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r 4 Sc D Statesman, Salem, Ore-, Mon- Sept 21, 1953 -No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 - 1 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published every mominj. Business office 290 North Church St- Salem. Ore.. Telephone 2-241 Catered at the postofftc at Salem. Ore. as second class matter under act of Confress March 3. 1S79. Member Associated Press, , The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all local news printed in this newspaper To Liquidate the RFC Under congressional sentence of death the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is pre paring to liquidate. It is making no new loans, will offer for sale the assortment of assets $700,000,000 worth which it owns for the U. S. government. A new-lending organiza tion the Small Business Administration has been set up to help finance small business, its loans being limited to a maximum of $150,000 per borrower. The RFC was established during the Hoover administration. Originally its func tion was to shore up banks and railroads which were in financial straits following the big market break of 1929. Under Franklin D. Roosevelt, however, it became a -general dis penser of credit during the depression, and a source of financing for war industries later. In its life of 21 years it has made 240,000 loans with a total of $13 billion. Its books show a profit of over $600,000,000; but the final figure of gain will not be known until remaining assets are disposed of. The chief investment of RFC is of course in bonds and notes. Some of its loans went sour, so it became anrowner of lands, build ings, factories which it had to take on de fault of loans. It will take a long time to con Vert these mixed assets into cash; and the RFC may have to take losses on some of them. The prospect, however, is that, given continued good business conditions, the real ization will be close to the book values. What helped to seal the death knell for the RFC was the finagling that went on be tween its lending officers and some of the political entourage of the Truman adminis tration. Stuart Symington did a good, quick job in cleaning up the scandal, but the scent remained, so there was little argument against the measure to wind up the RFC. It served a good purpose in its time but its operations were unduly extended under the New-Fair Deal. It furnishes an example, however, and it is safe to say that in event of severe depression or war another govern ment credit agency will be set up to ease the strain on established business or to finance war enterprises. Sports Writers Are People Contrary to ft lot of opinions, including some of their own, sports writers axe Just plain people. Some such writers sit up on their own little thrones, murdering the king's English, tossing? out barbs and pontif ically predicting that Ye Auld Campus Whingding will wallop Jo4 Doakes College nine goal posts to three. And every once in a while they're right. But not Saturday. In fact, they were off the beam almost as badly as edi torial writers sometimes get. ;V This week's newspapers will be full of pre tentious explanations as to why things hap pened like they did. So by next Friday night the sports experts will be right back in good graces and their prognostications again will be the basis for four-bit bets. But not today. "Willamette Heir Apparent to Northwest Grid Crown," sez one just before last week end's game. Mebbe so. But Willamette gets trod on 14 to Ojby CPS. "It's Nebraska, of course," sez another regarding the U. of O. fracas at Lincoln, So U. of O. promptly treats Nebraska to a 20 to 12 lacing. As for Colo rado and Washington "A nice break for Washington to get a practice game right at the start." So Colorado comes up with a 21 20 win. And as for Baylor and California "Baylor has an 'up-and-coming eleven this season but there should be little doubt of the outcome." There wasn't. California lost 25 to 0. And Stanford? Let's just say COP won that one 25 to 20. We don't profess to know what will hap pen when high-riding Oregon meets slow starting OSC (the 41-0 victim of UCLA Fri day), nor are we taking any bets. However, regardless of what the sports writers say about it the youngsters on the firing line will pay little attention, and the outcome could well prove once more that sports writers are just plain people. But we'd hate to be without 'em. ADVICE TO THE HUNTER 35 Inside TV Electronics, reports the Albany Democrat Herald, is coming to the rescue of salmon trying to get upstream over the dams. Direct current waves are "squared" and run through the water and seem