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Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, October 11, 1949
50 Years of Lumber Service
The Timberman, a monthly Portland trade magazine
devoted to the timber and lumber interest of the north
west, has issued an elaborate 80-pajre edition commemor
ating 50 years of service. It is profusely illustrated and
filled with well-written articles and data on the progress
and growth of the lumber and logging industry in the
Pacific northwest.
The issue pictorially depicts the revolution in the indus
try's system of the past half century, the old and new
mechanized methods of harvesting timber and the growth
of conservation and replanting of forests for future opera
tions. The Timberman was founded by George M. Cornwall, a
young Scotsman, in 1899, who, assisted by his son, George
F. Cromwell, is still its publisher, at the age of 82. For
many years he played an active part, not only in jour
nalism but behind the scenes in public life, a friend and ad
viser of governors and legislators.
Much of the existing legislation affecting the lumber
Industry reflects his progressive efforts. He was active
in the passage of the Oregon Workmen's Compensation
Act, creator of the railroad commission of Oregon and of
forest legislation, he was instrumental in gaining amend
ments to the Interstate Commerce Act conferring powers
of suspension on proposed freight rates, and active in the
old Oregon Editorial association of which he was long an
official.
To establish and publish one's own periodical success
fully for half a cenutry is something of a record espe
cially in a new country and Mr. Cornwall is probably the
only journalist in Oregon that has accomplished it. The
Timberman Has grown with the country and is a recognized
leader in its field.
During the life of the Timberman, the lumber industry
has grown five-fold in the 50 years. The lumber produc
tion in the 11 far western states and Alaska was in 1899
only half the present day lumber output of Oregon alone.
Its total mill value in 1899 figured 50 million. In 1947,
its output was over $1 billion.
Data on Oregon's output show that in 1899 there were
734 million feet B.M. production which has steadily in
cr eased to over 7 billion feet B.M. in 1947.
Toward a Greater Salem
Friday's election in Salem will determine the desire of
the city to make the most of its immediate area in expand
ing toward the future.
Th election will put before the voters three proposi
tions: The first one will be an ordinance that will increase
the number of aldermen from seven to eight in order to
accommodate the proposed annexation of the West Salem
section. The second proposition is the merger of West
Salem with Salem. And the third is the annexation of an
area lying southeast of the present city limits, along the
South Twelfth street cut-off.
The first two propositions, those affecting the future
of West Salem, concern the merging of two communities
with common interests.
In July the people of West Salem voted overwhelmingly
to merge with Salem. The vote across the Willamette
river wa 357 in favor of merger and only 130 against
merger. The situation of West Salem as a unit being sur
rounded by Salem logically pointed toward a consolidation
of the two communities. Certainly, both had similar in
terests. And those interests could best be served by the
uniting of the two cities.
In order to continue to grow with an eye toward the
future, the city of Salem should vote to take in the West
Salem area.
And when the West Salem merger is voted, that section
should be entitled to representation on the city council.
The first proposition on the ballot covers that. The addi
tion of an eighth ward would give West Salem a voice
in the enlarged city administration. So approval of rep
resentation in the council is important, too, to the welfare
of Greater Salem.
The Capital Journal recommends a YKS vote for the
proposed amendment and the proposed merger items on
Friday's ballot.
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HANOLI FROM A PIPE OR A WIRS CONDUIT
-J IMA6INE..CUTTIKK5 A HOLS IN MY NEW fM;
I LINOLEUM FOR THAT. PHONE THE J'Mmm
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Present Navy Revolt Recalls
Other Pressure Campaigns
By DREW PEARSON
Washington It's been a lonf time since the U. S. navy hunt
the son of the U. S. Secretary of War John C. Spencer, "at the
yard-arm of the brig Somen for Insubordination and attempted
mutiny," but there's always been a certain amount of insubordina
tion in the navy not unlike that flaring in the headlines today.
There was the case when the
admirals, through their mouth
piece, the Navy league, called
their command-
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
ed because it was foreseen that
battleships and surface vessels,
now easy targets for atomic
bombs, would be put out of com
mission and there should be
some place for naval officers to
go.
The situation was considered
similar to that in the army when
cavalry and horse-drawn artil
lery became outmoded. Cavalry
men and any other officer in an
outmoded branch of the service
were permitted to transfer to the
expanding air forces, sometimes
with a promotion.
