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1 The Statesman, Salem, Oregon. Wednesday. October 13. 1948 tesoti "No Favor Sioays Us, No Fear Shall Aiw" From first Statesman. March St. 151 j THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING C03IPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher j - r . u ' . (tittered at the postofHce at Salem. Or ton. as seeond class matter under act of conftess March X 17. Published every looming except Monday. Business office 215 S. Commercial Salem. Oregon. Telephone 1-2441. MEMBCK OF THE ASSOCIATZD PUSS file Associate Press Is entitled exclusively to tae mse for reonMcation of an Om local news printed la this nee'Aaner. as wen as an AF Mil disoatckes. MEMBER PACITIC COAST DIVISION OP BUREAU OP ADYEBTISINO Advertising RcpreaenUUves Ward-Griffith Co.. New York. ChicafO. San Francisco. Detroit MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION j By Matt (la Advance) Oregon Elsewhere tn USA One montH . 1.00 Six months. r 4.00 , C OO One year S-00 . 12 00 Qualifications for School Elections Any registered voter is entitled to vote at elections where matters relating to state, coun ty or city bond issues or tax levies are up for decision. In school elections, only property taxpayers are privileged to vote on bond and tax ques tions, v To erase this discrimination a oonsiuuxionai amendment has been initiated and will be vot ed on at the November election. It is possible to argue that only those who own property and pay taxes thereon should be 'permitted to vote on bond issues or to impose extra tax levies. But if that is the proper rule, it should apply to all elections and not be re stricted to school elections. Moreover, the test no longer fits realities. For about 40 per cent of school support comes from state income and excise taxes. But the individual who pays an income tax but no pro perty tax still is denied "the voting privilege at these school elections. In our complex society is it hard to say who is or is not a taxpayer. The owner of a house ! pays taxes, to be sure: but the tenant also pa3 taxes indirectly, for his rental is fixed at avrate to cover taxes and upkeep and provide a re turn to the landlord. Since schools are so intimately a part of the lives of people, it seems that the rule of univer sal suffrage should extend to such important matters as provision of school nouses, suitable, support for school budgets. Heads of families, regardless of their financial status, should have a voice in determining what kind of schools the community will have. Truthfully, we do not believe the extension of the voting privilege to non-taxpayers will have much effect on results 'of school elections on financial questions. Bond issues depend for their support on the community leaders, and they are in all probability property owners and taxpayers. f in actual practice the present restriction is hard to enforce because rosters of taxpayers re ussally not available, nor lists of stock holders in corporation paying local taxes. The amendment restricts the voting to those regu larly registered, which in itself will standard ize voting procedure. Objection might te raised to the submission of a constitutional amendment rather than a statutory amendment; but that objection is not sufficient to recommend rejection. The Statesman is ready to give its hearty endorsement to this amendment and recom mends voting 303 X Yes. Churchill on .Russia In his bock "The Gathering Storm" Winston Churchill devotes much of the earlier chapters to quotations from his speeches in the period between the wars. He was warning Britain gainst rearmed Germany, expressing fears ever the intentions of Hitler, the corporal ad venturer, urging rearmament in the face of the growing menace in central Europe. Perhaps Churchill is speaking again for his tory. In an address in Wales Saturday before the annual conference of the conservative party Demos Have CHICAGO, Oct. 12 When the republicans were beaten in 1932, it was six years before the dead stump of the party began putting out such vigorous new shoots as Thomas E. Dew- ey. Hirolds.-.-v1'. 6 t a s s e n and . Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. It was 10 years idge - Hoover era deadwood. And it is pre cisely this ob-i Joorph Alaop literation of the' - old-style r e p u b 1 icanism that now virtually assures Dewey's election to the presidency. - If the situation here in Illinois is any test, the democrats wfil not have so long to wait for their comeback. Even now, in their moment of disaster they have found new men with new Ideas, Adlai Stevenson and Paul Douglas, to nominate for the governorship and senators h i p. Stevenson and Douglas may well be beaten. Yet they con stitute a startling contrast, none-the-less, to the tired old party hacks the republicans kept on trotting out for so long after the Hoover debacle in 1932 o o o It is further interesting to note that while Paul Douglas' work in Illinois established his claim to the senatorial nomina tion, the selection of Stevenson for the governorship was sug gested from Washington, by the most eminent of the surviving new dealers. Ed Kelly, the re tired satrap of the Cook county democratic machine, has long admired Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. And it can now be disclosed