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What Now, in Indochina?
'; Now that a truce has been signed in Korea
We may expect pressures to build up for a
negotiated peace in Indochina. The issues
there are similar in some respects to Korea,
but France is the western power bearing the
brunt rather than the United States. Also the
Vietnamese are quite indifferent to the strug
gle with the Communist-aided Viet Minh re
bels, whereas the Koreans have been intense
in fighting to defend their country against
the invaders. '
France is weary of the drain on its man
power and its finances. One of the candidates
for the vacant premiership proposed liquid
ating the war in Indochina. He wasn't ap
proved, but there are many in France who
share that attitude.
The United States for its part is concerned
with preventing the extension of Communist
domination through Southeast Asia. To pre
serve containment it is now contributing
about a half billion dollars worth of military
gear and supplies a year to the French Viet
Nam forces. Though it would like to be spar
ed this burden it does not want to see defense
of the country scuttled letting the Reds take
over. Britain also would be alarmed if Com
munism reached farther south to threaten
Thailand and Malaya.
iWith the fighting at an end in Korea, will
Rd China shift its forces to join the Viet
minh in their drives into Indochina? Or will
it augment the supplies now flowing to these
rebel armies? A massive strike by the Chi
nese would overpower the French armies who
have had their hands full now fending off the
Vletminh. A buildup of weapons and planes
would threaten the French positions. Hence
the concern over the immediate future in In
dochina. Speculation on these points is wholly guess
work. Indulging it, however, one comes up
with a prediction that Red China will not
launch any important military effort in
Southeast Asia though it will keep up its
flow of supplies. This prophecy is based on
the assumption that China wants peace both
to end the losses and the costs of Korea and
to permit concentration on its internal prob
lems. Presumably also China wants admission
to United Nations (though it has shown no
disposition to promote friendly foreign rela-
tions). Any Chinese military adventure in
Indochina would defeat or at least delay real
ization of that ambition.
What are the nossibilities for a solution?
if may come through negotiation, since war
fare there has come nearly to a stalemate.
Trance might agree to speed up, its conces
sions on independence with safeguards for
the establishment of a competent native gov
ernment. But how to insure that and keep out
the rebel Ho Chi Minh who started the war
back in 1946 is by no means clear.
Very definitely the war in Indochina should
be brought to a close. As presently matched
neither side can achieve full military victory.
The United States certainly doesn't want to
commit its own forces. France can't spare
more troops and maintain its home defenses.
The natives are more interested in growing
rice than fighting. Here again we have a war
that nobody wants, but which so far nobody
can stop.
Perhaps United Nations can lend a hand
by way of appointing a commission of neutral
powers who might bring the various-elements
into negotiation. At least it should explore
possibilities along this line. Surely a peace
without victory would be better than con
tinued war without victory.
Thus far this has been nearly a two-blanket
summer in Oregon,
United States' Hands Tied, Bargaining
Power Weak In Political Talks on Korea
- By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.
Associated Press News ' Analyst
fo matter how hard the State
Department experts work in the 88
days left to them, the United States
and her Allies will carry very little
bargaining power to the political
conference on Korea. .
-When you think of what the
United Nations want a unified
Korea under a democratic govern
mentand then consider what they
have to offer, the difficulties ap
pear insurmountable.
. In the first place, they win hard
ly", be able to ask anything more
than free elections in a unified
country. They can presume, but
not be sure, that free elections
would .produce a non-Communist
government.
i'But even free i elections with an
uncertain result would still be a
major Communist concession, and
one they will not -make without
payment in kind.
..'
.The big things the Communists
are believed to want are:
1. Membership in the United Na
tions for the Chinese Reds. - .
2, Reunification of Formosa with
IB China, Communist controlled.
1 Relaxation of the restrictions
on trade with China, .
; 4. Removal at. jlU foreign troops
from Korea.
