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4 Salem, Oregon. Tuesday, November 2, 1948
Stalin Again Interviews Himself
Premier Josef Stalin has a unique way of letting the
world know hia stand on various issues. During World
War II he utilized questionnaires from American and Brit
ish newsmen. Last week he interviewed himself in
Pravda., the official Soviet organ, on the Berlin crisis and
put the Interview on wire and radio before Pravda printed
it or knew anything; about it. He had a similar interview
with Pravda March 13, 1946. Then as in his interview of
last Thursday, he accused Winston Churchill of seeking
to start a war against Russia.
In his latest pronouncement Stalin pictured Russia as
bedevilled by nations which want war. He expressed a
belief that all the countries on the United Nations security
council except Russia and the Soviet Ukraine were follow
ing a policy which could lead to war. On March 22, 1946,
in an interview with Associated Press Correspondent Eddy
Gilmore, Stalin also strove to reassure the world on Rus
sia's attitude toward war, but he complained of "war
mongers."
Stalin in his last statement said the "instigators of a
new war" are doomed to failure. On September 24, 1946,
he told Alexander Werth of the London Sunday Times he
did not believe there was any danger of a new war. He
said he had confidence that cooperation and lasting peace
were possible between the communists and western na
tions. Thursday he accused the western nations of trying
to avoid cooperation, while talking of it, so as to further
war aims. In commenting on the Berlin crisis he widened
the scope of his accusations to take in the six so-called
neutral states of the United Nations security council as
upporting a policy which could lead to war.
The foreign policy of all totalitarian dictators is to
accuse and denounce other nations of doing what they are
doing themselves. Mussolini and Hitler were constantly
charging intended victims of "war mongering." It has a
familiar ring. History and the war crimes trials prove
conclusively who the real war mongers were. And Rus
sia's course of aggression since the end of World War II
proves conclusively who are the war mongers of today.
The only war mongers are Russia and her satellites in
Europe and Asia.
In his latest Pravda statement, Stalin placed the blame
for the failure of the Moscow negotiations on the Berlin
crisis on the U.S. and Britain when it was Russia's failure
to live up to Stalin's agreement that made it a scrap of
paper. The recent white paper issued by the United States
gave the record in detail of the Russian repudiations of
the pact agreed upon and later violated.
Stalin, however, quoted as the pact agreed upon at
Moscow, the text of a pact proposed by the six neutral
nations of the UN assembly and never adopted because it
was nullified by the pro tern powers.
It is a climax of oriental totalitarian diplomacy. The
confiding western powers have again found out they can
not do business with Stalin any more than they could with
Hitler.
More Hollering the Better
In the noisy last week before the election, an action of
the city council possibly went unnoticed except by the
Hollywood district people whom it vitally affected. It was
the killing of the proposed ban on parking on North Capitol
treet from Court to the underpass.
This particular proposal got the treatment it deserved.
The putting out of the way of this discriminatory meas
ure still leaves the congested traffic condition on North
Capitol street and on other key thoroughfares in the
city. So the traffic problem remains.
Main objection to the parking ban directed at North
Capitol was the hit-and-miss nature of the measure. It
was not part of a city-wide traffic-flow improvement
plan. Only such a plan can have real lasting value.
In a way, however, it is good the proposal reached deep
Into the community to bring people out fighting. Only
when Salem realizes how bad its traffic problem really is
and how neglected it has been by the state highway com
mission can the city bring about a solution to its difficulties.
That 'Chance in a Lifeti me
Revere, Man. i1 The once in a lifetime chance to make
your former teacher write something 100 times came to a Re
vere patrolman but he passed it up.
Patrolman Ralph D Ambrosio stopped a speeding car and
recognized the driver ai hu grammar school teacher
"I should make you write it pays to drive carefully' 100
times.'' he told her "You used to make me do that when I did
something wrong."
D'Ambrosio quoted her as saying she was "late lor a safety
greeting'' when he asked why h was hurrying.
That called for a lecture and she got It.
Another Tribute to Horry Crain
Harry Cram, wheel-chair cripple from age 1 (Infantile
paralysis), Is gone it 82
As reporter and editor he was in amazing combination of
courage and scorn. Determined not to miss the news, he had
himself lifted Into his automobile so he could drive his car to
be among the first at the scene. In the atatehouse he wheeled
himself about with alacrity.
