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Church-State Conflict in Argentina
JTbe conflict between church and state in
Argentina sounds like an echo from the past.
Same of the historical battles of the middle
ajes .and early modern period raged between
kif gs and bishops. Most noteworthy was
that of Henry IV of Germany who made lay
appointments to several bishoprics and drew
or himself excommunication by the Catholic
chjirch. In January,' 1077 he stood baref&ot
injthe snow doing penance for three days be
fore Pope Gregory VII, who was a guest in
tht castle, would grant absolution. Now word
frem the Vatican is that President Peron of
Argentina has been excommunicated. It re
mains to be seen whether he will seek for
giveness and reinstatement as a good Cath
ol$ in which faith he was reared. .
n Buenos Aires the riots between those
loyal to the church and Peron's police and
partisans which broke out when the Corpus
Chfisti parade was held Sunday in defiance
of ji government ban were followed by rebel
airj raids on Thursday. Government spokes
man claim the army and air force are loyal
tolPeron, and that the air raids come from
naval forces. Just what the outcome will be
is pard to predict. Revolutions and counter
revolution have been familiar occurrences
In -La tin American countries. Usually the de
cision rests with the army. As long as it re
mains loyal to the regime the rebels are not
likely to win. When it turns against the chief
of 'state, the latter starts running for the
nearest exit a seaport in the old days, an
airport now. '
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jperon is a dictator, and like most dictators
brooks no interference. Some, however, make
thjir peace with the church. Mussolini did
injtaly, and Franco in Spain and Salazar in
Portugal have , done the same. In fact the
lojfalty of Franco and Salazar to the church
is taunch and has in turn drawn support
fn$n the church. . Peron has offended the
church and now proposes to repeal the con
stitutional provision making the Catholic
chirch official in the nation. Clergy have
resisted and been subjected to police har
assment. Two prelates were bundled aboard
plahes and deported by the police.
The trend has been toward separation of
church and state and toward freedom of wor
ship (save in Communist countries). Even
where there are established churches a modus
Vivendi has been worked out which keeps
t eacn autnonry pretty much to its own sphere
and allows rlShconformists to worship as they
wilL Eventually some sort of truce will come
to Argentina. Both church and state will sur
vive. Perhaps each will grow stronger in in
dependence and devotion to its own responsi
bilities. Strong anti-clerical movements have
arisen in Catholic countries which at times
haye led to reprisals against the church, for
example in France. Adjustments usually fol
low and state and church continue' to func-
. tioa.
Multilived Pinballs
Portland's pinball machines seem to have
amazing powers of survival. Away back in
the terms of Dorothy McCullough Lee as.,
mayor of Portland the commission adopted
an ordinance to prohibit operation of such
machines. Proprietors of the devices fought
the ordinance through all the courts in the
land, all the time raking in coins while the
litigation dragged. Finally the U. S. Supreme
Court kicked out their case, the Oregon Su
preme Court passed down the mandate for
putting them out of business. Even then the
city police showed they had lead in their
boots for they let the machines run for a
week or ten days longer (until after the Rose
Festival crowds had been milked). Then
when they finally moved to confiscate the
machines the amusement interests ran ' to
court to get an injunction against their re
moval. In the interval they had closed the
slot, though the machines were continuing
to operate. The court attack is on the basis
that the machines are no longer coin-in-the-slot
machines though the prohibition is not
limited to slot machines. Presumably the in
terests will carry this battle through the :
courts, all the while raking in the shekels
from the operation.
What the pinball people want of course is
a change at the city hall which will give a
repeal of the ordinance. They got one vote
when Fred Peterson was elected over Dor
othy Lee. If anything should discredit them
it is this brazen defiance of a city ordinance.
Some way should be found to put the ma
chines out of business and then let litigation
proceeed. Commissioner Earl wants to amend
the law to prevent any escape but that
might start a fresh line of lawsuits.
