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Daily and Sunday
Dally o ty
Sunday only -
By auLiU Ssa y ouly (la advaaca)
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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 $5,
000,000 alumina-from-clay plant to private own
ership and operation seems imminent; down-r
town Salem properly has been acquired in large
plats on the assumption that new retail outlets
will be attracted to the capital city.
Agriculture has flashed a somewhat confused
picture on the 1952 screen in Oregon but it is
fundamentally sound. All prospects seem to
point to continued healthy income.
In all such comments as these, it is apparent
that the past cannot be separated from the fu
ture. There is no sharp line of demarcation be
tween Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. Aside from the hoped
for resurgence of domestic stability and moral
ity under a new political regime, the Willam
ette Valley's major Wish for 1953 probably is
fbr Peace on Earth and a continued share in the
blessings which 1952 has bestowed.
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Dules to Visit Europe After Inauguration
To Help Bolster Sagging Western Alliance
By JOSEPH and STEWART
ALSOP
WASHINGTON For the fu
ture, there is a lot of interest in
the idea of an Eisenhower-Stalin
meeting, which
has so suddenly
i-ve
been Injected
into the news.
As a matter of f V -41$
fact, it can be - J "t ?
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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-
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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.
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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.
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POLITICAL NIGHTMARE DUE ABOUT JAN. 20
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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.)
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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
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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
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No Maltir Whtrt You May Be
Our t It a $t role You Can Irutt
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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.
Church at Nrry
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