4 Capital Journal. Salem, Oregon. Monday, Sept. 22, 1947
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Inside the New Deal
Apparently operating on the theory that "a free confes
sion (political) is good for the soul," former members of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's much maligned corps of
advisers known in the early days of his administration as the
"Brain Trusters," are seeking to cleanse their consciences or
fatten their pocketbooks, or both in some instances, in the
sterilizing influence of printers' ink. The latest of those
seeking absolution via this route is Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,
former secretary of the treasury who has engaged to write
a series of articles for Collier's, the first of which appears in
the current issue of that magazine.
The first installment, of which there will be six, culled
from what Morgenthau describes as his diaries comprising
900 volumes of copies of documents, plus personal notes and
memoranda, and including records of conferences and conver
' sations, deals with three members of the official cabinet
whom he characterizes as being the three most extravagant
New Dealers.
They are Henry A. Wallace, who as secretary of agricul
ture was the most lavish spender; Harry Hopkins, secretary
of commerce and presidential agent without portfolio, de
scribed as the best spender, and Harold Ickes, the most cau
tious spender through fear of graft.
Elaborating upon Wallace's spendthrift habits, Morgenthau re
lates an incident he says transpired at a treasury staff meeting
April 15, 1937, when the New Deal was making a strenuous effort
to balance the budget for 1938. During the course of the meet
ing it developed, that Wallace had plans all laid to spend $1,176
million in 1938 and $1,087 million In 1939. In the discussion it
also developed that Wallace's department of agriculture embrac
ins the agricultural adjustment administration, resettlement, fed
eral surplus and emergency relief had "given away $2,594 mil
lion from 1934 to 1937."
Morgenthau relates that he enlightened the gathering with the
information that the overhead lor "straignt agriculture junctions
under Wallace, not including expenditures of the forestry bureau
for good roads, were tremendous, adding: "It cost $130 million
for nine months to give away $516 million." Morgenthau once
told the then secretary of agriculture he was "getting away with
murder," in spending money. "Wallace s whole theory of spending
in order to reduce agricultural production always seemed non
sense to me."
The former treasurer names Hopkins as the "best spender"
because he "got money into circulation quickly, which was
the economic objective of the pump-priming policy," while
Ickes worried about keeping "graft and politics out of the
public works program and practically spent money through
a medicine dropper."
The Long Skirt Rebellion
The national interest in the new fashions for women pre
scribing longer skirts for street wear has brought forth so
many protests from the fair sex, some of them organized
in rebellion, that the Gallup Institute took use of its custom
ary polls of public opinion and reports the following result
of the plebiscite:
"Do you think women should adopt the new skirt length or
should they refuse to adopt it and stick to the present length?"
No
For Against Opinion
National 31 53 16
Men 23 55 22
Women 39 50 11
Women just emerging from their teens dislike hiding their legs
almost as much as men hate the idea. Here's how the women line
up by age:
Parental Problems
By Beck
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i tor Supper
By Don Upjohn
The Portland Beavers for the
past few weeks, up to Sunday
anyway, have been burning up
the Pacific league and Sunday
their ball park was almost burn
ed up.
For Against
21 to 29 years 34 55
30 to 49 years 36 53
50 and over 48 40
No
Opinion
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12
The survey showed oddly enough that on the west coast,
the land of leg art, the women gave greater approval to drop-
Eing hemlines than anywhere else in the country possibly
ecause they have gone to a greater extreme. Gals with
pretty legs are unamiously opposed to concealment and vice
versa.
It really doesn't make any difference what the women
really want, they will follow the dictate of the fashion de
signers and those opposing will join the procession to "keep
up with the Jones" tradition. They always have, whether
they like it or not, whether sensible, hygenic or ridiculous
and absurd. Look at their millinery and hair-dos!
"As soon be out of the world as out of fashion," is the senti
ment of gals from the days when the G-string or grass skirt
and bare breasts still in vogue amongprimitive people. There
is nothing new in fashions. Everything that the busy mind
of men can contrive has been successively adopted time after
time. Beach and bathing costumes in our own time have
run from heavy woolen jacket, skirts and pantaloons down
to the brassiere and loin cloth. The hoop skirt and the wasp
waist, the bustle and the corset, the balloon sleeve, the simple
Greek drapery, the various picturesque peasant costumes
have successively appeared and reappeared through the cen
tures, as have the crimson lips, the painted or calcimined com
plexions. "There is nothing new under the sun," even in fashions
except to the new generation as was observed by Beaumont
and Fletcher early in the 17th century:
"Nothing is thought rare which is not new, and follow'd: yet
we know that what was worn some 20 years ago comes into grace
again."
