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"JU- 4 (Sc. H Slatasmcoi Scdem, Ore Sunday, Aug. 9 1 t cDrtfioii G statesman o Favor Sway V$ No Fear Shall Ate? from flnt SUtcsmuk Marth 23, ISM " Statesman, Publishing - CHARLES A. S PRAGUE. Editor and Publisher PuBtMwA'mr mwnlaf Business ottic taS , , , North Church St. Siitm, Ore.. Tleohow S-2441 , Entered at th postoffice at Salem Or ai"econd el matter under act of Con frets March X 187S. Member; Associated re "Th Associated Press is catiUed sxctualvely to th us : for republication of all .local otwi printed la ' - ths newspaper S Admission for;2l4,000t Refugees Congress failed , to .revise tpe McCarran- Walter immigration act though many au- thorities from the j President; down felt that I, .the job needed to be doneJre did succeed j iy dint of using heavy pressures in getting J Congress to pass a bill granting asylum in this country to 214,000 aliens, outside the J regular quotas. McCarran fought hard to kill I. .the bill and he did succeed ; ii applying the I, , fine-mesh security screening jbf the general. 'law. Also, its administration l was given to jScott MeLeod; the Senate' contribution to the state department' detection bureau. The bill distributes the admissions in great detail. Of the totalj 90,000 will be admitted who fled the Iron Curtain countries and now tjive in Germany ior Austria ;60,000 Italians ipf whom 45,000 (must be refugees; 47,000 !;! Greeks; 17,000 Dutch. Also 3000 refugees 'I from Asia,' 2000 Chinese refugees from For ?tfcqsa; 206"0 Arab j refugees. The reason the bill was pushed was to " 'show to the world that the United States is v willing to do its part in providing a home for - the wanderers-in-exile. The previous experi . ence in admitting edisplaceo persons has . turned out, well,! the vast mjajority finding " employment and proving themselves worthy ,. of the consideration they received. One wonders when or if the stream of those fleeing from Communist tyranny and depri vation will cease: Germany ajnd Austria are the primary .catch-basins. From these reser voirs persons must be drawn off to migrate .'' to other countries. The United States wisely and generously is undertaking to do its part, - without doing grave risk to our own popu lation problems. J J$ Lovers of wild life clear 'across the nation ill endorse the! proposal to hame the Mal- .fieur Lake bird "refuge .after jthe great nat- muralist, William. L. Finjey, wlho died a few weeks ago. He was the one w&o urged Presi- J'dent Theodore Roosevelt to set the area aside jior a bird refuge. The tract, since enlarged vfey acquisition of the old P ranch, is a haven I f for nesting fowl j and has permitted some species to escape extinction. j Finley's name I needs to be preserved, and no better way can ; it be preserved than in the designation of this refuge which he j worked to I obtain and In 1 whose feathered creatures he took continuing interest. - - Virginia has its own ""Walker plan" which i provides for a cut in. incorpe taxes when I revenues exceed budget requirements. This ; one was sponsored by State! Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. For the third consecutive year a Reduction has been ordered, ths time of 6 per '.Cent. This method has something of the effect ! 'of the property tax levy, wfhich always is I geared to the amounts legallyj included in the v budget. It prevents piling up surpluses year after year. In Oregon these jsurpluses have ' proved a good cushion but sijrns indicate the '. feathers are falling out of the cushion. Sense of Responsibility as Well as Practical Politics Sparks Demo Support of President By JOSEPH ALSOP j WASHINGTON As Cangrels heads for home, everyone Is talking about the meaning 41 the past' session the things . j oone arm un- - done, thef, trends that'; 4 developed, the , signs that the -j . .:11 " iTesiaeni w have a stag gering job on .his hands when C o n-i cress meeti acain. All inj all. however. the wutstand- , JnerpU AIoL ing feature of v the session was the growth ofja novel and useful relationship between the White House aitd the Democratic : opposition, j j House Leader Sam Rayburn, Senate Leader Lyndoni Johnsfn and the other Democrat! chief tains decided at the beginning of the session that they would support President Eisenhower whenever they could reasonably do so. In part, the motive wis strictly political la Rayburfl's and Johnson's native Texas,! te polls showed Eisenhower with 7fi oer cent of the voters behuid him. As Johnson h?s remarked. "Nobody but a right wing publican would want to this kind of popularity in teeth." 