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Newspaper Page Texti ; 4 The Etategnca, Saleau Onon. Monday; May lh 1531 Wo mmllnt SUttnui, Uueb U U - THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COSIPANY v CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher FabUshed every aMraing. Batiam efflee tlS ft. Commercial, Salem, Oregon. Telepfceae X-2441. Catered at 3m postefflea at Salens. . .... "SurviYal of the Fittest" I In the bleak year of 1934 there were 12,093 business failures with total liabilities of $333,--959,000. From then one, the number and total losses declined until in 1945 only 809 concerns turned up their toes with liabilities only a tenth! of those in 1934, $30,225,000. But In 1949, be lieve it or not, the total had risen to 9,246; failures for a total of $308,109,000. .11 Of course in 1934 the number of business concerns operating had dwindled sharply from the 1929 peak, and low price levels made the' liability account low as compared with that of today. I j Now why did these businesses fail? Dun &j Bradstreet, the veteran credit rating agency, has completed a study of this subject. It; finds iStfit . in many cases the failures are human; failures: 'Failures " judgment, personality,' decision and know-how." Of the 9,162 failures! in 1950, 95 per cent were found due to the individual who owned the business. Another thing: "The first-five years are the hardest.";. Two out of every three that failed last year had; been in business for five years or less. -The Pacific coast has a bad record in this; respect. Between. 1940 and 1950 the biggest; upswing in business failures occurred on the Pacific coast. Last year our score was 24.1 per! cent of the total, exceeded only by the middle! Atlantic states with 31.9 per cent. Naturally) the states with more nearly static economies; showed a lower rate of failures. One page of the D & B study gives the failure' rate per 10,000 concerns in five retail lines, as! follows: food, 20; apparel, 75; furniture, 53;; electrical appliances, 85; shoes, 68. (Too much "charge in electric goods?) Personal deficiencies on the part of owners resulted in conditions which brought on failure. Diagnosis of these conditions by percentages: was as follows: inadequate sales, 45.7; heavy Derating expenses, 10.7; difficulties on receiv ables, 9.6; inventory difficulties, 11; excessive, fixed assets, 10.9; poor location, 4.2 competi- tive weakness, 13.7; other 6.1. -In a fluid economy like our own there are bound to be failures. In trade there is always competition, if not within one's own line then with other lines contending for larger shares of the customer's dollar. Many times individuals! profit from the experience of failing in one line. They may make a new venture and attain marked success. Frequently one reads of men who have made and lost several fortunes. They were m truth soldiers of fortune (and mis- fortune). J The record of business failure should not bei too discouraging. While many fail, others suc4 ceed, in greater or less degree. The old adage still has vftue: Nothing ventured, nothing wonf Great Debate, Here and Abroad . As the senate hearings resume today the great debate will pick up where it leftoff last week! In fact Senators Taft and McMahon had a week end radio argument which ended in the usual draw, neither one convincing the other. Taft claimed that the administration was applying most of the recommendations of MacArthur in the Korean war; McMahon denied it. Stopping f the flow of strategic materials to China was voted by U.N., and Dean Rusk of the state de partment has 'said we will help the anti-red Chinese; but we still haven't started bombing the enemy bases in Manchuria or laid down a naval blockade. Meantime the U.N. armies have done a good job in holding their lines near the Soviets May Retreat in Asia in Order to Build Up Pressure in West! Against Rearmament Br. William L. Ryan AP Foreign Affairs Analyst WASHINGTON, May 20 - Jfh The general tone of the Soviet press today points to this possi bility: The Kremlin at almost any time may make a spectacu lar move in an attempt to force the communist brand of peace. That would mean only a tempo rary truce. The pattern of the other Soviet strategic retreats In the past is being followed again and com munist logic would seem to indi cate a move. There have beenjenany rumors In the past few days of commu nist peace overtures to the west, and broad hits the Soviet Union Is out to get some sort of settle- Sent which might end the open r eastern hostilities. If American and other western statesmen have taken the expe riences of the past to heart, they will be extremely wary. The Russians have made their aims fully clear. The aim is to push the United States Into chaos - In a long war of attrition. A spectacular peace bid now would' be part of that war. Western statesmen know the Soviet Union is aware of the pressures which would be" brought about by such a move not only in the United States, but in England, France, Italy and western Germany, With a lessening of the tension by an end to hostilities; the polit buro would count