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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1949)
H .81 mfotoO ,xobtui2 .zroveiO xeolsS .rtwtsrfrfcig fT l il scat saix c ,la. v..:iJ aw: Its y f t&tnaa. Salem OrsToni gantry, October II 1S4 JOHN L REDUCES EXISTING STOCKPILES! r v. r OTP I: "No Ftvor Suxxys V$B No Tear Shall Aw Trmm First SUtewa. Marck tt, US1 ; j THE STATESMAN PUBLISHINC (XfolPANY CH"'-KH A SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher' Eatered at the pestoMce At Salem, Oregon, as sec ad class matter ender act of centres march X. 1Z7S. f rabllslMd every morning. Basinem office 214 I. Commerrtal. &lem, Oregon. Telephone 2-2441. .Voting Machines Again 1 County Commissioner Gene Rossman of Mult nomah county.is urging that hi county make a f. u ..,Ju f Via iico rt irlrB morhinp at pIpC- Atcut akuu ui w & - tions. Over a score of years ago a trial run bf such machines was held in Portland but the out cry after their use in one election was so great the machines were put in storage and the coun ty clerk defeated for reelection. Rossman at tributes the discard of the machines to failure to instruct voters properly in their use and to xne antagonism oi a jwnntai s-uuh --"- machines proved "tod accurate" as well as econ omical. ! It certainly is horse-and-beggy stuff for bal lots to be cast and counted in the old "one, two, Xlftt, four, tally" style. In precincts polling a large vote and with a long ballot counting boards labor often for long, long hours. Mistakes are bound to creep in where such methods are used because hf sheer physical weariness. The harder board members strive to be accurate the slower their speed in counting becomes. One possible objection to voting machines is that our ballots are too long; but surely that nctd not be fatal. Machines surely could be built with enough banks to take care even of a long Oregon ballot. Bill Tugrrian of tugene has urged study of aaapting the punchcard svstem for balloting. The voter's touch of a lever or button would punch fa hole in the card which would register his choice. His voting card then would be run through a counting machine along with all the othersj and the totals computed mechanically. Machines will do the work faster and more accurately than hand workers. Results can be had very soon after tne pons ciose ior au me judges have to do is to add up the results of the several machines. Some capital investment would be required to be sure, but the savings should be enough to amortize the investment.'" Oregon shouldn't let the one experience in Multnomah county tie it down forever to the city markets before their butter turned rancid, 1 necessitated invention. Tillamook cheese was the economic answer. Then, what with trading and barn-raisings and such, the Swiss and the Amer icans became better acquainted and found they: could get along very well indeed. .Today, the Swiss in the Tillamook valley still carry on some of the traditions of their Europ ean forebears and Mrs. Lundy has done careful research into the .customs and ancient arts and industries they brought to this country. With this, plus her wide writing experience and her own Tillamook country background, she has made the language, habits and personalities of her characters sound authentic Place names and descriptions will be familiar to Western Oregon residents and the plot will hold the interest not only of the teenagers the book was written for, but of many adults, too. Mrs. Lundy is the wife of a Portland news paperman and mother of three children,' This is her first full-length novel but it is certainly a worthy addition to the Land of the Free collec tion and should become a best-selling juvenile in Oregon. A Solomon (Gus) for Federal Judge l Left-wing democrats headed by National Committeeman Monroe Sweetland won out oa federal patronage when President Truman Sat urday nominated Gus Solomon, Portland law yer, to the newly created position of district judge for Oregon. This will be a third such posi tion, the others being occupied at present by James Alger Fee and Claude H. McCulloch. i Solomon is an old tilicum of Sweetland's in the Oregon Commonwealth federation and has been a consistent defender of civil rights, a sup porter of public ownership and an advocate of liberal (left wing) political doctrine. While he has never served as judge he was educated in some of the country's leading law schools and has practiced law in Portland for a good many yars, His political philosophy will doubtless I GO O V) ) p" i OKA, tc- , 'AO 1 xmJ jlfW I BOSS! k