Setting The Styfe
Sen. McCarthy
Jeers At Senate
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Fulton Lewis Jr.
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HIGHWAY SAFETY
By CHARLES
Aroused by the mounting highway death toll, the
Astorian Budget declares that "We neea more severe
laws and strict enforcement of them."
Among corrective measures proposed are "ground
ing" of offenders, particularly after repeated offense;
automatic speed governors, and, most drastic of all, mak
ing it illegal for anyone under 21 years of age to drive.
Says the Budget's editorial writer :
Too many accidenti art caused by irresponsible kids to whom
speed stems to be en intoxicant. We don't consider youngsters
ready to vote until they are 21, yet we allow children the respond
blilty of wheeling those death-dealing juggernauts along the high'
ways when they plainly are Irresponsible. ,
The general public, we believe, is deeply concerned
with the problem of highway safety, yet we continue to
pile up a daily toll of dead and injured in traffic acci
dents. We organize safety councils, issue warnings, ad
vice and instructions, yet accidents continue.
Certainly the situation calls for some sort of drastic
action. But we wonder whether the proposals of the
Budget's editor would give us the solution we desire.
Young Learn Quickly
It would be a irrave mistake, for manv reasons, we
believe, to deny youtur people access to automobiles, prin
cipally because they learn much more rapidly and thoroughly
at that age in life.
We are known as a ration of mechanics. Mechani
cal ability of our young men in the last war not only
astonished the world but surprised even our own military
leaders. Our production lines turned out war materiel
at an unbelievable rate. The reason for this accomplishment
is found in the fact thai we grow up on wheels.
Before a child can walk he is in a wheeled stroller.
He has gone throiigh tricycles, scooters and roller skates
before he enters school. He starts pleading for a bicycle
before he has lost his milk teeth. Before he is old enough
for his student permit, he knows the mechanics of an
automobile, the various makes and models, and can desig
nate by name and type every airplane overhead.
As a driver, his reactions are faster and surer than
those of his father, he has better judgment of distance
and speed, and usually knows where to find the trouble
when something goes wrong with the machine..
He is, however, often reckless and careless. He is
overconfident and lacking in fear. He is unimpressed
by the lethal potentialities of the vehicle he is driving. He
is easily distracted from strict application to the task of
driving. . "
But if we are to have good drivers and good mechanical
knowledge, training should begin during youth.
The suggestion of automatic speed governors also has
its drawbacks. Every driver knows that power and pick
up frequently extricate him from what might be a serious
accident. To limit flexibility of the power plant can be
dangerous.
The idea of "grounding" offenders has much merit. .
Safety Training Needed
It is far easier to learn to fly a light airplane than
to become a good automobile driver.
Any normal person can learn within a few hours to
take an airplane off the ground, control its flight in the
air, and return it safely to the landing strip. In the air
.the flier has virtually unlimited space in which to ma
neuver. He is confined to no narrow ribbon of pavement
with its yellow center line. Danger of collision with an
other aerial vehicle is very remote. There usually is ample
space in which to recover from skids, without hitting mail
boxes or telephone poles.
The flier is far safer in the air than is the automo
bile driver on the ground.
But the flier is safer especially because ho has been
more adequately trained. Despite the fact that handling
a light plane is less difficult than driving an automobile,
he was required to have a certain number of hours of
dual instruction. Hp passed rigid physical examinations.
Even after he was permitted to go aloft unaccompanied, he
was made to accumulate many hours of experience before-
being allowed to take up a passenger. At frequent
intervals he was given check flights. He had to master
and thoroughly all the rules and regulations pertaining
to Aviation, to learn meteorology, navigation, engine func
tions and many other pertinent subjects.
Perhaps if automobile drivers were given the same
education and the same type of tests, examinations and
inspections, we would have fewer accidents.
In The Day's News
By FRANK
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; gress APPROPRIATES. If bum-
foozled patroits like Senator Jen
ner succeed in estopping our gov
ernment from raising more AP
PROPRIATED money by taxation
the spenders will chortle happily
and BORROW THE DOUtill instead.
