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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
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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.
Paintings of foremost American
artists which were On exhibition
in Portland at the Art Museum,
included a canvas which was of
special interest to Salem people,
that of an Indian chief, by E.
Irving Couse, brother-in-law of
Claybourne M. Walker of Salem.
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Lots of fun, aren't
they? There is
something about
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