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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1949)
Capital A Journal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publiiher 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. Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press and The United Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 'o 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 fear, S12.00. By Mail In Oregon: Monthly, 75c; 6 Mos., $4.00; One Year, $8.00. U.S. Outside Oregon: Monthly, $1.00; 6 Mos., $6.00; Year, $12. 4 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, February 5, 1949 A Mild Recession Perhaps Despite official reassurances that the nation's economic condition is not alarming and that the cost of living has passed the peak, the outlook is not any too bright though largely due to the severe winter which is causing loss in employment, industrial and agricultural production. The Associated Press thus sums up the developments of what may rank as a "black Friday": The New York stock market, the barometer that predicted the 1929 collapse, took its soundest beating in many months, with 61 stocks selling at the lowest price in more than a year. Also in New York, bond prices suffered one of the sharpest declines of the last 12 months, with nearly 125 issues sagging, some as much as two points. The Chicago grain market was hit by a storm of selling, with corn, oats, rye and soybean falling so swiftly that one trader described the market as "demoralized." Index of 35 wholesale commodities dropped nearly a full point, reaching 168.46 the lowest mark since Feb. 6, 1947. Loose lard was offered on the Chicago Board of Trade for $12 a hundred pounds, the lowest point in six years. The Pennsylvania railroad said it was laying off 2,500 of the 45,350 men in its maintenance of equipment department. They will be furloughed for an indefinite period. Altogether, the census bureau reported in Washington, there were 2,000,000 more unemployed in January than in December. Actually, the true drop was only 700,000. Officials said the other 1,300,000 reported as jobless really aren't part of the nation's normal working force they were probably holiday em ployes, students, or others who no longer seek jobs. But the 700,000 have joined enough others who are out of work and want work, to push America's current unemployment total of 2,650,000 600,000 more than in January, 1948, Officials saw little to worry about, however. Dr. Edward G. Nourse, chairman of the president's eco nomic council advisers, says that neither the jobless fig ures nor skidding food prices alarm him, but admits "these months are very decisive months." Other officials say the decline in food prices was only an adjustment and not the beginning of a trend. The labor department predicts that spring will bring a demand for more workers as construction, agriculture and other activities show seasonal increases. It is pointed out in the bond market there were rallies and livestock prices stood fairly level, have reached bottom and by mid-summer will show advances of from $3 to $5 a hundred pounds. A slight recession has long been expected for necessary readjustment of the evils of inflation. Whether it devel ops into a depression depends upon whether we continue deficit spending. But nothing can insure it more than the demands by special interests for government doles and the unreasonable demands of labor unions for increases in wages, already the highest ever paid and for shorter hours which increase the cost of production, all of which mean additional cost to taxpayers. Then there is the demand of the tax-eaters for higher taxes, already at ft record height for peace time, and higher taxes stimulate inflation and are passed on also to the consumer. The demands of the veterans for both federal and state bonuses, the demand for higher pensions for the aged, of the farmers for higher support prices, the administration demands for socialized medicine, all fit into the inflation picture, and promote depression. President Truman in his inaugural address definitely joined the ranks of the big hearted do-gooders to uplift the people on a global basis at Uncle Sam's expense. He went Wendell Willkie with his "One World," one better, expand ed FDR's role of Santa Clans for the nation to include the people of the entire world, barring communists, and in that way only differed from Henry Wallace whose heart bleeds also for the Reds. ' That the national debt is already at astronomical fig ures doesn't worry officialdom including the president