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4 See. IV-Stcriaencm. Mem. teflon X "No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Awt" From First Statesman. March 28, 1851 H CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher PubIiiHd vry morning Business effic 20 Korth Churrh St.. Salem. Ore.. Tlephona S-S44I Xatmtf at th .eateffle at Salanu oU as aeond elaas matter under act of Coagrett March 3. 1S7S. Member Associated Press ; ' X Associated Press to entitled exclusively to tBa UN for repuoll cation of aU local new printed ta thla BtwiMPer .Dulles Victory at Caracas Secretary Dulles achieved remakable suc cess at Caracas in winning support of 16 countries for his resolution directed against Communist intervention in American gov ernments. Two countries, Mexico and Argen tina, abstained from voting, and only one, Guatemala, voted in the negative. Consider ing the early attitude of the American repub lics toward the Dulles proposal and their great fear of Yankee dictation, the Dulles vic tory becomes the more pronounced. It came not only in consequence of argument at the sessions of the Inter-American Conference but also as a result of many private discus- v sions with delegates, for, international con , lerences are subject to the same kind of off stage politicking as a state legislature. One concession Dulles had to make, and that was to promise an economic conference in Washington, at a. later date., This was to satisfy the pressures of the Latinos for more American aid in grants or loans or for higher prices for their products (copper, not coffee). Dulles said these matters could be taken up in Washington, The action at Caracas confirms the pre vious observations in The Statesman to the effect that while our Latin-American neigh bors fuss a great deal over relations with the USA, when the showdown comes they nearly always line up with Uncle Sam. Forest Corridors These strips of virgin forest which line our highways in spots are very welcome' on hot summer days; and all the year their " beauty and dignity impress the travelers on the highways. But they are expensive to acquire and expensive to maintain. Some of the strips have been gifts to the state; but where they had to be bought a considerable outlay was made because of the high value of the timber. These stands of old trees are subject to blowdoWn. The cost to the parks division of the state highway department of cleaning up the windthrow in the VanDuzer corridor on the Salmon River cutoff after a recent storm was put at $3,000, which is quite a chunk of money. Six hundred trees were felled, 68 of them falling across the highway endangering motorists. Douglas fir trees are gregarious. They want company, the more the better. When let in narrow strips or small clumps "they are easier victims to the strong winds that whip our coast. This fact plus the cost of acquisition have put brakes on the enthu siasm of some who have urged buying up extensive stands of roadside forests. We need some, but can't afford to buy all that have been offered; and now of course the avail able tracts are few in number. There is this alternative: firs grow fast and in the space of 50 years a fine new for est can be had. If the spacing and massing of the trees are watched perhaps the exposure to winds can be reduced. In 4his way it will -be possible to provide forest corridors on highways at very reasonable expense. Sen. Flanders Convinced Clean GOP Over McCarthy Would ' By Joseph and Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON There is something oddly reassuring about a talk with Sen. Ralph E. .' .Flanders, Re- v "'5 publican, of Ver- mont ( x Flanders is a f v .is olid - appear- nng, elderly man, with the flat, deliberate speech of north ern New Eng land, and the shrewdly hu morous face of JoarphAlaoa country law- all an eminently sensible man this is the chaxac eristic which immediately strikes the visitor, and it is reassuring to be re minded that American Voters, can be so sen sible as to elect such a man. Like other tuch men in Congress (and there are more of t h e m than sometimes ap pears) S en. Flanders has not attracted a great deal of at tention W IUS : trwrt Aknt.' eight years In hr" Washington. But a few days ago the nation and the Republican Party were rather sharply re minded' of his existence when Joe arose on the Senate floor and delivered a quietly devastating, little speech about .Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin. Flanders not only bluntly charged McCarthy with seeking to "shatter" the Republican Party. He also made fun of Mc Carthy, something which has hardly ever been successfully done before. His best, passage may become -a classic: "(Mc Carthy) dona his war paint He xoes into bis war dance. He emits his war whoops. He goes forth to battle and proudly re turns with the scalp of a pink . Army dentist" - Asked by one tl these report trt kow J&t cams to mils kls I 1 ' ft Irfl ULtU I 1 Jn, , Oraw Sun. Mock 14. 1 SSI statesman Echoes From the Past I Stewart Holbrook, the Portland author who makes capital out of his nostalgia, hailed with delight the announcement of the New. York Central that it was replacing the "dis mal bleating airhoms from its diesel en gines" with "pseudo-steam whistles whose sound is said to be undistinguishable from the authentic cry of the Iron Horse. In an article headed "Remembrance of Things Past, in the N. Y. Times Magazine, Holbrook reminisces over items once part of the common life but now merely poignant memories or curios in i museum: ice wagons, carpet sweepers, the cigar-store Indian (he might have added the cigar-store itself), etc. He really grieves over the pas Holbrook misses the melodies of yore: "Just Tell(Them that You Saw Me," and other fav orites from the gas-light era. Holbrook's article is illustrated with Ap propriate woodcuts of a threshing scene, a locomotive belching smoke, an old-fashioned kitchen and a general store. The last shows some grizzled venerables gathered around the pot-bellied stove: but quite out of place is a sign, "Paper Napkins." Its artist W a s born much too late, for when short of the first world war did paper napkins everf go on sale in a general store, or napkins of jiny kind for that matter? I The past always is inviting, and the older one gets the more inclined he is to live in the past. But there can be a surfeit of it Though Holbrook grieves over the urbanization' of Portland and the decline of the graceful age, he travels by motorcar and enjoys the com forts of modern living. 1 Restraining McCarthy i . - The executive committee of the Oregon Republican club has wired Senator Cordon asking him to use his full influence to cor rect "the situation" that has arisen over the way McCarthy conducts investigations. jThe telegram is a little late. Four years ago this writer warned Cordon of the dangers of Mc- CarthyV course, Cordon has never by voice or vote wi thin: our knowledge done anything to curb the evils ef mccarthyisn. The fact that the Oregon Republican club committee was stirred to action gives point to a comment on McCarthy by Walter Lipp- mann: "He is in fact making it increasingly difficult for the independent voters and for the. liberal Republicans to support f the party." The GOP high command may find that Joe is more of a liability than an asset Circuit Judge Redding of Multnomah county heard the case in Clackamas county challenging the length of term of the county judge. He ruled that the county judge; re tained certain judicial functions at the time he was elected to a six-year should act to some day the the Supreme Remember the pictures of the signing of Japan's surrender, on the deck of the battle ship Missouri, the "Big Mo", in 1945? In this week's news is a picture of the signing in Tokyo of a U.S.-Japah mutual security pact. "Round and round the wheel goes, and nobody knows . . . ." Our evening contempory suggests ithat "Highlanders" would be an appropriate name for some high school in the highlands of Ore gon. Why not Bums which is both high and Scottish? ! Sen. McCarthy says he puts country above nartv. And MeCarthv a hove hnth f speech, Flanders replied that it was "strictly my own idea." There were no urging! from the White House, or elsewhere. It was, Flanders realized, "a very seri ous thing to do t get up en the floor of the Senate and say how I felt about this McCarthy matter." . -; h It was indeed. McCarthy is personally without question the equivocally clear. And it is no most nearly universally disliked usexpretending that "if Eisen man in the Senate. Yet his bully- hower goes it alone, this will tactics have been so successful that precious few Democrats, let alone Republicans in this Con- : gress, have dared to breathe a word ef criticism of him. 1 "Far over a year aow," Flaa ders says, "the Republican lead ership has been trying to get all the McCarthy followers and all -the