Most every lawn is getting the ministry of
a power mower these days including that
at (he state prison grounds. Labor saving has
eaught up with the pen inmates.
ber growing capacity.
Big 4 Conference May Not Be 'At Summit'
' ?: Unless Party Boss Khrushchev Comes
f
By. CHARLES M. McCANN
taftee" Press Staff Carrespaadent
ItMooks as if the Big Four meet
ing 4o be held ia Geneva wiQ not
be a "conference at the summit"
Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin, as
the bead of tht Soviet f overnment
wil; lead the Russian delegation
officially.
As of sow, however, it is un
certain whether Nikita Khrushchev,
the .first secretary of the Commu
nist 'Party, will even be there.
If. Bulganin goes to Geneva with
out 'Khrushchev it will be a meet
ing of heads of government all
right but it will not be the "con
ference at the summit" which has
so long been discussed.
If, there is any real "summit'
In the Kremlin right now which
is somewhat doubtful it is Khrush
ehet. .
Russia has accented the Allied
.proposal for a four-day meeting
July: l through July 21 inclusive.
Itu.not proposed that the heads
f the four governments shall
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maaye any uewaions on wuria pruo
lems. They are to hold an exchange
ef vtews and define issues oa whkh
the Big Four foreign ministers will
negotiate afterward.
But Bulganin is unlikely to be
abl even to engage in any author
itative "exchange of views" unless
Khrtishchev is at his elbow.
When Khrushchev and Bulganin
went to Belgrade to see President
. Tito' of Yugoslavia, Khrushchev
went out of his way to show he
war the head man on the Russian
i aid
There is no real comparison, of
course, between the Belgrade and
Geneva meetings.
The' Soviet leaders went to Bel
grade to see a man who was not
only head of his government but
leafier of his own Communist Par
at
Il; looked men, however, as
If
Khrushchev certainly would be tht
real No. 1 delegate at any Big
Four conference not officially but
actually. ,
But Khrushchev won himself
lot M bad publicity in Belgrade by
his lack of tact and his loose talk.
That made It seem questionable
whether he would attend the Big
Few meeting even as the towtr
If Khrushchev does not go to
Geneva, presumably Bulganin will
have to refer back to Moscow for
instructions whenever he is con
fronted by any unexpected develop
ment; A lot of time could be lost
ia that way in a meeting of limited
duration.
Western diplomats have no dis
position to belittle Bulganin. He is
a man of great ability, with a
friendly manner. He is 60 years
old. lie is reeognizeable at once,
in his pictures, by his goatee. He
Time Flies:
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"10 Years Ago
. . June 17, 1945
Salem was formally on record
favoring the city acquisition of
the remaining 43 acres of Bush
pasture at a cost of $125,000.
The Bush pasture project car
ried in six wards and lost in
one number 5, in North Salem.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
brought "the greatest moment
in his life" his homecoming, to
an official dose in a press con
ference and denied with utmost
vigor that he had any idea of
going into politics.
The National Battery com
pany of St Paul, Minn., obtain
ed an option on four acres of
property adjoining tht SJ.
tracks in West Salem and con
templated the construction of
a new manufacturing unit.
25 Years Ago
June 17, 1931
Miss Josephine Albert and
Wendell Robinson, winners of
' tht Atwater-Kent audition con
test recently held, were to com
pete in the state contest at
Portland in the fall.
FLOWERS THAT BLOOM IN THE SPRING, TRA LA!
'Operation Alert'
The President and cabinet members and ,
top government officials departed from
Washington Wednesday and set up shop in
secluded places as an experiment of main
taining fovernment operations in the event
of bombing. They didn't take, along their
secretaries (female), so must have taken
along some card decks to set up a few poker
games when the business of operating away
from home base got dull.
Once the evacuation of the . national cap
ital was real. That was when the British
seized Washington and burned public build
ings. The Madisons escaped to Virginia, but
Dolly Madison, wife of the president, took
with her a Gilbert Sturt oortrait of George
Washington. General Early's men pot dose
to Wahingtn during the Civil War. but
after the government clerks were mobilized
to man trenches hurriedly thrown up the
Confederate raid was driven back.
