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4 The Staformrm, Salnu Orfc, Thursday, May 21, 1SS3 tCj)ttsoii statesman "No Favor Sways Us No Fear Shall Awt" - Item first Statesman. March 2S, 1S51 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SFRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published very morning Biudnm office 280 North Church St. Salem. Ore Telephone 2-2441. Entered at the poctofflee at Salem. Ore, aa aeeond class matter under act of Congress March 3, 1879, Member Associated Press The Associated Prees Is entitled exclusively te the use tor republication of all local news printed in this newspaper. Spending on Atomic Energy The Oregonian is shocked at the proposal of the Eisenhower administration to curtail outlays in the development of atomic energy -by 30 per cent under the provisions of the Truman budget. This curtailment reports the Portland paper, is to be chiefly in fields that would prove most productive for civilian benefit. Postponement of work on reactors for atom-powered aircraft carriers and air craft "strikes at the heart of progress toward development of atomic generators for electric power." It sees curtailment of work in phy sics, chemistry and metallurgy, in research in colleges and universities, delays in work in biology and medicine which give great prom ise for good to the human race. With the stockpile of atomic weapons ample for the initial phases of a war, the Oregonian thinks it is a mistake to concentrate the spending on the military side of atomic energy, even for the purpose of balancing the national bud get. So great is the concealment from the gen eral public of the work of the atomic energy commission that the layman is greatly handi capped in discussing its program. About all he knows is that enormous sums have been spent on producing the A-bomb and the H bomb, that many tests have been made in the desert and on atolls in the Pacific of atomic weapons, that the destructiveness of these bombs has been greatly increased in ratio to size. He knows also that isotopes are avail able for use in medicine and industry and research, and that considerable experimenta tion has gone forward in developing reactors to generate power for civilian use. But he is quite helpless in passing judgment on the vast sums involved and their apportionment for various purposes. Hence with all sympathy (or the Oregon- ian's plea for swift utilization of new knowl edge for promoting human welfare, and for probing the secrets of the atom to learn new methods of control for its beneficent use, we feel we have to rely on the constituted au thorities to make decisions in this area of the budget. These authorities are the atomic ' energy commission, the President, the joint committee of the House and Senate which has kept in intimate touch with the work of the commission, and the Congress itself. We have to realize that the administration has as its first concern the security of the nation. Involved in that is the race for pre aminence in employment of atomic power in the military field. We think we axe ahead and are determined to stay ahead. If the choice here is guns or butter then for the time being guns will get the preference. At the same time there must have been terrific waste in this program. Of what practical val ue is the atomic cannon so heavy it cannot negotiate bad terrain? A plane is a much more flexible and dependable vehicle for de livery of an atomic missile. Scrutiny of spending is what the new administration is devoting its time to; and it may by prevent ing waste save funds for furthering research for civilian use of atomic energy and its by products. ' .. - In the end, as in the beginning, the people will have to relay on the President and the Congress for they are the ones responsible for selecting the most urgent needs among the many "which press for early attention. The Oregoman's eloquent plea for money for de veloping the peacetime values of atomic pow er deserves thoughtful attention in Washing ton; but we can't gamble on security in an atomic age. : 'GRIN AND "BEAR IT Bylichty Referral of Civil Rights Bill A preliminary petition for referral of SB 169, the civil rights bill, has been filed with the Secretary of State. Some 23,000 valid signatures from now, the bill will be put in suspense until voted on by the people in 1954. Getting that many signers is not a simple task; but if they are obtained the issue then will be fought out before the electorate. Re liance is had on the popular expression in Portland where a municipal anti-discrimination ordinance was defeated in 1950 by a vote of 77,084 to 60,919. This is a "free country" and there are those who want to stretch the freedom to abridge freedom. As long as the democratic process is