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Salem. Oregon, Thursday. April 2R, 1949
What Has Johnson to Say?
When John L. Sullivan quit as secretary of the navy
Tuesday, his action should have caused no real surprise
'In what are called "official quarters." When his boss,
Defense Secretary Johnson, called a halt to the navy's
-plan to build a super aircraft carrier, Sullivan was left no
alternative.
The tension had broken out over which branch or
- branches of the service would be recognized for the cov
"eted strategic bombing assignment. Johnson's abrupt
order to halt the giant carrier indicated to observers he
was ruling out the navy for the task of heavy bombard-
ment of strategic areas. The navy couldn't launch big
y enough bombers to do the job unless ships were available
of the size of the USS United States, whose keel had just
been laid.
There was more than that to the dramatic exit of the
' navy secretary, however, There was the matter of the
marine corps, too. Ever since General MacArthur years
ago spoke out in favor of abolishing the marine corps,
;the leathernecks as part of the services have led a pre-
carious existence. Some top army brass had agreed with
' MacArthur. The special jobs of the marines, seizing ad
vanced bases for the navy and amphibious warfare, had
been copied by the army. So, since the marines are a part
of the navy department, they figured, too, in Sullivan's
walkout.
So did naval and marine corps aviation as integral parts
: of their respective branches of the armed forces. Because
"the navy and marines' defense activities called for special
"type of air support, both had developed their own. Now
'these, too, were in jeopardy.
v In other words. Defense Secretary Johnson had busted
. wide open the fears of the services over their very exist
ence. The only plausible explanation that anyone could
give to Johnson's killing of plans for the super carrier
,was that such a carrier, to his way of thinking, was not
, the right vessel for future warfare. The other implica-
- tions followed.
.,
" So the only way to ease the tension now is for Johnson
to come out and tell the people of the United States what
his views are on which service is going to do what assign
ment in any World War III if it comes. Sullivan's action
calls for no less than that.
. When Johnson moved into his top job a short time ago,
his words sounded as if he were going to work toward a
'fair union of the branches of the armed forces. But his
order stopping the carriet United Stales killed all his
earlier words of good will.
An explanation is in order as to why he even permitted
"the keel to be laid in the first place, if he knew he were
going to stop construction shortly afterward. The people
r of the nation after whom the vessel was named deserve a
plausible accounting. It is their navy and army and air
'force not any one cabinet officer's.
Three Medical Service Plans
There are three plans before congress for medical rare
for everyone, different methods but the same goal. The
Truman plan is compulsory, the federal government is to
take over and force most people in along the British experi
ment in socialized medicine. The Taft plan leaves medical
care to the states. The Hill plan leaves it in private hands
with federal assistance. But they all mean higher costs
and outlays of tax money for a broader health program.
The three conflicting plans are summarized as follows:
TRUMAN PLAN: Health insurance, compulsory for nearly
everjDoay, 10 sian diuy i, workers, employers each pay
1 4 per cent pay-roll tax on first $4,800 of wages; self-employed
pay up lo 3 per cent on net income up to $4,800. Medical care,
at no additional cost, to include: examination, doctors' visits:
limited dental treatment; 80 days' hospitalization; homo-nursing,
laboratory, X-ray, ambulance service; expensive medi
cines, hearing aids, wheel chairs, eye-glasses, crutches and
other special appliances. Federal subsidies for medical schools,
students, local health units, hospital construction, rural duelers,
etc. Estimated cost of health-insurance benefits: about $8,000.
000.000 a year.
TAFT PLAN: No compulsory Insurance, no special tax. People
unable to pay all costs of medical care are offered required
medical aid free from state health agencies. Federal govern
ment to split costs with states, up to certain limits.
Federal subsidies for medical schools, free examinations of
school children and tree treatment of needy children, grants
for local hospital construction, etc. Federal costs: about $1,817,
OOn.OOO in five years.
