4-(Sec IMHtesman, Salem, Or:, Sunday, May 15, 1955 - "No Favor Svcayt 0. No Tear Shall Awe Kron Firs. gUteram. March M. 1131 . Stateiman Publishing Company CHAKLS A. SPttAGUI. EdlUa and Publisher 1 iuuand every ntonuttg. Business otto 280 Norm Cnurcn su, balcra. Ore. Telephone 4-Wli nur at te postolfleo at Salem, Oro. as second class millet under act o Courts aiarea X. Hit. Hcmw ajiwuus rrtu Tha AcseeUUa Presa la entitled exciiuuvely to tba -so - Me republication ot all iucal anrs pruatad la ttala Aewapaper. Tio U.S. Gtizenship for Churchill Senator Sma then of Florida has said he would introduce legislation to make Sir Winston Churchill an "honorary?, citizen of the USA. In the discussion attending the suggestion a precedent was cited, that of Marquis de Lafayette, Researchers in the State department, however, failed to find any confirmation of this ; report, though it was found that Maryland conferred state cit izenship on the Marquis who had fought un der Washington for American independence, and on his heirs "in perpetuity." Virginia But not Congress. j -There just is no such thing as "honorary citizenship." One is a citizen of one country or another, unless his country has been washed out leaving himJ'stateless" as has been true of thousands in the late years of war and revolution. It is true that Churchill is one-half Amer ican, his mother having been born in this country. As he remarked in an address in the U. S. Senate in wartime had it been the other way round, and his father an American, he might have been a member of, that .body. Churchill will not miss the distinction of becoming an "honorary citizen" of the USA. He knows he is held in high esteem here; and we know the affection he holds for this country. In fact he counts as one of his great est achievements the obtaining of assistance for his country from the United States through the active cooperation of President Roosevelt. As he smokes his seegars and sips his brandy he can feel that the United States served him and his country well in the crit ical years, 1940 and after. - of appre the retir- Changes on State Board , Two recent changes in the membership of the State Board of Higher Education call for comment. Edgar Smith, of Portland, after serving 16 years as board member, much of the time as president, declined reappoint ment In his place Governor Patterson named Charles Holloway Jr.; Portland business man. Last week G. F. Chambers of Salem offered his resignation for personal reasons and Bernard Mainwaring, editor and publisher of the Capital Journal, Salem, was appointed as his successor. A word should be said by way elation of the service rendered by 1 ing members. Edgar Smith took his duties with great seriousness and devoted a large measure of his time in performing: them. He was genuinely devoted to the cause of high er education and sought modifications in the original system setup which would make the institutions serve better the youth of the state. ' r Salem's Ted Chambers is a graduate of OSC (Smith attended the UofO for several years but took his degree at Cornell). Those who thought that Chambers would be par tial to his alma mater were fooled for he never let loyalty to it qualify his judgment on system matters. A man of clear judgment with ripe business experience he proved a valuable member. His recent assignment as chairman of the building committee was a recognition of his qualifications. The successors: Holloway is a graduate of the state university, is one of the younger group of Portland businessmen (fuel and ice), and has been very active in! civic af fairs. Bernard Mainwaring is an OSC grad uate but one who will bring no partisanship to his work on the board. He has had ex perience on boards of church-related, colleges in Oregon and Washington. The energy and ability he has shown in the publishing field and his active support of education! and civic progress qualify him well for service on this important board. j. I ' One of the most shocking incidents in the career of foreign correspondents is-that" re ported from Singapore where Gene Symonds, United Press manager for Southeast Asia was beaten and kicked to death by rioting students. The mob dragged him from a taxi, beat him with stones and clubs and left him lying in the street. The police appear to have been guilty of gross negligence. Symonds had served as correspondent through most of the Korean War and was doing his job as a reporter trying to cover a strike-riot situa tion in Singapore when he was set upon. i' Editorial Comment A FAMILY OF MOUNTAINS Out of a battle organization has developed Ffiends of the Three Sisters Wilderness, Inc. It is a group originally formed to fight the move by the U. S. Forest Service to reduce the wilderness area from 246,000 to 196,000 acres. Strong testimony in behalf of retention of the area at its present size and along its present boundaries was developed at a hearing in Eugene in February. I That testimony is now being reviewed by for est officials and a decision may be expected by mid-year. ' But in the meantime the group that spear headed the fight to retain the present boundaries of the area which has s its central feature the Three Sisters and the Cascade skyline, finds it self free to join in other activities. Friends of the Three Sisters Wilderness for mally incorporated at a meeting in Eugene this past week and named a veteran Oregon moun taineer and educator, Karl W. Onthank, as its president and charted plans for extensive scien tific research in the virgin land. One of the objectives of the group will be to educate the public in the proper use of this and other wildnerness areas. " i But more generally Friends of the Three Sisters Wilderness will be concerned with studies that will bring to the attention of Oregonians that in the Three Sisters country is a region of park-like beauty a region formed by volcanic action and sculptured by great glaciers. Bend Bulletin. 