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Student of. History DORIS FLEESON a ' i a a a AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER . ALTON F. BAKER Publisher ALTON F. BAKER JR. Editor "ROBERT B. FRAZIER Associate Editor SERVICES Full Associated Press, ynitcd Press, Audita Bureau of 'Circulations. The Register-Guard's policy is the complete and impartial publication in its news pages of all news and statements on news. On this page the editors f 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 helpful in the development of con structive communfty policy. A newspaper is A CITIZEN OF ITS COMMUNITY. Entered at the Post Office at Eugene,, Oregon, as second-class matter. 12A EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1955 A Marathon, Not a Dash The cold war is a marathon, but America is running it as if it were a 100-yard dash. That's how James "Scot ty" Reston, chief of the New York Times Washington bureau, analyzes America's position in the cold war. Mr. Reston, perhaps lh top diplomatic reporter, in the world, drew that comparison in a speech earlier in the year at the Uni versity of Minnesota. Other excerpts from his address follow: "I have no doubt whatsoever about the outcome of the cold war. No hand ful of men in the world are smart enough to run this vast Communist em pire. The thing is against human nature and its inner contradictions will bring' it down if we are vigilant and patient. . . "It is important to remember that foreign relations ARE foreign ... We cannot legislate beyond our own fron tiers. We cannot buy the consent of others. We cannot change the French constitution. We cannot make Nehru stop lecturing . . . much as we did in the 19th century. ... "We are accustomed to doing the im possible. . , ', It is a part of our national ' psychology. ... In foreign policy it can be a great danger. "The main' objective of our foreign policy is very simple; it is to defend the security of the American people. It is not to remake the World or protect the status quo or to win wars. ... "The great antagonists of the world the United States and the USSR are not only the two most powerful nations in the world today but they are also the least experienced. ... "The astonishing thing is that the main foreign policy opposition' in the' Republican Party today comes from those who want us to do not less, but more. ... "It is popular now to dismiss Korea as a disappointment. . . . But in the long story, , . . I think it will look very good alongside . . . Abyssinia 'and Spain and the occupation of the Rhineland. . . . "Much of our national frustration . . . springs from the illusion that for eign policy has a beginning and an end, like a football game. ... We have been so fine-favored . . . and so successful that we expect to win every time we enter the arena. But, ladies and gentle men, not even the Minnesota basketball team can do that. ... "It is all very strange. One some times wonders if everything said in po litical campaigns is absolutely true. . . . "Almost everybody in the govern 1 merit talks about adjusting to the more subtle and perplexing tasks of the cold war ... but the budget and the thinking in official circles still reflect an official preoccupation with questions of military power. ... "The United States has won the first phase of the cold war and doesn't know it; and has moved into the second phase and isn't ready for it. .'. . "Platoons of undisciplined senators and congressmen and retired generals, who forget that their voices carry be yond the county line, send up clouds of banalities which frequently blur and muffle the true and generous Voice of America. . . . We can never speak with a single voice and we never should, but somebody should remind the politicians that what they 'say is part of the Voice of America, too. ... "A man canlt stay breathless for 50 years. Where I come from, people . . . jump from one extreme to the other. We need balance, but congressmen cither go fishing or go crazy. . . . "The seniority system in Congress where durability is put above intelli gence. "To our shame . . . the Chief Justice of the United States felt obligated to state in public that if the Bill of Rights were to be voted on today, it would . . . have a hard lime passing." 