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4 The- Stfrttmmu Salem , Cracan, t-londaj. July t 1SS1 "Afe rreae nm suiesmj Karen zs. uh THE STATES3IAN PUBLISHING CX3MPANY , CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher ' tMlshed mo MttiIik. tutnw rfk zis 8. Coaaaa ml4 blm. Oiycmu TeleaM t-2441. - Cttmi astitr eestefflee at Salem, Ores so, as seeead abut natter ander act al eeagress Uxrth t, 1171, An Open-Door Policy at A map of the area around -Kaesong on Sun day's page on of The -Statesman carried the headline: "Where Eyes of the World Are Turned." - 'si That's 'true," figuratively. Theoretically, jit mutd he true literallv. i, ! Perhaps some day it will be. day events like the Koenn; talks will "be Jet ' has now made iU report ana oners plans tor faithfully transmitted to the people as were the rehabilitating the private works for topound Ketauver hearings by the honest eyes of 'tele- in waters which will increase the supply 'for viwon. But until that time, we depend upon , watering some 10,000 acres of land. : newspapermen for. our reports of history-in-. . The engineers estimate the reimbursable cost the-making. jijj' of the new work a $2,610,000 of which the wa if precedent is followed however, the talks -ter users would repay $1,285,000 over a 50-year will be behind closed doors. That is, the com tnunUt and UN negotiators will bargain In the traditional atmosphere of J secret ; diplomacy while reporters wait outside for leaks and, finally, for the official version of what trans pired. v But official versions by the actual partici pai its of. such meetings tend to be' slanted j to favor their own causes or careers or countries. Tit military and the diplomats always hive excuses for -excluding non participating wit nesses, i.e. the press, from their powwows. When military security is an issue, that is un derstandable; but it is no issue at Kaesong. The only possible issue is face-saving, and that b trivial from the historical perspective. The men around the conference tables in his tory have always known that future genera tions' will be affected by what they do, but often these men who make history, don't live to answer to it. Besides, no one seems to ibe able to give accurate reports of what they did. That's why we have Yaltas.. The arguments about what happened between Roosevelt and Stalin in Yalta, and why, are bitter and parti san and endless .Must the. same old pattern jibe repeated after the Kaesong talks? J Perhaps if the Kaesong j negotiators were ware of having their contemporaries looking over their shoulders in the person of reporters, they might be more careful, and there might l fewer Yaltrs. And if they protest that Re porters would be a restraining, influence, well, that might be a good thing,', too. On the other hand' open diplomacy as at United Nations den't always work, either. ' f Bfarhhe ad for Marine President Truman may another chance to "tell it to the marines." The senate has voted to fix the minimum complement of the marine corps at four divisions and four air wings, and its commandant a consultant'on the joint chiefs of staff. The house armed , services i committee has voted to set the minim cm strength for the marines at 300,000 men nd. to place its com mandant as a member of thej JSC. If legislation to this effect passes the president will have; to decide what to do with itThe nagging oyer VXiving the marines a spot on the joint chiefs! of ataff was what touched .oil one of Truman's famous blow-off letter which found its way: to s publicity via the; Congressional Record. 1 This legislation isn't welcomed by General Marshall, secretary of defense, who has always opposed this marine agitation. The navy will not like it because now the navy bosses the teMHfnA. .a.3 4k. a . . a. J ..till 4ippy because they are disposed to abolish the corps anyway. With such a beachhead in con gress as the votes now . indicate, it looks I as though the marines once more had the situation Peace in Korea Could Give Democrats Strong Plank for 1952 General Elections Platform - By Stewart A1m Obviously a settlement in Ko rea. If there is one, will have a profound effect oa tie course of next year's po- litical battle. Unless the de mocratic p r o fessionals are suffering from miii self-delusion, it will greatly streng then Harry S. Truman, mak ing him, if he runt, a really 'n!i4aklA an. V dilate. A Ke- reaa settlement will correspond Ingiy weaken Sen. Robert A. Taft (who is rather obviously dismayed at the turn of events) and Gen. Dougl&s, MacArthur. The most intriguing qesUon is the jeffect of an end to the fight inj fin Korea on the fortunes of ' Cu Dwight D. Eisenhower. Hnre it is worth recalling a con versation between MacArthur and Eisenhower which took place during the latters trip to Japan in May, 1948. Then, as new, Eisenhower was a leading presidential possibility. Ques tioned by MacArthur on this point, Eisenhower replied that ha had no intention of running. : "That's right, Ike," said Mac Arthur, "just keep saying you don't want it and you'll get it" I The story is interesting partly because MacArthur himself, des pite disclaimers, has been act- lng remarkably like a presiden tial aspirant. It is interesting also . because a Korean settlement