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I Th Ctatasaaca. Ccltcu Oregon, Yedneaday, May 31, 1853 GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty "No Favor Sway Us, No Fear Shall Awe i t . i. ; Frem Firs Statesman, March ZS, 1U1 THE STATESaiAN PUBLISHING COMPANY . CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Fobllxhed erery eaeramsv Business office Z1S 8i elan nutter nnder act of eonixess Mareh S, 1S7H Entered at the postofflee at 8alem. Oregon, aa seeea Commercial. Salem. Orefon. Telephone Z-Z44L Law-making by Treaty-writing A few weeks ago editorial reference was made In The Statesman to the decision of a California district appellate court which held invalid legis lation of long standing denying to Japanese the right to own real property. The press dispatch said that the decision was based on the charter of the United Nations with its provision calling for observance of fundamental freedoms At hand is the printed text of the decision (Tac. Rep. 27 Pt 2nd, No. 2 p. 481). It confirms the newspaper summary. . The California court noted that legislation beyond the Issue of the lone Jap and a bit of California Teal estate. We shall await with in terest the action of higher courts on an appeal from the decision of the district court. Progress on Hoover Report ! After knocking out the Truman reorganiza tion plans for the national labor relations board general counsel, the interstate commerce com mission, and the federal communications com mission and the department of agriculture the senate voted down measures to throw out plans on the federal power commission and federal restriction alien ownership of land had been nti commission a bureau of the depart thoroughly litigated in the past, with many de- ment of also wa3 approved. So the"score on reorganization recommended by the Hoover commission is not as bad as it may seem. Some of the plans were not identical with the Hoover report; and the reaction against some rejections seems to have spurred senators to get back in line. j y Credited with influencing the senale against certain measures are the interests they are sup posed to regulate. The railroads for example threw their great weight ; against the ICC pro posals, although this agency certainly needs to be jazzed up. It is moribund and laggard. President Truman has never acted on the re port of the commission on reorganizing the in terior department with regard to administration of natural resources. He may be waiting to see what happens to his CVA proposal which is real ly an alternate. If he should recommend a plan based on either the majority or minority report on Interior he would stir up the animals by way of opposition. The army engineers for instance will not willingly let go of their civil functions, and they have many strategically placed friends who will support them, j 1 It looks as though the; country will have to be satisfied with only partial success on the campaign in behalf of the Hoover .report. And it will be a long time before any savings in ad ministration show up in it lessened tax bill. 'Ksions of state and federal supreme courts, up holding such laws as constitutional. It noted; the recent decision of the Oregon supreme court ' (Namba vMcCourt, 185 Ore. 579 opinion by Justice Rossman) which interpreted late deci aions of the U. S. supreme court as reversing former decisions, and so declared the Oregon statute, invalid-But the California court did! not go along with the Oregon court's interpretation of late federal court decisions. It regarded the aMm decisions as still binding under the con- ' atitution and laws' as they stood. But the ratification of the Charter of the Un ited Nations introduced a new factor. The Cali fornia court said that the Charter has the ef- fect of a tretty and as such became under Ar ticle VI of the constitution "the supreme law of the land." The Charter declares that the United Nations shall promote "universal ; respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamen tal freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion." It also declares that "All members pledge themselves to take Joint and: separate action in cooperation with the Organization for the achievement of the purposes set forth." The judicial opinion goes on to say: c "This nation can be true to its pledge to the - sjother signatories to the Charter only by ccop- " . i a. ik.i T 1 eraung in uie pui puses uiai are u puumy ex pressed in it and by removing every obstacle to the fulfillment of such purposes." , It finds that the anti-alien land law is re pugnant to the letter and spirit of the Charter "which js a treaty is paramount to every law of every state in conflict with it" and concludes: The'-alien land law must therefore yield to the treaty as the superior authority." In the more liberal democratic climate of our time there will be little quarrel with the result v una juuiuu icasuuuig. xiic inuikui; legis lation against oriental nationals is out of date and repeal by judicial action is really welcome. (The Oregon legislature also acted to repeal the obnoxious act of 1945). But the construction of the Charter as a binding treaty governing in ternal conduct of affairs is something to-bring lawyers and congressmen up standing. 