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Constitution Day
Today is Sept 17, Constitution Day. It was
on this day in 1787 that the American Con
stitution was adopted in Philadelphia. That
document with the additions or alterations of
only 23 amendments has served from the time
it went into effect in 1789 to the present time.
William E. Gladstone of England paid it this
tribute: "The most wonderful work ever
struck off at a given time by the brain and
purpose of man'
The Constitution is the anchor of our liber
ties, particularly its Bill of Rights, as embrac
ed in the first ten amendments. And fortun
ately we have in our judicial system a bul
wark for the protection of those rights guar
anteed to the people. Many times legislative
or administrative bodies have sought to over
ride popular rights, only to be checked by the
ruling of the courts.
The Constitution is not an outworn docu
ment. It is vital; needed for the life of today
as it was when it first went into effect. It is
fitting on this day to quote, with endorse
ment, the appeal of Daniel Webster in an ad
dress he made in New York in 1837:
"Let us then stand by the Constitution as
it is, and by our country as it is, one, united,
and entire: let it be a truth engraven on our
hearts; let it be borne on the flag under
hearts; let it be borne on the flag under
which we rally in every exigency, that we
have one country, one Constitution, one destiny."
Of Time anil Change
A "news story in the Bend Bulletin tells of
the return of a retired stockman of Central
' Oregon, Dominique Verges, from a visit to his
childhood home in the French Pyrenees. He
found that the region had changed little since
he left it 45 years ago.
TIJis fact stimulates a variety of reflections.
Somfe will at once conclude that Southern
Frarice is "backward." Others may see in it
- a haVen of rest in a contentious world. Domi
; niqiie found it as he had left it, an experience
; whklh is rare for one who returns to an Am-
erican birthplace after four decades.
We Americans have become worshippers of
change almost for the sake of change. If a
courthouse isn't wrecked, or old mansions dis
mantled to make way for a capitol or a super
, market or a clinic we are apt to call the town
"dead." Progress seems to depend on the phy
sical alteration of the scene. Certainly those
who demand change have had their appetites
t sated in the postwar years by what has hap
pened all over America.
The return of natives to Salem after a long
absence brings mixed emotions. Many of the
old landmarks are gone, victims of the march
of "progress." They are as strangers in scenes
once familiar; yet they must share St. Paul's
pride in being identified with "no mean city."
The art of successful living lies in being
able to conserve old values and cultivate new
ones. We are intrigued by the name of the
opposition party in Canada which calls itself
- "Progressive-Conservative." The label seems
I contradictory; yet it really cativeys a very
sound idea to "hold fast that which is good"
In all the striving for betterment.
To get back to the Bulletin story about Mr.
Administration Planning Complete Report on
National Security In 'Operation Candor'
BY STEWART ALSOP
. WASHINGTON President
Eisenhower has now approved
plans for one of the most
remarkable experiments in gov
ernment ever undertaken in this
country. These
plans call for
seven reports to
the American
people, all re
lated to one as
pect or another
of the threat to
national survi
val inherent in
the growing So
viet air - atomic
c apability.
The series of
reports is tenta
Stewart AlwjJ
tively scheduled to start Sunday
evening, October 4, and to con
tinue every Sunday evening
thereafter until November 15.
This project known as "Op
eration Candor" in the inner
circles of the government will
start, as presently planned, with
a vitally important speech by
the President In this speech
President Eisenhower expects
to tell the people in broad
strokes, but frankly and factu
ally, the hard truth about the
national situation. This presi
dential report to the people is
, to Jie followed by six further na
tionwide radio and television re
ports by Administration leaders.
.all dealing with the problem of
national survival in the nuclear
age.
Precise schedules have " not
been worked out, nor has it
finally been decided who will
participate in the series. But ac
r? ag to present plans the
presidential report will he fol
lowed by a discussion of Ameri
can foreign policy by Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles and
Sen. Alexander Wiley, Chairman
f the Senate Relations Commit
tee. Dulles "d Wiley are ex
pected to stress the need for
allies and the foreign bases
which only allies can supply in
the nuclear axe.
Secretary of Defense Charles
Defeat for
Wilson, Deputy Secretary Roger
Kyes, and Adra. Arthur Rad
ford, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, are scheduled to
follow with a three-cornered re
port on defense. Wilson, Kyes
and Radford will emphasize
what can be accomplished by an
' effective air defense against
atomic attack, the need for
which has now been officially
recognized by the National Se
curity Council.
In a sense, indeed, "Operation
Candor" is an outgrowth of the
Lincoln Project study of air de
fense, first described by the
present reporter, and the vari
ous studies of the air defense
problem which have followed it.
