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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1949)
IF . i t . " i III . 4 Th EtTlf "V Scletn. Oicon, To day,! Aogngt 33. 1843 tefioti -No Tmwr frees THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING; COMPANY CMARf.cn A SPRAOITC Editor and Publisher j: ' I - ! - Catered at the pottofrice at Salens. Oregae, aa eeeea4 clui soatter enderact ef nrree Mare I. ,1171. mblimhed every morning. BoslBese affice SIS S Ce nuserctal, SUem, Orejoa. Telephone Z-2441. Bracer for Britain President Truman's pledge to assist Great Britain to overcome its financial crisis was time ly. Coming on the eve of the" important Wash- ington conference, it puts rocW on which the J representatives of the two nations may stanovj Previously all was nebulous, and there were fears that the conference might end with no- thing accomplished. The president was speaking before the con-r vention of the American Legion in Philadelphia,! a well -chosen forum for presentation of, hii; views on what is the most important issue in foreign affairs at the moment. His thesis was? that "world prosperity is necessary to worldjj jace," which opened the way naturally for a discussion of our relations with Great Britain As he sajd, "all of us" have an interest in the solution of the problems which have gripped, our wartime ally,. 1 . Mr. Truman did not venture any ideas about "liow Britain's dollar shortage may be met. H did say that "we are not looking for trick solu tions to deep-seated problems? That is com, forting, for there is no quick trick that wil work. Unlike his predecessor, Mr. Truman is not skilled in pulling rabbits out of hats. In stating the government's purpose to cof . operate with Britain, the president gave a real bracer to the British who have been quite dowrt In the dumps as they have watched their gold reserves fall to danger points. What may be worked out may prove bitter medicine for them, but at least they have the comforting knowledge that ariend is standing by. The United States simply can't let its political nd business partner, go bankrupt. Our world rch would fall in rubble if that should happen;. - The reaction in thi. country might precipitate the depression whch the Soviets have counted on to open gates for their rise to power. f Now the ministers ofvfirance have a place to start from. Let thm work with zeal and witp. revision. If only we had an Alexander Hamilton to contribute to the conference . . . L Time Makes llie Difference ! "Thousands Brawl at Robeson Concert" read the top headline on page one of the Sunday Statesman. j ? i "In, the light of cold reason, some of those doings under the hot sun of northern California six years ago are all but unbelievable" is the lead on Managing Editor Wendell Webb's post mortem" on the imprisonment of Japanese-Ark- vericanVin wartime relocation camps on page five of the same newspaper. f The relation between the two articles ought to be striking enough to give pause to evejry thoughtful reader. , I What is the difference between the ani Japariese hysteria that resulted In thousands ;bf Innocent Americans waiting in the tules for the war to end and the present-day anti-Red hysteria which is fomenting witch-hunts ahd bloody riots and, worse, the kind of glimmer--eyed hard-mouthed fanaticism that imagines "every Oriental was a spy and every Ieftwinger Is a communist bent on sabotage? It is J dif ference. only of time, of time that cools anger,' drives out fear and reinstates reason in the vadl-. toting minds of men. j i ; The vacuous but self-righteous veterans wjho broke up a Paul Robeson concert (which may Indeed have been a communist rally In dis guise) fancied themselves tha same patriots, who, the Memorial day oratory say, fought! to preserve liberty in this world. They are, how- ever, spiritual kin of the people who prescribed j U.S. Foreign WASHINGTON. r. 29 One By Stewart Alsep conclusion appears reasonable to the traveler returned from a. Journey of political observation around the world. This is that American foreign policy, both in Europe and in Asia, is now faced with failure. The danger is not apparent here, because Secre ' t a r y of the Treasury John Snyder and Other adminis tration advo cates , of busi ness as usual are sitting on the crisis, like so many nerv ous hens, hatch ing ume.DomDS, Stewart A!a0 J Yet it Is impor- tant to try to understand what Is happening. The first danger Is in Europe. Unless bold counter - measures are taken, the British are now expected? to go bankrupt within t the next 6 to 18 months.. This means the end cf Britain as a great power. And this means in turn the destruction of the whole painfully built western front of resistance to Soviet aggression. The