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"Wo From first Statesman. March 2S. 115 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY j ' CHARLES' A. S PRAGUE, Editor and, Publisher tbushed every mrsing. Easiness ofrica Z15 & Cammerclal. Salem. Oregon. Telephone -244 L. Catered at tte postoffiea at Sales, Oresan. aa seeead claaa matter under act of congress March X. 1S7 Third Judges Not Necessary Our esteemed contemporary, the Capital Jour- na, urges that a third judgeship be established j for the circuit court of Marion county, to handle ; domestic relations (divorce and juvenile cases). It argues that judges are so heavily worked now f that they can-five little time to juvenile matters, i The result is that juveniles have to be herded! together' or their cases considered at intervals f between other cases. Such inquiry as The Statesman has made does not confirm the notion that a third judgeship? should be created now. The load of juvenile cases has increased, as has the number of di- j vorce cases. But the number of equity cases is less than it was 15. years ago. Our two judges; are busy," but they are keeping their dockets up . pretty well. f As far as juveniles are concerned the load' has not become particularly burdensome on the court. Here are the numbers of juvenile cases i- -. j. a ifljin iotn lain Ti 1941, 65; 1942, 64; 1943, 93; 1944, 100; 1945, 150; i 1946, 93; 1947,s 105; 1948, 109; 1949, KT!; 1950, 105.' In 1940 there was .only one resident circuit judge; now there are two. In 1940 there. was one county juvenile, officer; recently there have been three with a secretary in addition. It looks . as though the county had made pretty good pro vision for handling juvenile matters. The fact that the load on- the court has been nearly sta tionary the past seven years shows no pressing need for another judge. If the load of other work gets too heavy a judge; pro tempore could be appointed to handle a certain amount of work, sitting at times when a courtroom is available, as on Saturday morn- i ings. This would relieve the excess load on the -present judges without creating an additional judgeship. Our county is growing and the new court house makes, provision for four circuit court rooms; but we can get along with two for the present. ' ' ;: :'; ' . Utility Free to Compete : Judge George R. Duncan of the Marion coun ty circuit court has upheld the ruling of George H. Flagg, public utilities commissioner, which permitted Mountain States Power Co. to lower its rates at Springfield in order to compete with a municipal plant set up there. The city brought the suit, seeking to have the former rates re stored or the reduction made universal over the system. Jcrige Duncan held that the city had no legal right to be free of competition. ? 7 While the case may be appealed to the-supreme court the decision is so sensible iJiat it seems it would be sustained by the high 'court. The city of Springfield decided to go into the business of distributing electric energy. It was not willing to pay the price asked by ML States for its distributing system and proceeded to erect its own lines rather than condemn the pri vate system. When it made the choice taf com pete it -certainly invited the private company to meet that competition. Otherwise.' being tax free the municipal lines might with lower rates draw away all the customers and leave the Mt. States only with salvage values of its lines and equipment. ; - ' ' rvi It should be noted -that the PUC order ; pre vents ML States from assessing. any losses at Springfield on other areas served. Its ' rates mmmssm Feud Between Greelc Kin and Head of Army Bodes No Good for Unifying of West Defense By J. H. Roberts, Jr. AP rorelcn Affairs Analyst ' WASHINGTON, March 20-(JP) So many orators and writers . are busy these days depicting the broad - forces running through the world's affairs that one Is fre - quently inclined to forget the Impact of rela tlvelv small personal con- nicts. People in the United States know little and L care less about politics In Greece.. To them It Is a more or less iependent coun try, run by big power advice which used to be British but which now is, vaguely felt to be an American responsibility. : But in recent days the United States has been looking into the possibility of a more direct con nection between Greece and Turkey, with their Truman doc- 1 trine military aid. and the North Atlantic defense arrangements. And a Greek political feud has ; been muddying the waters. King Paul of Greece is a not- toe-forceful man, enthroned af ter the war by British influence and surrounded, as are most such rulers, by a constantly-finagling palace clique. . . ;. i Alexander Papagos, chief of the Greek armed forces, is stiff-necked