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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1952)
I tfco ftafotaca, CdlUfc Ora?ox Scndoy, Atigna 17, 1SS2 ' is terion tatesmau TINY ACORNS, MIGHTY OAKS -No Favor Sway$ U Wo fear Shall Awe From first Statesmui. March 28. 1851 ! THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher 1 Pabllshed every morning. Business office 815 8 Commercial. Salem, Oregon. Telephone 8-844 L Catered at too postoffico at Salem. Oregon, aa eecood class matter under act of co ogress Marco 8. 18781 4 J Disclosures on Tax Returns ',. The State Tax Commission has filed a lien in Clackamas County against Lonnie Logsdon, erst while county czar of gambling machine opera tions, in the amount of $22,735 in back taxes said to be due, penalties and interest. The state though will be playing second fiddle to the fed eral government which previously had slapped on liens for $123,086. L The law imposes the requirement of secrecy on income tax returns so the public has little or no chance to know whether collections are be ing diligently made or not, until some court ac tion like this occurs unless there are "leaks." The governor has power to examine returns; and of course a grand jury could make an in vestigation. But an interested person or a news- paper reporter can't find out anything. In fact the" law prohibits the commission or any em ploye from divulging any of the particulars of tax returns. .. ' ' " , " Similar laws protect the secrecy of federal returns we have been amazed at the disclos ures which Sen. John Williams was able to make but he may have had "inside informa tion." The American Society of Newspaper Edi tors is seeking to grant publicity on cases which are compromised. That, however, would not be a guarantee of honest law enforcement, for false returns might be accepted without question with. Five months and two reminders later Rus sia replied: ."no deal." Sd the stalemate holds; Austria remains under; technical occupation though its own government is functioning. The probablp reason is that Russia wants to keep a toehold in Austria. Bordering Hungary and Czechoslovakia which are satellite states, Austria also borders Yugoslavia which is non Stalinist. Austria and Yugoslavia thus pose a threat at Russia's flank. In event of trouble tho USSR can hardly depend on the Czechs and Hungarians until they are further broken to toe the Communist wheel. So Russia wants to have a foot in Austria to protect its flank. The military reason is apparent; but if Rus sia would only show a disposition to observe the terms of the Potsdam treaty and permit the countries of Central Europe to determine their own destiny it could withdraw behind its own borders and keep out of trouble. The Austrians certainly have reason to feel abused. First they were occupied by the Ger man Nazis under Hitler; then by their liberat ors who refuse to go home. At that they are bet ter off than the Czechs and Hungarians who now are helpless pawns of the Kremlin's wilL He Grew a Crop Cotton is the No. One crop grown in Califor- 1 iiU4 I. '.askssssvo" i i . fvb- j mm. w m 1 ' ii 1 jLfii-n Jsy nia. The man who made it so has just retired We have heard questions raised as to the di- from an $8,500-a-year job. He is George Harri- ligence of our State, Tax Cornmission in collect inff income taxes, having in mini cases like Logsdon's where federal action had brought on publicity. Short of inquiry by the governor or by a grand jury armed with judicial order or by a legislative committee with power of sub poena there is no way of determining the mat ter; and save to proper official bodies the com mission itself can answer only in general terms. The problem of insuring faithful tax collec tion is not a simple one. Wisconsin alone pro vides that income tax returns are open for in gpection. Lacking that provision in the law the chief reliance has to be on the competence and the integrity of the members of the tax commis sion. - - Conforming to Tradition . The Oregon Journal has announced it will support Gov. Adlai Stevenson for president. This is not surprising. The paper was long a staunch supporter of the Democratic party. It supported merchant Julius L. Meier, independ ent for governor in 1930, but that was its prin cipal deviation until 1940. Then it broke with the party, opposing Roosevelt for a third term, and again opposing his bid for a fourth term in 1944. In 1948 it supported Dewey. Now it is getting back where it belongs according, to its historic tradition in the line of Sam Jackson and B. F. Irvine. The Oregonian shows fresh signs of political vitality, however, in its active support of Gen eral Eisenhower. That too conforms with its his toric tradition as a Republican newspaper. It will .be interesting to see these papers cross awords again in a big political campaign. Still No Treaty for Austria There is no reason why the treaty ending the war with Austria could not be signed and the country freed from foreign occupation. No rea aon in reason, we should say. The only reason the signing isn't done is Russia's obduracy. The terms have been pretty well agreed on; but the USSR balks on signing. Finally the Western al lies submitted a short form of agreement to end the; war with Austria, now seven yean over son, senior agroniraist in charge of the govern ment cotton experiment station at Shafter near Bakersfield. When he took this job in 1934 Cali fornia was an intermittent grower of cotton. Harrison got busy experimenting