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4 Tlla'fAts iZzUri; Craw YedsesdaT.- Kirrusf - i - i i - 0 . afesriiai '! tImONING UP F0& '52 ''CLASSIC " il Wa fatw Spflv ffo tar Shn Xtw" y- " ::':;: : rnm first gutesmaa, timk u. itsi THE STATESMiVN PUBLiSHINcjj C03IPANY . CHARLE3 A. SPRAGUE, fklitor tndr Publisher TultUtet every aMralag. garfeesa office til ft. CfeauMereUl, taJesa, Oresea. Telepheae S2tIL Eater at tha peetefriee t tales. OftW claas matter andcr act ef llarch S. 117, Dn Tobin and the Tall Carryall ? Dan Tobin Unci Dan of the Teamster's union is boss driver lor the union which domi nates the commercial hauling of the nation. While his occupation Ss that of driver, he ap- roads to serve the whole state, which Is an easily defensible policy. " " ' " ' There are however a great many strong rea sons against .toll roads in spite ol their current popularity iii other parts of the country. For on thing the state sets out to develop virtually two nawxrm a saaa aa a. iai ar ujui uuk aw, am & mil w mi a ,. " , " " cT u w , nvK5 i rWK1 ysiems, ior tne ton road must have a political bus of Sen. Robert A. Taf t. Tobin is joad. A sUte like Oregon hasn't tho I""? SiwS resourccSt to build two systems? The llJZT, Statesman remain, of the opinion that Oregon system but the peculiar conditions on the Col 'iirnbia river! highway may justify an exception there the election of. Taft unless we can arouse the masses of the working people." I ! Then, apparently easing himself put of aUTOttt hostility of Tait because of the Taft-Hartley act he reaches for the lower step on the Tait cany all, in this comment: ''-' , ":- Tart Is now the outstanding leader of the Republicans not only in tb United States sen tu but throughout the nation. Outside of jTaxfs antagonism to labor he is an honorable man. It Senator Taft gives you his word or promise, and he Is careful about giving his word or pro mise to labor, he will keep that word or that . promise ". , " When one recalls the bitter fifcht labor, made against Taft in the senatorial race in Ohio last year, and the way organized labor has made him its bete noir (black beast) ever since hej put his name to the 1947 labor act, 'such comment sounds like a let's-kiss-and-make-up note from TDR political stable. Maybe old Uncle Dan is accepting the old recipe: If you can't lick 'em, 9 ; Toll Highwaya, or Free ! The Oregonian revives the subject j of toll roads and offers the opinion that motorists would gladly pay tolls for a new watier-level road extended up the Columbia to The Dalles and a new bridge across the Columbia st Van couver (the -highway commissions of Oregon and Washington have released a report assert ing the present bridge will be adequate untU 1960). For that stretch of highway the Oregon ian is probably correct, but citizens of this state have become pretty well habituated to riding state highways "for free." The five coastjbridges were authorized by the legislature to be operat ed on a toll basis, but the requirement was can celled before the bridges were completed. The state charges toll for the ferry at Astojria, but that is about the only fee exacted in the state for use of roads and bridges. .' Since tolls are paid by the highway users one might think that the solution is simply to raise the charges the state imposes on all motorists to get .funds needed. That theory is good, put will "not meet the immediate problem of completing the prime arteries of travel. First, the cities and counties share in the increased take and spend the money on their own streets and roads. Then A Baltimore boy is the champion catcher-of highway funds are not apportioned strictly on v lightning bugs (fireflies), with catch of 32,583 the basis of traffic count (indicating use). They to his creditl That's one sport (or work) western are spread over the state both to satisfy! various boys miss, for the bugs with the luminous rear sections and also to provide a network of good are not native to this region. Tax Crisli in Washington Oregon's legislature got razzed for staying in session a record-breaking 116 days. The Wash ington legislature overran its constitutional lim it' of 60 days (by the device of screening the clock face); but failed to do its chores in the regular session and was called back for an ex-, tra inning.