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f TsW Cluloansan, Sal l i)rej5Dii CHA-W aUn4 at h BOlWflN at rbUshc4 every msrniag, General Clay Retire General Lucius Clay will retire in a few day 4 from the arduous post as military governor of : Germany. He does so at a high moment which contrasts sharply with the bittar and discour- j aging periods that have marked much of tha t postwar period. As the trains rumble into Ber- r Fin from the west and back again Clay must ? enjoy the victory that comes from a triumph of policy. Clay has stood up against Russian pressure ; and it was his answer of the allied air lift which . brought defeat to the Russian effort to squeeze the allies out of Berlin. Launching the lift was a risk. There were many skeptics who thought ? It, would fall to bring in the supplies that Ber- i lin needed, who feared the grounding of planes in -winter storms and fog might bring Berlin to ' a Ute of siege. There was danger too that R-jwta might offer interference with the trans- : port planes; and incidents might occur that: .would precipitate war. Last spring and sum-1 mer the west did not know how far Russia was prepared to go to support Its policy. The "calculated risk" that General Clay took paid off. The air lift was costly, running into : hundreds of millions of dollars. But it deliver ed the goods. The record load was just under; 11.000 tons in one day. The airlift demonstrated; the magnitude of American and British air power. It reassured the Germans that the allies' would stick it out and not turn their country1; ovt to communism. It finally convinced the Ruviians that resumption of trade and of nego tiations was better than the deadlock and far bM-r than resort to arms. For four years General Clay has been at the; moat sensitive spot on arth. A miscalculations or a wrong move might have resulted in war.; Hn great discretion and his firmness have: combined to save the iituation from disaster.-; The German people havf come to trust him;; the Russians to respect him As his tour of duty draws to pti end he should receive the v-ry highest tribute from the peoples of the western nation. Socialism Alieai for BrilUh Steel Th Hriti-h hruse of -ommons has voted to nationalize the steel industry. This is the cap stone of r;.- J.-h- p?rty"n vciaUxation program for lit five-year lease of power. There is no hd - o: Tir' ism of tteel'a performance as the.- was wih the coal industry; but the left , wing of the Iibrr party demanded steel's cap- '; itulat i'.-m. It may be noted that these nationalised in dustries do pretty well for the bureaucrats that run them. The Glasgow Sunday Post reports that the chairman of the coal board gets $34,000 j a year, and a deputy divisional marketing man-ag-r gets $12,000. In nationalized transport the chairman gets $34 000 and the IS transport commissioners get $20,000 a year. Not bad for; government jobs. Steel should do as well for the tophtnds. . . . . Pacific universitv and the Forest Grove sec; tlon of Tualatin plains, are celebrating their 100th anniversary this year. A 18-scene histor-: leal pageant Is clanned for Sept. 19-25. We haven't heard if the male residents are to growj whiskers perhaps not. ince Forrest Grove was vat of "culture '' But there will be a queerC apd already they are circulating "wobdenf: mwy made from a beech tree that was Grand: ma Tabitha Brown's bee tree. She is the grand Id pioneer woman who arrived in Salem with hr party on Christmas day. 1844. having made the crossing from Fort Hall by the "southern Senate Stopper Holds! Reorganization By Jeseen Aleee- WASHINGTON. May 11 The pi--iJcnt has done well to give the congress a sort of tickler, la hi statement urging quick action on government reorganization. The truth is that all the ponder ous labors of the Hoover coea miioo are perilously likely to produce no more result than the fruitless efforts to reorganize the government in the Roosevelt years. Several bills are before coo grM, ranging in character from the second de- fefi unifica-tt-Mi bill to the bills raising the ah kingly low salaries of higher officials, ani giving the eaov ernment de cent house keeptng servi ce The heart of she whole program, how ever, is the v. Joseph AlsopJ maiore granting the president general powers to bring- order out of the chaos of the whole eae-i-utive branch. An 1 this heart has. so to speak, already had a dagger driven thr nigh it in the senate com mr'ee on executive expendi ture. The hand that held the dagger u the hand of Senator John L. McLellan of Arkansas, a pi -asant -mannered country law yer who would have feit snore et home in the administration of James JC. Polk. He gutted tne btll by a simple system. He ar'arhed aa amendment provid ing that anything the president does to snake the executive branch snore efficient, may fee disapproved by either the sen ate or the bouse within si sty days. As a practical matter, this pre- vii jo simply means that president will be debarred any of the really dtfftewtt mni important parts f the Jeax LalS "We Fmvor Xways U, f " First 8 ;t. usi THE STATESMAN PUBLISHINC COMPANY A SPRAGUZ, Editor knd Publisher Athh. a mm nd elaaa ssetter nnder act ef office 111 ft. CmumrUI, 8 slews. grait imm route." a tin v alley and chartered as Tualatin Plains academy in 1849. Later the bame was changed to Pacific univer sity Ths