4 (Sec. 1-Sfattsman, Salem, "No Favor Sxcay$ Of. No Tear Shall Au?" from First Statesman. March It, 1S31 1 , Statesman Publishing Company .CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Edltoi aafl Publisher PuDUihed cry morning. Business office 290 Worth Church St.. Salem. Of. Helephona 4-eSH Entered at the postofflca at Salem, Or., as second daaa matter under act of Congress March X. 178. s Member Associated Press Tit Associated Prtwa ts entiUed exclusively to the use ' for republication of all local news printed la .. this newspaper. Deer a "Weed" Species This is the closed season for hunting but deer have hit the newspapers with a bang in , recent days. From Baker county-came pic tures of deer dead or dying of starvation; from Washington county a picture of pur poseful slaughter of deer including fawns by irate ranchers tired of deer, damage to their pastures. From the nearby , Santiam country came the report of discovery of a number of dead deer. These reports are sure to excite public interest and concern. For all their predatory instinct human be ings are tender-hearted toward animals, especially deer. The news makes very pertinent the brief article by Qlark C. VanFleet, former Ore gonian, in the March Atlantic Monthly, en titled "Deer on the Rampage."- VanFleet writes that under conditions of modern range management and usage deer "are actually a tceed species." Deer are multiplying so fast that they "are becoming their own worst enemies and are eating themselves out of range and forage." - Several things account for the increase in deer population. First, of course, is the pro tection of the law. Hunting , seasons are relatively short ; the kill is strictly limited ; law violations bring severe punishment. Sec ond, the killing off of predatory animals: cougar, wolves, coyotes, eagles. Third, re placing of virgin forests with cutover lands - whose brush furnishes good browse for deer. This is the result, In VanFleet's language: "Today deer, protected and multiplying, are committing serious depredations on farmlands and gardens. Mountain vineyards are debudded of their tender foliage; fruit trees are cleaned of leaves as high as the deer can reach, and young orchards are wiped out if they are not protected by strong wire. Alfalfa and other crops are heavily browsed." V ' VanFleet writes with special reference to California where he now resides. There a 1952 study showed that over half the avail able range is being consistently grazed to depletion by deer and livestock. Oregon suf fers similarly though it is jiot as .bad off. Hunter-success in California was 16 per cent in 1953; here about 29 per cent. Where protection is not so stringent Idaho, Wyom ing, Colorado, Utah, Washington the annual average is 53 per cent. What becomes of the deer which tbe hunter doesn't find? They die of starvation, or disease, ; weak from malnutrition they falls ready victims to coyotes and other predators. What is the remedy? Well, it is one that will not please the sentimentalists. Quoting VanFleet again, and his opinion is enter tained by a good many authorities in the game management field:. : "No improvement in range management will do it, because unregulated deer populations will destroy more range than any public agency can afford to create. No lengthening of seasons will do it, since the buck kill has little relation to the spring crop of fawns. No increase in per missible kill will afford relief if legality is con fined to bucks only. There seems to be but one answer. Does are deer." he Idaho Federation of Labor has drop ped Glen Taylor, late candidate for U. S. Senator, as a "dead horse" politically speak ings The Federation is just being smart cookie: play for a likely winner. 'Clarification' of U.S. Policy Concerning Formosa Makes Matters More Obscure By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press Newt Analyst The more "clarification" we get about American policy toward Red China and defense of the Formosa Strait the more obscure it seems to become. Right now.. Secretary Dulles says, a Red attack on the offshore islands of Quemoy x and Matsu would probably be classified as the beginning of an attack, on Formosa.-As such, under the one firm determination which has been made public, which is to defend . Formosa, the attack would bring an American military reaction. Later, he says, the Reds might move against the smaller islands in such fashion that their defense would not be considered worth the risk that a clash between United States and Red forces would pro duce a general war. It will be up t to President Eisenhower, Dulles said, to interpret the exact mean ing of events against the back ground of the circumstances in which they occur. ' - " This presumably is based on the " idea that mere possession the small islands would mean little to the Reds in mounting an attack on Formosa, but that they would be fought over as part of the early counterattack against Red invasion of the main island. ; This is comprehensible as a mil itary approach. As a political ap proach in a situation where yield ing further territory to the Reds could explode Asiatic confidence in the value of the United States as an ally, it is not so comprehensi