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THE MARSHALL PLAN WORKED
At a press conference Tuesday Foreign Aid Director
Harold E. Stassen stated that Western Europe has made
great strides in the past eight months. In reply to ques
tions he said he thought that this country would have
to give very little economic aid after next July 1, the be
ginning of the new fiscal year.
Since President Eisenhower took office last January,
Stassen said Western Europe has reached "the highest
production level in its history. I believe we have made
real progress in the cold war in the eight months. There
are still some difficult spots but the general picture is
brighter than it has been in a long time.."
Stassen said that in the fiscal year ending next June
80, the United States will provide about $450,000,000 in
economic aid to western Europe. i leel that western
Europe is rapidly coming to a position where it will need
bo more economic aid," he said.
It was six years ago that Secretary of State George C.
.Marshall bad suggested his plan oi economic aid xor Eu
rope. He proposed the "Marshall plan" to help Europe's
recovery from war destruction, economically, and so stop
the rush to communism.
Both in Washington and in the European capitals men
began strenuous work to find out what Western Europe
needed and the United States could afford to supply. If
the plan worked, as it evidently has, it would obtain its
objective. If Western Europe went to pieces, commu
nism would triumph. After six years, Stassen was able
to say the Marshall plan had worked very well.
Recent developments in the cold war indicate that the
communist world has entered a long period of internal
trouble and tension which is bound to strengthen the
west. Maienkov, successor to Stalin, has sustained sev
ral staggering blows.
. First, Maienkov adopted a "soft" policy toward the
west Admitting failure, the Beds' police boss, Lavarenti
uena, was purged as a scapegoat and Maienkov reverted
to the old Stalin policy of hostility to the United States.
; There followed the June rebellion against Soviet op
pression in East Germany. Then came the failure of the
Tudeh communist party in Iran that led to the overthrow
of Premier Mossadegh and the return of the shah. Last
has come the landslide victory of Adenauer in West Ger
many and the complete defeat of communists. G. P.
TIME FOR A WESTERNER
Only one name has as yet figured prominently in the
peculation over the identity of Chief Justice Vinson's
successor, presumably soon to be appointed by President
. Eisenhower. This is Governor Earl Warren of California.
Whether this is empty talk or reflects the president's at
titude the public does not yet know.
$. The president owes Warren no political debt, for War
ren s uuuornia delegation stayed with him till Eisen
hower's nomination was assured. But the president is
known to think highly of Warren, and none can question
his capacity for leadership, though he has never been a
judge.
- Warren is almost certainly interested in such an ap
pointment Only the other day he announced that he
will not seek a fourth term as governor. At the time it
was said that he looked to some position in the Eisen
hower administration.
There is another good reason for a Warren appoint-
ment aside from his outstanding character and ability.
It is that the western half of this nation has been shame
fully overlooked in appointments to its highest court for
the past quarter of a century.
Through the whole Hoover, Roosevelt and Coolidge
periods, covering almost 25 years, no one has been named
to the U.S. supreme court from west of Iowa and Texas.
These came from west of the Mississippi, but not from
tne approximate western half of the country. All the
others came from east of the Mississinni.
There is no thought here of promoting sectional interest
or feeling, but a great and trowincr half of th rnnntrv
ahould not be blacklisted from membership in a great
policy making arm of the government It is long past
time when the west should be renresented. but that on
ought to be made from the west now that a partial oppor
tunity for restoration exists.
This man need not be Warren, but Warren fills the bill
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Navy Brass Finds Navy
Secretary Plenty Tough
FRANCO-GERMAN CONTRACT
Landslide victory for West German Chancellor Aden.
auers prowestern government In the German lrtinn
spotlights international attention on the glaring contrast
Between rrance and uermany at this time.
France is slipping every day. She never has a Govern
ment backed by a genuine parliamentary majority. Her
governments hold office from dAy to day, are flouted by
powerful interests whenever they propose needed re
forms. The recent nationwide strikes are typical.
France proposed the West European army but now ap
pears to want to scuttle it She fears a strong Germany
duv win noi create tne one antidote to it a strong France.
France is bedeviled with inflation, stagnant production,
unwillingness of her ceonla to work vicrnmnalv.