on heavy pres sure in these countries for relief from high taxes, for an end to heavy military ; spending. - The. pressure could be so great as to . topple governments La Europe, and to force cutbacks in the United States, the Kremlin would figure. . " This, for the Soviets, would serve a number of purposes: 1. The Atlantic alliance would be weakened. The strong mili tary front now building in Eu 1 Fatwr Sioairt C7, Wo Fear Shall Oregon, aa seeead class matter under act at congress March t. ltT J if I t : - . . - i " , - : I ( Congress has been in session for four and a half months. Why hasn't it made more progress on bills for statehood for Alaska and Hawaii? practice seems to be to kill off this legislation by harrowing delays. No hearings are being held no need for them but neither house as put this legislation to a vote. Time for action . . . now. i i Overheard at the "lawyers table" at the Port land hotel: "Old judges never die, they : just draw their pay." f rope would recede. 2. Governments now sworn enemies of the would find their Soviet Union positions jeop- ardized if they insisted on a con tinued state of full alert against the possibility of! aggression. S. Pressures to end military , spending would j bring disloca tions in western : industry. The bolshevik doctrine always has been, and is today, that capi talist nations will fall of their own accord through economic chaos, and the Soviet drive has 5SE2 Literary Guidepost THEODORE DREISER, by F. O. Matthiessen (Sloane Asociates; 3.50; MY LIFE WITH DREIS ER, by Helen Dreiser (World Publishing: $3.75) ! The many i clear claims that Dreiser has ;to i greatness, and numerous obvious reasons why they may be denied combine to make his a major challenge f to the biographer, j Born i on the wrong side of the railroad tracks, he knew the 'America of which he wrote; but it was that part of America which was uninter ested in writing! and gave him no incentive to master the craft of it. So-he had a lot to say and. In his best novels, it was accur ate: but he said jit badly. He has been! compared to Balzac, who influenced him. But Balzac, contrary to some opinion, was not in fact a bad writer; a good deal of hint is very quota ble, he knew words, and the prose art. Dreiser did not. So there is the quandary: It sounds bumptious to maintain that Drei ser single-handed took the blind ers off the American writer, it sounds precious to complain that, in the professional sense, he never learned the English lan guage. Yet they both are true. Matthiessen says that with l t 1 -A , ( ,1 "-,''! Awi" 38th parallel by smashing the waves of com munist attack. i - ; Senator Wiley suggests the senate commit tee j should consider calling the president to testify; but he will get nowhere on that. The committee voted 18 to 8 against trying to force Gen. Bradley to report the conversations he had with the president on the firing of MacArthur, the basis of the vote being the regard for the in dependence of the executive department under our iconstitution. I ! Bradley returns to testify today. After him will come the chiefs off staff of the services: fcrmy, navy, airforce. Secretary Acheson is ex pected to testify which should provide a Roman holiday for his senatorial critics. And General MacArthur may be heard in rebuttal. Already though there are signs the senators have heard about enough. They are beginning to show more concern about the future course pt action than why the president gave Mac Arthur a ticket home. That is more important, and there again the decisions must be based on events as they transpire. What occurs in Korea (or Peiping or Moscow) may be of greater sig nificance presently than what happens in Wash ington. Behind their iron and silken curtains a great debate may be in progress between or among our enemies. Watich for how that argu ment is settled. I So Appeasement Please The United States made concessions to get Robert Vogeler'out of prison in Hungary, and now is confronted with demands from Czecho slovakia before the latter country will release William N. Oatis, AP cbrrespondent who; was summarily arrested in Prague. The reported demand is that the U. S.stop the broadcasts of Radio Free Europe now made from Munich, j j We trust the United States will repudiate the proposal. There may .have been some excuse for the Vogeler deal, but if it is to become a precedent then the satellite states will pick off its victims American citizens who fall within their clutches and makefresh demands on us. .There is no ground for arresting and holding Oatis, for he is an experienced correspondent, long in the service of Associated Press, which has strict requirements covering the perform ance of its workers abroad. There is. no chance jhat he has violated rules of AP or that he has engaged in anti-state activities as alleged by the communist government in Prague. ! Radio Free Europe is not a government operated or sponsored institution. It is financed by voluntary gifts of Americans. It broadcasts truths to the imprisoned peoples behind the Iron curtain. Its message should be continued to tell these people