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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1952)
Tho Storte"n, Sedan. Oregon, Scrturdar FbruarY 18, 1352 GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty Wo Foror Steal U. Wo Fear Shall Atot" - From First Statesmtn. March 28. 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHART.ES A. SPRAGUS, Editor and Publisher Published every morning. Beaineas office 2 IS 8 Commercial. Salem, Oregon, Telephone t-Hih. Entered at the postoffic at Salem, Ores an. as oocood elan matter under act ef congress alaxeh 8. 117. one with promise of fruit through bringing ia outsiders with a fresh mental outlook. Railroads have lost on the average $500 mil lion a year since 1948 on passenger business. It has got to a point where the ICC questions the limits freight rates can be raised to offset these losses." It will not be surprising if in the next year or so many passenger trains are dropped as they were recently by the SP&S and by the Southern Pacific. The railroads are in this respect victims of a technological revolution just as were the river boats -and canals a century and more ago with the advent of the rails and locomotives. The public which eventually pays the bills will have to become reconciled to curtailment of profitless passenger train operations. - Attlee of Asia The funeral of King George VI over and Eli tabeth II now seated on the throne of Britain the "great debate" over foreign policy may be re sumed in Commons. It will be recalled that on the return of Churchill and Eden from America they were targets of questions as to their com mitments to the United States, questions promp ted by Churchill's assurance to Congress that in event of a breaking of truce in Korea the re sponse of the two countries would be "prompt, resolute and effective." Eden as foreign secre tary carried the debate for the government side on Feb. 5th. He declared that no formal commit ments had been entered Into covering such a contingency, but that in event of a breach in the armistice "consultations would take place among the interested powers, including our selves.y The text of the debate is reported in U. S. News and World Report. Of special interest are certain passages in the rejoinder of Opposition Leader Clement Attlee. They reflect the attitude of the less radical Labor party leaders. He had this to say about the Asian situation: "What is to be done about Formosa is a vital question in any settlement. I have not advocat ed handing Formosa and all those people there to the Chinese government, but I also do not believe in maintaining Formosa as a point of arms for a rival Chinese government. For my self, I believe that the right thing is that this place should be neutralized for a period of years . . . "I think we should not lend ourselves to the kind of : suggestion such as that of a blockade of China a perfectly futile operation or to any extension of the war and all that kind of talk that goes on. I think it Is up to us to be a steadying influence which will help the Ad ministration in the United States of America. "This country holds its own position in the world, and it is vital that we should not be re garded as a mere tool of any other country . . . And anybody who in any way seeks to stir up bad blood between the British people and the Americans, or indeed between us and any of the other democratic forces, is doing a bad serv ice to the cause of world peace." 'These are good ideas and we in America should rejoice that we have such a "steadying Influence as Attlee describes to temper the MacArthurism which infects certain quarters in this country. Covering the Lobby Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Denver Post really struck "pay dirt" when, he assigned a re porter to cover the activities of the looby at the Colorado Legislature. Previously reporters kept their eyes glued pretty much on the two houses of the Legislature. The "third house" stayed in the shadows. Realizing that what transpired in the lobby might later be recorded in the Legis lature the Post made the lobby a reporter's reg ular beat. Hoyt is quoted as saying: "We feel that the .results have been very good. Bringing hidden pressures into the light has resulted in a health ier atmosphere around the State House. We think; it should result in better legislation and better government." v Activities of the lobby are not necessarily reprehensible; but they should be kept under public scrutiny, for works done in darkness have a tendency to become evil. In India a holy man who had taken a vow never to speak was a candidate against Prime Minister Nehru for election to the national par liament. The silent one was badly defeated; but perhaps he would have had fewer votes if he had talked. Rail Losses on Passenger Trains One railroad, the New York Central, stung by its losses on passenger traffic, has called in outside management