4-(Sec. I) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Wed, May 23, .'56 ( 'Is -rTK tM Journalistic provincUliim. Measured by bulk, C&! GrtA0n3DlllUSiail J wlume ol advertising, and J of circu. evidently their greatness doesn't extend to REFRESHER COURSE tWo Favor Swayt Vi. h'o Fear Shall Awf ; frw first IIiHimi. March U. 1IM V Suleiman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SFRAGUE. Editor & Publish , PuBIHhed every Homing Buflnnt attic JSt 1 Worth Church St, Belem, Oft. rtlphoj 4-MII tntered M Um peatsdfice at Mlem, Or., at seeoaa tlete mtuer under act f Cenirt March a, ItM. Member Asaecteled Prats Dm Aaaoelatea Pna It mIium ecluvtl ta th aaa for rtpublletUon el all local Mt priatad U 1 ' thit epeeee. "UtUe Hurricane" " With committee! ot Congress probing into military affairs with the special purpose of finding out how well advanced our defense technology Is, the occasion was offered for partisans of the several services to play their hand. Apparently they overdid it, for Defense Secretary Wilson called a hurried press con ference at the Pentagon where he, the secre taries of the several military departments - uu vuicih ui auui tuuiumcu iu uceiiuiuuaj. Apparently Wilson did most of the talking and spoke quite as directly to the several services as to the public through the press. They all promised, however, a thorough in : vestigation to trace the bickering which was attributed to lower echelons in the several services. 1 . This rivalry la old, and as Wilson Mid, to I certain degree it Is a good thing, the com petition putting each branch of the service on its mettle. The methods of the infighting are old, too: information is made to "leak" from official sources to Journalists who are favorable to the site supplying it, as was ad mitted by a Navy captain a few years ago. Publicity then flows, Congress gets stirred up, committees start probing, further strife1 break out within the defense establishment. There was a fierce controversy over uni fication; with General Bradley referring con temptuously to the "fancy dans" (Navy) who were In opposition. Another feud was that between the Navy and the Air Force over putting reliance on long-range bombers and - . 41 : A lh. M,.nAk,w A Amt,e Mrlllh was done, though later big carriers were authorized and built Now the' contention is over guided missiles and the agencies which may develop and use them, and the role of the Navy in offensive aerial warfare. This "little hurricane" blew to such pro portions "that, the Commander-in-Chief be came concerned. Secretary Wilson reported, after a visit' with the President that Eisen hower was "a bit unhappy" over the revival of inter-service rivalry. He intimated, too, that disciplinary action may fall on officers who "stick their heads up" in violation of orders to avoid provoking controversy. None of this daunts Congress, however. Senator Symington's committee is going to proceed with its inquiry into missile produc tion and other mllitan nrocurement. also on IU. ,. u1 1 I I - 1 f .11 . ma nary iuiv in luvuci u wauuw. ruw tu, Congress ha the final say because ty appro priates the money for the department of defense. Is all quite bewildering to most Amer icans. They know they Ire being taxed heav ily, for national defense and feel they should be; getting the very best that brains can provide. They are disturbed over reports of leyiargy in development and of conflicts rijong the services. They must depend on Cojigress to lay out the program through its appropriations and on the President and sec retary of defense to maintain discipline for the) proper carrying out of our defense poli cies. They arc the only ones who can see the . problems as t whole. The separate services often are unable to see the forest for the triot In thuip nam hark Varrlx. provincial Texas Papers S'ls it true what they-say about Texas?" ' Well, what are they saying? A historian, Hugh Russell Eraser, now domiciled in Texas, thinks Texans are "on the whole" just about the ."most provincial people in America." Tljey get that way "because their newspapers m't 4.11 lh . UM I V1CUI. V i fizser has done some computing and re- corns li in me av naroer s. aie iouna inai the Dallas Morning News averaged only five and one-half columns of world and national nes out of a total of 28' columns of news (excluding features, sports, editvials. so ciety); ana tne Dallas nmes-iier only six oujt of 29H columns. The Fort ' ih Star Telegram did a little better averaging six and one-half columns out of a total of 31. The Houston papers were Just about as bad. How efcr, Fraser did find one "notable oasis" in this "Journalistic Sahara" the Beaumont .enterprise me oniy one wnn me possioie AntUn A 4k Pntmltt fhple4l Pellef wklott gives intelligent and balanced coverage of national and International news." ;The result is ingrown local patriotism and - confirmed