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Saintly. May 10. 1353 C statesman ' iVo favor Stray Us No fear ShaU Awe" ! Frees First Statesman. March 2S, 151 1 -'Statesman Publishing (Company CHAR A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher . Morth Chorea St- Sikm, Or, Tmlmyhon 2-241- Entered at the portomee at Salem, Ore M tccmkl rttr pW art of Co"wi Man 1H. - Member Associated Press Too AMoeUted Prtn ta ontttlod oxchMtrahr to ttt um far republication of aU local Rws printed ta -i . . uua Voice of Conscience General James A. Van Fleet, lately retired 'after a long and highly successful political career, expresses himself freely in Life Mag azine regarding his latest assignment as field commander in Korea. He blames administra tion, policy with preventing the crushing of tJj&Coniinunist forces in the summer of 1951 wbejt the U. N. armies had the Reds on the rfi&Halting along the 38th parallel and then engaging in prolonged and thus far bootless negotiations for an armistice ran counter to cpsR military mind of this able general who hid, guided the Greeks to win their long battle against the Communist guerillas. Like thfetrue soldier he thinks in terms of mili tafk Victory, as did General MacArthur, and fe&jlrustrated over the restraints of Wash ii5$m. tfs idea counters that of General Brad lefhief of staff, for Van Fleet says that ifwe have to have a war with the Reds anywhere a choice they themselves have made in this instance Korea is for us the right war in the right place at the right time?" (Which is obviously a direct rejoinder tc&JBradley's countering testimony in the &iaArthur hearings.) 3Vn Fleet writes that our greatest mis tajtdjin Korea was to underestimate the Kqfeens and overestimate the Chinese Reds. Biif'he says the war is costing the Chinese mufcn more than it is costing us. IJe thinks they have to get out of it, that going in was the worst mistake they could possibly have made. His policy is "no compromise." fll we have to do is start an all-out ef fort -in Korea, and the Reds will soon come begging to us." ;Tfould they; or would they merely yield gropnd, only to send in fresh regiments hastily recruited, to waste them against UN positions, but still prolong the fighting? This is a different kind of war. Primarily it is a UN fight to resist aggression by means of collective security. While the U. S. is the authorized commander, the fighting is done on the name of United Nations; and Wash ington has to pay some attention to the rep resentations of our UN allies. It is different in this way, too, that the purpose is not to overwhelm China but first to repel the invader and next to unify Korea. Stopping at the 38th parallel at least did this: tt restored the status quo, leaving unifica tion to be achieved if possible by peaceful means. given Washington great confidence in his military judgment. f Whether. Korea is the right war, or the wrong war, and war at; the right or wrong place is a subject for debate. But this is true: it is a war that nobody wants, but one which nations are having a difficult time to break off. - C ,- j We can admire General Van Jleet for his great military ability and respect his . con tribution as a response to the voice of his own conscience.' He deserves 'the further commendation that in spite of frustration he obeyed orders, and waited on his retirement before criticizing decisions, of his superiors. It is still too early,1 however,-to render any final appraisal of the decisions made either in Washington or in Korea., It was fortunate, however, that the country had a man as able as General Van Fleet to take over the comf mand in Korea when General Ridgway was assigned to Tokyo to succeed General Doug las MacArthur. Whether one agrees with Van Fleet's views or not, UJS. and .UN are greatly in his debt for his great military leadership in rolling back the Red tide in Korea. j Editorial Comment U. N. IS WHAT ITS MEMBERS MAKE IT la declaring bis willingness to give the United Nations a farther chance to "prove itself," Sen ator Knowland ' possibly gives the U. N. more than its due and thereby does it a disservice. I As we see it, the United Nations can no more "prove itself than the Civic Auditorium can "prove itself." The United Nations is a forum a place in which representatives of member nations can come together and talk over mutual problems and conflicting points of view; If it has acquired a personality of its own, that is no more than the composite personality of its members. It has no meaning, apart from its members, just as the United States has no meaning apart from its people. f So it is the members, not the U. N, that must "prove themselves,' and this , is a complicated matter and not something that can be pinned ' down to a