4 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Monday, Oct. 21, 1946
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A Balanced Budget Abandoned
With the approach of election, President Truman has evi
dently abandoned all hope of butlRet balancing and yielded to
political pressure by junking his $000 million limit on federal
public works projects with an order allowing 14 agencies to
' spend an extra $600 million on construction in the year end-
ing June 30 next. This will permit these agencies alone to
spend a total of $1,200 million and more increases are prom-
: ised for other agencies. And this at a time when private
enterprise is prevented from construction by shortage of ma
terial and men. Competition of government will not only
increase these shortages as well as costs and further delay
completion of all construction, public as well as private, for
employment is at its maximum now.
The order was issued by reconversion Jjirecior jonn n.
Steelman. It does not list specific projects, that is up to
the agencies affected, including the interior department s
reclamation bureau, the commerce department, the civil
works of the army engineers including rivers and harbors as
well as flood control improvement.
The agencies affected by the S600 million clearance are the navy,
interior, agriculture, justice, treasury and state departments, vet
erans administration, federal works agency, reconstruction finance
corporation, maritime commission, Tennessee valley authority,
Panama canal, national advisory committee for aeronautics, and
war department military branches.
Last August the economy program mapped by President
Truman called, among other things, for holding down federal
public works expenditures for the current fiscal year to $900
million as compared with $1,600 million approved by congress,
imposing a 60-day moratorium on government projects and a
weeding out of the less important ones. Congressmen and
localities affected protested loudly and have been whittling
away at the restrictions. Flood control expenditures were
increased last Thursday from $95 million to $130 million.
So a balanced budget goes out of the window along with
OP A price controls on meat and other foods. Complete re
versals of adopted policies on election eve are due to politics
no't statemanship.
! Three "Yes" Measures
'. Among the measures and constitutional amendments ap-
; pcaring on the November election ballot are three so worthy
or reasonable as to command a favorable attention of all
! voters. There is no ground for opposition to any of them.
1 The first is a constitutional amendment to that section
of the basic law governing the succession to the office of
governor when it becomes vacant for one reason or another.
The proposed amendment would not disturb the present
order of succession, that of the president of the senate and
speaker of the house in that sequence, but simply extends
the sequence to the secretary of state and state treasurer in
that order. It would simply provide a further guarantee
against the possibility of the state being without a legal
chief executive in the event of the death or disability of a
governor at a time when there might be no president of the
senate or speaker of the house.
A second constitutional amendment would repeal that
section which forbids the ownership of property in Oregon
by a Chinaman who was not a resident of the state when the
constitution was adopted. The United States Supreme Court
has indicated that the prohibition violates the provisions of
a treaty with China, and as a result the prohibitory section
has never been enforced. In addition, practically all persons
of Chinese blood in Oregon are American citizens through
birth or naturalization, making the ban on their ownership
of property discriminatory and void.
A third amendment is designed simply to clarify and ex
pedite legislative procedure as it has been carried on for
mRny years in both houses. This would be accomplished by
changing the constitution to permit legislative bills to be
read by title only, thereby denying to obdurate members an
instrument with which to waste the legislature's time by
lengthy filibustering, as is now possible by permitting any
member to require all bills to be read in their entirety. It
is a measure in the interests of good government.
Leave Civil Service Our
Embodied in a report which a special committee is sched
uled to present to the city council tonight will be a recom
mendation for the appointment of a director of traffic safety
vested with sufficient authority to enable him to direct and
supervise a comprehensive program of traffic regulation
in the interests of public safety. Creation of the office
follows the widely accepted method of dealing with this
intricate problem in other cities.
It is the committee's reported intention to suggest that
the new office be set up inside the police department, through
which many of its functions, particularly those dealing with
enforcement, would be carried out. This is a logical plan to
follow, not only because of the nature of the new official's
duties, but because it promotes the most economical method
of carrying on traffic operations through utilization of the
police.
