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April 25. 1949 Ordeal by Economic Planning A timely book recently issued, timely because of the ef fort of President Truman to ape in the United States the British labor-socialist program of nationalizing industry and professions, is "Ordeal by Planning" by Dr. John Jewkes (MacMillan). The author is professor of political economy in the University of Manchester, who contrasts from Britain's experience, a centrally planned economy with a free eco nomy, contending that while every sensible economy is a "mixed" system there is a watershed where vague as the flow may momentarily seem, the difference between east and west, north and south, liberty and slavery is being irrevocably determined. The author submits, and states the facts to prove it, that there is no doubt in which the current has started to flow for Britain. He suggests two tests by which it can be proven. ' The first is to ask: Are people entirely free here really to choose and change their occupations? Are consumers free to distribute their income between different goods, as they wish? Are producers free to seek out and satisfy the expressed wishes of consumers? Are contracts tor service a matter for individ uals? Is the economy being allowed to knit naturally with the world economy? The answer is a categorical No. The second test is to ask: Is the present economic organiza tion accepted by anyone as a stable system which serves our purpose, or is it regarded as a kind of purgatory from which one or another means of escape must be chosen? It is recognized by all that we cannot stay where we are. that either we go forward to more planning, with everything it im plies, or we go back to the free price mechanism the crucial choice must be made in the immediate future. b , The book is the most devastating and detailed attack yet made on the shibboleth of central planning. Its style is lively and witty. It hits hard with irrefutable facts and Is free of the jargon and circumlocution of ideologists and sounds a warning to Americans. Americans remember the ordeals of regimentation during the war which we submitted to in the emergency, but who wants such a system permanently fixed to stran gle our economic system? Enumerating some of the mad dening red tape strangulation and deprivations Britons are forced to put up with, Dr. Jewkes says : The list of futile, harrassing and costly prohibitions could be expanded indefinitely. It represents the inevitable outcome of a planned economy where the exceptional case can never be allowed for and regulations are drawn up for the average man who doesn't exist. This state of affairs has two serious conse quences on the morale of the people. It breed' a feeling that the law is brutally inept and leads sensible people to seek its eircumvention. And it creates in the mind of the public a con tempt for the quite innocent civil service agent who is the in strument through which the Supreme Planners seek to impose their will. The ordinary member of the public is conscious of a group of Supreme Planners making large errors, and a host of minor planners who are enforcing regulations in which there seems to be neither rhyme nor reason. It is in this atmosphere that disregard for the law grows apace and black markets flourish. ' Only the police state of the totalitarians can enforce a planned economy by terrorism for no man or group of men in the bureaucracy can successfully plan for the fu ture life of the many. Some Life in Oregon, But Not Much Elsewhere There may be life in the Young Republicans of the state, but the health of the GOP nationally should be enough to make members of the party shudder. - Young Republicans recently moved into top offices in the senior organization of the state and thus pushed aside the older members. Last week-end, these new title-holders acted to create some life in the organization over in east ern Oregon. At the same time, two mid-western republicans took their own party to task. One was Philip Willkie, son of the late Wendell Willkie and a member of the Indiana state legislature. His complaint was one heard so often these days as to become almost common knowledge ex cept to those who run the UOP nationally. He warned his party: "The American people are hungry for a construc tive plan of action for themselves and their nation." Meanwhile, some party bigwigs are getting mad at none other