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The Classical. . Colata, Omqcox, TriiaTV Tehraarr - il 11 .1 AGED IN THE WOOD fTfP Welfare : Rolls PubJlMd very manias. Bustneaa By carrlat ta dtlcat ijauy ana sunaay Daily only Sundav only M By ataU, I an day aaiy tla a'draaca) Aaywbar ia U ft. ' AasodaMa Pram -CTba AaaocUtcd Presa ta nUtiel axciuxlTely to tna uaa tor rapubUcattoa yf alt toca nawa printad In thla newspaper). Laws and Enforcement Ttown South many of the counties vote dry, with bootleggers aiding the prohibitionists to get out the dry vote. The former flourish by ferry ing liquor from adjacent oases to the legally dry cones. There is danger of the same thing happening ; in Idaho where the legislature has repealed the i law authorizing municipalities to engage in the j slot machine business. Illegal devices may re ' place those which cities have been operating. In other words enforcement of the ban against; i the iron bandits should accompany the divorce; ' of the municipality from being a legal partner1 in their operation. Oregon has had a constant battle to get rid of the slots. ,Some city councils shut their moral eyes to license pinball machines In order to bring in fees to the town treasury, i ; Bo Idaho has its police work cut out for it if the 1 : ban on slot machines is to be made real. Willamette Looks Forward 1 Nothing daunted by the difficult times which confront independent colleges the trustees of Willamette University are planning bravely for the future of this veteran institution of higher learning, the oldest degree-granting university west , of the Rocky Mountains. At ? a meeting Tuesday they approved the recommendation of a special planning committee for a comprehen sive program of building construction and in jjgase of endowment estimated at around $5, 000,000. The initial step is to provide funds for : a new auditorium-fine arts building and another girls' dormitory. The outlay would run to around $1,000,000. One unnamed donor has pledged $250,000 toward this sum conditional on raising an additional $400,000. The building plans as laid out by Salem at- f chitect James L. Payne contemplate the devel opment of an inner quadrangle . around old Sweetland field. This was made possible by ac quisition of an athletic field in Bush's pasture. The major feature of this grouping will be the auditorium with wings devoted to arts and band-: orchestra work. The goal for endowment is to double the pres ent endowment bringing the total to $5,000,000 by 1960. This would furnish a continuing in- -come for current use of the university. Under thcyery able leadership of Dr. G. Her bert Smith, old Willamette has made notable progress in recent years, successfully passing : through critical war and postwar years. He will : direct efforts .with friends of 'the university to bring the newly approved program into early realization. It will be a challenge to Salem as well as to alumni of the university because of; the importance of Willamette in' the cultural and S85 Proposals for Top Level Peace Conference Keep Initiative for lice, But Produce New Risks INTERPRETING THK NEWS By . j: M. ROBERTS, JR. -' Any call by President Eisenhow- : or for a top-level peace conference Between himself, Stalin and other world leaders would fit right into his effort to take the initiative in . ; the cold war, but would also pro- , ouce risks. . The new crop of Washington diplomats apparently look at the risks in about the same fashion as the old ones. First they want some strong evidence that- Russia would really be faeekingt peace, not sur face compromises which would be acted upon in Moscow merely as new approaches ; to the conflict. 1 They fear failure of a conference ' - would increase the danger of war. Stalin said at Christmas that he was ready to cooperate in seeking a settlement of the Korean 'war. There was speculation at the time, that this might mean a beginning.. But Chief Delegate' Lodge's state ment ' before the United Nations, th there was no-use talking about a settlement in view . of Russia's, contmuing .attitude, indicates the . State Department has dropped this . speculation. I r That means they' would expect j Russia to enter -any peace talks purely for propaganda purposes, .: as has been the invariable case at all East-West conferences ' since the war; " Stalin recently chose a fellow traveler from India as the mouth piece for spreading the impression that he thought Eisenhower might not be such a bad guy, but that the . Eesident was trapped, among a st of American capitalists hopi ing for war profits. ' That left the door open between ; Stalin and Eisenhower, whether or not Stalin believes either part of ' the premise. - Eisenhower opened -it wider at his .Wednesday . press conference. But he included the usual Western restrictions. A meeting would have to promise some success, and any agreements produced would have - to be . 