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f -the tftaUcman, Solera, Oregon! 1 Thursday. Sept 21) t35fl ? ' ill " "tfo Fopor Swayt Us, No Fear Shall Atoe" Front first Statesman, March ZS. 1S51 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY ' CHART.F.S A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher FubUsfcei Ttry mo minx. Raitneti efflce 215 8. Commercial. Salem, Oreron. Telephena 2-2441. Catered as the aactofOeft at Bslawa, Oreraa. aa sseead elaaa Butter Bade act at consresa March X. 1X1 whom they lend the support of affiliation or contribution, lest they find themselves involved in some kind of subversive activity. "If in Doubt, Don't Join" advises U.S. News and World Report this week, warning that any direct or indirect connection with any suspected communist front or communist-dominated or ganization can lead to trouble. "Watch out that your name is not on the lis of sponsors of an organization not well known to you. It may even be important to make sura that your name is not on the mailing list, of any organization that could turn out to be communist-controlled. The American habit of joining or ganizations needs now to be restrained," says U.S. News. i The reason, of course, is the McCarran-Mundt-Ferguson-Nixon-Wood bill which seems on the way to becoming law, though the presi dent may veto it. Most Americans who are not communists have nothing to fear. But many Americans with a weakness for espousing anything that sounds like a worthy cause may now find -themselves connected with a Red-front group. Workers in Red-dominated labor unions have something to worry about. So do people who contribute to . relief agencies sending aid to individuals behind the iron curtain. Church groups which collect money for food for hungry Chinese might be blacklisted on grounds of giving aid to a com munist country. Pacifist groups who oppose re armament might be labelled subversive, as may labor, farm and consumer organizations which support social-welfare plans that have commun ist backing. People who subscribe to The Daily Worker or other communist publications may be under suspicion. Persons who knowingly or not sign communist-sponsored petitions and ap peals may be regarded as communist-sympathizers. , - It's going to be a different America, once the anti-subversive laws go, into effect. But so far as wa know, it's still safe to join the boy scouts, Kiwanis, the YWCA and. the WCTU; it's still safe to contribute money to the Red Cross 'and community chest. Whether the McCarran bill becomes law or not be sure to look before you join! . GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty Britain to Nationalize Steel Winston Churchill lost by six votes on his motion of censure for the Attlee government of Great Britain. The basis of the motion was the announcement of the labor rninistry that the steel industry would be nationalized on January mrnm a mmmi a m m mm 1st next. Churchill attacked this decision as one endangering the country in a time of .grave crisis. Had the Churchill motion prevailed Prime Minister Attlee and his cabinet would have re signed and a general election for a new parlia ment called.: Since the labor party majority has been exceedingly narrow it was not certain that it could muster enough votes to defend itself. This the party whips succeeded in doing. Actually the decision to nationalize steel was taken months aga-In the process it was neces sary to clip still further the power of the house of lords, but finally the legalities were compiled with and the resolution to nationalize written into law. Putting the law into effect was sus pended by mutual consent between the parties until the general election held last February. That returned the labor party to power and in sofar as the election was a referendum the steel policy of the party was approved. Whether the transition of steel from private to public ownership will hinder Britain's re armament program is of course a serious ques tion. Steel is interrelated with so many indus tries that it will be hard to determine the divid ing line for private and public ownership through the steel-making and steel-using in dustry. Performance in British steel works has been very good, quite in contrast with the story In coal. From a production standpoint there is little prospect of any gain with nationalization and the chance of loss-through disturbance of management and of trade relations is real. To . avoid this the government doubtless will retain most of the old. management and muss up the pattern of production and distribution as little as possible. ; In the last election campaign the labor leaders said this would be the last