4 e kitk tie la part, however, the n erats decision was also the, re sult of the long experience f respoasibtlity which they I had enjoyed. Before this experience and responsibility also came hra, the late Sen. Taft used M say that "the business of the op position is to oppose." The very different viewpoint pf the Dem ocratic leaders is agaia that fof Lyndon Johnson, who has said that "We're all la the same air plane together, and it just isa't sensible to hit the pilot over the head so hard that the Diane head so hard crashes." At the beginning, it must added. President! Eisenhower. his cabinet and jh's politic! id risen either took the v coopera- i C7- riV XS. 353 Company ing even to Such are the ternative of tion of the Democrats rather lightly for granted, or they were actually disturbed by it No thanks were offered. Loud par tisan noises were made on is sues which the President was sure to lose without Democratic support. This phase passed, however, as the President learned his po litical job. He began on occas ions to consult ; Johnson and Rayburn, and particularly Ray burn, whom lie knows and likes of old. Rayburn quietly ad vised the President on how best to secure Democratic help with out riling Democratic tempers. By stages, the collaboration be tween the White House and the moderate Democrats waf reg ularized with the more astute members of the cabinet like Secretary of the Treasury Georjre Humphrey quietly join ing the act. It is hard to know whether the results have been more re markable in the House or in the Senate. It was in the House that wise old Rayburn rose in the middle of the reciprocal trade fight, to inquire scathing ly, "Isn't there a man on the Republican side who will sup port his own President?'? Yet . on the whole the new develop ment has been more important in the Senate, where divisions are deeper and the going is harder for the administration. Senate 'Minority Leader Lyn don Johnson has made, the big gest mark of any Senator of his age ia a good many years, part ly by his success in directing the strategy of cooperation, and partly by his triumph in pall- iag his owa party together. Ia both efforts, he has had much help front such respected senior Senators as Richard 8. Russell and Walter F. George of Gear gia. But Johnson is still the man who has had to work at the I job from 12 to IS hours a" day. f H ir In terms of White House pol icy, the results are- typified by two incidep . Early in the ses sion, it will .- recalled, the left win- Terr tried verv -rd to filibuster the tidelands bilL An H-Bomb "Warning? ' Washington columnist Marquis Childs, among others, has reported the discussion in the capital of making official disclosure of the potency- of, the hydrogen bomb. Some urge the President to tell the world just what the H-bomb will do and accompany it with a warning aimed at the USSR to "watch its step." Childs reports that the odds are against uttering; such a. warning. In view of Satur day's disclosure by Malenkov that Russia has mastered H-bomb production, it would seem that the 'odds against any "threats by the U. S. are increased immeasureably. As for disclosing the potency of the hydro gen bomb, that already has been done. The sailor who wrote home that an atoll of some size just disappeared after a bomb explosion, let the facts out Later writers, the Alsops among them, have given the story in greater detail. Comparison has even been made with the destructive power of the bombs of Hiro--shima and Nagasaki. Enough is known that the U. S possesses a weapon of vast destruc tiveness. Russia knows in whose direction it .is pointed and whose aggressions prompted its developments." Some Value might be derived by mforrning the people of the United States as to what this bomb will do, to acquaint them with the dangers that may rain from, the sky above. Whereas up until Saturday it was presumed that we had a few years "grace" before Rus sia caught up with us in the production "of the H-bomb, now we must re-evaluate our ability to deliver the world's most terrifying weapon. It offers small consolation that American experts say Russia has not yet pro duced one of the bombs. The Assoeiated Press notes that the announcement by Malenkov 'produced no air of crisis" in Washington. Per haps that is because Russia has been in possession of the A-bomb since 1949 without "pulling- the trigger." Will the H-bomb be decisive ?in a war? Here Russia has an advantage in its vast area and the dispersal of its industries over the USA where there is great concentration of population and vital industry. It is horrify contemplate what would happen in congested areas like New York City, Phila delphia, Detroit, Los Angeles if these lethal missies drop on them from the sky. Some authorities believe such a war would be over in 90' days which gives the aggres sor a tremendous advantage. It is to guard against that that the Alsops have been ham mering ior building a defense screen across the northSern part of the continent, of radar and air bases outfitted with fighter squadrons. ominous