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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1954)
gc, Q-.T'rTr 6aln. On. SoU May M. IW4 CDresontatmatt "No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Aio" From first Statesman. March 28, 1831 CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher DRAFTED FOR THE DURATION fuDiuned vt morning Norm (.nurcn si Busmen ffie no Salem. Ore. Telephone S-3441 Entered al in .osiottict al Sales:, Ore aa aaeone elasa matter under act of Congraaa March S. 1179. Member Associated Preaa Tha Associated freaa u eautied exclusively to tn u (or repuoliratinn ot all local news printed in th's nwpapi Ciliilfl Labor Law Anniversary Legislation to prevent exploitation of child lUi' is so weii es.ablished now that it is ruud to reahze that. victory for this social reform has come only within recent years. As a nu iter of tact the states never did get r md to rutitying the amendment to pro h t chi.a ic.'cor. It was state action which fn.,- ly brou' r.t the cure, and that was slow to come in mi ny states. It was ju t 80 years ago that New York stie enacted the first law dealing with child la; That simply required that children under 14 could not be employed during school hours unless they had attended school for 14 weeks of the year preceding, which certainly was only a start toward the com prehensive legislation which New York has now for protection of children. Robbing children of their birthright came with the factory system and with coal min ing. Mere children were hired to cull slate out of coal and to work in mills and stores. As far back as 1830 agitation for reform be gan, to insure for children both education and recreation and opportunity for proper maturing. Progress came slowly however. Reports and pictures of children working un der adverse conditions drew public attention to the abuses of child labor. Defenders of the system were stung by things like this verse by Sarah Cleghorn: The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The laboring children can look out And see the men at play. it Even after good legislation was passed a long fight for enforcement was needed before the law was respected. There still are occa sions when the law is violated but the cases are intermittent and isolated for the most part. What society has failed to do is to provide adequate substitutes for the free time of growing youth. The devil still finds work for idle hands, and some of the youth delinquen cy of our day is attributed to lack of worth while occupation. Hence the great need for the various youth organizations and for fa cilities in which their trained staffs can work with boys and girls. The job is only half done with barring children from most types of gainful employ ment. Provision must also be made for their use of time in ways beneficial to themselves. The Catapult on the Bennington On a big aircraft carrier you go from the flight deck (which gives the name of flat top to the vessel) down to the hangar deck where planes are stored and serviced. And at the bow of the ship you go on down to another deck and that's where the catapult is. This catapult is just what its name im plies, a power machine to thrust planes into the air from the flight deck. Propeller planes can take off by making the run of the long flight deck, but jets have to be thrown into the air, the impetus from the catapult being needed to augment the thrust of the jet en gine. The catapult is electro-hydraulic, giving a tremendous but brief upsurge of power to hurl the plane out, and then its propelling mechanism must be quickly slowed down and halted, which is done by pistons driving into oil-filled cylinders. Down in the bowels of the ship an alert non-com operates the catapult. He gets his signals via electric flashlights, in series as the plane is got ready. At the appropriate signal the man at the controls puMs a lever, the powerful machin ery draws the cables which work over pul leys and are hooked to the plane. With a great roar the plane flies off the ship's bow and is airborne, the hook connecting the plane to the cable snapping off as a release. Eyes are now fixed on the catapult sec tion of the U. S. carrier Bennington on which an explosion snuffed out the lives of 98 men and caused injuries to more than 200. Last year the carrier Leyte had an explosion which brought death to 37, and the blast was traced to the ignition of oil in the cata pult cylinder. Since the explosion on the Bennington occurred below the third deck there is a strong suspicion that the cause may have been the same as on the Leyte. A Naval board of inquiry will make a thorough investigation for this, one of the worst peacetime disasters in the NaVy. The source of the explosion may be locat ed elsewhere. A war vessel is a storehouse of explosives: aviation gasoline, fuses, bombs, shells. Risk rides with any vessel with such a cargo. Whatever the cause we may be sure the Navy will seek to root it out and apply such correctives as may seem practical. Meantime the nation extends its