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fUUst f isfrmca, Cclto, Ortgen. Wo Favor Sway$ Us, No Tear Shan Atte ma First Statesman, March U. 1M1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING C01MPANY ' CHAF7-KS A SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher Entered t Um peetefflee at Salem. Oregon, as second class fnatter under act ef congress March S, 1171. Published every morulas. Basinets office 214 & CemmercUl. Salem. Oregon. Telephone 2-244L "We Must Abolishes USA" Is the many-headed movement for peace through world government "a well-meant but futile and dangerous crusade to guarantee uni versal peace forever?" Joseph P. Kamp em phatically say so la a new book with the hair raising and ironic title, "We Must Abolish the ' United States," published by his Constitutional Education League, Inc. Endorsed in the introduction by Grace L. H. Brosseau, one-time regent of the OAR, this book will undoubtedly receive wide attention. Consideration of its source, therefore, is called, for. Kamp's League, like Merwin K. Hart's Na tional Economic Council, is "ostensibly respect able, well financed, and has important follow rs," according to an Anti-defamation League survey. The League is anti-Semitic, hyper nationalist and right-wing. It issued, last year an irresponsible pamphlet "exposing" com munist infiltration into ' the YWCA which caused some consternation locally. Kamp him self has been convicted of contempt of congress and the conviction was upheld. . Kamp's latest publication purports to reveal the hidden facts behind the crusade for world government. It contains some sound argument why world government won't work, a lot of unfounded diatribe, some out-and-out slander, many little-known facts" about well-known people and an appendix listing the outstanding supporters of world government as "communist fronters and- subversive socialists." This list includes the red-front organization each in dividual is associated with by the FBI and con gressional and legislative investigating com mittees. (Monroe Sweetland's name is on the list!) 4 Slyly, Kamp admits "it would be nonsense to suggest that the world government move ment is communist controlled" but, says he, . "the campaign for world government is as dangerous and as un-American as the commun ist conspiracy, and the leaders of the world tfvernment movement . . are actually more dangerous than communists." According to Kamp "all major world govern ment movements have connecting links and ties". But that is not especially damning. The motive of all these major groups is a world order free from the threat of war. Many people want, to get to heaven when they die, but even Christians divide into various denom inations." ' .. .', . People do' not need to get all excited about these world government crusades. They are not false fronts for communism or other skuldug gery They are sincere efforts to build a better world. The Statesman sees so many practical obstacles in the way of achieving world fed eration that it regards the issues still as quite academic ; But we. have .only; kind words to say about the purpose of these crusaders, and admission I that ultimately we should have a "parliament of man, federation of the world." Love or Loyalty, . I Garry Davis, who has made a nuisance of himself in trying to become m "world "citizen", wants to" come back to America from Europe. It Isn't a revival of loyalty to the USA, the land of his birth. It's Jove. 'ft Davis wants ' to marry a Hollywood dancing Instructor, but he tore up his passport two years ago and renounced his American citizenship. Now hell have to. become "naturalized" to get bis former status renewed; l This crackpot pestered the French police with his antics, so France doubtless will be glad to have him placed on the French quota. As for ' ; ... " . . : - - . 1 ... . ' ' ...... , Ability to Say 'Me Too1 Helped Hatter of Fact By Joseph AIsop LONDON, Feb. 27 - The re markable achievement of the British conservative party Is - wn stands out In the election here. Only, five T years age, Brit-. . a In entered a I period ot social change of ttn- ; precede nted ; nepth and ex 4 . tension. There were many con ' tervatives who! then feared, and I there were, fv 'jr,... i .nun lahnrit UMmmJk who then hoped, that the old po litical pattern would be shat tered forever. Instead, the old pattern has re- asserted itself in a way that has surprised both parties. The con servatives have already scored an extraordinary comeback. The . labor government's parliamentary majority Is so narrow that most observers expect another general election within 12 months. In that election, if It Is held, it is quite possible that the final dis appearance of the liberals will give outright victory to the con servatives. ' " : . In a practical sense, this is the outcome that all the most long headed tory leaders