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y a The SlqltimK" gofloea, Oregon. Wxbw day, March 3. 193 7fe Fseoe Sways 17. THE STATESBIAN PUBUSHTNG COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUS. Editor and Publisher lfir ef Om The U MtlHd prlated .AF sews alsateees. Jews and the British Who can blame the British for getting out of Palestine? It must be wearing to have to police a country where feeling la so bitter and outbreaks of violence so frequent. Sunday, mines were exploded under a train of sleeping cars, and 21 British soldiers were killed and S3 injured. The Stern gang, a Jewish underground organization, claimed "credit" for the dynamiting and said it was in revenge for bombing of a Jewish center in Jerusalem the week before. Jews are exceedingly bitter at the British for barring Immi gration to Palestine, for herding the intercepted Jewish refugees Into camps on Cyprus. They blame the British also with furnish ing arms to the Arabs, and criticize the British attitude of non cooperation in effecting the partition ordered by United Nations. From a longer view however the Jew ought to be grateful to the British. Under Britain's administration of Palestine hun dreds of thousands of Jews have been admitted to the country, there to establish homes and communities. A reading of the Balfour declaration of 1917 by no means sustains the Jewish claim that the British broke faith with the Jews by publishing the White Paper in 1039. This directed a tapering off and final suspension of Jewish immigration into Palestine Here is the text of the famous Balfour decl aration: His Majesty's government view with favor the establish ment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that - nothing shall be done which will prejudice the civil and religious rights of exist ing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country." This declaration guarantees no Jewish state, and gives specific protection to the civil and religious rights of the non Jews. It was when the Arabs protested the continued Jewish immigration and began acts of violence that the British decided to put limits to that immigration. And certainly there are actual limits to the number of people the tiny country of Palestine can support. As to whether the British are giving clandestine support to the Arabs now it L hard to say. The Jews are convinced they at: but their passions are so mucn aroused mai iney may oe victims of their suspicions. If and when peace does reign in Palestine, and when, as we hope, the Jews may live there in security and dignity a calmer view of history may prevail. Then the Jews may realize they have a great debt to Great Britain, which gave effect to th Balfour declaration for over 20 years and enabled the Jews to establish a national home in the land of their forefathers. Smearing a Scientist The house committee on un-American activities lays a seri ous charge at the feet of an important public official. It accuses Dr. Edward U. Condon, head of the bureau of standards, of associating with alleged Soviet spies. Dr. Condon denied know ing of any association with espionage agents and affirmed his full loyalty to the United States. He is credited with being a top atomic scientist" but the fact that he was recommended for his. present position by Henry A. Wallace, former secretary of commerce, is evidently regarded as a bill of attainder against him. The commerce department, now headed by W. A. Harriman, had its loyalty board review the charges against Condon and found nothing on which to base support for the charges. The Condo rase shows the atmosphere which prevails in public employment in these days. Every one seems to be suspect. Finger-pointing, whispering are used to. destroy confidence in public servants. Some may be guilty of eswisorting with enemy agents. But the majority are not, and those who are innocent suffer grievous injustice to have their characters put in question and their employment jeopardized. There is little in the record of this committee whether under its present chairman, J. Paine 11 Thomas, or its former chairmen, John Rankin and Martin Dies, to show that it has any scruple over unjust injury to individuals. After all the stir and agitation and witch-hunting over alleged reds in government employ it turns out, according to the report of J. Edgar Hoover, head of FBI, that of 84,923 federal employes examined the FBI found reason to suspect only 143 ot disloyalty. Of the 143. investigations of only six have been computed. Of thee two were cleared and four resigned. Four of 143 out of nearly 85.000 persons the percentage of taint is lnf initesmal. Dr Condon should be presumed innocent until he is proven guilty. The fact that his own department is satisfied with his loyalty bolsters the presumption of innocence which is a principle In Anglo-Saxon justice. We can't help wondering however, if individuals are to be subject to persecution without chance of proper defense. how long the government will the highest intellectual quality. Regulation That Kill Puget Sound suffers from state regulation that "has throttled operation of its ferry boat system. Faced with orders for refunds of fares deemed excessive and a rate schedule that yields deficits instead of profits the private company tied up its boats and says It will put them up for sale. And the thousands of people who have depended on the ferries are driven' to all sorts of make shift