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Thm Stoi man. Scum Oregon, Tridcrf, Fabruarr 22. 182 Wo Favor Strays ta. Wo faar Shall Atua" From First SUtesmtn. Marek 28. 1S51 THE STATESMAN PUBUSH1NG C0IPA1VY CHARLES Al SPRAGUB, Editor and Publisher PabUaaed arery morning. Sarin attic tit 8 Comaieretal. Salem. Oreran. Talcphoaa S-Z44X. Catered at tha pastofrtca at Salem. Winter Vacations Vacation spots in many parts of the nation are reporting an unprecedented boom and the only surprising part of it i that it hasn't happened before. Why not winter vacations? There's a good answer tor families with chil dren, of course. The young folks are in school. But for the oldsters there's no better time. Not that it makes too much difference here in our valley, albeit a few folk like to duck out of the late-winter rains a week or so. But it would make a tremendous difference in sterner climes. Latest information from the American Auto mobile Association reports that 15 to 20 per cent of vacationists are now taking their time off in the winter. We don't know just why the auto association should favor that idea too much, since in many an area winter travelling is pretty well confined to the rails. But it's an interesting bit of statistical matter. And it follows the post war trend. Major reason for it probably rests with prices and accommodations. It's true that in Florida, for instance, it costs about half as much for food and lodging in the winter as it does in the tourist-jammed summertime. And that's quite a fac tor. Other reasons lie in with the elements whether the potential vacationist lives in a cli mate worse in winter than in summer or vice versa. In some of the sun - stricken midwest states, it seems fairly well agreed that it's bet ter to endure the snow in winter than the 100-degree-plus nights of summer. Certainly many businesses must welcome the new trend it scatters the peak load of absen teeism. And the Northwest would welcome a winter influx of vacationists, too. Mt. Hood isn't the only thing Oregon has to offer in the "r" months. With major roads nea-rfy always open nad practically every scenic point always avail able, there seems little reason why tourist travel shouldn't be continuous and interesting the-year around. i Greetings to Our Namesakes "Always interested in other cities of like names, we find from the new and invaluable. World Almanac that 10 out of the 11 Salems of more than 2500 population showed census gains for the 1940-50 decade, and our own Salem most of all. Only the Salem in Illinois showed . a, loss from 7419 to 6159. Wisconsin's Salem (2867) was in the above-2500 bracket for the first time. Oregon's Salem (43,140), as was shown in preliminary figures, now tops the lisV followed by Massachusetts (41,880), Ohio (12,754), and New Jersey, Virginia, Illinois, New Hampshire, Missouri, Indiana, Wisconsin and West Virginia, in that order. All the latter are below 1,000. Having now arrived at the pinnacle) ptirselves for the first time, we can, witnout prfesumptu ousness, congratulate our namesakes on their progress and extend best wishes for a most pros perous future. And that also goes for the other 25 Salems which have not yet reached World Almanac prominence. Coalition of Southern Democrats, Controlled Majority of House ""WASHINGTON (CQ) The Coalition of Southern Democrats and Republicans rode to victory over the Democratic "majority" on half of the controversial roll call votes in the House last year, a study by Congressional Quar terly has revealed. Democrats outnumbered Re publicans In the House about 23t-2tt throughout the year (deaths, resignations and special elections caused the martin to vary silently). Yet when the par ties clashed the Democratic ma jority was en the losing side on half of tha controversial issues. Membership of the House will be almost identical during the current session of Congress. There were 109 record votes In tno House la 1931. Only C5 f these votes were so contro versial alone; party lines that a majority mt the Democrats lined up against a majority of Repub Ueaaa. Tha rest of the issnea brought to a roIl-eaU vote were supported- by -bipartisan., ma Jarlttea. The Democrats would have woa all of the 65 party-line bal ts 12 they had stuck together "and if absenteeism had not been high. However, the Democratic majority lost S3 of the 65 votes to the Coalition of Republicans and dissenting Democrats. The Democrats lost one additional vote through absenteeism and one when a two-thirds majority was necessary. The "Rebelicans,' aa the com bine of Southern dissenters and Republicans sometimes has been called, wan half of their vie-, series on appropriation votes. Most of these were, In effect, "economy votes. Seven Coali tion wins were on economic con trols, mostly to deny the Presi dent control authority he had requested. There was one Coalition vic tory on farm policy, - one on a housing bill, two on foreign pol icy and four on miscellaneous and administrative matters. Individual votes on 17 aignifl eant roll calls showed that Rep resentatives who usually Joined the Coalition outnumbered