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4 (Sac 1 Statesman, Salem, Ore-. Monday, July 19, 1SS4 o& OrtfionQ&tutefluatt ' . ....... " t "No Favor Sways Vs, No FearShAa AtPf From first Statesman, March 28, 1851 CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher, Published avery norols Builneu office 180 . North Church St. Salem. On. Telephone 2-8441 ' Entered at tne ,oitof flee at Salem, Or, aa eacond claaa matter under act of ConaTesa March a. 1878. gMHMMaMaMaaaHaMaBMBaBBMawaaiaMMaMaMBil .' Member Associated Press The Aaaodated Prcaa to anUUed exduklveiy to tne uae (or repuoUcaUon of ail local newa printed In - thla aowapapot Mothers' Helpers . " . . Working mothers across the country will ' welcome the House-Senate conference com mittee's approval of a bill to give many par ents a tax deduction of up to $600 a year for the expense of caring for their children while Mommy is on the-job. The plan sensibly is based on the income of the working parents. A couple which to-, gether earns $4,500 a year or less can take, the full $600 ' deduction ior baby-sitter ex penses. . Parents with $4,800 income get a -$300 deduction. Couples who get $5,100 a year get no deduction since it would appear they can better afford to hire a sitter. Single heads of households widowed, divorced or separated persons, or unwed mothers may claim the full $600 deduction 'regardless of their income. This wil give rise to some pro tests since a divorced motion picture actress, for instance, with an astronomical income of her own plus a generous amount of ali mony would hardly need that extra $600 to pay for her child's nurse, governess or tutor. (The inclusion of unmarried mothers in the list of those who may claim deductions is an enlightened and humane provision which may hearten these unfortunate girls to try to take care of their own children, instead of turning them over to some agency.) , . -. 'With the Congress setting this precedent for federal income tax policy in regard to child care expenses, we wonder whether the ; next bregoi legislature will follow suit , At the- last legislature, Representative . Maurine Neuberger introduced a bill to allow certain, state income tax deduction for baby sitter expenses of working mothers, hut the bill never got out of committee. One objection was that tax help with the baby-sitter -would encourage more mothers to work out-, side the home. This seems to be an unfound ed fear because working mothers fall into two classifications: those who Vork because they like to, and those who work because ; they have to. The tax aeaucuon win nave, no effect either .way on the former group. It will be needed relief to the latter'group. Dig Those Crazy Sailors v ' They're not so crazythose men who go down to the sea onrafts. V : They're misunderstood, sometimes. A Kla math Falls editor commented that the Coast Guard had, no business trying to rescue the five men who started to drift from California to Hawaii on a raft unstocked with food or water. He asked, '"Don't the men that are sent out to sound tip loose-nut ' screwballs usually wear white jackets?" As we dig it, the raftmates on the "Lehi were bound for somewhat of a worthwhile cruise on the bounding main. It was to have been a scientific expedition, something like that of the Kon - Tiki (whose passengers reaped a heap of crazy money for their books, articles, lectures and motion pictures) and that of the Frenchman who crossed the At lantic in a small open boat without water and food. ' ; ' The former, adventure evidently proved that prehistoric' peoples could have sailed Soviet Press Raises Din Over U. S., Britain Plans to Grant West Germany Sovereignty By TOM WHITNEY AP Foreiga Stall) . The Soviet press is raising a din about United States and British plans to grant West Germany its sovereignty regardless of whether the French cooperate or not "How they are blackmailing France! "Attacks of the United States on France!- . "Pressure on France is being intensified!"- ' Such are typical headlines from Moscow newspapers. a a It's obvious the Russians are ex- tremely sensitive on these subjects. Their press comments, though they are printed in Russian for Russian ' readers, nevertheless seem to be dearly aimed at arousing France. MIf this is the way Britain and America are dealing with France even before she has ratified the Paris treaty, then how will they slight her if she submits to the. transoceanic dictation . and gives herself over to the mercy of the Bonn revengers!" wrote Izvestia a few days ago. The tone of the Soviet press makes it appear the Kremlin was caught by surprise by the an nouncement the British and Ameri can governments were going to .. study the question of granting sov-" ereignty to West Germany without the French if