Capital journal., April 09, 1947, Page 4, Image 4

4 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, April 9, 1947
Capital Journal
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Fruits of Too Much Trust
Oregon, save for the dubious counsel of its republican lead
ers in and outside the state legislature, would not now be
threatened with the complete paralysis of its telephone sys
tem and interlocking services, but would be armed with suf
ficient legislation to permit the state to cope with this or any
other threatened crisis which might disrupt vital communi
cation services.
The stage was all set for enactment of ample protective
statutes by the solons before their adjournment here last
Saturday night to care for such situations, before it became
so obvious that only such regulatory measures as were ac
ceptable to leaders of organized labor and the dominating
chiefs of industry stood any chance of enactment. Formally
or otherwise there existed a pact ot understanding between
organized labor and Portland leaders of industry which pre-
doomed any legislation along these lines which might operate
against the peace agreement tnat nas prevailed in uregon
since the war.
But not so in such states as Indiana and Virginia whose
legislatures have since the first of the year adopted methods
of coping with such menacing disturbances as the telephone
strike. When the blow fell Monday morning in Indiana that
state s newly enacted public utility arbitration law was ready
to swing into action, and was proving effective, both union
and industrial leaders were willing to admit.
The Indiana law provides for compulsory arbitration in labor
disputes affecting public utilities. I he telephone strike sees it in
operation for the first time. By lis terms the governor names a
permanent board of 10 conciliators and 30 arbitrators. When
the two factors are unable to agree after at least 30 days of nego
tiations, either may ask the governor to intervene. The governor
is then required to name a conciliator whose duty it is to direct
negotiations for still another 30 days. The next step consists of
appointment by the governor of a board of arbitration which
is given an additional 60 days in which to bring about an agree
ment. At the conclusion of these 60 days a majority ruling is
handed down, from which either side has the privilege of appeal
ing to a state court within 15 days. The decision of the court
is final and binding.
Less drastic, by the new Virginia law relative to strikes
by employes of public utilities, the workers are required to
file notice of the final adjournment ol their second con
ference in negotiation with their employers, which they have
done. Governor Tuck is now required to call upon the oppos
ing parties to arbitrate. If the union declines and persists
in its determination to strike, it must file formal notice with
the governor at least five weeks in advance of the walkout.
Lack of effective penalties makes the Virginia law less effec
tive than is the case in Indiana, where fines of from $500
to $2500 and a jail sentence of not more than six months as
provided for each violation.
Oregon could have had a law very similar to that now oper
ating in Indiana had the "peace at any price" control-smoth
ering discouraged any attempt in that direction. Such a bill
had been dratted and would have been presented to the Ore
gon lawmakers had there been any chance of securing its
passage. But the prevailing policy (republican) frowned
upon any such legislation and, as a consequence, Oregon is
at the mercy of the telephone strikers except for purely
local service in those cities having dial systems.
The Drive to Check High Prices
A special cabinet meeting has been called by President Tru
man to consider whether official steps should be taken to
combat high prices and thereby check the dangerous infla
tionary threat. The president and cabinet officials have
several times called on industry to reduce prices and some
large manufacturers have complied, among them the Ford
Motors, the International Harvesters, the Pullman Car com
pany and some lumber manufacturers, including the lumber
division of the Oregon Pulp and Paper company which has
made a 10 percent price cut to stimulate building.
Prices are now the highest in history. The average price
increases since 1941, according to government reports, has
been 63.7 percent for all manufactured products, 41.2 percent
for metals and metal products, 35 percent for motor trucks,
34 percent for industrial power projects and 25 percent for
farm machinery. The government commerce chart reveals
how prices have skyrocketed:
In seven years, wholesale prices for manufactured products and
raw materials rose 36 percent. Farm and food prices advanced
64 percent. In nine months, nonfnrm prices jumped 44 percent,
while farm prices advanced 48 percent.
Paint and paint materials now cost 66 percent more than they
cost last June. Cottonseed oil, a paint ingredient, has risen from
17.8 cents to 38 cents a pound. Lead lias gone from 8.2 cents a
pound to 15 cents.
Meat costs twice as much as In 1039 and is found to be 83 per
cent higher than last June's prices.
Lumber prices arc half again as high as last June, even though
supplies are becoming adequate.
Drugs and pharmaceuticals have risen 67 percent in price since
June. Fats and oils have more than doubled in price since June.
Cotton goods, which advanced more than other products under
OPA have taken a 36 percent jump since June. Leather prices
are 63 percent above the June level. Shoe prices also are out of
line.
