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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Salem. Oregon
Wednesday, July 21, 1954
Capital AJournal
An Independent Newspaper Established 1 883
BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor end Publisher
.- GEORGE PUTNAM. Editor Emeritus .
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THE TRUCE IN INDO-CHINA
A truce was signed early this morning in Geneva, ending
the eight-year-old war in Indo-China, whereat there will be
great relief in France that the killing is now over, and an
effort throughout the free world to assess the meaning,
Briefly the terms are that the Communists get the country
north of a line that approximately follows the seventeenth
parallel, following Korean precedent, and the French have
10 months to evacuate Hanoi, the northern capital, and Hai
phong. These terms were easier than had been expected and
French sympathizers in those cities arc relieved.
The settlement is a Communist victory. They get much of
the country right away and they arc virtually certain to get
the rest of the country within a few months, or years at most
Why? Because the French are in no mood to fight longer.
knowing that their days in Indo-China are numbered. And all
the natives of the area south of the seventeenth parallel know
which side has won and will soon dominate the whole country.
So the Reds can wait till the French evacuate and then move
armies across the parallel or they can infiltrate the southern
states with their supporters and soon seize control of the
government. This is the course they are likely to follow be
cause it carries scarcely any threat of a new war.
. This column has often criticized the French, who could just
as well have won this war in its-early stages with a little
more effort and kept China out altogether. But in recent
months they've been fighting China as well as the Indo-China
rebels. They had no chance to restore an orderly country that
would be of any benefit to France. They had a bear by the
tail. So they resolved to get disconnected as soon and as
advantageously as possible. This they have now done, and
we cannot blame them,' since it was too late to correct the
earlier mistakes. ,
The free world must accept the fact that all Indo-China
will soon be added to the fast expanding realm of the hammer
and sickle. We may seek to line up allies to resist further Red
encroachments, but this is going to be difficult. India won't
join. Probably Burma won't. France probably sees nothing
more in that region worth defending. Britain is an uncertain
any, Plowing not today, cold tomorrow, ana liKeiy 10 De
governed by another political party before the next crisis
occurs.
Our, strong suspicion is that Russia and China have now
clinched victory in all Southeast Asia, that within a few years
that vast, populous region that includes India, Burma, Thai
land, Malaya and the former Netherlands Indies will be ruled
from Moscow andor Peiping, well over half the population
of the world under'Red rule.
Only armed intervention by the United States can hope to
prevent it and we doubt that this intervention is feasible,
especially when so little help from either European allies or
Southeast Asia countries is available.
Ghastly mistakes have been made, which are now just about
beyfcrfd-the. possibility tf "nwreetion.- ;Qurswas in reducing
the aid to Chiang Kai-Shek's government and letting the
Reds, whom we were then told were "agrarian reformers" seize
control of that great country. All our subsequent misfortunes
stemmed from that blunder.
THE RED CARPET
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Looks Like Dewey Means to
Return to Private Life
By DREW PEARSON
Washington More facts about
Governor Dewey's important con
ference with Senator Ives of New
York have now leaked out. K what
Dewey told Ives can be taken seri
ously, the turbulent, much spot
lighted, efficient governor of New
York really wants to retire to
orivate life. And it looks as if
Dewey is serious.
For Dewey gave Ives a long and
vigorous lecture on why he, Ives,
should run for governor. From
the tone of Dewey's voice and the
vigor of his arguments he really
meant business. He told Ives that
the Republican party needed I
strong candidate and that Ives
was the strongest on deck. He In
timated that the last thing the Re
publicans could afford was to see
another Roosevelt occupy the ex
ecutive mansion in Albany and
get a leg up on the White House.
This must be blocked at all costs,
and Ives had the political prestige
and know-how to do it.
The Senator from New York,
however, was not at all responsive.
He reminded Dewey that he had
served about half his life in the
New York legislature, and had
fulfilled his obligation t'o the party.
He pointed but that he hadn't
wanted to run for the senate the
last time, and that he had every
expecttion of withdrawing from
public lite entirely at the end of
his present term.
Dewey argued further, but got
nowhere. Finally the governor of
New York concluded the lengthy
talk with the remark:
"We'll see."
NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG
Most Democrats Opposed to Leaving U.N.
