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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
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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.
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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
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