who seeks restoration of war powers in pence time to regi ment the people. All contribute to the eventual burst ing of the irridescent bubble of inflation insuring this time a police state to head off depression. BY BECK The Acid Test X NE -NINETY.. C- ( TWO- TWENTYWE-V22W,r-- fRSK"- FOUR-TWENTY....VSff ', I I DON'T SEE ANYTHING)"1? WWSiWM WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Whitney Pledges Support To Truman's Labor Plans BY DREW PEARSON Drew Pearson says: Whitney pledges litbor support for Truman's "fair deal" program but other leaders irked by proposed use of court injunctions to prevent strikes; test of no-patronage-for-Dixiecrats coming up. BY GUILD Wizard of Odds Washington A. F. Whitney, bustling chief or the Railway Trainmen, assured President Truman the other day that or ganized labor will support his "fair deal" legislative program as vigorously as it backed him in the recent election. "Naturally, there will be some things about your program that 1 ab o r some groups will ob ject to," said Whitney, "for we all don't see eye - to - eye on everything. However, in the over-all picture, labor will be solidly behind you in oarrying out the liberal pledges of the democratic platform.1 Drew Pearton NOTE Some administration advisers are pointing out that if the president can't control his own democratic party sufficient ly to pass his program through the 81st congress, he is lost po litically, for he can't use the republican 80th congress as an alibi. MERRY-GO-ROUND Will Rogers, Jr"., California politico and son of the famous humorist, is lobbying to set up tour io bc -a ti.s. miff fCDRSiocxurf' Al1" flut ODDS AO& 4td3 YOU WOULD STAND A L'AI f G I CASUALTY BAT6 FOR COBRtSPONKNTS jm. ff, WK -COUR PERCENT, AND -POI? TM6 -ARMY I ' "'ffill i LITTLE UNDER iruman repneu nc i nan. tne Navajo nation under an in for no more, since "no living dependent administrator di- IN ANSvitS T0(A?L COOPSR Ot ftLYN, NT.-A ROYAL tLUSU IS NOT 1UC MOST DICEKULT COKED LUND TO 6tT. ANY utND WITUOUTA PAIR OR SEQUENCE, SUCUAS A.69,7,5A,IS FOUR TIMES UARD6R TO GET (YOU CAN UtVj A PECEDtHT ROYAL T1USUC.S..) PINS, PENNIES, AND PEANUTS IF YOUR CUILD UM06D THREE SWALLOWS -1NY1UING ,TUE ODOS AB&2ro IT WILL QEONECT TUE. ACOBEMSNTIONKD. THE FIRESIDE PULPIT Lessons of Job Are Good to Remember in Times of Grief By REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT Rector. St. Paul'! Episcopal Church A few days ago a friend asked me why I use the words at a burial service, "The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." The one who asked the question Bless- man could write a legislative piogram" that would suit ev erybody. vorced from the Indian bureau. Rogers, who has adopted two Indian children, wants the job However, what the trainmen's ..r administrator with or with. boss didn't reveal was that he out a saiary , , , Senate Door had heard a loud objection to man jj rj. "Cap" Sanders got one part of the program at a a bawling-out the other day for dinner tne nignt Deiore, auena- conduct unbecoming a doorkeep ed by several democratic sena- er "Cap," who has been open- tors and representatives of all the big labor organizations. John L. Lewis s top lieuten felt that ed be the name of tne Lord" were harsh words to say under the cir cumstances, af ter saying "The Lord hath taken away." The words quoted are the - - t T U wuiu Ul " Rev. Georte H. Swift a n a a re-reaa- ng doors for senators for 18 years, broke ranks on inaugura tion day to shake hands with ex- iSk" '"! Ir, was true that all he had in the first place God had given him; it was His privilege to take it away. Job could still rise above his affliction and say, "The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." These words were put into the burial service for a definite purpose. They are said when people are experiencing a bitter bereavement; a time when they ing of Job's troubles will clari- may feel that an js iost; a time fy the matter. when they may in Impatience Job, according to the Scrip- saVi "How could God do this to tures, had his patience tried al- me? or "why has God let me most beyond endurance. He felt down?" like many bereaved people do at . . and th L d a uuriai service, ai yxmcu nv. all was lost. Job was stricken with a terrible disease. He lost all his flocks and herds. His sens and daughters were a 1 1 killed. When he desperately needed some words of encour agement from his wife, she urg ed him to curse God and die. Job is a good man to remem bei when we are in trouble, because of his strength of char acter and faith under trying hath taken