j The gw "w, Scdom, Oregon Monday, rehtnary 20 185( HARBINGER OF SPRING Albany First Methodist Church- To Celebrate Centennial Soon Ko Favor Sway Us, tfo Fear Shall A toe" Tnm First Statesman. March U, Ml THE STATESMAN PUBUSinNC COMPANY CHART.CA A SPBAGUE. Editor and Publisher Catered at the postofflec at Salem, Oregon, aa second das matter under act of congress March S. It 7 1. Published ever morning. Basin ess office 215 S. Commercial. Salem, Oregon. Telephone 2-244L Einstein and the Communists What about old fuzzy-wuzzy in his sloppy gweater and the ratified air of. bis Princeton study? Is Albert Einstein the old master "faker," in ' fact, "the world's greatest faker," as Represen tative John Rankin (who is something of a po litical curiosity himself) has charged in a more than usually frothy-mouthed and venomous . manner? Negro-hating, Jew-baiting Rankin of Missis sippi described Einstein in congress as a yiddish communist and denied the mathematician had anything at all to do with the atom bomb. (Said missile, said John, is exclusively the product of lily-white all-100 -American scientists.) , The rabid southerner quotes iix the Congres sional Record the dozen or so so-called com munist front organizations to which Einstein has lent his illustrious name as member or sponsor. That proves to Rankin that Einstein is a com munist and likely as not to blow up Capitol Hill, in person. As for Einstein's recent appeal (which sound ed almost note of desperation) to the nations of the world to swear off war lest civilization be doomed, Rankin thinks anything Einstein says Is "bunk," "simply carrying out the communist line," and "an attempt to get this country into a world government." We don't know why Einstein dabbles in left wing politics. A victim of fascist persecution, he may have turned to the other extreme in re-, action. He may be just another of those intel jectual idealists who have no conception of prac - tical politics and to whom the hazy-rosy pros pectus of a socialist Utopia appeared achievable. Evidently,. he doesn't apply the cold precise logic of mathematical formulae to the glittering for mulae for a better world advanced by the left wingers. But that's his own business. As long as our scientists do not, like Dr. Klaus Fuchs, sell secrets as a sideline we cannot demand that they all subscribe to the party line of southern "democrats like Rankin. " ; ' Einstein is entitled to his own opinions but they are not necessarily the last word. Some times the public and the press act as though an expert in one fiejd is necessarily an expert in all. Just because Einstein is a mathematical genius, it does.not follow that he is an authori ty on international relations although the fact that he knows a good deal about atomic science lends weight to his warnings of what may hap pen if it gets out of hand. Election in Britain This week,-Wednesday, comes the general election in Great Britain. Conservatives and La bor are fighting it out on the hustings. Old Win ston Churchill (75) belies his age with the vigor of his campaigning. Prime Minister Clement Attlee is touring the shires with his wife for chauffeur. And an English version of the Gallup poll is offering its sampling of voter opinion as an index of the result. ; ', Labor's appeal to the country is that it has fulfilled its party pledge of five years ago in na tionalizing major sectors of the economy, steel being the latest, the changeover there not due till summer. This time; Labor is not promising more socialism but riding on its claim of credit 'for "full employment," The British are at work; records show production for export has passed pre-war levels. Life is still austere, but te gov ernment ministers can show how they have evened up incomes, stripping the rich by taxes ' and helping the poor by subsidies to keep food costs down. - Conservatives seek to throw not the rascals but the fumblers out They attack the complex system of controls and bespeak a return to in dividual enterprise as the best chance for sound recovery. Churchill has been pressing a point on what was marked "off limits" for the cam paign: foreign policy. He says if he returns as prime minister he will seek a big three confer ence to end the arms race. This has had an ap peal and Attlee is trying to parry the thrust Labor probably will win. It has won every Russ-China Threaten to Realize By James D. White AP Foreign Affair Analyst SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19 MVThe western world may fool itself tragically it