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BY BECK Animal Life 4 Salem, Oregon, Friday, May 6, 1949 They'll Do It Every Time Thoucrh the cost of livinK. the usual excuse of labor union strikes for higher wages is daily falling and wages are the highest ever paid, the steel unions have demanded a fourth-round pay boost plus social benefits. Similar demands loom from the other three of America's "big four" unions of industrial production, coal, auto and elec trical. At the same time the ClO-United Auto Workers union has called a strike of 65,000 workers at the Ford plants at Detroit, not for higher wages, but for less production. The dispute is over an alleged speed-up of assembly lines at the Rouge and Lincoln-Mercury plants. If the walkout continues 147,000 workers in Ford plants in 33 United States cities and Windsor, Canada, will be out of work within three weeks. The union is preparing for a long strike, which will react on small supply and assembly plants throughout the nation. ' The union charged that Ford was running assembly lines too fast. The company denied the speed-up charge and said the strike violated the Ford contract with the UAW. The strike cut off production of 600 Ford and Mercury cars a day at River Rouge, and 120 cars daily at the Lin coln plant. It was costing the strikers an estimated $900,- 000 in wages daily, and, if prolonged, will halt production of 5,300 cars and trucks daily throughout the nation. Ford produces more than 1,000,000 cars and trucks a year. Also hit hard by a lengthy strike would be 3,500 com panies which sell $1,000,000,000 worth of supplies to Ford annually. Outside the heavy losses to the Ford company and the strikers themselves in lost wages, the chief losers will be the general public, as is usual in all long strikes. The auto users, the transportation lines, the auto dealers, the mer chants will all be penalized. ., There is nothing comparable to a big and long industrial strike for knocking over the apple-cart of prosperity in the midst of plenty. A Try at Finding the Answer Off-street parking lots are a recognized need for Salem. Studies have been made on such lots during the past few years, especially by the long-range planning commission. It is Mayor Elfstrom, however, who promises to transform ideas on parking lots into action. His special committee studying ways to meet the need will have the results of previous surveys. . .The plan is to utilize vacant lots and lots on which stand obsolete buildings to meet the space requirements. In the latter case, the obsolete buildings would be removed to the benefit of the appearance of the city; the cleared lot then would be used for parking. Wisely enough, the committee plans to consider its problem as one for all districts of the city, not only the downtown section. Efforts, therefore, will be tied in with development of the entire community. As an area grows find the demand for more parking spaces becomes more pressing, the committee can act to handle the need. That could be in the university addition, the Hollywood area, South Salem, or any other part of the city, including, of course, the central business section. 1 In facing the question of more parking for an area, the committee might as well try to work out a plan for the encouragement of parking facilities with large-scale, new construction. Then new business firm locations will be tied in with parking requirements. i The basic working program of this off-street parking committee is really all that is known definitely at present. While the committee tries to work out the specific details, the members deserve the assistance of all persons in the community, especially the businessmen, i It is better that the coiperation be given now so that, iwhen a specific program is announced, criticism will not be so disturbing as to offer a block to the carrying out of he original aim. An instance in point is the Raldnck plan, yhich was worked out at the request of the city, but, when details were known, criticism was enough to delay action on it. Federal School Aid Bill ! The senate has passed, by a vote of 58 to 15, a bill authorizing federal grants of $300,000,000 a year to help states pay teachers' salaries and other school operating expenses. The measure will receive bi-partisan support in the house. ! The declared purpose of the bill is to aid in financing A minimum educational program in elementary and secon dary schools, and to reduce inequalities of educational opportunities. Allotments to states would be $5 to $29 a pupil figured on a formula taking into account the annual income payments in each state. The poorer states would get a larger share. i Under terms of the bill, each state would share in the $300,000,000 