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Tuesday, December 21, 1954 Page 4 SECTION I THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Salem, Oregon Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday ot 280 North Church St. Phone 4-681 1. Full Lease Wire Service or The Associated Press and The United Press. The Associated Press la excluslvly entitled to the ube for publication of all newt dlipatchea credited to It or otherwise credited In Una paper and alfcc news nuhllshed therein BRITAIN DEFIES RUSSIA'S THREATS Britain seems to have abandoned the spirit of appeasement toward Soviet Russia and the Communists and has realized that "vou can't do business with Malenkov" any more than you could with Stalin or before that with Hitler. At least two of the developments of Tuesday would so indicate. RcDlvine to the Russian threat to abrocate their 1S42 friend' hip treaty with Britain if Germany is rearmed, the British official spokesmen rejected the proposal outright. At the same time Britain took a firm stand toward close alignment with a United Western Europe that ties her to the Schuman Plan coal and steel pool. Both of the West. Britain branded as rude in tia's threat to break off the II. At the same time Russia similar mutual defense pact with France if the National Assem bly, now debating German rearmament, agreed to bring the Bonn eovernment into the Western Defense program. The British spokesman said its friendship treaty with Russia because the country leit it was a good pact. But in straight diplomatic tough talk, the spokesman "deplored" the Russians' method in threatening to abandon the treaty. He continued: "The British government cannot accept the arguments used in the Soviet note. There is no justification of the Soviet contention that the Paris agreements are incompatible with the treaty. Her majesty's government will continue to pursue their chosen policy of consolidating Western European Britain has been traditionally of European federation, but the the European coal and steel community, the scnuman nan, the first European federal institution with wide economic and political powers. Last summer foreign Secretary tden com mitted British troops to continental defense for the first time. The Schuman Plan was devised in 1950 to merge Western Europe's coal and steel industries to eliminate traditional causes of war. Britain was invited to join but wanted to see how the plan worked. The community was formed and duslries bv eliminatine trade barriers in steel and coal! It set up common markets which resulted in increased exports, reduced prices and greater prosperity. Later the community set up a high authority directed by Monnet with powers to prevent friction and to explore ways of associating Britain wun me scneme. u. r. MOVING TRAGEDY OFF PAGE ONE Frank Jenkins of the Klamath Falls Herald-News has in augurated a "no bad news on the front page'' week. Begin ning Monday all tragedy is to be studiously kept off and a pleasing, Christmassy picture is to be presented until Christ inas comes. This should be an interesting experiment and worth while lor this reason, so everybody can seek how it works. But we are sure neither the Klamath publisher nor anyone else who reads his paper will be deceived into believing that the nature of the world or its people has been thereby changed. Tragedy will continue to happen. The only difference will be that the Herald-News readers will have to turn to page two and beyond for it. The advertisers should ershio nf inside pages. We recall one Christmas morning many years ago when the newspapers came out with a horrible grist of tragedy that had occurred the night before. Nobody planned it that way. It just happened. News editors weren't aware till they saw their front pages what a Christmas greeting they were giving their readers. There was quite a public outcry. Many an editor resolved never to let anything like that happen again, and some newspapers inaugurated a one day custom of no tragic news on the front page Christmas day. This will not bother the Capital Journal, which does not publish on Christmas. But keeping the seamy side of the old world off the front page for a whole week seems to us like carrying matters to an extreme. We are disposed to accept old Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun as right when he said he would print anything the Lord would let happen. Printing the bad news isn't the cause of it, nor will moving it inside keep one little bit of it from happening. It will be interesting if the Herald-News will canvass the reaction of its readers after Christmas. Will they be relieved, or feel that they were cheated out of something? MENDES-FRANCE STILL ON TOP French Premier Mendes-Krance reminds one of the acrobat who "glides through