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Eatere at the poatorflee at Salem, Orecan. aa eeeead eUa matter under act ef eaajreaa March X, 1S7B.
price of the road from their bid. In that way tha
counties pay 75 per cent of the road cost through
(lowered receipts) even if they don't know it.
Problem of Sex Deviates
The proposal of a Portland group to push
through a new law to handle sex offenders
(newly termed "sex deviates") has met with
opposition in well-informed sources. At a work
shop panel on social hygiene held in Portland
under the auspices of the Oregon Tuberculosis
and Health Association the subject got a going
over. One who ought to be one of the best au
thorities on the subject, Curtis E. Avery, direc
tor of the E. C. Brown Trust which is dedicated
to sex education, recommended a program of
education and thought it was too early to agitata
for a law. Miss Dobson, of the Portland schools
reported that there are only from 100 to 123
major crimes in the United States each year at-
tributed to sex deviates. Other authorities indi
cated little enthusiasm for fresh legislation
which contemplates a separata institution for
those in this category. The organization spon
ori:.g this program is the Children's Protective
Association, of which John Reynolds is acting
chairman.
A crime by a pervert against a child natural
ly excites public wrath. And it is true that some
of these offenders have been permitted to go at
large and then have committed horrible crimes.
One such is under conviction of murder now.
But here you are dealing with the dark re
cesses of the human mind without too much
certainty as to the individual case or what to do.
One speaker warned of the "potentiality and
possibility of the miscarriage of justice."
There are twp factors that must be weighed:
first the extent of criminal sex perversion, and
aecond. the proper disposition of such cases
treatment, confinement or what? Unt;l we have
fuller knowledge we ought to go slow with new
laws and setting up a new institution.
More Influence Business?
So Senator Styles Bridges buddied with Hen
ry Grunewald, "the Dutchman" of Washington,
and intervened in a tax case involving none of
his own New Hampshire constituents. H. H.
Klein, a Baltimore liquor importer told how ha
and several others (including George Norgan of
Vancouver, former owner of Salem Senators)
cleaned up millions in liquor importations dur
ing the war years. The Internal Revenue Bureau
sought to collect $7,000,000 in taxes whereupon
Grunewald and Bridges both made intercession
at various times, though Klein testified he didn't
know either of them and hadn't asked them to
appear for him.
Looks like another case of perversion of in
fluence. Some one must have been using tha
Senator for a purpose. But why did the Senator
let himself be used? (He'll tell his story today).
And was Grunewald known about Washington
as the "man to see" if you had tax troubles?
Half a Loaf
Harold Stassen, eager to get the Eisenhower
vote in Wisconsin where the general is not en
tered, has offered up half the delegation, if ha
wins it, to Ike. That kind of open vote-trading
is certainly responsible. In this state it would
be subject to scrutiny as a violation of the cor
rupt practices act.
Wisconsin may well be Stassen's "last stand"
Taft's.
Vote for the School Levy Today
Tomorrow afternoon a special school district
election will be held to authorize a tax levy in
excess of the amount allowed under the 6 per
cenlimitation. The amount asked this year is
approximately $656,000, which is a little less
than the near $660,000 asked last year. The to
tal school tax levy is expected to be two-tenths
of a mill under that of 1951.
For many years the voters of the district have
been authorizing an extra tax levy to care for
the needs of the schools. It is not, however, to
be regarded as a routine matter and neglected.
Voters should get out and vote to show their
interest in the schools, and in taxes too.
Senator Joe McCarthy has sued Sen. William
Benton of Connecticut for $2 million, alleging
libel and slander in his charges against the Wis
consin senator. Last week Benton said he would
waive congressional immunity, which gave Mc
Carthy the opening to file his suit. We do not
anticipate that Benton will flinch from the law
suit or try to weasel out of it. If the case comes
to- trial Benton will have the opportunity to
prove the truth of his accusations. At last we'll
be getting some sort of court determination on
the McCarthy business.
