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4 Sec. I) Statesman. Salem, Of? yiody fcifr fl l$3f eft; : "No favor Sways Us, No Fear Shod AwfS From Firtt SUtesnuuu March 28, 1831 CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published avtry mornlnf. Business office 280 North Church Su. Salem, Or, Telephone 1-2441 ' Cntcrad t the eetofflce at Salem, Or, as second class tnattar under act of Congress March X U78. Member Associated Pits v Xhe- Associated Press la anUUed exclusively to tna UN tor republication of all local news printed to . this newspaper - Wheatgrowers Approve Controls ! wheatgrowers have - voted to approve the acreage controls proposed Jty the Department , of Agriculture. The "yes" vote was 73.3 per cent of those voting, the requirement for approval being 66.67 per cent. ' Secretary Benson gave but a statement after the result was known saying that most -of the farmers recognize the serious prob lem of the wheat surplus and are willing to snake production adjustments to help bring supply in closer relation to demand. , There is no doubt the wheatgrowers recog- ," nize the problem of surplus -haven't .-they been looking ahead to crovide more storage bins to hold the new crop? But their favor able vote indicates primarily an acceptance;" "of what they think is the lesser of two evils. They prefer a guaranteed price even" with an acreage cut than to submit to the rigors of the free market. . ; " And with a surplus equivalent to a year' needs already in storage one can readily see . what would happen to the price of wheat " if controls and guarantees were tossed over- board. It would be beaten down because only so-called "strong hands" could carry the load and work it off at a profit over the next ;, year or two.. ; - '.'"' That's the crux: of the farm problem: the grower sells his crop in a free market, and prices for primary commodities always are subject to the widest swings; but the prices he must , pay and the wages he must pay are governed by quite a different set of con ditions: rigid wage scales of modern indus try, relative immunity to price fluctuation for machinery, supplies, etc. Political friends of . the farmer do not want to see him thrown to the wolves, a victim of the ruthless grinding of economic law. At the same time the parity guarantee has pretty well proven itself wrong. For one thing it is self-defeating. Growers produce for the government, not for consumers. Mod ern 'technology in farming has resulted in greatly increased production and the guaran- teed price'encourages full application of this technology: power machinery, improved seed, ample fertilizer. . , '- ' We seem to go around in a circle, as in truth we have been since the first world war: Ex cess of production of wheat, resulting farm depression under the free market system; a. glut of production under the parity guaran tee system. It remains to be een whether the acreage restriction which is drastic for 1955, and i the probable cut ,of the guarantee ; to -80 per cent of parity, will bring the balance ' which growers as well as economists know sure; the country just couldn't go on building bigger granaries to store more and more wheat.,- ;-:-"- ! v'! r'v" . A pair1 of men were nabbed in Portland by the Secret Service on charge of possessing gold bricks. They were not accused of at tempting the old-style gold brick, hocus po cus, but of possessing gold, which since the days of FDR is a crime! Because Soviet Kremlin By TOM WHITNEY" v AP Foreig Staff) General Rytanin knew too much. That's quite possibly the real reason the Kremlin ordered a bullet put through the back of his head earlier this month. Last Friday the Soviet govern ment announced tbe trial and ex ecution of M. D. Ryumin, a for mer high Soviet police, of ficial who had languished in jail for a year and three months. Be was convicted of treason in organizing the frame-up known as the "doctors' plot" in which dis tinguished Soviet medical menl were accused in January 1333 of plotting assassination of Soviet leaders. --:r. . . . Here's the background of this mysterious case insofar , as it's known: Ryumin in late 1352 was deputy minister of state security, who had control over much of the Soviet secret police and intelligence establishment-was a party . man named Semyon Ignatiev. ; The authority of Lavrenty Beria. who had previously run the police for Stalin for many years, was distinctly oa the decline. The evi dence is that ' Ignatiev had been given bis important job ovecBer "ia's head.;,-' . Someone came to Ryumin in late 1352 with orders to investigate charges made by a woman doctor in the Kremlin, Lydia Timasbchuk. Timashchuk, apparently a path ological anti-Semite, bad made up her mind that certain Kremlin doe tors, most of