The Oregon statesman., July 26, 1951, Page 4, Image 4

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THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
' ' CHARLES A.' SPftAGUE, Editor and Publisher
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Eotered t the yirtimct at Sales. Oresee. m see i ctaaa anttcr ndcf act ef cwrtu Hare S. 1171.
Shabby Politics
The constitution provide a way for removal
of persons aTuilty of malfeasance in office: im
peachment. Under this method the house of rep
resentatives may draw up articles of impeach
merit, whh instrument is similar to an indict
mmL The senate holds a trial on the charges
and two-thirds vote, of members present -is
required for conviction under the articles.
Such a procedure is open to republican con
gressmen who want to oust Dean Acheson from
his office a& secretary, of state. Instead a number
pursuing him with singular venom hope to ac
complish the result -by cutting off his salary.
Since ' that' cannot be done directly, the court
yving ruled in a previous case that such would
b- a. form of attainder , which is barred under
Uw constitution, these representatives would do
it indirectly, by tacking rider to the appropri
ation bill for the state department forbidding
payment of salary to any policy-making head of
a department who had belonged to a law .firm
that had represented a foreign government-' This
Is the net proposed for catching Acheson.
The device is a clear shenanigan reflecting on
lU jponsors more than on the one it is aimed at.
Yet 71 GOP representative voted to support the
.heme and only 33 against. The saving factor
1 that 90 republican members stayed away
from the party caucus.
The gesture is pure irritant, for congress will
net attach such a rider to an appropriation
measure. Even if it did and the president per
mitted the bill to become law Acheson is too
high-spirited to be driven out of office by such
tactics.
If the McCarthy vendetta Is sincere and has
any evidence to support charges let it proceed
In thre constitutional way by launching impeach
ment proceedings. The present undertaking is a
shabby piece cf petty politics that humiliates the
party whose members propose it.
Tighten; Direct legislation
The Oregocian recommends that the base for
computation cf percentage requirements on pe
titions for initiative and referendum measures
be made the vote for governor instead of Justice
of the supreme court. It points out that since
usually there is no contest in the election of
J'utices the vcles for the office are much lower
than for ; governor If the change were made
more signers to these petitions would be re
quired and there would be less likelihood of
minority attempts at legislating. ' ; r .
Cited are the truck fee bill and the school
dwtrict reorganization bill, both of which passed
the legislature by big majorities and; which ";
probably will be approved by Che people, but
will be referred by opposition groups if they
cm obtain a few over 16,909 signers to petitions. ;
If this prognosis is correct we would have ml-
nrity action countering majority will for a two
year period. '-'.7 :." " " 'T : -, '' ."
As the state grows In site and its problems
Increase in complexity there ought to be greater
reliance on the legislative assembly as the law
making body and less running to the people. The
greater restraint on use of initiative and refer
endum ought to come through increase in the
bae as suggested by the Oregonlan or In the
percentage requirement, not through the device
'iff 'I'l'iiui'i'WTff ' Wll'Ji Of '1' W
Rival John
- By Joseph Abo? ' . .
WASHINGTON. July 25 Ev-
ry so often a reporter has a per-
mal experience Interesting
mough to call for breaking the
f Md rule of fan- -
personality, and
tailing what
h a p p e ned to " ' f
him. One such ?
baa just come to
this reporter, Jn t
the form of an '
appearance be-ri,
. fra the state!
department ley-1 '
ally board in the I
caaa or J onn h AU -
Pat on Davies, Jr.
To be sure, there was- nothing
vry stirring about the hour or
so at the hearing. The three man
board, headed by a shrewd, dry
spoken , New Englander, Conrad
Z. Snow, clothes itself in no spe
majesty. The setting is an
ordinary state department office
borrowed for the occasion. After
the oath, the routine of question
" and answer goes forward In an
Informal- but businesslike way.
The board seems both sensible
and patient Whenit Is over
yyar first reaction is,-"Well. I
thought there would be more to
: tt than' that" :. . ' , . :
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On reflection, however, it
seems to me that there is "more
to it than that, which is the
reason-why the first person sin-
galar is being used in this sphere
far .the first time in six years.
Here was Davies, after all. for
merly a senior member of the
state department planning staff.?
now publicly charged with doubt- :
ful loyalty, and publicly suspend
ed from duty on the eve of a
Hurt 4 important assignment : as
political adviser in Germany.
" Here was his name blackened,
his career perhaps permanently
- dimajjed. his fortune already
hard-hit by all the horrible com- "
plications cf a sudden' change of
fimily plan after the sale of the
family house. And all for what?