West Germany has a stable government backed by a
majority of her people, who have given it a strong man
date for cooperation with the west against the Soviet
menace, tier linances are stable, Inflation is checked,
ner people are working hard, production is gaining stead.
iiy.
As France seeks to isolate herself from American lead
ership and policies West Germany comes forward to take
her place as a strong U.S. ally to succeed a weak one.
In short every current sign points to West Germany
as the coming strong nation of West Europe and Ameri
ca s No. 1 ally if there is to be an effective American
policy over there.
Adenauer is an old man. Death or illness may stop him
before his program can be carried forward by another,
but this clearly is what is happening now.
HIGHER REMS,
SAFER GIRLS
tot Angeles JJ9 The
American Automobile Asso
ciation today backed Chrlitiin
Dior's efforts to up Milady's
hemline.
Tor some reason, the night
driving; motorist is alerted by
the tight of feminine legt in
the path of hit headlights,"
AAA Saftey Director Burton
Marsh said.
"Thus, at the hemlirt goes
upward, the walking gal is
safer."
Ir DREW
Washington When Bob
Anderson of Vernon, Tex., was
appointed secretary of the
navy by President Eisenhower,
most of the top brass In the
navy department figured he
would be a pushover.
In the tint place, the ad
mirals are pretty good at soft
soaping, sometimes even push
lng around their civilian
bosses. They have been doing
this almost ever since the days
of Josephus Daniels, who
bucked the admirals on almost
everything from liquor
aboard battleships to proposing
more opportunity for advance
ment from the ranks.
In the second place, Ander
son is a farmer. True, he is a
big-scale farmer, having been
manager of the Waggoner 500.-
000-acre ranch In Texas, where
he actually uses helicopters to
herd mavericks out of scrub
oak. Even so, the admirals
knew the new navy secretary's
nearest approach to battle
ships was nothing much more
man. a mud scow on the Brazos
river. So they prepared to alt
back and run the navy pretty
much as they pleased.
They have experienced.
however, a considerable aur
prlse. For the new secretary
has started to rein them in
with the firmness of a bronco
busttng cowboy on his ranch.
When he heard that Capt.
George Hyman Blckover, ex
pert on the atomic submarine.
had been passed over by the
navy selection board for his
promotion to admiral because
of his religion, Secretary An.
derson acted fast. Since he has
the power to reject selection
board recommendations, he
quietly let word drop that
Capt Rickover's name would
have to be among those recom
mended on the next go-around
or else other admirals might
not get promoted. The admir
als took the hint and Rickover
now wears the two stars of a
rear admiral.
KEY WEST STRIP TEASE
Again when this column ex
posed the manner in which cer
tain brass hats planned to rail
road their Junior officer, Lieut.
Comdr. Jerry McDaniel. at
Key West, Fla., Anderson also
stepped in. McDaniel was
Jailed was 42 days for staging
a strip tease charity benefit at
Key West, though some of his
superior officers appeared to
be quite cognizant of what he
was doing.
Anderson has now Issued no
tice of reprimand to Admiral
Irving Duke for trying to make
McDaniel the scapegoat, and
has taken action against other
superior officers named in this
column.
On another occasion, Ander
son called in his bureau chiefs,
told them certain budget cuts
were necessary and asked them
to submit figures to achieve
these cuts. One bureau chief.
Admiral Homer N. Wallin of
the bureal of ships, did not
take this seriously. Result: Ad
miral Wallin was transferred
to Seattle.
Secretary Anderson never
lost his temper, had no un
pleasantness with Admiral
Wallin. But he made his point
so clear that Admiral Wallin
himself requested the transfer.
PEARSON
Note 1 Cong. Charles Ben
nett of Florida had a friendly
talk with the secretary of the
navy regarding the Key West
strip tease act, urged a higher
standard of morality In the
navy. Anderson vigorously
concurred.
Note 2 Another recent el.
villian executive who was not
afraid to buck top navy brass
was Undersecretary of the
Navy Francis Whitehalr.
STASSEN'S PHONY TEST
Harold Stassen's big hulls.
baloo about an aptitude test to
pick the best men to slay in
government turned out to be a
wonderful publicity tag. but
otherwise the biggest hoax
Washington hat seen In long
time.
