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T 4-c 1KSrftsmtn, SUm, Orit, Sunday, Up. 11, 1955 $t Ortong0tatt$Mu J "No Facer Swcys Us. No Fear ShaU Awf from first Statesman. March 2S. 1831 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor & Publisher Published ever- morning. Business effle North Church St. SaUem. Of. Telephone 4-6&11 Catered at the postotflca at Salem. Ore. as aecond class matter unoer act of Congresa March a. 1S78. - Member Associated Press Tha Associated Press la entitled exclusively to the nee for republication of all local news printed ta thts newspaper. Trogramg for Conservatives'' Ripon, Wisconsin, the birthplace of the Republican Party is seeking to repeat its pa ternity by fathering the "Republican Educa tional Foundation." Launched as strictly a "grass-roots" enterprise the Foundation is sponsoring "Program for Conservatives." It wants to make Ripon a research center for its political philosophy and a seed center for propagating its political faith. The publicity release states that the Foun dation "is dedicated to the principles of con servatism on which this nation was founded." It disclaims connection with any political party and makes its appeal "to all Amer icans, regardless of party, who oppose the moral and economic decay of collectivism." It has found in Dr., Russell Kirk whose book, "The Conservative Mind" offers a foun dation for the conservative philosophy as ap plied to politics, a literate spokesman and has made Kirk chairman of its publications committee. Initially the Foundation is cir culating a series of twelve essays by Dr. Kirk. .There is a field for promotion of the con servative viewpoint in politics 1 and govern ment, with its emphasis on preserving sound values rather than traipsing off after fan tasies and fallacies and promiscuous pana ceas. The trouble has been that so many of the attempts on this line have been spon sored either by racketeers eager to tap the tills of timid tycoons, or by purblind zealots resistant to any change. Such movements have gone early" to seed. Though some sur vive, they lack influence. Dr. Kirk has his labor cut out for him to kqep the program, for conservatives based on an intelligent ap praisal of today's issues in terms of our his torical political faith and tradition. Butter Market Adjustment - -.-. " i - i Secretary Benson can- point j to the situa tion in butter as proof of the workability of his plan for, agriculture. When lie reduced the support prices on dairy products in the spring of 1954 he was severely attacked by political foes and by some who had a selfish interest in keeping the butter price high, even if it meant the government would have to buy and store the butter. The shift was made, however, and the dairy industry has succeeded in , making its transition with a good measure of success. ,j j For the 1953-54 fiscal year the government had to buy 353 million pounds; of butter. In the past year its purchases declined to 159 million pounds. Moreover, it bas been abje to reduce its stores of butter from 456 mil lion pounds on July 31, 1954 to 184 million pounds one year later. Benson hopes to get; rid of this in coming months. j j J There has been some decline I in produc tion, but with prices somewhat j lower; con sumption of butter has increased. Consump tion of fresh milk has increased six billio pounds in the past year. M 1 The medicine of a lower price guarantee' may havf tasted bad in April, 1954, but jit, has contributed toward a cure. A similar; prescription clearly is recomniended for theJ other crops whose surpluses 'are bearing down heavily on Uncle Sam's; back. I P ORDER THS SPRKDIRG CRESTNOT'TREE i A Polk county grand jury has indicted former employe of the highway commissions accusing him of "feloniously" j accepting ! a sum of money from a contractor doing busi-j ness with the state. If the; employe ws guilty of accepting the money, ' Was not the1 contractor guilty in tendering and giving It? The offense surely cuts both ways and hou4 have equal consideration from the grand jury. Addendum on physical fitness: An anthro pologist of Smithsonian Institute says that American men now average one. to two; inches taller than those in George ; Washington's day.