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4 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 1947 Capitalijouraal Til so fir SALEM. OREGON ESTABLISHED 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher An Independent newspaper published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Chemeketa St Phones Business Office. 8037 and 3571. News Room, 3572. Society Editor, 3573. FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or otherwise credited In this paper and also news published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: BT CARRIER: WEEKLY, $.20; Monthly, $.75; One Tear, $9.00. BY MAIL IN OREGON: Monthly. $.60; 6 Months, $3.00; One Year, $6.00. United States Outside Oregon : Monthly, $.60; 6 Months, $8.60; Year, $7.20. Taft, GOP Pathfinder Gradually as Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, hops, skips and jumps his way back and forth across the western half of the country, the strategy of such a political maneuver so far in advance of the republican convention comes to light for those who actually try to keep pace with public exhibitions such as this. The only manner in which a junket of this type and ex pense can be explained at this stage of the game is that the real leaders of the party are seeking an answer to the $64 question what is it going to take to capture the presidency in 1948 after 18 years of econonic chaos, war stimulated pros perity and then more chaos? Are the people generally in a mood to revert to such con servative policies as are represented by Taft, are they going to be satisfied with halfway measures or are they going to insist in an outright liberal policy colored by a bit of New Deal philosophy? Encouraged by the results of the 1946 congressional elec tions, some of the ultra conservative party leaders construed that victory to mean that the public had had its fill of the Roosevelt theory of spending our way toward economic re forms and socialistic innovations. But opposition to such a program developed early in the deliberations of the 80th con gress to indicate that it would be difficult to distinguish be tween the less startling policies of some of the "brain trust" and the staunch belief of the younger generation of republi cans. A third element, which numbers among its spokesmen such liberals as Senator Wayne Morse presented another confus ing influence when the party powers-to-be got their heads together over what and who were to be the issues of the 1948 election. Stressing the manner in which the Taft-Hartley labor con trol act was received by the public, Taft and his followers insisted that all get together behind Taft as the only means of heading off Governor Thomas Dewey who, because of the momentum generated in his behalf as a candidate at the last presidential contest and who was and is a liberal of the younger school whose popularity has been demonstrated. Then, too, there was ex-Governor Stassen and his share of fans representing the Young Republican clubs with policies so progressive as to worry most of the old timers. The outcome of this situation, it is said, was the under standing or gentlemen's agreement, that Taft was to take his case first before the people which would permit him an opportunity to cash in on the popularity of his sponsorship of the labor control bill. Dewey had already completed a "vacation" trip as far west as Salt Lake City and had the advantage of organizations holding over from the 1944 elec tion, while Stassen had already carried his flag into the far west. The reasoning went like this : That if there was any marked tendency toward Taft in any of the 15 states he proposed to sample he would be in a position to move ahead with a declaration of his candidacy. But if his personal ap pearance did not evoke too much opposition he might imme diately start perfecting his machine. Any adverse reception recorded for Taft would, it was reasoned, be met by opposi tion forces and enable sharp eyed observers to determine the trend in each state visited. National Security Council With the taking of the oaths of office by Secretary of Defense James Forrestal and Secretaries John L. Sullivan of the navy and W. Stuart Symington of the air force, and Ken neth C. Royall of the army last week the national security act of 1947 was effectively in force on orders issued by Presi dent Truman from the battleship Missouri on his way home from Rio de Janiero. At last the United States has set up a system in which its military power will be co-ordinated and through the agency of a national security council put in balance with "the objec tives, commitments and risks" of the nation as the law itself slates. The lack of such a co-ordination during the emergency preceding World War II and throughout the par ticipation of the United States in that struggle was a handi cap under which both this government and those of our allies labored every day. During that period President Roosevelt refused to sanction the creation of a "war cabinet" preferring to deal with high administrative groups informally organized, shifting their personnel as seemed best. The council carries out the con cept of a war cabinet but is an improvement on it. The National Security council is the heart of the security establishment, which with the preservation of naval aviation and the marine corps in the navy, an integration instead of merger, secured the acceptance of the navy, which had op posed unification proposals. The council Is composed of the president as chairman, wtih au thority in his absence to designate an acting chairman; the secre taries of state and defense, from tile cabinet; the secretaries of the army, the navy and the air force, with non-cnbinet rank; and the chairman of a national security resources board. Any other mem ber of the cabinet, and the chairmen of the munitions board and the research and development board, may be added by the president "from time