Inside fact Is that Stassen's
aides were drawing up the list
or employes they wanted to
fire at exactly the same time
the so-called scientific test was
being given. And after the tests
were taken, Stassen, believe it
or not, fired the men who
scored the highest marks.
These included too officials.
With one or two exceptions.
the men with the lower marks
were kept.
In the near eastern division
of the technical cooperative as
sistance program, for Instance,
oiassen urea 17 out of the 20
top officials who got the high,
est marks. He fired the admin.
istrator for the Near East.
Reeseman Fryer, the assistant
administrator for the Near
East, and the chiefs of every
country except Israel and Iran.
With Eisenhower worryina
over what's happening in Mor
occo, Tunisia, and Africa gen.
erally, where vitally import
ant U.S. air bases are in Jeo
pardy, this could be highly
dangerous firing. These areas
have come to look upon the
technical assistance program as
one of their biggest aids, and
it nas won many friends for
the U.S.A. in an area where
friends have been scarce.
In the Asia division of TCA.
Stassen also fired the five men
who scored the highest. This
again is an area about which
the administration has been
worried. The worry was ex
pressed no later than last week
in a speech before the Ameri
can Legion by John Foster
IKE'S PLEDGE 1
The men who scored high
est in this division were the
assistant administrator, Hal
dore Hanson, who had been
accused by McCarthy but was
cleared; Deputy Administrator
John Provinse; Charles Wolf,
chief economist; Wilfred Wil
Hans, chief adviser; Gusjav Pa.
panek. No. 2 economist
No wonder Chairman Rees
of the house civil service com
mittee, a staunch republican, is
sued blast at the manner in
which men with years of gov
ernment service and civil serv
ice rating behind them were
Being fired.
Note Speaking in New
York, Sept. 1, last year. Gen
eral Eisenhower promised that
his election would not mean
the discharge of "hardworking
civil service employes. "No
one could say I was fair," he
said. "If on the instant that the
republican party went into
power I should authorize or
A. D. Pettyjohn, route 3, had
reported to police that 23 ofhls
hens had been stolen from his
chicken yard.
Cherrians had invited from
90 to 100 commercial clubs and
chambers of commerce in Ore
gon to attend Booster's Day at
the state fair.
About 800 truck drivers In
Portland had been arrested be
cause their vehicles were not
provided with mirrors.
Salem 32 Years Ago
September 1, 1921
"Babe" Ruth had equalled his
world record of 64 home runs
for the New York Americans
in the fourth Inning against the
Philadelphia Athletics.
Mrs. Alice Weister of Port
land had been named head of
the art department for the
state fair.
Camp meeting services were
being held on the campus of
Willamette University.
A car of 824 boxes of Mc
intosh Red apples, an excep
tional variety in this locality
and produced on the farm of
A. L. Page near Jefferson, had
been shipped by Oregon Grow
ers Cooperative Assn.
First snow of the season had
fallen at Helena, Montana.
Competition had reduced the
price of "raisin Jack," popular
proniDition time beverage in
Akron, Ohio, from SOc to 25c a
drink.
Midget Market had fresh
hamburger and sausage for 10c
a pound.
The auction block for unem
ployed men seeking work had
neen resumed in Boston Com
mon. A woman auctioneer held
the hammer on the men who
were again stripped to the waist
to relate their abilities to labor
then bids were called.
Slight Gain Noted
Yakima Herald
The National Safety Coun
cil's report that the nation's
traffic death total for May,
June and July was 1 per cent
under the toll for the corre
sponding period In 1952 is
somewhat encouraging. The
1 per cent margin must be
credited to only two of the
months. May and June, how
ever, as in July the number
of deaths, 3120, was the tame
at In July last year.
Traffic safety education
campaigns doubtless had some
effect in the reduction of fa
talities. Such campaigns are
valuable, as they serve to re
mind motor vehicle drivers
that they are operating poten
tially lethal machines. Yet
nothing can beat strict law
enforcement mm a u-H .n tn. I
proper driving. Fear of the
law it a powerful Influence
on the person at the wheel of
a motor vehicle.
AISSIES CUT TAX
Canberra, Australia W
Australia Treasurer 6lr Arthur
Badden, presented to Parlia
ment Wednesday budget call
ing for a 124 per cent income
tax cut.
