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4 Tni CrcrtetTncm. Scrlem, Oregon. Satnrdcry, Jcaxnary 13. 1851 RE-LEARNING THE LESSON THE JAPS TAUGHT US Mafcsmaft "No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Atce" Frem first Statesman, March li, ISM THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher FsbUshed every morning. Basinets office 215 8. Commercial, Salem, Oregon. Telephone Z-244L Catered at the poatofCca at Salem, Oregen, aa second class matter under -act of congress March 3, 1871 A Sports Writer "Looks" At Basketball John Lardner, sports-writer, son of the late Rise Lardner, says something about basketball in the New York Times magazine that most spectators will agree with: too many fouls call ed and not enough play, and tall men have reached the "height of absurdity." As he says: "Like New Year's Eve, a modern basketball game is one long, steady chorus of whistles and horns, signaling penalties." His complaint against basketball offenses is the time it takes to punish them. Fouls call for time-out and free throws and violations call for time out and dead ball: "And the deadness of the ball, I grieve to say, is contagious." Lardner takes" a dim view of these skyscraper players who look down on the basket and drop the ball in instead of doing a carrom from the backboard. Youth are growing taller and taller: A consequence of this is that talent scouts sit in second-story windows grabbing the hats off of passers-by who reach that high. When the victim goes upstairs to reclaim his hat, he is signed up to play basketball, with an education as a bonus. Or so I am told by a source close to a source. The tall man, of course, can outreach his op ponent in passing, catching and tipping the ball. He can hover over the basket and drop in field goals like over-ripe grapes. And the coach, if he should grow moody, as basketball coaches often do, can commit suicide by climbing to the ' top of the tallest player on his squad and leap ing off. Those are the advantages of the trend toward the ceiling. But the future is fraught with peril. Dr. Namith, when he strung up peach baskets at each end of the gymnasium, thought they were safe from attack, except by artillery or trajectory patterns. He little sus pected that they could be bombed from above. As soon as every basketball player is seven feet tall the basket will have to be raised. Then the ceiling will have to be raised. Then the ceiling will have to be removed, exposing the audience to snow, frostbite and predatory birds. In basketball it is coming to be th"t "the gky's the limit." says it is checking to find the leak. So Pearson may find himself in "hot water in his feuding with the unscrupulous McCarthy. Chances are however that no one will find what his source of supply was. Rotary and the Vatican Hotarians round the world will be surprised at the decree from the Vatican which bars clergy of the Catholic church from membership or at tendance in Rotary club meetings, and evident ly frowns on affiliation of its lay members with Rotary. :; The decree extends to other service clubs. Singularly the president of Rotary Inter national Arthur Lagueux of Quebec is a Cath olic himself. Evidently the fear is that such association would draw members away "from the legiti mate vigilance of the church," in the language of the canon cited. The Roman Catholic church has long forbidden membership in secret organ izations,, such as the Masonic order, maintaining its own Knights of Columbus as a fraternal or ganization. Rotary is not irreligious, in fact it does not invade the area of religion save as it seeks to apply the principles of religion as expressed in ethics to the relations of men. It is not a secret organization; there are no oaths (but there are dues). Primarily service clubs are devices for promoting fellowship and encouraging joint ef forts toward improving affairs within commun ities and better understanding among nations. One fails to see wherein the clubs conflict in any way with one's oblibations to his church. r-jV oh! J-J PORE 5TAI?vSN SI?EAT SCOT (I ?' it Jleporters and Official Papers Previously we have noted the leak in puoiic ffices by which correspondents seem to get copies of public documents; and with Drew Pearson it is almost a trade. The methods em ployed are pretty well known. One has a 60urce." a friend in a department who passes out copies of official papers. There may even be a sort of "market"' in papers; or a correspond ent may mave a "plant" in a department who gerves as a pipeline. Again some responsible official may want the news disclosed without Identifying the source, and passes the papers along. Or an enemy may furnish the material to injure some other official or some one in private life. The reporter takes the material and uses It, of course without disclosing where or how he got it. Sometimes he gets badly fooled as Fulton Lewis was with the report of an ex airforce man about leaks to Russia through Great Falls during the war. Now Drew