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ten several books; one novel won him a Ju-
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Ftma Tint Statesman, March ZS, 1S51
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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
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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
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(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.
It is believed that the first
moveable metal type for printing
was cast in Korea in 1403.
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