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from first Statesman. March 2S. 1831
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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
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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
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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 ,
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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
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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
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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
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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. !
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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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