ble.. The strange thing about the Dul les statement in 'Ottawa, however. Is his reference to the "right" of the Communists to claim Formosa so long as they don't try to take it by force. In some contexts, this might merely be a statement that any one has a right to claim anything so long as they don't use illegal means of attainment. Actually, he is saying that the Formosa ques tion is subject to negotiation when the threat of war is removed. On., Sunday, March 20, 1955 History's Repetition Senator Knowland says that the late President-Roosevelt "misled" Congress in his re port on the Yalta conference. The President said on March 1, 1945: , "Quite naturally this conference concerned it self only with the European war and the political problems of Europe and not with the Pacific war." : ' . - It ha; long been known that the Yalta con ference contained a lot of bargaining over the Pacific war, so Roosevelt's report was not strictly accurate. It is of course obvious why no disclosure was made of decisions or discussions regarding the Pacific war for Russia was still not involved in it. The Knowland criticism brings to mind a similar criticism made by another senator from Calif, after the first world war. When Hiram Johnson asked President Wilson if he had known about the secret treaties between Britain and France and Italy to get the latter to join them in the war Wilson disclaimed all knowledge of them. Johnson doubted Wilson's ignorance and went on opposing the Treaty of Versailles and its Covenant of the League of. Nations. History thus seems to be repeating itself. s The secretary, however, referred to the similar "right" . of South Korea to govern all of Korea, but not the right to take North Korea by force. He said the United States recognizes both of these "rights." Since the United States recog nizes this "right" of South Korea as a legal one, and ethical it is im possible to keep from wondering if Dulles meant the same about For mosa, and so is committing him self in advance of any negotiations. . Obviously he did not, for such a statement would be an admission that the United States is deter mined to keep, for strategic pur poses, something that really be longs to Peiping. Obviously he did not, for the United States does not even recognize the right of the Peiping regime to rule on the mainland. Literary Guidepost By W. G. TWO MINUTES UNTIL MID-" NIGHT. By Elmer Davis. Bobbs MerrilL "The most important single event in the history of the United States," Davis suggests, may have been the Russians' ability to make a thermonu clear bomb. Too many of us, he warns, have too little comprehension of the unspeakable horrors of hydrogen-bomb war. Too many of us fail to understand -that we might lose such a war. Among possible ways of avert ing catastrophe, he approves of atoms-for-peace, stronger sup port for Point Four and the President's trade program, a more realistic, nonpartisan atti tude on foreign affairs, a little more diligence in keeping our friends abroad our friends. He condemns McCarran and Mc Carthy, complains that 'Dulles To many television viewers the news that Paramount Studios has signed Comic George Gobel to star in a full-length film is hearten ing. It will be interesting to note whether his success in video will carry into the older entertainment field. Editorial Comment VANISHED LAKE CONDON The Columbia river, so it seems, did not al ways flow westward through a gorge in the Cascades to spill into the Pacific. Not long ago, geologically, the region drained by the present Columbia had outlets to the north, through corridors in mountain ranges of British Columbia. That was before the glacial period, possibly a million years ago. Then came the great tongues of ice from the north, to choke valleys" with glaciers to a depth of a thousand feet, form huge lakes and turn their north-trending rivers into south flowing streams. It was a veteran Oregon geologist. Dr. Edwin T. Hodge, who advanced this theory some decades ago, after tramping through rugged canyons and climbing over hills with his stu dents. The theory is reviewed in the current issue of the News Letter published by the Geological Society of the Oregon Country. Also reviewed is the theory of Dr. Hodge rela tive to the origin of the present Columbia river, second greatest stream in North America. Dr. Hodge believes that the advancing lobes of ice choked the drainage of streams that former ly flowed north from the Idaho-Oregon-Washington region of the present. The result was the creation in The Dalles area of a huge lake. That body of water has been given . the name Lake Condon in honor of a pioneer geologist, Dr. Thomas Condon, who toil ed in the Fort Dalles country some 80. years ago. When Lake Condon reached an elevation of 1900 feet above sea level it discovered a divide, along the Ortley anticline just west of The Dalles, and spilled westward to the Pacific slope. That was the. birth of the mighty Columbia. The overflow spilled into - a comparatively small valley, and found its way to the Willamette, which was flowing north, possibly into the Puget Sound area. To the west was the coast range barrier. From the Lake Condon overflow, still another lake, or sound, was