It was In his writing that he expressed his contempt tor
sham. He hammered the keys of his typewriter wilr forceful
denunciation In exposing the character weaknesses of point
eians in and out of office. He was especially critical of state ap
pointees who were Incapable of doing their work well, or who
shirked If capable. His biennial exposes of legislative payrolls
were dreaded especially by members who appointed wives,
other relatives or female companions to clerical positions for
which they were fitted neither by training nor experience
He was fortunate In being employed by crabb , fearless
Oorge Putnam on Capital Journal, for that shrewd publisher
gave him ample scope for shattering hollow Images
Harry's presence was missed sorely by the visiting newspa
per men who attended the 1047 session; he had been confined
to his bed for some months; but he had his typewriter brought
to his bedside where he could hammer It with hu accustomed
eaustie vigor.
He will long be remembered as one of the outstanding news
paper characters of the state as well as for his tenacity in mak
ing so successful a career for himself In spite of his terrific
handicap.
May his tired frail body rest in peace. Ot.goa Voter.
BY BECK
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Use of A-Bomb Urged
Shortly Before Election
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Here la the Inside story of some military
political strategy which so far as I know hu aever
been told, and, fortunately did not take place-
Last spring a little group of military men discussed the Idea
of taking advantage of Russian tension a couple of weeks before
election day in such a way as to Justify dropping the atomic bomb.
Such a crisis, they argued, would serve two purposes: 1) get
inevitable war over with in a hurry, and 2) re-elect President
Truman. ,
Whether they ever put this up Winston Churchill used to
to Truman or exactly who sav that it was only when the
blocked the
idea, I do not
know.
I do know
that it was seri
ously discussed,'.'
and Justified on
the ground that.
the longer we I
delayed a Rus
sian showdown
the more likeli
hood that Rus
sia would get
the atomic bomb, after which a
Drew Pearton
dark came down that the stars
shone. And as the twilight set
tles on the great period of Ame
rican history that was the Roo
sevelt administration, it is sig
nificant to note who stands up
to go down with the ship, and
who scurries off to take their
revenge or to curry favor with
the Deweyites.
No two men ever received
more benefits from Franklin
Roosevelt than Jesse Jones and
Henry Wallace.
Wallace was an obscure farm
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Quite a Chore
By DOM UPJOHN
Voting today was something more of a chore after getting into
the polling place than it was to get there. After the voter walked
up to the table and gave his name the ladies began shoving pa-
him.
pers at
First there was .
the long one
with all the
men and meas
ures on same
for state, coun
ty, city, Judici
ary, et al. This
was a sure
enough baffler
but when the
hunk of paper
that looked like
a blanket and
LqiU
The Glorious Example
Wallace. Idaho I Memo to
those who "haven't got time"
to vote. It cost Keith Whiting
of Wallace a day's work, a 140
mile trip and $1.50 to cast his
absentee ballot. Whiting, chief
northwest geologist for the
American Smelting and Refin
ing company, is currently in
Kenya, Africa, on a trip for his
company. He had to drive 70
miles to Keisel to mark his bal
covered lot before the district commis-
descrip- sioner, and the notary fee and
war would be disastrously long writer and seed grower in Iowa,
and fatal. editing a farm journal which
However, the most important teetered on the verg of bank
part of the story is that not only ruptcy, when FDR picked him
did this idea not bear fruit, but up and put him in his cabinet,
that President Truman has Eight years later, a large seg
been at odds even with his more ment of the democratic party
moderate advisers about drop- winced and some openly re
ping the atomic bomb. belled when FDR insisted that
Wallace be his vice-presidential
The teletyped message which running-mate.
the president sent to Secretary Jesse Jones also was desper-
of State Marshall in Paris re
garding the proposed Vinson
ately out on the financial limb
when he became the democra-
mission to Moscow gave inter- tic member of the reconstruc-
esting insight into this.
tion finance corporation. Sud-
with the surveyor's
tions of property which hopes airmail stamp cost him $1.50
or not to be annexed to the city.
Anybody to decipher this one In a little note in our column
would have to take a course in the other evening as to Carrie
civil engineering and come to Haas Beechler and her 80th
oirtnday anniversary, we I a ilea
to make note that it was Mrs.
Beechler's father who installed
the polls bringing his surveying
instruments with him or a Met
sker's man of the county. And
then came the ballot on precinct the clock in the courthouse tow-
committeemen. That's about er and for many years took care
the right sort of a ballot to have
and was pretty easy pickings.
of same and nursed it. He was
well known as a Jeweler here
But It all summed itself up to and this is one of his works
democracy at work. Even in
cluding the fact that quite
which lives very prominently
after him. Milt Meyers told us
batch of the names on the big of our oversight about the clock,
ballot were those of chaps most and incidentally he wonders
of the voters have never heard what will become of same when
of before and it s quite likely the new courthouse takes the
never will hear of again. They place of the present one. A
bask In their one brief moment question which no one seems to
and then, as the poet remarked, be able to answer so far. A lot
when they fall, they like Luci- of people have lived their lives
fer, never to rise again. And according to the divagations of
may the best man win. that old timepiece.
