Salem, Oregon, Saturday, January 5, 1957 Page 6 Section 1 THE CAPITAL JUUKNAL. Capital jkjJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor ond Publisher , I GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus ' 'Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North Church St. Phone EM-4681 1 Tull Leased Wire Service ol The Asuoclatrd Prru and The ' Unltfd Presa. Til Associated Puss II exclusively entitled to the use for pub lication of all newt dispatches credited to H or otherwise credited in this paper and also news published therein. Progress of Science in United States Those who have been worrying over the number of students - Soviet Russia is educating in science should be heartened by -"-figures listed at the recent annual meeting of the 350 mem - bers of the Council of the American Association lor the Ad vancement of Science at New York. ', . There lias been an accelerated growth of scicnliic activity in : recent years as society has become far more dependent upon science than ever before in this country stale reports of com mittees. The volume of scientific research and development has " been increasing at an astonishing rate. In 1930 expenditures - for science were $166 million; in 1953 more than $5 billion. ".. . There has been a fifteen-fold increase in research expendi tures over the last 23 year period. The numbr of active" scien ; tists in tne U. S. in 1930 was 46,000: the recent number is t - about 250,000. ;" - This rate of growth of needs for scientific research and per- tnnnul inrlila th-.l thie ruin ,xf ,.,-,..tlli ...ill ,.nnlini,a at an I., accelerated oace. "This erowth , , i, 1 iin ennnrwt nncl f.irirllu (frniirinfl military activities being the first." - The old delay of application of scientific knowledge to prac- tical problems has been considerably reduced. It is stated that since 1940 there ha,s been a scries of classic examples of almost immediate conversion of a scientific advance to a process of large practical impact upon society. As a result of scicntilic discoveries many large new indus- -, tries have been and are being chemical, electronic, nuclear .... presenting laboratory experience on laboratory science. The scientists' organization reluctantly voted to increase its efforts to help solve the problems of society that recent. scien tific progress has made, a change of policy, for scientists tra ditionally have hesitated to do more than observe the facts of nature in the desire to "stay out of politics". G. P. A Negro Praises wi WJllle The southern white folks public opinion all over the world, due to what a few of their number has done to obstruct racial segregation. As the year ended a tribute was paid most of them by a man one wouldn't expect to feel that way, Dr. L. II. Foster, pre sident of Tuskcgce Institute, the first big negro college, which annually makes a report on the improvements and setbacks in racial relations. Dr. Foster said in summarizing 1956: "Violent episodes and HnnC-ufirtnc BnniKl nnmnlinn will. fn.lnrl 1W nn . etirred mainly in communities where public officials anu.Montly condoned them and did not take plate or wore promptly sup pressed in communities where public officials discouraged companies have shown a decline can't be reduced, but labor lead them, Citizens in nearly every community refused to respond i" compared wllh previous years, j crs are insisting that it must go in large numbers to inflammatory appeals or cncitcmenls to violence. The people relied on the law and its orderly process es as a major resource." This is the most encouraging estimate we've read on what the country considers a nasty, hard to solve problem. And from a man who is both close to it and without any possible motive for trying to gloss over the difficulties. Apparently ;; most of the southern white people have behaved pretty dc cently under difficult condilions. Perhaps the restoration of peace on reasonable condilions ,;is closer than all the hubbub one hears from down there and ,' in congress would lead one to The Suspension Oregon Stale lias had bad Holes. First Dave Mann was suspended for low grades. Then last fall it developed that Sam Wesley had suppressed the facts of a previous college registration that made him ineligible for i sports, so he was dropped. Now Paul I,owc, sophomore football ; Dlavcr who has or had all-American possibilities, is sus- pended for low