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Capital Journal
An Independent Newspaper Established 1888
GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher
ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher
Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che
meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want
Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409.
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The United Press. The Associated Press is exclusively
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credited to it or otherwise credited in this poper and also
news published therein.
4 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, September 25, 1948
Political Trust Busting 1
The sudden epidemic of anti-trust suits, combined with
the attacks of President Truman on Wall street on the eve
of election have all the appearances of election year poli
tics to picture the president as the valiant knight in white
armor attacking the citadel of corporate privilege to free
the people as his regime is drawing to a close though it
also suggests a political Don Quixote assailing the wind
mills to rescue the "dear peepal."
Suits have recently been filed against all railroad sys
tems alleging overcharges against the government for
wartime transportation, against the big Chicago packers,
the big oil companies as monopolies, and now a revival of
its old suit against the Aluminum Company of America
to force the disposal of some of its plants.
An investigation has been ordered in the far flung in
dustrial empire of the DuPonts, of the General Motors
Corp., Detroit; United States Rubber Co., New York;
Ethyl Corporation, New York ; North American Aviation,
Inc., of Inglewood, Calif., and Kinetic Chemicals, Inc., of
Wilmington ; Bendix Aviation Corp., and Remington Arms
Co., to find out whether the DuPonts have any stock
holdings. The mere fact that a company has grown to be a big
one seems to be regarded, in election years, as a crime,
no matter how well managed, both in the interest of public
service as well as stockholders, but bigness is always
wicked in the eyes of soap-box demagogues. It is part and
parcel of the late Huey Long's campaigns to "share the
wealth" to make "every man a king."
These big corporations can look after themselves but
all went the limit in patriotic wartime aid in emergency
and deserve fair play. The DuPonts turned over their
best plants to government and supervised production, even
of atomic bombs, free of charge. Moreover, they have, by
their research work, produced many new materials of
use such as nylon, cellophane, etc., that have made pay
rolls for thousands of people. They automatically become
criminals only at election time.
Anti-Communist Oath Upheld
The United States circuit court of appeals at Chicago
has upheld the constitutionality of the non-communist
requirements of the Taft-Hartley law. At the same time
the court held that pension plans are a fit subject for col
lective bargaining.
The section of the act requiring union officials to sign
non-communist affidavits was upheld by Judges Otto
Kerner and Sherman Minto. Judge Pearl Major held the
requirement is unconstitutional.
The court unanimously upheld the NLRB in ordering
Inland Steel to bargain with the CIO union concerning
retirement pension plans, but conditioned this order on
the filing of affidavits, which the union officials declined
to do.
The opnion, if upheld, brings the whole subject of pen
sion or retirement plans within the scope of compulsory
bargaining. The company appealed that part of the NLRB
order making pension plans a subject of bargaining, while
the union appealed that phase of the order requiring non
communist affidavits as a condition.
The majority opnion written by Kerner, said on the non
communist affidavit requirement:
"It seems to me that it was rational for congress to conclude
that members of the Communist party or persons affiliated with
such party who believe in and teach the overthrow of the
United States government by force or by any Illegal or uncon
stitutional methods were more likely than others to misuse the
powers which inhere in union office.
"Congressional hearings showed thnt Communists did not
view labor unions primarily as Instrumentalities for the attain
ment of legitimate economic aims; that certain practices of some
labor organizations whose officers were members of or sup
porters of the Communist party tended to foment Industrial
unrest and strife: and that these practices were inimical to the
purposes for which the protection of the act had been granted."
The non-communist affidavit shouldn't bother the com
munists at all for the party line requires them to commit
perjury whenever it will promote the cause.
An Eye for Detail?
Governor Hall's defense of his "suggestion" of 30,000
cases of a specific whiskey indicates an unusual eye for
detail.
This attention to minute detail In the interests of the
state might be acceptable if the same interest and energy
were expended toward other affairs of the state besides
liquor.
Right in the governor's own back yard during his office
hours in Salem are two deplorable highway conditions, for
Instance.
There is the tortuous lane to Portland that is facetiously
called a main highway. Then there is the hump over the
Willamette river that is supposed to handle traffic between
Salem and West Salem, usually described as a bridge.
Perhaps these could be labeled as "details" in the ad
ministration of the state's affairs in general.
To the people of the central Willamette valley, however,
they are big problems that certainly deserve attention.
This is especially so if the governor publicly announces
that he pays heed to even little things like a certain brand
of whiskey.
