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r 4-Sc. D-Stattsman, Salem, f 1 "iVo Favor Stcays Us. Ko Fear Shall Aice" From Fint Statesman. March 28, 1851 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor & Publisher Published ever morninf Business offlet 280 North Church St. Salem. Ore. Telephone 4-811 Entered af th poatofflce at Salem. Or as second class matter uaoer act f ContTess March S. 1879. Member Associated Press . The Associated Presa Is entitled exclusively to the nee for republication of alt local new printed 4a ' this newspaper. - Tapping the Trinity River .The Reclamation Bureau will step up one rung on the "ladder of the rivers, when it taps the Trinity River in Northern California and diverts its waters into the Sacramento. It will be a major engineering job embrac ing a 450,000 cut. ft. earth and rockfill dam across the Trinity, tunnels through mountain ridges and installation of three power plants. The diversion will add 1,190,000 acre-feet of water to the Central Valley project, which serves the- Sacramento Valley and by lifts into canals increases the water supply in the San Joaquin Valley. " Power generating capacity is estimated at 233.000 kilowatts. An argument developed over who should develop and use this power, the government or a private corporation. Pacific Gas & Electric made a very good proposal to' the government so the bill pro vides that the Interior Department shall make ah investigaton and report to the Con gress on the PGE offer. Congress itself will make the final decision. - The Trinity project is the only large one authorized for the Bureau at the last session of Congress. It is a modest beginning on what was originally proposed by Bureau en gineers: the tapping of the waters of the Columbia --for use in California. Since the Trinity is strictly a California stream no ob jection was raised in Oregon, but any attempt to mount the second rung of the ladder and capture waters of the Klamath in Oregon will meet with strong resistance. Removing the Hairpins Highway reconstruction consists often in taking out the hairpins (sharp curves). The job is in process of being completed on High way 99 through Southern Oregon. It has been finished from Portland to The Dalks on Highway 30. and this week the hairpins will be taken out of Highway 30 east of Pendleton up Emigrant hill into the Blue Mts. But not all. Four nine-degree curves will remain in the 15-mile stretch of the new highway. Maximum grade is 5.2 per cent, reports the Pendleton East Oregonian. Motorists coming out of the mountains to the head of Emigrant hill are confronted with a marvellous change of scenery. Instead of the forested mountains and the open pine parks of the summit there is a great spread of rolling hills devoted to wheat raising and grazing. The farm land is . checkerboarded with summerfallow and growing grain or stubble. In the distance forest fringes mark the high elevations of the Blues extending southwestward,' arid beyond the wheat coun try loom the Cascades through whose gate flaws the Columbia to drain all that vast in terior. The highway engineers arejaking the hair . pins out. That may give a driver a few more seconds to glance at the scenery, but such is the grade that the motorist had best pull to the roadside and feast his eyes' on the land scape rather than trust too much to the mo dernized highway, i Doug McKay, accustomed to the very plac id pace of politics in Oregon, has found those boys play rough back at Washington. Justice Department Appears Reluctant to Prosecute By JOSEPH ALSOP - -WASHINGTON An important new trend has clearly started in the country. It is marked, for instance, by the attention that is being given to the Fund for the Republic's cool, factual but utter ly devastating report on the work- . ings.of.our so-called security sys - tern. , Only a ffew instances need be .cited to show 'what can happen when the country really decides that the worthy end of suppres sing the Communist conspiracy does , not justify . unworthy and un- , I c o n s t i t u- fa , , V tional means. Con- j.'.'" sider, for example y J ine au oui racrea ible inner history "" V '' of the famous case Ml i of Dr. John P. " Taters. Dr. Peters, a professor at the 1t Alp Yale Medical School, had been refused security clearance for a ' classified government project. He took his case to court on one ground and one ground only. As is the. almost unvarying practice in security cases, he had not been permitted to . confront those who accused him of subversive acti vities and-or associations. This, he declared, was grossly uncon stitutional. Inevitably, this direct challenge to the Constitutionality f estab lished secarity procedures be came aa issue of high policy la the JnsUce Department. The pri mary responsibility for deciding the issue naturally fell npon the Elsenhower' administration! able and courageous Solicitor General. Slmaa Sabetoff. AacT altbea(h It may be s pedoasry denied. It Is an udoabteal fact that Solicitor General Sobetoff lafarmed his thief. Attorney General Herbert Brawnell. ttat Dr. Peters lad the Ceastltntfea entirely Ms side. At first Sobeloff in fact per Itfaded Brownell'tejwnfess error, by refusing