But when congress proposed
ried on sub rosa by the admir- 4 . . . ,
. ' transfer to the army or air force.
er-in-chief Her
bert Hoover,
"abysmally ig
norant." There was the
case when the
admirals, led by
Hilary P. Jones,
sabotaged S
retarv of State
Henry L. Stim-ftl sFT
son on 8-inch-Klw A3
gun c r u i s e rs. " ra'
And there was the bitter attack
on Stimson's war record, car-
itatera ,
SIPS FOR SUPPER
als
There was also the leak of a
the admirals opposed. At their
behest this provision was taken
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JEUEP WILL REFUSE TO SELL
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Monkey Business
By DON UPJOHN
' We have an idea the unseemly, weather we've had since the
first of the month with rain and chilly winds may be chalked up
against the daylight savers. With the clock pushed ahead an hour
all summer the weather man became confused and shoved the
calendar a month ahead and has been giving us November weath
er in October.
Why even J i m
Cooke over i n
his State street
store has jam-
' "
lust goes to show
what fooling "'
around with
nature will do. But. at any rate,
It may assure an early spring.
a woodpecker which had come
down the chimney and the pre
ceding sounds had been the bird
fluttering therein. She reached
over the screen, picked up the
bird and turned him loose
through the front door. In about
five minutes she heard him peck
ing away on the roof. Ben should
have stayed home with his gun
he'd probably had better luck.
secret naval document regarding
nut nt fh linifiratinn Kill
dirigible bases by Adm. Joseph That j, the real reaJon why
M. Reeves, not unlike the leak morae is jow in the navy Tne
by Capt. Crommehn today. inescapable fact is that the bat-
And there was the shameless tleship is woefully out of date,
way in which certain naval ad- and the navy would even like to
visers to the Coolidge naval con- lay up the Missouri if Presi-
ference in 1927 conspired with dent Truman would consent.
William Baldwin Shearer, lob- Thus naval officers have no oth-
byist for American steel manu- er branch of the service to which
facturers and shipbuilders, to they can transfer. No wonder
defeat the policies of their com- they are discouraged.
mander-in-chief, Mr. Loouage.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Becoming More and More
The Century of the Mrs.
By HAL BOYLE
New York W This has been called the Century of the Com
mon Man.
It could be termed with more truth the Century of the Com
mon Woman, except that you'd better be smiling with all 12
Again, early this year when teeth, pardner, when you say that. For no lady, no matter how
Looking DacK over me lasi tne new unification bill was snriny ne pres-rwv
The olher evening Mrs. Ben
Pade, out at her 15th
home, was doing some telephon
ing when she heard some rum
bling and confusion like some
sort of a storm going on outside.
not hear anything out of the
way and so Mrs. Ben figured ,h Hiirf- ... f, h. -
stable, super-saturated solution
of carbon dioxide existing when
the container is opened."
Now You Know
Los Angeles, Oct. 11
Ever wonder why your beer
gushes over when you open the
can or bottle? Dr. Philip Gray,
street here for the Master Brewers' As
sociation oi America convention,
today gave this explanation:
"Laboratory studies indicate that
wildness is primarily physical
In ..hucatlAr fnl1,i,4 al naHi.
The lady she was talking to did el acting are .
sponsible for the liberation of
may be it was some doings at the .,ahI. ,,1D.r....,-t(,d .iuiinn
niKn scnoui near uy, dui me
untoward sounds continued to
repeat. She went and looked
around outside, scanned the roof Tomorrow, October 12, is the
and sky but all seemed serene. 457th anniversary of the dis
But when she got back in the covery of America by Christo
house the sounds were repeated, pher Columbus, in case our
In fact, she had a kind of bad 'arithmetic is correct. It also will
night as when she'd wake from be the first time after 22 years
a fitful slumber strange and un- that the banks, state, county
toward sounds about the house and city offices, et cetera don't
caused her concern, what with close up for the observance. Yea,
husband Ben over in Eastern the last legislature repealed a
Oregon hunting. In the morn- law passed in 1927 which pro
ning the sounds seemed to have vided that October 12 was to be
transferred themselves to the a legal holiday and non Judi
front room and on investigation cial day. Now it's just another
she found behind the fire screen day.
Retired Scholar Back in School
Mankato, Minn. (UB President Emeritus Frank D. McElroy
of Mankato Teachers College has been retired for three years,
but his school days aren't over.
The 70-year-old scholar, whe holds a doctor's degree from
Ohio State University, signed np for a eonrse In mechanical
drawing.
"I've always had a hankering to learn It," McElroy said.
