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ji 4 Tha Staleamgn, Salem, Or Tuesday, April 21 1853 i . ; j ten several books; one novel won him a Ju- sKDteaon CD statesman GRIN AND BEAR IT By Liclity "To Favor Sway Us No Fear Shall Awe Ftma Tint Statesman, March ZS, 1S51 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published avary mornlnf. BusImm fflea 280 j Worth Chnrch St. Salaro. Or-. Telephoaa UMl. Catered at tha poatofflca at Salem. Ore as aacond dm matter under act of Congress March X 1ST. Member Associated Press Tbm Associated Prcsa la an titled exchisiYalT to tha use tor republication of all local news printed In tht wewroeper Pay for Lawmakers In reference to the bill to raise the salaries ef Oregon's legislators (whaget $600 per an num) a list of salaries paid to state legisla tors in a number of other states, came to our attention. All the list proves is that there is a wide difference in the regard some states hold for iheir lawmakers (as expressed ' in the paychecks) and how some, other common wealths value their representatives. . Utah, for instance, pays its legislators only $500 per year. California, at the other end of the scale, pays members of the state assem bly $3,600 per annum plus $15 per day ex penses while in session. Kansas and North Dakota pay theirs $5 per day, with Kansas throwing in an additional $7 per day ex penses during a 60-day session. Louisiana,- on the other hand, crosses its lawmaker's palm with $30 per day. Salaries in other states ' generally range somewhere between these low and high figures. Merely citing the amounts paid legislators is not a fair comparison, however, since such figures would have to be equated with other benefits, the state's entire financial picture, and so on. But it is interesting to note that in some states serving as a member of the Legislature is really public service with the pay only nominal pin money. And in some states being a legislator pays well enough to attract men who want the job as a career in itself, precarious though that may be. lian Rosenwald fellowship, another .won the George Washington Carver award ' in 1949. Two non-fiction books "Primer for White rojks" and The High Cost; of Prejudice' were favorably received; their titles are self explanatory. t .Whether or not this man is or ever twas associated with the Communist cause, we do not know. It appears that Collier's does not know either, for Moon was given no hearing.' It looks like a simple case where fear of pres sure on and from the advertisers cost a man his job, the publishers bowing meekly to out side dictation. The initiative though came not from advertisers but from gossip spreaders. The day, then, is approaching when no one can feel secure in his job, or in his club, or in his church perhaps, unless he sways do cilely with the prevailing political winds. Perhaps it isn't fair to blame the advertisers completely for this situation, for they, like the publishers, are being coerced to some ex tent too by the fear of being tarred with the same brush that indiscriminately brands individuals and organizations Red. The Bogeyman is Back Thirty or so years ago when Upton Sinclair was muckraking, advertisers were, in some areas at least, the power of the press. Pub lishers deferred to space - buyers, and men trembled lest a Big Account be angered' somehow and the unfortunate goat be thrown into the street. That whole situation sounded sort of melo dramatic, like the older one about the mean landlord or the villain who holds the mort gage to the homestead." Advertisers came to realize that they were buying a service not contributing money to a charity when they bought space, and publishers, getting richer and more independent, stopped toadying. But now, once again the advertiser becomes a decisive factor. This recently became evi dent in radio. Liberal commentators like Drew Pearson are no -longer heard on net work programs perhaps because threats of boycott against his sponsors caused his spon sors to cease paying for his air-time, i In the publishing business a similar inci dent marks the return of the bogeyman to plague the press. Collier's magazine has fired Bucklin Moon, an associate fiction editor, be cause (he says) an unidentified pressure group has accused him, in a circular letter to advertisers, of being subversive. The group urged the advertisers to boycott Colliers un less it go rid of Moon. Collier's decide to fire Moon "to quiet the agitation." Moon denies being subversive. He has writ- Burma Complains to .U.N. Burma can make out a pretty good case against the Chinese Nationalist forces which have established . themselves in its country. These are the remnant of Chiang's old armies which failed to get to Formosa but did suc ceed in crossing into Burma. Under General Li Mi they became a nucleus of opposition to the Red regime. The Formosa government outfitted them with new U.S. made weapons, and plans were made for an invasion of China. It was even hoped' that