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The Statesman. Salem Oreqani tnesdSepten&er 23, IMS "To Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Au From first Statesman. March It. 1&31 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the ase far reoobfl eatlea of all the local news printed la this newspaper as well aa sil AP news dispatches. (EalereS aa f class asatter at tk Sales. On, postofflca nltr act f eonrreis Mare X. 1S79. FaUsh4 Terr saoroimc except Maaday. By aaO In Oregon $ oer year, elewhre f.SS.) The Other Side of Our Prosperity The Associated Press wire clicked off a story this week that does not belong to 1948, somehow. The story" comes from New Hampshire, the granite stats with roots deep in American history; a state whose patrimony consists ' of white birches and covered bridges and the fine New England stock in its population and the century-old shoe factories and textile mills from which the people derive their livelihood. The story comes from Nashua on the 'Merrimack river, a town settled in 1652 and now about the size of pre-war Salem. The chief industries there are two 116-year-old textile mills op erated by Textron, Inc., a Rhode Island company. About 3,500 workers are employed at the mills and the welfare of Nashual 33,000 population indirectly depends on those mills. TMs week Textron announced that the mills would be closed 1 r-l i s . a' ; .ii ,a in ueiremuer. arouna v.nnsunas-ume. in inis ana omer recent shutdown in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Virginia, Textron has thrown 10.000 people out of work. l In this year of "full employment," high wages and high prices, that story about 10,000 workers who were suddenly told they wouldn't have any jobs after Christmas just does not seem con- sistent. We, in the rich and rapidly-developing west, seeing new plants open up and new homes go up and new workers coma in, feel that prosperity is not around any corners it's her. And that you see, is the point. It's here. But it's not in New England. It's not ; in Nashua where thousands of families are wondering how they ara going to keep up their payments on that new car or the new baby or the new washing machine. Textron explained that the New England mills aren't effi cient' enough. And taxes-in New England are too high. And peo ple expect decent wages, besides. So Textron is going to build new plants in the south and in iPuerto Rico, where taxes and wages are low and the workers will be grateful for j what they et. It's consistent, all right. Heartbreakingly so. . That story from New Hampshire is just the other side of the glowing picture we of the west have been seeing. A businessman in 1948, as in 1930, has to be efficient; and the expansion here and in the south that testifies to his efficiency simply means that Nashua, New Hampshire, -can got shrivel up. The century-old -j mills that can't compete with brand new plants can become pic turesque points of interest. And the workers well, just ask the next family of migrants where they are from. . ; On Premature Funeral Orations You do not have to ask for whom the bell tolls. Already the radio commentators and newspaper columnists, who never granted United Nations much life expectancy in the first place, are proclaiming the death warrant in solemn notes of I-told-you-so. I As the delegates in Paris make ready to tackle yet another problem the Berlin mess which stems back to the last war and for which UN machinery wast not designed, the prophets, of gloom are preparing the sepulchre. United Nations, they intone. will get a decent burial alongside jthe other great white hopes of mankind League of Nations, for one. Trouble with all this mortuary effusion is that United Na tions has not failed not yet. AS a Christian Science Monitor writer points out, if we want perspective, we need to see only the problems but also the achievements. Actually the UN char ter assumed that the allies would settle the problems growing out of the war. j UN has made some political progress in Palestine, Greece, In- donesia, Kashmir and Korea. It was helped reduce tension and avert major, conflicts in those strategic areas. Its economic achievements by the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Economic Commission for Europe International Trade Organi sation and International bank are j not paltry by any standards. Its . humanitarian successes are recorded on behalf of refugees, children disaster victims, education, the free flow of informa tion and non-self-governing peoples. The Monitor resume continues i "We can say of UN Its achievements are unprecedented in the annals of history but only a hint of what can come. "Its failures are grave and dangerous, but not yet decisive. "Its problems are massive and desperate, but not hopeless. "Its machinery is adequate, but filled with unexploited. poten tialities, j ; "Its prospects are better much better than the headlines sug gest. S 1 "Whatever its future, UN already) has wrought a basic contri bution to the advancing cause of eventually inevitable world or der. Nothing can destroy that." j Of course. United Nations Itself is destructible. At the mo ment, it is even extremely vulnerable. But the