"And I've never had time for It before."
three decades, the navy has bat- under consideration, it was nro- ses her cam
tied much more vigorously posed that naval officers have Pa'gn for equal
against its republican command- the right to transfer to the air rights, wants
ers-in-chief than against the de- force or the army; but again the that word com-
mocrats. This is partly because, naval lobby opposed. mon applied to
under Franklin D. Roosevelt, a So many naval officers find her s and to
former assistant naval secretary, themselves in the same position her that seems
there was almost nothing the the old-fashioned cavalryman only like com-
navy wanted that it could not would have been in, had he not monsense.
get. been permitted to transfer to Perhaps we
Even regarding uniforms, other branches. It was the ad- could better
FDR bowed to the admirals. Be- mirals, however, who pulled the call this "the
cause of the scarcity of textiles wires on Capitol Hill to prevent century of the
during the war, his secretary of this transfer. Miss and the
the navy, the late Frank Knox, Not much is said about it, and the Mr.
had banned a new blue-gray the report is still secret, but real
The truth is the average man
today is just a dazed victim of
the feminine equal rights cam
paign. He is living in a shake
down period in a new war be
tween the sexes. For many wo
men scream for more rights
with one breath, and clamor for
their ancient privileges with
the next
They insist they no longer
have to ride a horse or a bar
stool sidesaddle, but they eye-
Mrs, instead of aaer torgetiui male in an
eievaior Decause ne won i arop
his packages and take off his
al Barl.
summer uniform. Whereupon, trouble with the navy today is The latest victory of the pow-
Fleet Commander Admiral Er- the Bikini bomb test. When derpuff battalion is the decision , Man mu,t ,tin fetch and ""V
nie King walked into the White cruisers and battleships were ' the Harvard law school to fr them " of oId- Thev wl11
House and reversed Knox in found to have been radioactive admit women to its classes. knock out his vote at the polls,
five minutes. months after Bikini, and finally Fr 132 years only men boned fmP,' wltn h,m for hl
One reason the admirals are had to be taken out in the sea UP on Blackstone in this sanr- Y'1 let nlm object if a lady
so irate today, of course, is that and sunk, you can understand tuarv bV the Charles. Its nov' h,n1 ,way from hl ltraP
their inside drag with the White why the navy is getting out-of- breaching now by the female hanging hold in a crowded sub
House is no more. Not only was date. Bikini vessels which came bluestockings comes as a sour way and hollers, " Helpl
Harry Truman an artillery cap- within range of the atomic fumes surprise, indeed, to many old- nelp! woW
tain during World War I, but couldn't even be saved for scrap timers. '
his very close friend. Maj. Gen. iron. That's the kev to th H. "Aren't there already enough .. ?' curse, they all aren t like
Harry Vaughan, is interested in mirals' woes. women laying down the law to '
the army, not the navy.
...
Reading a book written 17
years ago, I came across this
paragraph:
"Leaks are among the admir
als' most effective means of pro
pagandizing. When a White
House decision has gone against
them, when the state depart
ment is carrying on a negotia
tion which the admirals oppose,
when they fail to get their full
(Copyright mai
men?" they cry.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Soviet Bans Fairy Stories in
Schools of Satellite Nations
Some' gals still only want to
boss in the house. Others just
demand an equal chance at the
office. But many, many mod
ern females play both ends
against the middle. They want
to act like men and be treated
like women.
Naturally, the ordinary man
thinks this Is a little unfair of
the fairer sex He'd like either
to deal with a lady as a lady,
or have the present code of
By DeWITT MocKENZIE
u rorelgo Affair Analiat)
ins Ju5ian saieime naiions or pasipm p.iirnn irs undaronma
appropriation, then the safest n educational metamorphosis which bids fair to change their elnics ana etiquette modified to
and best strategy is to leak. entire outlook on life and take them still further away from alIow him to belt a presumptu-
"They do this to the press or western thought. us female with a baseball bat
to a discreet member of con- me satellite governments are busy overhauling their school oul OI llne-
Tariffs on Cherries Remain, But
Althoiifrh no changes were marie in the recent trade
treaty with Italy, Willamette valley cherries will never
theless be affected by recent events, as it appears now.
Senator Morse advises the Capital Journal that no CAPITAL CARTOON
change whatsoever was made In existiiiR duties on either
pitted or unptted cherries. The present tariff of Red FeatherS
cents on unpitted and 9' j cents on pitted brined cherries
is thin continued. Other countries in the nation's trade
profrram, besides Italy, will likewise be affected.
