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4 Salem, Orejronon, Wednesday, May 25, 1949
Increased Bus Fares
, The city council of Portland has by resolution authorized
' upon the financial showing of deficits in operation, an in
crease in street car and bus fares by the transit operating
company to 12 cents. The hike was authorized by resolu
tion, not by ordinance, and hence is not subject to referen
dum. The City Transit company, successor to Oregon Motor
Stages, operating street buses in Salem and Eugene, has
likewise petitioned the Salem city council for a straight
' 10-cent fare and elimination of three fares for 25 cents,
school fares to remain as at present, when the fares were
.established after a strike by the bus drivers for increased
C waxes two years ago.
- The company claims a deficit in operation costs. It
. claims that for two years the Salem operation has been
carried by the Eugene operation. That can no longer be
done, it stated, because the Eugene lines are merely break
' ing even. In the first three months of this year, he said,
the Salem lines lost $12,050, and in the first four months
$17,000. The loss in 1948 was $22,000. Increased fares
. or reduced service will also be sought for suburban areas.
' In both cities, the transit lines say the main cause for
the operation deficit is the increased use of autos and
parking permitted in business districts, which has created
many other municipal problems. Increased wages and
'shorter hours and higher supply costs from gasoline to
motor vehicles are reflected as usual in higher charges to
the public.
" Along in 1918 a rise In Portland street car fares from 6
. to 6 cents by the Public Utilities Commission, caused wide
spread revolt and one of the commissioners was elected
of the popular ballot slogan, "Six cents is. too much to pay
'for a five-cent fare."
' Now a 12-cent fare causes less of a commotion that a
6-cent fare caused 30 years ago. Even at 12 cents the
Tgtreet bus costs less than it does to own and drive an auto
; mobile, when investment and operating costs are consid-
ered. At least safety is assured. And the dollar today is
! only worth in purchasing power about half what it was
; In 1918.
; Municipal ownership is not the answer. The cities that
i have tried it have found it a headache for the politicians
; usually favor low fares to get the votes, and make the
i taxpayers foot deficits. The New York tubes are a glar
I ing example. For decades they were operated at a loss of
millions of dollars paid by taxpayers and the service was
correspondingly poor.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Austin Given Spanking for
Championing Israeli Cause
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Warren Austin, popular U. S. delegate to the
United Nations, it now in the state department doghouse lor
disobeying orders.
Secretary Acheson Is furious at him for deliberately ignoring
Instructions on what to do when the question of admitting Israel
came up belore
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
the United Na
tions assembly.
The Israel is
were In fla
grant violation
o f mediation
ordtr from the
felt it was orly.fi
orooer for 3 a,..
them to cooibt 7
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MJ
Note: Missouri's Sen. Forrest
Donnell added his amen to
Thye' arguments, pointed out
that soon everyone would sim
ply ask for S per cent more if
the senate continued its arbi
trary 8 per cent cuts.
Secretary of State Acheson
was hauled over the coals by the
senate 'appropriations committee
Just before he left for Paris by
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Reds Efficient in Bringing
Young Under Commie Tent
' By DeWITT MocKENZIE
(on PorcllB Affairs Anftlritt
The Soviet authorities in control of the Eastern zon of Ger
many are giving a demonstration of smart efficiency in the in
doctrination of young folk in communism.
Karl Heinz
Schwab,
m e m-
ber of the Asso
cited Press staff
in Berlin, re
ports that the
Red rulers of
east Germany
are starting
their intensive
training with
little people of
six. That, I take
it, is about as
DftWIlt Mftcftmslo
and pastimes which are dear to
young folk. However, every
thing is done collectively. Pri
vate clubs say for stamp col
lecting or chess matches can't
exist.
Thus the youngsters early are
introduced to the intensive regi
mentation to which they are ex
pected to be subjected all their
lives. They become activists un
der direction of the kremlin,
from which all policy flows, and
; Miracles of Medicine
In the Readers Digest for June Paul deKruif says that
i in the last thirty years, "more life saving serum has been
1 found and made available to more people than in the pre
ceding thirty centuries." He reviews medical discoveries
since 1917 and says that "science has pulled the fangs of
plague from which hundreds of millions have had to die
! an epidemic of miracles."
Insulin as a remedy for diabetis heads the list. In 1917
I there was no toxoid preventive for diphtheria or lockjaw,
i no sulfas to cure blood poisoning, meningitis and bubonic
; plague, no atabrine or DDT to combat malaria. X-rays and
i radium had not been enlisted in the fight against cancer.
