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G o EuQCuc Mift ct- mutt AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ALTON F. BAKER Publisher ALTON F. BAKER JR. Editor ROBERT B. FRAZIER Associate Editor A. H. CURREY Associate Editor SERVICES Associated Press, United Press International, Audit Bureau of Circulations The Register-Guard's policy is the complete and impartial publication in its news paces of all news and statement 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 helpful ''he development of constructive community policy. A newspaper is A CI THEN Of ITS COMMUNITY. 8A EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1960 The Danger of Easy Answers Former Gov. Elmo Smith, Republi can candidate for the U.S. Senate, has suggested a "cold war academy" to train young people for careers in the foreign service. The idea is appealing. But we cannot go all-out for it, just as we have been unable to go all-out for it when it has been proposed by others. While it is true that we need more and better people who will devote their lives to furthering Uncle Sam's interests around the world, it does not follow that crea tion of an "academy" is the answer. Although we have not talked to Gov ernor Smith about the details of his pro posal, we do know that most of these suggestions envision a big school like West Point, Annapolis or the Air Force Academy. Our objection to those pro posals has been that they arc too likely to turn out foreign service officers who are as alike as so many sausages turned out of the same machine. The need is not for a certain type man, but for ex cellent men of many backgrounds and types. These good men should be picked not from an undergradutc academy but from Harvard and Cal and Michigan and O 'Cgon and Tulane and North Carolina and other schools that can offer the kind of broad academic training a foreign service officer needs. They should not be trade school men. Then perhaps, after their undergraduate programs are com pleted at schools around the country, they could be assembled for a graduate program at some "academy." But the above paragraph does not ex plain the main reason we hesitate to get excited about an "academy." The main reason is that we fear the easy answers. It's an American failing, this too ready acceptance of easy answers. Heads of slate travel around the world. Khrush chev comes here and we feel so good because he smiles. Then we're aghast when he torpedoes the next easy answer, the summit meeting. Ike goes to India, where he is welcome, and we feel all aglow because world problems are so easily solved. When the story is different in Japan, we fall into a fit of depression, a feeling we would not have had if we had not bought the easy answer. We do it even in our clubs here at home. When something goes wrong, we appoint a com mittee and forget about it. We don't want that to happen with a foreign service academy. That won't solve the problem. The colleges right now are full of young people who would be a credit to Uncle Sam overseas. In the lower ranks of the foreign service are dozens, even hundreds, of people who would like to make a career of representing America. The people are there. We have the raw material, even without the academy. The tragedy is not that we don't get the re cruits, but that we don't get the experi enced people. We have too few who can look back on full careers in Uncle Sam's service. More important than the founding of an academy is the creation of a climate in which these people can work and pros per and hold their heads up and provide for their families. If we do not have this climate, and we do not, it is because the shadow of Joe McCarthy still hangs over America. The young man considering the foreign service as a career, must re member the taunts and insults, the hours spent in answering the questions of con gressional committees that were the lot of foreign service people less than a decade ago. We cannot have this good climate if we, through our congressmen, regard them as time-servers, cookie pushers, and feeders at the public trough. Nor can we have it if foreign service people are paid substantially less than other professional men. The academy idea could be a good one, but only if it is accompanied by a general recognition of the importance and dignity of a governmental career. If it is not accompanied by that, we'll com pound our error accepting the easy answer while at the same time educating, at public expense, a greater number of young people who will work for Uncle Sam a year or two and then go on to greener pastures. - ft ft ft ft ft Spectator Sport .The boys from EWEB stopped past the other afternoon to trim limbs on the big maple tree by the Register-Guard. The limbs were in the way of power wires. The workmen wheeled up a truck with one of those extension ladders of the type firemen use for rescuing ladies in distress from burning buildings. A man with a hard-boiled hat was squirted in the tree limbs, where he ma nipulated a frightening number of gadg ets, sawing, chopping, pruning, trim ming. Such an array of power tools the ordinary mortal is unlikely to see again. A couple of other fellows in bright yel low hats waited below to move the truck