I Thm gUrteaman, golem, Qnqon. Saturday, April 23, 1941 tejftoti "No CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher (tittered at the poetofnee at Batam. Orefoa. u second elass "J? r 1,.-.ubU"h-4 every morning except Monday- Business office tl S. Commercial. Salem. Oregon, telephone S-J441. KXMBEK OF TBS ASSOCIATES FUSS rha AiaaeUtsd Praia la aatltled autsatvebr to Ike M fee resmfceWtteal at aS ta MEMBER PACIFIC COAST DTV1SIOM OT BVXBAV OT AOVBXTISDfO AdvartUlng Kapreaeatatlraa Ward-OrtffltH OS, rew Yerk. CM race. Baa rraactse. Detract. MZMBER AUDIT BUXXAV OT CXXCVLATION By Mail (la ASVaaee) CK Carrier Oregon Elsewhere In iMA One month , ,. . One monQi . Six montha Ona year.. .7S 4.0S Baruch on America' Future Old Bernard Baruch, councilor to presidents, has an article in the current Saturday Evening Post, "What of the Future?" which ought to b read by all persons interested In our future especially by those down at Washington whose decisions have much to do with determining our future. Baruch is concerned over the cold war, xne absence of peace, the fears which prevade home and business. He calls for stronger peace planning, and for decisions instead of drifting. He thinks we are spreading our commitments out too broadly, at the risk of our economy. This country," he says "is not strong enough to hold up the rest of the world Indefinitely." Baruch calls attention to the diverse ways Russia and the United States approach the ques tion of "guns or butter." Russia puts guns first with the people taking what is left. The United States puts emphasis on butter and "has produc ed wonderfully high living levels, dangerously out of proportion to our low mobilized power." He thinks it would be better if both nations moderated their extremes. Our individual selfishness contributes to our national insecurity: "Inflation is the result of each segmant of society putting its own selfish interest ahead of the nation al interest. The inflation that has racked the country since the war's end had its start In the price-control law of 1942, which let wages run free and farm E rices rose to 110 per cent of parity. That law legal :ed inflation." Then, says Baruch, we threw off price con trols and reduced taxes too soon. The administration and congress will do well to review all our commitments, at home and broad, put brakes on spending, work aggres sively for peace, put pressure on other countries to get off our relief rolls. Baruch closes with age counsel: "America has been termed the last hope of the rest of the world. It is also our own last resort. For us there can be no Lend-Lease. Peace is our goal peace of self-respect for the entire world. I be lieve we can get it by placing ourselves so as not to dissipate our resources and by uniting' for the com mon good instead of dividing for selfish advantage. To adjust to America's new position as the decision point of the free world will strain our democratic Institutions to their utmost. We shall not fall if we remember that all the material baubles for which we strive have no luster other than that which is reflected from freedom's light. Banded in common disciplines to preserve our liberties, we can meet whatever the future will bring." Will our. statemen be Intelligent enough to frame wise decisions and courageous enough to apply them? And will American citizens be tough enough to make some real sacrifices to preserve our democratic Institutions and keep ur nation strong? Slum Clearance The senate has passed a housing bill which gives promise of clearing up some of our city alums. Some may object to having government gp into the housing business it will not do so directly but will assist local housing authorities but one who has seen the squalor and decay of congested city housing areas will rejoice that finally an attack is being made on this national " disgrace. New York has done a pretty fair job of im- -proving its housing no longer are conditions as deplorable as when Jacob A. Reis told the story f "how the other half lives." Chicago certainly Military Arms Show Signs of Unity By Joseph Alsep WASHINGTON, April 22 If the experience of the 1930's means anything, nothing could oe more dan gerous than to respond to the challenge of So viet rearms ment by adopt ing a policy of collective mili tary weakness, s some are now proposing. On the other j hand, it is . sa equany oovious . . , that when the JPb AhQ jaaworld situation must severely strain American resources in any case, nothing could be more foolish than to do the defense job in hand In wasteful way. These twin truisms are rele vant at the moment, because de velopments at the Pentagon at last hold out some hope for ra tional, which means economical, American defense planning. Af ter nearly four years of ill -concealed failure to agree on a