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4 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, February 8, 1950
More Births Mean More Schools
Salem had anticipated that more schools would be needed
in the next few years. How many or at what cost was not
known. School authorities were trying to iigure wnai xne
needs would be according to present student enrollment,
the big increase in births and the probability of an increase
in newcomers to the city.
Monday night school authorities gave a first accounting
of the need. It called for another high school and addi
tional elementary classrooms in four schools this year and
additions in two more next year. The cost was estimated
at $3,730,000.
Two years ago the voters of Salem approved a $1,500,
000 school building program, after paring an original school
board proposal of twice that amount. The objection at
that time to the larger figure was that the school build
ing program should be based on a pay-as-needed plan.
Certain school additions, the voters decided, would have to
come up later.
School authorities aptly describe their problem as one
of a rising birth rate instead of a problem of schools.
The number of births which tripled from the depression
years to the peak year of 1947 calls for a solution in the
form of more school facilities. How many more facilities
will have to be decided exactly in the next few months.
So as to avoid any criticism about "rushing" the voters
into a decision, the school board has announced the prob
lem early enough for groups of citizens to survey the prob
lem and the suggested solution. This year members of
the citizens committee who were so active in scaling down
the board's requirements two years ago should accept the
request of the board for help in arriving at an acceptable
current solution. The board's earnest search for advice
and help is commendable. A school bond issue vote looms
for May.
In other words, the solution to the problem of more and
more school-age children in Salem must be determined
specifically by the first of April to be ready for the voters
if a May ballot is planned.
Dewey Balance Budgets
Governor Thomas B. Dewey of New York has reversed
the trend of the federal government and of many state
governments by turning in a budget for 1950-51 reducing
the cost of itato government As the New York Times
remarkst
"ThU is a aiieable achievement In these times, on any level
of government, won by self-restraint and a resolute closing of
the door against the temptation to new adventures in state serv
ices. It i a budget balanced without proposed resort to the tax
tabiliiatlon reserve sat up for a rainy day, although these have
already come in handy for a current local-assistance deficit."
The budget message asks for no new taxes, and presents
a balanced budget which recommends appropriations $77.6
million below the current year whose appropriations were
$939.3 million and recommended appropriations for next
year $861.7 million, though assistance to localities, about
60 percent of the whole budget, is still rising in percent
age. There is less politics in the message than would be
expected in an election year.
During his term as governor, Dewey has proved himself
an able administrator and an economical one. His record
is in sharp contrast with that of President Truman, whose
administration has been the most extravagant in peace
time history and whose budgets, for both the current year
and next are in the red billions of dollars forcing increase
of national debt by deficit spending.
If Dewey had been elected president, there is no. question
but that the national budget would be balanced and that
we would have had a government for all the people instead
of for special pressure groups. Results show that Oregon
voters showed better judgment than the rest of the nation
when they voted for Dewey instead of Truman for presi
dent in the last general election.
Our Wilderness Areas
President Truman has signed an executive order pro
hibiting flying "sportsmen" in the roadless wilderness
area of the Superior national forest comprising a million
acres. Resort owners, dependent upon air travel, are given
two years to close up their affairs as have private individ
uals flying to their own cottages.
All travel thereafter in this wilderness area will be, as
originally intended, by foot or canoe. It was supposed that
the prohibition of roRds would prevent the commercializ
ing of the primeval forest, lakes and streams, but the
airplane has changed nil this and swank resorts followed,
patronized by the wealthy, to the destruction of wild ani
mals and fishes in both the Superior reserve and in the
adjoining Qunntic park in Ontario, Canada.
Some such measure will have to be taken to preserve our
own wilderness areas, in the Cascades and elsewhere, for
wherever the airplane goes to isolated areas it spells deci
mation, sometimes extermination of game, for law enforce
ment is practically impossible against the game and fish
hogs.
The wilderness areas must be preserved as nature made
them against the exploitation and commercialization and
vandalism of man. If not they cease to carry out the pur
poses of their creation. Why the forestry service sanctions
present practices is something only the bureaucrats can
answer.
New Road in North Santiam Canyon
Representatives from the North Santiam canyon and
Deschutes country had planned to appear yesterday after
noon before the state highway commission to plead the case
for a new Mehama-to-Mill City road. The need for such a
highway on the Marion county side of the North Santiam
river had long been realized by this section of the state.
But in years past the highway commission hadn't been
convinced.
