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?U.rf. dR. FrfaSr. Mot It fy dDrpjaontatesman "No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall AwtT From first Statesman, March 28. 1S51 CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published veiy muroinj Business offle 3880 North Churrh St Salem. Ore.. Telephone 7-1441 Entered at tne -ostotfice at Salens Ore aa tecond rlass matter anoer ict of Congress March 3. 1879. Member Associated Press Th AsKocjt,o eri.vs t entitled exclusively to tn. ua. for repudiation of all local news printed tn ihs Btwsnpi County Office: Commissi oner, Assessor Only for two county offices :s there com petition m iif xi week's primary election. Four men a.i '.u.ining for the office of county commi.-.-:f !. i. and three for the of fice of countv s"s-'i, all on ihe Republi can ticket. Candidate- lor commiisioner are: Tom A. Ai tn.n. o.ig. Salem. rea.1 estate d.aler and member of Salem city council. K. A. Lige" Kurtz, Salem, who farmed for many years in the Kcizpr district. K. L. Roger?, Brooks, incumbent com missioner. .1. Laurancc .Siegmwnd, Salem, presenily ripputy in the assessor's office, former mayor of Salcrn. The Statesman believes thai Rogers has rained reelection to the office which he has held now for two terms. He is a quiet man, hut one with good, sound judgment. His knowledge of the county and of county road and bridge problems, based in part on his prior experience as foreman in county road work, is of value in his service as commissioner. Candidates for county assessor are: Harold Domogalla, Salem, deputy county assessor, former tax collector. .1. Fred Remington, Salem, in charge of school accounting in the office of county school superintendent. J. P. Schimberg, Salem, deputy county assessor. Remington was a candidate for this of fice two years ago. At that time The States man felt that a change should be made and recommended Remington. It renews that recommendation this year. This is a most important office. Need for careful property reappraisals is recognized; And it is important that it be done on a air and equitable basis. Remington bears a good reputation as a citizen and public serv ant and we believe would discharge the duties of the office competently and honor-blv. Eat More Fish! For a good many years Oregon State Col lege has maintained a seafoods laboratory down at Astoria. There extensive research has been conducted with particular refer ence to the processing and marketing of fish and fish products, and considerable suc cess has been recorded. The lab, however, has not succeeded in making Oregonians heavy fish-eaters. Edward W. Harvey, direc tor of the laboratory says that the eastern part of the United States is a much greater consumer of seafoods than is the West; also U. S. consumption of fish is less than for many other countries. Here we consume about 173 pounds of meat per person per year and only 11.5 pounds of fisheries pro ducts. Harvey, who contributes an article on the subject to the Oregon Business Review, thinks it is a matter of educating the people to the value of seafoods, and recommends setting up some official board to busy itself in promoting consumption of fish. While one hesitates to recommend creating an other board there is as much reason for a seafoods board as for others now busy pro moting consumption of farm products. Out here we are spoiled with the fine quality of fish like salmon and halibut and tuna, the last a late and irregular arrival in northern waters. We just aren't interested much in other fish. Harvey says "The house wife and institutional chef should be taught about these 'new' fish and the many ways in which they can be used." Something is needed to restore our com mercial fishing industry. As salmon runs have declined and their commercial catch is barred in many streams and as tuna have failed to appear the last season or two commercial fishing has suffered. Harvey re ports: "Many fishing boats have left our wa ters. Some of our processing plants have closed their doors, while others are very limited in their operations. In one branch of our fisheries the number of boats operat ing has been reduced from 87 to 20 in the past five years." Here we live fronting the great ocean, whose cupboard is well filled with nutriti ous foods. Drawing in the nets, however, is costly business and unless there is reward the fishermen cannot afford to go down to the sea. It is hard though for admonition or even "education" to change the eating hab its of a people. Oregonians are pretty much landlubbers in their choice of foods as well as occupations. DtP EDS HJil The Safety Valve (Continued from page one.) times which marked the transi tion to use of pottery and the beginnings of what might be called civilization. What evident ly made Jericho an attractive .site for .a settlement was the abundance of fresh water from what