conveyances: Launches, LSTs, automobile and truck detours to obtain transportation. Regulation thus has served to regulate the operating company out of business,' with Inconvenience and increased cost to the public. There is talk about setting up a state-owned ferry system, but that will mean the state absorbs the loss in operations. Mass transportation remains one of the most precarious of business enterprises. The public demands 'good service, improved equipment, fast schedules,- all at very low cost. Rarely under modern industrial conditions can the company engaged in urban and suburban transportation get enough money to keep up its equipment and improve the quality of its service. Most com muter service In the United States is abominable, using ancient coaches and giving indifferent service. Street buses are newer than streetcars so they are not such relics as the latter usually are. The Puget Sound experience may shock the people into an awareness of the limitations of company finances. The court has ruled that the company cannot be forced to continue In business if its operations are run at a loss and -its resources Inadequate to meet the deficits. The public utilities department of the state which allowed only a 10 per cent rate increase against the 30 rer.cent asked must wonder how smart it was in doing its arithmetic. i ; The-k reakdown-of regulation in Washington state fortunately la not a true sample for the country as a whole. Usually regula tory bodies act, even though belatedly and grudgingly, to give the workhorse feeding of grain and hay before he falls over from financial exhaustion. What happened at Puget Sound may acquaint these public officials with the (financial facta of life and educate the public into understanding that in periods of inflation utility rate structures cannot always remain rigid; From Seattle to Los Angeles in time short of two hours by navy jet planet Why would anyone want to get to LA that fast? Ve Peer Shell Atre" March XI, Uit exchnrely to the ee fee rep la this Mwiwr. m well as en be able to employ scientists of 0GHOOQ8 Tpmrrarsl (Continued from page 1) be considerable- duplication; but the single state board shoo id be the one to keep the new school's expansion under control.' The change had the unanimous recommendation of the curricula committee of the board. However aone of the publicity revealed what the attitude of the chan cellor was. As the chief execu tive officer of the board and a professional educator, his views surely would merit careful con sideration by the board and the publie is entitled to know what they were. The poll of the board on the question Is reported by the Corvallis Gazette-Times as follows: For Herman Oliver, R. K. Kleinsorge, George F. Chambers. Phil Metschan, Henry F. Cabell and Edgar W. Smith: Against Leif S. Finseth, A. S. Grant and Mrs. E. B. MacNaughton. The public is probably disposed to accept the decision of the board. Business courses properly seem a part of study offered In a practical institution like the land grant college. But I do be- Jieve all the schools should put brake on expansion of courses and try to do a better Job with those they are trying to cover. Crippled for lack of funds for buildings, equipment and salaries the schools seem already to be spread out too thinly. It is tune te drive stakes and set boundar ies and devote energies and funds te cultivate the fields now claim ed. The Safety Valve LXTTEU PROM STATESMAN READERS Thinks BiM Orders Universal MiUtarr Traialag To the4 Editor: I see by the paper that George L. Rauch, commander of coast guard security forces for the Port land area, has taken his mem bership from the Presbyterian church over the U.M.T. issue. While the local church has taken no action on the issue, the na tional body has declared against U.M.T. Mr. Rauch is to be compliment ed on his action. If more lay members of the church had the courage of their convictions it would cause the leaders and teachers to search further to see if perhaps they were themselves in error. It is true, and that is as it should -be. that the churches of America and people of America do NOT want war. However, if the leaders and teachers in the churches would study deeply enough in their textbook, the Bible, they would not only know that we will have war, but could name the enemy, could closely estimate the dates, and could give the outcome. Had these same leaders been on Iwo Jima, as I was, and seen men who were not far from raw recruits, slaughter ed for lack of training they would feel that to oppose U-M.T. is an act of sending our boys to an early and unnecessary death. Furthermore, if the church leaders would study more deeply in the Bible they would find that U.M.T. is a command of God to this nation. The Bible specifies that each man at the age of 20 years is to begin service in the armed forces. The same Book de clares this nation to be God's battle axe and weapons of war to beat down the nations. That does not mean that we must be an aggressive people. But it does meeai we shall free the oppressed and relieve those who are vic tims of aggression. This nation's history is filled with accounts of that selfsame performance of sac red duty. The stand against universal military training, taken by the majority of church leaders, is a result of superficial study and of spiritualizing of God's Word, rather than an acceptance of plain commands and promises made to us by the Divine