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4 Tb Stat man. Salom, Oregon, Tu dory. May 27 1947 "No Favor Swayg Um, No Fear Shall Awe" Frota First Statesman, Marc tt, 1S51 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher ' Member of the Associated lress The Associated Press te eatlued exclusively U the as for republi cation of all the local stows printed la (his newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. No Retrrat from Socialism One of the most thought-provoking editorials were have read in a good while was one which appeared some days ago in the Portland Oregonian. Its title was "You Can't Second--Guess.' The writer's thesis was that when a country goes social iit it cjinot back up to the system of free enterprise and private capitalism. To quote the introductory portion of the editorial: Perhaps the most disturbing consideration, as one watches the increasing conflict between capitalism and socialism in tha world km the fact Utat where socialism wins the action cannot be -recalled. f c r instance, in a democratic country such as the United States, private ownership is always on the uneasy seat. Election after election can bo ordered on the same issue aay, on govern ment ownership of power. Private ownership may win over whelmingly today, yet tomorrow it faces the effort all over again. But public ownership if it wins just once is for practical purposes secure, not because it necessarily is more efficient but because it buries its mistakes under government funds and mean - while the capital, enterprise, and know-how for private Invest ment and operation have been dissipated. Suppose, for example, that the private power companies of the Pacific Northwest were all taken over by the government's power pool, who could or would repurchase them on a private enterprise basis under any circumstances? So the victory of capitalism in any election is tentative; the victory of socialism Is virtually final. Not orrly, thinks the Oregonian editor, is there no pool of private capital available to acquire vast facilities if the people wanted to abandon state-ownership, but the entrepreneurs, the capital managers, are lacking. A bureau governs by rote and by rule, by order, in quadruplicate or worse. Advancement is by seniority, top appointments may be by politics. The drive is lacking because the incentive is largely gone. The Oregonian ' sucis the matter up thus: This situation makes it most important that the people of the United States, who have the greatest state in the world's his tory, rhould examine with deepest concern every movement toward state confiscation and control. In some instances these movements have been for the best, at least temporarily. Some will be in the future. Right at the moment, in view of the past election and the makeup of congress, the problem is not that of stopping the expansion of government but of preserving what is good in previous expansion. the years ahead however, the pressure will be toward forcing the United States to enter into the drift, whether grad ual or violent, which has caught most of the world notably the most vital part of the British empire. We should all realize how" far Britain itself has gone in abandoning the system which made it a power and made our selves great. And we should all realize, from watching the Brit ish example, how irremediable the situation becomes once the economy of a country is surrendered to government. The decision, in the end, will be made by the people. That is our way. But it is vital that the people understand that they can make the decision in favor of free enterprise may.! times and still remain free agents; they can make the decision in. favor of state ownership" only once without committing themselves ? permanently to that system, There is another fact which en. but which is germane to limited public ownership that we now have works in the matrix of a private "economy. It draws its executives from that field. The current standards of business prudence and operating . efficiency are copied in the publicly owned operation. If it is local enterprise like a water system the governing board is usually drawn from men experienced in