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New Game Commission
fiow a new set of villains will step onto the
tage to get the jibes and the overripe tomatoes'
and the aged eggs from those who don't like the
act. Governor McKay has appointed an ejntire
new game commission, something that had not
been done previously since Governor Martin
swept the deck in 1935. One of those now; dis
placed was Ed E. Wilson appointed by Martin
at that time, who has been commission chair-v
man for many years.
The governor figures that the legislature call
ed for a new deal. Perhaps it did. Disgruntle
sportsmen and others have griped over the $ame
commission for years. They have blamed the
commission because there were no fish in the
streams and no deer in the mountains. They
have groused over dates of hunting and fishing
reasons and complained about doe seasons.-This
is one commission where it is impossible to make
everybody happy. The members now dropped
into the chute should feel a sense of relief that
they will no longer be flayed whenever three
sportsmen meet at a coffee counter.
Acplly however" the game commissions
gtarting with the one Governor Martin estab
lUhed have been performing well in trying to
set up a long-range program of game protec
tion and conservation based on scientific knowl
edge. They have employed scientists and ob
rrvers for field work, have done an excellent
job in building and rebuilding fish hatcheries,
have established public shooting grounds for
water fowl. The new board will have a difficult
time to match the accomplishment of recent
boards, and first it must learn to dodge the
alinRshots from coffee-bar hunters and fishery
men.n
Postwar Headaches
Strapped for dollar exchange Britain has
ta.rted cutting imports from the dollar zone
(US and Canada). Commonwealth nations in
the sterling bloc have also expected to curtail
their imports from this zone. So it seems that
If we are to get rid of our surplus cottori and
r tobacco and wheat we shall have to give it away.
That is what we have been doing in part Under
the Marshall plan.
Canada will feel the bite. While in the dollar
orbit because of its close economic connections
with the United States Canada has always done
huge volume of business with Britain. It will
suffer as Britain looks to Argentine for wheat
nd meat and Russia for wheat under barter
deals.
The result may be a slow freeze (or fast). By
far the largest volume of trading is dorriestifj.
But. world trade is important in taking off th
nrnt; and we know we have excesses in agri
culture and machinery. As surpluses ba?k up
on home markets prices break, and that hurts
the producers.
European aid, domestic price propping are ex
pedients; they are not solutions of fundamental
arvaladjuatments. These are not to be cured by
financial legerdemain although wise handling of
credit may break road blocks in trade. They are
the penalties of war's distortion of world econo
mies. We simply cannot go on world war binges
without incuring postwar headaches. It will take
the best specialists to avert migraine as the
world tries to get back to normal business, es
pecially when its effort in that direction is im
peded by bitter political controversy.
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Too Much Welfare Stale in USA j
About the strangest comment we have: read
respecting Britain's precarious financial situa
tion was that of Foreign Minister Bevin in the
course of a debate in the house of commoris. He
put the blame for Britain's plight to the adop
tion of the "welfare state" for social security
Siam Happy
Br Stewart Ateap
BANGKOK, Siam, July 20
The first thing that strikes a
visitor here is a simple but sig-
. ni fit-ant differ
ence between
Siam and the
rest of South
east Asia,
llrre. if you get
in a car and
wander about
the countryside,
the eple art
apt to wave at
you. In the oth
er countries, if
car and wander rr' . 1
about the coun-
tryside, the people are apt 'o
x shoot at you. This is the only
country between the Philip
pines and India which is at
peace.
The second thing that strikes
the visitor is the charming but
fiintlv insane cheerfulness of
the Siamese people. The drag
on, lions, pigs, deer, and other
unidentifiable animal figures
which decorate Bangkok's in
numerable temples, wear, al
most without exception, a rather
crack-brained grin. So do the
People. Neuroses and peptic
ulcer art unknown in the
country, which may be one rea
son hy Siam is fairly swarm
. Ing with Americans who came
for a: visit and have settled
down for life.
Siam is both peaceful and
cheerful simply because Siam is
t l independent and prosper
o. i. The small wars being fought
elsewhere in Southeast Asia are
wars between Occidentals and
Orientals. Because Siam has
never been a colonial country
there is virtually no racial ten
sion here at all. which is in
ito!f hke coming into the fresh
air out of a dank cellar. The
1 iaroese may" be a trifle con-
descending to OrcirVnta's (as to
a people with a r-uliar odor
and a senseless icudency to
' L
in the United States. He mentioned in particular
our payment of high support prices for farm
products, our "high" (American labor will en
joy this) unemployment insurance allowances
and high sick payments. He was concerned also
over the possibility of our going in for an ex
pensive health; insurance program.
