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The Clot tenant Salem: Orew WlandccfJ September 2S, 1950 . it . talesman ' j No Favor Swayt Us, No Fear Shall Awef ' From First Statesman, March 28, 1S51 - THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY f CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher rablisbed every morning. Basinets office 215 S. Commercial. Salem. Oregon. Telephone 2-2441. Entered at the postofflco at 8alem, Oregon, aa second clan matter under act of congress March X, 187 Airliner via Steerage Class - - i By Henry McLemore ! NEW YORK, Sept. 24 fclthe'r I have tremendous poise or a tremendous lack of sense, I else I wouldn't have 10 WITHERING ON THE VINE Welcome, Rain 1 Bread to the soul, rain where the summers parch, Give me but these ... . . r John Masefield . Oregon, where the summers parch, has it's rain at last! And the . Willamette valley, where more often autumn comes gradually be tween the first yellowing of the birches and the last warning bugles of the wild geese flying south, has its autumn suddenly. 7 How we've longed for the rain, wet and welcome and right as . . . rain. How it lifted our hearts Sunday morning to awaken to the half-remembered sound of the eves dripping and the cool swish of tires on. rain-shiny streets. As in the first bright warm sunshine of April, we rejoice in the first long gentle rain of Sep tember. We are grateful for the rain, for "the good 4G!ll of the rain that loves all leaves," as Ore- gon'a own and rain-knowing poet, Edwin Mark ham, said. We are grateful on behalf of the parched earth, that it may drink deepljunow; and of the weakened rivers, that they may grow strong again; and of the dry forests helpless prty before the lightning and the foolishness of men, that they may live; and of all the leaves (the chrysanthemum was withering already), that they may nourish the roots of next spring's growth. !-r And we welcome the rain for ourselves. It is, indeed, as refreshing and as necessary as bread for the soul. Bless the summer sun, we've nevertheless been looking forward all month to the coming of fall, for, as is every other season, autumn is our favorite when it is im minent. We've looked forward to the halting of the ticking of the water meter, every time , the lawn looked thirsty which as been every day. We've looked forward to a fire in the fireplace, and the warm isolation of rain on the outside panes. We've looked forward to the smell of wet pine needles, wet pavements, and hot pumpkin pie after the first frosts. We've looked forward to fall opening and football and pre-election fanfare. Now along with the switch back to stand ard time we've got it, all together and all suddenly: fall opening, football, fanfare, fire . place fire and rain ... all but the first frost and the pumpkin pie, which, in its own way, is bread to the souL ' - won Nobel recognition for his plan for German war reparations. Later ambassador to Great Britain, Dawes was head of President Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932. Prank B. Kellogg, American secretary of state, 1925-28, was awarded the peace prize in 1929 after he negotiated the naively optimistic Paris Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of na tional policy. Later he was a judge in the World Court. " - In 1931 the peace prize was divided between two Americans, Jane Addams of Hull (settle ment) House in Chicago, and Nicholas Murray Butler president of Columbia university, whose activities and honors require more than a col umn of space in Who's Who. Cordell Hull, third U.S. secretary of state to win the Nobel peace prize, received it in 1945, the year after he resigned the high post he had held since 1933 when Franklin Roosevelt ap- pointed him, and the year he went to San 1 Francisco as a delegate to the United Nations conference. The next year, two Americans again split the prize money. They were Emily Greene Balch, a Quaker active in women's international activities on behalf of peace, and John R. Mott, official in both the American and world Young ' Men's Christian associations, distinguished for his work in prisoner-of-war camps and his travels in the interest of the World Mission of Christianity. . Dr. Bunche, the 1950 winner, was probably chosen for his work as UN mediator in the war between Jews and Arabs over Palestine. What ever the reason, his influence for peace both international and inter-racial well warrants 'the recognition made possible by the inventor of dynamite. . ' The Twelfth American A onetime UCLA football star, grandson of i an American negro slave, has been awarded the Nobel peace prize. Dr. Ralph Bunche, educator and statesman, is the twelfth American to join the distinguished company of those so highly honored. '. -- As a negro. Dr. Bunche is a man many of his countrymen would keep firmly "in his place." (Jim Crow practices in Washington, D.C against his family forced him to turn" down a state department job to work instead as principal director in the United Nations trusteeship div ision.) Now the action of the Norwegian peace prize committee indicates that Dr. Bunche's "place" is in the international-hall of fame. And we are sure his fellow Americans among the peace prize-winners will welcome