4 Tha Statesman, Scdem, Oregon, Tuesday. December 2. 1947
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l"No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Awe"
, rYom First Statesman, March 2S, 1SS1
TOE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher
Member' ef the Associated PreH
.jThe Asseelated Press is entitled exclusively U the we for republi
cation ef all the leeal newt printed la this newspaper, as well as all
AT newt dispatches.
Where the Tall Corn Grows"
Something over a century ago the farmers in the old North
west territory didn't think much of tha land in Iowa. William
Walker, a Christianized Wyandott Indian, made a trip from
(Ohio into Iowa to examine the land for his people to whom it
had been offered by the government in its desire to move them
out of the way of settlers pouring into Ohio. He brought back
the report that the land wasn't arable. Walker made other
errors of fact in a letter he wrote to a noted churchman in New
york telling of the visit of Indians from the Pacific North
' west in search of what was later described as the "white man's
book of Heaven," which touched off the great missionary enter
prises of Jason Lee and Dr. Whitman and Spaulding.
The fertility of Iowa soil since the territory was opened
Jor settlement in 1836 has not only discomfited its early critics,
it has -been a wonder to the whole world. This editor, as an
Iowa refugee, is hardly the one to extol the agricultural wonders
of the state of his rearing. But we can safely quote a recent
Oregonian editorial which gives recognition to how bountiful
the good earth -of' Iowa is. Remarking that Iowa's prosperity Is
"a marvel of our times," the Oregonian says of the state:
It is twenty-fourth in area among the states and it ranks
twentieth in population, yet it haa been second in farm income
only to California, which is nearly three times as large in area.
This year Iowa may attain first place.
' Iowa has more fertile and cultivated land within its borders
than any other state, and its products of the soil are those that
are in the top money. It has, besides, industries whose sales
volume in money is not far under that of its agricultural products.
For th first-eight months of this year cash receipts from farm
marketing of Iowa livestock and crops exceeds 11,555,000,000.
That is about $525,000,000 more than Iowa farm income in the
- same period last year. It exceeds the combined farm income in
the same period of the ten western states of Montana, Idaho,
Wyoming. Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Ore
gon and Washington.
This year cash receipts for livestock and crops marketed in
California have so far amounted to $1,244,000,000, but in the re
maining four months the coming into market of California's
citrus crops, and a corresponding decline in grain marketing in
Iowa, leave in doubt which state will land in first place for the
whole year.
Those who voluntarily have fled from the richness of
Iowa, its stiff winters, its muggy summers, are still loyal to tha
old home state and proud of its distinction. They knew of its
standing as a farming state when they left there, and are
'pleased to have it get recognition such as this, though few of
4ts emigrants care to move back,' at least not from the Pacific
coast.
Partition for Palestine
By a vote of 35 to 13 member nations of the United Nations
voted in. favor of the partition of Palestine into a Jewish and an
Arab state. This decision came at the end of long deliberation
and carried out with slight modification the recommendation
of a special committee which made a careful study of the prob
lem of Palestine. A move of the Arab countries at the last mo
ment to endorse a federated state for Palestine did not succeed
in averting or postponing UN's decision.
The walkout of the Arab countries from the UN assembly
after the vote was taken was a visible sign of their disapproval.
Through the Arab league and from heads of Arab states come
prophecies of open warfare as Arabs resist the division of the
ancient land. Already reports of numerous deaths by violence
re reported from Jerusalem and embassies of the United States
in Arab countries are made subject to indignities from Moslems
resentful of the American support of partition.
Ability of the protesting countries to conduct a war is doubt
ful unless they get the support of some western power, which
would furnish them with money and military supplies. How
ever the situation could deteriorate into a running guerrilla
warfare luch as' that the Jewish underground has carried on,
unless there is some adequate force to police the land in the
period of transition. The British will withdraw their troops and
announce they will not enforce the partition. The UN may
have to provide an international force to take over until the
separate states establish their own police and military units.
