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PLACING PROFITS ABOVE PRINCIPLE
Secretary of State Dulles' statement that the United
States would use the veto if necessary to bar Red China
from a seat in the United Nations, followed an announce
ment that the British government had authorized the
immediate export of $10 million dollars worth of non-
trateine srooda ordered by
The announcement was made by an unofficial East
West trade group. It added that British businessmen are
seeking permission to export
of goods in a borderline category between Britain's defi
nitions of what la strategic
Evidently to avoid suspicion that the trade deal im
plied a pledge of support of the admission of Red China
to the United Nations, favored by the opposition Labor
party, Acting Prime Minister R. A. Butler and Acting
Foreign Secretary Lord Salisbury declared in parliament:
1 Red China's claim for representation in the V. N. must
wait until the Korean Peace Conference opens.
2 Britain will continue to reipect international embargoes
on the export of war-potential goods to Red China, which she
recognizes.
I This country deems It right and proper to go on develop
ing nor -strategic trade with the Feiping regime.
The British export group in a statement stated that
their mission to Peiping had written a "business arrange
ment" with the China National Import and Export Cor
poration for the exchange of at least 42 million dollars
worth of commodities each way during the period ending
June 80, 1954. Many of the items listed in the "business
arrangement" are, however, barred to Communist na
tions because of the items' strategic value.
The attitude of the Canadian government was indicated
by the statement of Foreign Secretary Lester B. Pearson,
who implied that Canada will fight any attempt by the
TJ. S. to veto seating of Communist China in the U. N.
Pearson, who is president of the current U. N. assem
bly, said in a New Brunswick speech, concerning Dulles'
veto pledge, "Well, there are other members of the U. N.
who feel differently about this drastic action, especially
If we can bring about an honorable peace."
All of which indicates a soft spot in Canada as well
as Britain for the Communists and desire for appease
ment of a world aggressor by placing profit above prin
ciple. Only 17 of the 60 U. N. members so far have recog
nized the Communists as the legitimate government of
China. Among the 17 is Britain. It's possible, if the peace
talks go all right, that enough other nations will swing
over to give the Communists U. N. membership.
The only place in the U. N. where this country could
use ljta veto power is in the Security Council.
THE FIGHT OVER FOREIGN AID
President Eisenhower won one of his most important
congressional victories to date in the senate at midnight
last night when that body by a vote of 63-86 refused to
lash $648,000,000 off a $6,746,818,202 foreign aid bill
after a floor fight that saw party lines split right down
the middle.
Supporting the president were 27 Republicans and 26
Democrats, and opposing him were 17 Republicans, 17
Democrats and the one independent, Morse of Oregon.
It would be impossible to have a closer party division
than this.
This alignment reflects the change in party control
Democrats who freely voted foreign aid when Truman
was president switched to the "anti. ' side with a Republi
can administration asking for the money, while Repub
licans like Dirksen of Illinois who've fought foreign
spending by the Democrats came to Eisenhower's aid this
time.
There was however a sound reason for this, as pointed
out by Dirksen. The original Truman figure had been
slashed by two and a half billion, so the objections of the
critics of heavy foreign spending had been partially met,
and the Eisenhower administration shows every dispo
sition to try to get something in return for what we put
out or else pull out.
Actually this figure is likely to be reduced In confer
ence with the house, which made a much larger cut The
amount finally approved will presumably be somewhat
less than the senate has voted as it is customary to com
promise difference between the two houses.
Further, the public should understand that irrespe
tive of the administration's
fight, the trend in foreign aid is going to be downward
from now on. There is a rising tide of objection in both
parties, due to the lack of cooperation we've been getting
abroad, particularly among
will probably be the largest foreign aid appropriation of
the Eisenhower administration, barring some dramatic
change in conditions that would reverse the present trend
of sentiment In this country.
McKAY BACKS PUD PROJECT
Interior Secretary Douglas McKay proved, if any evi
dence was needed by fairminded folk, that he is not
fighting public power developments in the Pacific North
west by throwing his support Wednesday to a wo Dosed
Washington Public Utility
on the coiumDia river.
