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SThe tgaay Mertu Oregon Sunday, fcsf 18. 1SS3 - . H ' ' ' estaaft "No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Awe" From Flrtt Statesman. March 2S, 18S1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher rabllahed CTery mornlns. Boalneu office X1S 8. Commercial. Salem. Orexon. Telephone X-2441. Catered at the poatofflco at Salem, Oregon, aa second class matter aader act of centres March 3, 187B win'? ts? ttj8DttQER Mat 'if' SCHOOL VOYlNS PftECINCTS Jean Monnet and , j Integration of Europe j Postwar French politics is kaleidoscopic; yet while the! picture changes quickly the characters remain the same, and the background is always France, done or at the rear are the prewar lead ers. LavaJ paid the penalty for his treason; Mar shal Petain awaits deatn in confinement; Louis Blum is dead; Edward Herriot, Reynaud and Deladier i still live, the last without influence. And Charles deGaulie wno Kepi me xorcn w disruptive communist-inspired strikes. Monnejt has stayed on under various premiers because he is truly the indispensable man in French economics. His previous experience in business management,' his talent for' obtaining cooperation among persons of various national attachments and his perceptive faculties of mind qualify him remarkably well for his important task. He has been able to look beyond the old French fears of Germany to see the need for consolidating western Europe for France s own security. Thus as planner of economic integra- French freedom burning in dark hours is scarely 'tion he may become an architect of a United 5ikficmr now. thoueh he waits ! in me iluu ay wwMi - f - wings redy to perform the role of the man on -horseback.. ; George Bidault, Robert Schuman, Henri Que u!le, these have had turns at the premiership, Bidault now for the second time. It is a govern ment of the center, anti-communist, anti-rightist Unstable itself, it is secure chiefly because of fear of the greater disaster that would follow fall tojone extreme or the other. At long last this government of France seems to have found itself. Instead of remaining a weak . partner, economically and politically, of the three great western powers, content merely to t negative! proposals or to tag along, it has made a bold step, challenging at once French! chau vinism and tackling the great job of building a : peaceful! Europe with France as a firm founda- ' tion stone. '. r The core of this move is the Schuman plan for integrating the heavy industry of Germany and the Atlantic countries of western Europe. Britain withhold cooperation, but the; other countries are proceeding to Consolidate control of coal, j steel and iron industries. The merger calls f of, to quote from an article by Harold Gallendr in the New; York Times magazine: . "an international authority with an arbitrator . for direjctioiv greater and cheaper production and high standards of living as goals, removal of all tariffs on these products between the countries in the; merger, sales to all countries on jrt equal basis.? " .; While' the plan is tagged the Schuman plan, i and Robert Schuman, the foreign minister, does deserve credit for having a large share in pre paring it and particularly in presenting it skill fully to the world, the man behind Schuman in formulating the plan is Jean jMonnet, director of the French economic planning commission. Here is one of the great leaders of France and I 'of Europe. Now 82, his life has been filled with ' activity! and great achievement in business and of, government Born at Cognac, ,his father a well-toi-do brandy distiller, Monnet first came ;' into prominence in World War I when he de So here we have a statesman In the field of economics and politics, a practical man with a genius for developing programs and ability to carry them out.v In this country we knew how George Marshall and Paul G. Hoffman and W. Averell Harriman have contributed to Europe's recoveryrIt is well for us to become acquainted with Jean Monnet who in the face of tremen dous difficulties, fiscal and political, is trying to weld together heretofore alien interests for the ultimate good of all. Shorter Week for Railroaders An emergency board recommends a 40-hour week for yard service workers which includes train crews and switchmen at terminals and railroad yards. These workers would receive a wage increase of 18 cents an hour in partial compensation for income lost through cut in the work-week. These changes would be effective October 1. At the same time the board-turned down trainmen and conductors in their petitions for a sliding scale of pay rates and a shortening of the work day from ; seven and one-half to five hours. Since non - operating