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STATESMAN fafrai. TTedaeadiy I?oTnlBy Jane 12, 1923 PAGE FOUR A" - 7f Faror Sways U$; No Fear SkaU Awe." From First Statesman, March 28, 1S51 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. SreAcuc, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publishers Charles A. Spracue -Sheldon F. Sackett Editor-Manager Managing Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper. Entered at the Potto f fie at Salem. Oregon, as Second-Class Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Business office X15 S. Commercial Street, s Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Inc., Portland, Security Bldg. San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W. Pac Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stechcr, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Ave.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. Anotherl'Silencer Should We Recofimize Russia? XTEWS that American industrial concerns like Ford Motor l onmnamr Psdin Cftrnoratinn of America. General fcJec- trie, Duponts, and others are making contracts involving millions of dollars with soviet Kussia provoices a considera tion of present and prospective policy of this government to rorA nniaia Fnr nvpr ten vears Russia has been the Ish- maelite amonir the nations. Not since the Jacobins of revo- intiAnirv TniTin hantizArl their motto of "Liberte. Egalite, Fraternite" in the blood of thousands of suspected aristo- . crats, has a country been so universally execrated as nas itus ia. The United States for ten years was gripped with ter n loaf Vio twrln nf holshevism find soil on this continent in roanlt Pnasia has heen hated, feared, lied about. Tlamned without mercy. ..-This attitude is very much the product of our war-time hysteria, our spearing of "pro-Germans," sup pression of wobblies, and stifling of liberty of speech under the regnancy of 100 patriotism. The accumulating hate and fury which the sudden suspension of hostilities through broken urxm Russia. Our policy toward Russia was determined very largely on the basis of false and inadequate information, on propa ran4g anri nn false rtnne.d. We can now recall in the per iod through 1918, 1919 and 1920 the recurring prophecies that the soviet government was about to fall Now Kol chak was piercing to success through Siberia, now Denikin from the Caucasus and Ukraine and Yudenitch from Es thonia were threatening Moscow and Petrograd. The United States, which had recognized the first revolutionary gov ernment in Russia within two days, withheld its recognition of the bolsheviks, living in the hope that these rumors would prove true, the usurping communists overthrown and legit imacy, if not of blood royal then of conventional republican principles, be restored. Time passed; intervention failed; counter-revolutions failed; White Army invasions failed; the harrassed commissars rode out the storm, and by blood and terror fastened their grip on Russia from the Baltic to Vlad ivostok and from Archangel to the Black Sea. ' But the United States withheld recognition. More time passed; the Soviets consolidated their power, entrenching themselves firmly in authority, ceasing wholesale murders, revamping their communistic program to meet the exigencies of the time. Twenty-one powers, of Europe and Asia extended "de jure" recognition of the soviet republic and five more "de facto" recognition all the great powers of the world except the United States. The popular support of this policy of non-recognition has been due to abhorrence of the violence attending the so viet revolution and the communistic principles which its leaders have espoused. Yet the traditional practice of the United States has been to extend "de facto" recognition to any new government provided it was in effective control of the state. Thus in Washington's administration Citizen Ganet was received as minister from France regardless of the "legitimacy" of the government he represented. Henry Clay voiced American policy accurately when he said : "Whiterer form of (toTrnment tnr locittr or people adopts, whomever they acknowledge their (OTercign, w consider that government, or that toTereigntjr, ai lb na to be aclcnowledged by u. ... As soon as stability and order are maintained no matter by whom, we hare always considered anil ought to consider the actual as tlit trot government." This policy of "de facto" recognition became the estab lished American tradition. True Secretary Seward deviated from it, but afterwards the policy was reaffirmed and gen erally accepted by American and European powers. Presi dent Wilson's non-recognition of the Huerta regime in Mex- ico on the ground that it was founded on force and violence, marked a radical change and one easily leading to manifold complications. The reasons which the state department has advanced for refraining from entering into diplomatic relations with Russia have been 1st, the charge that it is the active dis seminator of poisonous doctrines ; 2nd, its repudiation of the war and pre-war debts of Russia; 3rd, its confiscation of pri vate property of Americans and American corporations held in Russia at the outbreak of the revolution. As to the sec ond and third points Russia has repeatedly made overtures for recognition through negotiation with reference to these conditions.