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fr-tfa S&feasfe&tkfek Orqocu1rridaT;Octobr 13MSS3 .i ; GRIN AND DEAR IT bLichty "Wo rarer Sway Us, Wo Fear Shall Awe" " . , ". Frun first Statesman. March 2S. 1151 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher - M PWIIMmi W MWI IIMI t .EM Ml mw - . Eaiered at the postefflc at Salem. Oregea. aa eeeaaa euas mancr ow March X. 1S7 Proposal for Legislative Reapportionment II Yesterday The Statesman discussed the amendment for setting up a new method of ap portioning the legislative assembly, and pointed out defects of the plan as it affects representa tion in the house of representatives. Today we shall consider the plan lor apportioning the sen- first, tha number of members is increased from 30 to 36. The formula for apportioning senators is as follows: . j And tha ratio for a senator shall be detcrmin ! ad by dividing the whole number of the popu ! lation of the state by tha number of senators. . ; Each county with a population exceeding three s fourths of such ratio shall constitute a senato rial district, entitled to at least one senator. A - county with population in excess of one such ratio shall be entitled to an additional senator : for each additional ratio or major fraction thereof, to a maximum of one-fourth of the to- - tal number of senators. In case any county shall ; not have the requisite population to entitle such ; county to a senator, then such county may be -; constituted a senatorial district in itself, or may be Included in a senatorial district consisting of - ' - not mora than three adjoining counties each f lacking tha requisite population, for the pur- - ! pose of electing additional senators to the xnax : imum authorized by this constitution; provided, j. that all senate districts shall be as nearly equal I in population as possible. Each senatorial dis i trict so constituted shall be entitled to one sena tor. If there is no adjoining county larking the " requisite population, a county with less than ; three-fourths ratio may be joined with a coun ty entitled to one or more senators. The apportionment is not based on equal ra tios of population. Again,, as with the composi tion of the house, counties as such are given particular recognition. Any county with only three-fourths, of an aliquot part (l36th of the : total population) is entitled to one senator. And counties with one full aliquot part will get an additional senator for each additional aliquot part or major .fraction thereof. Thus the repre- sentation is, weighted in favor of counties as such. 'No recognition is given to area as such ' "wthough sponsors say that this is a "balanced" plan giving recognition to population and area; The disparity that may result is observed in a suggested grouping which would create one senatorial district of Gilliam, Morrow and Grant counties with a population of 15,821 while Washington county with a population of 61,221 is entitled to only one senator. It is true we have wide disparities now due to default of the legis lature, in reapportioning its membership. If a change in the system is to be' made such dis parities should be greatly reduced. 1 : The formula is by no means automatic. Room is left for juggling counties which of course has to be permitted under any method which uses counties as. units of computation. The limit of three counties to a district may however prove embarrassing. A shift in population might oc cur which would not leave enough seats to go around among the counties with less than the required population for one senator. Then it Would be necessary to attach a stray county to a neighbor already populous enough for one Senator which; has the effect of diluting its Representation, i The senate formula does not seem so bad as that employed for the house, but its complica tions make it a bit difficult for the public to Understand it and certainly would give the poli tical mapmakers exercise in geography and arithmetic ' One other objection is raised which certainly provides room for disagreement. The amend ment sets up no schedule as to when the new method would be applied. It would become part of the constitution, if passed, 30 days after the election. But the legislature which is chosen at the same election would be under the present constitution and the senate would have only- 30 members. Its constitutionality might be chal lenged, but we are of the opinion that the su preme court would rule that it was a lawful body. More dubious is the status of the term of sen ators, for the amendment requires a reclassifi cation, and according to one student of the plan the result would be that in 1952 and at subse quent quadrennial elections the state would elect 33 or 34 senators and only two or three in 1954 and succeeding quadrennius. This was not the intent of the authors of the amendment which specifies biennial elections of one-half the sen ate, but the drafting is at fault in failing to pro vide a proper time schedule for application of the amendment. The Statesman is convinced that this amend ment is not the answer to our apportionment problem. It is not proposing any alternate. It prefers the present provision of the constitution over this proposal. It recommends Vote 315 X No. firm (mm u yju uuu UD "After intensive study, I am convinced that life an Mars is practically impossible ... just aa it is en Earth .V." Ice Harbor Not "Emergency" A dispatch to the Oregonian from Washington reports the boosting of the allotment of funds for building Chief Joseph dam by $6,529,000. The purpose is to speed up construction of this important hydroelectric generating plant. Of the sum $4,000,000 came from what the army engi neers had wanted to get for the Ice Harbor dam on the Snake river. The dispatch concludes thus: "The Ice Harbor dam was not regarded as an emergency at this time." But the engineers, President Truman himself all insisted to congress that Ice Harbor was a "must." They even had representatives of the Atomic Energy commission plead for the project as one needed for supplying the Hahford works with electric energy. Now we learn that Ice Har bor dam is not so urgently needed after all. That was precisely what this paper and others in Oregon have contended. By concentrating on the big dfms we'll get more power and by omit ting the dams on the lower Snake river the sal mon will have a chance to survive. Commotion in the Cascades . . . Other night while state police were investigating a fatal auto accident along North Santiam river above Marion Forks several motorists stopped. As usual an especially curious one got out and came boun cing down the side of the hill. Just as a patrol man shouted at him to watch out for slippery rocks, our hero hit one. His feet went up and he plunked right into the middle of the river. 'if (Continued from page' one.) fighting the last war; but not MacAruthur. There was a sus picion that the White House wasn't very anxious for him to return to a general's triumph, especially in election years. And MacArthur himself has said he felt he should remain while there is a job to do though he has promised to return to Milwaukee to live when does retire! Certain ly tha "communications' be tween Washington and Mac Arthur have never been closely maintained. He has run the show pretty much to suit himself with out much interference from Washington. It may be that one purpose of the Truman trip is to establish closer connections between Washington and Tokyo.. Surely this is not a conference for determination of major poli ices in the orient. The time would be too short to explore, discuss and decide on the momentous issues relating to Japan, Korea, Russia, China, Formosa, Indo china and the Phillipines. Yalta The federal communications commission has warned operators of small fishing boats on the Atlantic coast to refrain from using profane language on their ship-to-shore and ship-to- . ship radios. Aha will government plus science succeed where parents, teachers and preachers for untold generations have failed? Think of it taking the "salt" out of a mariner! language! What will the school of realists in fiction do now, or the fishermen caught in a nasty squall? The FCC has made its ruling; how successful will its enforcement be? Governor Folsom of Alabama says he will is sue no writ of extradition for return of Sen. Glen Taylor on charges of violating' Alabama segregation laws. Wise decision. Idaho voters have taken care of Taylor by voting to keep him at home. Rehabilitatiorxor Prepartion for War? Chinese Reds Report Railroad Repairs "Water up to his waist and he came tip spluttering" and swearing. Efficient police man tells htm now that he's all tret he might as well go on across the stream and help carry over the accident victim which He did. Moral: Never stop at an ac cident unless you've got your bathing suit on. ' " We've been waiting . . . Next Sunday is National Children's day, and already a New York Jewelry council is sending out blurbs suggesting that the quickest way to a kid's heart is with a watch, a ring, sterling silverware or some other gold-plated trinket This is right in line, though, with the growing American tradition that says Mother's day is a flop unless you give Mom a Cadillac, or that Father's day is a bust unless you present Daddy with a $500 over-and-under shotgun with a built-in ra dar. As it stands now many professions are not getting a fair shake. Wonder why we couldn't have a National Keep Reg ular day, to give the medical profession and the druggists a chance or a National Injunction day, time for. everyone to see his attorney; or a National Fission Friday, so that the government could peddle, any wrpiuj atomic material, or National Paddle day so the makers of canoes and gondolas could stick their oars in, or a National Great-Great-Great Grandparents day so genealogists could stir something up. Whatever the local democrats are, they arent choosey. The first congressional district ' will get a nice hunk of campaign cash part of the bundle which Howard Latourette, democrat senatorial candidate, pushed away with both hands . . . Main purpose of Mr. and Mrs. Luis Martine-Lally's recent trek to Washington. D.C (he's Marion county democrat chairman) was to get' Vice President Alb in Barkley (he's a personal friend of Mrs. M-L.1 to come to Salem. But the Veep was too Dusy cor recting erroneous newspaper quotations. So choice of coming to Salem fell on ex-Gov. Maw of Utah or James Davidson, assist, secretary of