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A CASE EOR REPATRIATION
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Soviet-bloc spokesmen have argued
vigorously in the United Nations that
soldier- captured from Communist
armies should be returned, forcibly if
necessary, to Communist hands re­
gardless of personal desires.
There is another case of po.-sible
repatriation, however, in which Mos­
cow takes little or no interest. It is
the case of 12,661 Greek children
taken into th eneighborir.g Communist
states by guerilla armies during the
civil war in Greece. Red Cross socie­
ties and others have tried for four
years to obtain their return to then-
homes and families.
This case was presented recently to
the United Nations, and the General
Assembly’s Special Political Commit-1
tee voted 46 to 5 to censure the Soviet
Union and its satellites for their at­
titude in refusing the appeal.
No doubt so shrewd a legalist as
Foreign Minister Vishinsky would find
distinctions between the situation of
soldier prisoners still carried on Com­
munist rolls and that of yonug chil­
dren whose only tie to their home­
land is the fact that saddened parents
want them. People with hearts will
understand why grown men may have
some doubts about returning to a
homeland turned police-state, but they
will scarcely understand why seized
children are not a suitable subject for
repatriation.- From Christian Science
Monitor.
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A Dream Realized
This issue of The Enterprise carries a recent photo
if Santiam Memorial hospital, the hospital with a “Heart .
During the year 1950, the good citizens of the North San­
tiam canyon pitched in with "what counts" and assured
themselves of this new hospital. The federal government
tossed a very substantial sum into the pot for the con­
struction of Santiam Memorial hospital.
In an editorial in the December 14, 1950, issue of The
Enterprise we asked the question, “What kind of hospital
is this that we are going to build?" We answered that
question in this manner: “It will be community-owned
and controlled, non-profit, and non-sectarian. It will be a
hospital with a ‘Heart’. None will be refused medical
care because of temporary inability to pay. The value of
human life will be placed above material rewards.
Lebanon received nation-wide publicity because of
their fine new hospital. It is doubtful that the North
Santiam’s hospital will receive such renown. We would
THE; NEW CIO CHIEF
be very happy should our hospital be singled out tor the
The Congress of Industrial Organ­
magazine and newspaper spreads, but we hold that good, izations assured itself of a verile,
inner feeling that we do have a hospital. The lives of each dynamic, progressive leadership by
of us becomes a little more bearable because this new electing as its third president Walter
hospital rose from the ranks of a dream to an impressive Reuther, president of the million­
member United Auto Workers Union.
structure.
Impetuous, hot-tempered but more
Again and again it was stated that we need a modern, often
rigidly self-disciplined, Reuther
well-equipped and well-staffed hospital. A hospital that may lack
the steady farsightedness,
can and will serve our needs and those of future genera­ the patient determinatoin and the will
tions. Soon we will have that hospital in the fullest sense. to stern compromise that character­
his predecessor, the late Phil
Santiam Memorial hospital nestles on a prominent and ized
Murray. But in unyielding view to­
easily located site in Stayton. The new section of high­ ward Communists, in stamina at the
way linking Mill City and the upper canyon to Stayton bargaining table and in aggressive
gives a sweeping and speedy route to the new hospital. leadership of social programs, he will
Emergency vehicles carrying the sick and wounded can give his union strength,
A Socialist until he was 25, Reuther
reach the best of care in a short time.
of late years has been known as a
Santiam Memorial hospital is but one of the solid gains right-winger largely because of his
that have come to this canyon in recent years. Though opposition to anti-Americanisms. In
these gains have come slowly, they have arrived. Like social, political and economic think­
other improvements that may be seen today, this new ing, he has appeared somewhat left
center.
canyon hospital is due in part to the sojourn here of those of Reuther
from a union family­
who were a part of Consolidated Builders, Inc., contractors in the coal came
and steel areas of Vir­
for Big Cliff and Detroit dams. These people generously ginia and was a local union president
gave of their time and money to the cause of a hospital at the age of 23. He quit school at
15 to work in a Detroit machine shop,
for this area. Most have now left.
