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-- 4 The Statesman, Salem. Oregon. Thursday!) July .A. "No Favyr Swayt Us, No Fear Shall Awe" r Fran First Statesman. March 2 f. ItSI THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CH"-"- A RPRAfiUE. Editor; and Publisher Entered at the postofflce at Salem. Oregon, aa aec nd clasi'matter under act of congress March 3, 187S, PublUhed every morninc. Business office 215 3. Commercial. SJem. Oreien. Telephone 2-2441. The Permanente Plan Henry J. Kaiser is one rrian who has made the most of the free enterprise system. That is why he is opposed to a national health insurance pro gram and why he believes that if doctors throughout the country would organize their services on a group basis and make them avail able through prepayment plans, centered around modern facilities and stressing preventive care, many of the nation's medical problems would disappear and there would be no need for com pulsory "socialized medicine." In defending the Kaiser-sponsored Perman ente health plan against an attack by. the Amer ican Medical association, Senator Murray of Montana published Kaiser's review of Perrnan ente's services in the Congressional Record.- Per rnanenle serves 100,000 west coast people through hospitals and clinics at Portland. Van couver, and five Bay area cities. It is a private enterprise operated by an independent partner ship of doctors using the medical center facilities of the nonprofit foundation. The group practice plan pools the talents of general practitioners and specialists. The pa tient's health needs are met under one roof. A single investment in equipment and single cost of overhead administration reduces costs.; Em phasis on prevention of illness likewise reduces expense of operation. Subscribers prepayments go directly to doctors and hospitals, so they ben- efit most by keeping patron? well. For comparatively low monthly fees, individ ual or family subscribers are entitled to 111 days of hospital care for each illness, which includes Burner v and all hospital charges. Office cdnsul ation arid treatment is charged for at $1 per call. A fixed additional fee covers maternity care and thefee for home calls is $2 for the first calV none for subsequent calls. The Permanente' report is documented with professional testimonials as to the quality Of the service performed. The Kaiser plan, like the Blue Cross and the Oregon Physicians' Service, offers prepaid medical or hospital care (or both) 2$ costs within reach of low-income groups. They are an alternative to the administration's compulsory health program. Harmony in Capitol Design As an outgrowth of ideas advanced by the Salem long r a n ge" planning commission and members of the civic committee of the Oregon chapter. American Institute of Architects, a bill was drafted and enacted creating a capitol plan ning commission. The commission which drgan tr.ed Monday, electing R. W. Sawyer of Bend as chairman, will be advisory to state and city au thorities respecting state capitol expansion. The purp )-;e is to preserve architectural and land etMping harmony in the capitol group and to protect the surrounding jirea from inharmonious encroachment on the capitol environs. While the commission so far h;is no absolute powers, ts voice will be one of 'authority that will com mand attention. Sjlnn has been ciiticized for certain commer cial invasion of the capitol zone. In the conflict of views and of interests, concessions were made which many are not very happy about, This ttate commission should prove a real trionitor for the city when future changes in zoning are proposed. But the city isn't the onlv body that needs to watched. Succeeding generations of public officials, ignorant of past planning, may be in clined to get out of line. For instance, it has tak en quite a little resistance on the part of the aecretary of state's office through the years to Guerrillas Alter Face of Postwar Asia fly Stewart AImp KUALA LUMPUR, Malaya, July 13 The astonishing cf-jet-tiv-iiess of guerrilla warfare is- the most hiking phe n o m e n o n in Southeast Asia. Guerrillas are th Kremlin's j5re.1t ' weapon in this part of the world, (iuei rillas have almost pushed the French into the sea in Indo china Com munist guerrilla f )i ..vs are ac tive irj Burma. And here in Ma- lava a mere handful of incom petent Chinese communist ' puer r i M have forced the British to aim tens of thousands f tr.en and' to spend hundreds of thou sands of pounds. The reasons arc simple enough. 