engineers to study how it may curtail its losses. TheNYC is one of the top passenger haulers in the country, with many famous trains gliding into and out of its famed Grand Central Terminal in New York City. But It also has considerable branch mileage with local trains whose patronage has fallen off un der competition of motor vehicles. The consult ants have been engaged in an effort to increase passenger revenues and put the service rendered on a sounder footing. This in itself is something of a departure. Rarely does a railroad go put of its organization for a survey. Sometimes when it needs financing the bankers will assign experts to investigate the company's physical plant and operating or ganization. Usually though railroad managers try to lick their own problems from within. One paper we noticed hailed this move by NYC as Mt.1 Vesuvius is showing signs of erupting. It has nothing on the USA in this political year. Editorial Comment THE LITTLE TRITE CROWD THAT TRIES Talk about the need for a special session of the Oregon State Legislature to meet an anticipated deficit is "simply absurd," says James T. Marr, secretary of the Oregon State Federation of Labor. First place, there isn't any deficit. There's a sur plus. Second place, the state has a reservoir which may be tapped without the need for a special ses sion, without legislative action or a vote of the people. That's the state property tax which has not been collected since 1938. Why all the rumbles about a special session and a state deficit? Marr answers that one too. Behind it are the sales tax advocates who, almost every biennium, wring their hands, whip out their crying towels and before you can say "little white cloud," dissolve into sobs and pleas for the sales tax. There is (if we may be allowed a switch on the current juke box hit) a little trite crowd that tries and tries to turn Oregon into the sales tax state column. But Oregonians have rejected the state sales tax on five separate occasions in the past. Marr believes that it's going to take more than a phantom deficit and a batch of bald-headed Johnny Rays to demon strate that tha sales tax Is needed now. (Oregon Teamster) Truman Said Trying to Hold Announcement Until Anniversary of FDR's Death on April 12 By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON Both Repub licans and Democrats are wait ing so anxiously for the Presi dent's decision about runn i n g acain that any one can get a headline, now- r adays, who has been White to the House "(isBssa I' . i 4 3 1 and will specu- ,4 late for quota-1 the! ' 'lo tion. Evidently, f f game however. guessing A 1 is going to con- - Juwpfc Alaon i tinue for some time yet. At any rate, April 12 is the date current ly favored by the President for announcing his political inten tions. ' April 12 is. of I course, the sev- lenth anniversa ry of Franklin Delano Roose velt's death and by the same token, the seventh a n n i versary of Har ry S. Truman's swearing in. a'w'r'PWji purpose, clear ly, is to make an anniversary statement, including the grand disclosure. As of today, moreover despite the number of Democratic poli ticians who say for publication that they think the President is going to have to run, the signs still are; that he will not do so. Significantly enough, for exam ple, he has caused soundings to be made in the three giant states, Illinois. New York and Califor nia, as to the acceptability of Illinois Governor Adlai Steven son as Democratic standard bearer. The aim of the Illinois sound ing was simply to discover whe ther Stevenson's home-stale or ganization was behind hn. De jpite toe difficulty of finding an other Gubernatorial candidate, th- ""nois Democratic leader. Jake Arvey, is in fact a strong supporter of Stevenson's nomina tion for the Presidency, assuming Truman does not want it. The returns from New York and Cal ifornia are also understood to have been highly favorable. In New York, indeed. State Chair man Paul Fitzpatrick placed Ste venson at the head of his list of possible- replacements for the President, even before the Truman-Stevenson meeting a couple of weeks ago. Presidents da not take soun dings abotft the acceptability of successors, unless they are very strongly Inclined to hand on the poisoned chalice. The more human thing fat a Presi dent te da, even If he does nat choose te rvn again. Is to cite all the reasons why; ne ane else can conceivably handle the jab well. Hence these re cent Presidential inquiries trendy tend te confirm the reports that the President wants no third term, and is In clined to give the nod te the Illinois Governor. Yet it would be very foolish to ignore the fact that the President will have innumerable opportun ities to change his mind again be fore April 12 comes around. Take, for example; the New Hampshire primary. On the one hand, it is "complete eyewash, as the President himself might say, that his entry into this