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Not Much of a Concession
From the standpoint of work accomplished the suggestion
of Secretary of State Farrell made to the board of control,
that the work week of the average state employe be reduced
from 512 to 5 days as a means of establishing a uniform
40-hour week, does not actually represent any great conces
sion to the employes. Few of them really devote 40 hours
to the state in return for a week's pay as it is, according to
the carefully uttered complaints of their bosses, who for the
most part demonstrate little more energy and ambition than
do their crews. Departments which are exceptions are so
conspicuous by their contrast as to require no special men
tion here.
In the lk'ht of these facts there is no itood reason why the
official working hours of most state employes should not
be condensed into five days of actual work, rather than be
dragged out through three hours of non-productive time on
the job Saturday mornings. Honest employers will admit
that little is accomplished Saturday mornings under the
present system, whereby most workers report between 8:30
and 9 o'clock, kill the better part of the next hour in squaring
away to tackle their daily labors, then taking a 15-mniute
coffee period and along about 11 o'clock starting to clear
their desks for the closing bell at 12 noon.
The principal objection to FarrelPs proposal, a decision on
which awaits the return of Governor Snell from California,
lies in the manner in which it is proposed to put the plan in
operation without legislative sanction. We can well imagine
what the ways and means committee of the recent legislature
would have done to such a proposal which, despite any pro
testations to the contrary is going to cost the state of Oregon
a sizeable penny during the next biennium. Try as they
may to stretch their budgets to cover such unexpected de
mands, the department head who can make $6 do the work of
$7 is a rare specimen even though he were so inclined.
In this respect the legislature is not entirely blameless. It
is altogether too lenient in allowing salary and wage appro
rjriations to be juggled about by department heads with the
approval of the budget directors,
the crovernor. The legislators
approving deficiency appropriations growing out of situations
such as these.
The nattern of what will probably happen is too well estab
lished to require lengthy explanation. The 5-day week,
with skeleton crews on duty in those departments having
wide contacts with the public, will be officially established
on a trial basis. Soon it will be discovered that there is a
sudden upsurge in the demand
quire substantial additions to
snondine increase in expense.
ment of situations of this kind which account for the ever
mounting expense of government; that, and the growing
inclination on the part of everyone to do less and less for
more and more.
Flagging the Gravy Train
One of the chief evils of federal paternalism, which had
a mushroom growth under the
izes state and local initiative,
initiative, and the gravy train
right. This accounts for the grief the republicans in congress
are encountering in their economy efforts and the organized
political pressure campaigns to resist any slash in federal
expenditures or taxation to provide the funds. Not only is
entrenched bureaucracy vigorously fighting economy but
so are regional and state organizations benefitting by waste
ful expenditure of taxpayers'
privileges having got its head
on occupying it.
When Mr. Truman came into the presidency he advocated
economy and his record as chairman of the special committee
investigating war expenditures
efforts. But many months after V-J day he sent to congress
a peacetime budget of $37.5 billion, and republican leadership
has failed to agree on either of the proposed reductions in
the budget, $b billion by the house and $4.5 bv the senate.
Meanwhile the cuts in appropriation bills have not begun
to approach the latter, and still
effort to cut down expenditures
ruin the country and the president along with the demo
cratic organization in congress has joined in the hue and
cry and a veto is predicted unless the slashes are cancelled.
Senator George (D., Ga.), in a recent scech said that he
will join the republican drive to reduce taxes, but only when
they have proved "they mean what they say about reducing
government expenditures. Me made a distinction between
a "real surplus," represented by savings made in expendi
tures and the other kind, accumulated "through an unex
pected increase in revenues which can melt overnight."
George states that the bulk of such savings must come
from reductions in the armed services budget of $11.2 bil
lions for the fiscal year of 1948. Rut the republicans having
authorized the first liiiancmg
munist global program, which
to slash the military strength
critical tune in history. I hev
Most congressmen are said
great and unnecessary waste in
was during the war when vast
contributed little to defeat, of
has become a habit that unitication may not correct. But
there are a multitude of other
without disastrous results but
omist is hard.
Capital Post to
Name Candidates
Nomination of officers for the
coming year will be the main
order of business at the regular
meeting of Capital Post No. 9,
American Legion Monday eve
ning in the Legion hall.
