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rho'StafoamaiC 'Salem Oregon, Suhday;'Payiiab4f 8 194? -: k tafeama CRfr AND BEAR ' ffe-j A' Expected in 1 "No Favor Stoays Us, No Fear Shall Awe" Trim first Statesman. Mxrch It. ItSI THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher (Entered at the postofflce at Salmi. Orefon. as second class matter under act ot congress March J. ltTt. Published very morning except Monday. Business office 213 S. Commercial. Salem. Oregon. Telephone 2-2441. . . MXKBDl Or THK ASSOCIATED PRESS Tke Associate Press Is eatttled exctaslvelr to the use for reswaaeetle ef an Om fecal itwi printed la tils newspaper, - as wB as mM AP news 1 spate . MZMBZR PAOTIC COAST DIVISION OF BUREAU OF AOVXRTtSINO Advertising lUprsssntatress Ward-GrUtith Co.. New York. Chicago. San Francisco. Detroit MTMBTW AUDIT BUREAU OT CXHCULATIOM Bp Man Ia Aeaaee 87 City Carrie One month . Six months.. One year . .is , -4.00 . .aae , Elsewhere In U.3.A. 1.09 ceo ii.se One month Six month . One pear . IjM . . -U.SS Salaries for State Engineers Engineers in the employ of the State of Ore gon have an organization. Its committee has made a study of engineers salaries and embod ied its findings in a report. The summary is that these salaries are below those of other public bodies on this coast and below sums needed to Qual the increase in living costs or to attract qualified men to state employment. Graduates of our own OSC engineering school are leaving the state in-large numbers because of more attrac tive openings elsewhere. The present wage for engineer's aide is $200 to $245 a month. Recommended in this report is starting $235-$259 with salary for final grade in this classification $264 to $288. For civil engi neer, first grade, the present salary is $270 to $340. Recommended is $329-$355, advancing to $318-$355. For top grade of engineer the present alary is $520-$620 per month. Recommended is $850-1715 for starting, advancing to $752-$889. Increase in the salary of the chief engineer of the highway department from $8400 a year to $12,000 also is recommnded. It is not enough to point out that Oregon sal aries are lower than those in Washington and California. That situation prevails in virtually all professions and in -many crafts. On the other hand, living costs are lower here than in both other states AND Oregon imposes no sales tax. Nevertheless, Oregon must advance its sal- aries for trained engineers, and doubtless the new budget makes such provision. They carry a great responsibility and deserve good compensa-f-pn. For years we have underpaid our top fhjnt engineers and executives. That they have stayed on is due to their great interest in their work and loyalty to the state. In the case of the highway department parti cularly poor-talent can be very costly. It is the end cost of our bridges- and highways that counts, not the fraction represented by. salaries of engineers. To attract and hold able men the state must make its salary offers adequate. How Much Parity? Eastern Oregon wheatgrowers want parity maintained at the legal 90 per cent parity. They got a lift when Fred Entermille, assistant direc tor of the department of agriculture grain branch, said the administration intends to ask for "high loan rates' and government assistance In providing storage facilities, inference drawn from his- address at the Condon meeting of the E. O. Wheat league is that the adminisfration would seek to retain the 90 per cent level That would be a change from the position taken by President Truman and Secretary Bran nan. In the last congress they favored a sliding scale of price support: As surpluses increased the price guarantee would decline. This was embodied in the present agricultural act, to be c35Be effective after 1949, Already there is a drive to restore the full 90 per cent guarantee, but that was started by members of the congress anxious to reward the democratic trend in the rural midwest. This is the first intimation the administration was shifting its position. The parity .measure is an antiquated device for maintaining farm prosperity. It relates to an arbitrary period (1910-1914) base for computa tion. It gives no account to technological im provements in farming power machinery, im proved seed strains, use of fertilizer, weedkiller, etc. Thus, the measure is too rigid and unrealis tic. I Again it encourages an unbalanced farm pro duction. Not all crops get government support. With this guarantee the farmer is inclined to grow all the wheat he can instead of some other crop which may be needed more but