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4-Soe. 1)-Statesman, Salom, Or., Wad., April 6, .1955 mtio Favot Sways Us. No Fear Shall Atna )mm Unl Statesman. March ZS. 1851 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor ana Publisher PubUinetf rvry mornlns. Buslne a Sic 280 Worth Church St.. Salem. Or. Telaphona 4-6S11 Entered at the poctoffie at Salem. Or., aa second claw matter under act of Conireia March X 179. ' 1 Member Associated Press The Aasodated Presa is entitled exclusively to the ase i for republication of all local new printed la 1 . , tan newipaper. i Water Resources Legislation House Bill 25 the bill creating a water resources commission, has drawn the fire of the Oregonian- which claims the Portland General Electric interests have jimmied the bill so it can get hold of Pelton Dam site on the Deschutes for a power plant The Oregonian complains that the bill takes way the fish commission's veto poweron construction of dams when its builders fail ' to make adequate provision for passage of anadromous fish; also that it gives the new board sole discretion in the matter of fish ways and ladders, thus ignoring the scientific , knowledge and experience of the state fish commission. We. do not want to reengage in a fish vs. power battle. The purpose of the-bill for control of water resources should not be j destroy resources but to conserve them and ! plan for their wise utilization. The fact re mains, however, that under present law the fish commission has veto power. It is a body dedicated to conserving the fish re source. In discharging that duty it becomes a partisan. But what .we have in a good many cases is a conflict over what is the best uso to which the water in our streams may be put. This calls "for a judicious weighing of the various . alternatives and then casting a decision in the light of the best judgment that may be had. The Statesman has long urged development of some superior authority which might de termine how specific streams or sections of streams ought to be used, whether for municipal purposes, farm or industrial or mining uses, irrigation, power, navigation, recreation subject to state law. Advocates of none of these special uses should have the veto over the others- save where the law determines preference. The Legislative As sembly defines water policy in broad terms, but some administrative body should function to administer that policy. This is the duty of the proposed Water Resources Board as we conceive it It ought not to be a partisan for particular types of water use' but able to adjudge within the limits of its constitutional and legal powers -what preferences should be granted. Water policy in Oregon ought . not to be determined just on the basis of whaV is best for the fish, or what is best for , PGE, but what is best for the people of Ore- gon now and in the future. v We either pro vide for this by suitable legislation or we - let it go by default in "which case there is no careful planning for the-present and future. ' GRIN AND BEAR IT ByLichly The Public's Business y A bill which every taxpayer in the state should be interested in seeing killed is now in the House Committee oij Local Govern ment It would permit counties to conduct their official business' without publishing their expenditures all they would have to do is post such expenditures at the court house. If any taxpayer wanted to see what was going on, without visiting the court house, he would have to write asking that a copy of expenditures be sent to him. The present law, which provides that in counties with mdre than 10,000 population county expenditures must be published in two newspapers of general circulation, dates from 1891. It wis rjassed to permit every one to see what Was being purchased from whom and for how much to give a clear picture of where tax money was going. As for the expense of such publication, the rate is set by law, not by newspapers. . And it is not set with the idea of allowing . undue profit nor does it so do. The laws affecting publication of matters pertaining -to the dispensation of tax monies were passed to protect those who pay the taxes. If such protection was needed in 1891, it certainly is needed now. ibarri- Barricade in Southeast Asia How can the western powers build a cade against Communism across Southeast Asia when the native population is so lacking in national loyalty and readiness to defend themselves? In the war in Viet Nam the natives who were not guerrillas for the Viet minh were quite indifferent to joining the French