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4Tha Cltrlacagau Solata, Oregon. Friday. February IS. 1351 A i ! . "Hfo Favor Sieai C7, No Fear Shall AweT t- - From First Statesman. March 2S, 1S51 I THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A, SPRAGUE, Editor Ind Publisher f ' Published ina morning. Business office 21S 8. Commercial. Salem. Ores on. Telephone 2-2141. Entered at the peeteffles. aft Salem, Orel on. as second class matter under act of congress March S,'lS7a How Oregonians Spend Their Money The department of commerce has published its census of distribution covering volume of retail sales for the year 1948. The Oregon Voter gives the summary for Oregon which shows a total volume of slightly over a billion and one half in dollar value. Portland gets the lion's share with just jover one-third of the total. Oregon folk spend more of their money for food than for any other item, $361,789,000; and restaurants and lunch counters took $78,500,000 more. Next to eating Oregonians seem to prefer motoring. They spent $257,626,000 for motor vehicles, then $90,341,000 at service stations and an additional $25,295,000 for auto supplies. De partment stores sales, were $155,250,000. The breakdown for counties and principal cities is reported as follows: Counties Cities (In thousands of dollars) Baker Benton Clackamas Clatsop Columbia . Coos Crook . Curry Deschutes . Douglas Gilliam Grant,- Harney Hood River Jackson Jefferson Josephine - Klamath Lake Lane Lincoln Linn Malheur Marion STXKfl lun .$ 16,372 25,308 50,522 33,909 16,431 45,413 6,629 4,666 30,654 46,120 3,551 6,821 7,200 12,263 60,948 55,331 8,455 124,655 18,652 50,013 23,459 99,566 4,502 Baker Corvallis Oregon City Astoria St. Helens Coos Bay Prineville Bend Roseburg Burns Hood River Medford Grants Pass Klamath Falls Lakeview Eugene Albany Ontario Salem 14,293 21,775 18,502 23,067 7,173 20,611 5,771 17,247 23,363 6,744 9,264 40,400 20,252 44,850 7,450 79,104 24,544 12,501 73,181 Multnomah 623,157 Polk Sherman Tillamook ... Umatilla Union Wallowa Vico 1 Washington Wheeler Ya-thill 14,739 2,098 16,794 40,215 18,061 6,426 .21,056 40,375 1,660 30,201 Portland - 574,822 Dallas 5,875 Tillamook ...... 11,251 Pendleton 22,325 La Grande 13,955 The Dalles ... Hillsboro 18,186 14,530 No Public Schools in Georgia? So determined are some of the Georgians headed by Gov. Talmadge to maintain segrega tion in schools that legislation is being consid ered for abolishing the public schools if a fed eral court should order the admission of negro students, j Instead money would be given to in dividuals who attended schools. One could hard ly think ht a more reactionary measure, virt ually destroying the school system which is the hope of the future. Surely there are enough level heads in the legislature in Georgia to avert such a calamity. ' So far we have heard of no court prdering white elementary or high schools to admit I negroes. The courts have; ruled that equal educational facilities should be provided, and ordered admission of colored students in state universities where it was shown that equal facilities were not being offered them. Georgia can make its adjustments just as other southern states- are doing. McMinnville 13,878 California Court Ruled Race Marriage Ban Invalid A senate committee considering a bill to re peal the statute forbidding intermarriage be tween races turned it down four to three. Its report has not yet come to the senate. Pertinent to the matter is the fact that the supreme court of California on Oct. 1, 1948 handed down a decision declaring the misceg nation sections of the California civil code un constitutional The Associated Press has ' fur nished The Statesman with the following' de tails of the case. Sylvester S. Davis, jr., Los Angeles negro, and Andrea Perez, white, brought the case to the supreme court with a petition for a writ of mandate - to compel the Los Angeles county clerk to issue a marriage license. He had re fused the license, in accordance with the state siaiui.es. j. fie supreme court granted ine writ and the couple , wed. The main opinion was written by Justices Roger J. Traynor. It said the contested sections were "not only too vague and uncertain to be enforceable regulations of a fundamental right, but (they) violate the equal protection of the taws (section) of the United States constitution by impairing the rights of individuals to marry, on the basis of race alone and by arbitrarily Salem isn't the only city, in the state with highway problems. Eugene and Springfield suf fered for lyears with a heavily overloaded, nar row highway. Now a fine four-lane artery con nects the two. Just beyond, however, is the an tiquated road to Goshen with one underpass and one overpass of the railroad track. The highway commission is now able to finance building of a new fouiflane route from Judkins point, just south of Eugene to Goshen where the Willam ette highway