And what about moving the national guard to Portland?
Instead of giving more than passing attention to this
projected move, the governor permits the adjutant gen
eral to make such a move despite its questioned constitu
tionality, its threat to the state's future well-being, and
; its cost "to save expense."
Are these details more insignificant than 80,000 cases
of whiskey, and therefore not worthy of attention or "sug
gestion" by the governor?
If Hall would have the people of Oregon accept his ex
planation for the liquor "suggestion," he will have to show
the same keen interest in roads, the national guard, and
other major problems before the state.
Otherwise, the explanation will look as out of place as
do these pressing problems in the Salem area and other
parts of Oregon.
Stretching 5 Minutes to 6 Months
New York () Taxirab Driver John Wagner says he doesn't
expect to collect a $14 fare dua him at least for six months.
He said a young man got in his cab In Huntington, Long
Island, and asked to be driven to the Queens county court
house several miles distant.
When they reached the court house, the man said, "Walt
for me. I'll be out In five minutes."
After waiting for more than an hour, Wagner went In
side and discovered that his fare, Alfred MacKay, 2!, had Just
been sentenced to six months In jail for passing an 800
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THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Seeing Visions, Dreaming Dreams
Would Offer Basis for Improvement
By REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Rector, St. Paul' Epucopal church
Pressed by too many duties, a young clergyman went to bed
one Saturday night without having prepared his Sunday morn
ing sermon. He was worried about it, and fell asleep in a mental
distress, t h
tortures of
which are
known only to
those fho have
a dead-line to
meet. k
H e dreamed
that the awful
hour had arriv
ed. H e found
himself in the
pulpit f a c 1 n g
h 1 s congrega-
rt. oor swhi
tion without anything to say. In
mental anguish he looked at the
upturned faces in the pews. He
searcheoin vain for words while
perspiration gathered on his
brow.
Then, after what seemed like
an eternity of silence, the word
"Grace" flashed across his men
tal screen. Grasping at this
"lead," he almost shouted the
word "Grace." Then, after a
pause, he added, "My text this
morning is on the subject of
Grace."
Encouraged, he went on.
"This word 'Grace' is full of
meaning which we shall discov
er if we study it carefully. Its
first letter. 'G.' stands for God:
God who is the creator of the
world and the Father of us all.
"In Grace, we have 'G' for
God, and 'race' for the children
of God. Leaving off the 'r,'
from race, we have 'ace,' and
the "ace' reminds us that all
life is somewhat of a gamble.
"We can eliminate much of
the gamble, however, by drop
ping the 'a' (in race) and leav
ing 'ce,' which stands for Chris
tian effort. It is better to exer
cise Christian effort than to take
a chance with eternity, for
which the last letter 'e' stands.
"To sum it all up, the human
race can find eternal salvation
through the Grace of God."
Wind blowing through an op-
en window slammed the door,
and the terrified young clergy
man was relieved to find him
self in bed. But immediately he
arose, and prepared his morn
ing sermon on the subject of
Grace.
Acting on the inspiration of
the dream, he prepared and de-
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Home Troubles
BY DON UPJOHN
Happened to find ourselves this a.m., In hearing of a group of
working wives who have their Saturday afternoons off but were
bemoaning their fate. This gripe wasn't the fact that they had
to
spend the
afternoon doing
housework o r
standing at an
ironing board
or manipulating
a washing ma
chine, but they
all kicked be
cause the foot
ball season is
here. Not that
they are partic
ularly averse to
Da tpJoha
football because it's football,
but rather because the rest of
the family will be home with
the radio pouring out the grid
iron story and here comes the
payoff they won't be able to
operate their vacuum cleaners.
Up to the time of the climax
the girls had recounted their
troubles in such discouraging
tones we were mighty nigh
ready to weep until they came
to the bitter finish. "And," re
marked one as though the world
Is nearing its end. "this will keep
up now every Saturday after
noon all the fall." But we don't
see what's to keep 'em from
vacuum cleaning after the old
man has gone to' bed. Anyway,
they have to stay up until 2
o'clock tomorrow morning to
turn the clock back and they
oughta be able to find time
somewhere to slip in a little
vacuum cleaning.
All Polished, Too
Yakima i' A new custom,
to be observed annually, has
Us?
livered an unusual fine address
to his morning congregation.
Probably there would be bet-
ter sermons prepared if there
were more clergymen who could
"see visions and dream dreams"
and act upon the inspiration
thus received.
