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8ei vtM ,foLmi3 .napeiO svolcZ ,atnaofS edT a-ine frltnuwiiHTn, aaienu vrogon, ouaaoy, moj "No Favor Sxoays U, No Fear Shall Aw Fnm First SUtessaaa, March U. 1U1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUK, TCditor and Publisher f the The AatthM Frees to entitled exclusively te the ase fee reaaM eatlea ft&UM lecal mw acUtee to this newspaper, m wtU aa all AT am eslaa. . New Wrinkle vith Krumbles Who gays you can't get something for nothing! You get interplanetary interceptors, lunar schooners, cosmic cruisers and other fabulous aircraft, gratis, on the back of Kix cereal boxes. All you have to do is cut them out and assemble the parts after you successfully complete 10 easy lessons in aviation mechanics from your nearest correspondence school, probably. But that's kid stuff. Kellogg's, General Mills, Nabisco and tfe Quaker people are taking a new tack with their cereal pack age cutouts. Breakfast isn't complete without scissors, pastepot and slid rule these days. The whole family gets in on the fun over the coffeepot that -is, if there are any families able to tackle the intricate projects on the back of their cereal boxes before Pop dashes for the office and the youngsters board the school bus. (How will Dagwood Bumstead ever make the bus now?) While the toddlers clip around-the-world paper dolls from Krumbles and extract a paper zoo,, installment by installment, from Corn-Soya Shreds, the older children can sing all-time hit tunes printed complete with music on Bran Flakes as they Study Raisin Bran Flakes' "fascinating facts worth reading." For Mom and Dad, breakfast playtime is like a trip to the city planning board's office. They can reconstruct a model city six blocks of it from the General Mills cereal tray cartons. Of course, this metropolis wouldn't be complete without Nabisco's miniature carnival . . . that should provide the gay night life. After this preliminary session, the head Of the family should start eating Kellogg's All-Bran. What if he can't abide bran? That doesn't matter he gets, free, pictures and floor plans of honest-to-goodness houses. The kind you live in. If he really wants to go places, he can send intthe box top plus 15 cents and get a three-dimensional, full-color model house with complete architectural blueprints, landscaping directions, decorating hints and interior sketches. (With a box top, optional, and $8,000 cash he might even get that house built.) But that's not all. The cereal manufacturers are going 4o do something toward world peace and international understanding. Kellogg's plan to introduce post cards on its cereal packages with directions to American breakfast-eaters to start correspondence with "pen pals" all over the world. Wait till Molotov hears about that! Of course, some of the "old school cereals cling to such r time-tested "free" prizes as recipes, silverplated tableware. Wild West paraphernalia and pictures of Hollywood characters. Maybe you'd like a nice jet plane? Well, start eating Pep. M.W. World "Movers and Shakers" Take time out from war's alarums, the cares of home and toil of the marketplace to listen to music this week. For it's "music week7 again. Enjoyment of music should not b com pressed into a seven-day span, for it has year-round value; still the special week permits extra emphasis and a passing of compliments to those who provide us with music the artists, the musicians of lesser talent but perhaps greater generosity, and the teachers of 'music. This is the week when harmonics swell all over the land, a climax for the season of instruction and performance. Music speaks a varied language, from the throbbing of drums in the African forests to a Bach Chorale. But always it b the mother's lullaby or the or th sensuous cacophony of Arthur CShaughnessy wrote in "The Music-Makers": We are the music-makers. And we are th dreamers of dreams, Wandering by Ion sea -breakers. And Kitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers. Of whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shaken Of the world forever, it seems. Music's language is universal. Every chord that is struck Is lost when its echoes fade, to Taa found again stored in the hearts if men. After the heat and dust and tumult of war we find solace again in the music of Germans and Hungarians and Poles and Russians. Music overleaps walls and penetrates cur tains. Its harmonies instruct mankind in unity where speech may divide. Enjoy then, this week of melody: get the lift of an old hymn, or the pulsing passion of an Italian opera, or the lilt of a Vien nese waltz, or the stir of sad ballad -air. Lesson in Grammar Perhaps we should wait for that alert monitor of the Oregon press, Bob Sawyer of the Bend Bulletin, to pick this on up from the Oregon ian. But to instruct our own customers quit as much as the Ogn editor well do the chore. Quoting: The legislature Is well aware that any sales tax bill ft adopted without itself submitting the measure to the people, would be referended.' . The last word is the atrocity. "Referendum" is tha neuter ' gerund form of tha verb "refer." To convert it Into verb form merely drop the suffix "endum" and you haVe the 'regular verb "refer" for use in its. correct tense and case. The sentence quoted eheuld read ". . . any sales Ux bill . . . would be referred." Tha error Is common; and tha lesson in grammar should be general. The esteemed editor of the Bulletin has been threat ening to buy the Oregonian editors a grammar as well aa a 'dictionary and a book of quotations. All