Part 4
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RUSSIA, INDIA AND THE U.N.
, As this is written the vote on what if any role Russia
and India are to play in the forthcoming peace conference
for Korea has not come to a vote in the U.N. but enough
has already happened to make the success of that confer
ence about as nearly impossible as failure can be before
the conference is held.
Bitter debate was touched off over who should sit in
at this meeting to end the Korean war and if possible to
relieve other tensions in Asia. The United States insists
that only those who took an active part in the fighting
should make the peace.
This would eliminate India, which tfidn't fight and
whose sympathies were certainly not "tl) our side, which
should have been India s
member. India is always
or to help, and is eager to
conference.
Th U.S. formula does not eliminate Russia, for it Is
recognized that Russia was in the war up to its ears, in
fact it was the real party in
But the U.S. insists that if
request of North Korea and
she sit with them, representing that side, also that she
sign whatever settlement is
In view of India's past attitude her insistence upon get
ting Into this conference occasions no surprise. Russia s
attitude is peculiar which of course Is not a new develop
ment. Russia evidently wants to pursue the fiction that
fools nobody that she is not a party to a war she started
and provided the munitions for from start to finish. She
wants to sit with the U.N., with which she has actually
been at war for three years.
proceedings that way, and in
to be seen in company with her satellites. This is under
standable. They might feel the same way.
America's-position does not meet with favor with some
of her allies, such as Britain. The British have been
appeasers from the start, due to their anxiety about Hong
Kong and the China trade. They want to give the oppo
, aition virtually anything it wants and will probably vote
' against us in the roll calls. However, a two-thirds vote
is required and the U.S. is therefore expected to win.
But the sharp, bitter split over who should compose
the delegation and where they should sit virtually dooms
the conference to failure.
there would be no peace unless the Russia formula were
accepted, which it won't be, and can't be now that the
U.S. has "stuck its neck out" on the issue.
Perhaps we'd have been better off to have swallowed
tur pride and let both Russia and India in on their own
terms, as disrupters, but we've swallowed our pride time
after time without accomplishing anything and probably
would have made no contribution to peace had we backed
down again.
The trouble is that the other side wants peace only on
its own terms, which includes the complete. mastery of
Asia now and the rest of the world later, when they get
to it. With this aim there may be temporary truce, there
may be little wars or there jnay be one big war. But there
can be no real peace till the objective is attained or
abandoned.
Many will conclude that we should have fought the
war to a military decision, but this is by no means cer
tain. Such a course would probably have brought Russia
into active fighting and started World War IIL If this
did not happen we could hardly have overrun all China
and we could not have made an enduring peace from a
front located at the Yalu any easier than from one on the
88th parallel.
What all this adds up to is that we've got the biggest
bear in the world by the tail and nobody has as yet figured
out a way to let go without being devoured by him. We
are only buying temporary, uncertain reprieve from the
all-out war we all dread and will do anything short of
outright surrender to avoid.
THE MENACE OF SECURITY
In an address to the American Bar association's annual
convention at Boston, Supreme Court Justice Robert H.
Jackson Btressed a fact that is becoming increasingly
apparent that the nation's traditional freedoms are in
danger of being lost through "being gradually bartered
or traded" for "security."
. enduring, as history proves
leans to a aismai swamp.
Jackson said that individual
the philosophy "that all else
of the state." He continued:
"In this anxiety-ridden time,
some of their liberties for a real
against external foea, Internal betrayers or criminals.
"Others are eaacr to bargain awav local controls for a fed
eral subsidy. Many will give
of collective advantages."
The recent action of the farmers in voting by an over
whelming majority to let the
their crop planting quotas in
subsidies to maintain war prices, was an instance of sur
rendering individual rights for collective advantage, that
increases living costs for all
farmers themselves in increased costs of production for
all they buy, and the merry
another whirl.
Security is the golden lure
nism, and the results have
for the masses, denied initiative and opportunity as bar
barism replaces civilization a high price for loss of free
dom. Jackson further declared:
"The real question posed by the Fascist and Communist
movements ... Is whether, today, liberty is regarded by tha
masses of men as their most precious possession. Certainly in
the minds of many foreign peoples our type of Individual lib
erty has been outvalued by promises of social welfare and
economic security, which they want too passionately to be
critical of the price. If this indifference to traditional values
should spread to us, it would be the greatest threat to our
liberties.1' G. P.
