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1 4 Soc 1-Sratesman, Salem, 'Or., Sunday, March 13, 1955 1 J "A'o Favor Sway Us. No Fear Shall Atce" mn First statesman. March Zs, 1851 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher Published every morning. Business offlc 280 Norto Church St.. Salem. Or. Telephone 4-S811 Entered at the postoffice at Salem. Or., as second: class matter under act of Congress March a. 1878. Member Associated Press The Associated Press la entitled exclusively to the vm (or republication of all local news printed in this newspaper J - "Precision Weapons" j One thing about Secretary Dulles, he comes up with an apt phrase. In 1952 he was talking about "liberation" which gave shivers to our allies in western Europe who foresaw their countries made a doormat for a U. S. effort to roll back the Iron Curtain. In 1953 he talked about "massive retaliation" which had an ominous sound and left in mind a picture of atom bombs-falling on the huddled masses of China. His latest phrase is "weapons of precision" used in a notice to Communist China not to start any rough ? n ii i i aiuu in aoumeasi Asia. ) . That is a comforting term. It does not connote wholesale slaughter, nor imply any crusade of liberation. These weapons, which presumably we; have, would hit the vital military targets. We trust that the warning ' suffices because I precision weapons might miss some of their targets or lead to the use -of other and more devastating tools of war- fare, ; . Mondays for Holidays More "lost weekends" would be assured if the idea of the National Association of Travel Organizations is carried out. It pro poses that holidays be put on Mondays, to give three days in a row off duty. It would combine celebration of birthdays of Wash ington, Lincoln, and Jefferson with a single Presidents' Day on the third Monday in February. Memorial Day would be the last , Monday in May; Independence Day the first Monday in July; Thanksgiving Day the fourth Monday in November. Labor Day would remain on the first Monday in Sep tember. " No one seems to have considered the in creased slaughter in motor traffic accidents which attends the three-day holiday; nor how the churches would like to have so many Sundays permanently confirmed for recre ation. The name of the sponsoring organi zation leads one to infer that the prime purpose is to build business for gas stations ' and resorts,, especially those reachable on a long weekend. We don't go for the idea. Who wants to eat turkey on Monday? AS FAR FROM DRY LAND AS EVER Second Run on Peress Case Major Irving Peress was the real forgotten man in the McCarthy-Stevens go of 1954. Yet he Was the original inspiration for the? famous cause celebre which culminated in the Senate's censure of the junior senator , from Wisconsin.: Now Senator John Mc Clellan of Arkansas, i McCarthy's successor, as chairman of the investigations subcommit tee is getting the Peress show back on the road. Hearings on his case are to start Tues day and some of the old "stars" will be inter- rrxrntprl" Rprrptarv nf'War Stevens, former Army counsel John Adams, and perhaps Brig. Gen. Zwicker, How on duty in the Orient. r The objective, says McClellan, is to get the whole Peress story before the public. We had thought it was fully publicized, es pecially since the Army recently gave out its diary of thehandling of Major Peress. How active Sen. McCarthy will be with the interrogation is not announced. He is still a committeeman, but has been pretty much out of the news since his Senate 're buke. Without Joe to harass and upbraid the witnesses the second run of the Peress show is apt to be anti-climax. Hearing on Hells Canyon The Senate Interior committee plans to hold hearings in Portland on the Hells Can yon bill. We feel safe in predicting it will generate. more heat than light The friends and the foes will marshal their' forces and praise or damn the federal project in the time allotted to each. Most of the speakers will have little factual material to offer the committee. f Senator Neuberger says it is important totap grass roots sentiment and let persons with limited resources express themselves on the issue. But these public hearings usually are pretty well stage-managed in advance; arid when the show is over about all the 5 panel" knows is that opinion is divided. They get little information from- the drum-beating. We have no objection to a hearing but question its value in determining what is a question of high national policy and of engi neering and economics. MmWS "LOOKS AS fgk, r pM I A NEW WC' j M It restores confidence in the USA to note that one man has been convicted of the heinous murder of the attorney general-elect of Alabama. Evidence showed the authori ties . were in league with crime which flourished at Phenix City near an army post. They were afraid of a "cleanup under a new administrator of justice, so they bumped him off. Now the first to be tried5 has been convicted and ' sentenced to life imprison ment. Often it takes a lot to arouse the people; but when they are aroused they usually stand for good government and law enforcement. 