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4 Tho Cicrtosanan, Scriom, Orocon, Monday, January 12. 1853 On, Talsphoae S-S4U. Jtouy and Sunday t Catty only . i Buwrtay onlj , By aiaff. aday only (la advance) Anywbare la U (The Aaaoetatad Praaa la inttUcd exclusively te tha Cor republication v all local daws printed la tbla newspaper). Review of Vincent Case President Truman on the recommendation of Secretary Acheson has appointed a special board to review the case of John Carter Vincent whose discharge as a State Department employe was recommended by the Loyalty Board of Review after he had been cleared of charges by the de partment's own board. The special panel is cer tainly a most distingushed one, consisting of Judge Learned Hand, retired judge on the Fed eral Circuit Court of Appeals, John J. McCloy, former high commissioner to Germany, now president of Chase National Bank, James Graf ton Rogers, former assistant secretary of state under Henry L. Stimson, G. Howland Shaw, former assistant secretary of state under Cor dell Hull; and Edwin C. Wilson, a former am bassador. The loyalty board had ruled against Vincent, concluding that there was "reasonable doubt" as to Vincent's loyalty to his country. Its ob scure reference to the adverse recommendation of the McCarran committee and other charges was made the basis of Acheson's refusal to act to dismiss Vincent and to request the appoint ment of the special board. This board will re view the evidence and make its findings. Doubt less to the relief both of Acheson and Truman its report will be made to the incoming ad ministration. The indictment of Owen Lattimore on charges of perjury permits an open trial in a court of law. Though the .charges do not involve the chief accusation against him made by McCarthy that he was a Soviet agent, at least there wilt be a judicial determination of his veracity. In tre case of Vincent there were only hearings, and this review again is only the reading of documents. There is no. public trial with the ac cused confronted by witnesses. In view of the nature of investigation as to loyalty it is hard to hold trials. That makes it the more important that boards act with, great care in making their findings. In the Vincent case critics of the loyalty board complain that the effect of the dismissal of Vincent, a career diplomat, will be to dis courage our diplomatic corps from making ob-. jective reports to the State Department. They assert that Vincent's reports from China at tempted to give a truthful evaluation of condi tions there; and that if he is to be punished be cause his reports did not please the home folks, then in the future men on foreign service will not be honest and forthright in their reporting. Foes of Vincent on the other hand claim that he was pro-Communist and so colored his reports from China. The public at large, lacking a full knowledge of the facts, cannot safely make a decision. They must rely on official bodies. Such is the impor tance of the Vincent case not only to the man himself but to the whole personnel of our for eign service that it seems only proper to have Truman Speech Explosion, By JOSEPH STETVART ALSOP President Truman has now lifted a corner of ,the paper curtain of meaningless official secrecy, that presently conceals the strategic facts of life from the American people. Referring to the hydrogen bomb test at Eniwetok, he has at last warned us that "from now one, man moves into a new era of destructive po- wer. We should all be grateful, no doubt, even for this vague and Jar&jAlijsp limited disclos ure, wucn in cidentally rather dramatically confirms previous reports in this space. But it is still worth con sidering how the paper curtain has operated to exclude the. pec pie ox cms na tion from decis ions of the ut most .national Import, and to hide from them facts of the ut most national significance. The theory of the - hydrogen bomb, it must be remembered, was fully pub lished by the LSurwart Akopj Austrian jejej"1---.