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4 (Soc I) Statesman, Salem, On. Friday, Feb. 5, 1S54 HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN The Safety Valve 4e I I Residents yacate Kellogg Park The Kellogtf Park housing project on Mc- Loughlin. north of Milwaukie, is Shall Awe? doomed. Most kf the houses have been vacat -cr ill WWW UP7 I 'No Favor Sways Us, No Fear From First SUtesman, Mirth TREATISE ON To the Editor: Just finished reading your column called "The Safety Valve I agree whole-heartedly with Mr.

Robert H. Miller who said -the readers were tiring of your. 28, 1S51 CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published vtry morning Business office Z8S North Church SU. Salem.

Or, Telephone 2-2441 Cnterad at the jestetflc at Satera. Ore. as second class matter under set e4 Congress March 1, 1179. Member, Associated Press llfC itftl Sir i The Assodsttd Press to entitled exclusively to the uaa for republication of ail local news printed- in i this newspaper v- ed. The government Which financed the project has received bids for disposal of 219 of the houses and will sell off the remaining 300.

All the houses are to be removed from the tract which the city of Milwaukie wants to take over for Use' for industrial sites. International Harvester has two big warehouses on land adjacent to the housing project; and the state commission is to build its office and warehouse on 'land across from the highway-state police buildings. This gives the area a good start toward industrialization. This was wartime; housing put up to provide living quarters; for war workers The houses filled an Urgent need during the war and later, until other and permanent type housing was put up! into which the Kellogg Park residents could move. The project was quite well maintained, but the buildings were beginning to 'show their age, for construction was of temporary character.

Many however i want to buy these houses and move them to other locations for use as residences One hopes they will be fixed up and not al- lowed to deteriorate to shacks and become "rural slums;" constant jibes against the 21 Americans who refused repatriation. Who are you to judge their actions and call their decision Treason." No one buf the boys and God Almighty know what they have gone through. If they were to read some of the news items about how some of the people feel about their decision that' alone would make them wonder if they should change their minds. Perhaps they are afraid to come home, and then again il read in your paper where the 2nd C. I.

to come home told of the situation was in the the day we were to have the chance to talk to the boys about coming home. This country has been known 1 to be a country of Freedom and tare a lot more right here in this trying to destroy it They are the real ones who are to blame for any not the-boys who were taken from their I homes and sent over there to fight and go through air sorts of horrors. If your son (if you have one) was over there would you want him to be tortured by' those stinking Communists, be-fore he'd agree to their terms. 'I Oh no, no one would want that! You and I like millions of others would rather have them submit I and hope that someday they I would see their mistakes. There lis an old saying that's quite true.

I "Where there's life there's I hope." And I bet the mothers and wives of those boys are hap-, spy knowing that their boys are still alive and not maimed like many boys from the II World War. Treason treason be These boys are just like mixed up kids and when you sit behind your desk and call them all sorts of names you are the one committing treason. Treason' against those who fought Over there to -make it impossible for you to sit A restaurant over in Battleground, Wash, celebrated its 20th anniversary by serving meals for a day at 1934 prices. It did a land office business, serving nearly 2000 persons The proprietors say they made some money too, getting the benefit of discounts on eatables from cooperating suppliers. This is just an elementary lesson in economics: Lower prices attract customers, and bigger volume along with lower costs for supplies permits a profit.

Where the resistance comes is that no one wants to accept 1934 prices save as a one-day advertising stunt, or 1934 wages for any reason. Four-Cent Letter Postage? The House postoff ice committee has voted to raise the first-class mail rate to four cents an ounce. This would increase department revenues an estimated $159 million, and go that far toward covering-the postal deficit of well over half a billion. Now we may expect Democratic charges that this is a Republican gouge of the public, though postmasters general for years have been begging for increased rates to make income more closely balance outgo. Of course when Jim Farley was PMG and the postal rates were raised from two cents to three cents an ounce the Democrats found no skullduggery in the increase; but tjmes were different then! The committee is due to take up today rates for second-class mail: newspapers, magazines, periodicalsf For our part we are quite ready to accept whatever Congress directs which is based on a study of postal facts.

