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Tnm First Statesman. March It. IUI
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Enough Numbers
It's getting tough when some of the powers-that-be
want us to be a vital statistic all our
lives instead of just when we are born, get mar
ried or die. Take this plan to number all babies,
for instance. In fact, take it out and bury it as
far as the state of Washington and a lot of other
.ttates are concerned. But Oregon apparently
will adopt the plan.
It appears that the U. S. public health service
wants to have all babies numbered at birth, but
several states have said "no" after testing the
water of public opinion and finding it sub-freezing.
it sub-freezing.
We're inclined to think it would get a chilly
reception here, too. We've got house numbers,
social security numbers, car - license numbers,
driving-license numbers. If we get tossed in the
pen we get another one, and we're tabbed with
one if we venture into a liquor store. We've got
'phone numbers, postoffice box numbers, rural
route numbers, political district numbers, school
district numbers, lot numbers, township num
bers and bank box numbers.
In fact, if we'd put all our numbers end to
end with a dollar sign in front of them, we'd
dad gum near have the total of the debt we'll be
in after Christmas.
We're inclined to think it will get a chilly
It looks as though we've got enough numbers
now without, being one.
business and economic activity will suffocate
Somebody is going to have to do some work
around here if people are to eat and have houses
and clothes. A majority vote doesn't raise
pound of potatoes or cut a stick of lumber or
weave a yard of cloth. A political system that
encourages sloth and discourages effort sows the
seeds of its own decay. This is unpalatable gos
pel in these times, but it is grim truth.
Threat to Democracy
California voted itself a pension headache
without the escape hatch of a bill clearjy un
workable and unconstitutional. It moved pen
sions and blind aid up $10 a month and lower
ed f the minimum age to 63, freed relatives of
duty to support their kin, and allowed benefi
ciries to hold up to $1500 in property. Also the
bill named a woman to a $12,000 job as pension
administrator.
The budgeteers have been estimating the cost
of the measure and find that the number of pen
sioners will be increased by about 95,000, and
the costs will increase by $86 million in the next
fiscal year and nearly $111 million in the year
following. The bill, like Oregon's, put a lien on
11 moneys in the state treasury, so reserves that
had been held for other state purposes may be
raided as long as they hold out.
The San Francisco Chronicle, noting that the
voters have put their state government "into a
situation bordering on financial depression,"
ays it will take increased taxes to feed the maw
f the pension promoters "unless other state
agencies are to be plundered or the state govern
ment as a whole sent spinning into a financial
deficit."
What should give the public concern is not
Just the immediate problem of trying to finance
til-advised pension schemes but how to save
democracy from itself. Many people think the
public treasury is a bottomless reservoir and
proceed by ballot to open wider the pipes drain
ing it. -There is grave danger they will exhaust
public funds or pile up taxes so burdensome
Problems Loom with Project
Charles Wolvetton, editor of the Mill City
Enterprise, looking ahead to 1949 when con
struction of the Detroit dam will bring in an
estimated 3900 workers, shudders a bit at the
headaches that will accompany the advent.
Needed will be about 1000 new home units,
better community recreation, some way to find
schoolteachers and pay them, better police pro
tection. The Mill City editor proposes that a confer
ence of various agencies be held soon when
plans might be laid to meet some of these prob
lems, instead of just letting them roll in on the
communities and flatten them out.
This suggestion can very properly be referred
to the Willamette River Basin commission and
the unofficial Willamette Valley project com
mittee. It is recalled that when Camp Adair was
established the nine cities in the vicinity formed
a group to coordinate effort and meet the va
rious problems created by the influx of a two
division army camp. The North Santiam project
is oh a much smaller scale, but the municipali
ties nearby are much smaller and will need out
side assistance.
Aid to Arab Refugees
The intermittent warfare in Palestine may be
tiny in comparison with great wars, but it has
been extremely bitter. During itsNprogress thou
sands of Arabs fled from area falling to Israeli
armies. Now over half-a-million refugees hover
in neighboring pro-Arab states like Lebanon and
Syria where they get very meagre assistance.
International bodies have considered their plight
but little has been done for their relief.
Now the American Friends Service committee,
that great agency for relief of human need any
where, is launching a project to succor these
Arab refugees. Emmett Gulley of Newberg, for
mer president of Pacific college, now executive
secretary of the Oregon Friends Service com
mittee, is being sent to direct this relief work.
Gulley had experience in similar work in Spain
during the civil war, then in Cuba among refu
gees from Europe's troubles.
How long will it be before the Friends' con
ception of human brotherhood ends the wars
and the strife which make refugees out of folk
long settled in community life?
Seven members of Phi Kappa Psi at Swarth
more college resigned because the fraternity's
Amherst chapter was suspended for initiating a
negro. We've an idea they were pretty good men.
With every juke box in town dreaming of that
white Christmas, all weather forecasts are off.
