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4-SecI) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Suit, May 20, 'SO STRONG SUPPORT 4OttfiouG3tatoiau Ho Favor Sway$ V$. No Fear Shall Awo" ' tnm Tint itiHoai, Mtrch U. 1M1 ' Slaleunui Publishing Company CHARLES A. 5FRAGUE, Editor fc Publish North Church SC. Salem. Or. faltphaat 4-U11 BntarM at lk postoffic at staJaaa, On, m atcaaa alaaa malfr undar c af Contrast Mire S, U7I, Mtaiaer Aaaeclate frett fba Aaaoctatea Pna ta wtttica taeHurval? to tfca ana of rtpubUeatiaa at all ktral aawt ariatat sa taiai Trade with the Reds Insistence on maintaining a very restrict iv embargo on trade with Red China puts U. S. relations with friendly powers under continuing strain. British exporters, pressed hard to expand foreign trade, want to in .crease shipments to China; and Japan is rest ivt under the restraints sponsored by the United States. Just now Britain announces it will ship small tractors to China, asserting they are too small to be useful for military ' purposes. To Red China haters, however, any trade with China is bad. The extremists prevailed briefly in a House committee Friday when an amendment wu adopted, though later repealed, to bar U. S. foreign aid to any country which ships goods to the Communist bloc which the United States does not export from this country. ; The effect of too rigid a policy is to alien ate friends and in the end may cause the breakdown of the whole boycott system. Ja pan and Britain must export or die. We do not want them dumping quantities of their goods in this country; so either we should be a little more tolerant of their trading with the Reds or be forced to subsidize them more heavily or they may expand their shipping regardless of the old U. N. embargo and our own demands. Embezzlement by Lawyer Recent cases of emoezzlement of funds by attorneys in Oregon have prompted the ques tion as to why attorneys are not subject to similar state supervision as real estate brok en The latter are bonded and their accounts are audited at intervals by the office of the state real estate commissioner. That has not completely stopped appropriation of funds held In trust by real estate agents but it sure ly has reduced the number of such offenses. The one who suffers loss has right of recov ery under the bond. The broker who is guil ty suffers loss of his license and is subject to prosecution under criminal laws. In the case of attorneys the penalty for misappropriation of funds of clients is dis barment, which is, of course, a very serious form of punishment, as well as that pre scribed as punishment for crime. We are not recommending that attorneys be bonded and made subject to state audit, but pointing out the difference between those in the real estate business and those prac ticing law. The Oregon State Bar has used its power of discipline effectively and prob ably would resent having its members put under requirements like those in the real es tate code. Losses to trusting clients, how ever, should induce the Bar to see if it can do more to prevent misappropriation of funds by members of the Bar. Party for Doria Smith They are going to give a party honoring, Doris Smith at the Civic Theater in Portland oa June 10th. The occasion is her retirement after many years dean of the Junior Civic Theater School Then she is going to sail on a freighter on a nine-week voyage to the China seas and back. .' Most everyone in the Northwest who is in terested in the drama produced in the region knows Doris Smith or has heard about her. She is well remembered here as the director of the pageant for Salem's centennial celebra tion in 1940. She directed the Eugene pag eant the many times it was produced, start ing with the Trail to Rail" show Jin 1928. She had good training in dramatics and played in Shakespearean plays with the Ben Greet player so she is a real professional. When she gives up her regular work with the Civic Theater she will continue drimstle coaching. The affair on June. 10th is set for 3:30 p.m. and Stewart Holbrook will be master of ceremonies. The play offered for that week- ait U a AnmHTtnn til hll rTtnvv Peru's". ett." Frances Blakely of the Journal staff, siys that "everyone who has known Doris is invited." That insures a big crowd, so wide is Doris Smith's acquaintance and so warm Is the affection in which she Is held by those with whom she has fought, bled and died to turn out good drama. Lenin on Stalin Now the Communist Youth in Russia are joining the pack in degrading Stalin who ' claimed their adoration for many yean Komsomol Pravda now tells how Lenin warned of Stalin's bad characteristics which "could lead to a violation of the rules of col lective leadership." Its conclusion is quite tame, however: "Unfortunately it happened so." Unfortunate indeed! But what chance now to correct the gross injustices of Stalin's reign? And what assurance that justice and decency will now prevail under "collective leadership?" And Stalin's body still lies in. the Red tomb alongside