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4 SaJem, Oregon, Friday, November 26, 1948
CIO Purges the Little Unions
The national convention of the CIO has passed a resolu
tion giving its leadership almost unlimited powers to deal
with communists who have moved into small unions by
a vote of 10 to 1. The executive board is given power to
take such action "as may be appropriate and necessary"
to bring about effective organization of workers in indus
try where CIO unions have "failed."
Nothing was done about the powerful big unions which
have been following the "communist party line," and
whose leaders have defied the CIO political line and sup
ported Henry Wallace for the presidency, although the
convention has been marked by the most relentless drive
in CIO history against left wingers.
Neither Albert J. Fitzgerald, president of the United
Electrical Workers, the only left winger among the nine
CIO vice presidents, nor Harry Bridges, president of the
west coast longshoremen, have been or are likely to be
purged, though they could have been if President Philip
Murray had consented. The cautious Murray was unwil
ling to oust them lest their unions withdraw.
The resolution does not authorize the board to revoke
charters of existing unions, but it otherwise granted the
board almost unlimited power, which' will probably be
utilized to try and wean the rank and file membership of
small unions from their leaders and grant charters for
new unions to replace them. It has apparently not aimed
at either the electrical workers or longshoremen's unions.
So the little fellows are to be purged and the big boys
left to continue hell-raising. Which may explain why the
top labor bosses are so bitter over the anti-communist
pledge in the Taft-Hartley labor act, which could have
been made the pretext of ousting all those tainted with
communism and Kremlin party line politics.
This purge business of getting rid of opponents is un
democratic and smacks of totalitarianism. If labor leaders
can order members who they must vote for or be disci
plined, it is as much an "insult" to its members who do
their own thinking as it is to force these labor leaders
to take the anti-Red pledge. If the policy is continued we
will eventually have but one ticket to vote for as in the
police state.
Comic Book Censorship
The United States conference of mayors in session at
Washington reported that a survey showed nearly 50 cities
have taken steps to ban the sale of comic books and strips
deemed objectionable as contributing to the delinquency
of juveniles.
The conference said in a statement that this is the result
of "increasing and persistent" demands by parents, church
and civic leaders for city governments to do something
about the problem. It found most cities have sought the
co-operation of wholesalers and dealers "in some plan of
voluntary control or self-censorship." Adopted or pend
ing in a number of other cities are ordinances and resolu
tions to set up official censorship committees or impose
legal controls.
In an effort to police the industry the Association of
Commies Magazine Publishers has been set up to do a
self-policing job. It said, however, only 13 of the 35 pub
lishers have so far agreed to abide by an adopted code.
The code, among other things, would bar "sexy, wanton"
pictures, "sadistic torture, vulgar and obscene language,
and ridicule of or attack on any religious or racial group
in commie books.' The code also said "crime should not be
presented in such a way as to throw sympathy against law
and justice. ..."
If the publishers refuse to censor their own products, it
will force an official censorship and perhaps state and na
tional censorship to police the industry and stop the pros
titution of the young for profit.
Why Not Do Something Like This?
It would be anybody's guess as to how long it will be
before the state highway commission decides what to do
about its monument to traffic confusion, the bridge to
West Salem. Surveys and reports will supposedly help
determine a new location for the span.
Meanwhile, the months tick monotonously by, and the
snail's pace set by the rush-period crowds over the narrow
bridge become more snailish.
Until some action is taken on a new bridge, perhaps
the highway commission could be persuaded to spend a
few dollars to help ease the traffic jam on the west side
of the span.
At comparatively little expense, an extra lane could be
built on the northside of the road to permit a free right
turn. This would enable northbound traffic headed for
tha Wallace road to pui cars waiting for the light to go
west on Edgewater. A right-turn could possibly be per
missible at any time.
So, while the commission ponders the new bridge loca
tion, it could help out the traffic mess by this simple
traffic aid or perhaps it has a better suggestion.
Bear Had Taste for Whiskey
Washington 4 Why didn't the revenooers get their man?
Well, teems there was this hear who knew had whiskey when
he tasted It. . . .
When alcohol tax agents hid in waiting tor the owner of
a Tennessee still they had Just found, the hear, "big and
black," lumbered out of the forest and decided to sample the
product.
He rolled It around hit tongue, according to the report
filed at the Internal revenue bureau, took another lUrtled
Uate and smashed the ttlll to pieces.
Their evidence destroyed, the revenue men went home.
BY BECK
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Marshall to Stay in Cabinet
For 'Indefinite Period'
By DREW PEARSON
Washington No. 1 upshot of the hour-long conference between
President Truman and Secretary of State Marshall was that Mar
shall agreed to remain in the cabinet for an "indefinite period"
after January 20.
