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Tha Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, January 21, 1950 ($)te&oti ETERNAL (64 DOLLAR) QUESTION "Ifo Tcvor Stoavi Us, Ate Tear Sa!l W Frees lint SUtesnut, March tt, IM1 TOE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHAf A .PRAGUE. Editor and Publisher Catered at the fesUfflcc at Salem, Oregon, at seceod claaa nutter ander act ef esagT March S, 117. rsblklMd every sooraiag. Besineseefnce 2 IS & Commercial, Salem, Orecon. Telephoae i-2411. Omnibus Appropriation Bill One means for obtaining greater economy in government la urged in the presentation of an omnibus appropriation bilL The theory is that if this is done members will not be so apt to jimmy more money out of the treasury for pet projects. We doubt if the economies realized by this means will amount to much. Generally, the bills submitted by the appropriations committees are adopted without much change; and there might even be more likelihood of log-rolling to get increases of items in an omnibus bill than if separate bills were submitted. The practice varies among the states. Wash Jggton used to have perhaps it still does a single, general appropriation bill. Oregon's ways and means committee submits a whole sheaf of appropriation measures. The former certainly hasn't been distinguished for econmy in late years. It isn't the form in which the appropriation bills are dished up, but the will of the members of the congress or legislature, which determines what the spending will be. ments and rummage sales, you can get by. But after a while it isn't really fun at alL And after a while the poor-little-rich-dish-washer, like all the other $20-a-week drudges, would have been dreaming of turquoise and diamond pendants like the one she pawned, and charge accounts at the nice shops, and for a car instead of carefully coun ted-out busfare. From the outside, the gilded cake sometimes looks pretty good. Especially in wintertime. AP Delivers the Goods Getting the news in may be quite as hard a problem as gathering the news. That was the experience down at Coquille, and the AP week ly "Log" for Oregon tells how by "triangula tion" news was poured into Coquille. Here's the story: The Coquille Isolation angle brought out an Interesting sidelight. Soon after Harris told of the town's plight, the Portland (AP) bureau got a message from Chicago saying that a Bloom lngton amateur radio operator had intercepted a message from a Coquille 'ham' telling of the town's plight. The incident made AP national (. Log: . "An Oregon radio member and an Illinois ' newspaper member, 4000 miles aparU-Jeamed -, with amateur radio operators to flash the news " of the Isolation of Coquille, Ore., by blizzard. It happened this way: AP station KWRO, Coquil- le, enlisted the aid of a local ham, W7KYU, in getting word to AP that the town and Coos county had been hit by a crippling storm and ! that all public utilities and power were dead. W7KYU, a mobile station, began sending. In Illinois, H. R. Crawford, of Saybrook, picked up the call while driving to a farm sale. He phoned the Bloomington, 111., Pantagraph, where Dan Miles took the story and put in a fast call for Chicago. From then on it was clear sailing, Chi cago filing the first story and Portland filing a precede." The precede, with information phoned in by Harris, was Just ready to go when Chicr go's i stuff arrived. New Milk Battle Looms Milk Administrator Ohlsen has denied Safe way stores permission to process in its Portland plant milk produced in the Salenvarea and then distribute it in Salem. That is not surprising. The administration pretty consistently has knocked Safeway down when it has wanted to pry a little competition in the milk business. Safeway says it will take the matter into court, which will mean that lawyers and judges will have a new and prolonged wrestling match. The administrator says he is going to protect upstate distributors from Portland competition. Safeway accuses him of "fostering monopoly." The charge is true, but the administrator would probably reply that the law itself fosters mono poly, which it does, though whether it reaches to the dealer level is for the courts to decide. To one who has grown up in the atmosphere of "free enterprise,' the administrator's ruling seems absurd. We favor patronizing home in dustry, but haven't approved the idea of impos ing legal barriers to shut out neighboring com petition. Portland-made bread, cookies come in to Salem and local bakeries have to face the competition. So do Portland newspapers. Milk, though, is something different, we are told. It's a public utility. It's also a political headache. If Poor Little Rich Girl A theme almost as recurrent as the Cinderella or rags-to-riches plot is the bird-in-a-gilded-cage or poor-little-rich-girl story. There was a true-to-life example of the latter in Canada this week. To the captive bird, the sky outside always looks blue. She doesn't know that sometimes crumbs are hard to come by. To the pretty Mc Gill university coed, the security of a $2,000,000 Inheritance meant nothing. How much better it would