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entered at the postofflce at Salem. Oregon, u eecend elan matter under act of eongress March 8. 1878
Scuttling Wage-Price Controls?
The House voted on Wednesday to scuttle
wage-price controls by letting the present stat
ute die on its due date, July 31st. The vote was
118 to 87 and members were not on record. The
real' test will come Thursday on roll call. Ad
ministration forces may muster support from
absentees and when the roll is called some may
not want -to be listed as voting to terminate
these controls. And alter that would come con
sideration of Senate and House bills by a con
ference committee. It would seera. probable that
in the end price-wage controls will be continu
ed, perhaps until March 1st next, which was the
date set in the Senate bilL
If the House version stands then an early
settlement of the steel strike can be foreseen.
Free to raise prices the steel industry probably
W?uld quickly come to terms with the unions
on wages, leaving only the vexing issue of the
union shop to keep them apart.
It is anybody's guess what the consequence
would be of abrupt abandonment of controls on
prices and wages. Economic law is taking over
in many areas and price ceilings are more or less
historic. Pressures would immediately be re
leased fdr wage boosts, especially if steelwork
ers are given a substantial increase. That would
stimulate price increases and might touch off
more inflation.
Eager as we are to see bureaucratic controls
wiped out we question the wisdom of cancelling
authority to impose them, at least through this
critical summer. The skies are too dark to as
sume that our war danger is past.
lected millions of dollars, most of them hard
earned; and frugal county courts stretched them
to meet the county's needs. Fast the building is
being gutted even of its memories.
To the wrecker it is just another job, a few
days of employment, a few tons of salvage. To
those with sentimental attachment for the old
grey structure it is sacrilege. Progress does not
come without a price.
The national political conventions will be held
in the Stockyards Pavilion in Chicago. It is air
conditioned, but it still will be a slaughterhouse
for many ambitions.
A Detroit judge ruled that issuing a bad
check was not proof of mental unbalance. No;
just of financial unbalance.
Candidates are busy running against Joe
Stalin again" this year, as they were two years
ago. W. Averell Harriman, who visited Oregon
Thursday, said in Spokane that Stalin was hop
ing for a Republican victory. It must be a gama
of tag for back in Washington in the campaign
for P of C delegates Rep. John E. Rankin ac
cussed Harriman of "running on the Commun
ist platform" because he had promised to wipe
out race, segregation in the public schools.
The GOP presidential race has reached a point
where those who want to ride on the band
wagon ought to get out and push.
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;ing Airline Subsidies
The Hoover commission strongly recommend
ed divorcing airline subsidy from payment for
carrying airmail. Under the old practice they
were lumped together and no one could tell how
much was compensation and how much was
subsidy to keep the line flying. Tuesday the
House interstate committee got round to ap
proving a bill to separate the two, but limited
this division to domestic lines. It ordered no
separation on payments to U. S. lines on inter
national flights.
Just why the segregation was made isn't clear.
There would seem to be little need for subsidy
on domestic lines for they are fast becoming
financially successful. The international lines
may require subsidy as do ships In our merchant
marine. In any event the amount of the subsidy
should be tagged. It just looks as though the
powerful Pan American lobby had won again.
An early relocation of the Columbia River
highway will eliminate the famous Rowena
loops between Hood River and The Dalles. By
following a water grade the new route will have
12 curves instead of 75; the distance will be cut
from 7.64 miles to 5.46 miles and the rise and
fall reduced from 1,398 ft. to 380 ft. The job will
cost an estimated $2,188,000 but will certainly
pay for itself within a few years.
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Federal Bureau to
Lift Restrictions
On Lumber Buyers
PORTLAND (iP)-The Bureau of
Land Management will lift its re
strictions on lumDer ytuyers this
year in hopes of salvaging mere
timber from Western Oregon for
ests. ?
Normally the bureau requires
timber buyers to cut the logs at a
mill in the same district where the
timber grew. This year if a local
buyer does not purchase all the
salvageable timber available, out
siders will be allowed to pur
chase it.
