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Salem, Oregon, Saturday, March 7, 1953
STILL AN ORIENTAL DESPOTISM
Death of Joseph Stalin will apparently make little differ
ence in Russia's barbarian foreign policy for the swiftness
of the succession indicates that it had long been scheduled
with the chief hatchet men of the old regime in supreme
power. Of course, differences may develop between be
tween them that mav lead to mirges of rivals, but -appar
ently it will not affect the drive for world dominion. They
are all united in this resrard.
It took Stalin 10 years of intrigue, slaughter and terrorism
to make himself the successor of Lenin and it may take as
long for Malenkov to attain the unquestioned dominance
attained by Staun, by a similar tortuous ana Diooay course.
Georgi Malenkov, who is a second generation Bolshevik,
who never took part in the great Kea revolution, is a grim,
ruthless man, who played a leading part in Stalin's purges
of 1936-S8, one of two survivors of the three top purgers
who wiped out Stalin's opposition. Another is Andrei Y.
Vishinsky, already demoted in the new regime. The other
was Nikolai Yezhov, victim of a "purge of purgers."
The other two strong figures from the Stalin rule in the
new regime are V. M. Molotov and L. P. Beria, chief of the
secret service and in charge oi slave laDor camps, au are
bitter enemies of the western powers, though Malenkov
opposed the excessive active aggression Molotov cham
pioned. Stalin's economic policy for the USSR published before
the last communist party conference in October, may be
favored by Malenkov. It advocates temporary co-existance
of communism and capitalism while Russia concentrates on
building up its strength and awaiting disintegration of cap
italism.
At the party conference in October Malenkov as principal
speaker presented the policy report, hitherto presented by
Stalin himself. It included an appeal to noncommunist
countries to break away from American influence and de
velop a peaceful and friendly relationship with Russia.
Most American experts have considered Malenkov the
man most likely to succeed Stalin. Now that he has gotten
the top government job, there is a. wait-and-see attitude
about how well he uses his positon to consolidate his power.
The belief is that if he considers purges necessary he will
use them. He may not find the need the record so far
shows little challenge to his position since Stalin's death.
One thing seems certain, Russia will still be ruled by a
tyrannical, bloody Oriental despotism which is ushering
in a new "Dark Age" for civilization in the suppression of
freedom.
BIG JEFF DEPARTS FROM OUR SCENE
Stalin wasn't the only notable beckoned for by the
grim reaper this week. There was also James J. "Jim"
Jeffries, whom many followers of the prize fight game
we almost said racket consider the greatest of them all.
Jeffries' life span evidently wasn't shortened by all the
punches he took in the ring back in the days when men
were really men, for he lived to the ripe age of 77. His
later years seem to have been brighter than those of many
sports luminaries. Not that he made much money with his
fists, but his family had a farm an the outskirts of Lvs
Angeles, which they sold off my bit as the city emcompass
ed them, at steadily Increased prices. So the wolf never
chased old Jeff.
This writer recalls, through little vaguely, when Jeff
was looked upon as the greatest fighter in the world,
though another held his vacated title by then. The big
fellow had toppled Gentleman Jim Corbett, who was never
gentle in the ring, and the peerless Ruby Robert "Bob"
Fitzsimmons, the Australian who held the world's title
when little more than a middleweight in size. He was in
vincible, people throught.
Jeff made his big mistake when he yielded to pressure
and became a "white hope" to regain the title from Jack
Johnson, the negro, who was no slouch with the gloves
himself. Jeff suffered his only K.O. in the fifteenth round
at Reno, Nevada July 4, 1910 and the hopes of millions of
admirers went down with him.
Jeffries and the others above named gave their other
wise drab period a dash of color that may not have justi-
nea ineir Diuiai proiession, Dut did help build morale in
a rising young nation eager for heroes. And it mav ln ho
said with some sense of longing, one at least knew who
the heavyweight champion was then.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Churchill Thinks Danger of
War Increased, Last 30 Days
Y DREW PEARSON
Washington Winston Church
ill may have had uncanny om
niscience when be sent a con
fldentlal menage to President
Elsenhower by Foreign Minister
Anthony Eden that the chance
of war had increased in the last
30 days.
Churchill could not have
foreseen the Illness of Josef Sta
lin, and of course based his dlag
nosis on other factors. However,
the fact is that the exit of Stalin
from the most powerful position
in the world today could well
lead to one of the following alternatives:
1. World Feaee If Russia be
comes so absorbed with her own
problems, if she becomes torn
with civil war over Stalin's suc
cessor, then the rest of the world
could settle down to peace.
