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---"-- ..utmuiitun ".... ...... J I ! 'Jl.vf S' ? r t M "i 1 .(in ! it ' L ' '-. act s. tfo Towor Sways Vs. No Tear Shall Awe Ft first Ststesaaa . March t. 1151 j THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING C05IPANY ... CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher I " rslHed every oercisx. Ccsiaea efflct 21S 8 CooaerdiL Calta, Orersn. Ttltp&esa X-Z11X. at the postamce at Salem, Oregon, as secead elan matter Baser act af congress Karen X. 17 Wesco FUD in Trouble v Over in Wasco county the push for public power that attended the construction of Bonne ville dam resulted in formation of the Wasco people utility district (PUD). With the en- couragement oxxerea Dy government creau n low rates fanners in Wasco county formed the Wasco Electric cooperative. Both get power from Bonneville, but similarity seems to end right . there..- --'-.. V; - -''jJr.-: U . The PUD centered its interest in The. Dalles. Failing in its attempt to buy the facilities of Pa- tributing lines of its own in the heart of The nallM. This nut it in eomnetition with the pri vate company, but the latter reduced its rates, ' !iL - ... ...-- ...vi:. Wlf approval Ui me yuimiiiMiuim ruuub Utilities and retained most of the business. : Operations of the PUD have been at a loss, reported by the Oregon Voter at $1000 a month. Its net worth the first ox the year was sv.uuu though it has collected $75,000 in taxes. Next year it must pay the first instalment of principal i on the $289,000, in revenue bonds outstanding, -. t- !1L 1 I t ...ill V.. 1 C 4KA Ttia plight of the PUD has given worry to its direc $ tors aad to its bondholders. Milton Ma pes, for- nt s tlnrnpv tn see what he can da to save . , the situation. Default by the PUD would be wid ely advertised as a failure of public ownership, but even the president, W. J. Seufert, admits it is near the brink. 1 ' ; The1 rural cooperative on the other hand has been quite successful. It has paid $70,000 on its loans from REA in advance of due dates and has iR?Baa In ravines bonds on hand. The svstem has net value of over $1,500,000. It owes REA , around $1,700,000 but gets this at a low interest rate. The cooperative has grown from 400 mem bers in t041 toiover 1500 at present. The obvious difference is that the rural cooperative-serves without competition while the with ah efficiently operated private system. The with an effidenqperated private system. The PUR has &ke& the manager of the cooperative - r ' " A ' 1 1. - Ml' Z Ffl . W run -lv system wo win nave ouices in xnc Dalles. But the horse he is asked to doctor, is ' pretty sick.. ..v ' .... ' . The democrats have si new national chairman, Frank McKinney of Indianapolis who will serve without pay. He has President Truman's promise to recommend that collectors of internal revenue be put under civil service. This should end a lot of the trafficking that has become a national scandal, but it should be recalled that not until the' present administration did the internal re venue department let itself get all smeared up, even though collectors were! political appointees. The Long Beach laborer who was revived af ter jbeing "dead". 15 minutes and has since lain in a coma recovered enough; to ait up in bed, but. doctors say he has no mental capacity. Then is his mind "dead, and has his soul departed the body? Physiologists and theologians may wrestle over the questions. i i : The cease-fire talks appear to be stalemated over the question of Kaesorig. Let's hope today's melting sees some progress and that a final agreement will be reached . by Novembe, 12. That's Armistice day. If the Korean warfare ended by then, the orators and paraders already scheduled would have something to celebrate. ; India's Nehru has proposed internationaliza tion of the Suez and Panama canals. He's, always ready to propose solutions to other people's problems, but he is extremely adverse to outside help (such as the proposed! United Nations me diating in the dispute oyer .Kashmir). Why doesn't he practice what he preaches? president Truman or. any" president will be chary about a cozy threesome with Churchill .an4 Stalin, as he recalls the drubbing received over Yalta and Tehran and Potsdam. Hell be reluctant to go even with the promise of Stalin's head on a diplomatic platter. u 1 Sheppard King, the; wealthy Texas playboy, goa quickie divorce in Mexico so he can marry an (Egyptian belly dancer. He also became a Mohammedan and took the name Abdullah. The trouble with Abdullah is that he has had too much moola. Racesin Hawaii An American citizen of Japanese ancestry has been appointed magistrate in a Honolulu court. He is Robert K.Murakami, a native of Hawaii, who graduated from the Territorial normal school and the University of Chicago. One son is serving In the 'army as a private, another is a freshman at Cornell university, a