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r4 (5e. I Stoteknagto. feakm, dDrcjaontatesman "So Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 CHARLES A. SHRAGUE, Editor and Publisher PuSlistied very morning Business offlc 280 North Church St.. Salem, Ore.. Telephone 2-2441 entered i the ..ostoffice t Salem. Ore. as second class matter under act of Conffess March X 1878. Member Associated Press Tha Associated Prers Is entitled exclusively to the use for repuollcation of all local news printed In th'S newspapei McCall in Third District The Oresor.ian editorializes on the race for the Republican nomination for congress man in the third district. The competition is between Homer Angell who has served in the officj since 19A9. and Tom Law son McCall, form-r seen tary to Governor McKay and more lecentlv radio news commentator. The Orennian ;,;ter six paragraphs lands square ly oti the fence. In this contest The Statesman is strictly on the outside looKing in, but thai doesn't pre vent :?s havii.f, a choice between the contest ants ?nd that lalls squarely on McCall. After a'! Ar.gell has mighty little to show for his 15 yea;.- of tttiuit. other than going through the motion.- annually of trying to advance the Tnwnsenri pension plan.-, and voting with great consistency in accord with the views of the AKL. Tom McCall on the other hand is a man of vicor, of fro.-h contacts with the people, of political conviction and with marked ability in expressing his ideas. His election would really contribute a vibrant personality in the Oregon delegation in the Houe of Represen tative? which can stand a dash of distinction. The third district will serve itself and the state and ration well to make Tom McCall its next congressman. Russia ami NATO Premier Malenkov of the USSR savs that his country still wants to join NATO. At least he is showing persistence. Previous Russian overtures met with quick dismissal from the United States and later from Britain and France. If Rus.-ia would join NATO in good faith then there would be no need for NATO. It is exclusively an organization for defense of western Europe from Soviet aggression. By staying out and undertaking measures of con ciliation Russia could erase the excuse for NATO's existence. The United States would be most happy to pull out of Europe, and will as soon as the prospect of durable peace brightens. For that matter Russia is a member of United Nations, but its obstructionist tactics have made it a problem within that bodv. If the member nations would give U.N. the sup port which their ratification of its Charter implied the cold war would thaw out and the war tensions which grip the world be relax ed. Such a "millenium'' really would be a surprise to generals and admirals and statesmen. Stickland Gilhlan lived to the age of 84 and when he died his passing brought refer ence to only one of the bits of poetry and wit which he gave the world in the course of his long career as writer and lecturer. That was his "off again, on again, gone again, Finne gan" line. He did that poem earlv as a space filler for a newspaper he was working on. His subsequent fame never outran that early "hit." '.ry:'1 Eisenhower Losing Full Faith in Due to Bungling Strategy in By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON In the Mc Carthy - Army battle, six per sons have been named as "prin cipals" Mc Carthy. Carr, and 0 o h n , Stevens. Ad ams and Hen sel In reality, there is a seventh prin ciple Presi dent Dwight D Eisenhow er. For the President has as great a jfatrph A 10 stake as any man in the out tome of this battle oer a mere Army private Indeed, the out come may determine whether Eisenhower is to be the real leader of his party; wheth er his Presi dency will be written down as a success or failure; pvn whether the institution of the Presi dency l t f e If may be dam aged beyond repair. Thus it is pertinent I Strwart. AIog to ask how the President him self feels about the contest which has now been joined. First of all. although in some ways he seems so aloof from the battle, he is anything but indifferent to what is going on. According to friends and ac quaintances who have seen him over the past few weeks, he has developed almost an obsession about McCarthy. He is very like ly to introduce the Wisconsin Senator's name into the conver sation himself and once the subject has been brought up, it is often difficult to change it, f.o strongly does the President feel. Shroud, it ran be stated on un doubted authority that the Presi dent has iHasioBt about tat rig - & tefr Tut- April 77. 