employes of railroads now have a 40-hour work-week it seemed in evitable that other workers would get the same treatment where the nature of their work per-, mitted such schedule. Operating employes on trains work under different conditions. They get their time reduced by their lay-overs be tween -runs. The findings of this emergency board therefore seem worthy of acceptance both by railroads and employes. The roads perforce have to acceptihe rec ommendations of boards public opinion and the government itself would bear dowf&m them hard if they rejected the terms proposed. The employe organizations in recent years have been inclined to reject the settlements proposed and put on pressures for further concessions. This has led to strikes and near-strikes damaging to the economy. It's time for the railroad brother hoods and unions to be more cooperative, and I ill -in j m 0LINOOUI 44 . t J I ! . B rrr-rt (Continued from page 1) tALCAHTS IM A rotlnr arranrement the aame aa used Jane t will be employed for the Salem district school elec tion Monday. Boundaries for the 10 school precincts coincide with county precinct lines but en close several of the latter. School precinct numbers are circled . on the map while other numbers appearinr are county precincts. The names en the map are the buildiufs to be used as polling places. (Story on pare 1.) (Ed's note: Following is a recorded conversation between a Father and his young son on last Father's Day.) y Son: It's nearly dinner time, Daddy. How come you sat in that chair all morning, your hair comber and you coat on? Sick again? FATHER: Well, frankly, son I've been wait ing for someone in this family to congratulate me today. Or at least (bitterly) pat me(on the head with a "well done, old fellow." Why, Daddy? Why? You stand there in those dirty sneek ers, picking your nose and ask me why? In case your mother failed to inform you, today is Father's Day. One of the most glorious days mil of the year. The day when all fathers, creat veloped the Anglo-French pool for purchase of not keep railway management and patrons of ! ,and small, humble and rich, famous and unknown, old and new, - foodstuffs and suDDlies. For four vears after the war h4 was deputy secretary - general of the league jof nations, working for the economic re atoration of central Europe. Then came many years ,ih business, with assignments in the Un ited States, in China and Sweden. i During the second world war Monnet return ed to Washington where he served with the Bri tish Supply board. The Victory armament pro gram announced by President Roosevelt in 1942 was largely the work of Jean Monnet. He be came associated with the Free France cause as membejr of the French Committee of National Liberation. DeGaulie named him head of the na tional jxonomic council. In this capacity ; he de veloped the reconstruction program for ! France which called for gtomine inflation pven with unpopular Wage freeze, and facing flown the railroads on edge for fear of shutdowns in op erations. 4' f j r President Truman vetoed the basing point bill which would have permitted manufacturers to absorb freight charges in pricing policies. Since a cement case decision big business has gone on an f.o.b. factory pricing basis. This has benefit ted some parts of the country, injured others. The bill would have allowed companies to quote delivered prices under competitive conditions; but the president yielded to the arguments of those who were suspicious of the full restoration of "Pittsburgh plus." One effect of the new sys tem of pricing is to encourage development of local industry, and this readjustment should be speeded up by the failure of this effort for legis lative relief. , Republicans Must Score Gains in Senate This .November or Loss of Control Certain in 1952 By Stewart Alaop I WASHINGTON, June llHJPh One very simple fact, which has generally been Overlooked, un- derlinettbe special and crucial- importance to the republi can party of this year's sen atorial elec tions. Unless the republicans can come very cloae to win ning outright fnntrrif rt th aenate this year ,,,wrt - a feat requiring a net gain of seven seats they cannot pos Cly control the senate in 1952, whoever wins the presidency. i The absolute minimum re quirement, is a net gain of five republican seats. Otherwise, even If the rosiest republican dreams come rue, and a republican president is elected by a thump ing big majority, he will be con fronted by a senate organized by,, hostile democrats. 