V P. 4 Sc. D Statesman, Satan, Qrm Thursw Spt, 17. 1S53 se cDrejaontatesraaii imNo Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Awe" Front First Statesman. March 28, 1151 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published every morning. Business office 280 . North Church St.. Salem. Ore.. Telephone 1-8441 ntered at the postoffice t Salem. Ore. as second ass matter under act of Congress March 3. 17. Member Associated Press. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all local news printed in - this newspaper Constitution Day Today is Sept 17, Constitution Day. It was on this day in 1787 that the American Con stitution was adopted in Philadelphia. That document with the additions or alterations of only 23 amendments has served from the time it went into effect in 1789 to the present time. William E. Gladstone of England paid it this tribute: "The most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man' The Constitution is the anchor of our liber ties, particularly its Bill of Rights, as embrac ed in the first ten amendments. And fortun ately we have in our judicial system a bul wark for the protection of those rights guar anteed to the people. Many times legislative or administrative bodies have sought to over ride popular rights, only to be checked by the ruling of the courts. The Constitution is not an outworn docu ment. It is vital; needed for the life of today as it was when it first went into effect. It is fitting on this day to quote, with endorse ment, the appeal of Daniel Webster in an ad dress he made in New York in 1837: "Let us then stand by the Constitution as it is, and by our country as it is, one, united, and entire: let it be a truth engraven on our hearts; let it be borne on the flag under hearts; let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one Constitution, one destiny." Of Time anil Change A "news story in the Bend Bulletin tells of the return of a retired stockman of Central ' Oregon, Dominique Verges, from a visit to his childhood home in the French Pyrenees. He found that the region had changed little since he left it 45 years ago. TIJis fact stimulates a variety of reflections. Somfe will at once conclude that Southern Frarice is "backward." Others may see in it - a haVen of rest in a contentious world. Domi ; niqiie found it as he had left it, an experience ; whklh is rare for one who returns to an Am- erican birthplace after four decades. We Americans have become worshippers of change almost for the sake of change. If a courthouse isn't wrecked, or old mansions dis mantled to make way for a capitol or a super , market or a clinic we are apt to call the town "dead." Progress seems to depend on the phy sical alteration of the scene. Certainly those who demand change have had their appetites t sated in the postwar years by what has hap pened all over America. The return of natives to Salem after a long absence brings mixed emotions. Many of the old landmarks are gone, victims of the march of "progress." They are as strangers in scenes once familiar; yet they must share St. Paul's pride in being identified with "no mean city." The art of successful living lies in being able to conserve old values and cultivate new ones. We are intrigued by the name of the opposition party in Canada which calls itself - "Progressive-Conservative." The label seems I contradictory; yet it really cativeys a very sound idea to "hold fast that which is good" In all the striving for betterment. To get back to the Bulletin story about Mr. Administration Planning Complete Report on National Security In 'Operation Candor' BY STEWART ALSOP . WASHINGTON President Eisenhower has now approved plans for one of the most remarkable experiments in gov ernment ever undertaken in this country. These plans call for seven reports to the American people, all re lated to one as pect or another of the threat to national survi val inherent in the growing So viet air - atomic c apability. The series of reports is tenta Stewart AlwjJ tively scheduled to start Sunday evening, October 4, and to con tinue every Sunday evening thereafter until November 15. This project known as "Op eration Candor" in the inner circles of the government will start, as presently planned, with a vitally important speech by the President In this speech President Eisenhower expects to tell the people in broad strokes, but frankly and factu ally, the hard truth about the national situation. This presi dential report to the people is , to Jie followed by six further na tionwide radio and television re ports by Administration leaders. .all dealing with the problem of national survival in the nuclear age. Precise schedules have " not been worked out, nor has it finally been decided who will participate in the series. But ac r? ag to present plans the presidential report will he fol lowed by a discussion of Ameri can foreign policy by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Sen. Alexander Wiley, Chairman f the Senate Relations Commit tee. Dulles "d Wiley are ex pected to stress the need for allies and the foreign bases which only allies can supply in the nuclear axe. Secretary of Defense Charles Defeat for Wilson, Deputy Secretary Roger