? This is more the order in which
the demands represent headaches
for the United Nations than of their
importance to the Communists It
is rather notable that the removal
of troops is the one specific matter
which the Reds insisted must be
tattled at the conference. ' The
The Mayor and members of the City Coun
cil say they are surprised over the paving of
North Commercial street from Pine St. to its
connection with North River Road. Probably
the residents; along the street were surprised
too and happy.
Editorial Comment
f-:
THE TRUCE, j
It has beefea strange war. It came with sudden
stealth in ah unsuspected place. It was met with
resolution and fought with courage both in defeat
and in the despair of victory lost. Now it seems
to end in a whimper.
It is even ganger still For it is not true that
there has been-no victory, and yet it is not true
either that the battle has ended.
In the strange quiet that follows the silenced
guns, none of us will feel great transport; we
have too often been brought to hope only to meet
disillusion. Rather, we feel a numbness. There is
among some men a haunting wonder whether,
having won the. peace we sought, we have not sin
ned in paying: for it Already there are voices
saying that we forfeit victory.
But that is not so. We have said to the world:
Here, in this place and in this time, we have
Stepped forward to halt evil and we have halted
'it
And we do not think the world, or the evil in
it, win forget it. The stark fact of the doing, how
ever much the : deed was short of the hope, is by
itself alone a proud victory.
Yet it is also true that no victory -is forever.
What is signed at Panmunjom is no more than a
truce, a respite agreed upon because for the mo
ment our enemy is as weary as we. Tomorrow we
may have to pick up our arms again if not in
Korea, then elsewhere. It is this that makes some
men cry failure.
Yet where has there ever been more than a
truce? At the gates of Tours? At Constantinople?
In the railway coach near Oompiegne? In the
ruins of Bertchtesgaden? At Hiroshima? All were
but truces for a time. Merely to conquer enemies
is not to vanquish the enemy in the struggle be
tween civilization and barbarism. We would not
have vanquished it on the Yalu either.
Perhaps weinever wilL But in our disappoint
ment let us not disparage what our dead have
done here. We have proven to ourselves and to
the world that we do not wait the striking of our
own hour before we will take arms, and we have
proven that even among men free to differ there
is no surrender to dissension when it comes to
battle.
We do not know what will happen hereafter.
But we do know that even if this truce vanishes
tomorrow, or if it should be followed by a greater
trial, neither we nor our enemies can any longer
doubt our resolution. That is the victory in the
truce at Panmunjom. (Wall Street Journal)
other three represent AHied as
sessment of Red desires as based
on their propaganda.
As the U. S. diplomats begin
their studies of the problems they
lean toward an initial attempt to
keep some of them off the agenda
entirely. That is because they have
no answers to make except "no."
, r-
With regard to U. N. member
ship, the State Department's hands
are largely tied by resolutions
adopted both byj the Senate and
the House against Red China's ad
mission. This leaves no room far
bargaining on the point at the con
ference. -If.
: After the conference, depending
on the sincerity with which the
Communists conduct themselves
there and in observance of the
truce, a different political atmos
phere might develop in the United
States.!
: The Beds would then have a hope
that the United States, standing on
its long-expressed principle that
the veto should not apply in U. N.
membership matters, might not
use it- if other nations wanted to
push Red China into a seat- That
hope does not exist now. j
UV N. commitments to the Na
tionalists on Formosa male It im
possible to bargain that island's
future for the sake of Korean uni
fication without trampling many of
the same principles which were
involved h the Korean War itself.
The only hope of averting a big!
split on this point is to keep it off
the agenda. ' .
Vv :. .(1
The matter of the withdrawal of
troops is more a matter, of agree
Strong U. S. "Team" for U. N."