To make a burnt offering with
sweet savor ' in the" peculiar
wfKKtrils of Sen. McCarthy and
Sen. McCarran. - --.. ;
' Certainlv. If anyone can tes-.
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of requiring percentages in each county or each
congressional district.
The initiative and referendum are still re
garded as political sacred cows in some quar
ters, so any change will be hard to achieve,
since popular approval would be necessary.
These instruments are commonly regarded as
protections for the people, but in practical usage
they may become devices for thwarting the po
pular will. : ' '
How Much for Hunting, Fishing?
Seeking to point out 'the value , of reaction
Charlie Stanton in Roseburg News - Review
writes: - .. .
, The magazine Sports Afield has Just issued a
pamphlet pointing out that last year sportsmen
spent $9,200,000,000 for bunting and fishing.
This was seven times more than total sales and
receipts of jewelry stores, three times the take ...
of all retail liquor stores, fifty per cent more
than the total business of all gasoline filling
stations and more than the volume of business
in - furniture, draperies,' radios and household
appliance stores. v ';
These estimates should be taken with a table
spoonful of salts (Epsom).- It is silly to assert
that the outlay for fishing and hunting exceeds
business of all gasoline filling stations, or three
times the take of all retail liquor, stores. How
many people in New York city for example go
hunting and fishing, as compared with those
who patronize bars? And how much does a
resident of Oregon spend annually for gasoline
as compared with the cost of his fishing and
tion few do much
tually everyone is a regular customer of a gas
filling station Count the number of service sta
tions in Salem and then count the number of
stores selling sporting goods. The claims of
Sports Afield are utterly absurd. The one who
wrote the pamphlet must have' been the prize
winner at a fishing (story) contest.
When floods
and the cities
tne Ked uoss nas been prompt with its aid.
Now our fellow citizens in the midwest are suf
fering from floods the most disastrous in the
nation's history. The Red Cross as usual has
moved j In to relieve the resulting distress. Its
' banks. A prompt and generous Tesponse is urged
nn 'rMMMita f thl. valW. :
the well-known
the nomination for mayor of Philadelphia. Dr.
Poling 'has served, in various important capa
cities in Christian work: pastor,' president of the
national organization of Christian Endeavor and
editor of the Christian Herald. If elected mayor
-of Philadelphia he will have agood opportunity
JtM mW rifiVW AVf Vi'iiViT 1 fi nVi
Dcrv ies': sUnaIiy a
tify compeflbtly as to the sense
r .nonsense of thl proceeding
gainst Davies, it U thts report-
f j the wartime years to
Chungking we were, so to speak,
jipeunj Dacaxoom poys.
Davies was the political ad
viser of Gen. Joseph W. S til well;
was the adviser of Dr. T. V.
Soong and Mai. Gen. C L. Chen-
nault. I fought for airpower and
policy of strengthening the Chi-
nese national government: and
he defended Gen. S til well's views
and advocated American military
id to the Chinese communists.
Davies was finally defeated when
Gen. StilweU was dismissed. But
it was a bitter battle while It
lasted, and on the principle that
no on knows you as your en
emy knows you, X think I know
John Davies pretty well. .
As to his loyalty,, no . doubts
ever occurred to me. even in the
most squalid moments of the long,
squalid, struggle In Chungking.
Indeed,' the though that I could
not escape -as I sat before the
loyalty board was the thought
that Davies Judgment of .the
Chinese scene bad stood the test
of time -rather better than my
own. - i ' . . "
The difference between the two
views was simple enough. By the
end of 1943 and the beginning of
1844, 4t. was already clear that
the regime of Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek would succumb
to the Chinese communists after
the war. unless- something pretty
drastic was done. My. view was
that a communist trium oh could
be prevented by replacing Gen.
StilweU with a wiser man, In
cretsing lthe scale of American
aid, and mtervenmg very ac
tively to reform the rotting na
tionalist government.
Given the satisfaction of all
these difficult conditions," parti
cularly the - tndisoensable. thirds
I. still think I might have been
proven right. ,
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Davies held the view, on the
other hand, and with many ex
cellent reasons, 'that the Gen
eralissimo's goverrment , was al
ready cast saving. If this was the
case, "the question was not how
to prevent a Chinese cowmunM
victory. Wut Hnw to come tA
a
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wmw
Ates"
hunting? In comparison with the whole popula .
hunting or fishing, while vir- i
TAA
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have hit Ihe Willamette valley
and country along: the Columbia
ouuay wui ereauv exceea me usual annual nro-
visioa for disaster relief, so a special collection
of funds has been authorized, I bn a volunUry
o;d r,K.,t;- v . 4Ui
basis. Contributions may be given at any of the
Red Cross booths' in shopping "districts or, at
Dr. Dan A. Poling, native of Portland, one of
Oregon Poling family, has won
to flush wickedness out of that misgoverned city
of brotherlyj love and long-condoned grafting.
