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Thm OJtEGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, April 2. 1948
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From First Statesman, March 28, 1831
THE STATESMAN PUBUSHING COMPANY
! CHARLES A SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
Member of th Associated Press v
Tba Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this newspaper.
End of the Milk Strike
In terminating the milk strike the dairymen
axe making what might be termed a strategic
retreat. They do not admit defeat and maintain
, that their original demand ! of an increase of
29c per lb. butterfat basis was just. They in
tend now -to reorganize their lines and renew
their fight. ; ' j
-, The "error of the dairymen in calling the
strike lay in the fact that it hurt the consumer
who generally was innocent ef any responsibil
ity and lacking in power in the matter. It was
the OPA which limited the price increase to
six cents the OPA at San Francisco or Wash
ington, unaffected by the strike and apparently
uninfluenced by it. The strike caused resent
ment on the part of the consuming public; who
were cut off from milk supplies..
' " As far as price is concerned we are confident
the .consumers are ready, willing and able to
pay a fair price for milk. They want good, pure
milk and know it cannot be produced except
, at considerable expense. But since pricing, even
' beforet)PA, had been removed from the market
rule of supply and demand, the consumers have
had to depend on a government agency to set
the price. They expect that price to be de
termined at a level which "will allow a fair
profit to the producer, but are without means
themselves of determining what that price
' should be. The way is open for the producer
. to prove his case to the public as well as to
the pricing authority.
One thing; is evident and that is a lack of
proper agreement between OPA and other gov
.' ernroent agencies, for instance the war food
administration. It does not seem right for
i powdered milk to provide a higher return than
jmilk for. the bottle and can trade. Again the
; butter price seemp to be held at too low a
level In comparison with other dairy products.
"The whole structure.seems to need revision, and
that calls for better cooperation between the
government agencies concerned in the matter.
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Ilope Die Hani ,
.Disclosure of the existence and subsequent
destruction of the German youth movement's
; attempt to rebuild Nazism should be sufficient
answer t to those persons who have become
; increasingly impatient to "get the boys jail
' tome." It is 'apparent that our job is not yet
finished.; , ,
Rumblings of a resurgent malignancy have
beer apparent for some time, and in recent
weeks when jit was discovered that Winston
- Churchill's speech in' Fulton. Mo., was surreotj- '
tinilv rinrifttH fnr Histrihritirm am KaTTPkTJssue SO awkwardly.
. X. t,.- v... - w More AdhuIbx Than Exciting
dered American Power tc Light may soon di
vorce its northwestern subsidiaries: Pacific
Power it Light, Washington Water Power, Mon
tana Power, North western Electric and Portland
Gas Ac Coke, since the parent company elects
to continue in business in the Dallas, Texas
area.
Holding companies in many cases were a
source of evil. Pyramiding of companies andj
dilution of values in stocks and debentures re-;
suited in huge losses to investors. In the deals
write-ups of capitalization occurred which have
had to be wiped out. Unfortunately as a result ;
of the purge legislation heavy losses were in-!
curred by persons innocent of wrongdoing.
Stocks and bonds were depressed to very low J
levels, far under the true values. The speculators!
came in, bought the securities and have profited j
greatly on the upswing.
The drastic cure however has left the private
utility companies stronger, if leaner in capitali
zation. Controls of accounting are strict; rates
are closely scrutinized by regulatory bodies;
siphoning of profits to service affiliates is pre
vented. As far as service to the public Is con
cerned the private utility is now pretty decent..
The legislative face-washing may have been
resisted; but at least it cleaned up the industry
including the area behind its ears- Cleaner and
healthier, now it can go ahead.
Behind the News
By PAUL MALLON
(Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Re-
production in whole or in part strictly prohibited.)
NEW YORK, April I.-The common popular in-'
terpretation was that Mr. Gromyko spoke like a j
spoiled child when he walked from UNO. "Because :
my proposal has not been accepted by the coun
cil," he said he could not participate further. On
that basis Russia could never participate In co-
operative peace except when her proposals are
accepted. The only possible plan of world, peace
roust then be Russia's. i
' Such diplomacy seemed to skilled diplomats a I
little too simple to be true. The ?
way Moscow told it to the Rus
slan people, indeed, was slightly
different. Tass told the comrades
at home that after Gromyko had
been voted down he said "due . to -.
reasons placed upon t him from 1
higher up," he could not discuss ;
the Iranian question. Stalin, thus.
gravely accepted the blame, but
this only accentuated the interest
the professional diplomats as
to why Russia chose to draw the
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Can't You Walk a Utile Faster?