than Senator Taft of Ohio for being "too liberal." The only reason Taft could be described as "too liberal" is that the mossbacks of his party have even forgotten this is the 20th century. Another mid-westerner who joined Willkie in his prod ding was Governor Peterson of Nebraska. He reminded the GOP this: "The rank and file, to which 1 belong, want of our party an organization which is alive, breathes fresh air, and enjoys a healthy circulation." The party could hardly be described as responding to any of those three health requirements. Peterson offered this kind of an approach to the party's problems: "A cautious, though progressive, liberalism, or an enlightened conservatism." " Present blocking tactics in congress will get the rjul Hcans nowhere in the long run with the people who elect presidents and congresses. Only when the GOP will come out with a constructive program of its own. not a Charlie McCarthy rendition of the democratic positions, will there be any hop for the republicans. iQuier Cupid in Coeur d'Alene J Coeur D'Alene, Irish ( The mayor of this marriage capital welcomes the weddings but not the wedding parades. ' "They're parading toe mueh and making altogether too marh noise.' Mid Mayor Jack . Adam. The surprised elty council members listened In silenre. Coeur D'Alene has more marriage each year than any other Idaho rily. Wedlock Is lucrative business. . Bui hia honor, unopposed for re-eleetion neat Tuesday, taonrhly announced that police "will not permit any more wedding paradea rambling through low and nut needing traffic signals In the sllgheat. ' "Left bear dowa on these things and lei's hare publicity," be aaid. Copld must be quiet In Coer D'Alen. These Jailbirds Will Go Free Jackson. Mich. uPt Hundreds of jailbirds will be released Jane 1 from Souther Michigan prison. They are eanarles that the Inmates bare been keeping la their cells. At present, each prisoner Is allowed a quota of five birds, and 1.561 eanarlea on hand are creating "quite a nuisance, " Harden Julian N. Friable aaid. Prisoners formerly raised the birds for an outside market. The quota will be reduced June I I one bird per prisoner, Md a lane number of Ihe canaries w ill depart. "And right now," reported Friable, "a lol of these Inmates nee wring te sprs-at tall feather." '., . IM SURE THIS LITTLE BALLAD " l Ail.Mlmr WILL APPEAL TO YOU MR. HERS AM. J p T.T,-?- '6LAH0UR IS THE FOOD J I , . I ON WHICH CITY FOLKS THRIVE, f : ' i , I I . BUT SUCH TAWDRY TIDBITS I ''WMiU 1 . I WOULDN'T KEEP ME ALIVE. , !' j, if L - 1 I YEARN FOR NEW CANAAN Ji V -i ' i if ' WITH ITS CALM AND QUIET ! ' V .1 "I 1 '4 - -T"' : TO ME THATS A BANQUET . ,' H ? I .YIPPEE, KIR THATS MY DIETS f -A: )j 1W i LL '-Wk3S- THE PENALTY AN EOlTOfl :f&4)3S5jrj OF A SMALL-TOWN WEEKLY lS--SltissCrf??!, BAYS FOR THE COMING -gfgsgtf of spring... WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND U. N. Assembly President Is for Peace at All Costs By DREW PEARSON Washington Keep your eyes on the stubby little man with the gavel in his hand at Lake Success. Herbert V. Evatt, foreign minister of Australia and president of the UN general assembly, is the quiet center of the East-West cyclone. He is not afraid to make enemies for himself in his efforts to make peace. BY GUILD Wizard of Odds 9nw tnmm chalked a message on the off stage floor which got him a doc tor; "Plate and false teeth stuck in throat." SIPS FOR SUPPER Pile It On By DON UPJOHN The day light saving plan is on again, this time being in a pretty mess with Portland and a few other towns of the state adopting it and the rest, to date remaining haughtily aloof. One of the best little fixers suggested today how it could be made really an inter esting affair around here. He suggested that locally the coun ty court might adopt the plan, the city council reject it, the school board maybe go on a half plan by shoving the clocks only half an hour ahead. be made more so by the police department adopting daylight savings, the sheriff's office re jecting it and the fire depart ment use it daytimes and switch the clock back nights. This may sound all very confusing but it's really not much more so than what we have now. Dm Ovjvha It could even Evatt used to be the trigger man in counter attacking the Soviets. Now he is leaning over backward to be fair, and bangs his gavel . . i Russians as well I; as the Anglo-sV Saxons. One day last week Evatt re fused