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BY BECK
What To Do!
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
BY GUILD
4
Salem, Oregon, Monday, August 15, 1949
An Autopsy on China
The government printing office announces that copies
of "United States Relations with China," the "White
Paper" just released by the department of state, are now
available to the public through the superintendent of doc
uments, government printing office, Washington, D.C., at
fS.OO a copy. It says, "This 1,054-page, buckram-bound
volume is a compilation of the records of our relations with
China, with special emphasis on the last five years."
The White Paper is an autopsy of the failure of our policy
towards China which places the blame on Chiang Kai Shek,
who for many years has fought against not only brigand
Chinese, war lords, then the invading Japanese and the
communists, trained, armed and financed by Russia. All
through World War II Chiang was a faithful ally of the
United States.
The White Paper is also a post-mortem of United States
Oriental policy and diplomacy which has deliberately sac
rificed the victory over the axis and played into Stalin's
hands. Whatever gains made in the Cold War in Europe
have been lost in the hot war in China. However smart
Americans may be in other lines, they are easily outpointed
in foreign diplomacy, even by the bungling Reds.
The White Paper is little less than a chronicle of mis
takes, of our own indecision and blundering at Yalta where
we tossed Manchuria, part of Korea and the Sakhalin Isl
and to the Russians as a good will gesture and thereby
igned China's doom.
We sent top envoys to China as advisers and most of
them urged Chiang to kiss and make up with the Chinese
Beds, which because of bitter experience he refused to do, .
having learned as every nation dealing with communists
has learned, the futility of appeasement.
The conclusions of the 1095-page White Paper is that the
graft, corruption, incompetence make the Chiang govern
ment not worth more aid and it should be charged off as a
lost cause, along with the $3 billion in loans, grants and
credits to the Nationalists since V-J day. Some $2 billion
in equipment and arms we sent is now in the hands of the
ommunists, through capture and desertions.
What to do about the Chinese communists has not yet
been decided. Recognition depends largely on the be
havior of the Chinese Reds and their leaders have stated
that they stand-by Russia, first and last. So a new policy
to evidently in the process of creation for checking the
spread of communism beyond China's borders. The offi
cial white-wash is gummed up :
"The unfortunate but inescapable fact is that the ominous
result of the civil war in China was beyond the control of the
government of. the United States. Nothing that this country
did or could have done within the reasonable limits of its capa
bllitiH eould have changed that result."
North Santiam Road Is Opened
Th bright blue sky overhead perhaps reflected the
bright future ahead for the North Santiam canyon. The
vent Sunday was the opening of the new North Santiam
highway connecting the Willamette valley with the De
chuteg country.
A simple cutting of a ribbon on the Breitenbush bridge
by Detroit signified the cutting away of obstacles to travel
through the gorge. For years men have dreamed of the
day when vehicles could move easily along the canyon wall.
The Capital Journal was one of those who had long advo
cated such a road.
Not overlooked by those filling the roadway of the
bridge for the ceremony was the significance of the new
highway.
It was more than a tie between two sections of Oregon.
It was the first step in the building of Detroit dam, too.
The new road was lifted high above the old one to permit
construction and later flooding below.
The dam that will block the course of the Santiam river
will mean a change in the recreational area there itself.
The lake that will be formed will submerge the present
town of Detroit. The peaceful tempo of the region, first
changed two years ago when road construction started,
will undergo a further change. Tourists, travelers and
gportsmen will come to the area in numbers heretofore
unknown. That, some residents will like, and then again
others will pine for the good old days.
Development of the canyon will be folt in both the Wil
lamette and Deschutes sections. Salem and surrounding
communities on this end of the road will share in the de
velopment brought by the new travel link.
The snipping of the ribbon let loose the forces of travel,
growth and progress.
THE WORTH OF A SMILE
One Young Boy Smiled,
But Did the Other One?
Portland, Ore., Aug. 15 (U.R) Three-year-old Billie Cochran
lapsed into coma today after regaining consciousness long
nough to smile at his mother.
The boy has been asleep and partially paralyzed since June
18 when he suffered multiple skull fractures and a broken
arm in an accident.