- Secretary Hughes brusquely refused to nego tiate. At first Russia would acknowledge only the pre-war debt; set. up counter-claims against the United States for damages of our participation in the intervention of 1918- 1920. In October, 1926, Leonid Krassin. soviet envov in Lon don, went so far as to declare that his government was pre pared to drop its counter-claims and acknowledge its debt to the United States in full, if only negotiations were opened. It would seem therefore that the financial differences could be adjusted as a condition to recognition, in view of the re peated attempts of the soviet government to open up nego tiations. , So far as the spread of Russian propaganda is con cerned Cherin, commissar for foreign affairs, addressed President Coolidge in 1923 inviting negotiations "based on the principle of mutual non-intervention in internal affairs." i In other words Russia may feel as much danger from pro paganda from the United States as we do from Russian com munism. Certainly there would be more money available to finance that propaganda from the United States than the reverse.. We cannot but feel that much of the claim of Russian financed communism has been fictitious, a "red herring across the trail." Moscow has been charged with all the misdeeds formerly laid to German spies. The cry of "bol shevism" has been the "stop, thief ejaculation of many in terests seeking to divert attention from themselves. Communism is an idea, an economic poison as we verily believe. But the idea circulates without regard to such ar tificial barriers as non-recognition. There are communists, both tame and violent in this country; and we have adequate laws to subdue their violence. After all, the major defence against communism must be the success of the American idea. Believing in that as firmly as we do, we ought to be equipped, supported as we are by ample legislation, to main tain American institutions without shivers. ... Summing nprnon-recognition of Russia is distinctly- in violation of America's traditional policy in international af fairs. : Non-recognition surely obtains : no money and no promises of money from Russia; it secures no restoration of confiscated properties of American individuals and corpora tions. Non-recognition does not keep out Russian propagan da and gold for financing it, if we are to believe the testimony of the agitated anMnssiansv-;:- B;?- -' Recognition would confonn with American traditions in .international relations J would restort in part at least tb an- "VV Opinions of Clarion County Editors BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS A suggestion S "U Not from President Doney, either: There Is room for amend ment by well to do Salem people who think the special annual prizes given to Willamette stu dents are not sufficiently Inclusive. m It is an elastic list, capable of almost indefinite extension, to say nothing of expansion. It Dr. Mary Hammond says: "Thin women never made history." That is merely a broad generalization. Thin women have made as much history as their sisters of greater corposity. They have merely re quired less room in which to make it. S H "Twenty years ago agricultural thought was focused on making two blades of grass grow where one grew before. Today the prob lem is, What shall we do with the extra blade?" Make it a different kind of blade and be patient. In crease of population will do the rest. The index man on the- Oregon Ian places the broadcasted dis patches from the Byrd party in "Little America," Antartica, with the foreign news. That Is incor rect. That Is America. It belongs to the United States by reason of discovery, and the higher right ef occupancy. Ask any Oregon pion eer about this, who has first or second hand knowledge of the 1844 cry of "54-40 or fight" and the long wait that attended the settlement of the boundary ques tion in 184C. S S Percy Willis and Charier Litch field were boys together in Salem. Percy was possessor tf a litter of fine pups. He had a lot of wood to store away in his father's base ment. His father was Col. Leo Willis, who was also the father of Mrs. Edgar B. Piper, wife