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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1952)
1 4 The gtateymmt, Salem Oregon, Sunday. September 81, 1353 i . - " -.-r. WE THOUGHT THE DEMOCRATS DIDNT IN MONOPOLY! csmua 1 ' "Afo Favor Swat IT Mo fear Shall Aire from flnt StotesinuL March VL Mil THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING C03IPANY CHARLES A. SPRAUUK, Editor And Publisher rabllbbed every mornin. Baslneas office XU S Commercial. Salem, Oregon. Telephone 1-141. Catered at the postoffic at SaJem, Orecea. aa d class matter aadcr act ef alarea X. 117 Nixon's Special Fund Senator Nixon arrived here In a tpate of pub licity over the $18,000 contributed by certain wealthy residents of California to help him fi nance the office of U. S. Senator. Stung by charges of corruption made by Republicans (and many of them proven) some Democrats are pointing the finger of shame at Nixon, and try ing to tar him with the brush their party's ad ministration is smeared with. Candidate Stev enson, with more poise, counsels waiting to see what the disclosures are. ' No one asserts there was anything illegal in the giving or receiving of this fund. Then was it a Violation of political ethics? N That depends on the facts in the case. If the money was contributed to influence Nixon, to sway him in his votes or speeches; or if it was cstatributed with promise or expectation of some recompense to the donors then it clearly would have been unethical and probably illegal. So far as has been disclosed the money was the contribution of political friends who wanted ; - to spare Nixon the financial embarrassment that often attends a poor man in public office. And so it was accepted by Nixon. The amounts con tributed by each were small, in most cases not over $500 a year, and the burden well distribut- ed. Most of the contributors so far listed, were not persons in line to receive senatorial or gov ernment favors one of them was Herbert Hoo ver Jr, an engineer who is not active in politics. The fund resembles a legitimate campaign fund, continued during the elected official's term, with no strings attached. The fund was given strict accounting by its custodian, and the uses made of it seem entirely legitimate: travel and hotel expenses; radio and TV expenses; addresso graph plates; telephone, telegraph, postage, extra office help, advertis ing, meals paid by office force for visitors, mis cellaneous. Nixon says that not a dollar of it went to him personally. With this financial assistance Nixon did not have to go into debt himself or scrounge on the federal government. He didn't put his wife on the payroll, though she helped out many times da his office. He didn't fudge with his travel expense by using government transportation. . . The fact is that with senators as active as Nixon, In frequent demand for publicpeaking, who are expected to participate in public and - political affairs, the salary, and expense account provided by the government doesn't stretch if, as with Nixon, he has a family to support at the same time. Some senators are wealthy and sim ply draw on their private fortunes. Others re duce their activity to keep within their income. Others go on speaking tours or write magazine articles to supplement their incomes. Senator Morse is said to do considerable speaking with compensation to help him carry the' financial burden of his office. Nixon, according to his re port, has not engaged in this practice, and though a lawyer has not accepted legal cases and fees while holding public office. On balance .then, it seems to The Statesman that there was no breach of ethics on the part of the donors, nor of Nixon as the one in whose behalf the donations were made. Unless the evi dence is introduced to prove an unsavory side to the special fund, the parties concerned are to be commended and not condemned. r names, as well as Gervais, Hubbard, Brooks, Aurora and Woodburn. Resumed in 1948 after a lapse, the fair's growth has been consistent, and new records seem assured for this year regarding both ex hibitors and spectators. County fairs often stand or fall on the enthusiasm and effort expended by civic-minded persons who comprise the board of directors. And here Woodburn seems to have scored A-plus. Directors used "an old-fashioned, country style fair" as their theme and used it successful ly. Angelf ood cakes, pillowslips and the fruits of a successful harvest took the spotlight with a minimum of commercial distraction. Midway rides, and concessions were clean and many home-operated. 