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'4 f Tlx OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Orecon. Saturday Morning, April 13. 1946 pact roua 'No The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Shoe Pinches Left Foot ; Officer! of leftist .organizations are being cited for contempt by the house committee on un-American activities because they have re fused to-divulge membership lists or other data bout their groups. One of the latest" to be so listed is Corliss Lament, son of Thomas W. La moat. Morgan prtneT. Younf Lamont has been radical-leftist and Is chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. An other organization whose officers refused to furnish this congressional committee informa tion about Its sponsorship was one of the anti Franco groups in this country. . The alleged reason for not disclosing the in formation is that contributors or sponsors would be exposed to hounding by the committee and in the case of the latter any relatives they had in Spain would be subject to persecution by the Spanish government. These objections may be correct But we recall not so long ago when officers of so-called reactionary organizations (pro-fascist, the left would say) declined to tell the facts about their support, the radicals of the left pounced on them and wanted to have them forced to divulge the evidence. The same sired shoe seem to pinch the left foot the same as it did the right foot. - I The committee cannot well make fish of one and flesh of the other. And the same news item that tells of Lamont reports that the chairman -of the National federation for Constitutional Liberty (which sounds definitely rightist) is also cited for contempt for failing to spill the beans the committee wanted. "The truth is that! the woods are full of splinter groups camouflaged under high-sounding titles which are really trying to develop partisan ide ologies, of one kind or another. Th commies have used this technique for years; and-the radiacls o5 the riht are using similar tactics now. It would seem if the cause is worthy of support its good angels ought not to be un willing 4o have their names made known, espe cially on a national scale and trying to affect national policies, v . The state game; commission is the latest state department to blossom out with a publication of its own. Vol, J, No. 1 of its Bulletin is at hand, a modest, six-page publication giving . stews of the activities of the state game depart ment .and information on various fish and game matters. P. R. Nedham, director of fisheries contributes . an article on Coastal Fisheries .Maintenance Problems. The bulletin is sched uled for monthly appearance. Miriam Kauttu, secretary, of the commission is listed as editor. The publication should prove a gpod means of diiminating information of value to people of the state relating to their resources of wildlife and the regulations imposed for governing bunting and; fishing. The wheat newaj is mixed. With stories about empty warehoused and diminished supplies in Oregon and Washington comes the crop fore cast of over 800 million bushels of winter wheat for 1846. At least jwe will not have to struggle long on a diet of potatoes and carrots until new wheat is available. The scare may have some educational value: on the deficiency in world foodstuffs Which previously was thought of as ijuite remote fromi American cupboards. The new cars stick out along the curb like the first Easter bonnet worn to church in February. ' sssawasswai asa-aa-i aisswawaa-waai The f rictkm between Russia and Iran was -rased by the application of a familiar lubricant oiL ..