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AN INDEPENDINT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER Alton T. Baker EDITOR William M, Tugman MANAGING EDITOR Alton T. Baker, Jr. SERVICES Full Associated Press, United Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Reglster-Guard'a policy it the complete and Impartial publication in its new pages of all news and statement on news. On thi page the editor of The Register Guard offer their opinions on events of the day and matter of importance to the community endeavoring to be candid but fair and helpful in the development of con itructive community policy. A newspaper is A CITIZEN OF ITS COMMUNITY. Entered at the Post Office at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter, PAGE EIGHT EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1952 "Can't Lift Yourself By The Bootstraps" Deep into the autumn, if not the winter, of their industrial discontent, gome of the New England states are geeking to promote new payrolls by the creation of state supported development corporations somewhat in the pattern of the municipal enterprises which have been undertaken in Tennessee and Mis sissippi. With minor variations the pro grams in Massachusetts and Rhode Is land would operate like this: A atate-owned corporation ia created to buy or build industrial plants uited to the needs of attractive industries. Revenue bonds of this state corporation would be issued and sold in the open market to cover all costs of this promotion. Rentals or purchase payments by the in iustrial tenants would be scheduled to amor tise these revenue bonds. Since the state-owned plants would be exempt from property taxes, the state cor poration would pay certain annual fees to -lties and school districts in lieu of taxes. In Rhode Island, the stale would guaran tee the revenue bonds as to principal and Interest, meaning that if the ventures should all the taxpayers would be stuck. In Massachusetts, the state does not guar intee the bonds but sets up the initial fi nancing by a state appropriation. As we pointed out last July in com menting on the municipal promotion schemes in the South, it is difficult to see how these state or city schemes can avoid conflict with the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States nearly a hundred years ago in the fa mous Topeka case (Citizens Savings and Loan vs. Topeka vol. 87, U. S. Reports 655). The doctrine of that case is very simple: "Public funds cannot be used to aid prl rate Industry," This is still very sound doctrine, in our opinion. Of course, the federal gov ernment itself has violated this prin ciple many times in many ways, espe cially in its subsidies in various forms of transportation and tariff protection. It probably will be argued that the reve nue bond scheme for promoting indus try does not involve direct taxation ex cept as to the initial advances of state funds, or in case of the ultimate col lapse of the ventures, but it is still bad business. Certainly, in states as noto rious for political corruption as Massa chusetts and Rhode Island have been in recent years, it is dangerous business. It has long been our belief that no community can lift itself by its boot straps. Most of the millions that are spent annuallv by chambers of com merce and other booster organizations endeavoring to lure new smokestacks are wasted except where the pro motion is limited to providing factual answers to the questions which indus trial prospects raise as to resources, transportation costs, labor conditions and markets. Most industry worth having is lured by free sites, tax rebates or special fa vors of any kind if the economic factors are not propitious. Everywhere in the country speculative enterprises have usually turned out bad. New England has been hard hit by the migration of many of its textile and metal industries to more profitable areas. It would be interesting to inquire how far political mismanagement has stimulated this migration. We doubt if it can be brought back by manipulation of public funds. arquis Chiidi Love Doesn't Always Find a Way CHI1.DB Test of the Primary Eyewas! President Truman's decision to let ; his name remain on the ballot in the l New Hampshire primaries despite his ! first pronouncement that primaries are all "eyewash," reminds one of our friends of a little incident involving eyewash. It was during World War I when an epidemic of pink eye hit his training camp: "One of the boys had pink eye for which the quack had prescribed a mild lotion of boric acid. The soldier across the aisle had a sore toe for which the quack had, as usual, prescribed Iodine. In the middle of the night the soldier with pink eye reached out and filled his eyeglass with what he thought was eyewash but it turned out to be iodine. It took half the company to restrain the wild man." President Truman may be inviting a similar experience. Truman has amended his slur on the primary system by saying that he meant only that the state primary results do not control the National conventions of either party. This is, unfortunately, true. - However, the