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From First Statesman. March 2S, 1151
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Trade With Red China
report of the McCarthy subcommittee on
permanent investigations says that shipping
by U. S. allies to rWd China was 12 times
greater the first quarter of this year than in
the same period of 1952. It criticizes our State
Department for failing to stop this trade and
denounces the British firms in Hong Kong
who persist in trading with the Red aggres
sor. Western Germany is also listed as having
brought its trade with China this year to re
card heights.
JWhat the news reports hardly make clear
is that not all trade with Red China is ban
ned, only that in strategic materials. The
committee report quotes Secretary Dulles as
daying it is "not now feasible" to stop all al
lied trade with China. What the State De
partment has been doing is to put an end to
shipments of materials which, would help
China carry on the war in Korea. Britain says
Its trade with China is in non-strategic goods.
The press summaries of the report do not
state to what extent the trade with China
hies violated the embargo. As a matter of fact
the representatives of Britain, France and the
United States at their recent conference re
affirmed their present policies toward Red
China "in existing circumstances and pending
further consultation." This means extension
of the embargo and presumably no admission
of Red China to U.N. If and when a truce is
signed this policy would be subject to reex
amination. Ijnyone familiar with the China coast and
the proximity of Hong Kong and the Portu
guese Macao knows the ease with which
smuggling is carried on. Oriental traders are
not those to spurn a dollar; and it is no doubt
true thatthere is considerable shipping of
strategic materials to China from countries
org -this side of the Iron Curtain. By this time,
however, it should be through irregular chan
nels and not with any official countenance.
What the United States must realize though
Is that other countries must trade to live. We
limit by tariffs the volume of trade with our
own country. Europe naturally turns to areas
where historically it has conducted much of
iti trading. France and the Soviet Union re
cently concluded a trade agreement. If Eu
rope can build up its trade it will be less de
pendent on the United States for special aid.
Our policy will be to discourage trade in
strategic materials with enemy states; but if
rnhd when peace is. restored in Korea and the
cold war moderates in Europe we must ex
pert the expansion of trade, and that in itself
wjtft be for the health of all nations.
; Chiang Kai-shek has been giving his troops
on" Formosa and islands off the mainland
some trial heats in the way of raids on Red
held China. Last week they staged a big one
ori;Tungshan island and report it was a great
success. They say they killed a thousand
Communists and captureo, several hundred
more. And the inhabitants gave them a cor
dial welcome. The fact that they withdrew
throws doubt on the "success" of the venture
saye as a needling raid on the Reds.
Unsung Radio Man Panned by McCarthy
As 'Reward' for Aiding Anti-Communists
- By STEWART ALSOP
; BERLIN This is the story
of how one man served the
interests of the United States
land how he
was rewarded.
The man in
question is
Gordon Ewing,
state depart
m e n t foreign
service officer,
class three. He
is a youngish
man, with a
hesitant m a li
ner and a small
CT
moustache. It
does not often fall to class three
foreign service officers to take
independent decisions which
might affect the course of his
tory. But this was Gordon
Swing's peculiar lot
. At 2:30 in the afternoon of
last June 16, Ewing was attend
ing a routine administrative
treeting at the headquarters of
BZAS, American Radio station
in. Berlin, of which he is politi
cal program director. The meet
ing was interrupted by the in
credible news that the workers
in the Soviet sector of Berlin
were staging a march on the
Simmunist government build
gs. I"
''Front this moment on, for 36
hours, Gordon Ewing had U
take in his own responsibility
a whole series of hair-raising
decisions. The RIAS station is
the official arm of the Ameri
can government. As everyone
knows, the Soviets have the
physical power ta take ever all
Berlin in a matter of hoars.
Overt officially inspired Ameri
can provocation to rebellion by
the Germans against the Soviet
occupying power might give
the Soviets precisely the pre
text they need to move Ber
lin r to make the worst pos
sible trouble for the American
venunent in some ether way.
