My 26. 1913
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Today's Roundup
Br MALCOLM EPLEY
NOT much attention is pld here to slate
politic these day. Keeping up with nation
al politics, which teem to effect us more, ii
tfWt, ..r.t-f$ job enough, what with the war
I . - and other things that Keep
I -r"tl? nennls here busy.
f 1 II Hence, we are aomewhat
CV'V 1 surprised to learn that there
irf-V-i somethin8 cooking in that
old fuss about the state tax
. . -1 . . .. . if
commission uiui okutcu
up before the last election.
It will be recalled that a
yowl was raised in Portland
over a change in the basis of
assessments there a change.
Incidentally, that was in keeping with the state
law, although It was effected' belatedly by the
tax commission.
Earl Snell advocated, a one-man tax commis
sion (there are three members now) in his cam
paign, thus capitalizing on the Multnomah coun
ty gripe over the assessment business.
When the legislature met. Governor Snell's
proposal for a one-man commission was turned
down. That reflected informed opinion that
the tax commission had not been so sinful as
painted, and it was even suspected that Mr.
Snail, a fair-minded man, was not particularly
hot about the proposed change.
It Is now reported that Secretary of State
Robert Farrell wants to toss out two members
of the three-man commission Charles V. Gallo
way and Earl Fisher. Farrell, with Governor
Snail and State Treasurer Scott, serves on the
board of control, which appoints the commis
sion. Most of us at a distance had supposed that
the. legislature's action on the tax commission
issue had constituted an endorsement of Gallo
way and 'Fisher, and that they would ride
through at least to the end of their terms.
Ex-Governor Sprague, in his column in the
Salem Statesman, warns Governor Snell against
lotting Secretary Farrell grab the ball and
remove Galloway and Fisher. He says Farrell's
raported program sounds like a personal ven
detta. We don't know about the personal angles,
but it sounds like good sense to us to retain
lloway and Fisher until their terms are com
pleted. They are competent tax men with
plenty of experience. They have the confidence
of the people we know here who are vitally
interested in state tax matters. Their value
overshadows whatever mistakes were made, if
any, in the Multnomah assessment business.
.
Commando Finance
THERE seems to have been some slight con
fusion develop in the public prints over
the financial problems of the Commandos, our
fine girls' service organization. We nave been
asked here to put down the facts so that all
may know.
The Commandos receive, from the city troop
hospitality committee, the money for paying
lights and janitor service for their downtown
canter. The hospitality committee, of course,
provides music and certain other expenses
. when there is a large troop movement through
here.
Otherwise, the Commandos finance all their
many activities through donations and through
their own money raising enterprises, such as
dances and the concession at the Saturday
night armory dances. Such projects as bring
ing wounded fighting men here are financed
in that way..
The reason the Commandos showed some con
tent over the question, is that they want the
public to know their money-raising activities
end the donations are essential to the financing
f their program.
Those who donate to the Commandos, and
help them out otherwise in these activities, are
helping in keeping their fine program going.
That's it. We hope it clears up any mis
understanding.
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Victory Garden Problem
OUR friend, Herschel Morris, of the tele
phone company, has a victory garden prob
lem that is peculiar to our country.
Herschel has a garden on Lakeshore drive.
He not only has to fight bugs and grubs and
the other things ordinary gardeners contend
with, but he. also copes with a band of wild
geese.
The geese invade his garden regularly and
at the things that are coming up there.
It's problem that some of our grain farm
ers will understand.
Ex-Governor Sprague, whose comment on the
tax commission issue was mentioned above, has
Joined the ranks of signed columnists. His
column, "It Seems to Me," appears daily on
the front page of the Oregon Statesman, Jump
ing to the editorial page. Drawing considerably
on rich experience gained as governor of the
state for four years, he presents comment that
is lively, informative and interesting. It is a
valuable addition to the Statesman's interesting
features.
News Behind ihe News
Br PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, May 28 The existence of
a popular following eagerly intent on
electing Mr. Wendell Willkle president next
year has been discloses; to me
in reader mail reaction to my
critical comments concerning
his "One World" ideas.
It seems particularly strong
in New England and the east,
is somewhat "young republi
can," and considerably fem
inine. The political basis upon
which it rests is Interesting
and significant of our confused
MALLON times. It is republican, but
It denounces practically all the other leaders of
the republican, party with an enthusiasm
matched only by New Dealers in denouncing
their adversaries.
It is anti-Roosevelt, but apparently espouses
the Roosevelt courses in general on the pri
mary international issues of the day, the Issues
which are likely to continue to be foremost
on the next election day.