uni fied strategic concept, the joint chiefs of staff have at last got down to business. Perhaps they may fail in their task, which is essentially to slice away the un necessary excrescences put out by each service in order to com pete with the others. But at any rate they are trying. The background of this event Is interesting and important. The story may be considered to begin with the president'r order, plac ing a $15 billion ceiling on de fense spending this year. The order was originally issued last spring. The grave danger of lowing the tempo of American rearmament (which has been the Immediate effect of this order) has often been pointed out in this space. It must be said la , Justice, therefore, that part of blame lies with the military chiefs themselves. MM Favor Sways Vs, No fear Shall Aw frees First gutesmaav March It. IUI THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING aa wea aa as at stwi 1.00 00 Six months . One year Time was when killing a British sailor, or any British citizen for that matter, brought the weight of the British empire on the offending people. Now the reds in China have killed 44 British seamen and wounded 82 others in shell ing British ships on the Yangtze river. Britain Is protesting, but with the nationalist govern ment helpless and the truculent reds riding high on victory the protests get no response. The af fair is unfortunate, for the British ships were trying merely to protect British subjects in the renewed civil war. The communist armies re enforce the repeal of extraterritoriality, with guns. We agree with an editor of the N. Y. Times who writes: "As the cars get bigger and fatter it behooves the pedestrian to go on a diet to get thinner and thinner." Unless rains come, crops in western Europe will not be as good as last year. That may give a market for the prospective bumper crop in North America. It's an ill wind, etc. They are finding new vitamins faster than new chemical elements. Latest is B-12, said to be an anti-anemia factor. Great stuff, eating by the alphabet Best teaching opportunities are said to be for kindergarten and elementary school positions. The reservoir is starting to fill with those seek ing secondary and college teaching positions. An Iowa two-year., old was rescued from a cesspool by a paperhanger. Luckily it wasn't a plumber who had to go back for his tools. From the end of the war on ward, each service had followed the practice of preparing its own Independent program and bud get. All three programs and bud getts had then been added to gether, without reference to any agreed long-range plan positively allotting roles and missions to each service. There was also something close to an unspoken rule, that if one service got a billion, the others had a right to a billion also. And violent recriminations ensued if any service chief tried to suggest that his colleagues' plans were a bit ambitions, as General Carl A. Spaatz did about the naval air program when re armament began last spring. The president's budget ceiling order should have ended this state of affairs immediatly. It did not do so. simply because the service chiefs shared the general expectation that tna occupant of the White House would not now be Harry S. Tru man. Consequently, Truman's re election, and subsequent insist ence of his budget ceiling, caught the services totally unprepared. The outcome was the present scrambled together military bud get, which was prepared on the old principle of "a pistol for the rat. a pistol for the badger, a pistol for the mole." ; Until this time Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal had perforce followed a plan of let ting time and public opinion promote service unification. His detractors, who are either ignor ant or malicious or both, for get that if he had adopted strong-arm methods at the first, he would have had to put on the retirement list most of the American senior officers, espec ially in the navy. e e The knowledge of the gross Inadequacy of the combat strength provided in the pres ent budget had the sobering ef tatestaaii any4 COMP lacal saws . IjSC . a a .ULM has blighted areas within a five or ten mile radi us of the loop. Old multistoried brick houses built after the great fire of 1871 provide flats in which thousands of people live. They are de crepit now, not fit for human habitation. Gar bage is piled in the alleys. The municipal as well as the family housekeeping is bad. Other cities have their slums too. If to clean up the mess we have to breach our political theory, then the latter must yield. Now we'll see if the house strangles the bill aa It did In the last congress. Politics With Horseradish Plain as a pikestaff is the purpose of State Treasurer Walter E. Pearson's letter to Gover nor McKay urging him to veto the bill for old