PAGZ FOUR
Thm OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Orecon Wednesday Morning, January 30, 1941
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JVo Favor Sway U$; No Fear Shall Awe"
From Tint Statesman, March 28, 1851
TIIE 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 lot all
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. 1
No Chancellor?
The recent changes in administrative assign
ments by the state board of higher education,
prompts the Eugene Register-Guard to specu
late' on what may (or what should) happen
If,-and when Chancellor Hunter retires. The'
lt-G thinks the present organization is top
heavy, and would delete the office of chancellor
and grant more authority to the presidents of
the several institutions.
We heard a prominent state college man
Saturday endorse a similar plan. Ht expressed
(he opinion that the present heads of the two
big schools could cooperate and avoid the con
tention hKh the chancellorship was created
to handle. The idea is on which will receive
much attention in the immediate future.
Following! is the principal portion of the
ftegiser-Guard's editorial:
If Dr. Frederick M. Hunter retires as chan
. cellor of the Oregon State System of Higher
Education in the near future, as seems prob
able, the itate board will have an opportunity
to make the presidents of the University of
Oregon, the State College and the normals what
" they ought to be presidents with authority, the
1 salary land the opportunity for leadership which
the presidents, of such schools should have.
The big job of pacification is done, and for
his share in that achievement Dr. Hunter de
serves full credit. The personalities around
whom all the conflict between the University
and Oregon State was centered have left the
stage. The office of chancellor is no longer
needed, and pet haps it should be recalled, that
in the original report of 15 yean ago, the crea
tion of the chancellorship was suggested, only
IF differences could not otherwise be recon
cile! . . .
With such high class men as Dr. Newburn
and Dr. Strand at the head of the two major
schools, there is little danger of the old feuds
cropping out again. The schools need desper
ately the stimulus which can come only by
giving their presidents the authority which they
ought to have, to lead, to plan,' to propose.
Furthermore, in making thii important
change, there should be a sharp definition and
limitation of the powers to be exercised by
Charles Byrne, as executive secretary of the
state board. Dr Byrne is an able man, par
. ti-ularly in business matters, and competent
as an adviser to the board and coordinator of
administrative details, but it should be plainly
understood that his powers do not extend to
educational policies, budgets or policies where
the presioenU must be free to function.
When Dr. Hunter took the office of chan
cellor, it was highly necessary. It is a tribute
to Dr. Hunter to say that as he approaches
retirement, the office has become unnecessary.
Oregon it not a rich state, but its educational
demands are enormous. We need the savings
of simplification Most of all we need the
vlulity which can come only by making the
presidents what they ought to be.
Affirmative Program
In Tuesday's editorial column the full em
ployment bill was critically analyzed. That was
negative approach to the problem of unem
ployment It is advisable to work out affirma
tive solutions as far as possible.
Industry itself has done much more than
government to prepare itself fcag; the reconver
sion period. The pommittee on Economic De
velopment. Paul Hoffman, chairman, hat don
more than any government agency or quasi
public body towork out sensible plans to meet
the situation sure to develop with suspension
of war contracts and demobilization. Its message
has been carried to all employers of any con
siderable number of j men, urging a forward
look to absorb as many workers as possible at
the coming of peace.
So long at our economy remains as it is,
private enterprise will have to carry the prin
cipal load in providing jobs. This means that
the climate for private endeavor must remain
reasonably healthy.
A public works program may wiaely be gear
ed into the general economic situation. While
tt cannot be turned on and off like tapwater,
H can be speeded up and expanded in periods
of business recession and alowed down in per
iods of business activity.
Then public assistance must be provided in
periods of stress. In the future as in the past
we can expect swings up and down in the
level of business. Society must give help to
carry over its members who are caught in the
trough of a depression. The strong must help
eerry the weak.
Clearly the emphasis should be put on keep
ing a clear road for private employment be
cause that is the area where the possibilities
are greatest. This does not mean approval of
inordinate profits or protection of monopoly.
On the contrary, it means to keep the channels
of competition open; and to distribute earnings
fairly, . providing workers with purchasing
power and companies .with profits for growth.
As we solve this problem we take car largely
of the unemployment problem.
General McArthur has ordered the abolish
ment of licensed 1 prostitution in Japan. If ht
succeeds he would be a good prospect for chief
of police in most any large American city
arid tome smaller ones.
An elevator operator'a life is full of ups anr
downs The housewife say her business is al
ways picking up.
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The Soviet army is leaving China, putting
a good many American GIs in the anomalous
potation of envying the Russian soldier.