British reaction to the threat of bankruptcy is already apparent It is. first, to try to erect an. autarchic economic sys tem within the sterling bloc, in sulated against the United States and the rest of the world. It Is, second, to cut British commit- - menu abroad to the bone. . v ' j . And it Ik third, to make bar ter deals with the Soviet Union and the Soviet sphere. As final bankruptcy approach-. es. these reactions will be Inten sified. The attempt to insulate Britain from the United States , will in itself rupture the Anglo- . British partnership which is the '"strategic basis of American pol- Icy. With British economic and strategic commitments cut much "-ftmert the tenrwe ot British Vv it - ' Swaw Ut, No Tear Shall AwtT First KUUnwa. ptarca H im 3 t I ! concentration camps for Nisei and said only dead Japs were good Japs. I I And the 1 hysteria today is worse than the Unreasonable behavior of many Americans six years ago. j "Indiscriminate, wholesale indict ment of a race" at least was limited to members of that race. Innocent people who did not look like Japanese were not locked up by mistake. The current indiscriminate, wholesale indict ment of a political faith inevitably hits innocent people whom someone thinks is a communist. jj.That does not mean potentially dangerous Japanese-Americans should have been allowed to wreak havoc in this country. Some precau tions were necessary.! It does not mean poten-tially-danger6ua communists those who seek to overthrow our government : are to be left to their own designs! " There are government and military agencies whose duties are to keep tabs on subversives and all the spy headlines in dicate they are doing their job. . It does mean that current hysteria indiscri minate, wholesale actions like riots or ruraor campaigns. against people with whom we dis agree or whom ,w only suspect of being com jnunists or, sympathizers probably someday -will make us feel as sheepish as the nation's treatment of Nisei makes us feel today. It is again a question1 of time: How long will It b before "in the cold light of reason, some of 'those doings under the hot summer sun (of 1 1949) are all but unbelievable ?'' . j Oregonian reporters located Sheriff Mike El liott vacationing at a swank gambling casino jin Nevada. Mike Was the guy who started his term ; knocking over some city 'gambling 5 diggings in Portland and raiding, a roadhousa I where the Fingerprinters were dining. Maybe he found f the casino atmosphere more to his I liking than the A senate committee is now checking General j Vaughan's bank account. If they look at the end of the month and find any balance, It will prove he's an unusual army officer. Secretary of Agriculture Brannan predicts a surplus of eggs next year. What in election year I ( . , ' Editorial Comment Frem Oar Contemporaries . . 1 - Praises Salem Visiting communities of similar names through- out the United State! is not an unusual pastime, in fact, it is quite the practice by those who have a yen for history. If you travel to St. Louis, Mo., over the New York Central lines by way of Indianapolis, you pass through Shelbyville, Ihd., and Shelbyville, III. - The former Is ah up and coming city of about 13,000 population, while the latter is a most attrac tive county seat town of around 6,000. Several years ago we had a most enjoyable visit by Walter Crim, publisher of the Salem, Ind., pews paper, who was visiting all the Salems in the coun try, and (when ha returned, ha published a most flattering article about Salem, Va. Last month Eric Bergman, staff member of the Statesman, Sa lem, Ore; and wift dropped Into the Times-Register office for information about Salem, Virginia, lie was making a special tour of all the Salems in the nation for feature articles on "Other Salems." He said, I of the seven Salems ha had visited thus far. he liked the Roanoke County seat best.f all, and his 1 article together with local pictures was published in the Statesman on August 14, a repro duction of which is found elsewhere in this Issue. All of which makes us feel that with such laud atory articles published about Salem, Va It must be an Ideal community in which to live after alL (JSalem, Va. Times-Register). ? Policy Faces Collapse power, stretching from Hong Kong through Asia and the heart of Europe to the British Isles, will begin; to crumble, finally, the cry for political as jwell as economic deals with the Soviets, already heard on the I British Left, will ! become much louder. One can almost read the edi torials in advance: "Our choice Yank bombers on British soil or Russian wheat in f British mouths. ? . It is British Dower, married to American f pbwer, that gives meaning to all the plans for the defense of Western