big venture in na tionalization, which gave some relief to the mWuiiih of such industries as, cement and sugar who felt they would be next in line for socializa tion. The respite is only a breather however, for the more, radical laborites will resume the cry for further steps in socializing the economy. nMred Gives Taft ! A Big Error By Henry McLemore LONDON, England, Sept 20-1 wish. my name were Stokes, Lippmann, Child's, Iindley 'or Krock, and I was recognized as a fellow who knew politics. and whose opinion of things in Wash ington carried weight. rrtw. f i our Community Chest 4 "Chief say thanks . . h think you picturesque, too ! ! .. Be Jittery About Joining . Americans are great joiners. We, love to "be- long to things, from cub scout troops to Kotary clubs, from college sororities to Leagues of mrm w v Vvi m -mi - women voters, necx any wnos. wno; now metieulnuslv the men and women of distinction list their memberships! Candidates for political office often run on the strength of their club and lodge affiliations. And for just plain fun and games, just plain John and Jane Voe join clubs and societies and teams of every kind. It's a pleasant custom which may soon become as frowned upon as picking teeth in public. John and Jane will have to be more cautious about ; Garry Davis, the slightly crack-pot youth who renounced his American citizenship to declare himself a "citizen of the world," has pulled a prodigal son act. He's backin the U.S.-as an alien with leave to stay an unlimited term and he says he is "back to. stay, for good and for keeps. Things are getting pretty hot almost any where in the world and this man realizes the U.S. remains the best place to be. Hope nobody kills the fatted calf for him ... or any other expatriates who come home to roost. B Mike in his Ogn column referred to Ver mont as the granite state. If Stewart Holbrook hasn't done so already we would remind him that that title belongs to New Hampshire. Ver mont is the Green Mountain state. ggSSSSSSMSSSSSSSS Writer Captures Mixed Flavors of Combat In Marina Mnrrh to RetnlfA Kim no Airfiolrl aa w ev m m m aw a w aipei mm m - m aw m aw aai wsr- B w m m ptj By Joseph Alsop WTTH TUT 1 A BTWTC (Delayed)-It is all but imposs ible to convey? the mingled fla vors of an ac tual combat op eration the Tension w n e n things go 111, the xhilara tion when they E well, the umor and the boredom, the exhaustion and . ji aui. marched with the marines from the Inchon landing area to Krm :. po airport, this reporter will at least struggle to tell what it was like. "The problem," as - the regl anental S-S (operations officer) explained it, "was to march about eleven miles through enemy ter ritory and seize Kimpo, the main airfield of Seoul, before dusk could f all." The marine battalion lhat did the job did not quite solve the problem according to the rules laid down by the S-3, but they solved it all the same. For our battalion (one develops Abese possessive feelings rather rapidly in the field), the day be gan at dawn, with an attack by six enemy tanks and supporting. Infantry on the battalion's posi- inn nn th Viilla iuct ihnv Tn chon port. The tanks were am bushed in a pass. The Russian - T-34's rumbled up the road m ; nle. The 90 mm cannon of the Pershings spoke angrily and ef Ccently. The marines in the ' forward foxholes picked off the worth Korean ml an try as they : leaped from the suddenly flam ing, crazily careening T-34's. The first Dart of the road was decor- a ted with smoking tank hulks and i twisted corpses when the long file of Infantry began to form m the pass for the forward march. '." - In the early morning sunlight, the rolling country towards Seoul shone green and golden, but the air was still sharply chilly. The men of Easy company, whe were to form the point of the attack ing column all the way to Kimpo, stamped their feet to warm them selves. In the squad with which this reporter fell in, they were EMidly reminiscing about the ttle of No Name Ridge, the marines worst in Korea, where this little handful of men had been the first up the hflL "He got to the top," remarked Pfc Mar- ion De Shong, pointing to CpL x Paul Navarro, who looked too- young to be in the service at all. "There was forty-two of us went up and only one came down in one piece. At this Easy company's com mander, Capt Samuel Jaskilka, an officer who had made a great name in this fighting, passed the word for the march to begin. The column stepped smartly along the road. There was a sharp rat tle of firing in the hills to the right, where a partner battalion was working forward as flank support for the main attack. But the men were more interested in the burning