Salem, Oregon, Monday, December 31, 1956 ' Page 4 Section 1 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor end Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday ot 280 North Church St. Phone EM-468 1 1 Tull Leased Wlr Srrvire of The Associated Press end Th United Fre.'l. Tne Associated Press II exclusively entitled 10 tiie use for pub lication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper and also news published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Carrier: Monthly, IIJS; In Months, II so; line year. into. By nail 1:1 uirsuu. ..i.inini, si.uvi bix .loiiini. sa lie; lint sear, as.au. n Outside Oreeon: Monthly l2y. SIX Months, 11.50; One sear, I1S.0U. Red Army Characteristics Despite the bloody but futile revolts staged in Poland and Hungary the unrest reported In the satellites and even in Rus sia against the boviet tyranny, there seems little chance at pre sent, of a revolution to throw the despots out. But as Alex's de Tocqueville, the great French liberal, observed after the 1848 uprisings in Europe: "It is not always when thines tro from bad to worse that a revo lution breaks out. It happens more often that a people, having borne the most oppressive Jaws without complaint, as it unaware, cast tnem to one side violently once the strain is eased .... Having patiently suf fered the evil as being inevitable, it becomes unbearable as soon as me idea ot Dreaxing away Irom H comes to mina. But this applied to liberty-loving individualistic certain Eur- I real freedom nor foupht for it. and reallv have never had a chance to learn its meaning. No Russian revolution could suc ceed without support of the Red army. A recently published book, "The Red Army" edited by Lid 1956 Was a Good Year Here The year 1950 has been a good one in Salem. By itself it hasn t been a red letter year. Rather it has been one year in a dell Hart (Hartcourt Bruce) is composed of 39 essays by Brit- red letter era for this community. isli, American, German, French and Russian military experts on if it were possible to strike an average for, say the last 10 'every facet of the Soviet military machine. In a review of the years, of everything that makes a prosperous, well-governed I book in the Saturday Review, Gordon Harrison, former Army aim wi-ii-uigniiiwu community, ine oaicin average would De Historian says tnat tne central laea or me dook is io ueiuie eiy iiib", anu jdjd wuuiu oe auuve average, juore Jngn-ievci, wnat manner ot man is tne itussian Demna ine guns, years will follow, Industrially it was a great year. The American Can Com pany's plant went into operation. State Farm Mutual Automo bile Insurance Company chose Salem for its regional head quarters, and Plymouth Cordage Company of Massachusetts elected Salem for a western branch. Both are expected to build in 1957. Other concerns previously established, including Western Paper Converting Company, West Coast Beet Seed Company, Oregon Pulp & taper Company, Norris-Walker Paint Manufac turing Company, and Paulus Bros., Dole Hawaiian affiliate, plan major expansion, some on new locations. Newly-arrived Asten-Hill Mfg. Co. recently bought the plant vacated by Ore gon Flax Textiles. Blue Lake Packers, Oregon Turkey Grow ers, and Gould National Battery added to their facilities. But local industry took a couple of jolts, too. Hunt Foods abandoned its Salem plant and the property is for sale. A large lumbering and wood working plant has been paralyzed , by a strike lor months. I On the whole the retail business picture was bright. A sprinkling of vacant buildings about town, some merchants possibly down a bit in percentages. But inquiry brings this: By Chamber of Comemrce figures Salem retailing in 1954 reached $90 million, and in 1955 $99 million. The guess among tome business men, not all, is that 1956 will show another 10 per cent gain. And bankers say their 1956 debits will be eight or 10 per cent above 1955. One new bank was added early in Ihc year. In building construction permits totaled approximately $5, 779,900, which was under an annual average of $7,460,900 for the seven year period from 1950 through 1956. Permits for new dwellings were again phenomenally high at $2,226,403 for the year. Schools in the Salem district, where population growth Is reflected, added 15 elementary classrooms during the year at a cost of about $270,000. Two additional junior high schools and more classrooms are projected for the coming year. The utilities were active. Natural gas came. Pacific Tel ephone & Telegraph Company started and is now