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, "No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Awe"
From First Statesman, March 28, 1831
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"No Appeasement" But What?
Prime imnister Attlee was cheered when he
told an audience at the National Press club in
.Washington that there would be no appease
ment of communist China. This was heartening
to those who ieared it was another Chamber
lain bearing an umbrella who landed at Wash
ington airport Monday, one who came to urge
a peace program even at the cost of appeasing
China.
But while the words "no appeasement" carry
a gratifying ring one" cannot help wondering
what the substitute or alternative is. All are
eager for an. end to the hostilities in Asia, but
on what terms? Vkhinsky scoffs at the sugges
tion of certain Asiatic and middle eastern coun
tries that the old demarche at the 38th parallel
e recognized. Does this mean Red China will
use its armies to drive U.N. forces off the pen
insula? Premier Attlee gave only a partial answer to
the pressing question as to what United Nations
shall do. The whole world waits anxiously to
hear a joint statement from Attlee and Presi
dent Truman as the fruit of their conferences.
tion benefit for elderly citizens have been
greatly increased.
The country went at old age assistance and
social security with a splurge. Now it is catch
ing up with real studies of old age, the health
problems involved, psychology and effect of
sudden cessation of regular employment. To do
the study on a scientific basis Cornell univer
sity has set up a research project to determine
the effect of retirement on the life span, and
to see whether physical ailments may stem from
the psychological readjustments made necessary
by retirement.
One thing is true, the allurement of early
retirement has faded. Instead men and women
prefer to keep on working and are happy if they
get an extension of employment past the stated
age. By study and experience we'll learn more
about this business of retirement. Maybe we'll
conclude to extend rather than reduce the work
span, i
Mechanical Heart
Philadelphia doctors have come up with a
mechanical heart and lungs. In use it is simply
cut into the blood circuit. Plastic tubes carry
the venous blood to a steel lung where it is
supplied with oxygen, then a pump pulses the
refreshed blood back into the arteries. So far
the machine hasn't been used with humans, but
it has worked successfully with dogs, substitut
ing for the heart for 71 minutes.
: The practical advantage is that it will permit
operations directly on the heart. Also it may be
pressed into service if the heart stops during
ah operation. Thus it opens up great possibili
ties in surgery. The apparatus, is of the size of
a small console radio. Of course it couldn't be
used as a heart replacement inside the body or
outside save for a brief period, but even a few
minutes as alternate to the natural heart may
"result in saving a life.
Charlie Ross, President Truman's press secre
tary, who died Wednesday, was an excellent
newspaper man and he made a very capable
press relations man for the president. Ross was
a fellow high school student with Truman in
Independence, had entered newspaper work and
was serving on the Washington staff of the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch when Truman succeeded
FDR and asked him to take over the press job.
The president has made a good many blunders
in his comments to reporters, but they were his
alone, not boners by his press secretary. Ross
was not only astute he was highly respected by
his colleagues of the fourth estate.
No Prime garget Here
Speaking in Salem yesterday Admiral Dan E.
Bar bey, commander of the 13th naval district
(which includes Oregon) with headquarters in
Seattle allayed local fears as to the probability
oi our being bombed in event of war. Simply
stated, we do not offer a prime target for an
ekiemy. That has already been noted in the fed
eral ratings. Better targets exist elsewhere. Nor
is an amphibious landing probable, in Admiral
Barbey's opinion. That would require a fleet
and transport and supply vessels. So long as the
.American navy controls the seas such a flotilla ,
couldn't cross the Pacific to our shores. We had
4 taste of enemy shelling and bombing in the
Iist war but only through sporadic raiding.
It is proper to have a civil defense organiza
on for, use in event of emergency; but it should
be kept on a realistic basis.
Effect of Retiring
Dr. Townsend at least made the country aware
of its aged citizens. He never succeeded in get
ting legislation for retirement at 6Q on a $200
.monthly pensibn whosq spending in 30 days was
compulsory; but as a consequence of his agita-
A New York legislative committee has come
out to California to see if any New York resi
dents are out in California taking vacations on
"their unemployment benefits. Surely the same
quest can take the committee to Florida for a
week or two.