to time." But all must have been confirmed by the senate before they can qualify; no recess appointee is eligible. Congress provided the outline for the basic purposes of the system. In addition to performing any other functions the president may direct for better coordination, the council under his direction shall: "Assess and appraise the objectives, commitments, and risks of the United States in relation to our actual and potential military power, in the interests of national security, for the purpose of making recommendations to the president in connection there with; and , . . consider policies on matters of common interest to the departments and agencies of the government concerned with the national security, and to make recommendations to the presi dent in connection therewith." Integration of our military will place back of both our for eign and domestic policies the military and economic strength of the nation the lack of which has frequently been demon strated in failures in dealing with aggressors who respect only strength and violate treaties at will. Moreover, it will prevent the dissipation of our strength by rivalry among our armed forces. Forrestal Leaves Navy for Defense Washington, Sept. 23 W Amid ceremonies traditionally accorded a departing secretary of the navy, James V. Forrestal left the navy department today and as secretary of defense took over his new headquarters in the army's Pentagon building. The navy Band played and an honor guard of marines and sail ors stood at attention as For restal left the navy building where he has served as under secretary and secretary since 1040. Navy officials, admirals. enlisted marines and sailors and civilian workers assembled for the ceremony. Forrestal became defense sec retary last week and in that post will be civilian boss of all the armed services. A Dogs Life ... By Beck ..... Iwil.'ji'ii A, ) LOOK AT THAT, S E? ) V f AND IF WE SO HUCH ) B3i '? ( AS TILT UP A LID, J sPLTtW A V PEOPLE SCREAM f 41 j tor Supper By Don Upjohn The University of Oregon foot ball team staging a comeback Saturday, coming up from be hind and finally grasping vic tory from what looked like al most sure defeat at the hands of a rugged Montana team, was all that kept the alumni of the school holding an after game meeting and starting looking for another coach. Or maybe the meeting was just postponed un til after the Texas game next Saturday. 'Twas Ever Thus Item (Medford Mail-Tribune) The sales tax election Tues day, October 7, will see only 50 percent of the Oregon voters battling to the polls, a Salem prediction says. Ennui, and ina bility to get gack from the week-end football game, or hunting trip, is blamed for the languidness to be. Pigeons are starting to come back to the courthouse and one Novelties Dogs Like Movies Los Angeles, Sept. 23 (P) The amazing tastes of Carleton R. Bainbridges Irish Setters, Pat and Gunner, whom he left $30,000, continue to regale a superior court jiiry hearing the contest of the will brought by Sherman J. Bainbridge, brother of the late dog fancier. Witnesses yesterday testified that Carleton R. told them the dogs preferred Mickey Mouse and similar cartoons at the movies, which they attended regularly with their master. Attorneys in the case stip ulated that although the dogs talk, they do not speak English, which prompted Judge Charles S. Burnell to get into the act "I asked my dog over the week-end if he'd like to sit on this case," said the judge, "but he said he wasn't interested.1 Polio Suspect in Seaside Observed Portland, Sept. 23 W) A Sea side woman was under observa tion at the Portland Isolation hospital today as a possible poli omyelitis victim. Betty Rosenbalm, secretary at an Astoria Flying service, was flown here for diagnosis. Physi cians said a positive diagnosis would not be ready for several days. Miss Rosenbalm lives In Sea side, where health authorities said there had been no infan tile paralysis case since 1938. Registration of births was not compulsory in England until 1876. FOR REAL ,ffqiOlUf SERVICE SEE YOUR1 MERCURY DEALER WARNER MOTOR CO. 430 No. Commercial Phone 7249 of the mild little birdies turned not so mild yesterday and made a frantic effort to get into the county court room itself via one of the windows. Today another pigeon roosted about the ledge just below the courtroom win dow and gave evidence of also wanting to get in. It may be the birds have had a convention and sent a committee to call on the court to ask it not to screen off the courthouse statue like the city has screened off the pigeon roosts at the city hall. The accomplishment of send ing a plane across the ocean via push button control causes us to toy with the idea of inventing some sort of gadget for push button control of pigeons so they wont be a menace to the human race. Good Old Corvallis (Editorial, Corvallis Gazette Times Good old Corvallis! A lovely and prosperous town where the citizens wander around asking each other why they can't get their laundry back, why they can't get into a restaurant, why there is no place to park, why the students are unhappy and why no more houses or apart ments are built. Good old Cor vallis! Fitting its boundaries like an adolescent boy in last year's pants; existing under zon ing laws passed In 1932 although the city and college population has doubled since that time Good old Corvallis! Where they complain about their laundry but deny one of the existing laundries to enlarge its facili ties and forbid a new one to go into business in an old building because both structures are in a residential zone. Where can they go? mmmrn I By DeWitt MacKenzie (AP Foreign AHairi Amlm) One tumultuous week has passed since the western democ racies, paced by America, opened their major offensive in the United Nations to focus world at tention on the threat of peace produced by Russia s tactics for aggressive expansion of commu nism and already global