Certainly there has been enough travail over Palestina to
give this plan a trial, not merely as an experiment but as a
'solution of the age-old yearning of Jews for a home land. The
Arabs are not being dispossessed; the Jews have paid well for
the lands they occupy, and have brought improved prosperity
for all the people in Palestine. The western world assuredly
'hopes that the Arabs will quiet down and accept a division in
Palestine, as their coreligionists forced one in India.
Next Time, Take the Bus
The leave-your-car-home campaign for business-district
-workers in Salem may sound like an advertisement for Oregon
Motor Stages, but it isn't. Rather, the move is one of the most
progressive to be undertaken in a long while and well merits the
attention and support of everyone to whose future the welfare
of this city is vital,
Day after day there are scores of cars parked on the fringe
of the business section, just out of the parking-meter areas and
beyond the limited-parking signs. Most of these cars are used
merely in going back and forth from work. They play no part
in earning a livelihood; they save their owners few if any
. steps over what would be taken if buses were used instead.
All they constitute is the convenience of having ready trans
portation instead of having to be on hand at certain times on
bus routes.
This fringe-area parking is a vital factor to the business of
ny growing city. Salem in its downtown sector does not have
i adequate off-street parking facilities, and while parking meters
admittedly, have improved what was an almost hopeless situa
tion, there still is a marked shortage of space for shoppers who
oft-times must park many blocks away from our stores.
Regular and perhaps more frequent and broader bus ser
vice is essential if the voluntary cooperation of Salem workers
is to be effective. But there is no reason to suppose such service
will not be forthcoming if patronage warrants it. The program
is worth pursuing.
President Truman let the news get out that he had an
electric blanket to wrap himself in at the army-navy game. He
shouldn't feel he's going soft however. A manufacturer reports
the sale of a similar blanket to a Sioux Indian.
To Americans the ban on pleasure driving of automobiles
in Britain is about the worst calamity that might happen to a
people. Here people would almost go hungry or homeless rather
than give up their cars.
: Marion county holds the lead among counties in the state
inthe. number of dairy cattle; also in the number of turkeys. The
county is small in area but its tillable lands are intensively
farmed.
Oregon's new governor, John Hall, is to give a talk at the
turkey show banquet at McMinnville on December 5th. Gov.
Hall hasn't said much since he became governor, but he proved
In the legislature, he could "talk turkey."
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the way, the road is very devious.
It turns, here and there,' every
four or five feet (perhaps the
sagebrush clumps average five
feet apart) and it has a habit, too,
whenever it sees the homestead
er's wire fence, of dashing for
them, down one side of the claim,
then short about the corner and
down the other side of the claim,
steering . clear of all the clumps
of sage, but ripping along horri
bly near the sizzling barbs of the
wire and the untrimmed stubs of
the juniper posts; then darting off
into the brush, this way, that way,
every way, which in the end
proves to be the way to Burns,
but no one at the beginning of
the trip could believe it no one
from the east, I mean."
Sharp was accompanied in his
travels over Oregon by William
L. Finley, then state game war
den, and was to speak at a meet
ing of the Bums Rod and Gun
club. The chief interest at Burns
however was over the prospect
of receiving the first shipment of
young trout for planting in Sil
vies river. Burns sportsmen had
raised $125 to send a truck to
Bend to take the fish from the
train. But the train had been side
tracked at The Dalles and the trip
by truck across the desert took
so many hours longer than had
been anticipated that practically
all the fingerlings were dead
when they were released in the
streams around Burns. Finley ar
ranged to build local hatching
troughs however and to ship in
trout eggs. Now the game com
mission has fancy aerated water
tanks for transporting its fish
plantings.
Burns was and is a good spot
for a naturalist to visit The late
Dr. L. E. Hibbard, himself a not
ed naturalist, lived there and he
took Sharp to Malheur lake,
which as a result largely of his
and Finley's efforts had been set
aside by the federal government
for a bird sanctuary. They visited
the P ranch, now part of the ref
uge, and saw colonies of nesting
grebes in the marshy turnings of
the Blitzen river.
In one of his articles Sharp re
peats Finley's story of the slaugh
ter of the egrets (white herons)
in Malheur lake by plume-hunt
ers in 1898. Finley who visited the
area in 1908 saw two white her
ons, or one bird twice, was satis
fied not a single pair was left.
