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THE STATESaiAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher '? Fabllshed every morning. Bestness office X15 8.' Commercial. Salem, Oregon. Telephone X-244L. Entered at do poitoffle at Salem, Oregon, as seeead class matter ander act of congress Marco X, 11 Here's That Line Again Correspondents in Korea have been told to so hush-hush on the 38th parallelas though . i u i j: mat suppression womu euu uuuusiuu u iuok boundary line between the Republic of Korea j and the soviet satellite North Korea. For the j 18th parallel looms at Lake Success, in Wash- j ington, in London and Paris, and it must also bob up in Moscow and Peking. Just a line on the map which somehow was given military j recognition and later became the dividing line j for a country split in two. t I President Truman dodges talk about the 38th ; parallel by saying that crossing the line was up to General MacArthur. But General MacArthur j makes no commitment, indicating that high po- j licy at U.N. must be determined, though noting, j shave others, that the 38th parallel is no suit- able line for military to hold. Britain and France j however are reputed to favor stopping at this old boundary line and not trying to pursue; the reds farther north. i The question can't be dodged forever. If U-N. I forces get to the line and stop of their volition ! it will be because they are restrained by U.N. ' That might happen as negotiations are revived j tor a settlement of the Korean affair. f Rumors have been afoot that a deal would be I made restoring the old parallel for the division of Korea. The only trouble with the rumors is j of Peking. Various efforts have been made to sound out Chinese sentiment, but not even arw echo rebounds. Chinese intentions remain in- . scrutable. i ' Certainly all! countries that have contributed j forces to the UN. armies are eager for a wind- j up of the fighting in Korea! It ought to be pos- sible to work out a settlement and would be j except for the type of communist mind that j must be dealt with. Because the communists are i quite impossible to work with it is' doubtful if j a truce is in early prospect. That means some- j body somewhere will have to make a decision en whether to cross the 38th parallel. Lafriglie Demands j Balancing of Budget Governor Langlie of Washington did the cour- j ageous thing when he vetoed the omnibus ap- propria tion bill! of the legislature and then call- j ed that body to meet in an early special session. ; Appropriations; had far exceeded prospective; revenues and the .Washington governor refused to let such a situation stand. He had consistent- j ly demanded a balancing of the state budget, j When the assembly reconvenes it surely will be In a mood to pare appropriations and lift taxes ; to prevent the decable of a huge deficit in Wash- in j: ton's treasury. Washington is 'a prosperous state. There is no I reason it can't provide funds to meet the proper i requirements of state government. But, as in ; Oregon and elsewhere, the temptation is to pile ; obligations on the state and reluctance to impose the taxes necessary to meet the costs. . - Oregon seems to be a little better off than Washington, but it is mainly just a matter of time. This state will come to the brink of a fi- nancial abyss in two years if some preventive is j not applied. The people must be educated to the fact that costs of state government have exceed-; ed the expectation from present revenue sour- ces. Sooner o'rj later and not later than two years hence Jthe axe must be applied to ex-' penditures or the screws of taxation given a few; more twists. This information is not new; it is not secret it's the cold truth. - The Trainman News, organ of BRT, has a j column, "Your Money's Worth" by a woman I staff member which offers, suggestions on get-j ting the most put of the dollar spent. Here is Russians Escaping into West Reich Find Little But Questioning, Hard Life of DP Camp By Joseph Alsop . - BERLIN, March 21 You could see that the wiry little man with the round, high-colored face had probably been good with his horses he was a veterinary cap tain in a so-!" let artillery regiment who had as they say, "chosen free- P f dom." Despite f h 1 s horribly shabby castoff clothes be re- i -re tained an air of competence ana his Russian peasant vitality trMfnlAl him from being tru- h A ly downcast. 