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From first Statesman. March 2S. 115
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. "
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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:
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"Accasins toe of political maneuvers, shallow thinking and
being lang-winded is nansense ... isn't this a. regular
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. .
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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 - ;
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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.
Front stn Is back in the front
lines in Korea after being wound
ed March 3, according to a letter
his mother received Friday. i
Gipson wrote that he was shot
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