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Truman Sees Global Needs
Few will protest, most people will applaud
the objectives set forth by President Truman in
his inaugural. It is definitely in the Franklirj
Roosevelt tradition, with a liberal infusion of
Henry Wallace. To FDR's Appeal for relief to
the one-third in the United States who wereoll
fed, housed and clothed Truman adds the Henry
Wallace conception of response to global needs:
"More than half the people of the world art
living in conditions approaching misery.
Truman does not propose the draining of
American resources into foreign uplift pro
gams, but rather the investment of American
capital and of American technical skills to en
able foreign peoples to help themselves. That,
to be sure, will take more than one man's life
time to achieve in view of the complications
and difficulties: over-population, religious pre
judices, climatic and geographic handicaps.
The president reiterated his desire for peace
and his support of agencies like the United Na
tions and of plans, like ERP to promote peace.
He branded communism as a false philosophy
which will not produce the benefits for human
kind which it promises; but expressed the hope
and belief that in time those suffering from
the illusions supplied by communism will see
truer light and that may open the way toward
peaceful relations among the nations.
The president repeated his previously an
nounced recommendations for domestic legisla
tion and appropriations which would establish
government as a primary agent in social wel
fare. This was his inaugural, attended with unusual
pomp and celebration. Surely he has given con
gress a long pile of cordwood to saw within the
months of its term.
Sheriff Elliott's Raid
The raid on a roadside establishment near
Portland where the Footprinters, an organiza
tion of law enforcement officers, was holding a
party looks very much like a propaganda af
fair on the part of the Multnomah sheriff. He
seized some slot machines, and
Pratt. On the other hand the ousted deputy
claims he didn't see any slot machines in the
place and no one asserted that the officers were
playing the machines, or were aware of their
presence.
Sheriff Elliott may have pulled the raid to
embarrass his predecessor and thus counter the
adverse publicity he received over exposure of
his own fraud when a candidate for the office.
The case does indicate however the indiffer
ence of many enforcement officers to law vio
lations of this nature. Many a policeman has
seen persons playfng slot machines or getting a
payoff from pinball machines and done nothing
"tbout it. Only when a warrant was -shoved in
India Interested in Freedom Not Help
By J. M. Roberts, Jr.
AP Torelsn Affairs Analyst
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 -(JT)
ila Washington yesterday they
threw celebration for a coun
try fellow who had been chosen,
by free vote of his fellow Amer
icans for the biggest Job in the
richest country in the world.
Baring his hevJ before ihe
great crowd in the bright sun
light, he outlined a dream for a
worldwide movemerff to rid tho
underprivileged areas of pover
ty, of fear and insecurity, and
esked for God's help in making
the dream come true.
As he spoke, far across the
world in India the representa
tives of a billion people half
of all peoples were meeting
to proclaim their determination
that they would no longer be
exploited nor held in subjuga
Literary Guidepost
By W. G. Rogers
THE FAMILY ON GRAMER
CY PARK, by Henry Noble Mac
Cracken (Scribners; $2.75).
"Nibs" MaeCracken thought
life was pretty mean. He couldn't
have a bicycle; the boys he real
ly enjoyed playing with, or fight
ing, lived around on Third aven
ue while his home stood on ultra-respectable
Gramercy park;
if he wanted to go out, he had to
lick stamps for catalogs for New
York university, of which his
father was chancellor; he was
sternly advised to stay inside the
park and play "little girls'
games" like London bridge,
though he much preferred to be
with his "gang."
And gang it was, as gangsters
they were. If he has led a some
what sheltered adult life, he was
entitled to it as compensation for
his stormy childhood. His neigh
bors were Edwin Booth, Reginald
DeKoven, Cyrus Field, Stanford
White, but his friends and ene
mies were the toughest bands of
brats; when one laid eyes on an
other, his first thought was to
beat him up, and when they were
not chasing one another, they
were being chased by cops. They
battled with sticks, stones, snow-
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Ponzi and Get-Rich-Quick
Charles Ponzi is dead in Rio de Janiero, and
all he had was (75 for funeral expenses. He
has been a public charge for many months. Pon
zi is the man who playedthe suckers for mil
lions in the period after the; first world war. He
was convicted of Using mails to defraud and
later was deported. But ho did win lasting fame)
of a sort.
