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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon
DIG THAT!
STILL ANOTHER VIEW OF
THE CITY MANAGER ISSUE
By BERNARD MAINWARING
YoiMit Diaries A. Sorasrue in the Statesman and
George Putnam In the Capital Journal expressed them
erves with their uaual vigor and sureness on the relaj-
tiona between the mayor and council on tne one nana ana
the city manager on the other. .
Today this writer adds his two bits worth and actually
it is scarcely more than that, for his residence in Salem
is still oi less than three ana a nan momns aumuon
His knowledge of the key figures is limited and brief
una of the council he does not know at all.
But municipal and other public issues are not new to
him, and if he Is new to Salem lie is at least iree irom
nreiudicea engendered by Dast political controversies.
t Yesterday he and Steve Stone, the veteran city editor
of the Capital Journal, interviewed mayor ixhicks upon
this matter, questioned him closely, noting carefully his
attitude u well as his answers.
The attitude of the mayor and those of the council
who agree with him, which appears to be most if not all,
is one of complete confidence in the integrity, diligence
and professional competence or tne city manager. xn
was expressed with rigor and indeed with enthusiasm
by the mayor.
Tie complaint of the elected employes of the city about
the manager has to do solely with otner pnases oi nis
duties, his alleged failure to control some of the city
departments, and to get numerous little chores done, to
the embarrassment and Harassment or tne counenmen.
We suspect now that this complaint has been laid be
fore the entire public, the manager, if he has been negli
gent, will bend every effort to meet tne criticism. 10
what extent it is justified this writer has not been here
long enough to know. ' The average Capital Journal
reader will be in a better position to appraise it from his
own experience with city departments. We were im
pressed with the evident sincerity of the mayor 1n voic
ing it, and in his entire lack of malice.
: There is evidently another issue of policy between the
mayor and coundlmen and the city manager. The elected
group apparently believes it should take a more active
part in framing city policy through committees of its own
members and committees of citizens than does the city
manager. We say "apparently" because the city man
ager has not as yet made clear his own attitude. Here
Is a. basic difference of view on the extent to which the
city manager should manage .
: This writer never lived in city manager town be
fore coming to Salem and does not know which view is
right or which represents general practice under the
manager plan, which the mayor says he and the council
support fully. But he has always understood that policy
making is in the hands of the people's elected represen
tatives under the manager setup.
Here, we believe, it what this headline making "situa
tion" is about. We are not prepared to offer an opinion
as to who is right, and we doubt if anyone knows for sure.
But we think a recital of the basic issues will suggest
that they are ones upon which good, sincere men, such as
we fully believe the mayor, the council and the manager
to be, can differ.
' We do suggest that the present city manager has on
the whole done an outstanding job for Salem, this based
upon what most everybody appears to believe, and should
be treated with the greatest courtesy and consideration
by the mayor, the council and the public. And in justice
to the mayor and the council it should be pointed out
that it was not they who dragged the matter before the
public while they were in apparent good faith trying to
find an equitable solution to what they viewed as a seri
ous problem.
STREAMLINING DEFENSE
President Eisenhower's plan for reorganization of the
U.S. defense administration, recently submitted to con
gress followed the recommendations of the three months
old committee he appointed to study the problem. Need
for revision has lonsr been recognized by both the Pent
gen and eongress, but the turmoil created when congress
patched up the 1947 Federal Security Act five years ago
by the partisans of three services, army, navy and air
made eongress and even President Truman hesitant to
tackle the project.
. So Eisenhower decided to present his proposals in the
form of a "reorganization plan," which cannot be amend
ed by congress, does not invoke committee hearings and
automatically becomes law unless the senate or the house
relecta it within 60 days.
The president's revision committee was composed of
Nelson Rockefeller, chairman, General Omar Bradley,
Scientist Vannevsr Bush, President Milton S. Eisenhower
of Penn State College, Office of Defense Mobilization
Chief Arthur Flemming, former Secretary of Defense
Robert A. Lovett, RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff.
In presenting the program on a subject with which
Eisenhower had a more intimate knowledge of the na
tion's military machine and its failures than anyone
else, he said, 1 address the congress on a subject which
has been of primary Interest throughout all the years
of my adult life." And it unquestionably presents his
solution of the problem.
