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Let's Ship Him One
We'd say off-hand that the swank Chicago
hotel which was unable to serve Prince Aki
hito of Japan a hot dog will give its chef a
rather stern lecture in protocol and amenities.
But such things have happened before. A
paying guest in a first-rate hostelry can get
just about anything he wants. If he needs a
safety pin, a bell-boy appears promptly with
one. A missing button on- a suit can get in
stant attention. A TV set, if not standard
room equipment, is promptly installed on re
quest. Every service for every guest is a rou
tine pledge.
But many a time it is not that way in the
dining rooms. A kitchen geared for a la chaise
lounge or royal fried ribs of Siam leopard
can't be bothered with egg sunnyside up at
the dinner hour. And a hot dog! No chef in
his right mind would be caught with one,
skinless or otherwise, in the lowest reaches
of his exalted storage cellar.
But we didn't set out to chastise the hotel
which easily could have met the royal de
mand since it seems probable that even Chi
cago, at la Salem, would have an all-night
market. We just sympathize with the prince
who merely wanted a hot dog, a bit of pure
Americana, in the hot dog center of the world
and had to settle for beef tenderloin which,
after all, is merely something that money can
buy.
Belated Stitch
The corps of engineers, Portland district,
has recommended a breakwater to protect
Tillamook bay from the ravages of the ocean.
They propose to construct a rock, gravel and
sand fill to close the gap at the Bayocean
gand estimate the cost at $1.5 million. The lo
cal interests would be required, to pay 17 per
cent of the construction cost and assume the
annual maintenance cost of about $15,000.
Back in 1939 the ocean made its first heavy
assault on the Bayocean peninsula. Through
the years it has continued its ravages. City
lots and paved streets have fallen into the
waves, houses have become victims. Across
the narrows of the peninsula ocean waters
poured at flood stages, and finally they tore
out a wide gap, spreading sand over oyster
beds in the bay.
In that year of 1939 the situation and the
threat were called to the attention of the
army engineers. Residents at Bayocean held
the. opinion that the erosion was caused by
eddies set up after the south jetty was built.
At that time the engineers said they could do
nothing, that bank protection work was out
side the province of the corps. Now 14 years
later and tens of thousands of d a m a g e s
greater, and over a million dollars in needed
remedy greater the corps recommends ac
tion to protect what values remain on the bay
and on the present Bayovean island.
The stitch was not taken in time.
What Happens in Philippine Election Deemed
Of Vital Importance to Entire Free World
By JOSEPH ALSOP
MANILA, P. I. Probably the
most trying characteristic of the
Hew world in which we live is
that what is ,-v;
distant o f t e n ;
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than what is
near. Whether
Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey
leaves politics - t ; I
or runs for re- i
election inf Ns
1954 will cer-f f 1
t a i nly matter! I 1 I
to the peopleLiiK I
State. But even rr v
to New Yorkers, it can perhaps
be less important in the long
run than whether Elpidio Quir
ino is beaten or is reelected in
the current contest for the Phil
ippine presidency.
Bat why should this be so?
The answer has to be deduced
from the circumstances of the
Philippine election itself. These
may be briefly summarized as
follows.
First, all impartial observers
here agree that there is almost
no doubt about the popular ver
dict Quirino and his Liberals
have altogether lost the support
of the country. Since Gen. Car
los P. Romulo boldly led his
Democrats into coalition with
the Nationalists, the Nationalist
Democratic candidate, Ramon
Magsaysay, is certain of a huge
popular majority. ,
From the country people of
the barrios to the businessmen
of Manila, from the leftwiag la
bor leaders to the famous Phil
ippine multi-millionaire, CoLSo
renau (who still has great in
fluence here although now an
American citizen) the support
for Magsaysay is impressively
solid and passionately enthusi
astic. Quirino, by contrast, seems
to have no real adherents except
the members of his political ma
chine and the beneficiaries of
the machine's special favor.
