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On, mi. SUM
EIGHT YEARS AFTER
Eight years ago today Hitlerite Germany surrendered
to the victorious allied armies, whose western elements
were commanded by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, of
whom much more was to be heard in the years afterward,
Eisenhower, voicing a fully justifiable pride, said that
day: "The crusade on which we embarKed in the early
summer of 1944 has reached its glorious conclusion. Full
victory in Europe has been attained."
This was true, so far as the battlefield war went. It
was also true on November 11, 1918. but just as the full
benefits of victory were snatched away from the victors
by the rise of Adolf Hitler after World War I, so were
the benefits of victory snatched away by one of the
victors of May 7, 1945, Soviet Russia, which soon made
Itself a greater menace to the free world than Hitler had
been. '
So history has repeated itself, with variations, but in
its essence. The free world wins the war but loses the
peace and within a few years stands confronted with an
even greater danger than the one it destroyed at such a
heavy price.
Dwight Eisenhower probably assumed, if he thought
about the matter at all on that extremely busy day of
his busy life, that here was the climax of his own career,
that he would henceforth bask in a well earned glory,
with little more of a major character to do.
If this is what he thought he was in for a tremendous
surprise, for here was one old soldier who didn't fade
away, Eisenhower was still in the prime of life and the
talents he had shown were of an organizational and in
spirational character, no less valuable in peace or in cold
war than in hot war. '
Consequently Eisenhower's semiretirement to the aca
demic shadows of Columbia proved short lived. He was
called back into the nation's service as allied commander
in Western Europe, from which responsibility he was
summoned last year to a successful campaign for the
presidency of the United States. "
What are Eisenhower's thoughts today, eight years
after he thought his career had reached its peak. Prob
ably of wonderment that a poor boy from the other side
of the tracks in Abilene, Kansas, should have risen to
such awesome responsibilities, combined with some re
gret, for he is a modest man, that he might not have
been spared this added burden in his later years. But
he is also a man to whom the West Point code of duty
and honor really sparkles in the sunlight, to whom to
hear the bugle is to rise and don the armor.
Anyway this must be quite a day of memories for Gen
eral Eisenhower and for the nation he has led so ably in
war and in peace. Also, it is a grim reminder that vic
tory in war is not enough. . For we may find greater
tasks around the next bend of the road than those we
have already accomplished,
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Get Religion Into the
Schools, Writer Urges
TiE21.t: the legator.
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Hal Tells How to Break
In Your Firm's New Boss
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Some P.W. Families Joined
Red Fronts to Help Them
BY DREW PEARSON
Washington One distres-.est court of the land,
STATE OWNERSHIP Of POWER
Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay has assured
California's Governor Earl Warren that he will study
California proposal to purchase the huge Central Valley
project, now under construction.
At the request of Governor Warren the California leg
islature in 1951 appropriated $10,000,000 as a "down pay
ment" for the project and ordered a study of means to
buy it,
Governor Warren has long favored the state acquiring
the project on which the government has already spent
400,000,000. It is his opinion that benefits to California
citizens would be greater if the project was operated by
the state of California.
While in Washington at the governors' conference call
ed by President Eisenhower, the California governor held
a conference with Secretary McKay at which time he
asked McKay if there is going to be a general policy
under which states can take over federal projects.
McKay 1b studying the idea of setting a price on federal
water and power projects for sale to states in which they
are located. He informed Governor Warren he will con
sider the possibility of establishing such a policy and will
inform them if something is worked out.
The possibile sale of this huge project which extends
from Shasta Dam in the north down through Central Cali
fornia as far south as Fresno, by the government to the
state of California, would be another step of the Eisen
hower administration to recognize the states of the union
and reduce the centralization of government in Wash
ington. True, few states, other than California would be in
a position to finance such a huge deal, but with the tre
mendous growth of the state, and its billion-plus budget,
Governor Warren does not believe that the state would
have any difficulty in issuing utility bonds to cover the
cost of the project.
