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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1951)
Cisiagsga. Cc!al Oregon, llsadar. Jfe?ca 87 lSl v4 PLANK STEAK" Measures Aim a 1 if '?.- r-' 5 ' . r I f(g) - TsMssed every morning. Ceitarai effke 213 8. ..... Catered at the peeUfflee at tales. Craft end Corruption, Thrn and Now Teraonally honest, be trusted too much in friend .who were not, while his own failure as fanner and businessman gave him an ex- -gcratad respect for those who had accumulated - , foil ri. Til saw no harm in accepting costly gifta-diem friends who used their positions to despoil th public treasury. With men who loved good whiskey, fine dears, and blooded horses, the luxuries of the day, he was per fectly at home, .but he never understood the mtiieu in which he found himself or appreciated , the fact that he was the innocent tool of the worst elements of the political and business WWW Vfc 111 VUUC AU UWBICUMUUIU UN HiOl snaa jwho took his own counsel, (the President), wfcen'he took advice at all, generally followed that of second-rate men." t A description of Ulysses S. Grant? from "" American Political and Social History" by Harold U. Faulkner. The wiewers-with-dlsmay lovt to fling gen eralities around. Right now they are saying that government was never so corrupt as now, that morals, political and .otherwise, were never so low as now, that sin was never so rampant, etc' They ought to read their history books more. The Civil War and World War I were fol lowed 'by moral 4 debacles, and in both cases political corruption ; mushroomed in local and tions then happened to be republican, and re- TMtKIimna rvintin thip lineprm at WasViinirtm today -tend to forget that no party has a mo nopoly on virtue. j The Gould-Fisk gold conspiracy which threw the nation into financial panic in 1869. is the classic example of the low business morality and administrative ineptness during Grant's regime. There was also the Credit Mobilizer affair, in which members of the federal govern ment were implicated in current speculation. There was the "Whiskey ring" scandal, find the Tweed Ring. There were the railroad lan& grabs. There were the carpetbaggers and scalawags in the South, the rise of the Ku KIux Kian, the whole Radical republican reconstruction fiasco, Things had got to such a pretty pass by the turn of the century that it took a whole era of reform, a legion of muckrakers, a lot of preach ers, the press, and Teddy Roosevelt, to pull the country out of the morass. ! Then .public and private - morals sank to the depths again after .World war 1. Ketnember Tammany? Investigations showed city govern ments permeated with carelessness and Corrup tion from top to bottom. New York's' Mayor Walker resigned rather than face public hear ings. Millions of dollars appropriated by con gress for WW I Veterans were wasted or stolen while Forbes war director of the Veterans Bu reau in the 20s., The Prohibition Enforcement ;, Bureau was the most corrupt organization in Washington. Remember Teapot Dome? And all this under Harding, another well-meaning man with neither the understanding nor the quality of leadership necessary to guide thee nation through a critical period. . f Jfow the US. appears to be going through another period of lax morality on the part of Individuals in and out of government. Dragging out the old dirty linen of past republican ad ministrations does not excuse corruption in the present democratic administration, but it does help keep the present in perspective. And a glance at the record is encouraging In that It shows that periods of less than exemplary be - havior have been followed by eras of reform and progress.' Judging from the investigations now Breakdown of Important than By Joseph and Stewart Also ; , WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 The storm signals are out again all the way around the world, from rsr Kitionf to Tehran. In the long view, moreover, even breakdown of the Korean truce t a 1 k a is quite likely to prove less grave than breakdown v of , the oil talks between the British and Iranians. s The British government is re ported to hop that W. Averell Harriman may still manage to ""patch up some tort of solution of the oil prob- - Jem. The American- policy makers feel ings about Har riman are the f eelingsof a 4 S busted o r t e- player about an J S, extreme long j shot that may j V, Just possibly save the day by 3 PP.t beating the favorite in the eighth race. -But since miracles cannot bo relied on to occur with any regularity, the coarse facts of the Iranian situation had better be faced. . , -: r. First. If the goveraneat of Dr. tttahsmif d Mossadegh cannot be penmaded taaecept a sensible eH eUIemest, tha next step wl prabatlr be an efrort to naako a rational ovenuneat ta Tttrta.42tlay, Mlf -delaziom and , other t!Ucs have eansed the aalUon Im Tehran to deteriorate so taut that this effort soest now te taada under the went Imarlntt la auspices. The British can -so tanger msefally partici pate. Thss the whale ones of that wi3 necessarily seem a rather crado Isiervention in - Iranian ' ! rsurieaefffM Wo Favor u?rys fg. No Feat Shell Axot9 Karen U. 1X21 THE STATES31AN PUBLISHING C03IPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Om, aa elsas aaaiter eager going on, the country is going to take the curt) . again. L--" :-;;.; : '. V ?;h . ' ''4 " j i - Divided Loyalties ' With Sunday morning's story on the All-Star Shrine Football game in Portland began the annual fall battle for headline space between football and baseball. Everyone knows who is going to win in the end, just! as everyone knows fall will replace summer, but what a great wad of ammunition baseball has left. i; It strides into the fray a muscular giant at the peak of Condition. Nationally, the American league race finds Cleveland and New York practically neck and neck as they enter a long 5-week home stretch with the Red Sox panting along not too far behind. " ' In Salem, our valiant Senators seem destined to climax their first home-owned season with a spot in the league playoffs. With Salem's farr letter-than-usual pitching staf f, there seems reason to hope the Senators can whip 'em in the extra week's play. - i Then conies the mighty world series and perhaps Bobby Feller's big chance to win a world series game. I Yes, there's no question about it, baseball will be holding the headlines' for some time to come. But, did you hear about that 60-yard run by Eugene's Merritt Barber in the Shrine game last Saturday-f-and what chance do you think Ore gon State has against Michigan State in the opener? j ' j; Remember, they play at Lansing. : 6 i p - ' ' i Wouldn't t be nice this year if there was a slight pause' between the time the water bill eases off and the Editorial Comment a TEA wvrn inuiwi Officials; of Willamette university have filed a protest againt impending action of the Salem city council which would require permits for solicitors seeking funds for educational, religious or benevo lent purposes. j ; It is a very prosper, protest, not only on the estab4 lished merit of some of these solicatlons and the purpose for which the money is usedj. but because It is a municipal invasion of personal liberty and private initiative that should not be countenance notwithstanding some cities have adopted such or4 dinances through apathy of their citizens or through an ordinance, being slipped over without due pubi licity In the newspapers. ! Dr. G. Herbert Smith, president of Willamette university ,ds on solid ground In protesting the im-j pending action of the Salem city council. j But for these privately raised funds for educa tional, benevolent and religious purposes, some cities would be sorry places in which to live. City officials do not encompass in their official work the work that is done through these funds in many instances. The Institutions these funds support undergird many communities, : and to pass a city law that none may do good in that way without a -permit is the height of organized government nonesense and should be nipped in the bud. j If some short-sighted city officials should ever get 'elected, and that Is possible, soliciting even for a Community Chest could be put under license. j The right to raise money for good causes is a personal liberty that need not be curbed by ordi-j nance. There may be an occasion now and then, but; only now and then, when the cause is a racket, but the public sooner or later is put on -notice' about rackets If the newspapers in their communities are: any, good. More power to President Smith in his protest. May ha prevail. His Institution in protest ing is serving a good purpose. j: f j I (Oregon City Enterprise-Courier); KorecOTallcs Vay Prove Less Collapse! of I Iran Negotiations 1- politics will have to be borne fey the Americans. There will be eriooa disorders, perhaps blood shed. And the effort soar well faiL 1 c . Second, if It proves impossible to gef an- oil settlement by re placing Dr. Mossadegh, the Brit ish decision to move troops do occupy Ahadan island (the site of the vital oil refinery) will come into operation. One of these reporters predicted I long since that the British would be forced to this decision, if I only