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et-T.&rTnrida taiesumu " SWEARING OFF. WITH ASSISTANCE'1 "To Favor Stoays Us, No Fear Shall Avof IVtn First SUtesmu. March 2S. 1S51 THE STATESMAN PUBUSHINC C03IPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher (CO red at the eostorace at Salem. Oregon, m second class matter under act ef concrete March 3. 1879 Published . t every moraine except Monday. Business office XU S. Commercial. Salem. Oregon. Telephone 2-244 L. tCKMBSB OF TBS ASSOCIATED PUSS Tne Associated Preti Is entitled exetastvely to the nse fee nsnMicsMsn or an Um Weal news printed ta this as well as all AP news disawtcnes. MtMBta PACXriC COAST DIVISION OT BUREAU OF ADVERT IS INO Advcrtlslnc RepresenU trees Ward-Grtffitn Ce- New York. Cafes. San Franckwo. Detroit MXMBTCt AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION By Kan (In Advance) By CKy Carrier Oregon nsewnere ouaa. i one 'r"T ' One fnonflt Six months. On year . .15 .4M loo . CM Sin jnonths . one 'year- Alderman Armstrong 8 Proposal We do not think much of two moves by Alder man Tom Armstrong at thf city council Mon day night. One was to legalize pinball machines In Salpm, whgh have been under ban here for over a decade. Ostensibly run "lor amusement rdy," they readily lend themselves to become gambling devices. That is why promoters want them in: They tempt people to play them, so the take is large. ..' The people here have quite consistently op posed pinball machines; but, of course the ele ment financially interested in their operation has persisted in trying to get them in, legally If nAeeiKI Kut to crt thm in. We hone the council' will retain the present ordinance and reject Armstrong's proposal. However, we do believe Armstrong has a point in objecting to the $60 fee for jukeboxes. That seems exorbitant. While many people feel like taking an axe to them, they are entirely legitimate and should not be unduly penalized. .Armstrong also recommended appointment of another advisory committee on the airport. The last one the city had, named by Mayor Dough ton, came up with the plan which is now being carried out. Armstrong, it is recalled, wanted to keep the air terminal on the present east side. United Airlines preferred the west side. The committee after careful investigation recom mended the west side, where there is more room. That plan" was adopted and is now being carried out. The city shouldn't back up on it. Armstrong was elected b the people of his ward and has full freedom to express his views jgd propose legislation. When his ideas seem .good we'll be glad to support them. On pinballs and on a proposal which would gum up airport development, we can't go along ,witA him. burden of support should bet the property. The amounts that might be recovered could go into the welfare fund and thus help others who may be in "need. Warren's Medical Care Program The California legislature will have another round! in a fight over Governor Warren's pro gram for prepaid medical care. For the third time the governor is seeking to get a system like industrial accident compensation adopted, to be financed by a two per cent tax on payrolls. The; program Is expected to provide for free choice of doctors and hospitals; hospitalization to a maximum number of days, so far undeter mined), for every illness annually, with medical services incident to such hospitalization; pay ment of laboratory charges; a fee basis for pay ment of doctors; maintenance of the present re lationship between doctor and patient, and rec ognition of voluntary hospitalization programs that meet state standards. The; California Medical association opposes the program. In previous sessions it succeeded in defeating Warren's bills. The doctors are willing to support voluntary plans for met al care, and themselves maintain a Physicians" Service much like the one in Oregon which the government is trying to break up. The; plan that President Truman endorses is similar to the California proposal in giving pa tients .choice of doctor, paying the doctor on a fee basis rather than salary, and raising the money by payroll taxes. What the both would do is to socialize 'med ical costs. - - ssi mm SB mw 1 fflQCEDQQB Tpromnra (Continued from page 1) content. Farmers are taking CCC loans on their wheat. They take their tickets to the bank which loans them the parity set by the CCC. If the price should raise the farmer has the option up to May to sell and redeem and pocket the difference. The gen era! feeling is that the price will stay at parity so the CCC will take over the wheat, pay off the bank loan. Banks net only one and a half per cent on the deal, but of course they have no risk since the paper is government secured. Favorable weather permitted general seeding of wheat last fall which may give the Inland Empire another big crop on which the 90 per cent parity price is