The world's greatest litera-
ture, greatest culture, greatest
progress in the arts, in the sci-
ences, and in religion have come
from dreamers who have acted
linnn t h a inenipalinn u.hi.U
stemmed from their dreams of
- he,,.- nicture. a hPttPr hM.
lng, a better machine, a better
world, or a better way of life,
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
How to Be Wealthy
By HaL BOYLE
New York VP) As a boy, I often wondered why poor old Mr
Rockefeller never came to our house for dinner.
I mean the elder John D. Rockefeller.
His picture was
often In the pa
pers, and he
looked like a
nice old man
who could use
a good home
cooked meal.
And my father,
when ever he
brought home
a tough steak,
would try to
make it taste
HftI Bojle
more tender by saying:
'"Well, anyway wouldn't
Rockefeller like to gnaw on
this?"
Once I asked my father why
we didn't Invite Mr. Rockefeller
over for a square mean some
time. My old man laughed at
that for years. He agreed it
would be a polite and neigh
borly gesture, but explained:
He's the richest man in the
world, son. Why he could af-
ford to have a whole steer bar
becued at every meal if he
wanted to. But he's fot a bad
stomach all he can eat is milk
and crackers."
A long time after that I felt
very sorry for Mr. Rockefeller.
I Imagined him, seated at a
'
been launched by more than
1000 Camp Fire Girls wbo each
presented an apple to her class
room teacher. With the estab-
lishment of "an apple for the
teacher" day, the children sig
nalled the opening of the 1948
1949 apple harvest in Washing
ton's famed fruit belt.
Maybe the incident is now
closed, the one which a com
patriot refers to as "a tempest
in a rum pot."
From the oil industry infor
mation committee comes a note
to us to pass on to the custom
ers as to how to conserve gas
in these parlous days giving
these suggestions: Avoid unnec
essary fast starts and stops,
drive at moderate speeds, drive
at as steady a speed as possible,
don't overchoke, make sure
brakes don't drag, keep tires
inflated at right pressure, don't
stay in low gear longer than
necessary and check spark
plugs.
Yesterday we happened to get
In a bunch of cars waiting at
12th street for a mile long train
to go by and about 20 of them
kept their motors going uncon
cernedly. This is one the com
mittee overlooked. And then
there's the other one about leav
ing the car at home.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Italian Vote to Hit Truman
For African Colony Policy
By DREW PEARSON
Washington It will probably cost him half a million votes in
such Italian-American centers as New York, Boston and Jersey
City, but President Truman continues rigid and immovable re
garding the return of North African colonies to Italy.
He hasn't budged an inch despite the toughest kind of pressure.
Hardest pres
sure came the
other day from
Publisher Gen
eroso Pope of
the Italian
American newspaper II
Progresso, hith
erto a strong
democrat, but
now f 1 1 r t lng
with Dewey.
Invited to the
Drew PetneB
White House with Senators Mc
grath of Rhode Island and
O'Mahoney of Wyoming, Pope
Proceeded to put the president
.... .
on the hot seat.
McGrath, chairman of the
democratic national committee,
opened the session by telling
the president that Publisher
Pope was going to support him.
Without concurring in this,
Pope handed the president a
memo regarding Italian colonies
and said he would like to have
his views on the subject.
Truman replied that he could
not make any commitment,
since Italian colonies were up
to the United Nations.
"I'm not going to give you
any of the Dewey bull," the
nrpsirtpnt adripd. referring to
Governor Dewey's statement to
an Italo-American group that
the colonies should be returned
to Italy.
Truman went on to point out
that th TlnitoH Ktatps had
shown its true friendship'to the
Italian people by contributing
nnp hillinn rinllars .. vpar to
them.
"Yes," countered Pope, "but
how can we keep that up? We
simply can't do it. We've got
to help the Italians to help
themselves.
long table, clad in a suit of pure
gold, shining with crystal and
silver. A bevy of butlers in scar
let velvet would wheel in a
giant steer, done to a golden
brown, and one white-haired re
tainer would ask anxiously:
"Please, Mr. Rockefeller,
won't you just taste it this
once?"
And Rockefeller would reply
in a sad voice:
"No, James, my stomach has
been cutting up again. Throw
it all away, and bring me my
crackers and milk."
I suppose this juvenile mental
picture of Rockefeller's home
life was somewhat overdone.
But ever since then I have never
envied men of great wealth.
