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: ' "' i! -1 I ' i - ! I i. 1 i . i ? I ' il 4 Soc 1) Statesman, Salem. Oro Thurs 7cm. 21, 1954 vv t cDrcaoniitatesniatt II : ' . ; "No Favor Sways Vs. No tear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 CHARLES A:SPRAGUE, Edijtor and Publisher Published every morning Business office 280 North Church St.. Salem, Ore , f Telephone 2-2441 Entered t the ostoffice at Salem, Ore ai second cla.- matter under act of Congress March 3. 1879. Member Associated Press GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty The 'Asociated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all local mews printed in. 1 this newspaper SelfDefense for Asia f M r With respect to frequent 'alarms over the . -I . . f . . , ; ; jv r-. ,11 Acri. The aicsman has held the view that there is little that the West and f particularly the j United Slates can do about It. We cannot di rectly intervene in their affairs, and even indirect intervention would ;be resented. The newly independent states of India. Burma, Indonesia, Ceylon are jealoUs of their rights, and suspicious of moves from the western powers who still are classed as "imperialist"' and domineering. It is therefore rather heartening to see a growing awareness among Asian leaders off the Red menace. For example, the premier of: Ceylon, Sir John Kotelawel. speaking in In-j dia's; parliament house in New Delhi to ani audience which included Prime Minister; Nehru, urged Asians to unite against "thej ugly; form of Communism lying on our door-j steps." He declared that Communism is "en-! tirely foreign to the religious, cultural andi social traditions of our pedple." The Ceylon; premier is proposing a meeting of the prime ministers of five south Asian states India,! Burma, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ceylon to be held next spring to discuss their common problems. . j j What we ofthe West fail to recognize is) that these countries are so swamped with do-j ' mestic problems that they jean give little at-! tention to Communism, even though it ha$ reared its ugly head within their own con4 fines. Communism certainly is alien to the traditions of these peoples jut when they are depressed and distressed they may, as in China, forsake the traditions of centuries to adopt a revolutionary doctrine as an escape from existing ills. It is therefore a good sisn to see leaders of Asia risel to their own re sponsibilities and seek both to protect them selves from alien penetration and to solve the 'problems which weigh On them so heavily. Faint Glow in the Sky It w?uld be a misnomer to call thelussian attitude pacifist, orth4 United States' attitude aggressive, but recent straws in the wind surely seem to show that the big blow from Moscow, at the immediate time, has lost some force and effectiveness. On the one hand J the release of nearly 22,000 Red-renouncing prisoners has been proceeding with surprising smoothness and with a surprising lack of acrimony in the Red press. The best the North Korean- radio has been able to do is insist the action of India in freeing war prisoners "destroys" the armis-' tice. Mild words for the Reds. , On the other hand, Secretary Dulles has seized the initiative, j to blunt whatever ob structionist haranguei the Reds might build up at the forthcoming foreign ministers' par ley in Berlin, by declaring the conference will he futile if th Russians merely try to di vide and frighten I the West. It would appear the Free World has come a long way in military confidence and diplo matic force and sagacity in the past year. Envoy Dean walks out of the Korean truce talks when the Reds get obstreperous, and he doesn't come back. India releases one-time Red soldiers by the thousands and the furore, for the Reds, is almost a calm. Dulles tells the world the Reds can mean business at the conference table or there's no use meeting at all. Something is happening in the sphere of influence, and from this side of the table there seems to be a faint glow in the sky. j ; : - ! :! - i i i Members of the state; forestry dept. are up a tree (Douglas1 fir of course) over a moi?e by some wooden-headed federal foresters back in Washington, D.C., to change the name of the Douglas fjr to Menzies fir . .L Forester Homer SfLyon, who is all knotted up over the matter I says, "It's been known as; Douglas fir for 150 years. I've called it that since I was a seedling. I And it's too late to change." Besides the 1939 Oregon legislature officially blazed the Douglas fir as Oregon's; state tree. Would I it take a special meeting of the legislature to chance if? ... ' f t The trouble all started recently when a nosey botanist checked the record and found that David Douglas was not the first man to see and record the tree ith a scientific body. Seems another Scotish botanist, one Archibald Menzies, who was wandering around the Northwest seeking relief, probably, from those one way streets in Glasgow,! saw the tree on Vancouver Island in 1792 and wrote up an account which was recorded in 1804 . . . Douglas spotted the same tree around 1823 and recorded it And for years the tree was chalked up for Douglas and named after him . . . But because of the recent record check the UJS. Forest Service handbook for 1953-54 has changed the scientific name from pseudotsuga taxifolia to pseudptsuga menziesii thus wounding deeply all the local foresters ... (mi mi "Comrade overt in U. S. ii sending tample of con res won everyone tWt required to sign . .". u coea Income Tax Return' . 