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GRIN' AND BEAR IT" 4 by lichfy latere "No Favor Sway U, No Fear Shall Awe" ' mm First Statesman. March IS. 151 ! THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING C03IPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher rabUshe every taenia. Bosness eMee MS 8. Commercial. Salem. Cretan. Telephone S-X441. xeatUie WtofSi t 8Ie. Orexen. as seeead elm matter under art of eeasreas March X. 17 1. Parade of Hercfords Tuesday we visited the Pacific International Livestock show in Portland and saw a line of Hereford being led into the ring for judging. When we saw this parade of whitefaces and did a little arithmetic on their value it looked to us a though we were watching a parade of the na tional debt. At meat prices some of them would be worth $300 a head or better and as breeding stock they would get a nice premium over that. We cite th merely to point to the import ance of the livestock industry in Oregon to the state's economy. Turning grass, water, feed into animal products is not only an occupation for a large segment of our population but a source of great wealth for them and for the state. Dak-ying. beef production, growing of sheep for rjool and far meat and of swine for meat prob ably hold top rank in returns in all farm and range production. Expansion of this industry does not come about very rapidly for it runs into many limitations (range; feed, manpower, operating costs) but the industry should grow because it is basic in its supply of foods and fibers "for human use, and our population is growing. ' .. i Pacific International this year has many fine exhibits many from Marion county, and our farm editor has recorded the liberal share of premium they have earned. It is worth while to visit the show whkh continues several days yet; and to attend the horse show at night. A trip though the stockbarns really will open your eyes to the extent and quality of the northwest livestock industry. ' Proposal for Legislative Reapportionment I vThe people of Oregon will vote on a proposed constitutional amendment introducing a new plan for apportionment of the legislature. The constitution ef 1857 specified that the legisla ture should reapportion the assembly after every federal (or state) census, but succeeding legis latures for 40 years have ignored this mandate tith only minor alterations in the distribution ot representation. ' " ; . ' ;Two plans were proposed by the initiative route. One favored by labor unions, the Farm ers' union and some democratic and one young . republican group provided for apportionment on the basis of population save that no county than are now merely tolerated. It purports to give recognition both to population and area, but this is not the case for in no instance does area receive any consideration. The plan is primarily based on magnifying the power of. counties small In population, and this at a time when it is quite generally recognized that the pattern of counties in Oregon is a heritage of horse-and-buggy days. 'j We can give a quick illustration of the in equity from a population standpoint of this so called population plan. Sherman county with a population of 2,260 would have one representa tive while Klamath county with a population of 42,014 would have only one representative; likewise only one for Umatilla county with a population of 41,165. (Both these latter counties now have two representatives while Sherman shares with Wheeler, Gilliam and Morrow coun ties in two representatives). ; We. said that area was ignored. For proof look " at this: Columbia county with an area of C46 square miles has one representative and so does Harney county with 10,132 square miles. ! We said that this plan would freeze inequities. It will do worse than that, if present population trends continue: it will make the inequities grow more acute as time goes on. Here is the proof: Total membership of the House 60 Deduct one for each county as a county, regardless ot area or . population 38 j Number remaining for distribu tion on a population basis 24 Of these, on basis of present po pulation Multnomah would get . an additional 13 Number left to be apportioned among the fast-growing up state counties U j And no matter how much faster these upstate counties like Lane and Douglas and Clackamas and Marion and Umatilla continued to grow their aggregate representation in the house could not grow; unless there was a substantial decline in Multnomah- county rate of growth. j The immediate effect of this amendment would be to reduce the representation in Clack amas. Clatsop. Columbia, Coos, Deschutes, Kla- should have over one-third of the memtoersnip math, Marion, Umatilla, Yamniu yei mese are ' 1 1 iabooos Guidep "Staff and nonsense! . . . mj parents