RED FACES TURN RED
Panmunjom, Korea CUB Red
prisoners had red faces today
when they stripped off their
uniforms In protest against the
United Nations.
Two young women from
Communist Poland turned up
to welcome the Communist
troops to freedom. The repa
triates had nothing but caps
side because India is a U.N,
anxious to talk if not to fight
be in this troublesome peace
interest on the enemy side.
Russia attend it be at the
China, her satellites and that
reached.
She could better disrupt the
addition she seems reluctant
Vishinsky as good as saidj
This security is anything but
a false will-o'-the-wisp that
freedom is threatened by
must give way to the interest
many are ready to exchange
or fancied Increase in security
up individual rights for promise
federal government regulate
exchange for minimum price
the people and reacts on the
- go - round of inflation gts
of both fascism and comma
been on y slavery and sadism
BACK BEATER DE Lt'XE
Battle Creek, Mich. (UK
Benny Mark, 41, said today his
wife, as a back icat driver, did
more than talk. She grabbed
hi arm at he drove along
street here, causing him to
crash into a tree. Mark uf
fered a broken leg.
to cover themselves.
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Taking Care
Education to
By HAL
New York VP) When you
try to educate a child it is
hard to say who learns most
you or the child
'Little Jughead," a tiny miss
wno came to our house recent
ly for what we hope is a per
manent visit, is right at the
formative stage too old to be
kept in ignorance, but too
young for college.
As a matter of fact she is only
two months old. But, operating
0, East Is East
wall Street Journal
Among tne recent sugges
tions of a lessening tension be
tween East and West, none is
more encouraging than an em
phatic statement of the Rus
sian government organ, Izves-
tia, as reported to the New
York Times from Moscow. It
discloses a hitherto ignored
chord of sympathy between
our 160 million and their 193
million or more.
Izvestla asserts that Russia's
crying need Is more and fun
nier jokes. That's one of ours,
too. Izvestla says there aren't
enough circuses in Russia.
There aren't here either, espe
cially when Congress is In re
cess. In all the Soviet Union
there, are only 18 clowns,
among whom painfully few
are the least bit funny.
We have more clowns than
that Many of them are indeed
funny, most of them so uncon
sciously and without intention.
But is that art? Izvestia would
certainly say it isn't, with the
finality of ultimate authority.
We look forward hopefully
to the convening of a four
power conference on interna
tional standards of humor. Per
haps Kipling was a bit too pos
itive about the duration of the
chasm between East and West.
20 Years Later
McMinnvllle News-Register
Tuesday's interesting re
count of events surrounding
the 1933 forest exDlosion In the
Tillamook burn by Sam Smith.
Willamina city recorder and
News Register correspondent,
marks some difference in the
weather 20 years ago and this
week. At time of the 1933 holo
caust, which devastated 320,
000 acres of virgin forest, the
woods were powder dry.
It's different this week.
Heavy rains have farmers wor
ried over possibility of real
damage to fine stands of bar
ley and other gains still In the
field. Continued downpours
most certainly would discolor
barley and bring lower mar
ket operations.
This week's drouth-breaker
rain cam at the exact time
that 1952 s long dry spell end
ed. But, this year the rains
were not as badly needed as a
year ago. Woods were dry and
humidities low, with real tire
danger In harvest fields, but
the year's picture was not near
ly as critical as In 1952. How
ever, we wouldn't have minded
a little rain now, neve had
enough!
Long range forecast lnfll
cate a dry. warm period
through most of September,
Let get on with it and get
our crops in the bin. Give us
a break, Mr. weatherman.
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon
WHO COULD BLAME HIM
of Baby
Adult Too
BOYLE
on the theory that a girl can't
start learning too soon, I have
begun ner formal education al
ready. The first thing I am teach
ing her are music and interna
tional affairs. I do this by play
ing the phonograph for her and
reading her the newspaper.
"You are positively crazy,
Rover," said my wife, Frances.
She has the feminine idea that
just because a baby can't walk
or talk it can't appreciate the
finer things of life like cul
ture, and all that stuff.
But I know better. Take mu
sic for example. Little Jughead
and I are having a wonderful
time exploring the world of
music. She likes Beethoven,
but he puts me to sleep. When
I play a record by Hayden, we
both fall asleep. But Mozart
we both love. The other dav
Jughead started a strange
crooning, and I yelled for my
wife.
Now what's wrong." she
said.
'Can't you hear what the
baby is doing?" I asked excit
edly. "Certainly." said Frances.
