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4 (Soc 1 Statesman, SaUm, Or, Tuau, Dae. SI. 1854 t dDrefipntatesmaa "A'o Favor Sicoys Us, No Fiat Shall A ice" 1 From First Statesman, March 23. 1851 . ! ' " "J - . Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher PuBlished every morning. Business office 280 North Church St. Salem. Ore- Telephone 4-C811 Entered at the postofflce at Salem, Ore., as second class matter under act of Congress March 3. 1879. : Member Associated Press The Associates Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all local news printed in - this newspaper. ' 1 1 Cyprus, Greece and the USA - It is just hard for a nation! to keep on be ing loved. Here are Greek students whose country was saved from succumbing to Com- -munist penetration and 'revolution only by dollars and military counsel from the United States, rioting in front of our embassy in Athens protesting because the Ijnited States didn't vote with Greece in' the U.N. Assembly , over the Cyprus issue.'1 And both Indonesia and The Netherlands are vexed with the U.S. because our delegation abstained (did not vote) on the motion of Indonesia to bring up . in U.N. the matter of Neir Guinea. It just seems lmno.ssible to keen evervone haDDV. i This Cyprus business impresses us as being somewhat synthetic. In very recent years the Cypriots have worked themselves into a lath er over "enosis" union with Greece.! It can't be called reunion for Cyprus, after being col onized by Greek and Phoenician settlers in ancient times, has always been under alien control: Egypt, Persia, Rome. Richard I of England seized it in 1191 and from 1192 to 1489 it was governed by the: kings of Jeru salem. Venice then had it as one of the jewels on its utrinw until thi Tiirka tnolr nnssessinn of the island in 1571. Turkey ceded it to Bri- tain in 1878 and it has been a crown colony 1 since 1914. . The people for the most part are Greek speaking and are adherents of the Greek Or thodox church. In fact much of the present agitation stems from the church; There is a Moslem minority, however, which opposes "enosis." 1 ;, 'i j What lifts the Island's status into higher importance now is the fact that Britain is transferring its eastern Mediterranean mili tary base from the Suez zone to Cyprus. The "0 a m a a a cypriots seize tne opportunity, to aemana mat the British eet out and union with Greece be accomplished. The Greek delegation sought ' United Nations support for self-determination by the inhabitants of Cyprus, but Britain de nied the competence of the. Assembly to act because it was a matter within the domestic States voted against the Greek resolution and the disturbances in Athens followed. The Portland Oregonian chides the United ttatc fni'lsiin(f turA.faf(v4 an4 41 arita iKsi ' w . w vvmi& wmwvUf ejav wvuiita s,a a U.S. "needs to come to a firm policy on,, col onialism." It says: "We" cannot offer leader ship to- the world to halt Communist aggres sion if we cling to old alliances which defend the practice of one people's holding by force and ruling others that demand freedom.' ! Well, the USA is under serious strain in demands for independence have been! welling up: Indochina, Tunisia, Morocco, Togoland. ; The administering powers are among our closest allies: Britain, France; in other areas the Union of South Africa, Australia, Bel gium. We thus are pulled in various direc tions. In general the U.S. policy has been to avoid showdowns in United "Nations and to rely on direct negotiations between the de pendency and the colonial or administering power. In Egypt our ambassador, Jefferson Caffrey, made a very important contribution in settling the controversy between Britain and Egypt. It is better to exercise a consider able measure of patience than to join in every clamor that is raised over colonialism. The Greeks rioting in Athens and smashing windows in buildings occupied by the Ameri can mission deserved being wet down with fife hoses. Britain through the years from the time of Greek liberation over a century ago has been a bulwark of support for Greece; and the United States, in taking over the Brit ish burden in 1947, kept Greece from sinking into the role of Communist satellite. For the Cypriots there is no basis for urgency in their demands, such as claim of oppression; and since they have been under non-Greek rule for over 20 centuries they surely can bear up a while longer under the beneficent rule of Great Britain. Neither the United Nations nor the USA can make the world over, overnight Fourth of a Serfer Extra-Hazardous Occupation ( j Football Coach Chuck Taylor fared better than Kip Taylor at OCS. Though Stanford had a poor year this year, Chuck Taylor was giveh a five-year contract as coach, replacing his old contract which had five years to run. His principal assistants were given three year contracts. OSC's Taylor was jettisoned after a bad year though his previous record of victories had been quite impressive. . Colleges aren't the only one to use the vic tory rule for hiring or retaining coaches. A Regular game of musical chairs has been play ed this fall among managers of big league, baseball teams. And in professional football the coach of the San Francisco '49ers got fir ed, and the coach of the L.A. Rams resigned. There just ought