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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 4, 1952)
"No Favor Sway Us No Fear Shall Au From first SttUcmia. March tS. 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAUUtfi. Editor and Publisher FnbLUned every morals. Boatoeaa office tlS S Commercial. Salem. Orexou. Telephone C-S441. iterea at the postofflce at Salem, Oregon, as second class matter under act of eeniresa March X, lS7tl Civil Rights Battle Renewed. Civil rights is a subject the politicians do a lot of talking about and rarely get round to do ing anything about. This year, as in 1948, the subject is a vexing one for platform builders in the Democratic party. At the last national con vention when the resolutions committee sub mitted a mild but pious expression of favor for equal rights, the convention rejected that plank and adopted another calling on Congress to sup port the President with legislation guarantee ing: "(1) the right of full and equal political par ticipation; (2) the right to equal opportunity of employment; (3) the right of. security of per son; (4) and the right of equal treatment in the service and defense of our nation." That plank drove some Southern delegates from the convention and inspired the creation of the States' Rights Party. The 82nd Congress however did nothing to advance civil rights. The toughest issue of all, fair employment, was projected, but the senate never would adopt cloture to close debate and permit a vote. This year both President Truman and Senator Humphrey are calling for adoption of a strong civil rights plank. The Southern Democrats ob ject and its inclusion may precipipate another splinter movement. Meanwhile Democratic strategists are taxing their brains to draft a civil rights plank which will satisfy the fair dealers without driving the Southern partisans out of the fold. The task though is like strad dling the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Republicans may be depended on to come through with renewed expression of devotion to civil rights. In 1948 they dodged the FEPC is sue though in 1944 they had pledged federal legislation for fair employment. Then the Re publican 80th Congress failed to carry out the party's pledges. Connivance of Republican lead ers has prevented change of the cloture rule which would allow the Senate to vote on civil rights measures. So Republicans can claim no credit for performance in spite of their platform promises. As long aslhe working alliance continues be tween Southern Democrats and Republicans there is little prospect -for civil rights legisla tion, no matter what the party platforms say. ,More Crackdown and Less Worry j The holiday traffic toll is appalling, no doubt of it. The National Safety Council and other similar agencies are performing a service by continually calling attention to the dangers in herent. We live in hopes that deaths and injury and damage may grow less. But take a look from another angle, too. When there are 100.000,000 tons of steel hurl ing along highways from 6 to 60 miles an hour (and, unwisely, ofttimes much more), what can you expect? The year-round nagging at reck lessness, carelessness and drunkenness on the public roads can't be overdone. But we still think there should be kind words for great ma jority of drivers without whose respect for law and life the toll would be immeasurably great er. Let's crack down harder on violators and stress better conditioning of the wheeled weap ons called automobiles. We're always going to be in danger on the highways, as elsewhere, but we don't need to get morbid about it. Drfs Not Be Easy Marks Salem and this area had better start locking its doors and windows, in the opinion of a good many law-enforcement officers, because for ome unexplained reason there doesn't seem Complex Government Policies, Controls Given Blame as By J. M. ROBERTS JR. AP News Analyst Regardless of who was right In the argument over prices and wages, the complex of govern ment controls and government policies was the direct precipi tant of the steel strike. Unless the in dustry suddenly admits that it can grant the rlVj I wage increases V-y.