4 -Statesman, Salem. Orogon, Monday. January 4. J $54 statesman THE .DIVISION WE'RE 'LEAVING BEHIND "No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Atre" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published vrr! moraine Buriness office 280 North -Church Stt. Salem. Ore.. Telephone 2-2441 Entered at the xxtofiice at Salem. Ore. at second - clan matter-under act of Congress March 3. 1879. 'I - Member Associated Press Tb Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all local news printed in this newspaper Good Word for Drivers News media, f including newspapers, are constantly harping on traffic? safety, accidents and driving habits to the point that would put a nagging wife (br husband J to shame. Now, we don't! claim any redit for the re sults, but instead, of haranguing we'd like at this time to say We believe the drivers of the Willamette Valley really did a job over the dangerous holiday season. -Not one fatal mis hap was reportld from our area, and what few highway accidents there were brought but comparatively minor injury and damage. It is a record of which everyone can be proud. As this as written, the New Year in the valley is off to a safe and sane start automobile-wise. We are hopeful that those black figures which The Statesman uses to denote the count thus far, in connection with fatal accident stories, will be kept to the low est point on modern record in 1954. Untrue and (Unfair Bob Ruhl writes in the Medford Mail-Tribune: . . j I "It would, we think, not only be much bet ter for his party, his state, and the country, but for himself if Mr. McKay would come out from behind the ambush which fools no one -and frankly state that he intends as far as it is physically possible, to turn over all light-and-powcr production to the big private in terests, and eliminate public-power projects, entirely. j f This is both untrue and unfair. McKay proposes no liquidation of government in vestment in hydroelectric facilities, either dams or transmission lines; He has approved the move of the Grant Co., Wash. PUD to construct a dam on the mid-Columbia; and he strongly favors having the government authorize a "new start" on additional power development in the Northwest. He wouldn't be doing eithef if, he had the purpose which Ruhl ascribes fto him. Our farm surpluses piled tip, our foreign loans went sourj and the whole world went into an economic tailspin: How now can we avoid repeating that per formance For one thing, there is a somewhat higher level of intelligence in considering world trade. Lessons of the past do not all go unheeded. Itj is not a lack of understand ing of the problem or of the method for solv ing it which holds up a solution. It is when the general theory collides with group inter est that political conflict ensues. In agriculture for example wheat growers need an export market; and so do apple growers at Hood River who used to enjoy a good foreign demand for their fruit On the other hand cherry growers fear competition of foreigh fruit, and filbert growers want protection against Mediterranean nuts; and the dairy! industry insists on quota limits for imports of dairy products. Other conflicts of interest arise among other economic groupings some of which are eager for ex port trade, others fear foreign competition. The Life writers find the chief economic handicaps are in the "dollar shortage" among foreign nations, lack of flow of capital into foreign investment, and the economic stag nation of western Europe with its exchange controls, ;etc. Steps toward stimulating trade lie in encouraging convertibility of currency, in lowering tariffs and restrictions to pro mote trade and in. increasing the outward flow of j investment capital. This is classic economics, but it runs headon into politics both here and abroad. The world should move in that direction, but it will not jump abruptly into such a dream world, j There are many kinks to be ironed out, injuries to be averted or healed, prejudices to be reduced before we can "cor rect the 'imbalance in international payments, revive foreign investment and reform the arthritic! capitalism of Europe." But we ought to set about the task. I Now the reindeer and the camels can be stabled for another year. 1YT " -3 flr lo i SS Inside TV TV Gi HI I ! rom One to Another World Traqe Program Life Magazine prints a challenging article by John Knox Jessup and Michael A. Heil perin whoprelent "a new, daring plan to un shackle trade ind enrich the free world." On