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From tint Statesman. March tS. 1U1
THE STATESMAN PUBUSHING COiWANY
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
Fablished every morning. Business office t IS 8 Commercial, Salem, Oregon. Telephone S-Z44L
Catered at the pestofflce at Salem, Oregon, as secoad class matter under act of congress March S, 1S7H
Forecast of West's Growth
The Census Bureau is still busy processing
the statistics collected on its 1950 census. But
already it is projecting the head count for 1960.
It has just issued a pamphlet (P-25 No. 56)
giving a forecast of the population at the end
of the decade. For the seven Western states it
foresees a gain of 28 per cent against the 46
per cent increase of the last decade.
California would head the list with a gain
of about 33 per cent, lifting its population to
over 14 million, just behind New York state but
well ahead of Pennsylvania.
Oregon is put down for a population gain of
26 per cent which compares with 39.6 per cent
for 1940-50. Other states in the West get this
forecast of gains: Washington 19 per cent; Ari
zona 30 per cent (Is the Bureau figuring on the
Central Arizona project?); Utah 14 per cent;
Idaho 14 per cent; Nevada 25 per cent.
We can't put very much faith in these figures
because they represent only informed opinion.
All of us are confident, however, that growth
in the West will continue. Just now the rate of
growth is much less than in the immediate
postwar era. Thus in Salem the increase in num
ber of water connections was comparatively
small in 1951, rising in the year from 11,589 to
11,877 but still showing growth. The war mo
bilization and concentration of defense spending
has slowed down population growth in Oregon;
but that may be regarded as temorary. After
each war experience in the past our population
has taken a jump. It will again, through natural
increase and immigration. And we'll not quarrel
with the Census Bureau experts on what that
growth will be.
avoiding a clash such as occurred between Stalin
and Trotsky over the succession to Lenin.
The usual fate of dictatorships is to crash on
the rocks of personal ambition. When the dic
tator ages or dies rivals contend for his mantla
of power; divisions occur, civil war may result;
finally the regime is overthrown by soma fresh
revolution.
One may not gamble on such events in tha
USSR. Its central government is so tight, its
methods of terror and purge so ruthless that
none may dare challenge the succession, espe
cially if it has the blessing of Stalin. Unfortu
nately there is nothing about Malenkov which
gives promise of any change of Soviet policy
whieh would make the world a more pleasant
place to live in, either for foreigners or tha
Russian people themselves.
While the report about a new drug for treat
ment of cases of tuberculosis carries a measure
of optimism longer testing is required to prova
its permanent value. So far those trying it out
say it has produced encouraging results, but no
one is ready to say that a genuine "cure" for
TB has been found. The drug is called rimfon
or nydrazid, but the names are meaningless
and;we have not seen yet a description of them,
except that the drug is a synthetic. The publia
should continue to rely on the medical profes
sion's experimentation and not jump to any
quick conclusions. But what a great day it will
be when a specific cure against TB really is
found . . . and ditto for cancer, coronary throm
bosis, et al.
Defeat for Long Machine
Many times we get discouraged over the way
our democracy works in practice. Though we
pronounce our political creed with glibness
many times we fall down when it comes to car
rying out its precepts. Mob action, lynchings,
bombings, terrorism of gangsters, murders left
go unsolved, discriminations on account of color
or race or creed, machine rule in politics the
recital reveals our record of failure.
On the other hand there are many bright
spots which help us overcome the discourage
ment. One recent progress note was the defeat
of the Earl Long machine in Louisiana. Earl was
the brother of Huey Long and won the gover
norship on the family name and by use of some
of Huey's methods. Last week his candidate for
Governor was defeated by Judge Robert Ken
non who ran on an anti-Long platform. The
victory was decisive and reporters hail this
as putting an end to the domination of the
Long machine. They may be too optimistic;
but at least we rejoice that reform, has won in
Louisiana.
A showdown on the question of statehood
for Alaska will come on Wednesday of this
week when the Senate will debate the Smathers
motion to recommit the bill and then take a
vote. The move is designed to kill off Alaskan
statehood for this session of Congress. The fate
of this motion probably will show what is in
store for the Hawaiian statehood bill. Both are
caught in the mesh of Southern fears of civil
rights legislation.
