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Newspaper Page Textmm mmmm mmm shmm Now and Then We Ought to Look in on Mr. Benson LUST Marquis Childs AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER Alton F. Baker EDITOR William M. Tugman MANAGING EDITOR Alton F. Baker Jr. SERVICES Full Associated Press, United Press, Audit Bureau of Circulations. The Register-Guard's policy is the complete and impartial publication in iu news pages of all news and statements on news. On this page the editors of the Register Guard offer their opinions on events of the day and matters of importance to the community, endeavoring to be candid but fair and ht.pful in the development of con structive community policy. A newspaper is A CITIZEN OF ITS COMMUNITY. Entered at the Post Office at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. 8A EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1954 Churchill Postpones Seating of Red China in U.N. In reporting on his recent Washing ton conversations to the House of Com mons, Prime Minister Churchill states that Britain will not press for the imme diate seating of Communist China in United Nations. This seems to be a con cession on his part to the super-heated state of feelings on this side of the water, especially in Congress, where there are threats to withdraw American participa tion in United Nations and cut off Amer ican funds for its work if the Chinese Communists are accepted. Churchill seems to be stalling for time to try to patch up the dangerous differences which have arisen between the principal nations of the Western World, differences which give Moscow a golden opportunity to consolidate and extend the gains of past aggressions. Churchill's decision to play for time is wise. In this country there is a tend ency to think of the crisis in Indochina as the only problem, or the principal part of the problem, which we are facing. Actually the crisis in Asia is only slight ly more acute than that in Europe where the program for the European Defense Community will collapse if France and Italy continue to hold out. (Perhaps no intelligent decisions can be made on any of these problems until after July 20, next Tuesday, the deadline on which the French Premier Pierre Mendcs-France has promised to achieve a cease fire in Indochina or resign his office. Almost anything can hap pen in France if Mendcs-France's negotiations fail.) Secretary Dulles has refused to re turn to the Geneva conferences, or to send any high-level representation, on the ground that this country will not lend its good name to the expected ap peasement which the French will ask their Allies to accept. There is consider able dispute as to whether Dulles' de cision to "stay in his tent" at this junc ture is wise or unwise. In our opinion abstaining from any part in the final sessions at Geneva is an entirely differ ent category from the proposals to with draw from United Nations. At Geneva, as we see It, there is cer tainly nothing to be gained by participa tion in a humiliating surrender which we did not desire, and much might be lost in terms of national prestige. In United Nations, by contrast, we have moral equities to preserve. Churchill's statement that Britain will not rush the seating of Red China at United Nations, therefore, seems to be more than an ordinary gesture of con cilliation to American feelings. It seems to express the realization that the ap peasement panic in Britain may go too far. It has the immediate beneficial effect of persuading Mr. Dulles to go as far as Paris for a consultation with our Allies. Adlai Stevenson Keynotes Oregon Campaign It was the function of Adlai Steven son, as the titular head of the Democra tic Party on his visit to Eugene last Saturday, to keynote the forthcoming campaign in which the Democrats hope to capture control of the congressional delegation, the governor's office, and to rescue the benighted of this common wealth from what they consider to be the sins of Republicanism. The amiable Mr. Stevenson did a good job of key noting, although his keynote was in the main merely the echo of the shrill pipings of Dick Neuberger and other Democratic candidates for office. For the sake of brevity we must paraphrase: The Republicans are giving away your natural resources in water power, timber, etc. McKay's proposal to negotiate with Canada for the Libby Dam is a coverup for the give away at Hells Canyon and you can't trust him. The partnership program for power devel opment is a fraud in which both partners pay and only one collects. There was little in Mr. Stevenson's Eugene speech which we have not heard before, although his remarks were em bellished and enlightened by character istic flashes of the famous Stevenson wit and humor. This light touch is probably the Illinois statesman's greatest gift to politics which is otherwise a deadly dull profession. We are grateful lo .Icbbie Davidson who made it possible for us to meet ihg distinguished visitor and we arc glad that we took the lime to attend the ceremonies at Springfield and at Civic Stadium. The meetings at Eugene signi fy a renascent Democratic Party