For the purpose of "Operation
Candor" is to explain to the na
tion the basic facts which make
a great, continuing, national de
fense effort necessary.
After the defense report,
Allen Dulles, director of the
Central Intelligence Agency, and
the Atomic Energy Commission
chairman, Lewis Strauss, may
make the most significant report
of alL The present intention is
for Strauss and Dulles to give
rough estimates based on the
best intelligence data available,
of Soviet nuclear production.
If this bold step is finally ap
proved by the President,-Dalles
and Strauss will give three esti
mates of Soviet stockpiling a
minimum, a median, and a maxi
mum estimate. They will also
give a sufficient indication of
American atomic and hydrogen
bomb production to provide the
necessary standard of compari
son. There is still strong opposition
to this course, in the Atomic
Energy Commission (where
Commissioner Eugene Zuckert
is reportedly one who opposes
it) and elsewhere. But the es
sential facts on stockpiling are
likely to be made public in the
end, for two reasons.
First, the American pople
would le-n h. vt the So-
riets nothing, from revealing
and Mrs. Verges. It reports "they were mighty
glad to get back to the United States." Their
nostalgia was satisfied with a few months in
the old homeland. For all its quality of time
lessness they were eager to return to what is
now their "home. Doubtless they were pleas
ed when they found, it hadn't 'changed" in
their four months' absence.
Impellitteri
The combination of Tammany and the
Roosevelt liberals upset Mayor Vincent Im
pellitterri in his bid for the Democratic nomi
nation for mayor in the Tuesday primaries.
The winner, was Robert F. Wgner Jr., bor
ough president of Manhattan, who doubtless
derived strength also from the fame of his
late father, who was senator from New York
and author of the Wagner labor relations act
and other New Deal measures.
There was more at stake than the mayoral
ty nomination. Involved also was control of
the party organization in the state. James A.
Farley, former postmaster general, and head
of the party conservatives, backed Impellit
teri. The latter's defeat is a rebuff to Farley
in any effort to wrest the state party organi
zation from the hands of the liberals such as
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., and Averill Harri
man, both of whom were behind Wagner.
Impellitteri had been given the edge unless
there was a' heavy vote. Instead only a light
vote was cast and still Wagner ran away
ahead. Now there is the threat that the May
or will revive the Experience party and run
as its candidate in November.
In the finals Rudolph HalleV, counsel for
the Kefauver commission and now Council
president in New York City will be a factor.
The Republican candidate is Harold Riegel
man who served as acting postmaster. Repub
licans, however, do not do well in New York
City municipal elections. If Impellitteri splits
the Democratic vote with Wagner that may
be a help to Halley, who though an independ
ent Democrat himself is running as a Liberal.
The primary is without national signifi
cance save as it marks a victory of the liber
al Democrats over the Farley conservatives.
Tammany also may draw fresh breath with
Wagner's victory.
A bad plane wreck near Albany, New
York, which brought death to 28 persons
Wednesday, was due to the plane's striking
a radio tower in foggy weather. The incident
points up the necessity for keeping the vici
nity of landing fields clear of obstructions.
Here prompt action in the way of protest
against a gin pole erected at a gravel com
pany operation near the airport, plus the
ready compliance of the head of the company,
promises to bring a removal of the pole as a
possible menace to local air navigation. We
want no repetition of the Albany disaster
here.
Labor Commissioner Kimsey reports that
labor contractors are milking workers in the
sugar beet area of Malheur County of a con
siderable portion of their wages. The evil of
the gasping labor contractor was pretty well
washed out by the establishment of the pub
lic employment service, but apparently some
find it possible to survive, preying particular
ly on migratory workers. The commissioner
should exert all the power of his office to pro
tect these workers from exploitation.
As usual leaders of farm organizations split
over what the power policy of the country
should be. And as usual it was the Farm Bu
reau and the Grange against the Farmers Un
ion. Kline of the Bureau and Newsom of the
Grange approved the newly stated Eisenhow
er policy on power while Patton of the FU
called it a "surrender to the electric power
lobby." The Oregon Grange however is like
ly to side with the FU on this issue.
these facts. Second, unless they
are revealed, "Operation Can
dor becomes largely meaning
less, like a production of "Ham
let" without the Prince of Den
mark. For these reasons, it is be
lieved in some quarters that the
stockpiling estimates should be
given at the very beginning, by
the President, leaving Strauss
and Dulles to fill in the details.