The sucker crop hasn't lessened much. The
fertile brains of southern Californians have de
vised a new get-rich-quick scheme which at
tracts the gullible with the lure of getting some
thing for nothing. This is the Friendship club
scheme, which is a sort of chain letter promo
tion without the use of the mails. Using a py
ramid as pattern the one who moves to the top
gets the payoff which depends on the number
of suckers who come in at the bottom level and
pungle up their money. Authorities are crack
ing down on the promoters. If they didn't, again
it would be demonstrated that fools and their
money soon get separated.
fired a deputy
tion by tho western world to
which Harry Truman addressed
his call.
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"Wo must embark upon a bold
new program for making tho
benefits of our scientific advan
ces and industrial progress
available for the improvement
of under - developed areas,"
said the president
"Greater production is the key
to prosperity and peace.
-For the first time in history
humanity possesses the know
ledge and skilL In coop
eration with other nations, we
should foster capital investment,
we irivite other .countries
to pool their technological re
sources (in) a . cooperative en
terprise in ' which all nations
work together through the Unit
ed Nations to help the free
balls, fists and feet, and on more
than one memorable "occasion
more than 100 kids lined up on
each side; if ever the practical
value of a classical education
was demonstrated, it was in one
bit of slum-street strategy copied
from Caesar's campaign; against
Vercingeterix.
There are to be sure, peaceful
interludes. While wounds heal,
the youngster turned his atten
tion, and turns ours, to girls,
dancing class, parties, cakes with
candles, kissing games, f igsnay"
talk, to fires and horse-drawn
engines, to Tr. Parkhurst, San
dow, Annie Oakley and ;the the
ater back in the Nineties. But
mostly these memoirs of a boy
of eight, 10 and 12 years are
fierce and I warlike. They are
written in the slangy, faulty
English which he and his play
mates presumably used;; the im
mature, first-person touch adds -a
tangy flavor to this alternate
ly nostalgic and discouraging pic
ture of big-city life.
The author's one resolution was
to grow up to be a postman, or
at any rate never to follow in his
father's footsteps as a college
president. Beginning in i 1915, he
was president of Vassar for, 32
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his hands would be move. Sheriffs in many
counties: are equally indifferent. They may not
be corrupted directly; they just take the easy
course of non-enforcement.
Time will tell whether Sheriff Elliott is just
a four-flusher or is genuine. Most people rata
him as the former. And his stunt of raiding the
meeting-place of the Footprinters will tend to
confirm them in that judgment.
Electric Utilities Ask Increase
Yesterday The Statesman commented on the
possibility the government would be forced to
raise the rates it charges for electric energy
produced at northwest dams. We did not know
that private utilities operating in Oregon were
initiating proceedings to obtain a rate increase.
Portland General Electric and Pacific Power
and Light have filed new schedules to provide
additional revenues which they say are needed
to meet "added costs of operating, including ex
tra steam generation.
Excluded from the PGE request are Salem
and West Salem, which already enjoy the low
est rates on the system. The natural presump
tion is that competition from the local coopera
tive prevents PGE from seeking a rate increase
here. We may hail that as a "windfall" On the
Other hand it is toard to justify discrimination
in our favor when we are part of a broad area
which PGE serves.
Electfic utilities have been the last to step up,
tincup in hand, to ask for rate increases. Their
demands, like those -of telephone companies and
gas companies, will have to go through the
wringer at the PUC. As we remarked about
possible government rate increases however,
lack of electricity may prove more costly than
a rate increase.
peoples of the world, through
their own efforts, to produce
more food, more clothing, more
materials for housing, and more
mechanical power to lighten
their burdens."
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But in that conference around
tie world Jawaharlal Nehru,
great humanitarian prim minis
ter of India, was paying less at
tention of food, houses or ma
chinery. With him, freedom and self
determination for the underpri
vileged half of the world cam
ahead of the belly. "Asia will
no longer brook any lnterfer-
ence of her freedom, he told
the 20 - nation Asian confer
ence on Indonesia.
Dying colonialism of a past
age challenge to a newly
awakened Asia consequen
ces which will affect not mere
ly Indonesia but Asia and the
entire world those were the
phrases flying at New Delhi as
they sought a means of aiding
55,000,000 Indonesians in their
quarrel with the Dutch.
