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4-th' ?arta!saein::cj Tiitoa: W t6r:t l ; -va . Mll r 'V ::p:ii "j JcwrSii rnnw oc -run cidct "Axlcbixinn A.ii; Ways in Was on la. hinqt V "Wo Favor Sways lit. No Feat Shall Atct 4 , ,, . fram First SUteuui. Mareb tt. 1851 t r .;;-'s 'rfTHE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANYj " .'. ' CHARLES A SPRACJUE, Editor and Publisher i PaMisbed very sooraiB. fteslaess Trie tls S Conunerefel. Saleso. Oregon. Telepkaae Z-Z44L. Catered at the toffW at Sales. Orecea. at secaad elaar matter aader act af centres March 1. ITIX Higher Fees at State Schools I The state board of higher education made very modest increases in fees to be - charged " students, raises made necessary to supplement the slate appropriations received. Fees per term for the university and state college were in creased to 555'from $44; at Vanport from $38 to$52; at colleges of education from $30 to $40; at dental school from $116.50 to $140, at the medical school from $124.50 to $150. Increases also , were made on special out-of-state fees. The fees on a per year basis of nine months would be three times the .term basis. They run very much less than the tuition and fees charged in .private colleges which depend more on tuition income. , , !, The early idea in state higher education was t furnish it free or at very low cost. That idea has continued; but costs have outrun capacity or wilKngness of legislatures to vote appropria . tkns, so state schools quite generally have been increasing their charges to students. b-. The new rates will hardly keep any qualified person from enrolling and scholarships are often available for those specially needy. The time had come when it was necessary to balance the load by adding to that borne by students. j ; I Taxes and Deficits Governor McKay told the state federation of labor at Klamath Falls that the state could get along with cigaret tax money in the current biennium due to the greater intake from income j and corporate excise taxes. That certainly is a; pat on the back" for. labor's effort to refer the j cigaret tax .bill. But after this biennium the deluge, for thergovernor warned that in 1953 the ( state would face a deficit of at least $45,000,000. It is still uncertain whether the state can baU I ance its budget this biennium without either the j cigaret tax or a property tax levy. To do so it ; will use up the balance on hand from income tax j collections, which was estimated at 31,000,000 1 as of June 30 next but probably will be more; j The income from -a cigaret tax would at least j beJp give a cushion for the jolt that comes in j 1953 when otherwise the income cupboard will be bare.-" '. ' ' i i Real Victory t The Christian Science Monitor quotes approv-r lngly this statement from Trygve Lie, secretary general of United Nations: ' We must never forget that the objective of 1 the UN forces in Korea is. to win something i much more important than a war. It is to win j victory for collective security against future ; wars everywhere by repelling tbe aggression in j Korea and restoring peace and security there. We need to keep this simple statement in mind. The UN objective was to repel the aggres sor in Korea and restore peace, not to launch a crusade against worldwide communism. The return of Dr. William C Jones to Oregon will be welcomed. He came to Willamette as professor of business -and public administration in 1929, went to the University of Oregon in JMl as head of the department of political iM ence. and was president of Whittier college in California from 1944 to 1951. He had resigned the latter position to become superintendent of the Congregational and Christian church for southern California a few months ago but now his been elected dean of administration at the University of Oregon, and has accepted. He has grown in stature in his profession and will prove a valuable addition to the university staff and to leadership in Oregon affairs. ' Painful Effort Toward National Strength Seen as All-Essential for an Armed Peace By Stewart Afe WASHINGTON, June 20 With intense reluctance but aa unquestioning obedience to high er -authority in stilled many years ago, this reporter re cently complied with a, h e a d master's re quest to speak at the gradua tion exercises i I I of a b o y ' a school he once 11 I ingolriously tended. T h touie was the exceedingly general on of The World Situation." It appeared likely that boys between the ages of 12 and 17 might soon begin to throw spit balls or worse, if subjected to the sort of rather detailed politi cal report which usually appears In thU space. It therefore seem ed wise, in simple self-defense, to think again about the world