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idst ILLLIXvHUU mil f'T' "No Favor Sways Vs. No Fear Shall Awe" I 1 .'; - '::-y,:i From First Statesman, lUrca t. 1SS1 V V" ' ' I r: ' THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY ; f U I CHARLES A. SPpAGUE- Editor and Publisher .ii.t..j Hunhr KadBMi afflctf 21S & tunmcrcliL SaJem. Orena. Telephone' S-244L Entered at tine posto fries at Sales. Oregon, as second clan matter under act of congress March 3, inx Coal Does Have i Future j The so-called- coal" carrying railroads ire in effect in partnership with the coal mines. For mines provide so much tonnage for roads like " the Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western that any slump in the coal business jaff ects the' earn Incs of the road and the employment it provides. The coal strike sharply reduced freight tonnage and the switch to other fuel has impeded the recovery in the mining and hauling of cioal. As a result considerable worrying' is in progress among those interested in coal economics. This, group even joined with independent oil produc ers' to try to increase the tariff on petroleum ten-fold in the attempt to shut out foreign oil imports. . , " i - But the future for coal is not as black as the product itself. Tracks," the C & O house organ bravely publishes an article headed, "Coal's Big Future." This big coal handler isn't justj whistl ing to keep up its courage. It presents facts which iqduce a little optimism over coaL The big consumers of coal now are! electric . generating plants. Handling coal as they i do, it still is competitive with fuel oil. The steady growth in electric consumption means, j accord ing to "Tracks" an annual increase of millions of tons in coal consumption.' Hydroelectric pos sibilities are limited in the eastern and southern stales, so the electric industry must depend larg elyon fuel generation of power to take care of its growing demands. J I Coal is still used in steelmaking (largely in the form of coke), and for heating factories and homes. Automatic stokers have eased the load of firing and smoke arresters reduced thje smoke - and cinder nuisance. j j. : But coal is a prime. raw. material for chem istry. Coal tar alone yields 200 chemical com pounds. Coal is a base for nylon. Experiments are. under way to perfect a gas turbine using powdered coal, also to convert coal underground into gas for use on the surface. ... ' j It is far too early to ring down the curtain on coal. The flush of oil may narrow its mar ked but the known reserves of coal are so vast that-they probably will outlast domestic sup , plies of petroleum. We should consider oursel ves fortunate as a nation to have such stores of coal, insuring us of a fuel supply and a raw material for industrial and chemical ! use for centuries to come. 1 fr" ' - y - : Up Goes the Marble Station Workers began chopping down the maple r sailings on the lot a the corner of Center and ' Capitol streets preparatory to erecting there the marble service station to serve gas buggies that may call. The state highway commission backed out of filing a suit to test the zoning change, saying they didn't want to mix in local politic? -though those of us who had mixed were do ing so at the behest of state boards and the state legislature. Anyway here comes the marble sta tion white, pink or canary, we don't know yet Which. " ; - j . J '. I1 layor Elfstrom made a statement defending the action of the zoning commission and the oity council in, authorizing the change. He fails how ever to justify it , in the face of the concerted appeals of all state authorities. Moreover his suggestion that the state take over the fringe area and use it for parking purposes exacts an improper condition on the state. The state is investing millions in the capitol group. All it has 'asked of Salem Is to protect the fringe area against commercialiiation. That the zoning com mission and city council has declined to do. When the state provides parking space it will do so on its own motion, and the plan the capitol planning commission recommends is to use blocks in the direction of future, expansion for parking until such time as they are needed for building. , . The Oregon City Enterprise-Courier is the latest paper to join the chorus of protest from over the state. It remarks: . It is Incredible that the Salem city council does not see what it would mean to Salem eventually, to have a beautiful, restricted capi tol zone with sensible utilitarian features, rath er than a "grown like Topsy" condition. It is a rather late day to do anything about it, but perhaps the capitol should never have been moved from Oregon City, after alL We wonder