- : f j j , : j i i Editorial Comment Dog's Righto A "dog's life" is a slangy reference to de gradation, but a judge in Seattle has ruled that a dog has rights too. This Seattle dog was one of the "assets" in the estate of a de ceased woman. The estate executor, how ever, considered the dog more of a liability than an' asset, so he sought a court order to permit him to have the dog dispatched by "euthanasia" "'(lethal Asleep). Judge Hugh Todd, however, denied the petition. "A dog, said the jurist, "has some rights . . . espec ially when he hasn't committed any crime." So the dog is permitted to continue to live a dog's life, though of what sort is not re ported. Dogs have had their day in court before whether as alleged sheep killing dogs or as . barkers that disturb the neighborhood or as vicious. Some have been condemned for their trespass on the rights of man. But no good-tempered dog, to our knowledge has been tried in" court and condemned. One recalls the fictional trial of a dog in "The : Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come," where the plea of the lad who owned the dog saved his life. The "trial" in Seattle was real, and the judge's ruling commends itself to dog lovers everywhere. OLD-FASHIONED POLITICAL SPOILS CASE IS WELCOME With no desire to appear cynical or flippant, we confess to receiving something of a lift but of the current whoop-te-do over Edgar E. Hoppe and his separation from a S14,80O-a-year spot on the payroll of the Internal Revenue Service, j Inasmuch as the Service and a succession of commissioners tolerated him for 24 years before he was lopped off in 1953, we are not quite con vinced by offficial protestations that he was fired for incompetence. His own angry assertion that he was sacrificed from "political considerations" strikes us as plausible, and as a welcome indi cation that a national fever is breaking. j If Hoppe speaks well and true, his is one of the few Government suspensions, dismissals or firings in many a year that have not evolved from the mysteries of "security." If he is correct he was no kind of "risk," but just a Government worker who voted wrong. f j This political firing would, if upheld by the courts in which Hoppe is suing, represent a re turn to the old, discredited spoils system,! a thing to be shunned. But reprehensible though that may be, it is safer to live with than certain manifestations of a security system. : j j When Government workers are fired for irea . sons of old-fashioned, practical American politics, rather than because they know somebody Who knew Alger Hiss, or belonged to a chowder: and marching society that subsequently elected a fellow-traveler as secretary, or have a brotbeiv in-law who subscribed to the Daily Worker or shun the company of young women, or possess an abiding faith in the Bill of Rights, they and all their fellow citizens may breathe easier and sleep sounder. San Francisco Chronicle .jt"i::i::".fr:fJ'ii itfiiaiWrTWWhrii' rfrfflh Wfflrtiratffliiftiiirrimmi trr,,i,"',,VT-r,,r-'-,', ,'iff,ii-i vtrawif awi ""-" -f'-.-xKe River Plunge Proves Point DETROIT, Mich lV Police charged Elmer Frame, 32, and his companion, I James Bowden, 27, with drunkeness after Frame boasted to Bowden that he was an "excellent diver" and jumped into the Detroit River to prove it Police said Frame, who had to be rescued from the water couldn't swim. . ., ' Air Unit Boasts 1 Grandfather. 34 - . ' . ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) Two outfits in the Strategic Air Com mand here boast grandfathers one as young as 34. He is M. Sgt William H. Dye of the 30th Bomber Squadron who became a grandfather last year. The other is 49-year-old CoL Michael N. W. McCoy, com manding officer of the 321st Bombardment Wing. HIT bilHJLUB TO HD3I (Continued from page 1.) Despite Financial Crises, Both Socialists, Tories Optimistic Over British Economy world market. The crisis or diffi I 'I A I t 11 iXJ. I By STEWART ALSOP - LONDON Since the war the British have developed a habit, by now almost an ingrained as tea or fish and chips, of having an economic cri sis every' odd i year. Tney are having one now. Its outcome will determine whe ther a nation especially a na tion like Britain, 1 which is absol- I utely dependent r have its cake and eat it too. Ever since the coronation -of-Queen Elizabeth II, the Brit ish have been having their cake and eating it and .very good it has tasted too, thank you. There is no unemployment here at alL On the contrary, jobs are going begging, in mines, in offices and elsewhere. This in turn has given the labor unions an : unchallengable - bargaining position and wages have gone up and up. At the same time, business has been booming merrily, while the state has been spending immense sums, for defense and the social services. The result has, of course, been inflation of the pound; the real value of the pound has dropped about 30 per cent since the devalua tion in 1949. la theory, all this tbsiM have led long since to the loss C Britain's emnpetiUTe posittoa ia werid markets, and to another ' great economic crisis. Ia fact, 'the enrent crisis is very weak tea indeed, at least for - the present, compared ta the tre mendous, and .world-shaking crisis at 1147. 