away; blessed be the nsme of the Lord" is said to arouse the mourners to a reali zation that whether God gives, or whether he takes away, he is still God. He still knows what he is doing. He is still "Our Father," and he is still "bless ed." If we can see through our tears, we shall remember the words of the Psalmist: "God is circumstances. Job's faith was , . " so strong that he was able to present help in trouble. There see through his distress and fre n0' fear "ous) bereavement. He was able to e earth be moved, and though realize that God was still over the hllls be camed into the all! He would not curse God. midst of the sea." SIPS FOR SUPPER ant, Vice President Tom Ken- Senator Harrv Truman, follow- nedy of the United Mine Work- ing which the new sergeant-at-ers, raised cain about the pro- almSi joe Duke, decided this posed use of court injunctions was n0 way f0r a mere doorkeep to prevent strikes that endan- et to behave. Truth is, Presi gered national health and wel- dent Truman didn't mind at all. fare. Truman had criticized He sm remembered "Cap" from such strikes in his state of the hie senate days . . . The national union message and privately he Farmers Union is bringing 700 has said that it may be neces- farmers to Washington on a sary to put an injunction clause series of sightseeing tours. They in new labor legislation in or- won the trip by bringing new der to deal with strikes against members into the union. (Each the public. tour will be routed through the "Labor wants to be free," capitol to lobby with congress Kennedy declared vehemently men for joo per cent parity at the private dinner, given by payments.) Democratic Whip Francis Myers of Pennsylvania. "It will not KENTUCKY vs. MARYLAND work under a system of oppres- HAM slve injunctions. That is dicta- a capital newsman was josh torship. Before the United Mine jng vice President Alben Bark Workers Union will give its ap- iey about a 14-pound Maryland proval to the administration's ham recently stolen from his labor bill, we will have to see office. the bill in print." ' . "What's a good Kentuckian Other labor leaders, includ- like you doing eating Maryland ing Whitney, Arthur Goldberg ham?" inquired the reported. -of the CIO and Lew Hines of "Oh, that was a present to the AFL, didn't commit them- me fr0m Frederick, Maryland," selves on the injunction crack- spoke up Berkley's secretary, down aimed chiefly at Lewis. j-j0 Bratten. But Whitney endorsed the pro- "Obviously!" rejoined Bark posed ban on jurisdictional iey. "in addition to making the strikes, which, he said, would best hams in the country, we reduce union membership "raid- Kentuckians pride ourselves m8 " in our good manners. That In the end, however, Kennedy Maryland ham was a present, voted with the others to OK You can't send something like Truman s entire legislative pro- that back." gram. ' . . It's Their Chance This Is a Burning Issue New York VP) A New Jersey hotel posts the following in structions for guests who plan to smoke in bed. "1. Call the office and notify the management where you wish you remains sent, as it is a matter of record that a very high percentage of hotel fires are caused by this careless prac tice. "2. Notify guests in adjoining rooms of your Intention of en dangering their lives, so that they may take necessary precau tions to protect themselves. "3. Go to the corridor and locate the nearest fire escape, so that if you are fortunate enough to escape your room, you may reach safety. "4. Now sit down and think how foolish it is for you to take this risk you may enjoy your smoke while thinking it over. "Business may be good, but we do not have guests lo burn, so please HELP us to protect YOU!" Latest Trains May Get Fancy Chicago UR) The head of the Fred Harvey chain of rail road terminal restaurants finds trains are getting more modern but the average traveler's appetite remains at a standstill. He still wants beef stew. Byron Harvey, Jr., president of the organization, said women prefer sandwiches and salads while children seem to want ham burger, "but stews of various types beat them all" In total sales. And, he added, "sirloin has given up its No. 2 6pot on the tales chart to chicken pie. a perennial favorite." The favorite breakfast for travelers is ham and eggs, Harvey said. "The great American breakfast always has been away out in front," he reports. A Great Day for the Irish Houston (IP) An Irishman's 520,000.000 dream will come true here on St. Patrick's Day when Oilman Glenn II. Mc Carthy opens the nation's biggest postwar hotel named the Shamrock, of course. McCarthy, whose