The press has been accused of being the beneficiary off a postal subsidy, and hence of being inconsistent in denouncing other subsidies. So we hope the Congress adjusts its second-class rates so the cry of subsidy is no longer heard. Actually what subsidy there is generally is passed on to mail subscribers in the form of lower rates; and it is the subscriber-reader who gets the subsidy The theory was that a democracy needed to have an informed public, hence the delivery of publications wjts made at extremely low rates. If Congress wants to abandon this practice little squawking will be heard from newspapers. Where the pinch might come is in raising rates for religious and fraternal publications whose existence might be imperilled with a sharp increase in second-class rates.

We hope the Congress does an honest and thorough job with revising postal rates, but note that the beginning is made on the class which now yields a profit, and that nothing is done to curtail the abuse of the franking privilege by government bureaus and officials. Just how far the four-cent postage bill will get is still in doubt. After all this is election year and an increase of one-third in letter postage might damage the prospects of candidates for reelection to Congress. The economy beef and wheat. of the Argentine is primarily It is the principal supplier of meat for Britain.

But under the Peron effort to promote industry by starving farming and Inside Truman jand Friars Will Honor Jessel stockraising the economy has been turned upside down. Right now Argentine has stopped meat exports to Britain because the meat is heeded for home consumption. It is rare that politicians do a better job managing the public economjj than do businessmen who conform to the elementary laws of supply and demand and meet competition. By EVE STARR 4x. wat.

xcnay makes wild me NEW YORK Toastmaster George Jessel gets a typical roast versity authorized Beta Chi, lo- of anyone and He is not an at the testimonial dinner given by the Friars in his honor at cal sorority, to petition for na- tor of any newspaper. talk, ormer President Harry Ford, Chief Justice Earl Warren. Danny Kaye and many other The state development commission had its eye on Camp Adair as offering a desirable site or industry. So it does and others saw jt first. The Corvallis Gazette-Times reports that 129,000 sq.

ft. of floor space in buildings of the former camp are under lease to five industries. Among them are a plywood products firm, a turkey farm, a woodworking plant, a winch-maker. One concern operates a freezing and storage plant. These are small potatoes, even in the aggregate; but big oaks grow from little i acorns.

hcw lurt niiuun-zuiwu, rcu. David Sarnoff, aiscussing ciever Ariene amateurs, i i jokes ana no back Truman, Henry friends of Jessel and director of has will begin filming story, "Third Telequiz stars of will be on band Ex-actor wno was pilot oi a medium the Milton Berle show, Edward bomber on more than 25 com-Buzzell, formed a production company and -bat missions, was awarded the a series based on Robert Car- air medal at Alachua army air-son's Girl From the Right" field. His wife is the former "What's My Line" (CBS) were Myra Madsen of Salem. giris. "some are clever enough," Francis, "to practice kissing like ELECTING UTILmr COMMISSIONER To the WX ,1 'We should all hope that Representative Monroe Sweetland's initiative petition will receive the necessary signatures to place it on the November ballot It provides that; the state utilities commissioner- be elect ed by the voters instead of being appointed by the-governor.

As a matter of fact the utilities1 commissioner is supposed to be a prosecuting attorney for the i people, to protect them against encroachments by the utilities by issuing "cease and desist" orders. It the utilities feel aggrieved they always have access to the courts rand have proved fully able to defend themselves. But the utilities department has not, been a protector of the people." since the administration, of M. Thomas many years ago. On the contrary it has arrogated to itself the role of a court, holds makes advance decisions and puts complainants on the defensive with no chance for a fair deaL Instead of a defender of the people-it has become a mere political fence post with a strong bias for the private utilities.

It spends most of its time trying to whip people into line with the desires of the utilities instead of the opposite. It is fully time that the; people who pay 'both the expenses and the profits of the utilities be given at least an even chance with them. When the electric, companies imposed a 20 surcharge on their customers last year, their excuse was that it 'was necessary in order to meet the extra expense of steam generation. Yet not many years before, their steam plants were in constant operation and they switched to Bonneville because they were given special low rates on account of having steam plants as a i stand-by. So the extra expense they whined about had already been paid in advance; but the utilities commissioner nevertheless granted the surcharge.