- The job it did in the special session was so poorthe high court has kicked its legis lation out, 90 now Governor Langlie is calling the member! back in a second extra session. : The Washington legislature faces a very seri ous problem. Warrants issued on the basis of collections anticipated from taxes authorized in the special session are made invalid by the su preme court's action, but will of course be vali dated by legislative action. The state auditor will issue no'more warrants against that account. Moreover the determinations of the court make the task of the legislature in locating new sour ces of revenue difficult. : The court iruled the 1951 act unconstitutional because it embraced two subjects, authorizing expenditure! and levying a new tax. But it also held the proposed 4 per cent corporation tax was unconstitutional because it was discriminatory and violated the requirement of uniformity in tax measure!. This last provision of the Wash ington constitution has been a roadblock against a graduated Income tax. The special session will therefore have a legal as well as a financial problem on ts hands in trying to dig up more money by means within the conditions imposed by. the constitution. The state's famed 40-mill limit for property taxes is another readblock for the state as well as subordinate taxing units. The people over in Washington were educated to;! generous spending especially in the Mon Wallgren regime. Langlie has had a hard time to keep the state solvent and hasn't had much help from the legislature. With state government there farcing a partial paralysis the legislature surely will try to do a real job when it convenes at Olympia.J " (continued from page one) Safely Yalvo (Contributions ta this column should b limited to 300 words. Writ only on on aid of paper; giv nam and full addrcaa. Poetry is not accepted.) and the rules of simple honesty and integrity. Most of us Repub licans are determined that he shall not be allowed to destroy our party. - I The Junior senator from Wis consin comes to Portland as guest of the Multnomah chapter of. the Oregon! Republican Clubs. Those who believe in the honorable heritage of the Republican party are-confident that he will not remain! long either in Portland or in the United States Senate. A. Freeman Holmer, 1990 S. High St. Soviets Having 0 Whether Satellite Attacl on Tito Would Provoke War Ah t Ham i- Br MarraerlU HI alas 1 BERLIN The. Soviet high command In Europe is currently encased In its own peculiar areat debated the outcome of which can mean peace or war. The top level debate is shielded from publicity by the customary par aphernalia Of secrecy. But In July a number . of spectacular , defections from the Soviet camp partially split this shield and: gave American intelligence an eye-opening glimpse of the cen- tral issue. It is whether or, not a ! Balkan assault can be localized. I that is, carried through without Inciting the third world war. . ; ' ' ; - - - i " i And the alarming fast, as thej defectors testimony shows, la that the official Soviet hne has "as of April, been based on the so-called "localization theory." 1 The dancers of this line of rea soning are clear. For Moscow Is , far more likely to order a sat- dlite attack on Yugoslavia if the i Kremlin Is confident that Amer ica will remain aloof or give only limited assistance. Localization : oi the war would mean that Rus- : ia could launch the assault with complacent knowledge that as In Korea the conflict would Involve neither its own territory nor its own soldiers. , Evidence current eenfirmlas thlnklaa reliable reacaloc West Bertia, the last free eatpost behind the Seviet 1 curtsia. Bat the mest detailed and MihoriUUre ptetare ef tke aximnihrt Ua has Wear swevtd- , d iy t IL T. D. axent who aa VI the first ef this teenta estea aibly acted as deaa ef the Soviet- trailed Joaraahsat sehool ta Letaxtr. His real faBetlea, hewever, was te spy far Utscew ' the East ceae Pelltbareaa and a a aaaaber mt Sep Xasalaa el- fleers. The U. V. D. a rent has had many aliases and I shall simply call hira by his latest: Dr. Ed uard Schulx. The tall, hollow cheeked man whom I met by "special arrangement has an im pressive 11. V. D. training. He studied for two years at the spe cial M. V. XX schorl at Krasno rorst. Just outside Moscow, under the tutelage of MaJ. Gen. Boris