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4-(Sec I) Statesman, Salem, Ore, Suu, May 27, 56 cjt CnsonQ50tatesnaa No Facof Simp tfc, No For StaI Aire" fr a Tint gutetatasw March II ltSl Sutetnuo PpbHtliinf Company CHARLES A. SPRACUE, Editor & Publisher Publish vrtrf moratnf. lumiw Mm tW .' . Horth Churtb it, aoJ . Pro, ftttpli 4-M1I MoT at tho aostoeftaa at Halm, Ora, aa aocoaa oloot mailt under aet af Congreas North 1 1S7S. Meaaber Aaaaclated ma Tka JUaadaM Frost It ooUttod oiehmvely to tha an tor rapubUsotlon at all loral mm arm to ta thla Mywpf. , Grief for France in Algeria Twelve French construction worker jot their, throats cut by Algerian rebel Satur day. Previously a patrol of French recruiU . "freshly put in uniform" was linbushed and 18 were killed. Before that nearly a score . of French farmers in Algeria were killed by the rebels who started their guerrilla tactics a year and a half ago, aping the methods of nationalists In Morocco. Veanwhile in France ex-Premier Mendes Frsnce, who has been minister without port folio in the cabinet of Premier Guy Mollett, announced his resignation, basing it on dis satisfaction with Mollett's handling of the Al gerian crisis. This may precipitate the down fall of the Mollett government The Premier hat scheduled a debate in the national as sembly for next Thursday when he will call for a vote of confidence on his policy in Al geria. " Mollett has been trying to suppress the re bellion and has marshalled nearly 400,000 French troops in Algeria., While the organ ized bands of rebels are pretty well knocked out, small bands use hit-run tactics and leave a trail of bloodshed in the wake of their raids. Mendes-France would up the costly war in Indochina which France was losing. Ha made concessions to Tunisia and Morocco which gave those countries their local inde pendence. He offers now a program for end ing the trouble in Algeria by making liberal concessions to Algerian natives and institut-' ing political and economic reforms. The sit uation there is complicated by the presence of a large French population, resident there for many generations, who fear oppression unaer Araoruierine rrencinwve pw culiar attachment to Algeria, counting it part of metropolitan France, givingt representa tion in the national assembly. It held only protectorates over Tunisia and Morocco; but surrender of those agreements with the Bey of Tunisia and Sultan of Morocco has fired fellow Moslems in Algeria to demand their Independence. Mendes-France, who alone among French leaders has been perceptive of the decay of colonialism, may be right again. Last Monday Senator Neuberger made the nomination of, Sen. Wayne Morse for re election by the Democrats an occasion for eulogy of his colleague which was followed by similar praise from other Democrats: . . . v, , , , . r:L . - UVUglm (a Jlllliuij, uuiujmior vt, auuinnu, . Anderson of Nas Mexico. Johnston of South Valvuua aim Miuuiu vi m ter declared: "I am very giao inoeea mai - Wiyne Morse will be here for the next six years, as I have no doubt of his reelection to the United States Senate." Well, the voters of Oregon will have the say on that in Novem ber. For that matter Lehman himself may not be back to welcome Morse's successor. Remember Genevieve, the nurse who min istered to besieged French soldiers and was known as the angel of Dienblenphu? She's getting married next month to a French par atrooper who served in Indochina. The lone woman at the beleaguered fort In Vietnam, - she was captured when the fort surrendered but was released after 17 days. The Grants Pass Courier makes an error when it identifies the runner-up in the Re niiMiran contest for the senatorial nomina tion as Alfred Hitchcock. Maybe Phi! would have done better if bis name had been Alfred. Then he would have cashed la on moviedom's publicity. Kefauver's Time Up to Appeals to All Groups of Voters Br STEWART ALSOP KISSIMEE. Fla.-If yon follow Estes Kefauver through the towns .and hamlets of Florida oa his west for t h 1 s i state's delegate votes, you quickly begin to under stand his proven anneal to the vot ers. You also be-1 ain ta understand why his Presiden tial candidacy bas at ainilc sun- porter among his1 1 MllumiH In the AT Senate, and why the Democratic Party leaders are almost unani mously bitterly opposed to him. His campaign technique Is visi bly effective. The famous Kefau var hand shaking routine, for ex- ample, is a remarkable perform ance. It is not at aU the grinning, glad-handing business you might expect. Instead, it is solemn, al most somnambulistic, and oddly hypnotic. Slowly, relentlessly, al most never smiling. Kefauver