1 self-enforcing. " No more . agreements without guarantees And no more compromises, Secre- -tary Dulles added -Thursday; AH this talk of a meeting was going on against the" background ; cf -en expected crisis in East-West relations over. Germany, Reports 1631 J - . "No Favor Sways Vs No Fear Shall Awe" k V. From rmt sttttnui, March ZS. 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBUSH1NG COMPANY ' CHARLES A. SHRAGUE, Editor and Publisher ; offlc US' 8 Entervd at daaa matter lUMCWTIOM BATE! s. v-i . By aoaiL Dally. aa4 Iaa4ay (la av&nca) . 1.45 pa ma. ' . ' la da counties 9 1J0 pat 1,2a par m , 4 (Benton. . M raatt ,,5,: ; r aUrton, " inS mit -i aawhew a.00 year ' v- '" la C ft. outaloa Orcfaa LAS ori ---- i Bareaa at AArerUstas at ta aatarlraa Nwiaaar PaaUaaara AaaK Six-year olds the school board largest school lem in Marion According should hew to they may. from Berlin credit Russia with planning drastic action in a last minute attempt " to block ; 'West German ratification of the pro posed western- European , defense treaty. Western- observers . gave some credence to a report that Russia would withdraw her troops from East Germany having first secured her position there through puppets as she' did in Korea and then propose unification of all Germany under a government in which East German Communists would be very powerful. This abili ty to play with the reunion issue has. always been a powerful card in Russia's hands. , . This play couldLbe partly fore stalled by an American call for. conferences not only on Germany and Korea, but on the whole con Literary Gui By W. G. ROGERS ' MY DEAR TIMOTHY: An Au tobiographical Letter to His - .Grandson, by Victor Gollancz (Simon & Schuster; $3)' The author of this book good, earnest, honest book is a prominent British publisher, T as - American : readers; may ' 'not , know,, as American writers do know since be comes here often to get the pick of our literary crop. . - Bom in 18ft3, a product of SL Paul's and Oxford, a cultured man, a . generally dissatisfied 'man . . like anyone who ex- ; pects the best of his fellows yet , finds they do not live up to his standards ... he decided to leave an accounting to grandson'Tim- othy, and while we wait for the ; boy to grow up, we get the chance, to read U ourselves.' , - His reaction to Jewish ortho- . doxy was ope of his first lessons. Then he learned to hate- war and poverty; 4ie discovered that all boys are good yet at the same time "intolerant," class-ridden, self-righteous." i He read Ibsen. Shaw, Whitman, Maeterlinck; collected pottery; listened to mu sic; loved rain, snow mist, grass, . . ttw pWoMw at Balm. Or. aider act eoncrcaa Mareb a, 17& QirtimM, una, aa aut -. maw Poia. Yamnlilj. ... IMC rtw to Ofatoa L par.m (Advertising representative! s Ward-Grtfflth Co, , New York Chicago, ftaa Cranclaoa. Oatrott. economic life of this community. Sharing in this program should become one of the major objec tives of Salem in the years immediately ahead. Second Thought Sober second thought is catching up With trigger-happy diplomacy novices in Congress. Sen ator Wiley, chairman of the Senate committee, on foreign relations, who a few days ago wanted to strengthen the administration resolution re Yalta, now says the U.S. should consult its al lies before attempting to repudiate agreements with Russia. After all we would just be copying Russia in, repudiating agreements, .and losing one of our bestarguments in the process. Bet ter to think twice before shooting. Chiang Kai-shek's denunciation of the Repub- lie of China's treaty with Russia is chiefly a thumb-nosing gesture. In the interim Russia has signed treaties with the "People's Republic" of China which confirm certain privileges for Rus sia at the ports of Dairen and .Port Arthur. Un til Red China breaks away from Russia (or is separated) Chiang's order is 'merely "for the record." And such will be our own denunciation of the Yalta agreement, if we make it. keep tramping on the heels of at Keizer. This district