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4 The statesman. Cdera, Ora-Ta. 9 Faror Strays U$.-H.fear Shall Kvcf THE STATES3iMpUB1 " CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and' Publisher , . FaeXUhei trery sseraing. fiesiaeas fTte SIS S. CMuserdU, galea. Oregea. Telephone 2-2441. Catered -at the pestef flee at Galeae, Omw. as It' Cwnty-Fair Time The count fairs, with all the traditional high jinks, hoopla, and bave-a-look-at-the-size-of-this-squash, are getting under way now. If the reports irom the Josephine count fair are typi cal ef cither festival, the folks out in the pro vi rices are having a whale of a time for them selves. ."v-. ; " 7 i W Dawn Grants Pais way a couple-three years a go, the word was thai there wouldn't be any mere ceuntjr fairs: Just couldn't they said. 'Too many people going up to Salem for their i air-fun, and neglecting the homegrown variety, they said. But the optimists held out, and won out. This year's fair had opening-day crowd in history, and Us and better than ever before, they say. tl has everything you'd want in a harvest time .get-together. First, there was a parade downtown, with a kilted bagpipe band and the hifkTschooi musicians. Then there were some official words of greeting and commendation by the state bond-drive director. Then there was a celebrity to jazz up the ton e somewhat! Radio Commentator Frank Hemingway, duly in itiated by the Grants Pass Cavemen after tak ing the wrong short-cut on his way from Cali fornia and arriving too late for the dinner staged in his honor. - j And there were queens and princesses,! a mo torcycle Stunt show by Multnomah county po licemen in which one cop was knocked out, ex hibits -and prizes, 4-Hers, a Model T and Pig race, Future Farmers, contests, and evenj a Un ited Nations theme (that's a new one for county fairs) ia the prize-winning grange booth! If the county fairs this year, as their promot ers hope, are the biggest and best ever, then the Oregon .State fair probablv will too previous records, too. For, like the -straw-hat circuit in the theater, the county exhibitions on their, home rounds are previews of what we'll see in Ealcm this September. The biggest and the best in the counties becomes part of the state fair grounds display. So we're looking forward to iiat Josephine will send up here, and what all the other counties will boast I Give 'Em the Ax ! - . - j - Carrie Nation, with an ax, gave the beer kegs 40 whacks, to parody the old jingle, and thus Prohibition got its big boost with the destruction of property in the saloons in Kansas. j - Today the anti-vice forces are directing their main attack on a new front gambling is to the second half of the 20th century what liquor was to the iirst half. And some law enforcement of ficers are going about the abolition of the gam bling evil in-the' same way the drys tried to abolish the booze problem. In Chicago, for in stance, sheriffs deputies are wielding the ax and sledge hammer with great fervor in bookie dens and gambling layouts. Raiders are! chop ping through walls, smashing windows, Splint ering furniture, and generally having a high, old time In the name of public morals and clean liv ing. ; j .. ' ' y ' ""It sounds just like Prohibition days all over again. And, as in the gay and carefree Twenties, the proprietors of the offending establishments are going underground. Gambling information is being bootlegged, like mountain dew. The' suck er, willing to break the law for a chance to part with his dough at the roulette wheel or kiss it goodby on the nose of a pony, will find the door Crisis Impending Kremlin By Jeseph and Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 Be hind the scenes, responsible officials are a great deal more worried by the Soviet decision Japanese peace 7 treaty conf er- "-f enea at San Francisco than ; they are admit- 1,1 t ia g publicly. j They eapeetri Andrei Cromy-1 ko to arrive inf j San Francisco f wua we' iimii i ... i r i iar olive branch in one hand and the familiar bludgeon ia the other. And they fear that this time tLe Kremlin miaht -actually succeed in using ' the olive branch and the bludg eon to isolate the United States from its i a allies. . On one point -TV, ; f there is no aouot ai au. The Kremlin will go to very great lengths to -prevent Japan-, ese rta rma -ment, which is imnlidt in the . UZA treaty ably ne gotiated by republican foreign policy -adviser John Foster Dulles. - Direct Soviet action is not. Indeed, ruled out. Tht TLremlin has the capacity ef landing a small army cf com muDistadoctrinated former Ja pancBO prisoners, organized Into at leoSt two divisions, oa the -undefended northern Japanese bland. Hakksldo. While this TibtragoaT army was landing, tho Japaneae communists might be ordered by the Kremlin to go ever to cpen revolt in south ern japan, now very ngnuy aeia . by aLmerican troops. ,, . . ., t!Js ss:t ef eperttlaa Yet Would re?r!ra Savkt air Jtyal onpport. And wtatever -liao wktskers tho Soviet f aundgyv August i. 1131 class aattcr voder i -. - - - - - with the peephole, will learn the "Joe sent me" password. ' ' Breaking tip the furniture in the bookmaker's "office" will hare no more lasting effect on the gambling problem than Carrie Nation's bottle busting had on the problem of alcohoE" These aniks serve at best only to draw attention to the problem; at worst, to create,, through a crackdown on the little guy who merely obeys the orders of the higher-ups, the impression that the police art really getting at the source of the problem. A big make ft; pay, ; J duly tipped-off and photographers on hand to record the big scenes, is an old kept - police dodge. The racket busters will have to expend the biggest equal energy to bigger wide crime syndicates are to be broken up. Let's Keep the A move toward works in Oregon State Sen. Jack Lynch of Portland, sponsor of tha existing law, is enlisting support to retain it.f i-1 --. I - ' : : "V.- Lynch, pointing to a recent newspaper ad vertisement which asked that all registered vot er favoring repeal of the ban write a certain "H. jN." in LaGrande, has mailed a question naire to 82 organizations which were licensed to fdisplay fireworks last July 4. He seeks data on ' their procedure and results. His letter said that "comments will be helpful In determining th course to pursue at the next session of the legislature, at which time an attempt will most certainly be made to repeal the existing law." if j such an attempt actually is made, public opposition surely should be aroused. The ban on indiscriminate display of fireworks waf long needed for many reasons. , TThe crop estimate for 1951 cotton production is 17,266,000" bales, against a 1950 production of less than 10,000,000 bales. At this rate the gov ernment will ' talk about plowing under every third row. again. And now there's no chance to use up cotton surplus by adding an inch to the tail of a Chinaman's shirt. It takes all kinds! A few days ago there was a big hullabaloo about the man and his pet cougar. Comes now the elderly Portland couple who keep a six-foot boa constrictor around the house, tossing it a live chicken now and. then. Thank goodness, our neighbors stick to dogs, cats knd kids. ' Editorial Comment VOCAL CORN i least ;a suggestion Every one who grew up in the Middle West Is familiar with the complaint, "It's so hot you can hear (the corn "growing. And now, It develops, a team of investigators with a safari of electronic equipment has cone out into the corn field and ac tually heard corn recordings of the dence. We are glad to have a faith of our childhood thus affirmed, and if they put the recordings on the radio we are going to vinced that the old evidence yourself burton. - Or maybe what on me corn. ( wall street Journal). at Peace! (Treaty Expected to Put f might wear, this would almost certainty brine ea an unlimited third Wertd War. Therefore tt Is considered maeh more probable that the Kremlin will adopt aomo snch Indirect coano as the fol lowing: ! Tno Korean cease-flro talks will bo kept Just this side of breakdown. Gromjrko will ar rive in San Francisco talking sweet reason, sayiag that,, the Korean; war can stfil be settled on an lacceptable . basis, despite the extravagant demands of the Americans. Moreover, the great problems of Asia, like the future of Formosa and the recognition of Communist China, can also be settled if . only: the signing of the Japanese peace treaty is postponed. . i . ITaviag disposed of the eUve beaacbj he win tben show the bladseon. The Japaneso peace treaty -wul not be tolerated by Kassla er China Mm the Krem lin has already said.: The Soviets ' aad their Chinese allies "win not sit Idly br" while "Imperialist" Japan (s rearmed by "imperUl ist America. The Shao-Soviet alliaaee provldea for jnst .