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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1952)
7'tllli4!.l Illllll'lt nSJJLaJLnnw? .njfjtiiE wii i oanuannasw. i ' . r r- ft f l bf Uchty ; (i)reson$itatcsraan Ml Mt "No Favor Sway$ Us. No Fear Shall Aio From Flnt 'Stateaaui. March tS, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Fublished every morning. Basineas office 213 S Commercial, Salem, Oregon. Telephone Z-Z44L Cntared at tbe ouatafflcu at Salem, Oreiun. ae naad elaaa matter an dec act of oanarf Maree a. lJt Uncle Sam, Old Man Oregon Recent publication of a 1952 edition of Uncle Sam, as conceived by American artists, brought some lunch table discussion and a little editorial comment. The Eugene Register-Guard for in stance, will have none of the modernized ver sion of "Our Uncle Samuel." It rates the prize winning portrait as a "Man of Distinction" and the second-place winner as a "dashing young feller out of the sports-shirt ads." Instead of either it urges: "Let us keep Uncle Sam just as we have always known him . . . Give us Uncle haking that hairy fist of his at all who dare to threaten freedom!" The Statesman applauds the thought. Also it doesn't want to lose from Uncle Sam that Yan kee shrewdness, that gleam in the eye, that salty flavor which keep this symbol of America right down to earth. Some years ago cartoonists tried to modern ize Old Man Oregon. They didn't succeed very well. Only it's been a long time since we have seen Old Man Oregon in any form. If taxes get much higher we predict the Old Man will shake off his lounging robe and do some fist-shaking on his own. cides for the benefit of mankind. The Technical Cooperation administration, an agency for the Point Four program, is going to do aerial spray ing over 672,000 acres in the Middle East where locusts breed. A powerful poison, Aldrin, will be used, so strong that two ounces in a gallon of water or diesel oil will bring certain death to locusts on one acre of ground. Locusts have been a plague in the Middle East since the days of Pharaoh and doubtless long before. A start will be made now to rid the whole area of this insect horde which consumes crops and vegetation. Iran is the country chosen for the first work and eight planes for the spray ing are being assembled there. Later the work will be extended to countries from Libya to Pakistan. We do not know of a better way to prove the beneficence of the United States to the natives of the Middle East than to bring an end to their plagues of locusts. It should help them to help themselves, for they can quickly learn the tech niques of spraying. The result should be an in crease in food supply and, we hope, a little more kindly feeling for the U.S.A. Heads They Lose! Now the premier of Czechoslovakia has turn ed up missing. At least he didn't show up at the depot to bid goodbye to President Gottwald as the latter was departing for Berlin. Instead an "acting premier'' bid the president farewell. The premier has been Antonin Zapotcky. and his non-appearance at public functions has giv en rise to the thought that he may be a victim of the purge which caught Vice Premier Rudolf Slansky recently and Foreign Minister Clement some months ago. Moscow has been quite unhappy" with slack production in this once prosperous satellite. Now, as Zapotcky admitted in a recent speech, the country doesn't produce all the farm prod ucts it needs, as it did under the old regime. Industrial production has fallen short too. These ,-Kilures are cited as the basis for the purge of the Communist officials in Czechoslovakia. If the machines do not roll officials heads trust. New Abbey Chapel at Mt. Angel Appropriately, since today is the Feast of St. Benedict, the Abbey at Mt. Angel which is un der the Benedictine Order, will dedicate its new Abbey Chapel. It is an integral part of the east side of the quadrangle which crowns the emin ence where Abbey and College and Benedictine Press stand. Its style of architecture and facing of buff-colored brick are in harmony with the other structures. This writer visited the chapel last Sunday and would report that it is both spacious and beau tiful. It conforms with traditional church design but has enough of the modern in decoration and lighting to give it freshness. One of the older priests said he preferred the old church down town as one lending itself better to devotion. But as the new edifice is mellowed with use it too will become a hallowed place. Catholics and r.on-Catholics will find it a beautiful structure which inspires reverence. Case of the Royer Boys The case of the Royer boys arising from the dispute of the parents, now divorced, over their custody has excited an unusual amount of in terest. Sympathies of local people were with the father who sought to keep the boys in his care, as against the mother in Indiana who sought to recover their custody. The adverse ruling of the Supreme Court prompted writing of letters to the editor and to the Supreme Court itself. Let ters to the editor were futile because the case was in the courts; and letters to the court itself were highly improper and might have resulted in calling their authors up under a citation for contempt. The Supreme Court has now reiterated its opinion that the mother's claim of custody should be recognized. The court is bound by the constitution and laws which give validity to the rulings of courts in other jurisdictions