that of Lenin. The primary election over, public atten tion now may be centered on gentler things school graduations and June weddings. To the Individuals concerned, they are quite as important as the fate of candidates at the polls. .Lack of rain In Iowa prompted Governor Hoegh to ask the highway department to let grass grow taller along primary highways so when cut it can be usuable for hay by farmers. With 8,000 miles of such highways la the state, they should harvest quite a crop; and maybe when the grass is mowed the rains will come. i People will continue' to die in Salem but not from fluorides In the water. Baghdad Pact Said 'Falling Between Two Stools' Instead of 'Recapturing Initiative' 7 .fJ3' 33 Washington Mirror d Peterson Rumor Spreads Quickly So many merchandise giveaways it's hard to tell whether merchants are selling or giv ing away cars, TV sets, groceries or lipstick. Editorial Comment MISGUIDED GENEROSITY The bill pending in the Senate to amend the Social Security Act is one on which it is possible to make undeniably strong appeals to sentiment. But a wise decision calls also (or liberal use ol judgment. " The key proposals are to extend full retirement benefits to disabled workers at the age of SO and to lower the retirement aga (or women from 65 years to 62. The two proposals would require an Increase in the scale of social security taxes and would add heavily to the future load on the system. To attempt to say what is'"total and permanent disability" has proved practically impossible In private insurance. Aids which aim at rehabilitation and encourage It are apt to prove actually more effective, supplemented where necessary by general relief." Admittedly some working women would find com fort in retirement benefits before 85. But in gen eral women are working longer and living longer than before, and on the average live a few years longer than men. Thus the amendment would tend to lengthen at both ends the period of payments assumed. To oppose any kind of old-age benefits exposes t be objector to charges of being hardhearted and unfeeling. But one humanitarian concern in social security is to asure that the old-age insurance system shad be able in fact as well as la theory to pay the billions on billions of benefits It already has pledged to participants and beneficiaries. Christian Science Monitor (Caatlaaed tram page aae.) An aun' told him: "I think you'll find more familiar names up on the hill at the cemetery thaa anywhere else" how many others have had that same ex perience in going back "home?" Read Scvareid's well - written piece (or yourself if you want to revisit your home town vicari ously. What 1 want to point to is some of his philosophizing about small towns in America. Velva is in a farming section soi'1' of Minot, and in that wheat belt (arm consolidation has pro ceeded apace: "Eighteen (arms near Velva are under three own erships now," but though politi cians deplore the passing of the old family size farm, Sevareid says, "I am not so sure," and adds: "1 tiw around Velva a relrast from what win like alavery to the tyrannical toil: release from th Ignorance that darkens the soul and from tht lonthneaa that cor rode! it." Living is different in the small town of today, people are less dependent on each other, "yet I am certain that this is good." People do not know each other so intimately because they do not have to: "The shrinking of time and dis tance has made contrast and relief available to their daily lives . . . I know that democracy rests on aoctal discipline which in turn rests on personal diacipUna , . . The old-fashioned town was this discipline in its starkest, most primitive form: without this dis cipline, the small town would have blown itself apart. "For personal and social neuroses festered under this hard scab of conformity . . . The world was not 'too much with us': the world was too little with us and we were too much with one another." Emancipation has come to dwel lers in small towns, via improved highways and new forms of trans port and by new means of communication. pia.sii.aaji.a.iiiaa ! By JOSEPH ALSOP BAGHDAD, Iraq Every so often, the bewildered traveller ' stumbles upon an episode or A mertcan foreign policy-making so strange and apparently ir rational that R poses the question whether we have any policy at all. Such Is the story of the Baghdad Pact r i This defensive alliance among Iraq, Turkey, Iraa, Pakistan and Britain is one of the hottest po tatoes m tne ssuue taw wmcn Is so full of hot potatoes that the area sometimes makes you think f OS W'rV TM jnr- tats roast t And the first thine to note about 4his major Middle Eastern hot potato la that the primary responsibility for lha oact clearly lioa lit Waah'inetOB. 