4-(Sec. I) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Thurs., July 12, '56 "No Favor Situy UsiVo Ftar Shall Awt' 2 front First Statesman. March 2t 1S51 : Statesman Publiihing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor c Publish Pub Inns! ever morniaf ustnss Mm tat Hon C nurch it. 8ln, Or. llpfo 4-M1I tAtarae at la pustaftica M aalsrr.. Ors, as atcona rim ril'tf under act at Contrasa Msfta . It7t, Member Antedated frees Tha Assadst Prm s) satttisa exclusivity la the rate to rspuDllosllon o4 ill toral aawa priatas la ims i Subsidies for Cotton Textiles flow one economic misdeed leads to an other is well Illustrated in the case of cotton. Through 1U high price aupports the govern ment his accumulated in ownership or as security on loans some 12 million bales of cotton, which la about equato sT year's pro duction. Since the support priceJias been much higher than the world price American cotton has lost much of its old export market. -Other countries, notably Egypt and Mexico, are supplying a large part of the international demand for cotton. . At members saw loss of foreign markets and foresaw a further pileup of surplus. Con gress, with the encouragement of cotton growers, passed a law requiring the Com modity Credit Corporation to sell surplus cotton for export on bids, at not less than 25 cents per pound the New York prlce is around 34 cents per pound. The CCC has been selling this cotton, which enabled for eign textile mills to offer cotton textiles for. sale in the world market at prices lower than U. S. mills can meet And Japanese mills are able to ship in their textiles and undersell American mills on the domestic market This dumping of our cotton abroad now backfires on American cotton mills, and members of Congress from states both north and south where textile manufacturing is important lave been calling for relief. What may be done now is to give subsidies to American mills to enable them to compete. They still have to pay the high domestic price for their raw material, which foreign mills have been buying at a saving of up to ten cents pound, but the government may com pensate them with a subsidy on the goods they sell at export This will not take, care of Japanese competition, so manufacturers are calling for quotas on imports of foreign tex tiles. Congress, however, has rejected impos ing quotas leaving protection, to the tariff commission. ' Subsidy for the cotton growers, encourag ing them to produce more cotton than there is compensatory demand for, Is followed by selling cotton at cut prices to foreigners and then by reaching into the treasury to subsi dize U. S. mills so they can meet foreign competition. Consumers and taxpayers are the ones who lose In this vicious circle. Copper Price Declines ' The law of supply and demand Is still work ing. Just a few months ago the price of copper got up above 50c per lb., an exceedingly high price. Rising demand in Europe plus curtail ment of supplies by strikes in copper mines had pushed up the price. Then supplies started to overtake and pass demand and the price began falling. A few days ago one big copper producer cut the price to 40c fol lowing action of custom smelters fixing a price of 37V4c per lb. The London price is . 35c, whereas for a long time after the war, it was above the U. S. price. The price reduc tion will effect its own cure by shutting down marginal producers. They may squawk, how ever, and press the government to buy copper for a stockpile. We hear much about the $7-8 billion investment the government has in farm crops. It has just about as much invested in its inventory of metals and other strategic materials. Metals will not deteriorate with age and are less expensive to store, but save for genuine defense needs stockpiling by govern ment Is wrong. Let economic law operate freely Instead. 