and righteous man, ' trying to stay out of politics. The two, according to reports reaching Washington, are feud-' Ing. -. .;--. . At the time of the last ekc Hons in Greece the palace clique was pushing Papagos as head of "strong man" government. , Queen Frederika was quoted as saying; the generalissimo was the only man who could straighten things out. But Papagos preferred to stick to his last and provide Greece with a dependable army. He- feared, his friends said. that, the palace merely wanted to ex-' Pwt ius name. And he djdnt want to be te "front man", for ;4 -o. 4 Faror Steav 17. No Feat Shall ; by appointment of Hon. W. C. Hawley, I was issued an artlcje of uniform called a "reefer." . lit we made the serious error of calling a "reef- : er" a "pea jacket" we "hit the pap,", that is to , say we heard our names read from a "papier" that was published each morning and listed the offenses and demerits awarded i there for the preceding day. :The idea of naming a Navy gar ment for a lubberly pilot who never got beyond smelling distance of the beach! As long as It - ... has a wrong namet" I agree with "Buck," take your choice; but as for its beginning as a pilot's coaL can anyone picture a man laying out on a yard to reef with coat tails flapping about him? Vide fHerman Melville's "White JackeL" Thisf thing is! getting far beyond our quite unnautical authority. Maybe we should follow the Oregonian's recent lead and call for a grand Jury investigation. any infraction of processes. democratic I I 8: When the palace clique (not a necessarily the king. ;himself ) found they couldn't handle him, they turned on him, and Worked on the king against him. ' And you are undoubtedly say- I ing. "So what?" ; I ' Well, last December the king I overruled one of Papagos' courts martial and commuted a sen-1 tence. There was quite a to do I about who influenced the king f and why. ' And Papagos threat-1 ened to resign when the king overruled his protests about In-1 terference f r o m the palace J diquev 'f--- j- ; j . . f Papagos and the army are so much one and the same that mill-1 tary' security: immediately -be-l came an issue: American observ- I - By W. G. Rogers DOME IS AN ISLAND, by Alfred Lewis (Random House; $3) T in this simple tale set on an exotic Island in the Azores. Jose de Castro's mother wants him to become a priest, and his father, who has lived in the States and sailed to more distant lands, would like to see more v mundane am bitions develop in his young son. It isn't a struggle between two fond parents, it's just difference of opinion. It is a small; idea on which to hand the. story of a boy's growth. Yet from the day when the midwife. Aunt Maria, slaps his. bottom and draws from him his first: loud cry, ' loud enough, she says, to prove he has the lung power to become priest, until the time when he watches for the ship which will come from Lisbon an d go on to America, it is a sincere and touching account. 5 : Jose doesn't ' remember those first minutes when he was slap ped into breathing. nor the day tus xatner and the neighbors went out to cut a .cedar from which wwn 1 wwiiww 11 1 1. hhiiii mil in ii 11 wiwi. mil wn iiiin wwi i.iw m mm niun wwwmn im iiiwi minium n Literary Giiidepost J e$mati A toe" i elsewhere would continue to be governed by the rule of a fair return on the investment required for serving the areas. But it is free to compete at Springfield wjth the municipal plant. " !'.-" I . Admiral Says We're All (Wrong I . We thought we had our little discussion over a "P" jacket or pea jacket nicely tucked in bed when CapL Wallace Wharton assured us that either vay wasf; correct. Then came a'corres-, pondent who pulled Webster's dictionary on us to give a Dutch; origin to the term. And now comes Admiral -Tom Gatch to tell us we're all wrongj The familiar seaman's heavy coat isn't either P jacket or pea jackeL It's a reefer. The admiral writes iis from Portland where he is retired and engaged in the practice of law to say: I hesitate to rush in where angels should fear. I opine that in the matter of the "P jacket or i pea" jackeL you and The Astorian Budget and Buck" Wharton, are all wrong. About a hund red years ago, ; when I became a midshipman, When Kenneth Carl was named assistant milk administrator the hope was entertained by the state board of .agriculture that he might succeed Tom Ohlsen whn the latter reached retirement, but Carl, after? a seven months' trial, is re signing to resume his post as "assistant chief in the foods and dairies division of the state de partment of agriculture, from which he had been given leave of absence, j Carl evidently didn't relish thef prospect of taking the hot seaL CARE, the organization which has adminis tered private charity