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I Tim gfcriman. Salwn. Oregon, WmdxiMdtrr. frY "Ho Favor Sways V, From First Statesman, March 28, 1151 THE STATESMAN PUBUSHINC COMPANY CHARLES A SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher . Member of the Associated rress j The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively U the use for republi cation of all the local news printed In this newspaper, las well as all AF news dispatches. " Schuman Resigns as Premier of France The Schuman ministry in France fell over budget, which often is a stumbling block where concerned. Traditionally they ture and this time the socialists ists left the cabinet, and the vote in the assembly So Schuman resigned No party has a majority in became premier through a coalition of socialists against the communists. The coalition held throiigh numerous" crises, including approval of. the three-power pat for setting up administration in western Germany. It broke ovr the amount that should be spent for the military, Schuman refusing to accept as large a cut in the budget as the socialists wanted. A new government will have to be set; up, of course, and presumably it will be one that the socialists can join in. Though in a definite- minority they hold a balance of poWer and fur nished the premier. (Ramadier) .before Schuman took the post. In view of the critical European situation France becomes a most important country from the western standpoint. Its people, exhausted by war, occupation and liberation, have been reluc tant to adopt strong measures. They fear their Country again would be overrun by armies. In the pinch, of course, France will side with the west, despite its noisy and rathjer large com munist contingent; But much depends on the kind of govern ment that will be set up now in these moments"pf strain over the .Berlin blockade.- Weakness there would be Serious to the western position The Condon Case Again I Dr. Edward IT. Condon is far from being link" in the chain of atomic security, as charged committee on un-American activities. In fact, he; of such value and trustworthiness thaLlb atomij energy com mission has allowed him full access tony atomic information u iiuxy want 10 use. rviiu me complete investigation of the libelled scientist. The San Francisco Chronicle, commenting bn this sober action by the atomic energy people, points out th fact that the doubting J. Parnell Thomas once' declared the Condon case so Important as to demand "immediate attention." Vet, this com mittee chairman tried to keep the full facts fr)m the public .and after his accusations did nothing to bring the case out- in the open so that Dr. Condon might defend himself. The fact that an able American scientist, head of the Na tional Bureau of Standards, was so grossly slandered, so care lessly dubbed a traitor to his country, is bad enough. It cer tainly will not.help the government's campaign to if ill the inade quate ranks of highly-trained men whose skills and ingenuity are vital to the national welfare. j But what is worse is the semi-apathetic way ih which many people looked upon the Thomas committee's star-chamber meth ods. The medieval practice of declaring a man giUty before he has a chance to prove himself innocent is simply not compatible with the American conception of fair play and justice . . . even If it turns out the accused is a Dr. Condon's reputation is the atomic energy commission. affairs committee which stands chain that secures our conception A Delegate Departs Andrei Gromyko. soviet deputy foreign minister, formerly ambassador to thfe country and si a in the United Nations, has gone home. Refusing an interview when he embarked he did tell not return to 4his country. (In this respect he differs from some ether soviet diplomats who "jump ship" at foreign ports to escape recall to the homeland.) His going is not the conventional departure of a foreign representative whose contacts are usually extremely limited in the country to which he is assigned. Representing the USSR in the sessions of the UN security council and assembly Gromyko's face and figure and actions have become familiar to a great many people who have observed the deliberations of these bodies. They recognize him as a man of real force, a fluent speaker (though few could understand his language); but; one of course afflicted with the Russian twist of reasoning. i So far as we know Gromyko's hope of no I return to the USA grows out of no discourtesy shown him here. Its source is probably his sense of being alien in philosophy to the "west where he has been domiciled for several years -alien because ho insulated his mind and his person against the influences of the west. In that way he insured a safe return for himself and family. 