The Truman administration is as much to blame for the
recent price spiral as industry, which is only partly respon
sible, lhe largest increases have taken place in larm and
food prices. From August, 1939, to date, farm prices have
risen about 178 percent, and industrial prices 59 percent. It
is the government which supports farm prices when they
threaten to decline. It is also the government which is re
sponsible lor the large inflation in money and credit, it is
the government which is responsible for the lS'a cent an
hour basic increase in industrial wages which wage pattern
forced high freight rates and other price increases. It is
also the government which is responsible for the increase in
grain prices the last few months. Half the increase in living
costs above a year ago is due to the raise in price of farm
and livestock products.
Perhaps the president can force a gentle decline in prices
but it is against nil precedent. A sharp price rise has always
given away to a sharp break.
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Teen Kanfeen fo
Elect Officers Friday
Teen Kantccn, at the Four
CDrners, which has been in op
eration for over a year, will hold
election of officers at its regu
lar meeting Friday night. In
general charge of arrangements
for the evening's entertainment,
which will include dancing,
games and refreshments, is Viv
ian Mahrt. Patronesses arc Mrs.
Ruth Genteman and Mrs. C.
Thompson.
Retiring officers of the Teen
Kanteen are president. Bob
Brant; vice-presidents, Vcrlainc
Walker and Barbara Rickman;
secretary, Joan Allen; treasurer,
Lawrence Cherry; sergeant-at-arms,
Harold Sohn, and publicity
Terry Canon and Glenn Anderson.
Boeing Shows Loss
Seattle, April 9 (IP) A net
loss of $327,198 for the year
1946 after transfers from re
serves and estimated tax refunds,
was reported today by Boeing
Aircraft company. The compa
ny's total income for the year
was $17,127,060 against total
costs and expenses of $22,039,-749.
Sips for Supper
By Don Upjohn
The rows of metal standards
going up around town make the
business section look like a pipe
dream.
The post office department is
issuing a new stamp this month
honoring the press of America.
It will issue four or five more
different varieties in May com
memorating the hundredth anni
versary of the use of the postage
stamp in the United States. And
just today a new one is an
nounced for June in honor of the
doctors of America issued at be
hest of the American Medical as
sociation. The way the stamps
are pouring out the stamp collec
tors are going to need some doc
tors by about that time.
We've received a lot of anon
ymous letters in our time but to
day was the first time we've re
ceived one having money in it.
Yea, a chap who signs as Joe
Doakcs sent us a dollar bill as
start of a fund to rehabilitate
the sign on Chemeketa street, he
writes, "just east of where your
chess playing friend, the rector
lives. I do not attend his
church nor know him," he con
tinues, "but I'd like to contrib
ute the enclosed buck to start a
fund to pay for a new sign or
paint job. I'm sure a few lines
from you will stir up enough
one buck donations to get the
job done and this will bring a lot
of pleasure to a lot of people,
including Rev. Swift and yours
truly, Joe Doakes." So we 11 send
the dollar on to the dominie to
use as he sees fit for there may
be more and better uses for a
buck than a sign painting job,
for who are we to know all the
needs of a troubled world?
We heard a young woman yes
terday commenting on the
clothes they wore in grandma's
day and in a rather pitying tone.
We felt Tone to. advise the
young lady there is nothing she
has but what her grandma had
before her, the only difference
being that grandma didn't show
so much of it.
C. L. Bishop going through his
attic yesterday unearthed some
copies of The Household maga
zine published in Vermont in
1885 and he turned them over
to us for examination. We start
ed to look through same and at
first glance saw a two column
discussion as to how a woman
could feed a family of six on four
dollars a week and she started
off her menu for the first day
of the week with roast beef.
What a family of six would do
to four bucks worth of roast beef
in these times wouldn't take any
two columns in a magazine to
tell about.
Only 600 new laws emerged
from the recent legislature to
plague humanity in this com
monwealth. We're still working
on the 1909 session laws and
don't expect to catch up on those
new laws this year before some
of them catch up with us.
Met our old friend Harry Bon
ney on the street today and he
complained that it looks as if
he's going to have the same ex
perience this year he's had for
the past five years. "I spend $10
to get my garden plot plowed
and get four dollars worth of
vegetables back from it."
