PAGE FOtJA Ths OREGON STATESMAN. Salsm. Orscjon. Wsdnssday Morning. May 8, 1948 "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe" Pram First SUUmuo, March 28. 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member of the Associated PreM Tns Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all srs-i dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this What Did They Want? The Salem Chamber of Commerce comes in for an unwar ranted rsp in regard to the recent Cook's tour of newsmen spon sored by the National Association of Manufacturers and Columbia Umpire Industries. In fact, the comments in the May issue of Western Industry published at San Francisco would make a person wonder just what the tour was for, anyway. The magazine says that of the 17 cities visited "only two (Aberdeen and Wenatchee) made any real effort to sell the newspapermen on their local food products. It mentions two other "individual efforts" but says ' these were not the work of the chamber of commerce." . Of Sakm it comments: "But at Salem, home of the famous tart Oregon prune, this tasty fruit was ignored. Even the waitress in the hotel didn't know the difference between an Oregon and a California prune And as for Willamette cherries, even less was said." Here's what the magazine might have said: That Salem was one of a few places in which the banquet-talks did not constitute almost exclusively nothing more than a round of condemnation of the OPA. Instead, the visitors were treated to a fine and com prehensive review of the Willamette valley project and the po tentialities it held for industry. i If the NAM wanted a free box of prunes or cherries, the idea was unfeasonal. If they merely wanted the newsmen to hear high praise of the area's products, why didn't they say bo. It's true that the valley probably doesn't blow its own horn enough, but it's nobody's business except our own. the Weivs By Paul Malion (Distribution "by King -Features Syndicate. Inc. Reproduction In whole or in port strictly prohibited.) ''1 JiK Panl M&Moa WASHINGTON. May 7 The Russian program for world political action is losing, -and a change of front may eventuate from the Browder talks in 4be Kremlin. Severest setback to communist plana for postwar political aggres don wao defeat of their new constitution for Prance. Moscovites con troiieo -tne spirit or tne French government since they 4telasted DeGaulle's policy of a strong army, and aeouirod collaboration at the socialists. Their constitution proposed a single center of government authority in the champer of deputies with a sub servient iuwidottt and cabinet. Faciaiiy thai p poors like utmost democracy somewhat like tne superiority of the British parlia ment yi might tmy. The majority of ' the French electorate was not fooled. Democracy rules by checks and hsiaoce. It gives no unbounded control to a single authority enjrwhere. What the- communist constitution intended was to centralize the power of government so the communists could use it. with out the usual democratic restrictions. By redisrict ing it cild give its industrial centers the greatest representation, and otherwise 6o not forget that French politics is notoriously amenable to cash payments, both foreign and domestic) solidify its power beyond redemption. Every time the communists go to the electorate, it seems, they re being rejected. In the French referendum on the subject last Oc tober, their proposal for a week executive was defeated, although they succeeded ha electing the largest bloc of delegates to the conven tion, la the connivances of international conferences and domestic political bickering, the Moscovites have won the most ground, but at the ba4k4 fees, they have proved weak. British Laser! tea Onst Rens Less conspicuous events than the French election disclose their forced setreat wit even greater clarity. A spare three paragraphs in the London Times recently revealed the decision of the British labor party to change 4ts constitution so as to deny memberships to Com munists Thai decision follows the disclosure made in this column three weeks back, and -not yet generally published, that the leftwing onion m CIO were -taking similar action. In similar quietude, the constitution of several CIO unions