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"No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Am"
From First Statesman, March 21, 1M1
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Men Wanted : Managers
Men who work for big corporations or in big
government departments think their advance
ment comes very slowly. They get tired waiting
for the man ahead of them to die so they can
take his desk. Executives, on the other hand, are
steadily complaining about the lack of good
managers. Thev are hard to train and hard to
'fcull away from other jobs. President Truman
has said that one of his difficulties has been to
get and keep able men in public service. Rais
ing salaries may help there, but it will not en
dow more men with managerial skills.
Americans have not yet come to understand
and appreciate fully the importance of good
management. Yet that is essential in any enter
prise. And too often the rewards to men with
marked ability as managers are measured by
levels of ordinary wages. Farm cooperatives, for
example, tried at first to get along with cheap
help. Not until they learned they would have to
pay good salaries and get good men did they
succeed in handling business of large volume.
More and more, however, are private and pub
lic enterprises becoming aware of the need for
care in selecting and training employes. Many
have special departments of personnel with
standards of employment and systems of grading
as a basis for promotions. Some use aptitude
tests in the effort to direct a job applicant into
lines of work for which he seems gifted. Some
have regular courses of in-plant training. Some
send key personnel to schools or factories for
special courses of study. And every smart exe
cutive is looking for able young men who can
m come along and assume steadily increasing man
agerial responsibilities.
In a recent address before the Training within
Industry Foundation, Ji G. Pleasants, vice presi
dent of Procter & Gamble Co., set down the
qualifications he thought important to look for
in the search for manager material. Here is his
list:
"1. Good character. (This is essential.)
"2. Good mental equipment. (By this I mean not
Eeat amounts of book knowledge, but ability to
ink and reason easily.)
"3. Initiative and the ability to work well against
time. (The type of person who isn't satisfied unless
be has numerous projects coming along.)
"4. Open-mindedness. (An attitude which sug
gests a man's willingness to listen to a contrary
viewpoint and to contribute his own view honestly
and forthrightly; but, in addition, an ability to un
derstand and support the course of action, once it
is decided, even though it doesn't coincide with his
original view.)
"5. A liking for and an understanding of people
as against things. (I am not thinking of anything
fancy like an understanding of psychology or a spe
cial interest in industrial relations everybody who
Is in management is in practical industrial relations,
anyway but simply a sort of common sense un
derstanding of mankind, that springs from a liking
for people and a genuine pleasure in doing things
cooperatively with them.)"
Those are just the first working tools. With
"hem a man may shape his growth so he can
progress in managerial positions. If he has the
stuff and the opportunities for developing, then
the world is his oyster. The old saying still has
truth: "There is always room at the top." In
America today there are so many more "top"
positions than formerly that competence, indus
try and ambition, plus character, do not go unrewarded.
No Kissing in Lobby
Japanese zeal; to imitate American customs
led io a cabinet crisis and a parliamentary up
roar a few days ago. It seems some of the offi
cials had a cocktail party. The finance minister
drank too much, became amorous and tried to
embrace and kiss two of the lady members of
the diet out in the lobby. One slapped him
soundly on the cheek (a good American cus
tom). The other went into the meeting of th
diet and made a speech, saying she had been in
sulated by the finance minister (kissing like that
is not in accord with Japanese social tradition).
The diet broke out in uproar, the finance min
ister resigned, the passage of the budget bill was
delayed.
The luckless finance minister made a great
resolution. At home nursing his hangover, he
said 1 he would go on the water wagon "or at
least one day." The Japs need to go a long way
before they can absorb all American habits.
Felling Holy Land Cedar Here
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The Christmas Season
It is veritably the Christmas season now that
lights have been placed on our courthouse trees
and many decorations elsewhere are in place.
Illumination of the historic tree Friday night
will herald the Yule officially.
Many individuals and organizations are ac
quiring, repairing, wrapping and addressing
toys; club Santa Clauses are seeing if their suits
still fit them; clothing and food for the more
needy are being prepared for distribution.