'Scientific7 Poll Indicates Eisenhower to I Seek Reelection in Face of GOP Pressure Passing of the Third Avenue El Eyes of denizens of Third avenue, New York, soon will blink as the sunshine comes straight through after the lapse of three quarters of a century when it was filtered through the tracks and trestles of the Third Avenue Elevated. The last train has made v its run from lower to upper New York City. The ' antiquated structure with its quaint buses will replace the El for local transit. The El started down in old Chinatown, crossed the ' famed Bowery, came uptown past flats and shops and stores and on into the Bronx. A trip for its length, gave one a "bedside" picture of how many of New York's citizens lived, and an overhead view of the street traffic below: the pushcarts, the . side walk displays, the crowds. Kids were; seen playing in the streets and hanging onto the fire escapes, and washings were always in evidence. .. A similar view though of shorter length may be had from New York Central trains after they emerge from the tunnel into Grand Central station and course through Harlem, but travel will be quite different for those who long have been patrons of the old El. Of course if they are too niuch aggrieved they might move to Chicago where the Elevated is still firmly established, now under municipal . ownership along with the street cars and buses. 0 I to put Vv7 ate on a I By STEWART ALS0P WASHINGTON Whether President Eisenhower will run again in 1956 is sure to be debated endless ly, until the President him self gives the ' deciding word. Pending that time, this re porter has at tempted to put the debate slightly ugnuy more Stewart AUp scientific basis, ' r by taking a one-man poIL In a long day en the tele phone, 20 Senators and 20 news paper reporters were reached an adequate sampling, accord ing to polling theory. There seemed to be more Republicans than Democrats with their noses to the grindstone, so the final proportion among Senators was 12 Republicans to 8 Democrats AH interviews were "not for attribution," to promote candor. The answers to the question "Will Ike ran?" broke down as follows: Flat, confident no: Two Dem ocrats, two newspapermen, no Republicans. . Hesitant no: One Democrat, four newspapermen, still no Republicans. . Flat, confident yes: Seven Republican, one Democrat, five newspapermen. Hesitant yes: Four Republi cans, four Democrats, eight newspapermen. Unupsettable fence-sitter: One Republican. . Stern refusal to participate: One newspaperman. This works m about "15 per cent "yes," US per cent "no," and 5 per cent no answer. The heavy majority view that the President will ran was perhaps aot very surprising. Yet the pulse-feeling did develop some features worth remarking. Except for one cynical news paperman who. thought , the President's supposed reluctance was an 'act. everybody assumed -"that the President really did not want to run. Why should more than seven out of ten think he would run, despite his own genuine inclinations? Part of the answer is fonnd la another very general belief. Two Democratic Senators and a conple of reporters thought that the President might be beaten. But almost everyone else agreed in substance with Democratic Senator who has him self beeu spokes of as a White House possibility: "For the first time, just in the past two or three weeks, I've begun to think he might not go. But I still just can't see how anybody we put up( he'd knock his head off. and if they put any one else up. we'd knock his, head off. So the Republicans just can't let him go to Gettysburg." Over and over again, ia one form or another, came the phrase: "He ea1 resist the pressure." The Republicans nat urally tended to put the matter on a 'high plane. "Ike's a sol dier," said oae Republican who spoke for the rest, "and he's got a4remeadoas sense of duty. He knows he owes it to the coua try and the Party to run, and he's never shirked a duty yet." The reporters and the Demo crats tended to be more cynical. One literary Democrat compared the President to the reluctant lady in Byron's "Don Juan," who, "whispering I will ne'erj consent,' consented." A reporter, no admirer of the President, had this to say: "Ike's really a pliant kind of guy, at least about poli tics look at the '52 and S4 cam paigns, TheyH really hold his feet to the fire this time, and in the end hell go." Oae of the two Democrats who flatly predicted that the Presi dent would not run had aa odd explaaatiea: . "Shucks, I like 'golf too, and I'm up la 'SC. Sap pose I'd already made up my mind not to run again, why, I'd be out on