1 Yet after eighteen months of freedom's privileges, after eigh teen months of interrogation cen ters and DJ. camps and life as an outcast, this natural vitality of the young captain had been veiled by an almost visible mel ancholy. Melancholy seemed in fact to have settled upon him slowly but relentlessly, as dust settles upon the forgotten furni ture in an abandoned house. He finished his schnapps in one gulp, and summed up his problem in a single tragic question: "Do you really think wo were right to come ever all of us who left the Soviets for this life on a dustheap, or should we have stayed with our own people?' ' . The little man with the tragic question is worthy ol more than momentary consideration as a symbol of a missed opportunity. The opportunity is Berlin, an is land of freedom in the midst of the Soviet zone of Germany. Here in Berlin, this reporter has j"t completed a rather prolonged exploration of the various resist "51 "Wo Favor Sipav Di,'l?o Fiot Shall Ate" From first Stetesman. March zt, 1851 : ..t the world. San ance and liberation movements, German and Russian, which have their main or advanced bases here. ' ! -. Jt was a decidedly curious ex- - perience. At the suburban house which is the headquarters of Theodore Friedenau's Committee of Free Jurists , of the Soviet Zone, more than 100 East Ger mans crowded the anterooms to report injustices' by the commu nist hierarchy, which would then be investigated and publicized. An equal crowd milled In the anterooms of ithe Kampfgruppo - of Paul Tillich and Rainer Hilde brandt, the center of a more con ventional political resistance. ;f - ; - The east bureau of the social ist party, after its f fearful losses by police terror in 1948, made no such' popular impressions, yet its leaders were confident of their power to keep their party alive in east Germany. And the tiny ' office resembled nothing so much . as a dim little speakeasy where frightened men and women got trips westward instead of a drink. All these - organizations had their own marked characters, yet all conveyed common im pressions first of 1 the tremen dous possible usefulness of Ber lin as a base of freedom amid the east zone slavery, and second, an impression that this usefulness was not being turned to account because none of these efforts in Berlin was being effectively sup-- ported by the western world. ;; i I , !: ,. . Yet it was only when one saw and talked to the Russians who . had fled the iron grip of their society since- the war, that one realized how .stupid, and even how brutal, our governments have been in their dealings with' this problem. The shocking sit uation that once prevailed, when one worth copying: "It is high time to be order ing your seeds from nearby or favorite seeds men. Restrain yourself on the highly advertised, more expensive 'discoveries.' Stick to the tried and true strains." 1 j The Umatilla county development commission has adopted a resolution favoring the early au thorization of a dam in Hell's canyon of the Snake river to be built by the federal govern ment. It further recommended that private uti lities should be allowed to purchase and trans mit the power to consumers. Thus we have one expression of opinion on the controversy over who should build works to capture power from the Snake river. This seems a reasonable solu tion: let the government build the big dam. be cause it win provide more energy than the al- ternates proposed by a private power company, but use the existing companies to distribute the energy to consumers. , i A third state to follow an Oregon pattern with regard to highways is Washington. Its legisla ture has voted to establish a highway commis sion of five, members, replacing the present di rector of highways appointed by the governor. This follows. the Oregon plan where we have three commissioners who govern the department and determine, under the laws, the policies to be followed. Idaho earlier this year adopted the same type of Organization and New York has adopted the Oregon system of weight-use fees for commercial trucks. The government has loafted $2,600,000 to mink and fox fur-growers. pBut it wasn't the RFC trying to produce moe "natural pastel mink coats" retailing at $9,50. It was the far mers' home administration of the department of agriculture helping distressed fur producers. Editorial Comment INTERNATIONAL COUSf TEST Britain announces she will carry to the Interna tional Court of Justice Iran's decision to nationalize the vast holdings of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company a sound, statesmanlike move on Britain's part that will also provide a test of the mettle of the World Court. ! Aside from the political aspects of the matter, in which the fate of Iran's quarter billion barrels of oil per annum bears vitally upon the balance of military power in the world, there are definite legal aspects which suggest that the International Court is the logical place to seek, first, a stay of execution of the Iranian decision and, second, a final adjudi cation. The International Court was set up within the United Nations specifically to settle disputes of law arising between nations. This is exactly 511 ch a case. The British government, as major stockholder in the Anglo-Iranian firm, has a contractual relationship with the Iranian government calling for perform ance of specified duties on both sides. This agree ment, signed in 1933, guarantees the British-controlled oil concession until 1993. Britain's position is that the Iranian Parliament, in voting to nationalize the oil industry, has violat ed! that contract, and should be required