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4 (Soc D-Statesmcm, Salem. Ore. Wed Jan. 13, 1954 qDrtsontatesman Wo favor Sways Us, No Fear Shal GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty Awe" - From First Statesman, March 28, ltal CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and publisher. Published ' vry moraine Business offlte 280 North Church St, Salem, Ore.. Telephone .1-8441 Entered at the ! xntofflee at Salem. Ore. as- second - class matter under act of Congress March;. 1S7. i Member Associated Press j The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all local news printed in i this newspaper j Stripping Citizenship From Communists r I One of the recommendations of President Eisenhower (which was heartily applauded at the joint session of House and Senate) was that when persons are convicted of hereafter conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of this government they should lose their citi zenship. He did not amplify the statement and explain jukt what he meant by depriving persons of their citizenship. Now wheft a per son commits a jf eiony he forfeits certain of his rights as a citizen, such as the right jto vote. That, howeverj may be restored under, certain conditions; and in the meantime he still re mains a citizen. Stripping a person of his American citizen ship might be stretched to include denial of a right to vote, o hold office, to own property, to sue,or be sued in court, to enter into con tracts, to be married. All would defend on how severe the law was in its deprivation of rights, or how restrictive existing legislation is on rights o aliens. - j But just what good would such a procedure be? Would it make the Communist ahy more loyal to the United States? Would it add any thing to the internal or external security of the United States? While fear of lossj of citi zenship might- prevent some from joining the Communist conspiracy the loss of citizenship would make a person even more desperate as an enemy of ihe state he would hgjve little left to lose., The interjection in the President's -message sounds very much like a "stop Cerberus," a concession to the professional aijti-Com--munists who like to have raw Rqd meat. Hence the applause. We shall wait to! see how this proposal lis spelled out in a legislative bill; and predict that after taking a good look at the suggestion it will be put on the shelf. Why, Congress has never gotten round to out lawing the Communist Party as a j political organization, which would seem to be a fit ; ting preliminary to de-nationalizing la citizen and really making him a man withoul. a coun try, j " j And wouldn't some provision have to be made for restoring citizenship to renegades from Communism? j "B" as in Beria, Bergholtz InJRussia all textbooks, histories and cyclo pedias should be on the loose-leaf system. That way it is easier to keep them up to date. When a prominent official is dropped down the chute then all that would be necessary is to open the binder, take out the pages extoll ing his virtues, and either close! the book or insert new material. They are doing this now to the Soviet Encyclopedia, only ft isn't loose leaf. 1 Order of the day is to tear out! pages 21-24 of Volume five whose j subject platter dealt with one Beria, Lavrenty Pavlovfch. Through the years the Cyclopedia duly noted his rise in power and prestige in the USSR from a functionary of the new regime in Georgia to head of the secret police; and if there was a fresh edition since Stalin's death, to the post of deputy premier. Since he was iviped out by a firing squad on orders of Premier Malenkov and the Supreme Soviet, that glowing story of his life must be erased from the books too. So take a knife and snip out the pages. To fill the gap the publishers are substi tuting the biography of one Bergholtz, Fried rich Wilhelm, Russian historian; and a pic ture of Bering sea in place of the picture of Beria. Thus the book will be kept full and the alphabetical sequence j preserved; but how much easier it would have beenito do it" with a loose-leaf binder. There seems to be no sure way one can keep his name and face in Soviet history. When the Communists purge a man, .they purge his very name; but what a funny way to record history. g 1 " VTJ03MJ JIM A ORB H AvC VOlS MlOYOiq wwert; " -H I M n -. -mm n i ktiist k m su . skwau m . m Mrs. Hunt Succumbs at Broadacres ! j. i Statesman News Service WOODBURN (Mrs. Mabel I. Hunt succumbed Tuesday at her home near Broadacres after a long illness. Mrs. Hunt was born in Aurora in 1885, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Kraus. She had re sided in her present home since 1911, when she marled Henry Hunt, who survives. The deceased was a member of SL Agnes Catholic Church and the Sti Agnes Altar Society of Hub bard. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Justine Hasing. Aurora Route Uand Mrs. Elizabeth Sonnen, Broadacres; sister, Mrs. Hannah Hunt. Hubbard, and seven grand children. Rosary recitation will be at 8 p.m. Thursday at St. Luke's Ca tholic Chinch, .Woodburn, while funeral services are set for 9:30 a.m. Friday at the same church. Interment will be in the church cemetery under the direction of the Ringo-Cornwell Chapel. i aeea w "Hmmm . . . most unusual use of 'snow blindness', Mrs. Sntedby! youll hive to stop ruining around to rhtta Januiry whits salts . , Inside TV - John L. Lewis doesn't like Eisenhower's remmendations for changes in the T-H law. "A few piddling amendments," says John, "won't make; a slave law palatable! to free born citizens John trots out the old fiction of "slave labor;" but unions have! kept on growing under Taft-Hartley and still exercises-full rights of collective bargaining. Ac tually T-H did little to break abuses of the monopoly power often exercised by unions. Wasco County, which celebrates its cen tennial this spring, can boast of being the "mother of states." When created it embraced the territory between the summit ot the Cas cades and the Rocky Mts. and between the 42nd and 46th parallels of latitude. Out of this territory many counties of Eastern Ore gon were created, with land left ovr to help fill out Idahd, Wyoming and Montana. ! 1 1 Most of the 18-year-olds would yield their claim to vote if they also could jj postpone fighting until they were 21. One of the country's smaller but fast-growing airlines is the Braniff International Air ways, serving primarily the Southwest and Mexico. Built up by Tom Braniff, it is one of the ironies of fate that he should lose his life in the crash of a private amphibious plane which fell as it was returning a party from a hunting trip near Shreveport, La. Editorial Comment GERMANS CANT BE KEPT DOWN West Germany is now leading all of Western Europe in industrial progress. Her industrial out put rose between 6 and 7 per cent in the first half of 1953, and the Organization for European Economic Co-operation forecasts a similar rise for 1954. West Germany is working hard, living aus terely, beating her competitors to export markets, and holding fat surpluses of gold and dollar earn ings. This is a bright picture for West Germany; what lesson does it hold for the world? To us, it seems a clear demonstration that Ger many must be considered the key to the future of Europe, not just West Europe, but all Europe. The military technology that Hitler called upon is no farther away than the drawing boards of the Ruhr factories which now turn out trade goods. The same chimneys will again cast their pall over the world if it aimlessly tails to absorb the Ger man energy in peaceable ways. For a full century, France has lived in fear of this furious, driving economic force, and that is exactly France's mood today, producing a para lysis in Paris. With everything to lose from a Germany that is unintegrated into the European structure, France still blocks the avenues of eco nomic and politico-military co-operation that have been devised to assure reasonable control and direction of the German energy. West Germany's expansion presents a most fore boding challenge to Russia, too. The economic growth in the Western half is not being matched in the sullen, subjugated, Sovietized Eastern half, and it takes no genius to sense the pressure build ing up there to an explosion on the reunification question. Russia's refusal of co-operation in a peace-insuring settlement of the German problem is therefore particularly short-sighted. For there can be little doubt that if the young German of the new postwar generation is led to feel what his father was led to feel under Hitler that he is being physically and psychologically encircled and isolated he can again become a .formidable threat to the world's peace. We do not doubt the sincerity of Chancellor Adenauer and other Germans who say they're in no mood for another war, but today's older Germans cannot write a pledge that the aggressive instinct will not revive in the future. (San Francisco Chronicle) v ! to Kids Prefer Guns Fairy Godmothers By EVE STARR NEW YORK TELETORIAL: We've been keeping an eye on the dimpled moppets of various families, trying to discover what kind of television entertainment strikes their puerilej fancy and why. til j After several weeks of critical sleuthing pure ly in the interests of science, mind you we re port our findings to you. But not without having acquired: a case of jitters and a frenzied fear of . what is going to happen to this World of ours, five to nine Emergency Board to Meet Here Jan. 22 The state emergency board has been called to meet here Jan. 22 v.hen several emergency requests will be discussed. Reports here indicated that a I that crop afterjit is produced. Ray owers Hear Ieed for Cleaner Crop By LrLLTfj L. MADSEN Farm Editor The Statesman WALDO HILLS Growers are going to have to know something more about seed than putting it into the ground and harvesting it if Oregon is going to stay in the seed business. Rex Warren, farm crops specialist! told some 175 seed growers Tuesday in a meeting at Waldo Hills Community hall. The group gathered at 10 a.m. under the direction of Hollis Otta way, Salem, and at noon the lunch eon was served! by the Waldo Hills Grange Home Economics club with Mrs. Theodore Riches as chairman. The seed grower has to know the adaptability of his soil, how much fertilizer it should have. He should nave a weed-free soil and know how to continue to keep it weed- iree uirougn spraying, the special ist said. i'A j Cleaner Seed 1 1 1 "If we are trf stay in the seed; growing ousiness and we do have the climate and the land for it we must grow a cleaner seed than we have been producing," Warren insisted He added that "You must grow a large enough acreage to make it profitable. Re-1 turns per acre of Oregon seed growing is relatively small, only a rather large- acreage will make tne crop worth while. Death Gaims George Foster Of Woodburn Russian Propagandists Grasp Talk of U.S. Depression Fears as Proof of Weakness after these dear little offspring of I inherit it ! it' Do they like that program in which the dear 1 old lady reads cute little stories of fluffy bunnies and mischievous squirrels? Do they like the play ful puppets? Or the clown who tweeks children's noSes? "Junk!" they yell, and flip the dial to a program -of cowboys and Indians, gory with violent! death and horrible gang fights. And i ? Ji At a 1 i . I u me cowDoy lames too long in meaningless conversation wun a good solid tiller of the soil, or with a girl, the wee selector whirls to a meaty mystery or detective film. Heavy plots or adult pedantry deter them not so long as mayhem and murder hold : sway. I J l Jt's the truth, so help me. And the industry; trhich with laudable good intentions promotes "singing ladies" and fairy godmothers, is either not cognizant of children'sreal likes or dislikes, or doesn't wish to be reminded that children are the primitive little darlings they've always been. Remember the Nickelodeon? "The Perils of Pauline," "The; Exploits of Elaine," "The Clutching Hand," etc.? GOOD, WEREN'T THEY! j i ) f CRITIC'S CORNER: Along about now we're just going to have to lower the boom. Something is very, very wrong somewhere when a successful TV show can't be built around a voice and personality as marvelous as Ezio Pinza'si 'Bonino" has folded,; in Spite of the warm theme of a concert singer father of eight or nine assorted kids in a happy, wholesome family setting. j j j ' J I Singing and hearty management of his brood shared time about equally, and separately they jwef e good. Combined they made an awkward fit That's probably! why the show is now six feet under and it is lamentable that someone, from writers to director and producer, couldn't feel the weak spots early enough to correct them and save what almost was, and could have been, a highly success ful show. tl I Already we hear the response Those to blame will come right hack with alright, what would YOU have done! Well, we dortt know all the answers. But we do fcnojto one. First, either that the family should have been elevated to a higher social plane more compatible, to a concert singer's generally accepted mode of Zitnng, or Ezio should have been cast as a singer a few notches lower, as a lowly cafe singer or even a day-laborer with a voice, vhich he used just for, the fun of it. Second, whatever the alteration, rocalj and human interest story should have been fit together in smaller, smoother pieces. There was nothing wrong with Pinza and his cast, and we hope feverently to see him back unchanged, but with a new show