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ONE OF THE 22 SAYS' GOODBYE'
Pfc Richard B. Tenneeon, the Minnesota prisoner of
war who la one of 22 Americana to refuse repatriation.
has been rivaling President
btate JJulies as an attention getter in the newspapers
these past few days. ,
Tenneson's mother, Mrs. Portia Howe, has gone to the
Far East in an effort to persuade her son to come home,
but she will apparently not be able to aee him. Nor does
it appear that anything would be accomplished if she
were to go on to Korea and interview the youth, whose
attitude is well expressed in the following words from
a letter he Bent to her. - .
"I know that you want to take me home with you but I have
made ud my mind and I am not soinr.
"During my life I have witnessed both peace and war In
the United States. I love peace, I love mankind, I !ovt them
enough to fight for them that is what I am doing right now
that is why I am not going home. Don't misunderstand me,
I still love my family, my people and my country, and whether
you are able to understand It now or not, lelleve me when I
aay that it is for them that I am fighting and it is impossible
for me to live in the United States because I want to live as
1 wish.
"Actually though I don't believe the United States author!
ties will allow you to SDeak to
probably told you that I was
some other horse manure that
people like myself who will stand up for his own rights and
the rights of man.
"What would they have to say if they did allow you to talk
to me and you were to see me
i leit you wun the exception
and a reason in life.
"Also as soon as you resd this you had better go over to
GHQ and take a loyalty oath or you are liable to be arraigned
before the House Un-American Activities Committee."
The public does not know whether Tenneson has been
"brain washed," or what that operation consists of. But
It is clear that he has been thoroughly indoctrinated and
has as warped a concept of the world and of the United
States as any communist who has sounded off anywhere.
He does not speak from terror, for he could surrender
himself to the Indian guards and be whisked off to the
U.N. zone in Korea at any time. He is doing what he
does voluntarily from all indications.
The normal person does not know what has happened
to make young Tenneson act the way he does, particularly
toward his mother. But there he is, take him or leave
him. Our notion is to leave him to the Reds, who are
welcome to him and the other 21 who think as he does.
Fortunately there are only 22 out of all the thousands
who have fallen into Communist hands, in contrast with
thousands of Chinese and North Koreans who express
preference for death rather than to return to Communist
slavery. The U.S. makes a pretty good showing after
all. Ninety-nine plus per cent of our citizens like us all
right. And we can spare the others.
But the sympathy of all will go out to Mrs. Howe, who
la going to have a pretty rotten sort of Christmas, which
o far as the record shows she has done nothing to de
serve. , -
next a Mckenzie' valley authority?
The Eugene Water and Electric board has announced
plans to expand into an area already served by the Moun
tain States Power company and to build new power gener
ating facilities.
The municipal board, which now serves Eugene has de
cided to take over the Willakenzie and Glenwood areas
adjacent to Eugene. The approximate 2,200 customers in
that area now are served by Mountain States Power com
pany. It !a proposed to secure the Mounutain States electric
system by filing condemnation suits in the circuit court
soon. This consists of 60 miles of primary distribution
lines plus secondary and service lines. The annual gross
revenues collected in the areas the board estimates about
$270,000.
The EWEB plans for new generating facilities call for
a new dam on the Upper McKenzie river and installation
of generators in the Cougar dam, proposed by the federal
government on the south fork of the McKenzie. This is
a long-range plan with costs estimated now at $18 million.
Financing plans have not yet been made public.
The Cougar project if authorized by congress would
cost the local utility about $11 million. The powerhouse
at the dam plus another at a re-regulating structure a
short distance downstream would give the EWEB an
additional 28,000 kilowatts power capacity. Beaver Marsh
would produce another 30,000 kilowatts of power and cost
$6.5 million
The Eugene Water and Electric board was organized
about 1915 to supply both water and electricity to the city
of Eugene which was shy on both. It has expanded plant
and operation immensely since then with the growth of
the city. It was not contemplated at that time that it en
ter the power business outside the city. What business
has a city in the power business outside its city limits?
There is something about so-called public power, that
breeds typical bureaucratic fever of expansion, especially
when either Uncle Sam or the taxpayers foot the bills and
pay the salaries. The PUDs are an example, and under
Wall Street inspiration have attempted many gradiose
schemes.