President Eisenhower has appointed quite
a strong "team" to represent the United
States at the next session of the General As
sembly of United Nations. Heading- the dele-,
gation, will be the permanent representative
of the U.S. at ,U.N, Henry Cabot Lodge. Oth
ers who have; been named as delegates are
Governor James F. Byrnes of South Carolina,
and two members of the House committee on
foreign affairs: Frances P. Bolton of Ohio and
James P. Richards of South Carolina. (It has
been customary to name two from the House
or Senate). Presumably the fifth principal
will be James Wadsworth, the deputy to
Lodge.
Alternate delegates named are: Henry Ford
II of Detroit, Archbishop F. Carey ' Jr., of
Chicago, African J1E. church, J. D. Zeller
bach of San Francisco, Mrs. Oswald B. Lord
of New York and member of the U.N. human
rights commission, and Dr. Charles W. Mayo
of Rochester, I Minn.
The Eighth 'Assembly will convene Sept
16. Presumably there will be an earlier meet
ing of the Seventh Assembly to consider set
ting up the peace conference for the Korean
business. ! i
Walter White of the NAACP protests the
appointment of Byrnes because of his attitude
on race questions. However, there are other
issues than raqe relations at U.N. Byrnes, was
secretary of state at a critical period after
the war and should be a valuable member
when it comes to considering relations with
Russia.
' The Pendleton East Oregonian, comment
ing on the Luce team, Henry R. and Claire
Boothe, referred to the latter as a "sound po
litician." Where the E-O gets the qualifying
adjective we do not know. She has made con
siderable "sound" in politics her speech at
the GOP convention five years ago was pret
ty terrible, and her Milan speech before the
Italian elections lost votes for DiGasperi.
Somehow to our ears her political talks have
quite a-hollow sound.
WRXSBSmiS&'iSS
ment on methods than of bargain
ing, since it will require similar
action by both sides, instead of an
attempt to swap one thing for
another.
Of the four points, that leaves
the trade curbs as the only point
where the Allies will have some
thing to offer, and that won't be
much. The Allies could hardly con
sider giving China any better
terms on this point than they give
other parts of the Communist
sphere. , Since the restrictions on
China trade are suffer than those
on Russia and Eastern Europe,
there i some margin for adjust
ment, but a margin only.
In this atmosphere, it is quite
likely that the United States win
approach the Korean problem
from now on as one which, like
that of Germany, will not be set
tled except in a general settlement
of East-West issues.
When recognition of this point
has been produced by the confer
ence, the United States and her
Allies will then have a card to play
which : would be about their only
remaining bargaining strength.
They could offer a general con
ference for an attempt at world
settlements. They might make it
contingent on unification as a
"deed" to prove Communist good
Intentions, as the United States has
demanded such deeds prior to a
(-power conference in the West
It probably wouldn't ' produce
any great result, as the conference
died away it would leave the Com
munists in the position of still talk
ing about general settlements but
unwilling to do anything about it.
GRIN AND BEAR
"Otis doesn't exactly approve
doesn't ask me
2?Dawn
A notice appeared on the bulletin board at central fire
station, signed by Chief Ellsworth Smith warning that fire
men who smoke in bed (that would be the third-floor dormi-
-s tory ) would be liable to dismissal. This is the
fire season, you know . . . And rumor has it
Getting a
men in the Korean War is tough for papers unless they hap
pen to have their own files. State adjutant general's office says
it hasn't received a casualty list from the War Department cov
ering the first year of the war ... Statesman Staffer Tern
Wright, member of the Army reserve 929th Field Artillery
Bn., now in training at Ft. Lewis, says the news of the truce
signing was met "soberly" by battalion members. Probably a
moral there someplace ...
Don Harger brings in a card he found on his car when
he parked it on a Missoula, Mont, street. Card reads: "Please
knock at our door again! You have been forgiven for over
parking. Mr. and Mrs. Visitor we welcome you you are good
people. Stay as long as you can. We believe you will like our
climate, our scenery, our fishing and hunting. You will like
us too! Thanks, come again. Courtesy Missoula police com
missioner." The card is really a postcard and you can mail it
Missoula Chamber of Commerce and get free literature, etc.