7 The 1952 North Marion County Fair was an event to which all of Marion County can point with pride. Byrnes Balks, Bolts : " It may be that the Eisenhower organization will have to swallow a little painfully to digest the latest convert, James F. Byrnes. Former Secretary of State Byrnes was the chief archi tect of United States postwar foreign policy the policies that Mr. Republican Taft and his cohorts have denounced so roundly. As "Assis tant President" to Franklin Roosevelt, Byrnes (along with Alger Hiss) was an adviser to FDR at Yalta the conference which produced the agreements many Republicans now blame as the main course of our present predicament. Byrnes was also active at the Potsdam, Moscow, Lon don and Paris conferences where, as some ad ministration critics charge, the U. S. was practically-sold down the river.- - - . -: In his book, "Speaking Frankly," Byrnes urg ed that U. S. foreign policy should be one of "firmness and patience" the very words that best describe the present Acheson policies which some Republican leaders have damned as .too favorable to communist. But foreign policy (the field in which Byrne,! had much experience) is not the reason for Byrnes' decision to support the Republican tick et. He switched to Eisenhower on grounds of domestic policy disagreements with Stevenson. Southerner Byrnes can't stomach Democratic favor of a federal fair employment practices law and a law to end the Southerners' favorite tactic of filibustering. It's the Negro problem, not the Russian problem, that underlies Gover nor Byrnes' bolt. The governor, however, defends his decision as evidence that he places loyalty to country above loyalty to a political party. That attitude might also be claimed by Senate Wayne Morse when he said he could not in good conscience actively support the Republican candidate. But Morse was angrily labelled by Republicans as a "publicity-seeking sorehead" and an "unstable, disloyal misfia-in the party." ,Wewonder if those same epithets also will be applied to the digni fied and respected governor of South Carolina! -'Mm 1 I , - . , , ., . . . .v I J . . swipe YlC TM ...... . Woman 'Among Literary; Guidepost North Marion County Fair .One of Marion County's best free shows ended Saturday at Woodburn. Called the North Mar ion County Fair, the exposition was county wide in scope. Many of its blue ribbons carried Stay ton, Silverton, Keizer and Salem - area We' note!, with satisfaction that the control board approved plans for a new cottage for Fairview Home. This has long been needed and Fairview has had a long wait while other state institutions the penitentiary, Hillcrest, the blind school and the state hospitalwere being expanded and improved. Energetic Dr. Hill of Fairview has worked hard to give his unfortun ate charges adequate care and get their needs more attention from the state. Br W. G. ROGERS THE HUNT, by Warren Carrier (New .Directions ; $2.75) The tough-old father swore he'd make a man out of bis boy Chris if it killed him, and he succeeded better than he expected, we learn 1 in this grim novel. j . Chris is running away as the story opens. The crime was com mitted in Indiana, the young man heads for his lonely cabin 1,000 miles away in the mountains. He'd' planned to go alone after he struck the fatal blow in anger, but Jo sephena won't let him, land she calls on his brother George for help. They want him to come back, they point out that flight implies guilt, but there's not enough time left, they discover. The three of them arrive to gether, to find a fourth, a boy Tim, hiding there . . . Tim too has a father fuller of cuffs and clouts than kind words. ( A posse is formed, while the threa grown ups and tha youngster reflect (pa the events which have brought them to this pass. i V - - Ofts loved his mother, hated his father, was married to Alma, taught in a small college!. George, a match for the coarse old man, had made love to Alma before she became his sister-in-law, and didn't bother to stop then. Chris was in love with Josephene, and she with him. In the cabin, how ever, she happens to find some cartridges and a rack for a gun: she remembers that Chris had al ways protested he could not bear to use a gun; in a sudden panic she deckles he has; deceived her, suspects him of plotting to kill her and George. So there's ' a series of curious about-faces here: Josephene loves Chris, then is set against him: Josephene scorns I George, then needs his help, and falls in love with him. Tha boy is on Chris' side, then casts in his