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The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon
Saturday, February 21, 1942
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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
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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."
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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"
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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.
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