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-(Sec. I) Statesman, Salem, "No Favor Sways Vs. V"o Fear Shall Awe." From First Stattsman. March It, 1851 CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor & Publisher WENDELL WEBB, Managing Editor Entered at the port office at Salem, Ore., ai iccond clan matter under act of Congreaa. March S, 1878. Published every morning. Business office 280 Church St.. NE, Salem. Ore. Tel. EM 4-6811 Member Associated Press the Associated Preaa It entitled exclusively to the un for reproduction of all local news printed In this newspaper. Recognizing China Overlooked for editorial comment was the action of the Americans for Democratic Ac tion in voting to favor negotiations looking to recognition of Red China. The ADA is the heir of the old New Deal, but in this move it goes against the policy of the Truman admin istration, which has been continued by Eisen hower and Dulles. Red China remains outside the pale, though there is universal admission that this nation can't indefinitely Ignore an other with a population of some half billion and more inhabitants. The difficulty for the United States is that, having taken its extreme position of no inter course with Red China, and having stayed so constantly at the side of Chiang Kai-shek, any gesture of approach to the Reds is taken as appeasement or worse. Our position thus has become frozen. We have little room for maneuver in trying to reach somej under standing with the Reds. Meantime China continues firm under con trol of the Peiping Communists. Even Chiang has quit talking about imminent revolution and a Nationalist invasion of the continent is no longer mentioned. Just how the ADA would go about estab lishing formal relations with Red China wasn't spelled out The time may have passed when we might have come to terms with the Reds if such a time ever did occur. Red China has been quite contemptuous of Britain and certainly shows no interest in obtaining U. S. recognition. The situation has hardened, and it may be necessary to wait for some change in attitudes in Washington or Peiping before any settlement can be effected. The retire ment of Senator Knowland from the Senate in 1959 may moderate somewhat the climate in Washington. At present the subject is under a complete tabu In official circles, even for discussion Townsite Offered - GROW with Oregon, the house organ of the Oregon Planning and Development de partment, in its May issue has an article de scriptive of "probably the best undeveloped industrial site in Umatilla County or in Ore gon" the 340-acre McNary Townsite on the bench above McNary Dam. Recently Congress transferred this townsite to the Bureau of Indian Affairs with broad powers for leasing . to private enterprise particularly designed to provide employment for Indians." A' lessee is required to give preference to Indians who are qualiifed for the jobs in hand doesn't this provision conflict with Oregon's fair em ployment act? The townsite served as the residence and shopping center for workers on McNary Dam. It has utilities, postoffice, retail store area. The tract is served by good highways, by railroad and water transport is available on the Columbia. This looks like an excellent location for industry. Heretofore new indus tries In this section have located on the Wash ington side, a pulp-papter mill and now a steel fabricating plant in Walla Walla County, and chemical plants in Benton County. We hope the OP&D can succeed in bringing the tract into the hoped-for uses. 'Chickens' of President's First 4 Years Coming Home to Roost By JOSEPH ALSOP NEW YORK In the feelings it inspires, Idlewild Airport lies halfway between the Appian Way and one of the space stations of the grisly future period. But even at Idlewild, waiting for a plane to crisis-ridden France, this reporter remains obsessed by the recent, strange exper ience of plung ing back into E i s enhower's Washington. The second Eisenhnwpr ad. dV ministrat i o n, Jff I one notes as I son .as one m iawawa note hnmp is rather s t r i k ingly different from the first. Neil McElroy is mercifully unlike Charles E. Wilson. There is a comparable lack of resemblance between Christian Herter and Herbert Hoover, Jr. A score of other, very similar major human im provements might be cited. There is also an improvement In the governmental atmos phere although this is perhaps rather negative In character. At least, the old smugness has quite disappeared. At least, one Is no longer constantly commanded to admire the selfless patriotism of captains of industry, wh are using all their hard-won know how to dismantle the defeases, to alienate the allies, and to weaken the world position of their country. But something, unhappily, Is still very wrong Indeed in this Washington of Dwight Elsenhow er's second term. The proof lies In the last fortnight's lurid, un ending chroi.icle of disastrous American setbacks all over the globe. What, then, is this something that Is wrong? In part, quite obviously, the chickens reared in the fat, smug. y v Ore., Thurs., May 22, '58 Education Aid Forest fires places in the wet spring it doesn't take long for the woods to dry out, especially when a north or east wind is blowing. So it's time to hang out the warning against fires if we want to "Keep Oregon Green." Editorial Comment The Voice That Spoke In, Commonsense Accents Elmer Davis, the