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'4 The Stnlesmnn, Salem. Oregon. Wodnoe day. Doc 17, 1947 W Favor Sways Us, First Statesman, THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUZ. Editor and Publisher Member ef the Associated Press iTti Amriilii Press Js entitled exclasirely to th as fer repsbli eatloB ef all the local am printed la this newspaper,, as well as all (AF news eupatebes. "Aii Revoir" to Camp White Attorney General George Neuner's opinion gave the state board of control no option but to drop the idea of taking over the Camp White hospital. Without any funds and in the face of a constitutional ban against establishing new institutions outside Marion county without approval of the people the board's decision was the wise one under the circumstances. Whether the combination of the Portland Journal and Sen. Lew -Wallace and southern Oregon constituency will press .their initiative measure to authorize the takeover is uncertain. Perhaps the government will proceed to dispose of the facility by sale. At least it is "au revoir" (and we hope "goodbye") to Camp White as a state hospital. Despite the pressures for use of Camp White the facts im partially assembled and weighed caused Governor . Snell to veto a legislative act to accept the hospital and convert it. Into a state hospital for the mentally Ul. The layout is not adapted to a state hoipital. The expense of alteration and of operation would be heavy. The buildings are only semi-permanent and are not f iresafe. The facility is not properly located, being set down in a sort of adobe, desert. Finally the present and plan ned expansion and remodelling at existing institutions takes" care of the need which previously was urgent. The state ought to set limits for the size of the institution at Salem because hospitals may become so large as to be un ' wieldy. Then it should in an orderly manner determine on a suitable location for a third institution. We have no objection to locating such a hospital in southern Oregon, but experience with Pendleton proves that the public demand Is for institu tions close to the center of population. When a third hospital Is built it should be definitely planned for its specialized type of service. In the long run the Estate will be money ahead to follow this plan rather, than to take, for free, the vast but Ill adapted, and poorly located hospital at Camp White. Liquor Board Policies The new liquor commission has announced two changes in policy. One is to require the licensing of bartenders; the other is to set up a committee to serve as a trial board in cases involving suspension -or revocation of liquor license. The com mission states that its intention is to keep control as strict as at present, to carry out the purpose of the control act "to pro mote temperance." It expresses the opinion that package sale of intoxicating beverages promotes temperance better than sale for consumption on the premises, which may be disappointing to those who look for support for cocktail bar bills and liquor-by-the-glass. The licensing of bartenders may be of value If it is used to screen but of employment those with bad criminal records or who have been frequent offenders of liquor regulations. If the bartender as well as the proprietor stands to lose a license for law violation he may be more inclined to self -policing. The new method of handling citations for violation calls for a hearing before an examiner, if possible in the community where the licensee operates. His transcript will be reviewed by a committee composed of the administrator, and the two super visors of licenses and enforcement. The commission then will act on the recommendation of the committee. This plan looks good, but in practice it may result in 'about three trials: before the examiner, the committee and the com mission. The offender will not hesitate to keep up his effort to escape punishment he may even try to go over the com mission's head, to get the governor to intercede. In the end the commission is' the responsible head and cannot shunt duties as important as judging violations onto administrative subordinates.- ' t The commission is tackling its job with some show of vigor it was thrust into the limelight by the governor's statement that he disagreed with the- policies of the last commission. In the end it will be judged by its performance rather than its In tentions; but so far as publicized the intentions of the new con trol body appear good. Trizonia Allemania The coalition which Molotov professed to fear seems des tined to develop. France has expressed a willingness to con sider the merging of its occupied zone in. Germany with "bizonia", the consolidated zones of Britain and a the. United States. The consolidation of the three zones would embrace the major portion of Germany, with a population of 40,000,000 people. It would include the major part of German industry but it would be deficient