Our town was greeted very
early this a.m., with one of the
most dazzling and beautiful sun
rises of the year which no doubt
was a portent as to who is to
be elected president today. Just
which one it was portending
about we'll be able to tell you
better tomorrow we hope.
Another Shortage
Falls City, Neb. oj.B It's not
only the housing shortage that's
acute in Falls City. A local man
advertised a WPA structure of
the type made famous by Chic
Sale. He got five calls and sold
it for $50.
"I pray." Truman told his denly, after pounding the pave-
secretary of state, "I may never ments of Wall street trying to
again be confronted with the borrow money to bail out his
decision I had to make regard- precarious enterprises, Jesse be
ing Hiroshima." came the great government mo
When further arguing with neylender. The financial pow
Marshall over the Vinson mis- ers had to come to him, not he
sion. Truman also showed great to them.
mental distress that he should Under Roosevelt he became
ever have to unleash, the atomic the financial czar of America
bomb again. with the power to put his
Marshall, himself a religious friends in command of airlines,
man, was impressed with Tru- railroads, insurance companies,
man's Bible-trained conscience, utilities. No one ever accused
The president seemed to be Jesse of making loans to his
conjuring up a scene after death own enterprises, but he accu-
in which he, Truman, was be- mulated enormous obligations
ing questioned by St. Peter at of gratitude by his capacity to
the gates of heaven regarding make loans to others,
the commandment "Thou shalt And cold-blooded Jesse' was
not kill." not the kind of man who did
The dipl o m a t i c advisers not keep double-entry books of
around Marshall and perhaps obligation in his own mind as
Secretary Marshall himself re- he dispensed the billions that a
garded this Truman "sentimen- democratic administration gave
talism" as dangerous for rea- him.
sons which may be difficult for It is a queer quirk of fate that
the non-diplomat to understand, it was Jesse Jones and Henry
For the diplomats' chief bar- Wallace who rowed so continu-
gaining power at Paris and Ber- ally that FDR had to crack their
lin has been the Idea that we heads together. Eventually he
might drop the atomic bomb. eased Wallace out of the vice
Thus, if the idea permeated presidency and fired Jesse
back to Moscow that Truman Jones, fired him because he
would not drop the bomb, and suspected what has now been
that he placed his reliance ra- proved a fact namely, that
ther on the arguments and Ken- Jesse was quietly building up a
tucky philosophy of his good republican bloc in Texas,
friend, Chief Justice Vinson, the Today, Jesse Jones, in his
diplomats' chief bargaining seventies, considered a cold
weapon would be destroyed. blooded opportunist by most of
It may seem Involved, and It tne, Peopl.e f Te,x"' h" me
may seem cold-blooded, but this u lot th "PublteM
was one of the background rea
sons for Marshall's final veto of
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New Introduction for Bob Hope
Hollywood Bob Hope missed the boat; In fact, he even
missed the gangplank.
He was running up a prop gangplank on the set of his cur
rently shooting picture when he fell last Friday. An Injury
to his left leg then was considered minor.
But his physician found a blood clot had formed. So now
he's Bob (Ordered-to-Bed-by-the-Doctor-for-at-least-l-Week)
Hope.
I ramit WKweWW 4SSSSMSSS
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
China to Tax U. S. Ingenuity
By FRED HAMPSON
(S.bsllt.lin. for DeWllt M.rfctail. At Nrwt An.lrtD
Shanghai If communism's fast flow over Asia is to be stopped,
the United States must tackle the knotty problem of China again
quickly and find a better solution than any tried so far.
Whether
or not commun
ism has been
halted in Eu
rope, it certain
ly has not been
stopped in Asia
where its en
croachment ap
pears geared to
China's civil
war.
Every time
the Chinese
reds score a big
munist cells began
all over the far east.
Red China never looked
stronger. The loss of Tsinan.
Shantung capital, for example,
left Nanking, Shanghai and the
Yangtze heartland of Chiang
Kai-Shek's China open to at
tack. Time draws short.
What can America do? Veter
an observers in China know the
answer is not simply granting
more money. The money will
disappear and the reds will keep
on coming. Observers see these
four courses open:
1. Write off China, let Chiang
fall, and hope that Chinese com
munism will not succeed. A lot
of people don't think it would.
2. Abandon China except for
a foothold on the coast as a
.beachhead should a war against
world communism come. Tsing
tao, U. S. navy base, seems logi
cal. It isn't strong now, but it
could be built up.