1 j Evidently Gromyko is on the rise in the soviet hierarchy. Perhaps he will succeed Molotov in time. Hardened as he has been in the tough school of the old bolsheviks there is no promise that he would meliorate Russian policy. The one expression he made on departing which offers a ground for encouragemen' is his "quote" that the United Nations "must succeed." It "must" but It can't without Russian cooperation. I Truth as Propaganda j While the Ber liners cannot fail to know about and appre ciate the efforts Americans and British have made to fly food to the besieged city despite high cost and considerable danger, one criticism made by the Germans themselves seems Valid. The Americans do not take advantage of such natural public rela tions raw material. A short time ago there was a storyi from Berlin in the Christian Science Monitor. It said the politically-alert Berliners feel keenly that Americans and British are not making the most f their propaganda opportunity to show all Germans the real situation. Intellectual Germans realize that the! AMG's "cul tural magazines" are all very fine, the article goes on, but also they know that Goebbels' tactics of iteration arid reiteration in language and pictures the common people understand was a technique which produced results. j As U. S. planes flocked over Berlin carrying flour and other food supplies to the inhabitants, the Russians tacked up eye catching posters describing grain being destroyed in the United States rather than being sold to starving humanity, and articles depicting Americans as wasteful and inhuman capitalists. Ridicu lous as such statements may seem to us, we must remember that the biggest lies went over best when Hitler repeated them often enough. . J J Now the Russians, after the preliminary groundwork, are going to bring 100.000 tons of bread grains to jBerlin and. sell the food to all comers for the new Russian mark. Of course, they are embarking on this great humanitarian project with the bigjest possible propaganda fanfare, pointing to themselves as the saviors of Berlin, no doubt, and incidentally, boosting the value 01 their unpopular new currency. ft No one would urge Americans to counter with lies. We don't need to. The more potent than any manufactured stories. We telling propaganda there is. And No Fear Shall Avd the military socialists are look askance at military expendi deserted the MRP , four social was adverse. the national assembly. Schuman the "weakest by the house is a scientist LiUienuiai cumiiussiou uuue a communist. - I vindicated Lby the findings of Now it is the ! un-American indicted as a weak link in the of a democracy later delegate representing Rus reporters he hoped he would propaganda lies truth that we have to tell is have the most we should use it. Weather Only Thing Certain In Washington Br Joseph and Stewart Also WASHINGTON, July 20 Since the president's decision to call the .republican congress back to "hoM thlr foot in the fire.-fT k l- . l T safe prediction of what Wash ington will be like during the? coming months. Washington willT, oe noi, na oy iiu uteaxu WI17 in the atmos pheric sense of that word. The hot rage of the f JWpfc Alaop i$ republicans at " ' Truman's special session can is giving a good many democrats a deal of malicious plea suae. Even so, some jof the wiser democratic ,-f heads are already beginning to Ithree months or so the president ;4J will feel like congratulat in g himself on the decision he has just taken. As one of them foil i- "In a I prize fight, un- Jless it's a push over one way or f ho nthxr hnfh t. tiawari Alf if ighters are apt ' "-f- - to g e t hurt.- President Truman is no doubt capable Of giving the republicans in congress a bloody nose, by loudly contrasting their promises in Philadelphia with their forth coming jperformance on Capitol HilL Buf it will be surprising if the republican congress iohal leaders, who are by no means stupid men, do not succeed in administering a number of tell ing blows somewhere near the president's political solar plexus. Unhappy for Both The fact is that in a battle be tween congress and the president, the results are apt to be about equally unhappy for both, unless the president is a man of such stature as not the warmest of 'his admirers claim for Harry S. Truman.) Thus the real beneficiaries of the savage battle which is about to be fought in Washington's humid heat are