oil and gas fortune Is estimated at up wards of S80.000.000, pulled no punches in planning the hotel. Each of the 1,100 rooms and ap.iriments will have television plus FM and AM radio and wired recordings. Charge: Cruelty to Snakes New York (UPJ Catherine Boyd Petrlllo, 27, a snake-charmer and night club dancer, was placed under $1,800 ball and ordered to appear In court on February 10 on a charge of cruelly to her snakes. She allegedly taped both ends of her Fython partner with scotch tape before going into her night dab act. BY DON Paul Harvey's report that up had passed only 27 out of 458 couraging on the face of it, but legislative cloud. It might oe li mey a oniy pass 27 more to take care of the necess 1 1 i e s of government and let the other 402 of them slide into the limbo of oblivion and take an adjourn ment sine die, or just die with out the sine attached, they'd go down Into history as one of the most constructive and sensible legislatures since the provision al government. But chances of any such thing happening are about at the same ratio as to the number of bills now passed against those introduced. Dog gone if one can see the neces sity of so many new laws every two years. It was just this week we heard a couple of lawyers arguing about some measure passed by a legislature way back In the 1870's. They couldn't reach an agreement as to what It meant. By gum, if the lawyers haven't got caught up on the laws any later than 1870 how can they be expected to reach those that will be passed in 1949? Looks kinda hopeless. UPJOHN to Friday's recess the legislature bills introduced may sound dis maybe it's the silver lining to the search for ,an honest man and delve around a little to find a measure that favors the taxpay er instead of trying to gouge him But, if he does, he'd better start off with a brand new set of batteries. UNDER THE DOME Congressman L. Mendel Riv- Most interest test of the no- er 'he South Carolina Dixie- tiai, uao udcu ilia vuuuecbiuiia uii the house armed services com- POST OFFICES FOR DIXIECRATS are affected by oncoming lights m y "H""V;it gap Plan. "t is the best plan on traffic so that these lanes suffer r . 4ur. about a SO per cent capacity loss tandArtT vviiin noa nut uci, ftnti. mu- sideration in this analysis. AH t..aAt V,.Un Urn. i.n.at.nl The analysis as given shows :.l7.l,,"j . This can be done by stag construction by building to a This is not a temporary itop- two-lane bridge be built at Mar-t ion street and the present Cen-i patronage-punishment for Dixie crats will come up almost im- mediatelv in rerarri In nnsrmns- navy ra- terships for Congressman Gene dl f.nd recorlnS "'P"4 r- f r.i worth several hundred dollars. Cox of Georgia. T Mr. , ... Although Chairman McGrath .io.nf '- ' 7. has laid down the rule that Dix- iecrats get no postmasters for patronage, and though Presi dent Truman snubbed Gover nors Thurmond and Talmadge sistant secretary of war, now president of the world bank, is being pushed for the job of secretary of national defense. (He's a republican and an able quite conclusively that, notwlth standing the two additional nriHtfo lnnpg nffnrripd hv t.h present Center street structure c o n n e c t i o n with Edgewater and the proposed Division street street and Wallace road, at a structure, the two one-way brid- "st of $1,867,000, and building ges will actually carry more the nw facility along the river traffic because the usage of the bank and parallel to Edgewater bridge is determined by the ca- stree' la'er- The cost of the com pactly of the approaches and, in Plete ib ls $2,900,000. this particular case, by the ca- Since the new four-lane facil pacity of the street intersections ity flanking Edgewater street leading to and from the bridges. The experience In other parts and Wallace road will be above high water, with the slopes The Futile Birdie (Jefferson Review) Gilbert Looney calls up to have us pass the word along to Sips for Supper that out here at Jefferson we've "been sitting in the lap of spring" all winter, because several blue birds have wintrede here and seem to be hunky dory so far. Maybe the blue birds seen in Salem this week are the Jefferson birds tak ing in the winter sports up "north" in Salem. ir the inauenm! mrarlp mm. nf one) The government has of the United States is rather properly riprapped, West Salem the Dixiecrats are betting a ten- 3us4 wu"d "p a suvey f. the aallnn hr tn r, r,..Diin w nttion's highways for national that thev will he .hi. tn t defense. Results won't be pub choice jobs at the public feed- trough just the same Those weather