John Foster Dulles has resigned his position
with the State Department in order to be free
to speak his mind in the coming political cam
paign. Dulles, a Republican, was able to bridge
the gap between Washington and MacArthur in
The Statesman recommends a favorable vote 'drafting the Japanese treaty. Dulles is experi-
on the proposal. Considering the expansion re
quired by growth in school population the
mount requested appears quite reasonable.
Voting hours are from 2 to 8 jp.m. Polling places
re listed in the news story in today's Statesman.
enced in foreign affairs, intelligent, sincerely
devoted to developing a sane world order. It Is
to be hoped he has a hand in drafting the GOP
platform on foregn policy.
Accra Roads for O & C Lands
The House appropriation committee is balk
ing again at putting up $700,000 for access road
construction to serve O & C lands. The commit
tee asks why the federal government should
put up the money since the counties get 75 per
cent of the revenues.
If the government doesn't put up the money
then the private loggers who purchase the tim
ber have to build the roads. They deduct tha
The stories of scandalous waste in construct
ing airports in North Africa and Greenland chill
one's ardor for the big military budget submit
ted by the Pentagon. If it costs that much to do
our fighting far away from home, maybe we
should settle for bases nearer home base.
This coffee hour was high-priced in Danvers,
Mass., where thieves made way with $681,000 in
currency while attendants of an armored car
drank coffee at a lunchcounter. Maybe this pro
posed prohibition initiative should Include cof
fee on tha list of banned beverages.
United States Losing Arms Race With Soviet;
Shipments to Europe Fall Below Promises
Ml
By JOSEPH AND
STEWART ALSOP
WASHINGTON It is time
to y bluntly what neither Gen
eral of the Army Dwight D. Eis
enhower, nor
his deputy. Gen.
Alfred Gruen-
I II C I, W WW I J
now testifying
on Capitol Hill,
can say in pub
lic. It is time,
in fact, to point
out that there
has been a
downright dis
graceful failure
to deliver wea-
kWWf j goods to Gen.
E i s e nhower's
command in anything like the
quantity promised.
Figures are apt to be dull but
those given be-,
low deeply and
dirwtly affect
the security of
the United,
States. Since
the aggression
In Korea, about
119 billion has
been appropri
ated to streng
then Western
Europe against
renewed ag-
zresxion. t n e 1
bulk of this - Ak
money for arms.
Of this great sum, only about
$1.4 billion worth of weapons
has actually been delivered to
this country's Western allies. And
much even of this comparatively
miserable sum represents arms
from surplus stocks in the United
tates and in Germany.
Even by Jane 31, when the
eerrent fiscal year ends, the most
reliable vnerflcial estimate Is
that net more than $Z billion
worth of arms will be delivered.
M per eeat behind ache dales al
ready revised downward. Of the
great appropriations already
aaade. a whopping $5 billion has
reportedly not even been obli
gated the money is lying Tan
ned in the Treasury, and no
eoairacta hare been let against
It And the carrent estimate is
that when the next fiscal year
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FrfT
V
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ends on Jnne 3t, 1953. there will
still be an unexpected balance
of well over $5 billion.
These figures are a record of
abysmal failure. It was to pro
test in the strongest possible
terms against this failure that
Gen. Eisenhower returned to this
country last November. As a re
sult of Eisenhower's protest.
President Truman issued a di
rective upping the priority on
arms for Eisenhower's command,
which had previously rated in
practice below the National
Guard. But the current and fu
ture figures cited above show
clearly that the record of failure
still continues.
This is having a deeply dan
gerous effect throughout the
Western alliance. As Winston
Churchill told the British Parlia
ment recently, British rearma
ment has been delayed for at
least a year because, although
"there is no question of reproach
on either side." Great Britain
"has not received aid in keep
ing with our defense burden un
dertaken by the late Prime Min
ister." The effect on the other
NATO partners la even more se
rious than on the British, who
produce the great bulk of their
own arms. Arms promised for
France and other continental allies-
simply have not been de
livered. This long lag in deliver
ing the goods is directly con
nected with the current crisis In
Franco and elsewhere.
