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WEATHER OREGON'S
Because we had In Oregon
that is drizzle punctuated with light showers, that de
layed harvesting of beans, hay and seed crops, loud were
the complaints.
The local weatherman, who merely announces fore
easts, received by teletype from central U.S. weather bu
reau stations that compile them reports that he was
hourly cussed and threatened and was as unpopular as a
person could be by those who ought to know better, that
the weather men do not make the weather merely re
port it and the forecasts are as scientifically compiled as
poeible.
Notwithstanding all this the local weather observer
was berated over the phone by farmers, hop, bean and
other growers, orchardista, party planners, baseball fans,
and many others who expressed disgust, apprehension
and condemnation.
The Oregon farmer, -in comparison with those of the
nation in general, has been unusually fortunate in the
weather this year. The farmer's life is a constant gamble
with the weather, but his crops in general are above nor
mal yield this season. He has not been bothered by pro
longed drought, floods, heat and oppressive humidity or
destructive tornadoes and electrical storms as those of
vast areas of the country.
The August heat wave has been a record breaker in
the east, south and central west, punctuated by disas
trous storms. A stifling air blanket still reaches from the
Rocky mountains to the Atlantic coast and the weather
bureau forecasts little change in the immediate future.
Temperatures plus SO degrees are still the rule, with a
heavy death toll due to heat, over the week-end. Today's
dispatches announce:
Some communities faced serious water shortages tor do
mestic consumption as a remit of brassy, rainless skies; many
banned use of water for sprinkling and automobile washing.
Lawns burned up, trees and crops suffered, and the dry
Bess of vegetation posed the threat of grass and bruin fires in
rural areas. .
Hundreds of thousands of persons swarmed to the beaches
seeking relief. August 30 all-time temperature records were
set by the dozens. Nor was relief in sight
There is variety in the heat misery. In Texas cloud
bursts have overtaxed drainage ditches, overflowed
streams and made lakes of low spots, driving thousands
from their homes. Seven inches of rain fell in five hours
in some localities.
Oregoniana do not realize how fortunate they are in the
. weather, heat unusually confined to a few hot spells of a
few days each in summer. In winter an occasional snow
storm and an average ample rainfall throughout the
year which keeps Oregon an evergreen state. With devel
opment of our natural resources and industries and our
equitable climate continuous growth in population is as
sured. G. P. s
LEBANON LOSES HOTEL
Effective yesterday the Hotel Lebanon closed for good,
after doing business continuously since 1912, leaving one
of Oregon's most thriving communities without this vital
service.
The First National Bank of Lebanon holds an option
on the property, and may if it wishes, tear the hotel down
and use the site for a new bank building. Otherwise the
70-room hotel building will be remodeled for offices.
Increasing costs of operation, which plague all busi
nesses, for they increase whether income does or not,
and declining patronage are given as the reasons for clos
ing and they are reasons enough, for any business must
take in more than it pays out or shut down eventually.
Usually this means pretty soon. ,
We suppose the principal "villain" in this drama is the
motel, which has captured a large slice of the tourist
overnight dollar everywhere except in the large cities
where the motels are too far from the center of activity.
This has put the hotels in the smaller cities at a terrible
handicap and we fear what has happened in Lebanon will
happen in many other communities.
This is unfortunate because the town needs the hotel
whether the tourists do or not. Its restaurant fills a need
for group meetings, and many travelers still want to
stay in hotels. Even the smaller cities like to cater to
conventions of such size as they can accommodate and
loss of hotel services virtually destroys this source of
. revenue and pleasure.
But popular habits change steadily. The motel is here
to stay and readjustments will have to be made to take
it into account. Fortunately for the larger cities, their
hotels seem not to have been seriously affected, more
travel having largely offset the loss to the motels.
SMALLER FORCES, MORE GENERALS
Congressman Walter Norblad put his finger on a
phenomena of present day military establishments when
he protested the creation of 22 new generals in the Ma
rine corps Just as the fighting ended in Korea and the
administration decreed cutbacks in the military estab
lishment. Time was when an army had one general and all the
others were of lesser rank. Now an army like ours
boasts generals by the hundreds and other hifrh ranks
in proportion. They have a "table" that calls for so many
in each rank and they usually contrive to have them,
whether needed or not.