Pearson is under McCarthy's fire because of a story he ran some time ago which purported to quote official war department pa per respecting the war in Korea. McCarthy asks, how did Pearson get the papers, and isn't he guilty of giving aid to the enemy in printing their contents. Pearson replies that he had clearance from the Pentagon if he made some alterations in the text. Now the war department Foreign news scoops of the week have gone to Keyes Beech, Chicago Daily News correspon dent in Tokyo. He reported that General Mac Arthur had recommended withdrawals of U.N. troops from Korea, and that story was denied in Washington, by President Truman himself. His second story was that the chiefs of staff in Washington were responsible for the order transferring the issuance of war communiques to the Eighth army headquarters from MacAx thur's headquarters in Tokyo, and this story was denied in Tokyo. This adds to interest in the exchange of communications between Mac Arthur and Washington. They surely will be published some day and a lot of controversial points will be cleared up or made more acute. Safety Valve Hop Growers Hold District Conferences A aeries of hop growers meetings is being held throughout Oregon hop growing districts, under joint sponsorship of the US. Hop Grow ers association and of the hop con trol board. Oregon directors of the associa tion are Ray J. Glatt of Woodbum and Ray Kerr of Salem. The con trol board members in Oregon in clude Glatt, Ralph E. Williams, jr., of Portland, Harvey Kaser of Silverton and Dean H. Walker of Independence. The board regulates the marketing of all hops grown in Oregon, California, Washington and Idaho. W. S. Walton of Salem is treasurer of the board. Included In matters discussed were proposed amendments to the hop marketing agreement, possible federal legislation to provide re straints on unneeded new acreage, the hop supply and demand situa tion, the 1951 hop growers conven tion to be held in San Francisco on February 7 to 9, and the Ore gon State college hop conference to be held at Corvallis on Febru ary 23. Three meetings scheduled for the coming week include one at the VFW hall at Independence January 18, 7:30 p.m.; Donald hall, January 19, 1:30 p.m. and St. Mary's school, Mt. Angel, Janu ary 19, 7:30 p.m. A guest speaker these meetings will be E. L. Markell, San Fran cisco, secretary - manager of the U. S. Hop Growers association, with H. J. Chrisman, Salem, Ore gon representative of the associa tion, and Paul T. Rowell, Salem, managing agent of the hop control board, also to speak. The Independence meeting is sponsored by Independence Hop Growers of which H. H. Withrow is chairman. All hop growers are invited to attend these meetings. Former Silverton Man John Stranix Passes Statasmaa Newt Snrfc SILVERTON. Jan. 12 John Stranix, formerly with the Silver Falls Timber Co. here, died Fri day at Walla Walla, Wash, where he had lived since leaving Silver ton six years ago. Stranix was active in masonic: work here dfd had retained mem bership in the Silverton masonic lodge. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, Walla Walla; two sons. John and Robert Stranix, both of Portland. Word from Washington is that Harris Ells worth, representative from the fourth district will be a member of the powerful rules com mittee. The committee has had its former pow ers of life or death on bills restored by action of the congress. The choice of Ellsworth, who is just beginning his fourth term is unusual be cause the assignment goes ordinarily to one of longer tenure. He has been a "Martin-organization'' man however, and resisted the rules change made in 1949, so gets this recognition. It also gives a place on the committee to one from the Pacific coast. Now when westerners want something done the word passed along will be, "See Ellsworth." The New York dress manufacturing industry has asked for an overall price freeze, otherwise they will not be able to hold down the prices of women's dresses. Cut the dresses a little shorter and the ladies will freeze. Truman Forced to Yield Civil Rights Program To Gain Southern Support For Foreign Policy By Joseph and Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 For forecasters of the congressional climate, the most important single fact about the pres ident's message on the state of the union was in. o m 1 s -sion. The cus tomary defiant demand for the 1- fair employ-IfV ment practices act and other items in the civil rights pro gram was con-; spicuously not included. After five years, the president left out the almost ritual passage, which has regu- 1 a r 1 y plunged each" new ses sion of con- gress into an ins tantaneous, embittered and time - consum ing dog fight. Some time ago, these re porters indicat ed in this space that the civil rights program was one of the major sacrifices the president whould have to make, if he hoped for congres sional co-operation in the world crisis. At that time and thereafter, many of those closest to the president