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I (Sec. 1 Stcrtoaincm, Salem, Or Sat, April 10, 1954 "No Favor Swayt U$, No Fear Shall Awe' Front First Statesman, March 21, 1851 CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher PuM lnel ivery morning Business otflca 280 North Church St.. Salem. Or- Tatephona 2-2441 Entered at tn jostofficc at Salens. Or aa aacond claaa matter under act of Congresa March 3. 1179. Member Associated Press rha Associated Preaa ta entitled exclusively to the uaa for repuolication of all local new printed In this newspaper Safety Installations Ordered The order of Charles Heltzel, public utili ties commissioner, directing the Southern Pa cific railroad to install improved safety de vices at various grade crossings in Salem gives hope for action that will reduce the toll of accidents at such crossings. The order is selective, fitting the recommendation to the particular crossing. Thus drop-arm bars are ordered installed at certain crossings, and at others flashing lights with gongs, and at others more conspicuous signs. The city also is admonished to remove brush and trees which obscure vision at crossings and to provide improved illumination. What the expense of the new installations will be is not stated but according to the law it falls on the railroad. Whether the SP will resist the order by resort to court action is not known. In any event the cost is far less than would be involved in grade separa tion which is recognized as the only certain way of avoiding crossing accidents. While the city council initiated the pro ceeding before the commissioner it was the Salem League of Women Voters who sparked the effort and backed up their demand for action with a thorough survey of the local crossing situation. This study was done by a committee of which Mrs. John Goldsmith was chairman and set a good example for building a case on the basis of facts. We hope that the order of the commission is soon complied with, for it gives promise of reducing the chance of death or injury at rail crossings. The changes will not remove risk, and motorists and pedestrians are still under the obligation to look and listen and if necessary to stop for their own protection as they approach railroad crossings. 'Release Date' Fiasco A few weeks ago The Statesman said it would use its own judgment with respect to release dates on news material sent in for publication. It takes the position that news is news and unless there is valid reason for withholding it to a certain date it will be used as received. The old custom of employing an advance release date was blown sky high with the fiasco over news about "Operation Ivy," the explosion of the H-bomb of 1952. The han dling of the publicity was given to the civil defense agency. It tailored the production for various media, and attached a release date about a week ahead. The story just wouldn't stay bottled up. As Roscoe Drum raond, Washington bureau chief for the New York Herald-Tribune, says: "this paternal procedure for delayed release was artificial, arbitrary and discriminatory." For that matter, why was the intelligence on the November, 1952 bomb blast delayed until after the H-bomb explosions in March made the report ancient history? Will we in about 18 months get the play-by-play de scription of the tests of March 1 and March World War Seen in Dulles' Gamble For Indochina Settlement at Geneva Meeting By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON 'Some times it is necessary," Secretary of State Dulles remarked in his recent New York speech, "to take risks to win p e a c e." Hardly anyone yet seems to re alize how very serious are the risks which Sec retary Dulles, with President Eisenhow e r ' s consent, is now prepared to take. The most serious is nothing less than the risk of general war. Dulles has said, in effect that a failure to ne gotiate an ac ceptable Indo Chinese settle ment at the forth coming Geneva confer ence will invite "united action." He has under scored this warning by in itiating well publicized diplo matic talks with France, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Siam. Dalles has shrewdly refused to spell eat 1b detail and in ad vance jnst what "united action" means. Bat one key diplomat la Washington interprets his obvious meaning as follows: "Action doesn't mean talk, and It doesn't mean money it means troops." In short, "unit ed action" means the dispatch f military forces by the United States and other free nations to Indo-China, to bolster the French and Viet Nam forces there. Since this action which Dulles proposes is to be "united," the final decision does not rest only with the United States. But preliminary soundings indicate that most at least of the other nations with vital interests in the area agree In principle to j t:-x v "' i c - f -t .1 sending forces to Indo-China, if it becomes clear that there is no alternative other than Commun ist victory there. The French, for their part, make no bones about it they cannot, or will not, carry on the war on the present basis after Geneva. Bat the French do seem likely to agree to continue to supply the balk of the non Asian ground troops which is a Dalles pre-condition given the new basis for the war pro posed by Dulles in his New York speech. For the present, in other words, no one is predicting the participation of several Amer ican divisions in Indo-China, as in Korea. But "united action" does inescapably mean the di rect participation of American forces in the war. And it is from this that the risks of a much larger war spring. Most French