1 WAS MANNING TO BELIEVE THEY MEANT if Ave Harriman criticises President Eisen hower, saying his failure to move in the steel strike shows lack of leadership. The President remembers, and Ave should too, of Truman's exercise of "leadership" in 1952 when be tried to seize the steel mills, only to get rapped down by the Supreme Court. The U. S. Media tion Service, the lawful agency for mediating disputes has moved, and promptly, to bring the parties together for resumption of nego tiations. This strike to be ended properly calls for an agreement between the parties. The government can't force an agreement, and shouldn't Pentacle Theatre may profit vicariously via Marilyn Miller in its bill for next week. Not that Marilyn in person is going to appear at Pentacle's summer barn, but that the play being offered was written by Arthur Miller, her recent and present husband. Publicity over their marriage may serve as bait for the Pentacle production. Title of the play is "Death of a Salesman." It was exceedingly popular on Broadway and brought fame to Miller as a playwright. We venture that Pentacle would have to hang up the SRO sign at its performances next week, save that it doesn't allow standees. The chief investigator for the civil aero nautics board put the blame for the plane collision over Grand Canyon on the TWA pi lot who had been advised, when he sought change of altitude, that a United States plane was on that traffic level. The chairman of the CAB testified such fixing of responsibility was "premature." Maybe so; birt what the people who travel by plane want to know is, how to reduce the risk of collision in flight. The CAB will have to come up with answers . to that. Calling all vacationers susceptible to motion-sickness (sea, air and car). Not long ago the American Medical Asso ciation reported on tests made with 26 currently touted anti ,, , . , motion sickness drugs. A five-month study showed that 11 of the drugs were helpful and three more effective than the rest. The three top drugs by name are Bonamine, Phenergan and Marezine. Four other effec tive drugs (less so than the top three, how ever) are Dramamine, Parsidol, Banadryl and Trimeton. Four other drugs found to work for the first time are UCB 158, Cogen tin, Vibazine and Sandostene ... Safety Valve 8 I Malik UVn Ike This editor commented the other day, apropos of "Reds like Democrats" propaganda by the GOP policy committee that Khrushchev might jr.row jiis -ETms around Ike.l Wnllr K hain't done that yet the Russian envoy' in London did so, in effect, at a party Tuesday flight. Ambassador Malik said it was "fins news" that Ike is going to run and added: "I'm for Eisenhower. The people at Europe knew him. They like him and trust him. We can do business with President Eisenhower. This shouldn't cost Ike votes, however. It reveala the respect in which Eisenhower Is held abroad as a man sincerely desirous of and working for peace. That the Russians hold him in such esteem helps to relax the war tensions that have gripped the world since 1947. This is the major reason why It seems wise to continue Eisenhower in the office of President Administration pressure did help to get a bill for raising postal rates through the House, but approval by the Senate is doubtful be cause Congress Is aiming for an adjournment before the August conventions. The bill should be enacted to bring in more income and thus reduce or wipe out the postoff ice de partment deficit which runs now at half a bil lion dollars a year. Back in Chicago a Presbyterian church takes over a drive-in movie lot Sunday morn ings and holds religious services for a con gregation which arrives and remains in cars. The pastor defends it, as one way of evangel Ism. That may be true, but we hope they do not get to serving holy communion via drive in methods. The duration of action of Bonamine was longer tha the rest. So for a lonf tea voytfe that seemed ta be the drug af choice, the testing team reported. Far shorter voyagea and for matt air travel, where protection it needed only for a few noun, a (ingle done af Bonamine, Mareiine or Pbrnergan would be equally effective . . . The rest of tha compound! tested were found ta be Ineffective. Theae In cluded vitamins and tome of the aew tranquilitlng drugs, the team said ... The tests, conducted among 17,000 servicemen by a military team, showed that susceptibility to motion sickness decreased with age, that heavier individuals were slightly, but not sienificantly, more susceptible than skinnier persons, and that chances of seasickness are lowest among passengers BOOSTER FOR MORSE To The Editor: The guessing game' is over. IKE WILL RUN. Doug McKay says so. Doug says a lot, even his prayers. In a Dec. '55 newt in terview he Is quoted as saying, "I tell her my wife that when she goes to bed she should tay her prayers, tell everybody to go to hr'l, and then go to sleep as I do." There It Is . . . right on the line. McKay wants the people to go to hell Wayne L. Morse wants Hell's Canyon to go to the people, Incidentally, that business name is, to say the least, mis leading to a lot of