Coming from a minister in a government
which has gone whole hog for cradle-to-grave
Security this indeed is something. Bevin insists
that the Marshall plan aid must not be curtail
ed but must be carried on to the "final fruition
of European cooperation." America in other
words should Continue to pick up the check,
even at the expense of clipping the benefits for
its farmers, the unemployed and the sick. That
runs into immediate conflict with the home folk
who complain that we have billions for Europe
but do not take proper care of our own aged
and infirm. Something's wrong somewhere.
The Wall Street Journal sums it up: "We can
luxuriate in but one welfare state at a time.
Somebody--in this case the United States must
keep solvent so as to be able to foot the bills.
Wait till the congressmen hear from home
about this.
) Justice Frank Murphy offered a rare com
bination of qualities. He was a sensitive soul.
Though the siidown strikes in 1937 in Detroit
motorcar factories clearly violated the laws he
refused to apply force to clear out the factories,
because he dreaded possible bloodshed. In ef
fect he abdicated his office in the interval. As
supreme court justice he was always found on
the side of th! underdog, an extreme liberal ist
in interpreting the bill of rights. A deeply reli
gious man Murphy was also a bachelor butter
fly in the social world of Washington. He was
an indifferent worker, failing to carry hkload
on the bench;: in fact once it was rumored he
would resign because he wasn't happy in hi
work.. Death removed him from the earthly
scene at the age of 59. A unique personality,
whose rise to fame and position was aided in
the upheavals of the times, is taken from a seat
of power.
Mayor Dorothy McCullough Lee of Portland
has plenty of municipal problems to study be
sides that of keeping the city morally respect
able. City finances made necessary some un
wanted business taxes, and now she is taking
steps toward reorganization oP the city govern
ment. She favors a city manager and is going
to set up a commission to study" the revamping
of Portland's form of government. When Port
land adopted the commission form of govern
ment back in 1933 that was considered a prog
ressive step over the old council system. Now it
is outdated by the manager form. But good gov-
ernmeni aepenas
ery. ii cans ior
is proving her
v. .
The California legislature has ordered a spe
cial election for next November. Besides an in
itiative repealing the 1948 old age pension act
measures to be voted on include $250,000,000
for schoolhouse construction and raising salaries
of legislators from $100 to $300 a month. Voters
will wonder over the latter question: whether
the salary lift will free the members from the
domination oi the lobby, or whether it will
merely draw candidates who are interested in
the wages.
But Red Menace Looms
melancholia). But they are al
ways genuinely and unselfcon
sciously -friendly.
Nor does j this end the list Of
Siam's ' blessings. Fantastically
in Asia, Siam is actuaUy under
populated. Here there is no land
hunger, no desperate scrabbling
to stayj alive. Premier Phibul
Songgram (who is known as
"the strong man of Siam" and
who looks like a cheerful middle-aged
cherub) told this re
porter that! the great problem
was pot land reform there la
enough and to spare but get
ting the people to work the
land. The Siamese peasant rath
er sensibly : believes in working
only enough to satisfy his im
mediate! needs. Even so, Siam
has a large- rice export, which
is vital Ito the rest of Asia, and
which keeps Siam's books neat
ly in the black.
t
Polities ir Siam have, st least
on the? surface, an agreeable,
opera qualify. There are really
two Siamese political parties,
the Phihul party and the Pridi
party. Premier Phibul collabo
rated with ; the Japanese, and
after the Japanese defeat he
suffered; a temporary eclipse,
which included a brief term in
jail. His power was inherited
by his ancient rival, Pridi Phan
amyong,' who had secretly bet
on the i Allies during the war,
and had supplied valuable in
telligence to the United States.
Phibul (supported by the
army) rose phoenix-like from
his incarceration late in 1947,
and deposed Pridi. who. to com
plicate ;ma Iters, was suspected
of complicity in the assassina
tion of he king. Pridi (support
ed by thjb navy) has twice tried to
bring off a counter-coup, has
been tmuneed each time, and
is now in hiding.
i i
These;: alarms and excursions
have bd certain entertain
ment value, but they have led
to litt! bloodshed, and they
have no real importance (al
on more man ju me rauiM-
gooa oinciais too ana jvirs.
own capacity as mayor.
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In these times workers ought to be more con
cerned about having and holding jobs than strik
ing for higher pay.
Liquor is back in Kansas, back that is, in legal
sale. In many quarters it never went away de
spite the long drouth.
though Americans who hava
lived here a long time tend to
take them very seriously). For
the vast majority of Siamese,
life goes on, and very pleasantly
too, no matter who happens to
occupy the ornate palace of the
premier.