Most of the electricity distributed by PGE is purchased from Bonneville at the special low price, yet it charges its customers much higher rates than does Salem Electric which pays Bonneville a higher rate. The obedient Salem city council relieved PGE from embarrassing competition by forbidding SE to set any more poles. This makes it plain that service to citizens is considered secondary to profits for PGE by the utilities commissioner and the Salem city Council. We need a change which will give us an even break. Let's iign the Sweetland petition.

A. M. CHURCH, 1 1400 North Slimmer St I ki- (Editor's Note It is worth that the major case of the administration "of Charles Mi Thomas, in which he ordered a reduction in the rate base of i the telephone company, was taken to court and the Thomas; order declared 'null That was the last major rate case in the state.) Oregon City Shack Fire Kills Man 68 OREGON CITY (fi Henry Haas, 68, died in a fire that destroyed his small shack near here Thursday morning, f. defective stove was believed to have caused the blaze. Haas, a former railroad worker, had Jived in the shack four years.

SATURDAY IUKCH AT NORTH'S In the Capitol Shopping Center ROAST PORK and DRESSING i Whipped Potatoes and Gravy, Cole Slaw Hot Biscuits and Batter Apple Sauce -Fast "IZk DeliciOns Service I JW Food Try Salem'i E1 PUce to tafl SPECIAL $8.85 Good Until Feb. 20th Test Compression Set Timing Adjust Carburetor Replace Points And Condenser Set Dwell Angel Adjust Valve 'Tappets Clean Battery Terminals Clean and Ad just Spark Plugs It is rather significant that though between political conferences numerous sharp disagreements seem to appear between the United States and Britain or France when they all face up to the USSR they close ranks promptly. Good sign. Another congressman, this one a Republican from California, is on trial on charges of padding his payroll. Some congressmen are very dumbi when they think they are being smart.

I "Afeet McGraw" with Frank Love joy and Audrey hotter is in production for "Fourl Star Playhouse." Be sure to tab the David Niven telefilm for 'JPlayhouse" to be released February 18 "The Bomb" it's a honey t. Tere'a big demand for femme singers and HargaretyWhiiing, se for a new daily, half -hour teleseries, te-following in the footsteps of other chantpotsies like Dinah 'Shore and Pattt Page Telecom-ediln Danny Thomas, returning from. Las Vegas, quipped, "Las Vegas? that's a place that has a lot. I ought to know I justleft it there." CRITIC'S CORNER: Hall of Fame's two-hour presentation of I Shakespeare's "King Richard II" was magnificent With a tremendous cast headed by Maurice Evans, Kent Smith and Sarah Churchill and a dozen lavish sets covering a floor 170-by-170 feet, the play was probably the most outstanding ever presented on TV. Evans himself adapted the play for television- having revived this lesser known Shakespearean drama on Broadway back In 1937.

Its first American showing was in Philaderohia in 1819. Note on Which Big 4 Meeting Cap Wind Up Said Only Thing Left Now for Allies at Berlin in your warm office and call oth er people names. There is. only On vhn ran iurip th actions E. T.

DYER, Stayton. 3D" msjm EH (Continued from page one.) difficult, to determine i just who Owns what among big corporations. When companies solicit proxies they report the salaries of officers and the number of shares each director has. Many stockholders are shocked at the very limited investment which directors make in the Company whose business they are helping to guide. The actual ownership may be scattered among hundreds or thousands of individuals (many of them women) or part may be in the hands of foundations and trust funds.

This of course introduces a nice question relating to the responsibility of such investors toward the management of the corporation in which it holds stock. Suppose the mission board of a church owns stock in the IXL railroad or steel mill is it concerned with the way the road or mill is managed? with its public relations, its customer relations, its labor relations? Or is its interest limited to the financial soundness of the You see things can get awfully complicated in the world of the free market The labor union might hold stock in a corporation which one of its locals is striking, or the church's money may be helding to finance an "imperialist" mining venture in Af-' 'rica. The justification may be that thereby Mammon is made to serve the Lord, but I shall not pursue the ethical involvement more deeply. cede that the Communists speak War and in the matter of Euro-for the people they in Easttpean defense. ji Written more than three and a aunosi unxnown lor iiity years, eany bnaxespearean actors preferring the heavier drama and stronger characters of "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet" and others.