as an "object lesson to the Egyptians and others -who are longing f to imitate the Iranian experiments with twisting the lion's tail. -In thejull secured by Averell Har rimSh's efforts, it leaked out; in London that the decision to move troops if need be had actually been taken by Prime Minister Attlee and Winston Churchill, in bi-partisan consultation. j . Third. If the British move their parachute brigade from Cyprus "to Ahadan. there will certainly be hard firhUnx, at least for a while. I althoarh the fact that Abadaa to aa huaad should pre vent a recurrence of the Kenan pattern. - ; . - . i 4 - I Fourth, the Soviets are Quite likely f to take , a British troop movement into south Iran as a pretext for sending Russian troops into north Iran under the vague clauses of the 1921 treaty. Or if the Soviets I hold their hands, the Iranian ! nationalists aro even more likely to be re placed at Tehran ,by the com munist Tudeh party fori the shaky existing structure of the Iranian government can hardly hold together after the shock of a British landing in the south. . Meanwhile, the rest of the middle east will be plunged into sympm- thetic convulsions. . ' i ' f . Fifth, and finally. Whether we like It or not, America ts gcing : to have to stick by Britain la tils, hiieons basiness la the U3i. and elsewhere. Ameriran - stratrslo - Oregon. Teteaheae X-UU. act el cesgreae Hank S. 1X71. fuel bill starts to rise. . SB9 political Interests in the middle east are enite as Important as British economic Interest. In short, we are In the mess too, up to eur necks. . . . . ! Under the clreums tances. prayers for Averell Harriman's success seem to be in order. So are bouquets for what he has k accomplished already, for it must -j be understood that when the - Harriman mission to Iran was i first despairingly proposed by ; Assistant, Secretary of State George McGhee, the position. , seemed even more hopeless than It does today. Most pf the Amer4 lean policy makers actually op posed the project at that time; . on the ground, so to speak, that there was no use throwing a good Harriman after bad diplomacy. For years the British had done everything possible to , produce ' an Iranian crisis. Then when the crisis began with the assassina-; tion of Gen. Baxmara, we on the one hknd did everything possible to make the British neurotic and Irritable, from Indulging In I told yon so to Ulking behind their backs. And on - the. other, hand." we also did everything possible to make the Iranians lr-4 rational and intractable, from; giving the impression that ; wei would prevent the British from ending troops, to beseeching Dr. Mossadegh to accept American eeonomie aid as a great favor. to In the resulting circumstances. it was no wonder that Harriman: was checked, aj.be now has been,1 in Ms effort to bring the British and Iranians, together. The won-' der Is, rather, that he managed to achieve even a short interlude of reasonable discussion of the: oil problem. It was a little short' of miraculous for Harriman to accomplish anything at ad. Per-, haps, therefore, we . may hopei that he will now accomplish thej larger miracle of finding a way ' to avoid the chain ' of conse quences outlined above. Copyrteht. 1551. tivm York beraid Tribune. Xae. - i ' (A L -Wis ' ; ' ro5 PCDCDjEH (continued from page one) body was stuffed into a sleeping bag, taken out into Lake Orta and dumped overboard. To give color to their story that he had beeri killed in a raid from thejan pracuce the cale of the world fascists the party - discharged shots which were heard across the lake. To Italian police and the army's criminal investigation di vision goes credit for solving the mystery. They first got confes sions of the Italian partisans, then found the body, at the bot tom of the lake, well preserved, with bulletholes in the head. Lo Dolce was found in America and after questioning confesed his part. Icardi, who attended law school on his return from the war, protests his innocence. The singular quirk of law Is that neither LoDolce or Icardi can be tried in this country, and there Is some doubt if they can be extradited for trial in Italy. Our civil courts cannot try them because the crime was not com mitted in this country. Since the men are out of the army they cannot be court-martialed. The ones who. will stand trial are the two Italian partisans. In mystery stories and In real crimes the 'corpus delicti" is TM-imo evidence. Here authorities have the body of Major Holohanl They have confessions (LoDolce is said to have repudiated his confession later). But for once laws intervene to prevent bring ing the