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JtTW Ckitssfagia, Sc1er Oregon, Tuesday Icamarr 11, rcfion festnau "No Favor Sxoays Us, No Fear Shall Atce" From First Statesman, March ts. 1X51 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher I . (Entered at th potto ffir at Satan. Orefan. as second class wifttr under act of rower March a, tBTfl. Publish ; every snornlnc except Monday. Puslnass offioa SIS S. Commercial. Safcam. Oroaw TaieptMa S-2441. MZMBIS Or T AtlOCUTtS PUIS Tfcs Ass la US frail Is taUaa4 exctestTaly U ha m far rr"eUn atiBIM leeal sews frtet4 la Uls i as as as AF aw aisswtckac MXMBXX PACiriC COAST DIVISION OF BUREAU OT ADVTRTISINO ' Advcrtlsinc KapreaentaUv Ward-GrUUta Ca, NwYork. Chicago, San rranctace. Detroit. MiaiBTO AUDIT BUREAU OrlctRCULATKM By Mas (la Advance) By Ctty Carrier orecon Ettewaere in uJJt on month J On month Six snoat On year .IS ISO . CM ores SI monUia . On year A New Secretary of State New Policy? The coincidence of the resignation of Secre tary Marsh" and the publication of an article; by Jay Franklin in Life magazine last week put WashJngtonln something of a tizzy. For Frank lin, who had been speech writer for Truman in "the last campaign, developed the idea that our foreign policy had been imposed on the presi dent through ''organized pressures which threat en to create an American vested interest in world unrest. But now the president, with the, mandate of re-election, would develop his own foreign policy, the core of which was "a new and informal approach to the central problem of peace with Russia. As Franklin claimed to have had "many pri vate conversations" with the president, the piece loos.eu iiu sumemjuig ugiit cut ui ui uw mouth.' A great stir ensued; but very promptly the word was given out by Mr. Truman himself that there was to be no change in our policy toward Russia. He specifically disclaimed the Franklin article, said he had not had any pri vate conversations with the writer, and that the article was wrong in nearly every instance and paragraph. This explains why the senate foreign affairs committee expects to catechfee Truman's ap pointee as secretary of state, Dean Acheson, and why the headlines say there may be a fight against his confirmation. Some seem to be sus picious that Acheson is going to appease Russia. fThe Statesman disagrees with much of Frank lin's thesis, but it would welcome a fresh ap proach in the conduct of our relations with Rus sia. The nations are in deadlock now. That may continue at heavy cost to the United States and unsettlement in the world; or It may be ended. The end may come either by peaceful means or resort to war. Obviously the universal desire is for a settlement by negotiation. Byrnes wearied of the assignment, Mashall was exhausted by it. Now Acheson is named by the president to un dertake it. He ought to have latitude to develop new idea which may lead to a settlement. Ach eson's record shows that be is a man of intel ligence and principle. He is not one to compro mise on essentials. One should not take Franklin's article or Tru man's disclaimer too seriously. Franklin's piece plainly is more Franklin than Truman; but it would not be at all surprising that the president In spite of his high regard for Secretary Mar shall was agreeable to a change in hopes a new man might solve the Russian riddle. Remember, he thought of sending Justice Vinson to Mos cow on a special mission to Stalin. That shows his eagerness to effect a settlement of the east west dispute.' Franklin identifies the munitions interests and the Arabian oil interests as those responsible for .our "gel tough foreign policy, and puts the specific blame on former undersecretary Robert Lovett and Secretary of Defense James Forres tai, because they formerly were investment bankers and "it is a well-known fact that the Investment banking industry has loaned huge sums to munitions makers and the oil industry. This smear has been frequently employed against these able and honorable men general ly by Henry Wallace and his left-handed bud dies. Wallace in his famous Madison Square Garden speech blamed Jimmy Byrnes with tak ing an anti-Russia line; and that was before Lovett was undersecretary. Truman himself laid down the policy in his own I speech propounding the Truman doctrine in March, 1947, when he urged aid to Greece and Turkey as part of a containment of Russian communism. It was Secretary Marshall who proposed the more moderate and constructive plan of European aid which came to bear his name. Though the charges made by Franklin seem to this paper to be false, we hope that the sen atorial interrogators will not drive Acheson in to committing himself and the country into a rigid; continuation of our present policy. We wanf a settlement, an honorable settlement; and believe it can be obtained by negotiation, which is preferable to a third world war. Give the new team of Acheson and Webb a chance to resolve the