A wwiiii tut AtTBfe TRiLdoiMs What? : ? s - No Favor Sway U. No Feat Shall Atoe First gills Hare U. 1111 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY Flushed every Catered at the CHARLES A. SPRAGUS, Editor and Publisher Beataess efflee SIS S Ciwiwifflil. Bslem. Oregon. TUehtM t-1441. at Balem, Oregeo, as aeeeod class matter nader act at eeagreas March S, 1S7I "Social Graces" for the Irish George Bernard Shaw was an Irishman but his wife was English. They lived their lives out In England. Whether it was a natural reaction from living with GBS or some fixed .notion regarding the Irish in general something prompted Mrs. Shaw to leave her estate for educating the Irish in the "social graces." The bank serving as trus tee under her will recently went to court and had judicial confirmation of its purpose to carry out its trust, which was, in the language of her will, to teach the Irish "self-control, elocution, deportment, the arts of personal contact and so cial intercourse." The bank will have her $263, 000 to use in the instruction. Now how will the Irish feel about this? Will they resent this reflection on their social grace and take a shillalah to the first banker's man who comes with a book of etiquette? Or will they see the humor of the situation, take the pamphlet or the lecture and enjoy the time withal? The Irish long have had the reputation of be ing apt at personal contact and social intercourse so apt that those who came to America rose quickly in politics. What would the police force of New York city and Boston be without the Irish? As for "elocution" wherever did you see an Irishman who was tonguetied? Do they not have the Blarney stone, the kissing of which loosens the tongue and promotes eloguence? We fear the bank will just be throwing Mrs. Shaw's money away. The judge himself was skeptical of the success of its project. For once the Irish -themselves have not spoken up to say how they feel over this course in social deport ment. We fancy though they will take it all in stride. After all the punishment the Irish have endured this will be minor and of short duration. was less extensive electric outage than in an earlier storm this season. But power and tele phone linemen were kept busy keeping service .open. Several fatal accidents occurred in the region affected, and much property damage was reported along the West coast. Every year we get heavy storms, but only once in a blue moon do we get one like that of Tues day, where the barometer drops nearly out of sight, and the wind lays the rain out nearly flat. The storm blows itself out, however; and the calm is a welcome relief from the tempest. We can endure the few days of storm for they are well offset by the pleasant, mild weather we have most of the year. Stop, Look and Listen So involved are the complications respecting possible dropping of membership in the state re fcWmeot -system for public employes and shift ing to federal social security that it is advisable for groups of municipal employes considering it to step, iook and listen first. Salem employes must have come to that conclusion after hearing the subject discussed Monday night. Perhaps the wiser course is to reexamine the state system and see what may be done to im prove it, so the federal system will not be at tractive ki comparison. In any event, look before you leap. Portland Council and Liquor Licenses City Commissioner Jake Bennett has the Port land tavern keepers sitting on the edge of their chairs for fear they will get no renewals on their liquor licenses. Licenses are issued by the state liquor control commission, but it asks for the recommendation of the governing body of the locality where the licensee's place of business is. The Portland city council Mayor Lee, Commis sioners Bennett and Bean are requiring licen sees to pledge to run no pinball, punchboard devices as a condition to getting the city's en dorsement for a new license. This' has put the state commission on the spot .and now Treasurer Pearson wants the state board of control to sit in on the game by urging the commission to ignore the reports of the Port land city council. The commission inclines to the view that the ruckus is up to the city to iron out; but that it should adhere to its policy of issuing licenses only on the recommendation of the local council or county court. Bennett claims the devices are illegal, that the attorney general has said so; and that liquor licensees should obey the law. A local ordinance banning punchboards has been held up by local referendum. But that doesn't stop the council from adding its requirement for a renewal rec ommendation. The gambling devices are illegal and should not be tolerated; but it does seem an arbitrary ruling to require a self-denying pledge before approving of a new liquor license. The state commission, however, would get into hot water if it started granting licenses without local en dorsement. It's up to Portland to settle its own squabble. Tuesday's Windstorm Dec. 4. 