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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1951)
4 Thi E Sedan, Ore, 7db dcrr, October X 1HI -A . - . -SUL" if if GRIN AND DEAR IT by Uchty esmar; ffo Favor Strays CJt. No Tear Shall Awe .v'lb:' - V" I V Itw ITrsi SUtesimo, ftlaich ft, Ittl : ; THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY s CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher . Published every noTnlng. Business office Z1S 8 Commercial, galea, Oregon. Telephone 3-2441. ' Catered at the Mrtofflc at Salem. Oregon, as eeead elaao Batter under act of eeagreei March 3, 1373, Committeemen Support Chairman i A Members of the republican national commit tee from the east and south plus members of the executive committee from other sections gave a rising vote of confidence in the chairman, Guy Gabrielson. The" latter had been under attack from republican senators because as president and attorney for Carthage Hydrocol he had ne gotiated with the RFC respecting a loan to the company. We hold no brief for Gabrielson but we think .-the" action of the committee was correct. The loan had been negotiated prior to the election of Gabrielson as chairman of the party committee. He draws no salary as party chairman, but does i draw a -salary 4 as president and attorney for Carthage Hydrocol.' There is no sign that his selection for employment by the company had any relation to his party office and no indication in any way that he abused the privilege of his party office. His relations with RFC after he became party chairman were entirely normal and regular, reporting as a borrower usually does to an organization which has extended credit The company has asked for extension of time for payment of some of the loan principal, but for no diminution of principal or interest This is by no means uncommon because RFC's loans go to new ventures (like this one) or to companies in some financial distress. The senators who jumped on Gabrielson and called for his resignation had the jitters. They were hot on the trail of Bill Boyle, democratic chairman, and when they heard that Gabrielson had been calling at RFC they tossed him to the wolves without fair and just appraisal of his "case. "There was no secret about the RFC loan to Carthage Hydrocol or Gabrielson's connection with the; company that was a matter, of public knowledge. It was grossly unfair to Gabrielson; to impugn his character when his conduct ap pears to have been wholly honorable. The party caonot expect a man to take the job of party chairman and serve without salary and at the same time give up the employment which pro-! ides him his living. - -' . - ! The continued existence of RFC may be ques tioned. But so long as it is, a legitimate agency? . citizens of the country should be free to seek .its services so long as they do so in honorable ways. The party committeemen, with the benefit of a few days for reflection after the publicity broke,! gave a" better judgment than the jittery republic i can senators. fry and canning Industry, cost to UJS. of UN organizations, rubber shortage, newsprint short age, .color TV, New York price wars,' plight of low-income families, f ' - i i f , . Now all of these are subjects worthy of study, Ino doubt. But it seems that fair, objective, im partial fact-gathering on these questions could be done by others besides congressional commit tees. Researchers would have to be paid, but the 'over-all cost when you consider that congress f men could then spend more time working on laws -r might mean a real economy. Once the f acts were in, especially on such non-controversial subjects as the sulphujj, shortage in agricul ture, congressmen could evaluate them and make fsuch recommendations as they deem necessary. , j Turning topics for fact-finding over to profes sional' fact-finders would. appear to be a wise icourse of action when we consider the list of 3 probe resolutions not passed. William Langer, republican of North Dakota, alone asked for 15 j different investigations, ranging from a study of I unclaimed money in the U.S. treasury to the granting of oil rights to U.S: companies by for-' feign governments. There were" over 100 other i requests for investigations in the house and sen fate. . , : - j.; ! i ; j Some of these sound trivial, but others art I concerned with important problems, and if con egress hasn't the time to look into them, someone I else probably should and see that congress gets I the facts.4 Professional fact-finders would be the j answer, except that congressmen probably wouldn't ftrust the experts' findings; they'd want to see for themselves, preferably surrounded by