to make good on it. It is idle to speculate upon Iran's legal defense, but what prompted to move in Parliament was (a) an upsurge of nationalistic sentiment in favor of Iranian ownership and control of Iran's principal resource, and (b) , long-standing dissatis faction with Iran's per cent; of the profits from the oil operations. The case cannot be divorced, practically speak ing, from its larger framework in which the world's opposed factions are struggling for possession of Iran's invaluable oil resources. ! But it is possible for the International Court to step into this clear breach and, by applying itself tos the case with firmness and dignity, produce a solution serving the ends of peace and justice. It will, in any event, be the first great test for this 5-year-old body, which made its first finding in 1949 and has since had only the opportunity to move about the fringes of the great problems besetting Francisco Chronicle. Russian political fugitives were boldly returned to the M.GA has at least been remedied. But these poor people who have re sponded to our propaganda are none the less well represented by the little man described above, with his. heart-breaking inquiry. . They were all the same the veterinary captain, the armored force sergeant, the wife of a sec- ret police officer, shivering in sleezy , artificial silk, and the former head of the communica- tions section at Carishorst, the Russian headquarters, who had brought his whole family out with the help of "friends in the secret police even among them there are some who are discon tented." i i , .0 . : All had been interminably in terrogated, the communications officer for no less than two con tinuous years. When the inter- rogations ended, all had been flung upon the dustheap, as the veterinary captain said, and were now eking out a weary existence in one of the grim DJP. camps All had come hoping much from the free world. All had got noth- - ing, except to be utterly cut off from the world they knew. All and this lis the inner horor visibly regretted the hard choice . they had made. . In the end one did not wonder that the defections, which might have almost crippled the Rus sians in east Germany, have in stead been reduced to a mere trickle. One wondered, rather, why all governments nowadays, even with the best intentions, seem to be so utterly incapable of generosity or kindliness or the fine gesture. This seems. Indeed, to be one of the marks of our time. - (Copyrlzht 1951. ' - New York Hersld-Triboae) - - - ! mu-J s r.n nilujTFAlSP'FRONT' ' (A I f v - ifJtJ I My Zrr,'2&vl& V.n1 vi '. JtP mporoeg (Continued from page one.) between the rival gangs, as in prohibition days. The stakes were high. It was kill or be killed. Then the situation would quiet down for a spell with one gang left in control. As far as the law was con cerned mat was fenced off by protection money. Politicians, police, persons with influence were thus controlled. Sometimes it would come cheap, without any graft, as when the city councils distressed for more revenues, "license" punchboards, pinball and slot machines. Sometimes it came harder when palms were greased. But such is the lure of gambling that the money came easy and the profits were huge after all the payoffs. The menace of this business is not merely that persons lose money in gambling but that gov ernment becomes corrupted through its toleration. You can't have a free and decent govern ment when the racketeers hold it in pawn. Now it is one thing to be shocked at the ' headlines com ing from disclosures before the Kefauver committee. It is an other thing to be alert to evil conditions in one's home city or state. We are only remotely re sponsible for conditions in New York or Miami or Los Angeles. We are responsible for Oregon and its several communities. And we have in Oregon our small scale gambling bosses who have the territory parceled out and run such gambling devices or bookie shops as they can get . away with. There isn't so much need of a Kefauver committee to investigate as for guts in the enforcement officials, and that is true in the big cities too. The exposure merely publicizes what informed persons have previous ly been aware of. The Chinese are said to have used rockets in warfare about 1200 A. D. GRIN AND BEAR IT X Mi Mti '$?0 rv.B j - 1 - r j "Has anyone turned in a secret dispatch ease eeniaialng a comb gam, a hankie, compact. lipstick, cigarettes 2 rings,' some keys, a snapshot of my boy friend and soma papers? House Backs Tax Vote on Symphony A bill to let Portland vote on .15 of a mill tax to support the Portland symphony orches tra was approved by the hoi ' Wednesday and sent to the "ate. 1 The ! orchestra, which is In dire financial straits, lobbied for the measure recently by str ing a concert in tho capitol rotunds. , Martial Law Rules in Iran TERHAN, Iran, March 21-UP)- The government imposed a curfew on this capital Tuesday and made a show of force with tanks under martial; law in a hard-hitting ef fort to smash a reign of terror by assassins. Premier Hussein Ala's new pro western government acted amid strikes and a flood of unconfirm ed reports of new assassinations in the wake of the killing of Premier Gen. Ali Razmara 13 days ago and the wounding of former. Education Minister Abdul Zang aneh by an enraged student yes terday.; j ; Better English 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "When will I be most apt to see him?" 