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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1948)
The ftrrtaarnrrn. Sqlra, Ofgon. Thursday. gpt XX IS4S 7o Foror Sways Us, No Fear Shalt Avof rnm First Statu . Karen XI, 1U1 : "THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 'CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher. Member of the AmcltM Press ITe Associated Press fs entitle exehcshrety to the se f er repvblf. eatloa of aU the local att priatesl la this newspaper, m well m all AP news dispatches. " i . The New U.N Mediator Stern gang, fanatics who murdered Count Folk Bernadotte In cold blood have threatened the! same fate for Ralph Johnson Bunche, the American who succeeded to Bernadotte's position as trucemaker in Palestine. That would be too bad. There j are few enough men of high caliber willing to serve the cause of world peace, and there are certainly few men who illustrate jt well as does Dr. Bunche the validity of the ideal American success story. e . Ralph Bunche was born in 1904 the son of a Detroit barber, When his parents died he went to (live with his grandmother in Los Angeles and went to public schools there. He worked his way through the University of California at L-A. as janitor and assistant in the political science department. He also" played foot ball and baseball and was star guark on UCLA's basketball team. X UUUIV, paL too, and active in forensics He graduated summa cum ent to Harvard. By 1934 he ffe was sports editor of the yea and a member of Phi Beta Kap; laude in 1927. With the aid of scholarships he had a doctorate and was well known in academic circles for his first -hand -Studies of native tribes in Africa, Asia and South Pa cific islands. From 1938 to 1940 hejserved as chief, aide to Gun nar MyrdaL Swedish sociologist, wjho made a survey of condi tions of "the -negro in this country I for Swarthmore. Both men were three limes "run out" of southern communities. During the war. Dr. Bunche worked for the Office of Strate gic Services and volunteered for military, duty. He helped write the trusteeship sections of the "United Nations charter as assist ant to the U-S. delegation. He was, by that time, associate chief of Dependent Area Affairs in the U.S. state department and an authority on non-self-governing territories. So It was no surprise when Trgyve Lie asked him to serve on the U2L secretariat. And his previous association with Swe dish scholars made him a natural to work with Bernadotte on the Palestine ' assignment. In private life. Dr. Bunche liks to fish and watch Jackie Robinson .handle second base for the Dodgers. He married a girl from Alabama and they have three teen-age children. He is non sectarian in religion and independeat in politics. There's nothing extraordinary about his story ... until it is pointed out that Dr. Bunche is a negro and his grandfather was a slave! I That is why, as the New York Herald Tribune said some ears ago, "Americans must regard aim with pride and humil ity." And why it would be especially unfortunate if he should be killed: there are so few examples. f negroes who "made good despite the hurdles whites set up for them. one story this week. The to make it a gross under- Contrast in Calabooses "It stinks!" That is what the Eugene Register-Guard said about the Lane county jail in a page reasons for that expletive are enough statement. - The county pokey, it seems, has no class. In fact, it has little to offer besides unpleasant odors and vermin. Its accommoda tions are snostly negative: not enough; room, not enough toilets, not enough wash basins, not enough jfood, not enugh beds, not enough bed-coverings, not enough soap and water. ' It is dank and dreary and unhealthy. And Eugene citizens are mildly upset because juveniles on their way to proper in stitutions are housed in the local jailhouse along with toughs of every description. And drunks are loaded into the tank like so many sacks of grain into a boxcar. It's enough to drive anyone stir-crazy, they say. Well, just for contrast, here's the ferent institution. This nlush DOkev is a: candidate for a cover picture on "Better Homes and Gardens" or "House 1 Beautiful magazines. It is strictly a classy joint. The architecture is Spanish-modern. The drunk tank has lem rgn-yellow walls and offers a sweeping, view of Beverly Hills be tween the lemon-yellow bars. The quarters for lady guests are a delicate chartreuse shade. And' the warden has modestly admit ted that he. is often complimented on the food. There are two bunks in every cell and the limit is one oc cupant per bunk. Each bunk has two soft fluffy blankets, a pil