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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1952)
T The Qrojon Start ancm, Salem. Oregon, Friday. May j I8S2 3hr(3n) rcjaon MWMM l. talesman IT FOLLOWED HER TO SCHOOL ONE DAY "No Favor Swayt U No tear Shall Air" From First SUtesmt. March 28. 1851 ' THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHAfU-J-IS A SPHAUUii,1 fcklitoi and Publisher Published erery morning. Business office 21 8 ConunerrUl, Salem. Oregon. Telephone 2-2441. Catered at the postofTice at Salem, Ores on. aa seceud due matter under act of congress March 3, 1871. New Nation of Pioneers A modern, aggressive nation in the habiliment of an ancient religion projected against a primi tive background, Israel now begins its fifth year of independence with triumphs to celebrate and battles yet to win. The fact that Israel exists at all is a continu ing wonder, made up of victories over men and over nature. The struggle to reclaim the desert to secure lebensraum for millions of once-home! ss Jews and the effort to provide a decent standard of living for them, continue too. The latter-day fol lowers of Moses have to work very hard to real ize the promise in the "promising land." Their accomplishments in reconquering the Negeb, "whose stones are iron and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass," is part of a pioneer ep?fc which historians may compare with the American conquest of the West. The young Jews from all over the world who, stripped to the waist and with rifles at their sides, lay pipes and drill wells, build roads and dams and irri gation systems and whole new towns, are pio neers. Their life is hard but they hav an ideal: out ef rock and sand they are building a home land for the Jews. (In the process, they made millions of Arabs homeless; but pioneers have a habit of doing that. The aggressive young American nation al so paid little heed to the plight of the disposses sed Indians.) The Israeli are doing more than building for themselves; they are making a tremendous im pact upon the Middle East the impact of one civilization upon another. Israel is a modern democracy on exhibit in a medieval museum. Its Arab neighbors watch the wasteland be ginning to bloom, the new houses increase, mines and industries prospering, clinics and hos pitals, schools for all. and a people governing themselves. The Arabs compare their own mis erable lot with growing discontent. And the Arab rulers await uneasily the demand of their own people for some measure of what the Jews have. -Out of the discontent and jealousy and fear springs the threat to the continuing success of Israel. Since Israel's achievement cannot be ig nored, the Middle Eastern status quo must go. The Arabs will have to decide whether to try to take by force what the Jews have, or to' copy the Jews and make a better life for themselves by hard work and intelligent application of the economic and social ideas and the agricultural and industrial techniques demonstrated in Is rael. t This is, of course, a political decision and one in which the United States is inevitably involv ed. We see in Israel a sort of pilot plant a malj-scale model of Western civilization suc cessfully adapted to local needs for the whole Middjle East. Israel received from the U.S. much moral and economic support as well as political, economic and social patterns; now the U.S. stands ready to lend similar aid to the Arabs. If they . choose that alternative to war and revolt, then 'Israel's future and that of the Middle East would be much more secure. set the pace. This is the Year of Ryme with "I Like Ike" starting a trend toward poetry of a sort. Hence we have: "I Prefer Kerr," "I'm looking Over Estes Kefauver," "Averell Will Pill the Bill," "Let's Hustle for Russell," and "Back Mac." And we could have: "Fasten on Stassen," "Pour On Warren," and "Draft Taft," Opponents might try: "Spike Ike," "Sack Mac," "I'm Passin' Stassen," "Defer Kerr," "War On Warren," 'Taffs Daft." New Style Railroad Ticket For some years the average length of ride of passengers on railroad trains has been increas ing, as private automobiles and stages attracted more and more of the short-haul business. A trip across the country and back called for a ticket a yard or so long to insure passage on the several lines being patronized. But now the Southern Pacific is streamlining its tickets, just as it has streamlined its trains. Though the journey may be longer the ticket will be short er. Formerly the ticket agent made up his tick ets by choosing from 348 forms. This number is now being reduced to 13. The ticket will be made up in a compact booklet form which will fit neatly in purse or pocket. Just why the railroads couldn't have thought up the short ticket form before we do not know. It is satisfying that at long last they have dis covered a way to reduce the ticket yardage, shorten the time of piecing the tickets together and stamping it. This certainly will provide a most welcome relief for the man next in line who wants to buy a ticket to Albany and the train is whistling in. But the short form will no longer excite the awe and stir the imagination of one traveling only to the next station, as was the case with the lengthy ticket which the con ductor let unravel to get at the end stub. The next