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4 The Stat man. Salm. Oregon. Thursday, Tanaary IS. 193 "No Favor Swayt Ut, m First Statesman. March 2S, UM THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Member ef the Tike Associated Press la entitled exclusively te the aee fee repebU eatlea ef all the leeal aews printed in this newspaper, as well as ell AP news dispatches. Court Sustains Equality In Education ' The element of time in that negro students are to be provided equal educational facilities as soon as other appli cants get them is the important factor in the recentlj adjudicated supreme court case of Ada Lois Sipuel vs. the re gents of the University of Oklahoma. In a Missouri case 10 years ago the high court ruled that negroes are entitled to equal facilities, but since then colored students have sometimes been required to wait indefinitely until parallel institutions were set up for their exclusive use. This happened last year when Louisianna was forced to establish an equal school for negroes who had applied for admission to the state institutions. The new decision should minimize the in equity of this interpretation of the older decree. But precedent-setting litigation and discharging; the rulings are not synonymous. The Oklahoma regents signified their In tention to comply with the courfs decision, but the nature of their future actions, the reception the lone colored student will get. on a prejudiced campus, and her treatment by instructors remains to be seen. At the University of Oregon, non-whites are extended equal educational opportunities although bias on the part of some in structors and a former athletic coach has been alleged. But last year liberal campus groups and the Urban League of Portland raised considerable (ineffective) protest when a colored stu dent was restricted from one of the woman's dormitories for no reason other than race. Legislation alone does not insure tolerance any more than it guarantees honesty or prevents murder. Legislation is neces- sary but it must go hand in hand with education t0 be telling. Thus a valuable step in the campaign against tolerance is the announcement that the National Conference of Christians and Jews will support a new research and training program in inter-group education to -be inaugurated by Teachers College, Columbia University. Group prejudices are hard to uproot once they have taken hold. Proper early education can prevent or at least lessen the tensions and conflicts which grow from religious, racial and ethnic group misunderstanding. The Columbia program should become the basis for real progress toward greater unity be " ' tween the polygenetic conglomeration that is America. t Buried Treasure There's another gold rush in California this week nearly a century after gold was first discovered there. This time hundreds of people armed with makeshift mining equipment are prospecting for $20 gold pieces buried in Monterey. Two years ago $1,500 in gold was found in the same area and so far this search has yielded 125 pieces, according to newspaper re ports. A tidy fortune was sowed there 35 years ago by a wealthy Old cool who regarded banks with some suspicion. Now his heirs are reaping a bumper crop. If the gold pieces had been accumulating 3 per cent interest in a bank for the past 35 years they would have earned only $10.85 each. Besides, hoard ing gold is illegal now. But because they are rare collectors' items some of the buried pieces have tripled their mint value. There are undoubtedly still many people who wish a pox on all banks and other such formidable cabbage factories. Oc casionally one hears of them stoop-shouldered timid souls who die in a gutter with $50,000.65 cents sown into their tattered trousers. Sometimes they place their trust in a familiar mattress rather than in the cold marble mausoleums where savings can be buried to produce annual dividends ior in a comfortable sock hidden under a loose floor board rather than with some dour trustee. Thtse brothers of the thrifty squirrel,, these i unwilling al moners to posterity, sometimes hoard their gold pieces or silver dollars just as women collect amberino glass or Spode demitasse cups they like to finger them and admire the "sheen and the patterns. Now imagine one of these connoisseurs of coinage shuffling up to a teller and asking to indulge in a little recreation a chance to play with his pretty savings account, stacking the coins, watching the light reflect on them,; biting them, adding up the numbers . . . ! ' ... Banks are so callous about things like that. Art Edwards Retires When Art Edwards pulls the switch after his press run on The Statesman Friday morning he will conclude nearly 50 years Of service to this newspaper. In 1898 he began work as a young lad. delivering papers, on horseback. Soon he was working around the press an old, steam-powered cylinder press. Then he became pressman, and when the cylinder was replaced with a Duplex flat-bed press that printed from rolls he ran that. In 1927 that was outgrown and replaced by a 24-page stereo type Scott press, which has since been Edward's pride and joy. His health has not been good of late so he is retiring to enjoy a well-earned rest from the strenuous duties of foreman of the pressroom. No