officials and some American and British of ficials as well believe that any direct American participation In Indo-China win Insure fall scfle Chinese Communist interven tion, as in Korea. The United States is then committed to re taliate and the mildest form this retaliation could take Is the bombing of the southern Chin ese supply lines. In this case the Chinese could and probab ly would invoke the Sino-Sov let treaty. The Kremlin would then be faced with the nightmarish choice of abandoning its Chin ese ally, or risking world war. It is just because this choice is so nightmarish that there is hope that "united action" may never become necessary at all Before the Korean truce, Dulles took the opportunity of a priv ate talk with Indian Premier Nehru to let the Communist fide know that the alternative to a truce was an enlarged war. Dulles is known to believe that this and other prior warnings made the truce possible. As previously reported in this space, in Berlin Dulles had a similar private talk with Soviet Foreign Minister Meietev; He 26 which reveal a destructive force that Sec retary Wilson calls "Unbelievable ?M The re action from "Operation Ivy" intelligence shows that the American people can take it. They have become mentally conditioned to marvels of science both through the magic of invention and the soaring invention of writers of science faction. As for release dales, wash them out except where there is legitimate reason for observ ing a publication dating, as when a speech is circulated to news media in advance of the delivery date. Work Week for State Employes The federal law fixing 40 hours as the standard work week has been in effect for over 15 years. It does not apply to public bodies, but steadily over the years public agencies have been reducing the work week of their employes to come within that stand ard. Recently the Oregon State Employes As sociation appealed to the state highway com mission to scale down the work-week of highway maintenance employes which have remained at 44 hours, or in some cases 48 hours. The commission agreed to look into the matter, and it is expected that a four hour reduction will be instituted before very long. Private industry engaged in interstate commerce has been subject to the wages and hours act for a long time and has made the adjustment required by that law. Public employment should not be at standards less favorable to workers than for private em ployment. In some situations longer work weeks than 40 hours may be required, as for short periods, and the overtime should return added compensation; but the base work week should be 40 hours. The worst situation used to be in state in stitutions where attendants had to work a ten-hour day or even longer. That has all been changed and employes now work an eight-hour shift five days a week. This has added greatly to cost of operation: but it does bring the state into conformity with federal standards for private employment, and gives better service to inmates. The highway department can make the change too just as the steel industry found it could cut its work-day down from twelve hours to eight after President Harding appealed to Judge Gary to do so. No Double Duty A trial run of having policemen and fire men in Oregon City combine duties came to a dead end and the city manager called off the experiment. Neither group wanted to learn or do the chores of the other. Police men didn't want to become smoke-chasers and firemen didn't want to boss traffic or dodge bullets of yeggs. According to the Enterprise-Courier 15 cities have made the scheme work, having a single department of public safety; but after only three or four days of training Oregon City abandoned the project. It is true that each is a vocation in itself, the chief similarity being that both policemen and firemen wear blue uniforms, work for the city and draw salary checks from the city. And the larger the city the greater the need for the specialized services. After 20 years of able and faithful service, Miss Lillian McDonald has resigned as super intendent of Salem General Hospital. She can leave with a high sense of satisfaction both in the performance of taxing duties during the critical war and postwar years and in the completion of the new unit of Salem General in which she was deeply in terested. The community remains greatly in her debt. told Molotov In effect that the United States would fight, how ever reluctantly, rather than see Indo-China absorbed in the Soviet-Communist regime. The "united action" speech and the diplomatic talks now going on have served to underline this warning. There are some signs that the warning may be having the de sired effect. Soviet Ambassador to France, Sergei Vinogradov, for example, recently told French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault with great em phasis that he was certain some acceptable formula for peace in Indo-China could be found at Geneva. There was also the significant speech by Chinese Politburo member Chen-Yu, al ready cited in this space, hint ing that the Indo-Chinese Com munists might have to be aban doned in the interests of world peace. Yet there are signs pointing in the other direction as well. Soviet diplomats are now given to repeating like a litany that China is, after all, a sovereign nation with a will of its own. And at least one Russian diplo mat has remarked flatly to a Western colleague that "the American Senate will never agree to send troops to Indo China," an obvious hint that the Kremlin thinks Dulles Is bluffing. Dulles is not bluffing. He is certainly gambling