always de- sired. Devaluation of sterling has , been so successful that the ex chequer Is positively embarrassed . by the increase in its hard assets reserves. - Yet the final British financial crisis is probably yet to come. The wiser tories naturally prefer the chickens to come home to roost at the end of labor's ad ministration rather than at the beginning of their own. , , , , i' In American eyes, meanwhile, the big question posed by the British election is how the con servatives did.it After all. our own period of social change be- Jntgiaf. Ytbnarr 23, USfr .., . wwM seat '; the USA maybe the dancing teacher can reedu cate him in citizenship. Love may lead the way to loyalty. Slow Bombers for V W IH v The Oregon Journal takes The Statesman to task for criticising the reactivation of the ground observation service for aircraft detect ion. It cites that the airf orce thinks this ser- - vice is an essential part of a civil defense es tablishment, and says that it can't be assumed that Russia has long range jet bombers capable of speeds greater than sound. If Russia attacks the United States, slow conventional bombers would be used, says the Journal. These could be detected by ground observation. If Russia has onlyB-29s to fight the United States with then there will be no war, and no 7 need for the ground watching. These .planes couldn't make it from , Asia to the states. Sub marines might provide landing platforms for small bombers, but only in limited numbers. Far more probable would be discharge of guided missiles which couldn't be detected by .ground observation; or stopped from landing if they were seen. : - With due respect for the airf orce, The States man doubts ho value of ground observation and thinks its reactivation is merely an evi dence of panic No Short Cut Deportation The immigration bureau has had a practice of taking short cuts in some of its deportation proceedings. Inspectors who had made the in vestigations often served as examiners when 'hearings' were held and prepared the reports which usually became the verdict. The supreme court has put an end to this practice. It has ruled that examiners in such proceedings may not serve also as investigating or enforcing of ficers. .. - - The result of the supreme court decision is to force a rollback of lot of cases where the short cut method had been followed. It also should insure a fairer trial of those tagged for depor tation. The immigration service has been in many respects a hard master as far as aliens are concerned, and' has seemed to operate al most as a law unto itself. The high court has intervened with a more humane mandate. The 1949 housing bill was Intended to take care of the low-income families. The govern ment is to help provide them with better" hous ing either by supplying credit or grants. This year congress is considering a measure to help the middle-income group, the ones with incomes between $2400 and $4700 a year. This group should be, able to help themselves. Govern ment can't be wet nurse to all the people. One thing the fat cats should remember: the thin ones bury the fat ones. gan nearly 18 years ago. All the innovations of the new deal and -the war and the fair deal have been far -less radical and far- f reaching than those that have been made here. Tet the republi cans are still wandering in the political wilderness, with rather darker prospects, if anything, than in the new deal's . middle course- The answer clearly lies In an entirely different attitude toward . the political process, which is the real mark of the British, tory .party. In brief, every tory chief- , tain from Lord Salisbury to. R. A. Butler, from Anthony Eden to Oliver Lyttelton, is more or less, committed to the principle of "me too." , In the whole tory shadow cabi ; net, only Winston Churchill has ever objected to following this political rule. With the excep tion of Lord Salisbury and one or two others, the tory leaders, however senior and however eml- ' nent, 'tend to cower when . Churchill roars. Yet whenever Churchill has shown the slightest tendency to return to his tactics of the 1945 election, he has beenr repressed by the united opposi tion' of his colleagues. The platform the conservatives ran on can be simply summar ized. It was: "We believe In ev erything labor has don except nationalization. We can do it better. And although we are not going to nationalize any new in dustries, we are not going to de- ! nationalize either." . 