private business. This training, this comparison bear ' fruit in the results shown in many governmental plant operations. Put everything under public ownership and the value of the- parallel operation of private enterprise is lost; no longer is there the reservoir of experienced manpower available either for top oversight or for actual management. All these are factors which the public needs to be aware of as it sees Britain going headlong into nationalizing of its major industries and communication systems. Maybe the socialist system can be made to work; but if it fails there is no retreat safe alter a long period of economic chaos. 1 "Children of Light" ' Years ago when investigating boards extracted from pri vate power companies their lists of paid retainers the finger was pointed both at the companies and the recipients of their largess. In fact the business developed into quite a scandal and brought down public opprobrium on the utilities. So the list of those compensated by Bonneville Power administration brings something of a shock, to see the Identity and the number of those who have shared Bonneville checks "for advice and consultation" on a wide variety of matters. he going rates seem to have varied too. Thus Otto S. Beyer received $1 823.50 for 28 i days work "for advice on labor relations with employers" while Edwin Kerr got only $944.82 for advire on method of rnHrin rtitnmra urVir Most of the names are unfamiliar," but three names appear 1 that are. State ' grangemaster Morton Tompkins was paid $2,271.60 for 113 days' service "for advice on-the use of elec tricity in farm operations and development of rural processing plants." Another familiar name is that of Henry Hanzen who was compensated "for advice on conduct of research activities required in connection with war history and on federal, state and local relationship related to the power program. The third name is Carl D. Thomson, long-time executive of the Public Ownership league who has long been on the Bonneville payroll. He got $4,745.42 for 168 Vt days' time "for advice to BPA on existing and prospective customers on power supply and rate problem. ' r. Now the laborer is worthy of his hire; but to the public this showering of checks doesn't look good. Presumably service was rendered. But was it of value; and were these persons the best qualified to render the service desired? It is at just this point that BPA is weakest the inclination to over staff its administration and to hire local politicos on rather hazy assignments. One would hardly expect the "child ren of lifht to fall into the same trap as the "children of iarkne&s." Tax-ievying boards are up to their ears in their annual circus act. trying to walk the budget tightrope without falling off. The trick is to keep the pole they carry in balance, be tween income and outgo, with not more than 6 per cent devia tion. Judging by the number of special elections being called good many board are jumping into the safety net. The virile Boy Scout leadership in the Pacific northwest receives just recognition at the national scout council's annual meeting in New York this week. Region 11 (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Western Montana) Is awarded the .LoriUard Spencer award for membership increase 11.1 per cent over last year. The new facilities for lunch and dinner at Silver Falls park are a welcome addition to one of the most spectacular scenic spots in the northwest. There is little doubt that the conces sionaire will find a ready acceptance of .his venture. John G anther was right in his book when he said of State Treasurer Leslie Scott that he is "without a dishonest hair." He would have been nearly correct if he had left out the quali J fying adjective. the able editor does not touch the discussion. That is, the; very mum fpmnmrs (Continued from page 1) the field of education' and social affairs but he has been a stimu lating speaker before innumerable groups. I recall particularly one event a few years ago which gave some measure of his moral courage. That was when intolerance, usu ally based on personal greed, was running high and finding expres sion in fanning prejudice against