Z. World War Should the Red
leaders face too much upheaval
at home; or should they need an
excuse to quiet unrest, then war
might be one way out
Reporting from the edge of the
iron curtain at Berlin last month,
I cabled the following diagnosis
of what was happening inside
the vast area called Soviet Russia:
REPORT FROM BERLIN
'Some parts of the overexpand-
ed Soviet Union are gorged from
too much conquest and are on the
brink of revolt. Various other
areas in the Soviet orbit are
seething with unrest, and the
Red leaders in the Kremlin need
scapegoats. Hence the purges and
the pogroms.
'On the face of things, Russia
is a long way from war and is
in no position to wage it. How
ever, dictators sometimes start
war to divert attention from
their own failures. That is the
greatest danger in Europe today.
"To understand what is hap
pening in the Soviet Union you
have to i member that there are
only about 45,000,000 Russians
in the U.S.S.R. and the over-all
policy of the Kremlin is to op
erate and to control the other
parts of the Soviet zones from
Mongolia to Czechoslovakia and
from Turkestan to Poland for
the sole benefit of these 43,000,
000 Russians.
"Thus, while the 43,000.000
around Moscow have never bad
it so good, the other diverse and
nationally minded millions who
are expected to raise more crops,
to build more factories, to lay
more railroad lines and to sup
port the Soviet war machine
are restless and rebellious. That
is why a new word has been
coined and added to the already
long list of isms and for which
on can now be tried for treason
nationalism.
"Today the greatest danger
spot for revolt in the far-flung
Soviet orbit is Poland. Peasants
are seething over crop quotas
and collective farms. . . . Other
areas in which this restlessness
is most apparent are the Ukraine,
Czechoslovakia, Georgia (birth
place of Stalin), Armenia and
Turkestan. . ..
WARS SAVE DICTATORS
"It is important to remember
that in 1014 the Russian military,
fearful of unrest at home, wanted
war. That was why the Russian
military attache in Belgrade was
in contact with the little gang of
Serb assassins who bombed
Archduke Franz Ferdinand at
Sarajevo, thereby touching off
World War I. That was also why
Russia wasted hardly a minute
before coming to Serbia's defense
by declaring war against the
Austro-Hungarian empire.
The little group of generals
around the Czar needed a war to
keep their shaky empire togeth
er. That is the biggest danger in
side Russia today.
"Coupled with this danger is
iUm 4ha In. Clttlin la 4h
the!
plotted to put himself rather
than Trotsky or one oi those
much closer to Lenin in Lenin's
shoes. It -.s Stalin who later
manipulated die murder of Trot
sky in Mexico.
'It was Stalin who carried out
the purge trials of the 'thirties
in which top Russian military
leaders were shot . . . And it is
Stalin who has either maneuv-
red or condoned the present
wave of snti-semltlsm and the
purge trials in Czechoslovakia,
Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland.
. "Stalin is smart enough to
know that hi restless empire,
having bitten off far more ter
ritory than did the czars ana car.
ing suffered acute indigestion, la
in no condition to wage war.
But Stalin is an old man. He has
little time left to live.
"Will his successors share the
same view or will they do what
the generals aroun dthe czar aia
in 1914 throw the world into
war in order to cement their
cracking empire? That is the big
gest question to which every
Eurooean chancery would like
thm answer.
That was my last report from
Berlin.
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NEAR WAR OVER JAPAN
Meanwhile. Russian willing-
nru to risk war was demonstrat
ed over Japan last month far
more than the American public
realized. How seriou wa the
10-minute air battle between
its. its SR. nlanes over Hok
kaido wa told in the secret
cables. They revealed that Am
erican and Russian planes ac
tually shot it out in deadly com
bat for 10 minutes.
The following official dis-
patchei, paraphrased for secur
ity reasons, tell a story wnicn
the public ought to know and
may justify Churcntiis pess
imistic warning to Ensenhower:
ONE RED DOWNED
U.S.S.R. planes fired on four
Jet interceptors after Intercep
tors made warning passes. Initi
al Russian shots were followed
by 10-minute battle in mid-air,
leaving one of Soviet aircraft
battered and smoking as it re
treated to Siberia . . . Russians
conducted unusual searchlight
searches Monday over Nemuro
area, probably searching for
downed plane."
The initial Japanese reaction
was reported by the state de
partment afterward as "one of
shock that Russia would really
take such action after previous
warning by Japan." Thi re
ferred to Japan s Diunt notice
last month that Russian planes
would be shot down if they
continued to fly over Japanese
territory. Previously Soviet
fighters, based on the Kuriles,
had been spotted as deep a SO
miles inside Hokkaido, Japan'
northernmost island.