There will be a civil defense
report by Civil Defense Director
Val Peterson and his deputy,
Mrs. Katherine Howard. And
there will be a report on the
balance between national solv
ency and national survival, by
Secretary of the Treasurer
George Humphrey, and probably
with his budget director, Joseph
Dodge.
This will be a key report,
since it should give a very clear
indication of how much real na
tional effort and sacrifice the
administration intends to ask,
as insurance against national
devastation in air-atomic at
tacks. It is possible that Hum
phrey will propose a national
tax, as one painful but necessary
means of paying the bin for this
insurance. Finally, the President
is scheduled to sum up on the
evening of Sunday, November
15, patting what has gone before
into proper perspective.
This program is, of course,
subject to change. The President
might even conceivably change
his mind, and cancel the whole
project Short of this, it might
in the end be so watered down
as to serve no useful purpose, or
even turned into a . political
stunt. Certain ; absolutely vital
high policy decisions, moreover,
must be made if the program is
to be really effective and these
have not yet been made. Yet as
of now, this program for trusting
th American people with the
truth . looks like a remarkably
courageous and wholly admira
ble experiment in government
(Copyright, 1953, New York
Herld T-bnne. Inc.)
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Mw York Herald Tribune, lacj
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CrriegCH DTP I
We knew it would happen dept. A confused parker flung
his overtime parking ticket and four-bits into a downtown
mailbox, under the erroneous impression he was depositing
same into one
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a.m. our time with some pre-game stuff cooking at 11:30 a.m.
. . . According to the published NBC schedule this is the only
time this fall that a college In the Pacific Northwest will be
represented on the Saturday telecasts . . . Although in its pub
licity blurbs KPTV says this is the, first of a series of telecasts
over its facilities.
Johnnie Ray will guest-cry on Jack Benny's telecast on
Nov. 15 . . . The Moaner's movie contract with 20th Century r
Fox permits five guests appearances a year on TV . . , Those
who know, say The Damp One is not interested in having
his own TV show. He'd rather do personal appearances at
theatres and night clubs . . . And considering what Johnnie
drags down for personal appearances plus the fact he does
n't have program headaches it isn't hard to understand . . .
In a bean field near Turner there's a trailer camp. And sure
enough poking above the top of one of the trailers is a TV
antenna. (You'd think it would be a snap to get TV in a bean
field) . . . That smoke haze in the air these days isn't only
from burning leaf piles the big TV and radio programs, off
for the summer, are falling back onto the air again ...
Lots of the give-away shows this fall and winter will be
handing out the usual stack of impractical stuff like money.
Why don't they toss oat gifts with a verve? Here's a few common-place
items we feel sure any contestant would be glad to
lug home. A two year's supply of sunflower seeds. A set of
genuine hand-crocheted parachute harnesses for your entire
family. Four hundred pounds of frozen! snuff packaged in .
plastic bags. A five-year's supply of window putty. A one-week,
all-expenses-paid trip to the Portland so. One dozen records
of Bing Crosby singing White Christmas. A 10-year subscrip
tion to the Congressional Record. Eight thousand feet of garden
hose. A carload of bird-seed. Two free passes to the next II-
bomb test An electric atom-smasher.
The only local radio station which participated in the
CONELRAD test exercise Wednesday morning was KOCO.
Because the gimmick is supposed to make it almost impossi
ble for enemy bombers to home in radio beams KOCO per
sonnel thot they'd probably get lots of calls. Apparently,
though, nobody was much interested in the nation-wide test
Because the station didn't get one inquiry. "We thot sure,"
said Bob Suing, "we'd at least get a call from a nervous old
lady asking what in heaven's name was going on. Matter of
fact we didn't even get one call from a young lady, nervous
or otherwise ..."
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this downtown curbs soon will be a solid mass
of parking meters, stop signs, fine deposit
boxes, mailboxes, traffic signs, traffic signals,
street light poles fcnd signs teUing people not
to clutter up the sidewalks . . .
The Oregon-Nebraska football game Satur
day at Nebraska will be carried by KPTV as
NBCi game of the week ... It starts at 11:45
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and beets. A late run of peaches
had been made and the bean
run was to start on the evening
shift Other canneries have like
wise been busy this week.
From what I have been able
to learn I think it is true that
the postponement of school
opening has been of substantial
economic help in this commun
ity. I wasn't in favor of it at the
time it was proposed; but we
have to live together In this
community and a two million
dollar bean crop isn't something
to be ignored. The outlook for
this segment of local agriculture
and industry was very bleak for
awhile. It is far brighter now,
.and whatever sacrifice the
school people have made can be
considered worthwhile an in
vestment in community goodwill
as well as in economic gain.
