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4 (Sec 1 Statesman; Salem, Ore.. Simdcry, Nor. SI. 1954 ' 4 (Drejaonatesman "No Favor Sways Us. No fear Shalt Atce". i From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 Statesman . Publishing f Company : CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published every morning. Business office 190 North Church St.. Salem. Ore, Telephone 4-6811 Entered at the postoffice at alem. Ore, as second class matter under act of Congress March 3. 1S79. I Member Associated Press ' ':, Tht Associated Press it entitled exclusively to the use 1 I ior repubUcaUon of all local news printed in this newspaper. i - Taxpayers Wake Up j Taxpayers up iri Lane county met in Springfield one night last week to form a taxpayers'- association, backers hope the membership will grow to 1,000. A speaker Stated the purpose of such associations as being the study of budgets of .taxing districts and making recommendations' for cuts ''when they're going too far." ) We are not surprised at the move. Taxes are beginning io bite; and with the proba bility of a state property tax in another jyear the bite will go deeper. , f : . I These taxpayer revolts are not pretty af fairs. In fact they can be pretty rough. We Recall how they developed in the depression ,0f the 1930s. Once a rugged group of tax payers from Yamhill county filled Governor iMeier's office to : demand relief. Marion county had a live taxpayers' assocation,, with Henry Zorn, farmer! in North-Marion county, as president. It . was ' on hand in strength . when the county budget committee met and put in its licks for strict economy. This group sponsored a referendum on an appropriation lor higher education ""after Governor Meier -had lopped off a big chunk of .it by veto. The referendum when filed deprived the schools of the money for the period before ' jthe election, and then the voters defeated theappropriation which had become mean-) jngless for school support iri the biennium. That was voted on n 1932, at the same time the Zorn-MacPhersbn bill for consolidating ( the state higher institutions bf learning was voted on and defeated. The big argument back of this initiative was economy.- ; All taxing units have gone a long way " from the days of depression budgets. Admit tedly we can't go back and don't want to go back to those days. Neither! do we want a ; tax revolution to start because it usually "results in hacking and slashing, and hurting. Tax leagues can be) of valufc in restraining ; government indulgence. They are also needed to promote greater? equity in taxation. We hope they will not become! instruments of blind, fury of irate taxpayers. ! ' This week letter; carriers J will distribute envelopes to houses' inviting contributions to , the fund to fight muscular dystrophy, Then the firemen have -agreed to call and pick the envelopes up. Muscular dystrophy is a dread disease about "which little is known and for which there is no ciire. Money is needed for research on how to combat it. However, we .think it is wrong to recruit men in public service uniform like the postal carriers and firemen to conduct -the canvass. It can't help but compromise ' them and the public. jThe cause, though, seenis to be worthy. ' At United Nations Russia's Vishinsky has turned on the switch for sweetness and light and is expected to make unanimous the vote to set up a scientific conference for interna tional exploitation iof atomic energy." V. K. Krishna Menon of j India wants to have his say on Monday but the" amended resolution is expected to be approved j , , Criktrc off lfnriiAlrinrlic 'Atomic' ill wa i a ma Statement i Fail to Answer Vitial Questions By Joseph and , Stewart Alsop ' J - WASHINGTON i Republic an Majority Leader WDliam Know land's now-famous Speech warn ing against the dangers of an "atomic stalemate" has1 bej, much criticized for war-monger-ing, doom - merchandising, and bad logic. Yet it attempt to an swer certain, in convenient ques tions which Sen. Knowland , when be about talks his speech. f . Suppose, he says, that the time has come when the Soviets have the means utterly toj destroy this country. Suppose they mobilized the Red Army on I the Finnish frontier, and demand a "friend ly" Finnish government which would mean, of course, a Sovi etized Finland. T h e n. Sen. Knowland asks won't a great many people, here as well as ab road, be saying that af ter all, we have no treaty obli gations to Fin land, and anyway why risk de struction for a lot of Finns? And won't this sort of reaction tend to be repeated, in situation 'after' situation, so that in the