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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1950)
4-Th C'.s.asmca, CoJern, Oregon, Friday, ' Tun 18, 1SS3 1 k ; " "To Fator Stuoyi Us, NoSear Shall Awe ,.... From first Statesman, March 21, 18S1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY u i CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher , il PvbUshed every morn inf. Business office 21S 8. Commercial. Salem, Oregon. Telephone 1-244L Catered at the postofneo at Salem, Oregon, as second class matter under act of congress March 2, 127ft' I i Moderate Laborites Prevail 1 : .While the British labor party has followed its socialist line to the end in rejecting association in the continental pool of heavy industry its policy at home has turned definitely moderate. For a long time the party has been sharply divided between the j radicals led by Aneuran Bevan and the moderates led by Herbert Mor rison and Ernest Bevin. The Bevan partjrln dudes the "back benchers" who chafe because socialization comes so slowly. The moderates think it is time for a breathing spell. The latter group seems to have won out at the secret party conference at Dorking nearly a month, ago. '. Nationalization is to stand as is, for the time being at least. Herbert Morrison, deputy prime minister, in a recent speech mentioned only coal, rifttand transport and steel as the "vital indus tries' to be held under socialist management. In the' case of steel no attempt has yet been toad to take it over even though the govern ment has authority to do so. But other Indus tries like sugar, cement, chemicals were not on Morrison's list. I The other points outlined by Morrison are largely Just a continuation of present policies: continued government "planning," more housing for workers, continued social service .including health services. : The Labor party's choice is doubtless a con cession to the practicalities of politics. The party leaders were surprised and shocked at the nar- row jmargin of victory they won in the recent lections. They know, they must attract more of the middle class voters . to gain ground, and plainly they are appealing to that class with a less radical program. . , j I Further concessions to political considerations may be seen in relaxing of rationing of gas life in Britain is' to be a little less austere. On the other hand the party is under great pressure , for thawing its, wage freeze. The cost of living has inched higher and workers are getting rest less, j The party leaders have to guard against defection from their own ranks while they curt sy to attract -others to their side. , j i The current maneuvering is probably smart politics. In fact one is hearing about an early election, and less about the prospect of a defeat fpr Labor. After all moderation is much more a characteristic of the British than radicalism. Even the socialists recognize that. prints currency and warrants which Is getting the business now instead of the mint whikh turns out chiefly subsidiary coinage. They, have a father's day too. It comes next Sunday: Then the second generation wilj load him down with neckwear and soz to try to con vince him he's a pretty good guy and. should stick around awhile. The rest of the year the mere male doesn't rate very high; No one re ports what he wore at a party. He is the fall guy for the jokes of comic strips and radio shows. He is the Joe Pungle for the tax collec tor, the bill collector and the Worthy Cause col lector. What he needs is a day of rest. . ' "Who Laughs Last . . . I After, the Salem, Ore. 1950 census count was announced at 43,064 our esteemed evening con temporary gave us the horselaugh. It looked as though we had it coming, too For two! years before when local estimates were running at around 56,000, we had boasted that Salem, Ore. wasthe No. One Salem in the USA. The mother Salem (or the eldest sister) Salem, Mass. unprotestingly admitted that probably it was now in second place. " ! The boast and the concession Were not sur prising, for the 1940 census showed Salem, Mass. with 41,213, far under our assumed 56,000. Like Wise the ribbing we got (and took) when our count shrank to 43,064 was not surprising. It did look as though Salem, Mass. would easily top that score. j Now the counts for both cities have been given out: Salem, Ore. 43,064; Salem, Mass. 41.838. Salem, Ore. is tops after all. The States man is vindicated . . . and gets the last (and best) laugh. i 1 M 1 -; , 1 Who would believe that the Philadelphia mint would shut down for lack of demand for coins? Sat is what it