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The Capita! Journal, Salem, Oregon
Wednesday, October 21, 1942
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SALEM, OREGON
ESTABLISHED MARCH 1, 1888
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Ppnnlmna Service Men
Everyone remembers the indignation expressed by the
returned veterans of the first world war irom overseas wnen
they realized that advantage had been taken of their absence
in infhVl the nrnhibition amendment on the country and
that over the veto of President Wilson. Now the dry poli
ticians in congress are attempting to ban even beer from
army and navy camps through an amendment to the 'teen
draft bill passed by the house ana oeiore me senate, laineruu
iv Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma.
. ' This amendment would in effect re-impose complete
prohibition on most of the nation and make all cities near
military establishments dry. It certainly would cause re
sentment in the army and injure morale, for it would deprive
men in the service of rights that others enjoy and please
only an intolerant minority. It would restore the tragic
hypocrisy of the so-called dry era, the sordid reign of the
boot-legger, moonshiner and racketeer, under the old de
lusion that human nature and human ppetites can be
changed by passing a law.
' The amendment bans the possession, sale, gift or use of
any alcoholic beverage, including: the specially made canteen
3.2 per cent beer in and around army and navy posts, and is
designed as a preliminary for a return to national prohibition.
The dry zones around camps would be delineated by the
secretary of war ana include cities.
"" ' There are abuses in the sale of liquor to service men,
but they can easily be controlled by existing authorities. The
army and navy can at any time place these violators out-ol-bounds
and close them to service men. The state liquor conv
missions can also cancel licenses. All necessary machinery
to suppress nuisances exist.
The mere offering of such a ban should be a warning
to the liquor traffic to police itself and live within the law
and enforce decency lest it be destroyed again. But the
defense forces should not be made the goat.
Adding More Red Tape
Motorists accused of violating" the federal 35-mile-an-
hour speed regulation promulgated to save tires are assured
in an official QPA announcement that they will not be de
prived of the precious rationing cards, Without which they
cannot get gasoline after November 22, until they have
been given a fair hearing. '
The "fair hearing" is to be ensured by constituting each
local rationing board as a trial court to hear such accusations.
The proposal is cumbersome and senseless, and will bury
the local boards under an avalanche of intricate legal pro
cedure for which they are neither qualified nor equipped
Added to the already too numerous duties of the boards, this
scheme of trying to make police courts of them will in a
short time slow their work down to a standstill and leave
the board members, who serve without pay. with no time for
their own business.
A more practicable system would be to have the regular
courts handling speeding cases conduct the trials with the
understanding that the presiding magistrate is to report
his finding and recommendations to the rationing board. The
rationing board could then act upon the recommendation of
the trial court, with or without review of the facts and evi
dence. It just doesn t make sense to have these cases tried
twice to develop the same evidence.
Under the announced plan the accused would be priv
ileged to be represented by counsel before the board, and bo
permitted to offer evidence on his own behalf and to'cross
examine witnesses against him. But no provision is made for
a prosecutor to aid the board, which would be compelled to
prosecute and judge the case.
Inasmuch as the right of appeal to state, regional and
national administrators is afforded the motorist deprived
oi nis gas earn, tne original procedure should be simplified
in me mieresis oi emciency.
More Convict Coddlina
In line with the tendency of the times to coddle convicts
and miticate the nnnisrimenf. fni rviminnl nffoncna tVin io,n
legislature allowed itself to' be talked into proposing an
'amendment 10 erase irom me state constitution the pro
Vision that "thn nrivilpcrn nf an nlnfrm- lia fnvfattnA 1, .
conviction of any crime which is punishable by imprisonment
in the penitentiary."
The resolution submitting the amendment, like most
other measures submitting legislation to the vote of the
people, was given little attention on the floor of either house
because there was no organized opposition and those who
were at an auoious over tne wisaom ot tne proposal salved
tneir consciences witn tne assurance that the people would
have to settle the issue anvwav.
The loss of the right to vote is properly the basic penalty
iui u iuiunics, nowever else tne punishment may be grad
uated to fit the seriousness of the crime. It is the price all
criminals must pay for violating the privileges of organized
society.
To invest the legislature with the power to restore the
franchise to criminals by law is as falacious as the argument
Voiced in SUnnort nf Rlirh n rhgniro fhot ,,, ..
victed of felonies actually do vote after being released from
yiioun uctuuac election ooaru oniciais do not challenge them.
If they are voting it is because registrars are not fulfilling
their duty in registering them as voters.
The interests of persons wrongfully convicted of crimes
are amply protected by the governors authority to grant full
i"1""1"' v-mijuig nun mem restoration ot citizenship
Vote 307 X No.
