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I I I !! I t't , ! !)i It y "No favor Sway Us, No Fear Shall Awe" THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING, C03IPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher - J FaMlshed every morning. Easiness fflet IIS 8. Commercial. Salem, Oregon. Telephone 1-2441. Knteted at the postoffice t Salem, Oregen, as second class nutter under act al eeagress MaxehS, THE SACRIFICES OF My LADS WOULD HAVE GONE FOR. NAUGHT WITHOUT NEW GENERATIONS OF AMERICANS TO CARRY ON THEIR IDEALS OF LIBERTY- !.-. Iff WeUrawauncv- Once tha full impact of tha war in Korea was understood here, the United States had no al ternative but to put up or shut up. Wa put up. ; . . . ' ' ' ' . President Truman's decision Tuesday to send and shins into the fight on South Korea's side shows all the world and Russia, particularly that the United Btates has drawn a line. We said, In effect, to the communists: When you use armed aggres sion, you go too far. Ad we have shown that we intend to stop communist expansion in Asia right here and now. ; ' ; " ' Thus the U.S. is calling Russia's bluff. We are taking the risk that Russia is not aeadyfor World War HL Dispatching American bombers to blast om-Tminit-hdd installatinns in South "Korea send ing the Seventh Fleet to guard Formosa against not just a civil war, a rebellion against existing government, but, aggression from an outside government set up and guided by communist Russia. But facing, this issue the senate republi cans ran for cover. 1 . Then when Truman announced his decision to participate in the Korean war, some of the sev erest GOP critics of the administration the same ones who earlier advocated keeping out of Korea popped up to agree with the president's announcement. - ' Maybe it has just dawned on them that it Is not always up to congress to decide when and where and how the U.& is to enter hostilities; sometimes war is ihrust upon us. Or don't they remember Pearl Harbor? Modem Madame Butterflies A story in the Pacific Citizen, Ksel publica tion that xnanv Jananeae war brides are tm- the expected communist attack there, strength- happy with their Jot in the United States recalls ening defenses in thehilhppines nd shipping increased supplies and a military -mission to aid the anti-Red drive in that key area these ac tibns represent a calculated gamble that, once faced with force, the communists will back down, as they did in Berlin.' Justification for our action u ampie. uur an earlier tragedy, the familiar opera "Madam Butterfly" by PuccinL In Nagasaki, Cho-Cho-San, or Madame But terfly, a beautiful Japanese girl married Lieu tenant Pinkerton of the U.5. navy, in wve wun the American, Madame Butterfly believes the marriage to be binding, but for the lieutenant Usiriors declared from the first that the U.S. it Is merelv a convenient arrangement whereby would support any United Nations decision re- he legally gets Butterfly's love and devotion for garding the Korean crisis. The recent UN se- as long as he wants her. eurity council resolution called for a eease-fire Pinkerton returns to the States, promising all alone the line and thi Withdrawal of North- Butterfly that he will return "when the robins ern forces. The resolution further requested all nest again" and she believes him. Meanwhile, member nations to refrain from helping North Korea and to isissist the UN in carrying out terms of the resolution. North Korea, as expected, ignored the UN or- she has a baby. Years later, Pinkerton returns to Japan with his American wife to claim Ma dame Butterfly's baby as his own. With pathetic calmness, Cho-Cho-San congratulates the new m wv --- m m 1 1 gDyiil der. This, to .'the U., meant that it was up to wife and agrees to give up Pinkerton's child. ita in 'Anfnrr withdrawal OI the COmmUIUSt forces to beat them back with our own guns and planes and tanks, if necessary, Secretary ! Johnsonsays "not now," but forcing the with drawal of communist troops from South Korea may eventually require the use of American gfound forces. It is a possibility we have to face. Meanwhile, we can be sure that the very fact that America is backing up 6ur foreign policy A vl i-rnil r-rm nrtth aft4nn with miuTota military ?awer, is a moral and diplomatic victory for us. hat the United States is willing to send Amer ican pilots and navymen into the fray in Korea Droves to our friends and foes alike that we mean1 what we say. This is tremendously im portant. It will hearten our allies in Europe. It will strengthen our hold on Berlin and West Germany. It will encourage the anti-communist forces in Asia and help bring the fence-sitters ever to our side. To have permitted U S.