The Oregon statesman., April 13, 1948, Page 4, Image 4

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CHARLES A. SPRACUE. Editor and Publisher
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Trade Czech and Balance
American hopf rowers are urging President Truman to hold
up the reciprocal trade treaty with Czechoslovakia which cuts
th duty en hops from 24 cents a pound to 12 cents. That country
has been a -principal source of supply for imported hops. The
argument is now presented that Czechoslovakia has become a
soviet satellite and in trading with it we would strengthen the
economy of the soviet bloc. The Oregonian ends its discussion
of the matter with a question: "Can we do business with the
communists on any terms?"
The question should not be left unanswered, and The States
man ventures to reply that we can and should. To answer other
wise mean wa erect an iron curtain of our own. It would imply
that we virtually regard was as inevitable, which is both false
and dangerous. In fact trading may prove to be the best diplo
macy, preserving a tie which later may be strengthened. In the
past it was th necessity and desirability of exchange of goods
which prompted establishment of peaceful relations among tribes
and nations. It may be that commerce will prove the real binder
between east and west.
It is of high importance that the west continue to do business
with th vast Highly industrialized western Europe long found
a market for its products in the peasant countries of central and
eastern Europe, receiving in payment raw materials and food
gtuffj. Thus the economy of the continent was balanced. Unless
that interchange can be restored western Europe will suffer
seriously -or else become a permanent pensioner of the United
States. So this country has a stake in preserving and increasing
the trade between the west and east.
Quite a stir ha ben raised over export of planes and
machinery to Russia. Actually the volume is small in comparison
with our own production and with Russia's vast need. And we
must remember that we are busily importing strategic metals
from Russia: platinum, manganese, tungsten, which help to
build our own war machine.
We 4o not mean that our country should be played for a
sucker, but we should not lose our reason in this war of nerves.
It is quite late in the day for the hopgrowers to wage a success
ful fight for holding the present tariff. They will probably be
hurt considerably by the proposed tariff cut; but we can't see
that bolshevik hooa will hurt them
In rhort the change of government in Czechoslovakia does we.sen me imam... pos.won oi
. . r , . ,. . , , . ( business concerns and their ability
not in our opinion justify a change in our trade policy with that ; to we-ther the varying economic
country. " climate that the passage of time
' . will inevitably bring. If free en-
M- n ai terpri.se in America is to expand
rKay a Proven leader and progress in the future as it
Two things are required of a governor: the rare quality , has done in the past, our Isws snd
of leadership and dependability. He needs to be a man who ' regulations must be so revised as
can develep ides., advance them before the legislature and the TtuTr
people to gain the necesiary support for making them effective. , eential role in our economy."
He must be dependable, standing for good administration in This is quite true. If the farm
governmer.t and earnest in protecting the public welfare. Such er had not first earned profits
a man is available in the person of Douglas McKay of Salem. "nd secondly been able to retain
t- , . , . , . . . some of his profits and thirdly
From the time he was in his teens Doug McKay has been wtilini? to take the risk of
carrying res ponsibilitie and assuming leadership. Thrown early j
on his own resources he put himself through college, yet had
time to participate in college affairs, serving as president of the
student tccy at OSC. He has since combined success in business
with leadership in civic affairs. Community chores have just
grav.uted To him and he has responded generously with his
time. h;s talents and his money. Uniformly his energies have
hf-n riirr-d toward advancing the nroaDeritv. the food health
... .
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rtis itacer.ip in mm wiuametie vauey project nas oeen positive
r.d continuous.