now if the zoning commission and city councils are going whole hog and convert' the rest of the fringe area into potential com mercial use. . Looks Like No Tax Cut The house ways and means committee has been working all this session on a tax bill. Spe cial drives have been made against heavy excise taxes imposed in wartime. Even the president asked, for some reductions there, though he cou pled the request with a call for increases in other levies to make up the loss. So many have gotten aboard for the ride that" it looks very much as though the bill would never get a start. Besides making some obviously needed cuts in excise levies the committee voted to sweeten the kitty for stock speculators by reducing the holding time required for cutting in two the re ported gain on stock sales. This is too much of a load for the bill to carry with any expectation of getting by the house, the senate and the president. So talk in Washington now is that there ain't gonna be' no tax cut, after all. Sad news- and the war five years past. j 'A V 1 Mac1ITdlcew America Any Time, Thanks - mil i ,, , i Secretary Chapman of the department of the interior has appointed his assistant, Dale Doty, of California, to be an assistant secretary of the interior. So far though Chapman has left unfill ed the office of under secretary which he held before being promoted to. secretary . after Krug Tn lino 4rr nrAVviAfiAn r a TaVvUia T"- vidson, leading proponent of CVA and William J S. Warne, both assistants in the department. ( " Davidson has been ill for sesme weeks past fol lowing a trip to U. S. islands in the Carribean. Some day Chapman will have to announce his choice for under secretary. It's a safe bet that movie industry is not turning hand springs over possibility of television spreading out over Pacific i northwest . . indications are that already Oregon movie-goers are getting fickle about the flickers! : . . one Salem theatre is planning to close jits doors soon for the summer season ... at least four screen houses in downtown Portland plan to halt summer - time activities . . . j although drive-in theatres are being built all over town. Closing are of course, caused byllack of customers at the ticket offices . i . and reasons for decrease of gate receipts are many . . . the blame is put on daylight saving time, not-too-good pictures, thin wallets, drive - in theatres and too' many other things to do. I; (Continued from page 1) campaign too late to thoroughly canvass the state." He gave either Douglas or Boddy the , edge over Nixon in the finals. Nashville, Tenn. consumers asked for bread Sunday and got beer. The police decided to enforce an old law which prohibited the sale of bread and lard and some other things on Sun day but made no mention of beer. Shocking Amount jof Faker Declared to Have ' Shown in Western Defense Efforts Thus Far JLlL. ) By Joseph Alsp I PARIS It is time to reaUze that the Western defense prob lem can be "successfully solved, if H is energetic ally tackled. But there is an- Jther point that put also be xsalized. There ha been a hocking amount of fak ey in the West ern defense ef fort to date. The simplest Oration of the U,"? II taking that is still being 'practic ed is contained in the President's recent request for $1,250,000,000 for foreign arms aid. -Within this total, a sum of 173,000,000 is earmarked as an American con tribution to the defense of South east Asia, including Indo-China. Jfere is fakery which can be MBily proven. In the first place, during his Faris visit. Secretary of State n Acheson promised the French all-out American aid in the effort to hold Indo-China against the Kremlin's imperialist ' drive. . Yin the second place, themer Initial installment of air request ed by the French amounted to -nearly $90,000,000 worth of equipment and supplies. The long-range French program now li Washington comes close to $300,000,000. No doubt these French requests may be sharply revised 1 downwards, or partly met from American surplus. Yet no one can suppose we can" fin ance all-out aid for. the French with what is left over from $75,- Oao.pOO, after Indonesia, Burma ad other claimant - regions in Southeast Asia have also taken their shares. . In the third place, neither Ach eron's promises nor the requests ot the French are what compel us to make a massive effort to save Indo-China. A powerful French army is fish ting in Indo-China.! It need material aid, which can:, only come from us, to contain puoi throw back the Communist tviMrrillas. If the Communists triumph tn Indo-China, Asia will fallow the same road. In short, i.r-his matter, we are not only talking our own promises and ignoring military realities.