sympathies to relatives of the victims of this catastrophe. Annual FHA Trophy Goes To Noteboora Kenneth Noteboom has won the annual trophy as outstanding agriculture student in Salem Chapter, Future Farmers of Am erica. Joe Hay was runner-up when awards were announced and awarded at parents and awards night Thursday. The trophy winner is new vice president of the chapter, which elected Wright Noel president for next year. Noel received three prizes a public speaking award, an 'S letter and a Hampshire sheep. Other new officers are Ron Christofferson, secretary; Roland Schirman, treain'-'-r: Duane Eo perhy, reporter; Wayne Wend land. sentinel. Burns Christoffer son and John Hay are honorary members for the coming year. Other awards: Vernon dairy development, Chester swine and letter; Jerry soil and water management; Da vid Girod, farm electricity and best project development; Ron Christofferson, farm safety and letter; Don Stettler, best swine; Wayne McMorris, best poultry and letter: Jack Berger, best pro tect record and development and j OSWEGO (J- - Richard L. Neu ie r' tt V . , 'berger, Democratic nominee for -7,V , y bf5' projett .record: ;us. senator, Thursday night criti Bi 1 Rickmann. best project de- cized a Dill introduced by his Re yelopment: Jim Coates, Holstem j publican opponent. Sen. Guy Cor- ncner ana leuer; uon riuiups, don pr0Vjdine for "partnership" Jefferson Area Man Victim of Canyon Mishap SUtesmaa News ScrrWe JEFFERSON Marion Towery. 22, bean grower living on the old Charles Hart place, was serious ly injured Wednesda -t-ting bean stakes in f Detroit Dam. He was taken to S morial Hospital where an em gency operation was performe and his chances for recovery an excellent, according to the tHre surgeons in charge. Several blood vessels in his abdomen were sev eral and the intestinal lining punctured Towery was driving his father's caterpillar tractor, trying to push over a green tree that had been sawed through. The tree struck against the machine, bitting hira in the stomach and pushing him 1 against the back of the seat, then bouncing him out on the ground. Ik Partnership Miller. 1 Bill Rapped By Ne.uberger Spotted Poland China and letter Robert Schafer and Darrell Tay lor. Durocs; other letters to Clif ford Wscken, Roland Schirman, Harold Randal, Frank Williams. Time; Flies: From The Statesman Files The McCarthy-Cohn-Stevens-Army con troversy boils down to a test of veracity. Deciding it on the basis of charges and de nials however is not easy. The conflicts are so numerous that a lie-detecting machine would get fouled up. 10 Yean Ago May 19, 1944 Directors of the Oregon State Employees association voted to employ as executive secretary Forrest Stewart, formerly area director for the American Red Cross. The "House military appropriations bill contains an item of $4,133,000 for a jet inter ceptor base at Klamath Falls. And Burns is to get a radar base. Thus our wide open spaces are found to have special values, and Oregon gets a thin slice of defense spending. over the holdings of the King wood Park company, composing much valuable real estate In and near West Salem. Merrill Richmond, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. A Richmond, Sa lem high school graduate in the class of 1914, was the only one of Senator Lane's candidates to pass the final examinations for Annapolis jtaval academy. College football coaches voted unonirrtmic licannrnuil ft t Vi a in. and sent a recommendation to Lt. Col. William Bingham cf Harvard, chairman of the NCAA rules committee, to consider changes in the playing code. The Safety Valve Archaeologists in Egypt found a boat of sycamore wood in the pyramid of King Cheops. The perfumed bark was to trans port the soul of the dead king across the river Styx. Looks as though they were scab bing on the ferryman who handled that traffic. The government will stockpile more lead and zinc and copper partly in an effort to buoy the price of these metals. The stuff will not turn rancid, but what will happen to prices when the government gets enough metals for another war or two? McCarthy says the pending hearings over the Schine business should be called smear ings. He took the word right out of the mouths of the victims of his previous hearings. Probably the reason Marion County voters turned down a zoning proposal was the dis puting which city zoning has prompted. Most people favor zoning on the other fellow. When stockholders vote to turn out old boards of directors it means they are "strik ing" for higher dividends. Ugly Phrase 'Preventive Showdown' Now Heard in Inner Circle of High Officialdom Ktnnan uses the similt of a poker game in the wild and wool ly days of the west. In such a game, after all, there were two quite different elements. There were the cards on the table. And there were the six-shooters on the hips of the players. If ths distribution of aces and kings did not seem abnormal, the cards decided the outcome of the game. But if the cards went too wrong, the six-shooters came out. And the six-shooters decided the