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4-S& D-StatMsum Saltan, On. WmL OcL 21. 1353 $e f3jrejaonitaf esraaa "No favor Sways Us, Ho Fear Shall Awe" l ' From First Statesman, March 28; 1851 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A- SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher " Published every mora inf. Business office 2W North Church St- Salem. Ofe.. Telephone 2-24 Entered at the postofficc at Salem. Ore. at second class matter under act of Congress March X 1ST. ; Member Associated Press - " The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the ue for republication of all local news printed ta. s . . this newspaper .- ' - - : . t ; - i . i rV Kind Year ' respite the return of a veritable Indian luirpner yesterday, the fire danger to Ore gon's forests appears at an end for this year and the "closed forest season" now is over by' official proclamation of the governor, y The year has been kind to this state's great resource. Not in 42 years has there been as low a fire-loss as in 1953. There was a con siderable number of fires quite a few appar ently resulting from the hunting season-ybut nope spread out of control and the acreage bufned was very limited. Kind treatment on the part of the weather undoubtedly was a prime factor. Rain seemed to arrive when needed, and the dangerous t east winds remained iargely in the back- ' ground. But Providence also was given a.big assist by vigilance oh the part of loggers, ran gers and the general public; by forest organi eations and conservationist promotion. Of the less than 1600 fires reported, lightning was blamed for about 65 per cent. About 10 per cent were believed caused by cigarets. Camp ers probably accounted for another 5 per cent, togging operations 5 per cent, slash fires 5 per cent. Others could be classed as miscellaneous. The record is a good one even though still leaving room for improvement and there's plenty of credit to go around for all concern ed. So the fall rains can come back now as they wish we do not need to come to them as Supplicants for aid this year. Now, the autumn season seems to be settling quite gently into the Oregon country, and the fall coloring of nature is in more than usual abun dance. No violent storms have contrived to strip the shedding trees all at one swope a fact which may not suit those who would get thcjtr leaf-raking done all at once and thus areMeft on gorgeous display more deciduous tree's than that with which the valley usually Is credited. Their turning leaves have stayed on long enough this fall to show many a transplanted midwesterner that, after all, Oregon has four seasons, too, even if they are hot as pronounced as those of. the Great plains. It's a beautiful time of year everywhere.- ' Iem which began six years ago when' British and American soldiers occupied Trieste's predominantly-Italian Zone A, including the city of Trieste, and the Yugoslavs took Zone B. Certainly any government which wanted to perpetuate itself in Italy could not afford to surrender claim to Zone A. And there never was a chance the Yugoslavs would withdraw peacefully from Zone B. So Britain and Am erica had no choice but merely to withdraw from Zone A if the issue was to be "settled" at alL Trieste.' trusteeship under the United Nations, as an independent state, would only -have aggravated both sides. So what does Trieste do now? It very prob ably remains divided and there seems to be hope the furore in Yugoslavia will die down if even the slightest concession can be found as a face-saver in the forthcoming parley. Unavoidable Gesture - ' : v- - . The Big Three's gesture in inviting Italy and Yugoslavia to a conference on Trieste is just that a gesture. Such a conference will provide a sounding board for extreme nation- fclists on both sides, satisfy their constituents they are doing everything possible, and, we pope, leave the issue where it is now. There seemed no other answer to the prob- An Asset to the Community Initial opening of the Asahel Bush home as the Salem Art Museum drew a gratifying throng of more than 1000 persons Sunday and fully justified the sponsors' valuation of cul-" tural interest in Salem pioneer lore. Located on a knoll in expansive Bush Pasture Park, now the property of the city and Willamette University, the home has long been a point of pride as well as curiosity and its opening now provides a pleasurable source of study for many folk heretofore acquainted with it only at a distance. a The Bush family, which had its beginning in the area with' the arrival from the East of Asahel Bush I to become the first editor of The Oregon Statesman in 1851, deeded ap proximately half of the 100 acre tract free to the city, and the remainder was purchased for $125,000 spme years ago. The Bush home'was long occupied by Sally Bush, daughter of As ahel I, and since her death was the home of her brother, A. N. Bush, who died several months ago. Retention of the Bushx home and furnish--ings, and its maintenance through efforts. of the city and the Salem Art Association, are well-worth-while fruits of labor to preserve to the valley a glimpse of the gracious days of yesteryear. And as a center