"She is making happy noises."
"Happy noises nothing. Lis
ten again. She is humming Mo
zart."
You are positively nuts."
said Frances, going back to the
kitchen. Well, that just goes
to show you how much more
fathers appreciate daughters
than mothers do. A musical
genius in the family and her
own mother won't even admit
it.
Reading the newspaper to
Little Jughead is something of
a problem. ,
We both like the sports page, 1
but she gets restless when I
try to read the comics. I like
them, but. they bore her to
angry squalls so I read them
real fast
On the other hand nothing
contents her more than the edi
torial page, which I sometimes
find heavy going. The longer
and duller the editorial the bet
ter she likes it. She lies there
smiling, gnawing her hand with
her gums, and nodding thought
fully. She is also keenly interested
in foreign affairs, and really
knows more about them than
I do. For example, some time
ago I read her a piece about
the Shah of Iran flying to Rome.
"How do you like that, kid?"
I said. "I guess the shah's had
it Old Mossadegh kicked him
out to stay, eh?"
I looked over at Little Jug
head, and she shook her head
violently in the negative. She
didn't agree.
Sure enough, a tew days later
old Mossadegh got bounced
and the Shah started back
home. When I read that to Lit
tle Jughead, she leered up tri
umphantly, smug as any wom
an whom Ume has proved right.
One thing worries me about
our mutual cultural and en
lightenment program. The last
couple of days she hasn't been
listening to the phonograph or
my newspaper reading. Just
lies there on the floor flexing
her leg muscles and doing
pushups.
Oh, well, maybe if time for
me to buy her a glove and a
bat What if Little Jughead
aoesn t want to become an in
tellectual. W
rnuM nu annrf
lady Softball pitcher In the fam-l
Uy.
Salem 41 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
August VI, 1912
T. G. Bligh had contracted
for a large, $450 electric sign
to hang across the street in
front of his theater.
Notice had been served on
the section foreman in the
Turner district by Dr. J. O.
Van Winkle directing him to
bury part of a human foot and
leg of a man killed on the
railroad right-of-way a few
days ago. : '
John Carmichael, Indepen
dence hop grower, had adver
tised for 1000 hop pickers to
pick 400 acres of hop on the
Wlgrlch ranch.
Health of Isaac Durbln, 81,
pioneer of 184S had failed rap
idly and he had been brought
from Newport to Salem on a
cot.
Arrangements had been
made for the O. A. C. basket
ball team to tour the east this
winter.
C. L. Rose, 246 S. Commer
cial street, was local distrib
utor for the E-M-F "30" auto
mobile. New fall dress goods were
offered to the Chicago store,
"Saves You Money," included
Russian colt skin cloth, a
latest novelty, astrachan,
heavy whale sponge cloth and
chinchilla.
A bank had come to Donald
with $15,000 paid up capital.
Dr. O. B. Miles had lately
rigidly enforced the sanitary
ordinance against the meat
men with the result that most
of them had been arrested.
Treason Trials
Pendleton East Oregonian
Few if any U.S. prisoners of
war in Korea who sided with
their Chinese captors against
their fellow GIs are likely to
be tried for treason, according
to Attorney General BrownelL
Most of them gave way only
under torture or other extreme
duress. . And a handful who
may have gone renegade vol
untarily will probably not
have been repatriated.
The attorney general ex
plains that the armed forces
will turn over to the depart
ment of justice for action any
evidence Indicating actual
treason. He says that no such
evidence has yet been turned
over. i
Under the Constitution, a
U.S. citizen commits treason
only by "levying war" against
the U.S. or adhering to their
enemies, giving them aid and
comfort." And conviction
may come only by testimony
of two witnesses to the same
'overt" act or by confession
In open court.
Very few of the World War
II treason case Involved men
from the U.S. armed forces.
Life imprisonment sentences
were imposed on Seaman
Becker, who sold military in
formation; on Sergeant Pro-
voo, who cooperated with the
Japanese in the Philippines;
and Lt. Monti, jvho surren
dered a plane to the Nazis and
then joined the German army.
In a Coronation year, even
roses pay homage to the Queen.
One of the nrize-wlnnins All-
American roses for 1954 Is
named Lillbet in her honor.
End of an Era
St. RAYMOND MOLEY
Santa Barbara The death
In Dublin last week of Edward
J. Flvnn. for 31 year the un
disputed bos of the immense
Borough of tne Bronx, wa
probably where he would have
ordered it to take place. Hi
nrrirra were usually law.
