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1 f !!.:.".': 4 The Stat man. Salem, s$$rejaon Gl statesman ! ""- "No Favor Sway Us No Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 21, 1S51 Statesman Publishing Company j CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published every morning. Buslnecs office 280 North Church SC. Salem. Ore-. Telephone S-2441. Sntered at the poetoffice at Salem, Ore., aj second class matter under act of Congress March 3. 1879. f , Member Associated Press ! The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use I ' tor republication of all local news printed In ; - this newspaper More About Those Controverted Lands Editor Sawyer of the Bend Bulletin -offers .this comment on the subject of the O &,C "controverted lands" : In an editorial in the Oregon Statesman regarding a prospective settlement of the O. & C. controverted, lands issue we find the Tanfi described as those "the railroad was entitled to under its grant as lieu lands for those previously homesteaded within its orig inal limits, but which were embraced in na tional forests before they could be patented to the railroad." The description, we believe, is not quite accurate. If the word "were" were used instead of "could be" the state ment would be correct It is for that reason that we have taken the 'position that these were national forest rather than O. & C. lands and therefore that the. proceeds of sales from them should be accounted for on the national forest instead of the O. & C formula. At the time the O. it C. lands were taken ; away from the railroad it had been paying taxes on those patented to it and still re maining in its hands. It was because of the loss of this tax income when the United States took the lands over that the success ful fight was made to restore revenut from them to the districts concerned. Taxes had never been paid on the contro verted lands. There was no loss suffered by any taxing district through the 0. 4c C. set tlement Under the settlement on which the States man- has commented income from these ' lands is to be divided on the O. it C. for mula. That seems wrong to us although not as wrong as leaving the O. & C. lands in the hands of the Bureau of Land Management instead of turning them over to the Forest Service. To have the odd numbered sections the even by another is an absurdity that should no longer be condoned. Until the government lands were surveyed they could not be patented. Without exten sive research it is not possible to say whether these lands had been surveyed and so were eligible for patents to the railroad. Nor is the distinction of any bearing on the present controversy. The Bulletin is correct in saying that since ai : i s i j & : d. ti.... lands it had paid no taxes on them, so the county had suffered no direct loss therefrom when the lands were revested, Jiowever they were part of the O & C original grant; and the government when it took over the lands paid the Southern Pacific $2.50 per acre in compensation. From this derives the claim of the Bureau of Land Management for their administration. How revenues from the lands should be distributed is a matter for congressional de cision. This paper has not felt the 75-25 divi sion set up in the 1937 act is now realistic. As far as dividing administrative author ity on intermingled federal forest lands we readily agree it is quite absurd. The proposal now contemplates giving administration to controverted lands to the forest service, though revenues therefrom are to be dis posed of under the O & C act. Later there would be exchange of lands for blocking under separate management. No decision has been made by the administration on the general policy of forest land administration. Secretary of Commerce Weeks who pro claimed loudly he was going to "clean up the mess" just after he was appointed, has had to eat humble crow over his firing of Dr. Allen V. Astin as head of the bureau of standards. He has restored Astin to his job (though with an understanding he will re tire later' has assured him a position of comparable grade, and has denied the firing sprang from scientific evaluations or con clusions. In brief, Weeks, at the instigation of his assistant secretary, Craig Shaef fer, pulled a bad boner, and is trying to extri cate himself as best he can. Communists Prepared to Opon 'Foreigners Go Home' Campaign in Africa to Stir Unrest By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP FvreifB News Analyst Communists, all set the raise caui in Central Africa despite their peace talks in Moscow, are now or soon will be chalking up slogans on the walls of buildings through out a vast area south of the Sa hara. The slogans will say 'Afri ca for the Africans." "Foreigners, go home!" "We Demand Free dom!" This intelligence does not com from Africa. It comes from Mos cow, it has been announced in the Soviet press, in an article which also pays fond attention to the prospects for the "strike move ment" la the dark continent. Strikes in the Soviet . Union