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. ... i' vrrf- tTjx . .-fi; .irrniT VV-'J-1 A Tfc Ptrrt;Tt!?Orqrox'TcrdaT; refcntrr; iffll m ' i'' i.f ,1 'f,t;n iJ.it v 1 ' ii11-'.' 'jf'T . . "No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shell Atoe .' '' -From First BUtema. Mrch 28. 1851 ; THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY - f i CHARLES A. SPRAUUE, Editor and Publisher . iftMIshed every saomlng. Bosiness office 213 8. Commercial. Salem. Oregon. Telephone 2-2411. Entered at the pestotfle' at Salem, Oregon, aa secead class matter under act of ceBgrese March t, 1X7 Pattern of Juvenile Crime Juvenile -delinquency seems to follow a rather conventional pattern. Reports coma , to police of a burglary. The police investigate, list ; the miss ing property, trace what dues they may find. Nothing may come of the investigation for days. Then a car is reported stolen, is recovered from two or three youths. Questioning leads to con fession of holdups and officers are taken to the. cache. There the loot is found and is restored to rightful owners. The law takes the boys in hand. Over and over again' the pattern is re peated. We have had it repeated here in recent days: Robbery of two sporting goods stores (they seem to be prime favorites), report of a car stolen from a' lot, two 15-year-old boys report ed missing from homes. Then a curious state patrolman in his cruising around runs onto atringe goings-on up the Abiqua, and the boys are apprehended and their thefts revealed. Quite young lads to go so far on a career of crime. When one robbery is solved it often gives the solution of other robberies. The goods are cach ed, one sometimes thinks the purpose is hoard ing, as much as use or sale. Since much of the wanted merchandise nowadays consists of guns, radios, cameras and other gadgets tracing the ownership la comparatively easy, and several) robberies are cleared up at once. It is always shocking when juveniles are caught committing felonies. With all the lessons that crime doesn't pay, one can't help wonder ing! why fresh youngsters think they can get fway with their misdeeds. The odds are heavily against their success, but still they make the gamble. While juvenile crimes often follow a pattern, the individual cases do not always do so. The springs of action toward crime are not always the same. So one can't lay down a general rule which will fit. In spite of all the work of homes, schools, churches, youth organizations, young sters will get into trouble. Battling juvenile delinquency is very discouraging because of its Snstant recurrence. But we can't stop our ef rts at prevention of crime and reclamation ,ef those who have gone wrong. Otherwise the sumbers would be greatly increased. Every time fresh cases of-youth going wrong are re ported should be a stimulus to more and better work to keep youth going straight. No Bait for-Bonds The Pendleton East Oregonian, in discussing the questioner Of issuing highway bonds to per mit a speeding-up of modernization of our high ways, remarks: Before the- legislature makes a decision on this important matter we would like to have from the highway commission and its engineer, R. H. Baldock, a longterm program of new con struction. It is only reasonable that we should know where the money will" be spent in order that we may determine whether well get what we are expecting for our money. This, in the opinion of The Statesman, would be a wrong way to go at the matter. If a specific program of work were outlined in advance it would invite opposition to the bond legislation from communities which didn't think they were Jetting what they. wanted. And it would look km bait for support from other communities. The Oregon legislature has been wise enough to keep its handsoff of administering highway ftXads by designating roads to be improved. It should not make a beginning now. The needs of the state system were well can- Russia Has Many Reasons for Attacking Slavs, Unless U. S. A-Bombs 'Unfrozen7 , Br Joseph and Stewart Also p WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 The second decisive event of the present grim phase of world af fairs seems to be taking shapo at last behind the scenes. The first, of course, was the begin ning of the all out effort to re arm the west, stimulated by the aggression in Korea. And now, in order to deter the Kremlin from forestalling -this great but time consuming re- armament ef- v foil, consideration is being given to unfreezing the west's only ex SAing military asset, the atomic stockpile. Here the Im mediate stimul us is the obvi ous preparation for an attack on Yugoslavia by the Krem lin's Hungarian. Bulgarian and Romanian sat ellites. Besides destroying the the Yugoslav- army and giv- i trt Alup . lng the Kremlin a vital position there, the unopposed conquest