Capital journal., February 21, 1946, Image 4

4 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Feb. 21, 1946
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; The PAC Eyes Oregon
! , With the idea ot breaking the strangle hold which the
republican party has on all major political offices in Oregon,
' the Citizens Political Action Committee successor to the
CIO-PAC is laying its plans for an all-out assault against
, the entrenched OOP at this year s elections.
Evidence of such a program is developing every day.
' Pieced together they are beginning to take on definite form
and reveal the outlines of a definite picture, in which the
PAC is portrayed to be riding on the coattails of the public
' power machine, backing its program and pitching for its
candidates. With this in view they are combing the woods
: for democrats friendly to organized labor and with records
as advocates of out-and-out public ownership to serve as
color bearers.
They are the inspiration for reports of pressure being
applied to induce Walter M. Pierce, former governor and ex
congressman to come out of retirement and head the ticket
as a candidate for representative from the first district in
opposition to Rep. Walter Norblad in November. Pierce is
the granddaddy of all the free-power advocates and, although
: crowding hard on the age of 85 years, is still vigorous and
; active and fond of making speeches. The idea is not so much
that of persuading him to make a fight for election as it is
'to decorate their ticket with the prestige he carries with
farmers and other groups interested in government power
ownership. Walter, if he can be tempted back into public
life, would sing the lead role for the chorus of power song
sters lined up behind him.
, For governor they are angling for Sheldon Sackett, Coos Bay
editor and publisher who first became actively affiliated with the
PAC during the Roosevelt fourth-term campaign. The move to
i draft Sackett for the primary race has taken on renewed activity
. during the past week to discourage old-line democrats in their
efforts to draft E. J. Griffith for the governorship. Griffith is too
generally recognized as a Martin democrat to be acceptable to the
PAC or the power crowd.
Carrying their Idea further down the ballot, Oregon's followers
of Sidney Hlllman and his political ideology have been dangling
the nomination for secretary of state before Richard W. Neuberger,
whose reputation as a public power advocate and champion of the
proposed Columbia valley authority Is nationwide.
Another democratic office seeker of the perpetual type who
meets PAC's specifications is State Senator Tom Mahoney, who
they first tried to sell the idea ot running for congress from the
third district but who is now being groomed as a candidate for
district attorney in Multnomah county. Mahoney, who is a hold
over senator, would have that office to fall back on if defeated
! for prosecutor, is said to be sold on the PAC idea.
Interlocked with its plans of filling the democratic ticket
with free-power advocates, the PAC boys are showing par
ticular interest in the ownership of weekly newspapers
, throughout the state as apparent mouthpieces of their propa
' ganda. Two sales of weeklies to publishers known to be
friendly with the PAC have recently been reported, the
Molalla Pioneer to Monroe Sweetland and the Mill City weekly
, to Dave Eps. The PACs are also reported to view the efforts
' of Dewey Rand to acquire controlling ownership of the Holly-S-wood
Press in Salem with approval.
An Eye for An Eye
r. While there is nothing new or revolutionary about the
process of optical surgery wherein human eyes are trans
planted from one person to another, the possibilities in that
"practice of medical skill have been multiplied many times
over by a recent case in which the transplanted eye was
: shipped from Miami, Florida, to New York City. The air
plane was the transportation vehicle which made the feat
possible.
It all began when Mrs. Henry Breckinridge, director of the
year-old eye bank, received a telephone call from an ophthalmolo
gist In Miami one Monday morning. The doctor said he had Just
completed an operation on a patient, removing the eye.
"Do you want the eye?" he asked Mrs. Breckinridge.
"Take the eye to the manager of the Eastern Air Lines in Miami
and the air lines will deliver it here without any cost," she advised.
"All the air lines of the country have agreed to fly the eyes as a
special service."