primary results do have considerable influence, the best evi dence of which is Mr. Truman's decision to have a show-down with Kefauver in New Hampshire. It would be a blow to Kefauver's hopes to lose to Truman in New Hampshire and it would restore Truman's prestige if he could win that state under present circumstances. For Taft, Eisenhower, and Stassen, likewise, the New Hampshire primary is a pres tige test. , (Truman states that he would favor a nation-wide presidential primary system. That would require a constitutional amendment and Is perhaps years in the future.) Because New Hampshire is a very small state (only two senators and two congressmen) even less potent than Oregon politically, many people are puzzled by the importance attached to' the New Hampshire test. New Hamp shire's population is .only 533,242. At the present time, its governor and all of its senators and congressmen are Republican. It has seldom gone Demo cratic except in 1936, 1940 and 1944. Nevertheless, New Hampshire is pretty evenly balanced between rural and industrial interests and it might give a pretty fair sample of what the rest of New England, and especially Massa chusetts, might do, Years ago we gave up trying to rationalize the behavior patterns of politicians. Fifteen "Valley Authorities" Are Proposed Under a report issued Monday by President Truman's Water Resources Policy Commission, headed by Morris L. Cook, the United States would be di vided into 15 major regions baspd on river basins. The development of these regions would be entrusted to 15 basin commissions in each of which the fed eral government would have seven rep resentatives and the local people two. Even this unbalanced provision for representation of regional inhabitants seems to be a concession to the years of clamor for some measure of home rule. There are some other innovations in the new program: 1. Benefitted areas, state and local, would oe required to help pay for valley projects by issessments for "secondary regional bene fits." 2. Persons owning more than 1(10 acres Jf land under irrigation would no longer be required to sell their surplus at a price fixed by the Authority, but would be allowed to bold their acreage provided they pay "a lhare" of the cost of all projects. Washington says that President Tru man will ask immediate enactment of a bill setting up the 15 valley commis sions, but there is slight prospect that Congress will respond with an enact ment in this election year. Indeed, the report and the proposed legislation that goes with it seems to be another testing of the political winds. Even California's 'Representative Engle, a Democrat, raises a question as to whether the program would not add to the confusion resulting from the many agencies now attempting to deal with regional problems. Regional or ganization by river valleys has much to recommend it, but this paper has al ways contended: "The relationship of federal and local governments must be a partnership and not in over-lordship of federal officials In which the people of a region have no voice or vote r any means of saving themselves from the ibuscs of remote control." When the late Harold Ickes boasted at the Missouri Valley hearings that it was proposed to change the form of American government "as we have known it for 150 years," we promptly said that such a proposition was un thinkable. "Taxation without represen tation" was the warcry of the American Revolution. In this democracy any form of administration in which the people are denied a voice and vote violates the basic concepts of this nation. Mac May Make Last Minute Bid WASHINGTON Something new is be ing added to the Republican presidential picture. Gen. Douglas MacArthur i com ing around to the view that he must him elf be prepared to accept the GOP presi- aenuai nominawuu. He has made this growing belief known to several recent visitors to his presidential suite in the towers of the Wal dorf - Astoria in New York. It is still in the category of the familiar cloud on the horizon no bigger than a man's hand. But it is a fact with ex traordinary potentialities for both party and nation. n.i. ..Jthin the Dast few weeks has hanan .nmp ahout. Ud until then, to almost everyone who saw him, MacArthur had sung the praises 01 sen. KODert, n, Taft w nrnpH lovaltv to Taft on the Republicans who talked with him. Get on the Taft bandwagon, jviacmiimr cubu, while there is still time. Today it is not that the general is any less personally loyal to the Senator. But ha is reported by his visitors to be fearful there will be a deadlock; that, as he Is understood to have put It, "Bob can't make it." Therefore, he must be prepared to abandon his announced determination to say no to all political office. THIS IS NOT LIKELY to be disclosed In any official or public fashion until con vention time in July. Meanwhile Mac Arthur can change his mind again if the threat of a deadlock diminishes and Taft seems assured of a majority of the dele gates on the first or second dbuoi. But the word is circulating among poli ticians by the grapevine route, and they attach considerable