HILL PLAN: State health agencies to pay all or part of
monthly premiums charged by voluntary ' hralth-in.vurance
plans, for people unable to meet costs. Eligible plans limited
to those providing hospitalization, diagnostic service. General
medical care, office calls, home nursing not included. Federal
government to split costs with states, and encourage expansion
of state public-health programs. No special taxes, all partici
pation voluntary. Estimate of costs not available.
The least desirable and the most costly of these pinna is
the Truman plan, which has its inspiration in bankrupt
Britain, where it is anything but free, and costing $100 a
year for every adult in England, half paid in weekly levies
hy the employe and half by the employer, which does not
begin to pav the costs.
Aneurin Bevan, British minister of health, says social
ized medicine has already cost 40 percent more than esti
mated and costs will continue to rise for the next 10 years.
It cost over $1 billion this year and pleases no one, and is
wrapped up in red tape.
STORIES IN LIFE
'Who Did You Soy It Was?'
Fort Lewis The Information Pvt. Clair E. Irish, tnr! di
vision artillery radio man, was gettlnc on the field radio Jus4
didn't jibe with the firing problem of the day at the Yakima
maneuver.
Cel. Ralph M. Otborne, eierutlTe officer of division artil
lery, was called In,
"Who's this gumming up the works?" the rolonel Inquired
gruffly over the radio, which has normal maximum rant
f 15 miles.
"Thl Is the artillery officer at Fort Sill. Oklahoma." wa
the flahergasllng reply.
Colonel Osborne made tome inquiries that satisfied him
some freak of nature was relaying the message about 100
limes the normal distance. The two officer concluded with an
exrhangi of Informal! f their respective problems.
C jy 'Y SfcVl . IxJ WHAT A sfef
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9 HA- rVt W.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Closed Foreign Policy
Meeting Combs Pact
By DRIW PEARSON
Washington Terse, urgent questions affecting our hopes for
peace came boiling to the top the other day behind the closed
doors of the senate foreign relations committee. s
Answering them, the men who must implement the North At
lantic pact were kept under steady fire for 4 4 hours.
Big, bull-
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
tvk
-1 -Li A "S
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Two Timers
By DON UPJOHN
Daylight savings time in Portland. Sane and sensible time in
Salem, for a little while at least. Folks who have to do business
between these points are beginning to complain about the ano-
m a 1 o u s situa-
voiced Senator
Vandenberg set
the pace, but
each senator got
a load of ques
1 1 o n s off his
chest. They
combed the
'pact's fine print
for oitfalls and
lnnnhnlt m n A i'j
..:....' a ."Hwiis.
.... Or r..r
hidden mean-
ings between the lines. As a re
sult, many tough problems were
plowed up.
The chief targets in this verb
al shooting gallery were Secre
tary of
' tary of
ECA Ambassador Harriman.
They talked brilliantly, but not
quite enough, to please the senators.
them wanted to do, but Senator
Pepper of Florida warned that
the pact, itself, promised to
abide by the UN charter.
Secretary Acheson explained,
however, that the only "meas
ures" we are obliged to report
to the security council are what
ever measures may be taken
jointly after an armed attack
occurs.
"What I want to know,"
chimed in Utah's scholarly Sen
ator Elbert Thomas, "is what do
you mean by the rearmament of
Europe? One thing Europe
knows how to do is arm. The
State Acheson, Secre- jdea 0f supplying arms seems
ueiense jonnson ana archaic unless we give them our
best bombs and techniques But
if we do that, I am against the
whole program.
"The aim of the Atlantic pact
is to bring about an atmosphere
to make arms unnecessary. If
we are not going to teach the
processes of peace, we may as
well auit now. because the
world knows all the processes
l- T MIBT0 tVIHTISE.'
N (? At"-'. AIM0ST TWICE AS MUCH rffiR)
. ) A-i" a National income I 1
; SaV WAS SPENT IN I .B '
hSiW. ADVERTISING ll X
- S-V fiM IN '928 I
ltl7f) I I 5To4iFyouDONT
SEijjUiSeyjy I JH CRV...'HEA05'lSCALlfO
STILLS STILL'- HT!?''"1 , . , i fTlTl 70UT0f 10 TIMJS.
