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7- iTho &". Solan, Oregon., gaturggy October XI, 1350 V'i ti GRIN AND QAR IT i aeJessfliPBljjlfc SeMf atesrowi particularly interested in a more constructive approach to solving their problems than by shortening the school year of the children. mNo Favor Sway Ut, No Fear Shall Atce" Item First Statesman, March Is. 131 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher PabHshed ever morning. Badness office 2 IS S. Commercial, Salem, Oregon. Telephene 2-Z44L , Entered at tha postaffle at Salem, Ore an. aa sec a dan matter cmder act ! congress March S, II" Adding to Vets' Loan Fund la 1944 the voters of Oregon amended the constitution to establish a fund for making loans to veterans of World War II for their ac quisition of farms and homes. The debt limit was fixed at three per-cent of the assessed val uation of the state, and Oregon residents who served at least 90 days in the armed services during the war, were declared eligible. . Under this amendment and the legislative act to put it into effect, 5,646 veterans had, up to June 30th last, borrowed from the state on first mortgages on homes 'or farms a total of $22, 806,239. The last legislature voted to submit an amendment to this amendment It would raise the debt limit to four per cent of the assessed valuation and make eligible veterans from other states who resides in this state two years after iis service separation and Dec 31, 1950. - ' . The . argument presented is that these loans are secured and can be expected to be entirely self -liquidating if they are properly made and handled. Also attention is called to the fact that many veterans came to Oregon and settled here and should be made eligible to get a loan from the state fund. , In the opinion of The Statesman it is not nec essary to increase the debt limit. The amount borrowed, as of June 30th last was as stated above $22,806,239. But under the present three per cent limit the amount available on the basis of the latest report of assessed valuation is $48, 236,280. That leaves an ample margin. While we are pleased to have war veterans from other Earth Warming Up As you drive up to Paradise park on the south side of Mount Rainier you pass the snout of Nisqually glacier. Signs point out where its terminus was in different years since its dis covery and the distance from them to the pres ent front of the ice-flow is the measure of its retreat in those periods of time. This retreat is common to all our western glaciers, and some of them, like Milk glacier on the west front of Mt. Jefferson, is only a remnant. This would indicate that we are living in a warming-up cycle. That may be merely an in terval in longer period of earth-cooling; but the evidence is that since the ice cap began retread ing some ten thousand or more years ago earth temperatures are growing warmer. Other proof is offered in the northward mi gration of birds and animals. Prof. Joseph J. Hickey, professor of wildlife management at the University of Wisconsin reports that cardinals, opposum, blue wing warbler and other species have extended their breeding range well to the north of the southern Iowa -New Jersey line which formerly was their boundary. European scientists also report that birds from southern Europe have been invading northern latitudes, in Iceland, Scandinavia and Greenland. Humans though seem to shun the north. Wit- states locate in Oregon it hardly seems that they . ness country the migration to southern havn a claim to Oregon's eranta bv virtue of vuuornia, lexas ana .cionaa 10 escape their war service. They still have the benefits made possible by the GI bill of the federal gov ernment. - Principally because it does not seem that this change is needed The Statesman . recommends Vote 304 ,X No. . .Transient Farm Labor A government committee held hearings this week in Portland on the subject of migratory alarm labor. It attracted far less attention than it deserved because the subject , is one of real economic importance and of deep social signifi cance. This labor is at the bottom of the scale of employables. While some of the migrants are expert and able to make a pretty good income ia a year, a great number are the ones who are employed onlyf part time, whose families all have to work fo make ends meet, whose shift lessness and vices make them a sociological problem. Oregon witnesseaVwere critical of the poor living facilities offered transients and their lack of employment guarantee or unemployment : compensation. But some Idaho witnesses ad . vanced rather startling proposals. One man wanted the immigration service to lay off their hunt for "wetbacks," Mexicans who enter the country illegally, at least until harvest season end. And the president of the Idaho sugarbeet growers argued for a modification of child la bor laws requiring only six or seven months of schooling for children of migrants so they could work longer and help with the family support. For these persons labor ia only a com modity to be used aa long as needed and then turned adrift. We cannot accept any such reversion to any such concepts of human labor. What must be .Tone is to look ahead to see how conditions of these transients, and particularly the chances for their children may be bettered. Granted that the quality of the human material is often very low, still decent standards of living, of wages, of education, of health must - be maintained. Those who employ labor of this type should be the northern winters. Canada and Alaska gain po pulation very slowly. How long this warm cycle will continue we do not know; but the ice cap over northern Washington (whose melt created Grand Coulee) and coal deposits in Alaska show what wide swings in climate the earth has gone through in the past. Will this history ever repeat itself? Senate Contests Are you interested in the outcome of contests for the U.S. senate? Here is the summary taken from reports to the New York Times of last Sunday. NEW YORK: "Mr. Lehman, with his substan tial public record ; behind him, and with the state's known voting tendencies considered, is better than an even choice to win." (This was written before the Hanley letter was made pub lic which should improve Lehman's chances.) PENNSYLVANIA: "Senator Francis J. My ers in his battle for reelection' in Pennsylvania constitutes a major Fair Deal test, for he is standing on the record of the Truman adminis tration and the democratic 81st congress ... The 'odds against his election are great. Demo crats have captured an off-year election in the state only once in more than a half - century. The republicans out-register them by more than 900,000." OHIO: "Senator Taft has improved his chances in recent weeks and is gaining slowly but steadily. JT.T.INOIS: Lucas, dem. vs. Dirksen, rep. "Po litical observers rate the contest about even." CALIFORNIA: Nixon vs. Mrs. Douglas. "A slight initial speculative edge for Mrs. Douglas based largely on her personal appeal and energetic campaigning has shifted in recent weeks as Mr. Nixon intensified his campaigning, national criticism of the administration swelled, and increasing anti - communist feeling put a premium on his record. The last three of these races seem to be quite dose, with only two weeks left for campaigning before the day of decision. Ruthless Reorganization of Manpower Needed To Match Russian Numbers in Event of War 1 ' y By Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON, Oct 20-One of the first lessons of the Korean infantry fighting was summed up for this report- er by I wise r and experienc-? edt 1st Sgt:' i -What matters r In the line, half , the time, is . ' bodies, just bodies. If they'll stay there, hold a gun, and shoot, they're gpod enough." fc x ati lesson : drivena home in Korea in at least two major ways. Because bodies were , few, our fox-holes were spaced t sixty yards. Such a line must always be expected to break somewhere, if subjected to seri . ous pressure. This was the ex planation of the repeated enemy breakthroughs, in the first dan gerous months. - . . Equally, one of Gen. MacAr thur's boldest and most brilliant 1 strokes was to use South Korean bodies, on a very large scale, in bis American divisions. Through out July the Seventh division, still, in Japan, was used as a re- placement center for the divi : sioris in Korea. But the .Seventh division was also about half of MacArthur's total reserve for the Inchon landing. Therefore, in order to conserve bis reserve, the general firmly ordered the divi sions in Korea to accept South Koreans as replacements, and simultaneously filled up the de- ple(ed Seventh division wth no less than 8,000 South Koreans. The South Koreans in the Sev- enth division had only a couple of months training; the replace ments sent to the other divisions had only a few weeks. .The- ex ytraordinary expedient of incor porating half -trained foreign troops in our' own units was at, first bitterly opposed by almost all MacArthur's - subordinates. The general gave his order when our forces in Korea were al ready superior to the enemy in fire-power, were .infinitely more mobile, and were supreme in the air. Yet the order was still es sential. Without the South Ko reans to "stay there, hold a gun and shoot" (which they did very adequately), the Inchon