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Thi t IcsasO Calam. OraqoiScran&rTV r.Iarch 31. 1351 "No Favor Sxaayt U$, No For Shall AwtT From First Statesman, llarea ts. 1M1 i v - THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY ? ; CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published every morula. Basinets office 115 8. Commercial. Salem, Oreron. Telephone S-244L Catered at the postofflo at Salem Oregon, as seeea4 clam matter under act of centres March S. 187 Britain Avoids European Union Those who have been quaking in their boots for fear the Union Now people will openly or by stealth make away with sovereignty of the USA may take some comfort from the declara tion of Herbert Morrison, new British foreign secretary that Britain isn't going to abandon its sovereignty to any council of Europe. Now if Eu rope isn't going to get together itself and it will not if Britain is a holdout there is no prospect of a world federation even in the dis tant future. The arguments are there of course, but national ties are too strong to make more than minor concessions to an international or der. United Nations is just a vehicle that will trav el only as far as its member nations are willing to travel. Most of them prefer just to stand still. But it is a vehicle, and by jerks and by spurts it may make progress. Conceivably in time it can gather strength just as our' own national government has grown more powerful with the passage of time and under the pressures of poli tical necessity. When you can't get the various branches of the Christian church which have a common textbookthe Bible, to unite how can you ex pect the nations, with diverse interests, differ ent languages, different .economic conditions to join in a world federation? Even though we are - skeptical of any' early :progress toward world federation it is something that may be held as a goal or a hope, when peoples are enlightened enough to make such a federation succeed. Sally Stay Home Sally Rand failed in her bid to repeat the reported ride of Lady Godiva through the streets of Coventry. This famed American strip teuse was turned down, as were six other Americans; and an English girl er, young woman (she was 28) was selected. Described as a curvesome brunette, she will do the ride on June 23rd as Coventry'f contribution to the British festival year when many, visitors are expected. Sally xTand offered to do the performance in the ori ginal manner, sans clothes, and all who have seen Sally perform know she would go through with the bargain. The English however will stick to modesty and provide their entry with flesh tinted panties and bra. At that however she will attract a large crowd of gapers. The legend, is that Lady Godiva was the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia and Lord of Coventry. He levied heavy taxes on the people of Coven try and his'wifeprotested over her lord's op pression of his subjects. He petulantly told her he would .remit some of the tax if she would ride naked through the streets of the city. She took him up, told townsfolk to stay indoors with window shutters closed, and then rode "bare back" through the city streets. This was Coventry's claim to fame until in the late war when the nazis poured bombs over this important industrial suburb of London. The Lady Godiva rerun is giving it a fresh burst of publicity. New Prison in Utah Over in Utah a few days ago they moved the prisoners in the state penitentiary out several miles to an entirely new plant. This prompts regrets that Oregon didn't seized its opportunity nd make the same undertaking. The Salem long range planning commission urged moving the prison out in the country where more land Germans Have Clear Choice Defend on Elbe Or Be Over-run for Western Stand on Rhine By Joseph Alsop BONN, March SO The new- newly chambered, to be blown up again It the j ed The British, French and American oecu- ( pation forces are betas com bat-trained and disposed to dc r x reedy to defend the Rhine line against, the . .1 armies 01 we f . A- Soviet empire. -Jteinf orce- -merits for this purpose are al ready moving Into Germany. There is only one defect in 4his picture of active prepara tion. X ? In plain language, even if Germany is to be abandoned to a second devastation, the rest of Western Europe cannot be really successfully defended on the line of the Rhine in this age of the new weapons. This central fact, admitted by every general staff in Europe, trans forms everything that is being done now into a makeshift and a stopgap- Furthermore, every general staff in Europe, con spiculously including . the French, also firmly agrees that a substantial German contri bution is needed for the more advanced and sounder Western defense on the line of the Elbe. ' These - unpleasant truths' in turn explain why a single ques tion now dominates the Euro pean scene. Do the Western Europeans really want to de lend themselves enough to make the heavy effort to rebuild their : power, and meanwhile to defy the Soviet menaces and threats intended to deter them from this vital task?. , 1 The question ultimately turns tpon the problem of the Ger sT man contribution, which is es sential to complete a solid West yr . i.