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"Wo Foror Stuay Us, No Fear Shall Awe"
From first Statesman, March 28, 1851
i I THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
j CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
Catered at the postoffie at Salem. Oreron. as second class matter under act of congress March 3, 1879.
Published every morning-. Business office 215 S. Commercial, Salem, Oregon. Telephone 2-2441.
Displaced Persons
No other! single issue, has caused more bitter
dispute In ! congress than the liberalization of
displaced persons legislation, finally passed by
the senate fate last week. -
The DP debates had all the elements. There
were charges of racial and religious prejudice,
of communist subversivies entering the country,
of bureaucratic bungling, of congressmen using
th DP bill to cadge themselves votes back
home. ' " i
President Truman asked that 400,000 dis
placed persons be admitted to the United States.
Th DP act of 1948 provided for admission of
only 205,000 DPs by June, 1950; Its definition
of DP made ineligible all those who fled com
munist persecution after 1945 and all those
ymainly Jews) who ilea xsazi persecution
did not return to Germany until 1946. It re
quired that SO percent of the DPs admitted
milst be Srmers and that 40 per cent of them
must belfrorn the Baltic countries, thus discrim
inating against the majority who were neither.
Critics said the act was unfair, unworkable,
and seemed to aim chiefly at keeping displaced
parsons from entering the' country rather than
speeding their resettlement and rehabilitation
hre.v The Citizens Committee on Displaced
Persons, church groups, many women's organ
izations, the AFL and CIO, and the administra
tion supported liberalization of the law and re
moval of provisions that discriminated against
Catholics and Jews.
But Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada, chair
man of the senate judiciary committee, was
fanatically opposed. He managed to keep the
bill bottled up in committee until January this
year. Fiactionwas postponed until this
month.
McCarranMost his fight last week. The bill
finally passed extends the DP program another
year, .allows admission of 359,000 persons,
moves, the date of eligibility from December,
lt-45, to January, 1949, and it erases the' Baltic
farmer requirement It makes eligible many
lows and Catholics who formerly had no
stance.
But passage of the bill alone does not mean
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mat America nas cuscnargea us numamiarum
obligation to help the homeless, hopeless and
helpless victims of war in Europe. So far, the
church groups have borne the brunt of getting
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Urm l America, now mat uia unwurwow
provisions of the act have been removed, the
government's DP commission which administers
- th program has no excuse for delaying admis-
Dri-g on d,,.
It will be Interesting to learn just how big
fialetn and its neighbor communities will loom
1st the 1950 federal census. That practically all
have gained markedly in population in the last
decade is assured. And in the main it has ap
peared to be a healthy growth, albeit the val
ley generally is going to need more industry
if uch growth is to be assimulated without
disorder. .': j
That's the point that the new census figures
will help us analyze. Are we correct in our
; estimates of the city's needs, the schools' needs,
as well as the state's and counties'? Admittedly
ur planning, so far as Salem is concerned, is
based on the- assumption the city's population
Dow is somewhere around 50,000 an increase
: of nearly 70 per cent since 1940. And the fringe
area is estimated to have grown proportionately
even mora.
We'll know in a week or so whether we're
on the right track whetHer we have our sights
too high or whether we'll have to base our plan
ning on an even greater growth. j
The population figures themselves are not too
Important except as jwe apply them to a pro
gram of betterment.) Salem at 50,000 or even
J 100,000 certainly would not necessarily be a
better town than at 30,000. Size does not make
a I'good" town. It is our job to see that it is just
as good no matter what size it is.
Bring on those figures, Mr. Bateson. We'll all
be interested,; including the hundreds who have
joined in The Statesman's fun contest to guess
the total. !
Late op Early Again
Well, we get daylight time again this sum
mer. The Statesman has consistently opposed
the change, but it. is recognized that with so
many neighbor communities adopting DST it
might be just as confusing to stay on standard
time as it will be to change. So we will not
quarrel with; the decision.
But conversely, we are more than hopeful
that never again will the same predicament
arise. The state, or probably the entire coast,
should change or no one should change. Ac
tually, we'll be operating on two times this sum
mer, and undoubtedly we'll always be late to
an appointment in same places, early in others.
We'll miss trains and planes or else wait an
hour for them. The radio programs will be a
confused mess in many instances.
That everything would probably be just as
confused had we stayed on standard time is not
much solace.; Time wasn't set by nature nor by
the Almightjf. It was set by man as a universal
and convenient way of coordinating hours and
effort, and man defeats his own ends by mess
ing up the clock.
There's a lot to be said for daylight time
and lot's against it. We're not saying anything
except let's not have another year of utter con
fusion about it.
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(presently .about half that) and a
state of ten million.