accused Americans to trial. The issue might be brought tvfnre the bar however, if Icar di would sue "True" for libel. tiAis manv more such cases , w- in the files, in docu mentary form or merely in the files of human memory? Hie is cheap in wartime, passions run .' tush, the spirit of mutiny stirs iinrtor tne strains uu su"" nrrrr if fiphthur men. Hates are nt iiwan channeled against the enemy. Sometimes one becomes hi. victim of others wearing the same uniform as himself. An epi sode like the one related is ex ceedingly rare. Vastly overweigh Ing it and others which may be like it are the stories of sacri fices made by service men in behalf of their comrades. We should not let this tale of hatred blur those of heroism which al ways have distinguished Ameri cans in arms. Bettor English . By D. C. Williams: L " - - 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "We shall be happy to accept of your invitation." 2. What Is the correct pronun ciation of roquefort" (cheese)? 3. Which one of these word is misspelled? Pastoral, pastime, pasport, pasteurize. 4. What does the word "grada tion" mean? S. -What' Is a word beginning with ret that means a review of the past"? , ANSWERS 1. Since you are accepting the invitation now, say, We . are happy to accept (omit ef ) your invitation." Z. Pronounce rok for, both o's as in no, accent on first syllable preferred. 3. Pass port -4. Any degree or relative position in an order or series. "We are studying the gradations of business." 5. .Retrospect.. Only people who do things are crttixed. Wesley News Germans Told to Look to Example of Walcott Prayer ; BIELEFELD, Germany, Aug. 26 (?VA German bishop called on his flock tonight to take a Chris tian lesson from Americans "espe cially from the colored ones, once considered so inferior." Speaking before a mass meeting of 60.000 Bishop Otto Dibelius of Berlin, chairman of the council of the German Evangelical church, cited as a prime example of Chris- heavyweight champion, Jersey Joe Walcott. Walcott "prayed before and during his big fight (with Ezzard Charles)," the Bishop said. "Where can wo find something like this in Germany and Europe today?" Police Swing Sabers to End Stockholm Riot STOCKHOLM. Sweden, Aug. 26 J-CAV Police swung sabers and clubs in the heart oz normauy calm Stockholm early today to break up nark hangers-on appar ently rioting Just for the fun of it . ; Police reported several persons injured in the large-scale fighting and arrested 16 .men and three women. One person had ribs splintered from a saber Jab. i About 50 policemen charged re peatedly into a crowd of several thousand and finally broke up the battle after several hours. The fights started soon after midnight. i Crowds have rioted on a smaller scale and without any political motivation for the past sue week' ends. : The weekend battles started when police raided Berzell park, a favorite spot for prostitutes and their men friends. The park lies opposite the Royal Dramatic the ater. ! Ever since, thousands of peo ple have milled around the park every weekend night to watch the rioters take their "revenge" on the police. GRIN AND BEAR IT "Stop screaming about Gerersunent tnefflelewy. Figsewten! Judging front year pay check, they have a pretty atneeta i way ef getting their taxes Solon Suggests $1 Billion Cut' In Foreign Aid WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -W-An across-the-board cut of $1,000, 000,000 in the S7,S35,000 foreign1 aid authorization bill was pro posed today by Senator Ferguson (R-Mich). At the same time, Senator George (D-Ga) told reporters he Is not satisfied with the $964, 000.000 the senate foreign rela tions and armed services com mittees slashed out of President Truman's $8,500,000,000 request. George said he may offer an amendment himself when the bill comes before the senate early this week, but said he hadn't yet determined the amount Ferguson told a reporter he thinks the military and-eeonomie aid program "wont be hurt" if it is reduced sharply below the figures approved by the commit tees. "A great deal of the military expenditures which are projected under this program can't possibly be made this year," the Michigan senator said. "It wont be possible to get all of the equipment made and delivered so that is no reason why the military fund can't be cut some." Chairman Connally (D-Tez) of the foreign relations committee al ready has said he would support a further cut of $300,000,000 in economic aid. even if the senate refuses to restore 'that amount to military funds as he proposes. Don't Worry if Junior Won't Eat NEW YORK A baby usu ally triples its weight