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1 1- tea If, r . . f vrrm1 . . - XtVlfSS resoti Statesman "JVo Faror Stray Us No Fear Shall Aire" Prom First SUtetmu. March 2. 1U1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published every morning. Business " office 213 S. Commercial St, Salem, Ore.. Telephone Z-S441. Entered at the poctoffio at Salem. Or, as second class matter obdsr act f nooguea Marcn 3, 1879. icucnirnoN bahi By carrier tn clU: Daily and Sunday Dail v only Sunday only Sunday enly (In advance! Anywhere tn U. S- -. . 1.43 par mo. US per oa OS week SO per mo. . 2.73 six mo. S.00 year By ssail. Daily am Saaaay (In advance) la sU counties $ 1M per mo. (Benton. Clackamas. Linn. S.29 six mo. Marion. Polk, Tamnllli. 10-60 rear Elsewhere tn Oregon U per In O. 1 outside Oregon 1.45 per mo. Associated Press MIMBIs OF: ftareaa of AeWerttsta Ts Abated Press - -ntlUed exclusively to the un "17. tor republication it all local wtw printed in (AdvertUjif representatives Ward -Griffith Co, this newspaper. New York Chicago. San rrancUco. Detroit). AaeTt Boreao of Clremlatiea Oregon Loses a Fine Judge , It's a long, long trail from the heather of Scotland to the chair of chief justice of Oregon's Supreme Court. For Judge Arthur D. Hay, it was long, honorable and productive of the finest of life's offerings. udge Hay, of Scotland, came to America 48 years ago, after already . serving an apprentice ship at law. For a time he worked in the woods and sawmills of the Pacific Northwest, but by 1911 he had his law degree from the University of Oregon and a full career in the legal profes sion was launched. First in a Portland law office, then in Klamath Falls and then for a quarter of a cen tury in the Lakeview country. Judge Hay formed the character which was to be the heritage of the state's court of final appeal. Stepping stones were the district attorneyship of Lake County and nearly 10 years on the circuit bench. He was named to the supreme court by former Gov. Charles A. Sprague. Many a Boy Scout is better fitted for adult life through the kindly guidance which Judge Hay exercised in his after-hours handling of the Court of Review which passes on the qual ifications for the Eagle badge, high honor in scouting. His work on the Scout Court was one of probing into the thinking of Eagle can didates, and t6 mold that thinking, rather than to ask the prosiac quesions of fitness for the honor which already had been earned. In the death of Justice Hay, Oregon has lost one of its most learned, practical and pro ductive judges. And Salem has lost one of its iest citizens. Individual Enterprise Two ex-fliers seem to be rolling along well in brand - spanking new business building and selling midget one-cylinder automobiles near Athens, O. The two, Claud Dry and Dale Orcutt, decided it would be impossible with their limit ed capital to go into business building cars of normal dimensions. Also, it seemed a step to ward bankruptcy to try building a scaled-down bit car. So. in a typical "build-a-better-mousetrap" fashion, the two pooled ideas and built King Midget, a car of about 500 pounds, conservative ly rated at 8 horsepower and publicized to travel at speeds upwards of 50-miles-per-hour. Cost of the car is said by the founders of Midget Motors Manufacturing Corporation to be "about $1 per pound" less than the current cost of some beefsteak. At a time of year when competitive medium priced automobiles (medium - price delivered row estimated at roughly $2,500) are vie:ng for Lattimore and Vincent Deprived of Impartial Trial- Chance to Face Their Chief Accuser By JOSEPH ALSOP i W ASHINGTON Owen Latti more and John Carter Vincent are two of the silliest fellows t il i rnArtar has ever bad the misfortune to know. They are additionally . 14 accused, at the f "t"if moment, of be- I "VLi Ing traitors to si'j the United 4 J?f if States. Maybe I4 v'.'S they are. But itf IV ir is a duty tol I point out that! 1 the right fl i'fl thee men to a Joseph AAm fair - trial has been, and is being, shockingly and slyly violated. The unfairness lies in a simple fact. Vincent has, in effect, been tried on one set of charges and found guilty on quite another. The same thing is now happen ing to Lattimore. Above all, both men have been carefully de prived of any chance to answer the main accusation brought against them. Hie circumstances 3d timing of this main accusa tion against Vincent and Latti more deserve careful study. Late la 1945. Loads Badens loft the Communist Party and nt harked en his present career a a professional ex-Co mm unist. Daring the years 194C throne 