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3 TtVfetcrtmcm, jonu Oregon, ThnrsAryy r6ruarfV ItfH tffiDtt (totart at tha portigw at Salrav C AdvartUtM timwnn KKMBam Or TM ASSOCIATED HUI ffae AjtadaUi rrtM la atlU estsrstr ta aat far rraa 4dM Weal aw aisaiis aa CM awvtaar. aa w aa aa AT w SHmhh, UTargra Ausrr busxau or cibcuiatxon Br Mas (ta ASraaert .is , Sbc mofttba. caa , am. year. Avoid Taking as Well as Giving Offense Minority groups have suffered so long it is easy to understand how they are sensitive to discrimination. Sometimes they appear super sensitive, magnifying untoward incidents or tak ing off ens where none was intended. A few weeks ago an instance of this occurred In a Portland high school. A chorus was singing the very familiar song in which the line ap pears: "Whoever said a nigger won't steal . . . At that moment a group of negroes got up and walked out. They took umbrage at the use of the word "nigger", regarding it as a term of derision. That Is true, but the word goes with the rest of the song. How silly it would be to say "Who ever said a negro won't steal . . ." But then of fense might be taken that a negro was linked with the crime of stealing. So the only apparent solution would be not to sing the song. And that solution Is silly too, for it is part of our folk song literature, too good to be discarded. Another incident is reported from Berlin where angry Polish Jews rioted before a movie theatre that was showing an English film "Oli ver Twist" in which the character Fagin, who teaches boys to steal was depicted as a Jew. Undoubtedly the Polish Jews are very sensitive for they have suffered so much their hearts must be lacerated. But a single characterization should not be interpreted as a degradation of a whole group. After all the vast majority of crim inal roles are carried by' non-Jews, without complaint from Gentiles that they are held up to scorn. How many times have the Irish and - 4he Scotch and the English been made the butt of American Humor? Charles Dickens drew a Jew as Fagin in his novel; and he may have reflected prejudice of the time when he did so; but if the story is to be reproduced with fidelity the movie-maker cannot alter the Dickens characterization. What needs to be understood is that such a depiction carries no siur against a group. This is Brotherhood week, with pleas made for tolerance. This means we should avoid un fair discrimination and avoid offering offense to other groups. It means also that in the give and take of life persons should be a bit lenient and not look for slights where none is intended. - Heading in Two Directions The house committee on taxation has approv ed a joint resolution for a constitutional amend ment to forbid the levy of taxes on property for state purposes, save as may be necessary to service general obligation indebtedness. The house committee on education voted fi nally six to five to give a favorable report on the bill which also would go to the people, call ing for an increase from $50 to $95 per census child in the basic state school support fund. This Imposes a state property tax which would be extinguished to the extent that income tax re Venues were available for the purpose. These measures head in different directions. Berlin is 'Last Chink in Dron Curtain' ! Br Jaaeph Alaap BERLIN, Feb. 23 Berliner nowadays talk about the airlift as people elsewhere talk about the weather. On a fine morning they will say, not "what ,., a beautiful day, but. "there will ' be many planes today." Yet this perpetual con sciousness of the roar of the big C-S4s overhead is actually the only abnormal note in the life of the city. The 71 Joseph AlsOf"? - - -a world still thinks of the Berlin situation as dangerous and criti cal. In fact, it has become an uneventful stalemate. There Is not the slightest dan ger, moreover, that the stalemate .will be broken, either by Rus- sian aggression or by the failure -of the airlift to do its job. This spring, as the weather improves, airlift input will increase to about 8.000 tons a day. General Lucius D. Clay already has plans to in crease the airliff this summer to a year-round average of 10,000 tons a day. And if the Russians fail to lift their blockade this spring. Clay's plans 'will be put Into effect. With 10,000 tons a day, the western sectors of Berlin can - live a perfectly normal life. Even jww, with much lower tonnages, the people of west Berlin are eating a little better and finding consumer goods a little more av ailiable than before the blockade. As for their spirit, it has already been tested. The Berliners showed their spirit when SS per cent of them defied the soveits by going to the polls and choosing as their may or, with a huge majority, the vet eran anti - communist socialist, Ernst Reuter. Reuter was an old bolshevik, and can tell you of the early days after the Russian rev olution, when his friend Lenin named him president of the Vol ga republic of the Scviet union. Hi-i disillusionment with com munism has left him deeply ? eyr-sl about everything except the value of fre torn. Yet there i f "No Favor Siov$ Us, No Fear Shalt AwT Frem First Statesman. March I. XU1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY - CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher KZMBXS PACXnC COAST DtVXStON Of BUTUtAU OT lUas Ta Oiimia Oa. Ntw Tar. ihoja qm MiMira laa year- One puts up other adds a If income tax closures such as seek this barrier The school OM Nylons on the gals in Jacksonville, Fla. start ed running en masse a few days ago. A DuPont technical engineer says they have had that trou ble before and It is due to acid-laden soot par ticles which lodge on the stockings. That may explain, but what the wearers want is hosiery not susceptible to wholesale runs. How can they tell when soot will be flying? We have been asked if the pressmen's strike in Portland would affect Salem publications. The answer is "no". Salem papers renewed their contracts, granting wage increases, to the three unions they deal with, typographers, stereoty pers and pressmen, effective through 1949. can be few more stout-hearted leaders than this big, wise, sad old man. Re is the symbol of the Berliners will to resist. TheseZfacts have vastly more than,;local significance, for the simple reason that the Kremlin's program for Germany has been knocked Into a cocked hat by their failure to capture Berlin. As every one acknowledges, the German problem Is central Eu rope. And any analysis of the German problem must begin with the fact that the Kremlin program for Germany has al ready been frustrated. The Soviet policy makers have vaguely hoped they could use the Berlin blockade as black mail to disrupt tha reconstruc tion of Western Germany and to get their hands on the Ruhr. But their practical, immediate .aim was that disclosed In a re markable speech by Karl Maron, one of their chief political stooges in Germany. "So long as the forces of reac tion can maintain their estab lished positions in Berlin," said Maron, "they will be able to car ry out successfully their acts of sabotage. Thus the reconstruction of the western zone will be ham pered from the outset." . What Maron meant is perfectly . clear despite the double talk. So long as Berlin remains a huge chink in the iron curtain, it will continue to be impossible to or ganize the Soviet zone of Germa ny as a fuQ - fledged Kremlin satellite, and to incorporate this new satellite in the Kremlin's new east European empire. The failure of the Berlin blockade has prevented the establishment of an east German state on these lines. All the preparations for such a state began to be made long before the blockade itself was de clared. An embryonic east Ger- . man government was organized in the form of the People's Con gress. A new east German police force was recruited, with from thirty to forty thousand of its hundred thousand members formed into para-military units commanded by former Wehrmacht generals -the obvious nucleus of a new ACVXXTISZltO Datrsvt. r cur a bar on a state property tax; the fresh burden for property to bear receipts are inadequate. A different drive is behind eacn measure. Owners of property who see costs of govern ment mounting and see the prospect of safe guards chiseled away (through diversion of cor porate excise tax to general spending) are fear ful lest the mounting burden of state govern ment and school support fall on them. They want no repetition of delinquencies and fore prevailed in the 1930's and so for their protection. lobby which is one of the most active, most high-pressured and most demand ing of any operating at the state house, drives for the increase in the basic state school support fund. Headed by the Oregon Education associa tion it has enlisted the school board association. Their combined efforts obtained a shift to give a favorable instead of an unfavorable commit tee report; and the shower of letters and tele grams on house members is designed to get favorable action in the house. The Statesman looks on both these measures with disfavor. It is opposed to putting more negatives in the state constitution on the sub ject of taxation. The constitution bristles with them now: t per cent limitation, no emergency clause on tax bills, no diversion of motor vehicle revenues. "No, No, No"; you can't do this, you can't do that. Small wonder we're in a tax jam much of the time. As for the increase of $45 per census child, that is a big jump. The measure carries no as surance that the increase in state .aid would re duce local property taxes; and so pressing are the demands for salary and other increases that local budgets might go up by as much as the anticipated increase in state aid. A safer plan would be to submit a measure granting a specific sum by way of increase in state school support, to be taken out of income tax surplus, over the biennium. In any event the legislature ought not to sub mit these two measures whose import is contradictory. German army. The Kremlin's political mouthpieces began to play down the theme of Germany unity and to play up the need for an "independent sovietized east Germany. The other Soviet sat ellites began to be pressed to for get their hatred of Germans and to accept east Germany, as an equal partner state. To be sute, the sovietization of east Germany is already out wardly complete. There are all the familiar phenomena of one party government and omnipres ent secret police. The