it goes on merely belittling the Russian Chinese communist pact signed last week in Moscow. Under communist leadership Russian and Chinese politicians have found, for the-first time in history, a formidably large area of mutual self-interest be yond just letting each other alone. China is no little European satellite. China and Russia to gether threaten -to realize Adolf Hitler's grandest dream in terms of Kaiser Wilhelm's blackest nightmare: The bulk of , the great continent of Eurasia under a single power but a non-western, communist power. The largest continuous land area on earth Is held by about one-third of the human race.e On paper, anyway, this third is united. .: The: proof of any pudding Is always in the eating, naturally. .All manner of things can go wrong with this set-up. The fact, remains that it defines in black and white the basic shift in power that communist tri umph in China implied for the world. - .. . ... The western world .can now consider, if it wishes, the price tag that history la hanging upon Its . habit of assuming the rest of the world will wait patiently while it attends to its own needs first '' NHWM MM bye-election since it came to power in 1943. For all the griping the lot of the multitude of British workers is easier than formerly. The spectre of unemployment haunts memories there as in America. The fears of an ultimate decline because of the paralysis of initiative do not ex cite them. Conservatives may make gains but an overturn of Labor's majority in parliament does not seem in prospect. Spring Tonic That invigorating "something" in the air these past few weeks isn't just spring coming around the Siskiyous, it's politix. It's so thick you could slice it and stick it in a ballot box. And, man, it's colorful, too! Tribal meetings to whip up the old team spirit and add some wampum to the war; chest put punch in the starting bell. The Fancy-Dan de mocrats chomped their $100-a-steak dinner. The Poor-Man's-Pal republicans gnawed their $l--chicken-leg box supper and, incidentally, wor ried some bones of contention. Here and there, the little farces usually billed for election year were being played out to the hilt Classic mellodramas are dusted off and re vived. Novel or "experimental," in the vernacu lar of the trade, methods are getting a run. In Salem, "Pinky" Josslin was delicately compared to one Don Quixote, mounting his steed to ride to the rescue of that lady in per ennial distress, Dame Democracy of Oregon. Only instead of a white horse, this "good sol dier" sS willing to enter the lists, jounces into battle, astride the lop-eared demo donkey. And down in the deep south, suh, a letter to the editor of the Medford Mail Tribune begins: "This morning I received a chain letter, from a Farmer Union member in Iowa, asking me to make 10 copies of the latter, and mail to 10 friends, each of whom would do the same and all send one dollar to a fund to partly match the two million now dedicated to Sen. Robert Taft'i defeat . . .H . ' Next, we suppose, some aspiring public ser vant will try the Spanish prisoner gag to collect campaign funds and marry off his beautiful in one fell blow! Yup, there's politix in the air all right. Ain't we got fun separating the men from the boys? Pine timber in Deschutes national forest brought $27.05 on bid at auction last.week. The buyer was Leonard Lundgren of Sisters, the game one whose sole offer for 280 acres of state school land- was accepted by the then state land board in 1948, a thousand, with the land thrown in. Timber values differ of course and we don't know how the state timber compared with the federal tim , ber. But what was a mistake was failing to of fer the timber only for sale on competitive bid ding. That will not happen again because the legislature tightened up the law at the last ses sion. . Rummage sales have aided many a worthy cause but this Is the first time we've heard of one coming to the rescue of a financially em barrassed newspaper. In Forest Grove, staff members of the Sigh school paper peddled sec ond hand baby clothes, trousers, old shoes and what have you. Sales netted $75, "insuring pres ses will roll on time this spring under a stepped up schedule." . . , There's ingeniousness for you. Salem's school expansion problem Is not uni que. Gresham voters will decide next week whether to approve a $250,000 special bond is sue to finance 20 additional high school class rooms and other improvements. Says the Gresh am Outlook: "The high school Issue appears to be one of the most