From these anomalies, it is evident that it is
a purely personal movement. Mr. Willkie is a
somewhat dramatic figure who gets more at
tention in the press and elsewhere than any
other political figure except Mr. Roosevelt.
The idea behind it is that Mr. Willkie be pro
Roosevelt internationally and anti-Roosevelt
domestically, and thus set out to beat Roosevelt
for the fourth term.
But the scope of other republicans whom
they denounce cast serious practical doubts
upon their ability to nominate Mr. Willkie in
any iruiy repuoucan garnering. They are
against everyone else except possibly Governor
Stassen, of Minnesota, and they are not so sure
of Stassen since his critical review of "One
World" in the New York Times.
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Republican Partv Solir
THEY are against most all the republican
Senators anrl rpnrpwnfaltioH anA Bnuftrnnr.
elected in the republican victory last November
oecause iney are against Willkie.
This has caused a split in the party which
no longer can be hidden but the split can
hardly be said to be in Willkie's favor. The
other leaders frankly suggest Willkie is not a
republican, and should run on the democratic
ticket. One even has said he is "Mr. and
Mrs. Roosevelt put together."
Obviously therefore, the split is not working
in favor of the republican cause or Indeed,
the anti-Roosevelt cause in general.
The obvious gainer is Mr. Roosevelt, whom
the Willkie following most dislikes. The presi
dent is thus able to cut into the republican
party oh the lead inp Isium of th Aav
issues are hardly being mentioned by anyone.)
Although Mr. Willkie's nomination as a re
publican candidate thus seems impossible in
view of his opposition within, the situation
seems to present possibilities of a third party
a Willkie party which would split the anti
Roosevelt vote. Some republican leaders al
ready profess to expect it.
They are pointing to an answer he made in a
Look magazine Questionnaire recently in which
he seemed to place men and ideas above
party. But his 1 friends have passed word
around in the middle west unofficially, of
course that he will support whomever is nom
inated at the next republican convention.
. .
Peculiar Situation
THIS, then, is the practical political basis of a
peculiar situation, which already has begun
to surge upon 1944 prospects. It is much too
early to go Into the ideaiogical angles, because
neither Mr. Roosevelt nor Mr. Willkie has
taken a positive stand about post-war, but both
have merely been playing around with hinted
-suggestions or generalities for public debate.
Neither has proposed a plan. When they do,
the policy lines may be more clearly drawn.
But the sum total of the situation to date
suggests Mr. Willkie's exceptionally earnest fol
lowers stand very little chance even to nomin
ate, much less to elect him, but that they
might aid materially in re-electing Mr. Roosevelt
for a fourth term.
SIDE GLANCES
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"Maybe I won't be Hie town umpire this year
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and pitch a game!"
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From the Klamath Republican
Mar 3. 1803
Following officers of the
Xlamath High Alumni associa
tion ware elected this week:
Eleanor Boyd, president: Lena
Applegate, vice president; Roy
Hamaker, secretary and treasur
er. .
Tot SaleOne platform spring
wagon, also single buggy, good
tngle driving mare and harness
all in good condition. J. W. Ham
aker. From the Klamath News
Mar 27. 1933
Tulelake children presented a
pageant, "The Spirit of Tule
Lake," at the Legion hall at
Tulelake this week. It told the
story of the Modoc war. Mrs.
Helen Davis directed the pag
eant. About 180 members of the
Elks attended a joint meeting
with ex-service men last night.
Several were present from
Lakevlew.
There are nine
owned herds of buffalo in the
United States.
Roaring river, Missouri, Is fed
by a spring flow of 20,000,000
gallons daily, :..
Edsel Ford Dies
At Detroit Home
(Continued From Page One)
from numerous and far-advanced
ulcers of the stomach. Dr. Ros
coe R. Graham, of the surgical
faculty of the University of Tor
onto, operated upon him and so
far as possible removed the ulcer
ous condition.
Two weeks and three days
after the operation Edsel Ford
was back at his desk, working
from 12 to 16 hours a day in an
industry now totally converted
to war. Whether he knew that
he might expect a recurrence of
the malady is not known; if he
did he kept it from most if not
all of his associates.
A human being consumes a
daily average of 10 milligrams of
manganese. V
Loggers in Uniform . . .
A news story from Colorado
cites a too-hand cowDoke who
Was inducted into the army a
year or so ago, and is now a cook
in a Florida camp. A fuzz-faced
tenderfoot has taken his place on
the range and has deferment.
He'll need at least two years to
become half as good as the top
hand who is serving as a green
horn army cook. Worse, be
cause of manpower shortage, he
now has to take the place of a
man and a half on the range.
