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"i f. -ft ' I tu - J.. ;' ; SI I Capital AJournal AN INDEPENDENT NIWlPAf l-E".IAIUSHtD IN llil Bernard Mainwaring (1897-1957) Editor and Publisher 1953-1957 E. A. Brown, Publisher Glenn Cushman, Managing Editor George Putnam.Editor Emeritus Publlihad avary avanlnj (antapl Sunday by tha Capital Jaarnal Co., Mil. Jannla I. Mainwarlnaj full tailed Wira Sarvlca of Tha Alioclalad "rail and Tha United Praia. Tha Allot u led Pteii li aiclulivaly anllllad to lha uia for publication of all nawi diipatchai cradilad to it or otherwiia craditad In thii papar and alio nawa . publiihad tharain. SUSSCHIPtlON RATES y Carrlari Monthly, tl.Ml SIm Monlhl. S7.S0j Ona Taar. $1300. By Mail In Oregent Manthly. $1.00; ll Manilla, $1,001 Ona Yaar $a 00 ly Mall Outilda Oragom Manthly, II.Ul ii Monlhl, $7 JO; Ona Year, (15.00 Causes of Inflation " At the recent session of the National In- dustrial Conference Board in San Krancisco, '"" Joseph Garbarino, associate professor of .,. business administration at the University of v.. California,, asserted that the prevailing wage "policy had contributed a definite inflation -2" potential in the past two years. ..." Over the past three years, he pointed out, , -- the annual increase in productivity of man .." ufacturlng had been between 3 per cent and ' 3'2 per cent. At the same time the wage ' costs (Including wages and fringe benefits) '..have risen at annual rates of almost 5 per , ., cent in other words, wage costs in produc , lion industries have been increasing by some one-fourth to one-third more than productiv- v ity. , Up to date, Mr. Garbarino said, the econ .v omy has adjusted itself to this slate of s- affairs by (1) a moderate rise in price level and (2) shifts in the shares of national In- ' come in favor of wage and salary earners. ". Should this tendency of wages to outrun productivity continue, he predicted future adjustments would tend increasingly to take . the form of price increases. Wage hikes are not justified unless pro-'-' duction is increased, and the point has been reached where management and labor need to cooperate with government in protecting the value of the dollar by checking inflation, ,., Garbarino said. President Eisenhower in his annual ceo nomic report to Congress said on this subject: "... Kconomic developments in recent years show the basic role Hint monelnry and fiscal re straints must play If the excesses that ofirn "" accompany prosperity are to he avoided. At Hie same time, this experience suggests (hit fiscal '''' and monetary policies must be supported by apprn ' priats private policies lo assure both a high level of economic activity and a stable dollar ..." '" These annual wage increases in industry '-' are followed by wage increases and cost hikes all along the line and force Inflationary in ! "..creases in living costs. But labor leaders seem J" intent by their unreasonable demands, like Reuther's demand for a four-day week for the J automobile industry at present top wages will help Insure a bust "that will curl your V hair." G.P. there is no reason to doubt the reliability of the estimates. The main purpose of the annual estimates by the State Census Board is to determine allocation of funds on a per capita basis to the cililes from slate highway and. liquor revenues. Legislation sponsored by the League of Oregon Cities brought about this sharing of funds with the cities, and is one of the League's many constructive accom plishments. The 10 per cent of highway rev enues going to the cities is mainly for street maintenance and is known as a street fund. Allocations lo the cities arc made twice yearly. The 1056 total for the current fiscal year was $0.52 per capita, or $5,453,933. The total shows growth each successive fiscal year. Fair Sex Wins Bailie From Springfield, capital of Illinois, comes word of another victory for the ladies In the battle of the sexes by the ignominious default of the sterner sex in a hopeless effort to re turn to the masculine domination of the primitive stone age era. In those' far away days women were the toilers, the burden bearers, the water car iiers, the gardeners as well as cooks, basket makers, clothes weavers, pottery makers and utility slaves of their lazy lords and masters, who hunted game and head-hunted neighbors after boogy-woogy tribal war dances, but whose steady occupation was loafing. ' Alarmed by the progress of the fair sex since their persistence won political as well as social equality, resentful spouses three years ago incorporated the "Hen-pecked Husbands' Association, Inc." to "Set an ex ample to all married males that will allow husbands to rededicate (hemsclvcs to the principles of liberty and free speech." A basic aim of the group, as outlined in the articles of incorporation, was to "outlaw nagging, unreasonable demands for explana tions of husbands' spare lime, breath smelling and examination of husbands' apparel for powder, lipstick and blonde tresses." ; Not only, alas but alack, has a certificate just been filed lo dissolve the association with the Sangamon County Recorder of Deeds, but the 150 members have quit their altruistic