employed, one cannot well protest resort to its even use for ends one disapproves of. The value of a civil rights law is largely educational rather than an invoking of police power. It helps to revise patterns of thinking which embrace color prejudice, bringing them more into accord with what we regard as the democratic and Christian conception, of hu man equality under the law. The campaign, if one is to be waged, should be fought on this level, rather than on "You wouldn't want your daughter to marry a "negro" level Chances are there will be plenty of kluxism turned loose; but Oregon voters are pretty sensible and able to dis count appeals to raw prejudice. So if a re ferendum comes, let it come. The House has been whetting its paring knives for operation on department budgets. But Wednesday it sheathed them when the appropriation for agriculture was up. Instead the House voted to increase the $140 million allotted for soil conservation by $55 million. Just the usual auction bid for the farm vote. Secretary Douglas McKay may now be considered "blooded." John L. Lewis has tak en him on, accusing McKay of being willing to have "the blood of coal miners on his hands" because he has recommended a new man for director of the bureau of mines, a province Lewis claims as his own. One of lice's .Motives in Radio, TV Talks, Tours Is to Gain Support of U.S. People Of on is as By JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON Probably the most interesting feature the President's radio talk .the budget its status U new depart- ur- other in. 2 peals to the j people and ap- U TXKinceS be- f fore the peo- - i nl will fnllnw nV - I shortly. After v tfTs I further ap- I !f V IP e a ranee on v? 3 I television this will be a swing westward, to Minnesota, North Dakota and elsewhere; and then will come an eastern trip, begin ning with the Dartmouth com mencement Those who are qualified to report on the develop ment of Eisen hower's think ing, emphat ically say that a larger , pur pose lies be hind all these . ; a orauous ana ... " e x c u r s ions. m!Jm Eisenhower wants to be a strong President He is coming to realize that the source of presidential strength is the whole people of the United States. He now sees that he must mobilize his popular sup port, in order to exercise full authority in Congress and in his party. This represents a change that Is subtle, yet radical. There is nothing new in Eisenhower's desire not to be remembered as one of the large, unhappy com pany of weak American Presi dents. But his ideas about how to be a strong President are plaingly evolving. ; . When he took office Us eon-1 cept of the presidency was much more passive and- math, less 1 political.. Confucius. all. bet summed vp the Elsenhower con cept. In a famous bat slightly pttmistie remark,, "Let the rat-' er desire foed, and the people i win Je good.". The. numerous Inquests on Eisenhower's first hundred days sounded a bit like variations aa ancient Confucian 1st theme, that the Sen of; Heaves did - not need to "de- - cide, or to -act," nve, bat 'only or eves to to -radiate" No one is better at radiating benevolence than Dwight D. Eisenhower. His radiations have not exactly "set in order all un der heaven, as the Confucian ist used to promise rather more than 2,000 years ago. Harmony with Congress has if anything diminished the President's pow er in Congress. Harmony in the Republican party has encour aged the anti-Eisenhower fac tion in the hope of taking over. In dealing with other politici ans, amiability has not proven to be universal panacea. On the other hand, the presi dential radiations have notably increased Eisenhower's already enormous popular rapport The polls attest it The President himself had the fact forcibly called to his attention on his . short visit to New York, when crowds lined the evening streets waiting to see him pass, almost in the manner of crowds in the high excitement of campaign time. The good will of the peo ple of the United States can be called into play to overcome op position, whenever Eisenhower choses to exploit this supreme presidential prerogative. It is hard to say just when or how the decision-that this would be needful began to take --shape in the President's mind. With respect to dealing with Congress, the White House staff This Day 25 Years Ago From Statesman Files , HAY 21, 1923 George Rossman, who headed ticket for the state supreme court at the primary election, issued a ' statement of thanks to the voters. Rossman had a lead of. 10000 votes over the next contestant." - v: z ; r . Temperature In Salem drop ped to ?77 maximum, after re gistering .81 yesterday, and. 87 the day before. Cyclone struck Eeho; Oregon, and Bend hit by violent electrical storm. - v.' - v " ' . Hiss E. A. Frazier