landing ; would have been impossible. So much do bodies mean in war. AH this ia necessary to place in perspective what appears to be one of the gravest and most urgent organizational problems of western defense. If bodies in the line are important, it follows that it is also important for our military organization to get the maximum number of bodies into the line. And this, unfortunately, is emphatically not the case to day. In the simplest terms, our army is now expected to use a million and ahalf men to pro duce the rough equivalent of twenty-five divisions. But ac- ' cording to current estimates, the Soviets are using only three mil lion men to get a total of 175 divisions, including a high pro portion of heavy armored, mech anized and artillery divisions. The contrast here is almost in credible. We use -42,000 men in the rear areas to keep in the line a rifle division of 18,000 men. The Soviets use 8,400 men in the rear areas to keep in the line a rifle division of 10,800 men. The - total manpower consmed in a single one of our rifle divisions is in fact more than the whole Soviet "divisional slice," which is only 17,200 men. Furthermore, although our rifle divisions consume so many men more than the Soviet divisions, the American divisions have no more firepower. . The only com- - Farm Labor Over Oregon Seasonal farm labor shortages continued over much of Oregon during the past week as Inclement weather interferred with harvests of nuts, potatoes, apples, sugar beets and other fall crops, the Oregon state employment service reported Friday. Picking of walnuts and filberts was so, far behind in Washington county that pupils were excused from schools and help is being called for in the Portland area. McMinnville, Oregon City and Salem also reported more work ers needed by nut growers. With the potato harvest 50 to 60 per cent complete in central Ore gon both Klamath Falls and the Bend-Redmond areas were asking for bucxers and pickers for the remaining two or three weeks. Nearly .600 more could be used, officials said. Hood River still is seeking apple pickers but Medford reports adequate help for the remainder of its fruit season. DDQS ITHDODDB ZJ (Continued from page one.) bat advantage we can apparently claim is that the Soviet infantry companies are expected to march on foot, unless supplied with spe cial transport by higher head quarters. But it is highly argu able whether this claimed ad vantage is real, as the Korean war, with its sharp penalties for being road-bound, all too clearly suggested. And except for the infantry companies our own army manuals admit that all other elements of the Soviet rifle divisions are now fully mobile. There are reasons for these contrasts, to be sure. The Red army needs only to be ready to advance short distances beyond its own borders in order to ach hieve great conquests; while our divisions must fight overseas for defense. The Red army lives on the country; ours cannot. The Red army can afford divisional "medical battalions" of only eighty men; we could not con sider such cold-bloodedness. All these differences will always re quire the American army to make a greater investment of man power per body-with-a-gun-in-the-line. But all these differences, no matter how often emphasized, cannot excuse the existing situa tion. The aim should now be to get at least twice as many bodies -with-guns-Ui-the-line from each unit of invested manpower. This, aim should be ruthlessly pur sued, even at the cost of root and branch reorganization of all the services (for the army here is only one example; our navy is also an offender, and the air force is probably worse than the army). Ruthlesssness is needed in this reorganization of our ser vices. For if we do not change our present habits of manpower . use, we must be defeated by the Soviet Union in any contest in which bodies count at alL Copyright, 1950. New York Herald Tribune Ine. "A brilliant idea . . . leaving at the half to avoid the traffic crush ... how do yon soarest getting the ear out? ..." Hanlc Holds Record But Needs Alibi By Henry McLemore DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Oct 20 Thumbing through an en cyclopedia today I discovered that I am the holder of a world record. In 1911 so the encyclope dia says a Mr. John -Anderson Myjo, of Troon, Scotland, when his . wife was away for five days, establish ed a new all time mark for dirty dishes pil ed on the sink. Mr. Myjo's stack of chinaware contained 238 plates, cups, sau cers, etc., and was five feet six inches high and three feet two inches long. Upon reading this I got a tape measure and measured the pile of dirty dishes that have