Father. James F. Snook, D.D. Discussion of T-H Act Set Rep. Walter Norblad informed L. J. (Ace). Demers of the Ace Flying service Tuesday that if is my firm belief that the flight training program (under the GI bill) is valuable to us from the standpoint ot national defense and should be continued." The communication was in re sponse to Demers' query to Ore gon's congressional delegation as to the status of current hearings in Washington relative to provi sions under the Gl bill of rights. Demers' query, asking support for continuance of flight training programs, was signed by 58 flying students. Volume of County Work Increases Although the $2,131 collected last month in fees by the Marion county recorder's office is $162 lees than the amount collected ia February of 1347, the total num ber of papers recorded at the of fice has increased at least 10 per cent ever last year. . Recorder Herman Lank said Tuesday that ' February saw a steady increase la real property transaction filings" over the same month last year. s Alexander the Great : is credit ed with introducing onions into Greece from India. GRIN AND BEAR 1 V -Aa4 la the fetare. III broadcasts tf yea it step -MATTER Italy Next? April Elections May Bring Shift in Europe Power Balance By Jeaeph aad Stewart Alsep WASHINGTON, March 3 What has Just occurred ia Czechoslo vakia, and what is clearly in the process of occurring in Finland, may happen within the next few months in Italy. That is the stark fact of which the American policy makers are fully, and agonizingly, aware. Serious as the Czech and Finnish events are, they do not greatly alter the balance of power between the Soviet sphere and the west. Yet if Italy enters the Soviet sphere, the Uni ted States and the whole West ern world will have suffered a disastrous defeat. An Italian elec tion is scheduled I Vk- for April 1. Ital ian politics are LAd volatile and un- premctaDie Yet StMAo as of now, it ap-; ' . J c pears probable that the Communist-run Italian peoples' bloc, which has been gaining rapidly in recent g weeks, may poll weu over e per cent of the total vote. If that hap pens, it will al most certainly be politically impos- 1j sible for Premier f Alcide de Gas- -. pen or any ovner k non - communist leader to form a non - communist : Joerph Alarm government. That " is why I why communist leader Palmiro Togli atti is now reported to be exuding a supreme confidence.' TogliatU's leadership of the Italian communists and their stooges has recently thoroughly justified his reputation aa the shrewdest communist outside Mos cow. All observers agreed last autumn that the Moscow-ordered campaign, of violence had fright ened and alienated a large pro portion of the Italian electorate. But since then the communists have neatly reversed their field. They have assumed again the dis guise of true democrats and patri ots. Moreover, Togliatti has fi nally persuaded his old friends in the Kremlin to join him in wooing the Italian voters. Italy Mlaslee Jailed, Released Thus an Italian mission was sent to Albania shortly after the war, and was promptly jailed on orders from Moscow. Its members have now been released through the in tervention of the Italian commun ists, and relations with Albania resumed. Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito has been equally coopera tive. Seventy-odd Italian fishing boats have been quite illegally seized in the Adriatic by the Yugo slavs (one Yugoslav gunboat even pursued aa Italian fisherman, with machine-gun fire, right into an Italian port). Recently a direct appeal from the communist trade union leader De Vittorio has elicit ed from the Yugoslav dictator the gracious promise that the Italian boats will be returned. Such triumphs of communist diplomacy have been widely ad vertised in the pro-communist Itafiaa press. There have been broad hints that they are no more than preliminary titbits. If the communists come to power, the grand prize, the return of the city of Trieste to Italy, will be forth coming, y Moreover, ' the Soviets, after treating the Italians with open con tempt ince the end of the war. nave suddenly begun to bid for Italian favor. Within the last few dsys they have announced that they are "still" in favor of Italian trusteeship for the former Italian colonies. And last Friday they stated that they were "very much' ia favor of .the return of Italy to the international Tangjers regime. Soch i have bean published with sauch fanfare la the -powerful- pro-communist Ital ian press (which is lavishly and somewhat mysteriously : supplied with paper). The tact that all the other Tangiers signatories, in cluding Britain and France, had three months before signified their willingness to invito Italy back te Tangiers was studiously disre garded. So was the fact that the Soviets had previously tried to grab the Italian colonics for tnem- V " f By Li -yris- yen te leave ear aaaae eat ef year as a crisis !" ' viewing me OF FACT selves. Instead, a riot In British held Italian Somaliland, in which 52 Italians lost their lives, was held up as further proof of west ern imperialism, duplicity and hatred of the Italian people. In this rather squalid game of bidding for the favor of Italian nationalists, the United States and the western nations have few cards to play. If the red tape in which the Maritime Commission is as usually firmly bound can be unraveled, some 15 Liberty ships will shortly be dispatched to Italy, as