Windstorms of the past two
years, fires and bark beetles have
killed many trees In Western Ore
gon. The bureau estimite as much
as a billion feet of lumber may be
salvaged.
The House has followed the Senate lead in
tacking to the Defense Production bill an amend
ment requesting the President to invoke the
Taft-Hartley Law in the steel strike. We still
think the gesture is directed more toward cram
ming the law down Truman's throat than to
settle the strike. And we still favor letting the
principals to the dispute scald themselves in
their own hot water without benefit of govern
ment bail-out.
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The Safety Valve
U. N. to Hear
Plea for Germ
War Inquiry
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JPf
Smofhering Jacob A. Malik under
a 10 to 1 vote, the Security Coun
cil decided Wednesday to consider
a United States demand for an
impartial investigation of Russian
germ war charges.
Malik, who is president of the
council this month, also failed in
a stubborn Russian attempt to in
vite Communist Chinese and North
Koreans to take part in discussion
of the American proposal. He will
renew that fight later.
There is no indication how soon
the American item will come up.
The council, once its work sheet
was approved, went back to de
bate on Russia's appeal for the
Council to recommend that all
countries ratify the 1925 Geneva
Protocol against germ warfare.
That is expected to be sent to
the Disarmament Commission for
study. Then there is likely to be a
WTangle over whether to hear first
the American item or Russia's pro
posal for reconsideration of pend
ing U.N. membership applications.
Gene Howe,
Texas Editor
Ends Own Life
AMARILLO, Tex. (P) Gene
Howe ended his life with a bullet
Tuesday night. He was 66. His
body was found in his car near
here Wednesday.
He was the longtime editor of
the Amarillo Globe and News. Ev
erybody truthful almost every
body in the Texas panhandle
knew him.
He was the man who wrote that
homey column often kidding, of
ten serious called "The Tactless
Texan" in the Amarillo News.
And he was a one-man Cham
ber of Commerce for Amarillo.
His friends said that it was des
pondency over his health that
caused him to take his own life.
PORTLAND (P) Gene Howe,
the noted Amarillo editor who died
Wednesday, started his newspaper
career in the Pacific Northwest.
He quit school in Kansas at the
age of 16, and went to work on
an Emmett, Idaho, newspaper op
erated by his brother, Jim. He was
there briefly, his father then giv
ing him $50 and sending him out
on his own.
Howe worked for the Oregon
Statesman at Salem, then at 17
was hired by The Oregonian in
Portland as a cub reporter. He
was here four years, before going
to work on his father's newspaper
in Kansas.
(Continued from page 1)
Wrecking the Courthouse
Gaunt-eyed the shell of the old courthouse
seems to leer at passersby. The good grey lady
of Justice lias come down from her old pedestal
which already was being crumbled beneath her.
Sans windows the old edifice stands like a flesh
less skull. Once the county's pride it has become
a toothless derelict.
Empty halls which now echo to the blows of
the wreckingbar once measured the tread of of
ficeholders and taxpayers, of judges and litig
ants. Its courtrooms heard the pleas of eloquent
attorneys, the tearful confessions of criminals,
the testimony of countless witnesses, the ver
dicts of juries and the solemn sentences of
Judges. Over his counter the taxgatherer col-
A Yale professor in an address at the Oregon
School of Alcohol Studies in progress at the
University of Oregon says the only sure way to
determine whether a man is "under the influ
ence" is by measuring the amount of alcohol in
hi3 blood. He has invented an alcometer which
does the trick. Now if guys would only buy and
use one of these Geiger counters we might have
fewer cases of drunken driving.
An AP report says there is talk of a Taft
MacArthur ticket coming out of the GOP con
vention. Is this a trial balloon or bait for the
General? To some that ticket would be adding
insult to injury.
All this talk about ''screening" the Commun
ist prisoners in Korea. Do they use a fluorescopa
or litmus paper?