the opponents of the Coalition 234 157. Another 44 did not Vote oa enough of the 17 significant fo sues to be counted either for or gainst the Coalition. J Democratic -floor 'leader- Oregon, aa class matter under act af Japan Has Seen Everything Japan must feel it has seen everything now a Japanese woman beat up her husband. Not that he probably didn't deserve it the court said he was philandering and that his wife was justified. But the very idea of the little woman objecting to anything was undreamed-of and beyond imagination until democracy came along. We're not so sure that male Japanese are going to see many blessings in their women's new prerogatives. But the democratic way of life should sit pretty well with the fair sex, at least. Between the noisy shenanigans of the Coos Bay Pirates and the appearance of that weather balloon over Salem Thursday, The Statesman had enough inquiries to reach from here to there and half way back. We hope, though, that it's always as easy to find the answers to reported "bombings" and "guided missies." And that they're that simple. The answer as to whether colored margarine In Oregon would ruin the dairy industry appar ently is very much in the negative. F. A. Kesey of Eugene, president of the Oregon Dairy Manu facturers' Association, says the demand for dairy products is at an all-time high and ad vised dairymen to increase production. There is always room for quality products. Our Alsop Brothers columnists make no pre tense of covering "spot" news, relying for their wide readership on expert backgrounding and analysis. It is therefore interesting that they should whip the wire services in the disclosure of "flying discs" reported over Korea. Maybe they've an informant on Mars. The papers report that Tibet is now a military district of Communist China. That is one coun try which even the Reds can't hurt. opposed the Coalition consistent ly, while both minority leaders supported the "Rebelicans" con sistently. Speaker Sam Rayburn (D Tex.), who votes, by custom, only on tie votes, was not re corded on the ballots. Rep. Walter Norblad (R) sup ported the potent Coalition of Republicans and Southern Demo crats on eight out of 17 signifi cant votes won by the Coalition in 1951 and opposed the Coali tion on two of the votes, accord ing to tabulations by Congres sional Quarterly. Here's how other Representa tives from Oregon stood on the Coalition victories: Rep. Homer Angell (R) voted eight to eight; -Rep. Harris Ells worth (R) voted 15 to one for the Coalition; Rep. Lowell Stock man (R) voted 10 to 2 for it. CQ selected 17 of the votes' aa most significant in shewing whieh Representatives supported and opposed the Coalition. Hero are the key victories and the votes hy Oregon Representatives: 1. The House voted 179-163 to send back to the Committee (in effect, to kill) a bill to encourage development of marketing facili ties for perishable farm products. For Coalition: Norblad, Angell, Ellsworth. Not Recorded: Stockman. X. The Jensen (R Iowa) amendment to reduce federal payrolls in the Labor Department and Federal Security Agency was approved 208-145. For Coalition: Norblad, AngelL Ellsworth. Not Recorded: Stockman. 3. An amendment to cut rec lamation money was approved 237-169. For Coalition: Norblad. Against Coalition: Angell, Ells worth, Stockman. 4. The Keating (R N.Y.) amendment to ban construction of public power lines in certain areas was agreed to 226-165. For Coalition: Ellsworth. Against Coalition: Angell, Nor blad, Stockman. 5. The House approved 181 113 an amendment to cut public housing construction from 50,000 to 5,000 units. (The larger figure subsequently was restored.) For Coalition: Ellsworth. Against Coalition: AngelL Not Recorded: Norblad, Stock man. C An amendment to cut a Presidential emergency fund from $12.5 million to $1 million was- approved' 161-128.- Marco X. 17 Harmless Silliness Who has more fun than people? Well, other people. Right now they axe th folks along tha Northeastern California border and a few in Oregon's Lake County. They want to be annexed to Nevada. We don't know for certain how serious they are, or think they are, but we have an idea they're not much more so than were the in habitants of Southwestern Oregon and North western California who were involved in soma sort of a secessionist scheme a decade ago. At that time, the argument grew out of a peeve re garding allocation of highway improvement. Half of Lake County borders California, tha other half borders Nevada. If Northeastern Cal ifornia became part of Nevada, all of Lake County would border the so-called wide - open state. There's just about as much chance of chang ing state lines as there is that Stalin will say please. But spring is the silly season anyway, and paper work on the map is a harmless sort of silliness, at least. Republicans Roll-Call Votes For Coalition: Norblad, Ells worth. Against Coalition: Angell. Not Recorded: Stockman. 7. The Coalition defeated a motion to take up a Defense Housing bill 171-219. For; Coalition: All 4. 