SIX TO 1 THERE WILL (C i WT CMttS UP0NLV
MORE BOOTLEGGING I 3'J?i'?5
ARRESTS THIS VEAR A '?!S??-.
THAN LAST 1 J1' iOSlSHUBtn
1 1 o n, whether -
tne business is
done by phone
or by traveling
back and forth
As one of these
unfortunates re
marked to us to
day, "It's the
biggest J o b of
two-timing ever
fois ted on a
patient and long
suffering people.1
Ll1
"I can't be offhand and free
about information that involves
other countries." Acheson re
torted impatiently, when pressed
for details.
Johnson also buttoned
more ef-mlniature
oopner numor D c t, wiI1 caus. f
Lebanon R. M. Hayden, aft- shudder than the recent earth
er obtaining expert advice, put quake.
out noxious bait for a bevy of
gophers throwing up dirt in his Corn Preventative
garden. Next day the whole Los Angeles IUR) William E
clan
........ j . Johnson also buttoned up ,.,
At last It haDDened vester- j. . or war.
dav Like a voice from the oast , . "iesun Thomas also warned against
t , ! I. on atomic energy from Senator buiidinB ,1D , ..United SMr,
Will Jones, well known Macleay McMahon of Connecticut. The army 0f Europe." Senator Ful
farmer. appeared before the queries were based on secret in-
bricht nt Arkansas nn th nih.
county budget committee and formation which McMahon had nand .r(,uen that a compos-
. . .... ... !.. r i "iimoii. aim ,te armv would be
asked that the committee pro- Johnson objected to going into rectiv, than several
vide a budoet nn larcer than the i . Li.. ec"' Inan several
" ueiau in uum 01 coiiiiiiuiee armies
o?,?. S, wh',C. Clerks- Thi' caused McMahon to Another question, raised bv
7hi firir tlrfn ilr decle that he wouldn,t senators, was whether to
Z. J.r. ,vh H, Z. inowed POrt the pact " he tl 'urnish Europe with American
five years anybody has showed ,n, information he wanted. madp arms or helo the treatv
up with an idea of cutting down th, npi, , ,(. ."e "rm" , . p V', xnmty
wif .,ni n,. v,., " ,ne prlce of ,ne sena,or nations manufacture their own
about that back in Washington violation of what 1 consider the i a. .11 .u- .
security of the nation, then we needed for the allied world, the
may have to forego the senator's production and logistic problem,
vote." t was argued, Would be terrific.
But. on the other hand, plants
To add lo the turmoil, the built in Europe would be easy
meeting was Interrupted 13 prey to the Russians and might
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Fortune in Wire Spring
By HAL BOYLE
New York IIP) If you ever had an idea and tried to rum It
into money, the story ot Dick James may Interest you.
He taught a piece of coiled wir to walk downstairs. Now It
makes him an ft -
f L I
a) Br
excellent living.
james, a 01
year old form
er marine en
gineer, is the 4
inventor of
4S 1 1 n k y,"
revolution a r yj
new mechanicall
toy.
Slinky Is I
nothing but
TO fnA nf
high carbon clockspring steel '"iftance there I, in th.
wire arranged in 92 coils. He wrJ.dh ag1a,nst new idea; A
ill,, .n nlH.fa.hinned hed. The oy Pe0Ple wanted no
spring pressed flat-so the coil. ft of Slmky ' 'he Uughed
touch.
Tom and the other kids in th
neighborhood were fascinated.
"I gave one coil to a boy In
bed with the mumps. Hit par
ents said h had had so much
fun with It I should sell the
coils as toys. And my wife
Betty, who'd thought 1 was fool
ish to spend two years tinker
ing with wire springs, agreed."