! Yet there fa, Inevitably, a
snake in this Asiatic Garden
of Eden. The snake is, of course,
communism. To the Siamese
themselves, communism has no
meaning at all. There are, to
be sure, a few Siamese who are
beginning to sniff which way
the winds seem to be blowing
in Asia, and who are acting ac
cordingly. But there is not even
a serious pretense of a Siamese
communist party.
The Kremlin has nevertheless
certain real assets here. As
everywhere in Southeast Asia,
there is a huge Chinese minor
ity, which includes a hard com
munist core variously estimated
between four and ten thousand.
These Chinese communists ar
well financed. They sell pic
tures of Mao Tse Tung at hand
some prices to rich Chinese mer
chants who want to reinsure
themselves. The communists
have thus had the wherewithal
to bribe most of the Siamese
police. This communist hard
core can be expected to play an
important role in the future.
i But the Kremlin's greatest
asset is simply the conviction
that communism represents the
wave of the future that ft is
some vast, mysterious, all-powerful
force destined to sweep all
before, it. This conviction is
common to all Asia, but it is
particularly striking here. If
nothing is done to alter this
conviction and to stop the com
munist wave, it is wholly pre
dictable, for reasons which will
be examined in a forthcoming
report in this space, that this
small gav country will soon be
gav no longer.
Copyright. 1949. New York Herald
Tnbunt Inc.)
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If Hank Isn't
Thrown Out,
It's a Wonder
By Henry McLemore
NEW YORK, July 20 When
you dear, gracious, lovely people
read this, I will be high over
the Atlantic
and you can
take that any
way you
choose.
First stop the
Azores. Next
stop Lisbon. I
have never
been to Lisbon,
but from read
ing about it I
gather that
Portugal's cap
ital city is one
McLasaar
of the most sophisticated towns
in all th world.
That's for me.
Ever since I was a wee tot,
chopping cotton under a hot
Georgia sun, I have dreamed
ln(mH frt vr. on. In TJ.hon
.
Afternoons will find me stroll
ing the road boulevards, swing
ing my gold-headed cane, curl
ing the ends of my moustache,
giving merry glances to the
girls, and stopping now and
then to put the bite on generous
friends. The evenings will find
me on all fours, under the gam
ing tables in the Estorial, look
ing for money.
Mornings will find me asleep
in the park, or jesting and jok
ing with the policemen as they
rap the soles of my feet with
their stout clubs. As soon as I
have conquered Lisbon and
worn out my welcome there, I
will continue on to Africa.
When I was an even wee-er
tot than when I was dreaming
of becoming a Lisbon boule
vardier, I dreamed of being an
African explorer. The same
Christmas that I found a sub
scription to the Racing Form
in my stocking, I also found
a book telling of Livingstone and
Stanley. I had read no more
than half of the book about
Livingstone and Stanley before
1 told all my classmates in the
South Georgia Reform school
that some time I would go to
Africa and explore it They all
laughed, and I only wish I knew
their addresses today so that I
could cable them collect from
Dakar, Accra, Leopoldville and
Johannesburg and let them
know that at least one little thug
made his dreams come true.
GRIN AND BEAR
"Isn't tbat j-t 1 ' a man? ! ! . . .
I need
i in. i
- mmmmmi-h
BAbc UN mc yyvuw j j n
I understand It's cool In Africa
at this time of the year, but
that's not keeping - me from
carrying the sort of clothes I
think one should wear in Africa.
With me I have six pith hel
mets and sufficient leaves to
stuff them with to combat the
tropic sun. The leaves I stole
from Central Park in New York,
and I plan to leave the leaves
in Africa as a goodwill gesture.
Who knows but what the leaves
will grow into mighty trees, and
that centuries from now Africans
will point to the trees and say
that they were given to their
continent by an intrepid explor
er named McLemore.
Pith helmets are not all I am
carrying, either. I am carrying
a blowgun and 200 poison-dipped
arrows so that if anybody
shoots at me I can shoot back
Just as deadly. I am also carry
ing with me a working know
ledge of mum bo-jumbo. People
have told me that m umbo-jumbo
is not spoken in Africa any more,
but I don't beUeve it. When I
plunge into the bush on one of
the four or five hundred safaris
I intend to make, I want to be
prepared to pass the time of
day with any member of any ob
scure tribe I might run across.
I am taking three elephant
guns one for real big elephants,
one for medium-sized elephants,
and one for elephants which are
either on a diet or are Just nat
urally small. I am also carrying
an unfurnished game room with
me so that as soon as I bag
a wild beast I can put its bead
on the wall. I'm carrying, too,
a deck of cards in case I find a
pigmy who has some money but
doesn't know how to play poker.
