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Ms- f i . I 1 1 t . .1 i t 1 1 I t 1 . - - i . 1 ?Tiim ZltAtmtm, Sclera. Oregon, Saturday' March 3. 1951 Mi ! MM i JTo faror Stcayt Us, No Fear Shall Atct" From first Statesman, March 23. 1S51 THE STATES3IAN PUBLISHING COMPANY ' CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher ' rabUahed every morning. Easiness file II & Commercial. Salem. Oregon. Telephone Z-244L Eatered at the peatofflee at Salem, Oregon, aa seeaod clam matter uder act ef caagreas Marc a. n ore Power for Aluminum sCTetarv of the Interior Chapman has ap proved an allocation of power to the Aluminum company for construction of a new alumina re ducing plant in, central Washington. The 120,000 kw would be available from the planned expan sion of the Rock Island dam on the Columbia below Wenatchee. Bonneville Power adminis tration has made contingent allocation of pow er for another alumina reduction plant in the northwest. This power would have to come from pew generating plants. The northwest is happy to have this industrial expansion but we are worried over the absorp tion of so much of our generating capacity by alumina plants. They furnish a minimum of jobs in respect to the quantities of power they con sume. Light industry would employ more per sons r and the value of the product would be. much greater. If our new power is to be sucked lip for production o'f aluminum ingots most of which are shipped elsewhere for rolling and fabrication then the opportunities for light in dustry ars restricted. We'll always be power hungry if with every new dam aluminum plants come in to contract for the firm power. Henry Kaiser is taking his new aluminum plant to TiP!i'Kia" where natural gas will be used for fuel for power. But electric energy is preferred and the sight of dams a-building in the northwest is the lure for metal reduction plants. What we need to do is to stimulate in dustries here which use aluminum and process it into the myriad of items that go into trade. That Vay-we will get a second industry out of the power-aluminum combination. Religion of Communism The conversion of communism into a veritable religious faith has frequently been noted. Sel dom however has it been documented as neatly as in this sentence from the report of the CP central committee in Czechoslovakia justifying the purge now in progress there: "We shall prove that there is a place in the party only for those who in the most holy man- ner love the Soviet Union, the Communist Par ty of Bolsheviks and Comrade Stalin." There it is: love "in the most holy manner." And note that the loyalty is not to Czechoslo vakia nor to the communist party of that coun try, but exclusively to Russia, the party there and to Comrade Stalin. Anything else is heresy, punished in the, way that heritics were punish ed long ago. t 1 They are doing quite a job of it in Czecho slovakia, the country emerging from World War I which set up a successful economy and dem ocratic form of government." Ex-Foreign Minis- : ter Vladimir Clementis is under arrest for be ing a deviationist and 169,544 persons have been dropped from CP rolls. How much suppression will people stand be-. fore they revolt? mal Is abused a torrent of protest is easily red up. We: need adequate laws to protec animala and the legislature should consider measures carefully and sympathetically. 1S7 stir- . our these What Goes Up Senator Rex Enis said in a meeting of the sen ate highway committee he favored the bill au thorizing issuance of bonds far highway purposes because inflation will make it possible to pay off the bonds with 50-cent dollars. The senator may be wrong on his timing.: What we would be borrowing are 50-cenlj dol lars I (in iterins of 1940). And deflation might call for repayment with 100-cent dollars. The elevator of purchasing power of money runs in both directions. postal employes have long been noted fori; their integrity. Considering the vast volume of mail they handle their dereliction is infrequent. What cases ? do occur of dishonesty are usually individual and sporadic. Recently though j from opposite sides of the continent have come re ports of ganging up to defraud the government. ; In Boston employes were collecting wages fpr time not served by the simple device of having some working employe record the absentee's card on the time clock. This conspiracy involv ed a number of employes. And at Vancouver Wash. 14 employes and ex-employes were ar- rested for conspiring to rent automobiles to the government