arrived from California to spend three months with her brother, G. D. Frasier, who is proprietor of Salem Engraving Company, has been divided for a consider able period The policy of harv mony at almost any cost. includV ing the cost of very grave con cessions, has strong proponents such as the President's Congres sional liaison, Maj. Gen. Wilt bon B. Persons. But other mem bers of the staff have challenged this policy more and more strongly and sharply. More generally, the leading members of the Cabinet, the chieftains of the Eisenhower faction in the Republican party, and a fair number of the Presi dent's trusted private friends, have long been urging the Pres ident to talk more freely to the country. They have argued that good win was not enough that there most, be strong, plain spoken popular support for spe cific Eisenhower policies. This, they have said; could only be secured by -going to the peo ple," by -taking his case to the voters." Certain incidents have also played their role in Eisenhow er's evolution. One was the tre mendous New York turn-out, which moved him very deeply. Another, of a different sort, was the bad quarter-hour at the White House three weeks ago, when the $8,500,000,000 budget cut was first presented to the Congressional leaders. The lead ers' complaint about the inade quacy of the cuts, and particu larly the downright angry re action of Sen. Robert A. Taft, seemed to have suggested to the President that collaboration alone would not make him mas ter in his own house.. If you think about It the step is long one from persuading pol icians to persuading the people, so that the people can persuade the politicians by .the old famil iar method of applying the heat to their backsides. - - If this step is taken success fully, the significance win be very great indeed. The Elsen hower administration win be purged of .its worst weakness, which has been a curious fail ure to realize its own power. , The President win begin really to lead, instead of allowing him self to be led by those who tell .him what the "country wHl and ! wont stand for." And in the lm " mediate future, the Senators and Representatives who are preparing to defy Eisenhower on such issues as reciprocal trade, foreign aid, and the budg- et in general, win find the go ing very hard indeed. (Copyright. 153. New York Bcraid TzlbuiM Xae4 . r 1 4w.m i -. . . And I'm sore the dab's own delegation to London win do everything possible to make the coronation a smashing success!" The Safety Valve Trade Hopes Prompt Red V Peace Moves . . ... ,t , . i ' By WILLIAM L. RYAN -AP Foreign News Analyst The liberation of Bin Oatis, like the many other' Communist ges tures since the arrival of Georgi Malenkov on the' world scene, seems tied tap with a desperate determination to open up East West tafede. ,; - . The entire peace offensive dat ing back long before the death of Stalin apparently has been aimed at the trade goal. It is succeeding. Daily, dispatches from abroad tell of increased pressure for trading back and ( forth across the Iron Curtain. 1 There aire a number of good reasons for this offensive. In the first place, the merciless exploita tion of the captive European coun tries of the East has brought the civilian economies of the area to a dangerously low leveL Associated : Press Correspondent Dan de Luce; who got to Warsaw Saturday amid this new wave of Communist -: gestures, confirmed Western suspicions. The astronom ical prices for consumer goods, far beyond the reach of the highest wages, underscores the severe shortages of everyday 'necessities brought about by the swift tempo of industralization imposed by the Soviet Union to further its own plans. Reports from inside the USSR Local Deaf Group Protest Deaf "Beggars" To The Editor It has been brought to the at tention of the writers, and mem bers of the Salem Chapter of the Oregon Association of the Deaf, that certain out-of-the-state deaf persons have come into the com munity to peddle cheap trinkets. This is out and out begging be cause stressing their deafness, they are demanding donations that are far in excess; of the true value of the articles offered for "sale." The deaf people of Salem are proud of their record as hard working and respectable citi zens. They pay their' taxes, spend theifmoney in town, obey of their neighbors. They are home owners, citizens contribu ting to, and sharing in, the bene fits of the city. These peddlers, or beggers in disguise, hand out cheap articles and, with the plea that deafness prevents their finding suitable work, ask people to donate sums far in excess of the real worth of the trinket to be -sold." The deaf .people of Salem are proof that this argument is false. The deaf can, and do, find gainful employment The City