moves down the street, like some huge mechanical toy. offering his brief but strangely intimate hand shake, and repeating his favorite Shrase, "I'm Estes Kefauver. I ope you'll help me." Kefauver, who Is a great deal . .Kr.iW thin he seems. Ii of course wholly aware that only a minuscule proportion of the elec torate experiences trie Keiauver hand - shake. Hia theory is, ob viously, that a thousand or so hand-shakes I day ere like so many pebbles thrown into a pool, creating, in every expanding ripples, a general impression of friendliness and folkainess. Ke fauver's successes at the polls at test the validity of the theory. TW mbm (hoary applies to his eaaopalga apeeck snaklag. Tka crowds are rarely large. la this , Uwa. far exalc. ai ta most var earing bis aeeoek was auda -Vd " Park Maintenance Leyy ' Friday morning The Statesman made a brief comment expressing approval of a budg et committee recommendation to hold the extra levy voted by the people for park main tenance and improvement to $20,000 instead of the maximum $35,000 authorized. This was on the assumption that a considerable portion of the total was to have been devoted J to new park areas the purchase of which was denied. Park Superintendent Walter Wirth says that the full sum is needed now for catching up on deferred maintenance, pur chase of needed equipment and provision for more assistance in operating the parks. He calls attention to the explanation in the bro- s enure on finance measures. Two of the three points made emphasized need for added funds 4 for the present park system: the old park levy of two mills would not cover proper maintenance and operation: also more super vision ii needed at playgrounds. As for use of funds on new acquisitions, that would not have come for a year or two. Certain needs are urgent, for instance, trimming of deadwood out of park trees which has become a hazard, especially to chil dren playing in the parks. Also some $15,000 of park funda is to be used to acquire addi tional land for the riverside Wallace-Albert Park which is coraing into greater use, which cuts down the sum for maintenance. On this showing last week's decision may be reversed by the city budget committee to authorize the levy of the full $35,000. and Supt Wirth has convinced us of its present need. There is an increase in park use, as in the riverfront park, which calls for more maintenance, more supervision, more im provements with the equipment to do the job. If we are not to get new park areas, more use will be' made of present sites and they should be properly maintained. Sturdy old Syngman Rhee, 81. won re election as President of Korea. His opponent died of a heart attack shortly before the elec tion but Rhee probably would have won any way. However, Koreans showed unrest under the stern rule of Rhee. They elected a can didate of the opposing party, Pr. John M. Chang, former ambassador in the U. S., for vice president. Chang is regarded very hope fully both in and out of Korea as one of Ko rea's most capable leaders. It seems fortun ate for the country that a man of his caliber is on hand as vice president, in view bT the" age of venerable though durable Rhee. The Senate has passed a bill to make per manent the temporary legislation which al lows Army and Air Force officers to retire with the rank and pay of the temporary higher grades they may be holding. The Navy officers already have this privilege. While it looks like a gimmick to boost the retirement pay (and the rank) of the officers, . the measure has merits. Officer compensa tion is not generous especially in the lower grades. Attractive retirement pay helps to keep men in the service and the boost helps to compensate them for their early years of low pay. "r-r ; : ; ' Editorial Comment HITCHCOCK GAINED WHILE LOSING Phil Hitchcock the man who lost out by a smaller margin than-expected to Doug McKay has played a beads-he-wins, tails-he-wins political game. He didn't plan it that way, we're convinced. He entered the race for senatorial nomination before there was a hint McKay would come back from his Interior Job to run. Hitchcock stayed in then because he's a stubborn, independent fellow not because he thought he could win. , But in losing, he may have won. He lost because he was unknown. But now, it's apparent from the . vote, at least 40 per cent of the Republican voters know him. He has established that old name rec ognition that is so valuable in politics. And he did it without getting any blemishes on his record. We'd say that he's a red-hot possibility now for any openings. He's young and he'U still be young senatorially in 1960 or 1962. He