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Red Trap in Italy
How accurate the Quaker analysis that the
core of the' cold war is economic is illustrated in
a July Harper's article on Italy's troubles with
the communists;
Mn Italy, as in other beneficiaries of the Mar
shall plan, the pattern of red reasoning is clear;
the poor masses are the first to rise to the
communist bait of promised social reform, there
fore discontent must be fomented and wretch
edness exploited; economic recovery will mean
better living standards or peasants and wor
kers ERP aid and increased productivity spur
recovery, therefore ERFs - effectiveness and
farm and industrial output must be sabotaged.
The fine art of tossing monkey wrenches has
been perfected by Moscow's southern branch in
Rome. Postponing violence, the commissars
have innovated less dramatic but equally crip
pling weapons..
Communist -controlled labor unions, in the
name of peace and plenty, use their 4.000.000
unsophisticated members to lower production:
One method is called "noncollaboration.";
each man does exactly what he is hired to do
nd not one bit more. This cuts production 30
to 50 per cent and makes the employer finance
the time lost. Other neat tricks are the "chec
kerboard" strike with stoppages in one depart
ment after another so that those working can
not do so efficiently, and "time-outs" which call
for a 10 or 15 minute "rest" every hour. Thus
there are strike every day, chipping away at
production goals and causing loss of million of
dollars worth of good which Italy might export
to balance her Marshall plan imports.
Another subtle technique is the communists'
demand for immediate benefits from ERP funds
cash for the needy, bigger public works
chemes. This would whittle- away the money
the government wants to save for reconstruction
nd capital investment and other long-term pro
jects when ERP stops.
The Marshall plan has kept Italy from ) go
ing communist so far but obviously the V. S.
cannot continue to dispense relief and bribes.
There are suggestions for throwing the wor
kers social reform sop, but the government
health program in Britain did not greatly: in
crease efficiency on the assembly line there.
Land reform, more equitable distribution of
the untapped wealth in Italy so that the com
mon people may live a little better than coolies
re some of the programs the communists pro
mine. If the government enacted them the reds
would be left with an unbaited trap.
Johleaa Funds Due for Drop
The reserve fund for unemployment compen
sation reached a year-end peak of $81,953,597
oil June 30. Despite increased outgo in the last
fiscal year receipts topped it by about $885,000.
This may be the last year for a while -that the
fund will increase.
The last legislature increased the maximum
benefits to be paid unemployed to $25 for 26
weeks. The previous maximum was $20 for
20 weeks. Thus the outlay will be increased
by about one-eighth, the commission estimates.
There also will probaBly be a reduction of in
come. Wage scales are no longer mounting; un
employment has increased, so the wage rolls on
which collections are based may decrease. Then
Vaughan Typical of Truman's Failure
Br Joseph Alsep
WASHINGTON, July 18 In a
gxd many ways, Maj. Gen.
Harry Vaughan -explains the
failure of the Truman adminis
tration on the
domestic front.
With the very
best intentions
la the world,
Harry S. Tru
man has con
tinuously tried
to I've this
country prog
ressive govern-,
meat. But he
ha not done
that the two essentials of suc
cessful progressive government
re, first, ideas, and second,
ideals. You cannot very well
progress, unless you have soma
notion of where you want to go
and why. And you cannot in
duce people to follow you along
the difficult road of social
change, unless you can inspire
them with an inner fire and es
-.citement. For these reasons, tha
fact that the president has chos
en such a favorite as his mili
tary aide becomes exceedingly
significant.
Certainly no one would ever
accuse General Vaughan, with
his peculiar talent for blunders
and smoking-room stories, of
possessing either ideals or ideas.
He himself, no doubt, would
scorn the imputation. And a
presidential atmosphere in which
General Vaughan can bloom and
. flourish is not the sort of at
mosphere in which new deals, or
square deals or new freedoms
are born. If the president's
-Fair Deal" is not taken alto
gether seriously, it is because
Vaughan and the other less col
orful, more importantly placed
men of his stripe, are so impos
sible to picture as leaders ot a
great crusade.
But what makes the subject of
General Vaughan pertinent at
the moment is not the Interest
ing question of what the general
really thinks about housing or
social security or national re
sources conservation. It is, rath
er, the fact the fercral is prob
ably about to become a serious
poMtical issue.
The truth is a Saturday's
i
W Ttvor Sways U; No Fear Shall Avte"
the last legislature when it did a turn for un
employed workers also did one for employers.
It revised experience rating so that after next
January requirements to get the lower tax
rates on payrolls will be reduced. .This may
give a cut of $4,500,000 a year,
j The fund will suffer also when the federal
GI aid of $20 for 52 weeks runs out. Then those
. GIs who qualify under the state law will collect
from the state fund.
