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4 Tb P&esmcr Cd-i CrW Cundayfcgeh-23,1 . - r pTT' UtD G00C (Continued from Page One.) "Wo rarer Sways Vb No Fear Shall A tee From first SUtfinw. March ta, 1S51 ' THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAUUE, Editos- and Publisher - rutXmbcd avcry inonunx Boslam offica II S. CoauncroUl St, Salop. Oie Tatophooo 1-1441. Sty niiM tm ctttam Daily and Sunday "- DaUr only Sunday only By auOL laaeaj ealy la advance) Anjrwbor l U 1 . ." Red Cross DriTC Fails? It begini'to look as though the 1953 Red Cross fund drive is- failing not just in Maridh and Polk Counties where receipts axe way below the goal established, but throughout the country. - owe htve no figures-as yet on the national take" in the wmnal solicitation for support ior this world-iamous and eminently worthy serv- - V.. i i. v. U 4 Via Via A Pfft?! VS Vfc-1 1 " t , . felt it necessary to ask Mamie Eisenhower to make aspeciat national appeal to mothers for contributions isan indication that all is not go ing well. The special effort is now being or ganized in this area. ' '" ' LocallT, after nearly a month of campaigning the Marion County Red Cross has raised only 125,000 of the $51,000 goal. That is less than -half. Last 'year at this time the county chapter had collected just over half its quota. In 1951, at the end of March, Marion County Red Cross k.l in 1 VIM PPTtt fit the PO&l. 4m rtroniT!iTinn nui uic lath iu tuuuwii urn r . - There must be a good reason why, in times of prosperity, the Red Cross is not getting the public support it needs and deserves. Perhaps the quotas established are too high but if the public wants the services which are provided by that kind of budget the public ought to be willing to pay for them. If not, the Red Cross imply has to cut down on its services. Maybe the Red Cross is not using the most effective methods to get money out of people. Certainly the organization gets plenty qf publi city space in the newspapers and on the radio, and its endorsers are always the best from the Vrsident on down. But such appeals for funds as the March of Dimes, with their "gimmicks," seems to be able to put on more successful cam paigns. The sidewalk hawkers begging for dimes to tape to the concrete may have been annoy ing, but they got the dimes. The Red Cross door- -to-door solicitors are annoying, too, and they dont seem to get the dollars! x; The money is here; $51,000 Is only half a dol lar per person in this county. Somehow the Red Cross is going to have to think up ways and T ia tint list Incal problem; It is a national problem. We do not mean to criticize the local volunteers who have worked hard to reach the goal set. The fault lies with the people who have failed to respond to the appeals for aid to this worthy-organization! They still have time to give, o . .. - - Another Spelling Contest Late in 1950 The Oregon Statesman on the basis of Dr. T. C. Holy's report that Oregon's teen-age spellers were not quite up to par started a spelling contest for every 7th and 8th grade in Marion and Polk Counties. Of the 115 schools then involved, 85 elected to take part. They chose school champions, sent Alsop Brothers Recount Experiences to ; ShoW US. Security System Not Foolproof By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP - WASHINGTON The strange case of Charles. E. Bohleh has highlighted several ugly things ihnnt t h a -v - - American gor. eminent, una lot these is the J ikind oi sum tthat sets into ' government se ' curity files. -3 Senator ; Jo-, seph ': R. Mc Carthy -hastily lied his way out of this side lot his case at J of i lx Al op I the last mo- ing that he"had never opposed - Bohlen's confirmation as ' Am - bassador to Moscow on security grounds. Only a few days earli er, when asked If he regarded Bohien as a security risk, McCarthy character! t i cally declared "That's putting It too weak." McCarthy further hinted that he had heard all about the Bohien- se curity file from ' . bis friend, the new Diaie stcaarj Aloj partment Se- "' r eurity Officer, R. W. Scott Mc Leod. What the Senator says t must always be doubted. Tet it seems to be established that ' - McLeod was genuinely guilty, in this instance, of leaking some sort of poisonous story to Mc Carthy. . . Senator Taft has now supplied the appropriate commentary on -the Bohien security file. Oue of : . the very few, items unfavorable 1, to Bohien was a letter from a . . Btate Department stonegrapher -who claimed that she had felt her "sixtX sense' sending out alarm signals on the one brief accasioa when she had taken dictation from Bohien. Far from being Inserted la a ef fleer's security file, , tils sort f sick-minded poison pea EnUrd at the aaU ' IVBltVniON KATfl- By maU. Daily f 1.49 p mo. , 'a Ux com 1.23 ocr mo- (ronton ja week : Ksrioa. Polk. J pax ma. QNwhm ta Orafoa . Z.7S atz ma. . ut u a. eutato i : ancMPra on . Aaelt Buraae at Orcalanoaa them to semi-finals; and from the semi-finals there came a score of top spellers to the Grand Finals in Salem. Winners received $100, $50 and $25 defense bonds. But that wasn't the end of it. There, were demands for