importance to it. For some this means a way out of the choice between Taft and Gen. Dwight D, Eisen hower. Gov. John S. Fine of Pennsylvania is reported to be holding In reserve the delegates whom he can control, with the. thought that they will go eventually for MacArthur. This is a fairly sizeable por tion of Pennsylvania's bloc of 70. Aa fnr Taft. hp rnntinups to have eom- plete confidence in MacArthur' loyalty. rne unioan nas neara, nowever, mai some of MacArthur's most passionate admirers have long sought to convince him that he, and he alone, can aave the Republican Party and the nation from disaster. FOREMOST AMONG THESE is Mac Arthur's friend and aide, Maj, Gen, Court ney Whitney. As a cynic once expressed it, General MacArthur is a large, imposing body almost entirely surrounded by Court ney Whitney. That was true in Tokyo when MacArthur was the able American proconsul for Japan. It is only slightly less true now that MacArthur is Installed In the fastness of the Waldorf towers. While no one has actually clocked it, the devoted Whitney Is believed to tell his hero at least once" an hour that only he can save the country from doom. Word came to Taft about an incident involving the entry of MacArthur delegates in the Minnesota primary. Under Minne sota law, it was pointed out to Whitney, unless the delegates are willing to with draw voluntarily, the proposed candidate must submit a sworn affidavit with his request that his name be taken out, In that affidavit he must state that he will under no circumstances be a candidate for the nomination of hi party. Whitney la reported to have dismissed this somewhat airily as a mere detail. The speculation about MacArthur a official keynoter of the convention ha been off the beam. He could not be key noter since he will not be a delegate. But even though other candidate may be jealous of hi intentions, it would be diffi cult to hold out against an invitation to the general to address the delegates. SUCH AN INVITATION would be common courtesy to one of the greatest of the nation's living military figures and a loyal party man. It could be, of course, that he would be invited to give an in spirational speech after the candidate have been chosen. But if he should appear on 'the first or second day, his impassioned oratory could have an incalculable effect. He might want to point the finger of destiny at his friend, Senator Taft. He would above all want to point that finger in the opposite direction from General Eisen hower, who was once so junior to him. With so many of his most ardent admirers in the hall, the convention could be dra matically stampeded Into going for the hero of the Pacific. Little imagination Is required to con jure up that scene the emotionalism, the intensity of devotion, the wild cheering, the purple periods of MacArthur's prose rolling out in his organ-tone of a voice. And one could be sure that at that point not less than 50,000,000 televiewer would be looking and listening. For all the drama crowded into his 72 years of war and peace, that might well be the highest point. TAFT. IV HIS ....;.. campaign, Is every day contributing to the amor or me iwacAnnur iouowing. in al most every speech he pays the general a ringing tribute, and the cheers and ap plause come up in response, It would ba nnp nf thp efvpnt trnniaa nf nnHtlno t tuta should prove to be part of the wave of ine mncArinur nuure. Yet mat is nt Inmnsslhln In thn ntmrrcnViera nf io.a.. lainty growing up around the Republican (CooyrHM. I95J. by United rtatura Syndicate, int.) OUR DUTY "Hath poffen him the victory." Ps. 9S.1 He kissed his Mom goodbye today . . . And down a street he made his way . . . His first stop was Induction Center . . . Then training camp and he will enter ... So many places along that street . . . And hard, strange situations meet ... To Seoul or Moscow he may roam , , , But our job back here at home ... Is seeing that for what he'll give ... His Way of Freedom here shall live. JULIEN C. HYER In The Editor' Mailbag WORLD RELIGIONS EUGENE (To the Editor) In my opinion, the Parliament of World Religions on the campus of the u. of u. a few day ago could have been a mighty event for the glory of God constructive in its nature, but i was lementably de structive. It seemed a though an effort wa being made to fashion an idol and bolster him up by call ing in any old kind of religius doctrine, to keep the dead thing on its feet, but at the same time throw a monkey-wrench into the Christian doctrine. In God' Word the Lord Jesus states: "No man cometh unto the Father except by me." I'd like to know how a Moslem, Jew or Gen tile of any kind can possibly get into the presence of God, the Hea venly Father, without the aid of His Son. Jesus said It couldn't be done. Pray, where is the "similar ity of the Indian religion" and the Christian religion? The first has no Son of God recognizes no such Person, denfcs that there 1 auch a Person, know nothing about the operation of the Spirit of God (Holy Spirit) and what the Spirit is doing to make disciples for God the Son, and has been doing for the past 2,000 years. (Some