is likely to increase the pressure on Eisenhower to run. as the man to beat Truman. It is there fore time to ask whether Eisen- her "wants it." and whether he can "get it." The answers below are subject to change, but they are the best now available. As for the first point, his sup- porters at least state with a con- . vincing assurance that, under certain conditions, . Elsenhower x v r favor tcay, Uslio Fear Shall A Kaesong No "Funny Money Please The reclamation bureau has been making studies for several years of possibilities of add- 'tot to water storage in the Goose lake region of Perhaps some take county for term. The remainder would be financed through the. Columbia basin account which would pool the power revenues from federal hydroelectric j projects of the northwest. - j - The bureau goes far out on limb when it ' makes assumptions of repayment from a non existent fund. So far congress has not ordered the pooling of funds, and the report of ithe wa ter resources policy committee opposes such earmarking of revenues for specific expendi tures. The bureau .can't pay cons tract ilin costs with "funny money." Soft Touches for Reds j Frederick Vanderbilt Field, who previously got often in the papers but kept out; of jail, found himself in both Friday. Field is the scion of the wealthy Vanderbilt family who sis rated as a fellowtraveler. He wouldn't tell who put up the bond for the vagrant communists con victed under the Smith act. Field himself has been a finance angel for left wing .causes. Other persons of fortune usually inherited) have been soft touches for radicals. There was the Garland fund used to propagate radicalism. Mrs. Blaine of a wealthy Chicago family has been Lady Bountiful for the left, as have other women of wealth. I Maybe that is just another way of demon strating the shirtsleeves to shirtssleeves tradi tion of the transitoriness of wealth. ! will definitely accept the repub lican nomination, if it Is offered One condition is that there should be no political strings at atched. A second is that the re publican platform should con form with his views on foreign policy. And a third condition is that under no circumstances will he jeopardize his role as North Atlantic treaty organization com mander in order to get the nomi nation, v I . , - i For rather obvious reason the story has been sedulously spread abroad by democrats that Eisen hower is i democrat at heart, and is really interested in run ning as a. democrat But the Eisenhower: republicans claim to have been reassured categorical ly on this point; Eisenhower will not seek or accept the democratic nominations i 3 The Question remains whether Eisenhower can "get it" wheth er the nomination of a man who has never publicly stated his po litical affiliation, and. : who is serving abroad in a wholly non political postTcan be organized. There are two main factions of Eisenhower, organizers. -. ' One faction, of course, is led by New York's Gov. . Thomas E. bewey. Dewey is less of a key figure in the Eisenhower move-, ment than is generally supposed.' Dewey Is the titular leader of his party, but since his 194S defeat he has had little nation-wide in fluence. Moreover, Dewey is not personally close to Eisenhower, fact underlined by his decision to go to Asia, instead of to Eu rope, where his candidate is. The leader of the other, less public Eisenhower faction is Pennsylvania's Sen. James Duff, who is in regular communication with the general. There is, of course, no love lost between Dewey and Duff. They are allies in this matter, but allies by con venience and at annsN length. Duff has already enlisted former Sen. Harry Darby of Kansas in the Esenhower cause. Darby will probably Become tha leading ice" 4 talking the toughest kind of talk in hand, even though the president uses a veto ,4 Moscow. , , , ax on the legislation. V.r There are an sorts of reasons OTMMHMVHMHiaWMHMMai the benefit of irrigationista. It Wayward Bus -I i News item: "A state prison inmate j escaped Saturday afternoon, apparently by leaping from a truck as it brought a work gang back from . .. Polk county." Get the picture. A truckload of convicts,! re turning to the pen after a day of picking cher ries . . . "This is where I get off, says one con . . . And he does . . . "Apparently." : - - i Apparently this was a case of laxness on; the. part of the guards. With no armed guard riding in the back of the truck with the prisoners, the temptation to make a break for freedom is ob--vious. The state might as well issue bus tokens to its penitentiary guests. " . A senate committee found that 88 ships, have been carrying cargo to communist China. Of these 58 were registered -in Panama! and 22 were of British registry; six Norwegian and two Greek. There is no general embargo of trade with red China, 'merely one on military supplies, though the United States has stopped all trade with that country. The committee probably would find that most of the Pana manian ships are actually under U. S. owner ship perhaps they are even ships that were built by the maritime commission and later sold at low prices. Uncle Sam always seems to be a fall guy in these deals. public Eisenhower organizer, lending the desired home-state, the astute Duff is and will re