outcome. By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON The gravity of the present turning point in world affairs can be measured. Apologetic yet a? 1 ft)- ventive,' quite serious talk about a "pre ventive showdown" with the Soviet bloc is begin ning to be heard in . high quarters. Thus far, those who ven ture to use the ugly word, "pre- are only a small mi nority. Furthermore, they do not positively advocate a pre ventive policy, with Its grim, in herent risk of major war. They hist say that this policy can no longer be ruled out The fact mains that word that tabu and idea that tabu are re- the was the was not V quite tabu now. Phis change is the clearest symptom of the deep uneasiness that reigns among those who know the true posture of affairs. There , are two interacting causes of this uneasiness. The first cause, obviously, is Indochina. What is really at stake in Indochina, If yea get right down to rockbettom, is the strategic balance between the free world and the Soviet em pire. This strategic balance has been precariously maintained far eight years. Maintaining the bal ance was the real noraese of the decision to go iate the Kor ean war. But what was saved in Korea is now in even greater danger in Indochina. If Indochina is al lowed to fall, the breakdown in the strategic balance will be total and disastrou. The second causa of the pre sent uneasiness, which the Ad ministration has sedulously con cealed, is also a basic change in the relative situations of the Soviet and Western halves of the world. It is the new trend of the weapons balance, described in three recent reports in this space. Hitherto, the dominant feature of the weapons balance has been the supremacy-of American air atomic striking power. The So viet Union might be stronger in every other arm of war. But the really decisive arm was held by the United States. So long as that was the situation, there was a kind of crude balance of weapons as between the contestants in the world struggle. But the Soviets have bow up set all the Pentagon's calculav ions by bringing out long range jet-bombers twe years earlier than was estimated. This means that withia II months to twe years, the Kremlin wOJ have dec isive air-atomic striking power of Its ewa, plus the freedom ear government does not have, te uso that power at win and by surprise. Simultaneously, the hydrogen bomb has changed all the esti mates of long range guided mis sile development. The Soviets, who art ahead in this field, may well come out with an intercon tinental missile with hydrogen warhead before this ultimate weapon can be produced in America. The Weapons balance must therefore be regarded as turning against us, at just the same mo ment when the strategic balance is also turning against us. Each tendency makes the other im measurably more dangerous and alarming. This is because the weapons balance and the strategic bal ace Interact tn a way that baa beea wittily and astutely des cribed by George F. Kennaa, who still possesses one of the meet penetrating minds la America, even if the Administration does net cheese te ase It. In Ke'nnan's simile, of course, the cards stand for the strategic balance and the six-shooters for the weapons balance. If a rea sonable strategic balance can be maintained, in other words, there will be much less rsason to worry about the weapons bal ance. But if the strategic bal ance is going to collapse, as it is in danger of doing, the ad Terse trend in the wtapons bal ance acquires really desperate meaning. balance and the weapons bal ance erndely constitute the world power balance between the Soviet and free halves ef the world. History teaches and the rule has no known ex ceptien that a deci sively unfavorable turn of the total power balance always leaves only two choices open to the nation or alliance oa the losing end. These choices are surrender or a war ef despair. Since the Administration has Steadfastly refused to take the country into its confidence, this may sound the very stuff of nightmare. But facts do not cease to be hard facts because they are no publicly admitted. False optimism' is no cure for vast upsets in the world balance of power. Which in turn explains why the formerly unmentionable it being mentioned and the formerly unthinkable is being thought about by some ef those in the small group te whom the hard facts are truthfully com municated. (CopyrUht, 1SS4. Ntw Tort Startle Tvftwa Xne4 State Senators Coe A. Mc Kenna, Portland, and Rex Ellis, Pendleton, are campaigning ior the presidency of the state sen ate. John H. Hall, Portland, and Eugene E. Marsh, McMinnville, are principal candidates for speaker of the house of repre sentatives. 