takes off from 99. This is a, much needed improvement which will be appreciated by alj who use highway 99 through that part of the state. Change in Attitude Toward Coalition Cabinet Termed Most Encouraging Recent Development By Joseph and Stewart AIsop WASHINGTON Feb. 15 One of the more encouraging devel opments in a discouraging period is a marked change in Pres ident Truman's approach to the problem, of his cabinet. Two months ago, even a month go, the presi dent responded with hostility nd ridicule all suggestions that a coalition idminli- tration. includ- ,?S5RA - ing leading republicans, would help to secure national unity for the' perilous times ahead. Within the past fortnight, in contrast, the president has discussed . the coalition idea calmly and sympathetically with a number of the men who are closest to him. Nothing definite has been decided. J"1 I very foolish to predict that eminent republicans will be brought into the cabinet in the near future. But this has at least become a distinct pos sibility which in Itself is a considerable accomplishment for the numerous leading democrats and white house advisors who have been urging coalition upon the president ever since the No vember election. . ' " ' . . w The - president has . not ' been shaken, on the other hand, in his determination- not to touch the state department. Some of those best qualified to judge are now Inclined to think that the presi dent would accept the resigna tion of Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson If it were spontan eously offered which is also - 1 I change from the former presi dential attitude. i r But the president none the less continues to repeat that Sec retary Acheson is the very best man for his job; that any suc cessor would run into the same trouble with congress? and that the attacks upon Acheson are. really attacks upon him, Truman. Truman in fact seems to .have acquired a rooted conviction that all criticism, however just, of any member of the white house circle, however high or low, is merely motivated by a desire to "get the president." Hence any one who is publicly criticized, from the secretary of : state to the shabbiest little peddler of white house influence at the RFC, 'can be pretty sure of an angry defense from Truman. A cynic has remarked that the? best way to keep a job, nowadays, is to get in a mess, or to do wrong, and then get the facjt in the papers. fJ g ' i I ' -In these circumstances, obvi ously, it is foolishly optimistic to look for-the kind of immensely fruitful and effective '.coalition administration ? that h would be made possible If Secretary Acheson bowed out. Although he might conceivably accept bis res ignation, the president will not ask Acheson to resign. ; The sec retary shows no wish to do so. And thus he must be regarded, for a while longer at least, as a fixed star in the official firma ment. 1 Hence if leading republicans are to be introduced into the ad- . ministration, other places, at the treasury and ' commerce depart- -ments, for ' example, must be found for. them. This Is precise-, ly what is under consideration, - -- Secretary of the Treasury John ' Snyder is another subordinate : whose resignation the President will never ask for. But Snyder is not welL He has at least two offers of major business posi tions. He is again talking of get ting out, as be has dene before. If he -really leaves and the "If '- Vdluo of Sdlid : Economy tpHv Military Noted ; ' i " - r":"' ' I By J. M. Roberts Jr. AP Foreign Affairs Analyst General Marshall's revelation that the United States has im mediate plans for sending only Stutest)mn ( "TD fates 20 0 " and unreasonably discriminating against cer tain racial groups i L Justice Jesse W. Carter, concurring, said "The statutes here involved violate the very premise on which this country and its constitu tion were built; the very ideas embodied In the Declaration of Independence; the very issue over which the Revolutionary war, the Civil war and the second World war were fought." -1 Justice Traynor commented further, answer ing one of the arguments: There is NO scien tific proof that one race is superior to another in native ability. - !''-. This was a Cdifornia case, to be sure, but it sets a precedent which courts of other states may well follow. It is a safe venture that tha Oregon court would, after! its decision in an alien land case, opinion by Justice Rossman, in validating 'restrictive statutes on holding of land? by jj certain classes of aliens. In view of the court decision in California where public opinion has been more inclined to "race) prejudice (chiefly against orientals), than in Oregon, the legislature in this state might as well wipe off the statutes banning intermar riage of races. A long time; ago St, Paul said: "God hath made of one blood all peoples of the earth." Why not accept the fact? L xour. army . divisions to Europe, serves to point up a