Marshall tactfully reminded hit chief he hadn't had a vacation
In years, except
for a few days m. "Perhapi no other people of
that he and V'"-",vV ne world would or could stage
Mrs. Marshall If, such a demonstration, but an
spent together Ah'' "1 Americani-all dinner on this
in Hon o 1 u 1 u X- W next inauguration night would
following his f0f be a master stroke to help bind
free peoples and all who would
be free into a dynamic unity.
"I suggest the following for a
national committee on arrange
ments with the only living for
mer president as chairman and
lneludinz all living former Dres-
toed Truman's proposed Vinson idential candidates and the wid-
mission to Moscow and who has 0W5 0f our former president:
thwarted Truman's ideas on Herbert Hoover, chairman; Her-
Pa.estine said that he consid- hert H. Lehman, treasurer: Gov-
ered it his duty to stay on the ernor Thomas E. Dewey, John
W. Davis. James M. Cox. Alfred
M. Landon, Mrs. Franklin D.
SIPS FOR SUPPER
More Fun, Too
BY DON UPJOHN
If memory' serves correctly it was old Francis Bacon who once
dropped the sage remark to the effect that "Reading maketh a full
man." We bet around these parts yesterday p m., there was no
end of full men
t." ar.d some of turkey not being used at the
them probably White House holiday repast.
haven't read a .
book since leav- ot our compatriots sug-
school gesiea aneni our comment oi
. yesteraav as to wnat ine ru-
VL r.ll u-.... 1
Betting :'""1 V
manRiui mr nidi s jjiuuc. uiv
&t ng s c h i
t Jf There's lo!
r J ttrvf wavj of ge
Jf ar-y full wit
if
thout
reading at least
one of 'em such
as yesterday is
a darned sight
more
why they started off the holiday
was because they were thankful
they didn't have juke boxes.
than reading a book, especially
one of Sir Francis Bacon's.
V
ill
We understand that Printer
pleasant Kennie Long, one of our sturdy
FT & BA members, got himself
an extra set of clackers to have
on hard just in case he happen
ed to bust the other one before
to dinner yesterday. However, the
j missus got the turkey so dog-
gor.ed tender he didn't need to
use either set.
We wish to acknowledge the
kindness of Mrs. Mildred R.
Brooks sending us three original
photographs from scenes taken
during Salem's disastrous flood
of 1890. They bear the auto
graph of "Sperry the Artist."
well known Salem picture taker
of those days and make us hope
nobody wiil have to take pic
tures like those around here
again.
Above our artist's conception O well, now folks have to turn
of Mr. Charles Sprague garner- their attention to the fact that
lng his Thanksgiving dinner there are only 24 days left in
after his editorial in re Ex- which to get everything in ship
change club-Capital Journal shop shape for Christmas.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Revenge From War Trials?
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
In affirming the sentences of death and imprisonment passed
in the trials of 25 Japanese war lords. General Douglas MacArthur
has penned a notable psychological pronouncement.
The general says he undertook
his reviewing duties reluctantly.
Referring to the death senten
ces (on former
aiiu ji a uinri m r; m
he asked thefc'f f)
Japanese people
to p r a y on the yJ
of execu
"to wek'
ivine help and .. Vjf, jy e of lho5e favoring the execu-
uidance t h a t JgT 'I tion. Thev are no different from
he world keep A I olhm , wondcrirg why man
he peace lestfJ lTi. 1 keeps on killing man.
day
tion
d
g
the
th
the human race
perish."
Then MacArthur
prayer of his own.
It was that the sentences be
come a symbol "to summon all
persons of good will to a realiza
doubt as to the soundness of this
principle.
"But I wonder if you have
considered, in your doubt, the
effect that the execution of a
human being by a state or a
group of states has on the mora'.e
of that part of the world popu
lation who are so unfortunate
as to learn of the execution.
"No less damaged is the mor
added a
"And since man has enough
good in his system to make him
wonder about such things, how
can we deny that his morale is
influenced by these very things'"
"If UN. before the dawn of
another day, resolved that all
tion of the utter futility of war ,v..,,tion must cease inimedi
that most malignant scourge atelv ,nd i( fjj nad ,he power
and greatest sin of mankind to enf0rce a world law based on
such a resolution, the greatest
burden of all would slip from
the weary shoulders of man
kind "But such a relief would not
and eventually to its renuncia
tion by all nations."