to resist the Communist-led forces. And now the government of the remnant of Viet Nam is so weak it takes a lot of propping . to -keep it going. Religious sects with pri vate armies have been threatening the cen tral government in Saigon and while they have , lifted their blockade1 to permit carts to deliver foodstuffs in the city there is no sign of a welding of forces which are basic for national unity. ! Even the foreign assistance lacks cohesion. The French are still around. The United States puts up the money but the French do not always approve our ponditions. Pretty hard to build a wall on quicksand. it mm An Interpretation pnmdsd by Die Ita Room S(1P ttutuntp rut ALAHOt . Wo. that Um't k... REMEMBER KARL ' HARBOR!... No, not that either . . . REMEMBER 1979!.. .Ah, theft tho phfostlwvirt! The Ps Have It In a speech in the Senate welcoming his colleague, Wayne Morse to the Democratic fold, Sen. Richard L. Neuberger said: "As a Democrat, Senator Morse can be an independent although with a small 'i' rather than a large T." Does the junior senator think that Morse will be willing to drop the big "I"? .pass a f f """ Distance is said to make the heart grow fonder. However, the rule works in reverse in the matter of . disaster. The crash of a plane off the Oregon coast with loss of four lives excites more local interest than earth quakes in the Philippines or the train wreck Sunday in Mexico. The further away that disaster strikes the less response of personal sympathy is experienced. The reaction is based probably on the feeling that carrying the nearby woes is all that the individual heart can bear. We still have to make an effort to remember that foreigners are people, too I Churchill, 'Elder Statesman to the World Was Also Possessed of Supreme Audacity LONDON (UP)- Sir Winston Churchill statesman, warrior, author-also was possessed of su preme audacity. 1 He marched out of the Victorian era into the second Elizabethan age possessed of the will to dare. He crashed two airplanes, rode in a cavalry charge, braved Boer bullets and fought in France. He won his first election on his colorful record of escape from a prison in the Boer War in South Africa. v He switched political parties as he pleased and held every major ministry in the British Cabinet. As First Lord of the Admiralty he deployed the battle fleet for World War I without waiting for orders from the Cabinet. He nearly wrecked his reputation one year later by trying to ram the Royal Navy through the Dardanelles. He failed. " , But this same audacity scored Its greatest success in 1940 when Churchill as Prime Minister talked Hitler out of invading these unpre pared islands.-. Durable as he was audacious, Churchill outlived the leaders he fought beside and against. He was 15 years older-than Adolf Hitler, whom he labeled a "bloodthirsty -guttersnipe." ' . ; He was nine years the senior of Benito Mussolini, that "bloated bullfrog of the Pontine Marshes... That whipped jackal." He was four years older than Josef Stalin, Whose Russia he found to be "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." He was eight years older than Franklin D. Roosevek, "the great- , est American friend we have ever known." . His American mother, the for mer Jennie Jerome, was helped from a St. Andrews Ball at Blen heim Palace Nov. 30. 1874.- and gave birth to him two months pre maturely in a cloakroom off the dance floor. He hurried to Cuba in 1895 as a part-time war correspondent to see action with the Spanish Army in the Cuba uprising. He came un- . der fire for the. first time on his" 21st birthday in a jungle outside Arroyo Blanco. In Cuba also he picked up two lifelong habits, the cigar and the siesta. At 22, he started a remarkable writing career that produced a million words of history and, in 1899. one novel, "Savrola." con cerning which he later said: I have persistently urged my, friends to abstain from reading it." He won the Nobel prize for liter ature in 1953. At 23 Churchill fought with the Sltt Punjan Infantry on India's northwest frontier. Be rodt with tht list Lancers at Omdurman in the last great cavalry charge . in history, re turned to Britain a hero, and ran for Parliament. He lost. So he went back to war in South Africa in 1899 to cover the Boer War for London's Morning Post. He got captured, escaped in story book fashion and came home this time a real hero. Thereupon he won a Conservative seat in Parlia ment. He was 26. Victoria still was Queen. When World War n setbacks In The great speeches of 1940 burned across the pages