The first nominations of of
ficers were made al the April
21 meeting and elections will be
held at the May 19 meeting.
Nominated at the last meeting
were: Commander, Lawrence
Ostcrman; first vice comman
der, Charles Huggins; second
vice commander S. W. Starr; ad
jutant, John Kerrlck; finance
officer, Conrad Paulson; histor
Oregon, Saturday, May 3, 1947
Journal
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every afternoon except Sunday at
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entitled to the use for publication of
or otherwise credited In tills paper
which in this instance means
should he more exacting in
for 6-day service that will re
the personnel with a corre
It is the constant develop
New Deal, is that it demoral
just as the dole does private
becomes treated as a vested
funds. The camel of special
under the treasury tent insists
justified faith in his economy
the howl goes up that every
is "false economy" and will
of the Irunian new anti-com
could cost many billions, fear
of the nation at this most
could be held responsible.
to be convinced that there is
defense expenditures. There
sums were squandered that
the axis, and this extravagance
budgets that can be trimmed
the way of the sincere econ
ian, Irl McSherry; chaplain, C.
V. Richardson; quartermaster,
Marion Lamb; sergeant at arms,
Charles Domagola. Other offi
cers nominated were for the
building and executive commit
tees and delegates and alter
nates. Sponsors Card Play
Jefferson Ten tables of pin
ochle were in play at the card
party sponsored by the Past
Matrons club of Euclid chapter
O. E. S. in the lodge rooms of
tile Masonic hall. First prizes
in pinochle went to Mrs. Frank
Martin and Frederick Ander
son and consolation prizes to
Mrs. Gerald Phelps and Wilbur
Anderson. Mrs. Harold Knight
received the special prize. Tin
Past Matrons received $25.50 a;
This Modern Age
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The Fireside Pulpit
Reverend George H. Swift
Rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Putting the Cart Before the
quoted in the papers this week as saying that if we are to main
tain our democracy at home we must make democracy work in
Europe. It is my opinion that this statement should be reversed
to read that if we are to create and maintain democracies in
Europe. We must make democ-f-
racy work at home. Of Course
we should be making democra
cy work both at home and
abroad. But if our influence
and words are to carry weight
and become effective abroad,
we must be solving our prob
lems at home. When we feel a
sense of responsibility for the
whole world policing it, feed
ing it and managing it, the re
suits would be far more effect
ive if we were able to show the
world a smooth running econ
omy at home.
Someday, if we cannot man
age ourselves, some other coun
try with other methods may step
in and manage our affairs. We
should set our house in order
very soon, to stall off any such
catastrophy in the future.
Our fear of Communism
should vanish when the peoples
of the world are convinced by
observing America that democ
racy means justice, prosperity
and freedom for all its people.
In the meantime (as a tempor
ary expedient at least) we look
again to our military forces
which have so successfully sav
ed us time and again from dis
aster, to stand by for emergen
ips for
By Don
There's a beautiful new queen
up at Willamette whose home is
in West Salem. She ate break
fast with her subjects at the
university this a. m., but we
haven't had a report on the
menu or as to whether it in
cluded Wheatles or just what do
queens eat?
Novelties
Weil-Timed Sprinkling
Roswell, N. M., May 3 W)
S. G. Chambcrlin was hungry,
but it would be a few minutes
until supper. So he sprinkled
the lawn.
Then something blew up and
set the kitchen afire.
Hungrier than ever, Chnmber
lin rushed in with the garden
hose and saved his supper and
his house while Mrs. Cham
berlin sought fire department
help.
Attention Hatters
San Francisco, May 3 M
William Wulker, lighting com
pany executive, may need a new
hat any year now.
He says he went to London 42
years ago and saw a hat lie
liked. For the equivalent of SB
U. S. currency he bought 25.
One by one he wore them un
til now he's down to the last of
the 25 toppers.
Army Veteran on
Duty in Salem
Joining the staff of the Salem
army recruiting office this week
was a man who has spent 14
years on duty with the army.
First Sgt. Joseph W. Meier, a
native of Jersey City, N. J.