yearly federal grant on the basis of its wealth and school population. Poorer states, mostly in the south, would receive a proportionately larger share of the aid than wealthy states. ; The bill's sponsors estimated that, under the measure's eomplicated formula, the yearly allotment would range from the minimum $5 per school child in wealthy states to as much as $29.18 per child in Mississippi. ' The bill if passed is probably only a starter and will, if ft follows the precedent of other federal aid to states measures, increase annually in appropriations. It has the merit of state control of expenditures, but the federal bureaucrats may find a way for eventually through red tape of establishing federal control of education, the orig. inal aim of its proponents. Hoarded His Pay Envelopes Went Chester, Pa. U When 70-yrar-old Harry O. I.am nnrn died, unopened weekly pay envelopes dating bark to 1944 and containing a total of $6,J91, were found In hit ne-room apartment, ' ttmbnrn, a former factory worker, hoarded th envelopes 1 m a paper box. His will, written on a scrap of wrapping paper, left St, 500 f his estate to Mrs. Mary A. Mrl.rar, his landlady. Attorneys Mid the residue probably will be divided among l.amborn'i Bine first cousins. TmmutWKm bother us theYI " V- ijimf!ml& WAY HE DOES. -J?2mM??l BE ALIVE tr WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Pearson Suggests Invite Russ Students to See U. S. By DREW PEARSON Jacksonville, Ala. The average Washington newspaperman gets his eyes so riveted on what's going on in the capital that he aometimes forgets what's going on in the rest of the nation. I know I do. by GUILD Wizard of Odds That's why, every so often, skuldug g e r y -rooting and see what the rest of the U.S.A. is do ing. Down here in norlhea stern Alabama where the hard rock of the Alle- ghenies tap e r s i off into the softfV" limoetnno nt the. black belt, I found a surprising monument to people-to-people friendship. mm Dr.at P,ar,BP I try to take a vacation from comes they, not the diplomats, have to do the fighting. So now they are willing to do the work ing for peace. So thanks to this people-to-people friendship, we have vast ly strengthened our ties with France, Italy, Norway, Denmark in fact, all of Europe this side of the Iron Curtain. SIPS FOR SUPPER Just Too Easy But the problem of penetrat ing eastern Europe and Russia still remains. No matter what was done about the Berlin blockade, no This is about the last place matter what is aoreed nn at the in the world you would expect United Nations, the danger of to find such a thing. Arid if it war continues as long as 14 men hadn't been for Harry Ayers, in the Kremlin can declare war publisher of the Anniston, Ala., overnight with no senate, no Star, who is as much a crusader presSi n0 church, no radio, no for the public as he is a pub- public opinion to put the brake lisher, I wouldn't have found it. on them. In New York and Philadelphia obviously these 14 men in the and New Orleans you're not sur- politburo aren't going to lift the prised at finding international iron Curtain and let Americans student houses. But not at rela- jnt0 their country at least for tively obscure Jacksonville State the time being. But there's an Teachers college in the foothills other way of pryj.ng the Iron of Alabama. Curtain nartlv nnen and at least However, thanks to the tire- putting them on the spot. That Incidentally we got something less devotion of one man, Prof. js to invite 1 000 Russian stu- H. Jones, Jacksonville deni. to come to this countrv. At first blush a lot of people WHEN VOUR 6IN RUMMY PARTNER SHOWS YOU PERFECT HAND ON THE DRAW, TELL HIM HE BEAT ODDS OF 13.629 , T01-0R STACKED THE DECK, JT V, V THE DECK. ySJI; HOW ABOUT THIS. UJ fiTwn, men? Surveys reveal )T"X wCM ODDS ARE EVEN YOUR fh Y I JvVa-, SkISR MARRIA6E WASN'T IN" A LI pff . f,VVl Bpl SPIRED BY LOVE. OR TSA i WW A r I CENTLEMEN DON'T PREFER BLONDES.' ITS EVEN ODDS THEr PREFER BRUNETTES. 12 TO 1 THEY D0NT LIKE REDHEADS, 3 TO 1 A6AINST BLONDES. (mavricc zoLorow. mwYornt, N Y. CAMl THRU WITH THIS) By DON UPJOHN Walter Winslow, well known atty-at-law and lately a judge of the supreme court, now has his gripe about traffic matters growing out of Marion street being converted into a stop street to help take care of the tunnel fSFTZZT? work at the slatel ' JgTTV 1 sticking in our craw when we James c a p i tol group. I f "" ?"