8. The House voted 225-168 to add the "peril points" amend ment to the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act. For Coalition: All 4. f. A motion to cut $350 mil lion from foreign economic aid proposals was approved 186-177 For Coalition: Norblad, Angell. Not Recorded: Ellsworth, Stockman. 10. The House adopted 243-180 a new rule giving the Rules Com mittee greater power to control legislation. For Coalition: Ellsworth, Stockman. Against Coalition: Norblad. 11. The Coalition defeated 169-227 a bill to give the Presi dent temporary power to re organize government agencies. Foe Coalition: All 4. 12. The House voted 266-147 to extend import controls on cer tain fats and oils. For Coalition: Ellsworth, Stockman. Against Coalition: AngelL Not Recorded: Norblad. 13. An amendment banning livestock slaughtering quotas was approved 249-167. For Coalition: Ellsworth, Stockman. Against Coalition: AngelL Not Recorded: Norblad. 14. The President's request for authority to build and run de fense plants was refused 233-184. For Coalition: Angell, Ells worth, Stockman. .Not Recorded; Norblad. -.15. An Amendment to deny the President authority to create new emergency government cor porations was approved 250-167. For Coalition: Angell, Ells worth, Stockman. Not Recorded: Norblad. 16. The House voted 234-183 to limit food price ceilings. For Coalition: Ellsworth, Stockman. Against Coalition: Angell. Not Recorded: Norblad. 17. ; The House voted 242-172 to withhold authority from the President to control commodity speculation. For Coalition: Ellsworth, Stockman. Against Coalition: AngelL Not Recorded: Norblad. ' erressiM tftUrierNV ;. GRIN AND DEAR IT frfJjf EaL ft? Pence "Smell like a new racket, aarret . . . If s called the Utopia Peace Society, with. does of a dollar down aad If cents a month till tha human race is perfect ..." ComesT; r awn Today is the anniversary of the birthday of George Wash ington. And politicians will probably beat each over the head in the name of things which George was supposed to have stood Jim Collins, ex-Salem student - politico and now assistant district attorney in Multnomah County, will be married here later this month. And tying the knot will be District Judge Val Sloper. Collins and Sloper were graduating classmates at Wil lamette Law School . . . Looks like maybe Mrs. Agnes Booth, Marion County School Superintendent, might have opposition at the polls in May. Anyway a man inquired about qualifications for the office and left the County Clerk with a candidate blank. Englewood School kids ran Into a snag when they were pre paring their prise-wlnnlng entry in the Freedom Foundations contest. For background music they needed a recording of "America The BeauUfuL" without the words. Couldn't find any thing in local record shops. So they finally got next to Prof. T. 8. Roberts, who played them a dandy pipe-organ rendition, which they recorded la his home. Who sez the Marion County welfare department is hard hearted? A reporter sneaked in on Miss Marion Bowen the other day and found her coddling a foot-long puppy she had rounded up for a couple of kids in a foster home . . . Prof. Ebbinghausen of University of Oregon caused no end of excitement the other night when he showed up at an alumni-anybody U. of O. affair at the Marion with a real atomic pile . . . The Coos Bay pirates left the Jolly Roger, traditional pirate flag, flying on the State Capitol grounds Tuesday. And some taxpayers probably feel there's a moral there someplace. Bottor English By D. C. WILLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sen tence? "Despite all I can say, ho seems bound to go.". 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "comptroller"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Tatoo, tautology, tar paulin, tantamount. 4. What does the word "con jecture" mean? 5. What is a word beginning Eisenhower Petitions Filed at Y., A v , . V- ?:t W I .... ;- : . ...... . A sheaf of petitions to place Gesw ballot waa delivered Thursday at tea tev,uara. ttJ. by Lichty r I i for. Democrats are certain to claim him as their own, pointing out he was the first politician ever to throw a dollar across the Potomac. Re publicans will probably throw their arms around the Washington figure noting that the great man led an army which knew where it wanted to go but didn't know how to get there. And today Is not a legal holiday In Nevada state where the sight of three cherries of ten cause people to yell: "By George, I've hit It againr with acq that means "to agree"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "he seems resolved (or determined) to go." 2. Pronounce as though spelled controller, ac cent second syllable. 3. Tattoo. 4. A surmise; a guess. "This is mer ely a matter of conjecture." 