agriculture. The M-L's gave Maw the thrilling op portunity and he'll be here , tonight. Not so thrilling was a rally at Mill City the other night when about 15 democratic candi dates were there and the audience you could count on your fingers with both hands full of oranges. to By John Roderick (Far J. M. Roberts. Jr.) ' AP Foreign Affairs Analyst LONDON, Oct 12 A routine news broadcast from Peiping re cently told the world that the -Chinese end of '","v the Kunming to Hanoi railroad now is being re- i paired. Just another X step in ue com- . i munist program ' Y Ai to rehabilitate J, 'China Peiping j j ' explained. But J 1 for the west, I . this is one ot the most lm- L Dortant bits of information I come out of Bed China this year. ! ' It means that the reds in south i China . are being linked more ' closely to the communist-spon-Ssored revolutionaries of Ho Chi Minh in Indochina. . ' How important this is was I " made plain by a story from Sai ! gon the other day. It told how - Weil-equipped, well-trained Ho Chr Minh soldiers had annihilat- -: ed several battalions of hardened French troops foreign legion naires and crack Moroccan units. ) Where did the arms come from? Ifs anybody's guess, but " logic points to the iron rails of I the railway, heading straight to Kunming. The Kunming to Hanoi railway : was an engineering achievement of its day. It wound south from : Kunming, capital of Yunnan pro vince, down steep river valleys, through a hundred tunnels aad : across spidery bridges to Hanoi, j thence on to Haiphong, its out let to the sea. " During the Sino-Jap war It i was blasted by Japanese bombers . because the French were pour ing supplies- into China over it " then, after France capitulated In World War II, and later, when the Japanese took over Indo- i china outright, the Chinese des ! troyed sections of their handi j work to prevent its use as an invasion road. About 100 mites of the old roadbed now are used. . .. tor trucking, according to the best available Information. The Kunming terminus is as vital to the communists, both of China' and Indochina, as it was in wartime to the allies. As the terminus of the Burma road and the Himalayan "hump" airlift, the picturesque city became a huge dumping ground for mil lions of dollars worth of war material. At the Kunming airfield and in bulging warehouses in the city, tons of guns, plane parts, bullets, uniforms and vehicles piled up. When the war ended, the United States contributed these moun tains of military supplies to Chiang Kai-shek's nationalists. But the gift was a white ele phant. Chiang's forces were able to use only a fraction of tha masses of equipment, part of the multi-million dollar China aid program. The reason? Kunming, in China's far southwest, is al most cut off from the rest of China except by air. So the material, except for sizable inroads made by profit eers and pilferers, remained in the warehouses. When Yunnan fell to the communists, the prize Included millions of dollars of American war supplies. Renewed activity along the rail route means that the for tunes of a wispy mustached in tellectual in Indochina named Ho Chi Minh are rising. And because of this, Indochina may one day present the west with a crisis as grave as Korea's. Hank Recalls Childhood on ; Moving Day By Henry MeLemore NEW YORK, Oct 12 Since I wrote of my Intentions to move to New York this fall no fewer than 17 Literary Guidepost THE LIFE OF MAHATMA GAN DHI, by Louis Fischer (Har , per; $5) A pair of glasses, a watch, spoon, knife, bowls, shoes, slip pers ... a few things of this sort so few they'd all go in a brief case, are shown in one of the photographs in this book. It bears the caption: "Gandhi's worldly possessions, photographed after his death." It is not a reflection on the author who, though not eloquent, is a diligent, painstaking and ' earnest biographer, to say that this one picture is the most per suasive single page out of the 550 in this "Lile." These sparce objects point up with dramatic effect the nature of the man who, wrapped only in a loincloth, took ' on the British Empire and made it cry uncle. The world which places such a high premium on tangible rewards listened . with awe and respect to the man who, for himself, asked and received nothing. He was born, and well bom, in 1869, studied law in London, practised it in South Africa where he lived for 20 years and developed - the idea - of civilian transfer com panies have kindly written offering to pack and wrap my furniture. I appreda t e their considera tion but I can not help but laugh at the . idea of me pay ing good money for such a service. Most of the men now working for moving companies were not born when I was recognized throughout Georgia as a child prodigy at wrapping and pack ing furniture. My father was a Baptist minis ter and during my childhood we made more moves than youll get in five checker games. Fly over Georgia and South Carolina, and drop a sack of rice and you're sure to hit a town In which I once lived and from which I once moved. 