The sergeant, whose arrival
was announced Saturday by Lt
Col. H. E. Hellicsen, comes to
Salem from San Bernardino.
Calif., where he has been sta
tioned for the past year with the
air corps. During the war he
spent 28 months in the China-
lndin-Burma theater with the
Tenth nirforce and while over
Burma was wounded in action.
Sergeant Meier will be joined
later by his wife and month old
babv.
the party. Refreshments were
served by Mrs. Roland Wail.
Mrs. Joy Kelly. Mrs. Hazel Kel
ly. .Mrs. Earl Lynes, Mrs. C. M.
mith. Mrs. George Mason and
Roland Wall.
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Horse A national figure was
cies to stand by while foreign
powers watch gleefully our in
ternal strife, which they hope
may weaken us for the kill to
stand by while the United Na
tions get to functioning, as it
must eventually do if we are
to enjoy world security.
Let us not be discouraged be
cause the machinists are not
through tinkering with and ad
justing this and that part of the
United Nations machine. The
"bugs" have to be taken out of
any new model, we are told,
These can and must be taken
out of the United Nations. May
be the Russian brakes may have
to be adjusted, or even removed
(or by-passed) to get the free
dom of movement necessary to
go forward! Eventually "what
must be done shall be done.
and world security shall be
achieved.
Dr. Butler, president Emerit
us of Columbia University, says,
"Whatever any single nation
may do by itself, will be tem
porary and limited, because not
even the most powerful or the
largest, or the richest can deal
finally and satisfactorily with
all today's phenomena and prob
lems."
upper
Upjohn
State income tax collections
for the first four months of the
year were over $20,000,000,
which considering what can be
bought with same is worth
about $8,000,000 if spent for
new buildings and grub.
Foreign Money Always Welcome
(Independence Enterprise)
Jim Hart, local Ford dealer,
saved a penny and spent a dol
lar in Snlem Monday. He park
ed for only a few minutes in Sa
lem, forgetting about the new
parking meters, and when he
came out found a violation tic
ket on his ear which cost him
a dollar at the police station.
Our local baseball team took
a beating last evening to the
tune of 4 to 1, and just as we
figured in a small item yester
day, the fans were around com
plaining this a. m. that it wasn't
much of a ball game. Yesterday
after the locals won 4 to 0 the
same fans were telling what a
swell game same was. On that
basis Ihcy hope Salem will have
a lot more good games than poor
ones the rest of the year.
As a rule the job of a banker
isn't one which the hoi polloi
consider as such a task as to
carry with it much of a phy
sical beating, the general con
ception of a banker being a 10
ton brain set on a ij ton chassis.
But we found on conversing
with Jake Fuhrer of the USNB
yesterday, who is in his 34th
year of banking for that and its
predecessor institution. Ladd &
Bush, that banking also has its
more rugged aspects. It seems
for 34 years Jake has suffered
off and on from sore knees and
a tender spot over the tummy.
The sore knees come from rub
bing them on the underside of
a desk, and the tender spot on
the tummy from leaning against
the marble counter when the
knees aren't shoved under the
desk. He gets about a 50-50
break in each position and so
when one part of the anatomy
isn't cutting up the other one is.
We couldn't find out from Jake
how many trouser seats he'd
worn out in the 34 vr f
shuffling from one posture to!
me uint-r aim no nouot ne hasn t
kept an inventory.
Maybe Doc Gerald Smith of
Woodbum hasn't been thinking
much about it. but it won't be
long before strawberries will be
getting in the pink.
By DeWitt MacKenzie
(AP Foreign Affairs Analyst)
President Truman happily
has described our distinguished
guest, President Miguel Aleman
of Mexico, as "a grand guy"
a designation which received
thunderous endorsement yester
day in New York City from an
estimated million and a half
cheering spectators who lined
the streets through which our
visitor rode under one of Man
hattan's famous showers of
ticker-tape.
As that vast crowd indicated.
it has been good to have Senor
Aleman with us, and If he has
enjoyed his stay half as much
as we have, then a notable step
has been made in strengthening
the good-neighbor relations be
tween our two countries. But
his visit means more than that,
for it moves us closer to that
western hemispheric solidarity
which is so essential to the peace
and security of North and Soutn
America.