to be easier ways of earn ing a living. i 1 The front-page story in Monday's States man quoted H. De Wayne Kreager of Wash ington as saying that within 20 years atomip energy will provide about twice as much elec tric power as that now generated by. falling water. It is worthy of mention that Kreager comes from the Northwest, having been born and reared at Ritzville, Wash., where his parents still reside. He graduated from WSC or the U of W, then took post graduate work in the East. He held very responsible positions with the government in procurement during the war and was the executive for C. E. Wil son (of G, not GM) in the Office of Defense Mobilization. Now he is associated with John R. Steelman, 'a former assistant to President Truman, as a metal and powerspecialist in private consulting work. This editor knew him as a youngster and has noted his progress with interest. S. T. Moore, who has been forest ranger at Detroit for the past 12 years, will be trans ferred next month to Medford for a new as signment with the forest service. Moore has been a good public servant, helpful and ac commodating to those' with business dealings with the forest service and to hikers and out door lovers and mountain climbers who have often visited his domain. He'll carry with him the best wishep of many people. j Secret Trip Behind Bamboo Curtain Shows L Gains of Reds in Indochina to Joseph Alsop Ml By JOSEPH ALSOP SAIGON, Indochina , For an American nowadays, the Bamboo Curtain of Asia is far harder to pass than the Iron Curtain of Europe. But by a curious chap ter of accidents, this reporter has just spent three days in the great Viet Minn guerrilla area which still forms a virtually inde pendent state at the southern tip of Indochina. The trip involv ed every ap paratus of con vent i o n al ro mance from two gloriously moon lit nights chug ging through Communist territory on a native . canal boat to the inevitable false papers, which were needed to get back through, the Curtain again. Yet these details were hardly no- ticeable. Despite the extreme" shortness of the permitted time, the impressions produced by j this experience were so ! vivid-s-one might almost say so violent that they alone absorbed one's entire attention. Perhaps it is tactless to say so nowadays, but my dominant emotion was a sort of horrified, helpless admiration for the Com munist achievement , not of course for the thing itself, but for the courage shown, the incred ible difficulties overcome, the" sheer brilliance of the political military feat ! - Here, after all. was a huge re gion with a population of close to 3,000,000, with no local war re-, sources except its rice produc v tion, with no hope of serious out- side aid, situated, at the southern . extremity of Indochina,, as far as possible from the main Commu nist base in the north. j Here, la this plain of Cams. ' The Committee af the South (the , rmBmt Viet Minh organ la Cecha 1 China) first raised tao standard of revolt and fixed its capital nine loag years ago. Such arms as they had got from the Japanese and a treasury of 75 piastres, or boot five dollars la those, days, were the sole tangible assets of tnj oddly mixed committee, of Vietnamese Communists and na tionalists whom Ho Chi Minn had chosen for the task, i . 1 ' But they .had a political asset too. This delta of the Mekong had been a vast swamp until the French drained it, and divided it into great landed estates. The peasants in their palm huts had always lived 'in bitter poverty : and without hope until the Com munists gave them the land, j When the late Gea. Leclerc took command, in Indochina with the complacent boast that he would destroy the Viet Minh in a few months, French troops entered ' the plain of Caman and establish ed thirteen fortified posts. Bat although the Committee of the South had barely raised its ban ner, the guerrilla attack was so severe and sustained that the French; forces soon destroyed their mad forts and departed. i From that day to this, when the local Viet Minh government is moving north; under the terms of the Geneva accord, the plain of Camau has been what the Com munists call "liberated territory." Once every yar or so,' a French "clean up" column would push into the region, burning and de stroying as it moved. Always there were the. air attacks that wrecked and wrecked again the little palm hut villages along the canal banks,! and confined all road and canal movements to the dark hours of the night r I i - - ii i - : - i ; ; Bat there was never a moment . when the Viet Minh did not ran throughout the region. And as i time went on, the Committee of ! the South, from its mobile palm hat capital ia the Caman plain, !' came j to rule other huge regions approximating rather more than a third af the whole area of CochUO China, which Gen. Na . varre told me last year the French "effectively controlled." An army of something like 30, 000 -regular and regional troops was organized, trained and armed with captured 1 French heavy weapons and small arms painful ly manufactured ia tiny, camou flaged local shops. And I have never seen I smarter, tougher looking Asian troops than the few soldiers the accidents of my journey allowed me to inspect. A permanent government was formed, complete with financial, economic, educational. . heulth, propaganda and police services. Currency was printed, taxes were levied, and budgets were annually . i i The Coining of Christ - - David Timo Flios FROM STATESMAN FILES 2 New Homes Authorized Selected by the Department of Worship and the Arts, Na tional Council of Churches. , 1 1 - i - 1 1 ; David Is Anointed by Samuel in the Presence of His Fa ther and Brethren, from a French manuscript, : "Scenes from the Old Testament," of the 13th Century. The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. I , t . 