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4 (Sec. 1) Statesman, Salem, s&e j)r?aon "Ao Favor Sways Us, No Fear S7wll Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher PurU!ned very morning Business office 280 North Church Si Salem. Ort- Telephone 2-2441 Enter eo at the .ostotfiee at Salerr., Ore as second ciw .nattei under act of Congress March 3. 179. Member Associated Press Th so.!a!ra Press is entitled exclusively to the for repudiation ol all local news printed tn trvs newspapei Student Field Trips Superintendent J. W. Edwards of the Port land schools has been making a probe of stud pit fjcid trips. These are the expeditions mad' b pupils accompanied by a teacher tn various points where it is presumed mat ters of educational value may be seen. Edward.- found that in the last school year there were 194ft field trips by grade school pupils and 130 by high school groups. It would be easy to condemn these out of nana as a waste of time and money. And as we have seen some tours of school young sters racing around the state capitol such a conclusion might seem valid. In the great majority of cases however tne groups are well behaved, quite observing and anxious to learn. It is unsafe to by down a rule except the geneial one that the number of such trips should be restricted and the pur poses ver definite and worthy. Poitland has certain resouices of great value in education: the art museum, science museum, historical museum. Classes work ing in these special fields can derive great good from guided tours of these institutions or tud of particular collections which they house No doubt the possession of school buses add to the ease of making such trips; and ichooibnards fwm quite lenient in their use. The -writer recalls seeing m Washington in Easter week a school bus with the sign, "Limestone Co. Schools." Counties of that name are in Alabama and Texas, and if from either the pupils had a good long ride to and from the national capital. Portland re quires the riders to pay a fee to cover the cost; but we doubt if that is universal. The responsibility rests with school admin istrators to keep these trips from becoming 'hookey junkets." The center of student ac tivity should be right in the school: and many of these educational trips can be nuule with parents on family vacations. Distress Among French Vintners While dairymen in the United States suf fer because of an overproduction of milk and rely on government aid to help them out, winegrowers in France are plagued with the same trouble. For France is flooded with wine, the excess production being estimated at 160 million quarts a year. The govern ment does what it can but still the flood con tinues and ancient wine-growing sections like the Languedoc in Southern France lan guish from economic debility. Internal expansion of vineyards and com petition from Algerian wines have brought woe to the older wine-producing sections. A hybrid vine wa developed which is re sistant to frost and hail and disease. It grows well in Northern France and in the cool Ardennes region, and wines produced from Polls, Municipal Elections Show Demos Getting Increased Support Across U. S. Bv JOSEPH and STEWA. T ALSOP WASHINGTON How do you recognize a political trend when vou sec one? This question is raised be cause the fe f ' - j d emocrais If v 1 in Congress If V l are claiming t "V'l t0 discern a I ii verv strong trend in their favor. They DV "v that this J fJ I trend first be- I l I came visible fr with the au yet'AtetwJ tumn election upsets in Wis consin and New Jersey, and that it has steadily gathered momentum ever since. House minority whip John McCor mack, for ex ample,, stout ly maintains ( that the Dem ' ocrats today could easily win the House bv a majority of 40 to 60 seats. There is also increas- Stewart A luig ing talk among the Democrats of capturing the Senate a much more different feat. The Republicans, for their pnrt, maintain just as stoutly that the alleged trend is a fiR mcnt of the Democratic imag ination, heavily tinged with po litical propaganda. What fol lows, then, is the evidence which the Democrats advance tn support their claim. Wheth er or not this evidence is sub stantially valid, the reader may be allowed to judge for him self. First, there are the polls, for whatever they are worth. The Democrats point with pride to the following recent polls: A Minnesota poll showing Sen. Hubert Humphrey, who was once thought to be in dan ger, with an amazingly com fortable lead over his opponent At Denver. Colo., poll show ing a 27-point drop from last June in those thinking the Ad- I 'm 1 m Yafi Or Sun.. April 25, 1954 its grapes add to the flood from the South. Imported wines from Algeria, part of the French Union, were sold in Paris for less than wines from Carcassonne. A correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance writing from the Lan- guedoc region reports: "Today the old-time wine markets of Bezier. and ete are closeu nd suem wees; alter week. No prices are quoted, no cus tomers