Capital journal., October 11, 1946, Page 4, Image 4

4 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Friday, Oct. 11, 1946
Capital Journal
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; Steel Production Hampered
In a report on production of the steel industry published
in Business Week it is explained why steel is in short supply
'": along with other basic metals, copper, tin, zinc, and pig
- iron which may place a ceiling on production before the
limits set by steel availability are reached.
Not all types of steel will be equally short as there may
be plenty of some products. But there isn't enough steel
capacity to produce the quantity of autos, refrigerators, farm
machinery and production would not be up to post-war goals
." even if there had been no strikes, ur unprofitable price
; ceilings. So the lack of steel looms as a major limiting
factor in the months to come because of the great demand.
The steel industry supplied almost two thirds again as
much steel in 1944, the year of peak war production, as in
1939 and the present steel capacity is a third greater than
the 1929 figure.
The main reasons why sleel production will not measure up to
demand are listed as because industrial output under full employ
ment will top any prewar year by a wide margin because more
people are at work; the demand for things made of steel is
enormous by pre-war standards due to the backlog built up during
the war; and because a dollar's worth of goods in peacetime re
quires about one fifth more steel than in wartime. Moreover the
government owned steel mills are idle and will be for some time,
for some cannot be adapted to peace time operations and others
require extensive additions and alterations. There is also a
, shortage of coke and scrap, as well as freight ears and of ships
1 tied up by strikes.
t'eiling prices have completely distorted the output of
" finished steel products and produced shortages that range
from sheets to nails throwing steel production out of bal
ance. OPA interference has made production of them rela
tively unprofitable and shunted production into more profit
able forms of steel. Wire producers were required to sell
their product to fabricators of baling wire at $4 per ton
less than the same product was sold for other uses with
, the result of more wire for other uses, less for baling wire.
The shortage in nails was caused by price ceilings that
made it unprofitable to pay the price for nail wire and still
pay out by sales of nails so the ample facilities of nail
manufacture were idle while home builders were screaming
for nails and the wire was going into less crucial products.
Business Week comments:
It Is not to be inferred from this recital that we believe that the
OPA steel price controllers are sitting around diabolically calcu
lating how, with some suitable ceiling jiggcring, they can create
' more shortages of critical steel products. On the contrary, we
conceive the basic difficulty to be that they are dealing with
forces so complex and so dynamic that they' simply cannot be
handled by what is necessarily a lumbering national control sys
tem directed from Washington. There is every reason to believe
that, if free from the ministrations of OPA, the forces of the
market would apportion steel among the various bidders for it
much more expeditiously as well as much more effectively. Such
a release might also have the effect of inspiring the steel indus
try to increase its capacity to produce certain key types of steel.
Controlled production is never a success except in wartime
when there is only one purchaser the government.
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Soap Crisis Acute
American housewives and their sisters in other occupa
tions, who have been complaining of their inability to get
favorite brands of kitchen and toilet soaps, are due for
further disappointments. The soap shortage is real and
will continue until the supply of reclaimed fats and oils is
increased by about 22 percent. This creates a novel situation.
The only source in sight for replacing the 22 percent shrink
age in fats needed by the soap manufacturers exists in the
kitchens of the country. This, in turn, is dependent upon
two factors more extensive cooperation by housewives in
saving used fats and oils in their cooking and, second, a
greater supply of meats and cooking oilis for the kitchens.
The situation as it exists today is outlined by Wilder
Breckcnridge, manager of the American Fat Salvage Com
mittee, like this: 1
The amount of fats available for soap making this year is about
22 percent less than it was in 1942, on a per capita basis. Soap
manufacturers arc limited to 78 percent of the average amounts
ot fats and oils they used in 1940-41 to make civilian soaps.
Meanwhile the population has increased by about nine million.
"In other words, a lot more people are trying to get along
on less than four-fifths the amount of soap bought and used
six years ago," said Breckcnridge.
