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Newspaper Page Text4-(Sec. I) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Mon., April 21, '58 INdUUfldl mil) IGJ II CHAIN LETTER "No Favor Sways V$. s; So Fear Shall Awe." From Ftnt Stairsmna, March 28, 1S51 CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor ct Publisher WENDELL WEBB, Managing Editor Entered at tht poet office at Salem, Ore., M aecond clan matter under act Of Congreee, March 3, 1179. Published every mornlnf . Builnesa office 280 Church 'St.. NE, Salem. Ore. Tel. EM 4-M11 Member Auociated Press The Anoclated Preaa Is entitled exclusively to the uae tor reproduction of all local newa printed In thii newipaper. 'Four Easy Steps To Halt Slump' The April Harper's has an article by Ross M. Robertson, described as a former econ omist with the Federal Reserve Bank, who tackles the subject "Four steps to halt the slump and avoid another." Here is the stair he offers for recovery: 1. Unbalance the budget - 2. Make the Federal Reserve System polit ically responsible. 3. Unhinge residential building from mon etary policy. . 4. Require the Council of Economic Ad visers to speak forthrightly. That seems Straight out of John Maynard Keynes, the British economist who sold pres ident Franklin D. Roosevelt on "easy money" and deficit spending. Most Americans pro fess adherence to' the principle of a balanced budget, though they do not call for a balance every year. The Federal Reserve system was set up as an independent body to prevent its being "debauched" by distraught politicians. And it is pretty hard to see how residential' building can be divorced from the main stream of monetary policy. As for the Coun cil of Economic Advisers, one can hardly con ceive of their making positive, definite pre; -dictions ILlheyd,theyJouldofteriJbe abused for puncturing booms. Robertson pays his compliment to those whose views differ from his own: "Unfortunately far the cause of economic stability, men in their middle years and later the ones who are running things now learned their economics in a day when the subject was more than a branch of philosophy. Unless they have made a heroic effort to keep up, the economic principles which they absorbed are of little use in solving today's policy problems. They are simply articles of faith, embraced with religious fervor, that stand solidly in the way of responsible, adquate government action when it is required. That puts this editor in his place! At a meeting of the advisory committee on 0 4c C land administration the bureau of land management reported that prices realized on stumpage sales this year are down about $5 per thousand from a year ago. This of course reduces the income to the government and the counties, but larger sales are planned for the year, so the total may not suffer badly. The lower cost of logs helps mills to operate in spite of lowered prices on lumber. Busi ness shouldn't wait on revival of the prices of 1955-57 but set about reducing costs to allow a safe operating margin. But one of the pains of cost-cutting is dropping of workers and that has a depressing effect. Eventually though a footing Is restored and then the slide is stopped, only to be followed, sooner or later, by the upward spiral. Our economy still operates in cycles. The Statesman is glad to enroll'the Eugene Register-Guard in its campaign for four-year terms for congressmen. The R-G believes dis tricts would get more service from represent atives if they had longer terms and didn't have to spend so much time mending fences. Rep. Walter Norblad told us the other day that the Senate blocks this reform, which would require a constitutional amendment. Senators, with six-year terms, don't want re presentatives running against them in the lat ter' off-years. Now to run for the Senate a representative has to yield his congressional seat which few are willing to do unless the omens are very favorable. (We recommend four-year terms for state representatives too). Secretary of the Treasury Anderson for sees a budget deficit of $3 billion for this fis cal year, and possibly $8 for the next. Just how big a deficit do the revived New Dealers require to spend ourselves prosperous? It must have been quite startling indeed to hear Moscow Radio playing "The Star Spangled Banner" the other night. It was a recording by a military band and was played, so the radio announcer said, in response to requests by American listeners in Wisconsin and Virginia. Being completely government controlled, Moscow radio ran no risk of criticism in its rendition.. But the performance gives rise to' two interesting questions. How many Amer ican radio stations would have the Russian national anthem in their record albums and how many brickbats would any American radiv station receive if it played it? Incidentally, the Russian national anthem is "Hymn of the Soviet Union," with words by Sergei Mikhalkoff and S. L. Gistan, music by A. V. Alexandroff . It is to wonder whether anyone in Russia ever plays the anthems of its once-independent satellites, such as the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland countries like Estonia ("My Native Land, So Wondrous Fair"), Latvia ("God Bless Our Fatherland") and Lithuania ("Lithuania, Land of Heroes"). Coins