The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963, February 11, 1949, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 194, PAGE FOUR THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON THE BEND BULLETIN and CENTRAL OREGON PRESS The Bend Rulletin fweeklyl 11,0a . Ivel Tile Bend Bulletin (Dally) Et. 1018 PublUhecl Every Afterruon Except Suntliiy and Certain Holiday by The Henri HiilU-tin. Mb . 78 Well Street Bond. Urwun Entered w Second Claas Matter, January 6. lftlT, at the Poetuffice at IJend, Oregon Under Act of March 8, lo'.K. ROBERT W. SAWYER Editor-Manaser HENRY N. FOWLER Aaaoclate Editor An Independent Newspaper Standing for the Square Deal. Clean Ihieineee, Clean Politic! anu uie ueei j,iu.-rueu oi uuna anu central ureaon MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Be Mill Be C.rrlee One Year 17.00 One Year 110.00 Six Month 14.00 Six Montha t 6.60 Three Montha (2.60 Una month f 1.00 All Subscription! are DUE and PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Pleaea notify U! of any chang! of addreaa or failure to receive the paper rejtularly. SCHOOL SURVEY REPORT Reading through the findings of the inspector from the of fice the state superintendent of education, one cannot fail to note that adverse criticism has to do with material things while commendation on an all-out scale goes to the results which are the primary purpose of a school system. In the older buildings there is pointed out need for better floors, more space per pupil, greater playground area, lighting of higher candle power, improved ventilation and so on ; but, whether in the older structures or the new (these are uncon ditionally approved) there is repeated mention made of a fine job of education, ot well qualified instructors, of inter ested pupils who, in the main, are taking full advantage of the opportunities ottered them. This, to our mind, is by far the more important part of the report. It serves to renew an appreciation of real values Education, after all, is what counts and a school building does not have to be an architectural triumph to insure the benefits of education. The teachers and the pupils are the prime factors. In saying this, we in no way oppose the theory that clean, pleasant surroundings may contribute in producing the best results. Bend has always endeavored to supply such things. Rapid growth of the community has sometimes made them inadequate, chiefly because the extent of future needs simply would not have been foreseen. Moreover, it should be stress ed, the local district has always built to conform to the standards of the day. Arbitrary raising of standards in later years, not niggardliness nor lack of interest on the part of the district, is the reason thathese older structures are sub ject to criticism now. It is the reason why the district will be required to make heavy expenditures in physical changes to avoid the withdrawal of more than $150,000 in state support. But whether units of the system are old or new, whether they are standard or conditionally standard (and Bend has both kinds) they have one advantage in common they are paid for. This was not mentioned in the report and it should have been. It makes the local district a strong district, quite aside from the record in education. The importance of a cash position will become more and more apparent as the years go on. ROADMASTER AND SURVEYOR BILLS Legislative enactment of increased costs for Oregon coun tisa4&rte,&?"Jlas Deen illustrated here before in our reference to saTary incTtfas'e' bills, which are accumulating now in the lower house of the legislature, and to the welfare act of 1947 with its four and one-half mill mandatory county tax levy. The salary measures, for the benefit of officials who sought nomination and election at a stated amount for a stated term of service have always seemed to us to be unwarranted. As to welfare, a strictly local administration of this service, with out the pressure and interference of state and national bu reaus, would probably encourage efficiency, and cut cost. In a period of economic recession, justification for such in creases becomes less discernible than heretofore; perhaps it disappears entirely. Recognition of the beginning stages of such a recessive trend should result in closer control of public spending. Probably it won't, in the instances we have men tioned, chiefly because, while the state requires the expendi tures, it is the county that makes them. There is no pain to the state. Naturally there will be no opposition from county officials on the salary increases and no effective opposition can be made to the proposed welfare budget. There is opposition, however, we are happy to note, to two brand-new items of expense which would be forced into county budgets if house bills 101 and 207 were to become law. One of these requires that the county surveyor's office shall be allowed a minimum of $3,000 a year for expenses incurred in keeping open and maintaining the office (this, apparently, would be in addition to the salary or fees of the surveyor) , while the other would have the position of roadmaster filled by a registered, professional engineer. This is about as nec essary as requiring a certified public accountant's rating for the county "treasurer. In the larger counties it is quite conceivable that a full time surveyor, which is what house bill 101 contemplates, could advantageously be employed. There is, of course, no use for .one in the ordinary small county nor is there any need that an office be maintained at county expense and kept open for non-existent business. Moreover, the provision that not less than a stated