'If it is, then the equal rights amendment is unnecessary because of Charter provisions. "Jim Crow" laws calling for segregation of the races re invalid. We doubt if senators voting to ratify the Charter had any idea that it would become the internal law of the United States. They re garded it more as a statement of principles. Coming up is the Universal Declaration of -Human Rights which the U.N. Human Rights Commission has been working on. Ifc-too asserts the inviolability of certain basic rights and looks ahead to other convenants dealing with econ omic, social and cultural rights. The first con Tenant' on human rishts still must be aDDroved by the economic and social council and by the U.N. general assembly and then be ratified by the member nations. Surely we shall want to know just what it is we are signing if and when we ratify these declarations. Ordinary laws of the United States require , passing of bills through two houses of Congress and sienine bv the cresident or rraassin? hv a two-thirds vote over the president's veto. A treaty may be ratified b a two-thirds vote of the senate alone. So in lair-rnaking by the trea ty route the house of representatives is short . circuited. " The California decision opens up some very Important constitutional questions which go far (Continued from page 1) "Wonderful graduation speech, son . . . bnt I'm afraid a lot of em ployers will feel bashful I abont offerlnx plain waxes to a man with such a grasp of world affairs . . ; A.-'.-'Vy J Low Bidder An explanation is due from the state highway ' commission on why the lowest bid was rejected and the second lowest accepted in contracting for building piers for the bridge at Salem. Low bidder was State Construction company of Se j attle, at $228,282; the next lowest was L H. j Hoffman Co,, Portland, at $146,570. It is true 1 that on a previous call, for bids State Construc I tion Co. had been low at $172,966, but forfeited j its deposit of $8500 to guarantee performance when it refused to proceed with the contract on grounds it had discovered an error in its i calculations, ilf this was held against the com- pany it should not have been permitted to bid 1 the second time. Having been permitted to com i pete, the commission should explain why its low ; bid was rejected. . Vice President Tom Marshall gained his fame, j not by the office he held but by his remark that what the country needed (just after the first world war) was agood five-cent cigar. It looks as though the nickel was doomed though it still serves to buy a Coca Cola or a cup of coffee In some spots. One of its strongholds is being sur rendered; the local telephone call. In New York I City the charge is ten cents now; and the Bell companies have applications pending elsewhere 1 for a similar boost We shouldn't throw the nick el away as a subsidiary coin however. It may come back. The local transit company Is start ing a fare-cut for short hauls and hopes It will justify itself by increased patronage. The nickel may come inta its own again, for a cigar, a streetcar ride or a phone call. Firemen from over the state are meeting soon in Salem. Early in the month the policemen of Oregon assembled here., Both groups are jheart ily welcome.! We hope that while the visiting firemen are here no one starts a conflagration to test their skills In firefighting. After all they came nere to get away from such chores, and they don't relish a "postman's holiday.' Intelligence yents Work Round the Clock io Betrayal of American Secrets to Soviets Stop : t r By J. VL Roberts, Jr. AP "Torelgn Affair Anlylrt ... - American intelligence agents worked through the Whitsun hol iday in London, seeking associ ates of atom- betrayer Klaus ' Fuchs, and re ports from Can- ada suggested an early break In a full-scale A n g lo-Amer ican - Canadian spy case.. The suspect ed activities are, f course, pro Russian. Amer icans. Canad ians and Britishers have, in some few individual cases, set them selves up as opponents of their governments to pass personal judgment- on what infomation Russia should have about atomic energy. Usually they ' are pro polled not by a spy's pay, but by some misguided sincerity which makes them doubly dangerous. What is to be done about them? More than 30 countries, strik ing back at Internal agitation as well as espionage, have outlawed the communist nartr. Australia. . . Western Germany and South Af- derground. They think outlawry rica arcpresenuy engaged in set- woud make It harder to keep up ting cp restriction. An intricate with them. Justice department spy ret work has been uncovered officials say they know pretty .In Iran. General MacArthur sug- "well what the 50,000 American gests outlawry in Japan on the ground that the party is obvious-: ly the agent of a foreign power rather than a part of Japanese : political life. j It is notable that outlawry has been adopted mainly by Latin American and Middle-Eastern countries. None of the larger western powers, democracies like France, Britain and the United . States, has