;-As the afternoon of June 16
rore on, it became clear to
Ewing that what was happening
In East Berlin was do flash in
the pan. A full-scale riot was in
progress. Communist flags were
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Ore-sea Tuesday July 21. 1953
being torn down. Communist
police cars burned and
wrecked. At 4:30 in the after
noon, a workers delegation
from the Soviet sector ap
peared at the RIAS station and
requested permission to broad
cast an appeal for a general
strike, to begin the next morn
ing. This was Ewing's first big
decision. His superiors in Bonn
and Washington did not know
the situation, and there was 'no ,
time to consult -them anyway.
A weakling might have ignored
the worker's request, and con
tinued the regularly scheduled
broadcasts. A fool might have
given the Soviets a valid pre
text for any counter-action they
wished to take. Ewing did
neither. He simply included, on
the regular hourly broadcast,
a deadpan straight news ac
count of the visit of the strike
leaders, and of their plans for a
strike.
Then came a second big deci
iion. Dr. Eberhard Schutx, star
radio commentator for RIAS, a
former Communist with a pas
sionate hatred for Communism,
submitted to Ewing tffe text of
a brilliant commentary on
events in East Berlin, ending
on the note, "We hope we shall
have more such victories to
report" Again, a timid man
would have killed the Schutz
commentary. Ewing pondered
for a few minutes, and told.
Schutz to go ahead.
Ewing "broke" the regular
schedule to devote all , radio
time to the uprisings. Towards
midnight, an old friend among
the American officials in Berlin
telephoned Ewing and said:
"Gordon, I hope you know
what you're doing. You could
start a war this way."
Meanwhile, all over i East
Germany. little groans of, angry
mem were clustered artrand
radios, listening as RIAS de
scribed the events of the day
and the strike leaders plans for
the next day. Om Jim 17, the
incredible happened. In city
after . dry the workers rose,
chased the terrified Comma
mists functionaries et of their
Expenditures in Disease Research
A recent communication in our Safety Val
ve criticizing oulr government for putting up
money to finance fights against diseases of
domestic animate while neglecting diseases of
humans caught ithe eye of Rep. Walter Nor
blad. From him!) we get the information that
the federal government has spent this year
on public healtlj alone $284 million. To that
might well be aijlded the sums spent by state
and county andjjeity departments of health.
In research the government spent $18 mil
lion last year on cancer research, $11 million
on mental health research, $12 million on
heart disease research, and additional sums
on other humarl ailments. A few days ago
Secretary Hobbr of the new Department of
Health, Education and Welfare dedicated a
new hospital at IjBethesda, Md., which will be
devoted solely o research in diseases of the
human body. I
On top of thij are the large sums expend
ed annually by private foundations and pub
licly owned laboratories. In fact studies in the
prevention and I cure of disease share quite
generously in public appropriations and pri
vate philanthropies.
Oregon Republicans are planning a "cong
ressional dinnetj" in Portland for Aug. 8th,
with the plates $100 per, the excess over the
meal cost going pto the party treasury. Pres
ent will be all the Republican delegation in
Congress, and tie speaker will be the party
national chairman, Leonard W. Hall. Most of
the party rallies are attended by political can
didates, present! or prospective; and we won
der how marry j of them will pungle up the
$100 to hear a j party chairman.
Douglas McKay is a descendant of the Mc
Kays of very elrly Oregon history, but now
he has been "adapted" as a member of a tribe
which long preceded the whites in these parts.
He is now "Mountain Chief" of the Blackfeet
tribe in Montana, and his wife, Mabel, is
"Wolverine Woran." We are glad the Black
feet are giving names instead of lifting scalps
nowadays. They) had an evil reputation in the
days when Doug's forebears were buying the
fur trade of th Northwest.
Oliver Mansfjeld, the FBI's representative
inj Salem for several years, listened closely,
saw much, said nothing. As a capable agent
of a capable organization, his unsung Wbrk
is being rewardjed with promotion to Wash
ington, D. C. Those who have worked with
him in difficult times will wish him well,
confident in hijj quiet judgment and certain
of his future success.