In these circumstances, It is
clear that Quirino can only win
by force or fraud or a comb in-,
tion of both. The question ev
eryone now asks in Manila is not '
whether Magsaysay is in the
lead. That is taken for granted.
The question asked is, rather,
whether Magsaysay' lead is
huge enough to overcome any
attempt to steal the election.
The Quirino administration . is
now reshuffling the provincial
and municipal treasurers, who
have the largest share in report
ing the vote.
The removal of the Philippine
army's able and impartial Chief
of Staff, Gen. Calixto Duque, has
only been prevented by prema
ture publicity. In the Army's
lower ranks, however, the capa
ble, non-political officers promo
ted under Magsaysay have re
cently been transfer re d to
school assignments and the like,
while important provincial com
mands have suddenly been con
ferred on officers purged or
passed over for incompetence
and bad behavior.
Perhaps Quirino will choose
differently in the end but his
partisans are at least readying
the instruments of force and
fraud. Nor is the force wholly
on Quirno's side. Magsaysay
was a brilliant guerrilla leader
in the last war. There is some
evidence that a guerrilla organ
ization supporting him, sworn to
"enforce a free election" is
growing up in key provinces.
As these words are written,
moreover, Manila is ringing with
talk and talk that is not
groundless either that there
will be a revolution if Quirino
steals the election. In these cir
cumstances, the Philippine Sen-
ate, which is pidoniinantly Na
tionalist, will first refuse to cer
tify that Quirino has been duly
elected. But if this should fall,
the most solid and respectable
Nationalist and Democratic par
ty leaders sly they will "go to
the hills." .
: If Quirino allows a free el
ection and wins, that's our bad
luck,1 one of these men told this
reporter. "But if the will of our
people is going to-be 'defied, we
may as well fight now rather
than later. Such are the ex
plosive ingredients now bub
bling away in this Philippine el
ectoral pot There are several
reasons why the outcome, what-
ever it may be, must be of great
interest to Americans. t
In a practical sense, in the
first place, Magsaysay is the
The Korean Escapes Income Tax
When this $100,000 offer for the first MIG
plane delivered to the U.N. in Korea was an
nounced speculation arose in The Statesman
newsroom over whether any one who claimed
and got the reward would have to pay income
taxes on the hundred grand. That curiosity
was satisfied with the statement of the inter
nal revenue bureau that no tax would be de
ducted or assessed because the money was
earned outside the United States. (Congress
has passed an amendment to the tax law clos
ing this loophole which movie stars were us
ing by going abroad to perform in pictures,
but the change evidently doesn't apply to this
North Korean).
Tax statisticians figured that for an Amer
ican to retain that much income after taxes
in this country he would have to have a net
before taxes of $940,000. This shows up quite
graphically the unconscionable weight of our
progressive income taxation. Some will say
that a million dollar income is itself uncon
scionable; but if it has been earned legitimat
ely such a verdict reveals envy rather than a
sense of justice. '
A net income of $100,000 a year is large to
be sure; but for the government to reach in
and take $840,000 before a person can keep
that net certainly makes it a greedy partner.
We can justify this in grave emergency when
resources must be mustered for common safe
ty; but we ought to relax such imposts when
the emergency passes.
The case used is merely a pertinent illus
tration of the way our income tax structure
is steeply graduated under the pressures not
only of raising money but of "levelling." This
is levelling with a bulldozer.
Torture Is Relative
More than the wisdom of Solomon will be
needed if there is to be justice y disciplining
one-time prisoners of the Communists who,
in the words of defense secretary Charles Wil
son, "made false confessions or informed on
their buddies too readily."
Just what is "too readily?" Is in 20 hours
of mental torture and interrogation, or is in
100 hours? And who's to say how many
hours it actually was? Or is to be 20 lashes
or 50; hung by one arm for an hour or 10
hours; confined in total darkness and priva
tion for three days or 30? Torture is relative,
both in substance and by individuals.
The Marines, as we understand it, do not
excuse giving information to the enemy under
any circumstances. The Army, it appears, is
more prone not to forgive but to forget ex
cept in flagrant cases.
