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.SI 4 The Statmaa. BqUauQfqon. TA&aT' fcnmarf 11. 1831 . r Mi i( .1 i PUBLIC "fo Favor Sways U$, No Ftar Shall Awe" fYom First Statesman, March Z8. 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published every morning. Business office 213 8. Commercial. Salem, Oregon. Telephone 2-244L Entered at th postoffica at Salem. Oregon, aa second class matter under act of congress March X. 1871 Justice Douglas on Asia With most everyone in political life speaking bis piece on world affairs it is not surprising that Justice William O. Douglas. makes his con tribution, which he does by way of an article in LOOK magazine on "We Can't Save Asia by War Alone." We do not know of anyone who thinks we can; but clearly we weren't able to save Asia without war. We tried that by en couraging a union government in China. We failed, the communists took over mainland China, and then the North Koreans tried by force of arms to take over South Korea. So avoidance of war didnt save China or Asia from the red overrun. Nevertheless Justice Douglas is an informed person by reason of his visits in Asia and con tacts with men of affairs. He recognizes the aeed of strong armed forces at this juncture, but sees a need also for a political approach to the problem of Asia. What is happening in Asia, he writes, is a series of revolutions against op pression and poverty. That is true, and has per haps not been recognized as fully as it should have been by our national leaders. They can't just keep Asia in the leading strings of colon ialism and western control any longer. What Douglas sees in Asia which needs fix ing are items such as these: landlordism and accompanying high interest rates; lack of schools and doctors and hospitals, inequitable taxing system, corrupt governments. By riding the whirlwind of revolution Russia reaps an early harvest. Communism fosters revolution even though its performance falls far short of its promises. At this point some may come up with Presi dent Truman's 'Point "Four, a program of lend ing, money and services for development of backward countries. Douglas says: "Money is not so much needed as ideas." Unless political reforms are achieved money would be largely wasted. The west, thinks Douglas, should sup ply democratic ideas and motivation for the peoples of Asia and should endorse specific re forms in such matters as land tenure so the people would have something tangible to see and cling to. The prescription of Justice Douglas is not easy; but at least it is affirmative. Instead of bribing native princes to abjure communism it would doubtless offend the ruling classes in business and politics. These rulers could hardly turn to Russia however for they surely know what fate wouid await them under communist dictation. At the same time we can no more serve as political bosses for the rest of the world than as military bosses. And fundamental to the whole economic problem of Asia is the one of population, of sheer numbers of people who must be fed and clothed. Facing that and seeing the graph of the population increase many with much longer experience in Asia just throw up their hands in despair. Until population growth is diminished no system of government can fur nish parcels of land and abundant living to the multitudes of India and China. Justice Douglas offers good advice, but it doesn't go far enough. acreage he finds the city has enveloped his house. Only it isn't city government, and lack of it creates problems. Assuming water supply has been assured then follow problems of streets, of sewage disposal, of fire protection. The thin layer of gravel spread when a dedicated street was opened up soon cuts up as more cars use it. It's an orphan street. The one who developed the tract has sold the lots and he is out of it. The county shrugs its shoulders and says it doesn't become a coun ty road entitled to county maintenance just be cause it is a dedicated street. There is a law permitting creation of special improvement dis tricts and that is invoked in many instances. Likewise fire districts may be established and water districts. But one of the most acute problems is sewage disposal. Septic tanks suffice until the district is well settled and the rainy season begins; then trouble is apt to start. Sewage water with its revealing scum oozes to the surface and stands in noisome pools. It has no place to go because the ground is soaked. A line to a ditch is only a temporary solution; eventually it must be dis charged into a disposal plant. All of these factors help convince suburban dwellers that they should come under municipal government. They find when they add up the direct costs or the taxes of special districts that their tax saving is pretty much whittled away. Even when they come into the city solution of their problems, especially of sewage disposal and drainage is not easy. Papers at Klamath Palls and Eugene report serious difficulties in handling oi sewage in the newer areas of the city. This simply adds up to this, that urban de velopment should be planned with an eye out for providing the services that now are indis pensable in modern living. We are doing a fair ly good job here in planned development with respect to schools, water supply, handling of sewage, fire protection. But the community should keep ahead with its planning. The indi vidual who hires an engineer to make a blue print for lots or who starts a house in a new district in the suburbs should figure out how the essential services will be supplied as the need for them arises. oNtMY, NO. 1 ,,i'cffea TV --O Dr. Smith Discloses Colleges Advocate 19-Year-Qld Draft Minimum, Some Deferments Draft age should be no lower than 19 and certain students should be allowed to complete college studies before military service, it is recommended by the Association