for folk overseas, has shipped its ten millionth package. The total amounts to $100,000,000 worth of food, clothing, fabrics and small tools. This is proof of Amer ican generosity:! and reports from abroad tell how much good! these CARE parcels have done. It still Is functioning, with attention now direct ed to Korean relief. Here's that thing again daylight saving. Vbtersj thought they had buried it whenthey voted approval of a referred bill last November. But now the agitation starts for the governor to proclaim DST, nd besides the historic contro versy Sover its desirability we'll have heavy argument over what the new law means. At torneyf General Neuner leads off with his opin ion. Curbstone bpinions will follow. Barbers are proposing an initiative to ban barbering on Monday. Do we face "blue Mon day" laws after the "blue Sunday" laws have been pretty well discarded? j ers feared that: without Papagos the army would come apart, at least for a time. With mobiliza tion moving apace in Russia's satellite states j beyond Greece's borders, with efforts under way for a new Greek-Yugoslav co operation in the face of crisis,, and a Greek-Turkish Mediter ranean defense pact brewing; America acted.! - Ambassador John Puerifoy moved in, and persuaded Papa gos to stay on. ' But the feud be tween the general and the pal ace, now extended to unhappy relations with the king himself, goes on. J " And the ' uncertainty of the situation, due to . things which dont seem, to Americans, to matter much, has an Impact on the western world's whole pro gram for the; containment of communism. I to fashion his crib. But he re members the stone masons who added, to the deCastro home a room that was to be all his own, and Father Corvelo who blessed , it; the goats that had to be fed; the father's reassurances about ghosts and other evil spirits; the fig and apple trees, and the bee that he disturbed; the first study of the catechism; the' first classes in Professor : Silva's school; 13m -trips to swim and fish; the pig ' killing. - i V He has some friends, Alvaro, Miguel and Francisco who is not strong enough to risk a swim in the cold .water !or to climb the hills as fast as the other boys and who, unlike ' the uncertain , Jose, knows he wants Jta be a priest. Then there. Is pretty Maria; if he becomes jk churchman he must give her up forever; if he goes to America he must give her up for a long tisoe. .- 1 . . . ; Lewis works' drama into these. un dramatic little-incidents, which become as serious for us as they are for the child. Though there's almost no story at ail, there's very pleasant reading: 1&5MNf AND:0!2ARiiffi "v "! ft Vv y j wmm . 1 . mamm 11 n m-wmi . ' "Accasins toe of political maneuvers, shallow thinking and being lang-winded is nansense ... isn't this a. regular 5 ; session of Congressr .T ;f- Rev. Stone Stresses Christian -Action Over Christian Talking . "It takes a Christian life to make a Christian life," doing rather than saying, the Rev. Lee . Owen Stone of Portland remind ed Salem Kiwahis club members Tuesday at a Holy week pro gram. Pastor of SL Phillip's Episco pal church. Stone pointed out that Christ didn't ray much but did a great deal during His last week on earth, which this week commemorates. . Holding the Christian religion to place the emphasis upon pos itive rather than negative, the Peterson Says Dairies Need High Volume Future success of the dairy In dustry in Oregon will, depend largely on high-producing cows, high-producing pastures and high gross income in relation to capital invested. E. L. Peterson, state ag ricultural director, declared in a statement Tuesday. -W Peterson said the market out- CRT 8330000 " (Continued from page one.) where Irrigation may be profit ably employed. All of these mat ters would be subjects for con sideration of such a water board. At present we have a reclama tion commission composed of the governor, secretary of state ' and state treasurer; a hydroelectric commission; a state irrigation -board. Also we have the Willam ette basin commission which deals with the flood control pro ject and related development in the Willamette valley. The state engineer is the executive who administers laws dealing with water and is secretary of the reclamation and hydroelectric commissions. This office would be continued for administrative work, but the board would init iate and decide on! matters of policy. The work done by the executive secretary of the Wil lamette basin commission should be . made statewide. Pendleton for example has been calling for years for protection against floods in the Umatilla river. A state official could serve to co ordinate efforts there and else where as Ivan Oakes has done for this valley. " . Oregon snouldnt lust sit on the