of the gifted editor of the Oregvmian, to whose memory it is proposed to dedicate a chair of journalism in Willamette university. Percy Wil lis made a proposition to several neighbor boys that he would pay each ot them with one of his pups, it they would help him put in the wood. Charley Litchfield was can ny. He must have a Btrain of old Scotia in his veins. He took the pup question under consideration, and proceeded to look for a pos sible purchaser of the pup. He found a buyer, and took the job. Now the youthful Percy, when he cient friendship between Russia and the United States; would make surer and firmer the commercial relations be tween tne countries, stimulating trade and commerce in marked degree. Recognition would, we feel, by restoring Russia to the full society of nations, contribute much, to ward its internal evolution on lines of sound economic prin ciples. The re-opening of relations would allay prejudices, shatter groundless fears, promote good will. In the ten years of soviet rule times have changed in Russia too. While still valiantly espousing theoretical com munism, great concessions to hated capitalism have been made. The hot fires of pure doctrine have cooled somewhat. The Russian leaders of today are not just visionary dream ers; they are trying to be practical reformers. Their will ingness to enter into business dealings with these .American corporations so typical of "capitalism" at its worst shows they have thrown overboard much socialistic ballast to lighten cargo. We believe the Russian problem as it affects the United States may be solved under the leadership of President Hoo ver. Informal and unofficial conversations could lead the way and upon satisfactory assurances, formal negotiations entered into. If agreement be reached recognition would follow ;lf not, the status quo would be continued. It may be recalled how butter the Irish question raged in the British isles for centuries ; only to be solved through conversations followed by negotiations. In some such way terms of work ing relations with Russia may be worked out. The Statesman advocates a policy looking toward a reapproachment with Russia oh a basis which will safeguard America yet enable us to share more actively in commercial relations with that great country. We entertain not the slightest sympathy with their communistic program; but we entertain no fears of danger that would come to us through recognition. The United States must face Russia as it is, not as we might hope it to be. On the Aviation Map SALEM should become active in obtaining regular air-mail service at the local airport. Eugene is working hard to get mail planes to make regular stops there. It is contingent upon having a sufficient quantity of mail marked to travel by air. , . The additional cost for air mail is slight only 3c for the first ounce. When the pony express was first started to give daily mail service the charges" were f5 for a half ounce for the full route from San Francisco to the east of $3 just to Salt Lake City. Later quarter-ounce letters were ac cepted for the entire route for $2.50 each. In those, days lovers could send few kisses at those rates.. , ' With diligence Salem ought to be able to provide plenty of air-mail to warrant establishing the service here. Our communications north and south call for. speedy delivery of mail and light parcels. As it is now we must wait for air mail to make the trip to or.from, Portland by rail. Regular airmail service from Salem would help busi ness, and make other letter communication more satisfac tory. We do not subscribe to the postoffice department's i sign: "Air mail a social courtesy But it is a valuable ac celerator, t written communication, t grew up, rose to the rank or colonel in the United States army forces and is now on the retired list and lives In Portland. He Is the owner of fine business prop erty in Salem. Charley Litch field (Charles L.) has long been in the railway mail service. He has now the Portland-Seaside run, and lives In Portland. His son, George Kenneth graduated with the class of 1929, on Monday, and he was awarded the Coloney Percy WUlis prize of $25, which is granted annually to the WiUamette stu dent who shows the highest stand ard of all around service In and for the Institution. Kenneth has ben a tine student, well worthy of the prize and the distinction it confers. There Is another coinci dence. The day of Kenneth's grad uation was the 26th anniversary of the marriage of his father and mother. W In the Bits for Breakfast col. umn a few mornings ago men' tKn was made of the address In 18 54 of Hon. F. O. McCown at the annual meeting of the Oregon Pioneer association, in which he told of the covered wagon immi gration of 1852 