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Said President Truman: "Such
new economic developments
must be devised and controlled
to benefit the peoples ".of the
areas in which they are e5tV
lished. Guarantees for the in
vestor must be balanced bu guar
antees in the interest of the
people 'those resources and
whose labor go Into these de
velopments. The old imperialism
exploitation for foreign pro
fit h-is no place in our plans.
Steadfast in our faith in
the Almighty, we will advance
toward a world where man's
freedom is secure. To that end
we will devote our strength, and
resources and our firmness of
resolve. With God's helD, the
future of mankind will be as
sured in a world of justice, har
mony and peace.
I wondered if the words could
be heard in New Delhi and in
the capitals of Europe amid the
cvnicism of the postwar world;
if any wou'd choose to remember
what has haooened since, at a
meeting in Philadelphia so many
years afro, other Americans
pledged, in the cause of f reborn,
"our lives, our fortunes, and our
. sacred honor."
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could promote the welfare of
workers and encourage interna
tional understanding. At the
Paris meeting 187 delegates
from 65 national labor organi
zations drew up the charter of
organization which set up ma
chinery and tho principles for
tho body. Sidney Hillman, rep
resenting the CIO, was a leader
in the organization. The AFpfL
refused to participate and has
remained hostile to tho federa
tion. In November; 1947, the CIO
asked that the executive com
mittee consider the plan for
European recovery (Marshall
plan), hoping for its endorse
ment which would bear weight
with the trade unions of var
ious nations. But Russia had
previously set itself in opposi
tion to ERP, and Trud, the paper
of the Soviet unions called it a
plan put forward by "American
imperialist monopolies" for the
"enslavement of Europe's peo
ples The central bureau of the
WFTU. under Russian pressure,
used its May day manifesto to
-condemn the plan as a device
of capitalist powers; but at a
meeting of the executive com
mittee in Rome Carey forced
through a resolution disapprov
ing of such high-handed action.
In the interval the breach
grew wider and when at the
Paris meeting western (non
communist) delegates failed in
their effort to get the federa
tion to suspend for a year they
concluded it was usless to try
to cooperate with those repre
senting the communist countries
and unions.
Tho significance of tho split
is that the trades unions of the
west refuse to let unionism be
come another satellite of the
communist Internationale. If
Power Firms
Back Plan for
Deschutes Dam
(Story also on page 1)
Pacific Power and Light com
pany, Portland General Electric
and the Washington Water Pow
er company are contracting for
the entire output of the proposed
$12,000,000 dam on the Deschutes
river, it was announced Thursday.
The plant will not be a sub
sidiary of the three private com
panies sponsoring the develop
ment, but will be built and owned
by the Northwest Power Supply
company incorporated Thursday.
Plans for the project call for
the construction of a modern fish
hatchery to be built downstream
from the damsite and operated
by the state. This phase is sub
ject to approval of conservation
agencies.
Production of power as early as
winter 1950-51 is forecast by Gen
oral Robins, providing prompt
action on applications for state
and federal licenses is secured.
Tentative orders for more than
$2,400,000 worth of electrical
equipment and turbines have al
ready been placed, Robins said.
Work on engineering designs
and construction details will con
tinue during the period required
for authorization, of state and fed
eral, licenses. Additional applica-'
1949 AIRLIFT
Dallas Fire Department Still
Minus Chief, Dispute Unsettled
DALLAS, Jan. 20 (Special) -Despite daily developments this week
In the Dallas volunteer fire department situation there were no ans
wers Thursday to the two pertinent questions:
1. Who will wear the chiefs cap?
2. What type of fire truck will the city council buy?
Monday a group of firemen met with the mayor and council tq
urge retaining Walter Young as
chief and further consideration of
bids submitted for the fire truck.
Young had handed his resigna
tion to Mayor Hollis Smith follow
ing a disagreement with the may
or and other members of the coun
cil's fire and water committee re
garding the type of truck best suit
ed to tho city's needs. One group
preferred a 12-cy Under vehicle,
while most members of the fire de
partment including Young favored
a six-cylinder truck.
Trend te Smaller Motors
Young stated he had written to
V major cities in the U. S. and
learned that the trend was away
from the larger motors. Portland
and Seattle, he added, are repla
cing obsolete equipment with the
six-cylinder machines.
Others maintained that the bid
on the truck which the Young fac
tion favored was "out of line."
they had, the federation would
have used its channels for the
pouring in of communism. Na
tional unions would have be
come outposts of Russian com
munism Their functions as
agents for worker protection
would have been made subordi
nate to the political aims of
Cominform.
