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r - 4 .19 or ' ( : "No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Atsi" f " '. . FirShi first Statesman, March 28, 1851 j THE STATESIAN PUBUSHING COMPANY: ! r - ' CHARLES Ai SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher " Entered at the poatofflee at Salem. Oregon, m aeeond class matter under act ef congress March J, 1X1 rebUahed every morning. Business office 215 8. Commercial.. Salem. Oregon. Telephone 2-2441. I'm to bd Queen .o the Mayv Mother! -For May will have no" slogardye" . Chaucer (The Knlghtes Tale) - Indeed, Maytime is not for thumb-twiddling.: Th universal pulse-quickening seems to af- riect more than adolescents reconnoitering the opposite sex. There's much astir besides moon gazing expeditions. - ;. s ; - You'll notice, for instance, that politicians get nimble-'footed about this timer: President Tru man is coming to Oregon this month. So is Sen ator Morse. The.May primaries are not far off. Likewise, May Day is the cue for labor to set more industriously in pursuit of less -work-more-pay. Pickets are to line up before the na tion's telephone exchanges this morning. And in , Europe, there will be workmgmen's, demonstra tions celebratmg Labor-Day (May 1). "There will be capers , of another color, too. - Egged on by tommunist agitators, the Labor Day j marchers in past years have sometimei turned their parades into riots. May Day becam a Red ""Letter Day ih more than one sense. TJus year, f attention centers on Berlin yrhere today will be marked by "alert" .orders to 8,000 allied troops In readiness if or any kindTbf trouble. ; That's' how May Day looks on page one. No slogardye there. ' . . , v'-'' ? For a merrier month of May we'll have to turn to the society pages where, we're happy to note,' May will have no slogardye, either.' The Statesman's Maxine Burerv-and Jeryme English haven't forgotten the traditional aspect of this -moribund holiday. Mayhap their cheerful pre occupation with things feminineill yet rescue ft from doleful stories on page one and restore It to its; ancient place amongas they say" in - Sunday's women's section-7-among flowers and queens." . j 'Tor May, fragrant heir of April's showers and busy anticipant of June's brides, was, in olden - times, welcomed with much merrymaking on its first day. It ;was one of the yearV gayest .holi days, unburdened with religious significance or "patriotic speechmaking or. memorials to this or that , worthy individual or memorable-event. Its rjle purpose! was to pay homage to youth and beauty, floral and human. It was a clay set aside for people to go a-maying to gather hawthorne (may) blossoms and woodbine, smell the cow slips, and keep a sharp eye out for the prettiest girl in the neighborhood, the sooner to crown - her queen o'ithe May, my dearJ. Perhaps this innocence, this lack of emphasis " on weighty matters . is what caused, the . grey--. beards, unable to chase after either the may or the May-queens, to spoil it with their speeches. - And the Reds, who have no use for contentment at all, ruined it with their riots. : But there's hope as long, "as newspapers still feature- pictures of little girls tip-toeing through the tulips and of big girls doing the same and then presiding at engagement teas and walking - down church aisles. As long as there's no slog ardye in. the society pages, maybe there'll be a May. when the important announcements have nothing to do with news so trivial and tempo rary as strikes or strife, but will deal only with such glad and urgent and perennial themes as Tnv to be queen o the May, mother!" . lng Administration is-paying! less than 10 per cent down. Many get by with 8 per cent. And nearly half of the GI first-mortgage loans are ' being made now with no down payment at alL" Small wonder the house mortgage debt is the highest in history now about $40 billion more than double what it was 10 years ago. Of course incomes are double too; but there is always the danger that incomes may shrink while the debt remains fixed. One protecting factor how is the lower interest rate charged on home mortgages. That helps to reduce the burden. Anyway, the country is getting more and bet ter housing. That will be here to stay, even if some equities and debts are washed out. . Boom in Housing Oregoruquickly felt the sap of revived busi ness after a hard winter with the increased dfr, 'Stand for lumber. That drew men back .from the ranks of the unemployed and put them to work In the woods, at the mills, in trucking and rail roading. Cash money began to jingle in pockets of workers and then to fill the cash registers of . stores, filling stations, taverns. As of the present 195 i moving along at a prosperous, stride. This stimulus -came from the resumption of the building boom. Thanks' to mild weather over much of the