which is not the same thing and his gamble certainly involves hair raising risks for both sides. His gamble may turn out very badly indeed one Dulles critic has remarked that "Dulles is an amateur poker player who has been enveigled into chess game for enormous (takes with experts." Yet Dulles has taken his gamble simply because he is convinced that the only altern ative is the loss of Indo-China, and that the loss of Indo-China could only be the prelude to ether and progressively more terrible disasters. It is at least comforting to recall that Dulles has gambled for high stakes be forein Iran as well as in Ko reaand that he has won. lib 1 Comei (6 Local veterans in charge of the annual Memorial Day observance are up to their bivouacs in a problem. May 30 this year falls on a Sunday. And Jim Callaway, president ( ft zSl. ywere held on a basket dinner at Marion Square, etc. following on Monday. . . . Ditto for 1915 when all schools, banks, state, city and county offices were closed on Monday. . . In 1926 the entire program was observed on Monday, May 31. . . But in those years Memorial Day was a community-wide affair and even the schools had their day (usually the Friday preceding Me morial Day). , . . Marion Hotel is installing a laundry for its own use in the basement on the Ferry street side near the alley. . . Workmen installing the equipment uncovered a network of pipes, drains and connections beneath the concrete floor. . . Everybody was mystified until oldtimers recalled that early in the century, when the Marion was still the Willamette Hotel the hotel laundry was housed in that very same spot and later removed. . . History repeats, etc. . . After checking around the state not long ago on its air marker program the State Board of Aeronautics found there were some 26 air markers (on rooftops, buildings etc.) which had arrows pointing toward airports which re no longer there or are unusable. . . Now, those markers are being changed and corrected. . . At Salem Hi's career day program more students turned out for the radio-TV lecture than for any other occupation group. . . Is this a trend of the time or do all these kids want to get on the I Live Loosely show? . . . And if students pick up adult problems do adults vice-versa with student troubles? . . . Well, Mrs. Ted Jenny of Keizer, publicity chairman of the Marion County PTA council, took on a childhood ailment she's got the mumps. . . State police were advised the other night to be on the lookout for Horace Greeley Righthouse, wanted on a charge of desertion of family. . . Oh yes, the police log lists the West patrol to be on the lookout for this Horace Greeley. . . GREASE IS VERSATILE RICHMOND, Calif. (AV-Wheel bearings, water pumps, spring shackles and other greasing GRIN AND BEAR -f tk t md m food n I -reps fen nr -;l? I r ores tym liii 1 1 in . mm. LOW. BLOOD PRESSURE of the Federation of Patriotic Societies, is wondering whether to hold the traditional Memorial program on Saturday, Sunday or Monday of that May 30 weekend. So far in this century May 30 has happened on a Sun day on six years 1909, 1915, 1926, 1937, 1943 and 1954. . . In 1909 the GAR memorial services Sunday, May 30 with a Me- points on automobiles may now be lubricated with one product. The new multi-purpose grease was developed here. IT By Lichty Ace whekaftaddklmi .'.-.5sAv- mm Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago April 10, 1944 The Salem School Board ap proved a proposed boundary change affecting borders be tween the Swegle and Salem school districts. Former Hollywood makeup artist and three Texas surgeons plied their art with delicate skill at the navy's west coast plastic surgery center. They reported they were eleminating the ele ments of despair and perman ency from battle wounds. Mrs. Lewis Griffith was elect ed president of the Beta Chi Mothers Club at a luncheon meet ing of the group. Mrs. B. H. White was named vice president, Mrs. Homer . Egan secretary treasurer. Mrs. Solon Shinkle was the retiring president. 25 Years Ago April 10, 1929 Former Vice President Charles G. Dawes was selected by Pres ident Hoover as ambassador to Great Britain. Dawes took the place of Alanson B. Houghton. Ernest Iufer, well known land scape gardener of Salem, has taken over the Bateham Floral Gardens on the Wallace Road Iufer is a graduate of the Arts and Trades School, Berne, Swit zerland. Approximately $6000 will be spent on the hew courthouse ele vator, according to Judge Sieg mund, who negotiated with a Portland elevator firm. 40 Years Ago April IS, 1914 Mri. T. Moncure Perkins, one of the famous Langhorne beau ties, died at the home of her sis ter, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, wife of the artist Sam H. Brown of Gervais, who aspires to the Republican. nomin ation for the legislature, was in Salem and said his political fences were standing up in good shape. (He won and was in the state legislature for many yean.) After a 24-hour trip by stage. Dean Frederick S. Mendenhall and Glen McCaddam arrived in the city from Coos Bay, where the Willamette University Glee club had been singing. Literary Guidopost By W. G. ROGERS 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "I will take whom ever wiahes to go." 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "premier"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Jeopardize, jar d in ere, jodphurs, julienne. 4. What does the word "pas sively" mean? 5. What Is a word beginning with a te that means "holding fast"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "I shall take whoever wishes to go." 2. Pronounce in three syllables as pre-mi-er, first e as in me; accent first sylla ble. 3. Jardiniere. 