time you try the train you will get the 1952 model of ticket at no change in price. All acquainted with Four-H club work in Oregon are interested in news that L. J. "Doc" Allen is retiring next September as State Lead er to be succeeded by Burton Hutton. Allen has been in this work for 37 years, .taking over as chief when Harry Seymour retired a few years ago. He is universally liked and has made a great contribution in the development of Oregon youth through the Four-H program. Burton Hutton has been with the state Four-H organi zation several years. Prior to that he was in ra dio (KOAC and KPOJ) and in newspaper work. He will be an able successor to Allen. We are glad to pay tribute to the devotion of all these men to this very "important youth program. Collectors of campaign buttons, slogans and symbols ought to have the best time since the Year' of Alliteration when "We Want Willkie" kock of Voice in Affairs of Germany, Japan Seen as Russians Biggest Loss in Cold War By J. M. ROBERTS JR. j AP News Analyst The position in which. Russia novt finds herself, without a voride in the affairs of her two greit enemies. Japan and moSt of Ger many, is evi dence that not all bf the Initi ative In the cold war has t been on the course, every- t hi rig the Allies hav done has been In the nature of reaction to Russian policy. That is bound to be true funda mentally, since the East-West conflict originates in Russia and woyld not exist without her. There are many cases, of course, where greater initiative on ,the part of the Allies would haVe prevented formation of roi&e of the worst sores that "raue developed, would have scotched Russia before she be came dangerous. Most of this was lack of foresight, really, rather than lack of initiative. Mistakes of judgment which lost Czechoslovakia, China, Berlin, nd brought on the Korean War. Other Russian rains in Cen tral and Southeastern Europe were made by her armies when the defeat of Hitler was the prime world objective, an 1 there was nothing anybody reit Id do about them. Unless you want to argue, which you can. that American fear of co operation with Europe's So cialists richt after the war threw them into the arms of the communists and made Russia's task that much easier. It seems such a short time since I was criticized publicly for referring to Russia as "the enemy." Yet there is a definite pattern of Allied initiative beginning soon after the war. First it was Allied initiative which actually produced the seeming agree ments which Russia broke to es tablish herself in world opinion Ajthe aggressor. There is a fun damental importance in that which alone could be the sub ject of a long treatise. The Allies took the initiative in trying to feed and readjust the world after the war. The I'nited Nations, which was able a few years later to pre vent Communist conquest of South Korea, is an Allied project. It took the initiative against Russian occupation of Iran. One of the most revolutionary ideas of these times was the American decision, manifested through the Greek-Turkish aid program, to meet aggression wherever it develops. A reso lution in the U. S. Senate led to 'Marshall aid and eventually to the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization, and on toward the various steps of European mili tary and economic unification which are now under way. It was Russia who followed the Allies in setting- up gov ernments for East and West Germany. Russia reacted to Allied victories in Korea with an appeal for truce. Russia is reacting with great vigor against the Incorporation of West Germany into the Euro pean defense community and the new partnership of Japan with the West. Russia reacts defensively against the Allied trade blockade-. Russia has not dared in tervene in Iran during that country's virtual break with the Alied-, world, something she most assuredly would have done five or six years ago. The world didn't realize 10 years ago this summer that Mid wav, Alamein and Stalingrad had decided World War II. It may be that Russia is now per manently on the defense. Cer tainly she no longer holds all tho initiative. Congressional Quiz Q What were the provisions of the Japanese peace treaty? A The treaty would formally end the war and recognize Jap anese soverignty. It records Japan's intention to apply for U. N membership and live peace ably according to U. N. princi ples, states that Japan renounces title to Korea, Formosa and oth er islands, and obligates Japan to pay reparations in surplus as sets such as excess labor and un used plant capacity. Approval by only one more .nation was needed after the U. S.. Senate voted for ratification of the treaty March 20. Q My husband, who la a vet eran, wants to bay a house with a VA loan raarantee, but he cant find a lender. What can he de? A A 1858 law lets the Veter ans Administration make direct home and farmhouse loans to the approximately SO per cent of the ex-servicemen living in areas where private lending at four per cent is unavailable. Although $150 million originally author ized for direct loans has been used up, a bill to add another $125 million was passed by the yqu simply Cannot go vooth MfcTO ELECTORAL COLLEGE! ft om 2. aw a M .l.i Ml ' " pTJ b33iOJ(g TKD 0000 for the third year in a row frost has hurt the soft fruit crop pi the