be to live in a garrett and.be free! ' So she did. She ran away to Vancouver, B.C., and got a job as a $20-a-week dishwasher and lived in an attic room. Her escapade didn't last long so it must have been quite a lark like slumming when you know you've got a warm house and good food to return to. But well bet she would soon have learned that- crumbs, indeed, are hard to come by and there's always the cat or the wolf at the door to look out for. On $20-a-week, freedom is pret ty skimpy. It means all you can possibly afford for housing is $5 a week which will buy a small room in a boarding house where you wait In line for a bath It means coffee and doughnuts for breakfast, coffee and a peanut-butter sandwich for lunch, coffee and a hamburger for dinner unless you can get a date to pick up the dinner check. And getting a date means you have to look nice. The steam from dishwashing will ruin your hairdo and permanents are expensive. So are clothes. Aiid shoes. And nylon stockings. Of course, if you're very careful and shop the bargain base- . At his press conference Thursday, President Truman told reporters that Jimmy Byrnes late ly announced candidate for governor of South Carolina, could do as he "damn pleases." Byrnes was the man Truman called back to Washing ton when he succeeded to the presidency and made him his secretary of state just at the close of the United Nations conference in San Fran cisco. The beautiful friendship lies like a brok en vase. Salem is making progress. An armored car is now going into service. Just so those Boston boys don't head this way. Mouse Ignores Lighted Korean Fuse - , By Jaaaes D. White AP Forclan Affairs Analyst What will happen now - In Korea? The house of representatives took the lid off Thursday. It re fused by a narrow margin to renew economic aid to the south ern half of the country for the rest of the fiscal year. The bill was beaten by 131 re publicans, 61 democrats, and one American labor party vote. It was sponsored by an administra tion whose refusal to send more military aid to the Chinese na tionalists has Just stirred a great controversy. Washington reports say bluntly that killing Korean aid is the opposition's way of showing disapproval of the ad ministrations whole policy in the Orient. If so, Korea Is a touchy place to start Showing it I have never met an Oriental Korean or otherwise who suggested that Dr. Syngman Rhee's government could ever have been set up, or could have survived,; without American help. To cut off that help now may thus weaken Oriental faith in America and strengthen Oriental prejudice against her. No such let-down? has occurred in Europe. - Nowhere in the world have American arms and economic aid supported a government so in timately engaged in fending off a communist rival. Not even in Greece, because the Greek guer rillas never were recognized as government, whereas the Russian-sponsored North Korean re gime is recognized by the com munist powers. Orientals moreover are highly conscious that Korea, fresh from Japanese vassalage, was split in half in the first place by Russo American rivalry and that the sum rivalry has helped widen tod harden the split. When Russia ignored the United Nations and set up a pup pet state In the north, America followed with the Rhee- govern ment in the south. What an Koreans want Is un ity. They want It so much that each, side favors conquering the other to get it. Many Koreans do not like Dr. Rhee's methods, but these same people now say that at this stage of the cold war the end of Amer ican aid to him can have a ser ious effect on all Orientals. They say it will prove to them, that internal American political rows can blast American-nurtured hopes in all Oriental countries. . The simmering civil war along the 38th parallel that divides LFLP feSQQDDQS TO)LDQS A Pole Takes a Walk At United Nations, Russia, et aL have been doing most of the walking. A few days ago, how ever, the representative of Poland, a Russian satellite, tired of walking out with his commun istic comrades, took a walk alone, and in the opposite direction. He walked out of Poland and into the United States. Dr. Alexander Rudzinski, (counselor of the Polish delegation and lately ranking delegate, resigned his post with Poland, severed his con nections with his government and asked asylum as a political refugee in this country. Rudzin ski's statement on his reasons for becoming an expatriate reveals the crisis which confront every lover of freedom who is caught in the communist mesh. He explained that as a result of USSR takeover of real authority in his native country, "freedom has disappeared in Poland." His effort to keep some measure of independence for the Polish delegation failed: That was a hard and losing fight finally becoming entirely hopeless." He concluded that he could no longer associate himself "with walkouts calculated to paralyze and disrupt the United Nations." The western powers have been 'severely cri tical of Russiaand certain that Russia is follow ing a disruptive course, but here we have con firming evidence from a man who is a loyal Pole, not a politician but a teacher of