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4 (Sec. l)--S talesman, Scrlom. oje dDreaonntatesraati "Ao tacur Hways Us, iu t tat Si.uU Awe" From First Statesman, March 28. 1851 CHAKL.ES A SHHAGUL. fcklncn and Publisher PvirJsno .ri mom. us Buiii- otine ZUU North Church Si Salem yre Irtepnonr tnleieo ai in ibioilicc rfl Salei:. Ore a acvund clas ,natt-i uncle at' ot C angles Marco S. 1879 Member Associated Press Th AisocjaleO frcss is enliUeO exclusively to l&e UM (or repuollratinn ot all local new Drinted tn ths nrwspapet A "No Decision" Bout Senatoi Flanders of New 'Hampshire seems to have inherited what used to be called the New England conscience, an original import of the Puritans. He has become so concerned over the menace of McCarthy that he not only raised his voice twice in condemnation of his Wisconsin colleague but has introduced a resolution to oust McCar thy as chr.irman of a Senate committee or subcommittee unless he clears himself on questions that have been raised respecting , his financial integrity as member of the Sen ate. It is safe to say that the Senate will not touch the Flanders resolution; nor will it appoint a special committee which Joe says he would be willing to testify before. The Senate is trying feverishly to wash its hands of the present McCarthy-Army hear ing, not to open a new one. The end of this hearing is in sight. Noth ing has been "proved" except that somebody is lying. McCarthy has shown himself a" skilled infighter; where he has lost ground, as James Reston of the New York Times has pointedly said has been in "his manner and his manners.'' The radio and TV audi ence sees Joe as a contentious brawler, which in fact he is. It looks very much that this match will wind up as a "no decision" go. The commit tee may bundle the testimony and refer it to the attorney general to study for pos sible presentation to a grand jury. But Mr. Brownell already has shelved the prior im putations of McCarthy's financial miscon duct, and McCarthy has already thrown out the challenge that he faces a "stacked deck'' in the office of the attorney general, in a plain effort to neutralize any action there. It looks very much that McCarthy, like the brook, will go on and on. He's tough and durable. A shift in Senate control would deprive him of his chairmanship, but he will continue his exploitation of Commu-nists-in-government as long as it yields po litical or financial profit to himself, and will continue to attract a ery considerable following. On Secrecy in Government The press of the country has been pretty solidly hostile to McCarthy, but there is one point where it should check up on its opposi tion. That is, on concealment of information. The rule seems to be well established that the President .can, withhold information called for by Congress. That was done by George Washington and by other Presidents clear down to Dwight D. Eisenhower. "But that authority rrfjay be subject to grave abuse. The press was highly critical of Truman's order giving executives power to classify documents and thus to keep them from pub lic knowledge. Eisenhower has modified that order somewhat, but it still is tighter than many newspapermen think is necessary. Ancl now, charges McCarthy, Harold Stassen has Indo-China Crisis Reqarded as Vindication Of Gen. MacArthur and Dr. Oppenheimer By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP One of the things the Indo Chinese crisis is doing is to vindicate the judgment of Gen. k Douglas Mac- Arthur. The free world would not now be menaced "t;.OT4 with a catastro- t phe in Asia, if MacArthur had won his fight against the arti ficial limits on the Korean war. Back in 1950, friMTi th fa1p JUeph Aiaog, perspective of W a s h i n gton, the arguments against MacAr thur's views sounded convincing to many. Speaking personally, one of these re porters only dis covered how farsighted Gen. MacArthur had been when he went to Asia last year to see things for him self. Mac Arthur was in fact right, in three differ ent ways and on three different Skjrati lsojt levels. He was right, first, in proclaiming that there was "no substitute for victory." Admiral Arthur Radford is now being venomously attacked for the same stand about the Indo-China crisis. But what is the substitute that is offered in Indo-China? Viacheslav Molotov has told the world. The substi tute is toge a smashing triumph for the Soviet empire and un mitigated, disastrous defeat for the West. MacArthur was right, second in his view that the Korean war was a crucial test which it was necessary to win at all costs and risks. Indo-China is the proof. Because Gen. Mac Arthur's policy was rejected, the r onv munist were able to fight our armies to a standstill in Korea. The truce then automatically transferred the strategic storm center of Asia from the rela- v - if- Ot.. Sun.. June 13, 1954 directed employes in his Foreign Operations Administration to mark documents "For Of ficial Use Only" tjius sealing them from dis closure. The danger is that the reaction against McCarthy's infiltration of Army and execu tive departments will be used to tighten requirements of secrecy, to the suppression of information