that Justice P-uglas proposed the nomina tion of Stevenson, whom he had come to know and like during before the new f" "f growth pretty ' V. well coveredi". '' Y' the party's' rV Hardin -Cool-i . I 1 7 I 11 oU. i I i One month . Six months: One year j Churchill, elaborating j on his address of two years ago at Fulton, Mo., blamed Russia with putting the world in peril and urging the western powers to "bring matters to a head and make a final settlement? before Russia; is armed with atomic weapons. f Well, if War conies Churchill lean write an other book and print mre quotations that might be headed I told you ; so." And? in his present position he has considerable support on both sides of the Atlantic. The Oregonifrn for instance, pessimistic Over avoiding war, talks in terms of "getting it over with.'l Were Churchill in power however we doubt if he would speaki in such threatening language. It is different when the responsibility for war rests on one's shoulders. The hazards of war are so terrifying both in victory and defeat that only one with icewater in the veins would actually move to precipitate it.j Perhaps we ruh grave risks by temporizing; but we do thereby retain a mofal integrity which we are not ready to sacrifice, i Goal to Make It is always a tense moment in a football game when a team advances the ball within striking distance of the goal. When the an nouncer sings out '"second down,! goal to make," spectators really get excited as they watch for the next plays. : Well, that is' the score today in Salem's an nual Community j Cheit campaign. With over $70,000 out of the $110,000 budget now report ed pledged three days remain in the cam paign to "make the goil." Given the proper ef fort by campaign workers and response by the public, the Friday luncheon should be a vic tory luncheon with the "goal made." i " Salem must not fall; down short of its goal. The agencies which depend on the Chest agree to refrain from separate campaigns for meet ing their operating expenses. Thus it becomes a community obligation to supply them with funds they require. The Chest is the accepted method of raising money for welfare activities. Let everyone help to score the touchdown Fri day, - Czechoslovakia is busy jumping through the red hoop. A law has been passed providing pun ishment or making statements against the na tion. Also a new five-year plan will have forced labor camps. Bohemians' are tough, however, and their concepts of liberty will survive their pres ent scourge. : A news item says that farmers are buying more bathtubs thtn ever before That is doubt less true, principally for the reason they were n't able to afford them before. The bulge in farm income is permitting farmers to catch up with their city cousins! on conveniences of living. The principle news over ; major holiday seems to be thej number of deaths. Likewise for the deer season. Press services post score boards of fatalities. What doesn't get in the news is the fact ihat several hundred thousand men and some women get a real tonic out of a deer hunt and' some bring back venison. Material for Stevenson's service in Washing ton. All this Is a pretty far cry from the behavior of the great democratic city machines in the past. Even as recently as 1944, Ed Kelly himself was one of the northern bosses who blocks ed his friend, Justice Douglas, for the vice presidency and forced the choice of Harry S. Truman because he was politic ally regular. If you talk to Jake Arvey, Kelly's successor as Cook county leader, the apparent anomaly is rapidly explained. Arvey is no political goo-goo, but he is an Intelligent, ener getc and capable organization man. And he is trying to re build the old Cook county ma chine, from foundation upward, on an entirely new pattern. In the old pattern, before the 1930s, the great urban demo cratic machines voted their masses of untutored immigrants like sheep, securing their loyalty by little favors. Christmas bas kets and the like; Then during the 1930s and early 1940s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt serv ed as the "best : precinct cap tain" of the urban organizations, as Arvey puts it. ; Now, however,'; the city ;ma chines have to deal with a much better educated, more independ ent second generation in all the great racial communities of their cities. And this Second genera tion has moreover been taught by Roosevelt to expect all sorts of service and assistance from the government. O : O In other words, the city ma chines have got to offer good, progressive government in or der to retain their hold on the urban voting masses. In Chicago, Arvey and his lieutenants bowed to this necessity some time : ago, when they chose Martin Ken nelly, an upright able, indepen dent Irish civic leader, for the mayoralty. Kennelly has Perhaps emoha- T By CMy Carrier . l .M - 6.o .12.00 Re-building sized ! "clean government' too jrrtrongly, at the expense of the parks, playgrounds, new schools land such like, that contribute (directly to the voters' better welfare. He fits a little more jinto the old reform pattern and a little less into the new social -Welfare - government pattern, than his comparable colleague, Mayor OTwyet in New York. ;None; the less, his thorough clean-up in Chicago has won Kennelly a strong position and saved the city' for