-tlxt Hans Thierring shortly after the first atomic bomb was drop ped on Hiroshima. Writing in Vienna, with'no access to classi fied American information . of, any kind, Thierrihg told the whole basic story in 1945. At that time, f coarse, the -theoretical possibility el a hydra rem aoma was also known 4a thia cwaatry. At the end af tha war, the mestlaa- arose whether ta another great hydrorea - ih project, comparable te the BTsahsttf District project which developed the atomic bomb. President Trmnan referred the estl to a committee af !s . easalshed cieatlsts, headed br Dr.'Vanaevar Bash. jf V mIto Favor Sways V No Fear Shall Awe . -1 From first SUtesaaa. March tg. 1SS1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CX)MPA1SX CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher i office sis a. Catena at class matter IUBKVRIOM MAT By auU. Daily .1 lb par m. u cm . La par boo, iBantoa Marion. JO par I.7S u LOO year U O 1 outside Oregon mantra ort at the ajacrlcaa Aaets Confirms Story of H-Bomb but the President Didn't Tell All The nature of the weapon In - spired Bush and his colleagues with the deepest moral horror. They rightly considered that it would be wasteful to attempt such an ambitious step in that primitive era of the atomic art. They also expected our monopoly of atomic weapons to endure for a long period; and so long as we enjoyed this atomic mono poly, a hydrogen bomb seemed needless. Hence the committee ef seien- tista. which was a secret body, ' recommended against the pro posed hydroren bomb project. President Truman accepted their recommendation. From 1945 un til 1949, important research Into hydrorea problems was carried en. But from .194$ to 1949. it was the official bnt nnannooneed American policy not to attempt to build a hydroren bomb. This phase ended with the , explosion of the Soviet atomic bomb in September, 1949. By this time, the theory . nakedly set forth by Thierring had been enormously supplemented and buttressed. Some of those who knew that hydrogen bombs were .already a practical possibility. cy musf b7 aTteT They ' to teUHUie American people and urged that ah attemptmust S 'F6 UMvl5act tb made to build thesemS forth- Soviets, wouldsoon know, with. Others still opposed such The'" Atomto Energy Commls an attempt. slon, which best understands - The division .was deep and the -debate was sharp. The mere In fluential scientists formed - Into warrinr camps. So did the Atom-; is I Energy Commission - Itself, where Commlsslonmers Gordon Dean and Lewis Strauss were the chiefsdvocates ef the hydrogen bombprejeet. while the then chairman, David E, Lillienthal, 1 led the opposition to It. The ser vice department leaders natural- ' ly supported Dean and Strauss, but the State Department adopt ed what can best be described aa -a hand-wringing attitude. - This debate, which was as us- . ual carried on in whispers be hind closed doors, might have dragged on almost indefinitely if these reporters had not brought this villi national ssuo Into the open. - -a.--t":.-:. '-t the postotnoo at Ora- aa i ashlar act r March a. 1SJV and Cta advance) $ 1M PoOb YamfatfU la Qrasoa Ltf par of advarttalas Newspaper ,r raattaaara Aasa- tea. (AdwrtUlng rapraaaaUttvaa Ward-Crttnth ;'Ce Now York Chicago. Saa rraadaea, Detroit). f drcmlattaaa "'' " it reviewed by a special paneL But this business can't go on forever. This one should wind up the case, one way or the other. O & C 1952 Timber Sales Actual sales of timber from O & C lands in 1952 were 468,272,000 board feet. This is less than the estimated annual yield on the acreage of slightly over two million acres, the estimate of total allowable cut ranging up to 800,000,000. A more complete and accurate Inventory is needed to determine just what footage safely may be harvested each year. Proceeds of 1952 O & C sales were over $10 million of which 73 per cent goes to the counties where" the lands are located. Sales in the past year were complicated by the necessity of marketing as rapidly as pos sible the blowdown and insect-infested" timber. Of the 314 tracts which were sold, 210 were of the salvage class. Such is the extent of damage to timber from windthrow and the bark beetle, particularly in southeast Oregon that crews were concentrated on cruising these sections so the timber could be marketed before it became badly deteriorated. An estimated ten billion board feet of timber on public and private lands is dead or dying, scattered over seven million acres, much of it not presently accessible by road. This salvage job, reports the Bureau of Land Management, is the largest since the Til lamook burn, and the area involved is much greater. Special efforts to harvest the damaged tim ber were made by the government. Congress appropriated funds for employing additional foresters, also to construct access roads. Road regulations were modified to permit private concerns to cross O & C lands for salvaging their timber.' For 1953 the selling program by the BLM embraces over 600 million board feet of which over half will be from damaged stands. That still is less than the estimated allowable cut but is as much as can be marketed with present forest staff and road access and still put the emphasis on cleanup of the salvage. The government has not yet got its manage ment of O & C lands to the level required for the proper handling of its holdings. A