elbsky, a top U. V. D. roan. Af- ' ft l - -t 1 ter his arrival In Soviet Germany . in 19t7, Dr. Schulz Was for sev eral years a protege of Gej. Go--mez Zaisser. whoU along, with Walther Ulbricht, is the most trusted of the . Soviet-trained "German" communists. r Dr.ischalx b la the West ler a practical reason. He was afraid 4 ef Soviet arrest. "My bank e eenat j was suddenly closed. Mys terieos calls came threash. I sad- " dealyieealdat set a ear." Schaht related. I had to move fast. And I had ite take my chances. It was i either a year or two la aa Amer- leaa JaJI for belas a blc bad Bed er a lifetime la Siberia. Se here I am. (Bat tee valaable at the moment t bo in JalL) j - - - - .-?.. : ' " According to the former M. V. - D. agent, top communists from Berlin to Moscow are convinced that until December 1932 Yugo slavia! could be attacked without fear of general war. The com munists point out : that Amer ica's own officials have repeated ly asserted that because of weak ness In arms and weakness fin allies j the Americans want fto avoid , world war for at least two . years.! Official statements on the Korean war have announced fto the world 1 America's desire fto avoid any direct challenge to the , Soviet Union. j I - !' v.f I .. "If yea were act ready fee war ver Korea why shoald ye, be teady; for war aver Taseslar. Ur SehcJa asked, ; Bettor English j By Dv C. WCaaaea 1. What Is wrong with this sen tence?! "From hence we shall go to Mexico where the climate! is healthier -: ii - , 2. What is the correct pronun Ciatiort of "hauthoyT - S. Which one of these words is misspelled? Auxiliary, automa ton, autumnal, auricle. - 4. What does the word "mono syllabic" mean? . 5. What is -a word beginntn with lav that means "incapable of being seen"? 1 . : . ANSWEH3 ' . 1. Omit from, and say, "where the climate is mare healtaf oL" 2. Pronounce ho-boi. first a as la kerne.! el as in to3. accent first syllable. S. Auxiliary. 4. Pertatn tnC to words of one syllable. "Ie , was very reticent; even with In timates he was monosyllabic. Invisible. Other information reaching American intelligence this sum mer reveals intricate and detail ed plans for camouflaging Rus sia's role in the event of a Yu coslav "incident." Phase one of the communist plans involve a softening-up process. Disturb ances are to be created within Yugoslavia to the point where Bulgarians and Hungarians can announce that an uprising has oc curred and that "volunteers" will be sent to help the troops fight ing against the Tito heresy. - " In preparation for this day aa anU-Tite Ynro&lav committee la exile has long been functioning; within Russia. Dr. Sehals, who has met a number of these, com mittee members, says they are tough and fanatical. This com mittee, according ta reliable re- . arts. Is currently tralniac Ya geslav army In exile. Since there are not enourh anti-Tite soldiers aroaad U make a rood shewtajr. r the sa-e&Ued Yarootar Ubentlo army is betnr made a ta part' euier asenite Tslonteers. r , Yeaag Kepnbllcan . Condemns McCarthy To the Editor: -The Republican party can offer - to the people of the United States the same sort of forward-looking, f liberal, : intelligent, efficient ad- ; ministration it has given, Oregon; for so many years. . The nation desperately needs : an honest, courageous, statesman. - . I ; . , 1 like leadership to replace the cox- Literary OuidepOSt nipt, careless, and conscienceless ' ' . crew that is letting our Ship of State drift idly, with no direction . save that of the prevailing wind. The GOP ; is well - endowned - - with men eminently qualified to serve the people. I am certain ' that th e people will recognize ; that it is long past "time for a . change" when they go to the polls next year. It seems important, though, that many Republican voices be raised Just now to remind Ore gonians that the junior senator from Wisconsin,, who will be in Portland this weekend, does not represent the GOP. He represents neither the charitable humanity of Abraham Lis coin, . the fear lessness of Teddy Roosevelt, nor - the integrity of Herbert Hoover. . He does not represent the high . moral principles that have so long guided the party. He speaks only for himself. Safely sheltered from' lawsuit by the walls of the Senate cham ber, he has - slandered some of America's finest public