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4 Tht Statesman, SdtmOrtgoa,' Monday, Fob. I, 1954 (S)nson0tate5raan "No Favor Sways Vs, No-Fear Shall Awe From First Statesman, March 23, IS51 CHARLES A- SPRAGUE, Editor and PubUsher Published every morning Business office 280 North Church St.. Salem. Ore.. Telephone 2-2441 Entered at toe jostotfice at Salem. Ore. as second class matter under act of Congress March 3. 1879. -Member Associated Press The Associated Press U entitled exclusively to tne use for republication oi ail. local news printed ta this newspaper Treasury Ref marking One legacy of the Truman administration was the heavy proportion of short-term gov ernment debt. Though the banking community urged secretaries of the treasury to fund the short-term indebtedness into bonds of longer term, little or nothing was done. The short term can be floated at very loW rates of inter est, and the administration 'wanted to hold down its bill for interest. Secretary Humphrey, when he took over, has been trying to reissue government loans into longer term form. Last year he put out a three and one-quarter per cent issue of long term bonds which was successfully floated. Later the market weakened and the subse quent refinancing was with short term notes. In fact at the end of the year the proportion of short term debt had actually increased. .Now Humphrey is trying again to lengthen the term of government issued notes or bonds. The Treasury is inviting holders of five issues now due or callable to exchange them for new bonds running to 1961. The amount involved is over $20 billion. If this exchange is made the Treasury will not have to do'so much run nings to banks at short intervals for fresh funds to take up maturing notes. , Money conditions now are much easier than a year ago; so there is reason to hope the new Treasury effort will succeed. If it does the effect will be beneficial. Government credit is the base for private credit. A firm market for government bonds' at low interest rates helps to firm the whole credit structure. So the whole business community has an interest in the refinancing program now proposed by the Treasury department. As for the debt ceiling, with heavy first quarter receipts of income taxes that does not need immediate lifting. It seems probable, however,' that Congress will have to raise the top because f the prospect of a continuing deficit. It just takes time to get the country's financial house in order. A Sailor's a Sailor I " Senator Holland of Florida had better turn to other pursuits than castigating the navy for the reporting firing of 30 barbers who are said to have refused to serve Negro sailors at the navy base at Jacksonville. : In an increasingly enlightened age, so far as race relations are concerned, the navy or any other branch of government where equal duties and responsibilities are inherent should not countenance the discrimination laid at the a . aoor oi me j aexson vine DarDers parxicuiany in the face of President Eisenhower s orders against such action, l '. A Negro sailor can suffer and die in the dsfense of his country, just as a white sailor. If a white barber thinks it's beneath his digni ty to cut a Negro sailor's hair, perhaps he'd better change places with him. Editorial Comment i Pike Peril Vanishes Oregon fishermen now can relax. The northern pike found on the bank of the Cowlitz river on New Year's Day didn't come from that stream after alL It was brought to Washing ton from Minnesota by a man who had been fishing in that land of 10.000 lakes famed, for pike and other warm water species. Perhaps because of all the furor, the Long view resident who admitted importing the fish prefers to remain anonymous. In selecting the bank of the Cowlitz for disposal of his long-billed specimen he may have had an eye cocked for ichthyological fireworks. The poor, scrawny pike a rather dismal sample of what Minnesota really has to offer in the way of trophies would have been mighty lonely if by some miracle he had suddenly found himself in the Cowlitz or other stream of that nature. Miracles of that kind must actually happen; certainly the inland waters did not always con tain the variety of fish they now do. We have wondered how trout that: appear to be of the cutthroat species, and thus presumably migra tory in nature, ever got into headwater portions of some of our streams, surmounting such ob stacles as high waterfalls. If man did not plant them there, did gulls or other birds happen to drop them in those waters? How many thousands or millions of years elapsed before the right combination of circumstances came about to make the transplantation successful? Those are mysteries as inscrutable as the mys tery of fish behavior itself. We will never know the answers. We can be thankful, however, that the North--west remains pikeless, since that species could do much harm to our - trout, steelhead and salmon. (The Dalles Chronicle.) 