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4 Thai Stal man. Salw. Ore.. Wedn dory. October 23. 1946 cDrtfionfatcsraaa V Favor Sway Us. No Fear Shall Aw" Tnm fflnl SUUiaua. Mareb tt. ItSl THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAUUE. Editor and Publisher Meatier ! toe Associated Press Tbe AmHU4 rna Is eselnsrvel entitled U Um far pbUcUe a til mm dtoaaUb credited to II M etheewtoe credited Is this Retiion of Strategy The debate respecting control of the Dardanelles has re sulted in ome fuier-pointing at Panama and Suez canals. The Turih answer that the atom bomb makes dangerous depend ed e .n r-irrow waterways applies to these canals as well as to the M:a:t between "fcurope and Asia Minor. Britain is retting out of Egypt, which further ex l tr.r &ez canal, and instead is reported to be considering opening a new route across central Africa. The world war ilamnl bow tenuous wit the lifeline of empire through the Medittrranean, and Britain evidently wants an alternate, if lyr. tr , route. Our :ttmeri and military leaders ought also to be con siders the vulnerability of the Panama canaL A merchant vr.el. n advance of a declaration of war, might carry a bomb f jr eaplonon when the ship is in the locks, which might result in puttirp the canal out of business for months. A plane launch ed from a submarine might carry an atom bomb to destroy the tnta'la.tions at the canal. The j.::rnative i not another canal through Nicaragua, but develtmi? .better continental routes. Such strategy would call fur eiw-t merit of rail facilities across northern states, through the rer.ul tatr and the southern states; also for great, broad h:h. With such facilities, and with a two-ocean navy the los of the Panama canal would not be fatal it would not be anyhow unless we were given other bad lickings. The other and preferable alternate is to develop the United Nation no peace may be firmly established, and along with it an atomic control commission which can make the outlawing of military use of the atom bomb effective. The general assembly of the United Nations meets in this country, starting today. Undoittdiy friction will develop; but if the UN can get over it infancy and the diseases attendant on that period it may be come the iepected arbiter of disputes among nations and the a!;c.if fcarj.rr aeamit report to forfee. When the UN is securely e.;dblhd then we should be ready to relinquish militarization of the Canal Zone. Until that time we must keep it strong, and a' 'be Name time be prepared with alternate routes of transpor ts". -on g'-:-t its damage or destruction. Measure on C'itv llallot In the nty of Salem three propositions are submitted for decision by the electors. The first is a charter amendment which o-.lri abMilutely prohibit the placing of parking meters on any of trt iiets in S.lem. The other two are amendments to clarify the p i. i u .i barter revision adopted last May. In our judgment the fiii-t n.iMire shuuld Ik defeated and the other two adopted To adept a charter amendment prohibiting installation of pa:koK rrnters would be to tie the hands of the city council f ix the inl finite future. That is too much of a denial of the e-n e of found judgment in meeting the city's problems. WU-n this matter was first proposed there was violent oii'n to installing parking meters, led by the retail trade tr.:tu . f.me ha parsed that opposition has moderated. Many l . :'. -m n have come to the conclusion that parking meters a.v. ..M ta installed heras a means to speed up circulation of tfjftw tthr towns, many much smaller than Salem", have in , d the rreters and the experience is proving highly satis fa. ti.i Rarely have they been ordered out after trial. T amtndment should be defeated, leaving in the hands of :r. tiy council power to decide whether or when parking rix'ttri ih,.H le intallil here. We recommend Vote 501 "X NO. The i.'.lir two nwr.iimrnti straighten out conflicts which d- r ta iM-) .n the general charter revision adopted by the voters lat May 'I r.e conflicts aroe as a result of last minute altera ts s Uft-ie the mtasure was submitted. The amendments de f:re cUailv the elective municipal officers, their terms, and rrrtral .f normmatum and election. So far as known there is no ur.M!if.n to these amendments which were carefully drafted to um( fen.riguiliei or clear up errors in the original charter. Wt ittommend Vote 502 X Yes; and 504 X Yes. Tired of Milking ('.oh Marion county dairymen defend the recent increase in milk price ar.d cite increaa.