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Culture Flowers
"Know thine enemy" is an admonition that
now can be changed to "know thine ally,"
for the nations which were now are, and the
avenues of cultural exchange by which we
may come to a better understanding of these
new allies are busy again.
Italy is experiencing a genuine cultural
renaissance that is both exciting and inspir
ing. The Italians have their political and
economic troubles still, but out of the post
war poverty and bitterness and confusion
has risen, Phoenix-like, an artistic passion
that has producetf first-rate literature, music,
motion pictures, art and fashion and indus
trial design. Today Americans and Italians
. are probably more simpatico than ever be
fore, i : . - !
Germany's development since the war has
been mo.-e economic and political than in the
fields of the arts, although there have been
valiant efforts to revive the great oper'a
houses and music festivals of a more Gemut
lich Deutschland. Postwar .literature has
leaned rather heavily to memoirs, but a few
novels hive received Critical attention here
some of them blatantly pro-Nazi. The
very slightness of Germany's cultural out
put helps us to understand this ally-better,
although what we have learned is not always
x reassuring. -
The least-known of our former foes is
Japan. As part of its extension program "to
increase mutual understanding among free
nations and thus to strengthen the bases of
world peace", the Ford Foundation has es
tablished Intercultural Publications Inc. This
organization presents in the January Atlantic
Monthly a worthy selection of essays, stories,
poetry and pictures that are representative
of Japan. x
In the foreword, Noel Busch points out
. that, when an American studies about or
travels in Europe, he is, iri a sense, going
home. "Japan provides no such parental or
narcissistic inducements" but "some know
ledge of Japan is precious now not only for
itself but also because it gives us what we
so sorely need a means of understanding
all of Asia, of which Japan is, in a way, the
essence."
All of which is harming and educational,
leaving the reader with the feeling that now
he understands Japan better, or at least is
amiably intrigued, by that contradictory
' country. ,
Cultural - exchanges to promote 'under
standing" are fine per se, but we must not
. make the mistake of thinking that peace and
good will must logically follow. Cultural
appreciation in its full sense is a mental ex
ercise of the intelligentsia; to the average
American Joe Blow those "furrin" things are
xjust curios and he does not love the Japanese
one whit more for their exquisite brushwork.
And even if he did, that would not affect
the- course of future relations between the
nations When has cultural understanding
been a factor in diplomacy, except insofar as
it served pragmatic ends? American civilza
tion is greatly indebted to Germany, for Pro
testantism, for music, art, printing, foods,
holiday customs, etc., but this close relation
ship did not keep us from knocking the tar
out of the Germans (though it may have in
fluenced our postwar leniency). We can be
glad to share our allies artistic accomplish
: ments but that is no guarantee we will get
along otherwise. i!
First Things for Junior MPs
; Industrial development holds the promise
of the future for Oregon, and "as far as I can
see a very prosperous period" is ahead, Dr.
A. L.' Strand, president of Oregon State Col
lege, told his audience at the Salem J. C
Junior First Citizen banquet Thursday.
The development of Oregon during its brief
century of settlement parallels the evolution
of the Age of Technology which has brought
the "quality and quantity of our material
life to something never before seen in the
history of man," he said.
Only a hundred years ago Indians camped
about where the Junior C of Cs in their
trim flannels with the TV-type handkerchiefs
in I the breast pocket - sat over their fried
chicken and peas. In that time Salem has
grown from an Indian mission to a frequently
sophisticated state capital. j
And looking about him at the leading
young men of this city, with their fine look
ing wives, Dr. Strand warned that "urban .
people: are apt to become complacent, and,
to think that they generate the forces of
their prosperity." !
So he reminded them that the sources of
prosperity are the fields, forests and rivers
of Oregon not just capable advertising
copy writers. We owe the flourishing busi
nesses in Salem partly to the technologists
who apply the principles of science to the
problems of everyday living: Soil men," the
foresters, the hydroelectrical engineers, and
so on. ,
bo often, civic-service and booster-type
organizations are subjected to the trite and
shallow onward-and-upward orations of the
professional optimist, designed to make each
listener feel he is the most-likely-to-succeed.