Kyes, and Adra. Arthur Rad ford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are scheduled to follow with a three-cornered re port on defense. Wilson, Kyes and Radford will emphasize what can be accomplished by an ' effective air defense against atomic attack, the need for which has now been officially recognized by the National Se curity Council. In a sense, indeed, "Operation Candor" is an outgrowth of the Lincoln Project study of air de fense, first described by the present reporter, and the vari ous studies of the air defense problem which have followed it. For the purpose of "Operation Candor" is to explain to the na tion the basic facts which make a great, continuing, national de fense effort necessary. After the defense report, Allen Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Atomic Energy Commission chairman, Lewis Strauss, may make the most significant report of alL The present intention is for Strauss and Dulles to give rough estimates based on the best intelligence data available, of Soviet nuclear production. If this bold step is finally ap proved by the President,-Dalles and Strauss will give three esti mates of Soviet stockpiling a minimum, a median, and a maxi mum estimate. They will also give a sufficient indication of American atomic and hydrogen bomb production to provide the necessary standard of compari son. There is still strong opposition to this course, in the Atomic Energy Commission (where Commissioner Eugene Zuckert is reportedly one who opposes it) and elsewhere. But the es sential facts on stockpiling are likely to be made public in the end, for two reasons. First, the American pople would le-n h. vt the So- riets nothing, from revealing and Mrs. Verges. It reports "they were mighty glad to get back to the United States." Their nostalgia was satisfied with a few months in the old homeland. For all its quality of time lessness they were eager to return to what is now their "home. Doubtless they were pleas ed when they found, it hadn't 'changed" in their four months' absence. Impellitteri The combination of Tammany and the Roosevelt liberals upset Mayor Vincent Im pellitterri in his bid for the Democratic nomi nation for mayor in the Tuesday primaries. The winner, was Robert F. Wgner Jr., bor ough president of Manhattan, who doubtless derived strength also from the fame of his late father, who was senator from New York and author of the Wagner labor relations act and other New Deal measures. There was more at stake than the mayoral ty nomination. Involved also was control of the party organization in the state. James A. Farley, former postmaster general, and head of the party conservatives, backed Impellit teri. The latter's defeat is a rebuff to Farley in any effort to wrest the state party organi zation from the hands of the liberals such as Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., and Averill Harri man, both of whom were behind Wagner. Impellitteri had been given the edge unless there was a' heavy vote. Instead only a light vote was cast and still Wagner ran away ahead. Now there is the threat that the May or will revive the Experience party and run as its candidate in November. In the finals Rudolph HalleV, counsel for the Kefauver commission and now Council president in New York City will be a factor. The Republican candidate is Harold Riegel man who served as acting postmaster. Repub licans, however, do not do well in New York City municipal elections. If Impellitteri splits the Democratic vote with Wagner that may be a help to Halley, who though an independ ent Democrat himself is running as a Liberal. The primary is without national signifi cance save as it marks a victory of the liber al Democrats over the Farley conservatives. Tammany also may draw fresh breath with Wagner's victory. A bad plane wreck near Albany, New York, which brought death to 28 persons Wednesday, was due to the plane's striking a radio tower in foggy weather. The incident points up the necessity for keeping the vici nity of landing fields clear of obstructions. Here prompt action in the way of protest against a gin pole erected at a gravel com pany operation near the airport, plus the ready compliance of the head of the company, promises to bring a removal of the pole as a possible menace to local air navigation. We want no repetition of the Albany disaster here. Labor Commissioner Kimsey reports that labor contractors are milking workers in the sugar beet area of Malheur County of a con siderable portion of their wages. The evil of the gasping labor contractor was pretty well washed out by the establishment of the pub lic employment service, but apparently some find it possible to survive, preying particular ly on migratory workers. The commissioner should exert all the power of his office to pro tect these workers from exploitation. As usual leaders of farm organizations split over what the power policy of the country should be. And as usual it was the Farm Bu reau and the Grange against the Farmers Un ion. Kline of the Bureau and Newsom of the Grange approved the newly stated Eisenhow er policy on power while Patton of the FU called it a "surrender to the electric power lobby." The Oregon Grange however is