around and to take care of the winter's wood supply that dropped from above. A crowd gathered with craned necks and appropriate comments. Sidewalk superintendents all, dignified looking men proved there is something of the boy in everybody. Admiringly they watched the tree trimmer at work. They had only one criticism: Why shouldn't that fellow, on the ladder be made to get down and give the others a chance to have some fun? Who's Bain? Doug McKean, the Oregon Journal's political expert, has found a bad situa tion. It seems that a James A. Bain got 11,695 votes for Multnomah County con stable. He lost the election to John Bain. John Bain really exists and has been constable for several years. Maybe James A. Bain exists, too. But Mr. McKean hasn't been able to determine that he does. The strong possibility exists that James A. Bain is the man who wasn't there. Oregon law does not require that a candidate appear in person to file for office. He can do it through an attorney or other representative. He doesn't have to appear any place if he doesn't want to. Parties don't have to be responsible for their candidates. James A. Bain's ballot slogan was a lulu. It said, "Will continue policies established past four years." It did not say, at least exactly, that those policies were his policies. And they weren't. Sometimes we get a better govern ment that we deserve. Quick Parole If 111 Ti r r r Childs WALK IN THE SHADE An aide holds a protective umbrella for King Bhumibol of Thailand (at left) as His Majesty arrives at a palace function. The King presents a starchily formal face to the public but at home he plays Buddhist Monarch Visits America with his four children and toots a saxophone in his jazz band. Pretty young Queen Sirikit of Thailand (at right) plays a pebble game with her youngest daughters, Princess Sirindhorn, 5, (left) and Princess Chulabhorn, 2. Thai King Mixes Eastern Customs, Western Life As the Oregon State Correctional In stitute, the medium security institution east of Salem, ends its first year of oper ation, officers there are taking a reflec tive view of the job they have been do ing. Jack Frost, superintendent of re ception and guidance, says the short sen tences so often meted his charges work a handicap on the program. They're not there long enough to benefit from the program, he says. A fellow with a year's sentence may come up for parole in a little more than three months. He can not, thus, get much out of the vocational program. Rehabilitation is often keyed to vocational training, and rehabilitation is the purpose of the new institution. Mr. Frost's point is well taken, al though it would be wrong to force voca tional training down the throat of a man who neither needed it nor wanted it, if in the opinion of the parole board he showed promise of making good back in the mainstream of society. However, we do see the short sen tence as a handicap of another kind. It limits the institution severely in dealing with the individual as an individual. We'd like to see the longer sentences, to keep behind the fence those who ought to stay there, and then see more paroles to provide for those who demon strate their willingness and ability to ad just to normal society. The best idea came last Legislature from Sen. Robert Straub. He would have paroled everyone who is let out of the penitentiary. No longer, under terms of the unsuccessful Straub bill, would a prisoner be allowed to serve his sentence and then go scot-free. All would be re leased only under parole conditions, thus guaranteeing society that each released man would have the help, and possibly the restraint, that he needs. Air Force Problem The U.S. Air Force does wonderous things. It soars to new heights and it travels at speeds that were the science fiction of only a few years ago. It's a great outfit. Perhaps that's why it's a source of satisfaction to the rest of us to know that the Air Force is having a dickens of a time with the poison oak at Camp Adair. By DAVID LANCASHIRE , of the Associated Press BANGKOK I Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, born in the United States, is a starch ily formal Buddhist Monarch in public and a foot-stomping jazz musician at home. His 23 million subjects regard him with awe as the personifica tion of Thailand's traditional mag nificence. But on occasion he has shaved his head and begged bare foot in the streets. "His majesty is a fine man and a righteous king," a sarong-clad bazaar merchant ventures respect fully, touching his umbrella-like straw hat. "The King is a great guy, a real musician," says New York jazz man Max Kaminsky. The Siamese sovereign is visit ing the United States for the first time since he was born 32 years ago in Cambridge, Mass. At that time his father, the late Prince Mahidol, was a medical student at Harvard. With the King is Her Serene Highness Queen Sirikit, a lis some beauty of 28, Thailand's first lady and a devoted, efficient mother of four. BROTHER KILLED Bhumibol, who succeeded to a shaky throne after his elder brother's assassination 14 years ago, has been a major force in keeping his rich, tropical country united despite continuous poli tical turmoil and a series of military coups d'etat. Widely read