25 Years Ago May 29, 1929 Election day is a landmark in the political history of Britain. For the first time the women of the United Kingdom will go to the polls to make what Premier Baldwin describes as "the great est experiment in democracy." Russell Brooks. United States consul in Belfast, Ireland, told the Salem Rotary club that prac tically all of the flax used in the manufacturing of linen at Bel fast is imported, even though it is recognized as the outstand ing city of the world in this in dustry. The grading work has been completed on Cascade Drive and other streets leading to the drive have been cut through Adams acreage from the Glenn Creek Road. This is the loop road around and through West Sa lem. 40 Years Ago Msy 29, 1914 Mount Lassen, the southern terminus ef the Cascade range in California, is quiet after throwing out smoke, steam, rocks and volcanic ash for 18 hours. Frank W. Waters and asiod- Tribute te A. H. Sears To the Editor: Again a loss comes to the community of Keiz er in the passing of Alden Harry Sears. A resident here from the early thirties where he and his wife farmed and raised their family. Harry, as he was commonly known to all his friends, and he had many, loved the out-of-doors life and was constantly busy un til of late when Time stepped in and he was forced to do very little. But even then he had time for his family and grand children and his many friends to pass away his time visiting and helping when needed in a kind and jovial manner. Com plaints and dissatisfaction were far from his way of living And to his many friends and assoc iates Harry Sears, as a friend and neighbor will certainly be missed in our community. And to his wife and family, who must bear the loss, I wish to convey my sincere gratitude and also mv appreciation to have known Mr. Sears as friend and neighbor. K. L. WILLIAMS, 4725 Elizabeth St Funeral Set Today at 2 For Mrs. Rue Services for Mrs. Anne Rue, who died Thursday at the age of 84 years, will be held Saturday at p.m. in the Howell-Edwards Chapel with the Rev. T. W. Erik- sen officiating. Interment will be at City View Cemetery. Mrs. Rue was born in Norway, March 27, 1870, settling in Min nesota. She married Gilbert O. Rue Sept. 8, 1894. They moved to Silverton in June, 1912, where they lived until June, 1952. Her hus band precwded her in death in September, 1952, and her son, Clif ford Rue, a former employe of the First National Bank of Portland, Salem branch, died last December. She was a member of the Luth eran Church. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Homer Plasket, and a son, Leonard Rue, both of Salem; a sister, Mrs. Olaf Skyberg, Lu- verne, Minn.; a orotner, carl Broderud, in Norway, sA one grandchild. Legion Post Nominates R. C. Miller Rigley C. Miller, county veter ans service officer, was nominated as commander of American Le gion Post 136 at the unit's meeting this week at Izaak Walton Hall. New officers will be elected on June 8 at which time nominations again will open. Other persons nominated for of construction of John Day Dam on the Columbia River. Neuberger. making it clear In a talk to Clackamas County Demo crats that the John Day bill will be a major issue in the fall cam paign, said the proposal would be disastrous for Oregon's industrial future. Jf built as proposed by Cordon, he said, the dam would produce high-cost, rather than low-cost, power. Neuberger contended that the partnership program, under which private companies would finance the power portion of the dam. con tradicted Interior Secretary Doug las McKay's recent statement that power rates could be kept low. He quoted the secretary as say ing power from high - cost new dams could be pooled with that from low-cost old dams to keep down rates. But Neuberger said that because the Cordon bill would fices are Howard Kaffun, first . parTT,ark .tr n fnr n. vice commander; Pat Lytle, e- g0n, there could be no pooling and cond vice commander; Charles j rates on energy from the dam Mason, finance officer; Robert : W0UJ4 fiav to be higher. Ball, adjutant: Joseph Marcroft. -what industrialist." Neuberger historian: William Swigart. chap- a&ked ..will M cent n "TiSl'or John Day 'partnership' power v.v.,..u .vcu, i than for BonneviHe-Coulee kilo- er A ' caie; Jimci rayne. .erv,ce omc- waUj ejMwnere er; and Earl Preston, sergeant at Northwest?" arms. Candidated for the executive board, five to be named, are Wil bur Straw, Darrel Sims, Frank McKinney, Elwood Townsend, Le Roy Montgomery, Al Friesen, Tom Pickett and Arthur Hanson. Nominated as candidates for state convention delegates, four to be named, were Wayne Perdue, Yarn Stulken. Carl Roth! Ray Haling, Howard Kaffun, in the Pacific- OPERATION FAILS HAMBURG. Germany Sia mese twins Margot and Maria Do lores de Rosas, born March 24. died Thursday after an unsuccess ful operation to separate them. A home recently opened as a museum by the Denison Society, Homer inc., in Mystic, Conn., has been Smith, William Swigart and Dar-i occupied since 1717 by 11 gener- rell Sims. I ations of the Denison ismuy. A White Rose for Ethel Ban To the Editor: A life spent In good works! A marvelous housekeeper! An unexcelled nurse! A notable seamstress! A noble friend and neighbor! God be with you! Lovingly, FLORENCE MATTHES Laks Lablsh GRIN AND BEAR IT By Licbty HvftklmKaBtlm4.&&ttmaxpKta tail snrsssgT ,7 , .v mmsm n rt Funeral Scrvic Since 1878 rktM 3-9139 Church at Hrr SAIIM, OMOON i