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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1949)
hT,,:.-,:...V .1,- , II' I . -The Statesman. Salem. Orecjon. Wdn day. reson - THE STATESMAN PUBUSinNC COMPANY CH ARf.cn a SPR AGUE. Editor and Publisher Zaierea at (ha peatefflce at Salem. Omn, aa seceod class saatter ander act ef eeagreaa March 1, 1171. fMlshed orery asoralBf. Bas inees efflea MS S. ComaaereUI. Salem. Orcf . Telcpb o t2ff.l Real Cain : Conference t j Doesn't End in a Row Tha Paris conference of foreign miniiters didn't end in a row or a washout. It took one or two steps, mincing ones to be sure, toward a war settlement. For one thing, agreement was reached on disputed point which will permit tha drafting of a treaty for Austria. For another, Russia agreed not to revive the Berlin blockade. Not much to warrant throwing hats in air, but enough to give relief from the hypertensions that have prevailed 'during much of the past year. The cold war is getting cooler instead of hotter. ' Austria was a horse trading deal, one that m might have been put through months ago if the traders had willed it. The west yields on Rus sia's demands for reparations from Austria, fix ing them at $150,000,000, and Russia gives up the attempt to get parts of Carinthia for its isxj sarHliteT Yugoslavia. Austria will probably; be willing to accept the deal because it includes Clearing the country of occupation troops and ending the expense of the occupation. ( The trade on Berlin was just so-so. The west agrees to help restore east-west trade in Ger many, which is sensible; and Russia agrees to let traffic flow. But this, doesn't settle the rail strike which has tied up trains in Berlin. ! On the major issues of a peace treaty for Ger many no progress was made. Berlin remains a divided, city because Russia insisted on retain ing thelveto if the four-power council was re vived. West Germany continues to be separate from the soviet zone, as Vishinsky'a "Back to Potadam" drive failed. Peace for Germany; is still distant, and rfaay await developments far removed, such as the growth or decline of power by the USA or the USSR. But something, was accomplished when th four foreign ministers could meet and argue with much less acrimony than formerly, and have a modicum of success in reaching agree- merit. ; The ftyrnes formula still seems valid for deal ing with Russia: Firmness and patience. I A Few Fundamentals Needed Considerable wordage came out of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers association meeting at Gearhart last week end, but a most Important aspect of the sessions received little if any pub lic attention. It involved spelling. The discussion arose after a midwest speaker was somewhat critical of journalism graduates because many could not spell. His comment pro voked a lot of talk, and most of it was in defense f journalism schools, insofar as spelling Was . conoTtied, and critical of elementary educatiin which so many times has sent boys and girls to cnllece with fewer fundamentals in spelling than wre learned by fourth grade students 25 years . ; By far the greater proportion of publishers expressed belief the "modern" disregard of phonetics (sounding out words) was primarily responsible for the trouble. And there was un animous criticism because few if any courses In polling are offered after the 7th grade. The factor is one which could well be coh ajJered carefully by the public schools. It is all ery well to have high school courses in typing, driving cars, and shopwork. And perhaps it was proper that a prominent educator in a recent address should express pride in the fact that "schools these days teach more than just read- ; big. writing and arithmetic." But it would also be proper if the fundamentals were not so bad- East-West Negotiator! Results Minor By J. M. Haberts. Jr. AP Fareisn News Analytt Concrete results of the latest rut -west negotiations are just suout as expected very small. Yet the foreign ministers do seem U have ended their session In an imosyhere of some assurance that, while the cold war contin ues, it is not likely to be intensi fied. . As for the question of who wm. nty time can -tell. The west won a great diplo matic victory in the lifting of tha Berlin blockade which paved tha way for the conference. But tha Berlin railway strike and Rus sian haggling have prevented real resumption of traffic, the air lift Is going mto second year, and the physical results of this agreement remain to be proved. The feeling that the cold war continues "this hot twit no hot ter." is a vital thing. The Eu ropean recovery program has reached a point where capital must come out of the hiding into which it has been driven by war fears. Decreased tension should hasten the progress in this which has been made since the Ber lin crisis passed its peak last t alL This easement, however, also works in Russia's'fsvor in soma respects. It has definitely taken some of the Steam out of western defense preparations. Britain's Bevin and France's Son u man deserteed the Paris conference for a day to attend a Benelux , defense meeting In Brussels, obviously as a reminder to Russia that the west does not intend te let its determination be weakened by mere peaceful ges tures. The effect of the gestures Is nontheless clear, especially in the VS. congress. Reduction of tfwWi in western Eurone also gives Russia the op portunity to devoe her full at tention to other evtremelv im portant tasks revalidation of delicate oaitions in both China and rMd'e Frre. ffr te freeTc-5 n nrtn- ciH at Paris. U rv rn Wttle an . Tan 22. 