hostility to anything "foreign", that is, outside of Texas, Considering the size of. Texas there may be some excuse for this, but hardly to the point of Justifying such keeping their readers informed on world ani national, event not like the Denver Post with 14 column. of "outside" news and the St.Louis Post-Dispatch with thirteen and one half. Texans who are interested in what goes on across their state borders would fare better, says Fraser, if they subscribed to the Toronto Star: "It carries more news about the United States than either the Dallas News or the Houston Chronicle." IS IT POSSIBLE THAT I HAVE F0RGOTT6H4 AGAIN ? French Farmers Block Roads Farmers in France have their troubles, too. To advertise their complaints thousands of them rolled their farm machinery across the roads blocking Sunday motorists on their jaunts into the country and keeping police busy opening lanes of traffic. During the blockade the fanners passed out tracts ex plaining their plight which was made more serious by crop damage in the disastrous freeze of last February. The demonstration did accomplish that result. It may also ac quaint the public in France with the basic problem of French agriculture which is simp ly that it is overmanned under modern con dition of farming. French farmer report that 200,000 small farms have disappeared in the past ten years, but the fact remains that still some 80 per cent, of the "active" population is engaged in agricultural pursuits, as against 22 per cent in Denmark and 19 per cent in Holland. Ac cording to a report to the Christian Science Monitor, from Parts by Joan Thiriet, farmers in Northern France, using modern methods and equipment, do very well, especially at farm prices fixed to sustain marginal farm ers on poor farms in the South. It will be interesting to see what the wmmmmm French government does for relief or French, farmers their chief demand now is for cred it to get them over the current crisis. . Be leaguered as it is with its troubles in Algeria, the government surely does not welcome any outbreak of discontent on the home scene. It does seem clear, however, that there should h in occuDational shift in France from agri culture to Industry but both emplovers and isnswiwaea Cosigffi Safety y aivc Student body at the State School for the Blind recently bought three azalea plants as a memorial to a student who Pratetts Memorial Selection restrictive philosophy If Industry is to expand , . . M Christine Ortiano, 7. Turned out the Whea . MW to absorb those who transfer from farming. Pacific Northwest Pipeline Co. reports It has made contracts covering ale of 511 mil lion cubic feet of natural gas a day to cus tomers in the Pacific Northwest. Its pipe line has reached Umatilla, Ore., save for one 30-mile stretch and work is in progress on the Washington side of the Columbia River. Portland Gas & Coke will start its change over of burners in August to be ready for turning the valves to deliver natural instead of manufactured gas. The advent of natural gas gives a big supplement to our fuel sup plies in this region. The president of the University of Iowa says that half of Its law school graduates this year will leave the state, attracted by better fh tnnrimnnH "I plants were imported from the Rothschild picture of the pioneer statue for estate in hngiana. Tne same estate where the long-discussed Moore Mem- the girl's father, Adriano Ortiano, had worked before bringing his family to Amer ica. The azaleas are planted and in full bloom Just south of the new school build ing on Mission St. . . . F.lectioa Ifftavert . . . Theme song af successful primary candidates bow is, "Will You Love Me in November as You Did la May?" ... and for unsuccessful candidates, "You Tell Ma Your Dreamt and I'll Tell You Mine." . . . And voters wbe balloted at Hoover School Friday received auite a Jar when they noticed election slogans posted along the school balls. Signs like, "Vote tor Scott; He's Hot!" Turned out though, they were campaign signs for the school's student body elec tions . . . orial, 1 was shocked, but I did not know at that time that the Art Association had made other recommendations after three or four years of study. Now that I do know, I am indignant. It seems to me Salem should have taken the advice of people edu cated in art for so important a choice as this one. AH we have is another pioneer family in a new medium. We have pioneers in murals, pioneers in frescoes, one gold-leaf job on top of the capital, one bronze rider in the park and goodness knows how many paintings around town. The figures are handsome and clean and characterless; the sculpture is quite competent, in lrtiM mantiiMita i-m 1 1 si kmta Vi a1 rnA In rt AAiiniinrt this ntwtar taMiviftn 4n tk Inf Knt r . . . . eavill Hp hats tUUIIg lllaU.IUJIca TtUUlU liaC lICipcu m IUV Ul lUUlllill& s;w iwi, i'h opportunities