a repeat performance and The Statesman, Jalonj with co-sponsoring KSLM, acquiesced. Ditto this year, and the third spell ing contest has just ended. Today, in this issue of The Statesman, it la announced that a fourth affair will be held in 1954. ; - It is true that only slightly more than 50 per cent of the principals involved have taken the trouble to indicate whether or not they desired the program next year; But 6f those who did respond to the question, 95 per cent were en thusiastic in their endorsement not half-hearted. The other S per cent indicated the contest had failed to be a sufficient stimulus to war rant its continuance or . that their schools did not have a potential winner. The latter com- -ment, of course, is of consequence only to show its weakness it fails to recognize that honors accruing to a school are of far less importance than learning accruing to the pupils. Anyway, there'll be another contest, again strictly Bon-commerciaL And every school with 7th or 8th grades in Marion, Polk, Southern Yamhill and Northern Linn (districts which . overlap into Marion County) will be invited to participate. Some mighty fine spellers, as well as mighty fine children, participated in the championship brackets of the contest these last three years. It's been a real pleasure for representativs of the sponsors to work with them. And principals and teachers in the main have been coopera tive, helpful and deeply interested in the con test as a stimulant to their programs. To all of them go sincere appreciation, as well as to the many school, officials who have permitted use of their school systems' physical facilities or helped in other ways. It will be pretty hard to discard the Spelling Contest now widely copied in many other areas of the' northwest so long as question- -naires bring back such comments as: "By all means let's have another. My 5th and 6th grad ers can hardly wait until they can take part.'' k"v - r-- ,., . "Only God can make' atree" says the verse; but hundreds of school children and boy scouts get busy each year to help divinity by setting out seedlings in logged -over or burned - over forest lands. Recently such a planting was made near Mehama, and a few days ago schoolchil dren of Reedsport and vicinity planted, 18,000 Douglas fir plants, and 3,000 each of Ponderosa pine and Port Orford cedar in the Smith River burn. Not many of the youngsters will live long enough (about 80 years) for the harvest of their crop, but through the years' they will get the 'harvest" of the beauty of, a growing forest. letter enght ta have caused a security tavestif siloa ef tha -writer. Bat . as these reporters happen to be able to testify, the method af , eompUlng security files can be a bit odd, at times., These reporters have a broth er, John de Koven Alsop by name,' who seems to mem1 as good a security risk as you could wish. In wartime he was an O.S. parachutist, jumping . behind the enemy lines in both France and China. In China, he '. led - aa anti-Communist, anti Japanese guerrilla group, and had a price put on the head of : "the huge American " with the mustache" by both sets of ene . mies. - . In peacetime, ha is a Con necticut Repnbllcan ha served as vice-chairman of the Con-1 necticnt Elsenhower movement ' before the last Kepoblieaa eon-' vention. He was already a Re- ' psblican member ef the Coo neeticut ; Legislatiire . when he agreed to apply for a temporary ; reserve civilian statos ta Intel- -: licence work, some years ago. The application was refused, : on security grounds. With great - difficulty,, the reasons were as-: certained. They consisted of re-1 ports by two government secur- ity agents. .The first agent had not got the name ' quite right. He had first invented a new personality, "John de Koven." He had then included, under "derogatory information," thar claim that this non-existent citi zen was "probably the brother -'or close relative' of another . Mr: de Koven who had, it seems, been a member of Henry A. Wallace's Progressive Party, The second agent had at least gat the same right. As HIS de rogatory information he noted i accurately that John de Seven ' Alsop was "probably the brother -or close reUtiTe" ef Joseph and. Stewart Alsop. He added darkly -that Joseph acid Stewart Alsop -were listed ta the files of the House Un-American Activities Committee, as tho authors of a Saturday Evening Post article, "Villi the CXO. Kick the Corn dies Ostr All the second agent postotnes at Ore, u second liarcn S. IS7S. matey Oa advance) $ 1.00 par mK Yamhill). 