of art and art ac tivities, it is a rnost valuable asset to the en tire community. Editorial Comment McKAY RETAINS RAVER Secretary McKay's announcement that he will not replace Dr. Paul Raver as Bonneville power administrator will surprise no one. There have been indications ever since McKay took over the interior department that the two men could work together. McKay's decision, too, is a further in dication of his wish to proceed down the middle of the road as between 'public and private power development The secretary has expressed satisfaction with Raver's negotiation of 20-year power contracts with four private utilities. The administrator, in turn, has shown a uniform disposition to accom modate himself to the McKay policies and has found that this involves no sacrifice of principle on his part Secretary McKay is giving every evidence that neither private nor public power interests are to suffer at his hands. He recognizes that there is a field for each in providing the power necessary to national defense and continued industry prog ress. (Albany Democrat Herald.) THE PERSUADER . .: . s ;x ' - av.. -X'?,-S5fcV,,'r w. ta ' - : - ;mm$jr (& ' :. ill jfS-t ! ' in m Arngsg: JF-:..ars:ZS..v. rm-r T,. mg mm Better English By D. C WnXIAMS , 1. What is wrong with this, sentence? "Keep me posted, and I will be back in a few days." 2. What is the correct' pro nunciation of "Bouquet? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Receive, acheive, perceive, bereave. , 4. What does the word "par agon' mean? 5. What is a word beginning with tu that means "clouded; not clear or translucent?" ANSWERS 1. Say, "Keep me informed, and I shall return in a few days." 2. Pronunce boo-ka, oo as in boot accent second syl lable, ! and not bow-kay. 3. Achieve. 4. A model or pattern; a type of excellence or perfec tion. "She was a paragon of chaste womanhood." 5. Turbid. Rhee Showing No Signs of Accepting Peace Without Unification of All Korean Peninsula By JOSEPH ALSOP . SEOUL Syngman Rhee has ' said it before, but he is saying it now more flatly, firmly and frequently. He will renew the Korean War if his country has sot been uni fied by a polit- -leal confer! ence or other means within three months t time. He has the power to; make good his; xnreat, aespuenv rather Hocner.l -X ate effort to1 gain a hold on l H him. And lusjy j threat c o u 1 d ?" r hardly be more bluntly stated. "Whether we win or lose, we have to fight to unify our coun try if that is the only way. That's all there is to if That was the Korean Presi dent's last statement his final summing up, of a long and al most eerily dispassionate dis cussion of the situation in Ko rea. There was no possibility of mistaking what he said. .The only question was whether he meant it But the question was sot easy to answer. ' This strange and ; obstinate Id man has a face like a pippin, pale, golden, infinitely wrink led, with little eyes like apple-" seeds. He speaks unemphatical ly, in a thin, piping, but still musical voice. His sarroandings ' are in the hideous false-western style that is the sore, dis tressing mark of executive pomp and power in the modern Ori ent Bat in this setting, the smaa, gnarled aged figure in aa ill-fitting tweed salt seems dis tinctly oat f place. The contrast was really too ex treme between the speaker, with his air of being a benevo lent Korean professor emeritus,' and his words, with their por tent of war. "President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles told me they hoped that a political confer ence would bring good results,'' he said, with a thin smile. "I agreed to cooperate .to the ex tent of waiting for ninety days beginning October 27. I don't regard myself as bound after that tune." .But what of the political con ference, he was asked. The an swer was unequivocal He doubts whether a conference will be held. If there is a conference he thinks it will produce no agreement "unless the United States surrenders everything to the Communists, which I do not think the United States will do." But what then, was the next question. The answer came quietly and without hesitation. "We have to unify Korea or we shall be de stroyed in the end. If we 'are to be destroyed in any case, why not take our stand now with courage? We have no alterna tive. Divided we cannot survive. Could you survive with , your body cut in half? They come to us and they say sweetly, "Please accept national death for the sake of world peace.' I say it is wrong in principle and in senti ment and I will not do it It would be worse, far worse, than Munich." Munich, clearly, is a prime clew to the old man's thinking. After all, the most competent historians of the last war now agree that if President Benes had defied the threats of Hitler and the persuasions of Chamber- ' lain and Daladier, Britain and France weald have been forced to come to the aid of Czechoslo vakia in the end. The histor ians also agree that the outcome . would have been better, not only for Czechoslovakia, bnt also for the major western allies who were so anxious to appease Hit ler at Czechoslovakia's expense. Rhee is convinced or says he is that here is an exact paral , lei between this