On one point there is unani
mity, and that is in the hope
that the weatherman will not
dish out as unseasonable weath
er as he did through June this
year. Then we'll have no recur
rance of this harvest jam.
Time Flies
FROM STATESMAN FILES
10 Years Ago
Sept 17, 1913
Governor Snell appointed
Mary Way as superintendent
pro tem of Hillcrest, state train
ing school for girls to fill vacan
cy of Edna Russell who re
signed. Rogers MacVeagh of Portland,
attorney and co-author of "Josh
ua" died at his home. He was
the son of the late Charles Mac
Veagh, former ambassador to
Japan.
The army used more than 150
passenger planes of various air
lines to transport troops and
equipment to Alaska when the
-Japs threatened the Dutch Har
bor in June, 1942.
25 Years Ago
Sept 17, 1928 .
The Florida hurricane, in the
Lake Okeechobee Everglades,
estimated a loss of $75,000,000
and took the lives of 1500 per
sons. Fire starting ia slashings
near the new Bear Creek dam in
the Bull Run reservoir swept
the construction- camp at the
dam where 500 men, women
and children were housed dur
ing the construction of the $2,
000,000 project
The Reid-Murdock company
of Chicago leased the Pacific
Fruit and Produce building, for
one year with option to buy.
40 Years Ago
Sept 17, 191S
A Shanghai dispatch said: the
Japanese-Chinese situation has
become accentuated in Peking,
with Japan acting with the tacit
support of Russia.
Mayor and Mrs. B. L. Steeves
returned to Salem after a six
week trip which took in half of
the continent On their return
home they stopped at Weiser,
Idaho, the old. home of Mayor
Steeves.
- Max IL G e h 1 h a r, Marion t
Humphrey Says Defense Plan
To Give Most for Least Cost
, By FRANK O'BRIEN
WASHINGTON OH Secretary
of the Treasury Humphrey said
Wednesday that Russia's progress
with the H-bomb makes defense
stakes "too high to take any chance
of being only second best"
Addressing a luncheon meeting
of the National Press Club, Humph
rey defended what he said were
careful reductions in . defense
spending and said .the administra
tion is aiming at a, "brand new
model" defense program to , give
the most defense at the least pos
sible cost.
"It is going to take some real
work and a real new product," he
said. "It won't be done just by
putting some additional chrome on
the bumper. We have to have a
brand new model."
He conceded he was speaking in
the language of Secretary of De
fense Wilson, and predicted that
the former General Motors head
will do "a grand job if you just
give him a little time."
Meantime, Humphrey said,
"There is nothing in our present
estimates ... to change our rec
ommendation" that a scheduled 10
per cent income tax cut and aboli
tion of the excess profits tax go
into effect Jan. I as planned. -
Answering questions after his
speech, the treasury chief said he
is "encouraged and optimistic"
about the business outlook and
sees no cause for alarm in "busi
ness readjustments" so long as
they remain scattered.
Adlai Blocked
On Proposal
To Disarm
By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
Adlai Stevenson won't get any
where with his disarmament pro
posal. It runs directly counter to the
firm beliefs of administration for
eign policy experts.
They believe, as the Truman
Acheson experts believed before
them, that disarmament is not the
key to a cooperative Russia. In
stead, they believe that a coopera
tive Russia, her troops withdrawn
from Eastern Europe, is the key
to disarmament.
The Stevenson remarks do one
thing, however. They embarrass
the United States delegation in
meeting what is expected to be a
new Russian propaganda move
about disarmament at this session
of the U. N. General Assembly.
The Reds will of course do every
thing possible to exploit even the
remotest suggestion of divided
American opinion.
On this point as on many others,
American diplomats are pursuing
the long-time policy, also followed
by Truman and Acheson. of watch
ful waiting, taking no fixed, posi
tions, preparing no fixed attack,
and ad libbing as the situation
develops.
There are other points at which
Stevenson strikes more closely at
what many believe to be a failure
of American policy. That is in the
constant attitude of belittling and
ignoring Russia's gestures of con
ciliation.
Since the death of Stalin quali
fied observers have believed that
Russia is in an unstable position.
This has been heightened by the
revelation of her political weakness
among the European satellite peo
ples. Under the circumstances, many
wonder if it would not be better to
take Russia up whenever she
makes a proposal for discussions,
without so much quibbling over
agenda. As Stevenson pointed out,
the Reds could then be forced to
put up or shut up, and their sin
cerity could be publicly tested at
every point.
