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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
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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.
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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!
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The stock market has been stuttering for
a week, not sure whether to whistle or spit. !
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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.
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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
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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
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"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.
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