primary casts any light on his present in tentions, v were supported by Demeeratle Chairman Frank McKlnney and former Navy Secretary John Sullivan, and the Presi dent therefore entered his What happened was simple. When the President scornfully refused to enter his name In New Hampshire, and Sen. Es tes Kefaaver jumped into the can test, there was Immediate danger eX Kefauver winmlng. en the rale that "Tfoe cant heat seaaehedy wtth nobody." New Hampshire Democratie National Ceaamitteemaa Em net J. KeUey and all the ether state leaders were on the offi cial delegate slate. Finding themselves threatened with re pedistton in the primary fight, they prayed the President te ehaxge his mind, premising aim victory. Thetr pray era. On the other hand, although the President's entry is mean ingless, the outcome of the New Hampshire primary may con-' ceivably influence thePresident strongly. Truman dislikes the idea of Sen. Kefauver getting the Democratic nomination almost as much as he dislikes the idea of Sen. Robert A. Taft winning the Presidency. The New Hampshire official delegate slate, pledged to Truman, is supposed to be fairly safe to win. There is more doubt, however, about whether Truman will do so well in the preference primary that is held at the same time. And if the New Hampshire Democrats should give the edge to the detested Kefauver in this rather meaningless voting, the President is quite capable of get ting his dander up and deciding to run again after alL There are a good many other pieces to fit into the Demo cratic jif saw poxxle. For in stance, the friends and sup porters of Sen. Robert S. Kerr, ef Oklahoma, are new claim ing that the President has told Kerr he is probably not going to run, and has urged Kerr to become a candidate. This would appear to conflict with the President's favorite politi cal rule that no Democrat can win who is not supported by the labor groups, which oppose Kerr, and the Northern Negro voters, who will certainly dis approve Kerr's civil rights re cord. Yet It Is entirely possible that Truman, who Is close te Kerr personally, weald like the . Senator to have his chance. ; For the present, at any rate, only two points stand out. The first is the President's current disinclination to be a candidate. The second is the relative re moteness of the date which he has apparently chosen for his final, public choice, with all that this obviously Implies. (Copyright 1931. New York HeraV - - - , . Tribune as . y ; M j . This studio will not glorify common gangsters! . . . henceforth, will do only crime stories of the highest character ..." Daw rye3&H Just before Christmas Ruea Stanton of Marion County Clerk's office took a vacation trip to sunny climes (south of California). From Mehico she sent a cheery card to the clerk's office on Dec. 23. So the other day, many holi days later, the card arrives to cheer her and other employes up between Lincoln's Birthday and Valentine's Day ... Another Salemite soaking up the ultra-violet these days it Fred Karr expected home from Phoenix, Ariz., about March 10. On the back of the Salem City Limit sign near the State Pen some wag tacked another sign the other day reading: "Drive Slowly Prisoners Escaping." ... And during that ter- rle rain storm (choose one) someone in Sooth Village had his lawn sprinkler turned is aaV - - - La Willamette University Art Gallery is showing modern paint ings of Paul James Gunn, OSC art instructor. The paintings bear titles and sale price tags. One deep canvas had the in scription: "Three Figures 100." One observer remarked that the only three figures he could distinguish on the entire canvas were the 100 .. . Then there was the woman who called State Police and wanted to know: "Do you need a duck stamp to go pheasant hunting?" The answer, of course, is no at least until the next legislature meets. a o Strictly coincidental Out of the first 10 school champions chosen In The Statesman-KSLM Spelling Contest, six were boys and four were girls. Nothing so anusaal about that, but all the boys are from Marlon County and all the girls from Polk County . . . Reporters say that when Sen. Robert A. Taft gets hungTy he doesn't let politics stand between him and the feedbag. He not only eat short aa early bef ore-breakfast press conference at the Maltnoaaah Hotel In Portland he Just plain vanished from the room so fast no one remembered seeing him go or saw where be went. Found eat later the Senator had decided to stop chewing the rag in f aver of something- mere nourishing. Gov. McKay posed with two Blue Birds for launching of a candy -sale drive then one of the enterprising girls nicked the governor for four-bits for a box of peanut brittle . . . and the governor is sporting a brand new Chewy with a maroon body and cream-colored top ... Payless Drug tobacco mgr. has the appropriate name of Walt Backa . . . Look for a splash about the state traffic safety division's