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Outside Oregon: Monthly, $1.00; 6 Mos., $6.00; Year. $12. 4 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, December 21, 1950 HOOVER CHAMPIONS ISOLATIONISM Former President Herbert Hoover in his nation-wide radio-television broadcast Wednesday night called for a cew United States foreign policy, concentrating on defense of the western hemisphere. Stating thai the United States has lost the war in Korea, and will also lose it in Europe, he declared our duty now is to build a gigantic navy and airforce. keep ground armies to a minimum to keep this nation "the Gibraltar of Western Civilization." Mr. Hoover said it would be "sheer folly" to engage in land war with communist hordes in Asia or on the conti nent of Europe, but we should "arm to the teeth" to hold the Atlantic and Pacific oceans with island outposts of Britain, Japan, Formosa and the Philippines. The communists, Mr. Hoover said,, could never break through American air and sea power to invade the west ern hemisphere and "can no more reach Washington in force than we can reach Moscow." He declared the atomic bomb is "a far less dominant weapon than we thought it to be." Mr. Hoover reminded the nation that it was "already eco nomically strained" by its financial burdens from previous wars and that' in fiscal 1952 federal and local expenditures are ex pected to exceed $90,000,000,000 or "more than our total sav ings." "Inflation is already moving but we might with stern meas ures avoid the economic disintegration of such a load for a very few years," he said. "If we continued long on this road the one center of resistance in the world will collapse in economic dis aster." As to the United Nations, Mr. Hoover said it is at the cross roads. He said it could survive if it has the courage to: (1) Brand communist China an aggressor, (2) refuse it U.N. membership, (3) impose an air-tight blockade on communist China on all supplies that can be used in military operations and, (4) "for once, pass a resolution condemning the infamous lies about the United States. Any course short of this is appease ment." Mr. Hoover declared his demand for a new foreign policy was just the opposite of isolationism. But isolationism is what it amounts to as well as admission of defeatism. But Mr. Hoover's record as a prophet is not remarkable. As president he favored a high tariff wall that killed our foreign commerce and helped bring on the great depres sion during which he always saw prosperity "just around the corner." Really the Hoover proposal of abandoning Europe would be an invitation to Russia to seize it, just as the Truman announcement that we would not defend Korea was. And with Russia in control of Asia, Europe and then Africa, what could become of our surplus production? Just a per manent depression that may end in communism. And the power to send U.S. troops to Europe is provided in the Atlantic pact which was ratified by the senate. The net results of the Hoover address in the present world crisis, will increase disunion and confusion in the TJ. S. as well as the world and so aid the communist con quests. Our policy is not as Mr. Hoover intimates an of fensive policy, but a defensive one. HIGHWAY COMMISSION'S INTEREST Salem and the surrounding section have reason to be pleased with the attitude and interest the state highway commission showed at its monthly meeting yesterday toward highway projects vitally affecting this city. The question whether Winter or Summer street should carry the southbound traffic of the main Pacific highway was settled when the Capitol planning commission de cided not to press its plan to keep Summer street free of main traffic. So the original Baldock plan remains un touched as to its alternate street routing for one-way traf fic. In that section of the city, North Capitol would carry the northbound traffic and North Summer would carry the southbound traffic. The commission members agreed at the meeting that one of the major highway projects that must be developed as soon as possible is the widening of 99E north of Salem. This reiterating of a position taken after the 99E delega tions asked widening at a fall meeting is encouraging to those in the area who have fought to make the road to Portland wide enough to handle the load it is forced to carry now. Tied to the Pacific highway problem north of town also Is the call for faster planning by Commissioner Reynolds for the by-pass section of 99E to be constructed east of Salem. This attention by the highway commission to the key traffic problems of the city is gratifying to the people of the community who in years gone by before the Baldock plan used to feel their highway problems were neglected. AN IMPRESSIVE CLAIM Up Albany way, the Pemocrat-Herald last week de fied the extra rush of Christmas business that a news paper usually gets this time of year and put out a whop ping 142-page progress edition. The occasion was the 91st anniversary of journalism in Linn county. This ambitious undertaking, which used 16 tons of precious newsprint, consists of 10 vari-colorcd sections de scribing the aspects of Albany, Linn county and the state itself. The composite is designed to give the reader a com plete picture of the characteristics of the area and its growth. The paper dates back to 1859 when Dalazon Smith, one of Oregon's first two United States