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' t my - y 71 The E'sman, Cclem, Oregon, Sunday. March 23, 1831 ' BLOOD DONOR OF THE WEEK ' smatt mNo favor Sways Us. No Fear Shall Au?e" f : -.i ... '.- Frea First SUtesnua. M&rcb tl, 1831 . , j - , THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY j V ' : CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher j . j Fabllihed every morning. Baslaess tmet IIS fr CommcreUV Salem. , Oregon. Telephone 1-244L Eatered at the eostofflee al Salem. Oregon, as' eeesd clan matter under act of congress March S. It7 Rebuilding in Europe! : " I While most of the hews rom Europe deals with the tug-of-war between Russia and the west, between com rm mi aa' and the free society occasional reports come through of the progress that is being made in reconstruction from the war's devastation. Russia itself is making strides in recovery; and among the satellite states Poland,: which suffered'the most severely, has done heroic work in restoring its structures and factories; It has been benefited by acquisition mlftai; In Cilacia f itm narmsnv Put tViA people themselves have bent to their task with a will, and even ruined Warsaw is becoming habitable again.. ' ; West Germany also has been diligent in re vising its economy as much as it is permitted to do under allied directives. Statistics show Steady expansion of production from its facto ties. The limiting factor is coal, and the odd thing has been reported of the export of Ger man coal to France and the importation of coal from America! Exports of manufactured goods has increased, but seem to have reached a limit because of shortages of coal. This same lack is a limiting factor for British industry. While Germany has been aided greatly by supplies furnished by the United States the Germans . themselves have furnished the ,. will and the energy to forge their reconstruction. Recently this editor was privileged, to read the report of two men from the northwest who were n a world trip to make business and banking contacts for their organization. They told the story of a German exporter who called his banker, to obtain a letter of credit that had been made available to him. The banker said bis work load' for the day was heavy but he would meet him at 11 that night at a cafe. How quoting: "When the importer went to the cafe at 11 he met 'the German banker, learned that he had worked straight through without dinner, nrKati It a MimAietva4a1 avtsV vmtwwdA e that it was not possible for a man to work: every day from 7:30 or 8 in the morning until 10 or 11 at night, the German banker looked him straight in the eye and said that was the ' smallest service he could give for the rebuild ing of bis country.' ' Such stories of lone hours and hard work are in sharp, contrast with the program of the socialist governments to relieve the people of mtu uluucua. Afc gica m tiusjjcvt vju ui s re vived German competition for world markets which was of growing concern to Britain and the Umted States even before the first world war. ' ;:t; As the countries renew their economic ac- ujvuuax ninium wiu ciul, una ims In turn should moderate external strains. If oniy tne diplomats will talk long enough and the people work hard enough, Europe may grow out of the present cold war status. The very fact that they are working shows a meas ure of faith that their new brick houses and factories will not soon be reduced to rubble. If those who are in the path of possible fighting and bombing have such faith we for our part should exert ourselves- to the utmost not to destroy it, and their works, and them. to get contracts for war goods.! He said he knew of three concerns which had; lost out because their bids were too high; and commented, "Some of the people in Oregon think they can get contracts and retire for life, j But they can't. The! trouble i Oregon hasn't gotten over its shipbuilding jag from the last war. That re sulted in boosting of wages and living costs and postwar bulges kept on from that high plateau. No wonder! we can't get' business. "Wages here are the highest in the country, and profit tastes call for high margins (induction from the lum ber business perhaps).: When! both are put to gether the result to date is "no contracts." Contracts aren't , going out! on a "cpme and , get itf basis this time. When bur bids are com petitive then Oregon will share in government business. 'I ' ! i Coast Tourist Crop j The coastal province of Oregon gets the spot light in the quarterly bulletin of the state de partment of agriculture. Dairying (Tillamook and Coos cheese), forestry, salmon fishing, sheep raising, bulb growing and cranberries all get attention. The tourist crop rates an article by Verne H. Tinnerstet, manager of $ie Oregon coast association. He reports that crop was the heaviest in: history along highway 101 last year, and makes this, very important point: "Of all the Oregon coast's crops taking care - of tourists gives the highest percentage of profit . per dollar. Why? In. the first place, the market comes to the goods, 'instead of the goods going to the distant market.