Its first real staging was in five years after the death of the first Queen Elizabeth. Germany, much less for a part of the people in West Germany. All the Russian proposals made so far and no better ones are expected are totally at odds with what the Allies and most Ger mans think should be done. I Even the Germans most I in tent on re-unification, and against the European Defense Community, have backed away from all the Russian ideas. The Allied program is simple.

made perfectly free to vote for an all-German government wkich could then negotiate a peace treaty with the World War II belligerents, establishing a new Germany which would be free to choose its own course thereafter in the Cold Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Yean Ago Feb. 5, 1944 In a major change, the board of directors of Willamette Uni-' uonai aillliation. (It became rl Beta Phi.) Capt, Wilmer F. -McDowell, Boulder Dam power production set a new record of 58331 000 kilowatt 8,144,000 more than the previous A production record for one day was 21,531,000 kilowatt hours. 25 Years Ago Feb.

5, 1929 Dedicating the new National' Press Club, President Coolidge declared that American newspapers should cooperate with their government in international affairs and extend to for-eign interests a tolerant and sympathetic candor. A dispatch from Washington, D.C., related that Mrs. Alice Ames Winter of. Minneapolis was winner of the National League of American Penwomen's national Best Book" contest. Mrs.

Win Robert ter is a sister of Mrs. Aiken of Salem. Dr. W. H.

Byrd, pioneer doct tor, who had administered to the sick of Salem and Marion County since 1881, died this week at the age of 75 years. 40 Years Ago Feb. 5, 1914 The Pacific Mail liner Man cnurja which arrived at SaB from Chinese and Ja panese was richly laden; Besides 7100 tons of valuable Oriental cargo, it brought a shipment of raw silk worth 000,000 and $225,000 in gold, The agriculture department advised Senator George Chamberlain of Oregon that it is unable to supply further requests for dry land alfalfa seed for Oregon. H. A.

Calef, president of Calef who operated four of the leading furniture houses in the northwest, was in Salem Mr. Calef was pleased with the business of the local store and predicted Salem growth, j. Literary Guideposf CARUSO: THE MAN OF NAPLES AND THE VOICE OF GOLD, by T. Ybarra (Hat court, Brace; S4.50) Fifty years ago this month Caruso, made his Metropolitan Opera debut It's a voice still to be heard on records, and a man about whom Jus wido Dorothy and others have already written in some detail This is a popularized portrait about as close to Caruso, say, as the usual program notes are to sym- phonic numbers. "A Portfolio of Famous Paintings From the 17th Century through Contemporary i i from the Collections of the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts" comes from Springfield, where Director Frederick Robinson is observing his instl-' tution's 20th anniversary.

It contains some SO larce-sixe 1 I I i It's possible that the original story did lack strenth, but gained it through Maurice Evans" adaption, as masterful as his portrayal of Richard the Second. The finished Kent Smith, handled the powerful opposition in a manner even above his usual perfection, at times overshadowing the entire cast. Be-yound doubt, all the players did a little better than their best A production of this kind is for too costly to be expected as regular fare, but we earnestly hope that it will set a stand- nril -trw fiY OV try 4f11fn A 1. half centuries ago, it languished IT By Lichty umc vj Junius to Hallmark for its milestone, and please bring us another the near future. I i HIGH COST OF VIEWING: As with mink coats, swimming pools and yachts, it's not the cost it's the upkeep.

Color televi- sion sets may cost $1,000 or more but the upkeep will cost twice as much as your black and white sets, with 32 to 45 color tubes as Your Health The Allies are confident which It proposes that Germans be way such a Germany would go. The West German Parliament already has ratified EDC, although by a slim and court-contested majority. The Russians seem to be confident, too, but the other way round. Molotov obviously feels that Russia has small chance in free election set up without Communist rigging. The conference seems likely; to continue through next week-fits third.