to let U. S. Ambassador Austin come to the defense of the Atlantic pact, after Soviet Gromyko had attacked it. Rea son: Austin had just spoken on another subject, and Evatt made him wait his turn. The Australian is a human dy namo, and sometimes a grouchy one. When he rides from the Drake hotel in Manhattan to Lake Success in the Cadillac limousine assigned to him. he sits up front with the chauf feur, writhing with impatience when they get stuck in cross town traffic. But he is even more impatient to get the chariots of peace out of the traffic jam. He thinks the big powers have got themselves Incidentally the customers worked up to a psychopathic might be glad to know that the state, and wants to knock their old organizer of the FT & BA heads together, himself had three snags removed "Doc" Evatt is one of the few Saturday, each one feeling as big persons who knows how close as the First ME church steeple, the "neutrals" came to lifting This revelation is made merely the Berlin blockade during the to give the club members a new U N. session at Paris last fall, outlook on life. At that time he got himself called unprintable names for Don't know whether it's a co- meddling in the cold war. incidence or not. but this is. we But if the cold war is thawed - If YOU OWN LAND, fl fl -i;' 5?r ODDS n 24 to 1 roue. 11 i Cl S V . PROPERTy 15 NCITHE. ODS I AGAINST uMJfRMKflts! I lftf nt THEyUAUMUSSMOMiy 1 A N0 THAN IN THE 20'S By 1 V VvT"- 3 Tol ODDS, 6ECUSE pur f tn,iWIJ'0 of fewer infant deaths y ffj M grojgv AND LONGER LIFE 81st congress convened last Jan uary get big folding money. The American Medical asso ciation employs several lobby ists with five-digit incomes, in cluding Frank E. Wilson ($12,000 a year, plus $2,400 ex penses), and the husband-and-wife firm of Clem Whitaker and Leone Baxter Whitaker. hot shot west coast publicists. To gether they are paid $100,000 a year to unsell congress on na tional health insurance. Gerard D. Reilly, ex-labor department solicitor and nation al labor relations board mem ber, makes over $50,000 a year lobbying against certain phases of labor legislation he used to champion. His clients include General Motors ($36,000), the Printing I ndustry of America "!i0. "J1,- POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER report to congress). Other blue-chip lobbyists are Sherlock Davis, who gets $20, 000 a year, plus a fane pense account, from U.S. -Cuban sugar interests, and the New York public - relations firm of Bell. Jones and Taylor, which lobbies for a string of five-and-dime and variety stores. better. Today, 27 Bell. Jones and Taylor is paid years later, Hil $10,000 a year by S. H. Kress degrade is a and Co.. $3,000 a year by Mc- svelte interna Crory stores, plus $100 a day tionally known by these and other clients, in- supper club en eluding the G. C. Murphy Co., tertainer who for keeping tab on legislation affecting retail trade. Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wissard of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon Hildy, Bachelor Girl By HAL BOYLE New York ii At 18, Hildegarde Loretta Sell played the piano in a silent movie house in Milwaukee. She was a plump, earnest, religious German girl, who hoped for something pr"" THE DIPLOMATIC CABLES The British high command has taken the highly unusual understand. Mental Hygiene out this spring, it will be partly step of permitting French and weeK, starling on coinciaeniauy with daylight savings. Anything for a Laugh Bishop Auckland, England "P Comedian Alex Munro clutched his throat and fell to the floor of the stage. The audience tit tered. They roared as he made weird faces and crawled to the wings. The laughter grew as his assistant asked "Is there a doc tor in the house?" Before re turning to take a bow Munro H. P. Grant, the well known realtor, has received a clipping from his sister in Canton, O., telling of General Jacob S. Cox ey observing his 95th birthday, the general who 55 years ago led his army of unemployed on Washington, D. C. It seems that what the general worries mostly about now is the great national debt and the mounting burden of taxation which he says is more than the economic structure can stand and things will go bust one of these days. So he's just like the rest of the folks, after all. MacKENZIE'S COLUMN Here's Chiang's Strategy By DeWITT MacKENZIE u Porclsn AtUlrs Antlyit) With great Chinese communist armies