law. Thou sands more must feel as he does. How can an empire be sustained indefintely on a basis of distrust and enmity? (Continued front page 1.) labor governments, temporized or even aided Franco and the United States Initiated no action to oust this junior Mussolini. Franco rode out the storm. The resolution of United Nations ser ved if anything to brace him with his own people. But what really inspires Ach eson's move is a scramble for consistency. Since the United States maintains full diplomatic representation with other dicta torships and with Russia and most of its satellites, where police state methods of totalitar ian governments, communist or fascist, prevail, it was hard to explain why Franco was kept out in the cold. We recognized revolutionaries in Panama, Ven ezuela, Boliva; we keep an am bassador in Yugoslavia and a minister in the Dominican Re public (so-called). Admittedly, our policy was inconsistent What probably is the main spring of the latest decision is not the pressure from Catholic interests who have been urging Spain's cause, nor the appeal of the Junketing senators and con gressmen, but the looming fact of recognition of Communist China. There is little doubt that this will follow as soon as China shows a disposition to treat our representatives decently. But the state department could hard ly enter into full diplomatic re lations with a communist gov ernment established by revolu tion and continue to maintain only a charge d'affaires at Mad rid where the falangist govern ment was also a product of arm ed revolution. If we are to be "realists" in regard to China, well have to be "realists" in regard to Spain, though in both cases the medi cine has a bitter taste. It's Raining Money in Salem, And War Vets Have Plans for It By John H. White 8Uff Writer. The Statesman Snow, sleet and hail aren't the only things pouring into Salem this week. Ifs raining money, too, and the drizzle that started Monday, will turn into a cloudburst during the next four months. Life; insurance dividend checks are responsible. Those monthly payments to the government tnat most veterans started about the time they first got their dogtags are paying off. How are local veterans going to spend this post-Christmas present that ranges from 60 cents to lomtheing over $500? Or will they spend it? A random survey Thursday in dicated that most of them either will bank the money or will pay bills. Some have spent it already. A few have special projects in mind. "Ill Just give it to the other guy," said John Gottfried, food market employe at 805 N. Capitol it The "other guy" turned out to be unpaid bills. Gottfried said they'll soak up his entire check. Calvin Chambers, 1391 Broad way st, agreed. "Ill Just pay bills," he said. Bill-Payer Another bill-payer will be Wil liam H. Freele, army veteran who lives at T2S Court st. Freele, however, hesitantly add ed that part of his expected 1225 may help finance a honeymoon sometime in February." Lloyd Keesling, roofer, 1330 N. Winter St., said, "I'll Just keep on buying food and trying to get along. Prices today won't allow a splurge." A veteran who already received his check, Robert Dickson, Salem route 8, also already has spent it. Dickson received a $264 payment Wednesday. "It's tied up in con stitution of my house," he said. Low Serial Number Dickson, incidentally, had a ae rial number ending in the figure 011. The lowest final three num- Better English By Dl C Wllliasaa 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "I am afraid you will have to wait" 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "ogle"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Marionette, mar riage, Marseillaise, martinnet. 4. What does the word 'Inde feasible" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with eta that means "that which surrounds"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "I'm sorry you will have to wait." 2. Pronounce o-g'l, e as in no, not as in ef . 3. Martinet. 4. Incapable of being annualled or made void. "The doctrine of hereditary right does by no means imply an indefeasi ble right to the throne." Black stone. 5. Cincture. GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty Korea has this deadly back ground: Both Korean regimes have armies, equipped and trained to some extent by their sponsoring powers, America and Russia. Both these armies now have hard cores of young Koreans who served under the Japanese be fore V-J day. This has special and dangerous meaning. In the south these Japanese trained soldiers were first de mobilized, but could not find jobs because they had worked for Japan. Tens of thousands of them got into Dr. Rhee's army. There they became the most ardent ad vocates of a campaign to "unify the nation" by conquering the north. They felt it would make them heroes. A similar thing has happened in the north. The north has long been threatening the south with in vasion. It supports guerrilla activity in Dr. Rhee's territory. Meanwhile, in his army and gov ernment, the urge to conquer the north first, before it conquers the south, long has been reported from among officials clear up to the