formed, to flood much of northwestern Oregon. This was the Willamette sound, recognized even before Dr. Hodge's Colum bia river . hypothesis was advanced. Eventually the sound was drained by an out let in the present Astoria region. Pouring over from the Ortley anticline, the drainage from Lake Condon, and the ice-choked interior region, carved the majestic gorge of the present through the towering Cascade moun tains. This theory of the Columbia's reversal of course is bold and spectacular. Yet it has abun dant supporting evidence. This evidence in cludes glacial erratics, "foreign rocks" of granitic origin rafted into the old Lake Condon region on ice, possibly from Canada. These erratics are now found along the high shores of old Lake Condon. (Bend Bulletin) Yet, Dulles made no point of that in discussing why the United States does not extend diplomatic recognition.' That, he said, is be cause the Reds don't abide by the standards of international rela tions; because they have been branded as aggressors; because they have violated the Korean ar mistice, and - because they carry on violent propaganda against the United States and other countries. It has been obvious for some time that Dulles is walking a tight rope in, his effort to deter the Reds from further aggression by presenting them with a firm re sistance front in the Pacific while still retaining as much flexibility as possible for American policy if it comes to a decision about a big war. There is hardly any ques-. tion, however, that too much am biguity can be exceedingly dan gerous. , ROGERS has too much to say and Eisen hower too little. He warns starkly: Tit will be excellent if we can keep it (war) from happening, but I doubt that we can." Coming quickly after Davis best-selling "But We Were Born Free," this book is repe titious, and not so helpfully organized. But there's the same remarkable facility for putting into homely, striking phrases which a lot of people like to read the opinions which some of them don't like to hear. The title tells the story: "The Bulle tin of the Atomic Scientists" bears on the cover a clock that used to mark eight minutes to 12, but the danger hour has ad vanced. Or the dedication tells the story: "To the first victim of the hydrogen bomb, J. Rob ert Oppenheimer." v. - W. G. Rogers "Wheeee! Look at me," she says to herself. "Ten months old today. Only ten months old and I can walk like crazy. I can't talk but so what? As long as a girl can walk, cry I ana Due sne "Fanny thing about this walking business," she thinks. "Those other big characters around here watch me and say, 'My Isn't she advanced to be walking so soon?' Well, that's a lotta hooey. With all those other kids stumbling around this house, a little one like me HAS to learn how to walk and fast It's a matter of survival, not brains . . ." ' 'Ah," she muses silently, "here's the big chair. And here's that pencil. Now if none of those-big Busybodiea sees me. Nothing like sinking these new teeth (all four of them) into a nice, firm pencil . . . But it seems like every time I get hold of something edible, like my shoe or a marble, some body screams, Mother! The Baby's got something in her mouth again. The Mother comes running in, yanks out whatever Fm gnawing on, and the fun's over. This other character called Daddy (he's gone all day and comes home at night and right away starts throwing his weight around) tried taking a checker away from me once. I only had three teeth then but I gave him a bite he'll never forget ..." . "Now," she says, "if I can just make it over to the TV set in the corner there. Mombo! But those big, shiny knobs really fascinate me! But I have to move fast or I won't even get my fat little hands on them. If there's one way to get everybody in this house yelling and screaming, it's for me to fiddle with those knobs when the family Is glued to a program. And I'm proud to say I've ruined more good TV shows than all those corney commercials put together . . . Anyway, my views on TV can be summed up in one word 'Brglstrum.' Which is the only word I can pronounce ..." . "Well," she tells herself, "if they don't want me to fool with the set, I'll just wander over here. Get down like this on my chubby little knees and crawl back of the sofa like this. Why, here's today's paper. I hid it back here this morn ing. Boy, did that Daddy character raise the roof looking for it. I'll just take a small bite out of the editorial section. Hmmmmm. Pretty dry stuff. Nothing in this paper but . news about world crises and people getting into or out'of hot water." And speaking of crises . . . and water . . .1 . . . oh, oh ... I feel . . I can't . . . How does a 10 month-old child 'call for help? .. ." Time Flies: 10 Years Ago Mar. 20, 1945 Edward Sammons, vice-president of the Iron Fireman Manu facturing company, was named president of the United States National Bank of Portland. Sam mons, who was vice-president of the bank until 1928 when he re signed. He succeeds Paul S. Dick, who became " chairman of the board: Salem's maximum temperature rose to 65 degrees, four degrees higher than the day before,. Last previous higher temperature was 70 degrees on October 28, 1944. The S. S. Willamette . Victory, named for century-old Willam ette university, was launched at - colorful ceremonies by Oregon Shipbuilding corporation. Several hundred university officials, stu dents and alumni from Salem and Portland attended. 