of American Colleges. The association's recommendations were drafted at its annual meeting in Atlantic City, N. J, and were forwarded to Salem this week by Dr. G. Herbert Smith, president of Willamette university and a director oi the national group. Power Connection With California A transmission line connection between the Columbia river projects and central California projects has been ordered by the secretary of the interior. The interconnection would be made at the Bonneville substation at Klamath Falls, the line to that point now being under construction from Redmond south. This connection seems a logical one. It will extend the power grid which now reaches pret ty well all over the northwest. It permits inter change of energy to. meet peak demands and should result in power conservation. Dr. Raver says the estimates show an additional 100,000 kw of firm power can be sold under such an arrangement. The interconnections in the north west, which permitted the northwest power pool to function has been a great help to the northv. t. Without it we should have had more blackouxs and contractions of use of energy. We do not understand that this is a device to siphon Columbia river power from this area for Cali fornia consumption permanently, but a means of levelling off the demand with the west coast supply. Power can flow north as well as south. China's Desire for War Termed Reason For Failure of Latest Cease-Fire Effort Troubles of Suburbia The trouble with moving to the suburbs for light and air and lower taxes is that too many are of the same mind. One no longer gets estab lished in a semi-rural environment until houses start popping up in the vicinity. Unless he has protected himself with purchase of considerable Hearing of Leo Spitzbart (recently given the gate as state fair manager) before the civil service commission next month may 'develop as many twists as a roller-coaster. Leo is expected to deny completely the insubordination charges by E. L. Peterson, state agriculture department director. Spitzbart may, so the scuttlebutt goes, dwell on the Hall-McKay gubernatorial race two years ago and stress his allegiance to Gov. McKay. He will probably also point to gate receipt increases under his regime in the past several years. On the other hand the ousted fair head stands to win little besides a personal vic tory according to civil service laws. Even if the civil serince commission finds he was fired unjustly (and nothing, so far, says it will) about all the commission can do is to refer the matter back to the department head tuhich is Peterson for reconsideration. And it isn't likely that Peterson will reopen the turnstiles for Leo. . The controversy may be solved, though, if the new fair board bill introduced at the legislature the other day, passes. This act would create a state fair board of citizens, who in turn would employ and de-employ state fair managers. Of course, even un der this setup Spitzbart could still find himself at the state fair next year only as a paying guest. yfj- 1 ..- . 1 f0 By J. M. Roberts, Jr. AP Foreign Affairs Analyst One thing can be said for the latest passage between the Unit ed Nations and the Communist bloc. It has knocked anoth- r er prop from under the idea that peace can . i b e negotiated f M ' when one of the CJF y?" v narties actual- ' & ly does not i i warn li. tii Prime Minis-! J ter Nehru of! I India now! WAVl seems to be ! about the only important figure in the non-communist world who still thinks you can do business with communism. And it seems likely that his attitude is due more to bias against the western nations, growing out of his long ruggle for independence from "Britain, than to any rational consideration of the situation created by the expansionist aims of Communist imperialism. Nehru is one of the few so cialists left in the world who has failed to recognize the vast difference between socialism and the type of so-called communism which Russia imposes on her satellites and seeks, in one of history's greatest displays of Cyn icism, to use as a weapon for territorial aggrandizement. It is Nehru who joins with the Soviet bloc in opposing United Nations condemnation of China as an aggressor. It is Nehru who, unwittingly perhaps, encourages a certain clement in both Asia and Europe to consider the conflict between the United States and Russia as merely another power fight be tween the big nations. As Peiping was broadcasting its rejection of the latest U. N. cease-fire proposals, it was Neh ru, who said that, even so, China should not be branded an ag-v' gressor. TAU the troubles in the far. east arise from the failure of the world to adjust itself" to the changes which have taken place 9d Asia," he added. That just isn't quite true. A big trouble right now is naked military aggression. The world has been slow to recognize the inevitability and the meaning of Asia's revolution against western exploitation. Asia has every right to complain. It has every right to be touchy about anything that might look like an attempt to railroad west ern policy. India is the more subject to uncertainties because of differences between British and American Asiatic policies, too. But none of this justifies a willingness to accept the advance of communism merely because it spites the west. Many Chinese were willing to accept the aid of communism, to accept anything that promised change from Chiang Kai-shek and from western interference in China's business. Now the help er has become the tyrannical master. Czechoslovakia's government in exile during the war made a treaty with the communists de signed for "live and let live," but again the collaborators became the rulers. Nehru can learn much about the choice of evils, if he wants to put it that way, from the bare record. A message from Sen. Wayne Morse says the reactivation of Camp Adair will not