whole re gion pays tribute to Moscow, and the most important industries are actually Soviet-owned. In the uranium mines of Erzege- bfrge, the east zone even has its own gigantic, hideous slave la bor camps, None the less, the real job can not be done in the present cir cumstances. Really efficient total rutiuessness is impossible, so long as Berlin remains a chink in the curtain. Thus the failure of the blockage has actually driv en the Soviets to increase east zone rations by returning some pillaged wheat to Germany. And worst of all, so long as Berlin re mains a free refuge, a depends ble German secret police and German army, on the model used in the other satellites, are also impossibilities. The unreliability of the new east zone police is already notorious. In the circumstances, it Is not surprising that Soviet policy in Germany has recently shown ev ery mark of confusion and dis sension, even including a bit ter row between Marshall Soko lovskys political advisers. Am bassador Semeonov, and his liai son with the Russian communist party. Colonel Tulpanov. Probably an east German state will be formally proclaimed when the western powers set up their west German government. But as long as Berlin remains free, the proclamation will be meaningless. In fact, it is more important that the wisest Americans here think the. establishment of a west Ger man government will be the sig nal for the Soviets to cut their losses and to terminate the Ber lin blockade. ICopyrtarht. IMS. Xew York Sarald TribuM. lac) With Watson at the Legislator Homecoming Feast at Mt. Angel Now Annual Treat for Solons By sUlpfc One day. away back, e lonesome but a friendly boy in whose veins ran the transplanted blood of Poland came from Astoria by the see to Mt Angel there to learn what tha kindly Fathers at the College would teach him. Tradition has it that he was full of fun and frollcksome as a colt In the meadow but those who were in charge of the college put their gentle bridle on him and guided him along the pathway of knowl edge until he had run out their course. And in that time he had become beloved of the Fathers, of his fellow stu dents and of all the folk in and around the town who e a m e to know him. u hen at last he left the auietude of ML Angel's cloisters for s distant and a larger scnooi which taught him the funda mentals of the Balsa Wataaa law. Finally, fin ished there he came again back to the home town nestling beside the Columbia where Its mighty waters first welcome the ships which come weary from their long jour ney across the sea. And there in the practice of his chosen profession he still was kind and fair and frank, and the coun sel he gave those who sought him was Just and honest and his advice was sound. He prospered and his fellow townsmen trusted him so they chose him to be their spokes man and that Is how Francis Francisco vich came to Salem IS years ago to be the senator from Clatsop county in the session of 1931. Back te ML Angel And when he came again so close to the college sitting on the hill the new senator remembered those who had guided his steps as youth, and he remembered the town folk whom he' had known. for he was not one to forget a favor or a friend. So he went back to ML Angel for a night and a re union and hers is where this story really begins. Out at ML Angel there used to be a group of friendly men who Off SGGDjOS TTmrm (Continued from page 1) "make America over." The pow er is inviting to those who want to wield it to enter a vast basin, with hundreds of millions of dol lars and authority to build dams, lay out irrigation projects, locate industries. It is thrilling, even glamorous to channel water and electric energy and thus stimulate and control in considerable de gree the development of a region. But holding and exercise of such political and economic power Is not without its hazard. The con sequences of error are tremen dous, the temptations to arbitrary action and abuse are greeL There has been a prime need for closer coordination among federal agencies; but that period of working In separate grooves is pretty largely a thing of the pasL The master plans are made. Con gress is busy implementing them now. The time element has work ed against tha promoters of a CVA. On them rests a burden of proof that a CVA is needed now with its shift of authority on work already well under way. Let us see what the CVA bill contains, count the teeth in the face of this gift horse and not urge congress to create a CVA before we know what such a creature will be. ' ' 4-H Club Leaders Receive 5 "v a " frS-- f f 'VS.