reading it one; is struck by the fact that it is neither new rjor daring. Its thesis has been recited over and over again since the end of World War Ll They phrase it in simple lan guage thus: j "Protection is incompatible with any ra tional foreign economic policy fr a large , creditor nation, especially so powerfully com petitive a nation as the U. S." Or putting it differently, as this writer has done: A nation cannot remain a creditor na tion, a high tariff nation and an export sur plus nation, "fhe wars made. the United States the principal creditor nation, but its natural resources, productive capacity and enterprise of its people jnade it a producer of surpluses; and protection had become ingrained as a policy during' the long period of being a debt or nation. After WW I we sought to export PRESERVING THE TIMBER RESOURCE Accastonal timely rains had much to- do with it; but the human element, which normally is to blame for the majority of forest fires, made an excellent record in 1953, causing less than half of the 792 fires ia Oregon forests. Announce-' ment by the Oregon state board of forestry that only 1,507 timbered acres out of 13,000,000 were burned over during the year is good news in- n nfca. jne jveep irregon ureen campaign nas been useful in educating the public to the vital importance of; preventive measures against fire. The logging industry is entitled to a full share of the credit for the small number of fires and the minimum amount of fire damage to Oregon timber. ! There were only 49 fires during the year in 12,000 logging operations, employing 38,000 men. j Insects have displaced fire as the great de stroyer of Oregon timber. . The dangerous spruce budworm apparently has been checked; but the bark beetle continues on its destructive way, with no specific way of controlling its depredations. Entomologists! are researching on the problem, in the hope of finding ome way to exterminate this pe$t. j ' Oregon, apparently, has been more fortunate than many other states in awakening in time to the vital importance of conserving its timber resource. There can be no let-up in the long time campaign of timber production through tree farms and general reforestation: this year's fine record of fire prevention has to be duplicat ed through the years, and the fight on insects has to be continuous. One of the needed meas ures of forest protection is the construction of access roads; to permit of the early control of fires in the woods. This is the subject of a bill sponsored by Oregon's Representative Ellsworth, who, as a former lumberman, has an unusual knowledge of the needs of the industry and a sympathetic I attitude toward measures needed for its perpetuation, on which the economy of the state so heavily depends. j (Albany Democrat-Herald) IIP 1 rt rl I I hi (Continued from Page 1.) capital, but kept our tariffs relatively high. Soviet Government Ready to Give Writers, Artists, Song Composers More Freedom By TOM WHITNEY! Associated Press Staff Writer There are Inumerous signs the Soviet government is readying a "new look" program for creative arts in the U.S.S.R. The new party line on literature, music, painting and the theater will give writers, composers, and artists somewhat more freedon) than they have had for many years. ; emment in art Both stressed the point artists cannot be forced to create by fiat, that they must desire to create themselves and must have consid erable freedom in their efforts. These things are part! of a pat tern. The pattern in fact-was more or - less predictable on Stalin's i'r'n.r." ; iin? and destructive force in the clear language condemned the j al brought fame and riches to the dead bureaucratic hand of the gov- j artist. But he was hard to please and he had provincial or even bourgeois tastes. And when he dis- very far in lifting the formal and informal restraints from Creative workers. Frm the western point' of view, their position will contin ue to be intolerable. Censorship, bureaucraticj interference, and party-inspired criticism will tul limit sharpljr their work;, ! " But to the Russian creative art ists themselves, it may seem some what like a millenium. When a prisoner is moved back from soli tary confinement to the general prison, it no doubt seems to him like heavenj-for a time.! The new Situation may conceiv ably even lsad to a significant field of Soviet art. His mere death without the inauguration of any approved a work of art this .might mean on occasion1 that the person creating it