Whether Secretary McKay can work out a satisfac
tory deal for the sale of the project to California re
mains to be seen, but the proposal fits in with the oft
expressed opinion of President Eisenhower, that the
states of the union should depend less on Washington
and do things for themselves to the full extent of their
ability.
NO PARADISE
JS.
This sawmill In the lumberina section of Dcwevvlllo.
Tex., stand; out like an Island amid flood waters from
the raging Sabine River, Sweeping over 1U banks, the
river threatened the entire town. Sandbagging crewi
aved the day. (UP Telephoto)
sing aspect of the Korean pri
soner release is that some fam
ilies of American POW's were
inveigled into joining communist-front
organizations in the
U.S.A. in hopes of getting their
sons released.
Just how extensively par
ents joined up is now being in
vestigated by the Pentagon.
The belief is that only a few
did so. However, the Penta
gon first learned of the matter
when some of the parents told
of receiving letters from their
sons asking them to join com
munist-front organizations in
the hope that it would speed
their release.
Those parents who reported
the matter to Washington did
not join. But some did.
What happened was that
47,000 letters have been de
livered from UJf. war prison
ers in North Korea and China
since the truce talks began,
These letters, uncensored by
U.N. officials, were forwarded
Intact to relatives. For this
reason, Pentagon officials did
not know that suggestions were
being made by POW's that
their families join communist
front groups.
It was not until the wound
ed prisoners began arriving on
our side of the line that news
of the brain-washing of Ameri
can parents, as well as the
POW's themselves, came to
light.
Since then, mall from POW's
has been censored. The Pen
tagon is also appointing a com
mittee of civilian specialists to
study the unfortunate situa
tion. CRITICISM OF
EISENHOWER
Some administration leaders
have been complaining private
ly that the press has been too
critical, that they have to labor
under such an intense spot
light of publicity that they
can't accomplish anything,
That may be one reason why
the secrecy orders from the
White House and various gov
ernment departments have
made information tighter than
ever.
Those who complain should
take a look at criticism back
In the early days of the re
public. This nation has thrived
on It, It was press criticism
that kept the struggling young
republic going. Thomas Jef
ferson in those days called
John Marshall a "crafty chief
Justice- who sophisticates the
law to his reasoning," while
the New York Herald once
said the supreme court deserv
ed no more rsspect than a "ma
jority of those congregated in
any Washington bar-room.
Abraham Lincoln once used
these choice words in describ
ing the supreme court's doc
trine of democracy: "As thin
as the homeopathic soup made
by boiling a pigeon that had
starved to death;" while Judge
Black of the Pennsylvania su
preme court called Chief Jus
tice Taney "A mush toad spot
ted traitor to the constitution"
and "political turkey buz
zard." "Shall he be permit
ted." Judge Black asked, "to
vomit the filthy contents of his
stomach on every decent man
In the country without having
his neck twisted?"
This was some of the criti
cism which the men who made
this country hurled at the high-
They
had even stronger words for
other people. Later Woodrow
Wilson summed up the gener
ally accepted idea of govern
ment criticism in this language:
We do not need less criti
cism, but more. It is hoped
that criticism will be construc
tive, but better unfair criti
cism than autocratic repression."
G. I. MAIL
Because It's sometimes dif
ficult for CI.'s to criticize
armed service Inequities while
in uniform, a lot of them have
written to this columnist. The
column in turn has endeavored
to take up some of these prob
lems with the armed services
and straighten them out. Here
are some notes from the G.I.
mailbag: .
An Air Force sergeant,
Wheelus Field, Tripoli, Libya
"We are living in tents', eight
men to a tent. The floor boards
are covered with a fine layer
of sand, our clothes are full of
it, our beds and blankets are
full of it, and I just finished
my Sunday dinner and it was'
full of it. It Is very hot in
side the tent, but person
can't open a door or lift a flap,
because the sand will blow In
your face and get in your eyes,
ears, hair, down your neck
and in your shoes. So we sit
in the tent and sweat. The
morale of the men in this wing
is the lowest of any that I have
ever seen. Enlisted men with
many years service are taking
their discharges. They are
getting out of the air force any
way possible. They don't want
to do this, but they are doing
it in preference to staying
here."