the French fail to ratify the agreements on the Eu- ropean Defense Community and West German sovereignty. a . . , : Apparently the Communist lead . ership in Moscow considered that the West would be completely sty mied on both these questions so long as the French dawdled pos-, ' sibly for a long, long time. Meanwhile, as the Russians knew the longer the West was delayed on these basic questions the great er the tendency there would be in Clrrr.anv fnf pertain ffrmi tn h gin to look for a way cut through agreement with the Soviet Union. The Russians held out bait to such ' Germans, suggesting they would find mighty sympathetic of knowledge a :t':. i -ears In the Klemlin. They played on German memories of the Nazi- Soviet alliance. a , - At the same tirre they held oat similar bait to the French. The only solution for France, their propaganda Implied, was to aban don alliance with Britain and the United States (and the associated agreements with West Germany which went along with it) in favor of return to the traditionaTFrench policy of alliance with Russia against Germany. l.iir.;r.Z.X g-r TT4.T k TVTTi rT k i" V"" tJ.U EJkUtXlX 1 iht'iv' ". . . tt leeks and, but yotU bejurposed hem mod neatssm a bc from South America across the ocean blue to increase and multiply themselves on the islands of the Pacific. The Frenchman, who has also written a book about his ordeal, proved " that shipwrecked sailors or fallen fliers could ' if necessary maintain life by drinking the juices of certain fish and eating certain sea.life raw as well as sucking plank ton adhering to a cloth dragged through wa ter. This is information that could save many lives, not just satisfy curiosity. " So the menof the ill-fated Lehi may have made some valuable contribution to our store had their journey succeeded, j: j j t ... t i as xa, mejr uiu ouwtccu ui givuig us uu lubbers some vicarious excitement and, as the San; Francisco Chronicle pointed out, re 'affirmed a widely ignored truth that just because you can sit in an air-conditioned cocktail lounge four "miles above the rolling waves and cruise serenely from the Golden Gate to Hawaii in nine hours, the sea is un tamed still. . - Yet back to that untamed sea those men will go. And so will others lured by that spirit of adventure happily still alive in some. Remember, they said Columbus was crazy, too. Another Bone to Pick The UJS. Constitution charges the Presi , dent with setting foreign policy "by and with the consent of the Senate. In recent years the lawmakers have encroached upon the foreign policy field more and more, until sometimees it appears that they, in the words of the Corvallis Gazette Times, "are -undertaking to make foreignpolicy, by and with the advise of the President, if any." .. V The most daring of the Congressional chal lenges to presidential authority was the Bricker amendment which, would have re stricted the chief executive's treaty-making powers. Fortunately, this attempt failed. The vote on the Bricker amendment, vas a milestone in the record of every legislator, showing the way he would travel on such issues. When Senator Cordon voted against the Eisenhower administration with his. eye for the Bricker amendment, at least his vote showed his constituents where he stands. A senator's ov&i foreign policy views while Congress wields great power (financial and otherwise) over the state department are of primary importance when that senator's qualifications are assessed. Similarly, the for eign policy views of a candidate for the senate must be considered. as carefully as his statements on domestic affairs. " The Cordon-Neuberger campaign to date largely, has . centered on domestic issues, particularly the regional; issues) of natural ' resources use and development These are mementous' issues, to be sure, and there is widening national interest in the outcome of this local controversy. But. there are mat ters of equal moment the two candidates have yet to explore thoroughly. We are look ing forward to, the return of Senator Cordon to Oregon this fall and to a full, free and open- debate with Neuberger on foreign policy. ' - l . Editorial Comment WHY BUSINESS DRIFTS AWAY Movement from cities to suburbs is reflected in a decline in the business of downtown depart ment stores, which have been losing trade to . the - chain stores : and suburban-located depart ment stores. Cities, noting this apparent trend, are studying its causes. One of the villains is the lack of adequate parking-space downtown for residents from the outskirts who would like to trade downtown if they could be a little more nearly sure of convenient parking facilities. Bus iness loss due to the drift to the suburbs need not be so serious if this one great need of the customer could be satisfied. On such