the demo crats. I This does not mean that the transition to the new pattern is not very difficult for the ex tremely old-fashioned democra tic city machine here. Kennelly's i rigid j enforcement of the civil (service and other laws has cruelly cut into the machine's patronage. Although Kennelly appoints organization democrats whenever possible, the old-line ward Headers hate the inevitable reduction of their pickings. The Illinois republican organ ization, which has certainly not been ! subjected to any clean-up, has even been able to buy up a number of Arvey's precinct captains for the present elec tion. Yet in the long run. Arvey feels very confident of the suc cess of a smaller, more stream lined ; democratic organization, assisted by the appeal of the good I government it offers. That is what he is aiming for. The same transformation is occurring in several of the oth er great northern urban organ izations of the democratic party. The northern bosses are becom ing new dealers now. This is likely to mean a lot to the re publicans in 1990. And even be fore 2950, this process will pro vide I a strong new force to counterbalance 1 the inevitable efforts of the Dixiecrat-South-erners to capture control of. the democratic party's remains. '. (Copyright. lMt New York Herald ribune. Inc.) Oregon Politics State to Elect 12 Officials at General Vote Eaurs nott The taiUal story f this series detailed the political results ef last fali'i plane crash which killed three too state offi cials. Today's, designed primarily for oar thousands of new residents, explains the duties of these and other officers, and fire an ontttne of the Oregon governmental set-on. The neat one will tell of the major re r tonalities to he voted on Novesn er Z.) By Wendell Webs) Managing Editor. The Statesman OREGOV8 GOVERNMENT Oregon elects 19 of its major officials governor, secretary of state, state treasurer (these three comprising the board of control): attorney general, sup erintendent of public instruc ti on. labor commissioner, two U. S. senators, four U. S. repre sentatives and seven supreme court justices. Twelve of these are to be chosen at the general election next month governor, secre tary of state, state treasurer, attorney general, one U. S. sen ator, four U. S. representatives and three supreme court jus tices. Terms of others do not expire this year. All but the U. S. representa tives are elected by the state-at-large. The state is divided into four congressional districts Portland, northwestern Ore gon, southwestern Oregon and eastern Oregon. Salem and Mar ion county are in the first dist rict, as are Polk, Yamhill, Ben ton, Clackamas and five other "counties. Each district votes on but one representative. As for the supreme court jus tices, the incumbents are un opposed for another six-year term. That leaves but six state offices in question in each of the congressional districts. And so heavily have republicans fig ured in the state's recent lead ership that the odds are they will continue to fill all such offices. But with democratic registration also at a new high, an upset in at least one in stance is possible. Duties of a U. S. senator and representatives are universally the same. Duties of the other four contested offices, so far as Oregon is concerned, may be briefed as follows: The governor is chairman of the board of control; commander-in-chief of military and na val forces of the state; chairman of the state land board, recla mation commission, and mem ber of several other boards. He has authority to call special legislative sessions and to veto bills; directly supervises prepa ration of the state budget: makes appointments to fill vacancies and has appointive powers over most of the state commissioners. The secretary of state is chief clerical and fiscal officer; a member of the board of con trol, state land board, state banking board, state printing board, board of education, state reclamation board and others. He is in charge of the state elections bureau; custodian of state buildings; auditor of pub lic accounts, and in charge of motor vehicle and operator licensing. The state treasurer is cus todian of all state funds, except those of the state land board. He pays warrants authorized by law; is responsible for state fund deposits; keeps statistics of state indebtedness; enforces inheritance and gift tax laws. He is a member of the state board of control, land board, banking board, bond commis sion, reclamation commission and other boards. The attorney general heads the state department of Justice as chief legal officer of the state, and has charge of all state business requiring legal counsel. He may require the aid of district attorneys t and advise with them; prepares documents for any state depart ment; appears for the state in all supreme court cases involv ing it, and when directed by the governor may take full charge of any investigation or prosecution within the jurisdic tion of the circuit court. o o In addition to elective offi cials, there are around 80 ap pointive officers, boards or com missions including agricul ture, conservation, health, high er education, liquor, police, utilities, welfare and tax. The power held by the governor over many of these appoint ments, as well as his status as 'chairman of the control board, has