ATOMIC ENERGY LAW REVISION
Opposition to a new private power source in the Tennessee
Valley has tied up the senate for a week but its settlement
will not end debate on the atomic energy bill with which it
is linked, which is violently opposed by advocates of federal
government monopoly of hydroelectric power development.
The immediate issue is whether the AEC may negotiate with
a private concern for power it will not use directly itself.
President Eisenhower has instructed AEC to contract with
a combine known as the Dixon-Yates Group for 600,000 kilo
watts of electricity for the Memphis, Tenn., area. The service I
would make up for power supplied an atomic energy plant
at Pnducah, Ky., by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Foes of the presidential order contend the deal would be
Illegal and an assault on the foundations of TVA, the govern
ment agency which for years has furnished power . in the
valley area. The first vole will be on an amendment by
Senator Anderson (D.-N.M.) to limit AEC's authority to
purchase power for its own installations. Then will come
vote on a rival amendment by Senator Ferguson (U.-Mich.)
which would remove any doubt of AEC's right to close the
deal for unrestricted power in the Memphis area.
Revision of the Atomic Energy law, sought by the ndminis
tration, would lay the fouitdation for the Eisenhower inter
national atomic pool plan, which is the real issue and on which
Oregon's Senator Morse has insisted on unlimited debate,
called by Senator Knowland "obstructionist tactics."
The proposed Dixon-Yates deal culls for a $107,250,000
steam plant at West Memphis, Ark. Il would supply TVA
with some (100.000 kilowatts of energy. The power would be
In exchange for a like amount now furnished by TVA to the
atomic plant at Pnducah, Ky.
In addition to implementing the President's international
atomic pool plan, the atomic law revisions would enable wider
industrial participation in peacetime development of the atom
and permit the United States to share limited knowledge of
atomic weapons with friendly countries. G. I'.
THE PRESIDENT IS COMING
Most Oregonians will be happy to learn that President
Eisenhower has accepted an invitation to visit Oregon late
this summer and to dedicate the McNary dam on the Columbia
near Umatilla, Ore.
The importance of this great project justifies his presence
at the dedication. Previous presidents have tried to dedicate
these great works, as they should, for their completion stand
as major achievements of their administrations. The president's
visit will tend to focus national attention on Oregon and its
industrial expansion. We should benefit considerably from it.
Wo are happy to note that the president's trip isn't labeled
"non-political" as Truman's sometimes were, for thi$ one has
a political angle. President Eisenhower is coming, in part, to
help Senator Guy Cordon's re-election campaign. Cordon and
other Oregon Republics leaders have doubtless asked for
this visit and the president's agreement to make it is evidence
of his interest.
It is tremendously important to President Eisenhower that
lie have a friendly instead of an opposition congress to deal
with during the last half of his administration. Party strength
in this congress is so close that the Republicans cannot by
WASHINGTON. July 21 The
Administration's policy with re
spect to a Southeast Asia defense
force and future relations with
United Nations has become so
confusing thnt it has even pro
voked conflict and division
among Democrats on Capitol
Hill.
Senate Minority Leader Lyn
don B. Johnson of Texas, for in
stance, joined with Majority
Leader William F. Knowland of
California in demanding Ameri
can withdrawl from the United
Nations, if Communist China
should be admitted as a result of
her growing military and eco
nomic strength.
Contrary to the cautious course
he has hitherto pursued, Sena
tor Johnson apparently acted im
petuously, and without calling or
consulting a Party caucus on the
question.
Past Action Recalled
A large bloc of Democrats, per
haps twenty or more, did not
agree with the likable Texan on
this issue. Many had lived
through or recalled the Republi
cans' slaughter of Woodrow Wil
son's League of Nations.
Many have always felt that
World War H might have been
prevented if the United Stales
had joined that organization.
They do not want to be respon
sible for the burial of the pres-
By RAY TUCKER
cnt Roosevelt-sponsored move
ment of permanent world peace.
Southern Democrats generally
supported F.D.R.'s foreign ob
jectives. ,
Similarly, this group opposed
the original and extreme attempt
to withhold economic and mili
tary funds from France and
Italy, if they failed to ratify the
European Defense Treaty by next
New Year's day.
Thumbs Down on Isolation
of U.S.