situation, and to try to reduce it to its essentials, as in a problem in first-year algebra. The results were anything but startling or original. Yet the ex perience proved useful, if not fc the boys, at least to this re porter. And at any rate it is interesting to try to state the problem of national survival in terms of a problem in a school examination paper. This can be done quite concisely. The prob lem has four main elements. (A) The first element is a powerful nation, controlling much of the population and land area of the earth, aggressive and expansionist by its very nature, unalterably and intensely hostile to the United States. (B) This potential enemy will Quite soon by 1953, if the ac cetted estimates of Soviet atom ic production are correct have the weapons needed to wound this country most savagely, per haps almost mortally. The defense department's budget for military construction includes $14,285,300 for Camp White. This surely looks toward its. reactivation as a training center. Residents in the Camp Ad air area will feel relieved. They didn't want to be pushed out again for setting up another train ing camp, j ! Save Paint or Enforce law New signal lights and generally - improved traffic conditions, particularly in the statehouse area, are worthy of commendation in Salem. But unless there is a real crack-down on violators of crosswalk regulations, the city might as well save its yellow paint. . , In recent checks on three such crosswalks, it was' shown that an average of six cars sped by .a pedestrian before one stopped to permit com pletion of a jaunt across intersections. In one in stance, a pedestrian a quarter of the way across waited for 13 cars some of which were travel ling considerably in excess of the speed limit. In another, a pedestrian , was "stuck" in the middle of the street while cars went by on both sides. It's all very well to condemn the younger gen eration for "squirreling." But it isn't the young er generation which is usually at fault in cross walk discourtesy. It's a sober-minded adults who, without a couple of tons of metal as their own; private weapon, probably would be half way! humane. General MacArthur was wise in declining to appear again before the senate, committee in vestigating his firing. He had said his piece, a return would be anti-climax. The general is go ing to stay; fired; and the final verdict on the course he pursued and policies he recommended willj be written by historians years hence. Now that! Pat Hurley has had his say (remember, he gave forth with the Comanche warwhoop when he landed at General Mao's headquarters), the hearings should fold up, leaving the senators to wrestle' with themselves and their consciences over a report. j William N. Oatis, AP correspondent in Prague 'who: was summarily arrested by the Czechs two months ago, is to be given a public trial on whatever charges, the government has trumped up on him.; We should be prepared for a "con fession" after the usual communist style, the consequence of the physical and mental soften ing up process described by Robert Vogeler late ly, released from a Hungarian prison. The time has j come for our government to resist such treatment of its nationals by appropriate re prisals. Aneracan citizenship should be a badge for safe-conduct anywhere. 1 ' ' ' . Monroe Sweetland's Oregon Democrat Is tout ing Lew Wallace for mayor of Portland, hoping to get a democrat in a top city hall berth (Joe Carson was the last). Considering the feuding that has gone on between Sweetland and Wal lace who fought it out for the party office of national committeeman in 1948, bne wonders whether the boosting is due to love of Lew or hope to keep him out of the 1952 race for state or congressional office. ! i 1 Portland: voters were stingy with their city commissioni They turned down a proposal to raise the mayor s salary from $6000 a year to $95000 and commissioners from $5000 to $8000. They did better by the schools, however, giving teachers a double raise by voting an extra levy and j approving a serial levy for building pur poses. I - (C) The United States has, and will continue to have, the capacity to destroy most of the industrial potential (and a high proportion of the population) of the Soviet Union, in case of war. (D) But in case of war in the near future, the whole Eurasian continent will be overrun by , the Soviets and their satellites, the ancient civilizations from, which our own civilization derives will be most ruthlessly uprooted, and the war will thus become at least in a sense a war which cannot be won. i j Surely it should be possible to examine A, B, C, and D, as a student examines a problem in ' mathematics, and come i up with an