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I J f Sc IV-Statesman, Salau, Orew.WaA. Sept. 12,; 1654 AND' AS HUMAN NATURE GOES! 4 jr "No Favor Swayt U Wo fear 5ha8 Awe" Trent first Statesman. Mirth ZS 1S31 CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published every morulas Business office ZSO . Worth Church St. Salem. Or.. Telephone 1-1441 Sn tared at t&e jtttoCflc at SaJem, Or, aa second claa matte under act oi Con are March 8. 1S79. Member Associated Press l! '. f Xne Associated Proa la tnUUed exclusively to too MM to repuQlicataon ot all local news pnntod t this newspaper. . More Short-term Notes jj i Again the Secretary '-'of jtjhe Treasury, ? George M. Humphrey; has bent his back to the politico-economic winds and deferred any new effort to market long-term government Knho iMtcnH hu Trpasurv will oner lO- morrow four billions in notes with a maturi ty of two years, seven months. The reason for sticking to short-term emissions isjnot to compete with other demands on the capital markets. More state bonds (for highways and, toll-turnpikes) and more industrial ' bonds (the Bell system is marketing a big block of debentures) are on deck for fall , offerings, and they are mostly. long-term issuesj Since they will create employment opportunities the government doesn't want to compete with them for credit.-. , if !-. 4'. ."JS '" T But when, one wonders will! it be 'feasible for the government to fund j its debt into longer term bonds? If conditions in the last year and a half are not such as to permit sale of long-term governments just: when wll they be favorable? It is noteworthy that the 3 Vis sold in the spring of 1953 are quoted now at over 110 and the Vii of 1967-72 at par. This is a good index of the state of the market as far as government credit is con cerned certainly healthy enough for: mar keting a 10 or 15 year bond issue. j j A committee of the Committee for Econo mic Development a Iter 18 months of study of the debt structure, recommends a reduc tion in the volume of debt maturing within v two years. This should be jMbalanced mainly by an increase in the intermediate debt, say of five to ten years maturity, and by a small er increase in the longer -term debt." 'It comments that if the country! does not take every opportunity to lengthen the debt with out seriously affecting economic stability "we shall slip backward, for the mere pas sage of time is working to shorten the debt" The administration, in office, is following the practice of the preceding administration and doing little to spread out the maturities of the government debt and .evidently for the same reason, fear of a; deflationary effect. The job needs to be done, however, as most authorities on finance will agreed Perhaps When the election is over a fresh attempt at funding may b made. l . ' ' i It Sales of U. S. saving bond ar reported at the high point lor the past nine years. Since. these purchases axepsually made by the "little fellows' who ara mora concerned! with security than high interest eld it in dicates that millions ! of Americans are lay ing aside something from the -jveekly pay envelope. So far this year savings bond sales have totaled about three and a half billion dollars, with sales staying well ahead of cash-ins of bonds. There can be "over-saying" as well as "over-spending;" but some how thrift has the color of virtue and spend ing the aspect of vice. I fj I' j H Here's an example of emotional response: An Oklahoma City woman watched wrestling An hpr TV set. with its usual round of twists . - w . YTT A1 A l V ana grips ana cruncauig. nnn ine mnn 'ended she found she had choked to death the cat she Was holding in her lap. There is foundation for, protest against overdosage f t crime and horror films and comics, particu larly for youth. Adults usually are able to keep their emotions under control. Smear by Hearsay i Introduction1 of the name of Sen. John L ' Sparkman of Alabama in hearings before a Senate committee probing FHA operations served to attach through hearsay a certain stigma to his hameJ A witness reported that gossip in a state FHA office attributed to Sen.' Sparkman pressure on behalf of certain con ; tractors who made windfall profits out of housing construction. This circulation' of. rumor does damage which may not easily be offset by the denial which his secretary is- sued in behalf of his principal now absent in Europe. ' i J Senators and congressmen regularly, ar range interviews for their constituents with administrative officials without themselves . endorsing the constituent or,his deal. Then, it becomes an easy matter for an applicant for favor, to claim1 senatorial influence. A public official learns early that he need be on guard lest some ecquaintance start "trad ing"! on the connection however slight it may be. j V; : .