controversial of recent finan cial matters to confront district voters, as tax payers take a wary view of all issues that might further increase their tax bills." . . . Taxpayers, it seems, are the same all over. Whether Stalin and Mao Tze Tung did each other in the eye on this deal is important but hardly as important as the ex tent to which they have agreed to work together to hold the potentially strongest strategic position in history. That may be the minimum they have agreed upon. To Russia this pact means two very big things which only China could have provided. i v First, Russia's frontier with China the longest in the world now seems secure for the first time. If Russia wants to, she can turn to Europe with more energy than ever. She can tackle anew the critical .Tito problem and the broader question of non- YOU CAN deduct most interest payments. Nearly all local taxes can be deducted. You can de duct auto accident damages and uninsured losses. the price figuring to around $18 4 Hitler's Dream communist Europe. Second, red China's airtight renunciation of anything re sembling Titoism probably ex tends the life of the Soviet pow er system immeasurably. It has preserved on paper the supreme authority Moscow is supposed to wield over communists around the world. . China could have wrecked this authority by developing Titoism herself. The Russians knew this. That Is , why they apparently gave China a better deal than they ever gave any European satellite. The price they paid was small, but for them was the greatest ever paid to another communist power. They promised to give up actual legal claims on Man churia and made a $300 million loan to red China. The face thus gained by Chinese communist leadership is designed to impress other Asia tics too.! The idea that Russia can treat Asiatics as equals and with consideration for their pride is beamed most pointedly at Japan. The pact's insistence upon an early peace treaty clearly seeks to stir Japanese I nationalism and influence it in i favorzof communist leadership. Beyond that it probably seeks to bring about eventually a sit uation : where American; influ ence will be gone from a Japan that functions as a factory for Asia's needs but cannot ever regain a dominant position. Mac Objects To Rickey's Locked Fist By Henry McLemore DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 19 Mr. Branch Rickey, pres ident of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is saia to nave - t a simple meth od of keeping his weight down. During the c o u r s e of each day Mr. Rickey, so I hear, takes around three hundred bows, and a couple of hundred! pats on the back, for being the man -responsible for opening the gates of major league baseball to color ed players. He is given credit and ac cepts it I might add for break ing through the racial barrier by hiring Jackie Robinson to play a lot of second base for the Dodg ers. He is to.be congratulated for that brave and decent step, but I, for one, am going to stop ap plauding Mr. Rickey now that the news of the signing of Don Newcombe has been made public. Newcombe is going to be paid $13,000 for the 1950 season, give or take a few thousand on either side. I believe that Simon Legree would pay a pitcher of the sort that Newcombe is more than that to throw practice balls for the Uncle Tom's Cabin team. Don, a colored giant is one of the best five pitchers in baseball. He may very well be the best pitcher in baseball. Mr. Rickey wouldn't sell him for less than a quarter of million dollars, but he is perfectly willing to pay him a measly $13,000 a year: . Newcombe will pay his own salary, six times over before yes, before he ever throws a bail in Ebbets field. His box of fice pull in the spring training camp schedule will have him working for free long before he ever gets north for the regular season. And once .the season starts he is a mortal cinch, given his health, to win 20 or more games for the Brooks. GRIN AND BEAR IT Damned unfair to devt.. e we took to move oat of i' v. . -.