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.
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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
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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
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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:
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HAVE NOTEb
DEFINITE mPROVSMBNT
in CHILD BEHAVIOR
DECEMBER
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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