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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
BY GUILD
Life
4
Salem, Oregon, Thursday, May 5. 1949
Cleansing the Augean Stable of Bureaucracy
As important a domestic issue as there is before the
president and congress is the re-orjranization of the federal
provernment aimed at eliminating unnecessary agencies
and bureaus and wasteful expenditure essential to a bal
anced budget. Though the non-partisan Hoover commis
sion made its report and recommendations a month ago
after a two-year investigation by experts and the report
has received earnest support throughout the nation and
lip tribute has been paid by both the president and con
gress, nothing has been done to carry it out, instead
there is a constant addition to bureaucracy and the payroll.
In the May issue of the American magazine, U. S. Comp
troller General Lindsay C. Warren in a signed article,
warnB that "we have reached a crisis in government." As
head of the general accounting office, Warren directs the
biggest auditing job in the world for it is his duty to see
that money is spent solely for the purposes for which
congress appropriates. Too many administrators, he says,
believe the appropriations belong to them and they must
and do spend every cent. Warren warns as follows :
"If congress and the president are now unable to put through
an honest, widespread and effective re-organization, they and
the taxpayers might as well surrender unconditionally. If
the bureaucrats win again, as they have before, we might as
well concede that we are through.
"We shall be forced to confess that government affairs can
not be conducted on a businesslike basis, that we cannot set
up clean-cut operational systems, eliminate red tape, or prompt
ly discharge department heads who put their own interests
above those of the taxpayers. It will be proved that shocking
government extravagance is as much a part of democracy, and
as indestructible, as the supreme court."
. The president is evidently too busy with his long range
reform plans for carrying out the "mandate" of the people
for perpetuating the power of labor bosses, for his civil
rights program, his extension of social security, his in
crease in already exhorbitant taxation on top of a national
debt of $242 billion to bother about extravagance and
incompetence in bureaucracy.
Mr. Truman is, however, a minority elected president,
and how can a minority of the people issue a "mandate"
that must be obeyed? Mr. Truman would do more to
establish his place in history if he turned his attention to
cleaning up the Augean stable of bureaucracy that like
that which Hereules tackled, has not been cleansed for 30
years or more. It is truly a Herculean labor.
On to Klamath Falls
When first considered, the idea of sending the Salem
high school band and orchestra to Klamath Falls for the
state competition was too big. The cost of the trip for the
two musical organizations, involving over 110 students,
seemed out of reach. About $1500 would be needed to
cover costs of participating in southern Oregon May 12.
But parents of the students didn't think the figure was
too high. They encouraged the students to raise the
money. So the band and orchestra drive started. After
all, a superior rating had been won in the recent district
contest. This top position would qualify the Salem high
units to enter 29 different state contests at the competi
tion next week.
So far, $700 has been raised already. Donald Jessop
who directs the band, and Victor Palmason who leads the
orchestra, feel that the remaining $800 can be raised in
time.
A tag day Saturday should put more money in the fund.
Members of the two hopeful music organizations will sell
tugs on the city's streets that day from a nickel, dime,
and up. Because band members will be raising money,
they will not march in the parade. But they will be play
ing Saturday night at the Scout circus.
Salem is proud of the band and orchestra. Their mem
bers bring credit to the city. Therefore, their request for
lupport should not go unheeded. They deserve support
In their drive.
NOTHER COW PROBLEM
Mr. Anthony, What About It?
Columbus, O. ("i Dairy husbandry men of Ohio State Uni
versity and the Ohio agricultural experiment station had a
problem today.
f It revolved about a cow but It wasn't one of those simple
problems such as getting the animal out of a silo or a hay
loft. This was a mental affair.
An Ohio farm wife posed the problem in a letter, to wit:
, "Dear Sirs:
"Please write and tell me what you can do with a cow
that has all the grass she can eat, all the water she wants to
drink, and is bred, that Just stands and bawls and bawls until
he Just about drives you nuts.
" "She doesn't have a thing to bawl about that I can see."
Until they look deeper into the matter, the scientists are
rrluctant to offer a suggestion. One suggested waggishly, as a
preliminary diagnosis of the cow's trouble:
i "Maybe she Is Just In the moo-o-dl"
Mr. Yum Yum Smith's Trick
Pasadena, Calif Mr. Yum Yum Smith likes his
vanilla Ire cream well enough to go to the curb every day
and buy a carton from a vendor.
