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PAGE FOUH Thai OREOpN STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning, February IS, 1948 No Favor Swdy$ V$; No Fear Shall Awt" From first Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAQUtV Editor and Publisher Member of the Associated Press i The Associated Preu it exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all new dispatches cie&ited to it or not otherwise credited In this newspaper. The Interior Department The department of the interior wai created during the administration of James K. Polk, just as it closed. Polk, who was a narrow con structionist and opposed to federal support of internal improvements, wai skeptical of the idea: but it was strongly urged by some of his associates so he approved the bill creating the department. Under it was put the general land office which administered public lands, and still does though their area is only a frac tion of what it once was. The department kept on growing until now it is one of the biggest in Washington. Under it are. in addition to the land office, such bureaus as Indian affairs, rec lamation, geological survey, park service, bu reau of. mines, grazing service, fish and wild life service, territories and island possession, distribution of power from government dams, fisheries, and added war offices such as pe troleum and solid fuels administration and war relocation. The department is one of the most difficult to administer in the federal government. Touch ing as it does land, minerals, parks, grazing, it is the natural focus of private pressures. One mutt be plenty tough to withstand the heat from special interests. In later years it hat been a political storm center. It was the col lision between Gifford Pinchot. chief forester, and Secretary K A. Ballinger that cracked the administration of President Taft. Secretary Al bert fall's. minde-edg in leasing of navy oil lands became a national scandal. Tough Harold Ickes, with a rest for combat, has guarded jealously the lands and minerals intrusted to his care. Hi resignation makes a rift in the Truman cabinet that will extend down into the demo cratic party and the country. Already it is suggested that a westerner be named to heqd the interior department. Since th days of Ballinger and Fall there has been much lest support for this idea, although Dr. Wof k of Colorado and Raymond Wilbur of Cali fornia did creditable jobs during the Cool id ge and Hoover ti-rnis. The right kind of westerner would be all right, but the wrong kind would be bad. very cad. It will not be easy to find a westerner frit from associations that might prove embarrassing. A great deal of the business antagonism to Ickes faded dbring the war. His administration of petroleum was regarded as fair and prac tical, though tie did err in promoting the trans Arabian pipe ine. Western livestock men have been critical although actually the Taylor graz ing act as administered by the interior depart ment set up stockmen with permanent allot ments of grazing land so they may become veritable Abi nhami. The retirement of Ickes raised a big ques tion about valley authority proposal. Ickes vigorously opposed independent authorities fav oring use of existing federal agencies responsi ble; to cabinet officers and to congress. It-is doubtful if his retirement will have much ef fect on legislative sentiment respecting auth ority measures. They have met with very strong opposition in M-nate committees. What about power, llonneville and (Jrand Coulee in particular? Ickes strongly supported public power and Bonneville administration likewise has favored and encouraged public ownerkhip. A "'right face" in the department of the interior might put a chill on this ardor for public ownership clear down the line. We ! shall what we shall see. Ye, the resignation of Secretary Ickes, for 11 years 1h.k of a vast domain of federal power, Is a pohtKal overturn of the first magnitude. Million of are focused on the president a he sort names to select a new head of the department eyes fired with eager selfishness, eyes feaiful of the change, eyes grey in calm appraisal. We shall see what we shall see. ' i Too Many MhIhivph For days on end we were daily being prom lard a r.ew price-wage policy, designed to end all strikes, start the transmission belt of mass production and