In a surprise move, however, the commission Monday
approved a start on that road without givir? the delega
tions from here a chance to present their plea. But that
was all right with the delegations. All that-counted was
a start to be made on the road project.
With the Detroit dam construction underway and the
road improved east of Mill City, a new highway west of
Mill City had become a necessity for proper development
if the entire area. The highway commission hns earned
the thanks of this section of the state for giving approval
to this latest project.
BY BECK
Wives
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
McMahon Urges Propaganda.
Campaign to Russian People
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Quotes from a speech by Senator McMahon of
Connecticut:
"Building the hydrogen bomb does not promise security for the
United States. It only promises averting for a few months or
years well-night certain catastrophe . . . our diplomacy must
tap the roots of our imagination and ingenuity . . . We may choose
between moving heaven and earth to stop the atomic armaments
or imi-
without knowing anything about
the issues then war can always
be just around the corner."
(Date of columns, July 21
through Aug. 18, 1948.)
BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
White Collar Zoo
race
tating our total
itarian rivals.
"We must
blame ourselves
for fa i 1 i n g to
bring our mes
sage of peace to
the people be
hind the Iron
Curtain. . . . We
must not only
crack the Iron
Curtain and
Drew P..non
gain the ear of the Russian peo
Dle. we must also gain the ear
of the people on the near side staff, was the most enthusiastic.
GEN. BRADLEY ENTHUSED
Official Reaction Simultan
eous with writing the above
columns, this writer called on
the branches of the three mili
tary services and the state de
partment. Here is what they
said:
Gen. Omar Bradley, chief of
., L ... .... ...'.. lyn ' jiiin in
. fy xjfci.
KRISS-KROSS
He Knows Bare Facts of
Businessmen, Politicians
By CrrRIS KOWITZ, Jr.
The bare truth of several prominent Salem men is known
by Ardo Tarem of 96 Lansing avenue. Ardo, you see is masseur
at the YMCA. Among his steady customers are Governor Doug
las McKay, Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom and City Manager J. 1.
Franzen. .
of the Iron Curtain.
He said: "If we can get to the
One of the
gents who works
in the check
room at the "Y,"
after observing k tf
several local t-
mismessmen re
clined on the
massage table,
is c o n v i need
that Ardo "lives
off the fat of
the land."
. Jr.
Vic did his galloping at WSC.
Add another chapter to the
fabulous story of the Wheatland
ferry. Over a period of years,
the historic ferry has been closed
dozens of times because of high
water, low water, bad road con
ditions, damaged landing aprons,
etc. A gravel truck once even
crashed into the boat, putting
it out of comission. Members of
the ferry maintenance crew were
Men released from Oregon just about convinced they had
State prison will soon be given seen everything, inen last wee.
Chrli Kowlli,
assistance in finding jobs. A
end the ferry was forced to shut
down again ... ice on overhead
church committee headed by Ir- trolley wires had caused the
win Weddle has undertaken the wires to become shorted, and no
project . . . Pietro Belluschi, electric current was available to
architect who is designing Mar- operate the ferry,
ion county's new courthouse,
also designed Portland's Equita- Regarding the oft-cussed and
ble building, a structure which discussed winter of 1919: Offi
has gained nationwide attention cial temperature was -6 that
for its unique design . . . War year, compared to -10 this year,
memoir: Remember how the However, the official weather
huge neon sign over Hotel Salem bureau thermometer in 1919 was
read "Hot Sal" for a couple of located atop a' heated down
years? Neon tubing for repair town building. Heat from the
purposes was unavailable dur- building undoubtedly affected
ing the war . , . Vic Palmeson, the thermometer. Maybe old
Salem high school music ma- time Salemites are right in their
estro, still holds the Northwest claims that 1919 was actually
record for the 880-yard dash, colder than 1950.
'We spend $29,000,000 a year Russian people, I can go fish-
on what we call the Voice of ing. He promised full cooper
America, though it should be ation if the state department
called the Whisper of America, approved.
Yet we spend over $30,000,000 . Secretary of Air Stuart Sy
a year to advertise cosmetics, mington was equally enthusias
. . . Listlessness and mediocrity tic, promised full cooperation
have characterized our attempts with B-29s if the state depart
to sell what America is, what ment gave an OK.