never let as children sit vp te all hoars watching televisiea . . -TO in either house. The task of reapportioning was assigned to the board of control to avoid default . by the legislature. This measure failed to quali fy and so does not appear on the ballot. The alternate, plan, prepared by A. Freeman Holmer of Willamette university had the strong ' backing of the Oregon Farm bureau and some republican groups and did receive enough sig natures and is the one to be voted on. Briefly it raises the membership of the state senate from SO to 36 and apportions its membership on a system of ratios and fractions of ratios. In the house each of the 36 counties would have one member and the remaining 24 (total member ship 60) would be apportioned on the basis of population "according to the method of equal proportions. No county could have more than ene-f ourth the total membership in either house er senate. The task of making the apportion ment would fall to the legislature; if it failed Junction then to the secretary of state, with tight of appeal to the supreme court. j: The Statesman recommends that this reap portionment measure be defeated. Described as St 'balanced plan" it reveals itself on analysis as an unbalanced plan which would freeze even worse inequities in legislative apportionment are among the large, fast-growing counties of the state. Counties with more than one repre sentative which would hold their own or gain are Douglas, Jackson, Lane (gaining one), Linn, Multnomah (getting 14, now 13 and one joint with Clackamas), and Washington. ! The Statesman is opposed on principle to giv ing each county one representative regardless of its size in population. It seems absurd to give each of the thinly populated counties a repre sentative and then restrict large, populous coun ties to one representative. In the modern scheme of things counties, as such, are not entitled to such distinction. This editorial has dealt chiefly with appor tionment for the house as contemplated in the amendment submitted. Tomorrow we shall. dis cuss the plan which it offers for apportionment of the state senate. The defects of the plan already set forth seems to us fatal, meriting the defeat of the amendment at the election November 7th. i Now when will what happened to Notre Dame happen to the New York Yankees? HWlWipMEWT-iti'-iMni-niiii ( With Vast Maiority of U. S. Armies in Korea, t Kremlin Holds Power to Strike Elsewhere By Joseph Also JVf TOKYO, Oct.ill American forces have now crossed the JiThlrty-Eighth Parallel, and Tin - less the enemy receives power ful external aid, the Korean war . has entered its last phase. This 1 simple fact, long forecast in this : space, gives an entirely new look fc the whole world situation. . On the still-existing problem of Soviet andor Chinese inter vention in Korea, mere is very r little that now needs to be said. If the Kremlin had been deter-: J mined to win the Korean war, -Stalin could have done so by sending , in hardly more 'than a corpor Irs t u a r d, dressed up in ? false whiskers ' to boot, at any V'tlme up to ' bout a month' : a -. If the, .Kremlin haH '..'been determin ed not to lose -IU Norm Kff; jaUmj ;eaa- ; satellite,-, r"V- ,. but ever-estimated North Kor r'eaa. capabilities, Stalin could - -have arranged preventive occu-", ' patfon of North Korea by the - Chinese armies en the Yalu Riv f er on D-day plus one after the Inchon landing, jf : Stalin took neither of these ' brious steps.- Therefore, if ei :' ther the Chinese er Russians now "intervene, at this bite date, with ? so much water already over the - dam. it will mean only one thine. -; It will mean that the Kremlin u positively, actively and knowing k ly desires to plunge the world s. : into a third world war. Z . . . Undoubtedly, now is the right t time to intervene if another K world war is what the Kremlin i - wants. Even for the Inchon land--r fat our forces in Korea were ac . atually only reinforced by two Marine regiments plus the skele ton ot an American division, the : . 1 'in Seventh, with flesh put on it by incorporated South Korean in fantry. But with the Third divi sion now entering Korea, we are as fully committed as we con ceivably can be. With every thing here, and with the rest ot the world undefended except by our strategic Air Force, this is the time for the Kremlin to strike if the Kremlin chooses. Unless every .sign to date has been fantastically misleading, however, the Kremlin will not choose. If so, the world situation ' will have a new look for a whole series of reasons.! On the one hand, there will be the previously suggested effect on our allies and potential allies of the dis covery that there is an element of "bogeyman" in the remorse less Soviet power which has so terrified them alL i . ' On the