end the United States will be isolated and paralyzed? . M ; j f If there is a convincing answer to these two questions, then Sen." Knowland's gloomy, thesis that an atomic stalemate will permit the Soviets to nibble the rest! of the world to death falls to the ground. But in all the ctiticiim of Sen. Knowland's, position, no really convincing answers to the questions be has posed have been forthcoming.. And it is at least worth noting that the Senator's speech was no mere sudden ges ture. He thought about it long and hard before he made it Ml . i i i. milk products to build up a passes age 64. Vw . He first thought of making such a speech during the recent cam paign. Knowland Was genuinely disturbed by 4he "peace biaef as it was developed during the campaign. ; The campaign line . began to sound te Us ears' sns pkionsly like "peace at any. Mice." He made aa eamoain time speech, warning against this kind of peace, bat ne eee paid much attention, ' ' After the election hei decided definitely that he ought to Speak his mind, however inconvenient this might be to the Administra tion. He, carefully considered . the time and place. He decided " that the speech had to be made before last Wednesday's meeting of Congressional leaders at the - White House. Otherwise, it would be interpreted abroad as an of ficial trial balloon, and this be wanted to avoid. : f ' He decided also1 that it ought to be delivered en the Senate ' floor, rather than in some other public forum, in order t give it all possible 1 weight. . But la or der to avoid any Impression of a Congressional concert te seixa control of foreign policy, he was careful te consult with ae ether Senator before m a k 1 n g his speech.-; ; ( . ij .. AH this suggests how very seri ous Knowland is about the issue he .has raised. His purpose isJ - First,1 he wants to wave what he calls a "yellow warning flag" before the Western governments,, including the Eisenhower administration.- Rightly or wrongly, he senses that a deal with the So viets may be in the making. He wants to serve notice in advance that he will lead a fight against any deal which smacks of ap-1-peasement which recognizes, for example, Soviet control over the j European satellites. ; . j ! Second. Knowland wants also U j wave a warning nag before the ' Communist bloc. He wants te serve notice ea the ; Cemmanist : nderi that there is a price which ' the United 'States win lot pay . for peace. . ... i ; Bypass and Business ; . The Stayton Mail and McMinnville News register gave The Statesman the merry Ha Ha on the subject of highways bypassing cities, after The Statesman ran a picture and stories of diversion of traffic to the new No. 99 bypass with consequent f allng off of busi ness .among establishments catering particu larly to the motoring public. j Well, The Statesman prints the news; but that doesn't mean-we thinkrthe bypass entrances should be barricaded to force motorists, through the heart of the city. Nor do the injured busi nessmen seek that. They do think a change in the signs would be helpful to them and those who are using Highway 99. i ' The Statesman in supporting the highway commission program for locating new high ways where they will be of greatest service .has not denied there wpuld be some loss of business by roadside establishments. 'That has been true;; whenever a relocation of any consequence was ordered. The bypass, how ever, does delight motorists and truckers who do not want to stop in the city and "it reduces-traffic congestion inthe city io the ' satisfaction of other users and of those who live along the arterial streets. '; Put the roads where fromthe standpoint, of maximum usefulness they belong. , j Would Drop Passenger Service , ; The Portland Traction Company is seeking . approval from the Public Utilities Commis sioner to discontinue its passenger service on its Bellrose fand Oregon City interurban lines. Hearings are being held at which' resi dents, along the route protest vigorously any' dropping of the service. The company has ' presented figures showing losses from haul ing passengers though its freight runs keep the whole operation, in the black. It's a familiar story by now, the decline of passenger travel on the rails. Steam-diesel railroads hav? discontinued many passenger trains, and most of the interurban lines which once flourished "have "been pulled up or re stricted to freight hauling. Those who find the trains a convenience or virtual necessity naturally resist losing the service. The real, competitor of rail lines now is the private automobile. The PUC will have to decide this Portland Traction