experts who told us the blue bird is a sure sign that spring is at hand must be deeper in their holes now than the groundhog. Richard Stillwell, head of the local social security office, asks us to warn local merchants that social security cards are no good to be used for identification in cashing checks. "Anybody can get a social security number which indicates nothing by way of identifying for this purpose," Incidentally, It might be a he said. A numoer of local mer good time for Diogenes to turn chants have found this to be his flashlight away from his true in a rather costly fashion. OPEN FORUM But Not Traveler's Appetite (Editor'. Noti: Oontrlbatlon. to tbt. eolatnii nait bo confined to R00 word, and ilmid br writer.) To the Editor: I have talked with a number of business men located on North Commercial and Liberty streets, and most of them are opposed to one-way traffic on down-town streets. Because It isn't necessary and Not Real McCoy ..,.,... . St. Louis (U.R Federal court It will divert bustness away to pI0ceetUng, wer, disrupted here seme other business district, and because the man who appeared one-way bridges will do the before Judge George H. Moore same thing. wasn t tne real McL.oy lished until April, but the gov ernment found that our high- irava Via.ra fallen on far Vtaln,., One of these is Goober Gene defense requirements that some Cox, the debonair congressman roads aren.t even erIllipped to from Georgia. handle every day, peacetime Several postmasterships are traffic. . . . Sen. Pepper of Flor open in Gene's district and he is ida is following up President going after them, despite the Truman's inaugural address fact that he was one of the with a bill to send American bitterest Dixiecrats of all. Cox technical missions to the back is relying on his buddy, Speak- ward areas of the world in er Sam Rayburn, one of Tru- side betting in the republican n.an's best friends but with a national committee is that Na weak spot for an old crony. tional Chairman Hugh Scott, Cox has repeatedly defied Sam who was almost dethroned in as a member of the house rules Omaha last week, will be out on committee, but the speaker his ear within six months, never deserts a friend. (oopyrunt i9t MacKENZIE'S COLUMN Norway Declines to Bow Her Neck to Moscow By DeWITT MacKENZIE Moscow thus far has failed to intimidate small but sturdy Nor way and so keep her from considering the idea of joining the projected North Atlantic alliance now being discussed in Wash ington. In re- issbs conclusive as to the efficiency of will be protected from floods, one-way bridge structures, and and it may be that the federal there are probably a great many government will cooperate by more examples than those given reason of flood-control features in this report. of the project. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Something New in Labor Good Will By HAL BOYLE New York VP) A 22-year-old girl factory worker ls among Am erica's leading exports this month to Great Britain. And Hazel-eyed Mary Uglianitza hopes the empire will ship one of its gal factory workers right back and com plete the inter national ex change of labor good will. That's the idea she thought up all by herself and it looks like it will be carried out. "I hope that ! '-rm iw "I think your idea of an ex change of workers is a good one, Mary," he said. "How about you being the first one?" Of course, she said, yes. Since she was feminine, and girls are always practical, that was prob ably behind her original idea that she might be the one chosen to test it. And now, after weeks of semi hysterical preparation, she is SALEM TRAFFIC REPORT Four Reasons Favor Two One-Way Bridges By R. H. BALDOCK State Hlffhway Engineer PART II SALEM BRIDGE (Continued) SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS It is quite evident from primary factors controlling the location of the Willamette bridge that the plan proposing the use of two one-way structures is preferable for the following reasons: 1. The optimum point of the desire line of traffic is a block and a half south of the mid-point of this location. The possi bility of the present focal point of crossing moving northward The traffic on ORE22, destined more than two or three blocks to the central business district, within the next quarter of a cen- would have to travel 0.8 mile tury is quite remote. farther by the Division street 2. T h e topography of the route. Few people will travel 2.7 bridge site at all three locations miles by one route, such as the is about comparable. Division street route, in order to 3. The cost of the new bridge reach a point 1.9 miles distant at Marion street and the recon- by another route in close prox struction of the bridge at Center lmity thereto. street is from approximately All factors must be taken into . one-half million to a million dol- consideration in determining lars cheaper than the bridge at the benefits, and the difference Division street, depending upon in the annual monetary benefits whether the Division street in favor of the one-way bridge bridge lands at Commercial plan amounts to approximately street or Liberty street. $65,000. 