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YWCA Not ommunist
The attempt being mad to tie a communist
label to the YWCA because gome of the resolu
tions adopted in its convention at San Francisco
take advanced ground in the direction of social
reforms Is utterly silly. Some weeks ago a re
port of the committee on- unAmerican activities
cast an unjustified smear on the YW, whose pur
poses are Christian service primarily with girls
and young women
Some may not agree with all the items in the
list of objectives drawn up at San Francisco,
but only those allergic to change would label
them communistic. The members can decide for
themselves what to do about the national pro
gram, if anything; but the local program is too
Important to be injured by controversy over
convention resolutions.
The urgent need her is for a- new building
to give proper accommodation to the YW, give
a place for girls and young women to enjoy rec
reation and entertainment. Nothing should be
done to injure the Salem YWCA and prevent
its accomplishment of its own well-defined goal.
George K. Aiken
The thin margin of vitality which had sus
tained George K. Aiken, state budget director,
through the last two years failed him and he
succumbed early Monday morning to a heart
ailment which he had fought off gallantly for
many months. Death thus ended a life marked
by high devotion to public service in the field
of journalism and as a public official, and one
rich in friendships developed over the years.
High character and fine intelligence were
George Aiken's hallmarks. His excellent ground
ing in school and college was supplemented by
broad reading aad the probing of an alert mind,
so he brought to all his work a fund of infor
mation and a clear and logical habit of reason
ing. Rugged honesty was part of his very sub
stance; not only honesty in the handling of pub
lic funds, but intellectual honesty in dealing
with the problems of life.
This writer recalls an experience of many
years ago when George was mayor of Ontario.
He had found his city deeply involved financial
ly, and set as his policy the exercise of rigid
economy for which his Scotch ancestry is nojed,
to meet the city's obligations. We got to talking
with a public official of another city of Oregon
which was having financial difficulties. The let
ter's solution was to default on the city's bonds
a policy which was abhorrent to George Aik
en. As mayor of Ontario he held rigidly to the
policy of meeting its obligations and had the
satisfaction of seeing his city emerge from its
difficulties with credit unimpaired.
It was this editor's privilege to invite him to
serve the state as budget director. This is an im
portant office, with the duty of scrutinizing ex
penditures of all departmentsunder the gover
nor's jurisdiction. Its demands and details are
artlmes trying, especially so in the recent pe
riod of price inflation. Aiken discharged the
duties of his office with conspicious fidelity, con
scious always of his responsibility to the public,
yet understanding the problems of heads of de
partments and institutions. He had all the firm
ness that was needed to conserve the public
funds but those who dealt with him knew that
Southern Bloc Switches
By Joaeph Alsep
WASHINGTON, April 18
On of the most significant po
litical phenomena in Washington
haa been concealed, until now,
behind the closed doors of the
senate foreign relations commit
tee room. There Sen. Walter F.
George of Georgia, most influ
ential of the southern conserva
tives, has been hammering oa
Secretary of Stat Dean G. Aeh
eson and other witnesses to se
cure an admission.
H wants them to admit that
a vote for the Atlantic pack
will not commit him to voting
funds to - implement the pact
This clearly implies that he
means 10 oppose
raarming Eu
rope, if re-arming
Europe is at
ell coatly.
In order to
grasp the mean
ing of George's
new line, what he
la doing now
murt be contrast
ed with what he
has done in the
pa. ii was ceo- , T
rge. for instance, Joeepb Alapl
who participated
in the negotiation of the British
loan agreement; fought the then
Secretary of the Treasury Fred
Vinson because he thought the
amount too small; and with Art
hur H. Vandenberg of Michigan
led the battle for the loan la
the senate. Until now, George
has ' always gone along with
every major foreign policy en
actment. eee
This has been, of course, the
southern conservative tradition.
