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PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Tuesday Morning. January 29. 1941 reson phw MM tatesmau "No Favor Sway$ Vs; No Fear Shall Awe" From Firit Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for, publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.! Government Guessing Game In rejoinder to The Statesman's reference to the "full employment" bill as crackpot, the es teemed Oregon Farmer Union lists names of prominent individuals and organizations that have endorsed it. This "argument from author ity" has certain potency to be sure. An impos ing list in opposition might be offered as counter-authority; but it is better to go to the root of trie matter in debate. The title "full employment" is most inviting. No one will deny the desirability of full em ployment for all seeking and needing work. Recollections of the late depression', when mil lions were unemployed still haunts the country. But there is a big difference between endors ing full employment and supporting the par ticular bill introduced by senator Murray ana passed, with certain amendments, by the senate. The Murray bill provides no employment for anybody except government economists and clerks. To the extent that th public thinks it does they are deceived. The senate version of the? Murray bill pro- rides that the president "for the ensuing fiscal Vjrear and such longer period" as he may deei appropriate shall estimate the number of jo needed for full employment, the production mnnAt a nH cri'ir-o at full pmnlnvmpnt find the volume of investment and expenditure required to purchase such goods and services. The presi dent in making this "employment budget" shall forecast the current and foreseeable trends in the number of job opportunities, and propose general program for assuring continuous full employment together with such recommenda tions for legislation as he may deem desirable. A provision of the bill saves the government from any definite financial commitment. Success of such a program would depend on (1) accuracy in forecasting, (2) laying out of practical public works program to absorb the unemployed. (3) an economically feasible plan of financing the government expenditure re quired. The record in late years does not justify the hope that these essentials would be real ized . Take the matter of forecasting unemploy ment. On Aug. 11 last government officials were quoted as predicting that 4,000,000 per sons would be unemployed within 60 days after V-J day. On Aug. 15 the war manpower com mission estimated that unemployment might exceed 5,000,000 within three months and reach t.200.000 by mid-December. On Aug. 30, John W. Snyder, reconversion director, told the ways and means committee "that the inescapable fact was that unemployment would be severe, reach ing perhaps 6.000,000 by the end of the year and 8.000,000 by early spring. The latter figure was repeated on Oct. 1st by the office of war mobilization and reconversion. These are the estimates of government econo mists, covering a brief period of from 60 days to six months ahead. These estimates proved widely inaccurate. The census estimate on un employment for October was only 1.500.000, which is 2.500,000 fewer than was predicted by government experts. Even with strikes the higher figure has not been reached, and now the estimates of the unemployment have drop ped from 8,000.000 to 4- or 5)00,000. - If the ablest statisticians in government serv ice cartnot chart the short future of three or six months with greater accuracy how can we ex pect them to do a better job for a period from six to 18 months in advance which would be required under the Murray bill? If the government, relying on its estimates of 8,000,000 unemployed, had set up public works to absorb this labor then its program would have been competed for materials, sup-, plies and labor with the building program of 'industry and private citizens, building mora fir under the gasbag of inflation. The treasury, with long experience in esti mating government receipts and expenditures, has had only indifferent success in its prophe cies. In the 20 years since the bureau of the budget was created the estimate of treasury receipts has been "off an average of 13 per cent, and of expenditures an average of 18 per cent. To forecast the wnoie economy oi public and private spending is far more com plicated and can be little . more than refined guessing. Yet the advocates of the Murray bill would have the government set up great fed eral programs on the doubtful base of these estimates. As far as financing is concerned we have seen no plan for meeting the cost of the con templated public works. Unless the govern ment is to be a hypocrite it would have to carry put its make-work program and pay for it. Neither Senator Murray nor others have outlined any financial plan which should ac company the building program. The presump- r "it a m- . ' 1J 1 I'll lion is mai aeiicu unancing wouia oe reuea on; which merely means to pile up wrath against a day of wrath. There is one