A group like the Junior Chamber is made up
of men who have already had a measure of
success and to whom the prosperity of the
community must seem a logical reflection of
their own well-being. Since these men are
the very ones who are moving into positions
of political influence, the; learned Dr. Strand
could not have picked a better audience or
a better topic. 1'
Streets Poorly Marked
Of all times of the year when lane stripes
should show plainly, it is now. And yet on a
good many Salem streets there isn't enough ,
paint remaining to show even when the sur
face is dry, let alone on a rainy night The
same situation has obtained for some time,
and there is a real danger in some areas,
such as midtown 12th Street, where drivers
unfamiliar with the terrain find themselves
practically "lost" ! j
It would be criminal negligence to let the
status continue, no matter what j color is to
be used to renew the stripes later. The cur
rent yellow is barely discernible under the
best of surface and light conditions and there
have been several dry days recently days
on which there was no apparent reason why
work could not have progressed.
Editorial Comment
GREEN PETER MOVES UP
A pleasing bit of news in the President's
budget was the mention of the Green Peter and
Cougar: dams in western Oregon for which ap
propriation is asked $1,000,000 for our San
tiam project (Green Peter) and $2,000,000 for .
Eugene's Cougar dam. j
These are both partnership, projects, and they
are included among other projects of the kind iiu
which the federal government will co-operate
with either local public utility agencies or private
enterprise. '
Credit for the inclusion of the two important
projects in the program goes to former Senator
Guy Cordon and Representative Harry Ellsworth
at the Washington end and to a good many local
workers, including the Albany Chamber of Com
merce, the South Santiam Development com
mittee, Albany's mayor, and others.
The partnership idea comes at a time when
a good many congressmen were beginning to
drag their feet on expensive federal projects,
such as Hells Canyon. The smaller the sum
: asked, the easier it is going to be to get which
is one good reason behind the new financing
method. Albany Democrat-Herald.
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Public Apathetic as
Revolutions Flare
The other day on this page Marguerite Wright broke out
editorially with a piece extolling the hard-working house
wife. Hinting, in that sly way women have, that it is the
wife's apron strings which really bind the
modern family together into One confusing
whole. This moved News Editor Wes Sul
livan to retaliate with an editorial uphold
ing the man of the house. The sturdy, dil
igent seldom-rewarded male parent. Wes
intimated that Daddy's head is the block
so to speak, on which the average home is
built ...
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Well, research hacovfnced as they are
both wrong. Who really keeps the average
family from falling apart at the budget? Who is it 'who Is al
ways ready with a helping hand or a guiding foot? Who keeps
home, hearth and health together? That's right None other
than Grandma! What would lots of families do for baby sit
ten, If It weren't for Grandma? Theatres the country over
would have to close down on Saturday nights if Grandmas
ever went on a stand-up strike ...
in Singapore; Malaya More Aware
Of Danger Than in Pre-Pearl Harbor Days
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By JOSEPH ALSOP
SINGAPORE, Malaya - Just
under fourteen years ago, this
' reporter first came to Singapore
on a special job for Gen. Chen
nault and his Flying Tigers, who
s . ' t were training in
-..V.i those days in
into; A; ".
f rr - ; j a i
mgni, ana me
rain was coming
down in. heavy,
impenetrable
sheets, but the
young British
pilot of the very
old - Wellington
bomber was as
contemptuous of the weather as
he was of the enemy v He blew
himself up with his own bombs;
a few weeks later, attacking the
attackers of the Prince of Wales.)
So we landed somehow, taxied
to a halt before a lighted hangar,
and were pleasantly greeted by
a heavily mustachioed R. A. F.
group captain.
Getting 'out in the rain was a
hurried business, but no one
could have avoided a glance at
the object in the hangar entrance.
It was a biplane with no cowling
to streamline its vast radial en
gine and a total armament of
two small machine guns. The
group captain was asked just
what was this thing that seemed
to have come out of a boys' avia
tion annual for 192S.
"Kaarruraph," said the group
captain, blowing the raindrops
out of his mustachkts, "Haar
rumph! Why that's one of our
fighter squadrons. Jolly maneuv
erable little aircraft too, old .
boy.". .
