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
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class matter under act oi Confresa March 3. It79.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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