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4 Capita! Journal, Salem. Oregon, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1947
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Not What They Fought For
i It ill becomes anv veterans' organization pledged to such
hitrh rjatirotic ideals as are subscribed to by the Veterans of
Foreign Wars to appear before the legislature as petitioner
for the enactment of special privilege legislation on tneir own
behalf. Yet that is just the role in which the Baker post of
ihat organization is admittedly doing in a bill proposed to
jhe Uregon lawmaKers oy rtep. rrisoi'.-.
At the instigation of the VFW organization at Baker,
which has been refused a "club" liquor license because it
cannot conform to the requirements of the Knox law for
such a license, Frisbie proposes to make provision in the
Knox act for a new kind of permit enabling veterans' clubs
to serve liquor by the drink to club members and their guests
without the necessity of compliance with present restrictions.
These special licenses would be issued only to local clubs of
rational veterans organizations, ana would oe Known as
"veterans' club license."
In contrast, present provisions of the Knox act limits club
licenses to organized groups that have been in existence for two
years at least, and which club rooms are equipped with full
kitchen and dining room facilities for the service of liquor (for a
charge) from bottles owned by club membcis. Frisbie's plan pro
vides that any recognized organization of Vite-ans operating under
a national charier shall be entitled to a license to serve intoxicat
ing liquors within its club rooms, but only tr club members and
their guests. Additional requirements would provide that a ly
such licensed organization must have not les than 150 members,
and that its application for a license has the approval of the city
munch or countv court concerned.
Even more objectionable and un-American than the ex
emptions thus arbitrarily accorded a single class ot citizens
is another feature of the bill making it mandatory for the
liquor commission to issue such licenses within 10 days from
the date of filing applications.
While sympathetic and in full accord with Rep. Frisbie in
his desire to smooth the way for ex-servicemen and women
who seek to establish comfortable and adequate facilities for
their social enjoyment, we venture the suggestion that the
extension of special privileges of citizenship as he proposes
are hardly consistent with the principles for which they
foucht and which they are committed to sustain. Besides it
would not be long before scheming racketeers would find a
means to evade whatever safeguards might be erected around
such a plan and convert it to their own advantage.
Andrew J. Volstead
The passing of Andrew J. Volstead, former Minnesota con
gressman, whose name became known throughout the world
as father of the prohibition enforcement law, removes the
last of those responsible for what President Hoover called
the "Noble Experiment," an experiment based upon the delu
sion that human nature can be changed for the better by
passing a law, a common belief among reformers in the
fanatical fringe.
The "experiment" proved anything but beneficial, it ush
ered in a reign of hypocrisy, persecution, political cow
ardice, and corruption, drove the liquor traffic underground,
created a regime of get-rich-quick gangsters and racketeers
that terrorized the country, introduced gin into the home and
stimulated drinking among the women and children that
eventually forced its repeal.
Prohibition was another example of public hysteria like
our appeasement policies of the 30's We are as volatile
as the French and easily swept by emotions and demagogery.
The crusaders were marshalled by th? Evangelical churches
which saw an easy way to worst the demon rum and during
the first World War forced the passage of the 18th amend
ment over the veto of President Wilson. The Volstead en
forcement act, also vetoed by Wilson, was designed to put
"teeth" in the amendment.
Volstead was one of several men who contributed ideas to
the act, but as he was chairman of the house judiciary com
mittee, it received his name and he was proud of it. He was
hailed by the "drys" as a great moral force in the life of the
country and derided by the "wets" as a menace to individual
liberty. He had been elected to congress in 1002 and re
elected ai each election until 1022 when another "dry". on 'the
Farmer-Labor ticket defeated him. In 1925 he became legal
advisor for the northern prohibition district. He turned
down many lucrative offers to write for the press and publish
books on prohibition. He never commercialized his fame.
The sincerity and honesty of Mr. Vol.stcad were never ques
tioned. He was author of considerable important legisla
tion, such as the Farmers' Cooperative Act and bills to end
the war-time powers of the president after the first World
War.