It takes stern stuff, more stern that most
of us have, to be able to take torture unto
death, slow torture and agonizing. It appar
ently was such torture that finally brought to
the Japanese the secret of where the planes
came from that bombed Tokyo in 1942 from
the Carrier Hornet. '
Wilson promises "sympathetic investiga
tion" before any punishment is meted out.
Except in provable cases of blabber-mouthing
without more cause than fear or favor,
we'd say the defense department should go a
little easy at this date. It's pretty hard to
know what a man went through months or
years later.
For those who yielded to enemy pressure
willingly or easily, however, we have no sym
pathy whatever.
Paul Robeson, singer, has been awarded
the Stalin peace prize. The presentation was
made by Howard Fast, author. That pretty
well tags the pair without any surprise to
the public.
American candidate. He has be
come so without American gov
ernmental action or American
support of any kind. But he is
the American candidate none
the less, by virtue of his past
close links with American pol
icy, when he was fighting the
Halts; and by virtue, too, of the
known though unspoken prefer
ence of the Washington adminis
tration. Perfect correctness has
been maintained by Ambassa
dor Raymond Spruance, but the
practical situation is such that a
new American ambassador will
have to be named if Quirino is
re-elected.
Vastly more important, the
re-election of Quirino, if achiev
ed by fraud and force, will
write finis to the hopeful polit
ical development of the Philip
pines, the most politically ma
ture of the free nations of Asia.
Such a defeat for the cause of
free government in Asia will be
a sore blow in itself.
In the Philippines, meanwhile,
the surface of affairs may re
main unchanged for a little. But
discontent will smolder angrily
beneath the surface even if it
does not break out in rebellion.
The authority of government,
already precarious, will be wea
kened still . further. And the
first external shock, such as a
drop in world demand for Phil
ippine products and a resulting
of poverty and unemployment,
. will then be likely to give the
Philippine game to the Com
munist Hukbalahaps, who are
still capable of a strong come
back. Maybe Manila opinion is whol
ly misleading. Maybe the Philip
pines are strong for Quirino in
stead of Magasaysay. If the el
ection here is reasonably hon
est, there is little to fear either
way. But on present prospects
one kind of election result pro
mises to build the Philippines
into a bastion of freedom in
Asia, while the other threatens
the eventual loss of the Philip
pines as a significant partner of
the Free World.: Those who
doubt the American interest in
this kind of change in the Asia
tie power balance, need only
think of Korea. ?
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New York Herald Tribune, XaeJ
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They say that Rocky crawled into the ring Thursday
night humming, "Don't Let LaStarza Get in Your Eyes," and
crawled out chanting, "LaStarza Fell On His Alabama ..."
S'S??' Bu newsmen said they'd send round-by-round
'J. : . i . reports over the wire anyway . . . Then radios
f nTN got in on the act and said they would recreate
Lt - 4V w-J the fisht (which also was tabooed by the pro-
motors) from the press wire ... So if you thrilled to the real
istic report of the slaughter over KOCO, you should know it
was done with mirrors ...
Recreating the fight was Rod Belcher who also does the
same thing for baseball. For the Marciano-LaStarza report
Belcher was reading the blow-by-blow account as it came in
over the news wire. The crowd noise was dubbed in. And
what with commercials and between-rounds chatter it was
difficult to tell the Belcher article from the real thing . . . Ac
tually Belcher's announcing was about two rounds behind the
real fight in New York City . . . None, except radio station
managers, know from where Rod made his broadcast--from
Seattle, Oregon City or where and they aren't announcing.
TELE VINE KOIN-TY (VHF Channel 6 Portland) has
booked about 90 per cent of CBS' nighttime programs. It also
will carry some top ABC programs . . . Initial telecasting will
be from 3 p.m. through midnight. Hours to be increased later.