in this case Indiana where the court had given the mo ther custody of the boys. The decision may seem harsh to the parties in Oregon; but it will have to be respected. As the Oregon court suggested, the Indiana court is the one in which redress should be sought. When Senator Brewster testifies that he used Henry Grunewald, "the Dutchman" as a "con duit" for $10,000 as a contribution for two Re publicans running "for the Senate which he couldn't make openly he excites real curiosity. Who were the candidates concerned and why couldn't he make it openly? Here in Oregon one wonders if Dave Hoover might nave been one. Once there was a popular novel, "Brews ter's Millions." Just now we are concerned about -Brewster's Thousands. Killing Off the Locusts While the Reds are accusing the U.N. forces with spreading disease germs in Korea the Unit ed States really is preparing to spread insecti- Chairman Frank McKinney of the Democratic National Committee says that President Truman will not run again if peace comes to Korea. At the progress rate at Panmunjom that may mean he expects life tenure of the White House. Tru man, however, repudiates the assertion, so Mc Kinney may be looking up plane schedules for Minneapolis, especially after this bad advice on New Hampshire. Washington seems to be reechoing for New bold Mowrrrruss.' 'No call wsmmssmmmm Ike Considers Primary Results Clear Call, May Come Home to Campaign for Top Office V r: 7 By J. M. ROBERTS JR. AP News Analyst President Truman said Thurs day morning that General Eisen hower was free to come home anytime he t nought it best, ! and a few hours f - N". later the gener- J jVT-j!? x 4 al said he might " a ' ' " f 3 do just that. f' . Eisenh o w e r w a a beginning to think, like Paul Hoffman and other lead ers of his cam paign, that the New Hampshire and Minnesota primaries came pretty close to being the "clear call" to the presidential campaign which could take him away from his job as supreme commander for the Allied Powers in Europe. The Elsenhower statement climaxed two days of rattling developments the like of which have seldom been seen in pre convention politics. Part of it was even funny. Taft was represented as inclin ed to lay the heavy- Eisenhower writein in Minnesota to Stassen weakness. Stassen entered in Wisconsin where there will be no write-ins, claimed that Eisen hower partisans there should support him because he was most like Ike. So did Warren's camp. There was no levity tat the Democratic etof, however, where uncertainty over Presi dent Truman's plans led to an other family contretemps. De mocratic Chairman McKinney, who got the President to en tor the New Hampshire pri mary aarainat his wishes and Own saw Kefaaver walk off with the voting, held a Ion aeries of conferences with Tro- consider his job done and not lain if there were an early truce in Korea . Truman replied that McKinney was all wet, that Ko rea had nothing to do with it After that, the first obvious question was whether the De mocrats would have to select a new national chairman this close to convention. In the meantime. Senator Taft, smarting from the New Hamp shire and Minnesota primary re sults, ran into more trouble. Gov ernor Driscoll of New Jersey came out for Eisenhower and Taft tagged him as a rug-puller, claiming violation of a neutrality agreement. Jersey Taft called off his campaign, although It lata to withdraw his from the primary contest. This put him In position to claim a moral victory if ho gets a rood vote. The filing of a largely-unopposed rewey slate of delegates in New York brought estimates from Albany observers that Ei senhower would get at least 79 of New York's 96 delegates to the Republican convention. That would help balance the hold Taft is believed to have on so many of the regular party organiza tions elsewhere. Literary Guidepost First Truman said nix on more primary entries such as Califor nia. Then McKinney came out saying he thought Truman would WHAT EISENHOWER THINKS, edited and interpreted by Al len Taylor (Crowell; $2.75). Born in Texas, brought up in Kansas, graduated by West Point, Army man who crossed the paths of MacArthur and Marshall, commander in Europe, Columbia president and now possibly on the way to becoming U. S, presi dent. Eisenhower has la the main a record of accomplishment known to countless Americans. But there's a lot they don't know; probably the most important things of all they dont know. Now Taylor tries to get mt the secrets. After a brief biographi cal background, he provides thousands of words quoted from many speeches made ixs this country and abroad, ofUdalrjr and informally. We are told mat Elsenhower believes in co-operation, demo cracy, capitalism; in United Na tions, united Europe, Marshall Plan, Point Four, free speech, free press free teachers, UMT, the Red menace. He has said that "conflicting political theories can exist peacefully in the same world." He has declared: "When people speak to you about a pre ventive war, you tell them to go and fight it." He believes that the degree of our sacrifice in feeding? the hungry Is the degree of war understanding of the world today." But these are in effect "broad outlines' ... a phrase of Tay lor's. There is still a lot says Taylor about which no voter can be reasonably sure . . . just how hostile is he to federal aid to education, to social security, to Truman's Civil Rights program? What lesson, does he