7 This platform was roughed In 1 as early as two years after the 1943 general election, in the first conservative program prepared by R. A. Butler. Since then, thej obvious mistakes to which gov- ernments in power always beWj come committed as for example certain obviously extravagant and impractical aspects of the health : program have been energetical din It is by no means clear that Robert Vogeler, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment as a spy by a court in Hungary, was a victim of a frame up. For one thing our own government has not been very vocal in proclaiming his innocence. Reporters who attended the trial saw nothing to indicate torture. Certain documentary evi dence was introduced which was identified by Voegler and his associate, Edgar Sanders. Voge ler also gave facts about the U. S. intelligence service in central Europe and who questions that we do have such a service there? After all we catch Russian spies; we can't expect our own agents to escape detection or punish ment if they are apprehended. - ? . . Conservatives ly attacked. But the basic tory emphasis has always been vtrpon preserving the gains made under the labor regime. From what has happened here, Indeed, a kind of classical strat egy f or conservatives quite clear ly emerges. The cause of great periods of social change, is al ways rising discontent with their share of the national product among large groups of the popu lation. The aim of the ensuing changes is always to correct the distribution of the available cakes and ale, so that the majority will be sastisfied. . Once the majority has been satisfied, however, the way is open for the conservative party the party opposing change to i come to power again. But this is ' only possible when the conserva tive leaders frankly and convinc lngly accept the changes already made. Otherwise those popula tion groups that have benefited from the changes will continue to vote with the left. In order ji to protect their gains from, a party they regard as committed i to putting the clock back. f In short, facing irreversible po- ! litical facts, and being ready to i say &ne too when necessary. Is l the essence of successful conserv- i atisnv ...- After watching this election, ! the observer inevitably thinks about the howls of nostalgia for : Warren . G." Harding from the i dominant republican reactionar ies incongress. or about Gover nor Tnranas E. Dewey's farm speeches m 1948. which left every fanner wonderinsT whether the w4iole farm benefit program was to be cast Into the discard. No doubt these same republicans are now jubilating over a "trend to the right" No doubt also, in the very next breath, they will be denouncing the very oolitical tactics that have provoked this trend In Britain. (COOTTlKht New York Herald Tribune Inc.) EVOLUTIONi l -mTv 1... Literary Gui By W. G. Refers PUSHKIN, by Henri Troyat, translated from the French by (Continued from page IT treasurer. If . this commission fails to discharge its duty the supreme court is required to make the apportionment. . The second plan was prepared by the Young Republican organ ization after refusing to back up the action of ltr committee en dorsing the other plan. This YR plan is called the "balanced ap portionment" plan. Prof. A. F. - Holmer of Willamette university had a great deal to do with its drafting. Under this plan the senate would be Increased from 30 to 28 members, the house staying at 60. The senate would be ap- portioned according to a form- ula, representation being related roughly to population, but not .precisely In the house each county would have one member, the remaining 24 members being apportioned on the basis of pop ulation. One county would be limited to one-fourth of the membership. The legislative as sembly is directed to make the apportionment If It fails to act the duty would fall to the sec retary of state. These are the two proposals now being presented for voter approval by initiative petitions. Neither adheres strictly to the population basis as the present constitution requires. ,The sec ond however makes the greater concession to "area" in giving each county a representative and "weighting" the counties for sen atorial representation. For my own part I'm satisfied with the present constitutional provision (eliminating ohe "white" restriction) if only the j legislature would function to ! apply It GRIN AND BEAR IT "BeeksT . what de we need backs for? . . we get a radie and television set! . . ." ' OF! THE' TWO PANTS- SUIT f I Randolph T. Weaver (Pantheon; $31. Alexander Pushkin, whose "Ruslan and Ludmilla," "Boris Godunov," "The Prisoner of the Caucasus," "Eugenf Onegin," "The Tales of Belkln" and other poetry and prose paved the way -for the great Russian writers of ' the 19th century, was a fabulous character out of a fabulous land i and time. The great-grandson ... this book Insists, I suppose by a translator's slip, on calling him grandson . .' . of a black African who was an intimate of Peter the Great, and also the heir of noble Russian blood, he came directly . by his fiery and irresponsible spirt Born in Moscow in 1799, ' he went to the Tsarskoe Selo Ly ceum founded by Alexander I; had his first poem published at 14; and at 15 was being lavishly honored for his precocious talent. But he was precocious