became known as Elisha's Fountain, which still waters the land there, making of it a green oasis, on a plain near the Dead Sea, 840 ft. below sea level. No mads coming from the arid lands found the soil fertile arid elected to stay there. The very first homes found are rude mud-brick huts with curved walls, which resemble round tents, the shape perhaps deriving from the prev ious tent life of the builders. At the next stage the houses were rectangular, with solid walls and rooms' grouped around court yards. These were Stone Age people, who had no pottery, says Miss Kenyon, but on later levels pottery pieces were found and artifacts of a religious cult. As is often the case some of the best relics to identify and date the culture of the inhabitants were found in tombs : wooden and pottery jars, bowls for food, big jars for drink, also toilet ac cessories in wooden boxes or alabaster flasks, and even frag ments of clothing. A minor skirmish was barely avoided during the Armed Forces Day observance Thursday. . . . Seems parking space was blocked off for main speaker Gen. Willard Wyman and his party in front, of the Ferry Street ar- - ---rrir ' I, '-" 5 mory. While everybody is waiting, up fogs a mail truck and parks where the gen eral's car was to park. Captain of the honor guard argued with the mail driver to leave but the driver said, "The mail comes first." . . . He dashed into the armory, delivered his mail in a matter of seconds, and made it out just as the general's car pulled up. The mail truck took off and the ceneral parked. . . . Which shows that the Army may stop sen. Mctariny Din not tne u. :. I - - 1 PS- "A Tiff If v Mail. Kour-H Club Fair Friends of boys and girls will enjoy drop ping into the exhibition of Salem Four-H club work at 190 South Commercial St. Since the city work was started under Jim Bishop a few years ago the enrollment has grown and now reaches some 400 and a majority of the members ha-e items on display. City youngsters can profit under this very practical program as wHl as roun trv boys and girls. Since they rarely have wars in South America the purpose of the armies seems to be to provide the material for revolution. Paraguay is the latest country to shift oc cupants of the presidential office at the be hest of an army junta. Fortunately these army exercises are usually conducted with little discharge of firearms. Justice William O. Douglas explains that one of the best walking methods is to put one foot in front of the other. That isn't hard; it's pulling up the hind leg that is tiring. The Pendleton Round-Up will have a cov er over its grandstand for future shows. Work on the job has started. The stands were rushed to completion following a fire which destroyed the old stands several years ago, but no roof was provided. Now ihat lack will be remedied and those who view the Northwest's great spectacle of the West-that-was, can sit in comfort despite sun or rain. Editorial Comment MATTERS OF PROTOCOL Our attention has been called to a charge of biased reporting in this newspaper. The criticism in a local publication was that we placed a picture of Governor Patttrson at the top of the front page and a picture of Joe Carson, the Democratic candidate for governor, at the bottom of the page. If the critic knows anything about readership surveys, he should be aware that there is no preferred position on the front page, nor in the entire newspaper, for that matter. But even if such preferred spot did exist, it certainly should go to the officer who is in rather than the one trying to get in, simply as a matter of protocol. At least, speaking of protocol, we didn't do as did the publication in which the criticism appeared and which placed "Good Old Joe" at the bottom of an inside page while showing a rear view of some horses at the top of the same column. Roseburg News-Review. All Thought of Personal Gain Must Be Cast Aside If Fighting Pacific Pact Idea Accepted Associated Press Newt Analyst President Eisenhower and Sena tor Knowland have now, in effecfc, apologized for some of the wilder partisan statements made Against the Democrats. Secretary Dulles 'has reiterated his determination to conduct for eign policy on a bipartisan basis as far as possible. The President even went so far as to say that when it came to loyalty to the nation, he didn't see Ihat party affiliation meant any thing. When it comes to foreign policy, the wisest thing all of them could do now would be to drop the argu ment... The basic policy was initiated by he Democrats, and is being con tinued by the Republicans. Like the foreign policy of all nations, it is a national policy, based on national interests and the circum stances of the times, founded in the long run on the relative posi tions of friendly and unfriendly na tions. If the Republicans are now able to talk about massive retaliation and fighting treaties, it is because