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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SaTrm. Ore'
Wednesday, August 12, 1953
Capital AJpurnal
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NEXT INVASION OBJECTIVE
WE CAN TAKE THE INITIATIVE
One of America's handicaps in the cold war with Russia
has been that we were always on the defensive, waiting
for Russia to act, then trying and not always effectively
to counteract it. Our position was like that of a boxer who
never strikes a blow of his own, but contents himself with
trying to parry's his opponent's blows. He can never win
no matter how well he performs and one blow can put
him out
Now a combination of Russian weakness in East Ger
many and indifference to our joint interests by our two
principal allies in West Europe appear to make possible a
genuine American counter thrust that has almost limit
less possibilities for making trouble for Russia and scant
danger to ourselves. We refer to a vigorous American
leadership in behalf of a united Germany at the forthcom
ing four power conference.
Why have we not done this before? There were two
principal reasons: (1) Fear that a united Germany might
gang up with Russia against the west, and (2) Reluctance
to offend France, which always has been and always will
be against a united Germany.
Fear of Germany choosing Russia against the west can.
not continue to exist, now that we have seen the depth
and bitterness of Last German feeling against Russia.
There may be some doubt about a united Germany join
ing the west. This would depend upon several factors.
But Germans will continue to hate the Russians and a
strong Germany neutral between east and west would be
a powerful buffer against a Russian attack.
Why should the United States sacrifice its opportunity
to put Russia on the hot seat by trying to placate France,
which has neither strength nor the wish to acquire it?
France is a second rate power and so far as anyone can
see now is going to continue to be one. Any reason to
placate France that may have existed heretofore need not
be considered now.
America at the four power conference vigorously cham
pioning a united Germany would thrill the Germans, east
ern and western, as nothing has since 1945. Russia would
be hard put to stand against us and aha could do so onlv
at the price of mounting bitterness among the German Pi1"1 le,ve ott- Socrates, one
people, whom she has put forth so much effort to make I0' ihe, .en..1".,hl!tor.y'
her satellites.
; Whether such an effort would succeed cannot be known
in advance of trying, but It would pay rich political divi
dends even if it failed for the time being. Eventually it
is oouna 10 come regardless or what we do, but we can
collect some credit by helping bring it about. Nothing
would damage Russia's European ambitions more.
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Malenkov Took Bold Risk,
Made It Pay, Acheson Says
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Baby Greatest Teacher in
The World, Boyle Opines
New York Iff) A baby is
tne greatest teacher in the
world. He starts where the big'
domed professors and philiso-
By HAL BOYLE
OUR GROWING POPULATION
Our population experts calculated that America's pop
ulation reached 160,000,000 Monday. They had it figured
virtually to the minute, which may impress some as being
far-fetched.
However that may be, it is evident that we have reach
ed approximately that figure and that we are growing
at the rate of two and three quarter millions a year. This
means, assuming the growth continues at the same rate,
nearly 180,000,000 by 1960 and 200,000,000 within 15
years from now.
One does not have to be too old to recall our 100,000,000
population of World War I days, and even the very young
can remember the period of the thirties when1 the birth
rate was on the fritz, and gloomy new deal "experts" were
explaining that the U.S. had reached maturity, as would
a person, and would grow little more in population or
wealth. This notion had widespread acceptance less than
20 years ago, though many have forgotten it in the rush
of events since.
Our population surge is the result of World War H. It
is nature's response to the ravages of war, her way of re
building the losses of conflict. In our own country many
more additional babies have been born than the somewhat
more than 300,000 who lost their lives in the fighting,
and the trend continues with undiminished vigor eight
years after that struggle ended. It may not so continue
if peace succeeds cold war, but the impetus will subside
only gradually if at all in coming years. We are headed
to a great population, without immigration, which is now
a negligible factor.