But what is really important
to Americans is the effect of this
failure on the security of this
country. Unless virtually, every
strategic expert is dead wrong,
the United States will itself be
in deadly clanger if Western
Europe is still indefensible when
the Soviets have a decisive stock
of atomic bombs and this time
is coming soon now. Thus tha
failure to produce and supply
the planned and promised mar
gin of arms which the Europeans
cannot produce themselves di
rectly endangers the United
States. And this is only a part
of a larger failure. For by any
reasonable test, the United States
is losing the arms race with the
Soviet Union in which we are
now engaged.
Surely this life-and-death race
is one which this country, with
its superb Industrial equipment,
should be able to win hands
down. The failure Is, indeed,
mysterious. In Europe, the Job
Gen. Eisenhower has done seems
all the more prodigious since he
has really had so little to work
with. The top mobilization ci
vilians in this country, including
men like W. Averell Harriman.
Robert Lovett and Charles Wil
son, are without exception very
able men. And there has cer
tainly been no lack of money
appropriated.
There are all sorts of partial
explanations the heritage of the
Johnson era, the mysteries of
"lead time," the bungling of the
military, especially where the
Mutual Security Program is con
cerned. But the central explana
tion seems to lie in a curious,
mutually contradictory attitude
about the American economy.
On the one hand, we have heard
so much about the "miracles of
American production" that we
have become complacent. The
American " economy is now per
forming miracles of a sort, to
be sure. On top of a defense pro
gram which is very large on pa
per, the United States is pro
ducing at the rate of 5,000,000
cars and a million houses a year,
and the price trend is down if
anything. But cars and houses,
or refrigerators and television
sets, do not weigh heavily in the
scale against Soviet jet planes
and .Soviet tanks.
On the other hand, there Is a
skittish fear that the American
economy will somehow explode
If a really serious effort is made,
although all the current evi
dence suggests that the economy
Is carrying the present mobiliza
tion, load without any real strain
at all. At any rate, the essential
facts are easy to demonstrate.
This country Is simply not pro
ducing the arms It set out to
produce; not doing the Job it set
out to do. And there is less and
leas time left In which to do the
Job.
(Copyright 1952.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Attempt to Cut
Power Funds
"Stop confessing you are low-life capitalist and traitor, comrade
husband... Is merely guilty of forgetting out anniversary!...
WASHINGTON (flVThe House
Wednesday defeated by a narrow
margin two attempts to trim pub
lic power funds as it began con
sideration of the $492,434,763 ap
propriation bill for the Interior
Department for tha year starting
July 1.
It did tentatively approve on a
107 to 92 standing vote a motion
by Rep. Davis (D-Ga) to cut
$1,027,393 from the $10,750,000
ear-marked for the Bureau of Land
Management.
A motion by Rep. Cotton (R
NH) to cut 10 million dollars from
tha $66,523,400 recommended for
the Bonneville Power Administra
tion construction program lost on
a 105 to 103 standing vote.
Cotton said that his amendment
would cut in half the money asked
for new construction work in the
Pacific Northwest, power program.
Rep. Jackson (D-Wash) called
the Cotton motion "ludicrous" and
said that if it was approved "we
would have dams without power
lines to transmit the power."
Jackson said that about 12 mil
lion of the new construction pro
gram would be spent to serve the
area surrounding the atomic en
ergy commission's Hanford works.
Another 3Vi million, he said,
would be for a submarine cable
beneath Puget Sound to carry
power to the Bremerton Navy
Yard.
The Appropriations Committee
has recommended $492,434,763
for the department, a cut of
$133,567,037 from the $626,001,
800 budget recommendations.
The House has not yet reached
sections of the bill dealing with
funds for the Reclamation Bu
reau, the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs, and the Division of Ter
ritories, which received the
sharpest cuts by the committee.
State Forestry
Board Orders
Sale of Bonds
Forest rehabilitation and refor
estation bonds aggregating $400,
000 were ordered sold at a meet
ing of the State Forestry Board
Wednesday.
