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4 See. 1) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sunrfay, April 10, 1955 A MIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR GOD What Kind of Strategy? Rep. Harris Ellsworth has been visiting Oregon in the recess of Congress. He is quoted as saying in Eugene: j . "There's not the slightest doubt that the President, the secretary of state and the -military know exactly what theyHl do -and there's no doubt that they don't want to tell the Chinese Reds. The question is not based on legalistic criterion; it is purely one of " strategy." He is two-thirds right: The secretary of state and the military know just what they will do respecting Fomosa and the offshore islands of China. They'll do just what the President says. The President, however, has not made it clear what he will do, save that if he thinks an attack on Quemoy and the Matsus is a build-up for an attack on For mosa he will order 'out the 'Navy and Air Force. All this may be purely a matter of strategy as Ellsworth declares. But what kind of , strategy: military or political? The failure to sharply define our intentions is defended as wise political strategy, a play for a cease fire agreement. It, is easy to get into a hot argument, however, on whether joining the defense of the China islands is good strategy either from a military or political stand ' point. Editorial Comment THOSE SNOW BANNERS On the Willamette National forest, across the . Cascades from Central Oregon, ; methods of inte grating logging and water conservation are be ing studied. When moisture falls from clouds and settles in ' thick timber, those in charge of the study point out, there is a considerable loss through evaporation. Much of the moisture never reaches the ground. It has been suggested that! through careful regulation of , checkerboard logging in critical water shortage areas., the moisture be per mitted to reach the earth, and eventually find its way into streams and reservoirs. Presumably, clear logging would be , advocated in higher fir areas where the full sweep of the westerly winds would drift snow into mountain valleys. There the pack would remain until the warm days of. spring. Nature has already used this system of "drift storage," in the higher country, and has robbed western Oregon of some of its stream flow, just . as the Cascades have robbed easterly-drifting clouds of much of their rain. In high areas above the timberline, high winds seasonally catch fluffy snow and move it miles into the. east, over the Cascade divide and into the Deschutes watershed. Snow plumes and snow banners frequently visible from the Deschutes sides of the Cascades are part of the snow drift from the Willamette slope to the Deschutes country. These snow -banners, occasionally visible even in April following new falls of snow in the Cas cades, are spectacular as well as beneficial to Deschutes irrigators. The banners reach easterly from the high Cascades, especially ; the tall Three Sisters, as snowy pennants, some of them more than a mile long. ! Eventually this airborne snow, churned from, exposed western slopes by high winds, falls in" sheltered coves of the eastern Cascades, to re vive glaciers and, add to the winter pack that later in the year feeds tributaries of the' De schutes river. i . ' Thus aome of the moisture originally intended for that part of -the state on the Pacific side of theCascades finds it way to the sunshine side of the mountains, to fill lakes, increase stream flows and irrigate fields. This is nature's1 way of compensating for some of the loss suffered through the dehydra . tion of clouds by the high Cascades. (Bend Bulletin). Communists Moving Into Political Vacuum In Free Indochina, Eventual; Loss Feared carry the burden the' French carried in the Tonkin Delta.y' Finally, the equation's third ' factor, the power of the Viet Minn in the North, has been growing steadily. As predicted earlier by this reporter, the in telligence experts have had to raise their forecasts, giving Gen. Yo Nguyen Giap a fall 20 di visions by the spring of 1956. "No Favor Sways Vs. No Fear Shaft AxstT ! From First Statesman. March H. 1131 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Edltm and Publisher Puous&ed every moroin. Business office ISO '' North Church St. Salem. Of. Telephone 4-SSU Entered at the poetofflce at Salem. Or, as second claw matter under act ot Congress Starch a. H7S. Member Associated Press Too Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the m i lor republication of aU local news printed a this newspaper. I ; ytti .jn n rr asuiiigiuu auu ur. vrppcuucimcr The eminent scientists invited to the con ference at the ; University of Washington have declined, one by one, because of the University's ban on the appearance of Dr. J. Ralph Oppenheimer. Various groups of the faculty have indicated their dissent, the latest being the Faculty Senate which ex pressed its disapproval by a vote of 76 to 40. Mow that this record has been made, the af fair should be consigned to the files. Aca- rlomi frwHnm Hnp nnt PxtpnH to nrolonpin? a boycott over a matter such as this. .The ' action of President Schmitz in