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4 To tatomaii'&aaty 'OrKrtntrrlsUm'MaY IVtUt j&ou$tatemttatt r "No Favor Swv U$, No Fear Shall Awe" Fres First SUUuub. March tt, 1151 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher KmW of the Associated Press The AmmUh4 Frees Is eaUuo4 exelashrely U the ase f or repabu estlea f all the local aews priate 1a this aewspaper. m well as all , AT iwi slspotcaes. They Don't Want It; Maybe We Can Get It Governor Dewey mad one great faux pas in his Oregon campaign. That was to talk on agriculture at Corvallia, home of Oregon State college. The "furriner" evidently didn't know that the college had dropped the "A" in OA.C. many yean ago. He knew it was a land grant college and presumed the folk there would be interested in agriculture, which after all is a basic industry in Oregon and has political involvements that several million people over the U.S. are Interested in. Dewey'a outriders and heralds failed him miserably when they neglected to advise him to talk on agriculture before the Kiwanis club in Salem and not to save that speech for OSC and KOAC. As it was the presidential aspirant devoted his whole time at OSC to discussing agriculture and its problems. Living on a dairy, farm himself he knows something about cows and even referred to artificial insemination which rather horrified some tf the ladies in the audience. Even the OSC students grew restless and in the Q 8c A per iod one student asked Dewey if he didn't know there were more engineering students a OSC than ag students, and what did he have to offer for engineers'' The Daily Barometer in its morning after story reported that Dewey's "appeal apparently didn't hit home." It didn't ' favorably impress" students in schools other than agriculture. In fact, says the Barometer, "the audience squirmed. A few walked out." With that wideopen break the Eugene Register Guard quickly moved in to propose moving the cow college up to the university. With memories of the Zorn-MacPhcrson battle it suggests "Let us initiate a bill ..." But if it is moving day for the agricultural college we sug gest moving it to Salem where we have lots of state land and some of the finest cow barns and milking parlors to be found anywhere. We certainly will watch with interest the results in the Benton county primary to see just how badly Farmer Dewey gets beat by the City Slicker Harold Stassen! Music Hath Charm Transportation troubles are nothing new in the city by the Golden Gate. What i new and often somewhat bizarre, too are the unorthodox solutions foisted upon the hapless commuter. When drivers refused to honor parking restrictions (practi cally every nook, corner and alley is bedecked with "No!" signs) the San Francisco police department hit upon the unique answer of letting bids to tow -car agencies and putting the responsibility of removing illegally parked vehicles on the hefty boys with tow hawsers. Needless to say. there were more towed-in cars than room in the garage Result: drivers and cops and towers are equally unhappy. But the lot of riders on the public transit systems is more picturesque. Often in the Bagdad of the Barbary Coast, efficiency has been sacrificed to quaintnes-s as in the case of the disappearing cable cars. Cable cars, though a nuisance, are tourist attractions, objects of old-time sentimentality, and downright fun so keep ing them in operation was all right. Busies and trolleys are more mundane, however. Their chief trouble was lack of thereof. So the transit officials proposed re moving seats in streetcars to make more room for strap-hangers. The suggestion raised a howl and some cynical citizens sug gested travelers be equipped with olive oil to complete the sardine-can analogy. ' This week municipal railway executives announced they will install radios in trackless trolleys ostensibly to soothe the sav age populace. Light classical music and "brief commercials would be piped in the packed conveyances. Evidently, tram sters are supposed to become so engrossed in the strains of Straus waltzes that they will ignore the bumps and the neigh bor's knee prodding their kidneys. This last wrinkle, fn a problem that would best be handled simply by providing more and better vehicles, Is just further evidence that the Californians are indeed a strange and wonder ful race. A Thorny Problem Once upon a time there was a poor Carpenter named Leslie Kirby. He had a Wife and four Children, and they had no place to live because it was Postwar, and the King had not provided enough Houses. Well, this Carpenter had worked