. This la unusual because Mr. Yum Yum Smith Is a rocker
spaniel. When he hears the gaily-painted little auto'a music
box playing "Yankee Doodle" or "The Crasy Walts," Mr.
Ytim Yum Smith begins barking.
I The dog's mistress, Mrs. David Smith, counts out the change,
places It In an envelope, and the little rocker fairly files to
the enrb, where he wags his tail until Rill Knnls, the vendor,
drives up, takes the envelope and deposits a carton In the
little torker'a mouth.
v0ty-O0!J!Ji!y' WONDERFUL DOG. 'BlMinnm
1 fl) ' NOBODY BELIEVES llHlWir
' I, ) ME WHEN I TEUTHEMVySil WE VlilM
! ' iffisl JUST FOUND HER hliV""! BELIEVE Eteft
,1 iVW LYING BESIDE. K is. YOU. V O ft
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Truman Program Crippled Wizard of Odds
By Sickness of Leaders
By DREW PEARSON
Washington The Truman program continues to be slowed
down in the senate. This Is partly because the president's key
leaders have been torn apart by personal feuds or mowed down
by sickness and exhaustion.
Majority Leader Scott Lucas of Illinois has been in the hospital,
worn out by the
gruelling grind
of trying to
keep democratic
forces together.
Before going
to the hospital
he had wrangl
ed with Sen.
Howard Mc
Grath, chairman
of the demo-jVl
cratic national afc
3 raw PtsfMa
and more schools to counteract
the illiteracy that has resulted
from that situation."
Truman promised to consider
legislation Bennett has introduc
ed to provide additional school
facilities for Negro students if
congress doesn't meet the need
in the federal aid to education
program.
'-""".Si 4&
ODDS ARC HI6H THAT YOU
MEN CRITICISE WOMEN
DRIVERS-BUT THE FACT
is, women react 110
Quicker behind
TH WHEEL.
0VERCHAN6ED? ITS ONLY 2 TO I
yOU'll RETURN THE EXTRA M0NE1E
PSYCHOlOglSTS
SAY.
I 1
SIPS FOR SUPPER
eommlttM. Mr.
Grath, according to a complaint TROOPS OUT OF GERMANY?
Senator Lucas made to the Qne of the toughest problems
White House, was trying to steal Russja , uk , f , ,t the
the spotlight as senate spokes- , , minurt. conference is
a proposal to withdraw all troops
from Germany both Russian
and French-British-American.
This would leave a German
El
usive
man. And this in turn brought
some sour private comments
from McGrath about Lucas.
Meanwhile, two other senate
figures have been in the hos- communist armJj trained by the
j.mx " J Russians, in control of eastern
TO BE CALM,
STAY Y0UN6.' IT'S 3 TO I
YOU'LL BE MORE IRRITATED
IN YOUR FIFTIES THAN IN
YOUR TWENTIES.
(Paul Paul. MWNttmis.Mm,
HCQUCSItD THtSl OODi)
Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizzard
of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon
and majority Secretary "Skeet- TndTt woulanH Uke POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
as' Tnhncnn Tha Homnni-o tm
Bv DON UPJOHN
Maybe somebody has been catching some fish since the season k"lp, T." 'whSn,!. Vnrt
Johnson. The democrats . ,''tM. , tn ,,.
have leaned heavily upon Biffle westcrn Germany,
began last Sunday and no doubt there has. But we have a con-
Biffle's office has been a ren-
Secretary of State Acheson
has been doing some quiet con
siderable number of acquaintances who are ardent anglers and dezvous where democratic 'erring with the British as to
troubles were patched up over "ow ? meel ln's P':m'. a"Q
he resents having It jiggled
around by the pushing of an
hour hand. It struck us as we .fT , . V .Z?"!'' sia's proposal with one of their thinl. wc couid
j nu.. i 1,1. ni. Biffle himself clashed with the , ... thing wc coula
have been
working in it
pretty strenu
ously as time al
lowed and if
any of them
have caught any
fish they've
kept it strictly
secret and this
is not the gen
eral way of the
we haven't so "h" tained or the congestion eased. 'or debate.
far even heard of a big one that As a matter of fact, maybe that's
a glass of bourbon.