like ly to side with the FU on this issue. these facts. Second, unless they are revealed, "Operation Can dor becomes largely meaning less, like a production of "Ham let" without the Prince of Den mark. For these reasons, it is be lieved in some quarters that the stockpiling estimates should be given at the very beginning, by the President, leaving Strauss and Dulles to fill in the details. There will be a civil defense report by Civil Defense Director Val Peterson and his deputy, Mrs. Katherine Howard. And there will be a report on the balance between national solv ency and national survival, by Secretary of the Treasurer George Humphrey, and probably with his budget director, Joseph Dodge. This will be a key report, since it should give a very clear indication of how much real na tional effort and sacrifice the administration intends to ask, as insurance against national devastation in air-atomic at tacks. It is possible that Hum phrey will propose a national tax, as one painful but necessary means of paying the bin for this insurance. Finally, the President is scheduled to sum up on the evening of Sunday, November 15, patting what has gone before into proper perspective. This program is, of course, subject to change. The President might even conceivably change his mind, and cancel the whole project Short of this, it might in the end be so watered down as to serve no useful purpose, or even turned into a . political stunt. Certain ; absolutely vital high policy decisions, moreover, must be made if the program is to be really effective and these have not yet been made. Yet as of now, this program for trusting th American people with the truth . looks like a remarkably courageous and wholly admira ble experiment in government (Copyright, 1953, New York Herld T-bnne. Inc.) Cpyrt;bt 153 Mw York Herald Tribune, lacj W . Roe CrriegCH DTP I We knew it would happen dept. A confused parker flung his overtime parking ticket and four-bits into a downtown mailbox, under the erroneous impression he was depositing same into one 1 . . , , a.m. our time with some pre-game stuff cooking at 11:30 a.m. . . . According to the published NBC schedule this is the only time this fall that a college In the Pacific Northwest will be represented on the Saturday telecasts . . . Although in its pub licity blurbs KPTV says this is the, first of a series of telecasts over its facilities. Johnnie Ray will guest-cry on Jack Benny's telecast on Nov. 15 . . . The Moaner's movie contract with 20th Century r Fox permits five guests appearances a year on TV . . , Those who know, say The Damp One is not interested in having his own TV show. He'd rather do personal appearances at theatres and night clubs . . . And considering what Johnnie drags down for personal appearances plus the fact he does n't have program headaches it isn't hard to understand . . . In a bean field near Turner there's a trailer camp. And sure enough poking above the top of one of the trailers is a TV antenna. (You'd think it would be a snap to get TV in a bean field) . . . That smoke haze in the air these days isn't only from burning leaf piles the big TV and radio programs, off for the summer, are falling back onto the air again ... Lots of the give-away shows this fall and winter will be handing out the usual stack of impractical stuff like money. Why don't they toss oat gifts with a verve? Here's a few common-place items we feel sure any contestant would be glad to lug home. A two year's supply of sunflower seeds. A set of genuine hand-crocheted parachute harnesses for your entire family. Four hundred pounds of frozen! snuff packaged in . plastic bags. A five-year's supply of window putty. A one-week, all-expenses-paid trip to the Portland so. One dozen records of Bing Crosby singing White Christmas. A 10-year subscrip tion to the Congressional Record. Eight thousand feet of garden hose. A carload of bird-seed. Two free passes to the next II- bomb test An electric atom-smasher. The only local radio station which participated in the CONELRAD test exercise Wednesday morning was KOCO. Because the gimmick is supposed to make it almost impossi ble for enemy bombers to home in radio beams KOCO per sonnel thot they'd probably get lots of calls. Apparently, though, nobody was much interested in the nation-wide test Because the station didn't get one inquiry. "We thot sure," said Bob Suing, "we'd at least get a call from a nervous old lady asking what in heaven's name was going on. Matter of fact we didn't even get one call from a young lady, nervous or otherwise ..." GFN AND BF4R If f6$IOH Amd fuS 11 . . in i . -,. -I can't fetter M . . . y. -r-'r. "tt FIGHTING TRIM of the city's new serve-your- . T . . 