THE-CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon Friday, April 24, 195S Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor ond Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketo St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Wont Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. fmtt Uu Win Santa 1 Uw AeMrUUi nw uJ k CnttS taw. Ttu AawcltUtf Pttu u uclulMlr tntitUd to tb um for pubUutloa (II am HUftUhu mdiua U U or oUnrU tntiUt In IhU pun tut bo urn ublUad lluraia. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Br Ctrrltr: Uonthlr, ll.lti Six Month,, si.eoi Out Tor. Ill H. at ItsS la Itertaa, Folk, Linn. Booton, Claek.mw and Yamhill OoubUoj: Monthly. Woi U laoDtha, 14.101 Or., Tow. tS.OO. Br Moll Uowhoro la Ororon: MontBlr, UM: tu MaaUa, .oo: ono rear. iu.w. sr Mou ouuiao ontoo: Moatur, UJii au Mocua, fijoj voo aw, oio-w. NEWCOMER WATCHES THE LEGISLATURE The 1958 Oregon legislature has been appraised by experts, but here Is a brief appraisal from one who has paid taxes it levied for many years, but who never before saw It in action, due to living in communities far from the capital ' r During the past two weeks of the season this writer was a frequent visitor, though usually for fairly short intervals. Unfamiliar with legislative procedure, though familiar enough with, many of the results of, legislative ' enactments, he was a more than usually interested spec tator. Impressions were hiriiJy favorable. The legislature appears brisk and businesslike, at least in the home stretch. It may have dallied and stalled in the earlier weeks. The procedure is good. Important questions are freely debated, all sides are heard, no one is suppressed, but the debate is brief and to the point. Jo niiDustering, no grandstanding prima donnas. There is a definite right-left cleavage which expresses itself in the debate on every important question. This is Ianrely sreomraphical. rural conservatism versus urban liberalism. Eastern Oregon appeared to be the most con servative section. Legislators from there represent farm ing communities for the most part. And farm thinking- is conservative at this time. Minor questions are expedited, but the bills are explain ed and a senator or representative can know what he Is voting upon. Our impression was and is that the legisla ture does an outstanding job in a short time with literally hundreds of issues, many of which are tedious and pes tiferous. , Our impression Is that by and large the people were well served by this 1963 legislature and that if every citi zen could have spent a few hours or days in the often empty spectators' galleries he would feel that he is getting good representation, that the "Oregon system" is work ing well. And by no means least, these legislators left us with a balanced budget, assuming that revenues equal estimates. LOOK! HE'S BOWING! IWONDCR1 WHAT MAKES HlrA 50 POLITE I irvMMofcaJ "IfcNtufhtS: OPEN FORUM Objections to Editorial On the 'Coffee Break' MacARTHUR'S PLAN. TO END THE WAR Neither President Eisenhower, Secretary of State Dulles nor the Joint Chiefs of Staff whose function is to carry out, not originate policies, have proposed a program for ending the Korean war. The reason of course, is the hope of realizing peace through resumption of truce nego tiations by which a satisfactory peace may be attained. General Douglas MacArthur, former U.N. supreme com mander in the Far East, has in a 1500-word letter to Sena tor Harry F. Byrd (D Va.), who had queried him on Korean ammunition shortages, . proposed a definite pro- gram which Byrd has made public. ... MacArthur declares that a threat to bomb Red China might force Russia to "settle the Korean war and all pending issues on equitable terms. A warning of action of this sort provides the leverage to induce the Soviet to bring the Korean struggle to an end without further bloodshed." The proposals obviously represented the "clear and , definite solution" which MacArthur alluded to in his fam ous December 5 speech in New York and later discussed privately with President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles. MacArthur said: "We itlll poueu the potential to de-troy Bed China's flimsy industrial base and sever her tenuous supply llnei from the Soviet. This would deny her the resource to support modern war and sustain large military forces In the field. ' Thia in turn would greatly weaken the communist hold upon Asia," MacArthur said Russia is not "blind to the dangers" confronting it in the Far East so that a threat of a "Red China debacle . . , might well settle the Korean war and all other pending global issues on equitable terms." If the present effort for peace negotiations fizzle out, as seems likely, the adoption of some such program as MacArthur proposes, would be logical, unless the United Nations appeasement policies vetoed it and then the United States might go it alone. The time is nearing when some such solution is imperative to end the present policy of futility, PLAY BALL! Whether the Senators will win the W.I.L. pennant is of course unknown on this opening day of the 1P53 season, and that's a blessing, for the other seven clubs and their supporters might lose interest