pressed the same view upon him. Among those in the lead were high state department officials, who realized that their task would be hopeless if the southern democrats were finally alienated from the administra tion, as they were showing signs of being. The argument for do ing the expedient thing was really un-answerable. - There was not only no hope at all of passing a solid civil rights pro gram at this session. It was ajso cWr that an attempt to insist a the civil rights program would certainly delay and quite ' Stewart AUvp probably actually imperil the far more urgent foreign and defense program. To this argument, it is now understood Truman has yielded. The moment when he made up his mind was probably a month or so ago, when the official strategists of the democratic na tional committee supported the views already expressed by leg islative chieftains, the president's personal advisers, and the state department officials. The president has not changed his mind, to be sure, about civil rights. He has merely deferred the issue. But the effect of what he has done has meanwhile been immeasurably increased' by an other great change in the re lationship between the White House and the southerners. Until very recently, even the middle-of-the-road southerners were either not consulted at all, or were treated With open hos tility by the White House dis pensers of patronage and other political good things. All this still means much in the South, and bitter feelings resulted. Now, however, a gentle, emollient shower of collectorships, judge ships and the like has caused the memory of past hard feel ings to grow dint For the first time in recent history, the dem ocratic party in congress, and particularly in the senate, can thus be regarded as semi-unified on the major issues immediately ahead. There is still a handful of ex tremists like Sen. Harry T. Byrd of Virginia, whose enthusiasm for economy has led him to rather complete isolatiordsm. But the great mass of middle-of-the-road southerners typified by the two most influential men in the group. Senators Walter: Geofge and Richard Russell, of Georgia, are moving again, toward active support of the administration foreign and defense policy. This was the group- j amon whom Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio and his allies could i hope and did . gain many converts. Since that hope is dead or dying, the con gressional outlook is radically altered. With the democrats voting pretty solidly, and such pro gressive republicans as Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Margaret Chase Smith of Maine going along. Sen. Taft can hard ly command a majority for his viewpoint on foreign and de fense policy, except on minor matters. This is true although the issue has now been squarely posed by the speeches of Sen. Taft, former President Herbert Hoover, and Joseph P. Kennedy. For the time being, the great measures of the foreign and de "fense program, although they will be tumultuously debated, must be regarded as pretty safe to pass. There is no safeguard, how ever, against real danger. The present program may get by. But the improvement in the congressional outlook has not restored the real power of the government and the country to act quickly and decisively on the world stage. It has not as sured a right response to the immense new challenges which the next months may bring. It has not even deprived the Hoov er - Taft - Kennedy school of thought of its real asset, which isthe want of confidence in the national leadership. There is only one way to achieve these great ends and to unify the country. In 1943, In comparable but much less dan gerous circumstances. Franklin Delano Roosevelt dismissed "Dr. New Deal" and called in "Dr. Win the War" (as he himself put it), in order to organize the nearest equivalent to a national coalition government that our system allows. Ten years later, almost every- responsible leader of -his own party believes' that Harry S. Truman must do the same thing all over again, in order to carry the nation through the new time of periL 4 (Copyright 1951. Says Butter Superior For Nutritive Value To the Editor: Now we have two bills in the Legislature trying to repeal the law which prevents the sale of colored oleomargarine. No other food product is al lowed by law to be colored in imitation of some other food product of higher quality. And the extreme difference in nut ritive value between butter and oleo Is little understood by the average person. Here are some of the facts: Dr. E. V. McCollum of Johns Hop kins university, who is the man who first discovered the pres ence of vitamins and is recog nized as the ablest nutrition sci entist in the world tells us; "The people of northern Europe and North America are the people who have used the dairy cow as the foster mother of the race. They are the tallest of stature, the longest lived, have the low est infant mortality, the great est resistance to disease, and they are the only people on earth who have