has no price insurance. The sliding scale was devised to put brakes On overproduction. The only other alter native is acreage control, which is not very sat isfactory. To criticize the old parity law Is not to invite or to welcome farm depression. The national grange favors flexible supports. Actually, of course, I the wheatgrowers of eastern Oregon have enjoyed wonderful prosperity for many years and are well able to stand a lower price. If they still insist on government price props they ought to permit the old formula to be re vised in the light of present conditions.' ) aesi Tbsaea Cv The Senator Is very busy! . . . he's thinking- up some mandates the voters gave him election day..." I Off 0DDDCQ3 TPmrmra Status of Test-tube Babies The status of babies conceived by artificial means has arisen in English courts of law. It also will create a problem for ecclesiasts to re solve. Legislative bodies may be asked to pass laws to define such status. In fact two measures are up for consideration in the British commons. Here, indeed, is something not envisioned in the old mores. In the case lately decided in an English court, a woman was granted a divorce from her hus band oh the ground that her husband was in capable of normal sexual relations. She had borne Him a child by means of artificial insem ination, her husband being the donor of the sperm. The court referred to the child as illegiti mate, much to the surprise of many legal and other authorities. Presumably, test-tube babies would fall into four groups: Offspring of a couple lawfully mar ried; offspring of a married woman and a man not her husband, where the latter assented to the insemination; offspring of a married woman and a man not her husband, the latter ignorant of or not assenting to the insemination; offspring of an unmarried woman and a man. Laws even tually will have to be passed fixing the legiti macy and inheritance rights of these groups. So far as is known, no court cases regarding test-tube babies have come up in this country; but they probably will arise because women are resorting to this new means of conception out of a deep desire for motherhood. Both lawmak ing bodies and courts will have to exercise en lightenment in dealing with the problems creat ed by this venture in modern science. None of the big graders of football teams put Oregon ahead of California, so perhaps there wasn't dirty work at the crossroads after all. (Continued from page 1) is, indeed, startling, though vir tually all of the disclosures lately made relate to a time ten years ago when the commies were hobnobbing with new deal ers. However, Americans may as well know the facts of life and understand that trading In docu ments is a very old and not uncommon business. How do you suppose Washington correspon dents get so much inside infor mation often being able to quote verbatim from confiden tial documents? They have a plant on the inside, or someone comes along and offers them a copy, for a consideration. For eign agents operate similarly; and our agents try to get as much inside information from other countries as they can. All this is the business of an inter national underworld. The value of many of these confidential documents is doubt ful. After all, our government has relatively few vital secrets. We publish the size of our army and navy, give full information about our financial budget, re port progress in military inven tions. As far as policies go they are quite fluid. Roosevelt said once our foreign policy was on a 24-hour basis, and that con dition has prevailed under Tru man. A document on policy valid today may be waste paper tomorrow. Nevertheless, any sign of leak age in the state department calls for renewed vigilance. We do not want any of our depart ments honey-combed with for eign spies. That isn't healthy; it breeds corruption; it may cause serious damage to our position in world affairs. But before we get all excited over the micro film in 'the Whitaker Chambers pumpkin-shell let us have the mystery of microfilms in a pumpkin-shell cleared up. Did I China! Fighting s NANKING, Dec. 4Hp)-Official attention riveted today on an im pending collision south of Suchow by major communist and nation alist forces which may determine the immediajte future of the Chi nese govermtnent Chinese official circles displayed considerable (optimism that a head- on clash wcpuld at least tempo rarily stabilize the situation. Well informed foreign military quar ters expressed belief that even a partial success would give the government ISO to 90 'days respite. Arrival of 133,000 