that the light of truth is kept burning in the west. I Can't the United States twist the arm of Czechoslovakia? Two can play at the game, though our methods are more humane. Give the Czechs a taste of their medicine and see if reprisals will not bring quick release for Oatis. been tog attempt to help along economic chaos. Every day now Pravda and Izvestia have frequent mention of the Moscow proposal for a f ive-powerv conference includ ing communist China to end the Korean jstrar. It would not be be yond the bounds of possibility for the I Soviet Union to dump communist China from such a conference, and bid the four powers I to a parley, a move which the west would find dif ficult to reject. The bid, itself, would be a ' spectacular move, j vjAmi.i' (i.yiiii.nfiiin.iw, i.u,.i,.j, m Hurstwood, Dreiser began his chief contribution to American literature", but admits it is hard today t$ understand how revo lutionary "Sister Carrie ap peared sat first. He says he lacked imagination, worked well only in the social field with which he was familiar, "just managed to be a writer by main force." - The biographer died before he finished! revising this book. The editors of the American Men of Letters series felt, however, that this represented his "main inten tion. - It's a very cautious ap praisal, especially by a man sym pathetic with "Dreiser's main in tention.! Yet it it marked by that searching intelligence and scrupulous honesty found In all of Matthiessen' work. It pre sents Dreiser as a great force. but not! exclusively a literary force.- f- . i ;. j ' . Helen Dreiser, the novelist's Intimate for 28 years and his wife fori his last year and a half, writes sincerely and naively. She -must bei supposed to know more -than anyone else about some as pects of. Dreiser, though her in formation is not transmitted suc cessfully here; - " ' ( : ' .-' WELCOME MOISTURE1 IN : THE OLD DUST BOWL J v 1 " ' v- - tl! Kit U' &V-?S-'Zi Dtp OTODS THDQDCg (Continued from page 1) . inquiry into the RFC asinine" though the disclosures forced the president to move for its im mediate reorganization. Considerable of this is petty stink, just the grafting of cheap skates. Some of it is just "crowd ing the pole" for favors because persons happen to be on the in side of the administration, like Donald Dawson taking free hotel accomodations at a Florida hotel. Some of course angled for big things, like Rosenbaum in dick ering over RFC loan applications. Ex-Congressman Casey seems to have turned his hand, perhaps legitimately, on big deals which netted him and associates large profits on purchase and sale of tankers. Some of the deals in purchase of merchant vessels in the late war and then in disposal of vessels after the war were shocking in the costs to the gov ernment. Even if the transactions were on the up-and-up the losses sustained . by the government created an atmosphere of "come and get it" which spread all through the ranks. On many major matters Presi dent Truman as acted to protect the public interest. Against heavy pressures from men in his own party he vetoed a bill to let off shore oillands revert to the states, and another bill exempting cer tain producers of natural gas from jurisdiction of the federal power commission. But he seems to have a blind spot where his cronies are concerned. A fresh broom is needed to sweep out the; accumulation of vermin who have gotten a foot hold in Washington. But there is always the danger that instead of sweeping out the vermin we merely let another tribe of lice k come to Inhabit the place. For grafters, big and little, operate on bipartisan lines. H3E feK fife SET A word fitly spoken Is like an apple of gold in a picture of silver. Proverbs 25:11. GRIN AND BEAR IT ! latest miracle dreg, comrade -vL Jp-, - r, remarkable jl. rs. &m ' MM & I vmmt mm - awjtf., ma Pf & aiJ-itI teil iff U A Consolidation Oi Libraries Aired at Meet Consolidation of large library units into regional libraries and training of librarians were among topics discussed at the Oregon Li brary association annual meeting in Eugene Saturday. Nearly 200 delegates took part in the discussion which pointed out that many Oregon counties are without adequate library facilities. A plan discussed would consoli date a county's library facilities into larger units offering better seryice. A new state law permitting Ore gon students to attend other north west state schools on an exchange basis was hailed as an advantage for the training of library Students. Oregon has no library school but students here could train at a state library school in Washington. Sixteen Salem delegates repre sented the state, city and Willam ette university libraries. Hugh Morrow, Salem city librarian, re tired as treasurer of the associa tion and was succeeded by Marcia Hill of Salem, state library em ploye. New president Is Cora Ma son; public librarian at Ashland. Also taking part In the day's pro gram were State Librarian Eleanor Stevens and Eloise Ebert, state li brary worker. Bettor English 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "It was him who told me of the unverified rumor. 