given day. j The old League of Nations, we think, has taken an unjust kicking around for failing to "prove itself when,' as a matter of fact, its own mem bers destroyed it by' failing to rally the nerve to do anything effective to check the aggressive maraudings of Mussolini in Africa. Nothing was proved against the League, as such; all that was "proved" was some old truths about human na ture. The U. N., in spite of some formidable monkey wrenches thrown by certain members, has fared better, solely because certain other members have mustered the courage and strength to stand up to aggression. This proves nothing as to the intrinsic worth of "character" of the U. N. It proves only that the Western nations assayed a higher content of common sense than before. . . If the United Nations collapses it will not be because of structural weaknesses but because men have not yet grown mature enough to make it work. One would be foolish in that case either to try to saddle the blame upon the composite ideas and bylaws and buildings called the United Nations, or to leap to the conclusion that some "better" organization could be built to do the same work. It would be a "better" organization only if "better" people comprised it It is possible that the U. N. will collapse, and the nations will face the need of backing off for a new try at collective security with member- TRUTH CRUSHED TO EARTH! ' . I . a . , . .. . . Washington inay; have and sub. m preventing van xieev. xrom stqimnisrcrine; a knockout blow to the Chinese Reds. But having once suffered a bloody nose from MacArthur's ill-advised drive toward the TalUi the U. S. command may have been reluctant to make a second venture. How-evet,- the success of Van Fleet should have version. But let us not deceive ourselves that this will be the same thing we are undertaking with the present organization. We shall then, as the result of civilization's immaturity, have failed the United Nations concept of the world-wide rule of law, and shall have settled for the next best thing. San Francisco Chronicle. French Put Too Much Faith in Mountains To Protect Them From Reds in Indochina 1 YQ Jcv "V ? TOUABOvJTVOa y .:-v. ... ... , -i Dtp EeallEstate Said 'Gal 's Best Friend 9 By Lovely Gabors I J. ii : :I J By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON The French RigH Command in Indochina might have avoided their pres ent trouble if they h-d only had ;the advice of Mr. Ferguson. The 'V '''ilM rehed' on nwnt-'ns to I keep the Indo , I Chinese Com- 4mnnitt nut of the mount" 'n- ;i kingdom of La v so now the C o m m u nists -re all over Laos and on : h e Siamese 'border as well. ' The e r e a t jpoint of Mr. Ferguson was that lie knew all about rou"tVns, nd understood how unreliable they are. But perhaps it will be better begin the, 'story of Mr. Ferguson a t the beginning, 1, ."which was on ;a railroad plat form in Toun Igoo, Burma, in Jhe e?rly hours of an autumn horning of ?94L In those months Deiore ;u.warl Pearl Harbor, F frnunmo was the training base of Gen. C L. Chennault's Fly ing Tigers. The General had been summoned to hold mili tary conversations with the Brit ish War Cabinet's special rep resentative in the Far East, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan iaster, Mr. Duff Cooper. And Son that particular morning, Gen. -Chennault and one of these re porters boarded the Burmese 1 "government's imperial state train narrow gauge, but painted cream color and -crimson for this grave purpose. i There was something a bit S mlghtmariah abeot tke events i mt the first hevrs f the day 'chota bazrl," which Is a dank tea aad a banana; the military i eoaversatiOBS, which were ora- longed, discouraging and , tl t most totally liand'ble, sir-e j the state train hapnened to re 5 rattlHt a !-! n bjof road bed; and the main 1 f t or second breakfast, heavily featoring fried fish In a tem perature climbing towards 102 inside the train. The night mare micht have gene on ftr ever, if it had not been for Mr. Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson - was the High Commissioner of the Shan States, and as such the virtual dictator of an enormous canter of mountainous northwest Bur ma, full of cock-fighting, wife murdering, favorite torturing, tax gouging Sawbwas, which is what the Burmese call their hill-rajahs. He looked more l'ke; a hangover from a primitive, comic strip than a d'ettor. for ce was a little, silver-haired,-pink-faced, not-bellied, skinny shanked foxy grandpa of a man, fantsticpUv ot u in "le shorts, a white shirt with a semi-stiff colbr and a flowing pink Buster Brown tie. Tet Mr. Ferguson was re puted to manage bis Sawbwas with reat rniwes id sagacity; and be was certain ly a sensible feTjr. He re mained steadfastly silent