When the sentences were pass
ed in mid-November this column
called attention to the argument come until such action on the
which has revolved about such part of the world organization
trials whether they are adnus- had been explained.
sible under international law "No explanation would be
and, if they are. whether there adequate but this:
Is moral Justification for death "L'N is of the conviction that
entences. preservation of human life
The first of these points it whf possible without destruc-
legal: the other Is based lartelv "on pf fundamental freedoms is
on the commandment "Thou ,h greatest example for a world
thalt not kill." searching for laws that can be
t i .. ,k. i.. hi. resnected and not feared. (Who
mission to Chi
na in 1947.
He said he
needed a rest
badly.
However, the
man who ve-
D-DAY ASSAULT
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AlSaoRNI LAfcOlftOS
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if r UTAH I I OMAHA 1 . . '
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Job "as long as you need me."
He added that he hoped this
would not mean serving the full Roosevelt. Mrs. Calvin D. Coo-
four years of Truman s term of lidge. and Mrs. Woodrow Wil
office. The president quickly re- nn,
sponded that this wouldn't be
necessary.
"But I can't spare you now,"
Truman said, in effect.
"With the international situa
tion as it is." the president add
ed, in effect, "I cant take a
chance on putting someone else
in your place urtil we begin to
see daylight in Europe. Other-
"But recognizing the fact that
an idea such as this can d:e
before it is fully born, why not
you and I make it come alivj
in our own homes and organiza
tions? "Here is a time for a man to
practice what he preaches, and
having talked it over with my
wise. I would not imoose on associates at Christian Herald
you.
Whenever the clouds over
Berlin start to clear and our
economic-aid program has west
ern Europe safely out of the
woods. Truman said. Marshall
Americans-all dinner on Janu
ary 20. 1949. Representing in
our organization every faith,
every color and every racial
strain, we qualify for the occa-
would' be free to'step out witn We sha11 CT ogethr
"And we shall do something
more. In the spirit of the occa
sion we shall bring a gift for
the 230 million neglected and
suffering children of the world.
"To date, the United States
has miserably failed to answer
a presidential blessing.
Whether this means six
months, a year, or longer, nei
ther ventured to guess.
Kf KLIX KLAN"
Down in Macon. Georgia, a
group of American Legionnaires
and church leaders are trvinff to the United Nations' appeal for
head off a huge Ku Klux Klan these children. We secured only
demonstration scheduled for De- 6 million of our S60 million
cember 10.
quota, while Canada with one-
The Klan has nn;iH the eighteenth of our national in-
city auditorium for that date come raised S10 million,
and Grand Dragon Green, at se- "On January 20th next our
cret meetings in Atlanta, has menu will be simple, but w e
boasted that the Macon cross- shall go clear out in honoring
burning would be one of the President Truman, we make our
biggest in Klan history bigger appeal for the children's fund
than the gathering on Stone of the United Nations."
mountain. Note Nothing could be more
However, many Macon citl- effective sock-in-the-jaw for
zens. opposing the Klan. have Moscow than newsreels of Am
erican business, labor leaders,
farmers and just ordinary folks
sitting down united cenind
introduced an ordinance before
the city council forbidding men
to hide their faces behind masks
when meeting publicly. This the president of the United
would force the Klan either to States,
abandon their Karnival In the
auaitonum. or to meet un
m?eked. The big question is: Will the
city council be pressured by
COLD-WAR FRONT
Air force strategists have es
timated that in case we do clash
K'.an influences not to pass the " "u" "' ""'
J;,.., . . , . . .. ,, bases would be nonusable with-
uiujiiaiiLC. n lJl ui UJIC w 111
be watching the decision.
UNITY DINNER
Reverend Dan Poling, editor
of the Christian Herald and fa
ther of one of the four chaplains
who gave up their life-belts on
in 20 days. Russian buzz bombs
and bombers would smash them
up.
The U. S. navy if growing
more and more alarmed over
Russia's expanding submarine
fleet. In case of war, navy strat-
'CRUSADE IN EUROPE'
This Is Ike's Account
Of Normandy Invasion
T-J li I tm-ltrAe MMlMMt ot DwliM O fjwnnow.r-j "Crutdt l
SM-op." It tnt:iu hlihllliiu ot tin boo " pooluHKl Nov.mber J2.
liM. Dtji.ttu compnj CopyniMH w Doubo7 CompAM, 1st.
By DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
CHAPTER XV
The first report came from the airborne units I had visited
onlv a few hours earlier and was most encouraging In lone.
As the morning wore on, it became apparent that the landing ,
was going fairly well.
Montgomery took off in a destroyer to visit the beaches and
to find a place in which to set up his own advanced headquarters.
I promised to visit him on the following day.