-sponsored South Ko rea "to fall to the communists just as the Bri tish allowed Czechoslovakia to fall to the nazi would have been appeasement of Russia's im portant ambitions. To have drawn a line later, at Indo-China or Japan or the Philippines or maybe Pearl Harbor just as the British finally drew at line at Poland would have been post poning the inevitable showdown. This is the showdown, now. It had to come, sooner or later. Our actions so far have been honorable.. We must pray that they are also suc cessful, i When Pinkerton arrives to take the baby. o finds the disillusioned Madame Butterfly dead, a suicide. Modern Japanese brides who married Nisei and other U.S. servicemen whom they met in Japan during the occupation have discovered that life in the United States is not all they had imagined it to be. Some of the transplanted Japanese wives are unhappy because of lan guage differences and unfamiliar customs, the news story says. Others shared 'the popular mistaken impression in Japan that all people in the United States live as sumptously as Amer ican military officers in Japan." And now they are disillusioned. So there are divorces and sometimes the wives return to Japan,, if they can. It should be some consolation to these disap pointed brides to know that they are not alone. Some English, French, German, Italian girls, and war brides from other nations in which American servicemen were stationed have found that life in the U.S. Is not always the bed of roses they dreamed about. Moreover, there art many American brides who learn that marriage isn't always the blissful state they had hoped Safety Valve ROTESTS GOVERNMENT JUHOONG OUR AFFAIRS To .the Editor: Jka a farmer I think the Bran nan plan is one of the wont deals we could ever let ourselves be talked into. If we farmers caal make a living now how cmiM we under such a scheme? Our trouble now, as is most peoples trouble, too high a rate tf taxes from which we don't get a proper return of value Too xnaxty government1 bureaus and commissions getting a slice out of our dollar before we get a cent's worth or less back in roads or schoel aid. f : Under Brannan's plan we ulii Just be cinched under the pmument'i hand even tighter, mod if they once get the farmer hound, they can control the na tion's supply of food in a way designed to strip us of our last freedoms. We have a little taste Cairo Leg of Flight Proves Pleasant Trip By Henry McLemore CAIRO. EGYPT A few notes jotted down while flying Middle East Airlines from Beirut to Cairo: The cap tain of this --v for. Madame Butterfly's story is still being enact- cf anch doings in the wheat con ed, with this variation: Jilted women today don't ' trai set up. There is a proclaimed ' -l i i i . .u : regara suiciae as me oruy way out. some neaa for the divorce courts and try again to hit the jackpot. You might say we're getting the news from Korea before it happens. Dispatches arriving here today (Wednesday) are dated Thursday in the Far East. The international date line, west of the Aleutians and the Hawaiian islands, makes the difference. JSenate GOP Takes a Powder It's hard to figure out the senate republicans. At a caucus Monday they agreed "unanimously'' that the United States should not go to war ever the Korean situation. Yet the republicans have made up the wolf pack attacking the ad- TniniefPtttlAn 4Via f Allure A wn55i w-l i att in fhe far ast Tbey ferve condemned the state department for yielding to the Chinese reds and for failure to back up Chiang Kai-shek, though ipparently the may may -wt could have stopped ngbting. , - 'i I The situation is different with respect to Ko- A scientist says that the, earth is built like an rea. it was sei nn nv in umtea urates and naa - onion, witn lavers or narn end xnrt material nad aMui aiiias f our support- It is, moreover, Sometimes it seems to smell like one too. - i - " - The communist-inspired Stockholm petition for peace which thousands have been signing1 through the. red dominion should be presented to the government of North, Korea. That Js the immediate offender to the peace of the world. U. S. Lives Up to Three-Year-Ofd Promises By Sending Arms Aid to Fighting Koreans By J. M. Roberts. Jr. AP rarln Affair Analyst WASHINGTON, June 27 Tha United States, throwing her armed might into the defense of , South Korea, Is living up to the promise she imade three "i years ago to J help those who f . I would help themselves d against the in- eursions ox, eomniunism. Working un der a certificate of legality from - the United Na tions, America takes the role of poUceman in the Pacific These are not measures short f war. American fighting men fleet and ashore were moving Into action last night, throwing themselves Into the front of the line which the peace-loving na tiooj of the world have drawn against communist aggression, UeanwhOa, the South Koreans showed some signs of regaining th which they fast in the first Isjuts of the surprise