Provide Interesting Study Salem Coin Club is observing the 100th an niversary of the American Numismatics So ciety (and National Coin Week) with displays in five Salem businesses in the next few days. It is expected they will draw wide in terest. ' The study of coins has long been a fascin ating avocation for many persons. And there's lots to study. Coins of various shapes date back to the 8th century B. C. from Lydia in Asia Minor, where they were struck from gold and electrum. China started issuance at about the same time. Philip II of Macedon gave the custom its first major impetus with round coins nearly 400 years later in Greece, -where gold and copper both came into con siderable use, Bronze Roman coins came into circulation about that time, too. English settlers in Bermuda brought coinage to the New World nearly 350 years ago, and the first regular U. S. coinage was begun in 1793. Being no expert on coins, we won't go into their ancient values. All we know is a nickel won't buy as much as it did in our youth. Country Safe One can nearly always depend on the good ladies of the D. A. R. at their annual conven tion to provide the people with a good dose of spring humor. They are so mis-cast, so "Tory-minded." This year they were more alarmist than usual. Not only did they vote to Joint Commission, the agency eet the U. S. out of UN. thev oassed a resolu- charged with responsibility for tion for a study of fluoridation of water, hav ing been aroused by one member who warned this might well be a dirty Communist trick to poison Americans! In one respect, though, they followed the course of their an cestors: they want citizens to have guns and know how to use them, so they can defend their homes when the Reds land! With such resolutions we may be sure the country is safe until next April. 1 ' - r-af w ' 7v ' p! mm$mmimmmmmm McKay, Neuberger Matched First Time in Senate Hearing US. Officials Work Urgently on Strategy in Nuclear Flight Issue By A. ROBERT SMITH Staleiman Correspondent WASHINGTON The Senate In terior Committee Monday renews its investigation of the Canadian- American .dis pute over the Columbia River in hearings which will match for the first time across a con gressional com mittee table two Oregon po-i litical. foes of long standing, Sen. Richard L. - Robert amtta Neuberger and Douglas McKay. McKay is now chairman of the U.S. section of the International settling disputes with Canada over waterways used by both na tions. Neuberger is a member of the committee and will . take charge of the hearings, calling McKay as the final witness. The committee began an inves tigation of the problem in 1950 after reports from Ottawa indi cated the Canadians were consid- '"VI Jr JPBBa wa: wanwnnnwnannnnnj ihg the river will not be com pleted until toward the end of the year. After these ' investigations are completed, the statement said the IJC will make recommenda tions to the governments of both countries on what should be done. "We don't knew what's going on," contended Neuberger. "Yet the IJC Is entrusted with decid ing how S.4 million kilowatts shall be developed." , , Neuberger aald he thought the best description of the IJC wai the one Winston Churchill ap plied to Russia: "It's a mystery wrapped In aa enigma uuide a riddle." McKay could not be reached for comment. He was in Seattle pute the IJC chairman was Len Jordan, ex -governor of idano, with whom Neuberger frequently tangled. The Oregon senator made an inspection of the upper Columbia -River area in, British Columbia prior to the committee's investigation. - la speeches and magazine artt eles, Neuberger haa charged that Jordan and McKay, who sac ceeded him last rammer, have made little or ao effort to achieve agreement with Canada la a man ner which would permit construc tion at large storage dams on the upper Columbia. Be has con tended that the Elsenhower ad ministration has aot poshed the matter because it holds a private utility bias against Urge federal for a speech to the American In- .1,11. .m h. mad ternauonai uw insuiuie. ,,,. by agreement. McKay Deiure mcnay, uie ei-tauuiei Vhai ridiculed these contentions. official who unsuccessfullfv ran for the Senate against Sen. tyajTr' Morse in 1956, gets his chance as a witness to explain what s going on, the committee has scheduled testimony from five other government agencies and conservation groups. The last time the committee ex plored the Columbia River dis ering diverting a portion of the wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Kooteney ttiver into tne uoium- Before McKay is called, the committee will take testimony from the State Department, from Gen. Emerson C. Itschner, chief of the Army Engineers? Assistant Secretary of Interior Ross Leff- ler on fisheries, Bonneville Power Administration and Federal Pow er Commission. 