-"' KETZES, Feb. 23 Five 4-H clab leaders smue sfter receiving their fire-year pins at the Marian eeaaty 4-H elnb leaders bansmet hen last Thswadav sdakiL They are Ralph Nelsen and Mrs. H. S. Dixen, Reiser: Mrs. ArriUa Adklnsen. KQZEX. Feb. tZ Mrs. W. O. Peend, Economies dab, sad Mrs. Wllllasa te fixers ap hew clab caxne eat last Tkarsday night, Vfa now and then would meet when the tasks of the day were done In a little cabin by the side of the road where they would cook themselves such a feast as they alone could do, whue they talked of crops, and cows, and cheese and other homey things. Now what they cooked was food that the Jovian chefs on High Olympus never knew. It was not godlike nectar. It was food: an offering to make King and Cour tier above the salt and all the peasants grouped below drool in happy anticipation, then eaL and eat and eaL It has no Olympian label but does it call for more? In common language it is frank furters and sauerkrauL But wait! Not what you get when you go to the xnarkeL It has meat In it, and spices and the kraut comes golden and steaming from the kettle. It is something, once taken must be taken again, and again and again if fortune Is sand. First Feast In 1931 And so. Frank went to feast in the cabin in 1931, and he went again in 1933. And in 1939 he sent out word that he was bringing three friends. And when the four reached the cabin they found waiting, not what their mouths had been watering for, but turkey, and dressing with all the sauces and the fixings. The three visitors took what was offered, as polite visitors should. But Francisco vich? He howled his disappoint ment until his hosts cooked up batch to keep him quiet. In 1937 the feast had outgrown the cabin and was moved up town into a larger halL In 1941 it was larger still. In 1943 Frank did not Join the feast, the unkind hand of Death suddenly had touched him and called him away, and those who did attend stood in silent tribute with tears in their hearts for their absent friend. So, last night, a still growing cavalcade went out to ML Angel where the townfolk held welcom ing hands out to them to come in, strangers without the gates, again to feast on that whs A ML Angel alone knows how to produce and having feasted to depart Strang era no longer but neighbors and mends. Salem Electric Elects Olson Dr. O. A. Olson was elected president of Salem Electric," lo cal electric power cooperative, at an organization meeting of the board of directors this week. Other officers for this year are Max Gehlhar, vice president, and Glen Hogg, secretary. The board also authorized sign ing a union contract with all Sa lem Eectrte office and outside workers. Firm Ex-Vice President Guilty of Embezzlement PORTLAND. Feb. S3 -UP)- A former vice president of s cor poration hare was sentenced to four years imprisonment today af ter pleading guilty to embezzle ment. Robert W. Fredericks, former vice president of the Accela cor poration, was charged with taking about $5,800 of the firm's funds. He was arrested last month in Petersburg, Va, after a nation wide search. Lake Lakbiah: Sirs. Jean Case. Middle Grave; Eisner Jeakey. A (left) Etaer," vice chairman, sit dewa en the 4-H leaders saao.net St Public .Records MUNICIPAL COTJKT Bertil Ljung, Spokane, Wash., charged with selling magazines with no permit, posted $50 balL CntCUXT COTJKT Edith Huddleson vs. Loren Hud dleson: Decree of divorce restores plaintiffs maiden name of Edith Sultner. Keith Brown Lumber Yard vs. Joe LJShaw : Order confirms sale of real piupeilj Interests. Fred Meier estate Order admits will to probate, confirms appoint ment of Agnes Meier Beal as exe cutrix, and dismisses petition con testing wilL R. L. Elstrom Co. vs. Herbert Hodkin and others: Defendants Ed and Leona Culbertson file amend ed answer admitting and deny ing. Hilma E. Dickie vs. Burdette Young: Order overrules defend ants' motion to make more defin ite and certain. Clara Sommer vs. Herman A. Sommer: Suit for divorce charg ing desertion seeks custody of two minor children. Married June 20, 1926, at Aberdeen, S. D. Elizabeth and Clayton E. Steinke vs. Arthur Schoenberg: Order dis misses suit with prejudice as set tled. Woodburn Fruit Growers' Coop erative Association vs. United Growers, Inc.: Suit seeks to collect $43,200 allegedly due from sale of berries to defendant in 1947. PROBATE COURT Clayson Ross Hammond estate: Order authorizes distribution of personal property. Telephone Call Helps Police Arrest Suspect Efforts of a meat market clerk and a Salem city police officer en abled Yamhill county authorities Wednesday to arrest Jack C De vis at Willamina. The young man is wanted in Salem on a charge of passing bad checks. Bail has been set at $1,000. He was being questioned Wednes day by McMinnville authorities who were holding him without a warranL Salem Detective Wayne Parker, who located Davis, said ha also is wanted in Coos Bay and in Wash ington. Although Davis used a U.S. navy identification card when he passed checks, Parker said he did not believe Davis was in the navy. Davis is charged with passing two bad checks here on February 15 one for $10 at the Midget Mar ket and the other for $8.89 at Howard Corset shop. A clerk at the market Jotted down the telephone number of a call Davis made at the market. Parker traced the number, found where the phone was located. learned from the residents there of the whereabouts of Davis and informed Yamhill officers. Judge, Engineers To Inspect Flood Threat on Santiam Marlon County Judge Grant Murphy and army engineers will today inspect lands threatened with flooding from the North San tiam river near North Santiam station. The area lies In a bend of the river where at the beginning of the century, a flood washed away a railroad bridge and several coun ty road bridges. Residents on about 1,000 acres of land there reported their