Among shows to be televised are Omnibus, What's My Line,
Fred Waring, Jack Benny, Studio One, Burns snd Allen, I Love
Lucy, Red Buttons, Godfrey, I've Got a Secret, Place the Face,
Pentagon USA, Ozzie and Harriet, My Friend Irma, Jackie Glea
son, Four Star Playhouse, Strike It Rich, Orient Express wrest
ling, Cisco Kid, fights . . . and . . . oops! we almost added
Rita and Dick ...
Intial power will be 56 kw, an estimated three times
stronger than any station now within range of Salem . . .
KOIN-TV's 271-foot, $30,000 tower is the tallest in the area
. .. An antenna of 708 feet is planned later to radiate 100
kw, full authorized power.
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Literary Guidepost
By W. G. ROGERS
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, the
text established by Herbert Far
jeon, new introduction by Ivor
Brown (The Nonesuch Press
Random House; four volumes;
boxed, $35).
Who says the pnee of books
is going up? Some 20 years ago
the first Nonesuch Shakespeare,
in seven volumes, with the same
text cost $200. At that time it
was hoped the day would come
when the common man could
afford a set of books as hand
some and a text as sound. The
day has come. This is the Coro
nation edition, too, with each
volume bearing the dedication:
"By her gracious permission
this edition is dedicated to Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth by her
dutiful and devoted servants of
The Nonesuch Press in the year
of her coronation MCMLHI."
Volume I contains 14 come
dies; volume II, 11 histories;
volume III, 15 tragedies; and the
last volume, the poems. In ad
dition to the plays generally at
tributed to Shakespeare, this set
includes three of the apocrypha
. . . there are a dozen or more
with which the bard of Avon's
name has been associated ...
Far j eon's choices are "Sir Thom
as More." -Edward in" and
The Two Noble Kinsmen."
Brown gives reasons for these
choices in an introduction which
covers briefly the facts of Shak
espeare's life and the principal
speculations about him.
This is "the sheerest Shake
speare there can be," according
to the nice phrase of Francis
Meynell under whose direction
Nonesuch produced this edition.
It is the exact text of the First
FATL MIGRATION?
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Although the ring riot is over for Rocky
and Rollie the bloodletting in the courts has
just begun . . . Promoters at first said no TV
or radio broadcast of the fight, period ...
Later they loosened up snd with great heart
said they'd permit only a press-wire 75-word
.A .1 M - l A. 1 I -
Folio, of 1623, with all the
Quarto variants, plus modern
readings where essential.
India paper is used, and a
thicker sheet is set in for the
title page to aid, as it effectively
does, in finding your place.
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"its mmda of " skJO ...strpmssmd y y thm fimtmdsl
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Better English
Br D. C WILLIAMS
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "Do you think you
could tell me whether she plans
on taking a trip to New York?"
2. What is the correct pro
nunciation of "illusive?"'
3. Which one of these words
is misspelled? Agricultural, ag
regate, agnosticism, ageratum.
4. What does the word "un
tutored" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
witht hi that means "boisterous
mirth?"
ANSWERS
1. Say, "Do you think you can
tell me whether she plans (omit
on) taking a trip?" 2. Pro
nounce the u as in use, not as
in rude. 3. Aggregate.. 4. Not
educated in schools or by an
instructor, "His untutored mind
could not grasp the meaning."
5. Hilarity.
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to prevent on the battlefield?
It would seem to me unlikely
if we adopt arbitrary positions
in advance and our "room for
maneuver and negotiation is
limited. I hope our leaders will
not be prisoners of domestic
political propaganda or hobbled
by inflexibility."
Lawrence reasons that- be
cause the Reds are wicked we
just can't do business with them:
"There can be no appeasement
of gangsters." I think he mis
reads Stevenson's meaning. As
the latter says, "when we search
for settlements we have to
search, and when we negotiate
we have to have something to
negotiate with as well as for."