elsewhere, iowtm will aeonie Qut ffom un(Jer tnowstorm of baUoU Tha ,on- m someone could have dressed up of county, state and city measures and candidates kept some JJJJ ,pcture of memand Put boards up to their ballot boxes in uncounted votes for hours jt on . billboard in the Dark with f. . t- 11. .1 A T L , 1 . fl- - I 1 sner uie pons ciosea. even ai inai, ine aisicsman s eiauu- just as much meaning. Besides rate network of drivers and correspondents gathered about 60 per cent of the total Marion County vote within four hours. And they travelled nearly 1,000 miles to do it . . . whether this is boon or bane for their state. Editorial Comment WANTS WON CURTAIN AROUND V. S. Representative Francis Walter Dem., Pcnn has introduced and is holding hearings on a bill designed to knock out recent court decisions re quiring full and fair hearings in passport cases. The measure also would give the State Depart ment broad statutory authority to deny passports for travel abroad. A U. S. court of appeals ruled last year that all citizens had a "natural right" to travel and that this right couldn't be denied without a hear ing in accordance with due process of law. A federal district court declared several months later: "The right to a quasi-judicial hearing must mean more than the right to permit an applicant to testify and present evidence. It must include the right te know that the decision will be reached upon evidence of which he is aware and can refute directly Marion County clerk's office received more than its nsual number of election day telephone calls from confused voters and board clerks. Voters were having their usual problems of not knowing where to vote, wondering If they were reg istered, etc. And calls came from a lot of persons whose ad dresses had been changed recently by the postofflce, but not reported to the clerk's office. Some boards were letting these people vote, and others were not. But the predicted uproar over signing the pollbooks failed to materialise . . . t t When, and if, Hattie Bratzel wins the district attorney title in November she will be the first woman in the history of Oregon to do so. There have been several women deputy DA's in Oregon and several women candidates for the job. tiiere would have been the ad vantage of easily destroying it when everyone got weary of Oregon does not have to ' on its pioneers any more. I. s an intellectual and artistic life i even though the vote on the lib rary and park bonds might make one doubtful there, too.) Surely we could have relied on the Art Association in this case, as the group best qualified to choose a present-day embodiment of Ore gon's spirit. Margaret B. Kingnalda, lfi5 West Washington. Forest Fires Agaia To the Editor: The clouds have barely cleared away with the arrival of spring, when we again read of forest The Walter bill would make it Impossible for But none, even though they probably were qualified, have fjres burnin)( and out of con(r()1 ever made the grade. Several other states, however, have distaff DA's ... Loot Missed By Burglar applicants for passports to know the evidence against them. It prohibits applicants from hearing "all information affecting the national security, safety and public interest or tending to compro mise investigative sources." The language covers such a broad area it just about gives the State Department a blank check to withhold any infor- mation it .wants. , . A burglar who broke into the rear door. Nothing else was re- Coupled witn this is an equally broad provision fc 223 N Com. missing and apparently no that would requir. denia o passports to persons mwd, a fft withmt hjj loo,laU( t h4d been m,de t0 brfak wnose travel aoroaa wouia advance uie tause ui pohc said the Communist movement.'' The department pre- , . sumably could make this vague determination on ihStvfral rtlclf of clothing from the basis of secret witnesses and evidence that tt"e.to,wt" 7d ,n would be unavailable for cross-examination and (b'ankt lso 'rom, the tor . . ,. outside the door Monday morning, Scott McLeod. administrator of the State Depart- ' Kidwh ' ment's bureau of security and consular affairs. In 'Lin. . h ftl IV,. .nr.llv f.vnr. th, Entry WM m ,0reln provisions of the bill. We trust congress will take a more jaunuicra view ui im puwcn ii rouum .,.., . aiTlx rr a n snr ri I I to the department. The right to travel ought not filUIN AINU BLAH II DV LlClltV ka .a.ktattas4 kt XJ Anpatnl at iraa WstUaaf'tl Trnn W luuvn ICU "J rjir hiomii i omi tiii Curtain approach to passports. Des Moines Register. attempt into the safe or cash register, po lice said. Brown mud, a waste product in the process of extracting aluminum from bauxite, is a good source of agricultural lime, says the V. S. Department of Agriculture. Writer Finds Bickering Over Planes, Ships, Men, Weapons in Capita! Just Same Old Stuff " By J. M. ROBERTS AP News Analyst It