appear. . . . Entire villages live on credit ... The vine growers . . . demand that the government step in and save their region lrdm ruin." Already the wine consumption in France is too heavy lor good health; and there is a limit to the volume the export market can absorb. So American dairymen and French vine yard dVners have one thing in common. They have not reached the point, however, where they can say with Isaiah, 'Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. ' statesman Unanimous On arriving at Geneva Foreign Minister Molotoff said the Soviet delegation hopes the conference will bring peace to Indochina "by giving liberty, freedom and national rights to the people of Indochina." (When will the USSR give the same rights to Czechoslovakia for example?) And Chou En-lai, foreign minister for Red China said the peoples of the world hope for the success of the conference in settling issues in Asia. Britain, France and the United States all are eager to secure peace in Asia through unification of Korea and ending the fighting in Indochina. The great powers are thus unanimous as far a-: the objective is concerned. We shall see how long their unanimity lasts when methods of reaching that objective are proposed. ft. Lewis and the Seattle Port of Ero barcation will profit at the expense of the Bay area of California as the Army con centrates its base for Korean transshipments at those points. Ft. Lewis will be the staging area foi personnel assigned to Korea and Seattle the port of embarcation. Camp Stoneman, California, will be put out of com mission this summer. The shift is made in the interest of economy, the Pacific crossing being several hundred miles shorter from Puget Sound than San Francisco. Just an other example of "more defense per dollar." The Willamette Valley has had an almost perfect Blossom week. Clear, bright sunny days, a bit on the coolish side, but still pleas ant weather. With orchards in full bloom poilenizing conditions seemed very favor able, and presumably the bees lived up to their reputation for being busy, all of which gives & forecast for a good fruit crop. Swallows deserted the scabrock around McNary Dam to build nests on the sheer walls of the dam, much to the disgust of the engineers who have had the chore of clearing off the walls. The engineers, who are great builders themselves, can't under stand why the swallows have deserted their homes on the rock cliffs. That's easy to un derstand, they want electrified homes too. After so many domestic and court diffi culties Rita Hayworth's glamor must be wearing off. When it shows at the box office it is fatal. ministration was doing a good'' job, and an 11-point drop in those thinking the Ad ministration was doing a "good" or "fair" job. (But, it should be pointed out, a whopping 82 per cent still think the Administra tion is doing at least fairly well). A poll of eight states from the Republican Midwest, by the industrious Dr. Gallup, showing the Democrats rapidly closing in on the Republicans. A Texas poll showing a 12 per cent drop from last Auglst in the Administration's popu larity. Second, there was the recent voting in Tucson, Ariz., Santa Fe, N. Mex., and in certain small and medium-sized Massa chusetts towns; and the regis tration in the County of York, Pennsylvania. In the last -two elections, in 1952 and 1953, Tucson elected six Republican members of the city council and a Republican mayor, by handsome majorities. In the election held on April 6, three seats on the city coun cil were disputed and ail three were handily won by Demo crats. As always, there were local factors for one thing, the in fluential "Arizona Daily Star, which supported the Republi cans in1952, backed the Demo crats on this go-round. But Wil liam Matthews, highly knowl edgeable editor and publisher of the "Star," himself believes that the Tucson vote had real national significance. Moreover, exactly the t same pattern held in the municipal election in Santa Fe, held on the same day. In Massachusetts, a whole slew of small to medium towns, some of which had never elect ed a Democrat to office prac tically since the Revolution, went Democratic. Among these were West Springfield, Canton, Framingham, . Greenfield and Agawam. In the County of York, Penn sylvania, registration of new voters took place between March 1 and March 31. In 1952, York County, admittedly nor mally Democratic, went for Eis enhower by a fat majority of about 5,000. But the Democrats claim York is heavily Demo cratic again new voters reg istered Democratic by a pro portion of two-to-one, and switched registrations were in the same proportion. Finally or so the Democrats claim the response at Demo cratic rallies proves that a new Democratic spirit is abroad in the land. According to the Dem ocrats, people fight for the privilege of paying their hard earned money in order to eat tough chicken and hear the Republicans lambasted. At a $25 a head rally in Philadelphia. John McCormack filled the huge Bellevne-Strat-ford Hotel to the