Truman on Horns of Defense Dilemma
By Joseph and Stewart Alsop
WASHINGTON, Dec.. 18 The
extreme oddity that sometimes
marks policy making in the
Truman admin
istration is be
ing brilliantly
illustrated at
the moment On
the one hand,
the p r e s ident
seems determ
ined to demand
from congress
4 rfr tg Mvmnm-
ic controls and 1 I f
much higher L-l V
taxes. And on Jirpli AIo ,
the other hand, r r
the president seems equally de
termined to enfeeble his whole
foreign policy by cutting back
the rearmament plans that were
adopted with such drama and
urgency ia
i spring.
There- are
hidden ironies
; and con cealed
, contra dicti o n s
here which de
serve careful
investi-
gation. In the
It - first place, the
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I J I preside nt's
Mrwart AUop
advisers. Budget Director James
Webb, Secretary of the Treasury
John Snyder and the chairman
of the Economic Advisory Coun
cil. Dr. - Edwin Nourse, are re
sponsible for the rearmament
cutback. They persuaded the
president to impose the $15 bil
lion ceiling on defense spend
ing. And it is this budget ceil
ing which is knocked into a
eccked hat the services' plans
tor making America strong.
The sole motive of Messrs.
Webb, Snyder md Nourse was
to avoid the necersity of strong
economic controls and higher
taxes, which would certainly
arie from defense spending
above $15 billion. But subse
quent to the imposition of the
$15 billion budget ceiling, the
-ected struggle over the pres
ident's fiscal and economic poli-.
cies took place anyway. And
this struggle has now appar
ently been won by the other
portion of the president's advis
ers, with Dr. Nourse's colleague
on the economic council. Dr.
Leon Keyserling, and the White
House counsel, Clark Gilford, in
the lead. They reminded the
president that he had already
twice publicly asked congress
for extensive economic controls,
an excess profits tax and other
unpalatable measures. And the
president decided to renew his
former requests without much
change, and to insist upon them
strongly.
Thus precisely what the spon
sors of the $15 billion service
budget ceiling so much wished
to avoid is now to be done after
alL But thus far at his meetings
with the service chiefs, the pres
ident has given no sign of grasp
ing that this ought to alter the
situation with regard to the
budget ceiling.
e e
If the president does not
change his mind, the outcome
will be different from what it
would have been at the time of
the great seventy-air-group row
last year. There has been a sharp
reversal of thinking among de
fense department leaders, in
cluding Secretary of Defense
James V. Forrestal. This time,
if the budget ceiling holds, air
rearmament will be cut back
less than either ground or naval
rearmament. But there will still
be some reductions in - planned
increases in air strength, and
there will be very severe re
ductions in planned increases in
army and navy strength.
The effect abroad, of course,
will be to terrify all our poten
tial allies. And immensely to
encourage the Kremlin. In truth,
such a rearmament slowdown in
this time of visible danger of
eventual war savors of British
policy in the mid-thirties.
. The effect at home, moreover,
is likely to be just as drastic.
The congress will be about as
eager to adopt the president's
proposals for strong economic
controls and much higher taxes
as to drink bis health in a flow
ing bowl of Mickey Finns. There
is one ground, and one ground
only, on which the president
can hope to secure acceptance
of these proposals. That ground.
of course, is the existence of
a grave world emergency.
The world emergency requir
ed the draft of man power last
summer. If the president insists
now that the same emergency
now requires the draft of money
and resources, no on can refute
him. But he cannot make this
point if he simultaneously makes
nonsense of any plea of emerg
ency by slowing down rearma
ment. If we do not need to be
ready and strong by 1952, which
is the target date for present
rearmament plans because it is
the first year when the Soviets
are thought capable of produc
ing an atomic bomb, one won
ders why we need to be strong
at all. The president cannot find
any way over, under or around
this inconsistency.
What makes the situation odd
er still is the way strange po
litical bedfellows have been
brought together. Secretary of
Defense James V. Forrestal, the
supposed banker-in-government,
began talking of the need for
controls and taxes many months
ago. The chief advocates of con
trols and taxes, the supposed
left-wingers, have emphatically
not participated in the drive to
enfeeble defense plans.
To be sure, these men advo
cate immediate legislation for
housing, aid to education, health
insurance and power develop
ment. But the whole resulting
addition to the budget will not
fun much above $1 billion, and
this social effort is considered
entirely consistent with a strong
defense effort, always provided
the right economic safeguards
are adopted. And the sense of
world emergency is as much the
motive for the administration
left's desire for economic safe
guards as it is in the mind of
Forrestal. Altogether, the whole
business would be comic if it
were not tragic.
(Copyright. 1. Mew York Herald
Tribune, Inc.)
School Project at First of Year
By Winston B. Taylor
Staff Writer, The Statesman
Fourth project in Salem school district's current building program
will get under way by the first of the year, contractors announced
Saturday. Lumber is already being accumulated for start of the work
at Parrish junior high school, whose addition will be the most costly
put of the $1,500,000 bond issue
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approved last spring
Viesko and Post of Salem have
the contract on a bid of $362,616.