We hope this practice run will not have
to be repeated under i genuine threat: but
for the moment the big battle Is, as it has
been most of the" time, to Veen the termites
from boring from within and eating away the
substance of the country.
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Mrs. Smith'
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Enters Plea
Of Innocent
PORTLAND Ul Mrs. Marjorie
Smith. 34. accused of Dlottin the
bomb death of her Jiusband, attor
ney Kermith Smith, 4, in April,
pleaded innocent in circuit court
Thursday. ,
Her plea previously had been
delayed as her attorneys attacked
a grand jury first-degree murder
indictment against her. J u d e e
Charles W. Redding overruled
their demurrer.
Also under indictment is Victor
Laurence Wolf. 45, who is accused
of Dlantinff the fatal homh in
Smith's car. 'Wolf has said he
planted the bomb out of love for
Mrs. Smith, and blamed her for
hatching the plot.
The trial is expected in the Sep
tember term of court. No date jet
has been set.
(Continued from page L)
Showing Off Our Trees
That was a splendid idea of the Oretton
Junior Chamber, of Commerce to send a
crors section of a huee Orecon Douglas fir
log on a tour of the East. This paper had a
picture of it be'"? viewed in Rockefeller Cen
ter, New York City, the other morninp. The
truck has taken it on to Washington where i
has attracted more attention. It will be"
shown at Richmond and aeain at Charlotte;
N. C , and finally at Atlanta, Ga., during the
national Jaycee convention.
Few people in the East and South Ret out
to the Pacific Northwest or to California
where the bit; trees grow. It will give them
quite a thrill to see a tree which sorouted
from seed hundreds of years aeo. The Jay
cee expedition conducted by Gerry Rucker
of Portland and Wayne McCall of Cottage
Grove is an original idea that really will ac
quaint folk in other parts of the nation with
Oregon's chief resource, its timber and tim-
started out as a Communist organ
izer way back in 1917. He became
an able government administrator.
In World War II be became a polit
ical marshal in the armed forces.
He succeeded Georgi M. Malenkov
as premier last Feb. 8.
The trouble with the situation id
the Kremlin now is that Khrush
chev has succeeded Josef Stalin as
Communist leader and Bulganin
has succeeded him as premier.
There is no longer any real summit
50 per cent and will be given
only to farmers who do not ex
ceed their acreage allotments.
It is not an "easy choice to
make. Acceptance means a
price guarantee of 76 per cent
of parity but wheat production
, only on a little over 60 per cent
of former acreage. I Rejection
and growing wheat on all one's
acres means taking the market
price, whatever -that may be,
but surely considerably under
the government support figure.
The root of the wheat prob
lem is trying to square eco
nomics with politics and so
ciology. American (and Cana
dian, for that matter) growers
have been raising more wheat
than they can dispose of at
what they regard as compensa
tory prices. Our government
has stepped in to temper eco
nomic law at the expense of the
general treasury. The justifi
cation was that such an import
ant segment of agriculture as
wheat growing (and that of five
other basic crops) Should not
be allowed to go to ruin by the
harsh price-fixing of the mar
ketplace. Parity was invoked
during New Deal days when
farmers (as well as others)
were in the trough! of the de
pression. It was kept alive even
through war years: when de
mand took prices above parity,
and was continued after the
war - Secretary Brannan did
not apply acreage controls to
limit production. Recovery fol
lowing the war resulted in
marked increase in world pro
duction of wheat and other
foods. American production re
mained around a billion bush
els a year. Surpluses in govern
ment hands mounted until now
the wheat in storage runs
around a billion bushels, well
over a year's requirements for
food and seed and! normal ex
port The crop this year will add
to the surplus, in spite of the
heavy cut in acreage and in
spite of very adverse weather
in the Southwest plains coun
try. The June crop forecast is
for 845.213,000 bushels of
wheat, which compares with
969,781,000 for 1954 and a ten
year average of 1,154,073,000.
bu. This reduced amount is con
siderably in excess of normal
requirements for the United
States, so the prospect is for
some addition to wheat stores.
on stocks no yet taken over
$7.3 billion. Its losses and ex
penses for the first nine months
of the fiscal year amounted to
$507 million. Storage costs
aloae run to about $1 million
a day.