with new strains which he hoped would be adapted to California soil and climate. He came up with a new variety in 1941 which has been further im proved. The state's production has grown from 458,000 bales in 1946 to 1,800,000 in 1951 with a value of $300 million. Small wonder his name is honored in Cali fornia's cotton belt. ! Radio Leleorates 30th Anniversary By CYNTHIA LOWRY NEW YORK Thirty years ago, on the stroke of 5 p.m. on Aug. 28, owners of 1922s crystal radio sets tuned their cat whiskers on an historic program. At that moment a man whose name Is recorded today simply at "H. Blackwell" began a 10-minute broadcast over station WEAF In New York. It was the first commercially The Safety Valve Moscow's Pravda has "high praise" for tha candidates of the Progressive party in the USA the one whose candidates were Henry Wal lace and Glen Taylor in 1948. Wallace has sinca washed his hands of the party and Taylor hur ried back to the Democratic fold in 1950. Pres ent candidates are Vincent Hallinan and Mrs. Charlotta Bass. Hallinan gets out of federal pris on this week where he has been serving a sen tence for contempt of court while acting as at torney for Harry Bridges. Those who follow Pravda's party line in the U. S. will know.whom to vote for this fall. Frank Costello is wielding a mop and a broom cleaning out his own cell in a New York jaiL Except for a short term on a minor charge many years ago this tophand hoodlum and racketeer has escaped the penalties of the law while ha amassed a fortune and dictated political ap pointments. Even so, his conviction is for con tempt of the Senate and not for the major of fenses he has committed, through the years as lord of the underworld, j To the Editor: Marion Martin seems to need a little enlightening herself. Al though I will agree with her and Mr. Dorman, we badly need something to correct the very poor standard of driving that we see on the streets of our own Salem. In fact, they are as a whole the poorest lot of drivers I have ever seen 1 my life. Even the Arabs in Arabia after ten months from date of first seeing a car had our Salemites skinned off the map. What does Marion Martin think our teen-agers are supposed to do for their transportation to their work, sports and recreation. Fathers going to lodge. Mothers going to clubs nearly every night. Dad has the car at work all day, so Willie walks or gets a car. It's a long walk to the coast too. . I would much rather see a fast driving alert teen-ager on the streets, than one of your slow tortoise driver who cause many accidents but who was never in one in his or her life. You can see this at any Intersection or at any traffic light In our own Salem. What we need Is mora teen agers and get rid of th deadwood drivers. We are in an age of I horse,'power machines, not one horsepower carriages and three cars to the change of lights. If Salem wishes to get rid of the hot rods on the streets and highways that can be done too and all over the state likewise, through your state legislature. Do not issue licenses to them, thereby helping your city and state police. ' B? E. Logan 3440 Hollywood Ave. beguiling fiddle is spelled Viol-IN. While, surprisingly, the bass Viols those big soothing "bull fiddles" come out as Viol-ON-cellos. First in "lin", the others "Ion". A curious an omaly, for which the. reason seems obscure. Perhaps Mr. Gordin (sorry that should be Gordon don, not din) might look to his spelling, ' lest he confuse the learning of some of these wizardy Spelling Bee prodigies. M. V. McKeon 643 Union St. CSS sponsored broadcast in history, ac cording to trade archives, the egg from which has come an adver tising device which last year brought; $500 million to radio net works and stations. Radio s first sponsor was the Queens boro ! Corporation, which was then busy developing a 400 acre section! of Queens County it had named ; Jackson Heights. It paid WEAF (now WNBC) the sum of $100 in exchange for permis sion to extoll the joys of living in garden apartments. Scotsman Risked Cash The gentleman who first de cl.ted to risk cold cash in the fledg ling medium was a Scotsman, Ed ward A; MacDougau, president of Queensboro who died a few years ago. Robert R. Lassiter, vice pres ident of the corporation, says Mc Dougall experimented because a few poeple had sets but everyone was talking about it" "Our sales manager was the fel low who did the talking," he said. "The station sent a representative over and together they worked out a script. Not Many Results "We picked a time when house wives would be listening. And, I'm sorry to say, we didn't get an F .vful lot of direct results -from sponsoring the talks, although we continued them for two or three weeks. I .suppose it generally helped build up interest in the development,' Unfortunately for radio's his torians, the manuscript of that first commercial has been lost. . But the daily log of the broad cast's engineer, one R. S. Feni more, remains in radio's archives. It notes simply and quite without a sense of history: "5-5:30 p.m. Queensboro Cor poration, our first customer." Armed Forces Radio to Air Freshman Glee Willamette University will t featured on aworld wide broad cast Sept. 18, when a portion of the annual Freshman Glee is air ed over the Armed Forces radio program, "Way Back Home." The news was made known this week by Captain George Grow, project officer for the program, when he announced the transcrip tion of Glee is being sent this week to the 60 Armed Forces ra dio