Mrs. B. B. Cachran, his mother, said the boy smiled yester
day at her on the 58th day of his strange malady.
She said she had received many letters from parents of chil
dren who suffered similar misfortunes.
"Most of them had children who recovered," she said. "I am
very glad to hear about it."
!1SMM P,T"limw I OJ0 TO 116 AWAKE HALF T
1 ml lift w JS-Pfe m the night worrying where
MtthW, tf-WI OUR KIDS WERE THEN I PUT M
IMMli ', WA flood lights so theyd srm
wWMnSsL ""? w,m home and play badminton fi
OilF ' Wmi now cant get to sleep IM
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Paul Strachan Gets Tribute Wiiard of odd$
For 'Handicapped Week'
(Ed. Note While Drew Pearson is on a brief vacation, the
Washington Merry-Go-Round is being written by his old
partner, Robert S. Allen).
Worth Trying
By DON UPJOHN
Several years ago, it is remembered, Salem, Oregon, got itself
on the map in a big way when some bright boy in the Chamber
of Commerce here sent a letter to the Chamber of Commerce in
Massa-
Salem,
chusetts, sug-
gesting that?
that ancient -
and honorable
town change its
name as the Sa
lem out here on
the coast was
outstripping it
in every way
and deserved
the honor of be
ing known as
the top Salem
The Costly Brush Off
Colchester, Conn. (U.R) Mrs.
Mary E. Baldwin had an accident-free
driving record cover
ing 33 years until a black ant
spoiled it. The ant landed on
her arm. While trying to brush
it off she lost control of the
car and it hit a tree. She was
unhurt.
. By ROBERTS. ALLEN
Washington T$is is a long-deserved public tribute to a man
of great courage and great humanity.
He is Paul Strachan, tall, deaf, and impassioned father of
National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week.
Strachan conceived this unique humanitarian institution while
flat on his back in John Hopkins
hospital in September, 1940. It ican Federation of the Physi
tobk him five years of unremit- cally Handicapped,
ting effort to win congressional Strachan still heads this or
approval. ganization, which has local chap-
Now firmly established and ters throughout the country,
warmly supported by leaders of AFPH is sponsoring his new pro
government, industry and labor, gram and from a modest office
NEPHW has made it possible in the National Press building
for more than 500,000 handi- he is determinedly mastermind
capped men and women to ob- ing the campaign,
tain gainful work and the inex- His right - hand assistant is
pressible satisfaction o f being also a handicapped. Miss Mil-self-sustaining
members of so- "red Scott doesn't thump desks
ciety. or thunder as Strachan does, but
In a few weeks, the 1949 she is as indefatigable and de
NEPHW drive will be launch- voted to their cause. As one
ed at a Wasninctnn meetinir that admiring AFPH official express-
will be addressed by President ed I1' "PaJul,S'rm? the bar" ijiwp nun nrnBurn
Truman. He has sincerely back- f'cadfs aPd Mildred organizes POOR MAN S PHILOSOPHER
ed NEPHW from its start. Last , .
year, both the president and ,
then Secretary of State George c Paul Strachan and Mildred
Moh!! v r.f i Scott are not headline names.
the drive But they arc the kmd Q( selfless
idealists who have made Amer-
Strachan will be in the fore- ica great and are its, real hear
front of this year's campaign as and ??ui and. strength,
u. i ii ti i t-v!.. It it the privilege of the Wash-
ing the conception of NEPHW he inSton Merry-Go-Round to ac- staff, earned his nickname "Lightning Joe" on many battle.
