I ho. Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday April 14, 1949
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Overflow Capitol "
Salem's old high school building Is serving as
a junior capitol. It houses offices of various
branches of government from tha federal gov
ernment to the school district. The school ad
ministration offices are in the building, but the
principal tenant is the state unemployment com
pensation commission. The Marion county pub
e welfare commission occupies considerable
space. Then several federal bureaus have offices
there: farmers home administration, area rent
office, bureau of reclamation, bureau of land
management (O St C lands), are quartered there.
The Salem long range planning commission has
space in the building.
When the unemployment compenation com
mission moves into the new building in the cap
itol group the county expects to take over space
in the building to house county offices while the
new courthouse is under construction.
Thus the old building is really being used
In fact we do not know how Salem could have
gotten along without it. There have been dickers
from private interests to buy the land and build
ing; and the school board would sell if it got
its price. Meantime it functions nicely and con
veniently as an overflow capitol.
1858 and 1905 Bancroft assembled papers, pam
phlets, books, diaries and other materials from
pioneer sources. Since then the University of
California has gone-on collecting material. Much
material dealing with northwest history is hous
ed in the Bancroft library.
I At present, reports the San Francisco Chron
icle, the library is not properly housed. Some of
the material is stored under the bleachers at an
athletic field. Certainly the library is worthy of
proper housing both for protection of the mate
rial and for making it readily accessible to those
who want to use it.
While we are on the subject we want to re
iterate our call for a building for the Oregon
Historical society. Its collection of northwest
historical material is the largest in the country.
At present the society occupies a mezzanine
floor of the Portland auditorium building. It de
serves a spacious, dignified building of its own.
If private philanthropy will not provide one, the
state of Oregon should.
Idaho Atomic Plant
North of Pocatello, Idaho, near the town of
Arco where former Governor Bottolfson runs
the newspaper, the atomic energy commission is
planning to set up a plant for testing methods
for industrial uses of atomic fission. It's a range
country, with few inhabitants, and the govern
rJsent already owns most of the land; so it was
logical selection. The plants can be isolated
so neighbors will not be burned from stray radi
ation. Testifying before a house committee David
Lilienthal, chairman of the commission said the
first project being worked out for nonmilitary
use of atomic energy is in the design of a plant
to drive ships. He said the prospects are bright
for success.
So far only larpe projects are contemplated
because the protective piles have to be large-to
confine deadlv rays released In fission. Some
day however it may be possible to fractionalize
atomic energy and run your car for a week on
tiny pill. The installation at Arco, which will
cost many million? of dollars, should prove very
helpful In helpinc man to employ atomic energy
for the good of humankind and not its hurt.
ffotiainsr for Historical Library
The California legislature is considering pro
posals to finance the erection of two buildings,
one on the university campus at Berkeley to
house the Bancroft library, the other to be erect
ed In Los Angeles to house historical and cul
tural materials relating to southern California.
The Statesman, from whose files Bancroft's
twriters gleaned much of their information for
the writing of his history of Oregon, hopes that
the measures are approved, particularly the one
dealing with the Bancroft library.
H. H. Bancroft was the leading historian of
the west. The library which bears his name Con
tains the largest collection of material dealing
with Pacific coast history. For 50 years, between
Seal the Cracks in HB 452
The pinball people never rest. They are al
ways working to get favorable legislation and
to influence public officials to countenance or
to license the operation of their machines. Com
ing up today Is House Bill 452 which pretty well
guts the safeguards in the act of 1943 and opens
doors for licensing not only by the state but by
municipal bodies of devices readily usable for
illicit purposes.
I The bill i takes out the section of the old law
which specifically denies giving recognition to
illegally operated machines. It in effect invites
municipalities by similar legal legerdemain to
license machines which are illegal under other
state law.
. The house should tear this bill apart and see
that it gives no crack in the door for illegal
machines to operate.
Traffic Notes
I Busiest airline leg is the flight route between
New York- and Boston; second busiest the New
York-Miami run and third San Francisco-Los
Angeles.
Other interesting facts are that railroads han
dled 44 per cent of the traffic between San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles, buses 28 per cent and
airplanes about the same as the buses.
A number of daily papers across the country
have serialized the Fulton Oursler book "The
Greatest Story Ever Told", a "rewrite" of the
life of Jesus Christ. Nobody has ever improved
oa the simple narrative of St. Mark and the
other authors of the gospels. In this week of
Lent it is a good religious exercise to read one
of those short books, particularly the latter por
tion dealing with the events of Holy Week, cul
minating In Christ's death and resurrection.