However, the devaluation of currencies will have an ad
verse effect on the United States cherry crops, despite the
tariff. Growers in a foreign country were able to raise
cherries for a figure with shipping costs that was, say,
an amount, with the tariff, equal to that of domestic grow,
ers here. Devaluation rhanged that set-up, however. The
foreign currency was devalued, so the foreign growers'
costs were even lower than before in relation to American
costs. Therefore, the foreign grower could then ship cher
ries into the American market at a figure, even with the
tariff, that would undersell domestic products.
There is another consideration, too. That takes In the
tariff figures, which were maintained hut were established
in 1930. It is enough to merely mention the lapse of time,
and what happened since then to costs of the growers.
So, this means cherry growers can resign themselves
for some time now to finding foreign competition, aided
by devaluation, on the home market. The tariff will limit
imports to a questionable extent, but the advantages of the
continued tariff are somewhat lessened by the recent for
eign devaluations of currencies.
Long-Distance Correspondence School
Seattle, Oct. 11 (Ui racifle northwest dentists today were
scheduled to start taking post-graduate dental courses from
the University of Illinois hy telephone.
The dentists will attach amplifiers to telephone circuits and
call the Illinois school for lecture.
OPEN FORUM
High School Games at Waters Field
To the Editor We have attended Salem high games faithfully
for several years and were pleased with the set-up at Sweetland
field. The games at Waters park are very disappointing as we
can not see the playing field clearly.
We have always noticed how small Salem's group of cheer
leaders looks. Why isn't It prop
erly represented? Salem is one many.
of the largest cities in the state Salem always does so well in
but you nevar could tell it by basketball. Why not get a large
looking at the small group that group of cheer leaders by baa
leads the yells. W are not say- ketball season and make Salem
ing they don't do a good job, really look like the town it IsT
for they do (for their slie), but MRS. JOHN HADLEY
we are saying they could do bet- MRS. WM. DOUGHTON
ter with twice or three times as Salem.
gress. Both channels are effec- systems to make
tive. A furore is stirred up. The them conform
president or the state depart- with the com
ment is pictured as stripping the munist ideolo
country of its defense and baring gical teachings
its bosom to the enemy and laid down by
after all the furore has subsid- Moscow. Czech
ed, the admirals usually find oslovakia, for
themselves on top." example, is en
That statement, written by gaged in eliml
this columnist in 1932 in the n a ting from
book "More Merry-Go-Round," children!' read-i
is equally true today. It is true Ing all such hi
O.W1II M..kal.
Right now he's confused.
fairy tales and other cherished ?nould he take off his hat be
literature out of which have forTe or "f,er hitting her?
grown the dreams of childhood. . .In "ny cas- ,he double-grab-Being
well aware that I could bln femal building up a
be wrong in my outlook, I was v,st ""ntment in the breast of
glad when my colleague David !he Pu"led male, who regards
Taylor Marke, AP Newsfea- r ' s,ranM kind of hybrid
ture specialist on education, sme'hing like a mule,
dropped by my desk. I asked .. Women in business brag
him how American educators, they don 1 take "dvantage of
felt on this subject thelr "" ,ald on executive I
..... know- "That's true. They take
The primary contrast." he arlvindn ...
siu, is mai in
MflapHina ihm ranlnin rVnmm vnlitl. mm rill.
lin leaks; and it is true regard- to-riches succese stories and sta " " ,"., Um . nJ bartender add
ing the leaks to Congressman the fairy tales which for cer- fL. " ' J fy'nf ' meet observation:
Van Zandt. the n a v a 1 reserve turies have fascinated young- ln Ru,,ia ,h' ,"",", "V 7 u. mel " , want KU"1
officer w h o so grossly libeled sters the world around. m,e?T. . "f. t0 L,!h "iT th,y Jurt w"nt
Secretary of Air Symington un- in B..t .-h material th
der the safety of congressional gmall folk ,rt g.tting text-books
Immunity. which give a new and "genuine"
outlook. Even such success
The public has largely for- ,torje, that of Henry Ford
gotten it, but twice the navy has are banned, on the grounds that
been given complete and lengthy he was "sn exploiter of the
hearings by congress, and each working people."
time congress ruled against the ...
navy. Following which the ad
mirals refused to accept the
congressional decision.
In 1941-47 congress held pro
tracted hearings regarding uni
fication of the armed forces.