country, to be sure, where all the economic planning is done by government. It. does not have to worry about 'financing be cause it can withhold taxes from wages and fix prices to yield profits to the government. But the device for absorbing excess labor is the work camp where criminals and dissenters may be sent to work- for meagre sustenance at government projects. The Murray plan os tensibly is a crutch to the capitalist system. Actually it points toward the machinery of the socialist state. With nothing in the record to convince us that the government's estimates would prove valid, with no commitment by the government to provide any employment and no plan of financing that which might be assumed. The Statesman feels that it used a proper adjective j :u . L . II ..11 1 . lO ufJCTior inc Bu-catieu iuii employment uui, Breakfasts 2500 Miles Apart , This airplane speed business is getting some thing like the national dibt just about beyond comprehension : and scientists are having I a field day again figuring out the so-called max imum possibilities. M I It wasn't enough for last week to disclose that the moon was being bombarded by radar. It also brought a 4 H-hour crosing of the Unit ed States posing the rather j breath-taking po tentiality that a speed increase of only 25 per cent would see planes keeping pace . with the sun. If such were the case, an 8 a. m. breakfast In New York could be supplemented by , an 8 a. m. breakfast in San Francisco the same day.! ; Or to put it another way, an east-west plane j would be landed in San Francisco before it j had been heard going over) Reno. (The pil at of the non-stop jet plane estimated that during the 4 H-hour crossing he was travelling less than 30 miles an hour slower than sound). The jet-ship made the 2470 miles at in average of 584 miles an hour, and reached a maximum of 660. And it was only 15 years ago that plaudits were going to Wiley Post and Harold Gatty for averaging 140 miles an hour for the 2200 miles between Newfoundland ar d England; 14 years ago that Amelia Earhart averaged the same from Harbor Grace to Irc- land. A j ' jj ; i ; What atom-power would do to a plane Is ryet unknown, but with such transcendently interesting developments current and in the immediate offing, at j least it seems that the world is as full of fascinating portent as it it of imminent danger. And what fun it wou be if the latter element were eliminated! P.. . i i. n. - 1 1 Behind the News By PAUL MALLON (Distributed by King Features Syndicate,' Inc. Re production In whole or in part strictly prohibited!.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 All signs from within point to the food shortage continuing another year or more. I I The man who cam into the Truman cabinet' so clear-mindedly to curt shortages, Agriculture Secretary Anderson, has run into the usual 'Wash ington dead end for the ambitious. The old gang in his department, the administrators and sub-ad- i ministrators of the Wallace new dealing regime, has passively re listed him. He is "in bad" with thent, as the Insiders themselves put It j ' j.- j And, then, when he came out for a new program to abandon the (parity : price concept and to accept the world price theory in isome respects, the farm folks and their lobbies here started letting I him down, r ' I ral Manas This is what is behind the rji mors occasionally printed of late In ; some of trie columns that he has lost Mr. Truman's confidence and may retire. Indeed some who have their noss to the White House pane suspect the old gang is grooming a successor, Milton Eisenhower, broth er of the chief of staff. Eisenhower is more of a new deal politico than the general. Certainly It is difficult to see how Anderson can survive. His novel price theory la contrary to what he dos in his own milk producing business in Albuquerque. IaveJveaaeat Becomes Deeper There he sells what milk the market will take at the highest possible price, and lets his surplus go for whatever it win bring. The idea of abandon ing the parity notion made the farm bureau fed eration right mad. And the opposing crowd in the Farmers Union turned against him when he named Lassiterj instead of Hudgins to farm security. When he was in congress, Mr. Anderson knew Just what to do. The objectivity of his post thei permitted him clarity of vision. But when he too c the cabinet seat, to face the clique which ran his department (as cliques of subordinates dominate the top men of all these government departments! , he immediately became involved, and each wee t i plunged him finto deeper involvement. Remember how Mr. Truman came in? announc ing how closely he would work; with congress. Now before his first year is out, he is involved in suci a desperate struggle with congress, he is askin i people to propagandize against them. The loudest cheer for his recent message came not from the chastised legislators, but from Sidney Hillman f CIO. The confidence of business which he enjoyei at the outset slipped perceptibly also with the rejection of his wage compromise by both stetl and motors. j . Fall