country house-building got off to a good start with 270,000 dwelling units started In the first quarter of the year which is 60 per centmore than for. the same time in 1949. Last yearns total was 1,025,000 and 1950 gives every promises of beating that record. Reflecting increased demand lumber prices have moved up sharply this spring; though they have) not regained wartime peaks: Other prices and wages, remain fairly steady so the lumber price increase may not serve to dry up business The new federal housing act is credited as the timulator of; construction. According toVhited States News: . . - . x. j fjOoe In each five buyers under Federal Hous- Phi Petes and Gimbels' Girdles The sort of job-hunt this year's college grad uates are up against is graphically illustrated in a want-acra the New York Times. A mam mouth department store advertises for two cub copywriters and specifies "Phi Beta Kappas on ly." ;,,,. , : ' This three-by-five display) ad is more than an indication of the buyers; market in labor. It's more than just good for a laugh. It's canary food for any educator's worrybird. Harken to Gimbels' attempt at wH and wiler "There's nothing wrong with a gentlemanly C except that it won't buy you a. niche here. Only j nice genius-y A's make us do nip-ups. . Gimbels advertising director may be odd, unen lightened, a lone still voice in the wilderness but she thinks brains signify. If you're the bright type, it's silly to dull your wits doing research on the rainfall In Evening Shade, Ark ansas, in 1902. Even a genius can cap a glamor-, ous job." 1 Let's analyze that a little. Let's putit in pro per perspective first. Fact: Of the thousands of graduates who will be looking for jobs this sum mer only a minority have the combination of intelligence, diligence, aptitude, responsibility y4nd personality that netted them top grades and a Phi Beta -Kappa, (scholastic honorary) key. Fact: These bright young people probably could do well iin almost any kind of a job (Phi Betes ' could rake leaves as well as anybody, during the depressionFact: Right now, America has a surplus of leaf-rakers and a shortage of top quality doctors, physicisti, research specialists , In certain fields, scientists, teachers. Fact: Some ''of the most essential jobs ae not commonly thought of as "glamorous." Obviously, Gimbels' ad manager is shrewd. She makes copy writing look glamorous fit on- . ly for the best brains this nation's universities . have trained.- She disparages scientific research as a waste of time, no less. Well, that's all right. That's her business, v , ' - And if she gets two Phi Betta Kappas, who are capable perhaps of finding a cure for. cancer or designing a defense against the atomic bomb, -to sit down and write ecstatic descriptions of ladies' figure-forming girdles in flesh pink, maize, azure and black, on sale for $5.98 may be that's not our business, either. If the cream of this year's colloge graduates are going to de vote their brains and education to "glamorous" jobs and let the jobs that call for advanced study and specialized training go begging maybe we shouldn't care. But we do. Judging from the success of department store advertising, the copywriters do not need the help of Phi Beta Kappas nearly as much as do the people who are writing the political, econ omic and social future of our nation. , - j if -42 -X-4ont av a thing lorfbrv or ten minutes , which shows ignorance and-wisdom at the I Hhry WcYrifs ' : I f M - :-MPae time.1Then, uncrossing my JOD OT IMamina wcy le and asking , w my bat ; boy to shine my stars Maneuvers body to the 1 v; n Added angles of daylight saving time overlooked by aver age householder: (1) wives may now 'mow the lawn AFTER doing the supper dishes instead of before, (2) farmers fumbling with cold I hands m early moraing darkness may curdle the' cream of more sensitive cows, (3) the office worker, who- used to use ap proaching darkness as an excuse for not spad ing the garden, is sunk, (4) be sure to specify daylight saving or standard time when giving the kids an order or you'll wind up doing time if they ever take it to court, (5) radio program schedules will become even, more confusing p than heretofore. Departure of useless information - hoio i far will gas balloons travel when released ... well, out of 100 turned loose at Capitol shopping center r lost week about 30 landed in Chemawa district . . . juohfre Phyllis Van Antwerp found one with a gift certificate from ' Hughes women's apparel store t .