An old time Oregonian looks
with awe at the persistency of
those folks living in the south
ern states where every few
years a hurricane or floods or
some other idiocyncrasy of na
ture comes along, wrecks their
homes, floods out thousands of
families, destroys stores and in
dustrial plants and generally
wreaks havoc. The folks all get
together in an armory or some
Fo
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Contributions to this column
must be confined to 300 words
and signed by writer.
To the Editor: Recently, In the
pages of our favorite sheet, we
were informed that a certain
store was being remodeled with
the grand opening soon to be
held. In a later paper we learn
ed from an ad that the opening
was held. "Everyone from his
excellency, Governor Earl Snell
and Honorable Robert Elfstrom,
to the humble paper mill and
cannery workers" were there.
I resent the adjective. Every
bone in my body resents it. Those
with whom I work resent it.
I am a paper mill worker and
not ashamed of It. But I'm not
humble and neither are my daily
associates. I don't bow and take
off my hat to any man.
VHumble papex mill workers,"
bah! it stinks. I'm proud enough
to feel equal to any man as an
American citizen and I know
those with whom I work feel the
same. Webster's definition of
humble is "Thinking lowly of
one's self, claiming little as one's
desert, not proud or assertive
in spirit or manner or seem
ing, lowly." Because we work
in a paper mill or cannery are
we half-baked, living in slums
or roosting in trees? I and my
co-workers own our homos
which are as attractive and well
kept as the average citizen's.
Our children have graduated
from Salem schools, some of
them with high honors and hold
responsible positions in this com
munity. Our wives and moth
ers take an active part In the
affairs of Salem's churches and
fraternal auxiliaries and civic
affairs. The annual payroll of
these two Industries amounts to
an enormous sum and even if
the workers are rated as the low
est in the social structure of Sa
lem, still they do make money.
and they do spend it.
Ray E. Bates
3445 Snnnyview Avenue
Salem, Ore.
such place, wait until things
calm down and proceed to re
build and go through with the
same thing a few years later.
Out here we have a flood oc
casionally which does some
damage but It always seems to
stop just about as it really looks
as if it would wreck things, the
wind blows just hard enough to
knock a lot of branches off the
trees and now and then a bolt
of lightning breaks down a tree
or so and then desists. The folks
in some of those southern spots
sure can take it. Maybe they
like the excitement.
Politics and Strange Bedfellows
Raleigh, N. C, (U.P.IWhat's in
a name? Nothing. Hoover Taft,
a Greenville, N. C, attorney,
was elected, president of the
North Carolina Young Demo
crats without opposition.
Maybe the young southern
democrats are getting ready to
switch over.
Deputy Sheriff Ervin Ward
was still wearing his thin hair
line mustache today and doesn't
seem alarmed, even though we
caught him taking a gander at
himself in a mirror. Doggone it,
maybe he's proud of it, you
never can tell.
You Needn't Worry, Claude
(Corvallis Gazette-Times)
Whenever we hear an ama
teur playing a harp as a radio
performance, our ambition to go
to Heaven is greatly chilled.
"Vets Colony Rent Stable,"
says headline in the Statesman.
English is a funny language.
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North Spring Valley
School Year Starts
North Spring Valley The
North Spring Valley school
started with an attendance of 25
pupils. Mrs. R. V. Carlson, who
is a local woman and taught at
Oak Grove last year, is teacher
and has all grades except the
first and sixth.
Included are eighth, Robert
Heading. M a c y 1 e McKinney,
Patsy Susmilch, Bill Whitney
and two who have not started;
seventh, Donna McLaughlin,
Marjorie Mlschel, Harold Wal
dron, Larry Mathews, Wilbur
Dixley, Jack and Archie Whit
ney; fifth, Ruth Susmilch, Elea
ner Waldron, Phyllis McKinney,
Charlene Mathews, Ruth Carl
son; fourth, Harold Whitney,
Luckey Marrs, Clarence Hoet
fllng; third, Jerry Wllwerl, Hel
en Forest, Gerald Martin; sec
ond, Jimmy Waldron, David
Carlson, Roger Brewer.