The eve was placed in a small bottle filled with saline solu-
1 tlon and the bottle in a sealed thermos jug kept at a tem
perature of 40 degrees aboard one of the line's planes that
left Miami at 3:53 p.m., Monday, it arrived in me norm in
i the care of Capt. Henry Osmer, the pilot, who flew in at 11 :51
o'clock Monday night at Newark Airport.
From there it was rushed by the American Red Cross
Motor Corps to the eye bank, where the laboratory had been
kent ooen so that the eye could be examined. It was found
to be in condition to be transplanted.
The eye was used Tuesday morning in a cornea operation
on a patient in a hospital in New iorK oity.
Will It Do the Job?
Like the 25 or more owners and agents having houses,
rooms and apartments to rent, who have banded together
to form the nucleus oi a voluntary rem control orgaiuzHiion
here, the Carjital Journal dislikes the prospect of federal
rent control by the OPA in Salem. To this newspaper the
idea of such arbitrary government regulation of private
business is abhorent, unless there is no other leasiuie means
of nreventine tenants from being exploited.
To the Capital Journal the idea of penalizing the 95 per
cent of the landlords who are honest and fair with their
tenants in order to keep the five percent who are gouging
profiteers in line, is repulsive. But experience, here and else
where, has proven that the unscrupulous minority will rob
their renters every chance they get.
With the prospects of an acute shortage of living quarters
to continue for another year or more, renters seeking living
quarters in and around Salem are helpless victims of greedy
landlords. The plan proposed by the owners and agents
embraces the idea of rentals lixed on tne oasis oi appraisals
of nnarters listed for rent. So far we have been informed,
public opinion is the only weapon of enforcement in the
. hands of the voluntary authority. That is not sufficient to
, J keep chiseling landlords from preying on tenants who must
take what is avaiiaDie at tne prices asKen.
J A Dog's Life j
W'mMc ffilliil (SfclwiM AND BEEN TAKEN HOME J 1 1 Ij :
ps uor Supper
By Don Upjohn
Tomorrow is another legal
holiday when a lot of stenog
raphers, etc., in the female de
nomination will take a holiday.
A lot of the same ones took a
partial holiday today when a
local store put on a brief but
effective nylon sale.
Women can hardly wait for
the time to come when there are
enough nylons to go around. In
some cases the nylons will have
to be pretty much oversized to
go around.
Biggest local news of the
week is that Ed Brasher and
Charley Miller, courthouse at
taches, started the expected and
Novelties
In the News
(Br the Auoelated PreM)
Realistic
Alhambra, Calif. Police here
can personally voucn lor tne
effectiveness of their tear gas.
During a tear gas demonstra
tion in the police station, the
trigger jammed and the opera
tor quickly turned the sprayer
toward an open window.
But the wind was wrong and
the tear gas blew back in, rout
ing every policeman In the
building.
Chemawa to Observe
66th Anniversary
The 68th anniversary of the
establishment of the Salem In
dian school at Chemawa will be
observed next Monday with a
birthday party In the school
gymnasium. The school was
founded February 25, I860, at
Forest Grove and moved five
miles north of Salem five years
later.
Myrthus Evans, juperinten-
dent of the school, will give the
principal talk at the party with
Coquelle Thompson, boys' ad
visor, master of ceremonies. A
feature will be a birthday cake
with 86 candles, made in the
school bakery and five layers
thick. It will be sufficiently
large to provide a piece for each
of the 5S0 students, school staff
and guests.
Identity of the birthday queen
will not be disclosed until Just
before the coronation cere
monies. Other features will be
tribal dances and a dance for
the student body.
Botanist
Seattle Don't, the coast
guard begs, try to reconvert a
sea mine.
One of the lethal globes float
ed up on the Washington shore
and just as an unidentified man
was loading his find onto a
truck, authorities intervened,
probaly saving his life.
The coast guard reported the
man said he planned to take it
home and convert It Into a
flower pot. ,
Douglas Nol to
Succeed Ickes
Washington, Feb. 21 (Pi
President Truman said today
he has not yet chosen a succes
sor to Harold L. Ickes as Interior
secretary.