Answer I have investi
gated living conditions at
Wheelus Field, and unfortun
ately must report that you
have understated your case,
Conditions there are sub-hu
man. It is not the fault of
the air force, however, which
has asked congress for the
money to build ventilated bar
racks and even a swimming
pool for relief from the ter
rible desert heat. However,
the congressmen, who adjourn
during the summer because it's
too' hot In Washington, seem
more interested in saving a
few nickels.
Mrs. Elizabeth Gale Hill,
Fort Worth, Tex. "My hus
band, Capt. Sidney Hill, lost
his life in a C-S4 crash at Har
mon Air Force base, New
foundland, on January 16. The
week before he died, he told
me that a maintenance disas
ter In the squadron was Inevit
able for the 6622 Air Trans
port squadron, I am writing to
solicit your aid. Nothing can
ever bring my husband back
to me, but unless constructive
changes are made, more dis
asters are inevitable."
Answer My investigation
found no lack of safe equip
ment in Newfoundland, but
rather a shortage of skilled
maintenance men. This Is be
cause transport squadrons are
near the bottom of the priority
list, so that the skilled ground
crews go first to Korea, then
to the strategic air command,
leaving transport pilots to de
pend on green, sometimes slip
shod maintenance men. The
Air Force Informs me, how
ever, the unfortunate crash
TREK BACK TO SMALL
TOWNS
(Corvallis Gazette-Times)
; It certainly is no news to
the people living In Benton
county, but we now have good
authority to back up the sup
position that the population
trend is reversing itself. Small
cities and towns which have
been-iosing population the last
quarter century are beginning
to revive under the stimulus
of super highways and easy
access to urban centers. This
has been shown in a large-
scale research - project from
the Cornell college of Home
Economics.
The researchers are study
ing an actual town. It is a typi
cal community of 3,000, a vil
lage center in a rural area. Its
population cut in half the last
25 years, it has gained 25 per
cent In the last ten, as people
from cities return. These new
comers are shifting their loy
alties to the town and in time
are expected to belong to the
community at much as the na
tive born.
This is very healthy and
noteworthy trend. . Even mi
gration of young people to the
cities for job opportunities is
being checked, as the newcom
ers bring new Ideas ana new
opportunities in the town.
Given time, the process may
once more recreate the virile
small cities and towns that
have been the backbone of the
nation from lta birth. Big city
they
schools?
. .hat BTTfl-LB IIIW --
iple. to ioelal conduct by
ampin " . ,,.
Sr5rrta or
Our present school system is
, social and economic failure
, 'f .how a man how to
be a better citizen after grad
uating. The graduates can t be
fully blamed u n KUU'
system ignores it duty to
teach and help them train
their characters while they
were young. This is tne iirsi
purpose of schools, because
most of the other knowledge
could be gained by on the job
training.
The situation won't improve
until atheism is put out of
our public schools and God's
law is taught as in early
American life.
JOE SPENNER,
Stayton.
We Must Keep Oregon
Green, Miss Lane Says
To the Editor:
I am especially strucK by
the comparison of having
flown over our green and
lushlv timbered Northwest and
the parched and arid land of
parts of Nebraska and Kansas,
And the thought both fasci
nates and horrifies that if we
continue to exploit our green
resources as we do, in far less
than 100 years, the beauty and
essence of the Northwest a
green, tall-timbered wonder
land will develop through
carelessness into the same
dusty, dry erosive land I see
below us as we cut through
Nebraska and Kansas, out -of
Omaha.
Yet summer comes and each
year finds the Northwest for
ests spotted with a red, smoicy,
dizzy glare of fire. Each year
we cut more than we should.
