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
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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
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' 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.
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neath the veneer may be the hard
shell of prejudice: Is there any
greater depth by way of Faith?
How, many stand up and say,
"This, I believe?" Theology it
self seems rather out of style.
Religion does have place as a
comforter to worried spirits.
"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
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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. Its message is annual;
it also is eternal. . ,
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