33 bia and, in turn, diverting part of the Columbia into the all Canadian Fraser River system in British Columbia. The Kootenay diversion would make the proposed Llbby dam in . western Montana economically In feasible, for it would decrease the flow of the river substantial ly. The Columbia diversion would reduce the flow of the region's largest river and thereby slash Its hydroelectric potential for the Pacific Northwest. Both diversions, however, would Increase the power potential on the Canadian aide. But fishing In terests In B.C. are stoutly op posed to the Columbia diversion and the dams which would ac company it on the salmon-rich Fraser river. "We just want to find out where we stand," declared Neu berger on the eve of the hear ings. The International Joint Com mission met here last week in closed sessions for its regular semi-annual meeting. Afterward it issued a formal statement which said the commissioners plan to inspect the Columbia Basin, scene of the disputed use nf th river, next summer. It (Eugene Register-Guard). .aid an engineering report on the j various alternatives ror aeveiop- Back in the days of the Hoover adminis tration the Democratic national committee had Charlie Michaelson, an old press hand, to do a superb job of "smearing" Hoover. Now the committee doesn't have to hire a man to do that job on Eisenhower, Dulles and Nixon it just lets the Washington Post's cartoonist, Herblock, do the job. It is safe to assume that Soviet planes make practice runs all the time too. They have maps and have pinpointed their targets. ' Editorial Comment Modest Proposal Wernher von Braun, the rocket expert, told a special House of Representatives committee on space problems that Americans should .confine themselves to the sun, the moon and the planets for the time being. Space problems beyond the solar system, he added, should be theconcern of future generations, not this one. And that seems like a modest enough way of looking at things. After all, we must leave some thing for our grandchildren to do and someplace lor uiem to live. Time Flies: From The 1 Statesman Tilts 10 Years Ago Apr. 21, 1941 It was announced that Dr. John C. Evans, Oregon State Hospital superintendent, will resign within a few weeks to become a con sultant at the institution. Dr. Charles Bates, acting superinten dent, has been offered the posi tion. Willamette Collegian, student weekly newspaper at Willamette University, received word that it had been selected All-American by the Associated Collegiate Press at University Minnesota School of journalism. 25 Years Ago Apr. 21, 1933 Erma Oehler, of Salem, was elected president of the girls' division of the Northwestern Girls' League conference at Corvallis. More than 300 girls from 29 high schools attended the conference. Three Salem youths took first places in divisions of the state music club's 1932 contest, held in Portland. Salem high winners were Margaret Wonderlick, Lola Burton and Charlotte Hill. 40 Years Ago Apr. 21, 1918 In checking up the registration at the city hall, the following totals were made up for the re spective wards. First ward 637; second ward 1,137; third war 416; fourth 1,311; fifth 1,170; sixth 1,069 and seventh 831. Teaching of geography of Ger many is to be modified by a critical note to be inserted in the texts now in use in the public schools of Oregon. Safety Valve Story also oa page one) WASHINGTON -State De partment officials worked through urgent Sunday conferences to map strategy for Monday's V M. secur ity , Council battle over Soviet denunciation '.of U.S. nuclear bomber operations in the far north. Under the direction of Under secretary Christian Herter, de partment policymakers gave the UN. fight priority over prepara tions for summit conference nego tiations in Moscow. No Separate Talks However, the United States, Britain and France, it was learned, have decided they will not conduct separate talks with Russia on summit issues but will insist on negotiating jointly. This decision is based on the belief, officials said, that the Rus sians are now engaged in a large scale effort to play the Western Allies off one against the other. That may be one purpose of their charge Friday that the United States was risking World War III by sending its nuclear bombers" flying toward Russia. U. S. officials, denying that a war could be started accidentally, said the planes turn back automatical ly before they get near Soviet borders. Even More Obvious An even more obvious effort to divide and confuse the Allies, offi cials said, was the proposal re portedly made by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson on Thursday that he should deal separately with Thompson and the British and French am bassadors in conducting prelimin ary negotiations on summit conference questions. This actual ly created a new problem at the very outset of diplomatic discus sions on the issue. - The Soviet Union took its charge against Arctic aerial operations to the Security Council Friday. The U.S. State Department denied the flights are provocative and said they will be continued because they form a vital part of the free world a defense. Dramatic Conflict Gromyko s statement that an accidental war could start in the Arctic appeared to conflict dra matically with a statement last June by Soviet leader Nik its Khrushchev that it was quite comical to think of having, an aerial inspection zone in the Arctic area. The United States had pro posed that Russia and the Western powers join in supporting an aeri al test inspection system there. Khrushchev argued that nothing ever happened in the far north; now Gromyko says so much is happening that Wortd War III could start there. West May Have Soviet Union Off Guard Caught By