During the war years housewives responded generously
to the pleas directed at them to save their waste kitchen
fact. In some parts of the country as many as two-thirds of
housewives took part in the salvage program. But all that
is changed now with meats and cooking fats difficult to buy,
many families are using their cooking oils over and over and
also utilizing their moat fat drippings more extensively in
home cooking.
As has been the case with all war emergency programs,
public interest and eooicration in saving fats has been falling
off gradually ever since hostilities ceased. Collection of used
fals dropped off sharply to 9,825,000 pounds in July from
a Juno figure of 11,883,358 pounds. Largest receipts of
salvaged fat for this year was in March, with a total of
17,099,700 pounds.
Stolen Check Racket Spreads
Disclosing that there has been an increase of 100 percent
in the last year in the number of checks stolen from mail
boxes in some parts of the country, postal authorities declare
llic.'F petty thefts have become so widespread as to give
them the cumulative effect of constituting one of the nation's
costliest forms of swindle.
The condition is due chiefly to the large increase in the
number of checks being handled by mail, for which condition
the heavy gain in government payments of war-related ob
ligations is chiefly responsible.
The public's unfamiliarity with what constitutes proper
identification has been one of the principal reasons why
crooks are able 1o cash these chocks with so little difficulty.
As it becomes more difficult for the thieves to cash the
checks, the temptation to steal them decreases, as has been
proven in sections of the country where merchants and others
have been educated to insist upon proper identification.
The ease with which social security cards, drivers licenses
and similar means of identification can be secured and used
in cashing stolen checks makes them an unreliable method
of establishing the identity of a stranger seeking to pass
the check.
One professional mail box thief used his own social se
curity card to identify him as someono else by altering the
number on the face of the card with ink eradicator. He
used this system eight times before being caught. Other
aides to identification have been altered discharge papers,
duplicate baptismal and wedding certificates, and one was
found to have automobile registration blanks from every
state in the union, i
A Dog's Life 1
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By Don Upjohn
We have an inquiry from a
chap in Roxbury, Mass., want
ing to know if we collect coins.
Why he wrote out here, we don't
know, but we can report to him
as long as we can remember we
started collecting coins, first
pennies, then nickels, then
dimes, and then any kind of a
coin we could lay a hand on,
and have been at it ever since.
In fact, mighty nigh everybody
we know collects coins. Some
of them like the water commis
sion, the light company, the tel
ephone company, and the like
arc the most consistent coin col-
(By the Associated Press)
Non-Stop Flight
Camden, N. J., Oct. 11 W
Stale Police Detective Harry
Armano stood on the porch of
the recorder's office and told a
prisoner he was taking to jail
"There's no need for you to get
wet. Run out to my car as fast
as you can."
The prisoner did. However he
didn't bother to stop when he
came to the car and today po
lice of nine nearby states were
on the lookout for him.
Can't Win
Yakima, Wash., Oct. 11 (Pi
P. A. Oliver heard a radio re
port on a fire in a warehouse
where his wife worked.
He rushed out of the house,
leaving the door unlocked.
His wife was safe, but when
he returned the radio was gone.
Family Fatigue
Honolulu, Oct. 11 m As
squadron leader with the AAF
in Europe, Jack O Brien didn t
black out in 30 missions.
In Honolulu O'Brien went to
a public telephone, called a doc
tor and said his wife wasn't
feeling very well. The doctor
told him to get Mrs. O'Brien
to a hospital immediately she
was going to have a baby.
Letting the receiver dangle,
O'Brien slumped to the floor
in a faint.
County Chest Drive
To Open Oct. 15
Final plans are being worked
out for the 1946 Marion county
community chest campaign
which will open October 15.
when workers start to cover all
homes and business houses in
the various county areas, it was
announced today by H. C. (Hub)
Sanlfeld, chairman.
The 1D46 quota for Marion
county has been set at $13,000.