Eight states. aid over half of the income
taxes collected n the last fiscal year by the
federal government. California, Illinois, Mis
souri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsyl
vania and Texas paid $40,165,535,000 out of
the total of $69,595,916,000. Oregon paid
$471,709,073 which is just about as much as
the state spends for all purposes in a bien
nium. I
Vice President Richard Nixon told the Boy
Scouts at the California Jamboree that he
didn't get to join the Scouts as a boy because
he had to work in his father's grocery. That
was good training for him, however; and he's
a regular Scout now because he tries to do a
good turn for Eisenhower every day.
Stalin hounded Trotsky wherever he
sought refuge, ind finally he was polished off
in Mexico. To bjje labeled a Trotskyite became
the badge of hi if amy. Now Beria is undone,
and presumably the convenient way of dis
posing of enemies will be to call them Beria-ites.
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offices and took over the
cities.
The incredible could not have
happened without the RIAS
broadcasts which Ewing boldly
approved. By nightfall on June
17 Soviet troops and tanks had
crushed the uprisings, but at a
-terrible cost to the Soviet
Union for which Lavrenti Beria
was to pay dearly. By tbe morn
ing of June 18, Gordon Ewing
was tired, for he had not slept
for two full days and the kind
of lonely courage he had dis
played is peculiarly exhausting.
Before leaving his office for a
rest, he glanced at the ; Ameri
can wire service reports.
Gordon Ewing, he read, was
one of the "pro-Communists"
whom Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy
meant to "take by the scruff of
the neck." So, McCarthy hinted
darkly, was Ewing's wife. In a
way, Ewing was not entirely
surprised. McCarthy obviously
meant to use the brilliant
Schutz to prove his charge that
BIAS was "run by Coramu
nists." As for Ewing's pretty
wife, her eccentric stepfather
had taken her as a child on a
trip to Russia and this was
grist for the McCarthy milL
Finally, Ewing knew that a
German Joumalist-adven rarer, '
whom he had fired from RIAS
for his inability to distinguish
fact from fancy, had been pour
lag poison into eagerly recep
tive American ears.
As this is written, Ewing
exists in a -sort of limbo. Me
Carthy had not yet made good
his threat and the State De
partment had not yet . offered
Ewing up to McCarthy as a
blood sacrifice, as in the case
of Charles Thayer, Theodore
Kaghan and other able men
here in Germany. But the pat
tern is very familiar. It is now
generally accepted practice
here, for example, to encourage
any disgruntled foreigner to
blacken tbe reputation of any
American officials. Surely,
these days, the United States
has an odd way of rewarding
courage and intelligence in
those who serve tbe interests of
the United States. ;
(Copyright 1953.:
New York Herald Tribune. IneJ
GRIN AND BEAR
"In a moment, our verdict ... but first a few words about
the superior brand of justice obtainable in this courtroom . .
When that new school in the Kefzer area is completed it
will be only 200 feet north of Manbrin Gardens area. .You
think this is a break for MG kids attending the school next
7 fall? Well, the
crossing that
i school and the
River Road and
in a roundabout
feet away . . .
So, while
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away their vacation days, unaware of what may be in store this
fall, school officials and other interested parties are scratching
their heads, trying to find a way out of the problem. A road
across the intervening strip would do the trick, bat it's private
property. The county court is sympathetic, but doesn't have
money to go around buying new roads.
One of the busiest places in Salem back in the days when
horsepower was counted in horses will soon be torn down. It
is the old wooden building at the northwest corner of S. Lib
erty and Ferry Sts. Recently a car park it was originally a
livery stable. The Salem directory of 1871 lists it as a stable
owned by J. C. Booth and E. H. Plamondon . . . Later the
Boedigheimer family operated it for many years. Old-timers
remember that, what with the place housing the town's doc
tors' horses and rigs, and brewery horses the Liberty Stables
was a busy place indeed.
