The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, January 13, 1952, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextT'lH'"", Tf",OriySMindgyJcmM " tejjon jpatesraaii "Wo Favor Sways Us. Vo Fear Shall Aid" From First SUtesmuL March ZS. 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY ' CHARLES A SPRAGUS, Editor and Publisher Fnbtished err morning. Bustaeso office SIS 8 Commercial. Salem. Oregon. Telephone 2-2441. Catered at the pes toffies at Salem, Orecon. as eeceaa' class matter oader act at eoexTees alareh S, 1171. Men Against the Seas "Leaving, now" remain the last words from the crew of the SS Pennsylvania. Aerial and surface search failed to locate any lifeboats from the stricken vessel, but the spread of de bris over the area near where the ship was last reported is taken as proof that it sank. Grave concern is felt over the fate of the crew of 45, several of whom were Oregonians, as the Penn sylvania was one of the fleet operated by States Steamship Company, Vancouver and Portland. If the crew is lost the sinking will rate as one of the worst disasters in North Pacific waters. It has some parallel with the loss of the SS Iowa off the mouth of the Columbia, which oc curred Jan. 12, 1936. It was owned by States Steamship Company too, and its entire comple ment of 34 men were drowned. The Iowa had crossed the bar when it was caught by a heavy gale and thrown on Peacock Spit in early morn ing hours. Summoned by a single faint SOS signal from the Iowa's radio the Coast Guard Cutter Onandaga went out over the bar, but when it came in sight of the wreck only its masts and samson posts were showing. There was not a single survivor. There have been many wrecks along the North Pacific coast. Probably the worst was the sinking of the Brother Jonathan, bound from San Francisco to Portland, on July 30, 1865, off Crescent City. It had a lull passenger list and many prominent in Northwest history were among the 155 who were drowned. A recent book by James A. Gibbs Jr., "Paci fic Graveyard," contains the story of shipwreck and disaster off the Columbia's mouth and in adjacent waters. There was the Great Republic which grounded on San Island near the river mouth in 1879 with loss of eleven lives. Forty two lives were lost when the steamer General Warren grounded on Clatsop Spit in 1852. In 1913 the Rosecrans sank off Peacock Spit with loss of 33. The Admiral Benson of Pacific Steamship Company got caught in the sands near Peacock Exin 1930. Coast Guard lifeboats took off the passengers and part of the crew, the others go ing ashore by breeches buoy. Like Captain Carl sen on the Flying Enterprise, Captain Graham stayed aboard for four days and nights, finally giving up the ship and coming off on a line made fast between wreck and shore. Another captain who stayed with his ship was Captain Johnson whose ship, the Laurel, lumber-laden outbound from the Columbia for the East coast, broke in two and wallowed in the seas that broke over Peacock Spit. Passengers and crew were taken off but Johnson stayed on the rear half of the ship for 54 hours. Finally he raised a white flag in signal to the Coast Guard to take him off. When asked why he refused to abandon ship Johnson replied: "I didn't want to be a hero. I stayed on what was left of the ship to protect Its cargo from salvagers. I had hoped that the after section of the ship would be washed on the beach so sal vage would be possible, but the bulkheads gave away which prompted me to fly the white flag." So Captain C arisen had predecessors among ships' captains reluctant to leave their sinking ships. His bravery with the Flying Enterprise has attracted world attention; but the ominous silence which has attended the disappearance of the crew of the Pennsylvania gives little mate rial "for reporters to work on. Hope is by no means gone, but it fades as the hours pass. Dewey Not in Grandstand With all the bugle-blaring that attended the muffled drum announcement of the candidacy of General Eisenhower for President, one nam was conspicuously absent from the news, that of Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Dewey was in on none of the rites; yet it was Dewey who in 1950 gave the big initial impetus to the Draft Ike movement. He made the renunciation of presidential ambition for himself and at the same time hailed the general as the man for the republicans to nominate. What happened in the interval can only ba guessed at. There was something of a scramble in setting up the Eisenhower organization. The Dewey people were trying itCong. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, who was GOP chairman on Dewey's choice in 1948, came out to Seattle in Ike's behalf. But Senator Duff of Pennsylvania is anti-Dewey. Apparently he maneuvered with Senator Carlson of Kansas and Lodge of Massa chusetts to shoulder Dewey out and control the setup themselves. The pair did the conferring with Ike on his trip home several weeks ago, and seem to have done the talking with him over the moves of last week. Dewey was left with lariat still tied to his saddlehorn. Politics and time soften political asperities. Ike will need New York, and the Dewey organi zation across the country is the only one really able to carry on the campaign for delegates at the grassroots leveL We may expect the Lodge-Duff-Carlson contingent to invite the active co operation of Dewey-Brownell-Scott in putting their man over. They had better do it, for the Taft crowd is