authorized by congress. But against such minor gestures, the Soviets can still play their ace. They can renounce a portion of their reparations. Meanwhile. TogliatU's grip on Pietro Nenni. Italian Socialist leader, is as tight as Gottw aid's grip, on the traitorous Fierlinger; indeed, the Italian communist par ty is known to pay more than 910 of the expenses of; Nenni's Socialists. The other parties in the peoples' bloc, the Action Party and the Republican alliance, are in like, case. With such tiffht organi zation, with apparently unlimited funds and with the miseries of postwar Italy working in their favor, it is now believed serious ly possible that the communists and their stooges will poll a vote sufficiently large to prevent the formation ef any non-communist government. Then the venal Nenni will be propelled into the pre miership, and the reins of power will stretch back through the hands of Togliatti into the Krem lin, j If that happens and it must be emphasized that it is regarded by those who should know as a wholly serious possibility the whole western position in the Near and Middle East will be outflanked, and the power balance in Europe itself will be disastrously altered. The world will then be close to war. IT COIITEST Ends April 3, 1943 TXF rrr TO TCF 0 32-Piece Set Sterling Silver (Iaternatlesud lrelede er fit I Credit to Apply mm Fatlera ef Year Cfcelee given threegh HARTMAN BEOS JEWELEKS. S99 STATE ST, SALEM 1-S55 World Bicydo Given Thresirh RCOTTT8 BICYCLE SnOP. 147 S. COMSTCKOAt. SALEM FIVE PHIZES EACH OF ONE PAIE KOLLEE SKATES Given at the Above Bleyete Shop SAVE! D AIUl'S CDQT7IIS KOOT BEES, ORANGE. CEEAM KODA. GRAPE AND KOLA OR CXJLAO . SAVE DE. 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That same year Judd enlisted in the army, was re-elected in 1944 while serving in Alaska, and was discharged with the rank of major in 1948. He advocated the uniform coun ty filing fee schedule passed into law by the 1947 state legislature. "1 have always interested myself in legislation to modernize elec tion procedure,'! Judd said upon filing, "and have worked with other county clerks over the state to bring about laws to improve business techniques in office man agemenL" Judd, who has yet to serve a full term in the clerk's office, was born in Canada 40 years ago and came to Salem in 1919. He re ceived his education in Salem school and attended special class es at Willamette university law school. He is president ef the Marion county chapter. Reserve Officers association, secretary of the Mar ion county court house building commission, a member of Ameri can Legion, post 138. state and county bar associations, and of local Ejkx, Mason and grange groups. Judd has been active in YMCA affairs for the past several years. He is married, has two children, ana resides auiTS S. I4th st Hospital Need Gted in Talk Dr. Charles Campbell told the Salem Kiwanis club' Tuesday that 90 per cent of this city's medical profession believed Salem badly needed "one big hospital." Dr. Campbell and Dr. William Crothers, assisted by Jessie Mc Donald, head technician at Salem General hospital, presented prob lems arising from diseases of the heart. Dr. Campbell explained the structure and functions of the or gan, and Dr. Crothers told of re cent surgical developments to combat heart disease. Miss McDonald showed how the heart action could be charted through electrical impulses, using Klwanian Claude H. Post as the subject. Preceding the talks, Mrs. Emily Stone gave several numbers on the flute, accompanied by Alice Crary Brown. Kiwanians wives were special guests at the luncheon in the Mar ion hotel. Horse Disease Increase Slight Oregon state agricultural de partment officials announced Tuesday they had been on the alert for signs of any increase in swamp fever but thus far there had been no serious outbreak in this state. Swamp ever is a sert out disease affecting horses. M. E. Knickerbocker, chief of the state division of animal fcrtuus- try, said there had been some In creases in both the states of Wash ington and California. "Oregon always has had a few cases," Knickerbocker said, but we have so far been successful in isolating them. There now are the normal number of cases." send theta te the address i Tewa T??f! rfl ir-S Ne, Liberty ALliU VWI iWvl Salem, Qre. JbiScapees At Fairview Two boys who had escaped twice within -the past week from Oregon Fairview home were back Tuesday at the institution south east of Salem. This tune they had traveled, by hopping a . freight car. to Albany barefoot and dressed only in pajamas. Attendants told city police that the boys. Kenneth Watson, 13, and Robert Lubker, 14, left Fair- view Saturday and reached van couver, Wash, before being ap prehended. Just returned here on Monday, they proceeded to kick out the wall to their room Mon day evening and make the second get-away, attendants said. Englewobd Girl Wins Art Award Pamela Clayton, nine-year-old fourth grade pupil at Eaglewood school, has won an award in ,M national art contest sponsored by the Milton Bradley Crayon com pany, Dorothy Daugherty, princi nAiiD of nEAnniG Ceme la sad See It! IIET7 IIIIIIATimE S0II0T0HE "S03" Finest "all-in-one" hearing aid ever made. Easy to wear as a wristwstch. Powerful natur al far more economical. ' Sonolone Llcaring Center C, Besh-Breyaaaa Bldg. 147 N. Commercial. Saleea Pheae 21C10 FOR 1 . . 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