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I I j i 4-Tho Ctatosmca, Salem, Crew Scctarday, rebrggrr 2I ISS3 Cfc "Wo Puaiianed arry mornlng- 0y carrier ta eras Daily end Sunday Daily only ,, - eunda only mly (hvoavasee) u a. . rraa nainrlaTil Preaa at ouUeO axcluatrely to tha oaa tr tepubllcatlnw i all local am printed to A Bad Deal! : The National Automobile Dealers Association has introduced a new dirty word into the Amer " lean idiom; tha term is "car dealer." Heretofore "car dealer' referred-to an honor able trade, that of retailing or distributing auto mohilesl Some of the best men in the commun ity were car dealers, and most people looked up to them as solid citizens. Interior Secretary Dou glas McKay, for instance, is the. owner of a Sa lem automobile agency and never ; made any bones about being a car dealer. That was how he made his living before he became governor and fchen went to Washington, and nobody we know ever held it against him. : Then Adlai Stevenson in a recent speech made a crack about the "new dealers" in Washington making way for the "car dealers.' It's the sort of joke that goes over big with almost any au dience since it is a play on words and isn't too subtle. But the ultra-sensitive NADA has is sued a statement protesting the "slur," and by turning a harmless and sort of funny pun into calumny the NADA has harmed its own causa and may have ruined the term "car dealer" for ever.; Sometimes that happens to words as the lan guage changes over the centuries. In the middle ages the word "villain" was an honorably word. A villain was a free villager or free peasant as differentiated from a bondsman. A man who held that title was a proud and fortunate fel low. Today a villain is a mean, low, dispicable rascal; a scoundrel. A bad egg who would sell out his. own grandmother; a guy you couldn't ' jast any farther than you could throw him; a mustache-twirling : hombre hankering to fore closure the mortgage and force the beautiful daughter to marry him to save her father's hide that's a villain. Could it be that car dealers will suffer the same fate as villains? The National Automobile Dealer's Association had better quit racing its motor; in its hurry to defend the good name of it members it has committed villainy. The Fisli Are in a Grim Pickle After hearing President Eisenhower describe the "grim" world situation, one congressman who didn't want to be identified commented succinctly that "You might say we are in a hell of a fix." i' This interesting statement is open to various interpretations. By "we" the unnamed lawmaker may have been referring to the United States as a nation. Did he mean that the U.S. was in, to express it differently, a pretty pickle? Not knowing just how "grim" the situation is, we would still agree that , there's probably more than a grain of truth in the informant's salty summary. . Perhaps, however, the coy congressman is a Republican and he was referring to the admin istration when he used the pronoun "we." May be he meant that the administration is stuck S29sVfi&3233S93S5S2 Eisenhower Administration Reaches Maturity; Finds Three Paths to Pursue All Unpleasanf By JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON Sometimes news is too, big and too shape less to fit into a headline. Fami lies know, for instance, when their children reach voting fage, and twen ty - first birth- d ay- can be t marked with special festivi- ues. -But now is ona to know j j us t- when a new- national Administration Ihj has reached po litical maturity. Jwrr4 AUwif is ready to ,4aBi:.i fa-- facts hon- ' estly and to deal with them real- Isticallyr :';;r.:.r-- Nothing could be more import-' ant. Nothing could be harder to i K5neasure. None A el ess, this week can rea- ! sonably be cel ebrated as the thnd when the Eisenhower comes of age, and the Repub lican party be- gin te rise to the challenge of lta v a a t new responsibility. - 7 - J -C- - Tex policy f, Stewart Ak;' was d e c i s i ve . test, as - It haa been from - the atart. After all; lowo- taxes have . been premised by every Repub lican, OH the easy theory that the budget could be balanced by "cutting aut waste. But when the hard budgetary facta were - honestly analyzed, this theory did not liold water, r v, President Eiseaaawer and Baaet