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Sleeper. EDITORIAL PAGE 4 LA GRANDE OBSERVER Monday, November 16, 1959 i "Without or with friend or foe, we print your dally world as K goes" Byron, i RILEY ALLEN, publisher Grady Pannell, managing editor George Challls, advertising director Tom Humes, circulation manager N.W. Personal Income Gains Laa vne ot the factors considered by a big corporation before it attempts to offer its good or services in a particular area or a given state is the income level oi consumers in the location selected. On another scale, investors are being advised to go where the money is, give some weight to the per capita income in the locality where the products or ser vices of the enterprise are sold. How does the Northwest stock up with other states in the nation on the score of per capita personal income? According to the National Conference Board figures for the period 1950-58, the per capita personal income figure in the state of Or egon rose from $1,602 to ?2,WG for a 25.2 per cent gain. In Washington the per capita figure rose from $671 to $2,160 or an increase of 29.3 per cent; Idaho showed an in crease from $1,279 to $1,701 or 33 per cent and Montana, $1,606 to $1,920 or an increase of 19.6 per cent. Of the 49 states and the District of Columbia (Alaska was excluded from the study) Washington ranks 12 in per capita personal income; Oregon 18th; Montana, 24th, and Idaho, 36th. F.ut, perhaps a more critical figure, Idaho ranked 36th in rate of gain; Washington, 41st; Oregon, 46th, and Montana, 49th. If the investor and the big corporation is looking for growth potential, they may overlook the Pacific Northwest on the strength of such a report. The National Industrial Conference Board figures pro vide those concerned with economic de velopment of the area with another study guide. DREW PEARSON SAYS: Mexican President's Party Gets White House Brushoff Compulsory Arbitration Dangerous To All ine Mipreme uwrt Handed down its decision and eight to one it was a rare show of near-unanimity for the nation's highest court in the steal case last week. The court ruled the steel strike was, In fact, a danger to the defense pro gram. And so steel workers started to put plants into operation all over the East. Now men will work for 80 days, at least, while union and management are supposed to work out new contracts. - And they had better get busy on the project. Injunction periods have not had the desired effect in the past. The govem- Sment has invoked Taft-Hartley 17 times since 1918, when it first used the law as a vehicle to head off a threatened atomic energy strike. In 13 of those cases it has obtained injunctions. In only 2 cases is it clear, according to the authoritative New York Times, that the injunction resulted in complete settle ment during the 80-day no-strike period. And in the wake of the steel strike, . with Congress due to reconvene prior to the end of the 80 days, there is consider able outcry for compulsory arbitration I as a solution to long strikes in industries vital to the nation. The proposals take different forms. Senator Wayne Morris doesn't like com pulsory arbitration, binding upon both parties, but his proposal is essentially that. There is a very grave danger to all of us, both union man and management, in these proposals. Some other means must be found to handle matters of this type, for compulsion is definitely not the answer. . It is the right of every individual and of every group to try to improve his wages, working and living conditions. Hut a point can be reached and was reached in this strike according to the Supreme Court, when the exercise of these rights is too expensive for the rest of us to bear. The danger in compulsory arbitration is simply this: To settle the strike the fovernment appointed arbitrators must fix wages. Once this step has been taken the board will have to get into the fields of hours, working conditions and grievances. Determining what wages are fair will inevitably lead to determining what prices are fair. A government can not begin to fix wages without eventually having to fix prices. And once this is taken it is but a short move to government domination of an entire industry and then an entire economy. A centralized society, in which the government fixes prices, wages, etc., is a totalitarian society. . And under those circumstances, we are not going to be much better off with a socialist totalitarian society than we would be with a fascist totalitarian so ciety of the Hitler-Mussolini pattern. Barbs Any wife's simple definition of suc cess is any other wift'a husband. WASHINGTON The White House hag issued a denial plus an alibi that four Mexican lad ies, members of President Lopez Mateos' party, were turned away from the White House doorstep when they arrived fur luncheon with Mrs. Eisenhower. As frequently happens, the de nial only attracted more atten tlon, and a more careful exami nation of the facts shows that the discourtesy shown the Mexican ladies was worse than at first re ported. Specifically, one of them was Senora Manuel Tello, wife of the foreign minister of Mexico. Long