-i 1 - v wss-aaan-an . anaaa would be available, leaving the present land at the edge of town for cutting up into town lots. None of the state officials of three years ago took any interest and the 1949 legislature drop ped the matter and went ahead with appropria tions for additional construction in the present location. As time goes on it will become more and more out of place but the investment pre viously small now becomes too great for aban- donment. Utah did a better job of prison planning. ern defense. Hence, preventing the German contribution is the object of all the Soviet threats and menaces. An empire of hun dreds of millions of people, with upwards of 10,000,000 men ac tually under arms, cannot after all be hysterically alarmed by the recreation of ten or fifteen 'divisions by an amputated na tion of 50,000,000. The Krem lin's true purpose Is not to keep Germany disarmed, but to keep the whole West undefended. ; - s. British, French and German attitudes will give the final an swer to the great question. Speaking first of the German attitude, exhaustive conversa tions with Chancellor Adenauer, the opposition leader. Dr. Schu macher, and almost all the oth er leading Germans directly in volved, have convinced this re porter that few matters have been so persistently misrepre sented. Undoubtedly the spirit of neutralism of ,"ohne mich" or "count me out" is strong in Germany today as it is else where in Europe. Of course this spirit will triumph if the West ern allies convince the Germans they have nothing to fight for. But if the Western Germans have a country to defend, they will defend it. As to the conditions of a German contribution to' West tern defense there is, first of aU, complete agreement in principle between Chancellor Adenauer and his great socialist opponent. Dr. Schumacher. The Germans must be granted political equal ity. They must be granted mili tary equality. And the Western forces in Germany must be strengthened, to form a screen ' behind which - the creation of new German forces can .more safely .proceed, ?; ' Dr. Schumacher, who has been " making .valuable political capi tal out of this issue, specifically denounces the 'neutalization, of Germany. His line is rather, to proclaim that the three con- ! I . v i i : .it Religious Suckers Down around Los Angeles a group of elderly persons have brought suit against the pastor of their church on grounds he defrauded them out -of their money. They claim he told them atomic war was coming out of the north and induced them to sell their property, give him the cash and he would provide a hideout. They moved out to the pastor's ranch, lived in primitive fashion and now seek return of promissory notes they gave the pastor. Hard to figure out why persons are so gullible but they are. A crackpot who can quote scrip ture and prophesy some great calamity is able to get a following that he can pluck of their possessions. The crop of religious suckers never seems to diminish. The Journal of the American Medical asso ciation calls for cleaning up patent medicine advertising. If the makers and advertisers of the products don't do it then the media should. This puts a pretty difficult burden on papers whose staffs have no ability to judge the merits or demerits of patent medicines. They don't want to encourage persons to waste their, money on bogus remedies, but feel they must rely on the food and drug administration to police the product and the federal trade commission to po lice the advertising. Some papers go so far- as to reject all patent medicine advertising but few are so hardy as to do that. So barring action by government boards it becomes pretty much a matter of "caveat emptor," buyer beware. Nothing new under the sun? Of course there is. Here is one: Credit cards for diners out and nightclubbers. You get a card (if you can) eat at any restaurant on the list, sign the slip and at the end of the month pay the bill or turn it in on your expense account. Well if you can feed hungry motor cars by credit cards why not-the drivers? But oh that first of the month jolt. Editorial Comment TIME IS NO ALLY HERE Recently this page mentioned that action on the bill for authorization of aid to India in the form of grain waits on the willingness of the Rules Com mittee to place that bill on the calendar of the House of Representatives. The proposal, with some details left to further legislation, has been approved by the House Foreign Affairs committee. It is backed by the administra tion, by former President Hoover, by bipartisan support in both houses of Congress, and by most editorial opinion expressed on the subject. It takes about six weeks to load a ship, sail to India, and unload. And some of the ships to be us ed are coming out of "moth balls." Meanwhile In dia has had to cut its ration for 125 million people from 12 ounces to 9 ounces a day, and can fill the ration quotas only as ships arrive. Approximately 45 million persons depend solely on the grain ra tion. How much hunger do the