4-(Sec I) Statesman, Salem, Ore, Sun., Dec. 25, '55 "No Favor Sways Vs. Ko Fear Shall Aux Froni flrat Sum. March 28, 1831 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor it Publisher tHibtnhra avary moraine NorU. Church SL Saltm. Oi-. Te laphona Bntarad al Um nnUffi at Balam. Or, aa aarond alaa mif r unow act of Conprttt March , l7. Member Associated Pre Thl Anaoniated PrM to antttlad aneiurtval to tha wt tot rapubUvation al all total mwi pnntad la this nawapapar. himself in books and laboratories, and spend thousands of dollars on his education when the wage he gets on completion of his course will not be greatly in excess of that of the "craftsman? There must be a stronger in centive than initial salary, that is true. But surely a higher wage for those trained in en gineering and the sciences would help, would attract and hold more students to these courses. We doubt if the threat of possible Russian superiority in the sciences will breed more American scientists. The start mu.l be made by supplying incentives to those in second ary schools. 'CAST THY BREAPON THEWATERS- m H rfrf I hS TTQ) CDQGj 'agrant Jet Air Stream Meteorologists are always better at report ing than forecasting the weather. That is -not to their discredit, for man still lacks the means for scientific determination of just What the weather will be. Winds are the chief determiners of weather, and it is dif ficult to chart their course or fix their direc tion. The real wonder is the progress that weather forecasting has made in recent years. Now explanations are coming in for the brand of weather the West Coast received the past week. J. A. Brown, head of the Oceanic Forecasts division of the Weather Bureau at San Francisco, attributes the storms and torrential rains (which were worst in Northern California and Southern Oregon) to a shift in the jet air stream which flows high over the Pacific. ' This is the air stream the easlbound planes latch onto for a 'quick crossing of the continent The air" stream normally reaches the mainland at high altitudes above Northern California, but shifted a thousand miles south the first of last week. As the jet flow moved south ward, it set up winds from the Southwest 'which moved toward Northern California. 'These winds brought moist, warm sub-tropical air from the Hawaiian area, and when they struck the cooler continent, they dumped their cargo of moisture. The jet air stream is moving back to its normal groove, and the storms on the sur face have been abating. Evidently,4 if we are to provide complete flood relief, we shall have to devise a way to hold this jet air stream in its trough. Dr. John Held for Treason Dr. Otto John, the two-faced turncoat, who turned up in West Germany 17 months after defecting to the Reds in East Germany, faces a charge of suspected treason. Dr. John was head of the intelligence service of West Germany, and his flight to the East caused great consternation not only in West Germany but also in the United States. Only a little while before he had visited this coun try and conferred with Allen Dulles, head of our own Central Intelligence Agency. Dr. John may testify that he was abducted into East Germany, but his subsequent news conference and radio broadcasts gave no in dication he wis under compulsion, or had been brainwashed. He may simply be an un stable personality. The role of "double agent" is by no means unfamiliar in intelligence circles. Sometimes these individuals sell out both ways; some times they really serve only one country though professing to serve another. Always aware of the possibility that their trust may be misplaced, intelligence agencies try to double 'and triple check on the reports of their agents. In this shadow world of espio nage, however, the factor of doubt will al ways loom large. More Scientist Needed Increasing alarm is being raised over the lack of scientists, particularly physicists, chemists, engineers, in the United States. At a recent meeting in Cleveland of the Nuclear Engineering and Scientific Congress Adm. Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the AEC, ex pressed his great concern over the shortage of manpower in the. fields of science. He warned that falling behind in the develop ment of atomic energy could endanger all our blessings, even our freedom. Attention has been directed toward the USSR and fig tires have been cited as to the number of scientists being trained in their educational institutions as compared with our own. To get a nuclear physicist, lor instance, you just do not pick up any college graduate. The start should be made away back in high school, with student attraction to such tough courses as mathematics, physics, chemistry. These courses should be expanded in college, and specialized courses studied with inten sity. Beyond this, beyond even a Ph. D.f you need to have a certain number of men of genius, with sufficient imagination to do in tellectual probing beyond