resident of the United States when her husband was ambassa dor in Washington, she should have been so well known to the White House as to have been in eluded In the luncheon even if it ment putting an extra chair at the table. What actually happened was that the official program refer red to Mrs. Eisenhower s lunch on for Senora Lopez Mateos as if It included the ladies in her par ty. But in order to make sure, the ladies asked Wiley Buchan an, chief of protocol. He said he was certain the four ladies were included. It seemed obvious that the wife of the foreign minister of Mexico should be included. However, to make certain, he wrote a letter to the White House. He never got a reply. From the fact that the White House didn't say no, he assumed the four la dies were included, and told them so. They arrived at the White House, not because their chauf feur was following Senor Lopez Mateos' car, as the official denial alibied, but because the chauffeur was directed to drive there. The limousine then departed. When they were told they weren't want ed, the ladies had to leave in a taxi. A doorman at the White House was courteous enough to call one. Because of this rebuff, and be cause they didn't want to be hu miliated again, the Mexican la dies took the precaution of phon ing Vice President Nixon's secre tary to make certain they were included in the dinner he was giving for President Lopez Ma teos that night. They were told that they were welcome. They attended the Nixon dinner and found that they were. Tearing Up Old Glory The American protest over Panama's failure to stop anti-American rioting was based upon a blunt report by Gov. W. E. Pot ter of the Canal Zone. He charg ed not only that the Panamanian police were ordered not to inter fere, but that ex-foreign minis ter Aquilino Boyd, now running for president on an anti-Amen can platform, incited the mob to tear dawn the American flag in front of the United States Em bassy. Then Boyd personally rip ped the Stars and Stripes into shreds. Post Office vs. Western Union President Eisenhower has cau tioned Postmaster General Sum- merfield not to speed up the mails so fast with his new elec tronic gadgets that the govern ment finds itself in competition with Western Union. This was Ike'sv reaction to the facsimile machine which flashes letters across country in split seconds. It came after Western Union President Walter Marshall squawked to the White House that Summerfield was dancing on the tender toes of free enterprise. Marshall looks upon the letter flashing device as simply an ad Better not let your conscience be your guide if you haven't any. A telephone pole fell on an auto in an Indiana town. Trobably in self defense. It's strange, but the best man at a wedding never is the groom. vanced form ' telegraphy. He rointed out to the White House that private industry has operat ed the nation's telegraph service since another postmaster gener al in 1C44 decided the telegraph was a toy and withdrew govern ment financing. The Western Union head even accused Summerfield, a stand-up and-shout defender of private enterprise, of introducing "creep ing socialism" into the post of fice. Despite the yellow light from the White House, however, the irrepres s i b 1 e Summerfield is plunging ahead with his speed-up plans. He is seeking permission from the Federal Communications Commission to flash government correspondence between Washing ton,. Detroit, and Battle Creek, Mich. Western Union has regist ered an angry protest. Note: The electronic letter sen der was developed by Intelex Corporation which Summerfield hired to help mechanize and mo dernize the post office. Intelex is a subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph which like Western Union, is beginning to wonder what its corporate child has wrought. Washington Pipeline Shades of McCarthy still hov er over the Pentagon! Wilfred McNeil, assistant secretary of de fense for the budget, is retiring and a successor has been chosen Frank B. Little, Jr., New York in vestment banker. Little has come to Washington to sit in on a high-level budget meeting to de cide on the most important fi nance ligure in the entire U. S. government the cost of our mil itary machine.. But he can't sit. He has to wait outside. His secur ity clearance has been held up . . . ex-senator, ex-governor Earlc Clements of Kentucky recently defeated the forces of Gov. Hap py Chandler in Kentucky. On top of this he achieved a more important victory. He chaperon ed his one- year-old grandson, diapers, bottle, and all, from Washington to Louisville, unas sisted. Purely a stag party . . . it looks as if the Caribbean might become a new Hollywood. The Cowles family with newspapers, radio aod TV stations in Minnea polis, )es Moines, Hutchinson, Kans., Huntington, W. Va., are getting busy TV-wise in Puer to Rico. British interests, head ed by lvar Bryce, will start shooting an underwater spectacu lor in the British Bahamas next spring. This is the company, Xandu, w hich already has produc ed The-toaupdOln JJIidge.". The Cuban government also has $5,000,000 earmarked to set up its own moi'ie industry if and