to attract salmon to fish ladders. When the invention comes in small sizes to fit around a fishhook maybe we'll resume fishing. A Loss Can Be a Gain Lively little Jefferson, which would like to have a bank but doesn't need much else, is sound evidence that by-pass highways need not sound the death-knell to rural towns. The reason was well presented in Sunday's Statesman by Gladys Shields, who with Hus band Les Shields runs the Jefferson Review: "If a town has honest, congenial merchants, giving personal, -friendly service, it will keep the trade of its community, whether a na tional highway bisects it or not It's the warm feeling of knowing one's grocer, druggist, filling station attendant, and having confi dence in his service, that keeps the buyer coming back." Many a town has found that losing a high way means losing a serious traffic hazard without marked- effect on economic pros perity. Jefferson is one of them. And so far as Gladys observations go, they can apply to the attitude of any community and any merchant the;successful of which already have put them into practice. Canned Laughs Are orse Than None i I . 1 1 1 Editor Bob Ruhl of the Medford Mail Tribune, sojourning in New York City, re peats his charge that it is the dirtiest city in the country.; We fear he hasn't spent much time in Chicago outside the Loop, or he would reserve his superlative. i- Germans Started Working at War's End, Bringing 'Miraculous' Economic Gains By ROYCE BRIER (in San Francisco Chronicle) David M. Nichol, a corrcpond ent, went to Bonn and began wondering what had happened. He contrasted West Germany with" France, the final victor, France which had been sitting on its hands and watching mil lions of workers enhance the country's stagnation. He might also have gone to Rome, where postwar govern ment never seriously attacked mountainous land problems, but like a bird spellbound by a snake, stood motionless staring at its communist masses. He might have . gone to London, where the Churchill govern ment has been unable to dis entangle from collectivist plan ning, where food is still short, taxes killing, trade and produc tion sluggish, and where every body has security without prog ress. But Bonn is different, and the West Germans are differ ent. They did not win the war, but all Europe, all the world, is talking about the West Ger man economic "miracle." The Russians are a litle nutty over this spectacle, so different from their own economic swampland. The British are jolly well be wildered, the French are envi ous and fearful of new German power, the Italians distract themselves with Irredentist trifles like Trieste. But there is nothing mirac ulous about it Let us go back. by not working for themselves. The cosmic idea of working for a diffused State glory, for a People's advancement, they had just seen go down to ruin. So they looked dumb, and started working for themselves. They worked for profit. What planning they did was devised to give every man an oppor tunity to profit himself. They thought that might profit the 45 million. They rebuilt indus trial plant by toil, not by shift ing papers, they reconstituted their technical manpower reser voir, they told their displaced to knock off pie-in-the-sky and pitch in and become assimilat ed, told their communist howl ers to go jump in the Elbe. Why, that is a pretty old fashioned way of seeking suc cess, but it has sometimes worked. It worked for the Amer icans in the Nineteenth Cen tury. Fortunately, the Germans had no Indo-China or Hong Kong. They had only to work for them selves. Fortunately, they know you have to sacrifice to achieve. To get sound money after you have had bad money, hurts like hell. It hurts to save your sur- flus, is pleasant to squander it t hurts to go to the polls and vote sane accomplishment, in stead of voting for Utopia to morrow. Of course this philosophy and practice infuriates many. You are greedy and oppose the greatest happiness of the great est number, they say. Only the Welfare State, so-called, can confer that. So write the fine gentlemen in London, dazzled with a cou jple of eggs a week, so the Paris f"liberals" who won't even pay taxes due, so the Roman "demo crats" paralyzed in a squeeze between ducal landlords and Togliatti's rabble. I So what happens. So the West Germans have food, money, Jobs, a sound government. So they aren't quailing before the Reds, having a system that out paces the Red three-to-one. So they are emerging as the fore most producers and sellers of Europe. Yon ought to have seen them in 1946 when the Master Race Americans, British, French and Russians thought the Germans wouldn't get