1 .ii When they were passing out those awards to television players and programs last week they overlooked the people who make it all possible the home viewers. We feel that many a 'man, women and child, watching TV at home during the past year, i have come up with lots of noteworthy I per formances most of which deserve some sort! of recognition. We move for special awards for these persons. ... The Democrats don't think much of Eisen hower's i argument ifor building big high ways to get folks out of town in bombing raids. We don't either, though bigger exits would be helpful. While it may be argued that modern highways pay for themselves, aren't we diverting about as much of our cash, credit, manpower and materials to highway building as we can well afford? Judge William. G. East of Eugene appears to have got over the hurdles in the obstacle race for appointment to the vacancy in the federal district court of Oregon. He "scraped a fender" down at Reedsport, which caused a lot of talk; but evidently that didn't re sult in his name being scratched. Judge East is regarded as vejy well qualified; and it is 1 hoped his nomination and confirmation may follow so the vacancy left by the elevation of Judge Fee to the circuit court of appeals may be filled without further delay. Paul Butler Democratic national chair man, sought to make capital out of Mrs. Ei senhower's indisposition, saying out loud it might prevent her husband from seeking re election. Butler was just indulging in some wishful thinking." "Babson Advises Early Switches" heads an advertisement. A switch in time. ... The chief criminal deputy sheriff of Clackamas county told the Oregon City Ki wanis Club that it was high time the peo ple of the county built a county jail "which meets the heeds of the rapidly growing county." Just another "price of progress" note. Oregon City's and Oregon's i-first jail was built out of the proceeds) of the Ewing Young estate and cost $1175. Doctor, McLoughlin donated the site. ixuddiuii vidiiyid win rmu riienuiy Americans as Well Farm Crop Skills INTERPRETING THE NEWS By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst How you gonna "keep 'em down on a Russian farm after they've seen Iowa? The suggestion by The Des Moines Register ,that if Russia wants to grow corn they should send someone to see how it is done by experts seems about to bear fruit or rather, ears. The United States has just agreed to permit the entry of 11 Russian student editors for a visit lo American colleges. (It's against the law for the State Department to grant visas to Com munists unless it decides it's in he national interest.) The matter of the students has been under consideration for months, though a part of the delay was due to an American suggestion that they withdraw their applica tion for a visit last summer and renew it for a period when more colleges would be open. The Register suggestion, and the relatively quick way in whicji the Russian government picked it up as compared with its usual reluc tance in handling any foreign ap proach, should require no such time. The United States Information Service spends a lot of time, money and effort trying to tell people about the country, its . ap proach to living, its objectives, and its achievements. It would rather' reach the Russians than anyone else. i One theory is that it will make !hem dissatisfied with their own system and prepare the ground for a change there which must take nlace before there can be any real neace. There is another idea, too, in the back of many minds. It is that a irosperous Russia would gradually Jrop her revolutionary; ideas. Expressing this, the Register -aid -TVe figure that more knowl-xr,-; about the means of a good 'ife in Russia can only, benefit the yotld and us." j CTbe importance of one or two ch visits should not be overem phasized. Russia will send only -eople who ar thoroughly condi tioned against the blandishments of the outside world. Molotov and Vishinsky never showed much ap preciation of the American way, no matter what they might have thought. - .. But there have been dozens of steps in American farming, selec tion of the seed and the planting, which individually didn't seem very exciting, either, Even a member of the British Labor Party came to the United States the other day and returned home with the seemingly surprised impression that Americans .are people, too. Americans are people, Iowa is as American as ham and eggs. The farm collectives there .are co operatives, a vastly different thing from what the Russians know. Some of them will not even be lieve it, and some will believe it but deny it; but what they will see will not be merely corn and hogs, nor will the seed sown prove to be merely wild oats. Time Flies: From Tho Statesman Filet 10 Years Ago Mar. 13, 1945 Capt.S. L. (Rusty) Cummings, who served in the orient with the American Volunteer Group and then with this country's army air force, was the main speaker at the meeting of the Salem Soroptimist club. The board of directors of Kenny Institute refused to ac cept the resignation of Sister Elizabeth Kenny as head of the institute. She planned to leave the United States and turn her work with infantile paralysis vic tims to associates. Lt Col. Harold J. (Fod)f Mai son, Salem, was named com mander of the 20th infantry regi ment of the Sixth infantry divi sion. Maison. a reserve officer, was called to active duty in 1540, at Fort Lewis, Wash. . 