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Four The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon Friday, August 21, 1942 CapitamJournal . Oil an 117 SALEM, OREGON ESTABLISHED MARCH 1. 1888 An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday at 444 Chemeketa St. Telephones Business Office 3571; Mews Room 3572; Society Editor 3573 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED PRESS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: BT CARRIER: Weekly, $.18; Monthly, $.75; One Year, $9.00. BY MAIL IN OREGON: Monthly, $.80; Six Months, $3.00; One Year, $6.00. UNITED STATES OUTSIDE OREGON; Monthly, $.60; Six Months, $3.60; Year, $7.20. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use lor publi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited In this paper, and also local news published herein. "With or without offense to friends or foes I sketch your world exactly as it goes." Japan s Mem Kampf Otto D. Tolischus, former correspondent for the New York Times at Tokyo, who was imprisoned and tortured because he reported the machinations of the Japanese mili tary clique to seize power, in a series of articles to his paper from Dio de Janeiro, says that Japan's "holy war" has a mystic background, which is elucidated in a booklet issued early this year by Professor Chikao Fujisawa, one of the leading exponents of Japan's political thought and philoso phy. He says : According to this booklet, which was made up for widest distribution, Japan, as the original motherland of the human race and world civilization, is fighting a holy war to reunite warring mankind into one universal family household in which each na tion will take its proper place under the divine sovereignty of the Japanese Emperor, who is a direct descendant of the Sun God dess in the "absolute cosmic life-center," from which the nations have strayed and to which they must return. The booklet summarizes, systematizes and applies to the present war the ideas derived from Shinto mythology that Japanese politicians, under, the lead of Yosuke Mat suoka (Oregon educated) developed into an imperialistic dogma to justify the expansion policy. But it appeals to all the religious, racial and national ideas and emotions most deeply ingrained in the Japanese nature so his book has become the "Mein Kampf" of the Nipponese. It furnishes the ideological background for ruthless aggression and con' quest. It is the way of the gods defined as follows: "This is the objective of the divine mission that Japan has been called on to fulfill from time immemorial! In a word, it is ; to permeate the whole world and earth with the cosmic vitality embodied in our divine sovereign, so that all segregated national units may be led to reunite themselves spiritually with the sincere feeling of brothers sharing the same blood. Only in this way will all nations of the world be Induced to abandon their individu alistic attitude, which finds expression first of all in current inter national law. "The .holy war launched by Sumera Mikuni (Japan) will sooner or later awaken all nations to the cosmic truth that their respective national lives issued forth from the one absolute life' center embodied by Sumera Mikoto (the emperor) and tha peace and harmony cannot be realized otherwise than by reor ganizing them into one all-embracing- family system under the guidance of Sumera Mikoto," J. Actions You Regret By Beck " HTTTi T mm . J Sips for Supper By Don Upjohn Congress Has the Key Warning that this country and the other United Nations are headed for a food shortage which, he says, will begin to make itself seriously felt late in 1943, is sounded by Rep, Hampton Fulmer, chairman of the house agricultural com mittee. And, Fulmer declares, "the officials and bureaucrats handling the program won't do anything about it until it smacks them right in the face." The South Carolina legislator, who is himself a farmer bases his prediction on the growing shortage of farm labor ana the tendency to disregard other war problems confront ing the food producer. In forecasting curtailment of agricultural crops because of the difficulty in securing labor to plant, cultivate and harvest tnem, lulmer is but stating a situation too obvious to need ex planation. But what, as a member of congress, is he doing to correct tnat condition? What does he propose to Implement the supply of farm labor or to make farm jobs comparatively attractive to other forms of employment? Voluntary enlistments and the draft have cut deeply into the supply of the farmer's most efficient help, and will make even greater inroads in the months to come. It would be neither wise nor just to attempt to exempt farm hands