if they knew. Assuming of course that we are destined to romp in ahead of the pack. But this we do know. We have a very good team, based upon Its success in the preseason schedule, climaxed by that spectacular 15-5 victory over the Sacramento Sena tors of the Pacific Coast league. And the other Senators didn't start clowning until they'd been beaten, fair and square, by our Senators. We'll have good baseball this year, in a league made larger and more interesting by inclusion of Calgary and Edmonton from lusty, vigorous Alberta, Canada's boom- land. Win or lose, let's back the Senators to the finish and make professional baseball an outstanding success here. OPEN FORUM Barbers Oppose First Aide Car Personnel Cut To the Editor: The last meet ing of the Barbers' Union Local 828 of Salem went on record opposing any change in the present personnel of the Salem first-aid car, Having observed the Salem first-eld car on numerous oc casions I have always admired the efficient way the trained personnel cared for a sick or injured person. The first-aid car Is a valu able asset to the city of Sa lem and vicinity with two trained men who are equipped to care lor any emergericy that may arise. To eliminate one trained man where two are necessary would be a loss to the citizens of this commu nity. We respectfully submit that the continued effective opera tion of thef lrst-ald car should not be endangered by elimin ation of necessary personnel, CLIFFORD E. HALD, Sec.-Treas., Barbers' Union, Local 639. PKRON JAILS I5J Buenos Aires (U.n Thirty- wuee more Argentine merch ants were arrested yesterday, raising to 853 the number of alleged black marketeers jailed since President Juan D, Teron started his crackdown on prof iteering two weeks ago. To the Editor: Your editor ial "Coffee Break Morale" of April 10 contains insinuations that bespeak Jack or courage to publish direct charges based on facta against state employes. I have been an employer and employe in private busi ness aa well as being a state employe and can see no dllfe ence In the diligence or the "clock watching" of either class. I have never worked with, or had a more consoles tlous group work for me, than are my associates in the de partment in which I work. Considering the overtime that many state employes vouuv tarily work, without pay or "time-off," makes the holiday vacations you ' mention puny Indeed. Perhaps the efficiency of the state had been maintained be fore the last few years per haps it was also maintained in the horse and buggy days, Does the Capital Journal still set type by hand? In my work it happens that I have contact with' most of the larger Industrial plants of the state. I notice that invar lably they observe "coffee break" regularly .twice a day. Why do Salem businessmen, like your newspaper, belittle the state employe? , Other cit- ties that have state payrolls take pride in them and appre elate them even a city as large as Portland. Their ap preciation of state payrolls is shown by the number of branches of Portland firms be ing established here. Should a Portland newspaper start an evening paper branch here, they would find a fertile field among state employes to get subscriptions. Maybe Portland citizens are right in thinking that more state institutions should be located in Portland. State employe's salaries are paid from taxes collected from all over the state and a great share of them are tunneled Into Salem cash registers. The public seem to forget that state employes, too. are taxpayers, both local and state taxes. Would not the city and the city schools feel the lack of financial support It this payroll were not here? We strongly resent belne set apart from other citizens as being lax in our moral obliga tion to the taxpayers. It seems loyalty to the state on the part of your newspaper does not Include loyalty to state em ployes. Being a comparative new comer as an editor in this com munity the prestige of your paper as a public service insti tution could be greatlv en hanced by an explanatory retraction. A. R. von LEHE, 1015 S. ISth St. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER 'Girl of 82 Who Can Still Say No Hits Old New York By HAL BOYLE .U.J.l.ll'.'IiUJI.W ran Phone 4-1451 195 .Commercial New York WV-There is an 82-year-old girl in town from out of town who still can say "no." . Mrs. R. W. Hitchcock Is the queen bee of the annual ren dezvous of American newspa per publishers. . "Mary Ann, I love you," says many a visiting Romeo, forgetting the problem of ris ing pulp paper costs as he bends to kiss her. And Mary Ann is a girl who doesn't see why she should have to say no to anybody to day after more than 60 years of living with the same news paperman. The guy she has spent her life with is a sprightly 85-year-old former school teacher who puts out newspapers in both Minne sota and South Dakota. And since they are both republicans nothing refreshed them so much as the last election. Mary- Ann, however, isn't even at 82 the kind of a girl you want to mis-spend an eve ning with talking about poll tics. She is feminine and at tractive, and all the prosperity worried elderly publisher wid owers buzz around her as if she were still a free girl. This