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4 The Sfrrt" Salem, Oregon. "So Favor Sway$ Us, No: Fear Shall Awe" torn First SUttnu, March". 151 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY Chari.kr a SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher Entered at the postoffke at Salem. Published every saeraing. easiness offico 215 S. Commercial, Salem, Follow-Through on Kid's Day There's a sort oi annual revival of interest in the problems of underprivileged children; It begins shortly before Thanksgiving and has its climax on Christmas. All of a sudden organiza tions start worrying about kids who won't have turkey at Grandma's next Thursday and little boys and girls who know darn well there ain't gonna be no Santa Claus lor them. Then come the announcements in the news papers that some veterans group is going to sponsor a mouth-watering Thanksgiving din ner for a few dozen handpicked have-nots;: that some women's club is preparing Christmas bas kets for needy families; that some sorority is having a rummage sale for some charity; J that the firemen or cope or a union local are going to. repair cast-off toys, and so on. These worthy endeavors are fine as far as they goTThey are the traditional way of doing things. They make the donors feel expansive and they assure that the youngsters get at least one good meal and some playthings or clothing they might otherwise not have had or can hock for some thing they need. But such seasonal charitable activities are pretty haphazard. They lack follow-thrOugh. They don't pay much attention to the other 363 days of the year when the underprivileged kids ought to be eating, too. Now Kiwanis International goes one step further by initiating various community pro grams on National Kid's Day which, appropri ately, came on Saturday just as the seasonal charitable agitation is starting. In an attempt to focus public attention on the problems of less fortunate children, the big service club proposes that the problems are local and must be solved on a community basis. Specifically how com munities go about their efforts on behalf under privileged boys and girls is up to the local Ki wanians. In Salem, a Kiwanis announcement urged parents to plan some joint activity jwith the kids and take them to church on Sunday. It is certainly true that in many cases the , problems of the underprivileged are everyday ' problems, not just Thanksgiving day and Christ mas day problems. Providing turkey and mash ed potatoes twice a year or asking parents to take the kiddies to Sunday school come nowhere near the crux; these measures are, at best, well meaning stop-gaps. Perhaps the best way to make our point is to note that on this Kid's Day there were some 3, 650 breadwinners in Salem looking for jobs. There's where the day by day problems of the under-fed, ill-clothed, poorly-housed children begin. It's pretty hard to have cranberry sauce ; and a Christmas tree when the head of the if am ily is unemployed. And that is, indeed, a local difficulty. That's c why Salem service clubs, veterans and women's groups would go a long way toward solving the problems of underprivileged children if j they . could work together on a way to alleviate the seasonal unemployment in this area. Four Trials of Interest With four trials of nationwide importance ' either just getting underway or about to begin, maybe the sex news will get crowded off page one. Certainly the public's interest in the two big espionage cases will revive as Alger - Hiss and Judith Coplon take the stand again. Tor the second time. Hiss, accused by a former communist agent Whit taker Chambers, ,will try to clear himself of charges that he passed state department papers into communist hands. He Malenkov 4 Heir-Apparent ' to Stalin By Joseph and Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 Cer . tain signs and portents have sent the experts in ioreign owces au over the world rr-m--". icnrr ying for rryyX':, I their inteUi- Yl ; gence files on a I V!- v . i Muat. plump J 1 man with'; ,tV' heavy, saturn-- , . ' In features. A (IIS U wno now ftcriua I i r ; the most likely I I 1 successor to jo- if v set Stalin " Jurpfc AI dictator of the vast Soviet Empire. The most cogent evidence of ) Malenkov's new ascendency was the fact that he was chosen to deliver the November 7 speech commemoraiing the Russian r e v o 1 u t ion. Since the war. A. A. Zhdanov and V. M. Mol- etov have been chosen to per form this task. when their stars seemed bright est. Zhdanov's star has been f im i n m icupien oj jjMcwart Alwop.j death. Molotov's star is by no means eclipsed none of the experts count him out of the running. But there are signs that it has been wan ing. And another portent Malenkov has replaced Molotov in the place of honor next the l dictator In the most recent offi cial portrait of the Politburo. Stalin will be seventy years old on December 21, which Is one reason why the speculation m his successor grows increas ingly intense. But despite some hert trouble, Stalin still looks strong, and Molotov is approach ing his sixtieth birthday. Thus ' the course of nature also suggests that Malenkov, who is only 47, whether or not he now actually , outranks Molotov In the Krem lin's hierarchy, is the most likely Monday. November 21. 