effort to "civilize Ihcir wives ..." Wm. L. O'Brien, former secretary-treasurer of the organization, explains that first It was going strong, but "it broke up little by little, and gradually fell apart. It was stalled as a gag, but we had lots of fun with it." He adds: "Surprlsinsly enough, once we jiut started here we received letters from all over Ihe country Irotn like-minded husbands who wanted lo start their own chapters. We niel once a ninnlh at least in Hie hack room of a tavern lo plot war on nagging wives. A favorite lactic was lo remove Hie auto matic washing machine (rem a mrmoer's house and replace II with a tub and scruMmard. as a penally for nagging." The wives so "penalized" probably didn't see any humor in it that's probably the rea .son the reform effort failed. G.P, X figures Prove Groirlh Salem was surprised one day only a few weeks ago lo discover that Kugene had over hauled it in population to become Oregon's second city on a census basis. II was unof ficial then, but now it becomes official, with Ihe State Census Board estimating Kugone's population at 4R.480, and Salem's 46.113, a difference of 167. ' In a list of population estimates for Ore gon cities made public by the board are other figures that will surprise a lot of Oregon ians. They are the second surpri.se in seven ; years. The first, a disappointing one. was j'lhe Federal Census in 1950, which showed that nearly every city in Oregon, from Port land down, had fewer people than had been estimated locally. Now conies Ihe State Cen sus Board with figures on the optimistic side, showing that nearly every city In the state has grown in population since 1950, the gains ranging from fractions to as high as 130 per cent. Eastern Oregon cities as well as those on the west side are included. Oregon is grow ing. Of course the Federal Census was pre sumed to be an actual count of noses, while the state board's figures are estimates, but Federal School Aid Federal school financing legislation has an . appearance of being dead .for this session of Congress, but there is some doubt about it. Some advocates of the legislation say it is dead a victim of the economy drive. But the more alert of the opponents of the bill say they aren't going to be fooled, that the bill Is just lying doggo and may spring to life any time its opponents. can be caught flat footed. They say the bill's supporters are just trying lo pull a fast one to lower resistance and retard cxpressins of public opinion. The bill is with the House Education and Labor Conimitlce, and its opponents will be less than good politicians if they don't keep an eye to that quarter. RAY TUCKER RAY TUCKER 'Cradle to Grave' Plan Goes Haywire WASHINGTON The author of Britain's famous "cradle to the grave plan," which has been copied so extensively in this country, now admits that it has deprived him of suf ficient income for his old age. He says that the resulting inflation of - rmij ;i - li-iii,nc 4nil irifne rm tir nut. X--f !s weighed the benefits of gov- . eminent handouts and social Services. He admits that his ' grandiose program has "gone nay wire. $ Lord Beveridge's public' admission of failure has aroused keen interest on Capitol Hill,, where it has! been almost required reading since he delivered his sensational speech. For conservative Republicans and South ern Democrats insist that President Eisen hower's financial and economic policies will' eventually have the same disastrous effect , In the United States. British Peer's Admission Roosevell-Truman aides frequently com pared the New Deal reforms to Lord Bever idge's achievements under the Attlce-Bevin Labor Ministry. Indeed, in jests not print able In a family newspaper, I hey used to boast that they had progressed far beyond his "cradle lo the grave" arrangements. Since President Eisenhower has continued and even expanded his predecessors' social and economic services, Capitol Hill critics now cite Beveridge's admission as living and demonstrated proof of their arguments. But the British peer's complaint, which echoes King Lear's lamentations over his ungrateful children, will have greater effect on Congress than domestic political oratory and condemnation. For the optimistic origin ator has now repudiated heavy goverment spending as a means of maintaining the econ omy, bolstering purchasing power and pro viding full employment. Increased British Wages Blamed As if in answer lo Waller P. Reuther's de mand for a four-day working week with five days' pay and other wage gains. Lord Rever idge attributes his present plight to the per sistent and spiraling increases in British wages and the inflationary effect upon the consumers, including the workers themselves. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's warn ings during Britain's recent strikes confirm the Kevcritlgc indictment. Macmillan point ed out that the rising wage scale, even though low by American standards, had reduced ex ports by making British goods too expensive for ovciseas buyers. And he noted that England can survive only by exporting more than she imports. Beveridge's Threnody In short, Beveridge's threnody seems to be a criticism of many of the social and economic policies which some nations, in cluding the U.S.. have pursued for the last quarter of a century. Here is his sad talc: "Most of my working life was spent in university services. When 1 left that service to become a politician in 1945, I was able to lake with me for superannuation enough thousand pounds to feel fairly happy about my future. ' ' "Now, each of those pounds is worth about 6s Htt (about SI Kd noiei. Like manv other heathy people in the seventies, I am In dan ger of living longer than 1 can afford to live. Our plans for useful old age are all going haywire. "The underlying reason for that is the claim of each industry to fix its own money wages by sovereign action, ille means strike action Kd. note.) Under full employment, that is leading to destruction of the value of money, and is causing widespread poverty among all who are trying to live on savings or fixed pensions." HAL BOYLE Pawnbroker Says Women Spend Most NEW YORK WT If a diamond is a girl's best friend, a pawn broker's best friend is that same girl after sho gets the diamond. Sixty per cent of our clients are women." said Lou Modell. who is known as "the pawnbrok er's pawnbrok er and operates the nation's top individually own ed hock shop. "Why? Be cause women Hal bovle arc notorious lor ijcing able to spend more money accidentally than men can on pur pose. Hock Expensive Jewelry 'Many rich women even those with an income of $50,000 or more a year will hock a piece of jewel ry for $20,000, 'then take the $20,- 000 and go out and buy another piece of jewelry with it. Divorcees borrow most often on their jewelry. -Then wealthy wives. Widows come last. 'Career women aren't such reg ular clients because, to begin with, they usually are good business men. Also, if they need money in a hurry, they usually have a boy friend they can borrow from." Bailed Out Of Jail One of Modell's most unusual loans was to a titled lady accused of stabbing a gent with a jeweled letter opener. The next morning she pawned the letter opener for $IIO0 to bail herself out of jail," he remarked. If thev didn't have to pay it themselves, pawnbrokers would be highly in favor of the federal in come lax, Right now their win dows are full of diamonds pawned so the clients could keep from go ing into hock with Uncle Sam. "Our busiest season is around income tax time," said Lou, who prides himself he will advance a hard-pressed executive up to $75, OOO in cash in live minutes if the exec can put up enough diamonds for collateral. Confidential & Fast . He explained many executives prefer to deal with pawnbrokers rather than banks because the transaction is so confidential and last. The public has manv miscon ceptions about that friendly (el- low behind the counter in the store with the three-ball sign. "Mnny have an idea that a pawnbroker is a blood sucking shylock fattening at the expense of the poor," said Lou, and added wryly: "Actually pawnbroking Is a dy ing industry all across the coun try. "For every new pawnbroker who opens a now shop, five go out of business. Small loan firms, which can charge a higher rale in many instances and have a lower overhead, are taking much of our trade. We average only about one per cent net return on our Investment. Business is Bad "Why should a man open a hock shop when he can make more with less risk by buying stocks and bonds?" Although he estimated one out of every (our people in New York patronize pawnbrokers, Lou said Ihe high income class provide the best clientele. You can't make money on poor people," he said daily. "They're not very profitable. The best client is the big-sal aried guy who is a good liver, and enjoys wine, women and song." Jewelers Buy Most Lou said Ihe idea that pawn brokers make most of their profit by foreclosing on loans is exactly contrary lo Ihe (acts. "The last thing we want to do is foreclose," he said. "The (ore- closure rate is only one out o( 50 in our industry on clients who put up diamonds as collateral, and only one in 10 for those who pawn clothing. The operating theorv is this. "once a hocker always a hocker." 'Rut once you have In foreclose on a Client you usually lose him forever," said l.ou. What occupational group most often makes the trek to Modell's own shop? Jewelers." said l.ou. "Thev borrow on Ihe jewelrv Ihev have so they can buy more jewelry." Typical, Easter Season Scene Y .1:1 I'lii ti;$'W'S.X '- '.V'.-'.r- Q i.McNniM Syndicate, 'n-jV' ,';.' DAVID LAWRENCE Wisconsin Supreme Court Actually Looked At State Laws in Union Segregation Case BEN MAXWELL News From an Earlier Day BEN MAXWELL April 17, 1951 Officials of Continental Chemical ....ktiH arv nf HaV-U-Vac UU., ---- were in Salem to consider expan sion of liittf newest plant, formerly the Salem Alumina plant on Cherry Ave. dnis piani designed b y chemical Con struction Co., to make alumina Irom clay cost ap proxima tely $3,500,000 lo ouiiu. ntw sity (or the plant was abrogated by suppression ol tne suumauiu: menace in the Caribbean Sea be fore the first shovel of earth was turned at a ground breaking cere mony, Jan. 22, 1944. A very limited amount ol alumina for clay was produced by the plant in an ex perimental way). Salem had accepted an invita tion to join with other cities in welcoming the return of Gen. Douglas MeArlhur to the U. S. mainland alter an absence of 14 years. Mayor Al Loucks had urged all citizens to display flags at their homes and places of business. During 1050 Ihe FBI had reported no murders or non-negligent homi c.des :n Salem. But their report did show live robberies, two ag gravated assaults, 103 burglaries, 55 larcenies involving sums over $50. 