That's a matter of extreme
gratification in these hard days
when the forces of peace work
after the manner of our colonial
pioneers with loaded rifles at
hand.
Solidarity Stressed
President Aleman himself em
phasized the necessity of soli
darity in a speech which he de
livered at New York's city hall
where Mayor O Dwyer confer
red honorary citizenship of the
city on him. Said the president
"Mexico's contributions to the
work of the United Nations has
been heartfelt and generous. But
Mexico believes that the first
step we must take in the fur
therance of the ends pursued
by that organization is to up
hold hemispheric solidarity
strengthening the ties that bind
the American republics togeth
er."
President Aleman the previ
ous day, in his address before a
joint session of congress, had
made another point:
"Fortunately In recent times
both of us (America and Mexi
co) have learned a few things
We have learned that isolation
is not a good formula for liv
ing; that it is not good tactics
for security.
It is a striking coincidence
that as the Mexican president
was delivering his speech, the
chief executive of another great
Latin American country Pres
ident Juan Peron of Argentine
was saying the same thing.
General Peron told his congress
that isolation no longer was
possible and that Argentine must
share world problems. He de
clared that foresight was nec
essary in the midst of an armed
world, and announced that he
intended to modernize the Ar
gentine army.
General Peron didn't Inter
pret his remarks, and I think
we should be rash to do it for
him. It is better to wait and
see.
Second Spray
Notice Given
The second walnut blight
spray notice dated April 29 has
been released by Dr. P. W Mil
ler, USDA plant pathologist sta
tioned at Oregon State college.
If a spray program is fol
lowed. Dr. Miller recommends
a 4-2-100 Bordeaux mixture.
One pint of summer oil emul
sion should be added to every'
gallon of Bordeaux spray in
order to reduce the severity of
possible leaf injury.
"When convenience and free
dom from injury are more im
portant consideration than cost,
yellow cuprocide may be used
as a substitute for Bordeaux
mixture," says Dr. Miller. Yel
low suprocide should be applied
at the rate of one pound in 100
gallons of water.
Growers following a dust pro
gram, should continue dusting
at 7-day intervals. The recom
mended dust contains 20 percent
monohydrated copper sulphate,
40 percent hydrated lime. 10
percent dusting sulfur, 18.5
talc. 10 percent diatomaceous
earth, and 1.5 percent light,
highly-sulphonated mineral oil.
"If oil is used in the dust, the
mixture must be factory mixed.
as special equipment is needed
to incorporate it in the dust mix
ture. In the event that the wal
nut orchard is interplanted to
filberts, sulfur should be omit
ted from the formula as sulfur
is toxic to filbert foliage under
certain condition," says Dr.
Miller in conclusion.
Seek Identification
Of Drowned Man
Albany, Ore., May 3 W An
attempt was being made here
today to identify definitely the
body of a man recovered from
the Willamette river by log
boom workmen.
Papers in his clothes gave the
name of Edmond Poole and in
dicated he had worked for the
Railway Express agency at Ta-
coma. His mother was listed as
Mrs. Mary I. Poole, 289 Elm
hurst, Hyland Park 3, Detroit.
Mich.
Coroner Glenn Huston said
the man was about 50 and was
in the water about 2li hours
before being found.
Arrive from Netherlands En Route to California Mr. and Mrs. Sybrand Van Der Dussen ol
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, carrying two of their children in wicker bassinets, lead their other
nine children off plane at LaGuardia field, after flight from Amsterdam. The family, said to be
largest to come to United States by air, is en route to Bellflower,
operate a dairy farm. (AP Wirephoto)
Lost Fliers
Hurt But Safe
Roseburg, Ore., May 3 (U.R).
Two fliers, missing since Mon
day on a flight from Medforu
to Eugene, walked 30 miles from
their crashed plane to Steam
boat guard station 48 miles east
of here where they were dis
covered state police reported.
La Verne Hughes and Thorna;
Miller told rescuers they crash
ed in a small Aeronca Monday
about 1500 feet from Buster
Butte.
Hughes suffered broken ribs
and scalp wounds and Miller a
broken nose and knee injuries.
They managed to crawl to the
Buster Butte forest lookout sta
tion. It was unoccupied, but
they broke in and rested for
two days. They found a food
cache and several maps.