4 . One of the reasons they don't like to see Douglas thrown Big 4 Meeting Recalls Thesis Of Joe ! Stalin ! L 1 f By J. M. ROBERTS JR. 'Associated Press News Analyst Secretary Dulles says that if the Russians! show any signs of being "constructive" at Berlin they wil find the Allies "responsive." However, even in the unlikely castf that Molotov should come up with sometlvng jtbat looVs le a gift horse, the Allies will not ac cept before a thorough inspection of the mouth. I To know the value of an agree ment with Russia, ask the Lithu anians, the Poles, the Latvians and the Estonians what happened tc their non-aggression pacts. If you want to know what Molo tov will probablv have in nind when he gets to Berlin, take a look at the Communist line as outlined by Stalin and followed so assid uously by Malenkov in his peace offensive. f - Stalin ! bad already restated the Lenin premise that world revolu tion would be ! prepared through wars between the capitalist states, and that these should be fostered. Then he went on: ov k Mr. Smith in charge of ath letics and SupL AVadsworth. f z 10 Years Ago er is that he acquainted the outside world with the Oregon j , . e V-ommuiusis create slogans O l Iaf thA! mrifCAe' Trnnfinv AtMhAiitt. country's flora. ;'A11 by himself," says Lyon, "Douglas I " TZrVnr . . .11 1L ' A 11 . , , " , ! 0 0 " iidiiipt-u over an mis cuymry, mosuy wnere xne nanas oi ine Thomas B. Stanley, the! new governor of Virginia, reversed his position on an increase in the gas tax in his inaugural address. Hie called for a one-cent increase, admitting his campaign attitude had beeh in opposition, but explaining that he changed his views after studying the state's highway needs. A gre4t many officeholders reverse their fields after elections, but few . are as frank as Stanle. Usually the shift comes; later and mote - deviously. Eugene Won't Buy Parking Public interest in and opinions on traffic problems is at a high pitch in many a city, not just Salem. Now comes Eugene with the big gest turnout of voters in any special election in the city's history to defeat a move for municipal acquisition of parking lots 4,479 to 707. Both the size! of : the total vote andethe overwhe'.ming defeat of the plan comprise a considerable surprise, perhaps, although the net result was just about as expected. Parking meters themselves still haven't com pletely "sold" themselves in many areas, and many a voter isn't about to burden himself with more taxes in order to finance more parking. It is entirely plausible to suppose a similar result wpuld greet such an effort in Salem, if one were! made. Here, of course, a project like that never has been beyond the discussion stage.l The Eugene vote is simply a mandate for the city to work out its own downtown parking-traffic problem without the proposed $750,000 expense to the taxpayer. And Eu gene, with its narrow main streets, has an even bigger problem than Salem, which also is fortunate in having had a considerable de velopment in private parking in recent years. It will be interesting to see what our contem porary city does now. If Mill City doesn't keep a sharp eye out, some college will come ;along and lift iis entire basketball team. I 1 Major General Dean explains that his final pre-capture action of firing a revolver at a North Korean tank was "just plain rage and frustration." And why not? We don't think the general lowed any explanation at all. Maybe it didn't do any more good, but it must have been a better outlet than kicking the step on which you've just stubbed ,your toe. i Fake 'Security Firings7; Termed Worst Lemon Yet Foisted on Ike Administration By JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP j i WASHINGTON Sinje he returned from France to; seek the Presidency, Dwight p. Ei senhower has been sold a good many , lemons in the name of "smart p o 1 i -tics." But about the worst lemon he has been-4V T- -1 worked out byl J Itfz 1 Joseph Atop 4 certain of the A dm i n i stration's amateur Machiavel lies, for dealing with the f'Com- munist issue. 