472 under $50 and 63 auto thefts. Cornerstone for Salem's First Christian church had been laid at Marinn sinrl North CottaCe Street In a ceremony that attracted sev eral hundred laymen and clergy men. (Christian church in Salem was organized during July of 1867 and a church costing over $6000 was dedicated Sept. 4, 1867 by El ders G. W. Richardson and S. C. Adams. The Sunday school was organized during February of 1871). Roby Laughlin Gemmell, former Capital Journal society editor, had become societv editor of the Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, Calif., newspaper. PAY YOUR FUEL OIL BILL BY THE 10th To enable your dealer to continue your monthly charge service CREDIT ASSOCIATION SALEM FUEL Oil DEALERS April 26, 1943 Mrs. E. G. M. wrote ... "I wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart, for your kindness and consideration, in Ihe hard days that came after Mr. M's death." The above taken from our ille of unsolicited letters. HOWELL-EDWARDS FUNERAL HOME WASHINGTON Wisconsin's supreme court has just distin guished itself by doing something which just a few years ago would not have merited any notice what soever. The court actually examined the laws of the state of Wisconsin and couldn't find anything in them that says unions must accept Negroes in their membership. So Ihe court decided that, while it is just loo bad that such dis crimination exists, it isn't a viola tion of the law of the stale nor of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United Stales. Now, the members of the su preme court of Wisconsin could have reached around the world and found many a writer o n sociological chln.le w h A would have told p. IIH'III llldl Ulll- ure to incltfde Negroes in a vol untary organiza tion of any kind o. Lawrence is psychologically bad and creates a feeling of "inferiority" among those who are the victims of dis crimination. The court could have said that sociology is more Impor tant than law and that limes have changed anyway and that the four INf 1 ination by state action is within its contemplation." He added: Present Practice Private "The present discrimination Is by private persons acting private ly, it cannot fairly be said to be the action of the state and, there fore, its practice is not prohibited by the fourteenth amendment. It the supreme court of the Uni ted States upholds that interpre tation, it means that bus lines op erated privately or schools or so cial clubs which exclude persons for racial or religious reasons are on safe ground in doing so. If, on the other hand, the highest court in the land says that even "volun tary" organizations cannot discri minate on a racial or religious basis, then the way is opened to compel all labor unions, as well as those exclusive clubs 'which enjoy some measure of tax protection, to admit anyone otherwise qualified. Difficult to Decide What will make the case parti cularly difficult to decide when it reaches the top court in Washing ton is the sanction given by the Taft-Hartley act to the modified "closed shop," otherwise known as the "union shop'." Under this law, the employer is compelled to fire any new employee who doesn't join the union in 30 or 60 days. Where the "union shop" provisions arc operative in Wisconsin's indus tries and Negroes are barred from union membership, they can ac tually lose any chance whatsoever for employment in their trade un less the people of Wisconsin, cither by legislative action or constitu tional amendment, choose to rem edy the situation by prohibiting such discrimination. DR. WILLIAM BRADY Contradictory Statements on Alcohol Use Found in Book i' '!'r HAPPY EYES SAY New fromej m smartly styled a your Easier bonnet, and so much more practical! For they sound the joyous note of this happy Easier morning, as they bring lo your eyet the pr iclss gift of GOOD VISION. Contact Lenses By Appointment 422 Court St. OPTOMETRIST Salem EM 3-3091 Medical literature is nowadays so padded with tired repetitions. contraditions and absurdities that Itcenth amendment should be con-1 the student who strued as requiring prohibition ofi's not skeptical oi auinoruy may be badly misin- lormed. any form of discrimination. Stayed With the Law The supreme, court of Wisconsin, however, didn't do or say any of these things because the six judges, led by Judge Timothy Brown, who rendered the opinion, simply felt that they were bound to stick to what the law said and, if it omitted anything, they were not supposed to supply it. True enough, Judge E. T. Fairchild, the sole dissenting judge who perhaps wilt be regarded by some observ ers as more "modern" than the other judges did say Ihe remedy should be supplied anyhow by the court. He wrote: "To be the butt