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The "bonus" of six delegates allowed Ore
gon at the GOP convention this year will bo
added to the number to be elected "at large."
Each of the four congressional districts will
have two delegates, with ten chosen by voters
of the whole state, making 18 in all. We may
expect a shower of filings for delegate both for
the Republican and Democratic conventions in
the days remaining for filing. (Closing date
March 7 th.)
In Line of Succession
Via Berlin comes a report that Georgi M.
Malenkov harsucceeded Joseph Stalin as chair
man of the organization bureau of the Com
munist party in Russia. This "orgtniro" is junior
only to the politburo in power in the USSR.
The choice of Malenkov, though not yet offi
cially announced at Moscow, is taken to mean
that he is the heir apparent to the dictatorship.
This build-up may result in a smooth transfer
of authority on the death or retirement of Stalin,
Financing for American Telephone and Tele
graph Co. reaches up into the stratosphere.
Latest announcement is that it will offer for
sale $550 million in debentures to help pay
for its 1952 construction program. That is tha
largest piece of private financing ever under
taken. All the phone companies are hard pressed
to keep up with desire of Americans to talk.
The Wall Street Journal has been running a
tag line at the bottom of a column of news para
graphs: !The Korean truce talks dragged on.
Well, America was discovered because, in the
poetry of Joaquin Miller, Christopher Columbus
sailed on and on . . . and on some more. Maybe
Panmunjom will arrive at a happy San Salvador
ultimately.
Morris Prepares
Rooting Out
By JOSEPH AND
STEWART ALSOP
WASHINGTON A test of tho
sincerity of those in the Congress
who have been bellowing most
self -righteously
about g o vern
ment corruption
should soon be
provided. For
Newbold Mor
ris, Pr e s ident
Truman's new
corruption i n -vestig.ator,
whom nobody
has taken very
seriously as yet.
fcWJ! to come up with
a program for dealing with cor
ruption as serious, far-reaching,
and politically e x p 1 osive as
could well be imagined. Morris
has, however, the full backing
Thorough Program for
Graft, With Truman's Support
La
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of Truman.
And it will be
instructive, nd
"perhaps even
rather amusing,
to ee the reac
tion in Congress
to the Morris
program.
A lot of peo-
rU- hath in the
Consress and in 1
the Executive i
D r a n c n . nave -J.-'f Ahc&A
hoped that ,
Morris would quietly ensconce
himself in a suite at the Justice
Department; read such reports
as were made available to him;
write an Innocuous essay on cor
ruption; and then quietly fade
away. Morris has now made it
abundantly clear that he means
to do nothing of the sort.
In the first place, Morris has
signified his desire to be taken
out from under the protective
wing of Attorney General Mc
Grath so that he can operate en
tirely independently, reporting
directly to President Truman.
On these points, Truman has
given Morris complete support.
Morris has been promised plenty
of office space outside the Justice
Department, and a staff of 150 or
so. and more than half a million
doflors from the Presidential
fur ' . to get on with the job.
And ho will report straight to
Truman.
Second, as Morria testified In
closed session en Capitol Hill
last week, he has asked that he
be given absolute priority and
support in an extraordinary proj
ect which Morris believes will
lay the ground work for attack
ing government corruption at its
source. Morris intends to circu
late a. detailed questionnaire
throughout the entire Executive
branch of the government, ex
cepting only routine office and
manual workers and the Presi
dent himself.
This questionnaire will re
quire all officials to list precise
ly all sources of Income other
than government pay, what they
did for the money, and how
many hours they worked to earn
it. Answering this questionnaire
the answers will of course be
kept secret unless they lead to
prosecution will confront any
influenceselling official with tho
choice between revealing all or
committing perjury.
For this plan to work, two
tilings are required. In the first
place, any official refnslstc to an-
faee inUmHt dis-
On this point. Morris
again has assurances of Presi
dential support. Truman has
stated flatly that ho wul flro
anyone Morris catches off base,
even within she Inner White
Bouse circle Itself.