also appears to be an edds-M favorite for appointment to any vacancy that may exist in the interim. Albany Democrat-Herald - Worn Speeches Add a largely af the bedraggled eavey at reporters, plas a straggle af eataal aassersay. Bat this never ta hather Kefaavtr hit. Undaunted, he launches Into his set speech, which the reporters have heard, with minor variations, uncounted times before. Here the contrast with the campaign tech nique of Adlai Stevenson is par ticularly striking. Partly, aae imperii, beeauae the paiioa af repealing the same thing aver and aver again em barrasses him, Btcvenfaa always tries la make a new speech, or at lead ta Mad a new approach, I every slapping place. Steven tan, moreover, hatei la bare aa aadleace, la Ihe point where he tametlmet teems a little like a crvaas haslets trying ta pep ap a dull party, Kefaavrr doeia'l la lha leant mind being baring. The pattern is always the same First there is some folksy local reference, often to some relative in the region one gets the im pression that Kefauver has cous ins strategically located all over the United States. Then, in his slow, earnest voice, Kefauver plunges ruthlessly into a series of cliches: "There is an important part to be played by every seg ment of pur economy," "l want our working people to have good wages and good working condi tions," and so on. When he says such things, he sounds deeply in earnest, and the small crowds listen with obvious respect. When van add ap aU Ihe cliches, they amoaat la a collection af earefally calculated appeals la each ha aorta at vatlag group, from Irak) farmers it postal employee. Tha appeals are shrewdly varied accwrdlag la time aad place. There It avara emphasis aa Ke faaver's . Saatheraaets, far ei anpte. bat the central laaaa bere acaool deeejregatlae-tt rarely All this is according to the rules of the game, of course. Kefauver, moreover, who has shown courage and Intelligence In the past, usu ally plays the game better than most. But, as he has shown in the last few days .here,. Kefauver is also capable of breaking the rules of the game, which is the main reason why his colleagues and the party leaders will have none of him. He hat been repeating that the leading Florida politician!. In supporting Stevenson, have "gang ed ap" aa him. He it nurd la thai, be tayt mournfully. But II would act have happened It thry had known that Steventon, at Gover aar af Illinois, had heartlessly vetoed a It per rent Increase In assistance for the aged and In firm. The quick knife-thrust just before the campaign ends is a classical maneuver, of course. But in this case the maneuver seems a little toe blatant. For Kefauver ne glected to make his charge during his television "debate" with Ste venson, when Stevenson could have easily answered him by pointing out that the Illinois Leg islature, playing a hoary political trick, had (ailed to provide rev enue for the increase. ("There was no time, to bring it up on television," Refaiivef blandly ex plained.) The trick may be effective, since there are many aid people la Flor ida, and Kefaaver't voice vibratet with compattloa when he talks af Steveatoa't beartlettness. Bui In the end. a politician almost al ways pays a heavy penalty far breaking Ihe rales af Ihe game. There It aa aid rule af Amerlraa politics, mareavrr, that a man wba thirsts aa fiercely for Ihe pretideacy thai he will t any thing ta gel K. Is always dlt apaolated la the end. And Keiau ver Is certainly a thlrtly man. . Copyright IMS. Xew York Herald Trlbuni tnt.) 3t7 C omei (Cantiaard from page ane. ernment, however, the "TTnifeoT States receives these only as 'recommendations' to be dealt with as its constitution provides. It will be seen from this slight sketch that the attacks made on the ILO by reactionaries in the United States, as disguised inter national communism, are com pletely unjustified." Through its history the ILO has been influential in lifting the stan dards of labor in foreign countries such as to get foreign countries to reduce child labor and to im prove the working conditions for saamen, measures which not only help the people affected but re duce the differential In labor costs which American industries torn plain of. Just now the ILO is plagued by antagonism within the United States on two grounds. One is, the amendment presented by Sen. Bricker to hold down the contri bution of this country to its sup port because the USSR has recent ly joined ILO. .This has given occasion for considerable discus sion because the usual represen tation in 1L0 is divided equally among labor, employer and gov ernment for each country, and the question is under