him to their exclusive fraternity as one who, as much as any of them, has served well his country and the cause of humanity. . : The first of his predecessors is Theodore oosevelt, who won the Nobel prize in 1906, a year after his election as president and after 'ha effected a peace treaty between Japan and Russia. (A main, point of conflict at that time, incidentally, was Korea.) Roosevelt had been - assistant secretary of the navy under President McKinley and his colleague, the then secretary of war, Elihu Root, is the second American on the Nobel scroll. Root, secretary of state under President Roosevelt and member of a special diplomatic mission to Russia appointed by President Wil , son in 1917, won the peace prize in 1912 and later helped Organize the World Court. Wood row Wilson, himself, was awarded the coveted prize in 1919 for his efforts on behalf of world peace an ideal expressed by the League of Nations he helped found. In 1925, another American, Charles G. Dawes, Courtesy and Foreign Affairs Governor" Dewey offered gratuitous offense . to Russian representatives when at a banquet he accused Russia of holding ten to fifteen mil lion persons in slave labor. At that point Vish insky and Malik walked out. The dinner was to honor delegates to the United Nations assembly. It was an official dinner given by the city of New York. Governor Dewey was an invited guest and speaker. On such an occasion good manners would exclude reference to matters in grave dispute. One doesn't abuse the guest he has invited to his home for dinner. The. virtue of such banquets, if they have any virtue is that through observance of social courtesies personal relations may be put on a wholesome basis. That then affords a basis for arriving at agreement when delegates meet wearing their official rather than dinner clothes. Besides it is not the responsibility of a gov ernor to administer foreign affairs. He may talk about foreign relations all he wants to in polit ical speeches or at domestic gatherings. It is not his place to "mix in" with controversial re marks at official functions where foreign rep resentatives are present. ' Governor Dewey usually has been discreet in making his remarks fit the occasion, so his comments at the Waldorf-Astoria dinner the' other night seemed strangely out of character. The lumber cut in Douglas fir mills of Ore gon and Washington will reach an all-time high of ten and a half billion board feet, according to H. V. Simpson, executive vice president of the West Coast Lumbermen's association. With that production how can it be that the lumber industry of Oregon will "lose" $40,000,000 In wages, profits, extra costs this year because of the car shortage? A Coast nematodes, our farm editor writes, have got busy on our valley chewings fescue, so fields are being burned over. That name "chewings fescue" is just an open invitation to worms. Why not change the name call it "sourpatch fescue." jL1 "Coeds Enjoy 2 to 1 Ratio at WU," reads a Statesman headline. With that ratio, "enjoy" is the correct word. But where coeds get twice as much "enjoyment" should be at Pacific univer sity where the boy-girl ratio is four to one. reached New Yorik today via Pan American's deluxe Presi dent flight from London. After nearly four months of beating 1 the highways and byways of the Middle East and the continent I know I didn't look right, walking along the red carpet at the London air port and boarding this classy flying machine. j I carefully avoided the full length mirror in my . London hotel room before leaving 1 for the airport, but an old friend set me straight as to my ap pearance shortly after I i got there. He was Fred Tupper, a newspaper acquaintance of mine before he took over the public relations job for Pan-American. "What. plane are you leaving on," Tupper asked me. ! , "Why, your President flight," I answered. ; "There-must be some mix-up somewhere," he haid. "Let me see your tickets. The President doesn't carry steerage passeng ers." While Tupper was busy tak ing care of a lady, wearing what must haveb been a Balmain or Fath suit, and a gentleman whose clothes whispered Saville Row at every seam, I went and took a look at myself. One glance and I knew what Tupper was talking about. My seersucker coat sagged at every place a seersucker can sag and that's everywhere. The Barry more collar of my nylon shirt had a hole in it big enough to poke a mouse through. My spot ted tie and trousers didn't ex actly match as I had gathered the spots at different times and different places. I badly needed a haircut be cause I dont trust foreign barb ers. Experience has taught: me that for some reason foreign barbers want every scrap of my hair when they cut it. Whether they stuff lockets or mattresses with it, I don't know, but I do know they always leave I me looking like a baseball before the third baseman dirties it and throws it out to the pitcher. My luggage wasn't calculated to cause screams of admiration from the other passengers, eith er. We bought it in South Ame rica years ago, and it is just about at the end of its ropey meaning the rope that we have tied around it to keep it from bursting open. But the plane hadn't been more than two free martinis aloft before I