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "vitiate"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Comedienne, com lssion, combustible, compressor. 4. What does the word "ma terialist" ; mean? j 5. What is a word beginning with ju that means "wise; dis creet"? - i ANSWERS 1. Say,! "When shall I be most likely to see him? 2. Pronounce vish-i-at, both ls as in it. a as in ate, accent first syllable. 3 Com mission. 4. One who takes in terest only in the material com forts of life. "Materialists, who are blind to the spiritual aspects of life, find little to comfort them." 5. Judicious. by Lichty ! vblx ' Compromise Air Pollution 1 The senate public health com mittee Wednesday approved a bill designed to prevent . and control air pollution in Oregon. The measure approved by the committee is a compromise result ing from nearly three months of study, and has the blessing of both industry and the public Legislation to control air pollu tion was requested by Gov. Doug las McKay in his inaugural ad dress to the legislature January 8. To be. known as the Oregon air pollution act, the proposal would set up a five-man board-known as the air pollution' authority of Oregon. Members would be ap pointed by the governor and the state sanitary engineer would act as the board's secretary. The board -would have the au thority to set regulations govern ing ah pollution and could require offending industrial plants to cor rect conditions causing air pollu tion. Actions against plants polluting the air would be brought through the .attorney general. Offenders hailed into court by the : board would have the right to appeal from the authority's decisions through the Marion county circuit court. Committee members -who held hearings on the legislation pointed out that air pollution has increas ed tremendously in recent years as more industrial plants have lo cated in Oregon. - . ! The greatest problem prevails in the Portland area where noxi ous gases from aluminum plants has poisoned vegetation to such an extent that dairy cattle may not be allowed to pasture. Cows who feed on grass affected by the aluminum plant gases died within a short time. ; i i Bill Providing for 'Efficiency Expert' System Delayed 'A bill directing employment of so-called analysts or business agencies to conduct a survey of all state activities to determine whe ther they are operated efficiently and economically was held ' up by the joint ways and means commit tee here Wednesday pending a le gal opinion from the attorney gen eral. -r- ; " : it -j-- - i .The investigators would be em ployed by the governor who would receive their reports and : advise the legislature. . There is no question,' Sen. Carl Engdahl said, , "but that , many of the state activities are overlapping and some of the departments are overstaffed." ' - v Question whether the governor, under the bill, would; have author ity to direct investigation of con stitutional activities ' of .state de partments was raised by Senator William Walsh and Representative David Baum. Walsh said a serious legal question apparently was in volved and it would be wise to refer the bill to the attorney gen eral for an opinion.) j : 4. BoxcarShortage Prohe Consdered V - WASHINGTON, March SMAV Congress may. be asked to look into the boxcar' shortage. : Rep. Jackson (D-Wash) : told a reporter today . he may, ask the house commerce committee to study the shortage in the Pacific northwest. , f -- He said it has caused growers "a great deal of anxiety. They don't know what to plant nor how to Ship it-" ; - - - He said be has asked the inter state commerce commission to in vestigate the problem and prepare a permanent policy to solve It. - Bill Approved - 'i f Legislature Approval For Aged -..! ; By John n. White - ? . - Staff Writer. Tho Statesman - 4 . Legislative action was completed j Wednesday on a biH to con struct in the Portland area a $3,000,000 hospital for aged patients. 