Pressure of men in the lower ranks for promotions
accounts in part for this, as does the liberal retirement
policy of the U.S. armed forces, which enables officers to
retire in the prime of life, with pay for many years to
come, while others also draw pay in their places.
This situation accounts to a considerable degree for the
tremendous cost of maintaining the U.S. armed forces,
so we get far less military strength per dollar invested
than any potential enemy.
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turned up hale and hearty yes
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a few days of "Oregon mist"
Police and distressed rela
tives had been looking for him
for a month. Ha said ha was in
the barn loft at his home all
the time.
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private," ha explained.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Hungarian Red
Quits U. S. Mysteriously
By DREW
Washington Just as mys
teriously as he came to Wash
ington, Dr. Emil Weil, Hungar
ian communist minister to the
United States and the Doctor
who helped drug Cardinal
Mindszenty, has departed.
Without explanation. Dr.
Weil has been replaced by
Charles Szarka, for five years
in the Hungarian, diplomatic
service and without any special
political background, though be
must be a member of the com
munist party to hold such an
important post.
Dr. Weil was first exposed in
this column on Jan. 2, 1952, as
having been high up in com
munist politics and as having
participated in the Mindszenty
trial, at which the famed pre
late finally gave an astounding
phony confession of his alleged
underground operations. Mrs.
Weil was reported - by this
writer to have been the per
sonal physician to Premier Ra-
koakl and Dr. Weil 'was head
of the Budapest Chamber of
Doctors, the AMA of Hungary.
It was also revealed that he
had been especially picked to
come to the United States to
promote communism among
Hungarian-Americans or at
least to keep them friendly to
the Red regime in Budapest
Among other things this writer
told how Dr. Weil attended a
meeting in the Barbizon-Plaza
hotel in New York on Kossuth
Day, Nov. 9, 1952, where the
main speaker was Carl Mar-
zanl, former state department
official convicted for failing to
reveal he was a communist.
After the speech, at which Mar
zani attacked Eisenhower, Tru
man, Stenson and Omar
Bradley, Dr. Well made a con
tribution toward a campaign to
"deuver the American people
from slavery," and on his way
out the legation staff gathered
up various communist booklets
and other propaganda sold at
the rear of the meeting.
Many diplomats felt that this
was a violation of diplomatic
rules which forbid a foreign
ambassador or minister from
participating in American pol
itics. However, the state de
partment consistently declined
to ask for Dr. Weil's recall, on
the grounds that the Hungarian
government would then de
mand the recall of the Ameri
can minister in Budapest.
Reasons behind Dr. Well's
return to Hungary are shroud
ed In secrecy, but according to
me diplomatic grapevine, the
Hungarian government felt
that the publicity given him in
the U. S. had destroyed his
usefulness. There are reports
that Dr. Well will now teach
at the University of Budapest,
but this is unconfirmed. He
may face the same fate as oth
ers connected with the Minds
zenty trial; for though they
carried out the bidding of their
communist matters, dead men
tell no talcs.
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Robert E. Lee, who achieved
fame two years ago, not be
cause of any association with
the Civil War general, but be
cause of the McCarthy post
card campaign to defeat Sena
tor Millard Tydings in Mary
land, is being considered for
the extremely important pott
of comptroller general of the
United States.
Lindsay Warren, one of the
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Minister
PEARSON
grand old men of Washington,
is planning to retire as comp
troller general, and Lee is be
ing pushed hard by powerful
republican friends to take his
place. -
The general accounting of
fice, which the comptroller
general heads, was set up by
congress for the purpose of aud
iting and checking on govern
ment expenditures. Appoint
ment la for a 14-year term and
the appointee cannot be re
moved. Furthermore, he re
porta not to the White House
but direct to congress.