barring the , . . . ; At atomic scientist snouia not serve permanently to degrade the University in the intellectual world though its rating ; will suffer for a time because of it. Professors and students there still need visitations of intellectuals from off the campus. ; Nor is there need to continue to harp on the Oppenheimer case. Surely all who had positive views on it have spoken theia piece, and unless there are new disclosures no food is served by prolonging the argument. Perhaps from the incident some lessons have beer learned: Scientists that they' do not work in a vacuum but are part of the society and nation in which they dwell; politicians that security fears may breed nightmares which fade with the daylight. Perhaps in vestigations will become more objective. We dq not wish to indulge in breast-beating in pointing anew to the Oregon experi ence. Here Chancellor Byrne of the state system of higher education welcomed the coming of Dr. Oppenheimer for a series of lectures at state institutions. The heavens did not fall in. Oregonians take his coming in stride. We are confident he would have been received without untoward incident at the University of Washington. The real suf ferer is the reputation of the University of Washington as a University. Enough Ph. Ds have spanked President Schmitz by this time, however, so that the record should be closed. The punishment has fitted the The Senate committee on taxation is cpn-i sidering a plan to give voters their choice between a hopped-up income tax and a sales tax. With old-time western hospitality th .committee would lead the people to the bar and sing out: 'Name your poison." Oregon has the makings of the most beau ( tihuVcapitol ,mall (outside Washington, D. C) in' the entire nation. 'Mea' with small . plans must not be permitted to 'ruin it The Oregon Journal concludes an edi torial headed: "Let's Save Capitol Mall" thus: I I Ml ' By JOSEPH ALSOP SAIGON, Indochina The real key to the situation in this un happy country is a political equa tion a sixth grader could solve. On one side of this equation j-mr i are three rela- f Svf tively knowable I V factors: the con f I I dition of the t "CT countryside, the 11 condition of the Vietnamese na tional army, and the condition of Viet Minh power in the North. On erp& AHoe.. th -ternal un known, the future. : ' Work out the three knowable factors. Unless all the experts are wrong about these factors, the result equals eventual Viet Minh victory here in Southern Indochina, which in turn will equal a general catastrophe in Southern Asia. The trouble in the countryside is simple. President Ngo Dinh Diem is a notably bad adminis r trator. He has also been con ' tinuously and perhaps inescapa ! bly preoccupied with the strug i gle for personal power in Saigon. . Thus he has left an almost com plete administrative vacuum in the provinces. The ruthless and well organ ized Communist apparatus has been quick to send its cadres. Into this vacuum. In the region of the great rubber estates over towards the Cambodian border, for instance, military measures prevented Vieh Minh infiltra tion until Geneva ended the ! righting. But now the Viet Minh cadres have poured in and taken ever the Tillages. . Again, the important prov ince of Nha Trang has always .been predominantly Nationalist rather than Communist But in recent months great numbers of Viet Minh cadres one un happy local official guesses as many as 2,000 have quietly moved into Nha Trang from the neighboring Communist strong hold of Quong Hay. And now ' Nha Trang is being taken over too. . In the feadal domains of the military religions sects, to be sure, infiltrating Viet Minh -cadres still get short shrift But when the heat is really e. the sect leaders who are new fight ing President Diem, will sorely f-t4 t mi the em atries. al deals with the Viet Minh that the comparable Chinese war lords made with the Chinese Communists. In the much larger area of Southern Indochina not under sect control, meanwhile, be tween 60 and 70 per cent of the villages are already subject to strong Viet Minh influence, according to estimates from American official sources. French estimates, based on more detailed knowledge, give the Viet Minh probable control., of a fantastic 70 to 90 per cent of the villages. 1 Today, to be sure, the sim ple people ef Viet Nam are des perately war weary. If a strong government could be created in Saigon by some unforeseen mir acle, war weariness would help it take the villages away from the Viet Minh. But unless all signs deceived. Ho Chi Minh will shortly be able to raise the Indochinese countryside against the Saigon government by the simple act of sending his secret couriers across the 17th Paral lel. " In other words. Ho Chi Minh will be able to recreate in the South the same conditions that defeated the strong French army in Tonkin. In that night-. mare war, the French, forces held only the towns and strong points and even used the roads at their peril. And because most of the French forces were al ways tied down guarding their own rear against a hostile coun tryside, there were never enough French troops left over to confront the main body of Viet Minh regulars.. Such