roll out the barrels, cream separators, pots. pans, soil pipe hairpins and radios. The whole nation was presumed to be Valking the floor outside the delivery room waiting for the government , obstetricians to emerge and announce "It's a boy." Instead the latest word is - that as far as steel goes, whose 'case'' was farthest advanced, it's a stillbirth or an abortion we -aren't sure just whirh4 I The trouble clearly was toohimany midwives. Bowles of OPA. Snyder of demobilization and stabilization, Judge Col let t of some other bu reau. Virion of treasury and numerous other specialist, nurses and nurses' aides could not agree on the procedure. The news from the operating room leaked freely through well ventilated cracks. The general agreement seem ed to be on a $5 hike in the price of steel and steel acceptance of an 18V4c wage boost. But Midwife Bowles wanted to confine the increase to carbon steel and deny it to alloy steel. Right there the attending staff fell into such Editorial Comment WRONG SYMBOL IX BEST Now someone discovers that there is ho such thing as the united nations organization. The San Francisco Charter says juat "united nations." No one seems to know who tacked on the generally accepted organization. But there is a slight effort afoot to change the designation from UNO to UN. We confess an allergy to the current and inevit able alphabetical designation of practically every thing But if we must choose, well take UNO in .preference to UN; Certainly the Spanish word for one is a more appropriate symbol for the united Rations' toal than the Anglo-Saxon prefix of negation. Corvallis Geeette Times. disagreement that the patient was forgotten. Undoubtedly there will be efforts at resuscita tion and the infant when born will be soundly spanked to get him to breath. Meantime, the patient is still under! the anesthetic of a:full-; scale strike. j ? J. This is a not unnatural consequence of gov ernment intervention. With the best of inten tions to make everybody happy and get goods to flowing like spring freshets over the land, the government agencies have been striving to doctor this and patch that and at the tame tim to 'hold tha line." Most feared was the infec tion of inflation, and jail the doctors have been agreed on preventing thli form of economic j puerperal fever from getting started. But the moves have been toward making a climata favorable for its bacteria, and that was where'' Doctor Bowles,, the Inflation specialist, inter posed a partial negative. . . There have been well advertised reports, also, that there would be staff changes around the White House, with Snyder clipped of aoroe pow ers and Bowles promoted to added duties. But this new, new deal la also held in abeyance. The mistake hat been in too much advance publicity. There was gestation, all right, but political obstetrics is far more tricky than bio logical. Maybe government should get back and let nature take its course. ; u llliFS' INQUISITIVf 'UTRC' "!J , I . OMiImM hf Kbit fMlmi Srsst by erraa I wMk Tse Wesbiagtea Stat Interested in the Mechanics The inaugeration of a tourist information school at Bend is well worth commendation. The school, Instituted by the chamber of com merce, is designed to familiarize those who meet out-state visitors with the facts of life in regard to the myriad of attractions in jthls state. It wouldn't hurt any of use to know the distance from Salem to Silver Creek falls, this closest road to Bend, what amusements are available on the coast, etc, etc. and to answer all such questions with a smile. ! The communists have ; tossed our Brother Browder for "deserting to the side of the class enemy American monopoly capital. Could it be that the errant comrade defied the party by cutting his hair and opening' a bank account! Off 0333308 The stock market has been stuttering for a week, not sure whether to whistle or spit. ! I I I f 1 I 'VV-'i-Ll- 2J! j. u. waits (Continued from Page 1) by private enterprise in contra diction to the 'usual' govern mental functions is too shifting a basis for determining consti tutional power and too entan gled in expediency to serve as a dependable legal criterion." Frankfurter makes much of "non-discrimination" the tax is exacted equally from all engaged in the bottling business. But Stone, Reed, Murphy and Bur ton who concur in, the result "are not prepared to