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Four The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon Saturday, February 21, 1942 Capital QJournal OiionJlTfl SALEM, OREGON ESTABLISHED MARCH 1, liM IB Independent Newspaper Published Even Afternoon Except Sunday at 444 Chemeketa St Telephones Business Office S571 Newt Room 3572; Society Editor J571 OEOROE PUTNAM. Editor and PubUUier FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED PRESS SUBSCRIPTION KATZS BY CARRIER: Weekly, $.15: Monthly, .0O; One Tear, MJO. BX MAIL IN OREGON: Monthly, MO; Six Monti 13.50; One rear, tM. UNITED STATES OUTSIDE OREGON: Monthly, $M; Six Mentha. aj.00; Vear, M.OO. The Associated Preaa la exclusively entitled to the us for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also local news published herein. Make Uo Your Mind. Please If ever a statement was framed to alarm the public as to the future supply of sugar and stampede the people into hoarding that essential war commodity, it was tnat credited yesterday to Leon Henderson urging housewives to sell any excess sugar they have on hand to their neighbors or to their grocers for resale. Grocers who buy such sugar are advised to pay current retail quota tions and sell It to other consumers at the same price as a patriotic service. Only a few days ago in outlining proposed rationing rules the gov ernment announced that housewives having a sugar reserve of more than two pounds a person at tho time of taking out their rationing cards will be required to declare the amount of excess, and will not be permitted to buy more until their excess supply Is depleted. That would be a reasonable and sensible regulation and would destroy any incentive for hoarding, without alarming the people with hints of a possible sugar famine in the fu ture, which is more than can be said of Henderson's latest suggestion. There is nothing in figures revealed so far on stocks on hand, anticipated production and estimated mili tary needs to justify such scare talk. Housewives can just as effectively "share their sugar," as Henderson proposes, by shortening their daily rations and refraining from buying more until their reserve is ex hausted as by selling off their reserves and then buying more. Besides, if every other, housewife is to become a sugar merchant, how is rationing to be controlled?. So long as com mercial sugar users are allowed as much as 80 per cent of their, normal supplies, housewives are not going to be im pressed with the need for stinting themselves. The WPB would'do well to convince itself of the real need for drastic sugar conservation before it undertakes to convince others. With a Sigh of Relief Resignation of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as co-director of the "office of civilian defense will be hailed with a sigh of relief. The Lady Eleanor is a perpetual motion machine com ' mitted to the starry-eyed uplift and wishful thinking. Her heart bleeds for the comparatively few under-privileged for ' whom she believes in bleeding the many. - As a cure for social ills, she believes in doles, hoonrlotrc- ling and a hundred other costly devices sapping the initiative and resourcefulness of the people, in a paternalism that des ' troys-individuality, indeoendence and industrv to makn the inefficient and lazy wards of the state with the ambition to get something for nothing at taxpayers expense, to promote me creeping paralysis of state socialism. '.Mrs. Roosevelt has left her mark on the New Deal vasr- aries, has 'aided materially in creatine a mushronm hurpnn- cracy intent mainly on perpetuating its powers and making depression emergency " measures a permanent feature of American Hie. bhe has catered to communists, pinks and reds ana piacea many, or tnem on tne federal payrolls. Much of the first lady's ebulliency has been snent on experimental flops. She has championed the various fellow traveler organizations designed to build up communism, some oi wnicn sne nas ocen openly aniliatea with. She has en couraged sit-down strikes and labor racketeers and it is her influence that has kept Madame "Perkins as secretary of labor, and believes in sacrosanctity of picket lines, even when they surround the White House to keep us out of war ai least sne never protested tnem. civilian aeiense snouid mean what it says, serious preparation for war not another excuse for WPA entertain ment, as she was attempting. No matter how noble her uplift intentions, me Dcst tning sue nas done is to resign. Tax Reform Oratory We would really like to credit Secretary of State Earl onell wiln something more substantial than campaign or atory when he advocates substitution of a single commis sioner appointed by the governor for the present three-man commission named by and responsible to the board of con trol. But we cannot. Nor can we agree with Sncll that "the commission now is more powerful than the legislature that created it or the state board ot control that appointed it. If it is, it is the fault of a weak and uninformed legis lature and a subservient board of control. Either body has the authority to control tho policies and override the admin istrative acts of the commission. A sure way to destroy tho efficiency of the tax commis sion in establishing a permament and continuing state tax program is to make it a part of the political spoils of any one elective official ; to make its administration an issue in every gubernatorial campaign or to sacrifice