He had an attachment for
Dublin which surpassed most
of the other sentiments which
marked his life. ; His father,
who came from there and was
educated at Trinity college,
was a dignified, cultured man
who made the pursuit of leis
ure a sophisticated art. Ed
Flynn resembled hi father in
both respects. He loved books
and he hated hard work. His
great personal charm and
aulck nrtnd seemed to make
serious exertion unnecessary.
In these respects he defied
the traditions of political boss-
ism. In fact, he differed in so
many respect from the Amer
ican stereotype of a city poli
tician that it is difficult to con
ceive of him a a boss. A boss
is supposed to mingle freely
with all sort and conditions
of people. Accessibility is sup
posed to be essential to nis
power. But Flynn was auii
cult to approach. He lived in
regil detachment. Most of his
time between elections was
spent far from the Bronx
either in a Westchester estate,
in traveling in the United
States or in Europe.
Flynn held hi political sub
ordinates at arm's length. He
said with complete candor: "I
intended to keep my personal
life entirely separate from my
political life ... I have not
visited the home of (hi dls
trict leaders) nor have they
been inside mine. I meet them
only when occasion requires,
But since 19 22 this man
ruled the political affair of
the Bronx with complete aw
thority. In part, this mastery
was due to a matchless sense of
timing and of judgment of
men. He never deceivea mm-
self by wishful thinking. If an
election was in the offing fh
which his side was in trouble,
he would frankly admit that
fact to himself. In 1946, when
many Democratic congression
al seats were swept by Repub
licans, he told me in confi
dence not only which seats
would change sides, but the
approximate majorities in each,
I knew in October, 1952, that
Stevenson was lost in New
York because a friend of Flynn
told me so. His political pre
dictions were the most ac
curate that I have ever known.
Beyond his capacity to win
loyalty by the quality of his
judgment Flynn' power rest
ed in two other facts. For two
decades he had complete aC'
cess to Federal patronage. And
he prevented any popular up
rising by hi effort to keep
his government scandal - tree.
For instance, he held that law
enforcement should be entrust
ed to district attorneys of un
questioned honesty and ability.
When William O'Dwyer forced
himself into the mayoralty
over Flynn's doubts, the Bronx
boss demanded and secured
from the new mayor assurance
that officers of the city who
had large sums to handle
should be kept over from the
La Guardia reform adminis
tration. The event proved his
wisdom, because the scandal
that later pursued O'Dwyer
broke out in other quarters.
Dishonesty, Flynn knew, was
not only morally wrong but po
litically inexpedient.
Flynn was made leader of
the Bronx when he was 30
years old by the fabulous
Charles F. Murphy, then the
master of the Party in New
York State. Flynn had entered
politics with reluctance and
never seemed to enjoy his pro
fession. When Roosevelt was
elected governor, Flynn, again
reluctantly, accepted the post
of secretary of state, which
meant that he was to master
mind the pre-conventlon cam
paign of the New York gover
nor. Flynn claims that he and
he alone brought Farley into
that campaign. For years
until Yalta, in fact, where he
was an unannounced guest
he was closest to FDR in all
political matters, more so at
all times than Farley.
In later year hi detach
ment became more and more
pronounced. Ill health was
partly responsible for that, but
a disposition to regard politic
a a bore and a rather Inci
dental concern had.it part
His death removes the last
of the great Democratic barons
in New York. Tammany,
which is New York county as
distinguished from the Bronx,
has never been the same since
Murphy. The Bronx will prob
ably fall into destructive ri
valries and weak hand now.
For there can be no real
successor to Flynn.
OLD HAND AT IT
Raleigh, N. C. J Officer
C. J. Atkins testified in city
court yesterday that when he
halted a weaving automobile
driven by Newton A. Walter.
38, the driver told him: "I've
been driving drunk for 20
year. I drive better that way."
