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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1948)
Capital jk. Journal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher Published every afternoon except Sundoy at 444 Che meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. 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: By Carrier: Weekly, 25c; Monthly, $1.00; One Year, S12.00. By Mall In Oregon: Monthly, 75c; 6 Mos., (4.00; One Tear, $8.00. U.S. Outside Oregon: Monthly, $1.00; 6 Mos., $6.00; Year, $12. 4 Salem, Oregon, Monday, October 18, 1948 Curb on Mass Picketing Key rulinpr by a trial examiner of the National Labor Relations board over the week-end on the Taft-Hartley law curbs mass picketing and sets up a yardstick for re placing strikers with new workers. The examiner, Irving Rogosin, delved into what makes up mass picketing. Conceding one definition won't fit all cases, he held that some picket parades by force of num bers would have the effect of coercing employes who wanted to enter a plant and work. He held that mass picketing can violate the act even if it is in the form of a peaceful parade. The numerous riots that mass picketing produce are evidence enough. Sheer numbers tend to coerce non-strikers, RogoRin said, o he recommended that the ClO-United Electrical Work ers and officers of locals 1150 and 13 be ordered to refrain from holding any more processions like that of November 21, 1947, in front of the Cory Corporation plant in Chicago. The demonstration was held as a "Taft-Hartley protest demonstration." Unless the union appeals the findings to the five man board in 20 days, the decision will have the effect of a board order. The other ruling, setting forth at least five conditions under which "economic" strikers lose their jobs to perma nent replacements, was handed down by the board itself. "Economic" strikers are those who walk out over pay or working conditions, rather than in protest against some unfair labor practice complaint against their employer. 1 The NLRB held that 71 strikers, members of the Inter national Association of Machinists, are no longer entitled to reinstatement as workers at the Pipe Machinery com pany of Cleveland ; hence they were not eligible under the act to vote in a collective bargaining election. The board laid it based its ruling on these points: (A) None of the strikers had made an "unconditional" ap plication for reinstatement; (B) The company notified them they would be replaced if they did not return to their jobs with in four days; (C) The replacement all had been engaged In similar work; (D) They were recruited from the general area and (E) They were offered permanent jobs and accepted on that basis. The Old Political Trick Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry has not dropped the vicious practice of his two immediate predecessors of using his high office for personal campaign advertising at state expense, despite the extra costs necessitated of reprinting all stationery sent out blacking out the name of his prede cessor and substituting his own in the same formula large black type for the official and fine type for the office. Every automobile passenger car owner is receiving an official "reminder" to file application "for 1949 registra tion of your automobile." The name of EARL T. NEWBRY appears in bold type and the title Secretary of State, Sal em, Oregon, in small type at the top of the notice. The renewal application repeats the performance the appli cation is made to EARL T. NEWBRY in capital letters with his title in lower case, and alongside is a plea for early action with a facsimile of the Newbry signature. With the above is another list of warnings. "These May Kill You" listing violations of traffic laws "That may kill you," also from the Traffic Safety Division, EARL T. NEWBRY, Secretary of State the latter in small type. The sending envelope carries in its corner EARL T. NEWBRY, Secretary of State. The return envelope is addressed, in very large letters to EARL T. NEWBRY, Secretary of State. Thus the envelopes and enclosures In the one sent out, contain the emphasis on Mr. Newbry six times to the nearly half million auto owners. How many other notices from the secretary of state on other matters follow the same formula as personal propaganda is a matter of guess work but they must reach millions of people cheap, per sonal advertising and propaganda for the incumbent, designed to make his name a household word and thereby win the votes at taxpayers' expense. Fluctuating With the Weather President Truman's latest measuring stick must be hay wire. He expressed the belief Saturday that there had been a slight easing of world tension. How he could figure that is a real puzzler. The only easing of tension would be purely wishful thinking. Since