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4 The Newi-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Thur., Mor. 13, 1952 Published Doily Exept Sunday by lb Newt-Review Company, Inc. I.ur.4 cool el... m.ll.r M.r . I!0. thj Mil . IIIM l ftMlmf Or.M. and.r pel .1 M.rcb 3. U78 CHARLES V. STANTON IDWIN U KNAPP Editor Monogor Mtmbor o tho Auociatod Pmi, Ongon Nowipopoi Publiibort Aiiociation, Iht Audit Buroou o Ciieulotiom llnNIUl Or WESr-UOLLiDAT CO.. INC. IflMi In N.w t.rk, Ckleif. K.a.b.rg, Orsoa, Uod.f Ael ( M.rob S, Ills. UBICHIPTION RATES 1 Onon-Br M.ll l.r f.f, tlt.Ml lis ' "' Ur. aioolhi. Bt N.w.-B.Iw c.rrl.t F.r Y.r, HIM r.r V.r. Ill.fiOl .Is noalba, S3.SQI Ibrtt maHtbi. NOW FOR THE BIG GUNS By CHARLES V. STANTON Political propaganda guns now will start their thunder. The New Hampshire primary election, offering the first test of strength among major presidential candidates, sup plies ammunition for the big gun barrage. All political camps will take the offensive in the noise campaign, which will grow progressively louder until the nominating conven tions. . We find the New Hampshire results interesting, but we refuse to get excited. Many things can happen before con vention time. , . , We have, it is true, tested the direction of the wind in one part of the country. But the wind may be blowing in other directions elsewhere. It is entirely possible that Oregon could again be a de cisive battleground as in the Dewey-Stassen contest of four years ago. The next big test is in New Jersey in April. Should' Taft win New Jersey, we could expect fireworks in Oregon in May. Though Taft's name is not entered in the Oregon primary, his supporters seek delegate jobs. Does Eisenhower's sweep in New Hampshire indicate a landslide popularity vote, or is it localized sentiment? How will the Kefauver victory react on the decision of President Truman, who went into the "eyewash" primary reluctantly and only at the insistence of the party machine? We find areas for guesswork, speculation and argument, but the answers are still to be proven. May Force Ike's Return Eisenhower's strength in New. Hampshire exceeded ex pectations of even his most ardent supporters. A closer race had been indicated by straw votes. Perhaps even more unexpected was the Kefauver victory, which, however, might have been influenced by the President's "eyewash" statement, offending provincial pride. Similar victories for Kefauver elsewhere might result in a Truman announcement that he never planned to run again ; that he is opposed to Third Terms. He has an easy out. Certainly he won't choose to be a candidate if he is sure of a licking. On the other hand, if future tests indicate he has a chance, his pride might force him into the race. But, returning to the Republican contest, another vic tory like that in New Hampshire, in our opinion, should be enough to bring General Ike home. Wo can't believe he would ignore such a call. We would like to support the general. But before we go out on a limb, we want from his own lips his declaration of policy. We know that much is being said by his supporters. Many articles are being published concerning his political opinions, but he has not endorsed these statements. Despite his declaration that he does not intend to campaign, we be lieve he will come forth with some definite stand prior to the convention. The faith shown in him by New Hampshire voters, If supplemented by similar votes elsewhere, would call for a response on his part. Fulton lewis Jr. 7 WASHINGTON Representative Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, contends that I treated him illogically by labeling him a proponent of unbridled government spending. . The Missouri congressman picqued my interest recently with a speech in New York City in which he praised his prowess in trimming the fat from President Truman's lavish budgets. In doing so he called upon us folks back home to cry aloud for less govern ment spending. That's fine, except Ion? ago most of us realized the uselessness of shouting ourselves hoarse on this point. Cannon complained because I said he was a spender, on the basis of 13 house votes of his against trimming the budget, out of 14 measures wherein the House could have saved us taxpayers some money. He was not present when the 14th vote was taken. In rebuttal on the House floor, the congressman once again de scribed himself as having made the "heaviest percentage reduc tion in (budget) estimates with in the memory of any man now in the House." , He's welcome to that record. My point was exactly what he ex presses. He acted like a Scrooge when discussing spending in com mittee, but voted against the cuts hcn the various measures got onto the House floor for action. In addition, Cannon defends his record and that of his fellow Dem ocrats with a statement that re quires a second reading. He told House members that "I am happy to report that we now have it (the budget) once more in the black the surplus for the fiscal year 1951 was $3,500,000,000; tot als for tho current year will