new "You Never Know," program in a soon edition of Parade magazine . . . And Bill Warren has a new "inflation" song: "I'm Looking For A Paper Dollar I Can Call My Own." Lftr (Continued from page 1) gotten up a week before publi cation could possibly do. The country weekly naturally came to concentrate more with news of its own field and there it still performs a vital and necessary service. Not only did ready-print car ry general news and miscellany but it usually ran a continued story. Through its life It ran hundreds of serials including works by Zane Grey, Booth Tarkington, Jack London and other popular authors. Its ma terial was carefully selected; its fiction was dean; its news was hot distorted with political bias. . Western Newspaper Union Says that while the ready-print and news service once was its only source of income last year it amounted on only five per cent of its volume. The company has gone into the printers' sup ply business and in commercial stereotyping and kindred lines especially for advertisers. Cldtime publishers note the discontinuance of the ready print as the end of a publishing epoch. The fact is that it has been dying for several decades, a victim of real progress in country Journalism. Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense1 at the same time. Livy Slides to Be Shown t Gospel slides picturing "Pil grim's Progress will be shown Sunday at 7:39 pan- in Salvation Army halL The public is invited to see the color pictures of John Rnmnn'f wfll-lrniwn tnrv. College Students Lead Brotherhood Panel for Baha'i A panel of college students will discuss World Brotherhood Week at a public meeting sponsored by the Banal World Faith at 7:30 p. m. Sunday in Salem YWCA. Similar meetings are being held by Baha'i communities throughout the world. The speakers will include Miss Kieme Yokoi of Japan, doing gra duate work in education at Wil lamette University; Sham. Graver of New Delhi, India, graduate student at Oregon State College; C A. Vanderpuye of Acera, Gold Coast, West Africa, studying en gineering at OSC; William Max well of Phoenix, Arii, majoring in education at OSC and past pre sident of the Oregon Federation of Collegiate . Leaders; Sidney Wasserman of Salem, freshman at Willamette University who has traveled to every state; Calvin and Barbara Steimetz of Portland, she a social worker. Steimetz will be the moderator. Amity Plans Youth Rally . BtiteiM Stwt Service AMITY A contest for attend ance among the high school classes at the next Youth for Christ rally, Feb. 25, in the school gymnasium has been announced. The YFC executive committee will meet Sunday at 20 pjn. in the Christian Church. Sunday School officers and teachers of the Baptist Church will meet at 5 pjn. Sunday with the Rev. Arthur Maye, state di rector of Christian education. Missionary to Speak At 1st Baptist Church The Rev. Irvin Grubbs, mission ary to India under the Conserva tive Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, will speak at 11 ajn. Sunday at First Baptist Church. Grubbs, now home on furlough. bar been directing the mission i workat EuicpurIndia. Sen. Connolly In Opposition On Break Plan By J. H. ROBERTS JR. Associated Press News Analyst Senator Connally is flying in the face of military as well as diplomatic thinking when he pro poses a break in diplomatic relations with - "v ', Hungary. " The Tcxai), " Democrat is at- i tacking the ad- 1 . , - J 5 ministration for ' r - v , paying t h e f i . S120.000 -fine- ' X Imposed byrjv. " Hungary onl four American Air Force men ire . v M a m a r 4sm fsjami MSnV down there last Nnvmber. calling it extortion. and demanding that Congress cut off funds for diplomatic repre sentation if the executive de nirhnmt refuses to make a break. There was speculation m Washington Friday as to Just why Connally introduced his res olution, at this ume, wnen u stat Department already an nounced that maintenance of re lations with Russia's Central European satellites would be up for discussion at a conference of European representatives in Paris next month. It was recalled that Connally faces what some political observ ers have called a real fight for reelection this year, and that it la good to remind home consti tuencies of any national and in ternational standing which a can didate may hold, in an appeal to local pride. If Connally were defeated, Texas could not 'boast a chair man of the Foreign Relations Committee. And there's consider able anti-administration feeling in Texas, too. With regard to the specific case of the four fliers, first ac cused of espionage but convict ed on lesser charges, the money was paid at the behest of the Air Force, whose motive was just to get the men out. Diplomats agreed on several grounds. There was relief over reduction of the charges and the alternative of fines instead of jail terms. There had been fear that one of the famous Com munist "trials" for espionage