ever made any mater ial progress in literature, science, art and politics. All the progress ever made by any of the other peoples of this earth is that which they have made by copy ing after us." No truer statement was ever made. The evidence is shown on every hand. Butter is the richest in vitamins "A" and "D" of food product known. And if we eat an ordinary diet of veg etables, cereals, fruit and meat we get all the other vitamins we need. Vitamins "A" and "D" are the only vitamins we need to bother about and oleomar garine contains neither vitamin "A" nor "D." In the United States where we use plenty of dairy products the average span of life is 62.8 years. Over in India where no dairy products are used the average span of life is 27 years. Now, from a financial stand- GRIN AND BEAR IT DtP pcpcaxgl (Continued from page 1.) i Cease-Fire Move Looks Like 'Show' thrust on the United States. After the first world war we muffed the ball badly. We started lend ing money abroad freely, then raised tariffs to shut out goods to pay the debts. Our economy collapsed and so did that of the rest of the civilized world. After the second world war we start ed out bravely, joining United Nations, extending aid under the Marshall plan. But we were quite Ttnprepared, diplomatically speaking, for the revival of Rus sian aggression. We did lack the experience or the talent to foil Russia by diplomatic maneuver, though by dint of credits and grants we did erect road blocks across Europe. Development of our foreign policy is handicapped by the role played by the senate, which restricts the powers enjoyed by the executive in most govern ments. Even now Europe has to do a lot of guessing to know not what American foreign policy is, but what it will be in 1952 and after. So it is not an easy job formu lating American foreign policy these days, with critics, domes tic and foreign, pressing their notions of how to run affairs. I think we can profit from the experience of London and Paris where diplomacy has been prac ticed for centuries. If we draw from their prudence and pa tience we may do a better job of trying to run the world. point:, There are 28 oleomar garine factories in the United States and there are 2,500,000 dairy farms. Which is the more important? M. S. Shrock, Milwaukie By J. M. Roberts, Jr. AP Foreign Affairs Analyst The new United Nations pro posals for a cease-fire in Korea represent more "diplomacy for the recor d ," with overtones W of stalling. The motions for a new ap proach to Piep- i ing go forward iWr proposal was by Lichty hope, even only a month ago, to Mew York Herald Tribune me.) "The solemn vews yea taade at the wedding were reed, Otis, tat I liked the wild premise yea made befere it, better . . in the face of what amounts to a virtual communist turn-down already. l n e cease fire commission only hours old, and the United States had just announced her willingness to proceed with it, when Jacob Malik said It could not serve as a basis for peace. U.N. observers declined to take this as the final Russian stand, saying Malik left himself some loopholes pending instructions from Moscow. But Malik moved so fast, com pared with his usual waits for instructions, as to cause specula tion on other grounds also. It may have been that the Rus sians knew pretty well what to expect and were prepared. Or it might even have been that they were rushing in to make sure that Peiping would not fall for the apparently reasonable suggestions. The proposal calls for cease fire with no cloak for new mil itary preparations, interim ar rangements for administration of Korea under U.N. principles, and an ultimate far eastern set tlement by Russia, Communist China, Britain and the XJJS. after gradual withdrawal of all for eign troops. From the standpoint of China and Russia, which make war for the purposes of territorial "and political aggrandizement, and who are winning, there seems little reason why the suggestions should be entertained. They are not concerned about loss of life, or about peace. On the allied side, nobody Is fooled about the prospects for an ultimate settlement by the big powers, China Is reported ready to negotiate if the allies will vir tually promise them a U.N. seat and Formosa in advance. That would be payment of a reward for aggression, on which the U.S. already has put down its foot And there are . indications that Russia, who really runs the communist show, doesn't really want Peiping In the UN. any way. The practical effect of the cease-fire proposals, then, is merely to delay the American proposal that the VJf. formally classify China as an , aggressor, following up with political, mil itary and economic sanctions. Britain, with large commer cial interests in China, has tried tc avoid this. In spite of advices from Washington that the U.S. intends to hold a beachhead in Korea, London thinks Torea will soon be written off, and: the em barrassing question of sanctions avoided. She is joined by many other U.N. delegations who had