1943 Oregon, as second elui matter wider was indicted for perjury when he first denied the charge and the jury last July couldn't deside whether or not he had lied in court. Now, again, the trial will center on five disputed points: What did Hiss have to do with Chambers com munist underground? What was the relationship between Hiss and Chambers? Did His- give secret papers to Chambers? : What became of the papers in Chambers' pos session? ; Why and when did the Hiss-Chambers friend ship end? Miss Coplon and her Russian boy friend, Gubitchev, are both charged with conspiracy to commit espionage by sending government sec rets to Russia. She has already been convicted of one charge- that of taking government papers with intent to deliver them Ho Gubitchev. : ( In San Francisco, Harry Bridges is charged with committing perjury when he swore in 1945 that he was not a communist party member. This is another government attempt to s end Bridges Down Under. !. J. Pamell Thomas, sick and discredited as former chairman of the un-American activities committee, is charged with padding his congres sional payroll. This is a shoddy affair involving petty graft and would not get the attention it is getting if Thomas Was not himself so widely dis liked for his treatment of witnesses before his committee. New Hymn for Germans ; Remember Gerhart Eisler, who w easel ed out of deportation hearings after a congressional in vestigation into his communist activities and recently turned up in Moscow? Well, Gerhart has a brother named Hanns whose talents are also familiar to Americans. Hanns came to this Country from Germany in 1940 and made quite alname for himself as a composer in Hollywood. Now, after an eclipse, his name pops into the news again. It seems that Hanns Eisler, ho less, Wrote the music for the new national anthem of ihe soviet-sponsored east German republic A German graduate of the Kremlin wrote the words which go, in part: !l "Risen from ruins, facing the future, f ; Let us serve .Germany, our united fatherland, to Our best. , f United we will overcome old need, We must accomplish that the sun, beautiful as never before, shines over Germany . . . ! Under Hitler, the Germans were singing jf'Deutschland Uber Alles" Germany over all. Under the Russians, the east German war cry is "Germany all united," and the old yearning for a place in the sun is as strong, as ever. ') H " s i -" '. Sephus Starr made a good record as chief of "the bureau of audits for the state. That account ing turned up some cases of misuse of state funds and doubtless served also as a deterrent to irregularities. Besides being competent in his field Starr was active in community affairs, and recently was elected commander of Ameri can Legion post No. 9. He had many friends who regret his sudden passing. The troughs west of the Cascades seem to have been the reservoirs of fog in recent days. Those who came in from above Manama report pleasant sunshiny weather; and those coming in from the coast reported sunshine instead of fog. Well, we can't claim all the good weather! ultimate inheritor of the vast powers of the aging dictator. At any rate, Malenkov is now one of the half dozen or so key figures in the world, and it Is time to inquire what manner of man he is. The answer is incon clusive,; as always where the Kremlin Is concerned. But the intelligence files suggest that he is, as much as one man can be a copy of another, a carbon of Jo sef Stalin himself. Malenkov got his start to power in the twenties when he served as Stalin's pri vate secretary, and since that time he has consistently aped the dictator's manner and his dress, including the short, military looking, jacket and the simple cap. I . Moreover, like Stalin, Malen kov. is ho theoretician or intel lectual. He is an operator, a maneuVeret, and again like Sta lin, he has derived his power from the authority to assign all communists to i their jobs. Ac cording to intelligence reports (and also to the testimony of Igor Gouzenko at the Canadian spy trials) this power is not lim ited to the Soviet Union. Malen kov has been In charge of the foreign section jf the communist central committee. Foreign com munists summoned to Moscow regularly visit him, "and second only to Stalin he is considered the supreme director of the world communist apparatus. ? Malenkov's rapid rise began in the thirties, during the great purge, in which he played a con-" spicuous role, and which left plenty of room at the top. The turning points in his career were marked by two speeches. One of these in February, 1941, marked his rise to real power. The oth er, in February, 1846, was fol lowed by a tworyear eclipse. In the first, he attacked devas tatingly the