broadcaster and publicist who ', headed the Office of War Information in World War II, had, the quality that many Americans ad mire above any other good, unshakable common sense based on fearless regard for truth. Davis' sensible handling of the early war news on the radio won him the ear of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who handed him the large and in coherent American war information and prop aganda to run. No one could have been chosen for this job who was less likely to let it get to his head. The development of the Voice of America under Davis was one of the permanent achieve ments of the war effort, and the more his suc cessors pattern after his straightforward ideas about what to tell the world about America the better. After the war, Davis became perhaps the best known spokesman for the conviction then far from universal that freedom was more important than the fight against domestic American Communists. His rasping voice did as much as any one voice could do to cut Senator McCarthy down to size. (San Francisco Chronicle). . outwardly lucky years of the first term are just coming home to roost. As was foreseeable, they all look like vultures. But in this reporter's opinion, the roots of the thing that is wrong go back to the very beginning, to the tragic drama that oc curred when the President took office. At that time, the United States still stood at the head of the world. But a whole bale of warn ings was waiting on the new President's desk, even as he walked into the White House. These papers terminated in the last National Security Council directive ojL the Truman admin istration. They rather belatedly recognized that America's posi tion would soon be challenged by the rapid, massive growth of Soviet power. They called for more effort much more effort to safeguard the American posi tion. With George Humphrey at the Treasury and Wilson at the De fense Department, the Elsenhow er administration was already half-committed to less national effort. With Lewis Strauss mov ing In on the Atomic Energy Commission and Robert Cutler at the National Security Council, the Administration was already tending to the view that the peo ple did not need U know about the people's business. Evea so, for nine long months la lssi, the President played with the idea ef "Operation Can dor." He wanted to tell the American people the harsh facta of their situation. He wanted to go on from there, to n call for greater national effort to deal with those facts. But finally, la October, 1953, "Operation Can dor" was blocked by the budget firsteri and the secrecy addicts. Thereafter, the Administration increasingly refused to believe the intelligence reports. It was too uncomfortable to belleva the intelligence, when nothing was The House Education Committee by a tie vote, 15 to 15, killed a bill for federal aid to schoolhouse construction along the lines rec ommended by President Eisenhower last year. This year the President dropped this aid to education, recommending instead scholar . ships and teacher grants. Revival of the bill, to aid construction was a Democratic move.' All the Republicans on the committee plus Chairman Barden and Rep. Phil Landrum of Georgia, both Democrats, voted against re porting the bill out. With no presidential endorsement the bill probably would not have passed the House anyway, even if Adam Powell would withhold his anti-segregation amendment. The bill to provide 25,000 scholarships is pending, and if any legislation in aid of edu cation passes this will probably be it Spite of all the stir about the Sputniks congres sional interest in education is of low voltage. Highways rate higher than schools. Harold Stassen fell far short in his attempt at a political -comeback in Pennsylvania. The Republican machine ground him out, pre ferring a political newcomer, a' pretzel manu facturer, Albert T. McGonigle. The nomina tion may not be worth much however, for the Democrats have nominated Mayor David L. Lawrence of Pittsburgh, a political power in the state and a popular figure. Republicans may lose the senatorship to Gov. George M. Leader, Democrat, who will run for that office against Rep. Hugh Scott of Philadel phia. Pennsylvania is no longer a fief of the GOP. As for Stassen, it looks as though his political star had set. Too bad, too, because he is a man of capacity and character. Bruce Myers, managing editor of the Cor vallis Gazette-Times, has discovered that in Benton County at least, "sin" is more popular than "work." He deduced that from the fact that Albert Eichman, who ran for governor on a "wide open" platform got 91 votes while another candidate, George Livingston, whose slogan was "Let's go to work" polled only 19. All that in straight-laced Benton County. However, in Marion County the same prefer ence was shown: 413 for Eichman, 118 for Livingston. are reported from several Northwest. Though we had a being done about it. - The leadership was self-deceived. The country was de ceived. But meanwhile the growth of Soviet power continued at an ever-increasing rate. The hostile ferment in the ex-colonial countries progressed to wards the crisis point. The very heart of the Western Alliance began to show symptoms of de cay. The old, unchallengeable position of the United States was altogether lost. And these dan gers abroad, finally, were accen tuated and increased by reces sion at