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B CHARLES V. STANTON
Having tested U. S. reaction to ransom demands,
Russia now proposes to cash in on its findings.
The Reds have proven to their own satisfaction that
Uncle Sam is a sucker when it comes to ransom. If he is
willing to pungle up dough to hoodlums who kidnap his na
tionals, how much will he pay to promote peace during a
period of political emergency V
The administration is in trouble serious trouble. Elec
tions are at hand. Something is needed to draw public at
tention away from political scandals. An achievement to
which the administration can point with prida is vitally nec
essary. . .,
The a lministration has been begging Russia to permit
it to save lace in Korea. The Korean war is not popular.
The general public is well aware that our State Department
blundered. Thousands of American lives have been sac
rificed to the department's appeasement program and its
vaccillation. Americans have no taste for "police action."
They cannot understand a war that goes on endlessly, seem
ingly without purpose. The British would be more tolerant,
for Britain has experienced countless police actions in its
colonies, India being a good example. But a war having
no victory ns its ultimate goal is not popular with Americans.
Ransom Offer Hinted
The administration realizes that the Korean situation is
a decided obstacle to political victory at the forthcoming
presidential election. It would like to get the matter settled.
Then it could claim an achievement.
We promoted armistice talks. These talks have achieved
virtually nothing and premise nothing. We have been
given the run around time alter time. The Reds, who lik
nothing bitter than to build up hopes and then dash them
to the ground, have found the talks an excellent propa
ganda weapon. They also hac used our peace efforts as an
opportunity to build up their military strength. Meanwhile
we go on in futile bargaining with an enemy who has nothing
. to lose and everything to gam by continuing the parley an
enemy which has no intention of making peace except on
its own terms.
Those terms are now being offered. Russia proposes
an end to the fighting if we will surrender Formosa to Red
China and seat Red China in the United Nations.
This, jays Russia, would end the fighting in Korea, Indo
china, Malaya, and elsewhere and would establish peace in
Asia.
Russia' Wants Defense Buffer '
What is this offer if not another ransom demand? We
surrender the people and territory of Asia to the Red ma
chine and we can have peace. Will our State Department
pay the price? In the light of past action, we wouldn't be
surprised if it did. Dollar-hungry Great Britain, panting
for resumption of trade with China, probably will use its in
fluence on the administration which has been very suscep
tible to British suggestions in the past.
Why is Russia so anxious to bring Asia into its zone of
influence
You will find the answer to that question if you will
look at your map or globe. Russia's underbelly is exposed
to China's border. Russia cannot wage war on Europe until
Chinese territory is secure. Before China is secure as a
Red defense buffer, Russia must be able to penetrate our
outer line of defense, based on Formosa, the Philippines and
Japan. By gaining Formosa, Russia would have a dagger
pointing toward the heart of that defense line.
Will ve pay the ransom the unconditional surrender
of Asia to the Russians? Will our administration attempt
to salvage an election the retention of power for its corrupt
political machine by selling Asia's millions down the river?
We've paid ransom on a small scale; now how far can we
be pushed ?
Did you ever swing a pail of
water or milk! around your
head without spilling a drop And
did you, too, have a triumphant
feeling as you did it until maybe
the pail accidentally hit a tree and
spattered you with the spilt milk?
I guess every youngster achieves
that feat, and maybe the terrible
letdown that conies with that
"now I've done it" and "what
will my mamma say?" I was
just reminded of the time I used
to walk down a maple-shaded
path every evening to a farm
house for bur milk, when reading
that "Enough milk will have been
produced in tho United States in
J051 to fill a river three thousand
miles long, 40 feel wide, and
three feet deep.
"This 'river.' " says the Na
tional Geographic Society article,
"has nearly 25-million sources
the number of cows milked dur
ing the year on U. S. farms, tt
flows at an annual rate of Mi-bil
lion quarts, a quart a day for
every man, woman and child in
the country."