WtlXFROM nAX' let 7JAj Timr ft now o-' AASt- ,tjufP?yf A Wi V r (Continued from page 1) status quo, with minor rectifica tions of boundaries. The five Arab states are di vided by ! their Jealousies and ambitions. Syria, is suspicious of King Abdullah of Jordan, fear ing that he plans to seize all of Arab Palestine and to gobble up Syria as well. So these other states are reluctant to confirm Jordan's claim to the Old City. Christians, as such, have no historic claim to sovereignty over Jerusalem though the Crusader? did capture it in 1099 and hold; it till 1187 when Saladin re captured it for the Moslems.! They are. however, deenly con cerned over the privilege of access to the holr places. It would seem that this right of access and of retention of title to shrines long held could be confirmed by agreement with Israel and with the Arab gov ernment; and that should satisfy the Christians as well as relieve them of responsibility of gov ernment. Having brought the larger question of Palestine finally to peaceful adjustment the United Nations should be able to solve the question of who shall govern Jerusalem. One condition in any settlement would be freedom for followers of all religions to wor shfp after their own rites and to visit sacred places. A settle ment should be worked out as soon as possible for the present uncertainty retards recovery and halts the march of the pilgrims from over the world. liborious method of ballot casting and counting jhow,U m hU interpretation of the constitu- i. ArMTY fmm tho nast. Wp reailv should JlflJlUU VAV W a Aft Wa " - - - modernize-our election machinery. A Story of the Swiss in Oregon Refreshing as a thick slice of Tillamook cheese Is Jo Evalin Lundy's book, "Tidewater Valley" (John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia, 1949), one of the "Land of the Free" series dealing with the establishment of Old World racial groups Cn this country. It is the story of two Swiss orphans, Lisi Nae gli and her young brother Chris, crippled by an avalanche, who came to America to find a new home with Aunt Rosa and Uncle Karl. They did find that the Tillamook valley was home but they discovered, too, that the Swiss were not always welcomed by the earlier settlers in Ore gon. As Aunt Rosa explains: "We bought farms and more of us came and Joought farms. The Americans look around and they say, 'The Swiss are taking the valley.'. They say we came here to make money and for no tther reason. They tay for us to learn the lan l guage, to be American if we want to livejhere. I Xisi. we did come here so that we would have 1 'more than we had at home. But that is the rea t son the Americans moved to this part of the rnuntrT. too. Whv should thev blame us more Ihan themselves because everybody is still poor? .Because, like I said, we do not know each other; the strange one is always to blame. It is too bad." But the Swiss were neither poor nor strange for long. Difficulties of getting transportation to tion,' but Solomon has a lively sense of justice, is sincere and conscientious and a man respect ed for his character even if he is suspected for his political views, Gains at Ashland School For a number of years Southern Oregon Col lege of Education at Ashland was the "poor re lation" of the family oj state schools. During depression years when enrollments dropped sharply the Ashland school barely had sufficient students to justify keeping it open. This year its enrollment of 760 makes it the largest of the fffrree state teachers' colleges. Monmouth has 592 and LaGrande 560. Ashland's gain was 23.4 per cent over last year; Monmouth's 22 per cent, while EOCE had a drop "of 5 per cent. These in stitutions do not confine their courses to "normal school" instruction." All do regular lower divi sion work though the emphasis still is on pre- -: paration of teachers. The number taking teach-er-training work is reported up from 20 to 40 per " cent by Chancellor Packer, which offers , hope that the teacher shortage in the state soon may be licked. Police report that some counterfeit $10 bills are in circulation in Salem. Bills of this denom ination go through a person's hands so fast how can he stop to tell if they are genuine or not? Red Satellites' Unrest Laid to Titoism Br Joseph and Stewart Alsop bers of agents and sympathizers Vs rSowweersJeW SM!S John,?; ss anaSETK suz fued between Marshal Tito and lfestabons in Hungary not to theKremlin is simmering along mention Ana Paulker's Romania, nicely. What makes tho-Titc-.br sharp reversal of field on Kremlin feud worth a special re- the