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t Gc 1) Statesman. Salem. Or Sat, Nor. 27, i954 x . , - efe Tj)rejaontatesmau : . "No Favor SvcaytUt. No Fear Shall Awe" . From first Statesman, March 28, 1S51 S talesman Publishing Company , CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher Published every morning. Biuiness office 280 Worth Church St.. Salem. Ore.. Telephone 4-6811 Entered at the postoffice at alem, Ore., as second class matter under act of Congress March 3. 187. : Member Associated Press The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all local news printed in this newspaper. . Hiss and Freedom Today Alger Hiss walks out of federal prison a "free man." In the old language of criminology he has 'paid his debt to society." But how free wil he be? And are his "credits and debts'' now balanced in the popular mind? No, he will not escape his ill fame snore oi a miracie or exoneration; and the public will speak his name with the connota tion it carries as a common noun. Hiss will find obscurity hard to come by, and employ ment comparable -to his past positions im possible. For years the Hiss case will be a subject of discussion and review. It is not that he be came a member of a communist cell as was alleged but that he carried successfully a. double role though in a position of promin ence and trust; and then stood firm in his denial in the face of evidence quite over whelming. This is one of the major tragedies of our time, so great in fact .that his most intimate associates deemed the charges in credible. No doubt many still have faith in him, strengthened perhaps by the instability of the accusing witness. The pumpkin papers, the dates, the typewriter offered the most convincing proof of his guilt. Another man convicted of perjury growing : out of testimony' in the investigation of Com munism was Released this week from the same prison, out in a different manner. Wil liam W. Remington suffered a brutal attack and succumbed to" the injuries. His wife claims he was set upon by hoodlums in the prison who had been stirred up by all the talk about Communism. Remington was a relatively minor character, and the case against him was not as strong as that against Hiss. But he was convicted on a second trial and was serving a three-year sentence. Death thus closes his career, which like that of Hiss, had been one of promise. Somewhere along the way they made wrong choices which ultimately brought them to shipwreck ' Bill Connolly, writing In the S. F. Chron icle's; Sporting Green, says "We're stuck with USC, but don't give up." The Big Ten sends its real No. One team, Ohio State, to the Rose Bowl, but there it will meet the Pacific Coast's No. Two team, USC which was trimmed 34-0 last Saturday by UCLA. It's the one-in-two rule which bars the. latter, the Rose Bowl entry last year. Perhaps the "don't give up" means that the Trojans might turn in an upset and win the New Year's day game. USC is the ohly coast team to win in the Rose Bowl since the 1947 pact with the Big Ten. 1 ' - Now an EECO As counter to NATO, the organization to defend the free world from Communist ag gression the USSR is said to be organizing some sort of East European Communist Or ganization. Russia had issued a call for an All-European security conference, but the western powers invited said, "Let's wait until we get our defense treaties ratified." Russia though is going ahead with a confer ence in Moscow and the invited guests which will attend are its European satellites and Communist China. ! - This need cause no alarm. The USSR has dominated these countries since liberating them and setting up its own stooges as rulers in them. There has been no doubt that in any showdown Russia would muster their armies for use in war against the West (though how loyally they would fight for Communism has always been in doubt). What may now be 'done is to make formal ; their alliance though already they are tied with the Soviet Union by treaties of mutual assistance and friendship. One may fear this division between two power blocs; but it exists, and certainly the West is not willing to go soft with the menace of aggressive Communism confronting it. The lineups however are not necessarily a prelude to war, and in the present mood of the powers war is not in early prospect. Phrasemaker Though on the eve of 80, Sir Winston Churchill remains the great phrasemaker. The other day he remarked with a degree of optimism: "We might even find ourselves in a few years, moving along a broad, smooth causeway to peace and plenty, instead of roaming and peering around the rim of hell." "Causeway to peace," "rim of hell" how dramatic the antithesis! . ANOTHER ELBOW AILMENT The Santa Fe is one of the best-run rail roads in the country, but the jinx has been pursuing its passenger trains. Latest in a se quence of wrecks at various places along its lines was a derailment of its "Chief train on Thanksgiving eve out on the Mojave desert. Fortunately there was no fatalities and most of injuries were minor. Accidents will happen but the Santa Fe people wonder why they have had such a run of ill fortune. The tab for campaign expenses for Gov. Knight of California who was re-elected, came to just under $500,000, while his op ponent, Richard P. Graves reports expendi tures of slightly under $100,000. U. S. Sena tor Kuchel's costs ran to just under $300,000 Seems like a lot of money, but there are some eight million people