'Honey' With the general election out of the way, a new prime minister all set- tied, and labor troubles beginning to get less bothersome, the British public now has another controversy. Did our Danny Kaye call Princess Margaret "Honey?" Danny allows he did no such thing. But a columnist, who wasn't there, says he did. He said, the columnist) said, "Hello, Honey." Maybe he did and maybe he didn't. But even if he did, we don't think there's sufficient provocation for starting the Revolutionary War all over again. Actu ally such a gratuitous and friendly greet ing represents a great improvement in , Anglo-American relations. It wasn't too long ago that a mayor of Chicago of fered, also gratuitously, lo "punch King George in the snoot." Wages The average Oregon production worker last year earned $2.16 an hour, putting him right at the top among pro duction workers of the 48 states. But because of seasonal employment in some of our industries, he dropped to fourth place when his average weekly pay was computed. He drew an average of $82.04 a week, compared with the $87.84 drawn by the average Michigan worker and in between sums drawn by workers in Ne vada and Wyoming. If you regard wages merely as an other cost of doing business, you may deplore that the cost here is so high. A big corporation, looking for a site for an assembly plant, can get its job done cheaper elsewhere, unless Oregon's taxes,- power, and real estate arc cheap enough to off-set the high wage cost. High wages donH attract industry. However, the state as a whole is bet ter off because of our relatively high wage- pattern. Our workers can buy 'from tjie gamblers lat'ely, although some imx', uicu uirju.uu ui living is ingner. We ta&cd ajwitt this one time with an editor in the Deep South. He told us about the northtrn mills that had been moving i"io hispart of tfie country to take advantage of a ;tgc .scale about rn.it oi wtnat Oregon is And that's Tr advice to thego.od. "It'sot sf rosy a's ilooks," he saii neopfr ofJackson Count, lid lift on TIJy coTne down here and pw mills youg"fiind legs andycll bloody muVicr. , Aid undernav nnr neiSile. The'"tAiinVv Kinnlin li.-it a!,h i. ii", i goes to Ney ork eg somewhere. We "tiime lcisc withdom. people it kikes don't;et it. The industrialization won't a lotof convinft;; ifthfr Jhey'll grai help us until our people make enough thaOhey aren't particularly welcontc that they can buy electric ice-boxes and automobiles and bring themselves out of poverty. We, may be getting more new factories here than you are out in Oregon. But, believe me, you're better off." To this we said, and we say again, "Yes, we probably arc." Debate We have lamented before that too seldom do representatives of our poli tical parties meet on the same platform to argue out their differences. Abe Lin coln and Stephen A. Douglas would probably nave their debate idea vetoed by their national committees, were they still stumping America. Therefore it is good news that in Springfield Thursday night the state's top Democrat and one of its top Re publicans will put forth points of view (doubtless divergent) on the accomplish ments of the 1955 Legislature. The pub lic has been invited to hear State Sen. Don Husband, Lane County Republican, and Howard1 Morgan, Democratic state chairman and a former .legislator, battle it out at 8 p.m. in the Springfield Me morial Rldg. Dogs Migratory wildfowl aren't the only critters that fly south. So do dogs, ac cording to worried sounding editorials in the Ashland Tidings and the Med ford Mail-Tribune. Both newspapers are concerned over attempts to bring or- ganized dog racing into Jackson County. Well, we sympathize with 'cm. Just a year ago the same battle was being fought here, and it took a lot' of con vincing to make the gamblers realize that there are some "businesses" that a good community can do without. Some of 'cm probably aren't convinced yet. uyhow,- we haven't heard muck " Uemos Urged to Hxploit -j U.S. Areas of -Discontent EDITOR'S NO?B; Doris Sleeson will pinch -hit 1or Marquis Childs during the next two weeks while Childs is n vacation. ' IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG Dinner SPRINGFIELD (To the Editor) Jackson Day Dinner: A time to honor the memory of Andrew Jackson, a splendid Democratic President. Lately it is used to perpetuate New Deal Democrats in office. The procedure at each banquet is strange, perhaps it is borrowed from some strange, eerie ordeal that dates far back in history. The invitations sent nut, though distasteful, always bring certain results in atten-' dance. The food on the table, or something, sets up a reaction in the stomach similar to that of a white man who had invited an Indian to a seven-course dinner. In return the Indian invited him lo dinner, where through eti quette, he was forced to dine on seven straight courses of dog meat. These invited "Jackson Day dinner" people have high-salaried government jobs, handed out by those they serve, or pre tend to. On this day each one must attend this banquet, bow his head in reverence to his po litical bosses at Washington, D. C. During this weird ceremony, the chairman of this slrange Jackson Day Dinner affair ex tracts $100, $50, or $25 from each of the poor, wretched diners who can't enjoy the meal on account of the