the return of Japanese to western Oregon. Gresham was one of the foci of this infection.; A number of ministers in the vicinity thought the way to combat the movement was by having a mass meeting where the "other side" could bo presented. Such a meeting was held in the high school and one of the chief speakers was Mr. MacNaughton. His bank has a branch in Gresham and a .more cautious individual would fear to "stick his neck out" and offend some of its customers. But MacNaughton said very plain ly that as a banker he felt it his duty to speak out in defense of constitutional rights. For, he said, the stability of banking and of the whole economic system de pends on the validity of promises. If constitutional guarantees on civil rights are overridden what security is there for rights of per sons and institutions in property? The meeting quite effectively squelched the local agitation against return of the Japanese. A few weeks ago MacNaughton presided at a meeting in Keed college to hear noted scientists, discuss the urgency of social con trols over atomic energy and need of spread of public information. tie seemed to have a better reali zation of the ominous portent of the new discovery than did the president of the college whose re marks tended toward the facet! ous. These incidents illustrate MacNaughton's versatility and his temper. Shortening sail on his bank du ties will not, I hope, mean his retirement even partially from the field of publie affairs. His , in sight, his courage, his capacity for the apt phrase are still needed in helping design the pattern for regon s are and development. Mary Y. Pickens Dies in Portland; Services Todav Mary Yeager Pickens, former resident or saiem, died at Provi dence hospital, Portland, Saturday B ft V u,r,l Wn4Ka - vwv.v iiwimil AlillVTSS. Funeral services in Clourh Barrick chapel will be today at 1:30 p-. m., the Rev. George H. Swift officiating. Interment will bo at Belcrest Memorial park. Mrs. Pickens, the wife of Rob ert C. Pickens, , was born in Is may, Mont, in 199. She spent most or ner lire In Salem, gra duating from high school here and attended the University of Oregon, where she was a mem ber of Pi Beta Phi sorority. She was a member of St Paul s Epis copal church. She was the daugh ter of Mr. and , Mrs. Glenn Yea ger of Salem and sister of O Robert Yeager of Salem. Married in 1940, the couple had two sons, Robert C. Pickens, jr, and Richard T. Pickens. They lived in Philadelphia, Pa., for the past six years until coming to Sa lem in March. They recently movea to roruana, ELECTRIC MOTOR TAKEN A 4 .horsepower motor was Uken from the residence of Mrs, Jane Mitchell, 23S S. Hyde at, Saturday night, she reported to alem police Monday. Public Records JUSTICE COURT Walter La Rauch, rout 1. assault and battery, fined S2S and coats. Donald D. Smith. 350 Hickory at. v-oay j an aenianc suspenaea on re writing a check with insufficient funds. titutlon of check and payment of court coats. . Geore H. Hughes, jr.. Turner, four adults in driver's seat, fined S2.M end costs. uivm Homer field. Portland, no rue permit, fined ill and costs. PROBATE COURT Hiram Overton estate: Order auth orizing claim settlement. Harvey R. Smith guardianship ee- iaie: uraer auuioruing sale of pi sons I property. Albert E. Schaefer estate: June st tnr tiarin m fin I Mwnunt Mathilda Spelbrink estate: rinal order. saute siagg estate: Leecta Lance appointed executrix and William A. Starker. Edith V. Witael and Myrtle w. bneuey appointed appraisers. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATION'S . Robert Jacobean. II. clerk, and Helen Boyce, SO, waitress, both of Salem. CIRCUIT COURT Portland Trust and Savin- bank, guardian of Hariey Ellenwood. vs Credit Bureau. Inc.: Suit seeking to vacate a former Judgment against piamtif i - Eiwnwooa. A. F. Kellogg vs Pearl Hawk; Bait to collect S2.000 for alleged destruc tion of fur animals caused by defend' ant's building fires and asking for a restraining order against defendant prohibiting ner from building fires. Gardner Bennett vs City of Salem and others: Defendant city replies denying certain allegations of Co nlalnt Joseph Parrish and Louise A. Pa. rish: Suit to quiet title. Ttdelanda Davelooment Co. vs Ken neth N. Hay: Suit to collect S3.O0O in alleged delinquent Installments on certain oyster beds owed by defend ant. Philip S. Oulltend vs Katharine E. Gullland: Suit for divorce charging cruei ana inn u man treatment, MUNICIPAL COURT samuel X. (..nana ion. woodburn. no operator's license, posted S3 ball. Mac V. Smallwood. route 1. Salem, running rea iigm, posted ii.n Dili. Carl Leonard Prultt. -1465 Laurel avc. reckless driving, fined SIS. Glen Date Brandt, route S. Salem failure to stop, pleaded Innocent, trial set for June S. Kenneth Manning. 