is'doing, for two months. Just as ' vacation season starts too, with millions of kiddies asking for coins for cones, drinks and 'hot: dogs, to say" nothing of calif of motorists for coins for parking. You'd think too at the rate thej fair deal throws money away j there, would be no falling off in demand for coins. Perhaps though it is the bureau of engraving which We chanced to look in at a carload of mixed feed being unloaded on a siding. It contained bags of calf meal, egg maker, horse feed, tur key feed, dairy ration, rabbit family ration, and others we couldn't identify. This is certainly an age of specialization. Science has caught up with chicken feed. 1 Editorial Comment V WILL FLAX COME BACK? Flax growers and processors have been having a rough time of it the last few years since the war time demand for fiber has slackened. They are not without hope, however, of regain ing a position In the economic picture where fiber has held an importance place in the past. Rahtre than try to exist on the dwindling demand for the product' as grown, processed and marketed In the past, flaxmen are looking around for new, untried fields In which to prospect. Foreign competition and synthetic yarns have made serious inroads into the markets once domin ated by the long-fiber flax of western Oregon. This competition, encouraged by an administra tion which sacrifices small segments Of agriculture and industry for foreign markets in which larger vote-segments can benefit, just cannot be met head on. Neither can flax expect to regain outlets lost to synthetic yarns the price differential is too great However, the hardest knocks generally produce the biggest bounce, and we believe our western Oregon flaxmen will bounce back with shifts to new fields, to develop new processes, reduce prod uction costs and otherwise tap the famed Yankee ingenuity to come out on top after alL Where there is faith In the honesty and value of a basic crop like flax, there come solutions to utilize for the good of the nation and to the profit of the growers and processors. Oregon City Enterprise-Courier THE OLD BACK DOOR Although we got it from a pretty reliable source, we still can't quite believe it's true. The Associated Press reports that more and more houses are being built these days without that vital center of family life, the back door. Architects say back doors aren't of much use anymore, since people now burn oil or gas and don't have to haul wood and kindling; they s use automatics washers and driers and no longer have to lug wet. togs to the clothesline. In other words, say the architects, people now need that ex tra back door. ' We aren't going to indulge In nostalgia for the old back door, since all of the houses in our neigh borhood still have themeven the new ones. But we would like to mention a few things about back doors that the architects may have overlooked. For one thing back doors and children go to gether. Small boys don't come to the front door for their sandwiches and cookies and to get their noses wiped. They go to the back. When little Sirls want to tell Mother a secret, or show her a stubbed toe or report a lost mitten, they don't bother with the front door. They- go to the back, because Mother Is closer there. . ' The back door is handy for feeding cats, dodging your wife's relatives, spying on the neighbors and sneaking horrte late. It Is private, or It should be, and it Is Intimate; a wonderful place for gossiping, for running back and forth in sunsuits or old army pants. If you track mud In the back door you may get a frown; If you brack it In the front your life won't be worth a plugged nickeL And tha architects may not have known that Spring, for reasons of her own, pauses at the back door first, especially if there are lilacs there for her to touch. We like our back door. It will be a long time (and we will have grown much older) before we ever consider trading it for another cupboard. Lewiston Morning Tribune. Russian Budget Indicates Soviet Expenditures For Military Purposes Again Top Those of U. S. Br J. M. Rnlwrii r. AP rorelcn Affairs Ana'.yist " WASHINGTON, June 15-(AV For the Second successive year the Russian budget indicates So viet expendi tures for mili-r tary purposes greater than? those of the United States and perhaps even larger than the totals for all the west ern Allies. Thefigures serve to under line statements by President Truman that Russia is preparing for war, and by Secretary Ache i ion that her military nrenars. . .MTV UUC X VClUiU UN i reasonable requirements for de- At Russia's own evaluation of the "ruble, she will spend about to billion dollars on the open defense item In the budget, sligh tly more than last year, as com pared with the 13 billion for which Truman has asked con gress. .. . But under Russia's monolithic S'litical and economic structure, e "open defense item represents- merely a cart. That's tru ( j la the United Ktst tnn Kut j tE a much lesser extent Atomic research in the U.S., for in stance, is divided between the atomic commission and the arm ed forces, with much of the for mer's funds devoted to peacetime purposes. In Russia, atomic re search is budgeted under "edu cation." It Is notable that this item in Russia's new budget is slightly smaller than last year, though not much. Just as Ameri can expenditures were reduced once . success In producing an atomic explosion was achieved. The big Jump in the Russian budget is for the "national econ omy j item ostensibly for tha development of Industry. But In Russia . this, goes Into heavy in dustry; a vast proportion of which: Is war Industry, including airplane, munitions, tank and gun plants. For years before World War II Russia spent about 60 per cent of her entire national budget for military purposes. There is no reason to think that the percentage is smaller now. Although the "open" military item represents only 18.S per ' cent, i :;,,.,:-. ; ; " ' ' American Intelligence figures on Russian military expenditures are 45 billion annually. Russia has also been integrat ing the war industries of her sa tellites into her own. Just as the armies ' of Central Europe are being trained to fit as units into the Russian army, so are the In dustries being mobilized for the general communist war poten tial. ." " ' All this does not mean neces sarily that Russia is or will be stronger than the West. There Is still : a vast difference In ef ficiency and quality. It has be come almost an axiom that mod . era arms are obsolete by the time they reach the stage of indust rial production, and much of Russia's industrial potential is devoted merely to copying west ern products. The real question goes to the matter ef intent. Safety Valve Breakdown Due to Noise 7 Says Silvertea Change In Entrance a Hazard To the Editor: . About the proposed change in the road entrances to Silverton on the Salem road. It would greatly add to the serious acci dent hazards if the last pro jected proposal to change the place of the railroad crossing from the clear view on the pres ent crossing to a view obstruct ed by buildings and oil tanks of the Farmers Co-orx. Not counting the cost of filling quite low swamp lands most of the' way on the proposed change of the road bed also the problem of ditch to drain railroad bed. This , change will not shorten the road over a couple of rods and does not warrant the expense in- volved. The proposed change of railroad crossing would block -view of all drivers coming from both sides by the co-op Installa tions and prevent safe driving by blinding the drivers. CHAS. J. HARBEC 104 James street PJS. X have no axe to grind in the above matter. By Henry IIcLemore ; ) DAMASCUS, Syria, June -IS The desk clerk at the Moayad hotel here speaks perfect Arabic so he had. no trouble at all i n misunder s tending me when I asked him for a nice quiet room, r The room he gave me, and the room in which I am .writing this. would make a man . who had lived half a lifetime in the Tow er of Babel pack his suitcase and get out. ; . . . i The room is on the second floor and its French windows open .on Merjeh square, the hub of Damascus and its suburbs. In the (center of the square Is a bronze column, erected by order of Sultan Abdul Hamid. Legend has it that the column originally was topped by the statue of a Syrian hero but was removed when the statue said he couldn't stand the noise, and threatened to sue the city for the .nervous breakdown he said was sure to come to him. The square Is not only the hub of Damascus it is the " hub of the hub-bub of the world. 