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I! t BABY'S' FIRST'-STEPS " -v A S V. -, V . mNo favor Sioay Oav tio"-F9ar Shall Am" V ; :" m ITrst Stttesnun. March 2. ISM THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY ' i 1 , CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published every mornina. Battens .office tie 8 Commercial, Salem. Oreraa. Telephone S-244L Entere at the aastofMe at Salem. Oregon, aa aacaad class matter under act af eo&aresa March S. lilt. Changes in Dairy Industry Dairying has long been a very important oc cupation, in Oregon farm districts. As a whole it has a very stable enterprise, but its part are sensitive to market .changes. In recent years, dairying in the state has undergone consider-' able transformation. Outdated now is the cam- -paignfor more butter and for butter grading. No longer an export state on butter and with, colored margarine a fresh competitor, less cream , is diverted to butter production. The shift now is in fresh milk for human consumption. Ten years, ago that took about 30 per cent of local production, now over 47 per cent. " Over at OSC, the department of dairying has been making a study of the transition taking place within this industry. It finds, for instance, much greater consumption by humans of the n3tl-t at portion' of milk. Formerly it was com mon practice to separate the cream, sell it to the creamery, and feed the skim to the hogs. As nutrition' experts have acquainted consumers with the rich values in the non-fat part of milk, more of it is consumed in the form of cottage cheese, condensed skim milk or powdered skim. There is a growing demand for low-fat milk, says the OSC study, and the cut in butterfat content of fresh milk accords with this trend. Butter consumption has dropped from a max imum of 18 pounds per capita to 10.8 pounds in 1950. This occurred mostly during the war when good butter was hard to get. "Few Oregon farm ers can now afford to keep cows for butter prod uction alone," says this report. On the other hand, consumption of cheese is increasing, rising in 20 years from four pounds per person to even. Better methods of curing and in packag ing, eliminating the round shape and the rind, have encouraged sales. Cottage cheese is in creasingly popular, and so is ice cream. Then there are many changes in handling and processing milk: Tanker trucks, mechanical re frigeration on farms, homogenization, use of paper containers. Price control of fresh milk and the contro versy over sale "of colored oleo have kept the dairy industry on the front pages for years. But iJespite all the publicity it receives, those en . gaged in it continue to produce ample quanti ties, except in rare periods, of milk "of high quality for Oregon consumers. It is of great im portance that they continue to do so and do it profitably. ' . would give Taft a boost, for Truman Is regarded as the strongest Democratic contender. The order now is: Eyes left on Mr. Truman. When Oregon Press Was A Running Sore The press always gets up on its hind legs and barks whenever it sees signs of moves to cur tail its freedom. This brings it into- frequent conflict with public officials and others who would like to control publicity. Just how free the press in Oregon should be was a subject Of some debate in the constitu tional convention of 1857. The press at that time was free to the point of vituperation and Mat thew Deady, later a distinguished federal judge in Oregpn, during a discussion of a provision respecting libel, said he was opposed to the ir responsible press of the country. He character ized the press of Oregon as a "running sore" on the community. This touched off T. J. Dryer,' publisher of the Oregonjan, who was a member of the conven tion. According to a report of the day's proceed ings: ' After some further remarks from Mr. Logan and others, Mr. Dryer rose to inquire what the judiciary would say if he were to get up in his seat and state that "the judiciary of the terri tory was a running sore on the community." He wished the gentleman to particularize which of the press he alluded to. If he referred to the Statesman, Argus, Pacific Christian Advocate, or papers south of Portland he did not feel call ed upon to defend them; but if he alluded to the Oregonian, Times or Standard, he would most decidedly and emphatically deny the as sertion. Mr. Deady (sotto voce): As much those as any other. Mr. -Dryer: He did not tee why such unjust innuendoes should be made. He contended that the press of Oregon stands higher in the estima tion and respect of the community than does the