ot Yugoslavia would neutralize the Turkisa army. It would cre ate conditions for raDid S"vi"t absorption of the Middle East. And it would probably cause Ve formation of 'neutralist' gov ernments in Italy and France. In sum, this simple flank at tack, which perhaps can be made by the satellites alone;: would ef-. f ectively break the western al liance. Thus the Kremlin would gain all the fruits of a gigantic, victory with none of the trouble ot a major war. . ' . Tht atomic stockpile must be rarded as a frozen asset to ay. for the very simple reason A 111 jrwzJ. a. v r '"-V Tv" JUJU tin mil i lev - : s j mix mui vassed by the interim committee of the 1947-49 biennium. The highway department just after the war visited 111 sections of the state and on that study based its three-year program. The better course, in our judgment, is to decide the simple question of whether to authorize the sale of state highwayf bonds, and to leave in the dis cretion of the highway commission the prepara tion of the progfam of improvement t Voice of Consumers We hear a great deal about "consumer de mand." For oncefit seems to have been effective in the state legislature, as it previously was in the national congress. Against the pressure of the well organized dairy interests the house wives, weary of the discriminations placed against sale of colored margarine, made them selves heard; and the result was the passing by the senate of the bill ending the ban against the sale of colored margarine in Oregon." The tide of public opinion simply turned against the buttermakers. The question now passes to the house, but the action of the senate gives the repeal measure a powerful impetus. Wheat for India The senate took umbrage at the attitude of India toward the Chinese-Korean-U.N. trouble and held in committee a measure authorizing the shipping of J two million bushels of wheat to relieve famine in that country. Now the sen ate is being scolded for its action, as withhold ing bread from the hungry in order to influence or ibuke national policy. Having in the past been generous out of our abundance to relieve distress we should con tinue that policy, as we are able. When human suffering is involved grain should not bemused as a pawn in the game of politics, although as it is, we are using.it that way in Jugoslavia. But we have learned that American bounty does not alway buy us friends. If it" did we would be the country with the most friends' of any in the world. Maybe we are, but there are plenty of foreigners who speak of the United States with unkind- words. If wheat would buy a nation friends one might think that Russia would be shipping a few cargoes from Odessa to Bombay and Cal cutta. That hasn't been heard of. Grant county whose courthouse suffered from a fire sonle weeks ago, is considering a special levy over a term of years to finance con struction of a new courthouse. Really the state's constitution should be amended to permit coun ties to bond to erect courthouse. Cities may bond for' city halls ai$d school districts for school building, but cotinties may issue bonds only for road purposes, e founding fathers didn't like debt, so they put halters on the state and coun ties, and the restrictions have remained though with occasional modifications for the state. Quite a tendebcy to add "ed" to nouns and make verbs out of them. Thus the good noun contact has been converted into "contacted.' The Eugene Register-Guard says its mail edi tions were "bottienecked by the railroad stop page. And Winston Churchill records in his his tory communications which he "minuted" to the chiefs or staff. Just examples of how our lan guage keeps changing. that on the face of the existing situation, Yugoslavia can in fact be attacked by the surrounding -satellites without precipitating a general war. "Unfreezing" the asset in turn simply means con vincing the Kremlin that an at tack on Yugoslavia is not as safe as it now locks that the im mediate price of this operation or any others like it will be the destruction of Russia's vital cen ters, and that this will still be tr ae even if satellite forces alone are overtly employed. In considering so grave a step, there are three other points to weigh besides Yugoslavia's im mense political and strategic im portance. First, there is the re semblance of the present situa tion to the situation pre-Korea. Last June, American disarma ment, plus the established and proclaimed American policy not to intervene in Korea, actually invited aggression there. Korea was attacked because it looked perfectly safe to do so. - ,: , Today, there has been no pub lic change in Jie earlierAmeri can policy decision to limit as sistance to Marshal Tito to "aid short of war." London's attitude has been rendered doubtful by recent high-level expressions i there. The Kremlin's temptation ' to take advantage of American disarmament has been replaced by the u active - compulsion to strike before the west is re armed, and the whole Soviet im perialist program is thus defeat-, ed. In short, the seeming invita tion to attack Yugoslavia is even stronger, if anything, than was the seeming invitation to attack Korea.. : Second, there is the attitude of the Yugoslavs themselves. "Mar shal Tito told a ecent visitor that he and bis colleagues had carefully reviewed the case of Czechoslovakia, and had decided ihat the great! mistake of Benes was not to reject the Munich settlement and resist Hitler single-handed. France and Britain he explained, would then have been drawn into the resulting ! ; . . I war. The parallel Is exact If the Yugoslavs resist, as they have firmly informed London and I Washington they, mean to do if I attacked, a war there probably I cannot be contained in any case. 1 Third, and most important of I all, there is the fact that a firm, f clear warning to the Kremlin f would probably produce the de I sired result of deterring an at- tack. In the last six months, all the known data about our power J to destroy the Soviet vital cen I ters with atomic weapons, and I about the Soviet defenses, have I finally been gathered together and carefully re-examined. The conclusion has been reached that, as of today, our power is decisive. I If the masters of the Kremlin I did not fear this power of ours, I they would now be preparing a 1 frontal assault on western Ger- many, rather than a flank attack fin Yugoslavia. Let them know that the certainty of reprisal is gas absolute in both cases, so the I argument runs, and they will I quickly altei their plans. Two problems must be salved l before the needed warning can i be conveyed to Moscow. It must I be decided what form the warn fing is to fake. And we must I somehow be assured of the co i operation of our allies, and espe- ' fcially of the British, who would have to Join us in the ensuing - war 'if our warnings were ignor- f ed. ' . ' 1 It Is terrible, indeed, to be dis- cussing such ; problems in this i cold-blooded manner. Yet it is much more terrible it is the quickest way to betray the fu- ' ture to be weak, to muddle ; ; along, to blunder- toward Munich-like situations, to let war just : happen because -our intentions -jare unclear. The bad time has. -now come which was foretold : last year to one of these report- J sere by i a very great Englishman. I who said, "We'll Just have to get through it pn nerve and the ' atomic bomb." He added, "Well "get through it nicely, in my judg ment, if our nerves do not fail. 1 Copyrirbt. 1951, Hew York Herald IHbuno. Inc. (Continued from page one.) Chiang and his government were victims of a revolution; and rare ly do revolutions reverse them selves. According to a study made by Philip Potter of the Baltimore Sun and quoted from by Mar quis Childs, columnist, the na tionalist troops on Formosa "are undertrained and woefully un derequipped." The minimum es timate for equipping these troops is a quarter of a billion dollars. Potter quotes an unnamed ma rine corps general as saying there is no possibility of a main land invasion unless the United States gives it air cover and naval transport and supplies. But what would Chiang's troops do on the mainland? They failed to hold the land before; how could they hope now to recapture it? The Chinese communists are having trouble with guerrillas, but there is little evidence that these are pro-Chiang elements. Warfare and banditry are chronic in China; and we do well just to let the guerrillas and commu--nists fight it out. The striking power of Chiang's troops is greatly overrated, and our flirtation with Chiang mere ly braces the communist legend that the United States is im perialist. Chiang offers no key to the "Chinese puzzle," for! he is part of the puzzle. Let us beware of the "gentlemen of Coblentz" and their influential allies in this country. Better English 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "I don't know as I ought lo tell you about this." 2. .What is the correct pro nunciation of "chaotic"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Supplicatory, su pervise, succotash, suppliment. 