-d costs they have to bear for "feed and USor i.r factor which critics of dairymen overlook and that is that rr'. of them are tired. They lost their hired help and the help .f their sons during the war and had to carry very Hrav latere in order to sustain production. The war is over b it hamls fcre not corning back to dairy farms. Wages remain high. ri help hard to et. The price question aside, the con-sun-.ir.ft public owe a real debt to the dairy farmer and his fjirily ft.r their consistent hard work to supply milk to urban deljei The dairy farmer hasn't heard of the 40-hour week, to woks acation and holidays on pay. Dairying is still a twAe-a-uay. seven-davs-a-week chore. ( aution Signal Pine images are rapidly developing heebie-jeebies. They fluctuate w .dely. Some prices are zooming upwards; others, are plummeting downwards. The range and uncertainty of a season of ee.4.rmc change. !rice ; will act along more independent line lather than conform to general patterns. Ir.f.in.d opinion is more fearful of price deflation than of fjrthr ti f'ition. ProductioM is really going forward, though re'ardeei in itrtain area. So-called "soft goods" are coming into abundant h rply. In fact merchants may run into some 'dis tre.s' ii, fihandt.se as they shop around this fall and winter. Ci : Mn.i.1 trade will he enormous, but look for the amber caption ptyrfcl on Inventory accumulations. A i peculator was caught in the trading squeeze in cotton r i .,t eral million dollars when the price dropped $25 a b Tu pi.ie had cone way out of sight to 40c a pound. It was d .. f.r a drop. We can expect the southern senators however to rave cr the decline in the cotton price. Editorial Comment Fraaa Oar Gen temporaries n.wxn ro rr.HiiE.T ". a tle three characters. l.fyn4' Bumtl live in a comic strip. 'A iIImri I ft Kikkm U I hirf Juttice at the Colorado Supreme C i 'Ms fall ra unopposed Democratic nominee for Gov- e; : - f Ia la Mrtgton i State Treasurer, and this fall was unopposed R--,. .1 tm i.n 1 1 mme ft (einr. T. If rer !ikt. pmil iyir a local publkr-opinion-poll organi se; -ii U- T.r.d ut wluH Denverites thought, had the question asked of a i ei mm r.tative crss--.e tion of Denverites: V r- . D-gwool Bunistead? Who is William Lee Knous. Who U I. ft ll igtno 1 hr.n- i e f each f) identified Dagwood Bunxstead correctly. Th'ly : rach lh) knew who William Lee Knous is. Ttt'iie of ei h liM knew who Leon Lavington is. Ttr r.ir is ea-jr Get Chic Young to let William Knous and L.n L.ir.gun run in hi comic strips. Christian Science Monitor. ' Kku tartly Mid we had no business supervising elections in BcHta-f .a. A more effective rejoinder would have been to pro !..' rWiyr.an supervision of our elections in, say, Mississippi or SoMth Carol ua. Mr. Dyrnes would have found that reply hird to ccacter. . Paul Gallon's BEHIND THE NEWS fDtosrtkai Klata reatarea Sya- Sleata. la.. aeraSacua la srbala t in part strirtly pr tilbeS. 7 WASHINGTON. Oct. 22 The headlines fspeak of peace as if it was arourid some corner some where, arid might be discovered if we could find a way to it al though actually in distance, it is far off, vaguely unplaced, and is not yet - discernible. The tech niquie of the situation is this: The Z . " ?flve peace treat- i j: , ies, iuu in oia- pute, are not on tne agenda ol the 52 nations meet ing in assembly for their first real opening ses- j sion Wednesday. r iThis meeting is concerned with some admissions, site, and rou tine organ iza- raal staitea tional problems. What the session really means is that 31 mpre small nations, most ly those of Latin America (not in the war) are - coming into the peace picture. Now M. Byrnes, the state sec retary, once said he would take his stalemated problem on the unfinished treaties to this whole world assembly of nations. If stalemate .persists. Frankly he ex pects it to persist. His speech upon his Veturn from the 21 na tions in Paris (the nations in the war) was detected by close watch ers to be pomewhat pessimistic. Speech Nat Chipper Mr. Bytjjnes came back from the arduous session In Pans, looking chipper, Vounger i n fact than when he. left. But his speech was not chipper. He rather indicated between the lines he expected Russia would veto the Idea of a free trad leg Danube, for instance ana novi coma ne men go ahead and mak a separate peace with Russia-dotninated Rumania, for a free Dantipe. when Russia would make a tfeaty with Rumania for a closed panube. This veto, he expected fa be lodged at the com ing New Vork session of the big four council of ministers, because Molotov did not listen to his radio speech, but sent underlings to hear trie radio! and stood his ground presented at Paris. Mr. Brnes had some pope Russia would real ize the World did not like her way and would change her posi tion but hot much. Even if ihe