accu-' mulated on my sink since Jean left for New York to superin tend the painting of the apart ment we will occupy this fall, to select the drapes for the shoe closet, and to see to it that the shelf paper matches the door man's cap. Z hadn't measured and count ed for more than a few seconds before I knew that the record which has been so long in Scot tish hands now had been brought to America. The unwashed leaning tower -of Pisa on my sink contains 301 dishes of assorted shapes and sizes and is almost half again as high and as long as that which brought fame to Mr. Myjo. - It took the Scottish husband five days to accumulate his pile. He's a piker. I have used only three days and, if there -were any more dishes left in the house, I would whip his record to a frazzle in two more days. As it is, there is only one clean dish in the house, and that is a giant soup tureen that, given a spring board, would look at home in the backyard of any Hollywood star's home. Jean will be back tomorrow and I know her well enough to know that, as proud as she'll be . to have me holder of a world record, I'd better have those dishes washed and put away. Frankly, I don't know how to go about the task. The dishes are so delicately balanced, that I fear to bring in the garden hose and turn it on them. The chances are very great that such a measure would result in a clat ter which would make the noise af Santa's reindeer on the roof sound like the explosion of a soap bubble in Grand Canyon. What I think 111 do is throw , them away and tell Jean that a vicious gang of burglars, spec ializing in china, and china alone, has been terrorizing the neigh borhood and made off with near ly all the dishes in town. Yes, that's what IH do, I'll tell her that I was sitting on the couch about midnight, reading an unexpurgated copy of Little Lord Fauntleroy, when I felt a hand at my throat, a sack over my head, and a menacing demand to open the wall safe and hand over the china. Then, locked in the refrigera tor, and helpless to lift anything heavier than an ice cube, I had to listen to the gang make away with every blessed plate we own. A convincing story, even if L do say so myself. One that should bring tears to her eyes and a bump on my head. But I have no idea how to ex plain the gas stove being half burned up. There isn't a chance of her falling for a story about a gang which has "been terroriz ing the neighborhood by going ' about turning on the burners and letting them burn. That's what' I did, but I didnt mean to. It seems that right in the middle of cook ing myself a sumptuous one course dinner of a boiled hot dog, an emergency call came through to me asking if I could play a little poker, and rather than let down my friends I rush ed right out. When I finally returned. the stove was better done than the hot dog. Well, they say women are un derstanding. Heaven help me if they're not. Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc. by legislators, but the latter must write a letter of recommenda tion! Holding up appropriation bills until the last denies sufficient time to members to pass intelli gently on them. The Joint ways and means committee functions almost autonomously, he said, making it virtually a third house of the legislature. Considerable to the fault Is at tributable to the lack of a strong minority party, In Neuberger's opinion. There is no party re sponsibility. Presiding officers are chosen through bipartisan al liances, with promises of special favors as inducements for votes. Constitutional reform is needed in Oregon in Neuberger's opin ion, ine Doara ox control sys tem is "ridiculous". The gover nor should have the full execu tive power. Here, he said, we have on the board of control one governor and two would-be gov ernors, and the two are trying to pull the rug out from under the governor. He cited the new con stitution of New Jersey as one of the best in the country. rieuberger poked ridicule at the present party lineup with Morse heading the reDublican ticket, though his voting record is almost identical with that of Lu cas of Illinois, senate majority leader, while Howard Latourette heads the democratic ticket, though he "is so far to the right or. .Doug McKay they cant com municate with smoke glials' But not everything in Oregon pouues is wrong, said Neuber ger. There Is less corruption here than in most states that he was familiar with. The state nava good benefits to its various social programs. The state's tax sys tem is good (In spite of the leg islature). The major defect, in his opinion is a lack of boldness and imagination. Forty years ago Oregon pioneered In political re- lorms; wit has