This means growing commercial activity. Population
growth requires houses, schools, clothes, furniture and a
thousand other items. It accounts to a large extent for the
continuance of the war boom long after past experience
said it would end, and will go far to assure than any
recession will stop far short of a depression. Too many
facilities must be provided for the millions who are grow
ing up in this country for us to be able to afford the dubi
ous luxury of an extended sitdown.
used to get bis students to
think about life by asking them
questions.
A baby has Socrates beat all
hollow. 'It simply puts its arm
around you and you have the
answer to life . . . and there are
no questions or doubts left.
Even the Bible can't teach
as well as a baby. The Bible
says you find your life by los
ing it and that it is more blessed
to give than to receive. These
are great words . . ',, but they
are still only words lo many
people.
A baby doesn't , say such
things to you. But the blind
trust one of these, squirming
bundles of helplessness places
in you teaches you the Biblical
truths more surely than would
a thousand sermons. Tht hand
that rocks the cradle doesn't
rule the world. It is run by the
soft little tyrant in-the bassinet,
the autocrat in the cradle. My
wife and I, after nearly 16
years of childless marriage, re
cently were given for a time
the care and feeding of an in
fant lady of five weeks.
She is variously known as
Madam X," "Little Jughead,"
The Princess," and "The
Fountain." 1
I must say that at first sight
she looked like a 100-year-old
toothless woman who had been
spjrinkled with magic powder
and shrunk to the size of a
shrimp. But in IS days she
has suddenly blossomed into a
thing of beauty and a joy for
ever. She has everything Helen
of Troy or Cleopatra had ex
cept hair and teeth.
In those IS days she has
taught me more ot the terror
and loveliness of living than
42 previous years of war and
peace. When I think of the
possibility of her leaving us
it is like the thought of dying.
My wife, Frances, feels the
same way.
I'wouldnt trade four of
you for one of this baby's little
toes," she said. And we count
her toes 10 times a day to be
sure none gets lost.
We took her to a pedia
trician, who looked her over
fore and aft and said, "She's
an absolutely perfect baby!"
As we were leaving, another
couple brought in their in
fant, and I heard the doctor
tell them, "My, my, an abso
lutely perfect baby!"
That struck me as an odd
coincidence. Within 15 minutes
the same doctor had been lucky
enough to examine probably
the only two absolutely perfect
babies in America. Must have
been a red-letter day for him.
- "Madam X" goes through
100 diapers or more in a week.
She can dampen three diapers
in five minutes and lie there
with a look that says, "Wanna
bet I can't make it four in a
row?"
I have to laugh at parents
who say, "You sacrifice a lot
when you have a baby." Sacri
fice what? No baby owes a
grownup a thing for taking
care of it. The debt is the other
way.
strictly off the record, but ex
Secretary of State Achesoivre
cently gave democratic sena
tors his private analysis of
what is going on inside the
Kremlin.
Meeting with the senators
privately, be dismissed Prem
ier Malenkov as ambitious but
not a "real leader" of Russia.
His bold coup against secret po
lice chief Beria has "temporar
ily" put him in complete con
trol. Acheson said, but the
best mind ' in the politburo is
the old bolshevik, Foreign
Minister Molotov.
Acheson described Beria's
"biggest mistake" as creating
a deputy "who became ambi
tious and worked closely with
Malenkov." The result was that
Malenkov "made medicine"
with Beria's deputy and, to
gether, they captured the much
feared secret police chief and
threw him into his own prison
to face the same trumped-up
charges he had brought against
others.
This was a bold stroke on
the part of Malenkov," observ
ed Acheson. "He realized he
was taking a great chance, for,
had he failed, it would have
been his neck instead of Be
ria's."
Of the Kremlin survivors,
Molotov "is by all means the
most capable, and has the best
mind," Acheson added.
Malenkov. though now in the
driver's seat, "is not thought of
as a real leader, in smiting
power from one dictator to an
other, Acheson pointed out. any
loosening ot the iron grip is
DISLOYAL WAR PRISONERS
American P.W.s are streaming out of North Korea
fighting mad, at the Reds for the brutal treatment ac
corded them of course, but also toward some of their com
rades who seem to have gone over to the enemy and helped
to make life miserable for the others.
