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Tribune 10, 20 and 34 rears ago
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
April 21. 1940
(It Was Sunday)
Standard Oil company office
here to close April 26 as part of
economy move.
Miss Josephine Kirtley named
alternate on international nom
inating committee for Zonta
District 6.
Luncheon and tournament to
open golfing season for women
at country club.
Prospect Townsend club dedi
cates new hall with supper.
Gold Hill and Medford Craters
post baseball victories in non
league games.
20 YEARS AGO TODAY
April 21. 1930
(It Was Monday)
Mrs. Henrietta Sandry recom
mended as postmistress at Rogue
River office.
Four-mile lake fishing report
ad good; local anglers hike two
and one-half miles through snow
to scene.
Local Oregon State college
alumni to hear Football Coach
Paul Schlssler tonight.
Chester Graham suffers severe
internal injuries in fall from
motorcycle.
34 YEARS AGO TODAY
April 21. 1916
(It Was Friday)
L. E. Wakeman appointed gen
eral agent here for New World
Life Insurance company.
Eagle restaurant. East Main
street, undergoes improvements
to interior.
New York City. New York. Apr. 19 "Play ball!"
That's a grand and glorious sound throughout this section of
the country, today.
For a time at least the "cold war" will be forgotten, the Mc-
Carthy case ditto, and the Joe DiMaggios and Jackie Robinsons
will hold the spotlight. What a relief!
The weather is not as salubrious as it was yesterday which was
around the fourth really summery day since Christmas.
But the sun may come out before the game Giants and Bos
ton Braves starts, and the weather man guarantees no rain. A
crowd of around J3.UUU is predicted.
The television crowd here in the city will probably add up to
luu.uuu or more.
There are more television sets per caoita here In Greater New
York than anywhere else in the world. There are two principal
reasons. One, the cost anyone with a reasonably respectable
credit can get a set installed and enjoy its programs indefinitely
for as little as a dollar a day. Two. the TV reproduction is perfect.
To get an idea of how television is growing here one has only to
compare the TV programs in the New York papers today and those
of last fall. The space for radio programs is about the same, the
space for television has doubled.
Financially, however, television, from the operation stand
point, is still a headache. The costs as of today greatly exceed the
net profits. There is no Question about the audience appeal. There
is considerable question about the advertising value as compared
with radio or newspapers. Eventually the difficulties will be ironed
out but at the present time it is pretty generally agreed me orig
inal claim that television would ruin the movie industry and ser
iously affect newspaper advertising just isn't being borne out
and there is reason to believe won t be. Television is naving a
serious affect upon education, however, particularly in the public
school field instead of studying for the next day at night, 90 per
cent of the students keep their eyes on the family television sets.
School marks here in New York as a result have declined 15 per
cent.
If vou feel a bit down on your luck how about considering the
case of Birdsall Sweet of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., who died yesterday
at the age of 32 after spending over 18 years every day since he
was 14 in an iron lung.
On his 14th birthday when he was stricken, young bweet re
ceived a note of cheer and sympathy from the late President
Roosevelt.
'If President Roosevelt could do it, I can do it, declared the
young man. And tor nearly two decades he did.
During these years the unfortunate but plucky young man not
only suffered from polio, but other ailments, hay fever, curvature
of the spine, pneumonia, eye-trouble, kidney stones, yet ne never
despaired, kept his chin up, did a lot of reading, became an expert
bridge player and an authority on contemporary sports.
Think of Birdsall Sweet the next time you feel down, IB
years in an iron-lung always cheerful, always busy, never com
plaining, in there pitching to the end!
Another smart movie-theatre manager on Broadway reviv-
ing one of the best films Charley Chaplin ever marie. "City Lights."
Here is both subtle skillful coined v and sound drama excellently
done. As we came out a couple of nice looking women were laugh
ing while one of them dabbed tears from her eyes. Those who
doubt Charley Chaplin's rare artistry should see this one. And
the experiment is paying out generously.