across the. Yangtze river and driving steadily southward into the heart of nationalist elaborate sums running China, there's much speculation as to what Generalissimo Chiang five and six figures. Kai-Shek's next thanks to the efforts of "intrud ers" like "Doc" Evatt, who hates war more than he hates the Soviets. THE DIAPER LOBBY You can now find registered lobbyists on Capitol hill from the cradle to the grave. Beginning at the cradle, the National Institute of Diaper Services of New York retains a lobbyist, Stanley Posner, at $5,000 a year. On tne other end of life, William C. Henning of Columbus. Ohio, gets $6,000 for looking after the legislative in tests of the American Ceme tery association. Even the family wash gets into the lobbying act through Richard A. Tilden of Washing ton, D. C, who represents clothespin manufacturers for $100 a day when he works. Lobbyists' earnings also vary widely, some working for noth ing, while others haul down into has perhaps! kissed more) bald pates in public than any1 lady in history. She has dropped the Loretta Sell from her name. But suc- Belgian factories to begin build- ss hasn't made her lose the sal awl- best qualities of Loretta Sell. She is still earnest, religious and hoping for something better. She retains a girlhood char acteristic that most artists have ing British-type fighters the highly secret British Vampire and Meteor models. These are the' only allied planes which have any chance of keeping up with the 600-mile-an-hour Rus sian jets. Stanton Griffis. the U.S. en voy who once admired Hitler, has informed the president he's not anxious to return to the U.S. embassy in Cairo. He has a strong yen for the much-coveted play wonderfully well. joo oi amDassaaor to ine court of St. James. and low-paid apprenticeship. She worked In vaudeville, song plugging, and a girl band. She trouped In London and Paris night spots. "There was a time In Paris when I was broke." said Hilde garde. "and I would have given anything for $99 to pay my pas sage home. Half of me said give up, but half of me said stay. And I guess the half that wanted me to stay and keep trying was really three quar ters." Twice a night now she de scends to the Plaza's Persian room, where she has been star red for 11 years. I still get terribly filled up who stay at the top in their with butterflies just before I go out on the floor," she said. "But I say a quick prayer." For an hour she whisks about, running a comb through her blonde topknot, fluttering a lacy handkerchief, playing the piano with her gloves on, trading sophisticated repartee with raw move will be to counter this terrific assault. After all, while the "Gi mo" has been in "retirement" during peace negotiations, he still remains the big boss of the nationalists. He had a con ference at Hangchow with Act ing President Li Tsung-Jen and later it was announced they had decided that the government "must fight for the peoples' freedom and national indepen dence to the end." But how do they propose to Implement this fighting lan guage? This column Saturday report ed that Chiang is understood to have been organizing defense on the basis of guerrilla warfare and to have divided the coun try up into zones of resistance. Should this defense fail, he would, as a last resort, set up a government on the big island of Formosa off the Chinese coast. But what of immediate plans? A usually well informed Chi nese source here in America tells me Chiang may remain largely in the background until he gets a call from the national ist leaders. Meantime. Acting President LI would carry on. If and when the generalissimo gets his "call." it is believed he will establish his personal head quarters in Canton, on the south coast. Not only is that great city well located strategically, but it has a sentimental impor tance to the nationalists. It was the seat of the nation al revolution, and it was from there that Chiang In 1926 be gan hia fight against the war lords of the north. Moreover. General Hsueh-Yueh, governor ot Kwangtung province, ot which Canton is the capital, is loyal to the generalissimo. The nationalists are reported to have been training soldiers in all parts of soutn China. The communists have claimed that Chiang had 1.500.000 recruits under training there and on the island of Formosa, off the Chi nese coast. The generalissimo plan ia aaid to contemplate retirement to Formosa titer all else has