them Jewish and in cluding the most distinguished medical names in the land were murdering their high-ranking pa- , Ryumin's predecessors also had heard of her charges. They had Investigated, and found thereto be pure fantasy. But whoever talked to Ryumin thii time made it dear that dif ferent results were desired. ' Ryumin was no foot He did the " Job requested of him. Re rounded up the suspected doctors and ex tracted confessions by methods for which the secret police are fa mous. He saw to it t&at medical - ay p t ' He'd Be Disillusioned or Dead V If it actually is Dr. Otto John's voice which the Soviet radio in East Germany is beaming - to the Free World, we can see only that it is the voice of a confused man whom a fanatical desire for German unity has driven to des peration. ' . i . - Dr. John, as the counterpart of the FBI's chief in this country, never is known to have been tinged with Communism in any sense. . He gives, if the voice is his, as his only reason for. defection a belief that an Effort toward' unity might be more effective from the Red zone. If there are other reasons, of course, well find them out all too soon. Dr. John obviously is in possession of just about all the internal security information in the en ? tire West German area.; ' ' It remains to be seen whether he will re main to confine his efforts to the topic in mind, or whether the Russians will be content . to keep him only as a front for renewed ' propaganda. There seems little doubt that : ' either voluntarily or under pressure he could -reveal secrets most damaging to the Free World cause. If such secrets are deemed valu able enough, there is no" doubt also that the Reds will stop at nothing short of death to get them if then. , lit is entirely possible Dr. John became so frustrated in his work toward unity that he failed to weigh the disaster his defection could cause. If such is the case, it is not only possible but highly likely that in a few short months he'll, be either a very much disil-, lusioned or a very much deceased man. Changed Climate cipline, good ing this formula m i ' Nearly a quarter million people migrate from Europe each year, and an Intergovern 1 mental ' Committee on European Migration ,. wants to raise the number to between-400.080 v and 500,000 per year. It looks to the western hemisphere to absorb this migration1.' Of . course this hemisphere is thinly populated, j relative to Europe, but there are. limits to its .absorptive capacity too. We do not want to ' build up zones of poverty in this hemisphere like those from which Europeans hope to escape. The United States has received xmore ) immigrants from Europe since the war than any other country, 1,400,000, a fact which may surprise Americans who have heard' so much about restrictions on, immigration.' 1 1 f Vr-" ' " Republican leaders have themselves to "blame for the prolonged filibuster in the Senate. Back in 1947 when Southern Demo crats were fearful of civil rights legislation . Majority Leader-Wherry's motion requiring a two-thirds vote of the full Senate member ship to enforce cloture of debate was adopted. Now it blocks Knowland's effort to halt the filibuster and move along with the legisla tive program. And Senator Morse, who has denounced filibusters In the past, and who opposed the Wherry motion, is a chief spokesman in the filibuster. General 'Knev Too Much, Orders Him Killed Says Writer records were faked to prove the assassination charges. Thus the notorious "ddctorf plot" was born. It seems to have been meant to set the stage for a big purge with an anti-Semitic twist It was clearly an important development in the power play of individuals and groups in the Kremlin fight ing among themselves over inher iting Stalin's kingdom. In this big picture, U. D. Ryu min was - obviously Just such a pawn as the doctors were them selves when he had them in his grip. ; Who gave the orders to Ryumin METABOLISM SLOWED BEFORE Man is now using a technique somewhat similar to animals hi bernation, a torpid state, in the difficult Job of heart surgery. Operations on the human heart are now becoming more and more frequent ; t For centuries, the' heart was viewed as- a delicate organ to which the slightest injury could prove fatal T Heart surgery usually must be done very rapidly because the heart cannot be stopped from beating for too long a period, in the past, much of this surgery was done blindly because of the speed and danger connected with this work. " In a new attempt at heart sur pprv. naHpnt with heart diffi culties are having their metabol ism slowed down enough to allow circulation from the heart to be interrupted for a period of time. This is done by lowering the body temperature from 68.6 de grees to a stage of almost hiber nation, so