at excessive costs. Evidently the money-grabbing instiinct is getting the better of the traditional high level of honor among civil service employes. Perhaps the news about fur; coats in Washington 'and the shower of govern- ment checks in the way of political pap en courages these lapses from honesty. Senator Magnuson, Washington democrat, led the j fight before a house appropriations com mittee against linking the Columbia river pow er system with California. Representative Hal-? mea, republican, from Washington and several citizens from that state joined in the protest. Two represented the state Columbia basin! com mission and one the Washington PUDs. j They claim the northwest has no surplus power fpr export andj that there would be a 30 per cent loss in transmission. This is about the first time that the public ownership crowd in Washington has crossed with the public ownership crowd in the interior? department which is pushing for tht tie-line.' . : Protection for Animals The humane society people are interested in a series of bills HBs 258-261 to strengthen laws for protection of animals. They would make abandoning an animal or pet a misdemeanor; require permission'of the state game commis sion for confining a wild animal on the road aide; ban leading an animal by motor vehicle; require persons to take appropriate care of an ajrtimal he has struck with his motor vehicle. These measures do not attract great public attention yet they are important. When an ani- , 'Russia has announced another price cut In commodities, and contrasts this with fabulously rising prices in the USA. It is evidently true that Russia is making progress in building up its production of consumer goods, and that may be an indication that it is not planning oni wag ing j war. The Russian living standard was so low; that the rulers had to move to satisfy tjie soldiers as they came home from the west where thev had seen thinsrs in the shoos in Poland. Hungary, Czechoslovakia and traded fojf wat ches with the Yanks. ; President Truman says the supply of coins in circulation Is getting dangerously low. He should have addeq that the supply of currency ting dangerously high. , s get-: .The medium of exchange in Washington pof litics covers a wide range from 'deep freeze lockers to Keep things cool to mink coats to keep the ladies warm. . Foreian Policv Formula tors Faeiha Niahtmart Decision on Soviet Pldnftar Unified Germany ! .. 1 By Stewart Alsep WASHINGTON, March 2 A nightmare is beginning to haunt those principally responsible for American for eign policy. For It is now about a s certain a s such things, can be that the Kremlin will; soon formally j propose a Ger . man settlement I based on the un- 1 ity of a "neut- I rallied" Ger, many, after the " nit v.- 1 dr.'wal of .11 SJ AMS occupation troops. And it is even possible that the Kremlin 1 will add ghttering window dressing, yy ostensibly accepting the prin ciple of a free, secret, un-super-vised vote to elect a single all German government. - This prospect has initiated a crucial, agonized debate in the Inner circles fbt the state depart ment and the Pentagon. For the objective of such an apparently reasonable Soviet offer would be to end western rearmament; split - the western alliance, and thus ' knock the props right out from . tinder American foreign policy. The evidence is increasingly, strong that the Soviets will pro duce some such proposal, at the forthcoming foreign ministers conference. This evidence takes various forms, such as dispatches from Moscow, passed by the Sov iet censors, reporting that the Soviets are now eager for a Ger man - settlement on generous - terms. Bat the most convincing evidence Is provided by the course of tee campaign for "'un ity and neutrality waged with in Germany by the East German' communists. r:i: . At first, this campaign was based exclusively on the "Prague resolutions." The campaign made little headway, simply because the "Prague resolutions' are no "hore than a crude blueprint for the communist capture of all Germany. But recently. East Ger man Communist " Chief Otto Grotewohl suddenly switched the line, more than hinting that the communis'ts would welcome free, secret elections throughout Ger- , many as a basis for forming a united government, i i Grotewohl acted, of course, on specific instructions from t the Kremlin, : And Grotewohl' -line thus almost certainly foreshad ows the Kremlin's line at j the foreign ministers' meeting. 