1149. according to Us own testt saony. Badens spent the incred IVle total of more than Z. hoars tracing for the FBI the liflcauons of th Commanlst isptraey. During these same years, Lat timore held an honored academic appointment, while Vincent oc rupied positions of the highest trust in the State Department. They were both immeasurably more important figures than th many other men Budenz was ac cusing to the FBL Yet during four whole years and 3.000 hours of inquisition, from 1948 through 1949, the record shows that Bu denz never once mentioned to the FBI that either Lattimore or Vincent was a secret Communist. A built-in pick-up in Bndens's memory evidently begaa to oper as fa the winter of 1950. when Sea. Joseph R. McCarthy started bis attack on Communists tn nrerament. In the ensuing com motion, Badens first denounced La"more and later Vincent to his FBI friends, and then ac cused them as "Communist Party members" in sworn public testl-' mony. This belated recollection, unsupported by a shred of inde pendent evidence, seemed a bit odd to say the least. The whole thing began to look downright fishy when Budens later became the star witness to Sen, Pat Me Carran's Internal Security Com mittee. Budenz then, for the first time, made a specific statement about Lattimore and Vincent that could be checked against historic facts. He told the McCarran Commit tee that Lattimore and Vincent acting as "members of the Com munist Party" had been "relied on" to guide Henry A. Wallace "along the paths" of the -Communist Party line on his mission to China in 1944. The facts flatly refuted this first attempt of Badens to docu ment his charges. As It happened, the person who mainly guided the somewhat confused Vie President during his China mis sion was this reporter. Vincent helped to rive his gnidanc ia sa important way. Lattimore did not guide Wallace at any time. The result of this reporter's and Vincent's ruidance was aa ar gent recommendation. Wallace arged that 1 President Roosevelt should remove General Joseph V. StillwelL who strongly fav ored the Chinese Communists, from command In China- and should give the command to the stoutly anti-Communist General Albert C Wedemeyer. This was the strongest blow that could then be struck at the Communist cause in China. When Wedemeyer actually replaced Stillwell a few months later, th undoubted effect was to defer the Chinese Communist triumph for a period of years. Hence the facts glaringly contradicted Bu denz's sworn testimony. When asked to explain, Budenz only entangled hiimelf in a further web of contradiction. This reporter, thea being re luctantly called by the McCarran Committee, therefore felt bound to recommend that the case of Louis Budens bo submitted to the Justice Department for in vestirstioa of perjury. As might have been expected, however. Sen. McCarran and his far from Impartial Investigators ljrnered an th evidence aratnst Tiudenx. ' It . honors as "longer, lower, wider, sleeker and greater horsepower model," it smacks of fertile imagination and healthy self - confidence that two men should run counter to these consumer demands and produce an automobile of these diminuitive proportions. And, despite all predic tions to the contrary, the two have managed to gain considerable success in a large-scale field usually dealing in production orders in the hun dreds of thousands. The corporation is abje to produce about 100 of these one-cylinder, air cooled, two-passenger fleaweights a month and production units are described far below the in creasing rate of demand. Enterprise and individual initiative and in genuity are still great factors in America. Now that you've bought presents for all the kiddies and sent Christmas cards to all the peo ple you know and taken care of all the rela tives with a remembrance, why not do a favor for a total stranger before Christmas. It will bring a little extra happiness into someone's life. And we don't necessarily mean the strang er's life we mean your own. Editorial Comment TWO STRAWBERRIES INSTEAD OF ONE Some old timers in the Willamette valley prob ably still scratch their heads when groups talk seriously about the need for irrigation in the re gion. Time was when rain was considered a surplus commodity, but the experience of the past summer, particularly, drove home the fact that in years to come the Willamette valley probably will be buying water. This probability was given added credence Wed nesday at the session of the Willamette Basin Pro ject Commission in Salem, Engineer for the organ ization presented a program to bring over 500,000 acres in the valley under