that the body demands of: the cells and tissues are de creased. A temperature of 82 de grees Fahrenheit is usually suf ficient . This is attained by im mersing the body, in a tub of ice Your Hea Donald E. Bailey will find quite a dif ferent climate at the state prison from what it was when he was escorted out first to Rocky Bluff and hen to the Douglas County jail some months ago. Bauey was charged with being boss, at the prison during the , O Malley regime and with inspiring the not of a year ago designed to test the authority of Warden Gladden, so his evacuation was ordered. It ought to be safe to bring him back now. Prison discipline has been firmly established. Bailey will find it better for him self if he is cooperative. The formula for good prisons is firmness and fairness in dis- food, and plenty , of worthwhile .activity. Warden Gladen seems to be apply-7 ;vi a. ren with genuine success at OSP. t : ; to organize the "doctors' plot"? Was it Beria who came to him in order to make a desperate try at a comeback? Was it Georgi Halenkov out for the scalp of Ber ia, bis old collaborator? Was it Nikita Khrushchev at tempting to trap both Malenkov and Beria, in a purge? Was it a new group of brash young men in the Kremlin attempting to get Stalin to toss out all tbe older leaders? . Was it Stalin himself, deter mined to purge his party leader ship once more? Ryumin knew. That was his hard luck. " ith By Dr. Herman N. Bondesea, MJ. HEART SURGERY water as Jong as necessary. During anesthesia, the heart can often be stopped from beat ing for as long as eight minutes when this procedure is used. The cooling is done very rapidly. v a ' The body, after operation, is then immersed in warm water to raise the temperature again. Recently, this operation was performed on 15 patients with serious heart difliculties. The re sults were excellent in 13 of these cases. ; ' This method has been used mostly on children, but it -has been tried on a few adults. Chil dren seem to tolerate it better than adults. Question and Answer . A. M.: What would cause woman to have more frequent menstrual ceriods after rivin birth to a child? ' Answer: This may be due to many factors. It might be due to retained tissue from the preg nancy. It might also be due to some form of hormone imbalance following the pregnancy. You should be. under the care of your physician. (Copyrfxat, 1954, Kins Tastum) GRIN AND BEAR HOOT 1 J - Mr 11 11 it V "I saofl wAgt tightg campaign pad lei tfce dw'pj toll when tfcey 1 moft . . . M mif opponent says one word ebomt mif ne&4 ftt hr kim asdVcfeeff . . . (Continued in California. The very extent of tbe terri tory means that there are sever al Alaskas: Southeastern Alaska. timbered, mountainous, with nu- merous islands and inlets, where rainfall reaches to 200 inches a year, with relatively mild cli mate. Western Alaska or Inter ior Alaska, behind the coastal mountain ranges, semi-arid, ex tremes of 1 temperature, broad valleys drained by glacier-fed streams, thin soil, cover of brush , rnce, popular; .birch ranging ?JbiDLZ?Z iuia. vvwacu iriui uuua. uiiLsV moss and ground-hugging tlants and dwarf trees willows, poplar semi-arid, perpetual ioe under ,the tundra 'cover, many lakes and potholes. The Aleutian chain, wind-swept, treeless. , , Just as there are several Alas; kas geographically there are oth ers historically: Alaska of the . freebooters, Russian, .-British, American, who stripped . the" coasts of sea otter, nearly ex terminated the fur-bearing seals, and decimated the whales; who ' carried away riches of gold and copper; who have put the salmon run in periL , v There is also the Alaska of popular legend: the totem poles. I gargoyles of a primitive people ' recording ' their family associa- tion; the Eskimos and ' polar bears and., dog" teams; all of . which survive: the Alaska of tbe Klondike : gold rush Chilcoot ' pass, soapy Smith, Klondike Time FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Yean Ago . Jaly 2S, 1944 At Hazel Green five members of the A. B. Meyer family, rang ing in age from 12 to 18 years, picked 1818 boxes of boysenber ries on the Alvin J. Van Geave farm. -... t Towering Wall y Eorrevik, whose 8 feet S inchees sparked last season's University of Oer gon hoop quintet, was listed on the ail-American team selected by Chuck Taylor, rubber com pany basketball expert. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey indi cated his presidential campaign would be pitched heavily on tbe theme of "conflict" between fed eral, ; state and local govern ments, which, be said "has been a constant source of friction for 12 years in this country", 25 lean Ago July 28, 1S29 Acceptance by Aristide Briand of the Job of forming a new French cabinet was hailed in of ficial circles as an inpetus to ward negotiations for an interna tional naval reduction parley. The Steusloff Market ( how Sallys' corner 1354) changed hands, under a lease, to J. H. Moyer and E. J. DonneS, who continued the business under the same name Steusloffs. Doris Hiday took first prize for the best dressed tkll in the large girls' division at the Fourteenth Street Playground. Virginia La- Velle exhibited tbe best for the small girls. . 40 Yean Ago July 28. 1914 Editorially The Canadian Pacific liner. Empress of Russia made its last trip across the Pacific, from Yokohama to Van couver harbor. In eight days and 12 hours. That is surely, "going some." " The State' Board of Control Is ; preparing' for the next session the legislature by making a list - of stationary and various other articles needed, the largest item being 420 reams of linen typewriter paper and 20,000 en velopes. ; Portland Austrians eligible for war service are being called for immediate return to the empire, with traveling expenses borne by the Austrian government IT ByLichty from page L) Kate, the tales of Rex Beach and Jack London and poems of Rob ert Service. f The Alaska of today : is very different from what survives 'in popular conception. It is an emer ging land. The miracles of mod ern communication and transpor tation are breaking down its iso lation. Certain areas are flooded with military installations, mili tary personnel, military spend ing; and even remote sections mAfTJJJ are touched in the building of a Yrl, 7,1 aDunaance, tamuies, many ---- r- - whom are electing to cast their lot with Alaska. It is to them that Alaska's future belongs, and they are the ones eager to mold it Statehood is of course upper most in the minds of many. Opinions are divided, but a pleb iscite 'would undoubtedly give a strong majority for statehood now. It is not merely the ambi tion of politicians: it is tbe yearn ing of a free people for the re sponsibilities? the dignity and the rights of full citizenship. One may reason effectively that the territory is not sufficiently de veloped to function successfully as a state. That argument was used a century ago when ambi , tious citizens of Oregon Terri tory clamored for statehood. It was used against creating a ter ritory out of Alaska, forty years ago. The parallel proves noth ing; but our history seems to show that progress is stimulated with the grant of the sovereign status of statehood; and I think that wQl be true with Alaska. Vast areas of Alaska will al ways remain of limited economic value worthless, a good Willam ette Valley farmer would say. But locked in its earth are min eral riches metals, 'petroleum, natural gas; in its waters fish and crab; in its woods fur-bearing animals. And its resources of scenery,: recreation, and varia ties of people and .living condi tions should attract increasing numbers of visitors from the itates and foreign countries. I Alaska is our neighbor, only a few hours away by plane. We in Oregon should look north and cultivate a neighborly feeling with the hospitable people who ' are building Alaska for today and tomorrow. Better English 4 By D. C. WILLIAMS . 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "What business have ' they to iterfere in our j plans?" 1 . 2. What is the correct pro nunciatiOn of "studious"? 3. Which fne of these words is misspelled? KTollosal, colon ize, collusion, collaborate. 4. What does the word "omi nous'' mean? . 5. What is a word beginning with pa that means "to ap pease"?' ANSWERS V 1. Say, "What right have they to interef ere with our plans?" 2. Pronounce first u as in use, not as in rude. 3. CoIlossaL 4. Foreboding eviL "The dark clouds on the horizon look omi nous." 5. Pacify. Subscription Rates By carrier ta dtlw: Dally and Sunday -8 1-43 Pr mo. DOy only '1.23 per mo. Sunday only JO week t By mau. Btmaay enly: ' in advance) JO perms. Anywhere tn U. S 3.79 six me. - S.OO year . By nao. DaUy aad Sunday: . In Oregon f 1.10 per mo. (Ia advance) S-50 alz mo. 10 JO year In XT. S. outside Oregon .. 1.43 per mo. , ' Heater Audit Bnreaa of Cireolatlaa Bareaa ( AdrerMxinr, ANPA Ore tea Newspaper ' PabUibert Association ' ASvertlslnt apresenUUve ' Ward -Griffith Ca. Ntw Xerk. Chicago, Saa Francisco. . Detroit PravdaSays U.S. Bound to Block Meeting Moscow, un Pravda charged Monday that the U.S. government is determined to reject Russia's new proposal for an international conference on a European col lective security system and also to force Western European countries to reject it., The aim of U.S. - opposition to the Russian proposal is to save "the ill-starred European Defense Community scheme," the Soviet Communist Party newspaper said. Pravda claimed the Soviet pro posals, expressed in notes deliver ed Saturday to