has the population of any outside of Sa- County, and the district is forced into recurring building programs. Tuesday the voters approved another bond issue of $154,000 to get ready for 80 additional pupils expected next fall. It's a race there between growth and the bond limitation. - Silverton has always been proud of its Na tional Guard, and . certainly has reason to be proud now of its Hq. Company; 1st Bn., 162nd Inf. which has been awarded a national trophy and the Pershing plaque for excellence in the Sixth Army area. Such recognition comes only on the basis of high merit these are' earned rewards; and all of Oregon extends congratula tions to Silverton and its National Guard. From our favorite paper: "A timetable will be worked out so that neither the Ford or 25th Street bridge will be open at any given time this summer to accommodate Waters Field traffic." Perfect engineering or Imperfect reporting? Theprice tag on control of Missouri River Is over $11 bullion. If they could strain its water and recover the soil it carries away and find a place to put it, the job might be worth it. to Adlai Stevenson, Democrats the line, let the quips fall where flict' between East and West. -It -would off-set Russian propaganda' among the world's unaffiliated " peoples that she seeks peace while America seeks wart It. would put Stalin in the position of fighting to hold, his Illegal postwar gains, whereas the Allies would be ask ing for nothing except. peace and , liberty for enslaved peoples. , There is hardly' any hope that concrete results might be pro duced, and actual, effective agree ments signed. This failure might produce greater: dispair among peoples who Jwpe so persistently for some peaceful outcome ofihe present conflict, .Whether, failure -would actually bring war any nearer, as some of the diplomats believe, seems to me to be open , to considerable question. buds, his own birthday month of April, and trains . . "what . waste of precious opportunity he cried, to. fly to Paris when one. can go by boat and train. .The -bulk, of - this substantial , volume consists" of the examina- ,? - tion of the place of an observant independent Individual In mod ern England.: and the , world of 'which England Is a part. Gol lancz began life in untroubled pre-World War I Oxford, and ,the 1 passage of time drove him to study, and to Involve himself In, pacifies V Socialist,- (Chris tiaaXComrmrnist movements. You respect the philosopher r thinker and political man de scribed here in too abundant de tail, but you are fonder of the , cultured man whose charm, at start and close of the book, is irresistible. ; ' . Among other books out this week are "Jefferson Reader: A Treasury of , Writings about -Thomas Jefferson," edited with an introduction by Francis Cole man Rosenberger (Dutton); The-Middle East in the War,", by George Kirk, introduction by Arnold Toynbee, in the Survey of International Affairs' series (Oxford). - . - -. ... deposf r I tlWfeil lyW3 I - Newport latest area to consider "community television '. ; . d Parsons, operator of coaxial system at Astoria past four years, visit ing Newport this week end investigating possibilities . . . city council already passed ordinance granting' Yaquina Radio, Inc., headed by Tom Becker, right to erect master antennae ... no grandiose claims being made, no scale of charges yet ready . . entire area around Newport to be tested for reception '. . . if neither KPTV nor KING 'Seattle (Astoria's main source) strong enough, further developments will await operation of stations closer-by ferinstance Salem. ! . Topnotch Forest Grove Barbershop Quartet to be Don Lee networked, heard via KSLM 10:30 p.m. Saturday ... tops in local interest also will be KSLM's 2:30 p.m. broad cast daily Monday through Friday next two weeksreview ing semi-finals of The Origan Statesman - KSLM Spelling Contest ... toho's-protrincial-noto department: Lady in Niw England, could have collected 500 cut-rate .dollars If she, nod known what cabinet position Oregon's Douglas Mc Kay holds ... she couldnt answer such question on TV Strike It Rich program and therefore struck it poor. Big blob of heat being put on to get educational TV channels activated . ,'. main instigator is National Citizens Committee for Educational Television . . . committee's publication quotes, FCC Chairman Paul A. Walker as saying present TV opportunity equals in Importance that of invention of printing 500 years ago . . . yes and there's just about as many variations in the quality of TV pro grams as there is in kinds of type, too ; . . cities which have asked for and obtained TV educational channel licenses include Houston, Los Angeles, Lawrence, Kan. . . St. Louis and Detroit also In van guard, and in other Instances entire states (New York, etc) interest ed .