4 (See. 1 Statesman, Salem, Ore., Monday, March 21, 1955 cfie rcaonltafeBraati' "No Favor Sways Vs. No Fear Shall Atce" Krom first Statesman. March 2S. 1851 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPHAGUE. Editor and Publisher Puolisned every morning. Business offlco 280 ' North Church St., Salem. Of. Telpnon 4-68)1 Entered t the postoffica at Salem. Ore as second class matter under act 01 Congress March 3. 1878. Member Associated Press Ths Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use (or republication of all local news printed IB this newspaper. 1 Penalizing "Iniquities" The Ways and Means Committee is putting the bee on the Liquor Control Commission to provide more money by upping the price of whiskey some eight per cent. Why pick on the whiskey drinkers any more? Already they with consumers of other intoxicants pay two and three quarters billions annually to the federal government. The federal tax is a stiff $10.50 per gallon. Then the state stores tack on a 48 per cent markup to the laid-in price of liquor including the tax. Oregon's net revenues from the state liquor stores this biennium is estimated at $19,000, 000. So it seems that liquor consumers are already contributing their share for their "vice." (Perhaps this teetotaler editor can say that when the tiplers can't.) j If boosting the price would reduce con sumption then it could be defended. But it hasn't worked that way in the past. Ex cessive prices though do tempt persons to go into illicit distilling and bootlegging of wmsney in wmcn event DOtn ieaerai ana state governments lose revenues, j Fundamentally though it's a matter of equity. Just how far should the govern ment go penalizing persons for their "iniquities"? Loan Insurance By a' recently "passed measure (HB 63) veterans who borrow on real estate from the state loan fund can obtain at small cost mortgage cancellation insurance. By this the mortgage debt would be paid off by the insurance company in event of death of the mortgagor. This is now offered or perhaps required by private lending agencies. Since it is only term insurance, with the risk diminishing as the loan is paid off the cost is not excessive. In fact this same form of insurance is now sold with the financing of purchases of cars and appliances. The advantage is that the debt will be extin guished if the one who signs the purchase notes should die, so a housewife for example would not face the prospect either of a debt staring her in the face or loss of automobile, kitchen range or refrigerator if her husband dies. This looks like good business all around: for the purchaser, the lender and the insurance, company. "Dennie" To this editorial desk has come a small blue-bound book with the single word in gold on the cover: "Dennie". It is the tribute of Dr. Carl Gregg Doney, president-emeritus of Willamette University to his wife, Mrs. Jennie Evans Doney, who passed away last August. It is the record of their life to gether from the time they met as children at a country school in Ohio, through court ship and marriage, and lives filled with achievement and good works and a full sharing of losses and gains to the time of their separation when she fell away in sleep. "I live with my memories now," writes Dr. Doney, in the house at Columbus to which they retired in 1934; and in this book he shares those memories in the intimate style which'made him beloved wherever he lived and served. Danger to Rogue River Senate Bill 151 by Senator Brown of Josephine County would repeal the law creating the Rogue River Coordination Board. This was created in 1941 to end the strife between mining and fishing and rec reation interests. Strong complaint was raised when the upstream dredges engaged in placer mining made the Rogue turbid with the silt from their operations. The board had authority to shut down the dredges in seasons of low water. The board functioned successfully until the war when all gold mining was suspended. We do not know that it has met since, for lack of any complaint. Downstream inter ests are however apprehensive if the law is repealed and dredging is resumed that again the Rogue will be muddied and made unattractive to tourists and fishermen. We incline to agree with the protest, un less the state sanitary authority has power to protect the quality of Rogue Riverwater. It would be a serious mistake to "expose the Rogue to the pollution of silt from dredging particularly in the summer season. Sen. Harry Byrd set a road block against the administration road program to be financed by side authority bonding. Harry Truman broke his political silence however to urge highway modernization. Maybe the promoters can find a detour. S. P. to Build Pipeline Ifsyou can't lick 'em, join 'em, is a familiar adage. The Southern Pacific Company is following it