- ' 1 Editorial! Comment '. onte znxiox NOSES Orlando Park, who is a Northwestern University roolcgist and not Florida real estate development, is taking a census of the world's injects, and expects t com out wiOki a figure near 1,000,000,000,000, C0O.0O0.SXO,C00,0QO,00ai00.000.000. j Drl Park says there Is probably no name for such a figure, but it is strange that he should think so: any man with the audacity to conduct a world insect census should know that there has been somewhere a mathematician adventurous enough to evolve a term for a figure followed by 39 ciphers. Far convenience, call it a zillion; that is till a-lot of minuscular noses to count. Lest Dr. Park fall to one of his own butterfly nets. it. should be explained that he is not out to gather personally and count by hand every insect on earth; it Is done by sampling. Water insects are collected wifiV a fine-mesh sieve, counted and multiplied by aomethiag. Dry-land insects are lured into an even, whict roads them and drops ' them ' fata bottles- to be taunted and multiplied. Mankind will .certainly . benefit, as Dr. Park ex pects, fram'the census. It will be advantageous to ; know ay zones where there are surpluses and shortages f useful and non-useful insects. Farmers will benefit by the opportunity to borrow bees, fcr instance, and this .recalls the anecdote about Darwis deducing fram rich clover field that there were spinsters ! in nearby villages: the spinsters . kept carta which ate birds which otherwise would have eaten bees which, uneaten, pollinated as busily as as -bees. -1 f . The snort spectacular aspect of Dr. Park's work, of course, wilt be in the grand total; and at that he wurs that the one-zillion figure will be ten tative; insects reproduce faster than he and his. men can work. One can already visualize the Sun day -supplement article showing that all those ln sfcts. If piggyback, would make a pile three times as tall .-ae the Chrysler building, and predicting, of course.-that they will some day stage an entomologi cal Armageddon and devour the world. . ' Our -beart goes; out to Dr. Park and colleagues, doesedly sieving, trapping, roasting and counting, hiie insects already running into 39 ciphers, draw irz mpam no I effort beyond that of being insects, inch aJeng toward several ciphers more. San Fran seco Chronicle. : Fapor Sway U$; No Fear Shall Awi From rirtt Statesman, March 28, 18S1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAOUE, Edilor and Publisher Member of the Associated Press machinery he helped set up in January. This has, broken down in spots. The big spot is Manchuria, which was almost entirely in Russian hands when the truce was agreed upon.. Now the Russians are pull ing out,, and the Chinese factions the armies of the kuomintang and the communist are fighting over" it. The truce teams which have worked well in North China have scarcely got to first base in Man churia. Today a kuomintang gen tateBtaau for publication of all Prison for Defrautlera At the time of the Spanish-American war a great scandal arose over "embalmed beef." Big meat packers were accused of selling the aritty bum beef and if our memory is correct they were brought to book. We have heard little accusation of fraud on the part of suppliers Of food in the present war perhaps because gov ernment standards and inspection are far more rigid than ever before. Yet down in San Francisco the head of an old wholesale produce firm has gotten a stiff jolt for skinning the government to the tune of about $1,000,000. The firm short-weighted on butter, substituted sub-standard eggs and re arranged eggs in rejected crates, putting the good eggs on top. The president of the concern was fined $35,000 and sentenced to five years in federal prison, the city sales manager ahd chief shipping clerk were fined $700 each and sentenced to a year in prison. fi No sympathy will be wasted on these pirates. The prison sentences particularly will delight the public. A Price-line Sieve 4 . The bend in the price-line described by gov ernment authorities when the new wage-price policy was announced proves to be somewhat of a polite fiction. Thus prices of General Mo tors cars Have been raised from $68 to $417 higher than 1942; and this is just fiction too, because it does not take into account the late wage increase of 18c an hour. Presumably cars will be sold with a price increase clause, the final price awaiting OPA determination. This same technique prevails in other lines, ahd may be regarded as forerunner to further breaks in the price line. j The line, the famous line proves to be some thing of a sieve, an odd sieve too, for while a Cadillac can get through a quart of milk gets squeezed in the process. OPA is yielding both to realities and to pres sures. t job has become