Even though they didn't give him city hall, Don says Missou
lians are right friendly, i
City fathers are bowinf their heads these days and spray
ing for guidance. It all stems from the city's policy of airplane
spraying each summer to control mosquitoes. Citixens asked
the city to spray. So the city sprayed. Then came more calls
from citizens, Mothers were worried about the spray getting on
the family wash. Gardeners wondered if the staff was poison
ous. Answer: nope). Some of the spray landed en some cars
in a used-car lot more trouble. Now, the city must spray
again. And everyone is wondering how the spray will affect
TV antennas.
.
Chemical Week mag reports that in California the game
boys transport fish in drug-treated water before planting in
lakes and streams. The drugs have a soothing effect-the fish
do less thrashing about. Sodium amytal does the trick. Well,
now we can hardly wait to catch a hopped-up trout or a bass
junkie . . '.
The Safety Valve
Fair Play
To the Editor:
This letter is to commend The
Statesman for the recent editorial
on Fair Play in Congressional
Hearings. The issue, howeveroes
farther than the matter of fair
play for persons called before cer
tain congressional investigation
committees. Deplorable and un
just as the effects are on innocent
people there are still other mat
ters of great concern.
Inquisitorial investigations ' stir
up general fear and hate in the
minds of many good people. The
Silver Falls
Timber on Sale
The state highway department
is offering for sale the timber
on a tract of land in the vicin
ity of Silver Falls, 13 miles
southeast of Silverton. The cruise
shows two and a quarter million
feet " chiefly of second-growth
fir.
The timber will be sold at
oral auction in Room 418 of the
highway building at 3 p.m. Aug.
17. C w. Parker, of the depart
ment staff, is handling the sale.
The tract came to the state from
the federal government and the
land will be retained byj the
state.- I.
.QIJISIN0 'SATISFACTORY1
BALTIMORE UH, President El
pidio Qui rino of iTnts Philippines
was reported in satisfactory con
dition Tuesday night at Johns Hop
kins Hospital where h eis going
through . m. critical ' period after a
second stomach operation.
KOREA CASUALTIES LISTED
WASHINGTON j (l The 'Del
fense Department Tuesday identi
fied 249 Korean War casualties in
a new list that included 17 killed,
1SS wounded, 39 missing and in
jured ; j V;'.- -i j-
By Lichty
of YOU either, father bat he
to give yon up."
IT
4UlSi5l 3.tfc,
y .
that new (might even be big) business de
velopment might develop along the north side
of Ferry Street between S. Commercial and
S. Liberty Sts. Latest tales sparked by the
report that Union Securities is going to tear
down that old wooden garage - car park at
Liberty and Ferry . . .
correct casualty list of Oregon
harm done to the personalities
and minds of those in whom fear
and hate are generated is prob
ably as great as the injustices
to those subjected to the inqui
sitions. Men and women whose minds
are possessed with fear and hate
cannot be expected to judge men
and issues clearly when they go
to the polls. Democratic govern
ment is endangered in more than
one way when investigations are
not conducted in fair play.
Glenn K. Kelly
P. O. Box 724, Salem
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(Continued from page one)
correct to say that the war did
not end in "victory." John Fos
ter Dulles, Secretary of - State,
added up the score in his brief
address Sunday night He said:
1. The aggressor -has been re
. pulsed. The armistice leaves
him In control of less territory
than when his aggression began
and that territory is largely laid
waste.
2. The North Korean army is
virtually, extinct.
3. The combined Communist
armies have . sustained about
two million casualties.
4. One of every three inhab
itants of North Korea died from
the war ravages and the inhu
man neglect imposed by their
rulers.
That totals quite an impres
sive "victory' when one realizes
that It was a war forced on Ko
rea and the UN by a surprise
attack, and the operation pri
marily was one of defense, re
sisting invasion by an aggressor.