; Surgeons hadn't dared the operations now effective
1 against tuberculosis, cerebral hemorrhages, heart failure
! and kidney disease. Deaths from lobar pneumonia totaled
85,000 in 1917; by 1947, thanks to the "one-two punch"
i of penicillin plus sulfadiazine, the total was down to 20,000.
! Thirty years ago, 94 of every 1,000 babies died within
t a year. Today, new knowledge of obstetrics and pasteuri
' ration of milk have reduced the infant death rate by two
! thirds; 2,600,000 children have lived who in earlier times
; would have died.
j A similar inoculation Is taking the sting out of whooping
i cough. The child killers of the past scarlet fever and
pneumonia have lost much of their terror since the dis-
covery of the sulfa drugs and penicillin. Vitamin D has
' removed rickets from the list of serious diseases. The chief
; cause of death among children of pre-school nge is no long
! er any disease, dcKruif points out, but accidents.
, Still to be conquered are cancer and henrt diseases;
j and tuberculosis' annual toll of 50,000 Americans is "no
i cause for smug self-congratulation." But the author sees
! medicnl science as having achieved "only a beginning."
i Hundreds of thousands of molds remain to be tested. Al
! ready the new antibiotic, streptomycin, has permitted life-
saving operations in tuberculosis; another, neomycin,
i promises further headway against this disease, ("bloro-
myietin cures typhoid and aureomycin is effective against
i viruses "hitherto invincible," such as virus pneumonia.
young as it would be profitable eariy have it hammered into
to go. Even Hitler, who achiev- them that communism stands for
ed devilish wonders in organ iz- peace while the western "capi-
ing German youth, both boys talist" powers are warmongers
and girls, didn't begin with them bent on aggression,
until they were ten years old.
The Hitlerian training com- Naturally . this communist
prised not only sports and in- training is encountering much
tensive physical culture to make opposition from older Germans
perfect bodies, but indoctrina- who were reared in the belief
tion in nazism. The ideological that communism and the devil
instruction included militarism were one and the same thing,
and the claim that the fuehrer However, if the Soviet author
was a messiah. ities can retain control and con-
The communists are outdoing tinue their educational program.
Hitler by getting hold of the it ji bound to have a marked
children at a much earlier for- effect on the coming generation,
mative age and before parents. And what can be said of east-
who may be hostile to commu- Crn Germany in this respect is
nism, have had a chance to in- also true of all the satellite coun-
still fixed ideas in young heads, tries of eastern Europe. There
the opposition to communism
The small children are organ- rests with the grown folk who
Ized in groups called the "young knew independence before the
pioneers" which are placed un- war.
der control of the "free German Keep that bloc of nations un-
youths," comprised of boys be- der Red regimentation for a
tween 14 and 25. These organ- score of years and it may be re-
izatlons engage in all the sports made ideologically.
k.fn- ik. h4-. senators who wanted to know
fore, he sent Austin a four-paee hy h Ajn"1"n delef ' "T 0
telegram carefully Instructing lh Vnitf,d Nations refused to
him to vote for the admission of vote for Franc0 SDaln
Israel but not to make any Acheson told the appropria
speeches supporting its admis- 'on committee, whose job in
ion. cidentally is not primarily con-
Austin, however, paid no at- "rnIeIdt!with to'" Policy, that
tention to these instructions. In- the U.S delegation had acted on
stead; he made a strong speech tast'uetions from the state de
championing the Israeli cause Partment. Senator Wherry
and. in addition, buttonholed f ointedly tried to get Acheson
dozens of foreign delegates, urg- ? admit that there was a divi
ing them to vote for Israel. His J10"'""6 American delegation
one-man campaign was such a ? " v on tne '"" Aches"
success that the new Jewish d,dnt 'n jnythlng-nor did
state was admitted as the 59th he ,dmlt anything.
member of the United Nations "It was my responsibility and
Acheson is now trying to figure it was my decision," Acheson
out what to do with the ex-sen said.
ator from Vermont for disobey- Actually, Wherry was right.
ing orders. There was a major split inside
the American delegation at the
, . j , , United Nations, and the voting
The GOP economy drive trip. w three t0 tw0 af,ajnst Kranc0.