record stands and the orators now previewing the obituaries are barking up the wrong corpse. j If UN as a world organization dedicated to the cause of peace, does break down, you will not need to ask for whom the bell tolls. It will toll for all mankind. While organized labor is still talking about defeating mem bers of congress who voted for thej Taft-Hartley act their cam- paign gives no promise of success. Already 235 of the 248 con gressmen who voted for the bill hive been renominated. A few may fall by the wayside in the general election, but the big ma jority will be reelected. The conclusion is that labor wasn't hurt as badly as it has advertised by the T-H law, or else the public felt it was time a crimp was put in union power. Both ara prob ably correct. British labor is finding that a socialist government is no ma gician. Wages are frozen although S living costs have mounted; but the chancellor of the exchequer. Sir Stafford Cripps, told the trade union congress recently tiat the way to higher wages was greater production. Increase in j money wages is of no value unless it can procure more goods or services. When these are increased and distributed the standard of living rises. This is true no matter under what "ism" the economy is working. Henry A. Wallace says the progressive party Is here to stay, and said it wouldn't do a fadeout M did the Theodore Roosevelt and Bob LaFollette versions of pregressiveism. Wallace is an optimist. The party will probably disintegrate. But there will always be agitators, malcontents, forward lookers in a demo cratic society. They may be irriUtini but they keep the old par ties from growing stale. Even fleas jkeep a dog scratching. By a two-to-one vote the circuit court of appeals has upheld the provision of the Taft-Hartley la which requires labor union officials to sign non-communist affidavits before their union can be, recognized by the NLRB. Better reserve Judgment m this case though until the supreme court makes its 5-4 split decision. I Must be hard running for president and competing with base- Jball league windurc, world series, and football for public atten tion. CI Iremlin Soto Timetable for Anti-Tito Drivo i i ! ! By Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON, Sept 27 The comfortable Crimean dacha of Josef Stalin, according to reliable reports, has lately been receiving I 1 j a steady stream of satellite Com munist lead e r s. Romania's Ana Pauker was the first to make the rflgrimage. short ly after the Bel grade conference but Bulgaria's Dlmltrov, Hungary's Rako ?1 and Czechosfo- valrf' flriHwaM h Stewart' Alsop 4 , n d Klementis w-. i . , , -i ..... 'have followed ner. jto pay homaee to the aging dictator and to receive hw orders. For jsome reason no Polish lead er, so far as i known, has yet ime the nilprimaee. ine dacha has doubtless been the scene ef discussions on Berlin ana pne nuesnon of succession to the rfead Andrei Zhdanov's post in the Comirform hs nrobablv also jbeera considered. But the chief purprse of the satellite pilgrim age ,to Crimea, it is believed, has been tjo settle the fate of the re bemous Marshal Tito. And. from information now available, a fair iv accurate picture of Stalin's timetable for Tito can be pieced togejne r. ; Thel timetable has already been upset by; the shooting some weeks ago j of Yugoslav General Arso Yovanovitch, Tito's war-time conifade-an-arms. as he attempted to cross the Yugoslav frontier. Yovanovitch. it has now been learned, had been c hosen by Mos cow to become the instrument of Tito's downfall, and his successor. He had served with the Red army and i was considered entirely loyal to me Kremlin. Accordingly, ar rangements were made for him to leave 1 Belgrade on the plane of Madam ; Pauker, Tito's arch enemy, at the end of the Danube conference. He was then to be groomed to lead an anti-Tito put sch, with the full support of the Kremlin and the satellites. Yovinbvitch Slain Thel plan misfired. The O.Z.- N-Ai, me emcient Yugoslav sec ret police, discovered what was un before) the Pauker plane took off. Yovanovitch tried to escape but he was caught and shot, not, it is! believed.; by a simple frontier guard., but by a special O.Z.N.A. task! force. But a substitute for the dead Yovanovitch will doubt less be found, perhaps among the Yugoslav officers now in Moscow, and j trained in the role he is to play- I This role will of course be much easier If Tito is dead. Therefore efforts to assassinate Tito will be redoubled Trieste Communists N. in Distributors Differ on Benefits j Of iGas Allotment Boost; Ration I System Used by Most Stations! Whether Friday's 20 j per cen boost in gasoline allotments was a substantial help to motorists was a debated point In Salens Monday!. Soma distributors said the sltuai tion was "still tough,' while oth4 ers said the boost would oe a great aid in tiding stations ovef until October I. What will happen when Friday arrives u uh ui uir uigcsi yuz zles though rumor had both cuts and increases slated in ply. The problem is the the sup out to southern Oregon were encour- ' aged Monday by Harry Scott, Just I back from a motorcycle dealers! meeting Over tha weekend in Med- ford. f Scott said