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4 Salem, Oregon. Wednesday, March 15, 1950
.The Umbrella Is Abandoned
It looks like Secretary of State Acheson meant what he
said last week. At that time he called for "total diplo
macy" to curb Russian expansion.
' The secretary's talk today in San Francisco sounded as
.it he had finally decided the do-nothing policy of the United
. States in Asia was a dud. It was more than that. It was
a disgrace. Acheson didn't admit the shortcomings of the
.previous months in trying to be like old Chamberlain of
England and carry the umbrella of appeasement. He did
indicate, though, that that stuff was out, and a thing of
'the past. From now on out, Communist China and the
Soviet Union shall keep their hands off the rest of Asia,
"he warned.
Acheson wasn't clear in what he meant when he said
that the Chinese "can only bring grave trouble on them
. selves ... if they are led by their new rulers into aggressive
-or subversive adventures beyond their borders." He was
tardy, however, in admitting that "we now face the pros
pect that the communists may attempt to . . . use China as
a base for probing for other weak spots which they can
'move into and exploit."
- Acheson tried to appeal to the Chinese people themselves
'when he referred to them as "old friends." He assured
;them that "we fully understand that their present unhappy
status within the orbit of the Soviet Union is not the re
sult of any choice on their part." But in trying to say this
.Soviet association had been forced on them, Acheson like
.wise was overlooking the fact that Chinese leaders and
-troops had defeated Chiang Kai-Shek's nationalist forces.
. The Soviets used the Chinese rebels, it is true, but never
theless, the Chinese communists did defeat the Chinese na
tionalists all to the glee and glory of the Kremlin.
' Acheson neglected to indicate, also, what the United
States intended to do if Communist China or the Soviet
I Union decided to go ahead and expand into the rest of
jAsia. The hands-off warning is backed with what?
. Outside of these weaknesses backed by a lingering mis-
- interpretation of Asiatic affairs, Acheson did show he is
finally on the right track. What goes on in the Orient is
' definitely another phase of the world-wide threat of Mos
cow to control the globe. Only "total diplomacy" every
' thing in the book short of a shooting war can foil that
'.threat.
.Now Is Not the Time
" The man who knows more about the draft than anyone
' else in the nation stopped in Salem only long enough to
get off the train to stretch his legs. But that was long
- enough for General Hershey, selective service director, to
indicate that the draft is about done for.
To the young men along in their late 'teens, they may
'think that is good news. The young men would still have
' to register at the local draft boards, but they would not
''don any uniforms if Hershey's guess is correct.
, But is it good news that the draft will probably die a
"natural death when the legislation covering it expires June
',30th of this year?
a The answer is no.
If the world situation is as it appears and as Acheson
is finally admitting, then what is Washington, D. C. think-
ing of in saying that military forces need only be paper
'organizations? What kind of backing has President Tru
4 man or Acheson when they talk tough in world affairs?
Present figures show that the army has only three divis
ions anywhere near full strength. One of these divisions
lis at Fort Lewis, another in North Carolina and the third
cin Germany. There isn't even a full-strength armored di
? vision.
When World War II ended, the nation decided not to
, abandon selective service. Are world conditions any better
(now than a few years ago? The answer obviously is that
conditions have gotten worse. And yet this nation, finally
; realizing that it is the world leader, feels that a draft isn't
necessary. That doesn't make sense.
A dropping of the draft now would be an admission that
either the world situation was hopeless or the United States
doesn't care. Neither condition is correct.
If the Pacific Northwest needs airplane watchers, the
i country certainly needs enough manpower in uniform to
J fill out at least a token defense force. And the only way
figured out to have enough manpower for such a force is
S with the draft.
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KRISS-KROSS
Hole in Concrete Causing
Hole in Station's Profits
By CHRIS KOWITZ.Jr.
There's a hole in the concrete that's causing a hole in the
profits at the Chevron filling station at Chemeketa and High
streets.
It's a big hole . . . took a lot of digging . . . cost a lot. What's
more, the excavation won't bring in any income once the
project forp:
which it is be-?:-
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Truman Urges Secretary Gray
To Become AEC Chairman
By DREW PEARSON
Washington President Truman has been trying to persuade
Gordon Gray, one of the best secretaries of the army the war
department has seen, to remain on in Washington as chairman
of the atomic energy commission.
