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'IS PORTLAND PART OF OREGON?'
The above is the caption of a five-column ad by the
Oregon Uniform Time committee, protesting the attempt
being made in Portland in "a well organized, carefully
planned movement by a small group to put pressure on
the city council and Portland business people to establish
what they call 'voluntary' daylight time in defiance of the
laws of Oregon."
It Is pointed out that, in the last election the people of
Oregon voted to end tune contusion ana estaoiun unuonn
Standard Time. An overwhelming majority of 143,000
voters approved Uniform Standard Time throughout the
state. The following facts were listed:
There is no daylight-vereus-standard-tlme issue. The Issue
la almnlv thii Ii Portland cart of the state of Oregon? And
this Issue Li tremendously important In light of Portland's eco
nomic effect upon our state.
ReMuie of Portland'! unlaue nosltlon as a business and popu
lation center, any action taken will react directly upon sur
rounding communities which have overwhelmingly expressed
their desire for Uniform Standard Time. Many of them near
Portland will be resentfully dragged into following any Port
1 land fast-time action.
That the harmful effects of any "voluntary" time shift in
Portland is realized by Portlandcrs is conclusively proven by
an impartial and scientific poll conducted by Dan E. Clark
IX and Associates. This public opinion research firm Is nation
ally known lor accuracy ana its xinaingi appear regmaiv "
th Druff-nnfAn. Thft Clark noil ahows:
63.3 per cent of the voters of Multnomah county are in favor
cf Portland going along with the majority of the state and
, remaining on uniform Btanaara Time, xney ao not. iavor
changing the clocks nor do they favor any mass change of
working Hours.
Mavor Peterson and members of the Portland city coun
cil are commended for their stand against any evasion of
the will of the voters and Peterson is quoted as declaring:
"Thank God, the majority still rules. We're not going to
spearhead having no respect for the law here." Mayor
Peterson has declared in council meeting, "The clocks will
not be changed with my vote!" Commissioners Bowes
and Earl have taken a firm stand, with Bowes declaring,
T do not believe Portland is bigger than the rest of the
state I"
However, the persistent effort for daylight time threat
ens to make the old time "confusion more confounded,"
as transnortation companies, including railroads, bus and
airlines, which have hitherto stuck by Standard Time,,
with some exceptions, announce tney are puoiisnmg tneir
time tables "in local time" whatever that may be.
The United and Western airlines announce that while
their Portland schedules still read Standard Time, they
have been altered to conform with California's Daylight
Time. What a headache for travelers, and probably the
airlines, too.
POSSIBLE EFFECT
rAEWITH OME
POLARIZES OAttfV
WEAR, MC ?
MUFFING AN OPPORTUNITY ,
Even though the senate committee on natural resources
"watered" down the so-called tidelands bill under which
it was proposed to empower the state land board to grant
' 99-year leases for lands on navigable streams, lakes and
sloughs, the senate voted it down by vote of IB to 14.
As the bill was originally drawn by the house members
the proposed leases could have embraced lands into the
middle of the streams or other waterways and thus would
have enabled private corporations to remove sand and
gravel from the beds of such streams.
Revenue received from the lease of these tidelands re
verts to the irreducible school fund. Suspicion over the
bill developed because of the wholesale looting of public
lands in the past, with the result that Oregon has little
of such lands remaining in state ownership.
Even some of the senators who supported the revised
bill in the senate admitted after the vote had been taken
that "perhaps there is something wrong with the bill."
The long debate on the bill developed that the office of
the land board has apparently failed to take advantage
of all of its potentials.
Senator Warren McMinimee of Tillamook county told
the senate that with the hundreds of miles of tidelands
along rivers in his county, the land board has executed
but one lease and another landowner was in litigation over
the use of tidelands.
"There Is something wrong with the land board," Sena
tor McMinimee said.
Mombers of the state land board the governor, the
state treasurer and the secretary of state should lose
no time in making an investigation to ascertain if the land
board is making all advantageous leases possible under
the present law.
The senate by its action has preserved the tidelands
for the school children of this and future generations.
Now it is up to the state land board to do its utmost to
Increase this revenue through the closing of as many
leases as are possible. Surely one executed lease in a
county like Tillamook; which abounds with streams, is
not a good record for the board.
THE PRISONERS' STORIES
Disillusionment comes swiftly whenever we think we
have an advantageous deal with the Communists. It has
proved so again in the current prisoner exchange.
Not that we aren't getting a few of our men back. We
are. But only a handful compared with the number
known to be in Communist hands. And evidently not
those who are the most sick and the most seriously wound
ed, the ones in most urgent need of repatriation.
But from those who have already been released comes
a sickening story of death marches in mid-winter, of
bayonetings, of men left to die where they dropped of
exhaustion, or beatings and starvation in prison camps.
