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4 CSec 1) Statesman, Salem, "No Favor Sways Vt, No Fear Shall Aire" From first Statesman. MarcsHKS. 1881 CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published vrr morning Business offlc tSO North Church St.. Salem. Or.. Telptten 1-341 Entered at the AxtofiBce at SaJem. Ore. as cond class matter under act oi Confresa March 3. It79. Member Associated Press The Associated Press is entitled exclusive? to the us (or repuollcatlon of all local news printed in this newspapt Natural Gas for Northwest Approval of the application of Pacific Northwest Pipeline Co. to construct a line to the Northwest and deliver natural gas along its route was a two-fold surprise: First, that the FPC acted so promptly after the hearing closed; and second, that Pacific Northwest won out over West Coast Trans mission, a supplier from Canada. Apparently the decision was based on the prospect of supplying gas to intermediate consumers as well as in the Northwest states. The staff counsel had recommended rejecting all ap plications, but the FPC tossed out his report and gave its permit to Pacific Northwest, whose backers are Texas oil and gas men. Portland Gas and Coke had thrown its fupport to West Coast, while Seattle Gas had strongly endorsed Pacific. PG&C will be glad to get natural gas from any practical source. It is to be hoped that the supply in the San Juan basin is ample and that the cost of the long pipeline, estimated at $160 million, will not make the delivered price so high that the benefits will be curtailed. At least the long battle is over, and a decision reached. Natural gas will bring a new, and we hope a much cheaper fuel, to augment the limited fuel resources of the great Northwest. This will be of great helpf in the region's industrial development. Communist Indoctrination June 17 th was the first anniversary of the uprising in East Germany which scared the wits out of the Communist bosses and brought Russian military forces on the run to suppress it The day was celebrated with a mass memorial in West Berlin. When a bunch of East German" Reds came over and tried to break up the meeting a riot ensued and a dozen of the Reds narrowly escaped a lynching at the hands of the infuriated West Germans. This facet of facts shows the bitterness between residents in the two sectors of Ger many. Evidently a good many residing in the Soviet-controlled portion have become loyal converts to Communism. This is the result of years of indoctrination, of repres sion of dissent, and of the opportunity of sharing local power. After all Hitler quickly succeeded in molding German youth to his own discipline of mind and body, convert ing many into sadistic Storm Troopers and making the majority acquiesce in his anti Semitic pogroms. The Communists follow ing somewhat the same pattern of thought control have succeeded in welding a measure of local support. It is safe to say that similar success is achieved in other satellite coun tries. This means that the longer Communist rule stays the more strongly it will become entrenched, provided the control is suffici ently tolerant to forestall revolution. It is to offset this that propaganda efforts are maintained, like over Radio Free Europe, to keep alive the instincts of freedom, look ing to the day when the people will be lib erated or win liberate themselves from the thraldom of totalitarianism. Tactics Which Upset Russ Chess Champ Seen Usable for West in Cold War Batltes By J. M. ROBERTS JR. I Associated Press News Analyst Chess is a great Russian game. Kremlin sponsored teams go around the world, licking the pants off most everybody. The debacle if they were to lose a match would be about the same as if some Cuban or Japanese baseball team were to win a series from the New York Yankees. But a young fellow named Don ald Byrne, 24-year-old instructor student at the University of Michi gan, has just knocked off Yuri Auerbach, the Russian champion, in a team match in New York in which the Russians are far ahead on points. Donald hasn't been playing any chess for nearly a year. He thinks he won because he forced the game outside the copybook rules of thumb. Perhaps there is something In the young man's approach which the Western world might use to meet and beat those other teams of Russians or Russian puppets who are busy all over the world trying to win another and far graver contest the cold war. For six years now the Free World has been trying to win this contest through establishment of a balancing of power. Yet underly ing the whole program is a feeling of uneasiness, in the light of his tory's lesson that balances of pow er last only so long, and always have ended in war. If the cold war is to be won it will not be through diplomatic ne gotiations backed by military pow er. They can never produce any thing except temporary compro mises. If that what is needed is a fresh approach, an ideological ap proach. The United States and her allies, most of them, have an ideology. But it is limited. It is not an ideo logical program. It is that, to be secure, they must live fet a world where democracy prevails, where the voices of all nations have equal Ore- Saturday Juzm 19, 1954 Grangemaster McQure's Address While the State Grange doesn't cut the political swath it did in Oregon some 20 years ago it is still a body which is concerned with public questions outside of farming, which is the source of .livelihood of most of its