of history while Churchill led Britain from the depths of Dunkirk to the heights beyond D-Day. He was everywhere, crossed the Atlantic 10 times. He started spreading and poking aloft his second and third fingers to form a V-for-victory. The stub by fingers became the symbol of Allied will. On V-E day a great crowd lammed Whitehall. ChurchilL re- Calling all schoolkids especially those at Sunnyside School! The rumor that the state Legislature is 'going, to bill making the school year 11 months long instead of nine is as false as a principal's smile. Bob Tate, Sunnyside sixth grader, called The Statesman in great agitation the other night. Seems that one of his classmates had a petition started in opposition to such a dastardly bill. Bob called Sen. Mark Hatfield who assured him that the 11 months heresy had only been kicked around, but had gone no farther than the black board stage. Apparently local school kids haven't been so worried since the inven tion of report cards so we are only too happy to help squelch such a non-academic rumor .... And the Willamette Relays (fifth annual of which was I held here Saturday) could very well be classified as the largest gathering of track and field athletes in one place in one afternoon in the world. If that sounds like a record try for a four-minute smile, just remember that about 2,000 athletes were on band. Only the Olympic Games handle more athletes but the Olympic program lasts a coupla weeks. The Pan-American Games works about 2,000 bat it, too, runs for two weeks. Athletes here for the Willamette Belays were from all over the Northwest (including SO high schools) and some from California .... . Oswald West, former Oregon governor now living in Portland, recently donated to State Archivist Dave Duniway a pin which belonged to West's mother-in-law, the late Mrs. S. E. Hutton of Salem, Mrs. Hutton got her pin back in the Carefree '80's, when Salem's firefighters consisted of volunteer companies. Seems that Mrs. Hutton would always have coffee waiting for the lads of Tiger Engine Co. No. 2 after each trip they made, day or nighty So in return they gave her a brooch-type pin shaped like a tiger (in gold) with ruby eyes, suitably engraved . . J . Now civil service takes care of all that .... I 1 ' A card from Mrs. J. DiCosina of Rahway, NJ., seeks the whereabouts of her uncle, Peter or Pietro Gianni, believed " to be living somewhere in Salem. He's been missing, she says, for 53 years. He's 73 and his relatives want to find him .... . BETRAYAL i It was a day of tragic betrayal. One man had opened his heart to a circle of twelve friends. He had shared his life with them. His soul was knit to their souls. But one of them, in complete secrecy, determined in his mind to betray him unto death! For several, days, the Master had taught in the court of the temple in Jerusalem. Crowds of devout pilgrims gathered to lis ten to his words of eternal life. But in the crowd stood those re ligious officials who had pledged themselves to get rid j of him. They were puzzled how; to seize him without causing a riot among his listeners. But suddenly, un expectedly, an answer came to them, knocked on their door. Yes, a -betrayer volunteered to them his services. Mark, tells the story: i Lett happly there shall be a tumult of people ... And Judas Iscariot, he that was one' of the twelve went away unto the chief priests, that he might deliver him nnto them. And they, when they -heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveni ently deliver him unto them. On the evening of the Passover feast, Jesus made arrangements so that his last meal with his disciples would not be disturbed, knowing that one was ready to betray him, how far could he trust his entire mission to the others. In their last few hours together, it was no wonder his heart Mark tells us: And as they sat and were eat ing, Jesus said. Verily I say unto you, one of yon shall betray me, even he .that eateth with me. They began U be sorrowful, and to say ante him one by one. Is It I? And he said onto them. It Is one of the twelve, he that dip- peth with me ia the dish. Far the Sob of man goeta, even as it is written of him: bat woe anU that mai through whom the Soa of Man Is betrayed. God were It for that man if he had not been bora. Tomorrow: "Commnalen.' Japan Regime Weakened by Dulles Stand Neely Repeats Criticism of ! Ike Publicity WASHINGTON (UP)-Diplomatic authorities said Tuesday that the government of Japan, one of the United Slates' staunchest allies in the troubled Far East is in jeopar dy