the Democrats recognized belat edly the state of the world and began to prepare this nation for the position of- leadership which history had thrust upon it. The Democrats, too, considered a Pacific Pact, and backed away from it because it would have over committed the nation's military strength of the time. But there was plenty of talk at the State Depar men in those days of the approach ing time when the United States would be able to adopt the Dulles policy of telling the Communists, in any given situation, at just what point they are risking war. Ever since the death of Senator Vandenberg. in whom both Repub licans and Democrats put such faith, there has been difficulty in the mechanics of conducting aot a bipartisan policy, which it is, but in conducting it bipartisanly. This is further complicated by the con stant jealousy of Congress over its prerogatives as against the fre quent need of the State Department for delicacy and consideration of feeling abroad. , It is only natural that in times of crisis men would develop strong feelings and make strong state ments. But this nation now faces a serious situation of a nature it has not faced before. If the other nations accept the Dulles idea of a fighting Pacific pact, the United States must de cide about entering a calculated war, as against previous wars into which she has been dragged by di rect enemy action. If that decision is to be wisely made, it must be done by men who have put aside all thought, of partisan gain or personal position in favor of acting solely in the general interest of the nation. GRIN AND BEAR IT ByLichty 51 Jfn7letttC0 I TT7-. r y - 3 in 14 These are just pages torn from the book of history, but they show how succeeding generations of men have built and destroyed and built and destroyed. No mat ter what happened: fire, pestil ence; drouth, war, humanity al ways resumed its labors when the crisis was past. Look at what the bombed cities of Europe have done in rebuilding. When we hear talk of the destruction of civilization by modern wea pons we should realize how great the powers of human survival are. The walls of Jericho may not have been rebuilt after the Israelites captured it; but there is still a Jericho not far from the site of the numerous Jerichos of ancient times. We do not invite atomizaton; but human beings will emerge and rebuild after their cities are destroyed, for such is the nature of homo sapiens, who still doesn't seem to know how to stop destroying cities. And the hymn played on tbe first Christian Church chimes just after those jets roared over tows was "Love Divine," played by Mrs. Glen Utterback, church secretary. . . . And tbe words go something like, "Love divine, all love excelling, joy from heaven to earth come down. Probably a moral there, someplace. . . . A spy reports he saw a hol-roddish type coupe tooling round town the other day. It sported a big sign, "Just Mar ried," and a smaller one, "Watch Salem Grow." . . . Any way, the spy says, the car pulls up in front of the state employment office and both of the presumed-to-be newly weds pile out and dash into the office. Now the spy says he constantly wonders if the couple was only visiting or if it were collecting its unemployment cheeks for a honeymoon. . . . As it must to all public bodies a real toughy came to the Salem Planning Commisli this week. . . . Seems the Del Milnes (of the Marion Hotel) own an acreage within the city and on this acreage is an old authentic coach house, which the Milnes wish to remodel into a residence. . . . And, the Milnes told the commission, their home is near enough the dead-end of Lorida Ave. to take its address from that street but neither Del nor the missus likes the name. And besides, once a gift package intended for them ended up on a train to F(lorida) . . . Anyway the Milnes want to name their acres something distinctive (but not Lo rida). So the city attorney told them to go ahead, name it anything they want, register it for protection but to be sure and take it up with the post office if they want their mail delivered somewhere near. . . . 'mne.datM To the Editor: You are certainly entitled to the commendation of the citizens of Salem for your opinions in re gard to the proposed bond issues effecting the citizens of Salem. In your "It Seems To Me" col umn of May 4, you advised a No vote on each measure with the exception of the bond issue pertaining to tbe Capital Jour nal Building on which you were neutral, which under the circum stances is understandable. The bonded indebtedness of the city is $4,224,941.00, School District Number 24, $5,661,000.00. Total $9,885,941.00, which ap pears to me to be a heavy debt burden upon the citizens of Salem and therefore should not be intreased at this time. Citizens, vote No on these special interests measures. J. K. Cloyd 993 S. 12th St. Salem employed, less money when eve children