Secretary Gray had agreed to become president of the Uni
versity of North .
oppose his bill to his office for
a heart-to-heart talk The sen
ator is not angry. He is the grac
ious fatherly type trying to pro
tect the reporter from evil and
untruth. At the height of the
"conversation," the senator pulls
a Bible from a desk drawer and
quotes from it in support of his
arguments.
Kerr's "assistant lobbyist,"
Sen. Lj'ndon Johnson of Texas,
is not as smooth a salesman. The
other day, Johnson spied an op
ponent in the senate restaurant
and pounced on him "What do
you mean," Johnson demanded,
"fighting the Kerr bill?"
The critic replied that he fig
ured an unregulated monopoly
would mean increased prices to
the consumer.
"Monopoly, poof!" scoffed
Johnson. "Aluminum is a mon
opoly. Steel is a monopoly.
BY CARL ANDERSON
Henry
Draw Pearton
ing dug is com--
pleted.
The hole is
there because
there's a leak'
in the hose
which delivers
free air ... a
hose which pro
vides service to
the customer
but no income
to the station.
1 w.m -n
I T . Ta 1
csu
Cbrll Kawila, Jr.
cerned. Board of control has is
sued order that tunnel cannot
be used by employes during
lun.h and coffee periods.
In answer to dozens of inquir
ies regarding Don Upjohn,
"Sips for Supper" columnist, we
have this to report: Don, having
come through a couple of opera
tions in fine shape, had been re
cuperating at his home for sev
eral weeks. Then the other day
it was discovered that "Sips" re-
When the air was discovered quired an additional operation,
to be leaking out, workmen be- So this writing finds our good
gan digging to find the seat of friend back in the hospital, with
the trouble . . . they're down our best wishes for a speedy re
several feet now, and they can covery.
still hear the air hissing below
them . . . which means they'll Carol Lee, Laurel Herr and
just have to keep digging deep- Sidney Kromer, the Leslie jun
er and deeper . . . and all be- ior high trio who have won mu
ciuse of a little leak in the sical honors both instrumentally
free air hose. and vocally, are all honor stu-
T h e operation is costing dents at the south Salem school,
aplenty, considering that air ... G. Herbert Smith, president
brings in no income . . . but the of Willamette university, dis-
operators of the station feel that plays license number 1842 on his
digging the hole will save mon- automobile. Willamette U. was
ey in the long run ... if they founded in 1842 . . . Salem high
hadn't dug down to repair the school's basketball team staying
hose, the leak would have just at Hotel Osborne during state
blown away the profits. tourney at Eugene this week . . .
Salem is the only high school in
Tunnel between statehouse the state which excuses its stu-
and new public service building dents from classwork in order
will be no "tunnel of love" as that they may attend the tourna-
far as state employes are con- ment sessions.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Does Moscow Aim to Divide
World in 2 Influence Zones?
By DeWITT MaeKENZIE
U;P) Foreign Affalra Analyst)
They tell us we shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, but
that axiom certainly doesn't apply to horse swapping.
Moscow is said to be working on an amazing proposal. U. S.
officials are said by James Reston, Washington correspondent
of the New York Times, to believe Soviet Russia is making a
effort to
vention basis" is of course true
in theory. Naturdlly it would
work if there were "non-intervention."
However, "non-intervention"
is a direct contradiction of a
cardinal tenet of communism.
Still looking the horse in the
mouth we are reminded that we
have been up against this non
intervention promise before.
From the advent of the bolshe-
vist government in 1918 until
Carolina. But
x n e rresiaem ,
has explained to "ii?
uray inai xne
atomic commis-
cinn harllv nowlc
- ..
a chairman who n
has both public
and congression
al confi d e n c e
plus ability as
an administra
tor, and has urg
ed him to delay his return to
North Carolina for at least one
year.
Gray, one of the most popular
secretaries in the history of the
army, is a North Carolina law
yer and publisher ho entered
the army as a buck private in
World War II.
CHEAPER BABY OIL
Wnnsp wav and rnpanc ripmn-
prats riwidpd at a xvrpt mcotino Automobile production is mon-
last week that the fairest form- P"zed by a lew companies,
ula for excise tax reduction Natural gas doesn't have that
would be an across-the-board klnd ol a monopoly. There are
cut on all excise taxes of about many independent producers."