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "clandestine"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Ensemble, environ ment, enterprize, compromise. 4. What does the word "gran diose" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with si that means "having a meaning"? -ANSWERS il. Say, "It was he who told me of the rumor (omit unverified). No rumor Is verified. 2. Pro nounce klan-des-tin, a as In am. as in set, I as In tin. accent on second syllable. 3. Enterprise. 4.1 Impressive or elevating in ef fect. "His manner was grandi ose." 5. Significant. by Lichty eemmissar . . . Is effecthag ffj mff Song Composer To Appear on j Salem Program Tim Spencer, organizer and leader of the "Sons; of the Pio neers," cowboy singing group, will appear in person Tuesday at 7:4$ pjn. in Salem high school audi torium, j ! He is the composer of many popular songs including ! "Room Full of Roses' which reached the top of the Hit Parade recently, He is a spark plug, in the Holly wood Christian group. He will singand play. rnn iterr, pianist and song writer, also will appear in the free program. Kerr has written over 1,200 songs and choruses, ; and is considered an expert on hymnol ogy. He has made more than 70 coast-to-coast concert tours. He is a leader in the Youth for Christ movement. The program Is open to the pub lic and is sponsored by the Salem Christian Business Men's commit tee. Battery Firm Gets Money For New Plant ST. PAUL. Minn. Albert H Daggett, president, announced yes terday, that under a refinancing plan, Gould -National Batteries, inc. nas arranged ' to borrow $3,000,000 from three life Insur ance companies. ' Of the total amount $5,000,000 will be used to retire notes pres ently outstanding and the balance will be added to working capital and will be available for the con struction of new plants, the pur chase of new equipment or other purposes. j j The additional funds provided will be available for the accom plishment of the company'sS .000, 000 program providing increased capacity, particularly in the indus trial division to manufacture bat teries required by the armed serv ices, j ! (Gould-National Batteries oper ated the battery production plant in westside Salem. On a recent visit here, President Daggett said expansion was being planned for the local plant) i ! Hobo King Due AtFunerdlfor General Coxey SEATTLE, May 20-P-Hobo King Jeff Davis headed east today, riding first class. j The man, who rode to fame on the rods of the nation's railroads, boarded an airliner for a sad trip east.. s He was hurrying to the funeral services of his most famous sub ject, "General Jacob S. Coxey, a trustee of the Hoboes of America. Coxey, who led a march on Washington in 1S94, died in Mas sillon, O. He will be buried Mon day. . j .H The "General was arrested for trespassing on the capitol lawn. In 1944, he stood on the capitol steps and finished the' speech he began 57 years ago. This time he was presiding over the annual con vention of the Hoboes of America. The king will be a pallbearer for the general and will speak at his rites. ; - . ACTOR'S WETS BETTER HOLLYWOOD, May 20 - 6PV- Actor Jimmy Stewart said today that -the condition of his wife; Gloria, has improved so much he is able to return to work. EmiloyerTdld Not to Assist Anti-Red Union WASHINGTON, May 20-jP-The belief that a union has pro communist leadership doesn't just ify an employer in helping a rival union organize his' workers, the national labor relations board held today. The ruling, voted by the NLRB 4 to 1, involves the Stewart-Warner corporation, the United Elec trical Workers (UE) which had been expelled from the CIO on charges - of following communist party programs rather than CIO policy, and the AFL International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (D3EW). It was charged that the employer aided the IBEW in un seating the UE as bargaining agent for its Chicago plants. Although the charges first were filed by three UE members, in cluding John Kelliher, president of the UP local, the board chose to act upon similar charges of em ployer interference filed later by the dO-International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE). This union was chartered by the CIO over the UEs jurisdiction after the UE was thrown out of the CIO. The IUE has taken away many major contracts once held by the UE. James J. Reynolds, lone mem ber of the board to dissent, said he would have dismissed the charges against the employer for lack of evidence that the IBEW actually had been aided by the em ployer. In his dissent be did not discuss the communist is&ie. The board said congress, through the Taft-Hartley act, had not au thorized the board to condone em ployer violations even though they "may be motivated in part by patriotic objectives. The law pro hibits the boss from interfering with the organizing activities of his employes. K. of C. Elects State Officers GRANTS PASS. May 20-WV The annual state convention of the Oregon Knights of Columbus con cluded here today with re-election of all officers. They, are: Jasper W. Kennedy. Eugene, deputy; Edward