Ihope I don't bore you with
Better English
By D. C William
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "She only . saw him
for a minute."
2. What is the correct pro
nunciation of "daughter"?
3. Which one of these words Is
misspelled? Acidity, j acerage,
academy.
4. What does the word "indis
putable" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with em that means "one who
strives to equal or excel"?
; ANSWERS
1. Say, "She saw him only for
a minute." 2. Pronounce the aa
as in haal, not as in dot 3.
Acreage. 4. Too evident to ad
mit of dispute. "I wish, to pre
vent some indisputable evi
dence." 5. Emulator.
IT
By Lichty
my hosbairi Is sever axamn when
Uaa! ..."
my plans. I also hope that I
won't bore you with the columns
I will be sending back from
the far shores. The chances are,
however, that I am. So I'd
better stop now. You can bore
readers just so far, and no far
ther. After that you're liable to
find yourself with no readers.
Bon voyage. Have a good
time while I'm gone. If anything
comes up for which you need
me, please don't let me hear
from you. I have enough troubles
of my own.
McNauftht Syndicate. Inc.
The Safety
valve Reason Favors Merger
To the Editor:
The aggressive, practical, and
intelligent leadership of youthful
Mayor Musgrave and his Council
already has brought improve
ment and advantages to the city
of West Salem and the self
lessness of this group in advoca
ting merger with Salem Indicates
forsight, a keen evaluation of
community economics, and a
commendable sense of the public
good.
It is probable that not since
the berating in the 1930's of Her
bert Hoover as the sole cause of
the Great Depression; has a man
been so maligned, libeled, and
misquoted as Mayor Musgrave
in the Safety Valve letter by
Pearl McVey. Most of the "quo
tations" she made of Musgrave
simply were not accurate he
just didn't say the things she at
tributed to him. He did not say
nor did he imply that he is
"ashamed" of West Salem. He
did- net call the people of West
Salem "mossbacks" (he was try
ing to explain to this writer, ad
mittedly not without a certain
naivete, that there were conser
vatives and progressives in the
world and that the conserva
tives or "moss backs'" were op
posing the merger).
Mayor Musgrave did not mo
nopolize the meeting rather he
was anxious and effective in
having everyone in the audience
participate, and to give to it the
democratic atmosphere of a New
England town meeting. He was
extremely patient and kind with
Mrs. McVey who spoke more
than any other member of the
audience. This was particularly
praiseworthy, because it was ob
vious she didn't know what she
was talking about; for example,
her scheme to have a separate
pipe line running to Valsetz for
the use of West Salem alone!
The slander published in let
ters to the editor to the contrary,
the meeting was informative and
instructive. It was clearly evi
denced that if the merger takes
place:
West Salem can by amendment
of the Salem Charter gain a seat
on the Salem city council, which
will result in a greater than pro
portionate representation of cit
izens on this side of the river.
All franchises now existing In
West Salem will be honored.
West Salem city employees
will be "blanketed in" to the ser
vice of the City of Salem.
The West Salem City Hall will
continue to be used as a branch
water office, and as a place for
public gatherings.
The sewage disposal problem
compulsory under State law
will be solved mutually and at
far less individual cost to those
of us in West Salem. Under mer
ger, each citizen is assessed 65
cents per month; if West Salem
handles it alone it will be at least
11.23 per month.
According to a firm of certi
fied tax accountants, the asses
sors of both Marion and Polk
counties, and the State Tax Com
mission, the total tax millage for
West Salem for 1948-49 is 87.1.
If the merger is effective, the
heavy reduction In city taxes will
reduce the total to 713.
It would appear that the only
objection to merger would be on
of sentiment surely it could not
be based on reason.
Gene Huntley
1055 Terrace Drive
West Salem
OTP
0330006
(Continued from page 1)
posal could be attacked in a more
practical manner. Now a belt
around West Salem embracing the
heights is part of Salem. The
practical plan would be to tie
in sewer lines from the hills and
those from the flat to a common
disposal unit. That would be most
economical to both. West Salem
now contracts for fire protection i
from Salem, but maintains. its own !
police force. . Unification- would
mean a sinele organization under
an experienced ch.ef working the
,.,,,., 4
Consolidation of
J -
tions should bring some econo-,
.1 au.. ... iv-wv!
insurance rates to ine vest siae.
It would also do this: it would
do away with the "psychological
hazard" of living in a small city
under the eaves of a larger. In
stead of losing its identity West
Salem would become part of a
large city known across the land.