gas was In plentiful supply in the south of Oregon, ' where he encountered no res trie- ,i tions on purchases. He reported 1 gas station men there have noted ; a big decline in tourist traffic sine the oil strike and quotas there, as . here, are based on a heavy tourist month. "A Punt and a Prayer" 0000000 frm rmrs loyal rea4y their to the Kremlin have al been instructed that It is duty to kill Tito If the op portunity arises. The O.Z.N.A., willi certainly have its hands full in protecting the life of the Yugo slav dictator. Meanwhile, the economic squeeze on Yugoslavia by the Sov let Sphere will be further tighten ed in an effort to weaken Tito's hold on his country. Already Rus- Albania and Romania have cut toff supplies Including the oil which! Tito desperately needs. If necessary, the Kremlin will cer (Continued from page 1) Sen. Charles L. McNary. Town send is a big farmer, believe it or not. He and a son have 600,000 chickens, and he grows fruit and vegetables for nearby city mark ets. Others included in the train list were Stanley High, who did the church roundun for FDR in 1936. Edwin F. Jaeckle of Buffalo, Senator DeLapp of New York state, and Elliott Bell, New York state superintendent of banks. Some may go along to greet the local politico who are always eager to get aboard; but those mentioned help out on the heavy planning which a candidacy re quires. Most States Report Common igkway Problems at Meeting Oregon republicans were well represented on the Dewey train: Ralnh TT Cairo anH Un Marchall tainlyj order the extension of this Cornett, members of the national blockade: to all the satellite covin- committee: Jim Rodman of En tries, although this will De eco nomically painful, especially to Hungary; and Czechoslovakia. Anti-Tito Putsch Due When the time is ripe, the anti Titq putsch which was to have been led by Yovanovitch will be ordered by Moscow. It will be led by the substitute for Yovanovitch designated by the Kremlin, and supported by such Yugoslavs the Kremlin can muster and par tisans! from all the; non-Slav satellite states Such are almost certainly the Kremlin's plans, which have now been I conveyed to the satellite leaders in Crimea. Their scope suggests how very painful a thorn in the Kremlin's side Tito must be. The plain fact is that the Krem lin i considers a wholly reliable Yugoslavia strategically essential in case of war. But what ara tha West' plans for Tito For It is pretty obvious that for economic reasons alone Tito cannot inde finitely hold out against this kind of pressure from the east, without measure of economic support from tha i west. gene and Mrs. John Y. Richard son, chairman and vice chairman of the state committee; Niel Allen, Grants Pass, former chairman; Leslie M. Scott, state treasurer; Ed Boehnke. Lane county chair man; IQelly Owens and Mrs. Helen Ficke, Marion county chairman and vice chairman; Steve Ander son, president of Young Repub licans. And candidates Douglas McKay. Earl Newbry, secretary of state, Howard C. Belton; Senator Guy Cordon and two congressman. Harris Ellsworth and Walter Nor blad. All were busy doing a lot of gabbing over state politics, though I heard no one start to parcel out the collectorships. Juvenile 'Den9 May Be Box Fire Que A clue to origin of the fire which destroyed several thousand crates near tha Kelley, Farquhar and company In tha 900 block of Lo cust street last week was uncover ed Monday when a Juvenile Mden' was found in tha crate pile. Police said a group of boys had evidently started the blaze last Sunday by smoking in the den. A nearby neighbors told police he had seen two boys running from tha crates shortly before the fire broke out. At Portland tha auditorium was filled, with many standing out side a very good showing consid ering tha fact it was tha noon hour. Dewey made a good appear ance and a good talk. Clearly he is not "stirring up tha animals. Ha is looking ahead to occupying tha White House, and the prospect is sobering. Consequently, ha Is making his plea for unity both on the foreign front and at home. This type of speech carries no arousements." The audience de rives no satisfaction out of vocal jabs at the opposition. Caution marked the content of his address; but Dewey gives the impression of competence. No longer austere, the Oregon primary campaign seems to have made him informal, but that without sacrifice of dig nity. It is never safe to regard an election as won until the votes are counted. But the prevailing apathy is a pretty good sign that the peo ple have made their decision and are only awaiting November 2 to record it- West Ready, Willing In general it may be said that thej attitude of the western pow ers is that of being ready and willing to make any reasonable arranirement with Tito, without thrusting unwelcome friendship upon him. Already, the first ten tative; approaches have been made. When an oil shtip appear ed recently in Trieste harbor, TI to'ss loyal Slav communists In Trieste approached British Com manding 5 General Terence Airey and! American political adviser Robert Joyce. A deal was con cluded and Tito got some precious oil. Moreover, contact has been Mttlich4 Mnn ti Titn re gime and the Western diplomats, A J as Iff- f loccoa including American Ambassador LrHU. ILl V VlctS99 Cavendish Cannon, where previ ously the westerners were wholly Isolated. 