The county committee consists
of Walter Bell, Stayton, and
Frank Doerfler, Salem, vice
chairmen; H. It. Bradcn. Salem,
secretary-treasurer; L. A. Wer
ner, Charles Sprague and
Claude Kclls, Salem; George
Manolis, Silvcrton; James Four
uicr, Mt. Angel; Charles John
son, Jefferson; Raymond Man
ege, St. Paul; Roscoe Golby and
Thomas Fcrschweiler, Gervais;
Fred Dental and W. W. Miller,
Aurora: E. W. Coulson. Scotls
Mills, and E. T. Tweed, Monitor.
lectors we know, insisting on
having their coin every month,
right on the line. Yea, if the
chap back there Is looking for
coin collectors he can find them
in these parts in liberal num
bers and they'll grab every coin
in sight as fast as they show up
The chap in the east said he'd
like to hear from any coin col
lectors out here, so if you hap
pen to be one let us know and
we'll pass on your name.
Mr. Anonymous, who writes
us frequently, has sent in the
following note we're glad to
print in honor of his widespread
family: "In event you were not
around the vicinity of the Court
street Dairy Lunch this noon
(Friday), you may have missed
the two large elephants stand
ing outside. It may be that our
good friend, Glenn Morris, has
at last solved the problem of the
meat shortage. It may be that
a pachyderm sandwich would
taste just as good as some of the
beef and pork we are having to
buy these days."
While attorneys were arguing
the parking meter case in su
preme court we know one guy
who had to drive his car five
times around a downtown block
looking for a parking place,
then gave up in disgust and
went home.
Charm Strike
(OSC Barometer)
"Remember those days? They
were nice, weren't they? But
they're gone. Now our co-eds
come to a game dressed as
though the affair were another
class. They must feel they're
so outnumbered by men this
year that they don't have to turn
on any charm to be rushed. So
they appear in sweaters and
skirts."
Yet, regardless of foregoing,
we hear the girls admit every
once In awhile that while
there are lots more men around
all the good ones are married
off. Maybe they're getting so
they just don't give a darn.
We saw a chap sharpening a
knife on an emery wheel this
week and he made a lot more
shooting stars than those which
wore being bragged about the
other evening.
High
School Students
Assist With Harvest
Amity A bus load of high
school students have been help
ing with the potato and corn
harvest at the U. S. Alderman
farms. The farm bus calls for
them in the morning and returns
in the evening. In this manner
the students have earned mnoey
for equipment at the school.
The student driver for maga
zine subscriptions closed last
week-end with earnings of $450,
one-third of which the school
receives as a commission.
Sumptuary laws are those in
tended to limit or regulate the
private expenditures of the citi
zens of a community.
(up (ia
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Then you'll know
why Dr. Lyoh's
outsells all other
tooth powders
By J. M. Roberts, Jr.
(AP Foreign Affairs Analyst)
Trouble for the Carmona-Sal-azar
government in Portugal has
been growing for several years.
The regime has seemed to be
almost suspended in- mid-air,
without the majority support of
any of the country's major fac
tions except, possibly, the army.
And the most powerful section
of the army, the officer group
which originally installed Car
mona as president in 1926, has
been reported disaffected for
some time.
The dictatorship has been
caught between republican
forces, which refer to it as fas
cist and the monarchists, which
the government has sought for
years to hold in reserve for a
time when it might be forced to
fall back upon them.
Liberals Oppose
The so-called "republican"
opposition comes from liberal
democrats, socialists, commun
ists, the navy and the army min
ority, all demanding "liberal
ism." Monarchist propaganda
has been directed less against
Premier Salazar than for them
selves. As a matter of fact, Don
Duarte Nuno, one of the Bra
ganza princes and pretender to
the throne, has been protected
by Salazar. The monarchists
have believed that, in the event
of the aged Carmona's removal
by death or other circumstances,
Salazar would reinstate the
monarchy. Since the present
Portuguese government was
modeled after the corporate
state founded by Mussolini in
Italy, the stage would be all set
for such a move, by which Sal
azar could hope to rally the anti-communist
forces of the coun
try. The monarchists have been
free to spread their propaganda1
in Portugal, whereas the social
ists and other leftist groups have
been forced to operate under
ground. ,
Salazar has been known as a
"benevolent dictator" despite
his repression of leftist activities
and American observers have
credited him with doing Portu
gal more good than any leader
of modern times.