tickles her. She has a belly-laugh chuckle at the at tentions of men, and It is fun to romance her. "I taugh school In a sodhouse in Kansas," she said, "and peo ple lived in sodhouses then. But my mother refused to do I it. She told the man who want ed' to marry her that she wouldn't marry1 him until he built a real house for her." Well, the poor guy finally rustled up the timber somehow in a period when Kansas wasn't noted for Its lumber. "Now Mary Ann," I said, "does not that only prove you come from proud flesh?" "No," she aald, "you just have to stand. fox; something, that's all." Mary Ann came to town In a wheel chair. Been discom moded for years. Fell and broke a bone. Bones are a real nuis ance to a young girl In her eighties. , "Now, Mary Ann," I said, "tell me the truth. A lady in her eighties can certainly af ford to. Were you ever a bad girl?" ; . -"No," she said spiritedly. "I wasn't. 1 know that, and Mr. Hitchcock does, too. I will say, however, that after being mar ried for 60 years to the same man a woman still has some thing to look forward to." I asked why Mary Ann had bothered to make the effort at 82 to come all the way from South Dakota to New York, and she said, wryly wrinkling her dimple: . "I lust wanted to know about life ... I hear there Is so much of It here." A game girl on a game lea. "Mary Ann, I love you," born a generation behind you but with you. WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Results of Security Probe Published in 1952 Washington The other day the senate internal security committee questioned Gregory SUvermaster, former treasury official, regarding allegations that he had filmed secret doc uments for Russia in the base. ment of his Silver Spring home during the war. The date of this senate cross- examination was April 16, 1953. On Sept 7. 1047, however. almost seven years before, this columnist revealed the first hi side story about tne buver Spring Soviet spy ring and gave considerably more facts than the senators aid last week, The column read: "Here Is bow the Soviet spy ring operated almost under the nose of the White House. One treasury official, formerly with the agriculture department, had photo' laboratory in Silver Springs. Md., on the outskirts of Washington. He worked In the treasury's procurement div ision, which deals with the pur chase of supplies. Two war de partment officials one a ma or in the air corps who were attached to the treasury to ad vise on tne purenase oi avia- tlon materiel, took blueprints and confidential army plans out of .the treasury and war de partments to a friend's labor- story, where they were photo graphed. "Then the photographs were turned over to a Soviet agent who carried them to New York and gave them to the head of Russia s top secret police, the NKVD This took place while the war was in progress. , 'Although 'the officials In volved held minor positions. two of them handled Important aviation secrets and one was an expert in pushing B-29 pro duction. . "Army officers, when Ques tioned, admitted privately that they had known for some time that the Russians had been able to build B-29s. In fact, U. S. intelligence reports indicate that several B-29s were finlsh- f Y DREW PEARSON ed by the Russians some time ago." i ' Sitellila DlDlomatle Spies The above column was pub lished as a result of independ ent, personal Journalistic In vestigation without the protec tion of senatorial privilege. It incurred the usual risk of libel, inherent In any difficult piece of journalistic digging. It would seem therefore that the senate internal security committee, with all its power to subpoena witnesses and its protection from libel suits, could una something more up-to-date to Investigate than facts puousn ed seven years ago. For Instance, the committee could well investigate how the Kremlin is using satellite Iega tions embassies lor propaganda and espionage work among foreign-born Americans. Most of this is done through certain Communist legations right bere in the nation's cap ital and under the nose of the senate internal security com mitteeamong them the Hun garian, Czech, Rumanian ana others. ; r , ' The senate committee did some excellent work regarding this three or four years ago, but latest development is the manner in which the Hungar ian Communist legation in Washington collects money from Hungarian-Americans to help poorly fed relatives in Hungary, then uses the money for propaganda and espionage work in the Unitea States. The system works through the United States Relief Parcel Service, which, judging from its high-sounding name, appears to be run by the U. S. govern ment. Actually, however, it's operated under the supervision of the Hungarian Communist government in the following manner: You deposit $10.50 or almost any amount with USPRS in the United States, and the Hungar ian government in turn deliv ers the food to your friend or relative in Hungary. The goods Salem 41 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL April 24, 1912 Southern Pacific railroad and Oregon Agricultural col lege poultry demonstration car was switched to its Trade street siding this morning where spectators were on hand to view the exhibits. Professor Dryden