4 Th Z gcdom. Oregon, Sunday. February 13, 1943
"No Favor SwayiMt. No Fear Shall Aire"
First Statesman. March 28, 1831
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher
Member of Um Associated Frees
The Associated tTess to entitled exclusively UlhM(ir repMl
eatlea rftnUM local aews printed la this Mwspaser, as wU as eJl
Al hi dispatches.
Planning for Civilian Defense
The war department civil defense board, established late
in 1946, hopes that international ability to maintain peace even
tually will become more effective, but meanwhile, the United
States should be ready to "maintain its security" since there
can be up guarantee of a specific warning of attack. Any major
war involving weapons of mass destruction directed at this
country will require rapid total national mobilization of civilians.
The World War II office of civilian defense was dissolved
in June, 194S, and there is at present no federal organization
planning civil defense. But the war department board has
studied defense methods in Great Britain, Germany and Japan
and arrived at conclusions which prompted Secretary of Defense
Forrest al to recommend a permanent civil defense agency. ;
The fundamental principles of civil defense are self-help
and mutual aid and those have to be learned, by individuals
and by groups. Knowing how to administer first aid and spot
enemy planes is not enough; sand buckets in the attack and
black-out window shades are not enough. So the board : has
recommended! that the "slow and tedious task" of creating a
civil defense organization from the municipal up to the national
level begin now.
First, a single permanent federal civilian agency responsible
for planning, coordinating and directing civil defense, and per
haps a policy-formulating group at the cabinet level, are needed.
the board suggests. Then, federal and state legislation is required
to vest appropriate authority in civil defense agencies, and to
coordinate Red Cross relief with the over-all program.
Duties of national, state and local government must be
specified; these would probably include: organization; standard
ization of fire-fighting equipment and other protective services;
mobile reserve units; reserve supplies of food, medicine, etc.;
relief and rehabilitation of individuals; plans for emergency
evacuation of large numbers of civilians; warning systems; pas
sive defense measures; interstate mutual aid.
Industry and the general public must be educated regard
ing the nature of future warfare and possible effects on civilian
communities, regarding the defense organization, dispersion, use
of underground sites, protective construction, protection of com
munication and transportation facilities, etc.
The war department emphasized that the public "cannot
depend entirely on the armed forces for civilian defense; the
military will have their own responsibilities regarding counter
attacks and so' on.
Obviously, a well-intergrated civil defense program includ
ing provisions for immediate and adequate relief for people in
target areas and plans for mass evacuation is of major impor
tance. Total warfare is directed at civilians there won't be
time for military mobilization and it is the civilian populace
which must be ready to look after itself. Secretary Forrestal's
program is a step in realistic planning for civilian self-defense.
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GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichtj
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Prizepackage Production
Are you one of the contest brigade' that has made radio
competitions pretty much professional? Do you follow all the
contests on the various networks and devote your energies to
winning a goodly share of the loot that is offered?
That is a development in the current craze of radio give
away. B. Mike in the Oregonian has been jabbing at the profes
sionals and the way they gamer in the gravy. He thinks there
orter be some sort of law setting a limit on their winnings.
The fact is that the whole business has become profession
alized. Take the giveaway business. Here's the Mammoth- Pop-,
cornball Co. which is running a contest and giving away a Rita
automobile, a Walrus refrigerator, a Broomless vacuum sweeper
and other gear and gadgets amounting to $10,000 in value. How
does Mammoth Popcornball Co. do it? How can it afford such
expense?
That is where the professionals came in. Men have worked
up a business of providing for free the prizes to be offered by
Mammoth and other sponsors. These brokers Big up the washing
machines, curling irons, station wagons and wriatwatches from
the manufacturers. The payoff for the donor is to get his brand
name mentioned over the radio, so he gets advertising for his
Strapless wristwatch or Stoopless washer.
The broker charges a fee for his service in getting the goods
and displaying it to studio audiences. According to "Business
Week":
These middlemen describe their job as "product exploitation,"
merchandise counsel, "prize brokerage," and "prizepackage pro
duction." They may be retained either by the manufacturers or
by the program; sometimes they even work both sides of the
street. The manufacturer usually pays either in the form of a re
tainer or on a per-plug fee.
The brokerage business has developed into big proportions
with several companies engaged in it both in New York and
Hollywood. Considering the fact that the giveaway business
amounts to from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 a year, the brokerage
offers a sweet thing in fees and commissions.
The whole contest business is a distortion of sound adver
tising no matter how much immediate profit the advertiser may
see. The contests are often silly and absurd; the reported win
ners profit far out of proportion to any indication of excellence
or skill; goods are cheapened in public estimation. Some day
manufacturers and sponsors will wake up and realize they have
made suckers out of themselves.
true that the influx of workers
drew In manv- of criminal ten
dency both whit and colored.
