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BY BECK
Popular People
4
Salem, Oregon, Monday, May 9, 1949
A West German Republic
A constitution for the new west German republic, demo
cratic, unarmed and pledged to peace, patterned after that
of the Weimar republic and containing safeguards against
the rise of another Hitler, has been adopted, 53 to 12, by
the constitutional assembly at Bonn after 250 days of
drafting, and rushed to the three military governors for
approval.
The constitution was opposed by some state righters,
centrists and all communists. The adoption was four
years to a day after nazi Germany surrendered. It must
go to the various German state legislatures for ratifica
tion after approval by American, British and French mili
tary governors.
The new constitution, of 145 articles, provides for a
western German government headed by an elected presi
dent and a chancellor, or prime minister. The president's
term will run five years. There will be a two-chamber legis
lature. The lower house of 450 members will be elected
for four-year terms. The upper house of 50 members will
be elected by the governments of the 11 west German
states.
A 19-article section on basic rights guarantees freedom
of the press, religion and speech and safeguards the liber
ties of the individual.
The fundamental law of west Germany, as set up by
the new constitution, marks an historic changeover to
democracy. It:
1. Calls for a democratic, federal republic to govern the west
ern zones' 46,000,000 inhabitants until a government can be
formed for all Germany.
2. Paves the way for general parliamentary elections in the
three western zones.
3. Makes the plotting of aggressive war a punishable offense.
There is no provision for an army. No one neither the presi
dent nor parliament has power to declare war.
4. A bill of rights guarantees racial, lingual and religious
equality. Freedom of press, religion and assembly is pledged.
Censorship is forbidden.
5. The death penalty is forbidden in the land where the
headman's axe, the hangman's noose and concentration camp
guard's bludgeons took uncounted lives during the nazi era.
The new federal government like America's will have only
such powers as are not reserved to the states.
The door is left open for the Russian zone to join the
new state if free elections take place in Soviet controlled
east Germany, where the communists plan an "all-German
government" and oppose a western state. No mention is
made in the final document of the reservations made by
the Big 8 at Washington April 8 when they agreed to the
proposed republic.
Whethpr the Germans, accustomed for centuries to mon
archy and under Hitler to totalitarianism, really want de
mocracy or are fitted for it, remains to ba seen. The Wei
mar test was not decisive.
Remembering Vanporr
A disaster of a year ago and an event of last week tie to
gether. The two amount to a case of result and precaution.
The calamity of Vanport last May showed the need for
coordination of local units to meet a disaster. It so hap
pened that the Vanport flooding could have been even
worse if certain disaster precautions had not already been
taken immediately prior to the breaking of the river wall
at the community on the Columbia river. Units and
groups in the Portland area had been briefed only the day
before in what steps should be taken if and when a disas
trous flood should strike the general area. .
It so happened, however, that in Marion county steps
had already been taken at that time by Fire Chief Roble to
organize some kind of a mutual assistance pact to be put
Into action in case of a dire emergency in the county. The
Vanport flood showed how right Chief Roble was in having
started action in anticipation of such an emergency.
The Marion county disaster groun. comDleted last week.
Is designed to offer men and equipment throughout the
section here to meet the threat of any kind of a widespread
emergency situation. It amounts lo the working out of a
plan of action and a commitment of men and tools in case
of disaster. ,
Forward-type of thinking, such as indicated by this par
ticular program, is certainly commendable. Each of the
25 cities, towns and rural fire districts in the county have
reason to feel better about any future threat of disaster.
U ( THIS IS THE SIZE OP HOUSE I'M LOOKIN6 yrJSi-
V, V F0R' BuT THS ONE IS TOO OLD AND .-rSy -
, S.DRAB. f REALIZE A PERSON ; .
, " S I WITH TASTE COULD IMPROVE IT 1 '"l
3 f i T A LOT WITH THE PROPER f '
Jn k.Ji TOUCHES... BUT ITS so . , ,
, mm rn oowov id hate to v?"" vi?
i UNDERTAKE IT-' ''i'' WAjW
lr S JGlz APTER BREAKING YOUR BACK
.gS PRETTYING UP THE HOUSE FOR S"
VlS ' 5 A PROSPECTIVE PURCHASER gF
K. s- , L you overhear her reactiom Jjj
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Russia Is Getting Advice
To Form German Alliance
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Biggest question mark in the minds of every
diplomat is whether the Russians have merely got soft tempo
rarily or have made a major policy shift toward long-term co
operation with the rest of the world.
No diplomat, to date, dares venture a definite answer. However,
uncensored reports from Ger- "
many gives one significant clue tute, while in the background
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Two Timing Again
By DON UPJOHN
Our Aurora correspondent writes of an interesting situation
which has arisen at Canby because of the decision of the city
council there to keep the city on standard time and ignore the
daylight savings
time movement
in other cities.