- . others no doubt still floating around being photographed as flying saucers. " While the rest of us arn our money the hard way Bob Brandt, store-keeper at Foster, sluices his out of the ground in -form of raw gold . . . did lot, of placer mining on Quartzville . branch of South Santiam river" last year and Came out with quite a poke . . . now he's up near Quartsville near Manzanita Bar panning the yellow stuff . L . takes along enough of his, grocery store to keep him in vital vittles. Sims 1) Jim Marr, executive secretary of the AFL for the state, administers a lusty pummelling to Sen. Austin Flegel and ex-Rep. Howard Morgan for their criticism of a seasonality clause adopted in amendments to the unemployment compen sation law at the last legislature. Marr ought to remember that this i is the "political season" whei candidates are out to gamer votes and Flegel and Morgan both will need them. According to the bulletin of Columbia Empire Industries Oregon has the highest standards of wages, hours and working conditions for women and minors in the United States. Quite a distinc tion. Add to that a good climate and fairly de cent meiv to marry girls in Oregon should all be happy. t : There's always room at the top for people who don't get dizzy at high attitudes. Remember old Casey Jones, the railroading gent whp . cotopokes like to twang their gitters about, the locomotitije hot-rod who died with his hand on the thtottle and ht whistle blowing? . . . 50th anniversary of his death observ ed Sunday . . . only mention this to remark that Henry J..-. . Cross, father of Travis Cross, both Salem, once fired enpirte 618 on the Illinois Central ftpm Memphis, Tenn., ,to Gran ada, Mass. . . . seems that Casey was on the same train bt not at the same time . : . or something like that . . . anywdy -, Cross remembers Jones1 as a good man when he got his steam up. A. " - - j Local sand and gravelmen slated to appear at coming city council meeting to enter rock-bottom protest against city's pro posal to build its own rock crusher . , . S&G boys willing to bet City Manager Franzen a sack of sand against a bucket of pea gravel that city cannot produce crushed gravel cheaper than commercial companies not, the ysay, if Franzen goes by same rigid specifications he laid down when he sought gravel com pany bids recently. . j j (Continued from page out the portion of Ciark-McNary funds apportioned for their area. With, respect to the specific program the Lakeview school board rejected it is part $f the veterans' aid authorized under the famed "GI bill of rights.'' That was fostered by veterars organizations and who are congressmen to deny the appeals or demands of the veterans? There has 'been a considerable degree of abuse of this federal bounty. Some of the educational courses' were phonies, and some of those who signed up for ' courses did mo chiefly for the money grants they would re ceive.' On the other hand thousands . of veterans have been greatly aided by the education they have received. In college they proved most ' diligent students. Many have fitted themselves for wor thy careers through the financial assistance given them by the government. So the programs have not been all waste by any manner of means. We can applaud the Lakeview schoolboard lor its fundamental honesty (though we assume it continues to accept federal aid for Smith-Hughes Instruction), at the Same time that we defend cooperative financing by federal, state and local units of govern ment of worthy undertakings. The real fight should be waged in congress against give-away programs, against political pan dering at treasury expense. The heart to conservatives in congress Lakeview revolt may give some Br Henry MeLemore DAYTONA BEACH, Fla April 30 I never thought I would voluntarily offer my B-foot-3, tanned, stalwart United States -But here l. go. Here I go asung .uezense i Secretary Lou- ! is Johnson, and ,? all . the other people who 'are iignung w 1 1 n and for him, for a job for Henry T. Mc oLemore. - In the last war, I was a foot soldier. Never again. I must have walked 62, 327 miles, and what did I get for it? A note from the treasury department saying that I had to pay income tax for every foot I walked, for every cocoanut that, hit me on top of the "head, and for every enemy soldier I tried to kiUV . Just . between, us boys and girls, there is going to be a war betjween America and Russia. Therefore, I am asking Mr. Johnson now for the job I want. I want to be in sole charge of naming operations Too many of our fine military minds are. being devoted to thinking up cute, coy and ap propriate names for operations. 'For example. Before you can drop seven , paratroopers over Winston-Salem, . nineteen gener als have to gather together to work out a name for seven para troopers dropping over Winston Salem.. They are like, the old lady i who Used to name all the Pullman cars. She was paid for her job because she was the sis ter of someone in the Pullman company, 'way up. When a Pull man car went west, -she named it Miss Grand Canyon. When it went north, she named it Belle of Vermont. When it went east, she named it Calvin Coblidge. And when it went south, she named it Magnolia . Blossom Smith. ' V I want the job whengtrouble comes of naming operations. The job must carry two stars, be cause two-star generals usually make up the names of opera tions. . 