The visitors in 1912 however
found a colony of a dozen pairs.
Sharp also relates a gripping sto
ry of a near-stampede at the edge
of rimrock when Wade, boss
buckaroo of the old P ranch, was
making a oattle drive to Winne
mucca, the honors for averting
the herd's plunge over the , rim
rock going, ; according to Wade, to
his intelligent buckskin horse,
"Peroxide jim." ..,
Now they are getting a direct
telephone line from Bend to
Burns. No longer will it be neces
sary for the voice to travel around
by Baker or Boise in conversa
tions between the county seats of
Deschutes and Harney counties,
Communication thus will be
quicker, and service will be avail
able to intermediate stations. A
very tardy improvement one
thinks. For the communities at
both termini have gone ahead
rapidly since Sharp made litera
ture out, of his experiences and
observations in the region. And
for all their progress the people
are still keenly interested in the
wild life of forests and desert.
of lakes and rivers, an interest
stimulated no doubt by the visit
of Sharp and Finley 35 years ago.
Chin-Up Plan
Adds to Fund
A new phasaof the building
fund campaign 'lor the Chin-Up
Club of Oregon was announced
Monday by Beth Sellwood, presl
dent
She disclosed receipt of a $44.90
check representing for the first
time the sale of donated old jew
elry a project started only a
month ago by Chin-Up member
Ben L. Tweed, Condon watch
maker who has been confined to
a wheelchair for many years.
Tweed raised the money by
selling to a Montana assay office
various pieces of old gold, silver,
platinum, copper, lead and zinc
which were sent to him in re'
sponse to notice of his project in
the Chin-Up periodical. The Bea
con. Similar contributions of old
jewelry may be sent to him at
Condon for the benefit of Chin-
Up building fund. Miss Sellwood
said.
Annual Memorial
Service by Elks
Planned Thursday
The public memorial service
annually observed by Salem Elks
lodge 336 will be held at 8 pjn.
Thursday in the local Elks lodge.
it was announced Monday by Ex
alted Ruler Tarz Au franc.
Salem high school's choir will
assist the lodge in the service me
morializing members who died in
the past year. Among choir selec
tions will be "Jesus Savior, Pilot
Me, "Ave Maria" (Biggs),. "O,
Bread of Life" and "Hosanna."
Lena Belle Tartar will direct the
choir and Beverly Gustafson will
be accompanist
Speaker for the occasion will
be Secretary of State Earl T.
Newbry, district deputy grand ex
alted ruler and a past exalted rul
er of Elks. Michael Carolan will
sing "The Lord's Prayer."
Program committee for the oc
casion is headed by Ralph Kin
zer and Glenn Burright, co-chairmen.
John Graham and Alfred
Domogalla will be ushers.
KAT COMMITTEE MEETS
Committee reports will -be heard
Wednesday when the members of
the local rat control committee
meet at 8 p.m. in the office of City
Manager J. L. Franzen.
See our large showing of holiday
neckwear. Every tie in our shop
is handmade all from America's
most famous makers. Complete
selections from $1 up. Alex Jones,
121 N. High st
Lord Jeff is the sweater he would
like to have. 85.95 to $12.50. Alex
Jones, ; 121 N. High st
MRS. BUNNELL TALKS
Mrs. Ruby Bunnell, executive
secretary of the Marion county
public; health association, showed
a film, "Lease on life," to the
West Stayton parent-teachers as
sociation meeting last night. The
film dealt with tha current Christ
mas seal sale program and was
followed by a talk from Mrs. Bun
nell on the sale's progress and pur
pose.
Marjorie Gunn now at Beauty
nook, 319 Court at., Phone 6631.
Evening appointments.
Spray now for peach leaf curl.
Philip W. Beilke, Dial 21208.
COLONEL PAGE VISITS r,
Lt Col. Nolan Page and his wife
were Thanksgiving weekend guests
of his mother, Mrs. Laxton Murray,
1255 N. 5th st. Colonel Page re
turned to Ft. Lawton, WaslL, Fri
day and will visit here again as
soon as he is assigned a base. He
and his wife recently returned
from Korea, where Colonel Page
served about two years with the
army engineer corps.