-tr A ! and still remain healthy without the full price increases it has demanded, or unless the union "aeks down, which is inconceiv able, only government can re store production. Politics has played a big part in the impasse. So have differ ences of opinion within the gov ernment over the economic effect of increased steel prices. The is sue has become a part of the " whole debate over controls. The national economy at the moment Is in precarious balance between deflation and continued inflation. Nobody can be sure of brine rifht about -what can or should be done. Only one thing is certain. Rus sia is rattling the sabre of a new world war on both the Western and Eastern fronts. America's Allies in Europe are going through an exceedingly trying period, with governments per ceiving the need for certain steps In political unification, and mili tary defense on which the people have net yet been uniformly sold. The stability of the American aid program is the platform upon which these governments stand. If the Europeans can see American equipment made of American steel cominr off the hip: if they can gee the Ameri Gin Morse on Steel Decision Senator Wayne Morse says he has read the majority and minority opinions in the steel case and thinks the minority of the court "has a much keener appreciation of the realities and dynamics of a system of government by law than does the majority." All out of step but Morse and the three dis senting justices. Actually the majority opinion . is the one which put stress on a government by law rather than of men. As far as dynamics is concerned that is not disregarded by the court. It puts the responsibility for law-making on Congress, just where the constitution put it and where Morse with his proposed legislation admits it resides. Springfield's government-built alcohol plant has had as varied a history as Salem's alumina plant. A deal is on for a transfer to another concern. The Eugene Register-Guard reporter says the present operators "did not announce the names of the new speculators." Such repor torial frankness is rare. A woman marriage-license clerk in Los An geles issued 800.000 licenses, now retires still unwed, and the news services seem to want to make something of it. Why? Issuing 800.000 dog licenses wouldn't have made her a dog, would it? New York's real estate valuation now ap proaches the $20 billion mark. Maybe we could trade in New York to reduce the national debt a per cent or two. After seeing photoes of that Korean terrain, it is to wonder where the Red POWs on Koje Island get all those flagpoles they're flaunting Us with. Oaly thing purges is that and harder to Nation Enters Steel Strike Crisis can economy taking and bearing' the strain of rearmament; if they can have faith not only In Ameri can policy but also In American ability, then Europe has a hope of cominr throurh. Great Britain Is strained to the limit by rearmament coming on top of serious and fathomless changes in the very nature of her economic relationships with the world. She recently negotiated with the U. S. for an allotment of 1,000,000 tons of steel. That's about one sixth of America's total export, and vital to British Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS THE ART OF BOOK READING, by Stella S. Center (Scrib ner's; $3.50) The critic who spends his time gunning blindly for any and all authors must be warned about this one, who, he will discover, happily, is on his side. Anyone who reads books pro fessionally day after day feels two or three or four or even five times a week that the writer he is reviewing has done a story for the lover- of adventure, for the traveler, the romantic, the the traveler, the remantic, the movie-goer, for anybody and everybody except the reader. Which is to say, he feels that more and more the reader is alienated by the very person who needs him most, the writer him self. By resorting to a kind of basic English, a writer can reach a very wide audience.; but an audience so low-grade is going to turn eventually to radio or some thing equally easy, and the reader wi'i become as extinct as the doo aird. much surcease from recent periodic wavei of petty thefts and burglaries. And it is not only Salem and this part of the valley that is affected. The situation seems fair ly general. The seriousness of the situation in Salem was pointed up sharply by the serious wounding of the proprietor of a shop on the Portland Road Tuesday, though locks played no part in that incident. The "why" of the condition is proving bother some to enforcement agencies. Usually, string ent economic situations lead to an increase in crime. But employment figures never have been higher. One officer said Tuesday he could at tribute the condition only to a growing idea that the world owes everyone a good living whether he works for it or- not. However, the temptation is flouted too freely a group of juveniles arrested over the week end confessed to five burglaries but in only one instance did they have to do any breaking to get in. And in that one instance there was only a hooked screen. In the other four, doors were unlocked and access easy. It may be pride in a neighborhood or in a city that leads many people to be careless in securing their belongings but it's a worry to police. Pub lic cooperation is imperative if this area is not to get the name of being an easy mark. There can't be a policeman at every house. Lock your doors and windows when you're away and re port promptly any suspicious prowler or undue activity of questionable nature. about these periodic Communist every new