from the draft, aiuiuuKii iu aa so would iiKciy solve that labor problem. It is not practicable to raise farm wages to levels com- paraDie to tne laoulous rales of pay being received by war industry workers. To do that would be to snnd fnnrl lMMppa skyrocketing to fantastic heights and stimulate the spiral of Humuuii. dui ib is possioie ior ncp. Fulmer and his col leagues in congress to apply the pruning shears to the fancy wages being paid lo war workers under government con tracts, and to weed out the surplus of workers that are stumbling over each other in most of the war plants operating Reduction of war industry wages to common sense levels, elimination of huge overtime bonuses by lengthening the work week to a minimum of 48 hours and weeding out surplus workers on war plant payrolls would go a long way toward making farm jobs more attractive and relieving the shortage of agricultural labor. We haven't heard of Rep. Fulmer's name being attached to any proposed legislation to that end. Milk Board Not Guilty Unless it be that it did not advance the minimum price of milk soon enough nnd high enough, the Oregon milk control board with all its faults cannot consistently bo blamed directly for the shortage of fluid milk which is said to threaten venous parts of the state. The shortage, actual or conjured up for propaganda reasons by producers nnd distributors seeking higher prices, is due to two causes: (1) rapid expansion of demand, due to a tremendous influx of consumers, mostly soldiers and war industry workers, and (2) mounting production costs and the reluctance or inability of dnirynion to increase their herds in the face of existing uncertainties, especially as regards labor. ' Producers are crying that they must have more money lor their product and some are already reported to have gono out of business because of inability to make ends meet. They cant blame the board, which has always functioned u iiuiu prices up, ior tnat, However, responsibility for the celling price on milk rests solely with the OPA and the administration which unfortunately neglected to frccie wages and other items of milk production costs at corre sponding levels. Indirectly the milk board's past policy of restricting the issuance of "quotas" lo a limited number of producers in each milkshed can be blamed for some of the present scarcity But so also can the favored dairymen who championed that While a good neighbor policy is interesting to contemplate, Rome times we wonder, as, fer instance, here's a little story about a couple of good . farm neighbors not far from Salem of an incident that happened the other day. Both have a few sheep. The two 'let in the road the other day and one of them suggested to the other it might be a good idea to trade bucks. The other one said, sure, that he had a couple of nice bucks and the first man could take h i s choice. So the first man went home, loaded up his buck, drove to the neighbors, deposited it in Novelties In the News (By the Associated Prena) Fighting Grandpa ( Elkhart, Ind. Most men re gard leaving home to go to war as a stock story to tell their h 1 s neighbor's barnyard and went to pick out . the one he wanted in exchange. But the other neighbor had changed his mind about letting the first man take his choice. He'd picked out the buck he wanted his neigh bor to have. It was a fine look ing buck so the neighbor loaded it aboard a truck and took home. He'd no sooner deposited it in his barnyard than t h buck took one look around hopped the barnyard fence. went across a field, hopped an other fence and disappeared That was the end of that buck. And also maybe the end of -the good neighbor policy in the lo cality. We have the names of these parties on file but wont show them to anybody who may be curious. Devotees of the great iron god "Scrappo" are beginning to bring their sacrificial offerings and laying them at h!s metal feet on the courthouse grounds. Pro bably the most inspiring of these is a boy's tricycle. A woman told us she saw a little tot bring ing the tricycle up the street, granacmiciren some day nut lugging it over to the heap and not Kenneth N. Kress, 43-year- dropping it under Scrappo's shadow. The boy turned, walked old draftee His two grandchildren, young sters of Mrs. Robert Cussemeyer his daughter, were there to see him off as he left for the army, Wrong-Way Candidate Spokane Joe Albi, campaign ing for congress, left Newport, Wash., on a rural tour and re ceived a hearty welcome at every hamlet. Encouraged, Albl came right out and asked an old timer to vote for him. "Be glad to," the bearded man replied, "only I can't vole in Washington. This here's Idaho. Last Straw Item Kansas City Herman