4-Sec 1)-Sfafasman, Salem, Or., Sunday, July 31, 19SS
mKo Fator Stvcys Ut. No Fear Shall Awe"
From First Statesman. March 28, 1831
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-Safety in Motor-Boating
Over in Seattle Judge William J. Long of
the juvenile court did quite a thorough job
of disciplining two 15-year-old boys for
reckless operation of speed boats on Lake
'Washington. The boys in trying to "spray"
a boy in another boat drove their own boats
so fast and so close they ."crashed" the boat
of the third boy. He found the two boys to
be delinquent, put them under sentence (sus
pended) to the boys' training school, ordered
their boats' put in mothballs the rest of the
year, and directed that they repay but of
their own savings or earnings the damages
due the victim." ' -
" The judge made much of this point:
"Two completely inexperienced and unin
structed children, utterly ignorant of the
laws enacted for motorboat safety, were each
permitted by their parents to operate their
boats on public waters . . .- they deliberately
decided to interfere with the rights of their
victim upon those same waters with the re
sult that considerable damage was inflicted,
and the lives of all those involved were
Imperiled."
.Since there has been a great expansion of
use of small watercraft it is pertinent to pub
licize the essentials of the state law in re
spect to their ownership and operation.
1. All pleasure boats 16 ft. long and over
must be licensed annually by the county
clerk. The fee is $5 up to 20-ft. length, and
an additional $1 for each additional foot in
length over 20. if.;
2. Speed limit on motor boats (under 26 ft.
In length) is 25 mi. per hour 'while within
; 200 ft. of dock or bathing, beach, or 10 ml
per hour when within 100 ft of dock or such
beach.
3. Operator shall navigate the boat "in a
careful and prudent manner and at such rate
of speed as not to .endanger the property of
another or the life or limb of any person. .
4. In approaching or passing another boat,
motor boats shall, within 100 ft. thereof be
slowed to a speed that will not endanger the
occupants of the other vessel. (Does not ap
ply in a publicly advertised and scheduled
regatta or boat race).
5. There are also certain rules for pass
ing of other craft and for right of way to
boats approaching a dock or wharf. "Drunk
driving" is prohibited, k-
6. On certain lakes speed of motor boats
Is limited to ten miles per hour. Among them
are East and Paulina lakes and Elk. lake in
Deschutes county; -also- Crescent lake, Davis
iake, .Diamond lake.
1. On -certain lakes use of motorboats is
completely banned. Among them are, in our
. own area: Clear lake in Linn county, Olallie
and Horseshoe lakes in Jefferson county,
Breitenbush lake in Marion county
. Penalty, for violation is a fine of not more
than $250 or 30 days in the county jail, or
both. ... , .
- Such precautions relate primarily to in
land waters, but Saturday's mishap on' Win
chester Bay emphasizes the need for even
greater care in coastal waters.?
Those acquiring motorboats, or renting
them at waterside docks, should know the
laws and the rules of navigation. Parents
should see that their minor children are in-
TOAST OF THE TOWN
formed thereon, and that they observe the
regulations. It is very tempting to take risks
in all aquatic sports, but care should be ob
served not to endanger lives or property of
others. The opinion of Judge Long of Seattle
gives us an opportunity to offer this counsel
on water safety in connection with the grow
ing use of motorboats.
Bridges Wins Case
On its fourth attempt to dispose of Harry
Bridges the government has lost its case. -'Judge
Goodman in San Francisco has ruled
that the government did not prove by clear
and convincing evidence that Bridges had
been a Communist and hence was guilty of
perjury in swearing he had not been. If he
had been convicted he would have been sub
ject to deportation to his native Australia.
This ought to end the long battle to get rid
of Harry Bridges. Actually the shipowners
have learned to live with him as boss of the
longshoremen on this coast There is this to
be said for him and his outfit, they run a
clean operation, free of the crime and graft
that were strangling the Port of New York.
One of the weaknesses in the government
case against Bridges was its reliance on ex
Co mm unists. In his opinion Judge Goodman
said of them:
"The testimony of the former Communists
was tinged and colored with discrepancies,
animosities, vituperations, hates, and above
all, with lengthy speeches and declarations
.... which it is not unfair to say. is a disease
. with which Communits are ' afflicted."