50 per cent. But what the senator from
Some of the more oppressive ga s'ricn Texas did not reveal is
taxes on baby oils etc. may ,hat ln 1947 ten Producers sold
be cut more or eliminated en- abou' -h-t f the gas used
tirely. However, the 50 per cent by e P'Pell"es by the five
reduction average will prevail in southwestern gas states,
most cases. ,
ine so-canea independents
whom Johnson referred to in
clude companies controlled by
Standard Oil of N. J., Standard
Oil of Ind., Sinclair Oil Corp.,
Socony-Vacuum and Phillips.
How much money some of
them are making is shown by
the return on common stock and
surplus after taxes in 1948 by
the four top producers Phillips
Petroleum, 18.7 per cent; the
Chicago Corp., a subsidiary of
Cities Service, 22.6 per cent; Re
public Natural Gas Co , 24.12 per
cent; and Humble Oil Sc Refin
ing, a subsidiary of Standard Oil
of N. J., 27.7 per cent.
NOTE Senator Kerr owns an
estimated 5100,000,000 in natural
gas reserves and has an annual
sale' C sale? aL
HAT5'
A mdivo
Complexity of the committee's
job was illustrated by Rep. John
Dingell of Michigan when he in
quired if talcum powder should
be given a high-priority reduc
tion like baby oil.
Several colleagues protested
that talcum powder was in a dif
ferent category from baby oil,
since it was used by men as well
as babies.
"Well, that's because the old
man moved in on the baby's" can,"
explained Dingell amid grins.
"Originally, talcum powder was
for babies. But now the baby
uses it for one extremity, while
daddy applies it to the other,
after shaving."
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER f
The Ten Top Cavedwellers
For Underground Noah's Ark
By HAL BOYLE j
New York MV-If America were destroyed by atomic bomb
ing, what ten living beings should be saved?
This question has been posed by Lester Dill, owner of the
Meramec caverns at Stanton, Mo.
Dill recently asked the reconstruction finance corporation
a million i
for
dollar
loan to
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Hal Bo?l
new
arrange a deal
with America
to divide the
world into
spheres of in
fluence. Under this
two-world a r-rangemcnt,
western influ
?nce in the sat
ellite s t a t p s
would be min- D,m" """"
C2AS I
Thugs Missed Out on Schooling
Cumberland, Mr., March 15 (Pi A couple of burglars
either can't read or like to pull a job the hard way.
They broke Into a safe here yesterday, after hacking at
the handle and finally removing the pins from the safe's
door hinges.
The loot was a razor and 20 cents.
On the side of the battered safe the company had painted:
"No money Inside."
And beneath thai the combination.
Full House in This Schoolroom
Chicago, March IS lf Teacher Alvlna Rarkstrom of the
Sutherland public school frequently believes she Is seeing
double when she looks at her classroom of pupils in grade 2R.
She has a poker full house three or a kind and a pair. They
are girl triplets and twin boys.
The triplets, Karen, Elisabeth and Diane Qti 1st. will he
1 years old April 3. The identical twins, William M. and James
M. Owen, were 7 years old March 10.
Tough Record to Live Up to
Prince Rupert, B. C, March 15 (CP) Leonard Anderson
of Los Angeles found his record of birth here but It's a tough
record to live up to.
It's pretty obvious to Leonard that one of the statistics is
off, but he can't get a document to prove It. That's the part
that says he was horn 28 years ago a girl.
The doctor doesn't want to go back on his original state
ment and Leonard hasn't seen his parents for 22 years.
Geography Got Mixed Up
Oceanslde, Calif., March 15 (U.n Ernest A. Taylor, superin
tendent of streets for this southern California City, Is a
baffled man today.
Although the city has never had a measurable amount of
snowfall, a Chicago manufacturing firm high on enthusiasm
but low on geography has flooded him with literature ai-.
aerting Oceanslda should own a nowplow.
i.i.zeu or eliminated, ine west- 10,o lh ,n:,.j
ern nations would adopt a hands- fastl rcfused , recognize tne
off policy for the whole com- ror, DnvPnmn, whi,h ,
munist world, including China strainjng cvcry n'erve to get its
and Yugoslavia, and do most of
their business with the satellites
through Moscow.
Red officialdom has been em
phasizing "that the worlds of
capitalism and communism can
live In peace on a non-intervention
basis."
world revolution under way.