conflict of ideas which threatens to become a dish at arms. Cutting die Crowing Tip There have been grumblings against Truman's program for a revived and extended new deal, but only grumblings. Republicans declaim against the cost; others point the spurt it gives toward socialism. But no fight against it seems to be organizing. The menace of this so-called "welfare state Is well described in a column by Dorothy Thompson who remains one of the penetrating minds and gifted writers of today's press. Here is one paragraph of hers: This state tends toward a condition in which creative forces are drained out of society and para lyzed within the state; in which those who take no personal risks and suffer no personalJosses become the masterclass; in which the earnings of the "people are expropriated and returned to them (minus a high commission) in the form of services they may or may not want or need; in which independence is discouraged, and docility and emotional immatur ity fostered in the people; and out of which, finally, dictatorship inevitably emerges as social vitality decays and the monster state is bankrupted through the anemia of society. So concerned- have our people come with se curity, with protection against foul weather, physical ailment, lack of comfortable living and hope to provide it not by personal or organized effort but by expropriation, that they threaten to stunt the growth which has made our econ omic development possible. Like it or not, pri vate enterprise under the attraction of high pro fit has been the growing tip of our economic system. Cut that tip with burdensome taxes, political manipulation, social abuse and the tree stops growing. It may live on for a time, but it never reaches any higher. : But as Miss Thompson says in concluding her own: column, all this is just "whistling into the wind" in the present temper of the people. I An 80-year-old Maine man dug his own grave aiM not with his teeth. Acheson Choice Ndt a Policy Shift Ml I By Stewart Abes) WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 In the American government, a new appointment as important as that of secretary or state is like the introduction of a new and pow erful chemical into a complicat ed and delicately balanced for mula. . All sorts of subsidiary reactions are bound to take place. The most interesting and important of the reations to the appointment of Dean G. Ache son will' be its effects on the White House and on the congress. Mrwart Alaop Acheson is dis- i tinctly the ' personal choice of President Harry S. .Truman for secretary of state. In part, of course, the appointment was a consequence of a process of elim ination the choice of Chief Jus tice Fred M. Vinson or of Jus tice William O. Douglas would have . disrupted the supreme court, and W. Averell Harriman's Wall Street background was thought to be i political disad vantage. In part, too, the objec tive conclusion was reached that Acheson, by experience and ability, was pre-eminently fitted for the post. But an even more compelling reason, according to those who should know, was simply that the president likes Acheson .very much personally, admires him greatly, and is certain that he can work with him closely and successfully. This in itself sug gests one change which is likely to take place In the relationship between the White House and the state department. UntU now, Truman's role in the making of foreign policy has been with few exceptions con fined to an almost automatic ap proval of what his secretary of 1 state was doing. This will be so bo longer. Truman has no inten tion of becoming his own secre tary of state. But he does Intend thaVfhe final authority should be definitely and clearly his. And it was largely for this reason tha he appointed as Secretary a man with whom he was certain that a successful i working relationship could be established.! This does not mean; of course, that the basic direction of Amer ican policy wil be altered. Aside from Truman's own testimony and the appointment of Acheson, himself one of the chief archi tects of the policy of firmness toward the Soviet' union, the most striking evidence on this point is Truman's attitude to ward Secretary of Defense James ForrestaL v f Forrestai has been one of the chief targets of those who have been calling on the president to "stop the cold war"! by turning over most of the world to ' the Soviet union. Reports have em anated from these sources that Forrestai will be asked to resign soon after Marshall? leaves. In fact, it can be stated on un doubted authority that Truman has let Forrestai know that he - is deeply grateful for the service Forrestai has rendered, and that he wants Forrestai to stay as long as he can be prevailed upon to do so. I Yet, though the president is in no mood for appeasing either the Soviet union or the admirers of Henry Wallace, the appointment, of Acheson is fortunate for the country, in view of Truman's well known