Retirement Waste
By RAYMOND HOLEY
Lot Angeles Last month in
Santa Barbara I had occasion
to speak before a group known
as The Retired Businessmen's
Club. This organization, I wu
told, comprises some 160 mem.
bcr. most of them men who
have retired from their com
panies or professions at a more
or less arbitrary age, presum
ably 63.
As I surveyed that group of
intelligent and for the most
part vigorous men, I felt a deep
sense of the pity, nay the trag
edy, of such a waste of expe
rience and tested capacity.
There were brains there suffi
cient to run railroads, oil com
panies, or banks, or to prac
tice law at the highest level or
to plan the building of ships.
factories and office buildings.
But for the most part these fine
capacities were being wasted
on casual reading, golf, or lis
tening to traveling journalists
like this writer. .
American business brains
that have been capable of vast
and imaginative achievements,
that have squeezed the last drop
of usefulness out of a thousand
natural resources have to far
been bound in impotence by
traditional plans of retirement
based upon tacts outdated 50
years. For the age of 65 as a
guide to retirement is an anach.
ronisra. The evidence to that ef
fect is before our eyet every
where. The statistics on the sub
ject are familiar. At the turn
of he century, the expectation
of life at birth was 47. In 1950
it was 68. That was largely due
to a decline In Infant mortal
ity, however. But the outlook
at 65 is better by quite a few
years. Those years are worth
saving.
Certain Regulations Necessary
It is perfectly true that rules
and regulations in companies
and other institutions must
have certainty. Young men
are entitled to know when they
enter employment that there
will be opportunity for ad
vancement as the older fellows
die or retire. It is also true that
pension and retirement plans
must be mathematically calcu
lated on the basis of some fixed
periods.
But It would seem quite pos
sible to devise plans, even in
big institutions, which will pro
vide ample scope for the young
to come up and also to keep the
elder members reasonably busy.
Why would not a plan of pro
gressively lengthening vaca
tions be feasible?
Specific titles are not so Im
portant for men of established
reputations, although they are
of necessity Important to
younger people. The title of
chairman of the board takes
care of presidents and permits
the heir apparent to come up
while there is an old head to
advise. But that is limited to
a very few. Something of the
sort Is needed all along the line.
Perhaps a shifting of jobs
would be workable in many
cases.
A Problem In Education
What I am suggesting has
probably been thought out and
tried. But I have heard little
of it in big institutions, and I
have heard a lot about wasteful
practice of arbitrary retire
ment. It is, of course, a fairly
common practice in small com
panies and in family businesses.
It prevails in many if not most
law offices.
This problem is also very
serious in education. There,
however, is the complication of
finances. The old professors are
the highest paid, and if they
stay on and on, juniors in their
thirties cannot be paid what the
necessities of growing families
require. Perhaps in colleges
and universities some arrange
ment could be made for a de
clining pay scale after 60, with
some lightening of the work.
The money thus saved could go
to the lower rungs in the edu
cational ladder.
Certainly, the urgent need
that this country produce more
and more should lead us to de
vise means by which present
trends can be reversed. For we
seem to be moving into an era
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Hal Says You Don't Have
To Meet Man to Know Him
y HAL IOYLI
New York, ) You don't
have to meet a man In this
world to learn something from
him.
I never met Maj. Gen. Wil
liam Dean. I got to Korea late
in July, 1K30, a few days after
he was reported missing in
combat This I have always re-
greted. I would like to have
seen him In action.
He Is free ag-n now, after
nearly three yeait In enemy
prison camps. But although I
never met him personally, he
has enriched my life by teach
ing me two things:
1. Don't sell faith short
2. A man's example lives
beyond his presence.
When I first reached Korea,
Gen. Dean's 24th Infantry div-
six colonels Including rugged
Dick Stephens, later known as
"The Big Six," and now a ma
Jor general himself.
The fate of Gen. Dean was
to be captured, after trying to
get a wounded man back. He
knew that theoretically a man
of his rank shouldn't be where
he was but he was fighting a
fact not a taught war. With,
out the on-the-spot leadership
that such commanders as be
and Col. Stephens gave, the
retreat would have become
rout
After his bullet-pierced hel
met was found, those of us whit
came later were sure that Gen.