Britain, France and the United States, found wide a plause among "Europeans' "but it is characteristic that in Washing ton the note of the Soviet govern ment was greeted with extreme belligerency. "The American press states with cynical candidness that the Soviet proposal is unacceptable for the ruling circles of the United States because it will, hinder creation of EDC," Pravda continued. "This once again confirms the fact that the ruling circles of the United States see their only aim in Europe in recreating German militarism under the screen of tbe ill-starred European army. . "The ruling circles of the United States are frightened by the obvious inclination of the peoples of Europe to solve international problems by negotiation and peaceful cooper ation." Literary Guidcpost , By W. G. ROGERS Rapture In My Rags. B. Phyl lis Hastings. Dutton. Agnes, oldest child of a farm er's family in isolated English countryside, is left alone with her father after the mother dies and the other children leave. Target of her father's rough tongue and his blows, she takes refuge in the fields, the woods, the weather. Her loneliness be comes overpowering. She de cides to make a scarecrow for , company out of sawdust, a keg, a pumpkin, cloth, boots, gloves, her father's old suit , JS i ' She finishes the figure in her room. To this girl who discovers faces and shapes in clouds, who can't tell left from right and right from wrong, who sees 'with the mind's eye what the real eye can never corroborate to this girl so starved for the love which is enjoyed even by the farmyard beasts, this man in her room seems so real "I was too shy to undress." - She carries the creature to the field,' sets him up against the fence. Then n a frighten ing day, the police scour the farm, the Scarecrow is tumbled over, Agnes throws herself upon him, he is warm and breathing, he opens his eyes, he speaks. -5 From the very first sentence, "Some p e o p 1 e are afraid of mice, some of burglars, some '' of' ghosts," you are completely Intrigued by this story wrought so lovingly and with such stir ring magic The brutaV father, the wonderful Scarecrow, ' and the girl so tender and unfor gettable are a cast you cannot match in "this season's fiction. Fantasy is common enough, and so is the fast-paced plot; -. this first novel weaves them together to provide a remark ably gripping 1 and worthwhile story 1 I wouldn't have missed it for anything. W. G. Rogers SALE-IN-ADITCH EUZABETHTON, Tenn. WV Laying of a pipeline brought bus iness to a halt at the auto agency when Fain Grindstaff works as a salesman. Having nothing better to do, Grindstaff climbed into the ditch , to see what was going on. Before the day was over, he'd sold a new car to Thomas C Gouge, foreman on the job. r- If. 'ST--. Li I i ! i I I- "A VI. CHARLES W. CLAGGETT, Mgr. One-Time Alcoholic Finds No Way Out of Despair Except Through the Help of "God (Editor's note: Na one knows setter the atonies of elf-reproack and the bitterness of the road toward rain than those wh hare con hack from the shadows of aleaholism. Following ia one of a series of atariM which will appear tn The Statesman each Monday. The aeries was pro pared by a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, not a "professional write, at Boise. Idaho. It has appeared in several newspapers In the northwest. The Statesman offers the series as a public service) - -r "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things, I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Alcoholics are poor players ,in this game of life, hamming it up to focus "all the attention upon themselves, forgetting that, they are actually bit players in a dra ma in which they believe the act ors more important than the play. Theirs is a juvenile approach tq adult living, replete with flurries of childish, petulant tantrums when people and circumstances do not meet their personal approv al. They have no zest for living and are bored sick with the monot ony of life, feeling that they have done and been all things when ac tually they have been feeding from the bottom of the barrel and have little idea of what life is all about They are quitters and when the going gets a little rough (as it does for everyone) they literally throw themselves on the floor and kick their legs in a fit of rage, hat ing everyone and everything pre venting them from exercising their own will, many times refusing the object of their clamoring when it has been withheld however briefly, proving that having their own way is more important than tbe prize itself. Alcoholics are quitters who gen erally marry two or three times. Because they will not, change their lives, they change, partners, seek ing to place the blame on everyone but themselves There is a terrible