of us writing folk need them, and they should be referred (not referended? to frequently. "Peck's Bad Boy" on the Court Chief Justice Vinson banged his gavel angrily to conclude a hearing before tha supreme court of tha government's charge the CIO violated tha Taft-Hartley law against spending money for politics. Tha offender seems to have been his colleague, Jus . tica Frankfurter, rather than tha attorneys at tha bar who wera peremptorily ordered to stop. Frankfurter has been addressing question at tha attorneys which seemed to have barbs on them, rrankrurther has one of these high octane minds that work ' so fast they embarrass others. He- is frequently getting into the v hair of his Colleagues. He's so nimble mentally that he is trritat- fng. While be may seera to be "Peck's bad boy? on tha- court he adheres to quite a reasonable philosophy in his interpretation of the constitution. - . - r ' . i We can't help wondering however If the chief justice led him into the supreme court woodshed after the Thursday hearing.' - Of interest to the industrial west is the reduction of prices on steel and steel products for the Genera, Utah, plant of U. S. SteeL Base prices at Geneva are-' now VVmtU-al with those for similar products at U.S. Steel subsidiaries in Pittsburgh, Chi cago, Gary and Birmingham.- Previously the differential at . Geneva was 13 a ton above other points. There remains the substantial freight charge from Geneva to west coast points, but finalhr wa have a arealei it mill ariline- mi a narif wUh mttfa in. the east and south. This will be AimcUM the-stately roll of harmony in speaks to a mood,- whether it martial music of a military band a swing orchestra. As the poet - sweet memories ia an English a factor in west coast develop- GRIN AND BEAR "Poor tain-! She's all won eat carina- for that child it's her first ami" MATTER Italians Realiz eElection Decision Only 'Holding Action' Against Reds ROME, May 1 Two hopeful facts are apparent in this ancient city, which begins to breathe easily again after the excitement of the Italian election. First, the de feat of the com munists has not been accompan ied by any strengthening of the Italian neo facists. On the contrary, the great majority of the n o n - com- munist vote wrni 10 uic par-- y ties of the center the Christian .-.---- Democrats and Independent So cialists. There are also Indications that groups of the formerly communist-controlled socialists may now declare their independence. Altogether, the stage Is set for a healthy, democratic Italian re vival. Second, and almost more im portant, no intoxication from success, to use Stalin's phrase, has resulted from the victory over the communists. On the contrary, the leaders of the government have carefully noted that an im pressive minority of their people was driven by hardship and de spair to. vote, in effect, for the end of freedom in Italy. It is foolish to expect miracles. But since de Gasperi and the men around him frankly admit there is still a big job to be done, one can at least hope they will tackle the Job of winning over the pro communists with all the resources at their disposal. Perhaps the best reason for accepting this analysis Is the fact that It has been put forward by no less a man that Mario Scelba, Italy's minister of the Interior , the short, bald, plump, oddly im pressive man who Is probably the most powerful man in the gov ernment after Premier de Gas- perl himself. A European minis ter of the interior does not run Politics on Parade . . (Salter's muUt CMwitf fat aertaa ar m4 T er far the aatca wttWat iiiufcUw, mm mr may mt reflect taa p alley ec aewipaper.) Taaay's awajaet: Frederick S. Laaapert Candidate tor (r) Nauenai Delegata Frederick S. Lamport, candidate for delegata to tha republican na tional convention, was born in the city- of Salem, Ore-, where be has resided all of his life. . He Is a son of the lata Edward S. Lamport, who came to Salem in the year 1888, and at tha time of bis death was Salem's pioneer, business man. Attended Sa lem DUbll Crreaeritk laatvert schools, 'graduated from Willam ette university and admitted - to the Oregon state bar In 1914. Former president. Republican club: community Concerts; chair man, war bond committee; direc tor, YMCA, and trustee, YWCA; member American Legion. was elected, delegate to reoub- lka national convention in IS 40 wherein ha sponsored for presi dent his life-long friend and asso ciate, the ' lata Sen. Charles I McNary. Ha -believes fata has decreed that tha republican party at tha Uon will nominate 'a man who has the ability to lead our country out of the wilderness, and will restore confidence and sta bility tn tha Amerieaa way of Ufa. Ha .lepiisuited Marion county ia the senate tor the 143-43 see- ox the legislature end made an enviable- record. Tha Oregon Voter tntmina un der date of April 10. 