name seems harder fit into a headline. rearmament. She worries about whether she'll get it. At the same time, some of her labor leaders are denouncing1 her ties with the United States, warn ing that she thereby subjects her self to the downs as well as the ups of America. That's just a tiny glimpse of the impact of an American steel strike on both the foreign and domestic actions of the free na tions. Just a part of the reason why politics and "face" can have no defensible part in the steps needed to restore production. Dr. Center goes at it the other way. Instead of encouraging writers to do their worst and readers their least, she would let the writer do as he has al ways done to be worthy of his calling: Express his thoughts in his best, most mature fashion. But she would train the reader. To be sure it takes two, and with a writer in the background, reading is a "collaborative act. Reading is thinking, she claims correctly. It can be fun, at Its best it's a delight, but she em phatically opposes "light, frothy fiction" and of course she rips Jhe comic books right up their binding, above all, those that distort the classics. Speedy reading is all right, but thought ful reading is better, and she can think of "on short cuts to can thing of "no short cuts to efficient, critical reading." Her book, which considers various forms of writing, tells how to approach them and sug gests the nature of the rewards they offer, is a doughty blow struck for literacy and literature. wmumm (Random notes found in the typewriter of a Salem officii secretary Tuesday night at the end of a busy day.) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of. Now is the time. This week is National .Sek Boy is it hot. Boy, oh boy. oboy, boy, boy. My sister has a boy. Now is the sime time for all boys. This trypewriter type writer needs a new ribbon and it cannot spell, neither either. Oh, for a nice tall cool glass of lemonade. My feet ache. Dear Sir: Your letter of the 19th to hand and for a firm the size of yours it is a pity you can't afford better stationary. Also your secTe tary's style of letter writing letter-writing leterwrittng letter writing is atro attroc atrocci awful. Sincerely yours. Bright Eyes. Ten more minutes to quittin quiting quitting time. Now is the time we must say adieu adieu. Dear Sir: Five more minutes I will be out of this warm hot office and home, showes shoes off and having a cool one. Sincerely fatigued. Dear Madame: You will kindly refrain from taking you shoes off in my office. Sin cerely, The Boss. A new ribbon makes this typewriter write a little better and spell better too Now is the time for all The quick bron cat brown cat jumped over the lazy pazy dog. Shorthand outline for a perfect boss He must be human, understanding and willing to give aid to his secretary when nec essary. Appreciation a pat on the back is worth two knocks on the head. Politeness, courtesy and constderateness he realizes the staff has interests beyond the typewriter. Good humor man Likes a joke better than a Joker and does not bring bad humor from home to the office. Ability to recognise special talents and helps his employes advance. Secretary's outline of a perfect secretary.-First of all there is no prfec perfect secretary. But a good one makes her work seem easy and runs her office as smoothly as the Ike campaign, no distraction. Honesty can keep office secrets. Tact with clients and fellow workers. Good groaming grooming and neat ness. Happey and healthy dispostion. No pettiness or behind-the-cooler gossiping. This week is National Secretaries Week Now is the time for all good men to to 237,970 X-RAYS GIVEN PORTLAND (P)-A total of 237,- 970 persons received chest X-rays during a 16-week Portland-Mult- GRIN AND BEAR IT AfMfi TeFoe,Htt ft AP jbt&t "Your mother will have to amuse herself If the insists on visiting us this year . . .I'm busy name -calling elsewhere ... M This week is National Secretary Secretaries Week. So now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their secretaries. June 1 to 7 is dedicated to the proposition that all stenos are created equal in the eys eyes of their bosses, the public and the wastebasket. Hur rah for June 1 to 7. Now is the tim time to observe the splendid, heroic iroec heroic work of the unfelshiv unselfish, hard-working secretaries. nomah County drive, officials re ported Monday. The survey was sponsored by city, state and coun ty health agencies and the U. S. Public Health Service. " by Lichty The Safety Valve To the Editor: Sees Calamity According to radio comment by Duncan Macleod on Thurs day, Taft forces are worried about Eisehower and money. They are especially worried a bout whether or not Eisenhower will support Taft if Taft get the nomination. Taft has already announced that he will support Eisenhow er if the general gets the nomi nation, but Ike hasn't responded with