when Castro ever settles the island back to. normalcy. . . . Note it sn't the climate that makes the Caribbean so attractive it's the taxes. HOLD TIRE HEARINGS WASHINGTON (UPI A House small business subcommittee will hold hearings here Dec. 9-11 on practices by gasoline wholesalers and retailers in buying and sell ing auto tires, batteries and ac cessorles. REMEMBER WHEN De' Gaulle Says Soviet Weakness Makes Summit Talks Necessary By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Staff Wril.r President Charles de Gaulle of France, without saying so in so many words, has advanced the interesting theory that Nikita Khrushchev's intense desire for a summit conference stems in part from weakness. To this, at least publicly. Khru shchev may be expected to take strong exception. Other leaders in the West also may not agree wholly with De Gaulle's analysis. But since De Gaulle is recognized as an astute observer with a number of suc cesses in his record and since his conclusions offer another side to a question usually clouded by missiles, nuclear weapons and vast armies, they are worthy of review. . Do Gaulle Outline Theory De Gaulle's main points were these: Soviet Russia has not been able to win over the countries of Eastern Europe which it domi nates by force alone. These popu lations, if given a free choice, would reject Communist control by an "enormous majority." Moscow recognizes that an other world war would mean "general annihilation." The Communist regime in Russia is aging and has lost some of its initial drive. View Russia as Conqueror Most interesting of all, because of its timeliness, was De Gaulle's comment on' relations between Russia and its junior partner, Red China. Russia "can do nothing what soever in face of the yellow multi tude which is China," he said, "a people numberless and pov erty ridden, indestructible and ambitious, building up by force of effort a power which cannot be measured and looking around it at regions into which it one day must expand." To the Chinese, in De Gaulle's opinion, Russia is a white con queror and therefore has no place in a doctrine calling for Asia for (he Asiatics. Much has been written and said in recent weeks of mounting speculations about Soviet and Red Chinese relations. There are two schools of thought. Set Soviet-Sirto Conflict One could be wishful thinking, held by those who see a possible Soviel-Sino Red conflict as an escaiie from pressures which hjve keot the West on edge for nearly 15 years of cold war. But on their side is the indis putable fact of Red China's ex ploding population problem and accompanying fact that these people must expand somewhere or be eradicated. Russia's vast Asian holdings present a natural target. On the other side of the think ing are these who believe Russia and lied China are playing delib erately plotted roles, placing the world in a huge squeeze between an avowed peace maker and a trouble maker, and profiting as the world is buffeted between the two. These also hold that Russia still is the senior partner, with a measure of control over i'.s Chi nese ally. In any event, whether Khrush chev talks from weakness or strength, it seems best far the West to keep its ponder dry. Gel HEW ADMIRAL APPLIANCES & FURNITURE for Prices As LOW AS USED La Grande FURNITURE Warehouse East Adams Ave. QUAKES SHAKE ITALY NAPLES, Italy (UPI) A series of "violent" earth tremors shook parts of southern Italy and Greece Sunday but annarpnilv caused only minor damage. Grande war finance committee working on the Union County war loan drive. Miss Mabel Morton headed the vomen's drive She was assist ed by the following: La Grande. Mrs. George Decker; Union, Ade lia Prichard; North Powder, Mrs. James Wilson; Cove, Mrs. J. E. Wills; Allcel, Mrs. Roy Fuller; Imbler, Mrs. Dick Hibberd; Elgin; Mrs. Hanford Reed, Summerville, Mrs. Wayne Ftizzell; Starkey, Mrs. Frank Fehman. . . 25 years ago. Coach Ira Woodie of the La Grande High School Tigers bemoaned the fact that he would lose 10 lettermen from the football team due to graduation. Slated to graduate the follow ing spring were Victor Bean, Jim Bruce. Bill Cantrell, Ralph De 3oie. Jack McClay, Buddy Rey nolds, Charles Rothwell, Don Stitt, Cecil Walden and Charles Young... Think things were -cheap 25 years' igo? Wards advertised washing machines at $39.95; men's dress shoes, $1.98, and women's dress coats at $14.95. . . . 'l5 years ago, a 400-milc- long offensive against German- defended strong points was l.-unched by the Allies. Gen. Eis enhower termed the Allied drive a "knock-out" blow. Pians were mapped here to form a women's division of the La WHEN YOU NEED HELP Your Pharmacist is always on hand to supply you with the life-saving 'prescriptions you need . . . even to dispensing them in the mid dle of the night, if an emergency occurs. Your Pharmacist keeps himself up-to-date. 1QQ88 (fetf) QQQQ GOOD HEALTH TO All FROM REXAll ' eU talk By Ed Craig Thanksgiving is a family occa sion ... a celebration which is uniquely American in its ori gin and pur pose of paus , ing to give, thanks for. o n r bless ings. 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