At the same time, he indicated
at a news conference that Asso
ciate Justice William O. Doug
las of the supreme court would
not get the nomination.
He also spiked rumors of a
caoinet shift by saying Secre
taries Schwellenbach and An
derson will remain at their posts
In 'abor and agriculture, re
spectively, as long as they care
to do so.
Mr. Truman said he did not
believe he should appoint two
men from the same state to the
cabinet when asked whether
Gov. Mon C. Wallgren of Wash
ington might be given the in
terior post. Schwellenbach is
from Washington.
Reporters asked him whether
that ruled out Justice Douglas.
The president replied by saying
Douglas was a resident of Walla
Walla, Wash.
When one newsman suggested
that Douglas used Connecticut
as his legal residence, Mr. Tru
man reiterated that Douglas
was a resident ot Washington
state.
Lyons Church Unit
Plans Silver Tea
Lyons The WSCS met at the
home of Mrs. Albert Julian in
Fox Valley. The meeting was
called to order by the president,
Mrs. George Huffman, and the
devotions were lead by Rev.
Cookingham. It was voted to
hold a silver tea some time in
March. At the close of the meet
ing Mrs. Julian served refresh
ments to Mrs. Daisy Johnston,
Mrs. Glen Julian, Mrs. Wallace
Power, Mrs. J. L. Chamberlain.
Mrs. Katherine Julian, Mrs.
George Huffman, Mrs. Albert
Ring, Mrs. Clyde Bresslcr, Miss
Fannie Wilson, Mrs. Roy Huber.
Mrs. May Swank and Rev.
Cookingham.
hoped for demolition of the
bandstand on the courthouse
squares. Hardly had Ed and
Charley yanked at the first
board before a number of folks
got in touch with us to advise
that things were happening. The
populace will watch with inter
est to see what is unfolded in
the shape of a lawn where this
gorgeous structure now stands.
There should be good hunting
for night crawlers for a time.
Barbers In Portland are an
gling for a rise in the price of
haircuts to a dollar per each of
same. If Tad Shelton would
happen to get caught in Port
land with his hat off and In
need of a haircut this would put
him in the class of about 33 'A
cents per hair, or, from the bar
ber's viewpoint, 33 cents per
snip, which Is a goodly price
either for a hair or a snip.
The old nursery rhyme which
told about little Miss Muffet sit
ting on a tuffet as she lapped
up her curds and whey accord
ing to what we read 'in the so
ciety columns. The modern
Miss Muffet instead of sit
ting on a tuffet would line
up at a buffet instead and
not for curds and whey either.
In fact, we never could under
stand why even the spider was
attracted by a combination of
curds and whey.
One of our compatriots look
ing down into the cavern left by
the steam shovel digging a base
ment for the First National bank
building remarked that the hole
looked exactly like some cavi
ties in his teeth have felt when
running the tongue over, around
and through same. '"In fact,
I've had some that felt bigger
and rougher than that hole
looks, he commented. We ex
pect these here sentiments could
be reflected by most any mem
ber of our FT & BA.
Local gardeners are feeling
pretty happy over the sunshine
and warmer temperatures figur
ing it's only a question of a little
time before the weeds will grow
enough so they can get out their
hoes.
Stale Softball
Group to Resume
The Oregon State Softball as
sociation which suspended activ
ities at the close of the 1942 sea
son due to the war will resume
its program this year, according
to decision reached during a
conference of the association of
ficials held here this week. The
first post war annual meeting is
March 24 at which time plans
to be held In Salem Sunday,
for the season will be outlined.
Those attending this week's
conference were C. G. Knicker
bocker, McMinnville, president
of the state association; Dave
White, Portland, vice president;
Ralph Guynes, Oregon City, secretary-treasurer;
Harry Collins,
Salem, director at lame, and
Dwlght Adams, Monmouth, state
director.