'Japanese press and diploma
tic reaction was extremely criti
cal of Soviet Union for allowing
further violation of border,"
cabled the American embassy
in Tokyo. "More liberal Ja
panese generally limited re
marks to praise of American ac
tion In defense of Japan. Right
socialist leaders hoped that the
United States would be cau
tious, would limit air protec
tion to purely defensive action.
Masaru Nomizo. left socialist
leader, said Soviet aerial intru
sion was in 'retaliation for
American aerial invasion of
Manchuria."
Speculating on Soviet mo
tives in sending planes over
Hokkaido area, the American
embassy listed the following pos
sibilities: "Carrying out of one
phase of Soviet war of nerves
against Japan; Russian desire to
test American air defense; and
Soviet desire to explore and
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Salem 21 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
March 1, 1932 .sponsored
Governor Harry Moore of
New Jersey, announced today
that he would withdraw all
police from the Lindbergh
estate to leave the road open
for the return of the Lind
bergh baby by the kidnappers
if Col. Lindbergh should re
quest such action.
Drastic reorganization of the
University of Oregon and Ore
gon State college is recom
mended in a report of the
curricula committee of the
state board of higher education.
a a a
Charles K. Spaulding, mem
ber of the hlghwsy commission,
told a Woodburn audience that
he favored-a SO per cent re
duction in license fees for
automobiles. The loss, he sug
gested, would be more than
offset by the number of old
cars seeking a license renewal
at the lower rate.
a a
Beginning March 1, Indepen
dence training school will close
its soup kitchen. The kitchen
has been a means of giving
many a boy and girl nourish
ment at noon which they other
wise would not have gotten.
Hot soup and good, rich milk
was served for two cents a
bowl.
A Hoqulam resident lacked
faith in banks because they'
sometimes failed. He withdrew
113,000 and hid the money in
a box beneath the floor of hi
home. During an extremely
high tide his thought turned
to hi money. Looking under
the floor he saw $50 and $100
bills floating about. He dived
and crawled to retrieve a sub
stantial amount and now has
brand new bank book with
nearly $15,000 to his credit. I
a a a
A gasoline war was waged
in Independence on Friday, two
leading oil companies reduced
the price of gasoline to 10 Vic
a gallon.
a a
John Philip Sousa, famed
king of march, is dead.
a a a
Depression Item: Methods of
modernizing last year's dresses
will be textured at the first
session of a free course "Get
ting the Most for Your Dollar,"
by Salem public
schools and conducted in the
GAR room above Miller's store,
a a a
First spring lambs of the
season reaching North Portland
stockyards sold at the lowest
price recorded for many years.
The pair brought $10 each.
Likewise eggs reached a new
low today: 15c a dozen for
extras snd 14c for standards.
No Compulsion About
Use of State Flag
Albany Democrat-Herald
There's a bill up in the legis
latureor, at least, there was
the last time we checked up on
it to compel schools to display
the Oregon state flag alongside
the Star Spangled Banner. We
don't think much of the bill.
We admit that we see the state
flag only infrequently, and that
we have trouble remembering
its outline and in realizing that
there's a golden beaver on one
side. .
Maybe it would be a good
thing to have the state flag dis
played a little oftener; it's rath
er neat-looking. But we doiv't
think its use belongs in the class
of things to be required by an
other law, of which we already
have -a tremendous surplus.
It would appear almost as
reasonable to require the sing
ing of the Oregon state song,
"Land of the Empire Builders"
every time we sing "The Star
Spangled Banner." The state
song, too, is a fine song, worthy
of a spot alongside "Oregon
Trail." The words, by J. A.
Buchanan, are inspiring, and
it' easy enough to sing. The
tune, written by Henry B. Mur
takh, one-time organist and a
good one at the old Liberty
theater in Portland, roll along
majestically.
"We like it but we don't want
a law forcing the youngsters to
sing it on any occasion. It
Wouldn't hurt to teach the song
to the school kids. They'd be
pretty sure to like it. But again
no legal compulsion, no law.
Early in 1953 BriUln estimat
ed that she exported 30 per cent
of the radio sets she made, 40
per cent of vacuum cleaners, 70
per cent of bicycles, S3 per cent
of motorcycles, 63 per cent of
trucks and 80 per cent of pas
senger cars.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Stalin's Death Cause of
Wonder About Dictators
By HAL BOYLE
New York, OF) What make
and breaks a dictator?
