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oraantry-Ma)orfcu.i it. VERYDfFPlCtT'D'SltNi,v:t',V TV (itfioumtatesmati "Wo rator Sway 17. No Fear Shall Awe" Irons first Statesman, filarca 18. 1851 i i THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY ! CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher ' J Entered at the postofflea at Satem, Oregon, ai second class matter under act of congress Blarch S, 187 4 ruUlahed every morning. Business office US 8. Commercial. Salem. Oregon. Telephone 2-244 L Joe Alsop on Our China Policy Today we devote our editorial columns to re printing the letter written by Joseph Alsop to Senator Ty dings, chairman of- the subcommit tee investigating the charges of Senator Mc Carthy of communist penetration, .of the state department. Alsop, who with his brother Stew art is a regular contributor to The Statesman, v by virtue -of his own wartime service in China Is .able to report competently on the develop ment of American policy toward China. His testimony directly repudiates the McCarthy ac- cusation that state department policy toward) i China was shaped by pro-communists. This letter is most revealing and, is worth the ' careful study of all who have been concerned , over the integrity of our state department. Dear Senator Ty dings: - " - After Ion hesitation, I am impelled by the ap palling effects In Europe of the McCarthy witch hunt to offer my testimony to your committee, for? what it may be worth. - , I do so for two reasons. First I have already ' sharply criticized the conduct of our affairs in China 1 on several' occasions. Second, I was intimately in volved In the events which led to the loss of China.! whereas Senators McCarthy, Wherry and Taft and ; their informants are, offering second-hand evidence. This, evidence Is so obviously corrupted by political and other pressures that It is a duty to correct the Impression conveyed. --: Stating the case as briefly as possible. X think it fair to say that the really crucial years in China -were those when Gen. JosepB Wj Stillweli com manded the China-Burma-India theater, from 1942 until 1944. In this period, Professor Lattimore, who was always at best a fringe figure, played his most , Important role In our China policy, as personal ad viser to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek; In this , rather brief assignment, he accomplished nothing, but he was-quite obviously loyal both to'theAmer Scan government and to Generalissimo Chiang. Lattimore Had No Part . Professor Lattimore had no 'part whatever in the real debate about China policy, in which the dif- ' ferent points of view have been fantastically mis represented by Senator McCarthy and his friends. No Informed person ever supposed that offering blank checks to the national government of China would accomplish anything. Those who advocated a-ifrong policy of aiding the National government only did so with the proviso that the aid given . would be closely controlled by American represen tatives on the spot, as it was during the short and successful period of General Wedemeyer's com-" mand. It should be noted that the. congressional advocates of posl-war-aid to China specifically re- !etted the responsibility involved in this sort of ocal on-the-spot control in the first major bill ap- Eropriating funds 'for the purpose during General larshall's period as secretary of state. -BUlwell Foe ef Chiang V Returning to the vastly more important war pe- ' riod, the other school of thought was composed pri marily of General Stilwell and his political Advisers. General Stilwell, so far as one "could Judge"; was chiefly animated by his personal detestation of Gen : eralissimo Chiang, arising from their disagreements. His political advisers, among whom was Mr. John -Stewart Service, were operating on a more reason ed theory, however. t , They asserted, first, that the National government was too feeble and corrupt ever to be" reformed,' even With direct American help and under direct American pressure. They said, second, that the Chinese communists were therefore bound to win in the end, no matter what measures might be taken by the United States. In the third place, they argu- , ed that the Soviet Union, in so far as it had in , tervened in China at all, had given all its assistance . to the regime of Generalissimo Chiang rather than : to the Communists, who received no tangible Rus sian aid whatever until the war was over. Fourthly, they suggested that the Chinese1 Communists might be induced to declare their independence of the Kremlin if they were treated as friends and allies to the United States. f ; t -Ci Opening friendly relations and offering aid to the Chinese Communists was frankly admitted, at the time. 1 to be a bold gamble. The gamble now looks better than It did then. On the one hand, the Yugo alar Communists, whose experience was precisely what the experience of the Chinese Communists would have been if they had received American old, have now rebelled against the Kremlin. On the : " other hand, the recent behavior on the Japanese Communist leader, Nosaka, a war-time refugee at Venan and Intimate friend of Mao Tse Tung, clearly suggests that the idea of independence of the Krem lin must have been in