the air with the greatest of ease." And ha lands right side up, just as his foreign friends have about given him up as a goner. The premier won an important vote of confidence Monday, 310 to 172. It came on his budget for Indo-China, a sine spot with France. His enemies are laying for him, malting it as tough for him as they know how. He tailed for a vote of con fidence, which if lost would have meant the resignation of his government. This in turn would have meant the end of any hopes for French ratification of the pact for West German re armament for this year at least. And before Frame could have been warmed up on the project by a new leader tier many would be sure to be out of the notion. The premier's victory looks encouraging. The fart that the opposition did not have enough votes to unseat him suggests that they mean to ratify German rearmament, grudingly, some of them sullenly, with Mentles not work out according to Frcneh wishes. France is a dubious, uncertain ally under strong, vigorous leadership than under the kind France usually has. Americans should hope for a long ten ure for Mendcs-Franco, hut one fears he won't have it. For he is gradually acquiring moic enemies, as each French pre mier does and as each tine eventually falls before. If France does ratify within chances for pushing ratification ment will be brighter. He too, that seem to be gaining ground against him, but pel haps not fast enough to defeat him on this program which is so crucial to the free world. CANADA MAY DIVERT THE COLUMBIA Wo ve heaid hrre in Orrmui of alleged (.'iilifmnin .schemes to divert thr Columbia river down Ihrie when water is .so desperately needed, UMi.tlly followed by California denials. But there is no seeret about Canada's interest m diverting waters of the Columbia into the Kiaser nver m llntih Colum bia. The Canadian government, will conduct an investigation of feasibility next summer. Since the Columbia is only seven miles from the Frnser watershed at one point the idea is likely to prove feasible. Two possibilities occur, one favorable, the nther not. On the first, couldn't waters be diverted as the flood period in the Columbia approaches, averting danneis alor.n the Colum bia in Washington and Oregon? A relatively .small diversion should he a bit help. , On the unfavorable side, the river belongs to Canada before it fitters the sti.tr nf Washington. Fnou;h water might be diverted to injure us. But the nver carries so much water and Canada is a friendly countiy, so we doubt that ftais aie in crM. oUi is benefit to both countries. moves make for the solidarity both manner and context Rits treaty made during World War also threatened to break off the Britain would be sorry to lose unity. wary about joining any form treaty just signed links it with the six nations pooled their in appreciate the higher read their front pages loaded with - Fraiue the goat if tilings do allv. hut much more of an the next few days Adenauer's through the German parlia faces hostile political factions ILl i h . 1 . . if V; i J ' Si:' ; POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Hal Finds a f3Ian of the Year' Who Isn't Famous By HAL NEW YORK lP) A stranger , in a worn topcoat came up to me as I sat at my typewriter with a preoccupied air. "Excuse me," he said, and as 1 looked up with a start, he added, grinning: "Did I wake you?" "Certainly not," I said indig nantly. "I wasn't sleeping, 1 was thinking." "What about?" "Well," 1 replied, half annoyed, "I was about to pick my man-of-the-ycar candidate. It is one of Uie chores of columning. Every columnist who wants to get ahead in the world has to do four things during the year praise motherhood, alert the ptihlie to the menace of poison ivy, discov er a new sure cure for hay fever, and pick the man of the year." Who you going to pick." ne asked. "I'm in a quandary," I said. I'm torn between Pope Pius, President Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, Pierre Mendes trance and Carl Sandburg. I knew it!" exclaimed the stranger, taking off his battered hat and throwing it on the door. You're just like all the oth ers!" 'What do you mean I m like all the others?" You're like all the other type writer jockeys when they get around to picking the man or the year. You always play it safe with heatlline name. "Is there anything wrong with the men I mentioned?" "Not a tiling," he admitted. 'They're all fine men. Put they're already famous. They don't neetl any more honors. Why not be dif ferent? Why don't you pick a dark horse for man of the year"' 'Well," 1 said, thinking that was a mixed metaphor if I'd ever heard one. "Who you got in mind, mister?" 'Me," he replied. Tin not laughing," I told him. looking around for help. "Hut would you mind telling me why I should name you man of the year?" 