SflVS' auu ucatuw UJJUJ1 IieiQS,
"It was born of recollections eacn. thet brass. "ng for devoted
of World War I, when disabled servlce to their fellow men.
veterans were pusnea arouna
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FELLOWS eofi&ffa PH YOUR DIAMOND WEDDING 1
IT'S JUST TrM 31 ANNIVERSARY- J
FVFN JUST 600 COUPLES IN THE
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PAJAMASJp? SggggS--
'Lightning Joe' Collins
Earned His Nickname
By HAL BOYLE
New York VP) Gen. J .Lawton Collins, the new army chief of
and ignored as soon as the par
ades stopped and the bands no
longer played. It was born of
NO REASON FOR AWE
There is nothing backward men
u u u i oo-year-oia iresnman
The graying,
53-year-old sol
dier one of
the handsomest
in . the
army was one
Di Opjoha
Now that De-
By way of economy, efficiency
and a neat job when the county
gets ready to raze the old court-
vivid and poignant recollections ? - ? ' the m0st Co1"
troit, up in the canyon of the "ou!e "'-y '
' ,' ,. . , ... suggestion that a week or so
North Santiam has jumped into before thc time comes to stage
the limelight with its dedicatory the project that arrangements
ceremonies yesterday, photog- be made to slip into the county
raphers, governor, engineers and ia'l by surreptitious means about
a gross Ul uuuKbawa. c iuiii yuai.
of thousands of other handi-
orful and ener-
Indiana, but he admits a little
cappeds I had seen who were 'age fig" hustled getic field com-
the discards of society. dw" to, tht- WJ?''e. ?ouse on manders of the
"It was born of personal ex- ' - Mm second
penence, as one 85 per cent phys- .j T . war.
ically disabled, and who, be- d,I maJb?hI fhuld ?y He was tough
cause of that disability, was cast grmned "if ta,U' T1 and cool and
iiuusjii-i. aitci lie BUUUA
World yrm g
upon the human scrap pile, de-
spite a fierce and intense desire t A" t"M,, aJl ran his famous Seventh corps canal and New Guinea
to live, to work, and to achieve." t t ,k .. - Pr T " : as efficiently as any top Dusiness
But while laboring devotedly 0.-... Presldent ol the executive.
for NEPHW, Strachan is pas- ..fknow how vou feel Tr An M'
sionately battling for a new ' h0W.,y"fef ' I" could plan a bi
s a plan for a great na- EffSVSS SKlfE -7 trsth
tional program of rehabilitation, "Vseat You're ?n But now Presence.
training and aid for physically ?haT I he?e ?n this chair This was his battle formula:
handicapped of all kinds. The "hSSL h I f.1 "Outguess the enemy, keep
won his battles first hand. He
Some generals are boxers, and
some are punchers. "Lightning
Joe" is a puncher.
It was his faculty of sustain
ed drive that led Gen. Omar
Nelson Bradley to give him the
critical battle assignments that
built his fame.
And few generals in American
history can match his combat
record. His victories stretch
from Guadalcanal to the Elbe.
Collins came to Europe after
successfully completing the
mopup of Japanese on Guadal-
a long array of big names, we
offer the suggestion to Ed Vick-
ers, major domo of the canyon
experience it may be reasoned
out that the inevitable would
happen and it wouldn't be long
that he now write a letter to the before the ground floor of the
mayor of Detroit, Michigan, sug-
structure would be neatly sawed
tt nrr tha n-cf nt the h.itlriina
gesting that that town retire un- and aU that would be needed
der the shadow of a new name would be to tip it over and hall
and let the Detroit here bask in off the remains. Given enough
its glory until such time as the hacksaws and the right boys in
waters of the great new man- f3", and Je job would jn a11
, , , , , ,. , . likelihood be done expeditiously
made lake lap through its streets and neatly The catch in it
and finally enshrine them in the would be to convey to them the
oblivion to which it is destined, idea that the hacksaws were
He might get a real fancy let- being slipped into them without
ter back if he'd try it. And knowledge of the sheriff. We
we don't know anybody better doubt if they'd try to handle the
equipped than Ed to do that job if they figured they were
very thing. doing it by request.
90 Years Don't Hold Him Down
Williamsburg, Mass. (U.R) To celebrate his 90th birthday,
William R. Damon, Williamsburg's oldest resident, mowed
his lawn, took a walk and ate some of the six boxes of candy
friends sent him.
project would completely revo
lutionize the handling of this
problem in the U. S. More than
two-score senators and congress
men are sponsoring the bill draft
ed by Strachan.
