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4 (Sc 1) Statesman. SaTem. Of.. Thun,, May 13. 1954 GRIN AND BEAR IT Bv Lichty "Ao Favor Sicays Us, io Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 CHARLES A. SPRACJUE, Editor and Publisher Published tvrty morning Business office 280 North Church St Salem Or Telephone 2-2441 Emeieo at the ostotfice t Saler Ore at second clas natir-i under act of Congress March 3. 1879 Mem ber Associated Press The Associated Press ta entitled exclusively to th u for repuollcation of ail local newa printed In this n f w spa pet Legislative Candidates: The Senate Under the new apportionment of the Leg islative Assembly Marion County elects the same number of Senators two and Rep resentatives four as Defore. Three per sons aspire for the Republican nomination for Senator: Douglas R. Yeater, incumbent, Mark Hatfield and Lee Ohmart, presently Representatives. The Democrats have only one aspirant for the post: Cecil J. Fames of Salem. The competition in the primary is therefore amung Yeater, Hatfield and Oh mart. The Statesman recommends the election of Lee Ohmart and Mark Hatfield. Both have been seasoned by two terms of service in the House and are ready for advance ment to the Senate. Yeater has served one term in the House and one in the Senate. As this paper measures performance in the Assembly, however, it gives its endorsement to Ohmart and Hatfield. Ohmart moved quickly' into a position of leadership in the House, strictly on the basis of his sound, conservative judgment and, his practical knowledge. His special field was taxation. Hatfield was young, and rather green, his first session; but developed well in the second session. An educator, whose special field is political science and with a per sonal interest in politics, he has a good po tential in making a career out of politics. He needs seasoning and a little more sturdi ness. but they can come with experience. We do not mean tc ignore Yeater who has quite a zest for politics .and has served three legislative sessions. Our choices, how ever, in this three-some falls to Ohmart and Hatfield. ing of the legislative team from the stand point of geography and occupation. Salem ought not to have all four of the county's representatives (plus the two senators). Our recommendations: Robert L. Elfstrom, Salem businessman, former mayor, who has served one term in the House. Progressive, civic - minded, Elfstrom gives intelligent, responsible rep resentation. Eddie Ahrens, farmer and sheepgrower, prominent in farm and livestock circles, recognized as a community leader. Let's give representation to agriculture, the back bone of Marion County's prosperity. Jason Lee, lawyer. On the younger side, but with experience in state affairs (with State Tax Commission and as Deputy Dis trict Attorney); high-principled, industrious. This leaves us only one more choice, but we can't avoid commending both W. W. Chadwick and Al Loucks. The former is a veteran legislator, with a good record of steady work, well respected by his fellow members, with the growing influence which comes with seniority. Loucks is a dynamic and magnetic personality, able on the plat form, public spirited, who may with good cause entertain higher political ambitions. Between the two we make no specific rec ommendation. The reason we do not endorse both of them is that we think three Salem businessmen are one too many for our leg islative team. This leaves out, to.our regret, Bill Kimsey, labor commissioner and Robert Cook, farm er. Kimsey would make a very fine legisla tor and give a deserved place to labor be cause of his long association with organized labor. He suffers from the handicap of being little identified with Marion County. Cook, who was a candidate two years ago, lacks acquaintanceship over the county to make him a formidable candidate though he ap pears to be well qualified. Legislative Candidate: For the House Seven good men came to the aid of the Republican Party in Marion County to stand as candidates for State Representative four to be elected: and one. Guy W. Jonas of Salem, is running as a Democrat. Here again the competition is on the Republican side where the candidates are: Eddie Aniens, Turner, sheepgrower and farmer. W. W. Chadwick, Salem, hotel proprietor. Robert F. Cook. Silverton, farmer. Robert L. Elfstrom, Salem, roofing and painting contractor. William E. Kimsey, Salem, present State Labor Commissioner. '- - Jason Lee, Salem, attorney at law. Al. W. Loucks. Salem, petroleum prod ucts, motor cars, present mayor of Salem. Not within our recollection have the can didates for this office been as uniformly worthy and well qualified as is true this 3'ear. We would rate all of them as com petent -and trustworthy. Hence making a choice of four from the seven is not easy. The Statesman in making its recommen dations has given consideration to a balanc- Adverse Report on Natural Gas Service Hopes of residents of the Pacific North west for an additional source of fuel in natural gas were dashed, temporarily at least, when the staff counsel of the Federal Power Commission, Alvin A. Kurtz, recom mended that none of the pending applica tions for pipeline rights to the region be approved. While final decision rests with the Commission itself the conclusion of the counsel presents a roadblock to plans for bringing natural gas to the Northwest. Hearings on rival applications have been in progress for nearly two years, and vol umes of testimony have been heard and recorded. The chief rivals are West Coast Transmi.