Proceeds from the sale of the
bonds will be added to a balance
of $239,675 in the fund to make up
ished scene. He was Ben Tillman, who represented South Care- LT"" tSl" "T'Z
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una wneie luuaixu is noi exactly uiuuiuwu; lor a quarter oi a 1952.
century prior to his death in 1918. Tillman arose one day
through the Havana haze in the Senate and coughed that the
way things were going his distinguished colleagues would "light
their cigars and puff away and the chamber soon had the ap
pearance of a beer garden."
Visitors to Washington, D. C, who have seen Congress in
action say that Oregon's Sen. Guy Cordon is the gum-chewing-est
senator of them ail. 'Tis said that Guy can- chaw faster than
Tw 1 1 " - Sen. Morse can talk which is nrettv fair mo
lar-motion anyway you look at it. Off the Sen
ate floor, however, Guy is hardly ever seen
without a cigar, usually that last two inches of
it. He can't tote his stogie into the Senate
chambers, though, because it seems the rules
of that inflammable body forbid smoking on
the floor. This rule does not prevent the toga
touters from getting burnt up occasionally or
from frying their opposition.
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We asked the Statesman's Washington cor
resondent to check up oa this anti-inhaling order, since we've
never known Senators to refrain from clouding the issue, and be
came up with this klng-slse smoke ring serenade about the no
smoking rule In the Senate:
Once upon a long time ago senators smoked to their lungs
content. For in those days of brass cuspidors and hard heads the
cigar was a political stock-in-trade as well as a good puff. Then
came a dang Dixiecrat to put the damper on this happy, tarn-
What better atmosphere for a great deliberative gathering,
you mirht ask. Think of all the extra heads! But Tillman, it
seemed was nauseated by tobacco smoke. What was worse, ho
charged that 25-soot-stalned senators who had died in office dur
ing the previous four years had actually succumbed to the poison
of the weed. "This great mortality la doe to the way we live in
Washington." Tillman yelled through the fog at his fellow sen
ators. "Let os stop this smokinf in the Senate chamber, have the
attendants prop open the doors and windows all night so the pure
air can wash out the chamber and make It habitable. There will
be fewer deaths among us."
Well, unfortunately there was not a doctor handy who could
point out to the senators a certain brand of blazers, which would
actually add years to their lives. Nor was there a research or
ganization on The floor which could prove that a certain nicotine i t10". presided at Wednesday's
The board also approved trans
fer of moneys from several funds
in the forestry department budget
to provide $124,267 to defray costs
of the convict camp In the Tilla
mook burn for the year.
Acting State Forester Dwight I
Phipps told the board that the
personnel of the convict camp has
been increased from 50 to 6u men.
The bonds to be sold by the
board will be dated April 1, 1952
and mature on Oct. 1, 1967. When
these bonds are sold outstanding
rehabilitation bonds of the forest
ry department will total $1,700,
000. The voters authorized sale of
these bonds over a period of 10
years estimated at $12,000,000.
Bids for the bonds will be open
ed at a special meeting of the for
estry board May 1.
J. F. Daggett, Prineville, repre
senting the Western Pine Assocla-
treat would make them all young again. No. When Tillman sat
down again in the smog his kippered fellows were so startled
by that voice of doom that they adopted his motion without a
dissenting voice or vote, the Congressional Record shows. And
smoking has been in the outer lobbies only ever since.
meeting in the absence of Gov.
Douglas McKay who is 111.
3tP
Better English
By D. C. WILLIAMS
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "Just between you and
I, I am very pleased about this."
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "gnash?"
3. Which one of these words
is misspelled? Emerge, imerge,
emigrant, extant.
4. What does the word "satur
nine" mean?
5. What is a word beginnin
gently
ANSWERS
1. Say, "Just between you and
me, I am very much pleased
about this." 2. Pronounce as
though spelled naah. 3 Immerge.
4. Heavy; grave; gloomy; dulL
"He is a man of saturnine tem
per." S. Admonish.
(Continued from Page One)
best utilization of the water for
generating energy. It would seem with ad that means "to reprove
that this rnulH he rlone better ffentlv?"
through a single administration.
