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4 The Stat man. Salem. Oregon. Friday. August 15, 1947 it ; "No Favor Swayt Ui, No Fear Shall Awe" mm First BUUtwa, March ti. ItSI THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. S PR AGUE, Editor nd Publisher Member si the Associated frm flMTi.ii rr la MUUi iUm f all Um leeal mm aria ted AP mmm dlsstalehea. Birth of Two Nation Today two nation are born: India (Hindustan) and Paki stan, i Down comes the British flag all over the subcontinent of India. Up go the flags of! two new governments. The empire conquered by British soldiers and diplomacy yields without warfare to the claims of native population for independence. Unfortunate religious differences between Moslems and Hindus prevents unification of the country; but this dissension which long caued a deferment of British withdrawal was not allowed in the end to precipitate civil war. Remaining in nominal independence are the 500 petty principalities ruled by maharajas; but they will probably snug gle under one or the other of the two great nations into which India is being divided. The princes may retain local rule but give lnd;a or Pakistan authority to represent them, In foreign affairs. India is a land of ancient history and great contrasts. The 1 ' t I 1 a: lLd.L IU dipt.. tlffltl name nas oeen utir iu conjure . 1 . . 1 . 1 . M : 1 . . I IIUUIOU IIUIK1 lulling IUVUI 1 k ncilill. III irvvi nabobs, moguls and rajahs, its elephants and tigers. Later peo ple came to know j of it as a land with j recurring drouths and crop failures and mass starvation, greatly overcrowded, its peo ple moved with fierce religious intensity. Deep, degrading pov erty eits and some of the world's richest men reside in India. Ignorance prevails1 among the masses, yet ancient India pro duced a substantial literature and modern India has given the world gifted writers and philosophers. Its climate ranges from the high humidity of the coast to the dessicating heat of the interior. Its la no! rises from sea level to the "top of the world" at the pinnacles of the Himalayas. - 1 The history of! India goes back far into the past, virtually to the beginning of life at the human level. Sanskrit, the root language of the Aryan peoples, originated there. Yet the Aryans were probably invaders from1 the north;! more primitive people, the Dravidians, survive in remote portions of Central India. . Largely isolated by high mountains' and the sea', India lay open to invasion from the west. Alexander the Great marched to the Indus in 327 B. C. Timur, the fierce Asian conqueror, came down from Samarkand in 1398 AJ D. Mohammedans en tered thiough the old gateway and established the religion which now has forced cleavage of the j sub-continent. In modern times India became the! prey of the commer cial powers. First opened to trade with: the west by the Por tuguese following j the visit of Yasco da Gama in 1498, the country became the scene of colonial rivalry among the Portu guese, the Dutch, the French and the British. The Dutch crowd ed out the Portuguese, and the British crowded out the Dutch and the French the British king became Emperor of India, and the country itaelf the very sign and seal of British im perial' power. The story of British penetration and exploitation and sub sequent development of India is a long one, full of lights and shadow?, of conflict and of glory. To the Englishman the achievements of Lord Clive the builder of British power in India f:21 glowing pages in English history; and the stories and poems of Rudyard Kipling gave India rich glamor for those who had i-bouldered, and profitably, "the white man's burden." The British record of administration improved through the years. Under the old East India company, chartered by Queen Bixabt-th, ruthless trading methods brought wealth not only to. proprietors but to employes. The tools of bribery and cor ruption and intrigue were kept polished through use until the conscience of the British was pricked and reforms instituted. In the lat century Britain furnished many able men as govern ors or viceroys for India. The civil administration was reorgan ized. Schools were encouraged. Programs of public works, hot ably irrigation projects, were carried out. Indians were ad mitted to government positions and gradually most of the ad minijti t.tiv responsibility was passed to native hands. With the spread of popular education and the return of Indians from Oxford and Cambridge desirefor independence grew teadiy. Jft. K. Gandhi became the great spiritual leader of the Indiana, who proclaimed a gospel of civil disobedience to speed British evacuation. Enduring hunger strikes and im prisonment (in mild form) leaders like Gandhi and Nehru held to their objective of an independent