lot, evi dently. ; with Josephene and George.' And before it's all over, there s an orgy of blood-letting. ' No one can complain that there's a. dearth of events, yet they do not always! occur for any apparent ' good reason. These . shift in allegiance; for instance. keep the reader interested, but keep him baffld, too, until he's ready to plead for a ' little less blood, a little mora light. Car rier's fresh vocabulary, however, and his novel turn of mind makes this worthwhile. Lest we forget: Your Community Chest needs' your help. mwif inffrf-Trnl Midwesterners Either Don't Know, or Won't Tell Which Political Candidate They Prefer r l - V a i i in i i By STEWART ALSOP DUBUQUE. Iowa In the crow eating period after the 1948 elec tion, newspaper men were much . belabored for "not getting out in to the country and finding out what the voters really want." Ac-, cordingly, this i e reporter has du tifully braved ' fierce dogs and auspicious : prop erty owucis to feel the voters' pulse. The pulse feelina took place in the poli tically : crucial farm area be tween St. PauL buque. Iowi.:4" Alwp Unfortunately, it is necessary to report that the voters either do not have any pulse, or if they have, they are not letting com plete strangers feel it. Also on this conclusive expe dition was a perspicacious native of the region, Walter Ridder, of "The St Paul Pioneer Dispatch." The result of the Ridder-Alsop farm poll reads about like this: . Eisenhower per cent Stevenson ,...0 per cent Don't know or won't . tell . S2 per cent One of the first to be interview ed was a dour, elderly farmer on a forty-four-acre farm near Kas aon Minn., where both Eisen hower and Stevenson - recently made major farm speeches. He responded as follows: Oa his veto this yean "Well, I fmeas ITX keep that ta myself.''. Oa lis vate ta IMS: "Wett, I g-oess m keep that ta myself, toe. Oa tha Efseaaawer and Sterensoa farm speeches: Tea, I heard 'em. Bad a let ta say, didat they? Sabseoaeat efforts were a Ettle mere rewarding bnt net very' mack. There was ealy ane maa .la a day of interviews wha state his intentions flatly and wweaiTaeallr. He was aa elderly eeuKtrr gas station owner la Iowa. lie had been a Republic aa for fifty years, he said, and he saw aa reason ta ehaage. Ha waa rotas' to veto for Eisenhower. Yet there was certainly no wOd and unirersal enthusiasm for the Eisenhower caase. One exceptionally loquacious farm lady, who wore an enor mous turban seemed well inf orm ed on most matters. But she en tertained a curious notion about the Eisenhower-political strategy. "He has no call to talk an the time about . Stevenson being di vorced." she said. "That's not fair." She claimed " to be unde cided, but she clearly favored the unfairly used Stevenson. " The pleasant, open f see of a young farmer farther soath eloaded with anger as he talked. Be had enlisted la tha Marine Corps Reserre Thoaght It was my doty ta my eoantry." Be had served his eoaatry ha said "by basting up 1 33 nearly new Cad Clae amphibious tank engines with a sledge hammer-that's, where year tax money goes. Aa' enlisted friend ret eeart-martlal-ed for taktar a gas can. while officers had tha mea make trail ers far them oat of government property. "Tea expect me ta vate for a general after that?" Bat he too was nadeelded "they say: .Steveacoa's tied vp with the big hoys. too. Sterensoa Is ta ae better ease although the minority who had heard him speak did not think ho Your Health Dr. Herman Bnndesea ; Young women, mostly house wives, are the usual victims of one type of nagging backache. This is a dull ache across tha lower back, sometimes spreading to both buttocks or thighs, or even further down hi the legs. The pain usually increases when the woman sits in. a slouched position for any length of time, or if she does any heavy bending, lifting, or even ironing. It is usually. a severe and con stant pain. - 0 0 0 .. This type of housewives' back- Allies Retake Mountain After Lengthy Battle SEOUL US Allied infantrymen early Sunday recaptured Old Bal dy after a weird night-long battle lighted by flares and punctuated by booming artillery, mortar and tank gun duels. The Allies sent two columns up the shell-blistered slopes of the key western front peak shortly after dark Saturday. They closed with the Chinese defenders in their newly-won foxholes and a swirling, con fused battle raged throughout the night. . Allied - planes roared overhead with timetable regularity, dropping 'bright as day." Big tanks hugged tha southern slope and blasted the Reds at point-blank range. The last Chinese were cleared off tha crest at 6:15 a.m. Tha Al lied infantrymen, immediately be gan digging in for a defensive stand. They rushed up prefabricat ed metal bunkers and were set ting them up on the crest which has been blasted clean of almost an cover by intense barrages from both sides. Infantrymen, carried 75-pound sections of the bunkers - up the peak. - To the southwest. Allied troops was "talking above the voters' J ache Is caused by a tearing of the st . , a . . . x . 