My gracious, that's a lot of
milk, isn't it! I don't care' much
for statistics, unless served up in
terestingly as in the milk river
illustration. It's a far cry from thc
old days when, I have read, a cow
was sometimes driven along the
village street and milked at the
customer' door. Speaking of milk
reminds me of thc time 1 had
been sent for some rream and
warned "not to spill it." My little ,
container was filled so generously
Or. Tuei., Jon. 8, 195
RANSOM
ENDING
'BASKET
.so it needed care if I were to gel
it home cream and eggs were
different those days!
i When I came to the railroad sta
j lion in the tiny village, 1 kept
right on across thc track, quite
sure thc big freight engine Hum
idering along at the other end of
j the station would miss me. The
station agent, who was fond of
me, saw me disappear. . .and
' promptly had a severe heart at-
tack. My poor dad, standing in
the door of our null, had an ngo
Inizing moment .How little children
I realize what parents go through,
i sometimes, until they themselves
are parents.
! I never spilled a drop of the
cream, but was scolded roundly
for making such a close thing of it
with that train. Life can be so
confusing to a child. I couldn't
understand what all thc fuss was
about. I might just as well have
spilled the cream!
H. J, Hash Re-Appointed
To County Park Dept.
II. J. Hash was Friday re ap
pointed to the Douglas County
Parks department board of direct
ors by the county court.
He is the first member of the
board to come up for re-appointment
under the staggeredlerm
system. Hash has served one year
on the hoard and was reappointed
for another term of four years
dating from Dec. 27, 1951. He was
originally appointed to the board
Dec. 27, 1950.
In The Day's News
By PRANK
(Continued from Page 1)
stored up surpluses from the pe
riod of fat production come in
handy.
That calls attention to this little
dispatch from Portland:
Idaho po atoes climbed 50 cent.
cm the Portland market yesterday
to i new high of S7 a hundred-1
weight. Oregon Russets also went
up 50 cents, and were quoted at
It sounds
wonderful for t h t
nntQfjk ni'iiti-np.anrl in 1 1 a a thic
year is concerned it IS wonderful. !
But it portends a probable head
ache for next year. Fabulously
high prices for potatoes (or tny
oilier pcrishablo crop) almost in
variably bring two things to pass;
1. INCREASED production.
2. LOWERED consumption.
Hence the next year headache.
While we're on this subject of
prices, here are some figures from
Washington:
According to a department of
agriculture report, food cost now
represents 25 percent of the aver-
ace familv's disposable income!
("disposable income" is an econ delivered every month by the post
omists" term meaning the money 1 man for the rest of your life, you
you have left over after paying ! belong to another breed of cats.
your taxes.)
In 1950, the D of A says, food
cost also represented 26 percent
of your disposable income. It re
presented 27 percent in 1948 and
1949 and 28 percent in 1947. But
away back in 1946 food cost repre
sented, on the average, only 26
percent of average disposable in
comeor EXACTLY the same as
now.
Let me tell you a secret about
this stuff that is handed out by
our federal government bureaus,
It is all politically slanted. If it
doesn't sound good for the admin
istration in power, It lust isn't
handed out. All good Washington
Air Force Authorized Is Far From
An Air Force In Actual Existence
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
When President Truman's budget appears in January, it
is expecttd to call for a 1 13-group air force, substantially
greater than the presentlv authorized 95 groups.
mere is nine nount that Con
gress will authorize this new goal.
But it is important for the Ameri
can public to remember that, for
a long time, It will he only a
goal, not a reality. Thc people
dare not slip into a mood ot
complacency induced by the
thought that the votes of Con-
i gross have automatically
assured
i them a great striking air arm
ine way is ion? betwen the
S establishment of ;oa.s and the de -
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I chairman of the joint chiefs of
staff, recently reminded that "six
j to nine years are required to de
sign, test and produce an aircraft '
I which can survive and w in in '
modern aerial combat." j
Thirty-one of thc planned addi-1
! tional 48 groups would be com-:
' bat w ings. Of thc 31, some 20 j
arc scheduled as either tactical ,
aircraft or fighters, fighter-bomb-!
ers and light bombers. Strategic i
bombers like tho B-47 and B-52 i
jets, plus some reconnaissance :
units, would make up the other i
11 wings.
The B-47 is In production but Is '
not yet available for operational
litn RlllAnAf L'c nH i-.rtain
' mechanical "bugs" have delayed
I deliveries. This aircraft is heavily
relied on by the Strategic Air '
Command, especially since the j
Korean war ha, indicated the vul-1
nerability of motor-drivf n planes '
like the B-29 and B "3 to :t U-
tereeptors in d cht raids.