reporters, TV cameras and newsreel klieg lights. The Trib und Morse j f I B-Mike's report that the Chi Trib has its agents combing Portland for dirt on Wayne f Morse comes as no surprise. For the second time In two weeks Morse and the Colonel have had fat it. In its most recent blast at the junior sen-. fator from Oregon, the mighty 'Tribune even 4uuvcu ait iKiu uuiu uic iuc abuueut uouj, the Oregon Emerald, at the jU. of 0. The item (dated Jan. 31, 1934) reported Morse's election Jto !the American Council of the Institute of Pa cific Relations (the 1PR now under McCarthy attack). That shows how fine,-? toothed is the Trib fresearchers' comb. Or maybe they got word of ithe Emerald story from Mrs. Louise Gronnert, 1 j . . . -. . Eric Jolinston Described as Tolitician9 i . ;; - ; , ;.. PORTLAND, Oct 2 -fPr- Wage Stabilisation Director Eric John ston was described here Monday by labor member of the wage stabilization board as a man with apolitical ambitions. ' i Hrner Walker, WasbinftonD.CLr a member of the wage board and ice president of the AFL Interna tional Association of Machinists, aid i he believed "Johnston Is shooting for one of the top soots In the nation." , : Walkes was here to address the (Continued from Page 1.) . . . The Senator has a slight persecution complex as a result ef belnc the only member of bis party not mentioned as a j presidential possibility . . s; ' - i I janti-Morse spokesman for GOP right-wing Igroups in Oregon. She used the same material in la speech in Eugene last spring. Doea Congress Have to . I Probe So Much?, Congress, as everybody must know, investL- fates as much as it legislates. But it hasn't in- . vestigatcd as much, as it might have. Some 130; investigations have been conducted this year: many more were proposedi Those which were; undertaken in the first eight months of 1951 cost a total of $2,000,000. . ' That's the price taxpayers paid for the enter-? tainment, diversion, thrills and chills, inspira tion, sobering reflection, and incidental facts and pertinent information produced by congressional: ? probes. Congressmen say the facts dug up alone Lire worth the cost of the big quiz sessions. f K ,We wonder, though, whether all of the studies , made had to be made by the congressmen them telres. Some of the investigations we wonder about are: . " . Study of the. sulphur shortage as it affects" agriculture; f ertilizervshortages; a plane crash; concert booking agencies, organized baseball, the port of Orange in Texas; boxcar shortage, bak- i - - - ;i ? French People Suspicious When U. S. Talks Of Cannons, Not of Higher Living Standards amor for 'Dogfaces h Add to navy blue, marine green, and air force blue, a new color: army greenishrgray. The 50- yetr-old olive drab army uniform is slated for obsolescence. So is the waist-length Eisenhower jaqket. They. will-be replaced by a natty new greenish-gray outfit with a beltless,'form-fitting service blouse (coat) and deep russet shoes with matching visor on the new felt cap. This classier dress is supposed to boost the army morale and be able to compete i better with the other 1 branches more glamorous recruiting-poster pic tures: Mebbe so, but this we know: the cost of Ithe change-over, from OD to GG will come out of jthe TAE (tattered-and-empty) pockets of the taxpayer. " v I ; - Signs of fall ... Walnut trees are beginning to shed leaves now and the; citizenry has put away the lawnmower and has taken up the rake . . . Some sweep the leaves in neat piles to be burned or hauled to the compost box, others stack them in piles in the street hoping the city crews will pick them up while a few gently ease the leaves into their neighbors' lawns . . Housewives are out picking upvalnuts . . . School kids are wearing slickers and boots . World series almost here . . . Xroas ads com ing out already. i Another sign ... Weather story, the other day noted that in Salem for September "the month was about half clear with 11 clear days, 11 cloudy and 11 partly cloudy days." . . . Those extra days must have sneaked in with the time change. I i ! , 1 . -;-; ! . There probably will be a wailing and gnashing of teeth (and , gears) Sunday, we bet, when the new grid system goes into ef fect . . Motorists will probably be in high on High street but there won't be much liberty on Liberty street . And wait until Salem's wrong-way drivers get on those one-way streets--espe-ciallythose women drivers -who even now hardly know which way to go on two-way streets ... We'll miss that stirring free-for-all 5 p.m. fender battle put on daily by state employes on their jway home. :j j ; : ' ' j ; ! ; " Spme high state officials believe here's a