Any private ciluen who thinks
he can Hop the government from
spending by refusing to buy bonds
Is craiiior than a root. In that
event, the spenders will grin
and say to him: "OK, bud, if
that's the way you feel about it,
. we'll make the commercial banks
' buy bonds WITH YOUR MONEY."
If both taxing and bond selling
should fail to produce as much
money as CONGRESS HAS AP
PROPRIATED, the spenders will
oil up the printing presses and
turn ttiem loose printing paper dol
lars. The way to stop government
spending is congrgf s TO QUIT AP
PROPRIATING ANY MORE
MONEY. As long as congress goes
on appropriating it, the spenders
will go on spending it and there
V. STANTON
JENKINS
won't be any 'way to stop them.
That's something we should all get
clear in our minds.
The thing to say to Senator Jcn
ner is this:
"If you're seeking a last ditch
to die in, you'd belter pick out the
APPROPRIATIONS ditch. Only
there can you sell pour political
Ife effectively."
For that matter, we all ought
lo say to all of our senators and
coagressmcn:
"Quit stalling. Quit blaming the
(resident for spending us into
bankruptcy. Sure, he's a speil'
thrift of the first water. Every
body knows that. BUT HE CAN'T
SPEND ANY MORE THAN YOU
GIVE 1HM TO SPEND.
"If you'll quit appropriating
money, the President and his ad
ministrative assistants will have
to quit SPENDING money, lhat
is why the bounding Fathers put
the purse string in the hands of
CONGRESS."
Personally, I'm felt to the chin
with members f congress (bolh
representatives ao senators) who
'Q fr
yell bloody murder about drunken
sailor spending but go right on
voting for appropriation bills.
As a matter of fact, I'm begin
ning to wonder if the only way to
stop drunken-sailor spending isn't
to VOTE ALL THE INCUMBENTS
OUT, and make a new start.
Editorial
Comment
From The Oregon Presi
SCIENTISTS PREFER BLONDES,
AMONG OTHER THINGS
The Oregon Satesman
We got nothing against blondes.
Some of our best friends are
blondes. Never let it be said we
discriminale against blondes. Even
dumb blondes.
The same with scientists. Sci
entists are okay. Most of them
wouldn't hurt a fly. And often as
not their activities are perfectly
harmless.
But we just wish scientists would
leave blondes alone. Especially
dumb blondes.
Ever since Anita Loose observed
that Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
a statement immediately and ever
since challenged by every self
respecting redhead and bruntte,
scientists oggling through their
thick lenses and making marks on
paper, have tried to find out
whclher and why. They have
made surveys. They have com
piled statistics. Some of the ex
perts concurred with Miss Loos.
Others said she was all wet. Oth
ers qualified and beat around the
bush with assertions such as. Yes,
gentlemen prefer dumb blondes
for fun and frolic but they marry
the brunettes who can cook and
sew. Etc.
Comes now the AP report on
the latest study, something cooked
up by a couple of jokers with
I'll. D.s to prove we ain't figgered
out what. The American Psycho
logical Assn. convention was told
last week that studies of 1700 men
and women show, among other
things, that dumb blondes have as
good a chance lo get married as
knucklcheaded brunettes and rat
tlebrained redheads. Furthermore,
the lightweights of whatver color
hair have as good a chance to
snag a husband as the gal (no
hair color mentioned, maybe no
hair?) "of greater skills and in
tellectual attainments."
In fact, said the learned men,
the lests "show no pattern what
ever." "Oh, what you said!" say we.
Their conclusions confirm our su
spicions about the value of the
whole big flub.
llarkon now to the other re
markable findings: Students who
go to college did better in high
school English than those who
don't. Students in engineering
schools are sharp in mechanical
reasoning. Girls who work as stcn
ographers and secretaries
were better spellers than girls who
got jobs as clerks but the clerks
were better in clerical speed and
accuracy. Boys who became med
ical students usually got good
grades all around, in any career
group there is a wide variety of
talent. Etc.
