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tp-The Stcrfe3nan. Salem,' Oregon.' lvfon&gyy Tun 23. 131? Tol erance Of Pafesmatt RED NEf WORK - r "No Favor Sways Vs. No Fear Shall Awt" Frees First SUtettu, Marc It, 151 THE STATESMAN PUBUSHING COMPANY CH.air A RPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher Entered at the estofflee at Salem. Oregea. at see si class matter eader ad af HDtrtM March J. 1171 rabllk4 every irnlnr. Bealne e-fHce Zl S- C umcrelaJ. SaJe. Qw- xeiepnwie z-wi .From the "Middle Way" to Ingsoc J An appraisal of contemporary European so cialism as a "middle way" to a future of greater Kii;tv mnri a rviw nt "an indignant and mm mj w . v- - y - . prophetic novel" about an imaginary socialist super-state in 1984 are featured in last Sunday's New York times magazine and book review sections. It remains to beseen whether the economic and political stability toward which modern socialists aim is the forerunner of the horrify ing totalitarian vacuum described in George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," but specula tion that it might is justified. j In his article, British Laborite Francis Wil liams sees European socialism as an absolutely essential element in European stability. We points out that the areas in which stability has been maintained despitepostwar troubles and communism are the countries where socialists are strongest; Britain, Norwary, Sweden, Den mark, Belgium, the "Netherlands and Luxem bourg. France and Italy are unstable because the socialist parties there are weak and divided and do not act as an effective balance between extreme Right and extreme Left. The rising strength of socialism is due to the general postwar leftward swing in Europe and the demand for economic and social reforms by workers and peasants. However, there lis no formal or integrated European socialist movement comparable to the communist inter-, national. Socialist parties are constitutionally and organizationally completely independent' of each other, Williams says. But they are linked by common principles: they work for greater equality of incomes, social services, na tional control of banking and basic industries. They seek these changes through parliamentary means and aim to combine economic socialism with complete political and religious freedom For the most part, they reject the Marxian be lief in revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat. f George Orwell in his biting satire implies that this benevolent welfare state must eventually deteriorate into awful bureaucratic dictatorship. The government becomes so concerned about the (well) being of its citizens that it must observe and direct their every thought and action from the cradle to the grave. In 1984 the world is divided into three giant super-states Eastasia, Eurasia (Europe ab sorbed by Russia) and Oceania (the British Empire swallowed up by the United States). Oceania is controlled by an Inner Party which comprises 25 per cent of the population. Every one el.se, the "proles", lives in complete slavery. Patty members are eternally watched by the Thought. Police through telescreens that Can never be avoided. The English language is transformed Into Newspak, a bureaucratic jargon designed to kill all independent think ing or "thoughtcrime."rhgsoc Is the News peak word for English socialism. Permanent war between the super-states is the .necessary condition under which the proles slave away for the party in the continual state of emer gency. m "Nineteen EightyrFour" dramatically shows "the meaning and the means of society which has as its single aim the total destruction of individual identity." The sober article by Williams points up how American democratic capitalism is cooperating with Europe's as yet mild and middle-of-the-road socialism to check a greater evil, commun ism. Orwell's book is an urgent warning that the end does not justify the means when, , to fight the destruction of individual freedom by v communsim, the weapons used also threaten to destroy liberty. effectively spoken. More Oregonians will come to know him personally when he enters state service as general secretary and administrative assistant to Governor Douglas McKay on! July 1st.! McCall comes of distinguished ancestry, as has been brought out in news reports of Jus appointment. His given name comes from his grandfather, Thomas W. Lawson, distinguished financier of Boston, once styled a "copper king" whose book "Frenzied Finance" caused quite a commotion four decades ago because of his ex posure of the frauds of high finance. His paternal grandfather, Samuel Walker Mc Call, was governor of Massachusetts for three terms and congressman from that state for seven terms. His parents for years have oper ated a ranch in central Oregon near Prineville. McCall, Idaho, gets, fits name from the same family. . v j . Young McCall however doesn't have to capi talize on his ancestry. He has done very well on his own. After graduating from the; Uni versity of Oregon (it's a good endorsement that his former classmates apeak highly of : him) McCall worked on the Bend Bulletin, the Mos cow Idahoan and the Portland Oregonian. He served in the navy and after the war engaged in radio work. His interest in politics spurred him to activity among Young Republicans; and now he is called to handle a very important as signment in the dual field of politics, and government, the keylposition of the governor's general secretary. Clearly McCall is a man for Oregonians to observe. Ban Picketing of Courts In front of the federal courthouse in Foley square. New York City, pickets parade; daily when court is in session. They are communists or communist sympathizers picketing the