in California. Politics has got out of the penny ante class, as least. A researcher now finds that Churchill is a descendant of Charlemagne. We'll venture to say that some day it will seem almost as important to find that someone is a de scendant of ChurchilL Editorial! Comment FARM WOODLOTS PAY THEIR WAY Washington county again has the services of a farm forester. He is available for consultation at the county extension office in the basement of the court house on Wednesday. The services of the farm forester are to be shared with Columbia and Yamhill -counties. Any farmer with a woodlot could well check with the forester. It is surprising what a farm woodlot has been found to yield in the way of financial return under intelligent and expert man agement. There are many acres of such woodlot acreage in Washington county which will return more managed as woodlots than cleared for crop land. Also there are many acres which are well adapted to the growing of trees but should never be considered as farm land. A woodlot need not necessarily be as long-term a proposition as many fear. Thinning on a select ed basis returns income after a few years and speeds the growth of remaining trees. Another factor of public importance Is that in the future the woodlot can well become the source of material for our forest industries. With the expert guidance of the farm forester, the woodlot caa well become an important and valuable pieee of property. (Forest Grove News-Times) K82 President Sets U. S. Course Toward Lasting Peace Through 'Freezing' of Red Position . r By Joseph & Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON Again and in recent months. President Eis enhower has reverted to the theme of peace, so that he some Y? " i times seems al most obsessed U : by the word it f self. In a recent r rl short speech, 'peace 19 times in 12 brief para graphs. N . . . According to VP those who should know, this is not propa ganda, or politics, or just talk. Ever since the Eniwetok tests, the almost intolerably cruel facts about the new type of hy drogen bomb especially the bomb's terrible radioactive side effects - have impressed, them selves more and more deeply on the presidents wi 4 Tkiii rV ATM he says that. iM" "since the invention of nuclear weapons . . . there is no alter native to peace ..." he means' just what be says. In other words, like' Sir Win ston Churchill, wha reached the same conclusion earlier, the president Is bow conrlaced that some way short of appeasement or surrender mast be found to avert the horrors of hydrogen war. Thus, long before French Premier lleades-Franee spoke, the prseidtnt had already de cided to seek -a "meeting at the summit" provided certain essen tial pre-conditions were met , The reasoning behind this de cision is reportedly about as follows: In the first place or at least so the intelligence esti mates reaching the president's desk indicate this country will have a decisive advantage over the Soviet Union in terms of nuclear power for a period of This advantage is measured, not so much in terms of bombs as in the means of delivering bombs. This country has now tamed oat its 1000th B-47 med ium range jet bomber, and the very long range B-5Z is now at last really beginning to roll off the production lines. The Soviet equivaltnts-Uhe TU-Sls and the TU-37S -are hardly beyond the prototype stage. Or so, at least, the intelligence people assure the president If the intelligence is correct,' the meaning of this three to five year period is interpreted rather simply. During this per iod, this country can knock the Soviet Union out while the So viets cannot knock this country out There are, obviously, two . ways to use this period of grace. One way is to force a preven tive showdown while the ad vantage still rests with ma. But, as the president has publicly said, he flatly rules out this course. Ho reportedly refuses to discuss the possibility of pre ventive war, even la private, and even on a hypothetical 'basis. As of today, this country would be badly hurt in a nuclear war. and our allies probably destroy ed. But this is apparenlty not the chief reason for the presi dent's refusal to consider pre ventive war. He finds the mass killing required in a knock-out blow at the Soviet Union pro foundly morally abhorrent. The only other rational alter native to a preventive show down is negotiation. This is the course the president has chosen. As he has been at pains to make clear, he does not believe that communism has changed its es sential nature. Yet intelligence and diplomat ic reports have given him some reason to believe that the awful characteristics el the new type of hydrogen bomb which the Soviets were the first to explode. is at least to some extent in fluencing Soviet policy, Just a it is influencing American and British policy. Malenkor's public statement that a nuclear war now means "the end of dvilitation" has been repeated in private in ev en stronger terms by other Rus sians, notably .by V. M. Molotov at the German conference. Aad the statement, after all, is true and the Soviet rulers have ev ery reason to know that it is true. The president hopes for no grandiose settlemeot, no true peace, but a kind of freezing in position, based on the realities of:.power. "A you-stay-in-your-backyard and - well-stay-in-our backyard agreement, with mut ual destruction the penalty for straying," was the way one policy-maker phrased it The president himself calls what he has in mind a "modus Vivendi." A most serious effort to negoti ate such a way of living together is thus very likely to be the next act in the world drama. If the effort fails, our policy- can be recast while we still retain the nuclear advantage. So runs the reasoning. There are dozens of difficult questions which could be asked about this reasoning, notably the questions which Sea. Kaowland has al ready asked about the evident dangers of a policy which ac cepts an "atomic stalemate.1 Yet it is impossible not to sympathize with the president, as ho wrestles earnestly with the cruel dilemma imposed by the cruel new weapons. 