She writes that
because of the
council's move
the Canby bak
cry is now oper
ating on two
schedu 1 e s. In
order to con
form to the offi
cial edict as laid
down by the
which may reveal part of the
answer.
Recently the Russians have
been getting advice from Rud
olf Nadolny, former German am
bassador to Russia. Nadolyn is
not a commun
ist, is a German
of Hun garian
extraction, and
a disciple of
Bismark, who
always favored
close coopera-
Germany lnd
Nadolyn's ad
vise to Moscow
has been to cut
3Th
Drew reartM
is multimillionaire Fritz B.
Burns, biggest west coast build
er and former 'president of Na
tional Home Builders.
However, California congress
men would be even more amaz
ed of they knew how the folks
are being used by the "Commit
tee for Home Protection.
Here is how the lobby op
erates: Committee agents approach
citizens on the street, give them
a "facts sheet," containing ten
cample telegrams denouncing
public-housing legislation, and
ask them to select one, copy it
on a telegram blank provided
by the lobby's agent, and sign it.
oi'T L.U6H OFF STjl
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A NO 19 SPEND AN AV- j. S T ' VW DO.
P6E 3WECKLy JT
POCKET MONEY ' . iCH S
tiMAn Ohio, askcb fT IF V0U DRINK TJ JJVKj
this - thamx) T0 MUCH-ITS V A
r I CAN'T BLAME WUZhiT't)4ti
J1 T 1L F0REFATHERS-4OX ZjlTjL
OF ALCCOUCS p
-fraWftrg-) a I Vi - '
, 7 , w ' IT When twentV such "canned
talk softly to the West while telegrams havey bee collected,
simultaneously strengthening h are sem to member
Russian-German ties. congress. The latter assumes the
" " telegrams are legitimate mes
If Moscow extends the olive from the voter ba
, . . .. branch to Western Europe and
the same street going the other the UnUed states Nadolny is In addition to the "facts
way- reported to have advised, west- sheet," which lobby agents hand
Countv Engineer Hedda Swart ern opinion will be lulled and th public, they also have
today was discussing with the Congress will not appropriate. a" m""n w.n1
... . .1. ... f,inrf for the North Atlantic tney are very careful not to
hand out. These confidential in
structions are a dead give away.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
A Mother's Love
By HAL BOYLE
Detroit, W) There is a Mother's Day, and there art days that
mothers remember
And they aren't at all necessarily the same days.
This is why it is so hard to arbitrarily pick a day to honor
mothers.
county court the matter of re- ull funds for the North Atlantic
placing an old wooden span on pact.
the Stayton intercounty bridge In addition, Nadolny also met
with the old steel bridge from with German leaders last month
the penitentiary road which the and gave them significant advice
county awhile back acquired that Germany's future lay with
from the (lata fni that nnrmM T u W.nl.u iiimI
He proposed to set up the steel it up was reported to be about "an who has absolutely no
,na inniH. (h. m ,h r,i..... ' connection with the building or
This is what they say:
"1. Select your prospect. Get
city council the front part of the nW. "Hll "
real-estate business. This is a
'grass roots campaign'; so look
bakery which i, the C one' vesne parts, put on tne ,nere is Russia can
will operate on standard time I ". "Vf .if dv for 01.- give far more 10 GermaI,y than for laborers, white-collar work-
wnue its back shoo crew will . n-u ,u- "ij tne aiues xor iwo reasuns
i . ,. . , .. Iljllk. ihcu me uiu suaii wuum
ers, veterans, housewives, small-
Because, the
day that you
most honored
your mother,
wasn't n e c e s -sarily
a certain
Sunday in May.
The day she1
remembers you
most for, is the
day she bore
you.
A son who has
been success
LAID
Hal BorU
observe daylight savings time. be replaced by the simple proc- 1. She controls Silesia and can shop keepers people in the
niSJat!er l dne l0- enale, de" ess o' removing the wooden span return middle 8nd lower " income
nrnH carrvln8 bakery and ,iipping the new one in 2. Britian and the U.S.A. are brackets.
naUr.UL dJ0'nlng Cltlef. t0 place on rollers. "And if I can't hungry for markets. If there is "2. Show your prospect your
schedule, Wond "uo" 'the 51 Z be no war this competition for mar- hee.