whole system of So viet industry and transport, for shameful inefficiency, as well as for "unculturedness and filthi ness." This was the prelude to a major purjie in Soviet industry , (of .which .Molotov's wife .is. re tatcsraau act of March I, 1171. Oregon Telephone t-UlL. ported to have been one of the victims) and to Malenkov's be coming an alternate and later a full member of the Politburo. In the second speech,; Malen kov sneered at over-orthodox Marxists, "people who have quo tations from Marx and Lenin ready for every occasion and ev ery pretext." This - speech was followed by Zhdanov's ruthless drive for strict ideological ortho doxy, and in turn by Malen kov's removal as secretary of the communist central committee and a two-year stretch of obscurity. Malenkov's rebirth coincided with Zhdanov's death in August, 1948, and with Marshal Tito's defiance of the Kremlin., Malen kov is believed to have opposed Zhdanov's plans for disciplining Tito. i Yet there is no evidence what soever to suggest that Malenkov is a "moderate" opposedto the "extremism'' of Zhdanov. His difference "with Zhdanov con cerned not ends but means. Like Stalin himself Malenkov Is in terested simply in power-F-Tt is no secret that even our friends re spect us because we are strong," Malenkov has said repeatedly and in the Marxist Ideology chiefly as an instrument of pow er. In this sense again, he thinks like Stalin. And he is believed to have climbed back to become Stalin's first f avorite not because he favored moderation but be cause of his greater mllitance in advocating the building of So viet military strength and the extension of Soviet power. The fact is that there are no "moderates' in the Kremlin. It is still possible that when the great dictator dies, a fierce in ternal struggle for power will ensue, and it is just conceivable that this struggle will shift the basic direction of Soviet policy. But it is a great deal more like ly that, whether Stalin's power Is Inherited by Malenkov or Molotov, the bitter contest which has gripped the world will con tinue, not for years, but for gen erations. (Coerrtftit. IMS. New York Herald - Tribune Inc.) - - - 'IRON m RAD ODD 131 UDJ (Continued from page 1.) S big market for . pastry . flour (southerners eat biscuits, for breakfast); but high freight rates have restricted invasion of that market. In pioneer days flour milling was one of the first Industrie"' Dr. John McLoughlln set Up a mill using stone burrs a few miles above Ft. Vancouver, which supplied local needs and furnished flour to the Russian settlements in Alaska. With set tlement of the valley, flour mills sprang : up, using water power from the numerous streams. Salem had its "Scotch Mills" on the present site of the paper mill. Now nearly all the small mills are gone. Milling Is done in a few big mills mostly located where they can get Montana hard wheat for blending. The 1947 census of manufacturers showed only 17 establishments in the state manufacturing flour and meal, only three of which had 100 or more employes. Even the big mills diversify production. Competition usually holds the margin of profit nar row in the manufacture of flour. So mills go in for specialty products including feed mixes prepared according to special formulas (egg mash, dairy mix, etc). And General Mills, big gest concern in the milling bus iness, manufactures electric irons and other gadgets. Meantime Oregon's wheat production remains high 27, 000,000 bushels in 1948, 21,000, 000 bushels in 1949. Small won der that wheatgrowers are scratching their heads to know how to dispose of their wheat. The state has set up a wheat commission for research and promotion. Feeding wheat to livestock is promoted by some, but at present prices other grains are more economical for this purpose. A special commission is mak- GRIN AND BEAR mm- lijii "We don't ask far a toyalty eath here . ask for more money. LUNG TREATMENT' ;1 wtsaaaamw wsw wow m m i mm Hunter's Life Attractive To Women By Henry McLemere DATONA BEACH, Fla., Nov. 20 For pure enjoyment noth ing can match the opening of the hunting season. , For a man who doesn't hunt, that is. When tht bang-away boys are start ing out in the cold, cold dawn, or tramping through briar and bramble, the non-hunter can roll over on his side, pull the covers a little higher, and set tle down for another two or three hours of good sleep Unfortunately, I am not a non hunter. The smell of a wet bird dog is the sweetest aroma to me, and the thought of sitting for hours on a jagged stump waiting for a deer who hajs lost his way to wander by sets my heart to pounding. And what jean match the fun (unless it be practicing parachute jumps without a parachute) of huddling on cold, wet ground, be neath a glorious canopy of cold, wet bushes waiting for a turkey ing a trip to the orient this fall to see what possibilities there are for restoring the market there, and one of its members is E. J. Bell, administrator of the Oregon wheat commission. As far as