Under Spells ef Bnreacraey I have rarely seen this process to fail. The human personality rarely is able to surmount It. Outside of bureaucracy, men may see clearly an i devise clearcut programs. A m they get in the seats of power, they fall kinder the spells of bu reaucracy, adulation, and the politics of the sel l perpetuating old gangs qr resisting, become in volved in self -thwarting struggles. The secret of Mr. Anderson's troubles, however, I suspect, are the same sis the reasons why the food shortages will continue beyond another crop. His conflicts with the clique and lobbies are super ficial reflections of a deeper cause, namely: farm ers are afraid of abundance. The farm leaders I think they can easily : produce; too much for thjs country, know they cannoi selj much abroad, and hence by nature resist any abundance theory, Kelief Deemed. Far Away Winter wheat was hurt I by iweather and much of the seeding did not corae up. Meat production, already short, is being permanently damaged by the strike, which keeps stock feeding oh the farms at this season and hence lis likely to result in a feed shortage. Poultry supplied are being drained by the meat shortage. Egjpj may be plentiful for a while in the spring, but hot for long. Veg etables fluctuate, but there should be enough if the weather is favorable, yetj if Britain spends 25 per cent of her loan for our short foods, and we try feeding the world as everyone seems tp want, our meager prospects Will be still furthejr endanceredl It is impossible, therefore, toj expect relief frorp the food shortage anytime! soon. ! Jfffl f IGNORE WAT "N t t Graveyard of Ships Tho Literary ! t Guidopost Br FricretM SANTA ft, kji JatMM Marshall (Kaa- M lfttM;SJ.7). you would hardly expect to start the longest railroad in the Unfted States on $5200 cash and dream but Cyrus K. Holliday did it His monument is the vast Santa Fe system and, in a mea sure, the mighty empire it open ed from the! Kansas prairies to thd Pacific. The Santa Fa also spells romance for most of its mileage and James. Marshall "highballs" through the exciting years from the Civil War to the present with! scarcely a dull in cident. His book, complete with 32 j pages f historic photo graphs, statistical charts, a glos sary of Santa Fe place names and railroad j slang, should stand for a long time as a model of research and lively, documented reading. While his neighbors smiled at his optimism. Colonel Holliday turned the first dirt for the San ta Fe near the banks of the Kaw river in Topeka, Kansas, on a bleak day in October, 1868. He said then he would meet the ships of the Orient and tap the wealth of the western moun tains. Holliday and the trail blazers who succeeded him bat tled their war to the Pacific, the Gulf and the Rockies. The San ta Fe went j broke and started over. It lugged the necessities and the little luxuries of life to the frontier and hauled the wheat, corri, cattle and the wealth of the mines back to market j Through drought and depression, grasshopper plagues and Indian uprisings, blizzard flood the Santa Fe carried on. Settlers might quit but the San ta 're never, says Marshall. It emerged to face its heaviest task in World war II and, like other railroads, contributed mightily to victory, j ' The Santa; Fe follows much of the old. original Santa Fe trail. Marshall's book recalls the roar ing days of pat Masterson, Jesse C his holm, Jesse James and simi- I U U U I i . L n J n ri I i h l (Continued From Page 1) "immortals." At that they will find plenty of company among the others who are rescued from obscurity by having their sculp tured forms and names front the endless file of visitors to the capitoL It was In 1664 that congress, observing the cobwebs and hucksters' counters in the old hall of representatives, voted to establish statuary hall, permit ting each state to place there two statues of deceased persons who had been distinguished in American life. While not all the states have availed themselves of the privilege, so many have that the statues have over flowed the old hall and now oc cupy the hall of columns in the capitol and line some of the principal corridors. To show how transitory is fame let me give some of the names of those honored by their states with representation at the capitol: J. L. McCurry. (Alabama); Uri ah M. Rose (Arkansas); Thom as Starr King (California); John W. Gorrie (Florida); George L. Shoup (Idaho); George W. Click (Kansas); John! Hanson (Mary land); James Z.! George (Miss.); William Allen (Ohio); John E. Kenna (West Virginia. All who can identify these persons, please raise your hands! And how many over the country lar characters. Here also is the story of the opening of Indian territory in Oklahoma and the coming i of the meticulous Fred Harvey) and the: "Harvey Girls" who brdught good food and good manners to the; roughest stops on the Santa Fe route. Mr. Mar shall's is an "extra-fare" book! could Identify Dr. McLoughlin and Jason Lee? There are to be sure others of enduring fame In the group. Among them are Henry Clay (Kentucky); Samuel Adams (Massachusetts); Daniel Web ster (New Hampshire); William J. Bryan (Nebraska); Will Rog ers (Oklahoma); George Wash ington and Robert E. Lee (Vir ginia); Robert M. LaFollette (Wisconsin). And of course mention should be made of the latest contribution to this gallery of sculptured greatness: Huey A. Long of Louisiana. No, if we wish to honor Mc Loughlin and Lee whose names do survive in Oregon, let their figures stand somewhere in the Oregon scene .