court trying the 1 1 top communists, presided over by Federal Judge Medina. Apparently in disgust at this picketing of a court of justice a committee of the American Bar association is asking congress to enact a law banning the picketing of federal courts. The court being picketed might hail the pick eters before it and cite them for contempt, which is their) obvious purpose; but in cases of labor or political controversies a judge is reluctant to do that lest he be accused of prejudice. If a case growing out of this type of picketing ever got to the supreme court it would bump into Justice Murphy's opinion in a labor case in ' which he upheld picketing as merely the exer cise of free speech, f It may be free speech, all right; but it Is de finitely intended to obstruct the judicial pro cess. It assumes the; defendants are not getting a fair trial; and the parade seeks to build up an atmosphere of intimidation and coercion in their behalf. - The Foley square picket line is not the only one that has covered the courts. The San Fran cisco Chronicle tells of a picketline of 200 men who picketed the federal postoffice and court house in that city, to picket the ninth circuit court of appeals. That certainly was contemp tuous interference with the work of this court, which ranks Just under the p: S. supreme court. The bar association'ssppeal to congress should be acted on with1 prohibitive legislation. A newspaper couldn't get away with provoca tive comment during a trial such as that which: appears on picket placards; nor should these gentry with the sandwich boards. McCall Comes Jo Capitol j Most Oregonians who know Lawson McCall, know him, as does this editor, only as a name and a voice. We liked him very much when he did newscasting on KEX at the 10 o'clock spot before the Richfield reporter moved over from KGW to crowd him out. His broadcasts were informative, intelligently assembled and The superintendent of the Oregon Temper ance league predicts that in five years Oregon wil be a dry state, f He's much too optimistic; in ;the present social climate a dry state would stijl be wet Rotary International has long had as a slogan "He profits most who serves best." The con vention in New York has dropped it because of fear the word "profits" might be misconstrued. What they doing frying to appease Russia? rv Commies May Ruin Count By Henry MeLemer DAYTONA BEACH, June 1 When and if tills country goes under It is my guess that toler ance will be to blame. The Uni ted States is crazier about toler ance than a miser is for gold, a chorus girllor furs, or a fish for water Our country has become so ob sessedwith the belief in the dig- 4 V McLfwi the rights of the human being that almost ev erything else has been shoved to the bottom counter. T h e r e is no such thing as moderation any more. And there must be mo d e r a tion, even in toler ance. At least, that's the way I feeL ' The U.S. is bending so far backward to protect the rights of other people thai it is swiftly reaching the point inhere it does n't take care of its own. Honest to goodness, it wouldn't surprise roe to see the Government allot more to taking care of the Cana dian side of Niagara Falls than our side. Why? I don't know. It seems to me that as Americans we should get the best deal from Washington. If there is going to be any quick play with the cards, why can't we have it? If it is all right to say that the 'people of Upper Graustark should have a loan of $5,000,000,000 to im prove their agriculture, what would be wrong in giving a simi lar amount, or ten times as much, to guarantee that the thousands and thousands of Americans who can't read or write, and who do not have a decent place to" sleep, have a chance to learn, and a chance to live in even semi comfort? Ever take a look at certain places in New York, Detroit, Birmingham, and well, name almost any city you want to? You'll see Americans ' living in places a dog would not like to live in unless he had six paws to hold over his nose. If you have seen them, then you'll won der why American money has to stray so far from home Remem ber, too, that if we have to fight again the boys from those places will be called just as quickly, and Just as relentlessly, as those from Yale, Harvard or Princeton. The way we coddle Commun ists is enough to make a strong man sick. We hire lawyers for- them. Judges are patient and gentle with them. We do everything but pay their cab fare to the court house. And Communists, mind you. say they hate this country, want to destroy it, want to do anything they can to break it down. In my book, they should be shot. Let them admit that they are Communist?, and five minutes later let their comrades claim their bodies. But this country won't do this. Itf is so tolerant. It wants to go down in history as the nation that was beaten by being too fair. . If something isn't done to halt this trend there'll come a time when there'll be an open season on the President. It will be the right of any man to take a pot shot at the occupant of the White House between the months of October and April. The gunner will be able to say that, under the right of the human being to think, say, or act as he pleases, he was justified in letting go a shotgun blast at the President. Too, there'll be nothing but the best of defense counsel for a man who decides to take up the poi soning of wells as a hobby, or the handing out of bubble gum with a dynamite base to grammar school kids. The chances are that if this comes to pass the poisoner will get off with a sus pended sentence and a stern warning from the judge that three more such, performances and he will be allowed to escape to his native land. These must come a time when