episode of the tragic past and the events that are now unfolding. The truce, he insists, has settled nothing. . The Asian power balance is growing worse. Ducking the is sue now will only mean fight ing later on more unfavorable terms. ; , " K The old man also feels or pre tends confidence - about what America will do if he orders re luctant yet obedient command ers of the ROK army to renew the Korean War. He Is not ex actly explicit but he says quite enough to indicate that he be I lieves America will have to do ' just about what the historians . think Britain and France would have had to do if the; Czechs had fought rather than be partitioned in 1938. "I believe the American peo ple will stand by as, whether they like it or not" he said. The United States has a sense of hon- ' or. They started to help as. Will they drop as halfway? They will not bay a shortlived peace by sacrificing an ally. It is oat of the question in my mind. For if peace is so sweet that everything is to be sacri ficed to peace, the Soviets soon will have the one world which is their goal" Nor is this all The proposal for a "unified, neutralized Ko rea," which the State Depart ment thinks has an off chance of acceptance at the political con ference, finds no favor whatever with Syngman Rhee. On this . point he would not be specific, however closely queried. Yet his objection was obvious enough By all the signs, he thinks that the neutralization of Korea will at least reduce if not alto gether Cancel the program for arming twenty Korean divisions and additional air and naval forces, which Secretary Dulles had to promise him as part of . their curious bargain. He is al ready demanding an additional air and naval buildup as speci fied in the contract No doubt he wants these armed forces, in part because they insure his own distinctly dictatorial rule in Korea. But also he wants these forces because be regards any kind of weakening or dim inution of his own or of west era armed power in the Far East as intensely dangerous. Plainly, of coarse, Rhee is gambling with gigantic stakes and he may well be bluffing. . Plainly too, although he may be able to renew the war if the pol itical conference fails, he will hardly be able to lead his peo ple into another holocaust just because his rearmament pro gram has been eat down by the unification and neutralization project Bat the plainest of all is another fact . The Washington tendency to think the Syngman Rhee prob lem has been or is being de pendably solved Is both false and dangerous. Rhee may be a willful madman, as so many peo ple believe. His vision of the Far Eastern future may be alto gether wrong, although it is hard to find flaws in his argu ments. But naked courage, whether lunatic or sane, is now so uncommon that even a weak country's leader can still shake the whole world by displaying or-Just threatening to display this rare human commodity. fCopyrlfht 1953 Ziew York Herald Tribune Xnc4 Can you imagine an ex-governor forgetting where his old office used to be? -Well, when Intr. Secy. McKay visited Sa lem over the weekend he decided to dcop in and swap sad tales with Gov. Patterson. So the Capitol ele vator operator stopped the car on the second floor the one sporting the governor's suite of offices. McKay walked out of the elevator, looked around curiously, turned and started to step back into it "This isn't the governor's jloor, is it?" he asked. The operator assured him it was, and finally the Secretary found his way into his former offices ... -Talk about beginner's luck. Joy Doyal, Mar ion County Court secretary, was oa her first deer hunt with friends near Burns over the weekend. The only shooting she had ever done in her life was firing a'coupla shots from a .22. She was packing a 38.55 which she had only fired once before at a tin can and missed. She came on this buck standing about 200 yards off. She fired and on this, her first hunting trip, shooting at her first deer, she neatly nailed the first deer for her party. "I was more surprised than the deer well, maybe not quite," he sea . . . -'V' " '": j TJiat big grin Walt Cline Sr., is packing around these days is left over from Sunday when he won his first bridge masterpoint tournament at the Elks Club . . . When Assistant City Atty. Tom Churchill took up the legal club to protect the; city's police radar system, he wasn't exactly walking on a thin screen. Tom put in three years as a radio operator with the Merchant Marines . . . And speaking of clubs city de partment officials don't exactly talk themselves to death these days in front-of news reporters. Seems a sort of unhealthy quiet has settled on city hall since the council's recent hassle with a certain department. Which ds a fine state of affairs in this day and age ... r Have you been chewing your no-cough, no-smokc, no-done cigarets to a frazzle lately watching the stars shine and twinkle . in the eyes of your favorite TV glamor-gal actress? Have you noticed how her orbs snap and crackle while she tells her first ' husband shell always be true to him, the meanwhile licking stamps for letters to her second and third spouses? Well, that gleam in her eyes may be love, bat more