1 The senate approved the house-passed measure, Sen. Angus Gib son; Junction City, casting a lone dissenting vote. - The proposal sou must ciear lerrea to me people Decause we approve construction of state build ings outside Marion county. Gibson claimed the people have rejected similar plans twice In the past. - -: Most Find Funds j Second, .If the measure ; Is ac cepted by the voters, it will be up to the 1953 legislature to provide funds for construction. i - Sponsors of the proposal said the hospital would relieve institutions in Salem and Pendleton where about one-fourth of the patients are aged persons who are not in sane. Sen. Rex Ellis; Pendleton, pre dicted the building "would pay for itsself in five years." t f Sen. Manley Wilson, Warren, told fellow legislators, Anyone who ever visited the state hospital in Salem - couldn't in good - con science vote againt this billJ Two 'objections to the measure were voiced by senators who even. tually voted for the hospital. Objects to Money limit 4 Sen. Dean Walker,' Independen ce, objected to a limit being set on the amount of. money that could be spent. He cited the possibility of rising building costs. . Sen. Howard Belton, ; Canby, wanted the method of raising the revenue stated in the bllL; Most senators agreed that there was a "crying need" for the pro posed Institution.! I The senate voted to allow con struction of the hospital anywhere within a 20-mile : radius i of the Multnomah county courthouse. The house had ' set this limit at . 15 miles, but Rep. F. H. Dammasch said he would ask representatives to agree with the senate version. But Introduced ' ; In other action Tuesday, the sen ate public welfare committee in troduced a blU calling for a $250,- 000 appropriation to establish work camps " in state forests . for prison convicts. It will be referred to the ways and means committee. Senators approved a: bill to let fire protection districts adopt res illations to prevent blazes and to require permits to burn, waste. A companion measure to allow fire districts to charge property owners ' outside the district when the firemen respond to a blaze on the property failed by one vote. The vote actually was 15 to 10 in favor of the measure but 18 votes are required for passage. Two sen ators were excused and three oth ers were absent during balloting. Sen: Carl Engdahl, Pendleton, in dicated he would attempt to have the measure reconsidered today. ' r 5 ! ' I Senate Gives Pattersons Gifts Floicers i :? ' -O - - Sen. and Mrs. Paul Patterson, Hills boro, president and first lady of the senate, were honored Tues day in a brief, spontaneous cere mony in the upper chamber of the legislature. 1 j : Senators and their clerical staff presented Mrs. Patterson with a bouquet of red roses, her husband with an engraved wrist watch- and both with a silver service that in cluded matching trays, a chop tray, an engraved tray and candl abra. . r ! Sen. Marie Wilcox, Grants Pass, commented, .fa making the pre sentation, "I have had many as- -If ' si ASIC AVK-7J YCUSTO? AT sdS$9 ftOI sOC5J2o5oCe4iJ I .tsrisa and Lastly j ill fVI) 2' : Registers of Hospital Portland in two oDstacies. First, it must be constitution requires the voters to Stalemate in rtion Issue Reached Reapportlonment of the legisla ture appears to be blocked indef- -initely. The house reapportionment committee, scheduled to take some . definite action Wednesday on the Young Republican "population" plan,, found itself deadlocked on almost every issue and adjourn- ) ment without reaching a decision. : Committee members appeared to favor introduction of the Young , Republican plan but couldn't get , together on when it should take effect immediately or after the -next general election. Backing the proposal to wait ; until after the next general elec tion Were Reps. Paul Geddes, Roseburg; Pat Lonergan, Portland; Giles French, Moro; and Raymond Coulter, Grants Pass. , Favoring immediate action were Reps. Mark Hatfield, Salem; E. J. Ireland, Molalla; and Maurine Neuberger, Portland; and Carl Francis, Dayton. Rep. Henry Semon, Klamath s Falls, refused to vote one way or the other until he knows commit tee reaction to an eastern Oregon proposal to change the method of reapportionment by amending the constitution. . This would have to be referred to the people. ouirt Limits Legislative Act S Amendments - The state supreme court ruled: Wednesday that a legislative act cannot be amended to take in more territory than is covered by the title of the original act. The. effect of the ruling means that in some cases, it will take two or more legislative bills to , do what one has done in the past. The. title of a bill is the state- ment telling the subject of the measure. Robert K. Cull en, whose statute revision council drafts most of the; bills for the legislature, said the: decision won't have much effect on bills of this session. The court's opinion was given: in fa case in which the house ju diciary committee asked the court, to interpret the constitution, which says an act shall include only one subject, and that the subject shall be embraced in the title. ; The decision settles something that has bothered legislators for years. It Is the opposite of the theory that all a title is is a head line for a bill, rather than a re striction. ; signments in the legislature but this is the nicest." She paid tri-i bute to Patterson's "fairness, dis-. cretion and wise counsel in pre siding over the senate. Mrs Patterson, in thanking the chamber, added, "The most im portant speech my husband ever made was when he asked me to be his wife." ArrMe ill UJUK w O Ccrrt ca J Ccz 1 HHl Ko)ll i Wo) :Z' Reappo r Of- V