home. The government's almost total Inability to make any coherent, continuous response to this com bination of challenges is a key characteristic of the second Eis enhower administration. W h e a the heat Is very hot Indeed, they thrash about, as they have done and they are again doing In the Middle East. But these intermit tent thrashings only disguise the basic passivity. One reason for this is obvious. The great measures that are now needed cannot even be consider ed until the country is fully and firmly undeceived. Yet any true accounting to the country, in the manner of "Operation Candor," would make James Hagerty and a great many other, much more important people look both silly and fraudulent. But there is another, deeper reason. A truly "dynamic new policy" that really might "recap ture the initiative" cannot even begin to be involved without the most dynamic leadership, endow ed with the most inexhaustible vigor, the freshest intelligence, and the most ruthless capacity for detailed! hard work. Until these qualities are present at the top, the new challenges can nev er be met. So the American posi tion will continue to deteriorate. JTtW Yerk'SafarabuDa, Ximl) .r lllpj Lb) GO r&mm&J ' " - s"r Ex-Rep. Coon in Peru for Year Without Becoming Rock Target By A. ROBERT SMITH Statesman Correspondent WASHINGTON Sam Coon has been in Lima, Peru, a whole year and no one has thrown a rock at him yet. The ex-Congressman from Baker is deputy director of the U.S. foreign aid agency. Inter national Coop eration Ad min is tra tion, for Peru. "They must save the rocks for the higher officials," joked A. Kohert smith Coon, who Is back for a week on official business. It was in Lima that Vice Presi dent Nixon was grazed by a rock thrown by students at one of the universities which Nixon visited. Speaking more seriously. Coon declared that both he and Mrs. Coon like their assignment very much. "It's a good city, a good coun try, and good people to be with," he averred. Coon said ICA sponsors five programs In Pern, principally in agriculture, health and education Improvements. The others are labor and general development Beyond that, Coon said he couldn't tell about his work or why he was brought to Washing ton. Asked if he was under wraps because of a new order by the State Department which prohibits officials from talking with news men informally, Coon said: . "I don't know that it's new. It's been in effect for the year I've been with ICA. I'm not sup posed to give out any press re leases or talk to newspapermen about what we are doing. And I don't want to get into trouble." Coon spent some time on Capi tol Hill lunching with old col leagues in the House restaurant, apparently contacting key mem bers of the Appropriations Com jfuttee, possibly to plug for funds for the foreign aid or trade pro grams. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D Ore.) has joined Justice William O. Douglas and his walking band of protestants who make an an nual pilgrimmage here in behalf of the beauty of nature. Douglas for some years has been hiking part of the length of the Chesapeake and Ohle Canal, where the Interior Department has proposed building a parkway. It runs from Washington to Cum berland, Md along the Potomac GRIN AND BEAR . . And I don't want any of your fancy efficiency, Smedleyl I want it done rightl" , , WEAKENING SALES RESISTANCE River, and . is now a beautiful wilderness left standing since the advent of the railroads. The first year Douglas and his cohorts. Including some puffing newsmen, hiked the fall US-mile length. This year they went 16M miles, starting early after camp ing out overnight hi order to make the bike during the coolest part of the day. , Neuberger couldn't keep up with Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago May 22, 1948 Bob Seamster Salem High School senior, was elected state master councilor of the Order of DeMolay in the closing bus iness session of the annual con clave. Local participation plans for Henry A. Wallace's two speak ing appearances in Salem were announced by Ivan Lovely of Willamette University. W a 1 lace, Progressive third party presidential candidate, will speak from the steps of Waller Hall. 25 Years Ago May 22, 1933 Every possible effort to ' change the decision of the com missioner of Indian Affairs on closing the Chemawa Indian School was being put forth by the Salem Chamber of Com merce. Since closing became imminent, Senator McNary has been exerting his efforts to avert it. Mrs. Greta Hiatt, Garfield school teacher, recovered her missing coupe after it had been discovered lodged in the top of a tree 100 feet down a steep bank along the North Santiam road near Gates. 