other hand, and even more important, is the effect on 1 our own estimate of the Krem . lin'i capabilities, j As for the Kremlin's intentions, these were .all too clearly revealed by the crudeness and the naked aggres sion of the North Korean attack. ; That showed us what the Krem ' lin would do if it could, in a . very helpful mind-clearing way. There can no longer be any doubt at all that the Kremlin propelled the North Koreans in to war on the flat, unquestion ing assumption that they would meet with no opposition except from the feeble forces of the government of Syngman Rhee. There can no longer be any ques tion that this action was Intended! to be the first step in a much larger scheme of Asiatic and Eu ropean conquest but conquest on the cheap. The question that has remain ed ooen, is whether the Kremlin possessed the power, or believed taa., it possessed the power, to carry through this scheme of con quest at all costs, even if the great prizes could not be bought at bargain prices. This is the measure of the Kremlin's capa bilities. If the Kremlin accepts the loss of a satellite, as a poor pawn risked and taken in the world power-game, it means that we have time. It emphatically does not mean that we can forget the lesson of Korea, it emphatically does not mean that we can sink back into complacency while the ' Soviet Union continues to re arm and the Kremlin waits the chance 'for another, more sure aggression. But it does mean that if we now muster all our ener gies to build the western strength that we forgot to build, we may have time for the Job. With all out effort, we may be 'able to - achieve an effective, deterrent western defense before the Kremlin is ready for another at tack. So dreadful has been our sit s nation, so terrible has been our ; peril, that even this has been in serious doubt, and still is in ' partial doubt But the immediate peril is diminishing, and may - soon vanish altogether. . We cannot abandon vital pod-. j tions for specious reasons. We . cannot stop rearming. We can not let ourselves worry about .'the heavy cost. We must go for ward in the time we now have, until we achieve solid strength. Then, and only then, .may we relax. i - . - .f v . . . Korea, which is the worst mis take the Kremlin ever made, and a graver mistake than Hitler was ever guilty of, has set our feet on the hard road. It has also shown that ' the road, though hard, is almost surely safe. It has finally shown that any other road is a quick trip to suicide. In all these senses, despite the - heavy cost in blood and treasure, Korea has been a net gain for America. This is the best way this reporter can sum up the meaning of Korea, as he prepares to ipturn to the United States. futm-lKht. 1950. Nn York Hrakt Tribun. Inc. Henry Looks For Small Supermarket By Henry BXeLenere NEW YORK This Is Colum bus Day, and I wish the old boy who stumbled on America while looking for a short cut to the Spice Islands and a good thing in the fifth at Santa Anita, were alive and kicking. I'd like to pawn a few jewels and pay Chris to do a little dis covering for roe. What would I like to have him discover in this, the good year of 1950? Well, I cant tell you all the things, but I can name a few First off, Td like him to dis cover some youngsters who do not have re spect for middle age.. Nothing hurts a man in his forties, who Is sure he looks as young as he did when every car had a rumble seat and man jong was the canasta of the day than to have a college boy ad dress him as Sir. Nothing would please me more , than to have all girls and boys between the ages of 15 and 25 call me Bud, Henry. Hank, Mac or simply Hi There! When they give me that Sir and Mr. Mc Lemore business it just makes my Joints creak a little louder, the twinge in my neck become a little sharper, and .the hair on my head recede a little faster. Having ' done this for me, I would dispatch Chris to discover a small super-market a cozy, snug, super-market in which a shopper would not feel as if he were wandering in the vast spaces of the Sahara, and with just about as much chance of finding what he wants as a desert wanderer has of finding an oas is. During the past few years many are the precious hours I have lost looking for the ketch up department, the baked beans department, the Hasty Mix de partment in giant super-markets. The boast of every builder of a new super-market is that it is the biggest this side of Syd ney, Australia. The builders are making a mistake. What I want and I feel this wish is shared by millions of others is a store where one does not need radar to find the meat counter or a guide to locate the cream cheese section. Frankly, I long for the day of the small grocery stores, when there were clerks to serve you, and a man didn't have to be a - master