gentlemen of the House Rules committee want to take responsibility for? Christian Science Monitor. ditions are not being and will not be adequately met. Since he wants to come to power and finds the issue useful, he may be expected to attack any bar gain Chancellor Adenauer makes. But the satisfaction' of Dr. Schumacher is less Impor tant than the satisfaction of the German people. Chancellor Adenauer clearly believes that if the allies are willing to grant to Germany genuine political and military equality, the German people will be satisfied. In the embryo defense establishment that the chancellor has formed, headed by the miners' leader, Herr Blank,, and Generals Speidel and Heusinger, it is even estimated that a volunteer force of 200, 000 or Just about enough for 12 German divisions can be raised in Germany the day after equality is granted. The trouble is that equality is not being granted at the mo ment. The political negotiations have bogged down. On the mili tary side the best French offer to date is the Pleven plan. For reasons which must be exam ined on another occasion, this is anathema in Germany. In short, all is on dead center at the moment. Perhaps, in the end, neutralism will triumph in Germany, partly because of the Western allies' delays and in decisions, and even more be cause of - the vulnerability of the whole West to Soviet bully ing, resulting from the disarma- ment before Korea. j, .-i: t . Yet Gen. Eisenhower has in . effect offered the Germans a clear choice Western defense - on the Rhine if the Germans will not come in, or Western de fense on the Elbe if the Ger- mans, contribute. It Is difficult to. believe that the German peo- pie will refuse to defend their ; , own country under these cir cumstances, if truly equal part nership' gives them some sense -of having a country to defend. 4 Copyright 19SI. Hew York Bcrakt-TrJbuaeJ . . f RKDQjQGS (Continued from Page 1) traitors do it for money? Did they do it out of conviction that communism was right? Perhaps, though none has indicated any great ardor for communism. The real puzzler is why they lacked loyalty to the United States, or to Great Britain in the case of Fuchs who was a naturalized citizen there. Rebecca West, the brilliant English author and reporter, af ter studying the Fuchs case, con fessed her alarm over what she found. In an article for the New York Times magazine, she wrote: "He represents a danger to hum anity such as it has never had to face before." This lay primarily in the nature of the man: "the poverty of his general intelligence and the immaturity of his char acter." Miss West professes to find in his confession signs which show he was an enemy not only to Britain which had given him refuge from nazi tyranny, but also to Russia. He lacked moral judgment and a sense of res ponsibility to his fellows. The fact that scientists must have broad freedom in their work thus becomes alarming because of the chance that some .of them might make "maniacal use" of their scientific knowledge. The same diagnosis might not apply to these other culprits who have been brought to the bar of justice. But it is true that they had no real loyalty to this coun try and little sense of responsibil ity to their fellows, for they were betraying their associates as well as their country. Most of them were persons with good education, as was true of Alger Hiss, yet their education failed to provide them with intelligence to discern that theywere being duped or moral courage to resist jwhen temptation was offered. None was a screwball and none had 1 suffered serious injustice that I might make him hate his country.- - . . .- r These, persons were halfbakes. They had knowledge but lacked understanding, lacked fund amen- GRIN AND BEAR IT " : : "' 'There's Just tee many kinds ef specialists ... I had U shop around years befara X found a sector te match soy cemplaint "-, MO T HfS! mm ii 111 r France Tour Planned by College Group Plans are being made again for a group, sponsored by Willamette university, to travel and study in' France next summer. This marks the second year such a group has been organized for one month's study in an old French university "and a month of travel in France. Students will receive credit from Willamette while studying in France. Dr. George Hocking, professor of Romance languages at Willam ette, will head the group again this year. Business arrangements for the trip are made through the student international travel asso ciation. Non - Willamette students are accepted for the trip. Lodge Rooms Repair Cost Set at $7,000 Cost of repairing fire - damaged lodge rooms at 240 N. Commercial st., was placed at $7,000 Friday on a city building permit issued to Roy Lockenour, owner. The prem ises were ra2ed by flames March 10 in Salem's worst business dis trict fire in several years. Two other building permits were issued Friday to Richard Nelson, for $2,600 alterations to a dwell ing at 771 Kingwood dr., and to Lawrence Marcotte, to erect a $10,400 dwelling and garage at 1125 Donna ave. tal virtues of morality. Treason is one of the deepest of crimes. Names of Judas