But what grinds the negroes is
that readiness of the whites to
assign them to an inferior sta
tion, to a restricted residential
district, to dead-end occupations,
just because of their color. What
they crave is economic oppor
tunity and fair treatment as in
dividuals.
It must be admitted that the-j
prevailing white attitude, openly
expressed In the south and quiet
ly pursued in . the north is that
the "negro should know his place
and stay where he belongs." The
north abuses the smith for intol
erance but nonetheless openly or
subtly manifests its own race
prejudice. Even laws passed to
prohibit hotels, restaurants and
theatres practicing discrimination
because of race or color are
ignored or evaded.
So there is need for education
in tolerance. In fact it is funda
mental. Such education is going
forward in churches and schools.
Race prejudice violates the creed
of the Christian and the philoso
phy of democracy." Slowly people
are coming to learn tnat otners
should be appraised on their per
sonal merits and not rated and
classified merely on the basis of
color or tribe or creed.
-.ten
"Otk, what takes yea se long Areunx? Anybody weald think
yea had hair, complexion, fingernails or lisw '
Harlow Ankeny on
Winning Quarlet
At Forest Grove
A Salem youth, Harlow Ank
eny, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Ankeny of 3993 Portland rd is
MATTER OF FACT
South Putting 'Squeeze' on Truman
For Civil Rights Stand Compromise
WASHINGTON. Feb. 14 The
white supremacy southerners in
congress are now talking among
themselves about placing either
Sen. Walter T. George of Geor-
' ., tm i . tt n i in-
w i u r n. oroin. nurr i. oitu i
Flat, of Pacific mil whn mn N - nomination for the Pre-
first in the Northwest Barber VSSLSSS'
Shop Ballad contest at Forest This underground discussion neat-
Grove Friday. This is the second
consecutive win for the college
student quartet. Other singers are
Dick Cadd and Ronald Crecelius
of Newberg and Norval Had ley,
Albany.
Ankeny, a sophomore, is a
graduate of Salem high school and
served as Clarion editor in his
senior year.
The
Safety Valve
LETTEmS FKOlf STATESMAN
KEAOEK8
Tax Rates
To the Editor:
! ly balances the
overt plan of the
west coast left
wingers to put
forward Henry
A. Wallace as
suitable dem
ocratic nominee.
One thing
already c 1 e a
This year's de
mocratic c o n -I V
vention is likely 4V i
to resemble one
of those awful
children's parties
at which large numbers of the
dear little guests are apt to kick
the stuffings out of the brave but
tearful host. In his role as uni
versal nursery maid to his party,
the chairman of the democratic
national committee. Sen. J. How-
Stewart Alsop
w
At the present time with local axd McGrath, is going to have a
taxpayers being asked to author
ize bond issues running into, the
millions and further bond issues
looming up on the horizon it
would be well for taxpayers to
Stop. Look and Listen.
The present tax rates for the
current 1947-48 tax year are as
follows:
City of Salem
School district No. 24
Marion Co.
22.4 mills
29.7 mills
17.1 mills
V-.'t
.t pretty ghastly
i public mayhem.
. a aL t . ill
Ana ims wui do
true even though
the southerners
7r do not carry out
?their threat to
support a candi-
-date Of their
south'
support for
M 4 mm. - - ---' . rival 10 iru-
AT "TZr Z frmi"T'rmn. even if lim
ited to the con
S3own.
1 Overt i
lern suppor
t.. . . a rival to
Total
With the sponsors of the pro-
-I t IAA AHA 1..-
it will add an additional 15 mills I TZTT, J! - r . . ' "
-to the tax rates we will have.
based on present rates, a tax rate
of 84 and 210 mills.
City Manager Franzen has stat
ed that the taxpayers will in the
near future be asked to auttorin lUto tm linger, in their minds.
desire. The democrats have
been in so long, that the southern
leaders have almost forgotten the
hungry misery of dwellers in the
political wilderness. But some
faint recollection of this horrid
sewer bond issue of $815,000,
which if approved will cause the
city tax rate to raise and in all
probability there will be an in
crease in the rate for Marlon
county, so that if all these pro-
They are still reluctant to de
stroy their party's chance at the
election. This is what may be ex
pected to nip the overt anti-Tru
man movement in the bud. al
though the plant may be expected
posals are favored by the tax- to watered with Quantities of
payers they should not be sur- the same sort of northern money
pnsed at a tax rate of 90 mills, that used to finance Gene Tl-
It does look like it is time for I mHn
taxpayers to Stop, Look and Lie- Aha at Flatorm Flaak
ten.