Strenuous efforts have been
made to get rid of the surplus
stocks. The law prevents their
sale on the domestic market for
less than 5 per cent above cur
rent support prices plus reason
able carrying charges. That
means there is no sale there.
Some commodities such as but
ter, cheese, have been used on
school lunch programs or made
as grants to welfare institu
tions. There is authority for
disposing of sift-pluses to for
eign countries, but that draws
severe criticism from friendly
governments. If we dump our
wheat other exporting coun
tries complain that we are in
juring their economy. Last fall
it was proposed that we export
some of our rice surplus to non-
s Communist Asiatic countries.
That brought immediate pro
test from Burma, a rice-exporting
country, one of whose of
ficials called it the "kiss of
' death" to Burma.
So long as huge accumula
tions of wheat and other crops
remain in storage, they over
hang the market and prevent
a price rise. It looks as though
it would take years, barring
the unwanted outbreak of war,
to work them into consumption.
Meantime we have not been re
ducing but Increasing the wheat
surplus. (Benson's butter deal
has worked out better, with
considerable working off of
stocks).
Northwest wheat growers
have proposed a two-price sys
tem on wheat marketing. I will
discuss that and other wheat
surplus problems tomorrow.
Safety Awards
Go to Airlines
CHICAGO CT) The national
safety council announced Thnre.
day 39 U. S. air lines have won
tne council s aviation safety award.
The award is for going through
1954 without a rassenser or rrew
fatality in air accidents.
They included West Coast Air
lines. Northwest Airlines. Pan
American World Airways and Unit
ed Airlines.
Better English
By D. C Williams
Airline Travel
Aids Surprif ej
NORFOLK, Va. WV-Capt Eu
gene Carlson, U. S. Coast Guard
(ret) paid a surprise visit to his
son, Lt Eugene Carlson Jr.. ia
San Francisco. He found his son's
apartment locked but learned
from a friend that his son and
family had departed four days
earlier for Norfolk. ' , ,
Captain Carlson boarded a com-,
mercial airliner and greeted his
son upon the lieutenant's arrival
in Norfolk. i.
Illegitimate Births
Increase in Chicago
CHICAGO (UP) Illegitimate
births are on the increase in Chi
cago, according to the Illinois state
public health director, Dr. Roland
R. Cross.: j
Cross said, that -of 86.680 babies
born in Chicago in 1954. 7,133. or
8.2 per cent were Illegitimate In
1953 the', illegitimacy; rate "was, 7.8
per cent. It was 7 per cent in 1952
and 6.4 per cent in 1951. t!
Dr. O.K. Sagenf of the state
health department said one reason
for the high Dlegitimacy rate ia
Chicago is that pregnant unmar
ried women often go to a large
city to avoid notice.
The real problem is dispose
of the crop surpluses. As of
March 3 1st last tne Commodity
Credit Corporation had a total
investment in stocks and loanss
Last Major Bid
On The Dalles
Dam Due July 11
' PORTLAND OP) Bids will be
called about July H by Army
Engineers for the last major con
struction work on The Dalles Dam.
The work, estimated at 10 million
dollars, includes a closure dam to
make possible closure of the river,
access railroad spurs, miscellane
ous roads, fills and grading, re
moval of Union Pacific and SP&S
railroad overpasses, cofferdams,
and salvage of equipment from
The Dalles-Celilo canal and locks.
The bids will be opened Sept. 12.