sidelines while the big bat tles are raging over water use, It should have a board composed of able citizens well informed on water problems and free to exer cise honest judgment on them. It would help to protect Oregon interests and to promote wise development , of our! water re sources. - - Time is pressing. It would be well if the legislature moves to set up such a board and vest it with initiative in framing the water policies of the state. Better English ' - -1. What Is wrong with this tence? "After we had departed, we found that Bob had remained behind at home.", - j 1 2. .What Is the correct pronun .. datkn " of inferable"? - .. i. Which one of these words is misspelled? Ennoble, ennui, ' ennactment, enigmatic. 4. What does the Word 'salu tary" mean? - 5. What is a word beginning with da that means "to make dear"? 1 ANSWERS . 1. Omit behind. 2. Pronounce the e as inner, and accent second syllable, not the first. X Enact ment. 4. Promoting health, cura tive. "Exercise, when not too strenuous, is salutary." 5. Clarify. jm-w:,. fiy? Uchf? Negro minister stressed that the need today is for men and wom en . who will . actively support vital things, not just with money, but with service and belief. " j He added . that "Communism Is thriving Upon some of the so cial problems we refuse to have anything to do - with" and de clared that . that menace can- hot be defeated with bullets. Special music included vocal Solos by Corydon BlodgetL bass, accompanied by Harriet Aller, both of Willamette university. look for the dairy industry Is most promising with present con ditions indicating a rapid growth of population in western Oregon. up to this time, he added, western dairy production has not been ade quate to supply regional demands. The agricultural director said large importations of butter and cheese are coming into western Oregon annually from eastern points. r i He warned that dairymen in terested in cheese markets should be concerned with what has hap pened to butter consumption. Pet erson said the per capita usage of butter has dropped from a high of slightly in excess of 18 pounds to below 10 pounds in a ten year pe riod." Offsetting this decrease, he continued, there has been an in crease in population, an increase in the usage of milk in fluid form, increase- in consumption of ice cream, and a substantial growth of the per capita usage, of cheese. Peterson said that whatever fu ture developments shall bring, it remains that the coastal area will be predominated in its agriculture by the dairy enterprise. r TT" Washington Hop Growers Oppose Plan j ! PORTLAND, March 20-WP) Several Washington growers to day opposed the diversion privil ege that; permits the transfer of hop marketing rights from one grower to another. I There should be' either "no di version privilege or no marketing agreement," Milo Lesh, Yakima, manager of the Washington State Hop Growers Cooperative, said at a; hearing on proposed changes in the federal hop marketing agree ment. "Any type of diversion pri vilege defeats the purpose, of the program.- ; . - . , i Other Washington growers ex pressed similar, views. ; f William Gamashe. Yakima, said lie left 40 acres of his crop unhar- vestea last year and sold bis mar keting certificates . for ; them for more than he made from another 40 acres that 1 he harvested and marketed.; J :-.) :; -t:-?. I Another Yakima grower. Laur ence Brulotte, said the diversion privilege restricts the small grow er, but helps the big grower who can lease additional . acreage to plant a bigger crop and get more marketing rights. ! Oregon growers Harvey Kaser, SHverton, and Eugene McCarthy, Salem, told i the hearing they bought diversion certificates from other growers last year as a means of marketing their own surplus hOpS. - : . i - 5 .-i j Amendment of the diversion privilege is the most controversi al of 18 proposed changes in the marketing agreement tinder con sideration by west coast growers. J As originally drawn, the diver sion amendment would restrict the diversion privilege to hops actu ally harvested. But a compromise proposal would limit diversion to half , of a grower's unharvested crop. It received support of Cal ifornia and Idaho growers. ! - - Tw;-i'f Missionary Convention Opens in Silverton Mws Strife SILVERTON The 27th annual convention of the Christian and Missionary Alliance church opened Monday in Silverton and will con tinue through Easter Sunday each night at 7:45, The Rev. Paul Col lard, district superintendent of the Pacific Northwest district of the Christian and Missionary Alliance will be convention syeaker on Fri day and Saturday. . ru t rv f fWftn System Draws Union Abuse WASHINGTON, March . 