1 .n! As an example of this; strat egy in action, take the Admin- lstrations re peated boasts about the 1, 456 now 2, 200 people who have been; fired from the as "se curity risks. The privately admitted pur- si . nose of these f "security fir ings" has been to "grab the Commie issue away from Joe McCarthy." j The idea has been toS under cut McCarthy by broadcasting .the notion that the new Admin- , istration found the government crawling with subversives; promptly fired the lot; and thus left McCarthy with nothing further to do but twiddle his thumbs. The story of the State Department's security j firings demonstrates how this! was to be accomplished. j A grand total of 308 State Department security firings have been announced. (Accord ing to reliabl report, .this im pressive even I frightening total was arrived at in! the fol lowing manner In the first place, the word was' passed down through Assistant Secre tary Scott McLeod's Security and Personnel Offices that what was wanted was the larg est possible total of Such fir toja. I Two technique both pall pably dishoresl were there fore used to swell the total. The files of those State Department employes who were in the pro cess of resigning always a considerable number since there is a constant turnover were carefully scutinized. In the raw files of any govern ment worker who is not a zombie, there is pretty sure to be some morsel of gossip which can be labelled "derogatory in formation." Wherever the raw files provided the slightest ex cuse for so doing, the names of those who were resigning anyway were added without their knowledge to the grand total of State Department se curity firings. About half the State Depart ment total was arrived at in this way. If the same propor tion holds throughout the gov ernment, there must be more than a thousand government workers who have resigned with a clear conscience and ; what they thoug to be a clear j record, and who were never-1 theless listed officially as hav-! ing been fired as security risks. The second technique was just as dishonest Large num bers of ; people were being transferred from the adminis trative control of the State De partment to Harold Stassen's Foreign Aid outfit and to the; newly independent Information: Agency. Many of these people; were transferred "with the warning , flag I up" and then listed as State Department se curity firings although the great majoritv were cleared on further investigation, and never fired at alL -!' 1 In the! vast majority of these cases there ras no question! whatsoever of disloyalty or pro-Communism. In about 19 out of 20 cases; the reason, if any. forj. the firing was heavy drinking, temperamental un , suitability, or the like. Where there was some pro-Communist charge, it was ften on the or der of the charge against one female I government worker, who was accused of "sympa thetic association" with her husband. This woman ap pealed the charge, and on furth er investigation her husband turned out to he a rather mousy fellow, who ha never taken an interest; in politics. tn short, there was not a single case of "actual subversion in all the State Department's Security firings and it is doubtful if there was one such case throughout : the govern ment Yet to 99 out of a 100 people, the news that there have been a large number of security firings means that this number of Communists and subversives have actually been uncovered in the government. Under the circumstances, H is surprising that any self-re-specting person will work for the government at alL What is even more surprising is that anyone should have thought that this amateurish political fakery should not be exposed for what it is. Apparently it never occurred to the geniuses who thought up the scheme that someone might ask for a break down of the security firings. Thus, when reporters asked Civil Service Commission Chair man Phillip Young for such a breakdown he could only reply fatuouslv that he was "not in terested" in such matters, and did not believe the "average person" was interested either. The story of the State Depart ment firings make the reason for this awkward evasion per fectly obvious. i But what ts downright In credible is that anyone could have supposed that this sort of slick number game was an ef fective way to under-cut Mc Carthy. McCarthy1 has already, of course, orofited heavily from Attorney General Brow nell's attack ; on ex-President Truman, which was also sup posed to steal the show from McCarthy. McCarthy has nsed the . Administration's fake fig ures to "prove" his own anci ent discredited charges against the State Department .i i According to report, the President himself, and chief presidential aide Sherman Adams, are beginning to rea lize that they were sold a lem on, and are by no means pleased by the realization. If so, this may . help the Admin istration's amateur Machiavel lies to understand that they are no equals to Sen. McCarthy, when it comes to slick political fiim-flammery. ? (Copyright 1954, New York - Herald Tribune, Inc.) Jan. 21, 1944 General Thomas Rilea, well known Oregon veteran of both World; Wars was made com mander of tahe southwest Pac ific Base. Phil W. Barrett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phil E. Barrett, for merly of Salem, was ordained a Presbyterian minister at the Westminster Presbyterian Ch urch of Sacramento, i 'i Penicillin, recently discover ed infection-killing drug ob tained from mold, is produced in Salem for "external use on ly." The mold is grown by Dr. Cecil-R. Munk and Dr. Robert H. Tschudy, of Willamette Un iversity. ; 25 Years Ago ( Jan. il, 1928 The greeting and good wishes of the people of the Irish! Free State were con eyedj to President Coolidge by the president of the free state executive council, William T. Cosgrave, who is on a world tourj I Sajem achieved a big share of publicity at the Indianapolis meeting of the American Le gion! national committee by virtue of having led the nation in Legion membership for cities of its size. James Garner and Harry Brown, two clam diggers at Astoria were $8,000 richer when they found a substance ' weighing between 4 and 5 pounds. It was the scarce am bergris,1 valued in the manu facture; of perfume. 