4 The Statesman, iSalem. Ofqon. flamiaT fnlT 20, 1953
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Purges in Satellite States
The dropping of Ana Pauker, high priestess
of Communism in Romania from office in the
government and power in the Communist party,
has started a great deal of speculation. The offi
cial report accused her of capitalist deviation
ism, but such is the gobbledygook of Communist
jargon that the only sure meaning of the charge
is that she "lost out." Coming as it did after
purges in Czechoslovakia some have assumed
that unrest prevails in the satellite states, or
that their performance has fallen short of goals
so that the purges were ordered as disciplinary
measures.
One cannot be sure of the true causes. They
may differ in different countries or among dif
ferent individuals. One thing is clear that the
prescription of the purge is the standard prac
tice of Communist materia medica, both in gov
ernment and within the party. There is no per
sonal security except for those who in the com
petition for power and place are able to save
themselves. Both Stalinism and Leninism are
based on deception and the double-cross, as Ed
ward Crankshaw writes in an article in last
week's New York Times Magazine.
The purge is a convenient device employed
by those in power to accomplish certain objec
tives. As Cranshaw says:
It may be used directly, to kill off the once
faithful, who have suddenly begun to doubt; or
it may be used to get rid of particular individ
uals or groups, who have served their purpose
and look for a reward which Stalin has no in
tention of bestowing; or it may be used to liqui
date a policy for a time pursued by Stalin, but
now to be abandoned; or it may be used to pro
vide the people with scapegoats, or whipping
boys, for Stalin's own errors; or it may be used
as a blunt instrument of terror, to keep the
people cowed.
Cranshaw offers no opinion as to the reason
lor the recent purges in Romania and Czecho
slovakia. He is sure however that the object was
to make it easier for Stalin to mold these coun
tries to his own will, "for the greater glory and
security of the Soviet Union."
The second act in the three-act tragedy of the
purge (Act I, charge and arrest; Act II, the trial;
Act III, the punishment) has not been staged in
the case of Ana Pauker or Rudolf Slansky. We
are not sure they are under arrest. But they have
fallen from power, victims of the very system
they helped to forge for their countries.
York and Boston; it is spread out over the coun
try. Accustomed to dealing with figures, when
these were announced the stock brokers voted to
stretch out their day.
The French Riviera has been featuring "Texas
week," induced evidently by the number of oil-cotton-cattle
millionaires from Texas who haunt
this corridor of pleasure. Long Beach holds an
annual Iowa picnic where former Hawkeyea
gather to reminisce about hot summers and cold
winters and corn and hogs. The Riviera wel
comes Texans in a different way, with bartend
ers toting six-shooters, orchestra players wear
ing Stetson hats. Must have been quite a week
along the blue Mediterranean. One thing we may
be sure of though, there never will be an Oregon
week at Cannes. Oregonians don't get that far,
and if they do they put padlocks on their pocket-books.
Standard Oil Co. of California has bought a
big tract of land just north of Seattle with a
view to locating a refinery on it. It may be abla
to get crude oil from a pipeline now crossing
the Canadian mountains to Vancouver, B.C. Or
the refinery could be supplied by tanker from
Borneo or the Middle East. California is no long
er able to supply the growing demand of West
Coast motorists and industry for petroleum products.
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Wanta buy a town? Long-Bell Lumber Co. is
offering its model logging town, Ryderwood, in
Cowlitz County, Wash, for sale. And the Atomic
Energy Commission which has owned every
thing at Richland, Wash., a city of 24,000, is giv
ing residents a chance to buy the place. In buy
ing a town presumably one has to consider tha
upkeep as well as the first cost.
--t D aw ny'ypL
Joy and sadness mix in the news. To illus
trate: One front page column in the Saturday
Statesman reported that President Truman had
signed the bill increasing social security bene
fits $5 a month and at the bottom carried tha
item that the price we pay for newsprint had
gone up $10 a ton. The latter took the prospec
tive joy out of the former.
Exchange Hours, and the West
Members of the New York Stock Exchange
have voted to lengthen their trading day, Mon
day through Friday, by one-half hour, and closa
on Saturday. Heretofore, they observed Satur
day closing only through the summer months.
One reason for the change was to accommo
date western customers. When the Exchange
closes at three it is only noon on the Pacific
Coast (or 11 a.m. under PST). This cuts out any
business from the West developing after those
hours for that trading day. The time lag has
been helpful to western exchanges. Midwest at
Chicago, and San Francisco and Los Angeles,
which picked up considerable business after the
New York market closed.
