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--Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Mar. 6, 1947
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Scuttling a Good Ship
Highways and highway affairs continue this week to
monopolize a large share of the state's legislature's official
attention. Three major proppsals dealing with such mat
ters are featured on the senate's agenda for final action.
Two of them have occupied the spotlight in one house or the
other prior to this time ; a bill to authorize the highway com
mission to build "throughways" or limited access roads as
a safety measure in areas of highly congested traffic, and
the obviously political measure for reorganizing the highway
commission by increasing the number of commissioners from
three to five.
The third measure, introduced at the request of the pres
ent highway commission, embraces one of the most destruc
tive proposals ever advanced concerning the administrative
business of the commission. It proposes to deprive the chief
engineer of the power to appoint his own chief assistant, yet
holding him responsible for the administration of the engin
eering department; providing for appointment by the com
mission of an auditor responsible only to the commission
"who shall be charged with the duty of handling the fiscal
affairs of the commission," and further authorizing the
commission to appoint, with the approval of the attorney
general, an assistant to the commission's chief counsel.
This new center of controversy is Senate Bill No. 25, which
has been seriously questioned by the committee. The bill,
which many on the sidelines hoped and believed wuold be
quietly smothered, has many objectionable features. Among
them is the fact that the bill takes from the commission's
chief executive officer the right to apnoint his own chief
assistant but still holding him responsible for the acts of
such of his assistants who are appointed by the commission
to "perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the
commission and shall, in the absence of the state highway
engineer, have full authority to perform any duty required
or permitted by law to be performed Dy mm.
Under the present law the state highway engineer recom
mends to the commission the
chief deputy, and that deputy
from and is responsible to the
The only reason given to the
way commission for wanting to
ments is, according to committeemen, that the commission
"is desirous of getting and training a competent understudy
of the present chief engineer," an argument which does not
provide the logic necessary to convince Chairman Douglas
McKay and Senators Balderee and Gibson. They cannot
agree with other members of the committee signing a major
ity report recommending that the bill "do pass."
It is the contention of McKay and Gibson that "the high
way engineer should be free to
same manner as any other
In private business. In announcing that he reserved the
right to take the floor in opposition to the bill, Senator
McKay declared that "the whole thing is wrong, not only
from the standpoint of good business, but because any good
executive is entitled to the privilege of selecting his own
subordinates. Divided authority always makes lor lnetti-
ciency.
The other important piece
the senate floor this week is
which has been so modified as to satisfy all of the members
of the highway committee which reported the bill out with
a unanimous recommendation that it be approved.
Disgusted with, and tired of the unreasoning opposition to
the measure, voiced principally by operators of roadstands,
service stations and other types of business along the high
ways the very persons at whom a measure is aimed as a
safety act the committee wrote into the bill a definition of
what constitutes a "relocation" of a highway as being any
highway on which there are not more than ten such business
establishments per mile.
Opponents of the bill had agreed through one of their
spokesman to sit down with the committee and work out such
a compromise plan. Later, however, these objectors sent
word that they are not interested in anv such leirislation ex
cept to see it killed.
One member of the committee summed the situation up in
this way: "Legislation of this kind will not kill nff half
flmany of these roadside establishments as will their continued
presence aati to the death toll
ungeaieu anu uncontrolled ingmvays.
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testimony of his assured success.
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aKes if any, and take the steps necessary to correct them.
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By Don
The Oregon State college gets
a lucky break in securing the
services oi our "Spec" Keene as
director of athletics. Not only
is he one o the most distin
guished alumnus the school has
ever turned out he's fashioned
about as distinguished a record
in athletic directing as anybody
produced on the coast and if he
can't get along over there and
make a remarkable record, no
one can.
We were a bit disappointed
this a.m., when we trotted over
to see Spec, congratulate him
and see if in his new job he
couldn't dig up a couple of tick
ets apiece for the three coast
conference championship bas
ketball games coming up but he
just looked along his nose and
opined it was kinda chilly out
and it might get the same way
inside if we didn't move along
and mind our own business. We
then took another tack and sug
gested he put us down for a cou
ple on the 50 yard line at all of
the football games coming up.