It need surprise no one if the Eugene scheme for a
monopoly ef power in the McKenzie river area expands
into another Tennessee Valley Authority especially if
the taxpayers pungie up. u. r.
ANOTHER STRIKE THAT FAILED
How long will the rash of
are wondering. Perhaps the answer is: For not too long
after they cease to pay off. Most of them did, you know,
for a period of years.
But two recent big ones didn't. The New York news
paper strike didn't. It was settled after many millions
of loss on the same terms it could have been settled on
without a strike, $3.75 a week and a "fact finding board"
to report if hours should be shortened, but not on a fur
ther wage increase.
Since then a much bigger strike has ended on a note
of futility. Thirty-three thousand workers at North
American Aviation'a California plants have been on strike
nearly two months for a 26-cent an hour wage increase.
Now they have gone back to work on the four per cent in
crease the company originally offered.
The loss is tremendous, to the company, to the workers,
to the government in planes ftr national defence and in
lost revenues. But it will not all be in vain if the lesson
it can convey links in.
Eisenhower or Secretary of
me. thev are afraid. Thev have
forced, doped, brain washed or
they use to slander and defile
that I was still your son If ever
perhaps that now I nave a goal
strikes continue? Millions
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WASHINGTON MERRY
Lodge's Talent for French
Songs Improves Relations
By DREW
Washington Those who
have watched Ambassador
Henry Cabot Lodge sitting
stern and dignified at the
United Nations could never
picture him sitting cross-legged
on the floor singing French
boulevard songs.
That was what happened at
the apartment of French Am
bassador Henri Hoppenot the
other day, however, and the
result was a new camaraderie
between Lodge and other U.N
delegates. The U.S. envoy
knew more songs and sang
them In better French than the
French envoy himself.
It began at a dinner given
once a month by the president
of the security council who
holds office for bne month
only, and gives a party at the
end of the month for his col
leagues. .
Andrei Vishinsky was at this
particular party, given in the
Hoppenot apartment, and he
didn't look anywhere near as
glum as usual. Lodge was also
present, together with Sir
Gladwyn Jebb of England,
Charles Malik of Lebanon and
Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary
General of the United Nations.
The informality began when
Dag Hammarskjold walked
into the living room, found ev
ery chair occupied and sat
down on the floor. His hostess,
Madame Hoppenot joined him.
I "Let's sing something," said
the secretary general of the
United Nations. "I feel like
singing."
'Good, encouraged Mme.
Hoppenot, "You sing."
'But I can only sing off
key."
"That would be charming,"
said the lady. "Then the near
est of us can try to drown you
out."
Ambassador Lodge, also sit
ting cross-legged on the floor,
came to the rescue. He broke
forth with "Quatre Vingt Chas
seurs." Mrs. Lodge joined him.
The wife of the Colombian am
bassador sang in Spanish. A
Yugoslav lady sang "Tarn O
Deleako." American song: fol
lowed.
In brief, the staid old secur
ity council, rent with wrangl
ing over world problems, re
laxed into a good old songfest,
Delegates agreed they hadn't
had such a good time since the
U.N. was formed in San Fran
Cisco. '
BEHIND IKE'S. A-POOL
Inside story of how Preil
dent Eisenhower developed his
dramatic appeal for an atomic
energy pool is gradually leak
ing out.
One phase of the story goes
back some weeks to the admin
istration's decision to build an
atomic reactor for civilian
uses. Behind this, announce
ment was the fact that our
chief sources of uranium, the
Belgian Congo and South Afri
ca, have long been irked that
they are not in on atomic se
crets. And the possibility has
always' been latent that If not
let in on atomic secrets they
might cut off our uranium
The Belgians and South Af
ricans are not particularly In
terestcd in secret atomic Tvei
pons, but are tremendously in.
tercsted In peacetime atomic
energy. Both are deficit coun
tries when It comes to coal and
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oil, so that cheap atomic ener
gy could revolutionise, their In
dustries. Last fall, therefore, when
U.S. intelligence picked up ap
parently reliable reports that
Russia was developing a peace
time reactor, the Eisenhower
administration Immediately de
cided to do the same. It was re
alized that the nation which
made the most progress the
fastest in this direction would
have the bargaining power for
the uranium supplies of the
world.