Multiply -that case by thousands,
and' you have the big headache
of beef production for the Unit
ed Nations.
Probably the Brmy cook cited
can apply for discharge to return
to cowpunching. But will he?
Up in Canada thousands of ex
perienced loggers are in the
army. It was announced they
would be furloughed for work
in the woods, upon Individual
application. Only a dozen ap
plied.
Men stick to that uniform,
once in it.
The Case of Sen Gerske . . .
There's a name familiar to
many of the woods and mills, in
both pine and fir. Ben Gerske is
stationed on some island in the
South Seas war zone as a man of
the fighting "Seabees" t h e
navy's construction battalions.
He writes graphically of his ex
periences in a letter to the news
paper of his old union. It is an
expression of highest fighting
morale, though a simple account
of the little things of every day
the weather, the scenery, wash
ing clothes, experiences with
mosquitoes and lesser beasts,
and such-like. You have to go
between the lines to get a grip
on the dangers and hardships.
There are thousands more of
Ben Gerske's breed in our fight
ing forces all over the world, our
men of the woods, loggers in uni
form. Some will never see the
green peaks and slopes of the
Douglas fir country again. One
I could tell you about is a former
logging superintendent who gave
his country all he had to give on
Guadalcanal, in a final surge of
heroism that won a decoration.
Well, there you are. In war,
when a man gets into uniform,
this is the common code: "Now
that I'm in it, I'll go through with
it to the end." Once In service,
a man will seldom back out on
his own book.
Headache Cure ...
The cure for this manpower
headache lies somewhere in what
is called psychology. The main
thing is for every man to get
on the war job he can best do,
and then stick to it. Somehow
the "see it through" morale of
the man In uniform must be built
up in the civilian war worker.
One thing on this is sure we
need more letters, more commun
ication, between men in uniform
like Ben Gerske and the war
workers in the woods. His let
ter concludes:
"By the way, I see a lot of
familiar trademarks on the lum
ber we use. The other day we
had a whole batch of Shevlin
pine. Believe it or not, it almost
made me homesick. But it did
me a lot of good to sec the lum
ber from the plant in Bend, way
down here in the South Seas,
where every foot of it is being
used to beat the Japs. I am sure
that if the men at home could
realize how wonderful it is to
have floors in the tents in this
country, for the service men,
production at home would In
crease over-night, and I don't
mean Just 'maybe'."
The men In the woods and
mills who are also "seeing it
through" are individually pro
ducing their limit. Increased
production will come with vol
untary return of experienced log
gers and lumbermen to the
woods, in the program of the
War Manpower Commission, and
then their sticking to it as the
men in uniform stick.
Telling
The Editor
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HANDWRITINO ON
THE WALL
(Salem Capital Journal)
A foretaste of what may be ex
pected throughout most of Ore
gon when . the "barber bill
enacted by the last legislature
and signed by Governor Snell
goes into effect June 8, Is con.
tained in an announcement by
the Portlad barbers' union, that
prices for tonsorial services will
be increased June 1. un and
after that date haircuts will be
75 cents lnstead-of 65 cents and
shaves will be 50 cents. Chil
dren' haircuts are marked up to
63 cents.
For the present these prices
will apply only to union shops.
But when the new law goes Into
effect the higher scale will be
imposed by compulsion on the
Independent barbers as well.
That was the Intent and purpose
of the bill lobbied through the
legislature in its closing hours
by high-pressure tactics.
The act provides that when
ever 70 per cent of the barbers
in any county petition the state
barber board, the board shall
promulgate a scale of prices
asked for by the petitioners and
binding upon all shops and bar
bers In that county. Thus In the
case of Marion county, Salem's
organized barbers, constituting
more than 70 per cent of the bar
bers in the county, will be able
to dictate prices to be charged
not only In this city but In Btl
verton, Woodburn, Stayton, Jef
ferson and every other town.
There is serious question as to
the constitutionality of the act,
and It will probably be taken in
to the courts for an early test.
But while that Is pending there
will likely be a revival in the lost
art of home haircuttlng with
soup bowl and shears, and
wide expansion In the organiza
tion of cooperative neighborhood
barbering clubs. Barber shop
shaves have been on the decline
these many years in direct pro
portion to boosts In prices. They
are now due to experience a fur
ther fade-out.
Del Mar Race
Track Turns
To War Plant
SAN DIEGO. Calif.. May 26
(P) Blng Crosby's Del Mar
race track, which operated from
1637 to 1941. soon is to be
turned Into an airplane parts
manufacturing plant, Del Mar
Turf club officials announced to
day. Plans to convert the $1,000,
000 racing layout Into a feeder
plant for a California airplane
factory have been quietly formu
lated and upon the arrival of
the necessary machinery- and
equipment the production will
get underway soon. Fred PoggI,
personal friend of Crosby's, said
he has been named general man
ager. The Del Mar Turf club, with
Crosby as president, will run the
manufacturing plant.