1 .. BIG SUGAR PEAL? " - . i A&r t - " ifeix ,. - l; Aid DOHT'EXPECTMEBACK, ;SfV . -I' M UMTI1.VERV1.ATE DEAR; ( S ' ' I IMAVE ALCfTOPWORK I v ?""""?V M T 00 fH HONOLULU (( I C j Inside TV . Time Flies rROM STATESMAN FILES Our Boy Scouts 1 The Boy Scouts of America, which shares with the YMCA, 4-H. Future Farmers and other organizations the responsibility for proper youth guidance and training, is observ ing its 44th anniversary this week. Incorporated in 1910 and chartered by Con gress 1916, the Boy Scouts now comprise nearly 2,000,000 members who take an oath to keep "physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight." The Scout constitution sets forth that the organization's intention is to "promote the ability of boys to do things for themselves and others, to train them in sccut craft, and to teach them patriotism, courage, self-reliance and kindred virtues." The Scouts have grown to become of con siderable community importance in many parts oi the world, ana tne ranics oi mis na tion's leaders in all walks of life are replete with one-time scouts irom lenaeneei to Eagles. The Willamette Valley is proud of its Boy Scouts and the work they do. Jimmy Roosevelt has been the target of a ! lot of adverse publicity; but usually in marital difficulties there are two sides to the case. In this instance it seems his wife once tried to commit suicide. Nor did it seem necessary for her to expose the names of a full dozen of Jimmy's alleged intimates among the female sex. Her demand of $3,500 a month support money for herself and children looks like that of a "gold-digger." Jimmy may be a bounder, but the fault may not lie altogether on his side. A typing error in an editorial of Saturday on Pacific University Credited its origin to Mrs. Tabitha Clark. The name should have been Mrs. Tabitha Brown, who crossed the plains and arrived in Salem on Christmas day of 1846, and has for her descendants many fine, upstanding citizens of Oregon. Among ; them are Burt Brown Barker, Judge L. H. McMahan, Roy V. Ohmart The ladies do not seem to let the high price of coffee deter them from having "coffees.' I Can't they do something about butter? mmmmmmmmmmmmam. Sen. George Devises Bricker Compromise Plan, Helps to 'Relieve Embarrassments' By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON "When the old gentleman takes the floor those silver locks, the Senate of the United States sits up and takes no-, tice." This re mark by Senate Demo c r a t i c Leader Lyndon Johnson of Tex as is about the best simple def inition of the special position that Walter F. George of Geor occupied in the and shakes i s V 'i JIttHppli Alsopj gia has long Senate. George has just performed a truly remarkable feat In his dignified, leisurely, unruffled way, he walked 4 into the middle of the hot. nas ty fight over the 1 ment. Everyone wanted him ' in at ' the begin ning, from Sen. Bricker and his strange allies to President ' Eis enhower h i m self, who per sonally pressed Stewart Atsup George to take :' - -: , the lead in arranging a com promise. In the end, George found he could agree with no one. He did not want any of the things that Bricker wanted. He want ed some things Eisenhower did not want, and he feared other, things the State and Justice De partment were prepared to ac cept. ("Mr. Brownell," he says, in his measured way, "seems to. be a rather ODD Attorney Gen eral") As a result, he quietly put forward his own substitute. .. This . substitute - has nothing behind it but George's personal authority. Yet it already has - more . support in the Senate than the Bricker amendment, which is being pushed by the mass legions of all the patriot- eering lobbyists. If there is to be an amendment to the Con stitution ,it is likely to be the George substitute. j Achieving this sort of person al success in the midst of a hst, dirty fight, and achieving it without angering anyone, is a feat on a par with the perform ance of Shadrach, Meshacb and Abednego in f their fiery fur nace. Yet thereat itself is not so interesting las the spirit that inspired Walter George's cool intervention Jn the Bricker amendment row. " 5 ' Talking to him, you catch the authentic resonances of the grand tradition of American po litical conservatism the : deep attachment tojthe Constitution, the distaste for hasty innova tion, the sensf of the American future as a s function of thev American past, the political practicality. Practical politics provided thef immediate stimu