4 There were packers and mov ers in those days, too, but the1 McLemores didn't use them. Pa- non-rasistance which helped to secure the independence of hun dreds of millions of Indians. He bought a pair of shears and cut the Gandhi hair when a white barber refused to serve him; he washed his clothes, and did the menial jobs reserved traditional ly for untouchables. Married at 13, the father of several children, he regarded all India as his fam ily, and set for himself the goal of being "ever active, ever useful, ever needless.'' His aid to indigo sharecroppers, his battle against the salt tax. his struggle to break 4Amrn -Ha ee4 r4Am Via ir T. Pf. Mama, and the five children, . no snri fmeti-;. . k.j. m through years of practice, be- hard-hitting packing unit that clicked with military precision. The - furniture and the books worked with us, too. So accus tomed they were to travelling from town to town that old rock ing chairs would back up to get wrapped in newspaper, and the books, once a box was placed under the shelves, would tumble off and arrange themselves. You wont believe me, I am sure, but two living room lamps used to save burlap and twin of fellow nationals, and In 1948 nis assassination, or as . some would say his Calvary, are mat ters of record. 'Fischer saw in him a very sweet, gentle, informed, relaxed, happy, wise, highly civilized man," witty, companiable, hu man. It is the personal and in timate view which gives this new biography its value; Fischer brings him nearer to us, and for seeing more clearly, we admire more profoundly. themselves so as to be ready for a Quick departure to another town. I couldn't have been more than two when I was drafted into the family moving unit My first assignment was wrap ping cups and saucers. I remem ber it as if it were yesterday. I would be given a bowl of hot cereal for nourishment and would then be placed on the , floor and surrounded by cups and saucers and old newspapers. From cups and saucers I work ed'up to plates, and from plates advanced to soup tureens, until I had reached an age and profi ciency where I could be trusted with a chair or a table. Those packing days are as fresh in my memory as if they were yesterday. Kind neighbors would always come in to help, and how glad we were to have them. Not only because they helped to get the job done, but because when things were un wrapped at the end of the jour ney any damage could be blamed on them. I suppose I have blamed Mrs. High tower and Mrs. Elliott and. Mrs. Thompson and Brother Jones for a hundred scratches and breaks which were the cause of my own haste when itching to get finished and get out to play baseball. Just to see if my hand had lost its skill, I tried wrapping a chair an hour or so ago. 1 was pleased to find that the news paper and twine fairly flew be neath my fingers, and in no time at all I had it ready for ship ment. I would be willing to bet. . so sure am I that I have not for gotten the old know-how, that when that chair reaches New York it can be repaired by any competent cabinet maker in three days. Modern packing is a marvel, . they tell me. Men with degrees bring in sterile pads and wrap everything without human hands touching -a thing. I salute such progress, but I want no part of it. 1 want to recapture my child' hood, with excelsior, newspaper, twine, and worn-out quilts and blankets. . - Distributed by McMaught Syndicate. Inc. ,has made us suspicious of off-the-cuff decisions.' And there is " one thing which should be kept clearly in mind that the United States is not - acting unilaterally. It is now part of the United Na- tions and its national- policies must be determined in light of that relationship. . - The effect of the Truman trip on domestic politics, which is what concerns many at this stage -of the election campaign, is bard to figure out I doubt if, on bal ance, it has any effect. Press re ports will probably reveal little more than the formalities of the . meeting. The democrats who think the -gesture of Mahomet journeying to the hill may win votes for their congressional can didates are doing daydreaming. The Wake islanders have no vote. Americans who do vote will not be much influenced by any publicity coming out of Wake. Safety Valve Better English 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "There are less people here today than there was yester day? - 2. What is the correst pronun-, elation of "morale"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Malignant, malevo lent, mailable, malnutritious. . 4. What does the word "in sipid' mean? ' 0. What is a word beginning with res that means "showing . LAMPORT SUPPORTS REPUBLICAN TICKET To the Editor:- In reading the press ' reports one might infer that I am in a coalition with the democratia nominee Cornelius Bateson to bring about his election. Such is not the case, as I am one of the Republican nominees . for State Senator and will work for and support the Republican ticket in its entirety. , The chairman of the farmers cooperative group approached and offered their support which I accepted, but I am in no way whatsoever associated with Mr. Bateson, as he is one of my Democratic opponents. Fred Lamport deference"? ANSWERS 1. Say, There are fewer peo ple here today than there were yesterday." 2. Pronounce mo rale with accent on second sylla ble. 3. Malleable. 4. Uninter esting; dull. "His speech had an insipid quality. 5. 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