to which Congress and the public are properly entitled. The authority of the Congress to conduct investigations 6f the executive branch dear. The only rea sonable basis for withholding documents or information from an authorized investigating committee is when it is in the national in terest. That too is the test as far as giving information to the public is concerned. Some of the public business if made public might endanger the nationJs security. A heavy bur den of responsibility rests on the executive department in determining that security re quires suppression of information; and many times, we are convinced, the decision to withhold has been captious and arbitrary and unjustified. McCarthy has abused his prerogative and his invitation to government employes to peddle him government secrets is a defiance of loyalty essential to the discipline of the administration. But that must not be al lowed to excuse dropping a soundproof cur tain between the executive branch and the legislative, or between the executive depart ment and the public. We have not arrived at a point where all public business can be transacted in the open; but secrecy and se clusion must be combatted for they are- the source of much maladministration. Death of An Adams Another of the famed Adams family has died, Charles Francis Adams of Boston, sec retary of the navy in the cabinet of Herbert Hoover. His grandfather was Charles Fran cis Adams who served as U. S. minister to Great Britain in the Lincoln administration and succeeded in keeping that country from entering the Civil War on the side of the South. He was the great grandson of John Quincy Adams, sixth President, and great great grandson of John Adams, signer of the Declaration of Independence, the first Vice President and second President of the United States. Others of the Adams clan who attained distinction were Brooks Adams, lawyer and historian, and Henry Adams, lec turer, historian and philosopher, who were great uncles of the one now deceased at the age of 87. The Adams family ranks among the elite of American families in the best meaning of the adjective. Men of high intelligence and of stern rectitude, they served their country for the full century and three quar ters of its existence. The one now deceased was a financier in private life, board chair man of the State Street Trust Co. of Boston and was for 20 years treasurer of Harvard University with responsibility in the rrian agement of its vast endowment. None of the Adamses was "popular", both John and John Quincy failing of reelection to the presi dency. Henry Adams had a brilliant intel lect, bright and hard like a diamond. His frustration in life seems to be reflected in his philosophy see his Education of Henry Adams. But all of the Adams tribe seemed to inherit from John and Abigail Adams on almost Calvinistic sense of duty. The nation has profited abundantly from their labors. With Jimmy Roosevelt leading his oppon ent about five to one, the question arises whether his widely publicized marital trou bles proved a liability or an asset. tively manageable contest in Korea, to the extremely un manageable contest in Indo China. Because we did not win the first test, we seem to be about to lose the second, and many others after that. The danger in Indo-China is the direct result of the failure in Korea. Third and finally, MacArthur was right in feeling, as he ob vioislv did fee), that the time of the Chinese intervent;on in Korea was the right time for a show down in .the world struggle be tween the Soviet and free halves of the world. In the simplest terms, the United States already possessed decisive air - atomic striking power, while Soviet air-atomic power was still virtually nil in 1950-'51. The Communist enemy had then proven his aggressive intentions. Our one major weap on then had its fullest value.' That value was already being impaired by the Soviet air atomic build up. Logic demand ed a showdown without further delay. Indo-China is again the proof. It is not generally known, but it is the chillin? fact that Soviet air-atomic striking power has for the first time begun to influence American policy in the present crisis. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have not been Influenced. That will no doubt come a year or two later. Then the Soviet air atomic build-up will have gone much further. Then the peril of the United States will be total, which is not yet the case. But among the opponents of action to save Indo-China. cer tain key planners have already been strongly influenced by the existing Soviet air-atomic threat. If we go into the Indo-China war, thev have said, it cannot be limited. If it is not limited, the Soviet Union may come into the war. If the Soviet Union comes in. its atom bomb power may be used. And are we then to risk atomic bombs on the United States, they have asked, for the sake of this crisis' in Asia? The question is superficially persuasive as long as you do not ask the counter questions. These are simple. What are we to do when the world power balance has utterly collapsed because of the Wert's humilirting defeat in Indo-China. and when Soviet air atomic