--.. i r : As far as the windfall profits are concern ed, they were the product of the way the law was drawn plus careless or iniquitous ad ministration. : Responsibility for the former lies i with Congress as a whole, and for the latteri with the administrative personnel 'in volved. ' Yesterday the 1954 crop of lawyer-initi ates were sworn in as members of the Ore gon Bar in appropriate ceremonies at v the Supreme Court. There were 80 fledling bar risters, men 'and worsen, who have success fully scaled the various hurdles which ! are part of the obstacle race required before ad missiori to the bar. Briefless and clientless now they will find niches for themselves for the practice of j their profession. Fortune has been1 kinder to young attorneys in recent years, for apparently the period of "starva tion" has grown shorter. At any rate we can wish for all abundant success in one of the most vital of the professions, that of attor ney and counsellor at law. 1 , ' j ' - i . v , .v. .. Dr. G. Burton Wood, head of the depart ment of agricultural economics at OSC, told guests' at the picnic of Josephine County j Farm Bureau Sunday that prices of agricul ! tural products now stand at about 88 per cent of parity. The farmer pays 100 per cent for his purchases, realizes 12 per cent less than historical equality on his sales. "To operate profitably," said Wood, "the farmer would have to get 112 per cent of parity which of course he cannot do." With the odds so ad Terse, wbj do folks stay in the farming busi ness? . ' ; f i ' I ; ! , . , ; . e I . . r rpmmnra (Continued from page one.) Eecretery Benson said be relaxed the re strictions on ! use of idle acres in 1955 be cause of demands for feed in drouth areas. Out her he might find some excuse because of the surplus moisture which has 'prevented harvesting of barley and other grain. It's quite probable, too, that politics had some thing to do with the lifting of the ban against planting to price-sUpported crops. The acre age limitations hurt farmers j worse than the reduction in the parity guarantee. After all there is an election coming up in November. French Proposal to Limit Arms of Western . Nations Said to Insure Failure of New Pact By J. M. ROBERTS Jr j Associated Press News Analyst j When French Premier Mendes Trance . suggested r admission of Western Germany to NATO only by stages, and that all members of his proposed new Brussels Pact submit to international arms limi tations, he just about insured the failure of his whole proposals. Unofficial comments, which: nonetheless are in line with the factual situation, have come from wv tn j wtau abaiu : j The British point out that their empire obligations put them in a special category. that they can not submit these obligations to Eu ropean control. This is a . tradi tional British attitude toward any commitments on the Continent, and nothing is going to change it any time soon. i 1 . To that extent, Mendes-France ' win be unable to get the controls he wants over German rearma ment on a multilateral basis. : - ! There is hardly any likelihood that Germany will accept them on any other basis. To do, so' would put the Adenauer administration in danger of political defeat at a time when; it is shaky anyway, i A great, many people think the Allies havf the right to shape West "Germany's future as they did im mediately after the war. Such an attitude toward a powerful nation, even though it be divided, does not fit into the facts of life; 1 For another thing, the Allies themselves have placed Germany in a bargaining position. . At last year's Berlin Conference the Al lies, including France, mind ' you, -J- ! 1 i - ! 11.1- tov's charge that all they were trvine to do was to incorporate Germany into the Western mili tary system, ; 1 If the Russians would agree; to reunification of Germany through free elections, the Allies replied. the resulting all-German govern ment would be free, to negotiate Its own place in Europe. This, was Jn addition to the understanding that any commitments made by West Germany bow would be sub ject to reappraisal by an all-German government whenever it could be formed. ' . : ' I -r i These exnressions were a part of . the, effort to 'prevent German desires for unuicauon irom lnter feriiig ; with the current plans of the Allies and the Bonn govern ment. I . . " i i: The Allies seemed perfectly se cure in their position at the time, since there was and is no pros pect , of German unification. . .. X ; a a a -1 H I - : ! I But now there is a growing op position in Western Germany . to Adenauer's policies. His "grand plan" for cooperation with France has been set awry by French re fusal to j ratify the European De- I fense Community. He has failed to make the deal with the West which would have at least partial- ly offset the German feeling that1 a Western