1 All the city's taxis park there, hundreds of Jackasses are tethered there, and all the street cars and buses start from there. It is also the favorite lounging spot of the city's wandering musicians and street vendors. '! From morn till nicht and from night till morn the taxi drivers , 'toot their horns to attract cus tomers, the Jackasses bray be cause they're Jackasses, the mu sicians play because they want coppers, and the vendors howl to sell their wares. ' : If this was all the noise that came into my room I'd think nothing of it, but it isn't a tenth of the sound that billows up from the - cobblestones of this most ancient of cities. Rising above all the sounds, and cease less as the beat of the surf on the . shore, is the talk of the people of the town. ' The folk of Damascus are the talkingest of all folk. They never stop, and their high, shrill voices are borne wherever there is a breeze. What they talk about I don't know, my knowledge of Arabic being very limited. But they must talk about everything the dust, the sun, the stars, mama's health, pap's health, the price of cat food, how things are going in the apricot market, and the size and shape of the moon. . .v- v ; The only time during which there Is quiet comes between three and five In the morning: I know, because I have stayed up toi "enjoy the peace that reigns between three and five. But at five the quiet Is broken. Not only broken, but shattered. ;It Is then that from every minaret of every mosque the muezzins call the faithful to prayer. The muezzins see to it that every one of the faithful, ' even the deafest ones, hear their chants. Actually, it Is a beauti ful, if noisy proceeding. All over the city. Just before dawn, the minarets put on a necklace of lights. The graceful spires stand out against the sky, thin fingers reaching toward the Infinite. mm . .. ( The calls begin. Low at first, then louder, until, finally, the old city resounds to the weird, sing-song chant. . Within three blocks of my room are half a dozen mosques, and there seems to be a rivalry among the meuz tins. Which one can call the jloudest. Which one can bring more of the faithful. Progress, even in Damascus", has made one muezzin the envy of all his brethren. This one has installed a public address sys tem in his minaret, and he knows ( dramatic timing, too. Just when the others are doing their very best he turns a switch, throws 1 the volts and amperes into high, : and starts chanting. I am sur prised that you havent heard him, no matter where you live. He makes the mosque quiver, ' the ground shake and the faith- jjful answer. . After listening to the noise of this city X am not at all sur prised to read that St. Paul went over the wall. Anything to get i rest and quiet Tomorrow I am going to the bazaar and buy myself some ear v muffs. There are some good ones ; for sale, I hear, if a man doesn't mind wearing a used, B.C pair. : (Distributed hy MeNsught ' Syndicate, Inc.) r. - f Bettor Enqli "How are we ever going te visit all the places we planned te see If you're always stopping to look at something of interest?" KOODOOS (Continued from page 1) value for ducks. The wildlife folk though are fearful that the land board might later move to re claim Petri marsh which em braces some 150,000 acres. There is one point the protest ants must not overlook that in this instance the land board is the trustee for the school chil dren of the state," present and future. It must manage this pro perty primarily in their interest. It should not be asked to penalize the schools to foster other inter ests, important though the latter may be. Here is a parallel case: the land board collects royalties from sand and gravel companies for the yardage they take from beds of navigable streams in the state. , In the past the highway depart ment has felt that such materials used for state road building should be exempt from this state royalty. The land board however has held that the title to the beds of streams did not rest just in the state but in the state for the benefit of the schools; and so it has continued to collect roy alties even where materials were used on state roads. The same theory applies to these Warner lakes. There is a solution. If the fed eral wildlife service and the state game commission would acquire these lands by purchase or lease from the state land board then they could manage them as they saw fit. The game commission acquired similar lands at Summer lake and es tablished a p.ubllcshooting grounds there. The question arises as to which is a superior use for these lands: j for agricultural purposes or for bird refuge. But the land board technically, has no authority to answer that broad question, for its legal interest is In managing the lands In the Interest of the schools. If tha bird refuge repre sents the wiser use of the lands then they should be taken over by the proper public authority for that purpose with adequate compensation to the school fund. The wildlife people should un derstand the position of the state land board as trustee for the school fund and lands. Because of past squandering of school lands the irreducible school fund of this state is far less than it should be. Reforms