3. Continue small-scale aid to
Chiang in the hope of buying
time. This is the present policy,
but it hasn't had much success
ESS!
victory com-
to ferment
Its 450 millions live at peaks
of sumptuous wealth and depths
of grinding poverty. Literacy is
about 10 per cent. Millions of
Chinese even in cities don't
know the name of their own
president. Always badly govern-'
ed, Chinese have little or no
feeling of patriotism by west
ern standards.
As to the civil war, the aver
age Chinese is more interested
in keeping out of the way than
in winning it. He isn't half as
concerned about saving China
from communism as the Amer
icans are. ty
To him the communists are
just another conqueror, and he
has had conquerors coming and
going for centuries without any
noticeable change in his lot. He
dislikes soldiers, red or govern
ment, and has suffered at the
hands of both.
So this vast, loose and Indif
ferent nation, which in its heart
dislikes foreigners much mors
than it dislikes any. special po
litical breed of Chinese, is asked
to halt the spread of commun
ism. Some pretty good U. S. mili
tary brains have come to China
and tried to bend it 'o a unified
war effort. Most of them admit
ted they went slightly crazy in
the process.
A very large segment of for
eigners in China believe the
United States can stop commun
ism in China only with a terri
fic amount of direct interven
tion in the nation's affairs.
They say the intervention
4. Throw in big-scale aid and must be almost as much as the
try to defeat communism in U. S. now is exerting in such
China In the hope that there- conquered countries as Japan.
after other Asaitic reds wi.'l
curl up and die.
The fourth course seems to be
the most popular now with
Americans, except those who
would have to administer the
job. These last favor the idea
but despair of making it work.
China is a huge, sprawling
land mass, cross-crossed by
mountains and rivers with few
roads and railroads. In its best
days China had little national
cohesion. Large sections are al
most autonomous and pay little
Six months ago you wouldn't
have suggested it to the Nank
ing government, but the govern
ment is pretty much on the
ropes now and might listen.
Apropos of this, republican
presidential candidate Thomas
E. Dewey was quoted in news
dispatches out here as sayint .
"China needs technical advise i
most of all."
To which an American-owned
Shanghai newspaper replied
that China doesn't need techni
cal advisers half so badly as
heed to Nanking. Some of these she needs somebody who will
sections are the richest.
take the advice and act on it.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
He Who Laughs Last -
By HAL BOYLE
New York IIP' Ho. ho. ho! Boo. hoo, hoo! He. ha. hs! I know
I'm mixed up. boys, but I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
I've Just finished reading Homer Croy's "What Grandpa Laughed
It's an ex-
party.
Today, his old adversary.
' t i Ti 1 1 - : - ; : ,
the Vinson mission. It was not .it . . . , ,
that he wanted to drop the A
bomb, but rather that he want
ed the Russians to think we
might drop it.
So, no matter what his short-
with the commies to bring about
the demise of those who made
him.
And today, Harold Ickes, also
in his seventies, has been rid
ing the rails to Montana, mak-
comings as a statesman, nisiory ,ng speechey ufing up hii
wiu pui, cfiii.iuu it ,trength to ignt for , principle
Mme. Chiang: 'Stabilize Currency'
Los Angeles U.PI Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek has urged the United
States to take immediate steps to help stabilize the Chinese cur
rency. Her appeal was made in a copyrighted telephone interview
with the Los Angeles Mirror.
..iiru . .u it -.jo.. China stabilize our new cur
"What can the United States rency ., ,he replied
do right now to help China?" The Mirror said the interview
Mme. Chiang was asked when with Mme. Chiang "pointed up
she answered the telephone in fears of an internal collapse of
Nanking. China as result of Chinese eom-
"The United States can help munist victories in the north."
IfcV I
At
cavation Job by
the author of
"West of the
Water Tower''
into the popu
lar jokes that
America chuck
led at in the 25
years before the
first world war
And the chief
conclus
ion is you
may be able to keep a good mat
down but you can't kill a
Joke, good or bad. The only dif
ference is that it took grand
father more words to tell the
same gag than it does his grand
son. Want to know what made th
gay nineties so gay? Well, hold
on to your sides, this one 11 sla
you:
"Who do married men live
longer than single ones?"
"They don't. It only seems
longer."
That seem familiar' Well, it
was printed bark in 1891 and
before that Walter Raleigh prolr
ably told it to Queen Elizabeth.
there was a time when a hotel
clerk would give you anything.
Remember 1898? There was a
small war that year. But that
year somebody also defined .1
monologue as "a conversation
between a husband and wife '
The Spanish-American war is
pretty well forgotten; but that
w isecrack is still as near as your
radio.