1MJ 1 t $ I i . T -i J -j '-3 'I Wo Favor Sway Vtt No fear Shan flrat Stat i . Marc tt. 1W1 J ly slighted as in Some instances. Maybe phonetic spelling was bad any maybe trade, it is time the' basic levels Gties May Issue Anticipation Notes A 1949 act will give cities the authority to is sue short-term nptes in anticipation of receipts of taxes levied bkit uncollected. School districts previously have! had this power which is of great convenience to the unit of government. the budget year starts July 1 but the heavy tax receipts are f not turned over until Decem ber. This gives t&e city or district a thin period. Cities have issued warrants when the cash ran out, taking them up with incoming revenues. They are a nuisance for handling, often in small amounts. I With the new law the city can go to the banks and borrow such funds as are needed to tide over the lean period at minimum rates of in terest, and warrants then may be cashed on presentation. This is just a sample of legislation which at tracts little public attention, yet is of consider able importance.! And law-making in very large pa ft consists of just such revising of old laws or enacting new ones to meet particular problems. Hohenzollerp Princess to Amarillo The ! slogan inl World War I was "Hang tha Kaiser," It didjft't happen Wilhelm retired to Holland to piss his days quietly, taking his exercise sawing Jwood, never returning to Ger many. Lloyd George won his postwar election campaign in Britain with promises of bring the ex-kaiser t trial but Holland refused to ,t extradite him and the rather feeble attempt -aJ a prosecution f or war crimes failed. The first world war has receded far into the background, and now5 an American and a Texan has; married the -granddaughter of the last Kai ser.; She is Princess Cecilie, daughter of Crown Prince WilhelmJ Remember the crown prince, who was also or the hate list in 1917-18? He's an old man now, age 72, residing in Germany, shorn of powers clinging only to his' Hohen zollern title. His daughter will exchange hers for! love and aniAmexican home the groom elect is an interior designer. It's a long way from Germany to Amarillo, Texas; and it Used to be a much longer way from royalty to commoner. The wars have changed things greatly. Dictators are as tough on kings as democracy. A royal title no longer guarantees a meal, and even dukes must eat Assuming that all the world still loves a lover, America will congratulate the newly-weds and trust that Princess Cecilie comes to like Amer ica and Texas-i-as Mrs. Clyde Harris of Am Henry McLemore, our neighbor on the right, thinks the country is "coddling communists." He's all excited over our excessive tolerance. Maybe the, government did coddle the commies in the balmy ner deal days, but even the Roose velt s woke up to their tricks and turned them down. Now in rather crude ways we are hound ing tha reds bjr committee and court. Henry should go back! to being funny. Father's day giving end for i fi at nothing until we tan sea what will b done about iimplementa- t i 1 f i- i In Berlin the door seems to h have bee it opened for a return to four-power controls, but the al- lies are dead set against the old f ve to-ridden system, and the Russians have shown no signs of coming tffc.terms on" procedure, a Negotiations on general German 1 problems got nowhere.- But Rus- I sia is vitally interested In re-f sumption of trade between east- jj ern and Western Germany, and Literary Guidepost Bi W. a Recera THE MAN WHO MADK FRIENDS WITH; HIMSELF. J by Chriitepber Marley (D- Morleya firs novel in sixS years, this could easily have re quired that long, or longer, just I to think tin all the buns, ailiter-1 ations and epigrams in it. Yet it's j so full of Other puns; alterations and epigrams quoted from past masters that it's hard to decide whether it's a novel or a com- pendiusvi I I It is the story of Richard To! inan, literary agent who lives'- in the New York suburb of Wend tag WaysV . . "My crooked wind-1 tag wares, wherein I live" (George Herbert). It's also about Tolman's double, at Doppelgan-I ger, or "That Man", raised from J a sandpile grave to become con-1 ductor and taxi driver; abtat Zoe Else, who knows all; Sharpy, whs wants to know all; Betty, who ; knows nothing but thinks shel knows all. I ! Tolman is