completing a $250,000 extension into the area south of Salem. The phone company will add a buildine the comine vear. Salem voters BOnrnvpd S3 7SO Onn hnnile fnr a nnui w.itnr cimntu IjnA frnm I n ' v ...... ...... ....... Slayton Island, and construction will start this spring. Traffic is easier and safer In Salem by projects completed or started during the year. The 12th Street project and the widening of South 12th and Market Streets were finished. The one-way grid was extended two blocks east, and four new bridges are being built on main-traveled streets. And, some thing that Salem hasn't had before, drop-arm safety barriers were installed by the Southern Pacific at the most-used grade crossings. - Salem takes on more metropolitan complexion by passage of an ordinance by the City Council giving the city six zones for street numbering and address purposes, NW, SE, etc., to be used as suffixes, indicating districts, not directions. Salem became acutely conscious of the fringe area problem during 1956, spurred somewhat by a threat in the Salem Heights district to incorporate a new city. As the year ends two committees, one appointed by the Salem Chamber of Commerce and one by the South Salem Chamber are work ing on the question, and all fringe areas will benefit by the itudy. Big news In Salem early in the year was selection of Marion County by the Air Force for a major airbase, on which ulti mately will be spent many millions for construction, equipment and housing for personnel. It will benefit Salem greatly. But its actuality depends so much on the national economy and on politics at Washington that it isn't yet entering too much into local business calculations. No, it was not a perfect year for Salem. But It was good enough that we would toss a challenge to any city of our class anywhere to show a better year. The Higher Interest Hales Although our current membership Is in the great fraternity composed of those who pay interest on borrowed money, we recently protested the almost universal wails that have been going up over increasing interest rales. We pointed out that I shouisl be respected minions ot persons benefit by a trend which we called long "3. The operation of the canal overdue. We pointed to depositors in banks and savings asso- should he insulated from the poli- ciations, owners of government and other bonds and life insur-; tics of any country: ance policies as beneficiaries, and noted that they comprise tens of millions. Last week it was announced by banks serving this area that effective January 1 they will pay two and a half per cent in terest on savings deposits, a 25 per cent hike, and three per cent on three year time deposits. This came about as a result of the generally higher interest rates, which do indeed cost many of us money, hut also benefit manv of us "The two ereat traditions basic to Russia," writes former Soviet Captain Mikhail Koriakov, "are the military tradition and the Russians' love of the soil. Despite Soviet industrializa tion, the mass of the Russian people . . . remain a people of farmers and soldiers. The mentality of the peasant is stamped on the Army its conditions,' its character, and the general spirit that pervades it. Hart asserts: The deep sociological consequences of the Bolshe vik revolution was not the conversion of a nation to Communism but the delivery of Russian society, culture, government, and policy into the hands of the peasantry. Russian and German observers find convincing explanations in vmape-oreti nanus 01 mina. ine louynnens anu uumu AkoHinnpa mav innir liiro nrnriur-ic of totalitarian training or fanatic de- votion to. an idea but actually derive more basically from the hard ships, fatalism, and paternalism of the Russian village. Used to an existence of grinding poverty, the Russian peasant lives too close to death to fear it and too absorbed with animal necessities to value him self as a person. Accustomed to absolute obedience to the father, who exercises lilerallv the right of life and death over his f.nmilv. the sold ier sees nothing linreasoiial'lc or unjust in tne ocmnnti mm tiiiivers fur the same kind of discimme. Nor do officers 01 peasant stock nesi tale to make such demands. Village life in semi-serfdom, Hart concludes, has enforced communal responsibility, stifled impulses toward individual ism. The Russian peasant soldier is tiierefore an unexcelled mass fighter, almost impervious to suffering and danger so long as he feels himself part of a disciplined group. (On this point the German generals are