debate in ILO over how a Socialist country like Russia could divide its represen tation. However our labor represent atives have been glad to get Rus sia in the lorum w here they could expose labor conditions, in the USSR, particularly its slave labor camps. Uniformly the voting has been preponderantly for the free world as against the Communists. But some of our big employer groups like the NAM and V. h Chamber of Commerce, are afraid of ILO-hence the Senate vote to approve the amendment by Bricker. over the opposition of the administration. The shortsightedness of our at titude is revealed again in this case: 11.0 has been working for years to end forced labor such as exists in Russia. First it had to get the evidence, which it pub lished in 1953 in a 620 - pane report. Recently an ILO commit tee added Communist China as one requiring forced labor. ILO prepared a draft convention ban ning this for submission to vari ous governments. While, as Or, Shotwell said, our government has not acted on. such conventions, be cause of fear of Bricker and his partisans, the State department is unwilling to have its represent ative in ILO vote in favor of the convention calling on countries to abolish slave labor! LIFE maga une. which certainly is no organ of the radicals, points out that although the Soviet Union has al ready voted (or Ihe convention the USA. on its present order at the June meeting of ILO in Geneva, will be ".sulking in silence, unable to discuss the most rudimentary of social ad vances instead of proudly leading a cause which was settled in this country nearly a hundred years ago. And all because the State department is buffaloed by a handful of legalists and senators." LIFE asks this question: "How far out of touch with American sentiments and Ameri can principles can you gef " ' The New York Times has en dorsed a resolution by Sen. Hum phrey to have the United States support this convention. George P. Delaney, the labor represent ative at the ILO meeting, who has observed the battle of organized labor in (his country to end Soviet exploitation of labor, declares he "is at a loss to believe that the United States government would fail to give effective moral leader ship to the establishment of a convention by the ILO to abolish this inhuman exploitation of work ers." In view of the many times L'.S. representatives in interna tional gatherings have denounced slave labor in Communist coun GOLDEN GLOVES - Sgt. Bob Mason, Salem police officer, is a bird-watcher. He's also a people-watcher. And anyone who watches birds and people, especially a police officer, can't help compare . the two species. The Masons started bird- while a fat robbin flopped around in the water, providing a free spray. Sparrows, apparently are not worried about being only half-safe. As the Masons got deeper into their bird watch ing, they built more baths and bird houses and even bored s fine bird-type entrance into the gable of the toolhouse ... As he looks out into his backyard teeming with birds Mason often compares the sparrows with characters he meets in line of police duty. The vag who goes wherever whim or convenience takes him; the stumbler who subtly approaches the door to freedom, knowing he'll be back in the cage soon; the two characters in a fight on the street over something or someone forgotten and ignored ... Then there Is the swallow with his neat white coat, sleek top, trim carriage and cocky manner. He's like the well-dressed young man who walks into the police with a traffic ticket in his hand. He's in to post bail in a hurry, because he has no time for court. He makes so much money he can't afford to appear. Betides, he says, he wouldn't have a chance With the judge, anyway . . . And, often, while he's .watching a bouncy, tipped-back robin approaching a helpless worm, Mason's vision blurs and he seems to see a matron, neatly groomed and with regal bearing stalking the desk sergeant on duty. She has a park ing ticket. She didn t deserve it and its a crying shame. She pays, but only after telling the officer off and beating him down to size with her relentless beak. Finally, she grabs her receipt and flies out the door leaving the poor, wriggling worm behind ... EES (lS III II ('((HI Mirror r Mrs. Grant Photo Has Capital Astir By A. ROBERT SMITH Statesman Correspondent WASHINGTON - The Oregon election winner who seemed to get almost as much attention from the press of the nation's capital as either President Eisen hower or Adlai Stevenson and more than Sen. Wayne Morse or Douglas McKay was the state's new Democratic national commit teewoman. That doesn't mean that Vir ginia A. Grant has