At the beginning of the first
Roosevelt administration, there
was still a discernible difference
between right-wing southerners
and right-wing northerners, even
on domestic issues. Men like
Pat Harrison of Mississippi and
he gigantic, powerful Joseph T.
aObinson of Arkansas might be
deeply conservative at heart. But
I One company
entl-freexe one
timing.
! California's
year. There's
theirs was a planter conservatism
with more than a trace of the
' old-fashioned agrarian populist
detestation of Wall Street. Hence
their willingness to follow
Franklin Roosevelt in the early
New Deal years. I
The labor issue!, and the con
nected racial issue, ended all
that. By the dose of the second
Roosevelt administration, when
domestic questions were to the
fore, the right-wing southerners
were well to the right of most
of their northern!: brethren. Yet
In the dangerous times before
Pearl Harbor, men like Harry
F. Byrd and George were lead
ing interventionists. Although
the anti-Wall Street attitude had
been lost from the southern tradi
tion, the world-niindedness (de
riving from cotton's dependence
on foreign marks It still remained,
a e o
George's line of questioning in
the foreign relations committee
signifies an important new de
velopment. On issues of foreign
policy, as well as on issues of
domestic policy, the right-wing
southerners of the democratic
party are now joining hands with
the right-wing northerners of
the republican pirfy.
The new alliance will play
a major role in -this session of
congress, which must face the
fact that we can j no longer fin
ance our foreign, policy out of
surplus. The existence of the
alliance was revealed in the vote
on Sen. Robert A; Taft's amend
ment of the EGA bill, cutting
the European Recovery authori
zation by 10 per cent. Among
the surprisingly small band of
23 faithful mustered by Senator
Taft, there appeared George.
Byrd. Russell of Georgia, Ellen
der of Louisiana. Holland of
Florida, Johnson of South Caro
lina and McClellen of Arkansas.
Perhaps the clew to the pre
sence on Taft's side of this ma
jority of the more right-wing
southerners can be found in the
absence of one of their closest
collaborators. Sen. James O.
he was fair in making his decisions. That he held
the office of budget director and executive sec
retary under four governors is in itself testimo
ny of his ability and character.
I His longer career however was as a working
Newspaperman: reporter and later editor and
publisher of his own weekly papers. He had
many interesting experiences: as reporter on the
St Paul Pioneer-Press he covered the famous
Minnesota railroad rate cases, when James J.
Kill was one of the star witnesses. He represent
ed the old Tacoma Ledger at sessions of the
Washington legislature, where he had contacts
with many men prominent in business and poli
tical life of that state. He made the Ontario Ar
gus a strong influence in the Malheur country,
Aiken and the Argus were important factors in
bringing the great Oyhee project to realization.
All along the way as reporter and editor, as
public official, George Aiken had time for fri
ends. His warm sociability, his store of infor
mation and anecdote, his lively sense of humor
made him a rare companion. A host of friends
Will feel a deep sense of personal loss in the
passing of George Aiken and will extend to the
family a sympathy which is sincere.
; As we say "Hall and Farewell" to George
Aiken the verse of Henry VanDyke's poem "Oh
Who Will Walk a Mile with Me" comes to mindi
l "With such a comrade, such a friend
r I fain would walk till journey's end,
; Through summer's sunshine, winter's rainj
; And then, farewell, we meet again."
The Busy Bees
v "How doth the busy bee?" goes a staple query.
Ifot too well, is the response from H. A. Scullen
of OSC. Rather he says the bee-keepers aren't
doing very well. The honey they sell brings
only about 10 cents a pound but it costs them
13 to 20 cents per pound to produce it.
One answer might be to get bigger produc
tion per bee; but who is to say the bees are
slackers now? To reduce the number of hives
would endanger our fruit crops, for the bees are
invaluable aids in fruit pollenization. Orchard
ifts arrange for beekeepers to bring in their bee
hives during the flowering season. In the one
JUst closing the weather has been perfect for
bees to work, carry pollen from flower to flow
er and bring home nectar for honey. Let us hope
that orchardists and beekeepers both profit well
this year. If not, then we'll have to put our bees
on government relief.