out in a new way. Already it tries to meet truck competition by operating with piggy-back rail transportation. And it has announced plans to build a pipeline be tween Los Angeles and El Paso primarily to serve the intermediate territory with pe troleum products: gasoline and diesel oil and jet fuel. ; The cost is estimated at $30,000, 000. The line will be built largely along the SP right-of-way, so land costs will be held at a minimum. ; Railroads have lost a lot of business to pipelines in recent years. The share of the latter in intercity freight traffic increased from 5.4 per cent in 1930 to 14.1 per cent in 1953. Pipelines are common carriers, so there is no reason why railroads should not operate them. Wonder is they didn't get into the business before this. BUBBLE, BOBBIE, TOIL ARD TKOPBLE! Needs Told at Two Oregon VA Hospitals Oknew that was (Too SEAU-WJ1- -TOX.A6TSM A, 6157 . 0 WASHINGTON 11 Veterans hospitals at Portland and Rose burg, Ore., were listed by a -House committee Sunday as among 56 requiring complete renovation or modernization. Although the cost of moderniz ing the two Oregon facilities was not given, the report released by the House Veterans Affairs Com mittee estimated the nationwide modernization program cost in excess of 150 million dollars. The reports lists $4,191,560 in work which is proposed but not necessarily programmed for im provement of facilities at the three VA hospitals in the state. This list of proposed improve ments, prepared by VA headquar ters here, estimates project costs at the three facilities as follows: Camp White, $276,760; Portland, $2,030,000; Roseburg, $1,884,800. Two improvement projects, the VA list shows, are planned for the year beginning this July 1. This includes acquisition of a sputum cup disposal unit for Port land, costing $11,500, and altera tions and additions to the kitchen, dining hall and building No. 1 at Roseburg. The latter work is esti mated to cost $523,300. Scheduled in the following year are: Camp White laundry, conver sion of building No. 235, $250,000. Portland modernization pro gram, $1,383,500. Roseburg therapeutic exercise clinic building, $577,500; incinera tor, $41,000. (Consideration also is being given to construction of a paint shop and inflammable stor age building, $31,000. and installa- Solon Subway Car Crashes; One Injured WASHINGTON W One of the senate's famed monorail subway cars got out of control Saturday and crashed into a cement block at the Capitol end of the line. Richard T. Butler, chief messen ger of the Senate disbursing of fice, was thrown off the car and suffered a bruised leg. Another Senate employe jumped to safety before the crash. They were the only two aboard, although the car has a capacity of 18 passengers. Two cars, each on a single ran. shuttle back and forth in a tunnel between the capitol and the Sen ate Office Building carrying sen ators and others. They provide a major attraction for tourists. Fred T. Brown, orwrafn- nf th car, told newsmen "It felt as uiougn we were sliding along the track." He said he was not sure just what happened but "I prob ably had too much power on." tion of sprinklers in nine build ings. $43,000). Still unprogrammed for the three Oregon hospitals are the following improvements: Camp White cafeteria counter, $5,000; concrete slab for. coal storage, $13,700; greenhouse, $8, ooo. Portland additional moderniza tion, including adjustment of the elevator in warehouse building No. 12 to truck body height, $15, 000, and a new laundry building, $620,000. Roseburg garage addition, $25, 000; connecting corridors between buildings, $495,000; chapel, 12S seats, $125,000; water main (con vert deadend water distribution system to loop system), $18,000; tool-storage building, $6,000. Discussing the dangers from atomic war fare the New York Times observes: "We can't escape by sticking our heads in the sand." Maybe if we could crawl in, body and feet, that would be just the way to get security. Editorial Comment WORLD LOSING PIPE ORGANS A story from New York the other day told how junk dealers there missed the bargain of their lives. They missed bidding on the Wana maker organ, originally worth $200,000 and now worth at least $20,000 for junk alone. The organ was bought by an organ building firm for $1,200. We're glad the junk dealers lost out Even if the heavy notes of this famous organ no longer will be heard in Wanamakers' then at least parts of the organ will help keep others in repair; perhaps much of it can be relocated in some other large building. Pipe organs are rapidly becoming things of Che past They reached their high point in popularity during the Twenties when most movie houses had them installed to give some grander background music than that available from a piano. Today's younger generation will hear little pipe