4. What does the word "in ane" mean? 5. What is a word begining with pi that means "expressive of sorrow or melancholy"? GRIN AND BEAR IT "TO vote for crisis spending; geatlemem ... tat mind ever, IH gemaod aa Invest Iga Com ef It! . . Although this is Oleo week in the state legislature it is also National Peanut week (in honor of unemployed monkeys); Na tional Boy Scout week and National Kraut and Frankfurter youngsters John and Paul Harvey had this item: "Mr. and Mrs. John Durr, Berkeley, Calif., visited the Gene Hanne mans last Saturday. Mr. Hannemann is spending this week end at the coast." Salem YMCA has a big membership drive on. At a farewell party for military inductees held at the Y the other day the drafted ones got quite a jar out of a big sign which read "Join Now!" ... A report from Sweet ers, gardeners and farmers are taking up arms and other ob jects against the bands of wild dogs roving the city and coun tryside ... When Leo Carrillo arrived in S alem with his troupe Wednesday his blessings were sort of mixed. It was raining but then he wore an umbrella-type cowboy hat and a heavy . fur-lined coat. He looked tired, but then he got a big hello from Mrs. Bruce Williams, who knew him in California. First person to greet him downtown was Murray Wade, who sketched Leo in Portland in 1907. Murray says Leo appeared in those days as a cartoon artist. Look for residents along North Summer street to renew their appeal to the city council that their fair way not be used as a main highway through the city. Residents there feel their side of the case has not been fairly represented to the city council. One of their arguments will be the street will be ruined if it route. ANSWERS 1. Say, "I don't know that (or, whether) I ought to tell you.- z. rronounce xa-ot-uc, a as in cake, unstressed, as in no, accent second syllable. 3. Supplement. 4. Void of sense or intelligence; pointless; useless. "His explanations were vague and Inane.' 5. Plaintive. by Lichtv yea. wheat tTs week (13th scout law: A scout is always hun gry). Saturday-is Arbor day to be observed in Oregon west of the Cascades. This month is al so set aside for Annual Fig festival and Butter Days (for poor dairymen who will be reduced to wearing fig leaves if the oleo bill passes), Catholic Press month and National Linen month. Wednesday was Ash Wednesday, which means the season of lent is here again. Playing it safe . . . Hulsey News, Salem Heights news publication put out by Home notes that flower grow that the residential beauty of Is converted to a main traffic Knapp Elected Lodge Chief ' James Knapp was elected lodge chief recently at a meeting . of Cole-Snass Tjmatai chapter Order of the Arrow, a national Mwptn; honor society of Boy Scouts. . Other new officers: Jim Knapp; vice lodge chief. Jack Bishop; scribe. Gene Bowers; treasurer, Stan Friese, and bulletin editor, Jim Bowers. Vernon Merrick acted as mas ter of ceremonies for the dinner. Schulze to Address Men's Garden Club Daniel Schulze will address the Salem Men's Garden club on "Begonias and How to Grow Them." tonight at 8 o'clock In the I MCA. ; toi. scnuize is recognized as one of Oregon's outstanding am ateur authorities on tuberous be gonias which has been his hobby xor a number of years. The pro gram will also include a discus sion of plant material by club members, with samples furnished rxom their own gardens. FLAX SEED FOB JAPAN ! VANCOUVTR, B. C, Feb. T (CP)-A record shipment of flax seed worth more than' $2,000.- 000 is beinj loaded here for ship ment to oil-short Japan. The seed, needed for paint production and other work, win leave for the far east sometime during the month. TAKEN TO HOSFTTAL FOUR CORNERS Malcnme Clarkaon, 4350 Stats t ia in -Sa lem Memorial hospital, where he was uucen jrnoay lor treatment. Sfcheson 'Points ... , .. .... I To Increase In Red Armies WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 Secretary of State Acheson today blamed world tension on the mas sive buildup of Soviet . and satel lite armed . forces and forecast that the west will insist on talk ing about this at any- Big Four meeting. He charged Russia with follow ing a familiar Moscow propagan da techniaue in accusing the west of aggressive intent while press ing for a foreign ministers con ference to deal chiefly with the rearming of western Germany. The secretary said Moscow, in its latest note, moved somewhat grudgingly in the direction of. an agreement on the issues to be taken up at the proposed confer ence. He also increased the pros pects that the meeting win even tually be arranged by saying that the U. S Britain and France win respond with an early ; reply i - - without giving figures, Acheson at his news conference declared eastern European Soviet bloc countries are building up very great - armies. He reaffirmed the western contention - that in the ease of Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary this was in violation ot peace treaty limits. This, combined with Russia's failure to demobilize when the other powers did after World War Two, is the real heart of the world's present troubles, he said. Acheson was commenting on the Moscow note published yes terday in which Russia demand ed again that German rearma ment hold the top spot in the pro jected Big Four meeting, which has been under discussion for the last three months. , The secretary said that although Russia moved in the direction of agreeing to a