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Tuesday. September 20, 193S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Britain's Long Delay In Admitting Role Of Spies Pointed Up By CHARLES M. McCANN "Uniled Presi Correspondent The British Foreign Office certainly waited a long time be fore it admitted that its missing diplomats Don a 1 d D. Mac Lean and Guy De M. Burgess were spies for Soviet Russia. For more than four years, the Foreign Office denied or brushed off as mere rumor circumstantial reports that the two men had fled behind the Iron Curtain. Now it admits that they were tinder investigation as security risks and knew it at the time of the disappearance. The remaining mystery is why the Foreign Office suppressed the news so long. The Secret V Cnaxles Mclaua Service must have learned the facts long ago. One reason seems to be that MacLean and Burgess betrayed American as well as British secrets, and the Foreign Office feared the effect on British American relations. Apparently it hoped that in time the whole embarrassing business would be forgotten. Waited Too Long But it looks as if the For eign Office waited too long. Lon don dispatches report that both Conservative and Labor mem bers of the House of Commons want to know why and may demand a Parliamentary inves tigation. MacLean, now 42, and Bur gess, now 44, took a channel steamer for France on May 25, 1951, and vanished. It was not long before rumors started to circulate. Then came specific-reports. Six months aft er the disappearance, for in stance, a former Russian artil- In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS" Graham Dean, in his "Editor's Notebook" in his Ashland Ti dings, has been doing some spec ulating about a fortunate real estate investment made in Port land back in the late 1860s by our old Uncle Samuel. He says: "Uncle Sam is going to make a handy piece of change when he sells the Portland downtown block of property on which the 80-year-old Pioneer post office is located. The structure and site, no longer needed for postal serv ices, is a desirable business loca tion and will soon be offered at public sale. The block of 'land was pur chased by the government in 1869 for $15,000 and the three- story . building was erected in 1875 at a cost of $365,000. The builtfing has repaid its cost many times through the years and will have no value to a buyer today since it will have -to be wrecked. "On the basis of the original land investment of $15,000, Uncle Sam is likely to get as much as half a million- dollar's, which is pretty good increase in values." , TT , WOULD be interesting to figure out what would have happened in the case of a private investor who might have bought the land in question back in 1869 and had held it ever since and PAID TAXES ON IT. I have no ' way of knowing what the taxes would have been in these 80-odd years. But if some private citizen .anticipat ing that Portland was going to be quite a town some day, had bought that block of land and had kept it vacant all these years, seeking only the land profit without risking a cash money investment in a building, or other improvements, I imag ine that taxes would have taken quite a bite out of his half mil lion dollar profit. rpHE fact that the federal gov- ernment owns a lot of prop erty ariund over the country but PAYS NO TAXES is too little understood in our scheme of things. A good thing to remem ber in areas where the govern ment owns a lot of property (and runs a lot of businesses) is that what the government DOESN'T pay in the way of taxes the citi zens HAVE TO PAY. THE American Meat Institute- which has probably done .more for the livestock industry than ALL the politicians put to gether relates in a recent bul letin that the number of retail food stores having 100 per cent self-service meat departments has jumped since 1952 from 178 to 11,500. It adds that of the ap proximate $9,000,000,000 spent for meat in retail stores last year about 40 per cent.was handled by self-service departments. rPHAT brings up an interesting subject. These self-service-departments enable the stores to get along with less help and, of course, by enabling them to get along with less help they make it pos sible to pay the higher wages of recent years. When self-service stores first came in, it was generally feared that they would result in large UNEMPLOYMENT. That hasn't come about. Labor is consider ably scarcer now than it was back in 1952. And i employment is considerably greater. WHEN power looms first came into use in England long, long ago, there was DESPER ATE FEAR that mass unemploy ment and actual starvation of displaced workers would follow. It didn't happen. DOWN THROUGH THE YEARS,, labor-saving machinery has considerably increased em ployment instead of decreasing it. It has done so by lowering the costs of production and thus enabling people to consume more of the products of industry. AUTOMATION (meaning ma chines that run by them selves) is the latest bugaboo. It has a lot of people shivering in their boots. History teaches us rather, clear ly that if we have the good sense not to crowd our booms TOO FAR and TOO HARD, thus bringing on a bust, automation will increase employment rather than decreasing "it. IN THE bulletin just quoted, the Ampriran TVTpat Institute of fers the interesting statement that backyard grills have cer tainly helped meat consumption this year. They have helped to set a rec ord of 8,000,000,000 hot dogs and some 200,000,000 pounds of ham burger. Last year the hamburger figure was 180,500,000 pounds and in 1952 (when there were far fewer backyard grills) it was only 76,000,000 pounds. Sunday School Planned In Griffin Creek Area A Griffin Creek area Sunday school will open at the , Griffin Creek Grange hall on Sept. 25 under sponsorship of the Ameri can Sunday school union, a non denominational organization. The weekly services will be at 10 a.m. Sundays. Allen W. Hill, Central Point, district Sunday school mission ary for the ASSU, is supervisor of the new school and is in charge of its organization. Hill said that all interested are welcome to attend. .Ihey never tackle him any more since, they found out; he gave so much to the United Community Campaign." Published As A Public Service By CRATER LAKE MOTORS Your FORD Dealer lery officer wrote in a Paris newspaper that he personally had seen MacLean and Burgess in Moscow. Similar reports were published from time to time. On April 3, 1954, Vladimir Petrov, Russia's chief spy in Australia, turned himself over to the Australian Secret Service. It was disclosed that Petrov had given the facts on MacLean and Burgess to the Australians. The Foreign Office dismissed the information as "hearsay." Commission Publishes Report But an Australian royal com mission, which for 11 months had gone through the volum inous spy information Petrov gave, published its . report last Wednesday. Petrov himself gave his story of the MacLean-Burgess case in a London newspaper Sunday, and the Foreign Office couldn't deny it. He asserted that they had been recruited as spies for - Russia while they were students at Cambride University 25 years ago. It had been disclosed, after their disappearance, that they had been members of the "left wing circle" at Cambridge. But the Foreign Office didn't make the disclosure. It came from men who had known MacLean and Burgess. 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