"The Poor Man's Parnassus"
The first of a series of informal concerts of recorded music
will be presented without charge to the public from 3 to 4 this
afternoon at the YWCA building a project of the YWCA
young adults committee headed by Mrs. A. A. Schramm.
This enterprise will undoubtedly help fill a void in the
community's recreational and cultural life. Any undertaking
to promote understanding of good music in a public too often
jaded by jukebox discord is worthwhile and should serve to
heighten interest in the "live" concerts given here.
Furthermore record concerts provide an opportunity for
owners of rare, unusual, foreign, out-of-print, or especially
excellent recordings to share their libraries with other music
lovers. It is to be hoped that their audience will include, not only
those academically interested in listening to works not commonly
heard, but also those, who, hearing music, feel their solitude
peopled at once.
From the former group, the sponsors can expect active
participation. From the latter, no more can be asked than appre
ciative listening.
Soap powders .are down two cents a package and bar soap
from one-half cent to a cent a bar. No need to shed tears for
the seapmakere yet. however. Procter U Gamble for example
reported- earnings of $20 million last year but that was after,
setting-aside $28 million as reserve for possible inventory losses.
Wire businessmen are not going to repeat the mistakes of post
WorW War L
One prominent radio commentator, whose sponsor la a
nationally known food concern, made a roundup of price changes
on foodstuffs in various cities over the country and reported
it in his program a few nights ago. Then he turned the program
over to his colleague who came in to describe his spaghetti with
language to make the mouth drool. There was one important
omission however: he didn't announce any price cut.
H. G. Damon
891 N. Com'L
St
On the other hand, the strategy
which the southerners appear ac
tually to be adopting will be al
most as difficult for the White
House to handle. As of today, it
seems probably that the southern
state, including as a minimum
Other Claims to State Funds
To the Editor:
The proposal to make avail'
able for higher education some of I South Carolina, North Carolina,
the millions of dollars of surplus I Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi,
income tax receipts which are irfwnsiana, Alabama and Tennes
now idle in the state treasurer's see, will send uncommitted dele-
office, may win popular approv- gations to Philadelphia. The un-
aL but there are other needs In commmea delegations wilr bo
Oregon that are just as great as ud to wrest from the platform
that of higher education. At the committee a weasel declaration on
last legislative session the ways thechril and human rights issue.
and means committee trimmed the
needed 51 million dollar welfare
or relief budget down to less than
44 million dollars. This shortage
of more than seven million dol
lars in the welfare appropriation
has caused untold misery; espec
ially among the needy aged whose
monthly old age assistance checks
were reduced as a result Many
of these undernourished men and
women who are forced to exist
on small monthly grants are lim
ited to one meal a day. They are
often forced to live in basement
or attic rooms, garages or shacks
that are without proper light, heat
and sanitary facilities, even
though they pay substantial
rents Little or nothing is allowed
for needed medicines. Their
monthly budget allowance of five
dollars for clothing has to be used
to supplement their inadequate
food allowance of 75 cents a day.
Yea, Oregon needs more money
for higher education and for up-to-date
school buildings and
equipment and for decent salar
ies for teachers, but we also need
to read the Commandment that
says: "Honor they father and thy
mother, that thy days may be
long upon the land which the
Lord thy God giveth thee." There
is plenty of surplus tax money
to decently care for our elderly
citizens, as well as our college
boys and girls. Let's see to it
that a part of such surplus shall .
be used for that purpose.
Joseph E. Harvey.
State Representative,
Portland, Oregon.
In the past few days, there have
been anxious negotiations between
southern leaders and White House
representatives. The southerners
dropped hints that if the White
house continued so scornful of the
south, the more violent expedient
of sending overt anti - Truman
delegations to the convention
would have to bo resorted to.
The president may deny the in
tention of conciliation until he is
black in the face. He may person
ally have no such intention. But
his representatives respond to the
hints of southern leaders, by hint
ing in return that the president
would in the end approve a com
promise on the platform s civil
and human rights plank. The sou
therners intimated that if such
compromise were forthcoming.
they would then content them
selves with holding a post - con
vention rally, as they did after
the Wallace nomination in 1940.
At this rally, they promised they
would give free rein to their pro
pensity for, oratory, but would end
by resolving that much as they
detested Truman, they hated the
republicans even more.
Found Favor in Congress
In congress, this plan has found
favor with many, even unonf
the extreme wmie supremacy
sh outers like Sen. Olin p. John
ston of South Carolina. Mean
while, some southern governors.
like J. Strom Thurmond of South
Carolina and M. E. Thompson of
Georgia, have also sent assuran
ces of eventual support to the
White House.