price. Following this or deal, . instead of serving nice, tender dog meat, they are 'forced to listen to seven straight courses of Democralic baloney. If any one of them can't stand the strain, he is "purged" from the party. This is a real picture of a Jack son Day Dinner, Mr. Neuberger. W. W. WHEELER 2065 Main (Editor's Note: The same sort of ritual is carried on by the Re publican Party, usually under the "Lincoln Day" name. This news paper's protests about the Tru man dinner in Portland would be repeated if the Republicans brought one of their big guns out here and reserved him for the few.) Oilman Seeks Third Fortune v HOUSTON iPi .Oilman Glenn McCarthy, still trying after losing most of two fortunes, believes the third is just about in the bag. Speaking of his Bolivian oil explorations Monday, he said, "In two years we will have enough production lo make up for any thing I ever had in the States'" His V. S. production, he said, at one time amounted to 13,000 barrels daily but at present he owns 'only several Oklahoma wells." The old wildcatter made his optimistic prediction Mnnri.iv in announcing that a New York'and Denver syndicate had invested $4,160,000 in the Bolivian ven ture. The money, for which the syndicate gets a 50 per cent op erating interest in the Bolivian concession, will be used to buy. drilling and . production' equipment. Job Offer TO THE EDITOR I am asked by the Foreign Operations Ad ministration to assist in locating a man who is competent and ex perienced in the operation of a parts department for tractors, not only of .American but also of European and Australian manu facture. He need not be a gradu ate engineer, but an engineering education would undoubtedly be beneficial. He should like people and be capable of dealing with government officials as well as organizing a parts distribution system. The base salary is $7,095 to which should be added a differ ential of 20 per cent, a living allowance of $285 a year plus $60 for each dependent under 21 and a maximum housing allow ance in the case of a single man of $900 and in the case of a mar ried man' of $1,200. The appoint ment is for two years and the place of service is Indonesia. Anyone interested may get in touch with me or correspond di rectly with the Foreign Opera tions Administration, Washington 25, D. C, attention Mr. Samuel S. Board in the Office of Per sonnel. Traveling expenses both ways, of course, are paid by the government. Very truly yours, AUSTIN F. FLEGEL American Bank Bldg. Portland, Oregon. Bret Law EUGENE (To the Editor) That wasn't a Police or Congres sional shake-up recently held in Washington, D. C, but we under stand some of the officials moved faster than a scared rabbit or a Whig chasing a free meal. We understand that only electronic brains were used. What we Whigs are interested in is, what became of the senator and the squirrels during the Operation Alert. Did they have their private hideout? Who dishes up the surplus ham burger and checked the pajamas and payroll. The Whigs will use Ft. Knox as their refuge. In a recent issue of your paper we read that our senior senator says that since he became a SIDEGLANCES Democrat .he has been able to sleep with his conscience. Does that mean a double bed or just more straw in the tick. We won der if it means another broken home. Sounds like Hollywood. The WHigs will help the senator to bear up under the load. Who pulled the quilts, the senator or his conscience? The Whigs did not get an invita tion to the Big Four conference, but we will go along for the ride. We want to see Ike draw the rab bit out of the hat. His predeces sors tried it once and lost the hat and their shirt, Ike can't do any worse. He better get a Port land $1.50 hair cut. He'll probably get clipped anyway. We got our annual clipping and the barber thinks we had a good crop for a first cutting. We wonder if it would be cheaper to have it scraped instead of mowed. Agree wilh no man's opinion if you have a better one of your own. BRET LAW. Cemetery EUGENE (To the Editor) Speaking for many of the people of Eugene, and more especially many whose relatives and friends are buried in the Pioneer Memo rial Park Cemetery, near the campus of the University of Ore gon, we are indeed very grateful to the many persons who labored for the two weeks just before Decoration Day, and so well cleaned up the cemetery this year. Wish that the names might be made part of this report of thanks, but there were so many that one might be missed, so will say you did the best piece of work this year that has been done for many years. Your good work, with the help of many of the lot owners who took care of their cemetery blocks, made for a splendid ap pearance for the heretofore neg lected cemetery. Certainly the people of Eugene and the Upper