might bring life terms or even death sentences. That would have created a serious interna tional incident. Unless the fines were paid, the fliers might have been hauled up again after their three-month jail terms and under the usual Communist third degree, be put through more gyrations for propaganda purposes, as so many prisoners have been. A war crisis could have been provoked, and the U. S. will not be ready for war for a time yet. With regard to the general matter of maintaining technical relations with countries which make them a farce, the State De partment is perhaps more will ing to consider diplomatic breaks as a form of pressure than it was some time ago. But It hasn't really changed its mind. The Central Intelligence Agency thinks it has a setup that obviates the need for listening posts, which has been one great argument for maintaining rela tions. But the Army thinks it can't have too many sources from which warnings of any military movement against Europe might be given. Connally's move probably in volves the growing belief mat, eventually, America will have to call the hands of the Commu nist bluffers. But she is bidding her time buying time - until she assembles the hand that will make the call a success. Suburban Cburchcs m m. Service 11 4NSEN1 fiaiaatTT Scboolnouse. Liberty-BuenaTtrts rd Sunday school 10 aun. Services 11 a.ou. 1 pa. Aumnus Bethel Baptist Sunday school 10 ij Services 11 a-m. 7:30 P-m Sun day 7 :4 pjo. Wsdacaoay. Wcdcyaa) Sunday school 10 am Services 11 a. m tS p. m. Sunday. BaoOKS AsMmkly t God Half block south of school. Sunday chool 0 44 ajn. Services 11 ajo. 73 p-ax. Sunday. 7:49 pun. Thursday. CLJEAB LAKI Svaasencsl Unites Bret rav Wheat land Ferry rd- Sunday school 11 sun Service 10 am Sunday BAST ENOLCWOOD Grace LuUterao Lsn&lnjc and Sun nyrk.w. Sunday school 10 am. Ser vice 11 am Sunday COLA Community Sunday school 8-U SJn Sunday rot'B CORNERS Baptist State and Elma. Sunday school 1:43 a.m. services 11 un, S pja. Sunday. p.m. Thursday. raCITLAKD KvaatelJcaJ United Bretfcrea Sun day school 10 jn. Services 11 un. 1 30 pan. Sunday. 7 ao P-m. Wednesday BATIIVIUS Haleert MeaaerUl Baptist One mile north at 99E underpass Sunday school s:s am. services 11 jn, 730 pjn. Sunday 7 X pun. Thursday. aopcwEix EvsaceBesJ C sited Bretkrea Sun day school 10 a-m. Services 11 a.m. 1 pjn Sunday S D-iO. Wednesday. KKtZEK Chare ef Christ 1030 Dearborn. Sunday school 10 sun. Service 11 un. f JO pjm- Sunday. S pun. Wednes day. C ami nutty EDxabeth and Church, dale. Sunday school 0:49 aja. Sei lcca tl ajn, 7:49 pjn. Sunday. 140 p rn Wednesday. ralth Lather 4009 N. River rd. Sunday school 0:49 ajn. Services 11 aum. S djb. Sundav B:U n m Wxtnea. day school 0:49 am. Services 11 am, lad BLm. auuuy. iau pjn Wednesday LABIS H CKNTO Oswlti (Evangelical United Brethren). Sun day school It am. Serrlos 11 sunoay. -r . LAB1SH TILLAGE Casuraatty Sunday school 10 ua Services U p. nx, 7;43 p. m. Sunday. LXBEKTV-SALXM HX1GHTS ." Uhetty Cbnreh mt Christ Skymvf rd. Sunday school 10 un. Service 11 ajn 140 9-m. Sunday. 130 sun. Wad oesday .- : Goes" Shepherd Laracrsa 3723 S Commercial. Sunday school 1:43 ajn. Service 11 am Sunday. SeJem Belrhts Baptist Liberty andL Madrons Sunday school 10 ajn. Ser vices 11 a. m, t -30 p. m. Sunday. MACLCAT Ceaasannlty Schoolhoas. Sunday school 19 axa.? atABMON mends Sunday school IS ajn. AVsrv ices 11 ajn. Sunday. Calvary Lutheran Sunday school It am Service 11 ajn Sunday. MIDDLE GKOVB Ce mssllj Schoolhouse Sunday school 10 OJS. ; WORTH BO WELL Csnutaalty i Sunday school 10 sjn. Services It a m. o pjn. Sunday. 8 pjn. Wednesday. PBATCTt ImsBannel MeenenHa Bimdiy school 9:39 am. Services 11 s m. 1:49 pjn. Sunday Methedlst Sunday school It la, Service 11 la Sunday. raOTGLB mends Baxter rd. west of 99K Sunday school ajn. Services U ajai 13t pjn Sunday. S pjn Wednesday. ROBERTS Cemaaantty Schoolhouse. Sunday school 10 ROSEDALR friend Sunday school 10 an. o m . 140 pjn Sunday. , SUMMIT MethsdU Orchard Helahts rd. Sunday 10 a. m. SeiTlca 11 a. m. Sunday. TALBOT Cat asfry - r Sunday school 0.-49 ajn. ajn. Sunday. 8 pjn. Wednesday. U Tfjsutxa Assesmhly 1 Ge4 Sunday a 0:49 un. Services U ajn, 1:49 PJO. Sunday. 1:43 pjn. Wednesday and ra day. Christian Sunday school 9:49 ajn. Services U s m. 140 pun. Sunday, f D m Thursday Additional Church News On Page 12 f Ckoralaires Plan Tour Salem and Silverton appear ances this week end by the King's Choralaire Choir of Salem Acad emy will be among the last local concerts before the annual tour. The 55-voice choir, directed by Prof. Willis Reimer, will sing at the Salem Youth for Christ rally tonight and give a concert Sunday afternoon at Eugene Field School in Silverton. Its tour will be March 14-17 to Bend, Redmond and Prineville. The choir comprises 33 high school students. Across the Street Across the Nation Since 1906 O MOVING . 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