(The present .division of dam
operation between the Corps of
Engineers at Bonneville, The
Dalles and McNary and Recla
mation Bureau at Grand Coulee
and Chief Joseph seems wrong).
The first argument is under at
tack by the Idaho Power Com
pany which claims the govern
ment men's power estimates are
conflicting and unreliable. It
challenges also the cost estimates.
Very well, why not have Con
gress appoint a board of engi
neering experts to review the
estimates, or make such studies
as it sees fit and then file a re
port. This would be like the
"board-of impartial review" I
have argued for from time to
time in recent years.
There has never been any forty
hourweek for any man that has
anything worth while to do.
Chaa. F. Kettering
spent in preliminary investigation.
TALLEST WINDMILL
DALLAS, Tex. (INS) -The tall
est windmill in the nation will
stand even though it isn't pump-
ine much water. The 1 3fl-f nnt hitrh
The power from Hell's Canyon galvanized steel tower is on the
is not immediately needed. There 15-acre estate of Earl Hayes
is ample time to make this study. -Even if it never pumps a drop it
Since the project will cost some- wouid make a wonderful televi
where up to a half a billion dol- tower," Hayes says,
lars the expenditure of a million
in advance engineering and eco
nomic studies clearly is justified.
I do not think that advocates
of the government project have
anything to fear from such an
inquiry provided it is made by
competent and unbiased engi
neers and economists, whose only
assignment is to get the truth.
And Idaho Power should not
object to this procedure, for it
would have full opportunity to
present its case.
Most assuredly the waters of
Snake River should not be al
loted to a private power com
pany for development in this
controversial section until the
facts are fully developed.
Time is of the essence in this
case the essential time is that
Guilty Plea in
Check Case
Lloyd Cross, Stayton, pleaded
guilty to a bad check charge Wed
nesday in Marion County Circuit
Court and is to be sentenced Fri
day. Cross waived grand Jury Indict
ment on a charge of obtaining
money by false pretenses, involv
ing a worthless $6 check passed
March 15 in Salem.
Kenneth Reed, Salem, charged
with burglary not in a dwelling,
involving theft of beer Jan. 15
from the Gideon Stolz Co. ware
house, asked and was granted ap
pointment of a new attorney. His
trial had been set for April 8, but
it was indicated it will be post
poned. MEMORY AID
ROCHESTER, N. Y. (INS)-A
kindergarten teacher found her
pupils couldn't remember at the
end of the day which school bus
to take home. So, a rabbit was
painted on one, a chicken on an
other and a bear on a third. No
trouble at all now!
Phona 43333
HATU RALLY
mm
rraaices Tor reaerai Lawyers
WASSIN6TON (P)-Attorney General McGrath Wednesday da
fended the right of Justice Department attorneys to practice law obi
the side If they observed reasonable restrictions.
If the practice were banned, he told House Investigators, and if
no Increased compensation were offered, "you would lose overnight
a majority of the U. S. attorneys, and they would be the best we have."
McGrath appeared before a
of the government
He said they are also required
to be in their offices during work
ing hours and are prohibited from
doing private work or seeing
clients during working hours.
SAVE Whero
Savings Pays
House Judiciary subcommittee
which is ' Investigating his ad
ministration of the Justice De
partment. Open hearings started
Wednesday.
The attorney general and cabi
net member asserted that his de
partment doesn't need investigat
ing any more than any other fed
eral agency. Nevertheless, he add
ed, he would be "very glad" to
have its operations examined.
McGrath elected to testify un
der oath, although the committee
did not require that he be sworn.
As he took the oath he commented
that some people might wonder
why the attorney general should
not be sworn the same as any
other witness.
Questioned about the outside
activities of his legal staff, Mc
Grath said it isn't a general prac
tice for government attorneys to
take private law cases, but at the
same time It isn't prohibited.
"How can a man practice pri
vate law out of one drawer of his
desk and represent the govern
ment out of another?" asked Rep.
Chelf (D-Ky), committee chair
man. McGrath explained the at
torneys are barred from practic
ing privately in criminal courts
and from taking any case which
would conflict with the interests
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