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More Than a Witch Hunt
Placid and. pacifist-minded Americans who profess to see
nothing more significant than a poiltical witch hunt m
President Truman's sweeping order for a loyalty investiga
tion of all workers in the executive branch of the government,
with dismissals from the federal service as the penalty for
questionable allegiance, are unjustly accusing the president
and exposing themselves to dangers more real than fancied.
Invoking the articles of war, the articles of naval govern
ment and all other statutes applicable to dealing with prob
lems of loyalty, Mr. Truman has managed to include the
armed forces and their civilian employes in his all-out demand
that the government be purged of all disturbing or traitorous
influences.
For months there has been a growing consciousness on the
part of the average citizen that all is not well on the home
security front, and that there is more than meets the eye
behind the daily mounting record of large and small disasters
which fill the pages of our newspapers and saturate the radio
atmosphere.
Coldly logical Americans are not easily disturbed by the
happenstances of coincidence. Nor are they easily stampeded
by the vagaries of fate. For months now they have been
wondering and waiting for something to confirm their sus
picions of foul play and for someone to do something about
it before the whole aviation industry is destroyed through
the destruction of public confidence in the airplane as the
future vehicle of transport in this country; before railroad
wrecks have depleted the facilities for safe movement of
passengers and freight; before a few thousand more lives
have been sacrificed in unexplained hotel fires; until mari
time disasters in unprecedented number and frequency have
driven our flag from the commercial seas over which we rule
by reason of our naval might.
President Truman is doing
citizens have hoped to have a
it is all about. And it will take a lot of convincing to per -
suade the American people that he is not on the right track
in declaring "the presence within the government service of
any disloyal or subversive persons constitutes a threat to
our democratic processes." There have been entirely too
many accidental accidents of late.
In the absence of more definite information as to the
president's probe being a witch hunt, the average citizen will
risk impairment of his constitutional liberties in order to
give J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI a good opportunity to take
a real look at what variety of rats the American ship of slate
is breeding.
A Costly and Futile Strike
With the settlement of the 327-day Allis-Chalmers strike
at Milwaukee, which followed by two weeks the settlement
of the 14-month J. I. Case farm equipment walkout at Racine.
Wis., the farm machinery industry for the first time in over
a year approaches full production of the tools needed urgently
by farmers to feed the nation
other countries. I he industry
uninterrupted production to fill
for tractors, plows and other
bumper crop.
Manufacturers of farm machinery still are plagued by
material shortages, but they express optimism over the pros
pects of increased production. However, many manufac
turers must sign contracts within the next month or two
with the unions which represent their production employes.
No strike threats have been
tions have proceeded harmoniously.
International Harvester, which recently cut prices on many
of its products, apparently was banking on full production.
The company at present is negotiating with the CIO United
Farm Equipment Workers, which represents more of the
company s employes than any
The last Allis-Chalmers strike involving 3000, workers
are returning without receiving the 25-cent hourly wage in
crease they sought, revised grievance procedures or union
security for which they struck. It was a comnlete union rout.
The company charged and produced considerable evidence to
Back their accusations that some of the strike leaders are
communists.
This is another of many instances that prove that long
strikes do not pay either the strikers, the employers,. the
government, or the general public and endanger the national
economy. The Allis-Chalmers 1946 pavroll disbursements,
some $37,800,000 less than in 1945, shows what the workers
lost in wages alone. The company had a net operating loss
in 194G of $25,847,679. Most of this can be recovered in fed
eral taxes under the carry back of losses to obtain refunds
in taxes paid during highly profitable war years. The net
profit in 1945 was over $7 million and over $9 million in
1944. If it hadn't been for the carry back, the company prob
ably would have folded up. But the company kept the right
to run its own business. The government loses some
$25,400,000 in tax refunds. The farmers are the main losers
m being unable to obtain farm equipment and the reaction
was felt both at home and abroad. But that is probably the
incentive of the communist leaders, to strike at the national
economy.