the move would stir up a revolt among the Chinese against Mao Tse-tung. Apparently the Unit ed States (or some of its citizens) tendered support to General Li. What happened however was that General Li's army took a bad beating when it moved north into China. Retreating into Burma it has become a source of embarrassment to the Burma government, depriving it of authority in the section where it holds forth. Burma wants the United Nations to brand the outfit as aggressors, and tries to hold the Nationalists on Formosa responsible. The lat ter reply they have no authority over these forces; and of course the United States es chews any responsibility for them. It is hard to see what UN can do, for a resolution will not dislodge them; and Burma evidently hasn't enough power to drive them back into China. They may continue as a nasty pocket of trouble in Burma indefinite ly. The chief significance oMheir history, how ever, is the revelation that within China there are no large elements of the population ready ' to spring to arms when Chiang returns "from Elba." Diamond Lake used to be one of the best fishing lakes in the state. Then some careless fishermen emptied their bait cans of trash fish minnows into the lake. These grew and multiplied and have virtually destroyed the lake's value for trout fishing. The Game Commission is going to lower the lake by means of a drainage canal, then? poison its waters in late 1954. Later it will restock the lake with trout; and hopes thereby, to restore its value for sport fishing. Man upset the bal ance of nature in the lake; now man tries to restore it. Hundreds of devotees of Diamond Lake fishing hope for success. Fishermen returning with empty creels this spring can't blame their ill luck on "wa ter too high." Trout streams are running bright and clear, in comparatively low volume. President's Talk Shows Work of All U. S. Departments in Shaping Foreign ' Policy m i Yn I 1 I Jnwfptt A bop By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON The Presi dent's foreign policy address to the American newspaper edit ors was nobly conceived and nobly executed, it offered a new hope and a new laitn, which the whole tired, world has' greedily wel- corned. So T much is hardly 5 news any long er, wait is still news and valuably ilium inatine to boot, is the process J Dy wmcn wis speech was produced. The process was long. Work en the speech actually started on March 6. It was the day after Stalin died, when Presi dent Eisenhower first outlined the sort of thing he wanted to say to his chief speech-writer. Emmet Hughes and his chief psychol ogical warrior, C D. Jackson. The motive then, as when the speech was de livered, was to ruse the oppor tunity of the new world sit uation to seize the political InitiathraL pyi.Wlfe? But - seizing the initiative is rarely easy in the cumber some and far from maneuver able American government, with its channels and clearances, its compartments and its com plex system of coordination. The White House, the State Department, the Defense De partment, the intelligence ser vices and a few other lesser bodies were alll actively in volved. Everyone had his fav orite contribution, and above all,- everyone had hisfavorite set of donta. The result was summed up in the remark of one .tired official: "I kept caont until rd read seven drafts, and then I stop-: ped counting." Such endless re-drafting was not necessitated by mere nit picking, either. Boldness ver sus caution was the main theme of the debate, with the White House advocating boldness and the State Department quite properly championing caution. The character of the struggle ay be judged by what was ft in the final version of the speech, and also who what was left out. What was left out may be summarized as follows: The first drafts included pro posals for free elections, not only in Germany and Korea, bat in Indo-China as well. At the beginning. White over the proposal far a Foreign Minister's meeting including the Chinese Communists. The White House argued that such a meeting was needed ta find ut where we really stood 1a the post-Stalin era. Certain members of the White House staff wanted China brought in, ta test the real nature ef Sine Soviet relations. The State De partment replied that bringing in China meant half -recognising China. And as for suggest iag a Foreign Ministers' meet ing it would give the French a green light to shelve the Eu ropean Defense Community and Germany treaty. State won that round, but lost a less hard-fought round which might have deprived the speech of its real pith. The House thinking did not abso- 'question argued was whether a a i a. j? ' tKa 9sAeilAfa .. lutely rule out the disarma ment and unification of Ger many, following free elections and German unification. (This trend of thought harked back to the forty-year German dis armament guarantee which Secretary of State James F. Byrnes offered the Kremlin nearly seven years ago.) Some White House thinkers also strongly