Simultaneously, Eisenhower
learned that 12 European coun.
tries had decided three years
ago to combine their resources
to develop peacetime atomic
energy. Already they have
built a plant at Geneva, Swlt
zerland, and are constructing
an atom smasher about a doz
en times more powerful than
anything in the United States.
Cooperating countries in this
atom pool include not only Bel
gium with its tremendous urs
nium resources, but England,
France, West Germany and the
Communist government of Yu
goslavia. Thus it became apparent to
the president that the days
when the United States could
be the world's No. 1 atomic
power would soon be over, if
indeed they are not over al
ready. The move for a world
pool of atomic energy under
the United Nations was, there
fore, the next step and a very
natural one. ' ,
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Ex-Senator ; Harry , Darby,
the Kansas palomino horse
breeder and one of the most
popular men Kansas ever sent
to the senate, confides to
friends: "Secretary B e n i o n
and Undersecretary True
Morse are to high-and-mighty
they can't understand the farm
picture. Yet Ike believes them.
Frank Carlson, who does un
derstand the farm picture, can't
persuade him otherwise" . . .
At a meeting of the democratic
state committee in New York,
mere men showed up with pri
vate airplanes than since 1948.
Most of the private airplane
democrats had .earlier gone
over to Eisenhower. . , . John
ny Cahill, who was given a big
lift up the ladder to his lush
law practice by the new deal,
came back to the democratic
fold at the recent New York
meeting. Most of his clients are
Wall street republicans. . . .
Stanley Woodward, the ex-am
bassador to Canada and great
friend of Mr. and Mrs. Truman,
doesn't quite know whether
to be congratulated or com
miserated with over his elec
tion as treasurer of the demo
cratic national committee. It's
an even tougher job than rul
ing where diplomats and su
preme court justices should sit
at dinner, a job he once had and
which caused plenty of head
aches. , . . Millard Tydings, the
ex-senator from Maryland,
looks as if getting out of the
senate agreed with him. His
wife says he's now younger and
a lot easier to live with.
INSIDE THE PENTAGON
Russian Migs attacked an
other navy patrol plane off the
China coast the other day
but failed to shoot it down.
Meanwhile, the air force has
Disloyalty Firing
Los Angeles Timet
The decision of the Su
preme court that disparage
ment of an employer by an
employe, even a striking em
ploye, justifies discharge In
dicates a swing of the pendu
lum. ......
The Supreme court, in an
opinion by Justice Minton,
with . Justices Frankfurter,
Black and Douglas dissenting,
aeciares that there 1 t no
more elemental cause for dit-
charge" than disloyalty to an
employer. This makes tense.
The case arose out ot a dis
pute by television technicians
with a station at Charlotte,
N.C. The pickets distributed
circulars criticizing the pro
grams offered by the station;
they were fired, and the NLRB
upheld the firing. The Dis
trict of Columbia court ot ap
peals reversed the NLRB and
the Supreme court hat now
reverted the court of appeals.
The dissenters held that dis
loyalty is not mentioned as a
cause for discharge by the
Taft-Hartley at; but the ma
jority said the act permitted
discharges "for cause.1
HE WENT SLUMMING
San Francisco u. Eddess
Teo, S3, was jailed and fined
$100 for dumping refuse into
the street in the exclusive Twin
Peaks area from his new, Cadil
lac. ...
issued orders to shoot down
any marauding Russian planes
that ttick their noses into our
territory, . . . Russian now has
in production a giant airplane,
the size of the American B-52,
capable of a round trip to De
troit, Chicago, New York, and
back to Moscow. . . . Pilferage
has Increased so alarmingly in
Korea since the armistice that
the army has posted vicious
dogs to help guard supply de
pots against prowlers.