It is the grim story of Bataan all over again.
Now we begin to be suspicious that the Reds really
don't hold the thousands of missing Americans we've as
sumed they had, that there have been heavy losses due to
the treatment they have received. When the war with
Japan ended America got a pleasant surprise. Most of
the war prisoners were safe and in better condition than
we a aarea nope, it appears that .Korea win furnish a
much less pleasant revelation.
And now that the atrocity stories are coming out, the
Reds may prove reluctant to release more men whose
stories will shock an almost shock-proof world. Also, we
suspect the Reds will concoct few atrocity stories of
their own to try to onset the facts that are being revealed
by the U.N. prisoners. Fortunately only those who wish
to be deceived are likely to believe the Reds.
The events of the past few days should bring wishful
' thinking Americans down to earth with a jerk. We've
a long, long way to go before we reach a genuine under
standing with this barbarous foe.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Ike's Peace Speech to Be
Used As Propaganda in Italy
Washington Sometimes
private citizens can do almost
as much about peace as their
government, sometimes almost
a little more.
A case in point is President
Eisenhower's inspiring speech
proposing the use of arms
money for reconstruction of
the world if Russia will
show a real desire for peace.
The most important thing is
to get this message across to
the people of Europe, not mere
ly behind the iron curtain but
on the free side of the iron
curtain. To this end the patrio
tic Italian-American newspa
per, II Progresso of New York,
will soon print the full text of
President Eisenhower's speech
In the Italian language and in
such form that it can be
clipped and mailed back to
friends and relatives in Italy.
This important gesture by
n Progresso will have greater
effects than might appear on
the surface. For the chief slo
gan of the communists in Italy
and elsewhere is that the
United States is the world's
chief warmonger1, while So
viet Russia is the chief cham
pion of peace. This theme has
been hammered home so vig
orously that a lot of people
really believe it.
Therefore, to have Ameri
cans of Italian descent mall
copies of Elsenhower's inspir
ing speech back to Italy is ex
tremely important. Its impor
ance lies in the fact that it will
come from one friend or rela
tive to another, not from a
government.
People trust friends and rel
atives. They don't always trust
governments. '
This column would like to
suggest thst Polish, Hungar
ian, Croat and other foreign-
language newspapers in the
United States also print Eisen
hower's speech In their lan
guage and urge that it be
mailed to every country in
Europe.
NO $ FOR PEACE
Congress is spending a re
cord three million dollars on
Investigations, but hasn't In
vested a nickel in examining
the vital question of peace or
war.
This was brought out the
other day during closed-door
cross-examination of Under
secretary of State Bedell Smith,
who was reporting to the sen
ate foreign relations commit
tee on the new Russian peace
offensive. Smith explained that
the central intelligence agen
cy had prepared a detailed an
alysis of Russian intentions.
"Has this been made avail
able to the committee?" in
quired Minnesota's democra
tic Sen. Hubert Humphrey.
"No one has asked for it,"
shrugged Smith.
This prompted Humphrey to
propose a careful study of the
new Russian government. He
urged calling in all the nation's
experts on Russia, and listen
ing to their ideas. Otherwise,
he argued, the senate wouldn't
be qualified to carry out its
constitutional duty of advising
the president on foreign af
fairs. However, the senators didn't
seem much Interested. Appar
ently they would rather spend
money hunting headlines than
IY DREW PEARSON ,
digging into the complex prob
lems of peace. -Note:
This indifferent atti-
tude indicates the importance
of newspaper publisher Frank
Gannett's suggestion that we
establish a department of peace
dedicated to promoting and
pushing peace every day in
the week. A similar suggestion
has also been made by R. M.
Davis of Morgantown, W.Va.,
and Congressman Staggers of
West Virginia has Introduced a
bill in congress looking toward
that end.
POLITICAL POTPOURRI
It's no secret around the
White House that Secretary of
State Dulles is suspicious of
foreign aid boss Stassen. That's
one reason Dulles let Stassen
down in his fight with Senator
McCarthy. Inside fact is that
Stassen has been doing an A-l
Job, takes his work home at
night, surprises associates with
his knowledge of international
problems. . . . Michigan's pop
ular Gov. Mennen "Soapy" Wil
liams is quietly researching
the political record of Sen. Ho
mer Ferguson a prelude to
challenging Ferguson's senate
seat in 1954. . . . Senate appro
priations boss Styles Bridges
has promised his friend, John
L. Lewis, to restore the cuts
that Secretary of the Interior
McKay made in mine safety.
Utah s fuddy-duddy Sen.
Arthur Watklns seems to spend
most of his time getting into
petty feuds with fellow Mor
mons. He's now spreading a
whispering campaign against
Interstate Commerce Commis
sioner James Knudson. ... In
cidentally, Secretary of Agri
culture Benson isn't the only
Mormon in high public office.
