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Poor Results on OPS
A number ol control laws expire by limita
tion on June 30th next, but it is expected that
most of them will be extended with little or
no alteration: rent control, price-wage control,
materials control, farm pricing formula. Mean
time the principal effort seems to be to get
the ponderous control machinery set up. Last
week President Truman constituted an 18-man
wage board which is expected to handle wage
disputes and prevent strikes. The stop gap
escalator provided by Eric Johnson oh wages
may be succeeded by some new formula.
Yet for all its authority and all its. machin
ery it cannot be said that price-wage control
has had much effect on either wages or prices.
Ex-Governor M. E. Thompson of Georgia, after
cocftng his heels in Washington while employed
as OPS consultant who never was consulted,
threw! up the job with its comfortable salary
and headed for home,: disgusted at the whole
setup.
And Dr. Alan Valentine, who resigned as
director of economic stabilization because he
thought the country was unready for price
wage freeze, stated in a New York address a
few weeks ago that price and wage controls as
presently administered are "a futile, expensive
and tragic gesture." Senator Jyrd'a hawk eye
caught that the new government bureaus were
buying a million dollars worth of furniture,
more or less, for their offices.
Dr. Valentine said: "If we do get lower prices
we can thank the operation of natural economic
forces far more confidently than the prestidi
gitators of price control."
Many will agree with him. Thus far there
has been no rollback, merely dropping the lift
to pick up stragglers for price-wage hikes, after
the general and temporary price-wage freeze.
Whether when the huge . OPS machine gets to
Tanning it will be able to hold prices down as
suredly is very doubtful,
Economic forces .are asserting themselves
.and supply, and demand are still functioning.
Prediction , is' made that the bite of rearma
rnent on materials and manpower will get
sharper when fall comes, but there will still
be a huge output of civilian goods. If we re
member the enormous output1 during the last
war and then realize that our productive capa
city has been greatly expanded since then it
should be plain that, unless full-scale war
comes, huge quantities of goods will be offered
civilians. Suspension or removal of the con
trols should not result in the continued sky
rocketing of prices. Congress however will
probably grant extensions, probably with more
hope that they may prove effective to halt
runaway inflation than with expectation the
controls will have much effect on the. immedi
ate price leveL I ?
more deadly than the water of the gulf.
Man can never erase Jail the risks ol travel,
or even of staying at home; but travel at sea
fortunately no longer excites the fear that it
did when frail craft set sail across broad oceans.
Not a Welfare Fund
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i Bob McKean, who represents employer in
terests at the legisature, calls attention to a
1 new bill SB 373 which Would continue benefits
to an unemployed person if he becomes sick or
; injured while drawing unemployment compen
sation. McKean points out in his bulletin that
j UC is not health insurance or accident insur
ance, but job insurance, which provides tem
porary, partial assistance to a jobless worker
who is availabe for work and actively seeking
i work but unable to find suitable work.
This reminder is worth while.' It applies also
: to the bill which would augment the unem-
ployment compensation' check with allowances
; for dependents. The unemployment compensa
: tion fund is not a welfare fund. It should not
. be made into a general welfare fund.
Children's Gardens
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To learn to play the piano or the violin a
; youngster has to take many lessons and prac
tice faithfully. And instruction is necessary to
i get children to know gardens and enjoy garden
; ing. But how many parents take their children
! out to the garden and give them a plot of
: ground to cultivate, seed and tend, producing
; flowers or vegetables? Perhaps the only in
i traduction the child gets to a garden is when
: he is told to dig or to hoe or weed.
Why not enlist the I child's full interest in
: gardening, showing him the real worth of the
j garden and not just its labor, right when the
kids are calling to come, play ball?
Emil Piluso, veteran referee at intercollegiate
athletic games is quitting officiating to become
manager of the Pendleton country club. It will
not seem natural not to see Piluso in his striped
shirt out on the playing floor or field. We doubt
though if he becomes an "old soldier" yet; come
winter and basketball will beckon him.
The president of Portugal died the other day
at the age of 81. His name was Antonio Oscar
Carfhona; but nobody ever heard of him and
few knew that Portugal has a president. The
real boss of the country is Antonio Salazar, the
prime minister, and he's a 'professor.
Oregon's Hood River valley in blossom-time
and Mt. Hood are featured in a painting re
produced on the covers of this week's Saturday
Evening Post. One recognizes the scene without
having to look for the explanatory note inside.