in Ore gon which will challenge organization and showmanship talents of the GOP. An editor, however, is a very poor subject for political evangelism of any description. After more than 40 years of attending political rat-killings in all parts of the country, we share the feel ing of Ajax McGurk who says: "When I listen to Republican spouters I think' the Democrats must be wonderful peo ple, but when I hear Democratic oratory, I crave Republican sin." At least three times during Satur day's doings, all of the candidates for state and national office were presented and represented. Somewhere along the line we lost track of the "mentions" for all the people who "labored so hard to make a success of this g-r-r-r-cat occa sion." (Republicans are Just as tiresome, if not more so, in their rituals, but we sometimes hope for a genius who will devise a political program which sticks to the essentials.) Those who attended Saturday's cere monies, hoping to hear one of Adlai Stevenson's "greater" speeches, were disappointed. The possible and even probable Democratic standard-bearer for 1956 did little except to denounce Republican sin and exloll Democratic virtues. He did rise above ordinary poli tical evangelism at one point in his appeal to the Democrats lo avoid petty bickering and unreasonable opposition. As a man, Adlai Stevenson appeals the gentleman controls the politician. Strange Case of Ron Knox at California At the University of California in Berkeley, one of the most promising football prospects is a young man named Ron Knox, a quarterback who came from last year's Freshman team with a big reputation for "T" formation ball han dling. Now young Mr. Knox proposes to transfer to UCLA where they play single wing instead of the "T" football with which young Knox is most familiar. The Bend Bulletin gives this Interpreta tion of the affair: So, you say, UCLA recruited him right off the Cal campus. Not so, however. Ron Knox has a father, as do most hoys his age, Hut unlike most fathers, Hon Knox's paternal parent manages his son's career com pletely. It was obViOUS several years ago that young Knox had exceptional ability to throw and kick a football. With a little training he de veloped to a high degree a skill at running with the pigskin, too. Al this point Knox. Sr., took over the man agement of his son's career. The boy started to high school in one of the Los Angeles suburbs. He played one foot ball season, and then transferred to another school. Ditto the next year, and so on. Ron Knox played high school football al three different high schools in three years. Then he started to look over colleges, and the institutions started to look him over. Al each school he visited he was accom panied by his father. The father talked all the business while the boy looked over the campus. It was obvious lo those in the know thai the "father would make the final decision as lo a school. Now apparently t lie father has changed his mind, so young Knox has changed colleges. Sure, the kid has changed schools often, but not because of pressure from the schools. This is not the first time a set of circum stances like this has appeared on the Inter collegiate scene. So belore you lay all the blame on the colleges, take a short look at the rest of the circumstances. You might find another father in the background who "han dles" his son's career like Ron Knox's has been handled. That is highly Interesting and under standable to those who arc familiar with some of the devious practices of modern collegiate athletics, A few years ago, there was a boy in a neighboring state whose preacher father came lo Eugene lo drive a bargain. According to one of our friends who knows about such things: "He wanted large sums deposited, payable lo his son on graduation, plus many other luxurious arrangements, including an assured degree. When we told him that his kid wouldn't receive any more than any other kid, he was highly insulted." A wise father is not always a boy's best friend. Of all the despicable char acters in modern athletics, one of the most despicable is the profiteering par ent. An inquiry along this line might be extremely interesting, although prob ably it would be futile in terms of actual reform. Dulles Holding Line AgajJ Preventive War Thesis Pefer Edson War in Guatemala a Comedy of Errors Edson was over- WASHINGTON (NEA) It would make a better story if it could be reported that the success of the Guatemala revolution which threw out the Communists was the re sult of some fast cloak-and- dagger work by Ameri c a n operatives dropped in by parachute to mas termind the reb els' drive on the capital. Communist pro paganda may still try to put over the tale that the Arbenz government thrown by a plot cooked up in Washington. In the interests of truth, how ever, it must be reported that the moves which Washington did plan didn't work out as expected at all. In this respect, the Guatemalan affair was just another Latin-American comedy-of-crrors war. EVERYTHING CENSORED Furthermore, communications between Washington and Guate mala broke down completely in the shooting stages of the revolu tion. The