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"No Favor Sway Ua. No Ftar Shall Aui"
From flnt SMmou. Hares ZS. 1851
THE STATESMAN PUBUSEttNG COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
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Collectors' Items
Letters, papers, memos and other items iden
tified with Abraham Lincoln are being offered
at auction in New York City. They are from the
collection of Lincolnana of the late Oliver R.
Barrett, a lawyer of Chicago. The material has
been broken into &42 lots and the first 197 lots
brought a total of over $150,000.
Scribbled notes with the fame "A. Lincoln"
signature, scrap books of newspaper clippings,
an axe-handle on which Lincoln had carved his
name these were among the items sold at the
auction.
Most of the stuff is just junk not worth the
shelf space or bamroom it claims. Possession
seems to gratify either the pride or the curiosity
or the morbidity of individuals who part with
good money to get a scrap of paper once in
scribed by. the great personage. We recall once
a chap went round the country lecturing on Lin
coln. He had a piece of the shirt Lincoln wore
when he was shot. Persons would gape at the
stained bit of cloth.
We are irreverent enough to suggest that the
world would be quite as well off if the Barrett
collection were culled by experts, the significant
material preserved in libraries or museums and
the rest carted to the junkpile. But that will not
be done. There is a genuine market in collectors'
items for there are always persons with more
money than good taste who will buy the chair
that Lincoln sat in, or the bed that George
Washington slept in and preserve them in a sort
of blind veneration. And the autograph trade is
steady one, with regular quotations on Jeffer
son and Grant and Napoleon. The birthrate on
stickers' is one that hasn't been lowered since
Barman's time.
Farmers Union Speaks Its Mind
The Oregon Farmer Union has pretty much
displaced the State Grange as a spokesman on
political issues. It usually is ready with declara
tions on a wide range of questions, from govern
ment farm programs to UMT and world peace.
The state convention at Woodburn has given ft
an opportunity for a fresh airing of views. As a
rule, the Farmers Union takes a stand on the left
side and the rival Farm Bureau on the right,
with the Grange spread out in between. The FU
is always in dead earnest," with much show of
conviction in stating its views. It wants to be
taken seriously, even though its numerical size
is not great.
Ronald E. Jones is stepping out as president
after serving since 1944. He has given the or
ganization positive leadership and his talents
have been requisitioned by the national organi
zation for important assignments.
Farmers do not speak through a single voice;
but what the Farmers Union says is usually the
result of sober thinking and commands attention
even if it provokes opposition.
Courtesy in the Air
With the approach of spring and resultant in
crease in private flying, the McChord Air Force
base at Spokane is understandably interested in
stressing anew its appeal for common sense and
common courtesy in the use of the airways.
Many times in the past, carelessness and
thoughtlessness have led many pilots to take off
hither and yon without filing any flight plan
whatever. What happens? Some of them change
Highest Leaders in Eisenhower Movement
Convinced General Should Return to U. S.
By JOSEPH AND
STEWART ALSOP
WASHINGTON The need for
General of the Army Dwight D.
Elsenhower to return to this
country and lead
the fight for his
candidacy has
now been accep
ted on the high
est level of the
m o v ement
The leaders of
the Eisenhower
forces Gov.
Thomas E.
Dewey of New
York and Sena
tors Henry
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Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts,
James Duff of Pennsylvania and
Frank Carlson of Kansas, met
In New York late last week and
decided to appeal to the General
come home.
It is u n d e r-
stood that the
General will be
urged first to
make a quick
trip to this
country while
still in uniform,
and second to
doff his uni
form and return
as a candidate I
by May 1 at lat
est. istcwart AUwf,
The reasoning behind the plan
is obvious enough. The loose
ends of NATO are anything but
tied up, yet the General's ap
pearance in America is needed
now to keep the Eisenhower
movement building. This need
can be met by an appearance
before Congress, whicn the Gen
eral will shortly be required to
make in any case. And besKes
reporting to Congress oa his
progress in Europe, the General
can perhaps make a broader
speech or statement in the coarse
of his first return Journey.
After this, the General can tie
up the loose ends In Paris, and
then come home for good, as an
avowed candidate, ready to state
hi views on the issues, and to
give leadership to his support
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their plans and put down somewhere unan
nounced. Then the family gets worried. So a
score of planes take up the search on the route
the pilot supposedly was flying.
In just one instance last fall, such a search
cost $6400, according to figures computed at the
time by the Oregon Journal. Twenty planes and
60 men were on the hunt. And all the time the
pilot was safe at Redmond, answerable only to
an irate wife in Portland who had reported him
missing when he had not arrived there as she
expected.