mid-Columbia section, cherries and apricots particularly. The extent of the damage is not known yet, but with the mer cury dropping to 25 in The Dalles Monday night the loss is sure to be serious. The Willamette Valley fruit crop also has been hurt by the frosts. Orchardists here may have to resort to smudging for protection as they do in the Rogue River section and in California. At Medford, County Horticulturist C. B. Cordy, commenting on the experience of the same frosty night said, ' If we hadn't heated, there wouldn't have been any pears left in the .colder spots." Our fruit growers just can't continue to have the frost losses they have experienced in late years. House Feb. 19. Individual loans are littoed imaEt i8tsm au au are limited to $10,000. The "di rect loan" area comprises nearly 90 per cent of the U. S. Q Do ex-Presidents or their wives receive pensions or retire ment pay? A Neither ex-Presidents nor ex-Vice - Presidents receive re tirement pay or pensions by vir tue of their White House service. But Congress has made it a practice to grant their widows something extra to live on $5,000 a year for life to a Presi dent's widow and $3,000 for a vice-president's widow. Current recipients are Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Coolidge, $5,00 each, and Mrs. Marshall, a widow of a former vice president, $3,000. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt de clined the pension. Q How many former mem bers ef Congress are now draw ing retirement pay? A Sixty -six. Retirement pay for former legislators began with passage of the Legislative Reor ganization Act of 1948. (Copyriijht 1952, Congressional Quarterly) Political Parade Well, another great change has come about in the American way of life. The Salem Branch of the First National Bank of Portland announces it is replacing its old wooden, scratchy, leaky pens with brand new ball-point pens no leak, blot or scratch. This historical change might well rank with other important events such as one-way streets, poodle hair - dos, drive-in movies, odorless dogs and penicilin cigarets. Like the old farmer who cussed his horse for years and then cried when she was replaced by the auto, bank customers don't know whether to be happy or sad. Mgr. Ar thur Atherton says he thinks the new pens are here to stay. Those old-type pens were wonderful, though, for disguising your handwriting- if you wanted to forge a check to tide yon over until payday. Without half trying- you could scratch and scribble your name in such a way that not even Hearthstone of the Deathsquad could trace it to you. And the needle sharp points on those pens were perfect for puncturing code messages into your deposit slips. And we have passed many happy hours in bank lobbies writing- with those leaky pens watching all the seros and "e's" and "a's" fill up with ink until the whole thing was a delightfully unrecognizable blob. And without even half trying you could end up with a fist full of ink. Most banks used washable ink. But one had its ink wells loaded with indelible ink and after one visit we went around for weeks looking like a man who had walked on his hands through a wine press. If you were a fast scribbler those old scratchy pens used to throw ink like a wet hound shedding water. Many's the time we've stepped out of the bank and thought it must be dusk although we were pretty sure it was still midday. The trouble, of course, was ink-clouded glasses. From an occasionally reliable source we have the story of on man who owed a bank money, so he made out his statements in red ink. One day after a heady, 10-minute bout with one of those ink-flinging scratchers he resembled a man who had the measles and whose blood transfusion had backed over his shirt front. When he stepped over to the teller's window the woman there locked the cash drawer and quietly fainted away. But with these new, smooth-action pens. How will tellers react when customers suddenly begin to sign their checks in a legible manner? Picture the teller who for years thought a cus tomer's name was "Fmtzh" and now finds it is really "Smith." Or the loan manager who consistently called an account (to his face, yet) "Mr. Frizzenhousen," only to find out he should have been saying, ' Mr." Anderson." School principals who write a poor hand could always blame it on those balky old pens. But now, with good pens, their childish scrawl is there for all to see. The next step, obviously, will be typewriters for bank customers. C. W. Jorgensen (Editor's note: Stories In the "Po litical Parade" are written by or for thm candidates, on invitation of The Oregon Statesman, and views ex pressed herein may or may not be In accordance with the opinion of this newspaper. The articles are published In the public Interest, and without obligation on the part of anyone.) Today's Subject: CLAUD W. JORGENSEN Candidate for CITY COUNCIL (Ward S) If time, patience, study experi ence and a keen desire to assist in the orderly growth of his home town are prime requi- sites for an al- I derman, Claud I yM Walter Jorgen sen is excep tionally well - fitted to be re elected to the position of al derman from the third ward in Salem. Ten years ago, when Mr. Jorgensen first accepted the responsibilities of a council member, the duties were much lighter fewer traf fice