alliance for West Ger many formalizes the partition of all Germany. There is thus the possibility that Adenauer's government might be replaced by one which would op pose any rearmament at all in favor of the Russian idea for re unification as a completely neu tralized buffer state. This prevents the Allies ! from pushing him into anything that is distinctly unpopular, and gives the Germans a bargaining power they did not have while EDC was still pending. ;.. ' ; 4. , ; I Has the advent of TV into Salem area raised hob with the kiddies' reading habits? Does watching the screen con-; tinuously dull their; shrewd little yes to other. visual: plea- 4 sures? Wall, apparently local kids have not entirely forsaken the printed page for the cookie and cereal commercials. Because Salem' Library reports that more" kids read more books last school year than ever be fore and more books during the past summer than in other summers. Of course this past 'summer WAS a dandy season to curl up be . . x , , n J I Iore lne Ilre wup a gooa took especially llV.4:Tiy ' 1 1 during those July blizzards ... f Salem teachers and librarians are hoping the coming J school year prod aces as maay readers as the last. Last school year kids borrowed 1235 books compared with 1,13d daring the prerioas school period. Daring the past swornr 125 adds took oat books compared with aa ore 100 steriaf the preview osnsioker. And these kiddles were mostly isecond and third graders; ast the age typo yougsters who are kfsterical Saddle Sero Sam viewers . . . . i m : 1 ' -. .. r... '.-v1 I And speaking of Salem TV whatever happened to those rumors concerning a TV station coming to town? Looks like the only ; stations arriving here for some time will be' those you see on yotir screens . . . If there are any other schemes , afoot they're awfully fiuiet ones . . . ' i I. i - j . : i It the state dept. of agriculture gets any money to spend, on ' ragweed control jit can in a good blow (nasally speaking, of coarse) against sa exteasive infestation! of the weed oa a gravelled road behind the Cascade Union High,. School in the Turner-AomsTille area lr ,A spyjtells us ragweed seems to be on the increase in that ares.1 He thinks it might be spread by road-working machin ery and if this is the case roadside spraying would help . . . Sign in a Commercial Street store window the other day: fWyou can't find it at Lipman's, try here!" . . . I f i . I - h' . f - 1 . : I :, And here'j a lift for those people losing sleep recently over dishonest dealings in high and low places . . . Seems a Salem gal, Joan Lewis, daughter of Johnny Lewis, director Grand Coulee Dams. iThen too. m atnieucs aij wu, aroppea ner purse, containing aroui and no identification in the downtown post office j lobby. Well, as soon jas she realized she'd lost the money sometime later, she too jvas ready to drop. But her Dad called the PO. ; And sure enofcigh ,some honest and kind-hearted soul had picked up thej money and turned it in at one of the; postal windows .4.1 ' I relies on private distribution it would be the principal sufferer. Actually it is, very doubtful if that preference clause ever will be invoked to the dousing of lights in territory served by pri vate companies. It wasn't in the winter of 1952-53 when the wat er shortage curtailed generation. There is another reason, and that is that more generating fa culties will be constructed. If the federal government ducks out, then local agencies will take over. They keep up with demand in other parts of the country and they will here, though there will remain a controversy over who gets what Finally Oregon has one ace-in-the-hole and that is authority in its constitution to go into power development itself. This was embraced in the famous amend ment adopted in 1932, now Art XI-D of the constitution. It con tains a broad grant of authority' to the state to develop separate ly or with federal or political subdivisions any water power within the state and sell and distribute energy. The amendment of 1932 called for legislative action to make it effective. The Assembly of 1934( did pass such a bill but on re ferral to the people it was de feated in 1934. By that time the federal government was enter ing in the business with the b u ll d i n g of Bonneville and me ies: From The Statesman Files GREV AND BEAR IT By Lichty "M..s.ungsa.