in agricultural lands. Besides this economic coalition there is in the making a new German government for west Germany. Initially it would cover the British and American zones but if France joins the economic partnership it is logical to anticipate its zone would come within the new German government. The new govern ment would be one elected by the people and responsible to the German people. Parry leaders, excluding communists, are pre paring to discuss the program with the American and British " commanders. :. In both these plans a way would-be left open for Russia's participation and the amalgamation of the Russian zone with the west, but all 'present signs point to Russia's refusal and purpose to embrace its portion of occupied Germany into the soviet orbit. The 'German leaders in the west hope their new establishment will attract compatriots in the Russian zone and Confirm their opposition to Russian communism. While Molotov reiterated his declaration that Russia want ed a democratic, peace-loving, centrally governed Germany, his government's refusal to get down to real negotiation in the conferences at Moscow and London has resulted in the division of Germany and of Europe across the middle. The line is un stable. The German people will nurture a revanche policy to recover the severed parts. The peace of the world rests on an Insecure base. Commenting on congressional action for emergency aid to turope the Oregonian says that "the appropriations necessary to put the final program-into effect must originate in the house." The Qgn editor seems to have revenues and appropria tions mixed. The constitution provides that bills for raising revenue (not for spending it) must originate in the house. The senate has power however to propose amendments. Exploring for oil in foreign countries is expensive business. Creole Petroleum Co., a subsidiary of Standard of New Jersey, in surrendering a lease on a big block of acreage in Venezuela, said it had expended, $ 19,000,000 futilely in drilling wells on the leased land. With all the gadgets of science for detecting likely oil-bearing lands,! petroleum , remains just where the drill finds It. There still is lots of gamble in the oil business. 1 The communists have called off strikes in France and Italy. Their purpose was political but the government rode out the storms and retained authority. If overturn of the cabinets and a communist take-over was planned the commies were de feated in their objectives. These failures may account for the eateryiciousnessjrt, tafesmau No Fear Shall Awe" March 28, 1851 'Old Saint Kick' MATTER OF FACT- Marshall, Bevin Bringing About Complete Anglo-American Unity Br Jeseph LONDON, Dee. 14 The ad journed council of foreign: minis ters produced at least one for tunate by-product an opportuni ty for Secretary Marshall and Foreign Minister Bevin to get to know one an- other a little better. Until now, the Anglo American port- ur v ralafiAnehin has suffered from a silly in n e r contradic tion. Those ex tremely practi cal and unsenti mental men, the military staffs f JowfpfrAlae! of the two M-f 'n-i tions, have long age established the closest strategic partnership between America and Britain. But there has been no such Intimate collaboration in the political and economic fields, c In fact,- the last' year has been marked by petty but mounting ir ritation, and baseless but increas ing suspicion between the makers of American and British policy. Men who make-policy are, for tunately or unfortunately, only too human. And when men deal with each other at a distance, irri tation and suspicion always arise. A good, example of the kind of thing that has" made needless trouble, is former Under Secre tary of State Will Clayton's visit to London last spring. He cante after the announcement of t&e Marshall plan, but before the Paris conference of 16 nations. Naturally, he received a wars welcome. Naturally, also, he found the British anxious to explain the peculiarities of their position, as a nation which ts at once part of Europe, the banking house of the sterling area, and the political and economic center of a huge non European commonwealth. If these GRIN AND BEAR .a.' .' jji ) ' ' " ' B ii w "And look at the view frenf this picture window. Madam and steUee hew clearly yea can see the dreadful hat the neighbor is wearing!" difficulties had been understood by the Americans in Paris, most of the friction with the British at the Paris 'conference could have been eliminated. Clarte Made Matters Worse .Instead, Clayton simply be cause he had been badly briefed, actually made matters much worse. He brushed aside the prob lems which were troubling the sleep of every sensible member of the cabinet. He said that in American exes, Britain was just one European nation among many. And he added contemplatively that, really, the place where the Marshall plan seemed likely to do the most good was Italy. The Brit ish