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Whether you're buying for your,
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Christmas Mnle
' ARTHUR GODFREY'S
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BING CROSBY'S
Christmas Music
CHRISTMAS CHIMES
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Christmas with JIMMY BOYD
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Socialist Planning
By RAYMOND MOLIT
President Eisehower's plan
for the control and use of
atomic energy suggests one
field where an international
agreement can be of greatest
value. For this property, this
source of energy, it too dang
erous to civilization to be en
trusted to any authority ex
cept the government Perhaps
ultimately private enterprise
can share the responsibility,
but for the time being here it
a spot where nationalization
can be justified.
Such dependence upon Inter
national agreements in most
other fields, however, presents
a real and present danger to
economic liberty. That danger
Ilea in the effort of collect!
visit in the government, not
ably in the Department of
State, to manipulate inter
national agreements and treat
ies in a manner which will col
lectivize our economy.
' The patterns of revolution,
like the shape of the clouds, are
subject to rapid but almost
imperceptible change. Twenty
years ago, those members of
Roosevelt's so-called brain
trust who were the more ex
treme advocates of concentrat
ing power in the Government
were strong nationalists. Rex
Tugwell, for example, used to
say that most of the younger,
"forward-looking" economists
believed in intrarather than
Internationalism..
The socialization of the eco
nomy could more easily be
accomplished by keeping the
gates closed against the influ
ences of international trade
and finance. For a wholly dif
ferent reason I held to a belief
in a rather strict nationalism.
Those were the daya when
Wall street, dominated by in
ternational banking, regarded
both Tugwell and me at dang
erous influences, and free
traders like Secretary Hull
considered our views in terms
inmentionable in polite soc
iety. The great surge toward In
ternationalism which accom
panied our participation in the
second World War and the
confusion attending the proli
feration of agencies operating
in the foreign field gave all
ranges ot the left wing, from
L, ,ctuil members of the Corn-
moderately socialistic people
munist conspiracy, exactly
what they needed. For under
the guise of fine-sounding in'
ternational agreements they
were able to add one after an
other restriction on our free
economy. Some of the influen
tial people in government dur
ing those years, like Alger
Hiss and Harry Dexter White,
were masters at thit technique,
; At the present moment
some ot the top policy people
in the government who have
been brought in by President
Eisenhower are awakening to
this danger. Others are still
unable to comprehend it.
There is, in fact, a conflict at
the moment o v e r an inter
national tin agreement. Other
such agreements will follow if
that one la adopted,
The controversy over the
Bricker amendment hat
brought out the fact that the
power to make treaties and in
ternational agreements opens
great holes in the constitution.
That amendment arose largely
because the fears of many
lawyer! . were twtkened by
the U. N. Convenant on Hu
man Rights. But that is only
one ot the proposed agree
ments which are susceptible
to the devices of retolutlontsts.
In hit testomy before the
Jenner committee, last June,
J. Anthony Ptnuch, who, in
1945, terved at coordinator In
the State Department of the
many agenciet dumped there
this a
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Office Christmas Parties Hoyc
Tamed Down a Lot, Says Boyle
y HAL
New York 11 A cry Is
sweeping the land for the abo
lition of wild office Christmas
parties.
This It Indeed a worthy cam
paign, and I am glad to enlist
in the eauae. It will be remem
bered I waa among the first to
point out last year it was high
time we got rid of the growing
Salem 51 Years Ago
v IEN MAXWELL
December 1, IMS
Jot. Meyers It Sons, the
White Corner "Stlem't
Greatest Store" offered a
phonographic concert - every
evening except Saturday.' On
Saturday evening Gesner't or
chestra and Santa Claus had
their performance.
W. F. Ketchuip had the dis
tribution of Sun typewriters
In Marion and Polk counties.
Potential customers were urg
ed to tee the Sun typewriter
in ute at the Capital Journal
office. ,
Phillip Fisher of Lewsvllle
had a sawmill under construc
tion there with a potential ca
pacity ot 13,000 feet dally.
i Mist Bertha Kay had ar
ranged for her debut at an
elocutionist at Grand Ooera
house.
A scarcity of cord wood In
thit locality had left state In
stitutions with no alternative
other than paying (3.80 a
cord for oak, $2.25 for second
growth fir and $2.83 for old
fir.