newspaper could have had a more faithful employe than Art Edwards, loyal to his employers, loyal to his job and loyal to his associates. All of us in The Statesman family wish for him many pleasant years of living. ' Caught with the Goods Brigadier General Wallace H. Graham looks like a boy caught with his hands in the jam jar. He first tried to alibi out of responsibility for being in the speculative grain markets by saying he let his brokers handle his account, which his brokerage house promptly exploded. No reputable brokerage house buys and sells for clients except oh orders, the risks art too great. Then Graham tried to say he got out of the market immediately when the president criticized grain speculators. Now he admits in his testimony that he stayed in the commodity market in cotton and had one transaction in wheat for several weeks thereafter. i f He made a very lame showing, whereas lit he had said frankly at the first that he had done some trading, legitimately and without any government inside information he would have been in a wholly defensible position. His ihin evasions show him up as weak in character. He should stick to his medicine. The forest service at Eugene sold seven million board feet of Douglas fir on Fall creek at a price of $25.05, said to be the highest price ever paid for fir stumpage in. Oregon. Doesn't look as though lumber manufacturers anticipated much falling off in demand for lumber. Those contemplating house building will feel as though their dream house is pushed farther into the future. The "March of Dimes" is getting under Way; but what Is hoped for is a real march of dollars into that fund to combat Infantile paralysis. The new slogan for republicans this; campaign year is "vote republiean'in 1948 and save what's left." We are surprised at that slogan. It is one better suited for Henry Wallace. Republi cans should procIaim:,"Vote republican j-and save what's right; No Fear Shall. Awe" Editor and Publisher Associated fa uoflssoaini JoaoraaD Reds 'Worst Propagandists (Editor's Nsto Jeha Steinbeck. who west to Kassia last sasamer as a special oerrespeadeat fee tha New Terk Heraia Tribane, reperta to explain to a 8evtet fflcUl the differences between Asaerleaa sad Easslaa points ef view. The pla tans are by Bebert Capa, pretog rapher, whe accompanied Mas,) CHATTER II In the afternoon, Voks sent a car to take us to the main office for an interview. It was our im pression that there had been some batle about who was to be re sponsible tor us, the Writers Union or Voks. And Voks had lost and got us. The Voks offices are in a beautiful little palace, which was once the home of a merchant prince. We were received by Mr. Kara ganov in his office, which is oak paneled to the celling and with a stained glass skylight, a very pleasant place to work. Mr. Kara ganov, who spoke a precise slow English, sat behind his desk and asked us many questions. And he doodled in a pad with a pencil, one end lot which was blue, and the other red. And again we ex plained our project, which was to avoid politics, but to try to talk to and to understand Russian farm ers, and. working people, and market people, to see how they lived, and to try to teQ our peo ple about it. so that some kind of understanding might be reached. He listened quietly and made angular marks with his pencil. Differences Cited . And then he said: There have been other people who wanted to do this." And he named a num ber of Americans who have since' Written books about the Soviet Union. And he said: "They have sat in this office, and have spoken in one way, and then they have gone home, and have written in another -way. And if we seem to have a mild distrust, it is because of this.' : We replied: "You must not think that we came either favorably or unfavorably. We came to do a Job of reporting, if it is possible to do it. We Intend to set down and to photogriph exactly what we see and hear, with no. editorial matter. If there is something we don't like, or don't understand, we will set that down too. But we came for a story. If we can do the story we came for, we will do it. If we can't dot it, we still have a story." Help Promised He nodded very slowly and thoughtfully, and he said: This we could trust. But we are very tired of -people who come here and Sre violently pro-Russian, and who go back to the United States and become violently anti-Rus-Sian. We have had considerable experience with that kind." And he said This office, Voks, has not very much power, nor very much influence. But we will do what we can to ilet you do the work that you want to do." Then he asked us many questions about America. He said "Many of your newspapers are speaking of war with the So viet Union. Do the American peo ple want war with the Soviet Union??' We said: "We don't think so. We doii't think any people want war, but we don't know." He asked: "Why is this clamor in the newspapers rising so fast?' And we said again: "We are not politicians. We do not know the reasons. We suspect that some of It has to do with the Presidential elections next year. But we don't know fo what extent." 