the advantages of de partmentalization that provides for a segregation of com plex duties among three commissioners. Talk of effecting economics through a one-man com mission is all bunk. Tho work of tho commission naturally falls into three departments, those of Income and similar taxes, real and personal taxes and public utility taxation. Each requires trained and experienced direction, now sup plied by one of the commissioners. Each would still require a head under the Sncll plan and a fourth man, the commis sioner, to boss them. But talkine aiiv kind nf in rnfnrm i irwl ivo,r Ar. rrl hearing these days. Purging Potential Spies in 8 movo B'mGd principally nt tho Japanese problem on the Pacific coast, President Roosevelt, exercising his war time power as commander-in-chief, by an executive order has given the army sweeping authority to remove "any or all persons" from "military ureas" or to imposo restrictions ?,n .1 Tho Brmy cnn Bct in nnv locality anywhere in the United States if necessity arises, but its immediate applica tion will bo on American citizens of Japanese descent. The order empowers the war department to provide such items as transportation, food and shelter for persons evacuated from the new war zones. It supercedes prohibited and re stricted areas previously closed to enemy aliens by order of the justice department. Many of tho second generation of Japanese are loyal to tho United States, some of them serving in the army. But Borne are not. Japan, like Germany and Italy, refuses to rec ognize such American citizenship, and tho experience of Jap anese fifth columns In Hawaii, the Philippines and Singapore certainly justifies every precaution in the Pacific coast states, wnere there are few defenses. Strategic areas, at least, suuum ue purgca ot an potential spies and saboteurs, Things to Worry About By Beck BHaHHaHaMaVMaBatata 1 T SS88XV I! NOTHING ! lip IKJ7 mister . rr'5 J 1. 1 voo Ajturnro pok H I ALL RIGHT,.- f , MAKMC MS MJiS M : The Fireside Pulpit By REV. E. S. HAMMOND 'For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." Matt. 11 :30. . i received a letter tne tuner aay that' gave me a pleased surprise. It was sent to Rev. T. D.'Yarnes, the secretary of the Oregon Conference of the Methodist church. By him it was forwarded to Rev. S. Raynor Smith of this city, who turned It over to me. It was written by an Iowa minister who was the secretary of the college class of 1892 of Iowa Wesleyan university, and he de sired details about the dat of death and burial place of Rev. J. R. Payne, who, it seems, was a mem ber of that class, and who passed away here in Salem some years ago. knew Rev. Payne, and was able to send him the desired Informa tion. But It was the name signed to the letter of inquiry which Inter ested me especially, for It was the name of a student of Boston uni versity who helped me In an evan gelistic meeting In my church in a Massachusetts village during the Christmas vacation of 1891-95. He wrote me a fine letter in reply to mine, and In that letter he men tioned an Incident of one of the meetings we held that winter. He said he had often told of this in his preaching, and the same thing Is true of myself. One evening during that meeting an old man arose and said, "I was twenty years old when I was converted. I was living in New Hampshire, and I was working hard in a saw mill. Every week that winter I used to walk four miles each way to attend a prayer meet ing. There were a couple of young fellows working with me, and they used to laugh at me, and say, "You must have a hard master to make you walk four miles to prayer meet ing after a hard day's work." 1 lived to see one of those boys die in delirium tremens and the other die In prison because. 'of a mur der committed when he was drunk. I am now eighty-eight years old, and 'goodness and mercy have fol lowed me all the days of my life.1 What this good old man had found in his life is just what mil lions of God's people have found in their experience. People some times think that religion is joyless, and the way of righteousness Is i hard, barren road. The "prim rose patch" seems so easy, and so delightful. But appearances are ter rlbly deceptive. Sin never gives permanent peace or satisfying joy. The wise man has said, "There is a way that seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Those are wise both for this world and the next who believe and trust In Jesus' word, "My yoke Is easy, and my burden is light." M aC ps Dor Supper By Don Upjohn We were tipped off to a rather re markable feat In dexterity displayed tho other day by "Slim" Maw of the Sunshine division of tho police department, when he recaptured pet porcupine which had escaped from its owners and had taken re fuge In a tree out in front of 650 North Winter street. "Sllm's" blan dishments failed to cntlco the por cupine down so he secured a piece of small rope, ascended the tree and from the Insecure vantage point of small limb he lassoed the little fellow and brought him safely back to earth. Yea, our Informant, who watched the proceedings, said Slim took about three or four shots at It before the lasso noose dropped over the porcupine's neck and closed In on him, Maybe Leo Spitzbart should look this boy over as an at- traction for the state fair, the only porcupine lassoer" ever seen any stage anywhere or In any out door arena. Fools Rush In Los Angeles, W) In chronolog leal order, here's what happened last night outside a