Iscariot and Ben edict Arnold are held in bitter contempt. We hate to add other names to the roster, yet by con fession or jury verdict names must be added. The matter should not end with ferreting out the guilty and administering punish ment. Some way should be found to repair the lack so the educated mind is not an undiscip lined, morally irresponsible mind. by Lichty tine; i rDv Dog Racing Ban Rejected by Senate, 21-7 Oregon's- senate Friday over whelmingly rejected an attempt of Sen. Frank Hilton, Portland, to bring his anti-dog racing bill out of the law committee where it has been buried since early January. The vote was 21 to 7. Hilton, who would ' refer his proposed ban on dog race betting to the people, called, the sport the "worst form of gambling in the country," He said it was legalized by the legislature in 1933 and that the' people never have had a voice in the law. : Sen. William Walsh, Coos Bay, law committee chairman, said his group buried the bill because it would be, a "waste of time" to bring it out on the floor. He pointed out that the house al ready has beaten a measure to ban both dog and horse race bet ting. - t Oregon is one of five states with legalized betting on dog races. In other action Friday, senators approved and sent to the house a bill to allow members of the arm ed forces to fish with resident licenses, which are considerably cheaper than non-resident ones. This practice was followed flaring World War II but.was dropped in 1947. Three other minor measures were approved and sent to the governor. Hearing Set On Hospital District Bill The controversial hospital dist ricting bill will be aired in a public hearing before the senate public health committee Monday at 12:30 pjn. in room 309 at the state Cap itol. . The measure, backed by the medical profession, would ,. give boards - In hospital, districts the power to accept or reject the ap plication of physicians, osteopaths or chiropractors to practice in the hospitals.' f Under a law passed in 1949 to allow communities to organize hos pital - districts, the controlling boards are not permitted to bar osteopaths or chiropractors from the hospitals... - . , I ' Proponents of the bill now be ing considered by the senate said this provision of the 1949 law has stopped hospital - districts from building hospitals. . it Debate Rule Bill Defeated In Senate Vote The senate Friday defeated, 17 to 12, a proposal by Sen. Thomas Mahoney, Portland, to require a two-thirds vote of senate mem bers before debate could be shut off on any proposal. ? ! ; A majority vote now is requir ed to terminate debate. - - Pk- -j Mahoney, back for his first ses sion after a week's illness in Cali fornia, promptly warned .the: sen ate, "If this is abused and the sen ate trys to rag anyone, the; roof is coming off the capital." ' :' ; Mahoney had charged that some members of the senate did not have ample opportunity to ex press opinions on bills before de bate was shut off. t i Sen. Dean . Walker," : Indepen dence, however, said, "There are manv more times when debate hasn't been shut off soon enough." 1 Formula for Convention Approved by Law Unit Sen. Richard L. Neuberger Portland, Friday submitted to the sen ate law committee a tentative formula for selecting delegates to a proposed constitutional .convention. j r The law committee Thursday voted approval "of Neubergers pro posal to revise the state constitution, 12th oldest in the nation, at a special convention in Salem in 1954. The plan would have to be an- Hayes Urges j Realistic Civil Defense Plan . A realistic civil defense pro gram for Oregon involving con tributions by the federal govern ment, the state and the cities was urged by Jack Hayes, director of the state civil defense agency, be fore the legislative joint ways and means committee here Friday. Outstanding discussion centered on a proposal of the federal gov ernment to assist the states on a matched basis In purchasing es sential . supplies and" equipment. Hayes made it plain that equip ment purchased under the pro gram would be owned by the cities but would be subject to call in case of emergency by the federal government and the state. : The administrative budget of the Ore gon civil defense agency was fix ed at $332,000. Three classifications of support would be received from the federal government in event the legislat ure approves its offer of assistance. One would involve organizational equipment on the basis of 50 per cent by the federal government, 25 per cent by the state and 25 per cent by the cities. For mobile support equipment the federal government would contribute 50 per cent and the state 50 per cent. The federal government would contribute 50 per cent for shelters and the cities 50 per cent. - Hayes told the committee he had conferred , with officials in many sections of the "state recently and was told the people expect an ad equate defense program. He de nied there would be any pressure used in selling emergency equip ment , and supplies to the cities. "If we do not take advantage of the federal government's offer; funds that would be available to Oregon under proposed