Safety in Sea Travel
The loss of 39 lives in a collision of two oil
tankers in the Gulf of Mexico is unfortunate,
but the item does point up the fact that ocean ,
travel now is relatively very safe. It was not :
always so. From of old, men went down to the
mta in ships to their own hazard. Their families j
remained at home for months on end waiting
for their return, and often in vain as months
lengthened 'into years. Many ships sailed out
into the great silence.
Sturdier vessels, steam power, and finally
radio added greatly to safety in ocean travel.
Now the loss of life is very small compared
with the number of passengers and crew miles 3
traveled. In this recent gulf catastrophe the
flash fire on one of the tankers probably was '
Down in Mississippi the democratic organiza
tion bartered federal jobs for a price. And then
sometimes didn't deliver. The mink coat level
of political ethics wasn't confined to Washington.
Bend has a new dog-catcher. John L. Lewis
didn't get the job, even if the appointment was
out of Harry Truman's hands.
Salem Senators who miss the ball when they
swing the bat should cheer up. Statistics show
that Babe Ruth fanned out 1,330 times.
Consumers who complain over 3.2 milk will
still be quite unhappy over the legislation pass
ed on milk control. What they get is still skim.
Administration Hopes to 'Reduce MacArthur
To Human Form' at Congressional Hearings
By Stewart Alsop
WASHINGTON, April 21 The
first round is certainly Mac
ArttaurX His speech to congress
on Thursday, for all its rather
obvious histri
onics, was a
i brilliant . per-
- fonnance of
. Its kind. In
deed, however
much Mac
Arthur may
- wish to "just
fade away,"
the MacArthur
personality is
now clearly a
major factor
umics. s"'"
In the long run, the impact of
the MacArthur personality on the
American voters is sure to exer
cise a decisive influence on do
mestic politics as well as foreign
- policy. Certainly the speech to
congress was a great personal
triumph. But too towering a rep
utation at the start may actually
be a disadvantage in the end.
Here it may be worth recalling
' the impact ol the MacArthur per
sonality on one American voter
this reporter. -
The timo was almost two years
ago, in Tokyo. It is impossible to
describe the atmosphere of down
right idolatry which thei sur
rounded MacArthur. By both
Japanese and Americans, even
those who privately disliked him,
MacArthur was regarded as more
than human. It was symptomatic
that his proper name was almost
never used instead he was
called "Scap," or The Supreme :
Commander or "The General.
or simply and reverently, "He."
When the usual visiting fireman's
interview with MacArthur was
arranged for this reporter, one
distinguished American journalist
even went o far as to predict
that it would be "an unforget
table spiritual experience."
v
With this sort of preparation, it
was perhaps natural that this re
porter's reaction should be sur
prise tinged with disappoint
ment. Gen. MacArthur is a most
remarkable individual, but he is
after all not aj god, but a man
extremely human, oddly old
fashioned in manner, transpar
ently patriotic, often very
shrewd, sometimes quite moving
when he speaks, sometimes sim
ply theatrical.; But to expect a
god and findj a man, however
unusual a man. is disappointing.
Those who are organizing the
administration's counter-atack
and make no ( mistake about it,
MacArthur's speech was an at-
tack on the administration, and
the most effective since the war
are counting heavily on a simi
lar eventual j reaction in the
country. They believe that Gen.
MscArthur has been oversold, as
jnuch by the drama of his initial
appearance as by the excesses of
his idolaters; and that if he is not
permitted to "fade away" he will
sooner or later - be reduced to .
human proportions.
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This is one reason why the ad
ministration is counting heavily
on the forthcoming sessions of the
foreign relations and armed serv
ices committees. ; Testimony by
Defense Secretary Marshall
who is after all not "in lay cir
cles" on military matters and
the the joint chiefs is planned to
provide the background for ques-.
tions which pro - administration
democrats can then ask Mac
Arthur when he appears before .
the committees, .
MacArthur will be asked, for t
example, why he believes the
measures which he proposes will
end the "prolonged indecision"
which - he deplores The chief
basis for MacArthur's assertion
for the operations he pro
poses j were indeed made under
the direction of the joint chiefs.
But these plans were approved
only on a contingent basis, and
the join chiefs will probably tes
tify that such operations could
not defeat the Chinese, and thus
end the fighting.