happens every year about this time. When Congress Is studying ap for their special interests instead of accepting plans coordinated, or in the process of being coordinat ed at the top. This is only natural at a time propriations for defense, stories when new weapons are creating begin to come out of Washing' ton comparing various parts of the defense program with each other and with those of other countries. . We've beard it over and over jgain this, bickering about ships aadplanes, weapons and men. Tne country thought right after World War II that some of it would be eliminated with "unification" f the services. Joint planning boards were expected to reach ex pert decisions on the role or va rious forces In the ever-all defense picture. They were expected to approach their tasks oa a thor oughly abjective basis. Perhaps it was too much to ex Pct. Now there has been an obvious aUempt by some experts te go ever the beads of their superiors. aeeking te obtaia public support - , - ..... . even the specialised committees of Congress are the proper court of last resort. t It was argued, at the time of "unification," that the only way to approach these decisions properly was through establishment of a single military service, whose suc cess would depend upon thorough integration, and in whch the plan ners would be responsible not for one service, but for tIL new concepts of military tactics and strategy. Highly trained men. to important posts because of special abilities, see things being done, or not being done, which they believe affect the success of their assignment!. Gen. Billy Mitchell's crusade for air power is the classical example of this type of thing. This year's fnterservice rivalries have developed not merely over money, but involve basic approach es to military problems. They are matters on which the sition. public does not and cannot have But if the services keep bick- In an operational way, this hap pens to a large extent when there is a war. Then top planners dis pose of units of the various forces as they see fit. As a management proposition, It was considered un wieldy iu times of preparation. I It la also a difficult political prop the information needed to form sound opinions. Appeals to the public can only produce feelings, and feelings do not provide e prop er basis for decisions on cock matters. . There Is a question whether ering the public is going to gel the idea that, if aomebodv is right, somebody is also Wrong in a field where the public demands that everybody be right Inat could fTw av v i em p.m t-. a. I BII.I S EVE FOREIGN AID WASHINGTON f - Identical bills providing for the creation of a joint congressional committee And while it's customary to Maine the parent for the wgn M pro(fram have n in More than 50.000 fires caused by man's carelessness every year are ravaging millions of acres. Earlier this month a large fire swept over a two thousand feet timber clad mountain north of Vancouver. B O A million board feet of felled timber and an un estimated amount of mature fir and hemlock was destroyed This summer we will he again reading in the news about one hundred men fighting fires here. five hundred men fighting fires there. Yes, in this atomic age of space ships and guided missiles men still fight forest fires by the horse and buggy method of yes terdays. Instead of talking so much about our space ships land ing on the moon, where we may not he welcome, one would think that some of our men of brains would try to develop a more prac tical method of fire control Why can't a large capsule filled with chemicals under pressure, be developed and dropped from planes flying in relays put the fire out immediately' Why can't we develop better methods of fire control? Remember that it takes from seventy-five to a hundred years to grow a tree of timber size but only a few minutes to burn it down. After more than twenty years since the Tillamook area fire that area still has a terrible look of desolation, and so has our Detroit area burn Oregon is one of the most beautiful places in the whole world so let us keep it so. Let u be more careful with our matches and our fires, also we should put oiir trash and our empty bottles in their , proper places and not scatter tnem aU over the country side. Let us all try to keep Oregon not only green but also clean. Our future generations are entitled to something too. Arc you listening'' Yours for better camping, George Strozut. 