likely to be those who are! not directly involved in the fight. These include those democratic politicians who are trying to beat the republicans in local contests. Such i local leaders as New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer and " Chicago's CoL Jacob Arvey are delighted with the special session call. This is perfectly un derstandable. So is the towering rage of such men as CoL Robert R. McCormick's fair-haired boy, Illinois republican Sen. C. Way land "Curly" Brooks. Liberal Gets Advantage The case of Senator Brooks is illuminating. His senate seat is being contested by an able lib eral, Paul Douglas, with the backing i of Arvey's democratic machine. Because Henry Wal lace's third party, never averse to electing ! isolationist republicans, is putting a nominee in the field, Douglas had not been given more than an outside fighting chance against the stodgy Brooks. Now, however, Douglas chances look considerably bright er. First, Brooks will be forced to take an uncomfortably public stand on a whole series of issues which are deeply felt In over crowded, price-harried, race eonsciouf Chicago. It is extremely doubtful that Brooks righ wing republican mentors will permit him to take a popular stand on these issues. Other1 Cases Similar Second, while the unfortunate Brooks is sweating in Washing ton, Douglas will be free to build his political fences in Illinois, with the help, of Arvey's ener getic cohorts. No wonder the Brooks blood pressure has risen. And precisely the same sort of situation exists in a number of other cases, as for example be tween Minnesota's Hubert Hum phrey and his republican oppo nent. Sen. Joseph BalL Thus the president's bold move should help democratic candi dates in a number of local con tests in the north. But will it help the president? Certainly it was designed to do so, and certainly it seems cal- GR11S AND BEAR . s H 1 v .At 111 3 4 --v- " - -- - f - - ( 1 Tm a problem child . .what do res do for fan . . .T Dallas City I. Hot days hold bo terrors for DaUaa children, for they march right pool om sao UMjreoie; river, sawwn above are soma mt the hundreds of swimmer vMuag the pool In I ShalU M mtm hm f u m t . - . - Shallow feouaw -. f j'fe Picnic tables, fireplaces aad cool lawns ander qalet shade tree make Ideal aicnlckiar eondlttoas at the 15-acre Dallas city pork. : shown above. In the aackfroand arc some 'mt the maay swinga which provide entertainment for yoonrsters. culated to put4 Governors Dewey and Warren in an. agonizingly embarrassing situation. On the stump, they will be offering the country modern, enlightened gov ernment. Hut on Capitol Hill, most members of their party will be balking! at such measures as Sen. Robert A. Taft's relatively mild housing bill, which most congressional republicans, like Taft's Ohio colleague. Sen. John Bricker, regard as nasty social istic nonsense. I Painful Trouble Likely Moreover although neither re publican nominee is in congress, they will not be able entirely to escape responsibility for what congress does. This means in turn a running I series of conferences between Dewey and such repub lican congressional leaders as the senate's Taft and Joe Martin of the house. Since Dewey and the Revenue Needs Re-estimated Bv Company a- 1 Pacific Telephone and Tele graph Co. placed a new estimate of needed additional revenue be fore the state public utilities com mission Tuesday on the second day of the rate hearing in Salem Chamber of Commerce rooms. Y. D. Teilwright, the telephone company's Oregon manager, said new revenues of $5,042,322 would be required annually to provide a 7 per cenjt return on investment which he said he considered the minimum necessary for financial Stabilization of P.T.&T. On Monday the telephone com pany attorney, Fletcher Rockwood, had submitted $4,123,000 as annual increased revenue sougnt oy tne company, this figure representing a reduction from earlier figures ranging from $5,500,000 to $0, 060.000. The company is expected to con tinue presenting its case for hign er rates during the next 10 or 12 days. IT By Lichtj Park Offers Swimming Hole, Picnic Grounds, ft aloms; the wall ;S,W J' , Lit ,Xf. . ' - - i congressional leaders by no means see eye to eye on all mat ters, these occasions may well be distinctly painful. Even so, Dewey will be able to remain to some degree above the battle. The president cannot. Moreover, the president has clear ly decided to cast aside the states man's toga which he has worn so uncomfortably, and to indulge in some really tough political in fighting. The unedifying specta cle of a