almost impossible. While there is something small-townish about the entertainment of Mrs. Truman's bridge clab from Independence, Mo. in the White House, the story has a homey flavor about "it. Certainly Bess Truman has comported herself well as the nation's, first lady; and has not let her position sunder the friendships of a lifetime. It is some thing of a jaunt for the ten ladies from Inde pendence, one they will talk about the rest Of their lives; Jbut after all they are the stuff America is made of. and quite as worthy of a bed and meal at the White house (the president pays for the food) as many who have enjoyed its hospitality in the past. Results are not yet fully known on the late Japanese elections, but we may be sure that the people won. How. could they fail when they had the following assortment of parties to choose from: Liberals, Progressives, Social Democrats, Cooperatives and Communists. This is the hey-day of democracy. Even in Greece it was the Royalist-Populist party which wort; the King's friends were the people's label. r Interpreting! The Day's News By James D. White Associated Press Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO, April 12-(;P)-Cen. George C. Marshall returns to a China as bitter and nearly as chaotic as the one he entered last fall. One of the first tasks facing the president's special envoy is to get back into working order the trufee j o Watte eral at Kaiyuan, Manchuria, assigned a "body guard" to the communist members of a truce team, deprived them of their radio, and told newsmen candidly he had no orders to talk to a truce team about stopping the fighting just outside town. 8taa4 Reflects Chiang His stand reflects Chiang Kai shek's policy, which is to reassert central government 'authority over Manchuria before settling any "locaL problems" like the local autonomy the communists demand. Actu ally, the general at Kaiyuan says, they aren't com munists anyway, but "bandits." g The communists and possibly the "bandits"- also have placed a few things like blown up bridges in the way of truce teams. t ;5 One reason the truce teams are being ignored is that the truce machinery has stalled higher up during Gen. Marshall's absence. This is no reflection- upon Lt. Gen. Alvin C. Gillem, Marshall's proxy. Little Known Mayor The kuomintang member. Gen. Ghang Chiji chung, has been sent off by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to be governor of the remote but strategic province of Sinkiang. In his place is the little known former mayor of Peiping in 1937, Gen. Chin Teh-chun. ' The communist member, Chou En-Lai, also has turned his duties over to a subordinate. ;f. All this comes at a time when the communists express fears that large American loans might be tised by the kuomintang government to consoli date its political hold over the coutry. A govern ment spokesman made the interesting reply that if an American loan were granted, the communis would join in a coalition government immediately. DbtrWtol kf Ik TamUrrm traeleate ay arrsae sat WM TSa WmUmw (Continued from page 1) and of larceny. When the vill ains are found very often they are teen-age youngsters or chaps just turned 20. Usually a cache is found of articles stolen in sev eral forays. This is our real crime problem. We dare not belittle it, .however; for snitching from a store or home is often the first step on the road to crime. The petty thief may become a burg lar, then a stick-up man, and finally a murderer and big-time robber. Everything points to the need for better discipline of youth. Parents have the primary re sponsibility, and unfortunately they often fail to discharge properly their parental duties. Of the five young men who escaped recently from the state prison, in two cases they came from broken homes (divorce) and in two cases one or both parents were dead. The sad grinding of divorces in the courts today surely is damaging to home discipline, the first es sential to training in good citi zenship. Supplementing home and church and school are youth or ganizations which provide pro grams of work and recreation, summer camps and emphasize good moral , standards. These bodies need not merely financial support but personal work