are illegal, but they are a political instrument in the hands of Soviet agents in colonial countries. , - . - ' AH this adds up to what looks like a deliberate Communist at tempt; carried out by Moscow's agents la the Communist World Federation of Trade Unions, to turn the turbulent politics of Cen tral and South Africa into a ques tion of white man against Negro -an allout racial war. South of the Sahara there are tome 160 million Negro or dark tinned peoples. There are three million whites who rule with vary ing degrees of intelligence rang ing from very nigh to very low. Ia recent years the movement toward nationalism has been Ort, Monday, April 20, 1953 The Harvey strong. There is a general awak ening among Africans, who resent the monopolistic rule the whites hare wielded la the dark contin ent for so many decades. But the honest, genuine nationalists have nothing In common with the Com munists, and in fact speak out forcefully against any distortion of African native ambitions which will twist their nationalism into a war between races. These people do not want the white man to go home, to vanish and leave the continent to its own devices. They see disaster in such a develop ment. The Communists have no such qualms. Disaster and turmoil is what the Communists seek, be cause they thrive on it and be cause such conditions raise ag gravations in the West and tend to make Western countries and western people quarrel among themselves. Moreover, Moscow has libelled- all British plans all Western plans for that matter in Africa as preparation for war as the building up of a huge base important strategically not only for its geography but as a source of supply. For this reason, Mos cow says, the British and other colonial countries are barbarously exploiting the black man. And "Moscow most likely is acutely aware of the possibilities of Afri ca ia wartime. With subtle Communist aid, a movement of defiance to white rule already ia under way ia Ken Firm A close study of the Harvey Machine Company gives added lustre to the high hopes for industrial payrolls which greeted the firm's announcement of its expansion into Oregon several 'Weeks ago'. Not only is the Harvey Company, now employing 2,500 persons in its aluminum extrusion plant at Torrance, Calif., launched on a $65,000,000 aluminum producing mill at The Dalles and a five-year program of experimentation and production at the alu-mina-from-clay plant in Salem. It also has government approval for a $20,000,000 alu minum rolling mill first on the J Pacific Coast, for producing aluminum j sheets, strips and circular shapes. It seems feasible that Salem might prove an advantageous site for it The Harvey Company, established by Leo M. Harvey as a one-man machine shop nearly 40 years ago, is a closely-knit, family owned affair. The founder remains' as presi dent His brother, Herbert vice president in charge of production. A son, Lawrence, is vice president and chairman of the board, and another son, Homer, also is a vice presi dent. It is Lawrence Harvey who has a license from the Federal Communications Commis sion to build and operate KPIC-TV in Salem. Salem would seem to fit into the expan sion picture heavily because of its access to water transportation and because of the Harvey firm's plan to use barges in a large scale way. Barging alumina between Salem 1 and The Dalles is regarded as completely feasible, particularly as dams on the Wil lamette River' and tributaries portend a min imum six-foot draft within a year or so. Already the Harvey Company is planning to use barges in bringing in bauxite from overseas to The Dalles. Business Week quotes Lawrence Harvey as saying a Liberty Ship at $2000 a day can haul 8,000 tons but a barge at $800 to $900 a day can haul 20,000 tons. Barges are slower, but the company still figures a 60 per cent saving assured. The Harvey Company does not figure as a small concern. It soon expects to be the sixth largest producer of aluminum, and already its business is estimated to aggregate in excess of $30,000,000 a year. The Salem Chamber of Commerce is per forming a service in' continuing to work with the Harvey firm which has credited the chamber with a real assist thus far. Assault on Heifetz Some of the Jews in Israel have shown a fanatic intolerance which imitates persecu tions which they have suffered from for centuries. The Stern gang was guilty of inexcusable violence. Count Bernadotte, in Palestine on a mission of peace, was assassi nated by ultra nationalist Jews. And Thursday last Jascha Heifetz was assaulted because he played some music by Richard Strauss on a concert tour of Israel.. The at tack was in protest against Strauss who held a music office during the Nazi regime, though later he was cleared of Nazi charges. Heifetz built his program on the basis of the content of the numbers he chose, their value as works of art But prejudice ignores art to vent its spleen, and this time not on the composer hut on the .player. t The incident illustrates the truth that sometimes