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The Statesman. Salem, Oregon, Saturday, January 7 I94i "No Faxfor Sways ls. Firs Statesman, March tt, 1151 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member ef U Associated rrees The AMMbM Press Is entitled exclusively te the ase fer reMI eatlen ef all the local news printed la this MviHPtr, M well as all AT news dispatches. Dewey Name on Oregon Ballot Oregon is the first state to give format recognition to the 'candidacy of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for president in 1948. A filing of his name by petition has been made and his name will appear on the republican preference ballot in the primaries next May. In 1944 Dewey carried the primary via the write-in method. . This year, with Ralph Moores of Portland as campaign director, ' and his nam on the ballot an .active effort in his behalf will be - made. A few days ago Dewey announced that a staff of three of his political intimates, headed by Herbert Brownell, former chairman of the republican national committee, would look after . hi interests, an Indirect admission that he was in the presiden 3 tial race. Harold E. Stassen is regarded as sure to file as a candidate. He is scheduled to visit Oregon at the time of the state editorial conference in Eugene. February 20-21, when he is on the pro gram. The younger element of the republican party is giving ' him strong backing in this state. The precedent is against Dewey, for the republican party has never renominated one who has lost a previous contest; but then precedents tumble one after another and this one may this year. Vandenberg's withdrawal of his name will give Dewey the big block of Michigan votes at the outset. The dope is however that Dewey will have to win on the early ballots or his folTow ing will shift. The Taft forces expect to be strong enough to prevent an early nomination and then to capture the drifting-vote. In the dark horse stables the only development is an effort in New Hampshire, with the approval of Senator Tobey of that state, to advance the cause of General Eisenhower. A Pennsyl vania group has similar ideas, but it is outside the regular organ isation there and is not expected to get control of the state dele gation. With Secretary Marshall running into difficulties with eongress the enthusiasm for military officers in civil positions is said to be oozing. Reports from key states like New York and Massachusetts reveal enough Wallace strength to worry the democratic chief tains. There is In fact a resurgence of republican confidence of victory. The political soothsayers will be busy from now on reading tea leaves and crystal balls and watching the political uija board; but none is yet ready to come up with a definite prophecy as to the republican nomination, and predicts on the lection results are still tinged with ifs and buts. On Ben Franklin's Birthday Today, on the 242nd anniversary of the birth of America's best known printer, the remarkable Benjamin Franklin, nation wide observance of printing week ends. In the cultural history of mankind nothing contributed more to the liberation of the human "spirit from ignorance and super stition thr'the invention of printing with movable type. Even printing itself was once regarded as closely related to the Black Arts and the European inventor Johannes Gutenberg took neces sary precautions to conceal his experiments. The Chinese used movable type long before Gutenberg printed his first books in Germany over five centuries ago, but it remained for the quest ing intellect of the Renaissance to take full advantage of the new art. Before printing, all the wisdom of antiquity was padlocked In the rubricated and illuminated leather-bound pages of hand lettered parchment available onjy to the monks, the priests and the tyrants whose greatest asset was public illiteracy. Printing opened the floodgates, accelerated the Reformation and the revo lutions which have furthered the cause of individual rights and Intellectual liberty. As Carlyle said: "He who first shortened the labour of the copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies ' end cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic society: he had invented the art of printing." The art of printing has reached extensive technological development, from broadsides to teletype progress which has left the thought broadcast by printing far behind, some of it as obsolete as pre-Gutenberg wood-block letters. If printing "cre ated" this democratic society, then printing will be held partly responsible for the ultimate success or failure of this society. As never before, it is essential that the public be kept con tinually well-informed -through an accurate and responsible press newspapers, books, magazines, radio, etc. In the United States, where official censorship is minimum, suppression of informa tion is usually voluntary, a perfidious act by misguided writers prodded by ulterior motives. To them would apply Printer Franklin's denunciation. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." To misuse liberty is the simplest way to lose it. Misleading propaganda, not printing, can be a Black Art, today. The county fair association wants' to have the state fair dates pried off of the Labor day start and put back later in September. Leo Spitzbart, fair manager, objects and says the fair wouldn't pay out if it loses Jhe big Labor day crowd. He may be right as to finances, but the state fair as now run is too much of a midway, cheap entertainment, get-the-crowd affair. As a real display of agricultural and other products it's not so hot. More than a change of date ia needed however to improve its quality. Josephus Daniels lived long enough to become one of the elder statesmen of the democratic party. He served as secretary of the navy in World War I and was Franklin Roosevelt's ambas sador to Mexico. At other times he was a very able editor of a great southern paper, the Raleigh News and Observer. A coura geous editor, a faithful public servant and a fine citizen Is lost in his passing. To speed up production Russian economic overlords use "incentives," which are strictly unorthodox to the Communist gospel of "to every man according to his needs." You just can't get away from facta of human nature. The reliable discipline is, if a man won't work he don't eat. Tips of alder tree on the south slopes show a green tint against the sky, but if this chilly weather keeps up they'll need to put their mittens on. Hungary says it will bar the films of movies in which ap peared the six stars who testified against the commies in the senate hearings. The "cold war" breaks out in a new freeze. Senator Taft has introduced a bill calling for a housing census in 1950 and every 10 years thereafter. More needed is a census of the unhoused. The price of eggs has been dropping. Poultry men hope this Humpty Dumpty business doesn't end in a crackup. No Fear Shall Aire" GRIN AND BEAR aWSvA 1SS5; "Sere It's tar eat bat It's very exelnalve! Rich fanners ail sloes ef yea." OtF SCKSOOO0 mm (Continued from page 1) (Continued from page 1) growth of Its territory requires heavy capital investment to serve customers, both residential and In dustrial. For a decade it has put most all its earnings back into plant and paid no dividends of any consequence. Its stock will now go out into public hands and is being put on a dividend basis, so the company may have to enter capital markets for new money. In this respect it is no different from other electric utilities and if it enjoys sound management it should be able to obtain the fi nancing It requires. Affairs of Pepco have been a bitter memory in the minds of many local people these many years. It is well that this company is buried with its past. Now it is up to the old but stable operat ing company and to its new board of directors to serve this area, dealing fairly both with its cus tomers and with its investors. Baldock Named to Federal Committee R. H. Baldock. state highway engineer and president of the American Association of State Highway Officials, Friday receiv ed word of his appointment as a member of the advisory board of the section or public works coor dination for the commission on organization of the executive branch of the federal government Purpose of the commission, Bal dock said, is to study and determ ine and recommend what changes are necessary in the executive branch to promote economy, effi ciency and improved service in the transaction of public business. Pengra Given Armory Job M. N. Pengra. jr., CETM, is as signed to Salem's navy reserve office as armory keeper in anti cipation of naval armory construc tion here, it was announced Thursday by Lt. Comdr. Roger Salem Bulldog , ; 1 1 1 I f .' tmtmt at I,j sl rtti , TWS SIMM .- 4. -l it I"- Lc vV'- v 1L J 'v TMratAf no tt vm f v i ' iv ". '. i 'i fx . . J,., ! S -' r' MMMia.aawtthJ mi awni'i" f T Tui "'"',ir 1 1 i iSreaaaaaJ Gang He. C4-peend English baUdec. Is back la the marine again. The eealfal-eyed. bew-legged veteran Is shewn betsur fln gerprtateer by Sgt. George Will I neon. eeeaaasiaJeatleas chief ef Selena's marine corps reserve battery, at snartae reserve recraitlag office at the etty halL Gang He enlisted aa "smaeeef fa a week te help with the reeraMng drive far the leeal reserve daring "Marine Corps Reserve Week." The balldeg Is owned by Lleyd sUngiand, Salem, former leatherneck who was discharged freea the nvartac eerps m Portland ea Jan. 15. 