'Don't think I'm not impor tant," he said. "I'm 45 years old, I got two kitls in school, I got wife. 1 also got a 3-year-oltl car that's paid for. and a house that isn't, but it will be. I got a tele vision set. a refrigerator, a radio, a washing machine, and $7,500 worth of 'insurance." "Well, bully for you." "Maybe that don't Impress you." he said. "But I keep all those things together on $72 SO a week, and 1 give money to the church and the Red Cross and the Communitv Chest." "Well bully, bully, bully for you, but" "Hut nothing!" he stormed. "I see you still dnn't know me. Lis ten, you pavement pundit, if it wrren't for me every store in America wtuiltl close its doors, twery wheel in every ' factory would stop turning anti there wouldn't he any elections, nor no baseball games either, I can tell you Now do you know who I am""' You .face is familiar, but I'm sorry I don t quite recall your name " "Ymi don't"" be said, easper ti'tl. 'Well, vou should You and the other ivorv domes gave it to j mo I'm the : n v you're always lulling on the bark in print and i railing the common man. the av 1 erase American, and oh. yes the little fellow Well, nnre in my ilile I want to be the big fellow." I "Hy golly, you are!" I told TREND OF THE TIMES f OUK COMMITTEE ... - - . i HAS BEEN NVF.yr GATlUfT V "ANO WE 'if- aMcNaug)it SyiaicaU,1iK. BOYLE him. putting another sheet In the typewriter. "Everything you say is true, and if it makes you any happier you're tops on my list, the real man of the year." He shook hands, started to leave, then turned back uncer tainly. "Anything wrong?" I asked. "No," he said. "I was just thinking about the little ladv. Anything good I done was all on account of her, and I wouldn't feel right getting this honor if- "How about us making her woman of the year?" I said. "Now you're really talking gee, will she be surprised." lie leit smiling, but as he reached the door he turned and said, "You wouldn't kid me, would you? I really won't believe it until 1 see it in the newspaper" Well, here it is in the newspa per: To Air. and .Mrs. Average American, man and woman of the year 1054 and twin bulwarks of a free world in the terrible and wonderful 20th century. CHIEF'S CLOTHES BURNED KEI.LEIi, Tex. (UP) Fire Chief .M. B. Stevenson Was un usually unhappy about a fire to day that swept a cleaning estab lishment and destroyed clothing U. S. iii Dilemma, When to Save, When to Spend Money By JAMES WASHINGTON u Many an old man. tossed out on the street be cause be couhln't pay his rent, has spent the rest of his days reflect ing inoiirilfully on bis folly with money in his early years. Looking for dividends to keep him in his old age. he had invested his money long ago. Wisely, he thought. He learned too late judgment was bail. Hp had too much into one stock, his put not enough in another. This country is siill young, as nations go. with a lot of money The Eisenhower administration, present custodian of it, is trying to avoid for the American future the fate which overtook the old man. It is trying to eeononiic to save money and at the same invest where it thinks there will be divi dends -in the long run. Both the saving and the nnotmcnt ore a guess and a risk. In the 1952 presidential cam paign the Republicans talked of balanacmg the btidM They prom iscci economy ami lnc ve prac tical it in many areas, r.ut ihcy still haven't been able to hit a balance. The countiy is 278 billion dollars in tiein now. most ot a mvnev borrowed to fishl World rt'ar II and communism afterwards. Bal ancing the hiiduct would not wipe out me oem. it wmiai on:v mean the administration had foand a way to keep tne tlclil Irom getting Digger. Some presidential advisers- particularly Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey and Joseph M. Dodge, former buduet director are pictured as stern partis ins for more economy and a balanced budget, and for this That it the I'nited Svies is to retain its power :n the lo:i tigh. against communism it must oc economically sound hy hung with in its means and meet r.g its re sponsihiiitics within balanced bm'tiet But there is another sale to this tortured problem for the Eisen hower administration: tmm. iyzi HAVE NOTEb DEFINITE mPROVSMBNT in CHILD BEHAVIOR DECEMBER J Salem 22 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL December 21, 1932 Pacific Northwest had experien ced the worst influenza epidemic since 1918. Salem reported 1200 ill with the flu. Gov. Julius L. Meier had an nounced that he would not issue Christmas presents to penitent iary inmates in the form of par dons. Portland law enforcement of ficers were wondering whetiier a slot machine worked for the play er or the house. A thorough test conducted by police demonstrated what $40 in nickles returned the player $24.65. Organization