senators, and his brother-in-law, Jesse M. Shepard, established the Oregon Demo crat in Albany. When the Democrat-Herald claims that its special edi tion is "one of the largest . . , ever published by a news paper in Oregon." its claim becomes more impressive in view of the shortage of newsprint that faces all papers. BY BECK A Dog's Life !i S-tf-CvJgleUPS AND RIBBONS.) -r.f f ( --4 ifeSSp- ftETTIN' A BONE -rtff 'i J yA'j'fi. J ;r MV?! Y A CHRISTMAS Y . WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND 2 U.S.Will NotOragnize Anti-Red Chinese Guerrillas By DREW PEARSON Washington White House policy can change overnight, but for the present we have no intention of mobilizing the vast but disorganized army of anti-communist guerrillas in China. Presi dent Truman so advised a group of congressmen at an off-the-record and very candid meeting last week. Truman also - is holding firm to his resolve not to drop the , atomic bomb in China or Korea. "That dosen't mean that we are appeasing the Chinese communists I far from it," Truman told his callers. "They are aggressors and we will con tinue to treat mem as such." If 14 I f WMfi 1 - -1 M Drew ftlDN were planning to pop a big sur prise on the western world in the form of a Monroe Doctrine. This would mean that all white and non-Asiatic nations were to keep out Any interference, ac cording to the proposed Chinese Monroe Doctrine, would be jus tification for war. The doctrine would also apply to Japan, Prime Minister Nehru informed Am bassador Henderson. NOTE Nehru is not in sym pathy with the Chinese policy, KRISS-KROSS Dec. 21 Darkest Day of Year; Stalin's Birthday ByCHRISKOWITZ.Jr. At last . . . we've discovered why December 21 is the darkest day of the year . . . it's the birthday of Joe Stalin ... JS is 71 years old today . . . and he had better do some fast celebrating . . . in the first place, it's the shortest day of the year ... in the second place, there are a lot of people who would like to make certain that he that morning, and used the face and back of it for note-scribbling purposes all day ... it was a blessing in disguise . . . parking tag was pretty well cluttered up by the time I got around to pay ing it. Truman added that if British believes Eropeans and Asiatics Prime Minister Clement Attlee can cooperate together, came with any appeasement no- ... tions, he left without them. He . .... .. agreed with Attlee, however, that Leal wu-e.Tapping if we used the A-bomb, Russia ,tCo-gremTen wlU f lveLsp,?:'!1 would seize the opportunity to 'ttent'0" m January to the U. S. retaliate aeainst London. Ber- Vlrcu" .OI PP?8 iin and Pans. Gal Balks at Gunman's Order Los Angeles, Dec. 21 W) Betty Jean Bandell, 21, was wear ing a new suit when a gunman walked into the drugstore where she was shopping. Ordered to lie on the floor, she snapped: "I won't. I just paid $75 for this suit and I don't want to get it dirty." She got away with It and the gunman got away with $500. Bis soft-heartedness, however, put the holdup man in jail. Miss Bandell got a good look at him and was able to identify a suspect arrested later by sheriff's deputies. g222f "?'?:.ieJI."' -?-i.r-."' is-. rjr)ij MacKENZIE'S COLUMN Germans' Bid for Defense Rests on Knowledge of Russ By DeWITT MacKENZIE (AP roreln AMiln An.ly.t) The West German government at Bonn is expected to demand a stiff price for participation in the new international military organization under General Eisenhower for defense of the west ern world. The German attitude is based on the admitted fact that not only sion overthrowing the Judy Coo- But the argument that carried ?n ,?onvl.CUn- ? ? d"""; the most weight with him, Tru man explained, was that we the three judges took the unusual course of recommending legisla- won't have any more birthdays. 9 Five thousand:. people trekedl ' through M a n-l.f brin Gardens mud Sunday to view the new, homes open for inspection , . .1 now, don't leap for your type They had geese for dinner at the Clarence S. Crawley farm at Unionvale a few days ago . . . chru Ktwiii. Jr. geese were the guests ... a for- writers, Manbrin Gardens resi- "J8"0" wild eeese flying over dents ... I don't mean that th,e farm accepted the invitation your district is a mudhole of a pair of Tulouse domestic ht in Th iinifi, of iii. ... geese cauing to mem, ana arop- homes, where landscaping is not Ped ln to hare a Ceding in the yet complete, there is plenty of Crawley berry patch. the gooey stuff . . . Sunday one woman became lodged in the The honor involved is dubious middle of a huge gob of mud but it's certainly a distinc- hubby dashed to rescue . . . tion . . . I've been barred from picked wifey up and carried her talking before the Salem high to dry land . . . wifey's shoes school student body ... at yes remained behind in mud . . . terday's homecoming assembly, all ended well, though . . . shoes it was announced from the stage, were retrieved . . . and the in no uncertain terms, that I couple bought a home. was not to speak this year . . . they weren't kidding, either . . . Glory be! . . . I've finally found seems that certain faculty mem a use for a parking ticket . . . bers didn't appreciate the humor yesterday I left the newspaper in a certain remark I made from office minus any writing paper the stage during the homecom . . . I received a parking ticket ing assembly last year. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER nn,,iri r,nt ,tnn.hh T3c,; tion to congTess something that satellites in reprisal against the Jud"' , ta our yftem of checks Kremlin. and balances, seldom do. Regarding the question of arm- Pointing out that the FBI had ir.g Chinese guerrillas against less power to arrest than the or- the communists, the President clinary Sheriff, the court recom- pointed out that it might lead mended that FBI powers to ar- to a retaliatory communist move rest be enlarged; also that cer- against the Philippines; also that tain phases of wire-tapping be the guerrillas are too "inacces- declared legal when it involved sible" and scattered to be sup- "espionage, sabotage, kidnap- plied from the air or welded to- Ping, extortion and national se- gether into an effective fighting curity." force. J. Edgar Hoover has leaned NOTE The congressmen who over backward against any ille conferred with the President in- gal use of wire-tapping unlike eluded Francis Walter of Penn- many other government agencies sylvania, Brooks Hays of Ark- the Washington police and even ansas, House whip Percy Priest some senators. In fact, the pro of Tennessee, all democrats; with tection of civil liberties would be Kenneth Keating of New York much safer if Hoover's bureau and Walter Judd of Minnesota, alone were allowed to handle republicans. wire-tapping. Congress will consider all this Another Music Critic in January. President Truman has a dif- ferent opinion of at least one Defense Notes music critic ftlrs. Helen Knox when president Truman first Spam of the Atlanta Journal, wrote last week.s national emer. who wrote such a favorable re- ge h he callcd for a 4 view of Margarets concert in 000,000-man army and navy. At Atlanta last season that the , ' :,,,' i .., u. f:rid,eJ?lb"!e,d leI "2 iZ scalea it down to three and a is the western r e i c h vital to the Al 1 i e s strategic ally, but Ger man manpower also is needed. The allied plan has contemplat ed the incorpor ation of about 150,000 German troops in the de- ,,, w..w.i. fense army, but they would be divided into small groups of perhaps 6,000. The allies have aimed at main attack from the east. ... Apropos of this German knowledge of Russian military ways, interesting comment is matfe by Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, the internationally known British military expert, in his latest book, "Defense of the West" (William Morrow and company, New York). He says: "The Red army is an embodi ment of contrasts. Its strange mingling of new and old, of scientific method and primitive habit, of rigidity and flexibility, taining safeguards against a re- ls even more marked on the tac vival of German military power tlcal than on the material side, capable of aggression. There has "German soldiers are the only been some talk of allowing Ger- ones in the wt who have had mn ronrospntatinn nn risen, experience, or even close obser- hower's staff, but they wouldn't vation, of the Red army in action have a general staff of their own or ministers of defense or for eign affairs. However, the Bonn govern- . . j i 1 1 v i mem, uuuci v-nanue.iui rLUiiiau a1 t m Qnc there j aQ Adenauer, has been demanding . ' . .,:. within th ....... VM. M ......... ..... nd they have seen It during successive stages of develop ment under the hardest test. "Two essential points emerge from their accounts. The Red iuu equauiy vun ouier nauuns f ,,:,. nJ .itu,loh the defense plans. Naturally even'the former is of curiously the Allies couldn't use compul son, and they wouldn't wish to do so if they could. The Ger mans must act of their own free will. and telegraphed the Atlanta Journal for extra copies of Mar garet's picture. (Contrary to ru mor, the President did not use half million men a victory for the air force. The air force wants priority given to airplanes and mixed quality it has been devel oped much faster than the mass which encloses it. "The other point is that any judgment on the Red army should be accomDanied bv the Chancellor Adenauer has some date of its vintage. Just as we know a wine by its year. . . , While the difference of vintage strong arguments at his com' mand if he chooses to use them Refugees Drained of All But Urge to Keep Plodding By WILLIAM BARNARD tSutetHutlni lor BU Borlt) Seoul UP) How many can finish the journey? That's the question an American asks as he watches the thou sands of refugees streaming southward from the apprehensive Korean capital. The question does not apply to the lucky ones, those who cling in swarms to railroad flatcars ' or huddle in silent mounds of for bitter temperature. They humanity on the backs of jolting wear many layers of tattered trucks. cotton garments and some have But what of the great majority canvas shoes. Some have no pitiful families on foot, pulling shoes at all. their little cars or toting their An amazing thing is the stam belongings on their backs over ina of the elderly men and worn icy mountain roads in zero en among these fleeing people, weather? Even they carry heavy loads or In their faces you find nothing pull carts. . . . rothing . . . neither hope But ina shallow cave at a nor despair. In their eyes there roadside was one very old man. is no pain. There are no com- He sat in the cave, his bundle of plaints. possessions beside him, and stared out at those who passed In flight from the forces of by. For him, was this the end communism, these people