outlet goes the group will find one in China, but un less communist China has the will to trade and something to offer besides communist pro paganda the chance for pouring wheat over the old great circle to Shanghai and Canton seems slim. It may be a long time before the export of wheat and flour from the Pacific northwest to China and the orient will reach the volume of pre-World War I days. IT By Licbty , only an eata net te ..." . - r ! roost just out of gun- ! Even if! I didnt get such a thrill out of beating my brains out in the; woods, and coming home with-my limit of red bugs. scratches, and strained muscles. I couldn't afford to be a non hunter. i Indeed, ho man who wants to get along jwrell with the weaker and more attractive sex can af ford to admit that the great out doors doesh't call to him like a magnet does to a pail. Girls art scarcely out of pig tails before they start becoming aware of t&e fact that the attrac tive American man is the out' doors manj. Our national adver tising conditions them to the fact that there jean be nothing basic ally wrong with a man who wears a flannel shirt, heavy boots, smokes a pipe and carries a canoe on top of bis head most of the time. . Few American " girls would give a man even a passing grade in glamor tf he were pictured carrying ah umbrella instead of a shotgun and returning from in iiDrary witn a stack ox books on his head Instead q a canoe. And their I girlish pulses pound at the sight of three or four un shaven men sitting around i smoky carapCre eating half-done food cooked by the member of the group iwho qualified for the job by losing' at the match game. Women seem to get a tremen dous kick I out of being .able to say that the men of the family are out killing things- The same women would be a trifle asham ed to have to explain that the men of the family were out tak ing shorthand lessons which would help them in their busi ness, or learning another lan guage, tor instance. i The hunting season opens In my section tomorrow, and you know where IH be out in the woods stepping gingerly along for fear I'll tread on a snake, and wishing li were in some nice, comfortable pool hall trying to put the 9 ball in a side pocket. But by going out I'll be doing a good deed to the birds in my section of the woods- They won't have a feather on their heeds harmed and my women folks can brag that I ve gone a-huntin . jf Distributed by McNaufht Syndicate. Inc.) Rites Set for CMiLaFollett i : Services i for Clyde Merton LaFollett, Who died near Pendle ton Saturday while on an elk hunting trip, i will be Wednesday at 3 pjn. at the United Brethren church in Hopewell under direct ion of the W. T. Rigdon mortuary, Interment jwill be in Hopewell cemetery, j LaFollettl 73, a resident of Sa lem route I, had been prominent among Valley orchardists for many years and Iwas the largest peach dealer In the state at one time. Colprd Films to Show Scenery of Olympic Peninsula Colored films of natural life in the primitive Olympic peninsula of Washington will be presented at First Methodist church Saturday at 8 p. m. iiji a public program. The pictures were taken and will be shown by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Crisler, who spent the entire year living in the area. They will be shown, and a lecture given, be fore the National Geographic soc iety in Washington, D C next spring. Spcjnsor of the program is the, church's Baxter young adult class. to come to shot? TownseridUub Delegates Elect Portland Man Discussion of problems involving the aged and re-election of E. J. James, Portland, as president high lighted the first congressional dis trict conference of Townsend clubs in Salem Sunday. Business sessions took place in the morning at Mayflower hall in north Salem followed by a lunch. Afternoon activities included a talk by E. L. McDonald of Port land,! state organizer, and saxo phone selections by Dwight and Merideth Hoe of Salem. Elected by the district to the state council were Lula Kiehl, C. H. Mahany, Maude Morlan, C H. Harbaugh and Anna Arnold, all of Salem; M. S. Cunningham of Wood burn; James Matthew of St. Helens; F. L. Snodgrass and E. J. James, both of Portland; Frank Vestal of Newberg. and Mrs. Ma bel Mullan and S. L. Mullan. both of Milwaukie. Delegates elected to the state council meeting in Eugene on De cember 18 include Maude Morlan, James Matthew, E. J. James and S. L. Mullan. The next district council meeting will be held De cember 18 in the Woman's Club house here. Government To Subsidize New Nut Crop WASHINGTON. Nov. 20 -UTh The agriculture department an nounced this week end it will sub sidize the diversion of a part of this years crops of walnuts and almonds into non-commercial market outlets. Such diversion is necessary, it said, to keep record crops from entering normal markets and ser iously depressing grower prices. Pion-commercial outlets include processing into edible oils and oils for paints. The department win pay a di version subsidy of 1Q cents a pound on