the laws and the ories and equations worked out by their predecessors. How are we going to get our future scien tists? By putting more emphasis on the meaty courses away down in high school. The rewards really sre not very promising. A person with a high school diploma can earn an excellent living if he learns a trade. Why should he strsin his grey matter, bury Roads as Dikes In discussing the recent floods which caused a great deal of trouble in Lane coun ty, the Eugene Register Guard points a fin ger at the county government. It says that many county roads have been constructed on a higher grade and so act as dikes and hold back the surface water from draining away. If the R-G would reflect, it might con clude that this Is a gain rather than a detri ment. "Draining away" to where? Why down. below, thus swelling the flood waters, there. Isn't it better to retard the runoff and spread the water over the flat lands thrn to sluice it down fast in the watercourses? To the dcree this is .true, the roadxlikcs reduce rather than augment flood damage. (Continued from pi 1) Today Christinas is celebrated as a religous holiday and as s day of family festivity. It is Well to remember, however, that the good "tidings" brought of old are not restricted and that as we manifest our fratern ity with all mankind so do we carry the Christian message to all people. the occasion for today's holiday. But of equal importance in the tidings of the angel are the words "which shall be to all people." The mission of Christ was not tribal but universal, and this explains the missionary seal of his followers. While the Christian theology has not triumphed over all the other religions of mankind and become the faith of all peoples, m.M MORE JOBS the Christian message has per- BERLIN -West Berlin created meated mankind round the 60.000 new Jobs this year and may i.7Vriii:,k prediction is By Dr. Bernhard Skrodzkl, chamber of commerce the world ?ffic'al-, H. "id . ouId lounu lor me remaining lai.ooo unemployed if the upward trend continues. Time Flies-, FROM STATESMAN FILES in terms of work for the better ment of mankind it is the mov ing philosophy in today. Communism derives its appeal from its promise of re lief for the toiling masses, a promise whose fulfillment is better observed under the American economic system. Out of this Christian message has developed the concept of the dignity of man, the essential integrity Of the individual. Re member, the angel said the good tidings "shall be to all people." not just to the Jews, but to "all people." This ,has been a hard lesson to learn. Even those, in the Christian community have been slow to overcome prejudice against those of a different race or creed or color. Antagonisms persist between those of differ ent social class or economic grouping or industrial relation ship. But steadily the idea pene trates that men shall be rated at their worth, and that funda mental liberties may be claimed by all men. It has come to pass that many non-Christians are today eloquent apostles of its j message though tbey acknow-1 ledge no allegiance to Christ as s personal savior. The Christian 1 message of brotherly love has outraced its' theology. , I Phono -m.i Subscription Rates By carrtat la alum Daily and Sunday I I 41 par max Daily Ml; 1J sat me. Sunday aalj M waak By aaalL Saadaf naJJM its advance) Aajrwhara la U S I .SO par me. S 71 tlx ma. I to raw By nail, Dally and Saadayt l In advaaaa ' la Ortfaa f I it par ma I.H Mi ma MM vnar in 0. S autslde Oraioa .1 1.4 par me. Masatar AadH Sanaa at ClraalaUaa araaa af AdvarWatag. ANPA Orataa Hawapanat raattahara AaaadatM AfTarttetaf aaaraaaalaNTasi Ward'Orlffttk Co., Wtat dMliday Ca. Da feck Cakafn Saa maataaa DatraM The Springfield city council has' employed an outside engineer to study and report on consolidation of electric services in that city. A few years ago the voters authorized a municipal electric distribution system. When efforts to buy out the private company's lines failed an Independent system was in stalled. Now the city council is worried over the excessive cost of duplicate lines. Pre sumably the private company will not sell, and the city will be reluctant' to condemn. Whether the voters would approve a sale to the private company is a question. It would be a blow to their pride to yield the field. E mT - m rvu Voters on the fringe of Lebanon rejected a proposal for annexation to the city. Simi lar results have occurred at Eugene, Spring field and Roseburg. The suburbanites think they will be better off to stay as they are, sans urban services but also sans urban taxes. This attitude can prove very short sighted, however, for it prevent compre hensive community development .in which burdens as well as benefits are shared. The Salem area has done much better; and we believe the districts which have joined the city feci very well satisfied with their decision. 