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.1949 ELEPHANT BOY ' BmOd&m 'SeU-Recbrdf'"' tej&ou "No Favor Sxoays Vt, No Fear Shalt Aw" Ftam First SUfesaaaa. March It. 1U1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COBIPANY " CHARLES A. SPRAGUC, Editor and Publisher (Entered at tb post Mice at Itkn, Oreron. as second clao matter under act af every morning except Monday. Buaiaeae aflkoa SIS a. Commercial. Salem, MXMBZX. Or THS ASSOCIATXD PKCSS March a, tm. FvbUaba4 Telepbeae MML Taa AneaUtse' Frcti la eattUea exctaelvely to Ui aae far repwaaeattea af aa ttt leeal am a as AP at i MXMBKR PAC3TK COAST DIVISION OF BUREAU OP ADVTRTJSIHQ Advertlsies Repreeentatrw Ward-CrtgHh 04 New York. Chicago. Saa rrancfece. DatraM. MTMBFR AUDIT BUREAU OF CIBCULATION Mr Mad O A4vaaee T dtp Carrier Oregon EiaewBere in u.s-A. r a s rrn""K Off RMMth tlx moatha. AOO CI 81a montha. Ona' year One, year. 4Tho Dtmcrv gdota Oracjon Satnrdcrf. Jaaiuarf. 15. - - 1 , i - -; 5 , ' ' " A -"J t . 1 S -.-Jr.y.. , ii f '"vt VL- r I 0m " -i -,..- 4 . V v A W'l '-..'' in : w ' '"f - --- i i 1 " Bell System "Monopolistic The American Telephone Sc. Telegraph com pany would have to dispose of it holdings of Western Electric, its manufacturing subsidiary, if the government prevails inN an an ti-trust 'ac tion filed Friday by the justice department. The government accuses the two concerns with "con--gpiracy to monopolize" the telephone business. It seeks a court order to break Western Electric up into three separate manufacturing concerns, and to require both companies to let their pat ents be used on a royalty basis, and show other concerns how to use them. It is true that the Bell system holds virtually a monopoly in the telephone business of the country, through there are many thriving in dependent companies. But Western Union, by specialjtct of congress, is the sole company en gaged in commercial communication by tele graph land lines. The business is one properly called a "natural monopoly." If we look at results .instead of the law we find that the United States has the best tele phone service in the world, that it has steadily been improved, that the research of the Bell system has led to countless mechanical inven tions which helped to bring about this improve ment. We find too that the charges for telephone service have shown slight increase even in these times of inflation,, though petitions are pending in numerous states for additional increases. Whether the ownership of Western Electric is monopolistic in the meaning of the law is up to the courts to decide. But it can. readily be fore seen if the organization is broken up improve ments may be retarded. It is by no means cer tain that competing concerns can produce goods required for telephone service as cheaply as Western Electric now furnishes them. In the end we may find we have cut off our noses to spite ur ears. in the second place bipartisanship carries -no veto power. It is time foreign policy was made subject to debate and not given an automatic rubberstamp. Give Acheson a chance; and don't hedge him with too many commitments to carry out the foreign policy of his predecessors. They didn't succeed either, merely running into a stonewall. Maybe Acheson can find a hole in the wall, or be able to get over it or under it or around it. Let's sea what he can do. Local Subdivisions Restrictive Race restrictions appear in the coovenants for the platting of numerous subdivisions adjacent to Salem, a check of county records discloses. One such restriction is worded thus: "No person of any race other than Caucasian or white race shall use or occupy any building or lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupan cy of domestic servants of a different race domicil ed with an owner or tenant." Another text is this: "No one but members of the Caucasian race shall be owners or reside on any of these lots." Some 17 subdivisions platted within the de cade contain such a restriction in 'the covenant. It applies against negroes, Indians, Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos. Courts have ruled in California that these convenants are not enforceable; but they have effect! in discouraging sales and purchases con trary to their purpose. At any rate we see' that race discrimination isn't confined to Georgia and Mississippi.; Considerable of the kuklux "spirit remains in these parts. Committee Approves Acheson The senate foreign affairs committee has giv en its approval of the appointment of Dean Acheson as secretary of