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t Ruler of the Queen's Naveee-ee ft Ml -s INEA Jerrlce. IC EDITORIAL PAGE IIXGRANDE OBSERVER TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 29, 1959 ; "Without or with friend or foe, we print your daily world as it goes" Byron. . PTTBUBHED BY TBS X OR AND PUBLJBUINU COMPANY RII.EY D. AU.EN Publisher GRADY PANNELL Managing Editor GEORGE S. CHAIXIS Adv. Director jum HUMJis .. Circulation Mgr. Two Boondoogles Drop Dead The 1959 lesfiHlature. which in its wisdom decided jt knew more about liMi iway construction priorities than the State Highway Commission charged by law with the job turned out to be a con s siderably less than red hot planner. Good planners, at least the good plan j ners we have known, don't push projects i unless they are feasible. The legislature passed a bill providing for financing of two projects : j 1. The "bridge to nowhere" across : the Columbia river at Astoria. This was a particularly ill-advised idea, the law passing after a giant crab fowl and bus and booze party given to members of the ! legislative assembly. 2. . The improvement of highway 42 in southwestern Oregon. This was put j lover by a housewives lobby from the i Oregon Coast. And what happened to the two projects? Well, the first is illegal, the state's bond attorneys have just ruled. The legislature, without consulting the state of Washington, said the bridge could be built if Washington would pay half the losses. Washington wants no part of such a scheme. As a result the whole shebang will have to wait to see if the 1901 legislature is hungrier and thirstier than its 19.r9 counterpart. And the second? It's legal, all right, but the sum involved in the project is so big that it will take ten years to do the job, far more than the housewives thought. i After this the legislature had better leave highway planning to the Highway Commission. One Country-One Defense Force IJ 1 1 it 1 i 1. , . I: 1 . O J . t juore evidence nas oeen gamerea mat the armed services should be merged, j ' The House Government operations committee has sent a report to the presi dent asking for more studies to de ,'termine "whether the merger of the ;Army and Air Force would be the best course of action." The report should Ihave taken the more direct approach by I advocating merger. Studies already ;made have shown that such action is -called for, at least in the field of missile ! development. 1 By he very nature of weaponry do velopment today independent action by .separate services has become increasing ily hazardous and costly. In the past the ; services have been able to adapt various i weapons to specific missions; today the i reliance, has shifted to missions being adapted to the weapons, particularly niis ! sites. I Entire missile systems have been made 'obsolete by continuing improvements and research. Competing systems are ad vanced by the Army and the Air Force until they have either nullified each other or been succeeded by a more deadly system. It is this duplication and waste that the committee wishes to eliminate. A first stop will be merger of the Army and Air Forces; ultimately as weapons continue to develop into a single striking force, the Navy and Marines can be brought into a unified command. With our growing investment in mis siles this unity of services becomes im perative. In former fighting days the services could promote a weapons sys tem relatively inexpensively. If the system was made obsolete or abandoned for some reason, the cost to taxpayers ranged in the thousands to millions of dollars. Today, if missile planning goes awry, the cost ranges into billions. Grim Reaper Claimed Death Record I Last month set a grim record on ' Oregon highways when 62 persons were I killed In traffic mishaps. ,', The Grim Reaper reached into 31 ' Oregon communities in claiming the highest number of monthly traffic fa Italities on record. ' Union County was no exception, as two persons died in road accidents and several others were injured. County Natalities were both teenage boys and both of La Grande. Despite the great death toll for the month of August, fewer persons died oft Uhe state highways this summer than last summer. . - . But the Department of Motor chicles is not too proud of these figures. Au gust's death boxscore is officially in the record looks and it's a mark they hope will stand as a permanent record, never to be topped. Barbs A budding love affair is what often blossoms into the blooming expenses of these davs. When you talk too much you're less likely to be considered as good as your word. The modern girl, says a stylist, shows distinction in her clothes. And some times, distinctly. DREW PEARSON SAYSi Nikita 'All Wet' On Theory Of What Makes America Tick WASHINGTON Explaining his famous remark, "We will bury you," before the National Pth. uud. NiKita Khrushchev mn. tended that feudalism gave way iu mo oeuer system ol capital ism, and capitalism then gave way to me oener system of Com munism. He also advised Amer ican newsmen: "You should read as well as write." I followed Khrushchev's advice I went out and read the "Com nist Manifesto" published in 1848 uy Kan Marx In collaboration .vith Friedrieh Engels. both of whom Khrushchev Quoted nrt both regarded as the fathers of communism. Their "Communist