1 1 It i quite easy to demonstrate that this is so. The situation is derived from the peculiarities of the American constitutional sys tem j This year there are 23 dem- ocrata up for re-election and 13 republicans. Thus this is a reas onably good year for the repub licans, even though only 10 of the i democrats are considered vulnerable. But 1952 Is a perfect ly horrible year for the republi fana as far as the senate is con cerned. - . I nerable. It is only necessary to call the roll of the states in which the' democrats will be running to understand Just how horrible 1952 will be for the republicans. These states are: Virginia, New Mexico, Texas, Florida, West Virginia, Arizona. Tennessee, Maryland,, Mississippi, Wyoming, Rhode Island and possibly Con necticut. In at least 10 of these states, the republican party is hardly more than a joke. Thus, however strong, the republican candidate may be in 1952, it will require a sort of double miracle for the republicans to hold all 20 of their seats, and at the same time to pick up a couple of extra seats from the democrats. And , even this double miracle would not give the republicans control of the senate, unless the repub licans can make a net gain of at least five places this November. The republican strategists are fully aware of this set of facts. They j are encouraged by their , readings of recent primaries, and are certainly far more cheerful than they were a couple of months ago. But when they begin to explain just how and where they might pick up the essential five-place minimum, it becomes clear that what the republicans need, if they are to have any practical hope ot organizing the senate after 1952, is something pretty close to a landslide in No vember. '!:H, -.-t-f -'-. The ! republicans confidently write fsafe" on six of their thir teen ' states North Dakota, South I Dakota, Oregon, Kansas, Vermont and New Hampshire, They also put a slightly less con fident ; plus against Ohio (Taft) ; In the first place, barring ac- idents, there will be 20 or 21" Wisconsin (Wiley); Iowa (where Republican senators risking their Seats, and only 11 or 12 demo crats. (The numbers vary be cause Connecticut will vote this fall on the senate seat, now held y the democrat William Ben ion by appointment, which ex pires in 1952.) Moreover; not more than a couple ot the demo cratic seats if that are vul- Hickenlooper's smashing primary victory surprised even his ad mirers); and Missouri (where the Binaggio murder has certain ly helped the unimpeachably vir tuous Donnell). But they are ad mittedly worried about D wor th ak's seat in Idaho; the pompous Capchart's in Indiana; and the able conservative Millikin's in Colorado. - On the other side of the ledger, republican strategists' see their best bets for taking democratic seats in the Duff-Myers battle in Pennsylvania; the Nixon-Douglas race in California; and in the contest for the Benton seat in Connecticut They rate other chances of winning democratic seats fair-to-good in New York, Idaho, Utah, Washington and Il linois, and they claim an outside chance for McMahon's seat in Connecticut and McCarran's in Nevada. Realistic republicans in effect concede other contests for democratic places. A little figuring with a pencil and paper will show the nature of the republican problem. If they lose only a couple of the 13 challenged republican seats - which would be a low par for the course they must then score a remarkable 70 per cent by capturing seven of the 10. vul nerable democratic places. Other wise there will be no reasonable hope at all of a republican senate after the presidential -election in 1952. Even if Dwight D. Eisen hower, say, sweeps the country in 1952, one of the sweetest fruits of victory will have been dashed from republican lips two years before the event. The republicans have a chance, of course, of capturing the five essential seats but hardly more chance than a bridge player who has bid a grand slam, for ex ample, and needs three finesses to make it. In these circumstanc es there is a heavy - and entire ly natural temptation to con clude 'that any means justifies what seems wholly desirable end. And this is the real danger. For a good many conservative republicans are becoming con vinced that a political technique now known as McCarthy ism is the only means which will gain the end, and that this is justifi cation enough for the great harm which this technique can do. (Copvrtitht. 