Capital journal., October 21, 1941, Image 4

The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon
Tuesday, October 21, 1941
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CapitalfflJouraal
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"With or without offense to friends or foes
I sketch your world exactly at it goes."
Robert Glenn Smith
Af thp turn nf the century. Robert Glenn Smith, who
died at 76 Saturday was the most colorful figure in public
life in southern Oregon. He was self-educated, but made a
good job of it despite handicaps. He had a brilliant mind,
and while he held many public offices, and practiced law for
over 50 years, 30 of them in Grants Pass he was not a
politician but rather a crusader for causes he deemed bene
ficial for the common people.
As a legislator. "Bob" Smith, who was dubbed "Jose
phine Smith" to distinguish him from other Smiths, left
T. , . it 1-:..14-: 4-1... Jn.. lplnnf. in
his maris in tne reiorm mgiaiHuuii "lc
1894 on the republican ticket in Josephine county, he
switched to the democratic party in the Bryan campaigns,
was re-elected and was later twice the democratic nominee
for congress in the first district, but was defeated. The
old populist ideals never left him and he loved to tilt Wall
street windmills.
It was in 1895 that Smith proposed adoption of the
initiative and referendum by constitutional amendment,
that several years later was adopted by the people under
U'Ren's leadership. He fathered many reform measures in
the legislature, including the corrupt practices act, the bill
for the creation of a state railroad commission, the anti-railroad
pass bill, and the bill banning "bucket-shops.."
All of his life Mr. Smith gave freely of his services
to the public. Much of his legal practice was donated to
right wrongs and aid the oppressed. Though he retired from
public life several decades ago, he kept his interest in men
and events and was a frequent contributor to the "peoples'
forum" of newspapers. He was a loyal friend, a devoted hus
band and father and his personal gentleness contrasted
strongly with his bitter invectives on public affairs. All
of his life he was handicapped by poor health, was a suf
ferer from chronic asthma and much of the time physically
incapacited. Yet he was useful citizen and will be sincerely
mourned by those who knew him best.
Congressman Mott Agrees
Whether the now famous round-robin, signed by 18
prominent Oregon republicans and in polite language accus
ing Congressmen James Mott and Homer Angell and Sena
tor Kufus Holman of sabotaging President Roosevelt's for
eign policy by their votes in congress, had anything to do
with it or not we at last find Mr. Mott and the president
agreed on one vital issue that American merchant ves
sels should be armed to protect themselves from raiders on
the high seas. '
In support of his vote for amendment of the neutrality
act to permit such arming Rep. Mott said :
"It is my sincere belief that the pending bill Is proper and necessary
Implementation of the national and foreign policy of the nation . . .
No nation has the right to tell the United States that It cannot sail Its
ships upon the high seas and carry on commerce with other nations
whether those nations be neutral or belligerent."
In taking this position on amendment of the neutrality
act Mott is consistent wtyh his record as an advocate of full
naval preparedness. During his nearly 10 years in the
house, and particularly since he became an active member
of the naval affairs committee, he has always been a cham
pion of a two-ocean navy and various other measures of
naval and coastwise defense long before the New Deal
administration awoke to their vital necessity.
But Jimmy's general attitude toward the Roosevelt pol
icies has been one of partisan belligerency, even extending to
measures of national defense including the lend-lease act,
which he characterized as a mistaken method of dealing
with the question of aid to Britain at a time when methods
were a secondary consideration to the demand for prompt
action. Now for the first time we find our congressman
heeding the voice of the folks back home. That's encourag
ing, whatever the reason.
For Home and Country
There is a real patriotism evidenced by the little group of
small local manufacturers who are meeting at the Chamber
of Commerce tonight with a representative of OPM in an
effort to keep their plants operating in the face of drastic
priorities orders that threaten to close them down for lack
of raw materials.
There is no desire or attempt on their part to evade
whatever steps their government finds necessary to conserve
materials vital to national defense. Nor is there any inclin
ation to dodge their responsibility to shoulder a full share of
the defense effort.