the persecuted, when they gain power, become persecutors themselves. The responsible authorities in Israel have never condoned these outbreaks of violence; but they have not been able to discipline the radical elements. It would be grim retaliation If the "lib erals" who were defeated on civil rights legislation in the Senate by refusal to change the rules to prevent a filibuster, now are able to 'talk the offshore oil lands bill to death. Certainly they are doing their utmost to delay a vote, but are careful not to admit they are in a filibuster. If they can defeat this legislation which gets its chief support from the Southern senators, the latter then would get a taste of their own parliamentary medicine. The Oregon Legislature asked Governor Patterson to do what he could to protect the state's interest in two television educa tional channels, since it was not ready to appropriate money to take up either-channel at this time. Other states are in the same position. Governors of 14 southern states have telegraphed the FCC urging that the educational reservations be extended two years tot June 2, 1955. ya Colony, South Africa and else where. Many of the participants are not Communists, but the movement grows with every report of a clash between white Kenyansvand Kiku yu tribesmen ia Kenya, of racial repressions under the Malaa gov ernment ia South Africa. Malan's victory at the polls last week will not help the white man's situa tion elsewhere ia Africa. Pan - American meetings have been held ia Europe notably in Britain and France imdrr Cam maniit sponsorship. These meet ings send back to Africa natives who are charged with the job of persuading all Africans to force all whitemea to leave. . Much Communist propaganda, aided by propaganda from the oth er extreme in the form of white groups in Africa who want a con tinuation of complete' white domi nation, is being levelled against the British plan for federation of the Central African areas of North era and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Says the Moscow news paper Trod, laying down the line: The political consciousness of the African wuikcts already is suffk cientiy developed to understand that federation will lead to still more efforts to exploit them." This line, from the trade anion news paper ia Moscow to the World Fed eration of Trade Unions, now will go into Africa, along with the slo gans Trad has outlined. It Is a pattern for chaos. GRIN AND BEAR VVMV Vr'f . . And we are warning the vultures that ... Oh, is The Safety Would Save Oil Revenues fer Support ef Schools To the Editor: While the Oregon legislature quibbles over educational ap propriations of a couple of mil lion dollars, Oregon's United States Senator Guy Cordon is busy assisting the oil lobby ia passing the give-away oil bill which might mean an eventual loss to Oregon Schools of near ly $000 million ia oil royalties. The Senate is now debating the Holland give-away bill, and also the bills of Senators Hill and Anderson. The Hill-Anderson bills retain title to the off shore oil reserves in the federal government and allocate the royalties to the schools of the nation. The Holland bill deals ostensibly only with oil reserves up to the 3 mile limit, but it has been described as an "open end" bin which could pave the way to the eventual transfer of title to all off-shore oil to coast al states. The figure of $600 million that would be lost to Oregon schools is based on an estimate of the value of off-shore oil re serves to the edge of the Contin ental shelf made by Wallace Pratt, former vice president of Standard Oil of New Jersey, and assumes a royalty of 20 per cent. With 13 per cent royalty, Ore gon schools would receive $300 million. These figures are taken from a table inserted ia the Congressional Record of April 10 by Senator Douglas of Illi nois. These figures do not include any royalties from reserves out to the $ mile limit which would go to adjacent states under the Anderson bilL Few people in Oregon know these facts. The press of the na tion has done an extraordinarily good job for the oil lobar by concealing them. If the people of the nation knew what they were losing, the give-away oil bill would never pass. It ia still not too late for the people to make their wishes known. Every school district in Oregon win be faced by a criti cal financial situation by 1960 as the influx of population puts heavy demands on school facili ties. Every, individual, every school board, every PTA, every farm organization, and all other groups interested ia school wel fare and also in keeping local taxes down, should wire 'Senator Cordon and vigorously urge his support for the Hill-Anderson bills instead of the give-away bin which he is now promoting for the oil lobby. A few senators in both parties are stretching out debate on these off-shore oil bills to give the people back home a chance to register their wishes. But the time is short, and action is need ed immediately. Arthur H. Bone Editor, Oregon Fanner Union Hot Rodders