The huge B-52 thus far has been
produced only in prototype, and
is only now beginning to undergo
"State of tRi" Union
i
JENKINS
reporters are fully aware of this
situation. '
The purpose of this particular
handout, for example, is to say to
you AS A VOTER that in spite of
all the nasty cracks about inflation
that are peddled by the wicked
bacKk jnt0 r the conof
in , prSporlion to your ,
, L.V ,,.-..
lepuuucans wno aie irying 10 get
total
hak ;' ,, h(lf' ,f,. RI(? in
natl(m ,, 0, " Under wa y.
mfvimn nvnnl u Ik. i
In other words, Mr. Truman and
I his Fair Dealers have seen to it
ur wa,g" n,a.ve bcfn ,raised
just as much as the cost of your
lood has been upped.
If you are a worker, whose wages
have been raised over and over,
or a business man whose prices
have gone up year after year, these
figures about the cost of your food
in proportion to your total income
are probably not far off the facts.
But if you are a widow or an
orphan, relying upon a legacy, or
a pension, or liie nolder oi o.iu ot
these policies under which you re
tire at 50 and live the life of Riley
on your insurance check that is
In that event, the cost of your
food (along with the cost of all
your other necessities) has gone
ha, STOOD STILL, it's the widow, ! re neies.sary.
and the orphans and the pensioners u 1 marlow thurs rg9rw215p 2,
and the insurance policy and an- j Jhe WO.om collected for the four
nuity holders and such that are ! American fliers can t compensate
being rooked by the spenders who!,he, Communists for the hatred,
are resoonsible for the steadilv contempt and revulsion stirred up
spiralling inflation.
If you have followed the figures
you are aware that people living
j on fixed incomes of the sort here
described are very, very large in
number.
They are the VICTIMS of our
politically-inspired inflation.
tests. It will be many months be
fore this ship can be delivered in
quantity, assuming it proves out
In test.
The United States has several
fighter planes of which it is rea
sonably proud. But the superior
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I Rl'M now
we do not have anv-'
thing resembling a real tactical
force. The projected expansion in
this phase of military aviation
is perhaps thc most vital envis
ioned. But, inevitably, much ex
periment In plane types and ope
rational techniques will have to
accompany any increase in tacti
cal activity.
On top of all the normal lass
that can be anticipated in devel
oping new planes, today we face
certain special handicaps which
magnify our difficulties. Materials,
tools and aviation industry man
power arc short. Particularly is
there pressing need for more
engineers and technicians. Even
if we should have settled on all
the major plane types we want,
bottlenecks might easily delay
realization of our goals for years.
There is no occasion for gloom.
We are making progress. But
neither is there any occasion for
gun assumptions mat congress in
1152 is going to equip us magic
ally with a giant air force of
crushing power. If it voted the Air
Force loo billion it still could not
do this.
Truce Huddle At Deadlock,
Declares Vishmsky, Urging
Security Council To Step In
PARIS (AP) Soviet . Foreign Minister Andrei Y.
Vishinsky said Monday the Korean truce talks at Pan
munjom have reached a deadlock.
He urged a high level Security Council meeting to
neip DrcaK it.
He said the Soviet nrnnns.l wn..M
i - i 1
!Cot brea.uP 'he talks at the front ,
iof helping get them out of the rut
! wh,'ch lhey have !"" numl"
T".
cring for six months.
Such a Council meeting, attended
by foreign ministers or chiefs f
state, he said, would not delay the
talks at Panmunjom and would not
have the effect of shifting the ne -
gotiations from Korea to Paris.
Both British Minister of State
Communist Action Hardens
American Desire To Oppose
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON (AP) The Communists are playing
it stupid.-'
Each 'incident like the present one holding Ameri
cans for ransom of one kind or another hardens and uni
fies American thinking.
It nreiiares feelint here for the most drastic mtaiiii-e:
a)tainst Communism, when
here.
That Communism is bent on
world conquest is taken for grant
ed. But jailing and mistreating a
j few Americans is hardly conquest
on the grand scale.