Speaking of landmarks Mrs. B. O. (Agnes) Schucking, Eola
florist, also is up to HER heirlooms in Salem property which
made good. In this case it wasn't the land but her home which
was involved. Her original girlhood home was first built on
the southwest corner of Chemeketa and Liberty Sts. Same cor
ner where couple months ago Lipman Wolfe Co. of Portland
bought a new store site. Well, when Agnes was three the folks
built a bigger house and moved the old house to Marion and
High Sts. way out in the country, then.
And recently the Marion-High property was bought for
a Meier & Frank store development. The old house, long since
gone, was on the corner now occupied by Trailway Depot.
And of course nothing remains of the fine old Gilbert (Ag
nes' folks) home at the Chemeketa corner, also the big wood
boardwalk which lined the street there and was in itself
something pretty classy ...
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the counties of Oregon and to
bring assessments up more near
ly to prevailing values. Gallo
way, Wharton, McClean and now
Stewart are the commissioners
who have pressed this program,
with considerable success. But
assessors run into' trouble with
their reforms, as has been ob
served in Lane, Clackamas and
Multnomah counties. The prob
lem is to bring up values in an
orderly manner which will not
bear unfairly on property own
ers in one section or of one
class. There is still a lot of
work to be done.
Giles French, member of sev
eral former interim committees,
has been gunning for abolish
ment of the : personal property
tax. The case against it is ex
ceedingly strong. Like the ex
cess profits tax it has few de
fenders. The stumbling block is
to provide a substitute source
of revenue. Many counties de
rive a considerable part of their
income from personal property
tax receipts. Without them of
a substitute the load would roll
off onto real property.
Over the last quarter century
these legislative interim com
mittees have accomplished a
great deal The Oregon system
of taxation is largely a product
of their efforts. The grist of
income tax bills adopted in the
1953 session came from the
1951-52 interim committee. With
such seasoned students of taxa
tion in Oregon on this commit
tee it is safe to say that its find- j
ings will be quite sensible. In 1
defining true cash value' the f
committee will be wise enough
to temperj the ideal with the
practical. There is no necessity
for a tax revolution. What is
needed is : steady progress to
ward well! recognized goals of
spreading equitably the burdens
which rest on owners of prop
By Lichty
catch is there is not yet a road
200 foot-strip between the
Gardens home area. So, unless
IT
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things are changed, kids will have to walk
(or parent must haul 'em) out to the North
then back to the new school
way. This will mean a mile
for some families to get to school, even
though they'll be living only a few hundred
the kiddies involved are playing
Time Flies
FROM STATESMAN FILES
10 Years Ago
July 21, 1943
Albert L. Girod, owner of a
large farm near Salem, has re
signed as USDA war board
f ieldman, to join the new Wash
ington county flax growers'
processing plant near Hillsboro.
Two hundred persons in
Astoria, were left homeless in a
$100,000 fire which complicated
Astoria's acute war housing
shortage.
25 Years Ago
July 21, 192S
Yankees make record jaunt
around world. John Henry
Mears and B. D. Collyer com
pleted the globe circle in 23
days.
The new First Presbyterian
Church has been completed and
is in readiness for ceremonies.
The new $125,000 edifice is
Colonial in design.
The Oregon magazine, pub
lished by Murray Wade, has
in the current issue illustra
tions and discriptions of the
operation of the Western Paper
Converting Company.
40 Years Ago
July 21, 1913
Miss Dorothy Steusloff re
ceived a broken arm and her
parents and sister, Mr. and Mrs.
William Steusloff and May, suf
fered severe bruises and cuts
when their automobile turned
over near Jefferson. . -
Papers were filed in the cir
cuit court to enjoin the secre
tary of state from placing on
the ballot the workmen's com
pensation act
Oregon, National guardsmen
of tbe capital city are much
interested in reports from
Mexico. Local army men think
they may go to war before
October. (They did.)
erty for the support of government
Eddio Gilmoro
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EDITOR'S NOTE Eddy Gil-
more of The Associated Press has
spent 11 years In the Soviet Union.