145. with the rate ef aaaster techni cal sergeant after twe years with the Oregon nmarlne reernlilag serrtoe. Since his discharge. Gang He haa spent a nlet dvuaa life la Salem. (Statesman-McEwan photo.) IT By Lichty Hop Growers To Hold Series Of Meetings A series of hop growers' meet ings wiH be held throughout Ore gon hop growing districts during the next two weeks under the sponsorship of United States Hop Growers association, whose Ore gon directors are Dean H. Walker, Independence and Ralph E. Will iams, Jr., Portland. Highlighting important matters to be presented at these meetings will be the proposal for a new hop marketing agreement. Developments on the hop re search program, the import tariff situation and the hop growers' convention to be held at San Francisco February 19 and 21 will also be discussed. A district ad visory committeeman will be elec ted at each of these meetings to serve during the coming year. Paul T. Roweli, associate man ager in charge of the Salem office of the United States Hop Growers' association will attend and take part ia these meetings. He has announced the following schedule of meetings: January 22, 1:30 p.m. Salem Chamber of Commerce; 7:30 pjn. Mt. Angel city hall; January 23. 1:30 pjn. Albany city hall; 7 JO Silverton Knights of Pythias hall; January 26, 7:30, Eugene Elks club; January 27, 2 pjn. Grants Pass city library auditorium; Jan uary 28, 7:30. St Paul city hell; January 29, 1:30 p.m. Donald hall; 7:30 pan. Independence VFW hall; January 30, 2 pan. Portland Will iams St Hart office; 730, Forest Grove Chamber of Commerce. The Independence meeting is under Joint sponsorship with In dependence Hop Growers of which Eugene MacCarthy is chairman. Lasley, active duty officer here. Pengra has returned to active duty recently, having been dis charged in October, 1945, after a three-year enlistment which in cluded training in electronics and service aboard the battleship USS New York at Okinawa. I wo Jima j and other points. I A native of Eugene, Pengra is now making his home at 455 N. 1 20th st., with his wife and two j daughters. j He will supervise installation of i flk 1 1 m ir-itjakiijtriai avitiinment in 1 ess vui luiiuiiiveuviia vuif uikiii sis the new Salem armory, bids for which are expected to be called in the near future. a Marine Again . ; ! : ' l . j If 4 X Hand Labor Replaces Ukraine (Kilter's Net Kiev, the capi tal ef the Soviet Ukraine. Is the eldest city la Easels. It was cap. tared twice by the Germans la the last war. aad rebeildlag ef the deatreyed city Is expected te take a let Usee. Jehn Steinbeck de scribes the city teday, with photo graphs takea by Robert Caps. Beth snea west te Kiev last saaneaer as special cerres pendents ef the New Terk Herald Tribune). Chapter IV This must have been a very beautiful city once, and perhaps lt will be again. I watched the women walking in the street, and they moved like dancers. They are light on their feet and they have a beautiful carriage. And many of them are very, very handsome. Much of the destruc tion that has been brought on this people is because their land is rich and productive and many conquerors have coveted lt If the United States were completely de stroyed, from New York to Kan sas, we would have about the area of destruction the Ukraine has. If six million people were killed, not counting soldiers, 13 per cent of the population, you would have an idea of the casualties of the Ukraine. Counting soldiers, there would be many more, but six mil lions out of the forty-five millions of civilians have been killed. There are mines which will never be opened, because the mine shafts were used by the Germans to throw bodies into. Thousands of bodies were thrown down into the shafts. Every piece of ma chinery in the Ukraine has been destroyed or removed so that now, until more can be made, every thing must be done by hand. Ev ery stone and brick must be lifted and carried with the hands, for there are no bulldozers. And while they are rebuilding, the Ukranians must produce food, for theirs is the great granary of the nation. No Holidays in Harvest They say that in harvest time there are no holidays, and now it la harvest time, there are no Sundays, there are no days off. The work ahead of them Is fan tastic. The buildings to be re placed must be torn down first An amount of labor that the bull dozer could do in a few days takes weeks