impulsiveness. For Acheson has a. deep and hard earned understanding of the real nature of the conflict between the Soviet union and the west ern world. The president occa sionally seimi tempted to believe that he can resolve the conflict by pulling a rabbftfout of his hat. Acheson knows that he can not, and the president is pretty certain to rely on Acheson's Judgment, In which be has great confidence. I Yet there is no assurance that the successful relationship which seems to be in prospect between the state department and the White House will also evolve be tween the state department and the congress. Two great issues will soon confront the congress. One is the North Atlantic pact, designed to ; form the keystone of American foreign policy. The other is the rearmament of Western Europe, without which the pact will have no meaning. Clearly, both measures will re quire republican support Yet the plan fact is that the bi-partisan basis of 'foreign policy has been most gravely weakened. One reason is simply the immi nent departure of Marshall and Robert A. Lovett, with whom the republican foreign policy leaders, and especially Sen. Arthur Van den berg, have developed an inti mate understanding. By con trast, the relationship between Vandenberg and Achesott. who have had serious policy differ ences in the past, is one of mu tual, but distinctly chilly, re spect. Bi-partisanship has also been weakened by the small-minded action of the senate democrats in reducing the republican rep resentation on the senate foreign affairs committee. This has caused the republicans angrily to suspect that the administration has decided since the election to freeze them out of the foreign policy. In fact, it can be said with assurance that Truman has " no such intention, and that the White House had absolutely nothing to do with the foreign affairs committee action. Even ' so, Acheson will certainly need all his energy and ability to re build and preserve the structure -of bi-partisanship which has been one of the major achieve ments of those great public ser- vants, George C. Marshall, Rob ert A. Lovett and Arthur Van denberg. Cepyflsht ISO. New Yerk BaraM Tribune, Inc. tNTSRy TrlEY. DON'T- HAVE AN "A" BOMB! iChamber Fetes Millar on Visit Golden Pheasant Monday night. The group flew to Salem from Oakland, Calit, to attend the in auguration of Gov. Douglas Mc Kay ana wiu leave for the south today. The visitors included B. A. Olson, president of California Cot ton Mills; Stanley Dollar, pres! dent of Dollar Steamship com pany; Marsh Johnson, Reno car dealer; Fred Maggoira, Oakland appliance dealer and Millar's son in-law, and R. J. Millar, his son. Millar, who is president of Na tional Automotive Fibres, parent company oi uregon Flax Textiles in West Salem, presented Gover nor McKay with a solid gold watcn inset in a tiny roulette wheel. The governor two years ago was toastmaster at a banauet rra.inar gave in saiem. smog Tpmrmrs (Continued from page 1) age assistance), is highly critical of federal matching of state and locals funds, and recommends that when beneficiaries of welfare frograms die, their property be iable to the state for the sum they received. McKay endorses a $50 mini mum, for old age, says that amount is provided in the pro posed budget, and wants to make sure that federal match money is kept. October average (not min imum) including medical care was $49.58. McKay and Hall favor a build ing construction program for state institutions and for higher education. Hall calls attention to building needs of elementary and high schools. Unresolved are yearnings of ci ties for financial relief, and Gov ernor McKay intimates that there's nothing more In the state kitty for local divisions of gov ernment Both messages endorse higher salaries for state employes. Governor McKay lays stress on the need for conserving our nat ural resources: and commands the report of the interim commit tee on highways, of which he was a member, to the assembly. If we are to get the roads we need well have to raise gas taxes or regis tration fees "and possibly both" Is his statement. He seems also to favor a revision of the motor transportation code (trucks) to provide more revenues and re store reciprocity with other states. Milk control should be taken out of the agriculture depart ment, says McKay, "there are a number of alternatives' for its administration. In this he concurs in the recommendation of the board of agriculture. Little reference is made to la bor relations but Governor Mc Kay endorses higher benefits un der workmen's compensation and a "careful and sympathetic re view" of the benefit schedule un der unemployment compensation. Governor McKay walks care fully over the eggs of controver sy, but legislators should not con clude because he doesn't come out swinging in his message that he will be indecisive when con troversies arise. There will be many of them in this session., Rnd McKay will take on his