Dean was dead. But again and
again we ran into this stubborn
comment from the enlist t
ition was ttill retreating after jmen who had seen him fight'
m MB iAa A . M.tll.ul hut V ... I .MH 1 .... "
series of confused but mag-
nlficent delaying stands to hold
up an overwhelming North
Korean army that had it
known how to use its power,
would have hod the entire pen.
Insula in three short weeks.
A still-dazed American offi
cer told me:
"We thought aU we had to
do was to stand on a hill and
show the U. S. uniform, and
all those little brown gooks
would run back north where
they came from."
In those dark days the 24th
division bad suffered terrible
losses. And each day it suffer
ed more. It is leu a criticism
of the men than it is of Amer
ica to say the division wat un
ready for combat
The men weren't in proper
shape.
They were short of the right
weapons. And so it was that
Gen. Dean, a first class fight
ing man, had to go up and do
what no division commander
should be required to do.
He had to go up and show
the boyt how. He himself wat
the 24th division. He was the
spearhead of an ill-prepared
America in the flesh. He had
to do what they teach a com
mander at West Point he
shouldn't have to do. He had
to go to the bare front, forget
his two start, and lead like a
second lieutenant So did his
'They lust couldn't hava
killed the general' He's too
smart for them. He'll turn un
yet."
This faith seemed futile and
foolish to us at the time. But
it was amazing how the ex
ample of Gen. Dean's personal
courage carried on with his
men. They found it hard to let
him down, knowing what he
had done. And they didn't let
him down.
Through all the month, af
ter that each member of the
battered 24th division felt he
could hardly do less than his
lost leader.
That kind of frontline lead
ership went out of the Amerl
can army with the Civil war.
It is too expensive, and a miH.
ern army no longer can afford
n.
But It Is a fact of hitter
that the sacrifice and valor of
Gen. Dean paid off magnifl.
eently. Nor will the American
army and the relations ha.
tween officer and enlisted man
tuffer by what he did.
In the annals of our soM.
iery he will be imperishably
remembered as the generaL
who, when it had to be done.
went up gun in hand and
showed the boys how. No other
officer In our time hat done
more to popularize the stars of
rank.
Use for 2 Benches
Bend Bulletin
New substitution rules In
football (for college, not high
school teams) may make the
game slightly less Interesting
as some experts are complain
ing; certainly they will re
quire far more sideline book
keeping to avoid penalties for
illegal replacements. There,
it it to be noted will be class
ed at "unsportsmanlike eon
duct" and each infraction will
result in a 15-yard lost for the
offending team. The diffi
culty of keeping track of play
ers eligible and Ineligible for
substitution is at once appar
ent when it Is obsrved that
any player who hat competed
in either the first or the third
quarter and hat then been
withdrawn may not reenter
the lineup In that quarter; but
in the second and fourth peri
od! he may be withdrawn in
the first 11 minutes and re
enter in the last four mln-
jites.
An interesting method of
coping with the problem is
that proposed by Len Casan
ova, University of Oregon
coach, who suggests a "two
bench" system. Briefly it
consists of seating eligible
players on one bench and
those no longer eligible for
substitution on the other. It
is the simplest that has come
to our attention and may be
the answer. Certainly It
should minimize the confu
sion that might otherwise eas
ily retult Wa are of the opin
ion that it may be widely
used.
EXCITING RIDE
San Rafael, Calif. CW
When Robert Gulney, Jr., de
cided he wanted to go for a
drive the other night he sneak
ed into the United Ambulance
company and took off in a
ahtny new ambulance with
red lights flashing, alrent
walling and horns honking.
Gulney wat arrested within
a few minutes.
where fewer and fewer mutt
support more and more.
(Released by The Associated
Newspapers.)
THE if
LAW! W
Do not park within 15
feet of the driveway en
trance to any flee station.
The Big New
1953 FORD
Is II feet Inches long!
To See ana Drive It Today
CaU
"WARREN MACREB
2-8232
Or Ask For Me At
Valley Motor Co.
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condone any discharge of a!
hard working civil service em- J
ploye." Speaking at Frederick.
Md., Sept 25, 1952, Eisenhow
er also said: "The loyaL effi
cient federal employe, no mat
ter where he it working, has
nothing to fear from me." j
Kivmsat, 1MI) J
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