The death of Joseph 8talln
leaves the average man wonder
ing:
"What makes a guy like that
anywayT I wouldn't have lived
his life for all, the gold In Fort
Knox."
He feels that a dictator is a
only rarely to be reckoned
freak offshoot of some kind,
with. The truth is the human
race has been afflicted through
all time by dictators. Urge and
smaU ... It still is ... It
perhaps always will be. .
, The ordinary man can look
around his own small world and
count any number of seedling
dictators ... a spoiled child . . .
a domineering wife ... a brow
beating husband ... an overly
item schoolteacher . . . the little
straw bosses of business and the
ward bosses of pollUcs . . . the
petty tyrant bureaucrat ... an
off.cious cop ... a brass-happy
off cer in the armed forces.
How do they differ from
Stalin, Hitler, or Mussolini? . . .
Only in degree . . . They lack
the brains, energy or courage
to extend their dominance . . .
But they are linked to Stalin,
Hitler and Napoleon by the same
basic drive love of power.
a a a
Most people like to love and
be loved ... to hate a little . . .
to rule and be ruled ... to have
enough prestige to make them
feel good but not at the price
of too much responsibility . . .
And they find it difficult to
believe anyone would want
power lor the sake of power
alone.
But dictators, great or small
do . . . The ability to exercise
pure naked power is to them
food, wine, love and money
To gain power they will sacri
fice on the alter of their ego
all other human satisfaction of
body and spirit.
All dictators ... In homes,
schoolrooms or vsst empires . .
also use the same excuse In their
lust to gain and hold power: "I
am not doing this for myself
. It is for your welfare I do
these things . . ." Dictators are
always selfless In their own
stupendously blind eyes ... To
them their aims are always pure
and great ...
Thus Napoleon wrecked a
continent with incessant wars,
drained French manhood of
most of its blood, and all he was
really trying to do he said was
to create a peaceful Europe
Thus a domineering mother
makes a stranger of her husband
and drivel her children from
her home, and cannot under
stand it, because "I only tried
to make them do what I thought
was best for them . . . and if
they had only done it. every
thing would have turned out all
right . . ."
lrent a wolf-Ilka . .
tion to the end ... l
Dictators on thrones or b J
piu . in Biicnens or eh.
iviai, uou ... Ha...
-1 -.1 . -
uaic uoi uinrr win a .
are lonely, ditrrtful mea
For there Isn't room i. J
human heart for both th w
of power ... and the lovfi
love itself . . . Most people W
fer love to power . . . n .T
didn't there would be now.
race.
OPEN FORUM
What destroys dictators? . . .
Their egomania usually carries
them too far . . . Their excesses
become too much for the people
to bear, and they meet the fate
of Nero ... Or, like Hitler and
Mussolini, they are deluded in
to believing that because they
are skilled in politics they also
are masters of war . . . They
get to thinking they can do any
thing . . . And who is to tell
them they can't? . . .
In this respect Stalin is the
most successful dictator of mod
ern times ... He pitted his
enemies against each other
rather than against him ... He
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3I0W UOWIt If T0U Wfl'1
io Live, Ktader Worm
To ths Editor:
Fifty years ago. our .ikl
a nr. MM.ku . .
.w.aiuni iraveiM 1-
oxen, horses and do iJ1
When they wanted to traveli3
distance it was talked ova u.
ersl days in advance. TweS
five or 80 miles would take (17
to 24 hours by team over dint
' mmm UU mUQ M
runy roaas.
to existence, with averagt idm
of 10 to 12 miles per houra..
fin nm -una ltilii..J . ..
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uujji Bpecu.
1015 Manufacturer! h....
their first series of automobile
with excessive speed ever tai
ruaoa iney nan men.
in tne last SB yean
has been climbing hlshar in.
higher and hundreds of thou,
sands of car drivers are com
mitting suicide or injuring ota
ers by speed. As the world era.
greases, our cars are getting
j.aaci: ana .RBier.
1953 By listening to the ra
dio programs called "Could Ths
Be You" or "You Never Know
we hear a great deal of tht
speed and accidents that art
taking place on our hlghwm
I live on a quiet street by Um
side of a road in a little cottstt
in a district known to Salem at
Keizer district The road Is pav
ed and cars run up snd down
at excessive speed.
Our younger generation mutt
reduce their speed In order to
stay alive.
I suggest a law for misuiie-
turers of cars to put a governor
on every car made and not to
exceed a speed of SO miles per
hour. By so doing many live.
would be saved, and a lot fewer
persons crippled.