said the objective of the College poultry depart ment Is "a 200 egg hen and a two ounce egg." , ,.. , . .. .. -,-Salem school board has re ceived a communication from the local ministerial association objecting to profane and sac rilegious phrases in a late issue of the Salem high school Clar ion. In this offending num ber the Clarion carried a story containing the words "by God" number of times. The min isterial association Is chagrined because the school board re fuses to act upon their complaint. Capital Journal Is concerned about the purchase of a team, said to be defective, by the fire department. The price paid was $100 more than a team in sound condition would cost. Learned opinions by engi neers, builders and architects continue to be expressed to ac count for failure of trusses sus taining the roof of the new public, library, now under construction. Portland, Eugene & Eastern railroad is presumed to hold the option for purchase on the Ryan quarter block at the cor ner of Commercial and Center street." . Elmo S. White gave a talk and showed the picture "Ore gon Prison" last evening to the largest house that ever packed Wexford theater. Willamette university Is en gaged in a "whirlwind" cam paign to raise $10,000 In order to receive a substantial benefit offered by James J. Hill and conditioned upon that accom plishment, . While Monmouth Normal school board was in session at the capltol yesterday to con sider final plans for construc tion of a dormitory building on the campus, Oregon su preme court nearby .handed down a decision dashing all hope of any such building for some time to come. are obtained from Hungariaa government owned cooperat ives. But the money you deposit remains in the USA to finance Communist expenses here. In addition, the Hungarian gov. eminent makes a profit on the transaction in Hungary. . Thus $10.50 will buy a food package bearing the code name 'PlMiure ." which nn1,-... only 1.1 lb. a coa, 4.4 lb. sugar, 2 tins of sari lnes, and 2.2. lb. of cookies. Yet this meager package cost $10.50. No won der Hungary makes money. Or you can send your friend In Hungary a "Blue Wonder" bicycle for $30, men's half shoes for $16; men's hand stitched half shoes for $30; a five-tube shortwave radio for $80; or a "contax" camera for $360. Unfortunately the level of In. come is so low among many persecuted Hungarians that they could hardly stay alive without these gift packages from friends in the United, States. On the other hand, it re mains a fact that the Hungarian government uses this as a lush source of Income to finance its w operations in in is country. " Communist Propaganda What is done with the money ' partially was indicated at the last anniversary of Kossuth Day, the Hungarian indepen dence day, when Carl MarzanL former state department offl- , cial who went to jail for lying about his Communist affilia tion, harangued a group at the Barbizon Plaza hotel in New York. After the meeting, prop- O " .TUB BV.W UU Ian minister Emil Weil. The Hungarian government auo operates a dock mercnaq. disine let-un in the TlniteV) States, which handles several thousand Hungarian books a year. The revenue from all these sales Is estimated at about $300,000 a month. The secret operations of the Hungarian legation - are im portant because approximately the same system applies to other satellite diplomatic es tablishments the Czechs, Bui garians, Rumanians, etc. . Originally the job of organ izing Hungarian - Americans was entrusted to Tonjanos Flor lan. secretary of the Hungarian legation. He was so brash ni his operations however that the state department used the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty as an excuse to have him recalled. . Imre Horvath, a Moscow- trained agent of the Hungarian secret police, followed. But despite this background, he was too inept to suit Moscow. Un der him the circulation of the Hungarian Communist news-' paper in the USA, Magyar Govo, dropped from 40,000 to about 3,000. So. Dr. Emil Weil, high up in Communist -party circles, was appointed to take bis place. His special instructions were: 1, to organize the Moscow peace movement; 2, take advantage of religious differences to stir up as much discord as possible among Hungarian-Americans; and 3, organize Hungarian Americans into a "1945 bloc." This Is the date when Hungary first began its drift toward fTnm m i in om This Is just part of the under, ground activities operated by satellite diplomats which the senate Internal security com. mittee could well investigate. (CoprrlKlit. 1.53) Condensed Statement of Condition Willamette Valley .Bank (Including University Branch) Salem, Oregon as of April 20, 1953 ASSETS Loans and Discounts 2,045,080.56 U. S. Government Securities State and Municipal Securities Cash, Cash Items and Balances with Other Banks. Other Assets , . . Total Assets 1,648,085.48 776,691.55 . 500,392.47 85,911.43 .$5,056,161.49 LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL i Deposits :. ... 4,742,81 3.09 Other Liabilities 138,555.33 Total Liabilities 4,881,368.42 Capital Accounts 174,793.07 r, Total Liabilities and Capital .$5,056,161.49 MB k fcu i' I'-IL'".?" (fiiiTQIItoni .HnH.I ii iftnsitiVti tslYrflTTi.sY"