develop, merits it's always "later than you think." ( Al ' bany Democrat Herald). ' 33 1 Thus the failure of the West to make progress toward final settle ment of the role of West Germany in the Western alliance enabled the Communists to play on the an cient fears of the Germans and the French for each other, to set them against one another. The current Moscow reaction In dicates Just : how intensely the Kremlin wants Britain and the United States to fail in getting France and West Germany to work together in common plans for de fense against communism. - im Bv Lichty X J. ASKING A "5- "i ROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago iJuly 19, 1944 ? ; . ' i - . s Between 35,000 and 40,000 ab sentee service men's; votes are to be cast at the November Ore gon election, according to state election bureau estimate. Ap proximately 115,000 Oregon - men and women are in the arm- ed forces. . ' - The Germans sent their robot bombs crashing into! the Lon don area and southern England in a renewed attack. It was dis closed in Commons that 170,000 women and children had left London. " Edward Powers, 82, Salem, who has not missed a Democra tic national convention either as a delegate or visitor since he attained his majority, is at Chi cago attending- the current De mocratic roundup. 25 leaps Ago . -v July 19, 1926 ... An increase in governmen tal expenditures of approxi- mately $300,000,000 during the next four years was forecast by the White House after a study ' of appropriations Jiade by Con gress and other manadatory ob ligations, r Nicholas J. Sinnott, judge of ' the court, of claims,! for many years a' member of congress from! the second Oregon district, died at his home in Chevy ' Chase, Maryland. Judge Sinnott was horn in The Dalles in 1878. . i j Inquiry into the serious ac-, cidents at railroad crossings in Salem recently, wasj called by the Public Service commission on its own motion, Fred A. Wil liams, city attorney, announced. . - - :. - .... j v 40 Years Ago July 19, 1914 Emperor William of Ger many attended the reopening of , the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, the . great waterway that connects the North Sea and the Baltic. The Emperor's yacht was the ' first vessel to break the tape and enter the rebuilt canaL ' I Fire destroyed eight frame 5 .- buildings in the Albina district ' of Portland, with a loss of $100, 000. " . ' . Mr.' and Mrs. Claude H. Ste venson are receiving congratu lations on the arrival of a son. Mrs. Stevenson was Minnie ' ZoseL Marion County school . teacher. ' Better English By D. C WILliAMS . 1. What is wrong! with this sentence? "Many fresh springs occur near the village.'' 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "masseur"? , 3. Which one of the words is misspelled? Fantasia, fastidi ous, Farenheit, farcical 4. What does the Word "res sponsive" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with des that means "to pro fane"? Answers 1. Say, "Many fresh springs are to be found near the 'vil lage." 2. Pronounce! ma-sur, a as in mass, u as in fur, accent second syllable. 3. Fahrenheit 4. Ready or inclined to respond. "You shpuld be moreresponsive when spoken to." 5. Desecrate. TOT OF -THE HIRED MAN (Continued the rapid expansion of defense installations.) Actually, Anchorage appears to "have everything,M good stores, newspapers, radio sta tion, television; and right now it is having its first circus. One came up tlie Akan highway and is showing here under ., Shrine auspices for ten days. Its arrival ' has been , the talk of the terri-. tory. Consider that most Alas kan children have not seen ele phants and tigers and giraffes and even snakes. , People have flocked, to Anchorage from dis tant points lust to see the ani mals and the circus: (I see that the Alean highway, has suffered extensive washouts, to the ani mals may have to resort to an ark to get back home.) ' ', Elmendorf Air Field (Airforce) . and adjacent Fort Richardson (Army) are Camp Adair all over, again, except that here the con struction is now on a permanent basis. We were given a full tour and briefing of the projects this ' morning. This is the largest mil itary installation In Alaska. At both bases not only are there the usual installations: headquar- ters, , barracks, service units, etc., but extensive housing proj ects for families of military per sonnel. And to care for children of these families the government provides an extensive school sys tem from kindergarten through the elementary grades. High school students are transported to the new city high school in Anchorage. At the posts and fca the city it is a race to provide adequate housing for the in- v crease in school population. A Chamber, of Commerce bulletin gives the population within the city limits