problems, a neat little city budget, not so many meetings, inspections, investigations. Mr. Jorgensen is proud of the part he has had in the solution of the rapidly-growing problems of an equally rapidly-growing city. While he has had no power to reduce taxes he has been able to assist in seeing to it that the tax payer received the fullest pos sible value for his tax money. Mr. Jorgensen moved to Sa lem with his parents from Kan sas when he was a small boy. His early memories include the prune ranch at Liberty, the old East School, a job as fireman out of Spokane, back to Salem and a job as plumber and steam-fitter. Later he established his own business as heating contractor only to lay it aside while he as sisted the armed services in a cavilian capacity for four years during World War II. He is again actively engaged in the heating contracting business and lives with his wife in the home on North Liberty Street which he helped his parents build in 1909. Better English By D. C. WILLIAMS HRIN AND BFAR IT by Lirhtv 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "We appreciate him giving us this money, and now we've got to go." 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "literature"? 3. Which one of these word is misspelled? Gondoleer, moun taineer, engineer, bandoleer. 4. What does the word "be guile" mean? 5. What is a word beginning Ta all settled in my easy chair with my pipe and paper, dear! there must be SOMETHING yea want me to de now!... statement, "but so were members of the White House staff. As soon as possible another state men was issued recalling the ugly word and correcting the date.. It was admitted that no ultimatum ever had been sent. Such reckles use of language is deplorable for it might lead to critical situations. ; Another example: the Presi dent's response to an editor's query, to the effect that he coufd take over newspapers and radio stations, an extempore remark which the White House staff worked later to launder. In 1945 when attending a Mis souri fair Truman startled the country when he answered a re porter's question by saying he thought we should share our atomic secrets with other na tions (Russia). In reciting these instances of presidential Indiscretion the purpose is not to abuse the President but to point out the hazards of the press conference as presently conducted. Many bf the questions are "loaded;" it Is easy for the President to be caught "off balance." In trying to rely on memory he may fall into bad traps. With the whole world for audience the President must weight his words with far more care than Mr. Truman has exercised. President Hoover had tlje questions typed and submitted in advance. He could throw oat those he didn't care to discuss. Roosevelt had greater glibness and self-assurance and usually landed on his feet in the press dialogue and reporters pre ferred his system of permitting questions from the floor. Byt Roosevelt could be mean aqd hard on a reporter if he wanted to remember his telling one re porter to put on a dunce cap? Public policy Is too important In these critical times to be pro nounced In response to the acci dent of a reporter's question, more cautious in his utterances Either the President should be at press conferences or require advance filing of queries. The with det that means "that which prevents"0 ANSWERS 1. Say, "We appreciate his giving us this money, and now we must go." 2. Pronounce lit-er-a-tur, the u as in use. and four syllables; not lit-er-choor. 3. Gondolier. 4. To while away. "This is a book to beguile the tedious hours." 5. Deterrent. last would erase thei surprise factor and make the conference less dramatic but It would be more in keeping with "the high responsibility of the office. West Stayton Club Season Ends Tonight Statesman Newt Service WEST STAYTON J. J. Rem ington. Marion County truant of ficer, will be guest speaker at the final Community Club meeting oi the season here Friday night Cub Scouts will present a skit under direction of their den moth er. Mrs. Alice Hilton. Officers will be elected, reports Herman Henrikson, president. Commencement exercises at the grade school here will be held at 8 p.m. Friday, May 23. Principal James Brents reports a class of 11 eighth graders will receive diplo mas. John Curtis is valedictorian and Sandra Ruggles, salutatorian. Others graduating are John Da vid Jordan, Lawrence Dively, Eu gene Landus, John Grimes, Don na Brown, Billie Stinnett, Joyce Hofenbredl, Shirley - Smith, and Mary Jane Dunham. The maximum snowfall In the United States occurred at Tama rack, Calif., in the winter of 1906 07. One drift measured about 74 feet deep. Try it . SCHAEFER'S ALL-VEGETABLE LAXATIVE For Quick Relief ef Constipation 50c SCHAEFER'S DRUG STORE 135 N. Commercial with GARDUS70 Garden Bugs and Dlseaiei ere bom knocked "galley west" with Milfer's GAR DUSTO bocawM tWo old gun Is loaded with the most up-to-date chemicals thai control a wide range ef garden pests. Gordn fhe "Milt Woy Avoilobi t at. durri 1 lb. shakr, 2 lb.. 5 lb. Salem Seed & Implement Co. 210 Stat Street Phone 3-4903 Mget fish Market WE FEATURE OCEAlTTtESH Cooked Crabs FRIDAY ONLY HALF OR WHOLE Fresh Salmon FRESH HALF OR WHOLE Ling Cod FRESH FILLET OF Red Snapper I Lb. Lb. Lb. Lb. 38c 45 21 COMPLETE LINE OF SEA FOODS fJatiotial CORRECT POSTURE Week