day Hi work will be finished. One of the speakers declared (quoting the R-G) that salvation is not a "personal" affair, but that "salvation was possible through "belief in the highest teachings of one' own faith." In other words, a man can save himself, It he has the necessary faith, but I find that God' Word declares that "Faith cometh by HEARING, and hearing BY THE WORD OF GOD." A crew 1 loose somewhere, and any born again Christian can tell you where to find It. Editorially, the R-G. states that "The pattern of similarity In the world's great religions are more apparent than the differences," (You Ignoramus, read that again). Most of us have heard of Mecca, and that every so often there's a great influx of religionist to that place. The Parliament of World Religion might term it a national pirltual (?) revival, but from what I've read about these events, I'd call It a drunken debauchery. In the book of Ezeklal, one reads that God plans to give u also a new heart, and a new -spirit WITHIN us. It would be beyond my comprehension to hear of one of God's people Indwelt by the Spirit of God taking part in any drunken spree and call It a "re vival of religion." Neither can I comprehend how anyone can dis cern any similarity between Mecca and Billy Graham's revival. I pre fer Graham's. How about you? Another vital point -is that the Word of God very definitely tea ches that the most abject criminal can be "regenerated, and made an entirely new creation in Christ not in some Hindu monk, but IN THE LIVING LORD JESUS CHRIST." The rabbi is quoted as saying that Abraham Is truly Father Ab raham for all of us assembled." That might be found in some ob scure Jewish publication, but it Is diametrically opposite of New Testament. Mr. Minto is quoted as saying that the Moslems loved Jesus, but if I were traveling in their territory as a Christian I would think twice without taking a bodyguard along with me. I'd be overcome with their enthusi asm at my being in their midst. To substantiate speakers at the Parliament, we read the following from the R-G. editorial column: "Uprisings Spread in "Moslem World." (Yes, we are to under stand, the Moslems are Just like the Christians, because the editor ial goes on to say): "Bloody battles In the Suez canal area, incendiarv riot in Cairo, outbreaks of Arab (Moslem) territories In French held Tunisia tell of the dangerous ferment which is running through IHt MUbLEM WORLD.'" And: "It i significant that the Cairo mobs are crying: "LONG LIVE' RUSSIA, FRIEND OF EGYPT." Well, well, how much this sounds like an uprising of the children of God. Here' some more, just digest thii too from ye editor' column: "There is nothing in Mohammed an beliefs which is inherently an tagonistic to Christianity, Judaism or any of the other great world philosophies. On the contrary, by Its very nature Islam present a great positive force against Com munism." (I just quoted that the mobs In Cairo were crying "LONG LIVE RUSSIA, FRIEND OF EGY PT." (Another screw loose). I enjoy quoting the editor, and I'll give you some more. "Anybody listening last week (he says) to Bashir Ahmad Minto must have been Impressed with the many op portunities for the reconciliation of differences. If Minto had his mosque across the street from any of our churches (shades of night) THERE WOULD BE NO MORE CONFLICT THAN THERE IS NOW BETWEEN DENOMINA TIONS. Mohammedeans need edu- " oman At DV Airl MEXICO city ' the Sun was , W'fe,killedby,u U,S-4 Plane which l"P the 216. 0Mera!! mi'eus 'm he ' The dead worn':, wife of Aerlm ! Aa" b"sy here. tht I was showing-'!' m'd:w" injured by h The f'dent occ"l the 18.year.oM nil., Plane, Jose Galil vV 01 sola, Colombia t3 safely arnXi'S' He and another lj.ve.r i"S with him, Pranci Cards of Mexico" gence 8" ' homlci'd ' The pilot said hegothi flying, ow,otaktpiclffi( Mrs . Wernlmont had t Party o see the ancient San Juan Teotihuacan archcologists believe date least 2000 years ago As they stood on tor pyramid, the little pW dashed throujh the grou. cation, economic rehabilitation, friendship." In other words, on one side of the street (Moslem who do not believe in God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit), are practically the same as those WHO DO, and can easily reconcile their differences, (shades of night) Lis ten: "They that have the Son, have life, and they that have NOT the son, have NOT life, but the wrath of God abideth on him." All you've got to do is to disbelieve in the trinity and all will be Moslem. Is this what the Parliament of World Religions want of you and I? Well, I WON'T. H. W. HALL HICKEY-FREEMAN CLOTHES tre 'o McDonald Theater Bids. ARTHRITH SUFFEREH Mr. J. H. Cai(: in record l Cajty', ConJ cannot wain It anoj.n ffl has dnna tnr ma r. J arthritis ms. (, J J ao painful, I could hi d 1 0( Caaev'i Compound T,r, Oreion'h'ln' m' Ak Your DiuciIm J J. H. Casey Box 731... Portland, oj ARE YOU IN DH Yeu Can Pay Your! Through Our Did Adjustment Servii Oar tlan tnahlti raa , four credit,. m mil. mnrh ou ntv ar haw mi am. r g not ,,qB, ar ea.alincra. 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