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THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor nd Publisher
Member f the Associated Frees
The AiMtUUd Press is enUUeo" exelesHrely to the m for repobU
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AP news dispatches.
Boughten Honey
The bees in Marion county should be flying well these bright
days. But then you can't always tell about bees. Usually they are
a responsible, if independent, lot; feeding their broods, carrying
water and propolis and manufacturing wax. Sometimes, though,
they get restless and make ready to swarm when the queen is old.
Or they revolt, usurp the throne and provide a new queen.
By now, though, their political difficulties should be settled
and the colonies doubtless are working overtime in the fields of
tangled hairy vetch and fragrant alsike clover.
And soon, when the honey gets ripe in the wax cells, it will
be time to take the surplus from the hives, and it will appear
on grocery store shelves. Light amber it will be, and mild, strain
ed and purified, minus wax particles or air bubbles in its neatly
labeled jars and cans. The labels even presume to tell the con
sumer exactly what it's made of clover and vetch and alfalfa.
Now that shows a lack of imagination on the part of the bee
keeper. Also it is not quite true. Certainly vetch and clover. But
who is to tell the asocial bee that the prize roses on South High
street are off limits, or that the dusty wild cherry blossoms on a
scrubby tree beside the highway are unsanitary, or that the
a-a!eas in the capitol park are not for his furry legs? Democratic,
they are, the little robbers.
That's what's so nice about honey. It if stolen goods but
legal All you really know is that it is made out of nectar digested
first in the bee's stomach and then allowed to ripen and age in
the wax.
There are other things the labels don't tell about honey before
it u sterilized, packaged, wrapped up and paid for. You don't
know about the patient beekeeper (beekeepers should never be
nervous, waspish people) slicing the caps of wax off the dripping
combs with a sharp hot knife and then turning the extractor
while his children watch with anticipation the warm golden
honey flowing into the earthenware jugs.
The labels don't describe how frenti honey is before it goes
to market; how it is to sit on the back porch, listening to the
crickets on a hot summer night, with a plate of brown bread
spii-ad thick with unsalted churned butter and warm fresh honey
on tf e side Or how it is to suck the hor.ey out of a piece of the wax
cippings, all sticky with bee glue, and then to chew the wax
un'il it turr.5 sweet and bland and crumbly.
About all the labels do tell you is the net weight. And who
aits about that?
Senate Pafcse Draft Hill
The selective service program which the senate has passed
over to the house is a better one for military preparedness than
appeared possible some weeks ago. It does not establish universal
military training. Instead it is selective enough men being drafted
to bring the military forces up to their authorized strength of just
under 2.000.000. About 200.000 would be called up in the next
year for a two-year stretch.
The selectees would be picked from registrants in the age
group between 19 and 25. though 18-year-olds are required to
register. The latter would be exempt from the draft if they vol
unteered for one year of active service and then enrolled for four
years ina reserve component. Certain exemptions are permitted,
such as conscientious objectors, veterans who served 18 months.
Essential farm and industrial workers could be deferred or ex
empted; and doctors and dentists come under a separate category.
High school students would be deferred until they graduate, quit
school, or reach the age of 20; and college students would be
permitted to complete their year.
All things considered it is as good a piece of legislation as
could be worked out for a peacetime situation. It will keep up
the enrollment in the armed forces, which is necessary In these
critical times.
We scuttled our military establishment too early; so we
have to reverse directions and repair the damage caused by too
"hasty demobilization. The senate bill has only a two-year life,
thanks to an amendment by Senator Morse. The country hopes by
that time it will be safe to let selective service expire.
More About the Voice
N'ow that the Voice of America scandal has simmered down
to a dull roar, we are beginning to get more factual Information
and less hysterical red-baiting and mud-slinging.
One point needs to be understood. The state department
sponsored programs, damned by congress as un-American, were
not broadcast as official Voice of America propaganda. They were
beamed to South America as NBC "informational entertainment,"
not as a historical or current events series. It was nowhere stated
that the program is a state department product.
Furthermore, the Christian Science Monitor reports, a study
of the full texts of the scripts In question shows that the highly
publicized quotations used by ranting congressmen were torn
from their context and denounced without understanding of tht
script's format or purpose.
Rene Borgia, who wrote the scripts, was directed by NBC to
take two Latin Americans, with the existing prejudices about
the U.S., on a tour of the country with an accompanying guide.
Generally, the uncomplimentary remarks that appear in tht
scripts are put in the mouths of the misinformed visitors who are
then corrected by the narrator or guide. As a Latin American,
it can be presumed that Borgia knew better what prejudices
Latin Americans hold about this coutnry, than do congressmen
.who sometimes know little else than their own prejudices. For
his source material, Borgia used John Gunther's "Inside USA"
and the WPA guidebooks.
As the facts come out, the whole farce appears ridiculous.
Certainly, the state department should have a hand in the direc
tion of the pro-US propaganda it pays for. But this business of
congress harping on everyone concerned as though they were
black-hearted knaves and traitors shows lack of good Judgment.
There were a lot of more important things like housing and
public health that congress could have gotten excited about
instead.