This was also behind his idea of
a disarmament conference. But the
Western powers already have their
proposal on this subject before the
United Nations. They made it on a
basis of minimum demands in the
beginning, jo that there is no room
for compromise. A conference
could only emphasize, not dimin
ish, the cleavage. Disarmament
lies within the realm of hard facts.
Other differences between Rus
sia and the West, however, lie
within the realm of politics, of
propaganda, and of psychological
warfare.
There are a good many people
among friendly nations who think
the United States is falling down
in this field.
A good many of them actually
feel that by such failure America
is contributing to, rather than
helping diminish, world tensions.
Better English
By O. C WTLLIAMS
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "She was with us
throughout the whole week."
2. What is the correct pro
nunciation of "garnishee"?
3. Which one of these words
is misspelled? Eveness, eventu
ality, evanescent, evaporation.
4. What does the word "brav
ado" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with inf that means "a viola
tion"? ANSWERS
1. Omit "whole." 2. Pro
nounce gar-mrff mff mtzViYi
nounce gar-nish-e, a as in arm,
i as in wish, e as in she, accent
last syllable. 3. Eveness. 4.
Boastful behavior; ot1tnUUci
show of bravery. "He faced the
mob with an air of bravado."
5. Infraction.
' County clerk, was chosen secre
tary, of the Oregon State Coun
ty clerks' association at the
meeting of 25 county clerks of
. Oregon held in Portland. - .
But he said the administration
is preparing anti-recessioh projects
and declared "I don't think this
administration or any other should
countenance or permit an econom
ic catastrophe if it is in its power
to prevent it" . j
The chances are, 'he said in his
address, that the treasury will be
able to stay within the present 279
billion dollar debt limit, and no
special session of Congress will be
needed this year to raise the limit
Arrests Clear
Theft Series
In Coos Bay
COOS BAY ( More than a
dozen local burglaries were be
lieved cleared up Wednesday, with
arrest of two proprietors' of an
interior cleaning service. ' 1 1-
Jailed at Coquille were Voliner
A. Poole, 26, and Albert Mikelson,
2S. Chief of Police Glen Kolkhorst
of Coos Bay said the pair had ob
tained about $4,000 in house and
business establishment prowls the
past four months, j -
Kolkhorst said the two men, who
established their cleaning business
here last January, had been under
suspicion for some time. Kolkhorst
said the finding of money wrap
peri in Poole's home led to their
arrest.
Poole and Mikelson waived pre
liminary hearing when arraigned
on charges of larceny and burglary
not in a dwelling. Bail was set at
12,000 each. : , !
Kolkhorst said Poole was on pa
role from a three-year prison sen
tence from Jackson County for a
burglary at Medford in 1950. j
Largest of the burglary losses
was more than $700 ram the Coos
Bay Times. Other, burglaries In
the four-month period were at the
Railway Express Agency, grocery
stores and a theater.
Court Backs
Reinstatement
Of Workers
SAN FRANCISCO Iff) A Na
t onal Labor Relations Board or
der to Dant ft Russell. Ltd.. to re
instate two employes who charged
they were dismissed four years
ago for union activities was up
held Tuesday by the 8th U. S.
Court of Appeals. ' - j
Dant ft Russell is a lumber firm
at Redmond, Ore. The company
said the workmen, Max Gaisner
and Henry J. Christopherson, ,
members of the CIO Woodworkers
of America, loafed on the job.
The court had previously denied
the NLRB petition for the men's
reinstatement, holding that offi
cers of the national CIO had not
signed non-Communist affidavits
as required by the Taft-Hartley
law. CIO officers subsequently
complied and the U. S. Supreme
Court ordered the case reconsid
ered by the appeals court. I
Pay Raise Refused
By Israel Officials
JERUSALEM flsreal) UV-Israel
Parliament members of the
Social Democratic labor party
"Mapai" had it their own way
when collecting their allowances
for the past month. When the
cashier paid them fifty-four Israel
pounds more than usual because
the House Committee had ap
proved an increase in their repre
sentation fees and travel expen
ses, the Mapal deputies said "no"
and returned- the money. The
State budget is big enough any
how, they thought
Deputies of other factions dis
agreed with the gesture. They felf
entitled to accept the raise.
Death Claims
'Nancy Morris'
PORTLAND Vfi , Mrs. Ada B.
Deggendorfer, 51, former staff
writer for the Portland Oregonian,
died Wednesday. ....
She was with the Oregonian from
1943 to 1947 and wrote under the
name of Nancy Morris. She was s
supervisor for the Federal Housing
Administration in .-Oregon - City at
the time of her death. Survivors in
clude the husband, Aloyois, and
her mother, Mrs. D. W. Hawley,
Woodburn.
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