Police Probe
Several Small
Theft Cases
Police Monday were busy In
vestigating several cases of minor
pilfering from Salem schools and
business places allegedly . entered
over the weekend. In nearly evf
ery case entry was gained by
breaking the glass of a door or
window in order to unlock it.
More than $50 was taken from
a cash register at the. Peacock
Cleaners, 485 Center st, Satur
day night and, apparently . at
about the same time the adjacent
Nite Hawk cafe was entered, but
nothing was taken . there.
A white table radio was taken
from Garfield school and some
small change from teachers desks
at Richmond school. About- $30
rwas removed from a cash regis
ter at W. W. Byerly'S service sta
tion, at 1090 S. 12th st
Also entered were the Top Hat
Cafe in the 1200 block of State
street and the Stevenson- Me fiord
service station at Court and
Church streets. Nothing was
taken either place. A window was
broken but entry not gained at
the Marion Feed Co. on Ferry
street, police said. ' .
Tho Literary
Guidcpost
Br Bab Fries
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raal, Halloa
tim4.
.There can be no. weakening of our position
In Oermany until the day arrives when a free
election has placed in power an administra
tion sufficiently conscientious, able and strong
. to-combat and restrain the fanatics whose minds
' remain' warped with- the teachings of " super -
General Sibert ha announced that "the back
. J of the (Nazi) movement has been broken," but
I erven j General Sibert would not say the blow
to, the movement yet had been mortal. So long
. as there is no strong central German govern -f.
. men there will be efforts to mold that govern
u merit's development along the lines of the ideo
logy against which the war was fought. Hope
dies hard.'
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"Drath Sentence" Upheld
. . j The supreme court has handed down a de
cision upholding the constitutionality of the
death; sentence provision of . the public utility
, holding company act. Scarcely anyone in the
country will be surprised at the decision. At
. best the suit j was a rear guard action on the
j - part bf the utility . concerns which challenged
the act. Mostj of the holding companies have
been working out deals for compliance with
the. law and some reorganizations have been
'completed-'' ' 1 1
The law did not abolish holding companies.
It did require them to integrate their operations
geographically. Those which sprawled over the
country are required to choose the area where'
'. they Will serve and divest themselves of other
holdings. Thus ' Idaho Power co. has become
Independent of the parent Electric Power Sc
light organization; and Puget Sound Power Sc
Light is no longer a subsidiary of Engineers"
Public Service, Now that this decision is ren-
Editorial Comment
rxmisniD Bt sixtss
) Franco i- ""Unfinished 'business on the Fascist
T side oiL the ledger. And the French may be par
doned if they do not understand why the wiping of
-" democracy's slate clean of the effects of appeasing
Fascism w not quite as appropriate for TJfNO efforts
sis the efforts to halt what some call appeasement
of Communism' today. f
To My that Comiminit pressures are absent from
the picture would be-naive. But to say that UTe-y
are the only considerable motivation' for the French
political moves between the Anglo-American and
Russian positions in UNO is to ignore certain funds
mentals ef French security.
For example,, the French demand that Fascism
be removed from its southern border now is con
' atsteni wrOi French demands that the Rhineland
- be separated from' Germany to insure France's east
" Ci u borders. ( '
f in any ra those in the United States and
Britrin who accuse France of playing Communisms
game might well be asked whose aim is being
.served by Anglo-American policies which help to
." keep Spain safe for reaction, for clericalism, and
-presently for Fascism.
"", - An honest answer to this question, and vigorous'
action by the American people on the basis of that
answer, would not be appeasement of Russia K But
' It would 6e a great deal to improve Soviet-American
relaConsv--Christiaai Science Monitor.
The explanation I hear is Stalin was caught In
an extremely awkward position, which amused the
close followers of the security council, far more
than It excited them, although the delicate' points
of the matter were not published or explained.
Stalin thought he owned the Teheran govern
ment as he had weeks back installed a premier
sympathetic to his purposes and brought the pre
mier to Moscow for a conference. When the of
ficial protest of Iran against Russian absorption
was first presented to the council, it was placed
on the list of provisional subjects. But the Iranian
ambassador to the United States judged his gov
ernment meant what it said, and so did Mr. Byrnes.