1 Al most no; informed official i be lieves that a Soviet offer of a German settlement on such terms would be genuine. The reasons are obvious -I i A genuine German settlement would : also involve a genuine Austrian settlement. This would mean a Soviet guarantee to with draw the Red army from all! the satellites and the satellites; are more restive than ever before. It would mean the loss to Russia of the vital Erzegebirge uranium mines in East Germany. A really secret vote would mean an over whelming defeat of the East Ger man communist regime, and a deadly blow at Soviet world pres tige. Finally, , it would mean a pro-western, or at least strongly anti-communist, all-German gov-. eminent, and however "neutral ized Germany might be, it is almost unimagineable that the Kremlin would accept such a risk. ' . : ;f I For these reasons and others, it Is believed! that any Soviet proposal for a German settle ment will be essentially a fake, a tempting trap for the unwary west. Yet even a fake proposal, cleverly camouflaged, could have disastrous consequences Amer ican policy is now. squarely bas ed on the assumption that a true balance of power .can only be achieved, and peace j maintained, if western Europe is tendered de fensible, i -i I The Pentagon Is convinced that -western Europe can never be de fended without German particip ation. A German settlement pro viding for withdrawal of alL oc cupation troops and the perman ent demilitarization of Germany would. It is feared, cause the western European defense effort, now Just getting under way un der Gen. Eisenhower's leadership, to crumble into nothingness. ; ! Yet even if the Kremlin only seemed ready to offer a reason able settlement Involving the withdrawal, of the Red army to the Russian frontiers, the offer would be almost unbearably tempting to the Germans, the French, the British, and even to many Americans. It might throw the whole western alliance into an uproar of bitter mutual re crimination, causing the alliance to fall apart. This is why the internal de bate now going on is so vitally important. One school of thought, particularly in the Pentagon, be lieves any German settlement at this time, on any . termsj disas trous. This school would attempt to forestall the Kremlin with prior American proposal for a German settlement, festooned with conditions which the Sov iets, would not conceivably ac cept. 'Yet any diplomatic! device so obvious and so clumsy might itself split the -allies, by convinc ing the Europeans that the Unit ed States was interested only in war. , ; I f.i Another, ; smaller school I of thought believes ! that German re-armament should be fised as a bargaining counter; that it Is' . not wholly impossible that Soviet policy may actually haveTeached a turn in the "zig-zag; course prescribed by Lenin; - and that we should be prepared t recog nize this1 change of course, and to take maximum; advantages of it. One- thing is clear and it is 'the reason why one of these re porters has nowjleft for Ger many. The world struggle is now moving into a new; stage of crisis, which will almost certainly cen ter around: the country which Lenin called "the key to Europe," (Cbpyright. 1991 New York Bcrald Tribune Jlne i i 1 ,.4wsr -v--vii ".- . - ' rTi''in i jmm & X m-'4 fill V vT I I .frr&&0Vi...l i r-- 4 , i i f m na - gar a Majority of Growers Hop v Sin Petition r ' ! -; ;: ' By Lfllle L. Madsen ' . 1 Farm Editor, Ttw Statesman Approximately three-fourths of the active hop growers In the Wil lamette valley have signed peti tions protesting the. restriction of the -growers' diversion privilege to harvested hops, one of the amend ments now being proposed to the hop marketing agreement order. ' At one time eight petitions were being circulated, but jfor lack of time, sponsors report,- not all hop farmers could be contacted- Since circulation' many, who did not have an - opportunity j to sign the petitions, have stated, the spon sors say, that they' favored their text. The movement originated at a meeting in Silverton in late January and has spread sto all sections of the valley. John Over lund Is, chairman of the group and Harvey Gehring is secretary. Both men are from Silverton. Original copy of the petitions was sent to .the secretary of agri culture in Washington. D. C Copies: were ! also sent to E. M. Graham, chief specialty crops, fruit and vegetable branch USD A, and to William - J.i Broadhead. OtP TTCDCQDCg 1 1 1 I ' f If l : yl i fit. .- f'J ' ' " A touching note in the mail "Dear CTD: Can you answer this $64 question? Now that our city council has dug up enough to widen Mission street, so as to provide parking for a couple . S 1 , - . . 