was talking the ear off the lady in the seat across from me. I told her of all the places I had been since May, and after the free champagne I told her about a lot of places I have never, visited. The lady who was kind enough to listen to the tales of my travebls true and sup posedwas Mrs. John D. Rocke feller III, and I have a sneaking suspicion she had visited all the places I told heir about long be ' fore I had enough money to buy a daycoach ticket from Atlanta to Savannah. e.e Crossing the ocean on a Stra tocruiser never, ceases to fasci nate me. Those winding stairs that lead from the upstairs deck to the downstairs lounge have a peculiar fascination for me. I am up and down them constantly, and if they had bannisters I would slide down them. After being away for such a long time it was nice going to sleep, high up there over the Atlantic, knowing that you'd wake up somewhere between Boston and New York. It gave me a good feeling to realize that in a few hours I would be back in New York and could resume trying to get tickets to "South Pacific- (Distributed by McNausht Syndicate. Inc.) I - jffA v Pi t--'' c SMeclianies u Hitch-Hike to Fi orlit in TCorpfl withNthe ujs. second di- incmwirnMo Cant "DnK U. S. ftrmy decided today that five aircraft mechanics who hitch- - ed ridels to Korean batUefronta -- from Japan can have their wish, All may become combat infan The men are Pvt. Kenneth R. Monu, uuuuu)iiuu, iiiaa., n Daniel V. Curtis, New York, CpL Leonard Rachel, Monroe,. Wash.; Pve. Harry A. Barker of Vermont; ' and PFC H. A. Balin, no address. The five were aircraft mechanics . in Japan. Four had served with the second division before. All five said they were "tired of set ting around with a war going on." They said they convinced & pilot in Japan they were wounded men just released from a hospital and were eager to rejoin their outnt. He gave them a ride to Korea. They hitchhiked from Pusan to the front Second division officers ' obtained permission to give the men their wish for combat. 3222 PCD00CO (Continued from page 1) nine are for southern or border states that may be regarded as safely democratic. This leaves 13 which real battling will be over. But the republicans have hot contests in some states too and may have difficulty in hold ing all of their present seats. Look at the battleground: niinois: Scott Lucas, senate majority leader, faces a tough battle from Everett Dirksen, for mer congressman, an able ora tor who has been devoting months to campaigning. He is supported by the Chicago Tri bune which is a power even if its publisher, Col. McCormick is heartily despised by many. Calif ornUt The race for Sher idan Downey's seat is between two congressmen, Richard Nixon, republican and Helen Gahagan -Douglas, democrat. This prom ises to be a close race. Gov. Warren is favored to win the governorship over Jimmie Roose velt and this may help Nixon. Ohio: This is the "battle of the century between Taft and State Auditor Ferguson. Labor is throwing In all it has into the campaign against Taft and busi ness forces are supporting Taft with personal help and plenty of money. Taft is expected to win, though not with as wide a mar gin as previously was predicted. New York: Will Lieut Gov. Hanley, 74 years old, republican, nominee, defeat Senator Lehman, incumbent and former governor? Lehman's courageous stand against the McCarran bill may expose him to attack from the anti-reds but he has such a rec - ord as vote-getter that it Is doubtful he will be retired, even though Tom Dewey wins for gov ernor again. ' Pennsylvania i The democrats probably will lose the seat now held by Sen. Myers. Popular Governor. Duff is the republican candidate. Utah: Veteran Elmer Thomas, Incumbent, democrat, will have to battle to hold his seat against businessman Bennett Connecticut: Two seats are at stake, those held by McMahon (long term) and Benton (short -term). Republicans are hopeful of winning both but may have to settle for one (Benton's). Colorado:' Sen. Milliken, re publican will not find it easy to gain reelection though he is re garded as an able man. The sudden death of Ralph L. Carr, former governor and republican nominee, again may have an ad verse effect on the party ticket Democrats had hopes of beat ing Capeheart in Indiana and Hickenlooper in Iowa, but those' prospects are not bright now. Likewise Morse in Oregon and Wiley in Wisconsin seem sure of election. Idaho will elect two senators and the Indication is that both will be republican. Glen Taylor was discarded in the pri mary. With the adjournment of con gress the campaign will be on in earnest It will be more bitter than is usual in an off -presidential year. Whichever side gets a majority the 82nd congress will be less inclined to support Tru man, particularly on domestic issues. For the present at least the fair deal is in deep freeze. NEW COURSE PITTSBURGH -(INS)- The Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh will try a new sys tem ox teaching English to Archi tecture students beginning in Sep- xemoer. xne new system has been made possible by a $2,500 grant irom ine wnerrett Memorial Fund of the Pittsburgh Foundation. The National Geographic Soci ety says dogs may have come to America from Siberia. Seoul