in other respects. Extensive reading help ed develop an overpowering eroticism, and at 17 he was the boon companion of debauched officers. When the ardent young- Ber could not win the favors of dies, he resorted to brothels. A minor government employ ee, he was exdled to the pro vinces for liberal views. He was a friend of the (1825) Decem brists, some of whom read him avidly. While his works were censored, he himself was under police surveillance and control, and the worried government for bade the admiring public to hon- . or the .great poet at his funeral. . He was mortally wounded in a duel fought over the probable Infidelity of his beautiful, empty headed wife Natalie. It was the last of scores of duels traceable to his acute sensitivity, his sharp tongue, or the clowning which led him to interrupt a theatrical performance with loud-mouthed disapproval, or ride his horse into . a store to meet a pretty girL He was not so much a man as a temperament, out of his temperament came his poetry, - oroblems and perils. There was an Incredibly rich fund of legitimate drama in Pushkin, and Troyat, who seems wisely not to overplay it, never theless makes the most of it by Lichty depost TWO VESTS AMD BOW O Hollywood On Parade By Gene Handsaker HOLLYWOOD This is go ing to be a bull session on a fav orite topic of mine: movies. You see, I've just been polling 80 of my fellow Hollywood corre spondents oh, my aching tele phone hand!, on two questions: "What do you think was the best picture in 1949? -What were the best starring and supporting performances, male and female? Conclusion: You can get as many opinions in Hollywood ' about the movies as you can at Santa Anita about the horses. Cried Columnist Edith Gwynn: j "I don't approve of that one best anything. One picture might be perfect for one reason, anoth er picture for another reason. For entertainment I'd pick 'A Letter to Three. Wives.' For dra matic qualities, "Twelve O'clock High.' But I couldn't vote In the academy awards if my life de pended on it That one-best idea is wrong, unfair, unjust, ridicu lous." Undaunted, I next collared a fellow wire-service man. He said, "Do you mean which do I like or which do I think are going to get the academy awards? The press may have a different view point from people in the Indus try. Two years ago everybody, would have said Rosalind Russell was going to get the Oscar; that was the indication. But Loretta Young got it" I told him I want ed his own ' opinion. For best-starring-actress, he said: "I would give the Oscar to Susan Hayward, but I think Olivia de Haviland is ffaing to get it P thought Hayward's was the more delicately shaded per formance (in My Foolish Heart'). The Heiress' Is a period piece, a ready-made role that maybe a dozen actresses could have handled maybe not as well as Olivia." A trade-paper 'reporter told me frankly: "I figure the best picture of the year is the picture that makes dough. There's not much ques tion but what The Paleface' took in the most money during the year." Tomorrow: Winning pictures in the poll and what the cor? respondents think of them.) ..:v.'-,;; Serving Salem and ' Vicinity as Funeral Director for 21 Years Convenient location for both friends and family. Direct route to cemeteries no cross traffic. New modern buildingample parking space. Com plete funeral services within the means of everyone. Virgil 605 South Commercial St Evidence ;off ' United States 'Unit Small By Henry McLemore DAYTONA BEACH, FUu, Feb. 27 To read the newspapers and listen to the radio is to wonder why the United States of Ame rica is called the United States of Ame rica. At the ' mo ment the states seem to be about as united as .Ingrid Berg man and Dr. Lindstrom. A much better name, for ; the time being, at least, would be the Disunited States of America. Just read the headlines and the . sub-heads, and listen to the radio announcers who, truth to tell, do little more than read the head lines and the sub-heads out loud. "Miners Stiffen as Coal Fam ine Brings Showdown." "Dixie Battle Plans Drawn Against FEPC' "New Block Hit in Talk on Phone Strikes." "GOP Blocks Plan for Spy Ring Inquiry.' "Probers Told Reds: Control Progressives." , . ... V . What sort of reading is that foe -a country which is faced with destruction by an enemy which makes no bones about what it would like to do? Russia, I'm talking about If Russia lets us know how much it hates us in public, just how much more do you figure Russia hates us in private? About ten thousand fold, I'd say. So what do the so-called Unit ed States do? Fight night and day among each other, group against group, bloc against bloc, majority against minority, party against party, statesman against statesman, politician against po litician, neighbor against neigh bor. It seems to me, silly as I am, that now is the time, if there ever was a time, for this country to