as a result of an international blunder. The difficulty grew out of Jap anese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu's sudden request for an invitation to discuss Japanese prob lems in Washington. Instead he got an abrupt American turndown. The result was a serious loss of "face" for Shigemitsu and the entire Jap anese government in a nation where "face" is all-important. Japan was seething with indigna tion. The final outcome was diffi cult to foretell. But diplomatic experts said the incident has seriously strained U.S. -Japanese relations and could lead to the downfall of the present Japanese government Furthermore, the Communist are expected to capitalize on the fuss in an effort to weaken the American position in Japan. The Reds likely will scream that the United States doesn't really care about the future of Japan and that the Japanese should work for closer ties with Communist China and Russia. The furor had its beginnings when the Japanese began hinting through newspapers that they wanted a high-level meeting with the United States in Washington. Friday Shigemitsu suddenly told U.S. Ambassador John M. Allison his government wanted him to go to Washington almost immediately Allison said it would be difficult to arrange a meeting in such short order but agreed to forward the request. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said it would be im possible to work out immediate talks because there wasn't enough time to prepare for them nor was there time on his crowded sched ule. Shigemitsu replied that he under stood. But his position at home was (seriously weakened. Dulles States Conflict Up to Chinese Reds WASHINGTON (UP)-Secrelary of State John 1 Foster tulles said Tuesday the Far Eastern situation is highly dangerous and the ques tion of war or peace is up to the Chinese Communists. ' ' If the Chinese Red leaders mean what they say about wanting peace, Dulles told a news conference, there will be no" war in the Pac ific. - , - Dulles ab the same time flatly rejected new proposals m Congress that the J United States say now whether it would defend the Chin ese Nationalist held Quemoy and Matsu islands against a Chinese Red attack. , Dulles said he did, not see how this could be done.' He said it would amount to entering onto very difficult ground. t Dulles described American poli cy toward the offshore islands ia this way: The United States is committed by treaty to defend Formosa and the Pescadores Islands held by the Nationalists. There is no additional commitment of any sort, direct or indirect, to defend anything else. Then the -question arises as to how you defend Formosa, he said. He said the defense of the is lands of Quemoy and Matsu would be important only if an attack on them was related to an attack on Formosa, and the Pescadores. (President Eisenhower has told Congress he would order U.S. forces to defend Quemoy and Mat su only if an attack on them was recognizable as a "preliminary" to assault on Formosa or the Pes cadores.) t Russia Offers to Norway finished off the hestitant ceived unrestrained homage that Neville Chamberlain, King George VI summoned Churchill to form a Cabinet on May, 10, 1940, the day Hitler's Panzers crashed down through the Ardennes to smash France. There followed that remarkable time when the British empire!s chief defense was the glory of one man's tongue. "Blood, toil, tears and sweat... We shall fight them in the beaches ...Their finest hour.JSo many owed so much tto so few" . few Englishmen from the British night such as have ever won people. Three months later the British people voted him out of office. The greatest political blow he ever took was this 1945 election defeat. He could not understand it. On Oct. 26. 1951. the British voters gave Churchill his dearest wish. They returned the Conserv atives to office in a vote of confi dence in his leadership and pro vided him with a last fling as elder statesman to the world. ! Speaking of getting lost Freeman Holmer, WU political science prof., lost his Pi Kappa Delta pin on the campus 13 years ago. Ten years later W. W. McKinney of Salem found the pin near the .Willamette gym, put it in his wallet and forgot all about it Last Christmas McKinney got a new wallet, and rediscovered the key. Then he noticed a name on it. Later he mentioned it to his son, Bill, a senior at Willamette. Anyway, last week the Holmer and McKin ney spouses were attending Town ic Gown. Climax-came cizing religion. But religion should when the key was passed to Mrs. 