We axe rather inclined to agree with air of
ficers who say that if a pilot does not file a
flight plan before taking off the ground, or does
not let his location be known when possible, it
means he doesn't want to be found and there is
no use endangering other pilots and equipment
to look for him.
That slushy weather this week may have giv
en some of our transplanted mid westerners a
pang of nostalgia, but such pangs would have
reservations. The slush of melting snows never
was a very popular item on the weather calen
dar, and endurable principally because it por
tended the budding of flowers and trees and the
veritable re-birth of dormant nature. And that
is the way it is here. Only the revival comes
quicker than in colder climes. Fishing season
doesn't open until April so there's no excuse not
to have that spade handy come nice week-ends.
The Coos Bay Pirates are due in Salem Thurs
day, a bloodthirsty bunch to be sure. The Rose
burg Paul Bunyans raided a celebration at Eu
reka the other day and took the starch out of
the Californians. Then there are the Grants Pass
Cavemen, who are reported as growing restless
in their winter lairs. Skulls will be cracked,
blood will be let, and treasure carried off and
buried when these troupes get going this sum
mer. Nail down the hatches, boys, the Pirates
are on the way.
General MacArthur's name has been filed
as a candidate in the Oregon primaries though
he has fried to keep his name out of primaries
because he says he is not in pontics. His wish
should be respected. Maybe his supporters hope
in this way to kill off the Eisenhower boom in
Oregon which so far is working with a slow
fuse.
Farm production in California set a new
high record in 1951 at $1,745 billion, not count
ing livestock and animal products. Cotton is
now king there with a value of $354.8 million.
Tomatoes at $100 million are higher than
oranges at $90 million;- grapes still higher at
$116 million. Oregon's $252 million for all farm
crops is very modest in comparisioru
It's rare for Bob Ruhl of the Medford Mail
Tribune to slip on historical fact. He erred
though in naming Wendell Phillips as the man
who delivered the oration of the day at the
dedication of the cemetery at Gettysberg. It
was Edward Everett. Of course, it was the "few
remarks" of Lincoln that day which have survived.
Wanted: yellow lane lines that show through
the snow. Also, some would be more effective if
they'd just plain show anytime.
ers, who are now weakened by
their leaderless state.
Saeh Is the pregraa that will
Be pat np to Gen. Elsenhower.
The appeal that hm abandon his
ter the lists as a candidate will
be made in ne spirit of discour
agement. Indeed, the potentates
f the Elsenhower movement who
gathered in New York are pre
pared to assnre the General of
victory. If he will firht far It
At the same time, all of the
Eisenhower leaders have been
hearing the same plea from the
political grass roots "Can't the
General come back and tell us
where he stands?" and they are
now convinced that this grass
roots hankering to have a look
at the candidate, and to hear his
views from his own JIps, is so
strong that it wGl be highly dan
gerous not to satisfy the demand.
The question remains, whether
Gen. Elsenhower will also take
this view, will break the rule
he made for himself, will leave
behind his Immense present task,
and will enter the-political arena.
As yet, the qaesUoa is perfectly
unanswerable, since the appeal
to the General that is now pro
jected win be she first such ap
peal addressed to him by his
chief supporters. It will be ac
companied, moreover, by the first
frank exposition of the political
Importance of the General's early
return that he has received from
any authoritative sanree. And
enr ff retell hew the
win ixsp to Um
grave choice fans pat before Mm,
If the General yields to the
plan to come home, the Eisen
hower leaders are convinced that
the public demonstration of his
strong? popular following will at
tract the Republican regulars to
his candidacy. Without this pub
lic demonstration, however, - it
may be difficult to overcome the
great appeal of Sen. Robert A.
Tatt to the members of the arty
organlzatton. Eisenhower hoWs
the Imagination of the independ
ent 'vote that "the Republican
party needs to win. Taft is the
great hero of the orthodox Re
publicans, who of course consti
tute the majority of Republican
primary voters, delegates and
delegate owners.
For this very reason, there Is
considerable apprehension about
the outcome of the psychological
ly crucial New Hampshire pri
mary. The Taft forces are pour
toa money Into New Hampshire,
and they are stopping at nothing
to make a big New Hampshire
showing. The possibility of a set
back In New Hampshire Is reli
ably understood to have influ
enced Sen. Duff to enter Gen.
Elsenhower's name in the Penn
sylvania primary.