stations overseas. The recording was made by Sa lem radio station KOCO, which broadcasts Glee in its entirety each year. KOCO is a contribut ing station to the weekly program "Way Back Home." The program Is heard In Eu rope, the South Pacific, Hawaii and countries where the AFRS is operate. Featured on the radio show are happenings from cities and towns throughout the 'nation, sent to the service by a local ra dio station. Purple Heart Order To Plan Viola Sale Preparations and plans for the annual Viola sale will be made by the Military Order of the Purple Heart and Auxiliary at their meet ing Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at tha home of Mrs. George Quesseth. The annual sale is sponsored by the organization each August to raise funds for welfare, rehabili tation, hospital and service work among veterans. BULL FIDDLE To the Editor: That interesting and instructive Statesman! feature "Look and Learn" by A. C. Gordon, had this item in your issue of Aug. 9th. (4). Question. Of what is "cello" the abbreviation? Answer. Violincello. The response is well, almost right cept for the spelling. Somehow the treble Viol the SHjQjQE Oregon papers have taken note of the action of Mayor Bowron of Los Angeles in appointing a board to settle on the correct pronunciation of the city's name. The Albany Democrat-Herald sagely observes that most any pronunciation would be better than reciting its original name: "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula." One thing certain, whatever the board decides the name still will , be pronounced Los Angeles. How to Make Use of Television Presents Problem to Democrat, GOP Campaigners vi s ; - $ DM1 By JOSEPH AND STF4WART ALSOP WASHINGTON Everybody says knowingly, nowadays, that "this is going to be the first television election," but nobody seems to have thought out the Implications of this alarming statement. What can happen is . suggested by recent news from the headquarters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson. In the Eisen hower head quarters, on the one hand, the New York gub ernatorial elec tion of 1950 is being studied with anxious Mention- Gen. i s e n h o .w- . r s exceed ingly able press ecretar y, 7 Jn-ph Aiop j James Hagerty, is borrowed from the staff of Gov. Thomas E. -Dewey. Hagerty saw Gov. Dewey transform the New York contest by the first truly inventive use of television at tempted by any of our high-lev- sl politico. What Dewey did in bis 1950 telecasts was, in effect, to ask -New York vot ers into his liv ing room for a nice, brisk chat about politics. 1 HV informal and varied. Sometimes Dewey an swered questions. Sometimes he Save short talks on selected top ics. Sometimes members of his staff were present, and some times Mrs. Dewey took part. By common consent, these Dewey telecasts were one of the biggest factors in Dewey's comfortable majority when tha) votes were counted. ' The Elsenhower strategists are askinr themselves, ' therefore, whether the general can do the same stunt that Dewey did, with the same success. They have one treat problem they long to solve. Thus far, the magic that was ex pected of Gen. Eisenhower before he doffed his antfonn has been notably absent from all hla form al, set speeches. Bat the magic has come through very nicely in most of his press conferences, in his pre-convention get-togethers with Republican delegates, and In all other spontaneous, face-to-face meetings. The advocates of an Eisenhow er television show on the Dewey model argue that this is just the fairs which he made each month to the people of Illinois. Tha Stevenson television personality is considered one of the great Democratic assets, and. not un reasonably, since he was even able to make such topics as safe driving both vivid and lively in his Illinois reports. A show which would cover the great national issues in the same manner and would be put on at an easy lis tening time each week until tho election, certainly seems to pro mise dividends for Stevenson. Again,' however, there are dif ficult questions still to be an swered. The Democrats, for one thing, are mnch more short of cash than the Republicans. Even Many families travel miles to have a Sunday picnic. But they really don't have to. With a little careful planning and pre paration you can have all the effects of a picnic, physical, men tal, gastronomical and disasterous, right in your own back yard. We herewith submit a trusty home picnic plan, approved by the Un dertakers and Pallbearers Underwriters Asso ciation. Follow the directions carefully and at the end of the day you will be as exhausted, frantic, nervous and infirm as if you and your family had, spent the day on a picnic at, say, the mountains or the beach. j First thlre is the food. For true picnic-style ; servinrs we sure est an outdoor menu of San dy Potato Salad, Charred Veiners, Baked Beans with Wood Chips, Warm Lemonade, Dill Pickles with Ants (can substitute other small insects, like gnats, for ants), Stepped-On Cake with Mashed Frosting and Gritty Sandwiches. Top this off with Warm. Broken Watermelon or Melted Ice Cream. The children's sand wiches may be prepared beforehand by dropping them lightly la a mixture of two parts sand and one , part dirt. If any of tho aand-dirt blend is left ever jit may be sprinkled .on the weiner buns. Guests will be sure to rave about this combination for weeks it will take them that long to get the sand out from un der their upper plate. ill way to "bring the real Eisenhow- . although