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4 (Sse. I) Statesmen, Salem, Sept. 2, '65 GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichry States man Safety Va I ve Col mn tafesmati reaott Mum Mi 'No Favor Sways Us: No CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor Fear Shall Awe." From First Publisher WENDELL Mrs. H.

H. Rung, who resides in New York. Another sister took the Moscow road. She is the widow of Sun Yat Sen, revered, as the founder of the Chinese public, who died in Peking in 1925. tive, and entertaining feature of the Statesman.

Many letters I have written were not printed and there is no appellate court for further argument! 2. As a legislative secretary I ws forbidden by both my employer and House rules to write letters to editors on matters pending before the Assembly. (One legislative employe was fired for doing so.) Also, legislative employes are not allowed to testify before committees, unless requested. Employes are not to seek to influence legislation, although that rule is difficult to define, enforce, or heed, in all its ramifications. Certainly I tried to help passage of legislation In which I believed by doing the best possible secretarial job I knew how to do for my boss, and that, for Mr.

Draw-son's information, included doing research and preparing news releases on anti-pollution measures. Mrs. Tom (Marguerite) Wright 3565 Hulsey Ave. SE No Roots in North It is paradoxical that the most violent phase of the Negro Revolution is not growing out of the South but in the North. In "the North" we would include Los Angeles and all other areas which have acquired large Negro populations only recently.

Sociologists agree that it is the destruction of Negro family life in the ghettos of the big cities which is the root cause of the unrest. The North, while offering legal and technical equality, has given the Negro little alternative than to jam himself with his kind, many families to a house, in the most squalid section of town. White people, under similar circumstances, would find it difficult if not impossible to maintain the atmosphere of home, family loyalty "father image" and "mother im The Scotsman To our desk has come a copy of "The Scotsman," published in Edinburgh. It is one of the leading papers in Britain, and identifies itself as "Scotland's National Newspaper." Not long ago a group of well-to-do Scots raised funds to buy The Scotsman so it would not be gobbled up by the Thomson chain. The issue is more like American dailies than some of the London A front page picture had a familiar theme the caption "Wreckage Blocks Ayr Road after Fatal Crash." An inside case "It's the little things that Madam President appreciates! Like she enters the room we play 'Hail the Chief! Our Man Hoppe Come on Men! Let's Skipper Carlsen To the Editor: "What Ever Happened ta Capt.

Kurt Carlsen" in the Oregon Statesman magazine' section, brought back mem ories of a very charming, quiet and unassuming gentleman whom I met in 1956, whUe my husband and I were living in the Virgin Islands Captain Carlsen 's ship stopped in Puerto Rico for reloading and a friend of ours who was a "ham" radio operator invited him to come to St. Croix to visit with a group of other "hams." It was arranged for Captain Carlsen to fly over from Puerto Rico for a dinner and we were fortunate enough to be included in the invitation to meet him. Captain Carlsen seemed to enjoy exchanging stories oi his "ham" experiences with the others and told of an "incident" which came about ber cause of that activity. As a graduation gift from school he had taken his daughter and her teacher along on one of his voyages when he touched on a Persian port, where they were told the women would have to stay on shipboard as it was not permitted for them to land. A Persian Prince, with whom the captain had talked many times via the air, had been invited aboard ship and while there met the daughter and her teacher.

When the Prince and his retinue were leaving the ship he graciously invited Miss Carlsen and her teacher to accompany the Captain the next day to his home, where they were royally entertained. Captain Carlsen laughingly remarked, "Believe me, my daughter had something to talk about when she got home." Yes, indeed, it is a pleasure to read that Captain Kurt Carlsen is still a "skipper," Mrs. James E. Keys 1415 Baker St. N.E.

the Flag mmmmmmmemmmmrmmmmwmmmsBmmem showed illustrations of a plastic milk bag which "now have replaced the traditional bottles." The milkman slips the bag of milk through the mail-slot of his customer who clips the corner and pours the milk "into a jug." Here we are getting plastic lined paper cartons for milk delivery, but bottles are still in use. ft ft ft ft ft 'ft ft ft It is seldom that a person leaves a cabinet position to take an ambassadorship. John A. Gronouski, postmaster general, is doing that. He will become ambassador to Poland where his ancestral roots lie.