1 j i : "And the Lord said, 'Arise, anoint him; for this is he. Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him ia the midst of his brothers? and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward." (I Samuel 1S:121.) I - f, .!' - ' In David, God established the royal house of His chosen people, commanding Samuel to anoint him as a symbol of his kingship. David was considered to be a prefigure of the Messiah, - who was to be his descendant and an earthly king in the line of David. Bat the prophets began to see that the triumph of this king was to be in bis humanity, and that he would find victory even ia his rejection. Such a king was Christ, who was born ia a stable rather than a palace", and made His triumphal entry into -Jerusalem riding on an ass. "And the crowds that went before Him and that followed Him shouted, 'Hosanaa to the Son of David! Blessed be be who comes in the name of the Lord! Hos anna In the highest!' " (Matthew 21:9) Tomorrow: The Prophet btp bjiaHjuiJB to (Continued from page 1.) a papal encyclical and the coun sel tagged them as Communist or favorable to Communism or Socialism. After that Reece ad journed the hearings after only one representative of a founda tion had given testimony. The other foundations were permitted to file written briefs. prepared, la short the whole mechanism of state power and regular administration was cre ated out of nothing, in the nearly neolithic little muddy villages among the rice fields and In the very teeth of French military power. ! ; .1 ' I though I even detected a first symptom of the ills to which all grown up governments are liable. I stayed, for my short visit, at the palm hut reception center pro-' vided for the families who were 'coming from all over Cochin China to say goodbye to their sol diers going north. The cadre in charge (cadre is the Viet Minh name for any trained and indoc trinated official or party work er) was a pale, delicately dandi fied young fellow. It seemed hard to believe that; he did the daily nour oi wortc in tne rice ueias that is required of all cadres to set an example, maintain contact with the peasants and eke out the Small wonder that the report makes grave insinuations against foundations, attributing to them "some of the character istics of an intellectual cartel", and blaming the spread of "col lectivism" and "socialism" on foundation promoted empirical methods of research. It even says that "alertness" of some of the foundations which helped fi nance the Institute of Pacific Re lations "might have saved China from the Communists and pre vented the war in Korea." The report picks out for sinister labelling Sen. Paul Doug las of Illinois; Sen-elect Case of New Jersey; Paul Hoffman, one time head of Ford Foundation; newscaster Edward R. Murrow. Some have speculated that Reece's antagonism springs from the fact that Hoffman became very active in the Eisenhower campaign against Reece's favor ite. Sen. Bob Taft, and so Ree?e used this investigative vehicle to get at Hoffman and the whole litter of tax-free ,foundations. The subject is discussed with great clarity and balance of judgment! in the recently pub lished review of the work of the Rockefeller Foundation by its president. Dean Rusk. He has no objection to congressional investi gations but declares that "the mittee operated was so palpably saturated with bias that its re port lacks , any standing among intelligent people. Foundations may be perverted to bad ends; but the record of the great foundations, such as those set up by Rockefeller, Car negie, Ford and others, have a magnificent record of achieve ment in advancing the arts and sciences, promoting public health ail round the world, helping fi nance both basic research and the application of scientific meth ods in various areas of human endeavor. , In a season when hate and fear and prejudice abound it is not surprising that politicians become their victims or seek to exploit such emotional reactions for ! their own ends. Another, House committee, the one on un American activities, hn its recent report paid, particular " attention to the hate j groups which have a fresh lease! of life these days. Fortunatelyj their extreme irra tionality is self-defeating. In spite of all the propaganda thrown at jthem the American , people retain their balance pret ty well. So long as these founda tions devote! their efforts and their means; to worthy social ends they will survive: and if they ever become anti-social or dis loyal they can quickly be brought to book. The report of the Reece committee deserves to be filed, in the ashcan; and the appropri ation of $115,000 may be counted .as wasted. J 1 ! 