striking power has grown twice or three times as danger ous to us? Are we then to sur render everywhere? These facts and questions prove another man right, too. Back in 1951-'52, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer took the lead in advocating an adequate air de fence for the United States. The bis-bomb?r generals of the Air Force regarded Oppen heimer's pleas for expenditure on air defense as almost as bad as a proposal to spend money on the Navy. They charged tKat his motive was secret and dis loyal hostility to the Strategic Air Command. There is an echo of that ehamefu". eoisode n te report of the Gordon Gray Board. But Dr. Oppenheimer's real motive was quite different. He argued thrt a country with a strong offence and no defense was like a fighter with a glass jaw. He predicted that despite the power of SAC, American polic would be progressively paralyzed as the danger of Soviet air-atomic attack grew greater and greater. Without prejudice to SAC, he urged an adequate air defense as the only effective protection against this creeping paralysis. The air defense problem was nonetheless criminally neglected. The American planners, asking their rhetorical question about Soviet atomic bombs, already show the creeping paralysis of policy that Dr. Oppenheimer foresaw. Although this is only a small first instalment of some thing far uglier. Dr. Oppen heimer has already been proven right in detail. Gen. MacArthur and Dr. Op penheimer are an oddly assorted pair. But they now jointly de serve a public apology from all those who opposed them. Or per haps, instead, their highly placed opponents should now be classed as security risks, because of their "lack of enthusiasm" in situations where their errors have done infinitely more dam age than Dr. Oppenheimer's "lack of enthusiasm" for the . hydrogen bomb. (Copyright, JSS4. Nw York Herat Trlkase, lac.) Literary Guidepost ELIZABETH AND THE PRINCE OF SPAIN, by Mar garet Irwin (Harcourt, Brace; $3.50) Gloomy and morose Charles V's gloomy and morose son Philip has been wed, and lost his wife. And now he must lose his mistress, too, because reason- of state send him to Eng land to take a second wife, Mary. He's a young man, under 30, and she's much his senior, a goodwoman in her way though they call her "Bloody Mary," but a fearful woman. She is afraid of losing her throne; which Wyatt has already shak en; of losing her virile hus band; and mostly, she fears her redhead, madcap, half sister Elizabeth. Elizabeth knows fear, too, a stark terror that breaks sud denly into her happy, some times ecstatic experiences. She risks much, indeed all, in let- mmmmmmmmmmmm&mmmmmzw- Time Flies ROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago June 13, 1944 Gov. Snell announced the ap pointment of Maurice Hudson, Portland attorney, as state corp oration commissioner to succeed the late Lloyd R. Smith. Hudson isa native of Oregon and a grad uate of the University of Oregon Law School. The crowning of Oregon Chin Up Club president Beth Sellwood, Salem, as "Queen of Courage" highlighted the third annual meeting of this group at the Chemeketa IOOF hall. Glen H Taylor, former cowboy radio entertainer, forged into a lead over incumbent D. Worth Clark in a race for the democrat ic senatorial nomination in Ida ho's primary election. 25 Years Ago June 13, 1929 Complimenting Miss Ruth Corey on her approaching wedding. Mrs. Walter Kirk entertained with a tea'at her South High Street home. Miss Corey will be married to Gordon Wilson of Ore gon City July 6. Officials of the Oregon Pulp and Paper Company, interviewed in Portland by Fred Williams. Salem City Attorney, announced that cinder arresters of an ap proved type would be put in use within 60 days Statistical studies of the cost of prohibition enforcement, pre pared by Commis,sione'r Doran, place the total government ex penditure in the nine years since adoption of the eighteenth amend ment at $141,178,485. 40 Y'ears Ago June 13, 1914 Covering the 52 miles between! Salem and Portland in better J than 10 miles an hour, the relay team representing the Salern YMCA won over the team from the Portland association. Adlai Stevenson, vice president of the United States through the second Cleveland administration, died at the age of 78. The precinct committeemen of the Republican party, 40 strong, elected officers for the fall elec tion campaign. N: D. Elliott of Salem was elected secretary. THE PERSUADERS ting Robin Dudley kiss her, and yet no matter what she does, she risks all. In her dangerous day a man or woman could hang or burn for a sheep or a lamb, for a Catholic or a Pro testant, for a law or the lack of a law, for having a child or not having one. Philip takes Elizabeth's side, and feels for her all the passion Mary con not stir in him. The story continues Miss Ir win's colorful saga of the good Queen Bess and carries it, per tinently to that queetfs corona tion. Occasional bits of history, necessary I am sure, slow the novel's brisk pace, but never stop it. Here are hazardous and hot embraces, the chilling breath of mortal danger, the tempers and tensions that go with fierce drama. Miss Irwin evokes the times