In President Hoover's term he eased Andrew Mellon from his position as Secretary of the Treasury to the court of St. James as ambassador to Britain. One wonders who made the first move on this Gronouski transfer. In, any event, President Johnson had a man right at his hand for successor as PM General, Lawrence. O'Brien, who remained over from the Kennedy team and proved most useful to LBJ in helping congressmen match principle and politics.

ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft Congressional Quarterly made a study of how well, or poorly, the Texas delegation in Congress supported its native son who is in the White House. It didn't score very well. On 12 selected Great Society issues the "average" House mem-' ber from Texas backed President Johnson only 53 per cent of the time. There were 66 roll call age." Without these, morality and respect for law and order are learned in a distorted manner in the street. The Negro social structure in the South is riddled with inequity inflicted by whites, but it is a social structure.

It is this social structure which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others have used to keep unrest from becoming violence in so ftiany instances in the South. The Northern city ghettos have fractured and pulverized that social structure to the point that when violence occurs in Los Angeles, no one can determine who are the Negro leaders and the appeals of Dr. King do not touch off a pacifying response.

To get some idea about the jungle which substitutes for a social system in a Northern ghetto we can turn to the testimony of 400 teen-agers given in New City recently. These young people witness crimes daily, but never report them to police. They fear reprisals not only from criminals but from welfare workers. They fear physical violence from the criminals and they fear investigation by the welfare workers. Anonymity is their only protection Virtually everyone participates in the racket." Sexual morality has little meaning to these teen-agers, most fcf them without stabilizing home ties.

The North has pulverized what little fcocial structure the Negro had, and now it is paying the price. This strikes fear into the hearts of the whites within range ef the ferment. This fear is new, but to the vast majority of the peaceful Negroes who are forced to live in these ghettos it not new. Fear is a way of life. metrical design and some do not, but of 'people we know it makes little difference to "the holder," unless he is a fool.

To wit: My mother had beautiful hands. They were gnarled and stiff. Suppose we learn the same truth of cities. The author mentioned European cities which were built by kings, calling them more That peeved me. I felt that Mama's hands had been assaulted: I like to use my proverbial beholder's eye on people and on cities, sense out their personalities before using the terms "ugly" or "beautiful." Are our cities full of human tears? Are the nice symmetrical ones the work of loving rul- ers who concerned themselves with the beauty of If greedy little merchants are throwing together selfish eyesores and calling it liberty, I -want them stopped, of course.

If not, I'll just wait for my perfectly symmetrical city 12 12 every way, as I recall the description; built by a King, moreover, and take my unsymmetrical self down to drink in the pure beauties of Twelfth Street until something can be done about both our lack of symmetry, even considering something needs doing, besides to cry before the world as if we had no beholders. Dorothy HoJt 2252 Simpson St. SE from page 1.) prejudice. Whatever the cause it is something of a mockery to withhold from Washington-ians the right to elect their own officials, especially by a Congress which enacted a racial Voting Rights bill designed to assure freedom in the exercise of the voting franchise to Negroes in the deep south who are even more und-erpriveleged. Coupons rtJ LJU yif-r Questions Poverty Report To the Editor: Re editorial of Aug.

29: pockets of poverty, Has the basis of the date in arriving at the "concordance" number been examined? Statistics may prove anything if certain premises are first established. 1. Low income: If this is "per capita" and based on ages from birth to death it discounts employability and any total. A locality with young families and retired people will show this, a If this figure includes women and adolescents, not normally "breadwinners'! in seasonal labor, figures are further skewed. -r 2.

Unemployment: at what season was "research" done? Loggers make good wages, but are "unemployed" under weather conditions. Women cannery workers are "unemployed" most of the year. 3. Criminal-juvenile offenses: any area having seasonal transient labor shows "high" on this. 4.

Low education: compared to what? The balance of Oregon (rated about' third nationally on draft tests) or compared with Gullywash, This is less of a handicap in agricultural labor area than a slum district. 5. Inferior housing: by what standards? What is "standard" in sloburbia isn't standard, in Podunk Jet. Why doesn't the Salem area governmental coordinating agency or others do some leg work and "research" to examine this "poverty" tab? Publish such figures as: 1. Gross annual value of each area's production; 2, per family annual consumption; 3, percentage of homes owned or being purchased, as opposed to rentals.