This ralnsoaked reeeflectlea re
curs at the moment beeaise it
polits a contrast. This year in a
situation of much more remote
peril, the British aataoritles la
Singapore and Malaya are im
measorably less complacent than
they were la the time Just be
fore Pearl Harbor. Ia fact if any
one succeeds ia waking as- the
British and American govern
ments, the able soldiers and
civilians at the head of affairs
here will have a large share of
the credit:
The peril in Malaya is still dis
tant in time, but its outlines are
already obvious. It results from
the Asian Munich which was
signed at Geneva. The triumph
of the "Viet Minh is Indo-China
is having two kinds of effects
here. ' ;
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On the one hand, there are the
direct effects. Last year, the bril
liant Gen. Sir Gerald; Templer
could reasonably hope! that an
other twelve months of hard pres
sure would change the whole di
mensions of the problem of Ma
laya's Communist guerillas. He
didnot expect mass surrender,
but he 'did expect an epidemic
of local surrenders that would
. restore security to big areas of
Malaya that have not known full
security for many years. But the
watchword that keeps the gueril
las in the jungle going is, "Fath
er Mao Tse-tung is coming so
hang on a little longer." .
The events In Inde-Chlaa seem
ed to give reality U the slogan.
So the problem of the juagle
guerillas aot only remains ex
aeuy what It always was la Ma
laya. In addition, a aew zone of
complete Communist control, no
less than twenty. mOes width,
has beea significantly established
Just across the border in Thai
land. I -,
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In addition, the Viet Minh tri
umph has importanly assisted the
Communist effort of underground
infiltration. In this Chinese tity,
somewhere between sixty to
eighty per ent of the Chinese
students have joined or are deep
ly influenced by the party, j
Slace half the pofMUatioa of
Singapore is ander twenty- ne,
the stadent attitude is. more than
normally meaningful. Farther
more, the newspapers of the
greatest Chinese aulflenalrts in
Singapore are beginning to tend
toward the Peking line. And
there are many other signs that
the Chinese, who form nearly
half the total population of Ma
laya, are aew watching and wait
ing for a Communist bandwagon
in Asia.
These direct effects of the
Geneva-Munich are trifling, how
ever, compared to the indirect
effects: These comprise the
mournful calculations of the Bri
tish authorities In Malaya as to
what! will happen if the Com
munist bandwagon' in Asia really
gets .rolling.
From this vantage point, the
situation la Cambodia. Laos . and
Thailand Is being watched with
aaxlous attention and a realistic
abseace of optimism. It is ad
mitted, moreover, that if Thai
land falls, the situation in Ma
laya will be untenable on the
present basis. A bold rectifica
tion of the Malayan-Thai froa
' tier, to give a defeasible line on
the Kra Isthmas; at least three
more divisions of ground forces
from Britain, Australia and New
Zealand these may wen be
the minimum requirements to
keep Malaya under Tontrol, evea
if ao Communist forces cross
borders aggressively.
To guard against the latter
danger, the British would also
frankly like an American mili
tary guarantee of Malaya, and
would like that guarantee spell
ed out in the form of a promise
of air and naval aid in event of
war.
Despite these; worries at the
top, of coarse the surface of Ufa
In Singapore Is pleasaat and un
troubled. The baadwagoa has not
yet started rolling. Bat since It
Is extremely lively to do so un
less serious efforts are made to
stop it. aa Idea of the problems
'that may result is not without
v considerable current value.
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(Continued rrom Page 1)
that would bring about not only
a cease-fire but a lot of other de
velopments as well." ,
' From information that has
come to me I believe the ad
ministration is trying desperate
ly to bring some resolution of
the impasse in the Orient As
was true with Truman and
Acheson, its problem is not only
how to deal with the Reds in
Asia but with the staunch sup
porters of Chiang Kai-Shek in
this country. Many of these are
loyal Americans who are in
tense haters of Communism and
put no trust in any agreement
with the Reds. What in my
judgment they fail to see is the
And who always thinks the new baby is the cutest ever? cold reality of our situation in
If it were not for Grandma's keen eyes who would notice
that the latest grandchild has Mother's eyes, Daddy's chin,
Uncle Herman's nose and Grandpa's hair? : Who do the kids
go to when they're faking a stomach-ache to keep out of,
house chores? Whose card tables, dishware, big coffee pot,
table silver and turkey roaster does Mother borrow?
Who outfits the kids with pajamas at Christmas-time?