guaranteed. Hotels and restaurants are moving to establish cocktail bars legalized in the last election In Washington. Famed old Daven port's restaurant is doing re modeling for that purpose. General satisfaction over re turn of Governor Langlie to of fice at Olympia. There seems to have been widespread distrust or dislike of Mon Wallgren. Wash ington state faces a tough finan cial problem, too, complicated by enactment of a liberalized pen sion law Washington's 40-mill property tax provision is not copper riveted.. People can vote extra levies. I heard of total levies of over 60 mills.' The state has a sales tax but no income tax. Coming up in the taxi from ..... i(it"i the station at Portland were two 1 women who were complaining of Portland's cold. I asked them where they were from . . . i Minneapolis, of all places! They i said Minneapolis had had a very ; . mild winter so far. Well,1 so has Fairbanks, Alaska; but not west- ' ern United States, including Cal- : if ornia. Dr. Sears Heads Medical Society Dr. James L. Sears of Salem Is j president of the Marion - Polk County Medical society following an annual election this week. Other new officers are Dr. How- ' ard Kurtz, vice president; Dr. Wil- : liam Crothers, secretary-treasurer; Dr. IL A. Gueffroy, counsellor. PORTLAND $.05 ROUND TRIP J1.90 Plus Federal Tax DEPOT 47f N. Chnrcfc St, Phone Z-Zlll State Claim on Property Governor John Hall made a good suggestion In his message when he said, relating to those getting old age assistance: . Under the present law a beneficiary may own and Vi ea Ifirimiff lia en Kitmn dW . i e- -frmm ek v s4 1 mil w ai v tus au ss aaviiiy uui to 11 auu vi.ai va mu encumberances and which has a value of several thousand dollars. By virtue of the fact that that person has no income s he or she is entitled to a monthly payment, from the state for old age assist ance. When that person dies the. state of Oregon should have a lien on the assets of the state and the moneys so advanced should be reimbursed to the state before the assets of the estate are distri buted to the children of the deceased. The last legislature passed a bill to impose such a lien, but it was. vetoed by Governor Snell, mistakenly in. our judgment. The law puts a burden on children to support their parents if needy; but many children are unable (or unwilling) to do this. Ifthe state contributes this support it should be reimbursed when the recipient dies, if he leaves property. One cannot see why the children or other re latives who have been spared or escaped the Spend and Spend; Tax and Tax Any doubts that the new deal was rolling again are removed by a look at the federal bud get for the coming year. For the sixth year ' after the war it rises to nearly $42 billion, the largest in peacetime. Burden of the national debt, support of the military establishment and care for war veterans, aid to Europe are the major; item, but other expenses are augmented on the president's recommendation. To make good on his campaign promises will cost over $6 billion. The; tax increase far exceeds the $4 billion previously mentioned and runs to nearly $6 bil lion. If that is to come from corporations and persons of large incomes the squeeze is going to.be hard, for already they are heavy taxpay ers, j One might expect congress to cut the spend ing; but past experience indicates it may be in--creased as congressmen and senators boost the ante fpr favorite causes. At least no newspaper man makes enough money to scheme how he can transmute himself into a j capital gain. . French Still Cringe at Soviet Menace 1 By Joseph Alsop PARIS. Jan. 12 If France means anything and France in fact sums up the inner trag edy of our times the keystone Is still missing- in the arch of the future that . America is-1 r "S. seeking to V f 7t build. For any r I ' f French recov- - - y- ery. if French A T" (Zti recovery occurs X i at all, will al- ? " ' ways be tern- yr j J Z porary ana ie-4 brile, until the fl Frenchman in the street again sense of secur- JP1 A1 ity. And as long as Frenchmen believe that Soviet armies can march at will "as far as Brest," as one hears it put over and over again, no sense of security can exist in France. The foregoing rather obvious statements , have genuinely vital meaning for the United States. They mean, first, that the Zuro- Ean recovery program will be ely to resemble the Berlin air lift until a sense of security has been - recreated here. like the air lift, the ERP keeps things ticking. But people who think total disaster may occur the next morning are hardly likely to resume long-term investment and the other habits of the nor mal economic life that ERP is Again, this desperate need for a sense of security here means that President Truman is blindly torpedoing his own program, by so sharply reducing the tempo of American rearmament. There are likely to be grave repercus