Maniiesto is the Bible of com munism. lhe Manifesto is about the same length as the Republican party platform, and reading it convinced me that Mr. K is all wet. In the first place, the Unit ed States has already adopted the majority of Marx s manifesto. In the second place, Khrushchev, on one vital point, has become a de serter to the Marxian theory. Mark taught that the proletar iat could not emancipate itself except by breaking all the chains of bondage, by reconstituting the whole of constituted society. "The day of German resurrection will be announced by the crowning of the Gallican cock," he proclaimed. Mr. K, however, has become a traitor to Marx. He announced that communism and capitalism would "compete." He deserted the Marxian doctrine of revolu tion. If the capitalistic system is able to give people more than the communistic system, he said, I will be the first to come to you and ask for a job for which I am fitted." This statement should make Karl Marx turn over in his grave. Uneasy Republicans A comparison of the Commun- st Manifesto with the way the United States has followed it would also make many stanch Republicans of the 1900's turn over in their graves. And it might give present-day Republi cans political ammunition against the Democrats who incorporated most of the Manifesto s main points of Marx's Communist Man ilesto and how we have or have not followed it: 1. Expropriation of landed pro perty and the use of land rents to defray state education no feudalist state ever existed in the United States, so no land has been expropriated until recent ly to build highways, hydroelec tric projects, and civic improve ments. However, most state col leges get their revenue from the leasing of government owned land, as Marx advocated; while Texas follows the Marxian doc trine by using revenue from tide- lands oil for its schools. 2. A vigorously graduated In come tax our income taxes are graduated up to 91 per cent Soviet Russia's go up to only 13 per cent. 3. Abolition of the right of in heritance American estates above $66,000, with some excep- ions, are subjected to a gradu ated inheritance tax, going up to 77 per cent. Soviet inheritance taxs are piddling in comparison. 4. Confiscation of property of all emigres and rebels this re fers to the flight of royalty and aristocrats from European coun tries. No such flights have tak en place from the United States. On the contrary we have become a haven for refugees. 5. Centralization of credit In the hands of the state credit has long been loosely centralized under the federal reserve banks. It was much more tightly central ized during the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. A 1 1 banks participating in federal de posit insurance are also guaran teed up to $10,000 which probab ly goes much farther than Marx ever dreamed. 6. Centralization of the means of transport in the hands of the state all transport in the USA rail, water, air, highway is regulated by federal agencies. Some cities, such as New York, own their own subways and tran sit lines. 7. Increase of national factor ies and means of production, cul tivation of uncultivated land, and improvement of cultivated land the soil bank, first proposed by Henry Wallace, sometimes considered socialistic, has taken land out of cultivation and there fore .run counter to Marx. The TVA, Bonneville Dam, Grand Coulee, the Panama Canal, and Navy-Interior Department own ership of oil lands go along with Marx. 8. Universal and equal obliga tion to work; organization of in dustrial armies especially for agriculture this was aimed at the then large idle class in Eu ope. The desire to work is the general fact, rather than the exception in this country. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, not exactly socialist, recently proposed a youth army to work in rural areas; while the Senate last month passed a bill reinstat ing the Youth Conservation Corps. Armies for agriculture are or ganized every summer in the south to harvest crops in the north, and Secretary of Labor Mitchell recently closed a Cali fornia camp because it was unsanitary. 9. Agriculture and urban indus try to work hand-in-hand so as to obliterate the distinction between them TV, radio, good roads, the automobile, motion pictures, have practically wiped out differences between our rural and city popu lations. Mechanization has also changed the percentage of farm population from around 50 per cent in the 1900 s to around 17 per cent today. Main Street and Fifth Avenue now think, dress, speak and act alike. JO. Public education of all chil dren; abolition of factory work for children; education and ma terial production to be combined free public schools, with com pulsory attendance, have been the fact in the USA for over a century. Child labor laws have outlawed work by children There are vocational high schools in all industrial states. In addition, this country has gone far beyond Marx's Manifes to in providing old age pensions, workmen's compensation, unem ployment insurance, protection of workers against industrial haz ards. All this has come about by peaceful evolution, not the viol ent revolution advocated by Karl Marx. And while some Am ericans don't agree with all this program, it has been voted by majority rule, so they abide by it Maybe Nikita should apply for that job before he goes home. GIVE m fx i X ..