Shortly after that we left. Dog
gone it, it's more fun watch
ing football games from behind
the goal posts, anyway. But
persiflage aside, we figure Ore
gon State has made a 10 strike,
even if we couldn't wangle a
ticket for a fraternity ping pong
match out of the old boy.
A scientist back at the Uni
versity of Oklahoma has work
As I See It
by
ELMORE PHILPOTT
SENATOR RICHARD RUSSELL OF GEORGIA SUGGESTS
that there is a way out of the present British crisis:
Let England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales apply for admission
into the U.S.A.
This comes on the heels of an
other announcement that Mr,
Bevin will keep British troops
in Greece indefinitely provid
ed the Americans pay for their
upkeep!
These items seem to confirm
with uncanny force the predic
tion made in 1943 by our for
mer Canadian ambassador to
Washington. W. D. Herridge
wrote, in his remarkable book,
"Which Kind of Revolution"
(Little Brown), that in the com
ing struggle between American
capitalism and Soviet commun
ism Britain would be in danger
of being swallowed up.
'When American imperialism
builds an anti-communist front
it will not force units of the
British Empire into places of
subordination. It will not have
to. . . . Should the British Em
pire make itself party to such a
plan it will lose its freedom.
There is no hope for the British
Empire except as a democracy
that really works."
Herridge warned of the su
preme folly of the very thing
the western democracies are
now doing prostituting their
own democratic principles by
propping up reactionary regimes
such as the Greek king's, which
could not last six months with
out outside military support.
I DO NOT AGREE WITH MR.
Herridge on the inevitable vi-
ciousness of a merger of the
United States and the free parts
of the British commonwealth.
World federation is plainly
coming,, one way or another.
There are two roads toward it.
One road would be what you
might call "a few nations in for
everything." '
The other road would be "all
nations in for a little."
If we formed the first kind of
a federation the U.S.A. and all
self-governing nations of the
British Empire would pool their
defense, foreign affairs, money,
tariff administrations.
On the second basis we could
include every nation in the
world, but giving to the world
parliament authority over a very
little, namely ways and means
Supper
Upjohn
ed out a formula for transmit
ting odors to paper, so that a
newspaper will smell like a
sizzling sirloin steak, bread
wrappers smell like nice fresh
bread, et cetera. Heck, we've
been way ahead of that chap for
20 years at least there s plenty
of our customers who'll tell you
this column smells.
Word comes from Washington
that there is an alarming short
age of box cars, but this hasn't
prevented us from being tackled
twice in the last few days by
hoboes asking us to spare a
dime. There are still enough
box cars left for a few of the
boys to get around in,
Butter went to $2 a pound
back in 1868 and as a result a
chap named Max Ans started
making apple butter, putting it
in tin cans, the tops of which
he sealed with rubber, and he
got quite a play. This was of
some interest to Salem as it was
from this apple butter in cans
the cannery business started In
the United States. This infor
mation was given us by Dick
Severin who has been assigned
to the job of writing an article
for an insurance journal and in
his research ran across the fore
going facts, ,
At any rate, if the legislature
tries to put a twocent tax on
cigarettes it will assure a big
vote out at the election.
oe preventing auacK ay any 11a-
tion.
But there is a very simple rule
whereby to judge all such pro
posals today:
Do they lead towards or away
from that World War Three?
Do they make for better or
worse relations with Russia?
No move toward world reor
ganization is good unless by its
very nature it can grow by
peaceful steps to take all hu
manity on a basis of equality.
I BELIEVE, THAT AS TIME
goes on it will become more and
more clear that Britain's posi
tion is desperate. She will never
be able to regain her old place
and her. old prosperity, for the
factors on which they were built
have been destroyed.
There are only three ways
that I can see whereby Britain
can continue to support any
thing like her present popula
tion. 1. She could join the U.S.A.