West- hoff, postman on vacntioii, walk ed three miles from his home to a service station, and three miles back again. He wanted to pay for the gas oline he had used in recent days. He couldn't use the car for the trip his tires had given out. Collector Kansas City Cily Manager L loomgham accepts very eagerly passes to every enter tainment and sports events but he always pays his way. He saves the passes nnd pastes them all In a scrapbook, unused. Down the Hatch Cimarron, Kas. Santa Clans wheat, they call It in this west em Kansas community. Lacking storage space, Leigh Warner leased a five-section railroad workers' apartment building, boarded up doors and windows and poured the wheat down the chimneys. t Had Nine Lives Athens. Ala. Dee Hill is tell ing how he landed a 300-pound catfish after fighting it for two days and a night. Hill said he caught (he big fish on a line strung across the Elk River. He tied two cedar posts on each end of the line, fol lowed the posts until the fish gave up a mile and a half after entering the Tennessee River. oor Watch Dogs Augusta, Kas. His 20 grey hounds made such a clamor that Farmer W. E. Tinkler couldn't hear the thieves who fled In the night with all five of his truck tires. The dogs bark nnd yelp all the time anyhow, Tinkler ex plained, so he thought nothing of their extra noise.. . away, stopped and looked back at his offering, then went on up the street again. "Scrappo' looked down on this unsung lit tle hero and may have shed molten tear. Biggest Lie of the Week (Medford Mail-Tribune) In the report of hot spots in the state this burg leads all the rest with 105 degrees. But it was a dry heat here. Ten de grees could be added and still be cooler than ray, Salem, at 93 F. Our old friend Tom Russell, for eight years engineer at the public utilities commission, leaves his job there tomorrow lo go with the United Slates en ginecrs. It's loo bad there, has been no one to act as Boswell lo Tom's Johnson as it's a safe guess there's no more interest ing personages than Tom has ever lived in the midst of these surroundings. Tom has had a full life as an engineer, ranging the world on his chosen job and meeting with adventures, people and occurrences of varied kind sufficient to fill a book like the one Mr. Boswell wrote of Mr. Johnson, and a darned sight more Interesting book at that There's no use wishing Tom well because he'll make It that way with his personality wherever he goes. Incidentally we were go ing to say that Tom is a delight ful raconteur, but doggone if we want him to think we've started calling him names behind his back just before he. leaves, so we'll' let it go at that, 1232 Accidents During Past Week . Oregon industries reported an all time record of 1,232 accidents during the week ended yester day, the state industrial accident commission reported todav. There were seven fatalities, as follows: David C. Patcrson, The Dalles crane laborer, Injured Auqust 12; Thomas Mozct, Port land electrlcan's helper, injured August 5: John E. Kilkenny. Portland electrician, injured Au gust 10; Clarence L. Bright, Al pine head rigger, injured August it; (jnnrics A. smith. Tillamook drag sawyer, injured August 12: and Thomas A, Billings, Leaburg high climber, injured August 13 at Jasper. Eire has a plan for making sugar from artichokes. I Kelly Says Rationing of Meat Under Consideration Northwest Furniture . Makers Get Contracts Bus Transportation Restrictions Eased By John W. Kelly Washington, D. C, Aug. 21 Food requirements committee, a set-up in the department of ag riculture, has been in a huddle on the meat situation and whis pers that meat will in all prob ability be rationed in a matter of months. Whatever decision this committee makes, however, is checked by a food commit tee in war production board. Not to be outdone, WPB divi sion is busily engaged in dup licating the food requirements committee adding more and unnecessary people to the pay roll. Instead of one agency handling the matter there are now two, one being completely superfluous. The committee in the depart ment of agriculture is seeking data-on the amount of meat re quirements of army and navy and how much is committed un der the lend-lease act. When they have these statistics they will deduct this amount from the estimated supply of livestock, and that will be what the civil ians will receive. There will be a survey of the amount of meat consumed per capita in peace time and this will be compared with the meat available after armed forces and the United Nations have been satisfied. The task of the agricultural commit tee is then to decide how far this balance will stretch. Pre liminary survey indicates, the meat for civilians will be