Recent studies of stock ownership made by
Brookings Institution helped to convince New
York Exchange members of the desirability of
lengthening their trading day. These studies
showed that 24.02 per cent of the shares and
2.86 per centr of the shareholders are credited
to the West Central, Mountain and Pacific Coast
states. Capital no longer clusters around New
Every family is entitled to one fool; so tha
British will just keep on suffering Dr. Hewlett
Johnson, the Red Dean of Canterbury. Anyona
who believes, as he does, that Chinese children
pick up U.N. disease germs by chopsticks is so
silly as to be harmless.
Chiang Kai-shek says his Nationalists do not
need foreign manpower to recover China from
the Reds, but do need "other military assist
ance." Recalling how he promised to clean up on
the Communists in six months one can't put
much faith in his present confidence.
Deatli Claims
F. V. Edwards,
Mill Worker
Forrest V. Edwards, Oregon
Pulp and Paper Co. employe and
resident of Roberts and Salem
most of his life, died Friday at his
home on Route 5.
Born in Frankfort, Kans., Sept.
12, 1895, Edwards came to Oregon
with his family when he was two
and a half. They settled in Roberts
where Edwards lived until moving
to Salem several years ago. He was
a member of the Roberts Grange.
Surviving are his widow, the
former Reba Rodgers to whom he
was married at Eugene Feb. 17,
1914; a son, Forrest Leroy Edwards
of Beaverton; two brothers, John
and Claude Edwards, both of Sa
lem; two half-brothers, Orie Mar
tin of Portland and Clarence Mar
tin of Salem and six grandchild
ren. A daughter, June Eyerly, died
in 1946.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later by the Virgil T.
Golden Co.
The Safety
Valve
AFTER THE TUMULT
To the Editor:
Now that the "sound and fury,
the "tumult and shouting" of the
Republican convention is dying
down and the Democratic con
vention is not yet under way, it
may be well in the lull to ap
praise developments up to the
present.
In brief, as usual "we the peo
ple," get stung. Eisenhower
apparently is less of an evil than
Taft or MacArthur. How much
less if any is problematical.
For a candidate for vice-president
the party's choice was more
restricted. About the only worse
choice that could have been made
is Joe McCarthy. Nixon is a less
evil than Joe McCarthy, if he is
a less evil, only because he is of
lesser caliber.
In a recent Interview Martin
Dies is reported to have said he
had been "vindicated" by events
Following this assumption, Judas
Iscariot might be said to have
been "vindicated" since Christ
was considered something of a
"subversive" by some.
H. M. STRYKER,
Salem.
Four Soldiers
Arrive Monday
Included In the more than 3,000
Marines and Navy veterans who
will return Monday from Korea
aboard the U. S. transport M. C
Meigs is Sgt. Eldon W. Shafer.
Shafer, son of Mr. and Mrs. I
V. Shafer, 1220 N. 21st St., gradu
ated from Salem High School in
June, 1948. He worked one year
and then attended Oregon Stata
College 1949-50. He entered tha
U. S. Marines Nov. 27, 1950 and
has been in Korea since July 13,
1951. His parents last heard from
him July 4th when he wrote say
ing he was on his way from Korea.
Also listed as being aboard tha
transport are Cpl. John R. Monroe,
370 N. Cottage St.; Cpl. Lawrence
D. Brown, Salem Route 9 and CpL
Jacob O. Zeiszler, West Stayton.
Recause rain pnnrfnp( m-fc4-r
city quietly from clouds to earth,
lightning frequently stops when
rain begins to fall.
Some summer conventions not reported in the usual run of
daily news:
The annual convention of the Willamette Valley Rock Skip
pers and Crawfish Searchers Association. This
lively group is made up solely of fathers who
attend picnics with young children and are
called upon to teach them (the kids) how to
skip rocks over stream surfaces and how to
hunt for crawfish. Roundtable discussions were
held on such topics as "A Study of the Varia
bles In Wind Resistance For Flat Rocks and
Round Ones," "Stone Bruises and What To Do
For Them," and "Separating The Toddler From
The Crawfish."
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Former Governor William M. Tuck told tha
Virginia Democratic convention that the Demo
cratic administration in Washington is "a vast
bureaucracy, grown fat, wasteful, corrupt and
arrogant under the leadership of a Pendergast
politician." This Democrat seems to be stealing
Republican thunder.