-. We are also defying the logic of events, which is the worst fakery , of all. The same rules, unfortunately, hold true for the foreign Military Aid Program as a whole. Prev ious! reports in this space have ' already shown that the general . level of effort represented by the E resident's $1,250,000,000 request . i now Utterly inadequate. Much greater investments by all the partner nations of the West, and ' especially by the United States, are i needed to build a Western defense in a reasonable time. : Furthermore, one cannot even : say about the Military Aid Pro- gram that it is good as far as it , ! goe& On the contrary, some ex : traordinarily disquieting facts about It are now beginning to emerge. -. For example, the 1950 MA.P. program for France was .agreed upoa last November. It included more than 200,000 tons of equip ment It was to provide arms for the i French ground army on an extensive scale. When it was ap proved by the Defense Depart ment, the French were delighted. After much public pointing with pride by Secretary of De fense Louis Johnson, the first 2,000 tons or so of this equipment were shipped to France some time ago, Since then, the French have vainly sought to discover when they would receive the remaining 99 per cent of. what has been promised to them. Ad ditional cargoes do not come. ' The ; trouble seems to be that carrying out the program for France will involve temporarily depleting the American strategic reserves, and later replenishing them with newly manufactured weapons. There is no sign that the necessary heavy orders for new weapons have yet been plac ed, which should have been done last November. Meanwhile Sec retary Johnson is hesitating to authorize depletion of the stra tegic reserves. There is no excuse for this sort of mess. Either the program for Franca should not have been ap proved last November.'' Or Sec retary. Johnson should be ready and eager to carry out that pro gram now. But while what has happened cannot be excused, it can at least be explained. Sec : retary Johnson has made almost as many loud claims about his efforts, to build -up the defense of the West, as he formerly made about his "economies" in the . American services. It would now appear that both sets of chums were equally phony. All this faking has been hap--, pening, moreover, against tha background of Secretary John- son's own public acknowledge- ments that the defense of the Western world is the only pos sible defense of America. And while the faking has continued, more and more important and far-reaching American defense commitments have been made. On 2-this latter point, few people anywhere grasp the ex traordinary significance of the approval of the principle of a "collective" defense at the Lon don conference. It looks so easy, for every nation to abandon the idea of national arms production and balanced national forces. It looks so efficient for every nation to agree to make only the most economical and useful contribu tion to the common pool of strength. But the fact, a crude example is enough to show what this principle can mean. Suppose, for , instance, that the French agree, which they wil lnot do, to make their only contribution to the common pool In the form of in fantry. They win then be in the position of relying entirely upon American and British air and naval power. But this, in turn, will put the Americans and Brit ish in what amounts to a position ot trust. They will be in honor bound to help the French with air and naval forces from the beginning of any fighting until the end of any fighting. In short, there is here implied a total mil .itary alliance. - Since we cannot escape in any case from the duty ot defending the West from Soviet aggression, there is nothing wrong with a total military alliance. What la shockingly wrong, however, is to enter such an alliance as senidr partner and then to fail to or ganize any serious defense. This is what we have done and are doing. This is the real danger, Either the fakers must go and the faking must stop, or we shall see the Western front against Soviet aggression dissolving before our eyes, ' and much sooner than we hke to think. (Copyrfctht. lea. Ker Trk Seems maybe movies are slipping a little from position as No. 1 sources of entertainment in average citizen's life . . . it's too easy now to bundle the kids in the car and head for the beach, the mountains, or the farm . . . not so many people go to a show just to pass the time . . . and when they do go they are more choosy about the type of movie they pay for . . . hits, though, are still Mts and a good one still packs 'em in . . . but it getting hardty to forecast goodi shows because Hollywood publicity