hard all his life and saved $2,400. So he bought some land and with his own hands he built a little Cottage a frame house with four rooms and a garage. Leslie Kirby and hi Family called their new home the Briar Patch" and they lived there happily for more than a year. But there was also a Villain the rural council of the village where Kirby lived. This Villain ordered the Briar Patch to be Demolished because the Carpenter did not get a Building Permit. The council sent Workmen to tear down the Kirby home, but the Workmen felt sorry for the Kirbys who had no other place to live, and so they didn't even touch the Briar Patch. Besides, the Kirbys were Picketing with signs reading "Be British." The next day, other Workmen were sent out, and the next day a third batch but none of the Men would tear down the house. Soon everybody In the Kingdom heard about the Briar Patch, and they wrote letters to Editors, to the King and to the Govern ment. Some people pointed out that the Government was spend ing $200,000 to prettify the new home of the Princess and the Prince. Finally, the Government canceled the village council's Demo lition Order, and all the workmen went home. We hope the illain, foiled again, feels sheepish and we hope, the Carpenter and his Family will live happily ever after in the Briar Patch. Moral: Sometimes Governments have Hearts, but they are often well hidden under Red Tape. (P.S. This is not a fairytale; it happened last week in Brack nell, England.) Can't Deal Russia Out John Foster Dulles warns against plans to deal Russia out of an international organization. This is contemplated in a plan to recast U.N. and eliminate the veto. Dulles says it would prove diplomatic setback to the United States and that 10 or 15 nations outside the Soviet bloc would not go along on the deal. We are not going to settle the issues of the cold war by ignoring Russia or blackballing her in a new league. Russia still will be sprawling over Eurasia with all the force she has now. U.N. or no U.N., Russia, is a fact to be dealt with and no legal le gerdemain will remove the present international tensions. That may be done by keeping Russia in the U.N. and trying to work out with her a modus vivendi. Queen Wllhelmina is going Netherlands after she celebrates She says she is too tired to rule as she reviews the list of fallen In 1898. Henry Wallace showed up said "I am the first candidate , pickets on strike. Presumably But Walter Reuther's UAW has to relinquish her throne In The her golden Jubilee of reigning. and ah must feel quite lonely royalty since she became queen ! at a Chrysler picket line and for president ever to speak to there always has to be a first. repudiated the third party deaL MATTER OF FACT Russian Move to Partition Austria Expected as Treaty Parleys Fade By Stewart Alsep VIENNA, May 12 In this bedraggled city, once so gay and now so dreary, there is little sur face evidence of fear. The Aus trian people have become oddly hardened to living under the Soviet sword of Damocles. Yet even as this is written, the fu ture of Austria is being decided in Moscow, and the future of the &wrr AUop JJ world will sure- ly be closely affected by the deci sion. For the western negotiators In London, tjy refusing to con tinue the haggling on the Aus trian treaty, have quit clearly said to the Russians, "your move." Thus it is now up to the Krem lin to choose, once and for all. The Soviets can try for the whole Austrian loaf, by signing a treaty and thus ensuring the evacuation of the western troops. Or they can accept half a loaf, and try to incorporate only their zona of Austria into the monolithic struc ture of the great Soviet Euro pean empire. In either choice there are clearly explosive possi bilities. Until very recently it seemed likely that the Kremlin was ser iously considering the great gam ble of signing an Austrian treaty. The gamble must still seem tempting. To the Soviet planners, peering at their maps, Austria must have appeared a soft and easy mouthful, firmly held be tween the upper and lower jaws of the Soviet sphere, Czechoslo vakia and Yugoslavia. It must have seemed (as it has seemed to many Austrians and some Americans) that, once the west ern troop were withdrawn, Aus tria could hardly withstand the economic and political pressure which the Soviet Union and its satellites could bring to bear. Odds Chanrlnr But within the last few weeks the odds have Suddenly begun to change. The Marshall plan Is passed, guaranteeing an indepen dent Austria and economic breath ing spell. The western allies have let it be