Lee, the proposed new comp
troller general, figured in the
senate probe of the Tydings
Butler campaign, where it was
revealed he had received
check for $5,000 from Alvin
Bentley, former state depart
ment official now a GOP con
gressman from Michigan
whose grandfather help e d
found General Motors. Lee re
ceived the check in the office
of Senator McCarthy, took it
to Baltimore and used it in a
campaign to mail 300,000 post
cards to Maryland voters
signed by GOP candidate John
M. Butler allegedly in his own
handwriting. ,
Later, Maryland court con
victed Jon Jonkel, Senator Mc
Carthy's campaign manager,
for failing to comply with the
Maryland election laws. The
senate investigating commit
tee showed that checks count
ersigned by Lee were used to
pay for the post card campaign
without properly recording
them.
Note Lindsay Warren, who
will retire as comptroller gen
eral, formerly served in con
gress from North Carolina, has
saved the taxpayers millions of
dollars by keeping an eagle
eye on government accounting
Just the opposite of the ac
counting used in the Maryland
election.
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Paul Styles, recently re
signed member of the national
labor relations board and a
friends of labor, will become
labor consultant to department
store owners in Toledo, Ohio.
. . . Dr. Astin, now securely
back in his job as director of
the bureau of standards, will
quit next spring unless Secre
tary Weeks his boss sup
ports his views on a reasonable
budget for the bureau. Con
gress recently cut the bureau's
budget 26 per cent and an
other cut would virtually put
it out of business. . . . Clare
Booth Luce, U. S. ambassador
to Rome, will visit Italy's sea
coast cities next month on her
vacauon, sne may charter a
yacht for the occasion. . , . Su
preme Court Justice Bill Doug
las is roughing it in northern
Canada, near the Arctic Cir
cle. . , . Top depocrats say their
national chairman, Steve
Mitchell, wiU be able to hold
his job as long as the democrats
have a big debt. Few demos
want the chairmanship until all
past bills are paid then the
real scramble will start .
Former Secretary of State
Dean Acheson may lead the
legal battle to return the tide
lands to the federal govern
ment A multi-billion-dollar
suit brought by several states
will be thrashed out in the su
preme court
tCOTTTHM WW)
Socialism's Heart
By RAYMOND MOLEY
Santa Barbara The late
Harold J. Laski whose com
mitment to Marxism was so
extreme that even the Attlee
government found him a liabil
ity had a habit during his
many trips to the United States
of telling pop-eyed academic
audiences what should be done
about America. The essential
theme was always socialism.
In one of his discussions he
stressed the importance of .Fed
eral grants-in-aid to the states.
These, he concluded, are fun
damental to the idea of a "na
tional minimum." That, I be
lieve, is a piece of jargon mean'
ing the extent to which the cen
tral government should take
over. The national minimum
Laski said, "lies at the heart of
socialism."
This point of view toward
federal expansion runs through
all socialist propaganda. For,
to make socialism effective, it
must be at the national level
And the most certain way to
eliminate the states is to bribe
them with federal grants, the
money for which is raised by
stealing the tax sources of the
states. A nation of kept states
must be the necessary prelude
to a nation of kept citizens.
The extent to which the
states in - the past few years
have been reduced to the
"kept" status is shown by the
growth of grants-in-aid. In
T.R.'s first term the federal
government gave only $3,000,
000 to the states. In 1912 this
had risen to $5,255,000.
Then came the federal in
come tax, innocently contrived
by both Democrats and Repub
licans, but with the malignant
power within its limitless reach
to destroy all private property.
Grants-in-aid proliferated. In
1920 they were $33,188,000.
After 1933 the march really
got under way. In 1941 grants-in-aid
were, $836,082,000. And
in 1951 they were $2,280,000,
000. Those grants per capita
show a tremendous variation
among states. They ranged in
1951 from $7.03 per capita in
New Jersey to $48.99 in Wyom
ing. Social welfare grants
have become the greatest pur
pose of these expenditures.
A few of these grants are
for purposes for which the fed
eral government ahould bear
the primary responsibility, such
as care and assistance for vet
erans. There are also tome
things, such as conservation of
natural resources, highways,
and agriculture, that are joint
federal state responsibilities.