Called by Army
The army called him from a
military professorship to join
the Carmona regime in 1926,
and it was the army which sup
ported his assumption of dicta
torial powers in 1933.
But where Mussolini's corpor
ate state was founded upon the
military, Portugal's has always
been civilian. Salazar's concept
of the state as the central na
tional force, rather than the peo
ple themselves, does not extend
to the personification of the
state in the leader which has
characterized other dictator
ships. His idea is maximum ef
fectiveness with the minimum
of political fireworks and no
military trappings.
Now he is caught between
forces which have been whirl
ing about Portugal all during
the war, when the country be
came a center for plotters rep
resenting practically every op
posing ideology in Europe.
Clerks and Studenjs
May Gather Spuds
Bend, Oct. 11 W Stores and
schools may close next week in
central Oregon to get in a bum
per potato crop.
At least one, Redmond union
high school, said it would re
main closed while students dig
potatoes. Many Bend students
are in the fields this weekend.
Merchants discussed closing
stores to lend a hand before
frost nips the undug vegetables.
Another suggestion was impor
tation of unemployed workers
from Portland.
Police in Bulgaria literally
earmark known pickpockets
with indelible ink.
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Dr. 5. P. Levene
VETERINARIAN
33S0 Portland Rd. Ph. 4272
H) Mile North of Underpass
on Portland Highway
Price Confrol
Lift on Undies
Washington, Oct. 11 Wi
Price controls were removed to
day from pure silk underwear
and all other apparel and acces
sories made wholly from pure
silk or pure linen.
OPA explained its action
would',"eliminate the possibility
of any squeeze on any manufac
turer of these items."
A "squeeze," an official told
reporters, resulted when a man
ufacturer bought raw silk or
linen while prices were uncon
trolled and then was forced to
sell the products under price
ceilings.
If the pure silk or pure linen
is combined with any other
fiber, such as cotton, rayon or
wool, the resulting products re
main under price ceilings.
OPA today also:
Removed price lids from do
mestic green olives because they
provide less than one-fifth of
the total supply consumed and
"are insignificant in the cost
of living." Ceilings remain in
effect for improved Spanish
green olives and these are ex
pected by OPA to prevent do
mestic green olive prices from
soaring.
Freed prices for Camp Fire
Girls' uniforms because they
are sold only to members
through authorized dealers Boy
and Girl Scout uniforms had
been decontrolled previously.
Raised mill ceilings for split
or hewn redwood cross ties
$7.50 per thousand board feet,
effective October 16.
Wood Elected
Assessors Prexy
Grants Pass, Oct. 11 OT
Rufus Wood of Oregon City, as
sessor ' for Clackamas county,
was named president of the Ore
gon County Assessors' associa
tion at its election held Thurs
day during the annual conven
tion here. Lee Reynolds of La
Grande, assessor of Union coun
ty, was elected vice president
and D. W. Davis of Pendleton,
succeeds himself to serve a sixth
year as secretary-treasurer of
the state group. Wood replaces
Merle Griffing, Josephine coun
ty assessor, as president.
At the Thursday session of
the assessors' group, R. T.
Moore, president of Moore Lum
ber Products company and state
representative from Coos coun-
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ty, addressed the body on the
business man's side of taxation.
Moore upheld the cause of more
widely dispersed taxes to re
place the overbalance of heavy
industrial taxes "that tend to
dangerously destroy the 'ven
ture money' which stabilizes old
businesses and creates new
ones." Moore deplored special
taxes based only on political ex
pediency and stated that hetero
geneous tax plans can result
only in business and industrial
uncertainty.
He advocated more direct
payment of taxes, both state
and federal, as the public docs
not realize the magnitude of cor
poration taxes paid by them in
directly.
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INC.
State & Liberty Sts.
Christmas Special
Sewing cabinets in several
new styles now available in
walnut, mahogany or maple.
Come in and select yours
now.
Singer Sewing
Machine Co.
142 South High
Parts are beginning to ar
rive ror most movements
ana we nave
enlarged our
watch repair
department.
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