institution has rendered splendid serv ice thrbiigh century and is in strong position to run the race through another hundred years. Divorces Causes The divorce complaints.usually cite cruelty as grounds for divorce. The San Francisco ju venile cburt after a study of 341 cases which in volved Child custody found that the real causes of divorce are principally alcohol, poor house keeping' too early marriage or too short a courtship, "in-laws" and lack of religious train ing. Itsjreport concludes: Trim an over-all observation, it appears that perhaps the basic reason for divorce is that adults; feel they are entitled to happiness In this world, from which follows an increasing tolerance of divorce in our time. "There Is no doubt that many divorces are products of a generation grown up during a period of turmoil and confusion wherein that which was once taboo has become acceptable now; and wherein there has come about a dis carding, to a greet degree, of emphasis on the sound historical and spiritual values of our forefathers." Happjiness la a great goal in life; but in mar riage happiness is a product of joint effort not something that comes as one of the wedding gifts. 1 : Heading Brings Shock It wis something of a shock to see the head ing "Eagle Scout Held for Church Slaying" in The Statesman Wednesday. The shock la testi mony to ; the high standards of scouting. The rarity of apprehension of a boy scout for a crime against the law' Is very well known; and for an eagle srout to commit homicide seems quite in credibly. But boys do go wrong this lad was a choir boy at church as well as a scout; and no one grieves over a boy's downfall more than the agencies scouts, church, YMCA which have worked to build up his character. Think how many more moral failures we would have if we didn't have these organizations for youth training. The i t. Louis Post-Dispatch and Chicago Daily frews exposed the facts that over 30 edi tors arjd publishers of papers in Illinois were on the state payroll during the administration of Governor Green. That is a sorry record for the newspapermen of Illinois and for the state republican machine which made hirelings out of therh. The voters of Illinois kicked Green out at the last election giving his democratic op ponent Aldai Stevenson the largest majority in history. Had this newspaper scandal been made public! before election the Green defeat would have been even-bigger. Governor Tom Dewe'y says there's "no poll tics" in his vacation trip to Europe; and says ha Isn't going to pull a "Henry Wallace" while he's abroad. He may till have ambitions for the presidency but we doubt if republican lightning will strike three times in the same place. Some of the administration spokesmen say the country will go into a tailspin if congress elampi brakes on spending. Other eminent au thorities say well be broke soon if we don't. It seems j we're doomed, one way or the other. Thej horse Ponder, winner of the Kentucky derby J left a good many bum guessers plenty of losses to ponder over. I For there is hardly anjl admini strative agency wortht of the name that cannot master the votes to preserve itself in at least one chamber of congreea. patronage, plus pork. Alua local interests, plus the seniority sy stem in congressional j commit tees, make this certs i 9. In its present form, in short, j the gen eral reorganization bill is a fraud. I Considering past history, it is not surprising that the principal agency Senator McLellan la seeking to protect, at the expense of all hope of effective govern ment reorganization, should be the army engineers. J Arkansas is one of the states where the engineers wield great! political power, owing to the flocal Im portance of -- flood cojttroL As a member of the Hoover com mission. Senator McLeJlsn Join ed former Representative Carter Manasco in a hard figt to have the Hoover group recognize the army engineers s sacrosanct sta tus. ! i j Since Senator McLellan failed on the Hoover commission, 'the engineers Have ' beenj working overtime to protect themselves in congress. Their instrument has been their special lobbjK the- riv ers and harbors congress- This group, in which interested con tractors, repfeeentativH of in terested states, and the private power companies Join to serve their army friends. Is- about as mean, powerful and three-cornered a lobbying organization as exists la Washington. I The con gress may now be said t have triumphed in Senator McLetlan's committee. : ' j j 3 It must be ; added that this to by no means the first occasion when this theoretically subord inate corps of army! officers has ventured to attack avowed white house policy. The loig-famous Pick-Sloan plan for the Missouri valley bears the name of the pre sent chief of army engineers. It is, essentially, a plan te safe guard the arsny engineer's field Much 8. 