say that the na tional government may constitu tionally lay a non-discriminatory tax on every class of property and activities of states and indi viduals alike," and indicate they would shy off ef a tax which they thought infringed state sov ereignty, even though it be non discrimintory. . It may be surprising to anti new dealers, but it is Douglas and Black who in their dissent get right behind old John Mar shall and quote with approval his opinion in the case of McCul loch vs. Maryland with its fa miliar dictum "The power to tax is the power to destroy." Per haps sniffing federal taxation pf publicly owned enterprises Douglas disputes the argument of the majority with vigor. He asks: "Is the municipality to be taxed whenever it engages In an activity which once was in the field of private enterprise and therefore once was taxable?" He cites this difference, that "local government exists to provide for the welfare of its people, not for a limited group of stockholders." He looks forward to "an expand ing field of state activity" and wants municipal enterprises to be exempt from all federal taxation. come tax to interest receipts from municipal bonds issued on 'trading'" enterprises like a wa ter or power system. This trad ing operation was the door by which the federal government got in to collecting the income tax from employes of states and municipal corporations. There is no fixed' rule perhaps there cannot be one. There is another tax question which is bothering many people, that Is over applying the federal corporation tax to cooperative. This is outside the s-op of the Saratoga Springs case being pies ently before congress. However Justice Rutledge makes some re marks which appear to be pertin ent to the question of taxing co operatives when he says: "The shift from immunity to taxability has gone too far, and too much, reason to sustain it, as respects both state functionar ies and state functions, for back tracking to doctrines founded in philosophies of sovereignty more current and perhaps more realis tic in an earlier day. Too much is, or may be, at stake for the nation to permit 'relieving the states of their duty to support it. financially as otherwise, when they take over increasingly the things men have been accustomed to carry on as private,, and there fore taxable enterprise. Competi tive considerations unite with the necessity for securing the fed eral revenue in a time when the federal burden grows heavier proportionately than that of the states, to forbid that they be free to undermine 'rather than obligated to sustain the nation's financial requirements." The parallel is clear: large scale coopers Uves as big as many corporations can hardly be con sidered in the same class as the small, local cooperative. Also the needs of the government for revenue may force it to collect taxes from the cooperative the same as from the corporation. State Highway Group to Honor 13 Employees The American Association of state highway officials will honor 11 high-ranking Oregon highway employes with more than 25 years of service, State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock disclosed Thursday. - Oregon, he said, is one of the leaders for having highway em ployes with long service. He said many states, where the highway departments are political foot balls.' have no employes with long service. The Oregon men, who will re ceive pins and certificates, are: Baldock; C. B. McCullough, as sistant highway engineer; Joseph M. Devers, commission attorney; Samuel H. Probert, office engi neer; Ethan A. Collier, mainte nance engineer; Glenn S. Paxson, bridge engineer; Howard G. Smith, construction engineer; William E. Chandler, division en gineer at Bend; Kings ley D. Ly tic, division engineer at Rose burg; Paul Von Scoy, division en gineer at La Grande; W. C. Wil liams, division engineer at Port land; Prank T. Young, assistant division engineer at Portland; and Herbert B, Glaisyer, commission secretary. Baldock said the commission also has other 2S-year-men. but that only the top-ranking men were honored by the national organization. Gets WJJ Postl -441 k- i - i ja I f T -w f.. -. Under prevailing construction of the constitution the fizz-water of Saratoga Springs i may be taxed, but the supreme- court seems to keep its fingers crossed as to rulings of future tax ques tions involving