40 Years Ago May 22, 1918 Louis Lachmund has the dis tinction of having been given the Democratic as well as the Republican nomination for state senator. The name of Lachmund was written in by the Demc? crats. The grippe-like epidemic con tinues toi spread. There are 120,000 victims in Madrid, Spain. King Alfonso is confined with the malady. IT By Lichty - the steady four-mile-an-hour pace the SS-year-old Douglas set, but he walked the full distance. He had no comment when asked If this was to keep in shape for going the other mile with his colleague, Sen. Wayne Morse. Morse himself is no slouch at outdoor activity, for he keeps in shape on his farm in nearby Maryland on weekends. Last winter he had an experience which demonstrated his rugged ness. Scheduled to make a speech in Johnstown, Pa., he found that be cause of a heavy snowstorm the airlines had cancelled all flights. So he took off by car, driving over the Alleghenies to get there in time for his engagement. Returning that night as far as he could go, he was forced by snowdrifts to stay overnight in a small town hotel. Next morning, though told the roads were block ed to Washington, he set out and got to within four miles of his farm via a network of back roads. He hiked through the snow the last four miles, then preceded to saddle up his horse and ride out to bring in a bunch of his prize cattle that refused to buck snowdrifts to return , to the barn and food. His horse threw him into a drift, but he saved his cattle be fore coming in soaking wet for a change into warm, dry clothing. DO1 SETTEE (Continued textile mills causing a switch among many political leaders to favor tariffs on imports. Trade associations, the American Tariff League and many other groups have been diligent in lobbying for defeat or marked modifica tion of the reciprocal trade ex tension bill. On the other hand powerful groups give it support, such as business organizations interested in export-import trade, interna tionalists, merchant marine in terests, and the three leading farm organizations. Anticipating strong opposition to the bill Pres ident Eisenhower recruited a strong committee of business leaders, under Clarence Randall, former head of Inland Steel. This organization has done much to wet down business opposition. It looks, from the action of the House committee, that the Pres ident will win this battle. The South American riots will dis courage much waving of Ameri can eagle feathers in appeals for protection of home industry. Attitudes of course are affect ed by immediate interests of in dividuals and of corporations and of groups. Farmer and labor groups divide as their interests are affected. Willamette Valley ici cum lauvr Better Enqlish By D. C. Williams 1. What is wrong with this sen tence? "I see Mr. Morgan most every day, and I expect he is kind of perplexed." , 2. What is the correct pronun- ciauon ot "inchoate 7 3. Which one of these words Is misspelled? Supercede, inter cede, impede, procedure. 4. What does the word "expe dient" (noun) mean? 5. What is a word beginning with pert that means "obstin- -acy"? Answers 1. Say, "I see Mr. Morgan AL MOST every day, and I SUS PECT he is RATHER per plexed." 2. Pronounce in-koh-it, accent on second syllable. 3. Su persede. 4. Suitable means to ac complish an end. "Hard work is an expedient to success." t. Per tinacity, j Egg of Rare Crane Has Zoo in Tizzy NEW ORLEANS UB Josephine, the whooping crane who became the first of her specie to repro duce in captivity, Wednesday flipped Audubon Park Zoo into a Tizzy. She laid another egg her third this spring. Audubon officials said the near extinct whooping crane normally lays only two eggs per clutch- even when in their native marsh' lands. One of Josephine's two eggs laid earlier this spring hatched April 30. The other failed to hatch. Both of last year's clutch hatched and the birds survived. George Douglass, park superin tendent, said he believed the rea son for the third egg tms year was that the new chick was taken from Josephine and Crip, her mate, when it was four days old. Josephine "was not distracted by the chick, he said, so she went back to laying. Douglass said he thought Josephine Is planning a second clutch for the season and will lay another egg about Friday. He said Crip and Josephine are preparing to incubate the egg. Dogs Search Swamp for Bank Robber STOKESDALE. N. C. Ml A Dosse with bloodhounds searched through swamp and thicket for a desperate Negro bank robber Wednesday. He may be dressed only in his shorts and is carrying a sawed-off shotgun and $10,000 in loot. The young bandit, obviously tough and resourceful, robbed the Stokesdale Commercial Bank of $16,424. He has eluded the posse since he abandoned his stolen get away car and dashed wildly into the treacherous terrain, dropping part of the loot in his disordered retreat. Officers recovered $8,906 of the money taken from a frightened teller shortly after noon Tuesday. The FBI said it was either dropped or discarded by the ban dti as he fled in a hail of bullets fired by bank cashier Gerald Rich ardson. About five miles away the thief abandoned the car, fleeing on foot into the heavy brush. Guilford County Sheriff John E, Walters said a pair of trousers and a coat, which apparently be longed to the bandit, were found late Wednesday. Sheriff Walters said many spec tators rilled the five-mile-square search area, making it difficult for the 50 posse members to pro ceed. Holden Has Business HONG KONG un-Hollywood ac tor William Holden is in business in this British colony. A govern ment list of new corporations in eludes the Sancola Investment Co., Ltd., with nominal capital of 100, 000 Hong Kong dollars (about $17, 000), subscribed by Holden and George Ho, Hong Kong Chinese merchant. Birthstone of .November is topaz. the mum From Page 1) cherry growers are naturally concerned over any lowering of tariffs which would open up the American markets more widely for imports from France. Fil bert growers are concerned over competition from the Mediter ranean. 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