We on the Pacific Coast have
had very rapid growth. I think
we Oregonians are quite surpris
ed over our gain in population
and wonder if it will stick. Texas,
like California, takes its gains in
stride and looks for them to con
tinue. People here really believe
in an "expanding economy."
The flow of wealth finds dis
play in streets lined with lovely
homes, In many specialty shops
and services, and in a higher
level of housing, in the negro
quarters. (My observation is that
the negro's living conditions re
flect the general economy of the
region with the negro always at
the bottom of the scale). The
wealth also helps to support great
institutions: Splendid churches,
Southern Methodist University
which is building complete new
quadrangles for law and theology j
and has just completed a $2,000,
000 science building.
One development deserves
note, and that is the plant of the
state fair here. This isn't used
only ten days a year it's a year
round plant On its grounds are
the Cotton Bowl, a real audito
rium, a little theatre, and aquari
um and a museum of natural his
tory. Its midway of entertainment
concessions opened today.
I have felt for a long time we
should make greater use of the
Oregon State Fair plant . There,
for instance, is the place for the
proposed auditorium instead of
Bush's Pasture. There should be
more initiative used on the part
of the fair management and of
the community to develop this
plant into fuller use.
'ttftfHantv tf t tot or to -visit
Dallas, so new it shines, offering!
neither climate nor history)
(though Texas has history under
six flags) fas lure for settlers or
visitors.
But we are off tomorrow for
Amarillo and the cow country
points northwest.
Better English
By D. C. Williams
1. What Is wrong this1 this
sentence? "Sit the ornament on
the table and leave It lay there."
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "defalcate"?
3. Which one of these words
is misspelled? Insipid, decrepld,
intrepid, interpretation.
4. What does the word "prodi
gal" (adjective) mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with ef that means adianft
ANSWERS
1. Say, "Place the ornament
on the table and let it lie there.
2. Pronounce de-fal-kat, as in
me unstressed, first a as in at,
second a as in ate, accent second
syllable. 3. Decrepit. 4. Given to
reckless extravagance. "Good
harvests make men prodigal, bad
ones provident" Proverb. 6. Effulgent
The nation-wide recognition of Willamette's
choir came as a just and deserved tribute to a
fine organization. i Mutual is to be congratula
' ted on its choice. The choir is both a credit and
and inspiration to the community.
- Mrs. Ella jWilson has been named manager
of the Multnomah county fair at Gresham. Wo
don't know all the managers of all county fairs
but we'd wager there won't be any fair better
managed than Multnomah county's.
Wife's Advice
Almost Opens
Rift With Wife
Daylight saving bill passed by city council says to move
ahead one hour "clocks- and other timepieces." This no doubt
means that local sundials will have to be tilted 60 minutes to
the west, hour glasses must be speeded up, ra
dio announcers will give time signals BEFORE
hour-long commercials, and song "An Hour
With you" will come out "Sixty Seconds of
Fast Smooching."
Editorial
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LETS CALL FOE LIGHT
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, at the Uni
versity of California the other day, deplored "the
growing hysteria" of Americans over the hydrogen
bomb and other forebodings which David Lilienthal
a little earlier had characterized as a "cult of
gloom." i j
"Worrying over the end of the world," said
the admiral, "deprives! us of the creative drives
we need to help save the world."
A story from provincial times in Connecticut
carries some of the attitude to be commended in
this as in other eras.
On May 19, 1780, there was a storm which so
darkened the sky at Hartford that some members of
the legislature feared the world was about to be
destroyed and moved that the council adjourn.
Said Col. Abraham Davenport, "I am against
the adjournment Either the Day of Judgment
is at hand or it is not If it Is not, there is no
cause for adjournment If it is, I choose to be
found doing my duty. I wish, therefore, that
candles may, be brought." (Christian Science
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Clash of U. S., Russian Airplanes Alay Serve
As Tost of How Tough Soviet Wants to Get Now
By J. M. Roberts, Jr.
AJP racwicn Affairs Analyst
First reports regarding an in
eldent between an American
bomber and Russian! fighter
- planes are so incomplete as to
give no hints as to the merits of
Andrei Ylshinsky'a charge of
gross boundary violation.
There are usually two sides to
such a case if the clash actually
Is proven to have occurred. Am
erican pilots in Europe are under
. strict orders to keep themselves
weU within their rights, and It
1 hard to believe that any delib
erate violation has occurred.
The Russians, however, are
particularly sensitive about the.
BalUc area. Sweden has been
having trouble with them for
, months because the Russians
! entertain what seems to be
very elastic view of Just how far
their territorial waters extend.
Several Swedish vessels have
been seized in what used to be
free waters, and the Stockholm
government has been unable to
obtain from Russia a clear delin
eation of Just what she considers
the boundaries to be. And the
US. has never formally recog
nized Russian sovereignty over
Latvia at all. In such a situation.