would be hounded out of the art world. i Stalin affected art by more than his own tastes. While he was alive he was always artistic subject No, 1. His portrayal in novels, poems, paintings and even in music .was mandatory It is not yet clear what criteria new policy by his successors. ! re-; of taste Stalin's successors will moved in some degree a few of; the i establish for Soviet art. Perhaps many restrictions on artistic in Russia. life they do not yet ; know -themselves i in detail. upsurge in The Sovisf the Soviet arts. i At least it seems unlikely that While Stalin lived, all art work j their standards will be worse or had to be aimed to please him. more confining than those of the If he liked something, his approv- Stalin era. GRIN AND BRVK IT Bv Liclity 3t Union of Composers held a meowing recently on the sub ject of popular songs. It was made clear that more joyous and catchy popular songs were desired. The meeting took place just after Prav da had revealed that the Soviet phonograph! record industry had , taken off its list of recordings most of the most popular hit -songs writ ten 'by Russian composers in an effort to remove American jazz in fluence. Pravda demanded the sit uation be j corrected by restoring Russian hit songs to their proper place. I ' J In his latest stage show in Rus sia, a popular comedian and band leader. Leonid Utesov, indulges in a great deal of caustic and direct criticism fof the authorities in charge of approval of stage and -musical programs. He gets great lauehs from his audience by mak ing fun of I the art officials. Utesov's program, of course, had to have approval before it was put , on and to this extent reflect a line of the present authorities. ' . I -Two outstanding men in the So viet art World. Aram Khachatur ian. Armenian- Soviet composer and Hya Ehrenburg, writer, wrote articles Which ia cautious but t - : : mlkwshmJU (mm meelma tasir tat tm we as fteimg eur "by another and then a third. They appeared to move with great speed and traveled rough ly from west to east They had hardly gone from sight when they reappeared, the one close on the heels of the other, i We concluded they were traveling in a wide circle but as the sky was partly overcast we could not follow the whole path they traced. Viewed from our posi tion, the objects were about two feet in diameter. "We continued watching them as we drove along the turnpike. Once we stopped the car to ob tain a better view. Several oth er cars drew up too. At times one object appeared to over take one of the others in their swoop across the sky. As the visibility became better, we could occasionally trace the faint outline of the whole cir-' cular or eliptical path followed by one of the objects. "Could they be the reflection in the skies of lights of automo biles going over a rise? We soon rejected that theory. : Such lights would surely not be pow erful enough to reflect in the sky at approximately the same point for so great a distance. Since we first sighted the ob jects, we had traveled roughly 15 miles. Moreover, why should there be three of them and not occasionally more or less? "If not reflections, what then? We were just beginning to be lieve they must lie flying sauc ers circling over New York, when we saw a faint shaft of light reaching downwards from one of the objects. The shaft gradually became clearer and all at once we realised we were looking at nothing more than three searchlights playing in the skies. Poor visibility had prevented us from seeing the shafts at a distance whereas the tips of the lights were, because of the peculiar weather condi . tions, just visible against the overcast skies." Here we have an explanation of what might have been called a flying saucer. So until some one shoots down a genuine saucer and brings in the body as evidence the public may safe ly assume that the strange phe nomena of lights in the sky are due to natural causes. It is noted too that the little men from Mars, or was it Venus?' didn't return to that lonely spot in the California mountains. ; Time Flies FROM STATESMAN j FILES 10 Years Ago Jan. 4, 1944 1 Wendell L. Willkiej said in the New York Times I that the United States had failed in moral, economic and j political leadership and as a result Pre mier Stalin emerged the "sin gle most potent statesman in international affairs."; Carl W. Hogg was drafted for a third term as president of the Salem Chamber of Commerce. Loyal Warner was elected vice president, Lester Barr secre tary and Linn Smith treasurer. Oregon's traffic accident toll in 1943 was 222 lives; 4850 in jured in approximately 30,750 accidents, according to Secre tary of State Robert iFarrell. 