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' ' V 'f-j! . -.', . M itf .( ft." V .fhsj Ciattgacd; Sdln Qrefrcau Tuesday, Ancjgtt 8. I "Wo Fccor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Awe Tnm first SUtesmaa. March ts. 1851 . , THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher " PoMldiM twn maniac Bosiaess efflee IIS 8. Commercial. Salem. Oreron. Telephont S-244L latere! at tfc pestoftlea at Sales. Oregon, as aecoad elus matter under act ot congress March 1. 1X7 Don't They Know?. Everyone from President Truman on down to the country weekly editor has taken a whack at the housewives who dutch a dozen extra pairs of nylons or 500 pounds of spare groceries in their grubby little hands. ' r Now it's time somebody took a crack at the salespeople who put themselves out to load the stuff into milady's shopping bag. Merchants on the whole have ostensibly tried to discourage the run on ' consumer goods, knowing full well that inflation and eventual government controls aren't generally favored by business. Some stores have even bought newspaper advertising space urging their cus tomers not to hoard. . ' V ',. But evidently that word hasn't gone down through channels to some of the help. Perhaps you've been annoyed by some of these sales persons yourself. With one hand on their salesbook and the other; fiddling in your pocketbook, do they follow you down the aisles, pointing out, in the underslung tones of a fellow-conspirator, the items which once were scarce? v ; .- "Stainless steel kitchenware might be hard, to get soon," they whisper slyly. "You won't be able to buy these decorative copper molds at this price much longer, they intone. "Only one pair of nylons? But, lady, everyone is stocking up, you know, they say with eyebrows raised. "We have some nice sheets here, in case you're interested. They wont last long, they hint. "Better get your woolens now; the prices are going up, I hear," they breathe into your ear. '-' If, as congress has indicated, the hoarder is a criminal, theft the salesperson who high pressures a buyer into buying more than he needs of high-demand items is certainly an accessory before the fact. Next time, one of these petty saboteurs tempts you to buy something you don't really need, squelch him with a retort from the salesman's own book: "Don't you know there's a war on?" the physically unfit, the conscientious objectors, the cowards who wangle def errments for their own selfish reasons, the slackers and deserters, the aged and decrepit.- Meanwhile the families of men liable to be called to duty at any time, of men willing and able to bear arms, of men already in the service and certain to be moved from camp to fort to port of embarcation, can park in auto courts or. trailer camps' or miser able little apartments. ? Certainly, the tender sentiments of the land lady are understandable. So are' the motives of draft-dodgers, hoarders and war profiteers un derstandable. But they are inexcusable, never- theless. For the shirkers, the hoarders, the - profiteers, the landlords who discriminate against men likely to be called into service, and all their ilk, show a common unwillingness to share the inconvenience and sacrifice this na tion's war effort demands. v Justice Harry H. Belt Harry H. Belt was oldest in point of service as justice of the state supreme court, and in his 25 years on the highest state bench made important contribution to the administration of justice in Oregon. He did his full share of work; and he had a clarity in his thinking which en abled him to cleave swiftly through the con ' flict of issues to the fundamental principles in volved in cases. A native sound judgment helped him hold true to the elements of justice without being fogbound in legal technicalities. His friendly personality, his interest in out side activities gave him a cordial welcome in any group. A heart that long had grown tired failed him while visiting in Bellingham. His going leaves a gap on the bench and in the community; but the name of Harry Belt will always be held in high respect Mac Picks 7 Winners at Danish Races "r Henry McLemore 1 COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug. 7 If kidnapping weren't such a serious offense here in Denmark, and the average. Dane weren't such a big, hus ky fellow, rd be out today to put the snatch on one of them. ' The one I'd like to take, home with ma Is a horse hand le apper for . a morning' paper who makes his selections under th? heading, "B. T.s Galop-Tip." He's the hottest thing around a track since Ben Hur, and thanks to him 111 be able to buy the stuffed rein deer which caught my fancy the first day I went .window shop ping in Copenhagen. (For years I have had to go along being eiiK barrassed when guests in our home would ask to see our stuff ed reindeer and I'd have to ad mit that we didnt have one. Yesterday good ol B. T who ever he is, picked seven winners out of seven at the track" a few miles outside of town and, glory be, I went down the line with him. Actually, I shouldn't take too much credit for' following B. T. because I found a Danish newspaper with his selections in it in a taxi riding out to the course, and it was the only in formation I had all day. hame on Them v It was just what they had