good chance of the state or some other agency buying those veteran bonus bonds yet. Their line of reasoning goes like this: The federal government has been apprdvingithe sale of some ..bonds, ; while nixing others, including bonus bonds. Later this year ,i as rational election campaigning gets hotter, these state offi cials think, the government will suddenly decide the coun try's economy is strong enough to permit the sale of bonus bonds, i a..J i i - Mayor Al Loucks has proclaimed the week of Oct. 14-20 as Salein Oil Progress week. Inasmuch as Al is in the oil business himself this is one proclamation which is natural. Maybe the city ?1 1 1 1 ' ' !!. ii council wiu oDserve local on wees oy spreading uie peiroieum on its: troubled waters. ABC network has signed a contract: engaging Walter Winchell's services in radio and televi sion for life. Walter was 54 years old last April. Those who don't like him are referred to an actuary or an astrologist. , L ! The Safety Valve (Contributions to thli column should b limited to 300 Words. Writ only on OB ild of paper: give name and full address. Poetry is not accepted. IF - I s 1Sy Stewart AIsojk PARIS, Oct 2 A rather cheer ful picture of the fighting iwten tial of the recreated- French army has recently been present- ea in mis space. . J A A f in oraer 10 put the ' shade as well as the light into this picture tt it "worth de scribing two sharply con , trasted i i n c i -dents. : The first took place in the ser- reiintc m of iv.aa it waa aa . brief and rath- JWV er embarrassing, episode. There were about a dozen French non coms, tough, genial men, gather ed around a table. Rather hesi tantly, this reporter began to ask questions about such matters as the danger of war, the threat of Soviet aggression, American for eign policy and French commu nism. ; , The French soldier matter ed a few non-committal an wen. oat of sheer poUteness, sad then relapsed into self- eonscioos silence. The reason was clear. They had Beyer really bothered their heads abaot each matters. At least mm the company and battalias level, the French army simply 1 doea. Mt eoncera itself with political matters. This Is one f the most reassuring facts aboaft Ik Yet no army lives in a political vacuum. A soldier, however un consciously, breathes the same political air as a civilian. And this is why it is worth describing the second, very different episode which took place, not in the army, but in a small factory in Paris, where this reporter spent an " aiternoon talking with the work ers. ..:..,...,. r Five out of six were women. They talked volubly, and with that passionate vitality which Is the Parisian's! special charm. There was no trace; of personal -hostility in what was said what has been j written about French hatred for j Americans, as Americans, Is silly nonsense. Yet the fact remains that, al ' thourh only one was an avow ed communist, everything these French workers 'said was a re , markable tribute t4 the effec tiveness of the Moscow line. -j "The Russians,? they said, oft en in identical 1 words, "want nothing but peace.t And since this cwas so, why i Ishould poor France be called on again to pre pare for a war more 'terrible than ever? The danger of war, if there was danger, sprang from the de Sire of the American rich for high profits, i i Wars had g already ruined France We are only a poor, weak country now. (This pre- v found lack of selfconfidence 1 is also found in the army, al though it is steadily! lessening.) As for the Americans, they ', - knew nothinr of war. I apeak frankly," said one woman. "If there b war, I hope yon will - win in the end, because I love liberty. But I hope yon also, . yes then, the Americans, will suffer terribly before the end." Finally, why must the Ameri cans think and talk only of wea pons and of war? One women ,(who had been living for 14 yean with three children in a single room of a building con demned as uninhabitable in 1937) spoke for the rest flYou Ameri cans talk of cannons. One can not i eat a cannon. ; One cannot lodge oneself in a cannon. . It Is certainly possible to . exaggerate the meaping of this sort of thing. Almost each worker, Incloding the commu nist, also said proudly, "After all, I am profoundly French.' Even the communist would probably violently resist an ac tual Russian Invasion of "Franca I if there were means of resist ance at handJ Yet surely this , apparently almost universal 'acceptance by French worken , of the basic tenets of the Mos-w cow line j has its Importance, military as well as political. I i -Given the necessary arms and equipment,1 France is already vis ibly capable of; producing a good armyt made up