reinforcements in Nanking from Hankow was an other cause for easing the recent black gloom of Chinese officials. This brought to some 73,000 the number of effectives holding the Yangtze rivejr defenses before the capital. Red Gen. Chen YI was reported moving an estimated 123,000 troops into position to block the southward march of three govern ment army groups that evacuated Suchow Wednesday. The former Suchow garrison. with some 110,000 effective com bat troops among its 250,000 men, was reported attacking towards the south. The 16th army croup "The total obligation, for Sn- WM on the West flank, the second tember for the program were 3r sroup jon the east, with the $3,83636.00.M The letter of in- 13th nny Tfoup holding the rear formation received by me was g"ra signed by Mrs. Kathryn Mal strom, director, with the name of Gov. Mon C. Wallgren also on the heading. "It Seems To Me- that these "Tls. figures should be slightly en- OfllCS 111 UClFOlt lightening on the actual cost of the proposed pension. I am 71 years of aee and don't get old age assistance al though neither I nor my hus- Burdette Younge, Detroit hotel band have had any income since I ooerator. and two hotel emnloves 1940 a long time. We were were arraigned in Marion county teachers but we received less district court! Saturday on charges wages than grade school teach- of selling liquor at the hotel ers receive today. without a permit. We are not even eligible for The three Were arrested Friday the teachers retirement fund, night by state liquor inspectors but I do believe "If one of you who said they purchased a bottle say unto them depart in peace; from the trio. Charged besides be ye warmed and filled. Not- Younge are JMargaret Halch and withstanding ye give them not Joe L- Cottori. Each of the accus those things which are needful ed posted $230 bail, and all were to the body; what doth it pro- given until December 10 to enter fit?" Pleas. j Mrs. Lucena Mountain It was Youpge's second encoun- Aumsville. ter with the j law within the past month. He wtas arrested by Mar- Tvi- T . . , . ion County Sheriff Denver Young Editor's Note The federal on , charge) of assault 'with in- governmeni snares in me cosi tent to kiu jtpiiowing a fight m w "M,.mSiUU u.u aBc - the Detroit Hotel November 13 wMiiire pruKrim wnicn wouia Friday art attempt to oust not do under the Dunne bill Younge front the hotel property as written. Also, the latter de- was made 1fga, action in u-, L. ,c tuted in Marlon county circuit 60. while the Washington law court in Salm. A suit seeking conforms to the federal standard nninn f? th hti nmic was filed by Mrs. Hilma E. Dickie, owner oz met Duuaing. -4 guaru. j Illegal Liquor Sales in Detroil ! Hotel jCharged of age 65. Editorial Comment From Our Contemporaries Size of Berlin Vote Today to Signify Trend BERLIN, r)ec. 4 -WV Nearly FRATERNITY LEADERSHIP The fraternities and sororities of United States colleges and universities have hefore them the choice of two roads. They 2j000,000 Gerjnans. blockaded 100 can be purely social organiza- miles behind; the iron curtain, tions providing pleasant living were urged tonight to vote "for and association for their mem- freedom and against communism" bers during undergraduate years. in tomorrow's; city election. They can become considerably What ordinarily would be a lo- more than that and provide a c1 contest bejtween rival political campus and post-graduate lead- parties has been magnified by the ership that will fully merit the eas " west struggle into a giant tooi. .vr.ro.c n straw in the wind indicating they keep as well there as did national charters and, initiation which conqueror the Germans The list of candidates for the state senatorship forms i Q. The name of the appointee is still X. Mrs. Peter Pumpkin-eater? The U.N. Control Over Berlin Considered Safety Valve By Joseph and Stewart Alsep WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 It is Just possible that a last, desperate at tempt to nna a settlement 01 mm ever threaten ing Berlin crisis will be made by the Western powers. What is' being discussed, is a proposal that all four powers, includ ing the Soviets, leave B e and that j 1 tral commission U- s appointed by J Joarph Alaof? the United Nations be substitu ted as the governing authority. i I It is by no means certain, or even likely, that such a ra dical new ap proach to the Berlin question will be adopt ed. Yet the fol lowing Tacts are Interesting. The idea has been Mrart Ajsop and considered by, French Foreign Minister Ro bert Schuman. It has not been adopted as official French