to" contest Peters Or., Wad., Sapf. 7, 1955 Passenger Vexed because the lower court in! Marion County ruled the Public Utilities - Commisf sioner backed power to suspend dropping of passenger trains by railroads, prior to- a hearing, Editor Ruhl of the Medford Maill Tribune demands that the law be amended to remove the "joker" in the present1 statute which puts this hobble on the FUC.I We shajl have to await' a decision of the Supreme Court on-this question of law. The issue of whether the PUC can order restoration qf service following a- hearing remains un settled," too. ! What doesn't seem to occur to Editor Ruhl is that if a hearing is held respecting pai- senger service . . would not justify tne ruu in oraermg us resumption, mere is no virtue to mp cui pany or value to the public in running emply passenger trains back and forth across the landscarje. Most of the people travel to arid from that section by private car or state orj airnlane. The mail and express service now by motor truck: than thev were before by train. ! I ! used so very nttie mere seeing iu uc m reason to restore it. That, we predict. jwjilj be the finding the question is Tax Cut Talk "Premature"; Rep. Daniel A. Reed threw some cpld water; on pre-session talk of a tax cut in 1956.! Jle called such talk premature and said i rnayj be overly .optimistic because of need fof cc n- tinued high spending for defense purposes While Reed is not now the chairman of j wayi and means, he is the top minority member and he has a good many on that committee who think as he does. - j ! j Most of the talk about a tax cut jstemj from jockeying for political position injl956j That will still go on when Congress rneftss But before making promises of cuts and starting quarrels Conpress should eome-outeo picture is about eight month from now. Exhibitions held the past few days, one at the Haryet Mikkleson place near Silverton and anotnef on the Rodney Pitts farm near Canby. IMik klesonhas 15 of the old steamers and jpittji "five. (Wonder if the latter has "one of the old Buffalo Pitts engines.) Grain threshing by stationary separator with powerj supplied by a' wood or coal burning steam iengiq'e is a rarity now, but some are still ip service. The advantage of this type of operation if that the grain "cures" in the shock after jit ijs cut and before it is threshed so it is bettei: matured; also the straw is in one pile instead of scattered about the fields as in using a combine. Labor school. Turnabout Commie Witnesses have acquired an immense vested interest in the security system's abuses. Sobeloff was informed that Brownell would not keep his promise. The Solicitor General thereupon flatly refused to sign the Government's brief against Peters. He further pleaded with Brownell not to sign the brief either, and there is some evi dence that Brownell hesitated long before doing so. As the world knows, the Su preme Court finally ducked the great Constitutional question -raised by Dr. Peters, and de rided la Us favor on other grounds. But the real point of the inner history of the Peters ease lies in the fact that Sobeloff is still Solicitor General, and has now been nominated by Presi dent Elsenhower as Judge of the Fourth Circuit of the U. S. Court of Appeals. In other words, the chief legal officer of the American Govern ment, who has - now been pro posed by the President for a very high place on the bench, is a man who believes that perhaps the most prominent feature of the ex isting security system is grossly and patently unconstiutional. The Attorney General knows that his Solicitor General holds this belief, and he knew it when he approved Sobeloff nomination to the bench. That, one might say. is proof enough of how far we have come. But there is much other proof, too. Consider, for instance, the matter of the so-called turnabout witnesses. Great efforts have been made to convey the Impres sion that the ez-Communist Har vey Matnsow is the only one af the Government's more conspicu ous hired Informers who has re canted his. past testimony. In fact, however, at least one other of these hired informers. Frank Lowell Watson, has de clared that in the case of the radio station - owner, Edward Lamb, he gave testimony at the request of Government attorneys which he knew at the time was falsa testimony. Watson. Who 4 ,: ---' -"n C'"f"',1v ..'"!:- Trains and the PUG .i ..i to Southern Oregon the facs: , mt ' - l L i : communities are getting better Southern Orpgon has more at stake in tne cost and qualify of the freight service it get from the Southern Pacific. The region is a heavy shipper of fruits, forest products, prod ucts of mines. Its location puts it: at sorrte disadvantage as far as freight rates aj-e con cerned. Its major concern should be toj obtain; the lowest possible freight rates, and it ougpitj to oppose such extravagance as passenger service . provided at heavy deficit.' What jisj lost on this service has to be made 'up byj higher freight rates. ; ' I We can understand that a communityi which has had passenger trains since ?tiej rails first came in. suffers in its pride tdi have them discontinued. The test though Mj iw and since the old Rogue River train ;wa. i i i . A Uh mh! l "i of the r-u n a near m held. over who is to be fayoiiedl wait and sre what the: in j ! 