4.1 1 fl ' " - On only one point was there un animous agreement. Farm prices were too low and other prices too high. No doubt farmers have: : always talked this way; and there , were a good many new cars in the back yards and freezers In . the kitchen. But it is also true' - that many farmers even in this area with its rich, oily-black sou. . were obviously hard put to make ends meet And the way these men talked. Eisenhower was well : . advised to come' out flatly f or . parity supports but there , re mains a lingering - suspicion of -Republican- intentions where tha farmer - is concerned. "That's z what he says. said one farmer, "but does he mean it?" and did not complain af his lev ity. Bnt ta Judge from this most iaeoacInaiTo sampling, Sterensoa la hardly known at all at least two farmers thought his asms was "Stevens." ' And he suffers badly from identification with Truman, who is repeatedly described as. "not big enough for the job." Indeed, the Mid-Western farmer seems to have no heros at all. Asked whether they favored Taft, most "of those questioned replied mon osynabicaUy "Nope." One very fat man in a truck remarked with an ear-splitting laugh: 'Jackass es have been running the govern ment for the last twenty years." But, he said, he had voted for Truman In 1948, and he had st&l not made up his mind for this year. . , ' la short, the American voter b just as mysterious a fellow in the farm belt as elsewhere. No thing could ha mora sffly and pompons thaa to try to draw firm eeacrasions from this day of frus trated pulse feeling. Bnt the ex perience did leave eertaia tmprs sions behind; that neither candi date caa yet by aay means eoant ea tha Mid-West farmers' aQegl. aace; that there exists in these parts a widspread feeling af pas sled resntmeat, about tha Kereaa war and many ether things; per haps most strikingly, that the number of people who have quite honestly not yet made . up their minds ts much, much ' greater, " thaa Is generally supposed. ligaments of the spine. It usually follows an injury from .a fall or it may follow the birth of a baby, especially after - an Instrument "delivery. The tears in the liga ments may heaH but the healing may be incomplete, opening the way to a rupture of one of the disks between tha vertebrae. Most of these cases,! however, do not progress to a ruptured disk, and are caused just by torn ligaments. Over 20 per cent of the backaches seen In young women by one physician were due to this cause. j o . o o These patients are sometimes helped by deep heat applied to the area of the tear. This is done by shortwave or diathermy rays,' which send heat rays into the underlying muscles and tissues of the back. Sleeping with a board between the bedspring and mattress is also of help. Some . of these women may have to be put into traction, a way of stretching the whole body gently but firmly, to relieve the muscle spasm. An injection of a local anesthetic, such as procaine may also relieve much pressure and pain temporarily.; Usually, with these types of treatment; most cases clear up fairly rapidly; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - M. L.: I have been using sac , charin for - a number of years. Can it be harmful in any way? Answer: No harmful results (Continued from Ps One) at10:30. These wfll be held in the newly -completed auditorium near the East River. Members, delegates and alternates, are also assigned to work on special com mittees which are Set up to han dle specific problems. Thus "the : assignment is a working one. The assembly will start on Oc tober 14th and continue tux the early part of December, aceord- ; ing to the present plan. Travel Notes The C 4 NW-U P City of Portland-rank with the best in speed and comfort for rail : travel. Speed up to 100 miles an hour crossing the prairies. Light ' load ount of Chicago vacation and back-to-sohool! travel pretty well finished. t ' Transplanted ' midwesterners ; wUl be pleased to know that blue morning glories still bloom over the backyard fences in the. old home country. Just