MacArthur will also be asked
about the strategic implications
of the fact that attacks on the
Chinese mainland would have to
be undertaken unilaterally, over
the united opposition of virtually
all our, allies. Finally, there is
the most obvious question. Mac
Arthur was wrong about the Chi
nese intervention and this the
administration is prepared to
prove; if necessary. How can he
be sure that the Russians will not
come in, , starting a world war
whilefEurope lies defenseless?
j
i Obviously, MacArthur will be
prepared for all these questions.
Yet the administration hopes that
in -the give-and-take of commit
tee hearings MacArthur will be
reduced to human stature the
stature of a man who has served
his country well, but whose judg
ment is not infallible, and whose
pronouncements are not divine
revelation. Then the great issues
which MacArthur has raised can
be argued on their merits.
Then, it is contended, it wDl
appear that a unilateral war with
China, in alliance with Chiang
jCai-shek, involving the grave
risk of war with the Soviet Union
while; Europe is disarmed, Is not
really a politically popular proj
ect. Yet the fact remains that
MacAthur, quite aside from the
impact of his personality, has the ,
enormous advantage of standing
lor aeuon rather than Inaction. :
for the quick violent solution, -while'
the administration is left
in the position of waiting vaguely
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very stubborn man, one j who
doesn't seem greatly perturbed
with toe sag in his popularity
chart.
What will happen is that the
armed services committee of one
or both houses will hear Mac
Arthur. They also will call in
Secretary Marshall and members
of the joint chiefs of staff, partic
ularly to learn it they had ap
proved the military policy recom
mended by MacArthur. Senators
and congressmen may debate and
even adopt resolutions but con
trol of military and foreign pol
icy will rest with the president.
Actually the decisions may not
be made in Washington but in
Korea, or in Peiping or in Mos
cow. Developments in the battle
may force a change in policy; or
developments on the diplomatic
front may warrant a continuance
of the "limited war" policy of
United Nations. So it may be
General Mao or Premier Stalin
who will call the. turn, toward
peace or a widening of the war.
The Truman-Acheson policy in
Asia will get its test. If it fails
then perhaps the MacArthur pol
icy will be tried. But the mere
fact that it is an alternate policy
which hopes through mightier
strokes to bring red China to sue
for peace is no proof that it will
succeed.
!
mat nis views ?are runy snared . for something to turn up.
... by our own. joint chiefs of" js copyrlht msi.
staff" appears ! to be that plans Mw York Hcraid-Tribun)
Do not look at the "little man"
in the White House with con
tempt or with pity. Look at him
with profound sympathy, for he
carries the weight of tremendous
responsibility; and he from his
point of vantage looking over the
global scene is as convinced in
the soundness of his course as is
his great protagonist, fresh home
from Asia.
The issues are not Great Man
or Little Man, they are you and
me and Koreans and 'Filipinos
and Frenchmen and ; Scotchmen
and Russians and Chinese: they
are 1951 and 1970 and 2005; they
are bread and freedom and se
curity and revolution; they are
history and futurity; they are
fear and they are faith.
On occasion the heads of state
call for a day of prayer for na
tions. This day might well be a
day of prayer for the President,
invoking Divine Guidance for him
in the world's (rather than his
own) time of trial.
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Safety Valve
Sure Fire Prosperity..
To the Editor:
Is it possible that we are on
the verge of the greatest boon
of all time a veritable merry-go-round
prosperity that is al
most beyond the wildest flights
of a movie producer's imagina
tion? And its attainment seem
ingly ridiculously simple.
Anyhow this idea might be
gained from the many letters
and at least one startling edi
torial telling about the revenues
already obtained by licensing
certain forms of gambling, and
how much more our taxes could
be reduced if the operators of
slot machines, pinball and like
devices were also required to
pay licenses. But why stop
there? Why not extend the field
to include betting on baseball
as well as all other outdoor and
indoor games yes, even include
bingo and lotteries at church and
civic club entertainment? - '-
As gambling alone would
hardly yield enough revenue to
pay all the taxes and leave suf
ficient surplus so that no one
would need to work for a living,
this additional money might be
raised by legalizing other crimes
like murder, white-slaving, boot
legging, narcotic peddling, kid
napping and racketeering. Var
ious investigations have shown
that a close tieup exists between
all these groups ( they even en
joy the benefit of unwritten
laws to help each other fight
the written laws), and they
would probably welcome the
chance to pay high license fees
to be allowed to continue their
operations unmolested.