4 of steam threshing rigs jwpre cost, though, is higher, f Former President Harry Truman made a Democratic speech at a Labor Day celebraj tion in Detroit and Sen. Wayne Morsei peri formed the same public service at-a CIO picnic at Los Angeles. Both befated the Eisenhower administration. Labor Day, howj ever, has for the most part become just sm other holiday. Some in public position jfcsu statements, while workers and their families use the long weekend for the last; filip: of a vacation before the kids have to go back to I ! i, to avoid any accusation of actual subornation of his perjuryj .has not been brought to trial. i j Another confessed false witness la the Lamb case. Mrs. Marie NatzJg, has been tried and con victedbut not for her original perjury, but rather because her confession charged that her I per jury had been suborned. Mau sow. like Mrs. Natzig, is to be tried, not for the perjury hit; has confessed, but for declaring j that his perjury was suborned, j ' j The cases of several, more anli Communist informers have been officially referred to the Justice Department for investigation jof perjury, because of extremely flagrant, and disturbing conflicts. Most important, probably,' la tjie case of Manning Johnson, former No. 2 man on the list of the Government-hired informers and) pro fessional witnesses. Investigation of Johnson was requested because of his testimony impugning tjie loyaky of Dr. Ralph Bunche. j No visible action has fbeea taken by the Justice Department In any of these cases, includitf one in which the fact of the per jury has been officially admitted by the Justice Department Itself. The rule almost seems to be that perjury is all very weU as long as It is the right kind of perjury. No wonder, then, that the! new public tendency to think of means, as well as ends has deeply alarmed the lickspittles of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and the oth ers who have made a good fthing out of the period of hysteria which has produced the result aboVe noted. These people are now bit terly denouncing the Fund for the Republic and all other persons and groups who dare to say the Constitution of the United States means what It says. But the note of fear in their clamor is easy to detect What they fear, quite ob viously, is that the President who did so much to calm the hysteria, will take the next logical s(ep of reforming tne monstrosity we now can a security system. ; (Copyright. IMS. New York' LOOK VkVA Mil DtP BMEQ0 RiKDQuQ3 (Continued from Page 1) is by no means impossible for Russian leaders to return to the . rigors of authoritarianism both at home and in the satellites. 'That Poland escaped much of the repression which was visit ed on Czechoslovakia and other satellites was due, thinks Harseh. to its prime interest in maintaining a strong military position across Poland, the old route of invading armies. It ac cepted certain realities in Po land for that reacon. And to continue to hold this defense line? "Moscow may be forced to permit more latitude in eco nomic and political systems." This to be sure is a wide and risky straddle. How can the USSR, dedicated, to its ovn brand of Communism, permit its captive states to share in the economic processes and returns of (capitalism and tolerate a measure of bourgeois morality and; such an anti-Communist in stitution as the Roman Catholic church, and prevent infection from spreading into the home land? And would not the gov ernment in Poland be only nominally Communist if it mine such compromises? (That would notjbe new. In this country the Democrats under FDR became nationalists and the Republi cans started burning incense to Thomas Jefferson.) The truth is fundamental, however, that over the long pull conditions tend toward a level. Iron Curtains succumb finally to corrosions of time and change. As Harsch writes: "the laws of political and economic gravity will not tolerate a per petuation of the present sta'.e of affairs in Eastern Europe. ' We cannot assume that the victory is complete. The pres sure is still on the West to prove the continuing superior ity; of its economic and social : systems over those based on ; Marxian dialectics as warped by ; the theorists of the Lenin-Stalin age in Russia. In this the sav ; insj of economic strength is quite as important as holding L a strong military position. More than 43 per cent of the 1954! graduating class in South Dakota high schools attended col lege) in 1934. (iR IN AND BEAR "ijst say we're loafing! ... more money! . . . But don't s I TO YOUR OARS Time Fli leS: 10 Years Ago Sept. 7. 1945 The tribute which included the nation's highest for valor was paid Jonathan M. Wain wright for the brilliant defense: of doomed Corregidor fortress in Manila bay. A bit of soil from Oregon's state capitel grounds mingles with that from 47 other states in "Homesick Hill," created by rr.en of the navy and coastguard stationed st mvy receiving sja tion in the Philippines. Gov. Eerl Snell sent the little box of eaijth upon the request of sailors sta tioned there. j Lt. Carlton B. Greider, who left the position at Salem YMCA physical education director to enier the marine corps and was blinded by a. sniper's bullet at. Tinian, was speaker at the Salem Rotary club. . 