opin ion as represented in the UN has rendered a vehement verdict condemning red methods. Barring the support of her sat ellites, the Soviet Union stands virtually alone in this great is sue among nations who would like to be its friends. Of course the ultimate objective of the western offensive is to - force Russia through public opinion to abandon the methods she has been pursuing, but it remains to be demonstrated whether she will bow to the verdict. There are doubts on that score. Russia Stands Alone Yesterday Britain, the last of the Big Five to mount the assem bly rostrum, declared her posi tion through Minister of State Hector McNeil and ranged her self solidly with the United States, who previously had been joined by France and China. So the Big Five lineup on this issue is America, Britain, France and China versus Russia. The other nations barring the Soviet dominated countries also have been flocking about the banner of democracy. McNeil, 37 year old Scotsman who is a protege of British For eign Minister Bevin, lined up his country with America in a dra matic address which was direct ed mainly to Russia. This quick minded, tough talking young statesman whose two-fisted methods are rather reminiscent of Bevin's first hammered the Muscovites and then appealed to them to drop what he described as their unyielding attitude to ward world problems. The key note of his speech was this blis tering warning: Reds Warned "If the Soviet government con siders that in all areas its power must be extended, if it thinks that in describing any interna- Bus Franchise Brings Protest A proposed franchise for operation of city buses by the Oregon Motor Stages brought sharp protest from Lee Craw ford, attorney for the Suburban Bus lines, who contended pass age of the franchise ordinance would be a "death sentence" to his company. He contended that under the terms of the ordinance his com- tional situations its description must be accepted, then I say without qualification that not only will the United Nations be destroyed, but the unstable peace of the world will crumble and crash, bringing us all the raging, hideous consequences to which Mr. Vichinsky drew our attention. McNeil was referring to the bitter speech made in the assem bly last week by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vishinsky, who charged America with war mon gering. Yesterday, by the way, Moscow newspapers printed New York dispatches alleging that Vishinsky's address had caused "complete panic and bubbling wrath" among "American reac tionaries," pictured as wanting war with Russia. $19 Billion Asked Meantime the Marshall plan, which Russia claims is designed to give America control of west ern Europe, was being earnest ly studied in both Washington and Paris without regard to Sov iet opposition. The program de veloped by the 16 nations in the French capital is divided into two parts.- One is a long term proposition under which Ameri ca would provide $19,330,000, 000 through the years 1948-51 for general rehabilitation. The other is an emergency call for food and some other pressing ne cessities. These problems are now be fore President Truman's cabi net, and the chief executive is faced with the task of deciding whether there is sufficient ur gency to necessitate the calling of an extra session of congress in the immediate future. Secre tary of State Marshall has indi cated that he believes such a session should be called. n, carving territory lv- ing outside the city limits, would not be permitted to operate. This was denied by Carl J, Wonrfi trnnsnnrtntinn engineer for OMS, who declared that the nroriosed franchise would grant his company the right for "ur ban" service only. He added that if the S B L discontinued service, however, his company was ready to step in and give adequate service to residents of the outlying areas. No action was taken on the proposed franchise Monday night but a petition of protest cicnH hu finn nprsnns was filed to be considered when the mat ter is again before the city council. Ex-Waves Plan Winter Activities Ex-Waves from this area Lmeeting at the home of Comdr and Mrs. E. A. Meola Monday night made plans for activities during the fall and winter months and for contacting more of the women in this area who served with that branch of the armed forces during the war. - The group decided to hold its next meeting, which will also be a social gathering, at the Meola home the evening of October 6. Scio People Home Scio Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pepper of Scio and Mr. and Mrs Archie Pepper of Albany have returned from a week's vacation and the Pendleton Round-Up Beverly and Judy Ann, daugh ters of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Pep per, visited with their grandmo ther, Mrs. Minnie Pepper, dur ing their absence. IIIIIHMIMirilNilMI Contractors Home Owners See us for your electrical work. We have the ma terial and the time. Free estimates. Our work is priced right. Karnes Electric Co. Electrical Contracting 2060 N. Capitol PHONE 7566 Assessments Levied by City Six ordinances were passed by the city council Monday night, three being assessments for im provement of Hines street from 14th to 15th; 15th street from Hines to Cross street and Waller street from 14th to Mission street. Other ordinances approved prohibit burning of refuse with in the city limits; change to in dustrial zone of three lots owned by Glen A. Anderson at Hoyt and 13th street and accepted deed to Otto Busch property for use in extending Nebraska street one block. City Manager Franzen was in structed to study a report of the city engineer recommending purchase of land for widening of Broadway street and was also told to study the need of rat control in the city. Authority was granted Fran zen to purchase a right-of-way to open a block of Myrtle street near Hickory street for $850. 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