top. This Is the situation in Korea upon which the house of repre sentatives, by a narrow margin, has turned its back. "S, j pestering yew father with eaesUeaa, Jaaier . . . yea want te grew fall el a saeas el aaisistferaaaiieaiT . . bers will get the first checks. "Right back to the government but in the form of postal savings," said Clyde V. Brummell, secretary tc the postal inspector here. Brummell, a marine corps vet eran who lives at 1110 S. 17th st. aooed that part of his money, an expected szj4, might go into re hacilitauon service for former marines, which is one of his hob bies. Also back to the government will go the dividend expected by William . Healy, assistant secre tary of state. "I'll use it to convert my insurance to 20-pey life," said Healy. Sid Simning, whose roof at his 650 Bever dr. house was crushed by a falling fir tree last week, won't have to look far for a "place to put" his dividend money. Still in Service What about a man who still Is in service? M. Sgt C. J. Graziano, in charge of Salem's marine corps recruiting station, said heU save his $396 for a "rainy day." He added that he didn't refer to the type evidenced by sleet and snow outside his win dow. "Ill have Just about enough to buy two packs of cigarets," said Robert Ramage, beverage manu facturer of 2770 Lancaster dr. Ramage explained his insurance was iq force but a short time. Women veterans, too, are re ceiving dividends from their GI insurance. Jean Siebler, 1797 Center st, a statehouse secretary who was a WAVE at Pensacola and Memphis stations, expects to start a savings account Harriott Belcher, 727 Center st, said she intend to buy bonds with her dividentd and Alberta Shoe make, Western Union cashier, "probably will turn it back into premiums." "Mine's already spent," " said William DeVau, county deputy sheriff. "It went into a car that's almost worn out already," the ex army man, who expects about $175, said. Ed Scott another deputy and a ,"yea.r mrine. expects about $330 and probably will save it "The wife will decide anyway," he added. One veteran may not know what heU do with the windfall but his wife says she does. Mrs. Norman (Florence) Nibler, Wood burn, said, -Well buy a new swing rocker for our home." Maybe Scott was right Barber Shop Changes Hands Purchase of Givens barber shop at 482 Court st by Roy Witenber ger, Salem barber for the past four years, was announced Friday. Wi tenberger said he plans no imme diate changes in the threechair shop. The new owner has been em ployed with his brother, Carl, at the Market Barber shop here. Be fore coming to Salem he was at Newport E. G. Givens, who has had the location since 1932 and had bar ber ed in Salem since 1926, is now a salesman at Salem Automobile company. GUARANTEED WATCH - CLOCK and JEWELRY REPAIRING at REASONABLE PRICES The Jewel Box 443 State One Deer From Western Caftan Bradley Talks ToSolonson Super Bomb By Mrran Reynolds ; WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 -fJP-Gen. Omar Bradley met in secret session today with the senate house atomic energy committee to discuss one of the nation's biggest Issues the hydrogen bomb. But after the hour and a half conference behind locked doors no farther clues leaked out as to whether the United States actually is get tins set to porduce the wea pon pictured as possibly 1,000 times more powerful than the present A-bomb. It is on open secret however, that this country is conducting ex perimental work on the super bomb pending a final decision by President Truman on whether to go ahead or to make another ef fort to gain Russia's agreement for international controls on all atomic weapons. Baaameaed by Solo Bradley, chairman of the Joint chiefs of staff, was summoned be fore the joint congressional com mittee to outline the military as pects of the problem. He was ac companied by Robert LeBaron, head of the atomic energy com mission's military liaison com mittee. Those who attended the meet ing maintained a tight-lipped silence on the topics discussed. Senator McMahon (D-Conn), the joint committee chairman, gave reporters this one-sentence summary: "General Bradley and Mr. Le Baron discussed with the com mittee some matters pertaining to our national defense in which, of course, atomic matters were dis cussed." No Comment McMahon gave a curt "no com ment" to a direct question as to whether the hydrogen bomb had been a topic. But there was no doubt this was the subject He did disclose, however, that the Bradley-LeBaron report will be the topic of many other meet ings of the IS-man committee which is charged with keeping tabs on the Union's atomic; pro gram. Aside from the highly technical and cost aspects of producing the hydrogen bomb, many lawmakers and scientists have raised the question of the moral problems involved. While details of the super bomb construction are the most closely guarded of secrets, experts have speculated a great deal about its awesome oestructiveness. Flood Threat Eases Alon? Mississippi By The Associated Press Swollen rivers in the south ard fear of a sudden thaw in the Paci fic northwest caused new flood alarms Friday, but the midwestern