That is not out of harmony with
the Dulles speech. The latter ex
pressed readiness to negotiate
with Russia, and gave certain as
surances with regard to our in
tention in Korea. The following
paragraph epitomizes the Stev
enson position and seems to me
eminently sound: '
"In these circumstances we
i should press forward not un
der any foolish illusion that one
grand conference would yield
security, but rather with realis
tic faith that the foundation of
stability must be laid, stone by
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1 1
By Lichty
Time Flies
FKOSI STATESMAN FILES
I' 10 Years Ago
r Sept 28, 1943 '
i .. ',
President Roosevelt announ
ced the resignation of Sumner
Welles as under secretary o
state and appointed Edward R.
Stettinius Jr., to succeed him.
The Keith Brown plant in
North Salem at a meeting of
employes pledged 312,300 in
bonds. The plant committee was
composed of, Stearns Cushing,
Jr Frank Haynes and F. D. Van
Sweringer. r
. An auction sale st which $25,
000 worth of i n v a si o n bonds
were purchased carried Silver-
ton well over its quote tor the
third war loan. Silverton passed
with $30,000 bonds over the
goal set for it
25 Years Ago
Sept 2C, 192S
Captain Emory S. Land, ob
tained leave from the navy to
. become vice president of Gug
genheim fund for promotion of
Aeronautics. He became an ac
credited aviator in his 50th year
and is a cousin of Colonel Lind
bergh.
Cecil B. DeMiUe's picture "The
King of Kings." which played in
Philadelphia, for nine weeks, is
playing at the Elsinore theatre.
There are 18 stars, 500 princi
pals and a supporting cast of 5,-
000 persons.
Editorially Consider the fate
of the cotton stocking! And
why? Silk is the answer. In the
two years between 1923 and
1925 tho production of full-fashioned
cotton "stockings drop
ped from 1,793,600 dozen pairs
to 727300 dozen pairs.
40 Years Ago
Sept I, 1113
The Eugenics contest held in
the auditorium of public library
building was completed with As-
ahel Bush, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Asahel Bush, Jr., and Virginia
Smith, daughter of Dr. and Mrs,
F. E. Smith tied for the highest
score. Both making a 995 per
cent
At St Louis a man by the
name of John Lynch, 48 years
old died. It took a special cas
ket with 12 men to carry it Mr.
Lynch weighed 692 pounds.
Fifty thousand dollars in tax
es was turned over to County
Treasurer J. C. Moores by the
sheriffs' office as part of the
last half of this year's tax col
lections.
stone, with patient persistence.
We owe it to ourselves and our
anxious, weary friends to ex
pose Communist intentions when
we can; to confer when we can;
to reduce tensions and restore
hope where we can. The door
to the conference room is the
door to peace. Let it never be
said that America was reluc
tant to enter."
The probable alternative is a
universal war, universally de
structive. At this point it is well
to quote Mr. Dulles again:
"Physical scientists have now
found the means which, if they
are developed, can wipe life off
the surface of this planet These
words that I speak are words
that can be taken literally."
Faced with that possibility
surely our utmost energies must
be devoted to preventing s war
in which such engines of death
might be unleashed.
The former Illinois governor
is no dream-walker:
"But though the imminent
danger has receded, this is no
time to wobble or lower our
guard, not with the hydrogen
bomb and no certain evidence
that softer music from Moscow
reflects any basic change in the
Soviet design of world dominion.
And it is no time for arrogance,
petulance or inflexibility
either."
Stevenson showed a readiness
to support this administration
, in its direction of foreign policy,
saying:
"U n d e r our constitution,
foreign policy is the responsi
bility of the Executive. The
Democrats in Congress have al
ready shown that they are eager
to help the President carry out
an effective foreign .policy, re
store the leadership of America
and give fresh inspiration and
confidence to the great alliance
which is indispensable to our se
curity. If it brings the Presi
dent great personal success we
will all rejoice, because the na
tion and the free world will be
the beneficiaries.'
In the face of this the Fer
guson attack was foolhardy in
the extreme. Not only does the
United States need allies in this
time of world tension; any
political party in power needs
assistance from the party in op
position for preserving a united
front in developing and carry
ing out a sound foreign policy.