be decided, if at all, for at least a month . . . The entire reactivation program is being eral uated by appropriate officials, reads the wire, and no de cisions as to particular camps are expected until early Feb ruary . . . Indications also are that decisions on particular facilities will be "made from time to time and that Camp Adair status probably unit not be determined immediately." Speaking-of early autos in Salem again . . . Bob Browne found an account of the first electrical automobile in Salem lodged in the Breyman family's scrapbook. It appeared early in July, 1909, in a parade with other autos through downtown streets. It was driven by Mrs. R. P. Boise, jr., and was decorated with "maiden-hair fern and pink roses." The newspaper story of that exciting event predicted that electric autos would soon replace "gasoline and other power" cars because gasoline models would soon be too expensive to operate. Not so far wrong at that. Another account says that Rueben Boise bought an O.O. White Steamer in 1910 a maroon-colored job with a "mohair lined roof" and monogrammed doors. (I love my horse but, oh, you red steamer!) Literary Guidepost GRIN AND BEAR IT mmmimmmmmmmmmmmmm by Lichty EARLY STORIES, by Elizabeth Bowen (Knopf; $3) The 25 short stories in this book, beginning with the first one Miss Bowen completed, 'Breakfast' . . . and what better place to begin? . . . were written in the early 1920s, after the au thor, as she says in her preface, had given up trying to be a poet and a painter. What she might have become in the other medi ums would be an interesting, but futile, subject for : specula tion. We know the writer she has become, however; sensitive, observant, imaginative. This collection, containing the work in her first two published volumes, "Encounters" and "Ana Lee's", show the litUe teps she took at the start,: always sure, always heading straight for her goal, and sometimes, though not always, triumphantly reaching It. : . A teacher fails to break down the barrier between herself and her pupils; an aging, woman tries indecorously to prepare . for the ' return of a lover; an interfering woman shows up tinexpectedly; a man proves how impossible a husband he will be; moods of mother and daughter fail dis mally to match; .one, married couple quarrels and is reconciled, another quarrels and is not; a parrot, unlike his stuffy mistress, is not finicky about the house he visits; a frightened boy waits for his mothers death . . . these are some of the people and situa tions. Miss Bowen somewhat-resents the word "sketch" used indis criminately by one or two early reviewers. Yet with the word "story" applied to such a mass of shoddy writing now, "sketch" in a sense might be regarded to day as complimentary. And ac tually, it seems to me, the suc cessful pieces here are the ear lier, sketchier, ones, rather than those in "Ann Lee's", where tke indubitable'1 technical advance does, not always compensate for a psychology strained a bit to fit the larger frame. My two favorites are both in the 'first parti "Coming Home", and "The Lover", which she classifies as a sketch. The preface is invaluable, for MisS Bowen sees her work with an uncommonly unbiased : eye. Preface and stories together con stitute an excellent manual for the writer; but he musnt for get he needs some Bowen in his make-up. too. JWp ,g -age A ilk jXVV? tinA oP On Parade Hollywood By Gene H&ndsaker HOLLYWOOD Red Skelton, who can be a pretty funny guy, is three times that amusing in "Watch the ii l r d l e. tiefr plays himself, '' his lather, and his grandfath er, and through wizardry of trick photog raphy all three are sometimes on the screen together. As himself he is a typical Skelton charac ter earnest, happy, slightly idi otic. He's in the photo-supply business with his pop and grand pop. As his pop he is paunchy, mustached, tired, and conserva tive. But as his granddad he is a gay, youthful old blade with girl friends aplenty and a great zest for living. The old man's problem is to teach his clumsy grandson how to get along with the ladies, par ticularly Arlene Dahl and Ann Miller. Arlene is a housing fin ancier whom Red is trying to save from her crooked business manager (Leon Ames). Miss Mil ler is a hammy beauty-contest winner working in connivance with Ames. A climatic chase sequence, with Red and Arlene aboard a speeding lumber carrier, is fair ly hilarious. "Watch the Birdie" for a lot of innocent, uncompli cated fun. "Mystery Submarine" is a mystery in more ways than one. An old World War II German U-boat, long presumed sunk, turns out to be still operating off our coast. It kidnaps a pretty immigrant (Marta Toren) and an ailing scientist (Ludwig Donath.) Then it torpedoes the yacht on which they were cruis ing, sending it to the bottom with several innocent folk aboard. The ruthless sub skipper (Robert Douglas) explains that he sells his services "to the high est bidder." Russia? Why not say so? Afraid of stirring up more trouble abroad? Then why naaKe a nwvie that has to be ob scure about important motivation? Douglas is as nasty a villain as any since Simon Legree. Af ter delivering the scientist to the ship of a "potential enemy," as it is once described in dialogue, he wants Marta to go away with him. But Macdonald Carey has come aboard the sub as a U. S secret operative and her poten tial rescuer. Sub-chasing scenes at sea, with depth charges ex ploding, are exciting. But most of the players except Douglas seem as unconvinced of the plot as you probably will be Association proposals to con gress and the executive depart ment are prefaced by a preamble calling for wise use of manpower, recognition of long-range import ance of continuing a flow of train ed persons to fill critical positions in the years to come and the policy statement that "we believe that all young men should share equit ably the responsibility of national defense." 