25 Years Ago Mar, 20, 1131 Aimed primarily at giving a number of men needed employ ment, but designed to eliminate what the members considerd a needless traffic nuisance the city planning and zoning commission directed a resolution to the cit council, of cutting off the corners on a large number of street in tersections. The Salem Women's club at i at their meeting burned the mort BONES OF CONTENTION s got the worm, oy a Kite string. Now if I can just ease off the corner of the sofa here and steer a straight course for the big chair I'm all set. Because I know that under that chair is a nice, chewy pencil and I haven't had anything to eat for the last two hours. Well unless you want to count that piece of string and that corner of the Saturday Evening Post Cover ..." From .Tbe Statesman Files gage which had been held against the clubhouse since its purchase in 1923. Miss Matty Beatty gave the history of club which in part told of its origin in 1901 at the home of Mrs. O .P. Bishop who was instrumental in getting the club started. Federal Judge Halstead L. Rit ter, Miami, Fla., signed a tem porary restraining order prohib iting 20 North Florida and east coast sheriffs from molesting Al-I phonse Capone, Chicago gang leader. 40 Years Ago Mar. 20, 191$ Salem High School won the de bate championship of the West ern Oregon district by defeating the Bandon learn at Eugene. Sa lem debaters were Lyle Barthol omew and Victor Bradeson. The graduation class of 100 Sa lem High school in June listed a few of the names of those grad uating. They were: Earl Daue, Fred Deckebach. Teresa Fowle, Edna Howd, Roy Keene, Adair Xockwood, Charles Low, Barbara Steiner, Margaret Mulkey . and George Manning. Women of the Social Service club of Oak Grove, Clackamas county, were aroused because the hobble skirts they wore interfer ed with entering or leaving cars . of the Portland Railway, Light k Power company. DtP (Continued from page one) atomic weapons because we sim ply do not have tbe forces in the Far East to win with conven tional weapons. Alsop reports the massing of Communist jet planes at bases on the mainland. U. S. reliance is on the Seventh Fleet w:th its six big carriers. Many experts, however, feel that the land-based planes will have a big advantage over those based on carriers. If the carriers are put out of business then the naval air arm is amputated. Of course the Air Force has planes back at other bases, Oki nawa, Japan, Guam, the Philip pines; and more planes could be flown in from other parts of the ; world. The prospecOhat if war does break ; jout ?tuw firedsioir A -weapons do not bring a quick victory then more powerful ones will be employed. So it is not safe to count on victory though the A-rifle. Joseph C. Harsch. Washington correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, explains how we got our feet in the fly paper over Quemoy and other offshore is lands. It grows out of the early 1953 decision to "unleash" Chiang Kai-shek. Before that the Gen eralissimo had only token forces on these islands. Afterwards, hoping the unleashing was pre liminary to a triumphant "return from Elbe" he built up forces on these islands which were to be used as stepping stones. The U. S. provided most of the mate riel. Having first had the U. S. blessing Chiang now resists pres sure to evacuate these islands; and Washington is thus caught in a net partially of its own contriv ing. Apparently decisions have been made both in Peking and Wash ington. Peking proclaims its in tention to seize the offshore is lands and Formosa, too. Wash ington announces - its determina tion to defend Formosa and in view of its expressions now seems pretty well bound to defend the offshore islands. Congress by overwhelming vote has approved this policy. Britain, seeking to mediate the dispute by trading the offshore islands for security for Formosa has made no prog ress.' These positions appear to be rigid; but it is still a question if and when Red China will move. So the United States stands with ' A-weapons in .hand; and now the whole world is on notice that our forces will use them. SUPPLIES ADEQUATE WASHINGTON UP) The Com merce Department told Congress Tuesday newsprint supplies should be adequate to meet this country's needs in the foreseeable future. 4'OrtfiOuG3atf3raaii pbos 4-em SobscriptloB Rates By carrier in eiUcs: Daily and Sunday S 1.43 per mo. Daily only , lib per mo. Sunday only ., . JO week By saali, Sunday anlyi (la advance) Anywhere la U 8. I Jo per mo. , ' US six mo. f 8.00 rear By Ban. 