tliron'hoat the milit-r con versation. Bat after the break fast, when the Journey to Rao goon began to seem absolute hr interminable, he mde his first remark in a high, didactic falsetto. ''Alcohol before sundown, he squeaked with great earnest ness, "has always been the curse of the Caucasian races in the Orient For my part, however, I have scientifically ascertained that a gimlet-does not come under the heading of akohoL" Everyone present responded with relief to this bit of Fer- gason lore. Gimlets (which consist of stralrht gin with a lump of ke and an emollient drop of lime syrup) were brought by the state train's tnrfoaned servants; and the ser vants and the gimlets . con tmued to reappear at fairly regular intervals thereafter. The party grew progressively ' chummier, antO the train was i Bearing Rangoon. At length . Mr. Ferguson pointed a chub - bv finrer at Duff Cooaers starched, red-tabbed military ever-ne had been wondering about. "Just how on earth do you soldier propose to keep the Japs out of Burma?" "Mountains," said the Brig adier huffily; "the Japanese can never cross such moun tains in real force." "Mountains!" scorn sent Mr. Ferguson's voice into its Mgh est, most bat-like ranges "mountains indeed! Don't talk to me about mountains! I cross those mountains every week of my life, and if I can cross those mountains the Japanese cerlnin ly can. "They'll cut through Bur ma like a knife through but ter." I Poor Mr. Ferguson! The Brigadier snubbed him round ly, and he . lived only long enough tt learn he wa bang right, and then got killed, in a l-ne trt' r.ur"' tat winter. Tet the Ferguson doc trine on mountains has just been proven once more in the crucial Laos fihtin. F.ven if the Laos fighting ends well, the Ferguson doctrine will al ways retain a certain vivid Interest, as long as nothing but moon tains separate Comma 1st China's &59.00t men un der arms from the rich and tempting rUitary vacuum that u most of Booth East fume, with dialogue right out of Noel Coward." For quite a period, Jolie, Mag da, Zsa Zsa and Eva were gener ous in sharing with American wo men the secrets of their technique. More recently a new family line has been emerging. For one thing the girls have shown an insistence on declining cheesecake poses for photographers. Also, led as usual by Jolie. they are trying to correct a widespread impression they've struck it rich in America It seems that the Gabon for at least sev eral generations have known noth ing but luxury. Short Marriage "Darling," amplified Jolie, "I am marrying when I am 17. 1 did not want to marry but to become actress. This man, this Gabor, is dying to marry with me and he told me I'll be a bettec actress if I first marry and divorce. So I agree to marry for six months and then divorce. But by six months, Magda is coming. "So I wait and then he says I shouldn't be unfair and divorce un til I give him a boy. Then comes Zsa Zsa. then Eva. But are good business- ( then I cannot walk away from my women. It is increasingly difficult ; girls. Twenty-two years later I am free, my three girls are married. But I am 39 and it is too late for an actress. So I divorce and be come a career woman. Bought Hoases By CYNTHIA LOWRY AP Newsfeatnres Writer NEW YORK UD -r Diamonds, mink and well-heeled romance may be delightful and desirable counterpoints to the full feminine fife, but real estate is the best asset a girl can have. Real estate pays dividends. This realistic tip comes from some lad ies who know. Their name is Ga bor. . i .. The Gabors are four In number: Mama Jolie and daughters Mag da, Zsa Zsa and Eva. Their birth years' are the most closely . held secrets this side of the Danube. All the Gabors are beautiful and Hungarian. They first began reach ing the United States in 1939 and in the last four years have begun to reap a profitable harvest from very large doses of sax appeal, fed lavishly by shrewd use of pub licity and tended by a thought ful attitude toward the dollar. This is topped off by a modest amount of acting ability. Glamor's Their Business Glamor is the business of the Gabor family and there's no doubt that they all to tune in on television or radio without seeing or bearing blonde, brown-eyed Eva. It is hard to miss gorgeous blue-eyed Zsa Zsa in a hit movie. Magda, j. the red-haired one, is being launched on the stage and on TV. Mama, blonde and vi vacious, is an indefatigable mem- U.N. Support Talks Planned Plans foe increasing civic in terest in United Nations and far a community observance of U.N. Week next- October will be con sidered at a luncheon meeting Tuesday noon. The program, called by Salem Council of Church Women's de partment of Christian world re lations, will be at the Senator Hotel Reservations should be made with Mrs. Dennis