westerners, who, respecting the good neigh bor policy, mistakenly believe it to refer to the state of Idaho, when in reality it is a powerful eastern syndicate with headquar ters in Maine.) To many, Mr. McKay must teem pitifully like the unfortu nate Chinese man in the news last week. When an attempt at suicide by jumping from a fifth . ' I :t j ( .. under 25. traveling midship. Activities on the. trip of those TmTaVk upT' Z tested apparently naa no relation io meir iuiuuim, w thirteenth floor for a second trv illness . . . Anybody for hanging over the side? . . . which killed him. McKay fcil ' Vice President Nixon wound up his circuit of the globe, landing back at the National Airport in Washington and said he is still available for renomination for vice president. That is hardly news because no one thought he was looking for another job as he made the tour. . A trio of St. Joseph, Mo., policemen used to hand out a combined total of 70 over-parking tickets a day. A trio of women who re placed them handed out 299 the first day. We don't know what that proves unless that it s more difficult to talk women out of thing,. Down at Empire in Coos county a couple exchanged marriage vows in a tavern. They said they had met there and it was "like home to them," so they wanted to be married there. That tavern is running a new kind of lottery. American Foreign Policy Said Standing at Dead Center Awaiting Ike's Full Recovery Stock Issue Tucked away in a communique about Salem't Marine Carp Reserve nail's activities while training this tummer at Camp Pendleten. Calif- we find thit Interetting paragraph: "Then there will tome first liberty starting at noon Saturday. Hollywood? The mountain? Deep-tea fishing? Beach? Sight- aeeing? Palomar Observatory? Dining and aancingr 11 1 up io the reservist." . . . Well, anybody who knowt anything about military maneuvering inows that after a week't training the boys will be positively, frantic lor an eicltinf weekend at Palomar Observatory ... a a Earl Ortherton, new back shop teletype operator, used to work for newspapers in Montreal, Canada. One of his jobs there was to tend news out over the French wire. And the news was al in French. Nothing so odd about that, except Earl can't read a word of French ... sjsjgjgsjsjsaas Kx-Kcally Board President Dies Pacific Power To Offer New i. t r -j oarpb Abnp. , By JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON-The American government theae daya it a bit like a messy kitchen, with the unwashed dishes piled high in the kitchen aink, wailing for the cook to return. The cook, of course. it Dwight D. Ei tenhower. And the dishea are a whole series of basic national policy decitiont which are wait ing to be made. To bo ture. the government does not look like a mciiy kitchen. During the President's current illness, aS after hit heart attack, all aeema to be going rather amoot li ly. Yet thit appearance ia de ceptive. In the American tyttem, only the President can make the really tough decisions. If the President ia ill. or operating 00 a part Uma ba lls, the really tough deciiiona simply do not get made. Moreover, the President's two serious illnesses have coincided with basie changes in the world situation. C.v" Mcwarl AUap, Thert have been, for example, tha upheaval within the Sovict-Communitt em pire, coupled with the rapid de velopment of the new, adventu rous, dangerous, flexible Soviet policy. These changes are both an opportunity and a challenge, but. partly because of the Presi dent's illness and partly becaute thit ia an election year, the American government has not re ally responded to them. It has gone on acting as though every thing Is as It wat before. tolew the deceptively quiet turfare at the government, la b tare, laere has been a great deal af painful. fag-baun4 groping far new policies la fit the new tilua ' tiaa. But aathlRg much bat came of all tbia (raping. For example, one-group in the government, which includes men like Presidential advisers Harold Stamen and William Jackson and chief State Department policy planner Robert Bowie, has gen erally held that the changes in the Soviet regime are real and meaningful; and that every op portunity of testing Soviet inten tions ought to be taken. A contrary view ta held by men Ilk Secretary af State Herbert Haever, Jr., aaS Secretary at femmeree Sinclair Wrekt. The first (reap bat malataiaeo' that this cm airy tkaald take tbo in IllaUre la brtaklaf dawn U Iraa Tartaln, that the mare