press of any other state in the Union, Iowa excepted. The debate was continued at great length.. Dryer must have won his fight for the Ore gon press retained and used broad freedoms. Judge Deady was a subscriber to the Statesman from the first and his private file is now the property of the public library at Portland. Prob ably he was just venting a bit of temporary spleen. Will Truman Run? Now that Eisenhower has answered the Big Question, it will be pressed all the harder of Harry Truman: Are you going to be a candidate for President in 1952? Months ago Truman said he had made up his miitd but wasn't telling any one. If he still is in doubt, Ike's statement may influence him to decline renomination. Truman will not want to run against Eisen hower. They are friends. The president is under some obligation to Ike for refusing the draft in 1948. , But Truman can hardly wait until after the GOP convention to make his plans clear. There's no war on, and he doesn't have the grip on the party that FDR had. Both those now holding jobs and the party hopefuls will demand, and surely will get, a declaration of intention from Truman before many months pass. Of course, he might make his retirement con Jpgent on Taft's defeat in the Republican con vention. For if Truman bows out himself that Good Conduct Medals The Mail-Tribune reprints a letter from the manager of a San Francisco hotel commending the conduct of the Medford High School Band which stopped there on its trip to play at the East-West game. Grants Pass High School students made a similar impression on this writer in Portland after the championship football game with Grant High. They seemed so quiet we concluded they must have lost the game until we asked one of the chaps and he reported a victory. When high school students go on a rampage their depredations usually get publicized. But most of the time they comport themselves in an orderly -manner" and keep out of the news. It is fitting, therefore, to give occasional mention of reports of good conduct. After all they ought to be good, they are our sons and daughters, aren't they? Anyway on Monday General Ike took the headlines away from Churchill, Truman and the Internal Revenue Bureau. Decline in Tempo of Korean Truce Talks Said Temporary Tactical Move by Reds Vv 4 . , BT J. M. ROBERTS JR. Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON (P)-The sud den change of atmosphere in the Korean truce negotiations prob ably represents more of a tem-i porary tactical! move by thej C o m m unistsl than a real! threat of break down. Last summer! the Soviets at tempted to use a haltin the truce talks -as part of their unsuccess ful effort to thwart American plans for a Jap anese peace treaty. Now -they are using it as part of their maneuvers in the United Nations to promote their own "Peace Offensive" and block the tpef begun by the Allies in the General Assembly. Communist negotiators in Ko rea, who were really negotiating a relatively few days ago, have suddenly become disdainful and derisive of Allied efforts to reach an agreement. They are also de scribed as giving the appearance of waiting on word from head quarters before they take any new steps. They may, as seme Allied spokesmen claim te fear, be rolng thro axil the whole motion of ne gotiation aa a blind for a new military buildup and a renewal of their drive to take all Korea. Bat the facts of the - situation, with the Allies hut as capable of baildttn and presumably over looking no beta, seem to call for both aides to abandon the Korean war as a bad job all round. The increasing tempo of Com munist military activity directed against Xndo China and all Southeast Asia also points to a switch from the Korean effort. 11m -tains which seems to. me te.ee fundamental -in ;. the Com amis appraisal of the situation ts their knowledge thai renewed warfare ia Korea will produce aTufsuy insenaured danger of i erai war.- i The half-war in Korea, how ever, is just what the Kremlin likes. Without too great expendi ture on her part, chaos is extend ed to another point. Allied re sources are drained at another point, and Tass correspondents in Washington have another rea son for asking, "How long can the U. S. economy stand the strain?" For propaganda purposes, then, Russia can stand in the interna tional peace forum la Paris and pretend to be seeking a way to peace, while her puppets In Pan munjom yield the stage to Vtah Insky and hope for more U. N. concessions. This situation would naturally be involved in the Churchill-Truman and Washington-Paris dis cussions of what to do in the face of the menace to Southeast Asia. As long as the Korean question Is kept up in the air, the Allies find it difficult to arrive at a firm position regarding renewed aggression anywhere else, and the Communists know it. "Take -ft or leave it" proposi tions mean nothing. The enemy - neither takes them nor leaves them. They won't mean anything until the Allies name a deadline which will place upon the Com munists the burden of a decision for peace or renewed war on an Intensified scale. Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS SYBIL, by Louis Auchincloss (Houghton Mifflin; $3)1 Besides Srbil, who is the hero ine, the Social-Register cast of this blue-stocking novel includes Sybil's brother Teddy, their father and mother, the Rodmans; Aunt Jo, sister of the mother, who is Esther, and Aunt Jo's husband Stafford, who has the money, and Stafford's own son Nicholas, who will inherit; Millie, who is Teddy's friend; Philip Hilliard of THE Hilhards, than., whom you cant be richer or more inde pendent; Howard Plimpton, painter; Irene Hodges and Julia Anderton. The place Is proper places in New York, and Easton Bay on Long Island; the time Is the last decade. ; Sybil starts life, and Auchin closs' second novel, with some handicaps..;!- She has too much' gray matter, and not: quite enough : money, for the money set, and she is too shy for any ' set. She is watched over With the greastest care, affection and in discretion by her fussing mother and her brother, who dutifully leads the boys up to dance with her, and sees to it that ho one gets stuck with her too long. It Etret? wot sir ss"" I GHCOSTG? LIVING, CONGRESS COtiUEHESj Tr' 'i: mm . 1 City Manager J. L. Franzen's busman's holiday to the south over the year-end included a round of visits to city halls, fire stations, municipal projects, etc., plus attendance at several city ritiM for comnarison with Ye Olde Home Towne cities like Oakland, Modesto, Long Beach, Whittier and Alameda. Back in good old rainy, ice-bound Oregon (smell that fresh air, boys?) he sat down and passed on his one man findings to Salem city aldermen at an informal session. pcd cms 5V (Continued From Page One) . Si-- ' i His findings Include: The smaller the city the more conscious its officials are of good public relations with the taxpayers ... At none of the council meeting's did he find larger audiences than usually attend Salem's City Council confabs . . . Most of the councils have executive sessions at which to go over their agenda before the regular public meeting ... ' I J. L. found that suburban development is so dense around Modesto that a proposed annexation is expected to triple the city's population . . . The; Oakland council casually bought a $900,000 building without a ripple of papers to disturb the par liamentary procedure (the bnly sound heard was Franzen mak ing mental notes) . . . Somejof the complicated details heard at these other council meetings had an awfully familiar sound frinstance, zone change, petitioners who changed their minds and signed a remonstrance at -the last minute, and the lady who wanted a curb sidewalk because, she said, passerby could reach right into her bedroom from the present walk . . . Reception, said the manager, was cordial in all cities. The Sa lem council's sprinted agenda which ho "just happened to have" in his brief case was praised, petted and drooled over, wherever shown . . . General conclusions brought back by Franzen: (1) Government integrity seems strongest down at the city level ... (2) Salem's government doesn't have to take a back seat to any he saw in action ... (3) Best part was hearing the same old city problems hashed over by ' someone else and sitting back and watching someone else do the worrying. Speaking of general reports brings us to General (I Can't Give You Anything But Love) Eisenhower, the man who has already demonstrated a valuable asset for any candidate by keeping his mouth shut he's already nabbed more headlines than all the other politicos put together . . . Those dull thuds you heard when Ike finally unclenched his molars were Oregon Democrats banging their heads against the wall. Because Eisen hower's name is already certified on this state's Democratic par ty ballot. And Dave O'Hara, State Elections Bureau chief, says that only a court suit will prevent Oregon Demos from going through the supreme agony this spring namely having to face a Republican's name on their own ballot. these leaders use for brickbats with Ike as a candidate? Or will it be merely a campaign of sweetness and light, like that of Dewey and Warren in 1948? Pity the platform