members. So the address of its grange master is noted with interest not only by members but by others who follow trends in public thinking. Elmer tycClure, who has been Master for several years, has impressed the public as a thoughtful, sincere individual who seeks to be constructive. He reflects and in considerable degree guides Grange thinking, but he is honest in his convictions with nothing of the political manipulator about him. In his address at the Grange convention at Albany this week McClure renewed the Grange opposition to a sales tax and support of Hells Canyon, and endorsement of public power. Reporters duly noted this repetition of attitude on these well weathered subjects. However there were many other items in the McClure address which deserved attention. One, which was reported, was his call for a "re-study" of the Brannan plan, though that did not constitute an endorsement of this plan which even the Democrats dropped like a hot poker. (However the Eisenhower wool support program embodies the principle of the Brannan plan of direct subsidy to growers letting the commodity be priced in the free market). McClure did call for mod ernizing our total foreign policy remove trade barriers, enact a two-price system, etc; and urged some distribution of food surpluses to the poor. McClure recommended equalizing school costs on a county basis "perhaps by increas ing the present county school fund of $10 per census child. He urged taking continued interest in Educational TV. On national issues McClure called for pro tection of civil rights, reliance on the FBI for apprehension of subversives; and urged 'Strong support of United Nations. It is easy, to find items on which to dis agree with Grangemaster McClure, On the other hand one can find substantial "areas of agreement," to borrow a phrase now used freely to water down controversy. McClure is no radical, and surely not a Socialist as one upstate editor intimated. He is a good solid citizen who holds one's respect even in disagreement. weight not because of how many divisions they can muster, but ac cording to whether they are right or wrong. The United States herself doesn't realize that she is a great cru sader, that she is actually fighting for control of the minds of men just as do the agents of Soviet Russia. Yet that has been tried for a great many years. She win not admit that her great underlying purpose is to impose her ideas of democracy on all countries. She admits to being a missionary, but not a crusader. The great democracies have Your Health Rehabilitation for the Disabled WHEN the physical aspects of a disability have been coped with the physician tries to rehabilitate the individual so that he may again become a useful and pro ductive member of society. This is true no matter how major or minor the handicap may be. Not only his physical health, but also his. emotional health, and that of ' his family, depend on good or bad rehabili tation of the patient There are many factors that determine whether be will again be able to care for himself in a productive way. If an individual is healthy at birth and is disabled before the age of thirty, the chances of compensating for the disorder and achieving gainful employment are good. - The older the person, the more difficulty he has in adjusting to his handicap. However, if a per son is disabled at birth, he often has a more difficult time in suc cessfully obtaining a job. Of course, the higher the in telligence of the person, the easi er it will be for him to obtain Inflation, Deflation Frank Jenkins in the Klamath Falls Her ald and News, gives a succinct description of the inflationary cycle. As he says, inflation is universally condemned, and privately fa vored: Inflation? Everybody says it's bad. Everybody says it ought to be stopped. But everybody LOVES it. Everybody loves iiiflation because it means that wages go up today and prices go up tomorrow and wages go up again the day after that and prices go up the next day in an exciting cycle that keeps everybody hap py and thrilled. It's wonderful. Until the CRASH comes. Then everybody is sour and mad and dis illusioned and discouraged and says bitterly .that it hadn't ought to have been allowed to happen and that somebody ought to go to jail for it That's the inflationary cycle. Artie Samish, lobbyist and long-time boss of the California legislature really has come to the end of the road. He is out on appeal from his conviction for evasion of the fed eral income tax but the Brewers Institute of California says it will not reemploy him when his contract expires July 1st Samish overplayed his hand so his value to his em ployers is lost something to selL They have the highest living standards, the great est measure of individual liberties, the fullest latitude for the expres sion of human dignity. They won der how anyone can look at them and not want to emulate. But many don't look, and many actively fear the spread of democ racy as though it were an envelop ing extension of power exactly like that sought by Soviet Russia. When the West finds a fresh ap proach to this problem, then there may be some hope of mobilizing the world against the aggressive ideology by which it is now so gravely threatened. By Dr. Herman N. Bandesea, M.D. employment. Many a disabled per son is forced to use his thinking power as a means of earning a living once his limbs have been disabled. It has been found that those having higher forms of educa