1954 The pedestrian has the right of way at street intersections but the way the signal lights are timed that right is certainly clipped in favor of the motorists. The forgotten man at the McCarthy-Army hearing is Major Peress. Hes the guy who started the fuss, and is now back pulling teeth in New York City. threat U his own leadership posed by McCarthy. The signi ficance of the fact that McCar thy chose to launch a frontal at tack on the Army, where the El senhower career was built, is not lost on the President. Nor are McCarthy' sneering refer ences to "Pentagon politicians," and "the high brats." In short, the President is quite aware that McCarthy is likely to at tack him directly, as toon as McCarthy feels himself strong enough to do so. This being so, it may seem strange that the President has not himself taken the offensive, in the best military tradition. The fact is that he has very senouslv considered doing so. With old friends, he has discus sed a project for one or more broadcasts defining the real na ture of McCarthytsm. and nam ing the Wisconsin Senator by name. He has been persuaded not to do so. for the present, on the grounds that such a course would endanger his program. - If it came to an open and ir reconcilable break between Mc Carthy and the President runs the argument Eisenhower would lose four or fire pro McCarthy rotes for his program' in the Senate, and more in the House. Whether this argument is valid or not, the President, who feels very deeply indeed about his program, has accepted it. Yet he has by no means ruled out a direct challenge to Mc Carthy, after the Congress ad journs, but before the elections. The McCarthy experience has also caused the President to shed certain illusions with which he entered office. He no longer has the implicit faith he once had in his politician-advisers nor in his businessmen - administra tors. He has complained to at least one visitor that he has been badly counselled by his political advisers on the Mc Carthy problem since the very beginning of the 1952 campaign. As for the "best brains" he re. rruited inu office. It is no see ret that Elsenhower considered Wind Erosion in Columbia Basin The Columbia Basin in Central Washing ton is almost ideal for irrigation. The land is quite level but with enough draws or coulees to provide good drainage. The soil is rich, fri able and deep save on slopes where there is rock outcrop. Since the scil is very fine (it is loess, windblown by the prevailing winds from the west and southwest) it is subject to blowing: and strong sweeps of wind across the treeless basin are not uncommon, espe cially in the spring of the year. The new farmers on the irrigated lands are learning of this readiness to blow at consid erable cost. The spring has been windy, and from many tilled fields the crops have been blown out. On other fields the seeding has been damaged. Farmers now face difficult problem in getting in crops for harvest this season. What they have to do is to learn how to handle this soil. The best advice they get is rot to cultivate the whole field at once, but to worV up part of the land and get it under water so the soil will stay m place. Over in the wheat country farther east the farmers learned long ago how to combat blowing. They leave as much trash and vegetation and clods on the surface as possible bo that soil blowing will be at a minimum. Even so in yeais of high Winds they suffer from wind erosion. Those who are doing the pioneei ing on the Columbia Basin are f md.ng the road to suc cess is not easy. Last yt ar potato glowers found lisVle market for their produce and prices for alfalfa hay were not very good. Tho-e who raised sugar beets on contrac t far ed well, but they were not numerous. This spring wind ero-ion has brought new louses. Eventually the land will he tamed, and the wind if not, tamed, thwarted of its serious damage. But it will take time and effort, planting of shelter belts of trees, and learn ing how to handle the soils. It mav take more than one generation of farmers (as has been true of many other irrigation districts) but in the course of time the Basin will be a richly productive area, dotted with homes of prospering farmers. It is too bad that the farmers anxious to car v e out farms and homes for themselves have run into these hardships a?, the Mart of their entures. S i n c e the Veterans Adnunitration lnok over Camp White near Medford for cure of disabled veterans the institution has been called a Domiciliary Center. Now the VA is looking for another name which would be more suit;. bit. The manager in a letter posted asking fir suggestions says that the term "Domiciliary" has come to connote an '"end of the road'' philosophy. That is not accurate in view of mod e r n therapeutic practices which look to restoral of patients to normal living. He says that suggestions for a new name will be forwarded to VA in Washing ton. This should be a good mental exercise for those acquainted with the new word game "Scrabble," or who work crossword puzzles Gardner Knapp who was named Marion county citizen of the year for his work in the field of education well merits the dis tinction. Besides his service on the district school board he has been a wheelhorse for many other good projects. Advisers McCarthy Issue Secretary Stevens Initial hand ling of the McCarthy problem less than brilliant. More recent ly, the President almost blew up when he saw front page pictures of Secretary of Defense Wilson arm-in-arm with a grinning Mc Carthy. This was on the very day when Eisenhower planned to take a strong anti-McCarthy stand at his press conference. Similarly, the President has lost his excessive respect for Congress and its leadership. In a moment of anger, he has com pared the Congress to the futile French 'Parliament. 