U. S. Ports Blocked to Communist Ships, But
Order Kept Secret So 'Not to Stir People Up'
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By JOSEPH AND
STEWART ALSOP
WASHINGTON A significant
story is told by two allied, but
In some ways contrasting, orders
recently issued a
by the Ameri-
can govern- X
ment The first V 5 :
is an order that J l . ' i
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effect June 1. " Lvl' 4
It limits the ' jLv
use of our ports
and the Pana- l
ma Canal
Soviet and sat
el lite shipping.
And the limita
tions are so se
vere that, in effect, the major
ports and the Canal have now
been closed to all vessels from
the Soviet sphere.
The need for such an order
has long been
obvious. The
Canal and the
ports are al
most certainly
the weakest
links in our
whole defens
ive system. Let
the Canal be
blocked, and
our naval strat
egy will be
knocked galley
west. Let the
ports be put
out of commission, and it will
become impossible for us to
supply our allies and sustain
our own forces overseas. More
over, the Canal can be blocked,
and any of our major harbors
can be rendered useless, by the
explosion of a single atomic
bomb, which any seemingly in
nocent freighter can conceal in
its hold.
This danger has long been de
bated in the National Security
Council and elsewhere in the
higher reaches of the govern
ment. The question was resolved
this spring, when the Coast
Guard was told to safeguard
the ports while the guardianship
of the Canal was confided to the
Navy. Enforcement of the order
4ias 'not yet been necessary,
.Fince almost no Soviet or satel
lite "sels nowadays cross ei-
mar
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ther the Atlantic or Pacific. For
the same reason, concealment of
the order has been possible. And
the purpose of concealment was
to avoid stirring people up, here
or abroad.
Order number two Is more re
cent and is non-secret. It in
augurated the 24-hour air watch
of our great urban and industrial
centers. It has been much criti
cized, just as the order for closing-
the ports would no doubt
be criticized if it conflicted with
the interests, or even with the
comfort, of any Urge group in
this country. In the ease of this
second order, what has been
concealed is the real motive for
it.
The motive is all too simple.
Six months ago, the Soviet stra
tegic air force occupied its for
ward bases closest to this coun
try, in Kamchatka. Since then,
active Soviet air reconnaissance
of this countinent has been de
tected on several occasions.
Anyone can purchase aerial
photographs of every strategic
area in the United States. Hence
the object of this Soviet air re
connaissance is obviously to test
the effectiveness of our air
warninr and defensive system.
None of the Soviet aircraft fly
ing over Alaska and Canada has
yet been Intercepted. The main
proofs of their presence have
been the vapor trails they left
behind. Hence our air warning
and defense system is quite
plainly far from satisfactory.
Under the circumstances, the
order for continuous air watch
ing was, if anything, rather be
lated. But the air watch will
be only party effective, because
the true motive for it has been
concealed. For the same reason,
the civil defense program has
been gutted by the Congress.
Again, the purpose of this con
cealment has been to avoid
stirring people up.
What strikes one la the histories-
of these twe orders, la
fact. Is the peculiar schizophre
nia that is revealed. The danger
hanging over us Is considered
sufficiently great to Justify the
rders being issued. Bat the im
pulse to hide this danger from
the country, the impulse to be
bland and reassuring, Is also so
strong that in one case the or
der itself was muffed, and In the
other the easy and natural ex
planation of the order was put
under wraps.
In many other cases, this
schizophrenia is producing even
more unhealthy results. For ex
ample, the fact has trickled
through the rather misty Ger
man segment of the Iron Cur
tain, that the Kremlin has placed
orders in East Germany for no
less than 6200 microwave trans
mission towers. This gigantic
order will be sufficient to pro
vide the whole Soviet empire
with a closed microwave com
munications system. The cost of
completing such a system will
be astronomical.
The fact that such an im
mense investment is being
planned by the Kremlin in turn
reflects the Kremlin's concern
about a very vital matter
namely, the ease with which all
communications systems except
the microwave system can now
be Jammed.
