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From Flnt 'Stateaaui. March tS, 1851
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
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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
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Ike Considers Primary Results Clear Call,
May Come Home to Campaign for Top Office
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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.
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The inside work of a true bookworm Is shown in a collec
tion of rare old books now on display at tbe Salem city library.
In one big book, printed in Spain in 1717, called "Projecto Eco
nomico," the little worm started in at the back of the book. He
ate (and probably read) his way backward to page 116 (Chap
ter 12) and then worked his (or her) way back to page 261. At
that point, probably unable to digest the heavy material, the
little worm gets smaller and smaller and finally seems to end
his boring lif$ right on the letter U.
Bettor English
By P. C. WILLIAMS
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "The two brothers both
were there, and I think the
younger was tha best looking.'
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of ''maintain'?
3. Which one of these words is
misspelled? 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.
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