amount be appropriated for a stated purpose is definitely opposed to economical budgeting. Neither of the bills discussed confers any administrative powers or offers greater possibilities for efficient operation than are already possessed. Kach does open the way to greater and unnecessary expenditures. Neither recognizes the differ ences in methods .which are natural and proper reflections of wide differences in road mileage, degree of completion of road systems and county resources. Both, we think, can be classed as useless and detrimental. WASHINGTON COLUMN National Boy Scout Week We Salute the BOY SCOUTS of. Bend Contribute Tomorrow to their Block of Dimes Polio Benefit SI'ACK COlRTliSY CONSUMERS GAS a local insthttio.n By PetiT Edson (NEA Waeliinaton Correspondent) Washington (NEA) Mrs. Cor nelia Bryce Pinchot, widow of Pennsylvania's great progressive republican governor and conser vationist, has Just returned from her second trip through Greece with a report that things there have gone from had to worse. She does not minimize the facts that docks have been repaired, roads built, fields fertilized, ma laria swamps sprayed, people fed, communist seizure of the govern ment staved off, the Kusslans kept from possible occupation of the Suez canal. Where the Greek experiment has bogged down, the able-minded and vigorous Mrs. Pinchot declar es, is politically. She holds Ameri can interference partly responsi ble. The interference here is plain. American engineers, doctors, and relief workers know their lobs and are doing them. American po litical advisers do not have the same degree of competence In their field that the technical peo ple have in theirs. e American political and military advisers sent to Greece will no doubt maintain that they have leaned over backwards in trying not to interfere with the Greek government. They insisted on Greek army command In the field. They Insisted on democratically held elections In 1946. These elec tions were supervised by United Nations observation teams and were pronounced free and lair. A parliamentary government was elected and set up. But under the Greek constitution, as under the American constitution, mem bers of the cabinet do not have to be elected members of the law making branch of government. And in picking the Greek cabinet and many lesser officials, the American advisers have interfer ed plenty. Lay w. Henderson, men direc tor of the state department's of fice of near eastern affairs, went to Greece in 1947 and personally selected the aged Themistocles Sophoulis as prime minister to head a coalition government. He seemed to be the best man avail able. , Sophoulis refused the Job sever al times. His reason was that he did not think the coalition would work because as prime minister he was to be given responsibility without the executive power to enforce his decisions. That pow er was left in the other ministries of the cabinet. And the men chos en to be ministers of foreign af fairs, interior, finance, war, infor mation and labor were all right ist reactionaries opposed to every liberal reform. ! Sophoulis finally took the job because he was led to believe that if he did not. American aid might be refused. But the recent down fall of his cabinet Is proof of his contention that the coalition gov ernment would not work unless the prime minister were given more power. Sophoulis has again been per suaded to remain as prime minis ter at the head of a new cabinet. Maybe his new collection will work better than the last one. If the new Sophoulis govern ment falls, the next -step now being considered is the creation of a non-parliamentary government. This probably means letting the King senu. parliament nome, then appointing a small super- or su-pra-paiilamentary group to do the lawmaking. The danger here Is that the men appointed to this group would become a violently repressive government. What Greece needs most are certain basic reforms of good gov ernment, says Mrs. Pinchot. It needs not a communist revolution, but a Roosevelt New Deal kind of revolution that will take care of the needs of the Greek common people. There are many fine young Greeks with real ability to carry out these reforms, Mrs. Pinchot found. The fact that these re forms are not being carried out is what is sending many non communist Greeks to the hills in opposition to the Athens govern ment. As Mrs. Pinchot puts It, the United States has now "invested" $100,000,000 in Greece. But in making this investment, the United States has not always backed the best political elements. Gieseking Pickets Might Find More Meat in Ruhr Others Say PHONY ARGUMENTS FOE CVA (Oregon Statesman) Claude Wickard, administrator of rural electrification, endorses a CVA with the comment that it will bring electricity to the lamolit farms of the northwest. He can put in small figures the number of lampiit farms in Oregon and wasmngton, for extension of elec tric lines to rural areas here long antedated REA. Even so, a CVA wouldn't be engaged in retail dis tribution of power or would it? The regional director of CIO Is quoted as saying that a CVA "will help make the Pacific northwest the center for a great light metals Industry." What is it now? What has Dr. Raver been doing all these years .' A CVA would bring in no more electric power than con gress appropriates money for, which is the same as it will for existing federal agencies. Monroe Sweetland's Newport News hails a CVA thus: "Full use of the power possi bilities of our great rivers, more complete development of our arid lands, sponsoring of many new industries and more effi cient navigation, are all major factors in the drive for our