An expedition la being planned to go to Mt.
Ararat in Armenia to look for the remains of
Noah's ark. Moscow's Pravda says they are spies
for Anglo-American Imperialistis. That isn't
true, but we predict if the searchers find any
thing it will be the remains of some airpfane
that got off course.
Slip by Truman Cheers Isolationists
C?AZVABor,
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By Joseph Alsep
WASHINGTON This some
what befuddled capital has just
'been treated to an unusually
puzzling specta
cle. First the
administration's
senate leaders
strained every
nerve to pass
n intact Euro
pean recovery
program. Then
the Atlantic
fiact was proud
y signed. And
then the presi-
nomic advisor, Joaepb Alaofjl
Dr. Edwin
Nourse, suggested that the At
lantic pact obligation to rearm
western Europe should be paid
for by cutting our own defense
and the European recovery pro
grams. He added blandly that
hn speech had been approved
by the president.
When the administration gives
Invaluable aid and comfort to
the congressional Isolationists,
an explanation is in order. Sup
erficially, of course, the expla
nation is very simple. The presi
dent has allowed what was done
to him twice by Henry Wallace,
to be done a third time.
Not long ago. Dr. Nourse re
turned from a tour of the coun
try much impressed by the busi
neii groups' natural dislike for
taxation. He apparently conclud
ed that it was better to torpedo
jur foreign policy, than to raise
tax to pay for lend-lease to
Europe. He outlined these views
to the president. Since the presi
dent' budget message specifical
ly proposed raising taxes in or
der to meet the Atlantic pact
obligation, one must conclude
the president did not understand
Dr. Nourse, as one must also
suppose he failed to understand
Wallace on the celebrated prev
ious occasions.
a a a
At any rate, Truman author
CrH Nourse to express his viewa
in a speech to a tsar department
orientation conference, merely
requiring that he clear the
speech in advance with Secre
tary of the Treasury John Sny
der and Budget Director Frank
Pace. Snyder heartily approved
the Nourse argument.
Pace, seeing the contradiction
of the president's l budget; mes
sage, protested the speech. But
Pace was somehow eluded. And
the state department was evi
dently not consulted at all, al
though it Is reported thst the
president also asked Nourse to
show his speech to Under Sec
retary of State James Webb.
Nourse's speech evoked an
immediate response from Capitol
Hill, as any infant of three could
have foreseen it would. Nothing
could have been more pleasing
to the senators and representa
tives who are determined to
cripple American foreign policy,
if need be, in order to avoid a
tax rise.
Their own arguments had been
echoed by the president! offi
cial economic augur. They: rush
ed up onto the roof, cheering
loudly. The president then Name
ly disavowed Nourse, which did
nothing to counteract the disas
trous damage already done in
the delicate congressional 'situa
tion. General ineptitude sticks out
of the whole episode like a sore
thumb, as it stuck out of the
11-too-similar Wallace episodes.
But for this episode, as for those,
there la a deeper explanation
also. This explanation is fore
shadowed In Secretary .Snyder's
Army day speech in Boston,
which dimly, very cautiously, but
quite noticeably hinted at exact
ly the same points made by Dr. '
Nourse.
The truth is that there Is a
new isolationism abroad In the
administration. Prior to the elec
tion. Secretaries Marshall and
Forres tai end Under Secretary
Lovett ruled supreme in the for
eign and defense fields. Some of
those around the president: often
sabotaged the president's poli
cies but the policies that were
sabotaged were on the domestic
front. Now these men have gain
ed self-confidence and are ven
turing into the foreign and de
fense field, not without some
encouragement from the presi
dent himself.
The first sign of this rather
astonishing phenomenon was the
sharp reduction in the tempo of
our own rearmament, ordered
by the president this fall. The
original impulse for this move
came from Secretary Snyder, Dr.
Nourse and the then Budget Di
rector James Webb (who is like
ly to form different Ideas at the
"state departhent). There have
been other signs also of this
encroachment, such as Snyder's
appointment as a permanent
member of the national security
council, and the odd retention
in office of Snyder's ally, Secre
tary of Commerce Charles Saw
yer, who very nearly sees eye to
eye with Senator Wherry.