This : decision was delicate,
since the Old Guard, Grundy
Owlett faction in Pennsylvania,
while directing the broadest pos
sible winks at Sen. Taft, have
also been hinting to certain
Eisenhower leaders that they can
count oh the Pennsylvania dele
gation if they will work with the
right people. The right people,
of course, emphatically do not
include ;$en. Duff.
Thus Sen. Duffs action prob
ably insures' a fight that might
have been unnecessary; and the
risk Is increased by the noncom
mittal line taken by Gov. Herbert
Fine, an old Duff ally who has
switched his allegiance. Sen. Duff
Is convinced, however, that he
can win this Pennsylvania strug
gle. Be has ne faith in the
to his eat-
in fiie huxe key state mt
Pennsylvania will snare taan
eempensate far any tremble the
FJsenhewer forces may ran into
It must be added that these
complex cakmlations only go to
show how badly the Eisenhower
movement needs its natural lead
er. Only by the General's re
turn, can the Republican party ,
be made truly aware of the na
ture of the great choice it tuts
ahead,
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acres of farmland; markets about
two-thirds of the electricity gen
erated in Oregon and Washing
ton. Conflicts of interest do occur
between the various segments of
Interior. An apt illustration
given by Fortune is Reclama
tion's determination to invade
"the wildly magnificent Dinosaur
National Monument" on the
Utah-Colorado line, with dams
at Echo Park and Split Mt. This
is vigorously opposed by the
Park Service which wants to
keep the region primitive, with
gallant support from civic and
conservation bodies, and Ber
nard DeVoto, contributor to
Harper's Magazine. Chapman ap
pears to have blown hot and cold
on the proposal and Fortune re
ports: "After two years Echo Park
was still unsettltKi. Policy at In
terior, as DuBose Heyward once
said of woman, is a sometime
thing."
Fortune says that the' first
thing needed is to "bring the
squabbling bureaus to heel," a
task which calls for a "secretary
with the force of character to
bring order out of chaos and the
ability to make tough decisions
and stand back of them." It goes
much farther than dealing with
personalities, however. The mag
azine urges that Interior should
get out of Washington. It would
set up eight regional adminis
trators, each named by the Presi
dent and approved by Congress,
with a regional advisory board
in each area.
Mora startling is the recom
mendation that Interior "liquid
ate" its land holdings by dispos
ing of them to the states. It says:
"Each regional administration
should have as its guiding prin
ciple the eventual return to the
states of the lands and resources
now administered by the de
partment. This should not imply
any impulsive and immediate
abandonment of resources vital
to the nation, but rather a grad
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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1952 HOLDOUT
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ual program of divestiture where
feasible. Some lands and re
sources, of course, should remain
in federal hands: the national
parks, for example, and the na
tional forests; others like water
and power, just as clearly should
be bought by the states."
This is by no means as simple
as it appears. Ability of states to
administer land resources has
not been proven in practice. Local
pressures are apt to break down
the safeguards for protection of
public interest. Whether conflicts
among states in administering
interstate water resources can be
composed by compacts is doubt
ful. And for a long time to come
the resources of the federal
treasury will be needed to fin
ance the major projects which
the West demands.
Playing the spotlight on In
terior as Fortune does is timely;
for this department deals with
most vital and valuable resources
and how it is run affects inti
mately the lives of millions of
people.
Bettor English
By D. C. WILLIAMS
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "I am going to beat up
three eggs."
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "isthmus"?
3. Which one of these words is
misspelled? Accede, excede, se
cede, procedure.
4. What does the word "in
culpable" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with aal that means "a remark
by way of criticism"?
ANSWEXS
1. Say, "I am going to whip
three eggs." 2. Preferred pro
nunciation is ls-mus, with the th
silent. S. Exceed. 4. Faultless;
blameless. "This is an innocent
and inculpable piece of ignor
ance. 5. Animadversion.
A career, like a business, must
be budgeted. When necessary,
the budget can be adjusted to
meet changing conditions. A life
that hasn't a definite plan is
likely to become driftwood.
t David Samoff
by Lichty
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The Safety
Valve
CHURCH INFILTRATION I
To the Editor:
Official investigators admit to
interviewers that they have been
unable to secure enough corrobor
ative evidence to prove their
claim that many labor unions
are dominated by Republicans
who have infiltrated those or
ganizations and are quietly work
ing on the inside to misguide or
disrupt them. The investigators
have secured information from
former Republicans who nerv
ously admit that in the past they
were members of the party, hav
ing been deceived as to its true
intentions, and are now willing
to swear under oath that they
have personally met at party
meetings those who are now
being investigated, and that it
is known that in their work in
the unions these suspects follow
the strict party line.
