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Protecting Capitol Zone
The state board of control is asking 'from the
Salem city council a statement of policy to pro
tect the zone about the state capitol. What is
desired is protection against further commer
cial enroaenment. Back of the board of control's
request is the concern of the legislature which
Is called on to appropriate money for more cap
ital development.
This interest of the present state board of
control is commendable. Its predecessor either
approved or refused to take any stand when
' requests for zone changes were made, and that
despite a resolution adopted by the 1939 legis
lature asking for creation of a capitol zone with
restrictions.
Salem, which is vitally interested in the de
velopment of the state capitol group, should
comply with the board request and remain
faithful to it. And the state board of control
should be vigilant to see that the city doesn't
weaken in its resolution.
to make it more liberal in their direction. An
other employer sponsored bill would reduce con
tribution rates; and still another would lift the
mfnimyfn for exemption of employers from $500
to $1,500 per quarter. Minimum earnings for an
unemployed worker to be eligible for benefits
would be raised from $300 to $500 per base year.
The commission has put in a bill to bring all
employers with tbne or more employes and pay
ing out $225 or more per quarter in wages, un
der the act. Then it has five other bills to alter
some of the conditions of the present law.
A mere reading of the list suggests how in
tricate the amendments are. They have to bo
meshed into a machine already in gear and run
ning. This field is relatively new, a product of
our industrialization. The rehearsal proves the
point that lawmaking for Oregon is more than
a. 50-day job undertaken once in two years.
Compost from Cannery Waste
Maybe the great waste of fruit and vegetable
materials from canneries can be turned into
something useful after all, instead of creating a
bad smell if dumped on the countryside or pol
luting streams if turned into sewers. The New
York Times describes a process developed by
Joseph Frazer, auto manufacturer, and Eric
Ewenson, biological chemist, for converting such
organic material into compost for fertilizer.
Frazer Products, Inc., is said to have proven the
success of the process in a pilot plant at ML
JKolf, Pa.
t e m m
ine process involves use oi special cultures
In the fermentation of the material in a large
digester or tank, with aeration of the mass by
compressed air. If the process proves practical
Salem would be a good place for such a plant
because of the quantities of cannery waste here,
which now are pure loss for the raw material
and for the handling.
W. I. Jackson, co-publisher of the Albany
Democrat-Herald, will be remembered for his
good, practical judgment, his interest in civie
projects and community development and for
his kindly personality. With his associate, Ralph
Cronise, he took over the old Albany Democrat
In 1919, merged it with the Herald in 1925 and
made the consolidated daily one of the most suc
cessful of the upstate dailies. In his long life
(he died Saturday at the age of 81) he carried
varied responsibilities, both private and public;
always with credit to himself. His colleagues in
the newspaper business note his passing with
regret.
Lawmaking Is Intricate Business
Oregon legislators get paid for 50 days; but
they cannot complete their work in that period.
If the ways and means committee is to do its
job in scrutinizing appeals for appropriations
and the recommendations of the budget officer
more time is required. Other committees which
may be handling technical or controversial leg-:
illation do not dare rush bills through if they
want to enact laws that will be sound and work
able. Just to illustrate how complex this business
of legislating is one may take the bills dealing
with unemployment compensation. This is a
highly involved business in which employers
and workers take keen interest, as is natural.
All of the 13 bills now introduced dealing with
unemployment compensation amend the present
law in various particulars. The legislator must
know what the present law is and -what effect
the proposed amendment would have. If he is
a greenhorn in this field he has to dig in to get
the facts, and that takes time.
One bill would increase the amount of bene
fits and length of time they are paid; another
would eliminate the one week of the waiting
period. Labor asks that all provisions relating
to seasonal work be repealed; employers, chief-
ly canners, want this part of the law changed
Because he proved to be just another Ferdin
and, willing to smell the posies and eat hay but
not to do his stuff, T. Royal Rupert, 99th, went
to the slaughterpen last week. This prize Here
ford bull, bought as a two-year old by .Gov. J.
Turner of Oklahoma in 1943 for $38,000, will
become just bull meat for hambergers. As a sire
he failed. Veterinarians tried to "make a man
out of him" by means of a pituitary operation,
without success. He died without progeny, his
royal blue blood which reached back for gen
erations in the herdbook, just ran out. There
will be no T. Royal Rupert, 100th.
Great Britain went all-out for health with its
socialized medicine program. It provides den
tures, spectacles and toupees for an who need
them, and even pays for cleaning of toupees.
The cost is putting a big hole in the health bud
get however. The ministry of health is asking
for $332,000,000 over and above its 1948 budget
to meet costs of the health administration.