This country and all who
espouse democratic liberalism
should be gratified, first, over
the resolution of the AFpfL in
refusing to join the WFTU, and
second, over the determination
of James Carey to keep the CIO
free of communist control, even
if it means the breakdown of
the world federation in form
ing which Sidney Hillman had
a prominent part. The conse
quences of the Paris withdrawal
will be felt in labor and world
politics for many months to
come.
Proposed Site
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Damsite at the bottom of Soft-foot deep Deschutes river canyon near Madras where the Northwest Fewer
Sapplr company proposes to build a $12,000,000 hydroelectric plant The toftO-foot dam weald form a
lake eight miles long and ultimately produce 112,500 kilowatts of power.
tions are being made for trans
mission line right-of-way across
public lands involved.
The council will reconsider the
equipment purchase at a special
meeting Monday.
Both sides Implied that the fire
truck incident, which came imme
diately prior to Young's resigna
tion, was not the prime cause for
it.
Mayor Smith Acts
Mayor Smith announced at the
council meeting that he was "re
appointing" Young as chief of the
department.
Young said Thursday he had not
yet decided whether to remain as
chief. He definitely will continue
as a member of the department,
however, turning out for all fires
as he has for the past 37 years. Da
vid Moser has been acting fire
chief since the controversy arose.
Meanwhile all hands agreed that
Dallas would continue to have the
same quality of fire protection that
has given this community one of
the lowest insurance rates in the
state.
C of C to Hear
Dr. Montgomery
Dr. James W. MSntgomery, a
professional lecturer on Latin
American topics, will address Sa
lem Chamber of Commerce at a
luncheon Monday noon in the
chamber dinin Vi halL
Montgomery, former radio an
nouncer and newspaperman, also
is identified with an international
religious newspaper, The Protest
ant Voice.
He will spend a few days in Sa
lem visiting his son and daughter-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. James W.
Montgomery, Jr.
of Power Dam on
Present plans call for integra
tion of the nroiect with the trans-
1 mission avid pf the Bonneville I
Marion County
Births Decline
During Year
Births in Marion county during
1948 dropped 240 and deaths de
creased by only one from the pre
vious year, the county health de
partment reported Thursday. To
tals were 2,404 births and 830
deaths last year compared to 2,
644 and 831 in 1947.
Heart disease continued in the
forefront as a cause of death, with
204 cases, followed by cancer with
103. The year was free from ma
ternity deaths.
Chickenpox, measles and mumps
cases during 1948 showed a great
increase over the previous year
due to the larger number of chil
dren in the more susceptible age
group under 6 years, according to
Dr. Wulard J. Stone, county health
officer. Chickenpox cases were 96
in December for a 1948 total of
215 compared to 105 in 1947;
measles, 23 in December and 246
for the year compared to 18 in
1947; mumps, 33 in December and
243 in 1948 compared to 78 in
1947. Influenza cases were down
from 177 to 96 for the year.
871 Salem Mothers
Of the year's births, 1,219 were
boys compared to 1,363 in 1947
and 1,185 were girls, compared to
1,281. Nearly aU of the babies,
2,361, were born in hospitals.
Classified as to mother's residence,
871 were from Salem, 1,025 from
elsewhere in the county and 508
from outside the county.
Male deaths were up from 434
to 463, while female deaths de
creased from 397 to 367. Fifty-five
deaths were of infants, 44 of them
under one month old. During
1947, infant deaths totaled 67.
Deaths attributable to communi
cable diseases were down from
29 to 22. Duriag 1948 these in
cluded three each of Hodgkin's dis
ease and influenza, four of lobar
pneumonia, one of poliomyelitis,
nine of tuberculosis and two of
syphilis. Dr. Stone said none of
the deaths from communicable
diseases were of persons under 19
years of age.
Heart Disease Deaths
Deaths from heart disease in
creased from 227 in 17 to 274
last year; cancer deaths were
down from 117 to 103. Other causes
during 1948 were apoplexy 78,
diseases of the arteries 26, dia
betes 25, kidney disease 48, con
genital causes 57, auto accidents
22, other accidents 41 and all oth
er causes 134.