The jamming art was still in
its infancy when the Kremlin
jammers all but broke off com
munications between the battle
ship Missouri and the Navy De
partment, on the occasion, sev
eral years ago, of the Missouri's
mission to the Dardanelles. The
jamming art is in its infancy no
longer. Our own communica
tions, internal as well as trans
Atlantic and trans-Pacific, are
just as vulnerable as the com
munications within the Soviet
empire. Yet the huge outlays to
give us even partially safe com
munications will never be au
thorized by Congress, unless the
danger is frankly confessed. Con
fession will stir people up. So
no adequate effort to provide
us with safe communications has
yet been launched.
It is hard not to feel that
telling the truth and taking the
consequences is preferable to
running the many risks mt this
sort.
(Copyright. 195J.
New York Herald Tribune. Inc.)
fighting to Korea. In late 1$50
when MacArthur wanted to carry
the war into Manchuria, France
and Britain moved to put on
brakes Atlee, then prime min
ister, flew to Washington to talk
against the MacArthur plan. This
time Washington did not query
London or advise it; but the
bombing still was confined to the
territorial limits of Korea.
There are two possibilities: one
that the bombings may induce
the Reds to settle the terms of an
armistice; the other that they
may precipitate a general war.
We doubt if either ensues. Rus
sia has always stopped "short of
war." And China is accustomed
to such punishment that loss of
electric energy will hardly prove
decisive. What the bombings will
do is to lower the industrial pot
ential of the enemy, serve no
tice that U.N. forces still can
fight if the Reds are not ready
for peace, and help restore to the
U.N. the initiative that has been
sacrificed for the past year in
hopes of a peaceful settlement.
The repercussions in Britain
conceivably might hurt or over
throw the Churchill government.
In fact that may have been the
purpose of the Attlee argument,
for the British are In a tense
political controversy the same as
are Americans. However, the re
port of Lord Alexander now re
turning from Korea via Wash
ington may cast a different light
on the subject. Alexander refer
red to the U.S. -managed opera
tions In Korea as a "good show"
a British expression of ap
proval. If he conveys this im
pression to his home people opin
ion there may be greatly influ
enced in favor of the course
which the United States has pur
sued. With so much powder about,
gunpowder and political TNT we
must expect explosions of vary
ing dimensions in various parts
of the globe.
MORALITY IS INDIVISIBLE
To the Editor:
Senators Knowland and Morse,
Republicans, have issued a state
ment claiming that Averill Harri
man should resign his appointive
position as Mutual Security Ad
ministrator before he further
campaigns for the Presidency. I
believe the senators are right.
Exactly the same principle ii
involved in the current campaign
of R. L Elfstrom, chairman of
the State Liquor Control Com
mission, for the legislature from
Marion County.
Does Governor McKay, Repub
lican .think his fellow Republi
cans, Knowland and Morse, are
wrong in asking for Harriman
resignation? Then, why does Mc
Kay not ask for Elfstrom's res
ignation? I believe morality in govern
ment is indivisible, that you cant
have one set of standards for Re
publicans and another for Demo
crats, or vice versa.
Richard L. Neuberger
State Senator
Multnomah County.
WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?
To the Editor:
Democracy is the product of
the incessant struggle of the
masses of the people. People
naturally want better standards
of living as conditions permit
Better English
Br D. C. WILLIAMS
1. What Is wrong with this
sentence? "Of two evils, it is best
to choose the least."
2. What is correct prouncia
tion of "flaunt?"
3. Which one of these words If
misspelled? Gazette, coquette,
croquet, bouquette.
4. What does the word "hiber
nal" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with tra that means to "to rise
above or beyond?"
ANSWERS
1. Say, "Of two evils, It li
better to choose the lesser." 2.