been looking for all summer a small house with a big yard and room for flowers; and vegetables and children to grow in. After anxiously scanning the class ified ads and chasing down "one lead after another, thel young couple were already looking forward to living here. , And then the landlady said, "wait a minute. What's your status, young man? Will you be called into service?" What could he say? After four years over seas in the last war, this was the question paramount-in his own mind not so much the return to arms but the not knowing whether or when. Who knew the answer? He could only wait and take his .chances with the thousands . of other reservists. ' - - But not so the landlady. She refused to share the risk. "I can't be bothered with short-term renters," she said. "I'm going to rent only to 4-Fs or elderly folk, not to people who might be here today -and gone to Korea tomorrow. -Sorry. . . ." This is a true story. It happened In Salem last weekend. J v It seems to show that able-bodied men, these days, are in the same category undesirables as children, dogs" and cats, and people who throw rowdy parties late at night. Preferred tenants, these days, it seems, are Willamette university and Salem regret to lose, even to Portland and the state system of higher education, Dr. and Mrs. Egbert S. Oliver. Dr. Oliver is a real scholar and has been an inspiring teacher of English literature as well as an author of scholarly works in his special field. He has in addition been prominent in the affairs of the Congregational church, both locally and in the nation. The Oliver home has been a center particularly for the inspira tion of youth something for which the small . college is distinguished. Regrets, but may the best fortune attend them. Editorial Comment WINCHESTER BAT DRAWS FISHERMEN " "" Approximately 2,500 people have been estimated at Winchester Bay each Sunday for the past few Winchester Bay is located at the mouth of the Umpqua river and currently is enjoying the best salmon fishing season on record. Salmon now being caught at the bay are said to be larger on the average than those taken last year. Indicating good feed conditions. These fish are not Umpqua river salmon, but are from the Columbia, British Columbia and even Alaskan streams, drop ping into the bay to feed, while migrating north ward along the coast for their annual fall spawning migration into their native fresh water rivers. New sports facilities recently installed at Win chester Bay are proving extremely helpful, but more work is needed in providing moorage space, loading and unloading docks, parking grounds, etc. Win chester Bay has totally inadequate facilities to ac commodate the great numbers of visitors who want cabins and boats, but private enterprise will soon solve this bottleneck, particularly if the develop ments for which the public is responsible are pro vided. Roseburg News-Review. ; U. S. Atomic Superiority Only Dim Deterrent To Russians in Western Europe Until 1953 I V II I 1 By Stewart Alsep WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 Win ston Churchill's recent speech in the house of commons is curi ously sad. It Is bleak and rath er bare, with few of the old ! flourishes. But it is full of the sort of facts which it some- times seems : that only a j Churchill is ca pable of lacing. Remorseless- . . l- Ml tacts of Western weakness m Europe, and Soviet strength: twelve divisions against 175; a few hundred tanks against more than 40,000; 19,000 modern air- traft against a fraction of that number; reduced naval strength against a submarine fleet far more powerful than Hitler's; and so on. Remorselessly, Churchill V ' draws the parallel "the prepa rations of Western Union to defend itself certainly stand on a far lower level than those of ; South Korea. I ' The "substance of Churchill's . estimate of the present situation Is that "there is at present no affective defense, in Western Eu rope beyond the channel," and that England itself is in greater danger than in the worst days of 1940. Churchill does not spell out the meaning of this situation to the United States. But its meaning Is clear enough. - For the first time this country faces the prospect, in case of general war, of-almost the whole world outside the Western Hem isphere either actively united x gainst us, or, like England, neu-U trained and rendered -powerless to help This Is an intolerable 1 situation, for the United States 1 -as well as for Europe. The first question which : must now be ; sked is how long this intolera- -We situation is likely to last. Although the problem of the defense of the Atlantic commun ity has in no essential way been affected by the attack on Korea, it is at least true that since Ko rea all the sham plans for At lantic defense have been hur riedly and rather shame-facedly discarded. New plans, based on the realities of the situation rather than comforting . delu sions, are now being devised, while the Atlantic community is beginning to embark on a serious " rearmament program. Yet the terrible situation so bleakly described by Churchill will not be altered overnight. No firm plans and estimates have yet been made.. But as of today I it is the best guess of the best planners that two full years from now in August, 