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f U I CHARLES A. SPpAGUE- Editor and Publisher
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Entered at tine posto fries at Sales. Oregon, as second clan matter under act of congress March 3,
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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
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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.
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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;
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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
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) 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 . .
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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.
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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.
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