I'ov two very good and sufficient reasons, however, the
traffic director, if it is approved as it should be by the coun
cil, must be kept outside of civil service:
1. Changing after January 1 all city administrative Jobs will be
performed by or under the supervision of the city administrator
appointed by and responsible to the council. It is important to
the success of the new plnn of government that no exceptions be
made to the administrator's control over subordinate offices.
2. To a large extent the duties of the traffic director will be of
an executive, policy making nature, and because until traffic
control policies have been determined through experience, control
pver (he director must remain flexible.
i The only real object in setting up the new traffic office
in the police department is to permit the free use of traffic
control officers to assist in the surveys, studies and other
experiments incidental to the formulation of a city-wide
pafety program, and until a traffic department has been
permanently organized along lines yet to be determined.
II
A Dog's Life
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Polk County PTA
Council Will Meet
West Salem A meeting nf
the Polk county council of the
Oregon Congress of Parents and
Teachers will be held at the
West Salem city hall, Tuesday,
October 29, registration to be
gin at 10 a.m. Business meeting,
conducted by Mrs. Hugh Van
Loan, will be held in the morn
ing, followed by school of in
struction conducted by one of
the slate officers. Dr. Lawrence
Riggs of Willamette university
will be the speaker in the after
noon. All those attending are qsked
lo bring sandwiches and cookies
sufficient for themselves; salads
and coffee will be furnished by
the hostess association, West Sa
lem PTA. There will be the re
gular 25c registration fee. An
invitation to attend the meeting
has been extended to all mem-1
bcrs of the Marion county council.
ip$ for Supper
By Don Upjohn
National Bible week opens
today and its sponsors hope that
people will turn from Forever
Amber and the like to spend
some time with the book which
continues to be a best seller re
gardless of how folks act up.
Ae nfft uritp it is nirp weather
for a little while until it starts
to rain again. We offer this in
to thp nnestion we had
put to us several times today as
to how long the sunshine wouia
continue.
Continuing our department of
Salem doubles which we started
lifiiw .Ton Fnllon and an un
known double last week, we had
another one thrust on us this
morning. A party standing by
pointed at a chap walking across
the street and asked if that
wasn't Chief of Police Frank
Minto over yonder. The party
nnininri nt hannpned to be Hal
Henderson, long considered one
nt th tnwn's handsomest hom-
brcs and same shouldn't cause
Chief Minto any serious concern
although we don't know how
Hal would feel about it. In jus
tice to both may we say the par
ty making the mistake was
wearing bifocals and probably
was looking through the wrorfg
lens.
Novelties
(By Hie Associated Press)
Personal Interest
Spokane, Oct. 21 OP) Police
men here are trying extra hard
to locate an overcoat reported
missing after a meeting of the
Northwest Investigator's associ
ation. It belongs to Police Chief Ger
ald Swarthout.
Last Laugh
Chicago, Oct. 21 P) A thief
stole Mrs. Samuel Click's purse
at she danced with her husband
in a hotel dining room.
There was no money in the
purse.
But there was a claim ticket
which the thief presented at the
checkroom and walked off with
a platina fox cape valued at
$1500.
1 Killed, 3 Injured
In Crash Near Brooks
L. Glcnwood Wheeler, 40,
Portland, died Saturday after
noon as the result of a two-car
head-on collision three miles
north of Brooks on Pacific
highway east.
Wheeler was a passenger in
a car driven by Robert P. Lewis,
also of Portland. Police said
Lewis' vehicle apparently side
swiped another car as he at
tempted to pass a logging truck
and crashed head-on with a
third car driven by Frank Bor
wieck of Vancouver, Wash.
Borwicck, Lewis, Mrs. Jenny
Bond, of Orchards, Wash., a pas
senger in Borwieck's car, and
L. Dykstra, Vancouver, Wash.,
a passenger in Lewis' car, were
treated in Salem General hos
pital here for fractures, cuts and
possible internal injuries. All
have been released except Mrs.
Bond whose condition is de
scribed as fair.
Two women in the sideswiped
automobile were not injured.