Communist government in Guatemala City stopped all air plane flights and censored all cables and long distance phone calls. No diplomatic pouches came to Washington during the last week in June and presumably no cour iers got through in the other di rection. That left U.S. Ambassador John E. Peurifoy in Guatemala pretty much on his own. Whatever grand strategy may have been worked out was his. It was a dish to his capable liking. His success seems to have. been due to being Johnny-on-the-job at all times and in knowing how and where to get hold of the right people on both sides at the correct moment, when they wanted to deal. There was no lack of desire on the part of Washington to have the Communist government of President Arbenz kicked out. Straight diplomacy was tried at the Caracas conference. It didn't work too well and reacted against the best U.S. interests. Then came the incident of the big arms shipment from Poland and Czechoslovakia to Guatemala. The intelligence service on this was pretty good. It spotted the shipment, and traced all the agents. The only trouble was that for a time, the wrong ship was tailed. FIRST MISTAKE That apparently enabled the 1,900-ton, S10 million shipment of arms to get through, and to be unloaded at Puerto Barrios. Washington officials got consid erably balled up over that. They thought they should have been able to stop the shipment and so keep the Communists weak. That was their first big mistake. Then they desperately airlifted arms shipments to Honduras and Nicaragua to build up defenses against what they thought would be a Communist putsch clear to the Panama Canal. But they couldn't have been more wrong. Letting that Commu nist arms shipment go through to the Guatemalans was the best thing that ever happened. It worked out like this. Up to the time of that arms shipment, the Guatemalan army had been more or less loyal to the Arbenz regime. The army leaders hadn't approved of everything he did to communize the country. But they didn't try to block him. When the Communist arms came in, however, the army lead ers began to wake up. They didn't particularly need these arms. They hadn't ordered them. They began to wonder what El Presi dente who used to be an army officer himselfwas going to do with them. The only thing they could figure was that he intended to arm the Communist labor unions and the agricultural workers, and over throw the army. That was when Col. Carlos Castillo Armas start ed his revolution. Then the Guatemalan air force defected all half dozen pilots taking both planes with them. That was important. When they started strafing the capital, it really threw the fear of God into the Communist government. Still, when President Arbenz abdicated and turned the govern ment over to the first military junta under Col. Carlos Enrique Diaz, the experts in Washington who were supposed to be master minding the operation couldn't understand what the pressure was. Col. Castillo Armas was still miles away. And there was no fighting at all near Guatemala City. Just a big scare. But that was all that was neces sary. Communist officials started seeking diplomatic sanctuary in the Mexican embassy. And the Communist beachhead in Guate mala is apparently busted. In The Editor's Mail Bag COUNSELING SERVICE EUGENE (To the Editor) You left out some very signifi cant interrogations made by C. Stewart Clarke from the MacLar en School to the Lane County group of the Oregon Council of Social Work at the Eugene meet ing last week. After making the statement that figures indicate that in relation to crimes com mitted, only about 7 per cent re ceive convictions, thereby .show ing that statistically speaking, crime docs pay. Mr. Clarke stated that the ages between eight and eleven are critical and is the per iod in which delinquent tenden cies can be noted. He then asked, "Do you have counseling ser vices? Do you have a psychiatric clinic?" May I relate at this point ef forts of certain groups in Lane County to provide such services? The Lane County Chapter of the Mental Health Assn. of Oregon was organized in March of 1949. For several years, members felt the need of some special service for children and adults in this area. As a result of this felt need, on October 7th, 11152. a few of the Mental Health Assn. members formed a corporation called Willamette Community Clinic Assn. with their objective promotion of an all-purpose psychiatric clinic for Lane Coun ty. It was recognized by the members that a community proj ect of this kind should have the support of all agencies, organiza tions and service clubs working in the area of social welfare. A few organizations wore skeptical as to the need for this specialized service. To determine more def initely the feeling of the total area, the Mental Health Assn. conducted a survey on Nov. 17, 1952. Twenty groups were repre sented and most of them ex pressed a great need for some specialized service, the most sig nificant of which were School District No. 4 and the Spring field Schools. It was reported that there were 557 cases in School District No. 4 which need ed counseling services. The Springfield situation was even worse: 780 cases of serious mal adjustment out of a school popu lation of 5.300. At this time, there was a traveling clinic from Portland which visited these schools about twice a year. In Eugene, the clinic was able to see only 24 persons during the year and even fewer in Spring field. Since this survey, even this limited clinic service has been discontinued. Memberships total ing 110 and a few contributions were received. Various fields were explored through which funds could be provided for serv ice by this clinic. Some lobby ing was done at the State Legis lature: 1. For out-patient service from the State Hospital. 