invasion. "CI thin 24 hours the sAeiy hd changed ima what, looted IJes. th .beglndTqi ml m soMfhrrn taut tm err same hope k9 eauld ntfttae tteH 1 elL As American fnrrw mnwrnA defense, the world waited to what the ..Russian attitude - Would be. Observers were fair- . ly confident that, as in the case of Greece, the Kremlin would not come into the open in its , support of the local forces which it had unleashed. Arms aid, yes. But there were many reasons to doubt that official Russian units would be found at the front, ei ther on the ground or in the" air. Russians perhaps, as in the ; Spanish civil war, but not Russia. Then there would be no draw- 1 ing of the issue directly between the Soviet Union and the United States. .. As I say, observers were fair ly confident. They only wished they could be sure. The political aspects of the American decision were mani fold. First and above all. the world . was assured that the United -States will act as well as talk . about tHr communism. - - In places like the Philippines, Indo-China. Formosa, Western Germany, Iran. Turkey - ven la places like Britain and rranee American deterounatton took on a anr arct. - The feaSnxaCaolidarity spread to the American congress. Parti tan 'politic -vent out the win- !tsinxtsncttandlDr- 2rn skies in eSense g 4emoc-: soore. Qyoo!d th Siackiag of wnited IracL The worst cdSca of adndulstratloa policy ti wiped to the colors. Great decisions remained to be made. There was Immediate speculation as to whether ' the president's decision to defend Formosa would require, ultimate ly, a whole change in attitude toward the Chinese nationalist government headed by Chiang Kai-shek. , , " A possible change in the Amer-' lean attitude toward admission of Red China to the United Na tions was foreseen, along with a stiffened attitude toward Brit ish approval of that move. The attack upon Korea," said the president, "makes it plain, beyond all doubt that commun ism baa passed beyond the use of subversion to conquer independ ent nations and will now use armed invasion and war." . That reference is not to Ko rean communists, but to com-' munlsm Russian -wwtiwfgm Chmete communism all com munism. Under that definition, the U. SI can hardly stand Idly by, as she had planned to do. while others' vote commonlst China Into the comity of nations. ve Sfcfeaca tor th AawGlbnCweaeitlon at Z9 TeztidpatStn if mate-' rial proves not to be all that Kc- surplus of wheat, still the price is maintained at an unusual height by the price support pro gram which pervents buying low cost feed for livestock which is sold at a low price to retailers . who in turn have to sell tq con summers at a high price to clear a profit after taxes arc gouged out. In April I sold some hogs for which I got a top price of 28 cents a pound. That is far from clear profit after feed is taken off at $60.00 a ton and a hunk laid away for taxes on s little over a hundred acres of red hill . ground, which does not include the possibility of income taxes which were at the time of their being passed onto the people, said to reduce property taxes. The simplest plan of all as I see it is just let the people take care of things themselves and ' everything, will be worked out sensibly between them, without the never filled drain of govern ment plans sapping their means Of paying each other a reason able price for services and goods, which would give them satis faction and confidence In them- GRIN AND BEAR IT plane, which now is a mile j or so above the blue, blue wa ters of the Med- iterranean, is the man who taught King j Michael of Ru mania how to fly, and who was His Majes ty's pilot until the Russians took over the coun try and Michael literally had to ily . . . Nothing looks as much like a desert as a desert Once the Mediterranean is left behind, - and you start crossing the Libyan desert on the last leg to Cairo, there is literally nothing to be seen. Trackless wastes of sand, without so much as a blade of grass, or a gnarled tree, or a camel train. Just nothing, and a, lot of it. From a mile or so up the Suez selves. We don't need any Federal Housing acts either. Let people hire local carpenters to do their building on their own expense by allowing them to keep the money they earn by their labor and save up a large enough fund to build their own home. Now the government takes their money, hires a group of clerks to handle it, then sets up an or ganization to help those from whom they took it in the first place. The government's job Is to keep peace and maintain order, not try to take over everything and run our lives that's the people's job. When a government starts trying to carry its people around on a silk pillow it's time for them to take another look and see who is carrying whom. i Joe Spenner Stayton, Oregon by Lichty Today; as laststtgfct, the heart