Each irritation like that is so
minor and crude, against the larg
er Communist plan, that one may
ask: Why do the Communists stoop
to this kind of gangsterism?
Some reasons can be guessed at:
Each such episode is a deliberate
needle, a slap at American pres
tige; and each provides the Com
munist masters with another ounce
of anti-American propaganda.
That', the Communist view, the
subjective view. It doesn't allow
for the fact that each jailing epi
sode may have an effect hero fr
outweighing any temporary and
small benefits the Communists
think they get at home.
Stupidity Guagad
To see the depth of the Com
munist stupidity involved in this
since this is the one country ca
pable of doing the most damage to
Russia if war starts it's neces
sary to ask this question:
What'i the smartest tactic for
the Communists where we're con
cerned? It's this: To keep Ameri
can opinion uiviueu un uie action
to he taken against Lommunism,
in kind and degree, and for this
reason:
The more united we are, not only
on the need for action, but on thc
need for strong action, the more
dangerous we are.
And there has been strong divi
sion of opinion here. Last winter
provided a good example in the
debate on sending troops to Eu
rope. There wa, wide support for
the idea we should withdraw be
hind the two oceans.
This wa, the ostrich approach to
reality, of course, since if we w ith
draw, Europe's will to resist would
be weakened. Europe would have
been ducksoup for the Communists,
if the isolationist, had won.
American Opinion Welded
American thinking has been di
vided on other great issues involved
in stopping Communism, and for
various reasons, including obvious
' political ones.
But American reaction to the
jailing and mistreatment of Amer
icans behind the Iron Curtain was
instant and unanimous: A filthy,
corrupt, vicious, unnecessary, in
human performance.
Fulton Lewis Jr.
F3
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WASHINGTON As you might expect there is quite
a stir in LaFayette, Indiana, where the city school sys
tem recently dropped a textbook that was under sharp
fire for its contents. The textbook is Magruder's "Amcr-'
ican Government.
The Greater LaFayette Cham
ber of Commerce sponsored the
review and eventual banning of
the book in public schools in that
city. In a letter from J. G .Mur
phy, manager of the Chamber of
Commerce, he says that now that
some of the smoke of battle has
cleared away the majority opin
ion in the community seems to
support the action.
What the parents and teachers,
along with a committee from the
LaFayette Chamber of Commerce,
discovered was that, in their opin
ion, the textbook is "subtly
slanted in praise of socialism"
and contains a "disguised attack
on the free system of our republic-Some
time ago I raised the
question about the fitness of this
textbook as a public school docu
ment, basing my indecision con
cerning its worth on a scholarly
examination conducted by several
history professors. I reached no
conclusion on whether it should
or should not be taken from school
desks, but even so t got quite
a bouncing around from various
groups who label themselves as
protectors of our public schools.
So I can only say to the LaFayette
parents and Chamber of Com
merce members that they are in
c..i - iuj t,c r,i .
uvinjii um'tu aim v.tJ. iv en.-: at
Benjamin Cohen had charged that
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delay or disrupt the talks and,
moreover, would probably increase
rather than decrease international
i tension,
I They said Russia would use sueh
' a special meeting as a propaganda
forum for attacks on the West,
j Vishinsky answered: "Our sharp
I words hurt you? Well, gentlemen,
1 you use some sharp words too."
and if this government thinks
It had the effect of uniting Amer
icans in active hatred.
If this hatred is intensified bv
new irritations it will have far
reaching effect on decisions made
by the government for those de
cisions, fanned by hate, will be
more active, not more passive.
Vital Statistics
Diverc Decrees Granted
McINTIRE Dorothv from
Lyle A. Mclntire. Plaintiff award
ed custody of two minor children.
S800 gross alimony, S100 monthly
support money, ownersnip of fur
niture and a $205 judgment.
PEARSON Raymond from Al
ice Pearson.
THOMAS Hazel from Charles
W. Thomas. Plaintiff granted cus
tody of two minor children and
$60 monthly support money.
CLAPSHAW - Dale W. from
Ardelle Clapshaw. Plaintiff grant
ed custody of one minor child,
property interest and possession
of personal propertv.
BATES Arthur V. from Nedra
Rae Bates.