tried it France and Italy even had communists in their governments until compar atively recently, and still . have them in their parliaments. India puts them in jail when they act up, but even maintains a policy of neutrality in the cold war. t The United States bars foreign ; communists except diplomats- and party membership is some times a disqualification for ap pointive office. A movement to make this a law is under way In Congress. But there is no regula tion against a communist running for elective office, which seems to be rather anomalous thing.; - There are two reasons for this situation. t ' As a practical thing, security authorities prefer not to drive the communists any Jurtherun- i communists are up to. There may be some red faces about this tenet when the spy case jbreaks. It is well known that every legal communist organization, in cluding, Russian embassies throughout the world, has its il legal "left hand" underground. I think, from .a strictly security standpoint, that It Is debatable whether the security people or the party get most benefit out of legalizing part of the activity. There is. however, a matter of great principle involved' which even overshadows security, at least up to a point That is the matter of civil rights, and the difficulty of distinguishing be tween political and economic communists who are Interested in a theory of government and the actual agents of a jforeign country who see Russia as pre ferable to their own country and work for the extension iof her imperial power. : The United States wants no precedent set whereby,) under some future conceivable circum stance, the democrats mght for instance, declare the republicans subversive and outlaw them. This creates a dilemma in which the agents of the Kremlin are able to use democratic civil rights, so abhorred by thesir mas ters, for their own ends. But the resulting knot must : be j untied. not cut witn a sword. Highlight of the Rev. Lloyd T. Anderson's Memorial day address came when he said: "We must work before and after the Memorial parade to keep our American ideals." ... too bad such a small crowd remained to hear him . . . most of once-large crowd drifted away after wreath --laying ceremonies and 'during intro duction of distinguished guests . . . by time main speaker appeared not a single parade un it remained ... all of them, including mili tary, veteran, civilian and school groups had furled their flags and take off. v- r 1 j ff V4a.L I Best shot of ceremonies was little school Ji - " I girls laying flowers at memorial to war Lw LJ - dead-. . . one young mother told her little girl: "Smile for Daddy, Honey, when you lay your flowers down" . . . threc-crun salute immediately followed by wail of frightened infants in crowd . . . Salem high school bandS" nian played taps while flag at half-mast. Memorial day a legal holiday in nearly all states ... but in North Carolina and Texas applies to bank closings only but then Texas probably celebrates a separate Armistice day too 7 . . no legal holiday at all in Nevada and on May 30 Virginia ob serves a Confederate Memorial day . . . May 18 to June 18 is Father-Child month for fathers with children and vice versa. Teachers betcare .'. . neios story from Cairo says Egyp . tian medical student went berserk during exam and attack ed three professors wit,h a pistol ... he probably drew one of those true or false questions with three answers . . . this is time of year when school kids are muttering: '54:40 or , fight 70 to 200 or flunk" ... and all is fair in love and exam time. . j Memorial day lmemory . . . Empire Trust company, in a news letter this month, paints to a prediction of war by 1953 . . . seems that a Swiss company, dealing in a product of universal demand, has been permitted by the Russians to operate two of its plants behind the Iron Curtain . . . managers of these plants . return to home office monthly ... on basis of its information this company is assuming war by 1953.- While ribbing other columns for printing and makeup er rors our own stuff included a "fish hitchery," . . . designed, no doubt, for hitch-hiking trout same house that he paid rent on 18 years ago when he found "The General" wading. I asked Mr. Davis why he had to go back to the eastern shore of Maryland. With the sweetness and utter graciousness of a great man, he said, That's the only place The General's' happy. Mr. McLemore, all the people I knew 18 years ago in the eastern shore of Mary land are dead. I am quite sure that all of The General's' friends are dead, but that's his home and that's what he likes most in the world. Don't you think that I'm completely obliged to take The General' in the summer to the eastern shore of Maryland?" I asked Mr. Davis If I could, see "The General." I wanted to see if the cat deserved such a, lovely vacation. . v Mr. Henry said, "Don't look at that cat if you -are expecting to see a pretty cat The General' is sure to disappoint you." Mr. Davis brought "The Gen eral" in. "The General" can't - walk any longer. He can't hear, either. For 18 years he has "been chewed at You see, "The Gen eral" never won a fight Let me end this