Who does a lot of extra sewing, making over and patching
for the family? Who seldom forgets the kids' birthdays and
usually comes through with shirts, jeans, gun-and-holster
sets, etc.? When Mother and Daddy get into' an argument
ever who should go on a diet, who is it who usually steps in
and settles it by agreeing with both sides and yet disagree
ing with nobody? Grandma, of course. And who is it who has ,
; enough grit to hear the first grader's reading lesson over,
and over? ...
the Orient both from a military
and a political standpoint Cer
tainly the ultimate alternate of
war is undesirable to them as
well as to those who seek a set
tlement
Having for years advocated a
different approach in our deal
ings with Red China, since the
collapse of the Chiang regime
on the mainland, I welcome this
sign of a shift in Washington. A
change of direction will be hard
er now in some respects than
back In 1949 or early 1950. How
ever, I think more Americans
realize how our position in the
Far East is becoming increas
ingly more difficult to sustain
We may now have to swallow
some pride; but the longer we
wait and the more friction we
Of course. Grandpas are in there, too, pitching away as
silent partners to Grandmas. But Grandmas, by and large stir up the bigger gulp we may
l and some are lareel run the show. Grandpas, when they have to take unless, of course,
get to be Grandpas, ate not usually as vocal as back when
they were just family heads. ; Grandpa is pretty handy for
getting to help with renovation work around the house, as
a fishing or hunting companion, for using his car or for
T)nddv to arsnie nolitics with . . Yes. sir. The average
household would a rough time without Grandma. Anawnue HivTHtT. PlpariB
Mother and Daddy have only one family to stew about, many lulutl tmo
Grandmas ride herd on three or four families and several fSjjifv tn f.ViarfVP
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
AP Foreign News Analyst -A
small war flares on Costa Ri
ca's borders. Rebels strike sudden
ly in Guatemala. A President is
slain in Panama. Is there a com
mon thread linking these sudden
eruptions of violence in Central
America or at its edges? '
These explosions, like those of
much of the rest of Latin America,
would seem to have little in com
mon save the culture, language
and history of the area.
Yet they are connected by the
fact that the future of Latin Amer
ica must loom large in the long
cold war between the Communist
and non-Communist worlds.
There are other common fea
tures, too. There is little mass
participation in such upheavals.
Public apathy, total public con
cern with the problems of bare
existence in these countries with
the possible exception of Costa Ri
catends to lead to government
by small cliques and contests
among these cliques for the right
to rule. Such governments are con
stantly prey to easy capture.
In addition, these countries all
are dependent economically upon
the United States. They are all in
the same boat as producers of
raw materials who do not have the
industrial capacity to exploit their
ow natural riches, and Uncle Sam
is their principal customer.
During World War II, these
countries piled up some backlog of
dollars, but when the war boom
ended and inflationary prices came
the backlog dwindled away and
the constricting effect-had its im
pact on the politics of the. area, a
contest of cliques trom tne edu
cated upper layers of the popula
tions.
There has been growing realiza
tion in the United States that Latin
American politics would continue
for a long time to be unstable and
potentially dangerous in a turbu
lent world unless something was
done to broaden the base of rule
American technical assistance
has been attempting to help, al
ways fighting the Latin American
boeev of "Yankee imperialism
which is a primary weapon for
both Communists and dictators.
o
Thus, even though Communists
and communism may not be di
rectly involved in a Central Amer
ican eruption, the United States
must always be concerned with
the question of who will come out
on top. It must always keep, in
mind the possibility of a Red foot
hold in the Western Hemisphere.
Latin America s 20 republics
a third of the votes in the United
Nations figure large in terms of
the cold war.
The Soviet Union demonstrated
in Guatemala that it was far from
disinterested in Latin American
events. Every flareup, therefore.
is examined closely by Washington
for traces of the alien hand. 1 "
The common characteristics of
the- upheavals end about here.
however. The assassination of
President Jose Antonio Remon in
Panama seems to have been an
event which took place in Pana
ma s own vacuum, a struggle be
tween two contending cliques for
power. There is no evidence of
outside political forces.
.-
The cases of Costa Rica. Nicara
gua and Guatemala are different
Years of feuds and intrigues across
bonders are involved. And at least
in the case of Guatemala, interna
tional communism plays a role..