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Herford, Germany, Feb. 21
When you get a close view of
the rehabilitation and the dem
ocratization of Germany under
allied supervision, you wonder
whether on the whole this task
doesn't present even greater pro
blems than the smashing of the
mighty Hitlerian military ma
chine. Here in the British zone we
find the problem being attacked
along two main lines. One has as
its objective the raising of the
standard of living to the level
laid down by allied agreement
a long term Job. The other is the
re-education of the German peo
ple, and this Is the bigger of the
two for it is to instill democracy.
The administration bears the
hall-mark of Field Marshal
Montgomery, who only recently
relinquished supervision here to
become chief of the imperial
general staff.
It is noticable that there is
not coddling of the Germans.
The toughest spot in the vital
educational program is the group
oi people between the ages of 14
and about 35, for they are the
Hitlerized element. The older
folk are less of a problem, and
of course it is upon the children
that lasting peace largely must
be built.
So the British are setting up
democratic Institutions. These
include universities and schools.
The creation of trade unions on
craft basis is being encouraged
and while there will be federa
tion among them, they will re
tain their sovereignty.
New text books are being pro
vided throughout the zone. The
old arithmetic books instead of
presenting problems in the form
of how many apples are two and
three, substituted SS soldiers, or
maybe tanks, for apples.
The British are doing daily
broadcasts with a peace theme
to the schools. The radio also is
telling the student about their
countries. There are over two
million children in the schools
of the British zone but they are
short of teachers.
More than incidentally, the
scholars are given midday meals
witn calories daily beyond the
normal ration, of 1550, with add
ed calories for heavy workers.
Another important phase of
the democratization is the fos
tering of youth movements, and
there are now some 1800 youth
clubs with a membershiD of
about 75,000.
Phone Meeting Held
St. Paul The St P...
erative Telephone association
held a meetine In the pnmmn-
nity hall. Officers were elect
ed for the coming year and sug
gestions were made for the bet
terment of the service.
New Snow Adds
Road Hazards
New snow added to the haz
ards of mountain travel, the
state highway commission said
today. Chains were advised in
most passes.
The daily road report:
Government Camp Snowing
lightly, half inch of new snow
which extends from mllepost 54 on
the Mt. Hood highway to mllepost
21 on the Waplnltla highway. Ice
patches throughout district. 34 de
grees, total snow 97 Inches.
Santlam Junction 34 degrees,
snowing lightly, 3 Inches new snow.
Packed snow and Ice on road
throughout district. Chains ad
vised. Total snow at summit 140
Inches, at Junction 74 inches.
Odell lake Snowing hard. 3
Inches new snow, 39 degrees. Pack
ed mow east of McCredle Springs.
Total snow at summit 145 inches,
chains advised. Two short sec
tions of one-way traffic above Oak
rldge because of washouts.
Astoria Lower Columbia high,
way still closed at east city limits.
Oregon coast highway still closed
near Manzanlta. Still one-way
traffic on Mist-Clatskanle highway.
orum
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and signed by writer.
To the Editor: All of us can
well afford to cramp the old
rubber tired rig of the "horse-and-buggy
days" again and set
forth from such sustaining as
surances as Washington gave
this nation, contingent upon his
sobriety, his wisdom, his judg
ment and his unimpeachable
loyalty to the founding factors
of government instituted for a
free people amenable to the
creator.
Nothing enunciated by mod
ern statesmanship at home or
abroad, we think, has exceeded
or even matched the calm, con
sidered and applicable judgment
of the father of his country,
whose one triumphant directive
was always, "My Country 'Tis
of Thee!"
He still remains a challenge
to all wealth and position in the
responsibility and self imposed
discipline he felt as leader of a
democratic people, of the nobl
est example to emulate, and It
is for us the richer for such
knowledge and example to de
feat at every turn the scoffers
of all our past traditions and
greatness which he fostered and
the inexcusable belittling in var
ious quarters of all things
American as if the mere fact of
late arrival carried with It a
superiority above all the past.