threats that the al- avoidance of war becomes of prime importance. One nation can make war on another it takes two to make and keep a peace. Our statesmen are all committed to the cause of peace. They see in the H-bomb a most potent argument for peace. It is effec tive asi warning (without any solemn pro nouncement to that effect) even if Russia also has it. It ought not to be used as a threat, because a bluff might be called. Our course lies in keeping up research and production of modern weapons and pressing at all times to find peaceful solutions for world problems. Oregon's share of federal public health funds is cut just about $100,000. Eliminated is federal aid for the venereal disease pro gram and aid for other disease, controls is reduced, It is always easy to justify spending to protect public health; but despite its im portance it can't be insulated from economy. Health officials will have to do the best they can to close the gap. After; their Seattle conference 20 Gover nors went fishing. When they reach home they must resume fence-building, for 1954 is just round the corner. Johnson and the Democratic moderates, who are the strong est cooperators, were strongly for the bilL At one point Sen. Taft told Johnson that a "fili buster had never been broken," and talked of giving up. Johnson replied with some scorn that the anti-tidelands fili busterers were not southern fil ibustered and suggested hold ing the Senate in continuous session. Taft went to the floor immediately to announce this intention, and the filibuster folded up. By the same token, at the close of the session. Sen. Pat McCarran of Nevada was threat . ening to talk the President's refugee bill to death. Johnson and the new majority leader, Sen. William Knowland of Cal ifornia, jointly invited McCar ran to a chat in Johnson's little office. There they told McCar ran, cold turkey, that they would fight him until hell froze over unless he agreed to a bill admitting al least 200,000 ref ugees from Europe. McCarran gobbled a bit, but the two lead ers working together were too much for him. The angry old man backed down, and the Pres ident go( his bilL "We've fought Eisenhower when we thought we ought to," is Johnson's way of summing up. "Bat we haven't been per sonal or sniped or sulked, and we've tried to show what we think aa opposition party eat to be." This does not mean that the Democrats are not going .to be ' tough on Eisenhower in the next session. They will take their political profits where they find them. 5 But it does mean that on vital over-riding issues Eisenhower can count on the support of a coalition of moderate men. The coalition excludes the extremists of both parties. It is made up of the big; middle-of-the-road ; major ity. It will follow Eisenhower as long as he leads the country successfully. And it is a very ; great asset, both to the Presi dent and the country he Iels. irmvrl-v, 19.V. New York Herald Tribune. acj HERE'S HOPING THE GAS HOLDS OUT! mmttmimmmm?. jify Time Flies U&ski-A-a v!ill I FROM STATESMAN FILES Postoffice going all out to teach public how io mail letters . . . film "Pigeon Holes and Progress" will be shown over KPTV at 2:30 tody. Pnred by Portland postoffice i -. . International uivuiciuuw in ciicvuiui nuitcii mr cdfiiiis meet iui iwyii- day night at Marion Hotel as part of an "organizational campaign that would benefit both labor and industry" . . . one wholesaler in Northern Oregon known to have peddled 12,000 TV sets this quarter to dealers and yet sharp shortage predicted this fall when new Salem and more Portland stations get on air. Federal ComTninicaton.t Commisnrpn nnw makes it offi cial approval of color telecasting in immediate offing, it says . . . bwt all such telcasting also u-ill register on black-and-white sets and trith color sets to cost from $700 to $1000, black-and-white sets will be favored for many years ... anyway, color sets won't even be generally available until 1956, in all probability . . . FCC's decision eliminates any worry that color TV might not register on ordinary sets ... its verdict should bring outa hiding lotsa buyers who've been waiting to make certain that current sets will get every thing there is . . . they will. ' 1 Television industry earnings for 1952 otalled $55,500,000, an increase of 33l-3 per cent over previous years . . . Hollywood col umnist says Jerry Colon na knows a wolf who has Tartan eyes they swing from limb to limb . . . Associated Pressman C. E. Butterfield says his swing around country showed renewed and increasing popularity for country-style music (all-inclusive term for hill-billy, barn dance, westeui and folk tunes) . . . Bob HopeXsays there's a new disease in Beverly Hills sacro-Cadillac. The Safety Valve MORSE AND McKAY To. the Editor: It seems that you and McKay hold the key of knowledge