Young Children
Under Discussion
The April session of the Mo
thers' Fellowship will be held
Friday night at 8 o'clock in the
Carrier room of the First Me
thodist church. This group of
mothers of children under 11
years of age, will have for its
speaker the Rev. Joseph Adams
who will discuss "The Moral
and Religious Development of
the Child." Dr. Adams, who has
led similar discussions at Pull
man, Wash., where he was sta
tioned before coming to Salem,
will stress the importance of
religious training of children.
Mrs. Elmer Hildrcth, church
superint e n d e n t of children's
work, will lead the discussion:
group. Mrs. Roy Lockcnour,
chairman of the church board
of education, will have charge
of the tea table. A special invi
tation is issued to all interested
mothers of the community.
Quiz Program to Feature Stamp
Show at YMCA Sunday P. M.
Doing its bit toward celebration of the 100th anniversary of
the first issue of United States postage stamps, the Salem Stamp
society is completing arrangements for its Willamette Valley
staniD show to be staged free
to the public at Salem ymca
Sunday afternoon, April 13,
from 2 to 5:30 o'clock. Gilbert
L. Sterncs, president of the so
ciety, announces that members
of other clubs in western Ore
gon also have been invited to a
luncheon and evening program
at the YMCA following the ex
hibit. The main feature of the
program will be a talk by Al
Burns, editor of the Western
Slnmp Collector at Albany. But,
in addition, there will be a
stamp quiz program and a num
ber of oilier features of particu
lar interest to the philatelist.
Edwin Payne is general chair
man of the exhibit plans, Joe
Weber and Carl Smith head the
welcoming com m i 1 1 e e , Mrs.
Laura Alexander is in charge of
the luncheon arrangements and
the exhibits arc being handled
by Council Ward, Paul Dixon
and H. R. Robinson.
The Salem Stamp society has
prepared a specially primed
seal in connection, with its ex
hibit as a tribute to the cente
nary of the United States
stamps and these will be avail
able at the exhibit. The nation
as a whole will honor the hun
dredth anniversary of the first
United States stamps in a giant
international exhibit to be held
in New York in May.
At Sunday's exhibit here be
tween 30 and 40 frames of
stamps already have been en-
tered by local exhibitors and an
additional 15 to 20 frames have
been promised from Bend. It is
expected other Willamette val
ley towns will also place a
number of entries.
Outstanding in the material
to be shown are ten frames
from Edwin Payne's collection.
This will include copies of the
first stamps ever issued by the
United States government on
original covers; also he will
have a frame of early Oregon
Territory cancellations on en
tire covers; early Oregon Ex
press covers; a frame of the 5c
error stamps where the 5c
stamp was printed in a sheet of
2c stamps; and a frame of all
U.S. stamps issued on which
Lincoln was portrayed.
Other club entries will cover
a wide range of subjects in
cluding early U.S., U.S. pre
cancels, stamps of Canada,
Newfoundland, Egypt, France,
Central Europe, and many
more.
The Big Four foreign minis
ters in Moscow have broken
their conference deadlock, but
the way it looks from here
they've done so by the unprof
itable expedient of jumping
from the frying pan into the
fire.
What has happened is this:
The parley got badly bogged
down in the miry arguments
over German reparations and
the form of government to be
installed. In order to escape this
predicament and prevent a com
plete collapse of the meeting,
the ministers yesterday agreed
to take up other subjects. And
first on the agenda is the prob
lem of the German frontiers
one of the most controversial
issues, because the bitterly de
bated Polish-German boundary
is involved.
So while there still is life in
the conference, it doesn't follow
that where there's life there's
hope. The chances for early ac
cord over a German treaty are
about the size of a mustard seed
The argument about what
form of provisional government
should be given Germany had
been long and hot. Russia had
insisted on a highly centralized
government. The western allies
had stood out for a loose feder
ation, the idea being to break
the country into its component
parts and thus prevent a central
ization of power which might
enable the Germans to under
take further aggression. .
Finally Soviet Foreign Minis
ter Molotov proposed that the
German people be permitted to
choose by plebiscite the form of
government they desire. Amer
ica, Britain and France prompt
ly stepped on this as inviting
more trouble from the reich
Western diplomats also argued
that Molotov's proposal was put
forward with the idea of placat
ing the German public in the
matter of Russian demands for
$10,000,000,000 reparations from
the defeated nation.
Observers have noted another
possibility in connection with
the Soviet proposal for a cen
tralized government. Such a set
up might make it easier for Mos
cow to acquire political control
of all Germany, which is the key
position for any power airr ng
at domination of the continent.