This project would store two million acre feet of water
and produce 1,260.000 kilowatts of electric power, making
a large contribution to both the tower supply and the
flood control problem. It would be financed by the district
This is in line with the previously announced nolicv
of McKay, which is to avoid eitnee extreme in the public
power controversy, but to promote river development by
both public and private agencies. Several government
dams are now under way and others are planned. This
one is quasi-public project,
the federal taxpayers any money lor construction, thousrh
it will cost the treasury tax
tion would have paid in.
That there is no intention of this administration to
top public power development has been abundantly shown
Wora and is shown again in the Priest Ranids matter.
The change is that there is no longer administration objec
tion to private taxpaying projects, which were fought
Kv the Truman administration and are still foueht bv
the public power faction
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Red China.
a further 10 millions worth
and non-strategic.
victory in this particular
our European allies. This
District dam at Priest Rapids
but not federal It won't cost
revenues a private corpora
whenever they are proposed.
FROM
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Real Magic Carpet Age for
Travel Just Around Corner
y HAL
New York, VP We are just
entering the real magic carpet
age.
Before the year 2000, some
American mother, noticing her
daughter furiously packing
her suitcase on a Saturday
morning, will aik:
"Where are you going,
Mary?"
"To Cairo . . . they'ra having
a houseboat-on-the-Nile party
there tonight," Mary will
reply. "Now don't worry,
mother. I'll be home tomor
row afternoon."
Week-end tourist trips to
the moon probably won't be
popular until a few years after
that
Such ideas still sound a bit
fantastic to us. But how the
generation of 1900 would
have hooted if someone had
said that in 19S3 airplanes
would fly the Atlantic Ocean
in leu than five huurj, as two
Jet bombers did this week in
a routine journey at about
600 miles an hour.
Why, la 1900 only fools like
those two dreamy but imprac
tical Wright brothers even
thought a heavier - than - air
machine could ever fly. The
average man knew is was
scientifically Impossible.
In 1492 Christopher Colum
bus took about 70 days to sail
the ocean blue and reach an
island outpost of the Western
Hemisphere. It took him 16
days more to reach Cuba,
which he was sure must be
Japan. After four days passed
without seeing any Geisha
girls, however, he decided he
must be in some other part of
Asia.
In 1620 it took the Pilgrim
fathers 96 days in the May
flower to reach America, and
there was no Grover Whalcn
to greet them. Nope, just a few
wild Indians, completely un
inhibited because at that
time they had no reservations.
As late as 1773 a traveler
marveled at the speed and ease
with which a fellow could go
from Boston to New York in
only a week, by riding a stage-
coach every day from 4 am.
to 10 p.m. how could progress
go any farther? Today, you
can fly the distance in less
than an hour, and you don't
ha-e to get out and help push
it if it gets stuck.
Today the space between
nations is, in terms of time.
rOOT IN MOUTH?
Pendleton East Oregonian
Secretary of Defense Charles
Wilson had his foot stuffed in
his mouth when he suggested
that the draft would be be
drastically curtailed after an
armistice in Korea. In the face
of Communist expansion the
world ever such a statement
does great discredit to the Ei
senhower administration. That
it should come from the man
whose prime responsibility is
national defense is preposter
ous.
Engine Charley isn't expect
ed to know anything about
government but he is expected
to have sufficient good sense
to strengthen this nation in ev
ery way possible for a war
with Russia that could start
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THE SUMMIT WE SAN SEE
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less than the space between
neighbors in the frontier days
of Daniel Boone. But the dis
tance between the earth's
people, in terms of under
standing each other, is still a
vast gulf.
The world is shrinking fast
er than the human heart is
expanding. . That fact is the
great danger of our civiliza
tion. We have built speedy
machinery that makes each
man a neighbor of every other
man on earth, but no machine
has been Invented to make all
neighbors friends.
Milions of people today can
travel now to foreign places
they couldn't afford to go to
even a generation ago. But
often they stay there only long
enough to intensify a preju
dice. It is more like a trip to
the boo than an adventure in
discovering the fellowship of
man. The foreigner seems
even more foreign to them
than if they had never seen
him.
For such as these travel is
narrowing,- not broadening.
They return home smaller in
spirit, not larger.
They remind us of the old
New Hampshire farmer who
all his life had heard of the
strange going-ons in Boston.