and if you perish the world will per ish with you.; According to knowledge McKay is your baby which think or. does no wrong. What did McKay do to be idol ized by the Oregon politicians and you? McKay seems to be the hero of Oregon politicians, but do not know why. If you talk to so called men of the street, you will find that McKay is not their hero. (McKay's hands are just as dirty as any politician in Washington or any where else.) What did Morse do to be hounded and persecuted by the Oregon politicians who condemn the Democrats in Washington hut do not see the mink coats which they themselves passing around here in Oregon. What if Morse voted for the Democrats? How about those Democrats who bolted their par ty and elected Eisenhower? Do you not know that if it were not for those Democratic states who bolted their party Eisen hower could not be elected? Why can't you fellows be Amer icans instead of Republicans? Hasn't Morse the right to do his own thinking? Must he be a stooge to the Republican party? ; Why all the venom against Morse? The Pharisees crucified Christ because he did not agree with them and because he told the truth which they did not like. So it is with the Republi cans, they do not like Morse I because: he does not agree with the Republican grab bag. ' You supported j some county; office-seekers in the last elec "tion which I wouldn't trust them with my chickens. You would support a dog as long as it is r Republican. V ' 1 i ' A. N. Drawson j 3490 Liberty Road . Courtesy Appreciated - To the Editor: ' i I would like to take this op portunity to express my apre ciation for an incident which happened this morning en the waj to work. As usual I was on my way from Canby to my work in Salem. As aprr-"--! the rfmer- . s-'lv-rt'Mi -rflc ; Highway Junction a car pulled " JrkV ' :v :'-., ..... out directly in my path. There was a screeching of brakes but n collision so I continued on my way. As I parked in my usual place beside the building in which I work I noticed a man walking along the parking strip, towards my car. Just as we were wondering what was up, he stipped by the car and apologized for the incident men tioned above. Ifis action was not necessary but it certainly left a good feel ing, for each of us in the car were mighty scared when we thought of what could have hap pened. I didn't know there were such people in the world and the. best way I can show my appreciation is to say to him; "May God richly bless you and yours. 7 I pray that I may be as much of a testimony and bless ing to others as he was to me. Doris McArthur Box 430 Canby, Oregon Better English . Br D. C. WILLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "The photo reveals that she is a real pretty girL 2. " What is the correct ; pro nunciation of "realize?" 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Capitalist, ca price, catastrophe, cannonneer, j ANSWERS ' -J ' - Say The photograph (pre ferred) reveals that she is a ery pretty girL" 2. Pronouncf in three syllables, -never ree lize. X Cannoneer. ! m-ijBWafflSB li 'Amu- ll & ry 10 Years Ago August 9, 1943 Gov. Earl Snell appointed Ro bert D. Lytle, Vale, as circuit judge to replace the late Rob ert M. Duncan, Salem man who was appointed by former Gov. Charles Sprague. All beaches from the mouth of the Columbia to Oregon-California line were closed from sunset to sunrise in a proclama tion order by the governor. (The beaches were under black out orders.) Joe Felton, Salem justice of the ' peace, enters the armed service this week. 25 Years Ago August 9, 192S Pierre S. DuPont, chairman of the boards of two large con porations announced his sup port of the presidential candida cy of Governor Smith. Motion pictures of flax'-pull-ing operations in the ML Angel district were taken by Dr. Da vid B. Hill, local amateur movie camera; man, and CoL W. B. Bartram, head of the state flax industry. Herbert Hoover's old home is being sought for Hoover's cam paign headquarters in Salem, under a plan sponsored by the Salem Advertising club. (It did not materialize.) 40 Years Ago August 9, 1913 Fifty of the world's leading! ciowns and buffoons are fur nishing the comedy touches with Ringling Brothers circus in Salem. Knights Templar from all over the United States are in Denver, for the 32nd triennial conclave. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Meyers entertained in honor of Mr. and Rfrs. Gideon Steiner on the lat tcr'a 49th wedding anniversary. BEAR BITES BUILDING EAST LAKE SHORE, MontCF) Black bears scout for sweet cnerries along East Shore of Flat head Lake. While waiting for the cherries to ripen, the bears don't appear to be too choosey about their diet One even tried to take a chunk out of the corner of a new house belonging to Orville Walker. Who Is State 0 Fflrm? Am organization famous for lew-cost automobile insurance because it aims to insure only "less costly" careful i drivers. Call sae for saore Informa tion .. . j Ph. 4-2215 626 N. High State Farm Mutual AuU Ins. Co. f V t J ' L t LX r IB IT (33UQS 'UP) HU' (Continued to "lose" the second World War, as the Journal does' very glibly. Hitler is dead; so is Mussolini. The nazis and fascists are smashed. No conference table restored them to life. Yalta is a hissing and a by word, and presumably that is one of the conferences referred to. But Yalta did not cause us to lose a war. If anything the agree ment with Russia which insured the latter's entrance into the war with Japan hastened the end of the latter with the full capitulation of Japan. The war with Germany was over when the Potsdam conference was held, over with victory for the Allies. ! Maybe what the Jml mil means is that at conferences, Yalta and Potsdam, we sacri ficed the fruits of victory. That is a conclusion which is highly debatable. We must await the verdict of history unwarned by the passions and prejudices of the time. Concessions made tn Rul t Yalta were unnecessary, as sub sequent events proved. Japan could have been defeated, as in truth it was, without any signifi cant assistance from Russia, ex cept the threat incident to iti declaration of war. As far as Potsdam is con cerned the losses and frustra tions which have followed are due more to Russia's violation of the terms of the agreements rather than to our fumbling or concessions. The Soviet Union scuttled its promises to permit free and democratic elections in liberated countries, or where they were held as in Czecho slovakia and Hungary it later took over control by device or armed threat The probability is that this would have occurred had there been no Potsdam; for the West was neither able nor willing to resist such aggression by force. The United States did make grave mistakes at conferences. One of the worst was at Quebec when the Morgenthau plan for dismembering Germany was given an endorsement which later had to be abandoned. And the demand for "unconditional surrender" voiced by President Roosevelt at Casablanca stif fened German resistance. It was a grave mistake to promise terri torial gains to Russia for break ing its peace treaty with Japan. The loss of China to the Commu nists was due far more to the failure of the Nationalist gov ernment than to any mistakes or shortcomings of the United States. . . Another thing which critics of our national policy forget is that Great Britain was our part ner at all these conferences Churchill was at all of them, and Attlee at Potsdam. Britain then GB3H HEIRLOOM'S NEW STERLING PATTERN Here is aristocratic elegante designed in the new decorative mood of today. A magnificent blend off clean-swept modern lines combined with rich j traditional detail. Reigning Beauty is a sterling pattern) that will fit every home ultra-modern to traditional Six-piece place setting $29.75 Federal 390 State tax included f I 1 A . .., JfzLi j j from page on4) ( r must share the blame for wars -lost" at conferences, j Such blame is nc placed, nor: would it be accept edlby the nBritish. t Americai seem to I have an Inferiority complex resoectinff their skill In "diplomacy. It is well epitor ired in Wilt Racers' quip; "The lUnited States never t lost a war rfr won a peace con ference." TBie antithesis is so striking mot people never test ,thei truth of the saying, which simply doesl't hold ud. The War of 11812. fc f instance, was far iictorr at arms, hut short of a our peace iammissionm saved us i any pet aJUes at the-Ghent conference.! The Wa31 j Street Journal sc rms to have Sue cutnbed to "losing" a Ehtt complex in twice rax at the j "confer- enee table. t REALTY VIEWS f; . . ritntial atreJl hut it 1nnkt Inn. lyas if it r?eded an owner-The f . I 1 J grass was sever- l-K-9--. - n rpm al weeks unut. f ana ine dick ! yard was over run with tall , u n f riendly 1 w e e d! s.j T; h e paint i was I fad ed and chipped. The screen door was limping alone ion one hinge piandi the garage; j showed miliriA . .. m A m from carcicis driving. H i I That's thi wav it Inoktrf whn Ij drove upfwith Lloyd. He knew the: place hp d been rented for a year and that the out-of-town owner had asked us tn aril it f Lloyd hafi a careful II eye did n't miss a' flung. But h wai full of ideas and enthusiasm; "A good house basfally," he remarked, "all it needs is a little care." He brought hit wife out later , that evening aid the next day he bought it ' A week liter 1 was in h nlrh. borhood. IVhit a change Lloyd had made!! The weeds ii were cut, the screen! door straight, the ga rage repaired. i the outside saint ed. Just tjken Lloyd was cutting the-grass. 1 h i l I. As he leaned on his lawn mow er, I asked "How do you like it. Lloyd?" 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