is being changed to ban communist party naembers. and unquestionably labor in the two democracies is s Mean tin to purge Haetf of the commurhst Influence. How far it will succeed is -not yet evident, but the intent is genuinely significant because CP had made its deepest inroads in the labor movement. It was in the light of the?e world-changing events that Earl Browde flew to Jtussis on his unexplained mission. The CP postwar political action In this country has been in the hands of the fosterites who oppose cooperation with capitalism. Browder was ousted from party eontrcl bore hoeauae he brought X"P Into cooperation for pro duction Wing the wwc. Will the Moscovites now order a period of CoopesaatMi -again with capataliara here and in the rest of the world? JtOMbt It. Tonk at the matter the way Moscow looks at it. if you wouM Hmti the answer. Capitalism wascthe first enemy chosen by com- nunaai. x-aFcism Became a later enemy, fascism has now been elim a worm newer. Communist aggression against capitalism can stop only through a genuine reorganization of its totalitarian ldeais,-n tms is hardly to be expected now as the Russian govern ment. Slushed with victory and new-won power throughout the world, sres is ares test opporninity Tor world achievement. Bru lw Mlurlan Tnnr Sueeeed But there is another stronger reason for doubt. Democratic capi talism Js etruagbng to its feet, following the war. If the communists eoopexane and wo get production, we may grow strong again. There- lore ttt Beowder mtaatan is likely to succeed only if the Kremlin be cornea -anmincas csnttalMun will laH anyway and a period of false oppsnsamem m justified as a temporary strategic retreat. The decision could savor CP face lifting, and superficial cooperation, but could narajy un into censne depths. In these tundamontal currents, some are saying the ultimate con oenroii.Muuiusm aim communism. BUI socialism is a woad wtoich bos tost enore of its original definition than communism. The nnaw were soctnusU. So were the fascists. So is Russia. The name-aat that communist nation is the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- pubues. British socialism, on the other hand, clings to law. the parlia mentary vysieni ana democratic lorms. Uvonts therefore sre shaping the world conflict into a clash of staUsra. -oietatorship, communism on the one hand versus democracy, capii Hiisnu, toaauaa on me otner. EcTZwOrzx:! Comment From Our Contemporaries THAT BNt WHITE" One f the phenomena of our times, bright and dismal at the e tan, is the Sport Shirt. JusVbow this garment game to be a leading article in retail stocks, nd often. the only offering resembling a shirt, is a story buried some where an. the Tacts of price control versus manufacturers. To hear the manufacturers tett it. OPA made it impossible to make ordinary men's shirts and stay out of the almshouse. OPA has it that the sport shirt slipped through a loophole in price-control regulations: being forced to observe their 1942 prices on articles they had previously made, OPA says, manufacturers shifted to production of shirts on which there were no price precedents. According to this version, fabric manufacturers -gladly joined in, concentrating on development of iridescent fabrics called Sun"-this and "Glo"-that, and the chromatic revolution was new Tne result wns stores full of high-priced "shirts." cut as jerkins, Mother Hufa bards or onjrthing but shirts; colored fi rehouse red, shock ing yellow. bosBsnng Jsrown or anything but white; finished with saddle-stitch, csmhang embroidery or anything but a common hem. and aWsnd with "out tons of leather, lucite, chromium or anything but ordinary whits veart. To make quite sure that none of these roguish cm mi as too -oouM anode to simulate shirt, the collars are cut just at the sternum, swotting Adam's apples which have been decently co i sad nnin ihanfcKmley Administration. The result is to lend to the aatpensaneo- of nviasiy settled middle-aged men a terrible coyness, the eorawderabter eapanae of brightly-colored front suggesting gera niums in the bar window of a comfortable house built in 1917 and the Buster Brown collar implying a morbid reversion to childhood. Tne situation imposes upon those no longer coltish a