known that they will only evacuate Austria if both Western Union and the United States are willing to provide some sort of firm guaranty of the Aus trian borders against aggression. Finally, there is the lesson of Italy, certainly fresh in Moscow minds. The communist party that failed so dismally in Italy is the strongest and best in the west. The Austrian communist party is small and weak, with leaders so inept that they have been rudely reprimanded by both the Comin form and the Kremlin. For all these reasons, it is now believed probable though still not cer tain that the Kremlin will re sist the temptation of a bold gam ble for all of Austria, and the treaty negotiations will break down, probably never to be re sumed. But if that happens, those who have followed Soviet policy at close range, expect the beginning of an entirely new, and perhaps extremely critical phase. Once a treaty becomes no longer a pos sibility, the pressure on the west ern powers In Vienna will almost certainly increase. The Soviets, entirely surrounding Vienna, will no doubt make things as difficult as possible for the westerners. This is certainly a disturbing prospect but it has been made clear to the Russians that there Is a limit beyond which they can not go without courting war. No one can accurately foresee how far the Russians will go, but on the basis of previous experience here, it is doubted that they will pass this limit. Far mora alarming, in fact. Is the second development which is pretty generally anticipated. That is the partition of Austria, on the pattern of the partition of Ger many. For except for Finland, the Soviet zone of Austria is the softest spot, the most likely area of Infection, In the whole vast Soviet sphere of Europe. Central Austria Government It Is easy to think of Austria as a kind of miniature Germany, with the Russian zone as tightly gripped by Russian power as in Germany. In fact, Austria has a central government. Despite some operatic Soviet pressure, the Aus trian officials and functionaries A REPAIR ft v A piece of machinery auddenl y brooks and you must shut down for repairs. Perhaps It Is only a mekxl part that Is broken. No replacement is available locally and you must send a rush order back to tho iactory. That takes time, and Urns Is costly. Perhaps we could re pair that broken part and put your machlns back in operation within a lew hours. Mors often than not wo can do Just that Wo do literally hundreds of such metal Jobs, whether you want permanent or temporary repairs. Wo hare tho plant tho nocossary satdpenont and motal fabricating sxpedsncs, backed by 38 years of operation. Wo spodaUso in solving tho many motal problems of Oroaon's tanners and industriallst--and tho list of our customers "Metal Products That CM Seatk 17fk Street Sales of the Soviet zone are responsi ble, not to the Russians, but to the Austrian government In Vi enna. Austrians move freely be tween one zone and another. Most Austrians in the Soviet zone, with what appears downright foolhardiness, are quite openly anti-communist and anti-Soviet. Workers in the factories seized by the Russians as war booty are represented by socialist unions, bitterly anti-communist, and hos tile to their new employers, which must seem to the Kremlin a crowning indignity. While a peace treaty is still possible, this resistance will be tolerated. But many here doubt that it would long survive the final breakdown of treaty nego tiations. Instead, it is generally expected, the partition of Austria will begin. Movements will be restricted. Communications from other zones will be broken. Food shipments will be held up. Local officials will be instructed that they must no longer take orders from Vienna. Freedom will die. All this could be done slowly and gradually, so that the world would hardly notice. Or it could be done quickly and brutally, as in Czechoslovakia. Perhaps nothing of the sort will happen. Yet it is well to con sider in advance what the west ern policy is to be. For a Soviet attempt to expel the Austrian government from its zone of Aus tria will be in flagrant violation of treaty. And to this sort of overt attack, the western powers must somehow respond firmly. (Coprrlht, IMS, New York HtralS Trifeaaa lac.) Detroit Women Make Trips to Mid-State DETROIT First and second grade pupils entertained their mothers with a program Friday afternoon when twenty-five wom en were present. Mrs. J. Fisher who Wad been in St Charles hospital in Bend for a week following an appendec tomy, came home Saturday. Mrs. Oliver Johnson who had been in the same