'They stand around in corridors argu ing about what McCarthy has on them and about the election," he is reported to have remark ed, "and they don't pay any at tention to my program, or the important things." Finally, Sen. McCarthy, with an assist from Sen. Bricker, has stimulated the President to exa mine anew the nature of the office he holds. "Nowadays," an old acquaintance has remarked, "he always pricks up his ears when someone says something about his 'Constitutional respon sibilities.' " 1'ntU recently, like most citi zens, Eisenhower had only a rather vague and general notion of the functions and of preroga tives of the -Presidency. Since the start of the Bricker amend ment fight, and especially since the McCarthy controversy reached the boiling point, he has become fascinated by the subject. He has recently taken to reading "The Federalist Pap ers" (which he had never read before , and with his remakable memory, he now quotes or. para pnrases passages from the papers length. at almost excessive In short, the Bricker amend ment seems to have first made the President thoroughly aware f his Constitutional position; while the far mere ferocious challenge from McCarthy has ' made him determined t defend it. (Copyright. 1354. New York GRIN AND BEAR ' I I 'Ml &ca6i y . a "Comrade agent is correcting report of widespread sabot oge in U. $J ScyS is merely widespread fad called 'do it yourself' . . inside TV . . . 'Foreign Intrigue' Excites Reviewer By EVE STARR HOLLYWOOD CRITIC'S CORNER: We aren't claiming any credit. We're just pLid "Foreign Intrigue" is hack in running order again. Shows for the past weeks have begun to measure up to aware they had ibeun to yell don't want them iv x nice hi return. Dajcuna a:uund our deal: or mi offering of soine mii-; limuqUt forth an odd glove and a bunch of slight! i u td blotters. And a ueuwpaper clipping fairlt ?,".-. The laii one dn it We'll give "Foreign Intrigue" a brand T.eic plot, free for votliing. And tlicy're in just the right spot io gire it the works. They shoot ihcir film m Scandi na'ia and our dipping concerns a scientist in Den marl:. The felloiL' icho iron fame and a Nobel Prize for the discovery of vitamin K. .Voir lie's discovered an over night cure for ulcers. What's that Rot to do with intrigue, either foreign or domes tic0 Plenty. "Thor" :s always in a hassle with the Communists, in front of or behind The Iron Curtain. And just think what this new cure is going to mean to the Reds. Just think of all the harrassed and overworked executives around the world who've developed ulcers and make life miserable for their workers as a result. Their testy dispositions are a boon to the Commies' main objective discontent and unrest throughout the world. And now just think what a cure for those ulcers will mean. A healthy, happy boss doesn't pick on the hirec help. It'll be a very contented world and a Red won't even have a chance to open his mouth, to say nothing of opening up revolutions Our plot deals with the frantic efforts of the Commies to gain control of the newlv discovered cure and keep it off the market. The scientist could be kidnapped, the formula stolen, with "Thor" in swift but stealthy pursuit to recover all and sane the world. It does sound a bit fantastic. It somehow doesn't ring true. If "Foreign Intrigue" used such a plot there's a bare chance the show might start slipping backwards again, after having done so well of late. Perhaps we'd better just forget that plot and let well enough alone. If you have fond hopes of turning the dial on your TV set one of these days and S'tting back to enjoy a recent first-run movie, you are just dreaming unless by chance your set has a pay-as-you-see gadget. Who says so? Ronald Recgan. Now Mr. Reagan has been around and about for some time now, mostly in the movies, but guesting enough on TV so that he can speak with some authority on both mediums. Over coffee cups we kicked around several topics in the TV and movie fields, and Reagan pointed out something that is signi ficant: ''The average TV telefilm costs $700 a minute finish ed production. The average motion picture operation, irlide inaknip a top-budget major film, costs $10,000 each minute. Sn it's obvious that film compaiiies can't afford, tn aell their A proa ictioris to TV until such time as sub scription television, or something equivalent , makes it profitable. Howeve, all studios undergo prodtiction slumps, and I wouldn't be surprised to see some making low-cost iour-long TV films to help absorb the overhead during production slowdowns." Reagan himself has no ambitions at this moment to plunge headlong into TV. "It's like this," he says, "I get 5150,000 a pic ture. Three a year provides me with an income that is quite com fortable. Why should 1 work 39 weeks each year in TV to earn the same amount, providing the scale was such that it would match my movie income" Moreover, I would take the chance that viewers would get tired of eeing my face on their sets. Right now, motion pictures are still big league and TV is minor league class. Both will survive, though, and complement each other us an entertain ment medium." When TV getj Into the big-league category, though, Reagon will be very' interested in a permanent series. "I'd like to do some yiing like 'Four Star Playhouse' with a rotating cast of four doing the starring role in one production and a bit of directing in an other. That's an ideal combination. I think that Charles Boyer, Dick Powell, and D.ivid Niven have an ideal type of operation in what they're doing, and 1 must agree with their purpose and mo tives." Yes, Reagan isn't adverse to a TV guest shot