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From first SttUcmia. March tS. 1851
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
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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-
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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