1 ' I, sen line collectors . . . ii inings go on nn.e this downtown curbs soon will be a solid mass of parking meters, stop signs, fine deposit boxes, mailboxes, traffic signs, traffic signals, street light poles fcnd signs teUing people not to clutter up the sidewalks . . . The Oregon-Nebraska football game Satur day at Nebraska will be carried by KPTV as NBCi game of the week ... It starts at 11:45 IT Bv Lichtv CO. fi"RT) fTTYH (Continued from page one) and beets. A late run of peaches had been made and the bean run was to start on the evening shift Other canneries have like wise been busy this week. From what I have been able to learn I think it is true that the postponement of school opening has been of substantial economic help in this commun ity. I wasn't in favor of it at the time it was proposed; but we have to live together In this community and a two million dollar bean crop isn't something to be ignored. The outlook for this segment of local agriculture and industry was very bleak for awhile. It is far brighter now, .and whatever sacrifice the school people have made can be considered worthwhile an in vestment in community goodwill as well as in economic gain. On one point there is unani mity, and that is in the hope that the weatherman will not dish out as unseasonable weath er as he did through June this year. Then we'll have no recur rance of this harvest jam. Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago Sept 17, 1913 Governor Snell appointed Mary Way as superintendent pro tem of Hillcrest, state train ing school for girls to fill vacan cy of Edna Russell who re signed. Rogers MacVeagh of Portland, attorney and co-author of "Josh ua" died at his home. He was the son of the late Charles Mac Veagh, former ambassador to Japan. The army used more than 150 passenger planes of various air lines to transport troops and equipment to Alaska when the -Japs threatened the Dutch Har bor in June, 1942. 25 Years Ago Sept 17, 1928 . The Florida hurricane, in the Lake Okeechobee Everglades, estimated a loss of $75,000,000 and took the lives of 1500 per sons. Fire starting ia slashings near the new Bear Creek dam in the Bull Run reservoir swept the construction- camp at the dam where 500 men, women and children were housed dur ing the construction of the $2, 000,000 project The Reid-Murdock company of Chicago leased the Pacific Fruit and Produce building, for one year with option to buy. 40 Years Ago Sept 17, 191S A Shanghai dispatch said: the Japanese-Chinese situation has become accentuated in Peking, with Japan acting with the tacit support of Russia. Mayor and Mrs. B. L. Steeves returned to Salem after a six week trip which took in half of the continent On their return home they stopped at Weiser, Idaho, the old. home of Mayor Steeves. - Max IL G e h 1 h a r, Marion t Humphrey Says Defense Plan To Give Most for Least Cost , By FRANK O'BRIEN WASHINGTON OH Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey said Wednesday that Russia's progress with the H-bomb makes defense stakes "too high to take any chance of being only second best" Addressing a luncheon meeting of the National Press Club, Humph rey defended what he said were careful reductions in . defense spending and said .the administra tion is aiming at a, "brand new model" defense program to , give the most defense at the least pos sible cost. "It is going to take some real work and a real new product," he said. "It won't be done just by putting some additional chrome on the bumper. We have to have a brand new model." He conceded he was speaking in the language of Secretary of De fense Wilson, and predicted that the former General Motors head will do "a grand job if you just give him a little time." Meantime, Humphrey said, "There is nothing in our present estimates ... to change our rec ommendation" that a scheduled 10 per cent income tax cut and aboli tion of the excess profits tax go into effect Jan. I as planned. - Answering questions after his speech, the treasury chief said he is "encouraged and optimistic" about the business outlook and sees no cause for alarm in "busi ness readjustments" so long as they remain scattered. Adlai Blocked On Proposal To Disarm By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. Associated Press News Analyst Adlai Stevenson won't get any where with his disarmament pro posal. It runs directly counter to the firm beliefs of administration for eign policy experts. They believe, as the Truman Acheson experts believed before them, that disarmament is not the key to a cooperative Russia. In stead, they believe that a coopera tive Russia, her troops withdrawn from Eastern Europe, is the key to disarmament. The Stevenson remarks do one thing, however. They embarrass the United States delegation in meeting what is expected to be a new Russian propaganda move about disarmament at this session of the U. N. General Assembly. The Reds will of course do every thing possible to exploit even the remotest suggestion of divided American opinion. On this point as on many others, American diplomats are pursuing the long-time policy, also followed by Truman and Acheson. of watch ful waiting, taking no fixed, posi tions, preparing no fixed attack, and ad libbing as the situation develops. There are other points at which Stevenson strikes more closely at what many believe to be a failure of American policy. That is in the constant attitude of belittling and ignoring Russia's gestures of con ciliation. Since the death of Stalin quali fied observers have believed that Russia is in an unstable position. This has been heightened by the revelation of her political weakness among the European satellite peo ples. Under the circumstances, many wonder if it would not