and related that the McCown family settled in the Hardscrabble district at what was called Needy, Clackamas county named because of the needy condi tion of the family when it arrived there and unloaded Us scant be longings in a brush patch under a big fir tree. J. S. Vinson was an other Immigrant with his family in the train that brought the Mc Cowns "the plains across." Mr. Vinson was the first postmaster of Needy. Mrs. E. J. Swafford, whose home is at 190 South 17th street. Salem, was one of the Vinson girls. The Aurora colony, r ter it began its settlement at that town in 1858, soon spread its broad acres clear out to the Needy neighborhood, when it had be come far from needy in respect to the necessities and comforts of life. Mrs. Swafford, as a girL at tended public school there with the Glesy children, among them being the present Dr. A. J. Giesy, leading- and widely known physi cian of Portland. w . A Salem scion of old Scotia says dredgers were invented by a Scotchman who let a sixpence fall into the harbor. t h s Also that the Granite City was so called by a Jew who found Aberdeen a hard city to live in. Redtoctas Officialdom About one to every twenty- flv inhabitants of this land U a publia official. There la a call for disarmament in tne woria. The'demand for this is becoming more Insistent, from good citizens aa wan as criminals. Hatred or public officials hat been harbored by criminals, lined or incarcerat ed, or both. It probably has nev er occurred to those nreasonsr ine laws that it they would lire as they should and cease overitep- ping the line they would get their revenge on a large army of the erstwhile enemy. The federal, state and municipal forces would ha materially reduced. Tne criminals. UDboldln- these fel lows in their Jobs, are thanked by beta sent to jsil. Woodbum In. dependent. Tha Talent uwhwi The talent contests started at the Elsinore theatre in Salem last ..v TtiAoA contests were or ganised for the purpose of dis MTerinr latent talent in out-of the-way communities and also to bring about a better community spirit. Last year proved to those who worked so earnestly for the project that their labor was not in rain. At every performance new and clever ideas were manl tested and numbers surprisingly good were given. Tne very iaci that an appearance before a large audience In a large theatre tends t allar all nervousness In future stage work is ample reward to urge the younger generation to take part. Every community in Marion county should avail itself of this opportunity and send a competing representative to the contest. It advertises your town and is one of the many me diums whereby we may sell Ore gon to Oregonians. We hope to see every club in the county on the nroeram and exhort those who have not as yet entered to do a now. Acts of any kind are acceptable and these contests are onen to rounc and old. Hnbbard Enterprise. SO WE ARE FOXY But anyhow, the Statesman Is in better odor in the street bus franchise matter than is the Cap ital Journal. When the franchise was first proposed me japnai Journal lit on it all spraddled out and savagely tore it limb from each. It fairly frothed at the mouth while exposing the villainy of it. Evidently the Capital Jour nal has been "seen" since that time, for it is now using the very soft pedal on the bus franchise matter. , The Statesman, on the contrary, was foxy enough to hold its peaee in the matter until the seeing" was accomplished, and now can consistently, as usual.es pouse the cause of those Interests opposed to the interests of the general citizenship, while grand iloquently pretending to be much interested in the general welfare, and can enjoy with the rest of us the spectacle of the Capital Jour nal franticaly trying to scramble back to its yapping place on the bank after making a small splash and getting its feet wet. Well, probably big advertising contracts are desirable, but the Press gets quite a kick out of not having any nor wanting any. Money is good, but independence and a clear conscience are better to sleep with. Hollywood Press. Here a There: : 1 rta Terse comments on Events, Local and Abroad, in the Cur-. rent News. Radio must serve to develop good win of the general public and not as a direct selling medi ant in the opinion of the coun try's leading advertising experts. When a musical program is un pleasantly intermingled with con stant radio advertising, the list ener soon turns the dial and shuts ont the program and a conse quent bad feeUng toward the ad vertiser. Printed messages con vey the best sales arguments and the radio is only supplementing, never displacing them. The Scotch people of Salem will picnic at the Fairgrounds June 26 and there are bound to be some close races during