the air in Communist China In war time. " ,. Also Gives iWCredeBtlaU" v My right to speak, if I may be said to have a right , to speak, derives from the fact that in war time. I . was one of the chief American opponents of the school of thought I have summarized above. As a member of the staff of the American Volunteer Group, as chief of the-lend-lease mission to China, and finally as an assistant to Dr. T. V. Soong, I did' everything in my power to present the pro-Nationalist point of view in influential quarters la Wash-" Sunshine and Chemicals Mixed Can Bring On Tanned Skin Troubles, Doctor Warns tag ton. Those who wished to develop an American policy of friendship toward and aid to the Chines Communists were finally and decisively defeated with the dismissal of General Stilwell in October, 1944- This occurred many months after I had final ly succeeded in getting into uniform, as a member of Gen. C. L. Chenault's staff in the Fourteenth air force. But although I had long before become a mere junior officers In the air force, the effect of my letters to Harry I Hopkins and the other rep resentations I had made was acknowledged by im plication in General Marshall's first instructions to General Wedemeyer. j , i V These are, jso to speak, my credentials. Having known the situation . in war-time. China far mora intimately than any of the pro-McCarthy witnesses you have yet heard, I think it my duty: to say that while I disputed the judgment. I never had the faintest doubt of the loyalty of any of the American officials or others whom McCarthy has attacked. They were serving the United States to the best of their ability, with courage and fidelity. This should be sufficient to protect them from the kind of vul gar attack McCarthy has made, even if their judg ment was incorrect. ; ; . Communist use Mot Followed ' Although our views clashed so sharply, I was particularly well 'acquainted with Mr. Service. To the best of my knowledge, although I thought then and think now that he was gravely in error, he was a most conscientious and decent American public servant. It is difficult, of course, to offer hard evi dence to support such contemporary impressions. But I may cite one fact, at least, to show how erron eous it can be to" judge situations from the view point pt a later time. Former Vice President Henry A. Wallace has been. In effect, a pliable stooge for the American Communist party for more than two years. From this, many people have inferred that Wallace was a communist stooge in war time. In fact,' however, nothing could have been more con trary to the party line in war ume;tnan to urge me dismissal of General Stilwell, yet Wallace recom mended the dismissal of Stilwell and his replace ment by Wedemeyer in a telegram from China :to President Roosevelt in the late spring of 1944. In cidentally, the telegram was sent with the full. knowledge of Mr. John Carter Vincent, who enter ed no protest whatever, although he tod has been under attack as a communist stooge. Blames Debacle on Lack of Policy In conclusion, there are two points which I feel I must make. First, I do not think I was wrong in opposing the policy of gambling on winning the friendship of the Chinese Communists and inducing . them to declare their independence of the Kremlin. I do not think I was wrong, simply because I and . the others who took the same view could not pos sibly foresee that when this policy of winning ihe -friendship of the Chinese Communists had been de feated with the dismissal of General Stilwell. there would be a long period after the war during which "we had no China policy at all. None of, the -men now Tinder attack by Senator McCarthy had any Important responsibility, to my knowledge, for this singular hiatus. Speaking for myself, if I could have foreseen i that the only alternative to a policy of gambling on the friendship of the Chinese Com munists was a kind of vacuum of policy, I should have been on the other side in the struggle In China. The gamble on the Chinese Communists, although unnecessary, in my opinion, was at least a reason able gamble, such as could be reasonable advocated by entirely loyal Americans. i c Secondly, I should like to suggest to your com- mittee that if the test of loyalty is following the line of the communist party, you had much better . launch an Investibation of Senators McCarthy, Wherry and Taft than an investigation of Messrs. Lattimore, Service and Vincent. Let ihe test be a . tabulation of the key votes of the three, senators above mentioned on the great post-war measures of . foreign policy, and especially of their votes on key amendments by which bills can be nullified. Unless I am gravely mistaken, such a tabulation will show . that these three senators, and most of the others who have joined them in the present clamor, have voted the straight Communist party line on every major issue of foreign policy, as laid down in "The Daily Worker," ever since the end of the war. If temporary agreement with the party line, is to bo made the test of loyalty, let these men be called to the bar, to explain their records. Senate Critics Have More to Explain In summary, I do not attempt to excuse, or pal liate the grave American mistakes in China, which I have often