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4Tha Stotaamcm, Salem Oregon, WeKinesattY. Dec 13; 1950 i i t itatcsmau ONE-TRACK MINDS "tfo Faror Sways Us, No Fear Shall Atce" From First Statesman, March ZS, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher i rnbUihed every morning. Business office 215 8. Commercial. Salem, Oregon. Telephone 2-244L Entered at the postoffic at Salem, Oregon, as second elan matter under act of congress March S, 117. A Booka-of-the-Year List for Christmas The publishing world's bumper crop for 1950 is in the diversiiied-culture field of non-fiction. From the approximately 10,000 titles off the presses thus far this year, The New York Times Book Review Christmas gift book issue lists 275 outstanding books, and fiction is in the minority. I There are some noteworthy new novels. John Kersey's "The Wall" is acclaimed as the best of the year. Other best books are collections of re prints, including: "Collected Stories of William Faulkner," "Collected Tales of Walter De La Mare," William Saroyan's "The Assyrian and Other Stories," "An Edith Wharton Treasury," and "The Watchful Gods and Other Stories" by -Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Three Italian novels '"The Mill on the Po" v(Bacchelli), "The Wine of Etna" (Baron), "Two Adolescents" (Moravia) are highly rated. He mingway's long-awaited "Across the River and Into the Trees" caused a ig splash and some disappointment. The cream of the novels in American settings seem to be "World Enough and Time" (Robert Perm Warren), "A Stretch on the River" (Richard Bissell), "The Town" (Conrad RichterJ, "Jubilee Trail" (Gweri Bris tow). -Henry Green's "Back" and "Nothing," Joyce Cary's "A Fearful Joy," C. V. Gheorgh in's "The Twenty-Fifth Hour" deserve special mention. Poets Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Peter Viereck, William C. Williams, E. E. Cummings and' Christopher Morley all published a new volumes this year. Little Princesses," by Marion Crawford,. "Of Men and Mountains" by William O. Douglas, "The Story of Ernie Pyle," "John Adams and the American Revolution" by Catherine Bow en, "The Blue and the Gray" by Commager, "Psychosomatic Medicine" by Franz Alaxender, "Kon-Tiki" by Thor Heyerdahl, "The Age of Faith" by Will Durant, "The Cocktail Party" by T. S. Eliot, and "Shooting An Elephant" by George Orwell. These 75 books out of 275 out of 10,000 titles for 1950 seem to this writer the most likely to be found in Christmas gift-wrapping paper on December 25. M.W. But the cold war-hot war climate of 1950 was more conducive to books dealings with down-to-earth fact, and conflict between nations, ideas, and within man himself is the fertile soil that produced the meatiest fruit. The problem of communism looms large; there's plenty of Taw material here and the pub lic appetite for information on the Reds is in satiable. So we have: "Red Masquerade" about the FBI, "A Generation on Trial" and "Seeds of Treason" about the Hiss case, "Ordeal by Stan der" by Lattimore, "Mao Tse-Tung" by Payne, The Coming Defeat of Communism" by James Burnham "The God That Failed" by six ex Reds. The list of volumes aDout the last great war grows longer with the following outstanding additions: Winston Churchill's " The Grand Al liance" arid "I he Hinge of Fate," Herbert Feis' The Road to Pearl Harbor," General Clark's 'Calculated Risk," General Clay's "Decision in . Germany," Admiral Leahy's "I Was There," General Morgan's "Overture to Overlord," Ad miral Sherman's "Combat Command," General Smith's "My Three Years in Moscow," Hanson Baldwin's "Great Mistakes of the War," de Sev ersky's "Air Power: Key to Survival," Zach arias' "Behind Closed Doors," Fitzroy Maclean's "Escape to Adventure," and "Life's Picture History of World War II" worth the $10 price tag. Timely, in view the present crisis, are: "Why War Came in Korea" by Robert T. Oliver' "Out of This World," by Lowell Thomas, jr., "The Red Army Today," by Colonel Ely, "Defense of the West" by Liccell Hart, "The Prospect Before Us''; by John Dos Passos, "The Future of Demo- craticCapitalism" by Thurman Arnold et. al, and "WaTCivilization" by Arnold Toynbee. Outlook in Korea Hal Boyle, AP correspondent in Korea, lays it on the line cold. He writes: "The war in Korea appears to have been militarily decided. "The United Nations has no military force here or in prospect that seems able to achieve victory against a Chinese Red army officially estimated at more than 1,000,000 men." He goes on to anticipate a slow retreat to Pusan and a complete evacuation of Korea. The United Nations haven't the stuff in men or gear to hold South Korea if the Reds really are de termined to drive them out. Apparently they are from their Peking broadcasts and the actions of their armies in