India. Finally the new labor government of postwar Britain made the complete con cession. As of today India is free. Both India and Pakistan remain within the British commonwealth of nations; but wheth er tby will continue the connection is a matter for the deci sion of their own people when their constitutions are adopted. British pride no doubt suffers in this retreat from empire. So intimately has the conception of worldwide dominion en tered into the thinking of the Britisher that evacuation from the country that was the first jewel of the British crown wounds him deeply. He wonders too about his future and that of his family. For two centuries young men have gone out from England to India either in the service of the "company" or of the government. They spent a lifetime in service there, coming home for honorable retirement. How many can find , place in independent India; and if not in India, where? While pride and ambition suffer from this release of India the British as an intelligent people have come to see that times have changed, that colonialism is out of 'date, that the freedoms they cherish caot be denied to peoples rising in the scale of civilization. They retain the hope too that ties will remain close between the countries, that trade will thrive, that profits may tx substantial-even if divided. As io ' the new nations, it must be admitted that they face grave difficulties. Pakistan itself is split geographically. Minor ity groups within each country are restless. Pakistan is ill balanced. Not only are its territories not contiguous, it Jacks industry to balance its agriculture. India (Hindustand) has much 'larger population contains the principal cities, the chief industries and productive agricultural areas. Its founders say Our motherland is torn apart, but she; will be reunited." But Ireland is a sample of how slow the passion for unity works againt the prejudices of religion. This indeed is an important day in world history, marking the birth of two nations and the voluntary evacuation of their long-time rulers. And the word goes through the orient, through the markets and the bazaars, , along caravan routes where western trucks now chug, to the trading posts on the islands of the Pacific that the reign of fpukka sahib" is ended. The white man has laid down his burden. Can the men of color carry it? ' ' Just a corporal's guard, oldsters ranging in 'age from 99 to 104, attended the GAR encampment j at Cleveland this year. Remnant of the old Grand Army they remain a symbol of "Lib erty and Union, now anil forever, one and inseparable." "Mr. BriUing Sees It. Through" was the title of an H. G. Wells novel in the first world war. In the present British crisis no one seems able to see through it. Counterfeit $10 bills are said to be floating around in the vicinity. It is pleasing to know that genuine $10 bills are still worth counterfeiting. ' Vacationers welcome the sunshine. tan to thow off when they get nrlaaivel : to the IN far repabU- la this Mwtptr. aa weU aa all wu iiuvuku mi tciuuim, ... m 1 1 W In rft m I m tlftnol 1 1 It will give them some back home. Dtp SMUGS (Continued from page 1) in many instances to handle the trade themselves. The congressional uprising on wool undoubtedly weakened Clay ton's hand, for the foreign dele gates saw that his position at home was weak, with the trade treaty law running out next year and a protectionist congress in power. But primarily they were interested in protecting their own economies by traditional methods: tariffs, quotas, government con trols, barter and trading prefer ences. If, as seems probable, the con ference ends in failure then the hopes of world recovery based on trade revival will be dashed. We can sympathize with the individ ual groups of producers who ob jected to being made the "loss leaders" at the .Geneva bargain counter. But this country faces the threat to its domestic prosperity in the inevitable decline of its export trade if foreign nations lack dol lars to buy. We failed to resolve that dilemma after the first world war. Will we be able to do so now? Tho Safety Valvo LETTERS FSOM STATESMAN READERS SALES TAX AND OLD AGE ASSISTANCE To the Editor: If those who favor a general sales tax really want a revenue raising measure that Oregon vot ers might approve at the polls, let them earmark 100 per cent of the proceeds of such tax for old age assistance. The recent reduc tions in the already inadequate monthly checks, as the result of too small an appropriation for public welfare, have caused un told misery and suffering among the needy aged men and women of the state. In Colorado the average month ly payments for June amounted to $65.00. California is paying $00.00 a month, and Washington is not far behind, while Oregon's average was but $36.00 for Aug ust. The sales tax proponents point to California and Washing ton as shining examples of states that are prosperous because of a sales tax. Are they willing to promise old-age assistance checks equal to those of these two states, if Oregon should Join the sales tax parade? Not a bit of it! The passage of a sales tax in Oregon will not add one penny to the amount available for old age assistance. The one-sixth part of the revenue that is supposed to go for public welfare Is mere ly to be used to make up any possible deficiency in the liquor receipts that are allocated for that purpose. A sales tax would not provide any additional money that could be used to increase monthly checks. As long as an income tax payer who pays $1,000 in federal income tax in Oregon can get off with a payment of less than one-tenth as much for state income tax re quired, the state income tax could be doubled without hurting any one and made available to sup port public welfare. Then use the tiquor revenue to support the state mental hospitals and the peniten tiary, a large portion of whose in mates are there as the result of liquor. Joseph E. Harvey, State Representative, from Multnomah County. COMPLAINS OF MONOPOLY To the Editor: Back when we had two tele graph systems, the service gen erally was prompt and efficient The competitive spirit was high not only with the management of both systems but even among the ubitquitous messengers. The changed attitude came with the merger of the two systems into one. I personally can cite two ex amples. Not long after the merger there was a death in my family back east and a wire was addressed to me here. I was away when the messenger arrived, so he merely returned the message to the of fice, without leaving a notice or inquiring next door. It was more than a month afterward when a neighbor mentioned having seen a messenger at my door. Inquiry at the local telegraph office dis closed that the wire had merely been filed. It was dug out, and that was the first I knew of the death. The second instance occurred this week. Monday a member of my family, in Michigan, was hos pitalized for a major operation. A wire was filed back there at 11:45 a.m. Monday, and received by the local telegraph office at 9:28 a.m. I had expected the wire and so waited for it, all day Mon day, Monday night and until a bout 3:30 Tuesday a f ternoon, when it was finally delivered to my office some 30 hours after It was received by the local tele graph office! An airmail letter would, have beaten the message by about seven hours. My office is less than a block from the telegraph office, my name is in the phone directory and the telegraph office has my business and home phone num bers and addresses on file. I Just checked that fact an hour ago. Obviously,- we seem to have lost something a little precious and traditionally American by the merger. Ethan Grant. BAPTISTS TO PICNIC Members and friends of the First Baptist church will hold their annual picnic tonight alt 6 o clock at Olinger park. GRIN AND BEAR "That's what roller educations have done these days . . . more roans people flock to the baby contest than com to the ties exhibit!" T Man Confesses 1919 Murder VANCOUVER. Wash., Aug. 14 (Jpy- A prisoner's story of killing an Edmonton,. Alberta, constable in 1919 was sent to Canadian au thorities today by Sheriff :R. E. Brady. Brady identified the prisoner as William A. Bowles, 49, no address, Public Records MUNICIPAL COURT Ralph G. Burns, 85 Roberts ave. failure to stop at intersection, posted $2.50 bail. iQvin Leroy Draper, Lebanon, illegal reverse turn, posted $2.50 bail. ! Marvin E. Greenlee, 1440 Ferry st, excessive speed through an intersection, fiined $7.50. Eddy Goertzen, 472 N. Liberty st., violation of anti-noise ordin ance, fined $10", James R. Cook, Portland, fail ure to stop at intersection, posted $2.50 bail. Walter Kenfield, 1450 N. 5th st., illegal possession of intoxicating liquor, fined $10. Winifred Winkler, Sweet Home, violation of baseic rule, fined $5. CIRCUIT COURT Hazel Wells vs Sidney P. Wells: Suit for divorce charging cruel and inhuman treatment asks for restoration of plaintiff's previous name of Hazel Schaefer. Rosa Cole vs Paul Edward and others: Plaintiff files reply ad mitting and denying. R. B. Bain vs Oregon state tax commission and others: Defend ants filed answer admitting and denying. Marjorie Baker Young vs Doro thy Vap and others: Defendants' motion to strike overruled. E. Grace Chipman vs Wayne M. Chipman: Sui for divorce charg ing cruel and inhuman treatment asks custody of a minor child, $50 per month support money and $50 alimony. Married Dec. 7, 1928, at Glendale, Calif. PROBATE COURT Lizzie A. Robertson estate: September 15' set for hearing on final account. Mary Ann Elizabeth Nessen and Soren Anthony Nessen guardian ship estate: Estate r appraised at $770. Gertrude Hensel estate: B. M. McKelvey, M Carey and J. Helt zel appointed appraisers. Helen Yockey estate: Final ac count approved. Pickens L. Frazier estate: Final order closes estate. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Marvin Bell, 18, student, 1275 N. Church st Salem, and Betty Adams, 17, clerk, Tacoma, Wash. DISTRICT COURT Albert Franklin Lewis, Port land, swinging" trailer, $5 fine sus pended on payment of costs. Jack Curtis Weidner, St. Paul, larceny, sentenced to 20 days in the Marion county Jail. Donald F. Acord, 396 Pleasant ville ave., pleaded innocent to charge of non-support and re leased on payment of $500 bail pending preliminary examination. IT By Lichty who was sentenced here to 15 years in the Washington state pri son for automobile theft. He was Uken to the prison at Walla Wal la yesterday. The sheriff said Bowles told him he killed a constable Nixon with a .38 caliber Smith & Wes son revolver; in October, 1919, when Nixon attempted to inter fere with a burglary. Brady ad ded that Bowles said no one was convicted of the slaying. The sher iff said there was no way of con firming Bowles' story here. Research Set By U.S. Interior Department PORTLAND, Aug. 14 - (JT) -Chiefs of tho eight interior de partment bureaus in this area adopted a four-point program for this fiscal year at a meeting to day of the department's Pacific northwest coordinating commit tee. The program: 1 Research, by the bureau of land management for uses of the 60 per cent of harvested trees now "wasted" in the forest or mill. 2 Research by the fh an(j wildlife service for saving a greater portion of the fish in can nery processing. 3 Development of a phosphate fertilizer industry from deposits in Idaho and Montana. The bur eau of mines and geological sur vey will continue research in pos sibilities of locally produced min eral fertilizers, now obtained from the south. 4 Development by the national parks bureau of more recreational areas. Party Finds Dog Guarding Body of Child HAMILTON, Mont., Aug. 14(P) The body of four-year-old Arnie D. Olson, guarded by his faithful shepherd dog atop 8,000-foot high Mount Hughes, was found today after one of the most widespread hunts in Montana history. More than 500 ranchers and townsfolk, sheriff's officers and U. S. forest service smoke Jump ers ended the search at dawn, af ter trudging over the wild Sap phire mountains for many hours, without sleep. The child disappeared late Mon day, while his parents Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Olson of Victor, Mont., were pitching a wood cutting camp on southwest Montana's heavily timbered Skalkaho divide, 20 miles east of here.. When the father was told of his son's death today, he collapsed, exhausted, after almost continu ous participation in the hunt. Mrs. Olson, the mother of three other children, thanked those who help ed look for Arnie. Cambodia is about the size of the state of Washington. WHO CAKES ABOUT JMHR. iV - V. . win j i i WB8l. $5 Million Suit To Bp Filed in Ship Collision SEATTLfc. Aug. 14-(4V An at torney for the Alaska Steamship company said today a $5,000,000 admiralty suit would be filed for the loss of Ithe freighter Diamond Knot and its rich Alaska canned salmon cargo in a Strait of Juan de Fuca collision early yesterday. Claude K. Wakefield of the le gal firm representing the Alarka company said the suit under pre paration would ask $1,000,000 for loss the 5,525-ton ship and $1, 000,000 for the lost cargo. The Diamond Knot, inbound from Alaska, was in collision with the iq,681-ton Fenn Victory, operated by the! American - Ha waiian Steamship company. The Fenn Victory was brought back to Seattle for hull repairs which company official! estimated would cost around $13,000. Wakefield said the legal suit, to be filed in federal court, would allege "excessive speed in the fog" as a "principal fault" of the Fenn Victory. Veterans' Column F.dltor'f nfttr: Th following U Ui flrtt f rle of Informative ar ticle ke.rfll due veteran under the federal lit bill of right. Artlrle on other sortlon of the Gl bill, a well a tae veteran benefit, will be printed In future Wue of The Stateimaa. Veterans Administration Thurs day answered the 9 questions most frequently asked by World War II veteranx about National Service Life Insurance in a re cent VA survey. The questions and answer's follow: Q. How tan a GI policy offer so many advantages for so low a premium? I A. Because the Government as sumes all fosts of administration and of extra hazards due to mili tary and naival service. Also, there is no extra charge calculated in the premium for those engaged in hazardous occupations, or for the waiver! of premiums in case of