0"e rn:n. with a percussion tai tik a Fourth rT July toy. and a d'w H)unds of plastic exn'o si e, ran derail a tran. When th train leaps the trmk. the m hi can he many. -miles away, Kmi about his ionccfi.l busi ngs It is almost ss easy and tie to mine a road, to ambush an unsuspecting i envoy, or to kill the key-men on a Key plan tation. As long as the guer rillas' arms hold out. regular foi-cfs are' amazingly helpless aaint them., provided1 the K'loiiillas have two essential assets. . On asset is the active sup poit of at least a part of the lMiiiiiLition, so that the fcocrrillns rati be fed, hidden, and above all. informed. The second asset i a safe place a "funkhole," the British call it to which the 'guerrillas can escape for ret and reorganization. British trattjy here is now designed to deny thee assets to the com munists. The Malay&ns are anti-communist: rut nearly half the people of Ms'rya are Chm k ese The Chinese r e are ipflit encej by what r.s happened in prevent the capitol from being cluttered up with cabinets, plaques, paintings, etc. Criticism was expressed over the recent paint ing of the light standards fronting the capitol facade which have just been covered with bright aluminum paint. Critics thought the standards were cast bronze, which of course should never be painted. We find on inquiry that only the fixture at the top is bronze, the pole being iron or steel which was showing rust. The color of paint used is a matter of taste, and some cover was needed to preserve the metal. Reorganize UNESCO? International planning of cooperative under takings is a comparatively new pastime and we should not get too impatient when hitches de velop. One of these is UNESCO, the special Un ited Nations agency charged with turning the minds of men to thoughts of peace through edu cation and sharing of each other's scientific and cultural achievements. Its accomplishments thus far are hardly satisfactory UNESCO's trouble is the same that afflicts most other large centralized groups: bigness. The size, the 'enjfmous pretensions," and the agency's attention to abstract rather than con crete projects are some explanations the poet Stephen Spender gives for its failure to live up to expectations. , Its monumental task obtaining international Intellectual cooperation does not necessarily call for a monumental organization. But so vast 1 is this organization that its headquarters staff is chiefly engaged in preparing programs and or ganizing conferences to discuss it. Scientists, scholars and educators talk and plan science, culture and education instead of working in the field. This bureaucratic secretariat should b replaced by smaller, localized nuclei in many countries active in many projects of their own. These laboratories, schools, museums and other mediums of culture wjojikhljeTndirect contact with each otherinstead of having to proceed through channels? Their work would be coordi nated through a small commission, Spender sug gests in an essay ini The Nation. The question here is a familiar one to na tional governments and organizations: top heavy bureaucratic agencies versus individual, semi-independent groups. Both have disadvan tages: Red tape and an aversion to brass tacks hampers the former; duplication and a tendency to fly off in different directions are risks of the latter. Still, it is true that UNESCO seems to move too ponderously and with too little result. Amer ican taxpayers who support it are right in de manding something for their money. Since small cultural and scientific groups are already estab lished and are using whatever slim contact they have with each other, the money might be bet ter spent supporting their concrete efforts and strengthening existing cooperation. Things being quiet on the potato front, be tween Bend and Klamath Falls, papers in two other cities, Roseburg and Astoria, resume their feuding over closure of coastal streams tp com mercial salmon-fishing. The only trouble ' is there seems no chance for other editors to serve as a jury, as was the case in the controversy between the Klamath and Deschutes spuds, j Who says eggs will not bounce? The price dropped away down last spring; and now1 it is coming back up. Humpty Dumpty got fooled this time. China. Thus the communists' chief sources of support have been the villages of Chinese squatters who have settled on public; or- private land, often deep in the jungle, to grow their Hoe or millet. The British have been driven to using novel techniques to cut the commun ist fighters off from the squat ters villages. First, they are creating a complex network of interlocking police posts in or near the villages. If a village helDs ' a I guerrilla band, the ' British then employ a technique they Call screening." Ordinar ily, caDtured guerrillas are hung after an extremely rapid trial. But