Preferred pronunciation is flant,
a as in ah. 3. Bouquet. 4. Win
try. "They sought shelter from
the hibernal weather." 5. Transcend.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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them to be obtained. In any Gov
ernmental unit where there is
poverty and discrimination of
any kind in regard to living con
ditions, the groups of the lowest
living standard protest and try
to change those conditions so
they may have fuller, richer
and more secure living condi
tions. If the proposed change is the
most satisfactory to the majority,
then in time as the idea becomes
prevalent, it will be adopted by
the majority as the prevailing
law in that governmental unit.
This is the incessant struggle of
the masses of the people; To
change the prevailing laws as
the need manifests itself for
that change. The ruling group
will use every means they pos
sess to prevent change, including
force and that is fascism.
Democracy must have a grass
roots social basis, it must be part
of the fabric of the lives of the
people and begin in every village
and in every city block.
Herbert Dennett
266 S. Cottage St.
Your Health
SUNGLASSES are usually not
dark enough to give adequate
protection. Research has shown
that the darker the glasses, the
better they protect the eyes from
the ill effects of sunlight.
It is said that if the eyes of a
person wearing sunglasses can
be seen by a person looking
through the lenses, then the lenses
are not dark enough.
If a person exposes himself to
too much bright sunlight with
out the protection of dark glass
es, the retina of the eye loses
some of its sensitivity. This is
the part of the eye that receives
the light impulses, and therefore
the sharpness of vision is im
paired. The effect is usually notice
able right after the eyes have
been exposed too long. The per
son's adaption to the dark may
be slow for days or even weeks
afterward, and may be an im
portant cause of both industrial
and automobile accidents.
According to the same re
searches, neither the ultra-violet
nor infra-red rays from the sun
are the cause of this type of
blindness. Both light and dark
glasses absorb these rays ade
quately. Too great amounts of
visible solar radiation light
are thus responsible for the dam
age to the eyesight.
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Many times, after exposure to
sunlight, vision is reduced by
one-half its normal value, and
even more. Thus, night driving,
after a day at the beach without
sunglasses, can be very danger
ous. The loss is mainly in dark
adaptation to vision, and night
vision is extremely retarded.
It thus seems advisable to
avoid excessive exposure of the
eyes to sunlight, and to wear
dark sunglasses to minimize the
effects of solar radiation on the
eyes.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
F.G.: What causes the blood to
thicken and is there any help for
it?
Answer: There is no such thing
as thickening of the the blood.
There is a disorder, known as
polycythemia, in which the red
cells become greater in number.
An examination of the blood will
determine whether or not this
condition is present.
(Copyright, 1952. King Features)
Cool Weather
Aids Farmers
PORTLAND fP)-Rain damaged
some strawberries, but the accom
panying cool weather of the past
week proved of great benefit to
growers.
The weekly farm crop report
from the Department of Agricul
ture and the Weather Bureau said
Wednesday that it enabled grow
ers to extend the picking period.
The harvest is now past its peak,
but picking will continue another
two "weeks.
The weather was beneficial for
most crops, the report said, adding
that Western Oregon might get
sunshine Thursday and Friday, to
be followed by week-end showers.
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CARSON CITY. Nev. (P) A
petite French divorcee was con
victed Wednesday of complicity in
the $1,500,000 residential burglary
of millionaire LaVere Redfield.
A federal court jury of eight
men and four women swiftly de
cided that Mrs. Jeanne D'Arc Mi
chaud, 36, was "guilty as charged"
of transporting $147,000 of the
stolen property across state lines.
She displayed no emotion.
The penalty could be as much
as five to 10 years in federal pris
on. Federal Judge Roger Foley re
ferred the case to the probation
officer for a report June 30. Sen
tencing was delayed until then.
The Jury deliberated only la
hours.
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BOMBER MOTORS
LIMA, O. (INS) A modern
super-bomber may carry as many
as 250 electric motors, according
to Westinghouse engineers. These
range in size from tiny gyro motors
weighing less than a pound, to 50
pound motors driving compressors.
Generators on such a bomber can
furnish enough . power to light a
village of 120 homes.
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