I Tor the first time within memory a secretary
spoke on the floor of the house, giving informa
tion requested by the speaker. But at roll-calling
time secretaries can whisper and how.
At Astoria the fish buyers cut drastically the
price for bottom fish. Evidently their bottom
dropped out.
has cut the selling price of its
- third. Yes, but consider the
i Legislators hope that Easter comes early la
(931 if that is what brings an adjournment
sale tax yielded $290,000,000 last
gold in them thar tills.
to Isolation
Eastland of Mississippi certainly
deserves to rank, in sheer violence
of reaction and obstinancy of
obscurantism, with the most ex
treme Dixlecrats. But Mississip
pi is the last southern state that
preserves a predominantly plant
er economy. The Cotton council
opposed the Taft amendment,
aad so did Eastland.
By contrast, the other south
erners above listed come from
states where the political oligar
chy has been more or less heav
ily infiltrated by large business
and large industry Moreover,
the south is one of the two
strongholds of the most reaction
ary element in the American
business world the other, of
course, is in certain areas of the
mid -west. And what has caused
the sudden iwitch-over of the
right-wing southerners to the
new isolationism is extremely
sirnpie ana odvioui.
They talk about "preserving
the soundness of the American
economy." But what they frank
ly mean is that they do not wish
to raise taxes in order to pay for
American security in this troubl
ed world, or for any other pur
pose. Very roughly speaking, the
importance of the right-wing
southerners' defection to isola
tionism willbe determined by the
president's leadership. If the
president's policy is not sabotag
ed by those men around him who
think like the southerners, and if
the president rouses the country
to a sense ef the world emerg
ency, many moderate republicans
will follow Senator Vandenberg,
rather than Senator Taft, as on
the Taft amendment. The deser
tion of the southerners can thus
be counter-balanced. But since
no one in his senses enjoys pay
ing or voting for new taxes, the
need must be brought home with
great clarity and force.
(Copyright, 1949. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
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action is by imposing- a much
tighter organization, which
quite foreign to the Oregon leg
lslatlve process. A two - house
legislature meeting only once in
two years always will require
minimum of 75 or 80 days to
dispatch its business.
When the book of session lews
is printed you will find that
large proportion of the laws en
acted are merely amendatory
These amendments are the out
growth of experience under ex
lsting law. Many are recommend
ed by the officials charged with
administering them. Others are
proposed by groups which work
under them. These amendments
may he minor or they may be of
major importance. But small or
great they consume a great deal
of time in committees and often
on the floor of the houses.
When the score is added for
the 43th legislative assembly.
am confident that It will show
much in the. way of substantial
accomplishment and a minimum
of legislative blundering. Despite
all the criticism of the bill for
old age assisance the fact re
mains that the assembly Is pro
viding many millions more for
relief to the aged, dipping liber
ally into the general fund and no
longer limiting welfare to what
can be squeezed out of the liq
uor administration.
Upward adjustments were
made in salaries for public em
ployes, but these are not dispro
portionate and generally are be
latea. fartiai provision was
made for needed building at
higher institutions of learning
If Portland isn't getting a junior
college (an expensive luxury at
best) it is getting a home for the
extension center. If the people
approve, the public schools will
get a boost In state school sup
port.
The state's tax problem was
solved at least for the blennium,
without imposing any new taxes
lor general purposes.
Labor marked up very sub
stantial gains in provision for
unemployment compensation and
In benefits paid to injured work
men. Nothing was passed to
cripple union activity.
riignway work was given a
big boost In the Increases voted
in gas taxes and fees. The game
department also drew larger In
come and adoption of much of
the program recommended by
the interim commission.
In the field of civil rights h
fair employment practices act
was passed; and the. reprehensi
ble law discriminating against
Japanese was repealed.