tanks. "If they was C-rations inside, they'd, make good hot chow, someone said, : raising a laugh. - The first trouble started at the little railroad town of Bupyong, which was to be cleared by the wiry little American-uniformed South Korean marines. - The tiled roofs of the town lay below the road, which was under sharp fire. Easy .company worked its way along the dusty road-side ditch until they reached the turn for Kimpo, where they scuttled across the road in groups to help the South Koreans. A hidden group of enemy with automatic weapons were firing bursts onto the road up a gully filled with vegetable patches. The company mortars laid a couple of shells into the area, and as the North Koreans' scattered, the i marines i got them with rifles. The first ' obstruction was out of the. way, and Capt. Jaskilka led the col umn down the Kimpo road, meanwhile sending a fire party through the ' houses along the flank, where brisk fighting was still in progress. An enemy mor tar shell landed in a buckwheat patch by the roadside, setting it on fire, and the road suddenly echoed again with the nasty sing ing zip-zip of -bullets passing. Once more the marines went Into the ditch, while Jaskilka cooly swept the town and nearby bluffs with field glasses, to try to locate the source of the new trouble. Such was the pattern of the pass- age through Bupyong. The South . Koreans and the marine fire par ties ferreted through the houses, occasionally capturing a prisoner who would be sent out onto the road stark naked and shivering. The main body moved when it could, and when planed down, quickly took the guessed-at en- any positions under fire. The enemy firing was-pqlectly un predictable one of the worst bursts came when- everything seemed to be over, and Capt. Jas- . kilka was conferring about the next stage of the road with the business-like batallion comman der Lt. CoL Harold Roise. By methods incomprehensible to the untrained observer, Roise and Jaskilka methodically eliminated , all the many pockets of an enemy who was never visible except at the closest quarters. It -was a tense, slow business, but It work ed. Jaskilka only betrayed strain once, when someone repeated an unfounded rumor of heavy cas ualties in Easy company's rear platoon. "Dammit," he said, when the rumor proved unfounded, "don't tell me things again that just aren't true." Beyond the Bupyong railroad station, the firing died in a final crackle, just at the moment when a local Korean lrlr rather irrelevantly to shake the embarrassed Jaskilka's hand. In the suburbs, lines of white-clad people waved newly-made South Korean flags and cheered the marines. We trudged past old signs Indicating installations of the pre-war American military advisory group, which the com munists had not bothered to take down. Then, stepping out swiftly, we took a narrow country road that passed through paddies Just turning golden. Here came the real turning point of the march on Kimpo. It was already almost noon when the three tanks going forward with Easy company reached an impossibly rickety bridge over a swampy irrigation canal. The people of the nearby village poured out to see what was hap pening, and tried to help by cov ering the blue-violet water hya cinths in the canal bed with a dirt causeway. But the tanks still could not get through. At this point, Chung Yong Duk, an American military group inter preter who had taken refuge in the village, appeared providen tially to suggest a better alter native road that did not show on our eccentric maps. CoL Roise, impatiently watch ing operations by the canal bank, made a swift decision. The tanks and transport, with a small body of supporting infantry, would go by the alternative road. The main body of the infantry would continue on the planned route. The lumbering tanks turned off through the sticky rice paddies. The column was reordered by radio. Again Easy company start ed onward, marching cheerfully and swiftly into unknown enemy ' country with no seeming thought of the lost tank support. Now, however, it was too late to reach Kimpo before dusk. A worried male phoned the newsroom the other night seeking advice. Seems his wife had taken off several days before leaving him with three children. Sympathetic proofreader, who took the call, advised the man to (1) Call the police, (2) Contact his wife's relatives or (3) Run an ad. What's in an environment? Well, take a look at the Marion county headquarters of Republicans and Democrats, both in 5a- lem.' Republican office on North High street is closest to county and state office buildings, almost next door to the, police station ("We stand for law and order"), within shouting