Manatees are so sluggish that
moss marine plants grow on their
backs.
EDITORIALS ON
NEWS
(Continued From Page One)
the Russian front would become
a mere sideshow.
Keep your fingers crossed on
all rumors from Finland, which
is under the nail thumb.
000
"THE Turks get into the rumor
x picture today with the state
ment that Germany Is putting tin
bto on Rumania to stud another
big army to Russia for a summer
campaign.
That tale Isn't unlikely.
000
A STATE of "uneasy calm" is
reported today from tho Rus
sian front. There's a lot of
powder kegs scattered around
there. Sooner or later, some
body will toss a match.
000
TN Portland, Admiral Land,
chairman of the U. S. mari
time commission, says the ship
builders are nosing out the sub
marines. We're building ships
now, he says, at the rate of 20
million tons a year, which Is
faster than the U-boats can sink
them.
Ha adds that the conquest of
Africa, which opened the Med
iterranean sea route, was the
equivalent of adding two or thrco
million tons of shipping to what
the allies already had.
o o o
DUT that down definitely on the
favorable side.
This is a war of ships. We
can't get millions of men where
they're needed without ships,
and while most bombers and
some fighters can be flown to
where they're needed they will
be comparatively useless without
fuel, repair shops, and all the
other supplies and facilities that
planes must have If they are to
KEEP flying.
Anything that adds to our sup
ply of ships brings nearer the
hour of final victory.
Wounded Local Man
Comes Home From
Tunisian Battles
(Continued From Page One) '
tlon at Kasserlne pass, where his
unit suffered heavy casualties
and where he crawled for a mile
on his stomach in the night when
his group was virtually sur
rounded. It was at Fondouk on April 6
that Atkinson was shot in the
hand. The Americans there were
driving a wedge Into the axis
western front, and Atkinson was
advancing with his group. The
first rifle shot fired at these
American caught him in the
hand.
The enemy In that sector, At
kinson seys, was made up of Ger
mans, and he is sure It was a
German bullet that hit him. He
dressed the wound himself and
received expert medical atten
tion back of the lines later on.
He went to a port city and
came back to New York on a
hospital ship on wound leave.
He will go soon to Texas for
further treatment of the wound
ed hand.
The Klamath man likes the In
fantry, after seeing a lot of hot
action in Tunisia.
Atkinson Is visiting his father.
Roy Atkinson, and will soon go
to Lewiston, Idaho.
The memory of the martyred
village of Lidice forbids us ever
to relax. in the struggle now be
ing waged against the power of
evil and darkness. Czech Presi
dent Edward Benes.
Han Norland Fire Insurance.
Gallant General and Gracious Lady
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Smiling Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery accepts a bouquet of thnnks
from the attractive daunhtcr of a leading clllxon of Souiie, Tunisia,
after British Eighth Army llboratod that city from Naxlo.
Land Thinks Shipbuilders
Have Outpaced Sub Inroads
PORTLAND, Ore., May 26 (VP)
Admiral Kniory S. Lhnd, who
considers launching the ull-tlma
No. 1 sport, thinks shipbuilders
have outdone the submarine
Launchlngs will stay ahead of
sinkings from now on, the marl
time commission chairman told
reporters here, adding, "It may
bo a dangerous thing to sny, but
I believe It."
Land, touring the west coast
shipyards, will take his third
launching in 24 hour today,
that of the H. M. S. Atheling.
another In a series of vest-pocket
type aircroft escort carriers from
Henry Kaiser's Vancouver yard,
Within minutes after alighting
from a plane here he had viewed
two launchlngs.
At Kaiser's Swan Island yard
he got down on the floor to peer
between legs of photographors
and radio men to watch burners
cut the plote that held the tank
er River Raisin.
He raised up just in time to
be showered by champagne from
the christening, brushed off the
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foam and grinned, "I'll never
tire of launchlngs. They're tho
most thrilling thing I know of."
Land also told reporters ship
production now was on a sched
ule of 20,000,000 tons annually,
and said the North African vic
tory meant a gain of 2.000,000
or 3,000,000 tons of shipping for
the United Nations.
History teaches that treaties
of peace stipulated In a spirit
mid with conditions opposed
bothMo tho dictates of morality
and to genuine political wisdom
have had but a wretched and
shortlived existence. Pope Pl
us XII.
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