lus on which George first, acted. In brief, there were a lot of Democrats with their names on the Bricker amendment, who wanted George to get them off the hook. There was also the President, with a dirty,: intra party fight on his hands, who , hoped George would get him off the hook and asked him to ' do so. That is the short way of say ing what the Senator more po litely says when he remarked, that "They appeared to feel I might help to relieve their em- -barrassmentsJ Then too, there was the likelihood, growing to wards a probability, that some one or other! was going to do something silly to the Constitu tion that George reverences. ' ? . You know," he says, "my situation is somewhat paradoxi cal, rm as stronga states rights man as there is la the Senate, - " and of course I believed in the balanced powers. Bat I dost want to npset the relationship of the Federal and State gov ernments, or! of the Executive and Legislative branches, la ' - this vital field of treaty-auklag. If it isn't pompons to say so, I take my stand with the found ers. t r "They sought to establish a more perfect union. They saw the dangers of government too feeble,; as they saw the dangers of government too strong. I don't think we're likely to im prove much on their grand de sign, although there may be a need to spell out their inten tions. ; MI rather think there is a need for what may seem a su perficial reason. In oar govern ment, the people are sovereign. From j President to constable, every; official is merely a ser vant of the sovereign people. Many of oar people are fearful and suspicious of the way the treatymaking power and the President's power to make exe cutive agreements have, recent ly been sued. I don't say the suspicion is weu-ioonaea nor strongly fortified. Bat I do say that measures should be taken which will satisfy the people, if this eaa be done without de parting from the founders' ia tentions." Sen. George believes that his substitute amendment does just this. His first paragraph states what! the : Supreme Court "has held ! a score of times, , that treaties must be made in pur suance of Jhe Constitution. The secona requires congressional ' approval -of sections of execu-i tive agreements in conflict with existing law. He "put in Con gress to keep the states from fluttering around in a field that doesn't belong to them." He ' strongly and rather cogently' challenges the White House ar gument, that his second para graph will limit the President's powers as Commander-in-Chief ' and conductor of our foreign relations. -I think It's all right," be says. 1 think It wont do barm. Bat ! remember this. If two thirds of the Senate Is wroag about a treaty, yes may be sure: ' the country will also be vdead wrong. And yea cannot erect const! tatieoal safeguards against bomaw folly, rd be in favor of It if yoatoold, bat yoa can't" . (Copyright, 1954, New York . ! Herald TribuM Inc.) , 10 Years Ao j ' Feb. 8, 1944 1 Charles Chaplin, a dominant figure in the motion picture in dustry for the last 31 years, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charge3 of violating the Mann Act. 1 Joseph Sampietro, director of the KOIN studio staff orchestra, was in Salem with the KOIN Million Dollar club to add pep and harmony to the statewide finale of the Fourth War Loan. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Felix Amort of Salem observed their 56th wed ding anniversary this week. Mrs. Amort is 74 years old and Mr. Amort 84. 25 Years Ago Feb. S, 1929 k ' Fannie Brice, singer and ac tress was married to William Rosenberg, who writes songs un der the name of Billy Rose. i Laudation of John Hunt, chief clerk of the senate at the Oregon legislature was honored on his 50th birthday by the senators. Hunt has been employed on the senate desk since 1907. ; Regular transatlantic passen ger and mail service by dirigi ble airships was instituted with the approval of the American government and representatives of British interests. 40 Years Ago Feb. S, 1914 That the mortgage market: has started to return to its old form was evident by the record ing of a $5,000,000 mortgage by' a large building corporation iri New York. j The first Oregon Congression-j al District will be remembered to the extent of nearly $2,000, 000 in the forthcoming federal river and harbor bill. Congress : man Hawley said. Of this sum; $20,000 will be appropriated for the Willamette River. Editorially Congress ha: granted permission for con- HP msMm trrmmrg (Continued from page one.) sources of rubber and tin, and the Reds would be in control of the fertile rice bowl of Asia. 3 The Communists would be in a fair position to extend their control over all Asia." And that paper sees the fu ture face