Editorial Comment
COLLEGE GIRLS LOOK AHEAD
A survey at Vassar throws an interesting light on
the hopes of the undergraduates. Ninety-five per
cent of the Vassar students want to be married and
havei- families before they are 30 years old. Perhaps
they are not too optimistic 23 per cent had already
become engaged by the time their senior year was
half over. But getting married is only one step in
the plans of these students and we can assume
they are not much different from those that would
be found at Barnard, Smith, Wellesley or any other
women's institution of higher learning. The vast
majority expect to be active in community affairs
later in life; many intend to resume their profes
sional careers after their children are grown. Half
of the girls wish to start working immediately upon
graduation, while nearly as many would like to con
tinue with their education, working for a higher
degree.
In other respects the study, conducted by the Re
search Center for Human Relations of New York
university, throws light on how students react when
they live away from home. The girls said that com
pared with high school days they had improved
most at college in respect to "happiness," "making
friends" and "definiteness about life plans." Of in
terest to college authorities is the finding that those
who participated in non-academic programs were
more likely to do well in their studies and show
greater ability in handling their personal problems.
All in all, the survey suggests that the girls on our
campuses are thoroughly adjusted and have de
finite plans for their future. We imagine that it is
no longer necessary to add, as it might have been
a generation ago, that women have earned their
right to go to college. New York Times.
Threat of Red European Offensive in Spring
Moves Up Among Disastrous Possibilities
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By Joseph and Stewart Alsop
WASHINGTON. Dee. 6 The
j citizens mourned and the city
jmourned; they had lost the flow-
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'ct tucw juutu. ana mere were
none t replace
them. Which
ever way they
looked there
was trouble;
they were
v e rwhelmed
by their ealam
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11 xT T sterna tien un
I f' "tterable.
LfX J This is a
i , , , fragment from
l?J!52&df the account of
'how the people of Athens re
'ceived the fearful news of the
'loss ef their army at Syracuse,
! nearly" 2,500 years ago. History
'is cruelly repetitious. Thucy aides
' describes with cold precision
,now incredulity
'and rage, then
Borrow and ter-
ror, successive
ly gripped and
;shook the Ath
enians. In these
.days j we in
America j have
likewise been
gripped and
shaken by the
'same j hideous
sequence
of
emotions. ' : Stvwart AIoi :
j Yet -"consternation unutter
. .able" cannot be the final re
sponse to disaster of any nation
! that' wishes to survive. It is nec
jessary, therefore, to try to see,
ifirst of all, Just how the disaster
in Korea has affected our situa-
tion all over the world. The fol
.lowing is the best summary that
; can be offered of the grim bal
arice sheet of calamity that the
(American policy-makers have
been busy casting up.
i , First, the situation in Asia has
deteriorated so far that it may
jwell prove impossible to contain
jthe back-wash of the Korean de
feat The chances are at least
nine to one that their success, in
ITS wiwumgo utc vm-
nese io attacJC train in
China, and perhaps
Indo-
to seize
Hongkong. Meanwhile, the Japa
nese people, encouraged by the
spectacle of our fisfortune, see
ing their country left without
a garrison, may well attempt to
throw off the yoke of the occu
pation. Every Asiatic govern
ment is already trembling, and
the mere loss of Indo-China will
alone be enough to cause the
eventual loss of all Asia.
To prevent these future hor
rors, stern action against China
is obviously the only recourse.
But we have not now the divi
sions to invade the ? Chinese
mainland. And even when we
have rebuilt our army a -full
scale ground war with the Chi
nese will be an unthinkable di
version from the main scene of
peril, which is Europe.