price that will have to be paid some day for mistakes of this na ture. No amount of booze, or run ning can long delay the squaring of accounts. Many there are who are drunk today and will stay that way, seeking desperately to blot out memories of the things that might have been if they had not folded up and shirked their respon sibility to God, to. family, and fel low man. . , .There is no physical palp that will vever be as acute as the men tal torture that consumes the al coholic who runs from his prob lems and selfishly tries to drown his troubles in booze. It is not a lasting answer . and the day ar rives when even the liquor lets him down, much in the same man ner he has done others . . . when the need was greatest. Purpose Ts Serve God" The main purpose of every man and woman on this earth is to serve God as He would have them, in the' capacity of fathers, hus bands and brothers of their fellow men. Old people know this well and we see them grow very pious and devout, seeking out the com fort of church, drawing assurance from their fervent prayers as the years come upon them. They know there is a. God and suddenly they want to be very good as if to make up for the years they have ignor ed the unity with Him which they now seek. It is funny how, when we let God into our lives, everything be gins to make sense. We can drop all pretense and relax and begin to enjoy life. It is no longer neces sary to strut and preen and thump our chest, striving vainly to im press others with our importance, bragging of our worth, and putting on a show for the benefit of the little people. Little people . are lucky they don't have much to give up in exchange for a belief in God. Despair 'Tarduial Sia" ' As a practicing alcoholic -I was all things to myself and other people and I had lived so long, partly in ignorance, and prefer ence, in a hell -of my own making that I came to believe that I was so corrupt that there could be no forgiveness for me. This is the state of despair that finally brings the alcoholic to his knees. , He is gripped in the smothering embrace of pride and will continue to writhe in agony until he discovers the na -V. V- i V :. iLr': j. SINCERE SERVICE AVAILABLE TO ALL" PHONE 3-3173 Out of Town Calls at Our Expense PARKING LOT AVAILABLE ' T. RIGDOU CO., Funeral Directors ESTABLISHED 1891 299 N. COTTAGE AT CHEMEKETA ture of fjod. Despair is the cardi nal sin and is the passing of judg. ment on oneself. It is an admission that there is no God, and that for giveness is impossible. Don't feel bad because you have been a dope and thought that get ting drunk was going to help you solve your problems. People all over tbe world are being drawn back to God because they had ho other place to go. Be happy that life is Worth living and that you are going to have that many more years to enjoy it. If you are an al coholic you deserve to be happy, after what you have been through. "Eager T Forgive" Be glad, friend, that there is a God to whom it is possible to turn at any time, telling bun that we are sorry for having been so stu pid, and asking forgiveness. He is eager to forgive, for it has hn said there will be more rejoicing in neavea over ine return of one lost sheep than those who have never strayed. . - While I am not apologizing for hitting the "God stuff" o hard. we might just as well face facts: there is no pink pill that will stop you from drinking when you want to drink. What we accomplish in AA is that we begin to live in a different manner. We don't have to get drunk anymore. If you are still drinking regular ly, and are miserable and confus ed, and sick and tormented,-and whining about how badly the world has treated you, friend, you like it that way. If you think there is another way to lick your liquor problem without the help of God, you may as weU chuck . this article in the wastebasket because you will find no answer here. Resumption of Ship Service JUNEAU. Alaska (A The In terior Department is going to try to effect resumption of passenger ship service to Alaska if the Alaska Steamship Co. goes through with its announced intention to abandon it ' . .. - . ' That was the promise of Inter ior Secretary McKay Saturday night in a Baranof Hotel banquet speech to 330 Alaskans, sponsored by toe chamber of commerce. j nu - ... . . 1 1 w.1 iii. . the announcement has been made by Alaska Steam since he has been, on the present Alaska trip that it would discontinue passenger serv ice to the territory at the end of the current summer season. Be called it a "heavy blow to the tour ist industry." LOS KLES 7 Thru-Express Buses Dally front SALE!.. ft m w O . a m return i np lFj0 U35 . . cm Round-Trip Tuketif J. L Wells, Agent 450 N. Church St. Ph. 2-2428 TWra's a Oteyaws Astf Near Yea j McKay Seeks