grades. i Too bad, but the Pacific Coast conference is insisting that athletes be students. Probably all the schools nurse a star ath lete along, trying to keep him eligible. They wouldn't ,1)0 hu- man if they didn't. Perhaps Lowe should have been dropped j sooner, though the end of a term is the time when grades are .reviewed. Rut when they cant or won't make the required standard they should be suspended as any oilier student would be. Those who have wondered bow U.C.L.A. and U S C. let Lowe, a I.os Angeles boy, get away from them, probably have their answer now. For the standards of the ' Hig Four" universities in California arc higher than those of the Oreaon schools. I he as fancy dress makers seek new latter arc however becoming tougher and will be more tough I looks in dollies In bait slyle-ron-than they arc now, for the college administrations are 1cter- i Kt'l10.us. """" New fines to party . , ,.,., .i,. rt j politicians are politic;) newcomers mined to make them so L-ho qualify in general for promo- probably Paul Lowes Brilliant college lomiiaii career nasi,,,,,,,,, higher oflice promotion to ended, though he can enter another school and bring those the white House, for example, tirades up if he really wants to. . I'otlilriilly Ambitious i .11 TMmmiU lOliri IU4VTSrS an I'JCniOinhnun senator for president in Seldom does a court reverse Ircmcly reluctant to do it even nut tne tinoiic Island Miprcme a Democrat in tne Rovernorsiiip. ailiiouc.ii ne nan uanen ins llonuhlif-on m.n.mnnl liv J 7 11 " " count. The court vote was three The court voided 4!)94 absentee ballot legal voters in good faith and as any otner votes cast. ny : riecause tne naiims were m.itieii t,on. a lelt-w mg splinter group with ; acts. because no military situation out and many of them cist before the election day. which ah- treat power within the Democratic 1 In situations of this kind it is;COuid be visualized entirely in ad sentce votes virtually alwavs are in everv stale. A vote cast I'arly. elanm Chirk as one ot its ' customary with The News-Review v.inec. before November was atllomaticallv void, the learned .indues And the predictable trend of to cooperate with the police and : Hr odd,,d ,his cmmlry Wfl, , said. This in spite of a constitutional amendment supposedly legalizing this procedure. The constitution was itself found to he unconstitutional. The candidate who was deprived of the office announced that he will make no appeal to llic federal courts. Hut sonic one should. If a stale court can invalidate -1!)!1 regularly cast voles it could invalidate anv other number on almost any pre - text it chose. This decision ought court. It may he too lale to reverse the Rhode Island result, but it does not look (torn this distance like a precedent that. should be allowed to stand. Yn, V Still ' Because polio vaccine is now available and the dread scourge s Trtunan. The' senator is n ilar is probably doomed lo eventual extinction some are pretty vnrd graduate magna cum laude. sure to wonder why the 1057 "March of Dimes'' can.uaign He is a member of I'hi Beta wMch has just begun here and elsewhere. Does the National 'W'-' On that and other counts, foundation for Infantile Paralysis .till need the nu.i.evV , '"J J? 'h!. If Marion county is a lair cally yes. Treatment of polio is terribly expensive because it i often lasts so lone. Since September, 1 055 the Marion county1 ..honinr ha mipnt S15.4li2.44 on . nnn on . tor spent ..u.uuo on oU M.i,.cm n, ,, ,s . ...... Jmv ( am dee. am t it fun to tax those high only $12,000 was raised here. The rest t-.ime from the Na.ional ra.( )mll.,(l, i;,.,,,,,,,;,.,,, hv 17 . binders: Foundation. Oil vote. That. hineer. is the There is no doubt that polio is being cnniiicie I and that si, uii si e t l.uk claims f..r in Tilt: RK.M. THING eventually most of what is now given to fight it can be diverted lure consu'eration by the Demo- M.aml llrruld t i ...... .;u ..,i.n,c ,r.. ir.x-jt. crutic Parlv. A man wandered around in a lo ouili rum ..ii-. ' .. ,',,,. ,,, ,. ment, and there arc still new cases, here will i.mtini te lo be ' till millions of persons who haven t had their polio shots get tnprn. i sets scientific activity apart as , t ' i t i cr.