blurbs indicate that each production is a milestone in achievement. ; . To see what teleutsion is doing to the silver screen just look to southern California where telewsion is established . . . since January about 25 neiohboThood motne theatres in " the Los Angeles area have closed down and the rest of the , houses have gone back to bingo, dishes, etc., to entice, smog state residents from their private screens . . . anyone who has been in California recently will tell you that television -there ranks right next to sunshine in importance . i . ami lies toith sets stay home nights and see televised shows util izing the enormous entertainment talent pool there . . . not . only that, but even mories are televised, along toith base ball, torestling matches and other entertainment. Movies, on the other hand, probably will never be com pletely replaced . . . after all THEY didrft kill the legitimate theatre . i. and besides, where else can you go and eat pop corn, and candy in cool darkness on a hot day or night . . . for other gays. Why, the shifting ef a gear, . Ia this mechanistic sphere. Is my lat remaining term ef ex ercise. ! J.W.S. Iowa gave a test of men and ideas in its primary election Monday. Incumbent republican senator B. B. Hickenjooper easily won renomination ; over two opponents. The Brannan plan was put to the test in the demo cratic primary when this issue divided two leading contenders for the senatorial nomination:. Albert J. Loveland, who resigned as undersecretary of agriculture to campaign in support of the Brannan plan, and former gov ernor Nelson G. Kraschel, a strong opponent of this plan for agriculture. Loveland won. So the fall election probably will see a test in the heart of the corn belt on the Brannan plan, as well as on the record of Hickenlooper. Hickenlopper is a republican who is expendable on the basis of his record. He made the attack on the administration of David Lil ienthal as chairman of the atomic energy commission, but failed miserably to prove his charge in the subsequent hear ings. He has been a timorous echo i of McCarthy in the hear ings 1 over communists in the state department. In spite of all this he stands a good chance of victory in the fall for Iowa is normally republican; and as long as the government continues to hold up the corn price the farmers probably will be satisfied with prevailing farm legislation and not go for the Brannan plan. By Henry McLemore . DAYTONA BEACH, Fla June 7 When you read this (I'll thank you very very much if you do) I shall be flying r cross the ocean. Ill be riding in a Pan American Clip per. I have men tioned Pan Am erican so often that some people have asked me if I work for Pan American. 1 No. I don't. Im not the type of man Pan Am would have fly 1 its planes. I'm a handy fellow -with a lawn mower; I can take a Model A through the deepest sand you ever saw, and I can ride a tricycle with no hands. But I'm not a pilot. Ill tell you why I fly Pan American. Pan American figur ed out the way to cross oceans. Half a dozen airlines have since followed, I want to go with the original line. I am quite sure that Air France, BO AC, KLM, Swissair and all the other com panies: whose planes cross the ocean are safe, comfortable and fast. ' But I don't think these com panies, with the possible excep tion of KLM, are as completely competent as Pan American. Let me put It this way. On the international skyways Pan Am erican works as a private enter prise. It competes against government-run planes. The British pay for BOAC. The French pay for Air France, and so on down the line. What I am trying to tell you is that Pan American has to com pete against the Marshall Plan. We give away billions to fight our own industry. While I am talking about Pan American I might -just as well speak of East ern, TWA, United American, Colonial, Delta and all the other domestic lines. All the airlines I have men- , tioned make money only when Americans buy tickets. Capt. Rickenbacker will go busted with Eastern unless the dollars are - laid on the line for the tickets. The same goes for Mr. Trippe of Pan American. In England, the nation picks up the deficit. In France, the same. If it were possible to yell in print, I'd make this yell: If a man can't stand by himself, he has no right to complain about the com pany he is in. This Is a roundabout way to have given you today's message, but the truth is there insofar as I know truth. Some people say that the day you are not com pletely free, i you have lost your ; liberty. I don't agree with these people. I believe the second that you bow to regimentation, you have lost everything, i To get back to crossing the ocean. When I walk up the steps of a plane, take my seat, and put my life in the hands of some- my m want .that snnnnna .to A,, an American, flying an American 0'pianev,'Y'--:.V:v.'