'Holmer who in turn re- M Placd on Parade or paid turned it to her husband . . . . : J FAIRMONT. W. Va. (UP)-Sen Matthew M. Neely (D-WVa) stood firm Tuesday on his criticism of publicity surrounding the church ac- uvities of President Eisenhower. "I will continue to : cry out against the popping of flash bulbs and reservation of newspaper space for the furtherance of poliu cai ambition," Neely said.; The senator, visiting his home town here while enroute to Senate subcommittee hearings on unem ployment at Pikeville, Ky.,jsaid he. is preparing a rebuttal to cries of tj 1 . outrage from Republican i leaders 1 Xieip VOUIltrieS and some churchmen. In i -p Neely charged inf a speech before lCt AlOlll 1 OWCr the United Automobile; Workers convention in Cleveland last week that the President was making po litical capital of his church at tendance, although Mr. Eisenhower had not formally joined a church until after his election. "My conscience is dear," Neely said. "I would make the same criticism again under the circum stances." j : The Bible-quoting senator said the fact the President did not join a church until later in life had no bearing on the criticism. ! "I am glad Mr. Eisenhowjer joined a church." he said. "It Lis only his use of it to which I ob ject." ; "Nothing could be further from the truth than to say Iiwas criti- Eugene Man Given 5-Year Pen Term MEDFORD OH A man who admitted to some 70 crimes in the past 1 Vt years was sentenced Tuesday to five years in the stata prison. He was Robert Edward Ross, 22, Eugene, who was convicted of a Medford burglary, but said he committed many burglaries and car thefts in the Eugene area. Ha was arrested a week ago at Roseburgon a tip from Medford police. only lip service," Neely : said. BE i Eisenhower to Skip News Conference UNITE DNATIONS. N.Y. UB Russia told the U.N. Economic and Social Council Tuesday it is ready to help other countries establish experimental centers lor the use1 of atomic power for peaceful pur poses. 1 In council debate on industriali zation of underdeveloped coun tries, Arkady A. Sbbolev, Soviet delegate, described what he said Moscow has accomplished in de veloping atomic power. He repeat ed the offer made in the Soviet union to neip otner countries on atomic matters. Sobolev also reminded the coun cil that the Soviet Union is con tributing to industrialization of India.- Moscow and New Delhi re cently completed arrangements for the Russians to build a steel plant in India. He said other countries includ ing the United States were im posing a policy of restriction and discrimination in foreign trade. 4' Ortfio uC3laltraau Phone 4-eail Subscription Rates By carrier In ciaec: Daily and Sunday t 1 43 per mo ' Daily only ; 1.25 per mo Sunday only ,. , ,. ' JO week ' - t By miU. Sundax-o&Iyj (in advance) i Anywhere ia U S 4 .50 per ma. J 73 six mo 00 year By mail. Dally add Sunday! fin advance! In Oregon : , J 1.10 per mo 8.50 six mo 10.30 year In U. S outaida Orefon . $ 143 per mo. . Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Bureau at AdTtrOfinf. ANPA Orrron Newipaper PvbUsbers AsioeiatJoa Advertiitnf Bepresentattvtti Ward-Grlffltb C:. West Hnlliday Co.. New York Chicago San Pranelsca Detroit (Continued from page L) Time Flies: From Th Stattsman FiUs 10 Years Ago April" I, IMS Editorially If you were short of eggs for Easter Sunday you may be interested in the report that WFA sold for animal feed 750,000 lbs. of stored eggs too aged for human consumption. Food shortage sometimes indi cates a brain shortage some where. A. M. Dalrymple, former war den of the Oregon State Peniten tiary and a resident of Salem for many years, died at Portland.' Dalrymple was born in Lake Geneva, Wis., Jan. 21, 1867, and came to Oregon 52 years ago. You plant your garden depend ing upon the season. Old Oregon ians have a way of setting that date. When the daffodils are. in full bloom it is always time to plant your main crop of peas, early potatoes, beets, carrots and chard. When the . lilac bush is in bloom you plant late cabbage, string beans, etc. - 25 Years Ago April C, 1S3S - By a vote of 24 to 16, taxpayers attending a meeting in the old condemned West Side school building at Woodburn approved the plan of erecting a new $25,000 building. Instead of repairing the old cot, v . 's Mrs. Genevieve Howard, for merly a popular soloist 6t Salem, was made a- member of the staff of KGW. artists. While in Salem, Mrs. Howard sang with the Salem Choral society and with the old Apolla club. Directed by their flying com mander, 100 war planes of the United States army air corps roce from their Mather field base and attacked the San Francisco water front in a sham battle. 