unshelled walnuts con taining 25 per cent kernels and 14 cents a pound of unshelled al monds containing 4f per cent Kernel. The subsidy will be paid on un shelled walnuts which would pro duce the equivalent of 5,500,000 pounds of kernels and 3,000,000 pounds ox almond kernels. A similar program is being con sidered for filberts. Barkley, Bride Head South on :. j y. Honeymoon NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 20-MP)-Vice President Alben Bark ley and bis bride headed south today, after a Sunday morning visit to the Hermitage, old home place of Andrew Jackson. The honeymooners didn't say where they were going from here. But there was a strong suspicion they were en route to Florida. They came here last night from Paducah, Ky., after spending their wedding night at "Angels," Bark ley's family home. When they left SL Louis fol lowing their wedding there Fri day, they said they would honey moon at "Shangri-la." Barkley quipped last night as he checked into a hotel here, that Nashville was "only the suburbs of Shangri la," which would seem to place the chosen spot somewhere In Florida. Willamette Valley Bank Celebrates S2 MiUion Party For the second time in its two. year history, Willamette Valley Dana entertained its employes at a million dollar party Saturday niehL The 12.000.000 mark in sets was passed 22 months after tne Dank opened Its Fairgrounds road doors December 1, 1947. The group of officers, 'employes and wives, numbering about 20 gathered first at the home of As sistant Cashier Alfred Domogalla, men nad a "two million dollar din ner" at Shattuck's Chateau. At the affair,. President Carroll Meeks announced the resignation of Assistant Cashier Harry Ewine. who plans to devote full-time to his accounting and tax service bus iness. The bank's first million in aa sets was reached in September, is B. me staff has grown from to 11 persons since the opening. g Jewelers 2 State I : )0i $ Day, ,l i I (cy - to shop m 1 I Edward No wakj f 70, Succumbs I i To Heart Attack i Edward Nowak, a valley .resU dent for more than 15 years, died unexpectedly Sunday at his farm home, Salem route 7. Death! was caused by a heart attack. He was 70. i . Born in Ohio on Oct 25, ,1879. Nowak married Ida M. Grover in the state of Washington. He operated a hop yard at Donald. for 10 years before moving to the Salem area about five years ago He was a member of the Odd Fellows lodge in Salem. ! Surviving are three daughters. Mrs. Fdna Houser of Salem,; Mrs Rose Wood of Portland and: Mr. Ada Crisp of Milwaukie; two sons, Charles Nowak of Salem, and Ed ward Nowak of Vancouver, Wash.) and four grandchildren. '; . Services will be announced lat er by the Howell-Edwards chapel. Services for j Frank Baker. ' Set Tuesday v f ; Funeral services for" Frank Alvln Baker, retired Salem mail carrier who died Saturday, will be Tues day at 1:30 p. m. at the jClOugh Barrick chapeL ' I v The Rev. Dudley Strain will of ficiate and interment will be in I OOF cemetery. si Baker, 77, lived at 765 Ferry si. He died at a local hospital. He had resided in Oregon nearly all of his life and had retired from postal duty here about five years ago f oDowing many yean of service with the local office. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. XUa Chester Baker, both of Salem; and a son, Howard E. Baker, of Madi son, N. J. Radio to Boom 'Voice' Past j Iron Curtainf WASHINGTON. Nov. 20-VPhA new radio transmitter now Hear ing completion at Saloniki. Greece, soon will enable the Voice of America to speak with .greater volume behind the Iron Curtain, the state department announced today. i The transmitter will be operated jointly br the United States and Greek governments. It is expected to start by early next year. ; The "Voice" will use it during , the evening to relay American of ficial broadcast, to communist Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, and also to Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia. The rest of the time will be. used under direction of the Greek director. An announcement said the new station will enable Balkan listen ers who do not own short wave receivers to hear the American of ficial broadcasts. ' f The new station is a 50-kilowatt medium wave transmitter, broad-1 casting on 804 kilocycles. "Voice" programs to this part of the world now are sent out by short wave, from a relay station at Munich,' Germany, and via facilities of the British broadcasting Co. I - Prospective or Experienced j msuiumcE jj lien or Wonea New State OOce for LlfellX ability. Hospital. Doctor Ed, Group. i tire. Automobile1. IiaiQtjr and misc. lines. New men ws wQI train and assist 70a in our new, coo plete office. Experienced men Ws wffl associate several experienc ed men In supervisory capa cities. Long percentage con tracts. Vested renewals. Direct General Agents assis tance. "Complete Plant" In Salem. Various district open lngs state wide, Peraanenl Secnrily Federal-Oregon Agency ': 543 N. Capitol Ph.4-2201 Silversmiths at liberty