policy, but it has been informally pro posed to top British officials by a' ranking French diplomat. Moreover, policy makers of the state department have independ ently conceived and considered the same idea as, at a maximum, a way out of the Berlin impasse, and, at a minimum, a method of : seizing the initiative in the Berlin crisis. And it can be stated on excellent authority that cer tain influential American policy makers enthusiastically favor some such move. - The reason for, this rather fantastic search for a new ap- ch to the Berlin crisis is rfeetly iimple. Dr. Juan Bra- muglia's committee - of currency experts will no doubt now go through the motions of trying to find an agreed method of in troducing the Soviet mark into Berlin as a basis of settlement. But an agreement on currency can no longer form a basis of settlement. Indeed, the fact might as well be faced that .there is obviously no real possibility of .any effective four-power settle ment at alL A settlement, whether on cur- rency or any other issue, clearly requires an agreed, joint four power control of the city, as op timistically envisaged at Pots dam. Four-power control of course broke down in f all but name a long time ago, ' because of endless Russian obstruction. The Russians have now thrown away the last pretense of four power control by refusing to al low in their zone the elections to which they agreed at Potsdam, and by promoting a rump com munist city government. With- ' out real four-power control, there can be no settlement, while the four powers remain in Berlin. The drawbacks of the Informal French suggestion for i general withdrawal from Berlin must be immediately obvious. In. the un likely event that Moscow agreed to the plan, the troops of the Western Allies would retire to the border of the Soviet zone. The troops of the soviet occupa tion would retire only to the bor der of Berlin city. In the present state of affairs in Berlin, a neu tral commission under the U.N. would have the utmost difficulty ' in holding an honest election. If such an election were held, the Berlin communists would be snowed under. The U-N. commis sion would then be left presiding over a tiny, undefended enclave in the Soviet zone, whose anti communist government would constitute a permanent affront to the Kremlin. In these circumstances, the temptation for the Russians to renew their tactics of bullying and intimidation would be. all but irresistible. Any- manufactur ed incident could be used as a pretext for again closing the Ber lin supply lines, which would have the immediate result of starving the city into submission, In short, the motive of the French proposal is obviously to achieve what the French have always wanted a way to retire from the Berlin impasse "with head high," and without any loss of face. On the other hand, if the plan were offered, and rejected by Moscow, Soiet policy would be left without a leg to stand on. If the Russians agreed to the plan, a simultaneous withdrawl from Austria might also be ar ranged, thus solving another, al most forgotten but extremely acute problem. And the danger of a Russian attack on Berlin's independence might be consider ably reduced by Anglo-France-American guaranties that any in vasion of Berlin or re-establishment of the blockade would be regarded as a caused belli. There would always be doubt, nonetheless, whether these guar anties would be lived up to. The new proposal, in truth, is a measure of the pessimism of the Western policy makers. Even two months ago, auch a plan would not have been seriously considered, either in Washington or London. Now it is being seri ously discussed because there is no other way out of the Ber''n impasse excent to continue the air lift indefinitely or to send an ultimatum to Moscow, with attendant heavy risk of immedi ate war. In the end, continuation of the air lift will probably be the course chosen. If it is costly in money to us, its political cost to the Soviet Union is almost incalculable. But the fact will still remain that the best inform ed, most responsible officials on both sides of the Atlantic are in tensely gloomy about the world outlook. Copyright IMS. New York Herald Tribune, Inc. 16 Crime to Runaway Girls? To the Editor: Shades of Hitler. Three girl inmates ages years old escaped from one of our houses of correction for grls. After a wild chase by our wmen they were captured, their hands placed in handcuffs, their legs put in chains and re turned to the home, one by one, I suppose for safety's sake. If that same justice is handed out to them at the