is the first factor of our equation which in tun confers a rather lurid Importance en the second factor, the Vietnam ese national army. This army is bow disorganized, demoralized end suffering e hemorrhage ef desertions. Retraining and reorganiza tion have just been started by Lt Gen. John W. ODaniel's Franco-American "Trim" group. But of the six planned Viet namese divisions, only three will have received serious re training by next year. The oth er, three will merely get ten days apiece of "indoctrination. -And three fair and three dubi ous divisions are fnrre to Jr ""I-JJ-' . .7iiy " Ml Safety yaivc Time Flies: From It Statesman Files How then does this equation work out. Obviously the first 'part of the answer is that the Viet Minh would prefer to take Southern Indochina by peaceful means either at the Geneva-required election or the forma tion of a "Government of Na tional Union" in Saigon. But if they cannot take the South peacefully, yet have con trol of the Southern country side, then the Viet Minh will surely order the guerrillas into action. They will filter a few , guerrilla-disguise small units of regulars into the South, both to intimidate any hesitant vil lages and to lead the guerrilla effort And they will hold the balance of their regulars, say seven divisions, in reserve to discourage French or American intervention. In these circumstances, inter vention with large ground forces will be remarkably un attractive. In these circum stances, intervention with the air-sea "mobile striking force Secretary Dulles is always talk ing about will be about as -useful as taking a bludgeon to a swarm of wasps. But in these circumstances, if there is no ef fective intervention to. save Southern Indochina, the Viet namese national army will not be able to hold out for more than three months. This estimate ef the Vietnam ese army's future capability against the kind of Insidious Met Minh attack that is now generally foreseen, has been of ficially forwarded to Washing ten and Paris by the respon sible American and French of ficers. It is probably an opti mistic estimate. At any rate, it is the final answer of this Indo Chinese equation, which can make a mockery of Geneva, turn the Manila pact into a bitterly bad Joke, and seal the fate ef all South Asia. 2 (Copyrisht 1955. New York Hr!d Tribute rne. Fables for adults . . . No. 384 , . Once upon a time there was a rabbit, who was up to his big, twitchy ears in worry. He was a peculiar-type rabbit. He was an introvert Sort of an ingrown hare.. He had worried himself to the point where he was having daymares in his sleep. So, we find him hop ping along through the forest on his way to see his pyschi atrist, Mr. Fox. Lippity-loppity, lippity-loppity lump, he went (one of his lippities wasn't even lopping right). And in less time than you can say "multiply" the rabbit arrived at Mr. Fox's office. . e . "What's up Mac?" asked the Fox; taking up pad, pencil and acorn. "I'm having troubles." said the rabbit "I worry all the time. And its getting worse of late. If this keeps up I'm afraid 111 worry myself into an awful stew." "Suicide complex," murmured the Fox. "Tell yen what, Mac. Just stretch out en that briar bosh couch aver there and tell me all about it" "WhereH I start?" asked the rabbit, relaxing and twirling his whiskers. "Just the hare-raising facts, man," said Mr. Fox. "I get the strange feeling " said the rabbit quietly, "that all the Easter eggs I see are really midget-A bombs." "Pete," said Mrl Fox admiringly, "You really ARE on the brink of a large, blue mental crackup. When a rabbit ; begins to mistake a poor mixed up thing like an A-bomb for an unscrambled egg, he's really had it." "It all started some time ago," noted the rabbit, slowly picking his teeth with an early, spring carrot. "I rassled up a big stack of eggs for Easter. I was happily coloring 'em one day when I read something about this bomb. The more I thought about it the less kick I got outa those eggs." "Go on," said Mr. Fox, taking notes, "the boys at the Phrenologists, Skullshrinkers. Telepathists and Palmreaders Union, Local No. 4652, will never believe this." "Well," sighed the rabbit, "the more I got to thinking about that A-bomb, the more I brooded. I couldn't eat My fur lost itsjtone. My ears drooped. I never felt to bat since the spring of '4S when I caught cold from laying Easter' eggs in a wet pansy patch. If there's one thing we rabbits can't stand its Easter rain in years of high grass." : "When did you first notice that the eggs were really bombs?" asked Mr. Fox. "I'm not real sure," said the rabbit. "All I know is that one day they were eggs and the next day they all seemed like bombs. I knew then I was cracking up." ; "This case is really simple," said Mr. Fox, folding his note book! "You've simply egged yourself on to the point where sub-consciously you want to be deviled and beaten. You were overdoing this Easter egg business. All you have to do now is to think of the many other ideas connected with Easter. Eggs are only a small part of it. Actually when you consider all of Easter it makes the bombs a little easier to take. We all flip once in awhile. Friends tell me I imagine I; hear