25 Years Ago Jan. 4, 192 - ! Drilling started on itest wells in an effort to solve the problem of a satisfactory water supply for Salem. The first; well was sunk in the Rosedale annex. Rep. A. G. Rushlight will be permanent ' chairman of the Multnomah County delegates in the 1929 legislature, Joe F. Singer, sergeant-at-arms for 20 .years, was named to the same position. C. C. Jantzen, secretary of the Jantzen Knitting Mills, announc ed the company wjll erect a $500,000 wool spinning mill at Portland. It .is to take care of 600 pounds of yarn a day. i 40 Years jgo Jan. 4, 1914 A check for $509,000, from the Knights of Columbus of the U.S., for the Catholic Univer sity at Washington, was pre sented to Cardinal Gibbons. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Meyers entertained the Nemo "500 club Eisenhower Returns From Holiday Trip WASHINGTON tfi President Eisenhower returned Sunday! night from a Christmas-time visit to Augusta, Ga, with work1 nearly completed on his State of the Un ion Message. The President's plane, ihe Col umbine landed at National Air port at 7:15 p. m. (EST. He has been in Augusta since Christmas Day. The President faces one of the busiest weeks since he took fice At 8:30 L m. Monday he will confer at the White House with Republican ( congressional leaders and members of his Cabinet. They probably will get an advance look at the latest draft of the State of the Union Message outlining the program in general terms. Monday night 6:30 p. m., (PST) Eisenhower will report to the na tion via television and radio on the administration's first year. He also will set forth future goals. Democratic leaders in Congress will get a preview Tuesday morn ing oL sections of the message dealing with forejgn affairs and national defense and possibly other matters. j I Twenty four hours after Con gress convenes Wednesday the President ; will go before a' joint session of the Senate and House to deliver the message in person. The annual budget message and the economic report willj go to the Capitol a few days later . L at seven tables of cards.) Honors went to Mrs. -Frank B. Mere dith and Dr. W. Carlton Smith. The next meeting is scheduled for the home of Judge and Mrs. Charles L. McNary. A home wedding! was sol emnized at the home of Mr. and MrJ. John F. Allison when their daughter, Ethel Esther, became the bride of Percy M. Varney of Salem. By EVE STARR WASHINGTON, D. C The President and Mrs. Eisenhower. were gifted with a ColorjTV set from RCA Chairman David Sarnoff on Dec 20 in time to Watch the colorcast of Amahl and the Night visitors, iimdw Mic . uiaq-uirio aienoiu moaern Christmas classic : . . The color standards! adopt ed by the FCC become legally effective Jan. 22 30 days after publication in the Federal Reg ister . . . Sign in a window on Hollywood Blvd.: "Merry Television and ai: Happy Commercial to you- : j Bing Crosby introducing Jack Benny on his telecast: "A genuine genius graces out guest podium this evening . . 4 one of the entertaining world's most? amazing geniuses and refreshing personalities. His rich wit and fiddle foibles have long regaled international audiences. Dig that kind of crazy talk!' Paramount Pictures bought the old Warner Bros, studio on Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, for more than! $1,000,000 last week.The old "birthplace of the .talking pictures will become the future home of KTLA, Los Angeles. i . , CR1TIQS CORNER: We didn't like to carp during the holidays, but we must say now that we were disappointed ,on Christmas night when Georgie Jissel tried to play Santa Claus on his "Comeback Story." Tqo much Jessel and not enough toys left uslwith a stocking containing one large lump of softfcoaU oneljtin horn and onV real jeicel that showed up at the last minute! to save Sanfa'j face. The lump of coil was evident fin the monotony of the show, which was supposed to open up the comeback trau for woman athlete IJabe Didricksdn Zaharias: The tin horn sounded too often inf Jessel's forced! sentimentality and long face. However, the pm appeared in : the final moments of the program when Babefjspoke a few words urging the necessity for constant vigilance if cancer is "to be caught in the early stages. Her sincerity;; could not be questioned, as her career was suddenly halted when the Mllfnp drotcth threatened