1949 and 1951. Chaaeeller at the Exchequer K. A. Butler denies, indeed, that it Is a crisis at all it is saly a difficulty which wCl sooa be vereome. The most important otward aad visible situ ( the crisis ar Offlewlry Is Um Ion f something .like .S3M.WMM from the British gold and del- ar leteives ia the last Bine months. At the' same time, small sin Jster whispers of a second d ramation hare begun to be tjcardaad the pound has shown lena C i wakening oa tha culty is absolutely invisible, of course, to the ordinary British worker, enjoying a second glass of beer in his pub, on the best wages he has ever had; or even to the stockholder, mulling over future opportunities for profit over a gin and tonic in his club. But the crisis is very real to the responsible men in both parties, and they are worrying more than they care to ldmit. Indeed, it began worrying the able Chancellor ef the Ex chequer as early as last Febrn , ary, when he sharply raised the bank interest rate. This was supposed to haye the effect of reining in the current boom. Instead, the boom broke into an excited gallop. At the end of July, Butler tightened the reins furthur .by .clamping .down sharply on consumer ere da. It remains . to be, seen whether this will slow down the boom. What amazes the foreign visi tor is the unanimity ef opinion here about the economic prob lem. Butler is blamed by the Soc ialists not for clamping down, but for not clamping down hard enough or. soon enough. It is remarkable, moreover, to hear left wing Labor politicians echoing, in private, the equally private views of most Conser vatives that! the root of; the trouble lies in overemployment. As long as jobs are going! beg ging, there is no incentive for higher production; coal mines are left idle1 (Britain will! soon stop all export of coal, causing consternation on the continent), and prices pace wages in an un- enrlinff antral. ! Pboa Mail Subscription Kates By esTTiT ta cities: Daily aa Susday S 1-4S par mo. Daily only 125 per ma Sunday only JO week By Bull 8 ma say Mjyi la adranc) Anywbvra in 0. a I JO per mo. . S.7S tlx m a. oo tui By mtO, Dally M Sudan (la dVaacAl la Ortfoa t llOpwmo. M0 tlx me. ioM nu ta V. a outeMo Qntfom ljUpttms. AaCtt Bmn f drealatlti a f arrsrttsiac AStA Oivm StwntMt n isnsam AeiMUstat Bsaiawatatfvw! Ware-Orlfflta c., WmI BalBSay C Mow Tata Tet both Socialists and! Con servatives are also optimistic fo. -the long poll. Labor! men repeat, almost like, a litany, that the Labor Party is going Hi have to adjust its, policies to the fact that mass unemployment nd mass poverty are things! ef the past. Aa able Conservative pol itic aa remarked that, he was not really worried about the present economic troubles .became the last ten years had proved that catastrophe j could always be avoided by j intelligent economic management , by the state. The view J which is now) very widely shared here, amounts to the conviction that Birtain can have its cake and eat it top, pro vided the. cake is - eaten! with prudence and intelligence. (There is an intellectual fashion in such matters. In the years immediate ly after the war it was! fashion able here to say, with i very long face, that Britain could nev er again become a great ! power or even support its population the only solution was mass: emig ration. More1 recently, i( was fashionable' to say that even a relatively painless recession in the United States would knock the whole; British economy gal ley west, j ; Ia fact, Britain has: sot only recovered from the war, but car ried a major rearmament pro gram as wen, meanwhile feeding Its population better than ever before. Aad It was during the American i reeessioa j that the British boom really began to ga ther momentum.' teaching methods. The Salem schools no longer rely on the sight method, but swing into phonics early in the school course. (The Flesch book was serialized in a good many news papers and stirred up quite a lot of controversy. The Statesman considered running it locally but found it wouldn't apply in the local