state. His confirmation by the senata next week is anticipated. Acheson in his appearance before the com , Biittee swept away a lot of the gossip which was , circulating about his being an appeaser. He tag ged that as malevolent, without foundation ; in fact. He said he was a business associate of Al ger Hiss brother and friend of both the Hiss brothers; but so have been many prominent men. And Hiss has not yet been convicted of a crime. Republicans evidently have abandoned the Idea of fighting the Acheson appointment. They do not have adequate grounds for opposition. The president is .entitled to name his cabinet members and they should be confirmed unless there is definite and positive evidence against hem to prove them unfit for the positions. . The talk about Truman's violating the bipar tisan foreign policy because ha didn't consult with republicans like Yandenberf is silly. In the first place it is Truman's own cabinet; and Red Tape in Selective Service The Grants Pass Courier jibes at the require ment of Selective Service that men who pass 26 years of age still must, keep their home draft boards informed of their changes of address. The ruling is based on a presidential order that registrants must inform boards of address changes. But why apply the rule to men who pass 28? They are no longer subject to service under the present law. As the Courier says one would think that SS would want to put folders on such men hi dead storage. Slavish adherence to the rule is a nuisance to the registrants no longer subject to call, and time-consuming to SS boards. Over in Italy a man went home one night intoxicated; only instead of" going in his own house he entered the house of his next door neighbor and crawled into bed with his neigh bor's wife. When she found out it was not her husband who was sleeping with her she had the man arrested. The Judge, sent him to jail for nine months, remarking, T5uch a mistake is in admissible. It would constitute a dangerous pre cedent." Quite so, quite so. A doctor on the radio says that the average American woman faces eight years of widow hood. It will take more than that though to stop spinsters from hunting husbands. ERP Aid Plays Role In French Politics J H t i - IV. a By Jeseph A leap PARIS, Jan. 14 For any American in his sense, it is brusquely sobering to discover ' the powerful influence of Wash ington on the internal politics wa at home would consider the private affairs of the nation af western lu- , rope. A year and a half ago only American Una n e 1 a 1 aid saved moat piwi oiugni . W; Ing to dictator ships either the left or the right.; But AS- a " - una pjiewmf WmnJU S nm non haS now J"rP" AIrl developed into something much more complex and in some ways , alarming. Here in France, for instance, the basic law of the European recovery program has the effect of pushing the Paris ERP Ad ministrator, David Bruce, into the center- of the whirling mael strom of French polities. It is worth examining the problem in some detail to see why this is so. Very crudely speaking, the grand political contest in France is now between the men of the center the members of the Socialist. Radical and MRP par ties and General Charles de Gaulle and his followers. The communists were the menace that first caused Frenchmen to rally to De Gaulle. Their present role is to help De Gaulle by such attacks on the French economy as the re cent roal strike. The demand for De Gaulle, the strong man, al ways grows lourter when polit ical or financial instability in creases, and subsides proportion ally when the outlook improves. It is something of a miracle .that the French center has sur vived thus far, through the long Succession of Ramadier, Schu mann Reynaud and Queuille cab inets. None the less, it has sur vived. And since the passage of Prime Minister Queuflle'a rather precariously balanced budget. most 'wiseacres even . give the center at least a chance to sur vive in the future. Survival of the center Is dif ficult for two) reasons. Certain issues, such as the Radicals' deep disagreement with the Socialists about state planning, deeply di vide the center parties. And with a few such eminent ex ceptions as Foreign Minister Robert Schuman and the presi dent of the republic, Vincent Auriol. the center lacks big men. Survival has been possible only because Marshall aid has eased the situation here, and because the old socialist, Auriol, is a political master hand. a AurioFs part, in effect, has been that of the wise old leader of a herd of cattle on the