1550. New York Herald TribUM Inc.) emeree from their cpl f.imtvwwl nhsniritv inrf Stop shaking me, Daddy. And stop yelling. I can hear you. Besides, you'll wake up the baby. That's right. The little one's come first to a. true father. That's the motto of us fathers. Sacrifice everything, even free speech for those we protect. What's sacrifice, Daddy? . ; Glad you asked that. Sacrifice is when you throw ev- erything you've got into something and expect nothing in return. Like when you go fishing, huh? , Not exactly. Put it this way, son. Who does all the work around here? 1 Mommie. No! I mean, when you need shoes, who buys 'em for you? Eh, boy, who buys those shoes? Well, last time Grandma said she was tired seeing me run around in those old sandals and so she ... Ye-e-e-es. Just a minute till I get this coat off. Now, come .closer, -son. What I meant was this. Who, now think this over, ;just WHO is it that hands out the'money around here, eh? Uncle Clarence cause last night you borrowed a dollar from Uncle Clarence to go to the ball game and you said you were broke so there. Now, don't talk so fast. You'll lose your gum again. After all this is Father's Day and I'm trying to tell you what us Fathers, the men of this world have been doing for our ' families Stop bouncing that ball for a minute, will you, and tell me just what us men have done that's important to the toorld? . Well, (excitedly) you started the war and That isn't exactly what I And all the cowboys are men and shoot No, son, that still isn't the outlaws. And Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey was mens and. WERE men, or rather, ARE men. Look. Just what do you like best about Daddy? 1 You're someone to play ball with. Come on, Father, Til bat and you pitch. O.K. But YOU pitch and I'LL bat. After all this IS Father's Day. About Your Newspaper. . ! Chapter IT THE STEREOTYPE ROOM By Wendell Webb On newspapers of all sizes, but particularly on larger ones whose circulation is too large for re liance on flat-bed presses,, the stereotypers play . an important role. . ' They "caai Innumerable "mats which comprise a newspaper's il lustrations comics, ads, tome pictures. (Other pictures are printed direct from original ea gravings). - The mats are heavy card boards carrying the impressions of whatever item is to be repro duced Jn the newspapers. Hot lead poured into them makes a cast from which the illustration can be printed. ;r The lead must belust the right temperature and contain just the right ingredients zinc, tin, anti mony, etc. 1 If the stereotypy department must also change the flat pages of type into circular form (so that the newspaper can be print ed on cylindrical presses and thus speed output), it is aa es pecially busy place. Sometimes a composing room waiting for correction proof on some pages and for type enough to fill others gets all the pages ready practically at the same : time. This poses a tremendous problem for the stereotypers. Each pge has m "date" with the press at a certain time, yet stereotypers cant cast all the pages at once into the circular forms. It takes time for each one. It is then they battle the clock to get the casts to the prase as fast aa humanly possible. There is plenty ef sweat la the hot lead Lead used for type, except the larger heads, is melted over and over to supply the linotypes or intertypes. That good story of for instance, today is but a lead bar and by tomorrow will be an other story entirely. Moore, Parker Seek School Director Post (Story also on page 1.) In the race for a directorship on Salem district school board, to be decided at an election Monday, are M. . (Gus) Moore and Donald L. Parker. They seek the position held the past four years by Ed ward Majek, not a candidate for re-election. Both men, first-time candidates. have declared themselves in ac cord with present school board policy of enforcing state laws ban ning secret societies in high schools. Moore, general secretary of the YMCA for the past two years, re sides at route 8, box 60 (Kingwood Heights), with his wife and two children, both in West Salem school. YM General Secretary He came to Salem after gradu ating from Ashland high school. While attending . Willamette uni versity, he was a part-time staff member at the YM. Upon gradua tion he studied at Springfield, Mass., YMCA college, and return ed here as YM boys work secre- tary from 1933 to 1940. Then Moore went to Long Beach, Calif., YM staff. In 1947, he returned here as associate general secretary, ana became general secretary in 1S4S. He is a member of First Pres byterian church and is chairman of the youth -committee of Salem Kiwams club. Parker, resident of 1290 N. 21st st with his wife and one child nearly school age, is an assistant attorney general assigned to the state industrial accident commis sion. With Manpower Board After attending Ontario high school, Parker resided from 1927 until World War II in Portland, where he was connected with var ious corporations. At the begin ning of the war he was Oregon branch manager of the office of emergency management, directing establishment of war agencies in Oregon. Later he was business and budget officer for the war man power commission and employ ment service in California. He