in the first year. If it kept on eating like it did in the first year, it would weigh 70 pounds by two years, and 700 pounds at four years. Dr. Lyon Steine of Valley Stream. -N. Y gives the estimates in an article in GP, journal of the Academy of General Practitioners. The point he says, is that it's nor mal for the baby's appetite to de cline after the first year, and mothers shouldn't worry about It by Lichty Gambling nAWumiiua. Aug. are aiming heavy blows at overlords and their subjects la the big tun gambling world. . .jf, The senate crime investigating committee already has Charged that organized gambling is the source of vicious interstate and inter national crime, including the illegal narcotics traffic it! The committee, headed by Sen-1 atcr Oconor (D-Md), is writing another blistering reportits fin al one calling for a federal crack down on Underworld figures. The report is expected to contain some pointed comment on 'certain lo cal law enforcement It has until midnight Friday to complete it. On another front the senate fi nance committee, using a double barreled section of the huge new tax bill, is taking careful aim at gamblers ipocketbooks. fceauire Tax Fens This is j a. section to (a) levy heavy new taxes on the gamblers rich harvest and (h) require him to file detailed tax forms. The finance committee, headed by Senator George (D-Ga), has held quiet closed door huddles with federal authorities concern ing fine points of the section. -but is silent on whether it plans even tougher language than the house proposed. I s The section is a touchy one. The house ways and means committee itself pointed out in an official re port that federal taxes on wager ing sometimes come under fire on grounds' that congress "is in ef fect sanctioning an underworld activity, j i The house committee rejected that ! argument, however. It de clared in a report to the house that "since; its inception the fed eral income tax has applied with out distinction to income from il legal as well as legal activities.'' The crime committee had urged such legislation. Estimate Made 1 Admitting that it was shooting in the darkj"with no real basis for the estimate, the ways and means committee guessed that a $50 oc cupational tax and a 10 per cent excise tax ton the gross business of professional gamblers would net the treasury $400,000,000 a year. ' . j l The house bill also would boost from $150 a year to $250 the oc cupational tax on the operators of slot machines and other coin operated gaining devices, estimat ing the revenue at $7,000,000 a year.: f The house wants Uncle Sam to get in cn the ground floor and col lect the tax on each month's earn ings through monthly returns, in stead of annual reports. uuw pfupuseu, uie uiu cans for penalties up. to five years in prison and - $10,000 fine for at tempts to avoid or defeat the proposed , new law, and requires minute statement of the details of gaming operations a provision no gambler would relish. Strength Key To Peace,' Tito nman By. Alex Singleton BLED, Yugoslavia, Aug. 26HT") W. Averell Harriman, President Truman's diplomatic troubleshoot er, said today that he and Premier Marshal Tito had agreed the surest way to avoid war is to develop military strength in their coun tries. : Homeward bound after his un successful effort to settle the British-Iranian oil dispute, Harri man expressed i ms views at a news conference. He had a five- hour talk yesterday with Tito and top-ranking members of the Yugo slav Politburo. He flew on to Paris tonight Dancer of War Harriman said that he and Tito were agreed also upon another major point M that "one of the principal dangers of war lies in miscalculation by the Kremlin of reaction of western countries, es pecially the United States, to local aggression."' i He expressed hope and belief that the events in Korea may fur nish a lesson ! to - Moscow "that practically all the United Nations are opposed to 'aggression." . -Harriman said he and Tito "nat urally discussed! the Kremlin and its tactics, and Stalin." j Ylews Similar i i" . "I was struck by the similarity of our views." he said. He quoted Tito as saying as ne has in several speeches that an attack upon Yugoslavia could not be localized. Asked whether ne agreed: Harriman said: "I did not disnute the statement" He said be had taucea over wun Tito and his top lieutenants Yugo slavia's various jneeds, both eco nomic and military. He was asked whether Yugoslav, officials are sat isfied with the amount of military enuinment the United States is ; Harriman made it plain inai, cm the basis of his talks, he expected Yugoslavia to need