his statement happened to coincide with a return to Washington from a midwest campaign tour, it might have been induced by political considerations. And if the president would stoop to phony words for the pur pose of trying to gain votes, it is not to the credit of Mr. Truman or the democratic party. Every week or so the world situation works itself into a minor crisis. Then Mr. Truman, searching for some bit of hope, comes forth with some honeyed words that would try to paint a touch of false brightness to the other wise gloomy picture. It is fine for the chief executive to keep the spirits of the nation up. That's part of his job. But he is doing a disservice to the nation if he tries to bolster courage to face the future by false appraisals of the international situation. The people are gradually realizing that the rivalry be tween Russia and the United States is one that does not tend to fluctuate day-by-day. It is persistent. Russia's announced intentions are for world conquest. It is certain those intentions don't vary with each passing day. Secretary of State Marshall is aware of that fact. The reports from all over the world indicate the same thing. In face of that, how can the president make such mis leading statements? The people want to know how bad conditions really are abroad. They aren't looking for statements that fluctuate as if with the weather, one day good and one day bad. The president had better get a new measuring stick for international affairs one for sound, actual measure ments. Special Attention for Tramps Chelnuford. Eng. ) Tramps hereafter will ride the cushions through rolling Essex county by order of the county council. The council Instructed Its welfare officers to hire taxis lor any tramps stranded at night so the trampe ean ride lo the nearest council hostel. In the daytime, the tramps will get has fare. BY BECK WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND MacKENZIE'S COLUMN The Acid Test ''!'Ah!SMti IfflfiFjET ovtR. quick- ! Liij ' I id has HOOKeouP )ZiZ AND FURTHERMORE Wl'i'i ,'i A lie-detector . li I WILL CRACK DOtH j ' I TO THE DADO At Jf ON SPECIAL INTERESTS, i IV THE PES A POLITICAL Jffe SUM WORK FOR THE J "")-, j vJ-i SPEECH ON rf' EE WELFARE Of THE T ' yf , I fl-r-i v ' I f - SIPS FOR SUPPER Mother Cuts Up By DOM UPJOHN Sometimes we have our doubts about the appropriateness of the term Mother Nature. When we consider what has been hap pening to the walnut crop, which had been predicted as the larg est and of the Don Upjohn finest quality y e i produced h e r e a b o uts, when we re member what has happened to some of the cherry crops, some of the prune crops, and in fact from time to time about every other product raised on the farm it makes one wonder whether Nature has so much of the moth er instinct as she has been tout ed as having. Of course, mamas spank their children once in awhile when they get impish, but as a rule they don't club 'em over the head. It's not a moth erly trait to fix up little Johnny with an attractive school lunch, doll it up as appetizing as pos sible with dainties and tidbits and then just as little Johnny starts from home kick it out of his hand and spread it all over the landscape. But that's the way Nature handles a great many of these crops. Take the walnuts for instance. This year she dolled them up into the big gest and finest ever and, then just as it was about to be put in eatin' shape . O well, if that's the kind of a mother she wants to be there's not much that can be done about it. Maybe Mother knows best. to bring back rocks for his rock polishing hobby and we can't help but wonder what sort of a load he brought in from these far off spots. In our mind's eye we can see Doc, chisel in hand, gouging out great chasms from the side of the Grand Canyon et cetera, dumping the loot in gun nysacks and hustling them to the trunk of his car all the time drooling as he thinks of same in his grinding machine. But there's some irony in all this. Here Doc takes a trip of several thousand miles looking at re mote rock deposits and the day he gets back home it is announc ed in the papers some guy in Central Oregon dug up a 200 lb agate. And just to think, if Doc had stayed in his own hunt ing grounds that might have been him. Well, it's no more than fair to admit that the experts did it when they picked Oregon to win Saturday but they had a mighty close call. Yea, Ore gon was good enough to even overcome that handicap. Doc Frank Voigt and wife are back from a four weeks trip through the east and southwest among other places visited be ing Carlsbad Caverns, Grand Canyon, Zion and Bryce Na tional parks and such places. Doc has been making a practice of taking trips to eastern Oregon We herad one of the coffee club connoiseurs remark this morning that the letter "M" seems