Valley greatly appreciate the good work you did. So thank you good workers, from us aU. PIONEER MEMORIAL PARK ASSOCIATION, By Chas. P. Poole, Cemetery Chairman. By Galbraith .'ire probably still plotting their grand , eiMry into the Eugene area. The reason llio mure reasonable gamblers got dis couraged fwas that 'the good, pcopic of. Ihis area got up on -tliffir hiTuI legs and' yelled btw'idy murd." . ' . Antarctic Explorer Dies in England SOtTHPORT. England m -4'redcrick John Hooper, antarctic plnrer who found the bdy of t'apt. Kobri Scott near the South Pijle. died Monday .it his hoe here? He was t4. , Hooper s.fted aromd Jjie world !i.'C times t'o- joining Scott's l?ist expedition in 191. at tl Ke 'jif r5.""hen cott failed to retujn from an advance exploratory trip, Hooper itutith a search party. Shotting S snia bamboo pole itiftin? o of the snow, he unearthed Scotrs last camp. R O . til WASHINGTON Now that Dem ocrats know the answer to wheth er or not Adlai Stevenson will run again he will they are ask ing themselves incessantly how they can win if President Eisen hower also decides to run again. ' Senator Hubert Humphrey, the Minnesota liberal who has given much time and thought to the problem, thinks he has at least a partial answer. It is that Dem ocrats starting now, through their control of Congress, and 27 of the 48 state houses, should exploit the areas of discontent in the country.( MANY SUCH AREAS In his opinion there are many such areas that the administra tion has neglected or set back' or simply failed to notice. Ther must be, he argues, or the Demo crats would not have been win ning practically every election, large or small, since the Eisen hower landslide in 1952. Senator Humphrey proposes to begin with agriculture, a field he himself ploughed with great success last year in Minnesota where he not only won another six-year term but carried along with him his former campaign manager to the governor's chair. He has persuaded the Senate Agriculture Committee to adopt his plan for holding continuous, hearings at the grass roots throughout the fall and early winter. Lobbyists for the big farm organizations, as well as major cities, will be avoided while the farmers themselves will get large opportunities to talk. TWO FACTS Doing something for the old folks is another project where both Senator Humphrey and the House Ways and Means Commit tee see pay dirt. They are at' tracted to this field by two facts: The senior population, as politicians prefer, to call it, is growing by leaps and bounds but it is being pushed out of industry more and- more 'and also out of its children's homes. The Idea Is to increase so cial security benefits by lowering the pension age for women and by bringing the totally and perm anently disabled into the picture at any ago. There is even talk that this can be dofte at this session. . Also, the public power issue is viewed as a natural in the North- west Former President Truman recently kicked off Senator Morse's campaign for re-election with thte nna Tntmoii eammrlnJ his audience that he had said when he dedicated Hungry Horse dam' in 1952: "Take a good look at it, folks. It's the last one you'll see if the Republicans win." There have been no new public power starts since then. In the Northeast, immigration a restrictions and unemployment trouble substantial yoter blocs, x-y Democrats believe.. THE HARD WAY i This piecemeal approach would be the hard way. It might not be gin to overcome the national p;c ' ture of the indispensable man which Republicans are creating around the President. It does obviate the frontal at tacks on Eisenhower which so many Democrats are reluctant to make and which don't seem to catch on when they do make them. But when Senator Humph-1 rey and others look back at pres idential election history they re fuse to be discouraged. They point to Truman as a President who unexpectedly made it in 1948 because his political intuition directed him toward the , things that were making inartic-5 ulate people unhappy. They argue R that a Republican must take New ; Vftrt Irt win tha nrocionmi ,ntl that they (the Democrats) are riding high in that state. . jj Republicans realize that they are vulnerable in farm states. Secretary of Agriculture Benson; did not attract crowds on his re eent tour there, and for the most -part was heard with politeness only. He has still found it neces- sary, 'because of huge surpluses, u to set price supports on the 195S wheat crop at their lowest points ever. (Copyright, 1955, by United ,' Feature Syndicate, Inc.) FREDERICK C. OTHMAN Panama Railroad Has Too Many Engineers "I wish I'S been a cirl back in vour Ha v. moihrV ahlalr I'd efijojPreOng, cooking iftd aewig, ttstSad ofcaJifi w.ching television." o WASHINGTON There are railroads in this world