1952 there will be no more than thirty-five ready divisions, Brit ish, American and Continental, to set against the. 175 mobilized divisions of the Red army. And even this estimate is based on the assumption that the standby arms plants in this country and abroad, which are now mere shells, are filled with the neces . sary machines and trained men as rapidly as possible. This thirty-five-division force envisioned for two years from now will be, to be sure, an en tirely serlous.force. Eight to ten of the divisions will be fully armored. The new plans call for great emphasis in tactical and ground support plane) an element blithely disregarded in pre-Korea days. Even so, the r lesson of Korea fresh in their minds, the best experts privately doubt that so small a force could do more than hold a relatively large beachhead somewhere on ' the Continent, Is case of war. Not until 1953 or 1954, it is now believed, will it be possible to mount a really serious de fense of Western Europe. By then it should be possible to put between fifty and sixty fully equipped divisions In the field, including twelve to fifteen ar mored divisions, and with mass- ive air support. Thus It will not be until 1953 or 1954 that the So viet monopoly of power in Eu rope can really be broken. . For three and perhaps four years, therefore, a single ques tion' will haunt the Western world. Will the Soviet rulers allow their monopoly of power in Europe to be broken in the long Interval before Western Europe can be seriously de fended? Somewhat obliquely, Church ill addressed himself to his speech. He clearly believes that the answer to the question de dends largely on the rate of So viet production of atomic bombs. He notes that "between having the secret and making any large number of bombs, there Is un doubtedly a considerable inter val. And he believes that there are factors, especially the des perate efforts of the Soviets to get even small quantities ot uranium, which "seem I only say seem to justify a hopeful view." This hopeful view is clearly that the "atomic bomb deterrent, which is what we are living on now will continue to operate during the yawning gap of three or four years before convention al Western force can be rebuilt But what if this hopeful view is not Justified? Then "we must never abandon hope v that a peaceful settlement may be reached with the Soviet govern ment if a resolute effort is made on the basis not ot our present weakness but of American atom ic strength. This clearly means something very like a showdown with the Soviet Union now. Surely this is a brave course for an English leader, fully aware of the naked vulnerability of his country, to propose. But Church ill has been right before this. And if the hopeful view is not Justified, it is hard to imagine any other rational course. CoovriHt US. York Herald TtUhum. XacJ In fact, I have never been to a race track where I was as com pletely ignorant of what was go-., ing on as I was yesterday. I talk ed to no one, bought no tip sheets, couldn't read any of the signs around the track - in fact, B. T. and I were in a little world of our own, thank goodness. I never knew the odds of any horse I bet on. I just waited until twenty minutes after each race and then presented my ticket at a window marked "UDBETAL ING" and gathered In my kroner. About all I could make out was the names of some of the jock eys - Knut Hansen, Eli Jensen, H. Olsen and Ejv Petersen. B. T. furnished reasons for his selections, but see if they would help you any more than they did me. He had this to say about the first race, or lob, as the Danes foolishly pronounce race: "Bois-Mill Lob for Treaarige, der ikke har vundet, 1600 meter. 7 Startende, Ingen 1 dette Felt har nogen Form vaerd at regno med, hviilket fremgaar : allerede deraf med, hviilket fremgar all erede deraf, at samtlige 7 endui 1 deres fjerde Aar er uden Sejr. Crown U har ten tilsyneladende bedste Chance foran Cutty Sark og Ma Petite. I did get a bit out of that. Crown, 11 sounded like a race horse's name, Cutty Sark rang a familiar note, and my mastery of French gave me a hint as to what Mm Petite meant. I cant get over the way the Danes behave during the running of a race. Exuberant, fun-loving people most of the time, they don't so much as make a chirp when a race is on. Nor do they utter a single yell, even when three or four horses pass the fin ish all in a bunch. Naturally, all this peace and quiet made me as conspicuous as a bass drummer at a chamber music festival. Toward the end of the day, when I had some fair ly serious kroner riding, I acted like a Comanche. I was up on benches giving war whoops of v encouragement to B. T.'s and my . horses, and generally acting as if I had left my senses back at the hotel with my passport. . The Copenhagen track comes as a surprise to one accustomed to the artiflcal beauty of Amer ican tracks. It is situated in the heart of a forest and its beauty is supplied by the giant trees . which encircle it, and the unbe- ' lievably lush turf of the racing strips. The track provides a pun ishing test for the horses. In stead of being flat it dips and ris- ; es, and often, only the heads of the horses arid the caps of the Jockeys are visible. A furlong from the finish the horses have