rcfiou Pubhahed very morning Brtnea offie Z19 S. Commercial St, Salem. Ore, , Telcpbona t-3V By earrtei ta ettlaat Daily and Sunday Dally o ty Sunday only - By auLiU Ssa y ouly (la advaaca) Anywbare ta U. ft. Anocina PrtM (Tha Aitoclatad Preaa la ntlUcd excJuatrely ta tba ui m tor rapubUcaUoa -m all c' saws prlntad ta ( tola nawspapar). Year-end Audit Between Christmas and New Year's is an ex cellent time to take stock of the year just clos ing and the one in the immediate offing. Our thinking is geared both to the past and to the future. There are thankfulness and regrets, hop es and forebodings, complacency and remorse. There are as many shades of thought as there are people. But basically here in the Willam ette Valley there are gratitude, buoyancy and optimism. Rightfully so. Indices do not tell the entire picture, but what they show is bright. Construction general ly is at an all-time high. So are bank clearings. Retail trade in many lines has set new records. Many merchants once fearful because of a com paratively late start in Christmas business found that a surge in recent weeks carried the, to new highs in volume. . : ' " And even in the many instances where in come, in economic parlance, has 'levelled off' the over-all result brings no dissatisfaction. There is little doubt that 1952 comprised a sta bilizing period.. The value of the dollar did not decrease. In many lines, what it will buy in creased. The all-commodity market price index, dur ing 1952, dropped from 109.5 to 91.3; retail foods (Portland) from 254.8 to 249.6; wholesale food price index from 113 to 110.1; wholesale pro cessed foods from 110.1 to 104.6; furniture and other household durables from 112.3 to 111.9; fuel, power, from 107.4 to 106.1. v The only major-commodity wholesale index to show a price increase comprised lumber and . wood -products from 120.1 to 120.4. That, of Jurse, is to Oregon's economic advantage. None of the decreases was sharp. But with generally - increased wages (Oregon's production-worker average of $82.16 led the nation), family finances have ha 1 1 e d the downward plunge of the past decade. The strain on the budget appears to have a chance of lessening, rather than to continually increase. The spiral of Inflation -seems to.be at or near a ceiling. In i rid us trial development, the valley in 1952 largely marked time. But a lot of spade-work was done, particularly by the newly-formed Sa lem Industrial Council. The return of the $5, 000,000 alumina-from-clay plant to private own ership and operation seems imminent; down-r town Salem properly has been acquired in large plats on the assumption that new retail outlets will be attracted to the capital city. Agriculture has flashed a somewhat confused picture on the 1952 screen in Oregon but it is fundamentally sound. All prospects seem to point to continued healthy income. In all such comments as these, it is apparent that the past cannot be separated from the fu ture. There is no sharp line of demarcation be tween Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. Aside from the hoped for resurgence of domestic stability and moral ity under a new political regime, the Willam ette Valley's major Wish for 1953 probably is fbr Peace on Earth and a continued share in the blessings which 1952 has bestowed. I IfflW.".1 , ;WB! Dules to Visit Europe After Inauguration To Help Bolster Sagging Western Alliance By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON For the fu ture, there is a lot of interest in the idea of an Eisenhower-Stalin meeting, which has so suddenly i-ve been Injected into the news. As a matter of f V -41$ fact, it can be - J "t ? mmi4 nn crrvw-t III authority that . both the new President - and A his future Sec retary of State, John Foster Dulles, had been weighing this same idea Jooeph Alep f before Generalissimo Stalin in dicated he was not opposed to It. In the State Department, more over, the thinking f the fore most American diplomatic ex perts has been running on the same lines. These future advisors of Dul les and Eisen hower reason that it will be cruelly difficult to limit the Ko rean war, if a rami ffnaiv I f lis launched. Tey admit that i.iitewart Mmm the only way to .. . r end the war is to make it hurt the other side more, so long negotiations seem hopeless. Yet they do not believe thai either the Russians or the Chinese tfesire to risk an unlim ited war in the Far East Hence they argue that mere may be a eood chance of a peace ful settlement in Korea, if President- elect Eisenhower and Gen 1 aralissimo Stalin get together to -talk cold turkey, , la these tircn ifiiirei. It Is a proof ef the sound pelitfcal judg meat ef the sew President aa the atw Secretary ef State