organ music because those instru ments are being supplanted by the more com pact electric organs. Pipe organs were built in part through an attempt to duplicate all the instrumental and vocal sounds so one person seated at the console could weave these sounds into glorious music. The big pipes seen by the audience were mostly for show. In the pipe loft there were row on row of wooden, or metal, columns and by push ing, the Vox Humanae or the oboe or the flute stop the organist could use those voices to pro vide diversity and grandeur. They never quite duplicated the original but in the process they developed a type of music that had a quality of its own. Electric organs never quite dupli cated the pipe organs. Nowadays it is difficult to find someone quali fied to play pipe organ music. (A fine organ in the Egyptian Theater gathers dust for want of someone to play it and someone to listen.) Thus progress, a wonderful thing, does damage to a bit of the world's culture. -U.E.B. in Coos Bay Times. Ike Becoming Increasingly Interested7 In Nation's Economic Matters, Problems By STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON Despite the recent sharp break in the stock market. President Eisenhower continues to t Stewart A lima get reasonably cheerful esti mates of the future of the national econ omy. Since his election, the President has become in creasingly in terested in economic mat ters, and in creasingly knowledgeable about them. Early in 1953, he thought seriously of abolishing entirely the Council of Economic Ad visors. Now the Council's chair man. Dr. Arthur Bums, is one of the most influential men in the Administration. Burns briefs the President once week on the state of the econ omy, and he also sits in, on Eisenhower's invitation, at most Cabinet and National Security Council meetings. The President . also often calls in Dr. Gabriel Hauge, a presidential assistant specializing in economic matters, for advice on particular economic problems, The sort f thing the President is hearing as a result of all this consultation is, for the most part, distinctly reassuring. Neither Barns, Mr Hauge, nor any of the ether Administration economic specialists claim that the econ omic sky la all bine. There are a number of clouds the drop in farm income, for example, and the doldrums In the textile in dustry and especially the coal Industry. But there is plenty of blue sky loo. For example, according to the economic advisors most re cent unpublished estimate, the gross national products (the basic yardstick for the economy) is today only a shade below the all-time high of 1953. Most other basic indices also show a healthy upward trend. As for the stock market, there were a good many quiet sighs of relief in the Administration when the vertiginous rise in stock . prices was checked a few days ago. Before the market setback, serious consideration- was being given to increasing margin re quirements from 60 per cent to 75 per cent, and even sterner measures were not ruled out. Now it is felt that such measures will probably not be required. And the majority official view is that stocks are not badly over priced for the long haul. Thus the Eisenhower adminis tration's economic forecast is "Fair and Warmer." By con trast, the semi-official Demo cratic forecast is for increasing ' cloudiness. The chief spokesmen on eco nomic matters, for the northern- wing, at least, of the Democratic , party are Sen. Paul Douglas, of Illinois, the Senate's only trained economist, and Leon Keyserling, Dr. Burn's predecessor as chair man of the Economic Advisors. Both take a much gloomier view of the economic future than the President's advisers. As he wrote in the Congres sional Joint Economic Report, Douglas is critical of the Presi dent's advisers for failure to "analyze . all considerations, un favorable as well as favorable.' Douglas points to a number of unfavorable factors, with empha sis on the possibility that auto mobile production, which has sparked the recovery so far, is likely to slack off towards the end of the year. But his central point is that "the reduction in unemployment is not commen surate with the recovery in pro duction." This is Keyserling's theme also. Keyserling points out that, with national production ap proaching the high point of 1953, there are today 2,000,000 more people out of work than m 1953. He Compares the present to the period in the late twenties when "production power out ran con sumption power" and unemploy ment gradually increased while stocks rose. Certain remarkable and dis turbing facts cited by the Wall Street Journal no New Deal organ tend to support the Doug-las-Keyserling view that employ ment is lagging dangerously be hind production. According to the Journal, steel production In the last year rose by 11 per cent and employment