40 Years Ago I Jan. 21, 1914 Guarded by American cav alrymen, 3300 Mexican Feder al soldiers and 1300 women andj children camp followers were forced to seek asylum during! Ojenage battle, and were entered at Fort Bliss. The first football banquet, to become an annual affair in the? future, was held at Chfem awa. The banquet was inaug urated; through the efforts of Southern Pacific train serv ice is irregular due to a heavy snow storm in the Siskiyous. The crews reported eight feet of snow. i 3tF infmrnl white man had never before set foot, collecting plant speci mens. He even carried back Douglas fir seeds with him and planted the first of thosp trees in England. We've had Douglas all these years and wej$hould stick with him. After all, sap is thicker than a botanist's dry records." i u ' js : Usually when sailqrs return from the Orient they bring i home things like cameras, scarves, fishing poles and tell tales' as souvenirs . . . But iJt Comdr. Walter Skinner, the new COj at the Naval Reserve Training Center, didn't fool around with! run-of-the-mill stuff when he returned home from Yokohama,! Japan, aboard a Navy ship. He brought back; with him a 22-foot cabin cruiser not in pieces either. Big question: How did he ever get it in his duffflbag? . . . Among speech titles at the) Oregon Photographers'! Association convention this weekend are, naturally, "Accenting the Negative," and "Developing Good Will."... l j (Continued from page one.) i chance for an agreement on the unification .of Korea under an independent government. Re ports indicate that Red China is making North Korea virtually a Chinese province. Between the losses of population due to the fighting and due to movement south to escape the Communists there are comparatively few na tive Koreans left north of the 38th parallel. Chinese will soon fill up the country. The Reds have taken a bitter propaganda defeat on the POW issue. They held out stubborn ly against the UN demand of non-forcible repatriation of pris oners, scorning the resolution of the UN General Assembly and then denouncing the condi tions of the armistice when their attempts to win back the prisoners failed dismally. Our patience has paid off. The war in Korea was brought to an end with successful re sistance of invasion. The arm istice was obtained without car rying the war into Manchuria or bombing the China coast The UN alliance, rather tenuous at times, held together to the end. True, Korea was not fully liberated. Thej whole country was devastated.-! Our own losses were severe. But for the first time in history collective action to defeat aggression was taken and it succeeded. For all our feeling of disappointment over much of the Korean chapter in our history, the net result was victory and high credit to the an eyes to war are termed peace treaties,' (Witness the Soviet-German 1939 non-aggression treaty.) The signing of them is always ef fected to the accompaniment of the pipings of 'peaceful alliances.' Our preparations for war are conduct ed under cover! of plans to peace. The opposition -will not accept our proposals; that shows how 'genu ine' isi their love of peace." (The single quotes are Stalin's.) Stalin also said: "We may con sider that the time is ripe for the decisive struggle when all the class forces -arrayed against us are in confusion . . . j" "It is inconceivable, as Lenin has written, that the Soviet Re public should continue to exist side by side with capitalist states. Ul timately one or the other must conquer. conflict is inevitable.' i This happened atj Shryocks, men's store in the Capitol ! Shopping Center the oper day ... A store employe was mak ing up the display window for a rags to riches promotion deal Part of the display wis to show an old torn, beat-up over coat. Anvwav. while thfe disDlav man wasiwnrkin? a rlnthihrf : - . - ...... i j i-b irirAt-tVTMtr Kir t Vi a roirlnf isKn salesman wandered in ;rle didn t know about the purpose of M " "J mr; """". , . , . i; , , . . . . .,. , .,H ij anes. ? Situations approaching this the display. And so he;jiearly fainted in; his plaids when he havc occurred in both France and saw the display man calmly take up a razo'r blade and vicious- Italy since the war.) ly attack one of thelfcoated dummies, cutting the coat to What, at such a time, is Rus- ( That's the j conflict Stalin and Lenin said would come when the rulers: of other nations would find themselves in j confused crisis and so be! weakened to the point of shreds. Better English By D. C. WILLIAMS rH j? 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "After he had :his leg broken, he spent the balance of the month in bed." : 2. What ; is the correct pro nunciation of "machete'?? 