.Some people may argue that a
weak point in the above scheme
is the fact that no provision is
made for producing, preparing
and serving food. True, gam
blers, et al, do have to eat.
However, this failing might be
remedied quite easily. Almost
everyone enjoys violating the
law at times (strikingly demon
strated during prohibition), so
possibly all that needs be done
is to enact a law prohibiting the
growing, cooking and serving of
food. Then we could all live
happy ever after.
H. L. KELLY,
Waldport, Ore.
Appreciates Editorials
To the Editor:
I agree wholeheartedly with
your stand on the issue of Gen
eral MacArthur's dismissal; with
your remarks about McCarthy
ism, j
Although normally I vote as a
Democrat, I find myself : agree
ing so frequently with the ideas
expressed in your personal col
umn and in your editorials that
I'm beginning to wonder whether
I'm a Republican or Democrat
- I appreciate the attitudes ob
jectiveness, honesty, endeavor to
ascertain and print what seems
to you truth, faith in the person
ality of man that seem to reveal
themselves in your column and
editorial page. 1 I
Robert W. Mitchell
240 N. 14th f
San Warship -
To the Editor: j
Please accept : my thanks for
the thoughtful and pungent ob
servations you have published
eoricerning the current commo
tion over General MacArthur.
The behavior of some of the gen
eral's followers reminds one of
Viscount Morley's highbrow but
How's that again dept . . .fA Liberty network news an
nouncer over KOCO was telling about the huge turnout New
Yorkers gave Gen. MacArthur and family. He finally came up
with this startling statement: "As Uen. Mac
Arthur drove by men, women and children
climbed lamp posts, street signs and fife
hydrants . . i and so did Mrs. MacArthur
and son Arthur." Seems that in recording
the newscast I several sentences were drop
ped out someplace. ; i
I
) I Looked like the Willamette Valley)
y I bank was paving Fairgrounds road with,
silver dollars when a bag containingl
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XwuJ ijfvv silver mnoieuns uruite wtc umeij
day. The bag was being delivered to the;
j bank when it split, sending a shower of cartwheels all over!
I the sidewalk in front of the moneyhouse. (Some of the
Hollywood merchants said they hadnt seen so much cash
j on the ground since their army days.) Well, the happy
metal was finally gathered up all but two bucks. And aj
! lengthy search located them in the delivery truck.
Could have been a mirage but lots of downtown shoppers
saw that man and his pig taking a stroll down State street the
other day. The little porker, a well-fed black-and-white ani
mal about the size of a small terrier, trotted alongside its
master. It (the pig) sported a dog's harness and behaved better
than lots of shopping dogs. Most passers-by were eyeing that
walking sausage so intently they hardly noticed its owner had
an ordinary full-length beard clear down to here and a simple
hair styling for his shoulder-length tresses.
Local service clubs seeking worthy projects might look,
into the orphan job of cleaning up the old Odd Fellows
cemetery on South Commercial street for Memorial day.i
No provisions are made to care for the historic burial
ground of Salem's pioneer founders and so, of course, it
gets little care. Only a few persons, like Roy Ohmart and
Lewis Judson, work around the grave of the man who plat'
ted Salem, and those of early Oregon governors and con
gressmen. But the beautifully"laid"OUt grounds, once kept
in fine shape (years ago ) by the townspeople, are oyer-,
grown, the alleyways are littered and unfcept. Although'
the legislature gave control of the cemetery to the county;
there are no funds available for maintenance at the present
time. I !
The cemetery, once described as a "rare monument to Sa
lem's historic past," is an eyesore to the city and to visitors
here. "Lots of groups here are jalways looking for worthwhile
projects," said Ohmart. "Well,; here's one and it won't cost
anybody anything except a little energy." Ohmart and Judson
are members of a small volunteer association which does what
it can for the century-old cemetery but the group need a
strong helping hand in a project which is everybody's respon
sibility. Memorial day is May 30.
meaty epigram: V
"Where it is a duty to worship
the sun it is pretty sure to be a
crime to examine the laws of
heat."
Here's to crime.