share. With good cooperation between the executive and the legislature, the session should prove a con structive and not a destructive onefor Oregon. , The Safety Valvo Want Names ef T. K,'s Friends To the Editor: The Roosevelt Memorial Asso ciation is trying to get in touch with surviving friends, associates and followers of Theodore Roos evelt, and we need your help. We want the names and addresses of men and women who knew the great "TJt." or in some way felt upon their lives the impact of his personality or .his leadership. They may be former Progres sives, or volunteers for that divi sion of the first World War which never materialized, or scientists, or hunters, Or newspaper men, or neighbors, or people in his audi ences at political rallies, or newspaper readers who rose to his challenge during the first World War. There must be thou- Compensation Act Changes Again Sought A -three-way Insurance bin in volving the state workmen's com pensation law twice defeated by previous Oregon legislatures will be introduced early in the current legislative session. The new bill would repeal the present act approved by the voters in 1813. Employers could Insure under the state fund, private insurance carrier or a self-insurance plan under the proposed new act. Further provision is made that all employes of all industries, both hazardous and non - hazardous, shall be covered by the act, ex cepting only domestic servants. farm labor and casual labor, al though employers may elect to bring these employes under the law. On the effective date of this proposed act all coverage of the state industrial accident commis sion would be canceled. Approxi mately 41,000 employers are now under the act. The proposed law does not make it mandatory upon private insur ance carriers to accept the prem ium offered but on the other hand sands surviving to whom some contact with Theodore Roosevelt is a cherished memory. Will you help us locate them, asking them to send their names and addresses to Theodore Roos evelt House, 28 East 20th Street, New York 3, N. Y.? Your cooperation wil be great ly appreciated. Hermann Hagedorn, Secretary, Roosevelt Memorial Association. Doesnt Like Controls To the Editor: As we hear a lot nowdays about controls for this and that I would like to say a few words to cover my idea on controls. In regard, to rent controls, it might be. ail right if there was any control to it besides talk. We have some good apartments renting around $40.00 on up. Some have pretty good accommo dations, some have a bunch of Junk for furniture. In fact some of it you couldn't sell for Junk, but they are allowed to rent for the .same as a good place. There is nothing done about such things and people have to live some place so they just pay the bill. If the rent control board was really going to do anything this sort of thing would be stopped and people who have these apart ments to rent would have to put up the accommodations they are supposed to or cut the rent. It's the same thing in controls on I anytmng, price controls or wage controls or anything like the government controls. When they put price controls on it was usu ally at a time when commodities had reached the highest price for the year and then every one that was selling that commodity boosted their prices to all the controls would allow. So my way of thinking is that controls just stifle conpetition and keep things up in the place of reducing them to where the common man could live. Now just a line on wages; most every year we who belong to unions meet and ask for a raise and then prices come up and we lose again, and not only that but every time you get a raise you lose more as the government, both state and national, take more for taxes so each time you get a raise you have less, as commodity taxes come up and so do taxes. Ea rl Sharp 62Q Union St the accident commission must ac cept any premium tendered for coverage. The new bill also would repeal the portion of the present law which automatically covers injur ed workmen in hazardous indus tries when their employer has failed to reject the act prior to em ploying such workmen. If an employer has failed to se cure coverage, an injured worker in order to secure benefits must bring court action against his em ployer for injury sustained during tne course or nis employment. Oregon Young Demos Restore 2 Memberships Membership of Mr. and Mrs. Luis Martine-Lally of Salem in the .state Young Democratic club and in the state offices they hold was continued Sunday by the state executive - board of the young democrats. This "action, reported by John Peterson, Marion, vice president of the state club, overrides the ex pulsion order of the Marion coun ty young democratic organization which last week charged the Mar- tine-Lallys with non-cooperation and canceled their local member ship. Ordinarily this type of ex pulsion also cancels state mem bership. Martine-Lally, recently elected Marion county central