That pretty well sums up the value of the
testimony of most of the renegade Reds. The
government has kept a stable of them and
one by one they have been discredited.
Harvey Matusow, an admitted double deal
er, is now under indictment The memory or
the credibility of Louis Budenz is not very
dependable. Paul Crouch was tied in bow
knots by the Alsops some time ago. Judge
Goodman's comment may instruct theDe
partment of Justice not to put too -much re- ;
liance on the testimony which former Com
munists may offer. Their very volubility
puts them under suspicion.
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Some-of the business profits trickled to
the top, too, for the first six months of 1955.
General Motors reported net income of $351
million and Standard Oil of New Jersey of
$344 million. Standard of California is pretty
big, but its net was only $109 million for the
period.
President Eisenhower has approved plans
for building and launching a space ship. No
chance for stowaways, though, because the
first ones are to be only the size of basket
balls. Editorial Comment
VALUES OF THE BIBLE
But the 'Bible as a moral force, aside from its
theological meaning, faces a formidable adver
sary today. This adversary is the technics of our
Western civilization, which at a thousand points,
and quite impersonally, would nullify or deny
the moral force of the Bible for example, a
thermonuclear bomb.
Therefore the Bible needs help, all the help
it can get Though we master our environment
with our dazzling intellects, that is not enough.
Without spiritual content of which the Bible
is far and away our foremost repository, the
Western civilization cannot survive. No civiliza
tion can endure on a mere multiplication of
gadgets, on rocket flight and on touching a but
ton to be comfortable. The ants and bees are
. comfortable, and superbly organized to perform
their allotted tasks.
If with mystic sources of power we increase
our energies a hundredfold, if we each get
$32,000, and banish disease and find the answer
to all the quiz questions if all this comes to tis
while we ceast to remember or never know, the
Boxcar Difficulties
Blamed to Railroads
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Statesman Correspondent -
WASHINGTON The Interstate Commerce Commission is
making no bones about blaming the railroads for the current box
car shortage that has plagued Pacific Northwest grain and lumber
shippers this spring and threatens to become acute this fall.
A special Senate subcommittee headed by Sen. Warren G.
Magnuson (D-Wash.) opened an investigation of the freight car
situation this past week, and im- 1 7;
mediately heard, a Northwestern everage detention was 16 per
member ot tne ill, uwen Liarse rent
Urge New Stock
Oregon's Sens. Wayne Morse
and Richard L. Neuberger urged
the committee to take steps vto
stimulate freight car construc
tion, approve charters for more
intercoastal ships, provide com
petitive rail service to western
Oregon shippers and study the na
tion's transportation needs to
take into account the plight of
western Oregon lumbermen who
must depend on one railroad.
Good Fishing
Right at Home
SAINT JOHN. N.B. (A All
right fishermen, tie this one.
Walter Hudson at nearby Grand 1
Bay landed a four-foot sturgeon
weighing more than 14 pounds while
sitting on his porch. His bouse is
a quarter of a mile from the St
John River. 1
The big fish, wet and wriggling.
landed with a crash on the porch
while Hudson was sitting there. He
subdued it with a stick and kept it
alive in a tub of water for some
time,
Best guess is that an ambitious
eagle was the fisherman but ,
couldn't hang on to the lively catch '
once airborne. There were small .
claw marks in the tail.
haftt cixAsvr :
HOUSTON. Tex. 1 L Name of
a cafe here has been chaaged from
"Sloppy Joe's" U "Happy Joe s".
Phono -6n
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Daily only 1.5 per mo.
Sunday only JO week
By mutt, Sudsy aalyt '
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Anywhere In U. 1 M per mo.
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sufficient new
cars and repair
damaged cars.
k "Since the
first week of
Hay we have
had a steadily
increasing
freight car Booert SnUUi
shortace " Clarke testified, "and Southern Pacific.
it is inescapable that it will be- Commissioner Clarke said the
come even more acute during the shortage of boxcars in the North
next 90 days." wtst has been temporarily over
. i lM&nt come this month through di
He slid the factors contribut- version of "sufficient rough cars"
ing to the shortage included the the region from other areas,
belvy increase in loadings, strike, J he warned that the situation
in the trucking industry on the J b" fcu "P untU
West Coast and I currently in New toM2$,ber- , .