of unemployed workers and farmers had been set for a meeting at Union hall. 455 Court street. Organization was regained as a preliminary to the proposed "hunger march" upon the city, scheduled for January 8. A band of 50 men and women Toledo, Ohio, had stormed a Wonder Bakery Co. truck and car ried away 250 loaves of bread. J. F. Darling, director of Mid land bank, important English fin ancial institution, had proposed tltat wheat be used as a basis for money. He suggested that this solution would double the orice of grain and provide a swift avenue for the return of prosperity. belonging to 40 persons includ ing the chief. MARLOW What does It profit to balance the budget if, in the end, the Com munists win because this cecntrv. in its desire for economy, doesn't spend enough money in the right places, in the right ways, and at the right times? This dilemma is illustrated in the decisions the administration is trying to make on military man power and foreign aid, particular ly aid for Asia. The administration apparently doesn't think war hkelv, at least soon. President Eisenhower him self talks' of the cold war lasting 30 years. Throughout that lime the United States must lie strong enough to deter aggression. How can it be done? The gov ernment could try to maintain a huge military force, but the bod get couldn't be balanced, and if no war came the money spent would ne, perhaps, monev wasted The governmnt could economize by putting more reliance on stra tegic bombers which can carry atomic weapons and reducing the size of the land forces whi'e build ing up the reserves in east of emergency. that involves a risk since in an emergency this country might not be able to mobilize fast, cnounh It's a risk the administration seems willing to take for the sake of economy oer the long pull In Asia the Communists have had minor success. Thcv may try further military force or internal subversion. Meanwhile, they are using the other means at hand: propaganda. political maneuvering, infiltration. and. where they think it worth while, economic aid. If the Cnited States refuses to give economic help to Asia, that would leave the field to the Com munists, i he aitministratioa, asain for the sake of economy, is Uyinz to decide how little aid it can get bv wi:h suecessfttilv The C(iinmuii'..sts mav take over asia anyway, no matter bow much help this? country provKfs. hut if this country gives too little aid. it may be just as Ineffective as no aid at all. NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG Ike Recognizes Be Stronger By RAY WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 The friendliness which characterized President Eisenhower's recent legislative conferences with Re publican leaders from Capitol Hill derives from the fact that he has belatedly recognized and acted upon the Knowland warn ings that the administration must strengthen its military and economic position in the Far East. Ike has also placated the lo-called Korean school of mili tary men MacArthur, Van Fleet, Clark, etc. It has been their contention that the White House and State Department have shown too much concern with Europe, and not realized the gravity ot de velopments in Korea, China and Southeast Asia. Indeed, this same fear lies behind the latest McCarthy charge that the Presi dent has been "soft on Commun ism." While Eisenhower still shies away from the Knowland de mand for a tight blockade of the China coast, pointing out that it would divide our United Na tions Allies and possibly lead to war, he has accepted and framed high policy in accord with the theories of the bloc headed by the Majority Senate Leader from California. No Comment! Highly placed but unnamed officials in State no longer talk even confidentially and off the record, of the possi bility that Comunist China may yet be admitted as a member of the U.N. with American support. However, Dulles has sold Britain on opposition to Peiping's mem bership, even though the British Government has recognized the Mao Tse-tung regime. The Administration has con cluded a new and stronger treaty with the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa, and has also stepped up military assistance and training. Recent Congressional visitors to the island have been impressed with the improvement in Chiang Kai-shek's forces. Washington has taken the lead in organizing SEATO, the alli ance designed to prevent further Red expansion in Southeast Asia. As a token of his greater con cern with this area, Eisenhower has sent his closest military ad viser, General J. Lawton Collins, to Indo-China as a trouble shooter. e Air to Far East. President Ei senhower and Secretary Dulles now plan increased economic aid to the Far East, even though it has annoyed the budget-balancers in this