general discussion of major east-west differences, it still wanted to restrict talk of subjects other than Germany. Nevertheless, he said, the three western powers will work out a reply quickly. He declined to pre dict how" much further the ex changes would go. - County Sheriff Reserves Hold First Meeting An organizational meeting of a Marion County sheriff's reserves group met Wednesday night at Marion county courthouse. Fifty interested persons from all parts of the county attended the first meeting Sheriff Denver Young reported. Organizer and Instructor for the group is Pat Holland, Silverton businessman, who organized the Multnomah county sheriffs re serves during the ' last war and which is still in operation. Sheriff Young said that the re serves are being organized into eight companies (25 to the com pany) from various ' sections of Marion county. The groups will be instructed in police work, first aid and ' defense procedures and will be used wherever necessary in case of emergency. They will be known as mobile reserves and will provide their own transportation. Young announced that the next meeting or the group has been called for Tuesday night at '8 o'clock at the court house and in vites all interested persons in the county to attend. It is expected that a meeting will be held in the north part of the county at a later date, he said. Doolittle Buys Apartments Frank Doolittle Is purchasing a frame apartment house at 541 Court st. from the J H. Baker estate, according to is. J. . Barnes, estate administrator. The building has been empty since Baker died several months ago. A former 14-room dwelling. it was converted to four apart ments in 1920. POTATO KAISERS VOTE -KLAMATH FALLS. Ore, Feb, 7 -CP)- By a unanimous vote, the Oregon-California potato market ing committee decided yesterday to remove the restrictons on ship ment of No. 2 grade potatoes. Nothing Like) Paint'? Don R Steppe Painting Paper Hanging Ph. 2-7031 Eve. 3-7429 a. A X J 5 I f t V 4 Dr- Durham Bujg Fairmount Homo Tom Dimtum ha Tnnn ed the Fairmount Hill residence 6t Zstes L. Morton, it was re ported Wednesday. It Is at. 710 W. Superior st." The Mortons will move to a new home which is being constructed in the Candalaria district. Both families expect to move la April. Morton is assistant manager of the Salem branch of the First National bank of Portland. General States U.N. Inflicting 10-1 Casualties WASHINGTON, Feb. T -VP) The man who commanded the 24th division through the heav iest fighting so far in Korea says It simply ixnt In th Chinese com munists to build up force enough to drive United Nations armies off the peninsula. The U. N. forces chew tip the red bases too fast for that, MaJ. Gen. John H. Church told a news conference today. At the same time he said there Is a "possibility" that the U. N. win drive on north of the Ssta parallel. However, he was talking only about possible ability -to do that If It Is desired. Jar he added that the decision depends on di rectives from the U. N. -Diplomatic Settlement There have been reports the TJ. N. forces would stop short of the old dividing line between North and South Korea, across which the reds struck from the north last summer. One idea be hind that suggestion Is that It might keep the way open for a diplomatic . settlement. Church talked with reporters during a stop here on his way from his former Korea command to Fort Bmning. Gl, where he will head the army's infantry school. He was commander of the" 24th division from July 22 to Jan. 28. He was given the assignment when Maj. Genu William F. Dean was reported missing in action. In support of hiis view that the reds can never drive the TJ. N. forces into the sea. Church said that as fast as they bring up their masses of men, U. N. troops de stroy them. . I -. Red Leases Terrifie The general described as "ter rific' the casualties inflicted on the Chinese. He estimated their losses as at least 10 men for each one lost by the allies, and em phasized that his figures covered only losses inflicted by ground forces. Navy shelling and unre lenting air strikes have built that proportion higher. ; Church said American ' casual ties have been relatively light. Using' his own division of 21,000 men as an example, he said the ' daily, list of .killed, wounded . and otherwise lost averaged . only 40 to 50 He commented that reports of frostbite casualties have been exaggerated. . . General Church told his report er audience that artillery and air attack are what the Chinese fear most, and added: "When that comes they Just fall on the ground with their hands, over their heads. ; r A Inccae Tax Returns Prepared We pick npl $400 Phone 2-6010 TomghliOnly CHAPLAIN HOWARD RUSTHOL Chaplain la Warld War H. Jest eeecieded. Oakland. City XeviraL Nearly 41 eharches. - EVAIIGELISTiC Market At Park or jrj' V 7) ,