now and then, and admits he enjoys it. ' But I'll stick to motion pictures for friy main income for the present," he says. "It's what I call insuring the future, and it gives me time to enjoy my ranch." (Copyrieht 1954. General Feature Corp ) The Safety Information Asked For To the Editor: Because I believe in these days of cults and isms it is very necessary for sincere persons lo thoroughly investgate the source of their religious publi cations. May I, thro this means, ask Gerhard Smith of Valsetz, who contributed the large re ligious advertisement in The Statesman of April 22, to inform the readers of the complete background of ' the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement; to state definitely whether or not IT By Lichty where they used to be, and last Thursday's ad venture with an international dope ring was just what the title suggests it was Foreign and it was Intriguing. We doubt whether producer Shel don Reynolds or new lead James Daly were even slipped, but we were -and we'd We like plays of this sort and we to bo down. With our preferred entertainment back in t'ie groove we'd like to do something Valve It ever, at any time, was assoc iated with Russellism, now known as Jehovah's Witnesses? Is the booklet offered for sale, The Divine Plan of the Ages," a publication of the Witnesses? Just so there will be an open understanding of the material offered by Mr. Smith " and the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement I ask him to kindly state thro this column, the his tory of this group. Thank you. Mrs Lre E. Brant i Rt. S. Box 432 (Continued pending a conference which looks for permanent peace and the unification of the country. First speakers will be the for eign ministers of South Korea and of North Korea. Such is the bitterness between the two segments of Ivorea that one may expect the debate to begin with harsh notes. In fact, if the re cent conference in Berlin is to serve as the precedent the de bate will consist largely in ex change of condemnations, with the principals digging in deeper in their trenches as the proceed ings continue. The chance for an ameliorating s t a t e s m anship seems slim in the face of South Korean demands for early unifi cation and Communist resis tance to leaving decisions to the plebiscite of all Koreans. After Korea will come the Indochina question, if the con- Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago April 27, 1941 Prime Minister Curtin of Aus tralia stated that he and Presi dent Roosevelt, in a review of war and postwar problems in the Pacific, found themselves in "complete harmony." While workers from HI to ."0 years old are expected to pro vide the most efficient labor for p i c k i n c Oregon's 6200 acre ' strawberry crop, youncsters from 12 t 1" years of ace pick ed the good share of the crop last year. The war food administration announced that it is releasing 678,214 cases of canned vege tables and fruit juices to the trade for sale to civilians. The stocks released were not needed for government use. 25 Years Ago April 27, 12 Chemistry, by finding new uses for farm products and by products, can do more toward ' farm relief" than any legila tion congress may pass, Louis J. T a b e r, Columbus, national Crane master, told the Ameri can Chemical Society. Capt. Einar Paul Lundborg, the Lindbergh of Sweden, ar rived at Swan Island in a West Coast Air Transport company plane. He thought Oregon beau tiful and the scenery looked like Sweden. Lena Belle Tartar, head of the department of music at the senior high school, displayed the silver loving cup, trophy which her pupils won by taking the sweepstakes at the annual state music tournament at Forest Grove. 40 Years Ago April 27, 1914 Boxes of candy intended for Christmas presents were deliv ered by Frank Myers of the Spa for A. W. Beckley of Cho coy, Tampico, Mexico, to Salem friends. Mr. Beckley left Salem eight years ago and is the own er of a 70,000-acre ranch. (War held up the mail). Oliver M. Elliott, present su perintendent of schools at Twin Falls, Idaho, was chosen unani mously by the school board to head Salem schools. Charles W. Tidball of the Good Samaritan hospital, Port land, was among those rewarded with bronze medals for an act of heroism by the Carnegie hero fund commission. gf Photo Fan j A lot of folks are interested in taking home movies, but have had the impression that movie cameras were complicat ed to use, as well as expensive. When we say they are not, we sound just like salesmen . . . Foppa Kodak has done a lot to help us break down this buga boo with their Brownie Movie Camera Now down to ($37.50), but that still doesn't convince you that movies are as easy to take as box camera snapshots. Here if the whole routine: 1. Wind the camera up fully. 2. Look at the little guide on the side of the camera. It says that if the sun is shining, set cam era at 8. 3. Set camera at 8. 