-. publication also lists Oregon but taint yet so. V.. f Some people are insisting on getting good technicians to do whatever TV repairs are needed but after sitting through cheese and electric firm commercials, interrupted slightly for intermittent programs, Gertrude believes a good swift kick in the tube toould do just as well . . . it may not b ; v long until we know what happens .when comparatively- , small towns get into TV with more than one foot . . . FCC has granted two channels each to Pocatello and Idaho Falls in Idaho . Lawrence Harvey, king-pin of Salem's TV potential, due in village Monday . . . incidentally, $65fi00, 000 aluminum plant at The Dalles contemplated by Harvey Machine Company' (with Lawrence Harvey as executive veep) will get underway in June.' ' - .. .. ' Candy Carnival to open over KPTV 11 ajn. Sunday . . . it's after Sunday School, anyway . . . big-time stage and screen stars (Tallulah Bankhead, Bob Hope, Red Buttons, Jane Froman, etc. etc) to be on Answer the Call program operating Red Cross campaign at 12:30 pjfl. Sunday; Helen Hayes stars in Omnibus at 1:30 p jn. . . . Lillian Gish in "The Trip to Bountiful" at 9 pan. TV Playhouse . . . new States man building expected to be occupied in March. , GRIN AND BEAR IT "I pay taxes se yea can go te school get a good job and help pay v ' I'd- '.V 4 'Pi by Lichty te get aavedneatloa se yea can taxes, yeung man...' r iaaaasisaafsawsi ' " NffnONAlBUDGFT ; AMDTAX CUT INSIDE; TheSafety Valve GIVES DEFINITION FOR "PAPIST" To the Editor: There was a curious item in , the February 18 issue of The Statesman, page 7: "The term. Tory" originally referred to Papist antlaw (?-jmp) in Eng land, later became the nickname of one of the most respectable political parties of the country and In recent years nas Decome a term of reproach." Webster's . Collegiate Dictionary states, "Pa pist, a Roman Catholic; used disparingly." Now this term papist was used by the Reformers (who did no reforming but should have reformed them selves!) in their vilifation pro gram directed against the Chris tians who had always been among England's best and most patri otic citizens. Their ancestors had civilized the country centuries before when Augustine had been commissioned by Pope Gregory to convert the pagans in 597. The Papists being in the main prac ticing Christians were highly re spectable but their traduce rs were not. Henry VIII (Bluff King Hal). Elizabeth (Good Queen Bess), the Cromwells and - Cecils and others were forced to excuse their many excesses di rected against legitimate and patriotic citizens: slander of the basest sort was one of the means used to achieve their ends to exterminate the traditional church and seize its properties, much of which had been donated to the church and its leaders through the ' centuries. These characters Henry, Elizabeth, the Cromwells, et cetera, forced the break with continental Christi- anityrdrovc Catholicism Into the ground and literally out of the country by excessive fines, ri diculous slander, exile, torture, death of Christians- who adhered to - th '1300-year-old religion founded in Galilee. And so that Is how the term Papist came about. For a very interesting and readable history of Europe and of England one might pass some profitable hours in perusing His tory ,pr Europe in two volumes by Carlton J. H. Hayes and Mar shall Whithed Baldwin, Macmll lan, 1940. This work is pains takingly accurate and the auth ors delve behind the thick wall which was commenced by Hen ry ana continued by his succes sors for 200 years or more. Hayes says that "The religious upheav al of the 16th century brought to a- close the great movement of . intellectual . quickening and ar tistic achievement which had begun in Italy in the 14th cen tury and was spreading to North Europe by the end of the -15th." JOE M. PORTAL. Aumsvllc ; ' .. Better English By D. C. WILLIAMS . L What is wrong with this sentence? "I . am telling you so you will understand." .- 2. What is ; the correct pro nunciation of "abstemious? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Barbarism, battalion, bassinet, basoon. - ' 4. What does the word "skep ticism" mean? v 5. What is a "wo beginning with ext that means "not essen tial; foreign. - ' - , ANSWERS i I., Say, "I am tilling ' you so that you ; will trndwtand." 2. Pronounce the e as in steam, not t as in stem; accent second sylla ble. 3. Bassoon. - 4. A doubting state of mind. "Skepticism is the greatest enemy of superstition." 5. Extraneous. IFnira Publicity Hit irrr? CWCS (Continued from page one) ' all the time it has been prating about peace and setting up peace congresses and ' trying to make the peace dove fly. No free people is deceived as to the responsibility of Russia in Korea, or its aims. The Soviet Union is the one that ought to be disciplined if the United Na tions had power to do it. -Then why not kick Russia out? The Charter 01 UN provides: -A member of the United Na tions which has persistently vio lated the principles contained in ' the present Charter may be ex pelled from the Organization by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. Russia's violation has contin ued for three and a half years. and certainly is flagrant. But recommendation for its expul sion would doubtless be vetoed by. the USSR "in the Security Council. Moreover a good many nations would refuse to join In such a drastic action. They pre fer to tolerate the Soviet Union even though it violates the prin ciples oz the Charter. Expulsion of the Soviet Union would not end the war in Korea. Instead it might be a step to ward the Avernus of a third world war. So long as Russia is a member of UN it does expose itself ta the pressure of world opinion in this body; and at UN meetings delegates from other nations ; have an opportunity to serve as mediators between Rus sia and the West. While Lodge's indictment was In order and serves to put Rus sia on the defensive it will not of itself advance the cause of peace. It may clear the air, but India and its peaceloving associ ates how have work cut out for them to obtain any peaceful set tlement in Korea. Dogs Target Of Measures The House agriculture commit tee, with prodding by livestock in terests, continued its warfare against dogs Thursday. After the committee already had sponsored a bill to permit dogs to be killed when they cause any in jury, the committee introduced measures Thursday to further curb the canines. " The bills would set up dog con trol boards in counties with more than 10,000 dogs, prohibit female dogs from running at large while in heat, boost license fees for fe male dogs, and providing for de posing of impounded dogs. Another of the bills would pro hibit anyone from abandoning a dog or cat on a public road. Timber Loan Change Eyed WASHINGTON m Studies are being undertaken to make stand ing timber acceptable as collateral for national bank loans, aides of Sen. Cordon (R-Ore) said Thurs day. The action results from recent conferences by Marshall Dana of the U. S. National Bank. Portland. Ore., and Stewart Moyer, forester, with Cordon and 'representatives of the comptroller of currency. Present law permits ' improved real estate to be used as collateral for such loans, but timber lands have not been considered to fall in that category. I The conferences developed that ft would not be possible to accomp lish the desired end through a broader. Interpretation of the law. but would . require legislation. - Cordon's : aides said the studies now being conducted are to deter mine what safeguards should be written into the legislation. Condemned Jail To Be Abandoned By Lane County EUGENE U) The Lane County jaiL recently .condemned by a grand jury as unfit for human habitation," will not be used. after March L Lane County signed an 'agree ment calling for the city of Eugene to handle county prisoners- at the new municipal iaO. The county will pay the city $2 per prisoner, per day, for periods up to 30 days. . For longerterms, the prisoners will be sent to . the Multnomah County. Jail ' near Portland. Lincoln to Pattern Courthouse After Grant Structure .TOLEDO. Ore. (J) The new Lincoln County Courthouse may be modelled after the recently con structed Grant County Courthouse. Lincoln will build a new court house in Newport, following a vote of county residents . to move . the county seat to that city. Commissioner Ray Cox, after in specting courthouses in six Oregon counties, said the new Grant build ing was regarded as so fireproof that the county does not carry fire insurance. It replaced a courthouse which burned. HOD