Marion Davies, who surprised everyone by
marrying a merchant marine skipper shortly
after the death of her great friend, W. R. Hearst,
is suing for divorce after nine months of mar
riage. In spite of the skipper their matrimonial
bark went on tha rocks.
Harriman and Barkley are Regarded as
Truman Choices But Race Still Wide Open
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A
y JOSEPH and STEWART
ALSOP
WASHINGTON In the next
great drama to be staged at Chi
cago, the most important actor
will remain in the wings (or ra
ther here in
until tha
grand climax.
By an authori
tative estimate,
Harry S. Tru
man can swing
at least 400
Democratic del-
gate votes to
any candidate
the convention
f"""" ... likes : and can
delegate votes to a candidate tha
convention does not like.
Such, at any rate, is said
ba the Presi
dent's measure-
xnent of his own
power in his ;
party. All those
close to Truman
agree that the
President
dead -set against
being drafted
himself. And
they also pic
ture him, at this
ment. as being -1
in the mood of a cheerful travel
er happily surveying a Swedish
smorgasbord table.
It is quite possible that tha
President has already made his
choice among the bewildering
variety of Democratic candidates
who constitute the smorgasbord.
If so, he has only whispered it
to one or two confidential agents.
In any case, one can venture a
highly informed guess as to
where the choice may fall, and
where it will not fall. Proceeding
by the method of elimination,
the candidates who are highly
unlikely to get the Presidential
nod are the following:
Sen. Estes Kefaaver of Tenne
ssee. Truman's lw opinian at
to
.1
Kefaaver is unchanged, although
those close to the White House
say the President will not Inter
pose a veto if the convention roes
Kefauver's way.
Sen. Robert A. Kerr, of Okla
homa. Kerr is a Truman crony,
and" is supported by other Tru
man cronies, but his associations
are too oily, and Truman thinks
he has no national standing.
Sen. Richard B. Russell, of
Georgia, Truman likes and re
spects RnmselL and is grateful for
his cooperation in the effort to
work out aa agreea civil rights
plank. Bat he feels Russell can
not carry the big- Bartbera states.
Among the serious, active can
didates, thereiore, the President's
choice may be considered as ly
ing between W. Averell Harri
man and Vice President Alben
Barkley. Each of these two has
his own special attraction and
drawbacks in the President's
eyes.
Harriman is a 100 per cent Fair
Dealer, who would fight it out
with Gen. Elsenhower on domes
tie issues in the hammer-and-tongs
manner Truman admires.
Harriman's candidacy was
strangly encouraged by the
White House. It did not begin as
a serious candidacy, but Harri
nsan has made it into a serious
candidacy by his own sheer guts
and determination. The President
has been much Impressed by re
ports recently received of Har
riman's performance in Colorado
and other Rocky Mountain states.
Moreover, he likes Harriman best
of all the candidates.
The objection to Harriman is
that his nomination would com
mit the Democrat party to an
extreme and radical strategy. In
itially, the President favored
such a strategy against Gen. Eis
enhower. The South was to be
cast to the winds. A strong, ag
gressive fight on home issues was
to win the northern states. But
the recent performance of Gen.
Eisenhower and the Republicans
in general has made this strat
egy less attractive. And because
of the southerners' opposition, a
Truman nod to Harriman would
be almost sure to split the Dem
ocratic party.
As for Vice President Barkley,
he is the candidate of the Senate
and not of the White House. Tru
man does not much love Barkley,
despite the faithful service Bark
ley has given to him. Yet Barkley
is a vigorous campaigner. He
would unite the party instead of
dividing it. He has a s uprising
amount of hidden northern sup
port. The objection to him, both
in the eyes of Truman and of the
party in general, is simply his
age. Because the Vice President is
seventy-four, he looks, inevtiably,
like a caretaker candidate. And
against Eisenhower, a caretaker
candidate is not a tempting can
didate. If all goes as now planned, the
President will weigh these pros
and cons until the appropriate
time (unless he has already made
his decision). Then, when tha
right time comes, either Harri
man or Barkley will benefit by
the laying on of hands. If Bark
ley is the choice, the laying on of
hands can easily be enough to
put him over. If Harriman Is
chosen, the outcome will be more
doubtful, because of the south
erners. In short, despite the greatness
of the President's potential in
fluence, and his present inten
tion to choose a candidate of his
own at the right time, the final
decision of this Democratic con
vention is still unpredictable. The
plain truth is that the delegates
will perceive the same objections
to either of the President's
choices as the President himself
has noted. And if the convention
thinks that these objections are
insuperable, a kind of basket-of-eels
deadlock can still result, and
the convention can still turn to
Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois.