--i 40 Years Ago Sept 22, 1914 The Gracia of the fleet of German steamships idle in New York port since the war began in Europe, left at the risk of be coming the prize of British cruisers known to be off this harbor. i ; Paul H. Hofer of Salem was chosen football captain of the O. A. C. varsity eleven. He weighs 193 pounds and this, with his speed makes him a valuable man on the team. the ardor of the George Joseph "revolution" of 1930 had begun to wane. In '1936 the grange which had sponsored the amend ment initiated a legislative bill but at the same time it pro moted a bill for a state bank. Both were defeated with both utility companies and banks in opposition. State power ever since has been dormant; How ever, this constitutional provis-" ion might be dusted off and us ed, if Washington's power au thority tries to grab all the loose energy or if the prefer ence clause begins to bite Ore gon consumers. The amendment does have its limitation, however. One is the financing is limited to indebted ness of 6 per cent of the state's assessed valuation which would be only about $120,000,000. That will not build a dam like that proposed for John Day. Also its authorization is intrastate, which might prevent partnership on an interstate stream. Unless there is a marked change in public opinion, Ore gon will not embark on any state power development; but that opinion might change quickly if other agencies public and -private,'! federal and local prove impotent I do not think they will. . f i o ft opportunity Sa rewwrfel ... sr. sf yes don't core s spend tfcee km af woMy. mtjm ctM tats afcar t rem caa taH a i 10 Years Ago Sept. 22. 1944 The Willamette vallev en joyed its first soaking rain in nearly five months and farmers were smiling over the breaking of the! driest spell experienced by Oregon in many years. The death of! Thomas Carrick1 Burke,! 87, former Portland col lector customs and associate edi tor of the Oregon Democrat was reported. Burke "headed Ore gon's delegation to the Demo cratic National convention in 1912 : j ! American carriers raid Mani la, sinking 11 ships and destroy ing 205 Japanese planes in an other great smash at the heart of the Nipponese Pacific em pire; no ) American .ships were lost or damaged. i 1 oc v s L -J-;- , 25 . i ears Ago ; sept z, 1939 Moroccans Call Civic and labor organizations General Strike arranged a reception for the i ; nussum piane; iuu w. me ricinr ivni r T ...it ,.r-w t. -tSS-jJSlSA caned - par- and trade! activiEes with. France, vrv r 7 iecuve general strike here ana strenguien tne l unity and cow to XMew. x era. i , Tuesday in protest against a friendship between the two pen- ' If. JJ 1 AAAA . French move which thev believe oles." i rJZZAtoneiMlm 110 promise of an immediate But he presaged this with a call STSe 'fvilley hree - the pro- to the . Vietnamese u, "keep up of loot ears dUnatelMd ttorate. . . . L ' their vigilance and smash all w- thi Mk to the Mst 1 rencn Resident General Francis trigues of the American imperial- lr I LaCoste spoke over the Moroccan ists and the small group of French ' Over 6000 flags and pieces of radio Monday night outlining a pol- warmongers."- bunting were used to decorate icy of establishing local councils Peiping said Ho's statement was the automobile pavilion and the and, later, more comprehensive made in a recent interview with a horse show stadium alone for planning - groups, m all of which .correspondent of the' New China the coming SUio lair. rrenea voices wookx do strong. tcommomsu Mews Angeyc The plans for a new Country club was determined when a dozen Salem citizens met at the vommerciai ciuo. it was named T, xr o i the Illihee Country club, Asahel Viet IN am Oaitl Bush was chosen president Paul . 5?il!tcSrvice'Ire!ident and Agreeable to Kalph Moore secretary. o - i' French Trade TOKYO m Ho Chi Minh, Mos- cow-trained leader "-of North Viet Nam, was quoted by Peiping radio Tuesday as saying his regime The Safety Valve children suffer? . iThe Supreme Court has made a; decision, but before people get too excited about, this, ques tion, it might be wise to take your children to some 'of the southern states and live for a year or two or more. t I White people have separate schools and colleges all over the country, why worse punishment for the colored people to attend separate schools? That doesn't -mean that we hate them, not by any means. ' j ' R. R. Wood I Rt 6, Silverton Road i Salem. ? Church On Chiang To the Editor: .. , Surely most of the readers of The Statesman are delighted . with its exhibition of nerve and real Americanism in differing (Sept 16) with the Saturday Evening Post and the flock of doddering old generals in the Pentagon regarding our proper attitude toward Formosa and Chiang Kai-shek. For various fantastic reasons they all advo cate our starting a third world war via the Formosa route. ; Formosa is part of China, the same as Long Island is part of the United States. Who - is Chiang Kai-shek? He was one of the chief robbers and mur- ' derers of China until the des perate Chinese people organized to protect themselves against him and soon put him and his feudal army on the run. They .captured him once, but he 'begged so hard for his life and made so m3ny promises of re form that they let him go; a bad mistake, for as soon as he