JAMES F. KING LONDON Ul Sudden Soviet caution in approaching the sum mit has created an impression among diplomats here, that the West has caught the Kremlin off guard. For the first time, the Western Powers seemed to have seized the initiative in the bid for world opin ion by agreeing to preparatory Route Set for Powder Puff Derby Flyers LONG BEACH. Calif. UP! The annual all-woman transcontinental air race, better known as the Powder Puff Derby, will be flown from Montgomery Field, San Die go, t Charleston, S.C., starting July 4, race officials said Sunday. The women will compete for $3,000 in prize money. The 2,177.4 mile race will be flown in daylight hours only. The official refueling points are Yuma and Tucson, Ariz., El Paso, Mid land, Abilene and Tyler, Tex., Jackson, Miss., Montgomery, Ala., and Macon, Ga. The contest is sponsored by the Nintey-Nines, Inc., an internation al organization of women fliers. 10,000 Eager Stamp Collectors Besiege Tokyo Post Office TOKYO WV-Ten thousand stamp collectors besieged Tokyo's cen tral post office for seven hours Sunday. Each was sold a maximum of 300 new memorial stamps at a time. Most queued up repeatedly and kept encircling the big office. A police riot squad1 had to be called after several post office workers were injured when the crowd surged and broke windows. The new stamp bears a repro duction of a famed Japanese painting of some 200 years ago. Contrlktraoiif "to th Safoty Valv mait k dene by th con trlkator, (lrinf also bis addrcu. T- ii l r r ll r I 100 vuich Peace possibly bad grin and bear it By Uchty At Present Time for Khrushchev Rejoinder By WILLIAM L. RYAN -T AP Foreign News Analyst Soviet propagandists have a knack for making the best of awk ward situations. The ruckus kicked up by the Kremlin over alleged American flights of planes with nuclear weapons toward Soviet frontiers is a case in point. ' The Russians appear to want a. summit meeting badly. Just as ardently they seem to want that summit meeting to avoid discuss ing any of the issues which the West believes contribute in large measure toward international .ten sions. Too much peace might be bad for Khrushchev at this particular time. It could lead to all sorts of internal pressures, not the least of which would be pressure for relaxation of the Soviet con centration on building world pow er potential through heavy indus trial might That is one side of the Internal Soviet picture. The other side seems to be that Khroshchev still has considerable f litical opposition within the nil- ing Communist party, from those who fear his domestic measures already have gone too far. His programs for decentralizing man agement of -industry and for dis mantling some of the vast bureau cracy impeding Soviet agriculture obviously aroused fear among die hard Stalinists that the Commu nist party is in danger of losing some of its iron grip on the people of the Soviet Union and the satellites. Khrushchev is in an awkward position because he seems to need more peace and to be unable to afford it. If he is to make his new programs work he will need to tap the vast pool of manpower and resources now tied up in a gigan tic military establishment. But at the same time, Khrush chev appears to need external tension as an excuse to keep the consumer public in the U.S.S.R. and the satellites from clamoring for a better share of the Commu nist economy. What Khrushchev appears to want, ultimately, is controlled ten sion that-is, tension which does not entail the risk of a major explosion. , While be is wrestling with in-' ternal contradictions, Khrushchev has no intention of surrendering any of the diplomatic gains he has rolled up. Thus, a stray acci dent in the United States with an A-bomb plane and a few imagina tive reports on how the United" States might -react to the threat of a missile attack were seized upon avidly by the Soviet propa ganda machine. Khrushchev can thus attempt to kill several birds with one, stone. He can revive tension. He can -employ diplomatic blackmail by maneuvering the United .States into a position .where it will be blamed for any failure of negotia tions, leading' to a diplomatic con ference. At the same time he can hope to scare Western Europeans and oriental neutrals alike with the phantom of an accidental nu clear bomb explosion which would plunge the world into war.; . The accusations look like a slick Soviet gambit. The United States, by welcoming a U.N. inquiry, may be able, however, to turn this latest Khrushchev weapon into a boomerang. fc To' the Editor: ' With reference to Mir. Hullette's comments regarding Mr. Donald Thorn's letter of April 17, any one taking the trouble to refer to the city directory can easily see on which side Mr. Hullette's bread is buttered. However, I do agree with Mr. Hullette. All the cads, rascals, and bounders who violate the law should be hustled off to city . ball and made to pay for their atrocious crime. Within a few years Mr. Hul lette and the downtown mer chants will, have their beloved city all to themselves. Irving J. Wagner 765 N. ,16ta St. Better English By D. C. WILLIAMS "After a swing around the country, I find that there's still , plenty of money about . . . But everyone seems to owe it to everyone else! ..." 