-sion Pipeline Co. which proposed to import gas from Canada, and Pacific Northwest Pipeline Co. which planned to build a pipeline from a tri-state basin cen tering in northwestern New Mexico to the Northwest. Kurtz based his recommendation on a study of the record. He recognized the existence of a need for natural gas in this part of the country but said none of the proposals offered was "sufficient, proper or complete." The proposed rate, he said, was higher than the Atomic Energy Commission would pay at its Hanford works, which would curtail the market. That this report comes as a surprise is indicated by the fact that Portland Gas and Coke has just announced its engagement of special engineering advisors for studying a changeover from manufactured to natural gas. It is safe to assume that the Kurtz rec ommendation will be vigorously contested before the Commission which has set June 1st as the day for start of arguments of the applicants. IJoatph Alaqjg Bv JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON In these next days and weeks and months, there is going to be plenty of bad news about the attempt to arrange a new Munich in In dochina, for in stance. If only for the sake of contrast, a look at the hopeful side of current events is now in order. For there is a hopeful side. although few people see it, both to the grim crisis in Indochina and to the domestic political crisis that is currently spilling over in the McCarthy-Army leanngs The leaders f the Adminis tration and al most all other leublicans are ilunged in dark ist gloom by jhese two de elopments. Yet hat matters is jot where you re. but where Vnd important wl and healthy changes of direc tion are already resulting from both the two crises that are row causing such unrelieved pessimism. If it is permissible to speak personally, the gloomiest mo ment for these reporters was last January, when one of them returned from an extensive journey of on-the-spot observa tion in the Far East. At that time, all the signs at home pointed to the conclusion that the Administration must stand up to Sen. McCarthy or surrender to him utterly. And at that time, all the signs pointed to the conclusion that Indochina would be lost to the free world without more active American intervention. Bat at that time, the Eisen hower administration was still refusing to face up to these great and painful choices. Too many people forget all new American administrations must always learn by doing. The new team had only finished the first phase of this learning process. Broadly speaking, the Admin istration had got thoroughly on top of the ordinary business of government. When it confront ed the Congress, it was ready with a highly impressive, admir ably well-knit moderate con servative program. In itself, this was great progress from the dis orders of the take-over from the Democrats the year before. But in January and for some time thereafter, the Eisenhower administration was like a gen eral who had organized his front wisely and efficiently, but had left his flanks perfectly un guarded. The ordinary business of government was well in hand, but the critical business was not in hand at all. No protection was being provided against the two great dangers, of the in creasing arrogance of the McCarthy-style neo-F a s c i s m at borne, and the increasing power of Communist imperialism abroad. Trying to luck through these domestic-political and foreign political difficulties has now cost the Administration and the country a very heavy price. The McCarthy-Army hearings have to be endured because the White House kept hoping that "Joe would be good'' until it was too late to prevent a major explosion. In the same way, the White House kept hoping Indo china would somehow save it self: so now it will take a mir acle to save Indochina, and that miracle must certainly involve the use of American troops if it occurs at alL That is the dark side. The hopeful side is the way the White House and the Eisenhow er administration reacted whea they learned the truth that ev ery new Administration must learn, that somehow you never AM ru hsssct.4 dee it at "Is phase comrade Junior is going through, according to child psychology book . . . refusing to confess tometning he didn't dcT DTP orrg (Continued from page 1.) Plenty of Bad News Lies Ahead, So Let's Take a Look at Hopeful Current Events can lurk through the hard prob lems. This is always the mo ment when the real test is made of a new American administra tion's fiber. Surely it is reason able to feel that the Eisenhower administration has passed the test In the big foreign crisis, when the acuteness of the danger in Indochina was at last realized, the President, the Secretary' of State, and the leaders of the Pentagon acted with vigor and courage to try to ward off the danger. The fine quality of John Fos ter Dulles' offer of united ac tion is being under-rated, be cause this offer has not been accepted by our allies. Secretary of the Army Stev ens may not appear the most brilliant man in the world on the television screen. He may have made many mistakes. But he went