But James found then how
"Finally one department stor
agreed to let me us one end of
Z.ZL"?,??. LMey. mailman 'or 20 year,, )imes bv vo)es (he be -,urned against No one
housekeeping in Neighbor Bob was held today for keeping 5
Penland's yard, where they set 000 letters instead of delivering
to work with energy, throwing them. ."The more letters I de
up entrenchments. With all the livered the more people mailed,"
assurance of the Pied Piper, complained Lilley, 46. "When
Hayden silenced complaints with my feet hurt I just took the mail
a promise to rid the Penlands home. I always intended to de
of the pest. He did, indeed, for liver it later." Postal authori
se gophers straightway moved ties said none of the mail had
back to their old quarters in his been opened or tampered with.
own garden.
Now everybody who has writ-
It seems It makes nn differ- ten a letter to somebody in Los release
t-m-t- wnere you gopner em, iney Angeies recently is going to start
aren't there. worrying.
Bird Gives Cat a Bad Time
Fast Sheen, Eng. iiPi You've heard of the canary who was
so tough he sang bass?
A local rat named Whiskey has met the eanarys' cousin.
Whiskey was stalking blackbird, when suddenly the bird
turned.
A veterinary took IS stitches in Whiskey.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
An Oasis or a Mirage?
By OeWITT MacKENZIE
I Forrlin Atuiri Analrstt
The western allies are moving cautiously (though hopefully)
to make sure they are seeing a real oasis and not a mirage in the
startling Soviet offer to lift the German blockade.
The Russians.
senate floor. This kept the sen- had a ready answer for this.
a tors straggling ud and down Before Senator George
stairs to the senate floor until walked out, he was In a nega-71-year-old
Senator George of tive mood toward anything that
Georgia finally snorted in dls- cost more money and warned
gust: that every move we made In
"By God, T can't go up and Europe only implicated us deep
down those stairs any more!" er. Many senators were also an
And he quit the meeting. gry with the administration for
Another problem was how pushing the arms program be
much lo tell the Dress. Vanden- fore the treaty is even ratified.
berg was airainst issuing anv Acheson's reply was that the
until the secretary of arms program was the only log-
state formally presented the mil- ical way of implementing the
itary program to congress. The pact. ,Averell Harriman report
Michigan republican warned, ed that the Marshall plan had
however, that "Drew Pearson saved Italy from disintegration
has a dictaphone hidden In and had stiffened the upper lip
here." of other western, nations. All
they needed now was the arms.
Later, Chairman Tom Connal- he declared, to make strong
ly stamped angrily Into the stand against any aggressor.
meeting after a trip upstairs to
n,,t Cllnlrv ran An 1hin0
A child can take him in his " ."" m
hand and play the coils back demonstrate the toy myself,
and forth like a silent accor- ' buht alon u400 c'u
dion. Put Slinky on the top of ?nd sId ,them " a" hur a"d 1
staircase and flip his coil over, nalf- Thal convinced them. They
and Slinky will coil and uncoil favne.me n immed'a, order for
his wav down the stairs like a 5 0T00- . . , .
rhythmic snake James had to borrow money
"He changed'my whole life," ' buy the coils from a factory
said James, who has sold 2.500.- '"al maae ". specuica-
000 Slinkys and expects to mar
ket another 1,000.000 this year.
Simple as the gadget is, it
tions. A month later he quit his
S5.000 year marine engineer
ing job.
"It was a hard gamble," he
said. "My family thought I was
took James several year, of to jv(. englneer
httfA umrlr in mill. I a m.paec
Back in 1943 he was working
career over a toy."
Slinky mushroomed so fast
n a i-iuiauciuiu. ...n.u. ,nat other compani began
began foo ing with some round making ,he coUs iigurin ,
, " " , . , 'j T .U. P'tent application by James
meters that registered the
wouldn't be granted.
James feels luck has played a
vote.