As frnor he will give to the state this same positive
leadership He will not wait to consult the political oracles; his
own judgrr.ent is well matured. He will supply direction and
drive for Oregon in the coming years. They will be needed for
Oregon is changing from a slow-moving economy to one with
a seiner pace. I LtTTTKU FKOafl STATESMAN
There is the other necessary quality of dependability. Doug SCADCKS
McKay s character is well known. His attitude on questions of
public heth and mocali is revealed not only in his manner of ( Objects Ta Withholding Tax
living but :n his voting record in the legislature. . No person of . Editor The Statesman:
course i. free of fault, but the cr.ticisms that refer to McKay are , ottm. no in
minor when put in the scale with his qualifications. He lu'iyjgtrong approval of 'Salem's Can
merits not cr.ly th? votes of Oregon republicans but the hearty 1 didate for Governor," although
an1 active support of those who know him and of those who ; this candidate did not vote for
are interested in making sure the government of the state will ! HB4S0 sales tax. he did vote
"... for (HB413) which, as parsed
be m clean and competent hands. there wi not an allowance
for dependents; just a flat one
revolution in llomtH Pr nt- with r"8ard to low or
"The how mul g on." That seems to be the attitude of i to bring votes for the sales tax,
the delegates to the Pan-American conference whose sessions i imposes costly burden on employ
w.re rudely mterrupted by a local revolution last Friday. But j 'ZuTns 'mTSme, e
th- seejuon will hsi'dly be the same again. It will taper off rather than 1500. Then if entitled to any
Bfeediiy and the delegations will return to their homes. Latin , repayment, they will have to wait
America, disappointed because Uncle Sam didn't unbutton his i two years or longer,
purse more widely than half a billion (in loans), is unhappy. j Ptlandregon
That the revolution was a communist-inspired time-bomb j
under the conference is doubtful, though what reds there are Defeads Franco As
In Bo r eta crobablv did their best to increase the tumult Our Anti-CemnaBnlst
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abortive putsch a few months ago. Bolivia hung a president to
a lamppost rot many years back. This one in Colombia was dif
ferent in two respects. It didn't succeed and there were more
killing a ad looting than usual.
Whst was usuei was that the attitude of the army was
decisive. This time the army stayed loyal to the government.
It soon recaptured the seized radio station, shot down the rebels
and restored order. The damage to public snd private buildings
was heavy, which suggests that the revolt was riot purely politi
cal but must have attracted hoodlums who acted lika a mob
rather than revolutionists. V
The -accusations of communist activity are not surprising.
They are ccnvenieaU bogeymen now. However there are commu
nists in South America quite a good many of them in Brazil.
If they -ever did pull coup and obtain control of the government
of a country Russia would have a political comrade right on
ur flank.
Joe Martin: Eaay Dors It
The Sunday -paper reported that Speaker Joe Martin took
hand in the coal fuss, got John L. Lewi and Ezra Van Horn
representing the operators together In his office, proposed Sen.
Styles Bridges aa a third member of the board to administer
the welfare fund, and in 13 minutes had the coal strike on the
aay to a settlement which was announced Monday (Lewis win
sing most cf his points, as usual). Martln'a participation came
ts something of surprise, and even more astonishing is the
Base with which the settlement came.
In fact it was so easy as to be a bit transparent. Immediately
the suspicion is raised that the preliminaries had been rehearsed
rather carefully, and that Martin was not the "deus ex machina"
f the episode but the vehicle for a settlement. Joe Martin, it
must be remembered, is not standing out of the way of the
lightning when its effects may be favorable.
As lor ohn L., he can tell it to Judge Goldsborough on
Wednesday.
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the agitation of IS years ago, in
depression days. Then it was pro
claimed from high places that
America was "overbuilt", that ours
was a mature economy, that with
the closing of the frontier oppor
tunities had dried up. It was ar
gued we should provide a dole
for the poor and pensions for the
old and go all out for "social se
curity" oblivious of the fact that
the only security lies in produc
tion of goods, that people may
There lingers in the public mind
the fear of risking capital. Mem
ories of 1929 (which was a specu
lative bingle) retard investment in
stocks. According to figures of
the SEC of the $4 5 billion of new
money raised last year through
capital markets only $1.S billion
was invested in stocks and of this
only $784 million in common
stocks. Hence corporations are
compelled, like the conservative
farmer, to use their own profits to
finance expansion. It is estimated
that in 1947 the profits of Ameri
can corporations were $17.4 bil
lion; but of this huge sum only
$6 8 billion or 39 per cent was
distributed to stockholders in divi
dends. The remaining $10.8 bil
lion was retained to increase in
ventory investment, add to plant
or reserved in company treasuries.