-ach an eventaalitT, i v .: i .: ! - ; Finally, Gromyko wul make It clear; that a settlement of the Korean war is not to be expected on the heels of the signing of an illegal land aggressive" Japan ese peace treaty. In brief, tho Kremlin's bludgeon i wQl be the specter of t third World War. ! If Gromyko does adopt neb eoane and tt wfa the best-tnf onoed oTSdals tf a, dees suit this eoaairy vQ be f laced ia a raaSy i daagereus position. Tno Japaaoso peaco treaty la already bclns- do aoanced, aad sot only fca tie Kremlhv as a "whlta man's treaty. Tnero is vry grave doubt that tndxenex,t AslaUe states Uke India, Dtmas aad Ia , M k..-.. p, t alga It, What ! is mora, our Western act at Starch S. 17 noise and a running-ln of small with newspapers book the big fish if the nation Ban repeal of the ban against fire should be rapped promptly and Another old saying seems to have come in for at of scientific confirmation. growing. Or anyway, they have growing groans to offer in evi make a special point of listening. But we must confess that we could be more con saying is true. You can hear the almost any hot summer in Wash we heard was the bull munching Signing; Up Bitter Fight allies, Britain and France in particular, are anything "ut en thusiastic about the treaty. The British particularly would be far from pained if Communist China were admitted to the United Nations, and the Formosa ques tion settled in Communist China's favor. An end to the Korean war on reasonable terms, in return for a commitment to discuss such matters and to postpone the Japanese peace treaty, might seem a very tempting package deal to the British and others. This Is so particularly If tho al- ternative seemed to be an exten sion of the Korean war, or some other Sino-Soviet count ermove which would be likely to lead to World War. ' Tet Dalles, with the fall baek tng of the state and defease de partments. Is deeply convinced that a defeasible, sever! Japaa is absolutely essential if the Asiaoe baianeo of power is to do restored. He Is equally con vinced that the treaty must be slxned wiihont delay. Oibenrise. the Japanese will eonclnde that the Kremlin b really calling the tane ia Asia, and a great rash for the Soviet baadwaxoa will beam ia Japan. y For these reasons, "wen aim the treaty alone, if necessary,1 om oiuciai nas said. But there is no underestimatin8T the danrera Involved. Because of the fear of war, and because there is no real unity on Asiatic policy among me western partners, the Krem lin may well have the, best chance since the war to use the Japanese peace treaty issue to isolate the United States from its allies. The possilrflity of a sort - of Emited, Sino-Soviet - American war in Asia, in which our Western aHes would try to remain precariously neutral, has even been seriously considered. At any rate, it seems clear that a very great crisis may come to a head at Saa Frascisco. As la the past, the best hope ef dealing with it lie in standing firm. fCowvrhrht- Ml. Stow Tort. Uenii Tribune lae.) Congressional Quiz Q I see that a subcommittee : of tho senate rules committee says a 'despicable, backstreet type of campaign was conduct- -ed for Sen. John Marshall Butler (B-Ud.) ia 1950. Why didnt the committee ask the senate to un seat Butler? r : A The report said senate , rules for conduct of elections practically dont exist, and .that it would not be fair for the senate to set such rules after the election is over. j Q Do the congressmen jho are subject to pressure from lob byists mink lobbying is a good or bad Influence in government? A In introducing a out to re quire lobbyists to report all con tributions of $50 or more. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey D-llinn.) Aug. said lobbies are ."sarin-1 dispenshable part' of democratic government, but that "lobbying; may become a menace' when the ' resources to influence the gov-J eminent are not :open on some-' what equal terms to all sides of a controversial Issue Q Chairman Carl 'Vinson (D Ga.) of the house armed erv-; ices committee promised he' would get house action on the ; bill, bill to expand the marine! corps even if he has to resort to using "Calendar Wednesday.; (continued from page one) Soviet empire, or anticipate any early ruckus between Russia and red China, the facts as reported do give foundation for the belief that things are not all rosy be hind the iron curtain. In such situation in the past dictators often have kicked up wars with . the purpose of con solidating sentiment - at home through rousing patriotic fervor. Conceivably the USSR might do that but I do not believe the Politburo will. If there is much unrest it would immediately show up in war with the west The satellites have not been suf ficiently Indoctrinated to bo de pendable. Not only would the armies be porous with disaffec tion but guerrilla activity would revive behind the lines. x Moreover the Russian leaders have been playing the organ of peace - with the Fortissimo ' stop pulled out fulL They cannot readily shift to a war key and expect, the people to follow loyally. Admittedly trying to counter Russia's moves is difficult, and trying to read the Russian mind to determine its intentions is even more difficult But it is easy to overestimate Russia's strength and to exaggerate its evil intentions. To me it is not comprehensible that Russia. has recovered so fast from the last terrible war and has consoli dated its power east of the iron curtain to the degree that it can launch a great war against the west This thought is confirmed by the failure of a single Rus sian soldier to "show" on the Korean front September is : about the last month of the year when any war In Europe would be apt to start Present signs do not point to any . outbreak next month; nor for that matter ; In the Immedi ate future. We should not call in our sentries; but we should compose our nerves for a spelt CIO Disclaims AFLOiarges WASHINGTON. Aug. 18 -tfV A CIO spokesman denied today that his organization had created dis harmony in the united labor poli cy committee. He added xnat n would be "a severe blow" to the nation if the AFL carried out its threat to scuttle the ULPC. The two big union groups form ed the committee last December to provide a measure of unity among organized workers during tho na tional defense emergency. They stood together through a fight with governmit mobilization agencies last spring, when union leaders walked out temporarily in a bid for a stronger voice in the agen cies. In an editorial in the weekly "CIO News," Editor Henry C. Fleisher, official spokesman for tSe organization, said today the death of jthe ULPC "will bring deepjre- grets in states and dues through out the country." CpL Donaldson Separated from . Blilitary Service - CpL George Donaldson of Sa lem has been) separated from ac tive military service at Fort Law ton. Wash, after 18 months of army service during the Korean crisis. - L: Recalled from re enlisted reserve corps, Donaldson served as a med ical and surgical technician with the Osaka army hospital, Osaka, Japan, and the 332nd general bos pita I, Kanoka, Japan. He served in World War II from 1942 to U4S in the European theatre of opera tions. - v CpL Donaldson"! married and has two children, James and Cathy. He resides at 285 Forest HIUs way, Salem. His parents are Kr. and llrs. O. lv Donaldson, 1529 S. Cottage st ; ' ' Ho will return to tho enlisted ie&cive corps. OtP What is Calendar Wednesday? A The house has provided a special device which can be used only oni 'Wednesday, for committee chairmen whose im portant bills have been caught In the rules committee, are not high oa a calendar" tho list of hoi set for action. If any com mittee chairman so -demands m the - house, each committee is called ini turnj and is permitted to call up one! of its bills with out tho bill being routed through usual channel a - . ' 1 ..- t - s -Q I want to; ask my coagress man ' to 1 support an important bilL How do I go about writing him? j - I -. - i , A II you do not iknow the names of yourj two senators and representative, . call the Oregon Statesman ana ask,). Type - or write your letter clearly. Start tt with "Dear Sen. (or Rep.) LJThen tell him the" exact bm you 'support and why you want it passed- briefly as possible. Sign it with your name and , address. Send, it - to your congressmen at the senate (or house) office I building, Wash ington 25, D. 