Speaking of art and artistry, there is a new modernistic ex
hibition at the Museum of Modern Art. For the first time we were
given an explanation of what modernistic art means, or is in-
tended to mean. The offering is by Pollock and to your corres
pondent it looked like a tangled mess of barbed wire with a few
flakes of blood or red flannel to give the chromatic confusion a
bit of color. There was to us, no rhyme or reason, sense or beauty
to the picture. However to the left of the "masterpiece" was this
explanation, aunte:
"This is foiiock s rythmic, vancgaiea, transparent, laovnrun.
Why is it worth looking at? (That is what we were asking).
"Because it offers an extra adventure for your eyes, an ad
venture which involves excitement, discovery, pitfalls, fireworks,
irritation and delight. As your eye wanders a mysterious sense of
depth and internal light develops into the whirling dynamo of
lines. T hen when your eye escapes again to the edge of the vortex
you find the artist has vividly restored the flat reality of nis can
vas bv slanoine it with his oaint-covercd hands "
A further note exnluins that "Pollock's method" consists of
putting his canvas flat on floor then standing above it with his
paints and paint brush and shaking color from the latter as the
spirit moves mm auernHimg now win men as tiuuve aest-riuea oy
slopping the canvas with paint-covered hands!
Well, THAT has now been explained. Modern art is a mystery
no longer! R.W.R.
In the Day's News
Woodrow Wilson club organ
ized here with Julge W. E.
Grews as president.
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By FRANK JENKINS
I listened to E. B. McNaugh-
ton, of Portland, newspaper
man, banker, economist and now
college president (Reed college.)
His, perhaps, is the most brilliant
mind in the Pacific Northwest.
When he speaks, people listen
because he is both interesting
and convincing.
He told his hearers what Ore
gon must do if we are to balance
our economy. These aren't his
words, but this, in effect, is
what he told us:
WE MUST GET MORE MAN
HOURS OUT OF EVERY FOR
EST TREE AND EVERY AGRI
CULTURAL ACRE.
Nurses Satisfied
To the Editor: In reference to
the recent announcement by
AFL Regional Organizer Charles
Smith that an attempt is being
made to organize nurses
throughout Oregon through
AFL, we, OSNA District 4 would
like to state that while In sym
pathy with his stated objectives,
we feel there is definitely no
need for this program in our
district.
OSNA now represents 75 per
cent of the registered nurses in
our district. Through its efforts
we have been able to accomplish
working conditions of hours, pay
and other matters relating to our
profession as effectively as
though our members were affil
iated with any local, state or na
tional union.
OSNA. District No. 4
Lois Beach. R.N.
President
Gertrude Molloy, R.N.
Secretary.
TRAVEL DE LUXE
Ripley, Tcnn. (U.R) Mrs.
Rhea L. Spiller observed an open
truck that passed her home at
breakfast time. Four men were
seated on chairs around a table
eating breakfast.
President Theodore Roosevelt
in 1908 named the Grand Can
yon of the Colorado river, in
Arizona, the nation's first na
tional monument. It if now a
national park.
THE economy of the Pacific
Northwest in the post, he
said, has been a COLONIAL
ECONOMY. That Is to say, we
have shipped away our raw pro
ducts, in their rawest possible
form, TO BE PROCESSED
SOMEWHERE ELSE. Thus we
have gut the short end of the
total payroll involved and some
body else has got the long end.
You will remember, 1 think,
that it was a similar situation
that precipitated the Revolution
ary war, England wanted to
keep our ancestors In a colonial
status, buy our raw materials
cheap, process them with English
labor and sell the finished pro
ducts back to us, thus getting for
England all the intermediate
payroll.
That is what happened In Ore
gon for nearly a century. We arc
barely beginning to pull our
selves out of that status. We have
a long way yet to go, but at
least we are making a start.
WHAT happens when we begin
to get more man hours out
of our basic raw materials?
Well, Mr. MeNaughton. in his
capacity as an economist ihc Is r
gifted amateur, not a profession
al) cited ONE interesting result
for ,us. Each basic worker, he
said, provides the opportunity
for employment for TWO service
workers.