answer, X. But what is X? H i L I One X Is surrender and that is, of course, ruled out. Another X is embodied in the old rale, "kill or be killed: destroy your potential enemy before he has what is required to destroy you. There is a certain awful logic in this response. In some ways, it seems the kind of answer which might -be. marked "cor rect' on a school examination paper. ' 1 Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gen. Albert Wedemeyer, and others often seem to be proposing some thing rather close to this an swer. And it may indeed be that future historians, if i there are any, will write of this era mat the United States accepted the clear probability of its own de struction by failing to force a war be fore the Soviets could build a decisive stockpile: of atomic bombs, ' i j . Yet for an! sorts' of reasons. this particular X has been re jected. The reasons; are good reasons. They Include the moral and political implications of in itiating a war which would see most of our allies destroyed; the fact that an atomic war started by the United - States would ce ment the Russian people around tha Soviet regime and alienate the rest of the world; and tha very nature of the American po litical system. Another X though it can hardly be called an "answer" was officially accepted by the American government shortly after the Soviets exploded their first atomic bomb. This X was embodied in the now. famous state paper. NSC 63. Essentially, NSC 68 calls for such a rapid build-up of strength by this country and its allies that a sort of nervous balance of power can be maintained, even when tha 2oviets nave acnievea a decisive stockpile of bombs. Then, it, is hoped, not peace, but a terribly precarious yet lasting truce may .result, fol lowed in the very long run by an essential change in the char acter of the Soviet system. This involves a hair-raising calculat ed risk, and it Is certainly not a very satisfactory "answer" to the awful problem confronting the United States. j . Yet any school-boy can see what is involved in this answer. If the calculated risk is to have any chance at all of paying off, it is absolutely essential that the Soviets should be confronted with very great strength, not only in this country but also in Western Europe, by 1952-53. And already, especially since the tactical victories in Korea, there are renewed signs of the com pdacency which led President Truman and Louis Johnson, be fore the Korean war began; to scuttle NSC 63 almost as soon as they had solemnly approved it ; - Surely, since the very best the graduating classes of this and other years can look forward to is a frightened world existing in an intensely insecure armed truce, it is worth making a se rious and indeed painful effort to build the strength wholly neces sary to achieve even this. fCooYrirht. 1951. Slew Tork UcnM TrlbwM II I itiv.' ; . a r iiri TriTAr Am fic i .-, PCDOGQCg (Continued from Page 1) i from virgin forests to new growth, through greater utiliza tion of timber and through re stocking and protection from fire and disease and pests. : 1 How to irrigate the Willamette valley was discussed. Dean F . Price of the school of agri culture reported a new type of organization would be needed here for large-scale irrigation. He pointed to possibilities : of building dams on small streams close to the valley floor for US ligation storage rather than re lying on the storage in the big dams of the flood control proj ect. ; j Dean Gleason classified ouf resources as those which are con tinuous or renewable such as farm production and timber pro duction and water run-off; and those which are exhaustible such as minerals. He threw a dash of cold water on the boomers who talk about boundless resources. Already the USA is a have-not nation for many essentials: copf per, nickel, lead, as well ! as chrome, tin, manganese. Con- servation is needed and develop ment of substitutes for many uses of these scarce materials. Allocation of these may coma (as it already has in this war emergency). ; j Dean Gleason referred to the fact that many of these mater ials are found in the Pacific bas in and pointed to the opportui nity enjoyed by this region to integrate its economy with that of the Pacific, becoming the im porter and processor of many of these materials. This would call for an expansion of our facilities, including ports and shipping; and certainly a wider orienta tion ot our thinking. j i What might have been men tioned but wasn't was the tre mendous consumption of stra tegic materials (copper, lead, chrome, petroleum) in , war. There certainly is a place for conservation of resources. Our national policy should continue to be directed toward arriving 'Tmm