Lewis SchweUenbach
Lewis Schwellenbach's light want out carry, but not before
it had shone out in many positions of importance and responsi
bility. Unfortunately It was somewhat under a bushel in his last
assignment.
After service in the Washington legislature he was elected
to the U. S. senate in 1034. In 1940 he took an appointment to a
federal judgeship. He resigned this position in 1145 at the per
sonal request of President Truman to succeed Frances Perkins
as secretary of labor.
This move proved a mistake. He had to face the critical
labor-management problems of the postwar era; but soon found
himself pretty well stripped of power either by action of congress
or by the president's diversion of tasks to others. He must have
regretted many times leaving Spokane and. the lifetime appoint
ment of federal judge for the turmoil and the futility of Wash
ington and the labor department. He paid a high price for personal
loyalty to Harry Truman.
Martin Very
Much In Race
At Convention
By Joseph A Imp
WASHINGTON, June 12 The
presidential candidacy of Speaker
of the House Joseph W. Martin is
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emniy as apeax-
'er Martin thinks
A good
months
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t Vjtually went to
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L-J A - I I this unhappy
' Joaroli Alaoo state of affairs.
' Whatever other i
people might think, he said blunt
ly , ii was m kiii'ui asputiiii uj t
the presidency; and the newspap
ers of his home state had better
begin taking him as seriously as
he took himself.
There Is something inevitably
comic In the picture of the speak
er rather nasally demanding. In
so many words, to be taken ser
iously. It is time, none the less,
to begin to be serious about the
Martin candidacy if only because
it has recently come close to
wrecking the bi-partisan foreign
policy.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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Ha Grip on House
Martin controls the house of
representatives more closely than
any speaker in recent years. His
lieutenants are a group of other
senior members, like Reps. Leo
Alien and John Taber, who like
him belong to the extreme right
wing of the republican party.
These are the men who revived
the economic of the Harding era
in their amendments of the trade
agreements art, and then cut the
guts out of the European Recov
ery program. The most obvious
motive of these moves (which
they would certainly not have
made without Martin's encour
agement) was to try to nail the
republican party colors to the
mast of reaction.
There was also another motive
in this foray of Martin's, which
Is all too plainly disclosed in a
less conspicuous Martin maneuv
er. Martin badly wants suDDort
from the big Pennsylvanian dele
gation at Philadelphia. He has a
toehold in the state, since his
chief backers are reputed to be
Joseph Pew and Ernest T. Weir,
the two industrialists whose poli
tics are so much part of the past
that they have acquired a little
of the joke-value of the queerer
Victorian mementoes.
Duff for Vandenberg
But Gov. James Duff of Penn
sylvania unfortunately belongs to
the group desiring to draft Sen.
Arthur H. Vandenberg for the re
publican nomination.
Not long ago. Senator Vanden
berg wrote a group of Yale stu
dents another of his letters de
clining to put himself forward
as a candidate. The letter was
hardly published before Martin
established contact with Dufl. to
point out that Vandenberg was
not in the race, and to solicit
his support for Martin.
The plain truth is that Martin
desperately wants to be nominat
ed, knows he cannot be nominat
ed except in the event of a con
vention deadlock, and knows Van
denberg is infinitely more likely
to be chosen if a deadlock occurs.
About Vandenberg, he must feel
as the weaker competitor feels
about the stronger, as the small
man feels about the big man. And
his attempt to subvert the bi
partisan foreign policy was also
a personal attack on Vandenberg.
delivered with considerable force
from the flank.
Odds Against Martin
The odds against Martin ac
tually being nominated remain
"It's shaping bp Into a happy little home, folks! . .
lot of happy hours spent on It already
There's been a
heavy, despite all his maneuver
ing. Of the 35 delegates from his
own state of Massachusetts, only
seven are with him to the finish.
The rest will follow other, more
progressive Massachusetts leaders
to support such candidates as
Vandenberg or Dewey, after cast
ting their complimentary first
ballots for Sen. Leverett Salton
stall as favorite son. The chief
Martin enthusiasts elsewhere in
the country are men of the Pew
Weir type, together with a num
ber of old congressional friends.
He claims, probably with rea
son, a total of 150 delegates, but
he will hardly get these votes un
less and until the first choice of
the republican conservatives. Sen.
Robert A. Taft, has been elimi
nated from the race.
His wing of the party is in fact i 4
quite visibly planning to put Mar- j
tin forward when Taft fades. Ac-
tually, the republicans of the ex-
treme right decidedly prefer the
amiable speaker to the hard, an
gular, intellectual and annoyingly
unmanageable Ohio senator. The
reason is obvious.
Significance Buried
Because he is amiable, has sel
dom sought the limelight, and is
pleasantly unassuming, Martin's
real political significance has
been little ventilated. He has sim
ply been accepted as a colorless
man, carried to his present emi
nence by seniority, shrewdness
and careful party regularity.