England, movement of old grain t.Th Senate committee ended
while we ceast to remember or never know, the f-om storage by the department " "cai,us Wlin" indicating
Biblical stories of suffering and faith and beauty of .ericulture and failure by what actlon m,Sht takc to help
snippers and railroads to utilize
and triumph which underlie our civilized being,
then we are a doomed people rich and mind
less, comfortable and doomed.
-a-Royce Brier in San Francisco Chronicle
i
Columnist Finds Porcine Paradise Attitude
Behind Iron Curtain Difficult to Understand
By STEWART ALSOP
DNEPROPETROVSK The
feeling that you don't really un
derstand, and never could under
stand in a mil
lion years, is one
reason why a
visit to the So
viet Union is
such an oddly
oppressive ex
perience for an
American.
Nowhere is the
feeling so strong
as on a kholkoz.
or colle c t i v e
itpart Almtp
farm. Take, for example, the pig
pen on the Stalin kholkoz near
here, which this reporter has
Just visited. Comrade Lepscha,
the shy, eager, thin-faced vice
chairman of the collective, could
hardly wait to show off his new
ptg pen. ..
, And indeed, tt tamed eut to be
a veritable regular Rita af pig-,
land, a porkers paradise, every
spotless tew ta her ewi spotless
pen. .There were several ' pea
sant girls about, actios; as soli
citous pig valets, sermbbinf the
pens, or washing and hrvshiag
the sows aad the Utile piglets.
Bnt why? Why this heavy In
vestment tn effort and weman
fconrs U keep pigs ia snch a
slate of annatarnl cleanliness?
Why was it worth It?
One possible answer of course
immediately suggested itself
that the pig pen was a sort of
porcine Potemkin village, erect
ed to impress the gullible foreign
visitor. But this theory could not
hold water. The decision to visit
the collective farm had been
taken st the last minute, when
it turned out to be impossible,
for the usual mysterious reasons,
to visit the famous Dnieprope
trovsk dam. Besides, Dneprope
trovsk is well off the usual route
for foreigners there is not
even an Intourist hotel and it
ust does not seem likely that
the Russians would build a beau-
tifut pig pen and stock it it with
beautiful pigs just in case a stray
foreigner happened along.
Pirt W th Tttl answer was
visible, ilastead, U the almost
fanatic rM & Camni Lepo-
eha's eyes, as be surveyed bis
gleaming pig h o n s e and Ms
gleaming pigs. The porcine Rita
was clearly a sort of private bob
by, a personal maggot of Com
rade Lepscha's. bnilt without any
of the usual dreary prior calcu
lations of the con-hog ratio
which American farmers are
forced to make.
'And another part of the answer
was found in Comrade Lepscha's
-carefully rehearsed lecture about
the Kholkoz, which he gave in
his tiny office under the inevit
able picture of Stalin in an agri
cultural moment According to
Comrade Lepscha, there are 14,
.000 acres on the Stalin kholkoz
and 1400 people. ,
This works out, of course, to
one person per ten acres. The
comparable . ratio on American
farming hi a, good district, is one
family to 1W acres with father
doing almost all the work. It was
obvious to the naked eye that
there were plenty of people about
ea the Stalia kholkoz. Aad with
plenty of people, it Is not diffi
cult to keep Urge numbers of
pigs unnaturally immaculate, if
the local powers that be, like
Comrade Lepscha, decide that
keeping pigs Immaculate Is a
good thing.
This may explain the mystery
of the immaculate pigs. But in
Russia the explanation of one
mystery only leads on to an
other mystery. For how does
this incredible system, in which
there are no normal economic
incentives or economic sanctions,
manage to work at all? You can
see that it works, after a fashion, .
wtib your own eyes. To be sure,
the corn looks thin, the brown
cow seedy, ' and the pasturage
terrible. But the wheat looks fine,
: the fruit is abundant and deli
cious, and the people of the
Kbolkoz are certainly healthy
and vigorous.
Some of the people even
seem happy. Take Ivan, the
tractor, driver. Comrade Lep
scha says that Ivan has piled
up 1 record number of "norms,?
the norm being the -unit of
tueasurement ia the speedup
system which is autfvertal ia
tka Soviet .Uaiov (AaeXker
mystery: how can yon measure
with any real accuracy the nor
mal output of a tractor driver
or a pig tcnder?)yr
At any rate, Ivan the tractor
driver is one of the - two or
three top earners on the farm.