Britain, for instance, was con
stantly fighting the Russian
agents who were doing their ut
most to overthrow the British
government.
Finally in 1933 Soviet foreign
. commissar Maxim Litvinoff
Well that's horse-swapping came to Washington and made
on an unprecedented scale. glowing promises of good be-
We get a better idea of just havior to F. D. R. There would
how big a deal it is when we ne no red propaganda in the
check up on how much of the United States; Moscow would
world has been brought under reform.
Red domination.- So Washington extended for-
Sovlet Russia, plus its satel- mal recognition and the reds
lites and China comprise started their drive to convert
roughly one-third of the globe's America,
population, and about one-fourth ' . . .
of its land area. . Still, while we have to look
Some of this, of course, Russia the horse in the mouth, the situ-
Is in the process of trying to di- ation isn't without hope,
gest, and China is included in Secretary of State Acheson in-
that category. However, those dicated that the other day in
figures don't include the com- his call for "total diplomacy"
munist supporters and fifth-col- to win the cold war with com-
umnists who are working in non- munism. By this he meant an
communist countries. all-out effort, short of shooting.
Looking the Russian horse in to halt Russian expansion. Hav-
the mouth we get the idea that ing made the call he added:
Moscow has overrun about all "When we have reached the
the territory it can handle con- unity and determination on the
veniently at this time The Mus- part of the free nations when
covitcs would De glad to see the we have eliminated all of the
cold war eased off a bit while areas of weakness we will be
they consolidate their gains and able to evolve working agree-
get organized for another offen- ments with the Russians."
sive in due course. That, I take it. is a tacit warn-
The assertion that "the worlds ing not to try any horse deals
of capitalism and communism until we know the animal is
can live in peace on a non-inter- right.
MIT.l.irtVArRE IflRRVlST
Busiest lobbyist on Capitol Hill gross income. ' $12 000,000.
these days is genial Sen. Bob TYDINGS FOR PRESIDENT
Kerr, the Oklahoma oil million- a strange Romeo has shown
aire, who is trying to sell a bill up under the White House bal-
costing American consumers an cony singing love songs. He is
estimated $506,000,000 a year, dapper Sen. Millard Tydings of
Kerr's bill would exempt most Maryland, who used to make sar-
of the nation's natural-gas sales castic slurs against the admin-
irom federal regulation. , istration but now devotes his
Kerr has some disarming tech- tongue to the Truman cause,
niques. He selects a senator for Behind this quiet reformation,
whom he has done a favor, and however, Tydings is playing a
in his pleasant, easy drawl, con- cagey political game to get his
fides: 'Ah'd like to tell you about own foot in the White House,
my bill. Lots of false propa- By posing as a loyal adminis-
ganda being passed out about it. tration supporter, he hopes to
This talk about raising gas rates, sip his hat into the 1952 presi-
now. That's absurd! Why, the dential ring,
producers are governed by 10- The shrewd Maryland senator
to 20-year contracts." iet the cat out of the bag the
When senators say they can- other day by disclosing his am-
not support his bill. Kerr amia- bition to close friends. He ad-
bly requests: "Ah'd appreciate it mitted going along with the ad-
as a personal favor then, if you ministration, in part so he can
you won't fight it." move into Truman's shoes in case
The senator from Oklahoma is Truman doesn't run again. Tyd-
all the more effective because ings even indicated he would
he has sometimes fought on the like Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois
consumers' side of the fence, as a running mate,
namely in the Montana public- if Truman decides to run for
power scrap. Now he is sidling another term, however, Tydings
up to senators he helped then js ready to lower his sights to
and begging their neutrality. the vice presidency. He is con-
fident 73-year-old Vice President
Another Kerr lobbying tech- Barkley won't run again,
nique is to invite newsmen who , (copyright ibsoi
She's Headed East
Spokane, Wash., March 15 (U.R Quo Vadis Davis, Spokane
nurse whose first name means "Where are you going?" an
nounced her engagement to James J. East.
FOREST SOCIAL REGISTER
Only Best Families of Trees
Should Read This Story
By WILLIAM WARREN
Well, what do you know! Trees have family trees, too.
