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Wd. Mdr: 18. 1853 cCDtcjaou C statesman Wo Favor Sways Vs No Fear Shall Au ; Front Fin Statesman. March 18. 1S51 Statesman Publishing Company CHAJ&ES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher then publicf attention and sympathy are at tracted. And such is the resolution of the hu man spirit we can be confident that these stricken cities soon will rise above the debris, though the broken lives will never be 'replaced. AU REVOIR, BUT NOT GOODBY! Published (NTf Jfortb Church St. Salem. Or, Telephone S-S441. Enierad at the mntn at Salami Ora a matter prater act of Comrrca March . irT. X- Member Associat&l Press TW-AaaocUUd Prew la entitled exctaalTely to 1 - tor republication of all locaj news printed to th la OmrchiU's "Mission with Moscow" Prime Minister Churchill in reviewing for eign .policy before Commons on Monday urg ed that leaders of Russia and the West hold a copf erence soon in an . effort to compose . differences between their countries. Since he specified it should embrace "the smallest number of powers and persons possible" it is assumed that he would limit the company to Eisenhower, Malenkov and himself. He urged too that the conference be held "with a meas ure; cf informality and a still greater measure of privacy and seclusion." The PM was not too optimistic about de finite results. Perhjaps no hard and fast agreements could be reached, but he felt it might generate a better feeling and so halt the slide into war. We may agree with the doughty Britisher that no one should be frightened over -the prospect of. such a conference. By the same token-one dare not be carried away in a glow of optimism. There have been many confer ences at just under the heads-of-state level since Potsdam, but the resulting agreements have been minis cule. Another is set for May 27th when the foreign ministers will take an other bite at the Austrian treaty hardtack. Many are inclined to make it the test of Rus sian intentions. Churchill has one great ambition, and that Is to resolve the cold war before he leaves the political stage. It is a worthy ambition, though this old warhorse has never been dis tinguished as a pacifier. If a conference could be had,-with very limited objectives, it might do something to ease the present stress. If it attempted too much and met with failure thep the end result might be damaging to world relations. To start with the West might reflect on what it would be willing to sacri fice to match any genuine offer from Russia to settle the issues separating East and West. We can see why this administration, how ever, recalling the storm of protest over Yal ta ancj- Potsdam, will hestitate even to be caugh3& the same room with the Russians. "Mining" the Forests Remember those "mining claims' on choice -timberlands And recreation spots in the Rogue River country which Sen. Ben Day brought to public notice some time ago? The forest service is moving to have them invalidated for lack of showing of mineral value the timber and recreation values of the sites are self-evident. But if the federal court should throw out the claims (and it isn't easy to douse the gleam in the eye of a prospector, whether for gold or timber) ; then next day they could be filed on as mining claims again. So filing, contesting, eviction could ' become a merry ground. Even if the forest service came out on top in the end it is put to a lot of trouble, and its plans for forest management may be interferred with. The Medford Mail-Tribune, reviewing this problem, speaks favorably of a bill now in Congress by which the surface rights would be reserved though the miner is allowed to do his mining. There would be conflict if the mining really got started because you can't mine without damaging the surface; but at least the miner would not be under the temp tation of "mining trees" for he would have no claim to them. It certainly is time to revise the Old min ing "claim laws. On the "Meet the Press, program Sunday night Sen. Wayne L. Morse told reporters he would welcome a race with Douglas. McKay for the Senate in 1956. Why do reporters and others keep setting up this contest? We have no inside knowledge but have never under stood that McKay had a hankering to go to the Senate. He surely wouldn't give up his present post as Secretary of the Interior, a cabinet office, to run for the Senate; and this position holds into 1957 or longer if Eisen hower is reelected President. We are apt to find younger politicians eager to run against Morse in 1956, and perhaps against Cordon in 1954. . Texas Tornadoes This is the tornado season for the vast spread of the continent east of the Rockies. These .twisters are quite unpredictable as to time and place and intensity. Actually they are rare and widely distributed and of brief duration. So the people of the plains and praries have learned to live with them. The ones which struck at Waco and San Angela Texas, on Monday were unusually severe, Musing heavy loss of life and injuries' to persons and extensive damage to property. So serious is the situation in Waco that mar tial law has been proclaimed. As