ped over Minnesota's Sen. Ed Favoring the Spanish dictator
Thye the other day and lost was Chief UN Delegate Warren
some of its momentum. Austin and Ray Atherton. On
At a closed meeting of repub- tn other slde we Mrs. Roose-
lican senators, Thye had a few ve John f ster Dulles-who
things to say about the 5 per voted "Sainst Franc0-
cent across-the-board appropri-
ation cuts. It didn't make sense,
he argued, for senators to plead
for more money from the ap
propriations committee some-
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GOES AFTER CALIFORNIA
CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES
Good Paris Omen Secretary
of State Acheson, arriving in
Paris, was encouraged to find
times privately then turn the Russians were sendine the
round and vote a 5 per cent cut largest delegation in recent his-
publicly. tory to Paris conference 74 ex-
"Few of you," Thye waggled perts. This Is considered a good
a finger at his colleagues, "have omen. The presence of a large
appeared before the appro- delegation means the Russians
priations committee and re- are preparing to give and take
quested special appropriations, on any issue that might be rais-
You were very grateful when ed, without too much reference
your request was granted and back to Moscow,
wired your home folks to tell Atomic energy row A back-
them about it." stage row over atomic energy
Then these same senators information has broken out in-
came up on the floor and voted side lne senate appropriations
an over-all 5 per cent cut, chid- committee. Three republicans
ed the ex-governor of Minne- Senators Wherry of Nebraska,
sota. Whacking off a straight Bridges of New Hampshire and
5 per cent is a most careless way Ferguson of Michigan asked
of trimming the budget, he add- the committee staff to dig up
e(j gome technical data. But the
,iC, , , . subcommittee chairman, ' demo-
Some of you are member, of OTatic Senator 0.Mamoncy of
the appropriations committee Wyomlng countermanded the
and t through hearings and order He told committee clerks
never objected to specific items " ,hat anything the republicans
rationalized Thye, who used to wanted t know mus, ceared
i""' with him. When this got back
Tough Irishman Roars Into
Washington With Shillelagh
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
(United Preu Sporu Writer)
Washington, May 25 (U.PJ A tough Irishman named Miki
roared into the Capital today, waving a shillelagh in one hand
and a bucket of water in the other.
The Shillelagh was for any-
body who crossed him up. The iel O'Sullivan, a freshman con
bucket of water was to cool off gressman from Omaha, Neb.
anybody from California who He pitched his big bonnet on
came near. to his cousin's desk and began
Mike was Mike O'Sullivan, to explode about how dry'
president of an insurance com- Arizona is. He didn't have to
pany in Phoenix, Ariz. He is a be that violent,
self-appointed ambassador from Since cousin Gene is well
that great state and came here aware how dry the west can ba
to see that California is forced at times
to quit pumping all the water t managed to get Mike out in
out of the Colorado river while the corridor before he blew his
folks on the other bank watch r00f
their crops wilt and the tongues The folks aiong the Arizona
of their cattle hang out. So he lide oI the river are trying to
said- get along by irrigation, but that's
Mike wore a 10-and-a-half- not so good," he said. "Our
gallon hat over his bald head, water level is getting lower by
cowboy boots and fancy riding the minute. In a few years we'll
britches. His fingers were dolled be as dry as the Sahara. There
up with silver rings, made by won't be any Arizona. Califor-
the Navajos and colored with nia won't let us dip into our own
turquois. river."
Around his neck he wore a Mike said that during oni
silk 'kerchief. On his' back he 10-year period no rain fell in his
had a jacket "which itches." state "that did any good, any-
"I learned a lesson the last way, , .
time I came east-a couple of u,nle w omething un-
voai-a tkan" h .airf usual like California weather
we won't get a drop right now
until December," he shouted.
Mike slapped his hip, where
"I ought to be carrying a six
shooter." And said that there have been
mnr lrillincf tn tli nM
up eating his corn flakes at a over water or the lack of it
That was in Boston where a
smarty head waiter in a hotel
refused to let him have break
fast without a coat on. Mike bel
lowed and snorted and wound
Deanery down the street.
He doesn't think much
Boston.
than for anv other cause.
of Well, if the man in the tur-
quois rings has anything to do
were many items with excess
Mike's first stop here was at with it, congress is going to sit
Room 1518 in the new house up and take notice and do some
office building to visit his thing "to make those Califor
cousin, Gene. Rep. Eugene Dan- nians behave."
to the GOP, Bridges called on
Celebrated Too Soon
Richmond, Va. (UP) Wayland R. Bam, 11, Injured in an
automobile accident, threw his crutches away after about
five months. To celebrate the healing of his broken leg, he
took a ride on a motor scooter. It hit a ear. Ham broke his
leg.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Farewell to Campus Say Many
By HAL BOYLE
New York (A) Now is the golden time at end for many a rose
lipped maiden and many a light-foot lad.
This is the season when alma mater opens her iron gates.
And out into an Iron world she
hurls her annual tide of college new campus. Work with the
graduates.
it is aiwaysr
a t.amklUn!
nuur wiiru mu
ther deliberate'
ly unties thei,
apron strings
that bind her to
her child ren t
Fr e e d o m and
responsibi 1 1 t y
they are so
strange and
new.