But three-fourths of the money
spent in these grants are for
purposes for which the states
should have responsibility.
And the states must beg for this
aid because the federal govern
ment has invaded the tax re
sources from which the states
ought to get the money to help
themselves.
Candidate Eisenhower made
a point, over and over, in his
1952 campaign that these func
tions, together with the tax
sources to support them, should
go back to the states. In fact
this is a cardinal principle to
his philosophy. Eisenhower is
firmer in his determination to
accomplish this restoration
than was Senator Taft who, it
should be remembered, was
sponsor for projects for aid to
education and housing.
Pursuant to his promise, the
President secured from Con
gress authorization tor a com
mission to make a coraprehen-
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Capitalize on Hobbies
If You Want Extra Cash
By HAL
New York There is
more than one way to keep the
wolf from your door.
Thousands of American fam
ilies today are beating inflation
by extra income earned by
sideline pursuits.
Other thousands would like
to do this also, but don't know
how. Yet almost everyone' can
find a way to earn spare time
cash, if he but looks around
One of the best ways is to
capitalize on your special In
terests or hobbles.
A former newspaper friend
of mine, Ted OXeary, editor of
"The Profitable Hobbies Mag
azine" published in Kansas
City, has collected hundreds of
examples of how hobbles can
be turned into a source of
profit as well-as relaxation.
One of the oddest is the case
of Albert F. Marsh of Mobile,
Ala. Some yean ago Marsh re
ceived a single male hamster
in payment of a $1 debt
He bought two female ham
sters and then began breeding
and selling the little animals.
Within 14 months he quit his
job with the state highway de
partment to devote all his time
to the hamsters. Within tnree
years Marsh was grossing $4000
a week, selling hamsters as pets
and to hospitals and laborator
ies for experimental purposes.
Being a housewife is no han
dicap in the search for gold
mines in hobbies. Mrs. Myrtle
Helm of Minneapolis began
painting plaster figurines with
friends in 1946 for fun. She
wasn't satisfied with the paints.
With the aid of a chemist
Mrs. Helm devised a quick'
drying, hard finish paint that
removed the need of kiln fir
ing the figurines. She began
selling the paint and other sup
plies.. Her husband resigned
his post office job to help her.
Soon their annual sales rose
above $110,000.
Or take Mrs. Helen Simon
of Kingston. Wash., who
searched for a way to aug
ment her farm income and
found the answer in her own
kitchen.
Mrs. Simon tasted some wild
huckleberry jelly made by a
relative. It was delicious. The
idea came to her, "why not
try to market home-made Jel
lies with wild fruit flavors?"
She did. In five years her sales
jumped from $3,000 to almost
$25,000 annually.
Faith in U. S.
Douglas McKay in the
Country Gentleman
Some believe In the United
States as a country which can
best serve their own interests.
Others show their faith by
their efforts toward improving
the general welfare without
concern for their own personal
or immediate gain.
As an example of the latter
group I like to recall the un
selfish faith the people of my
own state of Oregon have dis
played in working together to
make a valuable contribution
to the future needs of the na
tion. On the huge Tillamook
Burn devastating forest fires
in 1935, 1939 and again in
1943 destroyed valuable tim
ber over an area almost half
as large as Rhode Island. The
people of Oregon in 1948 vot
ed a bond issue to reforest the
Burn. The biggest reforesta
tion project in the world is
now under way. Lumber com
panies are reforesting cutover
land elsewhere in the state.
The material accomplish
ments to date are spectacular.
But the most inspiring factor
is the faith of my neighbors,
who are willing to plant a tree
crop that will not be ready for
harvest for 80 years.