He has had ample opportunity to
observe the status of religion there
specifically, to see how Commu
nist cynicism works in dealing with
the churches. Here is bis reveal
ing report. - j
By EDDY GILMORE
PARIS "( Since Stalin's death
there has been no noticeable change
in the Soviet government's attitude
toward the church, or in the
church's attitude toward the gov
ernmen. .
There may be some chance of
the former, but it'a highly unlikely
that the Russian orthodox church
ii. Russia is going' to rebel, or
press its case for independence.
Religion is deep in the hearts of
millions of Soviet citizens and Stal
in, during the war, discovered this.
More important to him, he learned
how to control it. :
He set up a government agency,
functioning under the Council of
Ministers, of which he was Chair
man, to supervise the church.
(Some called it the Commissariat
of God).
Sent to Prison, Exile
Large numbers of priests and
prelates of the Russian orthodox
church, as everyone knows, lost
their lives during, and after the
revolution. Thousands of others
were sent to prison, or to exile in
Siberian villages. Many others just
faded into oblivion as quickly as
they could. But all did not disap
pear by far.
And there were the churches, ev
erywhere. There still are. Look ov
er the horizon of Moscow or any
Soviet city and you see more spires
and church steeples than anything
else. But this does not mean, they
are operating today.
Many Churches I
When I got to! Russia 11 years
ago, one of the most striking sights
was all these churches. It looked
as if the government had been un
able to make up its mind what to
do with them. i
But this doesn't go for all of
them. Large number had been pull
ed down. Otherr had been con
verted into living quarters for a
greatly crowded people, some into
movie houses, and in some villages
into grain storage places, or build
ings connected with machine trac
tor stations.
It's difficult to say what made
Learned
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CoBairoSiini
466 Acts of 53 Legislature
Become Laws of State Today
By PAUL W. HARVEST JR.
Associate Press Writer
Oregon has 468 new laws today, including important civil rights,
education, highway, labor and forestry legislation.
These laws, the bulk of the work of the 1953 Legislature, have
gone into effect 90 days after the end of the session. There are 255
others that -already are law because they contained emergency
clauses. t
The most important of the bills
becoming law will do these
things:
1. Expand Oregon's teacher
training program by adding
training of high school teachers
and liberal arts courses at the
colleges of education, and provide
four-year liberal arts courses and
teacher training at Portland
State College.
2. Simplify the state fax system
by putting income tax into the
state general fund.
Civil Righto Bill
3. Make it illegal for public
eating, lodging and amusement
places to discriminate against
minority groups.
4. Permit sale of 32 million
dollars worth of highway bonds
to finish the Highway Commis
sion's five-year-emergency road
building program.
5. Ban organizational picketing
by labor unions.
6. Tighten the forestry laws,
requiring logging operators to
take stronger precautions against
fire.
The session laws, containing
the 724 laws passed by the legis
lature, go on sale Tuesday at $6.50
per copy.
The bill providing straight $600
personal income tax exemptions
for every person goes into effect
benefitting parents of two or
more children.
Permits Bridge Tolls
Another important new law
will permit tolls on the Vancouver-Portland
highway bridge.
The toll money will be used to
finance a second bridge.
Other major bills becoming
law Tuesday will:
Let the governor appoint the
Tax Commission.
Provide a two-year study of the
use of water resources.
Require public hearings after
power companies impose electric
surcharges.
Permit the governor to post
pone hunting seasons during per
iods of extreme forest fire
hazard, j
Ban sale of horse meat in
places where other kinds of meat
are sold.' j
Mellorine Act
Require that ice cream substi
tutes be labeled mellorine.
Increase farm and home loans
for veterans from $8,000, to $9,000
for homes, and to $15,000 for
farms. j
Give the state its first oil and
gas drilling code.
Tighten the laws against abor
tion and sex offenses.
Provide out-patient service at
the state hospitals and at Fair
view Home.
Let the j Department of Agri
culture license rainmakers.
Allow the Department of Agri
Culture to order landowners to
get rid of their ragweed, a prime
cause of hay fever.