Despite the so-called commercialization of the
holiday and that commercialization is relative,
at that there are many, many aspects of the
Christmas season which keep its proper spirit in
the lore. It is a season of humility, of pride, of
thanksgiving and when viewed it its proper light
we are now more than glad that it is once more
upon us.
This histerie Cedar of Lebanon, which feres tera estimate to be at
least years old, is being romoved this week to make way for
business, development. One of Salem's landmarks, the tree was
planted from seed brought here from the Holy Land. The lonely
monarch is being dng up by John Payne Tree service. (Photo by Don
Dill, Statesman staff photographer.)
Historical Cedar of Lebanon
Tree Gives Way to Progress
By Conrad Prango
Staff Writer, The Statesman
A yuletide bond between the city of Salem and the Holy Land Is
being severed as a rare Cedar of Lebanon tree, which originated in
the land of Christ's birth, is being removed this week from a down
town street parking.
It is the big, 60-year-old cedar
standing on Chemeketa street be
tween North Church and Cottage
streets. It Is being removed to
make room for an addition to the
Shrock Motor Co. buildings.
As a seed this stately monarch,
famous even in biblical times,
came to Salem and became one of
the first of its kind planted in this
state. Dr. J. A. Richardson, who
then lived on the corner of Che
meketa and North Church streets
where the Shrock company now
stands, planted the seed.
Believed Brought from Lebanon
A story that the seed was
brought from overseas by the late
Dr. B. L. Steeves, Salem physician,
was said to be false by his daugh
ter, Mrs. Paul Morse of Salem.
Old-timers here believed that Dr.
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tree
from seed had
grow
failed
The Cedar of Lebanon first
gained faxno when King Solo
mon's temple in Jerusalem was
constructed of the wood. Biblical
history relates that Solomon se
cured the Services of Hiram, King
of Tyre to jcut the timber, log it to
the Mediterranean, sea where it
was floated the 100 miles to Joppa.
There the logs were hewed to size
and transported overland to the
site of the I temple on Mount Mo
riahl It is said to have stood for
AVi cenlurijes before being burned.
Seedlings Being Grown
Seedlings of the Lebanon Cedar
are being grown in state forest
department nurseries. The tree
grows well here, according to
Homer Lyons, Jr.. in charge of the
department's reforestation pro
gram. It has been considered as a
possible new forest crop although
the wood cinnot compete with our
native ted icedar.
Other large Cedars of Lebanon
spread their wide, stout branches
on the Oregon State college cam
pus at Corvallis. Others are now
growing at McMinnville and in
other scattered parts of the state.
Clarence Shrock said he disliked
to have to cut the tree down. But,
he said. It was becoming too
crowded and Its roots were fouling
Dayl Burrcs
Renamed Scout
Council Chief
Dayl Burres was re-elected
chairman of the Cherry city Boy
Scout district and Norman Frees
was renamed vice-chairman at
the annual meeting of the district
held Tuesday night.
A no-host dinner and commit
tee reports also featured the meet
ing. It was attended by over 100
scout and cub leaders and their
guests. The session took place in
the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall
in north Salem.
Dr. C. A. Howard of Salem
talked on the significance of parent-boy
relationships.
A flag ceremony by members of
Salem troop 12. led by Scoutmas
ter Jack Rhodes, opened the
meeting. The Rev. E. L White
gave the invocation. The table
was decorated in a yuletide theme
by Mrs. Paul Griebnow, Mrs.
Clarke Lethln and Mrs. Sam Han
dle. I S!
Committee reports were given
by L. R. White, advancement;
Claude Graham, organization; and
extension; Arthur Lamka, leader
ship and training; Clarke Let hi n,
camping and activities, and Sam
Rand le, commissioner's j report.
Scout Executive Gordon Gllmoro
gave a brief resume of the past
year's activities. I I ft
up water and sewer systems under
ground. State foresters said the
tree probably would have died
soon in its cramped quarters.