trudge of the journey? steadily across frozen snowy fields avoiding the heavily py f Ant AklTCbCrk.l traveled roads whenever possi- DI -KL ANUtKiUri ble. You never see a child cry or smile or laugh You never hear any chatter or conversation among families. You wonder if perhaps things were different far back up the road. You wonder If this bitter trek has finally squeezed from these stricken people every last bit of feeling except a blind determina tion to keep going. nrnfan lai.ntmaop in his nnto weapons instead of manpower. to critic Paul Hume of the , A1,cide de Gasperi of Italy is Washington Post). the latest European premier to propose a visit to Washington. Senator From Tennessee Chester Bowles, retiring gov- Senator McKellar of Tennes- ernor of Connecticut, has been see, grandpa of the senate, is offered the very important Job planning to run again in '52. He of directing the multibillion- told Boss Crump of Memphis dollar arms aid program to about his plans but Crump warn- Europe. (Bowles has declined ed that McKellar was too old. the offer of ambassador to the This made the senator so sore Philippines, that he stomped out of Crump's U. S. intelligence expects office and caught the first plane hordes of Chinese so-called "vol- back to Washington. unteeis" to pour into Indo-China V. S. Trained Germans any day. Without waiting for European Mayor Martin Kennelly of diplomats to come to terms, the Chicago has staged a farsighted U. S. army has quietly trained campaign to alert the public 10,000 west Germarfs right under against enemy sabotage. Ken- the noses of the Russians to serve nelly put on a real-life show, as the nucleus for a future west Illustrating how enemy agents German army. Two thousand could poison Chicago'a drink- nave ueen armea ana equippea jng water. into battalions in west Berlin. with the rest stationed in four training centers in the western zone under the label of "labor battalions." Actually, they are carefully selected anti-nazis who will be the officers of the new German army." . Chinese Doctrine Most significant news to come out of Asia recently resulted from a talk between Prime Min ister Nehru of India and U. S. Ambassador Loy Henderson, at which Nehru broke the news of the new Chinese Monroe Doc trine for Asia. Nehru reported that the Indian ambasador in Peiping had cabl ed that the Chinese communists (Coprrltht ls) Not the least of these is that the likely to be less marked since Germans are among the world's the war ended, it is not safe to finest soldiers. Their staff work assume that the present quality is of very high order. js that of 1945." To my mind, however, the su- This gives us a picture of a preme argument, lies in the fact Russian fighting machine which that untold thousands of Ger- would present something of a mans, who would be available quandry to most western mill- for military service, fought in tary experts if it should be the late war against the Rus- thrown into action. The Ger- sians. man veterans of the last war These German officers and both officers and men are best men know the Russian military equipped by experience to cope methods and fighting ability as with such a problem, no other people do. That is an This would seem to be one of invaluable asset in view of the Chancellor Adenauer's most fact that this new army is being powerful arguments for conces- created to guard against possible sions. Goliath Gets Treed Himself Syracuse, N. Y., Dec. 21 UP) Henry Brennan's dog has found out that what goes up may need help getting down. Goliath was found stranded on a tree limb 35 feet above the ground. It took firemen 40 minutes to get him down. Brennan said Goliath has been pretty good at treeing squirrels. This one apparently got away. Another Henry Difficult to Follow Even in Type Pasadena. Calif., Dec. 21 A well-dressed woman hat an extra S50 for her Christmas shopping today, but police don't know whether It was a mistake or the work o( a pro fessional short-change artist. The woman walked Into the Pasadena First Trust and Sav ings bank yesterday, laid four $10 bills In front of a cashier and asked for a $50 bill. The cashier pushed out the fifty, but asked for another $10. The woman produced It. then said she might as well get a $100 bill while she was there. The eashler raked In the woman's five $10 bills and his own flftv, counted It and handed over the $100 bllL There is no rest by day, not even for food. Never do you see a family taking time out for a breather. Weary children are allowed occasional rides on the cartloads already piled high with bundles. Babies are strapped to the backs of their mothers. But for the adults, from dawn to dusk there is no rest at all. By night the refugees vanish. The frozen fields and snow-capped peaks are vague in moon light, but of these people there is no sign. Most, you are told, sleep in deserted huts in the rap idly emptying villages of this area. But by night the roads pound with the marching feet of thou sands of South Korean "volun teers,' mostly boys In their teens. In the stretch of a single mile of road south of Seoul, a newspaperman passed an esti mated 10,000 such recruits. ... The refugees are ill-clothed l J WEATHER I I REPORT: COLDER ii-ti I I Vf. I X.tlMi'li'i') oh your FIRST NATIONAL PERSONAL CHECKS Enjoy the convenience and prestige of paying by Personal Check. 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