distance of the fire station (in case anything gets too hot), one block from Church street, next door to' a candy shop and around the corner from a bank. - The Democrats battalion aid station on North Commercial street is on the main highway, next to a drug store (in case of internal trouble?), within walking distance of the labor temple, right at the bus stop, between Court and State streets, about 3,000 miles from Washington, -D.C. and not too far from -the river. County draft board says it has located five men, whose whereabouts were unknown and which the board had clas sified as "draft delinquents." All five are in the army and one even is in Korea iponder if he knows he's, in danger of being drafted? Explanation for snafu: Seems that army ' is supposed to notify a man's local draft board when he goes into service. Recently though, army has been too busy scar- ing reserves to take care of the matter. - i Marion county court hopes the cycle doesn't start all over again. During the last war the court had to make three pro tem appointments- in the county clerk's office, two in the state senator ranks, and one on the county commissioner bench for officials who left for the wars. Court members say they have "under consideration," a substitute for County Clerk Harlan Judd, called to active duty with the army reserves, but they are not ready to announce it yet. TlTlTf M l'lll'lililVlftll"!! I & mum rotDODOCg Co)y i If2iit I960, New York Herald Trttran Xna- (Continued from page 1) continuing In this posture of mili tary alert. The effects on our economy, on manpower for in dustry and agriculture, on taxes, on home life are not fully ap praised.; We still think in terms of Ucking Korea and "bringing the boys back home." Families of men entering-the service will get the meaning of this situation first as they be come either camp-followers or stay-at-homes. Employers who see their trained men leaving for a lengthy period and locate no competent substitutes will be the next to wake up. When the tax collector takes a bigger bite out of paychecks next month all per sons on wages and salary will feel the cost of preparedness. And the prospect is for demands for more tax revenue and perhaps for controls of various kinds. Again let me emphasize that this new "duration Is indefin ite. Individuals may be mus ed out of 'military service and return to civil life but the USA as a whole will stay on a war footing for an unknown time. The United States will not lower its guard again until Russia aban dons its aggressive attitude and shows a real disposition to col laborate for peace, or the UN becomes an effective Instrument to preserve peace. Not a pleasing outlook; but that is the real meaning of this muster of men for military duty hist when the Korean phase of the east-west struggle seems on the way to a conclusion. Civilians must put on their yokes with no V-day in sight when they may take the yokes off. Bettor English J. What Is wrong with this sentence? "After much trouble, we came to the final end of the road." 2. What is the correct pronun- ciation of "annunciate"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Rubescent, rubi cund, rhubarb, rutabaga. 4. What does the word "trivial" mean? . . - 5. . What is a word beginning with quia that means "the es sence of a thing in.it most con centrated form"? ANSWERS - 1. Omit final. 2. Pronounce a-nun-shi-at, third syllable shi, not si. 3. Rhubarb. 4. Ordinary; commonplace; unimportant. Then I could speak of Sena tor Robert Taft with authority. What I thought about him would be read and considered by men and wo men who think there is some thing more im portant than, say, Joe's chances against Ez zard, Judy Garland records, and the current popularity of boxer dogs. ' - Senator Taft came to my mind about an hour ago when, read ing the Daily Express for a tip on something good in the fourth at Goodwood, I noticed a story under a Washington dateline that informed me that Senator Taft was against President Truman's appointment of General George Marshall as Secretary of Defense. My first reaction to the story was that Senator Taft finally had reached rock bottom. My second, third, and fourth reactions were the same. I am sure that one cant call a Senator a Jerk and still, main tain dignity, so I am going to waive dignity and call Mr. Taft a Jerk., Not a- bench-sitting Jerk. Not a utility Jerk. Not a Jerk who has run in to- kick a field goal. No, I am going to call him from thousands of waves away a starting, first string, varsity Jerk. Give him Ruth's old number, Gehrig's old number, and Grange's old number. Place him on a pedestal as the one man who, without having to go to the