by hand, but they have no bulldozers yet Everything must be replaced. And it must be done quickly. We went through the blasted and destroyed center of the city, past the corner where the German sadists were hanged after the war. At the museum are the plans of the new city. More and more we were realizing how much the Russian people hv on hope, hope that tomorrow will be better than today. Here In white plaster was a model of the new city. A grandiose, a fabulous city to be built of white marble, the lines classical, the buildings huge, col umns, and domes, and arches, and giant memorials, all in white mar ble. The plaster model of the city-to-be covered a large section Farm Labor Office Advisors Meet Tuesday Oregon's new farm employment advisory council will conduct its first meeting Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in the state capitol, with a view to forming a basic program for this summer's demands for labor in ag ricultural harvesting and process ing over the state. Gov. John H. Hall will open the conference. In addition to electing a chair man and secretary, the council is expected to consider crop and acreage estimates, labor demands, temporary offices and staffing, re cruitment, a safety program for farm workers, survey of housing needs and importation of out-of-state and foreign workers. The state on January 1 resumed control of farm labor placements, operated by the federal govern ment during and since the war. The 11 -man council, appointed last week, represents all sections of Oregon and a variety of farm interests. It includes Ammon Grice of West Salem and D. T. Kennedy of Independence. To be coordinated with the long experience of the council mem bers, the state unemployment com pensation commission has made available a large volume of statis tics and charts relative to the cur rent situation. Tentative plans for 1948 will be presented by Earl Lovell, state employment service director, and Joe Wilson, farm placement supervisor. Strike Threats Voiced in Ruhr DUXSSELDORT, Germany, Jan. 1S-AVA warning of widespread strikes and even hunger riots in the Ruhr was voiced by the chief labor union official of the British zone last night at British and American military government Chiefs centered attention on a re ported communist scheme for sabotage of the Marshall plan (details on page 12). Communist labor leaders were reported advocating a 24-hour gen eral strike as a protest against food shortages. Hans Boeckler, cheif of the German federation of trade unions in the British zone, declared coal loadinc might case .tomorrow unless the food situation was eased. Only rarely are women colorblind. . a. ' ? f si - - Complete aeedels aad plane are reedy fee rebeildlag Kiev ea city. Meet ef the piasw fee taw new aertet ettlee featare aig. ee pablle Pauaings rr aalTenltlea, in baildlaaa. . of one room. And the director of the museum pointed out the vsr ious buildings. Museum Is "Church" This was to be the Palace of the Soviets, this the museum, al ways the museum. Cape says that the museum is the church of the Russians. They seem to want great buildings and ornate structures. They like lavishness. In Moscow, where there is no reason for sky scrapers, because the space Is al most unlimited and the land level, they are nevertheless planning skyscrapers, almost In the New York manner, without the New York need. With a slow, antlike energy, they will build these ci ties. But now the people come through the wreckage, through the destroyed and tumbled build ings people, men, women, and even children, they come to the museum and look at the little plas ter cities of the future. In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year, it is the comfort that will come in ten years, it is the clothes that will be made very soon. If ever a people took its en ergy from hope, it is the Russian people. Fire Conceals Theft We went from this little plaster city, so new that it has not even MATTER GOP Isolation Bloc Seeks to Hide True Colors, but Dull Marshall Plan GOP ISOLATION 2-18-2 .... By Joseph and Stewart Alaep WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 With the blessing and encouragement of Senator Robert A. Taft. the more exi r e m e isolation Is t sT among the sen- ., ate republicans have now band- ru lugruier in a sort of bloc or junta. Signifi- cantly, the im- mediate purpose of their quet, unanno u n c e d meeting and caucus i n g dur- Joarpk Abf) f tug uiv mj is emphatically not to find the best way of defeating the Euro pean Recovery Program The ob ject is, rather, to find a compro mise which will permit -them to vote with Sena tor