Now we admit that these earth
shaking conclusions represent a
great deal of wasted time by the
scientists and the 1700 guinea pigs.
And we further hold that a little
common sense and little ordin
ary observation would give you
the same conclusions the scient
ists labororiously rached, only
quicner.
Afler all, anybody can see that
if gentlemen really preferred
blondes, the race would be grad
ually turning lowheaded. Instead,
scratch a "dumb" blonde and
often as not you'll find peroxide.
W ish the scientists were a I
smart.
The modern Olympic Games
were first held In Athens, Geeece
in lSfMS. Thry are generally
(hourtt to have stemmed from
GrecK athletic games held during
annual festivals aravnd 700 years
before Christ.
j ?igoyW--
Wouldn't one answer lo the prob
lem of vandalism, about which I
have been reading in the News
Review lately, be to emphasize in
the minds of school children their
individual ownership of city,
county and state lands and prop
erties? Make them realize the
park I belongs personally to each
child, and surely he or she does
not want to damage his own prop
erty. Sometimes that goes a little
deeper than "Johnny, don't!' Chil
dren are reasonable if we take the
time lo make things clear to them.
Of course we can't expect results
from teen-agers unless we begin
with the nursery age child.
I heard a friend describing a
hectic afternoon she had spent,
recently, as hostess to two chil
dren. They had come with their
father who was talking business
with her husband. They ran wild,
the children, 1 mean, all over her
house, made free with anything
eatable, pried into drawers and
clipboards, went in two directions
at once, making it difficult for the
harassed hostess to keep an eye
on both Just why she en
dured it, I don't know. Surely po
liteness does not require that we
stand idly by while a child raises
havoc in our own house. Wasn't
she somewhat at fault too in fail
CZECHS SQUEEZED
Economic Pressure May
Force Release Of Oatis
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
Willard Thorp, U. S. assistant
secretary of state, is in Geneva,
Switzerland, continuing the Amer
ican government's efforts to put
painful pressure on Czechoslovakia
in retaliation for the imprisonment
of A. P. newsman William Otis.
Normally this Geneva meeting
devoted lo tariffs and world trade,
would be a routine somewhat dull.
But Thorp's goal, to isolate the
Czechs from the trade benefits of
the free world lifts it above that.
Thorp's instructions stem both
from presidential direction and
congressional admonition. By res
olution, Congress called for sev
ering of trade ties with Czecho
slovakia. While that action lacks
the force of law, it is strongly
influential.
If the government succeeds in
tightening the noose about the
Czechs at Geneva, the anguish in
Prague should soon be acute.
The most effective step thus far
is the Western powers' blockade
of the Czech Air Line, which now
is barred from flights into r ranee
and Britain and over Western
Germany. Since the cost of round
about flights to other western na
tions is almost prohibitive and the
returns insufficient, this to all
practical intents puts the Czech
line out of business internationally.
The Czechs are formally pro
testing the move as "open dis
crimination" against their "re
public." It is indeed tnat. and
no nation involved in the ban
makes any pretense to the con
trary. The Communist puppets in
Prague know, of course, that tfcoir
protests will fall upon deaf ears
in the West. They are merely
shouting for the record, and to
try to stir a little sympathy in
those corners of ttle globe which
still pay any attention to Commu
nist words.
Actual; they understand that
to get rid of the air ban and
other restrictions they will have
to release Oatis. Publicly they
declare this impossible, and Mos
cow has even joined the refrain.
ENDING
ing to require respect for ber ow
properly? Do you think we have to
put up with something we wouldn't
put up with something we would
n't let our own c.iildren do)
I heard a hostess moan one day
when she saw a car driving in.
"Oh," she said, "I love my sister-in-law,
but I'm a nervous
wreck by the time she leaves be
cause that youngster of hers is a
holy terror, and she lets him do
whatever he wants to do." I left
soon after, but not before the small
boy had plainly indicated he felt
he was cock 'of the walk, and he
certainly was "into everything."