range. Whenever the wolves of the right and left come dangerously close, as they do in every governmen tal crisis, Auriol gives the warn ing call. Then the whole herd forms up in a circle with their horns outward; the f crisis is somehow surmounted, and a new centrist' government is formed. The center strategy is to con tinue to repeat this maneuver indefinitely, if possible, until better times weaken the extrem ist groupings of left and right. The American role in this process arises inevitably from the conditions congress attached to the European recovery pro gram. For every dollar of Mar shall aid, the French govern ment is first required to steri lize an equivalent sunt in francs in what is known as the coun terpart fund. Second, the French government is. forbidden to draw upon this fund, which- will amount next year to more than 250 billion francs, unless the government is following "non inflationary' fiscal policies. The traditions of French gov ernment finance have never been especially puritanical J The tendency therefore has always been to put off all : such un pleasant actions as imposing new taxes and dismissing surplus bureaucrats, until disaster ac tually threatened. Now. I how ever, when disaster begins to loom, the first step Is to go to David Bruce and ask for a few billions from the counterpart to ease the situation. Being strictly restrained by congressional in junction, Bruce must then reply that he cannot release the bil lions until the causes of the threatened disaster have been removed. This drama was played before Prime Minister Queuille offered his vitally important fiscal and budgetary reform program to the French chamber last month. Fur thermore, Queuille actually sought the votes of certain lead ing deputies by informing them that unless the French budget were thus balanced, further re lease of counterpart funds would not be approved by Bruce. The argument was powerful, since the French government now re lies entirely upon the counter part fund to finance its program of internal investment and eco nomic improvement. But the in evitable effect is to place Bruce in the position of a sort of Dutch uncle, sitting on the cash box and insisting that nothing would move him except a bal anced French budget. What was done in the days of Poincare with no thought in mind except the vital interests of France is now done with a misleading im plication of American pressure. Thus "American interference" is grumbled against in many circles, while the Gaullists even make the extraordinary demand that all releases of counterpart funds should be stopped, in or der to precipitate a final crisis and force a French election. It is remarkable that, having been placed in this extraordinary delicate position, David Bruce has managed to retain the re spect and win the liking of all groups except the communist diehards. But the fact that Bruce is doing a difficult job with superlative tact does not dimin ish the American responsibility. Nor does it simplify the prob lem posed by this new role which the United States cannot for a time escape from playing in European politics. (Copyright. IMS. Maw York Herald Tribune, lac) OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 13 Bill Odam has Just stepped from his light piane nera tonicni arier oeing xorcea to end a propose non-stop flight from Henolula to New Yerk because of a gasoline shortare. He nevertheless set a new non-stop record for light planes. AF Wirephote ta The Statesmaa). Literary Guidepost By W. G. Kegera THEODOUC DREISEKi APOS TLE OF NATURE, by Rebert H. EUaa (Kaapf; S4) -Do you remember the man who dashed a cup of coffee in the face of his publisher, Horace Liverright? Who slapped Sin clair Lewis for accusing him of plagiarizing from Dorothy Thompson? He was also the man who interviewed theosophist An nie BesanL who investigated me diums with what might be called insufficient scepticism, who toyed with ouija, who wound up his life a mystic. But primarily, of course, he was one of the most distinguished novelists, a path finder, author of "Sister Carrie,' "Jennie Gerhardt The Gen ius." Dreiser, who died three years ago last month, was born In 1871 in Terra Haute, son of a German immigrant who was by then poverty-stricken. He was a disciplinarian and a bit of a bigot, and some of his daughters profited by his lessons to be come models for Carrie and Jennie. The effects, for Theo dora, were more mixed but no less profound, alienating him from the church, indirectly start ing him off badly in education, fostering