Howard Morgan
Monmouth
Baker Youth
To Head OSC
Student Body
CORVALLIS, April 20-P)-Donn
Black of Baker, was elected
president of the Oregon State col
lege student body here. He de
feated Bill Maxwell, Phoenix,
Ariz., by approximately 100 votes.
: Maxwell, now a vice-president,
is the first negro to run for the
top student post.
' Black is a junior and a major in
business and technology.
; Other officers elected included:
' First vice president. Don Van
Allsburg, Grand Rapids, Mich.;
second vice president, Beverly Or-
ton. Baker.
: Memorial student union presi
dent, Hal Tyler, Seattle.
; Senior class president Jerry
Heston, Powell Butte, Ore.; junior
president Robert Bates, Hills -boro;
sophomore 'president Paul
Fillinger, Portland.. .
i All will take office next falL
Fish Hatchery
Bids Rejected j
! PORTLAND, April 21--Bids
submitted for planned work at the
Marion Forks salmon hatchery
were too high, army engineers
said here In announcing rejection
of the bids.
Mike B. Porter, Salem, submit
ted one, for $20,744; Young and
Morgan, Idanha, the other, for
$18,500. The army engineers esti
mated the work should cost $7,
200. ;
The work planned was site
grading and planting of a hatch
ery and residential areas at the
hatchery, 17 miles east of Detroit,
i Oregon.
Camp White Placed
On Reopening List
WASHINGTON, April 2l-(JP)-There
is little likelihood of Camp
White, Ore., being used in the near
future, but it will be placed in a
state of readiness anyway, Rep.
Norblad (R-Ore.) said here. f
He made public a letter from
Brig. Gen. John H. Stokes, jr..
Sixth army chief of staff, that said
Camp White "is on the list; of
camps to be constructed in the
near future." 1
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HealthWork
Marion county "i health depart
ment will accept two University
of California students this sum
mer for completion of their mas
ter's degrees in health education,
the health executive committee
decided Thursday. The students
will pay their own costs.
The committee viewed the sta
tistical reports showing that births
were fewer and deaths more dur
ing March than in March 1950.
However, the first quarter of the
year has had no maternal deaths
and none from automobile ac
cidents. One death was caused by
one of the 1,542 cases of influ
enza last month. - , (
Births drdbped from 209 to 198,
of which 10S were boys and 92
girls, making the first quarter
total 587,- compared with 681 a
year ago.
The 50 male and 27 female
deaths, including one infant,
compared with a total of 66 in
March,. 1950. The quarterly total
was up from 208 to 222.
Causes of death included heart
disease 24, disease of the arteries
10, kidney disease 9, cancer 7,
apoplexy 6.
The month's communicable di
sease list ranged from influenza
1,542, through mumps 82, chick
enpox 53, measles 48 to one of
poliomyelitis. Quarterly totals in
clude 300 mumps. 134 chickenpox
and 93 measles, all far above the
1950 figures.
The committee heard City Man
ager J. L. Franzen's report that
sufficient funds are not available
for fluoridation of Salem's water
supply, as a deterrent to dental
decay; statement by Dr. W. J.
Stone that the department does
not expect to have to request
emergency funds to complete this
fiscal year; granted Mrs. Alice
Bergmann a six-weeks leave . of
absence to visit her home in
Switzerland.
Cottage
Convaltsctnt Home
Under New Management
Mrs. Winifred Perry Laneo,
K.Nana
Mrs. Ads Harder, Managers
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Garden Project
For Youngsters
In Salem Urged
Summertime home gardening by
Salem boys and girls was recom
mended Friday by city 4-II club
leaders. ,
Fun and economy can be the
result of gardening started through
the 4-H vegetable garden project,
said James Bishop, city 4-H ex
tension agent. The clubwork is
open to boys and girls 9 years old
or older. .
A well-planned 4-H garden will
provide a large .variety of veget
ables over a long period of time.
Garden information through bulle
tins provided in the 4-H garden
project is available to city youth
having garden space and who en
roll in club work.
Five members from the same
neighborhood, with an adult lead
er, may organize as a 4-H club.
Further information may be ob
tained from the city 4-H extension
agent at room 210, public school of
fice building, 473 N. Church st, or
phone 2-8429. -
snxsa conceit held
AMITY The third annual spring
concert of Amity school music de
partment was presented at the high
school auditorium. The grade
school band, high school band, the
mixed chorus, girl's chorus and
musical numbers were given.
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