sions, when Europeans realize that the president's budget ceil ing allows for only 48 air groups, instead of the much-advertised 70. and less than 700.000 men instead of more than 900,000 in the ground forces. o o o President Truman's action is all the more incomprehensible because it comes at a moment when the whole outlook is be ginning to improve. Given the absence of any sense of secur ity, the European recovery pro gram, here brilliantly adminis tered by Averill Harriman and David Bruce, has thus far ae comolished all that, could be reasonably hoped. More important still, sound steps have already been taken, by President Truman: himself among others, to recreate that sense of .security which is so urgently needed. The president's personal contribution was an or der, courageously given in Oc tober at the crisis of the polit ical campaign, to release Amer ican supplies to place the three French divisions in Germany on a better fighting footing. The : job was done in the usual un necessary hole-and-corner man ner. But the fact that these French divisions are -using im portant quantities of t mainte nance and other, equipment from us and have been promised fur ther installments of tanks and the like has already significantly affected the thinking of the lead ers of the : French government and armed services. The president's decision (tak en on the urgent advice; of Gen eral Lucius D. Clay) is of course only a single incident iri a much broader pattern. This Is the pat tern of western European union and the Atlantic pact. The na tions of Western Unioni Britain, France and. the Benelux coun tries, have already agreed upon practical, extremely conserva tive plans for restoring i western Europe's powers of self kief ense. 2 i The plans go by stages. Very roughly speaking, the first stage Is the creation of j strength enough to defend the line of the Rhine. In terms oi ground forces, the plans call i for ap proximately 35 European divi sions (10 less than the! original estimate) to hold the Rhine. For these- divisions, light equipment will be mainly provided here while heavy equipment comes from the United States. Rather more than half of these divi sions will be French, the other powers making larger contribu tions to other arms. And if American peacetime lend-lease operates rapidly, all the divi sions can be ready h about two years or a little more, t ;. f In the case of the! French, for instance, - their army now consists of 20 divisions, or ' enough in theory to provide the French contingent of Western Union's ground forces and meet other French needs. By fthe bold decision of Western Union's ground commander. General de Lattre de Tassigny. this new French army has not been train ed in the old routine way in squalid urban barracks. It has been trained hard, chiefly in the country, and as nearly as possi ble under combat conditions. American observers think these French forces excellent except for one defect they must still be armed. Because of this want of arms, no snore can be done until the projected Atlantic pact has bound together Western Europe and the western hemisphere, and peace-time lend-lease has been voted. Preparations for these great events have already been made, however. By quiet agreement, for in stance, the planned response to any military emergency by the American forces in Germany has already been fitted into the combined staff plans of Western Union. Again, it seems to have been a condition of French ac ceptance of Field Marshal Mont gomery's appointment to West ern Union's present top com mand that in case of emergency an American will once more be named to lead the allied forces, as General Eisenhower . was last time. And intimations have al ready come from Washington that when congress has acted, the first annual installment of peace-time lend-lease will be one billion dollars' worth of new materiel and an equal amount of American stocks. This may not be. enough to asure most rapid European rearmament, but fit is at least a substantial con tribution. In short, every essential ele ment is already present in the situation for the restoration of the non-Soviet world to strength and therefore health. Ther trag edy of our times, of course, is that these simple measures of military security should still be so necessary, after two world wars. But this fact must be faced. The fact also must be faced, moreover, that no ERP or Atlantic pact or peace-time lend-lease or Western Union can ever make Western Europe se cure without a strong America. This is the first of all essentials. We have started to build the arch of the future. We must provide the keystone at what ever cost. (Copyrlfht. IMS. Mew York Herald Tribune. Inc.) The Safety Valve Agamsf Uea ea Property ef Pensioners To the Editor: After reading the recommen dations to the new legislature, by ex-Governor Hall, it's my opinion the state of Oregon is