Are Net Hoodlums To the Editor: After reading the front page article in Wednesday's States man headed "Motorist Beaten After Refusal to Race With 'Hotrod Drivers," my temper demanded I write this letter. Granted that a situation such as this is extremely deplorable, I cannot subscribe to your use of the term "Hotrod" in connection with the cars used by the hood lums, i; The press and the public are in dire need of education con cerning the vast difference be tween "squirrels" and "Hot Rod ders." A true Hot Rodder will never indulge ia any of the an tics alleged ia this incident, and such articles are very detriment al to him. He is a drlc-minded person seeking to better rela tions between Rodders and the public, and to improve highway safety by arranging for the hold ing Safe, legal, controlled drag races and other events. Much as . many people dislike, it is a known fact that soung men (and sometimes girls, too) have a great craving for speed. Listen to a teenage group talk about someone's new automobile -chances are before the conver sation ends, the question will be asked "how fast win it go." Active Hot Rodders organiza tions plan an outlet for this ia , order to make our highways . safer places on which to travel. Aa a member of the "Dicers IT ByLichtV bloodsucking American capitalist sorry ... is wrong speech." ' Valve club of Salem, and speaking for all Hot Rodders, I would sincere ly appreciate reading more con structive publicity, and none of that which tends to retard the sport The young men who pull ed the stunt are not "Hotrod drivers," but hoodlums. Lloyd Olson P.O. Box 607 Orctcch, Oregon Mechanics vs. Cariatiaaitr To the Editor: In the April IS issue of the Oregon Journal an article written by Dick Fagan I found very interesting. It dealt with marriage problems. In it he quotes Rev. Daniel A. Lord and his comments about the new problems of parents: television. ' To quote Rev. Lord: "Chil dren sit in front of one of these things and seem to go into a coma, just a little bunch of -protoplasm. I don't know the answer." The part that intrigues me is in his quote "I don't know the answer." We do not know it either. But we think we may have the key to at least one integral part. And that is the more mechanic al doo-dads that come to us in the guise of better living, phony pleasures, are tending to blind us to the glorious truths of the word of God. It certainly is a forgone con clusion that our people today show very little consideration or appreciation to the original source of all these things. Fortunately, 'we have just survived another Easter. And we do, it seems, find time to give a sort of worship and reverence. The world today, even as in the time of our Christ, is woe fully lacking in appreciation of Him. To this Jesus whose only Intent was to teach men the Love and Power of God; to teach men how to really Live; to teach that in Him, and Him alone was real Life. As he said, "X am the way. I am the Truth; Z am the Life.' John 14:10 ... Jesus told us: "And the Truth shall make you free." Free from what? Sin of course. Our great troubles of our time, are brought about by the sub stitution of such things mech anical as before mentioned. Anything to get our hearts turned away from aa unwanted Christ. But don't forget: "Every knee shaU bow, and every tongue shall confess (admit) that this Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and the Su preme Ruler of our Universe. BERT L. HAMILTON, ' i Jt 4 Box 310. Prodact ef Society To the Editor. If "great" men owe aU the credit to their mothers and wives, why shouldn't criminal types give the "credit" to their mothers and wives. I think it was a crime to take the life of Albert Fames without giving him a chance to secure the help he needed for emotion al rehabilitation. After all he was only the product of society and; but for the grace of God, there ntilht go any one of vs. Robert W. Mitchell 633 Ferry St Better English 1 By D. & WXTXIAMS L what is wrong with this sentence? "It ! is ,a quarter of eight, and we must begin to di vide up the work." - ! 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "echelon"? -. 3. Which one of these words is f misspelled? Accommodate, cclftiartical. . recommendation, accomplice. 4. What does the word "pre tension" mean? I 5. What is a word beginning with ma that means rfull derev pment"?" i ' f "ANSWERS L Say, "It " is a ! quarter to eight, and we must begin to di vide (omit ap) the ' work." a 2. Pronounce esh-e-lon, both es as in etch, as la ea, accent first syllable. 3. Ecclesiastical. 4. A claim .put forward, . whether true or false: affectation. The mark of a great man is the ab sence of pretension.'' 