be available June 30 and were it not for the necessities of na tional defense we could promise the country a balanced budget from now on." I can say what he Is saying in far fewer words. Cannon is stat ing that the present administra tion wouldn't be spending so much of our money except for what it is costing to get us out af the mess it got us into. But let's take the congressman's figures at face value. The fact is, as of the latest daily Treasury statement as this is written, we are $7,000,000,000 in the hole for fiscal 1952, which ends next June 30, and it isn't getting any better. Mr. Truman, as the congressman should recall, forecast an $8,000, 000.000 deficit for the current year. And I think the President was only halfway right. The year is a little more than half over, so the deficit, if current spending rates continue, will be closer to $14,000,000,000 than to Mr. Tru man's figure. The congressman also complain ed in the House that the economy-versus-spending tabulation which found him low man on the toem pole, showed most of the econom izers to be Republicans, and the spenders with the exception of a few southerners to be Demo crats. He has never been more right. Of the total House membership that voted on the 14 measures, 165 Democrats ranked close to Can non as spending advocates. Of House Republicans who voted on the measures, 136 voted for econ omy. The same tabulation applies to the political makeup of the Sen ate. Democrats again were the glory boys for shoveling out the dollars. The records prove it, so Cannon doesn't have to take my word for it. From the standpoint of states, Iowa, and Kansas House members voted almost to a man for cur tailed federal spending. GOP mav ericks in the Senate, who voted for big cash outlays alonj; with the Democrats, included Morse, of Orego , Aiken, of Vermot, Carlson, of Kansas, Cordon of Oregon, Langur of North Dakota and Young, of North Dakota. Cannon charges that only the 10 best votes for Republicans wqre selected in the tabulation and the ten worst for the Democrats. This is as phony as some of his figures. Votes of every member of the House and Senate, on the meas ures involved, were tabulated. There were no ten worst or best of anything. It is an economy ver sus spending issue we're talking about, not a popularity contest. Hear Fulton Lewis Dailx OnKRNR, 9:15 P.M. MANPOWER VIEWED ABLE EDITOR RETIRES Walter W. R. May, one of Oregon's stalwart editors, has retired from his position as editor and co-publisher of the Enterprise-Courier at Oregon City. He formerly published the Oregon City Enterprise which was consolidated in 1050 with the Banner-Courier. Mr. May is reported to have sold his interests to E. P. Kaen, with whom he has been associated, and plans to enter the field of book publication. Associated for many years with The Orcgonian prior to moving to Oregon City, he has long been known for his vie- orous and sound editorial policies. He has been a strong icaaer in community and state affairs. His departure from the newspaper editorial field will be a distinct loss. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS (Continued from Page One) he would be doing wonderfully well. He got ALL tho Republican dele gates. He won a decisive victory In the popularity poll. On the Democratic side, tho dispatches tell us, the POLITIC ALLY EXPERIENCED ONES conceded that Kefauver had "made some friends" in his leisurely, hand shaking campaign in New Hamp shire, but they added with a smug sniff that THE DEMOCRATIC MA CHINE IN THE STATE WOULD ,HE TURNED OUT TO SMOTHER HIM IN THE POPULAR VOTE. Emmctt J. Kelly, Democratic national committeeman for the state, said Kefauver WOULDN'T EVEN MAKE A DENT in New Hampshire: ' But Kefauver took ALL the Democratic delegates and he led Truman DECISIVELY in tho pop. ularity content. This I'd say, Is it: The peoplo of the United Slates of America are sick, tired, disil lusioned and disgusted with the Rind of political leadership we ve had, , Thy want somebody NEW. Somebody SINCERE. If that Is true, it is tho healthiest sign we've seen in the political skies for a long, long time. So much for the political pro fessionuls. I'd say that the less heed you pay them the more independent your thinking will be and the more accurate it is likely to be. If you have a FEELING IN YOUR BONES, trust it in pref erence to the pontifications of the political pundits. What we need in this country is more independent political thinking, with less atten tion paid to tho pontificating of the political professionals. Whatever your impulse In this campaign year is, FOLLOW IT! That's what the people of New Hampshire, both Republicans and Democrats, did, and it seems to me they did a pretty good job. What's Oio lesson of New Hampshire? Press Service For Horse Race Betting Folds Up CLEVELAND Ml Continental Press, harassed bv federal crime hunters as a multi-million dollar horse race result service for the nation's bookies, says Wednesday is its final day. The reason, it said: Poor busi ness. But at least two public officials