lucky that it can say ex-oov ernor instead of "incoming Governor Hall." There isn't room in this space to discuss the merit if any all of his recommendations, but one of them, the old age assist ance, does call for some com ment Mr. Hall's suggestion to place a lien on the old folks' property Is not only unfair to all con cerned, but would soon put the state of Oregon in the real estate business trying to dispose of ac cumulated property. Forcing the care of old people on relatives is quite often an im position that relations can't handle. The average private home is not designed, or built, so as to be turned into a nursing home or hospital for the aged. In many cases the beds, bath and toilet are all on the upper floor where old and infirm people can not get to them; also some are in wheel chair, or bedfast, and the $50 per month is not sufficient for their care when help has to be hired. As a rule the care of aged par ents falls on to the burdened housewife who, with, the extra work and worry, is soon made an old woman before her time. The care of old folks is insti tutional and the money paid out for pensions and assistance should be used to build institu tions designed for that purpose and maintained in an efficient and sanitary condition. Not many children can afford to pay the hundred, to a hundred and fifty dollars that it now takes to keep aged parents in a private nursing home every month. Our legislature consists of well-selected men, and with a sympathetic governor I feel that our old folks, and all concerned, will be cared fof in a fair and honest way. Wilson Miller. (See Editorial Comment on Hall proposal). Ashamed ef USA account China To the Editor: I cannot understand how you can take such an attitude toward China, either morally or practi cally, as per "Bullitt reports on China." You say, let the Chinese settle their own affairs. What chance for that with Russia just the same as occupying the commun ist territory? "And do business with whatever government they set up." Do you actually try to suggest that, you don't know what government would take over China?! I see that you do admit there are communists in China for you say our supplies trickle through to them. What supplies? We withheld all for 10 or 11 months while trying to force Chiang to accept communists into his gov ernment. And what a spectacle that was. We had only all of Europe to prove to us that that was a fatal mistake. We have betrayed, short changed, double crossed Chiang Kai-Shek in every possible way, since we didn't need him to fight Japan,. as well as before. We ex pect him to produce a miracle of democracy while fighting two wars though we go into a dicta torship (almost) to fight one, and when he fails of that we throw him to the wolves, no, we kick him down and leave him for the wolves to swallow. I am so ashamed of my America I could weep. What kind of honor have we in Washington? What kind of fools? For communism will take the entire continent of Asia while we brag 'about our smart airlift to Berlin! Mrs. E. M. Runyan Rt. 6, Box 437 Electric Devices For Measurement On Display Tonight Electrical measurement devices will be displayed and exhibited in Salem Chamber of Commerce rooms tonight at 7 o'clock for in dustrial and utility engineers and executives. Some 150 devices for measuring electrical quantities or electrical devices for- measuring quantities will be shown by J.. L. Wright, General Electric Co. engineer for the Salem area. Devices will include switchboard and aircraft instruments, photo metric devices. Dortable testine machines and remote position in dicators. The display moves to Corvallis Friday. WOOL GROWERS TO MEET PENDLETON, Jan. 12-(P-The Oregon Wool Growers will con vene in Portland Jan. 13-15, with grazing, taxes, predatory animals, and wildlife among the key sub jects on the agenda. Diary of A Sidewalk Superiniendeni mm J I n ;, mLM I 'J "i January 13th Must check the new Stev ens and Son Jewelry Store . . . find out about the marble floor. When the bank was there, the mar ble just went up as far as the teller's cages and stop ped. Suggested they might use a strip of red carpet to fill in the space. Probably grabbed my idea, because I saw them measuring to day. But wonder why they brought in that special lin oleum to measure with? Better send Sid Stevens a note before they do some thing I don't like Keeps me on the go, keeping him on the go! Exchange Club Hears Seminary Professor All persons have untapped men tal and physical reserves which are summoned up in cases of emergency and are always poten tially available. Dr. J. Hudson Ballard, professo rat San Fran cisco theological seminary, told Salem Exchange club members Wednesday. Dr. Ballard called inspiration, through contacts with such things as art, music and religioun, the key to releasing the reserves. 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