2. She could join a genuine
United Europe naturally in
cluding Russia.
3. She should make large
scale barter deals and socialize
her own vast empire.
THE MAIN OBSTACLE TO
the first course is pride I sim
ply cannot see England giving
up her king, her flag, and so on,
to become just another state
even though that would be the
quickest, easiest way out of her
difficulties.
The second course offers even
greater difficulties for any
talk of a United Europe which
does not include Russia would
be as false a remedy as it would
be in geography and political
fact. But to merge all Europe
would now be harder than to
merge the great English-speaking
nations.
That is why it seems to me
regardless of the ban against
such deals in the American loan
Britain will be compelled to
make large scale barter deals
with Canada, Russia and any
other country that has the food
and raw materials she needs,
and which will agree to take
payment for same over long
terms in goods and services.
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By Dewitt MacKenzie
(AP Foreign Affairs Analyst)
Secretary of State Marshall-
now en route to Moscow has
expressed doubt that the foreign
ministers of France, Britain
Russia and America can write a
German treaty at their forth
coming conference in the Soviet
capital, because the Big Four
still are in disagreement on
fundamentals.
That's a disquieting (though
not surprising) preview, because
the rehabilitation of chaotic Eu
rope hangs on the early conclu
sion of a constructive German
treaty. We can go further and
say that peace itself is largely
dependent on how quickly and
how well the Big Four deal with
the now broken nation which
but a brief time ago was the
dominant power of continental
Europe economically and mili
tarily.
Negotiations Difficult
Of course we should recog
nize that, as General Marshall
says, the negotiations will be
"extremely difficult." While the
world is tensely anxious for the
conclusion of a German pact, it
doesn't wish to see a treaty
which will put Germany on her
feet economically while render
ing her impotent to wage war
which will establish a democrat
ic government that will preclude
the rise of nazism and Prussian
ism again.
However, there is a point at
which tactics of delay become
deliberate obstruction. Anxiety
over the Moscow conference re
volves about this truth. There
fore we are justified in believ
ing that the conference will pro
duce a tabling of the cards to
see who wants what to see if
there is anyone who doesn't
want a quick settlement of Eu
rope's crisis and a return of
peace and plenty.
Obstruction Feared
Undue obstruction by any
power or powers at that confer
ence would demonstrate a desire
for continued disorganization. It
would be a tacit admission that
the obstructionists expected to
profit in some way from the
chaos.
Knotty differences of opinion
naturally must be expected and
there will have to be compro
mises, but it won't be difficult to
differentiate between honest ob
jections and deliberate obstruc
tion. So we may at least expect
the Moscow conference to dis
close how the land lies.
It will tell whether there is a
real desire for a constructive
peace shorn of any selfish in
terests.
Novelties
In the Chips
Berwick, Pa., March 6 (P)
Mrs. Hensyl Garrison acciden
tally dropped her diamond en
gagement ring in a 25-cent bag
of potato chips she was packag
ing.
She didn t discover the loss
until after 300 bags she had
filled were shipped out of a
plant here, enroute to a store
somewhere in the United States.
Unique Procedure
Portland. Ore., March 6 (IP)
Municipal Judge J. J. Quillin
suspended a speeding fine when
he learned Lee Walker, who
was arrested for driving 39
miles an hour in a 25 mile zone,
was a former Californian.
'You are the first Californian
in this court in the past two
months who was going less than
50 miles per hour," said Judge
Quillin. "I would almost say you
were deserving of a medal."
Jobless Benefits Decrease
Unemployment compensation
payments in Oregon during Feb
ruary were 60.t percent less
than in the similar month of
1946, the unemployment com
pensation commission said to
day.
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Newspaper men representing
national magazines, press ser
vices and leading Oregon paper,
who from March 10 to March
18 will make their second an
nual tour of the Oregon indus
tries, are slated to arrive in Sa
lem the afternoon of March 12,
according to word received by
Clay Cochran of the Salem
Chamber of Commerce.