Thus blockading the Chinese
coast, disrupting, the Chinese
communications by air attack
-and encouraging and aiding the
anti-communist forces, including
the large band of anti-commu-
r nlst guerrillas in South China,
are the only steps open. If this
policy is energetically -followed,
there is a chance but only a
chance that the Chinese will be
; kept too busy at home for fur
ther adventures abroad, and that
the Japanese and other Asiatics
will remain quiet. Meanwhile,
Korea itself must wait until
western strength has been re
built. Second, however, enforcing
this policy will be extremely dif
ficult, if only because the main
objective of Prime Minister At
tlee's current meeting with
President Truman is to prevent
"entanglement in a Chinese
war." Full scale war is what the
British fear. The outcome of the
Truman - Attlee meeting will
show whether they can be per
suaded to support more limited
measures. Most probably the re
lief of General of the Army
Douglas MacArthur will have to
be ordered, if real British and
European confidence in our Far
Eastern leadership is to be re
stored. As though this were net bad
enough, the shock of the Korean
defeat has obviously tended to
Big 3 Meet
Prelude to
'Soviet Talks
paralyze the whole Western al
liance. A mood is . growing In
Britain as well as Europe prop
er, in which feeble hand-wringing
is taken as a substitute for
decisive action. The plain truth
is that the Western alliance
against Soviet aggression is now
in deadly peril of falling apart
-
Third, the revealed discrepan
cies in Soviet and Western time
tables are now downright ter
rifying. On our side we have
torn up the plans to build a
Western defense in four years,
ana we oojecuve now is to do
the job in two years. This will
place completion of the Western
defenses in the winter of 1852
'53 at the earliest. Meanwhile,
Soviet war preparation is virtu
ally complete. By the spring of
1952 the Kremlin should dispose
of a stock of approximately six
ty atomic bombs enough to
paralyze the Western Europeans
with fear. These facts indicate
that the Soviet Union will, in ef
fect, be ready to commit major
aggression before we can pos
sibly be ready to repel aggres
sion. Furthermore, no policy-maker
in his senses any longer doubts
that overt aggression by the Red
Army itself is what the future
probably holds. Yugoslavia is the
greatest European danger spot;
Iran in the Middle East is al
most as critical, and there are
other possibilities. Worse still, no
policy-maker in his senses any
longer excludes the possibility
that this overt full scale action
by the red army, which must
lead either to general war or
western surrender, will come
next spring, instead of a year
later.
Such is the balance sheet, un
derstanding of which is a nec
essity prelude to action. Its
meaning is clear. Only the wid
est and most energetic action
can now save this nation and the
free world from the fate which
at length overtook the Athen
ians, when the Spartans, anoth
er iron military race, triumphed
in the Acropolis itself.
Copyright. 1990.
New Yor ....nine. Inc.
Salem has been slurred by Calif ornians now and then (and
vice versa), but here's a good word for the old hometown: Na
val air officials at the local airport take note that visiting pilots
from California or otherwise are always glad when they get
socked in here. If they can't fly on, they have no complaints,
because they rate Salem tops as a "liberty town."
The way the 'phone rang or Managing Editor Wendell
Webb yesterday, it appears there's more than a passing in
terest in this communism thing. Several new bits of infor
mation came to him as a result of Wednesday's story.
They'll be carefully cataloged.
Correction: The de Paur infantry chorus of 30 negro soldiers
could have found accommodations to stay in Salem after their
concert Sunday night. In fact, they had asked for and been
given reservations at the Senator hotel. But under date of Nov
ember 22, there came a letter to Manager H. C. Roberts, signed
by Eugene H. Brice, saying "thank you for x x x confirming
reservations x x x but due to the fact that Mr. de Paur prefers
to return to Portland x x x they will not have need'' of them.
. t . A similar letter was received by the Marion hotel, which
had offered to house the chorus. The DePaur singers stayed at
the Marion last year.
What is that "thing"? Maybe radioman Arthur Godfrey
had it when he alluded to it in commenting on a CorrallU
(yes, Ore.) hen who laid 353 eggs in 358 days, then took a
five-day vacation . . . Godfrey surmised that the hen had.
this post-racation reaction upon seeing the farmer come in
to the henhouse with his basket: "Get away from here with
that (knock, knock, knock) and don't come back again."