Eisenhower followers -lata .the same. camp. Perhaps It might have bee done no one on our ; ' aide waats to split the party. Bat -ever and ever again, McCarthy ; has served notice that it has to be McCarthy all the way or aohing. "As this became clear it f ' seemed to me that a real matter ef principle was involved. So I took an extra day in Vermont this last weekend, just to sit and think. And in the end I made tip my mind that I ought to speak out" "I have a strong feeling," Flanders continued, "that the President himself has got to assert his leadership and author ity more." He is, Flanders ad mits in his sensible way, not absolutely sure specifically what the President gat to da. It Bnight have been better, far ex ample, if the President himself, rather than Vke-Presideat Nixon, had answered Adlai Ste venson's charge that the Admin titration had sold oat to Me Carthyism. Bat it still appears that the President h "under the influence of the political advice f those wae think he can hold : himself clear, front McCarthy." There is, Flanders says dryly," "bo uis fooling ourselves." Even but in the ensuing interval in 1950 and so was entitled term. The next legislature clear the matter up, or J else issue may have to go clear to Court for settlement I Break in Benefit Paky in Vermont there are "a sur : prising number of people who ; look on McCarthy as a gift from heaven." But it is important to : remember that the vast majority of these people will never vote Democratic under any circum stances. It is true that some of them might stay home in No vember, if Eisenhower , makes his position on McCarthy une- make the Republican Party safe in Novembe Nothing , will do that v "But I think on hi Senator continues thoochtfnllv. "that a clear-cat split would help more than it would hurt " Of course I can speak only aboat Vermont, which it Republican anyway, and I may be wrong. But I know so very many people who will vote Democratic if it appears that the Admlaistratioa has indeed surrendered to Mc Carthy." "There is remarkably little In a business life," Flanders says forgivingly, obviously with the surrender of the unfortunate 'Secretary Stevens, in mind, "which prepares a man for a Ufa in politics." The Senator speaks from experience. Again reassur ingly, hjs rise from bonded ap prentice a't sixteen (the Phi Beta Kappa he wears on his ele gant mole-skin weskit is honor-, ary) to wealthy. capitalist is in the great American tradition. He even followed tradition, Flanders remarks smilingly, by "marrying the boss's daughter." : "What taught me Viet about politics, after fifty years in busi ness," he says, "was running for the Senate, the first time and getting licked. I learned aot to rise to every fly In the pool, vet r dry. I learned net to take too much advice. I learned that the best rule la politics is to aa . yourself." This is indeed a sea sible rale and one that Presi- . dent Eisenhower himself might wen ponder. . Copyright, last. New York : BeraM Trtbuaa, tns.) f... .V. iMBic. me . i i j ." PAIN INI THE NECK 1 u.-,- W33S8 Inside TV Don't Be an Actor If You Shy By EVE STARR TELETORIAL: People often stare enviously at the "walk-on" actors in a television show actors who appear briefly, without any lines to speak. "Easy!" these people knowingly quip: in and out one hundred bucks! . i "Hr Well, thy're t -xor a c nance, i :Sijt youpg fellow in 1 1 llfl -: ugui now. j You're seen him'here ond there on .XV but only jor fleeting seconds, as a trim Nazi officer on "Hell of Fame," a dwfftisted truck driver on th "Ray Bolger Show," a special delivery man on a comedy shotc. -j And yet he has years of stage work behind him fre quently in starring roles riffht along tpith Jeff Chandler, who began his carter in much the same toay. This young man is a shining example of what the American School of Dramatic Arts, in New York, turns out on a scholarship, too. Right now he's working 40 hours a week on another job, to keep himself and family fed. To swing that job and battle for an occasional television role, rehearse it and play it keeps him on the fly. When he darts into yourscreen with a word or two and then dissolves out of the story, don't think he' had a little child's play for a C note. Brother, he's earned every nickel. HECKLING THE HULAS: This isn'tla review of Harry Owens' last show. It's a preview of what I hope to see this cominp Saturday night. ! , I hope to see some of the freshness and sparkle of a couple of years back. Mellou;, as of now, hut not the same old weekly routine that was good once,' or even twice but not ater it's worn a rut in my scree. 