little story this way; let me end it the same way I started it This is the end of a story about a great cat and a great man. (Distributed by McNauKht Syndicate. Inc.) ' Sam . Baldock's Imposing office binding, which It stands in the rear of. The station must be of marble, '' but the resolution doesn't specify what kind of marble. I .suggest pink marble. Then people will know it isn't the political : doghouse : for the state capitoL Pink , would be .' inn Vrai ' an er a4 It In ' Alabama; and it will last lust as long as white as a monument for. Salem's discredit in letting the thing be perpetrated. Harmony, with the ' capitol group calls for a statue on top. Not a guy in gold pants holding an axe; that would be too close a resemblance. Say, . an effigy of George Rhoten mounted on a bulldozer. He was the one who was able to drive his petition for a zone change through the zoning commission and city council and push aside or ride over, two state legislatures, the governor, the board of control, the highway commission, , the capitol planning commission and the city long range planning commission. That earns him recognition in statuary, done In chrome, or brass. By all means there should be a sunken garden. I know the lot Is small; but space must be re served for a large sunken gar den. That will harmonize with the capitol group - and it will be a proper place for the city zoning commission and the city council to lie down in, marking another low in their manage ment of city zoning. - - 6 TB Hospital Patients to Get SHS Diplomas Six patients- at the state tuber culosis . hospital will be awarded Salem high school diplomas Tues day, June 6, at 7:30 pjn, in a program at the hospital. . . The exercises will include an address by Dr. Chester W. Ham blim, pastor of First Presbyterian church; presentation of graduates K TYr CI i? ' TUlHntrpr hncnital superintendent; cupiomas given oy Dr. A. W. Neimela,. Salem direct or of special education; prayers by the Rev. Emil H. Becker; vio lin solo by Bonnie Litchenberg; baritone solo by Charles Dahlen; clarinet quartet : by , Loren B art let t, Ray Conder, Alice Lehman and Leona Todd. Graduates are Margaret V. Car- ley, Maxlne Joyce Duke, Vivianna Irene Dunford, Helen D. Lough- ary, Richard N. Maudlin and Her bert Peters. " Literary . . . Guidepost . . . By W. G. Rorers The Friend, by Perry Wolff (Crown; $2.75). In the fall of 1044, some Amer ican troops are sent to attack some almost inmpregnable Sieg fried lines positions. At the mo ment of the jump-off, it is sud denly discovered that they do not know as much about where they are going as they should. But a colonel has to do what a general says, as soldiers have to do what a colonel says, so they advance blindly into a nest of very open eyed Germans. Caught in this ugly mess is Roger Stoddard, and at an almost safe distance to the rear his- friend, Leon Harris, tries to figure ways of saving his skin; it develops eventually that friend ship is something more than the sum of friendly deeds. The ac tion In this novel does not always seem as inevitable an illustration of the theme as it should be, but it's a sound theme, and piping hot action. About a Cat Maybe This Makes Sense r By Henry McLemore DAYTONA BEACH, Fla May 30 This Is the story about a great cat and a great man. The cat'i name is "The GeneraL The man's name Is Elmer Davis. Most news- ' f paper menr when thpv nasn I rr- - through Wash-1 ' 4 to it ) y 1 ington see wai roey go vj m the White House, the sen- ate, congress, and Mt Vernon, but not L When I go to Washington I wind up in Bill Henry's -homf. Mr. Henry is a Californian, a broadcaster, an authority on track and field, and one of the world's few nice people. The other day Bill said to me, "Let's call Elmer." Mr. Davis (Elmer Davis) was nice enough to come over, and he brought The General" with him. In case you have forgotten, The General" is a cat Mr. Henry asked Mr.t Davis if he were going abroad this year. So help me, this is what Mr. Da vis replied to Mr. Henry: "Bill, I cant go. The General is 18 years old, and. I dont like cats but I have The General.' " It seemed to me that I had a story staring me in the face. This is the story of The Gen eral" and Elmer Davis. Eighteen years ago "The Gen eral" was a kitten or a corporal of whatever little kittens are. Mr. Davis found him on the east ern shore of Maryland; wading. It was the first time Mr. Davis had ever seen a wading kitten. He picked up the kitten, dusted the sand off its little feet and took the kitten home. Now his life is ruled by that kitten. Mr. Davis would like to go to Europe this summer. He cant He has to go to the eastern shore 04 Marylandpay; renifor the The Plymouth Adventure, by Ernest Gebler (Doubleday; S3). One hundred and two passen gers sailed aboard the Mayflower and after a two-month trip and a winter of hardship, 56 survived by the time the vessel left for London in the spring of 1621. Out of the adventures of some of the chief figures . . . Miles Standish, William Brewster, Bradford, Winslow, John Alden, Priscilla Mullins, Capt Jones . . . Gebler has made a "chronicle novel." He says it was London