The program has three major objectives: More effi
ciency, improved strategic planning and greater civilian
control, stated Ike. The magazine Time thus summarizes
the changes necessary:
"Transfer of management of the Joint staff, an Important
working-level panel of about 100 top offlceri, from the Joint
Chiefs of Staff as a body to the chairman of the joint chief
lona. End result substantial Increase in the authority ot the
chairman, at the expense ot the other members of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
"Abolition of three 'kw and clumsy tools' the munitions
board, the research and development board and the defense
supply management agency. To take over their functions as
well as those of ether boards, committees and advisers, the
president recommended the creation of six new assistant sec
retaries of defense. Result: strengthened control for the aec
' retary of defense and, incidentally, elimination ot about B00
defense department employes.
"Transfer of executive responsibility for a unified, multi
service command from one of the Joint chiefs (e.g., Korea
- tinder Army General J. Lawton Collins, Alaska under Air
Force General Hoyt Vandenberc) to a civilian service aecre-
. tary. Result: snore civilian control and a further confine
ment nf the lolnt chiefs to their role n military advisers.'
"Affirmation of the authority of the secretary of defense
to delegste ma runcuons as ne sees fit, to insure uexiow au
ministration, capable of decentralisation."
YyiPEs! V - '
THAT'
TAX 1
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
'Hurry Up and Wait' Is
Airplane Traveler's Fate
By HAL BOYLE
At a Midwest Airport ()
man who travels regularly
by air today no longer lives at
home. He spends most of his
life at airports.
The slogan of the air age is
the tame as the Army's:
"Hurry up and wait."
A fellow might just as well
divorce his wife and marry an
airplane. You don't have time
in one life to wait for both of
them to get ready.
The airplane 1b an instru
ment of hurry which is sup
posed to get you from city to
city. It doesn't do that at all.
It gets you from one reformed
cow pasture to another. Then
you sit down and wait for your
baggage, which supposedly is
in the belly of the plane but
actually follows by oxcart.
Then, when ' you and your
suit case are reunited, you bor
row a compass and set out for
your real destination the
city.
All airports are waystops in
futility. They all look exactly
alike and have one thing in
common no matter which
direction you go from any of
them you are bound to get
closer to civilization.
The typical airport has a
soft-drink machine which is
empty, and a pinball machine
that is broken but will accept
your coin anyway. It has a few
hard oak benches, a news
stand with yesterday's papers,
and a lunchroom stocked with
tidbits left over from the
Spanish-American War.
There is absolutely nothing
to do at an airport except take
off your shirt and contem
plate your navel, and If you do
that they arrest you. A man
who can invent something you
can do while waiting at an air
port anything at all is
sure of a niche in the hall of
fame.
The least they could do is
put a widow's walk on the
roof, so a passenger could pace
back and forth and scan the
skies, waiting for his ship to
come in,
My theory is that the air age
has brought America to the
crossroads. Sooner or later
we are going to have to choose
between living at airports or
In cities. The prospect of com'
merclal jet plane travel will
orobably force a solution. The
Jets require airports so dls
tant from any settled place it
will bo longer be practical to
make the Journey from airport
to city.
Since the big aluminum sky
birds can't adjust themselves
to man. I think man might as
well start adjusting him sell to
them, tt is high time we
started gradually deserting our
out-of-date cities, and began
building new temples of cul
ture around our airports. What
good does it do to zip through
the air from Chicago to New
York in three hours, If a man
can watch his fingernails grow
while he is trying to get from
the airport into town?
Fifty years from now Man
hattan, Chicago, St. Louis and
Los Angeles probably will be
abandoned, crumbling symbols
of the past, inhabited by wood
chucks and visited only by the
more adventurous tourists,
willing to under go any hard
ship to get a snapshort of
quaint, former way of life.
Yes, sir, the bright new cities
of the future will be ringed
around the big paved cow pas
tures where the sky birds nest.
The airport will be the city.
The trouble with the air
voyager today, stuck at an air
port with nothing to -do be
tween planes, is that he was
born just a half century, too
soon.
OWN FORUM
Sheep in Cemetery ,
Poor Ad for Salem
- To the Editor: Sheep In the
cemetery, walking over the
graves of the dead.
This is a poor advertisement
for Salem with all the people
passing this cemetery on the
highway. It looks like there
ought to be some other meth
od of cleaning it up.
R. MARTIN,
Salem, Ore.
Faculty Monopolize
'Ugliest Man' Event
Berkeley, Calif. UJ0 Twenty
entrants filed their names in a
contest at the University of
California to determine "the
Ugliest Man on the Campus."
In the early polling, the lead'
ing seven contenders were all
faculty members.
There are 676 historical
markers along North Caro
lina's highways.