But he has real meaning all the
same; the house which he con
trols has become a sort of carni
val ground for the lobbyists of
all the special Interests, from real
estate to power, that maintain
lobbyists in Washington. The
worst thing you can say about
Martin is that this has happened,
not because Martin has improper
connections with any of these
lobbyists, but because he sincere
ly believes that this sort of man
knows how to run the country
better than any one else.
The strategy of the Martin can
didacy is already known. Dead
lock the convention. Call a recess.
Bring pressure to bear from all
the republican groups that want
a candidate of the Martin type.
And when the bewildered dele
gates re-assemble, bring Martin
out of the box in the best 1920
style. The strategy has only one
defect It Is a 120 strategy, which
is highly unlikely to apply to the
republican party of 1948
(Copyrlfht, IKS, Nw
Trikui lac.)
APPRAISERS ELECT CROSE
WASHINGTON, DC, June 12
(Special) -The American Institute
of Real Estate Appraisers, an af
filiate of the National Association
of Real Estate Boards, has an
nounced the election of 23 persons
to junior membership, including
Al J. Crose of Salem, Ore. Crose
is loan officer in the state veter
ans' affairs office.
they tote water for the elephant
for four long years and think
they ought to be the ones do run
the convention; but they aren't
able to do so. One reason is
too many of them are candidates.
Another Is while individually
they are able to get elected from
home bailiwicks they haven t been
able to impress the party rank-and-file
very favorably. It's the
governors, who He closer to the
people (and closer to the poli
tical organizations) that call the
turn. Starting with 1938 the GOP
convention has been more of a
governor's conference. That year
Landon of Kansas was the nomi
nee. In 1940 with the effective
floor leadership of Governors
Stassen of Minnesota and Carr of
Colorado and others Wendell
Willkie was nominated. In 1944
Governor -Dewey, never popular
among the Washington politico,
walked off with the nomination.
What will the governors do this
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time, especially Warren, DriscoH
and Duff? My crystal ball is
cloudy at that point; but I re
peat, if and when they agree, the
delegates may start reaching for
their hats and Dewey is still a
governor.
STASSEN HEADS SOUTH
ATLANTA, June 12-(P)-Harold
Stassen made a quick preconven
tion swing Into the south Friday,
predicted again he would win the
republican presidential nomina
tion on the ninth ballot and ad
vocated "gradualism'' In civil
rights.
Warren Construction
Company Did Accepted
LEBANON Bid of $32,602.78
by Warren-Northwest Construc
tion company of Portland for pav
ing 19 city blocks this summer was
accepted by the city council at m
special meeting this week. j .
Cost of paving was figured at
$1.65 per square yard and curb
ing at $1.10 per lineal foot Work
is to start August 19 and la to be)
finished by September 15. i
Th nAINLY MAkKID prices fa evr
ditphy room pjVe essuronce ftSof I
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Custom and the consensus of experts on UJ5. flag symbolism
assign a particular star in the flag to each state. The order is that in
which the states were admitted to the union. The first 13 states
were admitted upon their ratification of the constitution, the others by
federal action. Dates of admission for the 48 states are:
1. Delaware, Dec 7, X787.
2. Penneylvania, Dec 12, 1787.
8. New Jersey, Doc it, 1787.
4. Georgia, Jan. 2, 1T88.
3. Connecticut, Jan. 9, 1788.
6. Massachusetts, Feb. 6, 1788.
7. Maryland, April 28, 1788.
8. South Carolina, May 23, 1788.
9. New Hampshire, June 21, 1788.
10. Virginia, June 25, 1788.
11. New York, July 26, 1788.
12. North Carolina, Nov. 21, 1789.
13. Rhode Island. May 29, 1790.
14. Vermont, March 4, 1791.
15. Kentucky, June 1, 1792.
16. Tennessee, June 1, 1796.
17. Ohio, March 1, 1803.
18. Louisiana, April 8. 1812.
19. Indiana, Dec 11, 1816.
20. Mississippi. Dec 10. 1817.
21. Illinois, Dec 3, 1818.
22. Alabama, Dec 14, 1819.
23. Maine, March 13, 1820.
24. Missouri, Aug. 10. 1821.
25. Arkansas, June IS, 1836.
26. Michigan, Jan. 26, 1837.
27. Florida, March 23. 1843.
28 Texas, Dec. 29, 1843.
29. Iowa, Dee. 28, 1846.
30. Wisconsin, May 29, 1848.
31. California, Sept 9. 1850.
32. Minnesota, May 11, 1858.
23. Oregon, Feb. 14, 1859.
34. Kansas, Jan. 29, 1861.
33. West Virginia. June 20, 1663.
36 Nevada, Oct 31, 1864.
37. Nebraska, March 1, 1867.
38. Colorado, Aug. 1, 1876.
39. North Dakota, Nov. 2, 1889.
40. South Dakota, Nov. 2, 1889.
41. Montana, Nov. 8, 1889.
42. Washington, Nov. 1L 1689.
43. Idaho, July 3, 1890.
44. Wyoming. July 10, 1890.
43. Utah, Jan. 4, 1896.
46. Oklahoma, Nov. 1$, 1907.
47. New Mexico. Jan. 6, It 12.
48. Arizona, Feb. 14, 1912.
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