Rep. Gus Kelley, D., Pa., sen
ior member of the house labor
committee, has already held
hearings on the measure. But
despite strong support in and
out of congress, the proposal is
a long way from enactment. It
is encountering vigorous bureau
cratic resistance.
But that is not daunting Stra
chan. All his life he has had
to fight for his ideals. It took
can feel that way about me.'
(Copyright 1949)
His Seventh corps seized Utah
... - beach in Normandy. It freed
u T Tl,t it Cherbourg, the first French me-
battle, tlgnt ll tn,: IjUorato frnm tho naii
It broke the crust at St. Lo. It
was first to crack the Siegfried
line and capture a major Ger
man city Aachen. It took Col
ogne, too, expanded the first
him off balance, and never stop u.;Lh.aL th. t,m. af
rlritino " " . . . . "7 -
GIVING MILLIONS AWAY
Ex Reform School Boy
Has Fun Spending Fortune
Remagen, and at war's end link
ed up with the Russians along
the Elbe.
But . "Lightning Joe," who
never dodged a scrap, once got
into a fight he wasn't looking
for.
It happened in the "battle of
the Bulge" in Belgium in De
cember, 1944.- The German
breakthrough imperiled the
American line of communica-
By PATRICIA CLARY
Hollywood, Aug. 15 (U,R) Movietown's newest millionaire Is
the old-fashioned model. He likes to spend money.
1110 uimiuiio Mai aiiu u giving vncin ana; 111c same way. lie
doesn't have as much money as Howard Hughes, but he sure
him five years to make NEPHW has more fun'
a reality, and he is prepared to
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
U. S. Must Choose
Course in Indo-China
By JAMES. D. WHITE
(Sutatltutinc for DeWIlt MacKenzle, AF Foreign Hewg Anglyst)
The French pulled one of their small garrisons back Friday
from a point in Indo-China near the Chinese border.
If and when the Chinese communists arrive, the French will
not be there to stop them.
Possibly for the benefit of Am- knows what he will do if the
erican officials planning a new Chinese Reds try to move in on
policy to combat communism in him and take over.
Most of the moneymen hear- Next day he went to the furni-
battle the remainder of his days abouts hug their money as if it ture store and paid for it in
IOr nis new dream. were muuey, uui .rwuurii atis line fxovti.
"It will be worth it," he says. he never heard of the surtax.
"We can't lose. Even if this He ets more 3y out ?f spend-
program is not adopted in its nK money than anything,
entirely to start with, it will "Oh, well," he shrugs. "I can
force advances that would other- always make more." .
wise not be achieved. Time and
tne cause ot humanity are on our The 30-year-old wheat king,
siue.
porarily put his First and Ninth
armies under the field leader
ship of Field Marshal Montgomery.
Monty immediately named
east Asia, this underlines the
fact that Indo-China lies square
ly in thc path of any communism
that spills over from China.
Yet earlier last week, just af
ter Gen. Omar N. Bradley an
nounced that France would get
the bulk of American arms sent
lo Europe to contain commun
ism there, France's President
Auriol assured the Indo Chi
nese that France would defend
them from any outside aggressor.
France would need help for
The French withdrawal from
the Chinese border region Fri
day leaves him free to meet the
Chinese Reds when they arrive,
and may hasten the answer to
the question of what will result
cooperation or conflict.
But it also puts up to the
United States the question of
whether France is going to be
supported in Indochina.
The American position to date
is ambiguous. When Bao Dai
was enthroned, the state depart
ment put out a vague statement
Two years ago I didn't have "Lightning Joe" to head a re-
a dime, he said. "The best thing corPs- Thls corPs was to
about having money is being be used as 8 counterblow at the
able to spend it." , right time when the German
drive had been contained. But,
. Alcorn's major share-the- in tne meantime, it was under
wealth project is a movie, "John- strict orders to refrain from at-
who npvpr nan enniiffh tn eat - . ' i il- .... .