Europe. From the Truman IJoctrine to the mil itary arid program, the basic pur pose of American policy has been to give Europe confidence, and thus strengthen the? center against the extremes of Right and Left.: Already the cut in MAP. has Weakened this con fidence. Thef disintegration of British power will destroy it at a stroke. , f The result fin France,! i f or ex ample, is suj-e to be a general running fpr cover. JDeGaulle will gain on the Eight, and the com munists on the left, while the center pursues an "understand ing" with the Kremlin on al most any,' terms. The same pat tern holds for all Europe. With Britain dowa, Europe will be come a sort pf mush. The Rus sians, whose! great rearmament effort Is; already nearing com- pletion, Willi need to use, not force, but the mere threat of force to consume the mush. This Is why the best expert estimates appear to be that it wul require ' only about two years to produce another world war if Britain ! collapses as j a great power. On the other hand, the process- which s now going on In t Asia will require a longer time, j although : it I is equally sure to end In war; If it Is allowed to continue Indefinitely. This pro cess amounts to an attempt to create a mew greater East Asia 1 itatesman sherii fs hot seat in Portland. co-prosperity sphere, this time under Soviet auspices. I j : I China is almost gone. The next target is Southeast Asia, which was also Japan's target after the conquest of China was almost complete. After Southeast Asia, the objective is Japan itself, as the major Soviet efforts to train communist shock troops of repa triated Japanese soldiers so clearly suggests. If Southeast Asia goes, Japan should not prove a difficult tar get, unless American troops art to hold , Japan indefinitely by brute fofce. China and South east Asia comprise Japan's whole natural trading area, and eco nomic pressure alone could be enough ultimately to bring Ja pan into the Soviet sphere. With Japan's industrial potential add ed to the great riches and huge population of Southeast Asia and China, and the whole area under Soviet control, a vast upset in the world power balance will have occurred. It is worth re callinf - 1hat we fought a long cruel war with Japan to prevent such an upset in the balance of power. It is also worth recalling that Japan was not a European power, and the Soviet Union is. j - j I All this need not happen. It will not happen if the United States faces the alternatives. The power, the wealth, the energy land the ingenuity of this country fare sufficient to meet and over come the crises now confronting us. One alternative is to make the necessary extra effort, with the realization that this effort I may be like an Insurance policy' which must continue for a long time. The other alternative will be to avoid all effort, and sacri fice, and continue business as usual. And this will be precise ly like grudging the money for fire insurance with a powerful arsonist loose in the district. (Copyright !. Mew York Herald Tribune Inc.) ; ! WHY POM T American Soap Found In South Africa By Henry McLemore KRUKER NATIONAL PARK, TRANSVAAL, South Africa, Aug. 29KSpeci'al)-A few final notes on my trip to this, the world's, biggest wild game re serve: No rich, fat La tin-American ever loved ed his siesta more than do the hippopota-I mi which a- bound in this park. When the sun gets hot i around noon- time they lum-1 'ber out of the water of the numerous "hip-1 po pools" and stretch ; out on their backs and sides to bask for hours. : The main hippo pool is the one place in the park you art allow ed to get out of your car and walk down to the river's edge. But you are never unaccompan ied. Swazi natives, carrying long spears, go along with you in case a hungry lion or leopard de cided he would like to have you for dessert When you reach the edge of the Crocodile river there are hippos basking on rocks about as far as the eye can see. Almost in reach of us was a hippo family. Mama,! Papa and Baby, all sleep ing peacefully, pink stomachs turned to the warm sun. Baby got restless and, in getting up, unfortunately bumped into Ma ma, .disturbing her slumber. She rose " ponderously to her feet, gave Baby what must have been a reproving glance, and tbeq bumped him into the water with her massive head. Then she went back and lay down beside her handsome husband to continue her snooze. The park is traversed by cry stal water rivers but there are signs everywhere warning visit ors not to be tempted to take a swim.; The rivers are literally alive with crocodiles, and you can see them slithering in and out of: the water at certain times of the day. They are the true man-eaters of the park. The rest camps scattered thru- out the park are designed