1 It la all but impottible to re-" 'sist the suspicion that the real reason for Washington's original sponsorship of the Baghdad Pact -was the hankering for soma Mid dle Eastern development that could be advertised as proof of a -dynamic new foreign policy", a "recaptured Initiative.; The hankering was strong in the early days of the Eaenhower ad ministration, before world events - began t catch up with the Madl- 'son Avenue phrase nakers. , . I'! VaakH feed as paper to Vak p Use a-callca' Nartkera Tier at Middle Easier slates la aa alllaae against Soviet aggre. i staa. Ta be tara, the real iaagar ; la the Middle East was sot aid Is at Bar let aggress tea. lasiead, t tk real laager here Is, was aad i always has acta lateraal sua- verslaa aad 8arH paUttcaJ tat- LLLlL I Jo. close general relations with the West. If they needed more mili tary powr, therefore, the mach inery already existed (or provid ing it. All the same, It made a fine headline when the first news of the pact wu published at home. Our "recaptured initia tive" was mentioned ritb grati fying frequency in the ensuing editorials. Ia this early period, the Vailed States took the lead la eaeeurif lag Iraq aad Tarkey, the first sitae rs al the pact to get to gether to establish the Nartkera Tier defease system. As Wash lagtoa abtervers with gaad mem ories wlU recall, the State Pr partmeat la these Jays hanghUly accaare the British of "daggiag their feet." Aad at that time, the areata! Americas Ambaaaadar la Iraq, Waldrmar Gallmaa, was actaally seat here with laatnic Haas that aeearlag the slgaatare f the pact was hit aaaat smear- X ' To be sure, all the prospective Baghdad Pact states already had . military and economic aid agree menta with the United States and Thea Iraq and Turkey signed. Egypt's Nasser promptly explod ed, partly because he genuinely regards the pact as Western Im perialism lo a aew guise, end partly because he disliked the leading role accorded to Iraq's Nuri Pasha. All the same Pakis tan came in.' The unimaginative British foot dragged, then signed up too, perhaps because they . could find no other way to main tain their established treaty re lations with this country. And last came Iran. ' Ia Waahiagtaa, however, trap tamahly heeaaae e( Nasser's at tltatV aad the Israeli dlsllha af the aew pact, the reeaptarers af the lalttatlva were aatr blewlag aa their finger Balls la aa em harraasea tnaaaer aad tajrtag "wba aa?" whea at was aaggea. ted the aew part was their work. This eetratotleas Amertraa tep idity towards the pact was rather preleagtd. H the Itati Department had followed up its first Initiative with boldness and decision, other Arab states might well have Join ed the pact. Then the position of one of the West's best friends in the Middle East, Prime Minister Nuri Pasha, would be a great deal easier today. In any case, the American tepidity in itself rather gravely undermined Prime Minister Nuri's position. This deeply alarmed the British. Bri tish protests and representations, beginning roughly with the Eden Eisenhower meeting in Washing ton, then caused the dawn of the third or present period of Amer ican pact policy. Ia this perled, waralags af tht need la help Narl Pasha aad aeraewhal lageaue reminders af the ariflaal Amertcaa respaaal. blllly for the pact have drivel the State Departmeat as far as "Darllag Daaghler" ia the aid aeag. We have, la effect, takea efT all Mir cletbes hat havt set gaae aear the water. Ia ether wards, we have Jalacd the aatl aabvertlee aad eceaemlc ce re mittees af tht Baghdad Pact, bat we havt aat Jalaed the part It self. There is only one trouble about this strange intermediate poti- t lAH 1Kaft alirsl aanf sat i AM ta) ainixakaa sal here in Baghdad, and it it Contractor U1C8 reportedly universal too in the Turkish, Iranian and Pakistani capitals, that the. United States will join i the pact as a fun mem ber after the election. If wt do not thea join the pact, the re sulting disappointment will deep ly damage the whole Western position in the Middle East. But what about the drainage of promising youth from the small towns to cities? That will continue: "For Velva is small, the world calls, the gate is open and they are young; go they must and will." I Docs this mean that the small town is dying, passing into de cay. Sevareid does not think so: "Thii Is what my home town and yours really are In the Amer ican story and system: not stag nant plants at all, but seedbeda, ceaselessly renewing the nation. They are not quiet, fixed and static, but vital as life Itself, pul sating with the Uvea that rome to them and the Uvea they give away.' There is pain in revisiting childhood homes. One's sense of proprietorship is shattered when he tees old landmarks missing and the town full of people with strange names and faces. Yet of ten there is pride in seeing that the community still is thriving, that progress has been made. The old swimming hole may look like a small puddle and the hills may have shrunken with the passing of the years, but the current of li'e still flows as another genera tion farms and trades and wor ships and plays, in freedom and in health and in security. By A. ROBERT SMITH Stateimaa Cerrespondeai WASHINGTON - Nothing moves so fast through the bu reaucracy of Washington as a new political rumor. And where they come