growing awareness h Washington that there 'a r e t w o. kinds of war' n o w a days, economic and military. At the J age of 50 Lloyd C. Douglas found a gold mine in a well, the well of religious senti mentality! He wrote "The Magnificent Obses sion" which went through 51 printings in littfe more than a year. He continued with other no vels in similar vein which were best sellers, the most notible being "The Robe" and "The Fish erman." f Douglas' method was to fictionalize biblical characters and serve a watered-down sermon in the process. Thus he reached that great host of Americans who have ; a nostalgia for religion but do not want too much of it. Now, at the age of 73, Douglas is dead, his fame resting on his novels. is a very big one his departure would probably be the signal for the president to bring republic ans in. Elliott Bell, the brilliant advisor of Thomas E. Dewey, whom the New York Governor would certainly have made his secretary of the treasury If he had won in 1948, is one of those being conditionally discussed for Snyder's place. "Progress, but not enough pro gress,' is the shortest way to des cribe this evolution in the Pres ident's political thinking. If all the ifs come true, and the Tru man administration ! is actually strengthened by the addition of one or two republicans of Bell's stature, the position in Washing ton will at least be greatly im proved. But it will still be high ly doubtful whether the Amer ican government will possess the essential power to act, and to act quickly, boldly and decisive ly, in response to the immense challenges which are surely ahead of us. : The white house and state de partment have managed to con vince themselves that the com parative calm on Capitol hill means that the; congressional -storm against Secretary Acheson has blown itself out. Unfortun ately, there are far more reasons to suspect that this calm Is mere ly the lull at the heart of the hurricane, v n s The most significant politica' development since the election is Sen. Robert A. Tart's decision to use Sen, . Joseph r R. McCarthy both as a chief lieutenant In con gress and as the leading propa gandist of the Taft presidential campaign.' The purpose, obvious ly, is to let McCarthy outdo. In this session, everything he did in the last session. And as long as the president refuses to take the truly decisive steps which will rally all moderate men to his standard, there is little protec tion against the Tan-McCarthy strategy. ' ( ; . fCooyrfcht. 1951 ; New York Herald Tribune. Znc) - Better English 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "This is much more difficult than what I expected." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "affluence'? 3. Which one of these words Is misspelled? Despondency, des cendents, determent, detrimental.' 4. What does the word "abra sion" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with ee that 'means "to praise"? ANSWERS 1. Omit what. 2. Accent first syllable, not the second. 3. Des cendants. 4. The act of wearing. GRIN AND BEAR IT !WW!t59lM t PORTLAND, Teb- 15-WVCitr ' Commissioner J. E. Bennett today Ldemanded that Gov. Douglas' Mc - Kay "are the entire liquor com- . mission'frora the administrator ea The whole United States pro- gram and the British see it that way, too is to develop military strength without sacri ficing economic position, mindful-that the first Ideological re liance of the; Russians Is on ulti mate western economic collapse. Eric Johnston has just said that he considers stability as the main part of his assignment. ' Britain's defense minister has disavowed any intention of "play ing the enemy's game by adopt ing panic measures . . . which would do grave injury to our economy. Now Marshall comes forward with figures which seem well within UJS. capabilities, and well below the fears of most of those who argued that America was being jockeyed into the position of doing the whole European de fense job. Of course, Marshall's figures do not cover everything: U..S. air forces in Britain and elsewhere abroad are growing and are due for a big jump. Two thousand anti-aircraft men have just gone. Nobody knows what the next month or next year will bring. In making their plans General Marshall, and General Eisen hower do not include the possi bility of a Cominform attack on Yugoslavia. Nor does the European pro gram have anything to do with what the VS. will do at home. The idea that only four more American divisions are needed In Europe now means no slack ening in the US. mobilization effort. Force will be building up here for deployment wherever it Is needed around a whole world threatened by Russian expan sionism. Indications in Washington are that there will be no frenzy about this buildup, although it is recognized that nothing of this size can be accomplished without many domestic disloca tions, some inescapable and some through mistakes. In recent days there has been