to their feet for 50 years. A-Blasts Used To Bolster Russ Prestige By THOMAS P. WHITNEY (Ex-MosCcw Correspondent) LONDON w It looks as though Georgi Malenkov has had to shoot off a string of atomic firecrackers in order to prop up his prestige at home and abroad. The political reasons may well have been more important than the technical and scientific ones in the Soviet government's decision to hold a recent series of tests of atomic weapons, which, judging from latest Soviet atomic bulletin issued Thursday, now have been completed. June and July of this year were bad months for the Russian lead ers. In June the world was treated to an interesting spectacle of Soviet tanks quelling a worker's demon stration in Berlin. Then immediately afterwards, in July, Malenkov had to publicly demonstrate to Russians and for eigners alike, by his arrest of Po lice Chief Beria, that sharp con flicts existed within the top Soviet leadership. Having undermined the purge technique by the release of doctors who were accused in January of plotting to assassinate Soviet lead ers, he had adopted the purge me dium himself. These developments are rapidly spoiling the picture of monolithic unity of the Communist world and the immense Soviet strength which the Soviet government propagan dizes so vigorously to help main tain its position inside its own coun try and outside among both its Al lies and its foes. In this setup Malenkov needed something big and dramatic to im press Russians ' and the outside world with Soviet might and to distract attention from the seamy side of Soviet politics. What more useful than atomic weapons, particularly the hydrogen bomb? Maybe this is why Malenkov or dered a puzzling last-minute post ponement lof the Supreme Soviet meeting originally scheduled for July 28-Aug. 5 so as to give Soviet atomic weapons experts more time to organize their explosions so they would follow immediately on the heels of his announcement that the Dtp biAmjs CrtD (Continued from Page One) escape to a foreign country. He is too dangerous a man to be abroad. Not only did he head the secret police, but he was also the administrator of the Russian atomic energy program. A man with such intimate knowl edge of Russia's secrets surely must be confined under heavy guard. But here comes the theory that Beria has such personal control of the police apparatus that surely he had a trusted chain of command which could effect his release and escape. Against this theory, however, may be posed this fact, that the Better English By D. C. WILLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "I ought to of known that the man with the cane was him." 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "mosaic?? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Hammock, su mac,, pestalence, atmospheric. 4. What does the word "hy perbole" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with co that means "a surmise; a guess"? ANSWERS 1. Say, I ought to have known that the man with the cane was he." 2. Pronounce mo-za-ik, o as in no, a as in day, accent second syllable. 3. Pestilence. 4. Evi dent exaggeration. "The writ er's work was marked by hy perbole." 5. Conjecture. i i ! I Soviets have the hydrogen bomb. Malenkov and his fellow leaders probably felt their atojnic tests would act as a deterrent; to any at home and abroad who jmight be tempted to exploit any appearance of weakness in his government in June and July. j It must be noted that the Soviet atomic tests came very opportunely for the Soviet Premier. ! And it is worthy of node that the Russians during the recent series Russian system has destroyed any conception of personal loy alty. Fear is the ruling emotion fear and ambition, first for keep ing one's neck on one's own head; second for holding one's position in the hierarchy; and third for climbing on top of the shoulders and heads of those on higher rungs of the party or government ladder. Beria's own swift downfall has been attribu ted in part to the disloyalty of his close associates and subord inates in the police apparatus. So before accepting the wild rumors that are afloat one would do well to apply for a writ of "hebeas corps" on those who propagate it. Bring Beria dead or alive within the purview of critical observation. If indeed Beria has escaped from Russia it seems quite improbable that he would expose himself any- Time Flies: where; and likewise improbable that he would seek asylum in EBSOmtmmBSXTStumai the United States, the arch-foe of Communism and of the USSR which he served so long and with such wicked compet ence. Popular credulity reaches oft en to great extremes. There were