Its residents would feel the pride
of possession as being a real part
of the capital city of the' state
no explanations or apologies
needed.
I do not see that citizens In
West Salem would lose anything
in local pride or b usiness values.,
rather they should gain; but I
repeat, the decision is up to the
voters there, and later if the pro
position carries in that city, to the
voters of Salem.
Fund Balance Shown
In County Statement
Fund balances totaling $3,642,586
as of June 30 in the Marion county
treasury are shown in the annual
financial statement of S. J. Butler,
county treasurer, released Wednes
day. The statement covers the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 1948. It
shows total disbursements of $",
859,260 and receipts from all
sources of $9,743,837.
The general fund at the end of
last month totaled $485,613. The
courthouse construction fund
amounted to $753,280 and the gen
eral road fund, $633,426.
Moto-Saw
NEW Clecbuc
SCROLL SAW
JustCuldtit- Tj
It works lika saagict Jutt iaaagiaa an
electric ktoU saw that, is fan
use, yt lighter than a hand mw.
Imagine riming through V" medium
bard stock a f oof a aninwU, leaving a
aurfac smoother than uSe fine sand
paper. Hera you hava all tba freedom
of a hand saw, yet you can emecote the
Met intricate designs. You can cut at
any angle, or even along a spiral twist,
as in shsDtnc an airplane propeller.
Yon can us it wherever
there is a 110-120
SO or 60 cycle
electric current.
from g to 80 get a
out of Moto-Saw.
r.i oto-s a n de n
AND POLISHES'
FAST EFFORTLESS
Teal have the Hot of jrour Itfc with
a new Electric MOTO SANDER de
vested by Dremei This mriprnnr
sol drlivcrs 7.200 strokes s minute. . .
se fast that eiat dona't want to rUng
e the endpaper. MOTOSANDIR
oees tedious jobs is a hurry . . a cbild
r M. Robber -cualnaned saod-
securer? ,
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DOES WAX-POLISHING
MOTO-SANDES readily doubles as a
can swernn
aa ad mil aril
type riswip holds neper
pareaits ejuick thaws, ine.
skas and JV felt poliahaai P4 rurmbed de the trick . .are
eaaey art ached or reawtii. They produce mirror Ulu anna
aa any anlrahebie surface (furniture, floor, sutomobile). Weigh
in. only IH Ibk. MOTO-SANDEK bas only 2 movinf parts
...never needs oiung or adjuiuiiist. Uses 110-120 Volt. 60
Crete. A.C etecnic mill iamtyX Cii ready to use. with
ft. (Underwriters' Ayf Qd)rebber cord end card pro set nr.
. tT teaes He Cen less fgeaaei Ceraere I
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Detroit Area
Land Chviicd
By Government
The federal government has been
given possession of 370 acTcs of
land in and around Detroit, accord
ing to an order filed with! the Ma
rion county court Wednesday.
When the dam there is complet
ed the property wiU be flixxied as
water from the dam backs' up. This
will probably come about in the
fall of 1951.
Wednesday's order carjn from
the U. S. district court. It is tha
outgrowth of condemnation pro
ceedings instituted by th United
States against John W. Oterson of
Detroit and a long list pf other
property owners in that area.
The government has deposited
I f50?'000 Wlth h c?urt..s probabla
Du" hJSTh n- V
; propnated. According to the order
! fit KA r r mi'tiAr Miw:iiA ;
" vr s 3 ma IIUI Jill HUM
and they may ..p rw wn.
siruction on the land.
Land owners may still ; live on
their properties until suih tima
( as the government acquires -ac-
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Legion Picnic
At Silverton
Set MondaV
SILVERTON Th; annual picnic
for Delbert Reeves bost and unit,
American lirgion, is announced by
Wesley tlrogam. commander of the
post, and Mrs. C. E.;Higinbotham,
president of the auxiliary, to be
held at the city park, I Monday
evening, July 25, with a," no-host
supper at 6:30 o'clock. (
If the weather is unfavorable,
the affair will be at the Legion
hall with a social hour following
the 6:30 supper. ? i
Members of the ; families and
friends are welcomel !
Guests are asked W furriish table
sei vice at the park, f f
MISSOURI PICNIC Sl'NtAY
Residents and former residents
of Missouri will attend thje annual
Missouri State society picnic at
Jantzen beach in Portland Sunday.
Registration will be at 10 a.m.; pic
nic dinner at 12:15: program at
1:30. Entrance Is to be the park's
rear gate. Attendants are, asked to
bring their own dinner asd coffee.
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