a tendency to show less fear of what Russia would be able to do if she jumps before the western rearmament program can be completed, as nas been men tioned in this column frequently, the west has an overwhelming military potential, and Russia is believed to have been overrated. , Newly-released figures, showing North Atlantic mobilization to be not so far behind that of the Russian sphere, tend to confirm this idea. These figures tend to reassure European countries that they will have the time to build up their defense with less danger of provoking attack. And that the U.S. will be able to get currently-needed war production while merely laying the 'assembly-line groundwork- for what would be required for actual war. : : - Mere thaa 201 businessmen and business wemea were gaeata ef The Oregaa Statesman at the Senator betel Thursday at this newspaper's Centemaial luneheen. rrtndpal speaker was Arthmr H. (Ked) Mat- ley, president ef Parade Publications ef New Terk, who vrged renewed efforts to streagtbea the Sa naa's economy, (rhoto and story ea page !. , 2 Daw i I h Writes W. A. Elkins of Salem: "I was greatly amused by the aptly-put words of the Rev. Mr. Hamblin (regarding legisla ture's opening-day invocation). However they are very mod erate compared with the prayer 'made for the Oregon legislature by a pioneer preacher1 Joab Powell. His prayer was brief and to the point "Father forgive them for they know not what they do!" -o o o A voluminous report of the 1949 interim highway committee too tagged "Big Jum bo," by Sen. Richard Neuberger. He must have been right because the other day the secretary of the legislature's highway com" mittee meeting tea seen using I the thick? report as a seat to boost her up higher to the table. Prob ably the only time such a report has been regarded as an end unto itself. While lots of citizens have been sobbing for "mature movies," Willamette university students have opened a public series of cultural foreign movies at two-bits a throw. The first was the Well Digger's Daughter" a plenty mature French movie. Sec ond (Feb. 23) will be "Mario Visconti," an Italian plot with English sub-titles concerning cloak and dagger stuff in the 14th century. The films are sponsored by the school's UNESCO or ganization.. . Odd signs ... A station wagon dashing around town the other day was labeled "GOTNORANCHO" . . . Sign on a place on South Liberty road reads "BELL-E-ACRES ... Salem Kiwanis club members still cant believe they chalk ed up a Januarymattendance record of 95.07' per cent . . . " Shoppers get a shock when they read food price signs on the window of the old Paramount mafket the market has been closed for more than a month. Comes a letter from two navy men stationed on Guam who want someone to write to them. The men say there isn't much in the way of recreation at Guam and neither gets much mail from home. They want Salem pen pals. Their names are Jes C Johnson, jr., Sn, 103rd, N.C.B. Hdqts. Co. Pit. 3, Navy 928, co F:P.O. San Francisco, Calif., andChris Ranch a u, Sv whose ad dress is the same except his pit. is 1. AFL Lumber Workers Okeh Strike on Pay PORTLAND, Feb. 15-fP-RP-resentatives of 65,000 ATX lum ber and sawmill workers said to day they had been authorized to call a strike In four northwestern states If their demands for wage increases are not met. Kenneth Davis, secretary of the LNorthwestern Council of AFL Lumber, and .Sawmill Workers, said union leaders had given the council "full authority to act iq the present industry-wide wage issue. ; More than 100 delegates repre senting executive committee of the 12 district councils were unani mous in their action to obtain im mediate general wage increases, he said. ; "Strike votes are being consid ered and conducted in Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Washington,' he said, "with, reports indicating workers In excess of 95 per cent are approving the1 strike if neces sary to obtain a general wage in crease.' - : Meanwhile, he added, negotia tions are being continued with employers in several districts with "little progress reported. ! Davis said that' employers In no instance have claimed inability to pay. i Further discussions of wage do- mands will be held tomorrow. . Davis said no specific figure on proposed wage increases had been advanced so far. Demands will be based on the higher cost of living and the employers ability to pay, he said. ' : Earlier Davis said that a general increase of 20 per cent 40 cents an hour has been discussed, but that some eastern Oregon unions had asked only 30 cents. ROT CEDES (Continued from page, one.) appeared to be "coming down with a cold on the second or third day after innoculation, by the next day their cold symptoms were gone. ; From this fact this observation is drawn: "Possibly most colds abort na- or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction. "Time has caused an abrasion of the coins.' 