I still don't.
I have traveled through 51
countries in war and peace,
and I can't remember a rich
man or a poor man who really
felt secure in terms of money.
For there is always a threat to
the value of money as money.
A wealthy man is always
plagued by fear he will lose his
money and by doubt that
his wife or his friends would
stick by him if he lost it.
Once in Rome, while watch
ing an Italian workman cheer
fully fork down his simple meal
of bread and spaghetti, I real
ize that all my life I had been
feeling sorry for poor old Mr.
Rockefeller for the wrong rea-
son. It wasn't so bad that, for
all his wealth, he was forced
to eat milk and crackers.
The sad thing was that he
probably didn't even enjoy his
milk and crackers.
It isn't yearning for what
you haven't got that makes you
unhappy it's disliking the sim
ple, good things that you do
have.
A man should always be
wealthy if he has two things
the good health his animal
nature requires and a human
goal to work toward.
lit a Mn ii
"And there isn't enough room
In Italy for all the Italian peo
ple. They have to have some
place In North Africa for their
overflow."
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Senator O'Mahoney Inter
vened to point out that Britain's
colonies were no asset to her
in fact, were a drain on the
British empire.
"She's now supporting them,"
the Wyoming senator said.
"But that's not true of Italy,"
countered Pope. "Italians have
migrated to her colonies and
they have been a tremendous
Ul Un Ttnllan nannla "
help to the Italian people.1
The Italo-American publish
er also quoted a statement made
by Anthony Eden, when British
foreign minister in 1944, to the
effect that the Italian colonies
would never be returned to
Italy.
"Are we following British
policy, Mr. President?" Pope
asked.
"No, we are not," was the
reply. "I am going to leave
this to General Marshall and the
United Nations to decide."
That about ended the Inter
view. Mr. Truman did not make
a convert, and Pope's influential
newspaper now appears to be
definitely In Dewey's corner,
The Italian vote can swing New
York City one way or the other,
NOTE Truman did not say
so, but probably one reason he
is standing pat regarding Italian
colonies is that the Unted States
has signed an agreement with
Britain and France to estamisn
a B-29 base in Libya which will
control the Mediterranean. Al
so, the British have already
sent to Libya much of their
military equipment from Pales
tine and India in Libya. The
state department, therefore, is
willing to return Italian Somali
land and Eritrea to Italy, but
not Libya, which Mussolini al
ways considered the chief jewel
of the Italian crown
VOTERS GET WISE
The voters are gradually
catching up with some of the
congressmen who worked for
the lobbyists rather than the
public during the 80th congress,
One man they have got wise
to is that great friend of the
real estate lobby, Rep. John
J. Riley of South Carolina, dem
ocrat. Riley came to Washing
ton with his votes already lined
up for the real estate lobby,
and super-lobbyist Morton Bod
fish, knowing this, pulled wires
to put him on the powerful
banking and currency commit-
tee.
There Riley voted for the real
estate cabal and against the vet-
erans every single time,
When democratic voters in
South Carolina got wise to
Riley, however, they threw him
out in the democratic primaries
in favor of go-getting young
Hugo Sims of Orangeburg, who
worked his way up from para
trooper buck-private to Captain.
Another congressman now In
trouble because he olayed ball
with the lobbies is GOP Rep.
John Sanborn of Idaho.
Sanborn sat through two
years of congress without so
much as opening his mouth
except to vote and then he
voted with the big lobbies.
Sanborn even went so far as
to insert a speech in the con
gressional record written for
him by lobbyist John McBride.
Sanborn didn't have the nerve
to deliver the speech, just put
it in the congressional record,
so McBride could get it printed
and circulated. The speech was
an anti-British, anti-liberal di-
atribe on silver.
Now, Idaho's gift to-the-lob-
byists is being opposed by 27-year-old
Asael Lyman, who,
during the crucial battle of the
bulge, parachuted behind the
enemy's lines. Though San
born's district is heavily repub
lican and Lyman is a demo
crat, Idaho voters are well
known for their independence.
Sanborn is worried sick.
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SALEM, OREGON
SAVINS! riDIIAILT INIUtIO
Too Busy to Raise Prices
Marietta, O. MP) There still is one town In the United
States where you can get a haircut for 15 cents and a shave
for 10.
It Is nearby Lowell, a community of 1,000 residents, where
William Ray has been In business with an old-fashioned
wooden chair for 58 years. He's the town's only barber.