well braced against another 1940 Willkie stampede. Detention Camp at Tulelake The federal Bureau of Prisons is taking over the former relocation center for Japanese at Tulelake, near Klamath Falls, and will prepare it for "detention of subversives if the need arises." This has a sinister sound. It suggests the concentration camps of totalitarian coun tries. It carries the inference also that the time is "later than we think." Most people are trying to forget the blunder and minor tragedy of relocating Japanese from the West Coast in the last war, with its great expense to the government and loss and distress to the Japanese and no significant contribution to West Coast security. We dread the prospect of the FBI rounding up droves of alleged sub versives and confining them in barracks. We do not anticipate any U. S. resort to gas chambers, but a detention camp is still a place of confine ment. There is nothing in the present outlook dif fering from the recent past to prompt this move by the federal government. Surely better us for time and money may be found than ready ing barracks for alleged subversives. The Astoria schoolboard is having difficulty finding a site for a new high school plant. We're sure fhey will not put it in the slide area there least it slide off into the Columbia some day. The Saturday Review of Literature had a cartoon in a recent issue which gave a new twist to the fear of the military mind. It showed one old duffer (circum 1800) who said to an other: "Mr. Jefferson? He may be all right but I don't like the idea of a civilian for president." MacArthur Likely Appointee as Secretary Of State in Event of Sen. Taft's Election 1 1 I,, , --tftgs-'rff 1 fcTY Joseph and Stewart Alsep WASHINGTON Favorite po litical parlor game In Washing ton these days in composing Imaginary cafai- gm-pv dent Robert Al-V phonso Taft.! Under the rules, 1 the theoretical the future is chosen by the usual method, from among the leading men who have most valuably tup ported the Taft forces in the grim pre-election struggle. Some typical results of this new pastime are perhaps worth recording. JFor Secretary of State, Gen eral" of the Army Douglas Mac Arthur has the lead. No one has played so eminent a role in the Taft preconvention campaign. No one, seem ingly, has con tributed more importantly to the mature Taf tian theory of foreign rela tions. As the leading global thinker in the Taft camp, the general has a p r e s c r ip tive right to this post. For Secretary of Defense. Col. Robert R. McCormick wins hands down. The self-confessed inven tor of the rifle, a noted student of military strategy, and above all, the owner of the crucial Illi noise delegation, the colonel looks Uke a natural. 'For Attorney General. Sea. Joseph X. McCarthy is strongly favored. Tbe McCarthy Ua acalnst altered Coi 1st plotters la the revernment has areatir strengthened the pftblle rapport for Taft. As At tows if General, McCarthy will that e sabverstvea M. infiltrate the new administration, and even if his methods of nnr snlnx this approved objective be come a trifle excitable. Presi dent Taft wiH bo there to hold him in check. For Secretary of Commerce, Sen. Owen Brewster is first choice. As the great senatorial friend of Pan-American Airways, Sen. Brewster takes a lively in terest in civil aviation, control of which centers in the Com merce Department. And as the leading Taft lieutenant in the Senate, Brewster ought to have his pick of jobs. For Secretary of Labor. Ken. Fred Hartley, co-author of the Taft-Hartley act, Is almost auto matically named. About other places there is some dispute. Many favor Sewell Avery for Secretary of the Trea sury, as a conspicuous meeter of pay rolls, but it is also objected that this will make two members of the cabinet from Illinois. Again, most players of the game agree that the Interior Depart ment ought to go to the Right Wing Western Republican who can break Gov. Warren's control of the California delegation in Sen. Taffs favor; but there is argument about who this will be. While some predict that the chief of the China lobby, Alfred Kohlberr. will be called to serve as Under Secretary of State, others assert thai Kohlberr will only receive the Assistant Secre taryship for Far Eastern Affairs. Arain. there is debate about whether Bri. Gen. Hanfor$ sfc Nider or Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley ought to be Secretary of the Army. And although John Marshall, who has learned the South's pro ' blems at the auctions of Southern Republican delegates, is widely favored for chairman of the pro posed voluntary Fair Employ ment Practices Commission, others assert that Marshall's faithful services merit a higher reward. at any rate, are The Safety Valve You can tell that Spring is just around the next snowstorm. Because already, lots of people ars being stricken with sever cases of Spade Fever, better known as Dementia Pea-planting. This garden variety of Planter's Itch is ag gravated this time of year by seed catalogues and propaganda displays of fancy flora, fan tastic fauna and new - type garden tools in store windows. Citizens who have behaved themselves all winter suddenly are beginning to talk in a disjointed manner of the good earth, bug re pell ants and fertilizers. enough to convey the general idea of the Taft cabinet game, which is strongly tinned with the customary malice of politics in an election year. Obviously no one really expects Sen. Taft to con struct a