'C Since be gets more, than 200 letters a . day, dont expect an immediate an swer. But remember,! he wants to know what his voters think. (SopyrKht. xsst CongTiMMiqul Quartorty) - Oiinesds Kill 2 in 'Plot To Sla Mao' HONG KONG. Sunday. Auc 19 -P)-The Chinese reds, in a dead ly extension ofj their anti-foreign campaign,, announced today the quick execution: of an Italian and a Japanese convicted ' of being hired by the United States to as sassinate Mao Tze-Tung, comma nist chairman. t The U. S. state department has denounced the red allegations as "completely add knowingly false and a "bare-faced lie." : The Peiping radio said Antonio Riva. 55, Italian merchant, and Rinichi Yamaeuichi. 47. a Japa neso bookseller were executed in raping aii 9 pan., raaay. . It did not say how, but reported that en route to the execution ground, tbe streets' they passed through were thronged with peo ple who expressed their feelings at their criminal activities with shouts of 'down with imperialism,' 'suppress counter-revolutionaries,' long live the people's republic of China.' add long live chairman Mao Tze-TungJ" J The convictions were announced Friday, along with those of four other foreigner! and one, Chinese who received prison terms up to life for Involvement in the alleged plot Indications were that the condemned men . were taken out and executed immediately. The red! radio charged that the "spies' aU worked for Col. David D. Barrett formerly UL S. mili tary attache ati Peiping and now military attache at Taipeh, For mosa. ! Egging Firm Finedl for Breaking Fire Regulations MED FORD. Aug. 18-flPV-DistrIet Fire Warden Ted Maul reported today that! a Togging company was lined S3 00 and costs in Ashland today after pleading guilty to vio lating state restrictions.! He said Klimek Brothers, log gers, admitted m justice! court thai they had operated until 3:45 pjn. yesterday land On two other days. State forestry restrictioijvs, because of the dry; weather, prohibited log ging after! 2 pjn. I It was the first such arrest in this area, Maui said. J PAUL OSTROOT DIES PORTLAND,! Aug. 18 -(P) A long-time leader In the Pacific northwest grain business, Paul C Ostroot 55, died here last nigh! alter a week's illness. Opens September 10 Night School SepL 10 Early registration is Suggested due to the heavy demand for trained office workers of all kinds j especially: Stenogra phers, Secretaries, Accountants, Comptometer 'Operators, i rj Come into the school office and make reservations for fall en rollment new r mall coupon below! ! I . Please reserve a desk for (-, ! !v I expect to enroll later. (Dale) Ns Adirt lheat IZcrrill Ezilz ' School d Ccmnerca . CI iliiis IL . 1-1113 "Over The IXaars - 4 -1 IT ::' cu3 LUD iDJ Sen; George Whets Axe for PresidehVs Foreign - . . By Jack Ben 1 . WASHINGTON, Aug. lMAVSenator George fD-Ga) said today he will try to cut about $2,000,000,000 out of President Truman's for eign aid program when the bill reaches the senate next week, i This is twice the reduction voted tion of republicans and southern i,u0io,uuo ram xno wmu,uw,uw measure. I As it now stands, the bill would i maV m AQ9 1M AAA mfii'hiitirn In military and economic aid to na-: turns allied with the United States 111 fighfipg wtpttnnnifw, George, chairman of the senate finance committee, said he wants to end all economic aid for Earo- pean nations "because we prom ised to bring the Marshall plan to a close and we should keep our promise." Thus his campaign ap peared to be directed mauuy at the economic aid phase of the pro gram, for which Mr. Truman asked SX200.000.000. The rest of tne money would be for military aid in the form of aircraft, tanks, snips and weapons, rrodaetioa High "Western European nations now are up to 144 per cent of their pre war production," he said. "If they cant carry themselves now, we ought not to kid ourselves that they ever can. Senator Taft (R-Ohio) announc ed today he will throw his support behind a S 1,000,000,000 cut. Mr. Truman has told senate leaders that any reduction in the funds reauested Will seriously in terf ere with world defenses against Soviet Russia. But prospects of the senate restoring any of the cuts made by the house grow cummer, Chairman Connally (D-Tex) of the senate foreign relations com' mittee has expressed the belief that sizable reductions are inevit able. Taft, who heads the senate re publican policy committee, tola porters he might be agreeaoie u a compromise under which 20 per cent of military and economic funds would be interchangeable. In voting yesterday's cuts, tne house whacked $690,000,000 oil economic