1951 will not rank in history with Dec. T, 1941; hut in this vicinity it will rank with thai April day in 1931 the 21st as the day of the Big Blow. Only this time it was from the other direction. In 1931 it was an east wind that developed into a duststorm. It blew the fine soil of the Inland Empire over the Cascades and the air on this side of the range was filled with dust. As a matter of fact dustclouds were carried out to sea 500 miles off San Francisco, as ships re ported. Tuesday's blow was in the opposite direction. Instead of dust it bore rainwater picked up in the broad expense of the Pacific. Where the wind "blew itself out" .we do not know yet; but Jpwas oing fast when it rushed by Salem. LocaHy the damage done was slight. There Sen. Paul H. Douglas of Illinois Is on the way to make a name for himself as a liberal who is also economical. As he says, "to be a liberal is not to be a wastrel." In the senate he has led many drives to cut government spending, but usually the free and easy spenders are in the majority. Too bad Douglas counts himself out as a possible democratic candidate for president. Young Republicans in Oregon are up and going. For proof look at the sharp competition they had in electing a new president. Clay Meyers of Portland was elected after a spirited race, over Phil Roth, Portland and Douglas Spencer, Cottage Grove. Shows the youngsters are politically wide awake. The Washington Bar association Is broadcast ing a series under the heading "You and the Law." ;The normal man's reaction probably is: "Who, me?" Egyptian Leaders1 Plan to Turn People Against Great Britain May Boomerang 41 Br J. M. Roberts, Jr. AoaocUted Press News Analyst WASHINGTON, Dec. 5-(JP-The traditional scimitar of the modems has but one edge, but there seems to be an Increasing suspicion that it Is about to start M&Zmm?!&&"t cutting both wajra-in -Egypt. The fanatic nati on a 1 i s t s have been turn- British 4) y a cy- rv nical leadership ff, : which aought to I IC ' interest away from the failures of government. In doing so. the government may find itself the evenftti victim of rebellion against -all authority. Renewed violence in the Suez canal eminds that it has been Just 7s fears since Britain had to cotsstact a major campaign to save me Khedive from his own people. A rationalist mavement ha i-a-rebellisa araJost a - which vu bath ttnut efficient, the same aa to day. IWKhedive was in beck te Franee -sad Britaia. and wheal the? seved la U sat his flaaa ciaiawta order, they eat wa Fart ef It revetted. be Is attracted much sympathy throughout tha Moslem world. Their leaders were exiled to Cey lon rather than executed as tha Khedive wished, and Britain moved in to take over Egypt for fair. Governmental reforms were instituted, the people began to get a little better break. But Britain was a foreign ruler, the fires of Nationalism had been lit, and Moslem blood had again been spilled by s European army. New the Egyptian government baa sicked the fanatics oa the Bri tish, bat stands In constant dan ger of Itself being caught in tha ebb and flow of violence. The government has tha support of a Gandhi-like non-coo peratlon movefnent started against tho British by Al Axhar, the great In ternational central religious or ganization of Moslems. This is next of kin to a holy war. What will happen to this If the ugly public temper of Egypt's Moslem begins to eat both ways against the government as -veil ss against Britain Is another matter. StfS'TifHv9isSflS5fuOsS D. F. Hughes, Aurora farmer, doesn't stand for any monkey business in his hen house. When his wife went out to gather eggs the other day here was this 'monkey in the chicken coop. And it was no yoke to the hens who were wild with excitement. So Mr. Hughes came out with his shot gun and put an end to the strange simian pullet plaguer. Later eyeryone concerned found out the morfkey was an escapee from a nearby roadside zoo. KEG000S 4 'X u Apparently there are ns levers la Salem who are willing to climb the highest moun tain, swim tho widest sea, go through sleet, hail or snow for each other . . . Because dur ing Tuesday, what with tho wind and rain In everybody's hair, not a single marriage license application was Issued at tho Marion county clerk's office. Christmas is going to be a mighty slim affair for a family of 10, recently arrived here from the mid-west. The Frank Dynes family, including eight children, were flooded out of Topeka, Kan., last July. They landed in Salem broke. A new baby came last month. Dynes, who is living at 1115 S. 17th st., apt. 3, says he doesn't want charity, he wants work. But he can do only light work. He's a carpenter by trade. Tho price of keeping dogs may go up . . . Marion county court is considering- a request from the county dog control board to boost tha license ante on dogs. Tags now cost canine keepers $1 for males and 12 for females. The control board wants to boost esch a buck. Oregon law leaves It up to the county courts to set fees. It's getting to bo doggone expensive even to lead a dog's life these days. Marlon county fees are the lowest in tho state. Marion County District Judge Val Sloper got a letter from a south Salem housewife. She complained that