1 W2KE&BM tSHGttlNWIIKSB. Hold tho Lino' Budget Policy Said Resulting In Reduction of America's Fighting Force By JOSEPH sad STEW AIT ALSOP WASHINGTON The real story of next year's budget is very different indeed from the story suggested by the recent barrage ei headlines about defease in creases, foreign a i d increases and the like. It is first of all the story of a hat trick that did not quite work. The au thors of the hat thors of the hat trick were Sec- r r ;.Mrrart Almmf beaded ? With . VyJ Ip from I no less N twelve r1 ill) retary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey and Budget Di rector Roland Hughes. Bofh Hughes and Humphrey art leag - headed v me a. some help the Congres- I . sional econo- r iC mixers, they V lv , prepared their ? . j coup no less J f 1 than months The uona wera aim- i . XUam etc indeed. Ex- ' " '"0I,. tensivt one -shot economies were made ia the last defense bud- eeL and these "savings the defense spending level dowa to $34,500,000,000. Ia the same fashion, both the mili tary and economic foreign aid programs were largely financed by running dowa unexpended , M M I MJanees, ana ineae avini kept last year's foreiga aid ap propriations down to $2.700,. 000,000. Thus the hat trick was prepared. The trick con sisted of a simple policy direc tive to bold the defense and .foreiga aid items ia this year's budget down to the level of last year's sppropria lions. last year's "savings" could Dot b repeated. Hence last year's appropriations level could not be attained without making "savings" somewhere else. Thus the real effect of the Humphrey-Hughes direc tive wss to require a sharp per manent cut in American fight ing power and an even more drastic permanent reduction in foreign aid. - Mareovernd here was the real beauty f it this weakening af eur defenses aad slackening ef eur cold war effort wauld hardly be 'noticeable. The Cengress wauld be asked te vote the same sums as were voted last year. The country could therefor be told that we were carrying an as kefere. There is every reason te be lieve that the Humphrey Hughes hat trick would have worked to perfection, if the Kremlin bad not meanwhile ex tended and intensified its cold war offensive. But the Soviet intrusion into the Middle East spread the deepest alarm through all the staff levels of the Administration. And it also mobilised the group of higher policy-makers led by Vice-President Nixon and Nel son A. Rockefeller, who came to be called "the young Turks." While Messrs. Humphrey and Hughes were Indirectlv demanding the weakening af oar defenses aad the slack kept ealag af oar eeld war effort. si uen ana, nacacirurr paa aivelv advocated exactly the ontsite pellcy. Tbey warned that tb whole world balance of pewer was rapidly tilting la favor of the Soviets. They asked, with natural anxiety, haw any American admin. IstraUan ennld permit this U bassea. They vged a V1 stew program" te reverse the tread. Ia the ensuing struggle, a great deal more bad feeling was generated than has vet beea admitted ia public. The 1 t r a-Admlnistration struggle reached its climax in the all day meeting of the National Se curity Council st Csmp David. Thl outcome, as so oftea ia this Administration, was a compro mise between the two conflict ing viewpoints. Our defenses were not te be weakened. Thus the re quested defease " appropria tion had to be raised te $35, 500,000,000. The cold war effort was not te be slarkea ' ed either. Thus large sums had t be asked te build up the depleted foreign aid bal ances, so that spending could continue at the old rate. In short, the real meaning of With a grinding of sleigh runners and a beat of soggy little hooves Santa and reindeer blew into town early today on the last lap of his annual Yuletide Safari. As usual a red eved Statesman reDorter was waiting iio for i"" his annual interview with the old boy. Santa came limping damply into the news room, dragging his toy bag behind him. You could tell he had not brushed his boots even once that day. Andjiis beard seemed sadly in need of cu:l el. The reporter pushed aside his Christmas bills and New Year's bowl bets and flung himself into the following interview . . . "Well," said the reporter, who kad been through this before, "I suppose yon ran into your usual bag of troubles, eh?" "You said it, son," said Santa, slipping wearily into a chair. "We had trouble getting over the iron curtain. And whea we did finally make it, somebody took a shot at us. We ' ran'into smog ever Las Angeles, and Rudolph wheeled all the way to England. Nearly got lost ia that Landoa fag try ing te deliver a loll named Margaret to a guy named Pete. Never did locate the address . . ." a "Yes, yes," said the reporter impatiently, "but didn't you run into anything new?" "Well, yes," said Santa. "Ran into.a real puzzler in, I think, Chicago. I delivered a pair of roller skates to a small lad. He picked them up and heaved them back at me yell ing something like, 'Take 'em back, Mac? I can do better on