It is symptomatic of the state
of the democratic party that in
these dubious circumstances,- the
White House political strategists
are breathing audible sighs of re
lief. They are thankful for very
little, these days. The arrange
ments outlined above are very lit
tle to be thankful for, because of
two obvious drawbacks.
In the first place, any weasel
words in the civil and human
rights platform plank will enrage
and alienate precisely the groups
in the north at whom the presi
dent's civil rights message was
aimed. Yet if the weasel words
are not spoken, the uncommitted
southern delegates will still be
able to put forward their own
man. In the second place, the
present arrangements may be up
set even before convenuon Time,
if the fair employment practices
act becomes law at last
House passage of FEPC is a
foregone conclusion. So is senate
passage if cloture can be applied.
Application of cloture turns up
on four or five republican votes.
including Senators Robert A.
Taft Harlan Bushfield and Al
bert Hawkes. Taft, it is known.
will vote to approve cloture, al
though opposed to the FEPC bill.
Hawkea la in a hard re-election
fight in New Jersey, and the oth
er waverers wiu oo not uniniiu
enced bv the fact that this is an
election year. If FEPC passes, the
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Seldom-Used
Law Invoked in
Drake Estate
The estate of Thomas E. Drake
of Salem, who with his wife, Pat
ricia, were killed in an automo
bile accident February 1 near Sa
lem, is being probated in Marion
county circuit court under a little-
used probate law.
The pemion to admit the estate
to probate states that It is to be
presumed by lew that Jean Pat
ricia Drake, the wife of the dece
dent died prior to the moment of
Thomas E. Drake's death."
Using this rule the petition con
cludes that the some real and per-
nai property and probable in
surance proceeds became the sole
property of Thomas Drake on his
wile prior death, and so his es
tate alone is being probated.
Sole heir in an infant son, Tho
mas Lee Drake. John TeSelle was
appointed administrator of the es
tate and W. L. Phillips, Burr Mil
ler and The 1 ma Streeter appoint
ed appraisers. The Drakes and
Be mice Weber, also of Salem,
were drowned when the car In
which they were riding left the
highway and plunged into a
slough alongside the Salem In
dependence highway about a half
mile south of the Salem - Dallas
highway "r.
southern fat will really be in the
fire. In the ensuing bitterness and
recrimlnauon. anything can hap
pen, and quite probably will.
Architects Offer to Advise
State in Planning Capitol Group
The Oregon chapter of the American Institute of Architects has
offered to the state board of control the services of its civic design
committee for advisory consultation with reference to possible addi
tions or changes within the state capitol group. The action was
prompted by recent controversy over a proposal to locate portions
of pillars from the old capitol, and a small museum in the mall in
front of the capitoL
The letter to the board of con
trol, signed by Holman J. Barnes
as secretary. Is as follows:
"It has com to our (ttmtioa that
certain miaor atrurturaa hove ihb
prspoMd lor location wttivia too state
capitol group.
Wo know that you aro as vttaUy In
torastoS ko aatd aa prmtt of your ea
ttoi (roup os wo and would not know
lively dIoco any buildings tnat would
detrimental to the croup aa conceived
In the original pUa. However, aa ume
runs on and additional bulla tags be
come iriotry. tno group haa to bo
roatudlod in order thot thoao now
totnara may fit In harmonloualy with
the esisttng buildings. Thus the devel
opment and maintenance of beautiful
aurroundXnga for our capitol buildings
would be aeeurod
With tttia fcn mind and duo to our
apodal training In planning and deeign,
wo wish to offer to you tno servtcoa
of our civic design committee aa aa
adrtaory board to work with you and
the City of Salem's long range plan
ning commission on the location of all
structures within or adiacont to the
capitol group. Under this arrangement
all proposed bulkdtng loeatlono would
bo submitted to this board which would
a- similarly to the fine arte eonuaua-
akm in Washington. D. C.
May we have your permission to act
in mis advtaory capacity under y
noora mm a puttiic eorrtco to you
o people of Oregon T
Y Membership
Drive 'Flights'
On Schedule
The high - flymg membership
campaign crews from Salem
YMCA, due in New York City
today and in Salem Monday eve
ning, are expected to be .on sched
ule, with a final report of 240
new members, according to Co
Chairmen Robert O. Smith astd
Charles Barclay.
A banquet Monday evening at
the YM will honor the crews and
personnel who piled up the most
"mileage during the seven-day
flight. One squadron, Walter Mut
ter's, has already circled the globe
almost twice on Friday, when the
campaign as a whole was a half
lap ahead of schedule.
roe the New York stop, the
local YM received a wire from
Dal ton McClelland of New York
executive secretary for world
service la the national council.
congratulating the members and
expressing pleasure at the oonv
poign's method of reminding k Y
members that they are part of aa
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