a guerrilla raptured In the area of a guilty village may be given a chanch to buy his life. '.' The, captive is pl.iced behind a screen in the village police post. He Deers through a peep hole while the entire village fl'es b;' He identifies those who have helped his band "S'ie Save food." "He gave mon ey," 'He is a. bandit." If there is real evidence to support such an accusation, the accused may 1m? deported or hung. There is' another, more dras tic method, An incorrigible vil lage, known regularly to help the communists, may le moved bodilv; away and put behind barbed wire. Thus the British are isolating the guerrillas. And the technique is beginning to work Accurate information on guerrilla movements is now be ginning to come in from the squatters' vil'ages. The; British have also devel oped technioues for dealing with the "funkholes." The guer rillas hide out in the mountain jungtes. and it is only neces sary to fly, over the mountains to realize whit magnificent cov er the mountains provide. Hfe is a (tin'iniious green umbrella, which wholly screens all move ments. Since the British learned to pierce this umbrella they have discovered large guerrilla camns. comn.'ete with lecture halls plastered with pictures of Stalin 11 i kteamau I and appropriate quotations from ; the communist classics. One way of piercing the um ; brella is an "area shoot." The area of a known communist con i centration is carefully mapped, ; and planes are dispatched to ; shoot up the green, unprotest ; ing jungle as methodically as a i farmer plows a field. This kills few guerrillas (a shallow slit j trench is almost complete pro ; tection) but it frightens them ; and keeps them on the run. A more important technique j is to "beat" the guerrillas in a i trap, as pheasants are beaten to ; the waiting guns in England. : Aic drops make this possible, : since without air drops the trooDs doing the beating could : not be supplied. The troops close : in on a guerrilla concentration, and the guerrillas retreat (as ; they must, for guerrillas can ; never stand and fight). If all j goes well (which it often does ; not, since many guerrillas slith- er out between the "beaters") j the guerrillas hit a "stop." This j is a concentration of fire power, i usually along a river ; line. As i this is written, two such "ban i dit hunts" are under way. i The British also hope to reach ! an arrangement; with Siam to I close the long Siamese border, j over which more than 1.000 i guerrillas have escaped since the j British noose began to tighten. Thus by destroying the last i funkholes, by isolating the guer- rillas from all support, and by arming 25 men to each guerrilla I under arms, the British hope in: jtime to win their war. But few think that it can be done in ,less than a year I That a handful of bedraggled ; communist guerrillas could so i challenge British power!, even j while most of the people here iare active British allies, is a remarkable fact, and a fact jwhich American military plan ners would do well to study. jFor guerrilla warfare, that most primitive form of warfare, is changing the face of postwar Asia. l Copyright. 1949. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Slibrt term ' " For Big Theft Irks Henry By Htnry McLemore DAYTONA EEACH. July 13 Richard Crowe, who flew the National City Bank coop with $883,660 worth of negotiable feathers, has been given a sen tence of only three years, and will be eligible for parole after one year in the warden's care. In my book that is justice with a little "j," and comes close to proving that crime does pay. I don't have the figures at hand (or at foot, either, for that mat ter), but there must be tens of thousands of poor benighted souls serving terms twice as severe as the one meted Crowe for steal ing such things as a 1934 Chev vie, a lawn mower and a set of carpenter's tools, or a ma ple bedroom set with matching HcUatrt bureau and chest of drawers. Cor;e. to think about it. t once got shot at, and darn near hit, for eloping with a watermelon from the farm of an acid agricul turist who didn't think it funny for twelve-year-olds to invade the sanctity of his patch after sundown. And at that time a watermelon was worth about ten cents. Since I read of Crowe's sen tence I have been doing some figuring with pencil and paper. Assuming that he will be parol ed after one year, Crowe will be in durance vile one day for each $2400 and a little plus which he helped himself to from the National City's piggy bank. Had h skipped with one half of what he did, or $441,830, he might have gotten only half his sentence and been a free man in six months. Working on down, my mathematics show that had