tions, such as high school and col lege, more readily adapt them selves to finding employment once they are disabled. People with moderate or slight handi caps ususally do not have as much difficulty in this respect as those with more severe handi caps. Modern hospitals are now equipping themselves with Re habilitation Departments that teach individuals how to regain functions lost by disability. They are taught to use whatever pow ers they have left in order to seek gainful employment Of course, a very important factor is the emotional attitude the person has towards his ill ness. Most people do very well in achieving independence through work if they have the emotional will to overcome the shock of their disability. HOPEFUL BCCAVrrDR'nTTRE POLITICAL PYRAMIDS (Continued from page 1.) effort to "get along" with Mc Carthy, give him all the help they could in hopes he - would get off the backs of administra tive departments. There were various concessions by way of appeasing McCarthy. Harold Stassen had his ears pinned back. Scott McLeod put shivers in State department personnel. The President himself retreated from his bookburning declaration at Dartmouth. What finally fired Stevens into resistance was the treatment accorded General Zwicker by the McCarthy com mittee. When Zwicker got back to the Pentagon and reported. Gen eral Ridgway got wrathy and called for an end of such humili ation. That was when the Stevens-McCarthy row started. Joe McCarthy dominated the scene throughout most of the weeks of the hearing. His canine proclivities were evident -and his bite really was worse than his bark. Truculent and contemptu ous of senators, counsel and wit nesses he used all the devices of a police court lawyer unhibited by courtroom law and decorum to tear and rend those not siding with him. His common tactic was to interrupt with "points of order." and to seek to divert the hounds to running after other hares. Thus he accused Hensel of the Stevens staff of master minding the Army attack and imputed wrongdoing to him on government contracts. He later accused the attorney general's office of planning the attack. He seized a bit of information from the telephone reports to abuse Sen. Symington and portray the hearing as a scheme of the De mocrats to wreck the Republi can party. Finally' he sought to knife Army Counsel Joseph Welch in the back by imputing Communist connection to an as sociate in the Welch law firm, which drew from Welch the se verest castigation of the hearing. The heaviest condemnation of McCarthy arising from the hear ing however was his arrogant claim to be entitled to receive secret information from federal employes. The doctored photo graph and the phony FBI "let ter" injured the cause of Mc Carthy with the public. What to do now? Roy Conn GRIN AND BEAR l understood youtpnbitmf.. 4 tWOrCQi ought to go; and Joe Adams of the Army too. McCarthy should be stripped of his chairmanship of the committee and subcom mittee. Stevens has been chast ened enough, and deserves some credit for finally standing up to McCarthy and Conn. Ray Jen kins can go back to Tennessee, having added nothing to his lo cal laurels. JosephWelch can go back to Boston, the only one in the cast of characters who has won the respect and the affec tion of the country. And the Senators should write their report, admit that there was lying on the witness stand, and turn the files over to the at torney general for study and re ference to a grand jury. Then the Senators should go back to the Senate and try to restore faith in that body. Time Flies: 10 Years Ago June 19. 1944 Salem's "Victory Volunteer" campaign resulted in 88 17-year-olds being signed up and sent to training station as a unit, and enabled the capital city substa tion to wins the "E" pennant for May. The bombing of Yawata, Ja pan's steel milling center, re minded Portlanders that Yawata appeared frequently upon in voices of Japanese ships that loaded 683,000 tons of crap iron here during the eight years pre ceding the war. Wilber McCune, district direc tor of the air warning service, received his w2Vi year silver wreath. McCune organized posts throughout Marion County and assisted in the organization in Polk and Linn counties. 25 Years Ago June 19, 1929 Covering the front of the cap itol of Washington, the largest flag in the country was draped IT By Iichty .Too i tow oofy one cor. but yoe hms Qorogt Missing Pen Worker in Divorce Action A divorce sui is in progress in Marion County Circuit Court, brought by Dorothy Mae Williams against Victor Harry Williams, a State Penitentiary guard who dis appeared in April, 1953. Mrs. Williams' complaint al leges the husband "wilfully de serted" her Apr. 3, 1953. She is seeking the divorce and custody of four children, ages 6 and 18. Mystery and a search followed Williams' disappearance and the subsequent finding of some of his clothing on a highway near here. Later there were some reports he had turned up in the East Default of Williams for not ap pearing as defendant was noted in a court filing Friday. From The Statesman Files during the flag vespers services held by the U. S. Flag Associa tion. The giant flag weighted 640 pounds and is 90 by 165 feet William Paulus and Stanley Keith headed the delegation of the Salem local Ad Club at the annual meeting of the Pacific coast Ad Clubs at Oakland, Calif. A new organization, the Salem Civic Male Chorus of 20 voices, to be directed by E. W. Hobs on. formerly of Willamette Univer sity department of music, was formed. 