pull together. If a coal strike affects steel and steel affects the .building pf the materials of pre paredness against war, then there should be no coal strikes. The same goes for all the other strik es, and for all the other holdouts against unity. I have said this before but I want to say it again. There seems to be a widespread belief in this country that there is a relatively small group of men willing and anxious to die for their country; a group who, as doughfoots, wants to freeze and shiver and get slugs in their bellies; a group who, as -fliers, wants to streak, to death or injury in the skies; a group who, as sailors, wants to freeze in the oceans of the earth. There are no such men. Even the wildest-eyed kid finds war a little Xoo much to stand and prays to get home. But unless this country starts working as a unit, faces the common danger with a united front, a few mil lion poor devils are going to have to pay the price for the selfish nessor stupidity or both of mil lions and millions of others. The next Pearl Harbor will be a dilly. Most of the major brains in the country have prophesied that It wont be a handful of bombers Bettor English By D. C Williams 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "We submit the above figures." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "delete" (to erase)? . 3. Which one of these words Is misspelled?' Farenheit, fallible, facsimile, fancifuLr 4. What does the word "indict able" mean? 5. What is "a word beginning with bl that means "addicted to drink"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "We submit the abeve mentioned (or, foregoing) fig ures." 2. Pronounce de-let, both es as in me, accent second syl lable. 3. Fahrenheit 4. Capable of being indicted, or charged with an offense. (Pronounce second syllable dlte I as in die) . "He had committed an Indictable offense and was brought before the jury." 5. Bibulous. fan a Vi. w II I II T. Golden Co. Ilorinary Thief Mav Need- Loot He Swiped . CHARLOTTE, li J(4P-A thief broke in a cafe anq stole the cash ' register and 12 packages of head ache powder. i - - : Police theorize bes already used ' the headache powders. The cash register contained only one dollar. BIRD CALL . ' MARION, m;" (INS) Mrs. J. H. Clarida of Marion said recently, that her pet canary has become ' ' hist a little too gifted. The bird has learned to Imitate the ringing of the telephone. Mrs. Clarida J is getting tired of answering the telephone : to v hear nothing : but, ' "number, please? . ; . T. Ways In Washington . By Jane Eadr WASHINGTON the govern, ment Is getting too big for Its britches. Building In Washington has not kept pace with federal ex pansion. The public buildings ser vice (PBS) says It has requests for 400,000 more square feet of office space than it can readily get its hands on. Room now must ' .be made for 1950 census work ers, the expanding public hous ing agencies and for personnel i working on the new rural tele- t phone program of the depart- :j ment of agriculture. , The government now has 81.- I 049,804 square feet of office' I space within the District of Co- j lumbia and in outlying areas,1 housing some . 182,140 federal employes. Agencies are housed in r. 93 permanent buildings, 52 tem porary buildings and 58 leased buildings. Permanent buildings Include Ihe pentagon, state, interior, la-; bor, agriculture, treasury, com . merce, bureau of standards and . others. The leased buildings and thsf wartime temporary buildings are more than likely to be with us for many years .to come, though lo cal citizens have repeatedly clamored to have the ugly "tem pos' demolished. "There Just Is n't any other place to put people," PBS officials wall. Statistics reveal that 19,500 persons are still occupying World War I temporary buildings. From World War II Washington Inher ited 3,720,000 square feet of tem porary space now being occupied by 26,800 workers. Government recentralization of agencies shift-' . ed to other cities , during the war has already,, been . completed . , adding to the.. overcrowding. - During the war the securities V and' exchange commission was , moved to Priladelphla. It was' brought back about a year ago. ; . .The national park , service and bureau of Indian affairs, in Chi cago; branches of the department ; of agriculture in Kansas, and Im migration and naturalization service, In " Philadelphia, have , been, brought back. coming over, but a terrific, all out thrust that will make front line combatants of even babes in their cribs. ' In the Name of the Lord let this country wake up, and pray while waking up that it will get leadership that will keep it awake. (Distributed by McNuht Syndicate, FOX HJSU.7ED SAVK3S SEE Rt Current Dividend 2Yx st Fcdcrcl Savfc-j end Ira hii'tu 142 S. Liberty - Inccno Tax llcicrcs Made Oat By I Consmltaat : . J. Y7. Cchzrn- 1379 Market lh, 236l J Telephone 4-2257