Each year we waste hundreds
of trees. Each year we march
steadily and carelessly toward
the state of the desert lands of
Mld-U.S.A. It seems time to
warn ourselves, if we love the
greeness of Oregon . . . and
we do. . ,
I don't think there is any
thing in the United States
comparable to the tall greeness
of the Douglas fir and the Pine.
They are part of a last outpost
in nature s simple abundance,
because we, the man, have de
stroyed century by century
tnrougnout tne history of the
world the simple, natural
beauty that was man's heritage
from God. .
We must be wary of our
richness and basically watch
matches, glass, papers we leave
behind through these summer
days to come and legislate for
better protection of our great
est resource. It is a resource
both economic and spiritual.
There is no greater rejuvena
tion than in nature s lovllness,
New York W Bosses, like
other i t e m s of office equip
ment, wear out and have to be
replaced.
When this happens, there is
always an air of tension and
nervousness about the office.
Who is the new boss? What 11
he be like?
Rumors fly around thicker
than grasshoppers in August:
"I hear they dropped him on
his head when he was a baby,
and he wears a silver plate in
his forehead.", . .
"They say that at the last
place he worked he cut the staff
in half srd R'arlcs, too."
"I hear he's the big boss's
cousin. There is a family re
semblance. Notice how close
tnopttipr his eves are?"
"Is it really true that he
eats his own young?"
Bv the time the new boss ac
tually shows up on the job, the
office staff is firmly divided by
hope and hysteria. Half of them
have a chip on their shoulder
and are determined to put him
in his place. Half have secretly
decided to butter him up.
I Well, which course is right?
How do you break in new
boss? The answer is neither
course. Hazing a new boss is
highly satisfying to the ego
but ruinous to your goal of
more take home pay. Fawning
on him, on the other hand, will
only cause him to question your
intelligence.
The oroner way to break in
a new boss is to surround him
y HAL IOYLI
MILITARY MEN
AND VETERANS
Thursday, Hay 7 '
ORO school at ORO armory.
Organized Naval Reserve sur
face division, at Naval and Marine
Corps Reserve training center.
Company D, 16Jnd infantry
regiment, at aNtlonal Guard ar
mory. Battery D, 732nd AAA.AW bat
talion, at quonset huts.
Friday, May 8
Seabees Reserves at Naval and
Marine Corps Reserve training
center.
Linfield Jayvees
Down OSC Juniors
Portland (U.B Linfield de
feated Portland university's
baseball team, 15-4, here yes
terday. The Wildcats rapped out 19
hits, taking advantage of Port
land's eight errors.
and we have it here. We have
so much to lose . . . and such
a wealth ... at our matchtipsl
ADDYSE LANE,
Los Angeles.
with an atmosphere of cordial.
unparuBiuy ana lei mm Know
he is on his own mettle.
are a few tips:
I. Never tell him, "the old
boss wouldn't do it that way."
If the former boss's name ev
comes up at all, just shake your
head in wonder as if to say
"How did our organization
even manage to survive under
that muttonhead."
2. Don't volunteer to do mora
work. Throw as much of your
own work as you can on th
new doss a snouiaers. Then, as
you gradually start doing it
yourself again, he'll find his
own load lighter, and feel
graieiiu vuwtuu yuu.
3. Try to keep him at ease '
but not too sure of himself, if
he tells you a joke, laugh. But
laugh moderately and thought
fully, so he will know that if
he had told it a little better
you'd have laughed harder.
4. When he does a really '
good job, or finds a way to cut
down expenses by making the
paper clips last longer, don't
hesitate to reward him with a
little credit. Bosses are human.
They want to be appreciated,
But keep your praises crisp and
to the point. A pat on the back,
a brisk "Good show, chief" .
that is enough. Always leave
him yearning formore.
8. Never point ogt the boss's
blunders to him. If you must
share your knowledge of his
ignorance, ten u to your wife.