before denounced, but I submit that we may as well abandon, all hope of having honest -and courageous public servants, if mere mistakes of judgment are later to be transformed into evidences of disloyalty to the state. And I submit further that -the members of the senate who are now persecut ing these men . who made, as I think, mistakes In China, have far more to explain, excuse and ration alize in their own records. I still believe that the loss of China was unnecessary, but I, think it far more important that we should not destroy the de cent traditions of American political life. These now seem to bo endangered. J Very sincerely yours, . . i JOSEPH ALSOP, Paris, May 4, 1950. HJCDOXlCa (Continued from page 1) ueiYioiaynans Installation at TempleMonday James Stewart will be installed as master councillor of Chemeke- ta chapter. Order. , DeMolay. Monday In I p. m. ceremonies: at the Masoni temple. I ' Others to be installed are senior councillor. Robert McCoavule: jun' r councillor, Richard Lewis; senior deacon. James Todd; junior deacon. Douglas Raines; chaplain, Kent Bradshaw; marshal, Gary Jones; senior steward, Walter Wil son; junior steward, James Darby, jr.; standard bearer, Harold Hew itt. Sentinel, Lee Genteman; almon er, Richard Reay; orator. Gilbert Bateson; preceptors, James Kleen. Robert Doughton, Jack Ramseyer, Glenn Benner, William Maude, William Nelson and Fred Bucha nan. Robert Meaney will be installing Officer assisted by Louis Lorenz, Jr., James Rock, Howard 'Wilson, uoya namion and Robert Wiper, James Cirby, jt- is dad ad visor for the chapter. - Members will present a degree in honor of their mothers. The chanter re ported that past and present De Molay mothers are invited. ber of Capital post 9, American Legion, which will conduct ritual istic, services - at : the graveside Monday, and of the Congregatioo al church. i Surviving, besides the widow, are a daughter, Sally Jane Smith, , Salem; a son, Joseph Eugene Smith, Salem; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. .Bert Smith, Salem; a sister, Mrs. William Beckwith, Indianapolis, Ind.; his grandfath er, James P. Tucker, Salem; and several aunts and uncles. Services t Election etceteras ... Statesman staffers out gathering vote totals Friday night came back;' stiff in several joints ... seems that at several-polling places counting boards, before going r. ill A home, posted precinct , results in awkward places ... on bottom of doors frinstance . . . reporters said they had to stand on their, heads or belly the. floor to copy totals . . . usual num ber (about 20) election boards, brought city ballot boxes to courthouse instead of city hall . . . unusual number of voters who had moved from their pld precincts and attempted to vote ; V I for first timeji voters' addresses are included on JliJr A 1 poll books . . county clerk's office busy all l ... election days answering calls? from would-be balloters confused by'cards democrats passed out here attempting- to tell citizens what precincts they were in J . . clerk's phone (and nerves) also jangling with calls from voters who couldn't find their right precincts and ivice versa. Marion County Clerk Horlan Judd, on a t?iumb - nail -4 puess, estimates that about $S per cent oj registered voters went to the polls this time Instead of going fishing or vis- iting the folks . ; . Judd' considers this low turnout Com pared with some other yeafs. i ' ' " ; ' I ' ' ' County election board has one of city's election ballot boxes . ; and can't give it up ... county sends out two boxes to each, precinct with printed instructions to election boards to place voted ballots and stubs "in smaller, box" . . . well, this year, city's lonei ballot box to each precinct happened to be smaller than either county box . so, obeying instructions to letter, board of at least one precinct put ballots in "smaller box" which was city's and also wrong one. Well, the shooting and shouting is over . .-. if you see a male picture, in paper now you can be sure it is once more chairman of drive for destitute candidates, visiting business man or club speaker . . . radio spots will once more deal . with tooth-paste, tobacco, merchandise and garden tools ... street cleaners will be back to sweeping old papers and other debris from gutters . . . if a stranger hails you on street now and shakes your hand, he's probably looking for a hkndout ... end successful nominees will be rehashing old speeches rephrasing their best promises 'for the whole thing over again in November. . The Safety Valve did not seem to be as effective as usual, probably because he took the wrong stance. He denounced the "smear campaign of his op position. The Hoover campaign was bitter, even vicious, and some of it badly; distorted. But there was n personal smearing by way of attacking Morse's character or personal integrity. The big battle will be over the governorship and the legisla ture. Governor McKay and Aus tin Flegel will joust for 'ae form er and that will be a spirited contest. On the face of the re turns the republicans appear' to have nominated stronger candi-. dates for legislative positions, which gives ground for predic tion that they will regain con trol of the assembly. v In spite of the greater demo cratic registration in the state it appears that more republicans voted than ' democrats, even though the democrats had a hot contest for the nomination for governor. or Floyd Smith et Monday Funeral services for Floyd Earl Smith, 33, a native of Salem who died Wednesday, will be at 2 o clock Monday afternoon from the V. T. Golden chapeL Dr. Seth Huntington will offi date, with interment at City cemetery.