Director: Jaaeph Dedse laateae tfiseercred. aa "arevieiuly . ray i ted tm tMa space, that they had mly three choices, all taa pleasia. They coald balance the . badxet and reduce taxes, by . ahaadaainx all pretense af erea- tiT fareics peUcr and effecttra wattanal defense.. Or they could, lower toxes and pay the biU for fcaiissal aeesriiy, by ronniEj a rTJiBtie deficit. Or they cool J Xlaaee tae bodret and meet all Faror Sway U No Fear Shall - I - Frees first Sfttrsmsn. March 2.V 131 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY - CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor? and Published'-. sis av S-34U. Eotared at lb natter DBSCVrKlOlt BV4TSB Ay mi, Dany ja as counties . L29 par I Benton. Marion, . J waak S.7S atx la O S.'eutsiee Oregon on reasonable security requirements, by careful, undramatie econo mies pins maintaining taxes at present levels. In his stirring 'press confer ence, Eisenhower revealed that he had chosen the third course, as had been forcast here. The decision to ' ask : for continuance ; of the excess profits tax. or for -its replacement with another tax of equal yield, is a truly dram atic decision. It implies the high est and finest kind of political courage the courage to do the disagreeable thing when the gen eral welfare so demands. It al so implies strong tendencies, if - not actual decisions, in other . , vital policy areas. If taxes are not to be redaeed. it means that President Eisen hower and his advisers have ' ' firmly set their faces aacinst the kind of "defense economy" that was customary ta the time of Louis A. Johnson. Defense Sec retary Charles E. Wilson and Under-Secretary Roger Kyea are -to do their job the rifht way, -with the first emphasis on na tional strenrth, aa they have set 4 -. eat to do it. If taxes are not to be reduced, it also means that there are to be a meat axe . slashes af foreign aid. Secretary of State John Footer Dmlleo la -to be allowed to ret m with fete great task, of mnifylnr and re- laTijorstin the Western ACi- aace with oat having the fiscal rac paued ot All this is only another way of saying that even the strongest considerations of political ex pediency .have not swerved Dwight D. Eisenhower from act- tog in character. Beyond any ; doubt at all, the speed of the Ad ministration's coining of age is due to the President himself. no fa T-doing- his! Jo et aa Franklin D. Roosevelt did, : by ' dominating and directing in ev ery Important sphere. lie is do ing his Job not as Carry S. Tro- . man did, by permitting- policy to bo ready-made by ' others, and then abruptly accepting or re- ' Jecting it. He Is dohig his Jab, . ratler, as one of the-closest Lis- enhower associates has put It, a raai Ueal chainaaa of the beard.' Axe".: ," at Salem. Of, as eend mffn a. utau as Saneay (la aavaaes) 9 1-00 per ma. Clackamas, I -tr ' Polk. YamtaUU. - J six torn, lO.sO yaar ta Oregon X.4B par ma. Baraaa at Ai Srsittatag tr ffesuaaara Aam, laa. tatt Ward-Griffith - Co. Detroit!. with a fine kettle of fish, to use another meta phor. .- . ..." . . The hot potato which the reluctant congres sional leader may have had in mind is the sticky problem the administration has on its hands now. This thorny puzzle involves such items as cutting taxes and government spending while at the same time trying to copewith the: "grim verge-of-war situation. Clearly, -the administra tion is on the horns of both domestic and inter national dilemmas. By talking to the congres sional leaders, Ike was making an attempt to take the bull by the horns. -' Promises of tax cuts and. implicit promises to bring about a change in Che then-also - grim, world-, picture helped the GOP to power, but now the difficulties of reconciling tax cuts with the grim realities are becoming apparent.' Crit ics who used to score Harry Truman for stirring up a war scare at appropriations time now will note that President Eisenhower has to resort to the same tactics to enlighten congressional lead ers. The fact is that neither he nor his predeces sor had to manufacture an ' artificial bogey, though; all the president has to do is show the lawmakers the real, live fly in the honey pot. Which leaves us to conclude that BOTH the UJS. and Washington are, to use a figure of speech, STILL in a jam. The president's grim