"Somebody has already leaked
the amount (of the prooosed
military aid), he thundered
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Wealthy Oil Heiress Perle
Mesta, social arbiter for the Tru-
mans, will shortly be rewarded
Some newspaperman told me by an appointment as first lady
the figure and asked If that was
correct."
ambassador to either Denmark
Luxembourg. (Mrs. Mesta
agree t'jjw' I
0'UJ3 A. I
our rtlan ' ht cairi
A tremendous stride towards 'he meeting
iu. uu:i:ii: t i
1 1 ir I crilrJUilllH I1UII Ol WCSiem , ...... . . tmnnm
r,irnn. rnilA AM k.... 'n cianiv ine important quen- "k".
Europe would seem to have whether the oact was Georgee Kennan, now chief
been marie in the imPmpnl in llon 01 wncin" n P was . i:.
M.ahlUh th , .nvmlnt Thi "other old-fashioned mill. ?lt"VrA!Z1
date for its inauguration has
tary alliance or a genuine in-
been set for July 15. The ac- ''rn' collective security
have stated
their willing
ness to abandon
the blockade if
t h e democra
cies in turn
will end their
counter - block
arie and
to a meetin
the council
foreign minis
tors to consider
the whole German question.
..L k. eveniuaiiy. iney nope a pros- exercise of this right of self-
ended the foreign ministers p,ruS west German republic defense shall be Immediately re
council some sixteen months ago wj bP , attractive to their ZlZ ,L ..ZTf
Fnllnwlns thi incident It was Used to be republican.)
agreed to release an outline of The joint chiefs of staff have
the SI. 130.000.000 plan to help decided to equip our western
rearm the North Atlantic treaty European allies with the fam-
nations ou5 M1 Garand rifle. Reason
behind the move: The U.S. has
Here are other highlights of million Garands in surplus
e meeting. "ncl planning to make a new.
Senator Vandenberg wanted improved model for American
horsepower output of ship
macninery. lar, .rl . h ,...
"The coils of round wire "Hundreds of engineers hv
wouldn't stand up," he said. "So worked with elastic wire, and
just for fun I had the company never thought of turning It In-
make me up a couple of dozen to a toy," ha said. "Neither did
samples of flat wire. t. if j had ,et out deliberately
"It wasn't until the next year to develop a top that would
that I learned I could make the walk downstairs, I might hav
coils walk downstairs. My son spent a lifetime on It."
OPEN FORUM
Daylight Saving Time
IttWItt
cord naturally ignores Russia.
which occupies close lo one-
hird of the old Reich.
Here it should be well noted
that the western German lead
planning staff, will be promoted
to counselor, replacing Chip
Bohlen, who moves to Paris.
However, Kennan will continue
his important job of trying to
anticipate what the Russians
will do next.
by walking out on it.
The western powers Ameri
ca. Britian and France are
prepared to agree, provided the
Russians have no further con
ditions up their sleeve.
This caution is Inspired by the
fact that, by striking coinci
dence, the Soviet offer comes
as tne oiner tnree allies con
clude the agreement for the
establishment of a new Ger
man republic out of the three
western rones, with Russia
holding out its eastern zone.
The western allies are ask
ing themselves: "Can Moscow's
offer be
He pointed out that the UN
charter recognizes the right of
nations to "collective self-defense"
in case of attack.
The charter, however, adds In
Aitil St "Mn. i pa. talr.n hv
ers aim at a united Germany members (of the UN) in the REDS GROW IN ARGENTINA
Argenune ooservers nave
long suspected that when Presi
dent Peron set out to use .the
countrymen in the Soviet zone rjoes this mean. Vandenberg communists for his own politi-
that a union of the two will be as(ed that the treatv nations cal ends, he was asking for real
brought about. must '.,, their et defense trouble. Now he has it.
That could well be. for the plans to the security council Back in 194Bl ,he Argentine
Germans are a determined peo- where Russia has easv access? commies were nominally lined
pie. This was something ' none of UP wilh tn rad'cal nd social-
iwi parties in a so-cauea national
To the Editor: The action of
the will of the majority of the
saving time is another proof that
an apathetic majority to do its
bidding.