Senet, the great-grandfather
of backgammon, was the pas
time of ancient Egypt more than
5,000 years ago.
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Incidentally, if the chief would
follow the long offered sugges
tion of putting himself in uni
form no such mistake could be
made in the future. Maybe he
will after he sees how nobby
the deputies in the sheriff's of
fice look in their new gctup.
We've been expecting the sher
iff to give an afternoon tea some
time to his deputies so folks
could drop in and get acquaint
ed but have scanned the society
columns in vain -for any an
nouncement of same. Maybe he's
waiting until the boys practice
up on pointing a little finger out
away from a cup before he puts
on this event.
Frank Perry, foreman of the
composing room in our favorite
paper, owns a diamond ring
which set the boy back about
300 bucks and it has three set
tings with a diamond apiece. He
walked in the shop the other
morning, happened to look at
his ring and one of the diamonds
had disappeared from its set
ting. He started an inch by inch
search for same which took him
the length of the composing
room, out through the front of
fices, down the stairs, across the
sidewalk, across the gutter to
his car, where lying on the run
ning board was the diamond. If
he'd followed the prescribed
procedure and started at the
running board first he'd saved
some time.
Who Could This Man Be?
(Corvallis Gazette-Times)
"Essentially a genial man, he
seems to be having too much
trouble realizing that he is run
ning a harassed nation in one of
the greatest crises of history, not
just directing some committee
on a Rotary club with member
ship trouble."
By DeWltt Mackenzie
(AP Foreign Affairs Analyst)
That's pretty strong mustard
which the Moscow Pravda (ov
ficial communist party publica
tion) handed us with our break
fast this morning I mean the
accusation that American and
Turkish diplomats have been
participating in "extraordinar
ily crooked secret talks" on the
future of the Dardanelles.
Still, this pungent Russian
condiment tends to emphasize
the truth of the prediction in
our column last Saturday that
the big three are approaching a
show-down over the serious
differences between the Soviet
union and the western allies.
Control of the Dardanelles as
I pointed out is one of the
issues which will help clear up
the mystery of how much fur
ther Moscow aims to expand its
sphere of dominance.
The Pravda article of course
had reference to the fact that
Turkey has rejected the Rus
sian demand for a share in the
defense of the straits, and that
Washington recently advised
the Soviet union that Uncle
Sam didn't intend to be squeez
ed out of having a voice in the
Dardanelles. Britain has made
similar representations.
Origin Guessed At
The Pravda piece was by
Commentator David Zaslavsky.
His article was headed "Turk
ish pic with Anglo-American
filling," and he asserted that
the Ankara note was of Anglo
American crigin. He said the
communication appeared to be
a' translation of the American
language into Turkish and add
ed: "It is important only that this
translation expressed all the
delicacies or one should more
truly say all the coarseness of
American speech."
The commentator also pro
pounded this question: "After
all, where is Turkey and where
are the straits located? We have
heard of dollar diplomacy and
about diplomacy of the dollar.
Maybe the geography of the dol
lar is beginning to appear with
a new division of the continent."
Well, the question of whether
Uncle Sam has been up to dirty
work at the Balkan crossroads
will have to be left to him to
answer in his own coarse lan
guage the uncouth old scoun
drel. One can only observe that
he has made it amply clear re
cently that he doesn't intend to
be pushed about.
Report from Washington
However, we do have from
Washington a highly interesting
report bearing on America's at
titude towards Europe. Offi
cials who are in a position to
know, say that Secretary of
State Byrnes is rapidly lining
up an American economic pol
icy to fit in wjth "a patient but
firm" U.S. attitude towards
Russia and her Slav neighbors.
The secretary is said to be
forming a proposal to pour
several hundred million dollars
into Italy, Austria and Greece
vhile choking off American fi-
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Medal Awarded
Naval Airman
Posthumous award of the Air
Medal has been made by the
navy to ARM 2c Louis Frank
Jakubec, son of Louis Stephen
Jakubec of 1969 North Commer
cial street, who was killed in
action in the Pacific theater
during World War II.