congress ional action would revert to other states," Hayes averred. The - - organizational equipment would include largely fire fight ing apparatus, rescue trucks,! mo bile radio units," control center in stallations 'and first aid post sup plies. -' ' j "I consider the program outlin ed by the state civil defense di rector as most essential with the exception of shelter construction," Governor Douglas McKay said. "We don't know what is going to happen but we shouldn't be com placent." McKay Signs Eight Bills Governor Dougals McKay i Fri day signed a house bill by the joint Ways and means committee appropriating $118,976 to cover financial deficiencies in certain state departments for the current biennium. Other bills signed: S JB. 1 13, by DayProhibiting horses ,from running at large in Jackson county. , S.B. 246, by education commute- Relating to the power of the state board of education. S.B. 249, by education commit tee relating to the purchase and operation of the Mountain View housing project in Klamath coun ty and appropriating money. ! S.B. 296, by Coon Relating to the roundup, Impounding and dis posal of horses running at large on public lands. , H.B. 341, by taxation committee Relating to credit against per sonal income taxes for income taxes paid in other states, i HJJ. 490, by ways and means committee Relating to the per formance -of certain assay or an alytical services by the state de partment of geology and mineral industries. - HA 523, by game committee Relating to the taking of beaver. Freshman Honor Society Initiates 12 at Willamette Twelve freshmen were initiated recently into the Willamette uni versity chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, national honor society for fresh men earning a grade point aver age of 3.5 or better. Salem initiates include Mervin Brokke, Eugene P. Bartlett, Harris I Eckley, Earl Eshleman, Richard J. Geer, Kent Myers, Richard T. Scott and Ellis Von Eschen. i Others are Richard B. Blakney of Portland, Robert D. Petzoldt of Klamath Falls, Stuart R. Shaw of Camas, Wash, and Robert A. An derson of Yakima, Wash. . NOW For Your Gardens and Lawns o TOP SOIL P RIVER SILT 1.25 Yd. in 4-Yd. Load Lots Inslda th dry limits rilVEl DSuID SAHD FliONS 3 Selecting De provea Dy ine people iMeuoerger proposes that one delegate be named from each of Oregon's 36 counties, plus one ad ditional delegate for each 20,000 population or major fraction there of in every county. Under this plan, 109 delegates would attend the session. Multno mah county would have the larg est , representation with 24 dele gates, followed by Lane with 7, Marion with 6 and Clackamas 5. Representation by congressional districts would ber First, 32; sec ond, 28; third, 24; fourth, 25. Neuberger also proposed that the law committee should follow the suggestion of Sen. Warren Gill Lebanon, that a person could be delegate to the convention re gardless of any other office which he occupies. "I believe membership should be open to judges, legislators and others whose experience qualifies them in this respect," Neuberger said. J The Multnomah legislator also asked that the committee launch plans for a constitutional commis sion which would prepare mate rial for the convention. . A bill seeking a constitutional convention was introduced in the kuiiu: ui xeiuuu7'DT live legis lla tors, including Rep. Mark Hat- neid, saiem. Other county representation un der Neuberger's plan for. electing, delegates would include: Four delegates Douglas, Jack son, Linn and Washington coun ties. 'Three Umatilla, Benton, Clat sop, Coos, Yamhill and Klamath counties. - " two Baker, Columbia, Des chutes, Hood River, Josephine, Lincoln, Malheur, Polk, Tillamook, Union and Wasco counties. One Crook, Curry, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Jefferson, Lake, Morrow, Sherman, Wallowa and Wheeler counties. Fpod Handler Bill Bucked In Committee A joint ways and means sub committee Friday reported out with a "do not pass" recommenda tion the so-called food handlers bill providing i for health examin ations of all restaurant workers in Oregon. - ' The bill previously was before the senate public health commit tee and carried a $200,000 approp riation for the 1951-53 biennium. The measure was introduced by Senator Russell Gardner, Lincoln county, and had the support of several labor organizations. Most of the appropriation would have covered purchase of equipment necessary to conduct the physical examinations. ' State health department offic ials appeared before the public health committee and argued that the cost of the examinations, on a statewide basis, would range, as high as $5 per person Involved. V0N god Anena f rree LecTure Entitled ; Christian. ....... ' . Scicnco: Tho Way - m mm ' -a a at ae To Fulfill God's PurposQ 1 ! ' by Grace Jan Noee, C S. rt Li.... ?!:..,! Member of the Board of Lec- iihn nf Th Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, -Massachusetts. . - - - a Sunday Afternoon April 1-3 P- a Scnicr Ilinh School 14th and D Streets First Church of Christ, Scientist .Off Salem, Oregon Alt ARE CORDIAUY INVITED , GHAVE CO. - 92S3 leg