When it "began, no arrangements were made for a fourth-week meeting place. When that question comes up, the Allied representatives probably will just pack their bags. By Or. Herman Inndesea the baby should be on something that fits his body, so that his entire back is propped and support is provided for his feet Crawling and climbing should be encouraged to develop the back: muscles. When the child starts to walk, his parents should begin to teach him proper pos He should be taught to bold his head up, well balanced over the shoulders and abdomen.

The child also should be taught to hold his abdomen in and stand as tall as possible. Of course, proper fitting of clothes and shoes is important to good posture. In order to correct postural defects in a child between the age of five and ten. the child must understand what he is doing wrong. Certain exercises can be riven by the physician to correct these compared to 18 or 25 in black and white sets.

You may have to cut down on all the rest of your electrical appliances in order to keep your monthly electric bill standard. CrrUht ISM, Gcstral Feitare Car.) wmmtmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmimm. GRIN AND BEAR By J. M. ROBERTS JR.

Associated Press News Analyst About the only thing left now for the Allies at Berlin is to find a note on which the conference can be ended. Deadlocks have been reached on two points of the agenda, and the third, the Austrian question, is so tied in with that of Germany that it can now get but short shrift When proposed that occupation troops withdraw before the holding of any election he made it clear that Russia intends to fight on indefinitely, regardless of the odds, for control- of Germany. This would mean that Russia would maintain powerful armies at the Oder-Neisse within 50 miles of Berlin while the Allies would be back in France. It would not only leave Western Germany wide open to attack, but would be opening the door to all Western Europe. 'It would also violate the Allied vow never to desert Berlin until the city is safe within a new Germany.

Other evidence that Russia has no intention of compromising her position in Germany was contained in the proposal that an interim government for Germany include the East German Communists. The Allies never are going to con Better English By D. WILLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "I don't know if she heard us, but I do know she didni do her work proper. 2.

What is the correct pronunciation of 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Courier, coterie, couragious, consummate. 4. What does the word "eph- tmerar means? 5. What is a word beginning with di that means "deeply de- jeeteo; mot Answers Say, I don't know whether she heard us.

but I do know she -didnt do -her work prop-' a a a a a. err, a. Accent xirsi syuaoie, preferred, 3. Courageous. 4.

Be-gimrfw and endinc in a dav: hence, short-lived. (Pronounce e-fem-er-al, first and second 's as set, third as in her, ac- cent second syllable). "These vkanres art ephemeral" 8. Defects in Child's Posture Simple defects in children's posture, if neglected, can lead to crippling deformities as the child grows to adulthood and the defects are magnified. It is wise, therefore, to take these children to their physicians, after the age of five, if they have developed postural deformities.

Some parents to ignore these defects, hoping they Will disappear by themselves. Most of them, however, do nqt disappear unless treatment is employed. A child is thought to have normal posture if the head is) balanced over; the body with no for ward or backward displacement The chest should be further for ward than, any other part of the body. The) abdomen should not stick out, and there should be no abnormal curves of the spine. The most commonly found postural deformity is a forward! displacement of the head.

The next most common are rounded shoulders and flat chest. Many ether deformities can occur in children. The best treatment for postual deformities is, of course, their prevention. I During the first six month of life, the baby should lie on his back, side or abdomen, but should be on a flat, firm surface. It is usually better for him not to lie on a pillow.

When held, the baby should be supported by the par ent body? with both hands. He should not be forced to sit up before his i muscles are strong posiurai nanus, i ne use ot medical apparatus to correct postural deformities usually proves to be unnecessary. QUESTION AND ANSWEK Mr. K. On a routine examination, I was found to have fall stones.

I have never had any difficulty such as belching or pain, andi I feel perfectly healthy. Would you advise surgery? Answer. It is, of course. Wst for you to ollowj your physician's advice in this matter. However, in some instances, where gall stones do not produce any difficulty, surgery may not be advised at once.

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