1&S0 rear IM par ma. L4S es ma urcfoa - - ----- - omitted was the not altogether meaningless fact that this was a profoundly antl-Cammnnist ar ticle. The House committee was aslng it as helpful source ma terial on the Communist daoger ta the labor movement. By shameless Influence, broth er John was cleared. By the same method, one of these re porters narrowly escaped deten tion on the Gripshotm, when . checked for security on his re turn from a Japanese prison camp. Ho was sternly accused of having joined the British army. Sharp suspicions were aroused by his bewildered in sistence that he had been a member of General C L. Chen nault's Tlying Tigers," which were markedly non-British. Ac tually, his brother and present partner had " Indeed joined a British Infantry regiment, hav ing been repeatedly rejected by all the American services on medical grounds, but this fact had not filtered through to the Japanese prison camp. - The day was barely saved, and the suspected one permitted to set foot en his native shores, by the : intervention of a highly placed friend. Apparently a spe elal government agent had r found It Impossible to distin guish between -two citizens el the same surname, la the. ex tremely small town of Avon, Conn. v-' . : Two such incidents in a single family at least suggest that the existing security system is not foolproof. The letter from the stenographer with the "sixth '. sense" further suggests that in some respects the system is I plain foolish. The FJUL cannot" properly be blamed; It does not R the whole job - it had no part in brother John's case and, it- is, ridiculously overbur dened as a result of security- . mania. Yet it is in order to con sider some sensible reform of the security system. And it is cer tainly not in order to hand over raw security files to people lilte -Senator McCarthy, or to anyone who will leak to him either. (CopyriM.1953. Nw-York Herald Tribune Inc.) -(Copyright is S3 - New York Herald Tribune lae.) - ( i i B 1 1 ii ' in i irmif a r mi i m in a ian , maw in aaai iTTtn-w iaiiii,uWiaia:Miieiaal isaaamaMawaaaTaawiaiaaaaa V few Comeig' (f&fa We heard Spring and Winter over by the hill the other day, carrying on their annual argument. This is the way it seemed to go ... r f I tired, anyway tJiViy dmrWmi k i winter ' SPRING Your reign Is ended and my rain is just begin ning. Get it? That's a joke, Thunderhead. Your reign and my . . . WINTER Too know what you can do with your corny Jokes. GtrL Waltll people get a load of the hayfever, poison oak and yard work you bring them. They'll soon get -fed up with your propaganda. Breezy. And when Summer comes they'll giro yea the boot. Just like they gave It to mo . . . HPUNG Summer shmummer! Yea really freeze me. Fog bound. Yea are the character people get fed up with quickest. All yea stand for, Icyflngers, Is cold motors and cold noseswet feet aad muddy carpets, leyetes, antl-freeze, eneeses, nesc-drops, coughing and Ugh fuet bills. And now people want the sua. They want flowers aad warm, warty breezes ... WINTER Wafty breezes? Oh, f or ... , r SPRING Listen, Snowball. Everybody, but everybody, wants what I got Green grass, flowers and showers (both me terological and matrimonial), apple and cherry blossoms, wild flowers, garden seeds and crocuses, daffodils and Love. WINTER Wait a minute, Vernal Vera. I don't give folks a bad shuffle, either. With me they get fireside enjoyments, family gatherings, popcorn and cards, snow and ice skating. AND love. As Bill Shakespeare once said, "Winter tames man, wom an and beast," " .. SPRING Well, as I once said, people are just itching to shed the longies of winter and don the BVD's of spring. I made that up. son ..." ; WINTER It sounded like It came up suddenly, alright. -What's so hot about you. Springy? As someone once said, aad I auote, la spring the trees are leaving and so are cashiers and Hollywood couples . f . SPRING Now you're getting chilly, Sleethead. You're afraid to face the frigid fact that people are. tired of you. Evea the mailmen are getting tired of a steady diet ef snow, sleet, rala hall and gloom of night, evea though those swift couriers ... WINTER Stop It, Breezy, youll have me bawling. Every year about this tune yea came along with a little thaw and people stand ankle deep In mud screaming about spring, won- . . aerfml spring. JPhoolo . . . SPRING That isn't fair, Mudball, and you know itWhen I come along the trees leaf out and blossom, birds build nests . In their hair. And WINTER Whose hair? v . SPRING . . . something men when they, see the flowers WINTER A generation ago Girl... ; :.V.-. ' - SPRING Oh, you're impossible. - WINTER No, I'm not. But ril be gone for good. Until next NewCInmb Bill - ' v ' LONDON WV-Worried by a wave of fcosh Kd" crimes, the ; British government is pushing a controversial new law which : would change the whole legal tradition that a man is innocent until TrrtYtrtA infv The "crime prevention bill would make it an offense to carry any weapon without legal permission. - . The bfll defines a potential weapon as practically, anything from a milk bottle to a cricket bat, It gives police the power to arrest suspects without a war rant. :,- ; :.;V The bill also maker the de fendant responsible for proving he had a lawful reason to carry a weapon. Otherwise he faces a fine of up to $280 or two years la jail or both. . SPRlNG-Come on, Coldnose. Pack up your storms and make muddy tracks outa here. You were supposed to have vacated these premises as of March 21. So take your sloppy solstices and . - , WINTER-j-Don't shove, Sister. Tm, going. I gotta couple of unused storms and a few cold spells scattered around here someplace. Soon as . . . Frankly, Tve had a rough s . ' .1 stirs in the minds and