C. MARSH,
740 Cummins Lane,
Salem, Oregon.
Linn Red Cross
Receives $7,660
Albany Initial tabulation at
funds received by the Linn coun
ty Red Cross chapter in its sn
nual campaign showed Thursday
that $7,660 had been collected
from two Linn county cities, Kea
Edick, county fund drive chilr
man, said. Most of the money
was turned over to Edick by Rod
Donkin, Lebanon's United Fund
chairman. Lebanon raised its
$6,500 Red Cross quota during its
UF drive in October and Novem
ber of 1952. The balance of th
total funds collected to date htl
come from Albany.
No fund drive reports from
other Linn county cities had bees
received by noon Thursday.
most suspicious man In the ! x,min n.w airfields in north
world. ... It was Stalin who icoarriint. lmit
MUSE OF CIVIL SERVICE PRINCIPLE
Ordinarily we take an unsymuathetic view of official
of an incoming administration, national or state, trying
to fire the hired hands of the preceding: administration,
only to run into civil service difficulties. We've a lifelonir
dislike for the "to the victors belong the spoils," principle
of goverment, and a desire that government service be
based on merit rather than on political pull.
But we do sympathize with the predicament of the new
secretary of agriculture, Ezra Benson, who finds the depart
ment crowaea wiin uninenaiy noiaovers, whom he appar
ently can't displace without congressional action.
The reason seems to be that before the Democrats went
out they placed many policy holding positions In civil serv
ice so they couldn't be Interfered with by the new adminis
tration. Probably this condition is general in Washington
right now. '
Here is an abuse of the civil servise DrinciDle whlrh u
never intended to freeze policy making officials In their
places and thereby make it impossible or even difficult
for the people to change policies by electing new adminis
trations. Congress is amplied justified in removing all
auch officials from the protection they have been given
and making it possible for Benson and other department
heads to sever mem irom me leaerai payrolls to which
they are now so ugnwy giuea.
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Those Not Ruled by God
Will Be Ruled by Tyrants
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
RMter, M. Ptul'8 IpUeopal Chare).
VFW Auxiliary Elects Officers
Dallas The VFW auxiliary
held an election at their regular
meeting on Wednesday.
The following officers who
were elected will be installed in
April: Mr. Lawrence Cook,
president; Mrs. Ray Carlson sen
lor vice president; Mr. Wilfred
Bowden. Junior vice president;
?. 7 , .1..- r Bllveu. treasurer;
" r.f!: V" i. Dinp.y. chaplain;
jniaa -
Miss Elizabeth "liW w,rA- mA
ra. i.uinw Martin, truestee for
three years.
Mrs. Ed Earla waa In rh.r..
of the refreshment for the eve
ning.
. A special meeting wa an
nounced for March 18 at which
time there will be an initiation
for new member.
William Penn, over 2S0 yean
ago said: "Those men who are
not governed by God must be
ruled by tyrants." Fortunately
for us in America, we are still
in a position to make our choice.
We can keep it that way only if
our people in greater numbers
serve God, rather than mam
mon. Right now there 1 (till much
indifference to the whole mat
ter of religion. "Sure," some
say, "What would we do with
out religion, we have to have It,
etc." But they do not actively
support it In any appreciable
way. They live in a Christian
environment without feeling the
least responsibility for its mam
tenance. It is not until they are
face to face with a situation in
which the church can be of spe
cial help that they become, for
the time being at least, conscious
of the Importance of the church,
In the
makes
there is a bereavement
family, the clergyman
possible a Christian burial.
Of course, no one would want
to live in a community without
Christian influences in which to
raise the family. If we are to
take the example of some other
countries. It Is possible for even
free countries to lose those
things which we value so highly.
One of the old prophet warn
ed up in these word: "Choose
ye thi day whom you will
serve." Having chosen to serve
God, we should do our part to
maintain the Institutions which
make the community and the
nation a better place in which to
rear the family, and also Insure
tne presence of these institu
tion when we need their erv-ices.
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... ishn sOjJj " b
Geren Sworn in
tor lnaiance, wnen iney plan s c-i . i
marriage, they look to the i,ver0n Judge
cnurcn lor me place of service,
and to the pastor to officiate.
When the baby arrives and It is
to be baptized, th church Is
again brought to their atten
tion. When a character reler
enre Is required, the paster us
ually write th latter. Or when
Siiverton Walter Geran haa
been (worn in at Siiverton
municipal judge to fill the
vacancy made by the resigna
tion of C. B. Anderson.
Mr. Geren' office will be
at police headquarter In South
water strati
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