local units of government. The issue may arise over attempts to apply the in- The greatest thrill some? people get out of life is scratching their eczema. ; Interpreting The Day's News f By James D. Watte ' Associated Press Staff Wrtter SAN mANCISCO, Feb. 14-()-China showed temper today. To hear Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek speak, half a million Shanghai Chinese Jammed into the? only centrally-located spot big enough to hold the; largest crowd In Shanghai's-history the great,? oval race course In the middle of town. This setting from which .Chinese long were ; excluded by the foreigners who built it provided! a dramatic empnasis ior wnai, Chiang told his flag waving, cheer ing audience. As the Chlneses stood on the grass tennis courts, bowiling greens, and .the golf course injtide the track. Chiang waved his white-1 gloved hands and said: "Eight years ago it would not have been possible for us to con vene here, but today we again 'are masters of Shanghai." We now are a free and Inde pendent people, especially withthe' abolition, of extraterritoriality. said Chiang, referring to! the system of special right which foreigners used to enjoy In China. Speaks of Responsibilities 1 He then spoke of the responsibilities which go with freedom, and soberly urged his listeners to follow the example of their allies. "If we wish to be able to stand side by side with them we will have to observe discipline, be . T . responsible, have a clear sense of ethics and loyal- QRIfJ AND BLAK I I ty. and know shame. I . "I shall give you a few1 words of advice. Any thing you have to do today, finish It. To carry that out you can have me as an example. 1 will be your model." While it may be doubled that any western leader today would thus offer himself as an example, it should be realized that to Chinese this unusual statement could mean that Chiang thereby assumed the personal responsibility of being an example to his people. While Chiang spoke thus, foreign businessmen including some Americans ; pondered in their Shanghai offices the uncertainties many of them still think exist, six months after the war has ended, that prevent resumption of peace-time trade. Ne Rate e Exchange Set They still had no practicable official rate of exchange on which to base plans,' and had just learned today that a reported relaxation of the Chinese business law was not, after all, going (b happen. ' In Chungking, the Chinese press complained that the secret wartime agreement at Yalta for Russian participation in the war against Japan was mainly at China's expense and without prior consultation with China. It cited the Manchurian concessions subsequently made to Russia by China, assertedly "under duress." and recalled that the Yalta agree ment provided for the restoration of Chinese sov ereignty over Manchuria. Apparently it did not go into the various things that might have happened had there been no Yalta agreement or subsequent Si no-Soviet treaties. Yesterday Chiang Kai-stfek told his ; press con ference, perhaps pointedly, that there was nothing secret about the informal economic diticuaslons about Manchuria which the Chinese now are carrying on with the Russians. He said the United States was being kept advised, but did . not elaborate further. Such was Chiang's and China's temper today. The Literary Guidepost Br W. G. Korers ANATOMY FOR ABTISTS. y SW( tnala March (S3.7S); HOW 1 MAEB WOOD CUTS AND WOODEN XNGBAVINGS, y Haas Alrsaa Sor Mnllr (SZ.YS); NCTL'BE FRAMING, r S4ar LasSoa (t2.?t); AMERICAN WATERCOI. OR AND WINSLOW HOMER, by l.leytf fiooarlrh (SZ); moMfraphi ky JOHN SLOAN, ROCKWr.l.l. RENT, THOMAS HKNTON. MAX WEBER TT.lW.Cf., STUART DAVIS. EVUENE SPEICHER (each SI) (AmenVaa ArUsU Cirsap) This big' bundle of 11 books about pictures, how to make pic tures and how to frame them, marks the return of the Ameri can Artists Group to the pub lishing field. It's a happy day for artists and art lovers. The volumes fall into three classifications: handbooks on methods, exhibition monographs and monographs by artists about their own work. The artist monographs now number seven, and will soon in clude eight more: Hopper. Brook, Glahy Kockmore Davis, Kuni yoshi. Karfiol, Burchfleld, Curry and William Zorach. They are vest pocket rather than pocket size with 50 or more black and white illustrations and a frontis piece