bells. But that aint say, Mac, hand me that helmet. I'll just step outside and see what those fire-whistles are all about ..." . I (Editor's Note: Letters for The Statesman's Safety Valve column are fiven prior consideration if they are Informative and are not more than 3M words In length. Penonal attacks and ridicule, as well as libel, are to be avoided, but anyone Is entitled to air beUefs and opinions on any side of any ques tion.) Lowering Voting Age : To the Editor: , Believing you may be interest ed in a poll I conducted of more than 5000 students and more than 600 teachers throughout Oregon concerning the matter of lower' ing the voting age to 18, I call to your attention the following results: 67 schools sent actual figures; these figures did not re present total enrollment but. in most cases, represented either enrollment m Junior and Senior classes or in Social Science classes. 5939 total of students reporting: 61'i were in favor; 38Vk were opposed. 610 faculty members reporting: 53 were in favor; 47 were opposed. 24 schools sent percentages only: Students averaged 80 for; 20 against Faculty averaged 51 for; 49 against 16 schools were represented by Juniors and Seniors only and sending percentages: J u ni o r s, 62 for, 38 against; Seniors, 65 for, 35 against, This points up, I think, the eveness with which the popula tion of Oregon is divided on the matter. There is division among those who would be affected. It is for this reason that I urg ed passage of Senate Joint Reso lution No. 1 so that the people might decide this question rather than periodically having it de bated on the floor of the legisla ture. i MARK HATFIELD State Senator J 10 Years Ago ' April II. IMS Early in the war Reichmarshal Hermann Goerihg told the Ger man people that "if ever a sin gle bomber is able to fly over Berlin my name will be Meyer.' After the German capital had been largely reduced to ruins, everybody was calling Goering "air. Meyer," prisoners said. In celebration of their Silver Wedding anniversary, the Rev. and Mrs. Weaver W. Hess were honored at a dinner in the Mirror room , of the Marion Hotel, by members of the First Church of 1 the Nazarene. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edwards acted as hosts. Release of Leonards B. (Stub) Allison, head football coach at the University of. California for the last 10 years, was announced at San Francisco by the execu tive -committee of the associated students. 25 Years Ago April 10, ISM A new American fighting ship, the cruiser Chicago, took the water at Mare Island, Calif., amid the shrieks of whistles of scores of ships in the Mare Is 1 a n d channels Miss Elizabeth Britten, sister of Congressman Fred A. Britten, christened the ship. Miss Abigal Scott Duniway was named as Oregon's most out standing woman and her name was placed on a bronze tablet installed in a woman's hell ot fame at Washington, D. C. The late Mrs. Duniway was a pioneer leader for women's suff erage on the Pacific Coast Forms for the concrete founda , tion of the Oregon - Washington Water Service comoanv'a filtra. tion plant were being built and reinforcing iron, placed in position. 40 Years Ago April 10, MIS V H. H. Vandevort returned from southern Oregon where he pur chased a thousand sheep. At his place in Polk county shearing was on. and in fine weather the men clipped the wool of a thou- J -1 i aanu sneep in inree Gays. . Field Marshal Sir John French, commander of the British expedi tionary forces on the continent reported the British losses in the three days fighting at Neuve Chapelle were 12,000 men. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Lefurgy of Summerside, Prince Edward Tel a rA Ct hA a enrvutte" tit fKoit home from the San Francisco fair, were guests of Dr. and Mrs. B. L. Steeves for a fortnight 19 MISSIONARIES FREE HONG KONG () The Roman Catholic center here reports IS Catholic missionaries crossed the Hong Kong border from Red China in March. That left 54, in cluding four bishops, behind the Bamboo Curtain. MANUFACTURING JEWELERS iSSSfc r -1 VBSS ' I r. f 1 I M Linoleum was invented in Eng land in 1636, but its use was wide ly extended by development of a new process in 1860. 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"Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will -sustain you" is a well-tested text which has brought support to millions. But religion is not just a sedative. Minister and priest are not merely com petitors with the psychiatrist Re ligion to be vital must be rooted more ' deeply though it need not flower in all the theological com plexities which bewilder the mind of the ordinary mortaL Many may never spell out their beliefs; yet they hold certain convictions firmly. Their faith reaches to foundations though they cannot describe them. It carries them through deep waters; and it car ries them also to heights of in spiration, catching visions of souls redeemed from evil and an earth which is a reflection of the heaven of their hopes. ; Easter is the season of re newal of life and of hope. It un folds visions which inspire humanity to press forward and upward spite of obstacles and reverses. 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