There are probably two sources
of this new isolationism. First,
the independent position and
strong characters of the old
managers of foreign and defense
policy were no doubt resented
by the men around the presi
dent, if not by the president
himself. The old foreign and de
fence policy makers were accus
ed of "crisis mongering," and
of being under the influence cf
"the brass." What they did was
resented, as were the men them
selves. Second, most of the men
around the, president are funda
mentally conservative, deeply
anxious not to rock the boat and
quite ignorant of the world siH
uatlon. Thus they were and are
devoted to business-as-usual,
bitterly opposed to higher taxes,
and in general in favor of sacri
ficing the future to the present.
With the Nourse speech, this est
has at least peeped out of the
bag. It can prove to be a very
dangerous animal.
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Even Local Earthquake Fails to
Unseat Session of Legislature
By Ralph Wataon
For as long back as any present memory can recall, Wednesday
was the first time that lu-disposiuoned Nature ever has tried her
hand at shaking the Oregon legislature out of the capitol building.
And she did a fairly successful, though not lasting, job of it at that.
It certainly was entertaining the way some of the earnest lawmakers
scurried out from under the swaying chandaliers and headed for the
open air. However the eerie, sway
ing did not last long enough to
make a permanent dent on trie
legislative conscience so that a hot
lunch restored the lawgivers to
n norm a 1 1 1 y and
the monotonous
drone of the
reading clerks.
Yet the session
still paces on, so
close to the end
that the boys are
commencing t o
gaze 1 n t p the
crystal baU to
catch a glimpse
of the potential
gavel wi elders af
the next session
BUI pit WaUoa
in January 1951.
Not Much of Secret
It is not telling much of a secret
to relate that the democratic op
timists of the senate have more or
ess high hoes of stealing the pre
sidency of the 19S1 senate away
from Its long time residence in the
republican compound. The present
senate has 10 democrats on its
roster the majority of whom will
holdovers in 1991. Senators
inn. Holmes and Thompson
whose terms expire undoubtedly
would be returned by their dis
tricts should they seek reelection.
Republican senators Belton,
Chase, Engdahl, Gibson, Lamport.
Marsh, McAllister, Rand ana
Walker, aU must seek reelection,
and all must face the democratic
slings and arrows of the 1930
battle.
Six republican defeats would
turn the senate over to the demo
crats for the first time since away
back before the days of Joe Simon
and the minority strategists have
been very industriously loading
their guns all during the current
session. And, what puts the situa
tion still more on the razor's edge
is the circumstance that there are
at least not less than two senators
registered under the republican
banner who might be coaxed into
a "coalition" organization provid
ed the cards fell to their liking.
However the republicans do not
anticipate that the minority will
overtake them and they have a
bunch of veterans to wheel into
line, all of whom, however, are
under the handicap of having to
seek reelection in 1930, Including
senators Engdahl, Gibson, McAl
lister, Marih, and Walker. Senator
Patterson is the only one of tha
regulars who will not face a cam
paign. Marsh Mentioned
Senator Marsh, former speaker
of the house, is rumored to be the
Number One boy in the list, while
McAllister another former speaker
is not too far back in the shadows.
Senator Dunn or Senator Thomp
son presumably are top men on
the democratic side, though both
must seek election next year.
On the house side of the assem
bly the partisan balance Is not so
finely drawn or the situation quite
so hectic. There are but 11 demo
crats in the house and these, out
side of Multnomah, are all pretty
stable and dependable legislators
Consequently the democratie
threat la not so ominous there as
in the senate.
Able Legislators
The house has a long list of first
term men on its roll who have
proven themselves to be able and
sound thinking legislators. Two
years from now with a session s
experieice behind them they will
be able to click right along from
the drop of the gavel.
And they have a list of veterans,
any of whom would handle the
gavel ably: Max Landon, with
four sessions behind him; Ralph
Moore, with the same score; John
Steelhammer with 5; Thomas with
7: Wilhelm with 2: and last on the
democratic side', but in view of
service and ability not by any
means the least, Henry Semon
with 9 consecutive sessions to his
credit.
There surely should be a speak
er nestling in that" list. The story
book has it that Max Landon: and
Ralph Moore are In the front line
But there is a long, long time of
waiting (and watching, and work
ing) between now and January
1931.
Literary Guidepost
By W. O. Rogers
WITHOUT MAGNOLIAS, by
Bncklin Moon (Doubleday; S3)
"I leave em alone, Bessie.
