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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1952)
J., t fThm Stat man, Salem, Oregon. Saturday, Tune 1, 19S2 MONTH OF ROSES i Russell Sees Small Chance For Tax Cuts JO EOGDOQa jpatesraan as the Trucks and Highway Costs Some weeks ago The Statesman printed the report of road tests made in Maryland to deter mine the relative damage done to highways by trucks of increasing axle loads. The tests show ed that the highway breakup increased in ac celerated ratio as the axle load increased. In other words, heavy trucks require far heavier road construction than light trucks. The Oregon Teamster, which naturally is sen sitive to any publicity dealing with the truck in? industry, says respecting editorial comment on these tests, that "editorial writers deliberate ly omitted or perhaps were not informed" on some additional facts regarding the tests. It sup plies them as follows: 1. Although the actual testa lasted 78 day. the trucks were driven on Loe ies nujnwaya Mt a volume of one truck per lane, per minute, 24 hours per day, seven days per week, without rcnairs or maintenance to the road. 2. This represented the equivalent of 21 to 24 years of normal use for the 44.800 lb. trucks. It represented 22 to 27 years of average high way traffic in the 32.000 lb. tandem axle class. And about 32 to 39 years of service in the 22,400 Id. single axle load class and 41 to 48 years of use in the 18,000 lb. single axle load tests. ' Th Statesman did not have this data when it expressed its opinion. But the data merely confirm its conclusion. The Teamster figures themselves show that lighter axle loads give a much longer life for paving. It adds that the stretch of Maryland road was restored at a cost of less than $6000 a mile, but this figure has little meaning unless one knows the other fac tors involved such as length of the tests. In Oregon, the weight limit is about 18,000 pounds per axle. Primary highways are being built to that specification. They are costly but are required to support the heavy flow of pas senger and commercial traffic. The theory of taxation embraced in HB 465 which is before the people for a vote is that as a measure of use of the highways trucks should be grouped into classes and the per mile rate increased as te weight advances. The Maryland report proves the need for stronger (and more expen sive) construction as truck weights increase. The Oregon legislation recognizes this as one factor, and tries to apportion the charges to trucks on the basis of their use of highways built to required specifications. Freeze for Hell's Canyon Project The closing of House committee hearings on the proposed Hell's Canyon Dam seals its fate for the present session of Congress. It may seal its fate permanently. Certainly in the present climate in Washington and Idaho and in part of Oregon there is little chance that the big gov ernment project on the Snake River will get authorization. The governor of Idaho and the state's congressional delegation are all against It. The powerful private utility. Idaho Power Company, is fighting it vigorously and is joined by other utilities and foes of spreading social ism. President Truman has endorsed it, the In terior Department and Corps of Engineers urged Its construction: but Congress is in no mood to give it favorable consideration. The hearings consisted largely of ex parte statements by the promoters and Intensity of 'Hate Man Who Has By JOSEPH AND Stewart Also WASHINGTON According to highly credible sources, George T. Kcnnan is at least seriously disturbed if not down right al armed, as a re sult of his re exposure to the peculiar atmos phere of Mos cow. For several reasons, this first reaction of our new a m bassador to the Soviet Union is ar ! imvne asuraoiy more significant than the first, or indeed the last impression of any ordinary diplo mat. Kennan, after all, is a part ner in the remarkable team of American e x -perts on Russia the other member is Charles E. Boh len whose op inions have gone so far to shape the poli cies of the West ern World. In hi-: cele brated "Mr. X" article in For e i g n Affairs," Kennan himsetf provided the public rationale of America's post-war dealings with Russia. Knowing more than al most any other diplomat about their subject, Kennan's and Boh leri's judgments have carried the greatest weight in London and Paris as well as Washington. On many occasions they have pro ven the acuteness of their percep tions. For instance, they both warned, forcefully but fruitless ly, that the Chinese would inter vene in Korea if General Mac Arthur sent his armies to the Ya!u. Then too, this first reaction of Kennan's is important because f a peculiar phenomenon that is familiar to all diplomats, and, in deed, to all newspapermen who travel much abroad. You can visit a foreign eoun Srr with the greatest regularity. I'o rm know all Its leadiat mn J V - ...