cant get medical care. Do you realize that here in the U. S. A. there are thousands sick and dying before their time be cause of lack of funds to pay for medical care? Is this part of the Republican . economy drive? Russia. Britain, Canada, etc.. an give good medical care to alL We are so concerned for the poor Chinese, Greeks. Turks, ad infinitum, but here at borne the poor Indian, Negro and white trash are hungry, sick, and dying because of a hypocritical, preda tory and dollar mad system. John Grey, 883 Center St Protests Treatment f Por To the Editor: Please print this letter which is from a member of the lowest quarter of our social order. I protest and cry out as a spokes man for the needy and helpless thousands of the state of Oregon who depend on public assistance for their support. Evidently here in this the richest nation the poor are considered expendable as mere statistics. Derived from the widely accepted Malthusian theory no doubt. We are being exploited -and laid waste by a ruling class in exactly-the same way as the poor and ignorant natives in Indochina, In dia, etc., have- been raped and pillaged in years gone by. Be cause we are unfortunate enough to be one of the poverty stricken class we are discriminated against viciously in a so-called Christian nation. Now according to the news the welfare department reports less money for the poor in the next fiscal year. That sounds reason able: less money and more un- Supports Mrs. Scfeaekhtg To the Editor: Among good candidates for Polk County Representative, Mrs. Agnes Schucking is an out standing choice. ' I did not appreciate her judg ment in supporting Al Loucks against my candidacy for Salem mayor: but her choice was vin dicated by tbe number of votes Al got, and besides I support him, too. Agnes Schucking has been re presenting Polk County admir ably for years as an agent of good public service. She pos sesses vigor, business ability, a keen interest in public affairs and the state can benefit by ber service. Walter Mus grave 1211 Edgewater St. DO IT YOURSELF? LOS ANGELES I A big store on Broadway features in its show window some diagrams and instruction on "How to Tie a Bow Tie." Surrounding the diagrams are ready-tied bow ties. DOB 035 (S55 GSB CESE5S& Time Flies PROM STATESMAN FITJE 10 Year Ago May 14, 1944 Carol W'olleson, 18, Salem, was named state champion for Oregon in a national poster con test in which more than 10,000 high chool students participated. Carol is a senior at Sacred Heart Academy. Enlargement of both the firm and the building of the Clough Barrick company, a capital city mortuary since 1878, were re vealed. New staff members are Virgil Golden, Mrs. Belle N. Brown and Richard F. Smart Congress received a vigorous appeal for consolidation of the army and navy from Josephus Daniels, World War I navy sec retary, who declared it was a divided command which made possible the Pearl Harbor dis aster. 25 Years Ago May 14, 1929 Actual construction of the ad dition to the Salem Postoffice will soon start with the arrival of G. L. Hanaaman, representa tive of the contractors, Charles Wertz Sons of Des Moines, la. An innovation in marking autos parked longer than the prescribed number of hours was being utilized this week by the city police. They are chalking rear auto tires rather than the wheels touching the curb. Fifty persons and one female gorilla constituted the passen gers and crew of the dirigible Graf Zepplin on her second voy age over the Atlantic to Amer ica from Friedriehshafen, Ger many. 40 Year Ago May 14, 1914 The United States demanded of the Huerta government de tails of the fate of Private Parks, the American infantry man who strayed into Mexican lines near Vera Cruz and was reported executed. The University of Oregon won the annual track meet from the University of Washington by three points, 87 to 64. Dr. G rover Bellinger and Paul Johnson went fishing on Butte Creek and, contrary to the say ing' that fish do not bite on Sun day, they claim a fine catch. HERO MOTHERS PARIS (INS) The Bulgarian newspaper, Zemedelsko, reports Bulgarian mothers who have rais ed three to nine children will be decorated by the Presidium of the Popular Bulgarian Assembly. The rgan said 27,788 mothers will re- Summers have been getting longer and hotter. And now- I i 11 Yes, the summer season has changed . . . and so have summer suits. Here's the light con struction, distinction and cool ness you want for the longer, hotter summers. Finer worsteds . . . modern-age fibres of rare coolness and wrinkle-resistance. Color flecked, nubbed, shantunged . . . light shades, charcoal shades . . . smooth slim line styling. Nor Cast Mohair and WorrtH Dacron and Wool Tropical Worsted Palm Beach Rayon Cords , . . 59.50 . 55.00 . 50.00 41.95 to 52.50 . 39.95 THE OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT 'TIL 9 MAN'S SHOP 416 STATE ST. Don Rmsdn Jay Mnntt