- - ! "It is the only industry that the consumer : comes to the market, enjoys the product (scen ery land beaches) and leaves that product for others to enjoy. Wtf have no shipping problems." What he might have added: by way of caution was a warning against mutilating the scenery by building atrocities, ' garish signs, destruction of the vegetative covering of the old sand dunes. True the visitor can't : package and crate away the scenery, though he can copy it on film, but the ruthless developers can spoil its charm through ignorance, indifference or greed. Con servation is in order for this true natural re source if that tourist; crop is to continue to come ) to the Oregon market.! s v V -,;V 7 : xW - - - .-. -. - i -1 . -.- r- . - Didn't Swallow Swallow Story Quote from Editor Ruhl's correspondence from Coronado to the Medford Mail-Tribune: We hate to spoil the story! but we spent the luncheon hour in San' Juan de Capistrano yes--terday en route here from Ventura. Couldn't find a swallow and were unable to find any- one else who had. in fact the service station boy who as a native of the village should know declared stoutly there: had been no swal low migration to or from in several years. It was all a gag, he maintained, to get tourists to spend the day buy coke and popcorn, Mexi can knick knacks and picture postcards, also a few gallons of gas and he didn't care who knew it! Neither did we. t f goddess! in your Government Contracts Chester Starrett of the Portland chamber of caynmerce who has been in Washington seeking to line up government business for Oregon Industry told those who attended the governor's conference Friday that Oregon manufacturers, would have to cut their costs If they expect - The Portland Journal calls archaic the pro vision of the state. constitution which requires an affirmative vote of" the people before state institutions may ; be located outside Marion county. It Is, but that hasn't prevented the loca tion of many in other counties. What Marion county doesn't like to see is locating so many important state offices outside the state capital. MacArthur reports the U.N. forces are back on the "31 yard line.", He has had no signal yet that It is f goal to gol (Yaty river). Bloody Purges, Such as Hounding of dementis, Reveal Terrible Weakness! in Communist Net r 1,1,1 1 i :- I By Stewart Alsep WASHINGTON, March 24 The story of the last day of VI ado dementis, former foreign. - Miniier on Czech oslova- kia, before he , .was arrested as a traitor can j now be told. It Is a revealing j ; story, for it demons tr a t e s drimit lcally - the extent to which bidden . terror and the fear of sudden Vh4kw1 k wmw r. m m.j u a w ww fi . A , Berride the Whole Soviet empire. dementis has been a f anat jisaJ communist all his life. Yet In' the course of his communist career he made one mistake which has now proved his un ' doing. For a few months he was a "premature anti-fascist," mak 'ing anti-Nazi broadcasts from : London to his own country, ; while Hitler and Stalin were : still formally allied. This was ; deviationism, and the Kremlin : never forgets. - Late in 1949, while dementis : was in this country representing 1 his government at the United j Nations, reliable reports that the Kremlin had demanded the 11 I q nidation of dementis - were i published in this space, demen tis denounced these reports as stead in a minor Jeb as nomic adviser in the state bank. Yet"- as the Kremlin, acting through such- trusted agents as party secretary Rudolf Slansky, tightened its grip on Czechoslo vakia, the protection of Coot wald became increasingly worth less. The Kremlin is never satis fied with half i measures, and early this year . word came to dementis that : he f had been , marked for the slaughter. He could save himself only by es caping. ' i ..: He and his brother-in-law. Dr. Daniel Okali, Slovak Minister of the Interior and also a lifelong communist,' hatched a plan. Os tensibly to discuss the export of wood pulp with Okali. dementis would fly td Bratislava, the Slo vak capital. Okali had a govern ment plane at his disposal, and in this the two men; would es cape to Western Germany with Tito's Belgrade their ultimate objective. . -I : -1 ?:; ., r i . M At the last moment, dementis, became aware that he was be ing , watched. He changed his plan, evading the secret police and taking a slow train for Bra-, tislava, instead of the plane. The train stopped over for some hours at Brno, near the Czech border, and at Brno dementis must have felt the noose tight--ening around his neck. For: while ' watting to continue his journey. llies. and was photographed arm .dementis got word that Okali uma oeen arresiea as a traitor In Bratislava, -.