usual the American Red Cross is prompt with its measures of relief. The sum of $200,000 was set up immediately for emer gency jcre, and more will be forthcoming if needed ;(How precious it is that we. have this reservoir of money and .trained personnel to draw oh in time of disaster.) We live in a time of wars and threats of wars, and sometimes seem to be hardened to lesser calamities. But when something of the proportions of the Texas tornadoes strikes At the end of 1952 over 64,000 Oregonians were receiving federal old age and survivors' insurance (social security). The number on old: age assistance from the state public wel fare' commission is something over 20,000. Steadily the former list will grow, and the latter wjll diminish, because of the spread of coverage of federal social security. There probably will always be need of the state assistance, however, to supplement grants under the federal system in cases of extreme need. -s: ! - 'i -. .- .x. lit. .vt;f,;f Jj ( BESEEM, --Dnwl "Erpna-rw-a u. m a mm mm, m mm mr-m II 7 U.S: Civilians Freed by Reds, TeU of prutaHty FRANKFURT. Germany (A da A. Smith, Marshall, Mo., and Seven American civilians who, Anders K. Jensen, New Cumber were swept up by the march of. land. Pa. war in Korea nearly three years ) Dans told of a death march'" ago savored freedom Tuesday up to the Yalu River on which night and told a story of hunger 99 American soldiers and two el and brutality under Communist vflians died. .;. guns. . ' f ! -we never saw the actual sboot- : The seven, six missionaries and lag," he said. "If any one couldn't a fanner State Department em- keep up, they'd wait until the rest ploye, stopped Lriefly - in Frank- of us got aroucd a bend and then fur on the last leg of their trip we'd hear shots. Many of them from prison to freedom in their Iled -f exhaustion and malnutri bomeland. ; : stiot, though. There were 72 d- ( They were interned along with ffilians but we lost only two." some 72 others in 1950 hen North ii . . Canada Of f era brain to Pakistan Korean troops knifed deeply into n Kore but noboc: i aver both..ed to tell them their status. Louis Dans of Chicago and Balti more, who was a hotel marager f the State Department was spokesman , f o the group at a news conference at Frankfurt s Rhine-Main Airport. The others are Father William R. Booth, a Maryknott, N. Y., priest, and five IChodist missionaries: ; Lawrence Azeuers. weatnenoro. Tex., Nellie A. Dyer, Conay, ArkL, Mary Russer, Cordele, Ga., Berth- Better English By Dt CL WDLLIAMS OTTAWA UR -. Canada has of fered five ; million dollars mrtta of wheat to Pakistan to relieve a critical food shortage, the External Affairs Department said Tuesday. I The contribution is m addition to a similar sum, also for pur chase of Canadian wheat, alloca ted to Pakistan from the 25 mil lion dollars set aside last year by Canada under the . Colombo Plan for developing Southeast Asia.'::, " v ;' .i Russia is said to be building up its navy, going in strongly for submarines using the latest German subs as models. The subs could do a lot of damage but will never give Russia command of the sea because defens es .against subs keep progressing too. The great weakness of Russia on the ocean is its lack of a merchant marine. Fifty-three per cent of its shipping is overage 25 years old or over. Moreover, the Russ have never been a seafaring people. The USSR will remain a land power. Eugene is mustering forces to oppose the granting of a' license for dog racing in that community. There is nothing scarcely which a city needs less than dog racing. It is just a parasite on the community, leaching away earnings for out-of-town promoters, offering little in the way of interesting' entertainment and building up the vice of gambling. The racing commission should spare upstate Ore gon from going to the dogs. In Struggle to Keep Control of Party, Attlee , Is Contributing to Reds' Plan to Split Allies Jy?. M. ROBERTS, JR. safety from Germany, and of Ger- ingrained Russian trait Fear of Associated Press News Analyst man safety from Russia, could be Western intervention in her affairs Clement Attlee, with his attack an entering wedge for East-West has been constant ever since it In the British Parliament on Amer- agreement. actually occurred in the early days leans and their Constitution, sow Locarno, however is remenv f the Bolshevit. revolution, begins to out-Bevan Bevan. bertd primarily as one of history's Churchill was frankly in disa- Amencans who keep up with best examples of the fact that if greement with some American British pohtics wffl recognize the the nations want peace, no pact is policies. He thinks he's lived former Prme Minister's speech as necessary, and if they do sot, no through a lot and knows a lot more connected, with the conflict be- pact will produce it l about some things than other peo- SfSLi There is, however, no harm in Pl But he doesn't make enemies left-wing feader, for control of the 0,71 And rheS of his best and most important ?LLM -T1 K. , . ill is certainly right in recognizing friends by calling them foolish and Trt2?meriCaM m that, oand above the constant unprincipled