fears of another flood to army engineers recently. County Commissioners Roy Rice and Ed Rogers and County Road Foreman Frank Woe Ike plan to attend a two-day conference on road building In Corvallis begin ning today. - Year Pins -1 -'7 Woodburn Co-op Asks Payment From Salem Firm Woodburn Fruit Growers' Coop erative association is seeking $43,- 220 allegedly due from United Growers, In&, of Salem on sale of berries in 1947. The Woodburn cooperative charged In a Marion county cir cuit court complaint Wednesday it delivered strawberries, loganber ries, youngberrles, boysenberries and evergreen blackberries to the Salem cannery. It is further alleged in the com plaint that the defendant paid a portion of the market price, ac cording to an agreement between the parties. The complaint alleges that the remainder of the price, $43,220 has not been paid and Is still due the cooperative. The pilot whale or black fish yields from its head a fine oil used in wawnmaaung. i ,..L... ........ Pearson States Alternative to Use of Surpluses New taxes are the only alternative to Oregon's use of personal income tax and corporate excise tax receipts for general fund ex penses. State Treasurer Walter Pearson told Salem Exchange club members at the Wednesday luncheon. Pearson said he favors putting all receipts into the state's general fund, with the distribution to be determined by the legislature for all departments. Changes 8 arrested Revisions of the state tax set-up as suggested by the treasurer, to overcome the income tax surplus existing along with a general fund deficiL Include: 1. Repeal of the state power to tax property, since the Income tax provides a broader base than property levy. He asserted that large property owners have al ways been able to beat proposals to transfer income tax receipts to the general fund because they were afraid a property levy might Bible Expert Talks Tonight Dr. John Trever of Chicago, an authority on the Bible, will speak at 7:30 tonight in First Christian church at a public meeting spon sored by Salem Ministerial asso ciation. Dr. Trever is one of the principal speakers at this week's Oregon Council of Churches con vention in Portland. The Bible Comes Alive' will be the subject of Trever, who is di rector of English Bible for the In ternational Council ' of Religious Education. He is the discoverer of the oldest known manuscript of the book of Isaiah, written about 100 B.C. He will confer with Salem min isters at 4:30 this afternoon in the First Christian church study. Bad Check Artist Given 18 Months Karl C. Coonrad was sentenced to 18 months in Oregon state pri son Wednesday morning by Mar ion County Circuit Judge Georee Duncan on a charge of passing a false $37 M check here last Decem ber 21. Coonrad pleaded guilty and waived grand Jury hearing on a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. According to the com plaint the check was passed at the Kelzer super market Deputy District Attorney Sam Harbison told the court that 12 other counties want "to Question" Coonrad concerning bad checks recently. Federal and Slaie Taxes Prepared by Harry G. Ewing Hears' p. m. til It p. m. Weekdays Z288 Falrrrovnd Kg, Nerth ef J. B. Drive-la lbeae S-3319 er S-4791 Conscientious, Dignified Service mm nnj,'BiMj mm 545 North Capitol I IT Enjoy Glasses Optometrists Dr. E. K. Bering Tour glasses can be ss good to look at as they are to look threegh. The new frames are fun because they can suit your face, compliment your hair and flatter your eyes. Find out tomorrow. , f XtS Court AT BORING DIGNIFIED Shewolefi Ouners!. This Is the opportunity you've been waiting: tor, so take advantage of It while yon can. nnTTrfi1 put I"089 needed motor repairs off any U Ull I longer. We hare made it possible for you to take care of this necessary work by paying a small am onnt each month. We are running a SPECIAL PRICE en molor repairs ca Chevrclclx Only Install piston rings sV Clean A aline oil pan -Ar Grind valves 1 SET PISTON RINGS This Includes all the above parts and labor for only Don't forget to ask about our budget plan j Donglas ricKay Chevrolet to. 510 North Commercial Salem, Oregon . ............ New Tax Only be assessed, as none has for nine years. 2. Enabling the tax commission to increase collections - "If we ever start collecting taxes from all who owe them, we'll really have a surplus. He noted that no real effort at collection was made until 1940 and that the depart-: ment's 70 employes compare with the U. S. internal revenue depart ment's 1,500 in the state. Revlslea ef Tax Sate 3. Revision of the Income tax rate, which he said is the highest in the United States becaus only Oregon allows deduction of fed eral tax payments. This practice, Pearson noted, makes the rate about 6 per cent, yien it is ac tually only about 3 per cent on total Income, resulting In poor publicity for Oregon. The treasurer declared himself in opposition to a sales tax, be cause "it eliminates too many items' from coverage. Club committee chairmen an nounced by President Peery Bur en are Kenneth Potts, public af fairs; Wayne Hadley, publicity! Alfred Loucks, finance; Dr. Pat Campbell, inter-club relations; WlHard H. 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