It wouldn't be hard for an Amer
ican plane, suth .as the missing
, vtiavy Privateer lost or forced off
' course by weather which had
been bad in the area for several
days, to run into trouble with
Russian patrols. ,
Observers have expected that
- there might be trouble of this
I . aort sooner or later in the Alas
: kan area, where high-flying
bombers, stripped of all weapons,
have been busy ever, since tho
war in Intensive reconnaissance
extending right up to Russian
territory..
But considerable effort has
been devoted to avoiding such
la Europe, and even the unann
"Bd bombers have been kept out of
Berlin, which must be entered
through a narrow air corridor
across the Russian occupation
zone. !
The incident, whatever Its
details turn out to be, will serve
one useful purpose at any rate.
It will give us an Opportunity to
see just how tough the Russians
want to be right now.
It is the sort of thing that can
be blown up into a major dis
pute if anyone wishes to do so,
or can be settled amicably. The
Yugoslavs created a serious in
ternational incident by shooting
down two American p 1 a n es
which were off course over their
territory, killing five people. But
the matter was negotiated and
?adually forgotten,, and now
ugoslavia is more or less a
partner against Russia in the cold
war. !
Washington was giving no sign
of its attitude in the first few
hours after the report arrived,
waiting for details without
adopting any preconceived con
ceptions. Observers believed
there! would be every tendency
on the part of the VS. govern
ment to treat such a clash as an
untoward accident, if that proved
possible without at the same time
involving appeasement
After April 30 parents will be able to while
away that extra hour of daylight playing ttoo
delightful garnet. One is called "Getting The
Kid To Bed While It's Still Light Outside,"
y A) I Other; one is a lullaby "Baby Needs A Time
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. I Walter Ball, cagey cougar-bagger at Detroit, shot three
more big cats last week! bringing season total to 12. Wily Walt
nails the fearless felines with a single-shot .22 pistol. (The big
coward takes aim firstj) though) Walt is still searching for his
three dogs, missing since the battle. After they treed the last
ccjugar, says Walt, the hounds took off in howling confusion
probably rounding up a few grizzlies for practice.
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I Oat-er-town madam didn't get far with a Ugh Salem city official
last Week ... she Inquired about opening shady establishment here
m . was Informed her whole she-bang might get tossed into the lo
cal clink ... result she! left town.
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S Department of total confusion: Responses to The Statesman
population guessing contest have come from as far away as
Sharonville, Ohio , . L one guess was slightly over 10,000,000
(yes, 10 million must; have been guessing on number of nuts
in Willson park) . . i one from Jefferson decided that Salem
"was threatening to crowd that city and might nuzzle up to Los
Angeles in a short time . . . What's going to happen in event
ofia tie . . . or multitudinous ties? . . . We'll use our best two
sided coin (the one showing Spring on one side, pair of red
lxannexs on the other and yours truly in the middle."
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Census culls: . . . JLady census taker, out reckoning noses
one day, made first call at a farm house . . . just in time to
find out Daddy of house had been kicked by a horse and seri
ously injured . . . enumerator laid aside pencil and compass
and made frantic calif for ambulance ... . no ambulance . . .
finally got local fire department and. injured man hauled off
ta'hospital on fire truck . . . lady counter so excited had to go
home for rest of day. j!
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Another female population computer reported she did not
know how much money she made but that she lost seven pounds
the first week . . , atiWoodburn, census jotter posted sign in
posloffice informing public she would be counting on a certain
street tomorrow and to "please be home!
GRIN AND BEAR IT
by Lichty
Literary Gu
idepost
RED BONE WOMAN, by Carlyle
TUlery (John Day; S3)
Son George packs up and goes
off to a city Job; daughter Molly
is already married to Bill; wife
Rose has died. That leaves Mr.
Randall all by himself on the big
-Randall place in Louisiana, with
a lot of his land exhausted, too
much stock for one fellow to tend
to and too many acres to plant.
A man can go from lonesome
to shiftless to worse, or he can
1 figure, as Mr. Randall does, that
he isn't finished Just because he's
abandoned, and that if the first
family he raised has left him,
there's time to raise second.
For he isnt so old, and he gets
to thinking about the barefoot
' Red Bone girl down th road a
piece.: She is Temple Hamper,
who stands day after day fishing
in the creek near where be hoes.
