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4 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Thursday, March 21, 1946 CapitaljJournal SALEM, OREGON ESTABLISHED 1888 An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday at 444 Chemeketa St. Phones Business Office 3571; News Room 3572; Society Editor 3573 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or otherwise credited In this paper and also news published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: BY CARRIER: Weekly, $.20; Monthly. (.75; One Year, J9.00. BY MAIL IN OREGON: Monthly, $.80; 6 Months. $3.00: One Year, $6.00. United States Outside Oregon: Monthly, $.60; 6 months, $3.60; Year, $7.20 Draft Extension a Necessity General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Spaatz, com mander of the airforces, and Secretary of War Patterson have again asked congress to extend the draft law indefi nately and to limit service to 18 months. If that is done, they stated, the army can release all the fathers by the end of August or early in September, regardless of how long they have been in service. If it is not done, they warn, the army will fall short by 165,000 of its needed strength of 1,000,000 on July 1, 1947. The selective service act expires on May 15 of their year, unless, extended. Eisenhower said that military strength is necessary to support the position of the Allies in the UNO and said that the smaller nations are looking to the larger ones to supply that strength. Patterson said that should the draft not be extended and the recruiting program fail to establish and sustain a volunteer army of the requisite age, "the military position of this country, and therefore our ability to preserve the peace we have won would become precarious." He advo cated that draft extension should be coupled with a 20 per cent overall increase in pay and allowances for all military personnel. The strength of the present army Is around 2,500,000, with a net reduction of 1,000,000 expected between now and next June. Meanwhile, the army recruitment program will be vigorously pushed. There have already been 617,000 enlist . ments, half of them for a three-year period. Other top military men have given and others will give much the same testimony. They are the men responsible for winning the war. They are not alarmists, nor predicting trouble nor prophesying war, but are assuming a swift Improvement in international affairs, and that the UNO will become increasingly effective. Yet the interna tional developments speak for themselves and prove the folly of unpreparedness, and army heads see "no assurance of meeting our obligations without a continuance of se lective service." : These military chieftains know the needs and capabilities of our army and the responsibilities the nation faces in its global commitments. There have not been replacements enough to bring home men of long overseas service, no sure source of personnel on which plans can be made for the future while other nations witness the dissipation of our armed power and especially our fine airforce at the time most needed. Congress should heed the appeal of Eisen hower and his colleagues, an appeal made on the basis of minimum needs, for national peril lies in its rejection. They Never Learn i In spite of the fact that the fallacy of announcing or even hinting at the possibility of rationing any commodity in advance was demonstrated in the hundred or more instances during the war, officials having to do with the apportion ment and distribution of food supplies and other necessities continue to blunder in this respect and thereby defeat their own purpose. The latest instance of this blundering is con tained in the recent announcement by Herbert H. Lehman, retiring director general of UNRRA, who a day or so ago publicly announced that rationing of foods should be re sumed on a world-wide basis because there will be barely enough food to supply the world equitably next year. While not as pronounced as the public reaction to advance notices of rationing orders during the war, Lehmna's state ment brought much the same response as did similar news concerning scarce articles during the war. Dealers report a perceptible rise in the demand for staple foods by the public during the past few days, indicating that the hoarding habit has not yet been uprooted. ! Not even flat denials by OPA and other government of ficials of any intention of reverting to wartime rationing has dissuaded thrifty housewives from stocking up on such critical items as they have been able to lay their hands on. The effect has been to deplete the retail market of manv items which will be used to help feed starving Europeans and to place an added drain upon reserve stocks which have been earmarked for foreign relief. The denials of officials that there will be any rationing, or that rationing would be feasible in the task of feeding a hungry world at this time, is snruggea asiae line rain iaiung on a ciuck s DacK by a public made dubious by too much double-crossing when food sharing was tolerated as a military necessity. All of the pledges that rationing authorities may utter will have no etfect in stemming the stampede of the hoarders when ever anyone so much as mentions the prospect of possible rationing. Why Stop There? Concerned with the rapid