lots of sup porters in Washington, D. C, for she was as much an unknown here as In many parts of the stale. But the Portland waitress seemed to be a welcome change from the tiresome gallery of political faces that dot the local scene. Mrs. Grant, a 33-year-old bru nette, was introduced to the na tion's capital, where she will have to attend period meetings of the Democratic national com mittee, by means of newspaper photos wearing the prescribed costume for her job serving guests in the Aloha room of Portland's lleathman Hotel a strapless gown and a flower in her hair. . . A newspaper reporter for the Washington Star called this re tries it certainly is a mystery why the State Department is now afraid to clinch a victory in ILO for the cause it has supported so strongly in the past. One can only hope that our government will get enough backbone to speak (or and vote for this draft convention. Surely Mr. Bricker can support that, considering that slavery here was abolished by the Emancipa tion Proclamation of 1863 and by the ISth amendment. Or would he repeal both of these charters of human liberty? studying about eight years ago when they moved intojheir present home. They found a community of swallows were renttngpart of the attic space and had also set up house keeping over the front porch . . . That winter the swallows were joined by a pack ot noisy sparrows. Tbe Masans set out feeder trees and built bird baths. They toon noticed that the sparrows, too laiy to dunk themselves, would stand by porter for all the dope of the new ly elected committeewoman but got little detailed aid. Undaunt ed, the reporter said, "Well, I'll have to interview her myself t then, for we've got to haVe a i story on her " Most eNery politician dreams of the day lightning will strike at the right time to give him a jolt upward in his political ca reer. But Rep Sam Coon would just as soon shuflle along by his own steam, thank you. having had juM about all the lightning he cares to tangle with for a while. Coon was flying back to Wash ington recently from a congres sional junket to Florida arranged by Ihe Pentagon. Before their. Air Force plane with a full load of congressmen had reached the halfway point, black storm clouds loomed ahead. Deciding to plunge right into them, the pilot a two star general gave his passengers more excitement than they had bargained for. A holt of lightning slammed into the wing of the plane just a few feet beyond the window from whiih the Raker congressman was watching the storm. The plane lurched, then drop-, ped so suddenly that the ashtrays in the arm rest shot up against ' the ceiling. A game of checkers was literally broken up. The ! passengers were saved from i scalp wounds by their fastened seat befts. The pilot decided he had had it, and turned hack for an emer gency landing at Ft. Bragg. N C. While the military made ac comodations ready for the solons to stay over until a plane could complete the return trip. Coon and several companions decided tn finish the junket by train Their Names Remain County Title. Honors Scourge of British (Edilor't Nate: Tkit it the tint la a weekly series af articles vrlttea by Statesman staff member Thomas G. Wright Jr. re counting the history behind place names la the Mid-Willamette Valley.) Early Oregon pioneers kept an anxious eye on England, ever feajful that they might make some move to head off the Americanization of the Oregon country. So it was only natural that a Weems-Hory biography "Life of General Francis Marion" should place high on the best-reader list among Willamette Valley folk back around 1849 when territorial government was young. Hadnt old General Marion, the Swamp Fox, whipped the Redcoats to tatters in the. Revolutionary War? That's why the territorial leg islature decided on Sept. 3, 1849 to change the name of Champoef County to Marion County. So the name of Gen.- Marion who never was closer to the banks of the Willamette than the lowlands of the Carolinas was added to the map of Oregon . . . Marion Coun ty .. . the city of Marion . . Marion Square . . . Marion Lake . . . Marion Creek.-T. W Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago ' May n, IS4I John Lambert, Klamath Falls, and his sister, Mrs. Antoinette Bose. Salem, escaped with minor injuries when their plane struck a 90-foot power pole and crashed into Willamette River a mile west of West Salem. 25 Years Ago May r, 1S31 Lifted bodily from the track by a tornado, the Great Northern crack traiiL. Empire Builder. east bound, was wrecked near Fargo. N. D , killing one person and injuring several. M. E. 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