the course half the - time. But I want it, and here I am np here running myself ragged. Ike's not running him self ragged, not by a long shot." If women's intuition is worth anything, the majority is wrong. Sen. Margaret Chase 1 Smith has publicly voiced her doubts about the President's running, and one reporter's wife who; answered the telephone agreed; "All the women I know say no." Yet her husband, 'a brilliant White House reporter, spoke for the male majority: ""Ike really does love that farm, and he really does hate Washington he says so openly and Mamie really does want him to retire. But what can he possibly say when the men he admires most tell him: Mr. Preseident, you've got to run, or everything you're stood for Is lost.' "j ' The results of this; pulse-taking were, obviously, even more inconclusive, than usual, since, the one .person who could give a ' ' really authoritative answer was not available for questioning. But the interviews did suggest the amazing extent to which Presi dent Eisenhower now dominates , the American political scene. "The man's a great political genius." one ro ported remarked. "He does what no politician in American history has been able to do be makes hardly' any enemies, only friends. And the Republican party's not going to let its one and only political genius retire." j (CoByrlfht 1955. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) . LABORfS OF HERCULES i -firh 'isr ', u. ... 7 WKmK Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago May 15, IMS A winter plot to assassinate Gen Eisenhower, one of the European-theatres' top military secrets for months, was-disclosed with the capture of a giant pro fessional political kidnaper, Lt, Col. Otto Skorzeny. Maj. Stephen A. Stone, Jr., re ported missing in action when he failed to return from a flight over Austria, in February, returned to .military control, his parents Mr. anad Mrs. Stephen A. Stone, Sa lem, were notified. Lt. Wilson Siegmund arrived in Salem to spend a 30-day leave with his wife, the former Mar garet Savage, and two and a half year old son Jimmy. Before en tering the service be was an au ditor with the Secretary of State. 25 Years Ago May 15, 193 In Berlin Max Valier, German pioneer in experiment and re , search with rocket motors, was injured fatally while working on a model of a new liquid oxygen rocket The eighth" anniversary party of the Salem Lions club was held at the Elks Temple. William Mott, who was the second presi dent of the club, was chairman of the committee and Frank Neer the toastmaster. Construction of a two-story con crete addition to cost $60,000 was announced by the Oregon Pulp and Paper company with the filing of papers asking that prop erty owned by the S.P. and Ore gon Electric companies on Trade Street be vacated to allow the erection of the new building. 40 Years Ago May 15, 1915 An interesting meeting was held by the parent-teacher circle of the Lincoln school. Mrs. Luther Chapin, president of the association, presided. Taking part in the program were: Macyl Hunter, Ruth Jones and Mabel Marcus. On Court Street from front to Cottage the Browning Amusement concern put up its tents, the at tractions being part of the Moses tractions being part of the Moose carnival. All England was ringing with the name of Miss Muriel Thomp son, British nurse with the Bel gian soldiers, who had been dec orated by King Albert with the order of Leopold. She went into the trenches : under the . fire of German guns and carried out wounded Belgian soldiers. Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS THE HERO OF SAINT ROG-. ER. By Jerrald Tickeu. Double day. The little Caribbean island of Saint Roger! longs desperately for the return of tourists scared off by a hurricane, and hard headed local businessmen come up with a scheme: Lure them back with a tale of a dead hero ' and, in the flesh, the very pret-, ty girl supposed to have -been his fiancee. Prefect Jules Latour has mighUy little difficulty find ing in Paris the girl for the prin cipal role. The synthetic hero is . made up of Jacques de Robot, a long -vanished island ne'er-do-well. Paris news photographers do right by red-head Gabrielle, and British, Russian and Amer ican government hasten to claim a piece of Jacques for their hon or rolls, j Though the story, turns a bit lugubrious at the end, when Tickell has one more hero than we counted on, it's otherwise a bright vacation-piece from a Epular wintertime vacation id. , . (Continued from page I.) without any trespass on patriot ism, and the Handbook and the organization through the years emphasized this purpose. The ,1947 edition of the Handbook paid this tribute to Mrs. Low: "The concept of 'One World had taken shape in her lively, mind many years before the phrase became common. She : was one of the first true inter nationalists." A pamphlet put out in Au gust, 1954, ordered numerous changes in the Handbook, and this was substituted for the above: "The concept of 'interna tional friendship' had taken shape in her lively mind long . before the phrase became fa miliar to everyone." Other changes have been noted between the 1947 and later editions.' For instance: . Description of the insignia. 