Maybe the trouble with "reconversion" is that
man hasn't been "converted" for the first time.
At long last the Peart Harbor investigating
cmmitt has heard the Short of it.
What' the Capital of Maine? I
The old parlor standby game of tossing cards
into a hat it taking a back; teat in this day
of "One World," and if a person wants to b
the life of the party he'd better brush up on
geography. J j
Such educational pasttimes at trying to writ
the names of the 48 states in 10 minutes,; rat
tling off th capitals of each commonwealth,
giving boundaries, and listing the U. S. presi
dents in proper order, again are : in vogue
complicated no end by such variations as dat
ing major battles of World War II and locating
th one unpronounceable islands of the Pacific.
Atlases, almanacs and other reference books
have been getting a good dusting! off, and if
the worth-while educational yen persists Such
volumes could well '. be added to ; the list of
shortages. Most of those now in circulations ar
somewhat outmoded in parts, anyway, and a
lot of horn libraries are starting to hav addi
tions already.
By the way, if such things sound simple, just
try writing th names of all the states, let
alone all their capitals. Your grade school off
spring, though, might surpris you even if:th
study of geography now has given way to 1th
new-fangled course called scoial studies. J
A man in Columbia county claims to hav
a compound that will make hair grow on fth
bald. A better benefaction locally would b to
make trees grow on the bald hills of Columbia
county.
With another war over th new crop of Vet
erans is reviving the drum corps "racket" over
th country. Those who survived the drjum
corps contests of the period between the wart
will have fresh cause to renew. their prayers"
for perpetual peace.
Papers always : use the form in reports
weddings: Man takes bride. Yet often it is
groom who is "taken."
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Behind the New
By PAUL MALLON j
(Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Inc.
production in whole or in part strictly prohibited.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 Stat Secretary Byrf
came back from London without saying much.
He had a 40 minute conference with Mr. Truman,
and held an off-the-record press conference whch
developed no news. Those who saw him 'judged
h was satisfied with the beginnings of the United
Nations organization, but frankly, it must b im
ported little enthusiasm is evident backstage her.
The inner comment runs to platitudes, lacking
any moving depth of inspiration
for the better world. The organiza
tion has been set up, but what! it
will amount to rests with incal su
able events of : th future, and
everyone can plainly th na-.
tural conflicts iof world politics
exhibited to date, forecast an un
easy future. ! 1
The' Russians, for exampje,
night to force up th questions
of British Influence in Greece Sad
raul MaJWa Anglo-Dutch empire domination pf
Indonesia purely as a matter of politics to coun
teract the claims that they had seized Iran.
banes and Cenflict Were Lacking 1
Neither the Greeks nor the Indonesians weije
complaining. No issue or conflict had been pre
sented, in contrast with the affair of Iran, whef
th government had protested strenuously againft
Russia's protection of the communist revolutioto
airies until a pro-Russian premier took over the
Teheran government this past weekend. ;
Th Russians just tried to work up an issue
to make trouble for the British and Dutch in the
security council It furnished typical evidence of
Russian tactics, which ar the basic cause of the
lack of enthusiasm for the future of th organiza
tion, i
Behind this situation, there exists a natural f
ing that Russia it too ttrong for UNO and may suc
ceed in restraining its activities to courses which
are acceptable to Russia, thus greatly limiting its
future scope and power. This Russian position Js
understandable. In the big three and big fiv meet
ings Moscow generally has been! able to get hf
way, but in th United Nations assembly, where
she must face th whole world or th smaller
nations, her causes have not fared so well.
Beaten In Initial Meeting j . .
She waa beaten three times in this first meetin
of the assembly, failing to elect her candidate ai
president, being unable to break the secret balloj
system, or to limit the size of the steering coni
mittee. upon which SI nations now are to be ret
resented.
Then, quite significantly, Molotov did not atteni
the meeting, but sent Vlshinsky, who, incidentally
arrived late. I
But outside the UNO, Russia is picking up powe
through Europe and Asia, greater than any nation
has accumulated in our time. The only really for
midable resistance has developed in nations when!
th Christian churches are strong which explain
th constant ' attacks of her press against th
Vatican particularly.
Only a Working Tmee Feasible
By her very nature, Russia is not alone a nation!
but a world revolutionary political movement!
Hence it is impossible that she could be appeased!
with any limited amount of territory or power.
The struggles of Chinese or French communists fori
instance, cannot be resolved and settled. A working!
truce is the utmost possible.