Before going to the hospital,
they have now decided that the
western allies will counter Rus-
Happy Rule by Children
By HAL BOYLE
New York VP) Since this is National Boys and Girls Week,
a good time to do something for the boys and girls.
But what to do? - "
it's
Well, one
read Bob's findings in his Bul
letin that the same thing applies
pretty much to the Baldock plan
and sc far all the arguments for
or against seem to be tied up
senate's president pro tern, Sen
ator McKellar of Tennessee.
On the more optimistic side.
however, many democratic com-
rather closely to the particular mittee chairmen have plugged ljeve
UW1I. llicy win ut-inaiiu mat rin i. -sk con.
eastern Germany be merged grcss to pass
with the free western zones into j,iu of rights for
a new German state. childhood.
The western zones, they be- There is a
Individual', wants or nrfsr- anead witn legislation, ana sev-
ences, regardless of how the flow eral k.ey measurc- sucn as fed
are now sufficiently lobby in Wash-
strong to dominate eastern Ger
many, once the Red army evac-
ington for every
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of traffic is going to be main- eaucauon, are au sei uates But in any case they be America from
lieve their proposal would never the Marijuana
be accepted by the Russians and Growers Pro-
smirking, now. You tell the
judge about that freckle-faced
salesman you're so palsy-walsy
with.
"You see, judge, I got prob
lems with both my parents.
They're all mixed up. You gotta
help me straighten 'em out."
And don't think the kid on
the bench wouldn't make
junior's parents start behaving
like parents.
one, the way democracy works vote NORWAY:
"A BRITISH DOMINION"
got away or of a big
period. It seems that so far the way you get the most out
fishing this year so far isn't a of it and to heck with the rest
sport it's just a delusion. But of 'em
they all seem pretty sure come
another Sunday or so and they'll Larry Boulier suggests that Trygve "Trigger" Lie over the
be knocking em dead.
nence me iroops oi neiiner side tective associa-
would be withdrawn. tion to the society against the Congress might endow some
imDortation of foreign-made schools for parents, too. It
British Foreign Minister Ernie - ' nu,v nv manhole covers. wouldn t hurt many parents to
i i i i 4i HUML-IUWN DUX . . an to school one dav a week, ait
About the first man Jess Lar- all exceotThe children So' why !!d.?.by Je with, their own
outlets be installed at the ball inclusion of Norway in the At- son met after he was appointed not a lobby of, by and for the " "ri ? ,h "
Dark seats in the grandstand so lantic Dact and Lie told him
The Bend Bulletin analyzes these evenings the fans can take so when Bevin was in this coun- Dave Vandivier, publisher of the To many children are torn
the daylight savings proposition along their electric blankets, try for the pact signing. Chickasha, Okla., Express. Meet- A good children's lobby might between two worlds the world
editorially and at length and Maybe if we had a Durocher Bevin was jubilant over what ing Larson by accident in the be able to break up the worst of ideal" and fair play at school,
simmers it down to a matter of around here things would get he called the "brave stand" tak- lobby of the Mayflower hotel, cartel in the world the cartel the world of tension, bitterness
selfishness. The office dweller, hot enough so artificial means en by Norway in joining the Vandivier said: of parenthood. As it is now, and opportunism at home,
clerk, executive, factory worker wouldn't be needed. pact despite the persistent neu- "One of the first projects adults tell children how to be- Personally, I think it would
or office employe, opines the trality of Sweden. we're going to put up to you is have, but children have no way be a good thing if children
editor, wants it because it gives Glad to see the courthouse Meeting Lie who is now sec- the new water works for your in which to compel hare-brained gradually took over control of
United home town. aauiis 10 live in a responsiuic wvnu. u. mcy wnwi i. w
"I guess that's the water works manner. kind-hearted,, they would have
"By this act you have moved I started when I was mayor," re- Congress could end this non- ""
closer to us. We feel toward called new Federal Works Ad- sense by setting up a national And why shouldn't they? Who
you as we would toward one of ministrator Larson. He referred system of parents' courts with commits most of the sins and
our own dominions." to the fact that he took his first children sitting as judges. crimes against mankind chil-
To which Trygve Lie with Plunge in public office as mayor At present, junior has no re- dren or grownups?
i....... nii I'Tk.nt of Chickasha, at that time the course from the stupidity of his Well, then, shouldn't children
you,,i ' ' youngest mayor in the United parents. But if he could call the rule adults, since adults are the
' T . iii. States. The water works he cops, and haul them into court most dangerous troublemakers?