Good Time to Act
With women's club representatives in Portland reviving
their previous organization to secure heaper milk prices for
that city, over the opposition of E. L. Peterson, state director
of agriculture whom the crusaders have dubbed "Oregon's
one-man milk control board," the time is opportune for the
legislature to take action to compel Pilerson to correct one
glaring error in the system of fixing milk prices.
The unsettled condition of the milk market and the daily
fluctuation of prices on feeds and other factors entering into
the production costs, there is one factoi in the retail price of
milk which should be fixed by law.
That is the differential existing in the two methods of
getting milk into the hands of the consumer by door-to-door
delivery, or cash-and-carry sales over the counter.
Some states permit a differential of as much as two cents
a quart in favor of the cash-and-carry system, recognizing
that door-step deliveries are the most expensive form of dis
tribution. Here in Oregon grocery stores, both chain and
independent, have demanded repeatedl that their customers
be given advantage of savings of at least one cent a quart on
the milk they carry home themselves. It makes no differ
ence to the producer whether regulations establish the dif
ferential which the stores demand, !) the farmer gets the
same price for all his milk.
But in the orgy of price fixing that has swept over the
country, it is high time that the consumer be given a break,
even it tne legislature has to amend the law to achieve that
end.
A Dog's Lire
.ii. By Beck ---
Sips lfo.r Supper
By Don Upjohn
Our specialist in federal af
fairs reports that the "Use Other
Door" sign on the south door of
the Church street entrance has
come down as a result of a new
hinge arriving and being In
stalled on the door. Thus the
great American public can ebb
and flow in and out of the struc
ture without meeting itself com
ing out when it's going in. We
haven't got on the inside yet as
to whether this great improve
ment was effected by our put
ting the force of our column be
hind a move for a new hinge on
the door, or just the natural re
sult of a republican congress
taking over and paring off some
of the ends left loose by the
new deal. We'll be glad to com
Novelties
'By th- Associated Press)
No Pink Moose
Boston, Jan. 21 IIP) The eyes
of Bostonians hurrying along
busy Boylston street popped yes
terday at the' sight of a moose up
in the air.
Their vision obscured by fog
and rain, the pedestrians saw at
a second look that it was a
stuffed moose being lowered by
block and tackle from the sec
ond story of the New England
museum of natural history.
The antlercd creature s ignoble
descent was necessary to clear
the second floor for a women's
fashion shop. He was too large
to negotiate the stairs.
Hot Subject
Portland, Jan. 21 UP Fire de
stroyed the University of Port
land's heating system, but the 1,
485 students donned sweaters
and overcoats and began taking
final examinations anywav.
Most found their fingers
cramped a bit writing answers,
but the speech course final ex
amination, consisting of ex
temporaneous speeches, was
fine. Its' subject: "Heat."
promise and say It was us, until
more definite information is re
ceived. As It was most every
body in town was getting left
handed having to work the north
door all the time getting into
the place.
Last remark makes us think
of encountering Don Hendrie
this a. m., and he confided he'd
just met an old schoolboy friend
he hadn't seen for years. "Yea,"
said Don, "he left school to join
a circus where he made a living
shoving his right arm down a
lion's mouth. Now he's changed
his name to 'Lefty'," Don al
ways has some neat little quip
to turn.
Crude Doings at Pendleton
(50 Yrs. Ago in Pendleton East
Oregonian)'
"The 'Fellow . About Town,'
notes with displeasure that
Pendleton young men continue
to offer their left arm to ladies
they are escorting. 'It is of very
great importance. In my opin
ion,' he writes, 'that young men
give their right arm, simply be
cause society people in the east
do so, and, of course, that set
tles it'."
Bill Carver, the singing pic
ket and also known as the side
walk Caruso, who has kept
classical music alive at the Court
and Liberty street corner for
many weeks, has lately been
given some heavy competition
by the March of Dimes announ
cer up the street, the announcer
having the benefit of science
and a loud speaker to back him
up while Bill has been equipped
only with the voice box nature
gave him. Bill was stumped for
a day or two and then began
making up -songs on his own
about the March of Dimes and
now half the time one can't tell
which is which when both the
announcer and Bill are tuned up
at the same time. However,
we're betting that the mechani
cal contrivance wears out be
fore Bill does.