Salem Brothers
Join Air Force;
Army Sign2 Man
Enlistment of two Salem broth
ers in the air force and another
Salem man in the; army was! an
nounced Wednesday by the Salem
armory and air force recruiting
station. !..';('-
The brothers are Delmer E. and
Cecil L. Schwabauer, sons of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Raney. 1277 S.
Commercial st. They enlisted for
three years each. ! $
Herbert G. Williams, son of Mrs.
Mable E. Williams, 860 Hoyt st,
enlisted for three years In the reg
ular army. He attended Salem high
school. i 3
Richardson brought the seeds him
self from the mountains of Leba
non. State foresters Wednesday es
timated the tree was planted at
least 60 years ago. At that time,
they said, numerous efforts to
The railroad brotherhoods are wise in de
laying their industrial strife until the new year.
It is doubtful whether the railroads would have
been pressured to the point of capitulation, by
public resentment to the interruption of trans
portation over the holidays, but it is certain the
brotherhoods would have been blamed for
tempting an untimely coercion. They are
ful signs, too, that a pre-strike settlement may
be effected. The best evidence is that both sides
may benefit by the postponement.
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Costa Rica abolished its army too soon or
maybe the soldiers didn't get their uniforms off
before word came of an invasion from Nicaragua.
Truman Advisers Locked 8n Struggle
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By Joseph and Stewart Alsop
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 Be
hind the White House scenes, the
president's right and left wing
advisers have been locked in an
other of their
languid but em- '"iV''-'x
birtred ctrus-. If
gles. The issue
has been the
president's pol
icy on econom
ic controls and
taxation. And
the outcome
can apparently
be summed up
l tk. civ KIaoIi-
words strong Jn" AIm,i
controls and much higher taxes.
In these palace battles, even
the composition of forces is some
times difficult to discern ex
actly. But there
are signs, none
theless, that the
present struggle
has shown an
interesting var
iation from the
previous pat
tern. The leading
a d v o cates of
boldness have
hn th Whit
Mrwart bMf House counsel,
Clark Clifford and Dr. Leon
Keyserling of the economic ad
visory council. These two de
vised the ten-point inflation con
trol program which the president
offered to the special session of
congress in November, 1947,
against the virtually unanimous
advice of his cabinet. Their posi
tion thus remains unchanged, as
does Truman's reliance upon
them.
It is a change, however, that
the cabinet has remained large
ly aloof, except that Secretary
of the Treasury John Snyder has
given his customary advice to go
slow.
And it is also an important
change that the chi'f champions
of caution have tv;? time been
Dr. Keyserling's chi-. the chair
man of the econorr-ic advisory
council. Dr. Edwin Xourse, and
tr- director of the t: c'pet, James
Webb. The lineup encloses the
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existence of two schools of
thought about national policy,
both beginning with almost the
same assumptions, but divided on
the crucial points of timing and
range of governmental effort.
The great advantage of the "go
fast" faction has been their pre
vious successes, prior to the fall
session last year, and the summer
special session this year. Per
haps a greater effort might have
been made by the "go slow"
group on those earlier occasions,
if they had regarded5 the presi
dent's messages to the two special
sessions as anything more than
statements to clear the political
record. They were well aware
the messages would not be acted
upon by congress then. They are
more than a little rueful to dis
cover that these mere scraps of
paper of the past have now be
come a program for positive ac
tion, by a president just tri
umphantly re-elected with a
strong sense of mandate.
The economic controls for
which the president will ask the
eighty-first congress are in fact
the same controls that he fruit
lessly proposed to the eightieth
congress. In November, 1947, and
again last summer, he pressed a
wide ranging and ambitious plan.
It included controls of con
sumer credit and bank credit;
regulation of commodity specu
lation; materials allocation and
inventory controls; strengthened
rent controls, selective price con
trols; and standby powers to ra
tion scarce goods.
At the summer special session,
the last congress acted only in a
limited way on the recommenda
tions for controls of consumer
credit and bank credit The oth
er recommendations were osten
tatiously not considered. But
they will be considered this time.