appeared dubious Tuesday that the syndication of horse bet payoffs is dead. Granting that bookie and "scratch sheet" business is "way down" because of the 10 per cent federal gambling tax, Police Lt. Martin P. Cooncy of the Cleveland Racket Squad sain Continental sub scribers have millions Invested in race news equipment. "It may not pay them (Contin ental's operators) to keep on pav ing that Western Union bill," said Cooncy. "But there's million tied up in that wire and it would be too costly to tear It all out." Continental subscribers, the Ke fauver Senate Crime Commute said, fan out horse race results to bookies all over the nation. Con tinental insisted that all its inh. icriberj had legal operations. Investigators Eye People In Military Waste Probe WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional investigators planned Saturday to turn from goods to people in a search for waste in the military services. Chairman Hebert (D-La? said his House armed services subcom mittce will investigate the employes of Washington's defense headquarters to see if thcra is "wasto in manpower." But first the group will probe the activities of an estimated 500 Pentagon public relations officials Hebert calls them "alibi artists' to detcrmino if they are more Interested in "spreading propagan da than in giving information." All this will begin in perhaps two weeks. Will Draft Bill Before then, the subcommittee will complete consideration of a bill which would require the mili tary services to streamline their supply bookkeeping. Hearings continue Saturday on a bill to require consolidation of 15 service catalogs into a single fed eral listing of items which are on hand or might be purchased. Scheduled witnesses were Col. William M. Miles of Wright Feld Dayton, Ohio, and Col. Hugh H. Master of Air Force headquarters, Washington. Hebert said his subcommittee Is "concerned with waste in any form. Wasto of manpower means waste of tax dollars." Congress Chat By HARRIS ELLSWORTH, M. C, 4th Oregon District Perhaps the real reason why so many votes were cast in favor of sending the Universal Military Training bill back to committee was the parliamentary situation which developed on the floor. A substitute proposal, having to do with military training for high school boys, was adopted in the Committee of the Whole and the bill came to final passage in that form. When this amendment in the nature of a substitute was rejected by a House roll call that left final action on the original UMT bill, reported by the com mittee, without any amendment whatever. Had several amend ments, which were to be offered, been in the bill on final passage it would have been generally more acceptable since those amend ments would have made the plan more in line with what most supporters of UMT wanted. The rules of the House arc a bit inflexible regarding an amend ment in the nature of a substitute which is , approved In what is called the Committee of the Whole. This subject is a bit technical for full discussion here except to say that when a substitute is passed all action on the original bill ends. That is what happened to the UMT bill in the Committee of the Whole. I made a flying trip out to Ore gon to speak at a banquet in Port land Saturday night (March 1). Since I wanted to talk with ' the Army Engineers there regarding several projects including main tenance work on the harbor at Bandon, completion of the Ama lon Creek drainage in Eugene, possibilities of opening the mouth of the, Chetco, and to get a prog ress report on the Willamette Ba sin flood control work, I staved over Monday in Portland and took the plana out that night. Then my uuuuies uvgau. iw secona leg of the trip to Washington, D. C. which would have landed me here at 10:30 Tuesday morning in am ple time to be on the floor when the House convened, was canceled in Denver. Then I boarded a plane scheduled to arrive here at 12:30 still in time. This flight also was canceled, this time in Chi cago where we landed in a blizz ard. There was nothing to do then but take the night train, which I did and arrived here Wednesday morning, only to find that the final action on the UMT bill had been taken and this was not expected until Thursday! The only bright spot in this whole sad story is that a "live" pair was arranged with Congressman Horlong of Flor ida for me. He would have voted against sending the bill back to committee, I would have voted for returning it to committee so our two votes canceled out. When I was in the District last December, I received information concerning what appeared to be improper handling of the sale of Indian lands, bv Indian Bureau officials. Since that time I have been gathering information con cerning this matter and now have facts on a number of cases. Re cent stories in the Oregon oress developed rather fully the details on one case. It seems to me that not only have officials respon sible for handling such sales been negligent, but it may be necessary lo amend existing law to assure the performance of the public trust by