advocated a call for ast Immediate' meeting of the Council of Foreign Minls 'ters, with the possible addition ef representatives ef Commun ist China, conditional en a Korean truce having been sue eessfnflly negotiated. Free elections in Indo-China were quickly dropped from the speech for the reason that the swing .there is only half -complete. The Indo-Chinese Com munists are only just beginning to lose their former glamor as champions of native national ism. The State and Pentagon also had little trouble in knock ing out the hint about a neu tralized Germany. Such a hint would have proven American willingness to make great con cessions for peace. But it would have stopped our whole Europ ean policy and NATO program dead in their tracks. the President's proposals - for world disarmament and world reconstruction were timely now, or whether they ought to be delayed until later. The Kremlin's good faith should first be proven, said the De partment, by settling such out standing issues as the Austrian treaty; Our own will to make a real peace must now be dem onstrated before all the world, said the President himself. And ; that. ' fortunately, was the end of that -The .participants ; mast often have been exasperated by this; haggling aver what ta say and what net ta say. Tet the longer ae studies the process and Its results, the healthier it seems. The i professional diplomatic experience of the State Department- usually corrected the ex uberance of the White House; staff. The fresh approach and undimmed energy , of ; the new w I think I should warn you', . . your wife keeps referring to the blueprints as a rough idea!' Northwest History Today's Question: Why Was the North West Company Merg ed with the Hudson's Bay Com pany? The Hudson's Bay Company dates from May 2, 1870. On that day King Charles II of England granted a charter, giving mon opolistic privileges iff the drain age basin of Hudson Bay, to Prince Rupert and seventeen other men organized under the name of "The Governor and Company of Adventurers Trad ing into Hudson's Bay." Today, after nearly three cen turies of continuous operation, this company maintains stores in several Canadian cities, and its trappers and traders still collect furs in the Candian Northland. ' It was many years before the Hudson's Bay Company extend ed its operations any great dis tance into the interior. A rela tively small number of employ ees operated out of four or five tradingn posts or forts. The pro fits of the fur trade were often large, but there were also stag gering losses due to attacks on the forts by the French, who still claimed Canada. This men ace was removed in 1763 whan France ceded Canada to Great Britain. Thereafter the Hud son's Bay Company was forced to push its operations westward to meet the competition ef other English traders, who ultimately united and organized the for midable North West Company. It was to end the murderous. cutthroat rivalry of these two companies in the area east of the Rocky Mountains that the British government intervened and brought about the merger on March 28, 1821. The name of the Hudson's Bay Company was given to the combined company. At the time of the merger. the British Parliament passed an act which extended the commer cial and administrative jurisdic tion of the Hudson's Bay Com pany over the entire Canadian west, including the old Oregon country. With regard to the latter area, the aet was careful to enjoin respect for the rights of Americans under the Treaty ox Joint Occupation of 1818. The company was also made respon sible foor the elimination of abuses with respect to the In dians and the suppression of the liquor traffic in the fur trade. The Safety Valve TO5 rpronmre (Continued from page one) Wanta Bettter School To the Editor: As an Auburn school parent I feel consolidated education must be a wonderful thing, but I would like to see some of it get better results! The first thing I voted on, when I re turned from the Navy was a : large bond issue for better and more schools. We voted to consolidate with the hope in mind that we would have more money to work with and better school conditions. And after six years the poor old forgotten termite-ridden school is still there. rm beginning to think it is who you are and bow much in fluence you have. Let's look at the record new Baker, new Morningside, new Hoover, and I am sure these schools are all needed, now, however, the population trend is toward the East Salem ares; and we know that a new school is also needed at Auburn. The build ing has been condemned and fixed and condemned and fixed so many times you would hava to see the building to really appreciate what consolidation has done for us. The building is more over crowded than any other school in the Salem district and ev erything that has been added has been done in "lean to" fashion! Our cafeteria is almost : . as adequate as a chuck wagon Nearly 200 physicians were on Our children have been sent duty at UJ5. Bureau of Indian