1'hope to hear one of Harry Owens' Island legands. What's happened to them? Someone must have discouraged the boy. But buck up Harry. Take my word for it; they're marvelous. They used to be the high spot of your program for me. I hope this week end to witness a hula or two that somehow will be different They've become stale on the Owens spot Harry must look the dancing girls over not an unpleasant task in itself and dress up the act I hope to see even the "Prince" do some thing distinctive again. I . ' Finally, 1 hope to see more of the present film action back grounds. They're swell the rolling waves,! the swaying palms. Harry's trumpet is liquid sweet Well never: tire of his very own "Sweet LeilanL" But the sameness that now permeates his show, no milter how sweet and mellow and well delivered, could be the death of it L , Time Flies: 10 Ycart Ago March 14, 1944 While countless hundreds. ot Oregonians read the illustrated sketch of the life and experiences of Gene Howe, editor -owner of the Amarillo Texas) Globe News, in the Saturday Evening Post few knew be did his first work for the Oregon Statesman at the age of 18. Sybil Spears, rnember of the March graduating class and for mer president of the student body at Willamette University, will fill the newly-created position of al umni secretary. ' The "A" card gasoline ration was ' lowered to two , gallons J a week for the entire country, be-. causa of imminent "critical de mands and a gigantic black mar ket which is draining 2,500,000 gallons daily from the restricted civilian supply. jj 25 Years Ago 'March 14. 192S Mrs. Ercel Kay entertained the women 1 members of the Salem Golf Club and plans were made for the spring golf season. Mrs. J. R. Garnjobst was elected president 16. ; PAIN IN! THE NECK I Way Off Work talking through their fedoras. Little do they know of the Struggle to land the parts amid scrambling competition. Less do they know of hours spent waiting through rehearsals, the years of schooling and labor that put the sincere actor in a position even to ask for a part There are hundreds and hundreds waiting just we snow ox many, mere-is uue , i i particular, who is star material ; rom The Statesman Files Union . musicians met in San Francisco to decide what retali atory measures to take against the "talkies." Many musicians are being; discharged as talking pictures, are installed in theaters. . Ml apital I Post No. t. of the American i Legion left on a spe cial tram-bearing more than 100 local Legionnaires to Portland to attend the $1,350,000 veteran's Hospital dedicatrohx. 4Q 'Years Ago March 14, 1114 More than 400,000 acres of land in ue "escnuies ana rauima a- the prospect seems, to him stern Uonal Forests in Crook, Lake andHe doubts the perfectability for settlement through an order signed by President Wilson. Miss Elmer Weller presented v several of her pupils at a musical tea. On the program were Ber nice Craig, Velrna Hayes, Midge Bailey, Muriel Steeves, H3are Barr and! Isola Smith. j The famous library of the Duke of Devonshire was purchased by ' Henry . Huntington for SL 700,000. The Devolshire library was started in the 16th century and had an original - copy of Shakespear'i Hamlet valued at 120,000. ; Kra fflfj Ej (Continued from Page One) "underneath the cloak of con vention. The awareness of death gives the philosopher his idea of an absolute in experience; the consciousness of life gives the artist the materials for his de liberate relativism. Man as phi losopher keeps seeking for the one absolute philosophy, where as man as artist keep multi plying relative points of view, which we find in the varied and opposing schools of art . . . Art and philosophy thus comple ment each other and supply the Images and habits of thought that we call culture." That is probably vague, in its meaning for most of us. In sim ple terms, though, it suggests that artist and philosopher are con tinually probing the depths of the mystery of life and reality. Only rarely does one Or the other penetrate far enough in thought or in feeling to reveal new and richer truth. And it may take a long time before the work of the artist or philosopher is understood and appreciated. When it is, a new aspect of cul ture opens up, in turn I suppose to be "popularized." Literary Guidepost By W. G. Rogers