and with a deep interest in Thailand's future, Bhumibol has only limited power as king, far less than his an cestors of the Chakri Dynasty, who ruled with powers of life or death when the country was called Siam. The young couple were raised abroad, and both speak several languages. Bhumibol, who stu died science in Switzerland, saw Thailand only twice before he took the throne. Conditioned by centuries of court tradition, they Other Editors' Views live a mixture of Western and Asian ideas. "I would like to have been a scientist if I were not king," Bhumibol confided to a foreign educator. A strong supporter of tradition, he would nevertheless like to see Thailand become a modern nation. Royal functions are held in Bangkok's grand palace, home of the Emerald Buddha, where gold en spires rise in Oriental splend or about the Chao Phya River. Bhumibol and Sirikit live in the more modest, European-styled Chitr Lada (heart of the flower) Palace, a former golf club set among palm trees with mon keys, parrots and whimsically sculptured bushes for the chil dren and ringed by slow-flowing canals. FOUR CHILDREN The couple are devote par ents, spending hours playing with the children Crown Prince Va jiralongkorn, 7, Princess Ubol Ratana, 9, Princess Sirindhorn, 5, and Princess Chulabhorn, 2 a pert, black-eyed foursome who resemble their mother. Bhumibol is the first Thai king to have made a real effort to reach the people. Far more than any pevious monarch, he has loured the nation's jungle and rice paddy villages, chatting with the peasants who sometimes trek three days through the jungle just to get a look at him. Sirikit, president of the Red Cross and busily involved in charity work, makes even more public appearances than her hus band. Her bright silk dresses set the fashion pattern for Bang kok's society. In 1956, Sirikit held the throne herself as regent unheard-of for a woman while the king took the saffron robes of a Buddhist priest and temporarily entered a monastery. Then, as other monks do, he shaved his head and walked the streets with a begging bowl. , Unlike his ancestors, who kept wives and concubines by the do zen Bhumibol's father was the 69th son of King Chulalongkorn Bhumibol has only one wife. "He doesn't need any more," the Queen once quipped. "For him, his orchestra is one big concubine." The 13-piece swing-style band is Bhumibol's passionate off-duty hobby. Lawyers, businessmen, a secret service agent and a former ambassador to Washington get together twice a week in a studio in the palace to play American dance band arrangements, jam a few jazz tunes or run through a new piece by the King. He once wrote several tunes for the late Mike Todd's "Peep Show" on Broadway. Thailand's royal family is a wealthy one, with rich landhold ings and inheritances from the days when the kings were all powerful. Bhumibol's ancestors ruled as absolute monarchs until 1932. A revolution then reduced their status, established a parlia ment and submitted the kings to the power of military politicians who have run the country ever since. Bhumibol was 19, leading a nor- Roscoe Drummond Just Follow the Pink Road From the Bend (Ore.) Bulletin Some of these days instead of taking a trip on Highway 30, or some other numbered route, we may travel by way of the "Pink Route," or select a combination of colors to fit the trim of the family bus. At the National Highway Transportation Congress, meet ing at Salem, an engineer pro posed that it would simplify high way transportation considerably where the routes ran through large cities to build highways in color. The motorist traveling a main highway in a color differ ent from that of other routes CARMICHAEL better, loap up IT LOOKS LIKE A would run less chance of becom ing confused. This revolutionary idea opens up a whole new world of color ideas. How about a color of your choice for the sidewalk in front of the new home you propose to buiild? After all the property in which the sidewalk is located is your own. You pay the cost of the sidewalk. Why shouldn't it be constructed in a color to har monize with the color scheme of your new home? As a tourist attraction in your city, too, there could be multi colored sidewalk refreshment booths spotted on multicolored sidewalks, serving multicolored bubble-drinks, strawberry ice cream, red raspberries topped with cream and served by at tractive red-heads, brunettes, and vari-shaded blondes. There is no end to the possi bilities when adventuring into the land of cardinal colors, and their combinations. mal student's life in Switzerland, when his brother, King Ananta Mahidol, was murdered in 1946. Determined to preserve the monarchy, Bhumibol abandoned his science studies and accepted the throne. He returned to Switzerland to study political science and law. An automobile accident prevented his graduat ing. His small Italian car crashed under a truck, leaving the young King blind in one eye. Still wrapped in bandages, he asked for visitors, particularly Ying Sirikit, a pretty music stu dent in Paris, a minor princess and the daughter of Thailand's Minister to France. The convalescense became a romance, and the couple were married in Bangkok, where Bhumibol was crowned May 5, 1950. The