The present reserve fund is excessive mea
sured by prewar totals of less than $20,000,000.
It can well stand reduction from present swollen
figures. Even if the recession is more pron
ounced the fund will still stnd up, because the
limit of compensation "is 26 eeks.
The money is freighted with a purpose, to
relieve distress that comes through loss of jobs.
It is not something to be hoarded but to be
used when the "rainy day" comes. So no alarm
should be felt if the 80 million plus fund starts
to shrink. It ought to, to come within limits
more closely related to the volume tf industry
and accompanying payrolls in Oregon.
Not Retired from Public Duty
Townsmen of Silverton gathered the other
night to do honor to Dr. P. A. Loar, who has
recently retired after practicing medicine for
nearly 40 years., They paid tribute to his long
professional career and to his activity in civic
affairs, which has brought him prominence bey
ond the confines of his home community.
They knew very well that while the good
doctor has quit writing prescriptions and setting
fractured bones he hasn't retired from interest
in community affairs. He worked hard for the
recent bond issue for improving the water sys
tem and was disappointed that it was defeated.
He has been a zealous advocate of good roads,
particularly the Cascade highway; and it is safe
to say that just as long as his strength permits
he will keep battling for projects in the public
interest.
But dropping the rigors of a physician's prac
tice will give him more time for communion
with nature, which is his real delight; for fish
ing and hunting and for ranging the foothill
country which he knows so well. Silverton folk
did a good turn when they honored Dr. Loar,
who through the years has given much. to his
community and asked little for himself.
A congressman from Michigan thinks that
President Truman should "suspend" his mili
tary aide, Brig. Gen. Harry Vaughan, as being
too familiar with the "five percenters." Harry
Vaughan we're referring to . is hail fellow
well met to all the ax-grinders and apple
polishers in Washington. He has earned I the
agate, for dumbness if not for graft.
Steel companies finally agreed to the 60-day
truce proposed by the president.. That's what
the period is, because the signs point to a show
down over the "fourth round" of wage increases.
Russia quit ; shipping us manganese - and
chrome in April tit-for-tat on our freeze on
export of war potential machinery to that coun
try. As we have said before, trade is a two-way
street; and mora than one can operate an embargo.
events demonstrated there was
a good deal more than comedy
in the New York Herald Tri
bune's brilliant study of the life
and habits of tha Washington
"five percenter". Colonel James
V. Hunt. This busy little man,
it may be recalled, is one of the
swarming high-pressure opera
tors who take fat fees from busi
nessmen for getting them con
tracts and favors from the gov
ernment. Photographs of tha great, if
possible suitably inscribed, are
standard equipment in the offi
ces of the five per cent tribe.
Prominent in Colonel Hunt's
picture ; gallery was General
Vaughan. Mast often, of course,
the photographs in such offices
are mere bait for boobs. If the
average s five percenter delivers
on his promises, it is not because
of friendships with the great,
but because of his familiarity
with the shabby by-ways of the
government. The joke is, bow
ever, that Colonel Hunt was evi
dently not a fraud of this sort.
-
Perhaps the colonel was not
intimate with all the originals of
all the photographs he so
proudly displayed. But at least
it seems that be was genuinely
close to General Vaughan, and
genuinely able to secure General
Vaughan's help for his clients.
Important documentary evidence
to this effect is now in the hands
of the Senate Investigating com
mittee. ;
Detailed disclosure must await
a publid inquiry. But a public
inquiry is undoubtedly Justified,
and indeed made necessary, by
the indications that are available
to date! of the nature of the
Vaughari - Hunt relationship.
Army contracts are involved,
and so are the careers of army ,
officers I which, lends special
interest; to the recent White
House blockade of an army pro
motion list, commonly attribu
ted to the White House military
aide. Other kinds of favors.rsuch
as permits for race tracks, crop
up here and there. :
Altogether, if what is known
to date cannot be disproved by
General 1 Vaughan, he will ap
pear on the record as one of the
most useful and obliging friends
a five percenter ever had. What
makes the joke all the better, is
i
-, 1 1
the absence of any Indication
that General Vaughan's favors
were ever substantially recipro
cated. Apparently he lent him
self to the five percenter's prof
itable game for the pure pleas
ure of showing what a very big
man he was.
The absence of any Imputa
tion that General Vaughan was
cut in on Colonel Hunt's profits
does not make the matter much
less serious, however. It is squa
lid that this sort of thing should
go on in the American govern
ment. It is worse than squalid
that it should be assisted by the
borrowed authority of the White
House. It casts a sharp light on
the prevailing standards of pub
lic conduct.