got back to his gang he resumed his depredations; but 'the peo-( pie had augmented their forces and chased him all over China." Then came a war and the Jap anese invaded China. What did -Chiang do? He did not attempt to repel the Japs, but inter-, posed his army between them! and the people's array and pre vented the latter from chasing the Japs out of China as they otherwise would have done. But . when the Japs were recalled home after being licked by the U. S., the people's army made short work of Chiang. They chased him, across China and" he fled to Formosa and is still there. He is the Al Capone, the gangster, the murderer, the racketeer of China. The Chinese would chase him still farther ' and reclaim Formosa if the U. S. fleet did not stand in the way. What right has our fleet.' to be there? If a gang of Ca nadian cut-throats led by a vi cious brigand got chased out of; Canada and took refuge ' in Newfoundland and then claim ed to own that island and to be the real Canadian government, would we send a fleet np there ; toj protect them from Canada? Chiang has been yammering about invading China. He would get about as far as the recent "invasion" of the U. S. by a, group of loony Puerto Ricans who took a few , shots at con gressmen in Washington and are now being penalized for it But Chiang has the support of jthe administration. Secretary Dulles, the Saturday Evening Post Generals Marshall, Mac Arthur, Bradley and Collins and Senator Knowland. There is, ROME ) Italy Tuesday stud something back of all this, and ied Yugoslavia's proposals for dis it will be interesting to eventu- sing of a thin atrip of territory ally learn what it is. i It may ' which is the only major obstacle to be a r bigger scandal than the settling the Trieste problem, j FHA investigations, j In the Diplomatic quarters expressed meantime it is a tight race be- cautious optknism for ending the tween, Chiang and Syneman disnute ver th tratoii ntory at the head of the Adriatic, To the Editor: ' I III would like to call your at tention to a disgraceful situar tioh that occurred in Salem over the past three months. -.f Mr... Kenneth Stewart, a vet eran; of . World -War II, and a citizen of Salem for approxi mately thirty years, applied to the city council for four taxicab licenses, in order to start a busi ness for himself.' - v r j After three or four meetings the council, agreeing that the present taxi operation was de plorable, turned the matter over to a special committee of three, Messrs. Armstrong, Chase and Franzen. , ; j Then last week there appear ed a notice in the local papers stating that a Portland firm had not only bought the local cab company, but had been granted the, four additional licenses that Mr. Stewart had applied for. i The council did not have the decency to notify this young man of their reversed decision, nor did! they have a substantial argument for turning him down. Their stand was that over the recent years, all the I recent years,, all of the cab operations had been started by former cab drivers and had failed; there fore they didn't want to take a Chance oh Stewart because they didn't want another failure, and be had driven taxis some time ago. f ; Just because one man doesn't have a head for business doesn't mean all men are failures, i why dont we rive our local boys- a chance? ..... f i Mrs.' Harvey Weitman 4040 Portland Rd. Settlement In Trieste Dispute Seen Rhee as to which is the world's super stinker. ! - A. M. Church Salem. - 1400 N. Summer St Segregation a Delicate Subject To the Editor: "r Italian before World War II. U. S. Deputy Undersecretary of State Robert D. Murphy, Washington's top diplomatic troubleshooter, is here trying to speed the settlement. Rome and Belgrade are reported agreed on the general plan to let .Italy have the U. S. - British occu. Friday, Sept 17, The States- pied Zone A of Trieste, with Yugo man's Safety Valve carried ar- slayia' getting Zone B which it oc tides in regard to- segregation, copies. At issue is the narrow strip written by three different, par-, between which includes several ties. : I agree with every one of strategic hills. j ; 1 tnem so lar as good and decent treatment for the Negro is con cerned, Abraham Lincoln had to carry on a bloody war to free the slaves. But there is another side to the school question, the more white children and color ed children mix as students the more intimate they will become and later on more mixed mar riages, and more mixed blood. I would like to ask these writ ers, first have you got a daugh ter, if so do you want her to marry a colored boy? Surely he may be a fine fellow, later on they will have a family, may be one white child,' then one colored child. Second, do you have a son? Do you want him to marry a colored, girl? 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