later finished three years at
As usual, however, the bulk of the support for this hut
Wayne university in night school. His
new hospital came and is coming from those who lived here rise in union labor was rapid. He
before the construction work and live here now, and that was fired by Ford for union activity
is as it should be. These are the people who will benefit in 1926, and in subsequent years has
been the center of physical violence
most.
well as the target of an assassin's
Such things as a good hospital, school and highway as
gun which severely wounded him.
aild up to greater opportunity. The day of the hardships During World War II he was labor
of the pioneer is fading. We hope the tales of children representative on the OPM and WMC.
being born in automobiles enroute to Salem will soon be
at an end. (lone, also, should be the tragic story of a
life that ebbed away during the tedious journey to help
in a Salem hospital. The essentials of our modern civil­
ization now are a part of our canyon. The people can pat
themselves on the back for another job well done.
He led the four-months General
Motors strike in 1945, when the union
settled its demand for a 30-cent hourly I
wage boost for lSlg cents.
While Reuther has been somewhat
of a stormy petrel several times dur- i
ing his career, his loyalty to the cause
he served, as w-ell as to his country.,
has never been questioned. If he suc­
ceeds in combining judgment, tact and
reasonable flexibility with the attri­
butes for which he already is noted,
his regime should be a successful one
for CIO.—From Oregon Statesman. ,
WHY SOUTH KOREANS WILL
NOT COMPROMISE
One has to talk to or hear a native
Korean — someone like Young Han
Choo, Korean consul geneial for the
11 western states—to understand the
deep determination of the Korean
people to fight to the death for a
free and united Korean republic.
Choo made the point clear in his i
appearance on KPOJ's On the Record
program Tuesday night. His people
have suffered terribly froc the Red in­
vasion. One tenth of all residents of
Korea (Northern Korea included)
have become < asualties of the Korean
invasion, either killed, captured or
dead from exposure and hunger. Ten
million are refugees.
To Choo, whose own town in Korea
was destroyed, and literally millions
of Koreans like him, there can be no
peace that leaves Korea divided, no
matter what its other terms. To him
and his compatriots, Northern Ko-j
leans suffering under the Communist
yoke must be liberated. Three mil­
lion residents of Northern Korea who
fled fiom the invading Reds mu-t be
repatriated. And the 2'2 million old­
er people and children still under
Red domination must be rescued.
All this accounts for the fact that
Consul General Choo and President
Syngman Rhee continue to advocate
an offensive that will drive the Reds
across the Yalu and restore Korea's
original boundary. They regard the
free-and-united-Korea commitment of
the United Nations as a sacred pledge.
Nothing less will satisfy them.
This explains why they are willing
and anxious for the United States and
the U.N. to train and arm more and
more Koreans. They now man ap­
proximately 60 per cent of the front
lines and believe—despite the testi­
mony of some experts —that they
could man the entire battle front
within a short time and, with U. N.
air, tank and naval support, could
drive the Reds out of Korea.
We think they are over-optimistic,
but that’s the way they feel. And
they’ are equally certain that they
don't fant Chinese Nationalists or
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Every Time
lou know where Hammy Jack-
son lives—on that small dead-end
street off Maple Avenue near the
library? Well, about a month ago,
the town finally put up a sign on
the corner there saying: “No
thoroughfare . . . Dead End.''
Y’esterday Hammy dropped by
to see us. “Can't understand it,”
he says. “Hardly anybody drove
down our street before—but, now,
since they put that sign up, there’s
been more cars than ever turning
around in my driveway.”
From where I sit, these people
who bother Hammy on his one-
way street are the same as those
w'ho automatically ignore a Wet
Paint sign and touch their finger
on a freshly painted surface. But
you can’t change human nature.
People like to find out for them­
selves— and then make their own
decisions.
That's why I say “live and let
live.” You can drink your butter­
milk, but let me have my glass of
beer when I choose. And let’s not
feel we’re obliged to “point the
way” for the other fellow.
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