Rather the opposite. It is their desire to find a way
in which to pool their labor and their facilities in furtherance
of the defense program; to combine their productive ca
pacities into a unit large enough to make an appreciable
contribution to solution of the problem of adequate industrial
production. Individually too small to attract attention in
the placing of defense orders, they hope by some sort of co
operation and combination to warrant consideration from
Washington.
Then too, they are concerned with keeping the home
fires of employment burning; with providing the jobs that
supply the taxes that go to feed the gods of war.
Their's truly is a patriotic and a practical endeavor, fu
tile as it may seem in the enormity of the defense production
problem. But a thousand such groups properly coordinated
and utilized could eliminate a lot of industrial bottlenecks.
They are attempting to do alone and from below what an
intelligent government organizaiton should have done from
above long ago keep all of the wheels possible turning for
defense, but keep them all turning.
Husbands j
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mpm tor Supper
By Don Upjohn
The pheasant season Is expected Vront Tooth & Bridge association
to open with a bang tomorrow. Id fit his especial case.
With several of them In fact.
Farmers would do well to bring
tielr cows to town and tuck them
sway in the safe deposit box until
iie shooting is over.
Howard Maple, the well known
'loach, baseball manager, and man
'fbout town, has a front tooth miss
ling. His little daughter, Marcia,
awhile back made her father look
like a piker, having half a dozen
missing at one time. The only dif
ference between Marcia and her
dad is that Marcia is growing hers
back in. One tooth out with How
crd is quite a ways to our FT &
HA unless we change Its name to
Ah, Those Sloppy Printers
London (U.R) The agriculture
ministry made an error today in
announcing a plan to "improve a
considerable area of land in the
neighborhood of Llanfairpwlllgyn-
g y 1 1 e r chwrndrobwlllandsiliogoch,"
Wales. The name should have been
Llanfalrpwllgwyngyligergerychwyr-
ndrobwllalanostyliggagogoch."
Home Ec Members
Guests at Johnstons
Sidney-Talbot-Membcrs of the
Home Economics club of Ankeny
grange held their regular meeting
at the home of Mrs. C. F. John
ston Friday afternoon. Mrs. George
Marlott, president, conducted the
meeting. The afternoon was spent
In working on articles for the
grange bazaar and fair to be held
Saturday night at the grange hall.
At tho tea hour refreshments
were served by the hostess.
Members present Included Mrs. J.
O. Farr, Mrs. Wm. Weiderkehr. Mrs.
Ocorge Henderson, Mrs. Rex Hart
ley, Mrs. Edna Feeves, Mrs. Qeorge
Marlott and the hostess. Mrs. John
ston. Quests were Mrs. Anderson
of Portland and Mrs. Lee Doland.
The next meeting will be he-Id at
the home of Mrs, Rex Hartley.
Novelties
In the News
(By the Associated Press)
Self-Respect
New York Seventy-year-old Mor
ris Rudin, told by two bandits to
put his hands up, obligedby knock
ing one ot the men on his ear alter
taking away his gun.
Although the bandit retrieved
his weapon and beat Rudin on the
head, the aged storekeeper stub
bornly fought back until the two
men fled from his linoleum shop
empty-handed.
"It wasn't the money I was fight
ing for it was my self-respect,"
explained Rudin to police.
Front-Page Jinx
New Haven, W. Va. Twice the
front page of the New Haven News
fell to pieces or "pied" as It was
being loaded on the weekly's press,
Exasperated editors put out the
paper with a banner headline:
"The Jinx Downed Us Tills Week"
and this explanation strung over
page one:
"Two doses of pi is too much to
overcome in one week-end, so our
readers will be obliged to take the
first page blank. Page one fell to
pieces, "pied," as it was loaded on
the press, was reconstructed only
to pi again. Sorry, but accidents
happen to all of us sometimes."
Nutty
Dallas, Tex. Mrs. L. A. West
brook spotted a baby pecan tree in
her yard and spaded it up .to trans
plant It. She found the roots en
twined around an old baseball.
The ball, she figured, was a home
made one with' a pecan as a center.
Whee-ee-ee!
Idaho Falls, Idaho A motorist
arrested on a drunken driving
charge told Judge Fred Wllkie he
was celebrating the expiration of
a one-year revocation of his Utah
driver's license.