flood threat was about ended. The Mississippi's crest aDDar ently had safely passed the Birds Point-New Madrid flood way fa Missouri. Here 11.400 persons had fled their homes and prepared to lose tnetr property and crops should the river go -higher. It was not certain how soon they may be able to return with safety. But as the surging crest moved south, another 9,000 persons were forced to leave their lowland homes in Arkansas and Tennessee. Army and coast guard workers helped move new refugees to high er ground. Cheer filled residents of the Illinois - Indiana - Missouri area where living conditions, and some times life itself, have depended for the last week on the rivers tent fying whims. At Shawneetown, Illinois where the rampaging Ohio river forced hundreds from their homes a state police official said Fri day "it looks like the flood threat is just about all cer" in southern and eastern Illinois. That doesnt mean everything Is back to normal. John Rlttner, as sistant police chief in charge of flood zone policing, meant only that It wont get worse, flood waters still cover thousands of acres of land, and refugees are be ing cared for by the Red Cross and volunteer workers. The com munities of Miller City and Wil lard, Ill in the bend of the Missis sippi south of Cairo, were maroon ed except for boat travel. Vincennes, Ind which battled the surging Wabash successfully, relaxed as its flood threat appear ed ended. Soldiers and national guardsmen, who had been sand bagging the floodwall, were to have left the city Friday. m n a tat v. . a l a -duck aeaur wnicn swept i Europe beginning in the 14th cen-1 tury was plague. ' ' Sleds Arrive -"With Rain i SEATTLE, Jan. 20-(if-Plagued jy almost continuous snowfall and i corresponding volume of de- manos ior scarce sieas, Seattle business houses sent rush orders east to have a supply flown out here. Sixty-two arrived by air this morning. Forty more are due to night and several loads tomorrow. It started raining heavily yes terday. New Draft Plan Leaves Control With Congress By Francis J. Kelly WAXHTNCTON. Jan. 20 iTA Congressmen today countered the aminisxrauon s request for a three-year extension of the peace time draft law bv stirrestine a compromise that would permit in- aucuons only upon the approval ox congress. Sectertary of Defense Johnson seemed a little leery of that plan, put forward by Rep. Vinson (D Ga), chairman of the house armed sesvices committee before which Johnson testified. The defense chief said he thinks the president ought to have the power to throw the draft machinery into gear upon prodama tion of an emergency. Te Diseass Matter . However, he nromised tn di. cuss the matter with President Truman Monday and sound him out on a possible compromise. It was aDoarettt from th tr4 of today's hearing that the com mittee as a whole is cool toward a flat extension of the law now due to exnire next June so nn - Kilday (D-Tex) told Johnson: "I don't think you have any idea that this committee is going to ap prove a three-year extenxirm nt the present law." Kilday said, however, that he is willing to renew the selective ser vice program on a stand-by basis. Johasen ToU , Gettine nrifif an that hniit Chairman Vinson told Johnson: -AH you need is a selective ser vice system in existence, with no one drafted without a joint reso lution of congress." uudious, Johnson bounced back: "Or an emergency declared by the president" Presenting fh a4m in let n .uvil m request in a formal statement the - - 4 . a a uciaiav secretary naa tola the committee that the draft law was "One Of the deciaiv farfnra n stopping the spread of communism in uirope. i He said the vr vtstanM tv. law spurred voluntary enlistments. (No men have been inducted un der It for the past 19 months). He Said that its mntinn,Hw tun..! save precious time in the event of a military emerffenetr n k. failure to extend the act might be misinterpreted abroad as a sign w. American weaxness oi purpose. Only about 30,000 men In ail have been drafted since the law W.ei bookt in the summer of 1948. Child Slayer Ruled Sane LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18 -V Fred Storble, 68 convicted of mur der In the sex slaying of his grand daughter's 8-year-old playmate, today was ruled nan at tn. pf the crime and wffl be sentenced va aeauu : ; Sentence nf fatH f tv. . chamber is mandatory under Call- iiia jaw oecause a jury which found Stroble guilty1 of murder In the first deSTM AA rvnt hmhl. mend life imprisonment However uie iaw iuo requires an atuomaue review of the case bv the tt. supreme court Superior Judge Charles W. Fri eke. who ruled him sane, will DTOOOunce mntmm nH VrtAm-m on S treble's conviction of Strang- uu uia nacxmg junoa Joyce Glu- coit xo aeain last tav. 14. POI r INSURED SAVIUGS SEE First fPJ Savins P nrst Current Dividend 2ft Savings Ass'ft. 1(2 Se. Liberty H st Federal : U end Lesn HAVE YOU SEEII THE BLOSSOLIS? . They're really at their best every noon from 11 till 2 while you're eating underneath the In fact you pluck your dishes so delectable riaht from the VITTLE VINE where they blos som every day. Down the famous fiOHLGREN'S Mey.