for ev erVeiIfyou want luxury aner a oay ot annua "hunting" you take a big ronda vel with innerspring mattresses, a bath, electricity, etc. If you are not so keen for all the creature comforts you take a small! rondavel, without private bath, and lighted by a hurricane lamp.; And if you want to rough it, there are tents for rent, and if you want to rough it still fur ther you are welcome to curl up in a sleeping bag and go to bed beneath the stars. . All the rest camps have excel lent dining rooms where the food is almost as good as in Johannes burg. But for those who want to "do their own cooking, there are scores of outdoor charcoal grills, with! Swazi servants to light the fires and do the cleaning up. Each rest (amp has a well stocked commissary and it is" strange at night, with the wild animals howling within a .few hundred jaxds of the fence that encloses the camp, to go into a commissary and find all kinds of -American canned food, Ameri can make-up preparations, soap flakes, and almost any brand of . cigarets. t In the 1 evenings at the reat camp : nearly all the "hunters gather around campfires and swap stories of what they have seen! during the day. This cam araderie is carried over to the daytime, too. When you pass a car on the road it is customary to atop and tell the occupants. 'UPS THAT TOUGH LIQUOR-!'' what you have just seen if it happens to be anything out of the ordinary. If I had the time- and money I would make a visit to Kruger National park each year of my life. It is, to coin a phrase, out of this world. (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate Inc.) r j u . v ti Pi! ri rl I l hi RTODQJLO (Continued from page one) it may be sealed by those elections, depending on how they turn out. It might be possible to get the question before the people by an initiative petition, which requires no legislative session,, though it would be a new use of the in itiative to employ it for an opin ion poll, which is all the vote would be. However, I am Inclined to aorM with Jphhi Davidson, as sistant secretary of the interior, who la busy promoting this leg islation. Jebbie scoffs at a ref erendum and says that national as well as local interests are in correct. There is a grave issue in the CVA bill, of general con- 1 cern, mat is wnetner we snau establish government by regional corporattons. The corporation type of administration is in ques tion: also whether the country Is to be cut up into regions with administrations not responsible to the people and so far removed from Washington as to be almost autonomous. California and Ne braska, Minnesota and Texas have stakes in this decision too. This new governmental form was long opposed by Harold L. Ickes, former secretary of the Interior, who testified that it meant a change in the type of government we have known for ' 150 years. Congress is the body that will have to make the decision. An Oregon referendum would be in decisive and partial. Certainly it would be foolish to invoke a special legislative session to in stitute a popularity test In the state on a CVA. QRIN AND BEAR -Net aadj la it a 1 4 1 f-e- . . . It's yean af tymaaate aJJatt yooraeU t U . . State Seeks I 2,000 Eligible For Tax Refund Ray Smith, in charge of the in come tax division of the state tax commission, is trying to locate more than 2,000 persons in Oregon who are entitled to a refund of their, state withholding tax and to determine why 2,500 employers have not paid to the state the withholding tax they deducted from the payroll of their employes. Smith said it is apparent that persons not receiving their with holding tax refund have moved without leaving a forwarding ad dress. Checks mailed to them have been returned. - Total amount due these persons is approximately $22,700 or an average of $11.50 per person. , "Employers who, for one reason or another, failed to report their deductions are likely to discover that the state has some stringent laws which cover the retention of state funds," Smith said. One penalty. Smith said, in volves a penitentiary term of not less than one year nor more than 15 years with a fine double the amount not reported. Other offen ses listed in the code are "lar ceny" and failure to make return as required by law with fraudu lent intent Smith said he is now considering what particular stat- "vr,apply to th delinuent em ptoyer8- Better English By D. C Williams 1. What Is wrong with this sentence? "Never mind what he says." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of inimitable ? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Baricade, baro meter, baroness. 4. What does the word "allit eration" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with ar that means "haughty"? ANSWERS 1. It is better to say, "Don't mind what Jie says." 2. Pro nounca in-im-i-ta-b'l, all I's as in it, a unstressed, accent second syllable. 