big capi tal investment in roads is required; more staff is needed for inventorying the stands and plan ning and putting through sales and providing for reforesting cutover and burned over areas. By degrees however progress is being made in the management of this enormously valuable natural resource. Outgoing Sec. Lovett urges legislation to pro tect the U. S. against traitors, spies and "blabber-mouths." We'll support tighter laws against treason and espionage but we wonder just how Congress is going to muzzle all the big loud mouths. There's one in almost every family and loose talk practically amounts to a national weakness. President Trwnaa then - an nounced, somewhat ambiraovsly, that he had ordered the Atomic Enerry Commission te "contin-' " Its work on the hydroren bomb (which had until this time been confine td to pare research). Shortly thereafter, Gordon Dean replaced David Iilienthal at the head of the A.C; Dean secured from Truman a "first priority" far the hydroren bomb project. The needful appropriations were requested ander the first shock ef the Korean war. And the at tempt te build a hydroren bomb was at last started in earnest. When this attempt was about to culminate in the Eniwetok tests, another intra-governmen- tal debate began behind the pa- per curtain. It was known, of course, that the Soviet intelli gence, with all its formidable de tection apparatus, would learn the power and character of our new bomb shortly after its ex plosion. Air, camples of the dust cloud, data from Geiger counters, seismographs and other sources, would be quite enough to tell the Kremlin's experts the salient facts, without the slightest as sistance from classified sources. The question- now was, whether the epportnnities ef the 8riet utellireBce, ' favored the most . liberal policy. Chairman Dean in fact urged that the State De - partment treat " the Eniwetok est as the epoch-making event that It was. using It, perhaps aa the springbeard for. some new dlplomatle Initiative. But the State was again Indecisive, while the leaders of the Defease De partment urged tetal conceal ment. - In 'these crcumstances, there probably would nave ; been ' no disclosure of any sort, if Presi dent Truman had not wished to end his term with a full account ing to the nation.: Even so, as will be explained In a subse quent report, the President left out far more than he said. Copyrt1t. 1953) Kaw,Yor liermhi TriMirf Jpf, GIVING THE f 1 mfg WOKA MISTER (Continued from page 1) - thinking of how to put in his time when his birthday rings up 65. Home carpentry in the win ter; gardening in the summer, what a life! Yes, says the skep tic, what a life! The disease spreads soon from wood to iron. Metal after all is more ' flexible. The toolmakers are ready to spur this interest too; and power tools, lathes, drills, presses, et aL are on the market for the home metal work ing shop. The tip of a welding torch, with , goggles added, be comes a most welcome Christ mas gift. Now to be a home edi tion of Vulcan! Father still may have to call the plumber to change a gasket in the kitchen sink. But he can weld a frame for an umbrella stand in the hall, or hammer out a set of copper ashtrays. And if he runs out of ideas for projects there are tha numerous books on homo handicrafts or metalworking in ten easy lessons. Easily the most exciting place in a hardware store is the power tool section where fathers gather and drool over the next unit they want to add to their col lection. They test its controls and study the size of the in stallment payments. In any event it Is lust a matter of time. Sooner rather than later the piece of machinery will be or dered and installed. Thus far this writer has not succumbed to any mechanical ambitions even with the added lure of electric power for the hard labor. The printshop exV hausts my instinct for acquiring machinery, and funds as well. After all carpenters and painters should live, as well as printers. Besides there is an 89c multi purpose tool with various bits housed in the handle. With it Mehitabel can fix most any thing around the house from the connection for the. ironer cord to the sewing machine. Why worry about a power tool with all their accessories? f2DIKI AMD DEAD IT wlXIIM MIMU DCMK I I Isn't that woKtderful but twwlS f P.TheTlflt against a t'. wedSJngi OLD BALL A Congressional Quiz Q Have any Republicans la ator ander a Republican th TAO the new Senate ever served as a Senator under a Republican President? A. No. Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire will be the Re publican with the most seniority in the Senate of the 83rd Con gress. He entered the Senate in 1937 during the Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Eight Republican Representatives have served under Republican Presi dents. Q. I don't think present laws on Cenrresslonal campaign spending are strict enough. Is anybody eonslderinr a change? A. The Special House Com mittee to Investigate Campaign Expenditures . opened hearings Dec. 1 seeking constructive crit icism to help in renovating pres ent election laws, particularly those pertaining to campaign costs. Some of the suggestions from witnesses were that the length of campaigns should be limited, all spending should be made public in detail and limits should be clamped on total ex penditures. Q. I am eonslderinr investing . some money la a peach orchard la Georgia. Are there any price supports for peaches? A. No, fruits and vegetables are not price supported. Sweet potatoes and potatoes were price supported at one time, but they aren't now. Practically air per ishable farm products are not supported, although dairy prod ucts are in their more-or-less nonperishable forms of butter, cheese, and dried milk solids. A few other products often classed as perishable, such as honey, are supported. ' - Q. How does the American Lesion stand on Universal Mili tary Training? f A. The December, 1932, issue of the American Legion Maga zine reaffirmed Legion support for UMT. In 19S1 Congress ex tended the draft and provided for steps 'designed to lead to UMT. However, the UMT j pro posal failed to pass the House in 195L by Lichty her. the battle's only half ,, I FRESH START Q Can the President appoint to his cabinet men from tha op posing political party? A Yes, although generally it is not done. President-elect Dwlght D. Eisenhower caused much po- litical comment when he cross ed party lines to name Democrat Martin P. Durkin of Chicago to be new Secretary of Labor. Dur kin is president of the United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters- (AFL), and support ed the Presidential candidacy of Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illlinols against Eisenhower. Q. Is there any order of rank for the President's cabinet mem bers A. Yes, for purposes of seat ing the cabinet members and for order of succession to the Presi dency, cabinet officers are rank ed as follows: Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, Secretary of Defense, Attorney General. Postmaster General, Secretary of Interior, Secretary of Agricul ture, Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of Labor. (Copy. 1952, Cong. Quar.) Better English By D. C. WILUAMS 1. What Is wrong with this sentence? "She telephoned Fri day and asked if I would accept of her hospitality." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "prodigious''? S. Which one of these words is misspelled? Obscene, careen, lnhallant, patriarchy. 4. What does the word "orn ate" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with aud that means "having a fearless spirit"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "She telephoned on Friday and asked if I would ac cept (omit of) her hospitality . 2, Pronounce pro-dij-us, o as in no. 1 as in it, accent second syl lable. 3. Inhalant. 4. Embellished elaborately. "A very ornate and expensive collar sometimes adorns a worthless dog." S. Au dacious. i b! m j " 1 I ! rr tr "Mr-f-ft" J'YlTV- n",.!!! ii i "A 17. T? CHARLES T7." ; CLAGGET, Mgr. Literary Guideppst By W. G. ROGEBS , THE COURSE OF EMPIRE, by Bernard DeVoto (Houghton Mif flin; $) In. two previous books, ''Across the Wide Missouri" and The Year of Decision," DeVoto has shown Americans adopting them selves to America, to the land it self. In this book, chronologic ally the first, he goes back to beginnings; this is-the story of new comers . and colonizers be ing turned into, being shaped as. Americans by the America across . which they swam. The period .is Columbus to Lewis and Clark, or the tag end of the - 15th - century to the threshhold of the 19th. For Park man, the great question was, will France stick on this continent? For Lincoln it was whether a nation so conceived and so dedi cated can long endure." And De Voto, who first quotes the others, asks in turn: "Are there geo graphical units here to which political units must correspond? His answer is a resounding af firmative. In these 600 pages he tells of the men - and measures their westward progress. A full four centuries ago certain basic physical characteristics, the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes, the Mississippi and Missouri, were Identified by De Soto, Cartier. Castaneda. As long as three cen turies ago Pierre Radisson, hym ning the Mississippi valley. foresaw the future of half the world" ... an eloquent, and par