-lnr nf nnr uneil ct run n ra established. Among them are energy and pharmaceutical, re - . ..... . . to an industrial scale based the Southern n 1 1 i rOlkS ' have taken a severe beating in believe. of Paul Lowe luck with its great colored atb- . I'l an election. Judges are ex- . when irregularities are shown. Lourt cnu tins ween, iiisiainiiH v,l,.c nn 1 1,., rnmnlelp ilffiei:,! ' to one. its ttuil were cast liv , . ' , 1 ' -. Hit nave tieen as v.ilu which should to be looked over by another,, Havr Polio sample tne answer is empnaii - n.....i.ni: one woman. In Dlitl the chap- .. ... ii.; it il,... ........... New Congress Economic and By DAVID WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 An atmosphere of impending crisis surrounds the new Congress. There is an air of anxiety, and it stems from internal as well as external fac tors. The uncertain t." about t h e j Middle East and "" turbulence in the satellite states of East ern ' Europe which could cause a crumbling of the Kremlin are in the headlines .every day, but there is something else which isn't the growing fenr that America's economy faces some serious storms in the months ahead. This Congress remains divided on party lines almost exactly as it did alter the 1934 election. That's because contests for Con gress are by districts and states. ! f."lloc?L issues .pla?' vital part. neuee, me popu amy ot a Prcst- . .... J it.-,. dent cannot influence the result in Congress, as is sometimes as sumed, me .nam reason why the Republican Party didn't get an overwhelming vote in both houses of Congress was economic. There was a business recession In 11)54 and a farm recession in 105fi. Now the biggest threat that faces the party in power is the pros- Pccl of another setback in bust nncc This nrsfi. This can come as a mttH of the wage and price inflation now being experienced in many industries. America doesn't have a free economy, as ia so often insisted. If cartels and monopolies were to fix prices, the public would under stand, and there would be a de mand for vigorous enforcement of the antitrust laws. Yet, when an I artifiri.tl f.iMnr th-i nvnB . : " i a"a ln"eres with the free flow I hoops 10 market is iriternosed ; ,,v another type of monopolythe tabor-union cartels then trior. little public understanding or com plaint. Today's economic danger lies in the fact that a habit has developed in labor-union negotiations to de mand more and more each year, irrespective of whether the prices wms. nmnciured are U)Ward tf 0 P the bu crs cannot absorb them, ally erws liquidation of the busi ror the first time in many years ruvss. And in too manv enterprises ui I'm in on p.om.s oi manv major 1 lie l!i."fi carnincs wrri holnw those of 1955, and there arc indi cations that in 1357 they will go even lower. The cry of business men on every side is "risinc costs." No- body seems to be able to forecast when the inflationary trend will stop. For, when waxes go un. prices are raised, too. The doc trine of labor leaders that wage increases can be absorbed indeli nitcly out of high profits has in it Demos Produce It I l;irl.- il I ? m.mj m. , ......... By I.VI.E C. WILSON , slide margin of 600.000, and stale rnllrd Press staff Correspondent Republicans were winning both j WASHINGTON UTi On snap 'houses of the Legislature. .judgment, the Democrats have' Pennsylvania began to slip it come up with one new. briyht and tuning fare in the new B.)lh Con- j,r(.t;S j If the Republicans have a real political comer among the new I members of Congress lie has not I yet emerged from the obscurity of the crowd. I The new, bright and shining ' Democratic face belongs to Sen. ! Joseph Sill Clark Jr. of Pcnnsyl- I vania. Politicians often seek new faces .with which to bail the voters much This is not to say the Democrats . '"ill no so far as to nominate a ii i I'.iko. Hut. thev inishl. I'lark h;:s a lot ot uh;)l it will ...k ' . ..,. ,,',. ,i his record discloses him to he a , politically amniuoiis man. Among Ills Qualifications are these: I , lie will be about the right age , e-si'a aea'- 'Jur' a , 1935. Eisenhower was asked to a Mm ... . 1 in imn ilnrini' vihi,-h ii v.iii roin ' critical Droiicrtv damaue. makine nvnin; ...u-. u- . uouiij 11.. ....11 ... . will be about the riuht age " 1 brute his 59th hirthd.iv. 1 Americans for Democratic Ac- ..iiimi.im .1 any pulley IS 10 1110 la-It. m- M-u.m.r IlllCilllJ IS 111 ' I'tilillcnl (ilanl Killer i I.irk is n political .lack the (";" hiller. His giant was the lie- I'J',."';1" rsiation in l'hiladel- , ,"' J1' 'f'' n .ft a years ' The new senator conies from n '"K slate matched only by Cali-I i " om -MW 1 OIK 111 electoral VOtCS. t'lurk fits the pattern of Mis IVnuH'nu-y's more recent sweet- hi-:ir In.lini. ..f , ......... II........ . - - - ia yM.y( Whips incumbent Dull Clark resigned as mavor of Philadelphia to run 'ir the .Senate against llcpuoiiean incumbent While Clark was hiking Dull hv a ,ho,vlml v.s p,0VK,,m Kisenhower was carrying IVnnsvl- ;vania last November by a land - Has 'Feel' of Foreign Crisis LAWRENCE a basic fallacy. For, while profits ao decline, wages never drop ex cept when the bottom has fallen out of everything and a depres sion is on. There is, therefore, no flexibility jn America s economic system as at present constituted. The Fed eral Reserve Board may make money tight and limit credit but it can do nothing to stop the wage spiral which is at the bottom of the money inflation. Companies seek to expand and expand order to produce a bigger and ! bigger volume of goods, hoping thereby to get greater productiv ity and higher profits. But there is on the horizon already some signs that the cycle is coming to an end the period of rising costs can be halted apparently only by a curtailment of buying due to the price rises. This is called "resist ance ' to prices, and the big ques tion of the hour is how near is the nation to that point in the current operations of business. There are some symptoms of trouble. Every now and then mergers are compelled i means of rescuing a business from the strait jacket of higher and higher costs and lower and lower profits. Small businesses arc en countering the same kind of set backs as the larger ones. The root of the trouble is the failure to understand that t h e profit system is also a loss sys tem and that the persons who do not invest capital and have no primary responsibility for earning a profit cannot be permitted to force a narrower and narrower spread between profits and costs. The end result of such a pressure is bound to be unemployment for many workers. The prophesies and forecasts tor 1957 as issued at the beginning of the new year are, as usual, optimistic. But the situation un derneath is not stable. One reason, oi course, of course, is that every business must put aside 52 cents out of nvnru dollar nf nrofit for fpnVrn taxes, and there is no sign of tax reduction. Congress is still in a mood to spend more and more. The problem of the business man is how to multiply his 48 cent segment of the profit dollar and that requires a bigger and bigger volume of sales. When this isn't forthcoming, then there must be a reduction in costs. Otherwise, -,.rl rinnrne annn-ir mul m'ontll- the labor cost is fied. It not only up every year so they can keep their jobs in the unions against rival candidates. This is the road to economic disaster in America, yet few voices have been raised and few will be in Congress to head off the trouble that seems inevitable if the present cycle of wage rises is continued without a corresponding increase in business profits to take care of these costs and to provide reserves for new equipment and plant expansion. a Bright New I'artlllisvl Villi I n Hepublican moorings under pres-1 s;'' franklin u. Kooscvclt s iew ucai. iiam, nowever, is me nrsi ucniocrai seni up Dy i enn sylvania Democrats with any real chance of continuing to climb. The senator is a man to watch as the story of the 85th Congress unfolds. Umiio Offenders' Names Kosrhurg News-Review A few days ago the names of j juveniles arrested on charges of planting homemade bombs were ( i" "" .""i-i"'. i Be cause juveniles are not ordinarily iiientified, we have had several in quiries as to why an exception was ni.-x e in m s case. One reason for publication was that the crime chanted was a (el- niy, rather than a misdemeanor, in which situation juveniles usual-! ' "rc menmeo. rim ine scconn. """ "lul1 iiuihuuhu. la un i t the OCtS Charged easily could '"' caused death. njury and I. ,. ., -n,.....! J,th w.mn. .H . .. . j it imperative to use every device to discourage others from similar euuus 111 eei ,...ssu.ie w.ii. 11 mriium.nu.il in nmiura is nil- n.'Hii ft f-..iin. .