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; THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
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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
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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
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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
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