! read a letter today to County last week dedicated an interna- He says additional p , 11 Clerk Harlan Judd from June tional house just as fine in its wjij hold up their hands in hor of these itopf ' '2j H. Sullivan, assistant professor way as anything in the great ror and claim that we might be signs still leaves! S3 Cm m. economics, at Oregon state cities of the north. contaminated by communism. If two streets op-1 J aje'ff i college. She sent along a bot- Professor Jones is what you We take that point of view, how en, Union ind 11-!tl I tie and asked Harlan to fill it might call a true servant of ever, we have something of an Chemeketa, that I W ai with water from hereabouts and brotherhood. He not only raised iron Curtain ourselves, don't have stop! I return it to her. She says she's the money to build international Furthermore, our system is signs between! .QoiV I examined about 1000 children house, but passed the hat to plenty strong to withstand con his home at 775"m" the past year in a study of the bring a group of students all the tact with a few Russians, and N. Church and " effect of food, soil type, climate way from France, and send an- the smartest thing the National office at the Masonic temple and and composition of drinking wat- other group from Alabama over Association of Manufacturers he can sail right through these er on the condition of teeth, to France. The cash for this eVer did was to invite Russian without stopping, unless for oth- She's getting a sample of water student exchange was raised not composer Shostakovich to tour er traffic. "If the boys would from every county seat to anal- in Wall Street or Washington, the U.S.A. only tuck some stop signs there, yze for its flourine content and but right here in Jacksonville Almost every Russian who has total hardness. What s sticking ana Anniston ana rieamom ana visited this country goes back in our craw is that this looks the other neighboring commu- flabbergasted at our wealth, our like a deal which eventually may nities. freedom and our culture. Many undermine our FT & BA and When it came to building in- become so entranced that they make it only a memory. If she ternational house, all the home never want to go back at all. can figure out just what's need- ioik contributed. A Jackson- When Andre Picard of the ed to keep teeth from going hay- ville Plumber donated the bath- French gratitude train visited luiw. ouiucuiic cae xne r iresione ruDDer plant at refrigerator. A local Akron. O.. and saw the tiled lumber dealer helped with lum- swimming pool for workers, he Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizrd of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Problem of One's Hands By HAL BOYLE New York VP) What to do with the human hand is cizilization's biggest unsolved problem. You probably never thought of your hands as being much of f JL -IV then I could stop at every street between home and downtown," said Walt. "It's too simple now." By coincidence, when Walt was remarking about aforemen tioned condition he said he had fuineuiiiiK sucfwug in ins craw. c " -.- ;,tm mL wiro inct urhprp will nnr FjiIsp OOm fixtures. ine coincidence coming wnen ,, we heard at least three other ",w""uu" uimh . .. . . ... ,.,lnrl .,n avnont mavhtt fid An V lUIHD soetYr eaca SK moVr n'd begh to ?f 'P'! remarked: a man s me worx wasnea out in a bunch of bottles of water from the county seats, but comes to worst maybe we'll have to bow to progress and let it go as it looks. his craw." It looks as though there might be an opening this town for a specialist i n craws. Hardly a day goes by but we encounter somebody in this condition and maybe a good man with a pair of forceps, or or cash or something else, with "if Stalin could see this, he the result that a beautiful, would understand whv he can if worst thouSh modestly appointed in- never communize the United icrnaiiuiiai siuueni t;emer fiuw states. stands on the Jacksonville cam- of course, the comrades in the pus. Politburo, being smart, prob- Fnllnuinff the ripHiratinn nf aklv na.,AH w 1 nnn Beautiful weather these days International house, the irre- f. , ., -th. k.i. something, could work up quite makes one think the world can pressible Champ Pickens woke citizens come to this country, a business at cleaning out stuck be nothing but a grand old place me up at 5 a. m. by long-distance But the point is to invite them up craws. From the varied sort to live in, until one begins to telephone in order to make sure anyway. of things that are sticking i n think of the approach of time i got to my next stop, Montgom- If a committee of down-to- craws he could get a real collec- for prickly heat, hives, poison ery, in time for breakfast. earth Americans not the state tion of oddities. oak, et cetera. And on that 120-mile drive I department or the Henry Wal- had a chance to do a little think- laceites invited 1,000 Russians fcs?'': ing about the way thousands of to visit this country, it would communities nave responaea to cause consternation and near- Curfew Was Too