2HPh Leaders of most of the nation's labor unions Leaped new criticism on the mobilization program to day, said it was "going ion the rocks" and called for a new deal. . Local and' statewide leaders of the: AFLj CIO,' machinists and non-operating railroad unions met at two separate rallies at which the! wage 'stabilization program and many other- - j ases of the government's defense planning were -assailed The meetings were called : by the United Labor Policy Commit tee ; (ULPC), co posed of leaders of about 15,000,000 organized workers in nearly all unions ex cept John I ! Lewis' miners and the operating railroad - brother hoods. ,- ,-. i ,; v ; : The ULPC recently ordered the withdrawal -of all labor members from mobilization : agencies, in cluding the : ( wage stabilization board, inj a move to emphasize displeasure with what ; it called "big business control of defense policy. . ;- 1 f ' - . . "We ar4 convinced, the program Is going on the rocks that it can not mobilize this country to do the tasks this country faces," Al J. Hayes, head i of the machinists, said in a speech. jj We withdrew from it because the people were being misled into thinking It was just and equit able." j : j-' - ; : t ir- George M. Harrison, head the railway clerks and . an AFL vice president,! said ' he regarded the program as "hopeless." f ' "It Is political suicide and just pant work," he declared. "It Is so cially indefensible and economic ally impossible I want a new deal." j - J Harrison said the mobilization program might- have to continue for 20 years, and in that time un der present policies he said, work ers "will CerUinly be a regiment ed bunch j of serfs." Mobilization Director Charles E. Wilson, chief target of the-labor attacks, was described as an agent of big business who regards labor "as a commodity." George j Meany, AFL secretary treasurer, said the order setting up Wilson's office made the for mer General Electric corporation chief "more 'powerful than the president," . t. "We've! talked to Wilson, but you might as well talk to a stone wall," Meany 1 said.: But hei added, "This is more than a fight I with' Wilson; it is also a fight with congress." ies? Sketcli NEW YORK. March 20-iP)-The atom bomb sketch which confessed spy David Greenglass says he gave his : brother-in-law . for relay to Russia was identified today; as a drawing of the bomb dropped at Nagasaki. . . ' - The brother-in-law. Julius Ros enberg, his wife, Ethel, and Mor ton So be 11, a radar expert, are on trial in federal court, charged with conspiring to spy for Russia dur ing .wartime. Mrs.' Rosenberg is Greenglass sister. If convicted all three face, a possible death penalty. The sketch and other data which Greenglass has testified he gave to Rosenberg! were identified bv John A. ' Derrr. soecial assistant to the director of production of the atomic energy commission, i The courtroom was cleared of spectators, except for newspaper men, wruie uerty was on the stand. -I : 'i l I ,1 . ) Greenglass,! who has pleaded guilty .- and is awaiting sentence for! spying, already has testified he got the information while serv ing as an army sergeant at the Los Alamos. N. M. atom bomb project. I i .4-. -j Derry testified he was a liaison officer between the Los Alamos project and Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, head of the .wartime atom bomb project. - i j He said . he saw the bomb in development, j ' : j I In 1845, to your knowledge. did any foreign, government have knowledge regarding the develop ment and construction of that wea pon?" U. S. Attorney Irving Say- pol asked.- i n - ,- "With the exception of Britain and Canada, no other," Derry re plied..-- . I . ' - ; j . I After Derry had finished.! Judge Irving Kaufman turned : . to , the newspapermen in the room; . I do hope you exercise the same good judgment . as you exercised when this information came from the lips of the Witness, Green glass," he said, -ir-, After Greenglass testimony on the workings of the bomb, the court had asked reporters not to ta Into details, t ; r - ; '1 f Used Car Lot Reports Theft One automobile was recovered and an other reported stolen1 Tues day as a wave of thefts from used car lots in Salem continued. Latest theft was reported Tues day morning by the Herrall-OwenS company. I A black 1938 Buick was taken from their lot at 860 N. Liberty st. sometime between S30 p. m. Monday and 8 a. m. Tuesday. A Marion county shop car lo cated another auto,. a 1941 black Chevrolet sedan reported ( stolen from Marlon Motors Sunday night The Chevrolet was recovered on the county road between- Silverton and Sublimity about 3:45 p. m. A-Sp Identified as Tuesday. PJb'C'Beiiny;. Cipsoir Returns tQ Action PFC Benny Glpson, marine son of -Mrs. Dorothy Gipson; 1695 N. 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