turnover in the ownership of beer taverns, which Administrator Conway described as amounting to "almost a racket," the state liquor control commission has adopted two new regulations designed to curb the practice. Some taverns holding state licenses have changed hands as often as three times in a single month, each lime at an advance in price, he said. One of the new rules provides that "In a change In ownership, no operation will be permitted until the new purchaser has been granted a license by the commission and the former license submitted for cancellation." The second rule stipulates that "after a change in ownership no new change in ownership application will be received by the commission for a period of 90 days." If the new orders indicate a determination on the part of the commission to curb speculation in beer taverns and to avoid the evils which accompany such speculation, the commission is overlooking a bet in permitting the operation of slot machines, pinball and marble games and similar gambling devices on licensed tavern premises. There is every evidence in and around Portland that slot machine distributors are making a business of financing beer taverns and other places licensed by the commission in exchange for secret concessions arranged with the licensed owners for the exclusive privilege of operating their illegal devices in the licensed taverns and clubs. A ban on this practice would be much more easily enforced, for all the commission would have to do would be to forbid the possession or opera tion of these "mechanical bandits" on any property licensed by the commission. Such a restriction imposed upon the uses to which licensed premises could be put would be far more effective in dis couraging or breaking up speculation in the ownership of licensed taverns and night clubs than anything else the commission could do. But the slot machine racket seems to be immune from restraining action in all branches of law enforcement. Two-Sides a By Beck WAi Wl H5 FOLKS. BECAUSE OF THE HOUSING ) VM SHORTASf. NO BIS YARD TO PLAY IN, r-Y' " W NO HOUSE TO ROAM THROUGH. rJ AND HE HAS NO 4V NO HOME Urt-.fOU DOtfT I WOOOWORK TO WASH, W A KNOW HOW LUCKY , I AND NO ASHES TO LUG OUT A MwXrTX Y0tJ Ae- . . J I AND NO LAWNS TO CUT, A Mfff7, ,nf4Vl V. NO GARDENS TO WEED, AND WWM- If' 'SplWh NO ATTICS TO CLEAN Uf X WMWmWVM' AND NOBOPY NA6GIN' T '" ' " l&S". ' P For u By Don Upjohn pper The clamshell bucket used on the dragline to take the last vestiges of loose dirt from the basement of the new tirst na tional bank building next to the home of our favorite paper, had one of its teeth knocked out in some former bout with rocks, dirt and debris. We intend to propose its name as an honor ary member of our FT & BA at the next meeting of the ex ecutive board. Anything hu man or machine that can dig in and come up with as big a bite as that clamshell with one tooin knocked out will have a high place on the honor roll of out great organization. While It has long been known, as heretofore spoken annually in this column in a well known condition of plagarism that a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love in spring time, it was never until we read Stave Stone's symphony to spring did it occur to us that an old man's fancy heavily turns to thoughts of lawnmow ers. Its what we'd call a heck of drop from youth to age. We'll stick with daffodils if an old guy has to have any fancies stirred up by spring. Salem Still In the Running (Medford Mail-Tribune) Astoria and Eugene are men tioned as possible sites for the 1947 state basketball tourna ment, Instead of Salem. The first two-named burgs can get more people under one roof, to view the contests, and are never handicapped by a session of the legislature, lasting longer than scheduled. The customer from the sagebrush areas, and the hinterland, can get rained on as persistently, and get his feet Just as wet in Salem, as Astoria or Novelties In the News Expensive Vote Buenos Aires, March 21 The Buenos Aires voter who put three winning lottery tickets in the ballot box with his vote in last month's presidential elec tion can breathe easier today. An election Judge who found them said he'd send them back. They're worth 80 pesos, which is 20 bucks, American money. What Size? Portland, Me. March 21 VP) The men's clothing situation Is no better here than elsewhere. So police scratched their heads when William A. Glen brought In a brand new man's suit, com plete with tooled leather belt and $21.30 in a pants pocket which he said he found laid out in the entryway to his home. Eugene, but no more so. The Hutchins family out Hazel avenue way are the first to report a humming bird for the season, stating one came nosing around the place yesterday. There's been a plethora of prest dispatches from Washing ton lately carrying sensational tidbits which, in each case, have ben credited to some official who declined to be quoted by name." We wish somebody would ferrit out this anonymous bird and get him on the dotted line. When there's sensational news from the nation's capital the people should have some Idea who to hang it onto other than an "official who declines to be quoted by name." It seems this is the guy who, under the present administra tion is taking the place of the "authoritative source" so fre quently responsible