ROUTH Burrcll Lindsey from
Erma Aline Routh. Plaintiff grant
ed custody of two minor children
and possession of personal prop-
HALL Edythe from Fred A.
Hnll. Plaintiff rtranta1 ,.,l...!..
lot maiden name.
PHIU.IBER Marria I., from
Lewis W. Philliber. Plaintiff grant
ed custody of one minor child, $50
monthly support money and prop
erty settlement.
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Oak and Kone Street
for a considerable workout from
these same sources.
So far, however, the LaFayette
citizens who sponsored the action
do not seem to be frightened un
duly. In fact they are making
public inquiries, asking who put
the textbook in the public schools
in the first place, and are there
any more like it? It's a good
question .and I hope they get an
answer. I've been asking th same
one in Washington about who put
the Communists on the public pay
rolls, but nobody seems to know).
LaFayette i, a thriving city,
peopled by sound citizens who are
the product of their own public
school, and most residents want
their children to grow up with
the same regard for America that
they have. So they examined a
textbook. A textbook they are
paying for with their taxes, that
is being used by the school teach
ers they employ. I can't question
their right to do so. But a lot
of people do, including the Na
tional Education Association,
which react, with high explosive
propaganda whenever somebody
questions a school textbook.
Local school administrators in
LaFayette were not criticized
when the Magruder textbook was
dropped. Nobody was castigated,
nobody burned at the stake. In
fact, not a single textbook was
burned, although the Chamber of
Commerce can expect to be ac
cused in left wing and other
publications of having done just
such a thing.
It takes experts, of course, to
examine textbooks and determine
if they are written in accord with
the facts of American history.
That is all most parents can ex
pect, or want. But in this particu
lar volume in use in the LaFay
ette school, there are a couple of
statements, one in the form of a
question, that are worth repeating.
For instance, the book asks:
"Why i, the vice presidential
office one of the worst features
of our government?"
I didn't know it was. And it
seems that a textbook used in
public schools might go into some
detail as to why the conclusion
is reached.
Another statement in the text
book criticized by the LaFayette
parents, is:
"The indirect method of elect
ing the president ot the I'niled
States is no longer of value."
If nothing else the author of the
textbook appears slightly opinion
ated concerning these two suh
iects. at least. More people in
tne u. s. are tree to vote for a
president than anywhere else in
the world that I can think of off
hand. We always seem to get
someone elected presidnt, even if
we non t HKe tnem after thev get
in the White House. So it's a
little rouch on Junior and hi,
sister to tell them in a texbtook
anybody's that the way we hold
our elections i, valueless.
Hear Fulton Lewis Daily
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Winter Sreelhead
Migration Said
Above Average
The winter steelhead mieratinn
for the season through Dec. 31 re
mains above average, althouch
trailing the same period last year,
report, Wm. E. Pitney, field agent
in charge of Umpqua River studies.
The Winchester counting station
tallied 329 fish during the period
from Dec. 16 to 31, bringing the
total to 1176 a, of Jan. 1.
Thi, compares with 934 on th
same date in 1945. 1126 in 1946,
1485 in 1947, 1247 in 1948, 489 in
H949 and 1651 in 1950.
Steelhead migration shows a
wide variation because of the
effect of water temperature, rat.
of flow and other factors, it i,
stated. Steelheads stop moving
whenever temperatures are too
high or too low. Their movement
also is affected by flood or extreme
low water. The number of fish tal
lied by the first of the year eivn
little indication of the total run to
oe anticipated, existing records
show.
In 1945. with 934 fish counted be.
fore Jan. 1, the total for the sea
son wa, 6.563. The movement prior
tn Ian 1 .in. M 9 -I ....I
But in 1949 only 7 nercent of th
u ua. x naa it.t, uciluiii Ml IUI3I.
run had been counted by the first
of the year. Last year, on the other
hand, with 1651 fish, a record
number, through the counting sta '
tion by Jan. 1, the total for the
season was only 4,188, making the
Jan. l count 39.4 percent of total.
Pitney', report also lists 1,508
salmon trout counted to date. ih
largest number to be recerded
since studies started in 1945. The
salmon trout run is virtually com.
plete with only two fish observed
over the counting board during th
last two weeks of December.
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