13S0 I. Liberty St., illegal reverse turn, fined S2.S0. II von E. Bell, route S. Salem, vio lation of basic rule, posted S2S bail. Marvin J. DeRaeve. Amity, violation of bsile rule, potted $30 ball William W. Pynch. Scio. violation of anti-noise ordinance. -.posted S5 bail. Lowell R. Anderson. C5S Breys ave violation of basic rule, fined $10. John Louis Muller. Jefferson, no operator's license, posted So bail. William B. Lay ton. Portland, viola -ttoav basic rule, posted S3 bail. GRIN AND BEAR My plan to head off a recession we mast not betray oor party next Petition to Divide School Area Abandoned for Middle Grove ' Division of Middle Grove school district was averted Monday when a petition to split the district was withdrawn following a two hour hearing before the Marion county district boundary board. Decision to drop the matter came at the end of a meeting of some 40 residents of the district, which recently petitioned that Middle Grove district be divided so that the part lying west of Lancaster drive would remain with Salem district and the section lying east wooia Decome a separate district xnose advancing the petition 339 Court St. IT By Lichtj will be a boon to naaklnd. boys before election by revealing It year! stated that they favored a rural school district, that the Salem schools were already overcrowd ed, that 4-H club work was not taught in Salem schools and that the consolidation election was not urprise her with a Shower of OoiHtM SotlSllbN moo (lOINtM tote Funis Gobkam 6 SiS50 Chantillt 25.00 sufficiently discussed among the voters. In opposition to the petition it was stated that junior high school students gained more advantages by attending Salem schools, that the Middle Grove school itself was overcrowded and that the dis- i trict had voted twice in favor of consolidation. Emory Coode was spokesman for the petitioners in withdraw ing the petition. County Judge Grant Murphy presided. Mrs. Ag nes Booth, county school superin tendent, was secretary. In outlining the program which the Salem district intended to car ry out in all its rural schools. Supt. frank B. Bennett, revealed that a new junior high school would probably go up in a few years east of Salem. The boundary board Monday also set July 1 as hearing date of the Jefferson school district pe tition for forma ttoh of a union high school in that area. Kelso Funeral Here Thursday Graveside services will be at City View cemetery, Thursday at 11 a. m. for James W. Kelso, 48, 1995 S. Church st., who was drowned March 13, 1946, while working at The Dalles as first en gineer on a U. S. army engineer dredge. The body was not located until April 28 of this year. Kelso was born in 1897 at Pan ama, Mo., where he spent his ear ly life and married Beulah G. Hopkins. Later moving to Salem with his family, he was employ ed at Oregon Pulp and Paper company until 1943, when he went to work with the army engineers. He is survived by the widow; by a son, Billy G. Kelso, Baker, Ore.; a daughter, Leona E. Houghton, Vallejo, Calif., and by his mother, five brothers, lour sisters and two grandchildren. Services are in charge of the Gardner Funeral home, White Salmon, Wash. The Rev. Sam P. Neufeldt will officiate. WOODBURN GROCERY NAMED Mike's grocery,' Woodburn, is the assumed businesss name filed with the Marion county clerk by Clemont M. Rivenes, Woodburn. p mil - m jMscS III M It fJ w JtJ Willi I IE II KlNC Fjos e-r id Y Will II 1 1 gomam 23w v.r 0 0 42330 Ca-eiliA I M 75 Head Judged In Jersey Show; Thomas Quits (Story also on page 1) Seventy-five head of cattle were judged at