corner drug store. Mrs, Laura Roberts walked In to buy a package of cigarettes. Her husband waited outside. He decided to hide behind a tree and give his wife a scare. Mrs. Roberts came out, Mr. Rob erts leaped out and a total strang er leaped in. He punched at Mr. Roberts, who punched back. Mrs. Roberts screamed and start ed punching, too at her would-be rescuer. She even broke a finger. The chivalrous stranger, now completely bewildered, got out of there as fast as lie could. The English language Is a tough one, for Instance Inspect the sent ence, "A gnat gnawed on a gnu." To figure that one out would al most drive one gnuts, as It were. Patriotism at lis Beit (O.A3, in Jefferson Review) "One ot the six women who help ed register local men for the draft last Monday was s mother who had the unique experience of registering her son. The mother was Mrs, Eu gene Flnlay who registered her youngest son, John, Many mothers give their sons to the army, but few tare asked to register them, too. It wouldn't be a very happy experience for a mother, would it?" The Jefferson incident takes us back to Joaquian Miller's poem, "Tlie bravest battle that ever was fought, need I tell you where and when, on the maps of the world you will find not, It was fought by the mothers of men." The Idea Spreads (Corvallls Gazette-Times) "The people of Orofino, Id., have protested to congress against the proposed expenditure of $1,600 for a "mural" for their new post office, on the ground that it Is a useless expenditure In the nation's present emergency." D d..:i. ' icnyuuie rujii3 Get Honor Ratings Perrydalc Principal LeRoy Scott released the high school honor roll names Friday morning. First honor roll, Evelyn Etl; second honor roli, Rogcne Miller, John Wall, Eliza beth Broadwell, Dorothy Fryrcar, Peggy Houk, Joyce Johnson, Lor raine Vincent, Martha Jean Schel lenberg. May Helen Strlkwerda, Jeannette Van Staavcren, Mildred Brown, Maxlne Morrison. 1 Kelly Says: Questions Asked About Labor Racketeers Potential Power Projects Numerous Obstacles Many to Actual Development Br John W. Kelly Washington, Feb. 21 How much money have unions collected for Issuing work permits; by what right do the unions charge a fee to an American to engage in war work; what becomes of this money? These are questions being asked by Virginia's Byrd, and when Sena tor Byrd asks for Information he usually obtains it. The senator's inquiry Is general, but It will have particular significance in the north west where the unions have been selling permits to work in many of the war industries and where they are preparing to set up offices to collect this fee from those looking for jobs on the cantonments at Medford and Corvallls. Contractors, it appears, make an agreement with the unions that the latter will furnish all the labor required; thereafter the contractors have nothing to say about workmen, the union acting as the employment office. As the unions do not wish to increase their membership un- necessarily, they issue work permits which give the unions' authoriza' tion for non-union men to work, For this work permit various fees are charged; at one factory on Puget Sound It la $1 a shift for the higher paid workers. This is more money than would be paid in as dues It the worker belonged to the union. There is no means of learn. ing how much revenue the unions are obtaining from the work per mils, but Senator Byrd may smoke it out eventually by a law compel ling an accounting. Labor Worries Congress Labor continues to worry mem bera of congress. The welders In the northwest, the demands In the lumber industry for transportation, demands for another $1 a day to meet Increasing cost of living, shut' downs in Important industries for trivial reasons. Congress does not like to see 10,000 men In a plant quit work for an hour as a demonstra tion, for this means 10,000 hours 1,250 days 30 weeks. Thirty weeks In certain plants will repre- sent 400 airplanes and a fleet of tanks or a cargo carrier. From cabinet gorge on the Mon tana-Idaho line to Ross dam on the Skagit river in Washington, and to Detroit on the Santlam river in Oregon, the latest power develop ment for the northwest includes every potential site In the three states. Congress Is requested to make an investigation and report in three months and then, assunv ing congress gives its blessing, the entire comprehensive program is to start building. Every proposed dam and addi tlonal turbine suggested In the re port Is feasible, logical, and some day will be utilized, presumably with government money as the plan Is intended to shove out of the pic- ture any and all private utility companies In that region. There is a potential power development In practically every congressional district In Idaho, Oregon and Wash' ington, a point which has not been overlooked in framing the recom mendations. Little New in Power There are very few proposals in the power program. The same sites for dams, the possibilities of tucking In additional waterwheels in ex isting dams, etc., have all been used In other pronouncements from the federal power commission and the department of tile Interior, There has been a regrouping, but without exception each prospective kilowatt has been publicized In the past. if but a part of the program should be sanctioned by congress it would require two or three years to attain a point where power would be generated. Dams require about two years to build: turbines from 19 to 18 months