that they are still inclined te tire mrWrity te the problem ef Ea- xav carapa ai vmm - V !. iJ Jpatearaaii u-ao MSC mNo Favor Sways Us No Fear Shall Atce". From first Statesman. Marea Zt, 131 THE STATESMAN PUBU5iWiG COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher S tara at Um aattar SCBSltlTTlON KATES .1 1.45 par tS per ma O0 week M per mo. X.7S six mo. 1.00 year iB-ataa. atari, rwt. Tamftui). la ta O ft. MEM-Eft on at tfta A, ww Tare AaaK Barcaa or Maine's new state can "say the Western alliance la showing slgns of a very great and terrible strain. If these strains reach the breaking point If Elsenhower meets Stalin with the Western alUance divided and disaolving fa his rear he will not have a bargaining leg to stand on. In such circumstances, Stalin will only be Interested in playing a waiting game, la order te see what prises he may grab from the ruins ef the West. Hence it can be said on the highest authority that the pres ent plan is for John Foster Dulles to go to Europe, and to meet with the Allied leaders, as soon as be has taken his oath as Secretary of State. The need, as forecast sen m time age in reports from Europe in ttds space. Is argent. The NATO plan for European de fense, originally drawn by El senhower himself, is being chopped down. Both la Franco and Germany, eppositisa is ris ing te the project for a European army, indading the German con tribution of twelve divisions that Is the necessary keystone ef any European security system. The whole drive for European unity is losing momentum. Ia short, the main aims of American pol ler ia Europe are ia danger. The new President and Secre tary of State were always con scious of this growing danger, despite their quite proper initial preoccupation with the problem of Korea. Their concern seems to have been crystallized into a de cision to take actioo. however,, by an informal appeal from the old friend and co-worker of both "men, John J. McCloy. As Aericaa High Cob unis aianer la Germany. MeCloy col laborated Intimately with Eisen hower at all times. Be had a very special role moreover, in El senhower's vital decision te sup port the Earepeaa army project, which Eisenhower at first re garded as Impractical. When all hunsr In the tlar-. - It was UcCloy who brought to at Salam. Ora.. aa ULoar set conjraaa Mare & M7 n. OaOy aad Snavaay (ta advaaaa) Ui wmBm , I 1 00 par Clackamas, Lisa. a au 10 M Oregse LM par L.U par 1 Arr- rvpaaat rMtaan - taa. Mawapaaat Uttvaa Ward-Orunu Ca, CMft ootrouj. Christmas Aftermath The Christmas tree is dropping its needles, some of its ornaments are broken and several of the colored lights are burned out. The shamble of empty boxes, Christmas wrappings and rib bon and cord have been cleared away, but Christmas still is spread pretty much over the house. Only the sturdier of the toys have survived the initial onslaught. Broken springs have made mechanical toys immobile, fire carts have lost wheels and ladders, the doll buggy is already lopsided from frequent overturning. The space suits and helmets appear to be quite earth bound. The catastrophe to many of the gifts may real ly be a blessing, however. What is distressing is what to do with the gimcracks and gadgets that are durable and utterly useless. Where even to store them for possible emergency use for a bridge prize becomes something of a problem. Prosperity has hung on so long that donors have got away from the hard-times theme of "Give practical gifts." And the ingenious contrivers of items for the gift trade have come up with in numerable offerings to tempt the eye of the "dis traught purchaser, and bring dispair to the soul of the recipient. Writing in the December Harper's Sylvia Wright bore down on the fantasies of generosity which the season has brought out, like the gad get that can roast two frankfurters in seven minutes if you plug it into the cigaret lighter on your car, or the bedside table lamp which also is a coffee grinder. "Get Away from Me with Those Christmas Gifts" she heads her arti cle. And the ones she describes are enough to drive one back to neckties and handkerchiefs. There are in addition the bric-a-brac which not so many years ago were scorned as old fashioned but now enjoy a resurrection. The dis carded "what-not" is much sought for to ac commodate the pink elephant, the red-coated soldiers, the China dolls and the pushcarts which pour off the mass production lines. It's all a matter of taste; and for tastes there is no accounting. If you got a decanter with a music box attachment or a set of marshmellow forks with a hassock, just give them stable room for a time until"you can think of some one else to inflict them on. Play it safe though; do not wait a few months and