Patch, who is co-chairman with Mrs. Henry Otto. Speaker will be Miss Eloise Ebert of the State Library staff, new president of Salem League of Women Voters.; Mrs. Harold Rosebraugh will preside. Expected at the meeting are international relations chairmen of .eftrk - organixations and any other civic and church leaders interested. Credit Croups Platf Meeting More than a dozen Salem credit offieals will travel to Victoria. B.C, next week end for the 32nd annual Pacific Northwest credit conference. The sessions will include on May .15-16 the Pacific Northwest Council of Credit Women's Break fast Clubs and on May 17-19 Dis trict 10 of National Retail Credit Association and Associated Credit Bureaus of the Pacific Northwest. Leading the delegations win be Jolie launched five successful ' Charles Sterake, president of Sa- And with the Indochina Com munists on the Thailand border, it is. also well to recall a Sia mese ex-Prime Minister who was a sort of spiritual brother of Mr. Ferguson. f The ex-Prime Minister bad retired frona his country's poli tics, which are gav bat some what homicidal.. Possibly be cause of this piece -of -pm-: denee, he .was reputed to be very wiseTWhed one of tbese . reporters called on him at his . flowerbed palace in Bang kok, he was busy painting a' portrait of his exquisitely pret ty wife, A question about the consequences of a Communist victory in neighboring Indo china at first plunged him In to m really alarming fit of the giggles. H I jewelry stores in Budapest during the war years and bought four ber of New York's Cafe Society by i houses with her profits. mgm ana a ureiess snopxeeper oyf Eva came to this country first, day- , ... . . i bride of a Hollywood doctor. She The family s specialty in public goon started a movie career -hich utterances has been advice on ted her to television. Zsa Zsa, di handling men, particularly rich 1 vorced from a Turkish diplomat, men. It would be hard to find a came to visit her, met and mar better team of experts: The four ried Hilton. Mama and Masda Gabors have had a total of ten were smuggled out of Hungary at would qualify as Wed to Sanders At the moment, Zsa, Zsa is still wed to Actor George Sanders. (Mama Gabor considers this alli ance sheer heady romance since Zsa Zsa gave up at least $26,000 a year alimony from Hotelman Conrad Hilton to follow her heart. Mother Jolie recently announced her intention of taking the plunge for the third time with an uniden tified Hungarian. i Zsa Zsa first hit the front pages in 1947 as the estranged wife of rich, well-publicized Hilton, whose hotel interests reach from the Car ibbean to the Pacific. In those days she was known as Sari. (Zsa Zsa is a family, nickname.) One fine day police were told she had been robbed of $70Q,000 worth of jewels by a kid-gloved bandit who invad ed her east 83rd Street penthouse (she owned the building, of course). This created a great furore, but a yeas later, the papers had a lit tle story Sari had filed suit against an insurance company to collect only S10,000. -j $2S,000Loss - couple of years ago Sister Magda was robbed too. Her esti mate of loss was $26,000, but she didn't fare much better; the insur ance company refused to pay on tit ground -she was a "natural target for robbers. . No matter what the insurance companies did, there -was plenty of payoff in publicity. ' 1 There Is considerable drama ' In the way .a large segment of the population, entirely masculine, re act to a Gabor. d Then he mastered his merri-l . They are, reported one mala menti gave his answer in three 1 1. -everything that a wife Is not. words "Wt cave in;" emitted a 1BeT max T mniv oy every final Utter; and went back to bis thing they do, that you might just inHnr - catch their f ancy. and that it OjyrM. 1953. New York florid TL 2 JIV " Trtbuno inc.) j Iter, tt would aU be wonderful per- st eight of whom ; war's end. Jolie says all she was lavish providers. ' able to salvage was a mink coat It was stolen in a Broadway movie house three days after her arrival in the U.S. - Jewelry Store With less than $1,000 of borrowed money, Jolie and Magda, grandly refusing financial help fronv the two established girls, opened a tiny lem Retail Credit Association: Mrs. Joy Welsh, president of Sa lem Credit Women's Breakfast Club, and Francis W. Smith, pres ident of Salem Credit Bureau, Inc. Others will Include Miss Lena Blum, Charles Schmitt, Dan Ross, James Cade, Mrs. Myrtle Robb, Mrs. Alta Meyers, Miss Beverly HartzelL Mrs. Dorothy Hill, Miss Charlene Churchill, Mrs. Bessie Kayser and Adlai Robins. carbon . copies of their dynamic mother and she is fiercely proud of them and highly critical. She uunxs inai &sa ua is cne oeauty of the family. ,"1 told my girls when they were young. says Jolie. "you may be (Continued from page one) jewelry store on Madison Ave-! lucky and marry a man who can nue. It has done so ell it has support you. But be independent moved to larger quarters and Ma- so that when you are unhappy, ma has started sidelines In cos- you don't have to depend on some- ffletics and perfume. Mama is the owner of a country home in fashionable Southampton and a brownstone house in Man hattan which she has remodeled Into apartments. Eva has another bouse nearby. : The family preoccupation with real estate does not lessen their appreciation of jewels as a girl's close friend. Each sports a huge diamond solitaire. Zsa Zsa's is the largest. 