additional aid this year "a substantial amount." He declined an! invitation to go hunting with Tito because he had ta leave tonight by plane for Lon don, where he will confer with Prime Minister Clement Attlee. New Variety of 7heat Grown : ' PES MODflES -WPV- A new va riety of wheat, known as "Vigo" Is being grown this year. on two farms in this" state. Farmers fa the are: are " watching the new wheat with considerable interest.' The new . Variety, a red fall wheat was developed in Indiana. It grows an exceptionally long head many of which measure more than six inches. Yield records in dicate the large head will pro duce 10 to 20 bushels per acre more than -the standard varieties. ran - .11 t-w 1 leiistlar Czars Br G. HSIm K,n ! i t ZOpv-Senaton worUsr an different frmt Rock Pile Said Fate of Many By Gnstav 8venssoai i STOCKHOLM, Sweden.1 Aug. 26-iaVA 21 -year-old blonde who fled Poland in a rattletrap plane said today women as well aa men are liable to end up t on the rock pile ; if they arel found guilty of even slight offenses against the red Warsaw regime, "A woman in Poland today is no longer treated as a woman," Krystyna Korczynska said inlaa interview. i f She told a story of women being ' forced to do heavy labor and t ing sent to special labor camps "from which no one ever returns and which are entirely Isolated from the outer world." Miss Korczynska was the- wom an in a quartet which landed' at Bulltofta airport in south Sweden Aug. 3 after a flight across tho Baltic. The refugees said they en gaged in a gunfight before taking off from Porn an airport. ;; Their plane contained several parts taken from other craft f - The men were her fianceIa li-year-old photographer, and two sudents, all members of the Poz nan Amateur Flying club. Sweden has granted thera asylum, I along with 12 Polish navy mutineers who docked here a day before the plane landed. f J "Working discipline is frteht- fully strict in Poland." she said. "The slightest. offense isibein punished if you are hicky, you get off only with a cut m salary. -If you are late three rimes in! a, month, the take away half your pay. i 11 "With an average monthly sal ary for a girl of only 300-350 zloty taDoui sau-oi and the price of a simple frock about 600 zloty.! it is extremely hard to stand any salary cuts." -; t ! A refusal to work overtime cuts you on a record as a saboteur and political enemy; she said. ? ! You are fired and tou ar lucky if you get away with being which women are physically un ui. sne saia. : - .- s ; If the offense is repeated, you are transferred, at once to forced labor camps for women. These camps are among the most dread ed institutions in Poland today.5 kept secret but women who dis appeared after controversies with the nolice hivt nunimx) in mn gle out letters telling of them.! i i nese women say they are being guarded by Russians and 100 per cent reliable Polish communists, and have to work in mines, stone ' quarries or on road construction until they perish." Armed Forces I Spending Bills Ready to Roll WASHINGTON, Aug. 254t- Two -bills carrying more j than 360,000.000,000 for the nation's fighting forces may make consid erable progress in senate commit tees this week. I i Chairman Russell (D-Ga) called for a biUion-dollar-a-day I pace from his armed services commit tee in its consideration of j a $3,780,000,000 military construc tion bin. He hoped to complete testimony this week and have; the measure ready for senate action. If is an authorization for. hun dreds of projects many of there super secret asked by the array, navy and air force as they expand to a permanent basis of 3,300,000 persons on active duty. - ft Senator O'Mahoney (D-wyo) expects to wind up closed-door hearings on a record-breaking peacetime appropriation . bill I for the defense agencies during the week. He heads an appropriations subcommittee handling military funds. 1 1 1 nrn.. Lni caa AAA 000 as it passed the house. f ! Both bills are on the "must list" for action before the congress Can hope to wind up the present long session. in The construction bill provides for a ring of air bases irf this country and other parts of the world intended to match the ex panding air power of Soviet Rus st and her satellites. , g i j CTuCKEn HOUSE PANIC - I NORTH BAY, Ont-flV-A chick en hawk -whih swooped down on a. farm near here killed 29 chick ens without touching themi the chickens crowded into a corner ox their coop trying to escape the in vader and were smothered j ;te death. : . . . . . : 1 K3 still b?3 to! '! Cwscz SAlAYCcnvrr awui CiauaM j WHttn SitoUa ; ! StowC Sm fiaadMS 2, CJSL ltaWkk4tnS Polish Women i