committee at the GOP convention which has to speculate on whether Taft or Eisenhower will be the party nominee. Can it possibly do a tight-rope walk in sematies which wUl satisfy both . factions? Consider the prospect of - Ike in the White House. Republican leadership in House and Senate will not change much. Joe Mar tin, whose correspondence with General MacArthur touched off Truman's ouster of the general, will still be in command, per haps speaker of the House. Taft will be Mr. Republican m the senate, andeven if he is forgiv ing and forgetting, he still will be stubborn in support of his views. Others who have been the party leaders in both houses are still quite isolationist at heart, eager to liquidate our foreign obligations, particularly financial. I am not writing to impede the Eisenhower candidacy, and have been a pretty steady critic of the narrow partisanship display ed by GOP leaders in Congress But it is timely to point out the havoc the Eisenhower candidacy plays with the party line culti vated so carefully over recent years by party spokesmen. U.N, Board Regional Armids Dairymen to See Holding Tanks at Meet PARIS (tfVThe United Nations Political Committee overrode Rus sian objections Tuesday night and approved a collective security scheme to permit the U. N. to use regional armies, such as the! North ' Atlantic Pact forces. i ; The vote was SI in favor and the Soviet Bloc of five against. Agentina, India and Indonesia abstained. : The committee then adjourned until 3 pjn. Wednesday, just as it was about to vote on a Soviet pro posal for a high-level meeting of the Security Council to consider a Korean Armistice as its 'first order of business. I . Dr. Charles Malik of Lebanon proposed the adjournment;' He said a reception was in progress 4 and the delegates had been invited. The vote was 21 for adjournment,' is against and 17 abstaining. The United States, France and Britain abstained. After the vote, many of the delegates rushed to-the! recep tion, given by the Saudi Arabian envoy in honor of the 26th anni versary of the coronation of King Ibn Saud. This meant the delegates' would not take a definite test vote on the Korean issue at least until Wednesday afternoon. The United States, France and Britain have been doing their best to kill the Soviet proposal on the ground it was intended to delay the 'armis tice talks in Korea. f t The Korean affair has overshad owed the collective measures item in the committee. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vlshinsky wants the Security Council to convene immediately on a high representatives basis with ' foreign ministers or; chiefs of state in the seats in what is technically called a period' meet ing. I 4. By LTLLIE L. MADSEN Farm Editor. Th Statesman New farm holding tanks for milk will be displayed and discussed at the 58th annual meeting of the Oregon Dairymen's Association at Gearhart Jan. 14. 15 and 16, Fred Knox, president, Gaston, has announced. These holding, or bulk storage tanks, were discussed at a recent meeting of dairymen held at Sa lem, when Richard ; Barnes, Silver ton, described those he had in spected on a recent tour for that purpose to California. The Dairymen's Association headquarters will be st Gearhart Hotel at the coast. Roger W. Morse, Corvallis, is secretary, and reports that committee meetings will be conducted the afternoon of Jan. 14. The Oregon Jersey Cattle Club directors will meet Monday night. Jan. 14 at 8 o'clock at the Marquis Cafe at Gearhart The Clatsop County Jersey Cattle Club is mak ing arrangements for the dinner meeting of the Jersey Club. Guern sey Cattle Club members have made preliminary plans to hold their meeting the same night at the same hotel. Featured speaker at the Dairy men's Association convention will be W. S. Weidel, assistant man ager of the Oregon Milk Market ing Administration, who recently assumed that position. He will dis cuss California's Dairy Advisory Board's program. Miss Grace Workman, acting ad ministrator of the Oregon Dairy Council, will highlight new ideas in dairy council work, and Sen ator Dean Walker, Independence, will discuss Oregon's financial problems. Senator Walker will be featured speaker at the Wednes day luncheon meeting of the con vention. The holding tanks to be dis played at the Gearhart meetings are new, refrigerated units which eliminate milk cans and allow bulk milk storage on the farm. To date, relatively few Installations have been made in Oregon, but it is expected that a good many will be installed during this year. It is known that plans are being made for a number