared for pub lic ownership of all power utilities in the northwest, with himself in absolute control, as an essential of defense. He would purchase or condemn all private power systems, with ownership and operation by the federal government with no home rule for a billion dollar enterprise. Bonneville Ad ministrator Raver echoes the same proposal, putting a time limit of six months to effect the consolidation of the power grid. Mr. Ickes of course favors his own measure, the Colum bia River Authority bill introduced by Congressman Hill with a one man administrator appointed by himself, instead of a board of three. And as Mr. Raver would probably be se lected for the administrator, under Ickes, he also favors such a measure. The Ickes itch for power is fully as great as the presi dent's own. He is already boss of the Interior Department, which controls the reclamation bureau, the national parks, the department of public lands, the Indian service, the na tion s oil and public power resources, the bureau of fisheries and Alaska. Now he is also petroleum czar and itches to con trol all power production in the northwest, private as well as public and does not hesitate to use his power to penalize ob jectors and punish regions that oppose his program. He is crazy for power, political and otherwise. Hitler Uniting Europe Reports from neutral capitals agrees that in one respect. Europe is more united today than ever in history "united In a grim and ominous union of hatred binding the conquered nnd oppressed" against the Nazis, a union that ignores boundaries, racial prejudices and social differences. It unites the nordics of Scandinavia, the slavs of Russia, Poland and the Balkans with the Greeks and the French, the Belgians nnd the Dutch. All Europe is permeated with haired. This hatred of the Nazis is shown in many ways, in dem onstrations, sabotage and espionage and is met by death pen- alties and terrorism, which fail to check the underground si ream of hate. In Poland, German papers report an average of ten executions a week in the past year, including public hangings, but not including unpublished executions of hos tages in proportion at 100 to 1 of Germans killed. The same story goes for Norway, the Netherlands, France, Czechoslo vakia. Jugoslavia and Greece. The hour of uprising has not yet come. The Germans have not exhausted themselves sufficiently in Russia, and the British have not yet started an offensive. Light auto matic weapons are finding their way into these occupied lands, and the underground secret organizations aro extreme ly active. Hitler will eventually reap the harvest his dragon teeth have sown. Life's Little Tragedies ,..,.,.r., By Beck - Grit for Chickens Topic for Inquiry Corvnllls. Ore., Ann. Si W Be cause chickens have no teeth they swallow grit with their food and then operate an Internal grinding machine. A lot of research has been done on the food but very little on Hie kind of Rrlt that Is best for chickens. Poultry specialists at Ore gon State college recently complet ed one trial to determine what Is the best kind of grit to feed broilers being raised In confinement for the meat trade The study shows that such birds will not rat ns much of Ihe common scashell or calcium bearing grit as they will rock or silica grit W. T. Cooney, research assistant who conducted the experiments, concluded that chickens evidently have the ability to detect an unbal anced ration so far as minerals are concerned at least, and hence Then the feed rallon Itself contains ade quate calcium, the chickens do not est much of the calcium grit. Even though broilers are fed large ly on the finely ground mash foods, they seem to do better where grit Is provided. Cooney reports. Those receiving no grit graded down to 80 per cent No. Is as compared to 80 per cent or more No. Is for the groups receiving grit. Maybe Zippers Will Disappear New York. Aug. 31 0J.B The tip per may disappear from trousers and dresses. The reason Is national de fense. Zippers are made of copper. Cop per Is neetied In the war effort. The decision as to whether the button will stage a big comeback will be made at a meeting this week be tween the Amalgamated Qnrtncnt Manufacturers and the oftlcr- of price administration and civilian supply, I DARLING, MOTHEfc , lOTTIE WHSim 2r-Tci' ' Twr fcwsr rKte you notk'ed v - THE INDIFFERENCE OF PEOPLE nj?