bodies of bloom. they called in worms, Bloomer I'm fading. One of these days fall, that is . . .; waw5S!53Sw!S2So! Driver Hits, Runs, Makes Two-Errors HOUSTON ()-A truck driver r was arrested recently after he had hit a parked car and in- : - jured a woman but forgot to stop. He turned the next corner ' and hit another parked car, this ume mjurtng a man. ? mm U if ' "- ' i i r -i i n i i . U.S likes Coffee Despite Price Hike NEW YORK WVAlthough the nickel cup of coffee hasMrtually disappeared, 4ne nauonlmported the equivalent of 90&- million cups more of java last year than Jiny New offers lhf odvardagtu You'll like Zenith's atw tttraal MierophoM for two important ra tons : (1) h's imrtly-tyed accessory for your necktie, coat lapel, drtu or suit, and (2) it bring bettor hearing bccauM of Msseaca clothing "whis pen." Optional at small added con with Zenith "Royal" and extra powerful ,Super-RoyaLH HEAQING AIDS SModtlil Each atone CoaoWfioa OevJces Avutfoble of AtooWofo Extra Cost ty Mokors of Zenith Tolevialoa - emd Radio tots t! is CU1UTIX V J Ilorris Optical Co. 444 State St Phone S-3528 jJW 432 State Street Mb i : advertising pays the businessman isn't apt to continue it If it , brings ill will instead of good will he Is going to cancel it at the first opportunity. - : But . what about newspapers i and magazines which are sup- :, ported by advertising? There Is this difference: the advertising is not tied In with a particular news story or editorial. Persons objecting to what they may read ; in the news columns do not take ft out on the Individual adver tisers. Unless radio can find some way to separate sponsor and commentator about the only line of radio comment which will survive is that which conforms -. to business orthodoxy. Radio is not the only medium, where intellectual conformity Is required. ' Not long ago the magazine New Yorker had an ar ticle dealing with this spread of fear which began in this wise:. "There was an announcement" in the Times the other day of a playwriting contest sponsored by the office of Samuel French. One of the conditions was that the sponsor "reserves the right at any time to declare ineligible any author who is, or becomes pub-, licly involved, in a scholastic, literary, political or moral con troversy.' On first reading this, we thought It was a typographi cal error such, as one finds once In a great while in the Times, but we searched and could dis cover no sign of error, and so : became aware that the sponsor's insistence on the contestants in tellectual inertness was indeed a condition of the contest Contro versy is now a naughty thing, a disqualifying thing. The act of disputing or contending is an unwholesome act To disagree with anyone or anything is to run the risk of taking oneself out of the money. All this in a country that was born of contro versy a country that wrote in 1951, according to the Na tional Coffee Association. The 1952 total was 2.7 billion pounds a gain of more than 22 million over the year before. . This was the highest total in three years, approaching the re cord import of 2 J billion pounds in 1949. j?or blaster choose Bunnyhint Wart, s r9jl prtwtt Jor th yomtf Children love the gay lirde bunnies scattered on this ' fine English dmnerware. Tough and sturdy, Bunnyldns Ware makes mealtime a special pleasure. State and Liberty an On Purchase fat Our Store LARGE SELECTION TO CHOOSE FROM (Only One Coupon ta Each Purchase) ni nnn controversy Into its constitution, that set up its legislative bodies on the theory of controversy, that established its free press in the belief that controversy is vi tal to information, and that cre ated a system of justice of which controversy is the heart and ;- aoul" v :.,: One bright star on a television show was kicked off because its sponsor had a case of nerves when she had been examined by some anti-subversive committee. The movies have done a purge ' , to free themselves of suspicion, of harboring pinkos. Because Legion groups dislike Charlie Chaplin's political views some theatres have banned his "Lime mentators who seem to be thriv ing are such reactionaries as Fulton Lewis, Jr. and Gabriel Heatter. -. True, Communism is a grave threat to human freedom; but we need not succumb to fears and impose the thought-control which comes from tolerating only the orthodox opinion. We grow economically, morally, intellectu ally only by being free to grow. We risk sterility by restraints on free expression. Radio ought not to be confined to presentation of opinions screened by individual commercial enterprises. I haven't cared much for Drew Pearson often he seemed care-" less of facts, though In recent years his facts have been accur ate enough to send some men to jaiL But I do not like to see journalists of capacity and inde dendence like Pearson and Swing dropped from broadcasting for lack of a commercial sponsor. Twenty years ago the popular demand was for New Deal lib erals as speakers, writers, broad casters. Conservatives were queer birds who were not want ed. See how the climate has changed. Now the liberals are out 'hunting jobs. 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