The project is expected to be com
plete, or nearly so, when school
opens next September. At least
part of it will be usable.
Meanwhile additions to Bush
and West Salem schools are in the
finishing stages, and the latter is
expected to be available when
classes resume January 3 after
Christmas vacation. Officials hope
Bush s six new classrooms will be
ready about March 1. West Salem
work includes four new class
rooms, a library and a cafeteria.
as well as remodeling of gymna
sium locker and shower rooms.
Desks Available
Securing of equipment and furn
ishings is one of the district's pri
mary problems in the program.
since deliveries are a year and
more behind orders. Desks are
available for the new rooms at
West Salem, but considerable
hardware is lacking. At Bush no
more desks will be required than
now in use, but they will have
more space to occupy.
First work at Parrish will be
excavation for footings, since the
structure has no basement. Addi
tions will be constructed on both
sides of the building's central rear
wing, and the contractor will work
on tbem simultaneously. But the
one at the south will be specially
rushed, since it contains a new
boys' gymnasium which must be
finished before the present rear
wing can be remodeled into a girls'
gym and a cafeteria with folding
tables. It now serves as the school's
only gymnasium, auditorium and
fTPronmrs
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tensions between east and west,
with results as dire as we see
today. The two final paragraphs
of his letter were as follows:
"There is not much comfort
in looking into a future where
you and the countries you domi
nate plus the communist parties
in many other states are all
drawn up on one side and those
who rallied to the English-speaking
nations and their associates
or dominions are on the other.
"It is quite obvious that their
quarrel would tear the world to
pieces and all of us leading men
on either side who had anything
to do with that would be shamed
before history. Even embarking
on a long period of suspicion, of
abuse and counter-abuse and of
opposing policies would be dis
aster hampering the great de
velopment of world prosperity
for the masses which is obtain
able only by our trinity. I hope
there is no word or phrase in
this outpouring of my heart to
you, Mr. Stalin, which unwit
tingly gives offense. If so, let
me know, but do not, I beg of
you, my friend, underrate the
divergencies which are happen
ing about matters which you
may think are small but which
are symbolic of the way the
English-speaking d e m o c racies
look at life."
Stalin had clear notice and
warning. Why did he not heed
the "outpouring" of Churchill's
heart in frank but friendly coun
sel? Probably because he was
driven by nationalise aspira
tions for Russia, by fears for its
system and by the rigid dogma
of communist ideology which is
uncompromisingly revolutionary.
This last thesis is developed in
a lengthy article in the coming
issue of "Foreign Affairs' which
concludes that all Stalin's assur
ances that diverse systems can
exist side-by-side is propaganda
and a temporary tactic: "World
communism is the supreme aim,
Soviet power the major instru
ment by which it will be
achieved. ,
So long as this bigotry pre
vails the world has an uneasy
truce.
lunch room, where lunches served
in an adjacent cafeteria arc eaten.
Feldinr Bleachers
Present dressing rooms and
boiler room will be converted into
a kitchen and storage. The new
gymnasium will include folding
bleachers, adjacent dressing rooms
and equipment drying rooms for
physical education and athletic
teams. The public entrance will be
On Lamberson street.
On the north side will be erected
a 1,000-capacity auditorium with
sloping roof. The stage will be on
the north and the entrance through
the present corridor from Capitol
street, with an auxiliary door on
D street. This wing will also in
clude two new classrooms and
storage space.
Between the new construction
and the present gymnasium will
run corridors, along which will be
students individual lockers. Be
tween the additions and the rear
of the main building will be bi
cycle sheds along open corridors.
Present remodeling plans call
for removal of partitions to in
crease the size of one classroom in
each end of the building by adding
in a locker room. This work and
conversion of the present gym will
not be done until after school is
out next June.
Reinforced Concrete
The entire project will be of re
inforced concrete, faced with stuc
co and conforming with the archi
tecture of the present building.
which was constructed in 1924.
Architects ,are now preparing
plans for the proposed Capitola
grade school, which will be situ
ated on Lansing avenue near Sil
verton road, to serve a residential
area wnicn has grown rapidly
within recent years. Bids will
probably be called about March,
according to District Clerk C. C.
Ward, in hopes of having the
building ready for pupils by next
September.
Other tentative work on the
current building program includes
a new grade school at Four Corn
ers, and additions to McKinley,
Englewood, Richmond and Swegle
grade schools and the senior high
school vocational shop.
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SCHAR To Mr. and Mrs. Earl
E. Schar, Silverton route 3, a son.
Saturday, December 18 at Salem
General hospital.
; JAMES To Mr. and Mrs. Gale
J. James, 557 N. 21st st., a daugh
ter, Saturday, December 18 at Sa
lem General hospital.
SMITH To Mr. and Mrs. Char
les Smith, Monmouth, a daughter,
Saturday, December 18 at Salem
Memorial hospital.
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