Crowe been satisfied with a mere $50,980.50 he might have been back at home watching the Giants on a television set in three weeks. And, bless me, if he had been a man of simple wants, or had used a shaving kit instead of a big suitcase in Which to load his loot, and picked up only $505, he would have been in jail only from about nine in the morning until one or two in the afternoon. He wouldn't even have had time to try on a suit for size, or select a pickax with a handle that fit him. And. of course, had he set tled for $200 or thereabouts, his sentence would have been so tiny that he wouldn't have had time to make it from his home in Staten Island to Grand Central station to catch the train for Ossining. He would have been given his release around 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, probably on the steps of the Pu blic Library. Crowe could have gotten 45 j years in jail. Just what cut this down to three, I don't know. Did they knock off ten years because he didn't insist on a drawing room coming back from Daytona Beach, Fla., where he was caught, and obligingly took a lower berth? Was another 15 years shaved off because he tipped generously in the diner, and didn't bum any cigarettes, from his guards? Could it be that another 18 or 19 years was lifted because he expressed a strong desire to see the Army-Navy football game of 1950? I don't know, but I do know this: As the Crowe flies, is the way to fly with that dough. Better English Br a C Williams 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "I do not propose to accept their offer." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "persuasive"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Cauterize, temporize, revize. 4. What does the word "extol" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with du that means "occasioning doubt"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "I do not intend to ac cept their offer." 2. Pronounce perswasiv. a as(in say, both s's a in so; not perswaziv. 3. Revise. 4. To elevate by praise. "The book extolled Lincoln's many virtues." 5. Dubious. 333JJQ0 (Continued from page 1) largely because of the monopo listic character of utility opera tions. In free markets, compe tition is the price regulator and any one in general business now knows that it grinds relent lessly. But obviously it is un equal to have one utility service under regulation, and the other outside it "one bound and the. other free." Under the order of Public Utilities Commissioner Flagg, PP&L can lower its rates, but any reduction in revenues there cannot be used to boost rates elsewhere in its system. He finds, also, that the rates allow ed will not result in out-of-pocket loss to the private utility. It is hard to see how the PUD can squawk. It still has many advantages. It is free from cor poration taxes, from state regu lation and reporting. It gets all V . 'CRIN AND BEAU "Makes bit blood boil to hear the Air Torre brmi about brine more efficient than us . . . Gad! have you ever tasted the blue plats special la THKIR club?" Hi-Y Tourists Complete Trip Around Nation (Editor'! mot: Jim rook, tit nation-lourlnc Oretoo HI-Y ot craor who hi kpt Statesman readrrs posted on hi adventures, has Just retarned to his Mill City heme. The recent Salem high school graduate and Statesman school re porter spent a month visiting Washington. D. C . and many state capitol and othrr major rtties on the Hi-Y trip. This is his final re port of the tonr. By James Cooke Special Staff iman Correspondent ALAMEDA. Calif., July 9 (Special) Rimantic, legend-filled San Francisco was explored today by remaining members of the "Governors' Special." We found the city of the golden gate to be, by far, the easiest city to tour in one day that we have visited. The traffic was not bad. even ror a aaiuraay, ap i but the hills of v this fog - swept city were enough to make even Seattlite Gordon Young gasp i n aston ishment a s we drove down seemingly per pendicular i n clines. San Francisco is a beautiful city and a tour- J,m Cook ist's delight. We saw the hills and bay from the "Top of the Mark," a lounge in the top story of the Mark Hopkins hotel. We visited the plushy plush" Fair mount hqiel where everyone but the janitors wore dinner jackets. The Safety Both to Gain in Merger To the Editor: In regard to the West Salem Salem merger a large part of the people of West Salem have much respect and admiration for our mayor. He is our choice and one must admire his courage. I think, as a home owner, that we have much to gain by merg ing. Better fire protection means lower fire insurance. Taxes will be higher either way and by merging both towns will be