the Big Question!' Sounded like he'drflippod his tree lights. And the kids in Europe don't ask me for stuff like food and clothing much anymore. They say they can do better by CARE ..." "I suppose," said the reporter, "you had your usual hilar ious time in Washington, D. C?" "Did I!" grinned Santa. "At least THIS year nobody cooled me off for wearing this red suit. I left a present for ', the Republicans a new-type Gelgcr counter It gurgles when it gets near high-grade candidate material. And for the Dem ocrats, I left a stack ef woolen longies to wear while they ' wait out in the cold. I dropped off a compass for the nest Congress so it'll know where It's going. But I raa into a little trouble at the White House. I was sneaking aroand when I stepped on s golf ball, fell on my toy bag and nearly frac tured the chemistry sets ..." "I noticed you were limping a little there," said 1he re porter. "Is thsf where you ,..?.." "Well, I got spiked by a few TV antennas and I took a tumble on a slick metal roof in Akron. The reindeer were a little Jittery tonight They've been reading those news stories about jet planes and they were afraid they'd fall apart if they tried to crack the sound "barrier. I couldn't get 'em warmed up until a duck hunter took a shot at us over Alder man Farms , , . Mrs. Claus wants me to get a helicopter . . , Anyway, Merry Christmas, son!" mmmmmwmmmmmmmmmmm: 10 Years Ago Dec. . IMS The Oregon Statesman across its front page had the huge Merry Christmas greetings printed in blue. Christmas was made festive with many family gatherings. Harry E. Brown leaves the position as Salem representative of the Railway Express Agency which he has held lor five years to accept an appointment as special agent for the company, with headquarters in Salem. Timberline Lodge, reported ski tows will operate this Christmas Day. The snow is now 120 inches deep. Nearly 2,000 skiers flocked to Mount Hood recently. j 25 Years Ago Dec. 25. 130 Hon. W. H. Hobson and Mrs. Hobson quietly celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. Nearly all of their married hie has been spent in Staylon. Mr. Hobson hav ing been a pioneer merchant there. The Salvation Army building looked more like a wholesale grocery store than like a meet ing place, as about twenty work ers toiling to fill the large baskets which were to be delivered today to the worthy poor of this com munity. 40 Years Ago Dec. 2S, Editorially Mrs. Frances Ellen Jane Hare died at Astoria at the age of 104 years. She was born in 1811 and was probably the old est Oregon citizen. Only three of the city office holders are to be retained by the new council. They are Fire Chief Harry Hutton, City Engineer Wal ter B. Skelton and Police Matron Myra Shsnk. Season's w muriQs Llnno Chitwool Csreylej Cobb Al Faimon Tinkhom Gilbert Esther Gof It Richard f. Hauf Donald G. Hobson Donald I. Feterson Jeanetto Reo5 WmSchwors Evtlyn Thompson wmda Batik, 0FSMM CHURCH end CHEMfXfTA STXErfl nr,, lire rrmi mnniin , T-k xA -T f sll the recent cemmotion CliriStlliaS DaV 60 Year8 OI Age about "Increases" ia these . J budget items is simply that we reallv are carrying an as before, instead of Just pre tendinf ta. But there is another mean ing, too, in this decision taken an M ac me tamp uavw jn.s.l. . uk., he was an armv serceant meeting which was the real he encouraged his men to call him cause of the President's porary fatigue. The recent extension and in tensification of the Kremlin's cold war offensive constitute one great challenge. The mas sive recent progress of the Kremlin's srmament programs constitutes another great chal lenge. These challenges almost certainlv mean that the world power balance is now moving in the Soviet's fsvor, just as Messrs. Nixon and Rockefeller maintained. .Yet the decision st Camp David was to ignore these challenges, and to let the world power balance tilt against us. This is a national choice of the most far-reaching 1b par lance. ( naj been eartfally shreuded, as the eastern now Is, tram the valgar gas af the American public. Yet events will tear aside the veil ' sooner or later, whea the Joint Chiefs of Staff have to tell the Congress the real 1 I A mM an ,lrifAa r when s e as e development abroad causes Mart searching Inquiries than sre now being made. Cnyrlfht . Nw York ilarald Tnbuaa, In. IX)ND0M OH Christmas Dayl His only son -is named George, will be 60 years old Sunday. He .but, as Christmas Day points out, is an optical goods sslesman whose j George Day wasn't born Christmas parents were overjoyea m nemnx i uay. him for s Christmas gift in 18931 . Although the maximum age of golden eagles is unknown, there is evidence that they can live as I l"- Charlie. , ! long as 30 years. To. All Customers and Friends From :V..V', it ;-.;: Ik China City 1555 S. Commercial Street , .V- ' I . Far Reservations and Orders to Co w . -'' rmana i i.ni. upen iram is naaa u y . 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