Noisy Monrovia, Calif. (P) Curfew will not sound tonight or any night from now on. The 9 o'clock whistle has been silenced on order of the eity council. Too many residents complained it woke them up. people-to-people friendship. chaos behind the brick walls of Without any prompting from the Kremlin.' The Politburo their government, the American wouldn't know what to do about people have put across friend- it. ship trains, democracy letters to In the first place, the voice Italy, exchange of students, of America would broadcast the adopted European cities, wel- invitation direct to the Russian corned the gratitude train and people, and the mere fact that put across scores of other the Soviet government said "no" things. would cause thousands of Rus- In brief, the American people sians to question their govern- are anxious and itching to do rnent and wonder why their own anything and everything to win leaders were against the people- the peace. They are tired of to-people friendship which the To the Editor: I read wilh keen interest your fine editorial writing to congressmen. They Moscow radio pretended to in the Capital Journal of April 29 on mv race for democratic state do not altogether trust ambas- champion. chairman. A copy of your editorial was prominently displayed at sadors. They know that if war the meeting of the state com- MacKENZIE'S COLUMN problem- to V" you. But they ; are. Hands are a problem to everybody. They are a problem because . nobody knows what to do with j them. Hands, afterl all, aren't what I they used to be. Modern society has reduced their value. In the old jungle days, when our ancestors were still unde cided whether to remain apes or become human beings, the hand was a much more im portant part of the anatomy. The primeval ape man swung through the trees by his hands. He used his paws to grub for food, fight his enemy and to court his lady ape friend. Then, as now, he had to live by his wits but his hands were the tools of his wit. He learn ed through his sense of touch. Watch any toddling child to day. It still has the ape mem ory in its hands. It wants to seize or touch everything in reach. Every finger is alive with curiosity. Remember when you were in school and a class finished its work a few minutes before the period ended? And the teach er said blithely: "Everyone fold his hands on the desk and sit quietly until the bell rings." And remember the torture of it, the agony of just sitting there in motionless silence waiting for the bell to free you from pur gatory? For nothing is more difficult for a child than to hold his hands still. The monkey past Is still too strong in him. But is it almost as difficult for grownups, too. The monkey has a simple so lution. If there is nothing else for him to do with his hands, he just sits and scratches him self thoughfully. He is happy and completely at ease. In most human societies to day, however, scratching in pub lic is more or less frowned on. But with this completely nor mal outlet blocked, what can people do with their hands? Well, whole industries have risen to try to solve the frus tration of civilized people who have no natural way to keep their hands busy. Among them are the liquor industry, the tobacco industry, the cross-word puzzle industry, and the 1.001-page historical novel industry. Millions of peo ple over-eat, over-drink, over smoke, and over-read because they are nervous and in doing these things they can occupy their hands. When they said, "I'm at loose ends, I don't know what to do with myself," they really mean, "I don't know what to do with my hands." Women have the most sensible outlet. They can crochet. It is said that a woman in Dublin once stitched the entire history of Ireland's long fight for free dom in needlepoint. You cer tainly have to hand it to her! I used to have this problem of what to do with my hands Then I found a perfect solution. I bought a yo-yo. Civilization isn't going to make a monkey out of me. OPfV FORUM Josslin and Democratic Party (Rdll.r'i Netti rnntrlbatlon. u Ihl. c.latBB mil k. .online U 100 w.roi nnd .tfn.4 wrltrr.) mittee in Portland Saturday, April 30, and it undoubtedly contributed to my victory. I am very grateful that my race aroused the friendly inter est of . . . the Capital-Journal . . . I think that the democratic party must assume the full re sponsibility of its position as one of the two major parties in Ore gon. It must nominate candi dates of merit and present an intelligent program for the de velopment of this state, other wise it is not doing its job. I think the people of Oregon are much more interested in principles than in party allegi ance, and that they desire com petence and integrity in their public officials far more than they seek the victory of any particular party. When the democratic party deserves to win, It wins . . . WILLIAM L. JOSSLIN, Chairman, Democratic State Central Committee. 