unanimous.) Peasant psychol ogy rather than the mere availability of manpower has encour aged Russian armies in mass tactics, which may be to the ad vantage of the NATO in case of war. G. P, U.N. (Which Means U.S.) May Have to Send Troops to Suez By DAVID LAWRENCE FT1 The resolution also character ized this blockade as an "unjusti fied interference with the rights of nations to navigate the seas and to trade freely with one another. including the Arab States and Israel." The resolution then con cluded: "The Security Council calls upon Egypt to terminate the restrictions on the passage of international commercial shipping and goods through the Suez Canal wherever bound and to cease all interfer ence with such shipping beyond that essential to the safety of ship ping in the canal itself and to the observance of the international conventions in force." This action was taken more than five years ago. How long will the Cnr-lll-llv rnnnr-il nf tha 11 M ollnur treaty which declare it shall be . j , i,. j;',-.j7 open to the ships of all nations Brilain and Fran ob.vfd WASHINGTON - The U n i t e d Nations m a y be obligated to send a large military force into the Middle Kast to keep the Suez Canal open and preserve order in the Imme diate vicinity. There is to d a y constant warfare by Egypt against Israel by means ot raids. Exten sive sabotage at t h e southern end of the canal has been com mitted by Egyptians. Nasser still insists that he has the right to say who shall use the waterway despite the provisions of the 1888 Don't Try to Pass the Hearse pj.aja..t&3i-'sgm:"ri- POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER To Millions Arrival of the New Year's a Great Moment By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK UP To mnst of I eggs and bacon and a eup of hot America's 169 million people th? soup, tea or coffee. (If any re greatest Cinderella second of the fuse call the police and say year is that tremulous moment .-t.theyre disturbing your peace.) midnight on New Year's Eve. Don t mix inn.-is. ,.,.1. (he striking ?" SO to srmeone elsr's "1 .'ZT-J f .r.nl not so much; Par1? lea.ve our car lake a cab. Marlow Still Doesn't Know If We've a Program or a Sub By JAMES MARLOW AP News Analyit at all times. The Suez Canal question Is stilt unresolved notwithstanding the de cision announced by the Security Council of the United Nations on October 15 as follows: "Noting the declarations made before it and the accounts of (he development of the exploratory conversations on the Suez question Kiven by the Secretary (..oneral of the I'nited Nations and the foreign ministers of Kgypt, France and the I'nited Kingdom; "(The Security Council! agrees that any settlement of the Suez iguestion should meet the following requirements. "1. There should be free and open transit through the canal without discrimination, overt or cuvei'l this covers both political and technical aspects: I he sovereignly ot I'.gypl the U.N.'s orders. When will the U.N. compel Kgypt to obey O.N. orders? These are the questions which confront the U.N., but in reality they confront the American gov ernment, which may be called on to supply the largest part of any military force that goes into Kgypt next time to obtain a fullfillment of U.N. decrees. 4. The manner of fixing tolls anil charges should be decided by agreement between Kgypt and the users; "5. A fair proportion of the dues should be allotted to development; "6. In case of disputes, unre-, solved affairs between the Suez Canal company and the Kgypt inn i ..1 1J . a! I ln.1 I... .,. ., ," , . , . , . n i ' k" ' iiiiui.i. Milium u- jt un ii ui runner, tney ootn cost arm nonpill many, ior innse w no . arbitration with suitable terms of borrow on their houses probably have life insurance policies , reference and suitable provisions whose future dividends will reflect better earnings the com panies are able to secure from the funds paid in to tlicm. Younger Supreme Court Justices When Governor Smith appointed Randall B. Kestor. 