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4 ii!.CiiON I THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon Monday, June 21, 1954 Capital A Journal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor end Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM. Editor Emtritu Published every afternoon except Sunday ot 280 North Church St. Phone 2-2406. . Fall Uawa Wirt Barvle at lb AiMcltlti frtii ani. Th tlallta nan. Thi Auacltlad prtw u txrmilvtlr tnlllltd to th tut for publlciuoD ot til dlmtehw arfdtlfd to tt or otboru vodltod la thla aaaat aad auo aaw BUBllAliW thariUL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: p CirMtr: Ut.nII.ll, !.: 'au unntbi l?s: On rear. 1:1 'J. Si Uuil a 3vt'oa Hat-urn wc. i Mvr.mj. tt!A. Out Heat, lo.oo St Uau Ouuioo Oroioaj' Human till. IMI Uootbi 11.10; Oao Hir. llt.OO. COMMUNIST ACTIVITY AT REED COLLEGE Rumors of excessive radicalism, even .of Communism, have Involved Reed College, Portland, for years past, but the public has been disposed to consider them exaggerated. Developments of the past few days, the visit of the House ' of Representative Un-American Activities Committee to Port land, and testimony offered by a former professor to the com mittee in Washington, suggest that the situation was even worff than rumor .-.aid it v.bs. Testimony involves a considerable number of former stu dents by name, and the professor, Dr. Stanley Moore, now on leave of absence in the east, is as specific as anyone could sli. Dr. Moore states that he taught at Reed five years, made no secret of his Marxist beliefs, but rather went out of his way to propagate them, not only received no rebuke from the ' college administration, but was twice promoted, first from . assistant to associate, then to full professor. - "That is the considered judgment of the Reed community," Dr. Moore states in an open letter to the college president, trustees, faculty, students and alumni, made public Thursday, adding: "Arrived at freely, slowly and on the basis of rele vant evidence. If it is reversed now, who will stand con demned?" ; . President Duncan S. Ballantine sought to excuse the col lege, explaining that It is the policy of the college not to ex amine the conduct of the faculty unless there is substantial evidence of misconduct or unless the good name of the college or the individual requires it." This is a good policy, but isn't the teaching of a philosophy , whose propagation is part of a plot to destroy the present gov ernment of the United States and to inflict death or slavery upon the American people misconduct? Doesn't this teaching and activity involve the good name of the college? Most people think it does. - They are profoundly shocked at these revelations concerning an Oregon college which has generally been held in high esteem despite tome suspicion that it was harboring pinkos. . Reed has gone overboard In following a policy that is sound enough Within reasonable limitations. It wasn't being broad J and tolerant of minority opinions in tolerating communist activity on its campus, THE 'ORDINARY' AMERICANS AMtfttCA MADE OF PEOPLE GOOD PEOPLE -HARDWORKING PEOPLE PEOPLE PKE THE FOLKS IM THE NEXT BLOCK. VOUVE 4EEN THErATO SPEAK TO THE LIGHT IN THEIR WINDOW ALWAYS LOOK CHEERY AT NIGHT BUT VOU DON'T REALiy .KNOW THEM. AW ; NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG Chinese Commies Treble the Output of Deadly Drugs By RAY TUCKER WASHINGTON, June 21 -a-iMost of the miller fry ma ANI WORRy ABOUT THE KI64- Tney HAVE A CAR. ANb tMCy CATCH COtbt - THEV MOW TH LAWN, ANP TAKE THE PAPER- & THEIR PROBUM4 ARE "CARBOAl copied of youR own. THtvwe ,-vry. OUOD tTOPll WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Information Office Purged Of Demos, Harry's Picture WASHINGTON It may make It was guilty of a terrible offense some people unhappy to have it against its own students and the people whose support has . made and still makes the institution possible. Tolerance in a democracy cannot saieiy inciuae anen con spiracies aimed at its destruction. The incidents complained of have happened over a period of past years, but the presi dent's explanation is frightening because it strongly implies that there has been no change in the policy that made this situation possible. - i U. N. CEASE-FIRES ESSAYS ON FUTILITY The United Nations Security Council has unanimously called for a cease-fire in Guatemala and for all UN members to with hold aid from the fiffhtlne forces there. Previously Russia had shown its customary, opposition to peace by casting its 60th veto in council history on behalf of Guatemala pro-Red government which. defeated a motion to refer Guatemalan complaint of aggression to the Western Hemisphere's regional organization of American States, OAS. U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, council president for June, angrily declared that the