as 25,000, but that does not include the people liv ing on the fringes of the city nor . the big population resident on the rnilitary posts. The postwar boom has tapered . off somewhat in the past year, a local businessman told me. I can see that the economic baro meter of mis community is close- ly tied with the "cold war" ther mometer. If war tensions in crease Congress will be more generous with funds for. defense. Any moderation of defense wor ries would lead to curtailment Until there is further industrial development locally, prosperity f here will hang largely on govern ' ment spending. That however is . sure to continue on a large scale. In my report of yesterday, I mentioned the frequent use of fkat planes for travel in Alaska. The C of C bulletin reports there are 450 small planes based at local airfields one for every 121 persons in .the area. The number holding private pilot's licenses runs close to 2,000. There 'is no doubt that the airplane has contributed much to breaking OnjBO uCDktttnao Subscription Rates By carrier in eltlea: Dally and Sunday$ 1.45 perms. Daily only 12S per mo. Sunday only .10 week By mau, Sunday only! (in advance) $ M per mo. Anywhera-ln U. S S.7S tlx mo. 8.00 year . By mau. Dally and 8 on day: In Oregon 1.10. per mo. '(In advance) S.50 ilxmo. U.30 year . . 1.4S per mo. In TT. S. outside Oregon t Member '-' Andlt Bnreaa at Clrenlatioa , Bureau ef Advertlalnc, ANPA Oregoa Newspaaer " PnfeUsbcra AssociaUaa Adrertlxlni' Bepreaentatlvatt ' Vfrd -Griff ItJi ca ; Mew York. Chicago, . Saa rrandses. Detroit VTCaV Bag from page the isolation which long locked Alaska. I find too that a grow ing volume of freight is moving by truck over the Alcan highway to Fairbanks and over connect ing highways to Vaktez, Anchor age and Seward.' i The Anchorage Times, leading newspaper in Alaska, in an edi torial tonight commenting on the coming visit oC - Secretary Mc Kay, is quite critical of the pres ent administration for its alleged failure "to carry forward the ba sic requirements for developing Alaska into a stable economic unit, inseparable from the na tional economy." The prime re quirements, in Editor. Atwood's opinion, are: statehood, road construction and development of hydroelectric power, on all of ' which, says The Times, the ad . ministration has been laggard. Not all Alaskans are; as keen for statehood, however. One banker I talked with expressed doubts that Alaska could carry the load under statehood and when one realizes the territory is twice the size of Texas, with a population only about the same -. in numbers as Nevada's,' and with the federal government owning 99 per cent of the land, one is inclined to agree with the banker. However in reading Alaskan history. I note the same arguments ' were used against making it a territory, .which wasn't done until 1912; so the op timists may be right after alL .. One thing is clear: Alaska is a fact, a great fact, geographic ally, militarily, ; economically, politically. . The states cannot ignore it - . Studebaker Shows Sharp Sales Increase v SOUTH BEND, Ind., (UP) The Studebaker Corp. said recently that sales of cars and trucks showed an increase of more than 68 per cent during the month of June. The company said the increase was "encouraging" and -predicted that July sales would be "geod. ...... ii! L " CHARLES W. CLAGGETT, Mgr. Burt Lancaster Both as Star, Director of Film By ALINE MOSBY V United Press Hollywood Writer HOLLYWOOD (VP) Burt Lancaster made it official today he hired himself as both a star and movie director because, he confessed, Hollywood has "accus ed mm ior years oi.oirecung his pictures anyway. Lancaster belongs to the school of thespians who want a hand in iL U ant m ue creating ox a nun. xms trail, he admits, has not endeared him to some movie-makers in the plas ter city. But he brands those critics who call him temperamental as "just afraid you're a , threat to their jobs.- . ,; ' Some Insecure . "Some people are so insecure about this business they resent ists Truman. Die KANSAS CITY UFI Stephen A. Mitchell, national chairman of the Democratic Party, says the differ ence between ex-President Truman and President Eisenhower is this: "Mr. Truman will stand up for his friends, come hell, high water or elections, while President Eis enhower oould .be talked out of speaking up for General Marshall when he went to Wisconsin to cam paign in October, 1952." Mitchell, who visited Truman Saturday at his Independence home, was referring to the con spiracy of infamy" charge Sena tor McCarthy of Wisconsin made against Gen. George Marshall. Mc Carthy claimed , Marshall as post war secretary of state was part of a conspiracy aimed to cause this country "to fall victim to Soviet intrigue from within and Russian military