The group will the morning of
March 13 visit the Oregon Flax
Textiles incorporated of which
Clyde S. Everett is the manager
and will be taken on a tour of
the new Paulus Bros, cannery
by Bob Paulus.
A luncheon has been arran
ged for the viistors at 12:15 that
day in the Marine room of the
Marion hotel. At this time
Charles Sprague, member of
the Salem Chamber of Com
merce planning commission, will
give a brief resume of the work
done by 'that commission. Fol
lowing Sprague's talk he and
other members of the planning
commission in attendance at the
luncheon will answer questions
about Salem's plans for the fu
ture for the news men.
The tour of Oregon indus
tries is sponsored by the Na
tional Association of Manufac
turers and the Columbia Empire
Industries, incorporated. In
charge of arrangements for the
tour is Fred Kempe, branch
manager for NAM with offices
in Portland.
Increase U. S. Troops
With Canadians
Washington, March 6 (IP) The
United States is considering a
proposal to increase the number
of American troops working
with the Canadians in military
studies at Fort Churchill in the
Hudson Bay area.
Such action would be a fur
ther step to implement the Ca
nadian-United States agreement
for collaboration in common de
fense.
Leopold Eligible for
Parole in 10 Years
Chicago, March 6 M5) Nathan
Leopold, serving a life sentence
and a 99 year sentence in.State
ville prison for the kidnap-slay-
mg of young Bobby Franks in
1924, will not be eligible for
parole for at least 10 years, Il
linois parole officials have ad
vised State's Attorney William
J. Tuohy.
Tuohy said he sought the pa
role board's opinion in view of
reports that Leopold would seek
parole on the ground that he
submitted to a malaria control
experiment in prison during the
war. Parole officials said some
convicts in the tests would be
given preferred parole consider
It would be a dull world if every face were the same . . one per
sonality just like another . r . no man different from his neighbor.
Because you are different the shape of your head, the width of your
eyes, the length of your nose we have an interesting job to do: to
fit your head with the Dobbs hat that fits your personality.
It is not enough that the size is your size generally; it must follow
accurately the shape of your head . . . the brim must be in proper
proportion to your face and head ... the color must complement
your scheme in dressing.
In other words, when you put on your Dobbs, you must know and
feel that it is exactly right for you in every detail. Anything less than
such perfection and we'd have a fit.
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ation or possible executive clem
ency.
However, thev said Leopold
Loeb in the "thrill slaying" of
the 14-year-old Franks ooy,
must serve a minimum of 33
years of the 99 year kidnaping
sentence before his application
for parole can be considered,
Britons to Buy
Oregon Timber
Portland, March 6 UP) Estab
lishment of a British lumber
procurement mission for pur
chase of Oregon - Washington
lumber was revealed today by
industrial spokesmen here.
Lumbermen who declined to
be quoted said the mission has
already placed orders for 260
million board feet of fir for de
livery during the year.
British Consul James McDon
aid said amounts to be purchas
ed would be determined under
export quotas now being nego
tiated in Washington, D. C.
Eleanor Speaker
At College Meet
Portland, Ore., March 6 (U.R)-
With Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as
one of its distinguished speakers,
the second annual Pacific North
west College congress opened at
Reed college here today.
The former first lady arrived
here yesterday and was greeted
by her granddaughter and name
sake, Eleanor Dall Boettiger,
once known as the "Sistie" of
the White House and now a soph
omore at Reed.
Mrs. Roosevelt is staying at
the home of Dr. Peter H. Ode-
gard, president of Reed, during
the congress. She was scheduled
to address delegates from 34
northwest colleges at their open
ing general assembly at Reed to
day (1:30 p.m.).
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Oregon City, March 6 m The'
sun bathers of Clackamas want
the barbed wire fences removed
from the trail they use to reach
their wilderness site.
An injunction suit in the cir-,'
cuit court here by the Sun Ray
society of Oregon City asks the,
court to compel Fred M. and;
Pauline Finch Pickering and
Aubrey and Margaret A. Davis
to remove the fence restricting
them from a tract used by nud
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