low, sheets and a pillow slip. Magazines and books are available to while away the hours. And the calaboose guest book is spotted with the names of some of the nation s most famous people. As yet, this lavish jailhouse is not quite in keeping with the surrounding toney structures. It has no private swimming pool. But in Beverly Hills, that glaring inadequacy may soon be re medied. Meanwhile, Eugene, take heart! Demo Ranting Fails jto Shake Polito lovans ! Bf JMeph Abtp DEXTER' Iowa Sept. 21 All the elements in Harry S. Truman's well-nigh hopeless political prob lem were i neatly, picturesquely summed tip at the formal opening of his GRIN AND BEAR IT fields oft corn.? uma n is XoJ word on an entirely dif- What if Electors Can't Decide? Suppose the Dixiecrats and the Progressives capture enough 1 electoral votes so that no presidential candidate gets a majority what would happen? , Well, Joseph Martin, speaker of the house who vied for the republican nomination in June, might become acting president, Here's hew that could happen, the Associated Press says: The constitution says that if no candidate gets a majority, 266 of the -nation's 531 electoral votes, then the house of repre sentatives shall choose a president from the three candidates who got the , most votes. In a house contest, each state would have one vote and 25 votes would be the majority. Top three , candidates would probably be Dewey, Truman and Thurmond. If the -house can't agree, the vice president takes over on fanuary 20. But it's not likely the house, could agree on a vice president if they can't organize a majority voting for president.! I Then the contest would go to the senate.' Should both houses become deadlocked and that has never happened the speaker of jthe house would take over. Joseph i Martin 4s now running for re-election. Thomas Jefferson was the first president chosen by the house ; and in 1825 it made John Adams chief executive. In 1837, the senate elected Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky for vice presi dent. " j But, if the pollsters are right, there's no chance any one but Dewey will be in the running by November. Certainly the fact ; that Joseph Martin, far to the right of any candidate but Thur-j mond and Gerald L. Smith, might become president should give ! pause to any voters who might cast their ballots carelessly. At Least Americans Eat Winston Churchill drove home a sharp thrust at the British i labor (socialist) government when he wroje in support of a con- : servauve candidate in a by-election: "And even our present standards can only be maintained be cause we are receiving a large part of our needs from capitalistic America, at whose system our Socialist rulers never cease jeering-" In America everybody eats, and the standard of living is the; highest in the world. No other system has demonstrated as much capacity for production of goods or shared of its abundance so Widely, if this be "capitalistic imperialism" hungry people else-j -where would like a taste of it unless they are victims of some ideology. ' ' yellow ripened The Tr -y ! :p make hi audi! a : eucw liesn ; creep v with talk of the!-; "gluttonsi of pri-fl vilege (who ln-i habit Wall Street.! I N But in the firstL-iii piace, otm-fc - Ajpa susl ! decent, moderate and flatly unemotional president Is; almost comically mis cast in 1 the old role of William Jennings i Bryan. And then his audiences are so Drosoerous. well fed and! optimistic that if he dres sed up as a ghost, and did the au thentic dance of death upon the platform, he would still fail to raise a ;slngle goose-pimple. rne; scene, much more than what the president said, was in truth the real political story here. The setting was the prosperous lowa larm or Mrs. T. R. An. wid ow of; the dean of the Iowa State college, j "Vast County Fair" The fields of the olace are rich. the farm has been much improved by concrete: dams and terraces for erosion control, plantings of trees to hold water on the eentle stones. and other inventions of the devil ish New Deal, wickedly aided by me ieaerai : treasury. Here nearly 90,000 people gathered, to witness the annual ; national plowing con test, to look over Mrs. Age's ex periments in progressive farming, and to enjoy something like a vast county fair. The crowd itself was over whelming. It seemed to tramnle down i the farm, although Frank Sommers, Mrs. Aggs weather beaten farm manager, remarked cheerfully, fA few rains, a counle of freezes and some snow, and it'll ail be back the same next sum mer. : Yet the looks of the people were still mare i impressive than their numbers. In this part of the coun