age assistance. It's politics, plain, old-fashioned politics with horseradish. The horseradish is for the governor. Pearson's concern is not so much for the old people or for the children of the old people over whom he sheds tears, as for their votes. A treasurer ought to be concerned with con serving public funds Leslie Scott was, Walter's father was. When the state has dealt as consid erately as it has for its aged people and that Without benefit of a sales tax to provide oodles of money the legislature is not to be condemn ed for not doing more, nor the governor for approving the decision of the legislature which came after nearly 100 days of wrestling with problems principally of revenues and appropriations. fect on the services that Forres tal had been hoping for. Early in December, the joint chiefs of staff began meeting twice a week instead of once. In order to get to real grips with their problem. Shortly thereafter, on Forresters motion. General of the Army Dwlght D. Eisenhower was brought to Washington to serve as an impartial arbiter. And the process was speeded up further, until it reached the present tempo of almost continuous hard work. If the final decisions are bold enough, the program of each service will be exactly tailored to carry out clearly defined roles and missions, which will in turn be determined by agreed, long range strategic plans. This will mean more real combat potential for the money invested. But there is also another kind of economy which the services might investigate, that differs from the economy derived from true unification. The army, for instance, has 10 combat divi sions out of a total of 692.000 troops and 370,000 civilians in its employ. The soldiers are the most expensive in the world. The civilians are even more costly than the soldiers. And there is no defending the ratio between the total of this ex pensive manpower and the small percentage in fully organized combat units. In this the other services are also at fault. Per haps an attempt at more eco nomical internal organization will follow the present effort to achieve true unification. Meanwhile it is vital to note that economical military plan ning is at last being attempted. The extravagances of the past must not be used as a sort of red herring, to confuse the argu ment about whether Soviet re armament demands the strength ening of the west. (Copyright. IMS. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) 7A X 1 f.VTWiCTf t wir T- The Saffefty Valve A Rebel's Reply To the Editor: In reading the letter from Judge Brand in the Friday morn ing Statesman anyone who at tended the April 19 meeting of the Salem YWCA must be im- firessed by the evidence that the earned judge seems to have missed the boat. In attempting to catch up he appears to be floundering in his own argu ment. The judge states the crux of the whole problem when he quotes a statement made at the meeting, "The National Publie Affairs Program is so broad that almost anyone might disagree with part of it." From there on the judge seems to have missed a large part of the debate. It is not the program which is objectionable to many YWCA members but rather the attempt to get the national group to ENDORSE the program in its entirety. We also object to any attempt being made to pressure the congress for legislation in these matters with the argument that our 300,000 members en dorse such legislation. The Salem YWCA voted by an overwhelming majority to sponsor a study of the entire program. We believe that such a study is an obligation on a Christian group such as ours. The need of that study was brought home to the local group most forcibly when one of our local delegates, upon being ques tioned after her return from the convention said, "I am so in experienced in these matters that-1 don't pretend to under OTP S3300Q3 JQ (Continued from page 1) of a few families and were work ed by slave labor, and to let the dispossessed masses share them. Of the sad lot of these people Tiberius spoke in a speech: "The wild beasts of Italy have their dens and holes and hiding places, while the men who fight and die in defense of Italy in deed enjoy light and air, but nothing more. Houseless and without a spot of ground to rest upon, they wander about with their wives and children, while their commanders with a lie in their mouths exhort the soldiers in battle to defend their tombs and temples against the enemy; for out of so many Romans no one has a family altar or an an cestral tomb, but they fight to maintain the wealth and luxury of others, and they die with the title of lords of the earth without possessing a single clod to call their own." Tiberius tried to reenact the law of Llrinius which limited holdings to 500 acres and pastur ing of public lands to 100 cattle or 500 sheep. He proposed