White women would rather live
In the city, he has discovered;
anyway, he isnt i young, enough
nor well enough off for' a white
woman. So though he knows how
some folks in his neighborhood
feel about the Red Bones, i or
Spanish whit as they call them
selves, he up and asks Temple
how she'd like to live in the big
house with. him.
i She would, she says. After they
settle down to the daily chores in
the fields together, after he, be-
comes used to her ways about his
home, he decides, though it
seems unnecessary to her, to
marry her. That's pretty hard for
George to take, and Molly wont
take lit at all. These Red Bones,
with j skin darker than whites'
and lighter than Negroes', are
almost illiterate. Teropie, and
Randall too, are not educated
enough to philosophize about
rac relations; they just- solve
them, for after all they are in
telligent. A determined couple,
they make a happy life for them
selves, a life so happy it is worth
fighting for when a white-sheeted
gang threatens it.
i They are a rare couple, too,
simple and honest, trying dog
gedly to master their personal
and social problems. Sharing in
their delights and appalled, at
their tragedy, the reader will re
member them with a lasting af
fection. Tiliery is nam to add
to the large list of distinguished
southern writers.
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By Henry McLemore
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, April
11 How long does a man have
- to live, and how long does a man
have to be mar
ried, before he
understands that
he doesn't un
derstand wom
en? That's my
question for to
day, men, and
if any of you in
theaudience can
answer it, please
raise your hands
and speak right
out.
I have been associating with
the softer sex for quite a spell,
now, and I can read 'em like an
open book of Sanskrit.
You women go on about your
knitting and canasta playing and
let me give the men a recent ex
ample of what I am talking
about.
A few weeks ago, when I was
getting ready to make a quick
trip to England and Scotland, I
asked my wife what she wanted
me to bring back to her in the
way of gifts.
She assured me with all the
vigor at her command that she
didn't want me to bring her a
single, blessed thing. She even
reminded me of gifts I had
brought to her in the past, such as
a pair of long white gloves which
. she had no use for, an ostrich
feather fan when no one in the
United States was carying one,
shoes two sizes too large, a pair
Of castanets, and a bolt of suit
cloth which she said a hermit
wouldn't be caught hermitting
m.
In spite of all this talk of hers.
I said, "Are you real sure? You
cross your heart and hope to die
what when I get back you won't
be disappointed if I don't bring
you a thing?" "Remember;
emphasized, "I am going to take
you at your word and not shop
a second for you in London. Edin
burgh, or anywhere else.
She said that was just dandy.
Just what she wanted me to do.
So fool that I am when it comes
to knowing a woman's mind and
heart, I didn't buy her so much
as a straight pin.: I was tempted
to when I saw some tf the bar
gains to be had,! but I remem
be red that I was under strict or
ders from my commander-in-
chief, and resisted the tempta
tion.
Well, It's hardly necessary to
tell you what happened when
I got back, but I will anyway, in
the hope that some of you men
fnav TTrti t K it i
When I started onDacklni? mv
bass almost the first thing I
pulled out was a cashmere sweat
er I had bought for myself in
Scotland.
Jean allowed the sweater was
right pretty, and started hovering
nearer.
A Dunhill pipe didn't cause
much comment, and when
showed her , a . topcoat 1 1 had
bought she began to get a little
annoyed, and called my atten
tion to the fact that I had a per
fectly good topcoat similar to it
at home.
Then I drew out two lovely
silk scarves from Jacqmar, one
showing a Grand National scene
in vivid colors, and the other a
ballet scene in pastel shades.
Jean pounced on them with
; a cry of, "Bless your heart, darl
ing! I knew you'd bring me
, something., Aren t they ! lovely,
and just what I wanted.!
All the time I was being kissed
and hu-ed I was trying to tell
her that the scarves weren't for
We had the privilege of seeing
through a church plant in one of
the fine suburbs of the city. It has
just completed an annex for
church school and related acti
vities, at a cost of $500,000. Its
.whole investment is valued at
about $2,000,000. Year before last
it raised $265,000 of which $110.
000 went for general benevol
ences. It has a membership of
3400. All this in what was a
decade and a little more ago
mostly a cotton field!
After visiting southern cities
which prop up their crumbling
buildings to offer them as tourist
her that they were for my sis
ters. -
"You told me not to bring you
anything," I yelled. You made
me swear my life away that I
wouldn't So I didn't."
"Quit teasing me, silly,,, she
said as she tied one of the scarves
around her head and the other
around her neck, and changed
the subject
X keep wondering what would
have happened to me if I hadn't
brought something home for my
sisters.
Sorry, sisters, I did the best
I could.
(McNaufht Syndicate. Inc.)
The answers to everyday
insurance problems -
By Sid Boise
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QUESTION: We live out at
town and often as a mall
utility trailer to haul groceries
and sacks ef chicken feed be
hind oar car. Is any special
form of automobile insarane
needed to cover the trailer?
Any extra premium?
ANSWER: Ne, If It Is a regalar
atlllty trailer, attached to a
private passenger ear, It is
covered without extra charge.
The execepUons are, display,
product, home, office, demon
stration r passenger trailers
which mast be covered separately.
ir If ye11 address year wa
Insurance aaestlons to tots or
flce, well try to give yea the
correct answers and there will
be n charge or obligation af
any kind.
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Better Hurry, these won't
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