' Relieve radio stations of liabil
ity for statements made by politi
cal candidates. ;
Reports:
g Church
Stalin decide to let the churches
openly operate. It could have been
uV. success whicb the Germans
had in this field, particularly in the
Ukraine and in Byelorussia. That's
one thing the invaders seemed to
do right fn Russia.
Woman. Approaches
I stood in front of a church in
Poltova one day shortly after it
wa retaken by the Red army. See
ing we were foreigners, a courage
ous old woman came up.
"You see that church," she said.
"It's open. Well, you know who
opened it? The Germans. It took
the Germans to get it opened, but
they're letting it run now.vl mean
our people.) They've even put in a
bell." j i
Such incidents may have been
taken to Stalin by the Security Po
lice o he may have felt that he
could control the church quite sat
isfactorily, as the czars immedi
ately before him had done.
Commissariat for God
In anj case. Stalin set up the
Commissariat for God. The church
leaders J- such as could be scrap
ed togetler and given the security
test fvent into a meeting, and
before Ipng we had a patriarch,
metropolitans, deacons and priests.
Churches lit up and operated.
Lush ik4ns that had been stored
away, heaven knows where, were
produced and installed. Bells be
gan ringing once more and - the
faithful Hocked to their old places
of worship, burning candles and
saying prayers, many giving
thanks to comrade Stalin for open
ing the churches.
Praised! Stalin
The accord was pretty solid. The
patriarch praised Stalin publicly,
condemned Hitler, muttered the
party Ifrie about the absence of
a second front and pretty soon
won the. "Order of Lenin."
Real j mob scenes took place
around i the churches the first
Easter -they were opened under
government smirks, if not smiles.
Thousands got in, but many thou
sands just couldn't find room.
We wrote about all this
through? the censor who cut our
copy where he wanted to and
people got the impression that the
Russian government an- tn people
were having some sort of holy re
vival. Opium of the People
I. and I'm sure other corres
pondent! too, wrote that the shrine
Weary
Of Saving
Russia's Face
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ByJ. M. ROBERTS Jr.
Associated Press News Analyst
The Kjorean truce situation seems
to be back about where It was a
month, ago, when observers were
expecting the truce to be signed
any day, ,
Then lit was blown sky high by
South jKorean. opposition. Now
there is j every indication of an
early signing.
Not (inly were the Communists
getting down to brass tacks . on
the last technical details, but they
resumed work on a building de
signed to take care of more people
indyding reporters than the
makeshift in which negotiations
have taken place.
Czech; and Polish members of
the proposed truce advisory com
mission were reported to have ar
rived in Peiping en route to the
front. I
This matched the presence in
Tokyo pf the truly neutral mem
bers f mm Sweden and Switzerland.
Armistice commission members
were rieeting for the first time.
F
The itew situation marked ac
ceptance by the Reds of the fact
that no matter how much the Al
lies might regret the action of
South Korea in liberating North
Korean! prisoners last month, the
Commupist demand that the U. N.
accept responsibility for their re
turn was absurd.
The Reds managed, however, in
their statement of willingness to
go ahead with the truce, to hold
on to jthe prisoner issue for re
vival later at the conference on
political settlements.
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By securing the right to enforce
the truee against South Korea, they
also maneuvered themselves into
a position on the record which
could Conceivably be used in tbe
future fas tbe basis tar a new
charge; of aggression such as the
bald lii that was told when North
Korea launched the war in the
beginning.
This seemed at most,' however,
to be a far-fetched contingency.
That the Communists, if not
checked on a world basis, will one
day attempt to return to Korea
is almost a foregone conclusion.
But hardly on a, basis of the im
mediate events of today.
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The Allies, of course, are play
ing today's situation deadpan. The
Commtpusta nave arrived at tne
troujhjtoo often without drinking.