Austrian treaty, port at this time, is the accum- Russian withdrawal from Aus- ulating evidence that Titos re- tria, on rather generous terms blUon la already doing the Kremlin real harm where It hurts most in the rigid control of the world communist -parties by Moscow. In part, the hideous mass purge in Crech o s 1 o v a kia is o v idence for this conclusion. To bo sure, mass murders tyi d arrests of d o u b t f ul ele ments are stan dard P the .f" iu are utu- I . V ird operatingl J r o c e d uro in I y e i a telll t eLi L count ries, al- AUu t ways occurring as soon as each new communist regime feels strong enough to carry them out. To be sure, it is particularly urg ent for the Prague government to repress any independent spirits, since the final attack on the Cath olic church will shortly be launch ed. . But although these are suffic ient reasons for the purge In Czechoslovakia, there, are- also reports that the purge victims include an un usually high number of com-. muniit parry members. This la mviAmrm that JWpli . Aktfip Titoisnvlj seri ously feared at Prague.' ., ' Indeed, there seems to be no doubt, any longer, that the re Brvat kably . courageous Yugoslav leader possesses considerable num- i t i granted by us. seemed to be imminent until not long ago. But now the Soviet negotiators are again refusing to leave Austria on any terms that might be con sidered remotelv reasonable. And this is believed to be because withdrawal from Austria will also obligate the Kremlin to pull its "line o communications" trooos out of Hungary and Ro mania. The presence of Russian divisions is -probably considered necessary insurance against the Romanian and Hunrarian tend ers getting ahv foolish, flighty notions into teh heads. Even more dramatic, although perhaps less! important, has been the effect of Tito's bad example on the Western Euro pean Communist parties. Innum erable intellectual fellow trav elers are being, temnted by Titoinn'a almof Irresistible com bination of the .W"onsolations of religion with noife of the pain ful restrictioni ;of orthodoxy. Worse still. sious Titoist-Sta-linist splits are threatened with in the working cores of the French and Italian communist parties. Mass visits to Belgrade by formerly; reliable Trench communists have recently been reported. And in the. Italian party, the important ' leader, Reale, is accused of Titoist leanings. i' In the eye of the Kremlin, these are appalling develop ments. Within the American government, I opinion remains! sharply divided, however, as to the Kremlin's probable reaction. In certain authoritative quar ters, a Soviet armed attack eo Yugoslavia is now . seriously feared. Six to seven mechanized divisions arc said to have been 5 massed in Hungary already.; In these quarters, the buildup of Soviet offensive strength is be lieved continuing along Tito's borders. In other quarters, equally authoritative, both the theory of impending Soviet aggression and the information on which it ' is founded are accepted with ex treme reserve. The Soviet arm ored divisions in Hungary ; are said to boil down, in reality, to a single mechanized division, the Fifty-seventh Guards, which the Russians have been march ing about in order to give rise to reports of trooos in many different places. Altogether, not more than four or five Soviet divisions,, mechanized, armored And infantry, are said to be in position to attack Tito, who has thirty divisions of his own. As to the Kremlin's Intentions, therefore, "You pays your tnonev and vou takes your choice. If you think it more logical for the Kremlin to try to extirpate ;Tito whi'e the West is weak, vou bet on Soviet aferession. And if you think the Kremlin orefers; the risk of Tito to the slightest risk of more general war, you bet the other war. Meanwhile, however, there is one point on which no specula' tion is necessary. The internal economic situation in Yugoslavia is grave. Above all. Tito has no dollars to purchase needed raw materials and commodities abroad. He can obtain dollars only from us: and by current standards, he needs very little about S50.000.000. The World Bank has granted him a loan of 120,000.000 which is described as enough to "keep him going.' But there Is no attempt on foot to make Titoism even more at tractive to the Kremlin's follow ers, by gilding Tito with the splendor of economic success. In short, in their field as in others, American policy consists of the usual, quarter-measures and half -measures. (Copjmrtot. ISO). New Tort Ilcrald TribuiM, Inc.) t Eagles 'Within $500' of Goal in Campaign