25 carats. Eva's is 15. body. But how do Gabors - reconcile their position as authorities on men and marriage when they have so many failures? darling,' explained Jolie pa tiently "it is so simple. Everything you do is, for love dressing, dancing, everything. .Who can tell what comes later? A woman is really only oappy-when she has a nice good love. So you must be moependent and able to do for Mama's and Magda's are only yourself. Then you do not have to slightly smaller. Jolie is a rec- marry a rich man, you can marry ognized appraiser of gems, par- a : jot one. am if tt is wrong, tkrularly pearls. Jyou can go. . . , V K Copies of Mother I "So you see, darling. we are One remarkable thing about the . th r ost romantic of all.. With a Gabors is -the similarity in their looks, way of thinking and man- of expression. The girls are little real.esUt, a little something coming in, we don t need a rich man, a good little love will do . . . mm For sol to the highest bidder, dwE2ng located at 1010 North Cottage) St. and 2487 Maple SL, Salem. Oregoa. and conditions el sale may be obtained Trust Company, Pioneer Trust Bldg. Salem. Oregoa ; . , , more severe. Ice, floods which grind up - the stream bottom are rough on flan. ' - ji The scientists were able , to explode certain myths, such as: that streams have little fish food in winter (they found more); that fish do not feed in p icy water (they do); that intensive angling strips a stream of : its breeding population (it doesn't, trout find plenty of hideouts for survival). i - , , jj . The studies were- made by blocking off sample section of a trout stream, drying up the bed, and taking out the fish for measuring and weighing, i For winter study a cage with plate glass windows was lowered into the stream. Graduate -students sat In the cage and observed activities of the fish. Mi In that "golden age of! re tirement I hope to d6 some fishing; and after reading j the opening paragraph of Paul Needham's article I am tempted not to wait. As he says: ; "Trout are the aristocrats of our inland waters. They require the purest waters In which to dwell the cold, unpolluted 'little waters' of upland streams and lakes in forested regions. Even, there life is rigorous for these sensitive fish, and he who catches a fish should, like! the compassionate, crocodile j that found a man sleeping by! the waterside weep over it before he swallows it 11. Salty Robber Fails in Try to Bluff Monty SALT LAKE CITY LW ITind thrust in coat pocket, the man ordered George Hughs, bartend er, to give him all the money In the till Hughs refused and he also refused to hand over $10 or $20. ; The man then pulled his band out of his pocket, laid a salt shaker on the bar and lied. flail i-V "1 V Fred Rawlins Ocally'Vious . ' "You want us r to' sell your home on an exclusive listing,1 I said to Mrs. Law, -but frankly, we wouldn't deserve your eonfi ' denee if 1 7? lidnt tell youf ma i your home will not' sell for the rce it should its present condition. ' . The .home had been rent ed when the Laws left town a year ago, and it needed tnnv mTI pairs, a inorougn cleanup, and a complete redecoration inside. "Wont it sell this way? asked Mrs. Law. -XfV 1 "ut 't a sub stantial discount much more than you'd expect Also, it wont appeal to nearly as many peo- .Tor example," I said, 'up pose you had your choice of two dresses one with grease stains, nnnressed and 2 at a mlnnr Hm- or, one that was spotless, freshly pressea ana wun no defects. As suming the style, color, and PRICE were about the same which hone would you choose? She grinned "That's obvious. And I see what you mean. A small outlay perhaps $300 will preserve the value we? have in our home and make it more ap pealing, lint that the idea? "Exactly, I replied. -Let's get it in shape so that it will sell quicker, and with a greater net return to you. ' May we HELP you sell your home too? v , , Eaulins Ilcdly !XcJlTwood Bealtor i . 2CS0N. Capitol St Teiephaoe 4-1781 2-4SS4 mi Then Gill . 7 LESTER DeLAPP FOR THE DEST Ifl HOVING j. t t- 1115 N. 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