Here's our nomination for one of the slickest acts in town . . .
a quartet of ersatz "Slickers" in the Spike Jones tradition . . .
in short, a quartet of Willamette seniors who are putting their
pantomine band act on at local clubs to publicize the campus
performance of Winter's Tale this week . . . These lads work
themselves into a dither going through convincing Spike Jones
motions without ary a sound, while coed Marion Sparks makes
with the music machine in the background. The fellows who
have been polishing up their act and playing it many times since
their soph class party two years back are Dick Bolton, Bob Wit
ham, Bill Bisseli and Jack Brown.
Better English
1. What Is wrong with this m
trnce? This is the tame weath
er we had lat week."
2. tthll I fh romH nmnnn-
clation of "compilation?
3. Which one of these words it
roisfpelled? Talisman, tanterine,
taileu, tantamount.
4. What docs the word -transient"
mean?
5. What Is a word beginning
with de that means -inactive'?
ANSWERS
1. Say, This is the same kind
of weather," or This weather is
emSSSSSpmamtmsWsmmtsmmsmmsmmmmmmmmm
fA'pVVV iVy, Al Too Local M
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similar to that of last week." 2.
Pronounce the first I as In tt ua
stressed ftot as in Ut. acceet
after the a, J. Tailless. 4. Fleet
Int; brief, momentary. -Mirth is
sometimes short and transient.
5. Dormant
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By J. M. Roberta, Jr.
AP Foreign ArUln Analyrt
WASHINGTON. Dec. 6
Representatives of the United
States, Britain and France are
( - meeting In
W. N. -, Paris today to
3 study the pos
sibilities of a
new approach
settlement
of tho cold war.
Little is ex
pected from it.
i but the coun
tries seja to
be agreed
that they can
not afford to
turn down Russia's month-old
suggestion for a four-power
conference on Germany without
a reply which keeps open the
door for negotiation.
The allies, however, are in no
mood for an unreal discussion
of merely one point In the
world situation while war and
rumors of war spread every
where. Russia suggested a meeting to
consider demilitarization of Ger
many under tho terms of the
Potsdam agreement, one of the
deadest pieces of International
paper ever. She also put out
some talk about elections and
a unified Germany.
She apparently would like to
do in Germany what she did in
Korea get everyone to pull
out while tho satellite army
which she leaves behind pre
pares to carry on her ideas of
conquest
The allies are not swallowing
any of that stuff again.
But European sentiment Is
strongly in favor of grasping at
every last peace straw. The
allies will talk to Russia if the
agenda is sufficiently broad to
let them get their cracks in too.
Keeping the door open for
Russia Is one of tho fundamental
allied policies. It Is Just as im
portant that no ground for peace
shall be left unturned as it Is
that no means of defense be
neglected. There is room for
speculation that, without the
"unconditional surrender atti
tude of the allies in World War
IL an earlier peace with Ger
many might have been made.
before the Russian armies occu
pled central and southeastern
Europe, and the whole face of
the twentieth century might
have been changed. The slight
est possibility of a chang new
is not to be overlooked.
The Russians may not agree
to a conference on the terms
which seem likely to be produc
ed at Paris. But the Russians
like to negotiate. They have not
yet refused to attend a foreign
ministers coundil meeting.
The allies are expected to
propose renewed discussions of
treaties for Austria and Japan
The Austrian treaty always has
been held up as a prerequisite
to one on Germany. And you
can bet that the allies will not
withdraw from Germany with
out abolition of the Russian-
controlled army of East Ger
mans.
An effort also probably wtl
be made to get Russia to discuss
peace in Asia. An offer of rec
ognition and U. N. membership
for Communist China might en
ter into this, but may not be
very enticing to the Russians.
They are widely believed to
really prefer that China bo kept
isolated from western contacts
In other words, the allies
wou!d make any new four pow
er conference a general peace
conference. There Is no Idea that
Russia wants any real peace. But
it is a way of offsetting tho
propaganda effects of Moscow s
offer of new negotiations.
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