the posthumous narrator.! "If I cant tell you 1 about things that I tickle me. whafs the' use of jtelling any- i thing?" he asks. So this is whatl tickles him: Kittens named Shall 5 and Will because so few people I know them apart?:" Sharpy I ' V. t; , smart tot" not. So far, however, we haven't noticed any i betterment in results. In fact, when it is notice-1 able that graduate journalism students don't j know the fundamentals o( their own chosen 1 something was done about it at of instruction. a past so the gent will be on the the next 364 days. soma working agreement in this field is probable. There is no doubt among west ern diplomats that Russia has adopted her recent appearance of reasonableness as the direct re sult of accumulated allied pres sure, economic and military. If reduced tension produces relaxa tion of these efforts, Russia will have won her immediate objec tive. If not, the west will be in position to wring more and more concessions. tCpyri!t."la. Nw York Herald Tnbun Inc.) dressed like a filibustering sena tor but in pants so tight he near ly filibuts; a "foreward arse" on the difference between who and whom. As Doppelganger goes back to the sandpile, Tolman learns his own life has been 400 blank -gts and he goes on to a fiery end. Since Tolman equals Toule monde, he is Everybody and if he succeeds in arousing Sharpy s envy by making friends with himself, he doesn't arouse yours, for apparently he hasnt made friends with much. I prefer my novelists more ig- norant Though Morley some- times uses the commoner words. even very common ones like "poop- (pages 10, 69, 83, 121, 133, IS? 230) and though on oc casion the dazzling repartee gets somewhere yet often It's dazzle for dazzles sake. The professor in Morley forgets,, the sophomore takes over; this is too like a book of gags. If Zoe's ankles are like a faun's why couldn't Morley say so, instead of calling them "hinnuleo". and why the dative, anyway? Tolman's talk, in Mor ley's ords but nc his meaning, is never-ending concinnous eu phuism. I might add that it's the sprose of a potulental specialist . . let Morley go to the diction ary himself ' ''. . "; ' ; i t . . . GRIN AND BEAR . 1 1 -11 - a A It billion dollar eons traction program will ga far to lay the ghost f uempleymeat ... aad just think of the cornerstone speeches. Gentlemen I !...- Even the Wee Hours Noisy In New York By Henry McLemore NEW YORK, June 11 There must be tens of thousands of people in New York who are employed Just to make noise. Just as an opera star has a claque, so must the city on the Hudson. j I recently re turned from a couple of weeks f there and , my ears still ate ringing like church bells from the din and clatter. It McLor is unceasing, too. I have read of how the great city sleeps in the wee hours of the morning, and how at that time the silence is so deep that one can hear a barefooted cat crossing Brook lyn bridge, or a scrubwoman in a skyscraper sighing over her tiring task, even though she be 63 stories up. That might have been true in O. Henry's time, but it isn't true today. If anything, the city gets noisier in those hours just be fore dawn begins : to wrestle with night, and the last night club boogiewoogie player has gone to bed. The noise is so great at this time that a cat wearing hobnaileft boots and playing a rusty bugle could cross six bridges without at tracting attention to himself, and all the scrubwomen in the world could beat their mops on tin roofs without drawing par ticular notice. This is especially true If one happens to be staying in a hotel in the midtown area. It is in this area that most of those tens of thousands of city em ployed noise-makers concen trate. In a city the size of New York one expects such noises as the rumble of subways, the hushed roar of trains passing deep in the earth, the banging backfire of buses and trucks, the horns of taxis, and the songs and laughter of fire-watered citizens on their way home after a night of revelry. But these noises are just the beginning of the noises that float up from the street, come pound ing through your hotel win dows, reverberate around your room like a ricocheting bullet, and attack your ears with both fists and both feet. These sounds are just child's play compared to the ones; made by the profes sional racket-raisers. , There is one group, for ex ample, which I am sure has in structions to knock in all plate glass windows and to use lead pipes while doing same. I have never seen them at work, true, . chiefly because I was afraid to poke my head out; of the win dow. My head, a bit shiny on top these days, might look too much like a window in the moon light, and cause me to get a lead pipe whack. Miraculously, the windows are all - intact in the morning. There is no sign of violence on the streets, which is a mystery I cant understand. Another regiment of noise makers has for its specialty the playing of Wagner's works on the giant garbage pails in front of