The "maybe" subject became the first subject
Stalin then hastily announced he had an agree
ment for peaceful settlement with Iran. This tha j they were unappreciatively filed
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GENERAL, CKDRGI CROOK, BUS
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 4U4 aa aa
BoCatcS ky Martin r. Schraltt (L'bI
verstty f Olhoa; S3).
George Crook was one Civil
war general who-didn't win his
reputation east of the Missis
sippi. To him, the conflict with
the Confederacy was just an in
terlude. Before and after, he was
an Indian fighter.
Crook fought the greatest of
the Indian chieftains; served at
frontier posts from the Colum
bia river to the Rio Grande,
from Illinois to the Pacific.
Yet he was as good at defend
ing Indians as he was at fighting
them. Crook Understood and
sympathized with the red man.
He spoke plainly and often
against injustices! of Indian.
trStment. "The American In
dian is not half so black as he
has been painted." he told West
Point graduates of 1884. "He is
crel in war, treacherous at
tirhes and not over cleanly. But
so were our forefathers. ... It is
not; impossible that with a fair
and square system of dealing
with him, the American Indian
would make a better citizen than
many who neglect the duties and
abuse the privileges of that
prdUd title."
And when Crook died. Red
Cloud, the Sioux, gave him his
epitaph: "He, at least, had never
lied to us."
This book, an absorbing story
of frontier days, is a valuable,
contribution to Americans. It
conies to print by lucky chance.
The existence of the autobi
ography had not been even. sus
pected for more than 50 years. It
was among Crook's personal pa
pers that were presented in 1939
0 the Army War College where
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caught in a web he had woven too flimsuy. There
was little defensively he could do except to tell
Gromyko to take a stroll.
Many Natural Questions Raised
Similar inner doings of past months bear an
odor as the Hitler methods diplomacy "according
to plan"-r-which brought on World War II. Russia
wants a country. She starts a communist revolution
in it. She installs her own premier, summons him
to Moscow to tell him what to do. Are we,;going
to go through Austria, Czechoslovakia, Danzig all
over again in the names of Iran, Iraq, Turkey,
Greece, Manchuria? Has " Russia a time-schedule
as Hitler had, that she calls for delays of specific
time? Six weeks she wants In Iran, numberless
weeks in Manchuria.; .
These are natural questions raised in the minds
of our people by her tactics. How should we
answer these moves? They are asking also.
I think some government authorities have come
to a conclusion which one government official
not a diplomat put to me tersely:
"If we are going to protect small countries, ;
we had better protect them." J-
Likened te League of NatienS
The UNO walkout crisis is the same which the j
Jeague of nations did not face in Ethiopia and
Manchuria and it disintegrated for that reason.
You will recall the league discussed Japanese ag- '
gression in Manchuria until too late to do any- ;
thing, then appointed a commission which spent
a year or more traveling around the subject be- -
fore reaching conclusions which "were apparent to
the average newspaper years earlier. Similarly
Mussolini was allowed to. walk aWay with Ethio
pia. These initial . aggressions led into the late
Hitler acquisitions, and ih each Case cooperative
action in the interest of thV small nations became
an abject nullity, and could not survive its im
potence by pretenses.
The UNO is at the crossroads the league first
met with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Its
power and prestige will follow the course it now
plot. It it is unable to bolster the resistance of
small governments, jf it does not provide a plat
form upon which they can hope to stand with
success, they will fall at the first prodding, and
some may come running in advance, as they did
with Hitler, anticipating that they were next oof
the list.
Tactics Change With Power .
When Russia was a small nation she thought
rightly about such matters. She bitterly ehided the
league-on Manchuria and Ethiopia. Now that she
has grown great and powerful, her tactics follow,
steps she formerly criticized.
It" is within the power of UNO ta bring the
international era of wonderful nonsense to a. close
and establish a peace based on professed principles.
That is the question mark behind, the news from
the college gymnasium Jbete.
away, to remain buried and un
known until Martin Schmift, an
army sergeant on War College
duty, stumbled across them in
1942.
Srhmitt knew what to do with
his discovery. . He wisely has pre
sented Crook's Story in all its or
iginal flavor, even to some eccen
tricities of spelling, and enhanced
it With a thorough job of annota
tion to clarify Crook's references
to persons, places and events.