failed. There he would establish a government and carry on. For mosa is rich and well adapted for such a project, especially since the communists thus far have no navy and not much air power for an attack. These then are the plans which Chiang Kai-Shek Is said to have made to meet the Red invasion. It strikes me as fair to assume that the best Chiang could ex pect would be to delay the ad vance, by staggering his de fenses, until some as yet un foreseen good fortune should come to his rescue. Thomas E. McGrath. address 'General Delivery," Washing ington, D. C, is the self-appointed, nonpaid agent for an outfit which he calls "Taxpayers, U. S. A." This rugged individualist in forms congress in his registra tion form that he pays all his overhead out of his own pocket i n c 1 u d i n g "thinking" ex penses. Burton Clark of Wash ington, a "retired explorer and university professor." also is a nonpaid spokesman for interests ambiguously described as "strictly personal." However, most of the boya who have registered since the field, an Inexorable desire for self-progress. "I still take piano lessons, be cause the piano is my life," she said. I have always wanted to Right now I'm doing the classics. I'm patrons. and singing sentimental learning a conceno. 1 nope 10 lnv. hallarts Admiral Hillenkoetter's tour be able to do it by 1951 with . . of duty is about up as chief of the San Francisco Symphony 0ne reaJon for Hildy'a popu- all American intelligence. Tru- orchestra. They've invited me." iarjty j, her ability to kiss a mav is looking for a replace- . . . middle-aged man on his bald menl- Devoting her spare time for pate and send him back to hia Freeman Matthews, U.S. am- two and a half years to learn table feeling like a colt. Or to bassador to Sweden, heads the a 42-page concerto perfectly give, a teen-age youngster a list of candidates for the job of doesn't seem like too much motherly peck on the check and assistant secretary of atate in struggle to her. Struggle has make him feel years older, charge of Latin-American rela- made her a perfectionist. The only unfulfilled ambition tions. The Job was first offered She told me something of her Hildegarde has is to be a paint to able Walter Donnelly, ambas- life and hard times as we sat er, "and I would be one if there sador to Venezuela, but he in the living room of her luxurt- were ten more hours in the dav." ous seven-room suite at the Hildy is a bachelor girl. I Plaza hotel. It ia the kind of asked her who was the most ln suite she used to see flash on teresting man she had ever met, the movie screen in the days She ducked this but did say when she thumped out back- whom she would most like to be though it Isn't allowed military ground music. cast up on a dessert isle with. planes under the peace treaty. Hildegarde became one of the "A doctor." she smiled. "Doc Reason behind this is simple: highest-priced supper club and tors know so many things be Foggia is the nearest allied base radio entertainers after a dreary sides medicine." from which American B-36 s S'XlliXiS: CLOSING 'MELTING POT' ERA ed a 24 - hour - a - day guard jni r . r k.i n vniy j rercenr or iew-uorn Have Mothers Foreign Born New York. N. Y. About 97 percent of the children now born In the United States have mothers who themselves are native born, according to the statisticians of the Metropolitan Life In- turned it down on the advice of doctors. The Italian government has begun to modernize its big mili tary airbase at Foggia even SKI-NOSED FUNNYMAN, 'SCOOP SNOOT' Almost a Million Bucks to See Bob Hope in Person By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON Hollywood (UP.1 Bob Hope, who's so rich he has to put himself on a budget to pay his income tax. started out on another whirl wind tour today to "pick up that $21,000" he had to leave in Khode Island couldn't do that 'cause the bull fiddler wouldn't have had any place to sleep. He's the only one we save hotel money on. "We wanted to take Crosby along, too. But we couldn't get an outboard motor that d hook onto his wheel chair." The ski-nosed funnyman says he never runs down on these one-night stand deals. "They're fun. You think I'd keep making 'em if they weren't? You re darn right. I would. Helps my Hooper rating" Tlrvtmla MiifunH last time. 