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Tkm OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning. April 21, 1948
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"No Favor Swayt U$; No Fear Shall AvxT
From ririt Statesman, March 28. 1831
TIIE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A- SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
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A Fixed Easier?
This year' unusually late Easter is almost
certain to pose another problem for the United
Nations -once that organization has disposed of
th$ more' vital questions of world peace and
prosperity.
Tbe -auggestion to fix Easter on a definite
date was -one of several calendar reforms be
fore the old league of nations, and 18 years ago
. th4 British parliament set the date as the first
Saturday after the first Sunday in April. But
this action was contingent upon international ac
cetno which has not been forthcoming.
Only three times in the remainder of the 20th
century will Easter fall on as late a date as
rthts year, and then by only one day. Under
the, present method of specifying Easter Sun
day from tables compiled by Clavius for Pope
Gregory XIII in the latter calendar reform
it fan rem on any of 35 days from March
22, (which- waa Easter in 1818) to April 25 (in
18g8 and 1943).
In commenting on the varied dates. The As
sociated Press says that if no specific day is
fixed -further complications may arise through
. the-'paogresa being made in complete calendar
reform, 'which already has the endorsement of
14 na liens. Present "complications" under the
irregular date ffect school and college terms
rid vacations,' shopping, and the fashion in
dustry in general. But there has been more
than merely commercial objection to the ir
regularity.: Churchmen themselves have urged a fixed
date, particularly after 1823 when, because the
calendar moon does not gibe with the real
moon of the heavens, the resurrection was cele
brated before the anniversary of the crucifi
xion which as ecclesiastical opinion seems to
coacur, took place on Friday, April 7, A. D. 30.
Even the, early Christians do not unanimously
. agree, but after the matter went before the
league -of nations in 1923. the Roman, Eastern
Orthodox and Anglican churches, at a special
conference, decided that the demand for a fixed
Easter was virtually universal and unanimous.
XherAPa David Bareuther, who compiled
some ci these interesting statistics, comments
that " 'course, even if the U. N. should bring
about Jan agreement to change this (Easter)
phase of the calendar, there might be a few
Irreconcilable. " But there probably wouldn't
be many.
OPA Extension
!The amendments tacked on to the OPA-ex-tension
bill by the coalition of republicans and
democrats are so crippling that it would be
better to let price control die when the present
law expires on June 30 next. That would open
the gaae to price inflation, but it would be
recognized for what it is and the normal eco
.nomic forces would set in to counteract it. The
- house-approved measure virtually paralyzes
the control machinery and the -resulting chaos
might give us higher prices without he pro
duction stimulus which works their cure. Bet
ter, in the judgment of this newspaper, merely
to extend the present price control system,
unsatisfactory as; it is. for a term of six or
iia months than to try to recognize its ma-l-
chinery under the house blueprint.
In our judgment the republican-democratic
coalition has yielded to business pressure groups
whose sincerity is dulled by their trade interest.
It; is true that OPA regulations are unwieldy
arid bafflingly complex. It is true that price
controls are violated by black market opera
tions. Nevertheless on balance, OPA has blunt
ed "the apex of inflation. Had the administra
tion given wage control the same support it is
attempting to give price control the situation
- would t far better than it is. Not all the faults
of OPA are chargeable to that administration.
,' The reason for extension of OPA is to permit
m longer period for adjustment of factors in
the business field: Renewal of labor supply,
; decline of government buying, resumption of
; foreign trade. Once the horses are reasonably
; lined up at the starting line, government should
j aay "Ga" and let competition be renewed. In
i another six months relaxation of government
controls, unless it be on rents, ought to be pos
sible. If congress would merely say that price
control ends December 31, business would have
something to figure on. Reconversion would be
' rushed to completion; production would be ac
celerated; prices would soon come into normal
, relationship with coats and demand.
;Tbe amendment which seems to wreck OPA is
the one guaranteeing each manufacturer and
distributer a profit on each item handled- This
1 is nothing short of scandalous. It legalizes price
'increase to the very peak and has the effect
lot: forcing inflation. It means that the price for
" every item must be fixed at levels which will
yield a reasonable profit to the least efficient
producer of that item. It pushes regulatory cost
accounting to the nth degree, impossible in
orderly and speedy administration. ' .