a preference for a dream world. When the family broke up, Theodore began a hunt for work which led him eventually to the Chicago Daily Globe. A variety of newspaper experience, usu ally successful and offering also the chance to meet Arthur Hen ry of the Toledo Blade, in whose home he wrote his first novel, ended in New York. He edited "IVry Month" and the "Delin eator" and greatly increased their circulation. Of radically unstable opinions, he was greatest as a novelist, it seems to me, in the early years when he still held the beliefs beaten into him in childhood: That man, in sum, is plaything of immutable fate. But his early and late conflicts with publishers, censors, and Hollywood helped memorably to liberalize Amer ican letters. His strange combination of first-rate creative ability with a sort of second-rate intelligence provided him with a public which ran hot and cold. It is pe culiarly to the credit of this ob jective biography that it lets us draw our own conclusions; and in a general way It reminds us that we cannot expect a perfect -i r-j. i riiii if nil ji ri vit f i n r w r i i i CIRCUIT COURT State vs. Harold Johns and Wil liam Harvey Haskins: Order dis misses indictments against each and both cases ordered to be re submitted to the next grand jury. Abrams & Skinner, Inc., vs. Guy Smith: Suit seeks order re quiring defendant to account for alleged insurance premiums alleg edly due plaintiffs. Louise Capdeville vs. Betty Cap deville: Defendant files answer admitting and denying. Bina May McCarter vs. Jesse Edward McCarter: Default of de fendant entered. Ella M. Dickinson and Maurice D. Dickinson vs. Mrs. Charles Du val, Charles Duval, r., D. M. Cun ningham and Irvin J. Cutsforth: Plaintiffs, in separate suits, filed amended complaints seeking dam ages from alleged auto accident. Ruth Foster vs. Harold Foster: Order enters default of defendant. Marie L. Bertram vs. Otto Ber tram: Suit for divorce charging cruel and inhuman treatment seeks custody of a minor child. Married Nov. 7, 1929, at Salem. Earl Ross vs. Fred Schwab Commission Co.; Jury finds for defendant in suit seeking to col lect 3 1 lor hops allegedly un- accoumea xor. PROBATE COURT Muriel Diane Erickson guard ianship estate: Order confirms sale of real property and directs conveyance ox deed. Albert Titze estate: Final order settles estate. Henry J. Miller estate: Objec tions to Xinal account filed by Se curity Investment company which alleges a claim of $10,114 against Albertina Gribble, one of the heirs to the estate. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Neil C Boehmer. 20. student. route 8, box 630, and Mary A. Bean, 22, secretary, 130 S. 14th St., both of Salem. Harvey G. Gray. 21. bank tel ler, 507 Oregon st and Helen Benz, IS, tookkeeper, 3884 Mar ket st- both of Salem. - Merle Leon Hanchett, 24, saw mill employe, Aumsville, and Louise Jernigan, 20, bookkeeper. IxM Angeles, Calif. Edward A. Schiedler, 22, farm er, and Regina B. Traeger, 19,' stenographer, both of ML Angel. Limitations on Social Activities At Willamette U. Win Approval Limitations on social activities at' Willamette university ware ap proved by a joint meeting of the faculty student affairs committee and the student council this week. The meeting, presided over by Raymond Witney, dean of students, set up and passed an 11 -point system designed primarily to allow more time lor academic work. Steps taken to limit activities in- Sgt. Wimer Recruiter Here T.-Sgt. Philip Wimer, a nine year air force veteran with three years' service in Europe, has re turned to Salem as a recruiter in the local U. S. army andir force recruiting office. Sgt. Wimer, a former Salem high school student is now living at 467 ft N. 18th si with his wife, Helen, following duty at March Field, Calif. He is the son of Mrs. Effie Wimer Ostrin, 1S35 State st. i character to accompany per fect novelist, that in short wa cant have everything in one horse. elude: No special dinners or fire sides after the first two months of school; no activities on the first four days of the school week ex cept on traditional occasions; no excuses for extra-curricula acti vities except for athletic, music or forensics activities. The system also calls for only one special weekend retreat semester for any soda) group; po more than one joint function for fraternity and sorority pledges a year; no more than one dance each year for Panhellenic, Inter fraternity or Inter-dorm functions: only two major functions a year for , living organizations and one dance