just because there is T S - - t tAma Tla in aaais 1 1 all if wsan tim ..r. v M -1. . ivussan poucy oi expansion oi ta thTiwS"Tharr Communism, fear may play a very want a settlement in Korea, he is JShOl " mmiKm ihm rsmrnri Immediate attitude, i repeating the Communist line. When be raises the question of Chinese Communist membership en 0e United Nations Security Council even though he admits it shouldn't be done until after an armistice, he is advocating a pet Communist project When he emphasizes the differ ence between British and Ameri can institutions, when he chooses an extremely difficult period to talk abbtit" divergencies in policy. Whea;he-QQestions the President's power td teaHy represent the U. S. on international affairs, he is contributing to one of Russia's most earnest campaigns the cam paign. t: split the Allies. AtHes-i. not a Communist He has ieen: ousted by the British beexrvaccepted as their represen-ative-'in international affair. His speech is primarily an example of the extremes into which politics can lead people. Americans, with the exception of those who get too mad. are familiar with similar in temperate manifestations in their own .Congress. Many win be toler-' ant. - : -- J Tht former Prime Minister's in terpolation in the British foreign policy debate' will not, however, do anything to help smooth over the differences which have arisen on either side of the Atlantic over at titudes toward the Russian peace offensive,- - Winston Churchd made a refer ence to Locarno in his speech pro posing --ah - immediate top level peace conference. He said maybe an Allied guarantee of Rossian In the meantime, his Idea for a Kremlin's conference has received support from the Vatican. The; pressures for it begin to outweigh the arsu- Fear of foreign influence is an ments against it Local bistro operators say it looks like every unemploy ed bartender in the country is hitting Oregon (in person or by mail) hoping to get back into the Old Stumpwater stir ring business. Most of these martini mangl- I ers feel .that now Oregon is back to selling booze over the bar the customers can stand a few versatile, big city type, fancy drink mixers ... Eugene man passing through notes that Eugene liquor spot owners were in a tizzy last week end because they didn't find but until the last minute they were sup posed to post bonds as the final step in get ting their new by-the-drink licenses . . , When Mary Pickford visited Salem for the BeaaVa-MonfJi drive one of the official greeters was Bruce WCUasss, local atty.' and county savings bond chairman. Bruce recalled that daring his WW 11 naval air training days at Cor pus Christi, Tex, one fi his pilot friends was Lt Baddy Rog t ers, Miss Pkkford's husband ... At the luncheon here the entire audience was composed of bond-drive committee wom en. Sole male was Dave Mess, tape recording for KSLM. Mary , started her talk: "Ladles and " with a deep nod to Dave, " gentleman." ' f ! ' Treasury men assigned to guide her through Oregon got all fagged out trying to keep ahead of tiny, tireless Mary . . . The trip cost her a lot of personal dough even though she and her secretary each got $8 a day, plus travel expenses. Her maid was her own burden . . . In Salem Miss Pickford said she could slap the label of genius on only two persons in her life Charles Chaplin and Walt Disney . . . Every body keeps referring her to as a star of the lip-reading, roller-piano era. Well, she was, but she also starred in the early talkies and copped an Oscar for "Coquette." New gimmick in salesmanship is for salesmen to call on prospective customers by phone. One Salem woman has been called three times in the past eight months by one insurance representative. Each time she patiently explains to the caller that she already has that type of insurance with his compa ny! ... On the ether hand Vic Withrow, local insurance agent, tells of HIS headache. Seems that an increasing num ber of persons write insurance firms and ask for "all the in formation on your plan. Bat no agents or callers." . . . If yon don't answer," moans Vic, "people get sore. If yea do, there are so many different plans, both yon and the prospective client get so confused you cant tell the premiums from the indemnities." ; . Gardening casualty dent . . . City Editor Bob Gangware i was having trouble with his phone. Telephone repair man : found that Bob's phone was the type with the ground wire staked into the ground' smack in middle of the petunia bed at the side of the house. Recent spading and scratching had dislodged the wire. Repair man says this sort of thing hap- : pens lots of times during the early, mad gardening season . . . i Marion County clerk's office called a woman the other day ; for jury duty. At first the woman appeared shocked and con fused. Turned out she thought they said she was scheduled for surgery. i Literary Guidepost GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty By W. CL ROGERS Shakescpearlaa Players and Performances, by Arthur Colby Spragne (Harvard; HQ) Thanks to radio, television and movies, we make enduring records not only of music as it is heard today but also