First Aiders Called
Silverton Mrs. Martin Hannan
Is announcing the first of the ad
vanced and beginning first aid
classes to be held Wednesday night
at 8 o'clock In the brick building
of the Junior high school. The
classes are sponsored by the Red
Cross and will be under the direc
tion of Mrs. Gordon Black of Salem,
chairman ot the Red Gross first aid
in Salem,
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Kelly Says:
Salem $3,090,800 in
Lend-Lease Program
Ben Cohen Drafts Bill
For Utility Purchase
FDR Less Excited
Than Mr. Willkie
By John W. Kelly
Our friend "Scotty" the circula
tion man used to get kidded unmer
cifully for his practice of conserv
ing the anti-freeze in his car year
after year. There were different
stories around the office as to how
long "Scotty" kept this going, some
dating it back to glycerine bought
before the stock market crash. But
we're beginning to get reports It's
going to be a hard winter and that
antl-freeze will be tough to eet.
what with priorities and all. So.
it Is developing that maybe "Scot
ty" Is the bright boy after all and
he's got something in laying the
anu-ireeze over In the refrigerator
ouring tne summer months. He
who laughs last laughs the loudest
and Just wait until Scotty turns
loose one of those laughs on you.
The Minutes Approved as Read
(Medford Mall-Tribune)
An Ashland scout reports the fol
lowing happened at a recent meet
ing of a women's club there, dur
ing the reading of the minutes of
the last meeting.
At the last meeting of the club.
both the president and the vice-
president being absent, a very
pleasant aiternoon was enjoyed by
those present."
No new candidate for governor
showed up this week which makes
things look a little brighter.
Court Hearing
Tax Arguments
The state supreme court, in a
two-hour session, heard arguments
today on whether the variable ra
tion or the uniform ratio should be
used in assessing Multnomah coun
ty property,
A decision is expected within
two weeks.
Attorneys for the state tax com
mission argued that the court should
compel the change to uniform ratio,
even though it would Increase tax
es on homes. Attorneys for Tom
Watson, Multnomah county auditor,
argued for continuation of the var
iable ratio.
cotton
Brazil expects Its 1940
crop to weigh 470,000 tons.
Washington, Oct. 21 Oregon's
share of the 13 billion dollars in the
two lend-lease bills is the staggering
sum of $108,969,100. First of these
bills was for seven billion, last
March; second, just being enacted,
is six billions. The lend-lease Item
Is only one of the many tax obll
gations Oregon must pay but it
gives an idea of the tax load that
is coming. Also, is the hint that
a third lend-lease bill will be sub
mitted to congress In February.
Here is the way the lend-lease
bill stands against the population
of Oregon communities: Astoria
$1,038,900, The Dalles $626,600, Sa
lem $3,090,800, Oregon City $612,400,
Albany $565,400, Eugene $2,085,800,
Grants Pass $602,800, Medford $1,-
128,100, Pendleton $884,700, Portland
$30,359,400, Bend $1,002,100.
Marion $7,524,600
Breakdown by counties is as fol
lows: Baker $1,829,700, Benton $1,
862,900, Clackamas $5,713,000, Clat
sop $2,469,700, Columbia $2,097,100,
Coos $3,246,600, Crook $553,300, Cur
ry $430,100, Deschutes $1,863,100,
Douglas $2,572,800, Gilliam $284,400,
Grant $638,000, Harney $537,400,
Hood River $1,158,000, Jackson $3,
621,300, Jefferson $204,200, Josephine
$1,630,000, Klamath $4,049,700, Lake
$629,300, Lane $6,909,600, Lincoln
$1,454,900, Linn $3,048,500, Malheur
$1,976,700, Marion $7,524,600 Morrow
$433,700, Multnomah $35,509,900
Polk $1,998,900, Sherman $232,100,
Tillamook $1,226,300, Umatilla $2,
603,000, Union $1,729,900, Wallowa
$762,300, Wasco $1,306,900, Wash
ington $3,919,400, Wheeler $297,400,
Yamhill $2,633,600.