depending on size. If the even flow of business pro ceeds. War will lengthen the time The matter of priorities Is becom ing more difficult with each pass ing month. Steel and concrete cannot be ordered like a sack of potatoes; the holder ot a priority order stands m line, waits his turn. The waterwheel must bt designed and built, and factories making tur bines are now .swamped with nary orders and with equipment for 1000 merchant vessels now under con' tract Labor 1 another element and becoming scarce. These power dams require hundreds of workmen who for some time to come will be more Interested in war Industries than in dam building. Pet Project Comes First In the national capital the power program looks nice on paper, but there are so many serious obstacles in the way that there Is little be. lief expressed that it will material' lie within 60 years or more. There is a possibility that some one or two dams may be authorized, up In northern Idaho and on the Skagit river, or even at Umatilla, but no wholesale authorization is anticipated. Besides, the president prefers that his own pet project, the St, Lawrence waterway, shall have the right-of-way. Josephine, wife of Napoleon, was born in Martinique. Satem Sketches By Will Danch "He Just found out Mrs. Frank Lllburn will be his kindergarten teacher when he gets old enough to start school I" OPEN FORUM Contributions to this eohnnn most b plainly written on one aide of paper only, limited to SOI words 1 length and dined with the name ot Um writer.) Articles not meet tug these specifications win be rejected, If rstnm ot anpabllshed articles Is desired self-addraaaed, stamped envelope most be enclosed. Room and Board By Gene A hern ROBIN'S KNITTING J"' fe 'fsKIHr?' APp.F f ,S JUST WHAT YOU W , tWf WV X A EXPECT.- SOMETHING W WMZ'Wi A 01 riL wise. ' ( UZZZ?n MJL S thettSutV I STRING I SAVE I TO TAKE HIM N -J ... mMG,c BUT tXDMXlEVEH M TXWNTDTHE 1 j JqES BACKTO SEE ANYTHING J CLASS. MOWtW, j ftf o, TINER AND NEATER f TO SHC" 7HS ) SHOW TJAY9 THAN THE WAY J I GIRLS JUST . w(reN j W JUDGE f HOW KNITTING j USED TO To the Editor: It seems from common sense thinking and sound judgment, the short editorial ap pearing In the Capital Journal of the Issue of February 12 under the heading of soft-cushion loggers, should be answered, in the light of depicting the modem side of the situation. The loggers were wil ling to work for the same wages and furnish their own transporta tion until our government stepped in and denied them tires for their cars to conserve the rubber for the defense of our nation. The modern ledger is not the same man as of a few years back. He does not choose to go back in the jungle and stay constantly with the ex ceptions of a fortnight vacation during the Fourth of July and Christmas. The modern logger makes more money than 90 per cent of the business men In town, therefore why should he not want to go to town each weekend. If he didn't business in town would shrink more than the first week following the Pearl Harbor raid. To conserve several commodities for defense, our government has cur tailed considerably the business of all business men In every town. Now if the logger Is expected to go back in the timber and stay most of his time he is liable to be the only citizen financially able to buy defense bonds and stamps. To cur- tall the free flow of money among the small business men while we are in war is the craziest kind of thought. We should strive to do Just the opposite. If the next cur tailment of business is to compel our loggers the freest spenders on earth, to go back In the timber and stay, as they did 40 years ago when wages were small and there were no automobiles, then we shall have no business except the big busi ness of war, and our government will have a monopoly on that. We shall have a Hitler government without a Hitler, Just the kind of government we are fighting to keep out of this country. It seems it's O. K. for our congressmen to have free transportation to and from their work, but our loggers, who are the backbone of our nation's de tense, and will be robbed ot their only logical transportation for their work, are expected to go back Into the brushy Jungles and stay for the duration. While the loggers are asking for free transportation, which is to be taken away from them and which they have been paying for themselves, they have not yet asked congress to enact an unreasonable pension law for their benefit. Me for the loggers. SIDNEY SEALS. Novelties In the News (Br ttia Associated Press) Mermaid Two weeks ago 11 artists were assigned to paint murals on the walls of the navy receiving barracks in Brooklyn. Soon ships and maps and former naval heroes brightened the rooms. But sailors were in almost con tinual conference with the artists, pleading and arguing. They won the argument. Today, lovely mermaid beams from the library wall, Ingrates correyvllle, Kas. The mother cat on the Carl Rich farm didn't mind so much when an old hen butted In and took over the raising of two new kittens. )ut Kiel) figures the cat has a legitimate complaint now. Each night when the hen goes to roost, the kittens climb up beside ner to snooze. Transportation Note Tucson, Ariz. Ten-year-old Bet ty Apullne Kilmer brightened the La Fiesta De Los Vaqueros parade with her miniature prairie schooner. drawn by a team of cocker spaniels. On either side of the wagon was painted the slogan "Use your dogs and save rubber." But No Flats Fixed