Journal's X-Ray had w r 1 1 -ten:
"Gervais it arising like
a Phoenix from the ashes
of her recent disaster but with
beautiful brick blocks under
construction. The belle of
French Prairie hat the money
and can afford to wear dia
monds if the teet tit. '
"Force" the ready to serve
cereal had a breakfast food
treat ot tweet, crisp flakes ot
wheal and malt that leaves no
unpleasant memories.
Goodale Lumber company
near the Southern Pacific do-
not dianlaved m Una if A.
vertisement ot Santa Claus
lugging in the Christmas log,
Capital City brewery showed
Santa drinking beer with a
couple of fetching damsels
and Salem Steam laundry
showed Santa reaching for a
clean shirt.
after the war, clearly pointed
out the danger. He said among
other things: .
The historic change initia
ted by our entry Into the
U.N.O. was to place "a large
part of our foreign policy on
an international basis rather
than on the traditional coun-try-to
country or bilateral
basis."
The extent to which thit
shift in the pattern of our
foreign policy can move into
the domestic field it truly
alarming. We may ultimately
be ruled not by the well
known strictures of the consti
tution, but by the fine print
in a multitude of Internation
al agreements.
W V400 I
are the baguette! thai glisten on each side of
the large center tlones. Still and cool-lo iking,
they emphasize the brilliance of the round
diamonds by direct contrail. The baguette settings
shown vary in cuttingi lapttti. straight and bullet
Prices Include Federal tax Charge or budget
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Wednesday, December IS, 1953
OYLI
menace of the buttle and alto
contributed heavily to a fund
to wipe out the dinosaur and
the sabre-tooth tiger.
And what about the wooly
rhinoceros in America? It no-
body going to attack him?
The trouble with our current
crusade against the wild office
Christmas party it one that it-.
flict many drives against oth.
er forms of sin. By the time wo
get our dander up about it, w
find it already quietly hat ex.
pired, and the only way we can
show our virtue is to go out and
kick the tombstone.
It teems to me it's about that
way with the annual Christmas
office orgy. A recent Sunday
magazine article claimed they,
are getting rowdier each year.
But, frankly, I no longer would .
know where to look to find one,
in order to denounce it And
nothing takes the fun out of
any campaign against tin like
the inability to find it - -
Wives and other bosses began
toning down office parties soma
years back. The first thing they
did was throw them out of the
office and start holding them in -
restaurants and rented halla. . ,
The year the first wife show.
ed up at an office Christmas
prty spelled the downfall of
its mad revelry. Who wants to
play that merry old game-
Let's chase the ttenogranher
around the water cooler," with
a wife looking on? That cooled
down the office bargain bate,
ment aatyrs but quick. Sura
ruined Christmas for many a
homely stenographer, too.
The average office party to
day it about at sinful at an
Easter egg rolling or an old.
fashioned lawn social. It haa ;
no more of an antic note than
a high school spring prom.
Mama leadt papa to the frolie
like a tame bear on a leash.
and hit eert echo with her
stern ultimatum, "Take one"
trip too many to that punch.
bowl, Buster, and home yoi
go."
They search you at the doc;
to be sure you haven't hlddei
any mistletoe in your pocke
There la a dance band to pla;
civilized music, and the offtcd
quartet tlngt a sedate number;
from the floor Instead ot lead
ing college cheers from the top
of a desk. As a matter ot fact,
they don't even have a desk
In the joint a fellow can fall
I m ana oreax leg, ana get
a well-deserved rest on full
pay.
The other evening I looked
in a restaurant room and saw a ' ,
group of bank employe! weerA
ing paper hat! and lookia
glumly at one another. Or
oldtimer wat crying toftlyr
I asked him respectfully:
"It thit a memorial te
lor one of the bank officials 4
No, ' ne said, at the teaaa
rouea aown nis cneexs, rnu
it our annual office Christmas
party." '
"Don't you hold it in thai
bank?" I inquired.
"We used to," he said, "until
the year one of the fellowt be-
gan making paper airplanes out .
of $100 bills and tailing them
out a window."
That wat what was wrong .
with the old office Chrlttmat
parties tome guy always went
just a bit too fir, and ruined it
for all time. A friend, who tor. '
merly enjoyed joining in the
annual chase to catch the boss'a
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