The tax system gets considera
ble blame for this drying up of
investment capital. The steeply
graduated income and estate tax
rates, the double taxation of cor
porate earnings and dividends
prevent the wealthy clashes from
large scale investment. However
praiseworthy this may be from a
social standpoint it is crippling to
the economy. The April bulletin
of the Guaranty Trust Co. of
New York concludes its discus
sion of "the shortages of venture
capital" thus:
"In the long run. an inadequate
supply of equity capital must in
hibit industrial expansion, limit
employment opportunities, and
investing his profits he wouldn't
have bought the tractor. The role
of government with respect to
business is to keep the channels
clear so that commodities may flow
in commerce and cspital may flow
in orderly manner back into enter
prise. This not only provides em
ployment and market but ulti-
mately Increases the volume of
goods for mass consumption and
thus raises the standard of liv
ing of the people.
The
Safety Valve
lite KiOltOr
on APni 2 there appeared m
The Statesman an editorial en
titled "House Passes Recovery
Plan. From it I quote the follow
ing: "The Inclusion of Spain met
prompt protest and the conference
committee has stricken it from the
bill. To include Franco made peo
ple wonder If in taking Franco to
our bosom we hadn't forgotten
oar late enmity toward facism and
nazism . . . By raising the banner
of an ti -communism Franco hopes
to get economic aid for his im
poverished land, but we hope the
current worship of Expediency
doesn't drive us that far."
The clumsy, oversized hook, line
and sinker of communistic pro
paganda which was swallowed by
America In 1936 must still lie
heavily on its political stomach.
Yet even in those days it was
pretty well known just who ad
vocated the raising of funds to
help Spain's "Republicans," and
who agitated for the formation of
the Lincoln brigade.
Some of the brave lads who led
the "republican" milita on their
march of torture, murder and
rape against helpless priests and
nuns, and in the sacking and
burning of churches and schools,
are now being rewarded for their
loyalty to atheist Stalin. Yef .
Joe's boys are doing quite well
today. Here are the names of
some of them who are making the
headlines again, the same as they
did in Spain.
' First is one Dimitroff. who, in
reward for his loyalty, is now the
the head of the Bulgarian gov
ernment Then comes Klement
Cottwald, the great .purging
democrat, who with his coramu-
GRIN AND BEAR
ill fefi?
"Tea eWt have oaesrb UseipUse far a teacher. Miss Flacl
perhaps yea were aaeaat to be a aseUier!
MATTER
Reds Apparently Miscalculated in
Drawing Wallace into Campaign
Bt Jeaeph aad Stewart Alsop
WASHINGTON, April 12 The
measure of the president's po
litical plight is very simple.
The very labor leaders who
were Franklin Roosevelt's prae
torian guard the leaders of
the CIO have made up their
minds not to support Harry S.
Truman if he is renominated. The
recently adopted CIO strategy,
which will be the nail in the
presidential cof- t
fin, may be sum- WaymmjM3
marized as fol- f! fs "Vl
lows: -Ai
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make a tremen
a tremen-.J X--iJ
effort, In? C!
iction withV t, -
dous
conjunction with iL v . I
the Af of Li la
defeat all sen-.
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tors and repre
sentatives who,
voted for the
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and to elect pro-
JaaepbAlsssp
labor lawmakers
in their places. It will continue
bitterly ta oppose the candidacy
of Henry A. Wallace. But If Tru
man nsadf ine
democratic tick
et, the CIO will
simply ignore
the whole presi
dential contest.
This remark
able strategy of
the CIO leader
ship is traceable,
in turn, to an
other vitally im
portant pheno
men. The com
munist decision
to launch a third
party movement precipitated the
present bitter struggle between
the CIO's communist minority and
the anti-communist majority. The
anti-communists, as a result, have
come to see the national political
picture entirely In terms of their
own internal struggle. In this
struggle, Truman is the greatest
handicap to the anti-communists.