try, people nave begun to achieve a sort; of homogeneity that is not seen elsewhere in America, where the melting pot's work is not done. They ;all have the same wiry. energetic good neaitft. AH Look Prosperous Moreover; they all look pros perous. In one field outside the impromptu : fair grounds, over 50 bright red, ; blue or yellow flying farmers'! aircraft were lined tin. Arfd while only a tiny percentage were as; ricn as this, and none at an pretended to be anything but farmers, the whole crowd wore an airjj of comfortable, homely well- oeing. i f Such Were the people whom the president sought to arouse against nis lavonte republican gluttons of privilege.' In a sense, he had a good case. He spoke nothing but the truth" when he reminded his listeners that by the close of the Hoover administration, much of the state was owned by eastern In surance; companies the actual fig ure was above 40 per cent. He spoke; the ; truth also when he claimed: for the democrats much credit; for agricultural progres Mrs. Aggs dams and terraces testified to that. And he was even truthful .when he spoke of the republican 80th congress's respon siveness to; big business lobbyists such episodes as the attempted raid on the; farm cooperatives can not be laughed off. Audience Unemotional Yet- his 70 per cent republican audience listened to him with the respect j and interest they would accord any decent president of the United States, but without a quiv er of emotion even when he re called; the i terrible times of the early thirties. In the early thirties, the mood of Iowa , was ; almost revolutionary. But now the president's strorur talk utterly failed to re-create that mood. They applauded mildly when : he i showed the curious, small-man's spunk which is the distinguishing mark of his cam paigning. They laughed when he used one of his earthy expressions. They clapped him politely at the close. And that was all. If appearances are at all trust worthy, the president's failure to arouse any more response than this dooms in advance his whole doughty effort. It does no good to go! through all the grim cam paigning ritual to rise at 5 a.m for example, to meet the first sta tion platform crowd. If the people only come ' to see the president. and take little notice of what he says, their; votes are not to be wooed. 1 : Warning for GOP Onj the other hand, in these crowds there is also a warning for the republicans. It may be that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey does . not wish 'to turn the political clock back.1 But there are plenty of his partisan! I comrades In arms who have different views. And if the clock isi turned back if these peo ple should: ever " be deprived of their well-being and dams, their prosperity and terraces,-then will be the time to watch out.' Because President Truman lacks the queer electric quality of lead ership that makes people stand on their hind legs and cheer, this fact is in: grave danger of being for gotten, ii Yet it may be written down" for future remembrance. If national -policy is ever dominated by the sort of republicans who raid ed the farm cooperatives, pared down public power, and otherwise tried to revive the Harding era in the SOth congress, these republi cans in; Iowa and the others like them; elsewhere in the country will react with real violence. And this fact is just as important as the apparent hopelessness of Pre sident Truman's campaign. copyist, i 1948. Mew York Herald ,tr-v r?r tW' By LichtyXurkey Growers Told Meat Shortage Worst in 25 Years The meat shortage is greater today than at any time in 25 years. Frank I. Ballard, associate director of , Oregon State college extension service told the Oregon Turkey Improvement association at their banquet at Marion hotel Wednesday night at the close of the ninth! annual business session. I Ballard, talking on the progress of agriculture in Oregon during the past 25 years, pointed out that "This poet will be a challenge to your training, Snodgrasa ... yoa will will ge forth as a misskAtaxy amongst the landlords..." 