made the state particularly chary regarding this office. At county levels, there are to be chosen this year 18 state senators (the other 12 are hold overs); 60 representatives (all are elected biennially and 38 are seeking new terms); 14 cir cuit judges (out of the state's 30), and 24 district attorneys (out of 38 one for each coun ty). Many candidates for these of fices already are virtually elect ed, having no opposition. But there are enough contests re maining to give the counting boards a lively time when the polls close at 8 p.m. Tuesday, November 2. Tomorrow A hoot the Candidates) 'Just What I Wanted' HUNTINGTON, W. Va Oct 8 Hff5)- A door prize went to the holder of the lucky ticket at a fire prevention week dinner sponsored by the junior cham ber of commerce. The winner was Fire Chief Floyd Crouse. The prize a fire extinguisher. GRIN AND BEAR IT II t II i 1 "Before we begin our first Autumn while everybody looks at DIP SQHne (Continued from page 1) of this funny-money business, a delusion which arises whenever people get in financial distress and want to escape their obli gations. That little pamphlet, widely circulated, exerted a tremendous influence on the election. converting ; many a doubter to the virtues of an hon est currency and the gold stan dard. As for Roberts, he was ap pointed director of the mint, holding that office under three republican presidfnts. Then he went into banking and in 1914 joined the staff of the National City bank of New York. There he became author of the bank's monthly letter on business and finance. By this means he con tinued to expound the funda mentals of economics in a style singularly lucid and forceful. The bank's Monthly Letter be came a valuable textbook in economics, instructing the mul titude on principles that gov s em economic relationships. Mr. Roberts retired a few years ago and passed away last June. The bank, in recognition of his Ion and valuable serv- ice, has issued a memorial book ' let with extracts from some of his writings. The material con tains elementary lessons which deserve the widest publicity, especially in these times of In flation and postwar difficulties. For example, at the time of the Russian revolution Roberts pointed out that the value of properties depends not on who owns them but on what they produce: "It is the steady and always increasing flow of consumable goods which is of concern to the public. All of the benefits from these properties come out in the flow. The industries are not producing for the owners but for the consuming public. The farmer is not raising grain for himself but for the bread eaters, and upon the intelligence and industry with which the farms are tilled depends the welfare of the consumers. Any scheme for changing'! the man agement of the properties which reduces the output or increases the cost of the output is harm ful to the community." Russia has proved the preach- ment but evidently not learned the lesson, as the depressing conditions in east vcininjjr prove. This 1922 paragraph on infla tion has present significance i .. yrean A great rise of prices that has been caused by inflation must be supported by more in LWdl.C"a7 ,""."rr rj "A" o they will go back, and when a great body of indebtedness nas been created, upon margins which grow narrower, the long er the rise continues, the de cline, when it begins, is likely to be precipitate." In 1919, the bank letter point ed out the need of a change in our tariff policy because of our transition from a debtor to a creditor nation. Discussing the economic restoration of Ger many after the first world war, it said bluntly that unless the German people got sufficient reward they would not work, and commented: "Slavery never has paid as a business propo sition." Too bad Hsnry Mor ganthau didn't re-read this be fore framing his plan for a pastoral Germany. The Monthly Letter continues In publication and seems to be in competent hands. It still seeks to apply fundamental truths to the problems of the times; and its editors must find in the issues prepared by Mr. Roberts a library valuable for reference and for guidance. Hard of Hearing Fresh Hearing: Aid . Batteries 7 . A 1 1 aid this Hearing Aid battery UU James N. Tart Associates 218 Oreron Bid. Salem By Lichly meeting- there will be a short pause everybody else's hat ..." Your City Government (Editor's note: Mayor Robert I- Elf strom of Salem, In a move to stress en aU residents that "the city Is a municipal corporation, your corpora tion, and yon are Its stockholders,' recently prepared a series of arUcles on Its government. Excerpts from the arUcles will appear from Ume to time as a matter of public Information.) Salem has seven parks, includ ing Bush's Pasture, which is now under development. The park system is under the city mana ger, but it is the direct responsi bility of a park superintendent. Salem does not have a park commissioner, but we do have an advisory board, composed of civic-minded citizens who work with city officials. It is felt by many citizens that parks were long neglected, but the work of their care and devel opment has been reactivated during the past two years. We have budgeted $23,551 for park development and mainte nance this year. Another $13,313 was appropriated for play grounds. The playgrounds are maintained