Those standards need to be
carefully reconsidered. A . solu
tion is urgently heeded for tha
basic problem of staffing the.
government of this country In
such a way that petty fixers and
five percenters will not find
cracks and crevasses to aid them
in their upward climb toward
prosperity and glory. And for
these deeply serious reasons, the
chairman of the senate investi
gating committee. Senator Clyde
Hoey, and its chief investigator,
William Rogers, are pushing for
ward their inquiry as rapidly as
possible.
(Copyright IMS: New York Herald
Tribune Inc.)
Better English
By D. C WUUaaas
By D. C. Wmiaaw
,1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "I am through with
my dinner."
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of -duel"? .
3. Which one of these words
is misspelled? Desimal, desola
tion, despotism.
4. What does the word "pen
sive" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with lnt that means "upright
ness"? ANSWERS
1. Say, "I have finished my din
ner.' 2. Pronounce the as In
fael. not as oa in tool. 3. deci
mal. 4. Dreamily or somewhat
sadly thoughtful "She remained
in jtnis pensive state for a king
time." 5. Inteeritv. .
fJow Henry!
Banks Aren't
All Like That
By Henry McLcmere
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla July
18 There is only one thing in
the world that really frightens
me, and that's a bank. Any bank.
Let me walk into a bank, be it
the Arkansas
Boll we evil
Bank and Trust
c o m p a n y, or
the Big Town
Bank and Trust
company 6
New York City,
and my knees
behave in the
manner of the
most timid
- bridegroom.
Banks may
not know it. but
KcLnMm 1
through the years they have de
veloped an: ability to frighten
customers. Bankers excepted; no
one has ever loved a bank.
The first: person you meet
McLemore
upon entering a bank is a watch
man or a doorman, and he is
possibly a policeman who was
fired from the police force be
cause he was too mean. He
gives you the impression of be
ing a trigger-happy fellow who
wants to fill you full of lead
slugs, each one placed where it
will hurt the most
What do : you get in a bank
after you pass the doorman?
I will tell you.
Vice presidents.
They are scattered all over the
place, each wearing a deep
freeze look. Their expressions
seem to say to the customer,
"No matter what you want, no
matter what you need, we are
here to see that you don't get
it."' I speak without fear of con
tradiction when I say that some
of the most pompous individuals
on earth, without having any
reason to be pompous, are bank
vice presidents.
As far as I have been able to
discover their chief talent is an
ability to get bald at an early
age. Perhaps the best picture
ever drawn of bankers was that
done by J. P. Marquand in his
best Seller, "Point of No Re
turn." It lacked only one thing
it made bankers out as human
beings, and most depositors will
swear they are not.
Today's discussion of bankers
was prompted by my going to a
well-known New York bank for
traveler's checks, which I need
ed for the trip I am soon to
make, I walked in the bank with
the money in my hand. Per
fectly good money. It would
have been accepted without
question by grocers, filling sta
tion attendants, restaurant own
ers, or train conductors.
The bank didn't like it. I was
referred to a Mr. Jones. Mr.
Jones said I would have to see
Mr. Phillof. Mr. Phillof looked
me up and down as if I were
Jesse James or Lana Turner and
said, "Do you have an account
here in this bank?"
I told him that I didn't His
hair receded another quarter
inch, and he asked, "Where do
you have an account?" and his
tone made it quite clear that he
didn't believe that I had so
much as a Christmas Savings
plan.
I held out my money and told
him that all I wanted were some
traveler's checks.
Now, Mr. Phillofs bank was
going to make money from my
purchase of traveler's checks. For
every one hundred dollars' worth
I bought the bank would make
seventy-five cents. Mr. Phillof
kept eyeing me skeptically. He
kept thumbing my money, look
ing at it as if he weren't in the
middle of a place where the
stuff grows, and didn't know
what it was.
After about 10 minutes of this,
Mr. Phillof rose to his feet, ad
Justed his bow tie and his second
chin, and said, "Wait here for
me, will you?"
That was too much for me.
I walked out of the bank. When
I leave here in a few days I
will have my money, in money,
not traveler's checks. Risky?
Sure. I will undoubtedly lose
half of it before I get to Madrid.
But I will have the satisfaction
of knowing that for once in my
life I was man enough to stand
up to a bank.