in the industry actually fell by more than 40,000. Even more surprising, the auto mobile industry is turning out almost half again as many ears as in 1954, with only 5 per cent more workers. There is an obvious political bias in the way such facts are in terpreted. Equally obviously, the economic crystal ball has been clouded in the past, and may be " again. The Democrats were cer tainly too gloomy last year. But the Administration economists may be too cheerful now, espec ially as regards the employment problem. Yet there is one point on which all concerned agree including Keyserling. We are not running into another 1929. The , government has the power to prevent a depression, and this power win be used if seeded. (Copyright 1865. New York Hacaid Tribuao. Inc.) Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES , 10 Years Ago March 21, IMS Twelve Salem bus drivers with special safety records were giv en awards at the Marion hotel by Mayor I. M. Doughton following a safety meeting conducted by Ira T. Butterworth, safety su pervisor of the Oregon Motor stages. American tank columns were less than 170 miles from Berlin. Here is that distance as meas ured approximately between American cities: New York to Baltimore; New York to Boston or Kansas City to Wichita. Gov. Earl Snell announced the re-appointment of Merle R. Chessman of Astoria as a mem ber of the State Highway com mission for a three-year term be ginning April l, 1945. 25 Years Ago March 21, 1930 Astoria's fighting, dashing bas ketball team won its way to the finals in the state tournament by defeating Pendleton 20 to 17. (They became state champions in beating Salem High 32 to 17). Two Salem high school basket ball players, two from the Com merce quintet of Portland and one from the Astoria team, were chosen on the" mythical all-tournament quintet. Two from Salem were Kitchen andSanford. The completed records from the physical examination of the first and fifth grades showed Swegle district to be in posses sion of one child who ranked per fect physically. She was Ruby West of the first grade. 40 Years Ago ( March 21, 1915 Inasmuch as the desecration of the American flag flying above the home of John B. McManus, an American citizen murdered in Mexico City, was the act of lawless persons acting without authority, the United States gov ernment decided to make no de mand for an apology. - Governor Withycombe reap pointed Dr. H. H. Olinger of Sa lem as a member of the State Board of Dental examiners and appointed Dr. Herbert H. Schmitt hrp trwrn3 TTO Dig (Continued from page 1.) partnership programs. Left is the possibility of pri vate development; but when you take out the fish sanctuary streams and the Columbia, Snake and Willamette there are no good hydro sites available for the two big power companies serving Northern Oregon. Neither shows any disposition to go ahead with fuel-fired generating plants. Into this deadlock is projected the idea of a regional power cor poration, a public body, with au thority to build and operate elec tric generating plants and dis pose of' the output to public and private bodies. The Northwest Public Power Assoqiation has drafted a bill along these: lines. The Oregonian, which has been agitating the idea for some time, has recently given it lengthy and strong endorsement There is a great deal to be said in its favor." It would pro vide for integrated development would assure a continuing suffi ciency of energy, would allay the strife between public and private power interests by leaving such issues to local decision, would command low-rate capital by is suing tax-free bonds. But I note no enthusiasm for this idea. Its very sponsorship NW Public Power Association probably .makes private power people shy off from it. Advo cates of federal power or of the partnership power fight in their own trenches. State governments which backed off from the rather innocuous Columbia Basin Com pact so far ignore the plan. So the prospect is for another year of indecision save as some of the Washington ' utilities, pub lic or private, get busy with ma jor projects. (The Puget Sound partnership of local public bodies and the Puget Sound Light and Power Co. is busy with explora tory work now). Meantime Bonneville curtails its deliveries though steam is able to make up the deficiency. There will be more water come spring and summer, and more energy (and less demand). Later more units in the Columbia sys tem will be producing energy. But the starts for the added needs of 1960. and later are not being made. Rival ideologies and in terests persist in fighting either to a victory or to a deadend draw. Both Nevada and Arizona have doubled their population since 1940. of Portland to succeed Dr. Frank Vaughn, whose term expired. 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