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Personal attacks and ridicule, as well as lfseL are to be avoided, out anyone Is entiUed to air beliefs and opinions on any aid of any question.) , , To the Editor: The Republican Party national ly would have us believe that it is the last outpost of defense of the free enterprise system and that if the Democrats had the chance they would carry us all down the road to socialism, and iA this connection it will be most interesting to observe what the Oregon Republicans do in the legislature about the milk legis lation. Here the majority has a golden opportunity to make its actions speak louder than its words by showing some leader ship in the preservation of free enterprise in the milk industry. The dairy farmer represents in classic form both small business and free enterprise and yet in this Republican state and with a Republican majority in both houses, he has a terrible time finding anyone to carry his flag. By making ever more burden some the amount of capital out lay required for equipment, and by making more complicated regulations and then changing them capriciously, our legislators are in a fair way to making the small, independent dairyman an extinct species, for no small op erator can afford to tay in bus iness: He must either be a big producer, or sell to a big. one and then he is no longer inde pendent for he is under constant threat of losing his market un less he will submit to control by the producer-distributor. The net effect of this legislation will be to give us milk control with a vengeance. Milk will become a monopoly product and the con sumer will have to accept what ever milk the. industry chooses to put out at whatever price it .wishes to charge. It is already legal to dilute milk and it would be legal to add powdered milk. What the milk industry needs is good stiff competition to force the production of more and bet ter milk at better prices, to stim ulate the per capita consumption of milk through merchandising and advertising, and to encour age experiments in new products and methods. If the preservation of competi tion and free enterprise really is the credo of tbe Republicans, it should not be difficult to so dem onstrate with the present major ity, and action in this practical situation would certainly add weight to the Republican claim. Nina Cleveland Mrs. Melvin H. Cleveland 4137 Center St. TIME WAS OF THE ESSENCE ; To the Editor: May I please comment, as concisely as I can, on your ex cellent summation of the con troversy now revived by the State Department's latest Snafu, based aparently on the trickle based apparently on the trickle out not the trickle-down theory. I mean, of course, publication of the Yalta papers. First, you state that, in Jan uary 1945, Germany was reeling . . .. and Hitler's fate was sealed. But what about the Battle of the Bulge, and the Bavarian re doubt where a last stand was ex pected? Actually Hitler died (by suicide?) in Berlin which the Russians had captured, at the end of April, 1945. But the Ar dennes battle reached its climax on December 24, 1944; and dur ing that hectic month the west ern allies themselves - did some reeling. Russia's help, then, was still needed against Germany no less than (as the military brass in sisted) against Japan. So it had to be bought by concessions. So SHAVERS CLIPPERS All Nationally Known Brands in Stock Guaranteed Repairs On All Makes Capitol Cutlery Company 447 Ferry St. . Ph. 4-7464 6te... fs ft f tys ft JCttw ni lie in "Art" Holscher P54M Phone 4 bad Russia's support of the U.N. Probably in Japan (Manchuria) the Russians would have' helped (themselves) anyway. But time,' as always, was of the essence. Had the Russians delayed and the A-bomb not worked, hun dreds of thousands of American " lives might have been lost invad ing the Japanese islands. Then, as you say, in central Europe Russia was in a position (militarily) to enforce its will. This we could have prevented only by changing sides and en listing help from the Germans . . . With all this in mind I agree emphatically with the doubt you express somewhat haltingly. I doubt very much (as does Georga Kennan) that Roosevelt's con cessions greatly changed ' the course of history. This is not to deny that he. and Stettinius, made honest errors of judgment at Yalta and else where. But to say that the very name of Yalta "promises to stand as a sinister label for mis conduct of foreign relations" is," I submit, to prejudge the verdict which history will render when all the evidence is in. This view,. I am sure, you re- y port rather than endorse. But, with due respect, I move to strike the words sinister and mis conduct as applied , to a great war leader of whom all Ameri--cans should be proud. To use them is, I suggest, to concede' altogether too much to blind political partisanship, to the ' largely one-party press, and to the truly sinister propaganda , technic of the big lie. R. Ivan Lovell Rt. 3. Salem. (See his American Diplomacy, -1900-1950 (Chicago, 1951) Sh V.) Editor's Note: It .is unsafe to try to prejudge history; and it does seem to be true that most of the contemporary judgment on Yalta is from hindsight, colored by intense partisanship. But de cisions must be weighed by con sequences; and our statesmen would have shown greater pres cience (and greater awareness of history's lessons) if they had apprehended the potent'"' postwar rivalries among the ' allies. . t COW ON QUEUE RICHMOND, Ky. (UP) AK ticket seller, Mrs. Elizabeth Mo Kinney, was surprised to hear someone ask, "How much does a ticket for a cow cost?" 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