At last he decided he simply
had to go and see for himself.
He caught the morning milk
train to the city. Late that eve
ning he wearily stepped off a
returning train at his depot.
"Have a good trip, Jeb?M
asked a hanger-on.
"Yep."
"Tell me, -what's Boston
really like?"
"Boston" said Jeb. "Well,
to tell you the truth, there was
so much going on at the rail
road station I. never did get
out for a look at the village."
Pruning the Statute Books
Bend
Our volume of Oregon
Laws for 1953, product of the
legislative session this year
and of the 1952 election on
initiated and referred meas
ures, has arrived and we ob
serve that it is thicker than
any of its predecessors. The
pages number 1624 and laws,
whether new or amending
those already in the statute
books, total 724. By way of
comparison the 1951 session
laws accounted for 1324 pages
and the book containing them
had 645 chapters; in 1949 there
were 1199 pages and S93 chap
ters; in 1947 there were 1341
pages and 855 chapters.
The years we have mention
ed produced by far the thick
est collection of legislative
achievement in the history of
the state. Whether they were
the best is less easy to decide.
Size is not necessarily the
measure of merit as, we think,
the new Oregon code, in which
four volumes will take the
place of the present ten, will
shortly bear witness.
We do know that the 1953
legislature was one of the best
ever to serve the state of Ore
gon and that it is to be credit
ed with some outstanding en
actments. It weeded out hun
dreds of proposed measures as
Boom From Waste
Medford Mail-Tribune
The cardboard plant now
under construction at Klamath
Falls, together with one being
installed at Pilot Rock, will
boost the Pacific Northwest's
production of this somewhat
recently developed building
material by around 160,000,'
000 square feet.
Hardboard production of the
area has jumped by leaps and
bounds during the past six
years and the present annual
output of 240,000,000 square
feet from eight mills is ap
proximately one-quarter of the
total turned out in the nation.
The amazing, and gratifying
part of the entire business is
that the hardboard is obtained
without additional drain on the
region's forest resources.
Hardboard is made from
sawmill or veneer mill resi
dues. It can almost be said that
each hardboard plant is sup
plied entirely by wood resi
dues from one sawmill or ve
neer mill.
Use of the "waste" has cre
ated additional products and
additional jobs. Some 600 men
are now employed in this an
nual $17,900,000 business.
O. C. TRAINS 'EM
Pendleton East Oregonian
Oregon City can take a bow
as an educator of city man
agers. Salem got her city man
ager from OC several years ago
and last week Eugene went to
the same source to get a man
ager to replace Oren King,
former Pendleton city man
ager who is leaving Eugene to
take a similar post at River
side, Calif.
CRIME PAYS!
Redwood City. Calif. U.
James C. Quails, 31, told police
he was not a bit sorry he took
his wife's $199 relief check. He
said he used the money to fi
nance a "highly successful'
fishing trip. He said he caught
a 35-pound cod in the Pacific,
Bulletin
Ing was well advised. Beyond
this there were any number of
bills whose sole purpose was
to repeal existing laws or
parts of laws that were found
to be in conflict with the In
tent of statutes which it was
desired to perpetuate. Later in
the summer we may spend our
vacation counting such elim
inative pieces of legislation. At
the moment we haven't time
but we hazard the guess that
wlthouts acts of the sort the
1953 Oregon Laws would not
be greater in number than the
previous blenial collection of
statutes. It might even be con
siderably smaller.
Cutting out the deadwood
was one of the purposes of re
codification. Much legislation
in addition to the blanket en
actment of the new code was
needed in attaining this ob
jective. Now that it has been
done there is at least a chance
that relatively fewer things de
mand attention in the way of
new, amendatory or repealing
legislation. Two years from
now we should like to be able
to compliment the legislative
assembly en producing the
smsllest volume of session
laws in the past decade or so
instead of the biggest book of
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Hardest Part of Korean
Problem Still Lies Ahead
r DREW
Washington Administra
tlon leaders admit privately
that in some respects the hard
est part of the Korean pro
gram now lies ahead. To con
fer on some of these problems
and prepare tor the political
talks. Gen. Mark Clark has
now been ordered home.