7 10 Years Ag Dee. 21, 1944 " Xoyal Warner, vice-president of the Salem Chamber of Com merce and recently re-elected a director, was chosen president of the group for 1945, at a meeting of the directors. He suc ceeded Carl Hogg. President Roosevelt signed a bill authorizing a $1,673,250,000 federal contribution toward a $3,173,250,000 three-year post war highway program. The North Summer street home of Supreme Court Justice and Mrs. James T. Brand was the scene of a gala Christmas for their son, Private Tom Brand and 14 servicemen, in the ASTP program at Oregon State college.1 25 Years Ago Dec. 21, 1929 " Isaac Lee Patterson, governor of Oregon, died suddenly at his farm home in Eola, Polk county, seven miles west from Salem. Death resulted from a weaken ed heart condition brought about by pneumonia., The sud den death of the governor was a blow to the citizens of Ore gon. One of the most interesting social events of the month was the J marriage in Portland of John J. Elliott, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Elliott, and Vivian Oatts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Edward G. Merrifield of The Dalles. Both attended the Uni versity of Oregon, i Consolidation of steam rail roads into 19 competing units that would radically reshape the nation's transportation map was outlined by the Interstate Com merce commission in its long awaited unification program drawn at the direction of con gress. 40 Years Ago I Dec. 21, 1914 State Architect W. C. Knight on moved his headquarters from the house chamber at the State House to j-ooms on the third story of that building in order that preparations could be made for the coming session of the legislature. Three aeronlanes. one a Ger man and two British, traveling at 70 miles an hour, were pump ing bullets at one another, the spectacle was witnessed by thousands and was one which ten years ago would have been considered one of the wildest imaginings of fiction. Secretary of State. Olcott's of- fice sent out by mail a total of ' 4600 motor vehicle licenses for i the year 1915. Each of the tags weighs around a pound so the r entire shipment weighed nearly two tons and a half. Building permits were issued Monday in Salem authorizing the construction of two new houses and alteration of two others. The city- engineer's office issu-4 ed permits to Jim Minty for, a sizou house and a sarase at 2675 Bolton St, and to Abbie Weigel for a $8,000 house and garage at 825 Piedmont St.. Permits for alterations went to Mary Drake, for $75 in alterations to a nursing home at 805 Oak St and to J. J. Hauck for $100 in alterations to a house at 610 High- ana Ave. ! . Springfield Gains ,615, Census Shows SPRPfGFtELD im Sni-inrffoM has gained 1.615 in population since 1950, federal enumerators have reported after -conducting an unofficial census at the request of city officials, who want a larger share of state gasoline tax and liquor receipts, i The new total I for the city is 12.422. SALMON RUN NOTED . PORTLAND The first fall run of chinook salmon in two decades went up the Willamette River this year, the State . Fish commission said Monday. ' tmmmmmmmmmmmt Better English By D. C WILLIAMS ;Bv Lirhlv HONEST PARKERS OAKLAND. Calif, j UP When parking .meters were installed in 1950, real estate man Lawrence validity of the investigative proc- Ustvedt put f $10 in change in a ess is affected by the sense of bowl on his i counter. Four years responsibility with which it is later it contained $10.17. "People," used." ;The way the Reece com- Ustvedt commented, "are honest" tiny salary of rice that the Viet see3E3SSSBSS iT.-TT PWa It GRIN AND BEAR IT I was told he escaped the rice fields because he was an unusual ly expert fisherman with a. net, but I atill suspected that he was an early specimen of the great genus of .bureaucratic careerist I may have been unjust however, for the dandified cadre was re sponsible for the absence of an official seal on my exit papers. And this later gave me a rather bad hour of worry about what I would do If a sort of canal-side soviet of soldiers and grim se curity police looked, at the pass port in my bedding roll and dis covered I really was not Monsieur Muller, a wandering French journalist I wish I could report that the . Viet Minh organization which I glimpsed in those three days was feeble, evanescent and hated by the people. But- the record of its achievements in nine years all too clearly confirms my own short observations of the effi ciency, power and popular sup- port of this Communist built and Communist - guided machine .of guerrilla government If we are not to lose the struggle for the world, we had best make . a real ' istic estimate of the enemy's strength. And the ' foregoing merely summarizes the strength that I saw. i (Copyright 1954. New York Herald Tnbuno lac) : ', 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "Smith's statement was followed with a dead si lence." j 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "chateau"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Decolete, beret demitasse, chapeau. , ! 4. What does the word "hy nerbole" mean? . 1 1 5. What is word beginning with bl that means "brawling clamorous"? Answers 1. Say, "Smith's statemen was followed by complete si lence." 2. Pronounce sha-to, as in shall, o as in toe, accent second syllable. 3. Decollete, i. 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