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"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
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With respect to frequent 'alarms over the
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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.
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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 ...
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"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
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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:
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Mr. Smith in charge of ath
letics and SupL AVadsworth.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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 $8,000 richer
when they found a substance
' weighing between 4 and 5
pounds. It was the scarce am
bergris,1 valued in the manu
facture; of perfume.
40 Years Ago
I Jan. 21, 1914
Guarded by American cav
alrymen, 3300 Mexican Feder
al soldiers and 1300 women
andj children camp followers
were forced to seek asylum
during! Ojenage battle, and
were entered at Fort Bliss.
The first football banquet,
to become an annual affair in
the? future, was held at Chfem
awa. The banquet was inaug
urated; through the efforts of
Southern Pacific train serv
ice is irregular due to a heavy
snow storm in the Siskiyous.
The crews reported eight feet
of snow. i
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white man had never before set foot, collecting plant speci
mens. He even carried back Douglas fir seeds with him and
planted the first of thosp trees in England. We've had Douglas
all these years and wej$hould stick with him. After all, sap
is thicker than a botanist's dry records." i
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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.)
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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.'
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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 :
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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
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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
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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.
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