Despite understandable irrita
tion over the delay, they pointed
out that such action would iso
late the U. S. from its Allies. It
could deprive us of air and naval
bases ringing Russia from Brit
ish Isles to Turkey.
In short, although confused by
shifts in the Eisenhowcr-Dtillcs
foreign policy, the Democrats do
not want to go on record as the
"Party of isolation."
As they have saved Ike from
defeats on domestic issues at
the hands of his Republican op
ponents, so the minority may
help to rescue him in the inter
national arena.
Definite, Cohesive Program
Nevertheless, despite biparti
san grumbling against seeming
inconsistencies on the foreign
front, President Eisenhower and
Secretary Dulles appear to be
hammering out a fairly definite
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By W. S. STEWART
IO( the Adrian, Mich.. Tr-lcRram)
and cohesive program in the cold
war. In off -the -record confer
ences, the patient Dulles has
asked that Congress be patient
with him.
As a result of the Secretary of
State's recent conference with
Prime Minister Churchil, Foreign
Secretary Eden and Premier
Mendes-France at London and
Paris, here is the Eisenhower
Dulles basic pattern with respect
to the United Nations, Russia and
our Allies:
No Need for U.S. Withdrawl
From U.N.
(1) The United Nations will
not agree to Communist China's
admission to the U.N. except
on our own harsh terms. In view
of Churchill's support of our
stand, Peiping cannot command
sufficient votes for entry. There
fore, there should be no need for
American withdrawl.
(2) The chances of French and
Italian ratification of the Europ
ean Defense Treaty are growing
brighter. It has just been report
ed favorably by the Italian Par
liament's Committee handling
foreign problems. But if they do
not 'sign up, the United States
and Britain are prepared to re
arm Germany separately.
No Apepascmcnt of Red China
(3) There will be no "appease
ment" of Red China in Southeast
Asia, although the loss of part
of Vietnam to the victorious
Communists is conceded. The
U.S. will press for organization
of a military alliance in this area
to prevent further Communist
advances. London and Paris have
now agreed to join with us whole
heartedly, as have Australia and
New Zealand.
ADRIAN, Mich. I!') Dean
Hal:
The best place to spend the
summer is In the country.
Let a frlcw! of mine explain
why:
"We have the finest air con
ditioning anywhere. There's no
service charge, installation fee or
scrnping for payments. You don't
have to remember to turn it on
or oft. It runs nil the time and
never adds a cent to the electric
hills. The soft breeze which rip
ples gently across the pine-circled
hike dances sweetly through
the open door with Mother Na
ture paying the entire shot.
"Neighbors don't bother us.
Our 'bullfrog-echoing dale in the
wildwnod' is completely our own.
Not even moon-eyed lovers- dare
the winding trail to steal a few
moments alone.
"The boring neighbors don't
drop over any more. We have an
unwritten understanding about
our lot lines -dating from the
day his cat slapped a curious pnw
into the hide of our sleeping dog.
"Our days aren t spent looking
at four walls. There's too much
open space in northern Michi
gan's wttcr wonderland too
msny beauties of the Lord to
waste the hours getting into each
other's way.
"We take hikes; we sail the
rolling waters. Wc troll slowly
through the still pools, hauling
In many tasty samples for the
frying pan.
"And we swim. Oh how we
swim. A cool dive deep into the
crystal clear freshness of sweet
spring water is much more to
Douglas Tells 'em
Albany Democrat-Herald
An attack by the New York
Communist newspaper, The Daily
Worker, on Joseph T. Meek, Re
publican, running against Senator
Paul Douglas in Illinois, brought
out the neatest and best excoria
tion of Communists and their meth
ods we've seen in a long time. The
statement was by Senator Douglas,
Democrat. Perhaps Mr. Meek
will beat him in the political con
test this fall, but no one can sur
pass the marine combat veteran
in manhood and patriotism. Ap
parently there Is to be no scur
rilous smearing in the Illinois
campaign. Here Is the text of the
telegram Senator Douglas sent to
the Daily Worker editor:
Your scurrilous, rotten attack-
on Mr. Meek, of the Republican
party, has been brought to my
attention. Although Mr. Meek is
my opponent and we shall fight out
the issues of the campaign, I per
sonally resent your attack on him.
"I also resent the intrusion of
a foreign dominated conspiracy,
communism, and its lackey news
paper into Illinois politics . . .