irrigation, 40,900 of them in Clackamas county. Studies prepared by various agencies during th past year or two have emphasized that Oregon is one of the great potential "bread baskets" of th expanding West. The population growth has chang ed the supply picture. The time has come, or is fast approaching, when western markets make pos sible western outlets which can compete profitably with those in other areas. As these western markets become stabilized assured through local consumer needs the demands on production, particularly agriculture production, will be tremendous. It is good therefore, that plans are already mov ing to meet future demands. There is not much land left in the Willamette valley to be brought under profitable cultivation, but there still remains many ways of increasing the productivity of thos lands already being cultivated; and one of th best Is to get a controlled amount of water onto the land. An adequate supply of water added to chemically-developed fertilizers and plant food can, without question, make two strawberries grow where only on grew before. (Oregon City Enterprise-Courier). Well, we now approach that frayed edge of the Yule tea son when those sluggards (including 90 per cent of us) who failed to take the commercial bull by the horns and do their Christmas shopping early are now wondering what in the heck to get the kiddies. For these undecided parents we make our annual list of suggested gifts for the kids. If yott don't find these at local stores drop a lino to the old boy at the North Pole. JUNIOR LET'S FLAT ' POLITICS SET. This sturdy, educational gam will keep your child oeeapled for hoars at a time. It will sis teach him to be a leader. Th set includes the follow ing articles: (1) Alphabetically arranged list of doable-meaning Barnes to call one's opponents. (Z) Two quarts of special mud and two ever-wear slings to sUng It with. (1) Three dosen Com munist labels. (4) Two dosen red barrings. (5) Selected, list of homey, humorous yarns, (f ) Screened Ust of suitable quotations from Lincoln, Jefferson and the Bible. (7) Fear solutions to th Korean war. HANDY BOOK OF KIDDIE EXCUSES. A compilation of over 300 tried and true children's excuses one to fit every occasion. Did your son have a ready excuse that time he burned down the garage? Or did he just stand there grinning word lessly? If your child is unable to come up with quick, plaus ible alibis for most of the trouble he causes he needs this book. The excuses are arranged alphabetically for speedy reference. Manufacturers' motto is: "No matter what he does, we've got an excuse for it!" SUPER DELUXE LETS GO FISHING GAME. With this remarkable gam children can make-believe they are going fish ing Just like Daddy and Unci Clarence. This set contains every thing needed for the child to pretend h is a a fishing trip. Includes: (1) Dried up river. (2) Four under-sixed. Illegal fish. (S) Fishing rod guaranteed to break on the first strike. (4) List f 29 Imported fisherman's alibis designed to fit all situations. (5) Two dozen "N Fishing,' "No Trespassing,' "Keep Oat, This Means You, and "This Stream Closed To All AngRng," signs, (f ) Quart of assorted rusty hooks, out-of -season flies, bent spinners, faulty lines and unsuccessful lures. (7) On empty creel guaranteed to stay that way. JUST KIDS COWBOY AND INDIAN SET. This is really a bargain offer. When you buy this set for your kiddies look what you get: (1) One dozen full-blooded Sioux Indians. (2) Thirty-acre section of the Mojave Desert. (3) Three genuin pony express riders. (4) Four tough hombres. (5) One column of U. S. Cavalry. (6) Three gallons of real blood. (7) One hun dred assorted war whoops, death cries, women and children screams, bugle calls and arrow pings. (8) Ten tall cliffs with pools of water at the bottom suitable for leaping off into. (9) Two dyed-in-the-wool, tobacco-chewing, bewhiskered Indian scouts, complete with sage remarks and hilarious repartee. (10) Twenty boxes of bloody bandages, strips of petticoats suitable for binding wounds, bullet-torn and arrow-pierced shirts, jackets and hats. (11) Three freight-cars full of dust for sprinkling on men, horses and landscape. (12) 5,000 rounds of small -arms fire. Washington Mirror and Instead recommended dir pains and penalties for Latti more and Vincent. The case of Vincent came bo fore Sen. Hiram Bingham's Loy alty Review Board, Th Board nimbly eluded any confrontation between Vincent and his chief accuser, and made no attempt whatever to sift the contradic tions in Budenz's testimony. Th Budenz testimony was skated over, and Vincent was held to be