More, he completed the stpry
which Crook left unfinished at
hisdeath. Thus the reader gains
a broader view of what, in some
respects, are the absorbing years
of Crook's life when he . was
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given a boo6t to promoters of
additional dams. The power re
quirement for the tunnel is said
to be 500,000 kw, which Is to be
sure an enormous amount of
power. While its demand would -be
irregular, still that supply
would have to, be on tap unless X
energy would be diverted from
industries, homes and farms. The
World claims that the site which
is favored for the wind tunnel
is in the neighborhood of Grand
Coulee where there are power
and much rough waste land. So
it thinks that Foster creek is the
.logical location for the next dam.
Meantime there is an under
current of opposition to more
dams. The fishing Interests of
the lower Columbia are hostile
because they see in the erection
of more dams the doom to salm
on runs. Private power interests
are not vocal in opposition; nei
ther does the hand of the rail
roads show though both groups
may dislike to see the ' dams
come. Dr. Raver of Bonneville
asserts the present glut of power
is temporary and that the north
west will be needing additional
supplies of electric energy by the
time another dam can be com
pleted, along in 1950 or 1951.
It looks very much as. though
the McNary dam will go forward
now. It would be built by the
army engineers and the power
would be marketed through the
Bonneville administration.
Meantime great things are
stirring in central Washington
Final plans are being perfected
for putting water from Grand
Coulee dam on the thirsty acres
of the Big Bend district and
south to Pasco. Ephrata on the
north side of the area will be
the center for the staff of en
gineers headed by F. A. Banks
who supervised the construction
of the Coulee dam. It is antici
pa ted that 400,000 acres of land
will be under water within five
years.
The first project is a pumping
project near Pasco, drawing wa
ter from the Columbia. Later
the water required will be sup
plied from the big canals from
Coulee dam.
The area of approximately one
million acres whose irrigation is
planned has been divided into
three districts. The first major
unit to be complete will be the
Quincy district with 260,000
acres of deep soil. Next will
come the east district and last
the south district.
, The 400,000 acres to be under
water by 1951 equals in area all
the irrigated lands of the Yak
ima project, now one of the
richest agricultural regions in
the nation.
By next July contracts will be
let for $40,600,000 worth of
work; and additional contracts
are scheduled for letting m 1947,
'48 and 49.
The transformation of the arid
lands of central Washington into
productive farm lands will be
a miracle without mystery. It
will lead to the economic devel
opment of the whole northwest.
"Keep your eye on Pasco" is a
weathered slogan which will
gain new life.
fighting by word and action for
the Indians' rights.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
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It Would be nice. If you'd go en strike sometime, Smedley!
spend air' evening with me in the living reom!"
State Prison
Convict Freed
Ted Mocamber was ordered re
leased from the Oregon state peni
tentiary Monday by Circuit Judge.
George Duncan on a writ of ha
beaus corpus.
Mocamber was convicted in
Polk county of grand larceny and
in 1939 was sentenced to five years
in prison. Following his sentence
the Polk county district attorney
filed information under the habi
tual criminal act and convicted
Mocamber of three felonies which
carried a sentence of 39 years.
After serving five years for his
original crime Mocamber sought
release through habeaus corpus on
grounds that the proceeding and
sentence under the habitual crim
inal act were void. Judge Dun
can upheld his contention.
Aurora Jersey
CattlcRated
The registered Jersey . herd of
C. E- Eastman and Catherine
Eastman of Aurora, was recently
officially classified according to a
report from the American Jer
sey Cattle club. New York. The
official who went over each cow
in the herd individually compar
ing her to the model of the breed
in type was Professor H. M. King
of the University of British Co
lumbia. Twenty-three animals in the
herd average 80.76 per cent on a
score card basis. Included in this
average are three Very Good, 1&
"good plus" and nine "good" in
dividuals. The animals Scotty
Pearl Blacky 1315565. Amber
Gwen 1416569 and Come Aim
Prince 429388 were rated "very
good."
Rainfall High
In Salem Area
During March
March continued the above-
normal-rainfall record for 1948
established in January and Feb
ruary. A Jotal of 5,72 inches, com
pared With the normal of 4 inch
es, of rain fell on Salem during
the third .month of the year,. US
t . a. r a . -
weainer Bureau oincwis ai mc
Nary field announced Monday.
Combined with January's 6.37
inches and, February's 5.77, the
March precipitation brought the
total for the year to 17.86. ' com
pared with an average of 14.29
Inches for the same period and
17.93 inches recorded during the
first three months of 1945.