List of Communist Set-ups
Attorney General Tom C. Clark was ordered last week by
President Truman to compile lists of subversive organiza
tions to which government employes may belong onlv at peril
of losing their jobs. The justice department's official list
of 11 communist front or fellow traveler organizations was
published some five years ago in the Congressional Record
and circulated among government agencies marked "strictly
confidential." The following organizations are listed:
American League Against War and Fascism, American League
for Peace and Democracy. American Peace Mobilization and Amer
ican People's Mobilization. These four are listed together because
they succeeded each other as front organizations in the order
named, tracing in their development the weird movements of the
communist party line from some time prior to 1937 into 1942
American Youths' Congress, organized in 1934 to influence
youth; League of American Voters, organized in 193S; National
Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners; National Committee
for Peoples Rights; National Federation for Constitutional Liber
ties; National Negro Congress; Washington, D. C, Cooperative
Bookshop; Washington, D. C, Committee for Democratic Action.
The communists are always as busy as insect termites
and there probably are as many more subversive organiza
tions organized since 1942.
Wisdom of Purge
Doubted by Chifley
Canberra, March 25 (U.R)
Prime Minister Joseph B. Chif-
ley told the house of representa
tives today that he doubted thej
Wisdom of ordering a purge of
Oregon, Tuesday, Mar. 25, 1947
Journal
OREGON
Editor and Publisher
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entitled to the use for publication of
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what millions of other loyal
hand in doing find out what
and supply starving peoples of
looks forward to a period of
the huge back-log of orders
implements to produce another
made, and in general negotia
other union.
commonwealth public servants
suspected of disloyalty.
Chifley said the American pro
gram ordered by President Tru
man to check on government em
ployes' loyalty might become the
equivalent of the gestapo.
Things to
By
for
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By Don
While plans for blossom day
in the country go on apace, yes
tcrday looked like blossom day
in Salem with all the ladies pa
rading around wearing gardenias
and big smiles. Everybody was
pleased at the town's beautiful
new bank building and Guy
Hickok made a fine host.
How Times Change
ISO Years Aro In Ths Dalles Chronicle)
Miss Botorf, formerly with
Mrs. Briggs, and whose artistic
millinery work at that time call
ed forth much praise from the
wearers thereof, has again ac
cepted her old position, and as a
result, there are more beautiful
creations than ever to be had by
The Dalles ladies. There is only
!.ne thin Pettier in the world
than a spring bonnet, and that is
the dear delightful under it. The
combination of the two is sim
ply irresistable, especially when
The Dalles furnishes the latter
and Miss Botorf trims the for
mer,
It seems we were six years too
soon last evening in saying the
last cherry fair was as far back
as 1913. The grand old affair
went on giving joy to the multi
tudes for six years after that, we
have since learned, the last of
the cherry fairs being in 1919.
The charming and beautiful
Margaret White, now being the
charming and beautiful Mar
garet Berger, was the last. of a
long line of charming and beau
tiful cherry queens. Among her
escorts were Otto Hartman and
Oliver Myers and King Bing
Fullerton presided in regal maj
esty at the event. That was the
year when staid Salemites let
. ay rt;cH
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As I See It
by
ELMORE PHILPOTT
Whenever I take a trip in the
appalled by the hot breath of the
and groups. For instance, you can
Ford. You can find fervent ad -
mirers of Henry Wallace. But
I have run across very few
Americans who, at the moment.
would express admiration of
both Henrys.
I have come across a big Brit
ish business executive who does
admire both Ford and Wallace
He is A. P. Young, one of the
most respected managers in Brit
Ish industry. He has just writ
ten a book, "The World of In
dustry." British schools have al
ready adopted this book as
text. It is educational designed
to show how industry fits into
the world picture.
Young is not ashamed of in
dustry but proud of it. He
doesn't waste time talking about
those dark, satanic mills." He
tries to show how dark spots in
the industrial picture can be
brightened up. But atl this is
incidental to his main line that
there is a purpose to human
life, that nations and classes can
live and work together, that la
bor and management are not
enemies but partners.