1878. Oncm Teiep Z-Z44L Later she settled in the Tual- started a school which was of operations there, by blocking the Missouri Valley Authority. Incidentally, it safeguards the private power interests too. The proposed Columbia Valley Authority has Just received a similar check, by an agreement between the engineers and the also interested bureau of recla mation. Both M.V-A. and C.VJL are projects sponsored by the president. Altogether, it would seem to be time to find out whether the engineers are play ing on the president's govern mental team. These facts are relevant, be cause they Illustrate the kind of problem that must be solved by effective government reorganiza tion. The time has past when we can afford a government which is a mere hap-haxard congeries of agencies speaking for special interests. Te be sure, even the Hoover commission reports do not pro vide for complete modernization of our crazy, antiquated gov ern metal structure. No adequate steps have been proposed to pro vide the government with com petent, fully professional stsff. Yet this government of clerks cannot go on forever. Again, the Job of under-pinning the presidency with an adequate sec retariat has been left to theAfeud fet bureau. Pork-hungry mem bers of congress, angered by budget bureau economies, have Just cut the bureau's appropria tions by $300,000. Yet. the presi dent himself cannot do his Job without a reasonable secretar iat On the other hand, the pro posals of the Hoover commission represent a strong ray of tight on a very dark horizon. They are a test for congress. If congress will not let the president at least begin to put the executive house in order, congress will have no grounds for denouncing wastefulness or any other executive failing. (Copyright. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) : A Princess ' Swim Suit vs. Queen's Hats Br Henry NXW YORK. May 11 Just why the TSigKsh Royal Family should get so dadblamed burned tip over an Italian photographer taking a picture of Princess Mar garet! Rose in a . bathing suit is beyond me. For years and years! they have been allowing p h o tographers to take pictures of Queen Mary in those hats she! wears, without raising a finger to step them. Now don't try to tell me that Princess M a r- garet doesn't look better in a bathing suit than her grand mother does in those four-story turbans she has been Inflicting on herself and the public for half a century or more. What in the world is Princess Margaret supposed to wear when swimming If It isnt a bathing suit?! I could understand the Buckingham bluebloods getting upset If the photographer had snapped a picture of the princess swimming while wearing an eve ning dress, or a raccoon coat, or an ermine cloak and her fa ther's crown. But why all the excitement over a picture of her in swimming in a . costume ex pressly designed for such a pur pose? They might Just as well stamp their royal feet and narrow their royal eyes at any photographer who took a picture of the prin cess daring to wear a riding hab it while riding a horse, or wear ing a raincoat when walking in the rain. There is the chance, of course, that Mrs. Harry Truman In spired the Royal Family to take the bathing suit stand it did. You will remember that when the president was last at Key West on vacation photographers were forbidden to snap him while in swimming, and he explained the ban by saying that Mrs. Truman had told him never to pose in a bathing suit. I can understand Mrs. Truman's attitude, because my wifa is of the same mind. She says I am far more attractive in a suit of armor or a diving bell. Why. I don't know, unles It is because my knees have an af finity for one another, and stay as close together as possible, while my ankles are dread enem ies and get as far from one an other as they can. Speaking of Margaret Rose re minds me of roses, and roses re mind me of spring, and spring reminds me of something of which I have written about a thousand times women's clothes. Why is it that women have to have a change of clothes for each season of the year? Honest, you'd think they were trees, and that the laws of nature demanded that they have a switch of foli age. Come to think of it, most women have something in com mon with trees they have a sap (or saps) working for them. Spring being here, women have to have spring clothes. Why? Why (to use two "whys" In a row) couldn't women just take off the coat they wore dur ing the winter to keep warm and use the same dress for spring? Men do that. The same old suit that worked for winter, works for spring. All thst is needed for a man to make the haberdashery switch from snow to robins is to shed the over coat and the vest. As soon as spring has sprung, women have to have summer clothes. Why? (One more "why" and the record for the use of the word will be mine ) Sprins: is much like summer, so is there any reason for women having to have a new wardrobe for that season of the rear? Men dont. The suit that did faithful service in winter, car ried on through spring, continues to do yeomsn work in summer. T won't name all the seasonal changes of women's clothers. but they have to have outfits for Indian summer, early fall, late fall. and before you know It a new winter set of garments. I maintain that if the women of this country didn't require so many changes of clothes the UJ5. never would have to worry about going bankrupt. Men would have enough money to triple the Mar shall Plan outlay with a smile. But I must admit which kills my entire argument that I wouldn't have American women chance one whit. Thev're terri ble, but they're magnificent. MrNaurht Syndicate. Inc. t. What Is wrong with this sentence? Thev Introduced a new innovation." 