America wants and what Ame- Chief of Naval Operations
rica intends. . . . Admiral Denfeld was mildly
"I favor printing millions of intere: .d.
leaflets for world-wide circula- The state department was
tion explaining a new United not interested. Assistant Secre
States proposal on atomic peace, tary George Allen, in charge of
. . . We should publicly and re- the Voice of America and of
peatedly challenge the Kremlin propaganda activities, feared
to make public the terms of our that friendship messages to the
proposal to newspaper readers Russian people would be misin
and radio listeners inside Rus- terpreted. Our most successful
sia. . . . policy with Russia, he indicated,
"This is a time for soul-sear- was the diplomatic straight-arm,
ching, for launching a moral a warning that if the Soviet ov
crusade for peace which alone erstepped a1 certain line she
can save us." Date of McMahon's risked war. Friendship messages
speech, Feb. 2, 1950.) to the Russian people might un-
dercut that policy.
Quotes from this column '
July and August, 1948 "when Later, I called on George
one nation is in trouble with Marshall, then secretary of
another nation, wise leaders state, discussed the problem of
concentrate on the weakest point getting to the Russian people. I
in the other nation's armor. The suggested that he or President
weakest point in Russia's armor Truman address a radio appeal
is her twn people. ... to Stalin that the Iron Curtain
"We must go over the Krem- be lifted- Permitting friendship
lin's head to the Russian people between t h e Russian and the
in order to convince them that American people,
the United States is composed While that appeal would be
of people who do not want war. rebuffed, I pointed out that mil
. . . During the war we spent Uon,sJ comes the speech
millions of dollars dropping ;ould be Pnted in the Russian,
leaflets, cakes of soap, packages Czech, ,PollshJ Bulgarian and
of tea over nations. It shortened other V0" Curtain languages
the war and saved lives. How . be circulated in those coun
many more lives could be saved trles- and undermine the bellig
by preventing war in the first ert ProPaanda of the Moscow
ft Ik
A Big Account Walks In
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
H-Bomb May Turn Out
To Be a Great Blessing
By HAL BOYLE
New York W The pushbutton war of the future may
never come off for a very simple reason it doesn't hold much
prospect of fun.
Wars in the past have offered exciting change from the hum
drum of peace to a large part of the population.
terror,
The
boredom and
danger of the
front lines af
fected only a
small portion of
the people. The
civilians at
home, unwor
ried by fear of
death, found
the annoyances
of rationing and
higher taxes
more than made up for by their
enlarged . sense of self-importance.
Hal Boris
Our doughboys used to joke
that the last thing the retreating
nazis did before pulling out of
one of their cities was to stick
up a sign saying: "Off limits to
all allied troops."
And on a national scale vic
tory has only brought more re
sponsibility. As soon as you
quit kicking a foe, you have to
start lending him money, ship
ping him food, and rebuilding
his homeland.
It seems to me that the de
velopment of the hydrogen
bomb has squeezed the last
They were caught up by a small ounce of fun-out of war.
thrilling feeling of unity that
carried them out of their or
dinary small frustrations.
We are in the twilight of the
man-flown bomber and the fin-
place by going over the heads of
the Kremlin and getting to the
Russian people!
radio.
Secretary Marshall agreed,
said he was considering an ap
peal somewhat along these lines
What's in a Name?
Yoxford, England, Feb. 8 P) Tenants got the- rural
district council to change the name of a new housing project
to "Striotland Manor Hill."
They didn't like to get mail addressed to "Hog Hill."
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Commissioner McCloy Gives
Germany an Overdue Rebuke
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
((JF) Foreign Affairs Analyst)
The sharp rebuke administered to an over-ambitious Germany
by U. S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy in his Stuttgart
speech was due and perhaps overdue.
The commissioner laid his cards on the table, face up. He ad
monished West German officials for criticizing the western allies.
He said Amen
cis main pur
ir . . . , when the United Nations open-
Let American planes over ed in New York that fau p
The factory worker became ,.uh ,ici tri00- Miii,n,
"the soldier behind the soldier leaders warn we haven't reach
at the front." Women found an ed the push button stage o war
escape iium iiib yziiy wunu ul
household chores. They found
they could hold a riveting ma
chine as well as the next guy,
yet, but we will within 25 years.
Of what avail will bravery
be then? It won't take a brave
man to point an H-bomb at the
Germany drop weather balloons
which the wind currents would
But the appeal was never
float over Russia carrying "r",,l ,tV. ' .