of good soldiers. Yet an army j cannot l be more than an expression of the na tion which' produces it. It is odd to find a j professional soldier, Gen.Dwight D. Eisenhower, so deeply aware !of this fact. Un doubtedly with the current deep slashes in economic aid in mind, Eisenhower has been telling all visitors that the military proten tial of France is indivisible, that it cannot be measured in divi sions alone. . M f : Military strength is. of coarse, the essential ingredient of every other kind of strength. ; The stronger, the west becomes, the more the sense of naked : vulnerability from which all Frenchmen suffer diminishes, the more surely will the des-' perate wishful thtwHwr which leads to the eager swallowing of the Moscow peace: line di minish also. Yet it remains true that anything which suggests to Europeans that Americans are interested only in cannons and not at all in living stand ards, only is war and not at all in peace, plays directly Into Stalin's hands.! This is something which Elsenhower, with his extraordinary politi cal pereeptiveness, grasped in- ' stantly, as everything he says. In public ! or private, demon strates.. It would be ! well If other Americans grasped it too. (Copyright 1931 New York Herald Tribute. lac) away, had a place RESENTS FISHING BAN To the Editor: j Well I see by the paper that the ffshing season closed today in Zones One andTwo and will close the 14th of October in the other zonesi but most of the fish ermen in eastern Oregon were under the impression that it clos ed at midnight Saturday nite as that's when the state, police ran them off the rivers over there so they had to do like the Arabs. Fold their tents and silently steal But most of them still problem; trying to find a o steal to as all the camp grounds were closed. It seemed rather strange that they would run the fishermen from the camps where they had been allowed to camp all sum mer when there was more dan ger of fire than now. As I see it, it wasn't danger of fire that did it. I think it was more political because the powers that be in the state couldn't notify the big shot sportsmen friends a week in advance-when the season would be opened so they could locate, camp and stake out their deer for the first day of the season. Some one decided to make it tough j for all. Some fishermen were a long ways from home and didn't jknow till nite that they had to move. So some of them were pretty much up against it for some place to go. Any way I don't see why they penalize the fishermen just because the hunt en couldn't go in the woods. Anyway I am sure I have been In eastern Oregon hunting when it was; drier than this year. It has been so dry and dusty that you couldn't camp anyplace near a road for dust flying all over' everything and most of the people in eastern Oregon I talk ed to feel the same way. They feel that it was pretty much of a political mess. ! Earl Sharp 735 D Street Tribute to Joe Deven To the Editor: As a! visitor from Taneytown, Maryland, to Salem, for the last four summers,' I am asking for space in your valuable paper- the Oregon Statesman for a few words in honor of a man whom I met jupon my first visit, and whose sterling qualities impress ed me more and more with each succeeding visit, i . Joseph McClellan Devers is physically dead. His early morn ing appearances on the street and around the State Office Building willho longer be seen, for a great, kindly man has fallen in your I midst. However, his memory and influence will con tinue to live in , the minds and hearts of those who knew him best. I " a ! 1 - Mr. Devers was a tireless worker. Many; spoke ol his in defatigable energy for a man of 76. He loved Oregon and gave his life in the interest of the State's splendid highway sys tem. He wanted every property " owner to receive just pay for every foot of land which the State acquired for its roads. When the age for retirement approach ed, Joseph M. Deven said, not yet, I have more work to do for my beloved Oregon. He traveled ' the State extensively as the legal i counsel for the highway commis- ; sion, and probably no other man knows Oregon as 1 well as Mr. I Deven did. j ; ' Mr. Devers, however, did not ; confine his interest entirely to state matters. He loved his home. He was a faithful husband and : a loving father, a loyal citizen, a firm believer in the church, and ' a friend to his fellowman. G. H. ENFIELD, 11775 Grant St. Better English By D. C. Williams 1. What is wrong with this sen tence, "He took his secondhand- : ed car to the garage to be fixed." t 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "impious" , . 3. Which one of these words is : misspelled? Accomplise, promise, : treatise, premise. 