His mother seemed complaisant;
the auntie repressed her emotions
beyond a "pleeaase don't-!'' Seems
to me the auntie would have shown
more real love if she had talked
it over frankly with the young
mother. The two of them could
have worked out some kind of
plan whereby there wouldn't be
jam on the aunt's books, and
smears on the rugs and uphol
stery! What do you think? Do you think
a hostess has to grin and bear
what is actually a form of vandal
ism in her home? And how would
YOU prevent it supposing you
have a child visitor inclined lo run
wild? I'd really like to know!
But privately the story is very
likely a different one.
U. S. officials consequently have
carefully avoided tying their var
ious moves directly to the Oatis
case. They want to leave the way
open for a Red backdown without
too great loss of face.
Washington therefore officially
blames the worsening of relations
upon "manifestations of Czecho
t Slovak ill-will-toward the United
I Slates." Prague shouldn't have
uuuuie iraiiMaung uiai 11110 spe
cifics. The American government's ac
tion up lo now has been com
mendable, as has been the coop
eration of other Western powers.
Would we do as much for a sin
gle Frenchman or Britisher? To
be sure. Oatis still languishes in
prison. But he has been there just
three months. It took 17 to get
Robert Vogeler out. With the Com
munists, everything takes time
and then more time.
Defense Demands
To Require 35
Percent Plywood
TACOMA (.) Defense de
mands for plywood will probably
require at least 35 percent of pro
duction during the months ahead,
the National Production authoritv
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WASHINGTON Anyone Inclined to strike a blow
for freedom these days couldn't do better than to send a
check to Hiwassee college, Madisonville, Tenn.
Hiwassee Is a church-supported
college with an enrollment of 300
students who are unable in most
cases to finance an education by
themselves. It is short on build
ing and living space two new
dormitories are needed but long
on its distaste for Socialism or
any form of federal paternalism.
Dr. D. R. Youell, president of
Hiwassee, in February, 1950 star
tled Washington bureaucrats when
he rejected an offer - of free sur
plus potatoes. Here is what he
said:
"Yes, we need potatoes, but
even more, we need to preserve
our integrity. An economy of
waste may be expedient but it
is wrong, and we will have no
part of it." He went into the open
market and bought potatoes for
the college cafeteria.
The surplus potatoes, of cours,
were some salvaged from the
mountainous piles the department
of agriculture was destroying by
covering with kerosene.
Dr. Youell's independence and
belief in principles went right over
the head of Oscar Ewing, federal
security administrator. For some
unexplainable reason, Congress
gave Ewing $300,000,000 lo give
away to colleges for housing pro
grams. Thr ar already 19 agen
cies in the government dealing
with housing problems, but Ewing
got the cash and set up an office
of education to handle the hand
outs.
Hiwassee college got a note
from Ewing stating that the FSA
was ready to cut it a slice of
taxpayer's pie. Dr. Youell exam
ined his principles again and told
Ewing:
"The government offer to lend
us money at something like two
and one-half percent over a pe
riod of 40 years is quite a mirage.
The taxpayers not only will have
to provide the $300,000,000 for the
loan, but it will cost Ihem 10 to
20 percent to administer that sort
of thing what with the salaries,
paper work, etc., that will be
necessary.
"I'm not going to morgage this
college and let the next gener
ation pay the bill."
Needless to say, neither the
National Education association
nor any other agency dominated
by the bureaucrats has asked Dr.
Youell to expand his philosophy j
for the benefit of other college I
presidents or teachers. j
Dr. Youell believes that self-,
sufficiency and work towards solv-!
ine the problems of Hiwassee, in-1
stead of opening the door for the
bureaucrats, will not only keep So
cialism off the campus, but is the
American way of doing things. He
said he needs money but that "a
federal loan to a church college
would give the government a cer
tain amount of control over the
institution.'' He doesn't think that
Hiwassee should sell its liberty
and Independence even at two
and one-half percent.