SST&Wi Hrdh.m to
difficulty the Kremlin would
have in explaining away these
balloons! . , . During the war,
the Japanese took advantage of 0f 1948
weamuL curicm! lo juuai uai-
the ruts of routine diplomacy.
v
That was in the late summer
loons all the way across the Pa-
Since then President Truman
has announced that Russia has
cific carrying explosives. They "T" "V
wc unuuuns ucctui. v c can
reverse the process with bal
loons of friendship.
"F. W. Danner of Akron, Ohio,
FBI has made it known that Rus
sia has had access to the secrets
of the hydrogen bomb, and the
need for revolutionary diploma-
pose is to help!
Germany a-!
chicve political
recovery". H ci
turned thumbs'
down on a Gcr-,
man army or
air f o r c e, and
pledged that
Nazism will notl
be permitted to
rise again.
Thai's language which suits
DeWllt Markenilo
treaty. They saw the Reich re
arming. Along came Hitler and
started kicking the treaty to
pieces, even lo the extent of open
aggression against Austria. And
all anybody did about it was to
complain a bit, and then try to
appease the Nazi dictator. The
result was that for the second
time the Fatherland came close
to beating the world on the
battlefield.
If it hadn't been the Fuehrer
the German temperament. It's who led Germany into the late
reminiscent of the proposal by world war, it would have been
James F. Byrnes then secretary somebody else. Her people had-
of stale, in that same city of n't learned their lesson. I lot
Stuttgart three years ago. He of them haven't lean ed it yet,
laid down a policy which aimed and there is mu-h bitterness
at rehabilitation of Germany, but against their conquer j: s I ' iw
provided that never again should that when I toured Germany in
she be permitted to assume her 1946.
old role of aggressor. And he '
called for a four-power pact pro- However, strange as it may
viding for the occupation of scem, the German people as a
Germany for twenty-five years whole are not a warlike folk,
and perhaps forty lo insure lfs true that they are suscepti-
demilitarization. ble lo regimentation under dicta-
torship, and the German fight-
What has happened in the re- ing man is one of the world's
lativcly short time since then is best scjdicrs.
that the Germans have been tak- v tnese puamies the Prus-
ing anvaniage oi ine khock- , wa-,nrric have trafficked
has offered to print 1,000,000 cv is all tho mnr nrp-ont
copies of a message to the Rus- But when President Truman
sian people without charge. Per- announced that he was giving
cy Smith of Los Angeles writes the green light to the hydrogen
that he would be glad to sup- bomb, he missed one of the pro
ply bars of soap imprinted with paganda opportunities of a life
a message. The Eagle Rubber time. He could have gone on the
company oi Ashland, onio, in- air with a shortwave broadcast
ternational Latex of Dover, Del., to the people of the entire world,
and the Dewey-Almy company appealing for peace, and had
of Cambridge, Mass., have of- millions of copies of that appeal
fereii to supply 100,000 balloons printed in a score of languages.
trek t ' l i Instead he issued an abrupt,
"One of the surest ways to almost peremptory announc
prevent war is to show the Rus- ment stati ?n tif( official
sian people that we, the Amen- language that the United states
can people, aren't what the 14 had decided to build tn n d
men in the Kremlin say we are. gen bomb. , brief he d
f I. !, " nWn t0 he Kremlin a olden PP"
tha 180,000,000 Russians will tunit to call us mUitaristirand
unflinchingly obey the order to to a , t0 the world f
,,.;n,.,t ..;:-i- J fe""-B-
and war opened to them a whole pnPmv aj ,n(4 ir whi.hinB
new round of social activities away in a pu0tless rocket. The
with a purpose helping sell soldiers will be technicians, the
bonds, entertain at USO clubs, general will command armies
collect blood, roll bandages. of machines instead of men.
Yes, war made everybody And what fun will there be
feel useful and necessary. And for civilian population? None,
few saw the blood on the battle- War will become a matter of
fields far away. population endurance, as each
side waits for its cities to dis-
Recent wars have been less appear. A great city is the har-
and less rewarding, however, vest of millions of men over
for the men who actually carry hundreds of years. Why burn up
the guns. In the old days, vie- that long gain of culture and
torious warriors looted towns concrete in one tremendous
and took their pick of the ene- flash of million-degree hydro-
my's pretty womenfolk. gen heat?
I wouldn't say this didn't If nations think this over
happen on occasion in he last and there are signs they will
world war, but it was the ex- the H-bomb may turn out to be
'ception rather than the rule, a great blessing.