The Salem naval airman, a
radio operator and gunner on a
dive bomber aboard the USS
Hancock, was awarded the
decoration for meritorious
achievement in aerial flight dur
ing action against the Japanese
forces in the Nansei Shotto and
Kyushu areas from March 17
to 27, 1945. Jakubec partici
pated in five strikes against
those Nip strongholds.
Chief Engineer to
Tour Valley Project
Portland, Ore., Oct. 21 m
An inspection trip of northwest
reclamation, flood control and
Columbia river projects by Lt.
Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler,
army chief of engineers, will
begin here Wednesday.
Gen. Wheeler will tour Wil
lamette valley flood control
projects and the proposed site
of the McNary dam on the Col
umbia river.
The Chamber of Commerce of
Walla Walla, Wash., will enter
tain him Saturday at a dinner
and on Sunday he will inspect
the Hanford atomic plant site
and Yakima area projects. Mon
day he will inspect the engin
eers' school at Ft. Lewis, the
Mud mountain dam, a flood con
trol project on the White river
near Enemclaw and then at
tend a Seattle Chamber of Com
merce dinner before leaving for
Washington, D.C.
Federal Control Ties-up Huge
Lumber Supplies in Alaska
Seattle, Oct. 21 UP) Southeastern Alaska's huge forests could
go far towards filling the nation's future lumber and newsprint
shortages but timber interests fight shy of auch expansion because
f 1 . I U jff.npr ,
Itrei uiiiiuauj' 111 syct pciuiky, ceil
said. About 30 percent would
be good construction lumber,
representing lumber needed for
30,000 houses. The major por
tion of the timber would be suit
able primarily for pulpwood,
but the territory does not now
have a single pulp mill.
"I criticize the practice of
forestry for forestry's sake, and
of bureaucracy for bureaucra
cy's sake, when what we need
to think of is the final objec
time, the production of lumber
to be utilized in the homes and
farms of America," he said.
The largest of the three Alas
ka mills has an eight-hour saw
ing capacity of 175,000 board
feet of lumber, he reported. At
one time during the war, lum
ber had to be shipped from Rus
sia lo meet urgent military con
struction needs.
and limited transportation, a
lumber industry spokesman said
in a week-end statement here.
Almost "next door" to the Pa
cific northwest, the forests con
tain an estimated 85 billion
board feet of lumber, but at
present there are only three saw
mills of commercial size in the
I entire territory.
W. E. Bell, managing direc
tor of the Western Retail Lumbermen'-
association, listed three
points in a week-end summery
giving his explanation of the sit
uation: 1. With all timber in Alaska
federally owned and controlled,
sawmill operators must buy tim
ber needed for their operations
from the government.
2. Because the government
controls the timber and Alaska
waterways, it is able "through
bureaucratic control" to decree
virtually life or death for such
operations.
3. Water transportation now
available would be insufficient
to handle large-scale exports of
lumber, wood products or pulp.
A large operator would be re
quired to provide his own fleet
of ships.
Forest studies indicate that
with proper forestry manage
ment, southeastern Alaska could
easily produce a billion board
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Salem and West Salem
Beware Coughs
Following Flu
After the flu Is over and gone, the '
cough that follows may devetop
Into chronic bronchitis If neglected.
Creomulsion relieves promptly toe
cause lt goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel germ
laden phlegm, and aid nature to
soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed
bronchial mucous membranes, No
matter how many medicines you
have tried, tell your druggist to sell
you a bottle of Creomulsion with the
understanding you must like the way
it quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
nancial help to eastern Euro
pean nations. The informants
in the capital say the Ameri
can delegation to the recent
Paris peace conference decided
that the best policy would be to
give all possible .help to nations
friendly to the United Stales
but refuse aid to those who are
unfriendly.
The argument over the Dar
danelles will provide an illu
minating test case.
Britain and the United Stales
concede Russia's rights to full
use of the Dardanelles. The
only point at issue is the re
fusal to give Moscow military
domination of the straits.
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