total disability for 6 consecu tive months or more. Q. Whenf will I start getting dividends on my NSLI? A. Dividends will be paid as soon as the administrative work of determining the amount due each participant can be accomp lished. Q. When will I receive a regu lar insurance policy instead of my certificate? A. Policy! forms are being drafted to include changes made necessary by recent insurance legislation designed to make NSLI fit the peacetime needs of veter ans. They j will be distributed when the VA branchy offices can handle the iextra work without in terfering wiith their primary pur pose of giving service to those who are kk-eping their insurance in force. Q. Why do I have to pay two monthly prt-miums when I rein state my lapsed policy? A. One premium is for the 31 day grace period following the date of lapse, during which the insurance was continued in force without payment of premium; the other premium is for the current month of the reinstatement. Q. Whatsis the difference be tween TERM INSURANCE and CONVERTED INSURANCE? A. Term ! insurance provides the same piotection for a specified period to the insured's benefici aries in the! event of. death, as does converted insurance. However, term insurjunce accrues no cash, loan or paid-up insurance values, as do the permanent, life and en dowment rilans. Q. Can ij choose anyone I wish to be may! beneficiary? A. Yes. "there is no restriction in your choice of a beneficiary. Q. Why do I lose all that money I paid on ;my term policy while I was in the Armed Forces when I convert my insurance? A. You idon't 1we it. While your term Insurance was in force, you received insurance protection against death at a very low prem ium rate. Term insurance is in tended to provide no more than that. , j Q. How can I tell the due date on my premium? A. In thtfse cases where regular payments are being made, the dale your premium payment is due is shown on each remittance envelope mailed by VA to policy holder. If . you are not receiving these envelopes, you will find on your insu nance certificate the effective date of your policy. The date of the month on which your insurance i is effective is the monthly due date for each prem ium. ! Q. Can 1 convert my NSLI policy to sqme of the private com panies? i A. No. Your National Service Life Inauijance (term plan) is convertible! to one or more of the six permanent plans Issued by VA. These iare Ordinary Life, 30 Payment Life, 20-Payment Life, 20-Year Endowment, Endowment at Age 60, and Endowment at Age 65. The local VA office at 167 S. High st. js equipped to handle your insurance problems and will be glad tojassist you any time. ( On' All Ilakei"! HEIDER'S All jrVark G aa at) tee 421 Court ftL Call 7&ZS Strike Settlement Cancels Gill for National Guard CLINTON. Mich., Aug. 14.-OV Raymond Humphrey, acting chair man of the Michigan state labor mediation board, tonight announ ced settlement of the Clinton Ma chine Co. Strike which had led to alert orders to a national guard regiment The settlement, which climaxed a day of mass, picketing by hun dreds of CIO men, provides for a 10 cents hourly wage boost and a series of; bonuses based on daily production of the company's mo tors Negotiators reached the agree ment a few hours after Gov. Kim Sigler had ordered the altering of the guard regiment and similar orders had been given the entire Michigan state police force. Sigler said at the time there would be "no question about the state of Michigan maintaining law and order." Corn Prices Advance as Rain Dwindles CHICAGO. Aug. 14-VWith showers over the torn belt not as widespread as had been ex pected, corn prices advanced for fair-sized gains on tha board of trade today. Wheat and oats were firm. Moisture in the mid-west over night and during the day was something of a disappointment to those who had hoped the drought areas would get the good, soak ing rain they needed. Wheat closed Ts-li higher, September $2.36 1, - $2.36, corn ended 5-6t higher, September $2-30-$2.30, and oats were m 24 higher, September $1.02 Ti ll. 03. Some of the strength in corn was based upon the market's tech nical position, traders said. After establishing record highs Monday, corn had declined for three straight sessions, dropping nearly 20 cents from its peak. Wheat drew strength from a pick-up in commodity credit cor poration buying. Also serving to support wheat was the official Canadian crop fprecast, which placed total wheat production at 359,000,000 bushels, down approximately 62,000,000 bushe's from last year. Oats also were aided by the HEADQUARTERS FOR Uills Music Store 432 SUtt r Eferoy laJ We now have more of tlioe high qua lity, good looking and long-wearing' Navy Oxfords. All sized from 5 to 12. 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