Anti-Red Thailand Now
Menaced by Laos Attack
By PHIL NEWSOM
(United rrou Poroltn Anolrot)
Of all the Southeast Asia na
tions Thailand is the most out
spokenly anti-Communist. -
She has troops fighting along
side those of other United Na
tions in Korea. Her premier and
minister of defense, Field Mar
shal Plbul Songgram refers
contemptuously to the official
Communist publication Pravda
as "Blulfda."
In a matter of two weeks,
Communist Invaders of the lit
tle Indo-Chinese kingdom ot
Laos overran a third of the
country and pushed to within
23 miles of the Thailand fron
tier on the Mekong river.
Not Much Defense
It illustrated the pitiful state
of Southeast Asia defenses.
Now if, as the French say,
the Communist invaders of
Laos are on the retreat, It
must be due to the imminence
ot the rainy season rather than
to any opposition the Reds met,
Nor will It be any perman
ent salvation.
Like some other Communist
actions in the past, the invasion
of Laos seemed contradictory.
It began in the midst of
the Russian "peace offensive"
and at a time when Chinese
and North Korean Communists
and the United Nations were
resuming Korean truce talks
after an eight-months' delay,
A Little Mixed Up
It seemed as if the Chinese
Reds might either have gotten
their signals mixed or deliber
ately had double-crossed their
Soviet partners.
But it served to remind West
ern nations of something that
military leaders have known
all along that we would find
It almost impossible to fight oft
a full-scale invasion of South
east Asia while at the same
time making a major effort in
Korea.
The biggest species of ani
mal that ever lived is still
living the blue whale.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Reds Win Power in British
Colony Near Panama Canal
Washington While most of
the nation has been worried
about Indo-Chlna, Korea and
Europe, the state department
has been exchanging iranuc
cables with the Britith foreign
office over the surge of com
munism In the Caribbean
just across from the Panama
Canal.
Both American and British
authorities were stunned by
the communist sweep in Brit
ish Guina's recent elections.
The Reds, parading under the
banner of the Peoples' Progres
sive Party, won 18 out of 24
seats in the house of assembly.
This means the communists
are in complete control of the
legislature and will have a ma
jor voice in running this Brit
ish crown colony.
The only way to prevent
communist control would be
to take away the peoples' new
political independence and re
store the full authoritarian
power of Hie British governor.
However, the British fear this
would boomerang and drive
even more natives into com'
munist arms.
What worries officials even
more, is that communism may
be spreading throughout the
British West Indies, threaten
ing the vital American life line
through the Panama Uanal.
The' United States is now main
taining an air base id British
Gulna itself, though the base
has been reduced to house
keeping status.
The man responsible for the
Red coup in. British Guina Is
Cheddi Jagan, a tough, ruth
less communist agent who
studied dentistry in the United
States but got his political
training behind the iron cur
tain. He is now Red boss ot
the house of assembly, which
means that Moscow, in effect,
is giving orders to a British
colonial legislature.
Jagan. was able to inflame
and dupe the natives with the
help of his American .wife who
stumped the countryside in a
native sari.
Mea'hwhile, British and Am
erican diplomats are still at a
loss as to what to do about this
grave, new communist threat
in our own backyard..
DANGEROUS DE
FENSE CUTS
You can write it down as
certain that the democrats will
split seriously with Eisenhower
for the first time over his dras
tically reduced defense budget.
The Issue will be drawn on the
argument that Ike Is endanger
ing national safety.
Here are some of the facts
which are sure to come up dur
ing public debate and back
stage huddles over defense re
duction: .. ''
1. The Soviet, despite talk
about peace, hasn't reduced its
defense by one plugged ruble.
' 2. A little over a year ago,
Elsenhower himself, then
NATO commander, was calling
for 120 European divisions.
Now we're settleing for some
thing over 60.
3. Though Ike is allegedly
relying on "push-button war,'
actually he has cut the air
force more drastically than any
other branch of the armed serv
ices. And the air force is the
chief means of waging push
button war.
Careful analysis of the Eis
enhower budget cuts shows
IY DREW PEARSON
that the army Ike's oia orancn
of the services was actually
increased by 11.5 billions. The
navy, on the other hand was
cut $1.7 billions. In other
words the increase xor me
army and the decrease for the
navy Just about cancel each
other out.
This leaves the air force vir
tually absorbing all oi me
budget cut, namejy a.i Bil
lions. Yet air power is bdso
lutely essential to push-button
war.