trouble of thinking, hits the wrong thing on the head every time. - Senator Taft objects to Mar shall; Just think about that. The man from Ohio carries enough nonsense in his head to attack a man who, in the pages of history yet to be written, will emerge as one of the great Amer icans of all time. It Is like a Piper Cub attack ing a B-29. It Is the mouse slap ping the cat, the lamb -trading haymakers with the lion. The Senator says his reason for trying to block Marshall's ap pointment is that the appoint ment would strengthen Secretary of State" Acheson's hand. In oth er words, the Senator's dislike for Acheson is stronger than his like for his country. I don't think Brer Taft would go so far as to say that Marshall as Defense Secretary would be a liability to his country. , There could be no better choice for the Job than Marshall. He stands alone, and one of the great things President Truman ever did was to label him publicly as the finest American. Who did more than anyone else to make this country victorious in World War II?, Marshall. Who saw the needs and fought with hack politicians to get them? Marshall. My consolation here in London . Is the knowledge that my coun ' trymen will ignore the Senator from Ohio and go ahead and put the best man In the Job. One of these days it may not come until a Russian throws a hand grenade through his living room window Senator Taft is going to realize that the U. S. . Is now fighting for survival, not Ohio votes. (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc.) "Such matters are-too trivial to mention." 9. Quintessence. High Family Interest in Chest "It is necessary to have a yard stick by which to measure In con sidering a contribution to the Sal em Community chest,' said Otto J. Wilson of the Otto J. Wilson Ox, and co-chairman of the automotive and transportation division of the fund raising campaign, "and each should give according to his own conscience and. ability. "The national budget planners ask that individuals give the equiv alent of one day's pay. In Salem we do not need that much to carry on the work of the several partic ipating agencies. We believe that each individual in giving up five hours of his pay will furnish suf ficient money for a satisfactory budget - "Of course there are some who can't actually give five hours pay but this is or should be offset by others who are well able to give more." , The quota for automotive and transportation is $10,700. OTTO J. WILSON E. BUKK MHXEK "Parents who have completed the Job of rearing a family still re tain an affectionate interest in the community's children and they are sure to support the Salem Com- participating agencies will be able to continue their services of aiding the children of today," states E. Burr Miller, treasurer and sales manager of the Valley Motor Co. hum ' f i 1 1 in 1 1 Ul UiC nuimniyf and transportation division of the chest campaign. "Individual interest continues because parents remember that their contributions while their children were small made up a small part of the benefits through the chest agencies. And now they feel obligated to help pay the bill for a younger generation. "The chest has been Jhere long enough to convince the public that it is a preferred institution out ranking the' former drives which numbered 19 or 20. , , Chase to Attend National Farm Labor Meeting - Truman Chase, . Eugene, chair man of -Oregon's farm labor ad visory committee, is leaving . for Washington, D. C, within a few days to " attend a meeting of the national farm labor committee September 26 and 27. ' Chase, . who was selected last year as a member of the national group upon recommendation of Safety Valve National Debt To the Editor: Will you please print the amount of the national debt in 1932 and what it is now? J. E. Putnam. National debt, 1932: $18,200, 000,000; Sept. 15, 1950: $256, Gov. Douglas McKay, has been active in agricultural circles for some time, since responsibility for farm labor placements was re turned to the state employment service nearly three years ago the Eugene man has served as a mem ber of the advisory group which is composed of representative farm leaders from all parts of the state. 'i Insurance Firm's Building Started Construction of a new Farmers Insurance Group office building at 1465 N. Capitol st. is now under way, District Agent V. J. (Bill) Osko announced. Wednesday. ; The new building will be ready for occupancy about November 1 and off-street parking will be pro vided, v ; " ? Offices of Farmers Group In surance are now being maintained at 466 Court St. . i f.yv DOMINICAN COFFEE CIUDAD TEUJILLO, D. 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