&S - OUTSIDE THE FAMILY. TVWARDS ftffllfal ? - ' ' Y0U CIEVER ACCOMPLISHMENTS. ngs for Supper By Don Upjohn Only about a 15 per cent vote was charmed out to cast ballots on the important airport bond issue ye teratiy. This in spite of the fact that fully 1600 or more voters prom ised faithfully over the telephone to get out and vote, that there was an ad for the election on every down town sidewalk and numerous other strategically perfect plans for pub licity were put over with a bang. The trouble was, the question wasn't controversial, pretty near everybody wanted It but was certain Oeorge would vote for it and so there was no use worrying. If the special elec tion had been called to pass on whether or not parking meters should be Installed in the downtown streets polls couldn't have been built big enough to get all the vote cast in the 12 hours allotted. Where the boys slipped up was in not getting a parking meter rider attached to the ballot so everybody would be on hand. One of our sporadic correspon dents writes In to suggest that the ladles hold their afternoon bridge parties these hot afternoons at the bean yards, changing the name to "Bean Parties" and awarding the door prize to the gal who picks the most beans. "This." writes our un named and unsung hero, "would el iminate the waste time being spent around backyard fireplaces and also keep the backyard lawns from be ing trampled up and strewn with cigarette butts." .Out of due respect to the life and limb of the writer we leave the name anonymous so he may live to take home his wife from a bridge party another day. Prom our Sllverton special agent comes word that the latest to ven ture into our FT & BA with both his ups and down elmlnlnated Is none other than E. Z. Kaufman, employe of the Silver Palls Timber company, papa of two of Silverton's fairest girls, Margie and Marciel and a man who'll do our organiza tion proud. We suppose with our latest member teeth are like money with us, E. Z. come E. Z. go. Secretary Ickes in announcing the regulations for the coming duck sea son Includes permission for shoot ing and possession of one wood duck per hunter, thus permuting hunters to possess a bird killed accidentally which otherwise would be wasted. This must come as sad and shock ing news to our friend Clarence Byrd who pungled up 25 bucks a few years back for an accidentally killed wood duck. Yea, we know that Clarence must feel, as he reads this regulation, that he was born two or three years too soon or, that at least, there should be a rebate to shooters who shoot accidentally. Speakinir of Mr. Ickes w wai-p Just looking over a book prepared by the national park service giv ing the dates and nlaces for exnn- sitions, fairs and other events over tne country and included in the same is following notation, "Sep tember 10-13. Pendleton Round-uo. Portland, Oregon." While probably Mr. ickes didn't make this error personally, even at that it won't DOOSt nis Dercentaire miirh nrnnnri renaieion. Kelly Says: Conservation Soon Going Out Window Farmers Will Be Asked To Multiply Produce Roosevelt-Churchill Session Back of It Holm is Hospitalized Sllverton The Richard Holm and the Relnard Holm families short ened their week-end stay at Dia mond lake, returning Sunday, account of the serious illness of Eddie Holm, son of the Relnard Holms. With official permission the drive horns was made In record time. Young Holm submitted to an emergency appendectomy Sunday night with his condition reported as lair Wednesday. O 400 itfSi -L SMOLENSK CtOSCOWl jV J GORKI" J "i5kWj,GOMEl KAZAN r K,evf U. S.S.iR. NIKOLAEV jf? tv-P' EPEROPETROVSK A? ANKARA NpATUM). Vtv SYR1aXrAc IRAN On The Russo-Clrrman Front Arrows Indicate main sectors on the eastern front and the possibility, envisioned In Berlin, of a German thrust at Batum, Soviet oil port on the Black sea. Rus slnns, reporting a firm stand cast of Kinglsepp, acknowledged a German drive to the Novgorod region (1) and an advance In the Gomel sector (S). Odessa (3) was reported under heavy pres sure, and Germans reported attacks on Dnieper liver bridgehead defense forces. In Berlin, where the quick fall of Odessa was pred icated, possibility of a sea-borne thrust at Batum (4) was seen. Associated Press Photo, By Paul Dunham Washington, Aug. 21 Within a brief time the conservation program will go out the window head first. Soil conservation, which has been a life saver for several counties In the Pacific northwest, through the checks, will be a thing of the past. The Idea of prosperity through scar city Is to be abandoned. From now on the policy will be to produce, produce and produce. This new program will be directed at the farmers of the northwest and it will completely upset the plans which have been In operation for the past eight years. Henceforth the United States Is to be the feed bag of democracy as well as the ar senal of democracy. Not again will a slaughter of little pigs be decreed, not a curtailment of any other pro duction. What the administration Is striving for Is more food; more livestock, vegetables, fruit, milk, cheese and dairy products. In brief. the administration will urge every farmer to get busy and raise all he can. Farmers Must Feed Them It will be the business of the farmers of the United States to produce enough for our own army and for the armies of Great Britain and Soviet Russia, and any other nation which may line up with the policies of President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill as devised at their conference on the British battleship Prince of Wales. This, In Itself. Is a large order, but ad' ministration leaders are certain It can be filled. If the farmers are given time. There is, as everyone knows, a food shortage In Britain and part of the lend-lease pro gram Is to supply foodstuffs as well as airplanes, antl-aircrait .guns, tanks and the miscellaneous weap ons of war In a mechanized age. In addition to Britain, there are commitments to China, to Greece, to Soviet Russia, although the Soviets are an agricultural nation. Primarily, the soldiers must be fed then the civilian population. This Is the outline now under considera tion. Later, when the war ends, the United States will have to feed the millions of peoples of other lands who have been rescued from Herr Hitler's legions, and this will lm pose a still further burden on the American farmer. Pasture Changes Rapidly Unless, of course, there Is some price fixing regulation the cost of farm products will soar, both In this country and abroad. The pic ture has changed since that mem orable meeting of the British prime minister and the president. To meet the needs of feeding most of the world, the farmers will be encour aged to cultivate every acre they can and speed up production. The secretary of agriculture, Claude Wlckard. urged dairymen of Ore gon and Washington to Increase their herds several months ago. Pointedly he asked that they furnish more milk; urged cheese factories (of which there are excellent ones in the two northwest states) to op- crate day and night; proposed that the poultry men increase production of eggs. Much ot this advice and suggestion has been followed by the dairymen, but what Secretary Wlck ard requested was Insignificant as compared to the quantities that will be needed. While there Is no large number of hogs in the north west, there has been a notable ad dition. Cattlemen axe now making money; sheepmen axe thriving. Truck gardeners growing toma toes, potatoes, carrots, peas and beans are to be informed that the war demands require more than present yields. These vegetables will be canned and dispatched to the army and navy of th United States and Britain. Too many tomatoes can not be raised; there is a mar ket at the canneries for every bushel of these vitamin-bearing vegetabl'-a. Storage Task Monumental While the "ever normal granary" of vice President Wallace advo cated when he was secretary of agriculture) will be maintained, it will be the objective to accumulate vast stores of surplus foods. This accumulation Is to be distributed In the rescued countries when they are salvaged and while they art en deavoring to get back on their feet. This task will be monumental and Is unparalelled in the history of the United States, and to accom plish It all restrictions on crops, much of the eoll conservation pro gram and federal regulations must be either revised or abandoned, at lenst "for the duration." Little fanfare has been made over the change In policy, but the men who are doing the planning wish to have all the details worked out before the public Is Informed of the program. Naturally, the farmers wish to produce more than their present allotment and probably will welcome the change. With the ex ception of tobacco and cotton, the program will apply to farmers of the northwest, as they grow almost everything that will be so badly needed. AFL Officers All Re-Elected Portland, Aug. 21 (P All Ore gon state federation ot labor offi cers who were .candidates for re election were returned to their posts, a tabulation of- mall votes revealed today. President Paul E. Gurske and Sec retary D. E. Ntckerson were un opposed. J. D. McDonald, Portland. was elected vice-president over L. A. Pierre, Astoria. The following five executive board members were elected without op position; John O'Neill, Portland, first district: Eli McConkey, As toria, second district; F. J. A. Boeh rlnger, Salem, third district; James A. Storer, Eugene, fourth district; Joseph L. Ross, Bend, seventh dis trict. O. E. McKlnney. Marsh field, won over John D. Herblson, Marshfleld, in the fifth district; G. C. Tatman, Klamath Palls, defeated Charles W, Tower, Medford, in the sixth; Carl Gllson, LaQrande, defeated Thomas Hodgson, Pendleton, In the eighth, and William R. Perrln, Oregon City, nosed out Richard G. Hoover, Oregon City, In the ninth district. Novelties In the News (By the United Pri Hot Dogs Hollywood, Calif. John M. Stahl, 59, who has walked 640 miles since July S, Is riding back home to San Francisco. "I get homesick every time I see a train," explained Stahl, who has visited 17 missions during his walk- for-health. How About Doc? Norman, Okla, University of Ok lahoma professors who hold the title of doctor will have to be con tent with Prof or just plain Mister. President Joseph A. Brandt thinks the Dr. titles are confusing. An honorary doctor himself, the new prexy also made it known he's to be called Mr. Brandt or Just Joe. Can't Blame 'Em Chicago Sheriffs In the pioneer days of Illinois had a mighty good reason for guarding prisoners closely. Because, a WPA writers project discovered, it was the law that If a man escaped, the sheriff must "take the offender's place, assume all his debts and pay the fine for which he has been imprisoned." $8 Opening Chicago During every hot spell the last six summers William Pok orny struggled vainly to open a small window of his home. But a burglar