Thus the troubles of th world must reasonably
be expected to continue indefinitely and create
ever-widening problems for UNO, One observe-
frosn London thought the trend he noted there wa
leading to an ultimate struggle between Russia
and the United States for the world power which
waa Britain's. He thought UNO would come to
that. Perhaps. Yet all that can be discerned behind
event to date it that th keeping of th peace- will
be a difficult and unending task j because of the
political forces, at play iin the world. Frankly rw
authority here seem to be ana too happy about
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Tho Literary
Guidcpoot
By W. O. Regers
BKFOKB THE SUN OOES DOWN,
by Elisabeth Matsgsr Hawar
(Deahlesay; tt.TS).
In certain respects. this novel
may be worth every cent award
ed its lucky author; $20,000 plus
$125,000 Ss winner of publisher
and M-GfM prize contests, and
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It's th story of Willowsprings,
Pa., along the Juniata, in 1180
81. Th entire cast of characters
is thrust on you broadside: in 15
pages you! meet 45 persons.
Long before you get them
straight In your mind, you realize
that Dan field, the doctor, is the
key to thej situation. He is friend
of th rich Albrights and Sar
gents, who run the place, yet he
enters every shack, however
humbl. td dispense pills, sweet
ness and light.
Mrs. Howard earns her money
by using th tear-jerking de
vices mostj effective among th
largest number of people. You
read about the littl boy who
dearly loves his dog, th grown
man who j longs for horn, th
tough kid with heart of gold who
feeds the starving, th hard
father who softens towards his
darling children, the innocent
girl so frightened by the sudden
change to womanhood, the
wealthy man who in Alger fash
ion rescues a ragged boy from
poverty.
She earns it. too, by trying for
laughs in (the easy ways: old
maids go around asking people to
sign th pjedge and negroes,
those humorous irrasponslbles,
make love all over the place. She
earns it by; bright forecasts of a
rosy future! for our great demo
cratic land.l
She earns; it perhaps best by a
combination, which Is no doubt
naive but strikes you as calculat
ing, of what Is noble and pure
with what is filthy. On one page
she quotes from the Bible, on the
next she works in one of the
words Boston speaks but refuses
to read; on the next a youngster
learns about sex. The book is
full of backhouses and four
letter words chalked on walls,
and boys and girls in the hay or
at the swimming hole. By spring
of 1881 everyone knows how to
mak a baby.
The thingi which disturbs me
most is not that this was writ
ten or published but that millions
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lowef taxes, assessments were
scaled down but by no means to
the level of the forced aales f
the period. Th abnormal situa
tion was not taken as a firm
standard of value. The situation
is in reverse now; and the in
creases will probably be conserv
ative as compared with quoted
selling prices. Perhaps, however,
a sharper rise would let a little
hot air out of the price inflation.
Most of our taxes are levied
not by fixed millagea but in mills
to produce the revenues required
for meeting the budgets. In this
respect if an even percentage in
crease is made on all property
assessments the taxpayer doesn't
hav to pay any higher tax than
. If there had been no change in
this assessment. Thus if the valu
ation 'of I school district is
000,000 and $10,000 is required
to run the school, the levy is 10
mills. 1 If the assessed valuation
is doubled and the school budget
remains the same the levy is cut
to fiv mills, and the taxpayer
is not; hurt.
TheJ-e are some city levies on
a miljage basis, like the street
repair! and fire department spe
cial levies with a maximum of
two mills each. Also the state
higher education fund and the
state elementary school tax fund
are baked on fixed millagea. In
crease in assessed valuations
would j increase the amounts
raised ! under these levies. For
general support of government
the six per cent limitation ap
plies and this limits the amount
which may be raised.
Referring again to assessments
of property I would make the
point that individual sales do not
fix the! whole market. The fact
that one or several houses have
been sold at twice their pre-war
value does not mean that all the
property m Marion county could
be sold for twice its former value.
The "distress" purchase made by
a person desperate for a house
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of Americans should be expected
to want nothing better than this
for a book or a film.
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doesn't prove that every house
owner could sell out on a similar
basis.
The discussion sums up to this:
Property owners cannot expect
their assessments to remain fixed
at former levels in the midst of a
big real estate boom; but they
hardly need to fear that their
assessments will keep pace with
the skyrocketing prices now mat
ters of common knowledge.
Good Sense in
Hygiene Cited
Vital to Health
The use of "good sene in body
hygiene" is the best known pre
ventative of infantile paralysis,
the Salem Kiwanis club was told
Tuesday by Dr. Lewis D. Clark.