The British author writes as
one who has made a conspicuous
personal success of industrial
management. He cites signifi
cant little incidents, such as
when he became disgusted with
i messy, untidy and gloomy
core shop" in one of the vast
electrical plants he managed.
They decided to build a com
pletely new shop. They took
pains with details like the color
scheme. They provided wash
rooms as fine as in the best big
city hotels. The result was not
only human contentment but
"production soared."
'The girls were brighter and
happier. An experiment was
made by introducing an electric
gramophone. The girls were so
enthusiastic they clubbed to
gether and bought records. They
were played from 10 to 15 min
utes several times a day. Pro
ductivity increased 7 percent
through this cause alone."
There has been argumentlwlthout morality is a curse."
over Ernest Bevin's foreign pol-l Mr. Young thinks that hu-
Worry About
Berk
Suppei
Upjohn
their hair down and staged a
dance on the Court street pave
ment by Miller's store and a big
time was had by all. The q-ieen
of that year made such a hit that
for several years thereafter
when floats were entered in the
Portland rose show she was
drafted to lend grace to same
Stepping down from royalty
for a minute we note where Bill
Joyner, who for some time has
been the cockney sweeperoff in
the State street sidewalk bri
gade, has changed locations and
is now presiding over the sweep
eroff proceedings in front of the
Ambassador apartments on Sum
mer street. We always felt that
Bill, who started sweeping off
on the sidewalks of London,
would eventually find his way
into the fashionable suburbs and
be among the elite. Sooner or
later, by gum, he'll probably be
using a gold plated broom
handle.
So many loud mouths are
shooting off back in Washing
ton about the probabilities of
war it is beginning to look as if
some of them are really inviting
it. And along comes a well
known commentator speaking in
town here last night advising the
audience that probably none of
them will be alive in 20 years as
by that time they'll probably be
atomic bombed into oblivion. If
the crackpots continue to in
crease during the next 20 years
on the same ratio they have in
the past 20 years, there won't
be much object in being alive
at the end of the period, so why
worry?
United States these days I am
antagonism between classes, races
find fervent admirers of Henry
: r--
icy. aui mere was no argU'
ment over Bevin's management
of British manpower during the
war.
Mr. Young was one of Bevin's
right hand men on that job
of labor-management relation
ship representing management.
He tells an interesting story of
Bevin coming down to his
(Young's) country home to
spend the week-end. Like most
other families on both sides of
the Atlantic the Young home
was maidless during the war.
After Sunday dinner tired
Ernie Bevin sets to and washes
the dishes. When the women
folk try to thank him he re
marks "there is one other man
in the cabinet who would have
done that." To their natural
query, he answers "Churchill
I met the author when he was
on this continent last year giv
ing Canada and the United
States the once over, especially
in regard to industrial relations
I interviewed the noted visitor
on the radio.
I got the Impression then
and more so from his books
that while he thought the United
States was ahead of Britain in
industrial processes, the reverse
was true in the field of human
relations. He states that Britain
is at least a generation ahead
of the U.S.A. in getting people
to work together and like it.
This modest volume is in no
sense a text book on industrial
relations. It is intended as an
introduction to industry. But I
have the impression that busi
ness executives and trade union
members might study and pon
der some of Young's thoughts on
our world.
"Problems of the future are
not in the determinate realms
of science but in the indetermi
nate sphere of human relation
ships. We are entering a new
era, where a new house of hu
man relationships, embracing
the whole human family, must
be established
He Quotes Rousseau: "Science
By DeWitt MacKenzie
(AP Foreign Affairs Analyst)
There's nothing surprising in
Undersecretary of State's Ache-
son's statement that the United
States must invest funds into
putting southern Korea on a
sound economic basis thus add
ing a third country to Greece and
Turkey as needing aid to resist
the advance of aggressive com
munism.