worthy of his talents. group of union leaders may aDDear before the board and ask for funds to increase the salaries of State Penitentiary guards $50 a month. The Board of Control, at a recent meeting, rejected such a plea on the grounds that an emergency does not exist under the emer gency board setup. Also to come before the emer gency board will be the selection of a member to succeed the late State Senator Dean Walker of In dependence. Senate President Eugene Marsh said he would submit the name of a Senator to succeed Walker but any appointment would have .to receive Emergency Board confirmation. TTTJ JLT SUtesmaa News Service WOODBURN George C. Fos ter, 45, died in a Portland hospital Sunday. Foster ras distributor here for the Shell OH Co. for 19 years. , He belonged to the Knights of Pythias at Hubbard and the Mult nomah Club at Portland. He was also a member of the Woodburn Episcopal Church. Foster came to Woodburn in 1933 from Los Angeles. He is survived by his widow. Fern: a daughter, Carole Lee, Woodburn.-; mother, Mrs. Grace C. Foster, Loj Angeles, and a brother. A. W. Foster, Molalla. Funeral services are planned Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Rineo Funeral Chapel here. Final com mitment will be at the ML Crest Abbey Crematorium, Salem. The Rev. T. M. Baxter of the Wood burn Episcopal Church officiating. Hiram Saxton, Salem Barber, v Dies at Coast Hirman H. Saxton, 74, former Salem barber, died Saturday at his home in Newport following a heart attack. He had been ill for Besides knowing how to produce hinwrITueS, Saxton operated a barber shop at 19th and State streets for sev eral years until 1947 when poor health forced him to retire. He then moved to Newport A native of Michigan, Saxton at one time was in the general mer chandising and logging business m Toledo. He had been a resident of the state since 1904. Survivors include his widow, one Sfon, one daughter, four grand children j and one great-grandchild. giuwei uiusi uiuw wnai 10 ao witn ! irTrormra By J. M. ROBERTS JR. I ' Associated Press News Analyst' Is Soviet "Russia winning out on her major twin objectives in the Cold War? I There is no (question that her pol icy ever since, Yalta has been bas ed on the belief that weaknesses in the capitalistic system, leading to defections among the free nations, would eventually prepare one na tion after another for the civil wars by which she; intended to promote world conquest. Toward thai end she has created an atmosphere in which other na tions were forced to complicate their recovery from the economic drains of World War II by heavy spending on that one commodity which is a complete waste if not used arms. In passing, she grabbed off such morsels as she could get av.ay with, such as Eastern Europe, to enhance her own strength. - And through it all she has Walked the tight-rope of threatened war, making strenuous efforts to keep the Western world so divided poli - tically that its expenditure on arms would not become a concrete threat to Soviet hegemony. For more than a year now Rus sia's greatest diplomatic efforts have been directed against Allied plans for inclusion of German arm ed strength in a Western coalition which would; mean the end of her margin of power in European poli tic. . That's why she agreed to a four power meeting on the problem of German reunification, and why she - now delays in as much as possi- - ble. She wants time for the idea to grow in French minds that there may be some escape from the nec essity of something that is very dis tasteful for them. : In the meantime, her hopes of a depression in the United States fol- owing World War II have been dashed, she watches gleefully for signs that the Korean War might have produced the last straw. Her propagandists grasp American talk of a business recession and de scribe it as the approach of a crisis. Things like the efforts of the American government to be ready with palliatives if a depression should threaten, and the campaign among business leaders to per suade people not to talk themselves into a slump psychology, are used as one side of the Communist prop aganda phonograph record. The other side attempts to use econom ic threats to deter further defense expenditures. (Continued from page 1.) because the parity guarantee has had no recent application to rice. Tobacco would be held at 90 per cent when, marketing quotas are voted because to bacco growers have been able to hold production in balance with demand. With some vari ations for the individual