Arthur H. Vandenberg, and thus m a i n t ain party unity in ihis election year. They have, in fact, acknowled ged to them selves, both iso lationism's polit- cal danger to I. Stewart Alaop the repu I (cans. V rnoted in this space some days ago, and the strategic strength of Senator Van-denbej-g's position, herein sug gested last week. Personally these men are just as isolationist as they ever were. But politically they have become aware that they are impaled upon a hook, that the hook has very deep barbs, and that getting off the hook will improve the republican chances next November. Senators Dislike EEP The new movement obviously may transform itself, in case agreement cannot be reached. Into a disciplined junta of bitter-enders, who will stop at nothing to tear the guts out of ERP, many of the senators would privately be pleased to do precisely this, so that the risk cannot be ignored. This risk is obviously meant to impress Senator Vandenberg. It would also be very unwise to feel that these men can find any grounds for argument with Van denberg, even if he is ready to yield a little. About a score of senators which would include the whole hard core of republi- t -ff ri W" " J: been built yet, to the ancient mon astery on the cliff. Once It was the center of the Russian church, and one of the oldest religious struc tures in Russia. It had been beau tiful, it buildings and its paint ing dating from the twelfth cen tury. But then the Germans came, and this monastery had been the repository of many of the treas ures of the world. And when they had stolen most of the treasures they destroyed the buildings wth shell fire to conceal their theft when they left the city. And now It Is a great pile of fallen stones and tumbled domes, with little bits of wall paintings showing through. And It will not be rebuilt; It could n't be. It took centuries to build, and now lt is gone. The weeds that follow destruction have sprung up in the courtyards. In a half ruined chapel, in front of the destroyed altar, we saw a ragged figure of a woman lying prostrate on the ground. And through an open gate where once only the Czar or his family could pass, a wild-eyed half crazed woman walked, crossing herself monotonously and mum bling. Chanel Still Stands One part of the monastery still stands. That Is a chapel where for OF FACT can Isolationism are reported to be chiefly Involved, although additional more moderate men may also be tagging along. The flavor of the group is best con veyed by the fact that two of the most active members are the Nebraska senators, Hugh Butler and Kenneth Wherry. The movement, of course, really derives from the presidential can didacy of Senator Taft. The sen ators chiefly participating want to see Taft in the Whit House. They admire Taft, more import ant still they realize that Tart's victory would be a triumph for the ultra-conservative republican wing which they represent. Sen ator Taft himself has taken no active part in their meeUng and caucusing, from a cautious fear that an unlucky outcome might implicate him later on as an iso lationist extremist. But Taft, nonetheless, intervened decisive ly early in the process of coagu lation of the republican isolation ist into an organized group. And Taft's Influence was responsible for the group's decision to begin by seeking compromise. Ne Statesnent leaned If it had not been for Taft these men would probably have started by Issuing one of those statements of undying oppoalUon of which Senator Wherry is the great English prose-matter. There is here something more than mere political expediency, si in most of Senator Taft's actions. For the first time in his political career he has lately taken a little time to study the Inwardness of the world problem, discussing it at some length with such men as Secretary of Defense James For res tsL According te those close to him, he has been a little shaken by the result of his inquiries, ac cepting st last the impossibility of total American isolation. Thus he sees the necessity of the ultimate passage of n Euro pean Recovery Program in, some workable form, without regard to politics. The political expediency of Taft's new move lies, rather, In his effort to secure the conj peny of all the ether senatorial isolationist. He wants to avoid a solitary renunciation of his for mer position. It all the isolation ist act together lt will tend to obscure any Inconsistency with Taft's previous statement of pol icy. It will also leave no reason able grounds for complaint by Colonel Robert R. McCormick By John Steinbeck Fhetefraphs by Robert Capa Machinery centuries only the Czar and