Korea. This is humiliating, especially to the United States which took the lead in resisting aggres sion in South Korea. But we know of none who favors engaging in all-out war with Red China. That would be long and costly and perhaps entirely futile. The road to the Kremlin is not through Peking, to reverse one of Lenin's quot ed remarks. A large fraction of the male population has a yearning to wear a star and be a policeman. Not a regular one, in uniform and walking a beat; just a flash officer who can stick his nosa into other peoples' business and crash a gate somewhere. Those who want a police detail with little immediate prospect of duty may re spond to the invitation of Chief Warren for 100 volunteers for civil defense police work. If trouble really comes they would get a chance to stand in the middle of an intersection and wave their arms and bawl out the motorists, but not much chance at spending time and talent on detective work. Chugging tugboats do most of the chores on inland streams and harbors. They really push the big boats around. But there is place for the stern - wheel, churns which once flourished on the Columbia and Willamette. One went aground after striking a rock below Portland Monday. It was doing a tow job and another sternwheeler came to relieve it of its tow. An other sternwheeler had a crash Tuesday at Wauna. Mostly though the sternwheeler and tha sidewheeler liave given way to the prop jobs, just as diesel-electrics have put steam locomo tives on the sidings or scrap heap. Conflict and crises collective and individual have brought about a revival of interest in religion reflected in the 1950 book lists. Among the best in this field: "Christianity and History" by Herbert Butterfield, "Is God in History" by Gerald Heard, "Five Minutes to Twelve" by William PurcelL "The Descent of the Dove" by Charles Williams, "The Meaning of Human Existence" by Leslie Paul, "Psychoanalysis and Religion" by Erich Fromm, ancT"Religion and the Cure of Souls in Jung's Psychology" by Schaer. (Two new Bibles are out: "The Dart mouth Bible" and a new translation by Ronald Knox). . ; Under miscellaneous, for want or space, we list a few other new books of more than passing interest in the non-fiction field: "The Man of Independence" by Jonathan Daniels, "Roose velt in Retrospect" by John Gunther, "BoswelTs London Journal," "Eleanor of Aquitaine," "The The report, of the interim committee on tax ation will be accompanied by two minority reports. That isn't surprising. Rarely is there unanimity on tax measures. The committee has done a great deal of spadework however and the report should result in a speed-up of legislative action on tax measures. Since wo are spending and spending we must tax and tax. Information respecting Samuel Newhouse, new owner of the Oregonian, is that at Syracuse and Harrisburg .where he owns papers he gives the staff its head in providing the community with a paper the community likes and wants. Probably the managers of the Oregonian will find it easier to run a paper with one owner boss than with a board representing many stockholders. Korean Situation Possibility The Safety Valve 13H&BBXS. Spree Ways in Washington Too early for Canby and Aurora to be "walk ing on air" on the chance that an airforce acad emy may be located in the vicinity. Recalling the objections the navy used to raise to develop ing Tongue Point base at Astoria we incline to the guess that "compelling reasons" will result in the choice of a site in say California and hope, our guess is wrong. Appears to Revolve About of Continuing Limited Warfare (Continued from Page One) there must be continuing exer cise of authority, not only in ad ministration but also in legisla tion. It isn't practical to go through the process of amend ing a compact for that would re quire unanimous consent of all the states and approval by the congress. The machinery Isn't flexible enough. And besides, what would the proposed com pact authority use for money? I have understood that the Port of New York Authority was created through a compact be tween New York and New Jer sey; but that relates to a tingle joint interest, the control of New York harbor which serves both states. No such single interest prevails in the Columbia basin. We have had fish packers at the mouth of the river righting dams on the Columbia aWd the Snake. Navigation interests may conflict with diversion of water for reclamation; and downstream power demands may be in con flict with upstream irrigation requirements. The interstate compact ma chine is not the only alternative to a Columbia valley adminis tration, nor the practical one. The Hoover report gave a better alternate in the consolidation of water development agencies of the federal government. Why not go through on