I Food .subsidies ought to be liquidated; but
the bouse rule says that the compensation for
the tubudies must be provided in price increases
a thejr are reduced. Why guarantee a price
increase as subsidies are withdrawn? This
amendment ia congressional price-fixing well
in, advance pf-tKedate to be effective, the ab
surdity e)f which ought to be evident.
. The bill which left the house, hacked and
plastered as it was by coalition of revolting
democrats and rampaging republicans, reflect
ed, less the general public, interest than the
clamor of noisy trade associations and business
groups. Unless -the senate streamlines the bill
' tq make it both more honest and more practical
the -president should veto the bill when it
reaches him rather than to try to continue
-gPA so mangled form.
Goring the Bull
Here is one for the book: The CIO union of
marine cooks and stewards has appealed to the
Oregon delegation in congress to "prevent a
recurrence of the Portland milk strike and a
rise in the price of fluid milk." The union pro
tests that the price of milk is entirely top high
now and objects "emphatically" to any and all
attempts to lift pfice ceilings.
Unions hold that the right to strike is funda
mental, and they regard wage increases at
every contract negotiation as absolutely neces
sary. But when farmers borrow the strike tool
in an effort to get a price increase they are just
greedy extortioners. It all seems to depend on
which one is goring the bull.
I . -f r
A Washington eccentric has left his estate
of $30,000 to the person who . can best, define
the word "joke." His son who was cut off with
$50 ought to be able to offer the best definition.
Behind the News
By PAUti MALLON
(Distributed by King Feature! Syndicate, Inc. Re
productlon in whole or in part strictly prohibited.)
WASHINGTON, April 20 And another thing
about democratic campaign strategy:
Not only have the party chief tans exhibited con
fusion in a series of ridiculous "mistakes as to
whether they are running Mr. Truman or congress'
this year, but they have been building up a side
line campaign on the Roosevelt bier. First one
member of the RoosevelV family was trotted out as
Jmmmmmmm prospective candidate for gov
ernor or ew yorx; a young man
without previous experience or
political pretentions, who, if he
wanted to start as his father did
at that age. would run for the
town council or assembly. This
was done by an indescribable min
or newspaper in New York, the
same newspaper which, incident
ally, led the fight against the
Truman administration in the
nil Maun Pauley matter, Bmearing .it with
oil. While it is an indescribable publication,, it al
ways pretends to represent what the late Mr.
Rtwsevelt might want. -Sadden
Renewal ef Interest In FDR
Then, Mr. Truman went to Hyde Park in a
major memorial demonstration and made. a speech
u porting Roosevelt policies, and all the avenues
of popular publication, the newspapers and maga
zines, have carried articles and pictures, most of
them his fourth term campaign picture. In other
ways, there has been a sudden recrudescence of
interest in Roosevelt by those most interested in
the coming election, for his first annual memorial
day, but also Just as their campaigns are getting
started.
Now, there is nothing surprising about candidates
running on coat tails borrowed from history. A lot
of politicians ran many years after Washington's
death, upon his memory, and I have no doubt 20
years from now (if things are still the same as
they are now), some child may run for office
claiming that Mr. Roosevelt once said he was a
good man.
The point of protest I wish to make is that this
is a new age. The problems facing it are entirely
different from those Mr. Roosevelt faced,: mostly
ineffectively. I do not wish to argue now whether
Mr. Roosevelt was right or wrong, only to point
to the absurdity of politicians trying to wrap them
selves in his memory, instead of facing the issues
which now confront this world.
Issues Mest Critical la History
The issues are more critical than any in the
history of time and space After Washington, elec
tions decided only issues of thirteen states and
muskets; and in Roosevelt's time, forty-eight states
and 16 inch guns. Now they will decide the fate
of the world and the atomic bomb. .We are in
world politics up to our necks and everywhere we
are confronted with the most vital and no doubt
conclusive issue of totalitarian socialism versus
fundamental democracy. It is our way of life
against theirs. We should know it. They certainly
know it Now, what would Mr. Roosevelt have done
about that? He never faced that problem. He can
not answer from the grave. It is up to present
day politicians to give their own answer.
In domestic affairs, the. issues are apt to be
equally decisive, and decisions made will no doubt
be conclusive as to where this world is going.
We have the issues of inflation which could rob
the people of alF the value of their work, the
issues of control through pressure groups and
power politics which are threatening if not under
mining the effectiveness of democracy.