situation). Well, how good are our schools? Periodically complaints are heard that those finishing high school can't read very well, that their spelling is bad, and that they get' stuck in simple arith metic. Neglect of the fundamen tals is decried, and the frills and fringes of the modern curriculum denounced. This man Wilson, who comes to the defense of the public schools in Harper's, is a writing man himself, author of a recent good selling novel, "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. He doesn't deny shortcomings in our schools, but he contends they are doing a better job: "More education is being pass ed on to more children than ever before in history, as well as more health care, entertainment and all the rest of it. The ad vance is perfectly measurable: the average scholastic attain ments of soldiers in World War II were tested and found to be much higher than those of the soldiers of World War I. Most suburban schools in America are incredibly good, compared to any sort of school in the past. Many centralized rural schools give the children of farmers an educa tion as good as anyone in the nation can get." - Certainly the school plants have improved, as most adults can testify. Teachers enter the profession with far better pre paration. Far more children are attending school and going on to complete high school. There are - very few communities where compulsory attendance laws are not enforced, whereas up into Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES first in Results Obtained. Its combined rank is first Washing ton is given second in combined rank, Illinois third, Wisconsin fourth, Massachusetts fifth, New Jersey sixth California seventh As might be expected states of the South are lowest in the scale, the inverse order being Missis sippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Arkansas. A rather strange pos ition is given Maine, 37th, and Vermont 35th. Other criteria would doubtless alter the positions of many states, and I doubt if Oregon schools are really tops in the na tion. Though it is hard to figure out how Miss Rumrnel arrives at her "combined rank" ratings, in general her map does give a fairly accurate scoring of schools, with the western states taking the lead over the older states, The public schools are pretty much what the people make them, though sometimes even the parents are bewildered over what the teachers are trying to do at the schools. The public controls the purse strings (and really are very generous toward their schools), and their demands for expansion, of curricula have had to be met. This also remains true that children from the homes are the "raw material" the teachers have to work with. With that material, better pre pared teachers in greatly im proved schools with finer facui ties are trying to do a good job of preparing youth for life and citizenship. Stitching Art .Helps Girl to Scholarship Carolyn Bishop, 16, Salem, won a summer school scholarship this century' children in many from the Oregon Wool Growers mmmnn ties ant in altpnH arfennl AUXlUarv Because VI ner (usuidy only a few months each year, for of expert stitching skills. Caro- a limited number of years. iyns unisneu proauci a av, seam, and hem constructed in Universal education has brought lightweight wool recorded a top its problems, particularly that score irom me juages. of leveling standards of attain- For the third straight year, St ment It has also brought dilu- Paul entered the champion team tion of the old curriculum which in the 4-H forestry identification had as its core language (read- contest at the State Fair, ing, spelling, grammar), mathe- rjorinne Conner, 12, Marion matics, history, geography. A iro-h. 12. and Dick Romine. 14, miscellany of courses given ere- .nr-H total of 280 ooints out dits has been added, but there of a possible 300 in identifying can be no denying they contri- 25 specimens of native trees and bute to tiie rounding of per- ghrubs. Dick, in his third year sonality. nrtrv aenrad 100 twr cent In short today's schools aim at Both are jn their first year, preparing youth for todays club leader is Z. F. Martin of wunu. auu ivuay s wunu is icu Paul. different from that of a cen- ' tury ago. The cave mother taught her child not to venture (XT) Ttofovici into the woods lest the wild Wr UeiCIlMVC animals carry him away. The modern mother, city and coun try, gives very eariy instruction to watch out for automobiles. Times change, and teaching goals and methods do, too. Attitude