Kim
l Brl
people that want to tear down
some of the choking moss and
chop down some of the dead
trees that hide the sky. The best
fun in life is to leave something
better than you found it. And
if you don't help clear the cam
pus, the moss will smother you
in time, as it has so many, and
you will become a dead tree in
a dying part of the forest.
Okay, son, I know that sounds
highfalut'n. Get the glaze out of
your eyes. I know what's on
your mind you want a job.
political moisture that could miii
have been squeezed out. But chairman o the appropriations
instead of considering these in- committee, ,nd demanded a
dividually the sensible way, jhowdown. Further fireworks
you voted on the senate floor are Kheduled for this week,
to cut everything 5 per cent." (Coptmim ists
DOG MAINTAINS VIGIL
Shabby Bird Hound Braves
Traffic to Guard Dead Pal
Mobile, Ala. (UP) Traffic on one of Mobile's busiest streets
was disrupted slightly by a shabby old bird dog. determined
to maintain a vigil over the body of a dead pal.
The other dog, a mongrel pup, met death under the wheels
of an automobile as the two dogs were playing. The bird
dog hurried over and stood protectingly over the body.
He stood his ground in the face of the onrushingly heavy
traffic and Mobilians had to rqueeze around him as they sped
to work during the morning rush hour.
The old bird dog growled menacingly when police finally
arrived and moved the pup's body to the side of the street.
When the street department carted the little- body away,
the old dog ran In circles, whining mournfully.
After several hours, he wandered off harmlessly to be alone
in his grief. ,
HM.. 11 i.:V.l
Why All These Socialistic Projects Now?
I With national debt exceediiiR $2.r0 billions there seems
J no effort on the part of the administration to economize
J In any way. Instead there is a never ending stream of
5 messages from the president for projects involving the ex
J penditure of more billions.
J Karl Marx, the father of the communist ideology, held
,that the way to kill capitalism was to tax and tax until it
was bled white and then to take over by armed revolution,
i Under Harry Hopkins' precept of "spend and spend, tax
and tax, and vote and vote," that is what is being done,
even if it is not realized by those in power.
t Granted that our most critical problem is the probability
J of war, and essential defense, aiding Kurope to recover,
which requires billions, why should there be a must pro
i gram of more billions for new pensions, price supports,
educational and the "welfare state," socialized medicine,
i minimum wage increase and a mushroom growth of bu
Jrcaucracy ?
Why should not these peace time projects be deferred
until we find out how we are to make out with Russia.
Then there will be time enough to take up these projects
one at a time as necessary. Why demand them all at once
i to increase taxes, assure deficit spending as well as in
creased federal powers in the direction of state socialism,
that is now prostrating Britain?
Some control should be put on the present unlimited
J power to tax which eventually means the paralyzing of
private enterprise as Marx forecasted. .
Goo d b v e to
brackety-yackety-yack. Fare- Fine- Drop that sheepskin from
well dear campus so well be- your warm little hand. Here's a
loved, but never so loved as broom. Get busy,
now. Hello, world, so wide and What's that? You don't want
terrible.
Ah, me! Ah, youth! Ah, wild
erness! Aw, hell! Don't look so
forlorn son. Life isn't all fang
and claw and a sharp tack in a
tight shoe. You're just a fresh
man in a bigger university a
university In which it Is terribly
important to pick the right professors.
to push a broom? Why not? Do
you want the broom to push
you?
Oh, you'd hoped for some
thing better? Well, so do we all.
But you have to learn to saw
wood before you can make a
cabinet
Listen, little acorn, it takes
more than ambition to be an oak
ma It I.Ira. - V,
Until now there has always of spyroi Skouras, the motion
been somebody ready with a picture poobah? He makes more
handkerchief to wipe your nose, money than 'most anybody ex
The first thing you have to ''P' Uncl sm- Know how h
learn in this new university you fn0V,s"rLdouT.horef. " '
are entering Is to keep your Any Job is better than no Job.
nose out of places where people u ,n t as important where you
will make it bleed. There are ltart it l where you go from
tough kids around, who live by where you start. The nice thing
the creed that a gun in the hand aDout starting at the bottom la
is worth two in the head. Don't that there Is only one way to go
play with them. Stay with the up. Work and brains and
nice boys. friendliness will get you any-
There are cleared places in where. And honesty will help
this age-old Jungle that Is your keep you there.
If It's MONEY You're After!
C. Ray Allen
(The"Yes Man")
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