Debt Itself Feces New Problem
It was one thing to talk about the debt of the
people when it was twenty billion dollars, when
Roosevelt came in. Quite another policy iay be
necessary now when it is nearly three hundred
. billion dollars.
The problem of taxation is one thing when it
is designed to confiscate the wealth; quite-another
after the wealth is confiscated. The old problems
of capitalism such as prices and competition, have
been inflated also to a point where we al know
it is a question now of how much more the bal
loons will stand. It is one thing to handle a bal
loon when you first start puffing into it. but some
change of tactics are called for if you have been
blowing into it for fifteen years. Who can say
that Mr. Roosevelt, who blew himself entirely
out of wind trying to get an inflation started,
without success, during the early years of his
administration, would not," if alive today, turn
around, seeing what the war had done to every
thing, and recommend the opposite course?
Taking ef FDR Name Is Wltheat Authority
In any event, the Roosevelt administration is
over. The taking of his name, by politicos for
issues in the past year and from now on, is, without
authority. The building up of any campaign around
his grave is a shameful avoidance, of responsibilities
we face today greater than any Roosevelt faced
because these are apt to be final.
Some say, and wisely: let us leave Roosevelt
to history. Others say: history is apt to be short.
Short or long, it will be a new history v and it
will be what we, in the world, make it. We cer
tainly cannot make much of it by rattling skele
tons. . '
WE ARC PRODUCING
MORE CIVILIAN.
GOODS THAN IN ALL
OUR HISTORY !
Jlllll SPLENDID RECORD P
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W winurt vita Tha Wfci mm aa4
What lie Wants is More Evidence
Tho Literary
Guidepost
By W. G. Refers
I CHOSE FBEEDOM. y Victor A.
Kravrheak (Scrlkaer's; M-M).
Two years ago the author of
this book made our front pages
dramatically by walking out of
his job with the soviet purchas
ing commission in Washington
and quitting the communist
party. He takes 481 long pages
here to tell what he's got against
the USSR.
Son of an anti-cr.arist revolu
tionary, he was imbued in his
youth with longing for liberty.
He seems not to have' been,
however, an active supporter of
the revolution at the start; he
denounces with equal fervor
both red and white armies
fighting in his native Ukraine.
. . . long the seat of separatist
movements; and he did not be
come a member of the com
munist party until 1929.
The first deep disillusion came
with the brutality which, ac
cording to his account, charac
terized collectivizatifi. From
then on, it would appear, every
Russian was either spy or spied
upon, and Moscow's every move
was for the primary purpose of
entrenching Stalin and his asso
ciates. Today, says Kravchenko,
"the hundreds of millions of
people in the USSR have no
voice in shaping their own des
tinies." Among his charges, some of
them made before by another
emigre, Alexander Barmine, who
got to a publisher first, are
these: Stalin entered into his
pact with Hitler in earnest, fail
ed to use the two years' lee
way to prepare for war; the
Russians "did not fight for Sta
lin but despite Stalin;" soviet
casualties were huge because
of "the kremlin's blundering
brutality;" Moscow was so de
moralized in the first autumn
that it could have been captur
ed easily; Russia still envisages
an entire communist world;' in
short, with the change of a few
names, the allies' indictment of
nazi war criminals at Nurem
berg "is an adequate summary
of the soviet regime."
"Mission to Moscow," by for
mer U. S. Ambassador Joseph
E. Da vies, he calls "a hash of
ignorance and double talk and
in large part plain silly." Krav
chenko cannot understand Wal
lace's praise of "economic de
mocracy" in Russia, nor how
Willkie could have been "so
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stepped out to Easter service
during the presidency of pious
Benjamin Harrison. He would
wear a Prince Albert coat, in
fine black broadcloth with satin
revers. His trousers of a similar
material would be narrow and
uncreased for pants-pressing is a
20th century trade. He would not
be wearing Oxfords (low shoes
to the present generation) but
either black high top shoes or
boots of fine leather, the tops in
side the pants legs. (Streets oft
en muddy made high tops a nec
essity.) But shoes or boots would
be polished to shine like mirrors.
For headgear your well-dressed
man of 60 years ago would
wear a top-hat, its silken fur
lustrous in the spring sunshine.