did, peace is yet far distant. The treaties would have to be ratified by our senate, af ter debate! and iany moderation of principle ; vould be interminably resisted. , f Russia gave in, the treaties would hang fire perhaps a year. As matters stand, peace rests only with the "attitude- of Russia, and an attitude is an in tangible factor, so peace actually is not arofmd the nxt corner, or mny i-vrucf jrei in. signi. Military Break resaiaie Some flurries of apprehension were noticed in certain naval quarters simultaneously with the Byrnes speech, and with the Rus sian movf upon the Dardanelles (to sir nothin? of the unreason able attitude of Tito.) At least one naval authority has been suspect ing a brek might occur in the military (not diplomatic) situation at any time. Yet the continuing truth is Russia is in no condition for military action and would not be a Die to sustain more than a limited campaign for a brief pe riod. Military action is not ex pected. U j The only new development tossed into assembly meeting, be fore Jt started, was .the problem laid down for foreign policy by the federal Council of Churches. No official here rushed to comment upon it The attitude of the Byrnes people around the i state department hag been that nothing should be: said of a religious na ture Just inow, certainly not in volving any clerical hopes, as the recent movement for Christian solidarity I has shown firm sub stance behind the Byrnes policy. Particularly few wished to ques tion this .flew church advice, inas much as it set down the levelhead ed realities of the basic condition, namely: "Marxist communism in its orthodox philosophy stands clearly opposed to Christianity. It is atheistic in its conception of ul timate reajity and materialistic in its view of man and his destiny" and the statement defended the necessity i of maintaining man's "individual human personality." These words stood as a bulwark to the Byrnes policy. Wards Intended for U.S. Later on the program rallied some question about our own free enterprise j system and how long it will continue recommending elimination of international intol erance, our own prejudices and practices -which lead to tension, cooperation with Russia cultural ly, religiously and economically and building up democracy. As these words seemed applicable al most entirely to Russia, in view of the vetoed peace condition and vague hopes, the part intended for us, fell upon more or less oth erwise busy ears here. You could hear comment that the first part of the statement seemed wisely written by someone like George Foster Dulles, who knows affairs while the latter part must have been composed by someone with more critical, unencOuraged hope that the situation warrants. : Thus hope for relaxing tensions was largely assigned to Russia. The early advice that "tensions are unavoidable" was more in keeping with the official mind, as well as the suggestions of all three statements (Byrnes, church council and Vandenberg) j that these tensions will continue a long time and we should get accus tomed to them, as an adopted, al though not wanted, state of inter national life. This was the true state of affairs. The overwhelming viewpoint here was that Russia is brazenly bluffing diplomatically, that if one tenth of her bluff is called in a firm and friendly way, she must yield to the common necessity for human existence in an atomic era. rj . Successful Rocket Experiment the Safety Valve LETTERS FROM 8TATESMAN READERS RENT CONTROL BURDEN To :the-Editor: In announcing decontrol on meat by which he hoped to make evej-yone happy, the moneyed interests and people as well, Mr. Truman tries to make it clear' to property 'owners that they must almost solely, carry the burden of control, iwith prices on every thing constantly rising, including taxes. The points mentioned in OPA rent control by which a landlord can: adjust his rents, certainly shows a lack of brain power on the part of someone, in setting up such a program. There are other points that anybody, landlord or tentiant, would agree that is equal ly important. One of them , is where onei buys from a former owner who! has moved away and taken on other interests, and was interested only in selling the prop erty and figured it not worth while to make any change in rent al with hislpresent tennants. In this so-called "rent control" program, they propose to scrutin ize the rentals charged by various owners of property and keep them all -equal according to what you are j supposed to charge for what and where j located. There never was; a time;When property owners charged the same for the same layout, any more than grocery men charge the same for a "pound of butter". However we have the right not to purchase the pound of butter! Everyone is fed up on all these unnecessary building permits is sued for non-essential structures; race tracks, night clubs, mansions being built in various cities, while our; veterans stand by and can't build themselves a shack because of such, and the lumber and other materials rolling out of our coun try ;by the tons. j The rent control is going to die a natural death for there are not many who are i going to pay any attention to it. i Helen Giler 1 1620 Center Street. THIRTEEN YEARS OF REPEAL! To, the Editor: Repeal came Sept. 6, 1933. It followed thirteen years of prohi bition. Let us remember some of its promises.1 Have they been kept? Promise No. 1. Repeal would lower taxes. Taxes have steadily risen since Sept. 6, 1933. There were six years before -the war started and during those six years taxes were constantly raised. No. 2. Repeal would balance the budget. Did it? O! But we've had; a war. The war began Dec. 7, 1941, eight years after repeal, and; not once during those eight long years was the national budget balanced. No. 3. Repeal would eliminate the I bootlegger. Two years ago Secretary of the Treasury Mor ganthau said that the amount of bootleg liquor being sold was something like half as much as that: sold through legitimate chan nels. No. 4. Repeal promised to bring prosperity. For six long years af ter repeal we longed in vain for some sign of prosperity before the war in Europe, then our own entry into the war brought what we call prosperity. No. 9. Repeal would reduce drinking and give us true temper ance. With some 40,000.000 drink ers now in the United States, some two or three million excessive drinkers and some 500,000 alco holics, can anyone think for ' a moment that this promise has been kept? No. 6. The saloon would not re turn. In name it has not in some states, but something worse has come. In pre-prohibition days the saloons were frequented only by men and all bartenders were men. Under repeal the bars are fre quented by women as well as men and many of the bartenders are young women. There is nothing the liquor busi ness fears as much as it does the return of prohibition. Thirteen years after repeal there is still a continuous effort to discredit and ridicule it. Prohibition; did close the saloons, breweries and distil leries and raised a generation of youth who had no thirst for liquor until the liquor business by skill ful advertising created that thirst. , Chas. C. Ha worth, 1 Los Angeles, Calif. HEAVY CRUISER, SUB DUE PORTLAND, Oct. 22-(;p)-T h e heavy cruiser Fall River and the submarine Catfish are expected to enter the Columbia river Friday en route to Portland for Navy Day Oct. 27. GR1IS AND BEAR IT By Lichty 1 GiUhiCie C4?. SW :L-rm .--CX sV 4- Tz- -a .s"j rf ; aj Cas. 0a TmwV. i.e., .7e Ulr I S33TJQS (Continued from page 1) it still will be a nip and tuck race to have enough energy to meet de mand. Obviously it is impossible to make a projection years in ad vance with full accuracy. Much depends on the state of business For example the aluminum plants now take 80 per cent of Bonne ville's industrial power deliveries A falling off in demand for alum inum might result in reducing this demand. However the signs all point to steady expansion in the northwest and we do not want to lose industries for lack of elec tric energy. If we were permitted to pick and choose we might easily con clude that better use could be made of the energy now used in aluminum ingot plants. The plants provide very little employment locally and most of their product goes elsewhere. If the same en ergy could be employed in light manufacturing it would provide far greater local employment and probably consume far more local materials. Of course we do not want to lose these plants; but we ought to go forward toward fabrication of aluminum which is where the employment ratio would increase greatly. With the entrance of the fed eral government into the business of producing electric power on a large scale private companies sus pended expansion of their gen erating facilities. They saw ii was impossible to compete with tax free, low-interest-rate govern ment plants; so they became pur chasers of government-produced energy. Very few private plant hydro-electric projects have been authorized since 1933, in the north west. As the government goes on with construction of additional dams the private companies and public bodies will be more de pendent than ever on the govern ment for their supplies of energy. The federal government can call the turn and pretty much dictate the economic life of the region. This can be said for Dr. Raver, that