committee chairman for the democrats, is state liaison officer for the Young Democrats and his wife is a vice president President Robert Davis of Eu gene, at the executive board meet ing, appointed a three-member committee to investigate the local club's expulsion action and report back to a special meeting in 15 days. Both Mr. and Mrs. Martine Lally denied charges of the club here that they were trying to dominate the club and that they had interfered with a Jackson day dinner plan of the local club. Peterson said the board was "shocked at the expulsion action. The investigating committee in cludes Henry Aiken, Jr., of Cor vallls and June Bredenmeyer and William L. Josslin of Portland. Auto Prowler Gets Wardrobe Two Salem residents and a Cali fornia tourist were minus several articles of clothing Monday after a car prowler was at work in the Hollywood district Frank A. Reed, Brawley, Calif., complained to city police that three suits, seven shirts and two pairs of slacks were taken from his car in the 2500 block of Portland road while he and his wife were eating at a nearby restaurant Reed remained, in Salem Monday hoping police could locate the missing clothes. William Bowen, Salem route X, and Lynn Woodward, 2299 State st, reported the theft of a man's overcoat and shirt and woman's coat and purse valued at $197. Clothing was taken from their parked car in a Hollywood district lot Two New Houses Okehed For Candalaria Heights Construction of two bouses. both on Candalaria boulevard was authorized Monday by the city en gineer's office. R. J. Becker was granted a per mit for dwelling at 295 Candalaria Uvd, to cost $12,500. A $9,000 house was approved for Roy Pence at 269 Candalaria blvd. For Inaugural J. R. Millar, Michigan and Cal ifornla businessman, and his par ty of five were guests at an lnfor mal dinner sponsored by Salem Chamber of Commerce at the Millar paid high tribute to the governor as a businessman and personal friend, and declared Ore gon was fortunate in its choice of a chief executive. Johnson, in a brief talk follow ing the dinner, commended the Salem chamber for the "initiative and cooperation" evinced at the chamber's noon luncheon which the group also attended, and Mil- low To Rcliovo BPOKlGEniiftDS Lli Cnocaulslon relieves pcompd y because it goes right to the seat of the trouble a help looses sod expel germ ladea phlegm sod mid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial aaucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsioa with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to bare your money bade CREOMULSION for Coujhs.Chejt Colds, Bronchitis asSa -a "J i ca twrr "" '" ' WCS3 US- 0 la tor free a Batteries for all makee oi Hearing Aids James N. Taft & Assoc Phone 2-4491 218 Oregon Bldg. Salem Bete MONO- AC lax. added .praise, for Clay, Coch. . , ran. C of C. secretary. , Clyde Everett manager of Ore- -gon Flax Textiles,' aided in spon soring the dinner which was un der the supervision of ; Joe Ran dall. -t i . Tobin Asks for More Power TRENTON. NJ. JanJlOHP) Secretary of Labor' Tobin; has made his strongest bid for return of the federal conciliation service to the labor department 1 The arencv. with the rh!f re sponsibility for settling labor dis putes, was taken away S by the Taft-Hartley act j ' The secretary said In j an ad dress prepared for a testimonial dinner for newlv elected Mavne Donald Connelly of Trenton, that his department is neither grasp- ma nor seizisn wnen It requests that all labor functions be brought under its Jurisdiction. j J Tobin. With President Truman's apparent approval, has urged that the 8 let rmifrMi ill it all agencies under one roof. Although loom iauea to menuon tne na tional lahar relatinna Knarvt As sistant Secretary of Labor John W. Gibson argued recently that it should also be included, j Diary cf A Sidewalk Snperinlendenl t .-pi January 11 Anybody looking- for a good man? Looks like my work at Stevens and Son's New Jewelry Emporium Is about over. Knew that when I saw the safe moving- in. It Whenever that happens the personnel can't be far be hind. Glad I stayed this long, though. Gave jme a chance to tell the fellows just how to handle the moving; on such a heavy ob ject (seems like Sid Stev ens safe Is extra - heavy) could he be inside?). Well, I've workjed on some - u of the best jobs in the mov ing business. And Salem's growing so fast . . 1 won't be out of a job an hour I ; y. SAVING MONEY AT SALEM FEDERAL 2revi get 4sW cda&tf Any Amount Any Tim Servo - By - Mail Says At Our Office! j Earn our current 2Vi return on savings 560 Staff Sffrost f ID facing Court House SALEM, OREGON SAVINGS FID! RALLY INSURED i t . i BE SURE TO SEE j New Sound, Bible Centered-Scientlflc Film on iff VOICE OF THE DEEP Sponsoredby Moody Bible Institute Wednesday, January 12th at 7:30 p. m. FIRST BAPTIST GHUIICH Marion at Liberty Salem, Oregon Conscientious, Dignified Hi UUMWUlllfi m$ft mm mm Mi North Capitol TeL S-3S72