40-year-old Portland attorney to the Oregon Supreme Court Saturday it was noted that Kester will he one of the youngest if not the very youngest man ever to serve on our highest court, now almost a century old. Another young justice was appointed over in Idaho last week when Governor Smvlip mimed 41-ve.ir.nlil lleni-v Mi-Ou.ntn to of tin canal. succeed a justice who had mysteriously committed suicide a! I'nder such circumstances, the first Methodist church light re- j f iW fi.iv. i,fr t..n..,.i '.I.A...1.. ...i,.,.i, use of n preventive (one to com- Ireshments were served between;). fur the payment of sums found to be due. When will the U.N. start enforc ing its deetTl,,., The whole world has assumed that, when the I'.N. virtually ordered British and Krenvll forces out of the Sue area, llu-re wuuld be imposed an ititi'rmitioiuil discipline uf some kind winch would t-nd the war and renune tlie causes of the contro versy in the .Middle Kast over use Salem 56 Yrs. Ago Ky III-'.N MAXWELL , Dec. 31, 1900 This day 5fl years aso was the last tl;iy of the lilth century, ltt-v. M. J. Savage, preaching in the Church of the Messiah in New York on "The Century of Won der," had said that the notion the rich are growing richer and the poor- poorer is simply not true. There were more rich people in the country than ever before but there were not more poor people. Capital Journal X-Rayist had eomnienled that the 50 cent fare tor the round trip between Port land and Astoria was cheaper than hoboinc. At four miles for a cent the trains were crowded and mak ing money ot it. (There was then a rate war on between the river boats anil the railroad). An advertisement in this Issue of the Capital Journal of 5ii years ago told readers that news of the w-orltl. written and pictured, the finest nit and literature in the world, could be found in Collier's Weekly America's rorcmost il lustrated journal." (A few weeks ai;o Collier's announced suspension ol publication on Jan. 4, Wj7." WASHINGTON m - It still isn't clear whether the new program for the .Middle East, which the Eisenhower administration has leaked to newsmen, is really program at all or only a substitute for one. Its worth can't be judged until after President Eisenhower dis cusses it with congressional lead ers tomorrow and then presents it in some detail to Congress in January. For months the administration except for its opposition to the British-French attack on Egypt seeing to have had no policy for coping with the growing unrest and deterioration ,in the Middle East. The British and French were discredited by their Egyptian ad venture. It has been claimed that unless the United States asserts some leadership the Middle East will be saturated by the influence of Russian communism. Whether the program now being talked of by the administration is the answer or just a gesture or a stopgap until it can think of something better remains to be seen. First news of the plan was leaked by the administration last week. This is one way to test both public and congressional re action before the program is of fered to Congress for appp. val. It calls for two things: t 1. Four hundred million dollars in aid for the Middle East, in cluding both Arab nations and Is rael during the next two years. 2. Approval by Congress before hand standby authority for the President to use American armed forces If he deems it neces sary, to slop Russian aggression in the Middle East. That standby authority might serve to discourage the Russians front an armed attack in the area. It might also be only a gesture without any practical meaning. There's no indication the Rus sians have any intention of using armed force in the Middle East. The danger from communism in the area appears to be more from subversion than from invasion. What would Eisenhower do with his standby authority if, for in stance, instead of conquest of Sy ria by Russian attack, Syrian Communists took over by a re volt entirely within the country? The idea of giving the Middle East 400 million dollars In aid certainly shows American interest in the area. But this, too, raises basic questions. For instance, is the money to shoveled out to any Arab nation which might want it like Pres ident Nasser's Egypt or will it be given only with some as surance it will bring cooperation with the West? Aid alone is hardly a program unless there Is fairly solid rea son for believing it will stop Com munist Infiltration. A Smile or Two American Box Corp. The director of the home nlan- ning department of a laree firm was called to the phone one day. "Could you help me with some color suggestions?" a feminine voic asked. "I want to know what colors I'll get if I mix green and blue, yellow and blue, and yellow and green." We could be of more help to you, said the home planner, "if we knew what you're working with. Are you using flat or gloss paint, enamel, oils?" Oh, no, exclaimed the caller, 'I'm not painting. 