coasted since. It ought to show more adventure now. luauj oi uiese criuasms are valid. Legislative practices are a Daa feature of our state eovern ment; and the division of authnr. ity and responsibility among the memoers oi tne board of con trol cripples positive adminktra tion. But this has been the way a good many Oregonlans wanted it they didn't want too aggres sive a state government. Maybe the younger generation with more boldness and imagination will prove more venturesome. Air Pollution Bill Being Considered The 1951 legislature will re ceive a bill designed to regulate air polution in Oregon, Gov. Douglas McKay declared Friday in a statement designating the week of October 22 to 28, inclus ive, as smoke abatement week. Governor McKay said- his sub committee on air pollution is pre paring such legislation to submit to the committee on natural re sources. It was indicated that the bill will call for enlargement of the duties of the present state sanitary authority to include air- pollution control. NewrBank Manager House Hantinsr Here ; A. A. Atherton, recently ap pointed manager of the Salem Branch, First National Bank of Portland, arrived in Salem Fri day. : . . He and Mrs. Atherton, former residents of Ontario, are house hunting. They are living now at the Senator hoteL ; ' Marionette Show Slates Billing Here A marionette show, "Paul Buri yan and the Adventure of the Wooden Hotcaxes," will be pre sented Wednesday and Thursday evening at Parrish junior high school under sponsorship of the Salem public schools. Proceeds will be used to pur chase special art equipment for Salem eschools. ' t The show, presented by Robert and Edith Williams Of The Puppet House in Puyallup, Wash, will depict' the adventures of Paul Bun ran, the slant logging hero of American folk lore. The Williams have given mari onette shows for 22 years. They studied the art in both America and Europe and design and make all their puppets. ' Landscaping Meeting Bids Salem Group Edith Schryver, Salem, will re port on landscape architecture in a changing world at a meeting of the Oregon Society of Landscape Architects in Portland today. Other Salem members of the society include Mark H. Astrup, Glenn W. Wharton, Harold Spoon er, Elizabeth Lord, and Mrs. Eun ice C Brandt. Green -Grosses To Emphasize Drive Safety A "blitzkrieg" of Salem streets. tentatively set for the first week of November, was outlined this week by the dry traffic safety council executive board. It was agreed that the drive would be part of a continuing campaign for safety. . The board, headed by Dave Ross, met with the city traffic safety commission, comprising the city manager, engineer and police chief. - .. v Scores of .green crosses w&l emphasize safety at pedestrian crosswalks, signs will be stenciled on store windows, auto wrecks displayed as examples of what might happen, and safety leaflets distributed to homes and on park ed autos. Hose said the program would try to remind every resident of his responsibility for safety, reach ing him in numerous ways so the warning could not be neglect ed easily. i City Manager J. L. Iranzen as sured that the city would see that traffic violators would find that the program goes beyond "sug gestion' through police action. Funds for the committee's work are provided principally from Sa lem Life Underwriters association and the Salem Auto Dealers as sociation, j May r ... DISTRICT COURT LeRoy Smith, Canby, pleaded guilty to charge of obtaining money by false pretense, held to answer to grand Jury, held on $1,000 baiL Andrew Jackson Bhoades. Bend, changed plea from innocent to guilty to charge of carrying a con cealed weapon," continued to Nov ember 17 for sentencing, posted $250 bail. MUNICIPAL COURT Roy E. Current. 2715 Fisher rd charged with driving on wrong side of street, cited. Albert S. Schonberg, Fresno, Calif charged with running red light, posted $10 bail. A. Truman Cummings, 320 Cum- mings In, charged with following too close, cited. Amy Johnson. 1475 N. Commer cial st, charged with assault and battery, pleaded innocent, trial set for November 9, posted $50 baiL Edward Tibbetts, 488 N. Liberty st charged with assault and bat tery, fined $50. Louis Campbell, 705 N. Liberty st, charged with driving while in toxicated, trial held, found guilty. continued for sentencing. PROBATE COURT Charles W. Porter estate: Order closes estate. Magdalen Lelek estate: Apprais ed at $3,500. Putney E. Perkins estate: Hear ing on final account set for Nov ember 20. Morris Seim guardianship: Or der approves guardian's account and allows fees for guardian and attorney. Emma H. Bucklin estate: Order closes estate. Edward Nowak estate: Order closes estate. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Jerome E. Saddler, 20, clerk. 715 N. Capitol st, and Eleanor R. Standinger, IB, secretary, 630 N. 20th st. both of Salem. ; - Charles Stadeli, 19, well driller. route 3. box 177 A. and Verna Kaufman, 20, route 3, box 147, both of Silverton. ' L. V. DeClue, 21, construction laborer, and Patsy Davis, 15, both of Mehama. . John Miller. 54. carpenter. 3280 Mission st, and Gertrude Cox, 55, cannery worker, 564- N. Church st, both of Salem. . " Richard A. Haselton. 24. sales man, and Shirley Y. Schantz, 24, stenographer, 1990 Park ave both of Salem. Harvey Gierloff, 25. pipefitter. 180 S. 12th st, and Leola M. Dan iels, 23, teacher, 375 S. 23rd st, both of Salem. , CIRCUIT COURT Ronald E. and Madge B. Jones vs Flossie Harris: Complaint seeks declaration of forfeiture of con tract for defendant's purchase of property. June Waller vs Howard Edward Waller: Complaint for divorce al leging cruel and inhuman treat- ment seeks restoration of plain tiffs maiden name of June Myrtle Kelder. Married April 2 U 1950, at Salem. Lois Peterson vs Wellington J. Peterson: Complaint for , divorce alleging cruel and inhuman treat ment seeks custody of minor child; $50 monthly support money and $75 monthly alimony. Married Jan. 23, 1929, at Denver, Colo. Harold Oar vs Mike Steinbock: Order overrules defendant's de murrer to amended complaint Oregon Electric Railway com pany vs Kilian W. smith: Order denies plaintiffs motion to strike portions from defendant's counter claim. Marguerite A. Warren vs Ed ward E. Warren: Divorce decree to plaintiff approves property settlement agreement. Loreta Fay McClearen vs Loyd Gene McClearen: Order enters de fault of defendant v Grace N. Marston vs Joseph L and Elsie G. Myers:' Order over- rules defendants demurrer to comnlaint ' - Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New xors: and . J. Bumside vs City of Salem and others: Complaint seeks declara tory Judgment that life insurance companies and agents are not re quired to secure city license, that their activities do not constitute selling of goods, that city without power to enact or enforce ordi nance to license agents already state-licensed.. Alcohol Deals Curtail Liquor Output WASHINGTON Oct 20 -WV- The government clans to star! buying alcohol from whiskey dis- tillers early in December to feed the reactivated synthetic rubber plants, officials disclosed here. The extent if any, to which tha reconstruction finance corpora tion's purchases will cut into bev erage spirits output could not b ascertained from sources immed iately available. Representatives of 14 major dis- ' tillers conferred with RFC rubbei officials today, a spokesman foa the government corporation said. Estimated alcohol ' requirements to bring the, synthetic industry up to capacity output were presented, ' but the whiskey companies wen given no specific gallonage to ear mark for defense. The RFC official said the agency hopes for a purely voluntary ar rangement within the industry for the sharing of the load, and indi- v cated that RFCs office of rubber reserve was pleased with the as- ' surances given by the industry men. -t .'t aX??! -- ". RFC is retoring laid-up plants to production to boost the govern- ' " ment's synthetic output to full rated capacity , of 755,000 tons a ' year. : .-'.... . The Red River of the north runs from the Minnesota-North Dakota border to Lake Winnipeg in Can ada. - Better English J. What is wronr with M sentence? He came home around ten o'clock minus his money." 2. What is the correct pronun- 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Ruminant, ruda mem, ruggeoness, rubescent 4. wnat does the word "in trepia" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with fa that means to hold speiDound; to allure"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "He came home abeat ten o'clock without his money." z. , Pronounce o-she-anJk, not o-si-an-ix, nor o-shan-ik. 3. Ku tumeni. . j earless; ooid; un daunted. 'He was an intrepid Mldier 5. Fascinate. Your Savings Are Safe . iP o jlAUM fgDEKAL SAVINGS ' lOAr7 State Street . Sales. Oregm Teleh S-413S Hitch-Hiking Kitty Finds New Home PORTLAND, Ore, Oct 20-V A small cat had found a home here today after hitching a 185 mile ride on the front spring of a Greyhound bus to do it The terrified cat covered with grease and mud, was discovered by garage mechanics after the bus had finished its run from Yakima, Wash- perched on the four-inch H wide spring. Mrs. Cleta Jacoby, office clerk, washed and fed the cat and said she would take it home. 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