daughter is a senior at Cornell university.' Hawaii offers an interesting study in race re lationsit is a veritable melting pot, with a minimum ef race consciousness.' It is easy to see in the case of the Murakami family that it has been pretty well assimilated into-the "American way of life." Yet some are said to oppose state hoed lor .Hawaii on the ground that some of its "alien" races may sit in congress. The loyalty of the Hawaiian nisei (Americans ef Japanese an cestry) was proved so fully in the late war that they should, suffer no penalty because of their race. - . ; The Farmers Union is circulating petitions calling for standard time the same "standard time" they thought they were getting when they voted in 1950. They could work up a good theme song out of the old hymn: i'The old time Time is good enough for us." - i $ : ' ; IJvery time we hear predictions that Winston Churchill will be coming over, palms up, we are reminded that alliances between nations, like marriages between individuals, cannot live on love alone. . i -. Not so many hunters were mistaken for deer and shot this season, but there was the usual quota of hunters who succumbed to heart failure or who got lost in the woods. Red hats will not prevent these happc lgs. j ) "Stop the trend to socialism," is the cry of the republicans. The way some of the public officials in the "fair deal" administration have been "get ting theirs" indicates they aren't waiting for so Three pleasure seekers lost their lives water skiing at the motrthof Netarts bay, though they haT been warned pf danger by the man who rented them a boat. A number of fishermen have los their lives while boat-fishing in the bays of southern Oregon. Like the mountains the sea can be j treacherous and take its toll of those who nusguess its moods. ;; i Minus signs appear on the temperature re cordings, as well as business earnings. That they can't blame on the new tat bill. The new warden has instituted a report card system for inmates. But he; doesn't let them out to ake the card home and get it signed. Eisenhower's Candidacy Said Needed; to Confidence in U. S. Leadership Give World i By Joseph Alsop 'WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 The propaganda of the Taft forces, that General Dwight D. Eisen hower Is not a republican, and is! really; more likely to take; the democratic ' ' nomination, is tainted at the" . , source. The fact t ii that If Presi dent Truman had waited onet mere taonth to - . offer the gen- X esal the com-1 mandia -Europe, I he would h a v e l - enrolled -himself at republican ln New York state. Acting with General Esen howerVknowledge, his friends at that time had already sought to arrange his enrollment in Kan sas, only to find that Kansas i state law forbade it - On the other hand, the fact must also-be faced that the rela i tion between President Truman, as commander-in-chief, and Gen eral Eisenhower, as an American soldier in uniform, can easily con stitute one of the most serious Imnoo'iienti of the draft-Eisenhower movement. ; t at oa the pehlia te .1S45, -whO. Geaersl raa stm cowif ana- - is ia Germany, the president , offered io support the geaeral: for office be misnt destre. laoledtar the presidency. TThas te not on record, bat ap- - years to te well aethentlealed, is taat 4he president renewed " ttiia offer to General TSsen- . bower not lonr before the 194S eleetloQ. At that time aa Eisea kower eaadidaey was betas ' sanch discossed by both par , ties, aad President Truman was himself actively preparing te t make the fUM to raeceed hlsa- : ef. 'v .;, In short there, was all the dif- ' iferr'e in the world between this reported seconds Truman of fer, and the first one, made when the president still had the habit of telling all and sundry that he . did not want to be in tne wnne House and wished to goodness he were anywhere else; If , one eonsldera for a mo ment the Impact of such an of fer, coming from the president - aad eommander-la-ehlef to a soldier aad man of honor, it Is easy to see why the Tnunan . Elsenhower relationship . may' - be stambllnx block to the Elseahower backers. The gen eral's - natural tmpalse most have been to match the presi dent's reneroslty. There was -only ene way te do this by saying that he would not eoa alder enterinr the lists against ' his former chief. No one can doubt , the president's sincerity In maklnr bis offer, for ho Is any thins but a trickster. Bat It is also true that he would have bad to sit up all nifht thinkinr of a better way to make sure General Eisenhower would not '. ran. tN- - f-. ' yj- -J ; ' In the present case, of course, there is no reason whatever to . believe that the - president will . say again what he said before., It would be extreme and dis torted if he did so. But those' close to him are frank to admit that even although i the general may wish to keep the discussion strictly to military