main an important figure behind . the scenes.. l Heavy financial backing as well as shrewd political manage ment will certainly be available for the Eisenhower movement But the great obstacle remains while Eisenhower is in Europe, Taft's efficient organizers are hard at work to . capture the , nomination in advance. Clearly, SJuSir.S'r.n03 availability .would help, and it has been reported that Eisen hower -wiU soon make such a statement - .1 Yet this Is extremely unlikely, simply because Eisenhower knows that anything of the sort would almost wholly destroy his usefulness . in Europe. And on : this point the Eisenhower re-i publicans have another reason for anxiety. Eisenhower Is ex-; pected to return to this country, as a civilian, by. next March or April. Even this would be dan-' gerously late in the day. But his, backers now fear that Eisenhow-. er, who is deeply dedicated to the goal of . European i defense, may delay his return even be- yond next spring, in order to see the European defense project really under way. In this, case the task of organizing bis nomi nation would become truly her- - culean. Yet on balance it seems clear "that a Korean settlement will greatly increase the likelihood of Eisenhower's nomination, if only because it will simultaneously strengthen Truman and hurt the Taft-MacArthur wing of the re publican pary. A great many re publican professionals are by no means eager to nominate a man whose political views are an un- known quantity. But they are even less eager to see their party go down to its sixth straight de feat CCopyrit. I35L Tnbuovfcie . . . Tough Talk ; Nov Might : Prevent War William I aVran '"'Af roratga Affairs Analyst'; - Perhaps the time has come for the United States to assume that the Russians are going to- act IDca Russians. With this in mind sfeould a cease-fire be made to pr4-1 in. Korea perhaps this is time for. the 17. S. to berin. WW W V " ffr ( UiC "TBI fl I I f a 1 V" 1 .Politburo to peasant, are scared, what they do now and they most surely will have some sort of offensive improvised after Korea will -likely be prompted by that fear. " , ; ; j . The Russians, with their vast national inferioritr complex, may panic more easily than we think. Today , the bulk of 4 the Russian people dreads war. They know what it is. Jbe poEtbtt-o dreads a. shooting war becauiie it Is aware that it is undred?, iaternally and otherwise. It 'has mad a strategic retreat in Kotr-, ea and Korea is beginning look like a great Soviet blunder. The USJSJL and the tsarist governments before it alwavs feared a ring of hostility. It is' a reality today. Korea, opening the eyes of the western world to Soviet designs, solidified and strengthened Jhe oppositiory Moscow feared a rearmed west. Korea is making it a re ality. Moscow dreaded a remili tarized Germany. But if western Germany is rearmed, Moscow can blame its adventure in Kor ea. The Soviet Union now will bring its greatest propaganda barrages to bear against German remilitarization, and in favor of the kind of treaties the Russians want In Germany and Japan. She may even make menacing gestures. The western answer can be tough talk tough talk which can penetrate the iron cur tain to the masses of people be hind it They remember that Germany alone, with a heavily armed world on its back, almost brought the great Soviet Union to its knees. Let them now pon der the prospect of a united western Europe back by Ameri can might. But it is not only dread of the west's arms which may now keep the Soviet Union in check. Russia itself is a vast complex of fear, the accumulation of 'dec ades of rule based on fear. Hi There is evidence in the Soviet press that the Russian .' worker . is tired very tired. In the ranks of the proletariat, swollen by, the mass importation of country bumpkins with little aptitude or liking for industrial labors finer seems to be a slow, despairing - resentment They may have ?a : ' little more materially than their ; fathers or grandfathers had, but i they are paying a heavy price, : When a worker lately' snatch- ed from the farm foul up an as sembly line, his "nitchevo" "so what?" no longer is a refuge. t He is accused of sabotage IHe ; loses pay or he can even be sent away to a labor camp. ;; f i i When this process is repeated many, many times, factories fail i. to meet their quotas. The indus try fails to achieve goals imposed from above. With true Russian inability to find a middle coarse, the politburo orders a : shakeup. New ministers are installed, New , factory supervisors- take; 'over. New orders are published in Pravda, along with new warn ings against "serious shortcom ings." The whole process is re peated all over again. Today the process is being repeated more often than ever. - Tf; Not many months ago a num ber of ministries . underwent ; these shakeups. New ones are -in the offing now. Pravda has been lashing everything from "serious shortcomings" to "anti-state ac tivities" in a number of indus tries. In particular the lumber, meat and dairy, food and fish in dustries and the ministry of light industry have been whipped ed itorially. Note that all these Industries are concerned with consumer welfare. The task asked of them Is impossible. From fear, the Soviet Union Is