family's American visit is the most visible sign yet of re lations that Thai kings have kept with the United States ever since Bhumbol's great Grandfather, King Mongkut, offered to send Abraham Lincoln an elephant to help fight the Civil War. Japanese Leftist Minority Threatens Rule by Violence Drummond Eaton's Labor Views From the Taroma (Wash.) News-Tribune Cyrus S. Eaton, the Cleveland industrialist who has gained no toriety by his attitude toward the Soviet Union, predicts that the day is coming when most corpora tions will have labor representa tion on their boards. He ex presses this view in an article, "A Capitalist Takes a New Look at Labor," in an AFL-CIO periodi cal. Eaton is not the first business notable to speak in favor of the idea, though most businessmen balk at any such proposal. His expression of the opinion at this time arouses particular interest, however though not necessarily favorable interest. Eaton's ac ceptance of a Soviet award, and his kindly feelings toward the Soviet regime, give a special coloration just now to his views on labor-management relations. His advocacy of having labor rep resentation on corporate boards will be widely viewed with rather a jaundiced eye. WASHINGTON Planned vio lence by which a small minority imposed its will on the elected government of Japan and forced President Eisenhower to . cancel his visit to Tokyo has clear ly not run its course. Having used violence success fully to coerce the Kishi gov ernment, the ex tremist student and labor groups man aged by Communist professionals can be expected to continue violence as long as it works. The immediate consequences are bad enough; what lies ahead could be worse unless the Japa nese people and press become aroused in time to say: "Thus far, and no farther." There should be no minimizing the grave danger which has been done to the authority of the Japa nese Parliament and the grave harm which has been done to the prestige of the United States. When he left Washington in tent upon carrying through his trip to Japan, the President warned that "demonstrations and threats by minorities" must not be allowed "to deflect world lead ers in their quest for peace." But minority violence did de flect these leaders from their quest for peace. KISHI YIELDS As the student disorders and rioting were reaching their peak in Tokyo, Kishi declared that "if the Prime Minister yielded to this violence, public confidence in the government would be de stroyed." Kishi yielded to violence. He conceded one of the demands of the demonstrators that the invi tation to President Eisenhower be withdrawn. It remains to be seen whether public confidence in the Kishi government can be restored. These are only the first effects of the month-long campaign of the Socialist members of the Diet and the Communist agitators who quickly took charge. The great er dangers are these: That the elected government of Japan will be brought down, not by an orderly vote in Parlia ment, but by organized violence. That the proclaimed "noutralist" purposes of the Socialist leaders of Japan will then come out into the open whereupon the Japanese people will find they have been saddled with i government which, far from being neutral in the Nehru sense, is pro-Communist, pro-Peiping, and pro-Moscow. Pl'BLIC VIOLENCE That the Japanese Socialists, disdainful of democracy, ire per fectly willing to substitute rule by public violence for rule by Parliament if that is the only way they can achieve their ends. So far this has been the only way they could' achieve their ends. At no time had they-been able to persuade the Japanese voters to follow their leadership. They had ' lost every post-war election and their Parliamentary minority has shrunk at every test. They have now started to win by force what, they were unable to win by votes. This is why the events of the past few days point a gun at the very heart of Japa nese democracy. PRO-WESTERN : . It remains to be seen whether the worst can be averted. There are some favorable factors. The Japanese people are basically pro Western in their outlook. The Liberal-Democratic Party, pres ently headed by Kishi, would undoubtedly be reelected if or derly elections in Japan are still possible. The most disturbing factor is that through all the political riot ing the Japanese press and pub lic seem to have taken a most casual, indifferent, plague-on-both-your-houses attitude. As a result the government and the police have felt constrained to give the rioters a nearly free hand. Unless the Japanese people as a whole are prepared to defend their democracy loyally and alert ly, those who are out to subvert it will succeed. (Copyright 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) So They Say- We are working to convince people that it does not matter how they dress when they come to church, so long as they will come. Rev, George D. Younger f Baptist), on how to dress for church. I was in a hurry to get home to keep my pizza pie hot. Alan U Shifter, of North RaM- more. Ohio, arrested for speeding at 110 m.p.h. If you can run the government with 4,000 people, now is the time to get rid of the rest of us. Rep. Albert Thomas (D-Tei.), on Civil Defense plan to operate the government Kith a few thousand key personnel in case of atomic at tack. I'm not subject to natural bio logical laws ... I could have a baby at any lime, even at 100. Grass juice-drinking; vegetarian Dr. Barbara Moore, M, walking across tht United States. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th Associated Press Is entitled ex rluslvely to th us. for republication of all the local newa printed In this newspaper. WILLIAM I. WASMANN News Editor DONN L. BONHAM Cltv Editor EDWIN M. BAKER Business Manager A ircuiaiion Manager W. B. JOHNSTON JR. AK.E M HUMMER Promotion Auditor Production Marquis Chilis U.S. Ignores Pressures In Orient WASHINGTON The sound out of Asia are like the rumbling! of a volcano about to erupt. The subterranean roar, breaking out into the open in Korea and Ja. pan, is a deep seated symptom that American policymakers in recent years have either ig nored or have failed to face up to. They have be lieved that by backing "strong" men and nrnvid- ing military assistance for mili tary pacts the line could be held. What is hapening today belies this comfortable assumption. The easy explanation is com munism the Communists have been at it again. Certainly com munism is the trigger. But an explosion could not be set off if in the mass there were not the potentialities for an outburst. In the view of this observer, America's China policy, ignoring the existence of 600,000,000 peo ple and hoping that something would turn up, preferably that long-promised internal revolution, is at the root of the trouble. The effect of the Chinese revolution throughout Asia has been incal culable. The material achieve ments of the Red regime, trumpet ed by a powerful and unceasing propaganda, have had a far-reaching influence. A VAGUE WORD Those achievements seem In the west to have come at an ap palling cost in human values, re ducing human being to ants or bees entirely at the mercy of an all powerful dictatorship. But in Asia, where all but a tiny frac tion of the people live close to the hunger line and where "free dom" is only the vaguest word, this has nothing like the same im pact. The mass of Asians sec the highways, schools, research cen ters, modern weapons achieved by an Asian people who breathe defiance at the West. The surprises for policy makers in Washington, such as the upris ing that drove Syngman Rhee from Korea, are far from ended. Knowledgeable analysts in the top echelon of government be lieve that something like this may happen in the not too distant future in Vietnam. Or, at any rate, the potential is there to be fired by a Communist fuse. It is a familiar situation. The head of the government, Presi dent Ngo Dinh Diem, is a man of integrity and courage dedicated to a free Vietnam oriented toward the West. But recent reports in dicate that grafting by officials of his National Revolutionary Party is reaching an intolerable stage. In some areas the govern ment exercises authority during the day and the Communists take over at night, as in the last phase of the French Indo-China war. What is disturbing is to hear from slate department officials something like the following: Yes, there is graft. Perhaps it is not as bad as some sources repre sent it to be. Anyway, in the Ori ent you have to accept degree of graft as a matter of course. This was exactly what was be ing said by apologists for Chiang Kai-Shek before the Communists triumphed in 1949 and drove Chi ang and a remnant of his force to Formosa. Certainly in China the graft had reached an intoler able level, with members of Chi ang's family amassing enormous fortunes as a ruinous inflation ran riot and contributed to the ultimate tragedy. Graft in the Philippines is re ported to be at such an oppressive level that some sources advised the President against visiting Manila lest he seem to sanction what is going on. Richard Dud man of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch staff, traveling with the President, reports that leaders of the opposition Liberal Party were kept away from Eisenhower, al though the likelihood is that they will come to power in elections next year on a wave of discon tent. FORMAL FRIENDSHIP That illustrates one handicap of the personal diplomacy of these presidential tours. The visiting American president sees only those sitting currently in the scats of power and he hears only their formal protestations of friendship at big, showy ceremon ial functions. Too often, too, American am bassadors are insulated from all but a few English-speaking offi cials at the top who tell them ex actly what they want them to hear and nothing more. The ov erthrow of Adnan Menderes and his dictatorship in Turkey is said to have come as a stunning blow to the American embassy in An kara where it had been assumed that Menderes was unassailable. There are two ways to react to what is happening. One is to learn from it and to try to formulate new and more realistic policies to be carried out by those who understand what recent events mean. The other way is to bela bor the communist scapegoat, tt go on ignoring the present trend away from the West and to be shocked and surprised when, the volcano erupts again. (Copyright, 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