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Wast ?of Time
terms with It. Davies also knew
certain things that very few peo
ple in America - seem to know
even today that Mao Tse-tung
and his communists had devel
oped their party and their policy
in isolation from and sometimes
In defiance of the Kremlin, for
example; and that throughout the
course of the China war. the
only recipient of Soviet aid had
been the generalissimo.
With this special knowledge.
Davies made what must now be
accounted an extremely brilliant
deduction that Tito-ism was
possible, before Tito-ism had
been heard of. Believing Chiang
Kai-shek was past' saving, be-
S&mTiilre!
fore ' recommended moderate '
American aid for the Chinese .
communists. His avowed aim was '
, to promote their Chinese commu
nist confidence In America, and
thus to achieve a division : be- :
tween them and the Kremlin.
And if Davies recommendations
had been followed, I now believe
he would have been proven right
; In short, there were two per-
fectly logical and defensible ;.
American policies in China, and
you could take your choice be- ,
tween them What actually' bap-
pened what I for one had cer-
tainly never foxseen was that t
after the dismissal of Gen. Stil- 5
weu, . we ceased to have any '
China policy at alL Even when '
Gen. Albert C Wedemeyer .was
performing so admirably as mili
tarv commander, his hands were
politically tied; after that, there
was total vscuum. . -,
Having no policy led, Inevit- '
ably, to the present disaster. For I
this outcome John Davies, the
man being sacrificed to Sen. Mc
Carren and Sen. McCarthy, had
no: ; more -visible responsibiuty
than I. As. I thus re viewed uie
past, it struck me we would be '
much wiser to start loyalty in
vestigations of the politicans who',
are now workin? all-out to de
stroy the last vestiges of decency
and fair play In our public life, ;
than to waste time pickine over
the bv-gone views of such men
as John D3viesL
(Copyrtt, 1351.
Kw York brraUl Tribune Ine.)
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tiricature me former
crown price aged in relative ob
scurity. When ht died he was in
terred In the'HohenzoUern burial
ground at Hechin gen instead-of in
the vault at Potsdam where lie the
remains of some : of his famed
ancestors. ' ii
- Friedrich"-WilhaUa went lo his
dSS pSSn
Not Philippe Petain. Af-
ter Verdun he became chief of the
French general; staff and com-
mander-in-chief , "of the -French
army . and then, reached the goal
of every, French soldier: Marshal
of France. Came the second world
war and the humiliating defeat of
JFrance. The Vichy government was
set up. with Marshal Petain as its
head, which really was the crea
ture of Pierre Laval and he a tool
of the nazis. After the liberation
the aged marshal was tried and
convicted of treason. He was al
lowed to live out 1is days, how
ever, but in death burial at Ver
dun was denied him. The plain
tuacic casket containing his re-
mains' was interred at the ceme-
Jhe e dTeu where he had
died.' his grave marked only by
the headboard with the name Phil
ippe Petain inscribed on rt v
4 The aged marshal Jiad his sup-.'
- porters .who credited his ' defec-
tion either to age or to a genuine,
purpose to serve France, in its
time of erixis. But from the French
government ( came, no" gesture of
commutation or clemency even in
his dying hours.' A hero at Verdun,
his grave was one of dishonor.
History however is full of revers
als of Judgment and some day a
wave of sentiment may sweep
Franca and bring his reinterment,
at Verdun. A less embittered age
may prefer to regard him as the
victor at the crisis-battle of the
first world war instead of the
craven of the second.
' Wolf, Wilhelm, Petain the
"captains and the kings depart."
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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7Hce work, eattlng fhrengB ail that Washingtam red-tape,
flcw-r! ... clever idea, taking advantage of se many -afficials
being ea vacaUea
Steclihgliiss
CHATHAii! England, July 25-WVGray-halred,
Magistrate F. W.
Davis was found guilty in his own
court today of, stealing a kiss.
Three magistrates called in from
a neighboring city, to hear the case
fined him threap pounds (SS.40.)
' Accuser of the 44-year-old judge
was Mrs. Susan Wbittingstall, wife
of a railway crossing . watchman.