- Smith, who had been ill for two years, was born here Dec 23, 1916, and graduated from Salem high school in 1934. He was married in 1940 to Barbara Duncan, who survives Jn Salem. During World War II Smith served 60 months in France and Germany as a sergeant in the 70th Truckers Ffle o Reverse and tax measures. Rejected was the county levy for a health building and the city levy for airport improvements. In Portland and Multnomah county, voters were really tight fisted. They did go for; the spe cial levy for schools but rejected the special levy for the county (needed chiefly for welfare) and two cits measures, one for an income tax, the other for a spe cial property tax. This puts both city and county in a critical po sition. The city will have to cur tail some of its services or ex tend the TSadly apportioned busi ness i license tax. The county seems disposed to appeal to the legislature for relief but the as ' sembly will have its hands full meeting existing and probable state needs. Voters In Salem and Marion county were discriminating in marking ballots on financial measures. They approved the levy for the courthouse and' Sa lem voters approved five bond , By Alton L. Rlakeslee r Aaaociatcd Preaa Science Reporter NEW YORK, May 20--Sun- -'Tanning mixef' with aspirin or sleep pills can cause skin trou- We. - : ' So can exposure to the,sun a Iter use of some perfumes hair dyes, or permanent wave chemi ; 'cals. ' .'''C ' : ' These warnings come from Dr. Herman Goodman, New York sain specialist, as the sun- wor shipping days return.1 lie tells of an actress who took . sleeping pills. She acquired a An tan, slowly and sensibly. But then came the trouble. A net work of -permanent blotches broke out all over her tanned, skin. ! The .culprit was coal tar che micals in the sleep pills, Dr. -. Goodman said. They also are . contained in aspirin and some other medicines. The skin of some people becomes, sensitized ; somehow to ultra-violet rays of : the aim when they have taken , such drugsr. Goodman said. Permanent trouble Is rare. But the drugs may cause, itching, epecially about the eyes, or out- breaks of fever blisters or cold -sores upon exposure to the sua. ' Stay out of the sun when you're ill, or if you have just taken such medicines, the der "TRaatoloist advises. And, he says, be careful about ' sun-bathing after using some perfumes, the ultraviolet rays can react with tiny amounts of copper in the perfume, causing darkening and blotching of any area dabbed with perfume. The copper comes from ingredients in the perfume that were stored or prepared in copper contain ers or coils. It speeds up the sun's tanning or burning reac tion on the skin. ; Bleaches, dyes, and ome che micals in permanent waves may cause, the same fast reaction. Hair may over-bleach, or hairs may be damaged and break off close to the scalp. ' . o o . Dr. Goodman also sounds the annual warning ' against too much sun. too fast. Over-exposure to the sun can kill, or make you HL Go slow during the first days. Fifteen minutes is enough for the first day. Keep turning, like a roast on a spit The sun also can kill or injure through night-time accidents. r Too much sunlight makes the eyes less sensitive to light, and makes seeing more difficult at night, Drs. Robert Peck ham and Robison - D. Harley of Temple University point cut. There can bi added danger in driving home at night after a day at the beach, unless bathers have worn sun glasses. They made tests with Atlantic no sun glasses. One third wore glasses that let through 35 to 50 per cent of the visible light. The others wore dark glasses that let through only 10 to 15 per cent of the visible light.- The loss of light sensitivity, they said, can be prevented or reduced by wearing dark glass es that let through only 10 per cent of light. , The light sensitivity lost dur ing a day .was recovered over night . early I during the season, they said. But by. mid-summer, "the unprotected men and those, wearing commercial glasses of high (light) transmission, failed to regain their retinal sensitivity vernight.M Dr. Peckham also made studies of sharpness of vision in people wearing expensive and Inex pensive sun glasses. "The most expensive types of sun glass lenses are not superior to the cheapest types with re gard to the sharpness of seeing, he said. "In fact, no method com mercially practiced has, in itself, any inferiority with - regard to sharpness of vision. " Sun glass wearers are warn-, ed not to look directly at the' sun, because the tun's rays can burn holes: in the retina of the eye, nor to wear sun glasses while driving cars at night. Ceurt IJonse Site . f To the Editor: One of the most sensible pro posals regarding the location the new court house appeared lately in the Safety Valve. The writer suggested the new building, as planned, would harmonize with the post