in the Salem area. Dr. G. E. Korzan, Oregon State College agricultural economist, is scheduled to discuss some other features of milk distribution in Oregon markets. John Simon, Portland advertising executive, will relate milk producer-public relations problems. The association's annual banquet is set for Tuesday night, Jan. 15, when S. B. Hall, Troutdale HoP stein breeder, and former national president of the Holstein Associa tion, will describe his recent trip a a. a 10 ooum America. GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty takes handsome, popular Philip to crash through this " interfer ence and to Qnd, once the wraps have been taken off the girl, that she is interesting, as independent as a Hilliard in her way, and ab jectly devoted to him. The outbreak of war and the call of duty speed up the devel opment of the relations between Philip and Sybil. What might well have happened in the duller years of middle life happens sooner, that's all, as people who had not liked each other change their minds, and vice versa. Only a very clear head, somewhat like Sybil's . . . though It doesn't serve too well . . . can steer a course between what one wants and what one ought and what Easton Bay thinks one ought. So this is a Social Register conscious novel. The wrong side . of the railroad tracks has been the right side for many American ' realist novelists, but Auchincloss comes from the other side and quite properly writes about it. In fundamentals it doesn't look so different. Words flow smooth ly from this author's able pen, but he uses its sharp point to f -b with, too; if the story is no mas terpiece, it still is told well. "Christmas bills to pay! ... to get back to worrying aoont tax to snake out! ... KH be a relief bombs and sack stnff ... Give every man thine earf but few thy voice; take each man's censure, but reserve thy judg ment Shakespeare Better English By D. C. WILLIAMS 1. What Is wrong with this sen tence? "He was enamoured by the girl'j beauty." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "strata" and "Stra tum"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Kimono, kindergar ten, kleptomaniac, kinnetics. 4. What does the word "tran sitory" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with os that means "apparent"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "He was enamoured of the girfs beauty" 2. Pronounce the first a as in straight, not as in strap. 3. Kinetics. 4. Existing for a short time only; fleeting. "Some pleasures are only transitory." 5. Ostensible. Horse Meat Too Costly for Zoo Animals COLUMBUS, O. (P)-Horse meat Is getting ao- costly and scarce that animals at : Columbus Zoo may soon bV eating dog biscuits, says Zoo Supt.EarI F. Davis. - The Zoo "bought 18,000 pounds of horse meat for $2,151. When this is gone, in a few months, there may not beany more. Davis says getting horse meat at any price is a problem. Horse herds are thinning out and meat packers make more profit selling it as canned net food. Horse meat, said Davis, has ris en from six to seven cents a pound la years ago to 11 to 12 cents a pound today. J. O. Vogan Bound Over to Grand Jury James O. Vogan, 4715 Lowell Ave., was bound over to the grand jury Tuesday on a charge of threatening to commit a felony. following a preliminary examina tion in Marion County District Court. Vogan, who was arrested Sun day on the charge, involving an alleged threat against his wife, was held in the county jail in lieu or so.ooo taiL (ndy Vending Firm Forms ! - Articles of incorporation for Robert K. Smith, Inc., a Salem candy vending machine firm lo cated at 945 Belmont St-4 Were filed with the state corporation commissioner Tuesday. ;: The firm is composed of Mr. and Mrs. Giles Smith, their son Robert, and daughter, Maryj, all of Salem. As representatives Of the Shipman Company of Los Angeles, Calif., the firm already has in stalled 50 candy bar machines in Salem. t Trio Held for H Longview Police . ) - Facing burglary charges in Longview, Wash., are an adult and two juveniles who went ar rested here early Tuesday morning on vagrancy charges. The three were booked after a patrolman found them asleep in a car in North Salem. The adult is Paul KJ Powell, 22, who waived extradition. The two juveniles, who do not have the right of waiv er, will also be returned. I : ' CIO CHOOSES EDITOR PORTLAND (JP) - George Hol comb, reporter for the Oregon Journal, was named Tuesday to become editor of the CIO Wood workers Union publication,', The Woodworker. He succeeds the late Manley J. 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