'Got fog bound in Pitts b u r g and missed Provi dence," he quipped. "Had to give back twenty - one grand in ad vance sales. I felt just like Jack Benny." It hasn't beet) more than 60 days since "Scoop Snoot" wound up his last cross-country tour. He made so much dough on that one. 'tis said, he had to hire an extra baggage car to haul it home. It wasn't quite a million bucks. But It was so close a couple hundred thousand one way or another in t worth quib bling about. And it was enough to send a lot of other big-name stars scurrying out on personal appearance tours. "Thia one s just a 'quickie'." he said. "A breeze. We do 25 shows in 20 cities in 11 rates in IS days. "There about SO people in our troupe." he said. "1 was gonna toss in a chorus of 50 cities this time, but there wssn t room on the plane. "We d have had to leave the bull fiddle home end we But he calls this particular tour his "commsnd perform ance." "I've made plenty of others." Hope said seriously. "For Presi dent Trumsn and the late Presi dent Roosevelt . , . and the king and queen of England. But this is the most important of all. 'This comes from Americsns, honey. And they're the ones who buy radios and movie tickets. Any guy who'd loll around in Palm Springs with invites like this piling up just isn't smart." Hope takes along all the com forts of home on his flying jun kets even built-in oxygen tanks. "Not for oxygen," he cracked. "Our tanks are full of good, ole California smog. Nobody 11 get homesick oa this trip"'.. around the airfield while the work is going on. The United Nations will put off any decision on the Italian colonies until fall. Dr. Herbert Evatt, president of the assembly, will appoint a United Nations commission to investigate the colonies and report back next September. COP'S PROTECTION The case of a Tacoma. Wash., policeman charged with protect ing pinball machines by failing to pay the government proper income taxes has been under careful scrutiny in the justice department. The Tacoma cop is Parker A. Garrison, who has been on the police force since 1928. and his job has been inspector of pin ball and slot machines. U.S. treasury agents checking up on his income tax found that from the years 1943 through 1946 Garrison actually paid taxes of $400 whereas he should have paid $5,800. According to treasury figures he showed an income of $2,600 in 1943 whereas, agents claim, his actual income was $8,063. In 1944 he told the government he had received $2,400 whereas the treasury contends his real in come was $4,600. In 1945 Garri son filed a return for $2,500 whereas the treasury has chalked up an income of $9,000. In 1948 Garrison claimed to surance company, who see in this fact the closing of the "melt ing pot" era of our history. Out of the 3.290.000 births registered in the United States in 1946. less than 100.000 were to foreign-born mothers. This was onlv one-half the number of such births registered as re cently as 1933. By contrast, births to native white women increased 73 per cent from 1933 to 1946. The sharp drop in births to foreign-born mothers is the re sult of restrictions upon immi gration during the past quarter century. The foreign-born pop ulation has not been replen ished, and the number of women at the child-bearing ages has decreased rapidly in recent years. At present. less than one tenth of the foreign-born wom en are in the 20 to 34-year age range, while more than one quarter of the natvie women are at these main child-bearing ages. A study by the statisticians shows that the proportion of births to foreign-born women is three times as high in large cities as in rural areas. Geo graphically, the proportion is have earned only $1,700. where- highest in the west, due mainly as treasury agents, checking up nig women, snd lowest in the on his various sources ot in come, say that he received $4,800. When Garrison was called to account by U. S. agents, he gave the impression that he had mere ly been acting for others. "Well, I will Just have to take the rap on this." he said, "but I will not talk." Federal agents, however, douot very much that Garrison is tsking the rsp for someone else. At any rate, the Justice department has ordered his prosecution. csrmai imsi to the number of Spanish-speak-south, where the foreign-born have not settled in great numbers. OEDQ NeJW AlF'CMefttlMt'J CMfeM PORTLAND $0S ROUND TRIP...$l.t0 POT SIS U. Ctanl SS, n 2-2421 EMERGENCIES? MPU I A a ta o vnon tun.) Auto or Person! '100-'1000 COMMERCIAL CREDIT PLAN SAlEm6eMCr:444CMrn.Ti l-smi "safc-LJiJs I