Let the other fellows in the of
fice make the mistake of tell
ing the boss about his boners.
They'll find a boss doesn't mind
making a fool of himself so
much as he does having wit-nesses.
S. After an interval of time.
you let the boss know tactfully
that your relationship, while
friendly, isn't necessarily per
manent. He'll get the idea
and give you the raise in pay
you want.
And why not? Instead of
making him feel inferior, you
have given him a sensation of
victory and accomplishment.
You are doing work he secret
ly feels he ought to be doing
himself and your measured
laughter is a bright moment in
his rinv. Ynii leper, him nn fcu
toes, and make him feel he's a
good boss. That's the way bosses
I, IT A tn fAA
7. One final tip: If you learn
the new boss is a 24-karat
dumbbell, don't grouse about
him or spread the news too fir.
in mat case uiey nugm uiv
him and hire a really smut
boss. And who in the oilica
wants a catastrophe like that?
opportunity takes too great a
toll in mind and health and the
attractions of the smaller cen
ters are lasting.
Salem 33 Years Ago
By BEN
May 7, 1920
C. I. Lewis, manager of Ore
gon Growers Cooperative asso
ciation and formerly director
of experimentation at Oregon
Africultural college, proposes
that sorghum be extensively
grown in the Willamette val
ley to combat the high price
of sugar.
Annual Jersey Jubilee tour
ended in the city last evening
that cost your husband's life
was not caused by mechanical
failure. The Air Force has
also promised to investigate
the maintenance problem in
Newfoundland and to plead
again with congress for enough
money to , train adequate
ground crews.
SSgt. Francis Marma, 7582
Air Base Squadron, England
"I know this letter is a bit out
of the ordinary, but I was
reading where you seemed to
be helping a couple of G.I.'s
and thought maybe you could
do the same for me. I filed
an application for permission
to marry an English girl in
November, 1921, and it has
neither been approved nor dis
approved. Since my Intended
bride and I still plan on get
ting married regardless of how
and when, I was wondering If
you could get some action on
the application before I rotate
back to the United States on
May 16, 1953."
Answer Your marriage
application has been held up
because your fiancee'i parents
were once members of the
communist party in England.
While your intended wife is
not a communist herself, there
are a number of senators wait
ing to jump on the Air Force
if it approves of a marriage
even slightly tainted with com
munim. The final decision is
up to the Third Air Force In
England, -however, and the
Pentagon has promised to radio
the Third Air Force and urge
action on your application.
MAXWELL
when 60 cars discharged weary
and dusty participants who
readied themselves for the big
banquet at the armory.
Barnes Cash store is retiring j
from business and offers wide i
spruce shelving in random
lengths for eight cents a foot. !
(Barnes' store, at first the New ;
York Racket store and later
Barnes Cash store, occupied a
location in the Exchange block !
at the corner of Commercial!
and Chemeketa streets for'
about 27 years. This property!
nas laieiy oeen acquired by
Lipman & Wolfe).
At the Cross Market: Anny
beef, choice frozen steer beef
at 14, 17, 20 and 25 cents a
pound.
Sllverton is considering
charging J. W. Parker, opera
tor of the Silverton.Rnlom
stage line a license. (Parker'
was among the earlier automo-!
live stage operators in this lo
cality). Salem Floral society is con
ducting a membership cam
paign as a means of arousing
Interest in the "City Beautiful"
movement.
Strawberries of the Oregon
variety are selling in Salem
for 35c for 12 ounces. Oregon
variety was a chance seedling
found in the Kelzer bottom
some years ago and is now ex
tensively grown in California.
Gus HIU's 50, all-white min
strels will entertain at Grand
Opera house May 16. Watch
for the big street parade.
"Shortage of sugar is al
leged" says' a Capital Journal
editorial, "but there is no
shortage. Instead there is a
corner." (About this time sugar
was selling In Salem up to
22.80 for a 100 pound sack). I
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