: V r . retorm school where he served "ne 01 ie oumis in tne re-
Strachan inherited his un- I bunch o? " unTr- 8 5 Stretch' SiT, TV"
. 11C B UUUgllb llllCiy-ltlllUieU ewbu.tu b.iiiulu Ul-
uniforms for all the boys. He sion, led by Maj. Gen. Ernie
got a band to play for them. He's "Old Gravel Voice" Harmon,
paying them for being in the After a spectacular 100-mile
movie. night march, Harmon's tankers
And when the picture comes reached their assembly area
OUt on kid's rinv in Nnvprnhn- near Cpllps Rplm'iim Thnn
ed on two Lincoln Continentals he's giving away the first day's they started to run into German
and a 15-room mansion in Wich- profits. outposts. Moving more swiftly
rvans., wun a diock 01 Td never be movie Dro. expected, the nazis were
quencnaoie spirit irom a tscott- privileged kids. It cost only
ish father. $5,000. Alcorn personally order-
His father was a crusading ed a $150 watch as first prize
country editor in Michigan, In- for pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey.
When he made his fortune
diana and Georgia. He battled
. u : i
3 Vh. ..nrt;rf -ll i r selling flour to Brazil, he splurg
for the underdog without fear H , T , rnZi.
or favor.
On one occasion, his press was
smashed by a mob. The elder
Strachan borrowed equipment
irom a nearby town and issued
ita, Kans., with a block of
&"" ducer if it hadn't been for re- only a few miles from the
"I always wanted a mansion," form school," he admitted. "I'd Meuse river. If thev reached it
his paper with a scathing attack he explained. 'Now I have one." still be hanging around pool and took Dinant the American
on the mob. Hls secretary picked out a new halls." armies would be split in half.
Paul Strachan was born in des't or herself. Alcorn insisted Alcorn's next movie project
Perry, Mich., in February, 1892. on buying one twice as expensive will be the story of bet-a-million- Harmon immediately relayed
At the age of 14, he had become and haIf as Practical. gates. Conservatively estimat- this information to Collins, who
an expert typist and. auittine " lu u" cu. wm eosi mm $j,uuu,uuu. asKed:
What do you want to do.
this job, because for three years saying it welcomed the step be
she has failed to beat down the cause it might lead to peace. At
native nationalist movement led the same time, it indicated Am
by Ho Chi-Minh. erican enthusiasm would de-
. , , pend upon how "the legitimate
Ho is a communist who heads aspirations of the Viet Nam
the unrecognized republic of people" are realized.
Niet-Nam. American prestige has suffer-
His leadership is popular ed in East Asia since V-J day be
enough among 25,000,000 Indo- cause the U.S. has supported,
Chinese that when the French directly or indirectly, such Eu
set up Bai Dai as emperor of a ropean colonial powers as
rival state last June, they also France, Britain, and The Nether
called it Viet-Nam. lands in their colonial position
To fight Ho, the French still so as not to weaken the anti-
use more than 100,000 foreign communist front in Europe.
A decorator tried to
school, took a roving Job as an some furniture for his lush pent- "I wouldn't want to do it, he
'expert demorfstrator." In the nuse office. Alcorn said no. said, "if I had to do it cheaply.'
Chicago (U.R) All the children at the party Insisted Paul
Sowa smiled a little when he lboked at his birthday cake
with its 11 candles.
But they weren't really sure.
Tou can't be sure of what a person with sleeping sickness
tan see or feel or hear.
Paul, who has lived in a daze since January of 1945, sat
Sropped up in his bed with the sideboards. All the neighbor
ood kids clustered around him. They fussed about how well
he looked. He stared at them as though he heard but no one
ould be sura.
They sang "Happy Birthday" as the cake was brought in.
A muscle in his solemn, childish face twitched.
Maybe it was a smile.
Maybe some day he'll be able to smile and see and feel like
the youngsters at his birthday party.
The doctors aren't too hopeful, though.
legionnaires. Away from the
main roads and cities, outposts
are maintained by airlifts. The
rebels control the rest of the
country.
It has been a costly stalemate,
with the French unable to defeat
the rebels and the rebels unable
to drive out the French.
This has been potent material
for the communists who have
been claiming that America
stands for colonialism and con
tinued imperialism over Asia.
At the same time, the one
common denominator in Asiatic
politics is the nationalism
years that followed, he visited
many lands and engaged in many
occupations.