3. Com mend. by Lichty 4 HI? j ifiN V JxtfS ijX' J!) $ rurally. If this is true, it is easy to see why remedies purporting to cure the common cold so often gain a wholly unmerited reputa tion. ; Other negative facts have been found from this research: the cold virus isnt affected by peni cillin or streptomycin, nor Is it adsorbed by the red blood cells as is true of Influenza virus. An other old belief was .shattered by these experiments: you dont catch cold by sitting In a draft or getting damp feet. 'Persons were given a hot bath then made to stand in a drafty passage in wet bathing suits for half an hour, then made to wear wet socks the rest of the morning. Others were given other tests. The results? "In; two of the three tests chilling plus innocu lation with tha virus actually produced fewer colds than in noculation alone; in the other the chilled people who also got virus did have more colds than the virus only group."! A few years ago people were ' running to doctors to take anti cold shots. But 'careful tests in . this country showed they re ceived no immunity therefrom. Later antihistamine drugs were popular because they are used with a measure of. success in cases of allergy, like hay-fever. But, to quote: i 1 "Really adequate trials both In America, and Britain, have now failed to show that antihista mines give any appreciable bene- . fit at JUL" f f What to do. what to do? Well stick with what you regard . as your favorite remedies, hot - lemonade, hot toddy, shots, anti histamines, pills, goosegrease and flannel rag whatever you . think gives you relief or promise of relief. With such treatment aud good luck your cold .will be cured to about a week, j . -Is pie ef velly rood, sew langaage book we are acadiaa to . as svbstnarttag Pldgia atasalaa far TUztm . . r i . , Oregon Press Meet, Slates Start Today j . - EUGENE, Feb. 15-C)-The 22nd 'Annual Oregon Press-conference opens here tomorrow with 17S newsmen from throughout Oregon expected. f . . -. The conference Is sponsored Jointly by the University of Ore--Toa school of journalism and the Oregon Newspaper Publishers aa relation. ' -f . '.' Tom H. Keene, editor of the Elk iart (Ind.) Daily Truth will give hm Eric W. Allen memorial lec ture, v . -- ' The eggs of sharks and ran have long filamentous processes attached to them, allowing them to cling to seaweed so that they may not be beaten against thn shore and broken. To Fire Oquor Commission! downJ Bennett charred that Portland has so. many taverns and other "drinking spots. that It isnt safe to be on the streets any more.' The commission, Bennett declared, la in partnership with h' these Places.- ( s f Spurred by "Bennett's ; accusa tions, the city council approved his proposal to nam a three-member committee to determine whether or not Portland has reached the "saturation point In licensing taverns and dubs- I Members of the committee are Bennett, Mayor Dorothy j McCul lough Lee and Commissioner Or mood R. Bean. i ! '" The council action provided au thority for a far-reaching! investi gation of the number of ; licenses granted in the city and the number of applicants for licenses, j ; I .Mayor Lee, a year ago, proposed that liquor commission officials meet with dry license officials to detennlne a tavern and restaurant licensing policy. r j I She said today that liquor com mission authorities bad failed in. their job of determining the city's saturation point for liquor llcen- Ing.- - - j t "Ifs their Job," but apparently the commission had such a loose policy that we will have to do it ourselves. she said. . j ? Mayor Lee said in a statement later that the investigation would be conducted by special field rep resentatives probably working out of the license bureau. f S The city now limits the number, Of card rooms in the city as a, matter of policy, and Mayor Leo! said the same attitude would even-! tually be adopted in tho case of liquor and beer licenses. 1 ! The liquor commission promised ! a year ago that only a lewnort" club and tavern licenses would bo issued, she said, but since then! a veritable avalanche of applies-'; tions have confronted the city j council." . - '. - -3 . f Bennett charged that the liquor ; commission was wiaMny no effort! to enforce the laws and that its, operations today "are a disgrace to the .name." Ho declared that the commission was set up to pro mote temperance "but his done just the opposite. - f Accident Claims au luuuBiry up Over Year Ago . -. - - I Claims involvlna industrial ddents filed in January. 1931, ag gregatea 3,uxz as compared wiUa 3L2S3 in January. 1950. the stats Industrial accident commission ported here Thursday. i January. 1951, as against six in January, 1950. .Occupational dis ease claims also increased from C3 In January, 1950, to SO in Jan uary. 1951. - f I -The increase in claims filed was attributed largely to the unusually open winter. 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