As I See It
by.
ELMORE PHILPOTT
Recently U.S. law enforcement officers hrnlie nn .nihn
fascist movement by timely prosecutions. A clever girl operator
had photographed the secret documents. The first three miostinn
asked recruits were: .
"Do you hate niggers?"
"Do you hate Jews?"
"Have you got three dollars?'
About nine years ago I wrote
in this column about Fascism in
Quebec. I showed that Arcand
and his brown-shirted gangsters
were no joke made no secret of
their loyalties wore Hitler's
swastika on their shirts.
But it was not till the darkest
hours of the war 1940 that
action was taken against the Ar
cand Fascists. They were In
terned, nut they never were
brought to trial after the war,
as the Hon. Ernest Lapointe
promised they would be. That
notwithstanding the findings of
the Dies Committee in the U.S.,
which revealed that Arcand's
men were on Hitler's payroll
that the money was paid each
week over the counter of the
North German Lloyd office in
Montreal.
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Baker Man Named
j On Mining Board
Gov. Earl Snell' today an
S nounced appointment of H. E.
Hendryx, Baker, as a member
J of the state board of geology and
mineral industries,
!o. H. Wllliston,
Hendryx, a mining engineer
and consultant, formerly was
publisher of the Baker Herald
and edited a mining journal pri
or to World War II.
Williston resigned because of
business reasons, Snell laid, j
' There was $155,722,778.0001
succeeding worth of life insurance in force
Wllliston, who resigned. 'in the United States in 1945,
There is new indication that
Fascist agents have entrenched
themselves in the Social Credit
movement In Canada.
The Quebec branch of the
party is known as the "Union des
Electeurs." Its newspaper. Vers
Domain, has just finished pub
lication of the standard Fascist
handbook of anti-Semitism, the
"Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
This Infamous volume was
brought to Germany from Mos
cow by Rosenberg finally hung
as a war criminal at Nuernberg.
It has been proved a, forgery
and fraud in numerous court
cases. Yet its publication is per
mitted In Quebec In 1947.
The Toronto Saturday Night
pointedly asks why the Quebec I
government should run amok
against the Jehovah's Witnesses
while meanwhile ignoring the
Social Credit organization's dis
semination of anti-Semitism on
Hitlerite lines.
The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix
says: "The news from Montreal
that the Quebec affiliate of the
Social Credit party is distribut
ing the notorious 'Protocols of
the Elders of Zion' should cause
no surprise. It was only the de-:
termination of the late Premier1
Aberhart that kept, the party;
relatively free from' anti-Semi-'
tism in its early years ... , After!
he had been in office three years
he discovered racial bias of some j
of his followers (and) said:
'I hope the people of Alberta
and of Canada will remain im-l
mune to attempts to introduce
anti-Semitism into our midst.' "
" m
The latest act of the Social
Credit government of Alberta
should shatter the Illusion that
this incipient race-hate campaign
is confined to French Canada. In
a letter to the National Film !
Board the Social Credit Provin- i
cial Secretary of Alberta fore-;
shadows an attempt to set up a
political censorship on all films
shown in Alberta. j
The important thing Is to note
the kind of films which the Al
berta Social Credit government
desires to exclude.
They include: "Man. One Fam
ily," prepared by the British
Ministry of Information.
'Don't Be A Sucker," which
was produced for the U.S. army
for educating the troops against
Hitler's race-hate tricks.
Hitler's ghost must imilt.
My DeWitt MacKenzie
: (AP Foreign AMalra Analyst)
The London conference of the
Big Four deputy foreign minis
ters (American, British, Russian
and French) has before it a pro
posal that all allied occupation
troops be withdrawn from Aus
tria within ninety days of the
signing of the Austrian peace
treaty.