questions, the president may . have; brought up their common political problem. What! they think the president might have said is J that he re gards General Eisenhower as en tirely free to make his own choice as to the political problem in his own good time, onljr allowing the president the' chance to find a successor for him if need be. ' If the president 1J say this, there Is aeala aotdoab that bo was speakJaa sincerely, fio Is a party man, but he is also a man of strong personal feel- - I-- - Ins whose loyalties rovern his political behavior, sometimes to bis own rrave disadvantare. On ( the ; other hand, even If , the . president merely assured - the ; renersl that he Is wholly free : Z ia tnTr M im rhnlr. It Is arain true that this was an other exhibition of generosity, once more by implication de manding somehow to be match- j ed. -j - ,-- . . Besides this difficulty wim his commander-in-chief those who should know assert that there are two other factors tending to hold General Eisenhower back. The first is his known conviction that it is wrong to make the direct transition ; from service in uni form to the political struggle. The second is the often-repeated ar gument that the progress of west ern rearmament .depends upon General Eisenhower's continu ance in Europe. These are strong Influences, bat they oaght to be complete ly nullified by the great change that has came over the situs-, tion ' since 1948. ' On the one band, ia i 1948, whatever else yea might say, the president was successfully and even bril liantly carrying forward the f orelga aad defense polities of the United States., For many . reasons, that baa ceased te be ; :the case. . ( - 4v.. . . v " . On the other hand, thero is thtf crying need, the heart-felt long ing for leadership men can have faith in, not only in this coun try, but in the whole free world. Eisenhower as president will not merely avert a' republican plunge into . isolationism, he .will, not merely inspire far greater confi dence abroad .than Eisenhower as general. Above all Eisenhower as president will meet the need and satisfy the longing for lead ership men can follow with good hopes and high hearts. This is his real significance This is bis unique value and promise. - iCopyrifht. 1951. New York Herald Tribune, IneJ The Safety Valve DRUAAMER BOYS OF 1951 (ContrUMtioas to this column should bo Quitted to 300 words. Writs only aa sea side of paper; give name and full address. Poetry is sot accepted. ; SL MJZ 1 i i Si Rep. Walter Norblad has sent a stiff note to Oscar Ewing, administrator of the federal security administration. In it Nor blad' questions the advisability and the sanity of some. of the ' 1 ' i A. It 1 l : t.'. tAl 1 1- . . A 1 -t projects in uie puouc neaiui orancn oi me se- curity administration, which recently has been granted $782,000 in taxpayers funds. "At a time when our national debt is at its highest point" ' says Watchdog Walter's letter, "and when our y peacetime spending has likewise reached an all-time high and our federal taxation is reach ing astronomical, heights,' I fail to understand the wisdom of spending public money for some of these projects. DTP 3CO000S I ( .N. j 1 Tolerance for enTironmental stress In aged aad newborn sheep and goats,' Is the title for a research program for which yoa have granted $19,000," continues the Norblad let-, ter. 'An analysis of the peyoto cult aa a social movement among the Navajo Indiana' is another project siren $2O0 of the tax payers money. , M 'Cultural and psyciatric factors in the mental health of the Hutterites,' is a study listed as obtaining $7,500. Not knowing who the Hutterites might be I called the Library of Congress and their immediate reference books did not contain the answer. After some searching they advised that the best information they could obtain was that they were probably a religious sect some where in South Dakota, i v j N "Other projects could mention include The influence of pre adult environment on animals behaviour and neurosis,' at $1,000; 'Aa emprical study of special adjustment, social technique and personal values,' granted $8,000; a study to demonstrate the in terrelationship between automatic changes, emotion aad certain cutaneous reactions In normal and pathological akin,' given $7,000. "'A 4ltIA v:u v. i : - i - j tie Ann. it n uuu siuujr ui uuiuicu icxiei viui , awuueu fiii,vvu, in vestigation of the interaction of social and heredity factors, af fecting neurosis and nervous stability in mammals,' for $9,000; Promotion of marital adjustment in men and women as an aid to good mental health," at $17,000; and last but not least, a grant of $12,000 to "study unconscious' factors governing courtship and mate-selection.' On this latter I am advised that the professor to whom the grant was made stated that he is trying to 'uncover name of economy and common sense in government, it seems only, proper