from adults interested in youth and adapted to working with youth. Besides all these character building agencies there is need for a strong, competent police force. The quick and under standing grip of the policeman plus the intelligent appraisal by the judge of the juvenile court are still indispensable. We ought to get away from the' conception of the policeman as "flatfoot," a village Hawkshaw whose uni form merely cloaks native stu pidity. Your up-to-date police man is alert, intelligent, inter ested in law-enforcement as a career and in right guidance for youth. Salem should have a large enough police force and pay salaries sufficient to attract and hold the better type men. Even if the facts about Sa lem's crime count are not as bad as indicated in the FBI report there is no basis for being com placent and shrugging aside the implications of the figures. They are disturbing enough to stimul ate constructive effort in crime avoidance. The Literary Guidepost By W. G. Rogers THIS SIDE Or INNOCENCE, by Taylor Caldwell CScrlbaert; S3). Old William Lindsey the phi losopher, son Jerome the rake, adopted son Alfred the plodder, beautiful Amalie Maxwell the schemer and the humpback Phi lip, Alfred's sickly son, are the characters at the start of this 500-page novel. But these qualities soon shift. The rake is not all evil, the plodder not all good, the philo sopher can err, and the slut isn't wholly sluttish . . . which is the way it is in life, with nothing all black or white. Be sides the unexpected twists in character, which serve to hold your attention, there is a dou ble jilting, a flagrant case of adultery and a whale of a beat ing of one man by another. Thanks to the smart handling of the plot, smarter indeed than DIP SKEOOOB Not a Single Ringer In the author's "The Wide House" of last year, the tale keeps moving. A lot of people will read it, for it's the Literary Guild choice for May and the first printing is 650,000 copies. Miss Caldwell's characters are not drawn, however, but pulled out of a hat, and an old hat at that; they are not built up with care, but thrown i&s'your face. "The reason for the ' adultery Is not love but the fact that, with 200 pages already used up, it was time to turn on the heat; the graph, not the man and wo man, called for it. And the rea son for the beating is not anger, but the lapse of 100 pages more. Above all, there's Miss Cald well's explosive English. She doesn't write, she screams. If a man is in love, it's the passion of the .ages. If there's a storm, it's the worst of the century; If the weather- is clear, then the air is described, all within seven lines, as Incandescent," "pris tine," -bitter pure," "sterile" and "fresh," in that order. Where one - adjective is too much, she use two, and there's no sentence so firm and solid but she will chop a hole in It and wedge in an adverb. It's 500 pages of climax. It's writing at fever pitch. But the effect is saboormal. The Safety Valve LETTERS FROM STATESMAN READERS A NEW COt'-RTHO.j&K To the Editor rr . With Marion County growing out of its boyhood clothes, it would seem that our courthouse has served its useful service as our county is growing into lusty young manhood. Some of the conditions which need betterment are, there is not room enough as the school su perintendent has been moved into offices in a privately owned building, the records have filled or are rapidly filling all avail able space, and the jail is on the ground floor when it should be in the top story. There' are other conditions such as light, heat, cramped quarters, etc. Now what is needed for a courthouse is a modern type of fice building, one which we could feel proud, where county busi ness could be expedited, and GRIN AND BEAR "It was very disappointing! Why, he we-ssVt anything psyehlatrista the mevles have sccastomed me te!" Leslie Pupils Win Awards For Activities Leslie junior high school has awarded merit letters and pins to its students who have been outstanding in extracurricular acttvities during the school year, nisnesi .w.ra were stiver pms presenieo to iia nrmrn- iter, xom rauius ana watnertne Person. No gold pin was award ed this year. Other awards were: Merit letter: (ninth