They said several times they
attempted to signal passing air
creft with a mirror, but were
unable to make contact because
of cloudiness.
Despite their injuries, they
walked 30 miles through the
forest, following trails marked
on the maps, until they reached
Steamboat guard station which
is at the confluence of Steam
boat creek and the Umpqua
river.
State police were notified by
phone, and an ambulance with
police escort was dispatched un
der the direction of Sgt. Paul E.
Morgan. The fliers are expect
ed to be returned to Roseburg
by 5 p.m.
Miller is a Milwaukie real es
tate salesman. Hughes, 21, of
Portland, holds several Pacific
northwest ski championships. He
made the trip as a passenger.
The plane was rented by Mil
ler for a business trip to Med
ford. Weather conditions were
poor Monday night.
Old Covered Bridge
In Need of Repairs
County court members and
road officials examining the 40-year-old
covered bridge over
Pudding river near McKee on
the McKee-Woodburn road, dis
covered several of the needle
beams which hold up the deck
ing to be in bad shape and de
cided while the bridge is in line
for replacement at not too far
distant a date, temporary re
pairs can be made to permit the
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tiating with the state highway
commission as to some steel
spans on state bridges which
will be abandoned over the state
for wider bridges, particularly
one at Baker which is 120 feet
long and may be secured to re
place the McKee bridge which
is 100-feet long. The extra
length, said County Commis
sioner Ed Rogers, would give
plenty of room for concrete
foundations.
The old covered bridge built
in 1907 still carries a sign
reminiscent of pre-auto days
which reads, "Riding or driving
across this bridge faster than a
walk is subject to $100 fine.
AFL-CIO Unity
Seems Distant
Washington, May 3 U.R) AFL
officials said today they believ
ed some or all of the CIO unions
would eventually return to the
AFL, beginning perhaps after
the 1948 presidential election.
CIO sources said they saw no
chance for such unification ex
cept as worked out through the
CIO-AFL unity committees and
approved by the CIO.
CIO President Philip Murray,
now regarded as the key man in
merger of the two organizations,
called his vice-presidents to a
meeting here May 15 and his
executive board for May 16. He
will report on the unity talks
with the AFL the past two days.
Both AFL and CIO top offi
cials insisted that the possibility
of merger is "still very much
alive" despite the fact that each
organization had rejected the
other's formal proposal for mer
ger when the unity talks ended
yesterday. They left the way
open for further discussions.
The AFL unity committee re
portedly feels that CIO left
wingers oppose merger this year
in the hope that they can use
their Influence to swing CIO
support for a candidate of their
choosing in the 1948 presiden
tial campaign.
Women's residences, nnerate1
hv The Salvation Armv are
called "Evangelines" after Evan
geline Booth, fourth Interna
tional Commander of the Army
There are 14 of them in the Uni
ted States.
DANCE
TONIGHT
SILVERTON ARMOR!
WOODRY'S
14 Piece Orchestra
M.
Calif., where Van Der Dussen wit
Heavy Fish Run
Af Bonneville
More Chinook salmon passed
upstream over Bonneville dam
during the month of April,
1947, than any previous year
since the Portland district corps
of engineers began counting the
fish runs when the dam was
completed in 1938.
According to Colonel O. E.
Walsh, Portland district en
gineer, a total of 83,520 Chinook
and 6,889 steelhead trout during
April were counted going up
stream to their spawning
grounds, making a total of 90,
409 for these two food fish.
Colonel Walsh said the cur
rent spring fish run up the Col
umbia is still in progress, but
all indications are that the run
this year will far exceed any
previous count by the corps of
engineers.
Records for the first four
months of 1947 were 30,913 in
excess of those for the same per
iod for 1941, the best previous
year. The next best year was
1939 when 51,549 Chinook
were counted going over the
dam.
Since the dam was completed
in 1938, all fish passing through'
the Bonneville dam fish ladder
have been counted by specially
trained personnel. '
Grover Cleveland was the
first President officially and
personally to endorse The Sal
vation Army in 1886.
HEAR
RUBIN0FF
In a Personal
Interview over
KSLM
Wednesday, May 7
at 6:15
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