- ...in mi u lierstanding that publication is do- sired as an aid to law enforce- num. in a number of similar instances ! hroun "Smrs .. .L.' " i crs. The flregonian at Torlland re- cently listed names of uiveniles o,.rli,.m.,lino in fine hcit.nne lomomss. vandalism, cic. empna - suing that all possible means of punishment must be brought to biar to stop further crimes of that nature, i ne lorvaius uazcue- Times also has departed from nor mal procedure. f.KE. AIN'T IT KI N Khirtiian f'niintv Journal Telephone roles are going up largely because the company ""'-l Pay nan us iiR-oiue un i.im-. department store He squeezed a lW, Cned ' Mamma ' Uter he s.iueecd another doll. It screamed 1 "Kloorwalk'g." The Use of U. S. Forces to Stop Commy Spreading Is Not New Ry JAMES MARI.OW .nist aggression are not necessari- Assoclaled Press News Analyst ; WASHINGTON itf-The idea of using American armed forces in some way to stop the spread of communism is not new with Pres ident Eisenhower. He discussed it at least two years ago. He will go before Congress to morrow to ask standby authority approval beforehand to use American force, in the Middle I Kast when he thinks it necessary. Although he has now had at least two years to think over this problem there were indications late this week that he and his advisers were still not certain on how to s.y what he wanted to ask. No matter what he says, it is likely that Congress, after com mittee hearings, will have a hand in the phrasing of any resolution it passes to give Eisenhower standby authority. It is even possible, but not like ly, that Congress won't give Ei senhower the authority at all. The State Department by the way it leaked news of Eisen hower's proposed request to Con gress has put Congress on a deli cate spot. If it repudiates Eisenhower s idea, it would be doing so at a time when the danger of Russian penetration in the Middle East, if only by infiltration and subversion and not by armed attack, is ser- ious, A repudiation bv Congress now would appear as notice to the world and to Russia and the Middle East that American opin ion was so divided on what to do to block Communism that it didn't know how to act. Still, in 1953. on the urging of some of his fellow Republicans, Eisenhower proposed that Con gress pass a resolution condemn ing R -ssia for , violating and breaking wartime treaties. The Hcpunlieans didn't like his iwn't The reLlh Ti.nLwW dj(n., Tch r05ull. Kispnhower., proposa, droppcd . ,he WMt(, basket. Two years ago Kisenhower in formed the Defense Department i this country shnnlri nr iH l r . i u .:t . : meeiinc leer hniii U i .1. J nations not " broadened bv th, Tin ton , n aLesso i inrro, A major aggressor, of course. i woud hjlvc bcen Russja or Red tiuna. I At hi n. ranUn,r. 1, 10 ' i9:,5i ! .... ... " :i.vi."u mmi ut- im-.un. ne was 1 p r c t , v va(!uc eXpainine he : wou,n ,' try t0 ',,. in drtajl ,,, n(, ,. na,jon, ,,rnilnH he wor d fill d un their own mrces sll lieien I- strnno Irt h-in. rile rehnllmn nr c..t..nPf . ...i lnc wasn-, major oulsjde inlfr , '-rvvi,,v.ive ,, ma'am " ference. Hut he went on- "I II take six " she "aid as she u established and friendly 'dug in her purse." , government called on the United! "Six. ma'am?" asked the sla,rs Wit forces, or a; marine unit, could go in and that would be sufficient to help out, The fact was. he said, you. had l0 have thincs readv ' I - j. to move . Already two Middle Eastern countries Svria and Mordai. have said thev'dnn't want the kind of military help the administration tall's of now Hut it isn't clear just what the administration has in mind to ask Congress. Last week, when the State De partment was "leaking" the idea newsmen, the reporters were told the President would ask standby authority to stop Sox let aggression. Hut alter Eisenhower's Tuesday conference with congressional leaders, 'he White House issued a statement saving he wanted Con cress lo join him in sen ing no- "ce this country would resist 'Communist aggression" in the Middle Kast Soviet aggression and Commu- (Long) Green n fit gstis ' I ly the same things. If Syria turns Communist and is armed by Rus sia and then attacks Iraq, is that Soviet aggression? If this country, no matter what the aggression is called, then goes to the aid of Iraq, right in Rus sia's back yard, will the Soviets consider this American aggression an(' attack United States forces? IJi Ten Again Eugene Register-Guard There will be lots of gnashing of teeth on the Pacific Coast, and par ticularly in the Los Angeles area over Oregon Mate s loss to Iowa in the Rose Bowl. The L. A. sports writers will be saying that U.S.C. or some other school would