(old West Coast plywood manufac
turers Friday.
The information was contained
in a letter from the NPA received
by O. Harry Schrader Jr., man
aging director of the Douglas Fir
association.
The NPA said the 35 percent
figure would be required provid
ing current budgets were approved
and that plywood purchasing
planned for the last half of 1951
was completed in the next three
months.
The NPA said three develop
ments at the nation's capital have
compounded the demands for ply
wood :
1. Defense needs for plywood are
piling up because military buying
agencies temporarily are out of
money because Congress has de
layed the new appropriations bill.
2. A defense directive requres
the military to make efficient use
of available plywood 6y tailoring
specifications closely to end-use re
quirements. 3. The secretary of defense has
directed military specifying agen
cies that plywood is included as an
alternate for steel to conserve
metal.
Schrader represents 68 Douglas
fir plywood factories in Washing
ton, Oregon and California.
Berchtesgaden was a health and
holiday resort for vacationing Ger
mans before Hitler built his fa
mous retreat there.
Wouldn't It?'
Wouldn't it be nice to practice '
That fine way of thinking, too?
You know something good about, me;
I know something good about you.
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People with money used to do
nate sums to colleges. Now, of
course, ordinary, gift and inher
itance taxes have dried up the
chief source of college bound
money. The bureaucrats saw to
that. But the need for outside
cash for colleges has increased
instead of diminished during the
past few years. Like everything
else, it costs more to run a col
lege today.
When the politicians got a little
nervous about what they had done
to the college they thought up tt."
federal grant idea and brought
in people like Ewing to handle
the details. The idea was that
money seized from philanthropists
by high taxes could be routed
through the U. S. treasury to the
colleges just as well as if it went
directly. The only thing wrong is
that Ewing and the others are
politicians, and few living mem
bers of that cult ever give away
anything for nothing.
The president of Hiwassee col
lege took one whiff and said "no."
That didn't make Hiwassee rich,
or Dr. Youell popular with the
Socialists in the educational sys
tems of that country. He he still
has his integrity and a strong
moral sense that the American
way of doing things will work out
best in the long run. Right now
he needs money for these two
dormitories. He ought to get it
the right way.
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WASHINGTON (JPt Senator
McCarthy (R-Wis) says adminis
tration forces "don't have the
guts" to press for a showdown
Senate vote on whether he should
be ousted from Congress.
McCarthy made the statement
to a reporter in advance of a
closed meeting of a senate rules
subcommittee to consider a reso
lution by Senator Benton (D-Conn)
on the ouster issue.
The resolution calls for a senate
Investigation to determine whether
there are grounds to expel Mc
Carthy. If the matter came be.
fore the Senate later it would re
require a two-thirds, majority of
those voting to force out the Wis
consin lawmaker.
"The administration people,"
McCarthy declared, "don't have
the guts to push this thing to a
showdown vote in the senate.
"What's more, they have no In
tention of doing so. This Benton
resolution is just an excuse to give
some of the pinheads a chanc to
smear."
Benton Contradicts
' Benton said in separate inter
view "there is absolutely not one
bit of evidence to support
McCarthy's declaration there will
be no showdown." He added:
"I am convinced that there will
be, and before too long. In , the
meantime, McCarthy is again pre
judging testimony which I haven't
even presented yet to the subcom
mittee. And he is prejudging the
subcommittee before it evn hears
the testimony."
The group also has before it a
McCarthy demand that he be per
mitted to question witnesses at
any hearings.
The subcommittee recently is
sued a unanimous report signed
by three Democrats and two Re
publicanswhich denounced as
"despicable" the successful elec
tion campaign conducted last year
in behalf of Senator John Marshall
Butler (R-Md). The report said
McCarthy was "actively inter
ested" in the campaign. Benton's
resolution asks a more complete
investigation of McCarthy's part
in that campaign, and an inquiry
"with respect to ' his other acts
since his election to the senate."
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