case in the light of the testimony at the hearings. If j the service is dropped the ; travelers iwill promptly find some other means of transportation. They will not stay home. . ' i E. W. Tiedeman, dairy department director for the American Farm Bureau told the Ore gon Farm Bureau at its annual meeting in Medford that: the milk industry is going to be revolutionized in the next ten veSrs. and that and even milk itself, will be taken over by substitutes. That's putting" it pretty strong; Substitutes have been crowd ing hutter and have made a little headway against ice cream, but so far no substitute for fresh milk is in sight, especially for chil dren It remains the most perfect food and will for longer than ten years. . The , administration seems to be trying to connect Senator! Guy Cordon with a job and hjs name 'is mentioned in connection with the post of ambassador to India. Cordon has very definite talents, but this'job seems the. one he is least; fitted for. He may push all tenders aside .and return to the practice of law "in Washington or Oregon or both" he said after the election. Only it isn't too easy good law practice when one 1 Vice President Nixon is doing his best to insure peaceful! coexistence for Joe McCarthy and Senator Watkins, et al. : Stalemate7 Third,' hd wanti to remind the . American people, that the price for peace can be too high. He fears that the Eisenhower admin istration may find itself isolated and without popular support if in some future crisis it is neces-f sary in the national interest to risk war.!..- ; Finally, Knowland wants te In itiate another great debate on American policy. He says frank- j Yy that he does not know where such a debate will lead or where It ught te lead. For himself, he says with apparent sincerity, 'he rules out preventive war. He does not rule out much higher expen. ; tares for conventioal arms, or : the drawing of a "thus far and ae farther" line right around the perimeter of the Communist em pire, or some ether course as yet unconsidered. . .v..;...-, ,-' Y:, , , In any event, he Is sure that the most public possible re-examination of our strategic position, with all the key civilian and mili tary leaders parading before Con gress, ' is now essential. For Knowland Is old-fashioned enough to believe that when the Ameri can people know the essential facts of their situation, they will react wisely to them. - Knowland may be wrong. There may be, for example, seme aa- i disclosed' reason why ear posi tion is really getting better and better, as claimed, while the Soviet Union is obtaining the . means te destroy as. . Bat no one who has talked te him can doubt that the big, lumbering Re publican leader is absolutely sin cere in the course he has chosen. . "I have three grandchildren,M he says. "God knows I don't want them in a war. But if the Soviets get a decisive atomic stockpile, and then we. have to choose between surrender and a hopeless war, I don't want my grandchildren asking me why I didn't try to do something about it, when I was in the U. S. Sen ate and the United States still had a big lead in atomic, weap ons." : " -i . . ! . ' tCoprnstt. 164. Xe York RwaU ! Trams. xbcJ Well, I was wandering around inside this super -market the other day looking for breakfast cereals. I found a store employe busy marking down candy cigarets. So-1 asked him. ..;... . 'Tprpah'" V aiH IKrnslrlir 'f?nrtainlv I I know. The boxes. ,What vegetable or A ei! 1 "Well, I don't know " I began. U l -, -. j ... , I & I I j "Take these Atomic Cornies," lie said,! i 7T getting down a box. "Inside every box is a; coupon. You save enough of these coupons and you get a. surplus Navy submarine. And over here's a big favorite with the kiddies. Nibble-Nabbles. Each box contains a part of a , real sub-machine gun. Buy 3,682 boxes, put. the parts: together and you got a genuine gun. These big boxes here are! Oatie-Floaties. Iiveaca box are a fishing pole, a set Of lures,! ' a jar! of salmon eggs and a can of , live (jumbo-size) angle ' worms. .V j 1 H ' j- ! ; - : ;,j ... ; ' My attention was distracted by a mother and Jier small son who had invaded the cereal department. . j. "I jiion't want any Snakie-Flakies," he lad shouted. "They onlj shave white mice in 'em. And I've already got:43 now. I want Pasture-Pards. They got a octopus in each box." j ' "AN octopus, dear,' hlis mother corrected him. j Something tugged at my sleeve. . - J s ' ; "Please, mister," said a small girl, "would jyou, mind reaching, me down a box of Rustle-Crumbs. I'm paving the tops. Two thousand more and I get a free trip td Algiers." t i . - ' ' ; . ': ! ' ! f