What the United States did
sacrifice, aside from its heavy
list of war casualties and the
expenditure of over $15 billion,
was the desire to crush the Com
munist armies which were on
the run in June, 1951; a gov
ernment chosen by the people
themselves. But its prime pur
pose in intervening in 1050 was
to stop Red aggression. That
objective was reached and
held.
The quotation cited at the be
ginning of this column contain
ed one other statement which
is debatable, namely that this
was the "first" war the U. S.
has not won. For rejoinder, let
us look at the War of 1812
which we shall do tomorrow.
Time Flies
FROM STATESMAN FILES
lO Years Ago
July 29, 1943
Dr. H. H. Olinger of Salem
was appointed by Gov. Earl
Snell to the state parole and
probation board.
American and Canadian
troops have cracked the moun
tainous core of the Messina
bridgehead and hope for a
quick conquest of northeastern
Sicily.
Miss Patsy Holt, formerly of
Salem, was guest soloist with
Chuck Cassellas a band at Jant-
zen Beach. Miss Holt is a niece
of Miss Beryl Holt and Mrs.
James Young of Salem.
25 Years Ago
-July 29, 1928
" King George gave his approv
al to the nomination of the
Archbishop of York, to be Arch
bishop of Canterbury and pri
mate of England.
James Walton, brother of
William Walton of th Ladd &
Bush Bank, is visiting in Salem.
He is an attorney of Pittsburgh,
Pa.
Registration for the general
election in Oregon exceeds 330,
000. Republican registration ap
proximates 218,000.
-4-0 Years Ago
July 29, 1913
Earth shocks felt near Taco-
ma Wash., covered an area of
lOO square miles. Mt. Rainier
was center of earth tremors.
The city council rejected the
Robison fire engine, after test
ing. Fire seriously damaged the
new $2,000,000 Harriman rail
road bridge over the Willamette
River at Portland, halting rail
way, foot, vehicle and street car
traffic temporarily.
In three seasons of Big Ten
tennis competition. Michigan
State has won three straight dou
bles titles, two singles crowns
and en team championship.
OU PCISONMCL
Marion County Places Four
In Five Ton Strawb erry Club
By! LILLIE L. MADSEN
Farm Editor, TheStatesman
Northwest variety strawberries
beat out the old standard . Mar
shall in Marion County for qual
ification for membership In the
Five Ton r Strawberry Club. ,
Four strawberry growers in
this county qualified for mem
bership. Of the four only one
grew Marshalls.
Top! grower is Bernard Smith,
Woodburn, Route 2, Smith's eight
acre field of Northwests produced
61 harvested tons in 1953 for
an average yield of 7.69 tons per
acre. Sixty tons were sold for
processing and 1 tons were for
fresh market sales.
Carl Nibler. Gervais. made the
club with 30 tons of Northwests
from five acres, while Onas Olson,
655 Chemawa Road, Salem, grew
61 tonriof Northwests from 11'
acres. ! ' I
G. P. Conner. St. PauL the
only Marshall grower in the
club members, produced 35
tons from seven acres.
Cep Irrigated
' The use of supplemental irri
gation was a cultural practice
used by all of the four grow
ers. Also all used commercial
fertiliier.
Smith's hlah yielding field re
ceived a lot of attention before
planting in the spring of 1951.
The field was In Ladino clover
pasture for two years and was
plowed in the faU of 1950.
About IS tons per acre of
chicken fertilizer in sawdust
litter j was worked into the soil
before planting. More commer
cial fertilizer was added during
1952 and in early spring of this
year..:
The field was irrigated three
times after harvest in 1952. Each
irrigation applied about 2V?
acre inches of water.
Fete Planned
All Five Ton Strawberry club
members in Oregon and Western
Washington will be feted by the
Oregon-Washington Strawberry
Council at dinner August 7. Any
one who harvested five tons of
strawberries per acre, from all
of his bearing acreage this year
is entitled to belong to the "club.
However, members are required
to have at least five acres bear
ing strawberries.