Soviet veto showed obviously that Russia has "designs" on the Americas, which had previ ously been proved by the shipment of '$10 million of war mu nitions to the Guatemalan left wing government. Lodge warned, "I say to the Soviet delegate, stJy out of the Western Hemisphere. Don't try to start your plans and conspiracies here." Despite the Russian veto, Guatemala asked the five-member Inter-American Peace committee of the OAS to help stop the invasion against President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman's govern ment. The cease-fire call by the Security Council was voted after the Guatemala delegate charged Honduras and Nicaragua, backed by the U.S. and the United Fruit Co., had connived in an aggression against Guatemala by mercenary expedition ary forces. Lodge denied the charges and defended the U.S. government said information available "strongly suggests that the situation does not involve aggression, but a revolt by Guatemalans against Guatemalans." The Guatemalan delegate accused the U.S. Department of State of defaming his government and said the American ban on arms shipment had left his country defenseless. But he conceded that communism had "a certain support in Guate mala." The council's cease-fire resolution "calls for the immediate termination of any art inn likely to cause bloodshed and re quest all members of the United Nations to abstain, in the (spirit of the charter, from giving assistance to any such action." If it takes as long for the U.N. to secure a cease-fire in ' Nicaragua as it took in Korea and as long as it is taking in Indochina, the Guatemalans will have a chance to settle their fate themselves which Is as it should be. G. P. A SENATORIAL SUICIDE It is tragic that such a distinguished public servant as Sen ator Lester C. Hunt of Wyoming should end his life bv shoot ing himself Saturday. Only 52, it was announced only a few davs ago that Hunt would not seek re-election this year because of illness. He evidently had an incurable case of cancer. Hunt had served as governor before ho became a senator. He was highly regarded in both offices and should have had many years of useful service ahead of him. Senator Hunt's death restores, for the time being, a Repub lican majority over the Democrats in the upper house, which was lost when Robert A. Tafts di.ith substituted a Democrat for a Republican in Ohio. The u,n,i has been 48 Democrats, il Republicans ana morse, mm-prescnt. A Republican governor will presumably appoint a Repub lican to succeed Hunt, which will make the party count 48-47 for the G.O.P., plus Morse as a Democratic ally. but also phis Nixon, the vice-president, as a tie breaker. This alignment may continue past the November election, or it may be changed any day, for many of the senators are elderly men. Unanimous vote in the State Grange against a general sales tax for Oregon should remind any legislators who may be toy 'ing with such Bn idea thnt firm opposition to a sales tax is one of the "facts of life" in Oregon. The Grange h representative nl Ihn mihlii Annnrnllv nn lllic issue. Ili'V.-imit l,,rni.i.f;.ia might be thus met somewhere else. The sales tax meets with little objection in Washington where the people appear to prefer It tn a tat income tax such as we have here. But not in Oregon, nctttr look some other place if nmie shekels are Deeded. published, but the White House re cently received a confidential memo telling how thoroughly ail Democrats had been purged from the U. S. Information office and how Harry Truman's picture de finitely was not shown on the U. S. Information bulletin boards abroad. Reason for the memo was a com plaint from good old Speaker Joe Martin that the U. S. information offices were still harboring Demo crats and were even flaunting Harry Truman's picture overseas. Republican Congressmen used this as an excuse to cut the information office's (budget by 13,000,000 a drastic cut at a time when Soviet propaganda offices are spending money by the basketful. So the White House asked for a report and got back this word: With respect to the Acheson speeches and Truman-Achcson pic tures reportedly on display at our posts in Spain." defends the memo, we have talked personally with our public affairs officer, Bill Cody, in Madrid. He swears that they have had no Acheson materials for distribution anywhere In the coun try since the present administra tion came in. They have had no picture displays of Truman or Acheson anywhere. There were displays of Marshall's picture at the time he won the Nobel Peace prize last ycai. It is just possible that Truman might have been in one of the pictures with Marshall, I but he knows of nn such instance. Cody is one of our best men and definitely not an egghead." The memb is dated May 11. I!"i4. and signed by able Abbott Washburn, the agency's deputy di rector, a former executive of