LUSE HOME FROM TRIP
W. M. Luse, Salem realtor, has
returned from a trip to San Fran
cisco. He visited his daughter,
Mrs. William Patterson, in south
ern Oregon. He was accompanied
by Andrew Klett to California.
St Paul's guild and auxiliary and
other guilds of St Paul's Episco
pal church bazaar and silver tea
at Parish House Wednesday, De
cember 8, at 12 noon.
LEHMAN OPENS 'CRAB POT
. Robert Lehman, formerly man
ager of the Spa restaurant, has
announced the opening of Leh
man's Crab Pot at 2605 Portland
rd. Lehman states he will feature
fresh crabs expressed daily from
the coast.
Bazaar and cooked food sale Wed.,
3rd, ladies of Knight Memorial
church. Gas Co. office, S. Com'L
Used automatic and non-automatic
electric washing machines
good condition. Ralph Johnson
Appliances, 355 Center.
Private sale, women's and girls'
used dresses, suits a nd coats, sizes
12-16. Excellent cond. 1099 S.
High st.
SERVICE CHANGES HANDS
An assumed business name cer
tificate for Cbet's Battery serv
ice was filed Monday with the
Marion county clerk by - William
Wallace and Robert Wallace, both
of 320 N. Lancaster dr. A notice
of retirement from the same es
tablishment was filed by C. E.
KaUunki.
Normandy Manor closed tonight
Hard of Hearing? Fresh batteries
and supplies for all hearing aids
at -Salem's .newest hdq. See new
one unit easy to wear Beltone.
James Taft and Associates, 218
Oregon bldg. Phone 24491.
ANDREWS FILES
The name of Andrews Photo
and Gift shop was filed with the
Marion county clerk Monday by
Harvey Andrews and Mrs. Harvey
Andrews, both of 3225 Silverton rd.
Dr. Wm. B. Mott since the Guar
dian bldg. fire has been attending
patients at his home, 474 E. Rural,
corner of South High, and will
continue to do so until suitable
office space can be located. Hours
10 to 12 and 2 to 5 Monday
through Friday.
LAND CO. FILES
Benjamin C. Col bath, 995 N.
21st st., filed an assumed business
name certificate for Colbath Land
Co a Salem real estate business,
with the Marion county clerk
Monday.
Spencer Garments Armena Felt
of Spencer Shop in Portland, will
be at Senator hotel Wednesday,
December 3. Clients are urged to
come in for adjustment.
CLINICS SET TODAY
Immunizations are i slated by
Marion county health department
at Bush, school this morning, an
infant and pre-school clinic at
Silvertons Eugene Field school
from 2 to 4 p.m. and a meeting
with parents of Highland school
childrne in the school at 2 p.m. to
explain audiometer testing.
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MATTER
Russian Attitude on Germany
Deemed Certain to Split World
By Jeaeph AIsop
BERLIN, Dec 1 The Ameri
cans here are a trifle nervous. In
the new German pattern that will
emerge after the London Confer
ence, the Soviets will almost cer-
. t a 1 n ly attempt
X to drive the
representatives of
the west out
of Berlin. They
may be expect
ed to employ all
methods short
of war. But
Gen. Lucius D.
Clay has let it
be known that
he and his staff
JoM-pb A bop x will only be re
moved from
their posts by main force. Thus
the foreign -conquerors, who have
lived perhaps too easily and com
fortably ; among these ruins, will
suddenly , be transformed into a
beleaguered garrison.
Somewhere "in western Ger
many, meanwhile, a provisional
German: government will almost
surely be established. The prob
able capital is Frankfurt.' There
will be I no separate peace with
Germany in the technical sense.
since that would ' eliminate- the
reasons for western representa
tion at Berlin. But the great ma
jority of Germans who inhabit
tha western zones will at last be
permitted to play their necessary
part in i cleaning up the horrify
ing mess which is Germany two
years after the war. . -
Werld Dtvisiaa Prebable ; '
From; the center at Frankfurt,
and from the advance post at Ber
lin, the men of the west will wage
against the Soviets the struggle
for Germany which the Soviets
themselves began two years ago.