"Mr. Meek doesn't get his orders
from Moscow via the underground
and he doesn't have to squirm
hike a worm on a hot stove to fol
low the party line. We may dis
agree politically, but wc are one
in our abhorrence of your chica
nery and fraud.
"Communism mentally, morally,
spiritually and politically is the
enemy of all people. I am proud
that your Illinois branch in its
latest manifesto called me a Red
baiter rivaled by a few in the
Democratic party.' I take that as
a badge of merit . . ."
the three great Allies U.S.,
Britain, France has been re
stored, although recurring dis
agreements are to be expected,
When and if so, they will be set
tied by the kind of personal
talks which alleviated the May
(4) The fundamental unity of I June crisis in their relationships,
"Yes, we'll see," replied Ives.
But the tone of Ive's voice made
it plain that his mind was made
up and would not be changed no
matter how much "seeing" Dewey
did.
NOTE Republican leaders agree
that Senator Ives would be the
best shot to defeat Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Jr., Ives having run
more than a million votes ahead
of Eisenhower in 1952. If Ives
sticks to his guns, betting is that
Dewey will run again, especially
if Eisenhower makes a special re
quest, which is more than likely.
BIG BATTLE IN LITTLE STATE
A mishtv political battle is brew
ing in Delaware, the second tiniest
state in tne union ana sometimes
called the Duchy of the du Ponts.
Upon its outcome will in part de
pend who controls the senate in
the narrow-margined race this fall.
Delaware is a state where theJ
du Pont family, which controls
General Motors, du Pont Chemi
cals. United States Rubber, oper
ates an H-bomb plant, and owns
half a dozen other Industries, ex
ercises a naternal. sometimes du
cal hand. And today it's alleged
that the du Ponts are well satis
fled with the likable little Demo
cratic senator. Allen Frear, who
seeks re-election, though less satis
fied with the rambunctious, uncon
trollable Republican Sen. John Wil
liams, re-elected last year.
Regardless of du Pont satisfac
tion, however, some of the Demo
crats who have to renominate
Frear are not satisfied. Frear, one
of the nicest and least cantanker
ous members of the senate, has at
tracted little attention in congress,
except for voting Republican on
certain issues and winning tne ac
colade of the "pay-toilet senator."
This was because, during price
control days, Frear introduced a
bill permitting railroads to raise
the price of pay-toilets from a
nickel to 10 cents, after the office
of price stabilization had ruled
that they could not. The New York
Central was abiding by the OPS
rule, but the Pennsylvania had
changed the pay mechanism on Its
toilets after the OPS ruling was
made and got slapped with
$385,245 fine as a result. So .the
obliging senator from Delaware in
troduced the pay-toilet bill not only
permitting the increase to 10 cents
but letting the Pennsylvania out of
its $385,245 fine.
For this and other reasons, Dela
ware Democrats have been busy
Salem 55 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
July 21, 1899
Fastest record made by a letter
from the Atlantic seaboard to
S5lem had been reported to the
Capital Journal by Col. D. F.
Wagner. A letter postmarked
Baltimore, Md. July 15, 5:30 p.m.
had reached Salem July 19, at
9:45 p. m.; four days, four hours
and 15 minutes later (55 years
ago.) '
Capital Jounral's X-raylst had
written: "The bicycle is a danger
ous invention. It is developing
the mechanical ingenuity of the
sex that sews on the buttons. Bye
and bye they will learn to drive
nails. (And racing automobiles
and jet planes, too. But the X-
Rayist was lacking in clairvoyant
power).
Resident of Mehama had raised
$47 to offer any telephone com
pany that would construct a
phone line from Salem into their
community. x
Montezuma, the "Oregon Won
der" the "Long Haired Horse," '
had ben billed as a state fair fea
ture exhibit.
Uncle Tommy Pomeroy, stal
wart goldbug expansionist of Me
hama, had appeared in Salem
while attending court.
These sums had been spent for
construction of bicycle paths in
Marion County:
Salem to Aurora, $8653.
Salem to Silverton, $302.32.
Salem to Stayton, $100.
Stayton to Turner, $100.