- " r - f When is Mr. Rickey going to pay Newcombe for value receiv ed?' Last year Newcombe got something like $7,000, and all he did was make the difference be tween a pennant-winning club and a runner-up. I am quite sure that Mr. Rick ey considers all the stories writ ten about his stinginess as good publicity. I feel that he welcomes each one as a plug for himself and his ball club. But I am not quite sure that he Is right I have a notion that American baseball fans, a pretty fair bunch of sportsmen, are going to get sick and tired of Mr. Rickey's locked fist policy, and quit being so en thusiastic over a team whose motto is "The Laborer Is Worthy of His Hire But Doesn't Stand a Chance to Get It" - Mr. Rickey's "emancipation" is not limited to Newcombe. He is paying Campanella, another col ored performer, in the neighbor hood of $15,000. Campanella hap pens to be the best catcher in baseball, by a country mile. Good catchers are hard to come by. Great catchers are rarer than the ringtailed auk. The Yankees would pay him $50,000, and be glad to give up to $100,000 for the . privilege. What Yawkey and the Red Sox would pay Campanella is anybody's guess. Bui it would n't resemble $15,000 any more than wine resembles water. End of essay on Rickey. I would much prefer never to mention his name in this -column agaik (McNaught Syndicate. Ino.) Better English By D. C. Williams 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "We need about fifty foot of wire." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "sacrilegious"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Irredeemable, Ir rational, irrasible, irritable. 4. What does the word "pre dispose" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with da that means "marked by cowardice"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "fifty feet of wire." 2. Pronounce sak-ri-le-jus, a as in sack, I as in it e as in me, ac cent third syllable. 3. Irascible. 4. To give a tendency to. "Debil ity predisposes the body to dis ease." 5. Dastardly. by Lichty U-Boeie . after mH the treable range of the A-Bomb . . CftP (Continued from page one.) manufacturing plants. Certainly no responsible employe would mix espionage with this impor tant and delicate business. We should recognize however that the United States is trying to get all the information it can from behind the iron curtain. Its intelligence service surely has agents in the satellite countries, and in Russia itself if that is possible. So it should occasion no real surprise-if some of them are apprehended and arrested. In this case it seems that some able scientists have left these satellite countries and crossed into the western zones. The com munists suspect they are being induced to desert; and since Vo geler is an engineer they put the bee on him as a procurer. Only time will tell how the mystery will be resolved. How sad and how foolish it all is. If men would only get the twist out of their minds we could have free travel over the world, free communication. Our ener gies could be devoted to helping folk in other lands instead of scheming on how- to decimate them by the thousands. Voge ler, whether guilty or not is a victim of the warped thinking which farces a cold war on the world. The Safely Valve Retired Army Officer Calls Air Watch "Silly To the Editor: I read your statement in to day's Journal telling the truth about the silly air warden set-up that is now proposed. I hope you pound on this hard. YOU ARE RIGHT. This recent statement of War Secretary Johnson, to the effect that we could retaliate in an hour is the most irresponsible utterance of any public official in our history as a nation. We are rapidly maneuvering ourselves into the role of world villain, we will have to be the first to use the atom bomb. We have little else now, and I for one think Johnson would have a hell of a time telling how we would meet an attack. Thirty-six years of regular Army service back what I say. My today's paper also tells of the remarks of a high ranking official of the government who says the Northwest is expendable. Truly a deplorable statement (Walter H. Judd-MC) Where the hell are we going anyway? and what kind of peo ple are running our government anyhow? I think I know the an swers to both my questions. Sincerely, Preston B. Waterbury Colonel U. S. Army, retired. Ashland, Oregon Protests Macleay Damp To the Editor: How ' would you feel if the county court of your county se cretly purchased a farm in your midst and established a public garbage dump with all of its of fensive smoke, odors and rats? This is what has happened to the pioneer community of Macleay, eight miles east of our capital city. What effect do yott think this will have upon our home and social life as well as the value of our property? The pictures; in a recent issue Statesman News Berries t ALBANY, Ore, Feb. 18 First Methodist church of Albany win celebrate the centennial of its founding in a February 28 to March 5 program. Although the first appointment of a pastor