CHRISTIAN REALISM AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS, by ReinholdNiebuhr (Scribner; $3) In a world which resembles an ideal Christian world only superficially, where and how does the Christian faith touch our great problems? '"" It's this question in general with which Dr. ; "Niebuhr deals with in these 11 essays. Dated within five years, the essays, or lectures as some of them were, cover a wide ground, ranging . from the Bible, and Augustine, to present-day Communism, and even to events as recent ar the ' Republican party's victory last fall The church has its faults, we read; among them is its dismis sal, in some quarters, of all , political problems as unworthy ' of .its attention. But on the - other hand, certain Bible les sons are "indispensable to de mocracy:" That man can appeal . from fellow-man to the higher authority of God, for instance, : and again that he is more than a mere eog in a political ma chine As for Communism, Dr. Nie buhr charges we brought it on ourselves it s one of the "idola trous illusions of this genera- on. And he is not a man to offer hope or promise where of nun, he challenges the idea of progress, he gives one closely argded chapter to "The Illusion of World Government" He asks whether the alternatives facing us are "atomic annihilation or subjection to universal tyranny.' -: Bacon, he reminds .us, said that "what a man had rather believe he will more readily be lieve." That s true of us. Dr. Niebuhr's readers, but it is less true of him than of most theo logians and philosophers. You will know by now, recalling his other books, that he is not easy reading but he is more deserving reading than ever. TD Army Engineers Order Northwest Timber for Orient r ; - WASHINGTON HI Reps. West land and Mack (R-Wash) predicted Saturday ("several other large or ders for lumber will follow one placed Friday with Oregon-Washington firms by Army Engineers for 38 million board feet for use in Formosa and Korea. ? Engineers told the congressmen that Washington State mills had received orders for about 22 million board feet, and Oregon mills got orders for IS million board feet The congressmen said in a state ment that one New York firm had received " orders totalling about three million board feet, bringing the total requested Friday to 41 billion board feet The two estimated' the value of the orders at more than three and one half million dollars. 44 Arrested In Tacoma Bookie Raids TACOMA UP) Police nabbed 44 persons Saturday in swift raids on two downtown establishments they said were suspected of bookie op erations. ! Forty-three were picked up at a tobacco sales store at 1538 Com merce St. The other man was Frank Johnson, proprietor of the Turf restaurant and Tavern at 911 Commerce, arrested at his place of business. Johnson and Olinto Tolomei, op eator of the tobacco store, both were charged with unlawful pos session of gambling articles, de vices and apparatus and unlawful ly gambling in the city. They were released on $1,500 bond eacb. The patrons all were released on $10 bond each except one who was released on $50 bond. They were charged with frequenting a gam bling establishment Soviet Citizens Begin Voting MOSCOW U Soviet citizens began voting Sunday on a new Su preme Soviet (parliament) and it was a sure thing that all top gov ernment and Communist Party of ficials would be reelected. It was 11 p. m. Saturday in Mos cow when Izyestia reported, the first votes were cast at 6 a. m. Sunday in far off Vladivostok. The government newspaper said Vladivostok's "streets were lively and lots of activity was going on at -the polling , booths in an or ganized manner." It added that it was certain the Soviet people "will -again demon strate the indestructible moral and political' unity of Soviet society and their boundless loyalty to the dear Communist Party." Premier Georgi Malenkov, For eign Minister V. M. Molotov, First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev and other leaders are standing for reelection in this one-party elec tion. 2 SuitsSeek Damage Total Of $11,774 Two suits, seeking total dam ages o! $11,774, were filed Satur day against Byron Bates, Lyons Route 1, as owner of an auto in volved in a two-car collision May 8, 1953, near Mill City. One Suit lists Axel T. Anderson, Mill City, as plaintiff and seeks $1C,000 i general and $369 special damages. Co-plaintiffs in the se cond complaint are Anderson and his wife, Anne E.. and