Marion to Jefferson, $144.7r.
drafting Justice James Tunnel,
Jr., . of the Delaware Supreme court
to run in place of Frear. Tunnell,
son of a distinguished Democratic
senator who served in FDR's days,
is in a judicial position where h
can't engage in politics, but :
willing to accept a draft. And r
draft is strongly in the works.
There are only three count'.
in the state of Delaware and i "
far two of them have endorscl
Judge Tunnell. Only one count
Kent, the smallest, home of Sen;
tor Frear, has endorsed him.
However, a lot of money is pou
ing into Delaware to back Frer
and there should be a hot batt"
when the Democratic convener
date, August 10. rolls around.
NOTE Republicans are certi :
to nominate Congressman Herbc
Warburton for the senate, a liben
Eisenhower Republican and forme
President of the National Youn
Republican federation. Conservr
tive Republicans don't like hii
cither.
-"Oh oo a John .
Remember A. K. Joynts, who was laid up
most all winter with rheumatism? Well, 1
saw him walking right along today, and he
looked real good. He said he'd taken a
course of bath treatments at BRUCKMAN'S
BREITENBUSH SPRINGS."
"Yes, Marsha, nature is wonderful, the way that
hot water comes up out of the ground and so full
of natural minerals. The Indians used ot take
baths right in the ground and make steam huts.
They thanked their Great Spirit fur its healing
powers."
"Yes, John I know, and the old timers tell
about white people being carried in on stretchers
over narrow mountain trails, and then being
able to walk out,"
"Well, Marsha, I'm glad for the good roads and
modern accommodations up there now."
"Yes, John, and BRUCKMAN'S BREITENBUSH
SPRINGS is such a nice family resort. The ones
who arc well can swim, hike, fish, dance or ride
horses and have such a good time. Let's go again,
soon."
Write M. D. ' Bruckman, ' Breltenbush, for
folder and rates
Ihpm-plves mn--tnr a mnmrilv vole fop nnvlhin- nn ' thn 1QSi
election outlook is such that party control may hinge on how' nr dreams thsn hasty wash in
1he Oregon election goes. j a t,lb of Jukewarm chlorine
So the president will he looking for votes as well as looking i "T,'"'" J'20' . .i ,
' , , , . . . .i We sleep Ihe nights of pure
i !.R7u mLwhcn hp com(', 10 0rr!on' A,lfl ,hlV P'1" phvsir.il exhaustion. No neigh
of his job, Without congressional support he cannot do what j hors come stumbling home mm
tht people elected him to do. utei before dawn offering a har
monious rendition of 'Let me
call'. The clash of gears, roar
of V-8 horses and screams of
hurning rubber don't disturb our
reveries.
"Famished from the fun of
outdoors, , we eat unbelievable
quantities of picnics, brunches
and in-betweens. But the wife
finds it's not the same old, tiring,
grind. Our every man for-him-sclf
rule gets the family mrals
cooked and the dishes cleaned
without padlocking her to a
stove.
"Now, tli.- nights those pure
delights of peace.
"The moon sliding softly from
tinder Ihe tittering pines soon
bathes the scene in golden charm
like a giant candle. Klirkering
fires around the shore fnde awr
as if ashamed of their own effort
In the face of her glory, A bass
breaks the utillncss with a somer
sault high above the water. An
other hnllcts its way across the
waves in answer. Somewhere a
loon makes his presence known.
The night lives on.
"You can have your man-made
luxurirs. Nature is still so far
ahead there is no match in com
parison. "The best place to spend the
summer is in the country."
That's exactly what the man
said honest, Hal.
Editor's Note: Not a word. Mr.
Stewart's friend has sold me on
everything except those "titter
ing pines." No pine trees really
titter. They either murmur or
break out into wild, needle-pointed
laughter, usually during vio
lent storms.
The nearest thing to a true
titter made by an American tree
is the sound given off by certain
varieties of scrub oak, which In
freezing weather ofirn emit a
scrirs of cold dry chuckles and
very unnerving they are," too.
PART OF THE
valley community
Willamette Valley Canners and Packers
v The Northwest's largest fruit and vegetable
processing center it in the Willamette Valley. In
Salem, fifteen major plants peck more than five
million cases of foodstuffs each year for local
consumption and for shipment to markets
throughout Ihe world.
'This large local industry employing thous
ands of people is a vital factor in maintaining
the economic well-being of the entire community.
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