this line instead of fanning the breeze with inter state compacts? At the Portland meeting How ard Stinson, regional counsel of the bureau of reclamation, at tending as an "informal repre sentative" of the government re vealed the opposition of the fed eral government to the plan. He warned that interstate compacts may conflict with federal pro jects and said the government might assert its constitutional right to develop waterways for national welfare notwithstand ing state laws or contracts. Nat urally the state group wouldn't expect the blessing of the pres ent administration; but I do not see that any congress or adminis- By Jane Cads WASHINGTON-)- Through the army's famed K-9 corps, which served so valiantly throughout worm war 11, fv, five years ago, some 500 dogs are being used by the army throughout the i j . i worm ivaay. g They arel duty in Korea and Germany, Japan and Ok inawa. Sled dogs were used in Alaska. The Atlantic wing of the air trans port service uses them for rescue work, and at Ft. Riley, Kai., there Is an infantry acout dog platoon. A dog-breeding program was started by American troops In Korea during the occupation days. When the occupation end ed some 100 of the army's dogs were sent back to Japan. "The remarkable record dur ing the occupation days. When the occupation ended some 100 of the army's dogs were sent back to Japan. "The remarkable record dur ing World War II removed any doubts which may have existed as to their value in time of war," the office of the quartermaster general said in a recent . report. "They saved the lives of a num ber of men in combat They also performed valuable service in guarding various installations and patrolling the coasts of the United States." Some 19,094 canines were re cruited In 1942. Of this number 10,528 measured up to specifi cations, were trained and put Into service. All K-9 recruits had to weigh about 50 pounds and be from 23 to 24 inches high at the should er. Originally five breeds were accepted. Later recruits, bow ever, were limited to German shepherd. Scout dogs were found to be very useful in South Pacific jungle fighting. They could scent a man 300 to 400 yards away. They saved hundreds of American boys from walking in to Japanese ambush. Of the dogs enlisted In K-9. some 2,290 were war casualties. Better English "As I See It" To the Editor I am going to write this letter to you under the beading "As I See If In order to explain what I am thinking about I win sr back to the Roosevelt administration. My figures which I quote wont be accurate but general, but they will do to explain what I am writing about As I recall it when Roosevelt was elected, the national debt was between 20 and 30 billion dollars. And he was going to cure the depression Immediately. So the administration ran the national debt up to between 60 and 70 billion. Then congress and the nation were becoming a little jittery and the administra tion was not sure they could get more and the depression wasnt licked yet So we were taken into the second world war, be cause It was known that once we got In we wouldn't bade down. So we went through tt at an awful cost In dollars and lives. Well. Roosevelt died and Truman took over, and we went on still piling up the national debt Then, a while back before this last war. there was a little depression started, only they called it a recession. , So our powers that be in Washington saw this opening in Korea and they knew that once we were In it the ball would start rolling for production of war materials. And there would be an emergency again and the same party would continue In of fice until It Is over. But it is a case of a little man stumbling along In a big man's footsteps and now we are out on a limb. We have been at It for 20 years and havent won the war or the depression, we have only been spending what our forefathers gave up in 1778. We have a national debt that none living now will see paid and a debt to all the boys that lie dead on foreign soil. This is as I see it EARL SHARP. 1185 Waller St Trnmsa Oat ef Step With CoUnel Church To the Editor: General Motors and Ford both tola resident Truman to go jump In the lake when he asked them not to raise prices on this years autos. There was a simi lar Incident during our struggle with Japan In the Philippines. The government asked the auto makes to build airplanes instead of autos for a while, but they sat on their fat dividends for many weeks and refused to move until the government signed their double-priced contract The time element favored them. The situ ation was desperate, and while President Roosevelt was prepar ing for drastic action the gov ernment was compelled to sign, and the planes finally got there too late! We lost 40,000 men, hundreds of nurses, and Mac Arthur