The semi-annual picnic and fishfry of the Society of Cross
word Pussle Addicts. The convention opened with a heated talk
by J. Fgty Oof on the general theme of legislation seeking to
eliminate the use of words meaning- old Roman coins, Lithuanian
wine measures and Egyptian dynasties in crossword pussies. Mr.
Oof, often billed as the "only man in the -world to work pussies
in a three letter word meaning- writing fluid," said that the use
of intricate medical terms by puizle makers was driving him
stark, raving three-letter word meaning angry.
The annual conclave of the Pacific Coast Association of Fly
ing Saucers and Other Strange Heavenly Phenomena Sighters.
This fraternal group of 100,000 was nearly split assunder over
debate on a proposal that PCAFSOSHPS members should take a
loyalty oath. The convention was almost thrown into a tizzy
when a member reported having sighted unexplainable vision
ary phenomena on the second night of the sessions. His report
was thrown out, however, when it was discovered that his ex
perience occurred right after a lively welcoming committee par
ty in one of the hotel rooms.
The quarterly debate and oratory session of the Union of
Chronic Worriers. The convention was held out-of-doors because
convention goers were fearful an auditorium might burn down.
Topics discussed (until everyone was sick and had headaches)
Included: "How To Find Additional Things To Worry About,
"How To Keep An Ulcer When Things Are Going Good, Which
They Never Are." "Getting- The Most Out Of Death, Taxes, Fam
ines. Depressions, Wars and High Prices." Helpful advice from
old worries was passed along to beginners. And one resolution
called on members to not Just sit arounand worry alone but to
pass the bad news along to friends.
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The annual seminar of the Oregon Association of Vacation
Wives. This organization is made up of wives who have qualified
for membership by making up their husbands' minds on where
to spend the family vacation. Panel sessions included such in
teresting topics as "Husbands vs Dogs As Vacation Companions,"
"Road Maps And How To Train Men To Read Them," "A Cri
tique On Effective Back Seat Driving," and "The Use Of The
Tantrum In Changing Your Mate's Mind." One resolution passed
by the organization urged members to train their husbands on
the proper care of children on vacation trips. This, the women
felt, would give them a chance to relax and enjoy their vacations.
PU5 S3DQS tJO) ffiQCH
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stood in the big room, a pile
of cotton bags beside it, ready
for the cleaning of the clover and
timothy seed.
It was the orchard, however,
which held the greatest lure.
There granddad liked to sit in
the shade. Youngsters sought
fallen apples in the tall grass,
hoping to find some free of
worm-holes; or climbed the tree
to pick the ripe ones. The wat
erboy sought its cool shade
when the breakdown of a binder
in the grain field provided a
respite from his chores of rid
ing the pony and bringing water
to the thirsty harvest hands,
the strap in the jug-handle loop
ed over the pommel of the sad
dle. The old house had its mem
ories. It had been located on
that side of the homestead be
cause that gave easiest access
to an old military road. The
new house was built on higher
ground, near the corner where
a church stood, with its coun
try graveyard, and where the
newer road, laid out on section
lines, led to the county seat. The
old house was hallowed with the
deep experiences of living: birth
and death, singing and dining
and just visiting.
The folk, in the new house
which was no longer new, liked
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occasionally to go down to the
old house, to see if a missing
hen had hidden a nest under it,
or if the red plums were ripe.
Perhaps in the dusk of the eve
ning, when the harvest hands
were sitting out on the porch or
lying on tha grass under the
maple tree, resting, smoking
their pipes, speculating on whe
ther the rain would hold off till
the harvest was done, the grand
mother might be seen coming up
the lane, a basket on her arm
filled with Siberian crab-apples
from the old orchard "nothing
like those crab-apples for jelly," j
she would say.
"The old farm home is mother's
yet, and mine.
And filled it is with plenty
and to spare.
But we are lonely here In life's
decline
Tho' fortune smiles around us
everywhere.
"We look across the gold of the
harvests as of old;
The corn, the fragrant clover,
and the hay;
But most we turn our gaze, as
with eyes of other days
To the orchard, where the
children used to play."
(Riley)
To the orchard, and to the old
house nearby, and back into the
misty past.
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