to add her to its victir list. j CAPSULE CRITIQUE: "I've Got a Secret," emceed by Garry Moore, provides little material for this inimitable master of cere monies who.: given the opportunity, can deliver. Last week's showjj revealed some trivialities that were hardly worth repeating. Surely there must be thousands of individuals who have a good secret or story to tell. However, Moore managed to keep the show adequately inter esting, but with good subject matter ihe could come up with an appealing half-hour'sf entertainment est thing about this pro gram is its name. I f T-VELpPMENTS? Our nomination for the most . significant technical innovation for the coming year would be no, not color but the bpe-reeorded television shows. 4 The process has been perfected and, if adopted widely, could result in satisfying Control and economy for the producer and sponsor, as well as pleasing quality for the viewer. Storm Flags Flying Again SEATTLE ; ( The Weather Bureau hoisted storm warnings again at j4:30 p. m. Stinday along the Washington and Oregon coasts, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and inland waters of j Washington. The southwest storni warnings s : l - 1. w nt i were reissueu auer iiaring uccu cnangea ior bv nour aunaay 10 small craft warnings. I The latest warnings were for southwest winds of 30; to 40 miles an hour, with gusts to" 50, Sunday night, shifting to wejft to south west and decreasing slowly Mon day from Tatoosh; Wash., to Cape Blanco, Ore. Winds along the strait and in land waters of Washington were expected to average about 5 miles an hour less. i -3 Silverton GI Ends Basic Training at Camp in Virginia ly completed ' basic training at A Silverton soldier has recent theMedical Replacement Train ing ICenter at Camp Pickett, Va. He is Pvt. Earl W. McCollum. son fof Mr. and Mrs. Alba Mc Collum of Silverton Route 2. At the center, young McCollum has received eight weeks of basic infantry training and eight weeks of medical training. Medical subjects include an atomy, physiology, military san itation, method of evacuation, emergency medical treatment, administration i ' medicines, wafd management, hypodermie injection and operating room technique. Services for Mrs. Sliarpe Set Tuesday Funeral services fipr Mrs. Min nie Sharpe, 87,! Salem resident for the past 15 years! will be held Tuesday at 10 a!m. n the Virgil T. Golden ChapeL She died at a local hospital Sunday after an illness of; about a week. Mrs. Sharpe was born Sept. 11, 1866 in Franklin, a. Her hus band, W. N. Sharpe, preceded her in death in 1930. She is survived by one daugh ter, Mrs. Twilla Oakley, Middle town, Conn.; three sons, Paul Sharpe, Springfielcl. Ore., Fred Sharpe, Wichita Falls, Tex., and Don Sharpe, Newberry, S.C.; 12 grandchildren and 15 great grand children. Concluding services will be hel dat Belcrest Memorial Park. Red Trawler Seizes Japa" Eishing Boat TOKYO I An armed Chinese Communist trawler seized a 372 ton Japanese fishing boat in the East China Sea Sunday after first firing on her, Kyodo news service reported. Another Japanese fishing boat has been reported missing in the same area since early Sunday after pursuit by an unidentified ship. A sister ship said it eluded pursuers. REAL ESTATE LOANS COLONIAL INVESTMENT CO dOIEUT W CORMSEN. Ptt 6S7 Court t.c. 4-2283 Aliens Must File Report Alien residents of the United States are reminded this week bv the Justice Department that they must register and reportl their addresses to the: commis sioner of Immigration and Natu ralization Service. I ' Aliens may report by going to any U. S. Post Office oj im migration and naturalization of fice and asking for an annual ad dress report card. After the card has been filled in and signed it should be handed to any postal clerk or immigration employee. It should not be mailed direct, officials assert Deadline for registration un der the McCamn-W alter Immi gration Act which become effec tive Dec. 24, 952 is Jan. 3L The "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" is the official name of Rhode Island. : I I " ..J... ' .1 i ..u,. it, fX - i- - . I L i ' 1 I I " - - ' . ? unit I x i-rfrv- far- it - - . S553 frt' '-i i . "" ' ' " " 1,1 f-" . ','..''" A , f k 1 . J2 Centrally located In downtown Satem, tho W. T. RIG DON CO. jMOKTUAKY offers ample parking spaco and convenient access to Salem's comotorios. Throvghovt rho years, ovtry effort Is made to keep facitt ties modern ... to better serve Salem. FHONI 3-3173. I 1 I i . ! I - i J . S t : , ; -'