0S3IDS (Continued from page 1) Tribun. three years. Production is ample and no stimulus is needed. As it now stands the public is being soaked twice, once in taxes . to finance the purchase of surplus and again in the price kept -arti finally high by the government's taking the surplus off the market. This was part of the wartime guaranty. What really gripes the action of congress and the president in extending the war time act through another year. A singular thing is that leaders in farm organizations wanted the law revised. They were afraid of consumer resentment if prices were continued on wartime levels or higher, adding to the cost of living. But the politicians were af ter the farm vote, just as the can didates are now, liberal with pro mises. I am sure no one wants the farm economy to sink to levels of the 1930 s or the busines and industrial economy either. But the original parity law and its exten sions are antiquated. They relate today to a distant past which is wholly unrealistic. Unlimited guarahties invite expansion of production which in turn forces government restrictions on pro duction. The economy of abun dance is turned into an economy of scarcity. Urgently needed Is a complete revision of the government's farm policy, which is not in sight from the utterances of any of the presi dential candidates. Church Council Totals Aid for Flood Relief Nearly $3,000 for books. Bibles and baby furnishings for Vanport flood victims was raised and ex pended through the Oregon Coun cil of Churches, Dr. Chester W, Hamblin, president, announced Tuesday for the executive com mittee. The committee has also approved a request to state authorities for an investigation of housing in rur al and industrial areas. Members stated that they felt conditions in migrant labor camps were espe cially bad. By an appeal through the chur ches of the state following the May raised. To this was added enough to make expenditures S4J)15. Lar gest expense was $1,904 for baby beds, buggies, high chairs anoToth er baby furnishings lost his the Hood. Other items Included replace ment or books lost by Vanport ministers. Bibles lost by families. bedding and other household sup plies, iurniture . and payment of first month's rent. The council also supported a vacation Bible school among children of evacuees, sent evacuee boys and girls to summer camp, gave special aid to churches wnicn housed evacuees and sent toys to the Red Cross to use in em ergency housing units. Pen Warden Back from East Warden George Alexander of Oregon state penitentiary was back in . Salem Wednesday after attending the national prison con gress in Boston, Mass. During his trip he visited Col orado state prison and conferred with prison wardens from many states about western state sugges tions for a federal prison for women to serve the 11 western states. Alexander said many prison men consider this a good plan. It has been proposed by California prison authorities and endorsed in principle by western region of the Council' of State Governments. The local warden said a mutual agreement now exists whereby Colorado state prison accommo dates the women prisoners from neighboring Wyoming and Utah. Pvt. Gottfried's Body Returned From Pacific The body of Pvt. Raymond J. Crottiried, Salem air force man who died in a Japanese prison camp on the Philippines, has been returned to this country aboard the VS. army transport Sergeant Morris E. Crain, carrying home the remains of 3,536 war dead. Oregon produced 28 million dozen more eggs, a million pounds more beef and six million pounds more milk than were produced just a quarter of a century ago. He saw an increase in production through better use of land rather than in crease of land in cultivation, and he predicted an immediate in crease in livestock production based on new forage grasses and further increase in specialty crops in Oregon. , Edith Fairham, Willamette uni versity, was soloist at the banquet- Panel Discussion Held Because C. W. Norton, mana ger of the northwest Poultry and Dairy Products Co., was unable to give his scheduled talk on Tur key Market Outlook," a panel dis cussion was held, led by Harold Ryals, McMinnville. anud V. V. R u n y a n. Silverton, Northwest Poultry and Dairy Products asso ciation; Kenneth Smart, Albany, Swifts; Henry Bonnie, Canby, Bonnie Producers, and Lawrence Roberts, Roseburg. Oregon Turkey Growers. They substantiated pre dictions made earlier by Graydon McCully. national Turkey Grow ers" president, that the outlook for the 1948-49 turkey selling market was good. Other convention speakers were Dr. E. M. Dickson, OSC veterin ary, who said that there had only been one case or wewcasue dis ease In turkeys in Oregon; Agnes Kolshorn. OSC extension nutri tion, who told how to cook and carve a turkey, and Dr. J. E. Par ker, head of OSC poultry depart ment, who told of the increase in use of artificial insemination in the turkey world. At the business meeting, nice Schroeder gave the supervisors renortr Noel Beniuon. the secre- wm . a t ine army announcea we am- L j r u cv,,.,w val in a press release Wednes- 8 .ZZlZZTZ. j Dort. TtMAlntlons Adopted Resolutions adopted favored ad vancement of trap nesting and day. . Besides Gottfried, the