British sources said this sug
gestion was sponsored by two
western powers. The two were
n't named but presumably they
were the United States and Brit
ain. And the Russian delegate
didn't oppose the idea.
Potentially that's a highly im
portant development. Not only
is Austria being crushed by the
burden of occupation, but its fu
ture sovereignty is involved.
Here it should be noted that this
little state, which was overrun
by Hitler and annexed by force,
never has been placed by the al
lies in the same category with
the Reich as an enemy state.
Clark Takes Over
One of the delegates to the
London conference which is
preparing draft treaties for Aus
tria and Germany is Uncle
Sam's General Mark Clark who
until recently was commander of
American occupation forces in
Austria. He is to take over the
command of the U. S. Sixth army
in this country but now is serv
ing as deputy in the preparation
of the Austrian treaty.
I had a long conversation with
the general in Vienna ten months
ago, and while he was not talk
ing for direct quotation it is
permitted to say that I came
away with the distinct impres
sion that he would like to sec
all the allied forces of occupa
tion withdrawn by the autumn of
1946 and the administration
turned over to the Austrian gov
ernment. I believe that one of
his main reasons for wanting the
country turned back to its own
government was that the terrific
financial strain involved in mil
itary occupation was bleeding
her white. That, too, seems to
have been the consensus of im
partial observers.
Problem for Allies
Well, Austria wasn't evacuated
last autumn, and I strongly sus
pect that General Clark didn't
believe it would be. While
America, Britain and France
presumably would have greed to
withdrawal, there was no indi
cation that Russia would sub
scribe to such procedure at an
early date. And it strikes me
that there is no reason to jump
to the conclusion that Moscow
has changed its views merely be
cause its deputy at the London
conference hasn't opposed the
suggestion of withdrawal.
The future status of Austria
poses a mighty problem for the,
Allies. This small but strategic
ally situated state is wedged into
the western frontier of Russia'f
protective bloc of countries like
a plum in the side of a puddinr
Moscow wants Austria wholl:
within that frontier along with
Hungary, Poland and Czechoslo
vakia! in order to perfect its or
iginal plans for Insuring" secur
ity. .
Reserve Officers
To Hear Colonel Wahl
Col. Douglas Wahl, senior in
structor for the Organized Re
serve corps of Oregon, will be
the speaker at the Wednesday
night meeting of the Salem Re
serve Officers' association, slat
ed for 6:15 o'clock at the Golden
Pheasant.
Topic of the colonel's talk
will be "As the Colonel Sees I1
from His Window," which will
be on the future plans for de
fense. He will also show motion
pictures to the group.
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Horse Owner Dies
London. Jan. 21 MP) Sir Alex
ander Herbert Maquire, 70,
wealthy match manufacturer
whose horse, Workman, won the
Grand National in 1939, died
yesterday at his home in Eastbourne.
Highway Snow
Turns to Slush
Packed snow on many of
Oregon s mountain pass roads is
turning to slush as temperatures
continue to rise, R. H. Baldock,
state highway engineer, report
ed today.
Some ice remains at higher
altitudes, however, Baldock
warned.
The road report follows:
Government Camp Packed snow and
Ice and slush throughout.
Santlnm Spota of light frost, alush to
lee. Most ot pavement bare and frosty.
Sanded.
Odell Lake Spots of packed snow and
Ice throughout section
U. 8. 101 One-way traffic over tem
porary bridge 12 miles north of Florence.
Also, short section of one-way traffic one
mile north of Manzanlta, at two places
three miles north of Oardiner.
Alaea Short sections or one-way traffic
near Benton-Lincoln county line, due to
slides.
Silelz Several ahort section! of one
way traffic, due to slides.
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some time in March. Leiser g
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versity where he handled pub
licity before and after the war.
He served as a lieutenant with
the navy in the south Pacific.
Cattlemen Enter Protest
The proposal by several legis
lators to discontinue farming
operations at the state training
school at Woodburn as an econ
omy move drewfire today from
the Marion County Jersey Cattle
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