But this Is not all that is re
quired. For Morris must also
have subpoena powers in order to
investigate any official who is
dismissed for refusing to answer
the questionnaire, or who re
signs rather than answer it. With
out this Morris might as well
pack up and go home. This is
the main reason why the sub
poena powers which Truman has
asked Congress to grant Morris,
and which only Congress can
grant, are so all important.
The part Truman has played
In this situation is interesting. His
eagerness to back Morris appar
ently amounts almost to over-
eagerness. Truman himself, for
example, has publicly taken re
sponsibility for asking Congress
to give Morris the power to grant
immunity to witnesses, which is
something Morris never asked
for. This eagerness to go the
whole hog suggests that Trumaa
is rather belatedly thoroughly fed
up with the way officials in his
Administration have been selling
him down the river. It also sug
gests that Truman has realized,
again belatedly, that the best tac
tic is to put the burden of prov
ing sincerity on the corruption is
sue squarely on the Congress.
It remains to be seen how this
tactic will work out. An investi
gation of the extraordinary scope
proposed by Morris is dead sure
to extend to the influence mem
bers of Congress themselves have
brought to bear. The files of
letters and telephone conversa
tions of the Procurement Divi
sion of the Defense Department,
for example, or of such agencies
as Federal Housing or Civil Aero
nautics should provide some in
teresting material on this score.
Such apostles of righteousness as
Senator Owen Brewster, -known
in Washington as "The Senator
from Pan -American," or such
friends of the housing lobby as
Senators Harry Cain. John
Bricker or Joseph McCarthy, thus
cannot be expected to be alto
gether enthusiastic about the
whole Morris program.
8 rusts Judiciary Committee
Chairman Pat McCarran. whoso
habit of bullying executive offi
cials to get what he wants is well
known, will have much to say
about whether Morris gets the
needed subpoena powers. It
would not be entirely surprising
if the request for subpoena pow
ers were permanently buried in
McCmrran's committee. Indeed.
It would not be at all surprising
If. as the extremely far-reaching
nature of Morris's program be
comes known, the Congressional
s!outnfr about Morris's non
existent Communist leanings and
his equally non-existent ship
deal profits became louder and
more self-righteous thas ever.
(Cooyrlght 1852.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
The Safety
Valve
COMPLAINS OF TREATMENT
BY ENGINEERS AT DETROIT
To The Editor:
This morning The Statesman
published an article on house
moving in the Detroit area in
which it stated house owners
would bo given 10 minutes to
move their houses .9 of a mile.
This is another instance of the
lack of cooperation and consider
ation the Detroit people have
had from the U. S. Army Engi
neers and our own state since
the beginning of this project. We
were told what we would bo paid
for our houses but not even per
mitted to see a copy of the ap
praisers report. We were told if
we bought our houses back for
moving there would be no more
cost until we were forced to
move. After 15 months we were
forced to pay rent on the con
demned ground on which the
houses were located. I wish you
could see the seven beauti
ful copies of those leases com
plete with maps of the lot the
clerical work must have cost
more man the rental. Then our
state takes its pound of flesh by
charging a personal property
tax on the houses calling it "im
provements on government land"
. . . Does one have improve
ments on condemned ground?
Detroit people tried to buy
surplus government land but
were refused. It seems this is to
be a recreation area which wa
will be taxed to develop. At that
time there was no land for sale.
When we asked the Array Engi
neers where we were to go, we
were told "You can go to Port
land or Salem or Eugene or you
can go to . . ., well, anywhere
you wish." We nave received the
same "to hell with the fish
treatment as when the ammonia
was dumped in the Santiam last
summer. Yet when the town of
Mongold, built below the flow
line with taxpayer's money, was
endangered by forest fires, who
pitched in to help save it? It was
these same workers in the log
ging industry who are forced out
of their homes and two of them
lost their lives in so doing.
We have tried to get publicity
on the arrogant and arbitrary
treatment given us bat most
papers seem afraid to publish
3S3HS3
PODCQIl
(Continued from page 1)
full-scale discussion of Far East
ern questions. The U. N. repre
sentatives doubtless will insist
on confining discussions to the
Korean settlement.