apartment buildings and hotels. Starting at about four in the morning these artists of the galvanized buckets play every thing Wagner ever composed, and then do a bit of Gershwin for an encore. They are even more skillful than; the window smashers, and use not the sissy leedj pipe, but the massive crow bar to do their playing. Working with the Wagner musicians are the strong men who are not satisfied with what is going on beneath New York's streets, and so go ! about lifting all manhole . covers and taking a downward peek. This is a very laudable curiosity but for one thing they never place the manhole covers down gently, but skid them; across the pave ment like kids .pitching pennies at a crack. The resulting sound is guaranteed to turn on the faucet of any tub in any hotel room under 3 stflCriea in the air. and cause the occupant of the room to smash light bulbs across his bead in order to get? a little 'quiet. 1. It's a good thing Rip Van Winkle got his rest long ago. IT By Lichty Three Damage Suits Entered Against Herron Suits to collect damages , total ing $27,377 were filed by" three persons against Jay C. Herron, 645 Judson t., in Marion county cir cuit court Tuesday. Ottis R. Berry, 2427 S. Cottage st, Beatrice James. S75 S. 25th st, and William H. Johnston filed the suits seeking judgment for injuries and automobile damage allegedly incurred in a collUion March ,29 between cars driven by Berry and Herron. Each suit alleges Herron at tempted to pass a car while, driv ing south on the Pacific highway about three miles north of Brooks and struck Berry's automobile, in juring the driver and his two passengers. The suits, allege Herron at tempted to pass without a clear lane; ahead, without his lights burning and at an unreasonable speed. Berry seeks damages totaling S7.665 for personal injuries and $1,341 for damages to his car al legedly incurred in the accident. Johnston asks $7,751 for personal injuries, and Mrs. James seeks $10,720 for personal injuries and time lost from employment, all allegedly incurred in the accident. mnnnsi (Continued from page one) to the Sherman anti-trust act, congitss passed a law lifting penalties if states enacted legis lation to regulate' the business. After the railroads were accused of violating the Sherman act in rate-making, congress passed a bill permitting joint action by the roads, subject to the review of the interstate commerce com mission. Now the basing-point decision 'is having its teeth drawn. The Sherman act is too rigid to fit the present age of national industrial development. It works too much like the; mythical Pro crustes who tied his victims to a bed. If their limbs were too long he chopped mem off; if too short he stretched them out Congress has never tried to write a new general law that would give reasonable liberty to business and still restrain cor porate excesses, though the house judiciary committee is going to iold hearings on the way the anti-trust laws are operating. Lacking a new law congress re vises the Sherman act piecemeal, as in the instances mentioned. This is slow and cumbersome. It waits on the response of in-, formed opinion. I The pending house hearings might develop new and practical ideas that would preserve the values of the Sherman act and still give busi ness greater flexibility. Better English By D. C Williams BETTER ENGLISH ll'i m Ed p 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "They approached the governor for clemency." 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "massacre? . 3. Which one af these words is misspelled? Paroxism, wit tidim, atheism. ! - 4. What does the word "il logical mean? j 5. What is a Word beginning with ee that means "very fat"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "They I petitioned the governor for cleniency. 2, Pro-, nounce mas-a-ker, first a as in mass, second a Unstressed, ac cent first syllable. 3. Paroxysm. 4. Contrary to sound reasonfai' "His explanation ) was illogical.' 5. Corpulent. when New York wasn't quit' what it is today; If he hadn't his story would have been one of insomnia, not' of sleep, de snite the fact he lived mon than 50 miles away from littl old New York. 1 ' ' ' Cherry Queen, Court Have Heavy Schedule Public apearajoces of the Cherry festival court will continue this week with Queen Patricia O'Con nor and her princesses as honored guests. They are slated to appear at the auto races at Hollywood Bowl Friday night. luncheon meetings of service clubs today and Thurs day and at a tea Sunday given by members of the Zonta club. They were guests of the Lions club Tuesday noon. Trapping of Beaver Upheld In State Court The state supreme court Tues day 'upheld the state game com mission's program of trapping des tructive beaver and selling their pelts. Suit to have the program de clared illegal was filed against the game commission by Edward Fields and six other residents of Union county. Circuit Judge R. J. Green,' Union county, held the program legal and he was affirm ed in an opinion written by Chief Justice Hall S. Lusk. The high court disbarred Wes key Yates, Portland attorney, on five charges of unprofessional conduct filed by the board of governors of - the Oregon State Bar.