Virtue and truth are ageless
as tne creator, and the Iatter's
mandates espoused in such key
men as George Washington can
carry the epethets of "horse-and-buggy
days" or all the con-
A-Bomb Blasts Scheduled
For 'Hell-Hole' of Pacific
Kwajalein, Feb. 21 ff Commodore Ben Wyatt isn't worried
about what will happen to the Marshall islands when the atomic
bomb explodes in the Bikini atoll tests this spring. If any of
his men mention the possibility f
of a tidal wave sweeping the
islands, he snorts derisively:
"Hell, we're right in the mid
dle of one of the greatest ex
periments of our times. Let's
look at the good that might re
sult from this experiment, and
then think we are lucky to be
part of it."
Commodore Wyatt, Williams
burg, Ky., is having a big
chuckle at his friends who felt
sorry for him when he was as-
Amity Farmer Union
Changes Secretary
Amity The Amity Farmers
Union will hold its February
meeting at the Briedwell school
house. Mrs. Edward Lehman
resigned her office as secretary,
and Henry Stumpf was elected
to fill the vacancy. Lyle Thom
as was guest speaker for the eve
ning. Paul Yoakum installed
the 1946 officers. George D.
Wood was chosen to represent
the organization at the state
meeting in Hillsboro with Henry
Stumpf alternate.
tumely of lesser lights, while a
nation under sober and second
thought a nation having the
faculty of thought and the pres
tige of worthiness rededicates
itself by spiritual discernment
and common sense to the ever
unfinished task of humanity
creeping higher to glory.
Washington does not need our
belated salute, but we do need
his wisdom and loyalty to keep
old glory- sky high, in excelsior,
as the beacon for nations need
ing freedom.
E. O. Pond,
303 So. Winter.
signed to command the Kwaja
lein base. He now has one of
the navy's choice assignments
handling preliminaries for the
historic tests.
There are supply problems
innumerable; there's the task of
moving the entire population of
Bikini atoll 188 Marshallese
to Dongerik, 135 miles away;
there are countless army-navy
preliminaries and research
tasks before the big day comes.
Kwajalein, known as "The
Hellhole of the Pacific'' when
Wyatt took command in June, is
vastly changed today. Some
4000 sailors, soldiers and air
men are stationed here. Top
ranking officers come and go
almost daily as preparations for
the vital test move forward.
Wyatt had a small, private
war of his own when he took
over command. There were
some 30,000 to 40,000 Japanese
still in the Marshalls, even
though the main fighting had
moved on.
When the surrender came,
Wyatt was busy accepting sur
renders throughout the atolls.
Serious warfare had turned into
comic opera stuff, but accept
ing the surrenders was a chore
that had to be done.
"For a time it looked like we
could relax," Wyatt chuckled.
But then came the "Cross
roads operation," (code name for
the atomic bomb test), dumped
at his doorstep.
Friends of the commodore are
getting superstitious about him.
They believe that if anyone
wants to be where things are
going to happen, then it's a
good idea to stick with "Bat
tling Ben."
cW i From wh
ere I sit ... iy Joe Marsh
Bird's-Eye View
of America
A fellow took an aerial photo
graph of our town, and it makes
the place look like Utopia.
Folks argned that the new 1 re
house would never look well beside
the old Town HalL But they har
monize perfectly from the air. On
aide of the railroad tracks look
as good as the other. All the dif
ferent landmark blend in nicely
with surroundings.
From where I sit, there's a lesson
in that photograph. A community's
made up of different element
people as well as landmarks. Soma
vote one way, botm another j some
enjoy a glass of beer and other
don't. Yon might think then waa
a lot of reason for friction.
Bnt It's all in your point of view.
Get up high enough see the com
munity as a whole and those little
discords blend together into what
we call America a free, harmoni
ous land. The difference only look
bit to people who see them from
too closet
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