1948, said editorially enquote Frederick S. I import Is an todivtdualist; hits hard: resourceful In attack:'always S & a factor wherever he is. IT '; ; v ! Byf L?cM OF FACT' the national parks. He runs the police. And ministers of the in terior throughout Europe are rarely outstanding for their so cial vision or forward looking Aa a police is notably efficient without, it Is generally agreed, relying ex cessively est the usual strong ana methods. The most common par lor game here at the moment is listing the Influences that kept down the pro-communist vote: American aid, the church, Tri este, and so on. The most ex perienced observers, however, place Scelba's name at the head of their lists. The reason is simple. Scelba has kept order. The methods of his men have sometimes been a bit rough and ready. But they have worked. The elections took place in amiable tranquilty. Indeed, the Italians decided the future of their country, and of the world, almost in a mood of fiesta. No one listened seriously to the vague communist threats of ter ror and retribution. Even in the most ferociously communist towns, anti -communists dared to speak their minds and cast their ballots. Without this, the oufeome would have been different:. Surveying the results, however, Scelba Is far from complacent. He does not Jubilantly hail the election retur is as a decisive and final defeat or the communists. A month or six weeks ago it seemed certa n that rather mora than two Ita ians in five would vote for the communist front, which would have meant a com munist Italy br chaos. The enor mous pressuifes brought to bear in tha last Weeks of the cam paign changed the minds of about 10 per cent (of tha electorate. Never tha lss. the communist front won the support of one Italian tn these. Keds Gala Streagtli The plain fact is that despite Balph Johnson Appliances . 1 - IT : v ... . t . I ? Wshaf4e wHa BestaesUr aaaWCaet FRIENDLY 255 Center SL 1 tfij SKEOOQS Continued from page 1) Thorp says about tha tobacco deak j "Tobacco, although not a staple zood in the accepted sense of tha word, win be included in the program as an agricultural com modity to be supplied by this country. The high value attached to tobacco on the continent makes it an important incentive product for labor. The promise of an in creased tobacco ration for great-, er individual output should prove valuable in spurring productive effort." He states also that tobacco is one crop we can readily send abroad. Our exportable surplus of grains . and fats is limited; but we seem to have plenty of to bacco for domestic use and for export California likewise has a big surplus of wines. The truth is that our government is using ERP as one means of getting rid of surpluses. Oregon and Wash ington for instance expect to dis pose in this way of apples and pears which lost their foreign markets when exchange ran out. An amendment by Senator Morse to the ERP bill encouraged this utilization' of domestic agricul tural surpluses. Though 256,000 metric tons of tobacco and 142 million gallons of wine look like a huge contri bution both to European appe tites and to American producers we are managing to include "worth-while" goods in the "mis- everything, the communists and their stooges have actually in creased their strength at the polls and in parliament by a few per centage paints. The victory of Premier AUde de Gasperi's Christiaa Democrats was at the ml tha other non-com-parues. Thus the Italian election has plainly not been a decflhre victory. It has been, rather, a successful holding ac tion. The basic question, as Scelba and other wise members of the government see it, is whether the new, more stable Italian govern ment can at length transform the holding action into a real victory. The raw material of a real vic tory Is here. The practical - minded Scelba estimates the hard core of com munism in Italy the number of those who would obey a Kremlin order to take up arms as no mora than 90,000 men. Yet the pro commmtat total , vote was more than 100 times 50,000. Bas ically, the communist position is soft The great bulk of pro-communists, even in the labor un ions, are undisciplined. The party itself is not closely controlled a large party section in , Sicily shifted to de Gasperi Just before the voting. A big breakaway of the stooge socialists seems to be in the making. And the com munist labor chieftain Di Vit- torio's recent switch on the Mar shall plan has caused speculation that even the communist leaders are not reliable Moscow men. In this situation, Scelba and others like him argue that the communist strength can be to tally undermined by determined measures of social and economic improvement land reform of the great Lati-fundias in south Italy, for example. If these meas ures are taken, and are effective, tha western world may at last confront the Soviet world with a solid front. rceerruas, IMS. New Terk BfaraM Truaae ibc.j ivmi na untcn teniae ea K rwfie tkai's iS ia to aeve sot omm tie Mnkiae 1 Jest tip the switch to itrol ef taa eveaTUe deep- er the sppbaaea assist. Aa "eleefcrie veriavhOeyeaieatl See thai sad. TERIXS Phone 403$ 0 :i T7. 1 " sionary barrel Hereere 'me items reported by Thorp: 205, 000,000 bushels of wheat; 82.000 metric tons of nitrogen fertilizer; $138,300,000 worth of farm machinery.- We shall finance also for shipment from other coun tries to Europe ,169,000 metric tons of bread grains and 1324)00 metric tons of nitrogen fertilizer. The' United States News says that in the first three months we shall furnish Europe -. with $79. 000,000 worth of dairy products; $142,000,000 worth of cotton; $133,000,000 worth of meats, fats and oils from other .countries and $121,000,000 worth of petroleum products from the middle east and tha Carribean area. There is real danger that the real purpose of the plan aid to European reconstruction " will be blunted by the greed of those seeking .to unload supplies or to restrict the form of assistance for competitive advantage. There seems no excuse for shipping wine 1 to Europe. Little tobacco is grown in Europe yet so eager are its inhabitants for it that a carton or a pack or even a lone cigarette has been a prime standard of exchange in the postwar period. 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