com- modify, flexible supports of from 75 to 90 per cent of pari ty would be maintained for wheat, cotton, corn and pea nuts. In the case of dairy products the present : discretionary au thority given the Secretary of Teal, seed marketing specialist said in following up the talk, by Warren. a "You must,'' he said, ."know something about the market." Out look for seed market depends upon three things, the market specialist said, as he enumerated production, supply and demand or use. A year ago, Teal wenf on, "We could preach only the gospel of gloom to the J seed grwer. This year the outlook is not too pessi mistic." I ' Outlook OpUmfstic. He pointed out that from the standpoint of production, which is down, and from that of demand. wnicn is up. the outlook is rather i optimistic. Frpm the standpoint of supply, which is more than can be used in two years, the picture is not quite so bright. The future. 3too, doesn t look too dark to Teal for the hairy vetch crop, "if," he qualified, "we can keep the south from growing it for market." The demand for this le gume seed is Up as it is being used for many more things by many more people. : Two other college men were also on the program: Harold Finnell, who told of seed certification, and Tom Jackson, who discussed fer tilization of ieed crops. A panel of I local seed growers discussed production and other seed problems as they had met them, and included on this were J. J. Doerfler, Roy King, Floyd Fox and Amps Funrue of Silver ton; E. T. Rose of Hubbard: Roy Wilcox of Salem and Norman Reil ing of Donald. Allen, Trulian Seek Station At Longview WASHINGTON w The Altru Broadcasting Co. of Longview, Wash., applied to the Communi cations Commission Tuesday for a new radio station at Longview. The application was for 930 kilo cycles, 1 kilowatt, daytime only. The company is controlled by W. Gordon Allen and John Truhan of 2060 Hansen Ave.. Salem. Ore., the application said. Maico Hearing Aids Accepted by Council oa Physical Medicine, American Medical Association Floyd Bennett, mgr. Senator Hotel Ph. 2-0702 Indian Still 'Critical' Due murny given ine secretary or i rr i i ir Agriculture to support prices I O ItI 111 Wnilllfl at between 75 and 90 per cent f11 fV UU11U It is easy to interpret passing clouds in the sky as the forerun ners of a deluge. People are so glad to have such prophecies prov ed wrong that they hold no resent ment But is it really necessary to fear that Russia can win through to any of her objectives? Simple addition V3&23mffim$mmmm gives uic iree woriu a suiu ui cvuu- I From Th nme ru JOKESMITHS: Brooklyn's Sam Levenson telegags about "The suspicious wife who called the Fidelity Insurance Company and de manded a policy insuring her husband's fidelity." . . . George S. AAiumau, acia-ionguea paneusi on lnis is anow Business, re members a Republican who yi&s so reactionary, he referred to Wen dell Wilkie as a Red! : i (Copyright 1954, General Features Corp.) omic strength and military poten tial which, if the sum be actually totaled by unity, guarantees secu rity. Russia has troubles of her own. Her people have never known any thing except depression. Would Americans lie down before her ev en if they did ; face some privations? ies: Statesman Files Literary Guidepost By W. G. Rogers OFF THE BOOK BEAT "Who writes?" the Creekmores asked, very upstage, of their young Hu bert Creekmore when he decided he! wanted to write.- it was, it- is, in Mississippi, and the novelist's present home is 1 Jackson. The itch to write bothered him as early as gram mar school By the time he was grown and determined on a liter ary career, he couldn't think of many names with which to an swer relatives who believed . . as who doesnt? . . . that abso lutely any other work paid better, Bill Faulkner," he suggested as one writer, dui ine xanuiy pointed out, correctly, that Faulkner wrote and also worked on his farm . . . this was 15 years before Faulkner got the Nobel prize. He added Will Percy and Stark Young, and still didn't prove a case.. But ask him now. a I did when he came to New York re cently for the publication of his third novel "The Chain in the Heart," and he rattles off a long list of fellow M iss i&si ppians who are fellow-writers: Eudora Welty (whose brother is married to Creekmore's sister), Elizabeth Spencer, Jefferson Young, Shelby Foote, Tennessee Williams, Cyd Ricketts Sumner and others. How does the South happen to be producing so many novelists? There are greater conflicts be tween classes, or between races, he