SOVIET STRENGTH
CONTINUES
Another fact difficult to
overlook is that Just three
months ago, John Foster Dulles
was in Europe rapping Euro
pean nations over the knuckles
fnr failure to raise 75 land
nrmv divisions this year. At
the time Dulles was scolding
F.nrnnean foreign
the United States had exactly
the same atomic weapons that
it has today.
Furthermore when General
Eisenhower was demanding
that Europe raise 120 divisions
one year ago, the United States
also had about the same atomic
weanons it has today.
Yet in the short period that
has elansed. and with no im
portant change in our atomic
strength, we are suddenly re'
lying on push-button war
though simultaneously decreas
ing the air arm which wages
push-button war.
Simultaneously, Russia has
175 army divisions, the sat
ellites have 75 additional diV'
isions. and the Soviet is em'
dovine one million men in
atomic, guided missle and oth
er wearaon experiments. In
comparison the west has a lit
tle over 50 division in Europe.
In brief, the Eisenhower ad-
minitration appears to be re
lying not on a genuine plan for
push-button war, out on a po
litical promise to reduce. the
budget and taxes.
Another disturbing change
of defense strategy is Charles
E. Wilson's switch of defense
orders from a wide variety of
factories to big U. S. factories.
Secretary of Defense Wilson
proposes that defense orders
now foe concentrated in a few
big factories on the ground that
their production will be more
efficient and less expensive.
However, the basic defense
dan of Ex-Secretary of Defense
Lovett was to scatter defense
orders among many factories
for the purpose of getting them
tooled up and ready to produce
munitions in a hurry il ana
when war broke. For In war
time, a nation has to use less
efficient plants as well as ef
ficient; so Lovett's plan was
to get smaller plants geared
for defense work, too.
Furthermore, he believed
the nation could not risk the
danger of having defense or
ders concentrated in a few big
factories which could be put
out of commission by every
bombing.
Wilson now plans to change
this. Probably he will save the
taxpayers 1 some money, but
defense chiefs fear it will be
at the expense of national
safety.
Note One of the slowest
production jobs in the nation
is being performed by the Gen
eral Motors plant at Kansas
City. Given an order to make
Tuesday, May 12, 1953
Salem 19 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
. . . 'May It, 184 J.
Money' taken from the city's '
share of the county dog license '
fund Is being used to finance
a trip to Washington b John '
W. uunningnam, engineer, who
will represent the city in its i
negotiation with the publio '
works administration for !
municipal water works loan. I
' Various Santiam highway !
construction projects on the .
eastern rim of Linn county now
employ 200 men.
A net of ZVtc a pound for
Royal Anne cherries was paid
to growers delivering to Wil-'
lamette Cherry Growers, Inc. '
according to an announcement '
just made covering last year's
crop. - . ;
Flea, beetles, two species of
which are now found in Ore
gon, constitute a series menace
to potato production in this
state. ' .
A group of professional and
business men and women met
Thursdav evening to organize
ministers!, Holman for Governor" club.
Officers are: Hal D. Patton, W.
W. Rosebraugh, Miss Golda
Wheeler, Miss Eula McCully,
Mrs. David Wright, Claude E.'
Ellison, Henry W. Meyers and
Joseph Roman.
Butteville school district will
build a new, two story school
house on the site of an older
structure built 40 years ago.
State officials of the Frater
nal Order of Eagles held a
meeting in Silverton Thursday
and reorganized the order in
that area. '
New rails weighing 112
pounds to the yard are being
laid between Hubbard and
Aurora to replace old, 90 pound
steel put down in 1910.
Labor unions will be thing
of the past in 25 to 50 years
says Dr. Robert Montgomery,
one of the South's foremost eco
nomists, in defending the New
Deal philosophy of President
Roosevelt.
George Bennett will return to
the local wrestling arena next
Tuesday when he meets Robin
Reed in a final event of the
evening's program.
WE HAVE IT TOO
(Astorian - Budget)
Any time we northerns are
inclined to point scornfully at
the south for its treatment of
Negroes, let us recall such in
cidents as the burning of a
cross in the lawn of Portland
Negro family only one of
many such incidents in Port
land and other northern cities
where Negroes live in substan
tial numbers.
. The Negro runs into Just as
much prejudice, intolerance
and segregation in the north
as he does, in the south some
times more.
The Portland family which
had the cross burned In its
lawn had committed no other
offense than to move into a
neighborhood exclusively
white.
It has been subjected to har
assment of several kinds, but
has decided to insist on its
right to live where it wants.
Most people, except those in
the affected neighborhood, will
hope the Negroes win the argu
ment. ,
F-84-F's, one of the hottest
plane in the air force. General
Motors is considerably behind
schedule.
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