from is almost always a mys tery, especial ly to the per sons involved. Take Ervin L. P e t e r son for example. The quiet, in dustrious for mer state di rector of agri culture for Oregon has been working for many months as as sistant secretary of agriculture, one of Ezra Taft Benson's top administrators in the sprawling Department of Agriculture. Then this reporter spoiled it all by telephoning Mr. Peterson and saying, "I hear reports you are being considered as Doug McKay's successor in the cabi net." There followed a pause inter rupted only by the clatter of Mr. Peterson picking himself up off the floor and getting a firmer grip on the telephone. "What did you say?" The reporter repeated the in formation, explaining that it came from two widely scattered sources in the West. "Well, this Is amatlng ta me," taid the flabergasted assistant secretary of agriculture who ap parently had aa dreams af be coming secretary of the Interior. After aa exchange la which It waa agreed that neither put much stock la the reports inas much as they were news to Pe terson, the twa went their sep arate ways but both Mr. Peter and the reporter kept bumping Iota the rumor. Before a week had elapsed, the report had spread to a top Inte rior official and to various mem bers of the press corps. Report ers began banging on the Ore- School System in Wisconsin Arranges Classes According to Talents of Pupils gon man's office door to see what they could learn. And all were as mystified as Peterson about the origin and the validity of the re port, if not amazed at the speed of its travel. During the recent Senate hear ings on the boxcar shortage, a bit of doggerel was used by Leon ard Netzorg, counsel for Western Forest Industries Association, to illustrate the plight of western Oregon shippers. It went like this: A poor old man with trembling limbs and stooped decrepit form stood on a weather beaten dock and faced a wintry storm. He minded not the icy winds that fanned his snow white beard. But holding high a telescope straight down the track he peer ed. The teeae about the place he toad was aae af desolation But patieatly he took hit stand, far such was his eccupaUoa. Off ta the right there stood a mill, the roof had blewi away And where they eaee had piled the lath saw grew a crop af hay. (The verse continues for manv lines describing the tumbled down scene, with timber wolves living in the stable and beavers in the log pond.) The poor man with his tottering frame through the tall grass trudged one day And he'd take his place with telescope and he'd only look one way. He would look 'way off toward the sunklst South and his fare was filled with aarrow. And the only thing that he would say waa. "They premised me tome tomorrow." A stranger patting by ane day Inquired of a native tea, "Wha It that man who tits aver there with the antique visioa gun?" "My friend." the native answer ed as he wiped away the tears, "You shouldn't speak of him By F. B. BORDSES APPLETON, Wis. --Do you remember, back in your grade school days, the student who wst s wonder at figures but who needed a lot of help at composition? And the classmate who received poor grades in everything but art, or music or woodworking? Even thea we knew that no ev eryone had the same talent, the same ability to learn. But there wasn't much we could do about it. The entire class waited until the teacher went over the same ma terial for the straggler. The slower students felt humiliated at holding the others back, and the brighter ones felt frustrated a having to slow down. In his east-centranviscortsin city of some 35,000 the" public school system has gone farther than most in recognizing, and doing some thing about, the individual differ ences in children. The continuous-progress plan has been in effect since 1952 on an ad vancing scale until now the first five grades are operated under a program geared to the child's needs. Growth Rale Varies The continuous-progress plan recognizes that each child has his own rate of growth, according to Martha Sorenson, director of el ementary education. The plan af fords him opportunity to adjust to others mentally and socially. The graded structure assumes that the children develop at a common speed. The continuous-progress system is more informal and flexible. It judges and rates the child in terms of how he performs in relation to his ow,n ability rather than in re spect to his classmates. Successful Try School Superintendent Johji P. Mann said. "There's no doubt in my mind that the experiment has been very successful. The results were very fine." Diagnostic tests are given in the fall. Children are divided into small groups for different subjects so each may work at the level of his ability. The brighter child has opportunity to give free rein to his capability without having to wait for the others to catch up. And the slower student has more chance to find himself without the pressure of having to keep up with the others. This means the teacher must 7i-v 's. :;;?xT.:C5.iJ have reasonably tiled