into the Army-McCarthy hearings to defend a great principle. He has doggedly de fended that principle under the most relentless brain-washing. And despite all the political pussy-footers who would like to appease McCarthy at home as well as the Kremlin abroad, the White House has had the guts to make a clean break with the Wisconsin Senator Here a?ain there are no signs of cowardice or weakness of will. By every indication one can find, moreover, these two crises should be the last episodes in the story of how this Adminis tration learned by doing. The political analysts who are shak ing their heads about the dam age the two crises are doing to day, are likely to be proven wrong in the long run. For the long ran it is always better poli tics to be vigorous and courage ous than to try to lack through. And Dwight D. Eisenhower now seems to have recognized this rule of civilian leadership, as he long ago recognized it as a rule of military leadership. (Copyright.' 1954. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) nuclear weapons to be delivered by air. The old "balance of forces" among Army, Navy and Air Force) gave way to greater em phasis on Air and A-, H-bombs. Re cent developments however, with a threat of involvement in war in Southeast Asia where "massive retaliation" does not fit, have forced the Defense Department to make what Secretary Wilson calls a "soul-searching review," which is parallel to what Secretary Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Year Ago May 13, 1944 Lee N. Rudin, Salem, was named honor man of his com pany upon completion of recruit training at the U. S. naval train ing station at Farragut, Idaho. He graduated from Willamette university. "Five Grand," the 500th Fly ing Fortress to be completed at the Boeing Aircraft company plants in Seattle since Pearl Harbor, rolled off the produc tion line. , Oregon's state department of education usually on the giv ing end of diplomas, awards, etc. found the tables reversed this week when it was the recipient of a certificate of merit for pat riotic endeavor in the war ef fort 25 Years Ago May 13, 1929 Approval of the proposed va cation of two short sections of streets, platted but never im proved, and now occupied by the King Food Products, was given by the city planning and zoning commission. The Navy Department went on record as approving a proposed bridge across the Columbia riv er at Astoria providing the min imum clearances are no less than those prescribed by the secretaries of war. C. A. Lonergan, Portland, was elected state deputy of the Ore- gon State Council of Knights of Columbus at the 21st annual convention held in Portland. 40 Years Ago May 13, 1914 A freight barge line through the Panama Canal will be inaug urated when five empty barges will be towed from Colon to Balboa. Several vessels are wait ing to cross in the Atlantic. At a recent election at the University of Oregon, Leland endricks, Salem, won the ed itorship of The Emerald. Leslie Tooze of Salem was elected a member of the student counciL The people of Salem had an opportunity to see the real war at Vera Cruz (in moving pic tures) at the Globe theater. The reel showed the actual fighting in Mexico. Dulles described as an "agonizing reappraisal'' of our national policy if the European army plan were abandoned. Better English By D. G. WILLIAMS 1., What is wrong with this sentence? "We have read into ' your manuscript and we are re turning same to you herewith. " 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "cynosure"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Soubriquet, sov ereign, soulless, somniforous. 4. : What does the word "avid" mean 5. - What is a word beginning with am that means "friendly"? Answers 1. Omit "into," and say, "We are. returning it to you." Omit "herewith." 2. Pronounce si-no-shor, i as in sign, o as in no unstressed, oo as in shook, ac cent first syllable. 3. Somnifer ous, 4. Craving eagerly; greedy. "His avid ayes were fastened on the pile of currency." 5. Amicable. We are in a sort of twilight zone between peace and war; and in an other twilight zone of change in the tools and techniques of war fare. It would be folly to put all of our reliance on air power whose limitations were revealed in Korea and in Indochina, or in nuclear weapons which were admittedly ill adapted to fighting there. Not knowing just what kind of war our armed forces may be called on to fight, or where, those charged with responsibility for national defense feel we must be reasonably strong in all branches of the service. In this dilemma surely we dare not overlook the need for maintain ing sea power, though now it is best housed in craft other than heavy battleships. In any war of survival our ultimate security would rest in prevention of armed invasion which could come in force only overseas. The Navy then is the first line of defense, just as it is the indispensable arm of con trol of sea communications. Much as we long for and work for peace, in the present state of world tension we do not dare re lax our vigilance. World Commun ism, Soviet model, is aggressive and determined, and conscience less as regards the capitalist world. We ought not to invite con flict; but if it comes we must be prepared to fight it through to vic tory. 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