CATSECIIS STRIKE EUCI2 rc in A strike among hod carrriers of the AFL Laborers Union- No. S5 was reported here Thursday by Secretary Ray Mc- By Pensioners A long parade of pension advo cates told a joint ways and means subcommittee Thursday that a proposal to lift the secrecy from ' welfare rolls would be humiliat ing to many persons' now receiv ing old-age assistance. . - Proponents ' and opponents of the proposed legislation, which ties in with the relative responsi bility law, packed ' the largest hearing room in the statehouse. - Hundreds of state senior citi zens heard the proceedings by radio, broadcast (KGW), believed to be the first in Oregon's legis lative annals.,; The oldsters argued that open ing the rolls would serve no use ful . purpose nor save the state money, and proponents countered with assertions the proposed leg islation would get "chiselers" off the rolls and make more money available, fori welfare recipients. The hearing -narrowed down to the publicity feature after Ren. David Baum, La Grande, said the committee had agreed to eliminate the provision that brothers and sisters- not be included among those required to support under the relative responsibility law. Sen. Rex Ellis, Pendleton, com mittee chairman, and Baum ex plained the two - proposals and emphasized the committee's prob lem of trying to stretch the wel fare budget of $68,000,000. Ellis said the state's welfare program cost virtually nothing eight years ago, but at the pres ent rate of increase, it probably would cost $100,000,000 every two years by 10 years from now. "I don't believe the state can take that." he added. Old-age assistance rolls have declined about 6 per cent in the past two years, Baum declared. "If we could' reduce the rolls by only 1,000 persons, the state could give from $5 to $8 more a month to other recipients," he declared. Sen. George A. Ulett, Coqullle. said a survey had shown that only one relative is contributing to the welfare of each 100 persons on the welfare rolls. He added that the proposed assistance scale un der the relative responsibility bill would impose the greatest burden on single persons. Only persons making less than $3900 a year or married couples with more than three children would be exempt from contributing to support. - Judge F. L. Phlpps, executive secretary of the County Judges Association,' said his group fa vored opening the rolls, believing it would strengthen public confi dence in the welfare program. Also speaking for the proposal was Ronald Ruh, attorney for the Oregon Wheat League, and Judge Rex Hartley, Marion County, who said both proposals would enable county welfare commissions .to give better service to the state's senior citizens. Mrs. Frank Queen, Portland, said she did not think -the non- secrecy bill was necessary because the assistance load had not in creased in proportion to the gain in population.' She said there ac- ' tually had been a decrease ot I per cent in assistance recipients between 1951 and 1952, and a 7 per. cent decrease in the num- t ber of applicants in the same period. Fred Wisenhelmer, represenung the Oregon - Council of Social Workers, opposed the bill creat ing a picture of false economy. ' He said the welfare rolls, in ef fect, now are open, and that many persons on the rolls had shown a complete indifference to publicity Liquor-by-Drink License Costs Reduction Eyed The . nronoaed license fees fot It-iunr h-r the drink outlets WOuM impose a financial burden on manj dispensers, George Wood worth, li quor commission attorney, told th Senate alcohol committee Thurs day. '. - The license fees, provided in the tfouse-annroved llauor by the drink bill, would range as high as $650 a year. , The ' Senate committee appears to favor reducing them. Broadcasts of Hearings Authorized by Senate Radio stations were free Thurs-. day to broadcast legislative public hearings. - . - After the Senate voted Wednes day to permit the broadcasts, the OUSe rules COmraillte nnouncca tmrsday it would work out the. details so that House hearings can be broadcast, too. . .. JUDGE BILL PASSED A bill to give Clackamas County . umnH rirrait ludm was CaSSCd by the Senate Thursday and sent ' to the governor. . SCIIAEFER'S Healing Salvo With vitamins A, D, F, quick ly heels diaper rash, cuts, bruises, burns, stings, bites and frost files. cu3 sto:.: Open Daily 7:23 A.1L-3 P.1L Euni'iy f A. II. - 4 P.IL 154 N. Commercial . Ilj't.ir: - : , at-w at 1 W - m.m 4 e 4