Since Jose Figueres assumed the
presidency of Costa Rica, he has
we nave military action deii
tritely in mind, and I do not
think the American people will
swallow that without far greater
provocation than now appears.
loomed as a threat to the dictator
of his neighbor country to the
north. President Anastask Somo
za of Nicaragua and vice versa.
Figueres became president of
the little country it has less than
a million people and is only half
the size of Kentucky-ln 1953. He
took office with ambitious plans
for social reform in a country al
ready more advanced in that re
spect than its neighbors.
His experiments with reform and
liberalization could be an example
which could start a Latin Ameri
can prairie fire. Figueres there
fore could expect to be a target
both of a harsh dictatorship rep
resenting the tiny minorities which
long ruled Central American coun
tries, and of the extreme left which
abhors ' social reform while pur
porting to uphold it.
Nicaragua, more than twice the
size of Costa Rica in area, is ruled
by a tight police dictatorship. So
moza has been feuding with Fi
gueres ever since the latter helped
toss out the Costa Rican dictator
ship of President Teodoro Picado
in 1943.
Now Figueres charges that the ;
sudden warfare on his border re
sulted from plotting in Nicaragua
between Somoza and remnants of
the former Costa Rican dictaror-
ship which took refuge there.
Guatemala is a case unto itself. '
having been within a breath of
becoming the first Communist
people s democracy" in the West
ern Hemisphere.
The armed uprising last week
against President Carlos Castillo
Armas indicated that the Commu
nists have not yet given up the
struggle there. It can be expected '
they will. do all in their power to
torpedo any real reforms.
The United States walks a tight
rope in Xatin America. The Ameri
can policy of the "big stick" at
the turn of the century gave rise
to the anti-Americanism which was
not dissipated wholly even with
Washington's good neighbor policy
in recent years.
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10 Years Ago
Jan. 23, 1945
I An attractive oil painting of
the late Sen. Charles McNary
was presented to the Oregon
house of representatives by
Mrs. A. Rose Twing, postmaster
at Dorena near Cottage Grove.
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Adolf Hitler proclaimed to
the world that Germany would
fight to the finish "Fight on
no matter where and no matter
under what circumstances until
final victory; crowns our ef
forts." The Salem Chamber of Com
merce, Kiwanis club and Retail
Trade bureau were among those
organizations definitely on rec
ord favoring the city-acquisition
of the Bush's pasture tract,
which would be up for vote Feb.
25 Years Ag
Jan. 23, 1930
- France gained a technical vic
tory on a point of procedure for
the formal agenda of the five
power naval disarmament' con
ference after a meeting of the
chief delegates at Number 10
Downing Street . .
Complete and final plans for
Of Manslaughter
I
I MEDFORD W A hunter who
shot at what he thought was a
deer and killed a boy instead,
pleaded guilty Saturday to man-
. . i slaughter.
confined to her home as a re- t The hunter, Fred Warden, 31,
suit of an automobile accident Medford, was continued free under
which occurred while return- $7,500 bail pending pre-sentence
in? to Salem from Sacramento investigation.
with her son Frank. The ear - Last October 16 his shot killed
skidded on the slippery pave-.Philip S. Minear. 12, and the same
menu i Duiiet wounoea in me arm anaron
40 Years Ago
Ruth O'Connors, 12.
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LUMBER PACTS SIGNED
i SPOKANE (A Six Spokane
lumber plants sisned agreements
The end of six months of Eu- .Cl?.0:
Jan. 23, 1915
rope's great war found the ar
mies of the nations completing
day. The contracts, following the
seneral pattern suggested by the
fact-finding panel, call
rVn.nf. fV . govemoT'i facwinaing panel, can
arrangements for a new series ,or 7ent hourly wage incases
i uhuuuS wi uijr - j.etroactlve to Jan. L
gagea in campaigns me cxiem
of which hardly were antic
ipated when the declarations of
i hostilities were made, t
The Red Cross drug store,
recently moved from 177 N.
Commercial Street to 344 State
Street, is well settled in its new
home. W, H. Prunk, proprietor
of the store planned to enlarge
the stock.- ,
Earl Rhoten . and family of j
five arrived in Salem from Fal-s
Ion, Nevada. Mr. Rhoten is a
brother of E. A. Rhoten, field
editor of the Pacific Homestead.
The new arrivals planned on
making Oregon their home.
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