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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
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