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Br MALCOLM EPLEY
STATEHOUSE. Salem. Ore. (Special Corres
pondence) In the humoroua by-play that
affords relief from the serious business of law
making here, the Ktarnam
county community of Henley
li getting more than its share
of attention. If Henley had a
chamber of commerce, it
would be glad to appropriate
money for the publicity the
place has been receiving.
Henley is the home of Klam
ath's senior legislator, Henry
Semon. Always listed as from
Klamath Falls now Identified
as a village eight miles north
of Henley Rep. Semon has
become acutely Hemey-con-scious
this session, and legislative circles have
become interested. Even a popular beverage
consumed hereabouts in off-hours has been dub
bed "Old Henley" with appropriate container
'Mybe it was that B league football champ
ionship that gave Mr. Semon new ideas about
his home community.
Most people hereabouts had never before
heard of Henley, and when we arrived last
week-end, we were buttonholed by numerous in
dividuals for information about the Klamath
county community. Some of our Inquisitors
even voiced doubt of the existence of such a
place which they could not find on their maps.
We assured them that building permits, bank
clearings, postal receipts, agricultural production
(more truth than kidding in that) and other
statistics place Henley in the forefront of Ore
gon communities. About the time we felt we
had developed considerable prestige for the
place, some one came up with a report that
there had been a six-inch fall of snow in the
Klamath country that morning, and they hadn't
been able to find Henley down there.
All in fun, of course, but hasn't hurt Henley
or Semon!
-
Land Issue
DISTRICT ATTORNEY CLARENCE HUMBLE
of Klamath county Joined the little band
..of Klamathites gathered in this neck of the
woods. It was not a desire for a pay raise
(though he thinks he'll get a boost from 53000
to $3600 out of a general district attorney's
salary bill) that brought him here. He is here
advocating adoption of a law which will be
similar to that in California covering .the ac
quisition of land by the federal government
This proposal would require the federal gov
ernment to get approval from the state, and the
county affected, before acquiring land in Ore
gon. This harks back to the fight over land
exchanges between Shevlin-Hixon company and
the forest service of a year or two ago.
Mr. Humble says that Klamath county's valu
ation has been falling, causing increased tax
rates, and that a factor in recent valuation
declines has been the loss of Shevlin-Hixon prop
erty exchanged with the federal government.
He contends that the county's consent should
be necessary before any land is removed from
its tax rolls because of transfer of ownership
to the federal government, which already owns
a huge slice of tax-free lands in Klamath oounty.
The d a. foresees the possibility that the In
dian reservation will be eventually liquidated, '
and the question may arise as to whether timber
in that area will go to the forest service and
stay off the tax rolls or go to private owner
ship and become taxable. At least two large
timber companies, he said, would probably be
interested in adding Indian service timber to
tree farms in Klamath county.- He thinks that
adoption of the state-county consent law would
. give the county bargaining power in determining
the destiny of Indian timber in case of reserva
tion liquidation as proposed in Wade Craw
ford' senate bill No. 1313.
Briefs From The Pocket File
SENATE PRESIDENT MARSHALL CORNETT
took one look at the flaming red furniture
in the new senate lounge, and the gleaming
white refrigerator, and ordered the whole busi
ness 'moved out . . . More sober' furnishings
will be attempted to suit the conservative taste
of the Klamath senator, who felt the loud and
colorful, articles were out of place . . The
house lounge features quieter, pastel shades, and
apparently will stay . . . Circuit Judge David
R. Vandenberg will probably get a pay hike
from $6000 to $8000 in a general circuit judge
salary bill . . . Vandenberg and Humble are paid
by the state . . . Former Klamath County Legis
lator and House Speaker Harry Boivin just
hiked through the house corridor . . . Rep.
Rose M. Poole of Klamath county is one of three
. women in the house . . . She has a reputation
for level-headed legislating and conscientious
committee work . . , Legislators generally beef
about the maze of halls and stairways and the
inadequate committee rooms in the Oregon
capitol, but no one can belittle the beauty of
the place without getting an argument out of
us ... We like its clean, gleaming lines (inside
and out) and the general impression of airy
beauty that prevails in the central rotunda and
the legislative halls.
News Behind The News
Br PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON. Jan. 30 The British are
said to be the smartest diplomats in all
the world, but this has not been said much
lately.
The foreign minister. Mr. Bevin. has had a
tussle with Pravda andor Stalin the past few
weeks, which may cause some revisions of
opinion on that subject. Mr. Bevin's rotund
philosophy of foreign policy was being hard
pressed at home by certain rowdies in the
ranks of his socialist labor party who claimed
he was too close to the United States. They
wanted a more pro-Soviet or anti-American
policy. So Mr. Bevin made a speech. He said
Britain is not tying herself to anyone just like
that, not tying herself to anyone.