be better to take Russia up whenever she makes a proposal for discussions, without so much quibbling over agenda. As Stevenson pointed out, the Reds could then be forced to put up or shut up, and their sin cerity could be publicly tested at every point. This was also behind his idea of a disarmament conference. But the Western powers already have their proposal on this subject before the United Nations. They made it on a basis of minimum demands in the beginning, jo that there is no room for compromise. A conference could only emphasize, not dimin ish, the cleavage. Disarmament lies within the realm of hard facts. Other differences between Rus sia and the West, however, lie within the realm of politics, of propaganda, and of psychological warfare. There are a good many people among friendly nations who think the United States is falling down in this field. A good many of them actually feel that by such failure America is contributing to, rather than helping diminish, world tensions. Better English By O. C WTLLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "She was with us throughout the whole week." 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "garnishee"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Eveness, eventu ality, evanescent, evaporation. 4. What does the word "brav ado" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with inf that means "a viola tion"? ANSWERS 1. Omit "whole." 2. Pro nounce gar-mrff mff mtzViYi nounce gar-nish-e, a as in arm, i as in wish, e as in she, accent last syllable. 3. Eveness. 4. Boastful behavior; ot1tnUUci show of bravery. "He faced the mob with an air of bravado." 5. Infraction. ' County clerk, was chosen secre tary, of the Oregon State Coun ty clerks' association at the meeting of 25 county clerks of . Oregon held in Portland. - . But he said the administration is preparing anti-recessioh projects and declared "I don't think this administration or any other should countenance or permit an econom ic catastrophe if it is in its power to prevent it" . j The chances are, 'he said in his address, that the treasury will be able to stay within the present 279 billion dollar debt limit, and no special session of Congress will be needed this year to raise the limit Arrests Clear Theft Series In Coos Bay COOS BAY ( More than a dozen local burglaries were be lieved cleared up Wednesday, with arrest of two proprietors' of an interior cleaning service. ' 1 1- Jailed at Coquille were Voliner A. Poole, 26, and Albert Mikelson, 2S. Chief of Police Glen Kolkhorst of Coos Bay said the pair had ob tained about $4,000 in house and business establishment prowls the past four months, j - Kolkhorst said the two men, who established their cleaning business here last January, had been under suspicion for some time. Kolkhorst said the finding of money wrap peri in Poole's home led to their arrest. Poole and Mikelson waived pre liminary hearing when arraigned on charges of larceny and burglary not in a dwelling. Bail was set at 12,000 each. : , ! Kolkhorst said Poole was on pa role from a three-year prison sen tence from Jackson County for a burglary at Medford in 1950. j Largest of the burglary losses was more than $700 ram the Coos Bay Times. Other, burglaries In the four-month period were at the Railway Express Agency, grocery stores and a theater. Court Backs Reinstatement Of Workers SAN FRANCISCO Iff) A Na t onal Labor Relations Board or der to Dant ft Russell. Ltd.. to re instate two employes who charged they were dismissed four years ago for union activities was up held Tuesday by the 8th U. S. Court of Appeals. ' - j Dant ft Russell is a lumber firm at Redmond, Ore. The company said the workmen, Max Gaisner and Henry J. Christopherson, , members of the CIO Woodworkers of America, loafed on the job. The court had previously denied the NLRB petition for the men's reinstatement, holding that offi cers of the national CIO had not signed non-Communist affidavits as required by the Taft-Hartley law. CIO officers subsequently complied and the U. S. Supreme Court ordered the case reconsid ered by the appeals court. I Pay Raise Refused By Israel Officials JERUSALEM flsreal) UV-Israel Parliament members of the Social Democratic labor party "Mapai" had it their own way when collecting their allowances for the past month. When the cashier paid them fifty-four Israel pounds more than usual because the House Committee had ap proved an increase in their repre sentation fees and travel expen ses, the Mapal deputies said "no" and returned- the money. The State budget is big enough any how, they thought Deputies of other factions dis agreed with the gesture. They felf entitled to accept the raise. Death Claims 'Nancy Morris' PORTLAND Vfi , Mrs. Ada B. Deggendorfer, 51, former staff writer for the Portland Oregonian, died Wednesday. .... She was with the Oregonian from 1943 to 1947 and wrote under the name of Nancy Morris. She was s supervisor for the Federal Housing Administration in .-Oregon - City at the time of her death. Survivors in clude the husband, Aloyois, and her mother, Mrs. D. W. Hawley, Woodburn. DON'T wq&RY- HAVt DIPtNDABll INSUKANCl PtOTtCTIOH Guy Jonas, Ins. 9.MK ralrrrnnnrfa HA. t Phone 3-9431 ' !