lunch meat sold in some stores was getting worse all the time. Wanted the judge to take up the matter of allegedly bad meat being sold in Salem . . . Street scene: It was pouring down rain and the street corner at Broadway and Market street was badly flooded. A young couple (probably married) came along. The woman was wear ing boots, but not the man, so she hauled him across piggyback. Politest woman we've ever seen. (Continued from page one.) the moves that Stassen makes on his return from Europe. The Eisenhower campaign, vir tually headless as it is, has gone so far that the country assumes Ike is going to make a try for the republican nomination. If he were not he surely would have laid a restraining hand on his ad mirers before this. The Oregon ian thinks the political agitation has done so much damage to his military position in Europe that Ike ought to resign now. At Rome tho word was around that Ike would be through March 1st, and speculation was rife on who his successor would be. From here on out it looks as though he would be in the posi tion of one winding up one Job with his eyes turning increasing ly toward the next one. Well, it's too bad too bad that the parties, both parties, are so destitute of able and popular leaders that they have to turn to a military leader, without ex perience in the field of oolitics, without known political affilia tion, though one with an excel lent reputation as a command ing general, and press him, against his own desire, to enter the political arena. With a good many the draft-Ike movement seems to be one of playing for a winner rather than to pick the best man for the present critical period. At any rate, Eisenhower can't keep up his Sphinx-like silence much longer. And if he realJy in tends to stand for the office, he'd better not wait too long. The "early bird" (Taft) is busy gathering in the delegates. Bettor English By D. O. Williams 1. What is wrong with this sentence? Til be through by five o'clock, and we'll try and solve your problem then." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "vague?" 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Emporium, calsium, millennium, helium. 4. What does the word "con jectural" mean? ANSWERS 1. Say, "I'll have finished by five o'clock, and we'll try to solve your problem then." 2. Pronounce vag, a ss In may, not as in bag. 3. Calcium. 4. Pertain ing to a surmise or guess. "It was a mere conjectural opinion." He If the frontiers of thought be not advanced steadily, they retro grade, like an abandoned farm growing up in brush. -Boston Globe Ways in Washington GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty Nationalistic uprisings already had occurred in Cairo and the Sudan. Hie rebels took advantage of the situation. They struck first against he Khedive, and finally occupied Alexandria, where It tunsed-efce other edge of its sword on foreign interests. ti SS r . n c of the trac ethat era. The British na vy oaaved 4a. desselisalag the city's tferta. When that Jab had a af-the citr disastrously delayed, looted aad burned it. thousands ef foreiners eft the whole place a : v -'Britain, then as now, is in a precarious position. The re- By Jane Eads WASHINGTON - UP) - Mrs. John Steelraan, wife of! the as sistant to President Truman, who whips up sensational hits over night, now picks . in her own liv- IP lng room Some- one sent her an orchid plant. In addition to hat making and or- Mrs, Steelman I has a reputation I as a top-flight cook. She toldr v . friends recently Siwr she enjoys getting dinners ready for her busy husband even though sometimes he phones from the White House he wont be home for dinner at alL . "Sometimes he works through a straight 24-hour stretch, she said. "I just put the food away In the refrigerator and wait.' ; Mrs. A. Mitchell Palmer, widow of President -Wilson's ; attorney general, hasnt missed a Supreme Court opening since 1922. O ! The feather In Mrs. Henry T. Grady's hat was paradise . . . one of the most extraordinary you've ever seen. Sheeting up from the center, it sprayed mag nificently almost to her shoulder. Since they arrived here from Iran, the ambassador and his wife have been on a breathless round of parties in their honor. They say Vice President Bark ley can't get off so easily now for the catnaps he likes to catch now and then. An air-conditioning engineer stopped the vibra tion in the crystal chandeliers in his office. He claims he misses the tinkling music that one of the chandeliers, bought by Thom as Jefferson, used to make. Mrs. John Horton, the former Drucie.Snyder, glamorous daugh ter of the secretary of the treas ury, and mother of a small son, is oneof the capital's most active young socialites, what with radio programs, charity work and party-giving. . Now she's taken on another ac tivity this season. She will be co producer, with Mrs. Gladstone Williams, of a weekly fashion show luncheon at the Shoreham hotel. Mrs. Williams' husband is a newspaper correspondent. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, jr., who used to be co-producer of "Washington Party," which attracts capital celebrities and socialites, will take part only oc casionally. As "Austlne," pretty Mrs. Hearst is a well-known so ciety columnist NO MORE STEAKS ST. LOUIS-f)-William Thorn ton was carrying no money when he answered a knock on the door and was confronted by a robber. But the robber didn't leave empty handed. He reached in Thornton's pocket and took his false teeth, valued at $75. The Safety Valve- f Coatrfbutloaa to this cohuna should bo ttmttad to 300 words. Write only oa Ida of paper; givo nam and full address. Poetry t not accepted. ? - Flags' Defends Shift to Pest With Trackers To the Editor: After spending most of my life in the newspaper business,-1 am well aware of the futility of an argument with a publisher. In fact, I would not even consider writing this letter were it not for the fact that I have long had a great deal of respect for your fairness and appreciation of the kindnesses you have shown me in comments from time to time re garding the administration of this office. I have no apologies for accept ing a position with the Oregon Highway Council. They repre sent a major industry, and have a cause they believe to be just. I see no impropriety in making this change, any more than there was in Commissioner Frank Mc Colloch leaving the position I now hold and becoming a repre sentative of one of the major railroads. He was a good public servant, and is a man of the highest type and unquestioned integrity. I doubt if you attacked him for making- the change. You state that my employ ment "is a signal that the public must bestir itself if the public interest is to be protected against the encroachment of private in dustry." In fairness, why not wait until some program has been developed by this new or ganization? I can assure you that I will never be identified with any attack on the public interest. Your statement that this de partment submitted figures on the effect of truck taxes from which we had to retreat Is com pletely in error, and just one of many misleading statements that came out of a bitter fight in the last legislature, in which rep resentatives of the railroads rather roughly assailed everyone who did not agree with them. Personally, I never appeared be fore a single committee in this connection; had no part in the preparation of figures, and was represented at all times by Mr. A. F. Harvey and I do not be lieve anyone who knows him will question his absolute honesty and his assistants. My only in struction to Mr. Harvey was that he furnish all figures desired by the legislature, and in most cases I never even saw them. But even at this late day I will guarantee their accuracy and honesty. I discussed my offer from the Oregon Highway Council with a good many people and not one raised the question or even sug gested that there was any im propriety in my taking a much better job than I have. I believe the industry has a story to tell, and it will be my job to do it You have never attacked my ad ministration of the very difficult and complicated job I have held during the past years, and I still hope that you will keep an open mind as regards my future ac tivities. The news story in tha same is sue of The Statesman that con tained your editorial comment stated that there were two im portant orders pending in the department whose issuance by me appeared doubtful, one a rate order of The Pacific Telephone Sc Telegraph Company, the other on an increase in truck rates. I assure you that I will not dodge the responsibility of Issuing the telephone order, and will take no action in regard to the truck matter, as I would consider such action improper under present conditions. GEO. H. FLAGG, Public Utilities Commis sioner. t (Editor's Note-In our comment we stated that Flagg could cite precedent for making the change. Frank McCulloch did leave the same office to enter a law firm which had a leading railroad as one of its clients. It was a re turn to a profession In which he had engaged, and was not taken on the eve of a battle over a law passed by the legislature that affected the client railroad. As for the figures submitted by Harvey to the legislative com mittee, he admitted at a subse quent hearing, on questioning by Sen. Patterson, that his figures were partial and did not give the 1 1 'it Phone 4-3333 "Come, eeeae, men! ... we haven't get that war contract, yet .... this is still private industry ... not urrent Government business! ROHLAND'S HOLLYWOOD'S BEAUTIFUL GIFT CENTER OPEN SATTMM mam And Every Evening Until 8 P. JVI. Tk 193 N. Capitol Phone 3-7672 . , - . V whole picture and that when all factors were considered the ef fect was very different from that given by the figures he submit ted. The figures themselves: may have been accurate but the im pression they left was false, la the opinion ox committee mem bers.) House Movers Wanted To the Editor: I What is the matter with Salem business men? The town of De troit is to be moved, and so far Bend is the only , city that nas any house movers here, and I dont see any ads of house mov ers in your paper. A JAMES 2. 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