the festivities. Raskob will continue as chair man of the national democratic committee. He should. Any man who can reduce a post-campaign debt deserves the job. If he could bring about the election of a democratic president in 1932 his would be the world and all that's in it. Nothing in the world counts for as much as a sound body and a clear mind. Willis Freer shot and killed his mother in Portland on Monday and then killed him self. Despondency, a form of in sanity, was the eause. First the mother and then the son felt that poverty threatened them; the re sult was mental Instability. Yet all around the Freers were peo ple who were poorer and more destitute all finding something to live tor. e e e Agriculture must be placed on the basis of prosperity and kept there, says ex-Governor Frank Lowden in addressing the gradu ates of the Unitersity of Oregon. And there the problem is left. Everyone wants agriculture suc cessful and prosperous but ne one' can 'solve the problem any more than anyone can make all professional men ,. successful or bring unified prosperity to the lumber trade. Everyone wants to help the farmer but no one knows exactly how to go about it. Editors Say: STRANGE, WHAT? Wouldn't it seem strange to some of the veterans of the old time torch-light parades for Wil liam McKinley and the full dinner pail and higher tariffs if they should come back ten or 15 years from now to find that group which we know as Wall street and per haps the entire republican party shouting for tree trade? Wouldn't it seem stranger still for some of the descendants of BiU Bryan and the democratic party in its hey day to be found shouting for more and more protection? The gift of prophecy is not In us, but we get a quiet temptation to say that something is going to happen when in New York finan cial publications and the otter, ances of national leaders in fi nance and commerce we find re peated warnings against putting American tariffs too high. But we are finding those rumblings and warnings and they go to indicate that times do change. Here on the coast where we have industries Just budding and resources Just approaching devel opment, we are far from ready to make rapid concessions to the thought that the time has corns even it in pure theory we may ad mit that the time has come for freer trade. Nevertheless, the eco nomic changes that are in the making axe significant. As we have become more and more a manufacturing nation and a trading nation we must have wider outlets for our products. We cannot get far without some ex change of commodities with other nations. We cannot raise tariff barriers indefinitely without find ing other people shutting their doors to what we may want to trade. Changes are coming, changes which may alter pro foundly the policies of great par ties or the poUtics of great num bers of people. The best we can hope for is that they will not come too rapidly. Eugene Guard. WHY NOT "GO THROUGH?" The distinguished editor of the Corvallis Gazette-Times says he hopes the Portland tunnel project goes over. Wouldn't it be better if he had said "goes under?" TAILORED TO YOUR INDIVIDUAL REQUIREMENTS ONLY TWO PRICES 02950 and 03950 Guaranteed AH Wool Fabrics We Gnarmatee to Fit You Allen JJoimes 125 North High St. Senator Hotel Bids;. , Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from-The States man Our Fathers Read June 12, 1Q04 Salem cigar dealers and pro prietors of refreshment parlors are astir over letters received by all calling attention to section 19 SS of the state statute which makes the Sunday open cigar store a violation of the state law. W. P. Drew signed the letters. Between 400 and 500 persons heard the recital given at the First M. E. church by the 30 young students of Miss Beatrice Shelton. 1 A delightful juvenile party was held at the A. W. Mize home in the Liberty neighborhood, honor ing the birthday of Little Miss Katie Mize. The Salem Military. Band, un der the leadership of Prof. Wil lis E. McElroy, will give an open air concert in Marion Square this afternoon. ' - SUBSCRIPTIONS CLOSED WASHINGTON. June 11 (AP) Secretary MeUon announc ed; today that subscriptions for the issues ef 5 1-8 per eent treas ury certificates of indebtedness were closed at the end of business today. - - K Plan Your Vacation (a Y -"A- " T& ' A." TO receive tb i plan it now, tad eajow Too Ota Ctsfy ttrfafy nil 700 TtCStioxi needs hj ratnbiing throset ear X7ak Ask. The ccsact, tour or caxnp wl sag- fagtfl 7 a find d cr 700 ' esssBsstssst) eSssX CsKsVpfltsfiOst ssOvT CsskflXfistS Q23b fhic?trie7sMttM, ft Ss etc, cnxt bet foaod In oar Clasi3e4 Cctansw As! If 700 00 looker wax Jtmt wtttatioti sseeam, a X7t oesa fintsS a buyer tag of four offer. The Oregon Statesman 700 last Ad ia