Asked why he still was charging only 15 cents while bar
bers In this town were getlng $1, Ray explained today:
"I Just haven't had time to raise my prices. My business
keeps me too busy."
Ray, working every day except Sunday from 7 a.m. to 9
p.m., clips an average of 300 heads a week.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Shirt-Sleeve Diplomacy
On Russ Has Three Goals
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
tAP Koreim AMlr Anftlrtll
The shirt-sleeve diplomacy employed by America, Britain and
France in calling on Moscow for a showdown in the Berlin con
troversy is calculated to serve several purposes:
1. To make it w
plenty plain
that appease
ment is out the
window.
2. To serve
notice that the
three democ
racies won't be ?;
bullied into
a b a n d o n ing
their positions.
3. To put the ..,, .,.,,,,.
Russians on the
hufnrii wnrld-oDinion as
malineeres in the case of peace
and rehabilitation if they fail their defenses for contingencies,
to co-operate. The U. S. A. has been putting
If these purposes are truly Its house in order over a con
served, then that in itself will siderable period. England now
be a notable achievement by Is moving swiftly and within
the western powers. the past few days has slowed
However, we shouldn't fail demobilization, launched an in
to note that this won't neces- tensive recruiting campaign and
sarily bring us any nearer a set- begun a revival of her wartime
tlement of the "cold war" with civilian defense system,
the Bolshevists. In fact, it will But don't get any mistaken
be mighty suprising it It does, ideas from these developments.
We may be dead sure, I be- Their very openness Is clear
lieve, that even though the Reds proof that they are purely pre
may make some concessions cautionary and are not invita
here and there as a matter of tions to war.
expediency, they won't aban- Moscow will take due note
don their world revolution for of all this, and it's not unlikely
the spread of communism until will also take some heed, be
lt either succeeds or blows up in cause the indications are that
their faces. Russia doesn't want to start an-
Thprp nrp mint of us who be- other major war. However, that
lieve it will blow up but that
remains to be demonstrated.
The democracies are Insisting
on a clean-cut ' yes or no
answer to the question of
whether a Berlin settlement is
possible along lines already
broadly drawn at the recent
Moscow and Berlin conferences,
REPORT FROM ABROAD
Agriculture, Housing in Europe
Remain Unsettled From War
Agriculture and housing conditions in Europe are, in general,
still unsettled as a result of World War II, Ronald Jones, president
of the Farmers Union, who made a tour of Europe several months
ago, reported in a talk to mem
bers of the Salem Realty board
at the Marion hotel Friday noon.
While in Paris, Jones attend
ed a convention of the Interna
tional Federation of Agriculture
Producers. Twenty-five coun
tries were represented at the
convention. Farming problems
were pooled, and successful ex
periments of one country were
passed onto other countries for
the use in their farming.
Prices and regulations on in
ternational wheat shipments
were formed at the Paris con
vention, Jones said.
The speaker told how the
farming industry operates in
the various European countries.
In Sweden, if a farmer fails
to put his land to good use, the
government puts his farm up
for sale to some person who
will farm it properly.
In France, a person may rent
a farm for half of the farm's
profit, turning in the other half
to the owner of the land. In
this setup, Jones said, the own
er must furnish all tools and
equipment.
France is short of farming
equipment, he reported, but ev
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Any settlement would involve
a lifting of the brutal Russian
food and fuel , blockade of the
German capital.
The trio on their part are wil
ling to make the concession of
accepting the Soviet mark as
sole currency for Berlin, pro
viding this currency Is under
four-power authority.
This is not an ultimatum to
Moscow, and no time limit is set
for an answer.
Meantime, America and Brlr
tain are openly tightening up
doesn't mean she will halt her
"cold war."
She already has opened up a
great new offensive among the
nations of southeast Asia, ana
thus her world revolution will
continue apace even though she
slows aown in Europe irom
necessity.
ery farm machine received or
manufactured in that country
puts at least one person out of
a job. Few jobs are available
outside of the agriculture indus
try in France, he added.
Holland farm products are
turned over to the government
after the harvest, and the gov
ernment in turn rations them
out to the people.
The Finland government has
created many new farms by
clearing out timberland to make
pulp,
Jones said that irrigation
methods are very primitive In
some sections of Europe.
A tremendous amount of
house building is now going on
in Europe. Jones observed on
his trip. Nearly all the build
ing materials are being used to
build homes, he said, with.prac
tically none available for fac
tories or stores.
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