the loaded table at which Charles dines, or the hard, etched Spanish landscape compared to the blur and mist of England. mmmmmmmm u E3333Ua prom a t Continued from page one.) and rivalries have resulted in po litical stalemate. And the "man on horseback." Gen. De Gaulle, waiting in the wings, h;s been too stilted a figure to command a large following. This recurrent French weak ness may result in a decision by Britain and France to proceed directly with the rearming of Ger many, bracing one ally against the Rus.'ian monolith to the East. A French collapse would invali date one condition laid down by Secretary Dulles for U. S. mili tary intervention in Indochina. That was assurance from France that it would stay in the fight un til victory was won. If Indochina is to be given full independence will France stay in the fight there merely to fend off the Communists in Asia when it has many of them in its hair at home? The reaction in Amerioa will be one of less willingness to assume the burdens of France in Asia. True, we would not be fighting for French colonialism; but if we are fighting in our own interests surely we should choose a more promising field of battle. For the moment the attention of the world will be fixed on Paris and on Geneva; and on the decisions of the French in both capitals The situation is not un der U. S. control: we can only await tiose decisions and then determine the course which the United States should take. The General Sherman tree in California is 3.500 years old, stands 272 fee"t high and is more than 101 feet around the base. anal f Theater Group To Present 'Blithe Spirit' The Pentacle Theatre, a Salem area community project, will pre sent .Noel Coward's comedy 'Blithe Spirit" next Friday, Satur day and Sunday evenings at 8: 15. The play will be given in a con verted barn at the Stanley Waters home just east of Oak Knoll golf course on Dallas Road. Seating capacity was reported to be about 100 persons. The production will mark the introduction of central staging in this area. Central staging, the theater group explained, means the audience surrounds the play ers. The Pentacle Theatre, which is open to public, membership and participation, plans to present two additional plays this summer. Tickets for performances this weekend are $1. Train Takes Guard Units To Ft. Lewis Men from Salem's National Guard Companies B and D left by troop train early Saturday morn ing for Ft. Lewis. Wash . where they will undergo two weeks sum mer training- At Ft. Lewis the Salem group joined nearly 6.000 other guards men from Oregon and Washington who comprise the 41st Infantry Division commanded by Maj. Gen Harold G. Maison. Other units which left Saturday included those from Albany, Le banon, Corvalli?. Dallas. Silverton, Woodburn and Oregon City. Sev eral Salem men also left with Headquarters and Headquarters Company of the 1st Battalion. The training period will close on June 26. 4 Salem Students To Get Medical Degrees Todav Four Salem students will re- ceive doc'.or of medicine degrees from the University of Oregon Medical School in ceremonies in( the school auditorium J"ne 18. i They are Joseph V. Brazie.j Robert M. Gilbert, John C. Roth,! and Cole P. Stephens. The new doctors will begin serving their one-year internships in July at the following hospitals: Brazie, Minneapolis (Minn.) General Hospital; Gilbert, Edward Wr. Sparrow Hospital, Lansmg, Mich.; Roth, University of Ore gon Medical School Hospitals and Clinics, Portland; and Stephens, Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago, nr. Landloc' Utah has chosen the: sea gull as its state bird, recalling a flight of sea gulls in 1848 which saved state crops from a plague 1 of crickejts. fob BEirr Typewriters Adding Machines Cash Registers Calculators Mimeographs Doiks & Chairs Chock Writers Filing Equipment Let as Explain Our Rental Purchase Plan Rates Always the Lowest ROEII Ph. J-T73 456 Court Cordon Winner, Morse Loser as O&C Bill Passes By A. ROBERT SMITH Statesman Correspondent WASHINGTON The final enactment by Congress of the controverted O&C lands settlement bill an issue that has been before the lawmakers for more than 10 years came this past week after both sides showed the full measure of their political resourcefulness. The political winners; Sen. Ellsworth, who teamed up to sponsor identical bills giving the Forest Service permanent juris- the 42.731 ac-1 J res that have been in dispute o n condition that the 18 OiC counties receive timber revenue from the lands ac cording to the OiC act of 193T. which as sures them a brt smit 75 per cent share, instead of national laws, which allow only 25 per cent. The political losers: Sen. Wayne Morse and Portland At torney A. W. Lafferty, who re presented a minority point of view that the lands should be administered by the Bureau of Land Management, the agency that now handles the more than 2 million acres of no-controvert-ered O&C timber. To Get Dividend The real winners: Oregon's OiC counties who probably later this fear will receive a special dividend in the form of their in dividual shares in the timber receipts from the disputed acre age which has been impounded in the