bursting point At a more recent rally in a Virginia district which went Republican in 1952, House Minority Leader Sam Ray burn was almost mobbed. And so on. How much does all this mean? The Republicans claim that it means little or nothing. ,They point to favorable straws-in-tbe-wind of atbeir own like the Republican sweepin a mu nicipal election .in Tulsa, Okla homa. They also point to still more polls showing President Eisenhower's popularity hold ing up remarkably (this the Democrats cheerfully admit but they claim that the Presi dent's popularity won't help the Republicans come Novem ber.) f The Republicans, In mo ments of frankness, do concede some drop-off from the post election high point of Republi can popularity, but they con tend, reasonably enough, that this was inevitable in the nor mal course of events. On bal ance, it does seem fair to say that the Democrats have been gaining, and gaining fairly heavily In seme areas.; But no ne claims to know how de cisive this trend Js or how it might be affected by the Mc Carthy circus, the economic situation, or the growing crisis in the- Far East tCoryrifrtt, 154. Nw York Herald Tribunt toe.) BETWEEN THE Inside TV TV Show Combines Education, Interest By EVE STARR HOLLYWOOD TELETORIAL REVIEW: Guys and gals in this business often pan a show and turn around to find it zoom ing high in public favor. We'll praise another and soon it drops y make h;m think. After he does he's sometimes pleasantly sur prised. And that's the way it's been with "Adventure," whoso entertainment and educational values race along neck and neck. We've praised this show for its ability to give us something worth filing jn our grey drawer upstairs and to charge it with sparkling interest You don't have to be a highbrow to enjoy this show. Ui lowbrows have been elbowing ourselves room for a look for quite some, time Science, history and kindred matters tend to be de hydrated subjects, but "Adventure" and producer Perry Wolff, know how to project them with interest frequently bordering on excitement. That's because both he and nar rator Charles Collingwood are showmen and balance off the high-foreheaded gentlemen who contribute the facts. It's good for us all to learn a little more about this old world of ours, past and present. It tends to shrink otxr ou-n personal problems down X6 normal size. Steer your older kids into this show and they'll learn something to bene fit the rest of their days there are two ways to peddle deeper learning, the dry textbook method and the manner in which this enlightened show operates. TELETORIAL: We often marvel at the way actors suddenly turn off the heat and become calm and placid again. More so at the ladies, who are usually called upon for more emotion, more tears, more ranting and raving than the male There they are, closing a scene with a jilting lover, weeping like April showers, the curtain falls and suddenly it's May. They step forth well poised with a $mile and a word for their sponsoring product It beats us how' even the dramatic stars can so quickly compose themselves and remember a spon sor's name. Most women would go on sniffing and sobbing all night Loretta Young can suffer a torn, if not broken heart for 30 min tes of her show an-' immediately bloom forth into praise for cosmetics. Some gals might have a chance to dry their tears first if their play is filmed, but it seems to make little difference if the show is live. The dramatics we see on "Lux" go on torturing and beating up the trotnen year in and year out, but every one of them emerges from the ordeal abruptly, with a charming if not always eonrincinp; testimonial for soap. The men have it a little easier, depending upon how deep the dramatics have to be dug. Lucky is the fellow in the strong, silent role, for he hardly has to alter a facial muscle when he switches to the commercial pitch. But we recall vxany cases like Robert Montgomery's when he took the lead in his ov:n show and "Appointment in Samarra." As a pretty unhappy salesman as well as a downright cad, he had a very rough time of it all the way through. But when the curtain fed, there was the poised and polished Robert, selling cigarettes again. Of course there's nothing to it for guys like Milton Berle or ladies like Lucille BalL They burn up a lot of energy. Laugh and cry with the script But it's all in fun and everyone knows it. Yor can brush off such emotions as quick as Lucy's wink, and calmly sell your product with your very next breath. Not so with heavy dramatics. It takes a special talent here to put over a genuine performance and not be a wreck when the com mercial falls due. The Safety Valve Tribute To the Editor: Margaret Campbell, 84, a Royal Neighbor! a Rebecca! a Noble Christian Woman! goes to The Grand Lodge! After sixty years of Lodge work The Noble Wom an faces The Grand Oracle in the New Jerusalem! God be with you till we meet again! Florence Matthes Lake Labish CROSSES, ROW ON ROW l off the screen. Very disconcerting. We do it because after all we're only prac