the. nobles were permitted to worship. ; It Is heavily painted, a dark and I gloomy place. And each worship? per had his little carven stall, for this was the place of a very select religion, and it was easy to see In one's mind the old nobility, sitting ; in gioomy concentistlon on a no- tye future and on m noble heaven,'! a heaven which was probsbly as gloomy a sthls church, with It Incense-blackened celling, and its Bjunmenng goia leaf. And Capa SSys: "All food rhurrh mr gloomy. That's what makes them There la an oMw rhurrti fMi Kiev, one of the oldest In the world, mat was built by Jaroslav the Wise In 1034. anrf II ) mi standing probably because there was nothing of value to steal In It, and so the Germans left U alone. But ft again Is a high. lioomy piace. Boilv Believed "hear in a little side chapel. In a small houselike sarcophagus pf marble. Is the body of Jaroslstr the Wise, who built the church. ii is me tradition that Jaroslsv had an accident In battle and broke his lee. And Ma hnH i for more than a thousand years in me ume nouseilke sarcophagus, and recently the casket r nrvn. ed, and It was found that the body in me casket had Indeed had; a broken leg and every one was hap. py for this was really Jaroslav the Wise. j ,! ' The gloom of the churches threw a gloom upon us. But 'at luncheon Mr. Poltarszki spoke 'of the act of the German in the war, of the thousands of people killed. J Kiev Used to War j f War Is no new thing to Kie. for the raids of thm uvaa fmm Tarta ry had come over this dis trict, it has been a place of war for thousands of years. But no savage tribe, no Invader, ever was responsible for the stupid calcu lated cruelties and the destructions of the Germans. , They raged through the country like frantic, cruel children. And now the lines of the prisoners In their German army uniforms march through the streets, to work at cleaning up the J destruction they caused. And the Ukrainian people do not look at them. They turn away when ! the ( columns march through the streets. They look through these prisoners and over them. And per haps this Is the worst punishment that could possibly be Inflicted n them. : ! ' if' The StfffeaJtlM eiacasttne llUra. tnrs Utrcach a trsaUt m rsa Brla Aatartoaa) sate lauUi lltrarr Sar will k arrtka la ttela rr iMMtrtv m t b4 la. MaJlBOTX f Ja Stalaaach-s Siasalan J ;j Copyright, I Sat. ky Jaa SUtafc and other Taftites of his kidney. Like every other political leader, wise and unwise. Senator Taft has a hankering to have his cake and eat it too. In his case i this form of a hankering both to have hi Illinois delegates and to get off the isolationist hook. The hook has become considerably more painful since the recent teit polls of presidential aspirants. f May Meet with Vandenberg Presumably the members of leaders of this new movement to which Taft has given the Initial impetus will shortly meet , with Senator Vandenberg. They Want compromise on two main, point, the method of ERP administra tion, and the appropriation) ini tially authorized, which fthey , would like to hold to $5 billion. 1 By referring the , problem j of administration to the Brookings Institution, Vandenberg has al ready prepared the raw material of compromise on the first point. He cannot give way very far on the second without rendering ERP ineffectual. It is quite Im possible to predict whether some formula will be found to get. over this difficulty. But the great point for the present is that even the bitter-enders have lost at least a little of-their native Old Guard appetite for death rather j than surrender. I w w Co?XHht. JS4S ' Naw York Mat a 14 Tribune, In. , Board Plans Constitution For Art Group A constitution to be drawn up on lines similar to those of the Portland association, was planned at a meeting of . the board of th Salem Art association Thursday noon at the Golden Preasant res taurant Mrs. W. E. Anderson pre- idd. ! Tht association recently peti tioned for and was granted py the city council, the use of the! Sally Bush heme in Bush's pasture for an art museum upon Its being ac quired by the city. Plans are un derway for fl reproofing the build ing and purchasing furniture be longing te the pioneer Bush family- i Memberships were set by the as sociation at $S for associate, $10 for annual, $"23 for sustaining and $100 for life. When contribu tions of a member aggregate $1,000 he wll become a patron member with no further annual dues, the group agreed. j At the meeting were board members, Mrs. W . P.- Poorman, E. W. Acklln, Mrs. J. M. Devers, Mrs. Clifford Taylor and Mrs. I. R. Ram 11 n, secretary and Mrs. An derson, president. -