determination to make Congress face up to these grim facts is the most heartening sign right now. Army "Wives Former Portland mayor, Dorothy M. Lee, now in Germany on a state-department-sponsored mission to encourage German women participate in public affairs, is reported to have addressed an organization of U.S. Army officers wives in Heilbronn. She told. these women that Army wives should "spread the seed of democracy" in Germany ... Mrs. Lee was probably making, a futile appeal, there. Army wives are not noted as a particularly democratic group; in fact, of ten it is the women rather than the men who are most rank-conscious and most determined to preserve the old caste system. And in military installations overseas the Army wives frequent tly hold themselves apart from and above the local natives. They are hardly the best repre sentatives 'of American democracy. A police magistrate in Vancouver, B. C. fined performers and a theater owner for producing Erskine Caldwell's playJTobacco Road," which had a long run on the U. S. stage. This realistic drama of life among Southern sharecroppers was too raw for a Vancouver audience, in the opinion of the judge, although Caldwell himself had rushed to the British Columbia city to de fend his play. Art lost a round to Virtue. Relating to President Eisenhower's first press conference an exchange says in a heading: "No 'Big News' But He Handles Himself with A plomb. In other words Eisenhower himself Is still the "big news." Eisenhower takes the chair regularly and with the most pos- itive effect, at three weekly meetings with his Congression al leaders on Mondays, with the National Security Council on Wednesdays, and with his Cab inet on Fridays. These gather ings even the unsually mean ingless Cabinet meeting are no longer perfunctory and triv ial. Each has its agenda, to which any of the company may con tribute. Every item on the agen da is thoroughly discussed, so that even the meeting with the Congressional leaders often takes two - hours. If disagreements emerge, they are not brushed aside; Instead the President, even if he has already made up his own mind, undertakes to per suade the malcontents before the next week's meeting. The aim la f to havo the Party leadership, the cold war directorate, and the , larger full Cabinet all move for ward together under the Presi dent's leadership. (, . - There have' been disagree aaents. of course. All-out de-eon-tol of prices and wares was op posed in Cabinet, for instance, by Secretary of Labor Martha Dxtrkln. as wall as by Mutual Security Director Harold Stas- ea- ajad TJ. N. . Representative Henry Cabot Iadre Jr.. who spoke-in. their role as expert- enced politicians. That time, Els. . enhower sided with Secretary ef the Treaeary Georgro Hamphrey and Secretary af Defense Wttsen, the caost ardent de-controllers. Again, there have been sad disappointments. When the tax etory was told to the -Con-gressional leaders. Speaker of the House Joseph Martin is reported to have remarked mournfully, ;"Well, lefs make dear anyway . that -tax reduction is still our aim.": . - .' , ; " Yet the, government 'Heam " which so often talked about and so rarely found in action, real-, ly seems to have been formed by Eisenhower. Under his leader aiiip, the hard decisions are be . lng smoothly taken, the tough iobs are being boldly tackled. It i an inspiring spectacle. Krw Tor it iirai Tnnun Inc.) ' Itt i -1 kpODDll (Continued from page one) only three members have served in the- body longer than ten years, Bel ton, Ellis aned Walker, the new blood, seems to flow in the old channels rather than break out into new. This continuity is not due to a "machine" but to atmosphere. There is a minimum of arm-twisting. For example the veterans Belton and Walker looked askance at the highway bond proposal, but it swept through with a huge majority. The "atmosphere" referred to Is one 6f high responsibility in the discharge of duty. Differences of opinion may be sharp, and outside pressures may be heavy, but usually the Senate acts on the basis of sound Judgment though sometimes personalities, and politics may cloud judgment. This isn't to say that the House is Ineffectual. Not at all. It is a coordinate branch of the ' legis lature and has to be reckoned with. Deadlocks sometimes occur