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" . , ". Frun first Statesman. March 2S. 1151
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
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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.
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"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.
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(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.
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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. Respect.
fin ras
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