now from the train one is aware I (with his eyes but not his nose) of the golden- rod which adorns the fence rows and the sumac is 'aflame on the borders of the pastures. Not a great deal jof house build ' Ing is in evidence except on the fringes of the larger cities. Towns look prosperous dhough. Across the cornbelt the metal-capped si los stick up like talL domed Mos lem temples. - The Chicago city council has just voted a $50 minion bond au thorization to provide municipal parking garages and lots. Pocatello, Idaho, has two big phosphate reduction plants, one operated by the Simplot interests of Boise, another by Westvaco ' Chemical. This produdctlon win orovide fertilizer for northwest farms as wen as for other uses. Pontics this year seems all crossed m Everyone is chary of rnvfaig predictions and skeptical about those wnicn are ozzerea. Finally, this rather unsuccess ful little inquiry seemed worth making anyhow, if only a re minder of how shrewd (though sometimes " uninformed), how the use of saccharin. You need not fear any bad effects. ' -(Copyright 132. King Features) . ELEVATOR FALLS NEW YORK WV Ten persons fiercely jealous of their indepen- wer shaken up when an elevator dence of mind, and how down- . downtown Manhattan office right nice a lot of ordinary Amer- bmldmg dropped out of Control leans are. even in theso fear- fro the 14th Goer to the street. Sed fe. W An official of the Apartment of (Copyright. 1952.' " Housing and Buildings, which in New York Herald Tribune Zne.) Vestigated, said the falling car ap- have been known to result from, Certaintr Republicans do not ex ude confidence as mey did tn ' Still some sore spots among Taft men and some disappointment over Bee among the liberals. Can didates are talking so much the public is apt to become confused and weary by the time election reals round, , parently had not reached a rate of sDeed hih enough to cause emer gency braking devices to take hold. 36 To Visit North Pole By ELTON C FAY NORTH POLE, Sept. It (Delayed) The North Pole had its biggest crowd of visitors today. 1 Thirty-six persons in a Military Air Transport Service plana cir cled above the bleak and dreary ice field, floating on 14,000-foot deep Arctic Sea, which pinpoints the geographical northern of the globe. Most of the passengers were press and radio reporters who have been making the first public in spection of the huge United States Air Force base at Thule, Green land. The others are military of ficers," among them CoL Bernt Bal chen, veteran aerial explorer who today was making his seventh flight to the pole. In the group was the first wom an to reach the North Pole-r-May Craig, Washington corresoondent for the Portland Press Herald and other Maine newspapers. Aimed at Ice Isle The reporters started out to take look at an ice island on which some Air Force experts have been floating for months to report wea ther conditions at the top of the world. But the island, designated by the Air Force as T-3, was hid den below clouds which threaten ed to form dangerous ice on the plane. The pole was only ISO miles away, so we went on to take a look. Things have Improved since Rear Adm. Robert . Peary reach ed the North Pole by dog team in 1909 and even since Rear Adm.. Richard E. Byrd, in 1925, became the first man to fly there. This trip today was much like tha cross country airliner hop that hundreds of persons make in the United States every day. Even the airplane was the same, a Douglas C-S4 which commercial lines call the DC-4. Desolate Region . But the Arctic hasn't changed. It is still 910 miles over one of the world's most desolate, forbid ding, uninhabited but also beau tifulregions from Thule, Green land, to the pole. t The passengers are in shirt sleeves in the warm cabin. How ever, within arm's length of each passenger and crew member is a parka, mittens and other Arctic clothing. The military calls this 'survival equipment" and with reason. 11 engine lauure or ruei exhaustion forces a landing on the ice or in the glacier -covered moun tains the clothes will help you Mve until rescue comes. carried a nightlong assault on Kel ly Hill into the daylight hours. Allied warplanes softened ' Chi nese defense positions on both hills in daylong strikes Saturday. Old Baldy, which dominates the front only ofuf miles east of the truce conference village of Pan munjom. has changed hands re peatedly in the past few months. Troops of the U. S. Second Di vision won the crest Aug. 1 and the Chinese eased off their efforts un til Thursday night when they mounted a fresh assault in battal ion strength. While the ground fighting picked up momentum. Allied light bomb ers Saturday night reported de stroying. 