valley authority." How will a CVA develop more power than the army engineers and reclamation bureau in the Columbia basin system? Wouldn't it merely take over their projects? How would it develop our arid lands "more completely" than the reclamation bureau is now doing? How would a CVA make naviga tion more "efficient"? And how would it sponsor more new indus tries than Bonneville has done un der Dr. Raver? There are honest arguments for a CVA, but not tne ones above listed. They are merely molasses to catch flies. j ' Slightly scorched places on while shirts can he bleached white by dampening the spots and leaving the cloth beneath the ultra violet rays of a sun lamp for 10 minutes. Need a New Car? Want a Good One? Then don't fail to compare the Frazer Manhattan with the other current models on the market. Comparison proves the difference you'll LIKE Frazerl Complete Automotive Service Our mechanical department is equipped and manned to give you prompt and efficient service on any make of car. Drive in for a checkup. OSCAR L. CRANE 31 YKAKS KXI'F.KIKNC K Service Manager Hand Motor Co. imam Si imi.H.lliHTTTTTT-ull.l.ini.l W. It. "BILL" HAM). Owner LIS K. Greenwood I'hone Hi 1.1 2 By James Thrasher No doubt Walter Gieseking, the German pianist, and Dr. Wll. helm Fuertwangler, the German conductor, can make a comfort able living outside the United States. And American concert audiences will still be able to get their fill of great performances even without these two men, whose greatness is acknowledged in their respective fields. So may be the whole thing is not Im portant. Yet the furor over the schedul ed American engagements of these two musicians brings up again some questions that have never been answered to every one's satisfaction. Does the artist (in the word's broadest sense) have the right and privilege to divorce himself from politics? Is his moral responsibility In this matter on a par with the ordin ary citizen's, or is he, as a public figure, more responsible? Shall the public Judge him and buy his wares on his reputation as an artist or on his reputation as a man? Allied officials In Europe inves tigated both Dr. Fuertwangler and Mr. Gieseking for nazi ac tivities and finally cleared them. Later the conductor was offered the leadership of the Chicago Symphony orchestra and the pianist booked for his first American tour in 10 years. Im mediately there was a storm of protest. Musicians and the Inter ested public divided into two camps. Most of the articulate musicians were among those pro testingthough the violinist Ye hudi Menuhln, while a Jew him self, came to the defense of Dr. Fuertwangler ,the alleged nazi. At any rate, Dr. Fuertwangler turned down the Chicago offer as a result, Mr. Gieseking came to this country and was detained by Immigration authorities a few hours before his scheduled ap pearance in New York's Carnegie hall. During his detention several hundred persons picketed the hall. And, as if to show that there are two sides to the ques tion, 2,700 ticket holders milled among the pickets. Finally the German pianist s manager called off not only the New York re cital, but the whole American tour. Mr. Gieseking had denied that he was ever a member of the nazi party or any of its cultural affiliates. He admitted having played at a concei t which Adolf Hitler attendee!, but said ho had never played for any high nazi official in private. His critics ac cused him of all these things and more. The Fuertwangler charges and denials were similar. Who is right? Who knows? Wherever the fault or Virtue lies, the questions are not settled. They were not settled when Fritz Kreisler, that most revered of elder violinists, was egged at his first American recital after world War I because, as an Austian, he had fought in the Austrian army. They were not settled when Kirs- ten rlagslad, though accused of the same sympathies as Messrs. Gieseking and Fuertwangler, was permitted to sing here without hindrance. We have no solution for this minor dilemma. We believe that the artist's ivory tower is no longer an inviolable refuge that gives him special permission to rTA MEKTING POSTPONED The meeting of the general carnival committee for the Ken wood PTA, scheduled for tonight, has been postponed until next Tuesday evening, at 8, General chairman Art Rixe announced to day. Next Tuesday's meeting will be open to all interested, as well as committee members and chair men already selected. CASH FOR TAXES Easy to Get Easy to Repay '25.00 to '300.00 ON FURNITURE FARM MACHINERY LIVESTOCK Up to '500.00 ON AUTOMOBILES Terms up to fifteen tiiontlis. PORTLAND LOAN CO. Norbert D. Goodrich. Mrt. Km. 8, renney Bldg., 1010 Wall Telephone 173 Bend, Oregon Stato Licenses S188 M321 live In a world apart. At the same time we feel that an artist whose movements are restricted by war conditions, may have to pursue his livelihood as best he can, even if he disapproves the politics of some members of his audience. Lacking further proof we suspend Judgment. But we do have a suggestion for the Fuertwangler critics and Gieseking pickets. They might better turn their understandable indignation on the Ruhr indus trialists who, according to au thentic reports, are largely back at their old jobs. They are the same men who armed Hitler's third reich for war. Today they have brought Ruhr production back to 90 per cent of peacetime normal. We would say they are a much more potent threat than two musicians. The March of Dimes lags far behind our quo ta. Blame it on the weather, or plain pro crastination we have n't done what we're go ing to do. Let's get at it! 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