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"No favor Sways Us, Ho Fear Shall Awe"
l ' From First Statesman, March 28; 1851
Statesman Publishing Company
CHARLES A- SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
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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
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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.)
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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
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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 . . .
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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 ...
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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.)
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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 ,
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