It was obvious that the minor
ity party (the democrats) were
doing a great deal of talking for
the record. 'The object appar
ently was to repeat the smear
on the 80th congress In the 1950
campaign. The smear will not
stand up. Republicans csn de
fend the record of the 45th as
sembly and should waste no time
In doigg so. For most of the im
mediate problems the assembly
worked out constructive solu
tions. They deserve the grati
tude bt the public for the success
of their labors.
Better English
By D. C. Williams
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "He wrecked his ven
geance." 2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "effusive"?
S. Which one of these words
Appeal Slated
From Pinball
Conviction
The case of a local cafe owner,
recently convicted by a Marion
county district court jury on a
charge of operating; a pinball ma
chine, will be 'appealad to circuit
court, attorneys said Monday.
George Green, convicted last
weak, appeared Monday before Dis
trict Judge Joaeph Felton, who aj
sessed a $78 fine. Lawrence Os-
terman. Green's attorney, asker for
a stay or sentence until the appeal
briefs could be drawn.
Green, proprietor of the 8 too
Lite coffee room south of Salem,
complained to the court that he
was the victim of a test of law sa
this county regarding pinball ma
chines. Stating he had been in
business here only two years, he
said he Intended to sell out and
leave Marion county.
Judge Felton also ordered the
pinball machine, which had been
confiscated by Sheriff Denver
Young in Green's establishment,
to be destroyed.
Chamber Hears
About Prepaid
Medical Plans
"Oregon is the envy of manr a
state for pre-paid medical plans
originated by the doctors them
selves," Salem Chamber of Com
merce was told Monday by Glen
Wade, public relations counselor
for the Northwest Medical-Dental
Credit bureaus.
Wade vigorously rejected the
concept of socialized medicine and
the pending legislation to put pub
lic medicine into social security
system. He presented figures to
back his assertions that such a
plan would be much more costly
man present voluntary medical
plans.
Free enterprise is at stake. Wade
declared In his address at a cham
ber luncheon, in the present issue
of public medicine. He quoted
Lenin's statement that socialized
medicine is the keystone in the
arch of the socialist state.
Mill City Seekg
nformation on
ndustry Growth
Representatives of Mill Citv
Chamber of Commerce met with
Salem chamber officials Monday
in Sa'em to discuss methods of
bringing new industries to Mill
City.
They were Harold Kliewer. Mill
ity mayor: Charles Wolverton.
editor of the Mill City Enterprise,
and Robert Veness, Tony Ziebert
and George L. Steffey.
Advising the croup for the Sa
lem chamber were William H.
Balllie, chairman of the industrial
committee; Roy Harland. president,
ana uiar uoenran, manager.
The Mill City representatives
stressed that they are seekina
to bring in industry that will effect
permanent employment for the
flood of new residents due to
arrive when construction of De
troit dam gets under way.
Is misspelled? Initiate, iniquity,
thing, inimical.
4. What does the word "osten
tation" means?
5. What is a word beginning
with la that means "to tear"?
ANSWERS
1. Say, "He Wreaked his ven
geance." 2. Pronounce the s as
in so. not as s. 3. Inning. 4. Un
necessary show. "It was a coarse
and glittering ostentation." 5
Lacerate.
Queen Ballot
Today at WU
Willamette university students
will select their May Week end
queen today in the third and last
all-school election to determine
her royal highness. The queen will
be chosen from three senior con
testants, Xdlth Fairham, Salem;
Carol Dimond, Portland, and Bar
bara Miller, Troutdale. .
Coronation will take place dur
Ingthe week end activities, April
29-May 1, according to Manager
Robert McMullen, Taft. The two
other finalists will be princesses
in tne royal court.
Suit Protests
Truck Permit
A suit seeking to block a recent
public utilities commission permit
to a cottage Grove transfer com
pany was filed in Marion county
circuit court Monday.
The suit was filed by nine Ore
gon trucking and transport Unas
engaged in transporting petroleum
and petroleum products in tank
trucks.