Compare to similar towns in industrial states. 4. Percentage of those in re- 4 quired attendance in schools. Compare to Appalachia. 5, Number employed and annual payroll of seasonal and transient labor.

Yours for accurate analysis and "reports." D. Spitnogle 5870 Lake Labish Rd. Moh Mola: Sunfish To the Editor: The fish photo carried on the sports page of the Statesman, Tuesday, Aug. 31, is not a freak, contrary to the caption. It is a sunfish, sometimes called headfish because its head certainly dominates the whole body.

It prefers warm to temperate waters though is seen in many seas. They are neither rare nor common on the pacific coast and are familiar to all fishermen. It is an odd lazy fish living largely on small marine invertebrates. Its i bones are soft and weak and its movements are characterized by a flopping of the dorsal fin which is usually extending above the surface. They have been known to reach several feet in length and weigh two or three hundred pounds or more.

Several of these fish were noted north of the Yaquina Ray entrance about five miles from shore on the weekend of Aug. 22. They move' slowly and my boat drew along side one during that weekend. These fish usually make their appearance in connection with the warmer Japanese current that usually moves in closer to shore about this time of the year. The fish is not considered edible at least by civilized people.

It is found from Southern California to Southeast Alaskan waters. It belongs to the family Molidae and was given its scientific nameMola Mola meaning mill stone by Linnaeus in 1758. One female will produce 300 million eggs so many are born though only a few survive. CECIL L. EDWARDS Former sec'y Leg.

Comm. on fish game 2375 High St. SE Defends Record To the Editor: Our incisive Representative Bateson, with the precision and elan which have made- such an outstanding member of the has most ably cleared the record on the vote on Senate Bill 185 (an anti water pollution measure) in answer to Mr. Drawson's muddy charges. Two further points need clarification, both for readers and Mr.

Drawson: 1. Not all letters written to the editor are published. It is the editor's selectivity which has made the Safety Valve such a widely-read, Statesman, March 28. 1851 WEBB Managing Editor as it has seemed. Maybe all the projections should be revised upward.

In another study, Sindlinger finds that the Viet Nam war is distinctly influencing automobile buying plans on balance favorably at this time. In households where a member is in the reserves, there is caution and some decrease in buying plans. But more buying plans are being increased in households which expect the arms buildup to increase prices, jobs and incomes. A second key point is the extent of multiple-car ownership. The proportion owning three or more cars is 5.2 per cent almost identical to the proportion of prime prospects owning no car.

The proportion owning at least two cars is a whopping 31.7 per cent. In millions of homes across the country, two cars have become a necessity; in homes where there are teen-agers less than two cars is a downright hardship. Again, maybe all the projections on multiple-car ownership should be revised upward. A third key point is the ever growing importance ef women 3 votes on matters where the President had announced his position. The Texans rallied on these only at a 66 per cent score.

The average for all the House Democrats during the 1964 session was 74 per cent. Maybe the Texans feel freer to oppose LBJ because they "knew him when ft ft ft, ft ft ft ft ft The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Youth Corps workers there get $1.35 an hour while on the job clearing brush or cleaning up parks and playgrounds; but the foremen and work-crew coordinators who direct them get pay ranging from $5 an hour to $1000 a month. Those on the latter scale will find an early end to their "poverty." ftftftftftftftft The State Department wouldn't give U.S. chess star Bobby Fischer a passport to go to Havana to compete in the chess tournament there. However, he is competing, via teletype, and has won his first match, from a German, Heinz Leh-mann.

ftftftft'ftft ftft Salem city zoners heard opponents of a rezon-ing of an inter-city farm on South Commercial St. describe the place not as a site for a medical center but a sight for sore eyes. Eye of the Beholder To the Editor: A recent magazine article by an architect, deploring what free enterprise has done to the architecture of American cities, piqued me. Cities are like people; some have sym- (Continued The reason why home rule isn't granted to Washington is because its population is so heavily Negro over one-half now. (The late Rep.