contacts wltb Ino Bevleta lb belter, aa4 that ike galas mralvrd la aucb eaalact far aver balaare the risks. The tecend gratia hat wished to malatala an Impreg nahla Iraa Curtain of American aiaaufarlara. . Largely thanks to William Jack ton, the first group scored a par tial victory when the President approved a modest "exchange of persons" program. But even this small policy decision took weeks of negotiation and fcather-amooth-lng. And the basie issiio Just how far to go to test Soviet in tention remains undecided. Agala, name af la yaaager pal-Icy-makera have favared an ag gressive paltry far explaltlaf the new strains aai itmin In tha evict camp, resulting tram the de-Stallnhullan policy. Far 07 ample, after the Painaa rials, a aeritaa prenatal waa toads for a tart af Moaree Dartrlae tor the satellites, la effect waraiag the Kremlin againat uilag the Red army ta maintain lit satellite em pire. But this wat rejected at taa rtaky, tad tha policy naw It la let the east settle at far at the satellites are eenceraed. Again, take the foreign eco nomic and military aid program which is a chief buttress of American foreign policy.. The re volt in Congress has alerted the Administration to the fact that it is not good enough just to go on offering the same old program year after year. But even before the Congressional revolt, there was much worried talking In the Administration about the need for a "bold new approach" to meet the new Soviet challenge In the foreign aid field. A apeerk far delivery by the Prealdeat, madelled an farmer Secretary af Stale Gearge Mar thall's Plat, wat drafted by a group headed by fanner Presl deatial aid C. D. Jarkaaa. aad tabmllted la the White House. But, partly because aa aaa had decided Just what the bald new approach wat ta be, and partly because af the President's Illness, tha whale Idea came ta nothing. Add the bitter, still unsettled defense debate, the drift in Asia, the policy vacuum in the Mid dle Kast, the failure to breathe life back into NATO. You then Jet an impression of the Amer can government ttalled at dead center, displaying a somnambu listic tendency simply to go on doing what hat been done before. There it only one man who can get the government off dead cen ter, which ia another reason for hoping that the newt from Get tysburg continues cheering. ICopvrllht toss. . Maw York iiarald Tnkuae tat.) PORTLAND P Read M. Ire- It 1 - B.-t.-j aalli mnA t PORTLAND 1 Pacific Power i "" r"" " and Light Co. Wednesday . an- former presioem 01 me uregon nounced it will offer a new issue j Realty Board, died Tuesday at a of J41.H0 shares of common stocx 1 portan(i hospital following 10 III preseni iiocsnoiui-rj lur ii jnfM a marc. Common stockholders on record July 11 will be permitted to buy one share of the new issue for each ten shares now held. a long Survivors Include the widow, Ailsa M. Ireland, West Linn, and a daughter, Mrs. R. J. Boncff, Oregon City. URIN AND BEAK IT ly Lichty "Mark my words, you wonj go unptitmlirrl for the mess you've made . . . tome day you'll grow up to be' parents, tool . . down on his first job in Washing ton and in trying to regain his . perch he doesn't even want to climb. He dares to ask the voters of Oregon to run the elevator. In a letter to this column last week. Ivan Lovell, with whom I am usually in whole-hearted agreement, accused the States man of jumping to conclusions in an editorial about Morse. If said editorial was personally written by Charles A. Sprague. I hasten to add that I am sometimes in aereement with him also. But it seems to me. Mr. Lovell over looked the jump that could quali fy the writer of that editorial for a berth on the Olympic pole vaulting team. I refer to the onestionahlc statement about Sen. Morse, "That was why Republi cans reelected him in 1950." Nobody, in these days of secret ballots can know for certain how ,many of each party vote for any given candidate. However, if the number of Democrats who make no secret of the fact is any cri terion, then a majority of that party recognized Morse't true worth even whea he was a "mav rick." It remains to be seen whether Republicans can be equally as reasonable and non partisan now that he has been "branded" a Democrat. Marion L. Bronson 2385 Broadway Wheal r.rower't Defeaae (Kdllor s Nate Richard K. Raam, executive aeeretary af the Oregoa Wheat Grower's l-eagne asks as ta publish his letter ta Mrs. Rote Evaat, 7U Marian St.. In reply la her letter pub lished previously In