25 Years Ago Mar. 13, 1930 Affliction i of 11 public health service employees with psitiaco sis (parrot fever) necessitated temporary abandonment of the laboratory at Washington, D. C, where efforts were being made to discover the i cause of the strange malady contracted from parrots. Mrs. Zeua -Neimeyer, was made worthy high priestess of Willamette Shrine No. 2, White Shrine of Jerusalem at the elec tion of officers at the Masonic temple. Using a slogan which for many years helped to spell success at the polls, W. C. Hawley, repre sentative in congress, filed with Secretary of State Hoss as a can didate for the republican nomina tion in May. Hawley's slogan was "No interest to serve but the public interests." . 40 Years Ago Mar. 13, 1915 Hop growers numbering 470, from every hop producing sec tion of, Oregon, met in the audi torium of the Salem Commercial club am" permanently organized the Oregon Hop Growers' Associ ation. L. H. McMahan acted as chairman and Fred N. Stump temporary secretary. Through the efforts of W. C. Hawley, representative in con gress from the second district, O. L. Dunlop, principal of the Salem Heights school, received a gift to the school a collection, o eighty-five mineral and ore specimens from the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C Both in magnitude and dura tion, Lassen Peak's eighty-second outbreak exceeded all previous eruptions. Sulphurous smoke wm noticeable 40 miles from the volcano. - Take, for instance, the heroic action of a man we know. He was sick one day recently and stayed home. His wife went off shop- Taint anrl 1f t nim Krk ' hln1ec lirAntusif up in full view of the TV set. Before she returned here's ' what the poor guy went through: Three old-time movies (two with captions); a continuing serial "The Black Foot;" a kitchen program on how to make upside-down hash; two programs where people play games; two programs where people j are interviewed; a program where the audience interviews the an nouncers; a program showing how to mould a bathtub from clay; a soap opera which posed the problem of finding happi ness for a young widow, who.? had a child by each of j her seven husbands, and who was now trying - to figure out ; her ' Income tax; a dramatic show depicting the tense struggle for power in a bicycle-pump factory; three cowboy movies, four children programs and a shorty on the care of white mice.;. . . ' -' And how about a medal for the man who only gets to watch the fights after bribing the kids, alienating his wife and sit ting through three programs he can't stand before the j main event? . . . Or the courageous efforts of another set-owner who, one night, during a rain storm, climbed to the roof of his house in order to repair a faulty, antenna. The only equipment this stout fellow had consisted of a ladder, a poc ket knife and his St. Christopher medal. ... An award for never-say-die persistence and ingenuity in viewing a program should go to the stranger who walked into ' a home one night when the family was watching the "You Bet Your Wife" show. The lights were dim and the stranger passed unnoticed. Watching his chances he soon grabbed the best chair in the room. Then he joined the family in a pass-' around lunch and engaged in a heated whispered argument with the lady of the house over too much mustard in the potato salad. He smoked and drank up everything within reach, stayed through an entire evening of viewing and was . pre pared to sack out in the guest room for the night when he was discovered and thrown out by the man of. the house, his wife and another stranger who was left over from the night be fore. ... - Under the heading of "Advancing the cause of the view ers," comes this heart-warming account (which deserves an award) of the 10-year-old boy who, despite a severe case of pink-eye, an oversupply of homework and a bad attack of low grades, nevertheless failed to miss a single chapter of "The Old Watering Trough," in a six-months period. . . . And how about the smaller kiddies who drift through a quiet evening watching murder, thievery, sadism, and sometimes virtue; whose emotions romp through the scale from sympathy to horror, and who can't seem to sleep later that night? j After alL how many actors or singers give up a night's sleep for tv? . . . 1 ; x - r Safety Valve j (Editor's Note: Letters for The Statesman's Safety ' Valve colama are give prior consideration If they are Informative and are not more than 300 words In length. Personal attacks and ridicule, as well as libel, art to he avoided, but anyone Is entitled to air beUefs and opinions on any side of any question.) ' I Edmund May, 70, Succumbs Edmund H. C. May, 70, a long time resident of the Waldo Hills area and Salem, died Saturday at the Clear Lake district home of Arthur Heinrichs where he had lived since last spring. until ne retired last summer, May worked for a Salem Mill for 40 years. He was born March 15, 1884 in Suffolk County, England. He came to this country in 1902 and lived in this area from then on. His wife, the former Ida Mae Macy, died about 1940. In his native land he had been a member of the Church of Eng land. . He leaves a step-daughter, Mrs. uiuan L-aay, Tucson, Ariz., sis ters Mrs. Alex Lush, Mrs. Beryl Preston and Mrs. Ruby Alvin and brother Charles May, all in Eng land. The Virgil T. Golden funeral home is in" charge of arrange ments. . To The Editor: ERROR CORRECTED There was an error in the printing of my letter the total tax my neighbor paid was S2,- 863.93, not $3263.93, over .70 per cent of which was for school pur poses. Net amount received above the $2863.93 in the six-year period was $361.