aid for Europe. Redactions "Too Great" Senator Kef auver (D-T o n n ) called these reductions "too great although he said some economies might be made, f Kefauver proposed that a sep arate mutual security agency, which the house voted to set up when it approved the bill 280 tc 101. be moved Into the, state de partment. The house would give the separate agency independent authority directly under the presi dent. "I dont see how wo can divorce this program from, the state de partment, which has over-ail oi recnon of foreign policy, xeiauv- er said. The senate foreign relations and armed services committee will go to work on the house bill Monday. Taft. who Is not a member of the groups, said he thinks substanual cuts can be made In the economic aid portion of the program. He already had called for a cut of one-half in the S2,200,ooo,ooc originally proposed for this phase but said that most of the original proposal of 16,300,000,000 in mih tary aid probably should be au thorized by congress. Administration leaders have made it clear they would rather see military than economic cuts In the bilL since the measure gives the defense department: authority to transfer equipment to be buil out of the proposed S56,000,000,OOC I domestic military budget When purchasing at Stev ens, you may take advantage of convenient terms over a period ef a year or longer, depending on the price. W HlK ' TERMS - ' ' It Costs No More to Soy It's from Aid Funds A by the house. Last nieht a coali democrats in tho house amputated ; " , i ', ent son PORTLAND.! Aug.1 J8-6TV-A substantial drop in enrollment In nearly all colleges and universities of Oregon this fall was Indicated today to a survey made by the uregonian. : . i Applications from new students have fallen from IS to SO per cent under last year in all schools ex cept two. These are i Willamette university at Salem, which report ed figures about the; same, and Vanport Extension center, with an increase. . Oregon State college officials es timated a drop or about 3Q per cent and the University of Oregon about 20 per cent. The Korean situation, high em ployment and confusion about tht future were blamed by college of ficials for the drop which affects both men and women students. STRATOJET CRASHES WICHITA. Kas Aug. 18-VA B-47 stratojet on a test mission cracked up landing here this aft ernoon, extensively damaging the speedy bomber. None of the three persons aboard was injured. The first sturgeon caught off southeast England in 50 years was booked recently. UMUjfiV . . . that's the new standard form, aon-assessable fire ia surence policy, pioneered by the Fire Insurance Eschonea on a "continuous" bet .'. , tike life insurance . . . with profnivmt payable annually instead of 3 years in advance. Lot as explain tho many now features of this potcy end how you may SAVE MONEY by insuring with the . m iisinuxcE Exousa BILL 0SX0 1465 N. Capitol St. Phone 3-5661 Chcfll tU! nd U2stf , I, Drop ure College Due VA HewnMsca hy ' Army Tells of Tests on Swift WASHINGTON. Ane.tll-sw The army disclosed today that t is testing a new drug which maj make it possible to cure malaria so fast that the victim win re cover from the disease before he knows he has if. ' ft I Extensive tests alreodv conduct. ed in this country and in . Korea Indicate that the drug; known as Dnmaauine. may- be a far mora effective treatment for malaria than any drug now In use, said uai. uen. ueorge . Armstronr. army surgeon general. Armstrong added, however, that further research is necessary to see if nrimaauine will prove as effective against the type of mal aria found in Korea as it has against , experimental types. Troops In Korea have been giv en regular treatment with another drug, cholorquine, which Suppres ses maiana dui noes not cure It. A new phase of the program calls for rivine nrimamiin n mnl hundred of these men on their way Parents of Blind f Invited to School I Sixteen speakers, mostly from Oregon, are slated for tho third annual summer Institute for par ents of visually handicapped pro-" school children, Walter Dry, su perintendent of the state blind school, announced today. The institute will be; on the blind school campus August 24 to August 30. -i t Opening the session wQl be Dr. Walter Snyder, assistant state su perintendent of public Instruction. 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