It is directed acalnst Public
Utilities Commissioner Georse
riagg. According to the complaint
riagg granted an operating per
mit to Jesse Lansing, jr., doing
Dusinese as cartage urove-Kucene
reign i a Transier company.
Objectors claim the order Is
unlawful because it disregards the
provisions of the motor transports
non coae regarding neanng on
applications for permit to operate
Dy transfer or operating rishts
ana tnat tne applicant failed to
produoe proof to support the find
ings of Flagg'a order regarding
transportation of petroleum.
Fiagg's order had transferred to
Lansing operating rights original
ly held by Jesse Lansing, sr.
House and Family
Offered to Find
A New Husband
PORTLAND, April IS The
oners are getting bigger on the
marriage market, men.
When a 28-year old brunette da
ciaea toaay sne wanted a man,
ahe called in reporters and an
nounced she had as added induce
ments a house and a reedy-made
family of three daughters, three
sons.
The woman, Mrs. Frieda Law-
son, said she is currently getting
szos monthly from the state wel
fare commission, "but I don't feel
right about living on relief."
Tie husband she wants should
be "somebody I can stand to look
at, and he should have an income
of at least $350 a month."
She added, "I don't expect to
love him right off."
ine cnuaren, ranging in age
from ll years to 2, are the result
of a marriage in Toppenish, Wash.,
when she was 18 years old. She
said her husband left her two years
ago, and she since had won a di
vorce. While she talked, the children
sat around, adding comments of
approval on the project.
Entry Deadline
Near for Hobbies
Deadline for entries In the an
nual Salem Hobby show n eared
Monday, with chairmen for the
sponsoring Salem Rotary club
working out plans for what la ex
pected to be a show with even
greater variety and more exhibits
than last year's.
Anyone with a hobby may reg
ister st Salem public library for
entering an exhibit in competition
in the show. The hobby show will
be held in the downtown armory
the weekend of April 29.
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Ignorance of
God Declared
Root of Evil
A lecture by Paul Stark Seeley
of Portland on the subject "Chris
tian Science: Rational Religion."
was delivered at the senior high
school last night
The speaker said that is Is en
tirely natural for everyone accu
rately to understand the nature of
God, the one intelligent cause of
the universe and man. The com
mon Ignorance of God, he said, is
what produces all kinds of human
discord, and the understanding of
God and man's relationship to Him
is what will brina health, harmo
ny, and success into our daily lives.
ine Deuel tnat tiod is an en
larged human personality, Mr.
Seeley said, is an lmnoaaibla rnn.
cept for the universal cause of
creauon.
Christian Science, he aart1
accepts Jesus' definition of God as
spirit, another word for mind. It
teaches that the only rational con
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intelligent, all - loving mind ex
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tne rugnest or whom is man.
Mary Baker TAdr hale! fast In
her thought. La her Ufa. and in her
wntiTvu to the lorie that a rood
God cakes only a rood and har.
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Edward Fandrich
Die Here at 68;
Services Today
Funerai services will be held
today for Edward Fandrich, 68,
who died Sunday at a Salem hos
pital after an illness of several
months. The Revjj Dudley Strain
will officiate at the S p.m. services
at W. T. Rigdon Chapel, and in
terment will be in Belcrest Mem
orial park.s j
Fandrich was a long-time Salem
resident and was1 employed by
the state of Oregon for 15 years,
During the last 19 years he had
operated the elevator at the sup
reme court Dunaing. i
Fandrich was born in Russia,'
June 18, 1880, and came to thj
United States with his family
when 10 years old. He resided
in California for a year before the
family moved to (Salem In 1891.
He was a member of the First
Christian church 'and of Salem
Elks lodge.
Surviving are he widow, Jen
nie Moll Fandrich; three step
children. John C. Ferguson Jr., of
Salem, Mrs. Claudine Dels nay oi
Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Mary
Christine Erlckson of Si let j: three
brothers, August, Daniel and Ous
tof Fandrich and j several nieces
and nephews, sll of Salem.
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