-i f ' . , When he heard this, demen tis must have, known that he had become the object of a man- " hunt. At- first, he tried to cross the border on his' own, with the, intention of making his way through the Bohemian forest into Soviet Austria,. and thence iato Vienna. But the net; was drawn too tight, and to cross the border without help proved impossible. Evidently, dementis; decided to play a last desperate card. The local communist leader, in the smaller town of Znahn, near the . In arm with a smiling Andrei i wholly aware that he was in V danger. But Czech President : Klement Gottwald. a close per--J sonal friend of long standing. I had sent his wife to New York t with assurances that if demen tis returned he would be spared. Trusting his friend's word, dem entis made the fateful decision to go back, - - . T He was soon dismissed as for ein minister, which he must '"""ve expected. But he was not " rested. Ha - was jnftaT.yd in- border. was an old comrade In arms from: the pre-war days. Perhaps he might help. - He reached Znaim undetect ed, and saw his friend in his office in the morning. His friend stood by him, and told him to. return at 5:00 o'clock that after noon, when arrangements for his escape Into East Austria would be complete, dementis passed the intervening hours at a mo tion picture, and returned promptly at 5:00 o'clock. . This was the end of the trail. His communist friend had been watched and had already been arrested. In his office, demen tis found the secret police wait ing zor mm. resident Gottwald, all 4real power now stripped from him, 1 promptly denounced ' dementis, to whom he had been closer than any other man, as a traitor and a spy. In order to save his own skin. Thus the end came for Vlado dementis, who Is dead now or as good as dead. f - --. -- " This story, which is certainly accurate in outline, of the last days of the : former Czech For eign' Minister, is worth ponder ing. especially now when it so often seems that moral decay has overtaken the American repub lic. The American system may produce its Costellos, but at least -it-produces no spectacle ; com -r parable to' that of a man who hadi been foreign minister only a few months before zigzagging frantically,, like a rabbit pur sued by hounds, in a desperate effort to escape bis country. - v Surely the endless bloody fer reting out of old communist af- , ter 'old- communist which has been going on for so many years now argues a terrible weakness ; in the power structure of the communist, world. Surely the- ; fear which dementis must have felt as his 'pursuers closed in on him must be felt also, and al- , ways, by his pursuers. wKose turn is so likely to come next. ' ICooyrisht 19V. . v Kw York Hrld-TribUM) Although Easter actually tells the powerful story of the resurrection, the holiday is all wrapped wp in lots of pagan symbols such as the Easter parade, Easter egg, and the Easter rabbit. The day also has been commerciaiizea with, ereetina cards, flowers and Easter bonnets. tr for 4h mrv rism nt VAsttT ii nxcan an old Anglo-Saxon (word derived from Eostre, a Teutonic goddess of the rising light of day and spring. i And tohen the Teutonic household arises in the early light today and ' dons her Easter finery she is perpetuating one of the oldest traditions of Christendom the donning of tohite rot?es by the newly . baptized. The kids will wake up early this morning to surprise and shock you (an ancient custom), and they'll hunt for eggs (primitive symbol of spriiig) laid by the Easter rabbit (a pagan emblem of fertility). And of course all this finery, flowers and accessories U paid for by Father (another ancient custom dating from the sack-cloth and ashes days). 'I. . - "j,. j - If the youngsters are noisy today you should know that noise and frolic has always been associated with! Easter. In eastern Europe churchbells used to ring all day on Easter. And the Catholic Encyclopedia tells how; in Bavaria in the 15th century funny stories used to be woven into Easter: sermons- keeping the congregation in stitches, xnis, ana otner customs, have-long been dropped.' .. : ' j" ; -, ; , j . j . . In at least one case, though, that of the Easter fire a compromise with pagan practice was made. In the early ; days the fire was lighted on top of a mountain, and, accord- . ing to pagan practice, had to be kindled from new fire. The blaze signified the victory of spring ner winter. At first the bishops issued severe edicts against these "sacri legious Easter fires.' But all over Europe people insisted on starting them. So, the CE observes "the church adopted - the observance '. in the Easter ceremonies. -Another custom (which we do not think will become very popular) is the ancient one which permits women to strike their husbands on Easter Monday while on Tuesday the. men may strike their wives. The way some of these Teutonic god desses are built these days this custom, is hardly a fair on to the husbands, that is. 