of stage plays. But what the great actors and actresses of the past were like jre have to deduce from written accounts more often in tended to note a mood than to describe specifically: how it was produced. This interesting book tries to tell us. and does very well at it, too, how some of the immor tals looked, acted, and what they sounded like. The author's problem must have been to re duce his material to manageable proportions; there was a little about everybody, he needed a lot about a few. So he reports on key figures in memorable roles on certain nights: Thomas Betterton as Hamlet, 1709; David Garrick, Lear, 1776; John Philip Kemble, , Hamlet again, 1783; Xemble'a sister Mrs. Sarah Siddons, Lady Mae beth, 1785; Edmund Kean, Oth ello, 1817; - William Charles llacready, Hacbeth, 1SS1; Hen- I ry Irving, Shylock, 1878; Ed win Booth, Iago, 1881. Betterton's amlet was so commending it scared the Ghost, . said an actor who, as the Ghost, .should have scared Betterton. Mrs. Siddons shed real tears, and as Lady Macbeth was so convincingly fearsome that one spectator declared TL smelt blood." Kean, it was claimed, ' actually turned "ashy: grey with fear" in the closing I scenes of "Macbeth," and in that role the rapt llacready pinched his Lady Macbeth black and blue. The voices intrigue us most, whether it was Kean's always threatening to turn hoarse, or Irving'! "highly cultivated neigh." or the formal-diction. evidently beyond exact conjee- I tore at this lata date, of Bet . terton. Some one marked the "Tobe or not to be" soliloquy ; forte and piano, only to discover i such a test did not I apply to Garrick at alL But there was a time, it seems, when it was poe sihle, as it no longer is, to corn- pare the speech on the London ? tag with the stylized speech ; still heard today, in its effect ! almost operatic, in the classical fla French theater. BBBasBaaBaaBaaaBMM - that the admlnistra- shouU run Cm country ea alternate days!..." (Continued from page one) from normal society. Thanks to the good nursing and treatment by skilled physicians, and the specialized help of psychiatrists, thousands are discharged an-, nually to resume their former activities. The public: is apt to rate an institution by its externals, the size and number of its buildings. But a hospital depends primar ily on the quality of work which is done there, 'and that depends on the character and attain ments of its professional work ers. In this respect it is just like a college the faculty is more important than the buildings. Oregon should be h i g h 1 y pleased that the staff at the Sa lem hospital now numbers three Board -accredited psychiatrists. They are the same persons they were before, and will pursue the same line of work. But the rec ognition gives them profession al standing and encourages them to press forward in the work to which they have dedicated their lives. I want to commend these doctors for their perserverance in the study and effort required for qualifying at the highest le vel of their profession. It was a long, hard pull; and achieve ment of the goal must give them a high degree of satisfaction. L What is wrong With this sentence? The price was no where near as high as I had expected." 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "psychiatric"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Coersion, con descension, contamination, con-j tiguous. 4. What does' the word "me-! taphor" mean? I 5. What is a word beginning; with om that, means "forebod-i ing evil"? ANSWERS L Say, "The price , was not; nearly so high as I "had ex pected.' 2. Pronounce si-ki-at-i rik, first 1 as in sigh .second and third i's as in it, a as in ti accent third syllable. 3. Co. ercion. 4. Use of a word or phrase literally denoting oner thing in place of another by way of suggesting a likeness as, "The vessel plows the sea. 5. Ominous. 25 Years Ago! i MAY 1J, 1928 : National Music Week ends In program at the Armory, with over 500 participating. Numbers by Willamette University and. Elks singers were outstanding' William McGilchrist Jr., was chairman. Capital Post No. S American Legion in bright uni forms, under1 the direction of Drum Major Carl E. Hinges, en tertained during the evening, f ey received word that Vernonl Macan of Victoria .would arrive to take over planning of new Salem Golf links. When com pleted the golf course will be one of the best and most beauti ful in the country. , "Spec' Keene's home run was largely responsible for the one point victory of the Legion out-, fit over the Oregon Paper mill team in competition in twilight: leagues on the Oxford Park dil mond. M TheSafeh Ive Va I 7 Pearson's Radio Outlets To the Editor As mention by letter .was re cently made, you might be in terested in knowing that Drew Pearson survived the attempt to liquidate him with 192 (1) sal vaged radio outlets. This in eludes Oregon's freethinking Information over his signa ture is that he. expects even more stations and greater cov erage under the new schedule than formerly. Appears that it's better to be 83 right than vice president; or senator. ... Roy M. 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