of Salem requires peddlers to have a license. Ask to see this Salem license before any money is handed out Should the peddle be without the license,' please notifly the police at once, giving them a descrip tion of the "seller." The ; deaf people of Salem do not want these peddlers in town; they want to stop this nefarious practice df soliciting under the guise of selling. This activity can be stamped out if the citi zens of Salem will discontinue giving money to these panhand lers. Buy your articles from local merchants. Keep "your money in town. If you have money to give to charity, give it to the local Community Chest or to the Red Cross Blood Bank Fund. Olaf Tollefsoa Thomas Ulmer ' 999 Locust St have indicated that muci of the goods going into the consumer economy hay been .comaig from countries like Czechoslovakia and Poland, while the USSR points its whole program toward heavy in dustry toward building the indus trial base to guarantee Soviet se curity at home and tof permit Moscow to engage in maneuvers which eventually will amount tb a trade war.-V - j ".- . , - : The death of Stalin his made the peace toward such Soviet goals much swifter. But the pattern of this peace ' offensive - dates back more than a year, back ho early 1952, when Stalin 'hinted at the possibility of a great power meet ing and told the Indian ambassa dor there were no outstanding problems , , which could jnot be sol led. C ' There is a strong suggestion now, in retrospect, that this was the i voice of Malentov jspeaking behind scenes. Stalia was) not yet bunec before Malmkov J and his cohorts took up the same theme. The offensive began, to - take shape in March, 1952, frith the much-heralded international eco nomic conference in Mosiow. The campaign coincided iwith the American presidential campaign. The idea was to start af ground swen of pressure whichi now is much in evidence. f In September, 1952. the Peiping peace congress, a conference of international Communist I puppets, dutifully announced itself) in favor of "peaceful solution'' off all con flicts, including Korea. Tie theme w repeated at the October Com munist Party congress in Moscow, which was the occasion for a super-Comintern meetingf of 115 Communist Party leaders from 45 countries to map the. nex steps. All through these phases of the campaign, right up to the end of 1952 and the Vienna "wodd peace congress." the West was slow to nibble at the bait.' I But then Stalin died, this fact alone gave the Reds' wor)d peace offensive the shot in thej arm it needed. Yet, outside of j Stalin's death, there has been little real change. 4 PANTS PROTECT DOWNFALL VANCOUVER m-A ycfith who ware two pairs of trousers was one pf four shoplifters convicted and fined in court here. (Officers explained the inner pair, with cuffs tied tight at the bottom, was used to hold stolen groceries. Zoning Plan Described to eClub Exclians -i Features of the proposed new city zoning ordinance, under prep aration since 1950, were described to Salem Exchange Club Wednes day by Robert K. Powell, member of f Salem Planning and Zoning Commission. .- The ordinance, which it is hoped to have in effect next fall, would break residential, business and industrial zones into sub classes; exclude residences from industrial areas, as well as vice versa; require off-street parking provisions; establish building set backs along arterial streets. - Asked as to acceptance of the plan at recent public hearings, PoweU said few people have turned out to comment except those who have complained about some feature, and some areas have made hardly any comment !Club President Peter Geiser announced that the nominating committee will comprise Tom Roberts, Irvin Bryan, Otto Wil son, L. p. CampbeU and Kenneth Sherman. , Robert BrowneU is heading a committee to plan a club picnic, and William Phelps reported on work of a committee studying water fluoridation. i . : . . -Traffic Death Brings Suit For $15,000 J Death of Emmitt Hoyt Henry of Salem in a truck-motorcycle collision April 23 is the subject of a $15,000.. damage suit filed Wednesday in Marion County Cir cuit Court ! The suit was brought by Joan Emaline Henry, administratrix of the 22-year-old Henry's estate, against George and Anna A. Cad well, owners of Cadwell Oil Co., and Raymond Caldwell, driver of the truck. - i Henry died after a" collision between his motorcycle and the oil truck at 260 Boone R ; New and Wonder ftd I ESS INSIST OhJ- J- T-SH DUO'S GUARANTEED NOT TO SHRINK OUT OF SIZE ' ramows Reis sohres sttrinkog problem for good. Reis Perma-stzed T-Shirt also ben collarette strengthened by nylon end guaranteed to bold its shape. When Perma-sized, T-SWrts fy as wefl after laundering as before. 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