(0. Marion A. Carl Hubbard, Ore. Scientists Rack the Boat To the Editor. I have a picture I took of a four horse stage at an overnight stage hotel 60 miles from the RR in 1903 and am surprised at the skimpy harness, just a few straps. I suppose this was so the horses could run freely especially down hill and keep out of the way of the vehicle. Probably the driv. ers biggest chore was brakeing the stage down hill and he let Pbont 44811 Subscription Rates By carrier in cities: Daily and Sunday $ 1 45 per mo. Daily only 1.25 per mo. . Sunday only JO week By man. Sunday only: (in advance) Anywhere in U. S. I .50 per mo. 2.75 six mo. . 6.00 year By man. Dally and Sunday: , I in advance) In Oregon , 1.10 per mo. 5.50 six mo 10.50 year In U.'S outside . Oregon l 1.45 per mo. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Bureau of Adverttsinc. AN PA Oregon Newspaper -Publishers Association ' Advertising Representative!! Ward-Griffith Co., . West HoUiday Co., New York. Chicago Saa Francisco Detroit ftp gGZOR) uQD ijDij (Continued from page L) will be only four million more men and women available for work in 1965 than there are today that is, an increase of seven million of working age minus an increase of three mil lion in college attendance. And of the twelve million who will be reaching working age be tween 1965 and 1875, five may go to college, leaving a net in crease for the second decade .of only seven million.' Drucker ' doesn't scoff at the increase in the college popula tion. He says that in the coming age of automation there will be a greater need for trained and educated 'man and woman power thaj the country can pos sibly supply." . He thinks our chief worry is over, increasing their number and quality fast enough; and he wishes colleges would raise ' standards rather than lower them to attract more students. But what we will need also is capital investment on a huge scale. Much of .our plant is over-age or even obsolescent If the present rate of $40 billion of capital investment is ; ade quate we shall need $65 billion a year in 1965 and $100 billion in 1975. This would call for "savings" at the rate of 15 cents out v of every dollar "higher than we have ever ploughed back except in wartime." Lack ing savings in such proportion the need for greater, productiv ity wijl be greater; and that calls for innovation which comes from research, engineer ing, invention. Innovation is TallA1 f aleb in ruh tAAm mm labor relations and in techni ques and imagination of man agement One thing certain, Dr. Druck er opens up a view of 'a very exciting two decades. Clearly to him "the past is prologue." Most of us have been banking on the atom; but Drucker predicts great changes without reliance on the atom. He makes one wish to be around in 1975 , to see just what has transpired. By that time, u Diina nuciear energy 'hasn't made the whole earth a desert, it doubtless will be a temptation to stick around for the rest of the 20th century. But for all his glowing promiso it is still , a certainty that the folk of 1965 and 1975 will find plenty of things to worry about, H7J 1 HJrZ .ayW i itorT: Wf m Iff ftJ H ! 0! ' OtHrtmi March s. tfSSy . j I j I PAY NOTHING DOWN R I j In . . 50C A WEEK ' y y No Interest or Carrying Charges Stat and Liberty Phono 4-2224 '-VitM0T&tiWWftJl:ra-X. 'ftf' " n lnftiiiwfflftii-iirfii--frrinfJffftiiffn8l( vMOtMjOwMrtMM0M(i00Mr rrw. ft f i ! rrr tr. a 1 J. ft ifi the horses run as fast as they could and would. We were on a hunting trip 80 miles from the RR. Besides the four horse cov-J ered outfit wagon, we had a two seated buckboafd which was a most practical vehicle for rough going. If the people want to elim inate smog so they can breathe, they could start a back to the buckboard movement instead of building more roads. Conditions change rapidly because people are just too intelligent Bill Bry an participated in the "monkey trial" because scientists were becoming too troublesome and they are becoming worse. They estimate that the bones of a 24 inch lizard dug from shale in Kansas are 230,000,000 years old which equals 115,000 Christian eras. Scientists should stop med dling it rocks the boat. - J. 11. - Campbell Dallas, Ore Virgil T. Golden Serving Salem and Vicinity as Funeral Directors for 25 Years Convenient I e c a 1 1 o n S. Commercial Street on a bus line direct route to cem . eteries no -cross traffic to hinder servi ces. Salem's most modern funeral homo with seating capacity for 300. Services within your means, always. Virgil IV Golden Co. Grace S. Golden 605 S. Commercial St. FUNERAL SERVICE Phono 4-2257 tiortyatjca'a'fl atjai it a