Judge Orders
Woman to
Cut Weight
PROVIDENCE, R.I. im Judge
Fred B. Perkins Monday ordered
a 29-year-old woman to reduce her
weight, i
Evience was given him that
since Mrs. Filomena Ciaremello
Skinner suffered a fall at work
about five years ago her weight
went from 1SS to 225 pounds. She
nas oeen arawing disability pay
ments under the workmen's com
pensation program.
Judge Perkins ordered her to re
turn to work. In addition, he told
her in a written opinion that she
was to cut her weight to 200 poun s
in the next sue weeks or he would
cut off her compensation paym i
The payments will be discontin
ued, he added, unless she is down
to 190 pounds in 10 weeks. She now
is receiving $18 a week. He ordered
that reduced at $10.63.
"It is the duty of the employee
he said, "drastically to reduce her
weight or to regard the coniquance
of such1 obesity as a luxury tak
ing her out of the realm of employ
ment for reasons unconnected with
her original injury."
Judge Perkins ordered Mrs. Skin
ner to reduce after he received a
report from Dr. Xouis A. Saee.
appoined by the court to examine
the woman.
"I think she should make every
effort to lose some weight," Dr.
Sage. said. "She" certainly is , ed
iting out of hand."
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SAFEWAY ST0EES:'
i l Hi - V - -
YET . . . Lovely flowers, sent' by friend or family, as a token
of love and respect for the departed, are treated with almost
reverent care by us. Every precaution ij taken to assure
full beauty to do justice to their errand of tribute.
An important part of our responsibility to you is
the "care of flowers J . . the orderly keeping of t A
records of those-who-remembered ... the tender
handling of every floral piece.'
IS SrCCIALLY TIAINE IM FlOAl
Funen!
Phono 3-9139
- County agents throughout the
state are taking reservations for
the dinner, which -will be at 6:30
pan. in j the Multnomah hotel.
Portland. Pins and membership
certificates will be awarded the
club members.
To Dear of Research
Dr. George Darrow, United
States Department of Agriculture
chief horticulturist at Beltsville,
Md., will speak on strawberry
growing and -research both in
the United States and other coun
tries. Last year he was in Cen
tral and South America consult
ing on temperate climate fruits
at high! altitudes and attending
the international horticultural
conference id Europe.
High"! producers will also dis
cuss their methods.
The Oregon-Washington Straw
berry Council was formed this
year toj promote increased pro
ductionj Its members are Joe
Fisher, 1 Gresham, chairman; R.
Ralph Clark, Oregon State Col
lege horticultural specialist;
Leon Garoian, Oregon City, rep
resenting Oregon County Agents;
Leon Hubbard, Banks, growers;
Ron Burnett, Portland, proces
sors, and John Denny, Portland,
representing newspapers.
CIO Workers
Strike at Two
Lebanon Mills
By T IE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The CIO Woodworkers' negoti
ations continued in a patchwork
pattern Tuesdaywith some locals
signing contracts for no pay in
crease land others going on strike.
. In a signing announced Tuesday
some 2,200 Woodworkers in the
Grays Harbor area agreed to settle
for no bay increase now, but with
a provision that the wags issue
can be reopened Oct. 1 with 26
logging and sawmill operations.
But In the Linn County area of
Western Oregon, 210 men went on
strike against two Lebanon lumber
operations. In that same county
550 men went on strike the pre-.
vious day. They seek 5-cent hourly
pay increases.
The firms struck Tuesday were
the Santiam Lumber Co. mill and
the Snow Peak logging operation. '
John . Ball, business agent of the
union there, said -400 to 500 other
workers are voting, mill by .mill,
on whether to join the strike. -
The Grays Harbor settlement
called; for 60-day notice before the
wage tssue could be reopeaed Oct
1. That deadline comes next week
end. Union officials - did not an
nounce their intention..
Thri Gold Coast of Africa li 330
miles long.
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