and conference committees have trouble finding keys to unlock them; but. over the years the Senate has usually rendered tha decision on. Important matters of policy. - At that the Senate has rarely graduated a member to the gov ernorship or to federal office by election. Governor McKay was a senator, but he was hardly one of the "ruling circle" of the Senate. Sam Coon made the jump across from a one-session senator -to Congress from the second district. Governor Patterson suc- ceeded to his office automatically, having been in line as President of the Senate. : This may be one virtue of the "Oregon system." No matter who is serving as Governor, so longas the Senate remains in "good hands' the state govern ment stays in good hands. : I would console Representative Hatfield, however. Some day he . may be elected to the Senate . . or to some other office. fSHIM ANl"V RPA P IT '.T. : " TUase dont rattle me, Irene!...! she grulo atrip ram op and LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT Literary Guidepost By Vf . G. ROGERS THE REVOLT OF AMERICAN WOMEN: A Pictorial History of the Century of Change from Bloomers to Bikinis from Feminism to Freud, by Oliver Jensen (Har court. Brace; $6) It isn't quite a century, though it is almost, but measured by the extent of the change, it's an age. : - In terms of the characters, it's the spread between Mrs. William Astor and her social arbiter Ward McAllister, or Mrs. George Jay Gould with her $500,000 pearl necklace, on the one hand (in the last decades of the 19th century) and, on the other (in our time), an assortment as var ied as lady wrestlers, lady Channel swimmers and Eleanor Roosevelt, "the heart and social conscience of American women." The feminists set the goal and, led the fight to reach it, There were Lucretia Mott, for political, equality; Mary Wollstonecraft.! who yearned for freedom "from the tyranny of . man;" Lucy Stone, for woman's rights to her: maiden name; Amelia Bloomer, for bloomers; Carrie Nation,' against saloons, and t Frances Willard, for W.C.T.U.; Victoria WoodhulL against S Henry Ward Beecher, and, as she said, for, treason" and "revolution." : But the emancipation was not' only in theoretical fields but al so in material things . . . and it ought to be pointed out that it was the Inventiveness of man,: not woman, that came to worn' an's aid. She owes him the pro-; motion from the old coal range ' and hod to the new electric stove " and switch, from the washtub to the washer, from garbage pail., to disposer. "Woman's place," as: -it's called, shifts from home to factory and office; she goes to college of tener and longer; she -takes up sports more, relaxing; than washing and Ironing; she: dresses for the modern life; and; she takes part in the modern; . life, assuming some liberties that', man had arrogated selfishly to; himself. i : A man shouldn't review, this I hook, I suppose - . . though one -wrote It; he'd be accused of bias by Lichty AZI trying to remember wheher down, or crosswise whether ho praised or blamed. . . . but so would a woman. Act ually, tha revolt of women seems to have been a victory for them without a defeat for men. What could bo nicer? THE AENEID OF VIRGIL, trans lated by C.Day Lewis (Oxford; S3.75)- I didn't get beyond six books of Virgil in college, I guess I'm not going to get much beyond six books of Lewis. Some pas sages are stirring, for instance, the death of Dido. But on the whole Lewis long line, for which to be sure there Is good reason, does sometimes sag; "ladies" and "qui vive" and such-like violate the mood; and there is an occa sional insensltivity that surprises me in this translator, as for ex ample the words land, wand, wan and wand again all within a few lines. . WelL the current legislature is finally getting down to brass acts, alright people are beginning to give it (and call it) names . . Oregon labor leaders are dubbing it the "1953 legislature 5SV before public i bly will be labelled a "spendthrift session.1 called the "teletype legialature,- because it tried to eliminate the Morse eede--Oregoa GOPs fett-they were toe much on the Way no . , . Horse racing; Interests feel this session might prove their big-feat handicap in years ... Church groups may think that . things are going to the dogs, bat dog racing interests are afraid things are going to the rabbits a big rabbit named Harvey (Joe, that is) . . . Dry groups feel this legislature is a sort of jwetwaah one and electrical power firms hope not aU the bins are toe dry ... Democrats feel this session is a GOPfggish one . Bat lots of as common clods are wondering if legislators are not calory -r eonocions big haaalo in the 1S51 session was elee and ia this one : Ifs Uquor-by-the-drlnk. r '. : j . , , -' o ..