,,w ui'"" 'or 'he city at that to be tried by a child's stern
-"""- time has now been outmoded by jense of justice oh, boy! Good men would be foolish if
the city's growth. "Listen, pop," says junior, "I they all went to jail and turned
Larson promised his home- want you to tell the judge here the criminals free. And children
town publisher that he would whom you was bozzing with the have been foolish all these cen-
look into the matter. night you said you was going turies to let themselves be ty-
(Coprriint U4 to the baseball game. And quit rannized by adults adults ad-
aiea Dy ineir own cnuaren
him some extra time at the golf Duuaing commission is taking retary general of the
course, in his garden, fishing some cognizance of the possible Nations Bevin said
or for some other hobby. The rate oi tne statue ot justice on
farmer, on the other hand, is the tower of the old building,
just as opposed because his tim- She must have been getting a
ing is not set by a whistle or a little restive up there complete
bell, the cows do not tell time ly ignored in the new plans up
by the clock and his life is tied to-date. After all, she's a pretty
up pretty much with nature and solid citizen.
Menu: Duck-a-la-Shmoo .
Washington, if he had been
Norwegian foreign minister as
he was once. He would have
waited for the possible common
action of all three Scandinavian
countries.
SOUTHERNER
CHAMPIONS NEGRO
Vancouver, B. C. (U.R) Dinner was almost prepared In the
nearby Lulu island home of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Rees.
There was a commotion In the chimney and a bit;, fat duck
came fluttering down, right into the fire place. It was bar
becured before either could say a word.
Minutes later 50 guests walked In unexpectedly to surprise
the Rees' on their wedding anniversary. Menu: Duck-a-la
ahmoo.
President Truman heard some
waaWiejuiJOl ' i Hwwn i use i en iitwiiMiiiSitiiiiMiiiiiiiiiir)fiiiwiiiiiiiiii straight from the shoulder ad
vice on the question of Negro
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN education the other day from a
soutnern congressman wno geis
around in a wheelchair. The
White House visitor was 38-year-old
Congressman Charles
Bennett of Florida.
An Ex-Friend Asks Help
By DeWITT MocKENZIE
yPi Forelfn Aflalra Analyat)
The Soviet proposal for ending the Berlin blockade continues
to present a complicated study of wheels within wheels.
The latest slant on the problem shows Moscow anxious
the cold war
for the purpose
Df easing theK
rconomic bar
riers bet ween
eastern and
western Europe,
besides ending
the Berlin
blockade.
Why?
Well, an au
thor i t a t l v e
American source
in Berlin puts it like this
SWISS BEAUTY PUZZLED:
'Take EetOff in NightClub
-But Not So in Daytime
Denver (U.R) A Swiss' nightclub beauty was a little confused
today about men's taste after rpending a short time in police cus
tody. Syra. who won the title of Taken to police headquarters,
Miss Switzerland of 1947, was the couple . was held for in-
frustrations.
Why do we say youngsters
are the hope of tomorrow unless
their parents are the despair of
today?
Come, little children. Take
the lead. And the world will
follow.
ti ii iiimiifl
Bennett served B8 months as taken into custody when down- decent
an infantryman, won tne covet- town office workers complained stated
exposure. Syra
that she thought
then
sun-
to shelve ed ,ilver ,ta.r Ior. bravery, came ,be was sun-bathing atop her bathing "e e z healthy for ze
The late President Woodrow
Wilson had so much to do with
the establishment of the Czecho-
slovakian republic after World interests,
War I that he might well be burning zeal to improve educa
called its god-father. Relations "onal opportunities for southern
out a captain, his legs crippled
by polio contracted while fight
ing with Philippine guerrillas.