cabinet of the sort listed, although some of the men men tioned, such as Gen. MacArthur, might well be called to serve un der President Taft. Nonethless, these imagined lists of Taft cabinet members conceal a point of enduring meaning for the coming election. The truth is that all of the men named a bove will have most important claims on Sen. Taft if he wins the Presidency. The further truth is that at the moment, these men and others like them are the most conspicuous figures in the Taft camp. And this in turn must constitute a serious dilem ma for Sen. Taft. On the one hand, the Senator does not really agree, so far as the record shows, with all that Is said and believed by these emi nent supporters of bis, even in cluding Gen. MacArthur. He can proclaim his independence of all of them; he can even repudiate some of them, before convention time comes. He will then stand forth as an unusually capable middle-of-the-road leader, parti cularly with regard to domestic policy, and his great experience and visible integrity will have full value. On the other hand, it will be immensely hard for Sen. Taft to take this course, of edging away from many of the chief men in his camp. But if he does not do so, it will also be very hard for independent voters, and even for large groups of Republicans, to support a candidate who has been carried to the presidential nomi nation on this particular group of shoulders. This is, in fact, th biggest single problem that Sen. Taft has to face; and next to Gen. Eisenhower himself, it is also the biggest asset of the Eisenhower movement. (Oooyricht. 152. Now Tartr KeraM Trthmta Im ft Grown men will stop you on the street cor ner these days in a raging snowstorm. With eyes overbrixht they tell you well, it wont bo long now before It's time to get those early peas in the ground. As they stand there in the slush they say they'll soon have to get out in that old garden. While water runs down your and his necks these amateur agriculturists speak eagerly of peas, beans, carrots, radishes and onions. And before they finally take off In to the storm they shake your hand with the old Spado Handle Grip. And you know they've had it again. These Passionate Planters fall into a variety of classes. First there is the Expert He knows nearly everything about garden ing and can even figure out how much his garden set him back last year. Then there is the Idealist He outlines big plans for his garden this year (usually in front of your wife), and, what's worse, he'll probably carry them out. We also have the Realist He frankly admits that his tomatoes will probably not resem ble the seed catalogue pictures. The Tinkerer tries every new device, chemical and plan designed to grow bigger and better carrots. This brings us down to tbo man who regrets he has but one life to lay down for bis family. This man, all too familiar to true blue spade artists, is the fellow who really would like to grow a dandy garden and whose wife would really like to watch him grow a dandy garden. But by careful planning and juggling of engagements be usually manages to be fishing, hunting, working, visiting, sick, lame, or off to a funeral when there is sod-tumlng or pea-planting to be done. He always stands out m a crowd during the Spring of the year because his wife has callouses. But all in all where can a poor desk-bound citizen get mora satisfaction than in gardening? Who can recall with a dry eye the way, during last gardening time, the timid little bean sprouts came peeping up where you thought you had planted rutabages? And what happy hoer can ever forget the thrill of harvesting his first tomato after months of back-breaking labor, constant watering, plenty of feeding and hours of weeding. What fonder fate, we repeat, can befall a man than to relax on his back stoop of a pleasant summer's eve watching-his wife turn the garden soil while his children happily tramp down the lettuce plants. Solons Plan to Put Korea Vets Under CI Bill By HAKXY T. SNTDEK WASHINGTON OP) - The GI Bill of Rights appears headed for some changes this year as Con gress considers proposals to extend its benefits to veterans of the Ko rean conflict. Chairman Rankin (D-Miss) of the House Veterans Affairs Com mittee said Saturday hearings on such legislation win get underway Feb. . So far the committee has under study 20 bills on the subject. Their principal theme: Give the Korean war veterans the same treatment accorded the men of World War II. One of tbe measures drafted by the American Legion calls for marked changes, however, in the .educational and training provi sions of the servicemen's read justment act. And another along this same line will be introduced soon by Rep. Teague (D-Texas) on behalf of a special committee that has been Investigating the Veterans' Administration's hrHifpg of GI education and training. The Teague committee, which uncovered a host of abuses of the training program, is still analyz ing results of its nation-wide in quiry. It wound up hearings late last month. Confident of Action Rankin told reporters he is con- 03331 f j WHMBSHSnusteMBSlM DtF pcd ooia n ssss ubsssbs" sssnsr sssisp 'sbbrotssb (Continued From Page One) invites correspondence with un pretentious gal ..." Another chap, a smarty who hung his vocabularly on the clothes-line, wrote this one out: "Sardonic dilettante, allowing of intermittent intellectual pere grinations, would entertain reci procative communications from the distaff side, with view