less than the per capita consumption of 1941. There are two methods con sidered of distributing the civil ian meat allocation to retail dealers, now being carried on in most eastern states; and, ration ing meat to the consumer after the manner sugar is being ra tioned. Principal shortage now is beef and pork. There is discussion of placing a ceiling on livestock, a subject which aroused acri monious debate in congress when the office of price administra tion was being considered. Out of the west, from states such as Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, come great herds of beef cattle and the owners joined hands in in sisting on no ceiling. They won their point, but it is .possible that a ceiling later may be im posed. In any event, the house wife will have difficulty in buy ing meat in the near future. Soldier Pay Mulled With 28 members of the 435 on the floor of the house an at tempt was made to amend the increased pay act so that soldiers would receive their $50 immed iately and their dependents be paid under the new law. Army and navy has requested that none of these increases or bene fit payments be made until Ne vember and deny the elections had anything to do with, their proposal. Of those who spoke for immediate payment, retro active to June, were Represen tative Martin F. Smith of Wash ington and Homer Angell of Oregon. A similar bill was de feated in the senate, the pre siding officer making the tie and defeating the proposal; the vote was six to six, 12 senators out of 96. This is controver sial legislation which was brought up, despite a gentle man's agreement that no con troversial subjects, requiring a quorum call, would be consid ered while congress is taking an unofficial recess. California Loses Out Northwestern furniture man ufacturers have been awarded some large contracts for furn ishing proposed dwelling units Salem Shelcli es Br Wilt Danch if "I know that Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Sargent's (of Silverton) new baby boy will be famous some day so I'm getting his statue ready all except his head because I don't know which of his parents he'll resemble!" and the making of bunks. They won in competition with Califor nia concerns even on California war projects. Originally the supply department asked for hardwood, . of which there is none in Oregon and Washington, but when the westerners ex plained that softwood is the only material in the far western re gion the specifications were changed and. the major part o'f the equipment was assigned to Douglas fir and pine. Another matter the furniture people settled was the practice of having bids opened in the midwest and delivery at that point, for, if successful, the west coast would have to deliver to the midwest point and then the material would have to be sent back to the coast. The supply officers said that the draftees are so tough that they would batter softwood and to prevent! this hardwood would be requir ed. Incidentally the amount of hardwood called for was more than the New England states I could produce within the time limit. Bus Rules Listed It will be possible for com-'-munities with war industries and shortages of transportation to obtain a bus through the office of defense transportation. A traction company wishing a bus must obtain permission from ODT, signing an agreement to permit transfer of the bus else where if it is needed.. Such a city bus cannot be driven more than 2,000 miles a month. An inter-city bus can be bought un der a similar agreement, and it is limited to 4,000 miles u month. Should it be necessary to shift a bus from one city to another the second purchaser must pay the first buyer full price less a slight deduction ior each month the bus has been Brazil believes it is now pro ducing most of the agricultural machinery needed by its farm- 1 JL J ft LUMBER M" J f MARCHES rSWWV General W. D. Styer of the U. S. Army En gineers told the Pacific Northwest "Lumbev...is one of the most important baste elements in the nations! defense program. ..the Army fully appreciates your splendid work ... we are confident you will not tail us now." General Styer, we'll NOT fail you! Every man-Jack of the woodi and mills will stick to his job and "keep 'em booming"! We'll house the troops you train them! We'll help build the planes and gliders for attack you invade Europe! We'll have the timbers ready for pontoons you cross the Rhine! We promise timbered decks for all the aircraft carriers and mosquito boats you want you go after Tokio; Right now nine out of ten logs rolling from forest to mill are going to war! No war job must ever be delayed! We'll "Keep 'em Booming"! WEST COAST ASSOCIATION MILLS IN OREGON 2siZZSZZZSZZ2