to the church was made in 1850, history tells of a mission school established in 1835." The program of commemoration will start on Sunday, February 26, Layman's day. The Rev. Brooks Moore, pastor of First Methodist Solons Start Drive to Cut Marshall Aid WASHINGTON, Feb. 18-UrVA drive to cut Marshall plan spend ing by at least 1 1,500,000,000 got under way today among members of the senate appropriations com mittee. Secretary of State Acheson and Paul G. Hoffman, the economic cooperation administrator, go to Capitol Hill Tuesday- to start- the ball rolling on a third year's pro gram of giving economic aid to western European nations walling off communism. But in advance of their appear ance before senate and house for eign relations committees, appro priations lawmakers who handle money bills rather than merely the authorization measures before the foreign relations groups were organizing for deep cuts in the program. To Seek Redaction Senator Robertson (D-Va), told a reporter he is going to vote for a reduction of at least $1,500,000,- 000 under the $3,778,000,000 in Marshall plan funds congress pro vided for the year ending next June 30. Chairman McKellar (D-Tenn) hasn't got down to cases yet on how much he wants to slice off the $3,100,000,000 proposed for ECA in the president's budget for the year beginning jJuly 1. But friends said they believe he will back a substantial reduction. Predicts Budget Cat Senator George (D-Ga), a mem ber of the senate foreign rela tions committee, predicted that Hoffman himself will undercut the budget figure in his proposals to the two committees this week. Observing that he believes the budget allowance too high, George called for a summary by Acheson of all foreign spending proposed for the year starting July 1. "Until we know how much we are going to have to spend in Asia, in Greece and Turkey and other areas of the world, we can't pass intelligently on bow much should be made available for the Marshall plan," he said. He predicted the administration will ask for additional funds for economic and possibly military aid to countries bordering com munist China. Registration of Commies Aim Of Senate Bill WASHINGTON, Feb. 19-tfVA bill intended to force the registra tion of 54,000 card-carrying Amer ican communists is being whipped into shape today for early senate action. Senators Mundt (R-SD), Fergu son (R-Mich) and Johnston (D SC) are working on the bill i In the hope of getting it before the senate within the next two weeks. Mundt told a reporter that FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover has ap proved the measure as one way to "drive the communists above ground. Hoover has estimated there are 54,000 communist party members in this country. Mundt also said: (1) The FBI is ready In an emergency to "break up the nerve centers of communism'' in the United States. Under Watch by FBI (2) One out of every ten com munists in the country is under watch by the FBI as a "dangerous subversive. (3) At least 4,000 to 5,000 com munists would be arrested or Jail ed within 24 hours after this coun try went to war. The Mundt-Ferguson -Johnston bill originally was introduced in the senate last year. But the three sponsors are revising it to meet objections raised against it and other anti-communist measures. The same sufx penalties are written into the new bill as were contained in the 1949 version: $2, 000 to $5,000 fine and two years in jail. Won't Outlaw Reds x The bill wpn't Outlaw the com munists or the communist part" Mundt explained. "But it will ap ply to them the same government regulations which govern the po litical activities of democrats and republicans." of "The Statesman"re mislead ing. If the camera had been focused in the opposite direction, . buildings and homes would be seen. At the base of the canyon pictured, are several good springs which are used by farmers on adjoining farms. These will be contaminated by the filth from decaying garbage. Cinders from the burning papers also make a fire hazard. This dump is used by Silver ton and Stayton and other com munities. These towns are in the foothills fifteen to twenty miles away with canyons at their back doors, yet they haul their garb age to the Salem area. We request that the court close the dump, resell the property for 'a farm home and select a site far ther east Roads to this area and other expenses involved could be paid for by the charges made for garbage dumped. Mr. and Mrs. Theo. W. Olson Rt 5, Box 454 church in Salem, will speak at the 11 a. m. service. Joe