4. What does the word "gro tesque" mean? ! j , i 5: What is a word beginning with ch that means "confused, or without order"? . j ANSWERS 1. Say, "He took his second- : hand car to the garage to be re paired." 2. Pronounce lm-pi-us, ' both i's as in it, accent first syl- lable, not the second. 3. Accom plice. 4. Characterized by f an- tastic exaggeration, especially of human and animal figures. "His Halloween costume wili.be a gro- ' tesque one." 5. Chaotic j record as set down by Forrestal of vital decisions respecting Chi na. This instalment, which ap peared ' yesterday, was headed "The Morass of China. The state- war-navy meetings (Byrnes, Pat terson, orrestai) naa the China problem dumped in their laps. Advice was asked tfrom General Wedemeyer who commanded in China. The latter responded on Nov. 20, 1945 "either to withdraw all troops at once or to announce continued military and economic support for Chiang." On the 23rd he advised it would be impossi ble to support Chiang and at the same time keep out of China's civil war:, "such United States support to the national govern ment will i definitely involve American'' forces in fratricidal warfare. There can be no mis take about this." That might in volve war with the USSR and would require additional forces "far beyond those presently avail, able in the 4 theatre." Decision as to the U. S. policy Wedemeyer .left up to the state department. The decision came on Novem her 27th when after much discus sion Byrnes offered the sugges tion that "taking everything into account, perhaps the wise course would be to try to force the Chi nose government and the Chinese communists to get together on a communist basis, perhaps telling Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek that we will stop the aid to his government unless he goes along with this. ' i I I That became U. S. policy. Note that it was determined not by Dean Acheson or George Marshall or by pro-red underlings in the state department, but by Jimmy Byrnes, as secretary of state. We demeyer had laid down the alter ' native; yet none of the present critics of U. S.i policy In China say we should have accepted the alternative ana tnrown large u, S. forces into China's civil waif That same day in 1945 Patrick Hurley resigned as ambassador to - China and George Marshall was named his successor. The instal mentnds with the editor's par enthesis: "Thus it fell to Marshall to attempt to carry out the policy which Mr. Byrnes had sketched that morning." J That policy failed, and : China was; overrun by the communists, But! the Forrestal diaries counter the thesis of today's political op position that our China policy de rived from sinister forces. It was determined at high levels by men as loyal as any. who have served then country. - . I . "Tomorrow's .Instalment i opens an interesting peep-window on an other; episode in recent history: the exit of Henry Wallace from the -Truman cabinet, i Heavenly Father, wo thank Thee for the boundless mercies by which Thou redeemest those who go astray from Thee. Where sin .abounds there Thy mercy abounds more. . 1 N. Kachadouriam (Syrian) Tiwymtbisb! The answers to everyday ' 'insurance problems -fr By Sid Boise QUESTION: How much should I contribute to the Community Chest? ' j . I ANSWER: Let your own con science be your guide. The Community Chest Is not a new and untried idea and everyone know the good It does. How about one day's pay? r I I ! ' - ' ' - j if it yonH address your own insurance questions to this of fice,! well try to give you the correct answen and there 'will bo no charge or obligation of any Jund, , 373 N. Church Phono 3-9119 . - . i Representing General of America Co.'s Northwestern Council of . A!L Lumber and Sawmill Workers, which, opened four-day conven tion here today. More than 200 are registered. Urn said if Johnston Is ever nom inated for any office I shall make a on man campaign to let the people know what kind of a bird ho is. Walker said he came here at union expense so his tongue would not be tied by government regulations., :: j-.-.. r:.- Walker commended presentation of a case before; the board by AFL lumber worken seeking wage in creases and praised the fact thai they took cash instead of pension and welfare programs ' ; He added, however, that the board, doubtless will give consid eration to such programs. :- Sectional meetings were held this afternoon. I . . Shaver licpa o o inng O All Work Guaranteed O 12 Hour Servko New and Used Shavers for Sale Tha Shaver Shop j 57S Patterson Ave W. Salem Phone 3-4652 Near Blue Lake W. E. 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