The point is, of course, that
Russia occupies the northern
half of Korea and this area con
tains virtually all the industrial
resources of the little country
The Reds have dropped an iron
curtain along the dividing line
leaving the agricultural south
without access to essentials in
the north. The only reason the
Soviet forces haven't occupied
the southern half is because
Uncle Sam's troops are there.
Acheson told the senate foreign
relations committee yesterday
that the Russians have blocked
any agreement for a unified gov
ernment. Hence the need of
help for the south.
Strategically Korea is the
Greece of eastern Asia. In Rus
sian hands it might be the key
to control of most of the vast
Far East. As a bulwark for the
western democracies it might
halt the communist offensive.
Picture Not Pleasant
Acheson drew a startling pic
ture of what it would mean to
lose Turkey and Greece to com
munism when he declared that
should there be a "failure of the
constitutional system" in these
two states, "the effect through
out the whole area, from the
Dardanelles to the China sea,
would be immediate and, I think,
profound." He added that re
percussions would be felt in
Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Saudi
Arabia, India, Burma, Indonesia,
French Indo-China, and to the
west, in Europe in Hungary,
Austria, Italy, and France.
From the English channel to
the China sea! that's how far
the strategic Greco-Turkey in
fluence extends. Where this
leaves off at the China sea, the
influence of Korea takes on and
makes itself felt throughout
southeast Asia.
Greece, the Dardanelles, Tur
key, Korea these are names
for the political and military
strategists of the great powers to
conjure with. In the hands of
communism they might mean
control of the great bulk of the
eastern hemisphere. As demo
cratic strongholds they would
go a long way toward bringing
a halt to the Bolshevist world
revolution which finally is in
full swing.
Can't Stop There
Naturally we aren't likely to
stop with aid for Greece, Turkey
and Korea. The Chinese nation
alist government is in grave eco
nomic straits and will need ma
terial aid for rehabilitation while
it presses its campaign against
the Chinese communist armies
As to the cost of American
aid to countries threatened by
communist aggression, propon
ents of the program maintain
that it is insurance against possi
ble final show-down between
democracy and a swollen com
munist empire.
William C. Bullitt, American
ambassador to Moscow from
1933 to 1936, apparently had
such a show-down in mind
when he told the congressional
committee on unAmerican ac
tivities that the communist party
is a Soviet agency designed to
weaken America "for the ulti
mate assault the Soviet govern
ment intends to make on the
United States."
Novelties
Easy Night
Fitchburg, Mass., March 25
W) Pranksters filched a sign
from a nearby parking lot and
placed it on the front steps of
the police headquarters.
The sign read: "Closed 5:30
p. m. to 9:30 a. m. No trespass
ing." Police said it worked fine,
"Not even a drunk disturbed
the premises."
Bum Deal
Albany, N, Y., March 25 P)
Even tramps are costing the
state more money these days.
Governor Dewey today ap
proved a bill increasing the
state's allowance for mainten
ance of tramps in jails from 60
cents to $1 a day.
On November 21, 1918, the
entire German navy surrender
ed itself to the American and
British fleets without any fight
manity is appoarching the time
when there can be plenty for
every human being on earth
when mankind will not have
to drudge and toil at unwanted
work. But he thinks that work
which people want to do and
like to do is among the great
est of blessings.
(The British publisher is
George Gill, London. The Cana
dian McClelland and Stewart
Toronto.)
LEGAL
NOTirE
Notice Is herehr urm that Rule II of
th Rules and Rrculitton of the Civil
Sfrvlrt Commission of fislrm. Oreion,
hss bppn rhsntrd. effMtlvs April 7th.
1947. snd Ihst printed copies of such rules
ss ehsntfd msr be obtained at the of
fice of the eltr recorder In the elty hall
of Salem. Oregon.
CIVIL SFRVICI COMMISSION
Or SALEM
Br Alfred Mundl, Seeretarr.
TJ'
Ditches White
In Milk Strike
Amite, La., March 25 UP)
Thousands of gallons of milk
today were seized by armed
men who dumped the contents
of six tank trucks in ditches on
the outskirts of the city.