leaders have been made ovtr seasitive by their difficulties. They were filled with bitterness, eonsidering, as one of them put it, that ''they had been told to take their places in the queue wish the other debtors." ' This kind of misunderstanding arises directly, of course, from the breakdown of the habit of con stant mutual consultation, . inau gurated by Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt long before Pearl Harbor. And this has had inflaitely worse results than the many little episodes, en both sides, like the one described above. Sometimes serious consequences have been avoided by sheer good fortune. The British had no ad vance knowledge of Secretary Marshall's Harvard speech, for example, so that Bevin's quick and intensely valuable response to the announcement of the Marshall plan was a remarkable technical feat of diplomacy. Again, the British were unwarned of Mar shall's so-called "little assembly" plan for the United Nations. The British delegate to Lake Success, Hector McNeil, had to telegraph frantically to London for instruc tions. Bevin and his staff had to consider the problem through the night, and, in very bad tempers, IT By Lichty send a telegram In the dawn. Un der the circumstances, it is ex tremely surprising that the tele gram instructed McNeill to main tain the Anglo-American front Daager te Middle East Nor has misfortune always been avoided In thia arils nunnr Ttu middle east is quite as Important k una country as to Britain. Yet the American Aeaiim t J Vm Success, Herschel Johnson, re- cenuy cua mucivio undermine the British Dosition in the Sudan which is vital to their position in the middle east by some rather casual remarks on the Anglo Egyptian dispute. Again, it is essential tn hoth nations to sustain Iran ' against soviet pressure. Yet not long ago the Kremlin was offered the agreeable spectacle of the British ambassador at Tehran urging the Iranians to adopt one course, while his American colleague pleaded for the contrary policy. Finallr. there fa the trarir Pal estine story. This reporter hap pens io oeueve neartuy in the ob jectives pursued hj, Palestine by nuwncin government, am one fact should now be obvious to everyone. By pursuing our Palestine obiectivea aIonThv re jecting all responsibility in Pales- nne; oy xnus preventing any agreement with the British, we have created an appallingly dan gerous situation. If we had of fered to share the responsibility with them, we ' might have brought the British round, in most respects, to - acceptance of our views. As it is, we are now quite likely to be forced, later on, into the riskiest kind of middle east ern intervention In order to keep the Russians out British Position Vniqae This sort of dealing at arms length with the British Is as un realistic as it -is dangerous. Wheth er we like it or not the British are emphatically not just one among many European nations. ----7 -v. - .-.ui---. '. :-. ! 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Once committed we dare not scut tle the load: the Russian bogey will frighten even penny-pinching isolationists into supporting ap propriations for aid to Frartce, It aly and Britain, and for sustain ing the people of Germany and Austria. It becomes a real question then whether our economy can carry the triple burden of a high do mestic standard of living, high military expenditures (atomic re search, air fleets, large army and navy, perhaps universal military conscription) and aid to our Eu ropean "allies. I doubt it and what will suffer will be our stan dard of living. Wages will con tinue to. rise, and prices too, but between high prices and short ages of essential materials and products Americans will have less per capita or poorer quality of housing, foodstuffs, motor ve hicles and the gear of modern liv ing. Prosperity will be Illusory. The tax burden may grow heav ier instead of lighter. A gloomy prospect? Yes, but more alarming is the prospect of another world war employing new weapons of mass destruction of life and property. Real war is not inevitable but the failure of the London conference brings it into focus as a definite possibili ty. The war of nerves usually ends in a war of bloodshed. The Xmas Gift They Um Treasnro TO THOUSANDS WHO SU'-IR 11EARIUG LOSS Hart. t tart, b a tna rniin arw kiad of unt-uiw warn Aj wlacb gnai wmn KE- tack rtwm Buuaetioa. aaiaf. halla 1 aacfea. mm itonilmi n.ilnl. battery wvaa, Na karah. painful, "tmor To Ttaur . No hoBow andartoBBK hatom tor Fraa Bonk mi m C)' ONt-VNff MtAflJM ASS ' Janes II. Tall, Disir. L. C Canary, Dealer Salem Qfilce 218 Oregon Bldg. Fhoae 2-4431 Batteries For KL Hearing Aid Food "drying cat has been reduced to a tnin imum by CHAPMAN'S "still air' principle. Year 'round freshness is maintained for appetiz ing meals when desired. 14 years of freezer man ufacturing proves that there is no substitute for experience. 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