to represent a prominent part in the life of women, i. e., money, makeup and men, In that order he cited as their objectives. Injury Whittier. Roberts, 2, Cal. (U.R) Mark was recovering to day from injuries that let him inhale but prevented him from exhaling. An operation relieved the condition, caused when he fell and struck his chest on a piece of steel. Senator Runs Interference Allies May Call a Halt to For Nazis in the U. S. Dismantling of Plants Drew PesrsoB By DREW PEARSON Washington It isn't hard to understand when you know all the inside facts why Governor Dewey has so carefully steered clear of helping Republican Senator Chappy Revercomb of West Virginia in his re-election fight. Not only did Revercomb ram through congress the displaced persons act dis- i wui u iiimi , ikh'isimi criminat ing against Jews and Cath olics, but on July 8, 1948, he telegraphed the justice depart ment asking that some of the worst nazis in the U.S.A. be kept In this country. The justice department had ordered these nazis deported, but, for reasons best known to himself, Senator Revercomb de manded that the deportation or der be canceled. Here are some of the nazis the republican senator from West Virginia wanted kept in the U.S.A.: Max Albrecht Blank Indict ed for conspiracy to commit es pionage in the Duquesne case. Pleaded guilty to violating the foreign agents act and was sen tenced to eighteen months in jail. Also employed in the Ger man library of information, a famous nazi propaganda outfit in New York. Andreas Henrich Jans and His Wife, Emma Visited by one of the eight nazi saboteurs in Chi cago when they arrived in this country by submarine. Jans and his wife were given $3,600 in cash by nazi spy Neubauer for safekeeping. Paul Knauer The U. S. su preme court, ruling on his dena turalization, said on June 10, 1946: "There is solid, convinc ing evidence that Knauer before the date of his naturalization and subsequently was a thorough-going nazi and a faithful follower of Adolf Hitler." ..Fritz Robert Koehler Mem ber of German bund and em ployee of German consulate in Los Angeles. During war he re fused to work, saying he would not aid U.S. war effort. Hartwig Reese When arrest ed, the nazi flag swastikas, pho tographs of Hitler and Musso lini, and fascist propaganda were found in his possession. He was leader of the German bund in San Francisco. Kurt Ludecke Author of the book, "I Knew Hitler," which was dedicated to Ernst Roehm, Gregor Strasser "and many oth er nazis who were betrayed, murdered, and traduced in their graves." The list of nazis Senator Rev ercomb wanted kept in the U.S.A. Is too long to be pub lished here, and will be contin ued in a future column. By D.WITT MocKENZIE (AP Forttgn Afftlrc Analritl Back In the late war the second world conflict started by Germany in a generation the allies swore a mighty oath they would so thoroughly smash the reich that never again would Naturally destruction oi tne German war potential involved the wiping out of all arsenals and factories capable of ma terial contribution to arma ments. it be able to wage aggression. Not a Republican Plot Enid, Okla. UP) It wasn't a republican plot after all just a blown fuse in the elevator. The Youngblood hotel told all in letters of apology to Sen. Alben W. Barkley and his party. Thursday night the democratic vice presidential nominee, Gov. Roy J. Turner of Oklahoma, and six others spent eight min utes in a dark elevator between two floors. "An elevator failure such as you experienced could have hap pened anywhere," the letters read. "We deeply regret that you were discommoded by a blown fuse at a most inopportune time." "Under separate cover we are sending you a spare fuse should a similar emergency occur in your future travels. "It may also be used in the current campaign." B'.tuv.ihawm-aiii MORE LOOSE ENDS Commission Gov't. Backers Seek Blanket Civil Service Program By STEPHEN A. STONE More loose ends and meaningless words have been found by the Plain Facts committee in its examination of the city commis sion government bill the people are asked to vote on November. 