(A basic worker Is one who
converts trees, for example, into
flnnl finished products, or pro
duces feeds, foods or fibers from
the soil and processes them into
final, finished products. A ser
vice worker SERVES the basic
worker does his, washing
shines his shoes, runs stores for
his convenience, runs banks,
newspapers and so on.)
you see. every time we
provide employment for an
other basic worker we add not
only hi family to our commun
ity but the families of two ser
vice workers as well.
You might say that when we
add jobs for additional basic
worker w Increase the. growth
and development of our commun
ity by geametric progression.
HOW do these new jobs get
started?
Mr. MeNaughton told us of an
old German down toward Port
land years ago who got the idea
of making peach baskets out of
wood. He first tried splitting
pieces off a block, like a shingle
weaver. From that he worked
out the idea of SHAVING the
blocks in a jigger like a hand
plane.
OUT OF THAT IDEA CAME
OUR MODERN PLYWOOD IN
DUSTRY WHICH HAS CRE
ATED SO MANY ADDITIONAL
MAN HOURS OUT OF EACH
LOG PROCESSED.
LIE didn't mention it, but as he
spoke I was reminded of a
man down in Clatsop county
who is shaving fir wood thin,
coloring it to resemble cedar,
scenting it artificially to smell
like cedar and out of this pro
duct manufacturing cigar boxes
that are selling like hot cakes
In Tompa, which is the center of
the American cigar-making In
dustry. You can figure out for your
self how many additional jobs
this man is creating in his
community.
IT works the same, Mr. Me
Naughton told us. when we
feed our grain to our cattle and
hogs and sheep and then kill and
process the animals in our own
community. Or process our bar
ley into malt products. Or put
our fruits and vegetables into !
cans or frozen packages.
Ail these things get more man
hours out of our basic raw
materials. More man hours make
more business for our towns,
More business) for our towns '
provides opportunities and em
ployment for more service
workers.
It works in a BENEFIC1ENT
circle.
Crosstown
by Roland Cot
They offered me a job in the kitchen, but I like an audience.'
Babson Discusses Farm Situation
Pribilof Seal Skins
Bring Higher Price
Washington, Apr. 21 (U.R)
The government reported today
that Pribilof island seal skins
sold for 12.6 per cent more at
the St. Louis fur auction this
spring than they brought last
fall.
The fish and wild life service
sold 28,800 Alaska seal skins for
$1,913,038. The auction was con
ducted by the Fouke Fur com
pany of St. Louis.
The South African govern
ment and private sealers from
the Cape of Good Hope also
auctioned skins at the sale.
The summit of Mt. Whitney
rises 14,498 feet above sea level.
Butte, Montana, has produced
more copper and silver than any
other single district in the world.
Accidents Blamed
On Mental State
Denver (U.R) Accidents don't
just happen but are caused,
many times by an "accident
prone" person, according to E.
G. Martin of the Colorado Public
Service Co.
Speaking to an electric meter
institute here, Martin said that
the industrial world soon will
have paper and pencil tests
which will show the persons
likely to have industrial acci
dents. Psychologists are working on
the problem, he said, and already
some tests have given a little in
sight into accident proneness.
"Some individuals tend to
have three or four times as many
accidents as the average," Mar
tin explained. "These persons
can sometimes be disclosed
through personality traits.
He added that many accident
Drone persons are poorly adjust
ed in many ways. They have
family troubles, they cant get
along with fellow workmen or
they may have had trouble with
the law.
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By Roger W. Babson
Eureka, Kans., Apr. 21 Spe
cial to Mail Tribune Although
I am a statistician rather than
a farmer, n o
spring to me
would be com
plete without
making an ap
praisal of the
U. S. farm
situation.
Farmers, like
pr a c t i c a Uy
everyone else,
are rather pre
occupied with
the business of
making money. Their success in
this matter during the decade
irom i4u through 1949 is noth
ing less than astoundine. Far
mer's total cash receipts climbed
irom u.bHH.ui)0,000 n 1939 to
$31,308,000,000 in the record
year of 1948. Last year, there
was an HVi per cent decline to
$;sy,'iu3,uuu,UuO. Will the down
trend continue in 1950?