However, as soon as the Korean
affair is settled, other issues re
lating to Asia will present them
selves. They include:
1. The future of Formosa
2. Recognition of Red China
3. Admission of Red China to
United Nations
4. Whether trade relations with
Red China will bo resumed
8. Problem of Communist ag
gression in Southeast Asia i
A settlement in Korea will im
mediately project these wider
issues into the foreground. An
Immediate decision on Formosa
would have to be made, whether
it still would be protected by the
U. S. Seventh Fleet or not, or
whether its fate would be turned
over to United Nations.
In Great Britain the debate
over the Labor Party's motion of
censure of Prime Minister Chur
chill will come up on Wednes
day, after the interlude for the
funeral of iCing George. That
was over possible commitments
if the Reds broke an armistice
agreement. What may be more
pertinent is the course to pursue
if the Reds accept an agreement
and keep it. It is of great im
portance that the U. N. harmon
ize on the remaining Issues in
Asia, and that means the United
States and France and Britain
should come to an understanding
on Asia as they appear to have
uune on xairope.
Faded ideas indicate age more
than faded hair. Anonymous
any criticism of the Army Engi
neers. Shouldn't our side of the
story be told? After all we are
making a big sacrifice so that
the valley people may have flood
control and power?
Mrs. Earl Parker
Detroit, Ore.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
by Lichty
Flood Control
Session to
Hear McKay
Gov. Douglas McKay will ad
dress the Flood Control and
Drainage luncheon at the Senator
Hotel Wednesday noon.
The luncheon will be under the
chairmanship of Robert Fenix,
president of the Salem Chamber
of Commerce. The business meet
ing itself will be held Wednesday
at 9:30 a. m. at the State CapitoL
O. T. Oberg is the scheduled chair
man for this part of the program.
Topics to be discussed during
the morning are "Willamette River
Pollution," C. M. Everts Jr.. chief
engineer, State sanitary authority;
"Flood Control, Present and Fol
lowing Completion of the Detroit
and lookout Point Dams", Col,
T. H. Lipscomb, district engineer,
Army corps of engineers; "Water
shed Survey', D. M. Ilch and Mar
tin Baudenistel, U. S. Forest Ser
wice and Soil Conservation Ser
vices. "Bank Protection", will bo a
panel discussion with Ronald
Jones, Brooks, as moderator.
Members of tho panel are to be
Fred Knox, R. L. Clark, C. A.
Mockmore, F. L. Tnompson, Floyd
Fox, Charles Evans, Mike Walter,
B. M. LeFevre, Walter Buse and
Ed Carothers.
The first afternoon session,
which will begin at 1:45, will be
devoted to a discussion on drain
age with A. S. King, Corvallis, in
charge. This will be followed by
"Production Marketing Adminis
tration Drainage Projects", by O.
E. Mikeseu, Albany; "Soil Conser
vation Service Drainage Projects,
by Ralph Brownscombe, Albany.
The meeting will close with a pa
nel discussion directored by King,
and the panel to be composed of
tile manufacturers and farmers.
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Cross-Complaints
Result From
2-Family 'Feud'
Two Silverton Star Route fam
ilies are "fuedin" and fighting' "
according to cross-complaints of
assault and batery filed Monday
in Marion County District Court.
Jay Bleakney and his son are
charged with assault and battery
against Ernest Hicks and his son.
Ernest Hicks and his son are
charged with assault and battery
against Jay Bleakney and his son.
Both elders posted $50 ball Mon
day. Trial has not been set. One
of the boys was certified to juve
nile court and the other boy posted
$50 bail along with his father.
The fisticuffs occurred last Sat
urday, according to Marion County
deputies and arose over an alleged
suspicion that one of the families
was at the bottom of a series of
property destructions started some
eight or more years ago.
Bettor English
By D. C. WILLIAMS
"Our regular coarse teaches you the trade ... the short course,
yoo learn the tricks of the trade! . .
1. What is wrong with this sen
tence? "I don't know if I can get
to go to college."
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "xylophone ?
3. Which one of these words is
misspelled? Backteria, backgam
mon, baptism, bauble.
4. What does the word "peru
sal" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with com that means "to call to
remembrance"?