i t , i The 'store employe who had originally started out; to help me was still searching around. -j "Here's a dahdy," he said, slowly reading the fine print on a large red box of Granny's Old Fashioned something; or other, "After this box had been emptied, you can soak it in water, roll it into a ball, attach a fuse to it and use it to blow up stumps." I ' ? I . j . He looked at me hopefully.! I mumbled somethiBg about beintf allergic to explosives. "This cereal ihere," he said, shaking a solid-looking boa "contaiis in each and every box ar folding camp stove, a pair f roUer skates, a croquet set, lacut ran and saUSaKe-maUDK nuenwe. juia and a sausage-making for only $10.98 a box, too." . : i . WeU I thought, what the heck. He'll think I'm a piker if I expect nothing but cereal in cereal.. So I wrote out a Check for three! boxes; of Nifty-Nuggets. One of he clerics helped me carry; them to the car. Well, sir, the next morning, my wife opened a box for breakfast. And the kids were pleased for all ofUwo or three minutes with thei treasure. But when it came time to eat we couldn't find any cereal in the box. Bui there was a coupon, While the rest of s listene'd in hungry silence my wife read it. "Because the makers of Nifty-Nuggets, the breakfast food choice of the U. S. Senate, try to cram these boxes full of, as many prizes as possible there is no room for this wonderful cereal. How-1' ; f thAsV ennnons tlus 30 cents in coin will entitle you to a box of Nifty-Nuggets.' t tmmmmmmmmmmmmmMMtmMmmmmsimm Time iFlies: 10 Years Ago Nov. tlj 1844 A plain GI Joe's travel prior ity "bumped" royalty right off a ewnmerical airliner. The royalty, Austria's former Arcduke Felix, eoroute by plane from Pooatello, Idaho to Los Angeles. ' A national cofMnuoicatioiis crisis developed as Washington telephone operators walked out in sympathy with Ohio's "hello girls" and Detroit workers were preparing to follow suit, despite a war labor board warning. 25 Years Ago ' Nov.' til 19M il Seven additional boys' and girl's 4-H clubs have been organ ized m Marion County schools. . -. The SatetV ' x I SITE FOR INSTITUTION DISCUSSED To The Editor: I am surprised at your editorial of November 17th, regarding the intermediate institution i t e. From the standpoint of a tax payer find one familiar with soil structure, .1 think the purchase of marginal farm land a very poor investment.! If the State wants a farm then good farmland should be ac quired If a farm is not needed for the new institution, then it could very well! be located on present property owned by the State. ! j Could it be the St. Paul site was selected because a' promi nent Republican Party official owns the property? As a tax payer and a citizen I am very curious about this whole transi action. E. Butcher . Woodburn ALTERNATE ROUTE To The Editor: I just read your item along with the picture "By pass sub ject of bitter complaint' and its effect on South 12th St. I do not go along with you as to its effect on 12th St So far I have failed to hear any complaint . We were all glad to get the trucks off our harrow street And as for pas senger car traffic, it flows much more freely and without much loss, if any. And I think most of us are pleased with the change. But you know it could have been better for all of Salem, if it had not been for the selfishness of some. I to try and force all 99E traffic through downtown Salem and leave South 12th St and South East Salem as a fourth rate section of town. With the same money that was spent on the bypass, j we could have had a nice 4-lane highway from the 12th i St Junction on the south end and straight north on 12th and along the railroad to the underpass in North Salem. With signs at both ends and all the way along pointing to downtown. Thea everyone would have been happy , ' ; !..! - L . .. i 1 J. K. Cloyd 803 & 12th St . sir. What do you save?" ' ; , "Save?" I said. ' . , ! . ' ?. "Yes," he said, walking ' over to . a wall lined' with stacks of breakfast goodies., "You loot The gimmicks inside the do your kids like?; Animal, mineral?" ' 30 feet ot genuine norsenair stuff sells t ! .. . L-m I tave mese coupons: From Thaj Statesman Filo with a total of 18 dubs, 13 of which are sewing groups, three , cooking and one each rabbit chicken and home making. Several car loads of big onions have been sold and f topped out the past' several days. Those who have sold one or more cars are Clyde Leedy, Frank Isham, Wm. Daughterly"" and Ernest Dunn. The price continued i to hover in the vicinity of one dol lar per hundred. j 40 Years Ago , Not tl. mC in the state is owned by a wo