came In through the obstin ate window, and left the same way with objects valued at (8. Japanese Truckers' Insurance Cancelled San Francisco, Aug. 21 (U.B The state railroad commission Wednes day revealed that a Los Angeles In surance company had cancelled "several hundred" policies on ve hicles operated by Japanese truckers in the San Joaquin valley. The commission said the Commer cial Standard Insurance company cancelled the licenses "because this class of business has proved unprof itable over a period of years." The truckers will have to obtain insur ance or face cancellation of their trucking permits, the commission added. I aiem belchei By Will Danch 7 "He's Un'niiiR to lie an expert wimmer "'ike P'tfbfcs Mack Latt-r j nn whon Via trpfR mnre rnnflrinre wfiMl nut. lh wnt.pr nrnund hlml" Fire Racring in British Columbia Prince George. B. C. Aug. 21 W) (Canadian Press) Fire fighters were battling desperately In the great Beaver lake district, 50 miles north of here, today in an attempt to hold a 100 square mile blaze rag ing in the forest from sweeping to Fort St. James on Stuart lake, 15 miles to the west. A number of other fires have been reported throughout the vast north woods reaching as far as the Alaska border. Big blazes near Stuart and Tembleur lakes are believed under control but stands near Klock and Manson creek are threatened by the fires. Smoke is so dense forest officials have been unable bo de fine the area of a number of the fires, despite aerial surveys. Meanwhile, forestry officials con sider closing all mills and logging camps in the area to release more men for fire fighting. Major hope of relief is heavy rains to break the nine-day low-humidity, high fire hazard stretch. Anti-American Move In Occupied China Shanghai, Aug. 21 An anti American campaign, purported to be inspired and directed by Japanese military authorities, appeared today to be growing throughout Occupied China as a result of the recent United States freezing of assets. Reports from numerous points In Central and South China indicate that more than 1,700 Americans are facing increasingly difficult living conditions because of restrictions imposed by the military. British cit izens also were affected In some areas, but not as badly as Amer icans. Many of those feeling the brunt of the campaign are missionaries. At numerous places missions have been picketed as have American business houses In Shangtung prov ince and in South China. Americans have been forced' In some instances to wait many hours, day after day, before obtaining tra vel permits at Japanese offices. Tra vel by foreigners In the occupied area has been restricted since July when the Japanese began a mobili zation of men who had been re leased from active duty In China. One Swedith correspondent for American and British newspapers has been expelled from Hankow and two British correspondents have been told to leave. All Anglo-American press activities were halted primarily by the Japanese military i at Hankow. Hope Increases For Utah Slayer Salt Lake City. Aug. 51 (U.B As the day of his execution came and passed. Donald L. Condlt, convicted slayer who was to have died before a firing squad at sunrise Wednes day, was more determined In his effort "to beat the execution." A stay of execution from the fifth district court where Condlt was tried for the hitch-hike slaying of Har old Thbrne, Salt Lake City sales man, gave Condlt additional time to perfect his proposed appeal be fore the state supreme court. Ickes and Wife To Have Vacation Seattle, Wash., Aug. 21 0I.PJ Sec retary of Interior and Mrs. Harold L. Ickes today prepared for a two weeks' vacation In Olympic Nation al park, the forest wilderness In northwestern Washington. They were guests last night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Boettlger, son-in-law and daughter of President Roosevelt, and rested from their train trip from Washing ton, D.C. Ickes' next speaking engagement Is before the convention of the Pub lic Ownership league of Washing ton and Oregon in Tacoma Sept. 5. Ickes conferred here yesterday with Dr. Paul Raver, administrator of Bonneville dam. He said he would not visit Bonneville nor inspect any ,of the privately-owned power plants whose purchase he favors for In clusion In a Pacific northwest pub, 11c power network. y Dredge Breaks Loose With 14 Aboard San Pedro, Calif., Aug. SI (Pi MacKay radio reports the S. 8. Chippewa radioed that a dredge carrying 14 men broke loose In the Pacific ocean at 1 a. m., (4 a. m EST) and Is drifting helplessly. The Chippewa said Its position Is 21.12 north and 135.32 west. It gave no other details. It is owned by the standard Dredging company of New Jersey. The coast guard said the position reported would be about 900 to 1.000 miles south of here. It added that although the dredge would be subject to whims of wind and waves, it presumably carried food and wat er. The men aboard thus could sur vive for days if the craft were not swamped, it added, but they would have no control over the dredge direction. 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