those who persisted in the belief that Hitler had es caped to Argentine. And John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assas sin, was kept alive in rumor for many years. Until some real evidence is introduced I would put down the Beria rumor as the "flying saucer of 1933." By EVE STARR HOLLYWOOD TELETORIAL: The dubbed laugh just ain't funny. This frustrating habit of tossing in a canned yuk from a non-existent audience wherever a director thinks it is deserving on film presentations, takes top spot on my list of vexing Video. I Thflj men responsible base their gimmick on , soundj premise that laughter is infectious. - Unfortunately, however, spontaneous laugh ter is tot available in the close confines of aj sound stage where no audience is allowed. There-1 fore they feel it necessary to tape it in. This, they hope. Will cue the home viewers to laugh and convince themselves they have just seen a very funny bit I Bui who's to say what Mr. and Mrs. TV Peeker are going to find humorous. It is totally unlike radio or live television programs where the studio audience (human beings, you understand) like the folks at home provides the laugh kick-off. Better no laugh at all than a raucous, badly-timed and entirely forced braying by those too close to the show. -J - CRITICS CORNER: Hollywood took a tighter grip on its standing as the entertainment capital of the world with the presentation of Lux Video's Theater's first live airing from the multi-million dollar CBS West Coast studios. Heretofore, Lux hafhung its wares on the East-West line. Rohald Reagan and Maureen O'Sullivan piloted the ini tial vehicle, "Message in a Bottle," in their usual excellent form backed to the hilt by capable George MacReady. The 30-minkte show lacked the suspense that might have been worked up in a whole hour, limited time forcing swift script ing. Technical excellence of the CBS facilities allowed smooth scene transitions and believeable time .bridges. i STARR ROUND-UP: Rambunctious Martha Raye will be whooping it up in your living room on the "Show of Shows" once a month this year. Her first starring guests, Maggie Truman and Rocky Graziano, will be in there sparring. . . . Another documentary-type television series will begin in October called "The Turn ing Point" Producer-writer Douglas Morrow has been assigned the first 13 shows. . . . Checked with Norman Siegel, CBS pub licity director in Hollywood but he tells me there is no "Jane" set forj;"My Friend Irma" as yet, but Mary Shipp will play a "dominant character" in the show along with Marie Wilson. . . . 5 Robert Montgomery's Summer Theater will be on -again next year, you can bet. The tab for each show, $62,000 , per hour, should give you a small idea of video costs. . . Motion picture, producer Eddie Buzzell will direct the first three MiltonBerle TV shows. This marks his debut in live rideo direction. Buzzell t preparing a new teleseries called, "Third Girl ffbm the Right," and may star cute June Allyson noio that June is no longer under contract to MGM. . . . Janie Powellp looking glamorous in her appearances on local TV platter panel shows, is a smash success at the Coconut Grove in Hollywood. Joan Caulfield, Marie Wilson, Lucille and Desi, Georgi and Grade and Joan Crawford were part of the cheering section opening night. Hoigy Carmichael tossed a shindig for the 250 folks who helped ;make "The Saturday Njght Revue" pleasant work. . . . Choreographer Billy Daniel may do the routines for Betty Grable for her, forthcoming stage show, with Harry James opening at the Chicago Theater November 18. Following the horses must agree with Betty she's never looked more beautiful. . . . Fans in New -York have asked for "Victory At Sea," NBC's television film docu-' mentary and so it will be re-shown for 28 weeks beginning Sep tember .22. . . . Droll Fred Allen wonders how the guy who keeps his nosf to the grindstone, his ear to the ground and his shoulder to the wheel gets any work done. . . . Heard on the "Half-Pint Panel".