for news stories under a late regime. f mmmm Pari March 21 Europe's food shortage, which former President Hoover is here to in vestigate, presents a decidedly grin, problem, complicated as it is by the fact that there is hunger in many other parts of the world, thus adding to the difficulties of bringing adequate relief to this continent. Spring and early summer are going to be a critical time. This is trie in-between period for crops. Indigenous food supplies have been largely exhausted and many countries are mainly dependent on imports. But unfortunately the crisis isn'i likely, to end there. Al though this first day of spring gives promise of an early sea son for the tillers of the soil, it doesn't bring the cheer of nor mal times. The discouraging fact is that misfortunes are swarming the farmlands like an army ot locusts, making It cer tain that the fall harvest will be far short of the customary yield in most areas. The early vege tables will brighten the situa tion, but this will be a compar atively slight and passing re lief. One of the worst handicaps is a greac shortage of fertilizer. The soil already is impoverished for lack of nitrates which were diverted to war purposes, and now the nitrate plants aren't functioning. That's heart-break enough for any farmer, but there is an even worse trial in the scarcity of seed, especially grain. There is a great scarcity of farm implements, owing partly to destruction wrought in the war and partly to curtailment of the manufacture of such tools. And then, of course, the conflict has robbed thousands upon thousands of farms of the sturdy youths who were their mainstay. Even if crops were normal, there still would be great prob lems to meet. One of these is the feeding of the displaced per sons who have been moved in huge numbers about the con tinent An example is the cur rent difficulty of caring for the host of Germans who have been sent from Czechoslovakia's Su detenland into Bavaria, which already had a food problem. Even if there were food State Jobs for Vets Discussed The possibility of employing veteran in the state depart ments of Oregon under the GI on-tne job training program was discussed at a meeting Wednesday afternoon of more than 20 state department rep resentatives. Tne meeting was called fol lowing a letter by Governor Earl Srell earlier this week ad vising department heads to con fer with officials of the job training program to learn the steps necessary to put the pro gram into effect in state depart ments. Winston D. Purvlne of the de partment of vocational educa tion outlined Oregon's employ ment training program as it ties in wit! the Veterans' adminis tration in providing subsistence allowances for veterans in job training. F.t the state departments to enter the program, he said it probably would be necessary for a state employer-employe sub council to be set up, to work out job and training require ments in cooperation with the state apprenticeship council, which approves apprentice training agreements In Oregon. Each department hiring vet erans under the program then wouid submit to the sub-council the outline of training and study needed to train a veteran in his particular occupation, Purvinc said. Don Goode, contact officer for the Department of Veterans' Affairs, was appointed to keep all tne departments informed on the progress of the state pro gram. Lorrin Andrews, state ap prerticeship council director, was said to be preparing an out line to submit to department enough In Europe to meet re quirements, stilly it would be impossible to distribute It read ily because of the disorganiza tion of transport and the lack of rolling stock. Auto Painting Complete and modern facilities for immediate service. Ask us for estimate entire paint job or spot In. STAN BAKER MOTORS High & ChemekeU Phone 4119 Restaurant chefs will tell yoif that Blue Bell potato chips improve any sandwich, perk up any lunch One of the grandest, freshest, 'crispest potato chips in the world . . . because they are Sabinized.; At all leading grocers. JBHHIBIEIL POTATO CHIPS Snow Near Los Angeles i town Los Angeles in the foot- Los Angeles, March 21 W hills and reached a depth of Southern California ushered In 13 Inches at Big Bear lake, 90 spring last night with snow. It miles away In the mountaini to (ell within 20 miles of down- I the east. STEVENS Makers of Fine Jewelry Bold Black Onyx with Diamond, Styles for Roth Ladles or Men Make your choice at Ste vens where quality never varies. Open an Account 339 Court Street heids Indicating the training procedures to be followed in each of the major occupations coming under the state depart ments. TWO RALLIES Saturday, March 23 featuring Youth for Christ Band Seattle Pacific A Capella Choir Al and Vern Zahlout, Violinists Seattle Victory Quartet Winston S. Nunes, Speaker Attend 6:30 Rally! FORJ:30 RALLYAT CITY ARMORY Use of chemicals in warfare was known as early as the fifth Works Soothing Magic In MUSCULAR PAINS Heed the Fittest Relief. 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NEWS THIS SPRING! 1.98 to 3.98 Of course you'll wear t corsage in your hair ... we predict you'll1 wear these on your dress or Spring suit, too! Included are halo effects, clusters, buds and bis bright blossoms. h FELT DISK ftr hat tffaL Brow r bUuk MRS Phone 9792 454 State St. i