Ivan is a big brawny man with
an enormous grin and stainless
steel teeth. He proudly in
vites the foreigner to visit his
bouse. From the outside, it
looks' precisely like every other
house on the dusty, rutted
Kholkoz street, and like every
other house, it is surrounded
by a couple of acres of care
fully tended private land.
(From the air, you can see
the pattern of the Russian land
endlessly repeated lush, heav
around the little houses, giving
way to huge, scraggy-looking
collective fields).
Ivan's wife, a big cheerful
woman who has lost one eye
to. trachoma, is touchingly,
proud of her house. Itas three jre said:
existing equipment efficiently.
But -mostly he pointed to cut
backs in railroad car orders and
repairs last year when the nation
appeared to be headed into a re
cession. Yet for the entire three
.year period from 1952 through
1954. Clarke said the roads
junked 68,204 cars and ordered
only 31,771.
"The only remedy for the re
curring shortages is an increase
in the supply of serviceable cars,"
Clark told the committee. "This
can be accomplished in only two
wsys: 1. by the purchase of new
equipment and, 2. by the repair
of bad order.cars."
Need for Repairs
After conferring with railroad .
leaders May 27, Clarke said he
advised them that the ICC
thought "the large number of un
serviceable ' cars could not be
justified by any standards and
that the number should be im
mediately and drastically re
duced." "In all fairness to the rail
roads," added Clarke, "their
Curloadings last year fell off to
the lowest level since 1937 and
their earnings on capital invest
ment, fell off to 3.8 per cent"
But Clarke said he would
"welcome" legislation giving the
ICC power to compel the rail
roads to build adequate new cars.
Time Flies
tiny rooms, with a front parlor
which looks amazingly like a
miniature of a front parlor in
an old - fashioned American
farmhouse. There are prim wed
ding pictures on the walls, and
band - crocheted antimacassars,
and, as befits such a successful
man as Ivan, a new radio.
As he says goodbye after show
ing his house, Ivan smiles his
' broadest smile, and repeats a
phrase you have been hearing alt
over the kholkoz: "Our greetings
. to the simple peasants of Amer
ica." Better than anything else,
. the phrase suggests the vast gulf
which separates the Soviet and
the American systems.
Yet somehow, mysteriously,
messily, uneconomicaHy, with
little comfort and no private
values at all. this system works.
The food comes out of the.
ground, and unless all Russians
are consummate actors and this
reporter a complete fool, there
are even Russians, like Comrade
Lepscha and Ivan the' tractor
driver, 'who take real pride and
pleasure in this incomprehensible
: way of lis. -..
(Opyrlftit tS. New York
Herald Tribune. Inc.)
"The ICC on numerous oc
casions warned the railroads. But
all we can do is try to persuade
them." .
Support Arguments
Tne railroads see it differently,
and through the Association of
American Railroads they gave the
committee their slant Arthur
Gass, chairman of AAR's car
service division, said figures that
'show a declining number of
freight cars in service today
don't tell the whole story. He
claimed that faster service with
diesel engines, centralized traffic
control and new material handl
ing practices have made possible
increased car loadings.
To support this argument Gass
said in 1926 they carried 486 bil
lion ton miles and in 1944 car
ried ' 785 billion ton miles with
24 per cent fewer cars.
Gass pinned the blame for the
thortage on shippers and receiv
ers of cars. He claimed that in
ordinate delays were keeping
cars out of service. He said
shippers today are detailing 19
per cent of alt cars beyond the
45-hour period normally allowed
for unloading, while last year the
DU
TOQUE
Continued from pagt 1)
Crockett's reputation as "king of
the wild frontier." He was a
"juvenile delinquent" rather than
an intrepid hunter who got his
L'ar at the age of three. He
sired a parcel of children, then
deserted them, hired a substitute
for military service. As for the
Alamo where Crockett "man
aged to get himself killed" that
was in fact, "the worst military
blooper in American history,
short of Pearl Harbor."