-, the teacher who asked the 5-year-old to say something in order to test her I. Q. was surprised when the youngster asked her, "Do you want logical, connected sentences or purely irrelevant words?1? ' I (Copyright 1S33. General feature Corp.) From The Sti'esman F;'- 10 Years Ago : Sept. 21, 1943 Gale Sweeps India Troops Overboard HONG KONG CD The 5.233-ton Indian troopship Jalagopal enroute to Korea with custodial troops ra dioed Sunday that three soldiers were swept overboard when the ship encountered the typhoon that passed south of here on Friday. of tests tried to extract eyerv ounce umd w f 00j, ,.. r,J, ,u k homes were burned down in fires of propaganda value froni them by making a series of three atomic announcements, including the one just last Thursday. j In their previous tests! they had contented themselves with one an nouncement only for each. 1 GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty Literary Guidepost .A year after the thundering collapse of the Third Reich, the Germans were still a stunned people. Their cities were down, their money was no good, mil lions of them were carbase scavengers, more millions dull fyed DPs. f We and .the British and Trench occupied the zones, and pur people would show the Germans how to rehabilitate themselves. Now we were the Master Race. No few of our At lantic people were proto-social-ists who would help the Ger mans organize a collective com munity of controlled production and markets, meet to the New Time. It was t obe a genteel planned society, , supplanting Hitler's villainous planned so ciety. ! The Germans, however, had an 'tstinct against this. A su perbly competent people tech nically, it occurred to them they had never got anywhere By W. G. Rogers OFF THE BOOK BEAT . . . A book, any book, has a lot of chances. Biggest one is sales. But if the public won't bite, maybe some jury will crown it so that the author's reward is at least an award. He may have empty pockets, but will stagger under laurel and myrtle. Maybe we haven't as many honors, empty or with cash, as in France, but we have a lot, among recent ones being: Marianne Moore, Bryn Mawr's $5,000 M. Carey Thomas prize given to an eminent American woman. David John Mays, for "Edmund Pendleton," not only the Pulitzer but also the $500 Early American History prize of the Institue of Early Amer ican History and Culture,- in Williamsburg, Va. Jared van Wagenen Jr., "The Golden Age of Homespun," to be published in July, written with the help of the Dixon Ryan Fox Memo rial Award of the New York State Historical Association. For straight honors: Early Morse Wilbur, "History of the lUnitarians," annual Unitarian Saward. Clarence B. Randall. "A Creed for Free Enterprise," an jnual book award of the Colonial IDames of America. Frances 'Winwar, "The Eagle and the jRock." a testimonial for her contribution "to the progress of mankind" from an Italian association identified as "Mos tra Triennale del Lavoro Itali jano nel Mondo." . . . ; Among upcoming books that 'ought to be good for sales and honors too are Saul Bellow's "The Adventures of Augie March," due September, his first since 1947; this summer, Alan Paton's "Too Late the iPhalarope"; this month. Slur ley Jackson's "Life Among the Savages." Already out is the new "Invitation to Learning Reader on Popular Classics," with Lyman Bryson presiding for 13 scholarly talks on books suggested by his guests, among them James A. Michener, Clif ton Fadiman, Justice William O. Douglas; editor is George D. Crothers of CBS. pi in January and February lost their temporary shed homes due to winds that accompanied passage of the typhoon. They have been moved to hangars on Kaitak Airfield. The list Nazi barrier the Dnie per crumbled as the Russian army stashed across the Dena river line, to push the Germans back to their invasion boundar ies, j; The dregon State college foot ball squad the most "home grown"; in several decades, has a roster of 32 Oregon players, Coach Lon Steiner revealed. On the team from Salem was Norm Sholseth. Governor A. B. Langlie of Washington was a house guest at the .home of Governor and Mrs. Earl Snell. 25 Years Ago Sept. 21, 1928 A fire at Lake Labish near Brooks,,! swept through 25 acres of valuable timber. Salem and Mt. Angel firemen saved build ings inlthe farm areas Directors of the Oregon. Pulp and Paper company held a meet ing to consider abating the cin der nuisance that has afflicted Salem for years which has caus ed Salem to be called the "cin der city" of the West Karl Hinges, drum major of the American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps for four years, par ticipating three times in win ning the state contest, resigned "Mutt" Williamson will be the new leader. 40 Years Ago Sept 21, 1913 M. Pegoud, the daring French aviator, startled the world by his remarkable "loop the loop," which he performs while travel ing at a fast speed a thousand feet in the air. Nine standard prunes grown by William S. Walton, secretary of the fruit union on his place in theity, weighed 21V ounces, an average of seven to the pound. Harvey M. Slater, son of Judge W. T. Slater of this city left for Balitmore, Md., to enter the junior class at Johns Hop kins University. 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