Shepherds Honored
With Farewell Party
Marquam Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Shepherd, their two children,
Penny Marie and Bobby, who
are moving to West Stayton this
week to make their home, were
complimented by neighbors in
a surprise farewell party with
a gift presented. Several tables
of cards were played informally
during the evening. The guests
served a no-host supper.
Present were the honored
family, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Gcr
litz and Diane, Theresa Hess and
Marcella Gerlitz of Silverton:
from Mt. Angel, Mr. and Mrs.
Alex Maurer, Sr., Jo Anne and
Tommy, and Dorothy Diabala;
and from Marquam Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Maurer, Sr., Mildred and
Joe, and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Maurer.
Changes In passenger auto
registration In the United States
between 1941 and 1946 varied
from an increase of 10.4 per cent
in California to a decrease of
31.2 per cent In Nevada.
Novelties
Horse Rocks Over
Atlanta, Sept. 22 ( Three
year old Robert L. Witcher was
recovering today from injuries
suffered when he was tossed
from his horse.
Witcher told his parents the
horse was galloping like mad
and everything was under con
trol up to the point his horse
rocked right over backwards.
His parents have dismounted
Witcher until his mouth heals.
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By DeWitt MacKenzie
(AP rorelin Affalri Anilytl
We shall be wise not to over
look French Foreign Minister
Bidault's declaration before the
UN assembly that his delegation
"deems it futile and dangerous
to conceal the magnitude and
seriousness of the crisis" grow
ing out of the Russo-American
clash, which is threatening the
"very life" of the peace organ
ization, and that it's only hon
est to say one doesn't see ho
the opposing views can be re
conciled. And why can't they be recon
ciled? Having given us some
thing to ponder, M. Bidault
side-stepped that issue a dedi
cate matter for discussion by
the foreign minister of a coun
try which is precariously situ
ated in the no-man's land be
tween' the two-dominant pow
ers. However, we can fill in
the gaps which he skipped. The
real key to the situation is a
fact upon which this columnist
has been insisting because of its
supreme important, and it is
this:
Red Empire Looms
Russia's generation-old pro
gram of world revolution for the
establishment of totalitarian
communism is in full swing. Not
for one moment would we forget
that, for the insidious ramifica
tions of the great offensive have
penetrated every country on the
globe. Its greatest success has
been in eastern Europe where a
big new red empire has been
built out of weak countries by
strong arm methods in a short
time, but already it has a grip
on other war-torn nations like
Italy.
This world revolution can't be
reconciled with any other views.
It can be stopped only if and
when it comes up against an im
movable barrier. Sweet words
of wisdom won't turn the trick
Neither will harsh language.
What sort of barrier is need
ed? Does it mean war? Well, it
could mean that, but it strikes
me there are other possible ways
of halting the red tide. En
couraging point is that Russia
doesn't want war isn't pre
pared for war and can't be for
many years to come. Naturally
she could fight a strong defen
sive war, but not one of major
aggression.
Marshall Plan Fought
That being the case, the most
effective barrier would be re
habilitation of European demo
cracies so that they could de
fend themselves against com
munist aggression, instead of
being shot like sitting birds.
And that, of course, is the sig
nificance of the Marshall plan,
although Moscow charges that
the program is imperialistic and
calculated to give America con
trol of Europe.
The big question is whether
the rehabilitation plan can work
fast enough to save an all but
desperate situation. Most of Eu
rope is struggling in the econo
mic morass. Key countries like
Britain and France are so hard
hit that they are unable to bol
ster their smaller neighbors.
That's why so much depen
dence is being placed on
America.
Such a condition of weakness
provides the best possible field
for the operations of commun
ism. A prime example is Italy
which is so hard hit that she is
fighting for her life. Into that
situation communism is throw
ing every ounce of strength in
the way of fomenting strikes
and disorders to make the posi
tion of the right-of-center gov
ernment untenable. The reds,
led by Russian-trained Italian
communist Palmiro Togliatti,
are even talking revolution
openly.
School Custodian
Supports Oil Fuel
Stayton One man in Stayton
who has cause to really appre
ciate the new oil burner at the
high school is Frank Stupka,
custodian of Sayton schools, who
remarks that he had carried on
the average of 125 cords of wood
a year from the woodshed to the
furnace for the last 19 years.