Gen eral Mills, Inc., and national di rector of the Citizens for Kisen hower during the 1952 campaign. In the secret memo. Washburn stales: "Heller than 5.000 people have been dropped from this agency since the Kisenhower ad ministration took over on January I'd. 19.V!. Some 2,300 ot these were Americans. The rest were local Natiuiials. fn other words, we got rid of almost half 'of the total number of Americans formerly employed. I daubt whether any other agency in Washington has dismissed, percentagewise, more employees than we have. "To say 'they have not cleaned house-Ht Is the same old person nel' is just not true!" Washburn laments. "In onler fur the agency to re flect administration Republican policy," the memo continues, "we set about the difficult task of fill ing as many senior executive posts as possible with qualified Repub licans . . . the attached list of senior officers of the agency re veals an overwhelming prepon derance of Republicans. There are no Democrats among them. Three arc government career men with nhetlutely no political coU.raiuti. One is an Independent. We are By DREW PEARSON they have been denouncing those payments. Of all the farm leaders, Farm Bureau President Allan Kline has been the loudest in attacking the soil conservation program. "Payments for practices which have become a normal and ac cepted part of farming operations should be. discontinued, he told Congress with ringing right eousness. "Farmers recognize that the practice of adding fertilizers to tillable acres is a necessary and profitable expenditure for ob taining increased production. Pay ments should be discontinued on those practices." Yet the confidential records at the Agriculture Department show that Kline has been taking hand outs for' these very practices. In 1947 he collected $231.91 for con touring corn and spreading fertili zer on his farm in Benton County, Iowa. In 1943 he accepted another $113.08 for plowing under green manure. In 1949 he applied for $234 for fertilizer practices and another $54 for other conservation steps. This was prorated down to $212.14. Hit total application in 1951 was for $307.20, but this was reduced to $281.43. More Farm Payment The same pattern has been fol lowed by other farm leaders, in cluding National Grange head Herschel Ncwsom, who testified on Capitol Hill: "We feel there is little justification for making (soil conservation) payments to the farmers who would automatically carry out necessary conservation practices at a profit to themselves without incentive payments. The inability of low-income farmers to finance these practices has been used as an argument for direct subsidy payments, but we cannot solve basic farm problems by put ting farmers on a dole. We re commend elimination of the pre sent system." Yet Newsom has been accept ing subsidies for his own 492-acre farm In Bartholomew County, Ind., ever since 1943. He collected $216.44 in 1943, and submitted ap plications each year thereafter. In 1949, for example, he collected $105.25. In 1950 he accepted $199.05. In 1951 his mother, Mrs. Nellie Newsom, made out the applica tion and got $90. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Tough Crusted French Bread Makes Hit With the Tourist By HAL BOYLE PARIS (iP) Leaves from a I We need all touring notebook: Cooking is a form of poetry in France, and her fine rcstuarants are almost as famous as her great cathedrals. But the average tourist coining here isn't a gourmet on a pilgrim age to a culinary paradise. He just wants a good meal that is typical of the country. To many a diet-starved Ameri can there is no greater taste thrill here than big chunks of tough - crusted French bread spread half an inch deep with yellow Normandy butter. It takes a man back to the days of childhood, when coming home hungry from play, bread was the golden food. A French waiter, watching a group of us put down plate after plate of the wonderful bread here, asked: "Don't you have bread in the United States?" It was a hard question to an swer. In Germany the best food buy Is hratwurst. It is a section of pork sausage about a foot lone and so heavy it takes two small boys to lift one. This teutonic hot dog is broiled over a charcoal fire and. served with a bun, cost less than two bits. Owners of American baseball clubs wishing to lure fans hnrV to the bail parks might try replac ing their present anemic hot dogs with these St. Bernnrd lengths proud of the high calibre of this ; ot Bratwurst. After downing one, team. They are definitely not the a fan would he too sleepily satis same old crowd of New Deal sm-! bed to complain about the quality pnlhizers!' To suggest such a of the mustard or the pitching, tiling is extremely unlair In what i The V. S. Army garrisons on the led Mrritiert une directori nas i continent of r.urope still live pretty ' much to themselves, creating 1 small islands of America largely I isolated from the life of the coiin- try around them. . j The same people meet the uime people every day. and get as hored with each otliei sometimes oo the members of some conn. the friends we can make and you don't make friends just talking to yourself." Along with the group of former war correspondents who visited the beaches of Normandy ten years after the landings was a key in vasion figure, Benjamin A. Dick son, who had an unusual story to recall. Dickson. 