came tardily, but now the land board is sensitive to its responsibilities. Two years ago when a tract with pine tim ber was sold at a good price but : without a call for bids the then land board was roundly-criticized The present board remembers that. Every special interest, good or bad. should realize that these are school lands, not Just "pub lic" lands to be used as a majori ty may desire. The land board has not been hasty in its action these lands have not be disturbed since they passed into state ownership in 1859. Plenty of time will be given to hear all perr is concerned and to gave ot interests a chance to make proposals. But in the end the board must ful fill its responsibility as trustees . for the schools. By D, C TTOHams 1. What is wrong with this csentence? "We figure on making over sixty dollars." ? 2. What is the correct pronun- elation of "cadaver"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Disengage, hem orrage, mucilage, allegience. , 4. What does the word "fluent" .mean? - V 5. What is a word beginning with ve that means "lightheart ed; airy; hence, fickle"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "We plan to earn mere than sixty dollars." 2. Pronounce the second a .either as in dab or as in day, and accent the second syllable. 3. Hemorrhage. 4. Ready in the use of words. "The ' professor is a fluent speaker." 5. Volatile. About Your . . Newspaper . . THE COMPOSING ROOM Chapter 15 By Wendell Webb It wouldn't do editors and porters any good to write stor ies If they couldn't be trans scribed into type, and utimately into pages, for printing and dis tribution. All "copy" from the news and editorial department, as well as from the advertising department, . goes to the composing room for that purpose. King In the composing reom is the linotype e batertype similar machines made by dif 1 f erent firms. Opera tars, at key beards similar te typewriters. "set ap" the type, If an operator presses on the V key, for Instance, a small brass matrix with an "m" in dented in it drops into place. As he presses other letters, their matrices drop next to the "m." When enough letter keys are pressed so that the matrices fill out whatever length line is de sired (2 inches for one column) the line of matrices Is placed in a position where hot lead can fill the indentations in each one." As the lead hardens in a split second it becomes a line of type. Operators of linotype or In tertypes can "set up" nearly two columns of ordinary type an hour. The larger head-line type Is set by hand from type cases, er from other machines, and then the job is to get the right head line and the right story togeth er. On the top of each, the copy desk man has written, and the linotype or lntertype operator has "set," the first two words of the headline. That helps the make-up men, find the head that should go on that particular story. fc When story and headline are put together, a proof is taken and a Droof reader cherlcs frr er rors. The same process is fol lowed with advertising material. In regard to composition and makeup. When the story or ad vertisement has been corrected, it is ready to be fitted in the page forms. , Births Outstrip Deaths 3 to 1 Since January Births have outnumbered deaths by a three to one ratio in Marinn county since January 1, it was reveaiea 'inursday at an execu tive committee meeting of th county health department. It was pointed out that there have been 132 more births since the first of the year than during a similar neriod in 1949. and that only eight deaths have been re corded irom communicable dis eases since January 1, including one in May. May's single death was attrib uted to tuberculosis, and commit tee members riredicterf that th local tuberculosis rate may in crease In future years because of contact by members of the armed forces with Eurrraean great wtior the tuberculosis' rate Is high. Annual X-ray examinations were recommended to combat this possible threat to the com munity's health. Salem policeman shamed out-of-state motorist, who had overtime parked other day, without saying avfrord . . .seeing officer place tag on car, visitor exploded against lack of court- MM SU4U feVSVIA, WU MU1VC then did a retake . . . Mr. Blowtop's face turn ed red like the Cherry land festival banners because tag was courtesy ticket which read: You are really "Welcome in Salem and we hope ) Cherry Festival Queen Nancy Miller and the Cherrianx did it again, and this time in another town ... seems they almost fractured a noon meeting of the MU An gel Business Men's club when they roared into town witK siren wailing . . . more than half the men at the business meeting; were volunteer MU Angel firemen and at the sound of the gong they took off. to fight a fire . . . order restored sometime later when King Bing Paul Hale and Queen Nan- , ' cy were introduced and the queen presented Mtl Angel May-! or Jacob Berchtold with a jar of cherries. , ' If June is Fathers Day guess what day is June 17? . . . ac cording to an official list prepared by U. S. Dept. of Commerce it's Expectant Fathers Day . . 