Unfred. is program chairman. ! A banquet Tuesday evening at 6:30 will be on the theme of "Looking Backward." Clyde E. Williamson will be toastmaster, . and speakers will include Hiram Torbet of Amity and Archie Metz ger of Salem, former members here. Thurcriav vninff tha 1 fltV an nual mid-winter choir concert will be the feature, with Lural Burg trraf as director and Mrs. Glenn Taylor as accompanist Loounx jr orwara Saturday at 0:30 p. m. will be thm vraith Vianmipt in r-harpa nf Mrs. Lucille Libby. On the theme or -Lxiung jrorwara," ir. toy Fedje, Salem district superinten dent, will speak. unaay, ftiarcn 9, at 11 a. dl, Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Port land will speak. Music will be furnished by both church choirs. Closing event win be a tea from 3 tn 5 t m March H In Tjuh hall, honoring Mrs. Kennedy. Mrs. 1 tlTllI! m v-ijue wuiiamson ana Mrs. ieor ge Huber will be hostesses. Preached to Indians Not until 1845 was the first house built in Albany, so it is possible that early preaching here for the most part was for the Calapooia Indians with only a few white people in the group. In 1849 the Oregon-California conference, was organized and the following year John McKinney (a local preacher) and J. EL Par rot were named co-pastors of the Calapooia circuit which embraced Albany. At the 1851 conference in Salem L. T. Woodward was appointed to serve. In 1853 A. F. Waller and Isaac Dillon were sent to the circuit which at times Included Tangent Scio, Jefferson, Corval lis, Lebanon, Brownsville, Knox Butte, Trinity and McFarland. List of Pastors Beginning in 1857 Albany and Lebanon were one charge. From then on the pastors here, many of them for only one year. Included in order: Joseph W. Hines, Gustabus Hin es, D. E. Blain, W. L. Lewis, J. W. Miller, P. M. Starr, C H. Hoxie, C G. Belknap, H. C. Jenkins, C W. Shaw, Isaac Wilson, SrS. Vander sall, J. F. Devore, J. F. Wolfe, Isaac Dillon, D. W. Cameron, -Martin Judy, H. P. Webb, Samuel E. Meminger.'J. T. Abbett, M. C Wire, J. W. McDougalL S. H. De wart, W S. Gordon, D. H. Leech. James Moore, Charles E. Gibson, George H. Bennett, J. C. Spencer, Charles Weslev Huett. r. v p.m. D. H. Leech, Melville T. Wire fson of M C WiNi Tdnm.. n ' --3 ' - wi i.. Yarnes. EthnH Tmntr n . j - - a mm vui rently George Huber. The First Methodist church in Albany was built in 1850 at 7th ana vine streets, in the early 1870s it was moved to 3rd and Ellsworth streets, the present site. In 1889 a new church was erected, and about 1900 the present par- Buuage. xtxiensive repairs and Im provements were wade between 1908 and 1915. In the late 1930s changes including removal rt h -r w . steeple. Growth ef Church Records show that there were 124 members in 1860, compared to the more than 800 today. The women's missionary groups were organized in 1880 and 1888. Following the death of Dr. Leech last year, the parsonage was dedicated as a memorial to him and another residence secured for the pastor. East German Reds fCancel Invasion Plan' BERLIN, Feb. 19 -JPy- The British zone radio said Sunday that plans have been cancelled for an "invasion" of the allied sec- tors of Berlin by the Communist Free German youth (FDJ) in May, The radio said the FDJ execu tive council feared that young East Germans would be "ideolog ically influenced" by seeing high- er living standards in West Ber lin. FDJ leaders could not be reached for comment. The invasion was predicted Feb. 5 at Bonn by Kurt Schu macher, West German socialist and. opposition leader. , He said that the young eastern commun ists would try to seize control of West Berlin during a rally of half a million members May 27-29. Schumacher said there was plot for Soviet zone police among the marchers to go into action af ter the youths, armed with moun tain climbers' poles,' paralyzed traffic and caused disturbances. He proposed that allied tanks guard the city. Western allied officials answer ed that they would not attempt to DUiid a police wall around West Berlin. "We might instead, shake the communists' fanaticism by showing them that things are better here than in the Russian sector," they said. He . promised adequate security measures. DDT ENDS MALARIA i AGRIQENTO, Sicily This island, once plagued by malaria, has set a record of 12 months without a new case of the disease. Dr. Giuseppe Ferrara, island health director, gave the DDT spraying program, started three years ago, credit for the victory. Incone Tax Retains Made Oat By 1 Consultant J. 17. Cqiurn 1579 Market Ph. 28599