throwing every thing into the yawning maw of its heavy industry its war in dustry. But by succumbing to the great , overriding fear the GRIN AND BEAR IT ""While this eaoBpaay Is generass : 1 appreye af riotacs Kvlzg ... . - '. .. a? " if ; ;; Htf : 1' tOO MUCH FAT IS UNHEALTHY!" " dSt Rep. Scdtt Favors Ike for President WASHINGTON, July 8 Rep. Hugh Scott of Pennsyvania, former ' republican national chair man, said today he favors Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as the GOP nominee for president in 1952. - Rep. .John jW. McCormack of Massachusetts,? the . democratic leader in the house,: said he wants President Truman to be re-nominated by the democrats and sees no reason why he woudn't be re elected. : I ! The two spoke on the George town University Forum broadcast over station WOL. . Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncom pleted task. William James. Bettor English By D. C. Williams . -1. What is wrong with this sentence? There were a dozen oranges on the table." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "aluminum"? 3. Which one of these words Is misspelled? Sophomore, semo phore, serenade, satirical. 4. What does the word "an terior" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with ae that means "to empha size"? f : ANSWERS 1. Say, "There was a ' dozen oranges." 2. Pronounce the first as in ase, not as in rade. S. Semaphore. 4. Before in .time; prior. "Intellect is .the power anterior to all action." 5. Ac cent I U55.R. Is creating new ones daily. The fears accumulate and . multiply themselves. Per haps in the not too distant fu ture the peak will be reached and the dam will burst Perhaps the politburo, more . given to blunders, than we have been led to suspect is aware of this dan ger. Perhaps the time has come to tell Moscow we're sick and tired of their nonsense. by Lichty ta regard te expense accounts, we LAY OFF XIIS STEA&SS . East, West Drop Guard to Toast 2,000 Year-Old City of Paris PARIS, July 8-AVThis "ancient city of light" celebrated her 2,000th birthday and mayors of world capitals, both east and west, drank deeply to her health in champagne. Hundreds of thousands of Parisians and visitors, among them many Americans, thronged the streets for the city-wide festivities. It was an occasion for general rejoicing in which the democratic west ana tne communist east drop ped tneir quarrels, for. the mo ment to join in paying homage to one of the great cities of the earth. The communist mayor of Mos cow, seldom seen outside the So viet Union, sat. down at a ban quet in the ancient city hall with the chief excutives of such ideo logically opposed capitals as Wash ington, London, and. Belgrade. The Soviet dignitary, M. A. Yasnov who shared a table with the mayor of Paris, Pierre De Gaulle, and the Papal Nuncio, paid tribute to the city on behalf of the Soviet capital which, he said, "knows the tradition of free dom which both France and the Parisians hold, a tradition for which they have often courage ously fought." Yasnov and 33 other mayors of world capitals, some in their robes of office, were guests of President Vincent Auriol this afternoon at a spectacular parade of bands in the Esplanade des Invalides, in front of Napoleon's tomb. Even the sponsors of the year long celebrations agree that the birthday Is largely symbolic. No one really knows when Paris was founded. Julius Caesar was the first to record its existence a colony of barbarian tribesmen liv ing on the He de France In the center of the Seine. But he wrote about it in 53 B. C, which would make Paris 2003 years old. Millionaire Still in Jail NEW YORK, July 8-(ffv-rred-erick Vanderbilt Field, millionaire friend of the communist party. languished in a jail cell today, still unable to raise $10,000 bail on his 90-day contempt of court sen tence.. The 46-year-old great great grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt was, clapped into jail Friday after lie refused to tell Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan who put up $80,000 bond for four bail-iumpmg convicted commun 1st leaders: The bond was ordered forfeited. - Field, an "angel" for numerous red activities, is secretary of the baO fund of the Civil Rights Con gress, an organization tagged sub versive by the U. S. attorney gen eral. Friends and attorneys for the wealthy Field strove diligently over the weekend to raise bail But banks and safety deposit vaults were closed, balking their efforts. Field's wife said bill would.be raised tomorrow. Shriners Open Annual Convention in New York NEW YORK, July SWAVScarlet fezzes by the thousands dotted mid-town Manhattan streets to day as Shriners poured into the dty from all parts of the nation for the start of their 77th annual convention. The first day of the convention of , the Ancient, Arable Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, was devoted chiefly to registration. Some 100,009 Shriners and their families from 182 temples in ev ery state of the union are ex pected to attend the six-day meet ing. More than , 000, 000 people now live within Israel's less than 8,000 square mues of territory. Drive to Add German Units Now Underway :BONN, Germany, July 8-P)-A determined drive to bring German soldiers into the Atlantic