Salem Boys Among
FFA Delegates
Portland, Oct. 21 UP Oregon
delegates will leave here Thurs
day night for the Future Far
mers of America convention at
rtansas uuy.
They arc Alvin Pitney, Junc
tion City, state president; James
Thompson, Salem, and Lawrence
Johnson, Scappoose. K 1 r by
crumiieiri. sairm ....
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ervisor of vocational asrini,ii,,r.
will accompany them.
Wives
By Beck
ps tor Supper
By Don Uptohn
Fred Williams, ally., ex-All
American football player and
champion loudspeaker sports
fan, has a fedora hat which he
wears in an intriguing fashion,
said hat having the rim turned
down same in front as in back
and without looking at Fred's
feet you can't tell whether he's
going or coming when he's mov-
Liquor Output
To Be Curtailed
Ottawa, Ont., Oct. 21 tU.R) A
government order trimming the
liquor industry's manpower will
be issued Friday, official sourc
es disclosed today, and will have
the effect of curtailing produc
tion. The munitions and supply de
partment already has ordered
all Canadian distilleries to
switch to exclusive production
of industrial alcohol for manu
facture of explosives and syn
thetic rubber. The now order
will affect production of beer
and wine and release manpower
for war industries and the arm
ed forces.
It was understood that the
government will avoid anything
resembling prohibition In deal
ing with Canada's liquor ques
tion. Prime Minister W. L. Mac
kenzie King will discuss the li
quor situation in a radio address
next week, it was understood.
The manpower orders will for
bid sale and delivery of liquor
outside areas where the sourc
es are located, so that large
breweries and wineries will not
be able to. sell their products
across the Dominion, officials
intimated.
Lumber Board's
Seal in Portland
Portland, Ore., Oct. 21 UP)
Headquarters for the Pacific
coast lumber commission, the
federal agency controlling wages
and working, conditions for 150,
000 woods and sawmill workers
in five western states, is now in
Portland.
Thomas F. Ncblett opened of
fices yesterday and said hear
ings on wage-hour cases started
recently in Seattle would be re
sumed Monday.
The first four cases scheduled
for completion involved 70,000
workers in the Douglas fir in
dustry, Ncblett said.
Thomas Tongue, formerly of
Hillsboro, Ore., and recently with
the wage-hour division of the
department of labor in Seattle,
is Neblctt's assistant.
ing along the street. "O that,
commented Fred when attention
was called to his two way hat.
"You know," he explained,
crab always walks backwards
and if there's anything I like to
do it is to crab. Hence the hat
Reasonable and understandable
explanation.
We note where a man named
Goebbles has been returned to
the state hospital from which he
took a little run out. There's
another of similar name a place
might be found for out there.
Kelly Says
Enemy Subs Active
On Pacific Coast
."It has gotten so the children
don't pay any more attention to
their parents than their parents
pay to them," comments a Kan
sas paper. Turn about is fair
play.
Navy's Censorship
Cause of Criticism
Problem Increases for
Northwest Employers
By John W. Kelly
Washington, Oct. 21 Enemy
submarines, unquestionably Jap
anese, are becoming increasingly
bold off the coast of Oregon and
Washington. Censorship has sup
pressed many details of the ac
tivities of the under-sea boats,
but of late the bars have been
lowered a little and more infor
mation has been made available
to the public through the press
Since a few days after Pearl
Harbor the Japanese have been
operating off the northwest
states, British Columbia and
Alaska with their submarines.
They know that coastal area like
a book; in the days when the
Maru boats were a large part of
west coast commerce the skip
pers rarely had recourse to pil
ots they sailed in their ships
themselves.
The submarines have traveled
at will, despite the dawn patrol
of shore-based interceptor planes
or the sharp eyes of volunteer
watchers on the beach. As yet
the navy has not seen fit to in
form the public whether any
submarines have been destroyed
(if any were sunk) south of
Kiska. Communiques have de
clared various Japanese subs
have been sent to Davy Jones'
locker in the Aleutian area. That
the armed forces are aware of
the presence of enemy U-boats
is intimated by the tightening
up of the dimout regulations and
more recently by directives to
eliminate sky-glare.
The first enemy shells drop
ped on continental United States
was the banging away at Fort
Stevens by a large Jap sub-
marine. That made' headlines
but failed to scare the people.