40 Years Ago Jane 19, 1914 A record of 110 Royal Anne cherries on one branch two feet long in the yard of Percy A. Cup per, assistant state engineer, is causing much comment Miss Beatrice Shelton present ed four of her advanced pupils, Bernice Sauter, Evelyn Beigel man, Ada Miller and Lela Slater, in recital at the First Congre gational Church. With the Turkish government formally protesting the proposed sale of American battleships to Greece, rumblings of war be tween Greece and Turkey were carried to the White House. Phone 3-8652 One It The Safety Environment and Personality To the Editor: Your column "It Seems To Me" I always read with a great deal of interest. Tuesday's I found especially interesting. A Parole Board is in a posi tion to make or break many in dividuals and sometimes one , person if their life is turned in the wrong direction, the -damage to society is irreparable. I liked very much your report of Walter Gordon's address be cause he is a Negro and a very fine Psychologist. He is right about the cause of crime. It is amazing what you get out of the best and the worst of environ ments. A few years ago in another state I knew a family when the children were young and all step and stairs. The father took a gun and blew out his brains at the breakfast table. They continued to live there in (he same com munity and house, When the two eldest girls were old enough to go to high school they got posi tions as waitresses in a restu rant. They graduated and the eldest sister went to another state, took nurses training, grad uated and shortly afterwards was very happily married. The eld est brother who was several years younger, graduated from high school with honors. The mother was a very fine woman but I believe that the community owed a great debt to the teachers for the success in life of those girls and boys. I believe that that tragedy was the result of a man and woman who were temperamentally un fitted for one another and they got on one another's nerves, so the man sought a way out. We need to learn the value of individuals. When I was a stu dent in Chicago, on the news stands were displayed a maga zine that was called "The Mass es;" then underneath the fourth letter was pushed over and the sub-title read "Them Asses." It is that cynicism that is respon sible for very much of our na tional and international prob lems. Cynicism is very definite ly the very opposite of Chris tian love. Sidney E. Harris. 315 Broadway, Woodburn BANNING COMMERCIAL NETS To the Editor: I wonder how many Oregonians are aware" of the near-silent struggle for conservation in our small coastal rivers going on around us now? I am refering to the initiative petition asking the closing of the small coastal rivers to commercial nets. I was told Tuesday night that only a few thousand more signatures are There's a lilting softness f Jk and understanding to our service Funeral Service Since 1878 rhone J?1J9 Church at Ferry SALEM, OftEOON CittjView Cemetery 1 IncoTPoratedXv g la 1893 a Herman M. Johnston Owner and Manager Grave Spaces From $35.00 to $100.00 Terms on Be fore-Need Sales No Interest cn Contracts t of Salem's Finest Cemeteries Visiting Car Available If You Lack Transportation Pays to Be Prepared52 Valve needed to assure placing it on the ballot Aren't there enough people in the state who are in terested enough in the too often taken for granted natural re sources to help by just signing their names? There are many who are giving their time and money with no thought of com pensation who are only too wil ling to explain the bill and help circulate the petitions. With a few doing so nic, is it asking Mr. and Mrs. Oregon too much to take interest enough to in quire about this bill? I have petitions and most sporting goods stores have them available. Citizens, lets take an interest in our state and not let it be said we were found lacking. Maynard C. Drawson 455 State St. Salem, Oregon High School Bricks To the Editor: Demolition of the old high school building brings to mind a serio-comic situation which came to my attention when I reached Salem thirty-two years ago soon after the school house had been built One of my first acquaintances in Salem was W. W. Moore. We lived near each other and frequently walked down town together. He and Dr. Steeves were close friends, both being members of the school board and taking much pride in the beautiful new building. They were espe cially enamored by the hand some bricks being used in its construction. Dr. Steeves par ticularly admired those bricks and purchased enough of them to build pedestals supporting the pillars of the veranda of his residence on Chemeketa street, 'giving it a very distinguished appearance. Then the busy bod res with their wagging tongues went into action. They pointed out that the good doe tor was a member of the school board and had slyly swiped some of the district's bricks to ornament his residence. Of course such puny gossip failed to seriously harm the highly esteemed Dr. Steeves, but he had to stand a lot of joshing by his friends, led by Mr. Moore. With raised eye-brows they looked askance at nodded sadly- and whispered of his depravity while . solemnly shaking their heads. Expansion of Salem's busi ness district eventually forced the removal of the Steeves resi dence and its location is now occupied by the Shrock automo bile building. A M. CHURCH, 1400 N. Summer. 390 W. Hoyt St emfcrtrnrr-r-- t