Salem physician and former di
rector of the crippled children's
service at the university medical
school In Portland.
Dr. Clark, who said 80 per cent
of infantile paralysis cases were
children under 10 years of age,
declared research still was in a
stage which made it "difficult to
draw conclusions" regarding the
disease but that the number of
"severe deformities" had been re
duced in recent years. He also said
a "modified form" of the so-called
Sister Kenney method of treat
ment was in general use now, as
a means to keep patients more
comfortable, but that it' was "not
established" that the method con
stituted a cure or was "any better"
in its results.
Four persons out of five recover
from the disease without paralysis,
he declared. He added that it seem
ed the disease was as likely to
strike snyone at home as quickly
as in school, but advised against
over-crowding and said there was
a growing emphasis on commun
ity sanitation a a means to com
bat the ailment.
Contributions, such as the March
of Dimes, were declared vital in
carrying on research as well as
actual treatment.
The Kiwanis club Tuesday rati
fied action of its board of direc
tors in proceeding with a bound
roster of pictures of the club membership.
Sehroeder Asks
Public Funds for
Tillamook Burn
FOREST GROVE. Jan. 29 -M-Supervisor
Edward Sehroeder of
the Tillamook burn area said to
day the forest rehabilitation pro
gram finally adopted .should be
financed with public funds.
The greatest problem in 1944
will be to protect timberland out
side the burn, he stated.
He reported a new planting
gun would be used In the area.
At a cost of $5 an acre aside from
stock, the device places two-year-old
trees and treats them with
hormones at the same time.
About 80 per cent of the plantings
live.
A five or six-day training
school for lookouts is planned for
June, because a shortage of
trained men is a major obstacle
in fire control, Sehroeder reported.
Jackson Day Ratiqtiet
Date Changed to Mar. 21
PORTLAND. Jan. 2-UVDate
of the Jackson day banquet here
has been changed to March 21 to
allow Secretary of Labor Schwel
ienbach to speak, National Demo
cratic committeeman Lew Wet
lace announced today.
It was first set for March 1$
Jackson's birthday, then changed
to March 23 date of the master
dinner at which President Tru
man will speak and is now set
for the 21st. -
Legion Names Bassett to Lead
Service Officer Instruction
Ray Bassett, service officer of American Legion Capitol Post
No. 9, has been appointed instruction chairman of the service
officer classes to be conducted Friday afternoon, February 8,
at the legion hall in connection with the legion state department
officers and local legionnaires' conference on that day.
The announcement, coming from the legion's state depart
ment renabiutauon commission,
Portland, reported that June W.
Valiant, Portland, legion national
field secretary for Oregon and
Washington, and Robert C. Dillard,
Portland, department service of
ficer, will assist Bassett.
Well Qualified
One of the 3ix Oregon depart
ment rehabilitation commission
ers, Bassett is well qualified to
conduct the classes which are di
vided into three sessions. Purpose
of the school is to instruct local
post service officers on veterans'
benefits in compensations, pen
sions, review boards, burial bene
fits, insurance and hospital care.
Mrs. Otto Heider. Sheridan,
member of the rehabilitation com
mission will represent the legion
auxiliary at the instructions.
Service officers and interested
legionnaires from 30 legion posts
in Marion, Polk, Yamhill and parts
of Washington, Lincoln. Linn and
Clackamas counties are expected
to attend the conference and eve
ning entertainment.
Post Officers' Course
While the service officer school
is being conducted by Bassett,
Fritz Nissen, Portland, department
adjutant, will be conducting an
instruction course for post officers
and adjutants in administration
functions and responsibilities in
line with the American Legion's
national policy.
Units of the American Legion
auxiliary will hold sessions Friday
afternoon in the Women's club.
The afternoon sessions are sched
uled to start at 1:30 and end at
5:30.
Crew Saved
From Stranded
Ship Off Alaska
SEATTLE, Jan. 29-P)-The of
ficers and crew of about 40 men
of the 5100-ton refrigerator ship
Crown Reefer, aground on rug
ged Amchitka island in the Aleu
tians, were safe tonight but the
vessel's fate was in doubt.
Capt. M. Rockower, of New
York, and several of his men were
still aboard a navy tug and the
pilot, Edward M. Stornich, and 21
crew members were ashore with
army troops on Amchitka, latest
messages to. the 13th naval dis
trict and the vessel's agents here
said. The double bottom of the
ship, however, apparently was
completely , torn open and water
flooded the engine room to with
in two feet of the top of the en
gines after the ship hit the rocks
Sunday night.