1. What b irtong With this sen tence? "We don't doubt bat what John will be back in a few days." 2. What .is the correct pro nunciation of "divorcee"? - 3.' Which one of these words is misspelled? Cafateria, cadaver ous, calamitous, caravan. ; . V- ANSWERS ;' 1. Say, "We don't doubt but THAT John win RETURN in a few days." J. Prononce di-vohr-say, principal accent en last syl able. 1. Cafeteria, -t Sterilization Plan Set MADRAS, India ffl-An official spokesman for the Communist government of Kerala State says Indian men and women' who vol unteer to be sterilized will be given 25 rupees $5.50 each. The program, the spokesman said, will be put in operation soon as part of a plan to cut down the state's high birth rate. Artificial Birth Control Termed Repugnant Act WASHINGTON (1 A spokes man for the Catholic Church has declared that artificial birth con trol is repugnant to the moral sense of men, of good will of all nations. The Rev. John E. Kelly, direc tor of-the Bureau of Information of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, issued a statement recently in reply to a Protestant leader who called the Catholic Church's attitude on the matter "theologically wrong and ethically weak." This criticism was voiced ThurS' day at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., by Dr. Richard M. Fagley, execu tive secretary for international affairs of .the World Council of Churches." Disastrous Consequences Dr. Fagley said "a population explosion with disastrous conse quence s Is in the making in Asia and other underprivileged areas. He placed the blame on the Ro man Catholic Church. "Dr. Fagley 's argument must be . termed 'theologically wrong and ethically weak,' " Father Kel ly said. "He must be aware of what the Bible says: (Genesis:! 28, King James version)' and God blessed them (Adam and Jive) and God said unto them, be fruit ful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it.' "Dr. Fagley would divide and subtract, not multiply. His state ment indicates that he favors that the earth subdue man, not man the earth . ! . Very Different 1 "What the Bible -says about marriage is very different from what Dr. Fagley says it says. Dr. F a g 1 e y s 'theoIogicaUy grounded position' is exactly - con trary to the teachings of Chris tian theologians from the days of St. Augustine. It is against both the natural and divine law, as based on the first book of the Bible, is opposed to healthy fami ly life and the well being of the nation." Father Kelley called Dr. Fag- ley's contention that birth control is needed in the face of an ex panding world population a "neo-Malthusian argument." He said it has been discredited many times. Many Problems That there are many problems in feeding a vastly larger popula tion is not denied," Father Kelly said. "But the solution lies in the fields of economic, technological advances and redistribution of the food supply . . . "We ask Dr. Fagley to keep in mind that artificial birth control is repugnant to the moral sense and the family tradition of not only Catholics, but to men of good will of all nations where birth control advocates wish to intro duce their contraceptives and chemicals." talks for the top-level conference. Britain, France and the United States were reported united in a determination to press forward to test Soviet sincerity. Soviet For eign Minister Andrei Gromyko ap jf eared to be maneuvering for time by meeting the Western am bassadors individually, instead of together. Blunt Challenge : The Russians have been con- trmtmA with what amount tn blunt challenge to show their ' old enthusiasm for a summit meeting. British Foreign Secretary Sel wyn Lloyd accused the Russians of stalling by telling a Conserva tive party political meeting Satur day: "They met the three West ern .Powers together around the table at Geneva In 1955. Why they should now refuse to receive the three Western ambassadors is be yond my comprehension." . Amone7 diplomats in this caol- - tal hopeVadmitteclly are not high of a summit conference achieving concrete rcsuua even r among those favoring talks, The Ameri cans particularly have accused Moscow of merely waging prop agandaand opened themselves to some criticism among neutrals and even allies for taking a nega tive attitude. Often Been Critical '. In Britain, the influential Man chester Guardian "has often been critical of the attitude of Presi dent Eisenhower and U.S. Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles. But Soviet maneuvering since the Wast agreed to preparatory talks at the ambassador level drew this comment from the Guardian: "It will be surprising if the world does not now feel that it is the Russians who are dragging their feet along the road to the summit." Miss America Of '55 Weds (Picture on wirephoto page.) SAN FRANCISCO in Lee Ann Meriwether of San Francisco, Miss America Of 1955, married Frank Aletter, New York actor, at St. Francis Episcopal church Sunday. The bride, 22, wore a cream lace wedding, gown and spoke her vows before a capacity crowd of 400 people. About 300 others waited outside to wish the couple wen as they posed for camera men. . ' . Aletter, 12. has been appearing in the Broadway play "Bell's Are Ringing." He arrived from New York Wednesday. The Rev. 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