'Back Pact or Face War' The invitation should come from a mixed group of real Americans farmers, veterans, Chambers of Commerce, labor unions, the NAM a true cross section of the country. It could be made so repre sentative and so genuine that the Kremlin would have an aw- By OeWITT MocKENZIE 4 Por.l.n Affair. Analy.tl John Foster Dulles told the senate foreign relations committee fully hard time turning It down Wednesday that "war is highly probable" if the United states mougn in me ena it prorjaoiy doesn't ratify the North Atlantic treaty. would do so. But the turndown nuutu c iiuiscu IUUUI, uui uniy this column discussed long ago. 'n Russia but throughout the This is that if Russia should world and would create adverse be able to establish communism propaganda everywhere, across western Europe to the Of course, organizing such a English channel another world project would be a lot of work, war would be inevitable. But so is war a lot of work America and Britain then work and bIood nd death, would stand alone among the The trouble with peace here great powers against the Bol- tofore is that too many people shevist drive. too't " 'or granted, weren't will- Now they re T h mighty blunt s t a t e m ent to come from the American dele Bate to the United Nations It chal 1 e n g e s analysis. Why would war be highly probable? Without try ing to read Mr. Dulles' JjK jLm to a hypothetical situation which Henry, Who 'Looked Like Tramp Leaves Fortune to Winchester, Va. (UK The 398 youngsters In John Kerr pri mary school did their best to keep their eyes on the blackboard today but their minds were In the clouds. They were thinking about all the bubble gum, the licorice sticks and the Ice cream cones they could buy with their share of the income from $100,000. The money was left to them by Charles H. Henry, a fruit peddler, who died here recently at the age of 80. The townsfolk said Henry "looked like a tramp." But he knew how to make a dollar and how to hang onto It. Since the death of his only daughter some 30 years ago, he carried in his heart one consuming passion an affection for little chil dren. John Kerr, a three grade school, was the only alma maler Henry ever had and he vowed long ago that whatever money he saved would go to its children. That promise was carried out in his will which was filed for probate here Wednesday. Under its terma unless the will is broken a bank officer will come to the school twice a year and divide the income from the $100,000 equally among the children. Each youngster'i share should run about $10. half before the Easter vacation and the other halt before the Christmas holidays. nu- 11--.. 4- UI. I wuir. ai ii. thetical situation is that, if it is "" P to be avoided, the communist J'f t"m0ny;u.Y.0U 5?" ' mind, I believe we can offensive must be held on the "L"1 " ,"'" get our answer by going back ne which It now occupies . ,f 'h. ATmi,ti inrougn central Europe, ine ; w a only thing which will hold It Vothverv Sav there is a strong and united w"k .? bot,h ry dtay: western Europe. .We,"' 1 ? , . about the South, and got ude Since time is of the essence, tracked. I'll be back with more that unity and strength can be on tne South , ,nothCT column, provided only through some icorrmnt such alliance as the Atlantic " " - - '-' pact. Berlin blockade Kids and counter That would be my explana- blockade measures. They furth- tion. er agreed to resume meetings of Mr. Dulles told the committee the lon drmnt big four for. It is dealing with a totally dif- ei"n ministers council, ferent world situation now than Tne blockades are expected to it was a year ago. Then the li,,ed Mav 12 nd h foreign pact was only being discussed ministers are scheduled to as- but now it has been formally "m,b'e, MfY J5' , . , signed. To repudiate it now, he Wnile thl in ltlf do"n said, would Indicate a change me,n ei,h'r P,c on rth in America s viewpoint and this good wiU toward men, still lt' would make other countries move ln tne rlht direction, change their plans. In making this concession the "Out of th..." Du..e, added. tl7ZrZ- "would come a war." , , , Xhev nlve come up ,f linlt ' ' a defense which they can't pene- While this testimony was be- ' nd are being hurt; Ing given, Russia and the three , (.2) T,l)eyKm"'' ,hi.fi to ,eXhfT tactics if the Red offensive in western powers P h lB Euro ,,., t0 die whtrt New York and agreed to lift the icwrruin uui JF 3r M OTHER S DAY Mother baked two days a week In the good old days of yore. Then she found fresh Master Bread. Today she bakes no more. At your Grocer's