that your office should reexamine these grants and cancel them. Truly Yours, Walter Norblad." . . . For a while there we thought maybe some of our tax money was being used foolishly. ' J : ."":':!,'-.'Hv ; - ;':V." ' j GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty 1 '-..1 - ' (Continued from page one) comers. Doc ' Barrick told ' of laurels won by the Y volleyball .teams of the 1930s. ' Other sides of Y activities were reviewed. The first ,Hi-Y; club was formed in 1917 and Dr.' "Vfolcott Buren gave names of. many in the first club, some of . whom have gone On to become quite famous. Harry. Scott told' of the first Ys Men's club the early morning birds who i got down to the Y at 50 for a workout in the. gym, a shower and breakfast. , f The Y 'has played an active part in Salem's life over the past six decades. It has had a band of loyal supporters: Prof. W. I. Staley was president of the board for many years, then Paul Wallace served a considerable period. Tinkham - Gilbert has been the recent president but he gave place to Frank Bennett, the newly elected president at the conclusion of the annual meet ing. Among board members of long standing were Tom Lives ley, Bob Hendricks, Tom Kay, Joe Albert, C. P. Bishop; others still in service' include John Farrar, Carle Abrams, Dr. Browne Dr. Mark Findley. Pres ent at the "Homecoming" were Claude Kells, long time general secretary of the. Salem Y. It would be a mistake how ever to think the Y is living in its past. ; Introduced Monday night were boys who are heads of many of the Y-sponsored or ganizations.; In fact the Y is so crowded now trying to serve youth and ther community that the fine plant of 1926 is quite in adequate. The great increase in number of children in the dis trict which . has forced school building construction. Is felt by the Y (and by the YWCA as well); and expansion plans wait only the provision of funds to - make them effective. The Salem Y is rightly proud of its past, but Gus Moore, pres ent . general secretary, and his staff are primarily concerned with the present and future; how to serve the community in gen eral and young men and . boys In particular. The Y wants to live up to its title as a Young Men's Christian association. - Bettor Englfsh V X. What is Wrong with this sentence? "Why do you not own up that you were there, when It has been proven?" ? 2.1 What is the correct pronun ciation of "hygienic"? S. ' Which one of these words is misspelled? Instantaneous, in seperable, insidious, indeclina ble. ! - ' . 4. What does the word "lineal ly" mean? , - - - - 5. What Is a word beginning with pel that, means "transpar ent"? - --: i, ANSWERS 1. !Say, "Why do you not con fess that you were there, when it " ha heen Braved?" 2. Pronounce hi-ji-en-Oc first I as in high, sec ond and third Ts as In it, e as tn men. accent third syllable. - 3. Inseparable. . In a manner de- . scending in a direct line from "an ancestor. "The princess is lineal ly descended from the conquer or." 5. Pellucid. Tear opponent will try te expose year record to the voters, ...well hava te try and classify it as tea secret ..." Tea Toe a sheep etee a eaa skin him only Doughton Says Charter Kevoked ? To the Editor: . My attention has been called to an item appearing in the club calendar of The Oregon States man; the meeting of the Disabled American Veterans - auxiliary, Salem Chapter No. 6, on Tuesday, . November 8, 195L This notice has appeared in .the Saturday, No vember J, Sunday, November 4, and the Monday, November 3 Is sues of The Oregon, Statesman. For your information the aux iliary unit Is no longer a legal operating unit, as their charter has been revoked as of August .20, 1950, end J quote from a let ter sent, to everyone concerned by the national headquarters of the auxiliary at Colorado Springs, Colo.: f - , " - "At the request of Salem Chap ter No. 6, DAY, and by action of the DAV state convention, the national executive committee of our parent body, after a full hear ing, revoked the charter of Salem unit of the auxiliary, effective August 20, 1950." No appeal was taken to the DAV national con vention, then in session, and the revocation is finaL , "The action of the parent body did not depend on whether, the charter issued to the unit was actually -returned to - national headquarters or not. On August 20, 1950, Salem Unit No. 6 simply ceased to exist, and no member of the auxiliary could thereafter act or attempt to act in the name of the auxiliary, or otherwise dis regard the action of the parent body." a The defiance of this convention order has been going on through the columns of - The. Oregon Statesman and other local papers for over a year; and we intend to stop this if it requires civil court action. To continue to print news items as of above, or in any other department of your paper, we feel is nothing more than perpetuat ing a fraud to the people of this community.. We, therefore, ask your cooperation in carrying out the mandates of our national or ganization: ARCH L. BREWSTER, Commander DAV No. 6. 