The state forestry department came up this week with a new
tab to add to the list of such tags as "yield tax," "sustained
yield," "intensive utilization," 'economic maturity" (there's
nothing more callow than an adolescent tree), "annual increment"
and forest drain." (A tree
transform his
26 - mile long
cave into an
Ozark atom re
fuge. Whether he is
really look ing
for a loan or
just more tour
ists it is hard to
say. But he also
asked a group
of writers to nominate 10 Amer
icans who, in the event of na
tional disaster, should be given
top priority as tenants of his
modern underground Noah's
ark.
Picking the fortunate or un
fortunate ten is quite a parlor
game.
I ended up by picking two
lists.
Dill himself isn't on either
as who, forced to live in a cave,
wants to be dunned by a land
lord? I bypassed all politicians,
too, to get rid of the tax prob
lem, once and for all.
My first list is purely selfish:
1. My wife, Frances.
2. Me.
3. Gypsy Rose Lee. '
4. Thomas Hart Benton, the
artist.
5. Tallullah Bankhead.
6. Burl Ives, the guitar
twanging folk singer.
7. A good bartender.
8. A psychiatrist.
9. Oswald Jacoby, the card
expert.
10. Any two-year-old child.
With a group like this you
could have fun indefinitely. Ja
coby would teach me how to
play Canasta. I'd learn to dance
with Miss Lee, and Miss Bank
head and Benton are f wo of the
most entertaining talkers alive.
The reason for including the
bartender and psychiatrist is
simple. One would listen to my
troubles and the other would
explain my nightmares.
There would be no need for
a chef, as Frances loves to cook
and does it wonderfully well.
Why the child? Well, when ev
erybody got bored, they could
just watch the child play and
feel better. Grownups usually
can stand each other better
when there's a child around.
But caves are damp and give
me a sore throat, and Frances
has claustrophobia. We really
wouldn't want to be among the
ten last refugees in a world de
stroyed. So I picked a second list of
Americans.
It has six animals and four
humans on it:
A cow and a bull, a married
team of horses, two happily
wedded dogs, a young minister
and his wife and a young farm
boy and his best girl.
These ten could found a new
civilization, and whether it
would turn out better or worse
than the one it replaced no one
can tell.
One of the four humans, how
ever, ought to be able to play
the violin. Any world would be
dull without music.
'A Game With No Winners
Los Angeles, March 15 (IP) John S. Rayes and Oscar S.
Aguire, both 19, played the game but lost.
The two are held today on suspicion of grand theft merchan
dise. Officer J. M. Jordan said he saw them remove two wheel
discs from a car and then drive away.
"It's like a game," Rayes told the officer. Somebody takes
two from me so I take two from somebody else."
The "somebody else" in this case happened to be Officer
Jordan. The discs were taken off his private car.
Foresters in their research
believe they have found that by
taking seed from only the best
or superior trees, and by taking
into consideration their location
and climate, it will be possible
eventually to improve the qual
ity of Oregon's forests. More
aristocratic firs and pines. More
spruced up spruce.
It may be possible also to in
crease resistance of the trees to
disease.
With the aid of research, it
may b possible some day, Lyon
said, to grow trees that will pro
duce knotless boards.
The forest products labora
tory at Oregon State college has
discovered how to make bees-
lng the best seed ln their wheat way without bees from Doug-
and other farm crops because las fir bark. The forest depart
good seed means bigger crops ment suggests that maybe the
and more money in your jeans product should be called bark
come harvest time." wax. At any rate this wax is no
Foresters have taken a cue worse than its bark,
from the farmers and are using Tannin from fir bark in suf-
shouldn't be a drip).
The new tab is "Forest Ge
netics." Homer Lyon, reforestation di
rector for the state forester's of
fice here, explained today that
the application of forest genetics
means the useof tree seed from
the best tree strains in localities
most, adaptable to that particu
lar seed. (If your name is Cabot
or Lodge, naturally Boston is
the locality).
In some instances, seed from
an isolated or specially selected
tree is used. Said Lyon: "Speci
fic and accurate seed selection is
the key to forest genetics.
Lyons explains it this way:
Farmers know all about us-
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only "certified" tree seed
their reforestation projects.
In gathering certified seed,
ficicnt quantities to keep the
drills of the petroleum industry
in good shape and cure enough
said Lyon, special attention is leather for our favorite oxfords.
given to elevation, sou types, is also expected from the con
form of parent trees, local cli- verted multi-million dollar
mate and other factors. plant at Springfield, Or.
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