1 Tito has the wherewithal, in cluding copper and bauxite, for fairly) extensive trade with the west, provided be Is willing to trade. And, bar a wholly unanti cipated reconciliation with Mos cow; the pressures which the Kremlin : is already bringing to bear will certainly force Tito to turn more and more to the west for economic support That sup port should be, and almost cer tainly j will be, forthcoming. Noi one suggests that Tito has sudden ly become a simon-pure demo crat But in the- context of the grim struggle which is now in pro gress, we must support Tito sim ply because it is our interest to support Tito. ;; . Enrollment Up Adult education and college ex tension classes at Salem school dis trict's night school increased by 157 students Monday night, bring ing this year's total enrollment to 340. George Porter, supervisor of adult education, said 60 more stu dents have enrolled in adult edu cation classes and 97 more in the extension work. The classes are held at Salem high school. Portec also announced that a new class in woodworking will be started Tuesday at West Salem junior high school. A full enroll ment is expected the first session, he said. Oregon's problems of new highway construction and maintenance are similar to those of most other states throughout the country, W. C. Williams, assistant state highway engineer, declared Monday on his return from the annual convention of state highway officials at Salt Lake City. Seven officials of tha Oregon state highway department, attended the sessions including K H. Bal- dock, state highway engineer, who will not return until later in the week. Three principal problems are tha acquisition of necessary materials, operating' personnel and adequate funds, Williams said. He said re ports at the convention showed that the western states are but in front on current highway .con struction with Oregon ranking near the top. A report by officials of the Ore gon highway department cover ing the three year postwar period placed Oregon s highway con struction revenues at $51,000,000 of which S40.000.000 represents federal funds and $11,000,000 state money. Construction contracts awarded aggregate more than $40,000,000 or 80 per cent of the total money available. The na tional average is 32 per cent. Williams said contracts aggre gaung xib.uuu nave been com pleted with $23,000,000 under con tract. Contracts totaling $10,000, 000 still are to be awarded under the present three-year program. For the next two years, starting July 1, 1949, there will be available for highway construction in Ore gon approximately $21,200,000, with prospects of an additional $5,000,000 of forestry funds. A substantial part of these funds will coma from the federal government. At tha next meeting of the Ore gon highway commission in Port land November 3 and 4, contracts involving $1,500,000 will be award ed, Williams said. Williams said all state highway officials at the convention predict ed a substantial increase in tha number of motor vehicle registra tions, with parking a serious sit uation everywhere. growth of the oil workers' strik in California. ! Most stations continued to tion" their allotments to regular customers and in limited quan4 tities, but at least one chain re ported it makes no restrictions Most Were still closing ; early af ter selling the day's sunblv. : Distributors said that some sta tibns which had exhausted thei quotas, formerly 73 per cent o July deliveries, were now able ti reoperi for a few daysJ But the supply was still not up to 5ep4 tember's normal, and the slicing of deliveries has caused hiore peo-f pie to keep full tanks and keep more gasoline than normally. Salem area residents wondering whether to chance a motor trio ! 1 Vote Canvass ; 1 Confirms New School Union ' Recent formation of union high school district 8 in the Vicinity of Hubbard was confirmed Monday wnen the Marlon county school district boundary board can4 vassed the September 16 election! ine omciai tally showed that a proposal to dissolve the district was defeated by a total j of 393 t 2ii among ine six districts voting Unofficial returns reported the night of the election showed the move defeated by a vota of 394 to 211. jThe correction was mad$ Monday when Donald district'i; negative vote tallied oiit to onv less than the unofficial version. : Four districts which vetoed the proposal include Hubbard, 181 ti 14; Aurora, 71 to 58; BroadacresL 27 to ; 15, and Donald, 1 68 . fo 30L Thosei districts favoring the meas ure were Butteville, 60 to 13, and White; 36 to 35. Greyhound Bus Depot Moves p Location Today The Greyhound bus depot Will i move to a new location and have i a new manager at i:43 o clock this afternoon. They leave the site used as a bus depot in Salem for the past 20 years. The buses will load In the 400 block of North Church street, in front of a rented store building , at 476 N. Church at- which has been remodeled and redecorted for terminal purposes. It Is In the same block as the new Greyhound building, expected to be comple ted lata this year. Bert W. Riebe. Greyhound dis trict passsenger agent at Medford for the past 2Vt years, will as- ! sum the local terminal on a com mission basis. Ha will be aided by Mrs. Riebe, the former Patricia Foil cm. who resided in Salem for several years. The bus line, beginning under the name of Oregon Motor Stages (not the present line) and became Greyhound through purchase and consolidation, has operated at the Senator hotel since 1928, W. W. (jnaawicK, owner ox tne notei, re- called Monday, For the past sev- t eral weeks, while , the hotel la being remodeled to provide a cof- j fee shop, bus operations have been through the alley in the block, ac- cording to C. T. Reaney, who has been agent. . 