650 Institutions These proposals were put for ward by the association which rep resents 650 institutions of higher education: Avoid duplicating existing edu cational facilities; armed services should not develop new education programs without exhausting pos sibilities of existing schools. Draft-deferred students should be allowed to enlist in services open at time of their deferment after they have furthered their studies to the point permitted by draft postponement. Trained college women should be used as leaders in civilian ser vice and professions, under a comprehensive, planned program. Just Daring Emergency Draft age should be lowered be low 19 only if required by and during any emergency manpower shortage. ROTC units should be increased; present deferment policy endorsed. Students who should be allowed to complete studies are those now enrolled in professional schools of theology, medicine, dentistry and related health fields, in graduate schools in mathematics, engineer ing, physical and biological scien ces; also students having complet ed two years of undergraduate study by July, 1951, and in good academic standing. Induction Postponed Any college student reaching in duction age should have his induc tion postponed until end Of that academic year. If 18-year-olds must be draft ed, it is assumed that not more than half would be inducted in the first year; it is recommended that those not inducted before open ing of a r-chool year be notified that they might complete that year. After basic military training, a substantial number of qualified men should be furloughed to col leges of their choice for further education in all fields prior to completion of their military train ing; consideration should be given to federal scholarship or loan fund to make this possible; this program should be administered by civilians. Dead GI Took Along 8 Reds With 8 Bullets By Tom Brads haw ON THE CENTRAL FRONT, Korea, Jan. 18-p-On a brown Korean hillside an American hero lies buried today. His identity may never be known. His deeds are. Three days ago this soldier was just another GI dug in below Won ju, a town he probably had nver heard of a few months before. He was on outpost duty, peering into the darkness before dawn for any sign of the enemy. Around him were other mem bers of his company, some watch ing like himself, others huddled asleep in foxholes. Before him was a snow-covered known listed as Hill 147, which had changed hands five times in as many years. Enemy Charse Midnight passed without incid ent. Then at 3:45 ajn. the stillness was broken by the shriek of a mass enemy charge over the hill. The sentry's rifle was one of the first to answer their fire. In sec onds, the hillside was a bedlam of human cries and the crackle of gunfire, with the booming voice of artillery opening up in the back ground. It didn't last long. In less than 15 minutes the enemy had retreat ed back down his side of hill 247. The Americans settled back in their foxholes to await the dawn. Scene Surveyed With the first light of day com pany officers surveyed the scene of the night encounter. Before the outpost entry's fox hole, eight communists lay dead each shot through the head. The sentry's rifle lay nearby, its eight round garand clip empty. The foxhole was only a jagged crater where no human could have survived the shells that struck it. (This dispatch did not say whose shells hit the foxhole. It could have been enemy mortars. It could have been U.S. artillery since his out post likely was well out in front of the American lines.) 4-H Leaders' Conference Set CORVALLIS, Jan. 1B-(JP)-The state 4-H club leaders' annual three-day conferences will be held at the Oregon State college campus and at Pendleton, it was announced today by L. J. Allen, state 4-H club leader. Allen said western leaders would meet here January 23 and east ern leaders at Pendleton Janu ary 30. Mrs. Alice Lindsay, Grants Pass, president of the leaders' associa tion, will preside at the election of officers at Corvallis January 24. better English ROTC Offers Deferments CORVALLIS, Jan. 18WP)-Im mediate draft delerments are available to Oregon State college reserve omcer training corps (ROTC) freshmen and sophomores who sign agreements to take ad Huge Portland Development Considered PORTLAND, Jan. 18-0F)-Down- town Portland may get a new multi-million dollar business de velopment project, the Oregon Journal said. The paper said a large insur ance firm was willing to put up cash for construction of a pro posed development in the area bounded by S. W. Third and Front avenues and fine and btaric streets. Commissioner Ormond Bean said the project would have to be a cooperative venture as the Portland city charter permits the condemnation of property only for public use. Officials of the Equitable Life Insurance company the firm that put up the cash for the $18, 000,000 North Gate shopping cen ter near Seattle said they could neither confirm nor deny reports that the concern was considering backing the Portland project vanced training. This was announced today by the national office of the associa tion of land-grant colleges. Students enrolled in air corps ROTC training are entitled to participate in the program. HEW AND ONLY TUDELESS TIRE SEALS PUNCTURES AS YOU RIDE "Terrible price far a bMk! . . . Td wait a year or so. when they're sure to pm eat a popular 25-cent reprint . . . 1. What is 'wrong with this sentence? "The charges they made hurt my character. 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "holocaust"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Adequate, ado lescence, adherance, admonition. 4. What does! the wool "op portune meant 5. What is a word beginning with . ga that : means. "showy; harsh and glaring"? - ANSWERS L. 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