servants. Over and over he has been chal lenged to repeat his accusations ' where he would have to accept responsibility for their utterance. So far he has shamelessly failed to meet the challenge. He has succeeded in achieving notoriety for himself and. has ir reparably damaged the reputa tions of blameless American citi zens. He has, single-handed, low- ' ered (still further) the calibre of personnel who -can be recruited for government service. Able, intellectually-honest citizens do not willingly get within range of the slander-shotgun wielded by the trigger-happy Red-hunter from Wisconsin. - : ' He has already violated the American tradition of fair play son and he Is credited above all with representing the contrarie ties and perplexities of 20th Cen tury man, and with exerting a preponderant Influence, particu larly as craftsman, on contempo rary French culture from Dada to Camus. Guerard makes out an especially Interesting case for the extreme Importance of the not wholly successful "The Counter feiters". Gide's talents, and the nature ' of his influence, Guerard empha sizes, are peculiar to France,, but less popular here. He adds that we could do with a Gide and his "tolerance, reasonable sympathy, suspended judgment, moral Independence", By W. G. Rogers ANDRE GIDE, by Albert J. Gue rard (Harvard; t4) Gide; discovered early In life, thanks! in part to an evidently precocious sensuality, that he had a bent j for the sort of abnormal sexual experience which in lesser men has often proved a tragedy but which in his case helped pre pare him to assume; a principal role in the Intellectual life of our times. He had a Protestant consci ence, which led him to confess, and a pagan bloodstream, which provided plentifully the material for confession. This confliclwith vin him, this being of two minds, or being ; of one mind and one recalcitrant body, would be re peated later in more public situ ations: In his acceptance of Communism and his dramatic rejection of it, h If hesitant sup port of Dreyfus, his wavering at titude j toward Catholicism, his uncertainty about Petain, in short, in his belief in Individual freedom coupled warringly with his occasional deep need for the repose and solace that accompany submission to authority. Guerard symbolizes these two sides to the complex character in Biskra, in exotic Africa where he first traveled, and In Cuver vipe, where he lived In Nor mandy with his wife.; And noting that, more than with the average author,! Guide's biography is Gide's writing; he matches the . contradictory personage to the novels (and Iheir contradictory heroes, like Michel and Lafcadio. Gide commanded at best an "intermittant and slight crea tive . gift,! Guerard says, and I think says rightly. But he seems to have been a fascinating per- of the Chinese nationalists with a footnote reference to deep ' freezes, mink coats and the RFC It asserts that Chiang might have fended off the Chinese reds if he had received effective US. mOI .tarylaid. ( i Onjthe SSth parallel it takes a I stand against it. A Korean truce that restored f that dividing line ; would mean fa victory for red China's aggression. It would mean i that the UJf. objective of a uni-- fied and liberated Korea would ? not be achieved though the sen- I ators j refrain (from urging con tinumg the fighting to gain that objective. ? 1 This Is the package that eight i republican senators offer the ' j countty, the committee as a whole :t -, having declined to prepare any t- ; report Senators Lodge and Sal- - tonstall of Massachusetts wrote a v separate letter In which they - concurred In a few of the charges, but Senator Morse Is vigorous In ' his condemnation of the eight man output, of which Sen. Harry Cain of Washington was a prin- : dpal author, j Thai weakness of the round robin lis that It Is too largely a political document based on al legations rather than proof,' on ' assumptions rather than demon strable fact It fails in another particular in settinc forth no pos itive alternate that would have averted me Chinese debacle, and shows scant comprehension of the greatly involved matter of the re volution among the Asian peoples. To thej back-facing eight the re volution seems not to exist To get back to my original thesis that a nation's foreign po licy mirrors its domestic politics. There