Destruction Would Cost United Nations GRIN AND bear it Much Prestige in Orient; Reds Invite Attack by Lichty By James D. White AP Foreign Newt Analyst I SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 24-XsjffT-The communists in Korea are inviting the United Nations for ces to commit a 19 U i possibly disas trous blunder. Rv hnlincr tin in SeouL the I r former Korean capital, they in vite the city's destruction. By . portraying their -4 1 U . I tuuiu lucic. aa another Stalin- irrar! the seek to turn that destruction if it comes into a propaganda dra ma wherein the people of a great Asian city die in defense of the - center of their culture under the bombs and guns f "western aggressor. Pravda's cor respond e.t in North Korea has been cabling such stuff back to Moscow. There it gets a good ride in the official press but has no other apparent effect upon the calm -and unwar like atmosphere of the Soviet capital. . This contrasts strongly" with the desperation of the North Ko reans in Seoul, and suggests that once again, as when they launch . jjd their invasion last June, they are serving Moscow's interests far better than their own, For the allied forces stand on three sides of Seoul and thus al ready have accomplished their main objective, which is to cut the red war machine in two and establish an anvil against which its southern wing can be beaten into defeat by the forces moving up from the southeastern beach head. - . However, Seoul is full of fight ing reds and if they fight to the last and the city is captured it faces destruction. The blasting of such an Asian center of culture and national ' tradition, regardless of necessity, could be highly damaging to the U. N. cause throughout Asia. Seoul has been the capital for 500 years. To Koreans it is some thing like Washington and New York combined. i Asians in general are inclined to attach as much or more irrf portance to their cultural and political relics as anyone else, and both defenders and attackers usually keep this in mind. ' Tokyo was sljbt up, but so badly-as Berlin. Manila cought it but it was a special situation where the Japanese defenders lost their heads and forced much of the damage that was done. The Japanese, when on the of fensive,, took care in their saner momenta not to damage places like Peiping. That splendid sym bol of Asian past glory demained intact During the Chinese civil war, Peiping again suffered a mini mum of damage. A nationalist general more or less asked for its destruction by the reds, but when they didn't bite, he gave up and surrendered. Seoul is something of another Peiping, except that its defenders are communists who are desper ate. Whoever is telling them what to do seems to think the allies can be baited into destroying Korea's greatest city in order to capture it Thus far only one" American officer has been reported as men tioning such a possibility when he remarked that if the reds con tinue to fortify Seoul's streets and buildings the allies may have to shell it . " : o -. " It seems more likely that keep ing the red war machine cut in two is more vital than taking Seoul in ruins. What happens to Seoul, there fore, may become more import ant than the fate of just another city. The reds obviously figure that if they have to give it up they can make the allies pay a political price that could be as sessed against them for a long time throughout the entire battle for Asia. Better English 1. What is wrong with this sentence? There's no use In me trying to find a preventative.' 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "height?" 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Renege, rendezvous, reostat reconnaissance. 4. What does the word "pun sent mean? , i 3. What is a word beginning with fa that means "a lovely Spanish dance?" ANSWERS 1. Say, "There's no use In my trying to find a preventative.' 2. Pronounce hit, I as in light not hitth. 3. Rheostat 4. Caustic; biting: as of speech. "Wit sometimes too pungent an in gredient to digest" 5. Fandango. Marcantonio Glides Truman Veto of Bill NEW YORK. Sept 24-ff- Rep. Vito Marcantonio (ALP-NY) said said today that President Truman vetoed the communist control (anti-subversives) bill "in a man ner which guaranteed the over riding of the veto." At a news conference, Marcan tonio said: "Even the proponents of the bill conceded that if the president took the 10 days allowed him under the law to act on the bill, and during the period he . went to the people, he would have created sentiment against the bill and it would not have passed. "He (the president) threw a creampuff when he had threaten ed to throw a hand grenade." AKRON, O -(INS)- Fanners' driving habits have changed con siderably during the past decade. a a. al. T t n 1 I 1 Company, the average American -farmer now drives his tractor , more on hard surface, roads than ever before. The rubber company . explained that "custom farming" " fanning done under contract to land owners who do not have mechanized equipment Is be coming increasingly popular. This means custom farmers have to drive their tractors and other ve hicles over considerable distances of highway while traveling fromv lob to iob. 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