and there's also the Cristobal. Flat wheel and Sooty, hurtling across the Panama Canal Zone at 11 miles an hour with Uncle Sam at the throttle. I don't suppose there ever was a railroad like this. And there it was last year with the oil lamps swinging in the passenger cars and the square wheels thumping the ancient rails, when Gov. J. S. Scybold of the Canal Zone came to Washington to see about getting his streaks of rust re paired. He appealed to the holders of the money bags, the members of the House Appropriations Com mittee, who said why not aban don the Flatwheel and Sooty and build a road for trucks on the right-of-way? This looked like a good idea to the governor and his board of di rectors of the Panama Canal Co. They drew up all the plans and back came Gov. Seybold this year with a request for $9,000,000 to build the road and $600,000 for trucks to run over it. Poor Gov. NEW MANAGEMENT He discovered that the Com mittee was under new manage ment which was aghast at the idea of throwing away the fed eral railway across the Isthmus of Panama. The committee said, what was the idea of trying to toss aside a railway without first getting permission of Congress? The governor gulped. Next thing he knew he and his railroad-dcal were being investi gated by the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee and that's where we came in, with the governor sweating in his tan summer suit, despite the air conditioning. He told the gentlemen that the rolling stock was old enough to sell to the movies for use in Wild West pictures. The cars are so el derly they don't even have elec tric lights. The conductor goes through the train at dusk and lights the kerosene lamps. FULL OF HOLES The freight cars average .30 years old. There aren't many of them on a line only 40 miles long, but last year Gov. Seybold had to approve 7,300 car repair jobs. The refrigerator cars were so full of holes that the fresh vegetables wilted before they ever got to the customers and the governor said he'd have. to. have Sl.000.000 in a hurry if the Cristobal, Flatwheel and Sooty is to stay ifi business. Jluch better, he said.ta abandon it and. pave a two-lane highway along the road Scd. So in flime Rep. Tianiel J. Flood D-Pa) of the. Appropria tion's Committce, whj said: ' 'Vhat0siould bfc abandoned is not the railway, tfut the Pantma Cpal Cp." . The governor, w ho is presider of th Fele'al corporation, openedTiis nvjith, but said r.O'h ins Rep. Jloijil said'hiWwas the most insu(ra1le corpft-at? bo ' - e 0 V o - m & he knew about. He said its offi- j cers took a cavalier attitude to- ward Congress, barely condes- cended to talk to lawgivers, and seemed to believe they were aj law unto themselves. If FULL-SCALE PROBE ! He urged the gents to make a, full-scale investigation of thek Panama Canal Co., and he prom-;; ised that not one cent would his own committee approve for buy-! ing trucks to run on the road t. that can't be built until the rail- road is abandoned.' Neither, he said, was he going to put up any more money for the railroad un-; til Congress has had a good, long look. Rep. W. J. Dorn (D-SC) I said he thought the gentlemen ought to go to Panama to see for themselves. ' Gov. Seybold said he'd bo de- ugiiii'u. rvup. riuuu siaiKCO OUL and I guess that's the funda-1 mental trouble with the Cristo bal, Flatwheel and Sooty: Too -dang many engineers. (Copyright, 1955, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) X So They Say Farmers in these (low-income)" areas are up against lack of . enough good land, lack of equip ment, lack of credit facilities and . often lack of . . . management in-v. formation and skill," Agriculture Secretary Benson. Let me say that it (most thrill-' ing moment) came when I was promoted to first lieutenant I waited five years for it. Gen. George C. Marshall. 1 Red China came here ("Ban dung conference) posing as the f master of Asia. She has now been -exposed as just another Asian Agrican power. Rcp.-Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D-NY). The determination of China toi liberate Taiwan (Formosa) is en- tirely an internal affair of the Chinese people. ' ' Red China's Chou En lai. v It (meeting President Eisen hower) is something like an at- -. omic blast. After the first explo sion is over you're in a state of shock. Mrs. Lavina Fugal, 73-year-nld Mother of the Year, after she . met the President. MEMBER Or ME ASSOCIA'fV PRESS Th. Axsorlated PresB Is intltl olustvelv lo th use for republication of all hr loci newa primed In thll newspaper. HERBERT C. BAKER, .Vflnaslnj Edltoi W. D. DEAN Editor DAN H. iLLARD City Edlto ED9IN f? BAKER. BuSneM Manager E C. PRESSMAN, AdvertUliu 0nae ARNE STRCfllMERO Q ProJjlctlo-4 Robert k. bertsch Promft'o.J MRL Flir-jr, Clrculat M"c.r . B. JOHSl.5?, JR. Auditor o e