of the pushcart to lay in stores for the pantry shelves. . Mr. Columbus could also use his daring and courage to dis cover for me a reason why the railroad car you have a seat in is always the one seven blocks from the center of the platform. Do railroads deliberately sell a man a seat on a car that is al ways the one that takes ten min utes to walk to, and is usually parked in the outskirts of the city? Just once in my life I would like to be standing in front of the car I am to board when the train pulls out. I know I nev er . win, but there is nothing wrong in dreaming, Is there? - Safety Valve (Continued from page one.) allied forces will be needed there for general policing for an in definite period. Lacking some su pervision the reds might by threats of infiltration take over Korea and unify it the way North Korea started to unify it, as a satellite of Russia. Our government has made it plain that it -wants no slice of Korean territory and no bases there. But the only way it can convince Russia and Red China that it has ho evil designs against its nearby territory is to put the garrisons stationed in Korea def initely under U. N. authority and with forces proportioned among U. N. members. We have learned from experi ence that military victory is only half of the struggle and some-, times the shorter half. We must Literary .. . . lost . . . By W. G. Rarer , THE WAY THINGS ARE, by Jo sephine Lawrence (McGraw Hill; S3) Vere Atwood,- 19 - year -old guileless home-body, has her eyes opened upon our work-a-day modern -world in this new novel by Miss Lawrence. From a sheltered youth with her grandmother, she moves to an ultra-busy aunt's, " where the women as well as the men all work and school is the place where parents unload their chil dren, xoo mucn ot a snoot ror Vere, she sees an easy way back in the marriage proposal ot el derly Ly sahder Fisher, but young and kindly Tace Stevens, ex-GI, maintains the GI tradi tion by coming to the rescue. Though Miss Lawrence is always expert and readable, the charac terizations here seem to be not inevitable but shaped somewhat arbitrarily for fictional purposes. UJ5. Government tests show that best quality cotton yarns come from fibers of unusual strength rather than length and fineness. be prepared for a long pull ef fort in Korea to establish a firm, responsible government able to ran the show after we step out This job must be taken on as the military effort was, as a U. N. project, and become the joint responsibility of the member na tions. This will give better as surance of non-interference with North Korea's red allies and as it succeeds- will add tremendous ly to the prestige of United Nations. mm Or ttHfr Crtsae And Its Causes To the Editor: I fully agree with A. L. War ner,, also with Maude Porter Boone in regards to their views on juvenile delinquency. Both hit the nail on tne bead, omy tney did not hit hard enough, men tioning only part of the causes. The root lies deeper. i We are told that "Children must suffer for the sins ot their father." This law has not been set up by any benevolent Creator, but is the natural consequence of sin, of a wrongly applied, mis used act of creation. Why Is the mother not men tioned in this curse? They say it takes two to make a bargain. But the party of the second part, the mother, is in most cases the "keep-peaee-in-the - family-at-any-price" victim unwillingly quite often of the desires of her husband, who can see only the pleasant side of the story, with absolutely no thought of the law of -like begets like," and its consequences, physically, men tally, morally. As long as martial relations, as they are practiced today, are looked upon as enjoyable priv ileges, instead of the means of propagating the human race, just that long must we deal with the resultant lack of a normal state of moral health. Go into a modern cold storage locker plant, and the first thing you notice, next to cold weather. are 3 or 4 rows of padlocks. ' Makes one wonder if we are liv ing in a world of thieves. The teen-age criminals of to day are sick boys, the involun tary victims of modern civiliza tions as much as the product of misinformed, unthinking parents. unable to curb their desire for the other sex. The remedy is to start with our great grand parents, removing the cause of being born through sin, and proper education of those of us that cannot benefit any longer from pre-natal influences. Hugo Mayerhoefer, 855 Plymouth Dr. "Lenlnlxed Politicians' To the Editor: Last week I became aware of the fact the present day politi cian has certainly reached into the American home and deprived it of its traditional rights. Now that the time in American history has arrived when a legal voter cannot change his wife's residential address, but finds she (a