'Russia attacks Alaska. Men re sent to repel the invasion. . What .must thatj operation be known as? Operation Teddy Bear? Throw it out. Too com mon. Operation igloo? It doesn't have enough appeal for the pub lic. . It must be Operation Rub Noses. That will no doubt get me another star. . The enemy strikes - from the south. I'm alone in my office when they strike.. The joint chiefs of defense call me in quickly and say to me. "We must defend this attack, bat we can not defend it until we have a name for our defense. General McLemore, give us a name." Crossing my fat and saucy I 'i to their best brilliance. I sneak P in this vein: k" K; - "The enemy is coming , from the south, huh? Well, we could call it Operation High ! Charge if they are hitting Miami. If. they are going to strike us -around - Palm Beach, I J suggest that we name our defense Oper ation Mrs. ) Harrison ' Williams. 1 Yes, I suggest. ; we ' name it in honor of the woman who has been one of the best-dressed women foe what seems like nineiy-seven consecutive years, much to the regret of Mr. Wil liams' pocketbook. j . "If the enemy changes course and bits usj over Dallas; there's only one possible name we can .have for the operation Opera tion Neiman-Marcus. If I may tell "you gentlemen one thing, I would like to tell it to you now if they ever , fly over Neiman Marcus, and the Russian boys don't , bail, but Jo see the girls who work j in Neiman-Marcus. then we have only idiots to deal -with."" ' ' ; , I think that I have summed up 'my mental approach toward my coming warfare. I have of fered to take the trouble of be ing cute and coy and quite un funny for the men who are paid and respected to direct us in conflict. The name of this column is Operation Swarmer. Operationj Swarmer is the one that they just held with the air borne boys, land wouldn't it have been simpler Just to call it Op eration Boyj- Who - Can - and -Don't - Get - Paid -J For - It -While - Being - Watched - By -Men - Who - Couldn't - and Get - Credit If - the - Boys - Who - Cant- Accomplish - It? (OiatribaUd! by McNaught Syndi cat, inc.) : Bettor English By D. C Williams ' nil I I t I 1. Whit I is wrong with "this .sentence? "When I met him a week back, he told roe his work was completely finished. v 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "nalpractice"?- 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Sacrament, pre dicament, impedament, f irma--ment. ' . I- , - .. 4. What does the word "gen tility" mean? ! 5. What Is a word beginning, with ve that means "acting with great force." ANSWERS i 1. Say, 'fWhen I: met, him a week ago, he told me his work was (omit completely) finisHed." 1. Pronounce both a's as in at, principal accent on second syl lable. 3. Impediment. 4. Dignity of birth. "Gentility without abil ity is worse than plain beggary." Vehement. . . . i Proverb. ,5 The Safety Valve i To the Editor: Do the people of Salem and Marion county know there are 3,069 counties ih the United States and that our Marion coun ty courthouse was selected as one of the four most magnificent structures-in the United States? Do they know that the Marion county courthouse is a magnifi cent structure for the placing of the Flemish type of electronic, carillonic bells for amplification who are concerned, and rightly, with spending and huge deficits. ssMBBgBBKsaaaBaeggi Literary Guidepost GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty Concerned Over Continual Failure of Army to Wip By James D. White AP- rorin Nwt Aoalytt WASHINGTON, April 30-(JF)4 figures are incomplete, but show 'V -'' The British and the communists' la i Malaya ( are fighting each other in a race against time. The British are1' trying I to f" knock out Red terrorist bands la 'the Jungles before commu nist help can reach them from China, ' possibly via the.- communist part of Vietnam':,'- ' . ' . The commu nists, for their part, appear to be trying to attract attention (and possible help) by a-receat spurt of the damaging raids, which, have become their specialty. - To the British this is a hot wr. one where they, spent $100,-. 