to come up a pretty good rise. ' " Another attractive feature of the Copenhagen tracks is the dis patch with which the races are OUR NOMINATION ' FOR THE ' ''BUM S ' RUSH Pldn of Total Mobilization Gains Support By J. M. Roberts, Jr. AP Towim Affairs Analyst . WASHINGTON, Aug. 7-5V "Why dont we tell Russia flatly that from here on out she will be met with force wherever she' resorts to force. f If we really be- lieve she doesn't iwant war now,, wouldn't that; pre vent her ,t from taking' V more chances?" . That is aj V question which,! I . - I next to kicking I I Russia out of I Is V I Scene in a Court street store: Clerk is making sales talk to customer : . . suddenly from somewhere in store a bell rings . . clerk glances at his watch, excuses himself, strolls through front door of store to car parked directly m front ... he f eeds nickel into parking meter, comes back to customer and resumes buy line chatter ... store owner (hizzoner, no . less) has been active in campaign to create more downtown parking space for shopping public by curtailing meter feeders. m 63330000 PCD ODDS feu run. Thev vt off n KrhMiul. with none of that stalling while GRIN AND RPAP IT asa S v via Mill's to get in the pari-mutuel mach ines that we have at home. The horses break from a webbing and they don't average more than 30 seconds at the post. Of course, the fact that I had seven winners may have caused me to see the Copenhagen track through exceptionally rose-colored glasses. Given seven win ners, and I suppose a track in a railroad yard would seem per fect (Distributed by McNausht Syndi cate. Inc.) ( Sunday was National Friendship day . . . commemorating probably the act that many of our friends are shipping out ... city bus and an auto tangled bumpers ' on downtown South Commercial street Monday a.m. ... after usual straining to separate front end of car from rear of bus (causing usual traffic jam) both parties drove" away leaving a dandy Utile pile of broken glass smack in middle of driving lane, which is against city law. . . inflation at the station? city police uniforms took a jump in price this week ... no indication though that demand has increased military uniform price tag. Joe Tompkins, photographer for McEwans, says he did duty with David Duncan, Life photog. who is pixing war in Korea, when both were in marine corps photographic unit in World War II. Joe says Duncan is strictly a shutter man from the word go. Brash, breezy and. good, Duncan wants no other life than to dash around the globe ("He'd wear a cutlass if they'd let him") recording history's troubles with flash and film. Also in Joe's outfit were Cary Mydans, another Life man in Korea, and Joe Rosenthal the man who gave the world the famous flag raising photo on Iwo Jima. ' Bugs in construction work are not the only type Detroit dam workers battle ... Canyon Castle, news-sheet published by employes at dam, ran this dispatch on the insect prob lem: "Margaret Hintz reports she reached out to open the window in the personnel section the other day and put her hand upon a varmit which measured at least two inches lono", had red, white and blue striped wings, an orange nose 'and winked at her." . r . thafs the queerest bug by a dam site we ever heard of. Many who attended the Horace Heidt show here other night came away feeling Horace must have had his wires, his information or his directions crossed ... he kept making cracks about how one-way streets in Salem confused him ... well, audience was confused too trying to recall what one-way streets. . . Tillamook now has a Salem telephone directory sent to them by John Snyder of Salem who got sore other day when he couldn't find a Capitol city directory in all of Tilla mook. - by Lichty Better English 1. What is wrong with this sen tence? That is a very unique ring you are wearing." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "ransack? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Eulogise, enterprise, chastise, criticize. , 4. What does the word "repos itory' mean? 5. What is a word beginning with ap that means "sanction? ANSWERS . 1. Omit very. 2. Pronounce as spelled, not ram-sack; accent! first syllable. 3. Eulogize. 4. A place where anything is stored, for safekeeping. "Books are faithful repositories of knowl edge.' 9. Approval. - Vt I T -j "While ear plant is net equipped to make scything far the exfprt ... we can eertaimly rant ut mme f tmm far war surplus." (Continued from page 1) communism without specifical ly naming Russia as the prime culprit. The latter persists In the fiction that the United States is committing armed aggression in Korea. Malik in his argument supporting his resolution ex tolled it as offering the path of peaceful settlement, "the path toward which it (the U.N.) is being called by all peace-loving peoples of the world, headed by the Soviet Union, of its great leader and teacher, the great Stalin." This Is not the first time that Russia has flouted truth and played the arch-hypocrite. When the USSR attacked innocent and neighboring Finland in 1939 the old league of nations condemned the attack, but Foreign Commis sar Molotov had the audacity to reply that Russia was not at war with Finland! Russia has set up a puppet "democratic republic of Finland" and he