The South Koreans are still talk-
ing . rolign, though not j nearly so
roughly as before. But the.-Com
munistii already have -demonstrated
that even a rough statement
China
iii-Russia
of the Iberian virgin at ' the en-- -trance
to Red Square .was; stiU..-.
down and that in its place thesi - -worq
still stood: v ;
"Religion . is opium 3 for -tbf'i
people.'T - - .'I
' True, the godless society has X
ceased to function, and young Sa
vie, people were to be Jound ' lf ,'
the churches. . ..' "
, But " the bulk of the cohgrega
tion was, and still is today, maoY-
up of women, middle-aged and th ::
old ones.' Oh, yes, you see plentj
of men, and even young men and.
young girls, but th Young Com.,.,
munist League frowns severely to-
day on J religion. . . , , . - .
Black Mark
A black mark goes up aganst
any member found having any
thing to do with religion. . "
The attitude of the Communist ;.
Party tjoward the church changed,
as has been pointed out above.
but it never cnanged toward re .
ligion. It's against it"
There are heads of the Moslem - .
Church,) the Baptists, the Jews, the
Lutherans, and even some-sup-...
posedly! Catholic prelates operating ,
in the Baltic states. - .. . ,
I saw one of them once and,,,
heard him make a speech and I
got the impression that he didn't
havt any more to do with the
Catholic church than I do with the
Mikador . . ,
Denounce U.S.
Yi,t All fk... .Haw. Mvt lm
a religious conference that we at
tended a couple of summers ago .
and denounced, according to form "
ula, the Western imperialists, the
warmongers and the aggressive :
policies of the American rulers, j
I should report, and quickly, that " !
on of them whom I knew by "
sight and who knew me by sight,
came around later and said, "1
hope. I do hope you understand.;,
why I jhad to make that speech.' , .
The Russian people can adapt
themselves to almost anything In -many
a Russian home in the
days 1 1 could, visit Russian homes '
i found an ikon in one corner,
a candle, or a low powered electris
bulb burning beneath it, and a '
colored portrait of Stalin hanging
on the center wall.
"Thefe's nothing wrong with
this," said a friend of mine once.
Then he added with a smile,
"both are allowed."
Law, Changes
Status of Sdmex
Farm Work v
Under a 1953 legislative act
operative Tuesday, any farmer -who
employes workmen, other
than those regularly employed as
farm help, to do logging, saw-'
milling or construction work on'
the farm, will be regarded as en- ,
gaging in a hazardous occupation,
the State Industrial Accident
Commission reported Monday.
Farmers who now have ae
counts! with the accident commis
sion or file for coverage after the
effective date of the law will hav
no protection as employers for .'
such hazardous work until a 'no- . ;
tice of engaging in such hazard-
ous occupation is filed by the far-"
mer employer. 1 - v.
The; Legislature, according t'
the commission, cancelled 'an or
der which provided that construct -tion
work when performed by '
other i than regular farm lsbor .
would be considered as incidental '..
to farming. - "'
The: commission 'said the new.. '
legislation will affect the opera-
tions of many farmers who have ;
elected to come under-tho -com
mission's protection and others
who contemplate doing so.
can be seized as excuse for delay
if they; see any profit in it. ,
The ; whole situation within, the '
Communist sphere, however, sug-
gests that the Reds have now'
reached tbe point where they want
to get it over. They've squeezed
all they can out of it. and taken
some knocks they didn't expect
We can't know what they 'are'
thinking. A truce fits into the
world-wide "peace offensive."' It
fits into a situation in which Rus-'
sia and her satellite governments
are trying to assuage rebellious" j
subjects with shorter work weeks, '
more food, and more consumer1
goods. !
By this token Russia is less able
to contribute to the Chinese war
effort right at a time when China
has been ravaged by famine and
flood, i - -1
But my hunch is that the more
cooperative attitude at Panmun
jom is also connected with a gen-
eral weakening of Moscow control
over the satellites due to the un
stable ! situation in the Kremlin:
that . China has grown weary of -attempting
to rescue the Korean
chestnuts which i Russia threw into ,
the fire in the first place, and ia
taking ' advantage of Russia's pre
occupation with other troubles.
Termites ordinarily attack only
dead jor dying wood. ,