2. Extended service for Pro bation and Parole from pris ons. 3. Service to alcoholics through the Alcohol Education Com mittee, (a branch of the Liquor Control Commis sioni. One was successful, an appro priation of S7.000 per year from the Alcohol Education Commit tee, restricting its use unless cer tain provisions were met by the Clinic Assn. Authorization by the Veterans Administration re gional office was obtained for out-patient treatment on a fee basis to parolees from Veterans' Hospitals. Hope was high and a building was rented. Then, the Clinic Assn. received crushing criticism and opposition from an influential association in Lane County. Enthusiasm survived but the Clinic Assn.'s board of direc tors felt it advisable to get more data and advice from clinics al ready established. After consider able study, and on May 10, 1954, it was felt advisable to change the name of the association to Willamette Family Service Assn. and to promote a counseling service at this time. The purpose of this familv service: "The central purpose of the family service agency is th contribute to harmonious family interrelationships, to strengthen the positive values of family life and to promote healthy person ality development and satisfac tory social functioning of various family members." Functions of the family serv ice: (1) providing casework serv ices: (2) participating in com munity planning; (3) conducting group educational activities- (4) contributing to professional' edu cation; and (51 engaging in re search. Officers of the Willamette Family Service Assn. arc- presi dent. Dr. Theodore Johannis; vice-president. Dr. Robt. Lccper; sec.-treas, Mrs. Florence Reed Cook. Further information will be cheerfully given by writing or phoning: Mrs. Florence Reed Cook, 156 Elkay Drive, Eugene, Phone 4 0463. FLORENCE RHED COOK. WM Child! WASHINGTON Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is being pressed hard on many fronts as the Indochina crisis shakes the base of the western alliance. Here at home he must cope with a num ber of conflicting views, including a widening con viction that a pre ventive war may be the only ans wer to the in creasingly seri ous threat to America's secur- ity from commu nist imperialism. Contributing to this conviction have been the speeches of promi nent military men. As Dulles has long been aware, America is the only country in the world in which generals and admirals make pub lie pronouncements that get into the field of high policy. Certain Air Force generals, con spicuously Gen. Curtis Le May, chief of the Strategic Air Com mand, have from time to time openly advocated a preventive strike that would destroy or at least permanently cripple Rus sia's war-making centers. More recently Adm. Robert B. Carney, chief of naval operations, in a speech to the National Security Industrial Assn., seemed to say that there were only two choices now open to America either ac ceptance of Communist conquest in Southeast Asia or war. Carney had said privately that this was a wrong interpretation and that he did not mean to sug gest that there were only two choices ahead. Nevertheless, the Carney speech brought a kind of showdown between the State De partment and the Pentagon. TRIES TO HOLD LINE It is in the middle of a barrage of speeches, some which come with the shock of complete sur prise, that the hard-pressed Dul les tries to hold a line which will maintain bipartisan support at home and assure America's friends in Europe and Asia that we are not about to make war. The latest speech to shake the State Department was Vice Pres ident Nixon's political blast in Milwaukee 'blaming the Truman Acheson policy in China for the collapse in Indochina and just about everything ' else that has gone wrong during the past two years. This has brought counter blasts from the Democrats. CONFESSION OF FAILURE The text of the Carney speech was brought to the State Depart ment by a junior naval officer who gave it to a junior stale de partment official, saying that he would wait for half an hour while it was "cleared." Such a clear ance would mean obviously no more than the kind of security check to be sure that the speech did not disclose vital information. It was delivered by the admiral with the word that the State De partment had approved it, which made the headlines all the more disturbing fn o 'A when he saw ihnm ary m Dulles has ahvay's be. takablv c par in u. the Preventive gf! not that he is any llj over the erowins ii.WB