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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?
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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.
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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-
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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.
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County Qerk
Harlan Juidd
Files for Vote
Marion County Clerk Harlan
Judd filed Jus candidacy for re
election Tuesday, on the republi
can ticket.'
Judd was deputy, county clerk
under the late U. O. Boyer for 12
years prior to his election to. the
office ia 1940. 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."
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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
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