57, a retired colonel from Paoli, Pa., was chief intel ligence officer ot the U. S. Army on D-Day, June , 1944. "During the landings a copy of our battle plan was washed over board and floated to a section of the beach held by the Germans," he said. "They recovered it. Here they had a document giving the actual battle lineup ot our invasion forces an intelligance agent's dream. , But the Document was so com- plete and detailed they thought it must be a trick to fool them, and : they failed to act on it." i American staff officers had ex '. pected 35,000 casualties in the first few days of the invasion, f "Actually we had fewer-about 28.000," said Dickson. "But had the enemy accepted on its face value this battle plan that had accidentally fallen into their hands they could have quickly moved re inforcements down from Calias, and I'd hate to think about the result. "But tliey couldn't believe their own good luck. They were afraid it was a trap." That's always the problem, in war or peace what can a man believe? Mao Tsc-tunc's Communist re gime has stepped up the produc tion of such deadly drugs as heroin, opium and morphine by threefold since hi forces won absolute control uf China. It marks a reversal of the nation's long-range policy of stamping out this menace. According to Harry J. Anslin ger, United States Narcotic Com missioner, it is an "insidious, calculated and official offensive." "It is designed to obtain gold, essential raw materials and other supplies. Drugs are now one of China's principal txports and sources of revenue." They are also relied upon as I s weapon in China s military and political expansion. They are counted on to destroy the morale and fighting spirit of military and civilian populations in adja cent Asian countries slated for conquest, especially South Korea. Japan and Southeast Asia. The Vietnam peoples indifference to the Red invasion is attributed, in part at least, to drug-bound paralysis. NARCOTICS IN BOXES OF FLOWERS. Huge amount are now reaching the West Coast of the United States on. the per sons of seamen and in specially constructed camphorwood chests. A recent seizure in San Francisco contained enough heroin for a million addict doses. "One of the dealers arrested," says Commissioner Anslinger in a recent report to the United Nations, "operated a florist shop and made heroin deliveries dis guised as boxes of flowers. Other dealers make deliveries in the usual manner in such places as Chinese restaurants and seamen's halls. Arrangements tor sales are oiten negotiated at elaborate Chi' nese dinners. Chinese social clubs are frequently used to ar range for sale and delivery of narcotics. One such club is Known to the authorities as a gathering place for Communist Chinese and Chinese alien smug glers. 1UABOLICAL TACTICS Man Tse-tung makes no attempt to conceal his devilish strategy. As me u. i. nub ishes lists r t fense contracts, he issues fre quent orders for larger produc tion of poppies, construction of new processing plants and ex pansion of his sales and distribu ting organizations. Ihe traffic is handled hv ihs Minister of Finance and the Min- oier ot iraae. Periodical quo tations on the prices of heroin and opium are posted by the Bank of China, as WaU Street announ.es fluctuations in the prices of stocks. Finance Minister Jung Tzu ho recently reported exports valued at $60,000,000 over a short pe- j iiuu. dui ne complained that the total was 20 per cent short of the Government's goal. However, when cut and sold at fantastic figures, this amount represents several hundred millions for pur chase of rice, tin, rubber and other strategic goods. DKUUS TO DEM0BAT.T7K ENEMY "Thus." says Anslinger, "spreading narcotic addiction to demoralize the enemy and to ob tain funds for political and mili tary purposes is not just the policy of one man in the Com munist regime. It is the policy of the Communist Government in mainland China." Anslinger points out that al most all the high officials con trolling sinister traffic have been trained in espionage at Moscow. sales representatives, distriDU- tors, couriers, peddlen are hardened Reds. Incidentally, as further evi dence of the hideous purpose be hind the opium offensive the Communists forbid civilians and military to use drugs. Heavy penalties are provided for viola tors. "From the beginning," reports Anslinger, "the Communist pur veyors