- o v"o - - ' j ;,T ' : '-' One of the sponsors of the anti-closed shop bill is Marion County's Rep. W. W. Chadwick- owner of the Senator Hotel, where many legislators and lobbyists bunk down, (and vice ver sa) . . . Also lodged there is the AFL legislative headquarters. ' Despite the protests of some union groups, including the Team- - sters, the AFL. intends to remain there it feels that more harm than good would result if it took a walk ... Union officials claim that there is a tie-in between Oregon's compulsory open shop legislation and an anti-union fund set up by Hollywood movie-man Cecil DeMille, who was given a much-publicized boot by labor when be refused to pay union dues coupla epics ago.. - - ' . Into ealler cobsUIss bitterly over motorists butting tote ; funeral preeeaatena. Sao says whoa proceoalonis cross Liberty St. : at atyors alaatat always trafflo oa rthbomnd Liberty break; Into . and scatters the, line ef cars even though procession ears are driving with lights on. Ebo sazitsl that maybe the city shouli .- install a permanent sign warning- snotorlata that processions ms-r-A many crass there. : i'vrr :v; '-';',.'f:'.:': r : .r ' Looks like well have to take pruning shears to that Wash ington grapevine which informed us the other day that Willam ette's Prexy Dr. G. Herbert Smith failed to mention his school even once at that statue dedication ceremony in Washdeecee. Dr. Smith's secretary says he did so mention WU twice . . . so there .. . Statesman staffer Tom Wright decided to surprise his wife, Marguerite, on her birthday. So, while she was out, he and the - two Wright" kiddies whipped up a two-layer white cake .with chocolate frosting. The result? 'Edible said Tom. I hate to say it, but I think she was more awed over the fact that we clean ed up the mess we made than over" the cake." . . . Typical fa- w male reaction . NATO Fundi Boat ?. . Militarv Cut ifey J. M. ROBERTS Jr. . . Associated Press News Aaaryst ' . The North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization may have just gotten under; the congressional wire with its decision to give General Ridg- way even more than : the i extra money he asked for. construction of military installations this year. xne wasninnon anve for re duced ! military expenditures went into full swing Thursday when the Pentagon advised the Senate Armed ; Services Committee that requests lor new. military con struction at home and abroad would , be held to a minimum for the fiscal year besimune July 1. Almost simultaneously the NATO Council ! notified Ridawav it was doubling his allotment for air bases, : jet fuel pipelines, commu nications and headquarters in stallations in Western Europe. Last i fall the council had cut nis request for these purposes from 428 million dollars to 224 million dollars. Now he's to get 224 more. zo million more than originally requested. Added to previous au thorizations, the total Is now 562 millions for 1953. - i The United States was obligated to pay 92 of the original 224 mil lions appropriated last fall.! Pre sumably she will now be obligated to double that amount, although just how the added expense will be spread among the participating countries has not been worked out. These funds are not connected with the money to bo spent di rectly by the U. S. Armed Serv- ces, which Is the subject of the current i economy campaign in Washington. Nevertheless they wiH be connected in the minds of most people in the U. S. and abroad with the general idea of the Eisen hower administration that aU of the water, and perhaps some of the least essential sinew, must be squeezed out of the military pro gram. ! The Washington situation will have a psychological effect as the European governments continue their search for funds to carry on their own defense program. . But the U.S. has done very little