She testified Davis, her husband's
boss, choked her! under the. chin
and put his lips to hers when she
went to collect her husband's
weekly pay.: , Jfltf:. -- ;
' Davis pleaded innocent to the
formal- chart 1 'of t assaulting a
woman by steaUhg a kiss."
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CHINA SETS: UP
-HARVEST. tJI7 AIDS'
IfoNG KONGPr- The. East
China Military District 'Command
has mobilized the "people's mili
tia corps" to ' guard against , any
sabotage of " ast China's iital
summer harvest.' The mobilization
directive warned that sabotage ac
tivities - could be t expected from
"local bandits fcrjd special .agents
. . exploiting' the harvesting sea
son."
Dbttor English
By D. C, TnSiams
1. What I: wrong with this
sentence? "Since when ave you
been aware of IhatT? . ;f
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "tithe?? .
S. Which one of these words Is
misspelled?. PrOffesional, prog
nosticate, promissory, .promi
nence.' .'. " '
4. What does . the word in
j ordinately" . mean? .
. 5. What la .' word beginning
with ha that ineans "dwelling"?
,1. Say, "Haw laar have you
been aware of that?" 2. Pro
nounce the f as in tie,' the th as
in amaath, not as in botaw S. Pro
fessional. 4. Excessively; in temp
erately. She was Inordinately
proud of her beatutiful com
plexion." J. Habitation. :
by Lichty
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POTOMAC"
WASHINGTON, July 25 -ffV
The government's cost of living
index dropped from May to June
the first decline since keuru-ry,
1J50, the bureau of labor statistics
reported today.
The decline was 0.1 per cent
from May 13 to June 15. V
The index on June IS was 185 J
per cent of the average prices pre
vailing between 1935 and 1939.
That was 8.8 per cent higher than
the index of June, 1950, Just be
fore outbreak of the Korean con
flict, and OA per cent above Feb
ruary, 1951, tjie first month after
the price and wage freeze.
1 Food prices declined 0.2 per cent
between May and June. The food
index was .226 A per cent of the
1935-39 average. That was
per cent above last June.
11.7
Truck-Auto
Crash Fatal
r HILLS BORO, July 25-4P)-A 18-year-old
girl died today in a colli
sion of a freight train and an auto
mobile at Durham atation, west of
Lake Grove.-: u .-. .
" Her companion In the automo
bile, Lloyd Weisz,-- 20, Portland,
was hospitalized here after rescu
ers worked two hours with elec
tric saws to cut him free from the
wreckage.-- i'-'-
The girV Shirley Vernon, rural
Sherwood, also had to be cut free,
and died shortly after reaching the
hospital. 1
:' The trahva Salem-bound SP&S
freight, c a u g h t the automobile
broadside. ' '
Britain Talks ,
Over Acceptance
Of Iran Proposal ,
LONDON, July 25-t-Britain
moved cautiously today toward
acceptance of Iran's offer to re
open talks, to settle their bitter oil
dispute. . -
A foreign office spokesman told
a news conference that further re
ports on the Iranian proposal
were awaited from Sir Francis
Shepherd, British ambassador in
Tehran.
Prime Minister Attlee and. his
top ministers met last night to con
sider the . Iranian proposal and
probably will meet 'again "when
Shepherd's reports are complete.
The ambassador apparently has
been asked to sound out Iranian
officials to make certain the British-
view of' the proposal is the
same as the Iranian. If it is, offi
cials here indicate Britain is pre
pared to send a mission to Tehran.
Gloria;S3van8bn k
Before Cameras
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HOLLYWOOD, July 25--WV
Gloria Swanson came back to Hol
lywood again today to start work
on a new film in which she will
plaj the role of a movie actress.
Two years ago she returned to
the screen after an absence of
many .years and played the role of
a has-been movie star In ' film
about life in Hollywood. '
Auto Stolen ct Aurora
Recorered at T7oodlnrn
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An auto reported stolen at Au
rora in midafternoon was recov
ered by state police early Wednes
day in Woodburn .and a merchant
seamoa arrested on a charge of
auto larceny.
- He was Randall John Mitchell,
41, Portland, arrested on a Clack
amas county warrant. Mitchell was
being held last sight in the Marion
county Jail in Lta of bail. '
Nation's Top -Leaders
Honor
Adm. Sherman
WASHINGTON, July 25 -WV
The nation's top military and ci
vilian leaders paid sad and silent
tribute today to the late Admiral
Forrest P. Sherman as his body
arrived by air from Italy, v
Sherman," chief of naval opera
tions and former flier, died of a
heart attack last Sunday In Naples
at the age of 54. He was return
ing from an inspection of defenses
in western Europe. Including
Spain, at the time of his death.