Operations in the Utah area which involved the co-ordination
of the amphibious landing with the American airborne operation,
proceeded satisfactory, as did those on the extreme left flank.
The dav's reports, however, showed that extreme fierce fight
ing had developed in the Omaha sector. That was the spot, I
decided, to which I would proceed the next morning.
During the course of the day I made a tour along all the beaches,
finding opportunities to confer with principal commanders, in-
could normally take oath that
a particular plan or conception
originated within his own mind.
Pre-occupation with the con
cerns of his command are such
that it is impossible for any per
son later to say whether the first
gleam of an idea that may even
tually have developed into a
great plan came from within his
own brain or from some outside
suggestion.
One of his problems is to keep
his mind open, to avoid confus
ing necessary firmness with
The next few days thorough- stubborn preconception or un-
ly taxed the soundness of the reasoning prejudice,
bui'.d-up plan that had been so
patiently devised over many The Battle of the Beachhead
months. was a period of incessant and
On the whole, it stood the heavy fighting and one which,
strain exceedingly well, but here except for the capture of Cher-
and there emergency conditions bourg, showed few geographical
of the battlefield demanded mi- gains.
nor charges in plan and my lo- Yet is was during this period
cation of Portsmouth enabled that the stage was set for the
these to be executed wiftlv and later, spectacular liberation of
smoothly. France and Belgium. The strug- A
We soon learned that strain E'e In the beachhead was re- T
had also been developing in sponsible for many develop
Washington during the long pre- ments, both material and doc
invasion period of preparation, tnnal, that stood us in good
We were scarcely well on the tead throughout the remainder
beaches when General Marshall, ' ,he war-
rrom ine aay we ianaea, mm
battle never settled down, ex
cept in isolated spots, to any
thing resembling the trench
eluding
gomery.
Toward eve
ning and while
proceed i n g at
nigh speed
ilor.g the coast,
our destroyer
ran a g r o u nd
ind was so bad
ly damaged
;hat we had to
;hange to an
other ship for
the return to Portsmouth.
Ike'
Cfoeral
Admiral King. General Arnold
and a group from their respec
tive staffs arrived in England.
T Irrinnul tn 4tr0 thm Intn
h. k..,t,h..,4 ,!,,,,, .t,. j,. warfare of the first world war,
June 12 Their presence, as they But it w as the possibility of such
roamed around the areas with
a sinking war transport so G.I.'s e8ists fear th nav'y could n 0
might live, has just written an keeP . tne ea lane open ,0
editorial about the importance American snipping
at national unity.
"Why not." asks Dr. Poling.
who has done more for unity
than most men I know, "hold an
After the w ar, Russia took ov
er Germany's submarine sheds,
plus latest U-boat inventions:
now has 300 submarines six
every indication of keen satisfac
tion, was heartening to the
troops.
The importance of such visits
by the high command, including.
an eventuality that we could
never forget, particularly our
British comrades with their
memories of Vlmy Ridge and
Passchendaele.
On the eastward flank the
city of Caen did not fall to our
t times, the highest official, of initial had d
'nvnmont fun tfarwili" ha ...
all - American dinner honoring times as many as Hitler had
when ne aeciarea war
This is why the U S. navy
is specializing on light airplane
carriers and destroyers to watch
for enemy U. boats in world war
III if it comes.
(Copyright, 1948.)
the president of the United
States on the night of the in
auguration? Let s make it a
unanimous vote for all the world
to see. hear, and understand, a
vote for world security and
peace.
government, can scarcely be ov
erestimated in terms of their val
ue to soldiers' morale.
The soldier has a sense of grat
ification whenever he sees very
and we were consequently un
able to gain the ground south
and southeast of that city where
we had planned to make early
exploitation of our tank and
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Confessionsof a Health Fan
BY HAL BOYLE
New York How to be healthy all over instead of being
unhealthy in one place at a time?
I have finally solved this problem. The answer is to find a
group of hypo- m
mgr. rms in nis par icuiar v.- combat air slrength
.i . .P " . m r To support the divisions In the
that the area is a safe one or attack area the enemy first drew
the rank wouldn t be there. into the battle 20ne al, th.
. . . troops he could spare from the
The period from D-Day o our Brittany peninsula. Next he
decisive breakout on July 25 brought up divisions from the
was a definite phase of the allied 90uth of France and other, lrom
operation and has received the the Low Countries
His only remaining major re
serves in northwest Europe not
rnmmiHpH tn th fichtins n.r.
ten centers around points that in ,nd about Calais in the
were either of no great moment man Fifteenth army. To main-
name "Battle of the Beachhead
Interest in battles of the past
for soldier and civilian alike, of-
chonanacs. y j
l nen ao wnai
they do.