bet ter off in the long run. We bought in West Salem only after the school consolidation, but we thought then, and still do, that West Salem was moving out of the cow pasture stage, and is ready to take its place as part of the second largest city in Oregon. I believe that this mer ger is what the majority of the people in West Salem want. The city government is very good. The people here are friend ly and homeloving. The business men and women of West Salem are second to none. We have never lived in a nicer commun ity than West Salem. The businesses in West Salem are numerous. We have manu facturing plants such as lumber, flax, battery, canneries, turkey cold storage, machinery, petro leum, sand and gravel. There are many retailing merchants in groceries, furniture, dugs, jewelry, hardware, variety, clothing, cars, saws, meats, air conditioning. Restaurants and service stations are plentiful. We also have a bank, a radio station, a bus comoany. Other service establishments are clean ers, garages, repair shops of ill types, real estate offices, cold storage lockers, barber shops, prining companies, and voca tional schools. We have tourist carols, parks, churches, schools, its energy at low Bonneville rates, has prior claim for en ergy, doesn't provide any stand by generating plant. When the PUD passed up the opportunity given it under the law to con demn PP&L's property, it elect ed to compete. It ought not to complain now over competition. Admittedly, the future of pri vate utility operation is dark. Between the squeeze; of the ad vocates of public power and the bait of Bonneville and the col lusion of government official dom, the private utilities have a hard row to hoe. What they are gambling on is a change in political climate; but they have had a long, long wait. 1 Z "" 11 IT " ''fy'Uefity and wt even uw one mainten- j anre man wearing an old one. t We atrolled through the city : hall and noted particularly the gold leaf ornaments in its rotunda. I Some of the state and city build ings in other states- are cheapen ed by the Indiscriminate use of gold leaf. Other usual tourist's-points-of-interest we visited were Fisher man's wharf, Chinatown, and the Museum of Natural Science in San Francisco park, where we saw realistic still-life groups of animals from Africa and North America. It seems strange, but at last our month-long trip which covered more than 8.000 miles is about to end. Yesterday we left Cali fornia's Hi-Y representative, Joe Gallegos, in Stockton, and this week end the remaining trio will be in Portland to disband to our homes in Pocate'lo, Seattle and Salem, and our faithful ' chaper- ! one, Gerry Crockwell. can relax at last at his Portland home. Well, the trip is nearly over, but I can truthfully say we had a life-time of adventure packed into a little over a month. We gained an insight into this great land of ours, the people and in stitutions which -bind it together. But most important we realize that there is "no place like home,'' as long as it's in the west. Rloodinobile Colled 75 Pints in Salem A 4 1 - c : SvlMAJ ...... r tuidi ul puna vii uumu wda donated by ialem residents dur ing the Tuesday visit of the bloodmobile, the local Red Cross announced Wednesday. A goal of 100 pints had been set. About 108 persons had signed up but many were rejected, the Fed Cross said. Fourteen of the do nors replaced blood which had Valve doctors and dentists. This means many jobs for many people. Jobs mean money coming in. this means people working, laughing, playing, liv ir.2 in one of the best towns In the west. West Salem. Its rec-: ord speaks for itself I think ; Salem has much to gain by this : merger; I think we both have much to gain. Oeland J. Watts 1011 Elm Street West Salem. Don's Be "iooped" To the Kditor: I read Mrs. McVey's Safety Valve regarding West Salem's merger with Salem, and agree with her 100 per cent, and I agree with Mr. Musgrave on one point, namely. West Salem does need a new mayor. If Mr. Musgrave is so asham ed of West Salem why doesn't .he move out, or is he set in cement I have lived in Salem and I much prefer West Salem In many respects. We were doing fine until this merger question came up. and run our blood up to a boiling point Who wants to be under the dictatorship of a city man ager, anyway? They say taxes will be lower; ask the people on Vista avenue if they didn't get a higher tax after they were taken in the Salem city limits. Salem water rent was raised 60 cents per month to pay for its disposal plant. I would rath er pay $1.25 per month more water bill and have our own disposal plant, and West Salem is a large enough: town to have its own fire department. We are