4 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Thursday, March 21, 1946
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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
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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.
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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
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for estimate entire paint job or
spot In.
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spring last night with snow. It miles away In the mountaini to
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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. Lonoest Heat Comfort
that can be found thousands of sufferers now
turn to OINT-KASC-known for 40 years as
JOINT-CASE for greater relief because It
contains not lust one or two, but FOURoreat
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For fr aampU writ OINT-EASC 34-E
ife."""'OINTlASE
century B. C, when they were
employed in the siege of the
Greek cities Megara and Pla-taea.
WOMEN! WHO SUFFER
FIERY MISERY OF
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If the functional "middle-age1
period peculiar to women causes
you to suffer from hot flashes, ner
vous tension, Irritability try fam
ous Lydla E. Plnkham'a Vegetable.
Compound to relieve such symptoms.
Pinlcham's Compound Is one of the,
best known medicines for this pur
pose. Also a grand stoma chic tonlol
We Cordially
Invite Yon
v.
To Visit Our
New Store
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Open 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
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wear these on your dress or Spring
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clusters, buds and bis bright blossoms.
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