mnnisl n.. 2... .,e0 --"v, our ne v. no one nun tpt ut .. most of the works oSal mass rlnnll, r mUll i - -iiui such . I is to confess th t.n.. ' based on th " innate superiority of a frl' tern over totality." ""I The attraction that then J ve war thesis holdsM ....... . uuucrsuUiaaM, ,n 1 light of the shiWn.iE" l national security council i.l cent months is that the nil nSy!r?nRthasb'.1 ana the sj . ii tnecoJ sion is correct, that deluJ the United states inS war would be far more dill , J ears trom n In a nfmnnt'i.ii 4i iTT most inevitably away fcol ouviiB-utueiise posture anil wam mwer taxes and morec lan ease ami comfort. BelJ wars me American militanl tablishment has h.hj .. I v.tucu IQ ken status, the assumption tJ inai mis country would havei to prepare after the daogcrl came eviuent. But today 11(1 eer is not onlv rnnct,t ..j tinuing but constantly increj CONSPICUOUS LACKS If at one blow, the threj America's destruction froma atomic attack would beremol then that blow should be ttnl I his is the view of military J who consider it is tho nnlJ uiiy ism in the light of the Conunul peril. But this viewpoint ttraf America's allies and contall lo the propaganda of the teil ists in Jsurope who argue I there is nn phnipo hot,,.! .ww uvbXCtU two colossi and that, therefl western Europe must pull il from both. This is certainly 1 of the rp.isnns thn Rritlch J come to believe that an aceoil dation must be reached with (i munist China. The hydro! bomb unleashed against the! ish Isles could obliterate Hut cient civilization and -. - ; I survivors to a cave-man erirJ One of the conspicuous 111 u-hifh holnc fn lonH nttriMiioJ to the preventive-war thtsiJ dramatic and forceful leader! lor tne pcacetut conquest I Communism, such as has u seen in the Marshall Flan in fhn Pnint i rinntrinn nf i for underdeveloped count! Without such a dynamic ap! the propaganda of Comrai lenas to make converts, m I drift toward war, whether I ventive or otherwise, becoa more and more confirmed. Hal Boyle A Turtle Only Progresses When His Neck Sticks Ou U r- NEW YORK (ff) "It is a'rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night." Now who would say a thing like that? Well, as a matter of fact, wuue sutton, the notorious bank bandit, tossed off the remark while philosophizing oni the rewards of a career that has kept him behind prison bars most of his life. It is one of sev e r a 1 thousand quotations col- Boyle lected by Jim Simpson and Ann Gillis, the sprightly lady who bosses NBC's "Who Said That?" the most durable of all TV panel quiz programs. Feeling that Bartlett did a good job for his day but that someone ought to also preserve the antic wit and gilded wisdom of the current generation, Simpson and Miss Gillis are Bundling together for book publication the quota tions they feel best reflect our times. A FEW GEMS Most books of quotations lean too heavily on poets and politi cians. Miss Gillis and her co worker have a more cosmopolitan approach. They see no reason why a really witty observation by a gangster or a housewife shouldn't be preserved for pos terity. As a result their volume promises to reflect the real men tal life of our recent past more accurately than a formal history. Here, for example, are a few gems from their collection which should help give posterity some kind of insight on Ihe kind of human beings who dwelt in the middle of the 20th century: "A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" Milton Berle. "May the Lord bless you real good" Favorite benediction of evangelist Billy Graham. BEHOLD THE TURTLE "Politics is the diversion of tri vial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in Hie eyes of more trivial men" George Jean Nathan. "Age is no matter . . . You can be ravishing at 20, charaiiij 40. and irresistible - Jin1! Chanel, French perfumer. "Behold the turtle: He rJ progress only when his ndl out" James B. conant, m president of Harvard. "Washington is a place half the people are wailing discovered and the otner i are afraid they will be" l Hush Scott of Pennsylvami I "A good education is In" to a dancer. A good calf ii I tor than a good head"-! DeMille. "The way for the armed 1 to win an atomic war is to certain it never starts Omar Bradley. JUST FLATTER "The only normal and clij t lines I ever created arc children" Pablo Picasso. "If 9 man is vain. ilalW-l timid, flatter. If boastful, fa In all history, too much Wl never lost a gentleraan'-Si ryn Cravens, author o( "P"! of Gentlemen." "I haven't sold Bibles ill life" Frank Costcllo. "Thrt ,.i- lime L-ill incr me: i called me out of bed atiHJJ of the night to receive Wjk nations of nrimc mmistl Vincnnt Anrinl. (in VIcatBIl office of president of Fn"! "American soldiers naej mn hollnr than 1 cnllld haVf"! pH in anv nlhpr IVflY ffW '1 ica means to me" Francis dinal Spellman. So They Say growing attitude in this . . . that, if we cannot M" way in the field of loreff. and if the United NatioJ not follow a course J)', which we think it ought to ti. . ,.-il re ire men c ... - United Nations. , Sen. Wayne Morse (- On the day that 'Coaffl China is voted into in the United NaUOlU' Leader Knowland.