25 Years Ago Sept. 7. 1930 The DuPont powder near Wichita Heights, a small oil field town, nine miles north of Wichi ta. Kas.. exploded rocking towns and villages within an area of 50 miles. Approximately 1000 quarts of nitroglycerine were stored in the powder magazine. After setting a world record for endurance bicycle riding. Sil verton's quartet of riders siic cumbed to the flat tire menace. The local team started riding August 22. The group consisted of Billy Gates, Jean Hobart, Louis Patterson and Billy Kleeb. The struggle between China and the Irish free state for a seat at the league council table at Geneva, when the Chinese delegation notified the assembly that a proposal to make China eligible for reelection to the coun cil would be filed. China's tem porary tenure cf the seat ex pired two years ago. 40 Years Ago Sept. 7. 191 J. Miyagawa, a journalist of Nagasaki, Japan, is in the city on the last lap of an 8000 mile journey afoot through the Unit ed States and Canada. He is making the trip securing impres sions of America and Americans to be incorporated into a book. Plans and specifications for the portable arches to be used on festive occasions had been com pleted by Architect Fred A. Legge. The arches will be used by the State fair and are 30 feet IT By Lichty deliberately making it run int(j say we don't know what were From Tha Statesman Filos wide and 15 feet high, painted white and bearing the word Welcome." The fifth annual' opening of the French IShop, the welli known millinery establishment of this city, is to be held in ts new location at 359 State Street. For several years the French shop has been at 163 North ; Liberty Street, f Montgomery Wafd store now occupies the place' They Invited It To the Editor: I read your amusement, .Democratic chief i Editorial with commenting on Paul Ml Butler and SeC. Douglas McKay toss hot verbal blows;. While you say! in your Edi tonal, (we have a strike at loca we have made been aware of auto agencies no attempt to pass judgment on the merits in the controversy And ! neither do I pass judgment, but it seems to me you seized the exact tiiw and opportunity to lambasf both labor and Democrat party tnrougn Paul Bbtler It is time for labor arid small business to stahd up land be counted, what more jobs and Jabor needs is less dole. As Senator; Bob LaFjollette once said to me,; "Always boy, a, man is hirp " i i remember, mv worthy! of his ... ........ 1 wnue l aon t believe in union merger, and complete i control, and byj the samd token I do not believe; in big interests mergers and complete cohtrol. Some call it free; enterprise. So when the individual loses his or her initia tive by; being unable to 'compete he or she becomes a machine or a commodity to be used at will. But as long as we have one monopoly we must have the other to offset each other. I J. K.i Clovd j 993 S. 12th St. Better English By D. C. WILLUMS i 1 j l. I 1 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "Try and stop me if you can, but I'll win out in the end." j j t. wnat is the correct nunciation of 'foreien"? . pro- 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Hyacinth.' huri cane, humorist, (humidor? "laudable mean? j ANSWERS -1. Say, "Try ito stop me if you can, but 111 eventually win." 2. Pronounce theio as in on, not as in for. 3. Hiirriranp 4. Praiseworthy; "Everv man ! should be engaged in some laud able pursuit" . I t fsraan Subscription Rate By carrier In cities: j Daily and Suoda S 1 43 per mo Dally only i j 1.25 pel mo Sunday only i JO week MV m all Sunday oniyt in advance) Anywhere in U f a I 50 per mo. I mo SOO year i Sundays By mall. Dally ana (in advance) la Oregon ; t i to per mo I SO sis mo 10 M vear i la O s ouUld t Mi par mo ! 1 N taiker ! Aadtt Bnreaa at ClrealaHo Burcae of AdvtrtHIng ANPA i I Oreioa Ntwiaasf lllahra Aaaaetatioa Adyeradat Representative! Ward-Ortrnth Ca.. West BnlUday Ca. New tatk. CaJeaia Safety Valve China's Motive In Release of Yanks Hidden By J. M. ROBERTS AP News Analyst There's something odd about the way the Chinese Reds are handling the release of American citizens. The pattern seems to be clear enough, but the reasons for it are obscure. First they released American mil itary personnel who had not been accused of crimes, then those who had been convicted. Now they are releasing civilians in the same ord er. Yet the Reds are represented as anxious to get around to an en tirely different field of discussions at Geneva, involving the broad is sues of conflict between Peiping and Washington. If this U true. intend to, and get down to busi .' ' J 1 . ness? Various speculative answers have been offered, but the Reds give no real clues themselves. Some times they appear- afraid of the stories the repatriates will tell, such as the torture stories told by the fliers. They may hope the stor ies of those more leniently treat ed will help leaven world reaction. It's a tossup, though, as to wheth er spreading the stories over a pe riod of months isn't worse for the Reds than one burst of agony. One objective, and one that seems to me