Here are their three big
gest headaches:
' 1. Preventing war from
breaking out again. Obvious
ly President Syngman Rhee
will try to precipitate war
again if the political talks
drag. He has virtually said
so. Furthermore, the com
munists have a powerful build
up right behind the truce lines.
They kept on massing troops
even during the negotiations,
which is why not many Amer
ican troops can be sent home.
A lot of American families
will be disappointed regarding
this.
2. Reconstruction of Korea.
Few war areas have ever been
more shattered than South
Korea. And almost no effort
was made by the army to re
build during the war. Unless
a reconstruction program Is
carried on wisely and quickly,
the South Koreans might be
come so disillusioned that they
could go communist Thus
three years of warfare and
countless sacrifice would be in
vain.
Superficial attempts at re
construction have begun under
UNKRA (U. N. Korean Re
construction Administrat ion)
which is headed by Gen. John
B. Coulter. But so far its per
sonnel have . chiefly ridden
around in ritzy cars, haven't
come to grips with long-range
rebuilding.
CREEPING KOREAN
SOCIALISM
One big problem sure to
complicate the picture is
whether or not we give Ko
reans what some administra
tion leaders have called "creep
ing socialism" or what Senator
Taft put across in the way of
public housing. In brief, if we
merely dole out funds by which
Koreans can rebuild haphazard
shacks, they are sure to be
compared with the big housing
programs which the commu
nists have built in China.
Though built by the Reds, these
housing projects are similar to
those built by Mayor La Guard-
la in New York, Sen. Burnet
Maybank when he was mayor
of Charleston, S. C, and which
Senator Taft provided for in
the housing act.
WASHINGTON WARNED
AGAIN ..
Two years later, Rhee did
the same thing. When the na
tional assembly threatened his
re-election, he arrested 103 as
semblymen. This time U.S.
Charge d'Affairs Allan Light
ner wrote vigorous recommen
dations to the state department
that Rhee was getting too big
for his britches, that the Unit
ed States was in the position
of subsidizing a dictator, that
we must begin building up a
democratic system in Korea.
Again, timid John Allison in
Washington and U. Alexis
Johnson, his state department
assistant, said no.
Thus, Washington was large
ly responsible for building up
the man who caused us so
EAXSON
much trouble during the truce
talks.
Rhee is shrewd, able, in
ii devoted to his country,
has suffered so many years im
prisonment and torture at the
hands oi tne japaneae u.
can forgive him a great deal.
But the fact remains that he
has wanted the war to drag
on figuring the United
States, eventually tired of a
italemate, would take the of
fensive and reunite his coun
try. When you .realize that Ko
rea hasn't been divided since
the 7th century, you can ap
preciate his position. But the
problem today is to build up a
disillusioned, disappointed peo
ple, both economically, and
noliticaUv. in such a way as to
n r ivcnt communism. For
there's a real danger that com
munism, which we fought a
war to block, could come to
Smith Korea after all.
What South Korea needs is
long-range planning, including
waterpower development, not a
slapdash handout Whether we
like it or not, the Communists
have made great changes in
certain Asiatic areas, such as
Mongolia, and our reconstruc
tion efforts will nave compeu-
tion.
3. Revamping Korean Pol
ities. The trouble the U.S.A.
had with sincere, cantankerous
Syngman Rhee regarding a
truce points up the trouble we
will also have with him in the
future. This is partly our
fault Long ago we should
have recocnlzed that Rhee,
though an Intense patriot is
also a dictator. If anyone cron
es him, they may go to jail.
In 1949, the Korean national
assembly, exercising the tra
ditional right of congressional
opposition, overrode some of
Rhee's vetoes. Immediately he
arrested seven assemblymen,
kept them arrested until con
gress got back in hand.
At that time the American
Embassy warned Washington
that Rhee was becoming a dic
tator, and that the U.S.A., as
the economic and political god
father of Korea, had better clip
his wings, begin building up a
democratic system. But timid
John Allison, in charge of State
Department Far Eastern affairs,
now promoted by Dulles to be
ambassador to Japan, said no.
IKE'S BROTHER
There's been a lot of specu
lation as to whether Arthur
Eisenhower consulted with his
brother Ike before he lam
basted Senator McCarthy in
the sensational Interview he
gave the Las Vegas Sun. The
answer is probably no.