told the league of nations that the government of the "democratic republic" of Finland had appealed to Russia for aid "to eliminate by joint efforts . . . the most dangerous state of war created In Finland by her former rulers." The league then kicked Russia out of membership. Now Russia is back in U.N., but it is the same lying, aggressive Russia which wants peace ... on its own terms, which are the triumph of atheistic communism. We should watch today's ses sion of United Nations security council, not with any expecta tion that Russia will be expelled but to see whether Russia will walk out of the council and pre cipitate the third world war. Assessors to HearBelton The Oregon Assessors . associa tion will meet In annual conven tion at Astoria September 7 and 8, President M. J. Cosovich, Clat sop countyl assessor, announced Monday. ' Among the speakers will be state Sen. Howard Belton, chairman of the 1949 legislative interim com mittee on taxation; state Rep. Giles French, Moro; state Sen. Robert Holmes, county Judge Guy Boy ington, Clatsop county; F. H. Young, manager of Oregon Bus iness and Tax Research; George Spaur, state forester, and Robert D. MacLean and Carl Chambers, state tax commissioners. Property tax exemption, re habilitation of county and state timber, uniform forms for tax statements and receipts will be discussed. FOR Insured Savings First Federal Savings First Current Dividend 2tt :rcl Savings Lcm Ass'n. 142 So. liberty the United Na tions and use of the atom bomb, I hear most frequently. President Truman practically said that was the idea, in his "message to congress on prepared ness, but he didn't say "positive ly." The reason, presumably, is the same reason that American dip lomats are seriously hampered in all of their dealings lack ot preparedness. For two years the United States has tried to make Russia understand that she means what she says about stopping aggres sion cold war, hot war or what not. But Russia, looking at the '. military strength of the Western Allies, hasn't seemed much im pressed, : . Some of the Allies themselves have felt much the same way, . fearing that their alignment with the U.S. would get them Into a war for which neither we nor they are prepared. Russia may be more impressed by the western reaction to Korea, and the Allies by new evidence of American determination to get ' down to bedrock about rearming. But they all know that even in the United States there are still divergent schools ot thought. Perhaps because they are still In strategic retreat from previous economy policies, or perhaps be cause they believe it, certain Pen tagon quarters still choose to view the present emergency as a limited one, and present mobil ization efforts as the ultimate. This school seems to be losing out, however, to those who be lieve that the one chance of avoiding war, and the one chance of winningit if it does come, lies in a total eifortTtfow. A total ef fort not only o be prepared, but to give thediplomats the backing . which they must have if they are , to have any freedom of move ment. Progressive steps at the White House indicate this school's progress. To this momentum is being added the weight of many ex perienced observers, and of such organizations as Freedom House in New York, a group of people like Sumner Welles and former war secretary Robert Patterson who work constantly for world freedom. Mobilize totally now for "total danger," they urge.1 Anthony Eden, Winston Chur chill's protege in the business of recognizing the trends of current history.' bas added his voice to those proclaiming that "the dan ger to peace is very great in deed.", And, Eden adds, 'time is not on our side." All of this part of a growing recognition that if things keep going as they are, if the UJS. is to be Involved in a series of out breaks such as that in Korea, if Russia is not convinced that the US. is able as well as determin ed, war Is inevitable. It might be averted by some diplomatic showdown. But no . such showdown can be invited until the state department has sufficient strength behind it to emphasize its words. Even if we went into "total mobilization" now it would prob ably be nearer two years than one before such strength would be available. At the present rate, the best guess is merely "years." In the meantime, events can be met only as they arise, in the light of current conditions, with . the undertaking of no tasks which we are unable to carry through, and no ultimatums. L - . . SEE II $t Fcdci U end Ic: Chamber to Study Mushroom Tariff Cut Proposal Salem Chamber of Commerce Is studying the possible effects of a mushroom tariff reduction on Salem's mushroom Industry. The chamber has received infor mation from the industry that a further reduction in tariff is pro posed among items on the agenda of a reciprocal trade treaty meet ing in England next month. In dustry spokesmen have filed briefs opposing any such tariff cut and are now soliciting support from communities with mushroom plants. West Mushroom Co. of Salem Is a big producer and shipper of mushrooms, both fresh and can ned. The tariff would affect can ned mushrooms. X-ry DottbU tow moorr back M y T osat fas SunnytMnk's extra A trash Savor. Mads, shippta, f i dfma,BKtsstroI tUT JUKUYUUU ti SARUtt