Bankers have gone to the legislature to get
permission to keep carpenters' and plumbers'
hours, by means of an optional Saturday clos
ing law.
'Pax Anglo -U.S.' Getting in Stride
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By Joaeph A Imp
LONDON, February 14 One
of Ernest Bevin's favorite
complaints is that Britain's post
war economic weakness has pre-
ventea mm
from doing a
proper job as
foreign minis
ter. Behind his
r u mi native
grumbling lies
an 1 m p o rtant
fact. For the
past three
years, while at
tempting to
play her habit
ual part as a
great power,
Britain has re
ally lacked the means to sustain
that position. It has been the old
and very human story of fallen
fortunes concealed behind a bold
front.
The bold front has failed, how
ever, to deceive the planners and
policy makers in the Kremlin
and other, capitals. Britain's in
ner weakness has been a central
element in all calculations of the
world balance of power. Many
- prophets have forecast that this
weakness could sever be over
come. Thus the superb British
recovery of the last year, with
its promise that with any luck
the British people will be stand
ing entirely on their own feet by
19S2, is a major development of
world politics.
If the British people go on as
they have been going, in fact, the
prophets are going to have to eat
their prophecies, and the calcu
lations of the world power bal
ance are going to have to be
.made all over again. This process
of calculation is already going on
here. The tentative results should
deeply interest Americans.
In brief, the highly practical
British know that even with the
greatest dexterity, ingenuity and
self-denial, they cannot hope to
regain the dominance they once
enjoyed by sheer weight of
wealth and strength. New giant
powers have emerged, in Amer
ica and Russia, which would
make such at attempt foolhardy.
The British solution, therefore,
is to replace the "Pax Britanni
ca" of the 19th century with a
"Pax Anglo-Americana'; in the
20th. The partnership of the two
nations is to do the job that Brit
ain once did alone.
The position accorded to the
United States in this partnership
can be grasped from two simple
facts. Behind the French accept
ance of Field Marshal Montgom
ery as Western Union chief of
staff lay and) still lies a secret
understanding with the British.
Both parties spontaneously
agreed that in the event of the
outbreak of wai in Europe, the
United States would be invited
to name an American officer to
supplant Montgomery in the su
preme command. r
Again, in the course of the sor
did Italian colonies dispute, the
British have repeatedly pressed
the proposal that the United
States accept trusteeship of Tri
poli tania. The desire was that an
American base should be built in
Tripoli tania, hard bf the pro
jected British base in Cyrenaica,
thus further 'strengthening the
partnership's . position in the
Mediterranean. The project may
yet come to partial fruit. Al
though Washington at first re
acted very coldly, the possibility
cannot be discarded that Ameri
cans will be invited into Tripoli
as a third party, to see fair be
tweenArabe and Italians.
The acceptance of the need for
an American j commander in a
European war, the effort to re-
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With Watson at the Legislature.
Too Many Recipes at Capitol
Offered for Money Troubles
For four weeks the attorneys in the trial of
11 communists in New York City have been
horsing around with all sorts of antics to delay
the trial. Federal Judge Medina has been both
courteous and patient. Now he demands of the
defense attorneys that they outline what they
propose for the rest of their challenges to the
jury, which hasn't been selected yet. The judge '
said the lawyers were trying to make a mockery
of justice, which is almost an understatement
in view of their tactics.
By Kalph Watsea
Tempus fugit, but the legisla
ture, like old man river, just
keeps rollin along. Monday when
it started up again it had been
rollin' for 36 days. Two weeks
and two days from then, February
28, it will have been rolling for
its constituteional 50 days. After
that its 30 senators and its 90 rep
resentatives will
start living off
their own indi
vidual accumu
lated fat or, in
some cases, the
p a y c h e cks of
their wives
which are un-
hampered by
the fundamental
law of the land.
But it is not a
bad legislature, 1
In the main. It
is fugiting along about like other
legislatures thave done in the
past. For 38 days now it has been
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gorging itself with bills until pret
language always ready on tap to
committees will commence to suf
fer from indigestion and start
heaving them out again. Then
there will be some forward move
ment visible toward the close of
the session.
So there is no reason yet for
folks to commence getting peevish
and uneasy. What is happening
always happens every two years,
except that this time there are
more young press agents in the
house and senate than usual who
know how td dish it out and get
It printed on the front pages.