Imagine Mr. Bevin's .chagrin and surprise
when criticism of his remark, came not from
America, not even from his own rowdies, .but
from that great international mind which knows
all, sees all, but docs not tell very much
Pravda. Now Pravda said Bevin's remark re
nounced and repudiated the British mutual
aid pact with Russia. Mr. Bevin must have lost
five pounds or more when he read that for he
did an unexpected if not unheard of thing.
He wrote Stalin. He sent an official note deny
ing the Pravda interpretation of his own re
marks. He assured Stalin he had no such thing
in mind, a plea which was not hard to believe
because no one else thought so. He had not
even been talking about being tied to Russia
but answering complaints that he was tied to
us.
It would require a British sense of humor to
understand how Bevin could possibly have
taken the Pravda accusation seriously. But he
did in the note, saying his observation had been
"lifted out of context" and "distorted'' which
indeed it had been both.
Shades Of Siberia
. IOW do not go away, kiddies. Here the
story just starts to become Interesting.
Pravda, which sees things no one in the entire
' world can see. came right back at the poor
misunderstood (?) Mr. Bevin and said he was
wrong in interpreting his own speech. Bevin
did not know what he meant by his own re
marks, said Pravda, and added: "This cannot
be denied."
Well Stalin denied it the very same day.
(January 23). Shades of Siberia! Spirit of forced
labor in the salt mines! The editor of Pravda
was denied by Stalin. Gullible as I am, I imme
diately conjured visions of the whole staff of
Pravda being invited by the gestapo to pack up
suddenly and ask no questions because they
were going somewhere. I know what trouble
it is to dispute an editor in a democracy. But
for a Pravda editor to dispute Stalin! The con
templation of such ao event thrusts me into
unutterable sadness.
Anyway, kiddies, the great and good Stalin
answered Bevin's alarm, calmed his troubled
mind, straightened out his misunderstood spirit,
and said Bevin was right in his interpretation
that is, he was right if (printer, please re
peat "if"), he changed some of the weakening
reservations in the Anglo-Russian treaty. Or
perhaps it is not entirely accurate to put it so
obviously. What Stalin precisely said was that
the weakening reservations should be changed
presumably to bring Britain further within the
Russian camo, and that Bevin was right, of
course, in interpreting his own remarks. Stalin
did not mention what reservations. Quite plain
ly he was dickering for some kind of a better
deal for himself.
SIDE GLANCES
..SO .narar au anmcr. acta artt. ; a. Par, art.
"If he asks me how much I make, I'll tell him I make
enough so I don't have to worry a lot about my income
taxes!"
,aJted-aJdeujdaJtje
The World
Today
Br J. M. ROBERTS JR.
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
Point Missed
THE point of the matter may have been lost
in the humorless but misunderstood British
foreign office it was not lost in the American
state department. The current point of the mat
ter was that a treaty for disposal of Germany
is to be drawn up in Moscow in March and the
basic question at issue is whether to maintain
Germany as a democracy of turn it over to
totalitarian communism and how to do either
thing. That's the core of all the disputes being
stirred in all the anticipating foreign offices.
For that Moscow gathering Stalin has now un
dermined the British position to the point where
Bevin is embarrassingly explaining he did not
mean what Pravda said he said, but is eager to
renew a mutual agreement one clause of
which says Britain is "not to negotiate with any
German government for a period of 20 years
from 1942 except for German governments
which clearly renounce all aggressive inten
tions." (I bet Pravda will have some fun telling
Bevin and the British which German govern
ments are apt to be aggressive, and that none
of these are in the Russian-occupied zone but
in ours, the French and British).
In short, Russia seems to have the British
just about where she wants them what with
Bevin explaining to his own party pro-Mus
covites and anti-Americans, explaining to
Pravda, explaining to Stalin. Frankly I think
he should next write a note to the state depart
ment explaining that he has not been trapped
by anyone.
Truly, no one is saying currently the British
diplomats are the most clever of all the world.
And I will be willing to make my usual top
wager of 25 cents that the Pravda writer who
has now been officially proclaimed to have
been wrong, will get a medal instead of Siberia.
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The U. S. decision to with
draw troops and abandon media
tion as a means of arriving at
Chinese unity ma put more
pressure than ever on the con
tending factions there.
Some nations, Including the
United States, have achieved
true national unity only after
civil war. and that may be
China's destiny. But there are
forces working against as well
as toward it. While they are
taking shape U. S. policy may
be held in suspension, but Am
bassador Stuart will still have
some effective tools with which
to work
Economic Aid Needod
Chief among them is China's
need for economic help.