'Do ot Want War' And' we asked: "Do the Russian people, or any section of them, or any section of the Russian govern ment, want war?" 6,771 Businesses In Oregon Granted Payroll Tax Cuts The: state unemployment com pensation commission said Wed nesday that all but 921 of 7,691 eligible Oregon firms are en titled this year to payroll tax rates .lower than tne normal XJ1 per cent. These eligible firms are those which have three or more years of employment experience. By maintaining stable payrolls, firms can get lower tax rates. The average tax rate will be below the 1.74 per cent average of 147, but not as low as the 1.S per cent national average, the commission said. Of the firms with three years or more experience, 921 will pay 2.7 per cent. 1,398 will pay 2 per cent, 282 will pay 1.5 per cent,? 1.648 will pay 1 per cent, and 1,443 will pay .5 per cent. The Safety Valve UCTTCU rXOM STATESMAN KEAOEKS appreciates American aid To the Editor:, At this season of the jrear it seems appropriate to me to send a message of gratitude to the peo ple Of the United States of Ameri ca for their magnificent efforts to help war-exhausted nations on the road to recovery. We feel an intense admiration for your endeavours and are not unmindful of the self-sacrifices they involve. It is my conviction that America will lead the world to peace and prosperity again. Yours faithfully, ANGUS OLDAKER, 2 Church Hill. Winchmore Hill, ju . London, N. 21. f f ' t ". - ' A military bead staring classical At that he straightened up, and put down his pencil, and he said: "I can answer that categorically. Neither the Russian people, nor any section of them, nor any sec tion of the Russian government wants war. I can go farther than that. The Russian people would do almost anything to avoid war. Of this I am certain," he said. And then he took up his pencil again and made round doodles on his pad. He said: "Let us speak of American writing. It seems to us that your novelists don't believe in anything any more. Is this true?" I said: "I don't know." He said: "Your own most re cent work seems to us cynical." -It is not cynical." I said. "I believe one Job of a writer is to set down bis time as nearly as he can understand it. And that is what I was doing." Asks of Writers Then he asked questions about American writers, about Caldwell, and Faulkner, and when would Hemingway have a new book. And he asked what young writers were coming up, what new people. We explained that a few young writ ers were beginning to emerge, but that it was too soon to expect them to come out. Young men who should have been practicing their trade of writing had spent the last four years in the Army. Such an experience was likely to shake them very deeply, and it might take some time for them to comb out their experience and their lives, and to settle down to writ ing. He seemed a little surprised that writers in America do not get to gether, do not associate with one another very much. In the Soviet Union writers are very important people. Stalin has said that writ ers are the engineers of the soul. Status Different We explained to him that writers in America have quite a different standing. They are considered just below acrobats and just above seals. And in our opinion this is a very good thing. We believe that a writer too much appreciated is as likely to turn as heady as a motion picture actress with good notices in the trade journals. And Club to Back 3 Plays with New York Cast Salem's chapter of the 20-30 club, meeting at the Gold Arrow cafe Tuesday night, voted to spon sor a series of three stage plays at the Salem high school auditor ium during the winter season. The first play of the series, "Dream Girl," win be given February 27, it was announced, and "Made in Heaven" and "Kiss and Tell" will follow at about one-month Intervals. Exact dates of the two latter plays have not been decided. Players from the Theatre Guild of New York will make up the cast. The club also announced that it will operate a "wishing well in downtown Salem, the proceeds of which will go to the March of Dimes for infantile paralysis victims. The well will probably be set up at State and Commer cial streets on Monday when the annual drive begins here. At the dinner meeting mem bers were entertained by two movies. Tex Keel of the Capital Bowling alleys showed a movie featuring demonstration of the finer points of the kegling art, and the Oregon state highway com mission presented a film depict ing the beauty spots of the state. NOW AVAILABLE GUTTERS AND DOUIISPOUTS Galvanized Iron or Copper Salen Healing & Sheet Ilelal Co. 1685 Broadway - Call 8555 saasie en Pashkla Sqaare darftag the eslehratleai ef the Steth asud ersary ei afeeeew we believe that the rough and tumble life an American writer goes through Is very healthy for him in the long run. And here we come to one of the deepest divisions between the Rus sian emotional and intellectual feeling toward his government and the American and British feeling toward his government. For whereas the Russian is taught, and trained, and encouraged to believe that his government is good, that every part of it Is good, and that his job Is to carry it forward, to back it up In all ways; the deep emotional feeling among Ameri cans and British is that all gov ernment Is somehow dangerous, that there should be as little gov ernment as possible, that any in crease of government Is bad, and existing government must - be watched constantly, watched and criticised to keep it sharp and on its toes. 