Federal Communications
Chairman Rosel Hyde is official
greeter at the Mormon chapel
In suburban Chevy Chase, Md.
. . . Tariff Commission Chair
man Edgar Brossard is active
on the Mormon high council in
Washington. . . . ICC Commis
sioner Knudson sings hymns at
church, and Utah's other Mor
mon senator, Wallace Bennett,
teaches a 6unday-school class.
. Dr. Allen As tin, the now-
he's-fired-now-he-lsn't Bureau
of Standards chief, is also a
Mormon. So Is U.S. Treasurer
Ivy Baker Pnest, who signs
all the government's green
backs. KOREAN HERO
Army officials are consid
ering awarding the nation's
highest decoration, the Medal
of Honor, to Private Courtney
L. Stanley, the 19-year-old
Mansfield, La., Negro, whose
extraordinary heroism on Ko
rea's "Little Gibraltar" saved
the life of his wounded com
manding officer, Lt. Col. Har
ry Clark of Columbus, Ga.
Clark termed Private Stan
ley's one-man stand against the
Reds as "the most courageous
action I've ever seen." Ma.
Gen. James Fry, commander
of the famous second division,
awarded Stanley a Silver Star
on the spot. Now, however,
General Fry has recommend
ed to the higher-ups that the
Distinguished Service Cross
and possibly even the Medal of
Honor be awarded the young
hero.
GOP TAX STRATEGY
Both republican and demo
cratic house leaders are hold
ing back on the Reed bill to cut
income taxes but for different
reasons. The republicans want
to push it through at the last
minute, so the cuts will take
effect before the internal rev
enue bureau can reduce with.
holding rates. This means the
same amount .will be withheld
from salaries at first, so the tax
reduction will have' to be paid
back in the form of refund
checks. 'The republicans fig
ure these refund checks will
start coming back in 1954. Thus
the taxpayers will get a drama
tic reminder, just before elec
tion, that the republicans cut
taxes. On the other hand, the
democratic strategy Is to delay
cutting Income taxes until the
GOP takes a public stand on
the excess-profits tax. If the
republicans let the excess-prof
its tax expire, the democrats
will set up a clamor to reduce
income taxes for lower brack
ets also.
OH, FOR A COMMITTEE
TO END COMMITTEES
(Baker Democrat-Herald)
We would like to propose a
committee to put an end to
committees.
As it is now, there are com
mittees for every other pur
pose in town and new ones are
growing by the dozen dally.
Their main purpose now seems
to be to get more people out.
Everywhere that is the slo
gan, "Let's get more people
out," out to lunch, out to
meetings, or, perhaps, ust out.
The way things are going
people are gotten out so often
that they begin to long to be
in for a change. Wouldn't lt
be nice to sit by the fire and
read a book or listen to the
radio? ' You can't do these
things very well while you're
being gotten out for some purpose.
And what happens when
you're out? More than likely
the committee puis you on a
subcommittee to report back
at the next committee meeting.
At that time the members all
draw deep breaths, scratch
their heads and decide that
what is needed afr all Is a
sub-subcommittee to Teport
back to the subcommittee to
report to the committee.
By this time no one re
members what he is supposed
to be doing in the. first place
but at least he is being civil
while he is doing It He is out,
Isn't he? When he might like
to be in. What could he do
In? He could restore himself
for the next day and then
maybe he wouldn't mind so
much being gotten out again
for some purpose more worthy
than any of the worthy pur
poses that have so far exhaust
ed him In being out.
Oh, dear.
Probably as long as there
are people there will be com
mlttees snd subcommittees
and chairmen and telephone
lists and matters to be ham
mered into one shape or an
other.
But wouldn't it be nice if
we could all Just BE for a
while? Not BE anything in
particular, that is, except a
human being who doesn't like
being gotten out every eve
ning? Say, how about the
cor mlttee? The one to put
an end to committees? Who'd
like to be chairman? Got
willing sub or sub-subchslr-
man right htrel
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Now You Just Have to Tell
Wife Where World Has Been
By HAL BOYLE
New York ( It used to be
bard to get along with awlfe.
Bless the Russians, that nas
all been changed, maybe.
All you have to do to get
along with a wife now is to
give the external evidence of
listening to her.
Times have changed. It
used to be after a husband re
turned from an evening of
reckless adventure, he'd have
to explain where he'd been.
That has all gone by the
board maybe.
A wife today lt says right
here in bold English and non
truthful grammar has a dif
ferent view. She inquires where
the world has gone during your
rest period.
I find this only slightly
harder to explain than where
have been the. night before.
But you have to satisfy a wo
man's natural curiosity about
politics.