registered voter y must appear in person to do so for herself, we both say our state govern ment is now tyrannical. It has deprived a family the right to represent one another. We inherited our right to vote from the first American voters who made freedom possible.. We now surrender that once great American privilege. We shove off from a battered, sinking ship of state, but still wave the banner "Don't . tread on us" and will gladly die rather than submit to Lenmized Ameri can politicians of today. A. M. COOK, 1167 Court St, Apt 4. Bottor English Other things I would like Chris to discover for me. Why airlines board passengers before the motors are warmed and tested. What would be wrong in tuning up the big electric fans before the customers are made to take their seats? Many's the time I have sat on airplanes for half an hour before it was dis covered that one of the engines needed a haircut or a new spark plug, and departure would be de layed. Why conductors of human In terest (gossip) ' columns think that the average reader is In terested in the doings of people who, outside of their immediate family circle, are not known at all. Items such as "Parker Huf fington and Lillian Lowbridge are tiffing with Snide Snyder over their contract.' What con tract? And, -Betsy Miff Is ex pecting a broken leg any day row." And, "Fred Juniper, son i ' Kip Juniper, is off to Barbados to see his new flame, Sally Char coal." ' -1 ' Why the boys who work sports on radio and television think it necessary to give the life history 1. What is-wrong with this sentence? The balance of his speech made me very angry, at him." X. What is the correct. pro nunciation of "flaccid?"' 3. Which one of these words Is misspelled? Relevent, rele gate, remittal, repetiUously. 4. What does the word "in cenuous" mean? ' ' 5. What is a word beginning with rl that means "a ceremon ial?" ANSWERS - L Say, -The resaalnder of his speech made me very angry with him." 2. Pronounce flak.-sid, a as in at. 1 as in 11 accent first syl lable. S. Relevant. V- Open; frank; candid; sincere.' . (Pro nounce second. syllable Jen, e as in seem). The advice he gave was ingenuous." 5. Ritual. of each . athlete every . time he enes to the slate or carries the hall or makes a tackle. Most snort fans have read or heard these histories a thousand times. Oh, I really could put Colum bus to work if he were alive. - Districted by McNaoght Syndicate. Inc. Condensed Statement of Condition Willamette Valley Salem, Oregon . ; t As of October 4 19501 . : ', , '. s f ASSETS Loans and Discounts - ' U. S. Government Securities " -Other Securities . . Cash, Cash Items and Bal. with Other Banks Other Assets . V , Total Assets Bank 988,001.42 956,483.20 370,627.80 ; 310,416.54 37,896.84 $2,663,425.80 LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL Deposits . , Other Liabilities Total Liabilities . . Capital Accounts . . Total Liabilities and Capital $2,549,919.22 14,423.60'' 2,564,342.82 99,082.98 $2,663,425.80 Salem's )n dependent Bank 1990 Fairgrounds Road Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Open Fridays Until 7:00 P.M. Phona 3-9181 Voluntary Medical and Hospital Insurance had its birth in Oregon Millions in all walks of life have come to realize what an important place a well-appointed voluntary medical and hospital insurance plaa has in their lives and in the fives of those who depend upon thern And Oregon can well be proud of its place in this new field of service, -; for it was in Oregon, in 1906, that voluntary medical and hospital insurance had its birth when a group of prominent Oregon business , and professional men founded the National Hospital Association, the first of it kind in America. It was also in Oregon, in 1917, that th first laws in America, recognizing this new plan of insurance, were enacted. Today that plan, founded by those business and professional men of Oregon 44 years ago, has become world-wide in its scope of service, and all thinking people have come to realize its value. Under this modern plan of Voluntary health insurance there is no regimentation of doctors or hospitals, or of their patients who an free to select the doctors and hospitals they wish to attend them wherever they may be. There is no need in America for "socialized medicine" with its special payroll tax. That need has long been filled by the National Hospital Association and other worthy organizations to which millions of Americans already have subscribed, and which are able and ready, to answer every medical and hospital need of out people. In America there is no need for "socialized medicine,'; This statement furnished by the National Hospital Association of Portland, Oregon, in 'VilnUr&i6kfcary medical, surgical end hospital Insurance under the American system office enterprise.