-i s a? "Mo Favor Sways U No Fear Shall Atpe freea First 8Wom March Z. US1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher me IU 8 of the project. There was no agreement on prob able costs, on quantities of power which might be produced or on the quantity of water in the Snake needed for irrigation and available if the project was authorized. In this situation, com mittee members could sort out testimony to bol ster their own convictions; but all agreed to lay the question aside for the present. What is needed is some independent and un biased survey which would provide Congress and the public with the engineering and eco nomic data needed for arriving at a reasonable conclusion as to the merits of the proposal. This isn't wanted by those who are dead against all government hydroelectric development or by those who oppose private development of elec tric energy. But it is needed by those who, like ourselves, are primarily concerned with regional development. For the present, however, Hell's Canyon goes into the political deep freeze locker. Farming, the Good Life There is nothing unexpected in the results of the Farm Journal's survey that showed 94 per cent of the nation's farm women expressing the belief that farming is the best life of all. It would be surprising if the survey had shown otherwise. But the concluding paragraph quot ing an unnamed rural wife strikes an exception ally nice chord: "Even in troubled times, work ing with the land gives you a feeling of peaca and security, A few replies complained of endless work, and some said they did not want their daughters to marry farmers because of " the low standard of speech and manners in some farming areas." Well, we've seen industrialists who murdered their English and weren't too socially polished and we haven't noticed our valley farmers any less careful in such things than a lot of the rest of us, either. An Idaho woman commented that: "We have a modern home, a telephone and bus service to take the children to school. College is only sev en miles, and all our 11 children have attended." Few of us ever did that well, city or no city "advantage." As we said, the survey results weren't sur prising. And it isn't surprising, either, that a good many millions of other folk have their heart set on the rural life most of them hope lessly. We'd say those who are on farms ara fortunate indeed. The toll is heavy but the re wards are great in many, many ways "work ing with the land gives you a feeling of peaca and security." They should rechristen the Pentagon the Sex agon. The high brass there opened up another side and walked out through it on the touchy MacArthur-in-politics business. The Army de clared its regulations against participating in political conventions do not apply to five-star generals on active duty but not on specific as signment. For MacArthur, in other words, it's King's Ex. Headline: RUSS SAY SWEDES SHOT FIRST. That's one "first" the Russki do not claim for themselves. the enemies America' Propaganda Worries Predicted Russ Post-War Moves and be closely acquainted with Ms history. Wkea absent, yon cm follow its trends and tendencies throurh labyrinths of documents. Bet wnem you return to this country you rarely fail to be tMk.ru by nrfriw by seane -expected chance of focus, em phasis or atmosphere. In judging a foreign country, there are no complete substitutes for breathing its air, smelling its smells and hearing its sounds for the rude personal contact with the foreign reality. George Kennan, who was last assigned to the Moscow embassy in a sub ordinate post in the war years, has now undergone this renewed contact with the real thing. The result has been a change of em phasis. The change of emphasis hardly amounts to more, aeeordlac to report, than an increase of wor ry, of concern, and indeed of un certainty above what Ute next Soviet move may be. Yet this chance in Kennan is as aaean ingful. in its way, as a sudden chance in racinc odds by the tost expert bsssassVer hi the business. Since he expressed them frankly and publicly, the views held by Kennan when he left lor Moscow are easy to summar ize. While no dreamer of empty dreams about grandiose deals with the Politburo, Kennan then was sanguine about the possibil ity of negotiating specific Soviet American differences. While per fectly clear, too, that the Soviets would never cease their custom ary sapping, mining and infiltra ting, Kennan was also very con fident that the Kremlin wished to avoid any risk of general war. Here one must note an abso lutely vital fact. Kenan's belief, that the Kremlin has been tauat a lesslon by Korea, and will here after avoid moves involving risk of general war, has bee the cen tral assumption of American world policy for a great many aasarhi, It heads Ute planning papers. It has determined the tempo of the defense effort. It Is Aeacrfea's area ealrailatti risk. Thus Kennan's doubts go to the very heart and source of our world-action. act mt The particular phenomenon that has most disturbed Kennan is understood to be the Soviet campaignof "Hate-America" propaganda, which apparently has to be seen at first hand to be believed. Only a few weeks ago all the propaganda stops were pulled out, so that the intensity of venom against America now equals the Soviet venom against the Nazis in war time. The Am erican people and the American (instead of the conventional "Im perilist Wall - Streeters") have suddenly become the main propa ganda targets. And these streams of venom are now, for the first time, being beamed squarely at the Russian people. According to the high sources already mentioned, Kennan has made no final judgement on the futare meaning of the fantastic "Hate - America" campaign and other unpleasant signs that the Kremlin Is pre porta- its people for a time of peril. What has happened, apparently. Is that Kennan's former confidence that the Kremlin would shirk major risks has been considerably di luted. Nor is this surprising, for one satspeets Kenaaa argued him self into a certain over-positive -ness, m his constant and coura geous struggle against the too simplified and extreme view of the Soviets which Is common here. None the less, Kennan's Mos cow reaction is already produc ing a Washington reaction, judg ing by plain signs. For example, instead of happily promising peace in our time, President Tru man has suddenly begun to sound almost as solemn as Winston Churchill, when he told the Bri tish people not long ago that they might find they were "dancing on a trap-door" under which yawned the abys. Moreover, even if such a man as Kennan is merely doubtful and uncertain, great questions obviously are posed- How heavily can we gam ble, in short, on the at-least-ar-guable theory that the Kremlin will never risk a major war? How dangerous is it, in fact, to con tinue the present program of but ter first and guns second? New Yorx Herald Tribune, Inc.) (Copyright. 