8EES CONTRADICTION IN NEWS STORIES f- J To the Editor: ' Last Sunday the Portland Ore gonian published a feature article concerning the new and contro versial state department of fin . ance. Included in the article was ' the following paragraph: "The director CMr. Harry S. - Dorman) this week abolished the . property control division which his department had inherited . from the board of control. This, he said, would result in employ . ment of seven fewer persons, and - would result in a saving of $45,- 000 in the biennium. Dorman ' said the change eliminated a du- plication of services.'' I - But on the preceding day the Oregon Statesman ' had reported the same matter as follows: "Employes displaced by aboli . tion of the state property control division were assured ,of other state jobs Friday by Harry S. Dorman, state director of fin ance. The eight-employe office was ordered closed by j Novem- . ber 15 and property control de centralized to Individual depart : ments." --.;:.;.v Both these paragraphs seem to ; quote Mr. Dorman rather expli-4 citly, but their meanings do not . seem to agree. -' ) As the Oregonian pointed out, : Mr. Dorman holds his present position by virtue of having serv ed as a campaign director for the governor in the last , election; And the governor is now reputed to have higher aspirations And while voters in the state at largo will welcome any reductions in the state's payroll, no matter how, Eiddling, state employes and per aps some merchants ' living in! Salem may be expected to view the matter in another light So Mr. Dorman 's office has thought fully provided separate press re4' leases which appear to give us what we want to hear, no matter who or where we are. : i ; But there are probably others besides myself who would real4 ly like to know which of the two news, stories is correct, and whether the present administra- tion seriously intends to save money from its enormous budget, . Perhaps further editorial discus-t sion on the matter could help us . to find out. ' j Howard Morgan I ' ' - , Rt 2, Monmouth, j 1177 DOWN PAYMENT 1177 pm I I ' MONTH 238 N. , COMMERCIAL Sales 1 ! .'if-' Service ' Acccsscrbs FOR AU MODUS -' s. A Why njllibns Call Hiiii mVI MTE3ER" Catholic loyalty to die Pope is the cause of never-ending amazemen t to many non Catholics. . - They wonder how an exclusively spiritual leader can command the devotion of nearly four hundred mil lions of people. They can not explain why this vase religious family... representing every race, color, language and political belief on the face of die earth. ..lives and grows through the ages, while man-made empires have their day of glory and then disappear. What is there about this one f 1 2D organized... that it was governed by the Apostles under the leadership of Peter. ..that it was teach ing Christ's truth far and wide, long before, the last book of the New Testament was written and the books of the Bible were collected into one volume. , Christ's purpose , In organizing a Church was to make certain that the good news of Redemption would be preached to all men... even to the end of the world. To accomplish this with fallible men, required mat He establish a Church man that causes people to speak divinely protected from error in of him in a hundred tongues as transmitting His teaching through Hdy 'Father"? : , , We find the answer, of course, not necessarily in the holiness of the man himself, but in his Christ the centuries. ! - The Catholic Church trices its unbroken history back to the Apos tlesback to Christ. And Catholics given office. The answer is found today call Pope Pius XII "Holy by tracing the history of the Cam- '' Father" because he is the lawful lie Church... the history of 262 and historical successor to Peter, successive .Popes. ..back through the first Pope. He is in our time . . J nearly 2,000, years to Christ Him- as Peter was in the first century ; - - ..... ....... '-. . . . - - . . . i . the Vicar of Christ on earth. l: elf. "We know as a matter of his torical fact that Christ did establish His Church... that He commis sioned the Apostle Peter as its first head . . ; that He sent His Apostles forth to teach men to observe all things He had commanded. . We know from the New Testa ment that the Church was actuall Would you like to know mora about the Pope.. i why the prom ises made by Christ to Peter and his successors make the Pope tha most important man in the world? Then write today for a pamphlet which we shall send you free and without any obligation. Ask fog Pamphlet No. 4-N. " SUPREME COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Rtliglous Information Burau j 4422 LINDELL BLVD. ST. LOUIS S, MOi , Or KNIGHTS OF COLUMSUS COUNCIL 1743 Cyril Mtusty -1749 tl 1 t:h St., Salem