2 This is especially true in that DtWIII MteltMlit part of the bill about appoint ive officers. It is in Item 2 of the bill. Item 2, the committee finds, is quite full of loose boards and knot holes. The item declares that "there shall be no appointive officers, "Where not incompatible, the offices and duties of appointive officers may, by the common council, be consolidated, or be combined with the offices and duties of elective officers." That provision would be except acting commissioners taken out of the present charter when the regular elected com missioners happen, for any rea son, to be off the job Then in the next breath, the bill says "all other officers and employes" shall be under civil service. It adds that "all per sons, officers and employes not now within the classified civil service shall be given the pe riod of one year after the adop tion of this amendment in which to be examined and qualify to continue holding their present positions." From these provisions, from other provisions of the bill, and from provisions of the present charter which the bill would not change, it appears that all pres ent appointive officers (except the city attorney, who would be elective) will continue in office at least a year. And they would serve from then on unless they failed to pass the civil service examina tion. That this would be the ef fect of the measure seems cer tain for a further reason. That is that the bill, in amending Section 5 of the present charter, repeals by omission a provision which says: And nowhere in the commission bill is the authority to consoli date offices put back in. So it is apparent the city commission ers would not have the power to assume the duties of appoint ive officers. Further, Paragraph 3 of Item 2 of the commission bill pro vides that all appointments to appointive offices shall be made by the civil service commission. So the commissioners would not even have the authority to select their department heads when vacancies occurred. The same paragraph provides that all officers and employes not now under civil service shall be classified thereunder. But the bill is vague about whether it means the present civil serv ice commission which qualifies firemen and policemen. That evidently is the intent But it would operate differ ently from the way it does now in the fire and police services. At present the civil service com mission merely conducts the examinations to determine who Is qualified. The appointments are made by the fire chief and the police chief. BALLOT MEASURE YES, 308; NO, 309 Bill Would Change Qualifications To Vote in School Elections By JAMES D. OLSON This measure, sponsored by educational forces in Oregon, if approved, would enable any legal voter to vote on school district tax levies or bond issues. Under the present law only property owners can vote on school dis- " trict fiscal propositions. Proponents for this measure contend that enforcement of the property - owner qualification for voting in school elections disenfranchises many young people. Including veterans with children who have not acquired property. These advocates also say that nearly everyone pays income tax. Since a large portion of that revenue goes to school sup port, they assert non-ownership of property is no longer a test of financial responsibility for school operation. An unsuccessful effort was made to have this measure en acted by the 1947 legislature, after which the measure was placed on the ballot through ini tiative petitions. Advocates of the measure were not able to get the pro posal endorsed by the associa tion of school board directors, meeting in Salem last April, dut to objections offered by rur al school directors. In opposing the measure, the argument is offered that prop erty ownership, as a pre-requt-site for school-tax voting, has persisted long after removal of that qualification in city and county tax elections. The reason the provision has been retained in school-tax elec tion, they assert, is due to re sentment against non-property owners voting a bonded debt mortgage on homes and farms for school purposes. Where school districts com prise both rural and town or suburban areas fringe farm properties, the opponents sav there is danger of school bonded debt being authorized by the vote of a group of voters whose Interest in schools may be live ly but whose proportion of property taxes may be much less than the property owners who oppose the debt. Finally, those opposed to the measure argue that the majori ty of school districts have been treated fairly by the property owners whenever actual needs required additional funds. They hold that there is no necessity for throwing down the proper ty - owner qualification for school tax elections. . KEEPING RECORD STRAIGHT President Truman spoke sor rowfully about how the repub licans gutted western reclama tion projects at the last con gress which they most certain ly did. But he didn't remind the people that he rewarded the chief G.O.P. enemy of reclama tion Congressman Robert Jon es of Lima, Ohio with a juicy appointment to the federal com munications commission. Harold Stassen, always quick to challenge others to debate un til he crossed Issues with Tom Dewey, is now slower on the up take. The Women's Press club recenty Invited Stassen to set tle his farm price debate in a public forum with Secretary of Agriculture Charlie Brannan. Brannan promptly accepted, but Stassen held back. ICopjrriltH ISO) How Will Cops Explain This? New York (U.I!) Thieves raided