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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon
Monday, June 21, 1954
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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
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haircuts on the installment plan.
DON'T "BE YOUR AGE"
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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
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