9. Matur ity. . Washington Mirror McKay Removes Thinking of New Deal from Land Bureau By A. KOBEJtT SMITH Statesman Correspondent WASHINGTON The practice of presidents installing political "has beent or henchmen at the head of the old General Land Of fice is as ancient as the public domain itself and as smudged with fraud as Teapot Dome itself. Worn, out senators and Western governors seemed to fit the bill for this important post, and they in turn used the spoils system to mi the field offices where claims; were filed for land, min eral and timber rights. Ripe for fraud, it was harvested by the Tins" flown through the years. To the extent that civil service approved career men instead of Slitical hacks provide a remedy this condition, administration of the public domain has drastic ally changed. Much of the con structive change has come about since 1946; when Congress merged the General Land Office with the , Grazing Service' into a new agency, Bureau of Land Manage ment, which thereafter was to be headed by a career man ap proved by the Civil Service Com mission. That, became the law. Democrat Removed This past week Interior Secre tary Douglas7 McKay announced his intention to replace BLM Di rector Marion Clawson, a Demo crat, with Edward Woozley, a Republican who has been state land commissioner of Idaho. McKay made it plain to this reporter in a; recent Interview that ha had no quarrel with Claw son's administrative ability, for (Continued ' from page one) passed. Portland State, however, is still denied the right to award degrees. If the legislation does become law it greatly upsets the alloca tion of courses set up when the state system was established, and which, with some variations, has been adhered to since. I have objected to rushing in to implement the Anderson report because it scrambles most of the eggs in higher education. The plea for more teachers is used as a lever to lift the colleges of education to liberal arts, four- year status and to hasten the ex pansion of Portland State. Legis lators from sections served by these schools (except Polk County whose Senator, Dean Walker, stood boldly in opposi tion) used , the lever for .all it was worth to promote their local institutions. This is legitimate of course and their combined weight was enough to carry the measures, though the Portland State squeaked through the Sen ate with only a one-vote margin. Opponents of the measures laid stress on dilution of the quality of state-offered educa tion in Oregon. That would not be true at the three colleges of education for their courses thus wiU be enriched. What it may do is to prevent the university and state college from providing the advanced training and edu cational leadership, especially In graduate fields, which are their responsibility. What we shaU have is six colleges, of only moderate professional standing. As far as the independent col leges are concerned, for which fears have been expressed, they have an opportunity now to em phasize quality along with character training. In the ex pected surge of students they should become more selective, and Insist on higher standards both of entrance and of gradu ation. J The shortage of teachers has not been due to lack of facili ties for training them but to counter-attractions such as mat rimony and business careers. It win continue until the economy slackens pace; then we may have a surplus of teachers. What the state is sure of getting if this legislation is approved by the Governor, is a considerable in crease, over the years, in the cost of higher education. . - "A 4 W. T. CHABXES W. . CLAGGEX, Mgr. j I I li i i , he! thought he had done a com mendable job. But the secretary pegged Clawson as a "New Deal er" who just wouldn't fit into his official family. i - --: In McKay's native Oregon, Clawson's bureau administers one fourth the land area of the state andince taking office in 1948 Clawson has made some changes and suggested others. : One notable achievement was closing six land offices in the Pacific Northwest, consolidating all their functions in two offices, Portland and Boise. This meant the land office chief at The Dalles, for example, could de vote full time to her lucrative on-the-eide job as piano player for a local funeral hall; and that the farmer in charge of the of fice at Lakeview, Ore., could de vote full time to his farm and not be interrupted by trips to town each day just to make it look good in collecting a govern ment paycheck. Clawson Blunders But Clawson could hardly have done worse, politically, than to urge a complete overhauling of the complex method in which Oregon's 18 western counties are paid revenue from BLM forests known as the O&C lands. Sena tor Guy Cordon (R-Ore.), who has devoted the best years of his life to the OfcC counties prob lems and was attorney lor the counties until his appointment to the Senate in 1944, was unaltera bly opposed to Clawson's propo sition, j . I This clash of ideas illustrates the change of thinking which McKay seeks to bring to the In terior i Department by replacing Clawson with his own choice, Woozley. Presumably Woozley's background as a livestock owner dealing with the federal grazing regulations set by BLM in the ast plus his service as Idaho's ind commissioner will permit him to qualify for the director ship of BLM under civil service sundardi. : Clawson resisted the sugges tion that