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U.S. Foreign Policy Invites Disaster, Reporter Tells Valley Knife-Fork Group Charging that this nation is In viting disaster with its present foreign policy, John Morley, war correspondent and traveler, reported on world conditions for Rogue Valley Knife and Fork club at a dinner meeting last night at Rogue Valley Country club. The speaker, who returned to the United States from Korea earlier this month, also criticiz ed the United Nations war strat egy in Korea and stated that the morale of United Nations troops Is very low. He advocated that "we either adopt an aggressive policy, or retreat beneath the 38th parallel and dig in." Must Bomb Base! "We cannot win a victory In Korea unless we can bomb the bases from which their air power Is coming, Morley declared. The reporter said General James Van Fleet told him in July of 1951 that "we have the Reds on the run and could lick them Jn 60 days if we are let alone; Morley declared that the peo ple at home are not being told the truth about the progress of the war in Korea and said "not one new plane has been sent to Korea since the war started and none will be sent before fall of 1952." He declared that this na tion has lost "three to four times as many planes as the Reds" in Korea, and said is was due largely to the fact that our forc es are forbidden to cross the Yalu river and bomb the Chin ese bases. Cites U.S. Election The correspondent declared that the Reds started their "phony" peace talks alter the trend of the war was against them and added, "we are going to pay the price of peace in an election year; we'll give the Reds what they want." "The Reds will bleed ug white and then start trouble' some where else," Morley said later during the question period. He added that he did not advocate "pulling out of Korea," and be lieved Chiang Kai Shek's army now held on Formosa should be used. He criticized the adminis tration's off and on policy with Chiang Kai Shek and praised the Chinese leader, saying he was a capable general and a good Christian. Reviews European History Sneaking o conditions In Europe, Morley went back Into recent history to talk of CzechO' Slovakia, saying we lost that na tion to Russia and communism when the war department and Ahe administration bowed to public demand and brought American troops home, leaving Czechoslovakia unde fended, "After World War II we began to build automobiles, refrigera tors and toasters," Morley said "while the Russians continued to build guns and tanks. You can not defend a nation with toasters." The speaker discussed the sit uation in the Near East and said we lost the good will of the Arabs and Moslems when this country recognized the new Israelite government in Pales tine, He charged that this was done by President Truman only because of the strength of the Jewish vote in this country. He said that "formerly there were 700,000 Jewish refugees; they settled in Palestine and displae ed Arabs, and now there are 700.000 Arab refugees. New Officer Named By Lumber Firm Here nation should expand its FBI and counter intelligence forces for internal protection, should "kick the communists out of our educational system" and quit paying athletie coaches three times as much as professors of history and economics. Having earlier said that there isn't s single important indus trial plant in this country with out its spy cell of Russians, Mor ley climaxed his statements about communists in this coun try by saying "men like Whit taker Chambers should be shot and not paid a quarter of a mil lion dollars to tell how he spied on his own country." Questions Ensenhow.r During the question period Morley was asked if General Dwight Eisenhower would make a good president and answered that "he would by compari son." Morley then added that he once questioned the general about his beliefs and discovered that Eisenhower was "against the foreign policy of the Repub licans and against the domestic policy of the Democrats." "Act ually, he is against the platform of the people who support him," Morley" declared. "He is not the best man," the speaker. I be lieve that if this country wants military man for president, General Douglas MacArthur would be a better choice. The speaker was introduced by Dr. Bert R. Elliott, who had traveled with Morley in Japan during the summer of I9a0. Irrigation District Workmen Attempt To Prepare Dam Grants Pass Grants Pass Irri gation district workmen are struggling this week to place Sav- ge Rapids dam in shape lor tiie irrigation season, according to Charles Miller, district manager. The difficulty they are having arises from two factors, unusual lv high water for this time of year, and obsolete hydraulic diversion gates at the top of the dam. Miller said The gates are tricky to oper ate, Miller reported, and the heavy flow of water over them! has made it doubly difficult to get them in place to direct the water into Irrigation ditches, Hopes This Week Miller added, however, that he hopes water can be placed in the ditches by the end of the week. Water users arc now in need of irrigation water, al though rainfall last Sunday eas ed the situation somewhat. Work on the gates from rafts upriver from the dam has been made highly hazardous due to the fact that the river has been running about two feet or more deep over the crest of the dam. Miller explained that there are 16 such gates, and all are pinned down at the end of the irrigation year in the fall. Pirn Released Pins have been released from all but two so far. But last year only five of them could be raised by hydraulic action, and six the year before. The gates were opened last March 10 so that John Laden is the new assist ant secretary and assistant treas urer for Southern Oregon Sugar Pine company at Camp White, it was announced today. Laden came here about two weeks ago with his family from Portland where he was a certified public accountant. The "family has pur chased 3 home at 2104 East Jack son street. edly deep water since then has complicated the work. Overhaul of the hydraulic sys tem is one of the projects of dam rehabilitation for which federal funds have been asked. Their son, John Laden Jr., is a seventh grade student at junior high school. Their daughter, Catherine Laden, is a student at Dominican college, San Rafael, Calif., where she is music edu cation major. Pi is the number by which the diameter of a circle must be multiplied to get the circumfer ence. The figure commonly used is 3.1416. 4-H Club News Busy MountainMH Ths Busy Mountaineers 4 H club me April 8 In the home eco nomics room of Prospect high school with our leader, Mrs. Eula Middlebusher, We have two new members, Gayle Harris and Jo anne Romtne, making a total of 10 members. We havejnvited our mothers to our next meeting, at the home of Mrs. Middlebusher. At that time we will have on display the Nearly 10,000,000 head of live-Isewing boxes we have made at stock utilize forage and water I home. We are now ready to start resources on public lands annu-lour first sewmg project, ally. I Suzanne Rogers, reporter. TaMday. 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