have made a better showing in the game against the Big Ten champion. But we seriously doubt it. The Big Ten just plays better football than West Coast teams and one factor seems to be poise. The Beavers of Coach Tommy Prothro appeared to have stage fright before the huge throng in the Pasadena bowl. Before the game was five minutes old they were two touchdowns behind. By con trast Iowa, and other Big Ten members are quite accustomed to playing before crowds of upwards of 90,000 fans. I We don't mean to take anything! ?wa; from ,he inspired play of the ?,g . owan.s- DM " ls hadn ' becn iim iiiusu iiim norrenuous live min utes it would have been a mighty close ball game. As it was. ex cept for those two costly fumbles, the Beavers played a creditable game. More Business Albany Demoernt'IIorald Albany, as 1956 ended, had 412 businesses listed in one of the big national business directories. This is a 19 per cent gain over a year ago. We doubt that this means the city has had a 19 per cent gain in sales during the year or that i " """ ny s prospeniy can be measured by the number of firm: '' ha Kor durins the .h . has "v"al siz- : "'c cnierprises wnicn were placed on the list by much smaller mccrns. But the list does show that manv iHJ"F lira ale .llling 10 law a now ore willine to take a , CltanCC on founding a business in A Smile or Two Sunshine Magazine A dear old lady was taking her first train rule in many years, and when night approached a porter came around with the pillows II..... ...l- rr. 11,.,..-." .k- ' .. j ' 3 amazed porter. I "Certainly," came the reply. "I could never get them that cheap j in a department store." ANNOUNCEMENT T. W. SAHLSTROM, O.D. ROY B. CLUNES, O.D. OPTOMETRISTS-VISION SPECIALISTS .Aua.)iur thr ojirm'nu ' icct ill l.ivrsh'y iSif;.. Siiem. rmtluc limited lo air ixnmimiticn ami filling vf rontiirt rnrf. Examination By Appointment Phone EM 4-7901 Door OPEN FORUM Brooks School Incident Shocks Stayton Woman To the Editor: We just finished reading Mrs. A. H. Jensen's open forum letter in the Jan. 1 issue of the Capital Journal. It is hard to believe that there is a community in Oregon, much less Marion county, where we are more "law conscious" because we think of Salem as the "hub" of our state government. We have alwavs felt we had freedom of speech, freedom of press and the right of being rep resented by an efficient lawyer in case we were in need of his help. We would like further informa tion on this Brooks case. LUCY PEABODY, Stayton. Editor's Note We still have all the freedoms in Marion county, in cluding freedom to pay taxes. Newspaper columns are, and we hope always will be, open to all who have complaints and are will ing to sign their names. The rea son there has been no followup in the Brooks incident is that the boy's guardians decided not to push the matter. This was their right and more likely than not they were wise. Meanwhile the publicity the incident has received will make its recurrence any where in this area less likely. Fire Ball Bobby Pendleton East Oregonlan Seems only a short time ago that a 17-year-old Iowa farm boy joined the Cleveland Indians. Actually it's been a long time. The story that announced Bob Feller's retirement reminded us he had been with the Indians 17 seasons, and his serv ice with the club was interrupted by the war. What a pitcher he was! Dizzy Dean has supplied the best de scription we've heard of Bob Fel ler's blazing fast ball. According to Diz, when Feller was in his prime a batter who had been called out on a Feller pitch com plained to the umpire, "That ball sounded low." Brace Yourself, Prof Eugene Register-Guard It is possible, says a professor from Georgia, to be admitted to college without being able to spell. Well, professor, we've got news for you. so brace yourself. We stand here as living proof of the fact that a person can gralhiate from college with his inability un impaired. KSLM 10:15 A.M. Sunday K10R Channel 12 4:30 P.M. f CHRISTIAN 1 I SCIENCE Jl HEALS? FIRESIDE PULPIT Herod Slaughtered Innocents And It Continues in Our Day By REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT Rartor. BL Paul. Eplacopal church Not all ls light and sweetness in the Christmas season. Just when we have finished singing "Joy to the World, the Lord is Come" we are called upon in the Christian Year calendar to ob serve "the slaughter of the inno cents." King Herod, when