man, according to a statement made by Stat Labor Commis sioner O. P. Hoff The shops em ploy 663 workmen and the plants are valued at $253,107. ' j Valve "SUPREME BETRAYAL" t Tb The Editor: - , j This is an attempt to express the feeling of one of some 350, 000 Oregon voters who put Wayne Morse in the United -States Sen ate four years ago. i At that time there were not enough Democrats in the state to defeat him, that . there are more now, is not due . to his manuvering, but to the incredible stupidity of a large segment, of party folk who ought, to know better. " j ' 1 There is no criticism of i the senator's voting record these past four years, every legislator has the right and privilege, as well as duty to vote in accord- ance with his honest convictions. However, this does hot minimize his obligation to the party and platform that placed him in the office he now holds! It is not a partisan matter but a trust im--. posed upon him that can not be shifted lightly. It is a question of fidelity .or subversion i of a sacred trust ' f ' . !. The platform on; the basis of which he was elected, has not materially changed: these inter vening years, if he has changed his viewpoint to such an extent .that he can so longer support it, the only honorable course, in my judgment is to resign his of fice and try for re-election on a platform he can support f , - I can not find printable words adequate to, express the denun ciation of the course he says he - will take in the organization of . the new congress. . It so happens that his one vote may change the entire complexion ; of the new congress. It is too great a power, to be entrusted to the keeping of irresponsible, and un i principled individuals. , f j To say this does not make me feel any better, have waited a ; , long time for some-one else- to 1 say it, but am firmly convinced that it should be done before the SUPREME . Betrayal so glibly boasted about for. January next, v is consummated. I I , ' John A. Blank 403 N. 20th St A skunk produces about a third of an ounce of the odorous chenv kal it uses for defense in a week. To Drop Russ Offer to Talk . i i - : v'-' - 1 By J. M. ROBERTS A. Ass&Uted Press News Analyst For years, every' time the Rus sians have made some gesture to ward a European : settlement, France has wavered about 1 some move toward Western European defense unity. ' This time, things are different When Russia made her Bronosal for a Europewide conference for establishment of a mutual defease system jt was immediately recog nized, as it was recognized before the four-power conference at Be lin last year, as another move de signed to ' ston iacorooration of Western Germany into a European Ac t ' Britain, the United States and 'others reacted auicklv. Thpv wre not, interested in another confer ence until after Western European Union had been ratified, which was expected to take several months. , ' ' j ," France was a little slow to react There was some worry, among other parties to the Paris agree ments that she might again grasp at some straw which might in the end save her from agreementytp West Germany's rearmament., But Premier Mendes-France lias spoken out firmly now. It would be dangerous, he said, to attempt a conference this month, as Mos cow suggested. When the defense arrangements have been complet ed it will be timeenough, he said. This should lay, once and for all, the fear entertained by some in the United States that Mendes France, who was credited with killing the old idea for a European Defense Community, was in reality still stalling on rearmament. - It does not, of course, guarantee that WEU will be ratified. The re action ot either the French or Ger man parliament could go against that regardless of the determina tion of Mendes-France or Chancel lor Adenauer. But .it has a good start in Germany.'- ' With the Premier's strength hiu lind it as it was not behind EDC, and with the French Socialists uni fied in a wav when thev were not for EDC, chances in France are greatly brightened. The over whelming vote for British ratifica tion, despite the large number of abstentions, also will encourage the Europeans. ' . , Ratification will mean that when another period of negotiation with Russia does begin, she will have to be vastly more realistic about the German and Austrian unification problems than she has been be fore. , 1 Despite the fact mat West Ger. many's new strength will be. re- sinctea to defense, and that she has disavowed any intent to seek reunification exceDt bv twarpfnl means, her changed status, her new power, her autonomy within a Western Dartnershin. will vaetlv increase East German resentment toward its own enthralhnent and in the long-run weaken Russia' hold mere. TLC Used in Cafe Bakery SACRAMENTO, Calif. JF) "We make and bake our own pies' with TLC," reads a menu in a Sacra mento restaurant t '' What's TLC? ) - "With fender loving care," says the waitresses. - SMAIIt FARM? 