Of course a German govern
ment must be so constructed as
to carry out the original allied
agreement to exterpate mili
tarism and nazism, and to make
sure that the country never
again will threaten world peace.
With this in view the western
allies have been encouraging
the Germans to establish state
and local governments and, so
far as feasible, to run their own
affairs under guidance of the
occupation authorities.
There has been recognition,
however, that it would be dan
gerous to allow political coal
escence of the German popula
tion before nazism and the spirit
of aggression had been eradicated.
It will take a long period of
education to achieve these re
sults. As I've reported in pre
vious columns, when I was in
Germany last year the spirit of
Hitlerism which was an adap
tation of Prussianism still was
in evidence.
Regarding the border ques-
Col. Mumfords
Funeral Held
Funeral services were held in
Toledo Tuesday for Col. Hale H.
Mumford, former resident of
Salem and a resident of Toledo
since leaving Salem in 1923,
who died at Toledo April 4. In
terment followed in the family
plot in the City View cemetery
here.
Born in Rochester, Minn.,
August 8, 1872, Mumford was
the son of Robert B. and Helen
Phillips Mumford. Prior to
coming to Salem to reside in
1915 he had lived i'n Rochester,
Minn., Stewartville, Minn., Gly
on, Minn., and Sedley, Sask.
A veteran of the Spanish
American War, enlisting April
26, 1898, and serving with Co.
L of the 14th Minnesota Volun
teer infantry, Col. Mumford was
a past commander of the Span
ish War Veterans Camp No. 20
at Newport. He was active in the
drum corps, and Boy Scout
work, took a leading part in the
C. D. Johnson 4-L organization
and was chairman of the welfare
committee.
Surviving are three daugh
ters, Gladys G. Williams and
Grace B. Gunderson, both of
Toledo, and Genie M. Davis of
Salem; a granddaughter, Sharon
Ann Gunderson of Toledo; and
three brothers, Maurice C.
Mumford of Seattle, Arthur W.
Mumford of New Westminister
and Leonard J. Mumford of
Winnipeg.
tions, the Polish-German fron
tier along the Oder river was
settled so far as the Poles and
the Russians were concerned
before the war ended. Russia
awarded Poland the rich Silesian
area of eastern Germany as com
pensation for the eastern half of
Poland which Moscow annexed
when Hitler overran the west
ern part at the beginning of the'
world conflict.
Both Russia and Poland claim
that the western allies agreed to
this Polish - German frontier,
while the latter say there was
no definite settlement. Further
more the western allies express
the belief that German economy
has need of some of the re
sources of Silesia.
This Polish-German frontier
question presents a particularly
tough problem because the Poles
already are in occupation of the
territory and the wise men say
possession is nine points of the
law. Not only have the Poles
occupied the area but they have
evicted large numbers of Ger
mans and replaced them with
Polish settlers.
Thus one can see that if and
when a German treaty finally is
drawn up it will represent a lot
of bargaining among the powers.
Illinois, Michigan
Offer Yet Bonus
Veterans who prior to the war
and at the time of, entering the
service were residents of Illi
nois or Michigan are eligible for
the bonuses given by those two
states. This is the information
received by George E. Sandy,
Oregon director of veterans' af
fairs, who advises these veterans
to write their former state capi
tals for information regarding
these bonus payments.
The Illinois compension act,
which demands that the veteran
"must have been a resident of
Illinois at the time of entry into
the service" also provides for
payment of $900 to next of kin
of those who died in line of
duty.
A maximum of $500 for either
qualified veterans or their de
pendents is provided by the
Michigan act. The veteran must
have been a resident of that state
for six months prior to entering
the service to be eligible.
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Washington, April 9 (IP) Leg
islation which he says will even
tually give all Indians in Okla
homa "their full 'rights" is be
ing prepared by Rep. Stigler (D.,
Okla.).
The measure, which Stigler
said he hoped would set a pat
tern for similar laws affecting
other' states, would gradually
eliminate the supervisory serv
ices of the Indian office in Ok
lahoma. It would abolish immediately
some services which Stigler con
tends result in "duplication" and
would abolish "red tape" which
he told a reporter is causing
much unnecessary bookkeeping
procedure.
"I want to see the Indian of
fice devote more time to edu
cation and health and quit su
pervising so much," he said. "I
want the Indians to get out from
under the supervision of the
agencies as soon as possible."
He mentioned no time limit in
discussing his plan but previ
ously had said the Indian office
should be . discontinued within
ten years.
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take care of your electrical
needs. The same pre-war
service and satisfaction
will prevail.
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