family, including Treas ury Secretary George M. Humph rey. Despite the latter's mild criticism of the Dullcs-Stassen program, Ike showed his sym pathy by recalling Joseph M. Dodge, former Budget Director, to co-ordinate all forms of over seas grants and loans. It is significant and typical of Eisenhower that he did not re verse himself on this problem un til after the announcement that Peiping had imprisoned Ameri can airmen as spies, and until after he received reports that the vietminn communists were vio lating the Geneva truce in Indo- China. Both events had an im mediate and angry reaction at the White House. Deliberately Designed. Ike's timing of major decisions and actions, as in this instance, is designed deliberately. He pur sued what Senator McCarthy calls a "soft" course until the im prisonment of our fliers had aroused and angered every seg ment of the American public. He thought it wise to suppress intlignation until he was certain 'SANTA' GANG CAPTURED YOKOHAMA (UPI Police an nounced today the capture of the "Canta Claus gang" who entered homes by way of chimneys. Police charged the four gang members stole more than $20,000 worth of goods. Open Every Night till Christmas Eve. 5:30 P. mm nniinnilll mTH! Free Kiddits Party 7:30 P. M. December 22 N.rth SaVea Ktta Diamonds tee Wbile You Wait c' Stale and liberty Dial XtlC U. S. Must in the Far East TUCKER of general support without re gard for partisan feeling. In the same wav. the President "deferred for many months any ex pression of his real scorn for McCarthy. Not until the latter's Senate peers had voted "condem nation" by three to one did Ike publicly praise Senators Arthur V. Watkins of Utah and Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont, who ran the Wisconsin Senator to the ground. Privately, of course, the Presi dent had expressed his attitude to McCarthy and the Chinese Communists in extremely pic uresque language. But, as he ex plained in his famous discussion of his responsibility for resorting to every honorable means to avoid a possibly golbal war, he recognizes that Eisenhower the Man, and Eisenhower the Presi dent, are two different people. McCarthy's Hunt Ended. With Congress on a Christmas holiday and McCarthy away, the latter's five-year, controversial hunt for Communists has finally ended. Despite his charge that his in vestigation had been blocked for 10 months by the .White House and Senate, he attended the post condemnation inquiry for only 19 minutes, and then only to read his denunciation of Eisenhower! THEY COULD SHOCK 'EM Sherman County Journal If there should be any farmers in need of a mule skinner with vocabulary in good trim we sug gest he hire a senator. Some of their language would hurry any mule along. BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY? SPOKANE (UP) Police said to day a man who posted a $5 bond after being ticketed for parking in a bus zone explained his vio lation was the result of habit. He listed his occupation as bus driver. SHAVERS CLIPPERS All Nationally Known Brands in Stock Guaranteed Repairs On All Makes Capitol Cutlery Company 447 Ferry St. Ph. 4-7464 LOCATION! OUR LAST 1000 FUNERALS Under $250.00 138 $251-$350 . 276 $351-$500 468 $501-$650 99 $651-Over . 19 f MtMML gr Church and Ferry St. 9 P. M. M. a tart (or add LENOX CASTLETON D-l-V-l-D-E-D No Interest or -a V I'M Witt k y-JM Little White Life Lines Seattle Post-Intelligencer Every motorist knows the life, saving value of white lines on pavement. Highway center and lane marks pay for their paint many times over hi averted accidents, parti cularly in the night hours and the "most dangerous" driving hours of twilight and early dawn. The state of Connecticut now is making a further life-saving ad vance. Highway Commissioner G. Stan ley Hill, after conducting careful experiments, has ordered white lines painted on the right-hand edges of both the Merritt and Wil bur Cross highways. His experiments showed that such lines resulted in increasing both speed and safety. Movement of traffic at night was notably improved. Everyone who drives will cheer this innovation. We hope it can be extended quickly to main arteries in our own state and throughout the nation. If Santa hadn't felt the extra weight and set the bag down for a minute 1 might have been someone's little Christmas gift by now. I've gotten into a lot of unlikely places so I guess being stuffed into a stocking wouldn't be so bad. But anyhow . . . here's wish ing you a Merry Christmas from the whole gang at Coburn Cameras . . . HARRY HOWARD PAT TUTTLE ROGER RITCHEY AND SNAPPER See you next week, SNAPPER COBURN CAMERAS 174 N. Com'l. Ph. 2-1841 We Give H.-tf Green Sumps Open Eves 'til Xmas - FUNERAL HOME Phone 3-9139 s"" S " S. to J J4er et! 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