3. Barricade. 4. Rep itition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words sue ceeding each other. 5. Arrogant. IT Bv Lichtv trriaffto exdtesacai Gen. Vauglian Under Verbal Fire Today By Arthur Edsoa WASHINGTON, Aug. &-UPh Bluff. back-slapping MaJ. Gen. Harry Vaughao, President Tru man's army aide and his friend for 31 years, will be called on tomor row to answer whether he has taken unfair advantage of that friendship, i ( The questions will be put. to Vaughan by the senate investiga tions subcommittee. There pro bably will be a lot of them, for Vaughan's name has turned up every day during the five percen ter hearing. ' Vaughan hasrtt said what kind of a statement : he will give the committee. I But he is expected to lead off with a counter-attack. Thinks He k Target It is understood that Vaughan feels he is a handy target for snipers; who really are aiming at the president The subjects of the questions are expected to range from mol asses to perfume to a race track and to center on Vaughan's rela tions with James V. Hunt, John Maragon and David Bennett. Hunt is a management counsel lor who has said he knows many a Washington official, including Vaughan. Conference Called The committee didn't meet to day, but a news conference was called at Hunt's office. There reporters got a chance to see Hunt's picture gallery of fam ous persons. His pictures most of them. autographed were impressive. President Truman's was there, and so were pictures of 31 senators or former senators and more than 30 house members. Like Wallpaper The 104 pictures covered one wall like wallpaper, and then overflowed to the other walls. Hunt's pictures have been men tioned several times during the hearings, and the implication has been that he used them to Im press prospective clients. Mr. Truman's picture had the handwritten Inscription: "Best wishes to Lt. Col. James V. Hunt. Harry Truman." Given by Vaughan Roger Q. White, Hunt's attorney said Hunt is 99 per cent certain that he received this picture while he still was in the army. It was given to him. White said, by Gen eral Vaughan. Autographed pictures of two members of the investigating sub committee Senators McCarthy (R-Wisc) and Margaret Smith (R- Me) were In Hunt's collection. McCarthy's read: "Sincerely, Joe McCarthy." Mrs. Smith's went: "To Colonel James V. Hunt with the good wishes of Mar garet Chase Smith, 2nd Maine." Mrs. Smith has tried to find out how her picture happened to show up on Hunt's walls, and it has been brought out that some of the pictures were obtained quite simply: Hunt wrote and asked for them. Said White at the news confer ence: "There '. is no secret about any of these. We didn't steal any of them We didn't get any of them at the point of a gun." Farmers Union Greets Farm Bureau Office The Oregon Farmers union Monday welcomed the Oregon Farm Bureau federation which is moving its headquarters from Pendleton to Salem September 1. Ronald E. Jones, Farmers Un ion chief, Issued this statement: --f "From press reports we are In formed that the Oregon Farm bur eau is moving its office to Salem. The Oregon State Farmers union. with offices already in Salem, Is glad to welcome another farm or ganization in this territory. We feel that the need of farmers for an organization of their own is acute and the increased activities of an additional farm organiza tion can .only result in mora In terest from farmers in doing some thing for themselves through co operative effort We welcome the Farm bureau asan aid to the never ending task of bringing bet ter living to the Willamette valley farmers. During 1948 at least one re sident on every sixth American farm had an accident involving one day or more lost from regular activities. : Another Saving Berafiful Fruit ol Lowed Price) Since) Befort the Wcn-!fo Unit. I ! j " - ' . :' 1 ; Jarag Center Stores Salem Yt ML North of Underpass County Jail Overcrowded On Week End The Marion county Jail was comparatively empty Monday af ter a congested week t end that set a new occupancy record since Sheriff Denver Young took office Jan. I, 1945. The record was established Sun day morning when 43 : prisoners were lodged in the jail. Deputy sheriffs were forced to tranlTer one prisoner to the city jail Sat urday night to give him a place to sleep. Monday's count was down to 33. Mobile Blood Center Due The mobile unit from the Port land regional blood center will make a special trip to Salem Thursday night, and men who have been unable to donate blood during its previous daytime trip are especially invited to be on hand. 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