Many men and women In
many communities are build
ing a better America that they
will never live to see. They
are demonstrating in this way
their faith in the future of the
nation. "I will shew thee my
faith by my works" la a very
practical precept. Only
through such a faith can we
assure that America will re
main strong and a land of
freedom and opportunity for
our children.
live study of the subject As
chairman of that commission,
the President has Clarence;
Manlon, former dean of the law
school of Notre Dame univer
sity. I
Manlon's position toward
federal super-government has
been made very clear in many
speeches and articles. He
firmly believes that the wide
highway to socialism la through
the progressive encroachment
by the federal government up
on the resources and respons
ibilities of the states. He can
be counted on to be as aggres
sive In this field as Herbert
Hoover will be in the wider
field to which he has been as
signed. Together for in many
ways their lines will cross in
these twin investigatons they
should constitute a good team
to pull back the federal gov
ernment from the areas which
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Such financial returns from
hobbies as those in these three
eases are, of course, unusual.
But almost anyone with a lit
tle Ingenuity can turn a ready
dollar as Editor O'Leary's
other case histories show.
Rudy Lecompte, a Baytown,
Tex., oil chemist, bought an
outfit for duck hunting and
found he had no money left
for decoys. He saw some buoy
ant driftwood and wondered If
good decoys could be carved
from this wood, which was
plentiful. He began doing so,
now he sells the decoys for
$48 a dozen to other hunters.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Cox of
Orlando. Fla- specialize in
making reproductions of faded
photographs in old family al
bums. They get their orders in
house to house soliciting, some
times earn $100 a day.
Janet and E. John Royle
went to Arizona to be cattle
ranchers on a place near Tuc
son. There they got the idea
of making novelty jewelry
pins, bracelets, earrings and
necklaces from cholla, or
"jumping cactus". They now
have a country-wide market
and virtually have forgotten
cattle raising.
Age is no barrier. Mrs.
George McCollum of Batavia,
111., loved as a girl to make doll
dresses. Now 81, she estimates
that in the last 20 years she has
made and sold about 100,00 doll
garments to stores and individ
uals in all parts of the nation.
-Each year she gives many
doll outfits to orphanages, and
her work has won praise from
such people as Henry Ford,
Helen Hayes, Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt
Here is Mrs. McCollum's
philosophy:
"If you get up in the morn
ing knowing that someone is
counting on you to accomplish
something that day, then there
is a real purpose and joy in
living."
Baring Inequities
Albany Democrat-Herald
Figures just announnced on
the reappraisal of Grant coun
ty property as the first results
of a process that is to cover ev
ery county in the state go far
to demonstrate the necessity
for the reform, instituted two
years ago.
Some of the assessing done
in that county, which probably
will be matched, more or less,
elsewhere, is little short of fan
tastic in its inequality. The re
searchers found some farm
land assessed as low as 5 per
cent of its cash resale value.
other parcels evaluated as high
as 240 per cent They found a
good deal of inequality on all
types of property. Valuations
of city realty ran all the way
from 6.5 per cent to 187.5 per
cent of cash resale figures.
We can expect somewhat sim
ilar discrepancies as the results
come in from other counties.
The job, once equality is re
stored, is to keep the values
equalized, as State Tax Com
missioner Samuel Stewart has
said. We must keep up. as best
we can, the morale of the tax
payer, whose burden has
reached an all-time high. Tax
paying Inequalities are one of
the basic reasons for recurring
unrest in France, such as the
one we've been seeing now for
some time.
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Her hands and face had bees
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QUI OX BfciV.
A Hudson, Wyoming, sender,
taker who had trimmed a
lengthy corpse to fit a normal
coffin bad been threatened
with prosecution by relatives
Lof the deceased.
Spencer Hardware company
had imported Hartz Mountain
roller canaries for sale at $1.5j
each.
Mayor Rogers had sent a
special message to the city
council demanding action be
taken to protect the city against
owners of open South Mill
ditch.
TJ C Hallberff had anfnA
a new ladies and children's
furnishing store In the Catlln
Linn block.
McGilchrist & Son. pro
prietors of the White House
restaurant had a 25c dinner
for 20c.
All stations of United Wire
less telegraph service had been
silent for 30 minutes out of
respect for George Eccles, op
erator on the Ohio when ha
was lost, who remained at his
post of call for help and there
by lost his life.
Prices of Capital Dairy and
Fatrmount Dairy milk in Sa
lem, September 1, 1909: pint,
per month, $1.25; quart, per
month, $2.40.
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