to wards dichotomous correspond ence if mental reapprochment appears plausible ..." (Some one should have thrown a dictionary at bis head.) The column was not just a ma trimonial exchange by any means. Other sophisticates sought to peddle their wares and serv ices by that medium. Here is a sample: ""Poison in his oatmeal will end the problem child but not your problems. We may have the an swer in a t-week personalized course for 8-12 year-olds . . ; Come January, 1952 and J. R. Cominsky, treasurer of the maga zine company, announced the dis continuance of the personal ads la the Personal cohimn. He ad mitted the column had brought fame and profits to the maga zine, but with an enlarged circu lation the job of policing the ad vertising was getting harder. The publishers were afraid some ad might lead to a disaster, so to the regret of readers and of the lone ly and frustrated the personal ads are no longer accepted. At the same time Mr. Comin sky announced that the weekly with a circulation of over 100,000 was firmly on its feet, and that it was shortening its title to Sat urday Review. The magazine is broadening its content beyond the literary field and attracting a wider clientele than "bookish folks and highbrows." In its early years the SRL was subsid ized by the Morgan partner, Tho mas W. Lamont, but reflecting on the returns from the Person als column Cominsky observed: "The poet Untermeyer showed the banker Jamont how to make money. B2 O give me the man who sings at bis work! Be his work what it may, he will do more in the same time he will do it better he will persevere longer. Thomas Carlyle Skeletons of an unidentified race of men were unearthed in the Co lumbian Andes near Bogota by sci entists la 1851. WAR AND PEACE AND "GOLDEN AGE To The Editor: Two young fellows, the editor and Prof. Haley of Willamette U., have been talking about the Golden Age and when it hap pened. They are not old enough to know, but Herbert Hoover (the same age as I) is right in declar ing it was the twenty-five years preceding World War 1. Those who were then adults fondly re member that people were nicer then: better neighbors, less sel fish, more kindly, considerate and honest; even some members of congress were honest. Our nat ion had been at peace with all the world for a third of a century and the country was full of smiles and good will. We liked each other and most of the world liked us, and we enjoyed our rights un der the constitution we then had. Then came the war, changing a large number of the young men of that generation into hard-eyed mobsters. It set us back about twenty-five years in human de cency, and Hoover organized the department of commerce and showed big biz how to stomp on everybody and get away with it. Then came World War II, bring ing another set-back and the re crudescence of J. Edgar Hoover of Palmer raid fame, the en thronement of NAM and militar ists as dictators, the building of the Pentagon, the determination to make the USA a warlike na tion instead of a peaceful one, the forcing of military instruction in to schools and colleges, which, according to Gen. Clay, is not for training but for "indoctrination." Now we have got ourselves another war, and by the time it ends we won't be fit to associate with each other. It is amusing that people are now vacuously talking about hard times and accusing each other. This long winded screed is aimed at saying that 'times' do not change and get hard, but people do and people make the times. It is strange that they do not realize that war always brings bad times, and peace the opposite. It might, in fact, after a long trek back, bring another Golden Age. A. M. Church John Quincy Adams, sixth presi dent of the United States, was born July 11, 1767, at Brain tree, Mass. Years of experience! Fresh rail strength drugs! Stop watch accuracy I All of thoan go Into your prescription . . . at no oxtra cost to you, whan you bring It to Schooler's Drug Store to be filled. Bo sure ... B . ncda ... at Scholar's Drug Store. Open Sundays 9 am. to 6 pun. Schaefer's Drag Store 1899 19S2 Phone' 3-5197 135 North Commercial Phone 4-3333 " " . . . . . . .... . m r m i fldent Congress wiH act on behalf of the Korean veterans. But he steered clear of Dredictins? what changes might be made in the act If His committee, he said, wfll hear testimony from the Veteran Administration, the General Ac countant Office, the Bureau of the Budget and four veterans' or ganizations in the opening .days, of the Inquiry. He expects the bearing to last several weeks. Once a measure Is agreed upon, it's a good bet little time will be lost in getting it the House floor. Two new oil refineries have been opened in England, one of them .larger than any other to Europe. 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You know what stepped-up war production might do to future sleel sup plies. So, better think seriously about that new tank for gas, water and oil storage NOW. Remember this: W. W. ROSE BRAUGH COMPANY, Salem's own pioneer steel fabricating firm, always gives you quality craftsmanship at reasonable cost. How are your tanks standing up? W. IV. ROSEBRAUGH COMPANY "Metal Products That Last 680 S. 17th Street, Salem, Oregon . Since 1912T Telephone 3-7609 J Oerd In tla fLovedleet II lei U w it IS: s g I 1 v r-T-.-v s Lfc O 'vim SALEM HZADQUARTE2S FOX AMDUCA'S FINEST SILVERSMITHS Heirloom - Gorham - Towle - Reed & Barton -lunt International -.Smith-Whiting.- Wallace - Alvin V.