Irks Rep. Norblad 10 Years Ago Sept 11, 1945 A business deal which has been in the public eye for more than two months was consum mated when the Salem City Council voted; to sell the old reservoir site on Fairmount Hill to Carl Hogg and Elling Halvorson for ,$13,750. ( Residents of the Rocky Moun tain region felt the first blasts of approaching winter. In the Star valley of western Wyo ming, the season's first snow fall left a blanket two to three inches deen Ion the eround. which took a iheavy toil of the unharvested crops. ! Eric A. Johnston, 48-year-old bead of the Chamber of Com merce of the United States, was elected president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distrib utors of America, Inc., succeed ing Will, Hayes. 25 Years Ago Sept 11, 1930 ' Carolyn Swope. who each summer conducts the largest private summer school in the state of California, made a short visit in Salem, calling on Mrs. Mary L. Fulkerson, county school superintendent More than 1,000 students were en rolled in the Swope summer school. j : I There are two farmers who are not complaining about pro duction, or low prices. Homer and Harry Fredrickson of the Needy district, Aurora, are sat isfied with the 153 tons of flax, taken from 50 acre field. ! Milton Sills, 48, for many years one of the best known actors in motion pictures, fell dead from a j heart attack while! playing tennis with his wife and son at their suburban home at Los Angeles. . 40 Years Ago Sept. 11, 1915 Senator a M. LaFollette was appointed to! represent the Mar ion County j Taxpayers League at the land grant . congress which begins at the Statehouse, R. P. Boise; the original dele gate from the league, was un able to attend. Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Ohling, Albany, were in the city with their son Merrill and daughter Elma, where they registered at the Willamette University. Mer rill is a freshman and his sister graduates this year. Salem proposes to curb the jitney before it becomes a nui sance. To that end an ordinance was passed at the meeting of the City Council raising the li cense fee for taxicabs and jit neys from $10 a year for each car operated to $25 a year. PiEWruKi, ure. m nep. -s i , . As for this LOOK article it Norblad (R-Ore) told a rally of IeCiaitailOa ltieei Lincoln County Republicans Sat. jfX I7rM1Wai'-a urday night that their party has AU llupilixe Wood Products appears to rate state education al systems by certain mathe matical computations. The fac- been on the defensive too long tors considered are: (1) Finan- "We have an outstanding pro- cial support which includes gram to sell to the people and money spent per pupil and per aa outstanding record of acconv classroom and the average value pUshments," Norblad said, of public school property. (2) d j, .ong Teacher status considers average ,t fa itereS, if not amusing, of classroom teachers' salaries ll II '..T!.i rJr and percentage of elementary rKtZ f..k. :u . i r vcowjcia wiw icwcr uian lour vsAt ir;M,, years of college. (3) Results Ob- ZZuZt It is easy to see why optimism, at least for the long pull, has re placed pessimism as the intel lectual fashion here, j One can -only hope that the optimism is as justified as the pessimism was not , j j - v- j Cojryrixht. 185S, Hew York Harald Tribuna. Xnc and his program," Norblad added He said the party, under the President's leadership, has lived up to its slogan of "everying is booming but the guns." "We have brought this country pils who completed high school to a position of the greatest pros- in 1950-51. Oregon's rating is perity it has ever known and we fourth on Financial Support will continue to hold it there," the eleventh en Teacher Status and congressman said. tamed includes percentage of population 25 years or older with fewer than five years schooling, percentage of inductees failing qualification tests, 1950-51, per centage of 1943-44 fifth-grade pu- GUARANTEED LINCOLN, I Neb. (fl - The ur gency of a stepped-up reclamation program to jmeet "the needs of food and fiber for our rapidly growing population" will be em phasized at the forthcoming 24th annual meeting of the National Reclamation Assn., C. Petrus Pe terson of Lincoln, association pres ident said Saturday. The convention, expected to draw at least 600 persons, will be held in Lincoln Oct 24-28. Speakers booked, according to Secretary Manager William E, Welsh. Washington, D. C are headed by Interior Secretary Douglas McKay. 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