If one reads the Stevenson
and Dulles speeches without
prejudice he will find a unity
in attitude if there is some dif
ference in emphasis. The people
should rejoice that there is such
cohesion in thinking among the
real leaders of both political
parties.
Jh Xlte Chest
Albert C Graft, Salem post
master, is leader of the federal
government division of the
3140,000 .Salem Community
Chest fund drive, slated to star
Oct C
Worker Help
In Defeating
Reds Urged
By NORMAN WALKER
ST. LOUIS Jh Secretary of
State Dulles said Thursday free
worker organizations "help mighti
ly in the quest for peace" by ex
posing the Communist "workers
paradise" as a myth.
The AFL's annual convention
gave Dulles an enthusiastic ovation
after he praised tho AFL for having
"done more than any other single
body" to picture slave conditions
behind the Iron Curtain.
"In this matter," Dulles said,
"there should be closer cooperation
between us. You have not always
received the official support and
backing you deserve."
The warm reception given Dulles
was in marked contrast to the re
strained and polite applause dele
gates gave to Vice President Nixon
Wednesday. Nixon denied President
Eisenhower had broken a promise,
as some AFL leaden claim, tn uin.
port union-wanted changes in th
Taft-Hartley Labor Law.
The , contrast underlined the
AFL's whole-hearted support of ad
ministration foreign policies but bit
ter opposition to many of the ad
ministration's domestic programs.
Dulles received nerhaos his rreat.
est applause from delegates when
he said this country's foreign policy
can best succeed when uunoartitA
by the American people generally
ana oy dou political parties.
Peace Policy
For U. S. Still
In the Making
By' J. M. ROBERTS Jr.
Associated Press News Analyst
State Department consideration
of policy for the Korean peace com
ference, if one is ever held, is just
beginning.
So far no quid has been produced
with which to bargain for the Com.
munist quo.
Officials will actually get down
to work in conferences at the State
Department next week. They will
be searching for something to offer
the Reds in return for establish,
ment of -a unified Korea under a
freely elected government. They
aren't very optimistic on that
point . .
The other chief problem of the
conference, the withdrawal of all
foreign troops, is considered mors
soluble. But even that is largely
matter of degree.
This troop problem has led to
wSjVauuu sitiiviiaj uiiw
mats that there is a possibility I
covering both major objectives of
the conference through a U.S.
Russian-Red Chinese treaty guar
anteeing the neutrality of a unified
Korea.
The one great drawback to this
suggestion is that there is nothing
n it for the Reds, since they have
nothing to fear from Korea any
way. sucn a tnreat as me Koreans
can pose is hardly likely to causa
any great loss of sleep in the Krem
lin or in Peipmg. Some sources
even credit them with a desire to
resume the war when convenient,
rather than shrinking . from it.
Another thought that has been
kicked around in State Department
circles was that Russia might be
sufficiently interested in a five
power conference on general set
tlements to make some concessions
on Korea if that were offered. But
that idea looked better a few weeks
ago than it does now, the Russian
post-Stalin peace offensive havinj
died down somewhat.
High level consideration has not
yet been given to any of the ideal
produced so far. In State Depart
ment parlance that doesn't mean.
are not thinking, but that they
have not gotten around to confer
ring with the men who gathered;
the facts and produce assessment!
of the situation and the aiterna
lives it offers.
One thing that hampers this sort
of work is the uncertainty over
whether there will really be a con.
ference and. if there is one.
whether the Reds intend to use i
merely in an effort to force the
Allies to break it off in frustration
and so lay themselves open ti
criticism throughout Asia.
The chances now are that tht
Korean War will not prove to hav
chan zed the status of Korea at all
except that tho Chinese Reds ha vi
been drawn into North Korea ti
replace the Russian Reds who ha
previously withdrawn.
The Allies will have to be satis.
Ced with what were, after all. th
major objectives of demonstrates
the effectiveness of the Westers
world's collective security system
and tho saving of South Korea
first nation established under thi
aegis of the United Nations.