3. Which one of thesis words is misspelled? Perfunctory, per cipience, percieve, perennial. 4. What does the woid "com , posure" mean? j '. 5. What is a word beginning with obs that means "Jie per sistent influence of an j idea"? Answers Literary Guidepost j By W. G. ROGERS THE SHOCKING HISTORY OF ADVERTISING! by E. S. Turn er: (Dutton; $4.50) iyivertising, though it began ages ago, is considered in this vastly? entertaining book from th? 17th Century on. The British author stresses Britain first then America. At one time or another, any thing and everything have been advertised: Pills against plague; a dentrifice that scours, cleans, averts toothache, holds teeth in; tobacco to cure insanity; a "List of Convent Garden Ladies" in London, and in New York, per sonals that amounted to the ad dresses of houses of assignation. ;For mediums there have been the cliffs of Dover and the Pyra mids; "sandwich men," in Dick ens' phrase, newspaers, maga zines, billboards, radio and tele visionTurner thinks "endors ing reaches the final hyposcrisy when radio and television per formers break off to praise the product which pays their high salaries." ' ! On the credit side he notes ad vertising's role in introducing new inventions and raising liv ing standards; he recalls the ear ly stand of some publications against fraudulent claims. i On the whole, however, he. pokes wry fun atvthe "colossal, terrific, titanic, stupendous" pre tensions, to quote Hollywood, of some commercial products. So to a Hollywood press agent his book no doubt would be "colos sal, terrific, titanic, stupendous." I'd agree, in these terms: it's wit ty, penerating, thoughtful. worthwhile, i 1. Say, "After his leg was brok en, he spent the remainder of the month in bed." 2. Preferred pronunciation is ma-sha-ta, first a as in ah, second and third a's as in ate, accent second syllable. 3. Perceive. 4. CalmnesS; repose. "His own composure transferr ed itself to his followers." 5. Obsession. j The Hereford breed of teef cat- United States and United Na- tie was first introduced into Am- tions. j erica in 1817. j; Farm Loan Meet! Feb. 20 i j j J. J. Sechrist, secretary-treasurer of the Willamette National Farm Loan; Association has an nounced that the annual meeting of the local association is to be held Saturday, Feb. 20, in Marion Hotel. j j Sechrist has also announced that 537 farmers and stockijien in Marion; Polk and Yamhill counties will share in a $758 dividend declared by the Willam ette National Farm Loan Assoc iation for the year. I This dividend is the Willam ette association's share of a $285, 300 dividend declared by the Fed eral Land 1 Bank of Seattle, ; Se christ said. The bank's capital stock is owned by this and, 64 similar national farm loan assoc iations In (Idaho, Montana, Ore gon, and Washington. Approx imately 17,000 farmers an-' ranch ers will share in this year's jdiv idend. ; I sia's role? "The main force of the revolution must, at the decisive moment, be Concentrated for an. attack on the enemy's most vul nerable spot. ) "A terrible jclash . . . must oc cur. "W must . . seize a moment when i the enemy forces are dis persed." i ' Stalin cited j the peace of Brest Litovsk, which took Russia out of World War I jafter the revolution, as the type f settlement which fostered Communism. That made it possible to attack the White Rus sians; and secure the revolution, he said. j "Always we have a clear and precise aim? toward which we strive," said; Stalin, "for one of the great merits of Communism is that nothing is left to chance." And he raised Molotov. CHICKEN IS DANGEROUS CHILLICOTHE, Mo. (PhAmos Hermanson was driving about 85 miles an hour when the chicken flew; up and hit the grillwork of his car. j It struck the' hood latch and the hood flew up, blocking Hermanson's vision. He got the arj stopped safely but the hood wa badly damaged. The chicken was killed. I'll PART OF THE valley community ? THE KElZER DISTRICT To the North and West ef Salem Is tho Koizer District, on of the Willamette Valley's fast st growing suburban communities. Pleasant, well kept hornet . . . modern school facilities . . attractive stores and shops all aro within tho boundaries of ; tho Keizer District, where more than 5,000 j moni women and children enjoy lif to tho b ii - Si Tuiiesr. SOW ST i r rim oa ST ol ST i rr J JN0Y 0 -hr rr i T H. J ikHtr -V v q r! c chuwchoaUC lv r m 3 s CUGCtTTr ST fir KN'GmT' ST JSMES ST CVSNS V UutOES V 7 MtiNE sv j-j-J1 cccnSffrBE3 HEAD OFFICE: 1990 Foirgrewndt Road Is 1 i ii " i 1 , memo . I- !0 4" m ' fit I J ,--' ' L-6EEHp00 04 s. 5 -IBMNMN 1WUSS ';: pa A . etcvt oV j 4 i ,1 PART OFiTHE UNIVERSITY IRANCMt 1310 State SfrMt valley community As Salem's independent, home-owned bank; wejare interested irvthe growth of tho Kei; zer District and the welfare of its people, ancl! invite them to call on us for all their banking needs. THE HEART OF j tHe keizer district QGXb HEAD OFFICE i- i. 1990 Fairgrounds Road UNIVERSITY BRANCH 1310 Stat Strut JiMtlH tmmmd $10,000.00 br Mwal Dapw ! x Is