for Local Iron Lung "The job's not done but we've within 1500" of the goal of an iron lung for the Salem area, Victor L Withrow, chairman for the Salem Eagles lodge campaign, announced Saturday. He also announced de tails of the presentation program for 2 p.m., Monday, October 24. Withrow urged continued submission of contributions for pur chasing both the iron lung and portable respirator equipment which have arrived and are on display in Loucks Speaker at Hi-Y Training Session High school boys from Salem, Albany and Corvallis took part here Saturday in the annual Hi-Y club officers' training session. Alfred W. Loucks, civic leader, was the principal speaker. Other Salem civic club officers aided in the program discussion. The verse In Isaiah following the one quoted reads: "And He shall judge the na tions, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not' lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." That of course would be the best fruit out of modern Jeru salem. In Palestine the United Nations had initial success. It can succeed in other and larger problems if nations will only submit to its mandates. the Elfstrom store window. The $4000 project will be turned over to Marion county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for treatment The por table equipment already was used in an emergency until a Portland iron lung could be brought here, two weeks ago. Donations should go to either the lodge ; headquarters or to Bramble hardware. Fight Card Set One of the final events for the fund will be a VFW fight card Wednesday night at the armory. The presentation will take place at the city ban fire station, where the equipment will be on demon stration for the public Formal turnover will be from Dr. Floyd Utter of Willamette aerie 2081. Eage. to Mrs. Faye Wright, county chairman of the polio foundation. Others on the program will in clude James Sim. past worthy president of the aerie, presiding; the Rev. Walter Naff of First Christian church, invocation; Selby Griffin,' aerie president, to intro duce Dr. Robert F. Anderson of the Marion-Polk County Medical society, Marion County Judge Grant Murphy and Salem Mayor R. L. Elfstrom. Officials Doe at Ceremony Withrow will present Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry and Gov. Douglas McKay, who will make brief remarks. The Eagles men's and women's drill teams will attend in uniform for a brief drill. The crowd will also Include pupils of Keizer school. dismissed for the event after con tributing to the fund in memory of their schoolmates, John Rein wald, victim of polio. The lodge meeting Tuesday, Oc tober 25, will be in the form of an "appreciation night for campaign committee members. 56 Foreign Students Visit WU Campus ; Fifty-six foreign students from the ; local and neighboring north west college campuses were guests of Willamette university women's organizations in the opening day of "International Week End" Sat urday. ! Following open houses at various women's houses, the students from 10 nations were honored at a luncheon in Lausanne halL Dr. Victo"? H. Sword, a missionary to India on furlough in Salem, was speaker. Prof. Edward Kollman, foreign student director at Willam ette, was toastmaster. Saturday night the guests were escorted to Varsity Varieties, which wound up the campus chest drive. Florence Goodridge of Willamet te Was general chairman for the week end. Women's living organi zations carried out themes of dif-' ferent counties during the open house. Chairmen in charge- of ooen house at the various houses were ! Shirley Clifford, Lausanne; Bar bara Benjamins, Chi Omega; Er-J nie Vosper, Alpha Chi Omega; Non nie Faaborg, Delta Gamma, and Pat Pomerlo, Bishop, r Church and dinner at the houses will conclude today's program and the week end V TOWLEf ADCIM Towurs caArrsaAa f3 M W 1 1 AW TOWLTS SILVER KITJ So Mleaulifid Tofo patterns (at swfi a moderate cost) Hardly a day goes by bat we surprise a customer with the reasonable price of this Ene soZuf suSrer. Crafted m traditions ver 250 jean old and fashioned by great master silversmiths, Towle Sterling is mnimie in its wide pattern range and life time beaoty. Find die Towle patten meant toe joss ia our extensive collection. Single pieces) itart at $2.93, six-piece place sewings at indodiaj Federal Tax. Stevens & Son ' Livesley Bfdg. 390 State Street Phone 4-2223 HORSE sV .T m Y J" 1 I'm beginning to wonder about this weather, , but my good old horse-sense tells jne the heavy rcdns aren't far away. 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