No sensible man can take satis
faction . in the fact that nothing
but a miracle at London a turn
of events so violent and unex
pected as almost to require the
direct intervention of providence
can prevent this outcome. For
this outcome means the division
of Germany and the world. Yet,
equally;, no sensible man can fail
to prefer this outcome to the pro
longation of the present situation
in Germany, which would consti
tute a bitter indictment of our
political wisdom and common hu
manity. Such are the thoughts that fill
the mind of any visitor prepar
ing to say farewell to Berlin.
Forming a sort of counterpoint to
them are certain other thoughts,
concerning the nature of the vi
tal struggle now about to be en
gaged there.
Victory Essential
Victory is essential. The exist
ing westward orientation of the
German9 people must be main
tained. And the first thing Ameri
cans must realize is that we can
not solve the German problem in
what may be called a Taft-Hart
ley act frame of mind. Not long
ago, Col. Frank Howley, a lead
ing American officer in the ad
ministration of Berlin, saw fit to
address the Germans on the "free
enterprise system" and its vir
tues. His little talk, in the midst
of this hideous devastation, was
about as appropriate as a lecture
on the importance of a balanced,
high-calory diet in the midst of
an Indian famine.
It is important not to drivel. It
is more than important; it is nec
essary, to understand that with
out the support of German labor
in tha west zones, our effort in
Germany will surely be defeated.
Oh the German labor unions,
which we have handled stSpidly
from the first, the Soviets and
their communist agents have con
centrated their main drive. Thus
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charm bewitching, lovely, lingering.
OF FACT
far, the drive has been resisted.
Policy Dangerous
Communist representation in
the Ruhr works councils declined
slightly .in the recent elections.
But If we pursue a policy op
posed to the German workers and
to their objectives, the commu
nists will win in the end. If they
gain the German unions, there
will be an end of all hope of the
revived production which is Ger
many's only way out
On this head, there are dis
quieting signs. An American gen
eral, visiting a plant producing
goods for the occupation forces.
orders all the workers to have
haircuts. And this pompously silly
order is actually carried out, de-!
spite a strike threat. Or, in an
other plant, the workers desire to
discuss with management the em
ployment of prisoners something
that no American union would
even tolerate. And the local
American military government
officers accept the contention of
the plant managers that this na
tural desire for labor safeguards
is "communistic."
Meed Practical Approach
Nor are these indications of at
titude all that is disquieting. The
new Ruhr coal control defers na
tionalization of the Ruhr mines,
and-gives the major share of re
sponsibility for running them to
the same hard-faced, hog-jawed
men who have run the Ruhr in
the past. Labor cannot like that.
Again, in Hesse, the people vote
for nationalization of basic indus
tries, and the American military
government obstructs their will.
That must deeply discourage the
whole non-communist left of Ger
many. This sort of thing is impractical.
That is the real complaint to be
made against it. Literal execution
of the American directive, ap
proving labor organization, and
permitting the Germans to make
their decisions on such Questions
as nationalization, is the only sensi
ble course. We shall lose the strug
gle for Germany if we try to make
the people of this ruined country
behave as the most conservative
republicans rather vainly hope
Americans may behave.
Job Expensive
Besides this, there is one other
truth that must also be grasped.
The job is going to be expensive
for a while. The British are with
out dollars, and their share of the
German bill must be met from
our treasury. Maintaining a rea-
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GRIN AND BEAR
Tht committee agrees, then, to akay this ferefrn lean the question
Is, shall we wrap It as a sift?"
sonable level of life' in the west
zones will cost nearly a billion
dollars in 1948. Capital recon
struction will require another
$350 million from our treasury.
Tha money must be laid on the
line. Cheese paring is suicidal
when the world future is at stake.
At the same time, if these facts
are squarely faced, we can go
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forward with boldness and hope.
The struggle for Germany is not
of our making. But it ia a strug
gle which we must win. And it
is a struggle which we can win,
if we enter it with determination,
and wage it with full resource,
with sound social imagination,
and with good hearts.
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