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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
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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
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