He prospected for gold with
two sourdoughs in Alaska; was
a steamship agent in the orient;
worked at various jobs in the
Mediterranean, Australia, Eng
land and South America; and
produced several movies in the
U. S. As Strachan puts it, "there
were few places I didn't get to
and little that I didn't do."
One of the things he did was
to become a boon companion of
Jack London, famed novelist.
They went on several trips together.
Through Bao Dai, the French through which her peoples seek
In World War I. because of
physical disability, Strachan was
barred from military service. So
he helped set up the Bureau of for children and run for about
War Risk Insurance and was one two hours. It was my pleasant
ui lis ursi oixiciais.
Triple Trouble to Test Tears
Spokane, Wash. (U.R) Deputy Sheriff Harold Davis almost
broke down and cried.
He had to dive into the river and swim ashore when his
rowboat sprang a leak while he was searching for a body.
An angry dog backed him into a full bird bath, soaking
him again, and tearing his pants.
A tear gas gun suddenly went off in his patrol car.
OPEN FORUM
Likes Morning Kiddie Shows
To the Editor: A very sincere note of thanks is certainly due
to the group of Salem merchants who are sponsoring the series of
Tuesday morning Kiddie shows at the Capitol theater.
These Tuesday morning shows
. . .... the kirirlip shnurc
"""" ,. ,T m t-,l
Ernie?"
"I want to attack, but we're
under orders not to," said Har--mon.
"And there isn't time to
get the orders changed."
"Go ahead, Ernie," said CoV
lins. "I'll take the responsibi"
ity."
In a great grinding battle,
fought in snow and fog, Har
mon's .division annihilated the
German armor and halted the
German, thrust.
Field Marshal Montgomery,
angered at first because he
thought his orders had been dis
regarded, sent a rebuke through
channels. But when he learn
ed the full story he sent his com
pliments to Collins and Harmon.
The battle had turned out to
be one of "Lightning Joe's bert
are trying now to lure the Indo-
chinese away from Ho Chin
Minh. At this writing Bao Dal
and what he stands for are not
popular. France has granted him
only nominal Internal autonomy.
Rebel grenades go off within a
few miles of his capital at Sai
gon. Last March Ho broadcast that
he was getting help, in his fight
against the French, from Chinese
guerrillas. No one doubts this,
but on tha other hand no on
to get rid of anything that
smacks of outside control.
The greatest of these nation
alistic movements has been that
In China. The white paper is
sued recently is, in one sense, a
fully documented account of
how communism was allowed to
take over in the absence of any
real competition for popular
support.
The United States must now
make a choice in Indochina, for
that is the next stop south ot
China for communism.
Later, as a result of this
work, he was active in organiz
ing a union of government em
ployees. This in turn led to in
terest in vocational training and
opportunity last week to spend
a morning free to shop, know
ing that my little boy was in
good hands and being entertian
ed. And I certainly expect to
he authnrprt onri rt thoh spend the next few Tuesday
congress the Federal Vocational mornings downtown, as well.
Training act. It would be a wonderful boon ,
An auto accident severely dis- mothers in Salem if these "
abled Strachan and sent him to ine shows could be continued
Johns Hopkins hospital where throughout the entire year,
he conceived National Employ I am sure that many other
the Handicapped Week. In mothers join with me when I
1942. to wage the long fight for say that in the future I will
congressional enactment of this patronize these forward-think-project,
he organized the Amer- ing merchants responsible for
Cooler Than a Cucumber
New York, Aug. 15 P) An enterprising reporter has dug
up some unusual data about New York City's heat wave that
the weather bureau doesn't supply.
While the official reading atop the Whitehall building in
lower Manhattan stood at a record high of 98.1 degrees Thurs
day, the reporter went roving with a thermometer and re
corded these temperatures:
103 degrees inside a policeman's shoes.
130 degrees on a tiled rooftop.
93 degrees in an air-conditioned elevator.
37 degrees in a plane 17,000 feet above the city.
After a quick thundershower sent the official temperature
down to 81, the reporter said, the city was as cool as a cu
cumber in fact, cooler. A vegetable stand cucumber was 92.