return it to the sender as a birthday gift, though that is one way of getting revenge. Harry Truman evidently intends to go out fighting. He roughed up Eisenhower by refer ring to his promise to visit Korea as "dema goguery," and has been jabbing at MacArthur. Ike has kept his mouth shut, but MacArthur will not take it lyingdown. Harry is naturally anxious to cut his notch in history, but at this stage perhaps he should let the historians take over. governor is a florist, it with flowers." Now that gether Eisenhower and the bril liant Frenchman, Jean Monnet, for a discussion of the proposed European army that lasted for almost an entire day. And it was immediately after this crucial meeting, in turn, that Eisen hower delivered his historic speech at the London Guildhall the finest and clearest call for European union that has been heard since the war. Many European leaders know this background. Many are also close friends of McCloy. For sev eral ef them, therefore, McCloy was a natural confidant. Both Jean Monnet and Germany's Chancellor Conrad Adenauer are known to have been among those who sent McCloy Informal warning of the trouble la Europe, combined with pleas for Elsen hower te tarn his attention to the European problem. These informal messages were transmitted at the meeting be tween Eisenhower, Dulles and MeCloy in New York on Dec 15. The mere news of this meeting caused a significant improvement in the political tone in Germany, where McCloy's name carries so much weight. From this fact one can gauge the potential effect of "a journey to Europe by . John Foster Du lies, when newly clothed with the authority of Secretary of State, and ; backed by the commanding authority of the new President. Dalles naay have a very hard. time. The French pohtieal crisis, for istanee. win certainly co i pUeate the matter of the Eare a army sad the Gena divi sions. Yet If Dalles and Elsen hower eaa guide-Americaa policy saicry areana uus nasty a new perspective eaa well With a Western alliance gn united and con firmed la its pur poses, Eisenhower will then be able to speak to Stalin with the most unchallengeable authority; That Is the kind of tone of voles that the Russian dictator may well understand and listen to. (Copyright, KS3 xrew xora swi xna r i . . i W m POLITICAL NIGHTMARE DUE ABOUT JAN. 20 ,fv lJplS osiso&m w.ongressiona Q I notice that Congressmen who were defeated in the No vember elections are still serving en Congressional e o m m i 1 1 ees which are holding investigations. How can they do that? A N e w Congressmen who were elected in November will not take their seats until Jan. S, 1953. Members who were de feated In the elections continue as members until the new Con gress is seated, so they still serve on committees until that time. The new Congress will be the' 83rd; the present is the 82nd. Q What was the narrowest margin by which a Congressman won election in November. A In Colorado's Fourth Dis trict the official state canvass showed that Rep. Wayne N. As pinwall (D) was re-elected by a margin of 2d votes. He defeated State Sen. Howard M. Shults (R) by a count of 39,676 to 39, 647. Q If Congress cuts the new budget drastically, where will the reductions bo made? A Some observers say there can't be big cuts in the budget of any branch of the govern ment. However, Rep. John Ta ber (R-N. Y.), prospective Chairman of the House Appro priations Committee in the 83rd Congress, says that appropria tions can be but for the follow ing five agencies: Atomic Energy Commission, Mutual Security Administration and the Depart ments of Agriculture, Defense and Interior. Q Is any of the money which Congress appropriates for for eign aid actually spent la the United States T A According to the Mutual Security Administration, about 70 per cent of the money spent for food, agriculture and indus trial commodities and technical services is spent in the United States. From the start of the MSA program on April 3. 1948, to Aug. 31, 1952, about $11.7 bil lion was authorized for procure ment of these goods and servi ces. Of that amount, approxi mately $8.2 billion was author ized to be spent directly in the United States. A breakdown of the money spent for personnel and such things as ocean freight (Continued from page one) owing to the inability of Gover nor Benson to act." . The new governor, Paul Pat terson, will complete the McKay term since there is no election until November, 1954. He will be eligible for election to a full term then. Whether he could serve another full term is a ques tion which has never been de cided in Oregon. It was dis cussed some in connection with McKay who had served a part term before the present one. The constitution limits a governor