That the majority is opposed
to the time change is amply
proven by the action of the leg
islature in vesting the right to
proclaim daylight time In the
governor, by the piddling maj
ority which daylight time re
ceived even in Portland, as well
as by the opinions expressed In
"letters to the editor."
In view of the determination
shown heretofore by the day
light time addicts, 1L seems safe
to assume that they will exert
the utmost pressure on Gover
nor McKay to proclaim daylight
the city of Portland In defying
people by proclaiming daylight
a determined minority can fore
saving time. Those of us oppos
ed to this ill-conceived measure
should inform the governor of
our views. How can we expect
him to stand firm if we don't
tell him that we are behind
him?
We should not be intimidated
by the threat of the daylight
time addicts to file a petition.
They know that in state-wide
re'erendum they will be beat
en. All they can possibly hope
to achieve by a petition is to
fight a delaying action.
A. E. BRETTAUER
Route 2, Woodburn
BEAST DOESN'T LIKE 'SHOTS'
Hungry Lion Is No Easy
Patient, Vet Finds Out
' the doctor sighed
Yakima "The trouble with sick Hons Is,
you can't examine them very well."
But Big Sammy, a middle-aged Ethiopian lion who was once a
trick to disrupt the member of Hailie Selassie's
democratic union, opposing
Peron's presidential candidacy.
Actually, however, the Reds
reached a secret, last-minute
"mutual understanding" with
Peron.
Until recently, both sides out
wardly observed this bargain. In
several subsequent elections
for congress, provincial legisla
tures and the national constit
uent assembly only the Peron-
formation of the German gov- palace, was off his food. And a cage with lion and stick lsts nd communists were per-
ernment so that Russia ran get something had to be done about needles in him. He might decide mitted to campaign freely, while
complete control of a unified it quick. He hadn't eaten for to get hungry after all. radical and socialist candidates
German regime which would six days. But Captain Roth went into found themselves without press '
include the Soviet zone?" Capt. Louis Roth, owner of the cage and while he poked facilities, barred from the radio,
Both General Lucius D. Clay, the lion ranch In nearby Selah and jabbed Big Sammy, his as- their political meeting banned
U. S. military governor in Ger- and Big Sammy, become wor- sistant, Judy Allen, slipped or broken up.
many, and U. S. Ambassador ried. He called Dr. Peter Mac- rope around the 470-pound Peron's on purpose was to
Robert D. Murphy. Tuesday ex- klnlosh. a semi-retired veterln- beast Just below the shoulder keep his native Reds flourishing
pressed wariness over the So- arian who had some experience blades. The spectators outside as a first-class bogey, to be used
viet offer. treating lions In Chicago 35 the cage took the rope and angl- n bargaining with the United
years ago. ed Big Sammy toward th tag state when th moment wa
And tnat is wner in trouoie oars. Tin.
Lest there be any doubt re
garding the attitude of the west
ern allies, they have made it
crystal clear that they are go-
The commie, on their part.
started. Then they jammed 2x4
iney couion i examme Dig p.-na unarr n cnin ana uocior ., n,d , p.lusonf about
Sammy because a hungry and Mackintosh went to work with p.rnn', eventual aim Like their
ing ahead with the creation of weak lion is still dangerous the needle. comrades everywhere else in
the new anti-communist Ger- lion. The big animal took It quiet- ih. -.nrM ih.v .r ... .ni
lad to accept a deal based on
mutual nnnnrtuniam with
man republic.
General Clay
Captain Roth and Doctor ly for the first time, but when
declared that Mackintosh went into a huddle the doctor came back for
even it the Russians lift the and decided that something was second shot, he reared on his srtrewd confidence that they
blockade "it will have nn ef- troubling big Sammy's tummy haunches and nearly broke coud gve the other side lessons
feet whatever on the west Ger- A hypodermic to relax Big away from his restrainrrs. But (n (,e rt nd that is just what
man government." Sammy's insides was in order, he got the second dos Just th jj happening In Argentina today.
"Wt ar going ahead with But you don't just Jump Into sam. icmraai
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