(a bust of Mc Loughlin does appropriately overlook the falls at Oregon City) where those who respect their memory can pause in trib ute; not in Washington where even the guides would know lit tle more about them than their names. i Oregon is not unrepresented In the national; capitol. A statue of Edward D, Baker, senator from Oregon who was killed in the battle of Ball's Bluff during the civil war, stands in the ro tunda between statues of Wash ington and Jefferson. It was placed there by authority of the congress. Baker was one of the most brilliant orators of his time. Also an oil painting of the late Sen. Charles L. MtNary will hang in the senate wing of the capitol. New Club of Vets And Newcomers Meets Wednesday Second organizational meeting for the newly-formed community social and recreational club will be held this Wednesday night at 8 o'clock in the Capitol room of Salem Chamber of Commerce. Invitation is extended to all in terested, particularly to veterans and newcomers in the city. Carl Greider is acting chairman. At this meetirur. committees named at the last gathering will form an executive group and pro mote plans for a Washington birth day dance to be held February 22 at the VFW hall, and plan other activities such as discussion groups, skating parties, etc. Persons wishing added inform ation concerning the new group may call Mrs. Elizabeth Mac- Dowell at the Salem YWCA, 8878. Mrs. Gerlinger was ambitious to have Mrs. Abigail Scott Dun iway,' pioneer writer and suffra gist in Oregon, as one of Ore gon's representatives. Mrs. Dun iway's statute; .would find far more congenial company in the crypt of the capitol under the rotunda where is the group of busts of three national leaders In the cause ef women's rights and "votes forfwomen:" Lucretia Mott, Susan !B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty ft- 1 J y ,1 '--v-J'i t) Oira Tin,. ! -2f 'The business I started with thai GI loan. Dear, Is a success! W- go. ? r",r- - labor traable..E j,. .- Time marches en. Our his tory is young. Some future Ore gonians may have .greater claim to this recognition than those of our rather provincial past. The way at least should be left open. The I Safety! Valve LETTERS FROM STATESMAN READERS ! , CONDEMNS t'SE OF LIQUOR To the Editor: "Whom the gods would de stroy they first make mad." Substitute "drunk" for "mad" and you have the world situa tion today. Every meeting of the "diplomats,' i.e. politicians, is prefaced, in Russia et al. by banquets at which vodka, cham pagne and various other "hard" liquors are drunk till most of those present are unfit for any business, let alone that which concerns, vitally, the world's future peace land security. Of course, before and during meet ings they use "the hair of the dog to cure the bite." so are more or less f'under the influ ence and the ones able to stand the most liquor, best able to "barieain" and: none, who drink as most do, are really "fit" men tally or phystcjilly. Millions of ; people starving, yet grain used: in making liquor and beer in 3943 would have fed 4.223.054 civilians for a whole year at:the rate of three Aquatic Show Set Wednesday At Willamette Salem residents will have their first opportunity to witness a full fledged water pageant when Will amette university swimmers as sisted by guest artists from Salem high school will present "Aquatic Symphony- In the YMCA pool at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening. A special performance for Willam ette students will be held tonight. Admission will be free on both nights. The aquatic show, directed by Mrs. Jennie Nesseth, instructor in women's physical education at ' Willamette, will feature ex-GI Fred Andrews in an exhibition of i novelty diving, in addition to Sa lem high scchool guests artists, Dorothy Bergsvik, Sue Small and Ruth Watts. Featured In the pageant which will include revolving and floating figures are Bonnie Daugherty as King Neptune. Mary Lois Cotton and Mary Fletcher as attendants and Marilyn Cook as the delegate. The hour long program will be cincluded by a unique candlelight water parade believed to be. the first of its kind presented at a wa ter show in the northwest. Snell Decision On Execution Due Thursday Definite decision as to whether he will commute the death sent ence of Andrew Dennis. Portland, to life Imprisonment, probably will be announced Thursday by Gov. Earl Snell, he indicated here today. Dennis was scheduled for execu tion at the state penitentiary here last Friday but Governor Snell issued a one week's reprieve. He was convicted of first-degree mur der in Multnomah county in con nection with the