Came next the dropping of in
cendiary bombs in Siskiyou na
tional forest near Brookings, by
a small hydroplane which was
part of the equipment of a Jap
underwater craft. Before the at
tempt to fire the forest, enemy
submarines , had sunk a cargo
vessel off the strait of Juan dc
Fuca and damaged a merchant
ship that managed to make a
British Columbia port. Next
came a couple of tankers de
stroyed off the coast of southern
Oregon within four days of each
other one torpedoed some 50
miles from Coos bay. The war
has been brought home with a
menace in the lanes of com
merce. Navy Information Tardy
There is dissatisfaction with
the navy censorship. The Bremerton-built
heavy cruiser As
toria was sent to the bottom on
August 9 with two other heavy
American cruisers, but the navy
suppressed news of the loss for
more than two months. In the
same engagement the Australian
cruiser Canberra was sunk but
the Australian government lost
no time in making the announce
ment. More than a quarter of a
year lapsed before the people
were told that the carrier York
town had been wiped out by the
Japanese. No admission has yet
been made that cargo boats in
convoy to Murmansk were de
stroyed, although German radio
claimed almost complete de
struction; navy merely said the
Germans were exaggerating.
Navy, it will be recalled, de
clared there were no Japanese in
the Aleutians when the Tokyo
radio had already asserted that
the little brown men were at
Kiska. The policy of censorship
needs working over, revamping
and placing some confidence in
The 1Q40 census listed 125,000 the good judgment of the
Japanese in the United States. ' American people.
California had more than 90,-1 -Drafting of the 'teen age
00- I youths will present another
Marvin tOHn of the Salem
Vintage store has technocratic
leanings, if he knows what we
mean. Awhile back he installed
a sawdust burner with a hand
operated thermostat, but as the
mornings became a little nippier
Marvin didn't relish getting up,
pushing up the thingamajig that
makes it tick, and then hopping
back under the covers. So he
fixed a doohicky with which he
could reach out of bed and ad
vance the doodad. But that got
to be a little monotonous, so he
got himself an alarm clock, at
tached a gadget, and with the
clock set 20 minutes ahead of.
getting up time he was all fixed.
He worked two days on this phe
nomenon of man's handiwork
and just got it going good when
somebody came along, knocked
the clock off its perch and busted
it. But what's two days more to
man's comfort, and it's all going
again now.
problem for employers in the
northwest. It will mean that em
ployers of seasonal labor will
have to reach down to hire boys
15 and 16 years old practically
high school youngsters. This past
summer the 18 and 19 year old
boys were employed, but em
ployers declare that few of them
took their job seriously and "they
would skylark around, with ap
parently no sense of responsi
bility, or appreciation that there
is a war in progress and that
everyone has a part in the con
flict. If the 18-19 group could
not buckle down" to work, em
ployers say that the 18-17 year
olds will be even more irres
ponsible. Wage Adjustment Needed
There should be some read
justment of wages, say the em
ployers. In the work the past
summer the youths were paid
the same wage as the older, ex
perienced men. The older men,
those above draft age, perform
ed twice the amount of work
done by the boys and the know
ledge that they were paid the
same rate as the youngsters
caused dissatisfaction. The em
ployers explain that they were
paying the boys too much; that
they should not be given the
same pay as the older men, for
they did not or would not do the
same amount of work. The wage-
hour law governs the pay in
seasonal occupations, however,
and therefore all engaged in a
particular industry receive iden
tical wage. Paying 18-year old
lads $6.50 a day is, contend the
bosses, foolish, as too much
money is not good for them. Un.
less there is some sort of ad.
justment the 15 and 16 year olds
will be drawing the same high
wage next year, and doing even
less work for the money than
did the 18-19 group of the cur
rent year. Suggestion is made
that boys be paid 10 or 20 cents
less per hour in 1943, but if they
work the full season a bonus be
given that will equal the regular
rate. This suggestion is prompted
by the habit of the boys quitting
after a few days and they have
accumulated a few dollars,
West Salem Ration
Board Grants Tires
West Salem, Oct. 21 Rationing board 27-3 issued during the
week .of October 19, grade II tires andor tubes to John Todd,
Salem, farmer; passenger tire andor tubes to Chester Fisher,
Salem, U.S. guard; passenger,
tubes to Frank Terrault, Salem,
Going a Bit Too Far
:t (Bend Bulletin)
War production board, mailing
daily communications to this
newspaper, persists in addressing
us as "Bent Bulletin." Of course
we expect to be by the end of
this -current international com
plication, but is it necessary to
rub it in? .
- Mrs". Myra Shanks, who was
city, juvenile officer for many
year's, here, was up today from
herrAlbany home to get a hair
dorlfrom her favorite hair-dooer
who. always dood it while Mrs.
Shanks lived here. She also re
ports she gets our favorite paper
delivered to' her door every day
at Albany by a carrier boy of
efficiency showing double bar
reled loyalty to the old home
town.