merchants' trickery that landed the seafar ers so far north; that they cooked only every three days on the crossing, washed little and smell ed a lot; that Alderi, Priscilla, Dorothy Bradford were involved In unpuritanical emotional storms; that Standish had boils. Jones a toothache, and, so on. De tails like. these make the whole venture more real but less im portant; I now have an idea the Pilgrims were 'sailing, not for Plymouth, but for Hollywood. Abstract Design , My four-year-old's an artist He beams with righteous pride As I praise his choice of colors - And his brush strokes fine and wide. But his joy's a little jaded And his smile's a little wan As I fail to guess correctly , What it is that he has drawn. J.W.S. Better English By D. C Wmiaita. .1. What is wrong with this sentence? "We will co-operate together from thenceforth." 2. What Is the correct pronun ciation of "hosiery"? ,3. Which one of these words Is misspelled? Trapezium, . gym nazhrm, museum, palladium. V' 4. What does the word "var iant" mean? ' ' -T 5. What Is a word beginning with mal that means "spiteful; hostile"? ANSWERS : ' I. Say "We shall co-operate (omit trrether and frem) thence- forth. JL Pronounce second syl lable sher (the s as in vision), and not ser. 3. Gymnasium. 4. Different from ethers, of its kind or class. "Men's minds are as variant aa their faces." 5. Male volent . . TOIHGHT! And UntQ Friday 7:45 0E1IEE t i; - 3K. ' - y i v 10 TB. CHILD PREACHER 7 Many Souls Are Belncj Converted! Evargelisiic Terxple Market St Park Ave. iv; Hillcrest Girls To Graduate Six high school and eight grade school diplomas will be presented Friday to girls- at Hillcrest school for girls at exercises Friday, at 2 pjn. The program will be fol lowed by open house in the school, including new buildings. Speaker will be Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry. Dr. Seth R. Huntington of First Congrega tional church will give the invo cation. Music will be furnished by girls of the school. Awards are to be presented from Salem Soroptimist club to the girl highest in scholarship and from the school to the girl who has made th4 most progress. The answers to everyday j Insurance problems -A- By Sid Boise QUESTION: In applying for a fire insurance policy on our home should we Include the garage? We also have a small garden tool shed and would like to know whether it should be included. ANSWER: If the garage Is at tached to the house, it should be included in the total amount of insurance on the main building. If the garage is separate from the house (on other than farm property) 10 of the insurance on the house automatically ap plies to buildings used "to ser vice the main dwelling." If this is insufficient, the garage or tool shed may be separately in sured. If youll address your own insurance questions to tms of fice, well try to give you the correct answers and there will be no charge or obligation of any kind. 373 N. Church Phone Mill Representing General of America Co.'a City Transit Lines BUS RE-ROUTING & NEW FARE ZONES Effective June 1, 1950 x New routes and timetables become effective June 1, 1950. You can obtain new-information folder from your drivers or the City Transit office. On the same date a 60-day trial operation of a new fare plan will be placed in effect. Under this plan passengers living close to town will be enabled to ride for a round trip fare of 15c Two tokens will be sold and one token entitles rider to one ride from the fare zone limits to Court and Commercial. The other token is for the return ride. NO TRANSFERS will be issued on this reduced fare. The regular 10c fare will entitle passenger to transfer. The method of fare collection will be revised as fol lows. INBOUND to Court and Commercial passenger will pay fare as he enters bus. OUTBOUND from Court and Commercial passenger will not pay fare until he leaves bus. Epllowing are the routes and beginning point of the reduced fare zone on each route. ROUTE NO. NAME ROUTE 1 , Capitola .... 2 Highland Ave. .. 3 Fairgrounds Rd. 4 Market St. : 5 Park-D 6 Chemeketa M 7 Four Corners 8 State St. 9 Mill Sf. 10 12th St. . 11 So. Commercial 12 Liberty-Browning 13 Liberty-Boone 14 Keizer 15 , Fruirland-Swegle FIRST POINT LOW FARE ..Hood I Church ..Hood & Broadway ..Hood & Commercial ..Summer & Market ..D St. Pacific Highway ..12th & Center ..12th & Chemeketa ..12th & Chemeketa ..12th I Chemeketa ..12th Oak x .Owen & So. Commercial .Bush & High f .Bush & High i & Commercial .12th & Chemeketa Your cooperation will make this plan success. We appreciate your patronage and sincerely hope the new re routing plan and new zone fares wilPbetter serve you. CITY TRANSIT LINES " Ride the Bus No Parking Fuss j A atjhmmi and NIGHTMARES How often fate determines our fortune! Ill health, for example, may cfuickly change the coarse of a career. To protect yourself against disaster, neglect no illness or injury. Call oa die doctor before he bs to call oa you! Accept his experienced counsel. Then, bring his prescriptions direct to this phar macy for oar always-careful compounding. CAPITAL DRUG STORE State at liberty , ' On the Corner- y-y,' ;v:,yjyi tt -r