the year-round and expense is shared by the city on a 50-50 basis with the school board. The major park development now is that of 100-acre Bush's Pasture. The work on this proj ect was started last vear. A lar portion will be seeded this year- y sprmg pan oi n wm accommodate the public on limited scale. On this project your city man ager and the park advisory board are working jointly with the long range planning commission. The program calls for installation of almost every type of recreation al facility. It is our aim to make it par ticularly attractive to Salem's youngsters. Plans Include picnic grounds and athletic fields. Too, we are planning a number of features for adults, such as space to plant flower gardens. The city also maintains Willson park, west of the Capitol build ing to North Cottage street where in summer the band con certs are held. This "is no small job, especially with so many spe cies of trees. No matter from what part of the US. you came, you can no doubt find at least one tree there that was native to your state. Parks comprise a department expenditure from which there is no revenue. But it is one of the civic assets all civilized centers have and we feel that the money is well spent. AgKg BIDS REJECXED PORTLAND. Oct. 12 -(P)- Col. O. E. Walsh, Portland district en gineer, has asked for permission to reject all bids and construct . ,abor a - labo ratory at McNary dam. The en gineers' estimated cost was $22,- 770. and the lowest of . three bid. was $28,950, submitted by Han . p Snok,n. ' r YOU ARE INVITED TO THE SHOWING OF EXCLUSIVE NEW ARRIVALS OF HOLIDAY GREETING CARDS I BY i ALICE DALY 1 CARLIS & FREDERICKS EN BANKCRAFT DESIGNS PETER HUNT PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH BY ) YORKCRAFT and OTHERS THE GIFT BOX ' ATELFSTROMS ' 340 COUT! ! & PHONE 2-2433 J I ' nnMannnannsnansaS---, ,,wa,a,nnmnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnsnnnnB i ! ; ,: '' 'V- ' ' i-.'l i : : ' - M 1 .i City Manager; Plan Opposed (gdltors note A groan known as the) Citizen's Better Governasent committee has ashed for space to tell: why they favor a i commission ferns of city government. The fol lowing was over the stgnatnra of C I- Smith, secretary.) There are a number of cities having the manager form which function satisfactorily; the same can! be said about the commis sion form. There are numerous types of manager form; very few are identical. We know of none that are identical with ours. Even thej backers of our present plan admitted when it went to a vote the last time that it was far from the i best plan that could be of fered. We who oppose the manager plan feel that a much; better plan can be put into effect at consid erable saving to the taxpayer. Our present plan has been in ef fect practically two years which is ample time for it to prove its worth. In all this time there has not; been a single outstanding accomplishment that! can right fully be credited toj the mon ger form. Certainly j claims can be made of huge savings made in purchasing but ir every in stance it can be shown that as great or greater saving would have been made under commis sion form A commissioner who would be the city engineer would have planned and superintended the ; alteration of city hall. To substantiate our statement we) cite the fine Jobs that were done before we had a city man ager namely Disposing of de-' MM j - i .k'-rOr.i I I I ( ?W&1 i 'v-,-;v.; tetra - y la. U.S. Pvt. OS. I i Ralph Jolinson Convenient 355 Center A "DOUBLE FEATURE" YOU WONT WANT TO ! MISS i ; -t WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 13, 1948 ALSO ENJOY THE OPENING OF , THE WATERCOLOR EXHIBIT BY BEATRICE APPIA OF PARIS. FRANCE, AND EDITORIAL CARTOONS BY HOWARDV FISHER OF THE OREGON JOURNAL ELSTROM ART : GALLERIES TAKE ELEVATOR TO THIRD FLOOR linquent tax property by our city treasurer acquiring - and .devel oping our fine airport the ex cellent job: done in organizing our civilian defense, purchasing the equipment, etc. with approx imately only $5,01)0 spent The national government made San inspection and gave us an Al ratings It was done without a city manager j The Safety Valve Freedom and License " jj To the Editor: ! f I read your column concern ing the bill proposed by Sena tor Lynch to eliminate ad comic books and I disagree with your viewpoint 1 You are getting "Freedom" mixed up with "license.; Would you give men "license" to sell poison to children labeled "candy?" That is just what some of these comic books are men tal and spiritual poison In the hands of impressionable! young people. fl j Mrs. Bindel $ 1 Rt. 1, Aumsville. Editor's Note In literature one man's poison may be (an other man's meat i i A grown plains buffalo "weighs about 2,000 pounds and ! stands five and a half or six feet at the hump. Both sexes have per- m onnn4 IW s a ;A 1 uiaiiTbiirt iiviiia. j Polar bears use only their forelegs while swimming I The only wild boars found in America are in North Carolina and east Tennessee. These ani mals should not be confused with .razor-backs. ! I IIOTPOINT GIVES YOUr ! -, new tow was 19-YEAR rtOTECTIOX MAGIC CIICII HEAT Yew get the meslnf "Meek Orcle hoot jof Pressurized Cftjrod Units, providing the fastest, cheapest, most efficient hot water serv ice. 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