Willamette valley motion pic
ture, to be filmed here. An
nouncement of the members of
the cast for the valley picture,
The Purple Flood," was nade.
at the close of the American.
Legion-Dagmar Pictures film
frolic. '
For the first time in history,
Salem school board had a wom
an member, citizens giving Mrs.
Roy Keene the second highest
vote in the annual school elec
tion. Dr. H. H. Olinger, incum
bent received the highest indi
vidual vote.
40 Years Ago .
June 17. 1915
More than , five million feet
of Oregon spruce clears were
sent to nations of Europe with
in the last three months for use
in making military aeroplanes,
according to records of the lum
ber association.
Robert Lansing, counsellor of
the department of state, suc
ceeded Secretary William J.
Bryan (recently resigned) in
charge of diplomatic affairs of
the United States. Mr. Lansing
was born in Watertown, N.
GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty
in 1864.
t
Ben Olcott Secretary of State
Three Salem women, Maye and custodian of" the capitol
MarintUi, Myrtla Lynch and ' grounds had four cluster lights
Martha Jean Dixon, were given placed along 12th street by tht
& leadlBl relet la tht first ' Supreme Court bull dins. .
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Revolution in
Argentina
Long Expected
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Students of Latin-American af
fairs have been wondering for
years just when Argentina would
"blow."
First they thought it would come
when Dictator Peron revolutionized
the country's economy, clamping
down on the wealthy cattle breed
ers, planters, business men and
industrialists.
He has alwavs made his Ditch to-
labor, taking advantage of discon
tent over low wages, which he or.
dered raised, and of anti-clerical
ism among the workers.
But with the aid of his late wife
Evita, who created numerous government-financed
foundations and
the like to aid the working class,
he beat off the counterattack of
what he called the oligarchy'. The
clincher came when he proclaimed
a government monopoly for ex
ports. Under-this plan, he' fixed
prices for the nation's products
lower than those of world markets
and the government pocketed the
difference
Argentina had ruffled the fpnthl
ers of the United States during the
war with a soft attitude toward
Nazi Germany, and followed
through after the war with a simi
lar attitude toward Communist
Russia. There were times when an
open break appeared imminent
About this time evidence becan
to appear that Peron was working
on a grandiose scheme to take both
Dolitical and economic hpppmnnv
over all South America, or at least
those countries which were close
neighbors of Argentina and not tied
so tightly to the United States.
Then he lost the great anneal
Evita had for the public through
her death. Predictions that he
wouldn't last long after that were
rife.
His opponents were encouraged
to attempt the organization of a
new political party, closely akin to
the heavily Catholic Christian
Democratic parties of EUrope, but
with distinct socialist tinges. The
Communists, although Peron pre
tends to despise them as of no im
portance in Argentina, attempted
to infiltrate this movement, though
not welcomed by Catholic ele
ments. The dispute with the church it
self, resulting , in deportation of its
chief prelates from Buenos Aires,
in Peron's excommunication from
the church, and the military revolt
which began Thursday, apparently
grew out of Peron's rage at the at
tempt to form the new party, al
though no formal connection be
tween it and the church itself has
been established.
First reports of the upheaval
were too vague to give any insight
on the actual forces at work. The
keystone is the army which ap
parently is remaining loyal to
Peron.
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "I emptied out the
contents of the basket, but
wasn't able to find the missing
co- -'t nowhere."
2. What is the correct pro
nu ,-iation of "myrrh"?
3. Which one of these words
is misspelled? Metaphor, men
tholated, mendacious, metalic.
4. What does the word "vest
ige" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with lnd that means "to secure
against loss"?
ANSWERS
1. Omit "out" and "no
where." 2. Pronounce as though
spelled mur, u as in far. 3. Met
allic. 4. A trace, mark, or vis
ible sign left by something lost,
perished, or no longer existent
"The judge said that the crim
inal had lost the last vestige of
decency." 5. Indemnify.
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visible evidence of a hearing instru
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and out of the way.
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