2- What Is the correct pro nunciation of "adult"? S. Which one of these words Is misspelled? Accomodate, ac companiment, acclimate, 4. What does the word "cir cumvention mean? - $. What is a word beginning with ea that means "apt to catch at I faults"? ANSWERS t. Omit Stew. 2. Accent second syllable, not the first. 3. Accom modate. 4. Act of surrounding, as by stratagem. "They soon dis covered that circumvention war futile." 5. Captious. Labrador is expected, in the near future, to produce more than 10.000,000 ton! of iron ore every year;. i . i i McLnatrt jBetter English By D. C WITH seas FAR f Literary : Bj W.L Rogers NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, by Mark Yaa Dereat (Sloanei U.50) One of the difficulties about Hawthorne has always been that, as so many of his characters were unreal, so was he. Despite the brilliant comments on Haw thorne the writer by Melville, 0030000 (Continued from page 1) Implications of offending a sub stantial bios of voters were ob blous. That in the face of pres sures he signed the bill is proof ne hiss the courage of his con victions. : No one respects a weakling : in office, particularly in the office of governor. Even those who may disagree cannot help but admire a governor who tries i conscientiously to do his duty I was much amused at the re port that a group of old people told the ' governor they claimed the credit for defeating Charley Sprague.: (Probably I should thank them). The amusing thing (a that I'm the guy who in 1939 signed the bill to abolish all liens on property of those on old age assistance, and in 1941 signed the bill abolishing the "prior claim" on estates of bene ficiaries. Also in 1941 I urged the legislature to put no limit on the maximum grant (it had been $30 a month) for elderly people. Those steps seemed advisable at the time; as far as politics goes, they; were blanks. Experience under the 1941 law -and changed economic conditions make it ad visable to restore the prior claim authority. If i public offices are to go on the auction block as rewards to candidates offering the most breajd and biggest circuses then eventually we'll ring down the curtain on democratic govern ment. ! GRIN AND BEAR IT "My wire Susan tnrew away shares It eejnaHy between S select bat EAST PROBLEM Guidepost Henry James and Poe, he has been passed down to us by bi ographers as a shadowy figure, a vague man among womenfolks, a solitary walking on a distant hillside, aloof and taciturn. ' And a second difficulty has been that critics, in love with all his works, expect us to accept all or none, well, half or none, when so much of what he wrote can find, and deserves to find, no audience today. "Do not stick at any strangeness," he urged bravely, and the result was too often strangenesses, in the Oothis -tales and romances, at which we today can't help but stick. Van Doren's contribution, con sequently, seems to me very sub stantial, and very persuasive. Hawthorne comes alive not merely as a man with a pen but also as the husband of Sophia Peabody, as the friend of Frank lin Pierce, as the man who him self "never understood what he had done in The Scarlet Let ter." And Van Doren shows a Judi cial discrimination in praising "The Scarlet Letter" to the skies, and being content to ex plain what missed fire in much of the rest of Hawthorne's writ ing. Even if we do not agree that passages in this one novel reached "the high mark in Amer ican fiction," we acknowledge gladly that here for once Haw thorne rested "individuals who can hold all of his thought." He was born in Salem in 1804, died in Plymouth, N.H., in ex President Pierce's company, in 1854, or 83 years ago this month. Graduate of Bowdoin. deter mined at an early age to write, he lived variously In Boston, Sa lem, West Roxbury, Concord, Lenox, and abroad, and eked out his income from books with cus tomhouse and consular jobs here and in Liverpool. He believed there was "evil in every human heart." Working with the pen which he called "an abominable little tool," he added, in Hester and a few other trou bled souls, a handful of immor tals to American fiction. In a literal sense. Van , Doren has brought him from our dead pest into our living present. By Lichty tely gewn salary indl CHILD School Board Approves Plans, Calls Expansion Projects Bids Additions and some remodeling for two Salem elementary schools,' to make the system adequate for the district's heavy pupil load by next fall, were another step forward today, after the school board ap-: proved plans and called for bids. , The bids will, be opened June T for enlargement of Englewood and ' McKlnley schools, leaving only one portion to be prepared from the 11,500,000 bonding program voters approved a year ago. That part is enlargement of Richmond school, for which plans are not yet ready. Englewood will become an 18 classroom school with construction of a three-story wing on the north side, to balance the wing built In 1937. The new section will have two classrooms and two rest rooms on each floor. Some cloakrooms will be remodeled to allow corri dors to the addition. The earlier wing includes a cafeteria and aud itorium. The enlargement of McKlnley will include four classrooms In an ell-shaped single story to the west and cafeteria-auditorium-play area in a single story on the east end. The school will also un dergo some remodeling to place restrooms and a health room on the third floor, convert a second floor classroom to a library and on the first floor