has been with SIAC for the past five years. Parker Is a member of the Mar ion County Bar association, and is a Mason. Imaginative reporting on the bombing of - Hiroshima. Joyce Cary's Th Horse's Mouth" (Harper, $3) is described as fic tion i the best tradition;" and a ' Biddle has . written "Main line" which is part of the great Philadelphia tradition. If you dote on crime and like Agatha Christie's stuff here is her 50th, "A . Murder Is Announced" (Dodd, Head, 42.50). Two plays have been running in New York with market suc- . cess: The Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot and "The Lady's Not for Burning" 1 by Christopher Fry. Both are published in book form and sustain interest well even without the trappings of the stage. If one wants to do the moun tains vicariously he should read the very stimulating , book by Justice William O. Douglas, "Of Men and Mountains' (Harper, $4). It is autobiographical and deals with our own northwest of which Douglas is both native and resident, Not new this year, but still a pretty good compilation Js The Cascades" edited by Rod erick Peattie (Vanguard, S5). Biographies with special ap peal to music lovers are "Ber lioz and the Romantic Century," by Jacques Barzun (Little, Brown, $12.50) and "Joseph Hadyn" by Jacob (Rinehart, $5). For those with sharply differ ent tastes may be suggested "The Marx Brothers" by Kyle Chrich ton (Doubleday, $3) or "My 66 Years in the Big Leagues" by the perennial Connie Mack (Wins ton, $2.50). J. Frank Dobie, dis tinguished historian of the great southwest, has written "The Ben Lilly Legend" (Little, Brown, $3.50) the biography of a famous bear - hunter whose career stretched from the days of the mountain men into this century. The fictionalized exploits of hunters and heroes as done in the dime and nickel novels that preceded the cinema westerns were largely the work of the publishing house of Beadle and Adams. Its story and the part it played in promoting this liter ary form are told in The House of Beadle and Adams" by Albert Johannsen (University of Okla homa Press, $20). In the field of serious biogra phy should be mentioned: The Peabody Sisters of Salem" by Louise Hall Tharp (Little, Brown, $4); "James Madison, Father of the Constitution" by Irving cram (Bobbs, Merrill, $6); and The Autobiography . of Robert A. . Millikan," famous scientist, (Prentice-Hall, $4.50), - The Roosevelt ' shelf, FDR, keps growing. This time John Gunther author of the "Inside" series, adds "Roosevelt In Retro spect" (Harper, $3.73), a Journal- . istic post-mortem on a figure . whose name still provokes praise and prejudice. If you aren't quite sure wheth er Hitler is dead or alive you may want to read Judge Michael , A. Munsamo's Ten Days to Die" (Doubleday, $3.50). The author was a Judge at the Nurnberg trials, and then took time to in vestigate the Hitler fadeout. He leaves der Fuhrer ery dead. Fresh off the press is Stewart Holbrook's The Yankee Exo dus" (Macmillan, $5). Holbrook is a Yankee himself, transplanted -to Oregon. In. this he does an excellent research on the migra tion of New Englanders across the continent and the influence they exerted on the emerging culture and industry and politics of the frontier. j Another book by a western author is Them Was the Days" by Martha Ferguson McKeown (Macmillan, $3.50), previously reviewed in The Statesman. Book reading is not a form of punishment or a test ot charac ter. It is a source of enjoyment and an exercise for the mind. It offers profitable employment of one's time if worthwhile books are chosen for reading. Why not make it a point to read at least One good book this summer? Local Trip for Today: Through Waldo Hills. Drive out Highway 222 to Sublimity; turn north on Stayton-Silverton road. Turn west on Oak Ridge road which brings one in past Bethel school, or else go farther north toward Silverton and turn west on Pra tum road. Lovely rolling hill country. Steelworker Group Strikes " JOHNSTOWN, Pa June -A strike of 800 CIO United steel workers idled 800 other workers at the Bethlehem Steel company to day and threatened to shut down the firm's sprawling Johnstown works. 1 The evening shift in the open hearth., department walked out last night in protest against the disci plining of some fellow employes and other shifts followed suit. The plant employs a total of 16,000. '. The National Geographic society says the highest post office in the U.S. is at Trail Ridge, Colo., 11,797 feet. ALUMINUM STRIKE ENDS PORTLAND, June 17 -JPr- Six AFL unions ended a strike against the Reynolds Metals company aluminum plant at Troutdale Fri day after a settlement was reach ed. Terms were not disclosed. 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