heavy handi cap in Je transaction of their affairs. A businessman cannot enter, upon n serious conference with strangers without either brazening it out asMh being taken for a superannuated rug-cutter or explaining about us enforced resemblance to the wood duck, a silly note calcu lated to touild no confidence in the speaker's ripe business judgment. An English via i tor to America last year was struck by the masc uline plumage around him, and when someone explained that it was a warusne development, he said: "I see. Those are your austerity shirts." San Francisco Chronicle. tlOUIOATEO MlttlONSV: V f" OF ENEMIES OF FASCISMV V 1 I f K PROMOTED HATRED JK fetMl ill ?-Mi r- v-. v:. si I of -"-iW- I ENLARGED GERMAN POPUtATION AP Newsfeaturei fNE year offer Adolf HHUr'g total defeat, some of I tatanit ideas arm still ascendant, some of his evil ooec fivos sfi'f attained. He wanted to increase Germany's popula tion to increases its war potential: the increase of 3 million under Hitler before the war was followed by a continued high birth rate during the war itself. He wanted to sot peoples of Europe against leach other: race hatreds and antagonisms thave been emphasized. He wanted to wipe out the Jews: Eu rope's Jewish population has decreased from 7,500,000 to 1 ,500,000. He wanted to reduco populations of neighboring countries: the reduction caused by enforced separations of 1 1 , 000,000 coumies tor five years is timely never to be mode Ho wanfodifo debilitate other Europeans: his policy deliberate starvation has left its mark on off fvrone outside Germany. He wanted chaos: Europo's economics and politics are still muddled. ':"i- REDUCED POPULATIONS IN NEIGHBOR COUNTRIES V-E Day Was One Year Ago The Literary Guidopost By Jos CHARLES DICKENS, by Uaa Fop Henaessy (Howel), Soskln; f). If you have shied away from Dickens' novels because they are Ions and full off well as pertinent betterjshy away raphyi To get the well information that ens put his wife years and took tress, i the reader must wads through 476 pages jampacked with minutiae on; did, read and said days of his 58 years. And there isnt much information on the showgirl, Ellen fernan, except that Dickens foui)d her weeping because she had self tab much in Pope-Hennessy has sifted thor roughly for the voluminous Dickens letters Wins- extraneous as detail, you had from this biog- publicized new Charles Dick aside after 22 showgirl mis- what Dickens on most of the DiJ I nTTOfTiYR 1) lo display her- her act. Dama first time the but writing ability fallen short of biography fwill repay any s or of genius her selectivity, and insight have her industry. It's : an important nevertheless that student of Dicketi in general. Starting as a factory boy, be coming an ace reporter through his own industry and ability, Dickens was a (celebrity with five servants and Pickwick to his credit at 28. U's hard to rea lize the hold he had on the Eng lish and American publics. Not only did his novels and Christ mas stories sell by the hundreds of thousands (het Could get a thousand undepreciated pounds for a short story fat the drop of a hat), but he packed them in at theatres and halls here and abroad to hear ramatic read ings from his ojkn works. Ha had more fun aj that than at anything and he Almost literally laid huge audiences in the aisles. The creator off Scrooge and Mrs. Gamp andj Oliver Twist and Little Nell ad half a hun dred other classic characters was a fop who dyed his hair, also an earnest and successful social re former as certified by. Karl Marx. He fathered 10 children, supported whole Jhouses full of relatives, was on of the most ' successful magazine editors of the day, a chronjc traveler, an intimate of the great. And the quantities of food drink and se datives he consumed make it wonder he survived as long as he did. Lignite is a daijk brown coal with low carbon ard high oxygen content. GRIN AND BEAR IT (Continued from page this change is to make the ad ministrator the responsible ex ecutive for the city's business affairs, with authority to "hire and fire" personnel except those under civil service. Dissolved if the amendment is adopted would be the park board, public playgrounds board and the water commission, their functions being assumed