hospital was brought home Sunday. Mrs. Frank Steenhout, Jr. drove to Bend Tuesday, accompanied by Mrs. Charles Cook and Mrs. Guy Wilson. CRT SCEQDDQB rrprorm J3 (Continued from page 1) as a site for care of unfortunate wards of the state. To set up another hospital would not only mean a heavy expense but run head on Into the problem of re cruiting a professional staff. The state has had a hard time getting and keeping doctors and nurses for its present institutions with out taking on this new burden. The time may come in a few years when the state will require another mental hospital. Then let it- be located in a good environ ment and built according to a definite plan. As Gov. Snell said, the state would be ahead on such a program at the end of 10 years over taking Camp White hospital for free. Because of the maudlin appeals which the Journal and Sen. Wal lace have spread regarding Camp White it will be necessary to car ry on an active campaign to acquaint the people with the truth lest they fall for the phony propaganda. VSteWK. C. J. Hansen Co. tSIX Fairrreands Ed. Fa, $$$$ JOB OR has grown wiih tho Last" - Since 1912 : Thmmm 7Ctt GRIN AND BEMTIT hi k 9'M-f esJLli-; I J 'If they're serious about eliminating profit In the next war. 111 simply refuse to enlist as a dollar-a-jrear man as sin!" Oregon Feed, Seed Dealers Meet Today Some 500 feed and seed deal ers, feed manufacturers and wholesalers in feeds and seeds, from scattered sections of the Pacific coast are expected at Portland today for the 17th an nual one-day meeting of the Ore gon Feed and Seed Dealers asso ciation, Manager Leon S. Jackson has announced. Featured speakers are sched uled to discuss state and world affairs rather than direct prob lems of the Industry. Sessions will open at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. with the annual banquet at 7 p.m. . William Clark, Portland, is general chairman of the conven tion, assisted by James Jenks, Albany, who will preside in the morning, and Richard Cook, FRIDAY & mm TA' Tapered Leader snau rtia Made of DuPont nylon loaoor material. 4x light, 2x medium, 1x heavy. Stock up for season. I 3. Fishing basket, straetiea without straps Perriavo Fly Box. Hold flies Treat Net. !" haadle 0 MOKSf 484 SUte SU SALES & There Is a Pacific fumaco for every sixo homo, whether you live in ono room or a mansion. Tho Pacific is built far offtcisncy of oporatton and doanllnoss. It is also designed to burn oil. wood, sawdust or coal and It may bo converted from ono typo of fuel to another if and when there Is any change In tho local fuel supply. Tho Padfio Is built of good motal and ft Is bufit right It Is buflt In Salem, by W. W. Bosobraugh Cow for whom wo handls tho solos and sorrico fat this area. Wo accepted tho dealership bocauso wo have been son king; furnacos for many years and havo found W. W. Rosobraugh Cos furnacos and sawdust burnsr attachments among; tho boot on the markot Wo can now giro you good furnaco srrlco at all ila Ufa .-u A Furnace Man Essewsier. West Sales By' tfcnt' Portland in charge in the after noon. Burton Hurt on, assistant state 4-H club leader and former farm service director of KALE, will be master of ceremonies. Walter Scott is chairman of the banquet and evening entertain ment. Speakers include Ed Glen no n, secretary of the American Feed Manufacturers association; Chicago; Walter Upshaw and Frank McKennon, representing the Oregon state department of agriculture; George Moorad, KGW commentator; James Aiken, head football coach at the University of Oregon, and the Rev. Fred Clayton, Milwaukie Trinity Epis copal church. The morning session will cover the seed industry with Sid Victor. Albany, Harry Schoth, federal agronomist, Oregon State college, and R. M. Hardison, OSC plant pathologist, as principal speakers. The Burmese celebrate "Tagoo," their New Year festival, by dous ing every one with water. The lowest employe may inundate his boss with complete impunity. I 1 l i tfm fix SATURDAY PrL, Set Only split reed eon 2.93 1.45 2.75 OC SERVICE for25 Years Shoo 11mm S7SS CMS w ; -.. State Fair Premium Ost Incliadfes History, Changes in 1948 Fair By.Ums L. Sfaosen - ' j- -vK:: farm Editor. The Statosmaa Oregon's first state fair premium list offered $753 in cash prizes. Approximately $75,000 in prizes and awards was paid out in 1947, with around $3,500 more listed for the 83rd Oregon state fair, whose pre mium list booklet is just off the press. In a brief history, given in front of the attractive new booklet, we are told that for that long ago first fair, held October 1 to 4. 