: Rain was recorded 23 days of
the month, with the record of 1.47
inches on the 12th. One inch of
snow on the 27th was the fim
measurable snowfall since Jan. 2,
1943. and the first to occur fn
March since March 29, 1938.
L Mean : temperature for the
month was 46.1 degrees compared
With a normal of 46.4 degrees; av
erage daily maximum was 54.8,
With the highest temperature (69
degrees) on the 9th. Average min
imum was .37.4 degrees and the
low was 29 on the 16th.
' Frosts were noted on the 16th,
20th and -31st. but no material
damage resulted in this area, the
weather bureau reported. Nine
teen cloudy days, 1 1 partly cloudy
and one clear are on the weather
bureau record for the month. Pre-i
vailing Winds were from the
south, with, no extremely7 high
velocities recorded.
UAL Training
Stewardesses
More stewardesses currently are
being trained by United Air Lines
than ever before in the company's
history, according to R. M. Wain-
right. ; superintendent of steward
ess service.
When the present class of 134
young women graduates early this
month from schools in Chicago and
San Francisco, the company will
have trained 248 stewardesses in
the first quarter of 1946 as com
pared with 277 "during the entire
year of 1943. Wainright said.
. Acceleration of the training!
program is to provide steward
esses for United's rapidly-increasing
fleet tf 44-passenger, four
engined Mainliner 230's now in
service, and its ' 52-passenger
Mainliner 300's due later this year.
Each of the planes carries two
stewardesses. '
On Staff
IRVING F. BRYAN j
Rehabilitation f
Service Names
Two New Agents"
Kr -
Addition of two rehabilitation :
agents to the personnel of the
state vocational -rehabilitation
service was announced Monday
by C. F. Feike. state supervisor.
Irving F.- Bryan, recently re-"
turned to Oregon ai tee two years
as a lieutenant In the navy, will
be headquartered at the state 11--brary
building here.-While In the '
navy, Bryan was aboard the USS
Custer, on which craft he partici
pated 'In the' amphibious assault.
at Leyte, XJngayen,' LaPas- and .
Okinawa. Before entering the
service, he was principal of Leb- !
anon high school for five years.
Herbert A. Ketelhohn, who for.
11 years was with the Portland
public schools and for four years
was co-ordinator in the war pro
duction training program, has as
sumed his duties as a training of
ficer in the district office in Port
Board Drive "
Aims to Ciit ': .
Shipping toss.
Shippers throughout the west
ern states have joined the, tenth
annual - "perfect' shipping j cam
paign of the regional shippers ad- '
visory boards to be conducted
throughout - the nation . during
April in an effort to reduce losses;
which last year reached $90,000,-
000. : . . v
With retail stores and customers
clamoring for the scarce goods of
America's industries, E. W. Pow
ers, superintendent or xreignt
protection for Southern Pacific,
said the purpose of the Campaign
on the part of the railroad lines
will be to - intensify interest of
shippers, carriers and freight re
ceivers in improved packing, load-
Ing and handling of merchandise
in transit.
"Perfect shipping is the', con
cern of tne entire community ,7
Power said. "The waste from
careless packing, marking and
handling of valuable and scarce
materials has reached a tremend
ous figure, and the wits of all are
challenged to reduce this loss to.
the minimum." .. '
Legion Probes
Check Delay
A reported delay In the receipt.
of veteran's administration checks
by Willamette university student
veterans brought . action " from
American Legion Post .No.-,' 9 Mon-,
day night in the form of a com
mittee to Investigate the situ
ation, and suggest further moves.
The legionnaires , were told that
many - veterans who filed claims
as early as list October still have
not received' paymenti. .
Other action by th legion In- t
eluded the voting of money to
purchase post colors . for the new
women's post, and ' si discussion
of legion participation in Salem
war memorial- plans.
Snell Speaks
At DAR Dinner
PORTLAND, April 2-VThe
32nd annual conference of Ore
gon Daughters Of the American
Revolution went into . its second
day today, after a banquet speech
by Governor Snell yesterday,
Snell outlined the history of
constitutional government and de
clared he was convinced that "a
vast majority of the people of this
country are determined that theT
capitalistic free enterprise system
must continue."
He urged a minimum of restric
tions and full encouragement to
competition and individual initia
tive.
State and chapter officers made
reports today.
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