set ting up a committee of three to divide surplus lands among the needy in lots of 30 acres apiece. Tiberius was the "communist" of his day and got killed for his pains. His younger brother Gaius suffered a like fate a few years later. DeGasperi Is responding to an ancient pressure the demand of people for land to till. He is compensating the present holders nd setting up a state agency to help the new holders with land improvements and with their farm and marketing problems. Instead of getting mobbed he may by this action help save Italy from the communist threat, In this country the concentra- tion of land ownership into few hands, snread of "factory farm- ing" with hired help, isn't roitb- We need to guard against it. SPRING SHOOTS stand all of this program, but the fact that these good Chris tian women at the convention endorsed this program is all that Is necessary for me. To study, weigh the evidence on both sides and finally form an opinion on each plank of this vast program is indeed a major task. Until that is done however, most of the members of the Sa lem YWCA refuse to endorse the program or urge its enactment About the most asinine state ment that has been made in the entire controversy is the one that the YWCA has been accused of being communistic. The word communist was not even men tioned at the April 19 meeting simply because that statement was deemed too silly to be worthy of recognition. It is true, that because of a record extend ing over a period of 12 years, the loyalty of at least one mem ber of the national paid staff may be open to question. How ever to imply that anyone has ever accused the whole organ! ration of being communistic Is about as logical as to question the integrity of the entire iudic iary because at some time some Judge accepted a bribe. Mass condemnation and mass endorsement are equally danger ous and dishonest. It is against mass endorsement that the so called "Rebel" group of the local YWCA has rebelled. Madalene L. Madsen. DANGEROUS INTERSECTION To the Editor: Before me, as I write this Is the Oregon Statesman front page of Tuesday, April 19. North 21st and Breyman street intersection, Is to my mind one of "most dan gerous" in Salem. Why? because I travel between Center and State on 21st and I have never approached Breyman without slowing to almost a stop, for a safe driver realizes a possible accident where vision is limited as it is at this intersection. Something should and can be done for safe and sane drivers to continue to be such, in Salem, by removing sight barriers such as found on three of the four corners at Breyman and 21st. Salem has a number of street in tersections which could be im proved for safety In driving, by corner clearance. Will Salem drivers continue to kill or will Salem home owners cooperate with the great majority of safe and sane drivers? W. A. Dunigan, 623 Breys ave COMMITTEE BEDRAGGLED To the Editor: Pretty soon the world will have peace in spite of the efforts in this country to prevent it, and the bedraggled unAmerican com mittee will be left as the most ridiculous "piece of flotsam on the political beach. But we must credit the committee with putting up a good fight for exist ence. It has been a long time since it began by calling Shirley Temple a communist, and since then it has unflinchingly mal igned hundreds of other good citizens even though some of its members had to take time out to try to defend themselves for personal crimes against the gov ernment. Lately it has declared the Paris peace conference by the world's greatest scientists to be a com munist conspiracy, and has de signated the YWCA as a com munist front organization. The DAR had better get its guard up. It will probably be stigma tized as a subversive fellow tra veler in the committee's next maudlin spasm. A. M. Church Amity The eighth grade of Amity school will nWsent a va- riety program Wednesday In the gymnasium. A pie social will fol- low the program. Pratum The Pratum-Macleay home extension unit will hold a demonstration on broiled dinners at Hogg Bros, in Salem Tuesday starting at 1:30 p.m. J Better English By D. C. Williams 1. What is wrong with this sen tence? "The noise did not faze the speaker." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "gnash"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Carrot, parsnip, parsly, lettuce. 4. What does the word "sat urnine" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with ad that means "to reprove gently"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "did not oonfase (or, disconcert) the speaker." 2. Pro nounce nash, a as in at. 3. Pars ley. 4. Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull. "He is a man of saturnine temper." 