However, this doesn't inter
fere with Bennett's legislative
one of which is a
between the two nations were
Negroes.
hotel in the nude. body. Een ze night clubs, zey
Two patrolmen arrived on cheer for me to take eet off.
the scene to find the woman, Here you want me to put eet on.
who uses a balloon in her act, Zis, I do not understand."
sunbathing with her husband Maybe the trim-shaped danc
who was clad only in a pair of er would feel better to know
shorts. that it wasn't the office work
As for taking a sunbath in ers who complained about her
the nude, however, Mrs. Frick roof act. It was their bosses
OfWHl
"Th forWal MvpmniAnt ran't denied everything. She said she who found out that no work was
close until the Iron Curtain de- be proud f the way t na, failed had two towles draped in stra- being done.
scended. to deal with illiteracy among tegical places. She conceded Charges were not pressed
tumbled the Negroes," the young Flori- that the towels might have against the Fricks and they
Remember
MOTHER
with beautiful
Stockings
Czechoslovakia has
from pre-war prosperity to its dan ,old Truman. "What many slipped
bresent tough position. Early People forget is that the govern-
"Eastern Europe is starved this vear the communist govern- ment countenanced slavery be-
for manufactured goods which ment put into effect the full Red ,ore ,ne c'v" war' In 'act, a
Russia cannot supply. Having nationalization program under 'ot ' the slave trade was car
made concessions in Germany, which all foreign trade is con- ried on by northerners,
the next step (for Russia) is to trolled by the state. "Then, when slavery was
make others relieve the plight chaotic condition develop- abolished by fire and sword "
of the satellUes i, and Dr. Skala told the Over- "You remind me of my
. seas Writers club in Washington mother," broke in the president.
In support of this thesis we that the government's foreign who comes from Confederate
see little Czechoslovakia send a exchange resources have drop- stock on his maternal side,
delegation to Washington to ask pc(l (rom about $400,000,000 to -Well I don't mean to be
for aid from the capitalists .ome 2R noo non. H nnriirtpt '.u. r ..
that the situation would become explained Bennett, "but it'
serious unless tne country gets none-thelesa a fact that the gov
ernment left Negro ex-slaves
So the Moscow-controlled and their families to shift for
Prague government sends its themselves after the Civil war
envoys to Washington to ask for was over. The very least we
help. can do now is to provide belter
a little.
were released.
damn
.Stolen Still Stirs Chief's Wrath
Yelm, Wash. (UN Local Police Chief Dan Carew was
boiling mad.
Carew recently found a IS-gallon ropper still In nrarhv
hills. He brought the 100-pound "distillery" here, had it
polished and was going to present It to the state historical
society.
Then (he still was (one. Someone, Carew said, broke Into
the ('It r hall and carted It away, roils and all.
. He led I search party Into nearby hills to run down every
aasplrloua wisp of smoke.
""I've got a lead on one man," Carew said. "When I get him,
I'll have him tossed into federal Jail. When he's sentenced,
111 personally row him over to McNeil Island (federal penitentiary)."
whom communists
heartily.
She wants credits of at least help soon.
sau.uuu.uuu ana easement oi me
export controls on U. S. ship
ments to this once thriving state
which now lies behind the Iron
Curtain.
Dr. Hugo Skala, a member of
the four-man Czech delegation CTOPFC Ikl 1 1ft
to Washington, reports that LvKf C j IIS Utt
Czechoslovakia is threatened
with an early economic crisis.
The doctor, a former top official
in the Prague finance ministry,
quit the delegation as soon as
he reached America and asked
the state department for asylum
as a political refugee.
Edward E. Bomar, one of the
A. P. diplomatic experts in
Washington, reports that the re
quest for aid from the communist-run
Prague government
seems destined for final, flat
"no.
That's strong mustard for
Uncle Sam tn have to hand
former friend.
Auld Acquaintance Not Forgot
Oklahoma City A Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Absolutely not, thought vice squad officer Ray Peddirord
when he saw an old familiar fare behind a steering wheel
here.
"There's a bootlegger 1 haven't seen for years," he ex
plained to a fellow vice squader.
The two coppers pulled over In their prowler ear for a
friendly chat with M-year-old Allison Shadrlek. Allison said
he'd been out In California for a while, where the laws aren't
so dry.
Just for Aid Lang Syne, the two officers decided to see If
Shadrlek was taking any cups of friendship anywhere.
He was 4 J! pints of it
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