Walter Norblad told me this some years ago, and the Negro proportion has grown steadily since then). Now the count is 470,300 Negro to 337,300 white. (The whites who work in the capital have migrated in numbers to Virginia and Maryland). The committee to which the bill was referred is heavily weighted with Southerners who adhere to Southern views regarding the Negro. The chairman Is Rep.

John L. McMillan of South Carolina. Ten others are from Southern states. The House Democratic leadership lends no support to the petition for discharge of the bill from the committee Speaker McCormack takes refuge behind the traditional role of the Speaker to vote only in case of a tie. Majority Leader Albert of Oklahoma and Majority Whip Boggs of Louisiana look the other way when they pass the petition.

Of course, if the bill gets out on the floor it is almost certain to pass. The play of the opposition Is to keep it in the committee's pigeonhole. In prospect is a Negro majority in many of the country's largest cities. The Christian Science Monitor reports this: "Census figures indicate that by 1980, if arithmetical projections of present population trends continue, Negroes will be in a majority in Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore, Chicago, and St. Louis and, in the 'decade following Philadelphia.

Thus by 1990, unless trends change, seven of America's 10 largest cities (all except New York, Los Angeles, and Houston) will have Negro majorities." -Unless there is a change in the flow of "'color" other cities will before long have the same shift in racial majority that Washington has had. But no one suggssts they should be deprived of home rule. I am inclined to think opposition to home rule for the District is based chiefly on Phone J64-6811 Published every momng ot the year at 280 Church St. NEi, Salem. Ore 'Zip Code 87308) (Second class postage paid at Salem.

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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press la entitled exclusively to the use of an local news printed ia this newspaper. oommmtm smbm bhm Rally Roun By ARTHUR HOPPE SAN FRANCISCO The National Committee to Show Our Flag has entered the controversy between the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Treo Comp a makers ar-r of the "StarsO. 'n Stripes" As you' may have read, the complain d' the under- arthtjr hopph garment was "a shocking caricature" of the American flag. Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago Sept. 2, 1955 Driest conditions in two years exist In major Oregon forests after a total of 32 days without rainfall, State Forester George Spaur said.

A total of 439 forest fires were reported on state and private lands. 25 Years Ago Sept. 2, 1940 Myrtle wood will form the furniture for the new concessions building under construction at Silver Falls State Park. This Is the first time that Oregon's almost-exclusive wood has been used in any extensive project. Nearly 8,000 board feet are being cured at Oregon State College.

40 Years Ago Sept. 2, 1925 Editorially A small gap of a mile beyond St. Paul is being closed this week after which there will be another paved road all the way from Salem to Portland: by way of Woodburn, St. Paul and New-berg crossing the Willamette River at Newberg. at Peak in the auto market place.

That 42.8 per cent of all prime prospects are women is astounding to me yet, my personal, observations suggest this is factual. In most families, the wife is a crucial factor in the decision on whether to buy a new car as well as what make to "Having or not having female prime prospects can be the difference between profit and loss," Sindlinger remarks. While the automakers are acutely aware of the importance of women in the market place perhaps here too the projections should be revised upward. Finally, the average household income of the new car buyers and the balance between blue and white collar workers underline how middle-class this market is. The Sindlinger surveys flash a signal that another back-to-back-to-back auto boom year could be shaping up.

If autos do continue to add power to our economic upturn, the whole outlook for 1966 will be brightened. (Distributed 1965 by Th Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Right Reserved Visit From Madame Chiang In World War II Madame Chiang Kai-Jshek was the Oriental pearl on her visits to America. She was received with the greatest acclaim as the wife of the Gen-'eralissimo who was trying desperately to 'keep China from succumbing to the Japanese invaders. The Madame made an "ardent plea for military assistance from lihe United States, at a time when we livere hard pressed to carry on war on 'many fronts. We couldn't satisfy her; but twe did push through the Burma road lover which some supplies could flow.

Now Madame Chiang is making another visit in America, a quiet one this time, for the pace is slower on Taiwan than it was at Chungking in wartime. One of the Soong sisters, she will visit her sister, Mr. Harry L. Gross of Treo, who must have felt somewhat like Stonewall Jackson marching into Fredericktown, promptly withdrew. That is, he withdrew all 3000 Star's 'n Stripes from the market.