Underneath his flowered waist
coat would be his "boiled" shirt
which he laboriously pulled over
his head, the present coat-shirt
being a comparatively recent in
novation. His collar would be of
stiffly starched linen and his
cravat a bulbous ascot accented
by a pearl stickpin. Adding to
the elegence of his costume
would be his detachable cuffs,
round, with huge goldstone cuff
buttons. (Oval cuffs with cuff
links and metal gadgets for fast
ening cuff to sleeve came later,
to be 'followed shortly by cuffs
as part of the sleeve, with links
still employed.) The gentleman's
"foundation garment" of the per
iod were two-piece underwear,
with long drawers and long
sleeves, and his hosiery was real
half-hose, not the bobby-sox
style now affected.
When this man stepped forth
jtrom his brownstone front car
rying gold-headed ebony cane in
his grey-gloved hand he made
distinguished company for his
wife with her voluminous skirts,
amplified by bustle, her tight
bodice and her hat with its
sweeping plumes.
Styles have changed. The one
time sartorial splendor of the
male has disappeared to be suc
ceeded by the informality and
universality of the sack suit, the
soft hat, the colored shirt and the
four-in-hand necktie whose color
strikes the only high note in the
male costume of today. While
splendor In attire belonged to
great-grandfather's day, ma let
are revolting from the drabness
of the business suit, witness the
effulgent sports clothing, cowboy
rainbow shirts, ten-gallon hats
and greenish tweeds. But none of
these on Easter morning.
"Clothes make the man" still
runs the clothier's ad. They also
reflect the man. The passing of
the man. in the Prince Albert
and the frock coat marks the
passing of the plutocrat and the
aristocrat. Not even the tradi
tion of Easter can revive the
tailored male of America's gilded
age.
Practical
Religion
by Rev. Joftn L. Knight; Jt
Counselor on Relli Htm,
Wlllamtt jnivrrsity
Vital religion requires that one
live his highest, do his best, and
develop his greatest potentiali
ties. Few people would hesitate
to agree on that.
Consider, then that religion re
quires us to be intelligently in
formed individuals. In the eyes
of the law, ignorance is no ex
cuse. Nor in the eyes of moral
ity. As Browning put it, "Ignor
ance is not innocence but sin."
elaborately deceived" in
short time he spent there.
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Cpl. Lee M. Bollinger
Willi Army in Manila
Cpl. Lee M. Bollinger, husband
of Mrs. Ann Bollinger, Mt Ver
non, is serving with the general
engineer district in Manila as an
armourer. He has been In the
service for two years, and over
seas for 15 months.
He attended Salem high school
and was employed by the Fox
Midwest Amusement company as
a motioij picture operator!
Program Announced for State
Younir Remiblican Convention
At Portland Next Week End
vAdam F. Lefor, chairman of the
Young Republican convention to
be held in Portland at the Benson
hotel April 28 and 27, announced
Saturday the northwest regional
conference would convene at 130
Friday, April 26, with Loftonjra
tum of Portland as chairman. Rep
resentatives from Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho and Montana will be
in attendance..
Robert S. Farrel, Jr., secretary
of state, will give the address of
welcome followed by greetings
from Gordon Allott of Lamer,
Colo., national chairman. Reports
from the four states will be given.
A dinner will be given for the
northwest regional delegates and
Youth No Bar to
'Queen9 at Grade
School Carnival
Something, and somebody, new
in "queens" will come to Salem
this week. The Bush grade school
will have one chosen from jits
own ranks by visitors at the
school's carnival, set for 7:15 p.
m. Thursday. Each room will have
its own candidate. , -
The carnival, design to help in
the purchase of a school projec
tor, will feature a Dutch tea room,
weight-guessing, pond fishing,
boxing, movie, games, fortune tell
ing, a side-show, beauty shop and
clowns.
Farm Labor
Needed Now
Local hopyards are providing
the best housing facilities J for
workers in this locality, accord
ing to the farm labor office Sat
urday. , i
"The yards need workers bad
ly," Gladys Turnbull of the local
office said. Hoeing and stringing
are in full swing, with training
just beginning.
The recent warm days also
have brought on an increased de
mand for workers in the straw
berry fields, where about 500
more acres were planted this sea
son than last, the office said.
About SO men and women can
hbe placed on other jobs including
rueet and grape planting, land
clearing and work in the onion
fields.