Prisoners interviewed Tuesday at Tanmunjom called
the turncoats "progressives" and themselves "reaction
aries," mimicking terms applied by their Communist
captors to each group, with reverse effect. They threat
ened reprisals against this group, which one hopes is
small, and the government has promised a searching in
vestigation. It does appear that a scandal is brewing on this subject.
Some American prisoners are apparently refusing repatri
ation. Whether because they are genuine converts to the
Russian way of life or because they dare notiface their
countrymen is not yet known.
All the prisoners were subjected to continuous Red in
doctrination efforts, backed by promises to those who
yielded and brutal punishment for those who didn't. It
is not surprising that some were not strong enough to
withstand, for the ordeal was longer and more cruel than
that Of battle.
Punishment must be tempered, so far as it can to the
magnitude of the offense, distinguishing between those !
who really deserted meir country ana tnose who were
merely weak. Not all men are of heroic mould, as a har
rowing experience such as this is bound to disclose.
Reclamation Waste in Wyo.
Boise, Statesman
A story o(shocking waste in
parts of a big reclamation pro
ject in central Wyoming is told
in a copyrighted series by the
Rocky Mountain News ot Den
ver. Besides the government's
waste, the work and Investment
of a group of homesteaders has
been poured into a lU'.ile at
tempt to farm land which is
not good enough to grow crops.
These ho mesteaders ' moved
in 1948 onto the Lost Wells
extension of the Riverton
reclamation project, on land
which the reclamation bureau's
own experts had said a year
earlier was unsuitable for irri
gation. They were right. In
another section ot this project,
a system of concrete canals was
constructed to bring water to
10,000 acres on a bench before
adequate testing of the soil.
For three yeas the reclamation
bureau has been trying without
success to produce paying crops
on an experimental farm on
this bench. In still another area
$613,000 was spent for engi
neering surveys for a huge ir
rigation system, again before
the soil was tested to see if it
would grow crops.
There has been typical un
derestimation of the costs in the
development of the project.
The Boyscn dam on the Horn
river was started in 1944 on a
cost estimate of $8,202,000;
when completed this year its
actual cost was $34,141,000. Its
water has not yet been used
for irrigation. The Riverton
reclamation project itself was
begun in 1917. when costs to
now, with a cost estimate of
$6,777,025. It is not yet com
plete, and a new cost estimate
in 1950 was $29,955,923.
Part of the money has been
well spent, for the News re
ports that where the soil was
good, annual crop values have
been boosted from a few cents
to $47.02 an acre last year. In
addition, 25,000 kilowatts of
electric power has been pro
duced. Such good results are
tragically overshadowed, how
ever, by the adverse public re
action against the kind of waste
which is found right next door
to the lush green fields of good
Riverton project land.
Reclamation is the life of the
Snake river .basin, and The
Statesman is deeply concerned
for the possibility that similar
extravagant projects based on
inadequate study, or in defiance
of unfavorable study reports,
might destroy public confi
dence in future reclamations
plans here. Such a project, we
believe, is the high Hells Can
yon dam, which if built would
be a future monument to bad
planning. We fear that the
Lucky Peak dam may also turn
out to be a product of inade
quate planning, though we
earnestly hope we are v rong
neciamation is much more
than a local necessity to these
areas ot the west where good
land needs water. It is of vital
long-term concern to the na
tion, for the day will come
when vastly increased food
production will be needed.
Reclamation is too Important
to b undermined by hasty, til-
be sure were much lower than; conceived projects.
Nothing in the universe ,,Bnn hv nnnr(fH neo.
manes you leei more aeu-im- pe as a ,jgn 0f weakness
ponam man a oaoy mat oe- Malenkov's Mistake
penas Upon you Dlinoiy, .-Mal.nW. rat mUtnW.
Hn(f.l.a a. .. V - I. I W -
iMaiiV, v, auii .c go far i05,ng power and pres.