often, doggone it it is probably the new "liquid passion" eyedrops. This is a new secret formula designed to brighten up a girl's eyes while she emotes over TV. If' this keeps up, what with all those other false aids, itH soon be hard to tell where the girl leaves off " and the guile begins . . . Aviation Week mag., out this week, says the 'Air Force intelligence center, after a study of flying saucer reports, is expected to come through with the dull news that the U.S. is in no danger from "interplanetary travellers." Of 2,000 "sau cer" reports received through military channels since Jan., 1952, the AF has determined causes as follows: balloons, 15.4 per cent; aircraft 15.2; astronomical phenomena, 17.8; birds, light reflections, windlilawn papers, other small objects, etc., 6.3; radar, 5.8 and hoaxes, 1.6 per cent . . . There was insuf ficient data to evaluate 23.6 per cent of the reports and 14.3 per cent are unsolved. And Venus (the planet) is causing as much confusion among near-sighted saucer seekers as Venus (the statue) did among Salem residents ... Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES - 10 Years Ago Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebels tried -to assure the German home front that the tragic "collapse' of 1918 would not be repeated. He said the Germans had an abundance, which they did not have in 1918. , The Grand Central Market purchased by David Caplan a few weeks ago from Floyd Mc Nall, is resold to Milton D. Parker. . , . Capt Douglas McKay of Salem was appointed post pub lic relations officer at Camp Adair, succeeding Capt George Godfrey. , 25 Years Ago October 21, 1928 Crater Lake Park broke all records with 113,323 visitors in 1928. The stream of sightseers entered in 34,869 automobiles and represented every state in the Union and 14 foreign countries. Word was received of the death ot Lewis Leadbetter of Portland. He . was well known in Salem through his connections with the Oregon Pulp & Prvr Company. His sister was Mrs. Frederick F. Pittock of Port land. The Supreme Court, in Wash ington, D.C., refused to inter fere with the seizure by the gov ernment of foreign ships carry ing liquor sighted within terri torial waters and showing their destination to be the United States. Liquor on the ships be ing held was estimated at $181, 000. 40 Years Ago October 21, 191J . Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, veteran suffragette of Portland, was honored in recognition of her 79th birthday. Will H. Bennett deputy bank examiner since 1911,- resigned to become vice president of the First Trust & Savings bank at Klamath Falls. The Salem water works re ceived a new engine boiler which replaced the old boiler in operation for 15 years. The new steam boiler has a 65 horse power, the old one 40. This was eliminated in 1926 and an elec trified pump was used until 1935. (It is now operated in 1953 with a gravity system from Stayton.) 933DDQS (Continued from Page 1) credited as the author of our Bill of Rights. The home is now maintained by the Society of Colonial Dames, and Mehitabel, (Mrs. S.) as member of the Ore gon branch was particularly in terested in it It is a well pre-, served brick story and one-half structure in the Georgian style. En route we stopped at the church George Washington served as vestryman. Mrs. Say does considerable writing on points of historical interest and Harold is a real authority on Civil War battle fields so we had excellent guides. In the late afternoon Carlton Savage of the State Department took us to the Lebanon embassy for tea and to meet Ambassador and Mrs. Charles' Malik. Dr. Ma lik (Ph.D.Harvard) is one of the great intellects working in the field of diplomacy. A devout Christian, he brings an alert conscience to bear on problems in world relations. Today (Sunday) we plan to at tend the National Presbyterian Church to hear the pastor Dr. Elson. This is the church attend ed by the Eisenhowers and the McKays (they are all out of town). That is not the reason for choosing it but rather to meet Dr. Elson with whom I was as sociated several years ago in raising the Coast's allotment for the church's Restoration Fund. Tonight we take the train for the West GE to Honor 4-H Leaders Salem 4-H Club leaders wilt ; be special guests of Portland Gen eral Electric at the annual 4-H leader achievement banquet at the China City Cafe Nov. 2. - Dr. Roben Maaske, president of Oregon College of Education, Monmouth, will speak. Music will be provided by the Salem Sing ers. Leadership pins,' provided by the U.S. National Bank and cer tificates will be presented to each leader having led a club this past year, said James Bishop, city ex tension agent , r $ M for Remarkably Low Rates On Auto Insurance With Stat Farm Mutual Larry Buhler , 626 N. High Ph. 4-2215 In the days of sailing ships, some superstitious sailors feared to go to sea in a ship which did not have a figurehead. c GRIN AND BEAR IT f By Lichty yfr e "NO POWER TOOLS, SWJcyf movofc rfanftgw a awn wit tsw mt ymm mm Ay htmtl ... tNJOY ZENITH'S PIIQ.'JE f.TAGNET At th txln Chorf to All HEARING AIDS t MkhlSy tad, ton Combcrm Devices or. 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