- mmm THE UNITED WAY When you make your one big pledge to your town's united campaign,' you are actually giving to many campaigns in one. Your one contribution fights disaster and disease, works to prevent Juvenile delinquency, and cttacki the problems of the aging and the breakdown of family life. Middle East Boiling, Trouble Is Breaking Out In Two Areas By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Staff Writer Trouble once more apparently is brewing in two states of the perennially troubled Middle East In Baghdad, the "moment of truth" may be approaching for Iraqi strongman Maj. Gen. Abdel Karim Kassem.. Reports from Beirut tell of a new ''palace revolt" against youthful King Hussein of Jordan Both have in them the seeds of far-reaching consequences. Reports of the trouble in Iraq come primarily through the Cairo and Damascus radios of the Unit ed Arab Republic, and tell of mobs -demonstrating in Baghdad and four provincial 'centers against the executions of 17 anti Communist leaders. The Cairo and Damascus broad casts are significant because they appear to mark the end of an un easy truce in the war of words OBITS United Press International ROME Noted archaeologist Msgr. Giulio Belvederi, 77, a friend of Pope John XXIII, died Monday. BRIDGEPORT. Conn.-Sylvanus Locke, 88, founder of the Locke Steel Chain Company died Sunday at his home here, it was learned today. KASSEL, Germany German racing idol Rudolf Carriacciola. 58, died Monday in a local clinic from a liver ailment. U.S. Support Of World Refugee Year Falls Off, Churchmen Say By LOUIS CASSELS UP Staff Writer U.S. church leaders are unhap py about this country s failure to give effective support to the world fugee year. Although the refugee year be gan nearly tnree momns ago. they say, America s contribution so far consists mainly of pious talk. Churchmen had hoped that the United States would set an exam ple for the rest of the world by aking a generous financial con tribution and by providing thou sands of immigration visas for refugees. This hope was based on the fact that the U.S. government took the lead in organizing the refugee year. It co-sponsored with Great Britain) a United Na tions resolution calling on all countries to make special efforts between July 19, 1959 and June 1960, to relieve the plight of millions of homeless people who are still huddled in refugee camps Europe, the Middle East and sia. Both Congress, in a resolution, and President Eisenhower, in an official proclamation, have issued ringing endorsements of the aims and purposes of the world refu gee year. Didn't Act en Legislation But Congress adjourned last eck without acting on legislation admit refugees to this country. And the administration Is current- displaying reluctance to make the full 10 million dollars U.S. fi- ancial contribution which Con gress did approve. At the rate we are going, U.S. participation in the World Refugee Year will be practically nil," said the Rev. R. Norris Wilson, direc tor of Church World Service. "It is a very sad spectacle." Wilson's organization is the Ref ugee Relief Agency of the Nation al Council of Churches, in which 34 major Protestant and Orthodox denominations are represented. Msgr. Edward E. Swanstrom, executive director of Catholic Re lief Services, also expressed keen disappointment. Vernon E. Bergstrom, director NEWS CHUCKLES United Press International BRIEFS THE COURT LOS ANGELES Municipal Judge Parks Stillwell's court re convened Monday after the noon recess and his honor told those present: "The Dodgers are winning, 3-2. Meal is on first, there's one out and Larker is at bat." Then he looked at an attorney in a petty theft case and said: "Counsellor, you may call your next witness." PARISH CONGESTION LONDON The Bishop of Southwark complained today that too many cars are parked in front of parish churches. "We often have a couple of heavy suitcases and it is a help if we do not haw to park too far away," the bishop said. He is searching for a remedy to the sit uation. of the Lutheran Refugee Service, said there is "no excuse for our government to fail to act in this matter." Bergstrom urged that church members get in touch with their Congressmen to demand "effec tive'' refugee legislation as soon as the new sessions meets in Jan uary. Still Expresses Hope The Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr., dean of Washington Episcopal Cathedral and chair man of the U. S. National Com mittee for Refugees, said this con cern about the situation is re lieved only by "the hope that Congress will hustle a refugee bill through early in the next ses sion." The refugee bill which got lost in the adjournment rush was sponsored by Rep. Francis E. Walter (D-Pa ), chairman of the House Immigration Committee. It would allow European refugees to enter this country on "pare'.e" a status which allows them to ap ply for permanent residence after they have been here for two years. Although it fixes no nu merical ceiling, sponsors said it would pave the way for admission of about 10,000 refugees a year for the next several years.