1 . . - - wonaer now ions il wui cajce 10 una lew dollars to put a street thru 'Bush park and allow everyone to enjoy it. Particularly a few thousand of us who live southward between High and the railroad and must scramble thru heavy traffic on narrow streets several times a day to and from our homes? E." , . . Dear E: Search me. Bennett Cerj, publisher, author, col ummst and humorist may have confirmed some horrible suspicions lurking !in the minds of his Salem audience Thursday night when he noted thai (1 ) Walter WincheU is a blabbermouth, (2) Americans need a sense of humor, (3) Columnists are the curse of the nation, and (4) Bennett Cerf likes to talk. If Bennett had talked hiuch longer a good portion of his list eners would have come j away blind from peering at .him through that peculiar lighting situation in Salem high school ' auditorium . . . Because of his popularity as a lecturer the Amer , ican Association of University Women had a hard time getting Cerf here. - Anent the recent complaint made to Salem city council regarding juvenile fag-fiends ... A former officer said that of all the teen - age kids he had picked up for smoking in Salem almost half were inhaling with their parents' con sent. A heavy percentage of these schoolboy puffers were in the 12 to 14 age group, too. And, he said, he received far more burns from parents than from the kids he nabbed. ' The decrease in passenger trade because of the Greyhound strike was felt at the Salem depot several days before the actual driver walkout. The very hint of a possible transportation strike is enough to cause a good many potential long-distance riders to'stay home until it's all over or go by canoe. sftH'i i: i i i Better English 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "We have hopes of t succeeding." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "auxiliary''? 3. Which one of these words Is misspelled? Remediless, remit tance, renaissance, remeniscence. 4. What does the word "pal-. ladlum" mean? r 5. What is a word beginning with 11 that means "ancestral' lme"? ANSWERS . 1. Say, "We have hope of Its succeeding.' 2. Pronounce og-zil-ya-ri as in of, both rs as in It, accent on second syllable. 3. Reminiscence. 4. That which of fers security. "The church offers a palladium to all conscientious people." 5. Lineage. - GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty Skeptical j Diplomacy New to U. Si By JT. M. Roberts. Jr.' AP Foreljrn Afitalrs Analyit I i; The United States is putting unusual emphasis this time! on its skepticism that any good can result from the forthcoming ne gotiations with Russia. :1 Heretofore the state depart ment, while giv ing off ample hints of its feel ings, has enter ed into the four power confer ences relatively dead pan. Now it Is made clear officially that! the American delegation ; is going to 'Paris merely to see if Russia might possibly come up With something negotiable. There is an old saying that if you don't expect anything,' then you Won't get your specs broken, I The state department alio 'has to consider the facts that, after every failure of one of these con- I ferences to bring peace anyjnear er, there Is always a renewed public ' demand to "get tdugh," I and for a preventive war Right , I now the diplomats prefer a per- iiiod in which American military ; strength can have a chance to catch up with commitments be : fore new ones are made. ! j .! J J Not that the western delega " tlons to the preliminary cpnfer- ence which opens in Paris! Mon day, or the full-dress conference ' of foreign ministers which Is ex pected to follow In Washington, will have no proposals. ! ; They want to talk about pos- sible reduction of Russia's armed :i forces, about an end to the Rus sian provocations which! have ;- forced the -west to divert, into r armaments, the effort and; re ' sources which might otherwise have gone into continued post war rehabilitation. .1 I The Russians, meanwhile,! are expected to shoot two arrows into the air. The main effort, of course, will be to hinder Western Germany's incorporation into the European defense program. I The communists already have tipped their hand on this with demands for a German treaty uniting that nation unarmed - neutral, with qnent withdrawal of all occupa tion forces. But Russia wants to do this by giving communist-controlled East Germany an equal voice with much larger Western Ger many, and by pushing