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there arc no chemicals, no minerals, no
phenol derivatives. NR Tablets are dif
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Crash of Bomber
Causes Casualties
Shreveport, La., Oct. 21 W-
A twin-motored army bomber
burned after a crash landing at
Barksdale field yesterday kill
ing two enlisted men and seri
ously burning two officers.
Staff Sergeant Arden R. Fox,
23, Youngstown, Ohio and Ser
geant Alvin M. Dunn, 19, Pasa
dena, calif., apparently were
killed outright, officers of the
field said.
Ruling Asked on
Prison Harvest Aid
Boise, Oct. 21 WlGov. Chase
A. Clark asked Attorney Gen
eral Bert H. Miller last night
for an opinion on releasing pris
oners in the state penitentiary
to work under guard in harvest
fields. . ,
"The situation is so critical
we must take every possible
step that will help the farmers
get their crops in. That's why
I'm trying to see if the prisoners
might be used," Chase said.
farm laborer: truck recaps and
or tubes to Allen Brothers, Rick
reall, farmers; passenger recaps
andor tubes to Chester Fisher,
Salem, U.S. guard; Henery Wil
liams, loge scaler, West Salem;
W. Fitzgerald, Salem, farmer,
and Charles Glaze, Salem, farmer.
Traffic Violators Nabbed
Arrests made by city police in
clude Ace D. Munro, Dallas, vio
lation of the basic rule, cited;
Harold Brandt, Salem, violation
of the basic rule, $5 bail posted;
O. L. Guthrow, Salem, violation
of the basic rule, $7.50 bail post
ed and forfeited; Rodney F.
Smith, Corvallis, violation of the
basic rule, $5 bail posted.
Forget-Me-Nols
On Sale Soon
Sale of forget-me-nots by the
Salem chapter of the' Disabled
American Veterans of the World
war will take place here October
23 and 24.
During the last year the local
chapter gave $125 to the psycho
pathic hospital in Roseburg andi
$25 to the associated veterans
for the Christmas cheer fund,
and this year will be called upon
to assist the auxiliary in the civil
defense program.
The DAV has as state service
officer, Lile Dailey of Portland,
who last year handled claims
of 310 men. In this commun
ity there are about 200 disabled
men receiving compensation for
disabilities traceable to military
service. The average compensa
tion check amounts to $46 with
43 per cent of the men receiving
less than $30 per month.
Officers of the Salem chapter
are Jay Harnsberger, command
er; Luther Cook, adjutant; Dr.
George Lewis, treasurer. Katie
Johns is commander of the aux
iliary and in charge of the sales
crew for the forget-me-not cam
paign. Headquarters are in the
v..,., ' amoeri Une tanker brought 35 survivors.
providing lunch for the workers
and the kitchen and dining room
are being donated by Dr. J. C.
Harrison, pastor of "the First
Methodist church.
Councilman uonaia nunn, ciiy
attorney Elmer. Cook and Char-W
les Peterson returned this week
after spending several days hun
ting near Klamath Falls. All
of them brought back deer. El
mer Cook, D. Gibson and Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Peterson made
up a party for a few additional
days of hunting.
Mrs. Arthur Brown, Mrs. Rt
dell Kelsey and Mrs. G. E. Vos
burgh spent several days this
week In Eugene as delegates to
the WSCS conference convening
in that city.
Miss Constance Rose of San
Francisco spent her vacation as
house guest of Mrs. John Bowne.
Mrs, Charles Unruh has tor'
lurnoH frt hop hnmo aftr enonH
ing some time at Ft. Stevens
with Capt. Unruh. - '
Total Ships Sunk
Listed at 499 Today
(By the United Presi)
The number of united and neu
tral nations cargo ships sunk
by submarines in the western
Atlantic since Pearl Harbor was
within one of the 500 mark today
in the Associated Press tabula
tion. The total rose to 499 yester
day when officials announced
the destruction of three more
American merchant vessels in
those waters. ,
Sinking of the two-months-oldr
Liberty ship John Carter Rosaw
uu.uuu tons; was announced m
Recife, Brazil, where an Argen-
Monmouth Mr. and Mrs. A.
D. Campbell entrained at. Port
land Tuesday for North Piatt,
Neb., where they will be guests
of her mother, Mrs. McLarty,
and sister, Mrs. Cunningham.
They plan to spend the winter
with their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon
Nichols, at Princeton, Mo. The
Campbells recently traded farm
property for a residence in Mon
mouth which has been rented
to Lieut, and Mrs. Donald Sher
wood during their absence.
Two torpedoes sank the sec
ond off South America this
month, taking six lives.
The third was destroyed in
the North Atlantic in Septem
ber with no loss of life.
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