It used to be that Jake Bennett
from Portland was what you
might call a lone voice crying in
the wilderness and he, single
handed and alone, raised a whale
of a rumpus and slowed up the
progress quite a bit. But this year
both houses are overstocked with
Jakes, each of them full of bills,
full of ideas and overflowing with
ty soon, in the usual course. Its
Literary Guidepost
inforce American influence in
the Mediterranean region where
Britain once sought to reign
alone, together tell their own
story. The story is annotated
further by certain recent doings
of the American and British mil
itary staffs. One such was the
cooperative "Pandora" operation
designed by the United States air
force and the Royal air force to
test the effectiveness of long
range strategic bombardment.
Another has been the constant
scurrying of the American and
British planners between Lon
don and Washington. The once
moribund combined chiefs of
staff have been taking on a new
life.
All of these are straws in the
wind of prime significance.
Their meaning is underlined by
another fact of great: interest.
Where the Atlantic pact alone is
unlikely to restore a full sense
of security in Europe proper,
this formal commitment by the
United States will go far toward
soothing the lurking fears for
their own future which even the
rather stolid British have occas
ionally felt. The whole develop
ment that is thus foreshadowed
will, if not halted by misfortune,
strongly tend to shape the polit
ical future of the next decades.
Such a development has long
been hoped for in Washington by
such wise policy makers as
George Kennan, .who recognize
that Anglo - American partner
ship rests on the best of all foun
dations - - almost complete com
munity of interest. But for the,
sake of efficiency, and as a mat- v
ter of public policy, it would
seem desirable for the leaders of
both nations to be a bit more ar
ticulate about this great though
rather formless process that is
now going forward.
(Copyright. 1M9. Maw York Hcraid
Tribune, Inc.)
By W. O. Keren
SHALOM MEANS PEACE, by
Robert St. John (Doubleday;
2.5).
What was new-born Palestine
like last year? Newsman St.
John went there to find out, vis
ited Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa,
Nazareth, and a typical kibbutz,
or communal agricultural settle
ment; talked to government lead
ers and to obscurer Jews from a
score o f different countries
around the world, to Irgun
chiefs and to soldier boy and sol
dier girl, businessman, artist, po
liceman, zoo keeper, taxi driver,
hotel clerk, waiter, Arab, Bri
tisher. And here is his answer, rather
a travelogue than a history, a
series of personalities instead of
a record of events; and it is all
the more- revealing for its infor
mality. He met one girl named Rachel
who, with one sister married to
an English lord and another sister
traveling around Europe from
one luxury resort to another, bit
terly condemned the Israeli gov
ernment for refusing her an exit
permit Everyone else he saw
wanted more than anything else
in the world to be exactly where
he was.
There are exciting stories of
Monroe Fein from Chicago, who
captained the Irgun's ship Alta
lena, and Jerry Rosenberg, out
of Hamilton, Ontario, of the
corvette that sank her; of news
paper proprietor Gershon Ag
ronsky and his columnist David
Courtney; of David Hacohen
whose reward for giving four
years of his life and of his in
come as well to the allied cause
in World War II was four months
in a British prison; of Mane Katx
art exhibitions, and of Izler Solo
mon's contiucting.
Perhaps his most interesting
material deals with the commu
nal, but not communist, settle
ments on the land. Though Jews
in other countries have often
been in the professions, they
were needed as farmers in Pal
estine. The kibbutz, despite the
hard work and, at first, primitive
living conditions, attracted doc
tors, lawyers, teachers, none of
them paid, none of them "own
ing even the shirt on his back,"
taking part in "the most success
ful of any attempt at living so
cialistically anywhere in the
world."
Of course politics can't be ig
nored. St. John had his doubts
about Irgun Leader Beigin, and
you know where he stands on the
English when he reports with
glee that the ostrich in the Tel
Aviv zoo is named Bevin.
explain them. The only thing
holding back the show is the tar
diness of the committees in feed
ing the oratorical fodder back to
the floor where the boys can get
their teeth set in it and howL
Some unkind things have been
said about the house taxation
committee, to the effect that it
was "dilly-dallying" and that it
had better get going if it didn't
want to get turpentined or some
thing. Now the fact Is the tax commit
tee has been humping right along.
It almost has got its collective
mind made up and knows just
where it is headed, an it will say
so just as soon as it gets a few of
the members to line up and start
marching. It has almost decided
to wrap up the so-called $50 mil
lion surplus in a couple of pack
ages or so and tell the house to
blow out the candles and cut the
cake. Once that were done there
would not be much left for the
committee to do but sweep up the
utter ana close up tne snop.