Why can't banks be nice? It
GRIN AND BEAR
IT
"What a home site! . . . what seclusion! . . . no ene te smirk at yea while
you're newly weds , . . m ana te everbeax yea. later . . "
Your Health
Wonderful as it is, penicillin
won't do everything. There are
certain germs and hence certain
diseases against which it is
powerless. For this reason, bio
chemists are constantly on the
hunt for new antibiotics which
can be used where penicillin
fails. Antibiotics are substances
which stop the growth of germs.
One of the newest to be added
to our growing list is aureomy-
The Safety
Valve
Objects to Merger
To the Editor:
A few reasons why West Salem
should not merge:
In the first place the Salem
city council by their published
statement don't want us and by
their former actions don't want
anything that would help the
community as they have worked
against any industry that has
tried to locate in Salem and West
Salem has benefited by their ac
tion and we don't want to be un
der that kind of government.
It will only be a short time un
til we would have one-arm ban
dits (meters) on our streets. And
two-gun bandits (the police)
prowling our streets.
As to taxes I have property in
Salem and West Salem and I pay
20 more on the Salem than on
the West Salem property of com
pared valuation.
As to the sewer we will have
to pay for whatever we get as It
is the policy of Salem, to tax it to
the property and one reason that
our levy is what it is, is because
the street improvements is paid
by general levy while in Salem it
is charged to the adjoining prop
erty and doesn't come under the
general levy. 1
I can't boast of our present city
council as we have lost more in
dustry than we have gained since
they took office.
Fred Kuhn
seems to me that banks, with all
the money they have, could be
as friendly as delicatessens,
roadside diners, and a hundred
other institutions you can name
that have far less money.
You don't suppose banks have
let money go to their heads.
Yes, I'm afraid they have.
McNauxht Syndicate. Inc.
By Lichty
STRUCK A' SNAG
, .7 V -v f
Wrtttea by
Dr. Hennas N.
Bnndensen. MJX
cin. It has been tried out in a
number of diseases which other
antibiotics have not helped in
any significant degree. One of
these is Q fever.
In this disorder there is a loss
of appetite and weakness, in ad
dition to an elevated tempera
ture. The disorder may be con
contracted from the use of un
pasteurized milk. In some areas
of the United States, widespread
epidemics have occurred during
recent years.
Most of the patients treated
..iK ... AC
wiuA suicvuijiui niri c vvci r
years of age and the majorit1
. were over 30. All had been ill for
four days or longer. In practic
ally all instances, the tempera
ture had risen to 104.
A few of the patients were
treated by giving them injections
of the aureomycin into a muscle.
Two of these showed prompt
Improvement with the return
of the temperature to nonrSI
within three days. Three other
patients improved but not to as
great an extent, while one pa
tient was not benefitted.
This method of administering
aureomycin -was not considered
as effective as when it was given
by mouth. This was the method
used in the majority of those
treated. In this group every pa
tient showed improvement with
in 48 hours by the return of ap
petite and a great drop in the
temperature. In some instances,
the use of the drug was stopped
24 hours after the temperature
became normal In most cases,
the patients had a normal conva
lescence. However, in two inI
stances, after the drug was stop
ped, the fever recurred, so that
further administration or tna
aureomycin was necessary.
In five patients, the Q fever
had been present for periods
varying from 23 to 77 days.
While being treated with aure
omycin, four of these patients
improved promptly, while the
fifth was not helped.
Aureomycin does not seem to
cause reactions of any particular
note. Occasionally, there is a
feeling of fullness in the stom
ach, and vomiting. Now and then
there may be an itching rash.
These studies on aureomycin
would seem to indicate that it is
effective in Q fever. Since this
Literary
' By W. G. Racers
CARDINAL MINDSZENTY:
THE STORY OF A MODERN
MARTYR, by Bela Fabian (Scri
bner's; $2.75)
This account of Hungary's Pri
mate, Cardinal Mindszenty, is
written by a Jew who has known
him since Nazi days; who ser
ved in the Hungarian Parliament
in the 1920s and was for a time
president of it; who was held
in Russian prison camps in World
War I and German extermina
tion camps in World War II; who
didn't like the Russians under
the Czars and has never liked
them since under the commun
ists. It's the story of a church digni
tary who believed in traditional
procedures for giving effect to his
profound humanitarian convic
tions. He comforted the sick and
fed the poor, often at personal
sacrifice, and he required weal
thy parishioners, says Fabian, to
contribute till it hurt to good
works.' He became parish priest
and disciplinarian. Later he was
named bishop. When he was
made a cardinal, we are told, it
was only with American help
that be was able to leave his
country for Rome to receive the
red hat As a child he learned
how wrong was anti-Semitism,
he once went to a Jewish doc
tor for an operation; he com
plained in the highest quarters
against government failure to
protect Jews; he opposed Naz
ism. In the same way, he has op
posed communism, say Fabian,
1
Five Czechs
Executed for
Alleged Plot
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, July
lM-rThe hangman took the lives
today of five Czechs convicted of
plotting with a British diplomat
to overthrow this country's communist-led
government.