Although it is much too earlv
in the season to attempt a fore
cast of total crop production, it
may be taken for granted that
larmers will try acain for an
other bumper outturn. Govern
ment supports are too attractive
for them to do otherwise. Acre
age cuts may well be offset by
use of better land and seed
closer planting, and intensive
cultivation. But weather will be
the determining factor. Should
the aggregate 1950 crop again
be large, farmers' total receipts
may slide 10 per cent more to
somewhat under $25,000,000,000
a tidy sum, nevertheless.
End of War. European Crops
Factors Behind ihe Slump
During the war years, it was
absolutely essential that farm
production be stepped up to the
iimit, so that the needs of our
allies and of ourselves be ade
quately provided for. History
reveals now well those needs
were met. Farmers throughout
the land bent their shoulders to
the wheel and turned out un
precedented crops for vcars on
end. No other country in the
world ever has matched their
magnificent performance.
But after the war ended, far
mers still continued to produce
huge crops of wheat, corn, and
most other agricultural com
modities. And why not, since
government price supports guar
anteed them a handsome income?
Meanwhile, Europe has become
virtually self-sustainine in acri-
cullure, and no longer needs to
import large quantities of farm
products from this country. The
net result has been a continued
accumulation o f agricultural
commodities, especially in the
hands of the U. S. government.
Traditional Independence of
Farmers In Jeopardy
American farmers in recent
years, as stated above hove im
proved their financial status by
caps and bounds. Many among
them are millionaires. Their sons
drive Cadillacs and other fine
cars. But are they selling their
birthright for a mess of pottage?
The traditional independence of
the farmers of this country is, in
my opinion, in jeopardy. I do not
believe that the taxpayers will
continue indefinitely to counten
ance heavy overproduction of
farm products at guaranteed
prices. The situation is economi
cally and morally unsound.
Since, however, this is an
election year, the government
cannot afford to get really tough
with the farmers. But the story
will be different next year. One
government officia 1 reportedly
has said: "These production
trends will force crackdowns on
farm plantings in 1951. We're
just starting to bring farmers
into line. Next year we'll hit
'em harder." Note that phrase,
"into line." It savors very much
of regimentation. To me, it has
an ominous ring. I sincerely
hope that more farmers will
come to their senses before it
is too late. One control leads to
another. The best of all controls
is self-control; the more self
control, the less imposed control.
Farmers Main Worry
Said Loss of Freedom
Although farmers' cash re
ceipts may drop to $25 billion
this year, this is a huge sum
even in this era of astronomical
accounting. Farmers, therefore,
should not worry too much about
loss of income. If they must
worry at all, it should be about
loss of freedom. But if they
practice self-discipline, they may
yet escape the chaffing shackles.
Business in farm territories
this year should be generally
good. I "believe, however, that
farmers will spend more cau
tiously than heretofore. If you
have anything to sell in rural
areas, make it good and price it
right. Farmers will buy liberally
in 1950-1951 only if business
meets these simple specifications.
Radio-Telephone
Plans Draw Pickets
San Francisco, Apr. 21 U.R) I
Pan American Airlines radio
operators today picketed the
terminal as a protest to the
company's installation of planer
to-station radio-telephone service
between Hawaii and the Orient.
An air lines spokesman said
that the new service from Hawaii
to Manila and Tokyo would
eliminate some radio-telegraph j
operators, but that the company
would "make every effort" to
absorb those operators in other
capacities.
Operators picketed the termin
al and ticket office about a year
noo when Pan American instal
led voice communication be-j
twecn Hawaii and San Francisco
for planes.
Flights to Australia and other
western Pacific points will con
tinue to use radio-telegraph
operators, the spokesman said.
Operators were members of
the CIO Transport union.
The state capitols of Massachu
setts and Maryland antedate the
American revolution.
SHOE THIEF LEFT
St. Louis (U.R) A thief stole
three sample cases containing
eight dozen women's shoes from
the car of a salesman. As usual
in such cases, all the stolen
shoes were for the left foot.
Spraying molten steel on worn
metal pnrts Is a spectacular new
maintenance technique being
employed by engineers. They
use a new tool developed by an
atomizer concern.
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