answers. "They stir the writer up, they egg him on." How does Mississippi, despite its small pop ulation, do so much better than her sister states? Creekmore doesnt know, j At i last, a i new and "truly priceless" book, says Bill Cole, of Knopfs. Review copies of Angela Thirkell's forthcoming "Coronation Summer? should have been, but were not, marked 10 Years Ago Jan. 13, 1844 : State Police Officer Karl Murphy shot in the hip land knee by two sailor-uniformed youths whom he had arrested (or car stealing. j ! Congress received from Pres ident Roosevelt a $99,769,000, 000 budget for the 1945 fiscal For its outstanding record in producing large quantities of lumber for war purposes. Silver Falls Timber Company becam the fourth Oregon firm to re ceive the coveted army-havy ' production award. : 25 Years Ago Jan. 13, 1929 j j Sen. A. W. Norblad of Clatsop County was elected president of the senate and Rep. R. S. Hamil ton of Bend was elected speaker of the house at the current leg islature, i j San Francisco's $41,000,000 bond issue, authorized ! to (pur- Jtatehouse grounds for business purposes.) Bush's pasture is talked of as a new site. 40 Years Ago Jan. 13, 1914 Deposits in the 19 national. state and private banks of Port land gained $874,107.68 last year. The decision of the majority members ' the house rules committee against the creation of a standing committee on women suffrage landed like a bomb shell in the ranks of the national ! suffrage leaden at Washington, D. C I i The Rev. Cari H. Elliott, pastor-elect of the First Presbyter ian Church of I Salem, arrived with wife and two sons. They have taken a house on North Summer Street j The Rev. Mr, Elliott comes from Toledo. would be continued. Likewise for feed - grains j (oats, barley), poultry, eggs, the support program would be continued at "not to exceed 90 per cent of parity." Potatoes would be added to fruits and vegetables for whose benefit it would be legal to spend up to 30 per cent of general tariff revenues to en courage exports and domestic use of farm commodities, or in event of market distress to buy up such perishables. The sugar support program would be extended as it stands. Wool would get special treatment. Domestic produc tion would be sold at market prices; then the government Vould subsidize the grower enough to bring the average price for the season up to 90 per cent of parity. Statesman Newt Service McMINNVILLE William Riggs, 30, Grand Ronde Indian, is still in critical condition in hospi tal here from two .22 bullets through left chest as the result of an argument Dec. 30 at Grand Ronde. Polk County District Attorney Walter Foster said his office is awaiting hospital reports from McMinnvillef before proceeding with charges of assault with in tent to kill against Johnny Ramos who is being held in the county jail in Dallas under $2,500 bond. Conviction Would carry a maxi mum 20-yea sentence. TALLMAN PIANO STORES 395 S. 12th, Salem DO IT WITH LEWYT 455 Court Street GOODIE'S MARKET 1927 State St. ' OPEN EVENINGS 'TIL 11 P. M. TWO CARS COLLIDE Cars driven by Douglas C White, 693 Wayne Dr, and Caro lyn A. Duncan, Lot Angeles, col- chase the properties and distrib- bled at North Liberty and Mar- uting system of the Spring Vai- " ire aooui i:zu l uesaay ley Water Company, went! beg- afternoon. City jpolice. said the ging not a single bidder. I j front end of the Duncan was i smashed and the fright side of the Discussion is underway in re- other car; damaged. No one was gard to selling the: present reported injured. If we are to have a parity support program this one seems better than what we have. It is more realistic: dis couraging continued high pro duction just for the govern ment price guarantee. It will cost the treasury less. It will give some relief to consumers who have been paying prices higher than the market justi fies. It provides a moving base rather than one now 40 years old. The chance that the pro gram will be approved ; is by ' no means rosy. Farm bloc members of Congress seem de termined to maintain the pres ent freeze at the 90 per cent figure for fear they will lose votes; and many farmers who admit their dislike for govern ment aid are unwilling to be weaned from government sub sidy. , . it Customized Finishes PIiboi 4 Fsrnltori tebuSt I lensbtdlftelUw FINISHER FOR one Garanteed Work Estimates Gladly Bill Stnk Ph. 2-4271 Salem, Ore. PIANO CO 4d i Jet's 'euueeru GIVES j. GREEN STAMPS Salem Chiropractic f - - H . ! 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