tha Safety Valve.) Pear Mrs. Evans: On June 14th. a letter written by you appeared in the Oregon Statesman. May I comment briefly on your contention that the wheat grower it responsible for the increase in the price of bread. In 1947. the average retail price for a one-pound loaf of white bread in the I nited States was 12'i centt. At that time, the farmer uat receiving, on the average, $2. for a bushel of wheat. In 1956. the price of a one pound loaf of bread had in creased to about 20 cents. Mean while, the average price of a bushel of wheat to the farmer had declined to $1 8S per bushel. During thit nine-year period, the price of bread increased 7 centt per pound while the price the wheat farmer received for hit wheat declined 44 centt a bushel. Based on these facta,, can you fairly say that the wheat farmer is responsible for the increase in the price of bread? The United Statet Department of Agriculture recently com pleted a atudy to determine the causes for the increased cost nf bread and ether .wheat foods. u 333103 room (Caallaued tram page aae) choice, because ttie majority are not accustomed to handling large tumi of money on their own, Also to offer for tale the big , blocks of timberland required to raise the necessary fundi would mean a dumping of thit valuable asset. Only a few companies would be big enough to bid it in. There might follow an orgy of cutting that would impair the economy of the Klamath Basin. Tom Waters, as spokesman for the management team hat made thit clear to congressional com mittees. Mrs. Edith Green, member from the third district of Oregon has introduced two bills, one to transfer the cost of administer ing the act from the tribal treas ury to the U.S. Treasury, the other to provide for postpone ment of action by the manage ment tram. Her bill HR 11660 would, have the managers trans- . mit the property appraisal tp the secretary of the interior for his consideration and transmit also a written report of their action and otter their recommendations as to future procedure. These re ports would then be forwarded to Congress with such recommenda tions as the secretary of the in terior may desire to make. No further action could be taken by the management team prior to nine months following submission of this report. Mrt. Green't bill is primarily a 'delaying action. It does not . amend theJaw in the way that it should be amended in the best interest nf the Indians and of the community. It would give Con gress an additional nine months in which to make such amend ment. It teems doubtful that Mrs. Green can get her bill enacted at this session of Congress, but it does focus attention on the ur gency of action lest the binding requirement of the present law get in its bite, which would be disastrous. I I understand the management! team will recommend a definite j program which will give the pro tection desired 1 though it prob ablv will be fought hard by thoe Indians who want their full share right nowi. The Interior depart ment and Congress must be1 ready to act promptly on such recommendations, particularly so if HR 11660 it not enacted. to ex-! tend the time by nine months. It is gratifying to see that Mrs. 1 Green is taking hold of this prob lem (though the reservation is outside her district) and seems disposed to cooperate with the management specialists in devel-i oping a sound program for Kla-1 math termination. I hope this may continue. Politict should be cast aside, and self-interest, and a program developed which will, not encourage early pauperita-1 tion of the Indians or dump their rich lands onto the market. The government Itself must provide the helping hand to effect a sen sible transition of the Klamaths from tribal to free status. When all of the facts were ana lysed, it was found that the cost of bread is no longer deter mined by the price of wheat. High lnbor and production costs in the baking and milling Indus trier are the determining fac tors. In your letter you suggest that Government stocks of wheat be turned over to the millers so come down a few cents. Ac that the price of bread could tually, the farmer could give his wnea. to the miller and the cost of bread to you, as a housewife, would not decrease more than 2 or 3 cents, if at all. You protest having to pay taxes so the farmer can keep on producing wheat that the country doesn't need. Kvidently, you are not aware of the fact that wheat producers have reduced their production by about 40 percent and that