There were no passengers
aboard when the . ship left here
Jan. 1 with a cargo of perishables
for Kodiak and Aleutian Island
bases, but the agents did not
know whether passengers were
taken aboard at Kodiak.
Navy divers were to make an
under-water examination after
navy vessels arrived with all sal
vage personnel and equipment
available in the western Aleu
tians, the navy operating:. base at
Adak radioed. J.
CAP Cadclg, Senior
Members to Fiv at
Albany Airport
Both Civil Air Patrol cadets
and senior members of the Civil
Air patrol will travel to the Al
bany airport, Sunday, February
3, where two army planes will be
available for free planes rides
for CAP members, it was an
nounced Tuesday.
This week's CAP meeting will
be highlighted by the motion
picture, "Live and Learn,' which
will be shown in the plane en
gine's class.
The meeting, open to anyone,
are held every Thursday from
7:30 to 9 p.m. in the high school
shop building.
Instructors'
Class in First
Aid Scheduled
A week-long first aid instruc
tors' class will start Monday
evening, first session to be in the
chapter rooms of the local Red
Cross. The class will be held
nightly through Friday, from 7:30
to 10:30 o'clock.
The course, designed to train
instructors, is open to those hold
ing instructors' cards, valid for
the last three year and those
holding current advanced first aid
certificates in the Red Cross.
All eligible persons are urged
to take the course by Wayne Kuhl,
chairman of the first aid, water
safety, and accident prevention
committee for Marion county
chapter of the Red Cross.
Chester Schwartz, representa
tive in Oregon from the area of
fice for first aid, water safety,
and accident prevention, will
teach the course.
Rosson Off for
Vets' Meeting
In Washington
Hugh E. Rosson, director of th
state department of veterans af
fairs, left Portland by train Tues
day evening for Washington, D.
C, where he will attend a con
ference called to discuss problems
of re training and reemployment
of veterans. j
Heads of veterans' committees
from all states ar Invited to lb
conference by the re-training and
re-employment administration of
the department of labor. The
meeting will be held Monday and
Tuesday.
Main purpose of the session is
to devise measures insuring better
cooperation between stale and fi
nancial agencies working in these
fields. Rosi,on also expects to dis
cuss local problems pertaining to
veterans with the Oregon delega
tion in congress, he said. He ex
pects to return to Salem in sev
eral, weeks.
Morse to Urge Use of
Portland Port by U. S.
PORTLAND, Jan. 29.-(P-Sen-ator
Morse (R-Ore) wired Mayor
Riley today he would urge upon
War Mobilization Director John
W. Snyder "that full use be made
of this port."
The mayor had sent a protest
based on information that 63
ships loaded with war materiel
were scheduled to. dock at ports
other than Portland.
BOXCAH8 ORDERED WEST
PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 29-4-Sen.
Guy Cordon (R-Qre) has
notified the Portland advisory
committee to the war shipping
administration that the ODT is
acting at once to transfer 1100
or 1200 boxcars to the west. Har
old E. Sanford, committee chair
man, said this should substan
tially relieve the boxcar scarcity
which has slowed wheat move
ments. J:
UAL to Triple
Repair Space
Space for overhauling United
Air Lines' planes will be tripled
by June 1 when United moves its
central maintenance base at Chey
enne to the buildings which -housed
United's modification center dur
ing the war. Vice President J. A.
Herlihy of the air lines main
office has announced.
The expansion has been mad
necessary by the company's grow
ing operations which now include
flights by 77 planes totalling 136,
500 miles daily, the official stated.
Among new operations of Unit
ed is the air freight service which
will accommodate Salem and th
S3 other cities on United's routes,
beginning this Friday. Twinen
gtned Douglas DC-3 Cargoliners
with 8300-pound capacity will con
nect directly with the passenger
cargo Mainliners to speed th
movement of afr freight
TIGHTEN AIR CONTROL.
HAMILTON, Bermuda. Jan. Zt.
-(-Under pressure from Lon
don, British delegates to the con
ference drafting a new British
American air agreement now are
reported to be demanding virtual
veto power on the right of the
U. S. civil aeronautics board to
grant extensions or make chan
ges in routes flown by U. S. alr
Hnes in Europe.
New
Mountings
The beauty of diamonds is
often obscured by old-fashioned
settings. Let us
remount your diamond in
modern style.
Extended Fay
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