4. Not act ively; inertly; unresistingly. "The true student studies act ively, and not passively.'" 5. Tenacious. Reports Hint Dulles to Fail 'United Action1 By J. M. ROBERTS JR. Associated Press News Aaalsyt Reports from Europe make it ap pear that John Foster Dulles is not going to get any action on a united front in Indochina until after the Geneva conference, but observers have now learned not to start sell ing the secretary short too soon. The British still stop to wonder every now and then just how he got them to agree to a peace treaty with Japan which they are unhappy about. He staged quite a coup at the recent Caracas Inter-American Conference by getting through the U.S. anti-Communist program with out a corresponding quid pro quo on economics. In these matters Dulles operates from a position of considerable strength. He is a firm advocate of the theory that the only worthwhile international relations are those based on free partnership, not co ercion. Nevertheless, he doesn't have to mention that he has behind him a great force in the sensitive at titude of Congress on foreign aid. He did mention it, forcefully but unsuccessfully, last year when he was trying to get France down to business on the European Defense Community. But just as France has delayed action on that subject until after Geneva, so she and Britain pro pose to do nothing now about Indo china which might produce any new strain in relations with the So viet bloc before Geneva. Nobody really expects to get anything out of Geneva except per haps a Communist proposal for a top level conference of national leaders which, like the Geneva meeting itself, would be set as far in the future as possible and so produce continued uncertainty in France about EDC and other mat ters. Nevertheless, nobody wants to risk the onus of scuttling Geneva before it starts. This is most im portant to the French government because of internal politics. It is customary in the United States to accuse the Paris govern ment of dragging its feet on EDC when its course may only be due to prudence. It is quite likely that v" voi' 1 have been beaten once and for all if voted upon during a wiieu parliament members who want to see what comes out of Geneva would be joined with the active opponents of the whole idea. The same feeling applies to any move in connection with Indochina which might be interpreted by the Reds as an ultimatum. In this, Britain seems to be just as firm as France. The American view, on the other hand, is that Indochina is not go ing to be yielded to the Commun ists as China was; that the war is progressing rapidly toward the point where American intervention might be required, and that one way of avoiding this may be to convince Red China that if she gdes too far she will face a united al lied front just as she did in Korea. On the surface, it seems that presentation of such a front now Important tlews for Hoi bog f ran : V r aad.aiaO'lHB'jQai yownaar. voBrm kc. VTA Msco'a at FREE: WW3 5 I wjw LJ '"WW'" SERVICE THAT'S AS PERSONAL AS YOUR OWN NAME 4. . J r t Funeral "Iff 1- ' .: . .,y- w LSfl The Safety Valve To the Editor: Various musical works have been written to celebrate special occasions, but "The Palms", by Jean Faure, is .one which is truly representative of the day that it commemorates Palm Sunday. On this day we memor ialize Christ's last entry into Jerusalem before His Passion when palm branches were strewn in His path by the multitude. There is an exalted quality about this composition that in spires listeners and the words, as evidenced by .the following verse, tell a wondrous story: "Gently He speaks, the people hear His voice. Freedom returns though from the earth long banished, All in a brotherhood again rejoid, Light has returned, and dreary darkness vanished." Those are meaningful lines, es pecially at a time when the world is seeking ways to curb all agres sors and to establish a way of life that shall prevent another war. I will always remember bow beautifully the beloved organist in our church at home played 'The Palms". Her rendition was unforgettable for its poetry, for the tonal qualities which wove a magic spell and for the gradual building up of the reson ant melody to a vibrant climax. Reflected in her playing was a consummate understanding of all composers the great and the near great composers whose music enthralls, or just brings solace, to worshipers from tiny chapel to vaulted, age-encrusted cathedrals. The deep significance of the Lenten season comes to full reality in the final week before Easter. Beginning with Palm Sunday there is a re-affirmation of spiritual faith and a rededi cation to the principles of Christ ian living. Howard Carl Ericson 1604 S. E. 23rd Ave. Portland 15. Oregon. THIEF LiriKS POPCORN MISSOULA, Mont P) A Mis soula popcorn factory operator, George Henke, told police some one stole a five pound bag of popped corn from his factory. The bag was about two feet in di ameter and four feet high. would also put the allies in a much stronger bargaining position at Ge neva. But the French and British don't look at it that way, and if Dulles succeeds this time it will indeed be a rabbit out-of-tbe-hat stunt. MODERN DANCE Every Saturday Night Al DICKSON'S i With STUBBY MILLS AND HIS MUSIC 9:39 to 12:3 Adm. 1M the Hard cf llcabg no cohd on Tin heck HO CQ3D 1U2 DCDY WEIGHS OWV AM Send for W rt i c,i.. Of Salem 1527 Ctaem. St. Ph. 2-4702 ' f i 4 Sorvke Sinco 17 amUm OSMON a: ,i lA ft dm . vtw a . . m i Mir