1 I Tha original Greek Olympic games were held over a period of nearly 1,200 years. Scholarships a. .. Awarded to WU Students stu- Young GOP Clubs to Hold Salem Meet Young Republican clubs of Ore gon will hold their annual state convention in Salem December 3, 4 and 5, it was announced Sun day in a meeting of the executive board in Portland. Steve Anderson, Salem,, said he would appoint a convention chair man and committee c h a 1st men within tha next week and! indicat ed they would be local me?. Tha board voted to hire) a full- time state coordinator to synchron ize republican efforts dhring the pre-election campaign during the next month. Special guests at tha meeting were Mr. and Mrs. Chester Gor don. Gordon, chairman of tha Washington Young Republican fe deration, addressed the meeting briefly, outlining common prob lems shared by tha two neighbor organizations. Judge Upholds; Demurrer on Franchise Suit A second demurrer filed by Marion County Clerk Harlan Judd against a suit seeking to bar a; Salem Electric franchise meas-j ure from the city's November bal4 lot was sustained by Marion Coun ty Circuit Judge E. M. Page Mon day. ! : Judd's first demurrer was filet V1 mas. Washington are receiving the f iwara lor tne secona time. - ? Those receiving the scholarship s for the first time are Stanley Earl Aschenbrenner, Grants Pass, John wr m w tir t . M y naemmer, naymona, wasn., ana Ted Loder, Milwaukie. Sit Wfllamett university dents have been awarded national ! Methodist scholarships for this school year, it was announced by the board of education of the Me thodist church Monday. The awards come from the student loan and scholarship fund and cover tuition costs and fees up to $400 per academic year per person. Three of tha six students have received the scholarship before and one, Edith Mae Fairham, Sa lem, is receiving it for the third time. Vee Aldene Gould, Newberg and Florence Nell Goodridge, Ca- brought by Portland General Elec4 trie company and Joseph H. Ran dalL After a hearing Judge Pag upheld the demurrers of both Jud and Cjty Recorder Alfred Mndt Later an amended complaint was filed, which omitted an attack uic luiiaLiLuiiunaiiiT or ins -v 1 franchise measure present in the KlectlOll iNOtlCea nrst complaint. The suit seeks a court order prohibiting Judd frorn I Sent to jlariOTl placing the measure on the ballot fme vo?eVdvertis,n H County Precincts i V i. h. t Another suit attacking the con4 stitutionality of the franchise measure also fs on file In court. Union IIH Grcmee Has Booster Nicrht Program UNION HILL Booster nleht was ooserved by the rranee Sat-t urday.iwith Mrs. O. W. HumDh-f reys presenting the program. Well nmw ana aaaress were given by Julius iKrenz, master. Mrs. Floyd Fox read a messare from the na-f tional j master. Eleven charter members and three past masters were present. Guest speaker was Mrs. Mildred Norman, state grance aepuiy, Those taking part in tha pro gram included - Charley Mulkeyi A total of 1,720 election notices ' went out Monday from the office I of Marlon County Clerk Harlan I Judd to election clerks and Judges in the county's 92 precincts. . J Meanwhile Judd said that over i 1,000 voter registrations had come into his office since the May prim- ary. He had no exact figures com- puted but estimated that a good number were not new voters but I were voters who had chanced ad- dresses. -.'! f The registration books, he re f minded, close on October 2. The record general election registra tion In this county Is 40,444 sat in I 1940. A record primary registration of 38,982 was set last May.- Judd said the possibility Is strong that tha 1940 general election registra- GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichly 55- i it , v, .V r VtTT. 'M "1- aenerai election registra- i violin j solo; Mrs. Marion MillerU tion record will be broken this i essay; i eBatrice Jones. pianoClfalL inmhi I If " hJfm fen nrva Wlimrvhratvc tnarimka Donald Jaquet, Robert Humphl reys, Wesley Darby and Richard Krenz, ! debate; Betty Humphreys accordion; Vera and Joyce Savage, piano duet; Lucille Jaquet and Wesley Darby, skit; Leland Hum phreys, guitar; Harry Humphrey; travel talk. "This sponsor relinqaisli the wants a terrible, low budget show be can graelaasly time for, when the political campaign geta bat . . " Salen Healing and Sheet Ilelal Co. "Heating HeadnartersJ ItS Broadway 81 lk. S-SWS Salem. Oregon Day ar Night Ruptured? Improve year score at work or play. Oar. 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