5. Admonish. Grain Futures Show Decline CHICAGO, April 22 -(JP) Grain futures dipped today after show ing early strength. The reaction followed reports that the government had reduced Its buying price for cash wheat a cent a bushel at Kansas City. The new acceptance basis is 29 V cents over Kansas City May wheat for No. 1 hard, basis the gulf for Ap ril 25 delivery. Other grains then dropped with wheat, although oats closed with little change from the previous fi nish. Wheat closed V to 4 lower than the previous finish. May $2.23- s, corn was lVi off to up, May $1.34-, oats were tt low er to y higher. May 69 V, rye was Va off to h up, May $1.29Vs, soy beans were off 1 to 14, May 12.-25,i-$2.26, and lard was 9 cents lower to 3 cents higher, May $11. 47. Valley Obituaries Mrs. Anna Wolf WOODBURN Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Wolf, 68, who died Friday at a hospital in Silverton, will be at St. Luke's Catholic church in Wood burn Monday. April 25, at 9 a.m. Interment will be in Sacred Heart cemetery at Gervais. Recitation of the rosary will be Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at Ringo chapel here. She was born In Romania, Sept. 29, 1880, came to the U. S. in 1904 and moved to her home near West Woodburn in 1927. She was a member of St. Luke's Catholic church in Woodburn. Surviving are her widower, John; five sons, Michael of San Francisco, Frank of Brisbane, Calif., Joseph of Bakersfield, Calif., John, jr., of West Woodburn and Henry who lives near Woodburn; a daughter, Theresa Ley of San Francisco, and five grandchildren. Merle Dennis Shields AMITY Graveside services will be held Saturday at Evergreen Memorial park, McMinnvile, for Merle Dennis Shields, three-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Shields, Amity, who died Thurs days. Suit Seeks 3488 For Damages to Railroad Bridge A suit seeking to collect $488 for damages to an Oregon Elec tric Co. railway bridge south of Salem was filed in Marion county circuit court Friday. According to the complaint the bridge was damaged last August when a truck owned by Sarah Marsh and James Forest collided with a tractor-trailer owned by D. P. McCarthy on the bridge. The complaint filed by the rail road company alleges negligence on the part of both drivers. The bridge is located near Orville. At Salem Schools By James Coeke Statesman School Correspondent LESLIE JUNIOR HIGH The Leslie Broadcaster won a first place rating for junior high school newspapers, according to word received this week from the University of Minne sota school of journalism, which sponsored a Nation al Scholastic Press association contest during the fall semester. The Broadcaster received 865 points, 35 short of faining an All American rating, t is published weekly under the direction of Robert Keuscher, fac ulty adviser. Doris Willard was editor for the fall term. To Display Talents Monday Leslie eighth graders will pre sent a talent show Monday for a school assembly. The program will include two numbers on electrical guitars by Beveral Rienhart, Marlene Roller and Delton Miller; piano solos by Laurel Herr and Arlyss Zeeb; a vocal trio composed of Laurel Herr, Sidney Kromer and Carol Lee; and two accordion solos by Dean Quamme. Also on the program will be a comedy number by Shirley Gay lord, Evelyn Andrus and Betty Carda; and a cello solo by Sidney Kromer. PARRISH JUNIOR HIGH Thirty seventh grade chorus students In Mrs. Madalene Suko's class are preparing a cantata to be given April 29 at 2 p.m. on KOCO. The cantata is the "Spirit of '76." It is the story of the dis covery of America to the time of winning Independence from England. ENGLEWOOD 8CIIOOL A flowering cherry tree was presented to Englewood school Thursday by a Camp Fire Girls group under the direction of Mrs. C. E. Kuberg and Mrs. R. C. Irwin. Carole Cummings gave the dedi cation, and Billy Drakely, Engle wood student body president, ac- ceptea tne tree. 6th Graders Write Play "A Day in a Mexican Village. a play written by several sixth grade students, was presented at Englewood Thursday. The group which wrote the play Included Beverly Hamman, Pat Gllmore, Danell Hamilton, Dick Armstrong, Lorraine Bagley and Walter Cray croft. Characters In the play were portrayed ty Verne Lentz, Paul ine Jarvln, Dick Armstrong, Danell Hamilton, Edward French. How ard Clemens and Beverly Ham man. GARFIELD SCHOOL Mary Bradley's fifth grade class used puppets to show how people live in China, Siberia and the Arctic, for Garfield students Fri day. Cub Scouts constructed the stage setting under the direction of Mrs. Louis Miller. The stu dents also sang several songs re lating to the people and countries. Silverton Saddle Club to Sponsor Dance Tonight SILVERTON. April 22 (Spec ial) Spurs that jingle, Jangle and a buckboard load of silver saddles will be in evidence Saturday night at Silverton armory when Silver ton Saddle