Pact de fense force without upsetting the reluctant neighbors of Germany is how under way. ' Theodor Blank, West Germany's f defense minister," left tonight for Paris with t strong German dele gation for an effort to reconcile with Your other European nations the political and military differ ences that have been holding up the creation of a workable Euro pean army. The; International Conference, which ' has been sitting in Paris since last February, will now en deavor to merge these two exist ing plans: - 1 The , French Idea, suggested by former Premier Rene Pleven, to have a European army of small national units responsible to a European defense minister and,' .2. The Petersburg plan, drawn up by allied and German generals, in Bonn, for about 12 German di visions, a tactical air force and small naval units to be placed under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow er's command. The Germans have so far ; favored the 'Petersburg plan.. ' But ; the Petersburg plan has alarmed some European nations, especially the thrice-invaded French, who see in it the creation of virtually a new national Ger man army instead of a portion of an integrated force under interna tional control. Allied and German military leaders, however, have considered the Pleven plan, which originally envisaged national units only 5,000 ment strong, to be militarily im practicable. It is reported here, however, that Pleven plan backers now are ready to consider stream- vz::zu rzzzm sayt:ss i l?mSs5 Admiral Joy To Boss Peace Parley Croup WASHINGTON, July i-(Su day)-UVVice Adm. Charles Tut ner Joy, 54, a veteran officer car World War two naval i action he the Pacific, will boss the tricky opening phase of the main cease fire negotiations between United Nations and communist forces. General headquarters of . the United : Nations command an nounced Joy's appointment in To kyo today. A naval academy graduate, Joy started his long tour of Far East ern duty in November, 1923, as to aide and Cage secretary to the commander of the Yangtze patroL In 1933. he took- command of his first ship, the U. S. S. Litch field. His first war action' came In early 1942. at the battle of Boug- muiTun, uuwunw UMIIIIIi. . s Later, as commander of i the Louisville, be was a key figure in the occupation of Adak and Attu. two Aleutian islands. For bis pari in those engagements, he won the Legion of Merit with the combat "V". In April, 1943, Joy was made head of the navy's Pacific pians division in Washington. , . ' , A year later he returned to the vuiv mm nnuuiiuucr vi cruiser division 6, and saw action at Sal pan, Guam and in the first battle of the Philippine sea. Two years ago, after a tour of duty back in the states, Joy be came commander of the U. S. nav al forces in the Far East a post he still holds.. Tax Increase By Senator By Marvin L. Arrawsmith WASHINGTON, July l-W-Senator Hoey (D-NC) today chal lenged the administration's con tention that the $10,000,000,000 tax boost it Is seeking would help curb inflation. i Senator Edwin C! Johnson (D-Colo) declared, however, that a tax increase "is one of the best ways I know to check inflation." He said the house-passed bill pro-, viding for a $7,200,000,000 hike In levies is "violently deflationary." Both Hoey and Johnson ' are members of the senate finance committee, which is in the midst of public hearings on the house measure, plus the administration's request for about a $3,000,000,000 larger increase, and other tax pro posals, j ' . 'j " Secretary of the Treasury Sny der, Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson and Stabilization Director kric Johnston all have told the senate committee a $10,000,000,000 increase is necessary to help con trol inflation as well as put the defense program on pay-as-you-go basis. - ; President Truman also has de clared that his tax program Is a key part of the anti-inflation bat tie. ; ; Hoey told a reporter that such contentions leave him cold, i "I don't regard the proposed tax Increases as anti-Inflationary at all," he declared. "YoU hear a lot of talk that a tax Increase would siphon off excess, purchas ing power. I think high prices al ready have drained away what ever, excess there might have been. "That certainly Is particularly true in the lower and middle in come brackets, where most of the purchasing power Is found. 1 In those groups people already are having a bar-' time making ends meet" j - Hoey. said there Is no doubt a stiff tax increase is necessary to pay for the defense program, "but we ought to look on It as purely a revenue-raising effort and not as an inflation control move."; Among other things, the house approved bill would increase In dividual Income taxes '. 12H t per cent about $2,847,000,000 annu ally. " ' j Hoey called the house bill "pret ty tough all around "and voiced the hope the senate will be able to work out a somewhat smaller increase. lined divisions of about 10,000 men as the national unit. This is nearer the 15,000 peacetime and. 18,000 wartime divisional strength i the Germans want 1 SAVINGS EARN i j SOONER ' i d 0ssn ..Fes 232-! Money placed to your ac count during the first 10 days of any month, eotnt from the 1st of that month. 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