It was the first act of violence
in a strike called 24 hours earlier
by dairy farmers of several east
Louisiana parishes (counties) in
protest of a price cut declared
by milk distributors. A reliable
source estimated that 58 per cent
of the state s milk production
was cut off by the strike.
The six tank trucks were
halted near the Amite city
limits, shortly after 1 a.m., by
men carrying shotguns and rifles.
The drivers were forced to a
lonely section of the road where
truck drain valves were opened,
flooding the ditches of the high
way with milk.
Meantime, at Independence,
six miles from Amite, 700 gal
lons of milk were poured into
the Tangipahoa river. The milk
had been delivered to a pas
teurization plant of the St.
Charles dairy, a New Orleans
firm, and was seized shortly aft
er it arrived at the plant.
All Aboard
Airplane Saved
Westover Field, Mass., March
25 IP) All nine persons aboard
an army C-54 transport which
crashed Sunday on a Newfound
land plateau are alive and only
one was injured, the army re
ported today.
The one injured man has been
flown by helicopter to Harmon
field, near the crash scene, and
the other survivors will be flown
to Harmon field in relays be
cause of rough terrain which
prevents full loading of the res
cue plane.
Public Relations Officer Capt.
Theodore Wood identified the in
jured crewman as Radioman
Staff Sgt. William Brotzman,
stationed at Warner Robins field,
Macon, Ga.
Capt. Wood said Brotzman was
loaded aboard the helicopter in
a litter but that Harmon field
hospital reported he was not se
riously injured.
He said the helicopter reached
the downed crewmen at 7:15 a.m.
(Newfoundland time).
As the plane circled for its
rescue mission, ground crews la
bored to reach a 1500 foot high
plateau 25 miles south of Sle
phenville, Newfoundland.
Board Brings
Plan to Salem
Portland, March 25 UP) The
state highway commission will
take to Salem this week a plan
to set aside annually $1,000,000
for improvement of county roads
and $500,000 for city streets.
Commissioners adopted a res
olution here yesterday endorsing
the plan. They said distribution
of funds would be on the basis of
need.
Incorporated in the plan would
be an annual award of $100,000
to go to the city advancing the
best program for use of the
money.
Commissioners said they
would explain the distribution
plan to senate committeemen at
Salem later this week.
Action taken on bids included:
Clackamas, Hood River and
Wasco counties 12,000 cubic
yards of crushed rock in stock
piles on the Mt. Hood and Wap
initia highways, awarded to J.
N anri M. J. Conlev. Portland.
S42.975. !
Columbia county 5.74 miles
of surfacing and oiling on Spit-enberg-Scappoose
section of the
Pittsburg - Scappoose county
road, referred to engineer with
power to award to low bidder. 1
J. N. and W. J. Conley, Fort
land, $56,682.
Lincoln county Painting Ya
quina bridge on Oregon Coast
highway at Newport, awarded
to Pacific Bridge Painting com
pany, San Francisco, $14,148.
Clerical Work Changed
Silverton Miss Lucille Car
penter has taken a new clerical
position in the offices of the
Rholin Cooley iris gardens. Miss
Carpenter was with the Hubbs
Real Estate and Insurance busi
ness offices for a number of
years.
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To the Editor: The senate to
day is deliberating on a measure
to repeal state aid for veterans.
The state aid bill gives $35 a
month, for as many months ap
propriate, to the veterans who
need it for schooling. In WU
lamette University there are 18
men who use and need state aid
That number multiplied by all
the schools of higher learning
in Oregon is the total of men
from whom would be taken one
of the rights they were prom
ised while overseas. They were
fighting, in one way, to make it
possible for legislation to con
tinue creating laws; and now
Oregon legislature is attempting
to make a law suspending this
bill, holding it for use in 1949
Now is the time the men need
this help. Deferring aid until
1949 will merely take it away
permanently from the men us
ing it now. And they are the
men who fought and for whom
the bill was created in the first
place. They will use their G. I.
aid for more technical and ex
pensive study in the near future
G. I. aid will suffice more than
state aid at this time because of
the monetary difference. In
this period they will not have
time to work for much of their
support. Now, in 1947-48 is the
time for state aid.