tolerance becomes a menace. The U. S. is about to reach it. 480,000 Mine Workers Due Back on Job PITTSBURGH. June !Mr-The nation's 480.000 United Mine workers arexpected back In the pits tomorrow.'' John L. Lewis, UMW president who ordered a week-long "stabil ization" walkout last Monday, flashed the green tight ' to his miners in 'telegrams to district lea ders. Full compliance was ex pected. The miners will work only five days before quitting afrain. On June 25 they begin their annual 10-day paid vacation. The get $100 vacation pay. Last week's walkout was the second Lewis has called this year. Last April he ordered his UMW dues payers, to quit work two weeks to protest Dr. JamesH. Boyd's appointment as director of the federal bureau of mines and to memoralize miners killed and injured in 1048. Both walkouts were called un der a contract provision which says the miners work only when "willing and able." That clause already has come under attack of operators as they seek to renew the contract before it expires June 30. The miners aren't expected to work if a con tract isn't signed by the time the vacation ends. Traditionally they adhere to .ajDO contract, no work" policy. Last week's walkout didn't hurt the nation's economy There's still a lot of coal above ground. The Why of the Hospital Drive (Editor Not The Salem Hoipttal Development Program calls for the raising of fl.loe.MS la the Salem area. The campaign It now la progress and will be brought to the general public within a few weeks. (To inform the public of the local needs for hospital facilities. The SUUa- i will give space for a daily "Question and Answer." were used to their fullest extent. Reference to this authentic case is not intended to be a re flection upon the quality of hos pital service but does point to the inadequate hospital space and equipment now available to the people of Salem. This condition should be cor rected at once. By contributing to: the present campaign for hos pital funds, this can and will be done. (If yon have" auestlona yon want answered, write to the hospital program headquarters. US N. High St. or phone 2-1S51. If you have experienced difficulty la getting hospital accomaaodaUons tell the program office of your experience.) Here's today's question: QUESTION (to local citizen whose name is withheld): Tell us your experience due to the overcrowded conditions in Sa lem hospitals. ANSWER: Not long ago, my wife was stricken with a severe heart attack. It was impera tive that she receive Immediate hospitalization. Application was at once made to both hospitals only to find that every bed in both institutions was occupied and that no more patients could be admitted. Three days later she had a second attack. The doctor for bade her to even try to lift a hand lest that be too much exer tion. In the home of the patient, facilities for caring for a sick person were such as might be found in the average home and adequate for cases of minor ill ness, but not for a patient so desperately ill and completely immobilized. It was seven long and tortuous days of constant efforts on the part of the attending physician and myself before a hospital bed could be secured. & When space was finally made available and the patient admit ted, the services rendered by the nurses, attendants and manage ment were above reproach. Un der this excellent care, the pat ient recovered sufficiently to be discharged at the end of the sixth week. Such facilities as the hospital staff had available It is time Americans said that no matter who much we love the rest of the world, and no mat ter how much we want to help all living creatures, there are such do. McNaught Syndicate. Inc. China Moslems May Hold Red Army grin and bear it ByLichty By James D. White AP Foreign News Analyst . SAN FRANCISCO. June 19-(P)-AI1 plans for a stand against the communists in China rely on the Chinese Moslems to hold the great northwest. Who are the Chinese Moslems? Will they! fight? It seetns they already have fought a small engagement with the Reds. It happened near Sian, ast of normal Moslem territory. The Reds say the Moslems were off-base. Someone may have blundered into it. as the Reds have a long record of leaving the Moslems strictly alone. This is natural, as the Moslems of China are .tough customers. There probably are 20 million of them. This isn't much in a coun try of 450 million or more people, but the Moslems, by all odds,! are the most determined minority , In China. This goes for politics a well as religion. About half of them live scat tered throughout all China. The other half of the Moslems out number other Chinese in the northwest provinces of Ninghsia, Kansu and Tsinghai. There they run things themselves.. , Or rather, government in, those areas for a long time has been the monoply of a family named Ma. The word means "horse" in Chinese but the n.'