1 am plannine to cross-breed some parakeets." The Individualist Wall Street Journal All right, Miss Jones, we'll start work on my speech for the lunch eon. Ready? "The trouble with modern busi ness is that it is too stereotyped. What we need is the character and flair and personality of yester day's rugged individualists. Where today are the men who dare to think differently, act differently, create differently? Speaking of my own business, I know we are crying out for this type of man the man who is nr' r mere con formist, the man whose eccentric genius is cast in a more. . . ." What's that, Miss .'ones? A man to see me, dressed irr shorts and with a beard, saying he has a new idea? Throw the crazy character out, and let's get on with my speech. clock then will signal not so much the ashen death of our old dreams but herald the advent of a bright tomorrow when new and better dreams will come true. But the problem is less how to enjoy New Year's Eve than to survive it. Our ntneate civilization nas 10. Don't mix anything dri.-! or people if you know er sus pect this is one of the times you shouldn't. 11. I' you plan to go to an early morning New Year's Day re ligious service, walk to the near est church. If a guy who has to hrniieht to this brief pinnacle of i fumble for his car keys insists on mass pleasure the danger of mass taking you or your family an-. murder. It has become a task to I where tonight or his own wife see the New Year out with fun and kids pour castor oil in his and yet be sure one has done drink, let the air out r' his tires. DIM VIEW OF WOMEN Columbia Crew Women are the sex that believes that If you charge it, it's not spending, and if you add a cherry to It, it's not Intoxicating. IDEAS ARE DANGEROUS Elbert Hubbard An idea that is not daneernna I unworthy of being called an idea. nothing to keep one's self or one's friends from starting the New Vear alive and unbandaged. Here are a few j on how to get the most enjoyment mileage out of New Year s five wun ine least possible regret: 1. Remember, first of all, that we create most of our sorrows by pressing too hard for impossible joys. 2. Don't mix drinks of grape and grain and distilled apples and potatoes. ' 3. Hememoer mar, aunougn n is a time of teeter-totter (one year dying, another year being bcrn), you should retain the detachment of a midwife: whatever hippens, she keeps on living." 4. Don t mix drinks of grape and grain and distilled apples. 5. If you plan to leave your own home, check your insurance policies and see that they are all paid up. Don t mix drinks of grape and grain. - 7. If you are having a party in your own home, do these things: A. Don t serve any guest an alcoholic beverage mtil he has first drunk a 12-ounce glass of cold water or milk to remove any real thurst. B. If you have a midnight nightcap, immediately announce you arc going to entertain the remaining guests with card tricks. This will sober up any crowd, and send them home early. C. Prohibit political discussions and dispense martinis only to who are accompanied by a muscu lar and firm-mmded teetotaller. D. Insist at 12:01 a.m. that ev eryone eat a plate of scrambled or call the cops. It is' always better to make a scene than to become a bloody mess. Many of the holiday r-ci-dent victims are wives, children or friends of a bottle-ambushed man of good will who is steering a wheel when he can't steer him self. They die or are crippled be cause they are social cowards who lack the courage to say "no" when they should. 12. Don't e -en If you have to miss a New Year's Eve cele bration miss the adi-iture of being around to see all that will happen in the "potential Heaven of '57." And a happy New Year to you, your family, and all you hold dear. - Remember, if you are in doubt tonight don't. Don't anyway! 252 Deathless Days Albany Democrat-Herald Christmas day marked the 252nd in Albany without a traffic fatal ity. This was certainly a welcomed Christmas present to the commun ity. That the weekend passed without anyone being critically in jured here or elsewhere in Linn county is also something for which we are all grateful. Safety agencies maintain that with rare excepti traffic mis haps are due to faulty driving on the part of someone. Conversely, then, lack ot misnaps means gooa driving prevailed. So local resi dents have cause to be proud of their ability to drive their cars. Yet let us not forget th Biblical warning that "pride goeth before destruction." r "All Kinds of INSURANCE A and SURETY BONDS" MJVftlWllflil 121 No. HIGH SS PH. EM 4-3333 THEY LOSE THE MOST Sherman County Journal Those who have money tied up in social security should be the ones most interested in stopping inflation. They ha'-e the most fo lose. WHY WE'RE SLOW Thomas B. Reed The reason why the race o' man moves slowly is because it must move all together. Salem did not get excited about ! i the dawr of a new centurv. At ; mrrninnnnc U an (Irniinn cirfinf in.lnn it mm nf I lias ViMirttf. 