.'j'' . 'iPy 'J ."That - sounds like patriotism, doesn't it? ; I hope it does, i It is getting so that Americans cant brag about America with out being criticized. That does not go for me. 111 still take the ; -' Red, White, and Blue, and the 48 stars that ride with those lovely colors. .. I am now on my way around the world and I do not have single chance of visiting a coun- ' try, that is as nice as the one I am" coming back to, I'm a round-trip ticket buyer. And the day I can't buy one, I won't leave. (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc.) , About Your . . jr. Newspaper . . Chapter 7 1 YOU NEWS STAFF . By Wendell Webb It is not only true that news- , paper is made up of a maze of seemingly unrelated skills and duties, in its many varied de partments. It is also true that the news and editorial department alone Is made up of a maze of varied personalities and abilities. While "news" and "editorial' are lumped in the same depart-, ment, they actually have little t. da with each other. The "editori al branch is mad ep .f key personnel, usually Including or guided by the publisher, who. de termine how the newspaper Itself shall present virions Issues. It production Is limited to "the edi torial columns or signed stories. The "news' department is an other entity. It is not' concerned With "sides" or "causes," except as its individual members may make comment at times under their own names. Its duty pri marily is to obtain and present news factually, impartially, ac curately and pleasingly. It includes managinr editor who may either serve as a sub executive In department opera tion or directly handle and eval uate news or both; a city editor whose doty it is to deploy his reporters to "cover" the city and Its environs; a sports editor and assistants who handle a specialty all their own; women's, club and society editors . who also work in a "world apart"; country editors who have scores of correspond ents bringing in news from throughout whatever area a news paper serves; wire editors and copy-desk men who sort, edit and Write headlines for news from throughout the world. j ' Then there are librarians Jwho keep the "morgue" great files of pictures and clippings; "relief men" who can and do handle all manner of jobs while other staff members have their days off; church editors, farm editors, photographers and others in spe cific and essential jobs. mmmssk The Muscled Motorist A good many people strive For an automatie drive.. As for me, m leave such frills GRIN AND BEAR IT by Llchty An upset occurred in South Dakota when Representative Francis Case defeated Senator Chan Gurney who was seeking the republican' nomination for a third term. The., issues. there were chiefly local or personal. The primary season Is pretty well over with now, though Washington and Idaho have yet to make nominations. Attention will begin to center on the fall elections and the chances the major parties have to make gains in the 82nd congress. The 1950 elections ire something of a curtain-raiser for 1952, but it doesn't look as though republi cans would repeat their 1946 vic tory when they gained control of both houses. That was their "misfortune," for the way they ran the 80th congress became the whip President Truman used to obtain his own reelection and control of the 81st congress for his party. - Bettor English By D. C. WClianw . . Now we are ready to go emt into the world la a spirit ef helpfalaew . . . wmtng to share osnr kswwtedge with mm '!.,'."' ' lertanato tlders . . 1 What is wrong -with this sentence? "During their occupa tion of the house, they had it re decorated." " . 2. What Is the correct pronun ciation of "effete"? j 1 3. Which one of these words Is misspelled? Boisterous, lusterous. obstreperous, clamorous. 4. What does the word "med icative mean? 5. What is a word beginning with me that means "influenced by desire for gain or reward?" ANSWERS L Say. "During their eecvpaa ey of the house.'' 2. Pronounce e-fet. first as in tot. second as in f set. accent second syllable. 3. Lustrous. 4. Possessing cur ative qualities; healing. "Many plants have mecicauve proper ties." a. Mercenary. eye -poppers for proud papas W M J . f j 4$ J Ties the test Tied- - - ' 1: Rich eonsorvanVes . colorful daring effects ... luxurious fabrics ... they're all here in a marvelous nay ... sfyled to please the most exacting tsrle ef any Dad. 1.C0 lo3a50 TCIHIIE MAFJ'S 'SffldDIP MOXLET Aim HUNTINGTON , 1 Th. store of Stylo, QuoHry and VcduV , 118 State Sfewt Solera. Oregon 4 i, J