war dead included five others with next-of-kin in the mid-Willamette valley area. t la.m : i - . r 4," w" ot "f progeny testing work at the state time servicemen sons of Mrs. p Z V V., h ctrir Mary Gottfried, 1280 N. 4th st.. experiment station. Eggs and stock Tc? .AZt "-developed would be made avail and Jacob S. Gottfried of Oswego fyf a, C hrHm of the state under the plan. Voted down All his brothers survived the war. He was taken prisoner on Guam where he was an air force me chanic after enlisting in 1940. Surviving besides his parents are four sisters, Mrs. Ann Hall of Portland, Mrs. Angeline Howe Chin-Up Club to Hold Bazaar in Local Store Chin-Up Club of Oregon will hold a ! two-day bazaar in the H. L. Stiff furniture store at 430 Court st. Friday and Saturday.! A wide j variety of clothing, myr-j tlewoodi and other gift items,! made by handicapped persons,; plus home-made candy will , be! placed on sale. Eighteen Beglnneri Enrolled at Rickey FOUR CORNERS Bicker school beginners this year include1 Betty Bastian, Linda Lee Cappa, Linda Gephardt, Rita Holmari, Mrsha Lee, Dona Rock, Sharon Shippey, Janet Shlpman, Eileen Weigart, Joan Wells, Shtrrill White, i Kenneth Brant, Douglas Brown, Gary Clement, Albert Donovan, Billy Dunigan, rranli Hatfield, John Lippold. , j Quicksand is small, smooth, loose Into Which objects sink! easily. . j LAT7II SPnillELIIIG I SYSTEMS I WINTER KATES C. S. T7hiicomb Co. Free Estimates Phone 2-4527 ... i , was a resolution asicing a cnansc in method of election of board oi directors and one to establish disease detecting and blood testing laboratory in the vicinity oi can- l fI?3na' t JTTwT, by. Instead pt the latter a mobile of Gladstone. Loretta Gottfried of MJf; nd control unit Waldport and Rom , Maris iGott- .e was favored aa srA wa. uaiuu , v c ut wu.: q John, Leonard, Edward, George ana Arttiur uoninea au or ta- . f John gg er who was not lem, and Leo Gottfried of Port- rflndidate for re-election. Offi- land. I it wpr w T. Geurts. m.1 i t I! t W . vomers wnwc Dwues mi uvru, mm nu.t nron- JVJ T . Rnnlon. listed by the army, included: IrT-liu .retarr-treasurer: W. PFC James W. Agalzoff, son of I Portland, director: Mr. and Mrs. William A. Agal-1 w"m; rhnU Aurora, director: zoff, 870 Marsh st. Independence; with hold-overs, Paul McDowell, Pvt. John L. Bryant, son of Mr. Sherwood; Loren Johnson, Scap- ana jurs. ireorge o. oryani, ip- poose, and C. H. Coyle, St. raill. non; lvan j. nams, nexwu- i kin ustea as Mrs. in in a m. nams, i TT c x.i Mill City; Pvt. Robert W. King, Iiayesvmt; otuwwm next-of-kin A. W. King, Mc- hp 11- 1 Ht T.mi1 2: Pvt Rrnvr -m-v- - t C. Vaughn, next-of-kin John W. Vaughn, Lebanon route 1. Christian Jew To Give Talks in Salem, Turner HAYESVILLE One hundred onH fiv are enrolled in nayes- ville, largest number ever record ed this early in the year, Mrs. Genevieve Wegner, principal, re- Mri. Lillian McKay ! the pri marv teacher and has 35 pupils i r -rmr room. c x uciuuiict .v. AAA r beginners include Linda Benson, pvmH TCrthlr- Larrr GibbT- Sig- a mare m m w .-w- t . ut. a. u. Aiicneison. iounaer oiUi wnif. rwnnis Nelson. Aiarnyn the First Hebrew Christian syna- jones Douglas Brown, John gogue of Los Angeles, is to speak Qlaisyer, Warren Pesttka, Jerry in Salem and Turner three times vfr Tom Hammant Sherman Sunday at public meetings. Van cleave. Alden Jarmes, The talks will be at 11 a.m. In I r- rur.ir T.inda Christen- Turner Christian church; at 2:30 s lvia Smith Lynn Nystrom. . ".f"" . " I Charles Hens, Harold Jones, xuiey T7i . il lh. Till El wood and Mary Ann Hulls. Chnstian." The son of a rabbi, Mlchelson became a judge in German courts. After his conversion to Christi anity, he gave up this position and came to America to teach and preach. Death Takes Frank Buell Frank L. Buell, Salem resident for many years, died this week in the home of a daughter at Los Angeles, members of the family were notified Wednesday. He was 4. When a Salem resident, Mr. Bu ell bad been an employe of the old Farmer hardware store and had been a member of First Baptist church. Funeral services will be held in California- Surviving are the widow, LJzzie, and three daughters in California) brothers E. D,. Buell, G. A. Buell and H. M. Buell. all of Salem, and D. O. Buell of Cushing, Okla.; sisters Mrs. Cara Aumiller, Sel- don, Kan., and Mrs. Mary Street- er, Hiawatha, Kan. Through error this was pri ced at 90c. Actual cost only . iyC This Master Combination PADLOCK Is deslmed especially for school locks. There are no keys to loose. Easy to operate . "9c Allen Hardware 23C N. Coal St rh. 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