Walters was lined S3 00.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Strikes Will Return to
France Without Reforms
By DREW
Washington Unfortunate
aspect about the strikes in
France is that they are almost
certain to happen again. France
i likelv to have a wave oi
nuralvzins strikes unless cer
tain drastic reform are made
In the French tax system and
the French system of looa cu
tributlon. Unnleasant but inescapable
fact about the French econom
ic situation is that the French
government has been living on
subsidies from the U.S. instead
of collecting taxe. About the
only p'eople who pay real taxe
in Frassre are industrial work
er, white collir worker and
government employees
thank to payroll deductions,
But in the higher bracxeis
taxes are just not collected. '
During the tax year 1951-
1952 for instance, only 7 300
Frenchmen declared income
taxes on a salary of more than
$6,000 a year. Of these 2,000
were government official
whose salaries are a matter of
public record and who there
fore could not fudge. Another
1,000 were officials of semi-
government Institutions rail
roads, banks, gas and utility
companies whose salaries alio
are known.
This left 4.S00 Frenchmen
who claimed they were paid
$6,000 or more. Since the num
ber should have been nearer
100,000, this meant that about
95,000 Frenchmen In the up
per bracket limply cheated on
their Income taxe.
And the French government
did absolutely nothing about
it. There is no Commissioner
T. Coleman Andrews In
France.
French taxes are plenty
nign nigner than ours, u a
Frenchman makes $10,000, he
pay around 65 per cent. If
he goe much higher than this
the taxes are almost confisca
tory. But the upper bracket
French simply do not pay, and
the government make little
effort to collect.
Meanwhile, worker with
taxe deducted from the pay
rollsdo pay, and till wa
one of the biggest basic rea
son behind the crippling
strikes.
NO HOUSING
Reason No. 2 Was the
zooming price of food. Food
prices in France are actually
higher than in the United
States, though wages are much
lower.
Reason No. 3 Wa almost
complete failure by the French
government to do anything
about housing.
After the war, the French
government Instituted a low
cost housing program under
which apartments were to be
built by the government and
rented primarily to war veter
an. However, they are being
NOW!
STERLING AT
THE PRICE THAT'S
RIGHT FOR. YOU!
ABOUT $15: 3 piece place-setting
ABOUT $20: 4- piece place-setting
ABOUT $25: 5- piece place-setting
ABOUT $30: o-piece place-setting
$63 COMPLETE! "Starter Service" for 4...
4 Knives, Forks, and Spoons.
Fricti slightly higher in tern pottttni end include Ftd. Te
CHOOSE FROM OYER 100 PATTERNS
1
390 State
Thursday, August 27, ljy
PEARSON
built so slowly that an.
eran friend of mine
long and heroic record
have to wait 87 years beS
he fan set an annrtm.-.
" m- 'itui,
needs 200,000 apartments ,J
the government Is buildS
them at the, rate of l,2oJr
year. ' '
The government is also J
- program
private Industry. About iS.
are now built and are sella,
like hot cakes for around t?
nnn
The light of wealthy citize
gobbling up these aparuw
built through the aid
French government funds iZ
helped Induce the strikes
Premier Lanlel, himself oa
of the wealthier mm
France, made the mls'ake
tightening the French
nomic belt at the exoense si
the working classes, not u
upper brackets. Result: Blazim
indignation from the Catholk
trade unions and the modenB
non-communist unions. Tk.
strikes they started are bound
to flare again, unless Frenct
economic inequalities get hick
into balance.
Note French workers i
watched the way French win
grower oiocKea roads, held
up all traffic in wine areas u.
til the government agreed to
ouy ineir surplus wine Thi
government surrender!
French workers figured thi
buck the government and win.
ii - ,j i
nicy cuum eiso.
"HEART" TROUBLE
The mysterious near-asnhre.
latlon of mystery man Henrt
Grunewald and lady friend I
a Jersey City apartment wa
not the first time he has bees
found in a somewhat similw
predicament.
Early in July the famed tu
fixer was found In apartment
208-A of the Wardman Park
Hotel, lying In a heap ' at
broken glass. His lady friend
was also lvlnsf on thp flnn-
Ha nnm.tftM V. n 4 n m V. -1
ligerently drunk condition.
judging oy tne appearand
of the room, they had been
throwing table lamps and
tumblers at each other. Grunt-
warn naa occupied ine room
for a week, and his lady
friend, described by the hotel
detective as middle-aced. had
occupied the room next door
also for a week.
vj l uncwfliii m:m v t-ii m siiies
pended Jail sentence from th
U.S District Court on ths
ground tnat ne was imierinl
from a "heart condition. He
also ducked testimony before
a senate investigating commit
tee, when this column first ex
posed hi part in tapping th
telephone wires of Howard
Hughes on behalf of Pan
American Airways likewise
on the excuse of "heart"
trouble.
(Coprrttht 1MI)
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