the Indian Bureau. Indian lands involved were held by the government in trust for the Indian owners who are wards of the government. The obligation of guardianship on the govern ment requires that the Indians "et the fair market value of their lands. Obviously this has not been done, lt may be necessary to have the House Interior Sub-committee on Indian Affairs investi gate this matter and make recom mendations to the Congress for changes in the law. The snake-kitiinff "spi'retnrv hird often will soar high into the air. carrying us prey with it, then rtrop a on me naja grouna, ending tne battle. Ex-Douglas County Teacher Takes New Job OREGON COLLEGE OF EDU CATION, MONMOUTH, Ivan Parker, assistant professor of English at OCE has accepted the principalship of the Wy-East high school in Hood River County and has resigned irom his college posi tion effective at the end of the 1952 summer session. Prior to joining the OCE faculty Parker taught in the high school at Imbler, and served as high school principal of Heppncr and super intendent of schools at Sutherlin and Myrtle Creek, from which pos ition he came to OCE in 1949. Walter R. May Quits As Editor At Oregon City OREGON CITY I Walter R. May, for the past nine years editor of an Oregon City newspap er, has retired as editor of the Enterprise-Courier. For more than two years May has been co-publisher along with Edward P. Kaen of the Enterprise-Courier. The paper was es tablished Feb. 2S, 1950, when May's Enterprise and Kacn's Banner Courier were merged. Kaen has purchased May's equity and May has retired as editor. He will become editor in chief of a new organization which will publish biographical, histori cal and industrial books. Ed Goetzl, for the past year as sistant to the publishers, has re placed May. Goetzl is former edi tor and manager of the Bulletin Publishing Company of Grants Pass and still is part owner of that paper. Pete Laurs will continue as man aging editor. May said he will devote some of his time to raising funds for the Oregon Historical Society. He was elected president of that organiza tion recently. He acquired the Enterprise In 1943 after bein associated with the Oregonian Publishing Com pany in Portland from 1912 to 1918 and 1925 to 1933. He was executive news editor from 1925 to 1927 and associate editor from 1931 to 1933. Morris Linked To Tax Refunds In Oil Traffic By C. MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON Wl-Senators dig ging into oil trade with Red China developed Monday that the com pany engaging in it was fined $847, 00 for using foreign radio opera tors but that an $8,000 settlement has been worked out by the law firm of Newborn Morris, govern' ment corruption sleuth. Francis D. Flanagan, counsel for the Senate Investigations subcom mittee, brought this out with rec ords. Flanagan said he understood the fines were cut down sharply be cause masters of the vessels had asked American consuls at various ports if they could take on foreign radio operators and were told they could do so. The Federal Communications Commission had levied the fines. It has a regulation requiring Amer ican flag ships to have an Ameri can licensed radio operator on them. Othtr High Testimony In other high spots of the. com mittee's hearing: 1 Col. Arthur G. Syran, trans portation chief of the Mutual Se curity Agency, testified that he ad vised superiors in 1950 there was in holipvp United 1 guuu icdauu tw u.....- I Tanker Corp. the firm engaging in the Red oil trade was coniroiuu by a Chinese group sympathetic with Soviet motives. Morris' law firm has represented United Tanker. He has another tie with it as head of a charitable foundation which holds the stock in United. 2. Joseph S. Oppe, who in 1947-48 emnUivii hv shinnine aeents who handled business for United Tanker, testified he regarded Unit ed Tanker as a "dummy organisa tion" and a front for Chinese. 3. Oppe's testimony was disputed by Harold C. Lenfest of New York, president of United Tanker. Lenfest said he and his two American associates in United Tanker always were in control of the company. The subcommittee has insisted this was seriously in question be cause the three each paid only $2 for their stock while Chinese in terests put up $2,000 for stock and eventually supplied 20 per cent of the entire capital. Bus Drivers' Strike Idles Office Personnel SAN FRANCISCO ( Fur loughs of office personnel and me chanics, without pay, was an nounced Friday by the Pacific Greyhound bus lines, which is tied up by a striko in seven western states. House Built Too Tight, Family Of 6 Suffocates VICTORVILLE.Calif. Wl Death, apparently by suffocation, has wiped out a family of six in the Lucerne Valley, a ranching com munity 18 miles east of here. Deputy Coroner E. P. Doyle speculated that they were victims of a house so constructed as to be virtually air tight. Norman J. Komer, 38; his wife, Bertha, 35, and their four child ren recently moved into two rooms of a partially completed home on their 40-acre ranch. 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