The president now speaks with
the confidence and authority of
his great personal victory on elec
tion day. He means to fight for
the program which was once
laughed off as mere election
year politicking.
He will fight also for much
higher taxes. The democratic
congressional leaders blanch at
the mere thought, but within the
administration the need for high
er taxes is unanimously admit
ted. The question is, not whether
taxes must be raised, but how.
The treasury has little liking for
excess profits taxes, which in
evitably penalize new enter
prises with no earlier record of
good revenue. But on the issue of
the higher corporation taxes fa
vored by the treasury versus the
excess profits taxes favored by
the "go fast" faction in the White
House, the advocates of the
stronger course again have the
same advantage. The president
recommended an excess profits
tax to the special session last
summer.
The mere preservation of con
sistency is not the only argu
ment being used for excess prof
its taxes, however. Industrial
profits have risen from $12.5
billion after taxes in 1946, which
was then an all time high, to an
other all time high of $18.1 bil-
all time high of $21 billion this 5aIeiTl AlltllOr OI
year. These huge profits for in
dustry are considered strongly Tunna! t"a llTa
inflationary. They are also an lllHiei IO
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to press the collections, Paulus
pressed the matter, got the laws
modified and justices educated
to making regular returns of
fine moneys. Other accounts ow
ing the state, like old seed loans,
were wound up and closed, with i
considerable money realized.
Lately, efforts have been
made to clean up old accounts
under the inheritance tax laws.
The treasurer's office has been
helpful to the land board in the
matter of escheats to the state
school fund.
His knowledge of state laws
and of past practices in man
agement of affairs has enabled
Paulus to be of great assistance
to treasurers, as they have come
and gone, limited as they are
to two terms. He is frequently
consulted by legislators and oth
er public officials on state prob
lems. At the same time, he has
been loyal to his chief, with no
taste for the limelight himself.
Pearson will be his own state
treasurer, that is to be expected;
and will determine the policies
to be followed in his office and
as member of several state
boards. But he will find he can
lean heavily on Paulus for con
servative judgment which is es
sential in the management of
the state's business affairs.
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Rev. Turnbull of
open invitation to labor, to make
further inflationary fourth-round
wage demands. Tax the profits
and halt the inflationary cycle,
has become the watchword.
The aim is to raise as much
as $5 billion of added govern
ment revenue by new taxation.
The projected excess profits tax
is not expected to produce more
than about half of this sum. Thus
it is probable that upward revi
sion of individual income taxes
will also be proposed. Straight
repeal of the Knutson tax reduc
tion bill is thought to be imprac
ticable, but middle and higher
bracket taxpayers will probably
lose a good deal of what they
have gained.
Clearly, these will be unpala
table pills for the congress to
swallow. Yet it is pretty hard
to answer the reasoning of the
president's "go fast" advisers
when they point out that in the
midst of world crisis, prudence
demands strong measures to pre
vent any disastrous upset of the
vital American economy.
Copyright. 1948, New York Herald
Tribune, Inc.)
The Rev. J. R. Turnbull, pro
prietor of the Bible Book house,
is not only a merchant and a
minister he is also an author,
with several books novels to
his credit. A poet once wrote
about finding "sermons in
stones", but Turnbull has found
in human experience source ma
terial for novels with a moral
lesson.
His latest book is Tunnel to
the Sun" (Wm. B. Eerdsmans
Pub. Co. $1.50). Like others of
his stories the scene is laid in
Canada in a country with which
Turnbull is well acquainted
through years of residence. This
one is a story of the ranch
country of the Kamloops region j
of Britisn Columbia. The hero is
an ex-navy flier who goes into j
the country for recuperation,
finds a welcome in a ranch home,
encounters some adventures, is !
converted, and wins the hand of
the rancher's daughter to give the '
story a happy ending.
Other titles by Mr. Turnbull, !
also dealing with Canadian lo
cale, are "Mended Wings" and
"The Silver Lure." I
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