wish to teach organized labor when he boasts of bis own 84-hour or to liberals when he the "constant drift toward tralfzed bureaucratic go ve r n-ment? He has had no answer many and so it Is not Tayiars fault if the book in tolling' us "want Eisenhower thinks" tells very little. You will be pleased to note that, as reported. Elsenhower is not a pompous or flowery speak er. It is true, however, that he can be a trite phrascologist. If that doesnt bother the author, it may be because he's not an inspired or sprightly writer himself. (LPCDOmCB "Sounds like a meeting of the liars' clnb . . . He's promising her everything and she's promising to do without everything! ..." D aw nlVc,SL The state archives came in handy when the state land office vault had to be broken Into the other day. The land office had a floor plan showing the location of the safe. But the safe-crack ers were stumped until Archivist Dave Duni way showed up with a complete set of con struction specifications for the office. These plans showed how far the safe was built into ! the wall, the thickness of brick and spacing of wire mesh, and how far apart the steel bars were, etc. This helped the drillers to crack the stubborn vault without harming a single paper inside. Latest lasne of the Farm Bureau magazine. "Oregon Agriculture," has a membership re vert chart for a period ending "Feb. 51. 1952." Wonder how even Bureau can sign up members on Feb. 39 and 31? June Drake, Silverton photographer and one of the Willam ette Valley's longest-timers at the shutter-snapping game, Is compiling a history of Silverton in pictures. He's gathering pic tures of the town's early scenes in days when Silverton had a big oak tree in the middle of Main Street, and a railroad in town. Also pix of early schools, old town band, etc. All in two big volumes. The big work is a labor of love because Drake will give the volumes to the Silverton city library. The first volume is due out soon. Drake, by the way, was one of the first photo graphers ever to flick a lens at Silver Creek Falls. Salem High rooters (adults and students) are leaning over backward at the state tournament In Eugene this week to show the public their best behavior. At the Lincoln-Salem game, even though Salem get waxed, Salem students waxed exuberant but not abusive. Not once did they rasa berry the referees, although the officiating" in that game was nothing to write your Aunt Mary about. Matter of fact not a single boo was heard from the Salem section dnrlng the entire game which she aid certainly place Sa lem within grabbing distance of the spertsmanahip trophy ... Quito a few Salem adults at the tournament, too. (Continued from Page One) was to hold out foreign imports, and at the same time to pile up domestic surpluses, particularly of farm products. We might have, after the second world war, low ered our tariffs to admit more foreign goods. But Europe was not producing much for export then; and if it had the bur -Jen would have fallen on domestic producers who were caught by foreign competition. So we just gave our goods away. What about the future? We ought to taper off with this gen erosity. It is getting time to fol low the old maxim that the Lord helps those who help themselves. Doubtless It is unwise to chop off our grants abruptly: but we ought to be scaling down rather than increasing the goods we ship out, for they are of our vital resources metals, soil min erals, labor. The reported waste in our military spending over seas discourages continuance of the spending spree. Too frenzied pending for military purposes is wasteful and disruptive. Congress does well to scrutin ize closely the budget for foreign expenditure. It must weigh care fully the cost to ourselves and compare the risk of inflation along with the military risks which we are seeking to counter. The end result will come out con siderably less than the budget's asking. House Goods Haulers Granted Rate Encrease Truckers engaged in hauling household eoods were granted rate increases Thursday by Oregon's ' Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel. Heltzel said the rate boosts would enable the truckers to earn enough to meet increased costs The rate adjustment includes both increases and decreases, with the increases predominating. Heltzel said the Increases fall short of what the truckers asked. - - m0 3j jrimi w'y 1 1 I . jirrr Mm It's the DOBBS! Quality ityle everything you look for in a hit is yours in a Dobbs! Nothing finer can be said about the hat you wear than... 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Anonimous, annuity, antecede, anecdote. 4. What does the word "abra sion" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with ea that means "visionary"? ANSWERS 1. Omit bath, and say. "the younger was the better looking.' 2. Accent second syllable, not the first. 3. Anonymous. 4. The act of wearing, or rubbing, off; the wearing away by friction. "Time causes an abrasion . of these coins." 5. Chimerical. dence in a world of tumult by believing in the power of right of a God that cares. J. C. Penny ?W "' WMijUPia-i-'iugt '' uuuuutoAi-, m i hdnri.i in Be an island of calm confi- Ara You Nervous, Can't Sleep? For Relief Try SCHAEFER'S Nervo Tonic 1.00-1.75 At SCHAEFER'S DRUG STORE 135 N. Commercial ...... . y WE ARE OPEN EVERY SUNDAY, FROM 9 A. M. TIL 4 P. M. OPEN EVERY I1ITE TIL 8 P. M. 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