The export-import bank has
earmarked half a billion dollars
for the Chinese and asked them
to submit, by July 31, specific
plans to show that the loan will
be a fair risk. President Truman
has served notice that political
stability and a more broadly
democratic government are es
sential to this. Chiang Kai-shek's
efforts to satisfy us on this score
by bringing the non-communist
minorities into the government
can hardly be sufficient as long
as the communists control large
and important Areas and there is
constant fighting. Some sort of
compromise with them, there
fore, must remain a prime objec
tive for Chiang. Civil war, or
even continuance of the present
situation,' will prevent even a
start on his economic program.
un the other hand, while U. S
policy heretofore has been a help
to Chiang in many respects, it
also has restrained him from an
all-out military campaign against
the communists. Now that re
straint is removed, he is be
lieved to have the edee if full
scale fiehtine develops. In the
face of this the communists may
decide that compromise is better
man chancing complete defeat
now iney have great power,
would be able to participate in
the government and still keep a
certain degree of autonomy. If
they fight it out and lose their
territory will merely be re-an
nexed to nationalist China.
These are factors which the U.
S. can continue to nlav UDon.
She may also be aided by a les
sening or general anu-ioreign
sentiment as the troops leave.
Their presence had come more
and more to cloud the issue.
No Red Implication
One thing should be made
clear. There is not the slightest
indication that Russian criticism
had anything to do with the
troop withdrawal. It is wholly
a matter of dropping a method
of procedure which failed to
work. With the closing of truce
headquarters and the end of the
supply problem they created, the
trooos are not needed.
The decision does, however.
have an automatic corollary af
fecting relations with Russia.
We seem to be heading for a
collision over Poland and the
European situation generally.
China was the main place where
we were open to the accusation
however unjust that we
were doing the same things Rus
sia is doing in countries where
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STATIC
By KELLY ROBERTS
PirRAI.B NKWS, Ktamalh Fall., Ore, TIII SallAr, Jan. 10, loll. Page Paap
"Slutlc: t. Acting by mere
weight without motion. 2. Per
taining to buillcs or forces at
rest or in equilibrium. 3. Perti
nent to passive elements. 4. Fig
uratively, resting; quiescent; not
active." (Webster's Collegiate
dictionary, fifth edition). A lady
asked us the other diiy why wo
culled this little spuec-flllcr by
the tuinio of "Static." Bill Jen
kins, now our wire editor, origi
nated the imme when ho first
begun xtntielr.lng, we Just hap
pened to full heir to Dill's shoes.
Wo can appreciate, however,
knowing what the nunio mruns,
for it fits us to a tee, the defini
tion boils down to one thing,
laziness, and we certainly are
tonight, or we wouldn't have
bothered even writing the fore
going drivvle.
a , a
Someone u.sked us the other
night if we spent all our time
in bur-rooms and beer-parlors, as
It seemed thut every time ho
road "Static" I was mentioning
Incidents which occurred lu such
various and sundry places. I am
glnd to report that we don't
spend all our time there. How
ever, we happen to be interested
In characters, and ono is always
certain to find an assorted group
of the specie In most of the bars
in town. Exnmple: the fellow in
our favorite character joint last
night, who 6iild, just before he
fell off the bnr-stool, "I never
let whiskey get me down."
o a a
Since the advent of the new
coast guard recruiting office in
town, our desk has been plagued
with communiques from them.
We were puiilcd until Chief
Jordan handed us tlio following
list of definitions for naval
. 0.l.v
' 7 lvfi a ,
terms. Take neeessui'y nelUm , . ,
it's your heiuliicho now, We
should confer ... send your
yeoman over to see mine. For
warded . . , pigeon holed In a
moro uriiato olllce. 'l ake inline
dluto action , , , do something
quick, before we hntli catch
li - -11 For your Information , . ,
let's both forget It. Your ob
servations oro desired ... do the
dirty work so thut I can write
"Forwnrdtid." You arc to bo
commended . . . thero Is B par
ticularly dirty Jnh coming In the
next routing. Naval traditions
demand ... I huve Jusl been
talking to an old chlo. Cllvo this
your Immediate attention . . . for
gush mikes flint those lost paperg.
You will show him every courte
sy .. . his uncle in an ndmlral.
The Inspection purty hits do
purled . . . how about a binge
tonight?
a a a
Just to fhlah (his off lis ii radio
column. Both Chuck Cecil and
Mac Epley should be buck on
tholr rcgulur spots on the air
tonight. Cluick'll lie on ut 4:15
this afternoon with "Hequest
fully Yours" and at 10 o'clock
tonight with "Stardunt Melo
dies." Mac will take over onco
moro his "Miuinglng Editor's Re
port" at 7:1.1. which yours truly
has been trying to scrape to
gether for the lust three nights
for the announcers to read. Tues
day evening we ended up by giv
ing Boh McCnrl thn sume item
three different plnees through
the Oregon legislative report.
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