he heard that "a King of the Jews was born in Bethlehem, slew all the chil dren that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under." Herod had spread this death net oyer the country in hope of trapping the Christ child. But His parents had escaped with the child into Egypt. This horrible crime of Herod was called the "slaughter of the innocents" because the children Salem 34 Yrs. Ago Jan. 5, 1923 Palmetto' del Verde, lush Mexi can island in which several Salem citizens had invested, was depict ed by Robert W. Ritchie, an ex pert agriculturist, as a seductive swindle. (The island is located near the port of Mazatlan in the state of Sonora and is scarcely above sea level). A Capital Journal editorial had commented in part: "If the pub lic official lives up to his promises of cuttting taxes we threatened him with recall, and if he com plies with demands for special favors we defeat him for re-election because of high taxation our demands necessitate." More rain had fallen during December 1922 than for any like period since 1895 when 11.16 inches set a record. (An all time record for December came down in 1933 and measured 17.54 inches). School children of Oregon were being asked to contribute a penny each toward the cost of a gran ite monument to be erected in Sa lem to the memory of J. Quinn Thornton, commemorating his con tribution to education In pioneer times. Thornton framed the law for organization of Oregon Terri tory and obtained the 36th section in every township in addition to the 16th for school usase in state education. (.1. Quinn Thornton, a pioneer of 1846, lived in Salem for a number of years and impecu niously died here Feb. 5, 1888. He was author ot "Oregon and Cali fornia," two precious volumes of western history now collector's items and the "History of Salem Land Titles," an indictment against W. H. Willson and his wife, Chloe. Thornton was buried in Lee Mission cemetery and his grave had no marker until the bequest of the late Ellen Cham berlain provided a monument. In life Thornton was an embittered and somewhat irascible man. Those who knew him said it would require a surgical operation to get a joke through his head). At the Quackcnbush Auto Sup ply, North Commercial at Che mckela street, Red Crown gasoline had ' a price of 23c a gallon 34 years ago. At Midget Market, 331 State street, fancy sirloin steak sold for 15c a pound and ham burger for 10c. In this area of the Willamette Valley an estimated 1000 acres were planted to broccoli in 1923 and Oregon Growers Co-op was planning to ship 200 carloads of this vegetable. at YOUR SAVINGS ACCOUNT IS WELCOME WHERE ONE THOUSAND ; HAVE SAVED A MILLION NEW SAVINGS RATES EFFECTIVE JAN. 1, 1957 t On Savings Account! j 3 Ask About Our Deposit Box Offer to New Accounts. Open, Increose or Transfer Your Account Before Jan. 1 1th to Earn Interest From Jan. 1st. A Convenient Place to Transact All of Your Bank ing Business Downtown But Away From Congestion. mm ta.i were Innocent of any wrong-doing or even of knowingly doing good I They were innocent bystanders vhom Herod eliminated in order to satisfy his evil desires and to protect his own security. The history of the world ls full of incidents involving the slaughter of innocent people, men, women and children. One of the horrors of war is the terrible suffering brought on the innocent bystander, or the refugee, or the orphan children. It 'as Simon of Cyrene who was one of the innocent bystanders watching the procession laborious ly wending its way to Calvary when Jesus fell under the weight of the cross. It was the innocent Simon who was compelled to bear the cross the rest of the way. It is not too late in the Nativity season to still remember t h t masses of innocent sufferers mad orphans, or homeless refugees in Korea, in Hungary, in a number of other countries of the world where war has rained on the just and on the unjust, on the innocent and on the guilty, where the cries of war victims are still heard long after the guns are silenced. God have mercy on those who trample on innocent people to satisfy their own lust for power I God have pity on those so trampled on! God bless those who comfort the innocent sufferers! 1 have a NEW place to hang my hat! 260 N. High St. Yes, rm mighty proud of my new office. Jut as I'm mighty proud of my company Siato Farm. 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