office building's archi tecture, and should face eastward rather than westward toward High;-, street and a medley of business structures, leaving park ing strips facing both: State and Court streets for the use of coun ty officers and noted guests. !j - . This plan affords several great advantages, also, in that the present noted sfructure of French Colonial design may, by re-arrangement of its interior and by fire-proofing, remain for the en joyment of future generations. It could be used either as a memo rial museum where patrons could sit in comfort while scanning the names of Marion's heroes, in scribed on inner walls of the second story; while the ground " floor could -be rearranged for ' comfort and waiting rooms for out-of-town guests, with a suit able restaurant concession that would pay for proper care of this central meeting place for visit ors: The upper floor could be us ed for veterans meetings, as is provided in the Multnomah coun ty court house. . An alternate - plan would In volve, the purchase of. the building and the " - west : half ' of - the block i by the city i of Salem for a much more attrac tive and convenient city hall than the present one provides. This could be paid for partly by sale of the building at High and Che meketa streets.' This alternate plan would be of great conveni ence to all parties having busi ness with both county and city offices, and would afford quick er service for fire-fighting ap-. paratus using the ground floor. While either of these plans would require some expense in remodeling the interior, yet it might be less than the cost, of removing the old building. . If real economy still provides' the "Greatest good for the greatest number," then the freeholders of Marion county should have a voice in the selection of a site for the new building' and In the disposition of . the old Court House. ' ' May . I propose that the Press of Marion county provide cus tomer ballots for taxpayers, and report their findings to the Court House? - Respectfully yours, Joseph . Torbet, ' 961 Oak St. (Editor's Note: The voters have already cast a ballot on the site of the courthouse. When the building of a new courthouse was approved a number of years ago the present site Was authorized as its location.) ALL STEAMED UK To the Editor: -. I'm steamed up to a blow-off point so thought I'd better pull -The Safety Valve.' ' Lefs leave the Gestapo snoops over the ocean! ". J drove 30 miles yesterday and had to stop three times and show our courteous state and city po lice my operators license. . I think 111 paint a sign on the side of my truck designating the expiration date: M Why not have the car tag and operators license come due on the same date. C. L. Warner 4315 Macleay Rd. For' some weeks the Monday morning quarterbacks will be ap praising the results of the state's primary elections. But after a brief lull eyes will be focused on November 7th and preparations begun for a heavy battle between the two great parties. LountyiSnd Suit to overrule an Oregon pub lic utilities commission order clearing Russell E. Pratt, Salem, doing brsess as Northern lines, of other truckers charges was filed Saturday in Marion county circuit court by the nine trucking firms. ! ; , -'.".-'." The suit, brought by Asbury 1 Transportation compan. of Ore goa, Inc., and eight other compan ies, is against Commissioner Geor ge H. Flagg. It alleges that the PUC order of last February 28 is "arbitrary, unreasonable, unlawful and void" since it found Pratt's actions were not intentional and found his lease agreements were valid. The ! charges were originally brought last August, - involving Northern lines' interchange agree ment with Helser Bros., Portland, for trucking to the Detroit dam site, which the -PUC hearing last fall found was in effect for about 25 days and canceled when noti fied by PUC that it was not legal. They also concerned an equipment lease . agreement with Weaver Bros., Inc., Portland, which PUC accepted. ---'-' X get Board to Face Wage Problem Salaries of Marion county em ployes and elected officials will be among the first budget prob lems to be confronted Monday as the county budget committee be gins its annual three-day delibera tions. " ' - Few departments have requested pay raises, but others consider that matter up to the committee. It was understood that citizen members .of the committee may offer a recommendation concern ing salaries for the elected offici als, in order that any increases would be included in the budget . They could not be effective, how ever, until sometime in 1951, since the state legislature must approve such salaries. The requests of departments for the fiscal year beginning July 1 total $3,171,916, which must be pared by at least $105,113 to keep within the legal 6 per cent limit on increases. v . The committee, which will con-' vene at 10. a.m. (daylight saving ' time, includes members of the county court plus A. C. Haag of Salem, Manton Carl of Hubbard and D. B. Hill of Mill City. Sit ting Jn with them will be Rex Hartley of Ankeny, who on July 1 will succeed HilL 2 Start building her design for living S), w thai growfl with your Graduate This is a proud commencement day for her. 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