Rank and file indifference or hos
tility to Truman is now so rife
in the labor movement that the
CIO leaders like Philip Murray
could not back him, even If they
wished to.
Choese Elsenhower
This, of course, is the origin of
the remarkable plan of the CIO
leaders to support the candidacy
of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
which was formulated at the same
time as the strategy of not back
ing Truman. Eisenhower was
chosen as the CIO's standard
bearer in the face of pretty good
information that he would have
voted for a moderate version of
the Taft-Hartley act which the
CIO calls the "slave labor law."
Yet the CIO leaders are actively
promoting the Eisenhower move
ment. Walter Reuther, for ex
ample, conferred at length with
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. jr be
fore young Roosevelt issued his
pro-Eisenhower statement. And
Philip Murray would also have
come out publicly for Eisenhow
er by now, if he had not feared
to force the general's hand.
The CIO chieftains want Eisen-
nistic police has recently taken
over Czecho-Slovakia govern
ment. Any comment on Saboteur
Gottwald needed? There- Is also
Lud wig Renn, now in Mexico,
who tries to stir uo trouble
wherever he goes. Another of the
tribe is Luigi Longo who has a
full time job now as vice-chairman
of the Communist party in
Italy. Not only that, but he is
also undercover man for the So
viet in the little matter of sabo
taging an election in which Uncle
Sam is also interested.
Last but not least on the illus
trious list of Spanish heros is
Josef Bros Tito, the great demo
cratic benefactor of Jugoslavia. He
still bravely faces helpless old
men and women, whom he either
has shot or sentenced to hard
labor. In the not-too-distant i past
he also amused himself by having
his thugs shoot unarmed Ameri
can fliers out of the sky. Upon
receiving a mild protest he grand
ly permitted American soldiers
to haul their 'dead buddies out
of the country, besides tossing out
a few lend-lease rubles to pay
for the planes.
Yes, there floats an anti-scum-munist
banner in Spain, and there
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By Lichty
OF FACT-
bower, Taft-Hartley or no Taft
Hartley, simply because he has
the rank and file appeal that Tru
man lacks. The best evidence that
this is correct is the extraordinary
communist campaign of vilifica
tion against the general. The best
experts in labor circles estimate
that substitution of Eisenhower
for Truman would cut in half the
total vote polled by the com
munists' candidate, Wallace. No
wonder the communists fear the
general.
WaJJaos Only Cemmie Hape
Finally, this fear must be
especially acute, since Wallace is
fairly likely to be all that the
communists have. Their grip on
him is tightening daily, to be sure.
Lee Pressman, former CIO lead
er whom Wallace once fired from
the agricultural department as a
dangerous left winger, is now a
leader of the Wallace "steering
committee." David Ramsey, who
has been one of the two. or three
most important theoroticians of
the American communist party, is
known to have helped prepare the
Wallace rambling before the
house foreign affairs committee
on the ERP.
Wallace is being used with in
creasing openness as a communist
stooge, as when he intervened to
back the communist faction in the
United Electrical Workers.
But for the communists, the
real question is whether gaining
Wallace is worth the loss of con
trol of the great key labor unions,
like the CIO electrical workers.
From Philip Murray down, the
CIO leaders are now at work
driving out the communists, root
and branch. Not only the electri
cal workers, but also the mine,
mill and smelter workers, the
Maritime union and all other com
munist strongholds in the labor
movement are now under urgent
attack. Such episodes as the de
fection of the transport workers'
Mike Quill, following the mari
time workers' Joe Curran, and
the transfer to the United Auto
Workers of vital electrical work
ers' locals, suggest that the com
munists are losing the first round
in this struggle.
Confident of Victory
The CIO anti-communists are
confident of pretty complete vic
tory in the end. provided they do
not pin the Truman label on
themselves.