by the administrator. Principal duties assigned the administrator are: "To supervise and control all administrative and business af fairs of the city, and generally to manage its affairs and con cerns, except the legislative and appointive powers vested in the council and the judicial func tions of the municipal judge. "To see that all ordinances and laws of the state are en forced. "To ocganUe the work of the departments under his control and to assign assistants, depu ties and employes from any of fice or department to perform work or services in connection with any other office or depart ment in the city, or to work in more than one department or office. "To act as purchasing fegent for the city. t "To control '? the purchase, storage and distribution of all supplies, materials, equUiment and contractual services requir ed by the city, or any'depart ment or agency thereof, in the manner provided by ordinance, and to establish and enforce standard specifications with re spect to such supplies, materials and equipment. . "To prepare and submit to the council the annual budget estimate and such reports a may lie required by that body, including the annual reports of all the city departments." Salem's business affairs need better management. The city has outgrown the cumbersome meth od which it has labored under jfor many, many years. There is ; lack of coordination among the several departments. Adminis tration is not controlled by the appointed Officers but by com mittees of the council. Busy men and women are called on to leave their business and go out to look after minor details of administration, which often means dela-y. The city;' government has been conducted honestly and unpaid officials have devoted much time in city service. But the city's affairs have grown to a point where full-time centra - lized management should be pro vided. No business of tho size of Salem's would attempt to operate without an executive head. The universal experience in business snd in city govern merit is that a competent man ager saves many times his own salary. There is little prospect that the administrator will become an autocrat. He is responsible to the council whoso members are elected by the people, a major ity being up for election each two years. Moreover, like any other person dealing with the public, he knows he must give satisfactory service if he is to hold his job. Several times before Salem has voted on some form of man ager plan, but not before on just this plan. There has been a growing sentiment in favor of having a smaller council and a more compact administration. The trend in other cities is all in the same direction. Now is the time to put over this change and provide the city with a type of government better designed for getting the most out of our tax dollars. Public Records By Lichty j&Zy I !. ot r . uc w ear. It's as Just think! Next month they praanWd o sw exciting as waiting for a baby. Isn't itr JITSTtCS COI RT Melvin Glenn fiurdick, no chauffeur's license, fined $1 and costs. Roy Livingston, charged with creating a disturbance while in toxicated, trial set for May 9j charged also with threatening to commit a felony, trial set for May 14; released on $150 bail. Joe, William and Merlin Gig gers; charged with disorderly conduct, released on $250 bail each. MUNICIPAL COl'ET Roy Livingston, creating a dis turbance, released on $150 bail. Thomas G. Hastings, 3.16 State St., violation of basic rule, $7.50 bail. Clinton Cooter, 161 S. 14th st , violation of basic rule, $7.50 bail. PROBATE COUET Julia Steinkamp, estate: Etate appraised at $5OU0. Doris Millwom. guardianship estate: Order authorize Hollie A. Mcllwain, guardian. to accept $625 as settlemeut for alleged in juries suiiered ly ward in auto accident. Albert Oehler, estate: Estate appraised at $37,716. William L. Bishop, estate: Es tate closed and Elsie A. Bishop administrator, discharged. Milly E. Hilborn, estate: Nile W. Hilborn appointed executor and J. Ray Rhoten, Lawrence R. Fisher and Margaret L. Johnson appointed appraisers. Wayne C. Graft, estate: For rest U. Groft appointed adminis trator and Henry S. Barnes, Jr., Henry Jungwirth and J. Ray Rhoten appointed appraisers. Kittis H. Graver, estate: Ellen Morley appointed appraiser in place of Keith Powell. Jennie H. MichelL estate: Or der sets aside sale of real prop erty negotiations by Ralph C. Zimmerman, administrator. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS John D. Storm, 23, carpenter, and Marjorie Laverne Ruch, 19, checker, both Salem. James Clement Butte, 21, stu dent, 1675 S. Cottage st., and Janet Marie Halick. 20, file clerk, 1850 S. High st.. both Salem. CIRCUIT COURT Delta Ray vs Deena Hart: De fendant answers admitting1 and denying. Mack E. Beck vs Pacific Grey hound Lines and others: Defend ants Jack D. Matheson and Mel vin L. Stinson answer admitting and denying. Maurice D. Dickinson vs Mrs. Charles Duval and others: De fendant Duval files motion to to strike. Samuel W. Atkinson and Alice E. Atkinson vs D. N. Foy and others: Complaint to quiet title. Melvin F. Lear man, doing busi ness as Pacific Decorators and Supply Co., vs Mike Steinbeck and Harry M. Steinbeck, doing business as Leonard's Supper Club: Complaint for judgment of $1788 from each defendant for service and materials allegedly rendered by plaintiff. Raymond Rabenau and Reva C. Rabenau vs Gene Wilbanks and Lohree H. Wilbanks: Suit dis missed without cost to either party as settled. Engineers Are Pallbearers At Rites Today Active pallbearers at this after noon's funeral service for C. B. McCullough, late state highway department bridge engineer and chairman of Salem's long-range planning commission, will be en gineers and other executives of the highway department: R. H. Baldock. E. A. Collier. J. M. Dev ers. S. H. Probert. W. A. Reeves and H. C. Smith. The Rev. George H. Swift will officiate at 3 p m. In St. Paul's Episcopal church. R. D. Barton will sing and Ruth Bedford will be at the organ. Honorary pallbearers will be Chief Justice Harry Belt. Jus tic Arthur Hay. Justice James T. Brand. Justice Hall Lusk, G. S. Pax son, William Tugman, Clay Cochran, George Putnam, Harry N. Crain. Charles Sprague, James McFarland, Ray Furrow, George Arbuckle, Ralph Cooley, T. H. Banfield. Merle Chessman, Arth ur W. Schaupp. J met A. Davit, Tom Davis. W. H. Lynch. Dr. E. B. McDaniel, E. G. Rickett. A. G. Skelton, O. A. Chase. J. W. De Souza. Sam Murray, H. B. Glais yer, Joseph A. Weber. William E. Chandler and M. Stephenson. Surviving McCullough are his widow and a son. John R. Mc Cullough, both of Salem. Chemeketans' Annual Outing To Be Planned First public meeting for per sons interested in the Chemeke t arts' first posfwar annual outing has been scheduled for Thursday night in the YMCA basement The outing is to be held August 3-18 in the high lake country south of Wallowa lake. Varied activities will include boating, fishing, swimming, hiking and clhnbing of "the Matterhorn" and Eagle cap." Exhibits of outdoor equipment are to be on hand for the Thurs day night meeting. Walter Morse will discuss proper handling of photographic equipment for out door vacations. Luther Cook, chairman of the annual outing committee, said Tuesday that the Chemeketans would welcome at the meeting any person interested In joining the outing. T Rites Today Fo(r Minister Graveside services will b held at historic Jason Lee cemetery at 11:30 a.m. today for the Rev. R. K. Duniap. member of the Ore gon Methodist conference for 40 years, who died at his Forest Grove home Msy 4 at the age of T7. Coming into the Oregon con ference in 1895, he served it con tinually except for some years as assistant in the world service and centenary agencies of the church. His wife preceded him in death in 1942. He is survived by two sons, Herbert M. and Leonard E. Duniap. Dr. Thomas Yarnes of the First Methodist church of Forest Grove will officiate at today's rites here, the Rev. Roy A. Fedje assisting. All Methodist ministers in Salem have been asked to participate in the services. NOIILGRENs FILE An assumed buines name cer tificate for Nohlgren's Restaur ant, 440 State st.. was filed with the Marion county clerk Tuesday by Ralph S. Nohlgren. Fanny S. Nohlgren and August II. Nohl gren. Shotgun shells, scopes, sights. Maple-Keene Sporting Goods. JUDGE AT MEET The Marion county budget committee recessed Tuesday while Judge Grant Murphy attended an executive board meeting of the county officers' association in Portland and