- It ran Into strong and stubborn opposition from two members of Walter's subcommittee. Reps. Mi chael A. Feighan D-Ohio, and H. Allen Smith (R-Calif.) Walter felt it was futile to try to push through the bill in the closing days of the session with out a unanimous subcommittee behind it. between the Kassem and UAR President Gamal Abdel Nasser that Iraq finally is falling wholly into the hands of the Communists.. Advocating Overthrew Radio Damascus said that Baghdad demonstraters chanted "Let Kassem follow Nuri." Nuri was Nuri As-said whose mutilated body was dragged through Baghdad streets in the revolution which overthrew the the Iraq monarchy. It meant that UAR propaganda QUOTES FROM THE NEWS United Press International ; JACKSON, Miss. Mary Ann Mobley, last year's Miss Ameri ca, after abandoning plans to be come a school teacher in favor of stage career: "I still hope to get my degrei from Ole Miss: maybe I'll attend summer school there sometime." JACKSONVILLE. Fla. Lt. Cmdr. Morgan L. Davison, 37, aft er spending 12 hours in the eye of hurricane Gracie in a Navy hurricane hunter plane: 'She is the worst hurricane I've seen all season. MILWAUKEE, Wis. John Roseboro in the Dodger dressing room commenting on his sixth in ning homer that represented the winning run auainst the Braves: "I swung with all I had. There can't be any bigger thrill than this one." MILWAUKEE. Wis. Hank Aaron in the Braves dressing room after losing the first game in their National League playoff series: "We'll take back before." 'em, we'; bounced U. S. Scientists Show Photograph From Outer Space WASHINGTON lUPIi- Scient ists today proudly displayed the first photograph ever taken of the, earth from space. The admittedly crude picture was taken by a television cam era aboard Explorer VI, the Pad dlcwhcel satellite, at an altitude of 19.530 statute miles and a dis tance of 23.000 miles from the scene photographed. Scientists and officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the picture covering a broad crescent-shaped area of the Central Pacific, proved the feasibility 0f TV exploration of the moon and planets Space experts also reported a! an NASA news conference that i !42-P0,1l satellite launched Aug. 7 has discovered a new. narrow region of highly pen etrating particles fairly close to the earth. -This and the previously re ported radiation zones (in realitv one field- of varying intensi ties appear to be no bar to" space travelers of the future. -Micrometeorites. none larger L ;1" " Clgare,,e ash- red 5 7 "lnxPorer VI between Aug. 7 and Sept. l. s IhLraii(llett hrprs camera couM T easiiy , , R useful storm and cloud cover pic tures f.om a weather station outlets once more were advocat ing Kassem's violent overthrow. These controlled outlets would not repeat such sentiments unless they followed closely along the lines of official thinking. The 17 men executed in Iraq were convicted of playing a part in last spring's abortive Mosul re volt in northern Iraq. It is a sec tion of Iraq known to be most sympathetic to Nasser's brand of Arab nationalism. In fact, Iraq's foreign minister in an interview with this correspondent in Bagh dad last spring, blamed Nasser for fostering the revolt. The UAR will not be alone in watching the trend of events in Iraq: Communism Not Involved The Cairo and Damascus re ports say Kassem is thinking of reviving the Communist-influenced popular resistance forces" to deal with the violence. If he does so, he will have gone far toward meeting demands which Western diplomats last spring said would De tne measure of Communist power. Those demands were that he ca-ry out death sentences passed oy me people s court and that he arm the people", srjecificallv. the popular resistance forces. lommunism is not involve! in the reports of new troubles for Jordan s King Hussein. In May, in a move to become his own man, Hussein threw out his long-time premier, Samir Ri fai, and appointed a man of his own choice and thinking, Hazza Majali. Both Rifai and Majali were friends of the West, but Rifai was notably anti-Nasser. Hussein has moved closer to the UAR regime of late, and Rifai and Hussein's autocratic mother, Queen Zein, are said to have joined forces to restore the old order of things. REMEMBER WHEN ... 25 years ago the La Grande High School Tigers drop ped their season opener to a )eefy Walla Walla High eleven, 13 6, practically "blowing the ;ame" on a razzle dazzle play hat fizzled and gave the visitors lossession of the' ball that led .o the clincher TD. A series of talks was being nade at various civic organiza ions by Major Andrew Looney, r of the Salvation Army; mean while, a Rally Day was called for iy Protestant churches of La jrande, with plans mapped by he Methodists, Lutherans, Bap .ists and Presbyterians. . Almost 300 persons attended he farewell party given at the J3S church for Miss Mae Bean vho was leaving on a mission to London, England. ... 15 years ago Calais fell to he Canadians in savage Europ an Theater of Operations fight ng. The OPA chief announced a 20 raint cost for butter that was n the food rationing program in .he United States. An attendance record of some !.000 persons marked the annual lorse Show here under auspices f the Mavericks' Riding Club, three hundred horses were ent 'red in the show, with M. M. ?hristenson, president of the Mavericks, Fred Gutherie of El lin and M. J. Goss, Horse Show chairman, appearing on the pro rarn. Miss Melissa Parr was in troduced as show princess.