1 anyway the two days are in jrrect sequence. I E5 L J CI Ardo, Tarem, displaced Estonian and now a Willamette liuersity faculty member and a YMCA instructor, has rig-. geaup a system oj ropes ana otner aias to teacn people to swim with ease ... other night at the Y he held a swim class for 12 young business tcomen to ho couldn't rtoim a stroke ... at the end of the session eight were swimming ... "I'll get the other four next time," Ardo premised. Salem lost a great booster when Ivan Martin died this week ... Ivan was a living nostalgic link with the Good Old Days of the Willamette valley ... his fondness for music dated back to the horse and buggy days when valley town bands visited each other for music-fests ... among other things Ivan composed "' two Cherry festival songs "All Hail to Cherryland," and "It's Fun to Live in Salem ... and wrote' the words to the "Salem Wonderland" song for the 1940 Salem Centennial celebration ' Sacrifice play . . . car knocked down one of those "Stop When Occupied" signs at pedestrian crossing over Center street at North Church street ... this during mad 5 p.m. traffic rush . . . pedestrian obligingly began to set sign back up again ... autos whizzing past on both sides .'. . none stopped while he was adjusting sign ... and at last, sign safely set up, he dashed safely back to curb amid relieved cheers from onlookers. An 800-pound steer stolen this week from Alvin Hartley farm in Silverton hills area . . . cattle rustling in the west again? ... everyone who griped about the almost-forgotten prolonged sunshine of a week, ago hold up your hands over your mouths . . . large old house at 266 N. Capitol st. sold re cently by Don Madison to Floyd K. Bowers through Realtor Burt Picha. , Truffles grow only at tha base of certain kinds of oak trees. Salem Guard Officers Honored ASTORIA, June 15-P)-Faith-ful service medals were distribut ed to Oregon national guardsmen tonight by Oregon's Adjutant General Thomas E. Rilea. Lt. Col. Harry L. Riches, headquarters de tachment, Salem, was honored for 25 years' service. Five-year ser vice medals went to two Salem men: Lt William R. Schaefer and 1st Lt. Willard S. Lawless. 99-E Wreck Injures Two Two Washington residents were injured slightly about 2:30 pjn. Thursday when their southbound auto rolled over an embankment and crashed along the Pacific highway about one mile north of Salem. Dr. F. W. Wichman. Tenino, Wash., the driver, incurred a one Inch gash on his chin and possibly fractured ribs: J. F. Cowrsey, 66, Rochester, Wash- a passenger, in curred lacerations and bruises on his right hand, lips and forehead. Both men were treated by the Salem first aid squad. The auto was badly damaged. SLATS CONVICT SPIES TITOGRAD, Yugoslavia, June lS-CflVA Yugoslav military trib unal today sentenced two alleged traitors to death. It gave long pri son terms to six others. All were ms I ir nolrc Damages for Car Accident A family of four have filed suits in Marion county circuit court seeking judgments totaling $27,570 for damages and injuries allegedly received in an automobile collision last November near Milwaukie. The suits grew out of an acci dent involving Mr. and Mrs. Lewis H. Steward and -two daughters, all of Eugene, and Alfred L. Jones, of Salem. The head-on collision occurred, according to the com plaints filed by the Stewards against Jones, Nov. 26, 1949, about 2Vi miles south of Milwaukie on the Pacific highway. According to the complaints Steward was driving his car and his wife, Gliva, and daughters, BiHie, 18, and Patricia, 17, were passengers in the car, Steward is seeking judgment of $11,359; his wife, $11,147, and the two daugh ters, $2,532 each. All state they were hospitalized with injuries. SEASIDE CELEBRATES SEASIDE, June lS- -Tourists were celebrating the Lewis and Clark festival here today. The four-day affair includes parades, dances, boat races, and drills. charged with spying' for Albania, Russia and the cominform. Ta Salem Cherryland OF THURSDAY - FRIDAY - SATURDAY . , ... ......... '','. - ; Stat Fairgrounds HI : SEATskkfi - AT 990 Stat Dial 4-2223