to make it clear to her Allies that her own economy campaign does not represent any kind of backdown; that it is merely de signed to take some of the ex pensive emergency nature out of the sudden military buildup which began after Korea. If Europe gets the Idea that Congress is planning a slaughter, instead of a delicate operation. they're liable to steam die down. let their own HAWKS WEDS MODEX SANTA MONICA, Calif. Film Director Howard Hawks, 55 and Dee Hartford, 24, a modeL were married Friday night la the presence of about 15 close friends, It was the bride s first marriage and Hawks' third. MED FORD OFFICIAL DECS MEDFORD iff) City Recorder Ralph Woodford, 71, died hero Thursday night. ' He hadbeen resident in Medford since 1884. He was postmaster in 1912-16, and was connected with the ; city govern ment since 193J. Mdv with the 1853 look," mostly on account of the compulsory open shop bill and the proposed initiative - referendum and - voter registration changes . . . And the Oregon Biz. and Tax Re search Bulletin warns that if the major salary increase proposals are acted upon hurriedly opinion can be probed the assem .. Because of the lack ef usual after -hours hoopla many havo dryly tagged this legislature a "hard working bunch. , . . It also could be :Zi ' : i Water Main Bonds Voted AtJ eiferson Sf f Kawsswrico JErFERSON-Xeiferson voten at an election Friday night ap proved an $11,000 bond issue to finance new water mains and to repair the present mains. The Issue passed 67 to T. Ai the city has approximately 234 registered voters .the turnout wu regarded as llghtj This makes the third time th bond issue has been voted on. I the past two elections the bondi were voted in both times, by i large majority, but because of a technicality in city ordinance, were declared void. ; This tlmi voters balloted "for the amend ment to the charter, and matically on the hew water main, as both are contained in the samj measure.' .- I , The four-inch wooden mill now in use from the Southern Pacific Railroad, south to the city wells, was installed In 1838 to supply water users In that ii- trict. It Is not considered larga enough, nor safe for the hesvy pressure necessary for fhrhtine fires.-; . 3 : :1 . - The water suddIv la ohtaInf from three wells, each eauinn4 with an electric pump of 10, 19 ana zo horsepower. resDectivel v. The supply of water Is apparent ly sufficient, and; in normal times only the smallest1 pump Is in use. A sufficient quantity of eight Inch concrete asbestos pipe had been delivered. JsuWect to a rv. proval of the bond Issue. Accident RuIed Responsible in Taylfir Pteatli A Marion County iurv rrAA Friday that the j 1949 death of Robert L. Taylor! of Salem was caused by his work at a Salem freezing plant. j The verdict was in the suit of Aneita V. Taylor, the widow, seek ing death benefits from the Stato naus trial Accident Commission The case was heard by Circuit Judge George R. Duncan. The ver dict was 11 to 1 against the com mission. Taylor was a laborer with Kel. ley-Farquhar and Co, and waj moving hand truck loads of ber. ries into the freezing room. H slipped and fell 'while workina and the complaint alleged thai this, combined with exertion an temperature changes, caused ha death on June 8 at the plant. Mrs. Taylor's claim on behal of herself and a child, was r Jected by SIAC. Yesterday's ven diet held that Taylor's acciden was the cause of his death. Hillcrest Girls to Get Free Hair Dressing . Approximately ' T5 girls at th JState Hillcrest School for Girl will get free permanent wave Sunday thanks to a group of S lem beauticians. . The beauticians are members a the Oregon Beauticians Associa tion, Capitol City Unit. In observ. ance of National! Beauty Saloi 6 Week, which begins Sunday, I group of about 20 will go to 21111 crest. 1 Last year the beauty operators donated their services to patient! ; at the Oregon Tuberculosis Hos pital. - j . c 1 HEAR DETTER on pav uqiimisi II-I1Y IIIEY-UCI IIIUITIU UEAQIUG AIDS TMttl OltAT iOOIlll' - '- 1 - f.lsrris OsticcI Co. 444 State Phone 3-5523 CJH VAUTY tXIAD-4ls as ar to "JUdudag Stanradoa roa aa oa aad eajoy SUM VAUXT rXZAD...bwkct!afyl la saorsr sfo4jcusx rroukx VSH VALLEY ADDS VASHT7 1T2s ty tie Bakers ef "Haster Ttraa o o w o " -oe- mm a a o w 1 m ss mm m s v m . t i