40 Years Ago . April S, 191S i i At the Ye Liberty theater, Mr. and, Mrs. Vernon1 Castle; the fore most society dancers, presented the Fox Trot, the Braziliennethe 1 Maxixe and the famous Castle Walk on Jthe screen. - First reports on the opinion of the federal employment bureau inaugurated recently by the de-. partment of labor in cooperation with the agricultural and post office departments, showed-mat durin tre month of February and March. 1243 persons obtained work through government agents. ' Governor, Withycombe and his private secretary, George Put nam, went to Chemawa where the governor reviewed 600 stu dents in military line d in the auditorium of the institution made an address appropriate to Arbor Day. end and this put him In tern porary eclipse. He returned to office as Minister of Munitions in 1917. Originally a Liberal, a follower of David Lloyd George, be turn ed Conservative in the 1920s; served as Chancellor of the Ex chequer 1924-29. Churchill was an alarmist through the 1930s, point ing to the rise of Hitler and its danger to Britain and to Europe. He was out of step with the Baldwin and Chamberlain gov ernments, but ' when the war clouds lowered he was called back to duty as First Lord of the Admiralty. The collapse of the western front gave Churchill his great opportunity. He stepped into the office of Prime Minister in June 1940 after the rescue of Dun kerque. With the rolling periods of great oratory he roused the British people to defend their islands and their homes. He re organized the military, galvan ized the whole citizenship into action so that in' spite of the rain of bombs in the Battle of Britain there was no thought of surren der. How the British, with Churchill at the helm, stood alone to bear the brunt of the attack of the Axis powers, seeing the tide of battle going against them on the Continent, in Norway, in Greece, in Africa is now history;, . and engraved forever on history's pages ar the words of Churchill to inspire the British forces and their associates in battle to fight 'through to. victory.' WASHINGTON UP)-President Eisenhower will not hold r a news conference this week, the White House announced Tuesday, "Congress is in recess and we want to take a recess too," said Presidential Press ; Secretary The British rejection of the Conservatives in the first pos war election seemed a cruel dis regard of the valiant services of its great leader; but they were wary, and Labor offered promises of better things. These were not fully realized tad is 1951 Con servatives regained power and Churchill became Prime Minis ter. Again his keen sense of James C. Hagerty. values ana trends served rum well. Whereas in 1946 he first had called for resistance to Rus sion aggression in his new minis try he sought the role of peace maker. Aroused by the threat of atomic weapons .he urged a "meeting at the summit." He stayed the arm of the Ameri cans who seemed zealous to en- j ter the war in Indochina. At the same time he pressed the de velopment of atomic power for uses of war and peace by Bri tain. His last and one of his greatest speeches covered the gamut of British defense and am plified the thesis of "defense by deterrents." , x His last hope was not realized. Though the prospect is brighter of a conference of heads of the great powers participation in such an event is denied him. Age has impaired his powers. To other and younger but also able hands he passes the reins of authority. He can retire with the satisfaction of leaving a Britain free and independent, fast re gaining its economic good health, its people lightened of the austerity brought by war, under a Queen (the sixth monarch whom be has served) beloved by the people, a Britain speaking ' again with a clear voice in the councils of the world. --In tribute to the Royal Air Force which repelled the Luft- , waffe of Goering in World War II Churchill said "Never have so many owed so much to so few." In paraphrase it may well be said of Churchill himself that r never have so many owed so much to one man for the preser vation of human freedom in the world. Let Time and Age deal genuy with this "noblest Roman of them alL" TAX RETURNS PREPARED la your home at reasonable rates. Phone 4-2033. SHAVERS CLIPPERS All Nationally Known Brands in Stock Guaranteed Rapairs On All Makes Capitol Cutlery Company 447 Ferry St. Ph. 4-7 AM For th$ Best Dressed EYES In Town! 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