slaying of his mother-in-law. Mrs. Anna Belle McNally, in a Portland apartment house in January, 1944. The original death sentence in the Dennis case was set aside by the state supreme court because Circuit Judge Martin Hawkins failed to issue a death warrant. He later was resentenced to death. K of C Plans Carnival Night A gala "Carnival Night" will be held in St. Joseph halL Cheme keta and Winter streets, Tuesday, February 5, for the benefit of the Catholic youth activity fund, it was announced Monday by Fred Rupp, grand krught of "Salem council. Knights of Columbus, and Mrs. Gordon Coffey, acting grand regent, Salem court, -C a t h o I i c Daughters of America. ' A main attraction of the even ing will be the appearance of the Sacred Heart Academy treble triad and boys glee club in a choral hour, which will begin at 8:30 p. m. Games and refresh ments will follow. Heads of committee includes T. A. Windishar, finance; Dick Redden, arrangements; Richard Manning, Bernard Loosemore and C. A. Suing, jr., entertainment; Joe Wishman, booth: Mrs. Flor ence Brennan, refreshments. pounds a day each. (Estimate given by Maj. Gen. E. B. "Greg ory, quartermaster of the U. S. army, before senate April 14, 1943.) If the hundreds of millions spent monthly for liquor, beer, cigarettes, night clubs, etc., were spent for food, clothing, etc., there would be no need of in creasing wages every few months, (by strikes injuring ev eryone) as wages now paid would meet the legitimate cost Of living and leave considerable for a "nest egg." I think we should call a halt in the con stantly increasing cost of high living instead of increasing it by pyramiding wages,1 cost of living, wages, etc., etc., which cannot help but eventually re sult in disaster to the nation. J. E. Putnam Salem. Council Elects Scout Officials, Gives Awards More than 200 members and their guests attended the silver anniversary banquet of the Cas cade area council. Boy Scouts of America, at the Marion hotel Sun day evening. j Representatives from 68 organi zations sponsoring scout units throughout the Polk, Calapooya, Silver Falls and Marion diftricts rev iewed the council's 25 years of scout; work, discussed council business and distributed scouting awards. At a business meeting Sunday afternoon, W. L. Phillips was re elected council president ! and Ralph Johnson, Dr. T. W. Sahl strom and Ray Glatt were ramed vice presidents of. the Cornell's central, southern and northern sections, respectively. Lawrence Fisher was elected treasurer. Henry Kropp Catholic representative, Carl Aschenjren ner commissioner, Card n e r Knapp civic service chairman and Floyd Bowers auditor. Members at large named as chairmen committee were Judge Arthur Hay. Eagle board; . C. Haag, trust fund; R. L. Elfstrom, finance; William Hamilton, fcealth and safety; Robert Lantz. ad vancement; William Baillie or ganization and extension, and Dent Reed, camping. Principal speaker at the ev ening bunquet was Lt. Col. Gjy P. Miller, former Portland scout ex ecutive, who reported on a sur vey of scouting made dunn( his four years with jthe 93th division. Colonel Miller estimated that one third of the personnel f-hii di vision were fornW boy scou s, 7 per cent of the non-commiss oned officers had been scouts, 83 per cent of commissioned officen and 92 per cent of staff officers. .Awards of th evening included scoutmaster keyjs to Ted Rtake, Salem; Sam Caiifnes, Sweet Mom, and Joe Shay, Silverton, pre Tit ad by Robert Lantz, and silver boaver awards to Roake and Cainu by Norman Frees. Installation of officers by Frank Bennett followed an acknow edg ment address by Lyle Leig iton, Salem scout executive. Reports showed that there were 1299 scouts and 674 cub scouts at the end of 1943, a net lnc ease of 29 per cent. The 1946 objec tives were listed aa 1800 sxuts and 1200 cubs. R. W. Land. R. L. Elfstrom and W. L. Phillips were nominated to attend the national scout m rting at Atlantic City in May. Onegoa Salem IU Dubach Urg Leadership o World by U. The United States must Christian leadership for the and its citizens must learn to derstand, feed, clothe and the rent of the world. Dr. Dubach, dean of men at State college, told the Chamber of Commerce al forum luncheon Monday Dr. Dubach quoted men at the college who wn up" with the various parts world in which they had Asked if the United States out" what country would each answered, "Why Russi course." Special need for understanding of the Russian people was stressed By the speaker. Food, clothing and health are basic needs ii fu ture revolutions in ravaged coun tries are to be avoided, Dr. Dubach said, reminding his audience this country had not been invaded and it was just as it had been cept for those homes whose had been killed or wounded Real Christian leadership, mere denominationalism is need. Dr. Dubach said, of returning fed the served. got in. k of ex- sons not the. Diamonds Watches - Jewelry 3Si See aur exciting collection f the newest la pins, ear rincs and bracelets. Alse pearls, cresses, leckets and charms. Open An Aceevnt i'1 m Scmawa jea Ut Court