tically human. So it was very gratifying to find that CBS had stretched "Adventure" to a full hour at last, an indication of increasing public acceptance Tis rumored in remote areas that the aver age American has a strange aversion to any thing imtcking of education or culture after he gets past the seventh grade. It's hard to get him even to look at something which might FOB RENT Typewriters Adding Machines Ccwh Rgistrs Calculators Mimeographs Desks & Chairs Check Writers Filing Equipment Let as Explain Oar Rental Purchase Plan Rates Always the Lowest ROEII Ph. 2-4T7S 45 Court Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Yean Ago April 25, 1944 With the monsoon rains less than three weeks away, Lt Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's Chinese and American forces appear to have broken the back of Japanese re sistance in northern Burma. Wayne Morse, Republican candidate for U. S. senator at the May primaries, discussed plans for the coming election with a group of Marion county leaders at a dinner meeting. Ninety librarians have regis tered for the annual session of the Oregon State Library asso ciation to b held in Salem in May. 25 Years Ago April 25, 1929 Marion county girls can spell all over the boys, if results of the annual Marion County Spelling Contest are indicative. Five girls won first places and gold medals and five girls won second places and silver medals. One boy took a gold medal and one a silver award. The Bible class at the Cal vary Baptist church is again be ing instructed by Miss Nina Mc Nary, who has returned from a trip to Washington, D. C, where she visited her brother, Sen. Charles McNary. Approval of the American dis armament proposals made at Geneva during the week was in dicated by Sir Austin Chamber lain, "the British foreign secre tary. 40 Year Ago April 25, 1914 Three thousand American refugees arrived at Galveston, Texas, from Vera Cruz, Tam pico, where the entire American oil field has been abandoned. The work that the automobile Is doing in the civil war in Mexico is attracting attention of military engineers the world over. Generals Carranza and Villa both use motor cars. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin L. Baker and Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Locke entertained with a card and dancing party at the Marion ho tel. Mrs. W. H. Dancy and Ho mer Smith w6n high honors. Leston W. Howell THERE MUST BE A REASON WHY ... 5 More and more people year after year call Howell-Edwards. HOWELL-EDWARDS FUNERAL HOME 545 N. Capitol Street ACROSS FROM SEARS Phone 3-372 DIP SSEUUQSI (Continued from Page 1) is a protector of the bask equi ties, with a compassionate eye and a strong arm to see that each inaividual, no matter how weak or unappealing, is dealt with fairly and justly." When such a sense of govern mental justness pervades a so ciety, then its government is firmly entrenched. It has for its bulwark the support of its con stituents. When that sense is lacking, when people refer to its officials in the third person: "They" in Washington or Salem, then a gulf yawns between the governors and the governed. One of the distressing things in these latter days is the ten dency to "run down" govern ment, to demean it, to condemn it, often where the purpose is merely partisan advantage. In New Deal days "Washington" was constantly pilloried as a grim ogre sucking the lifeblood of the people. The New Deal administration was seriously de fective, but the motives of many of its critics were bad). The con tinuous probe for "communists in government" sometimes of circus character and dimension, is too often a race for personal publicity at the expense of the government's reputation, and to the ruin of the reputation of in dividuals. Stevenson puts down as the "short of the matter" that "the survival of our freedoms, indi vidual and collective, is closely linked to the good name, the private reputation of our govern ment ' This will be preserved as the government itself deals justly with the citizens, and as the citizens in their turn deal fairly and honestly with gov ernment MARRIAGE SIDE ISSUE CORUNNA, Mich. OP The couple got married free by Jus tice of the Peace Homer Bush. But the judge also ordered a $65 fine and three days in jail for drunken driving. 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McCJurg, member of the National Citizens Committee for Educational Television, and Gov. Paul L. Patterson will be among the speakers. 'The conference has no pro gram 'to seir," Chancellor Byrne said. "It is entirely for purposes of education." Byrne said many education leaders, legislators and civic leaders have been invited to attend. SOLID STERLING. yZz2&l?Z wish a charm and groc you'wil cherish, for evw sVoiD the 1 svs coavcflCsooyoe i for the etetolf peine irleilosj flowiBgi fioesr asjcbefoVSem Howl motif of ScaafxaS0Me,ctk4 iacwesrf io) wi as&VSmfina (Sirper b sktodasi US State & Liberty Dial 4-2224 THAN THB DESTT fd e BOOK STORE IUMT TK ft) mrr y I N. COMMERCIAL Charles Edwards