91 Communist supply ve hicles rolling toward the battle front all across the Korean penin sula. Other B-26s hit supply areas on the northeast coast. Portlariders Visit Salem's TKor Lodge Thor Lodge, Sons of Norway, held its first meeting since sum mer Saturday night, with guests from the Portland's Grieg Lodge in attendance. Included in the group were Lodge President. Glenn Norby. and Jens Sande, a member who was district delegate to the sup reme lodge convention last sum mer in Minneapolis, Minn. Sande gave a report of -the activities there. Thor Lodge received a check for $30 from' Vancouver's Columbia Lodge, In honor of Miss Olga Training, was named queen of the Sons of Norway summer festival at Vancouver. Miss Tonning was sponsored by Thor Lodge. Among items of business dis cussed Saturday were plans for the next summer festival, and the annual donation to the Commun ity Chest. Initation of new members Is scheduled for theOct. 19 meeting. Transformer Trouble Poses Power Threat PORTLAND CR A transformer at the Bonnevine Power Adminis tration substation at Goshen broke down Friday threatening a drastic curtailment In electric power to the area from south of Salem to Coos Bay. w. A. TJittmer. BP A power man ager, said week end service could be maintained with other facilities Meantime efforts were being made to. repair the transformer before the heavy week day load resumes. If immeriate repairs are not possible a similar transformer win be shipped from KalispelL Mont. Transportation and installation of the new transformer would take about a week, a Bonneville spokes man sakL Njbcon Newsmen Get Chance to Take Spotlight From Ike Group ABOARD THE NIXON CAMPAIGN SPECIAL Working news men aboard Sen. Richard Nixon's train Saturday were little excited by charges surrounding an $18,000 "expense fund" contributed to the vice presidential candidate by California backers. . But they welcomed the new emphasis added to their assignments by tha charges even though they were unable to Interview tha young running-mate of Gen. Jusennower. Nixon's staff expressed regrets that he "could not .be interviewed at this time because of the fluidity of the situation." James Bassett, press secretary for Nixon, said a press - conference or interview would be out of the question until after the senator had conferred with Eisenhower, probably Satur day night via telephone. Otherwise the campaign special rolled through Oregon's Willamette Vauey undeterred except for Nix on's inclination to stretch rear platform speeches Just a little longer. Especially was this true when Republican opponents heck led the Communist-fighting Calif ornia n. A placard by one heckler at Eugene read "No Mink Coat for Nixon, Just Cold Cash" obvious ly alluding to the "expense ac count." On the other side were the words "Anyone who mentions $16,' 000 is a Communist." The banner was carried by A. W. Giles who identified himself ar a Lane County Younr Democrats member. At the Albany stop where several hundred persons heard Nixon, oral Questions - concerning the fund brought out sharp denials of dis honesty by the senator. Nixon was introduced at Albany by State Sen. Warren Gfll of Linn County. Sen.-Gill identified Nixon as a sen ator who win stick with the cam paign an the way, obviously a poke at the "stroll ' from party pains taken by Sen. Wayne Morse. The train was a constant scene of change throughout its Willa mette Valley tour as groups of party officials and press repre sentatives rode to the next stop to get an opportunity to. meet, the young ' candidate and his pretty wife. Pat Top Republican officials and candidates for offices in Nov ember, however, toured the length of the state with the campaign sDeciaL - The regular news staff aboard the train took time out . between valley stops Saturday to word sarcastic telegram to press parties with the Eisenhower and Steven son tours. The news focus on Nixon because; of the "expense, funds' gave, the "second team a chance to score in the bid for the nation s headlines and they weren't going to let the other groups get by with out a "Yanh. Yanh. Typewriters tees Mm EUJRTTER CO. NEW ...and ELEGANT! ffiv most magniflcnf I - pattern tver crtaftd NY 1 SERVICE FOR kNM W4WMOnWCfK S4 Includes: If Tea spoon, t Soap Spoons, t Knivas, t Forks. S SiUd Forks, 2 Scrvia Spoons. I Butter Knife, 1 Sugar Spoon. 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