"We will burn the damn things or send them to some foreign country where our flag isn't involved," he said. "Maybe we can give them away as charity gifts to peopje in other parts of the world." It was at this point, of course, that The National Committee to Show Our Flag stepped in. In a statement to the press, the Committee's Honorary Chairman, Corporal -Homer T. Pettibone, U.S. Army Flying Corps (retired), said he was "deeply moved by Mr.

Gross's patriotic offer." "Let me begin," said Corporal Pettibone, fingering the Good Conduct ribbon in the lapel of his conservative blue saying that we do not agree with the DAR that this garment Is a shocking caricature of our flag. True, it has only seven stars around the waistband but our investigation shows the legs display the requisite 13 red and white stripes. At least in the larger sizes. "It was the general conclusion of our committee, therefore, that a lump would rise in the throat cf any patriotic man to see the Stars 'n Stripes passing by. As we constantly emphasize, no one can wave the flag too much.

"On the other hand, the Committee did foresee grave problems involving flag etiquette. The requirement that men must remove their hats and servicemen must salute when Old Glory passes would, we felt, cause considerable confusion. Particularly in downtown areas on windy days. There was also the difficulty ef suitable ceremonies at sunset and the seemingly insuperable problem of observing proper flag etiquette on days of national mourning. "Thus, in the final analysis, the Committee wholeheartedly applauds Mr.

Gross's decision to send the Stars -'n Stripes abroad. It' is in keeping with our spirit of Manifest Destiny. It is a vibrant echo of Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet. As befits a world we shall show our flag in, every foreign clime. And brave hearts everywhere, gentlemen, shall leap up.

"Moreover, the committee feels it can count on the strong support ef President Johnson for this people-to-people aid program to overdeveloped countries. For he never spoke truer words than during the height of the Dominican crisis when he recited from memory a passage he had learned in a recitation contest as a little boy: "I have seen the glories of art and- architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jung-frau, and the full moon rise over Mon Blanc But the fairest vision on which these eyes ever looked was the flag of my country in a foreign LBJ LIBRARY GAINS WASHINGTON (AP) Senate passage Wednesday sent to the President a resolution approving plans for a Lyndon Baines Johnson Library on the University of Texas campus at Austin. :1 XwuwvviXv-X- New Car Buying Plans i C5H imn Redeem This -v By SYLVIA PORTER Financial Analyst NEW YORK An estimated men and women vis-. ited a new car dealer's show-room during the month of -June alone, an aaamonai 8.909,000 nad I I plans to visit new car "I' Week's for Extra owroom and 19.590,- 000 'were I "prime pros- I pects" for cars, reports I Sylvia Porter IF YOU DON'T HAVE A GOLD BOND CALENDAR GET ONE FREE AT WhHe 50.8 per cent are married men and 4 per cent are single employed men, a huge 42.1 per cent of all prime prospects are women. Most are married living with their husbands but a respectable 7.6 per cent are single, separated, divorced or widows.

They are evenly divided between blue and white collar workers. Of the total, 91.3 per cent read newspapers on a typical day, 68.3 per cent listen to the radio and 63.3 per cent watch TV. The average annual household income of the prime prospects is $9,010, the average age of the household head is 12 and 'the average size of the household is between three and four persons. Now what does all this imply? Surely, a first giant implication stems just from the she of the numbers. With 1965 going down as the greatest year ever for new car purchases on top of other great years, the widespread assumption is that there must be a perceptible letdown in 19M.

But maybe the assumption is not as valid firm of the market analvsis Sindlinger Co. I If only a thin majority of the 19,590,000 actually buy, our 'record-smashing auto boom in 1965 could carry over into an-V other record smashing auto -boom in Boi Millers -v 11 AMERICAN OIL 3408 MARKET ST. PHONE 362-9594 Who are those Sindlinger's Findings here are highly thought-provoking. Only 5.6 per cent do not own a car now. A fat 62.7 per cent 12,230,000 own one car; 25.5 per cent own two cars; 4.2 per cent own three; and 1 per cent own four or more auto- mobiles..