club puts on its annual public dance. Proceeds of the dance are for the Silverton trailride, one of the valley's big outdoor events in June, reports Robert Humphreys, dance chairman. A rustle cowboy setting will be featured as the "guys and gals" from the range country as well as from the dty streets dance to the musie of Dick Johnson's or chestra. Special prizes have been gath ered for the best dressed cowboy and cowgirl. Mill City Council Asked To Close Taverns at Midnight MILL CITY The city council tions from ministers and citizens close at midnight and asking that no new taverns be allowed Inside the city. '1 The council decided to table the petitions until the request can be studied further. The petitions were I presented by the Rev. Thomas Courtney, Jr., and the Rev. Don Kinkle. Consolidated Builders, Inc., filed applications to construct 18 new homes to house Detroit dam con struction workers. The company also asked that the city take over maintenance of a sewage disposal plant for the homes when the firm is through with the homes. Councilman Albert Toman re ported on a meeting he attended In Stayton in which north Marion county representatives discussed power to be secured through con struction of the Detroit dam. Arey Podrabsky and Harold Kleiwer will attend a similar meeting in Stayton next week. Valley Driefs Aurora Pythian Sisters lodge 40 of Aurora celebrated its sum anniversary Wednesday night. A large number of charter mem bers were present. Kelcer Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Harpst and family of Coos Bay spent Easter Sunday at the home of Mrs. Etta Harpst of Keizer. Sweet Home The Sweet Home Eagles lodge held a rummage sale at the Eagles hall Saturday. Sweet Home Four Foster residents were slightly injured Friday in an auto crash east of Sweet Home. They were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cross, Mrs. Wayne Cross and Donald Jones. None re quired hospitalization. Saaayslde Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Taylor, Sunnystde, at tended the second annual Aber deen Angus show and sale at Klamath Falls recently. til IT? Vandals Syab Cars, Houses With Red Paint Red paint-swabbing ' vandals were the object of an Intensive search by city police officers Fri day after reports of painted cars. nouses, clothes and mail boxes filtered in to the police ! station. Police reported the vandals, de scribed as two slicker-wearing juveniles, painted profane words on the A. F. Ziegenhagan resi dence. 2410 Laurel ave., St. Vin cent de Paul church, and several cars clothes lines and a mall box In the Laurel and Myrtle avenues area of north Salem. 1 Paint brushes used by, the pair were found at 2515 Laurel ave. where much of the paint waa smeared and officers were able to obtain footprint marks as well, as descriptions of the youths. Stocks Stage Return Thursday Drop NEW YORK, April 2li(P)-Tn stock market made a fairly success ful comeback today after Thurs day's beating. j A decisive rally failed to devel op but a substantial number of shares pulled ahead and losses for the most part were confined to fractions. Trading had a tough of ner vousness to it aa many brokers wondered if yesterday's severe de cline would continue. Yesterday's break, one of the sharpest of the year, forced the general price level down to a low since Feb 281 For a while it seemed likely that bearish forces were in full control. Quotations were marked down over a wide area immediately af ter the opening bell and numerous blocks of 1,000 or more shares ap peared on the ticker tape. Total turnover amounted to 89 000 shares, which compared with yesterday's 1,300,000. j The Associated Press average of 60 stocks remained at 62.6. The in dustrial and utility groups moved ahead a trifle while the;: rail sec tion slipped. Ji Of the 978 Individual II S s u e which traded, 399 declined and 29l advanced. X The market, incidentally, does not have far to go to the low of the year and even of last year. The 1949 low la 61.4 and bottom fof 1948 to 60.S today the market ended at 62.6. Stayton The main power cir cult in Stayton Is being rebuilt by the Mountain States Powaf company to improve electric ser- company officials, 'fall poles have been Installed on 3rd street oa the west side and work of re- stringing was begun last week. Wednesday night received peti requesting that taverns be forced to mm I im MP Right now you can have yotur ptdM of three vegetable-growing tractote the Farmall Cub, Super-A, and C They all have fingertip Faraaall Touch -Control and matched.qaide change multiple-row Implements. Farming's a snap with H wf hydraulic implement control. Just ask about it . . . I'll be glad to expbda bow It saves not only jour tlflae but also your money, j a j Cull Janes H. 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