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' It was the Immigration Act of 1924, introduced by Al bert Johnson, Representative from Hoquiam, Wash., which really reduced the stream of immigration to a dribble; It continued, restriction by coun tries of national origin in! the 1921 acf but made it tighter, limiting the annual immigra tion to two per cent of the number of persons from each country residing in the United i States according to the census of 1890. if jThis law and the depression of! the 1930s- virtually shut; off all immigration for a time--in fact there was a backward flow ,for a year or two.. World Warj II interfered with migration until gates were opened j for more generous reception of refugees- and displaced persons.' Thefirst general revision of, the 192 immigration law came with the ' McCarran-Walter 1 act ' of 1952J While it. is severely criticized for alleged discrimi nation it did go farther toward putting Orientals on an equality with those of pther races. Our laws, hOwever, , are now both strict- and in some respects quite harsh, though some 1 chance for tolerance1 is pro vided through the department of justice. , ; - Through the years the source of our. immigration varied : ex ceedingly. Up until 1885 immi grants came chiefly from North ern Europe, at first mostly from the British Isles with infusions ' during colonial times of Dutch and Swedes and a few French. The rush of Irish following the potato famine there in the first third of; the 19th century pro voked hostility which bore fruit in the American Know-Nothing party, opposing immigration.; In the middle and latter part: of the century there was a steady immigration from Germany and the Scandinavian countries. JTheir "layers" may be found in the advancing frontier: large German' elements in Cincinnati, St Louis, Milwaukee; large from $50 galls y 1 others j in a trio of rin$ cUstangwfehed ior their . . unusual settings. In those show at the top and centerthe decorative siwaH stone nestle in the graceful passby design. In the other. j . they pave each side of the large diamond. 1 All in fourteen karat yetto gold. I '. - . . , j No Interest or Service Charge - Prices indud Federal tax Charge or budget h Costs No More "CHARGE Dial 4-2224 i t - - " " - ' - " - to Yirgil X Geldea I JT) t m a - VIRGIL T. GOLDEN FUNIUl SI2VICI from page L) Scandinavian elements in Wis consin, Minnesota, the Dakotas. After 1885 the source of our immigration shifted to South ern Europe: Slavic .elements from the troubled Austro-Hun- garian empire; Italians, 1 par ticularly from South Italy and Sicily, Greeks, Jews from Rus sia and Poland. This later im migration did not flow out' to the agricultural frontiers: the free land was pretty well gone by 1890. Instead it poured into the industrial centers. A poly glot population dug the. coal, made the steel, dug the ditches, worked in garment industries. Our- big cities became zoned into Little Sicilies and centers for Poles and Slovaks and Jews. The "older" stock was resent ful of thi influx, alien as it often' was in language and , re ligion and culture. This resent ment plus labor's fear of alien competition accounted for the restrictive: legislation. The story of how this immi gration was absorbed (some times not assimilated) into the American culture is one of the epics in American , history. Some of it has been told in books such as "The Promised Land" by Mary Antin; and per sonal accounts by writers like Louis Adamic and Michael Pupin. The second generation suffered in being caught be tween two cultures, the old European of their parents, and the new American I of the schools and their environment But this immigration made a contribution whose value we are beginning to realize. The New York Times noted this in its comment on the closing of Ellis Island: "They rewarded with mag nificent gifts the country that had received them with" such magnificent hospitality. ' They gave us scientists, artists, writers, actors, philosophers, .teachers. They produced great 1 men of affairs. Their descend ants sit in Congress. They make part of what is now the Amer ican temperament a livelier and richer national personality than could have existed without them." ' to Say . . . IT" State and Liberty - - 1 Grace & Geldea CO. Poena 4.2357 - . . . I fv