paying $3000 per year for fire protection- to Salem, and it's very inefficient, so why not apply that $3000 on a fire en gine of our own. In just what way will West Salem be benefitted if we join Salem that we couldn't do on our own if we had men in West Salem to work and push for our little city's enterprise? . Oakland and San Francisco have lived individual city lives and have flourished as cities un der their own laws and manage ment, so why can't we in West Salem do the same? Salem is not going to take us under her wing without a price that we will pay dearly for, so don't be gooped into a merger. Mrs. Clara Sharpe 1032 Elm St. W. Salem. Fees at County Offices to Rise After Friday Fees in several Marion county offices will increase Saturday, July 16. as a result of laws enacted by the last legislature. Recording papers at both the county clerk's and recorder's of fice will move up from the pres ent 75 cents to $1 a page for a one-page instrument. If two pages or more the prerent fee of 75 cents per page will remain. New fees next Saturday at the recvideT's offic; wi.l include $2.50 (now $2.25) fo- Tiling chattel mort gages, $1 (now 75 cents) each for assignments of magratory mort gage and marginal satisfaction of mortgages, and $1 (now 50 cents.) for conditional sales contracts. Hunting and fishing licenses will be upped 10 cents on licenses cost ing $5 or under and 25 cents on thce over $5. Next January 1 fihing permits will go from $3 to Si each and from $5 to $7 on com bination of the two. Another law going into effect Saturday raises court reporters' f-s from $10 a case or $10 a day to $10 for more than half a day and $5 for half a day and an added $5 for transcribing notes. Certified copies of a birth cer tificate from county records will be upped from 50 cents to $1. Co pies of fee schedules are available at the county recorder's office. 'Walking Man9 Visits in Salem, Sure of Win Paul Smith. Mill City's 64-year-old walking man visited Salem Wednesday, brimming with con fidence that he'll beat a horse in a 75-mile race at Lebanon July 24. Wearing a white golfer's cap. T-shirt and boxing shoes, the slightly grizzled one-time gold prospector said he had walked 274 miles in the past ten days "just for .practice." He came to Salem on a bus, however. At Lebanon he will match strides with a horse owned by Glenn Huston of that city. The Santiam Wranglers, a horsemen's Kroup. are sponsoring the event. The winner's purse will be $1,000, he said. Smith purchased a year-book crammed with records while in Salem, and appeared slightly, dis gruntled to find no records listed for distances longer than 25 miles. A New Yorker was credit ed with walking that far in two hours and 44 minutes in 1909. "I've done it in less than that a dozen times." Smith snorted. been given their friend? or mem bers of their families. The bloodmobile will return to I Salem again August 9. A! l o Super Reductions! ON Through the cooperation with fine rayon men's wear the name) we are now able to offer you these finer rayon 1 sport shirts at a TERRIFIC SAVINGSI STOCK UP NOW! Give your summer wardrobe that needed "liff'l ; j Handsome-Cool-Comferlable l I O Your choice - - solid colors, patterns, whites j Available in short and long sleeves 7 Guaranteed washable l 95 to The Man's Slibii MOXLEY AND The Store of Style, 416 State Street ' PriiTaaelpnfa,'lTW at theiluhF- tion between the Schuylkil and Delaware rivers, is almost 100 mi- I les by water from the Atlantic coast. Jaeph Kuerten - has I pro poned to build a aoap; and box factory in Salem : that will employ no lass than IS men from the atari at a coat of $10,000. And all he asks ia a bonus of $750 as' part payment on a lot noay tho woolen mills upon which the factory I to be built ' j Recently E. C. CrooaT Sa lem's enterprising meat 'mar ket man mads a tour of ln spection to San Fraadsco and other points to investi gate the- matter of putting in a cold storage plant la Sa lem. After two weeks re search among the largest and smallest plants he has returned home and decided to put In what he believes Is the best in the world -f-Dol-lenberg expansion system. Chat. Wilson, confessed slayer of Mamie Walsh, was captured today In Yamhill County. j i Down at the Willamette Valley Flouring Mill yester day a huge mud turtle was caught On his back was en graved "R. H. L. P. S.IP.O. 1879 indicating that the old fellow had been wandering around 14 years with the message. i 7. T. Rigdon 58 Years of Serf ire I 299 No. Cottage Dial 3-3 173 Beaulifnl Hayoif Sport! the largest manufacturer of (Sorry we can't advertise H95 HUNTINGTON Quality end Value I Silem Y 37 Years Ago j I I The News in j I'lorluary Shirts