They doan mess with me." This
la Luther's explanation to his
sister of his ability to gat along
iwith white folks in the little
' Florida town where they live.
His other sister, Alberta, has
run away north, where she can
treat whites, or some whites, like
equals. But his mother r and
Eulia, whom he longs to marry,
stay where they were bona and
brought up; and Eulia's old fa
ther Jeff sticks it out defiantly, a
shotgun ready to pepper anyone
who bothers him. President Rog
ers of a nearby Negro college
where Bessie works, stays in the
South, as he says, to educate Ne
groes for their expanding oppor
tunities. What expanding opportunities,
asks Prof. Gardner, and thinks
the good jobs will still go to
Better English
By D. C. Williams
BETTER ENGLISH 11 ..rbybin
1. What is wrong with this sen
tence? "He is one of those men
who is always polite.'
2. What la the corrent pro
nunciation of "protest" (noun
and verb)?
3. Which one of these words is
misspelled? Occultist, ocoulist,
occurrence.
4. What does the word "re
condite" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with pa that means "youthful"?
ANSWERS
1. Say, "He is one of those
men who are always polite." 2.
Accent noun on first syllable,
verb on second syllable. 3. Ocu
list. 4. Hidden from the mental
view. "Recondite causes of
things." 5. Puerile.
whites . . . which makes him a
radical and, it is whispered, a
Communist. Other Negroes, to be
sure, are frankly glad of a post
tion one notch above their fellow
black men; whites lord it over
them, they lord it over more
luckless blacks. But on the
whole these Negroes are trying
to make the best of it. Luther
counts on his boss to protect him
in case of racial disturbances;
Rogers counts on his white
board. They could be worse off.
they admit to themselves, and so
are resigned to not being better
off.
But things happen. Luther's
word is futile against a white's
charges. Rogers and Gardner to
gether are no match for the pre
judiced wife of one of the trus
tees. They tried to be content
with half a loaf, but they hate
to be reminded so forth rightly
that a half a loaf Is all it is.
Worthykwinner of the publish
ers George Washington Carver
award, this novel is a first-rate
example of the use of fiction to
illustrate a conviction, in this
case the conviction is . .
whether you agree with it or not
. . . that the South is not doing
mucn to ; Dnng the Negro people
within the fold of the human
race, or in other words, that the
Negroes are getting nowhere fast
in their conflict with white pre
judices. But more than that, it
is, I find, a very tense story,
with every line brimming with
menace, leading you to expect
ceaselessly that at any minute
the lion, tired of lying down with
the Iambi will eat hira up.
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Churches Plan
Union Service
OnCodFriday
(Story also on page 1.) '
Good Friday services by Salem
churches will be highlighted by the
union services from noon to 3 p.m.
in First Presbyterian church, spon
sored by Salem Ministerial asso
ciation. Other mid-day rites will
be at St. Paul's Episcopal and St.
Mark Lutheran, both from noon
to 3 p.m.
Also on Friday will be com
munion at St. Mark Lutheran at
11:30 a.m.; at First Evangelical
United Brethren at 8 p.m.; vesper
service at Christ Lutheran at 7:43
p.m. with special choir music;
Easter music from Handel's Mes
siah by the Sanctuary choir of
First Methodist church at 8 p.m.
Catholic services Friday will be
at St. Joseph's, procession and
mass of the presanctlfied at 8 a.m.,
services from noon to 3 p.m., sta
tions of the cross and sermon at
7:30 p.m.; St. Vincent de Paul,
mass of the presanctlfied at 3 a.m.,
way of the cross at 2:30 p.m., Good
Friday service at 7:45 p.m.
Both Catholic churches will have
special rites Saturday. The season
will close Sunday with Easter ser
vices in aU Christian churches.
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Qoverdale Man
Undergoes Surgery
CLOVERD ALE Robert Schaef
er, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Schaefer, is doing nicely st Salem
General hospital, where he was
taken recently for an emergency
appendix operation.
Mrs. Lloyd Wallace (Arlene
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Bouchle) and small son Cody of
Redding, Calit, arrived the first
of the week at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs.: Earl
Hedges, for a visit, j I j
Mrs. Sam Drager was hostess
Tuesday honoring the birthday an
niversary of Mrs. A. A. Dumbeck.
Places were set for Mr, and Mrs.
A. A. Dumbeck, Mr. i and Mrs.
Aaron Dumbeck and the prager
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