Arthur Eisenhower is a
Kansas City banker, with
ideas of his own, who shortly
after Ike's election was smear
ed by a McCarthyistic attack
from Westbrook Pegler. Mr.
Pegler used the guilt-by-association
technique of pointing
out that A. Eisenhower occu
pied adjoining rooms to Ar
thus Goldschmldt in the Wal
dorf Tower In New York. The
latter, a republican, happens
to have been a great Eisen
hower booster. But Pegler
jumped on him as too liberal,
and he jumped on Arthur Ei
senhower because they ap
peared to be friends.
Meanwhile Hank Greens-pun,
publisher of the Las
Vegas Sun, has been the ob-
j
It's time NOW ... fee that Health Check-up
at your Doctor's that you've been talking about
for so long. f fet er than yon think when it
comes to keeping your Health Program up to
date. See row Doctor bow for a thorough check
up. Perhaps he'll discover something that re
quires only minimum treatment now, but which
might be a severe and costly illness later. And
wouldn't h be grand to know that you were
physically fit m every way? See your doctor.
CAPITAL DRUG STORE
405 Stale SI. (Corner of Liberty)
We Givt Z?C Green Stamps
Triursday, July SO, 195S '
Salem 41 Years Ago
ly UN MAXWELL
July 3. lilt
Over 2000 persons had gath
ered at Willson park to see the
initial public performance of
the electric fountain. They
were disappointed because the
tr. M. Waits memorial foun.
tain bad not yet been turned
nver to the city ana could not
then be operated.
fltv rmincil. in behalf of
Mayor Lachmund's plan for
c.lm a "cltv beautiful" hail
passed an ordinance requiring
i t. :l ( u .
roruana nauwajr ajibui ec
Power Co. to remove . poles
and wire from main atreeti in
the business district and re
locate them in alleys.
Banners announcing the
coming of Kit Carson Ranch
shows in Salem were taken
down because they had become
entangled with street car trol
leys.
Tor-ir Jnhnion had announced -
that he would retire and leave
the title to be fought out.
among heavy-weight aspir- ,
ants.
i
At Salem's Chicago store os
trich plumes were available
from $195 to $3.50.
a
Tionni-ti had been received
from Seward, Alaska, saying
Katmal volcano, which had
Tn a wii atlll aand-
ClUyKU ...... v.
ing out dense clouds of smoke.
Ttacaiue he was a billard .
expert and his congregation .
considered "the little ivory
halla belonged to the devil.'' .
Rev. Frank Milnes, Presbyter
ian minuter at Pendleton, naa
resigned his pastorate.
Turn Salem firemen had reCi
signed from department serv
i rtna became engaged in
an altercation with the chief
and turned the hose into his
far. The chief knocked him
rinnm Tha other ouit because
he sympathized with the first.
W . W
At Damon & Son's grocery
sugar had a price of 17 pounds
for $1, potatoes were 65c a.
bushel and string beans were
going six pounds for 25c.
FORGOT HIS PANTS
San Franciico S1P3 John A.
Guilfoy caught in a downtown
hotel fire, decided that oiaze or
no blaze a man should be dress
Aft W naliaarl to nut on lhirt.
tie, jacket, hat socks and shoes.
Not until he had reaenea
ufetv did he discover he had
forgotten his pants. - -
ject of bitter attacks both by
Pegler snd McCarthy. Pegler
has labelled Greenspun an ex
convict because he was con
victed of sending military sup
plies into Israel during the Israel-Arab
war. He served no
time in jail. But Greenspun
in turn has accused McCarthy
of certain behavior in a Wis
consin hotel regarding which
the public has awaited McCar
thy's reply. He has offered
none.
That's - the background of
Brother Arthur's blast against
Senator McCarthy.
Note Ike's mother, who was
a great lady and who raited
seven sons, was once congrat
ulated by Sam Goldwyn, the
movie producer, about her son.
He, of course, had in mind the
general. Mrs. Eisenhower, who
kas a Jehovah's Witness and
opposed to war, replied:
"Which son?"
(Coprrliht IKS)
tbougn en varying ww.
well and much at toss ee
rststates ee record.