U.S. Treasury by agree ment since 1942 pending settle ment of the dispute between Forest Srevice and BLM. The latest figures from the Forest Service show the fund contains $7,582,087.34. of which the 18 counties would divide 75 per cent or $5,686,565.50. Forest Service officials expect it to take some months to work out the procedure for actual disburse ment of the funds. Final passage by the House last week came with unexpected sud denness on Wednesday after it ran into difficulty on Monday. Here is what happened both on the floor and behind the scenes in the congressional cloakroom: Ellsworth's bill which had been reported favorably by the -Hoase Interior Committee was among those bills listed on the "consent calendar" the docket on which minor bills are frequently passed by unanimous consent of the House membership. This calendar is brought up for review every two weeks, and if no objection is raised to the individual bills as they are called in their turn they are passed by acclamation. Monday was consent calendar day. but when the O&C bill was called, an objection was raised by Rep. Victor Wickersham D Okla. i, who said he was making the objection "on behalf of two colleagues. He did not name them. This meant the House pas sed over Ellsworth's bill and went on to the one listed. Ex-Congressmen Wickersham explained to this reporter later that he had acted on behalf of two former congress men, one of whom was Lafferty (who served in the House from 1911 to 1915'. The other was Byron Scott, an ex-congressman from California from l93o-39 and now a practicing attorney here. Wickersham said Lafferty re- tamed Scott to help fight his case for Clackamas County, whom Lafferty has represented as spec ial counsel. Lafferty meanwhile had been circulating to members of Con gress a petition calling for a congressional investigation of the a: r sy rr ' i . t enure uc auair, dui parxicuiaT- ly what he charged was "a con spiracy" between Weyerhauser Timber Co. and "various public ' officials and private citizens in Oregon" to give the Forest Ser-: vice jurisdiction over the O&C ; lands Lafferty claimed Weyer-! haueser had "an entente cordiale ! 'Not me! The C j Gcncnni Finance con p. 1 1 so. eoMMiaciAi sr. mom i-f ui Guy Cordon and Rep. Harris built up over 50 years" with the Forest Service by which it will get "first call on timber from said lands." Ellsworth took a ribbing from both Republicans and Demo cratic leaders, including Speaker Joe Martin and former Speaker Sam Rayburn who received cop ies but didn't take it seriously. Failing in the effort to get an investigation, or to raise doubts that would force the O&C bill to a standstill in the remaining weeks before Congress adjourns, Lafferty asked Wickersham to object to Ellsworth's bill when it came up. In Real Estate Bisiaeru Why Wickersham? They hap pened to become acquainted about six years ago when Laffer ty was living on the fringe of Washington. D.C.. in Riverdal. Md . the Oklahoma congressman explained. Wickersham at that time was in the jfeal estate busi ness here, having been defeated in a bid for re-election in 1948. Lafferty owned a historic man sion which Wickersham managed to sell for him when Lafferty de cided to return to Portland. Two years later Wickersham was elected once again. After Wickersham held up the bill Monday. Ellsworth told him it really would only serve to delay favorable action on the bin, inasmuch as he would immed iately get the backing of the House Rules Committee to bring the bill up again under the regu lar order of business. That would mean it could be stopped only by majority vote. "Mr. Ellsworth is a member of the Rules Committee." Wicker sham said, "and so 1 knew he could do it. I had done all I could for Mr. Lafferty." Quick About Face In a quick a'out face that sur prised even Ellsworth. Wicker sham sought him out on Wednes day to explain that be would withdraw his objection. Ellsworth was pleased. Wickersham insist ed, moreover, that they go see Rayburn. Martin and the two party floor leaders, Charles Hal leck (R-Ind.) and John McCor mack (D-Mass.) so ie could make clear he was withdrawing his objections. The deed was done. The bill cam up that same afternoon and was passed after a brief exchange of commentary on the floor by Ellsworth and Wickersham. lasting only a few moments. Lafferty's resourcefulness was bested by Ellsworth by virtue of the strong position he has se cured in the House in a dozen years of service for South-western Oregon much of :that time spent nursing the controverted O&C bill to its ultimate destiny as the law of the land. The last step. President Eisenhower's sig nature, remains only a formality to the achievement of that goal. WOOL WEAR IlVnOX TXS Australian scienlists after four years exten. sive research. ciaim t0 have solved the problem producing shrink- wtolen fabrics. The nouncement. made by the Con mnmr.otih ;nHfi nH Tnrfn- trial Research Organization, a body sponsored by the Australian Government, added that produc tion of men's woolen ihrink-proof socks is under way in a Melbourne xnitting mill. - FREE ESTIMATES Ob Floor CoTeriagi . 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