Some of them have attained to
the presidency or secretaryship
of their unions. When they were
summoned to appear before the
anti-American committee and
were asked whether they were
members of the party, they re
fused to answer on the grounds
of possible self-incrimination.
Citing them on charges of con
tempt is under consideration, but
in the meantime they are still
free to continue their party line
activities, with consequent dan
ger to our freedom and way of
life.
A. M. Church
1400 N. Summer
Long Distance
Pari-Mutuel
System Fails
LOS ANGELES (JP) - George
Seman, who envisioned a messen
ger service which would make
off-track betting on the horses le
gal, was arraigned on five counts
of bookmaking Tuesday.
Seman accepted wagers, then
sent them to Santa Anita in sealed
envelopes. There the wagers were
put through the pari-mutuels. He
said he had legal advice that such
a system was within the law.
But the state disagreed and filed
the charges. His attorney won a
bail reduction from $10,000 to
$2,500, and Seman went free pend
ing a preliminary hearing March 4.
Hawaii Resort
Hotels Struck
HONOLULU (JP) - A strike
against three tourist-jammed lux
ury hotels on Waikiki Beach en
tered its sixth day Tuesday with
no end in sight.
Arthur Rutledge, head of 800
striking members of the AFL Ho
tel, Restaurant and Bartenders'
Union, opened a soup kitchen and
said, "we can keep this up for
two months."
More than 200 new vinu dis
eases of crops have been discover
ed in the last 40 years.
Cub Pack 15
Makes Awards
West Salem Cub Pack 13 has
announced awards made at its
annual Blue and Gold banquet.
Awards presented were:
Wolf Awards: Bruce Brown,
Seward Kellicut, George Smith,
Skippy Peters, and gold arrow
(wolf) Max Boese.
Bear Awards: Danny Wilson
and silver arrow Michael Smith.
Lion Awards: Danny WhiteselL
Bob Arthur, Keith Johnson, Dar
rell Hadley; gold arrow: James
Stewart, Danny Whitesell, Darrell
Covert and Keith Johnson; silver
arrow: James Stewart, Danny
Whitesell, Keith Alrich (3) and
Darrell Covert (3).
Year pins: Keith Johnson, Dar
rell Hadley, Darrell Covert, Keith
Alrich, Mike Smith, Douglas Ham
ilton and Dennis Archer.
Denner Stripe: Danny Wilson
and Dennis Archer.
Assistant Denner stripe: Dar
rell Hadley and Keith Alrich.
Webelo: Bill Grier.
Recreational
Development of
State Stressed
A group of Portland Chamber
of Commerce officials appeared
before Gov. Douglas McKay's ad
visory committee on natural re
sources Tuesday and stressed the
importance of developing Oregon's
recreational areas.
Speakers pointed out that the
number of tourists visiting Oregon
is increasing annually and that
more recreation 1 facilities are re
quired. Particular mention was
made of the coast and mountain
areas.
At a meeting of the committee
called for April C the recreational
situation in Oregon will be dis
cussed. A group of Washington County
residents emphasized the need for
additional water for irrigation in
that area. It was argued that 20,
000 acres now under cultivation
in a certain Washington County
district could be increased to 120,
500 acres if water for irrigation
,'as available.
Investigation of the Washington
County residents' requests was di
rected pending the next meeting
of the committee.
Uncertain Age
Of Spinsters
Puzzles Group
BUCKSPORT, Me. (jP)-At what
age does a girl become a spinster
and how do you ask her?
Those are the questions con
fronting a committee sponsoring
the Bucksport Bachelors' Ball,
come Tuesday night.
A letired school teacher and
committee member. Miss Florence
Homer, says "I don't think any
woman wants to be considered an
old maid until she's 25."
"The trouble is, you may not be
able to get a lot of women to ad
mit they're 25, Miss Homer added.
A married woman, Mrs. Edward
Thegen, suggested that being out
high school or college age would
determine the spins terhood start
ing time.
The idea of Tuesday's affair is
to bring the town's bachelors and
spinsters together on the chance
they might be coaxed into matri
mony. Bachelors are to wear red
neckties and the unmarried girls
artificial red roses.
And its those roses that have
the committee stymied. Until
someone decides what s a spinster,
the ladies don't know how many
artificial flowers to make.
Four-Story Fall
Leaves Bruises
HOUSTON (iP)-Leo O. Akins,
33, is sore all over. He has a
strained back, bruises, scratched
cheek and gashed arm.
Akins, a construction worker,
tumbled from the fourth story of
a new building to an elevator well
filled with three feet of water
Monday.
He stood up and yelled for help.
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