4fi40 Portland Road. ITP ri i i MOTCBBl' T!1,?.?!c.s (Can tinned from Page aae.) , acre. In the early years of tree growth considerable stock is lost from deer browsing. Of interest are the comparative figures on prices realized on C C sales. In 1939 the timber was sold at an average price of $1.96 per MBF. The latest sales Show an average price of $38 62. This reflects not only the sharp increase in price of stumpage but also the demand for O 4 C timber because of the cutting of timber on privately Owned lands which were more readily accessible. With substantial sums available for road construction the p it C administration is building roads irto its timber holdings. The big gest project of the kind is the Smith River road system back of Gardiner and Reedsport in the I'mpqua drainage. A contract has just been let for surfacing this road system and over it will come millions of board feet of timber. It is designed and built for per manence both for harvesting and for future timber management. (No decision has been announced by the director of the Bureau of Land Management on whether the marketing area restrictions in this district will be lifted on salvage sales. This is urged by mills in the Eugene area and strongly op posed by mills in the coastal area from Gardiner to Coos Bay.) Staff members reported that a start is being made on an inven tory of the hardwood species or rather the deciduous trees in the O k C holdings. Previously atten tion was concentrated on conifers fir, hemlock, pine, cedar. There is an indication of growing inter est in other species such as alder and maple, so the bureau wants to find out what its holdings of I these may be. j When Congress passed in 1954 the law settling the question of; the O k C controverted lands (which left them in forest service! hands but with reoeints distributed under the O 4 C formula ) it also authorized a land exchange be tween the forest service and the Bureau of Land Management where their lands were inter mingled. This job has virtually been completed and each agency will benefit through the blocking process. It affects however only a relatively small area. As I heard reports at this ad visory board meeting the impres sion grew on me that for the first time the bureau is gelling on top of its O k C management prob lem. The problem has been one o' great magnitude over two million acres scattered in check erboard pattern across the state, with mounting pressure for sales of timber, with the handicap of inadequate appropriations and staff it has been an uphill task for the Bureau of Land Manage ment to make much headway oa overall, long term management. Access roads and reciprocal right-of-way regulations and agree ments have absorbed countless hours of time and much of the energy of the staff. But progress has been made, and these lands are now rich in promise for the indefinite future. Altogether too much attention has been given to these lands as a source of revenue for the coun ties fortunate enough to have in their borders substantial areas of O k C lands. The .tost important value from these assets is the raw material they furnish, which after processing meets a wide variety of human needs, and in the pro cessing sustains the economic life of the state. That is why it is important to develop long-term management policies and apply them as rapidly as -possible, keep ing them flexible, however, to al low for changes in the light of experience. Better Knglish By P. C. WILLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "He might of done like I did in this case." 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "nicety"? 1. Which one of these words is misspelled? BenificiaL benign ancy, belligerent, bellicose. ANSWERS 1. Say. "He might HAVE done AS I did in this case." 2. Pro nounce nie-see-ti, three syllables, and not nice-ti. 3. Beneficial. FROM STATXSIfAN ITLX1 10 Yean Ago May 22, IMS Felicitations go to Mr. and sirs. Arnold C. Ebert (Margaret Haus erl on the birth of a daughter, Julia Ann. Grandparents of the baby are Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Hauser Sr., Salem, and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold C. Ebert Sr., of Echo. 25 Yean Ago May 11, 1131 Five thousand persona, includ ing delegations from British Columbia, Washington. California and many points in Oregon, gath ered at Grants Pass for dedica tion of the $125,000 Rogue River bridge. Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, United ftates Marine Corps, was guest of honor. 40 Yearn Ago May 21, ltll A Salem chapter of Sons of the American Revolution, the second chapter in Oregon, was organised at a meeting in the Commercial Club with fifteen members sign ing application for a charter. Win throp Hammond was elected president. RICE GIVEN AWAY NEW DELHI i - India has made a gift of 5.000 tons of rice to relieve distress in East Pakis tan, the foreign ministry announced. fnont t-WIl Subscription Rales By ctrrltt la cltltti Dally ealy - l.SS par mo. Daily and Sunday S l.tt par ma Sunday only Jt wttk By maU tutday aaiyi lui tdvtnctl Aoywbtra la U.B g M par mo. 17S alx mo. I M TMT By mail, Dally aae Saasayt I la tdvinctl In Ortfon I 1 10 par mo. S W tix mo. 10 SO yttr In U S outaldt Ortfon -. . S 1.41 ptr me. 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