4. Point camera at subject, press shutter release, hold for at least 6 seconds, and let go. That's all! You have taken one 6-second scene on a roll of Kmra color film on which you still, have 29 more 6-second scenes to go, at a cost to you (including processing) of $3.15. Now you go into the house for Junior's birthday party. You buy a pair of floodlights on a bar for $7.50. You attach the camera to the bar in 5 seconds. Check the card on the cam era. Subject at. say, feet, set lens at 5.6, point and shoot You're done. Send film in the box provided to EK Co. San Francisco, and it will be re turned to you ready to run in about six days. Then you call on us again. We will (a) Rent you a projector and screen for SL50 or (b) Ron the film for you in oar projection room no charge, or (c) Sell you a matching Brownie Projector for $62.00 (7 bucks down and 6 months to pay, without carry ing charges, just like we sold vou the camera). Complicated? Your child can do it! ANDY FOSTER. Andy Fester's CAMERAS 174 N. Commercial Salera from page 1.) ference continues that long and the rebellion in Vietnam reaches no military decisidn in the inter val. In the precincts of Geneva, however, there should be some opportunity for the side discus sions which often are the pre lude to an agreement. Ending the Berlin blockade came after an exchange of remarks be tween Ambassador Jessup and the Russian delegate at L'nited Nations. Considering the pres sures for settlement of Asian questions it is safe to assume that delegates will seek to ex plore various avenues and lanes which might lead to a satisfac tory solution. That presumes, however, that the powers con cerned are ready to make con cession;, for diplomacy remains the art of trading. Geneva is not a Boy Scout Jamboree: but it is to be hoped that the various delegations' have a supply of trading stock they are willing to part with in hopes of obtain ing better treasure.-. If they .o empty-handed or if they adopt hard and last positions then (itnea will rank with Keihn and oihers as a conference which la:led. Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGKRS THK CH.XLI.KNGK TO AMERI CAN FORFIGN POLICY, by John J. McCloy (Harvard; S2) "Do we have the means and the wisdom to develop and tn execute the policies which will bring us to our goal" ... the goal of a steadfast and determined "community interest" of East and West organized against the Soviet menace? This question is considered in these three God kin lectures by McCloy, former L. S. High Commissioner lor Germany. The slow emergence of a European Defense Community out of the knotty question of German rearmament and a welter of European hopes, tears, pros and cons, ifs ands and buts is a sample solution, says Mc Cloy, of one of the typical problems confronting states manship. He doubts our de fenses against the Reds are adequate, but isn't sure we can afford to improve them; he has suggestions about what the Joint Chiefs of Staff should and should not do; mostly, however, he worries about the State De partment. It ' has not kept pace with our needs," he charges; it ought to organize "institutionad training" courses for freshmen diplomats; there should be "greater de centralization," envoys "failing in a mission ... should be re moved." It seems a little obvious to say that our representatives should point out to foreigners that we are not as rich as Croesus, or to note that a lot can be accomplished by an am bassador who meets the com mon people. In a concluding aside he com plains that "our intellectuals" have not done right by us in foreign countries. The exact contrary, that our Intellectuals have done more for our good name than a lot of our officials, will certainly be maintained by manv readers. 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For l.VJ years smce its canton became a Dart of the Swiss federation wrv. ing it the aura of neutrality to add to us aireaay w eii-estabhshed in ternational and intellectual atmos phere, diplomats have used it n which to argue about their truces. For a hundred years it has ben the seat of the International Red Cross. Its most famous venture, of course, was as the seat of :he lea&ue of Nations There, one by one, the nations shied awav from ! their obligations to collective se- cunty while the world drifted in'o World W:r II. Suae then it has bevn the seat' o! some ol the .sub-divisions of ihe l'nited Nations and other interna tional bodies set up to handle prob- I icins ot an economic and civic na ture. But not for many years have the great halls of the league palace b-en filled as they were Monday with the opening of what amounis io two peace conferences one on Korea and on on Indochina. 1 It there uorc anything in the ;,ur j rounding aimosphere to affect such i conference. Geneva would pro jvide it The palace itself is in a ! rural, evergreen setting. Delegates win pass the great university founded by alvin. And the park where the sculptors have left on Kreat stone slabs Jhe story of Mar tin Luther and other intellectual leaders. In (he groves men have searched their hearts for the paths to re ligious liberty and human dignity. Even the flower beds are laid out to geometrical perfection, as though the logic of mathematics could be applied to beauty. AJoats move serenely over the lake, with I the w hile-capped Alps beyond. I But there is no serenity and very little hop. among the hundreds of j diplomats and their aides who are I gathered there for the latest try ' at peace. Tl. quiet and beautiful ; surroundings are merely the seen I for a test of strength The foreign secretaries will set the stage, and then eo home to Dull the wirr-s from their accustomed seats while lesser figures argue out the de tails of disagreement. 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