long, rather squalid pres idential squabble with the con gress will scarcely add to . the president's stature in these times. For more is involved than the political fortunes of Harry S. Truman. And the savage bitter ness of the fight which the pres ident has now initiated can hard ly contribute to the unity of the country, as the grim crisis abroad continues to grow more grim. (Copyright, IMS, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) William Iwan, Veteran Salem Fireman Dies Capt. William (Billy) Iwan, 71, retired Salem fireman, after over 40 years service with the local de partment, died Tuesday at a local hospital. Ho had been confined in the hospital since January, 1947, ex cept for a few weeks in Juno, 1947. He resided at 2352 N. Front St., prior to his hospitaliza tion. , Iwan was born Jan. 17, 1877 at Silver City, Idaho, and in 1888 moved with his family to Eugene. In 1900, he came to Salem and was employed by. the city street department and was also an on- call-man" for the fire depart ment at that time. He became an active employee of the fire de partment in about 1905. Ho was appointed assistant chief of the department about IS years ago. He served as acting chief of the department between the resigna tion of Chief Harry Hutton and the appointment of present Chief W. P. Roble. Iwan held memberships In the Extra Numbers Listed for Calls If anyone needs the Salem fire police department badly, and the regular number (2-4191) is not readily available, he can now dial either "operator" or 116, it was announced Tuesday by 1 At Berg lund, Salem manager of the tele phone company. j The 116 outlet Was added for emergency calls only, Berglund explained. Persons using that num ber (or calling "operator") j should eive the address where the emer gency exists, and the operator will then reach the required number. GroupQoses ffighway.To ur The state hisjhway commission returned late Saturday after a 3,000-mile tour of eastern and cen tral Oregon where they inspected a number ox road improvement projects now under contract, some newly finished roads, and project ed highways. j - . Board members declared that while a lot of new road construc tion Is required in different parts of the state many of the existing heavily traveled highways are hold up well. m . - to: down to the old swimming bole for small yeanaaiers to enjoy the ?! Everybody Is la and It seems fine at the Dallas dty park swTaamtag hole, shown above. The pool was made by members of the Dallas Kiwanls club 20 years ago. (All photos by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer). Summer Heat Evaders Troop To Improved Dallas Gty Park . By Don DOl Staff Writer. The SUtun DALLAS, July 20 Sunday picnickers and swimmers from the mid-Willamette valley have come to know about Dallas' city park and, accordingly, flock to it these hot summer Sundays. Hundreds of persons take advantage of the many cool-shade trees, hospitable picnic tables and the inviting waters of the swinuning pooL Located in the northwest section of Dallas on LaCreole river, the park has been a part of Dallas since 1884 when about 12 acres of land which had been used as a Christian church camp grounds was deeded to the city by Ellen Lyle, a member of a pioneer Dallas family. Provisions in the deed still allow the Christian church to hold camp meetings there, but it seldom does , any more. Little was done with the park grounds for the first 30 years, but in 1918 city fathers allotted S50 per year from city funds for the upkeep and improvement of the grounds. At present a I mm tax levy supports the park and its many improvements. In 1928 a croup of Dallas Ki wanis club memtrs journeyed to . Silverton to look over that city's swimming pool, went back to Dallas, rolled up their sleeves and built a pool right in the LaCreole river, making one of the finest swimming spots in the valley. Much of the work on the park in the early days was sparked by John R. All good, and he is still vitally interested in the park's progress as chairman of the Dsl las park board. Other members of the present board are L. J, Smith and Carl Gerlinger, jr. In recent years an adjacent walnut grove was purchased and a bandstand built. Fireplaces and tables, running water and gar bage disposal can make the park ideal for picnic Swings, teeter- totters and other pUythings make the park popular with young sters. And on really hot days with large crowds there is even an Ice cream man vending his wares, adding a little more color to a colorful spot. Elks, the IOOF and the Ancient Order of United Workmen and at one time was assistant state fire marshal. He was unmarried and is sur vived by two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Snyder of Spokane and Mrs. Henry S. Folkes of Salem and by two brothers, Robert B. Muths of Alameda. Calif, and Charles; R. Iwan of Portland. Announcement of funeral Ser vices will be made later by the Clough-Barrick company. - mr"i1 mm mm -V Vie .. 