The last political remark I
recall Frances making was in
the late 1930s when she said
acutely:
"What does this fellow Hit
ler really do take the part of
country he wants and then
throw the rest of it away?"
Now she has finally written
Adolf off and got her dander
up at Russia and I don't see
how there is any possible com
promise between them, strong
as she is.
I have read up on all this
Communist business," she said,
'and I think Karl Marx ought
to drop dead, if he is trying to
invent the fight rules."
"Marx has been dead for
years."
So good. It should happen
to Trotsky."
"It has, dear. Marx is dead.
Trotsky is dead, and "
"And Lenin? Is he dead?"
"He's dead, too. dear. So is
Stalin. Now there was a char
acter, honey. Stalin started as
poor boy, studied for the
priesthood, and became a real
revolutionary figure, controlled
the lives of more people
through fear than anybody in
history."
"I'm glad he's dead. What
did he die of?"
"The doctors said it was a
stroke."
"Well, it probably came
from his father's side. I feel
sorry for his mother. I hear he
had three wives besides all that
Communist rubbish."
"I don't know. He's kind of
like his successor-
By HAL BOYLE
mystery."
"Who?"
"Malenkov."
"Who?"
"Malenkov Malenkov!"
"Don't shout You mean the
fat one?"
..Yei.
"Well, you Just tell him from
me that anybody as overweight
as he is will never get elected
again."
"But; dear, he."
"Don't dear me! Incidentally,
where were you last night?"
I guess I'll have to back
track. I started oft by saying
that the new feminine interest
in international problems gave
a fellow a Dreaming space.
Tain't so. A wife's foreign pol
icy always begins at home
in terms of her husband.
Salem IS Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
AprU Z3, 18S8 ,
Effective May 16, residents
of West Salem will have the
convenience of their own
postal service, Postmaster
Henry Crawford announced
today. This will be known as
the West Salem branch, 1313
Edgewater, at Snapp's drug
store.
A Jefferson community
meeting will be held April 25,
to decide what is to be done
with the old hotel building
on Main street, now owned by
the city. The structure was
built as a home by Jacob
Conser in 1854 and in 1930 was
cited as typical of the pure
architectural style followed
by pioneers of the Oregon
country. .
V. C. DIpplob of Aurora
with 105 acres of flax is rated
as the largest grower in Oregon.
Every post office in Oregon
will have special cachets for
national air mall week, May
15 to 21.
Modernization of S a 1 e m ' s
Chamber of Commerce rooms
is progressing rapidly (up
stairs at 147 North Liberty
street, F. D. Thlelsen, man
ager) and plans are now being
made to hold "open house"
about May 15.
Independence band with a
membership of 44 is working
hard to be prepared for its ap-
-Malenkov, i pearance at the Rose Festival
in Portland June 9, aceordlnaT
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At recent meetlnr of fcJ
Mill City school board Walter!
Beck, principal oi coburn
rhnnli. waa elected nrtnotnai
oi cam vuy aiga scnooi.
Final observance of Blos
som Day, made into Blossom
Week this year, finds Franklin
Tulip garden on Wallace road
a major attraction. .
Too mny perfect Marlon
county children will probably
noia up awarding places in
the healthiest boy and cirl
contest sponsored by the Mar
ion county health service this
yeer. .
FEW TEARS FOR CHARLIE
(Pendleton East Oregonlan)
Charley Chaplin, the British.
er who could thank citizens of
the United States Mr the tre.
mendous fortune he amassed
in Hollywood, has announced
he will make his permanent
residence in Switzerland. Chap
lin's genius as a comedian has
established a place for some of
his movies for many years to
come. But few tears will b
shed in this country over the'1
departure of the man who
showed almost no gratitude to
the nation that made him
wealthy.
"LITTERBUG" IS AT IT ,
(Roseburg News-Review)
We see by our favorite
newspaper that Rex Barnes Is
complaining about people
dumping garbage near his
home just outside the city lim
its. It's getting so that com
plaints of garbage dumping
are as certain harbingers of
spring as are the first wild
flowers. It would seem ' that with
spring bringing to life the
beauties of the Great Out
doors people would be so en
raptured with the glories of
nature that they couldn't bear
to despoil the scene. But
"Lltterbugs" appear to have
no appreciation for anything,
especially beauty or property
rights. .
Aumsville Crash
Aumsville Robert Fish,
Route 1, Box 244, Aumsville,
received a fractured rib and
numerous bruises Wednesday
morning when his car collided
with a Mt. Angel Creamery,
milk truck at Towle Corner.
Richard Grassman, driver of
the truck, was not injured.
Fish was treated at Santiam
Memorial hospital at Stayton
and released.
The government operates 40
high schools for Indian chil
dren accredited by the states
in which they are located. - -
155 N. Liberty
Phone 3-3191
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