might from with out" Mitchell said he had discussed plans for a meeting of Democratic Party leaders here early In August ' The tentative date for the con ference is Aug. 6, Mitchell said. depending on how well Truman is feeling then. Truman is recovering from a major operation. Adlai Stevenson, the 1952 Demo cratic presidential Candidate, and possibly other leaders will come here with Mitchell, the chairman said. ' . -- . "I found Mr.' Truman getting along nicely," Mitchell said. "He showed much interest in develop ments around the country in gen eral and politics in particular. He was much interested in pjans for tne campaign. President's Son Blilitary Aide At White House FT. BENNING, Ga. (Jl MaJ. John Eisenhower; son of the Presi dent said Sunday he has been as signedternporarily as military aide with the White House liaison office in Washington. '. 'They have some business they want me to handle and I will be assigned essentially as an aide," the major, said. He expects to leave for Washington about July 22. The officer reported he will go from Washington to Ft Leaven worth, Kan., about Aug. 10 to at tend the Army Command and Tehran negotiations. Anglo-Iranian Oil Reports Viewed As 'Speculation9 LONDON !JI - British oil circles Sunday viewed as "absolute spec ulation" reports from .Tehran that the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company would get 73 million pounds -($204,-400,000) for the Abadan installa tions nationalized by Iran in 195L . Anglo - Iranian Oil Company spokesmen declined all comment but others were prone to question statements attributed to Iranian Finance Minister Ali Amini concerning , decisions reached at Tehran negotiations... - . . t;i i;r .r . LU t r; " in , . J w .4 lk sra 1 ' ii t IVlitchellL Differences "A SINCERE SERViCE AVAILABLE TO ALL" - PHONE 34173 . , Out of Town Calls at Our Expense . PASSING LOT AVAILABLE V. T. RIGD0M CO., Funeral Directors ESTABLISHED 1891 299 N. COTTAGE AT CHEMEKETA Hires Himself anybody who tries to work with them." said the new director ar. nestly as he sat behind a desk in nis oiuce. . ; They take anv jueeestion von make as a personal affront "But secure director nh Michael. Curtiz don't mind if you make a suezestion about a aanv. era angle or a line. . They wel come suggestions. Lancaster and friend HaroM Hecht years ago set up their in dependent production company. The actor has wanted to be a di rector "for a long time," so he decided to make his official de but by being both star and sole director ot a Hecht-Laneaster production. "Gabriel Horn " tn be filmed next month near Owens- boro, Ky. Star and Director, Just how to be both sbr and director poses a problem, he went on. Tfius ne will introduce . the first "rehearsal star" in film his tory. . . Lancaster nlans to hire an art. or to portray the leadin? rol but only when director "Tjinra. ter is rehearsing the cast When tne cameras turn, the unbilled actor will step aside and Lancas ter the Star will take over. Th rehearsal star never will be seen on tpe screen. , - . "Directing is five times as much work as acting, but it's a lot more fun and gives you a longer life in the business," Lancaster re flected.. Give Up Acting "When I want to eive un art. ing, which I foresee in the very near mure, I can continue in this kind of work." " - - ' On Hecht-Lancaster ' produc tions, such as their current "Apache," Lancaster "takes a hand in everything, from cos tumes to film cutting. But at home '; "We have a new baby, a week old. Now we have three girls and two boys so you can see my wife is the dominant influence," Lan caster the husband grinned. Iran Gives 1 Blunt Reply to Russ Warning TEHRAN, Iran un Iran told the Soviet Union bluntly Sunday this country has "a right to adopt any policy, to insure the country's security and integrity." The action was taken in the form of a memorandum delivered to Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Lavri entiev replying to a Russian warn ing nine davs a? that Iranian ad. herence to the Western defense bloc would cut across the 1927 Iranian-Soviet friendship pact On receiving the Iranian reply. Lavrientiev stamped angrily but of the office of Foreign Minister Abdollah Entezam. Lavrientiev, red in the face, swept out of Entezam's office al most at a run, swept aside photo graphers, clambered into a black embassy limousine and slammed the door with full force. Authoritative sources said Satur day Shah Reza Mohammed P ab le vi had opposed sending a tough reply to the Soviets and insisted on seeing the memorandum before it was delivered. Since the Shah is on a trip to Azerbaijan, northern province bor dering on Russia, this caused , a delay in delivering the note. . toV.i io EAST See Tour Local Bus Agent I THI FRIENDLY 1US UNI ii - r -? " - J