the allied armies back to France while her own would remain within 60 miles of Berlin. I'M ; However,, the word "unity Is a -- magic one-in German Jr. and Russia will probably play it for all If s worth although the Ger mans don't show many signs of being taken in., j : The Russians are also expect ed to meet allied problngs into the general level of armaments with one of their good looking but hollow proposals for general disarmament. These have been made in the United Nations, along with proposals for outlawry of the atom bomb, but ' always jwlth loopholes for Russian evasion and never with any real sincerity. Expressions ofofficial skepti cism in the U-S. serve as advance public waraincs . that the allies have no intention of taking ;any- tbing less than concrete Russian acts as the basis oz .any ment.' (Continued from page one!) they are needed to make price fixing work. l , ! The animal population In the country is large except for sheep. There Is an abundance' of feed to fatten animals and. crop pros pects' are good for this time of the icropi year. - The prevailing high prices : are due to high de mand rather than to any short age In supply. Full employment at good wages always is reflect ed in big consumption of meats. As long as they continue prices of meat will be relatively- high. However it should be possible to maintain price schedules and avoid black ' markets with the quantity : of livestock that Is in sight for this year. 4 . , The present .confusion , soon may. be cleared up and the reg ular: petition, "Give us this day our daily . . . meat" be satisfac torily answered. j SSBSeSJSseSietSS Safety Valve peace as an subse- agree- -Whats I got taxmeree at the City Hall! . . . ril have y transferred te a beat in the sticks ..,. XEPFLINGER WOUNDED I Sgt. 1c Elmer R.S Repplihger, .son of Mr. and Mrs. Sandy N. Rep - plinger of Aurora route 1, box 212, was reported wounded is action in Korea, according to a dispatch from the department of defense. . Clothes Collection for Needy In Korea To the Editor: . In various parts of the world. men, women, and children are -freezing to death, right now. An estimated 100,000 i people .'.will freeze in Korea alone,-this year.' Also. ' there are many people right here In Marion county who could use our help.: - Wesley Fellowship, of the First Methodist church, has a concern about this problem. Wesley be lieves a fine way to help would be to have a "City Wide" used clothes drive. This Sunday eve ning, March the 4 th, approxim ately 100 Willamette university students (members of Wesley) will appear at the doors of many homes here In Salem, asking for your "Act for Peace" In the form of used clothes for freezing peo ple in Korea, s - ! If your home is not contacted, I challenge you to act in accord ance .with your ideals and hopes for peace, and bring your bundle . of clothes to the First Methodist church, j corner of Church -. and State streets in downtown Salem, next week,1 March 4-11. ' This Is -not a denominational project. It Is a project for Christ ian Individuals, who desire to be working for the peace and the brotherhood of all mankind. Your donation will be 1 sent through Church World Service, to Korea. . js :j I Paul Jewell ; People Should Prepare "i Selves for End of Life . To the Editor: I noticed your ' story in the 1 paper Sunday edition the head ' ing was as follows; If the world were to end there would be those that would say I told , you - so. Would like to say this, that no one on earth knows neither can they figure out when. . I agree with you that they; would say just that . - ' 1 : - ; You and I are here today i"and as .we walk about we see: all these i things that ! mankind are. . using' today but we may not be here tomorrow, so the world has ended for us, as we no longer see these'things. J i The world ends every day for some one. ; - ' )-.--. The Bible says no 'one know ' eth the day nor the hour when r the son . of man cometh U claim His own. : . i ' . Your story brought out a fine thought, if we could hurt get people to stop and think, won der when it will ending for me? If . people today would heed this warning, and prepare them selves for the ending, we would : not have so 1 much crime, and trouble, hate. We would love all mankind; war would be out; peace would be on earth. By the will of God our creator, is the only way to worldly peace. Thanks for that writing. It has brought a deep reality of thought to many, I am sure; even me. Thanks., i - AD ELBERT P. SMITH :' - Dayton, Ore.