Ever hear a night club comed
ian wow "em about the man who
married a tattooed lady because
he like to look at pictures
George Ade made It up way
bark in 1899.
It was in 1902. when stea
rose to 24 cents a pound, th it
the fellow went into a restaur
ant, ordered extract of beef and
got milk.
That same year, 'twas, when
a man, sneaking softly Into his
bedroom after a night out,
heard his wife whisper:
"Is that you. Henry?"
"It'd better be." said Henry.
Poor Henry. He's been giving
that reply for 43 years.
Harry Truman was no warmon
ger but a humble though con'
fused believer in the brother
hood of man.
SUPPORTERS. DESERTERS
Of the six Jokes listed by Croy
most endtirinalv DODula
Let's skip to the merry year the ni01t f,m,ir concerns the
of 1R9J. when the nation w hoop
ed and hollered about the one
concerning the deaf old lady
who lived near the Brooklyn
navy yard.
It seems that on Washing
ton's birthday they fired a 21
gun salute, and the old lady
said:
"Come in "
All right, let's go on to 1895.
Thai s the year a country lady
approached a hotel desk and
said timidly:
"Can you give me a room
and bath."
"No. ma m." said the clerk. "I
can give you a room, but you
will have to take your own
bath."
drunk who came to a tree en
circled by an iron bars. After
teetering around the Iron fence
for hours, the drunk finally put
his head through the bars and
said plaintively:
"Won't somebody please help
me' I m trapped an' can't get
out "
Ha. ha, ha! Well, that reminds
me ot a good one myself. It
seems man met his friend and
said, "who was that lady I seen
you with last, knight?"
And Knight came back like a
flash:
"You weren't the last one to
sea me "
I think that's the wav the
story goes. An Englishman toli
it to me He said he didn't re-
and a party he believes in, even
though he knows it will be de
feated. No one ever fought harder to
oppose Truman's renomination
nt DViilnriolnhia than UaftM
now tnat me election tumult ,ckes and benind tne Ktne,
is about over, this column , als0 did Mrs Roosevelt. But
would like to draw a compari- once tne decision ws madC-
son between the political beha- both decided to stav on the snip
vior of four people once ex- tnat nad wrved tnem in victory
tremely close to Franklin Roo- and g0 down with in deeat
, As Winston Church said. It
They are Eleanor Roosevelt wne ,he dark comej down
Harold Ickes. Jesse Jones and ,nat ,he , snjne
Henry Wallace. icopmsw ii
First Miss Since Civil War
Ripley, N. Y. Too III to leave his home. Robert Rownd,
104, missed voting In a presidential election for the first time
sirre the Civil war.
The former commander of the Grand Army of the Republic
did not apply for an absentee ballot, town officials said.
OPEN FORUM
Art Exhibit in Salem
(Editor's Note: Contributions to this column mast
be confined to 300 words and signed by writer)
To the Editor: The present art exhibit at the Elfstroir Galleries
is a sad commentary on the modern teaching methods of our mo
dern art schools.
There are countless thousands
like myself who have grown
weary and disgusted with these
degenerate into the modern
trend.
If it were not for the paint
ings of Carl Hall. Jerry Stone
This joke may lack humor o
day. But ! think It Is historically member It very well
Interesting because it show But grandpa be does.
and Larry Boulier the exhibit
infantile scratches and recorded .,,, A k .!-,
. . . . would be a complete example of
canvas swishings of gentle bov- eracKpot ,rt
Ines. wet tails brushing off the Why waI" Ar,hur hnitt
one of Salem's best artists not
And to see some of the so- invited? The selection commit-
called artists gaze In pretended tee deserves little credit for its
rapture, then burst into squirrel failure to recognize Its best ar-
hka chatter as the art instruc- tist and one who gave much of
tors explain the mysteries and hi, Xmt t0 teaching the group
genius of Picasso. Gottlieb . . In tne ,ummer sketch classes.
The Salem Art association is The association to be a sue
to be congratulated on bring- cessful organization must have
ing in an exhibit that is to be the people at its base,
talked about but little enjoyed The exhibits at Elfstrom's are
by the average art lover. The usually good, and if you want
old WPA Art School was one of to know what 1 mean by
the best projects established In "good" look at the "Four Plow
Salem. But it is a sad commen- Horses'' by Quigley Just before
tary that soma of these hold- you ente rthe elevator. That !
over artist teachers still teach- real art
ing have allowed their art to BOB BOAADMAN,
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Cedric Foster
Rex Miller
David Wells
Albert Warner
it Gabriel Heatter
Fulton Lewis, Jr.
William L. Shirer
John B. Kennedy
k Bill Cunningham
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