home because our plumbing Affairs hospitals and dispensaries doesn't work. Who would ex- in 1852. pen our gooa teacners to stay with us under such conditions they don't even have a closet in the school where they can blow their nose in privacy Only a good teacher with a real love for children would stay in conditions like ours . No wonder the people of Fruitland didnt want to con solidate with : Salem their children might be sent to Au burn X hava always felt that my tax dollar was just as good as the next fellow's but in this case I guess not. However, there is one place they cant be used and that is at the polls we may Hot have much money or "pull" but we have a lot of votes and we can still pass the word about the rotten deal : Auburn School is getting in the Salem Consolidated School set up. .. . : GLENN MOODY, S760 Monroe Ave, Salem. will suffer if the axe cuts too deeply into power development The government has assumed responsibility f on building main stream rams; and the region is dependent on steady construc tion of dams and power plants to keep up with - demand for energy. The revised budget for the army engineers cuts the al lowance for The Dalles project by some $21 minion. This cant help but delay its completion. The trouble seems to be that the leadership of the House rests in the hands of the Repub lican hardshells who still are fighting against the New DeaL Congressmen from closely con tested districts who might be expected to counsel against reaction have little influence against the leaders. There is a -good middle-of-the-road course to' follow, avoid ing the excesses and extrava gance of the New-Fair Deal and keeping clear of hidebound reaction. Unless Republicans in Congress pick that course they are apt to go bump, bump come November, 1054. E.B. Albright Rites Sunday . - Stataaaaam Mawa Sarvlca' SILVERTON Funeral servic es for Edward B. Albright, who died Sunday: at I the Silverton Hospital, will be held Wednes day at 2 P-m. from the Memorial Chapel of the Ekman Funeral home. Burial will be in Miller Cemeterr. The Rev. Jovee Ken dall of Molalla will officiate. Al bright was born Aug. 18, 1869, at Marquam, and had farmed there his entire life. On Nov. 2 1893, he married Nettie Jones, ' who preceded him in death by two years. - Survivors are two sons and two daughters. Rex - Albright, Silverton city attorney; Mrs. J. H. Carson, Salem; Mrs. William Rheinhart, Arlington, Va and George . Albright in Springfield, Ore., four grandchildren. van Men Fined as. Result of Fight Two men accused of beating up a third man4n a street fight Saturday night paid fines of $150 each in municipal court Monday and were jailed in lieu of payment William E. Stout, 432 Marionl St, and J. D. Evans, Gervais, were first arrested on vagrancy charges in connection with the beating of Henry Beane, 30, of the Blaine HoteL Later the charges were chang ed to disorderly conduct on which they were found guilty by Judge Douglas Hay who issued municipal court warrants against the men. Police said the fight occurred in the 200 block of North Com mercial Street. Beane was taken to the hospital with a bad cut behind the ear, a cut over the eye, requiring stitches, and bruises and lacerations of the face. Burning Bilce, Stalled Car Bring Wreclcs In tw' out-of-the-ordinary ac cidents ' Sunday a boy rode a flaming motor bike into a ditch and a car roped backwards down the Marion Street Bridge after it ran out of gas, and the brakes failed. - ; -.. ;.; . ,,r Sixteen-year-old Ernest Johan sen of 850 Plymouth Dr., was riding his motor bike on North Front Street Sunday afternoon when it suddenly caught 'fire near the intersection of Stark Street, policy said. " i ' x The youth rode the bike into a ditch and managed to put out the fire on his clothes. Police and bystanders extinguished the burning bike, but not before it was considerably damaged.. , About 3:40 Sunday morning a car driven by Joe M. Teist Jr., 5080 .Lancaster Dr., damaged iron work; on the Marion Street Bridge after;; rolling backward 'down th West Side. Telsl told police the car ran out of gas at the top of the bridge and when he coasted down back wards the brakes failed, sending the car into the side of the bridge. YMCA Slates Excursions With an eye to a summer of short-trip vacationing, officials at the Salem YMCA have plan ned at least vtwo Highlander trips' to be. made via" truck and available to boys 13 years and older. : One five-day truck and pack trip is scheduled for Aug. 11-15 snd will include stops at ML Adams, Goat Rocks and ML Rai nier. The second trip is for Aug. 18-22 to ML Helens and the sur- raimnin, lav rtnnwtm rvta each trip is $20 which includes Insurance, food and transporta tion. ' "j;-".. ;-,',' - V, I "The trips are designed to pro vide something enjoyable - for boys at a slack time of harvest ing seasons in these five-day Jaunts," Frank Washburn, boys work director in. charge of the planning, said Monday. 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