have realized the dual purposes of this business money receipts and demoralization of the free peoples. The traffick ers emphasize in their literature that users of these drugs lose their effectiveness as workers and soldiers. End of an Absurdity St. Louis GIoto.npmnj.i-Bt Perhaps it is inst a uii feredal treasury that the average person didn't know the Federal Housing Administration was per- iiuiitju w iena taxpayers' hard earned money for some of life's fluffiest niceties like turhAeno nil lawn sprinkling systems, kennels' flower boxes, photo-murals, door- ciosing aevices, aa infinitum. The rush for hand-outs might have been unbearable. The fact is, the idea of makinci available federal aid for such pur pose is so absurd it probably never occurrea to tne average home owner, who was serenely under the impression Uuele Sam'a aim was to keep the rain off of ill housed people, but not with gilded sningies. Thanks to the recent FHA scan dal which disclosed these luxuries incidentally to the expose of major home repair loan abuses, Washing ton now has sternly notified offices to ban them. The episode of the federally- fin anced fineries can be taken as an other indication a big motive in the life of any government lend ing agency is to show a volumn of loans that will insure its perpetuation. No Oil Boom (Astorian-Budget) We don't hear any local oil ex citement due to the borings at test wells across the river plus the leasings done in this area by a major oil company or two. Time was when one just had to whisper "oil" and fever would grip a com munity. In these blase days it ap parently takes rumor of a uran ium strike to stir up any excite ment about mineral wealth. Salem 17 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL June 21, 1937 . Quelle restaurant on State street had its opening date set for June 22, and presented itself to Salem patronage as the finest place of its kind on the Pacific Coast Dr. Clara M. Davis of Minne taka, Illinois, had told the Cana dian Medics! association that younj! children are perfectly, cap able of chosbg -their own diets and thriving upon them. A huge mural depicting the ar rival of news of Agon's state hood in Salem has been mounted in the senate chamber under su pervision of Frank Ii. Schwartz, New York artist who accomplished the mural. WPA had temporarily supend ed authorization of any new pro pect costing more than $40,000. Dr. F. K. Nofisiiiger, education al consultant for the American Automobile association, had said that youthful motorists, physical ly capable but lacking in judg ment, were the most dangerous drivers. Congress had taken another step toward making $5,800,000 avail able for the Willamette Valley Flood Control project. Ed. Barrow, president of the New York Yankees, had announc ed that Lou Gchring suffered from chronic infantile paralysis and probably would never play ball again. Despite White House silence on the 1940 presidential race, two senate democrats had spoken of a third term for President Roose velt should he want it. EASY HAIRCUT PAYMENTS TOKYO ( Barbers in Yama- guchi, western Honshu, are selling haircuts on the installment plan. DON'T "BE YOUR AGE" Sherman County Journal Gray hair isn't bad unless you live up to it. A DAY isSS Deliver! This New 1954 "Royol" Portable or any other make on our exclu sive. RENTAL PURCHASE PLAN Call 3-8095 Immediate Free Delivery KAY Typewriter Co. 223 N. High SEE OLIVETTI Printing Calculator Try It On Your Own Work You will appreciate its complete adaptation to your own business, giving you high speed electric adding and sub tracting, with automatic credit balance as well as printed record of multiplication and division problems. 10 000 U. .S. firms are using OLIVETTI. ' May we demonstrate this wonderful machine to you? Roen Typewriter Exchange Phone 36773 456 Court St. ithe director' accomplished In Ihe nine months j he has been here." Note Originally this political : purge wns ordered to appease Senator McCarthy, who sent hir; two Junior (l-Mon, Hoy Cohn anil ! Dave Schhio, on a liariistin niin I trip through r.urope to mvesti- gate America s information pro- j try club sets back home, gram. ' "It might have been necessary Farm Leaders' llnnilmila to do this right after the war." It now develops that certain pro-! said an officer. "But the wjr hjs 1 1 toincnt tenners have hern collect- been over a lone time now." f ing soil conservation payments for "We are m.ikinc n mistake bv their own farms at Ihe samo timo'not jcltmg out and mixing more, j m UK; v- 'ii f .inn 1 m 1 1 'in'! FN We know how you feel, folks. When you bring us a prescription for your Baby . . . it's mighty precious to us, too, for we know how important it it. That'awhyyoucan depend on us for the finett in drugs and prompt, efficient service. i . CAPITAL DRUG STORE 405 Stale St. (Corner of Liberty) We Give Green Stamps rag f. msmm. m t