Most of the lend-lease money
will go for materials sent to Russia,
Britain, Turkey, China and any
other "democracy." In the matter
of food, the second bill earmarks
$1,875,000,000 for the British, which
will feed 18,750,000 for one year at
an average of $100 each. The na
tional resources commission reports
that the average American family
of 4.1 persons spends $467 a year
on food, or $114 per person. The
food Is given to Britain and the
government sells it to wholesalers
who retail the commodities, fixing
prices. Only some of the milk Is
distributed free to children. United
States government also pays the
freight across the Atlantic.
Granges Send Petitions
Ben Cohen, a master at phrasing
bills, who had a hand in drafting
the wage-hour bill, SEC measure,
holding company legislation and
other new deal laws, Is said to be
working on a bill which will permit
PUDs to buy private utility com
panies of the northwest, with eye
first ot Puget Sound Power &
Light Co. Seeing no Immediate
prospect of a Columbia river au
thority being considered by congress
(at least not before next year and
possibly not In the 76th session!
PUDs and Granges are sending pe
titions to northwest senators and
representatives to support a mea
sure which is to authorize some
$200,000,000 and permit the acqui
sition of private companies.
Most of the pressure Is coming
from Washington, but some high
officers of Oregon State Grange
are lending a hand to the cause.
PUDs and Grange are itching to
get started buying up the private
plants and do not want to wait for
the slow process of harmonizing
the Bone arid Hill bills, which are
only a squabble over administration
but agree on all-out government
ownership. Proposals for RFC to
put up the money have thus far
been rejected, so the promoters ex
pect to ask congress for authori
zation and one group says it has
hired Cohen to fix up the bill, pos
sibly an amendment to the Bonne
ville act.
How They Line Up
At least three and possibly four
of the senators from Oregon and
Washington are are opposed to dis
integration of the neutrality act
by arming merchant vessels. Sen
ator Bone Is an out and out oppon
ent of war and has resisted every
step token by the administration
which he thinks will Involve the
United States. Senator Holman
also is opposed to repealing the
neutrality act. Senator McNary,
republican leader in the senate,
flatly declares that he opposes re
peal and so informed the president
at the White House conference call
ed by Mr. Roosevelt. Senator Wall-
gren, being a new dealer but not
voting for all new deal proposals,
will possibly vote for arming mer
chant ships, although this is not
certain. The two Idaho senators.
Clark and Thomas, are against re
peal, and at least one California
senator, Hiram Johnson. Mall re
ceived from constituents is urging
"keep out of war." The republican
leader of the senate is not follow
ing the advice of his running mate,
Wendell Willkie, who asks the re
publicans in congress to give all
aid to the president. As a matter
of fact, the president Is not as ex
cited over opposition based on dif
ferences of opinion as is Willkie
for the president knows he has the
votes.
No Copper for
Non-Defense Jobs
Washington, Oct. 21 (Effec
tive November 1 the use of copper
will be forbidden in all non-defense
building construction.
Donald M. Nelson, director of pri
orities, issued the necessary order
yesterday, and one defense official
termed it the "toughest" defense
restriction yet imposed to conserve
the supply of a strategic metal for
arms production.
The order exempted only copper
Saiem Sketched By Will Danch
"I'll have to get J. M. Best, Silverton, the music Instructor's ad- a
vice. It does this every time I play 'smoke gets in your eyes'!" Vv
used for electric wiring, for equip
ment exposed to corrosive action of
special kind, hydroelectric plants,
and contracts of government de
fense agencies which specify cop
per. In addition to the November 1
ban, the order prohibited the use of
copper next year In the manufac
ture of more than 100 common arti
cles ranging from dress accessories
and kitchen utensils to barrel hoops
and caskets.
The order applies to any metal
alloy containing 50 per
more of copper.
Electrically-driven motor truck
will be admitted duty-free into
Norway.
Intestinal Gas Pains
"Adlerlka quickly relieved me of gas
pains In the intestines." (C.B.-Ohlo)1.
Gas pains due to delayed bowel ac
tion relieved thru QUICK results from
ADLERIKA. Get It TODAY. Perry's
Drug Store.
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