1 ,.. . ' ' ; ik v....,., ju..h.. ........ mpcjsn 0f ltM, s,.Curity Council 'c s:ai tu ai"ic un tne iiignesi court over mere of testimony and consecration. Those wishing to attend the mid-! They H:nr Io Br Kicli i it...-.- nonius tu iiuemi tne IlllU- ! I, the I'.N. aight services at St. Joseph's , the way church were asked to obtain tick-1 nation to els either at Harr's jewelry store f becomes loeic.-il There appears to be a trend toward younger men on the ; If. on the other hand bench, at least when governors have the opportunity to appoint doesn't follow through them I will be open for any talic military action. The tintisn " rectory. Mipenniennent i and Krenrh will be able to point I-amhrith of the traction company : f' to the sequence of events since would kindly have a street car : ! The 1 nnrfni, TsUonnh hli.ir tho annnintmitnt nf f.itin 'thev withdrew their milit.trv 'or tne acomtiiodalion of those! Hay Whitnev of New York to he ambassador Io Britain he- lm,'s justification for their Jjvinft on the Asylum , J.onue 'now , j ti.ua .. . .i i -.1.. . oncinal intervention of October 3 . r-a5t (enter M. (Such was tie eaust Whitney W "just another rich man like his predecessor,; ., 1 " reception that Salem gave a new 11 ttinthrop Aldnch. and not a career diplomat, whom the Tele- she 'lias been and still is' "at ar" century that brought two world i graph thinks could do lite job better. ;ilh Israel and doesn't have to ars, the atomic bomb nnd this j There are two sides to this. Perhaps an American who . allow Israeli ships to use the column to the Capital Journal', ji- has not been exposed to the State Department's peculiar wav "rial. Hut on September 1, ln.l. I If of thinking will better represent the American people In a the Security Council dealt specifl-1 Roth k Graber, Rroccrs at 14,. foreipn ranilal cally with this very subject in a State St., were advertising these 1 r n . . . , . , , . unanimously adopted resolution. : holiday- specials on New Year's t But there is another reason why rich men are named to Tni, declared that Ksypt had not Hve. 1900: Johnson s sliced pme- these jobs. An ambassador's expenses far exceed the salary complied with the earnest plea of apple. 2 lbs. 25 cents; Blue Kibbon !i and entertainment allowances ur Congress has ever Ween will-j the ehief of staff of the truce Bartlett pears. 20 cents: Hod Itib- : ing to provide our ambassadors wrtk. S presidents do't Ivrt wiwrvisin rsaniMti.a of the.bon extra fancy tomatoes. 1 for i- much choice. Ability to pick ? tJ nte te?K tfc No, l!lLZr,"lllih: lf!'p,'2. T',' "'"'l lkrl i"1"""1 niialifieati j r r - i&n) lean Uo) pwM p juHoe wkeat at cents a bushel, ew f; suainicaiinn. , , . . . . . o(tvrmjs iyaa Oa) bth . II M cents a doion. dressed hos ;' f nr . 1 1 . ji, , few aHo. Shin - .v,V Vt,r.liwlr . ' "' cmjuiir Kiei-a tun una w -v v"f ujnroini mt san ajaat w gttrt ro ; a to. and jVtjuci; n V From Tennyson's "In MemorlmH Ring- out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: t The yenr is dying in the night; . Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. j. Ring out the old, ring In the hew, Ring, hnppy bells, across the snow: i The. year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. j Ring out the grief that saps the mind. ror those that here we see no more: Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause. And ancient forms of party strife: Ring in the nobler forms of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times: Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes; Put ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood. The civic slander' and the spite: Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the harrowing lust for gold: Ring out the thousand wars of old, - Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring In the valiant man and free. The larger heart, the kindlier hand: Eirg cut the darkness of tKe toad, Kin in the Christ tVmt is to b. YOUR SAVINGS ACCOUNT IS WELCOME WHERE ONE THOUSAND HAVE SAVED A MILLION NEW SAVINGS RATES EFFECTIVE JAN. 1, 1957 22 On Savings Accounts !Q On Three Year Certificates of Deposit Ask About Our Deposit Box Offer to New Accounts. Open, Increase or Transfer Your Account Before Jan. 11th to Earn Interest From Jan. 1st. 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