- ' : field representative to the USDA with the production and market ing administration In Portland. The order at . the present i per-. mits any grower who has allowed -all or. part of his crop to remain unharvested, to acquire surplus hops from other growers for mar keting within .his salable allot ment. In such cases the grower's own hops which are replaced imust be effectively diverted from nor mal trade channels. f Another proposed amendment which is said designed to facili tate enforcement of ; the order, would require periodic reports to show the quantity, of surplus hops held by growers and that all disposition of such hops be under the supervision of the control board - A public ' hearing to consider these proposed amendments is scheduled for March 19 at the Multnomah hotel, Portland,! Mr Broadhead reports. He explains that the amendments to be consid ered were proposed by the Pacifie Coast hop control- board and are being supported by the United States Hop j Growers association. . Growers in 1 Oregon,- Washington, California and Idaho are affected by the hop marketing agreement, j Final Rites J For Woodburn Woman Set 1 i lUttnua Naws Sarvlcai' WOODBURN. March 5 ! Mm Jeanette Zimmerle, 82, a resident ox nooaourn zor me past ss years, died today at a Woodburn hospital. Mlf . 7lmmr1 nnu f a Mil. mm. munity from Michigan. She was Doro mere Aug. 17, 186$. She was a member of the Methodist church and of Home Rebekah lodge 58 of wooaourn. ner nusoand, John Henry Zimmerle, died here in 1925. - Survivors Include a son, F.' Zim merle of Portland; sisters, I Mrs. Florence Goulet, Mrs. Sarah Hard castle and Mrs. Laura T.ivMar all of Woodburn, and by . five grand children and two treat-mnd. chlldren. -',' - - , - . Funeral services will be! held Monday at 2 pjn. at the Rlngo cuapei wim uu rtev urmai a. . Brick officiating Ritualistic serv ices br the Rebekah lorf trm with interment in Belle Pass! cemetery. Shop George o -li-. Smoke Shop Owner, Dies George Hull, 65, one of the own ers of the Salem Smoke shop, 363 State st died unexpectedly; early Friday at his home. 1690 Saginaw st. : . -.: t - : ' ... l -.!.. 1 Hull established the Smoke shop a number of years ago. He sold out and engaged in the restaurant bus iness at 440 State st known then as The Quelle, and later returned to the Smoke Sbopr- f I He was also engaged In filbert growing in the Aumsville district. Survivors include the Widow. Pearl Hull of Salem; daughter, Mrs. ueorgia Ann Spooner of Syracruse. N.Y and a son, Gordon E. Hull of Pendleton. Funeral services are" being arranged by the Clough-Bar- ncK company. ; - - 1- , Warren Radio ' i in New Location Warren Radio and Record shoo. In the Hollywood district for the past four years has moved to 1993 Fairgrounds road, where It will hold a grand opening March 6. ' The shop, which deals in radio and record 'sales and repairs, was formerly located at 20171 Fair grounds rd.' " j . Warren Klug, - owner, said ' the official opening Tuesday would be from 10 a. m. to 9 p. m. Garden las will be given to women1 visit tors and other gifts will be handed out. After the opening regular shop hours will be 9 t. m. to ( p. zn. daily except Sundays. The shop will remain open . until 0 p. m. each Friday, Klug said., West Salem P-TA Reports Profit From Pie Social .West Salem Parent-Teacher as sociation announced Friday its re- cent pie social and magic show netted a $150 profit which ; is go ing Into the purchase of 'loud speaking equipment for the school. T The group , is preparing for a meetingjit 8 pjn. Tuesday in the school gym where plans for the four-room addition to the ! school will be shown by Architect) James L. Payne. . i. j Boy Scouts will be the youth group presented? at this month's P-TA meeting. Mothers of third graders will serve the refresh ments. . : . I ' j - I ' Salem YAICA Leaders : - 1 ; Attend Tacoma Meet Six Salem YMCA leaders; are In Tacoma. this week end for annual sessions of the northwest area YI.I council, of which Tlnkham Gilbert ' of Salem is president. i - Gilbert. . Norman Winslow and General Secretary Gus Moore left ' Friday. ' Physical Director Tred . Cords, Robert O. Smith of the board and Wesley Stauffer of the Willamette university campus YU will leave today. TTootfmrn GrdsLn Promotion Reported ;r Promotion of a Woodburn na- tional guardsman was announced Friday by MaJ. Gen. Thomas E, Rilea, adjutant general. M. Sgt. II. R. Gilbert of the tank company stationed there, has been -promoted to warrant officer. Jun ior grade. : 1 s i . - X " " .41 i '