to eight years out of twelve. What would happen if a governor ran for the office after serving six years must be left for future de cision. Based on history in Ore gon he wouldn't be re-elected. It he were, his right to the office might be challenged at the end of his eighth year of service. Looking at the record the Ore gon governorship is not a "kill in g" office, except sometimes politically. And now it has with McKay become a stepping-stone to higher preferment. This time Oregon can take comfort that the succession Is In good hands. ! HIP sesame uQDQjDS I Quiz is not available, but the MSA says a. large proportion of such spending is done in the United States. MSA officials say all money spent on the program ev entually comes hock to America. Q I understand there Is some talk ef changing the dates of le gal holiday. What would be tha object of this? A The National Association of Travel Officials and others have urged Congress to change the nation's legal holidays so they would come' on Mondays each year, enabling people to take more "weekend" vacations. The proposal would be to cele brate each holiday on the Mon day nearest it rather than on the actual holiday date. (Copy. 1952, Cong. Quar.) mmmmmsmmsEmsa GRIN AND BEAR IT -. r fof (Gal, J "The techatoal term far your complaint would only eoi Mrs. Truffle... ta plain English It means ST75.tS! . . . a You need neuer ones to strangers Ira, yow Of Mvk ... CAlt UI acomw'not mitm ol traaprtoaaa . :l -ji-rrzSl Is"'Mrf 'i piaa. trai amavtaoe owr V tfiPVlT ' '' 'j' ' H-'gj'" f " t'-'f JjTTNj Better English By D. C WILXJA3IS 1. What is wrong with this sen tence? "The boy is a new begin ner in this work, and he is not as efficient as some of us." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "gazetteer"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Pitiful, pitious, pit iable, pistachio. 4 . What does the word "im bue mean? 3. What is a word beginning with obp that means "reproof"? ANSWERS 1. Omit "new," and say, "is not so efficient as some of us." 2. Pronounce gaz-et-ter, first a as in at, first e as In set, second e as in here, accent last syllable. I. Piteous. 4. To saturate; to im pregnate. "His mind was imbued with dreams of grandeur. S. Ob Jugation. by Lichty yea. k M ! VJ entrust your loued - i rH - - .VV VVWIW FUXZRAJL ZZRVICZ ZU1CZ 1878 House Acheson U.N. Inquiry Failure WASHINGTON Angry House investigators Tuesday asked Sec retary of State Acheson to testify Wednesday cn what Rep. Frank Chelf (D-Ky) called the SUte De partment's "colossal nop" in deal ing with disloyal Americans in the United Nations. Acheson announced he would ac cept the invitation to appear. The request for Acheson to take the witness stand came right after the Cabinet officer rejected a de mand that he disclose the names of State Department officials in charge of checking on the loyalty of American citizens on the U. N. payroll. Acheson said he was acting "on instructions" from President Tru man. In other fast - breaking develop ments, the State Department an nounced to . the House group: 1. That charges have been' lodged against "four or five" State De partment employes assigned to evaluate the loyalty of Americans employed by the U. N.. and. the department has started an investH gation. No names were given. Full Scale Probe 2. That the Federal Bureau of Investigation, for the first time, will make full - scale inquiries into possible Communist back grounds of all Americans em ployed in key U. N. posts. Adrian Fisher. State Department legal adviser, said President Tru man is now preparing an execu tive order providing for the FBI investigations. Only minor em ployes will be exempt. The order is expected Wednesday. Testifying before the House Ju diciary Subcommittee, Fisher said the President's order would pro vide that at any stage of the , FBI checkups, U. N. Secretary Gen eral Trygvie Lie may be given derogatory information" about American employes "as a basis for suspension . . . pending a final determination'' by . U. S. loyalty boards. r Defense Given Fisher spoke out in defense of the State' Department after Rep. Chelf. chairman of the House group, hotly criticized the depart ment's handling of U. N. loyalty cases. "Up until now." Chelf shouted, it's a colossal flop." Fisher insisted, however, that until the new executive order goes into effect, the State Department has had no responsibility for clear ing Americans for employment to the U. N. He said the department merely relayed to the U. N. such adverse reports as came to it. Earlier, Deputy U. S. Att. Gen. Ross Malone testified that the FBI had made adverse loyalty reports on 53 Americans employed on the U. N. staff. So far, only 27 have been fired. The "adverse Ust" of 53 con Literary Gui By W. G. ROGERS THE DRAGON AND THE UNI CORN, by Kenneth Rexrothr (New Directions; $3). Here's a travel book, a new kind, too, a long poem about travel on land and sea and in the mind, up and down Europe, across America, in and out of the ideologies and isms that beset the contemporary thinker. Con siderably franker than Mark Twain, a name mentioned in these pages, Rexroth Is less amusing. He Is also broader minded and, it seems to me, bold er". . . for in our curious time voyages of the mind appear to be more hazardous than they used to be, and they might ac tually be more hazardous for a man-who professes Idealist anar chism, even though he correctly insists it is "characteristic" of American thought. His book la a record of prog ress (on two Guggenheim in 1949) from Chicago to Liverpool, Wales, London, Paris, Tours, Nil nes, Nice, Florence, Rome, back through Switzerland across the ocean to Chlcagoiand the west coast. And being a poet he wrings the music out of the place names . . . Lllanrwst, Cleo Beacon, St. Briavel's Tintern, service is nation wide J-h, TS4brCJ No Maltir Whtrt You May Be Our t It a $t role You Can Irutt 7- t-f12f Probers Ask Testify on tained coded numbers, without names. However," subcommittee counsel Robert Collier identified one of the 53 as David Weintraub. director of economic stabilization and de velopment ' for the U. N. 41 Adverse Reports Collier said the FBI had sub mitted 43 separate adverse reports on Weintraub to .m State Depart ment from Jan. 31, 1945 to Nov. 12. 1932. . "This man is still there?" asked Rep. Keating (R-NY). "Not only is he still there " Chelf said, "he is still hiring other U. N. employes." . Quickly checking over the Jus tice Department's coded list. Chelf said that on the av.rage the 53 American employes had been the targets of 10 to 12 adverse loyalty reports each, most of them cover ing a period of years. - "This is startling and most re- vealing the best evidence yet of laxity of conduct by the State Department." Cht'i commented. A bitter tug - of - war between the Justice and State Departments. each seeking to sidestep any blame for the Reds - in - the - U. N. scandals, developed as witnesses for both federal agencies testified before the House subcommittee. It began on a dramatic note when Roy M. Conn, fiery 25-year-old Justice Department attorney, testified that the State Department deserves to be "blasted" on tba record of evidence already uncov ered of Americans vith Commu nist backgrounds holding key U. N. posts. Conn, a special assistant to Att. Gen. James P. McGranery. said the evidence is still coming In and warrants a new federal grand jury investigation. Just Can't Shoo Blacksmth Away LOUISVILLE, Ky. , VP) Fred Hutt Sr. isn't quitting as a black smith, not even for the Post Office Department. "The way I figure It therell al ways be a horse." He also figures therell always be a Hutt to shoe horses since be has trained his son, Fred. Jr., in the art. And the dusky, smoky-smelling . shop has senti mental value, having been opened1 by his father 68 years ago, Hutt, who still has the hammer his father used, says business is almost as good today as it was before the auto took over the high ways. "I don't know where all the horses are coming from. I'm fixing more shoes than I did for years." Like everything else,- the cost of shoeing horses has jumped con siderably. Hutt can recall receiv ing 25 and 30 cents a shoe. Now the price Is $6 and 18 $10 if the smith goes out to the horse. 1 even Rabasson despite Its filth, and Ravenna, Kings-Kern. "Never will I find better peo ple or a more beautiful country," he cries, than the Welsh and Wales. Switzerland is "the world's worst country Kansas stood on end." London Is "sicker than New York." Rapallo, to the eye so picturesque, Ezra Pound's home for years, Is to Rexroth At lantic City, and Nice Is Beverly Hills; Rome's suburbs are like Cleveland, the capital Is as noisy as Newark, and a capital street runs from the American embassy past an Esso pump in to "the de vouring dark." So the travel booklets haven't, told all the truth, as Rexroth sees it, nor is borne sweet home utterly to him. We quarrel with him . . . about his remarks on WPA art, on the fact he missed Daumier, for a bad pun", for the severity of some judgments. He Is anti-associations, antl the two great, collectivities, as he calls them, the State and the Capitalist System, but he is pro truth, and pro wonder, pro the contempla tive spirit, pro poetry . . . there are beautiful passages about a girl" voice ringing out a window, . about salmon in spawning beds, about love ss its own security. 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