Monday's Jersey club show by Lawrence Thomas. Silverton, wbo has judged four Marion county spring shows and who announced that this would be his last judging here because he was beginning to know the cattle too well. Special guests introduced were E. M. Mcllvenna, Aubry Morgan and Elmer Dietz of Vancouver, Wash.; Hal Osborne, widely- known rabbit judge; Homer Shel by and Everett Struckmeier of Linn-Benton club; John Leinhardt from Clackamas county, and I. W. Slater, Western Jersey fieldman. I.lxt ot awards for the show follows: 4-H club classes: Junior calf 1. Bill Poole. Senior calf 1. Vernon Vogt: 2. Victor and Ronald Barnick: 3. Betty Jean Voet: 4. Mildred Louise Bailey; S, Dorothy Poole. Junior yearling 1. Betty Jean Vost; 2, Donna Lee Klein; S, Ronald Barnick. Senior year ling 1. James Berger. Producing cow 1. Roeert Marggl: J. - Donna Lee Klein; S. Victor Barnick; 4, Donna Lee Klein. FFA classes: Junior calf 1. Bob Barnes. Senior calf 1 and 2. John Erickson. Junior yearlings 1. Keith Neion: 2. Alien DhL Senior yearling I. Bob Barnes: 2. Lor en New kirk; 3. Donald Bassett: 4. Gene Mulkey. Two year row 1. Bob Barnes Jun ior champion James Berger. Senior champion Rogert Marail. Grand champion Rogert MarggL Bull calves 1. Gene Mulkey. Open classes: Junior bull calf 1. Floyd Bailey. Senior bun calf- I. Elvin Pierce; 2, Gene Mulkey. Jun ior bull ralf I. H. P. Nelaon: 2. Melvin Lien; X Wayne Hilton. Sil verton. Senior yearling bulls I. Bob Barnes. Silverton: 2. Bates and Riches; 3. Floyd Mills of Jefferson: 4. Elwin Pierce. Aed bull 1. Welsh and Nelson; 2. Stanley Richer. Junior heifer calves: 1. Lewis Jud son; 2. Stanley Riches; 2. Floyd Bail ey : 4. rioyd Bates. Senior -heifer calves 1. Rich Lea Farm; 2, Elwin Pierce: 3. Vernon Vogt: 4. Mrs. Floyd Btiley. Junior yearling heifer 1, Floyd Bailey; X. Mrs. Floyd Bailey; 3. Floyd and Lesta Bates; 4. Floyd Mills. Senior yearling heifer 1. James Berger; 2. Bob Barnes; 3, Loren New kirk; 4. Floyd Bailey. Twp year old cows 1. woodburn training school; 2. Bob Marggl; 3, Rich Lea Farm; 4. Floyd Bailey. Three year old cow I. Rich Lea Farm: 2. L. D. Roberts. Jr.; 3. Donna Lee Klein. Four year .landing to give her shower? Then make it one she will never forget ... solid silver shower! The finest sterling silver is one thing she will use every j day enjoy all her married life. Get tbe gang together. Chip in and buy the bride-to-be her first places-settings in the chosen Gorham pattern. And because fine sterling silver never goes out of style, she can match and add to it as her marriage grows. " Prire tmelmdtt TtJiral Tsx It fee e plc4Umg emtiilimg e imif mmd frk, Umpn, imiivllmsl $slsd frk, tttmm ee ipom, smd kut$tr tpritr. 15 00 -KS Jewelers & Silversmiths old cow 1. Welsh and ' Neteoa: X. Lewis Judson. Aged cows L. Mrs. Floyd Bailey; X. Fiord Bailey. Pro duce of dam 1. Nelson a Weiata; 2. Floyd Bailey; 3. Rich Leo Farm. Get of sire 1. Rich Lea Farm; 2. D. C. Brock. Junior get of sire L Floyd Bailey. Crash Injuries Fatal to Huff ',. Of Portland Herbert Demont Huff of 1829 Lovejoy ave., Portland, was fa tally injured in an auto crash at the Dominic and Woodburn-ML Angel road crossing near ML An gel at about 4 o'clock Sunday aft ernoon when his car collided with a vehicle driven by John E. Brost of ML Angel, investigating state police report. Manager of the Royal Arms apartment in Port land, Huff died In a Portland hos pital after the wreck. Treated in a Potrland hospital for head cuts and bruises were Mrs. Huff and Mr. and Mrs. Eart Wilson of 2315 SE Grant ave, Portland, who were riding with Huff. Passengers in Brosfs car who were slightly injured were Charles Bailey and Marilyn Hauth, both of ML Angel. Police said Huff was driving south on Woodburn -ML Angel road and that Brost was headed west on Dominic road. Both ve hicles were overturned. PURSE THIEF CAUGHT City Juvenile authorities state that a confession of taking sev eral girls' parses at Salem high school has been obtained from a 16-year-old girl now in custody of police. - ' . SALEM ART THE CO. $655 Portland Rd. Phone Number is 25S7S. New shipment of Fire place Arches A Hearths. Drain boards aV bathroooa tiles laataned. STERLING CQa