4 The Sfrrt" Salem, Oregon.
"So Favor Sway$ Us, No: Fear Shall Awe"
torn First SUttnu, March". 151
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Chari.kr a SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher
Entered at the postoffke at Salem.
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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.) - - -
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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
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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 .
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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 -
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