production it now in line with demand. The surplus in Government hands it what ac cumulated due to the unusually good weather the past ten years and the demand of the war period for farmers to produce every available bushel of wheat and other products on every acre of land. Another fact not w4dely under stood by consumers, it that the farmers pay the first year's storage on the wheat which is accumulated under the Govern ment loan program. You ques tion how long wheat ran be stored before the rats will refuse it for food. Actually the Govern ment stocks are rotated, old crops being replaced by new, so i that the wheat in Government! hands it fresh and clean. j While the pricr of bread hat : increased at a time when taxes and other costs are high for everyone, including the farmers,! If you will check your grocery list you will quickly determine that bread and other wheat foods are still the housewife's best buy. Contrary to the prejudice which you expressed in your let ter, wheat growers do not rely entirely on the Government- for their incom. The wheat produc ers in the State of Oregon have been taxing themselvet since 1947, one-half cent a bushel to solve their own problems through the activities of the Oregon Wheat Commission. For your -information, a copy of the last report of the Commission it en closed. Ta tha Edller: The Statesman should follow the policy of the Corvallis paper and publish the namea of juve niles who are arrested. They may reconsider an act If 1 they know that their names will' be made public. ' 1 John Bradficldl 760 Cross St. Junior Achievement Clubs Studied for Salem Schools Salem Exchange Club it consid ering whether Salem should form a Junior Achievement, Inc., pro gram under which high school youth can form companies to make and sell items for profit, on a corporation oasis. The club asked lit board of directors to study the matter af ter hearing at a luncheon meeting here Wednesday how the program works in Portland. Speaker was the Portland program's adult executive director. Jamct D. Tomlin. He said the program gives boys and girls experience in how free enterprise tyttem works.. Groups of about 15 form a company, in- Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Yrars'Ago July , 1S4S A. E. LaBranch has , been named president of the newly formed .Rural Fire Department at Four Corners. Other officers are W. G. Wood. E. L. Scott and V. L. (Vick) Withrow. 25 Years Ago July 12, 1S31 . Mrs. James Humphrey re ceived word of the announcement that the has been made province vice president for the northwest of the Pi Beta Phi national soror ity. 40 Years Ago July. ll.jtl A launch excursion and a wee nie roast on Minto't Island, was given by the members of the Ep worth league of the Jason Lee Methodist church. A few of the members were Vivian Hargrove. Ethel Fraier, Mine Schaffee and Sybil Smith. corporate at beginning of tchoo' year by buying SO-cent shares of stock (up to 8-thare limit, elect a v board, decide on and make a product, tell it, file profit-loss statements, declare dividends then dissolve their corporation at end of school year. Portland had 3S auch "compan ies" last year. Supervision would come from an adult board of directors for the entire program, with a paid exec utive. Adult businessmen also would serve as advisers to tha youth companies. mmmwmmm:mimmmmmmm Better English . BY D. C. WILLIAMS , 1. What is wrong with thit sen tence? "The whereabouts of my ton-in-laws are not known." 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "grovel"? - 3. Which one of these words it misspelled? Charlotte runt, characteristic, charicature, char latan. 4. What does the word "gew gaw" 'adjective) mean? 5. What is a word beginning with qu that means "soft, wet land"? ANSWERS 1. Say "The whereabouts of my SONS-in-law IS not knowa." 2. Pronounce the "0" as in "015," preferred. 3. Caricature. 4. Showy; pretentious. 1 Pronounce gyu-goeK "The gewgaw castles of medieval times." i. Quagmire. LADS, KEEP OCT! I CULVER CITY, Calif. Wt j There wat considerable confu jsion at a manufacturing plant I when a door in a remodeled area turned up witl. the sign, "Lad dies." The sign painter was just a poor speller, not a recent ar rival from Scotland. PRoos -ttl Subscription Rates Br earner la clllssi 0iil only 1 It pr mo Duly ana Dundtr t I Pr m Sunns only 10 HI . By.ais.ll lunds? aalyi fin advsnc-ai Auywocrs in 11. a t SO per mo. 2 ?S sis mo. 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