he has worked hard for what he thought was the best interest pf the northwest. The retention of power so vast, however, means a real threat unless it is adminis tered wisely. The office is still political, and in unfriendly hands or controlled by persons whose interests were adverse to those of the northwest it could be used to cripple the economy of the re gion. That is why the northwest must keep a live interest in who governs the developing power plant of the federal government in the northwest. "1 won't re so far as to say our emplyes are crntene but I will say the wages are high, the hours short and the working ctinaiuwns iaeei: - Boys and Girls Teams Compete SWEGLE Extra school activi ties these fall days center around the ball games, with a boys and girls' team; all members but one are seventh and eighth grade stu dents. Huey Towery from the fifth grade helps out one team. Captain of the girls' team is Geraldine Bales, a new eighth grader, and Glen Straw is captain of the boys' team. Members of the, girls' team are Donna Mae Brandt, Barbara Van Loh, Norma Wilson, Barbara Harris, Darlene Crawley, Delores Smyers and Shirley Evans. Boys playing are Lanny Dilbern, Dick Smith, John Biles, Arlyn Lee. Roy Kennedy, Jimmy Ames, Eldon Harms, Ronald Nelson, Arnold Hoffman, and Jerry Bales. One game with the boy' team of Auburn has been played and an other with Auburn for this Friday is panned. . - The Literary Guidepost By Carle Hedge THE THREE BLOSSOMS OF CHANG AN, ky Keith West (MacMUUa; S.7S). Novels based on the indulgences of the ancient rich seldom go un read. Nor do those which concern the woes that beset men to take unto themselves too many women. In this story of olden China. Keith West has woven the two themes into a poetic tale as exo tic and delicate as a Ming vase. It might have been subtitled "or the Three Women of Lien Kin Wai," for it concerns mostly the adventures, marital and extra marital, of a virile but sensitive young government official. Lien. The author, an Englishman who has traveled extensively in Yun nan and South China and has written two earlier novels with China as a backdrop, unfolds his story in the lyrical, thoughtful prose supposedly adhered to by all well-bred Chinese during the early dynasties. Lien's three blossoms are his wife, his concubine and his mis tress. No sooner has he met his first love, Hibiscus, a pretty widow whose late mate's body is unbur ied and scarcely cold, than she has proposed, and he accepted. In enlarging his household to maintain the prestige of his offi cial position, he buys Jasmin, a plump young servant girl. Despite his intentions to the contrary, she, too, succeeds in conquering his heart. Then Peony, mysterious, but more mature than her prede cessors, enters Lien's life. Peony is as jealous as the other two but stoutly refuses to enter his household. Nevertheless Lien is torn between his affections, and the women nag and bicker. With typical Oriental stoicism, calculating and almost unemo tional, he finally finds a solution. ; West offers a studied insight into the squalor, greed, plagues and superstition in which the an cient Chinese lived. STEVEIIS SMAriTXY STYLED JETVEJLIXY FOR An unusually fine selection of distinguished masculine jewelry . Rings, watches, tie and collar pins, key chains and other accessories de signed to serve you handsomely for many years to come. Stare Hours. sJt to SJtS S3 Coart. Salem ftTTEIMOH DOB GBOWEBS II HIED I ATE DELIVERY ON lalJp Prices Are Due to Advance. Buy Now and Save! Your "Caterpillar" John Deere Dealer . INTERSTATE TRACTOR AIID EQUIPIIEirr CO: 210 South Liberty u Salem, Oregon Phone 7966 SALEII nOTABY CLUB SPOIISOES IHIFE W$M V T1 . ....... ..jaw gm J ISation-U'ide Comedy iS P Sfage Hit One Night Only - Tuesday, Nov. 5, 8 p. n. SALEII HIGH SCHOOL AUDITOHIUII All Seats Reserved $S.i - VtA - $1.0 - SL2S (Tax Included) On Sale at Maple-Keene Spertlnr Goods. 37S St2te Address Mail Orders. Robert Fenix. Salem RtUry Clab. Saleaa i A I 1 s Announcem en t! A. K. Danielson, Realtor, has opened a Real Estate and Loan Office at 168 North 12th Street, Salem Listings will recelre prompt and efficient treatment. Please call us any time. Just ask for "Dan, the Real Estate Man" Phone 2-1483 First Church of Christ, Scientist, Salem, Oregon ANNOUNCES A FREE LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ; ENTITLED CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: THE SCIENCE OF HEALTH AND SALVATION BY CLAYTON BION CRAIG, C.S.B. of Cincinnati, Ohio Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts In the Senior High School Audiloriun Thursday, Qclober 24, al 8 P. II, The Public Is Cordially Invited t