the television time I '- .VI er" into the houses of the voters. The more conventional political planners around the general re ply that such a show could not be really spontaneous; that the mag ic might not work after all; and that the danger of bad fluffs would be very great. So far as is known, the point has not been decided. Meanwhile, at the' strategy meeting to plan Gov. Stevenson's campaign in Springfield this week end, a similar debate Is In progress. At least one of the sev ca members f Stevenson's ton campaign staff. Sen. Mike Mon- roney, OkU, keid of the Demo- erat'e Speakers' Bureau, went at to Sprincfleld with a plan already roughed out. Monroney's plan called for a weekly Steven son telecast perhaps a fifteen minute show every Monday eve ningcombining a short talk with answers to Questions that voters send In. The ides, as in the Dewey show of 195a. is to let the individual voter sit down, so to speak, with Adlai Stevenson, to meet him face to fare, and hear him talk, informally and , In point of fact, Stevenson has already proven his remarkable in a televised report on state af effectiveness on this sort of show could be preempted from the net works, the networks will still have to be paid. Such a show as Sea. Monroney has la mind would need to be national la -scope: and this one item In tho Democratic budget mignt there fore run as nigh as $5M0 to 1700,000. Again, so far as is known, the Stevenson strategists have not yet made up their minds what to do. Nonetheless, the central fact remains. Technology has already drastically altered the relation ship between politician and voter, .and television is sure to change ! that relationship still more drastically. The old-time rabble-rousers, like Bryan, could drug their au dience with eloquence precisely because there was no amplifying equipment. The listeners had to listen if they wanted to hear it all. By being forced to pay at tention, the listeners lost them selves, and yielded their power of judgment. Radio, which brought in amplifiers, killed the old style rabble-rousers and gave Franklin Roosevelt his tremen dous opportunity. Now television' again offers, to the first politician who uses it wisely, a national op portunity on a Rooseveltian scale. (Copyright 1952. New York Herald Tribuno. Inc.) Next invite several hundred people over to your picnic If you have, an average-sized jyard it will be sufficently jammed for everyone to stumble ovejj- everyone else with little effort. If you don't have a swimming pool you can turn on , the lawn sprinkler this can be particularly amusing if done while the guests are sprawled arounq eating. Of course the kids cant scare the daylights out of their parents by almost drowning in a sprinkler but there are kher compensations to be discussed later. As you open the canned beans casually toss the empty cans about the yard some lucky guest is bound to step on one. Some guests might playfully balk at the Sandy, Potato Salad. When this happens keep up the humorous by-play by slyly dropping their watermelon felices as you hand them out. ,Now comes fan with the kiddies. Secretly allow several of the smallest to climb the garage roof and emerge suddenly on the very top. Tnis wiU throw their mothers Into fainting hysterics, Just like when youngsters scale a tall cliff on a real picnic. Next urge several of the middle-sized boys Into a game of tag. See that they romp among- the adults stretched oat on the ground . trying to catnap after tho heavy meal. If this works out correct ly both adults and boys will end vp with several dandy bruises apiece. If some of the guests had the foresight to bring- atona their decs the fun Is even more violent. .' r I I ' i In lieu of actually tumbling off boulders or catching poison oak the kids can get themselves -stung in your flower bed, skin themselves on the driveway l and lose sweaters and socks in your basement. If you have tried!; hard to be a good picnic host your guests should be ready to escape about the time the women have completed the all-day. task of cleaning up the luncheon dregs. As the haggard, fagged parents troop out your gate drag ging their bruised, nagging! offspring with them you can per sonally slap each one on his: or her sunburnt, aching back. Bet ter still just hide in the attic until they have all gone. . (Continued From Page One) for their cause. When such is sues are not involved then voter decisions will be based on 'rea sons other than religious. What folk need to realize is that God gives no copyright or patent to any particular political party. One may believe with sincerity that the candidate or party he supports is entitled to support on moral or religious grounds; but another with equal sincerity may come to a different conclusion. Even when persons are agreed on principles and ob jectives it remains true, as Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr says in a re cent article: "Various strategic devices will be advanced as the best ways of fulfilling our re sponsibilities." And again: "Yet the further one moves from a principle .... to detailed appli cation in particular situations the more hazardous the decision be comes, and the more impossible it is to compel others to a similar conviction by appeal to a com mon faith." Citizens should carry into their political activity such convictions as they have, but they cannot safely proclaim exclusive rights on the application of God's will among men. 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