crime prevention exhibits at the 55th annual convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police at the Hotel Pennsylvania. While 1,000 police chief delegates were attending the an nual banquet, the thieves went to the mezsalne floor of the hotel and collected as loot: Twenty-four badges ranking from patrolman to captain; a $100 lens from a new-type camera; numerous white leather arm bands; and pencils and pads from a fingerprint exhibit. Naturally de struction of the G e r m a n war lp o t e r t ial in volved the wip ing out of all arsenals and factories capa ble of material contribution to larmaments. Many of these factories were i e s t r oyed by bombing, and those which sur vived were slated by allied agreements to be dismantled and removed as reparations. It wasn't foreseen, of course, that the conflict was going to be followed by another strug gle among the allies themselves the "cold war" which short ly grew out of communist ag gression. So, in the flush of victory over Hitlerism, the allies made agreements which not only emasculated Germany's military potential but cut heavily into the ordinary Industrial poten tial. When the bolshevist drive against western Europe got into full swing, it became apparent that defense depended on eco nomic recovery of the war stricken countries. The corol lary to this was the Marshall plan for rehabilitation. This plan has become the tar get of the bolshevists. Their offensive is aimed at preventing the program from succeeding and so rendering western Europe incapable of defending itself. Along with this development has come a far more widespread realization that before the World War Germany was one of the keystones of European economy. It is clear that gen eral rehabilitation depends heavily on German recovery. This is a very disturbing thought for countries like France, Britain and Belgium, which twice have stood the brunt of the reich's initial on slaughts. However, a remarkable and vastly Important change has come about very recently in the viewpoint of the western Euro pean countries. And Wednesday it appeared that both France and Britain were prepared to halt the dis mantling of important German plants pending a review of the part which the reich can play in European economic recovery. It isn't going too far, I be lieve, to say that world peace will depend heavily on how this problem is handled. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Designing for Living By HAL BOYLE New York W) David Ffolkcs is spending his life creating some thing for people to look at and promptly forget. And he's happy when they do Just that. Ffolkes is a ?8-year- old Englishman shape-an imperfect shspe," said Ffolkes. "They all have to be disguised so that on the stage they have a perfect figure for their particular role. "The most Important thinj about women's clothing is that it should build up to the face that is what you want to keep the audience interest fixed on. The face shows the emotions." He has found men actors more difficult to costume than women. "They are more fussy," he smiled. "But the bigger the star, the easier he is to dress. If they do object too much well, they are quickly put in their place." "You have to be an artist, an architect and a diplomat," Ffolkes said. "But the hardest thing about the business is to get your first Job." M al Berk who has be come one of Br o a d w a y's leading scenic and cos t u m e designers. His type of work is highly impor t a n t to the success of a stage play. But like most tech nical skills It Is unappreciated by the average theatergoer. The man who buys the ticket doesn't ordinarily wonder who designed the stage or the clothing worn by the actors. He takes them for grant ed. "And that's the way it should be," said Ffolkes. "When the curtain goes up, the audience should be conscious of the lo cale, but their attention should then immediately be caught up in the action of the play. "Good scenic and costume de sign is only a means to an end not the end itself. It's bad design if the audience is con scious of the setting for even one entire scene." Stage costuming has Its spe cial problems. "Everybody has a different During the war he served as a British artilleryman and was taken prisoner in the fall of Singapore. He was among 60. 000 captive allied troops sent to Siam to build the Infamous Jungle "railway of death" that cost 20,000 lives. His own weight fell from 1S4 to 90 pounds he's over six feet tall during this period. "YOU'LL NEVER BUY :dc a BETTER BREAD V It's been true over 40 ytara . . . It's true today... It will be true in the future. YOU'LL NEVER BUY A BETTER BREAD THAN FRANZ. Finest ingredients, baking skill and evtry modern technical improvement art uitd at Mil times to make FRANZ the toed, fresh bread It Is. ORISON'S MOST POPULAR IRMIt 2V