grsds) Loren BarUett. Jack Cater. Bill DeHart. Sharon Hamilton. Joyr Jenaan. Bob Jones. Dean Kins. Dolores Kupr, Jeanette Martin. Louella MrClellan, Phyllm Mlctvw. Norma Pound. Marl- ivn Quamme. Eddie Scott. Pat Severin. Evrlyn Sikorra. Philip Sitner. Rojer Smith. Diane Stoody. Donald Walker. Gordon white. Beverly wikstrom. Rr,t Biacksten. Donald ciark. Ermi uarr. wiary reixe. oaroara ias. rriir FoelkL Gene Carver. Marilyn HaU. Lea Hoicate. Allan Kietnsmijth. Jo Anne Majek. Ariene Meyer, jijb Moort, tiei- en Nairn. Edward Otto., Dorothy Fed- erton. Jim Sandifer. Betty Schreder, Mrrlln Ncnultze. r.linor Sikorra. Cli mtttt SiuimoM Wallas WMifinroth. Bronrt pina: (ninth aradel Bob Bain. Mary Brehm. Ann Caraon. Joyce Edaell. Beverly Krueaer. Alice Leh man, Enneta Neunach wander. Atlie iu Ohiint. Audrey Simmons. Joan Smith. AnM Swiaart. In 1945. more than twenty-three ana u quarter Diuion passengers l A 1 Ml! roae ine streex cars, iracxjess trolley coaches and gas buses that make up the nation's urban tran sit lines. planned economies could be car ried out. It would seem wise to have the courthouse on the east half of the block facine the Salem , ... ... , post office. Which would be ample for years to come until it became ... . Obsolete as trie present one U now The west half of the block, with narhan mm cnrwliliona at. I . r T. . Z I tached, would make a large area I for a public auditorium which ... ... very uauiy iiexicvi uj me city i of Salem, which by the way would solve the place where the state basketball tournament could be held. The two corner. could be sold to private parties .kui, ...... li Kir. new courthouse together, with) other funds which are accumu- lating. TC O Runner I Route 6 Box 278 IT By Lichty tjmt Cliwe. Tawa laa like the ! . I 1 1 c I vz.L r I I II - v a sr as aia Care Urged in Appraisal of Vet Property A large amount pf distressed pruperty will fall back Into the hafids of lending agencies in about twe ahd a half years if great care is not taken now la making GI property loans to veterans, Leo Page, assistant cashier of the U-nited States National Bank of -Portland, warned ! the - Salem Board of Realtors Friday. Speaking at the board's weekly luncheon meeting at the Marion hotel. Page said that! the current property and material price boom makes it difficult for lending agencies to correctly appraise the true' property price and the vet era ns' ability to pay, but makes the appraisals doubly necessary, Declaring that It Is the aim of both the lending firms and the veterans administration to protect the veteran, Page added that the relationship of the veteran's in come to the amount of debt as sumed Is most important. Ne Mere Thaa Zt Per Cent 'At no time should the month ly loan payments required to be paid by the veteran be more than 20 per cent of his total monthly income. Payments should not be more than would be reasonable for rent." GI Inam mrm nnivi st tin fnr 12 5-year term payments. Page stat ed. However, most lendinc agen cies will not grant a 23-year loan because no consideration is given to the age of the property In most cases and because there Is no pro vision made to grant extensions beyond the 25-year term if such an extension would be needsd, he said iun.li. .u.. Page stated that to date there hsa4 haan iia A tint t m wh1fsw 1 m Is4 How tnr th. Mniinm mnA , dUnt of tne c, loans j e dMerlb. gitu,Uon . floundering (round between the Veterans ad- ministration's red tape and the v,rious lending agencies who are i worKinf ln the dark."! Stock Market : j Moves Lower NEW YORK, Aprfl 12 -UP) stocks moved narrowly lower to- I . . , . . uaJ miuiwiiw iu ouii was iree of an(y selling pressure and se ited "b,u ch,p nd w p eo industrials retained rains. i d. li ii- 1 "uuueis, ri. ! uupte ments, retail stores and aircraft I wr. mr,,4iv n th offsiHe Air were mOSUy on lne OUSiae. Air iranipon issues lurnra son at the close after a strike threat by I two pilots Motors were steady and oils showed some advances. The late sellingin air trans porta sent the "thin-: Eastern Air I ' , . m i unn iium ouwn i o rs points. TWA rlronned Sr. AmwHrin Air. lin dinned Si- and tTnited Air I rr ' I r:nM it, Public Records FROBATE COURT ! Margaret