J. Bell, Stay ton, secretary; Vernon W. Collver, Reedsport, treasurer; Wal ter R. Hansen, Bend, advocate; Jack Lynch, Oregon City, warden. Delegates to the national con vention are Dr. F. A. Reiling, Eu gene; William Plasker, Tillamook,; Kennedy and Sylvester Smith. Alternates include Don DoexHer, Salem; Thomas Bagan. Salem; W. Douglas Harris, ML Angel, and F. Ross Coleman. St. Paul. Salem was selected for the 1952 convention. Delegates voted to hold a state-wide. "Catholic day" July 8 at Champoeg state park. Radio Program To Feature 4-H Members Salem 4-H club members and leaders will participate in the state 4-H club radio program over KOAC. Corvallis, tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Club members taking part from the state school for the blind are Gayle Sandine, piano solo; Darrell Beers, and Homer Ding and Jack BrazieL Instrumental trio. Frank Sanders, music instructor and James Rybloom, dean of boys and 4-H club leader will accompany the group. Mrs. Jack French, president of the Salem -H leaders association and leader of a clothing club, will take two members of her club, Kay Nickerbocker and Jean Hubbard, to discuss the 4-H club program. James Bishop, Salem 4-H club ex tension agent, will accompany the group to Corvallis. The half hour program tonight Is one of two given by Salem 4-H members and leaders during the year, Bishop said. ORCHESTRA SINGER WTTJJrn SLOATSBURG, N. Y, May 20 (A) Donald Brown, 29, featured vocalist with Tommy Tucker's or chestra for the last nine years, and another musician were killed to day when their automobile smashed into a store-front in the Sloatsburg business district. WHAT'S FURNITURE COMPANY Going To Do NOW! (,1; j .". " ( Only 1 0 Down - w 7lf , - - ma) Columbia River To Crest Tuesday PORTLAND. May 20-W-Tha Columbia and Willamette rivers in the Vancouver. ; Waah.-Portland area will rise slowly and crest at 20 J& feet Tuesday, river forecasters reported today. The expected crest is not high compared with last year's -spring high water mark of Z5 feet, the weather bureau reported. Md-Valley's Iris Gardens In Full Bloom f -5 By LC21 L. Madsea Garden Zdltor. Tbe Statesaam Although iris growers report, that they have had the worst spring in their. Willamette valley iris growing experience, you would not guess it in looking over th blooms and arrangements at the Cooley Iris garden headquarters on James avenue, SQrerton. The annual Iris Week at Silver ton opened here Sunday and will continue through ' this week and over next Sunday. Visitors are also being welcomed this week at the Cooley Iris farm, known as tbe old Benson farm, on Brush Creek road. Because of the closed road at Brush Creek, the only en trance to the farm is from the Sil vertons'de. - J Dr. R. . Kleinsorge, nationally known iris breeder St Silverton, says- that in his SO years of iris growing he has never seen a worse winter for them. Those that are blooming to good shape, are cer tainly hardy, be added. First the "summer weather" of December and January advanced lbe iris greatly, enabling them to b "caught properly in" the heavy freeze of February. The late April frost and the heavy hail Silverton had in May all gave -assistance to keeping iris from being at their best. f However, the Cooley iris house is filled with a fine .collection of colorful bloom all from their own iris gardens. Mrs. Rholin Cooley's arrangements, which! have added much to the success of the show in recent years, are exceptionally fine this year. .' All irises are labeled at the show and there is always someone at hand to discuss iris culture or give other information. Too, there are members of tbe firm at the ris farm who will show visitors about, Some new introductions, which had been expected to be out for the show, win not bloom this spring at all, and a few will be too late for tbe show. However, this week s definitely the peak of the iris blooming season -in the Wil lamette valley. Open to visitors too. are the lovely display beds of the Schrei ner's Iris gardens at Salem Route 2, in the Quinaby area. The beds will be at their best aU this week, and Sunday found the scores of visitors who came to the Cooley Iris show motoring i out by the Schreiners Gardens, to view them also. Tbe Schreiner family are extending a welcome to all vis itors throughout the week. GOP Banker Said in lane For RFC job WASHINGTON, May 20-CP-A Chicago banker, active in repub lican poUtics, was reported today to be President Truman's choice for the post of No. 2 man in the reconstruction finance corpora tion. . ; Highly informed sources who declined to be named said Mr. Truman barring some unexpected last minute hitch will name Pe ter L Bukowski, president of the Cosmopolitan National Bank of Chicago, as deputy RFC adminis trator under W. Stuart Syming ton. ! Bukowski is a former manager of the RFCs Chicago loan agency and a long-time friend of Syming ton, i Feeiytriinrri r. SAVINGS AND HOME LOANS 5 SEE msr I FEDERAL SAVINGS FIItSTl Current Rdte 2Vi 129 Nerth Commercial AST FEDERAL SAVINGS & AID L0A!I ASSU "TOere Theesaads Save MHIIamr r 1 Kj - '?" CO Z.isnths io 'Pay : i . .