SMALL FRY COMES BIGGER THESE DAYS
Junior's Getting Too Big
For His Britches Now
By HARMON NICHOLS
The navy was vigorously oppos- ,,h uni,ed work,. party
The significance of this rev
olutionary change is pointed
out in an article by Education
alist Josef Barbag In the War
saw lrvouni L.iiau . orffan oi i . . . , . - " '"
-- - - t . ---- -- uui-,u ui aianaaros, wnicn measures evervth ne from the laat
the communist dominated Pol- , ! . tvnjuiing irom ine last
Washington, Oct. 11 (U.The trouble with Jnnlnr I. tv,i v,..
getting too big for his britches.
A size 10 doesn't fit a 10-year-old any more. And the national
'That pels la yeee
Men as yea alga pear
lenee vtll ge snr Just est
Its' Cheat ledae.
htlhhlf nt fnom in haor ., n . i il. ,
- - in me iiom. Knows it.
posed. One of the admirali ten- 'inv0A A11 th,s came to Iigh at the "
tifylng against unification at "X" to Vwicri. ioci-1 To'oVeaii W tdV""n -m-m.d.
that time was Adm. Gerald T e.onomic ,ife. t0 be nil A'" n clothe, for boy, who have cin-
Bogan who, apparently forget- b d ht M(ol educ,. C'?'h'p" "d furnishers was der holes in the knee, of their
mg hi. own testimony, wrote a tjon metnod Mxilt.L,n. holding forth. p.nt, and wear out the ltl
letter, recently leaked to the ,niim Everybody was there, includ- by way of nails on fences and so
press, in wnicn ne compiainea , ing td Jameson of lndepen- forth.
that the navy never had a hear
ing.
mtthBM. ..-.II ha nl. An .,,K. ' " MH-
"It s s little complicated," he
- empnasis win o piaceo. on suo- . . j u . , . . , r::
K- , r i A. r i . ner ot a man named Hsrrv S. told the men who sell nania anil
However, after month, ot '. " " . W Un- Truman , ,ne , , und. underwear. "Size, don't mein
.rir... ., mUmr li.l.nlna n n With it. leading TOle in the .... , : ti U .1... .U- ...U . ...
.. k... i ""-.. .u .iu uini uiw muni anymore. A Kia may Be
anyone who wanted to testify, r""u' ' " " ' underwear busines. ln lndepen- thick in the hind
congress voted for unification. (,ld of "'"f.' . ,ol,y' Once is pretty good ana last built like a greyh
anymore. A kid may be
quarters and
erevhnund in th
In a civilian form of govern- ,ur na nc mnunue. he heard from H.rrv th. .nv. cheat
ment, it is the congress, not the "The tendency of our new eminent was going all right, too.
navy which ia supposed to have school programs is to introduce . Lonit fad ,hat ,h bur oJ
the final word. the fullest possible information Anyhow, the man with the standards has spent lot of time
Again last winter further bout the Soviet Union in the tape-measure around the small on the project and finally has
hearing were held on unities- lowest school grades, while the male fry was Mansfield Lonie. come up with something logical
tion. Again congress listened new school programs will also from the apparel division of the It recommends that In order
patiently to the admirals, but show on the basis of facts the bureau of standards. to keep parents from going
again congress voted against characters of Anglo-Saxon im- Lonie ,aid h. h prob,bly crazy and Junior from squirming
them, tightened unification. penalism, its anti social tenden- measured more small chests and in his seat at school with 111-
c" an! " negative and de- rMr ,nd, tnan any mt in tnt f jttinir underpants that the
Admirals Began. Radford and structlve role in every sphere of country. He came up with some manufacturer plaster each gar-
Denfeld now complain that mo- li'e." complicated chart to prove it. ment thusly:
rale In the navy is low. That is One of them was called "Body "Sise. Height. Weight."
true. In short, Moscow is In the Landmarks." He displayed thia That way Mom can't go very
However, during the 1948-47 process of remolding civiliia- one to show that, boys being far wrong when she goes shop
hearings, congressmen proposed tion. which will regard Russia boys, they aren't all the same ping.
that naval officers have the right as the parent nation of the sire. Take the cervical. That's The single range of sires
to transfer to the air forces or world. the neck, to us one-syllable guys, would Include classifications like
any branch of the army with However, that gets us into It varies from boy to boy. Ditto, Juvenile, little bovs. Junior bovs
equal pay and rank, or with ev- rather deep water. What really the hat sire, the waist, the hip, pre. big boy. etc. All broken
en greater pay and rank if Jus- started me off was the idea of and even the calf and the knee, down according to weight and
tified. This provisiomwaa Insert- depriving the youngsters of their Lonie made It clear that he height.
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