lis no doubt that the Im pact of this anti-administration drive has forced the state depart ment to retreat from previously prepared positions. This is true as respects Chiang, Formosa, Fran co, admission! of red China to United! Nations. Circumstances have changed; to give some basis for thf retreat, but the conces sions appear to have been due in large degree to appeasement of home critics, f ' Anyway the 1952 battleline is drawnf I see tittle chance for the GOP Convention to retreat from the position taken by the senate eight Senator Morse will be just a voice In the wilderness at Chi cago. The effect of this lnstra ment is. to force Eisenhower to the outside of the track. It la not S5- uiineseneds Building SuLs HONOLULU. Aug. 21-ajVRea-Adm. George R. Henderson said today Red China is building sub marines under the direction of Somebody who knows how." The admiral, commander of VS. Carrier Division Five off the coast of Korea, arrived at Pearl Harbor board the carrier Princeton. iThe Princeton Is en route to the Cali fornia coast after seven months In action. v j .-j Henderson told a news confer ence that , American Intelligence reports showed the Chinese Reds Duuoing subs. Attack Submarine TroutVLaunclied GROTON, Conn, Aug. 2l4p The attack submarie "Trout" was launched from the ways' at ! the Electric Boat Co. today. - i - ! Mrs. Mary Crane dare of Mon terey, Calif, whose husband LL Cradr. Albert H. Clark, was com manding officer of the vessel's predecessor when it sank 1 off tha China coast during World War IL smashed the traditional bottle of champagne over the 1,800-ton "Trout's" bow on her second try. conceivable that he would run on a platform with this as its sub stance; and It will take a major revolution to draft a platform purged of this material 4 Senator Morse, who beats the gun with his rebuttal of his col leagues report said, "I am satis fied that time will prove that even as a bit of political strategy they are making a great mis take." The senator may be right In the 1052 campaign the repub lican party may be behind this Eight-Ball. f aasra-,te"ii5v The we travel the world aver ta find the beautiful, we most carry ft with as er we flag It net V Ralph Waldo Emersea BREWS r Tha CJowTcslo c? Glclxfl' Select Cccr Skis trivial Ciateat, ftbav CrtgM "It won't really matter what nationality they are, said Schulz. They will all be In Yugoslav uniforn and the key people will speak the language." So if the communist plan worked, Russia would remain thoroughly aloof from the satel lite action. It would be portray ed as a civil war, an internal. Balkan affair. And as Dr. Schulz asked, "Are you Americans real ly ready to drop bombs on Mos cow and thus provoke world war simply because of a satellite at tempt to overthrow Marshal Tito? The top Reds don't think you are. Only the most secure com munists dare contradict the Sov iet line. There are an important few who are fearful of American reaction. But so far they ha vent made much impression in this de bate." .. . , . ; . V : Dr." Sehals has pat a teach eaestlon. It is a dilemma we will have te resolve very seen. Far fast as oar weakness ia policy ta South Korea prior to ea eearaged Bed axrressioa. aa wCl ta tha Balkans Invito salts. - GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty Unless the American govern ment is prepared to give unmis takable warning that Russia will be held responsible for satellite action against Yugoslavia and that in fact such action will mean world war, it seems certain that an assult is inevitable. It is only a question of timing. (Copyright. 1951. , Kew York lie raid Tnbuae Inc. ft- y mj y "After all that's siphoned aot ef ear paychecks these days, THIS is aothiag...". ; , it "ft t . i if V '' ' ' ' ' ' v " " ! v V I 5 Vith a - to Kentile. For instance we'll lay! Kentilemsucnawaytrjart the direcrioa you want (Kentile squares, plus strips, does tha trick). Or well 'separate departments by visual panels. ? ; ! As for wear! Scop worxyins;! Kentile) outlasts virtually any ochec' flocking, j! Shrugs of! dirt, mud. You don't even worry about dropped cigarettes. : Cats down upkeep too. Simple mop ping keeps Kentile clean. ( an occasional waxing keeps it bright). And its colors go clear through, so you have no color worn spots! " " Y " . ..-. ? 111 v : V is " ' s i 10IIG . EAST maw 1