of the world and the future of freedom itself at stake in Indochina. j I do not take so gloomy a view. There is such a thing as over-extension. You could no more govern Southeast Asia and Burma and India from the Kremlin, which some foresee following v the fall of Indochina, than you could from London or Paris. Even the theories of Karl Marx and the amendments of Lenin and Stalin would thin out if imported into! the densely populated countries of Asia where the majority face always a grim struggle for survival. The Chronicle shrinks from a U. S. military involvement in Southeast Asia. It calls for an other solution but admits it has none to offer. ' There may not be one if the alternative is joining the . war or victory for the Vietminh rebels, although it is not clear that the Vietnam cause is hope less the tide of battle has a way of turning in odd ways and at oddtimes in Indochina. But if the Reds should succeed in Indochina, that would not sound the doom of freedom or decide the fate of the world. Asia's millions still must eat The im perialism of the USSR and of its Communist ideology may by overextension expose itself to such strains as will compass its own defeat The course of prac tical wisdom for the United States is not to become further involved in military operations in Asia for that is not the epi center of the forces now shak Russia Faces Shortages, Seeks Imports By TOM WHITNEY The Soviet government may face a minor economic crisis of goods shortages in 1954 unless it can quickly up production of key con sumer goods or else buy them abroad quickly on a big scale, j This onrushing situation is one of the reasons the Russians are making such great efforts right now to make large scale pur chasesincluding consumer goods in non-Communist countries, j Analysis by Western experts of the official U. S. S. R. economic report for 1952 issued a few days ago in Moscow by the Soviet -government show that overall in 1953 the Soviet Union scored important economic ' gains last year. But there is revealed what looks to be a potentially dangerous gap between increases in output' and increases in sales of almost all consumer commodities. To put it simply, it appears that the Malenkov regime in order to win political popularity has been selling to the Russian public in 1953 more goods than the country was producing. For instance, while in 1953 out put of cotton textiles in Russia rose by only 5 per cent, the sales of cotton textiles rose 22 per cent, Providing for Increased con sumption in part out of increased output and in part out of imports, particularly from satellite coun tries, the Russians in 1953 were undoubtedly forced to withdraw David. Brian Plays DA in TV Series By EVE STARS , --. HOLLYWOOD "Mr. District Attorney," with David Briaa in the, title role, will make its television debut some time inlApril. The announcement was made by John Sinn, president of Ziv Tele vision Programs, which has just paid Phillips Lord $250,000. for radio and TV rights to the veteran radio favorite. Authentic locales in the Los Angeles area will be used to give the show added real ism. The episodes will be filmed in, color, but will of course bo seen in black and white' on ordinary sets. It is not yet known which networks or stations will carry- the'show. J i - .' . j Acid-tongued Charlie McCarthy , alter ego of Edgar Bergen, will star in a teleftsion series as a wise-cracking commenta tor. Mortimer Snerd will probaoly play straightman. And oh yes, Edgar Bergen is on the show, too. The live newscasters do a good competitive job, but then, they're not as entertatninp; as Charlie ... A young friend tells me that a co-ed is a girl who didn't get her man in high school i. . . Quentin Reynolds has signed to do a half -hour. telefilnt series called "Classified.' Reynolds will gather factual stories from classified ads tnfnetcs papers ond do all the research for an authentic tale, i '. - jj j TELETORIAL: Want to be in television? An actor or writer, for instance? Before you quit your nice square job and rush off to the Elysian fields of glamour, give heed to the mundane facts of life. ' It's a job of work and not all the glitter is gold Sure, some performers and scripters earn fabulous fees, but consider the average guy or gal who manages to gross $2,000 annually as an actor! That's what the latest statistics prove to be the average earnings. For real talent, assiduous application, plus, perhaps, some good breaks (usually deserved), there's always the chance! of as cending to the heights of five figure earnings. A clerk can get to be a bank president, too, for the same reasons! j i - A Jack Benny, Bing Crosby,' Dave Garroway, Peggy (Wood, Milton Berle, Loretta Young, and countless .othert didn't make it overnight. They served long and faithful apprenticeships. While a small elite group of TV announcers such as Don 'Wil son, Nelson Case and Ken Carpenter are said to be in the $100, 000 bracket, lower your sights to the average $135 weekly that a staff announcer earns, if he's lucky enough to find ajob in a metropolitan area. In most cases a start must be madel for dt least two years experience, in the hintirlands, at an average of $85 per week or less. The rewards are better than, average only for those who have great ability- and perseverance. .