1 their dty park and Its swlmsaiBg each week. At the rlcht are beys a W . iter. I,' Bean Harvest To Jump Farm Labor Demand Demand f6r farm labor, now in a lull, is expected to increase next week when the bean harvest opens in about 2,600 acres stretching from Woodburn to Stayton, the Salem employment service office reported Tuesday. It is expected that the need for pickers will be critical again about August 15 when the bean peak is reached and early hops begin. The office reports a record acre age in both beans and hops mis year. Most bean yards have camping facilities and the Salem farm la bor camp can handle another 12S families, the office said. Picking price on beans will be 2V cents per pound with one-quarter cent bonus. The word has already been spread out to. the nine western states that about 6,000 harvesters wiU be needed in the Willamette valley early next month, the lo cal office said. Ofo So 2e OPTOBI Formerly How Lcnalcu al 167 So. Oihli SL Poucr iill:r ; cf a IInndrc3 Uzzz PLOW. DISa n ARROW. culUratinx Strawberriea, j Orthxrci and ricrttry Stock. Hurry Wklk Tity Last : 335 N. Liberty SL PuniDer Unit Turned Over lowest saiem Thq city of Salem j Tuesday turned over a 500-aallon DuniDef unit to West Salem tor use. t 1 ! - : ' 1 1 Th unit was acquired recent- i .3 i ly b Salem Fire; Chief ;W. P. Koblel at an office of civilian fense surplus sale -In Astoria, and , win pe put into A-1 condition this Week by West Salem ; work men. h .Mayor i Walter Musgravo of I West iSalem-said that dry Is now arranging for purchase of 800 feet of high pressure hose tojbe used jwith .th pumper. West $a lem'sj tity council wiU be asked to ape?rovo the acqulstion of the additional hose, Musgrave stated. - Thf pumper is already equipped with iabout 250 feet of 2-inch low pressure lino which was test ed by Salem firemen Tuesday. Heeded i to put the! pumper j in good (operating condition are two new jtirea and tubes and spark plugs! for' the Chrysler' engine which operates the Hale pumping mechknism. j j 1 v ThI unit will be towed! beh nd a West Salem street department trucki It Is capable of pumping 500 gallons a minute from a tire hydrant i or from any stream or ditchJ through its suction intk . The auxiliary pumper will be used I in .r cases when Salem : ire equipment may be held up by heavy traffic over the West Sa lem bridge. Salem engines were held up five minutes last wek while on their way to a log fire in Wjest j Salem, Musgrave poirfted OUt. j I I - M ' - - Until Tuesday West Salem 'vas without fire equipment. The Sa lem (fire department furnishes fire protection to the city fee qjf $3,000 . annually. new! parties spring up: Knbw Nothings, Greenback, Populist, Progressive, and now the Dixie era ti and the Wallace New pirty. In prewar France there Were many parties too many : fori ef fective government j I , I The trouble with! the monilith is that it is too rigid. It haj no cushioning to absorb shocks. When it crumbles It falls j In a heapl In rld i composed of human j be ings) whose pattern of ! thinking varies the monolithic state raust crush out any deviation from the accepted pattern, j : . j ' Tfce . comment Is offered hat Russia's present trouble with its satellites is due to the difficiilty of Ijjnposing its single win on old natipnalities. Yugoslavs will be Yugoslavs and; don't want to! be Ruslan4 Czechoslovaks flee their natii- miintrv ratHir than endure thejmonolithic authority. : There' is strength and durability in a concrete structure, but . it needs the more sUpple steel to bind it firmly. Thd political mon olith Is not an enduring form It shatters under shoik. A political organization must have Joints whrire ; shocks may be absorbed; and the larger the society the broader! must be the Joints. The United . States shouldn't : get too far j from its old principle of ed eratiorU The political monolith Is a menace to fundamental hi slcr DpLnp; irclal ftUnliaw rmtr In one oneratlonJ Ideal fdr Casia Derrieav IIopovlFralt J t if!-! CpeciaJ Tcnai If WtntcjJ spicncnls'bii! j fhoneflZS for iiu-' ' ' wm 1 we 1 ; : i . I Continued from page 1) .'If' Li ilaC Cesanv jFlllM No. ComX. I raea S-1TM j gale-. Orot- - . 1 "I . , ,1 IV. I 4 : rV4iVi OftteaJ Caw I