1881, on the north Dank of Clackamas I river -near Oregon City, leaders literally passed the hat in Port land to raise the premium amount. The first fair was counted a success with the remarkable at tendance of 1,500 persons. In its second year it 'was moved to Sa lem, and in its fifth year here, the sizeable sum of $25 was offered to winners of an oxen plowing match, with prizes of $10 and $5 going to the best exhibits of me chanical dentistry, to prove the fair was keeping abreast of the time. The premiums had then grown to $7,500. Modem Fair History Modern fair history dates from 1931, when the state department of agriculture was created and the fair placed in that department's hands. "We still aim to keep the fair 'abreast of the times,' "said Leo G. Spitzbart, fair manager, Thurs day as he pointed out new chan ges listed in the premium book. The interior of the agricultural building is being completely rede signed and renovated. This build ing presents the county displays, land products show, honey and apiary show, textile and baking exhibits, commercial displays and the inventions and industrial shows. Biggest one change in the 1948 fair will be in the culinary and textile department, housed in the agricultural hall, under the super vision of Anne Hunt McKennon, where premiums have tripled and will total approximately $3,000. Also because of the remodeling of the agricultural building, big improvements are expected in the land products show which proved DIIVI A CAR YOU'RI PROUD or GET A GOOD TRAOI-IN GUARD AGAINST COSTLY RUST DAMAGI SIRVICI I'larion Ilolors $33 Center Ph. 7$$$ Nisbt Tewios- CaU Z4417 A Spe cial Composition Roofing ALL FIRST GRADE MERCHANDISE I Day Only. Saturday, Hay 15ln, 1943 No Solo to Dealers AH Sales Final 200 rolls 45 lbs. Roll Roofing- 100 rolls 53 lbs. RoU Roofing 3-in-l Thlkbat AtxL Blond Groon Shadow Point - 50 50 50 50 sas. 210 lbs. sqs. 105 lbs. sqs. 13a IDs. sas. 135 lbs. Jade Groon Canyon Rod Dutch. Lap Mineral Surfacod Roll Indus trial Floor CoTorlng 100 rolls 90 lbs. Roofing 19 rolls 52 lbs. 75 sas. 170 lbs. Insulated Uillanello Valley Hoof Co., Inc. 30 Lana Arew Salem, Oregon Special Announcement Too reeeatly beard or read is the atewspeper of another la crease la AatosoosJle Liability sad Piopetty DasBSfe -rates. I think tt ealy proper to make crease does aot affect the Fan saaae extent as tt affecta others. We write Liability ta Salem sad la all of Harloa Coaaty for $17.7t the first six saesthe aad the promlsaa drops to $11.7$ each six aaoaths theroartor. (lltffM for aa additional $L4I). Asss SI to U aad we soaks no dlstiactioa la the yearly saQeso or ase of the Aatesaetne. One rate fee aJL : , ' When yon set year next renewal btXUac he sare to compare oar rates for all sewerages. There Is a sasiac tool for aa scoad to call Office at $ Ceart SU .1 I.- iZJ Court CL somewhat of a. disappointment at the 1947 fair. Special Awards 4 A number of special awards are being offered in the various live stock divisions this year with a $300 Spotted Poland Futurity of fered by tho national Spotted Po land China Record, and other spe cial awards' in the other twine breeds. v i The American Hereford associ ation tops the list of specials In the cattle barns, offering $1 for each $3 paid by the fair board. The Red Poll cattle club will pay '10 per cent in addition to any amount the fair offers and the American Shorthorn- Breeders association pliers 20 per cent An innovation in competition within the livestock division will be the herdsman contest between entries of the various breeds in the beef, dairy and dual purpose classifications. ' The new fair booklet pays spe cial tribute to that "handful of pioneer farmers, who, despite the early rigors of earning a liveli hood in the wilds. of Oregon, cre ated a state fair to advance tho prosperity of the farmers of Ore gon." 4 Portland Attorneys Admitted to State Bar Four attorneys, all located in Portland, Wednesday were admit ted to practice law in Oregon by the state supreme court They in clude James P. Rogers, from Washington State; James P. Cro i.ian, Jr., New York; Ray M. Har nr, Ohio, and Ulysses Grant Plummer, Kansas. All were ad mitted on certificates from states in which they previously practiced. 1 1 F-T r Let a modern Sandberg; farnace replace the dirt and fatigue of old-fashioned heating;. For econ omy and efficiency, with xnj fuel, choose Sand twrg;, an exact model for Very home. NOW AVAtiASU FOt IMMSOUTt INfTAUATION Day Heaiisg Co. Stl No. Liberty Tk. 4828 J LS3 po roll 33 por roll 7.S5 per roll . 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