skedaddled to Australia, all because we had no defence against the Jap Zeros. Now the auto makers are again placing profits abor the welfare of the country In an emergency. Recently the president wrote a very scurrilous letter to the musical critic of a Washington daily who eritirlxed his daugh ter's singing. He threatened to punch htm in the nose and stake him need a supporter below. His daughter's singing seems touch more important to him than the welfare of the nation, for he hasn't threatened to sock Mr. Wilson in the nose nor kick Mr. Ford In the- groin: but the people of the U. S. still think somethlrg should be done about war profi teers as well as newspaper men and other workrn whom he con trols by executive order when he feels tike it or rets mad. As president he sounds like a very small pebble rattling around la a very large can. and as a man well, nobody has Improved on Barney Barurh's opinion or him as "rude, uncouth and Ignorant" A. M. CHURCH. tration would abdicate its auth ority in this field, especially if it still would have to put up the money. Some compact may be neces sary or advisable with reference to allocation of water rights, though that is not imminent; but a compact that would take over the contemplated power and r sponsibility of a Columbia Val ley administration seems to me just a piped ream. GRIN AND BEAR IT Br J. M. Roberts. Jr. AP Foreign Affairs Analyst I , WASHINGTON. Dec. 12-UPV- Despite all the resolutions at Lake Success, the Korean situ a tion appears today to revolve, around the possibilities of con tinuing a limn ed war. j That 4s the Intention of the United States, and presumab ly of Great Britain, whose prime minister ' A said he was agreement with President Tru man on the subject Mr. At ; tlee told narlia. 'raent yesterday that he had "good hopes" that U. N. forces would be able to maintain them ! selves on the disputed penin sula. . He spoke only a dsy fW General MacArthur had report :ed that the Chinese, despite the withdrawals forced , by ' over- ; whelming numbers, had not been fable to break the U. N. ability . i to fight ) Estimates of the situation from reporters at MacArthurs head quarters suggest that . further . , withdrawals will be necessary. in J. . I i x I VI; i j u j however, and that if anything like a permanent defense line can be established it will have to be around Seoul or somewhere in the south where the allied commanders can anchor both flanks. The present line from which the 8th army now awaits further attack peters out toward the center of the peninsula, with the communists apparently bent on turning this unanchored flank. MacArthur was represented, however, as having always to consider the possibility that re gardless of high policy not to withdraw voluntarily, the Chi nese may be able to throw his armies out forcefully. This, of course, was also to be reckoned with around the political con ference tables. The Chinese and the Russians have suggested their intention of doing just that The MacArthar and ; Attlee rtntrnenti could be taken as warnings, however, that the U. N. should not do any panic trad ing just yet Many people are asking what is to be gained by continuing a war south of the 38th parallel, even if a temporary stalemate can be obtained, and what has been gained at all by the Korean episode if North Korea is not freed from communist control. Probably the greatest gain has been the revelation of the ex tent to which imperialist com munism is prepared to go; that it is ready to use military ag gression, ready to risk world war. That brought a unified re action from 53 nations, 16 of which actually contributed mili tary strength as evidence of their determination to resist such aggression. That may be a great deterrent against future experi ments of this kind, even though communist force proves a tem porary winner. It certainly has built a fire under the prepared ness programs of the non-communist world. It has given the United Na tions a new lease on life, through demonstration of its determina tion to act promptly and with force to meet force. It produced a method by which the general assembly can by-pass the secu rity council veto to carry out the spirit of the charter. If the fight can be continued it will serve as constant evi dence that the world is deter mined to help those who are willing to fight for their own liberties. It will encourage of r .countries to hold until strength can arrive. by Lichty ie softer w piece '. i f . jz' - - Ob agents la Aaaeriea repertfav appearing epenly la steres and en wita wksskera streeta." 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "His headquarters art located at Chicago." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "Palestine"? 3. 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