1952. IT DIOMT LOOK aeiVTHirtG LIKE (M)f Xv! jStG GEO Congressional Quiz Q Do doctors la eniferm itOJ set extra pay t sweeten the pill of military service? A Yes, if they entered ser vice voluntarily those drafted are not eligible. A House Com mittee June 9 approved a Senate-passed bill to extend the time in which doctors and den tists can begin service and still get the $100-a-month extra. The Senate rejected a Paul H. Doug las (D-Ill.) move to lop the bonus to $5. Doctors and dentists don't experience dangers faced by infantrymen, he said. Q Is it true that a state con vention can require its delegates to national political conven tions to vote en bloc, regardles of the preference of the minor ity? A True only in the Democra tic Party, which permits a state convention to instruct its dele gation to use the "unit rule," under which all votes go accord ing to the wishes of the delega tion majority. However, in the 16 states wheree some or all of the delegates are chosen by popular vote, the delegates so chosen can not be bound by the unit rule, except that in some Better English By D. C. WILLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sen tence? "Those sort of people al ways bore me." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "glower"? 3. Which one of these words Is misspelled? Sylpi, sylvan, syl lable, symetrical. 4. What does the word "inter minable" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with ref that means "unmanage able"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "That sort of people al ways bores me." 2. Pronounce first syllable as glen, not as glow. 3. Symmetrical. 4. Without ter mination; endless. "The long days of waiting seemed interminable." 3. Refractory. GRIN AND BEAR IT "Very well . . . Ill take It back, Flgnewtoa! . . . but it eould have been paid for, long before youll hear the last of it..." states delegates are required by law to support the winner of the Presidential preferential pri mary. Q What did Senate probers decide about the surplus tanker sales deals? A The Senate's Investigating Subcommittee May 29 recom mended "prompt arTd vigorous" Justice Department action on the surplus tanker deals it thas been investigating. The report charged that a group headed by former Rep. Joseph E. Casey (D-Mass.) failed to pay from $850,000 to $1,400,000 in taxes through "in tercompany manipulations, and that another group, in which Newbold Morris figured, paid only $24.97 in federal taxes on a $14 million business. Q I notice the only vote against House passage of a GI bill for Korean veterans was cast by a veteran. What was his reason? A Rep. James P. S. Dever eux (R-Md.) who served in the Marines during World War II and is a member of the Veter ans Affairs Committee which drafted the bill, objected to the method by which it was brought before the House. It was not subject to amendment. He fav ored the bill but opposed feat ures which he said discriminated financially a gainst numerous veterans. The House passed the bill 361-1 on June 5. Q Does the new foreign aid bill include the Eem amend ment to put stricter curbs on trade with the Reds? A No. The Senate-approved amendment by James P. Kem (R-Mo.) was knocked out of the bill during a House-Senate con ference. Existing legislation also bans such trade, but allows ex ceptions. The ban is enforced by cutting off aid to U. S. allies who send war-useful goods to Russia and its satellites. (Copyright 1952. Cong. Quarterly) "Iron-lunged" machines have taken over the mass production of blown glassware, says the Na tional Geographic Society. by Lichty W French Reds Watch Power Slipping Away By J. M. ROBERTS Jr. Associated Press News Analyst French Communist leaders now confirm recent estimates that their power has fallen into a serious decline. Two years ago the Communists decided to de emphasize their campaign for participation in popular front governments in Europe in favor of militant ac tion against Western re-mobilization. They had been successful in Eastern Europe with the popu lar front method, by which Com munists infiltrated coalition gov ernments by control of fractional population groups, and then took over completely. But the militants among them saw this as an extremely long- range Job in such countries as France, Italy and Germany, and demanded action. They wanted strikes to interfere with Euro pean production and to halt the unloading of American military supplies. They wanted the politi cal strike use to emphasize Com munist strength and enforce Communist demands. This put the spotlight on their loyalty to Moscow as against their own countries, and alien ated the average French worker who is a Frenchman before he is anything else. The Communist controlled central labor organi zation lost its grip on the mem bers. The militant Communists defeated themselves because they could arouse no popular support for their purely political strikes. Some months ago the policy pendulum began to swing back toward political organizations rather than militant action. But the French militants continued to have at least part of their way until they were completely smacked down