niai a f.11 bp a n IT GRIN AND BEAR IT "Came! Came! . . yaoTl have U tar 1 '" i'lli 1 ' " 11 The Safety t . ... - a Contributtoiu to thia column should be limited to 300 words. Writ only on on aid ot paper; live name and full address. Poetry is not accepted. Traffic Hazards On Sa. 12th Street To the Editor ; im For many' months now we have been vitally interested in the traffic hazards and conges tion on South 12th street and particularly the South 12th street hilL Tha continually growing use of this route by huge trucks and trailers impedes normal traffic almost every hour of the day and night -and we feel that an inex pensive truck-passing improve ment (lane) on -4he hill itself would do much toward relieving the congestion and cut down 'the hazards for drivers and pedes trians who must use this means of reaching their' homes. We are presently preparing an exhibit for the state highway commission, the county court and the city council to reach agree ment on the areas of responsibil ity and to get them to cooperate in this undertaking in the very near future. Much has been said about the proposed truck by-pass route further east of Salem, but we know from experience of the past few years that South 12th street , will still carry a heavy load of local commercial ve hicles, the. Consolidated lines, whose warehouse is Just off 12th, and many others who will find It necessar ytd make deliveries in Salem before proceeding south. Naturally, we are much inter ested in growth and expansion for our fair icity, but we also believe it is' the responsibility of the various governmental agencies to make proper and adequate steps 5 to keep up with that expansion, especially when it concerns traffic and the:, at tendant danger to life and prop erty. May we take this opportun ity to urge your readers to sup- at peace in the Orient and to ward renewal of normal trade relations with countries in the Pacific basin. Dr. Reene of Montana State college was a member ot the president's committee on water resources policy which filed its reports last year. His two ad dresses at Corvallis were of great importance to residents of the Columbia basin. I shall report on those tomorrow. by Lichtv relax. Private Sneedby, if Iaa U da 4 k!frr !' Valve ! i port our group in the battle for a truck-passing lane on the South 12th street hilL . ALVIN WHITLAW. President, 12th Street Civic Improvement Club. War and Christian Belief To the Editor: 1 It is gratifying to read in your editorial about AROTC at Wil lamette University that "there is no denying the incompatibility of the Christian gospel and wa fare." That -is a proposition that needs to be preached from every pulpit and shouted from every housetop. Thus i proclaimed it would help overcome war- and revitalize the Christian faith. What basis is : there, though. for going on to say that "as long as war is a fact in the world it cannot be avoided"? Surely we do not have to intervene in everr fracas that comes along. We have not done so in the past and there are contacts going on today in which we are not involved. If you mean that whenever war is beinng wagedwe Chris- . tians must involve ourselves in it, then, on the ! basis of what you say about the incompatibil ity of war and Christianity, you are saying that I whenever this un-Christian activity breaks out, we Christians must engage in it. Surely Jesus ; did not enunciate certain principles, exemplify them, exhort his followers to live according to them, and then say that, whenever i violations of them are taking: place, to join in ine violations. You Probably are correct in your doubt that many Method ists "would refuse to participate in war if called: to duty." But in view of what you have said about Christianity and war and in view of official Methodist de nunciations of war as a sinful and un-Christian business, why . should not Methodists refuse to participate in war? And why should they not keep instruction in this admittedly un-Chrisuan activity out of their schools? ORVAL ETTER. Far Western ! Secretary Fel lowship ! of ! Reconciliation, Berkeley, Cam. Bettor English 1. What Is wrong with this sentence? 1 don't know if she heard us, but II do know she didn't do her work proper." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "clothier?" X. Which one of these words is misspelled? Courier, coterie, couragious, consummate. ! S 4. What does the word "ephem eral" mean? j . ..' 5. What is! a word beginning with di that means "deeply de jected; sad?" I . ' . ANSWEXS 1. Say, 1 don't know whether she heard us, but; I do know she didn't do her . work properly." 2. Pronounce kloth-yer, o as in no, and not kloth-i-erj S. Courageous. 