In addition to other thousands
of clinics, office visits, school tests,
laboratory tests and hygiene and
sanitation services, the department
last year administered 2,421 small
pox immunizations compared to 1,
685 in 1947, gave 2,648 diphtheria
immunizations, 327 for typhoid fe
ver and 1,023 for whooping cough.
The department, at the monthly
executive committee meeting, also
reported December data, including
213 births, 75 deaths including two
caused by communicable diseases
(tuberculosis and lobar pneumo
nia), and 28 duo to heart disease,
9 to cancer and 8 to apoplexy.
Practical Nurses
Elect Mrs. Sutton
Mrs. Clystra Sutton was elected
president of the Practical Nurses'
association at the groups recent
meeting. Mrs. Elsie Phalen was
chosen vice president, Mrs. Ame
lia Dietz secretary.
The next meeting, to which all
practical nurses are invited, will
be held in Salem Memorial hos
pital chapel at 7:30 p. m. Monday,
February 14.
Realty Board to
Hear Dr. Forbes
Dr. Lucius E. Forbes will de
scribe the situation in post-war
Germany at a talk Friday at the
luncheon' meeting of the Salem
Realty Board at the Marion hotel
Forbes, a major with occupation
troops in Germany, has recently
returned from duty there. Ho was
professor of psychology at Ore
gon College of Education at Mon
mouth before entering the service.
Tho eyes of an owl are fixed
immoveable in its head, so it must
move its whole head to change
the line of vision.
the Deschutes
power administration, through
Pacific Power and Light com pa n-
lines in central Oregon.
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Health Hazard Said
Low j in Disposal of
Fluorescent Bulbs
There are onlv minimum
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health hazards connected with the
use or ordinary disposal of fluor
escent light tubes, the industrial
hygiene; division of the state Indus
trial accident commission report
ed to Paul Gurske, commission
chairman, Thursday. $
The report request was . based
on a number of inquiries relative
to the possibility of the creation of
a health hazard in breakage In
nanaung or disposal of burned-out
fluorescent lamps which contain
both mercury and phosphorus. $
It was urged, however, that cau
tion be exercised in breaking used
tubes as flying fragments might
result in severe hand or face laeer
ations. It was recommended that
all tubes be broken out-of-doors
in a waste container or waste dis
posal area. jj
Army Reserve
Officers Given
Feb. 1 Deadline
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Army reserve officers have only
until February 1 to apply for ac
tive reserve status if they are not
currently engaged in reserve activ
ities, the Oregon veterans affairs
department was informed this
week. . t
After the deadline, those reserve
officers who have not indicated a
preference will be automatically
transferred to the inactive reserve
and will not be eligible for pro
motion; drill pay and retirement
benefits, according to Oregon or
ganized' reserve corps headquar
ters, f - - i
CoL George D. Wahl, deputy
senior $rmy instructor for Oregon,
told the state veterans' agency that
former ( enlisted men also may be
eligible for active reserve commis
sions if they have had one year of
active duty and two years of col
lege. If they were in the first
three pay grades, even though they
have np college credits; if they ap
ply fori officer candidate schools
Applications are being accepted
at army, recruiting offices, and at
branch .offices of the organized re
serve corps in Salem, Corvallis,
Eugene; Medford, Astoria, Pendle
ton, and 22S US. Courthouse,
Portland. " I
Salvation Army
Board Told of j
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Hospital Work
MaJ Helen Smeeton, superinten
dent of the Salvation Army home
in Portland was tho speaker at a
dinner f meeting of the Salvation
Army board held last night at the
CitadeJ. She described the work of
tho homo which is the only insti
tution in the state operated as a
maternity hospital and home for
unwed! mothers. Last year it ac
commodated 342 mothers and ba
bies. Of the mothers 78 per cent
are 21 years or younger in age.
The Homo is supported by the
Oregon and Portland Chests and
by fees or contributions.
Capf. Robert Lesher of the local
Army reported on the Christmas
aid furnished 1,105 families in the
Salem i area. Contributions of the
public ' and gifts of organizations
amounted to $2,800. Tho Army also
distributed about $1,500 worth of
toys furnished by other groups.!
A naw member of the local staff
is Lt. Barbara Summerville from
San Francisco who Joined the stiff
Thursdaw.
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January 21
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big;. Have to get a per-
iscope to cover hothj
Liberty and State
street sides. Cost,
phis, is no object.
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