5. Acquiesce. The path of tha Just is as a dawning light that shineth more and more until the perfect day. Prov. 4:18-8 Dwight Elsenhower on the Oregon the statenouso by Mark Hatfield (left) and William i rauupa l pg iW KVro,'ftWflrV f DTP PCD ODD (Continued from page 1) with Italy to get that country to join In the war against the Cen tral Powers In the First World War, Wilson declared, In reply to a question by Sen. Hir. Johnson of the Foreign Relations Committee that ho had never heard of those agreements. Some were inclined to question Wil son's veradity on this point be cause it seemed incredible that ha would not know what was cooking between those powers. Nothing came of the. incident. But the Wilsonlan phrase lives on Open covenants openly arrived at, only to be violated when it seems policy to do so on the part of the executive. Symptomatic of this supicion that Congress has of the Execu tive arc recent proposals for con stitutional amendments to re strict the power of the President in the making of agreements and to limit the scope of treaties en tered into by the United State. Senator Bricker introduced one resolution, with some 55 co signers which would deny to treaties any legal status in the way of overriding domestic leg islation. Congressman Ellsworth of Oregon introduced a resolut ion for a constitutional amend ment to spell out with great definiteness the treaty - making power. Both are aimed at shear ing off the practice of substitut ing "Executive Agreements" for treaties which require assent of two-thirds of the Senate. These are questions of great Importance which I hope to dis cuss in a future column. What sticks out now is the difficulty an executive has in a democratic government to manage foreign affairs and at the same time to satisfy the legislative branch and the people. This business is han dled so much easier in dictator ships and monarchies. The initials of the executive or his minister clinches the deal. This is not new. Bac kin 1889 when Halzfeld was tierman Ambassador to Britain, he told Lord Salisbury that peace could best be secured by an Anglo-German alliance AGAINST France. Salisbury re plied: "We unfortunately no longer live in Pitt's time, when the aris tocracy ruled and we could con duct an active policy. Now the democracy rules and with it per sonal and party government, which has made every English government absolutely dependent on the 'aura popularis' (popular ear)." Sure, it was easy to conduct foreign relations in the "good old days"; but then the people didn't count anyway. We much prefer Wilson's dictum: Open covenants . . . But it must be admited it is difficult to manage foreign af fairs on television for the world (including Russia) to see each move. Salem's Sixth Hi-Y Club to Be Organized Salem's sixth Hi-Y Club, named the J. R. Mott Chapter, will be inducted soon, the Hi-Y council announced Thursday. Now numbering 15 members, the club is led by Gary Gortmaker, president, and William Byers, ad viser. The chapter name was chosen to honor John R. Mott, world-wide leader in the YMCA and student movements for a half century. The Hi-Y council has elected Joan Travis as Hi-Y candidate for queen of Salem High School's In terclub CarnivaL Mike Deeney, John Bone and Bill Cook were appointed to write a Hi-Y constitution. Statehouse Republican presidential P,f H hm i , j Mrs. Tlieodosia Fitzpatrick I j Dies; iinal Rites Set Saturdayj The rosary will be recited at 8 o'clock this morning In the ClougS Barrick Chapel for Mrs. Theodosia FitzpS trick, Salem resident for 43 years, who died in a local hospital Thursday after a short illness,' i Funeral services will be held at 10 aan. Saturday In St. Joseph unurcn, witn interment in st. Bar- bara's Cemetery. Mrs. Fitxpatrick, who would have been 72 July ' 23, had been active up until a week ago when she was taken to the hospital. She came to Salem in 1909 from her home in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho to Join her husband. They owned a farm south of Four Corners dur ing most of her lifetime. ' Born in Winnemucca, Nev in 1880, she left there as a small child, living for awhile in Dayton, Wash., and tor most of her early life in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Her father, a veteran of the Confeder ate Army, was a banker in Idaho and owner of the water works in Coeur d'Alene. During World War II, Mrs. Fitz pa trick worked for the Red Cross. She was a member of St. Joseph's Church, the Catholic Daughters of America and the Altar Society. She is survived by her widower, Frank, of Salem; daughters. Sister Theodosia of Marylburst School in Portland, Miss Elizabeth Fitzpat rick, Mrs. Kathleen Hale and Mrs. Patricia Swig art, all of Salem; Mrs. Margaret Pietrok of Stay ton; son, Michael of Salem; sisters, Mrs. Ca roline Sodeman, Salem; Mrs. Doro thy Meade, Grants Pass, Mrs. Nao mi Shuttleworth of Momence, I1L; brothers, C. A. De Saussure of Poison, Mont.; George and Em mett De Saussure, both of San Francisco, Calif.; Leo De Saussure of Oakland, and 15 grandchildren. 2c PBEinUH ON SOUR CBEAII BOTTEBFAT Will pay 2e above premium fat quotations. Will pay freight. Contact M. C. Farrish, Fred Meyer Dairy Department, 1412 S. E. 11th. Portland. Oregon. PRICES GOOD THROUGH SATURDAY Reg. $1.00 Hair Foam SHAMPOO 2 for 99c TOILETRY 1.35 Vacuum Bottle 29c Kleenex Box 1.39 Amphojel 1.50 Vitamin "C Value Bubble Bath 2 99c 54c Allca Selfzer 32c 7c Ivory Soap P.rsoni six. 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