Associates recalled today that
when he left for overseas, Sher
man said be would be back July
25. At the time he was in appar
ent good health.
Twenty admirals and eenerala.
the secretaries of state, defense,
and treasury and the three service
chiefs saluted or stood with bared
heads at National airport as Sher
man's Gag-draped coffin was lift
ed from the .navy transport plane
which flew the body from Naples.
The navy band played "Abide
With Me! . when elrht harr
representing the fighting services
and the coast guard carried the
simple navy-gray coffin to a wait
ing hearse.
In the front rank of tnilttarv
men drawn up for the brief cere
mony were the joint chiefs of
staff. Fleet Admiral Chester W
Nimitz, who was Admiral Sher
man's immediate chief in World
War Two. and Artmii-ml Thmni
C Kinkaid, retired commander of
me sevenu neet in the Pacific.
; Opn Friday Ilighl Til 9 O'Clcclr
:S fie X J. Elofe Shop
EisOO EIUCII d TOO LITTLE
TOO MUCH STOCT AND TOO LITTLE CASU
. wrra which to pay roa ni
COIIPELS
DS
PROFITS and TAKE TIE LOSS!
TO siAXSE THE CASH WE HEED TO MEET OUR
OSUGATIONS AND THAT'S THE REASON TOR THIS
GREATEST VALUE GIVEIG
IUl
lAJUUM
m THE HISTORY OF OUR RETAIL CAREER1
, r Our Lose la Your Gain And We Advise You .
.... To Buy And To Buy Quick If You Want To Get
Snpcr Fino Quality Clothes
AT THESE RADICAL PRICE REDUCTIONS! -
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Remember this sale positiTaly will end as toon as tie
cash we seed is raised and that won't be long. Oh, No.
we are not going bankrupt We expect to be with Tu
ior ntany years to come. It's Just a case of too much and
too Bzde! ' ' A 'r r-A"A.A'AA ' "
Tab A Leek Al Thtie .
IIIuACULODS CLOTDHIG VALUES '
Then hurry, tn and snake your selection. At these prteee
you can buy 2 or 3 or snort suits and wQ thank your
lucky stars you didJ .
Our t&Srt stock of orsir 700 ol the finest quality sulls
'that money can buy are yours at a Iractlon ol ociainaL
plainly snarked pciceel
Our Ensrt Stock Divided Into 4 Groups For Quick SeEing
GROUP NO. 1 GROUP NO. 2
Values To $a3X0 Go At Yaluet To tSOXO Go At
3495 395
2 Pssls Suh Isckded in Grcsps 3 &kd 4
GROUP NO. 3 ' GROUP NO. 4
2 PAIITS SUITS 2 faiits suits
Values To $70X0 Go At Values To $20X0 Go At
fl9s r,485'
AH llt wel hard finished weraieea. Every salt ia that sale
Isvaew, thte leasee's style, sw colon, aettena, aad weaves.
StnxU aad sleeble breasted model la all sixes, rersUars,
sheets, losus and stoats. AH saltabla for year aroead wear.
CP03T COATS. SLACIS AND PANTS EXCLUDED --
Cf THIS SALE AT GREAT EEDUCTI0N3
- No Charge For -.
Ordinary A&eratlont
Open Friisy .
YouTI find It Pay AH
Ways To Buy Your
Clo&es At LL't
KaEjJOJO
bpermao s Dooy wia. tie la siaia
at .the national cathedral xmCX
Friday afternoon He will be bur
led that day la AxSngton NafcloB
al cemetery.
BOUNTY rOR BEAKS
CARDSTON, A 1 1 a.-V The
Pole Haven community pasture as
sociation is paying bounties of 150
far grizzlies and $25 for black and
brown bears killed in pasture.
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Or UIF
Attention!!!
Leans baslness machines. We
have comptometers, electrle
calculators, posting mack
tnea. mimeerraph. dicta
phone, haad and electria
adding machines an which
yaa saay take daily lessons.
Fhooa J-53S7.
Capital
Business CoIUgsj '
545 Caart Street
TO SACRIFICE
a 'i
rn
no
Due to the reason ior this
sale, wt cannot hold your
purchase on Lay aw ay ior
store than 10 days. .
J5 il STATE
- KUU STREET
2 Doors West Ol liberty
Street Next Door To
UssHsussCu Jewelry Ciort