doubtfully loyal on the grounds of bad judgment and bad association, which in itself sets a very grave precedent. The ease of Lattimore la mor curious still. If Lattimore per jured himself at all, he perjured himself most blackly and most completely when be denied Bu denz's charge of Communist Party membership. By the same token, if Lattimore did not com mit perjury in denying this charge, then Budens must have committed perjury la making it, One man or the other Is plainly a liar. In this connection. It is strikingly Interesting that the leading China lobbyist. Albert Kohlberg. hss recently testified that he did not bellev that Lat timore is a Commanlst Party member. In short, Kohlberg pro- , claimed a disbelief ia the sworn testimony of Budens, with whom ho has been intimately linked. Yet th Justice Department's carefully drawn indictment en tirely omits to accuse Lattimore of perjury on this one count that is crucial. Lattimore, like Vin cent, Is to be. refused the oppor tunity of confronting his chief accuser. He too is to be tried on charges essentially subsidiary. This reporter would not put up a nickel of bail for either Vincent or Lattimore, and would give no word of testimony con cerning them, except about the one Incident known from direct experience the curious incident of the real guidance of Henry Wallace in China In 1944. But whether these two men are guilty or innocent, the fact re mains that the handling of their eases is a gross travesty of Jus tice. If this kind of shifty, squalid truckling to public hysteria con tinues much longer, the sacred rights of American citizens will to be worth very fCopyrUrht, 19SZ, N-w York HrratH Tribune. Inc.l By A. ROBERT SMITH Statesman Correspondent WASHINGTON Apprehen sion is Santa's biggest headache this season in the Nation's capi tal. Many a lam duck Congress man and top drawer bureaucrat has packed his valise and de parted; but many more govern ment employes are staying on in a stat of apprehension, won dering whether Ike's new broom will sweep them out too. Should they tighten their belts this Christmas, or should they spend what may be their last government paychecks? Sensing this dilemma, a Wash ington chain store offered its so lution through a full-page ad in local newspapers captioned AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES: "We're not worried, ' why should you be? Since Nov. 4 theres been a lot of talk and speculation about the future. Thousands and you may be one of them have expressed fears about losing their jobs duo to th change in administration . . . It's true that there will be some changes made. It's only natural. But, based on what has gone before the changes will bo relatively few and we are pre pared to guarantee our faith in the new administration, to prove our contention that you will re tain your Job, with the most earth shaking offer in our his tory! -ANY GOVERNMENT EM PLOYEE WHO PURCHASES A TELEVISION SET, A REFRIG ERATOR, A WASHER OR ANY MAJOR APPLIANCE AT OUR STORE BETWEEN NOW AND DEC 24, 1952, AND LOSES HIS JOB BY REASON OF THE CHANGE IN ADMINISTRA TION BEFORE JUNE 30, 1953 MAY RETURN ANY . MER CHANDISE FOR A FULL RE FUND. furthermore, we will grant credit to any government em ploy regardless of party affilia tion, regardless of department, agency or bureau, on th same basis as always ..." A fellow who apparently wasnt deterred from doing some Christmas shopping in our town because he had been done out of a Job by the Republican vic tory is Gov. Adlai Stevenson. Washington lawyer George W. Ball, longtime friend of Steven-, son, joined the Illinois governor for a downtown shopping tour when he was in town recently. Stevenson and Ball parted at a crowded corner when the Gov ernor's car came by to take him to the airport. As lawyer Ball walked off, a stranger button holed him and asked: "Who was that guy you were with? Pro sure I've seen him somewhere before." Like the tinsel and the rein deer songs which tend to ob scure the Christmas story - of Bethlehem, the elaborate cere mony connected with moving the IT s Constitution and the Dec laration of Independence over shadowed a story of reverence regarding these precious docu ments. For more than 30 years the documents were the main attrac tion at the Library of Congress, until last week when they were carried in an armored car (their specially-built cases resting on Gi. mattresses to avoid road shock) to the National Archives, repository for our historical papers. The uniformed guards at the Library who have watched over the Declaration and the Consti tution during the long visiting hours, were saddest to see