M. G. Gunderkon, another committee member, at tended a rattle kale. Sleeping bags, tents and tarps. Maple-Keene Sporting Goods. PROGRAM OF MUSIC A programLn keeping with Na tional Music week is scheduled for presentation this noon before the Hollywood Lions club, meet ing at Its Lions Den. Al Croe It chairman of arrangements Archery sets and bos cut 50. Maple-Keene Sporting Gkm1v CLOUD CHASER. TONIGHT Salem Cloud Chasers model air plane club is to meet at 7 30 to night at the Salem chamber of commerce. Aluminum and plywood boats now on display Maple-Keene Sporting Goods. SPUR TRACK GRANTED Southern Pi-ifi-' spur track from Trade street to Valley Park ing Co. received franchise re newal from the city council Monday. MISSINO FROM HOSPITAL Phyllis Hamilton was reported mi swing from the state hospital at 6 pm. Monday by hospital authorities. NEW TAX1CAB APPROVED City council Monday approved DeLuxe Cab Co.'i application for a license for an additional taxi cab In the city. ATTEND POLICE SCHOOL. Sheriff Denver Young and Col. If. G. Maison, assistant super in ten dent of the Oregon state po lice, are attending the opening sessions of the police admiruf tra tive officers' school in Portland Tuesday. The course will continue through Thursday. "Cyn" Croniss Photographs and Frames. 1st Natl Bank Bldg. . TO TALK CITT TLAN If. E. Barker, secretary-treatur-er of the Salem central trades and labor council, will preside st an open forum for all city residents at tonight at the labor temple. The purpose of the meet is to discuss various kinds of rlty gov ernment avalljble to halem's voters. Auction Friday. See classified. THREE RETURNED Three students reported as missing from Chemawa Indian school were located by rlty police near Highland and Fairground road late Monday night. They were tinned oer to school officials Hollywood grounds Hd Florist, !hotie 2 2075 Falr wests PETERSON NOMINATED Charles Peterson hat been nom inated for commander of the Dis abled American Veterans, Salem chapter No. 6. for the election to be held June 7. We have the nviat complete gun smith shop In the Northwest with complete line of parts, bights, and scopes. Heblueing of all types of giins Maple-Keens Sporting Goods TWO CABS COLLIDE Two cabs were damaged in a collision at High and Mill streets Tuesday afternoon. Driven wets Emil Stewart. 1990 Frederick t., and Keith F. Rabe. 1394 N. Sum mer st. Tennis and Loafer shorts, aitorted colon, Maple-Keent Sporting ; Good. ( STEVENS ' Gifts for Mom" Tax Ballot Title Appealed to Court The ballot title for the basic school support initiative measure was appesled to the state su preme court Tuesday by F. H. Young. Portland, manager of Oregon Tax and Research. Inc. Young contends that the short ballot title prepared by the at torney general does not give a true and impartial statement of the purposes in said measure, that it is argumentative and fails to indicate to the voters the true purport, purpose and extent of the measure. raanat. ro rsaracTion? Tbrs the sew cosspertt by ELGIN. AMERICAN wre created for row! TUr beauty U design, jewel like crafuMsaaaaip and KwUm finisk win the heart of every woaoaa catck tin eys of every aw Tae perfect fft' Arcoaat Tg rjfv Opes An SSt Ceert It. Rslem, Ore. MARINE LEAGUE MEET Salem Marine Corps League will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday at Normandy Manor. All ex-marine corps personnel are invited to at tend, said David Ringland, league chairman. RETIRES FROM GROCERY John G. Marr filed a notice of retirement with the Marion coun ty clerk Tuesday from J. G. Marr grocery. Wanted Experience pre ferrctl, lo work in lingerie and sportswear department. (ootl par - most pleasant surroundings. v SEE MR. SKZZN 0. IE D) KJ 9 234 N. Liberty Salem NEWMAN CAR TAKEN Dale Newman. 1935 N. Capitol st., told police Tuesday that his car was taken from near his resi dence after 11 p.m. Monday. ELECTRICAL Installations and Maintenance Chronalox 8id A Water Heaters Bish" Bishop "Jimmy" Byers, CI. Rex Raroey "Ken Meredith, G.I. George Hubert Loyd McCain, G.I. Wall-Air Electric Furnaces Them&dor Wall A PortabU Heaters 'George" Ryland "Jack" Quinn, C.I. (BE0G3GE EJ.ECTRDC Range Wiring - Repairs - House Wiring 250 Court SL Nights 2-1004 or SMS Ptoon 2-USO