improve toilet facil ities snd enlarge two classrooms, one of which will be for music. Hollywood On Parade Br Gene Handsarer HOLLYWOOD Gene Kelly, who looks like Fredric March and dances like Fred Astaire. is branching out like Orson Welles. He co-authored the recent mu sical. "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" not a literary mile stone but at least he helped write it. He gave himself the part of the baseball pitcher hero who escapes from the villains and saves the day, and the game, in the last minute. Now he's a director. How that venture will turn out, of course, is problematical, but if effort and concentration can win, the odds are all on his side. Actually Gene is co-director, with his old pal and dancing aide, young Stanley Donen. of "On the Town." They hope to bring the Broadway musical to the screen In virtually its stage form, with out massive and incongruous production numbers. Kelly is also one of the picture's stars. You visit the set and find Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Come dian Jules Munshin In sailors' white uniforms. Donen, slender, dark, and about 28, rides a leather seat on the side of the camera doily. He calls for "Ac tion!" The sailors go into some fast comedy with Betty Garrett and Ann Miller. Kelly is the one who calls "Cut!" He tells the others, softly, what he wants them to do. Donen watches the scene through the camera finder, Either can, and does, interrupt the shooting for another try. "Sure, we've had differences of opinion," Kelly says during a brief breather. "If we didn't, there'd be no point in having two of us. But so far" with a grin toward Donen "no real arguments." Donen was co-author, with Kelly, of "Ball Game." They met years ago on Broadway, where both were dancer and dance directors. Donen since then has helped Kelly devise and rehearse many movie dance routines. For a time he lived at Kelly's house. Kelly wants to produce, write, direct, and act and dance In pic tures though not necessarily all at the same time. He's writing movie biography of Sinatra and hopes his studio will buy K and let him direct Sinatra in it "Frank win be one of the great dramatic actors of the screen," Gene predicts. "People will forget he ever sang." Heavy Snow Paclc To Delay Opening Crater Lake Lodge Heavy snow pack is expected to delay opening this year the rim drive around Crater lake and the east and north entrances, the na tional park service has advised the state highway commission travel bureau. The west and south entrances to the park and on up to the. rim are in excellent condition, officials said, with no snow or ice on the pavement. Snow depths are de creasing at the rate of about eight inches a day with indications that Annie Spring campground at the junction of the south and west roads will be in use much earlier than the rim campground. Lodge a ccommoiia t ions .will be available June IS when sleeping cabins also will be opened for the season. Limited services will be avail able at the Oregon Caves May 15 with all facilities in operation May 29. the travel bureau was informed. Pair Given Three Years in Slate Pen Three-year prison sentences were meted to a pair, who had confessed crimes, in Marion county circuit court Wednesday by Cir cuit Judge George R. Duncan. Donovan Harper CVBryan was sentenced on a charge of larceny of a truck belonging to Orval K. Shryder. O'Bryan was the object of a chase Involving five police cars earlier this week when he attempted to elude authorities while driving the stolen truck. A chargs of forging a check brought Raymond W. Kelly his sentence. The United States produces three tunes as much steel as Canada but the ratio is expected to changs In the near future when ore discov ered in Labrador is mined. That will give McKlnley 18 classrooms plus the special quar ters. The structure will also' have its parapet wall cornice modernis ed. 1 Both buildings will be converted from wood to oil heat, allowing more outdoor play apace. The board has estimates of $125,000 for each project. It is hoped both will be done by fall. : The board Tuesday night sUo: Approved the usual four polllg places for the district to vote May 20 on the $717,473 in the annual budget which Ls above the 6 per cent .constitutional limitation and on the proposed consolidation of Salem Height and Pleasant Point districts with Salem Those dist ricts are voting the same day on the proposition. j Accepted resignations, effective in June, from Mrs. Bickle Hal terline, commerce at senior high school; Mildred Randolph, fourth grade at Englewood, and Elva Hughes. English at Leslie. f Approved hiring of Dolores Hultman, Independence, to teach commerce at senior high school, and Jesse V. Fasold, Cottsge Grove, for a Junior high assign ment. ! Accountants Slate j State Confab Salem chapter of the Oregon Association of Public Accountants held s dinner meeting in the Senator hotel Tuesday night. Plans for the association's state convention to be held at Mad ford June 25 1 were presented by James Keyes. state president. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Reason and Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Middlebrooks. all of Portland. available te yea en eee STEVEIIS G SOU jrwi UtmUt CeW Esi Uhmtr Xl NOW HOLOteef) COUKTI 'J Mjr Now aw oca sioea . jfe as J j signers ... easeeied by Vi i i i