1,1' r'L y" you "now , " tige for the Kremlin, was made
" "clu" " c"'c- when he started to soften im-
wnen i squeeze ana pat a mHi-i stnn'. rfath 1
10.n """-"-'"V-""1.' out Acheson explained. "He sent
or "Utile jughead" it is King- vishlnsky back to the United
dom Come on earth. It is more Nation milin instead of
intoxicating than wine, victory ,cowiing, and over in Berlin
or a raise from the boss. I feel the communists proceeded to
more influential and powerful ,0ften up on the tough type of
than an emperor. administration Stalin had al-
And when she sighs, puts wavs used
ner imie crinxiy nanas ouna Tne lirst ,ign o( unrest ln
HIT iictK, una IdllS asleep WIUI R.rmin ram lmmerfiolu .
smaii puppy sounos, me irouo- ter Malenkov had rescinded
led world fades like a dimming Jome o( the more ,tringent ad
dream. All that life holds of ministrative measures and had
awe and wonder-and happiness promised the German people
is dozing in my arms. more j000 , ereater varietv of
Oh, yea, then it is time to eoods in the stores and several
change the diaper. other measures to lessen their
Well, I suppose all fathers burden," Acheson continued.
make parent noises like this. "It was the easing off on these
But If I ran Harvard university dictatorial powers that gave
I certainly would always keep the German workers encour-
a baby on the faculty to teach agement to request changes in
the students the real facts of working conditions in the fac-
life. tories. On big factory especi.
ally. Much to their surprise.
jaiemoi Tears Ago mediately-The iritial try was
1 so successful, it encouraged the
By BtN MAXWELL workers to make additional re
Auiuat 12. 1922 quests which, in turn, were
Petition renneatinir th ritv granted. After the second vie-
to withdraw its order to fell I tory, the workers began to have
the giant redwood tree near the sucn confluence in wnat tney
Bv DREW PEARSON
It was. kept i should go aneao wun
oians ano program w
er speed than at any time since
Korea startedi We all know
Russia started her great arma
ment build-up Immediately af
ter World War II just as We
proceeded with our great arm
ament tear-down. The result
was that when the Korean war
started, Russia was three years
ahead of us and up until now,
has been gaining on us. .
"We now have an opportun
ity to lessen the gap. As the
Korean war has progressed,
we have had to divert to that
area nearly all of the equip
ment that we have been able
to produce. We have been build
ing plans faster than we are
losing them, but we are not
building planes faster than
Russia. ,
Europe b Better
"By 'full speed ahead,' I do
not mean alone," Acheson has
tened to add. "And I do not
mean to limit it to preparation
for war. By 'full speed ahead,"
I mean we should do every
thing we possibly can. putting
even greater emphasis on help
ing our allies. We have made
more progress toward getting
NATO organized and western
Europe? united than anyone
could possibly have dreamed a
few years ago.
"Down deep In the stream is
a steady, strong undercurrent
working toward a friendly, co
operative sisterhood of states
in Europe," Acheson declared.
"On the surface- yes, there are
discouraging situations. The
last election in Italy was not
good. On the surface, the situa
tion in France is not good. In
England, responsible people in
government continue to yap at
the United States.
"And I have found through
out the world there is jealousy
on the part of other nations
with reference to the United
States and we are referred to
as Rich Americans. But I also
found every place I have been
an attitude that the other dem
ocracies of the world are glad
to have a rich uncle as a friend.
"With Russia, we hope, fall
ing apart, now is the time for
the United States to make hay,
and make it in a big way while
we have the ODDortunitv of
harvesting an enormous crop,"
Acheson concluded. . "Stalin's
death may be the forerunner
of the establishment of peace in
the world. It might be the event
that eventually will bring the
world to Its senses."
Washington Pipeline
Democrat Les Biffle, long,
time secretary ot the senate
recalls Bob Tail's oft-repeated
advice "Leslie you'll make a
name for yourself if you he in
the youth of our country.