-! s ' j IF YOU DONT SEE WHAT YOU WANT: Seeing is believing! If you don't believe this, ask Art Baker, host of "You Asked For It" (ABC). TViewers dont have to worry about getting on this show. Anything from snake charmers to educated bees may be seen if the public requests it Each week'r show has oddities that appeal to the young and the young in heart For example: an old news reel shows a gixJ of 10 doing a Charleston on the wing of an air plane at 3000 feet Some feat 29 years ago! Every week brings feats of strength and ingenuity along with oddities. If you want to see something in the line of novel entertainment Art I Baker can supply it because "You Asked For It." : j . (Copyright 1954, General Features Corp.) y J Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS By W. G. ROGERS THE MARMOT DRIVE, by John Hersey (Knopf; $3.50) Most readers had to be told that Alan Paton's "phalarope" was a bjrd. Now I must explain that a marmot is an animal, spe cifically, a woodchuck. After that this novel, Hershey's first to be laid on American soil, may be summarized in a paragraph: City-girl Hester, courted by Eben Avered, is invited out to his parents country house for the weekend. Avered, the select man, has forced through town meeting a plan for community round-up of woodchucks. Assort ed characters Mr. and Mrs. sumer goods production more than planned at present. Or they can try to increase their imports from the non-Communist world. For political reasons the .Rus sians do not want to diminish greatly the pace of their liv ing standards plan. Their domes- large quantities of consumer goods tic Production is held back by its . .... -1 J A ....... m Jtii.it v n . anrt raw 'materials fnr tham ueuenucu.x un BKiiv.iut.uiu aw their accumulated reserve Stocks and throw them onto the market. This could be done in one year, but it is a short term policy and their stocks are not inexhaustible. So now they have to face the situation: ; i They can curtail their ambitious materials and foodstuffs whose production caanot be increased with great rapidity. This leaves them the possibility of increasing their imports from the West That they seem to be trying to do. In other words, the Soviet offers to buy raw materials, some fin ished consumer goods, and some program to increase the livine standards in Russia, holding down foodstuffs abroad are probably 1 thS thVeartt . STi? ta Jf not j5 to the level of production kin- are being used for that also. The creases. Soviet government unoouDteaiy needs these imports acutely and They can try to increase con right away. struction of a bride across the Columbia. It will be an expens ive undertaing, but a necessary link, in the Pacific Highway, from Vancouver, B.C., down the coast to the Mexican line. Tuller, Coit, Anak, Pliny-Make part; a couple of themi make passes at Hester, rural passions erupt,; the visitor reaches a de cision about marriage. 1) , So that's what it is? ! love, marmots and all, but . what it's about, and why, I have very lit tle idea. The spirit at the start is sort of country-bumpkin, with words : like kerflummox land slopdozzle to provide local col or. After some allegorical im plications rapidly whisked in and whisked out for instance about a united community ef fort, the thing becomes anecdo tal, with stories of old-time 'wit ches, of haying in the rain, of hawks and cats and whipped ap ples. Then it turns broad and lusty, and winds up in a weak .kind of Shirley Jackson "Lot . tery" fashion. ' ? i r I would almost swear the one and only John Hersey could not be - pointless and meandering .like this; some villain has done the Pulitzer prize winner dirt and falsely signed the name of the author of the memorable "TheiWaiy "Hiroshima,, and "A Bell for Adano" though finding fault with this I wood chuck business makes a review er feel like a skunk, v ; Wilklns ETinotfbttc famlr RETURNS TO CALVARY CHEPEL - 1143 North Liberty? : ONE WEEK ONujjf'- ' Beginning Sunday, Feb. 7 BIBLE PREACHING INSPIRATIONAL SINGING 11 yr. eld Ctapel Stagr Nightly 7:45, Except Monday Rev. and Mrs. J. B. 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