000 a day throwing plans and a total of - around 15,000 troops Into the tedious hunt for the Jungle terrorists. Doubtless the struptile seems equally warm to the Keds, who arerfdited with t7Hnd 4.000 full-time operators a.j . perhaps 1C.CG0 part-time Out Malaya Guerrilla Forces partisans. Th fight costs lives. Official unless they to take over. want the Chinese o o that! up to March 31 there had been 1,150 terrorists killed and 63S captured. At the same time 784 civilians had been slain and 275 were missin. with 327 police killed and 357 wounded. Army casualties were not announced. These figures presumably are the I total since 1945, when the British returned to Malaya. For . some time the communists, most ly Chinese, tried to capture the labor movement. They had been anti-Japanese guerrillas during the war. About two years, ago they switched back to jungle warfare, this time against the . British and the entire. Malayan economy. i .t a o o - -. - The British make an interest ing j point about Malaya, which is that In their view a popular urge .toward nationalism does not; play. the same: role in Ma laya that it does in other south- : west Asia areas. (One tendency in lAmerica is to think of - all soulthwest Asia countries in the same terms.) Malaya ; has such large Chinese minority that the! Malayans are not' likely to insist that the British get out The British make another' point, which is that the largely Chinese guerrillas hurt the or dinary Chinese in Malaya as much or more than anyone else. The big mercantile Chinese class is damaged by the raids on plantations, mines, railways and villages. The British feel this deters ordinary Chinese from ; leaning too far towards Red China. ;.:;; v. However, the British are con scious that the longer it takes to wipe out the' guerrillas, the longer of the - ordinary - Chinese in .Malaya are exposed to the growing presitige, of . the " victor ious communists in their home country, j ; This is what worries the Brit ish, in spite of their contention that Malaya is the one place in southwest Asia where the Chin ese communist formula for Asi ,atic revolution cannot be re . peated on a real nationalistic basis. The pattern is for all Asi atic Beds to set up "ligation : armies' and - conduct "armed struggle "against the "Western Imperialists." . - - - -. . I 1 . , . M f j. "Saeedby. yoero BaentJoaed la a senate loyalty tevestitatloa . . you're cast suspicioa oa this bnreaa ... AND called attention te the fact that tt exists..." . vv-V, : i .' MOON GAP, by Ann Chidester (Doubled ay; S2.75) Cassie King, her father Miles and her brother and sister Eddie and Rose are lost, groping peo ple in the once, bustling and now dead-mining town , which gives this novel its title. , Cassie and Miles are familiar with a larger world, but Eddie and Rose know only Moon Gap., Cassie has been in the big city of Reno, where her husband Bill abandoned her; Miles has travel ed much farther, but has settled down here, in the town and on the mountain which, though-valueless, he owns. The search for gold brought him here, as the search for uranium first brought ' Bill and his friend with : their curious Geiger counter! -While Eddie dreams of Holly wood -and Rose patterns her dreams on his, the father still hopes more gold will be discov ered and Cassie still hopes her lover will return. People in Re- t, no, she remembers,' lacked the j time: for love. But people in 1 Moon Gap have almost too much V time,' They are as unhurried as the snakes that coil under the deserted . houses, as the4 beady eyed bear that wanders into Cas sie's kitchen and the more dan gerous bear that wanders into her troubled mind. With Miles rummaging-like a ghoul about a wrecked- airliner, with Eddie stirred by an uncomprehended sensuality, with Rose yielding arumai-like to chance embraces. wth Cassie : bereft, this ghost town takes on a strange and puzzling unreality. It Ties under the make-believe influence of the moon, baneful until the blast of a shotgun banishes it. This is a ehost town which creates ghosts; as stores and houses: tend to disintegrate, so do the people. A disturbing, myster ious i limbo, a kind of sever- never land, has been created here. We are allowed to escape from it, as we should not be al lowed to do, only in the rare moments when Miss Chidester falls back on dull reason, as in Cassie's assumptions about her mother's' relations with Anselmo. New Shirt, You Hurt ! Why is It true that, new shirts Are always ae, stiff that it harts? o They're , always too dirty te ' wear. , . And when they get soft,' I do swear, -. : -J.W& of sound through the four win dow! above the clock tower, so they can be heard a distance of 14 miles in the country? -Do you 'not think this would be something worthwhile for the citizens of Salem, Marion county and for visitors to the State of Oregon? i A movement has-been started to obtain those bells, i 1 Why ,not preserve the Marion county courthouse for the good of the people, for a museum and for bells to play sweet musle to the visitors to our state? Renska L. Swart 738 N. Front St Salem j K - IIlSUnED SAVINGS SEE i . tfrtf iv Federal Pf7r7 Savings r -j First Current Dividend 2Vi st Federal Savings end Lcrn Ass'n. 1U So. Uberty SfllLE It's for It days ealy . . . the biggeot shoe sale la . . . all at exactly I fee '"I.M i "w"" tte rrice of it ' pedx JEHI .! . 1 Buy the first pedr at the recjn-