classes in order to observe and know each student well. Classes here range in size from V to 90. Miss Soren son said. An instructor may spend a second year with Jhe same group, and s student may devote another year to work on hit own level. Better Pregrett The method has definite goals of accomplishment. Miss Soren son laid, tnd standardized tests show that students under the plan are making better progress in their studies. Parents and teachen meet for discussions in the fall and spring. In the middle of the year each child it given t detail ed progress report more per sonal tnd analytical than the Land Almost All Bought for AF Academy DENVER W-Purchsse of land for the new V. S. air force acad emy near Colorado Springs is com plete, except for fewer than 1.000 acres involved in condemnation; suits, the Colorado land acquisition commission announced Saturday. The commission reported it has obtained, through voluntary ne gotiations, 133 parcels of property covering 18,500 acres at a cost of 14.006.909.81. It said 18 parcels of land are still to be acquired through the condemnation cases, 13 of which already are on tile. The commis sion has directed its attorney to bring the other actions. The land was acquired in less than 23 months. The voluntary; sales represent M per cent of the land in the 17,500-acre tract. The commission sprang into existence by act of the Colorado legislature early in 1934 when the state offered to spend a million dollars for land for the academy, if the federal gov ernment would locate the institu tion in Colorado. one used la the graded plan. The majority of parents que, tioned in a survey last year ex pressed satisfaction with the ex periment and the reporting metbodt used. Mare far Teachers The continuous-progress plan involves more work for teachers because it demands more indi vidual attention, but Instructors here feel the extra effort is worthwhile. As one teacher put it, "we feel our program has provided a happier learning atmosphere which has been conducive to better emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth. Having no fear of failure, each child is able to experience success within a flexible working group." Some critics of the plan hold that lack of competition may be a weakness, contending that adult life is highly competitive and a child should get used to it as soon as possible. Others maintain that the child should be prepared for competition aft er he hs had a chance to de velop self-confidence. vOrtAOiCtateiiai Pnooa -eSll Bubtcriptloa Rites By carrier la clttaai Dally only 1.ZS per me. Daily and Sunday I 14a per m. Sunday only J weak By aiall taaeay earyt (in advance) Anywhere In U.S. I M per tno. Ill six mo. 1 00 rear By so ill. Dally aat taatayi tin advance) la Oregon 4 1 It per ma. I SO sti ma. ISM year la U S. outside Oregon . I l.iS per ma. Member Audit Bnreau of Clrealatlna Biireaa ef Advertising ANPA Oregon Newspaper Publishers AssoclaUoa . Advertising Representative!! Ward-r.rtfftth Co. West Holllday Ca New Yore. Chicago Saa Fruclsee Detroit Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago May 20. 1S4S An army airplane, speeding through (og and a visibility of 400 feet, crashed into the 58th floor i of the 72-story Bank of Manhat tan Company building in Wall Street, killing the plane's five occupants. 25 Years Ago May 20. 1931 As a result of the art exhibit sponsored in Salem by Salem Arts League, Mrs. Harold D. Marsh, secretary of Oregon Society of Artists, plans to come to Salem in the near future to organize a chapter of American Artists Pro fessional League. 40 Years Ago May 20, 1911 Fire which started with a sud den flash in the drying room of the flax plant at Oregon State Penitentiary destroyed a shop, gutted two others and consumed about 20 tons of retted flax. Dam age is estimated at $25,000. that way. for he's been there fifty years "Why that man's story to ui out here is as common as the stars. He's a western Oregon lumber man looking for S.P. cars." Noted Orecon Oae might say that If thli represent! "recapturing the la Illative," thea this famous phrase aeedt a aew dlrtleaary eVflnltloa. Maybe It night he traailaled ai "making the want af hath werldV with falllag between twa ileeli" at aa alteraaUvi rea aVrlag. (Copyright ISM, Slew Tort Heaald Trtbuna Int.) is I f5 v - ; yiii p frrlnl if! 1 1 , -z- 13 1 I! Tn Vicinity as Funeral vs3 M mt i vi s -aw"" . m n OREGON CITY - William Quentin Quigley, 71, retired con tractor whose firm handled con tracts for many college buildings in Oregon, died Saturday it his home in Donald, south of here. A contractor for j0 years, Quig ley was contractor for the state school for the blind and the former Capital Journal building in Salem, and a number of buildings at the ' University of Oregon and Oregon i State College. Funeral services were pending. Survivors include the widow, Lillian May; a brother, L. L. Quigley, Portland, a a stepdaugh ter, Mn. Arthur C, HUdebrand, Astoria. lfU Vbgll T. 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