A one-paragraph announcement
by the official press agency re
ported the execution of the five at
Prague's big Pankrac prison.
The government had described
them as the ringleaders of a con
spiracy to set up a military dict
atorship headed by Gen. Alois
Liska, wartime tank troop com
mander now exiled,, in England.
Their" secret trial early last
month was one of the biggest plot
cases since the communists took
over control of Czechoslovakia in
February, 1948. Of ten other
Czechs on trial, eight were sen
tenced to life imprisonment and
two to 25 years.
The government charged that
the Czech plotters had the aid of
Capt. Philip Wildash, formerly
British military permit officer in
Prague with the rank of vice con
sul. It was alleged that Wildash had
arranged to smuggle Liska from
England as soon as the uprising
started. The government claimed.
a aaie naa Deen set ior ine jrutscn,
but never published it
The charges were denied by
Wildash before he was expelled
from Czechoslovakia. The British
embassy also protested them.
Normally Kansas produces one
fourth of all the wheat in the Un
ited States.
disorder Is becoming much more
common, it is fortunate that such
treatment is available.
QUESTION AND ANSWERS
MJ3.: My mother had a coron
ary heart attack two months ago.
Can she recover from this com
pletely? Answer: Coronary heart di
sease causes permanent damage
to the heart. However, with pro
per regulation and sensible liv
ing habits, strain on the heart
can be avoided and life can be
maintained to its normal, aver
age span. .
(Copyright. IMS. King Features
Guidepost
and he was accused by both
groupe, says Fabian, on practical
ly tha same counts. If he favored
land reform be did not favor the
Russian method of bringing it a
bout. In his trial confession,
which has, according to Fabian,
"a fairly routine content," he ad
mitted that he was a royalist,
that be advocated the reunion of
Hungary and Austria, that he
expected the Hungarian govern
ment would be overthrown with
foreign, including particularly U.
S. aid; and that be had received
a communication from the exiled
Otto ... but the emissary named
has denied it, and Fabian adds
his denial that Mindszenty saw
Otto while cardinal and preten
er were in this country. Minds
zenty said further that he wi
Bow willing to accept the sover
eignty of the republic.
Cardinal Spellman of New
York calls this "a stirring story
of faith and charity, of tolerance,
loyalty and friendship.
Conscientious, Dignified
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in first on the Tillamook burn.
This will include seeding by air
plane, hand planting of seedlings;
construction of roads and trails
for fire protection; felling of
snags to' provide corridors by
which fires may be blocked off:
rodent extermination to protect
young trees.
Much work has been done in
the way of experimentation, so
that now state foresters feel they
have developed practical techni
ques by which the job of restor
ing forests on the vast Tillamook
burn may be done at minimum
cost.
To offset the expenditure there
will be substantial income from
salvage operations which still are
being conducted in the burn and
from incidental harvests like
chittim bark, firewood, etc.
There is now firm ground for
belief that Oregon Will escape
the economic decay that has at
tended many sections once well
forested. The state has good laws
for fire protection and suppres
sion. It has a forest conservation
law which requires private own
ers to leave trees for natural
reseedin. Now it has effective
laws for rehabilitating old
stumplands which nature will
not restock.
Above all it hasSa fine forest
administration, which has been
organized by State Fdrester Nels
S. Rogers. It was i matter of
general regret at the gathering
at Owl Camp Monday that ill
ness prevented Mr. Rogers from
attending. For nearly a decado
Rogers has served as state fores
ter. Well Informed on forestry
matters., with a live conscience
on discharge of public duty, with
a good balance of judgement on
questions of policv and in selec
tion of personnel Nels Rogers
has developed an organization
which can carry forward the
great task now entrusted to it
by the state and the forestry
board.
Covered Rfcf use
Holders Aim
Of City Plan
"This Container Is Condemned
for the Use of Garbage."
Some Salem householders are
going to read that on a red label
on their garbage pail soon. Dr.
W. J. Stone, Marion county health
officer, announced Monday. Those
who get such a warning ticket
will jfe expected to replace the
container with a sanitary garbage
can. Metal ones with close fitting
lids are recommended.
It's .a new wrinkle to rid the
city of uncovered refuse which
is a breeding haven for disease
carrying rats and flies that im
peril the health of the city, the
department announced.
The state flower of Delaware is
the peach blossom
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