- These charges included use of client's money. Other opinions Tuesday: Held in a Clackamas county case that S. Raven, a logging truck- contract carrier, must pay $8000 damages for a fatal auto mobile accident, and that two companies for which he hauled logs are not to blame. These com panies are Crown Zellerbach and Weyerhauser Timber companies. Hubert J. Persons was killed when his car collided with Raven's truck which failed to stop. Cir cuit Judge Earl C. Latourette, in the lower court, held that the damages should be assessed against Raven and the two com panies. Justice Arthur Hay, in his opinion, held that Raven alone was responsible. New Gas Tax Starts July 2 A law of the 1949 legislature increasing the state gasoline tax one cent a gallon becomes oper ative July 2, instead of July 1 or July 16, Attorney General George Neuner advised Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry here Tuesday. The act doubling the automobile registration fee from $5 to $10 a year is effective January 1, of next year. It had been publicized in some quarters, Newbry said, that the latter amendment became operative July 1. State highway department of ficials estimated that the addition al one cent a gallon gasoline tax would return ot the state approxi mately $4,550,000 along with $2, 750,000 from the increased auto mobile registration fee and $600, 000 from the public utilities com mission. ir?nn ii t' l:- 1 r : The car that's- first today in style In comfort in performance is also first ia economy. Only Nash is so perfectly streamlined, one sweep of whcel'-enclosing curve. None other has seats so wide they turn rw . T L. j into 1 win ocas ... sucu puKuci room, luggage room- and road clearance all in a car only o2 inches high. ' None other as big as. the Nash "600" delivers over 25 miles to the gallon at average highway speed. This is the walu nnlv Nash can build, with Girder- built Unitized body-and-framc. ' You get the full benefit of coil springs on all wheels ... the readability of low ered weight . . . squeaks and rattles ended ... rigidity increased 50. See and drive the most popular car Nash ' ve knitr rth Airfivte that's breaking all records ia our 47-year history. Your Nash dealer will gladly demonstrate a . Nash "600' ' or Ambassador. MARION 'Special Days' At Playgrounds Announced Completed schedules for "spec ial day events in city and school playgrounds and for daily play ground programs at Highland and Grant school were announced by Vernon Gilmore, director of rec reation. The special days include June 24, pet day; July 8, doU day; July 22. dress up day; August 5, swim ming meets; August 12, parade day; August 19, hobby horse day, and August 26, closing picnic and exhibitions. At Highland school' the daily morning activities include free play, Softball and handicraft. Afternoon schedule includes play and games and handicraft Story hours are from 11 ajn. to noon and from 3 to 4 pjn. The morning handicraft is for pre-school chil dren. At Grant school morning activ ities include artcraft. free play, tumbling.! rhythm band and play in sprinkler. The afternoon sched ule calls: for crafts and hobby work, games, rhythmics and dan cing (tap on Friday) and story hour. 1 Hours at both schools are from 9 ajn. to noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. Mrs. Den a Davis is instructor at Highland 1 school and Mrs. Gret chen Anning at Grant school. The first railroad in America was horse-drawn and was used In 182$ to haul granite for the Other Ifarrel men's Other Barvcl ladies' v; I Cssvsalsse Tseats Sadly STEVENS & SON Jewelers Silversmiths Uvesley Bldg. 390 State Street Slii Aaaarlcaft Adncad InglneeeUit Design Hara to tha aaly ear artewttacaltr " with CroOT-fcaUt Vmltbud ho4r--t aaa mH4, walaaa law-alaa araateat aaa isttlaa MAr cams C3 CCrna STO2T. XALEM Blood Donations Worth $110,000 PORTLAND, June 21 The 440$ pints of bipod collected so far by the Portland regional blood center and its trailing unit represent a saving of at least $110,000 to pa tients in Oregon and southwest ern Washington hospitals who have needed the blood, it was estimated today by Dr. Nicholas P. Sullivan the center's medical director. He added that "we need many, many more donors both at the Portland center and through the mobile unit before we cm supply ! all of the blood the hospitals need. DOUBLE GREEN I STAMPS TODAY -ft On S.00 Order or More mm oq ANOTHER FINE PRODUCT In Oar Store i ; Barrel Watches have long been famous for their expert erafstmanslup, : their preci sion timing and their excro aire styling;. We suggest you atop in anj( look at our fine selection of Barrel Watches for men and women. 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