And the ways and means com
mittee; it feels like somebody had
landed a low punch to its plexus
by suggesting that it was sagging
back in its breeching instead of
rampaging ahead and spewing out
bills. The fact about that is that
the committee has its pots and
pans all spread out on the work
table waiting to dish its "outside
the 6 per cent" stew where it be
longs, and its "inside Mulligan'
where it belongs. What it is hes
luting about is that it wouldn't
be good housekeeping to put the
stew on the table until the cake
was baked and all cut up for dis
tribution. '
So, after all, there is no use in
getting all steamed up over the
delay, you can't help it if the cap
itol is all filled up with new cooks
each trying to peddle his own pet
recipe or force his particular
brand of goulash down, the gullets
of his fellow members. It is just
too many new cooks running
round on the loose and not enough
chef.
So, just tuck your napkins un
der your chins and bear it. May
be it will be good soup when you
get it.
Official Visiting
New SAE Chapter
W i 1 1 a m ette university's new
chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity is being visited this
week by Barry McNulty, the fra
ternity's national assistant chapter
supervisor.
SAE recently granted a charter
for the local Phi Alpha chapter.
McNulty came from California
to visit SAE chapters at Oregon
State college and here. He later
will visit the chapter at Univer
sity of Washington. He works out
of the national SAE offices atEv
anston, HI.
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Baldock Surprised at Balking
Of Salem to One-Way Streets
State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock expressed surprise Mon
day at opposition, which has been voiced in Salem to the one-way
street phase of his over-all recommendation for a $7,600,000 traffic
improvement here.
Baldock reiterated his endorsement for one-way through streets
and a one-way street grid downtown in Salem in a talk before Salem
Chamber of Commerce, and the
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highway department head further
recommended that the one-way
grid be established "as soon as
possible."
Terming the critics of one-way
traffic "ill informed," Baldock
maintained the business people of
Salem will gain by a one-way
street system which more con
veniently accommodates vehicular
traffic. Most of the objection
raised has been based on possible
loss of business to merchants
along the affected streets.
Speaking at the chamber's
weekly luncheon, Baldock assert
ed that "people always resist
change." He noted that probably
no solution to this city's traffic
troubles would suit everyone and
that businessmen would find that
"the plan best for the greatest
number of people would in the
end be best for them."
The Baldock plan calls for a
bypass route east of Salem, for
rerouting other Pacific highway
travel through Salem on several
one-way streets, for establishing
two one-way bridges over the
river by improving the Center
street span and building a two
lane span at Marion street, for a
one-way street grid downtown
and for a connection with the
North Santiam highway.
He said he would take full re
sponsibility for the success of the
over-all plan he has recommended
to the highway commission, but "I
cannot accept responsibility for
the alternatives proposed."
Baldock said . one-way traffic
has been tried and proved in such
places as The Dalles, Pendleton
and Lebanon where opposition
had originally existed to the plan.
He said only recently Hills boro
has asked the state to present a
one-way plan for its through
traffic.
Church Votes
New Building
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Owl Makes Wrong
Turn to House,
Then to Police
Salem city police Sunday appre
hended a not-so-wise old owl, who
had bungled into a private resi
dence at 535 N. 24th st but re
leased the bird after temporary
custody.
Patrolman O. O. White, who
outsmarted the fowl, said when he
arrived at the residence the owl
was perched atop a parlor door
"popping and snapping" its bill.
The officer said he "confused"
the bird with his red traffic light.
grabbed it by the feet and whisked
it off to jail. It was kept in a cage
until night and then released.
Former Salem Employe
Charged with Larceny
Donald Webster, 27, formerly of
Salem, is being held by Huron,
S. D- authorities on a Marion
county warrant charging larceny.
Marion County Sheriff Denver
Young said Monday he would re
turn Webster to Salem as soon as
the roads are opened. Webster is
charged with larceny of two elec
tric heaters from Broadway Ap
pliance company here, where he
was employed several months ago.
WOODBURN, Feb. 14 Mem-!?
bers of Wood burn Methodist
church voted 42 to 18 Sunday te
accept the plans for the new
church which will replace the 57-year-old
structure destroyed byjji
fire April 1, 1948. Clearing of the '
ground at Young and B streets is !
underway. The new structure will
be L-shaped, 60 to 85 feet and
will face north. '
The new building will be of I
tile with brick veneer construe-j
tion. It will Include auditorium,
kitchen and Sunday school rooms j
on two. floors. !
The church services are being
held in the high school pending
construction, much, of which is
being done with volunteer labor.
Charles Bruenlnger is chainnaa
of the board of trustees.
West Salem Grange
To Hear Proposal
WEST SALEM, Feb. 14 Mrs.;
Mildred Norman, state grange de-'-puty,
will speak on the Blue Cross
insurance plan as It concerns the
grange at a public meeting Tues
day night at t o'clock of West
Salem grange in the city haU.
The meeting Is to be a "social i
night" with the men serving refreshments.
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