.rr.e comes from that of the prophet, Mahomet. The "big horse" ued to be a warlord named Ma Chung-Ying. but four of his c-umhs squeezed him out in the early thirties. They still rule the roost in the northwest.. They include Ma Hung-Kwei H (now known as the "big horse"Tr who governs Ninghsia with the aid of his brother, Ma Hung Ping. In Ttinghai a distant cou sin. Mr Pu-Fang. ' is governor, and also has a brother, Mat Pu Ching, who is the local rio. 2 big horse. ? . Between Ninghsia and Tsin ghai I sth narrow? province of Kansu. through which runs the old silk road to Europe. Ma Hung-Kwei and may Pu-Fang alternate in taxing the corridor and divvying the take. As pro vincial governs they pay nom inal allegiance to j the Chinese central government, but decree their own. laws and remit taxes to the capital only when and if they deem it advisable. When the Chinese reds limped up through northwest China on their long march 13 years ago, the Ma cousins refrained from rub bing them but. That would have been easy, and in accord to Chiang Kai-Shek's; urging. Pos- . sibly the Ma boys were wary from feuding with cousin Ma Chung-Ying. just unseated as the "big horse.' Possibly they saw the Reds as a nice cushion to the east against Nanking's persist ent gestures of authority. The Reds settleddown next door in Shensi provmce. There was sotne, trouble attirst about Ma Hung-Kweis troops desert ing to the Reds. Ten years ago the Reds began building a small Moslem army, but it seems to have petered out. Since then little has happened. The Reds let the Moselems alone and vice-versa. , -Big horse" Ma Hung-Kewi's present importance is this: His people will fight for him if out siders attack. He could be sup plied to an extent by air from south and west China, if these hold against the Reds. The Reds know this. Better English By D. C William Warren Asks States Form , Health Plan COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 19-(P)-National health in surance will be the only answer if the states can't or won't set up their own medical programs, Gov. Earl Warren of California .declared here today. Warren, last year's republican nominee for vice president, will head a round table on social secur ity and welfare as the annual gov ernors' conference gets underway here tomorrow. For the first time since their defeat last November, Warren and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the GOP presidential nomi nee, will meet face to face here Tuesday, when Dewey heads up a discussion of intergovernmental relations. This will deal largely with efforts of the state? to get a large slice of overall tax receipts. Warren made it plain his sup port for a national health insur- o n rA nlan tvViiVH mi far Kim of rAAm things as Americans, who like to I with ome of hirepublican col lue just as much as other folkheagues is contingent on the states' J. What is wrong with this sentence? "The man, as well as the boy, were hungry.'" ; 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "replica"? , 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Govern, southern, brethern, modern. j 4. What does the word "mut able" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with, sap that means to place"? i ANSWERS i 1. Say, "The man, as well as the boy, was hungry." 2. Pro nounce with accent on first syll able. 3. Brethren; 4. Capable of change in form, qualities, or na ture. "Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and mver the same." Emersen. 5. Supersede. re- n- i Vf.t.r- tii-'-H?-' n ,.z-?r -s j i failure to do the job themselves. He did not specify whether he backs a national plan such as President Truman has suggeseted or whether be would support a grant-in-aid program such as Sen ator Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) has proposed. '"The area of Norway is 124.558 square miles. Plant Seizure Clause Due for Test in Senate WASHINGTON, June 19-P-Senator Douglas (D-Ill) insisted today that the Douglas-Aiken plan for government seizure of struck plants in national emergency labor disputes has "a good chance" for senate approval. The test may come tomorrow. The Illinois senator maintained his view despite: 1. A private prediction by a top senate democrat that the proposal sponsored by Douglas and Sen. Aiken (R-Vt) is doomed. The sen ator who made the forecast favors the plan. 2. A contention by Sen. Taft (R-Ohio) that his counter-proposal to retain the Taft-Hartley law's injunction provision against such strikes will prevail. Taft has claimed that about 16 of the senate's 54 democrats will vote for his plan. He expects only four .or five of the 42 republican senators to ballot against his amendment to the Truman ad ministration's Taft-Hartley repeal bill. "Yes, I know all about that." Douglas said, referring to Taft's estimate. "But 1 still think we have a good chance. I am not worried." Newest Drug Used to Fight Heart Disease PHILADELPHIA, June lMfl The University of Pennsylvania announced today the development of a new drug which doctors say has been- used to bring about de crease in blood pressure. Penn's school of medicine said the drug, technically known as Dihydroergocormine, was develop ed by four university physicians engaged in the drive to combat heart and circulatory diseases the nation's number one Ttiller. The university announcement said the drug, developed from a fungus which sometimes grows on rve and other grasses, is In jected into the muscles and tem porarily lowers general blood pressure. The doctors added that the drug is not recommenrieu for routine treatment in high blood pressure cases, explaining that its effect is only temporary. But, they re ported, the drug is an "important step toward the development of an effective therapy for the treat ment" of high blood pressure. Girl's Arm Found Inside Tiger Shark PERTH, Australia, June 19-;P)-A fisherman at Broome, northwest Australia, caught a 9 ft. tiger shark. Inside the sharlc was the arm of Kathleen May Passaris, 22, who was attacked by a shark five days earlier. Miss Passaris was swimming in 5 ft. of water. The shark tore her arm off above the elbow. Miss Passaris, a beauty contest winner, is in Broome Hospital. The shark was hooked by O. Davey of Broome. FLY UNI TED up and back the same day to ponnAND On SEATTLE -TACOH A! Lv. Salem i 8:35 am Lv. Seattle . 7:30 pm kr. Portland . 9:05 am Lv. Portland t 8:40 pm Ar. Seattle . .10:20 am Ar. Salem ; 9:15 pm low fares. (Standard times shown.) Past, convenient nights to California and "all the East.' 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