to be more likely, may be to establish an almost in terminable pattern for all talks in which the Reds engage, as in the Korean truce negotiations. This gives them a background for long talks, without action, in the expect ed negotiations on reduction of ten sions. This would fit in with the theory, held by many if not most experts, t lat international communism, hav ing been forced by the threat of extinction to turn away from force as a weapon of expansion, now wants time to develop a new war of neutralization and infiltration. To get this time, and to pro duce an atmosphereof relaxation among their opponents, the Com munists may realize that they are going to have to make.'or seem to make, further concessions. in such a program, the time they can put between concessions might be very important. They have made two already in! 5 Lite Pfn TnnntP Vustria. and by a more passive at-j'e 1 lnla-S A nruae toward Formosa A thirH move toward seeming cooperation, in the field of peaceful uses of atomic energy, probably does them more good than harm. Another move toward the appearance of co operation, without ahy actual val uable concessions, is expected to result from negotiations with, the Germans in Moscow; Whether these things actually, af fect the Geneva negotiations on de tained Americans, or whether the Reds just hate to admit they have been wrong and are trying to give judicious appearance to tneir ac tions, is just another of the so many questions of the day. Chamber to JjOpen Busy Fall Season Salem Chamber of Commerce will usher in its busy fall sea son with two luncheon programs and four major division meetings within the next 10 days. Weekly membership luncheons will resume Monday aLthe Marion Hotel, with Warden Clarence T. Gladden of the State Penitentiary as first speaker. U. S. Rep. Walter Norblad will speak on the following Monday. Starting this coming Monday also will be a series of four major division meetings in the Court house, to organize the coming year's work. Each division of some 50 chamber members will appoint committees with specific assignments. Chamber Manager Stanley Grove and State Travel Manager Carl Jordan will go to Mt. Rainier Thursday for a three-day Pacific Northwest Travel Association con ference. R ITIIf VI' t V'V t1 1 ii a McABTHUR, Ohio UH Art Largent used a beehive for a bank and got stung. But the bees weren't to blame. He put $800 of his savings in a glass jar and hid it in a beehive. Someone, stole $400 from the jar. LOCATION! OUR LAST 1 Und.r $250.00 $251-$350 . $351-$500 . $501-$650 . $651-Ovtr Church and Ferry St. " T ' CLGUGH m ; .. State Teacher Shortage Said Being Solved Progress is being made in fill ing teacher vacancies in the Ore gon schools for the fall terra de spite the teacher shortage that now exists, state education de partment officials said Tuesday. Officials said the teacher short age was not confined to Oregon and referred to many other states which are having similar diffi culty. Particularly difficult l to fill are specialized positions I In some of the larger school dis tricts, officials averred. Approximately 2,000 teachers in the Oregon schools this year cVrtifica Under thS i corapiy wun tne maximum re quirements of the Oregon educa- tion laws. Issuance of these emergency certificates has been in progress for several years, j The teacher shortage was at tributed largely to the increase in enrollment in Oregon schools this year and the fact that many teachers have accepted positions in private industry where the pay is higher. It also was pointed out that teachers graduating from Oregon colleges of educa tion and other institutions are fewer than anticipated!. Alteration Job On Front Street j Property Okehecl Authorization for $1,500 altera tions on property at 215 N. Front Street was granted Tuesday by the city engineer's office to own ers Keith Brown and Asel Eoff. Brown said the project will provide more office space fr the Bureau of Land Management, which is leasing, the propert- h Bishop's store, 147 N. Liberty St., was given a permit to nvj! 2 $200 repairs on its office atJ Art Friesen was authorized ! to build a $10,000 house at 10O6 Pali Dr. A permit also went to Robert Harris for $400 in porch alterations at 711 N. 16th St.j Revue Entertains The entire cast of the Helene Hughes night revue at the State Fair entertained inmates of the Oregon State Penitentiary Tuesday afternoon. I This was the second year the revue cast appeared at the state institution. The program included the 12-Morris-Kahn dancers, state fair orchestra and sue regular acts appearing - nightly at :the Fair grounds grandstand. 2k KELPS SET WORLD RECORD "LARRY" BUHLER local agent for State Farm Mutual, helped his company hold world leadership in the auto insurance field for the 13th straight year. In 1954, State Farm insured a record total of 3,310,000 automo biles, more by far than any company has ever insured. "LARRY BUHLER invites all careful drivers who want topnotch protec tion at rock-bottom rates to contact him now. No cost or obligation, of course. Phone 4-2215 626 N. High 000 FUNERALS 138 276 468 99 19 fUNERAL HOME Phono 1-9139 ryot r M , .Bit. Two r,.,".'!. hi cloinw! ... t Baa riaJiuUua ; i