be leave office quietly because he said he did not want to be a party to McKay's quick changeover from a career man to a non-career man. He said this would put the bureau back in the patronage category where it had suffered for many years. Net the Spoils System : . Toe f fact that Woozley is a Republican who once ran for Congress and didnt win hardly means; that McKay is reverting to the i spoils system, so long as Woozley qualifies under existing law. And it seems to this report er that the secretary should have the freedom to select men whose thinking agrees with his own on interior problems, otherwise his administration would be ham strung i by internal disagreements in the important top echelons. What weakens McKay's whole case with Clawson, however, is that the secretary brought in an assistant secretary for land man agement, Orme Lewis, with ap parently no regard for Lewis' ideas Ion public land manage mentfor Lewis testified before a Senate committee unequivoca bly that he thought federal hold ings should be gradually turned over to private interests, yet Mc Kay has said there 'wiU be no raid oa the public lands while he is secretary. Clawson's thinking on this ba sic philosophy is closer to that of McKay than is Lewis'. Wooz ley's ideas, as yet unexpressed, may help clarify what is ahead for the West on this important issue. , , . j 1M KOREA CASUALTIES WASHINGTON UB The defense department Sunday identified 166 Korean War casualties in a new list that reported SO killed. IIS wounded, 13 missing, four injured and four captured. - . ' ESTABLISHED; 1891 SINCERE SERVICE AVAILABLE ; ;f PHONE J417Jj I--' Oat ef Town Calls at Oar Expense 1 r ASJUNQ LOT AVAILABIJE RIGD0N CO., Funeral Directors 1 299 N. COTTAGE AT CHEMEKETA Taft Chides 'Filibuster' WASHINGTON WV-Sen. Taft (R-Ohio) chided opponents Sat urday for "obviously engaging in a filibuster" but the Senate in a circus atmosphere made little progress in its 12th session OB th mVimcrmH lanria Villi Taft, the Republican leader, castaside some of his previous politeness and declared .that senators who have been making long speeches against the measure to establish states title to submerged lands . off their shores must take the blame for holding up the Senate's legisla tive program. s 'JUL . . . . m a . . .... tin Buna rryij uom uie dui opponents was that no filibuster was in. progress; that an attempt was being made to educate the American public about a gigantic "giveaway of federal property. Malan's Win Moans Hotter Racial Issue By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. Associated press News Aaalyst The world looked on with appre hension; last week as the Malan government consolidated its hold on South Africa. The racial issue between the op posing parties was not clear cut, and for, the second time the Na-, tionalist forces were able to capi talize on the fears of 2,500.000 whites for their 10 million black . neighbors. And it was not only the ascend-, ancy of Apartheid, the extreme blacks, that caused the apprehen? sion. i i While this reversion to theories which have been repudiated by most of the world tied down the safety valves on what would one day become a tremendous head of steam, the international political implications also were enormous. It meant the confirmation in power for another five years and therefore indefinitely of a regime which gave old evidence of its to totalitarian nature. It has already defied the courts which have sought to pass on the constitutionality of the racially biased acts of its par- liamantepw waWIfy mA i a war promises to entirely eliminate the court's right of review of such acts. ! ' . ': The immediate purpose is to drive through so-called laws under which it plans to enforce its the ories of racial inequality. It plans to consolidate its hold by taking away the right of a million Cape Province muuatos to vote. Blacks wiU be denied the right of collective bargaining. At the same time the Malan gov ernment pleads for understanding ' by the rest of the world of the problems it has to meet The world . thinks it understands. The world has now learned, that the upheaval in South Africa is regime has also revived the Boer War. ; Britishers and South Africans with British connections know now -that they, too, are the object of nationalist intentions. Already the movement to prevent Afrikaans and English - speaking children . from attending the same schools is gaining headway, as a prelude to the- Droclamation of an AM- , kaan-dominated republic. This republic mirfit go along in the British empire for a while be cause of commercial needs, but only fori a while. The British too long accepted the arguments for white solidity, and so played into, the hands of those who now intend to subjugate them. A normal course for the type of government which is taking a , growing i hold on South Africa would be first nationalization of ; the British-owned diamond and gold fields, and then aU ef British Industry - and business. Moaais OPTICAL CO. 444 SUM St. raw irsws J - TO AU"