them moved, even though their new home .includes a 50-ton vault into which th documents de scend each night. For these guards hav had th unique ex perience of observing tourists of all sorts, but Americans all, come to worship literally wor ship at the shrine of freedom. They noted that a great cathe dral would not have evoked a more reverent attitude from the persons who stepped up to ex amine the faint handwriting of Thomas Jefferson which begins, "When in the course of human events . . ." and goes on to de clare the independence of the colonies from Britain; and the lettering which is prefaced by the familiar preamble, "We, the People of the United States . . ." Many visitors knelt to pray before these powerful words, so many that the Library subse quently installed a marble kneel ing bench. Some leaned forward to kiss the glass-topped case. And more than a few men and women turned to leave with cheeks dampened by the tears they could not controL Significantly; th same week these documents were being moved the Supremo Court just across the street was demon strating once again th vitality of the Constitution as it pre pared to "make another historical decision: Are the Constitutional rights, of citizens being violated by states that separate black Americans from white Ameri cans m tax-supported public school systems? Court decisions across the years have mad th 163-year-old Constitution a foundation for government today. The Americans whose reverence of freedom has brought them in droves to read the great docu ment, to kneel and to pray, as sure its strength tomorrow. Ffcona 43-3333 The Safety Valve Commends Mrs. Bowen To the Editor: I am greatly distressed by the news that Miss Marion Bowen of the County Welfare is to bo transferred from Salem. I have been acquainted with Miss Bow en since she first came to Salem, and I know personally of many places where she has done com mendable things and has shown excellent judgment in dealing with people. My husband and I cannot see our good friend and the friend of many needy people in Marion County be dismissed from her of fice without voicing our concern, and express a hope that the matter may be reconsidered by those in authority. Marion Bowen is a good wom an, and has done a fine service for the people of Salem and Mar ion County. Those of us who know about her should make our ideas known. Mrs. Jack Fong Chan 284 N. Commercial St., Salem, Ore. Opposes Compulsion To the Editor: It appears that Mr. John C. F. Merrifield would like to turn the pages back 500 years when re ligions were forced upon people. Doesn't he remember his history, how this great country was colo nized by people seeking religious freedom? Whose Bible and what version would he choose that would satisfy all readers? Mr. Merrifield surely knows that there are many faiths who do not use the Bible for spiritual guidance, nor do they look upon the book with the same view as do the United Churchmen. Men in Mr. Merrifield's posi tion could learn a lesson from Chester Horn, and in the capaci ty of senator, promote legisla tion that would yield greater re wards than what he proposes. Max A. Brown Route 1, Box 248-X Stayton, Ore. Would Douse Mor Lights To the Editor: I stood on a busy street corner in Salem and it was less than two weeks until Christmas. Th crowds were there, the music, and th Salvation Army workers, and, yes, the lights too, but for me the wrong lights were burning. I stared up at the Santas and bells hanging unlit amid their greenery, looking half -apologetic as though they thought it was a week after Christmas and some one had forgotten to tak them down or had hung them in July by mistake. I miss all the Christmas lights and I think this is a good chance for the Downtown Merchants Ass'n. to show their good will to the townspeople by its members sacrificing their outdoor neons in favor of the "Christmas Look." If there was some objection to this, but the majority still want ed to cooperate with Santa, couldn't there be a compromise with stores turning off neons and unnecessary lights at closing time? Spose maybe? Mrs. W. E. Hartley Salem, Ore. (Editor's note: " Many mer chants already have reduced the hours of store lighting.) Air-Tight Cars Dangerous Secretary of State Earl T. New bry warned Friday against riding in . air-tight automobiles even . in the coldest weather. He said carbon monoxide pois oning, generally the result of de fective exhaust equipment, are reported at frequent intervals in Oregon. Newbry said drivers should keep a window of their cars open at all times. 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