of America rides with the bomb er and fighter csors ewor far esy 4 Tears axo. TerterfSrwClB to let Japan have. Tha United State waa not then the policeman of "WeYe the world. . Jut enclose a not .... . ' aa .. W MaManMaeaaMBnnnwtsnwMBwaaMnvsHBaanmfWaMaMaB- Canal looks like a long "Strip of baby blue ribbon, winding and curving through the nothingness of the desert, It looks much too narrow to accommodate ships, and it is not until you see a ves sel on its surface that you realize how broad it is . . . Not far from Port Said they are cutting a by pass in the Canal, so that ships will be able to pass one another. Just a form of railroad siding in the desert . . . Port Said, which Is famed for its sinister wicked ness (in stories, at least), is a peaceful enough looking place from the air. Sprawled on the shores of the Mediterranean, it looks quiet and calm enough to be the site of a Sunday school . convention. The flight from Beirut to Cairo takes only a bit more than two hours and a half, but Middle East Airlines plies the custom ers with soft drink and all sort of sandwiches." I have never been on an airline where the service is as complete. The stewardess is doing something for you all the time. To the visitor making his first trip to Cairo, the sight of the city Is dead sure to offer a thrill . . . Below, winding majestically through the desert is the Nile, looking just as it should lined with stately palms, and dotted with craft of all sorts . . . But the big kick comes with the first glimpse of the pyramids and the Sphinx. They looked down on Napoleon and his troops from the Middle East plane one looks down on them. Incidentally, my readers need not expect a description by me of how it feels to climb the Great Pyramid. A guidebook to Cairo which I purchased In Beirut de scribes the ascent as a cross be tween being hit over the head with an axe and being baked in a slow oven. The guidebook ad vises that if one does want to ' make the elimb, and get the sweeping view of the summit that one employ three dragomen. Two to go ahead tugging one by the hands and the third to bring up the rear and do some concen trated pushing. I am wild about views, and will go to almost any extreme to please my public, but that sounds a bit too rourh. The remainder of this Is being written after clearing customs in Cairo. From what I had read. I dreaded the ordeal. But I have never been treated more kindly or with more efficiency than by the Cairo customs officers. With Jim McGinnis of Pan-Am lead ing the way, we were in and out of. customs in. little more than fifteen minutes. No fuss, no bother . . . Cairo weather, too, has been erroneously maligned. The thermometer reads hot but the heat is so dry that one does n't suffer half as muchas one does in, say, Washington, D;C And the nights X haven't spent one here yet are said to be so coot even during the hottest months, that a light cover Is .needed. . (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc.,) Better English By D. C WllHaaas 1. What is wrona with this tence? T wish to pay up my bill before returning back home." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "recconoiter"?-. S. Which one of these words Is misspelled? Beautious, fg""" surreptitious, plenteous. 4. What does the word "osten tatious' meant ' 9. What is a word beginning with no that mini to feed"? w ANSWERS- L Omit un and tack, 2. Pro noanen rek-o-noi-tz; first o as to wreck, not as in reek, prto- . tips! accent on third syllable. 3. Beauteous. 4. Characterized by. "His main i "gvins; "V party was ostentatious," ft. Nourish,, - , Notes of a national guardsman recently returned from sum mer camp . . . Biggest discovery at camp was that C rations aren't what they used to be. The old dog biscuits have given way to soda crackers and cream-filled cookies. War - time tasteless meat-and-vegetable hash . has undergone a change until now it's palat able chicken-and-vegetable hash. Canned hamburger in gravy went over pretty good too. The rations contain everything from can open er; and disposable spoons to cigarets and a can of real Jam. G Co. man, Sgt. Robert Graham, WU student, copped top honor in pistol shoot in lUind regiment ... he nailed' 312 out of a possible 350 . . . not bad especially when most of the other men found it easier to throw rocks . . . PFC Weldon Ward knocked communications school for a row of dashes when he knocked off a cool 25 words per minute (a school graduate is supposed to hit only 8 words per minutes) . . . Ward s secret tS that he was a communications man with the signal corps prior to enlisting in national guard . . . two other communications students, PFC Dave Cobb and PFC Willard Eggers, both products of Pacific Tel and Tel, show ed instructors how to climb poles in a hurry. Among the lighter (headed) tricks was this dandy: Couple of Sgts. came in late one night (about second night of camp) and woke up G Co. weapons platoon . . . told dog-tired platoon to get ready to move out because Columbia river had flooded Vancouver . . . platoon -scrambled for clothes, packs, etc. and was ready to move out in seconds flat . . . then found out they were hoaxed in the early hours . . . Sgts. who pulled trick didn't have one single night s rest for entire remaining two weeks of camp. Entire last tear (and several before that) was fought, ref ought and fought again, when older vets got together . . . some even shyly admitted having nearly won the last con flict by themselves . . . Sgts. Leo Stringer and Vernon Hein richs, Lts. Paul Benage and Jerry Anderson and Capt. Bill Dwyer, all contributed to the salty tales of what things were "really like in the old army." ... 1st Sgt. Art Meiser, being a marine veteran, had to hold up his end of the bill session by himself. ' Sgt Don Ryan (19 and a veteran of Bojr Scout Camp Meri weather) sat in on so many baloney binges with the older men and heard so many conflicting reports of individual prowess he had to take notes to keep the yarns straight Every morning his buddy SFC Bob Swanson gave him an oral quiz on the stories. If you think the boys had nothing but play check this schedule (preferably while lying in bed 'some morning) First call at 5:30 when CQ and 1st Sgt. went through and ; gently woke camp . . . back two minutes later and tipped sleepers out . . . reveille formation at 6:15 and breakfast at 6:30 and back to tents for housekeeping chores . . . drill call at 7:30 icTiich meant that most men were out on the field creeping, crawling, firing, griping, and learning rudiments of attack and defense . . . choio at noon and more work in afternoon ... at night they managed to stay awake long enough to reach their sacks . . . and so to sleep just about time when guys coming in off Pass would wake everybody up again. Literary Guidepost By W. G. Rorers JOURNEY INTO SELF: Being the Letters, Papers and Jour nals of Leo Stein, edited by Edmund Fuller, foreward by Mabel Weeks, introduction by Van Wyck Brooks (Crown; $4) Leo Stein, whose death In 1947 followed by about a year the death of his sister Gertrude, was a roan in his own right Partisans of his sister, like my self, tend to forget his distinct ion. They were reminded of it in his two earlier books, "The ABC of Esthetics", and "Apprec iation: Painting. Poetry and Prose." Confronted by this re warding volume, they can no longer blink the fact that he was more than Just Gertrude's brother. Miss Weeks thinks he was more than Gertrude; and Brooks finds him "one of the most in teresting men of the 'passing generation." This miscellaneous collection of often fragmentary material does not corroborate Miss Weeks, but it does confirm Brooks' estimate. Leo Stein "suffered from a frightfully se vere neurosis." He experimen ted with experience, and how ever pretentious it sounds, his lifo was Journey into self. He played billiards, cooked, fletch- erized, fasted; he took long walks, as for Instance from his home in Settignano. into Flor ence when he was in his 70s; he could tell how his brain was working by the cool or warm feeling of his forehead, or so ho claimed; he painted; he thought; he married Nina Auzias, who as he knew had had many affairs, and the courtship was touching and the marriage happy. He criticized some of Edith SitweU, couldnt go Mallarme, complained about Hutchins Hap good's autobiography that "no thing that he says about me is accurate." As for his sister's "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas," he exclaimed, "What a liar she Is!" He did not like the mention of her In reviews of his KaaV, tint h, n1 H n leave her out while writing about himself. "She's basically stupid and I'm basically Intelligent," he says. Yet he reveals perhaps more than he meant in the com ment about his own letters, that "I shall be content to offer my wares in bits like this." He too frequently left them as bits, fas cinating though they are. "Man plays his role and ends," he said bravely. He "hated tosh." There isn't a line of tosh here; that was his particular and rare virtue. ' u 15th' Annual St. Paul Two Dav Shavi Jury 2-4 Afternoon ' At 1:30 P. M. Two Flight Shows Jury 1-3 At f:ef r. K. THRILLS! ACTION! DRAMA! HI PARDNER: The best rodeo you've ever seen that's what youll say about the St. Paul Rodeo July l-S-S-4. As Is custom ary, the thrill you cUdnt expect win be the highlight of the ISMBodeo. i . ' Prize money of $9,400, lightning action end wildest stock obtains hie will combine to maks this year's Bodso ' the best ever. - j- Mark July 1-2-3-4 on your calendar now as reserved for the St. Paul Rodeo. You wont be disappointed. . THZ ST. 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