4. The benefits to the general This is indicative of the feas public are much greater by the ibility of expending $1,300,000 adoption of the plan of the two in additional capital Investment bridges, each carrying one-way on the two one-way bridges in traffic. The excess traffic capa- order to gain this advantage, city of the one-way bridge plan paradoxically, instead of , in comparison to the other plan spending more money to realize by the year 1970 has been com- such advantage, a smaller sum puted on a very conservative ls required which ranges from basis. approximately one-half million The inside lanes of four-lane to one miHi0n dollars. bridges carrying heavy trattic Are you business men going The man said McCoy was his father. .T a m p Vernal AlcCnv. to stand Idly by and have the Jr mlt he was in bed with tne label "Old Town" slapped on to 'flu and couldn't appear to ans jour main business district? wer charges of mail theft. Court records disclosed, how H. G. DAMON everi ,nat ,ne reai McCoy was 891 N. Commercial street. sl- The man wh0 pOSd " hi ton was 23. ply to pointed I Russian in-1 quiry, Norway has stated that she finds It ne cessary to seek increased secur ity through de-V , tion. Security from what? well, , . DeWttt Hackenite the Oslo gov ernment didn't say, but there's only one wolf pack running in Europe today. That's the Reds. The United States and the other prospective members of the alliance including Canada, Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg are pleased at Norway's display haps vital) link in the anti communist defenses of western Europe. The Washington conferees are expected to give Norway quick support in her resistance to Mos cow's pressure. Norway is meeting this prob lem in the light of harsh exper ience. At the beginning of the last war she was a staunch neutral. On April 9, 1940, she learned to his dismay that the neutrality isn't worth a tinker's dam when a powerful aggressor goes on the prowl. Hitler invaded and quickly overran her. It's easy to see why Moscow is showing worry and asking questions. And why Premier Stalin has been making unoffi cial offers to meet President factory workers from our two "iuy ' Ior fnS'ana " lne countries can. learn to under- Qn Mary next week. For a ,,.j , ,C . " month or two she will leave her ! ,k., il by comparing 4o.hour.a.week, $42 job lor how they hve, said Mary nerv- whatever the company ofers in y' an affiliate factory at Spenny- Mary works for the Duro test moor, near the Scottish border. iiuorescent lighting plant at North Bergen, N. J. Some weeks ago she got to thinking of the pleasant talks her brother, a former sergeant in the Eighth alrforce, had told her about his stay In England. "We are exchanging students, technical advisors, lecturers and farming specialists," she thought. "Why shouldn't we exchange have something to teach us, and and she ProbabIy is "I am going to work in a British factory just as the girls out there do," she said, "and learn what I can." Mary speaks of England as "out there." Certainly it is a long way from where her Russian-born parents settled in New Jersey. She feels she is a typical American girl factory worker, maybe we have something to teach them." So she went in and proposed an international exchange of factory workers to her boss She lives in a four-room apartment with her father, in valid mother and two sisters. She washes, irons and helps make her own clothes She and Walter Simson, president of the ner younger sister, Vera, get up of courage. And well they may oe. ior mai ruggea scanainavi- Truman for a "peace" parley an country is an important (per- in communist territory. corporation. "Wasn't that some nerve?" said Mary, telling about it later. Well, President Simson didn't think so. He brooded over the suggestion for a week-end and then called Mary back In. at 5:30 a. m., and travel ten miles by bus to be at the factory by 7:30. "I'm not a glamor girl," she said. "I'm just ordinary Mary." "There must be a lot we can learn from each other," she said.