'We Try to Explain And later, on the farms, when we sat at table with farming men, and they asked how our govern ment operated, we would try to explain that such was our fear of power invested in one man, or in one group of men, that our gov ernment was made up of a series of checks and of balances, de signed to keep power from falling into any one's hands. We tried to explain that the people who have made our government, and who have continued it, are so in fear of power that they would willingly cut off a good leader rather than permit a precedent of leadership. I do not think we were thoroughly understood in this, since training of the people of the Soviet Union is that the leader is good snd the leadership . Is good. There is no possible argument here; it is Just the failure of two systems to com municate one with the other. A Mutual Respect Mr. Karaganov's pad was cov ered with red and blue symbols and he said finally: "If you will write down a list of thmgs you want to do and se. and send it through to me, I will see whether it ran be arranged." We liked Karaganov very much. He was a man who spoke straight Judge Johnson to Head Dairymen ASTORIA, Jan. 14-0P)-County Judge W. A. Johnson, Grants Pass, was elected president of the Oregon Dairymen's association at the close of the 54th annual meet ing today. The association named Arthur Ireland, Forest Grove, first vice president, and A. W. Linda w, Portland, second vice president. Roger Morse will remain secretary-treasurer. Delegates passed resolutions ssking that butterfat production records be kept for all cows un der test, and calling for support of the cattle disease eradicaUon program. Specialize in Madj So Order Store Of AH Types Restaurant Grocery Meat Market Tavern Drug Clothing KITCHEN CABINETS WARDROBES LINEN CLOSETS. ETC. FREE ESTIMATES Beavercrafl Co. 575 N. Lancaster Salem, Oregon Phone 9414 By John Steinbeck Photographs by Robert Capa in World' and unconfusedly. Later we were to hear many flowered speeches and many generalities. But this we never heard from Karaganov. We never pretended to him that we were anything hut what we were. We had a certain outlook, an American viewpoint, and pos sibly to him certain prejudices. Far from disliking us. or distrust ing us because of this, he seemed to trust us more because of It. It is our belief that the Russians are the worst propagandists, the worst public relations people in the world. Let us take the exam ple of the foreign correspondents. Usually, a news man goes toMos- cow full of good will, and a desire to understand what he sees. He promptly finds himself Inhibited. ana not able to do the work of a newspaper man. Attitude Changes Gradually he begins to change. Gradually he begins to hate the system, not as a system, but sim ply because it keeps him from do ing his work. There is no quicker way of turning a man against any thing. And this newspaper man usually ends up nervous and mean, because he had not (mm able to accomplish what he was sent to do. A man who is un able to function In his job usually aeiesis tne cause or his failure to function. The Embassy people and the correspondents feel alone, feel cut off, they are island people in the midst of Russia, and it is no wonder that they became lone ly and bitter. This section or Foreign Office accreditation is put in justice to the regular Moscow correspond ents. We were able to do many things they are not permitted to do. But if it had been part of our Job to report news as they must, then we would have been taken under the Foreign Office, and we too could never have left Moscow. Jeha Steinbeck left Meeeew fee Kiev, capital ef the Soviet Ukraine, and his report of that heavily de stroyed city will be pabltshed to morrow. Copyrisht. 1S4S. by John Steinbeck TORCH FIRES GARAGE Salem fire equipment was called Tuesday night to a garage at 1055 Edgewater st.. West Salem, when an acetylene torch being operated by Roy Stevens caught fife and spread to the welding machine and the floor, city flrement reported. Damage So the equipment and shop was only slight, firemen said. 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Interviewed by Al Schuss, ra dio station KOCO sports announ cer, Etnlgh revealed that big things were expected this year of Sa lem's Richard Gentxkow, who will return to the team from the Al buquerque, N. M., league. The Exchange club voted Wed nesday to handle the ticket sales for the March of Dimes dance to be held In the Salem armory Beauty Operator Wanted Excellent Position for Right Person KENTON HOTEL BEAUTY 8HOP Cervaiha, Oregea Pheae lit CLOSE OUT PRICES 7.50 Wool Shirts Men's: Cruisers 11.95 TIIOS. KAY WOdLEN MILL CO. Z4t SO. Uta ST. Tax Payers Attention T7 3 CM IaxJI Tax Consultants Office Hours Week Days f t 10 F. M. sbrhirday 2 to 10 P. M. Located Across from Marion Hotel st 235 S. Commercial St. In Ilerrall-Owent Bldg. Let Harry Zwinm or Norman Sholeeth Propose Year State is for clean Capitol Lumber Co. N. Cherry Avtnus 2 tT' Sr f Nearly Ready fee eeeapaaeyt View, large let, eiaiag K, baaecneal with garage, a, aeek. I B. B. Max. P, B. A. leaa avail. 474 K. 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