in color. Each one is virtu . ally a miniature exhibition, as the publisher says, and they'll form a fine art show for the li brary shelfi The 'Goodrich book, based on an exhibition held at the Walker By Lichty fill ... Bass- DJiSIV M 111 Mm St. M k aV sm ii as., w ' w aw bb wwm, i sssassssss u m bm ar F j mm a . if 01 w 1 a ; . m XSPJ ;J 'T-H Pl&L I I ejtMt, C Tmm, la. V'l 1 J "l admit the pest war world Is disappointing. Madam, bat youH be troly a ass led at the wonderful things industry has planned far the f- yost strike worldr Art Center, Minneapolis, is the catalogue amplified and turned into a permanent record at the suggestion of Daniel S. Defen bacher, the director there. Gen erously illustrated, it is informa tive and helpful. While the-first two groups will interest the general public, the handbooks are Intended mainly for practitioners. Marsh's "Anat omy.1 however, consisting of more than 400 Illustrations drawn by the artist from old mHster studies, might have a wide appeal. Mueller, who. teach es at Columbia, will set you straight on woodcuts and wood engravings. Landon, an artist who solved his framing problems by organizing his own frame shop, writes lucidly and add useful marginal sketches. Like the book.s which the Ar tists Group used to publish, these are designed arid 4ound in ex cellent taste; tliev are ont only about art they are art. Foundrymen Reject Plan, Ready Strike SEATTLE. Teb. 14 (VIVNell V. Parrlo of the Foundry Workers and Molders union (AFL) said to night Its 3000 Pacific northwest workers had voted to reject a management proposal for settle ment of their wage demands and were prepared to strike Mondsy. shutting down 79 Washington and Oregon plants. Pardo. the union's Pacific coast policy committee chairman, said the proposal offered a 10 per cent increase in the existing wage scale and the union had asked 17H pr cent. "If the manage ments don't "meet our wage de mands by Friday noon there won't be anybody at work In their plants by Monday," he said. Pardo did not announce the total vote, but at. Portland. Ore., union secretary H. W. Sprague said workers there favored ac ceptance of the proopsal. Mercy Flight Fails As Woman Dies PORTLAND, Feb. 14. -tVPr- A flight to Burns with parathyroid extract to save the life of Phyllis Sutton. 20, failed today. The strick en girl was dying as the plane completed its one hour, 40 minute flight from Portland. ,The order for the extract was filled, taken to the airport and arrived at Burns two hours. 25 minutes after her physician phon ed for it MORSE RCIIF.DI LES HPEECH PORTLAND. Feb. ,14 -Sen a tor Morse vill speak here to morrow at a luncheon meeting of the Portland realty board on the subject. -It's Your Congress." Pref. John L. Knight, who Than day was appointed assistant te the president at Willamette aiil ve rslty by the Instltatloa's bearsl ef trastees. Knight Named Assistant to WU President The board of trustees of Wil lamette university, upon recom mendation of President G. Her bert Smith, voted at their semi annual meeting in Portland Thursday to name Professor John I. Knight, assistant to the presi dent, it has been announced Sfne coming to Willamette In 104 J as assistant professor of re ligion. Prof. Knight has been as signed increasing administrative responsibilities and has carried on an extensive schedule of off campus speaking engagements, the university announced Prof. Knight's title has been counsellor on religious life for the past two years. In other action taken by the board and revealed by President Smith. Dr. Ijiwrenre A. , Riggx, head of the depsrtment of 'educa tion for the past two years, was named director of the Willamee university summer session which will open for an eight-weeks per iod on July 8. Dr. Riggs. who came to Willam ette in 1944 from the faculty of Johns Hopkins university, will have the academic responsibility for the summer program In the absence of Dean Chester F. Lu ther, who will be awsy from the campus during the summer months on an extended vacaUon, his first since the intensive V-12 naval training program got un derway on the campus in July of 1943. Navy Probes Death Crash Naval authorities are investigat ing the alleged car theft and auto crash Sunday which resulted in death of one Camp Adair sailor and injuries to another, but no findings have been revealed to date, it was reported