El Paso, Tex The Rev. Theo. H. Evers was urging members ot his Zlon Lutheran congregation to at tend Lenten services. Watchmen will be stationed," he Intoned, "to protect your tires.'1 Safe Evidence Chattanooga, Term. Mrs. Mil dred Anderson saw a newspaper photograph and learned that her son had participated In the navy raids on the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and that he was safe. The picture showed seamen re pairing damage to their vessel, and among them she recognised her son, Jimmy Verne Anderson. To the Editor: In regard to your editorial on Soft Cushion Loggers and logging ain't what It used to be, it is probably true in more ways than one. But I see that your editorials haven't: For you are writing on a subject that you are poorly in formed on, or you are purposely misconstruing the facts to prejudice and confuse the minds ot other poorly informed readers. In the first place the loggers can not replace their present tires when they are worn out, but employers can get tires for the conveyance ot 10 or more men to and from work. And in the second place their soft cushioned busses consist of a truck with flat bed, and board seats, and bows with slats, and a canvas cover to keep out the wind and rain, and would not cost a dollar and up for each employe as you state when from 10 to 39 men were transported per truck. And besides the loggers are not asking transportation from their home, but from some . centralized location where they can board or congregate to be hauled over the rough private logging roads. The companies construct and op erate bunk and boarding houses on the job which is fair and just. Furthermore I'm a logger and subscriber to your propaganda sheet. And I Invite you to come and work with me on the opposite end of a falling saw for one week, and I'll wager the shine on the seat of your pants will disappear as well as a streamlining of your waist line. F. L. TANDY, Dallas, Ore. To the Editor: I have been read ing In your forum column quite a lot about our cigarette tax collected during the time it was in effect, as to 'the proper return of tax to the right persons. There seems to be a little con tusion in the minds of some peo ple about this. Being In the wholesale cigarette business here In Salem I come In contact with several hundred re tall dealers and have not found a single one that thought the state should reimburse them for any amount other than for the cigar ettes they had on hand at the time the law was declared void by the supreme court. For example, to get at some understanding in this matter, I will state from the facts as they are with me. All retailers paid tax on all cig arettes on their shelves at the start on January 8, also on all cigar ettes purchased from their whole salers during the time the law was In effect thus leaving them with tax paid cigarettes on their shelves in some instances running into quite a sum of money which they feel should be returned to them. As for the balance of money col lected which the consumer had paid in to the state in this manner, that does not concern them as to its disposal. This is the consensus of opinion I have been able to get by talking to dealers. A. J. BUSICK. Salem, Oregon. Parents are glv- To the Editor: ing their sons I Sons are giving their lives I Everyone Is buying defense bonds and doing his bit for his country. But, what has happened to the patriotism of the state of Oregon? Why is our state government not as big as the "little fellow"? Our president and all 100 per cent Americans feel that the defense of America is the most Important of all. One would like to believe that the state of Oregon also would be all out" for defense. Yet. how do you account for this situation? If state employes, most of who have knowledge needed in defense Industries, desire to accept defense job, they lose all bene fits they have earned from years of faithful service seniority, ac cumulated sick leaves, etc. They are given no assurance that their positions will be restored at the close of this emergency, and in some cases are denied even a short leave of absence. Of course the thought arises, If these privileges (or one might say rights) were no forfeited by leav ing, would not all state employes soon be gone? This would not ne cessarily be true. By keeping only the ones essential to operating state business, the payroll would be re duced considerably. A wage could be paid consistent with the ad vance in prices and corresponding with that paid in defense works. As you probably know, state ex penditures for new work and main tenance have been drastically cur tailed,, Many men, who, hereto fore, have found their time fully occupied, are now idle at their desks. Idle men at state Jobs are an unnecessary drain on the taxpay ers' pocketbooks. Whereas, It these men were at defense Jobs, they would be helping to win the war and at the same time would be re lieving the already heavy load of the taxpayers. The state can be patriotic and have a heart by assuring these people that their positions will be waiting when men return to their homes and families. Very truly yours, FRED CROMWELL. Formosa is the oldest colony of Japan and probably the most use ful economically. ,0t For your impeccably tailored Spring suit an impeccably tail ored Spring fragrance "Wood hue", romantic, woodsy, perfect complement to Imported tweeds. Crystal flacons with natural wal nut tops. 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