Altogether, the signs are that
the communist high command,
and their masters in the Soviet
union, made one of their ha
bitual miscalculations witb Wal
lace. Their objects in pushing the
Wallace third party were to de
feat Truman, to elect an isolation
ist republican of the stripe of
Robert A. Taft, and to capture
leadership of the working masses.
Truman would probably have de
feated himself in any case. The
Kremlin's worst villain. Sen.
Arthur H. Vandenberg. is much
more likely to reach the White
House than is Taft. Simultaneous
ly, the communists may lose such
key unions as they still control. It
is a pretty poor score, so far.
(Copyright. 1948, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
should be one in every country
in the world.
J. L. Prang
Salem, Oregon
(Editor's Note Mr. Prange
diverts the argument from the
sins of the Franco government in
Spain to those of the communists.
The Statesman condemns both).
SS-HOUa HOP FOR B-SS
FORT WORTH. Tex, April 10
(A)- A B-Sfl bomber landed here
Friday after more than 30 hours
in the air the longest test flight
a ship of the mammoth aeries has
made but officials said it could
have stayed up longer.
The population of the Union of
South Africa is now more than
11,000.000 but when the British
came there 130 years ago it was
only 30,000.
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Who's Running for What in the May Primaries!
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Teoays (abject :
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for
Ctssly Treasurer
A native Oregonian, born In
Wheeler county, 60 years ago, Sam
J. Butler came to Salem In 1908
to attend busi
ness school and
has maintained
.edr
in',
his residence
that time, save
for intervals oni -
the ranch in ?- i
eastern Oregon.-"
In 1914 he mar-jT
ried Iris Hanna.
He has owned
his own home in
Salem nearly 30 Sam i. Batter
years. He holds membership in the
Elks lodge and the three local re
publican organizations.
With the exception of the time
spent in farming and five years
in the Salem Loju-Phez plant, he
has been engaged in clerical or
cashier's work 14 years as de
puty in the Marion county sher
iff's office, working in the legal
division and as cashier in the tax
division under Sheriffs W. I.
Need ham, O. D. Bower and A. C.
Burk.
For the past seven years, he has
served as county treasurer of
Marion county. During that per-
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Show Exhibits
Exhibits on display at the Sa
lem Rotary club's hobby show at
the armory April 23, 24 and 23
will be fully protected by insur
ance, Robert R. Boardman, show
director, announces Saturday.
Boardman said that the build
ing committee of Howard Maple,
Harry Levy and Ha r ley Bosler
have arranged for $20,000 of in
surance to protect all property on
display from fire and wind da
mage. Guards will be on duty
during the entire exhibit and a
night watchman will be hired for
night protection.
William Phillips, chairman of
the prize committee, announced
that at least 60 prizes will be giv
en for outstanding exhibits. Oth
er members of the committee are
Robert L. Elfstrom, George Ar
buckle, Ralph H. Cooley, Arthur
A. Keene and Fred B. Moxley.
Coburn Grabenhorst, awards
and judging committee chairman,
said that three awards and num
erous honorable mentions will be
given in all divisions. Divisions
named to date are natural history,
collections, creative art, handi
crafts, mechanical and technical,
models, camera craft, commercial
and miscellaneous.
Members of the awards and
judging committee are Harlan G.
Brock, Grant W. Day, C. A. Downs,
J. L. Franzen, L. W. Gleason, Ro
bert Hutcheon, A. Jones, Robert
Lesher. O. H. Lipps, Henry J.
Millie, Nets Rogers, Paul T. Row
ell and Nels Tonning.
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ability to perform them in an ef
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Chinese Proynice
SHANGHAI, , Saturday, April
IS -UPy- Not an able-bodied man
remains in ail western Shantung
province as a result f of ; govern
ment and communisf drafts In
two years of civil war, the news
paper Ts Kung Pao said today.
The newspaper, basing: Us re
port on a dispatch from the area,
said all those between the ages
of 14 and SO who are able to
fight had been taken sway by
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