'it' f 1 1 CRT TO) COOS (Continued from page one.) had to come out In the open to oppose the verdict of his fellow councillors, and he exposed him self' even more to their ostra cism by claiming the body of the crucified one and giving it decent burial.. Maybe Joseph was prompted to this young preacher teacher from Galilee. Perhaps he was prompted simply by charity and by what we call now toler ance. He had seen the bigotry of Christ's accusers, the falseness of the accusations laid against him.: And he Was moved to lay aside all prejudice and give hon orable interment to one who had been deserted even by his dis ciples. - - '' Most of us are prisoners of our class, our creed, our associations. We tend to conform, adapting ourselves to whatever level we move , in. Joseph : of Arimathea was one of those rare souls who refused to be such a prisoner. The instinct of human charity broke through the restraints of narrow sectarianism. ' We might almost say that this Joseph was the first Christian; and in a Christendom riven by multitudinous and often contentious sects he has left too few descendants. -V : Portland Man Dies in Hole PORTLAND, March 24 -VPh Robert" O crien, 40, napped In a septic tank hole at his Portland home for 25 minutes today, was dead on arrival at a hospital. Police said O'Brien apparently fell into the two-foot space be tween the side of the septic tank and the hole,' which j he was en larging. He was discovered by his mother, Mrs. Christine Orien, who summoned police and fire men. They removed him in 23 minutes. t . Fire Battalion Chief W. IT Hick said there may have been , some gas fumes In the bottom of, the hole, causing' O'Brien to become unconscious. : i Billy Graham's Pay Totalled PORTLAND, March 24-PV-Ev-angellst Billy Graham and his song director. Cliff Barrows, col lected about $9,200 for their six-r weeks appearance here last sum mer. U J : j . . I , t This was ! confirmed today by William : M. Kreiger. treasurer of the Greater Portland Gospel Cru sade, sponsor of the revival. Gra ham paid part of this -amount to members of his' staff and -made Riiss Soldiers Stationed on 7 -- :l t r Aleutian Isle ANCHORAGE. Alaska, March 24 -4JP)- The 'weekly newspaper Forty Ninth Star quoted an eski mo today as saying at least nine Soviet soldiers are stationed on Big Diomede island -closest Rus sian land to Alaska.' The newspaper said information from James Iyapana, a resident of , Little Diomede island, dispels the unsubstantiated report of last year that Big Xnomede bad been completely evacuated. J - The two islands are only three miles apart in the Bering Strait. - Iyapana arrived here aboard the first plane to leave Little Dio mede this year. He came to An chorage for medical treatment. The Forty Ninth Star said Iya pana told how hunters from Lit tle Diomede, equipped with pow erful binoculars, spotted a patrol of nine Russian soldiers skiing on Big Diomede. -.kI ; L- BABY SUFFOCATES 11 ; ROSEBURG, March 24 -fPh Danlel Brandt, flve-month-old son j of . Mr. ahdv Mrs. Ronald Brandt, died last night from ap parent suffocation in his bed. GOP Hones to - r a .m-". Get I Dawson on Witness Stand! . .. r ' v ; 1 Br G. Milt Kelly WASHINGTON. March 24 -JP)- Republlcans had a campaign under way today to get White Jiouse Aide Donald Dawson on a witness stand before the Fulbright sub committee, -rt;:-:- ' ..: - -. i The . subcommittee has named Dawson as a key member of an In fluence clique with ability to sway the Reconstruction finance cor poration's vast program of govern ment loans. f - i Dawson has left the charges un answered. President Truman termed them asinine a word that stung the subcommittee into call ing public ' hearings ' at which it aired evidence on which it based the charge.:.- i. i 1. . Senator Fulbright (D-Ark.). the subcommittee chairman, wrote Dawson Inviting him to reply un der oath at his convenience. The senator later made the letter pub lic with a statement that Dawson had not even acknowledged itj Fulbright has declined to at tempt to compel Dawson's appear ance. He contends there is serious constitutional question of the sub committee's, authority to order the appearance of any top White House aide, and that there is no point starting a losing fight ! . Republicans have set out oh a program to needle Dawson pub licly, evidently to get him to ap pear j - - . ! Numerous republican! senators say they intend to miss no chances in political speeches to: drag. in Dawson's . name, in an apparent hope of snowballing enough public sentiment to force his voluntary appearance. -- , f - i f - Student Elected at Conclave : I ' ' i . . i " PORTLAND. March 24-WVThe Oregon" Education association closed its annual three-day meet ing here . today after a morning session; devoted to discussions on ethics, economic welfare, legisla tion and retirement J j Joann Sefert, - student at jMt Angel college, was elected! presi dent of the future teachers organ ization. j - , j 0r!LY $ il 50 Plus Ether a .1 NSW VICTOR 1 ADDING MACHINE d :f:. , . or a NEW ROYAL PORTABLE In your home or office for 3 months up to ONE YEAR on the : balance with no interest or carrying charges. ; REMEMBER! 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