Comments Biffle today: "Bob
Taft always believed America's
strength was in its youth; and
that every time a youngster i.
given a boost, the nation itself
is better off." . . . Winthron
Rockefeller, now getting a Cj.
vorce from Bobo in Arkanaa.
has secretly offered ex-Gov
Sid McMath a fat contribution
if he'll run against Sen. John
McClellan next year . . . n
spite TV competition, radio sta.
tions are now taking in about
$750000,000 per year. That's
20 per cent more than they
grossed four years ago. The
u. o. now iias an au-time high
of 105,000,000 radio sets, in.
eluding some 20,000,000 in
autos.
(Coprrlfht. imji
The English Egg
Wall Street Journal
There is a great debate goln
on in Britain about the right
of hens. The argument turns on
whether the "battery system"
small cages which keep th-
ciose quarters thy
can do little else but lay eggs-1
is cruel and unusual treatment
Those opposed to the system
which has official sanction of
the government, say that the
hens don't even scratch them
selves. Those who like the rist
in egg production in Britain
say that the regimented hen is
better fed, better watered and
that she doesn't have to scratch
herself because she Is cleaner
Statisticians from neither
side have agreed whether the
new system had anything to do
with the removal of eggs from
the ration lists this SDrins. hut
figures show that the hens are
laying 30 io 40 eggs more a
year than in the barnyard days.
Further, the hens get tender
and fat and when they slow
up production they are nicelv
rounded for the roaster.
Well, it's heartening to see
some of our British friends
worry about the effects of regi
mentation on the happiness of
hens. But we suspect that if it
comes to a decision over wheth
er they regiment themselves
again to rationing and powder
ed heniruit Britons will decide
that ancient question, and say
the egg comes first.
corner of Union and Summer
streets had been circulated on
Salem streets.
The sum of $9,200 had been
raised in the Salem hospital
campaign and $15,800 more was
needed to build the hospital.
Salem Automobile bo. ad'
vertising said a regular Sa
porior Four-Ninety Chevrolet
stock car had pulled Ankey
hill in high gear, E. A. Brown
of the Capital Journal had
witnessed the demonstration
Hop picking in Polk county
had been set for between Au
gust IS and 20.
"Dubs" Mulkey of Salem
had gotten the worst of a 10
round bout with Billy Gardeau
of Boise.
During the 24-hour period
Salem had received .04 of an
inch of rainfall. On Thursday
three-fourths ot an inch had
fallen.
Vice President Calvin Coo
lidge, accompanied by his fam
ily had a speaking engagement
in Portland for this evening.
Jewltt five passenger road
ster sold in Salem by Vlck
Brothers had a price of $1195
(J e w.i 1 1, manufactured be
tween 1922 and 1926, was a
Paige product).
Nearly all forest fires In
Washington had been extin
guished by heavy rainfall of
the past 48 hours.
For the first time In the his
tory of Western Oregon a
gTasshopper Invasion had
caused farmers in the Dlllard
section to call for aid in ex
terminating the pest.
Oregon Growers had leased
two extra dryers to handle
this year's heavy prune crop.
Shipment of the first car of
loganberries this season had
been billed to Chicago.
FI NNY WAT TO FAT BET
Porto Alegre, Brazil, OJ.B
Judith Wool, 35. was arrested
when police found her taking
a nude bath in a park foun
tain in the center of the city.
She said she mas paying off
a bet. ,
might accomplish that they
called a strike for additional
benefits. The riots followed."
Acheson added that Malen
kov'f meekness had given heart
not only to the people of East
Germany- but all the soviet
satellites. .
Less Iron Hand
'There developed through
ought all the satellite countries
a lessening of the iron hand
from Malenkov all the way
down through the subordin
ates," he said. "This led the
people to feel that perhaps now
was the time to make a demon
stration for greater privileges
and freedoms. Whether Malen
kov will now start an entirely
opposite tack and attempt to re
capture power by going back!
to the old Stalin strict, hard
boiled dictator .methods is a
question nobody can answer."
With the politburo tearing at
the seams from internal trou
ble, the ex-secretary of tsate
urged: "Now is the time we
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