of social dis crimination is unpleasant in high degree, but to be denied the econo mic opportunity lo work out one's destiny as best he can, solely be cause of a racial or a religious difference, impairs the very sub stance of citizenship itself. Wrong Must Re Righted "Perhaps Ihe degree of the im pairment is so great and the char acter of the rights impaired so fun damental, that Ihe wrong must be recognized and remedied by the judicial branch even in the absence of action by the legislature. For example. the author of a textbook of ther apeutics stated. in the loth edi-f-tion, that alcohol never acts as a trite stimulant to h e brain, the OR- orat spinal cord, or the nerves. On the contrary, its dominant influence is depressant. And yet, Ihe eminent medical authority (please excuse my grin) wont on lo say that Ihe chief uses of alcohol are as a rapidly acting stimulant in heart failure, fainting, surgical shock, snake bite! j Contradiction More Clear I If you will look in the eleventh I edition on page 64 and 65 this ap ; parent contradiction will, I think ' seem clearer. I This didn't appease me the 10th edition was barely two years old al the time. The contradiction was clear enough in the 10th edi tion. I wouldn't give a nickel for the -11th edition.) It is quite conceivable that al cohol acts as a stimulant upon other functions of which, as yet, we know very little, as, for ex ample, the ability of the body to resist infection. I am sorry that this divergence etc etc. Very truly yours, Reply Was Received Stiff Shot Won't Help There was not then, and there is not now any scientific evidence to believe that alcohol aids the body in the way the professor imagined. On the contrarv. there is scientific Having lately purchased a com- evidence that alcohol imnairs tho of the 10th edition to replace my body structure, decreases the copy of an earlier edition, I felt processes of immunization, dimin cheated, so I asked Ihe dislin- ishes the Dower of Ihe tissues tn guished Professor of Therapeutics heal, increases susceptibility to in- now ne reconciled incso tcacnings. lection, and increases the mortal- I received a reply which seemed ity rate from pneumonia. so typical of the mumbo-jumho of i People who like their liquor and modern medicine, that I pasted it (hat's a lot of people generally mi me ciiapier on fticnnoi in tne preier to Detieve ine stuff has textbook. It reads as (ollows: niedtcinal value and that a eood Dear Doctor Rradv: i s 1 1 f ( "shot" of whiskey . or qt lTK A SHOCK The .same week we saw a whole trainload of combines. - over a mile of them, and cogitated that any part taken from any model would fit and work on any other machine we read an article telling and showing pictures of the vari ation in human stomachs, hearts and ohter parts. Quite a shock. Sherman County Journal. A NKW IDKA Closing posto((ices Saturday isn't so bad where offices are closed that day. Otherwise it will handicap business. Maybe the gov ernment would let some manage ment firm handle Ihe poslodice Sherman County Journal. I beg to acknowledge with Ihanl. brand-v is Kood for whatever ails Judge Fairchild is at least can-; the receipt of vnur ronrteoiia letinr you; that wine is good for anemia. did about what he would do. He has calling attention lo the seemingly or "for the stomach's sake"- and behind bim ol course tne precc-; contradictory statements concern-: that beer is well. I don't know- court of the United' Stales, which- ! Iradiction lies in h. Z." 1 hav(,n'' b" wling TV lately in tho desegregation decision of explained, difference between the!80 'nere are no billboards in our May I9.i4-tm.shed aside rules of j study of this dntjj in the labora- i neighborhood. Doctors who like law, precedents and previous cieci- lory and its use at the bedside. thir nr nmn!a WHO RANKS HK1HKST? Labor has now opposed passaae of Senate Bill 92 to do aw.iy with the automatic stale property tax We'll see who ranks hi chest with the legislators. Sherman County Journal sions of the same court and de cided the case on a sentimental basis. Decision on Sentiment But most judges feel they are hound by rules of law. U was Adolf Hitler who ordered his judces lo j decide cases on the basis of senti ment and nut rules of law. There have been niajiy instances of judi cial usurpation in many countries I based on the same theory. If the people of Wisconsin, of course, want to end discrimination by organisations described as "vol-j untary," they can do so by a con stitutional amendment. Indeed, the ; argument made in the majority opinion in the Wisconsin case notes ; that the fourteenth amendment to the federal constitution contains j nothing to restrain a labor union from discriminating in the matter I ', of membership on any ground it ' pleases. Judge Brown pointed out : that, from the language of th j fourteenth amendment, "it would I ecm to b. clear that onljr discrim-1 SPRING, SPECIAL ' FAMOUS FOWLER AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC WATER HEATERS GLASS LINED stubs are BETTER-for Tax Records DON'T keep tax records in orM places where they can get mixed up or mislaid. 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