donable, exaggeration. The charters of three Atlantic coast states called for expansion across unknown miles clear to the Pacific. There were a lot of unknowns, from fabled Cathay to rumored Northwest Passage and Southern - Continent; these dreams and fancies exerted as strong a westward "pull as the facts. But as early as the Revo lution the Pacific shore . was called as our national goal; MacKenzie crossed the "emence hills" of the Continental Divide still In the 18th century; the Louisiana Purchase . cinched our grip on idea and land. There are vivid pictures of in dividuals, like L e d y a r d; of places, like the Missouri Breaks;, of custom, like life among the mmmmoBm MM law What with all the sprouting of TV masts the last few months, someone could weave a Story entitled "Salem's Changing Skyline." It will change still more, too. A few days ago we attended a dem onstration, atop one of the city's highest hills, I of two comparable sets one with an antennae and one without. The one minus the antennae worked surprisingly well. But the picture didn't compare with the one equipped with the outside installation. ----- Thus far, no on in this area, o jar as is known, has ' put up an antennas without having a TV set. Such goings- , on, in the matter of keeping-up-withthe-Jonses in op- . pearance even if not in quality, are reported common in England. What type of antennae is best? That depends on a lot of things. We'll try to answer the question later. Terrence O'Flaherty, writing In the San Francisco Chronicle, comes up with a new one in regard to TV cooking shows. He says that three TV stations In the Golden Gale area are veritably "let ting the camera go to pot." Incidentally, TV competition there (as well as in other populous centers with several TV outlets) is tre mendous. It seems there aren't many complaints about 13-year-old shows in those areas. The 25-year-old Keystone Cop type of comedy (they had an original Buster Keaton the other day) we've been getting occasion ally on KPTV is still funny, but the 15-year-old grade B stlnkeroo isn't improved any by aging. . A correspondent comes up with the remark that TV has a lot of idiosyncrasies, and urges us fo acquire a set of our own so we can keep more constant tab on them. Would we have to learn to spell that word first? Among such idio-something-or-other he comments that during a recent pro grid game telecast there seemed to be trouble in blacking out illegal liquor commercials f illegal In Ore gon before 8 p.m.). Also, that there were a lot of "Merry Christmas'' greetings last week. Spots this week we'll get wished "Happy New Year." It's due to the delayed kine scope process, and no damage done anyway. . '" . ' . . ' Rumors In the trade are that picture tubes will be much larger soon. But the fact is, as many set owners will attest, that both 17 inch and 21-inch screens have their place, and that larger ones would be too large in many, many. Instances. Ever jit in the very front row at a movie? f - - - i -Is ; j. I 1 . i ill V " li iTlifi i II - 1 1 If i Hri ft " ,r " ' ESTABLISHED 1891 : SINCERE SERVICE AVAILABLE TO ALL" PHOra 3-3173 Out of Town CaCs at Our I ' 1MJUUNG IjOT AYAILACLS QIGDOIl CO., fcerc! DirCwtcrs tn 11 COTTAC3 AT CIL7.ITA Chippewas. But even so the im portance lies less in the vocative Erose than in the central thought, ere is how we. took America, how America took us; how we filled a great land to the brim and were molded by it. This is a splendid subject splendidly treated. . Ewing Leaves For Japan Visit TOKYO Ml Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing left by plane for the United States Sun day after a five-day visit in Japan. Ewing conferred . with Japanese education, welfare and health of ficials. He arrived in Tokyo Tuesday after studying health and welfare conditions in India, Burma. Thai land and The Philippines. He attended a social work con ference in Madrid in mid-December. Ewinff was accomnanled bv hfa wife and Wilbur Cohen, adviser to the Social Security Administration. Danes Check COPENHAGEN. Denmark UP) Danish defense authorities are checking . suspicions that attempts were made to sabotage three jet fighter planes of the Danish Air Force between! Christmas and New Year at Karup Field, near Aarhus. The speedometers of all three planes had been put out of action and airmen said the live- of the pilots could have been endangered in flight had the damage not been discovered during a routine check over. I Guards at a military air field at Aalborg, in Northern Jutland, have fired on night-time intruders sev eral times recently, officials re ported. Jet fighters also are housed there. I . " - . M. On Sabotage V -a a f w e si )) f 0 o i