- But what of it? Exploding the
myth apparently served to
spread the Crockett craze more
widely. That may have its ad
vantage though in speeding the
process by which a popular
mania burns itself out
FROM STATESMAN FILES
J
10 Years Ago
July SI, 1S45
Pierre Laval, toe politician who
had been called "the evil gen
ius" of Vichy, testified. at Mar
shal Petain's betrayal trial that
the aged Marshall approved' his
celebrated broadcast statement,
"I desire a German victory."
Mrs. Verne Ostrander was ap
pointed by the Disabled Veterans
as chairman for the sale of "forget-me-not"
flowers in the fall. "
The Salem chapter received 15,
000 of the flowers for local sale.
Lt Cot. Archibald B. Roosevelt,
last surviving son of the- late
Theodore Roosevelt, and a vet
eran of two wars, was retired
from active service.
25 Years Ago
July 31, 193
James H. Compton, Jr., 15, of
Wichita, Kansas, was the first of
the 49 contestants to arrive at
West Orange, N. J., for the sec
ond annual Edison scholarship
competition for boys from all
parts of the country. James was
the youngest of the entrants.
The Silverton American Legion
- junior league baseball team cap
tured the state championship at
Portland by defeating the Port
land nine, 7 to 1 in a ten inning
game.
Roy Cannon of Portland was
elected president of the State
' Association of County School Su
perintendents, at the closing ses
sion of their annual conference
held in Salem.
40 Years Ago
' July 31, 1115
P. F. Garnett ex-secretary of
the Oregon Industrial Accident
commission, announced that he
was leaying for New York City
where he would be in charge of
' all matters relating to the work
men's compensation for the U.
S. Casualty company.
Carl Guiott Pendleton, a mu
sician, was enjoying the recov
ery of his sight in one eye after
a period of complete blindness
lasting 15 years. His sight re
turned while be was out for a
walk.
Mrs. Johanna Jaskoski aid
daughter Don arrived in Salem
Those who have read the other
articles in the number may see
in the Crockett myth the ex
planation for the loss of privacy
which Faulkner, Nobel prize
winning novelist of Mississippi
complains of. Faulkner is sore
distressed because he isn't left
alone, because journalists hunt
him out to do a biographical I
sketch of him. He inflates his '
own love of privacy into the'
"American Dream" in which this
was a ''sanctuary on earth for
individual man," where his most
precious possession, his privacy,
would not be invaded.
The trouble with Faulkner is
that he equates his own tastes
or idosyncrasies with those of
other Americans, past or present.
Few folk immigrated to the
United States to find seclusion,
unless they were fugitives from
justice. They wanted freedom all
right, but not in the dosage that
Faulkner demands for himself.
He may find his counterpart
however in Henry Thoreau, whoi
pioneered in civil disobedience!
and went to jail rather than
pay a poll tax.
The bloodhounds of the free
press and of government may
1 be ruthless in tracking down
their prey, and the results at
times embarrass ail who love
the genteel life (Lindbergh was
a victim of public curioisty). But
usually papers and magazines
have harder work to keep the
space grabbers and publicity
seekers out of their hair than
to track down the recluse and
Comer him for a potboiler article.
! Davy Crockett was just the op
posite of William Faulkner. He
(with the aid of some uniden
tified ghost, says Harper's) be
came something of a hack writer.
whose favorite theme was thei
exploits of Davy Crockett Faulk
ner doesn't get much sympathy
from the editor of "Personal and
Otherwise" who says that Faulk
ner will never succeed in con
vincing historians of the virtue
of privacy:
"Because they hold' that pri
vacy is their enemy and that
vulgar curiosity is history's chief
ally. The gossips, the Peeping
Toms who took notes, the pry
ing, inconsiderate reporters have
provided most of trie flesh and
color on our record of the past
James BosweU was just such a
fellow. He invaded the privacy
of Dr. Samuel Johnson, abusing
his confidence outrageously
and the result is one of the
great .historical documents of
all time. If BosweU had behaved
like a gentleman, all we would
have today is a shadowy -Johnson
legend."
But if you think Harper's Edi
tor Fischer was hard on Davy
Crockett yor should read what
he has to say about American
women, in his "Personal and
Otherwise" column in August
la V. 8 outside
Oregon -
S 1.4Spermo.
for a visit from Jamestown, North
Dakota. Mrs. Jaskoski is the
mother of Frank Jaskoski, . fore
man of The Statesman job office.
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