Thursday by the Camp Adair executive offi cer. The injured sailor, Frederick D. Lindsay, is recovering at tha Adair hospital and reported "do ing as well as can be expected." Raymond Leo Heath was the sail or fatally injured in the accident at Chemawa junction. CIRCUIT COURT ' Ivtlyn C Welaer vs Slat tndusUlal accident commission : Complaint aslu mod titration of order and award of permanent partial disability MarsarctU Hyatt vs 'Harry L. R. HyaMI: Order m plaintiff' motion dis missing suit. Laaiie P. Oehler and Ella L. Ochler vs B A. Oehler: Decree cancelling de fendant's . deed to real property. Kenneth Cook and Michael Kesrler vs Jim Overfteld: Judgment order tabilahina: plaintiffs' ownership to equipment and recovering plaintiffs' costs State vs Fred People: Order denying defendant's motion for new trial and vacating stay of execution of aentence. Margaret Oeden Newman vs Sidney H. Newman: Complaint asking divorce on charge that defendant misrepre sented his physical and mental condi tion as competent, married Feb. 1. ISM. Gerald In C. Rogawav vs Donald L. tiffs metien Regaway: Order oi dismissal on plain- LaVame Laoachiee vs Charles T. Lapschtes: Motion by plaintiff for default. NoU Klinefelter vs J. A. Bernard and Pauline Summers: Motion to set trial: and' reply denying each and every allegation ef defendant except those In plaintiffs complaint. George Benaen and others vs Pearl Thames and others: Order overruling defendants demurrer. Credit Bureaus. Inc.. vs Arthur T. Jarvi and Mrs. Sylvia Jarvl. his wife: Order from Justice court for S14.S7 damages and eoata. Milton Larson vs Franeys Larson: Order of default- MARRIAGK LICENSE APPLICATIONS Leslie O. Adams. 34. dental techni cian, Salem, and La veils Beereman. 21. telephone operator, Satem. Irvin S. Pankiatz. 24. laborer, Salem, and Max ine DcPew. 76, clerk. Salem. Bobert C. Class. SI. radio announcer. Portland, and EUna L. Hansom, 21. secretary, Salem. . PROBATE COURT Eva Martin, esecutris of estate of Clifford Anthony De Tienne vs Wil liam Powell arid others: Demurrer alleges that several causes In the plaintiffs - complaint are improperly united. Fred tJnger. estate: Financial state ment fUed. William Ceiae, estate: Order ap pointing sa appraisers. W. C. Wins low. Roy Hariand and Helen Coding ton. rercllle E. DeJardin. estate: Order appointing as appraisers. Henry J. Millie. Madonna Prinalow and Roy Har iand. Mary Louiae Terry guardianship of minor: Order appointing Nancy Lee Terry as guardian. Honald Bender, guardianship of min or aetata: Order appointing Jack Bel den as guardian: and order permitting settlement of St 750 with Charles W. Hoover and the Burroughs Adding Machine company. James Michels. guardianship of min or: Return of guardian's aoie of real property asks order confirming same. Violet M. Civena. estate: Order ap pointing Derss Lackafd as administra trix Milton Dech. estate: Order appoint ing C C. Edwards as adminiatrator and Istor Howell. R. W. Coulter and Frank Watkins as appraiaers. JUSTICE COURT Harry Evon. larceny, sentenced to 20 das In county Jail. Robert Kruger. charged with obtain ing money under fatee pretenses, re quested preliminary hearing. Hearing set tor 10:20 a. m. Friday. BaH reduced from S1900 to S7S0. MUNICIPAL COURT Raymond S. Lane. 1TW D St., cited for violation of basic rule. R. P. Fmseth. Schj. violation of baiic rule. paH S2S bail. Alva C. Osborne, soldier, failure to stop, paid S2.se bail. Ralph K. Lisle. SM S Liberty st . violation of basic rule. 87 So. New VFW Post To Name Officers Next Wednesday. The formation of an additional Veterans of Foreign Wars post for World War II veterans of the Sa lem area has been disclosed by Virgil Bolton, district commander. A meeting, to which all over seas veterans of World War II are invited, will be held in the base ment of the VrW hall at p. m. next Wednesday, Bolton an nounced. Officers wiU be elected at that time. 1)1 MWAY MAY SEEK POST PORTLAND. Ore. Feb. 14 iAI Hobert E, Duniway said today he would oppose Rep. Homer D. An gell in the May republican pri mary if no one likely to defeat the incumbent files. Duniway is state representative from Mult nomah county. Jl SEREtUTY Li Is truly a syssaet af grades liviaf. Sat year table teaight vilk tass is example ef tae afjversmUVs art. Sb 4ee plsca aettiag V2J&1 Jaclsdiaf 0 &hternaifona Slerluy tit Cearl St.