by the flop of two recent strike demonstrations. Now the order apparently has come down from Moscow. Writh Jacques DuClos under arrest and Maurice Thorez ill in Moscow, Etienne Fajon, Moscow doctrin aire of the French party, has stepped forward with the word: Subordinate immediate objec tives and get back to political organizing and the "peace offens ive." He says other orders, brought back to Paris by another party big-wig after a visit with DuClos, are a misinterpretation. There is no indication that the fight between the "slow but sure" faction and the fanatics will end there. Internal dissension Is now added to unpopularity as a Com munist problem In France. At the root of it lies the thing which, it seems to me, must ev entually mark the end of the Russian hope for world conquest through revolution. Socialism might have Its way among the masses if it were not a captive movement, controlled by the gov ernment of one country, and a ruthless totalitarian government at that. Frenchmen may love a doctrin al fight. They might be willing to try some sort of Communism or Socialism at some time when the present system seems to have failed. But not if it involves be coming Russians. When the pro Russian militants are forced into revealing that It Involves Just that, they have lost their fight, not only in France, but everywhere. "fo'i urn .1 iSt--- " It PCD ODD (Continued from page 1) off the Breitenbush road at Hum bug Creek and climbing the mountain to Elk Lake. I haven't been over it for a number of years now, but recall no gate on it. However, there may be one now. Then there is a road up the Little Northfork as far as Pearl Creek guard station. At this point there is a gate. The road beyond goes through the Amalgamated cUims and through national for est land. The mining company has gates at both sides of its property. The loop road beyond is a forest service road; and a gate is maintained at the cross ing of the divide Just above Elk Lake. The forest" service has its gates to control access to the forests, chiefly to protect them against fire. The loop road is not open to the public. It is a very poor road at best and the forest serv ice does not have funds to use in maintining it for public travel. The mining company is a legit imate enterprise which has been carried on for years by J. P. Hewitt, a mining engineer. Ex tensive tunnelling has been done. The company keeps up its assess ment work but the mine has not been brought into commercial production. The only timber it can cut is for use in its own project, as for mine props. Back to Elk Lake. I think the only reason it isn't used more is that it is hard to get to. If there is a gate on the Humbug Creek side it should be kept open ex cept in the season of high fire hazard. Years ago the Salem YMCA used the lakeside for its boys' camp. Others go to gather huckleberries in season on Battle-axe mountain. It's high location gives one a panoramic view of the high Cas cades, with Battle-axe itself looming near at hand, Mt. Jeffer son is dominant to the southeast and Olallie Butte rises to the east. I can't testify as to the fish ing, but the swimming is surely invigorating. The Enterprise is to be com mended for publicizing Elk Lake. The road up the mountain to reach it is rough and steep, but to those who love the mountains the scenery amply rewards the traveler who reaches the lake side. There are many other places of interest and beauty in our Santiam country Breiten bush Lake, for instance, and the chain of lakes along the summit road leading to Clackamas Mea dows and the Mt. Hood Loop highway. This summer is a good time to explore our own won derland. Paradise Islands Picnicking, Swimming, Danc ing, Snack Bar, Delicious Ham burgers 25c No alcoholic drinks permitted. 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Mwao.i J . 4 1 l.t r-sSHHHBaaaaaaaM PORTLAND UP-Sen. RirharA B. Russell of Georgia, a candidate for the Democratic nridntial nomination, said Friday he didn't unn a tax cut was possible at least until 1954. Russell, her tn mnf HH Democratic leaders, told a presa conference: "I don't think it sible during this rearmanment pro gram io nave any tax cut in 1953 and possibly 1954. If I were presi dent I could not hold out for a tax reduction until this arms program is complete. This talk of cuttin 40 million dollars or 15 per cent out of the Duaget is loolishness. Russell said he twliov r.M Dwight Eisenhower, a candidate for the ReDublican nresidontial nomination, has made many mis takes in his campaign. "It won't go too good for him if he keep up this 40 million dollar tax cut talk or this business of savin, mm I'm told he did in Denver, that there is no more danger from Russia than from a pollywo swimming down a muddy creek.' Russell, who ha nn Kshs4n1asf any public appearances here, told reporters that if a fair omnl practices plank were included in tne uemocratic Party s platform, he would repudiate it. He said he was sure though that Democrats would be able to writ a platform that would be accept able to all and behind which all Democrats could unite. He will leave Saturday morning for Boise, Idaho. CO JLnJUL) O get more out of lifo Znlth has achieved a triumph la hearing aid with tht "Royal" and "Super Royal." Doot lot Impaired hearing ilow you down another day. 10-day return privilege enures tab isracnoo. Bob CoAductioa Dcrlew AvmUfcMe at Mert Zxtra Oaet (m in far Ptlf Hm-U t,.Mat tag Km Safari freak teaeerl : Batteries and Repairs for All : Makes and Models of Hearing: Aids. a j Dr. Henry E. Morrlt : and Dr. Kenneth W. Morris : Optometrists at 3 Morris Optical Co. 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