the Poto mac Insurance Co. They seek $1,405 in alleged damage to the Anderson car. Anderson claims to have suf ered fractures of the ribs, severe hemorrhage and lacerations about the wrists when hisjear and one driven ; by Donald Bates, Lyons Route L collided on Highway 22 Just east of Mill City. I; French Blast Vietminh Reds From Village HANOI . Indochina on French tanks and artillery Saturday blast ed the Vietminh from a village astride the vital railroad and high way used for transport of Ameri can - supplied war equipment from the seaport of Haiphong . Hand - to - hand fighting also marked the all night battle to rout the Communist . led rebels from Nbu Quynh, only eight miles from Hanoi. The Vietminh had moved Into the village after blowing up the railroad in five places. Saturday French army engi neers were busy making track re pairs. They said trains would be running again in z nours. a rrencn tanxs ana armor ea cars patrolled the entire 64 miles of the highway, to. Haiphong. A fleet of 8,000 trucks is used to carry U.S. supplied war material daily from the port city of Hanoi. , : iii CONFUSION AVOIDED KLITTLE ROCK, Ark. Con fusion had a chance to reign but didst -when these 'entries were noted on the birth list at St Vincent's infirmary here re cently: Mrs. R. E. Dougherty, Lit tle Rock f- a boy. Mrs. B, V. Dougherty, North Little Rock a girL The families areni relat- ed. , Dogs Credited H12 71 . ramiiyinrire Two little dogs who barked an alarm before they were over- " eome by smoke and the quick thinking of a 10-year-old girl were credited with possibly sav ing the lives of a family of six in Salem when flames' threatened their home. ; ; Both of the cocker spaniels have ' been under veterinarian and physician's ' care for burns and smoke-choked lungs since it. Ml a. it i -. m . a me lire ai me nome oi Air. ana . Mrs. William Bohlender, 1640 Berry St., early Thursday morn ing. .- Mrs. Bohlender described this series of events during the fire which started from overheated bricks in a fireplace. The dogs, kept in the basement where the. fire began, awakened 10-year-old r . i i , - marysinn oomenuer wno was asleep with her 13-year-old sister in a downstairs bedroom. ' MaryAnn tried the basement A- t. j Li:. i j uuwi vii ij iu tutu u ousiercu tight by the heat Then she - awakened. her mnthpr anri fathr who with two sous sleep in up stairs bedrooms and then re turned to her own smoke-filled room to lead her sister to safety. Mrs. Bohlender said she went to an outside door to the base ment and called to the two dogs, a two-year-old female "Torchy" and year-eld puppie Robbie. She said that Torchy answered but did not come to the door, ap parently electing to stay by the side of the already overcome Robbie. J When firemen were able with7 smoke 1 masks to enter the base- a at T 1 WW. t , mem inc; . iuuiiu luitujr lying across the younger dog she had mothered for a year, both un conscious. Veterinarians revived the dogs with ammonia and be gan treatment for burns. The : grateful family reported Saturday that the two dogs were apparently well on the way to recovery. Death Claims Dr, Bishop, Veterinarian Dr. George D. Bishop, 75, vet erinarian in this area for the past 25 years, died Saturday evening in a local hospital following an il lness of several months. Born in Humeston, Iowa, June 28, 1878, he had lived, in Salem for about 25 years. Until his re tirement in 1942 he worked with th Hi D. Department of Azricuf- ture as an inspector and tester. Dr. Bishop was a member of the First Congregational Church and was also a member of the Mason ic Lodge. ; He is survived by his widow, Mrs. iMyrl Bishop of Salem; daughter. Miss Miriam Bishop of Portland; son, George M. Bishop,! Santa Barbara, Calif.; step-daughters, Mrs. Mildred Harrison, Sa lem. !Mrs. Velda Caughey, Ely." Nev.: step-sons, Harold and, Charles Nicholson, both of Salem. Funeral services will be an-, nounced later by Virgil T. Golden Co. : RED 'WORKERS GET MEDALS MOSCOW (JP) Soviet workers and farmers get more medals than their counterparts anywhere else in the world. They have col lected more than two million or der and medals in the last seven years. N Genuine STEELCASE S Quality Four Drawer "Filing Cabinet Outstanding Natures, Gray Finish, Chroma Handles, Easy Pull Drawers eh Nylon Roll- era, h v'- ' - i NEEDHAM'S -? Stationary - I V " -" ? f Office Supplies 46S State Street, Salem, Ore. ' asesWWSMsswasswaMawws 56so . k "-T-s4 it .-eww