Young Republicans, with Henry
Cabot, jr.. Lodge, at 6:30 on Fri
day. At 7:30 p. m., group meet
ing of all republican organizations
of the state with the Young Re
publicans will be held, followed
by an open forum on proposed
resolutions to be submitted to the
convention on Saturday with Steve
Anderson, of Salem, chairman of
the resolutions committee, pre
siding. !
At 8 a. m. Saturday, the conven
tion will begin with a j no-host
breakfast- for Senator Lodge. At
9 a. m. registration of delegates
for the state convention will take
place. Committee meetings will
be held at 10 a. m, and at 11
a. m.. a meeting of all Young
Republicans with - Senator Lodge
f will be held.
Lefor, general chairman of the
convention, will, open the sixth
annual convention at 1 pi m, in
troducing the state chairman.
Thomas C. Hartifiel of Roseburg.
The annual banquet will be at
the Benson Hotel at 7 p. m with
Gov. Earl Snell giving the address
of welcome. Henry Cabot Lodge,
jr., . former U. S. Senator from
Massachusetts, will give the main
address. "The Republican Oppor
tunity." '. Among those planning to attend
the convention are Gov. Earl Shell,
Leslie M. Scott, state treasurer;
Robert S. Farrel 1, jr., secretary of
state; W. E. Kimsey, labor com
missioner; Homer D. Angel, Har
ris Ellsworth. 'Lowell Stockman
and Walter Norblad, congressmen;
Wayne Morris, 17. S. senator; Eu
gene Marsh, speaker of the house
1945 session; Howard Belton, pres
ident of. the senate 1945 session;
Niel Allen, chairman of the state
central committee; Joe Felton of
Salem, president of the 1 Oregon
Republican clubs. ' '
Young RepuOTican headquarters
will open at the Benson hotel on
Tuesday, April 23,- and reserva
tions for the banquet and hotel
rooms must be made with Adam
F. Lefor, convention chairman, by
Wednesday, April 24..
Settlements Reported
In Price Panel Cases
PORTLAND, April 20-Spefiaiy
Price panels of local price control
boards have reported the follow
ing settlements for alleged over
charges made on items ranging
from shoe repairs to sawdust. ;
Lebanon A. L. Lucas, Halsey,
1195, paid refund on used car to
purchaser at Brownsville. .
Salem J. H. McDonald, route
1, box 245. Salem, refunded $27.35,
above ceiling price on machinery
item.
Assigned to the 311th Engineers
of the 86th division in Manila is
T. 5th Gr. Eldon F. Tietze, son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tietze, Stay
ton. His wife, Rita and son, Doug
las live in Stayton He was in
ducted in August, 1944,' and left
the states in February 1945.
Pvt. Frances Bailey Seuthwlek.
is in Madigan hospital at Fort
Mary E. Levett. former Ph.M.
2c, in the WAVES, has returned
to Salem. She is the daughter of
Mary W. Lovett, 1396 Fir st, and
expects to enter college. Before
joining the WAVES, she was a
teacher at the Oregon school for
the blind.
Lt. Earl CasseUIiis. army I air
force, is visiting his mother, Mrs.
Juanita Cassellius, 765 Judson St.,
while on leave from Memphis,
Tenn. He will report back to: Ft.
Totten, N. Y. for overseas duty.
Lewis. Wash., after returning to
the United States on the hospital
ship Ernestine Koranda. He is j the
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. South
wick, 1179 Marion st.
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FBI Agent Ileward L BobbiU
FBI Schedules
Law-eiiforceiiient
School Monday
The semi-annual law enforce
ment conference, to which all of
ficers in this area are invited,
is scheduled by the federal bu
real of investigation for the coun
cil chambers of the citjr hall at
7 p. m. Monday. I
Leading the work will be How
ard I.' Bobbitt, special agent in
charge of the Portland FBI office,
who will discuss the 'post-war
crime trend.
Special Agents John R. JMcCul
loch and Ralph C. Vogel will talk
on bank robbery Jnvestigations
and safety precautions in th
hauling of domestic and ioreign
make small arms.
A demonstration fn practical ar
rest problems also Is to be given.
'For 4 years I dreamed of delicious home-cooked meals X years la
foxholes and 1 year that I've been out!
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Every year
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forward to wishing you a hrroriY Easier. I
May theEastet bunny make all your i
wishes come truiel !
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