a year for other organiza tions; designation of January as a non-social function month; and the clearance of all proposed functions with the student social chairman. Dairymen to Start Meet at OSCMonday Br LUUe L. Madsen Tarm Editor, The Sta teaman The 85th annual meeting of the Oregon Dairymen's association will open Monday morning at the Memorial Union building at Ore gon State college, Corvallls. W. A. Johnson, Grants Pass, president, will preside. The first day will be given over to breed club meetings as well as various committee meetings. At 10 o'clock the Oregon Guernsey Cat tie club of which Fred Rudat, jr., is president, will hold Its annual meeting at Benton hotel, while the Oregon Holstein-Friesian associa tion will meet at 105 Memorial Union building. A. W. Lindow of Portland is president of the latter. Te Meet In Salem The Oregon Jersey Cattle club of which Floyd Bates, Salem, is president, will meet at the Me morial Union building at 1 o'clock. although this, unlike the other breed associations, will not hold its annual meeting at that time. This has been slated for Salem, January 29. The dairy products promotion. the herd ; improvement, disease control and resolutions committees will meet at 2 pjn. The Dairymen's association will' swing Into Its .convention at 10 msn. Tuesday morning. Morning speakers will be H. P. Ewalt, F. B. Wolberg and Dr. J. R. Haag, all from the college. The Oregon Dairy Council will sponsor the noon luncheon. Veterinarian te Speak Dr. C. F. Haynes, state veterin arian, Salem, will speak on Ore gon's Bang's Disease Program' at 2:30 p.m. Other afternoon speak ers will Include Gi H. Full en wider, Carlton; Arthur Ireland, Forest Grove; Ray Hobson, Amity; Lyle Hammack, and Ben Simon son, Portland; John Pugh, Shedd; Henry Hagg, Reedville; George Kruse, Mt AngeLand Aubrey Tangen, New berg. The convention banquet will be held Tuesday night at Benton hotel. E. L. Peterson, state department of agriculture director, Salem, will talk on "Policies and Problems Affecting Oregon's Dairy Indus try" at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning, following the 10:45 brief business meeting. Other morning speakers are Dr. J. R. Schnautz on "Mastitis", and LeRoy E. War ner on "New Developments in Fer tilizing Forage Crops." The final session will start Wed nesday at 1:30 pjn. with Dr. D. C New Stamps On Sale Here While Salem post office has ex hausted its supply of 5 -cent air mail stamps and is selling the new 6-cent issue, a collector's Item in the form of coils of the 5-centers is available. Postmaster Albert C. Gragg said the 24 coils, each with 500 stamps, cannot be sold directly as postage because the post office de partment ordered the airmail slots on stamp - vending machines Slugged until the higher - priced isue can be handled. Each coil must be sold as a unit The postmaster said also that the supply of 13-cent special de livery stamps has been sold out and that the new 15-cent issue is available here. Lyons Mr. and Mrs. Hershel Culwell are the parents of a daughter born at the Salem Me morial hospital Monday. Janu ary 10. Mumford speaking on The Cost of i Producing Grade A Mllk",and Dr. I. R. Jones on "New Devel opments in Dairy Cattle Feeding." The 2:45 business session will close the convention with reports of the committees and election of officers. ; Mushy Ice Floating on Willamette River i H4ftfi t " l Incono Tax Dclnnis 1 PEEP ABED . , Dmor M. Ammidson Tax Censoltaal Experienced Service ' . X-SSS7 er S-SS11 668 N. High i Diary cf A Sidewalk Snpsrinicndenl January 15 Got to talking with a fel low almost as smart as me down 1 at the new Stevens and S6n Jewel ry Emporium. Told me all about prima vera (that's the wood they're building all the cabinets and shelving1 out of) how it comes from South America, how they laminate iti and why it's a mighty fine finisher's wood. jThen lie thanked me. for my help. Can't help feeling that Sid Stevens and I made a good choice there. . I Mushy masses of ice floated down the Willamette river this week almost attnetieed. The lee flees evi dently were from Ice covered aloocha. e.uiet pools and small streams along the Willamette. Breaklnc pieces af Ice were caught In the current and soon were the same ealer aa the river waters. Nowhere la the Salem vicinity did the lee jam er fersa any barriers. (Statesmaa photo). Slaving fuel ffroiiMe?, Let us show you what we can do with a MonUjf - oil burner for $35.00 down and $10.07 per month. Beimann Sheet lleial Co. 1 1945 Portland Road Phone 3-3995 E