home, no wonder they tried to get away. What a wonderful lesson these children were taught, crime does not pay. In the name of heaven, what more serious crime could these children have com mitted, than was done to them, and by the very people that are paid to help them. As a tax payer, I would not mind some of my tax money being spent for a (look see). What about the rest of you people that have children, who might at some time come in for some of this same justice? E. S. Van Antwerp 885 South 12th St. Salem, Oregon. rituals. The artinn nf delegate Prefer. to the National Inter-fraternity Communists are boycotting the Conference in voting against election and re not on the bal- removal of racial and religious lot. The result, therefore, will be qualifications for membership is judged on thti relaUve size of the voie ana mj siay - ai - name .1 ! Undergraduate fraternal ord-r 'V I w.i 4 .v. during3' recearstow votersjeome out, the west- eHer,hfr iXh inS cation of theijr fight to stay and leadership Childish initiation I. ,T,vieTization of Ber- practices nave been outlawed. Greater emphasis has been plac- prevent the spvietization of Ber lin. ed on scholarship. Religious " ,,"uf . in " , : ' r ,n qualifications have quietly been SYJS? tf thifr effort to .im v,o-. it 4K endorsement pf their efforts to "V" " 1" ' drive out the; western powers have been ignored. Racial dis- l .iff tSJX rriminxinn. .n Kn r. vote, and als$ the airlift which nnval i n mwnrm aaaji s4 taai w aaa sviiiv vew) tivt " I 4Ai4ar widely publicized as was that too- rf tha A mriArei artrav 'Dfrtf I Kappa Psi, which withdrew Ycill SfrAPt from its national body rather Tr itJJ. iUCCl than rescind the pledge of Negro student. This is not, we are sure, the end of the mat t.r Thwa ( .ni i 4 n4 .mini and religious tolerance walking NEW YORK, Dec. 4 Wall the campuses these days that Street had ijts December rally will not be indefinitely denied, rolling at thej weekend. National offices are out of step in today's (short session gains with undergraduate sentiment, 0f fractions around 3 points we believe, when they deny to were added to the advances of local chapters the right to pledge the previous jthree sessions, whomever they please. (New The market jstill has a long way flew in 4,754 tjons of food and fuel t! Gains ground York Times.) To the Editor I wish to present some actual figures on the cost of pensions of $50 per month for the old people of Oregon. First, I would suggest to the Pendleton East Oregonian' that people are not necessarily sway ed by newspaper opinions. Only statements of facts sway us. The newspapers have stated opin ions and they are only opin ions that the proposed pen sion would require a fund of $50,000,000 per year. I have before me a statement of actual expenditures by the state welfare department at Olympia, Wash, for the month of September, 1948. I am quoting now: "The num ber of persons receiving old a?e assistance in the state of Wash ington is very constant month by month and it has actually very little change. The average payment per person was $57.47. Wheat Pushes To New High CHICAGO. Dec. 4 -(JP)- Wheat pushed up to a new nigh since last February while corn and oats held barely steady on the board of trade today. Soybeans, rye and lard all advanced. Trading was fairly active, although lighter than on previous days this week. At its high of $2.42, Decem ber wheat sold at its best price since Feb. 4. It is the only con tract now on the boards which was being traded at that time. The seasonal high for this con tract was $2.634, made on Jan. 16. The February 4 date was at the start of the mid-winter price collapse. Wheat closed l to 1 cent high er, corn was 4 lower to high er, oats were 's lower to 3 higher, rye was 1 cent higher. soybeans were 1 to 2V4 higher and lard was 18 to 25 cents a hundred pounds higher. to go to recoup its post-election losses but at least a stab in that direction has j been made Volume expanded on the way up. Turnover 1 of 510,000 shares compared with 340,000 a week ago and was- the largest for a two-hour session in the last month. The Associated Press average of 60 stocks advanced .4 of one point to 64.4. pie average now is back to where it was on Nov. 23. Of the 791 issues traded 461 ad vanced and 125 declined Burglar Work in An nisville, Stay ton Marion county sheriffs deputies Saturday were seeking to identify burglars who netted $9 in lootings at Aumsville and Stayton Friday night. At Aumsville, the thieves took the cash register from a service by V. L. 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