In good old round numbers
that is 2375 cords of wood. He
had rigged up a track through
the woodshed over which he
conveyed the wood into the ad
joining furnace room.
He is proudly demonstrating
the new oil burner and marvel
ing how just the turn of a switch
controlled the heat of the fur
nace.
The Moon's Movements f
During a Month j
By J. Hugh Pruert i
Astronomer, Extension Division, Oregon Higher
Education System
From a faithful friend of this column, one who loves the starry
skies but must do most of her qbserving through the windows of 5
her home, comes this inquiry;
"I was greatly surprised dur-
ing the last of August to notice
how uncommonly low the moon
was in the south a few nights
after first quarter. Its light,
coming in through a fairly high
window, made a most charming
moon path as it extended far
across the floor of my room.
Isn't it quite unusual for the
moon to be so low in the south
ern sky, or am I simply forget
ting similar events of other
times?"
This is far from usual moon
behavior, yet it does occur every
month, but not often during con
venient observing hours. We
shall have another such low
moon for a 'few evenings this
coming week when our lunar
neighbor is around first quarter
(half moon). Low-in-the-south
first-quarter moons are seen in
the early evening in late summer
and early autumn only, yet they
occur every year.
In our latitudes the sun and
moon during any 24 hours are
always highest in the sky when
due south, the noon position. It
is well known that the noon sun
of December shining through
south windows casts long sun
paths across our floors. But
during the longest days of June,
it is 47 degrees higher at noon
than six months earlier and
seems well toward an overhead
position. In June it also rises
far toward the northeast and
sets toward the northwest, as
compared with southeast and
southwest in winter.
Now the moon goes through
very nearly the same perform
ance as the sun, but instead of
taking a year for the cycle, re
quires only about one month
The 23V, degree tip of the
earth's axis is responsible for
the seeming wanderings of both
bodies. While the sun comes to
the moon position at about 12
O clock each day, the moon on
an average reaches it 51 minutes
later each succeeding day. If
an observer checked on the time
of the moon's south position dur
ing a month, he would find it
recurring at all times of day and
night.
An easy rule to remember if
that the full moon it alwayi
rises about sunset is in the op
posite part of the sky from the
setting sun. The June full moon
goes across the sky about where)
the December sun does; the De- ;
cember full moon is close to the
track of the June sun.
The new moon appears nea
the sun's position in the skjt
first-quarter moon of SeptenW1
ber is always low in the southf
at sunset; of March, very high'
in the south. Those of June and;-
December, half way between.
Karl Annen Honored
Mt. Angel Karl Annen, cele
brating h i s birthday annivers-S,
ary, was honored at a surprise'
party at his home. Cards were
played and at a late hour Mrs.jf,
Karl Annen served lunch, as-
sisted by Mrs. Cyril Wafketf
Present were Mr. and Mrs. Hen-
ry Berning, Mr. and Mrs. Cyril'J.
Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Karl An-if
ncn, Miss Jeannette Hoffer.l'
Frank Gros Jacques, Francis Le-1
Doux and Lloyd Walker
Lodge Meets Tuesday
Hubbard The 96th anniver
sary of Rebekah Odd Fellow
ship will be observed at the
regular meeting Tuesday of
Thalia Rebekah lodge.
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Radio telephone allows your voice to "ride the
beam" into Death Valley, across the channel to Cata
lina Island ... to Mount Hood . . . between Marysville
and Redding. With transmitters like this one we can
span sea or desert by radio and your voice sounds ex
actly as though it were coming over a telephone wire, .
Power-line carrier is another new device which
makes telephone communications possible in remote,
sparsely settled districts. Your voice "hitch-hikes"
along existing power lines on radio waves that are
tuned to follow the wires. Several power-line systems
are now used on the Pacific Coast . . . and they're as
safe and effective to use as any.
New Working Dollars ... Mil
lions of new dollars needed to build
buildings and buy new equipment
to meet the public demand for more
telephones and more service do not
These developments are dramatic ... but most
of our expansion program must be pushed with "ev
eryday" things like this post-hole digger . . . wires and
cables and switchboards. Our construction program of '
$200,000,000 this year brings us closer to our goal: the
finest telephone service for the West.
come from telephone bills. New
dollars come from people who are
willing to put their savings into the
business. We must earn enough to
attract these new working dollars.
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