rather avoid a formal break now, as the world did when Mussolini Invaded Ethiopia. This really means waiting a while to face even mere- dangerous facts of life, just aa it did 16 years Co. , So the ' TJJY. win now wait around until the Chinese decide to reply- about the cease-fire. Th United States has promised to brine the agression matter up Poor Forest Management Practices Hit Good forest practices are not being followed, Phillip Briegleb, chairman of the douglas fir second-growth committee, told com mittee members at a meeting in Portland this week. He said poor management among a large pro portion of small forest holdings "is all too apparent-" Wider publication of timber prices and continuance of demon stration fprest programs were rec ommended by the committee. Briegleb said public and private foresters are seeking ways to re duce clear cutting and premature cutting. In reference to the prices, he said that "woodland owners feel there is no stable lumber price and they therefore would rather sell the timber today than wait for any length of time." The second - growth committee was formed four years ago by the director of the Pacific Northwest forest and range epxeriment sta tion. The group is made up of fed eral, state and private foresters. Quotas Placed On Air Force, Navy Recruits Recruiting for the navy and the air force were under quotas today, restricting the numbers of men which Salem and other stations may send to processing points for actual enlistment The quotas are considerably lower than enlistments have been' during recent rush weeks. The of fices do not plan to stop local processing of interested men. The navy office here was order ed to go from a monthly minimum of 31 men to a varying maximum quota. The change in plans caught about 20 youths who had expected to go to Portland Friday. Chief Eugene Loveland, station commander, said he can send 18 recruits next week, with all those billets filled already. Most will go Tuesday, coming largely from this week's prospects. He said Salem had shipped more men in the first two weeks of 1951 than in a nor mal month. This has meant 53 men enlisted from here, five awaiting results of processing and four re jected. The air force recruiters expect to be able to send about four or five men per week for the rest of Jan uary, however air force veterans and men with two or more years of college study are outside the quota. M. Sgt. Hugh M. Smith, sta tion commander, said his office had enlisted 62 men, has seven pending and has had five rejected in the first two weeks of the year. The enlistments have been higher since the holidays than for sever al years. Orders ot the Salem stations did not state definite reasons for the quota assignments, but it was pre sumed that the recent rush of en listments in the two services. In nearly all areas, has taxed proces sing and training faculties. Montreal Family Tree 'Runs Riot' MONTREAL -iJPf The Miller family tree has run riot. It all started when Christian Godfrey Miller married Lucie Levesque, sister of Emilie Levesque who had married Christian Godfrey's son, Corey Alexander, a year earlier. Now the possibilities of rela tionships between all four are al most limitless. For example: Christian God frey is his son's brother-in-law and Lucie is her sister Emille's mother-in-law. And Corey's sis ter - in - law, Lucie, is his step mother . ... and Christian God frey's daughter-in-law, Emilie, is his sister-in-law . . . and since Corey Alexander's wife, Emilie, is his step-mother's sister, it follows she must be his aunt as weu as his wife. Dr. McKenzic to Join Eastern Market Tour Dr. Fred F. McKenzie, chair man of the Oregon State college animal husbandry department, is one of two persons from Oregon invited to join 18 other represen tatives from 17 states on a tour of livestock and meat markets of eastern states. Dr. MCKenzie left Friday for Chicago where the tour will start. Cities on the tour will be Chicago, Boston, New York, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Better English 'Holy Report' Author Due in Salem Jan. 31 PORTLAND, Jan. 12 -(P) -The author of the "Holy Report" oa Oregon public schools will be back in the state Jan. 31. Dr. T. C. Holy, Ohio educator. will be in Salem during the legis lative session to consult with law makers on bills growing out of his report. 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "Mary, who is named after her mother, win be back home next Wednesday." 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "ideaHty"? 3. Which one of these words Is misspelled? Clinical, classi fiable. ClienteL clarinet. . 4. What does the word "re cluse" (adjective) mean? 5. What is a word beginning with am that means "strongly desirous? - I ANSWERS 1. Say, "Mary, who is named far her mother, will ' return home." 2. Pronounce i-de-al-My, with the accent on third syllable. 1 Clientele. 4. Retired from the world or public notice. "He led a Tecluse life." 5. 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