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The Cooital Journal, Salem,' Oregon"
Thursday, August 21, 1941
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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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