H y p o c hon
driacs are peo
ple who imagine
they have ill
ness and or al! I jr fj hypochondriac
illnesses. A n d P- , f!f JTA "You need r
they are wMiW r I mn." he said,
(round you JJf fl maM ' went dowi
Another day I complained of a
stomach pain to an office friend
who thought he had an ulcer
"Better stick to milk." he said.
I went down, had a glass of milk
and came back up still feeling
hungry. I bumped into a skinny
at the time of their happening or
did not impress the actors
being so.
tain connection with these
troops he had to hold Caen.
Our frustration in the attain-
The Battle of the Normandy m.t , i ...,ii
Beachhead proved no exception goals in ,he astern sector in
to tnis ru.e. volved no change In the broad
Concerning the origination of purpo.ses of the operational plan,
plans and decisions: It is my (Concluded on Pe 10. Column 1)
more nourishment,
this:
"Of course there's no possible
douht about the guilt of Tojo
and his barbaric leaders. If any-
started the false Idea that 'fear'
and "respect' are interchange
able words?).
"Sure, there would be some
howling, but ou would be hard
There are more
hypochondriacs
In America than there are republicans.
Before I began consulting By
n and had ham
burger, and came back up again
feeling better.
It was then t lot the idea that
hypochondriacs know more
about health than anybody. Not
GORGEOUS NEW
one ought to die for crime they pu, to idrn,lfj. it with the voice
certainly should." o( tne people And some would
That column has brought me even be disappointed when the
a letter which I want you to see crime wave they predictctl fail
It Is from Lesta Shackelford of d to materialize.
Austin. Texas He is a 30 year- "No ore has yet been able to
old veteran who was a member argue with conviction that the
pochondriacs I never knew what jUJt one but all of them togeth-
real health was. I made vague. er. You have to pool all their in-
unguided solo attempts to keep dividual knowledge,
fit and well. That's what I do now. I go
I read so many books on how around and take a pill with each
to make the best of my physical hypochondriac for what tils
birthright that finally I had to him. and do what his physician
of the Texas house of represen
tatives the last session. He is
now a student at the University
of Texas
He writes:
death penalty has served to de
ter crime.
"But when a government un
dertakes to force the individual
to recognize certain qualities in
Xmas Smuggling Season Nears
Belfast, Northern Ireland Rest telling sidelines In
hady shops along th Elre-l'lster border as the Christmas
nuggllng season nears:
1. Knockout drops that put turkeys to sleep until they're
Mfely erer the line.
t. roultry food that does ditto to ducks.
I. Special muisles U quiet contraband cons.
"It is in the last sentence that human life which make it invio.
you may have put your finger late and yet refuses to honor
on the crux of the problem, those qualities Itself, should we
There i a strong group of verv wonder that there is general dis
Important people in the world respect for laws?
today who apparently are con- "We. too often, find ourselves
vlncet that a person ought to preaching example, but not
die when he deserves death, practicing It How else can we
Your qualification In the last leave the way open for sweet re
sentence of your column indi- venge which is what we really
catea that you are at least in want, Un't it?"
wear glasses for eyestrain. 1
took icy morning showers to
make me more rugged. All 1
caught was cold.
This was getting me nowhere.
I was worn out. rundown and
sleepless from trying to
healthy.
Then I met my first hypo
chondriac, a man with the mis
taken idea he had a bad heart.
He almost fainted when 1 told
him I was lifting barbells.
"Don't you know exercise
told him to do.
Today I never felt better in
my life.
My chest expansion has In
creased two inches, my waist
four. I haven't had an honest
stsy ache or pain mine are all bor
rowed in years. I wear arch
supporters to keep me from get
ting flat feet, and I am full of
more vitamins than a drugstore.
And 1 owe all this health to
bunch of melancholy hypochon
driacs. They'd probably be heal-
fOLORS!
Another Kem-Ton Itnt! A tortooua w ar.
ray of the lovtlmt colon you'va rr mm . . .
clean, ittaetur pattelt and (timorous, doeptr
tonot to anhanc th boauty of ovtry room,
You con give you' rooms tho richtrt, hand
onmt fcniih imagtnablo-dunblo, litnily
looly. Tat oa ot m and ihoor botuty,
you'll And nothing hk Kom-Tonol
product or Shimwin-Wiluams RrstAitcM
I w
kills more people than motor thy and happy, too. If they d quit
cars?" he said worrying about one disease at
I quit exercising Immediate- time and worry ibout them all
ly the tired feeling went away, at once, as t do.
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