ANSWERS
1. Say, "I don't know whether
I can go to college." 2. Pronounce
zi-lo-Zon, i as in ice, both e's as
in no, accent first syllable. 3.
Bacteria. 4. Act of reading care
fully. "He made a perusal of
many biographies." 5. Commem
orate. i-
Senate Confirms
Harry McDonald
As RFC Director
t-1
WASHINGTON (VThe Senate Monday confirmed the nomina
tion of Harry A. McDonald to head the RFC after protests of both
Republicans and Democrats over White House "pressure" and
"force." 5 a
A roll call vote of 48 to 23 endeu a weeks-long feud with Presi
dent Truman, who once said he would run the agency the Re
construction Finance Corporation
himself if the Senate delayed
action on McDonald much longer.
McDonald is now head of the
Securities and Exchange Commis
sion SEC. He is a Republican from
Detroit. He plans to take office at
RFC late Tuesday.
Thirty Democrats and 16 Repub
licans voted for McDonald, and
seven Democrats and 16 Repub
licans were against him when the
roll was called after two hours of
debate.
Morse Favors
Northwest Senators voting for
confirmation were Magnuson CD
Wash.) and Morse (R-Ore.). Not
listed as voting were Cain (R
Wash.) and Cordon (R-Ore.).
Sen. Douglas (D-Ill) protested
what he termed White House
"pressure" to confirm McDonald.
He added.
"I never believed in yielding at
the point of a pistol."
Douglas questioned whether
McDonald "is strong enough or
able enough" to withstand the
pressures of a political influence
ring which the Senator said "is
still lurking in the shadows."
The big lending agency was
sharply criticized by a Senate
committee last year. The Presi
dent then reorganized it, abolish
ing its old board of directors, and
naming a single administrator, W.
Stuart Symington, since resigned.
McDonald succeeds hira.
Not Questioning Honesty
Douglas insisted he was not
questioning McDonald's "honesty
or character" in his Senate speech.
"It is my suspicion," the Senator
said, "that if we do make him
head of the RFC it will be run by
the White House. I had hoped not
to be forced to say that."
Douglas is a member of a Senate
banking subcommittee which a
year ago charged that a ring hav
ing contacts in the White House
had influenced the RFC on loans
and other matters.
He recalled these charges and
cautioned the Senate that "our old
friends are lurking in the sha
dows.,, Douglas spoke after Sen. Ives
(R-NY) said he opposed approval
of McDonald because of the "un
seemingly and contemptuous man
ner in which, it seems to me, the
Senate Committee on Banking and
Currency . . has been kicked
around and coerced by the chief
executive in his determination to
force the committee to do his bid
ding in this particular situation
or else."
A Democrat, Sen. Fulbright of
Arkansas, said he agreed. But, Ful
bright added, the ' committee "was
not intimidated, and in spite of the
President's disdain for the com
mitt; e's position and responsibili
ties, we did not shorten our in
quiry into the nomination."
6-Story Fall
Feels Like
'PartofWind
VANCOUVER, B. C. (JP) How
does it feel to plunge from a sixth
story window? :-
Pretty 18 - year - old Marcell.
Desjardins has the answer: ; '
"I felt like part of the wind.'
She jumped from the window of
a downtown office building Feb,
1, landing on an adjoining roof.
She suffered two compound
fractures of one leg, a fracture of
the other leg, and minor but hot
permanent injury to her spine. She
is in a body cast and will be la
a hospital many days.
"I felt no pain at all when I hit
the roof," she said in a hospital
interview Monday. "The only real
serious pain I have felt since is in
knowing how much I injured lay
dad and mopier."
Why did she jump? ;
"I got my pay cheque that day
with a letter telling me I was fired.
That was an awful shock. It was
my first job and I had it for two
years. ':'
"Then on top of that, when I
phoned my boy friend, he hung
up" . : u
After she got the news she was
fired from her job as a stock
brokers' clerk, Miss Desjardins
said she went to the sixth floor
window. 4 i
"I kept looking down and think
ing, thinking that I'm always
bothering people. if
"I gave myself a push and began
to go down, just like a breeze,
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