Anyone Seen a Missing Garden?
Southbourne, Eng., Feb. 8 W Victor A. Hunt heard
a "tearing sound" at midnight, got out of bed, and found his
garden was missing.
The plot, 30 feet long, had split away and fallen down s
100 foot cliff into the sea.
The Hunt house now stands Just eight feet from the crumb
ling lip of the precipice.
The Hunts spent the rest of the night in a hotel.
ueuuie, wiuiuui criticism, ana (Copyrliht 1950)
OPEN FORUM
Democrats on Courthouse
To the Editor: At a meeting of the Marion County Democratic
Central committee at the Mayflower Dairy in Salem Sunday,
February 12, starling at 1:00 o'clock, I am planning to urge the
committee to start a movement tor the erection of a new Marion
county courthouse. This meetmg is a potluck dinner between 1
and B in the afternoon and the
down fight between the Western
allies and Russia, to further
their own ambitions. McCloy
has now called the turn on that
in their efforts at world con
quest. But the average German
(so as far as concerns Western wo"" B.' uu" ' 7anj
war. incy aesire w sei tuieau
with the job of rebuilding their
Germany) while there still is
tim I it (nti-Oit i J eitiifit inn
You'd think the allies of the ra a".". u...
wirst world war would have That ambt"" "n be achieved
learned a lesson, but if they u"der Proper guidance and con
did they soon forgot it. I was r' ""V1 the rehabilitation and
present at the signing of the reform have becn occomplished.
peace treaty at Versailles and Not only can this be done,
saw the German delegation file bl't the allies recognize that a
out of the place after the cere- rehabilitated Germany is essen
mony, their heads flung back tial to a rehabilitated Europe,
and their faces livid with anger The key to success is strong al
and hate. You couldn't witness lied management in these par
that scene without knowing that lo! times, to keep an exception
another war was bound to come. ally capable and highly ambi-
tions nation on the right track.
However, the allies started That, I take it, is what Com
winking at infractions of the tnissioner McCloy aims at.
speaking will be about 3 p.m.
Will you please give this
meeting some advance publicity
in the Journal and also send out
a reporter to the meeting. I
think we can give you a good
story.
I recall that you were active
in the movement to obtain a
b autiful new white marble
courthouse for Marion county to
match the new State Capitol about three-fourths of the states
had Governor's mansions. I
think Oregon ought to have one
and I would be happy to have
you tell me how you feel about
that too.
WILLIAM L. JOSSLIN,
Chairman Democratic State
Central Committee of Oregon.
(Editor's Note: Most of the
vate secretary to Governor Mar
tin. When I married, my first
home for my bride and myself
was in Salem. Thus, I feel some
what like a member of the Mar
ion County family of citizens.
I have also given some
thought to referring to the need
for a Governor's mansion in Sa
lem. At the time I investigated
the matter some years ago.
jl
and Post Office in about the
year 1936. I seem to recall that
the voters of Marion County
voted to approve the proposal,
but in the same election declin
ed to vote for the necessary ap
propriations of public funds.
I would appreciate very much
your telling me how you feel
about that matter now , , .
Although I have never been money needed for a new county
a legal resident of Marion Coun- courthouse has already been
ty, I have a very warm spot in raised, and plans for the struc-
my heart for the place in view ture have been approved. Con-
of the fact that I spent four of struction probably will start on
the happiest years of my life the $1,500,000 structure in the
living and working there as pri- spring of next year.)
"Yes, Son IF you think you
mb ttand hard work, long years
of study, and little or no earnings
for about ten or twelve years,
after leaving school. It will take
quite a lot of money to put you
through, too
"You see, after yon complete
high school, it will be necessary to
have two to four years of regular
college, then four years of Medi
cal College, then two to four years
of Internihip in an accredited Hos
pital. After that, many young Doc
tors take postgraduate
work in special fields.
Stringent examinations ire then
required, before you receive a
liccnie to practice Medicine. Ai
your practice grows, your time
belongs more and more to your
patients; there are no hours. You
should be genuinely fitted for the
profession, as your greatest re
wards, Son, will come from a sense
of serving mankind."
It it for your protection thit
your Doctor, and his colleagues,
keep a close watch on stringent
requirements of Medical Schools
and Medical Examining Boards.
... Do not allow this quality to
be lowered.
Capital Drug Store
State and Liberty St., Salem
,(