4. Beginning and ending in a day; hence short-lived. ' (Pronounce e-fem-er-al, first 'and second es as in set, third as in her, ac cent second syllable. 5. Discon solate, i ! : Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them and not waited until next year for better E. W. Bom. By Jaae Ea4s WASHINGTON -(A1)- Besides all the business he had to take care of in Washington, Horace xioones nad a ,m,,- family i reunion f coming up and! some shopping ; to do. I His son Dav-1 id, 17, wanted! him to bring back a guitar. I Mrs. Holmes' asked him to ! fill up his suit-l case withf ; : cleansing ' tis- I sues, and he had to get repair parts for his record player. - Tve got to. get-started back to India soon, though,' he said in a . crowded-in interview. "We're : expecting- a big locust hatch in the desert area. Some of , our men are bringing in two C-47s and three Piper Cubs from Iran.! Ground' forces will locate the locust masses, and we'll spray Aldrin or BHC from the planes." A chief agriculturist In" the TJ. S. Department of Agriculture, Mr. Holmes has been serving as agricultural' adviser on loan to the government of India since 1948. One of his many jobs is to help build an extension serv ice for India and its' states a demonstration program carried on in cooperation with the In Court Passes Marion county court Wednesday gave formal approval to the 1951- 52 county budget of $2,645,290. Final public hearing on the bud get was held Wednesday but no citizens appeared to protest. The new balanced budget will go into effect July 1 and compares with a current budget of $2,486,626. 1 The blueprint-of the county's spending and revenue program for the next 1 fiscal year was ap proved by a six-man budget com mittee May 9 after three days of deliberation. i ' :t Increases in- the new budget are largely accounted for by sal ary boosts for ' county , employes and elective officials, judges and clerks of election .boards. These items will cost the county an ad ditional $43,000 annually. Another estimated $31,000 ap propriation was necessary to take care of costs involved when coun ty offices must seek new quarters if a new courthouse is construct ed. On top - of this jnost county offices asked for more money on which to operate, 'although reve nues from nearly all these offices also show an increase. Marion County On New Budget 1 A' j; - y aiPanacool YouU ttaarf head tnd shoulders above the rest In the handsome, erisf look jf the festherweisht PAHAC00L Iff your test to be best-dressed 'and cool when the mercury starts to climbs PANACOOL's unique porous weave does the trick . . . keeps you nurt-lociinj tnd comfortable wherever you are. Ask for a Hopkins PANAC00L in Natural, Sand or Walnut 5353 te 9qoo OPEN FI3AY ITCn MAM'S SEKDJIP THE STORE OF STYLE, AAoxley and 41 JlataSL' dian government. "We're providing . our own technical people to work with the Indian technicians, carrying . on pilot demonstrations in typi cal 1 OO-squ are-mile areas set up Jn each state,", he told me. In one pilot area, he says, 10,000 farmers have succeeded in dou bling grain crops from an aver age of 13 to 28 bushels per acre in three years. One man ' aver ages SX bushels. On he Nepal eae border, near the present fam- ine area, tanners have more thn doubled their potato crops from 119 to 260 bushels per acre. 1 A farmer-merchanfs son of Newcastle, Term, Mr. Holmes worked with southern farmers in agricultural programs - until 1948, when he went to China for UNRRA. Later, he was appoint ed by the Chinese government as an extension consultant Ha tried to help people on both Na tionalist and communist sids "We were making progress," he said, "but you cant build a . country when people are fight ing. It was heart-breaking. Tha people worked so hard. All they wanted was food, clothing and medical attention." . - Over a good part of the world the women do a greater part of the work ' than the men, Mr. Holmes said but would go no furtner. He said the subject of woman was as dangerous as pol itics. S: Bruce Coldblatt Attends Summer School at Stanford Bruce Goldblatt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard B. Goldblatt and graduate this spring from Salem hi eh school, is attendi school at Stanford university. Goldblatt was one of 150 stu dents in the United States selected to start his quarter at Stanford, where he will major in law. He lemt Monday for Palo Alto, Calif. He was among the high five scholastically in his graduating class at Salem high. He is a for mer piano student of Mrs. David Eason and achieved national recog nition in music circles, when at the ages of 12 and 13 he composed two piano compositions." llopltins straw i lifts I you out of the crowd ! i 8Uf? ji twills 0 NIGHT TH 9 QUALITY AND VALUE Huntington Salem