1 some times wonder," wrote Sen. Van- - denberg to his pastor, just be fore he died, whether the wit of man is competent to deal with this murderous discovery." And the discovery was, after all, very vmuch less murderous in those Cays than it is now. (Copyright 1H New York Herald Tribune Inc.) KNOW SOMEONE! MORE Tf) A to t. f ySfJC: - riiwy1" BjnuWB!!uaauuuuunuufjB Well, the battle of the calendars has started - earlier than usual, as usual . . . The first of the 1955's, like the new cars and Christmas, are arriving early ... A manager of one local firm noted confidentially that his competitors were planning on sending THEIR calendars out earlier this year, so he was sending his out a little sooner . . . The only items which have not shown up early this year have been summer and ducks . . . v : I The Medic, popular and starkly realistic ft Xu i TV show which has been getting thls-and-that y A'i J I reviews from civilian critics, gets the needle , I m 'V LJ in a pamphlet published by the Maternity Center Association, a medical-health education organization. The pamphlet reviewed the first Medic show which concerned the dramatic story of a new mother who dies in the delivery room of a rare disease. The Maternity Center disapproved of the Dragnet-like show because "every scene la the film was exaggerated to play on the emotions. The educational value was nil for nothing could be done to save the mother or to prevent or cure her disease ... this film could do nothing but create fear of the deepest and most destructive kind ..." v- The Association quotes John Crosby, TV commentator for the N.Y. Herald Tribune, who again brings up the question of whether pathology under any circumstances is suitable for public exhibition. A realistic show built around a diseased woman, one with leukemia, for instance, says Crosby, has been held by a group of New York doctors to be psychologically unsound because every woman would think that there, but for the. grace of God, go I. "A young couple looking forward to parenthood would find, cold comfort in this unusual and tragic portrayal 'of the Medic's art," con cludes the Maternity Association and hoped that future Medic shows would be improved ... And speaking of highway signs a spy notes that signs at the east end of the Marion St bridge were (are) worse , than the by-pass signs were . '. . One says Dallas-Independence, another says Albany-Eugene but NONE points to Dayton or , Wallace Rd. . . . And during the by-pass hassle a lady called to say that she, too, has long thought that Salem does not have enough signs pointing the city out to travellers. Why, she aid, even the callers in San Francisco bus depots don't men-' tion Salem when they spiel out points north. And once, she said, she was out riding and got lost near Amity and, because of the. lack of signs, could barely find her way back to Sa lem ... ' ' . o o The welcome mat is out for a golden cocker spaniel at the Benny Sanchez home, 2695 Brooks St. Seems the 8-' months-old, long-tailed, dog, named Taffy was taken or strayed from home last week. The Sanchez household is fond of the puppy and would like him back ... GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty nronrra " Jli (Continued rrom Page 1) , ; him in French (Indochina was a" French colony), they found out .a great deal concerning this country in Southeast Asia whose neighbor, Vietnam has been much in the news in recent months. Laos is cut off from the South China sea by Vietnam, and has only a few roads connecting with the coast On the South is Cambodia another of the states once making up French Indo china. Laos is bordered on the West by the great Mekong river which separates the country from a portion of Burma on the North and Thailand (Siam) on the West and South. This kidney-Shaped country is more closely associated with Thai land than its other neighbors. In fact Laos was once much larger but got cut up when Britain and France divided the region into spheres of influence in the 19th century. The Laotians, said -Mr. Kru ong, are a happy people. They have many holidays. The stand ard of living is relatively high and there are not the great ex tremes of wealth and poverty noted elsewhere. There are only a very few newspapers; not many people have receiving sets. The people live near the rivers and subsist largely on rice, fish and garden produce. Their exports are chiefly forest products and some cattle. Schooling is compulsory for four years. Above that French is taught as well as the native tongue and in the high schools English also. Buddhism is the principal religion. Christian missions have made little head way. . . While the French have turned over administration to native of ficials they still have power to appoint the supreme military commander who in the times of recent- unsettlement has exer