1947: ". . . the trefoil rests on a flamelike base, the flame of love of mankind, , symbolizing the highest thoughts of inter national friendship." The 1953 edition ends the sentence with "mankind." Doing a good turn is expected of Girl Scouts as well as Boy Scouts, but between 1947 and 1953 the range of sympathy seems to have narrowed. The former edition said: "Scouts and Guides all over the world are known for their willingness to help other people." The 1953 version omitted the phrase "all over the world." Helping other people now is to be selective, it would seem. Even -the 1953 revision was not deemed adequate. For the instruction it contained: "Serv- ice is your, way of making this a better world in which to live," was later ordered changed to "Service is your way of making a contribution to your commu nity." (An immediate call would seem necessary for a revision of the New Testament, making Mark 16:15 read: "Go 'ye . .'. and preach the gospel ..."). Evidently the League of Women Voters is suspect, for when in the 1953 Handbook.it was mentioned three times as a source of information on gov ernment in the August pam phlet reference to the League was deleted. united us into a family of inter dependent nations.' Twenty nine lines in warm espousal of the United Nations on these particular pages were reduced to seven lines, cold and non committal In the 100,000 Hand books sold since the 'correc tions' of last August, there is in this section a completely blank page (page 229) repre senting the thirty lines cut out of My World.' " (From this it looks as though we should revise our geogra phies, too, and confine maps and references to the USA, per haps with Canada added.) We shouldn't scold the exec utives of the Girl Scouts. They were panicked when a critic, particularly one as powerful as the Illinois American Legion got their Handbook in line of fire. (The . national American Legion took no note of the mat ter.) The Girl Scout is depend ent on very general support. It cannot afford to fight battles over ideology with any group. The affair serves as a meas ure of the fear that has gripped many in America. It is the end result of McCarthyism. The il lustrations given of the vigor ous effort to purge the Girl Scout Handbook of any taint of "internationalism" are enough to make an intelligent person laugh; and that gives hope that a balance of judgment will be restored. But how long are we to take counsel i of our fears rather than our strength? If we become so timid that we re fuse association j with folk of other lands and so craven that we blanch when the word "in ternational" is used, then are we in danger of collapse from sheer fright Fortunately the signs indicate that the climate is changing. Maybe in a year or two the Girl Scouts can be told there are other countries than our own, and that we do not have to hate and fear all of them. Safety Valve (Editor's Not! Letters for Tko Statesman's Safety Vahrt rolumm r (lTa prtr coBsideratlM tt they art laiorsMttvo ana art not wore than Me words ia lensth. Personal attacks and . ridicule, as weU as HheL ar t ha arolded. bat . anyone Is enUUed to air beliefs and pinions e any aid of any ut tioa.) School Taxes To the Editor: For the sixth year straight running the people of the Mar ion County Rural School Dis trict (so-called) have voted down the part of their budget outside the 6 per cent limita tion. This should convince our tax equalization friends that we do not for one moment accept the idea that the property tax levy should be uniform regard ' less of the income of the tax payer or o4 the services pro vided by the local school We want local control of our schools and should be willing to raise half of our budget by local taxes. But the property tax is most unfair in a district, 6r county, where there are many people with adequate income and little taxable property and where there are also many peo ple with inadequate income but much taxable property. The local district should be allowed to collect half of their local tax from income and half , from property. The county could do the same. We in Ore gon could have it that way if we would. A state fund from in come alone or from income and , sales could provide half the op erating costs of all our schools and also give substantial aid to any districts unable to provide housing. More money for schools is a must Anyone know how to "bell the cat"? Will we keep on asking our neighbors to pay our i bills? Or will we do for our-j selves according to our income Instead of according to our property assessment? Those responsible for the in creased enrollment should be al lowed to pay at least part of the increased costs. W. R. Baker Rt 5, Box 482 - Salem, Ore. No More Power Cuts Expected PORTLAND HI nY more cut in interruptible power need be ex pected through the summer, Bon neville Power administrator Wil- uam a. rean cas reported. ' On Thursday night Bonneville ended interruptible power cuts which were put into effect earlier this spring because of high elec tricity consumption and low water supplies. - Earlier this year interruptible power dump ower which is sold to aluminum companies was re duced 75 per cent Warmer weather has unproved the situation, reducing electricity consumption and increasing stream flows. Pearl reported. 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