a like pledge toward Taft. The Taft forces are worried over a shortage of campaign monej while Ike's boys have oodles of it and are very cocky. Why should these things puzzle any body? Taft can get plenty of money from the same source as Ike. They are good friends, see eye to eye, and are protegees of the same heavy financial inter ests. Without Ike in the race those interests would be for Taft 100 per cent, but knowing that Ike would do the same chores for them with added glamor, they are equally satisfied with him. After winning the New Hamp shire primaries Ike said that it was strange that people voted for him when they could just as well have voted for Taft. Lib eral opponents of Taft who sup port Eisenhower in the belief that he would be something different will get a tough awakening if he should be elected. He is ful ly as reactionary as Taft, but has a better smile. When Hoover was elected I published a prediction as to the dire results, and received a tirade of ridicule and abuse in reply; but my predictions all came true. Now I am saying that the election of either Taft or Eisenhower would be a calamity to the U. S. Making a vegetarian out of a tiger would be as easy as making an acceptable presi dent out of a West Point gradu ate. Some say that we have had military men as successful presi dents. It is not true. The only West Pointer who became presi dent was General Grant, and his administration was a pitiful flop. Other "generals" who became president were about as military as the "home guard" after the first world war. They were mere ly civilians in temporary uni forms, doing emergency war work. A. M. CHURCH 1400 N. Church Street v Veto Okay For both economic and moral grounds President Truman's veto of the "Tidelands Bill" should be upheld. When the three-mile off-shore boundaries were established there were no questions raised as to possiDie unaer-grouna wealth. The principal questions were policing sovereignty and fishing rights. Now that oil has been found under off-shore California, Lou isiana and Texas, these states have no way of determining the oil drainage beyond their three mile limits. California might drain oil beyond the Oregon and Mexican boundaries; and Lou isiana might drain beyond the Texas boundary. But the moral side of the ques tion is strongly linked to nation al defense. Should states which have to import oil have to help finance others which would re ceive royalties from operators? And should the national govern ment raise all tax rates equally while the favored "oil States" receive aid from such royalties? Since California, Louisiana and Texas expect all of us to help defend them, possibly they will be willing to allow Uncle Sam to operate or supervise the leasing of the marine oil wells. JOSEPH E. TORBET 961 Oak Street Escaped Con Captured After Terror Tactics WALLA WALLA (P) - An es caped convict threw away his gun and walked out of a house with his hands up Tuesday after terror izing a neighborhood for more than two hours. Sheriff's officers, police and prison guards captured Marion M. Mathis at noon. They found him in a home on Dell Avenue, about one mile west of the prison. Mathis walked away from the penitentiary farm outside the walls early Tuesday. He Is serving a term for robbery and auto theft from Grays Harbor County. Shortly after his escape, Mrs. John G. Duncan spotted Mathis 3? he was attempting to climb throug" her bedroom window. "I heard a noise in the bed room," she said, "and there he was, head and shoulders through the window." Mrs. Duncan was able to push him out, slam the window shut and call police. For the next hour officers re ceived a dozen calls that the man was hiding in various homes. Then he was located in a vacant house which he had entered by breaking a window. Police surrounded the house and Mathis walked out, gun in hand, practically into the arms of Andy Shoun, a sheriff's deput. Shoun yelled at him and Mathis ran back into the house, dropped the gun and came out with his hands up. Death Claims Mrs. Maurer Statesman News Servlc SILVERTON Mrs. Minnie Maurer, 76, died at the Silverton Hospital Tuesday. Funeral ar rangements will be in charge of the Ekman Funeral home. Mrs. Maurer was born May 4, 1876, in Minnesota, but had lived at Silverton for many years. She was the widow of the late William Maurer. Survivors are one son, Martin of Silverton; two daughters, Mrs. Pauline Hartley of Portland, and Mrs. Ruth Issler of Vancouver, Wash.; six grandchildren, one brother, Henry Werner of Silver ton; five sisters, Mrs. Lydia Geh ring, Silverton; Mrs. Lena Maurer, Leslie, Iowa: Misses Emma, Clara and Esther Wernes of Salem. (Continued From Page 1) in Berlin would meet with the resistance of the West should serve as a warning to Russia that there are limits beyond which it should not trespass. The British action can hardly be condemned by Russia for the latter has forcibly closed out all allied positions on its side of the Iron Curtain. It is not probable that Russia will attempt any forcible breaking of the British blockade, for Russia seems to be indulging in antics "short of war." The West is In better shape to meet any Russian attack than It has been ever since the "cold war" started. It woukl not wel come war; in fact, is in dead earnest to avoid it. But the West is getting weary of Russian trucu lence. The strategy is to face up to Russia in full confidence that that is about the best way to halt Russian aggression. m. Better English By D. C. WILLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "He was shot in the battle that ensued." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "pianist"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Harbinger, Hayday, harmonica, harpsichord. 4. What does the word "im placable" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with tra that means "calmness; composure"? ANSWERS 1. It is better 40 say, "He was shot during the -battle that en sued." 2. Pronounce pi-an-lst, both i's as in it, accent second syllable. 3. Heyday. 4. Not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified. "He is a picture of im placable enmity.' 5. Tranquillity. QDB CEDES BANK ANY DAY 10 to 5 ' INCLUDING SATURDAY SALEM BRANCH FI US 1 NATIONAL DANK OF PORTLAND mrs hjb-d ougom roomuf OPSN 10 S SIX DATS A WIS IR7 J District Attorney ! - , i v Rules Out Autopsy There will b no autopsy of the body of Mrs. Aria Jean Grant, who died Monday as a result of asphyxiation, Marion County Dis trict Attorney Ed Stadter reported Tuesday. Mrs. Grant was taken from a gas-filled Portland Road motel cabin last Sunday afternoon and the attending physician had thought an autopsy might be ftecessary for medical purposes. Services for Mrs. Grant are scheduled to be held tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. at the Riverview Ceme tery Chapel In Portland with In terment at the Riverview Cemetery. Sen. Williams Cites Tax Case Irregularities WASHINGTON UPV-In another blast at the Internal Revenue Bu reau, Sen. Williams (R-DeL) charged Tuesday that a man who owes three-quarters of a million dollars in income taxes and pen alties was able to collect almost half a million from the govern ment for running a butchering school. Williams identified the man as Jack Udell, who divides his resi dence between New York, Frank ford, Del., and Miami Beach, Fla. He told the Senate that after Udell hired Joseph D. Nunan, a former internal revenue commis sioner, as his lawyer he was "suc cessful in having his $792,094 tax case pigeon-holed in the files of the Department of Justice." Meanwhile, the Delaware sen ator said. Udell collected $451,559 from the Veterans Administration for running the National Meat and Food Institute in Miami, "sup posedly for the purpose of teach ing veterans how to cut up poultry and other meats." Williams said Udell obtained the money by "devious" methods. He then quoted from a Veterans Ad ministration audit to the Treasury Department which he said showed Udell has engaged in "padded bookkeeping and their devious de vices" to run up the school's bills. "I don't know a thing," Udell told a reporter in Miami when questioned about Williams' speech. Man Killed by Well Cave-In PENDLETON, (JP)-A well cave in Monday claimed the life of a 34-year-old Pendleton man. Robert Farwell was trapped in the well he was digging about two miles east of here. A carpenter working nearby discovered the cave-in and notified state police. Farwell's body was recovered but artificial respiration failed. The widow and three children survive. Dorna Martin Wins Scholarship to Lewis and Clark A $250 scholarship to Lewis and Clark College was announced Tuesday for Dorna Martin, Salem High School graduate of '52 and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Martin. Dorna is a member of the Na tionl Honor Society and was chair man of this year's Gym Jamboree, a member of the Vikettes and of the Girls' Letter Club. Her father is professor of education at Wil lamette University. UAL to Inaugurate Swift Service East PORTLAND (JP) - Faster, one stop service between Portland and New York City will be started by United Air Lines June 8, a spokes man said Tuesday. The new flight, with a stop at Denver only, will cut one hour from the regular schedule between the two cities, he said. Other United flights between Portland and New York stop at Denver and Chicago. 0ft;. (fir? ' tha Silver ARniYerery Scnotcns (Samp 33? Stoitiltnna mfxti W. F. DODGE Certified Sonoton Consultant will be In Salem. Oreron, X00A Livesley Bid-.. Thursday, Jane S 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. Please see Mr. Dodge for any Sonotone service, batteries, er a free demonstration ef the sew Sonotone 77". Sonoione cf Portland 321 FcdUng Bid? Portland, Oregon