cised considerable authority. The Laotians however do not demand complete independence; immediately for they are con-1 fident the French will withdraw before very long. As for Com munism the people do not know what it is. There is some in filtration from Vietminh, but it has not made much progress. We had the two at dinner in our home one evening. Thinking Mr. Kruong might like to see an American home I showed him about the house.' In the sun room he began talking to the in terpreter and pointing to the windows. I heard "cinema," . "cowboy," "bang, bang, bang." Mr. Fleurot interpreted saying in Laos they didn't dare have windows so close to the ground for fear of thieves or hoodlums. Kruong explained that the Lao tians were not troublemakers. but the Vietnamese or Thais who had seen the American films would enter Laos and try to imi tate what they saw on the screen. (Thus do we export American "culture.") , The Laotians are disposed to look down on the Vietnamese anyway, rating them, and the Cambodians somewhat lower in the social scale. Their languages are different They are more nearly akin to the Thais. Thus we in America learn that ' our foreign visitors come from lands with historical cultures and traditions, and a great deal of national pride. Time Flies fKOM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago Nov. 27, 1944 With "Inexpressible disap pointment" he cannot finish his task of organizing world peace, weary and work-worn Cordell Hull, yielded . the position of secretary of state to his dynamic young 'lieutenant Edward R. Stettiniua, Jr. Marion, Linn and Lane coun ties were runners-up, in that 4 order, to Yamhill county for the diversity bf products produced ih the five years from 1936-1940, County Agent Rex Warren re- - ported. - Featured on a special radio broadcast from Portland, was a play written by a Salem girl, Barbara Hathaway, daughter of Mrs. Ella C. Hathaway. Miss Hathaway, on the regular staff of station KGW, acted the lead in her play, "Crescendo." , 25 Years Ago Nov. 27, 1929 Federal prohibition agents swooped down on Wallace, Idaho, and when they left they had the mayor, a former mayor, the county sheriff, two deputies and 12 other persons under ar rest p n liquor conspiracy charges. Determined farmers of Jose- phine county stood guard over gladiolus bulbs valued at thou sands of dollars while the sher iff, heading a group of deputies, sought the leaders of an alleged gang who blazed a torch trail throughout three bulb growing communities. Under the directions of Chief Frank Minto, two local police men poured several gallons of intoxicating liquor into the sewer at the city halL Twice each year the city hall is cleared of confiscated liquor collected by the department in this man ner. 40 Years Ago Nov. 27, 1914 Police reserves were need in New York to restrain the crowds which beseiged the United States Internal Revenue office in attempts to buy the new war stamps. A solid line of would-be purchasers axtended for blocks growing increasingly restive as the hours passed. Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Bish op entertained at bridge, guests were their bridge club. Favors were awarded to Mr. Harry E. Clay, Miss Jones, James Young and Thomas A. Livesley. Miss Mable Smith presented a number of her pupils in an in formal recital, asking mothers as guests. . A few of the pupils were Helen Rose, Ruth Kennedy and Wayne Allen. The Confucian classics in 130 volumes were printed in China more than 1,000 years ago. .. AW rtmtmbtf, Jomorf ... the birthday pnscut is hr the fitte aostcst ... mi (W swm frf yoo awyM tut bettor Very little oxygen and water exist on Mars. The Safety Valve REORGANIZING RED CHINA To the Editor I am deeply disappointed in the attitude you have taken with regard to the possible recogni tion of Red China. This disappointment was fur ther aggravated f when I read your recent editorial "Creeping Knowlandism." In that editorial you stated that "the real ques tion is not whether to recognize i Red China but when and how and under what circumstances and conditions" leaving the iny plication that we should sooner or later recognize Red China. It seems to me the considera tion of the recognition of Red China is about as sensible as at tempting to recognize a rattle snake as a barnvard net. Thev have proven themselves to be ruthless and deadly to any per-' son or any ideology that con flicts with their aggressive cam . paign. ' I will take the side of Know land, a realist who recognizes a rattler when he sees one and also who definitely lets the American people know his standi One does not have to read a six column article to at- a 'pro or a 'con in the recogni tion of Red China. Them's my sentiments. DENNIS M. BRENNER Better Knlish By D. C WILLIAMS 1. What Is wrong with this - sentence? "I tasted of the food before sitting myself down." 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "abyss"? 3. Which of these words is misspelled? Deferrable, incon ceivable, dissoluble, pitiable. 4. What does the word "gratu ' ity" mean? Answers 1. Omit "of" and "down." 2. Pronounce a-bis, a as in ask un stressed, i as in kiss, accent sec ond syllable. 3. Defensible. 4. A free gift or donation. "The gratuity was sufficient to make ner nnanciaiiy independent" OrtfionOStateJiaatt . Phon 4-6S11 Subscription Rates By earlier In cltiea: Daily and Sunday S 1-43 per mo. Daily only 155 per mo. 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