Alqulre. guardianship es tate: April 2S date set for hearing on Ktitton of Ruth Overeroaa that she appointed guardian. Carol Ann Bay. Sandra Kay Bay. Tommy Guy Bay and Virginia La I Bay. cuardianahiD state: Pioneer Truat Co. appointed guardians. i it. . in rkiatt Hj h Philip Dewitt RoU) and Jotepl Earl. Roth, guardianship! estate: Orde and Joteph ler PPr0 "'" ''Port p' Dorothy V Roth, guardian. Edward Haawng. eaUte: May SO date I set for hearing on account of Jv nraiaedat S22T7 Juattna Zitzelberger, estate: 'Decree of final setUement. Jamrs c. Theodorianj guardUnahip l,c: wrr wtnoruj. rwam Tnift Co, guardian, to pay fee. Kaiprt Hook, estate: May II date set J?r ?? 'I"1 ot T" CIRCUIT COURT sJ ZLTlZtZ trial docket and motion for default of defendant riled.! Berry; Application made for place on Lr?f 2L. -1 ration- made for place on trial docket April IS. and default of defendant Janice Marie Newcomfc va Earl Will.' lam Newcomb: Suit for divorce charg ing cruel and Inhuman treatment asks for custody of one mnor child and S3S per month support money. Married Julv 3. 1S43. at Vancouver. Wash. Charles T. Lacheit'Vs Flora E. Lacher: I Suit for divorce fharglng cruet and Inhuman treatment! Married March 30. at Vancouver. Wasl Mary Matheny V Robert D theny: Defendant If lies amended an swer admitting and denying and In counterclaim mi lor custody of three minor children. I Karley V. Croat vs Geraldlne D. Croaa: Appllcatlonl made for place on divorce calendar fair April .13. Ascenth Gardner Iva Asa A. Gardner: Application for place on trial docket tor npru ii. i Lucille Hunt v Dale Hunt: A DDI lea. tlon for place on trial docket for Ap ril 13- MARRIAGE LICENSE ArrLICATIONS j Stanley L, Ehlke. 20. farmer. Brooks. and Audrey Swersoo. lt. secretary. Mwm. John M. Cbpenhaver. n. V s. Navy. and Lorah Kate Crtffith. 21. nurae training, both Salem. Robert Brill. XX musician. Alameda. Calif., and Barbara Wlrline. XI. cash- IndeDendence. Lamar Haddock. M. sawmill worker. and Polly Payton. SO. clerk, both Mon- RIOUUI. I swrence tr. This. ST. baker, and Kvatyn rayett Alburt, IS. iwaltreas. both aalem. MUNICIPAL COURT! Dennis Beutell, Balem. parking viola tion. SS ball posted. Robert McEwan. Hal em. bark ina vio lation. S3 bail posted. W. E. Stewart. Jr.. Salem, parking Violation, fined MM 1 M. E. Green. Salem, parking viola. lion, fined MM Marlon Towery. Turner, no driver's ticenee. S3 ball posted. JUSTICE COURT Roy Luken. charged with threaten. Ing to commit a frlony; preliminary examination aet for 1 :30 p m. April IS. Richard Allen Knutaon.ino operator's license, fined SI and costs. Mbnt Rav rramm. failure to vield i rlsht-of-way. fined (IS and costs. k.si L r : wa i, A i - - . "Ns - AGO THE CAMS) f ilV UMS nnAJAAI M- HAKE: OF r i.' w "tWBJTl Oct Lross of Farm Parity Formula Deflates Rye CHICAGO.' April IS -)- Word that Representative Pace (D-Ca), would not attempt to add his farm parity formula to the OPA extension measure squelched all bullish influences in grain fu-j tures trading! today and May rye skidded the Allowable net loss of S cents a bushel, j New crop oats deliveries slip ped as much! as a cent a bushel, but all other futures contracts, held at ceiling figures. I The May rye price shifts were the broadest! and most rapid ln several weeks. At the start of trading a flurry of offerings ex tended yesterday's late 7's-centJ setback another S cents on re- j ports that distillers must reduce j their inventories of the grain , from 15 to 7x-day supplies. The order was expected to bring out considerable i liquidation by those ! Interests. '('"' ! ' - i After absorbing the initial of ferings, brokers bid the price up ward to net advances of about; 3 cents. Within a few jninutesj however, after the Pace an- nouncement was received a flood of liquidation carried the price down the limit. i Wheat, coh and barley rel mained at I ceilings of $1.83', $1.21 and $1.2 respecUvelyj Oats closed unchanged to 1 cent lower. May fe3-cent ceiling. Rye unchanged to! 9 cents down. May- 30. Stocks land; Bonds CompOed by The Associated Praas I AprU IS ' : ! m&mS '1 is is "as , Rails Vtll Stks .' S3 S TST 47 0 MS 7S S 41 X MS T J J SIS 141. 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