Oregon can be justly proud
of the part her sons played in a
great war, which was barely
two years ago. Is Oregon for
getting that it was these same
sons to whom was promised
state aid to further education?
Oregon is one of the few states
of the Union providing for such
a bill. Oregon has been praised
highly for this attitude toward
the veterans, and is one step
ahead of the other states. Are
we going to slip back by sus
pending this bill? The service
men have come home to many
situations which they did not
expect while fighting overseas.
Let us in Oregon not be a party
to disappointing them. They
have laid out their futures with
state aid in mind. And because
of state aid, many can become
doctors or lawyers, professions
they can hardly attain without
government aid. And isn't gov
ernment aid just payment for
the years spent in defending our
country and defeating axis tyr
anny? Is $35 a month too much
reward for lying in a foxhole for
30 days?
This is a challenge to Oregon.
Does she have the right to with
hold what she promised to the
figting men during the war?
If the wages of the legislature
can be raised, cannot the bill
be continued which gives $35 a
month for schooling to the men
who fought for us and DerhaDs
saved our lives and the life of
the nation?
ADDYSE LANE.
Salem, Ore.
Seven Boys Leave
Chehalis School
Olympia, March 25 (iT) The
state patrol reported today that
seven boys escaped from the
state training school at Chehalis
at 11:40 p.m. last night.
Their escape followed recent
disturbances at the school which
resulted in an investigation by a
legislative interim committee.
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Follow the Blossom Day
Nine More
Join Regiment '
Joining the 369th engineer
boat and shore regiment, army
reserve unit commanded by Col.
George Spaur when that unit
and the 409th quartermasters
headquarters and headquarters
company held their bi-monthly
training meeting Monday night
were four more officers and five
enlisted men.
The nine men assigned to duty
with the 369th were: officers, '
Maj. L, L. Jones and Lt. G. J.
Arens, both of Corvallis and
Capt. D. R. Gardner and Lt. D.
C. Bradrick of Salem; enlisted
men: Sgt. J. W. Brennan, Sgt.
C. R. Ewing and Sgt. Robert A.
Green, all of Salem, Sgt. Kyle
R. Folsom of Albany and Cpl.
W. C. Bacon of Hubbard.
The men were given instruc
tion in supply and logistics by
Maj. Homer Lyons, brigade
quartermaster and Maj. Vinton
Green, regimental supply of
ficer for the 369th. Maj. S. A.
Young, regular army instructor
for the two units, gave the latest
information on reserve corps ac
tivities and the new army film
"Plan for Peace" was shown the
group by Master Sgt. Donald
Riddle.
Rate Cut Hangs r
On Amendment
Washington, March 25 (U.R)
Rep. Homer Angell (R., Ore.)
said today the constitution would
have to be amended before rates
on the Bonneville power project
could be reduced.
He made his statement in tes
timony filed with the house pub
lic lands committee where pro
posed reclamations law revisions
are under consideration. Some
witnesses have said the revisions
would result in increased rates
on public power projects.
Angell said contracts for Bon
neville power were subject to a
law providing that returns must
cover costs. He said the latest
contract reviews and audits of
the Bonneville books showed the
project was "paying out" at pres
ent rates of $17.50 per kilowatt
year.
"Any constitutional lawyer
knows that contracts negotiated
and executed under a specific
policy laid down by congress
cannot be voided or altered," An
gell said. "The intent of con
gress is clearly and definitely ex
pressed in the act of 1937. Until
it is established that the intent
has been violated, personal!
whims as to the sufficiency (o
rates) have no legal standing."
Angell said that any charge
that Bonneville rates were too
low would have to take into ac
count that the project could pay
for itself if rates were reduced
by three dollars a year to $14.
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