clerk, in the front endn.eevVry. 7 .JIThSSJ L become kee""' nd "'"f
r ger.nXrlc0onhsfKk tPt ZSSZSSi. declf: Britian and the U.S.A. will keep , -JS
bakeo : eoodi will 'h. ?.il k lnK' ncw paint and a11' and even Germany an agrarian state. argument and state that in a
watch an hour .heaS to ?vl Including the rollers. We'd like Meanwhile Russia has ample maximum of 25 words. Included
connections? V' h' "Vt Ta"8 h? "-rkets in China and offer, no in this message should be ,
. ad 'or our FT & BA. Hedda, statement of his occupation or
The malteT:. n u Wh " WeU PMt the middle age competlt,on Gea,n , affiliation, such as: 'I am a bus
h Mhe ri i JLZ I be ne braCket' na' been wearin n the other hand: there ' driver,' -I am a housewife,' 'I
lor tne city council here to pon- clackers since he was 17 years war, Nadolny said he had posi- veteran . etc
der over tonight as well, and old and there's nobody In the tive assurance that Germany ' . .
maybe they should inquire of organization so well equipped to would be spared. The Red army, .. ' Get your prospect to s gn
the bakeries before finally shoot- masticate a steel bridge w i t h he promised, would advance ei- n'l'
ing the work,. concrete decki and new , t ther" thr0 Norwa or ItaIy. both the name and address is
as he. We'd kinda like to see Therefore close German-Russian Yfn 11 vS
It ems that some of the him slip up by a few minutes on cooperation was essential. a h
folks who are opposing the Bal- that moving Job because that nVsult was the stiff position LVeS h" dlSt,r,1Ct- l?1?
dock plan would like to have the would give him a real acid test taken bv Western German lead" the camPaln Jhc' obby head-
2oour?hyewPaUyZte " " " 3 ltTh
5S5 rldd,'01 W We"' th" we're heading JTTof " ""X
VJ'" IKS: "0 ZJSi '-nd your fe.egram to the
',l"eL'"g one uwav and "l l 'verybody can make the worst concessions that the Western campaign office. Send your tele-
German charter of government 'h,rllla lm,...i
to Frederick C. Dockweiler,
the traffic on the other side of of it.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
'China's Position Like That
Of Allies in '17 Hu Says
finally was accepted.
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
() Foreign Attain Analyst)
Chairman, Committee for Home
PHONY TELEGRAM LOBBY Protection, 672 West Washing-
. .. . ... ton Boulevard, Los Angeles IS.
Not since the holding-com- Hcre it wi be chccked and
pany fight of 1935, when the fiied for delivery in Washington,
private utility lobby bombard- ,4
ed Congress with telegrams sign- Do" ' orry "either J
ed with names from a telephone ror the. Prospect knows the
directory, has Capitol Hill been ""r
sometimes jealous mother.
The newer psychology says
fathers are fondest of their
daughters and mothers of their
sons, and that sons turn most to
their mothers for love and
and daughters to their fathers.
While this may be essentially
trus. it is a one-sided view of
f family relationships.
A rent son. loved as he is hv
his mother, turns inevitably to
his father, the man he wants
to equal or better. And the
ful from the world's point of daughter, apple of her father's
view would also like to think eye,, similarly will break her
his mother remembered him heart to win her mother's love,
from the day he did something Because, finally, her basic prob
that made him famous with the Iem in life is the same as her
neighbors. She does, of course, mother's was to bend a strange
But that isn't necessarily the creature, man, to her will,
day he honored her most. It Motherhood Is the strangest
might much more have been a industry on earth. It is based on
day years before when, in re- responsibility that demands no
sponse to her teaching or her reward.
yearning, he made a decision a father often loses himself
that changed his life in a man- ln the world and its problems,
ner that shaped it in the way or tries to. This is harder for a
she wanted him to go. woman. Whether her children
I am not too sure how girl are present or absent, each day
children feel about their moth- she thinks of them individual
ers. Nor am I sure about how ly. And their problems are her
mothers feel about girl children, chief problems.
I think that generally, however, A man likes to flatter himself
girl children are much more he makes his own mark In the
loyal and soft-hearted toward world. A woman is smarter,
mothers than mothers are to she knows that a seed pod is
them. more than any one plant. She
Once girl children have gone realizes that her weapon for re
through parenthood themselves known is posterity her chil
they are very likely to realize dren.
the problems of their own Woman h the true phoenix,
mothers. And they are more She is born and reborn, dies and
likely to appreciate them. lives, flames or fails as her off-
I think it is very normal for spring do.
a son to be favored by his moth- On Mother's Day we only for
er yet himself to want most to malize what a woman Is doing
impress his father. And it is all the time lighting another
equally normal for a daughter candle to life. And each man
to be idolized by her father hopes his own mother never
and "yet ache from her heart regrets she didn't blow his out
to win admiration from her the hour it flared.
Your columnist has encountered an unusual analysis of China s deluged with so many phony ca"Pa'8n "'ce will check the
crisis, by an interesting personalilyDr. Hu Shih, Chinese phil- telegrams and letters as in the address and e that it goes to
osopher, educator and diplomat who was ambassador in Wn.h. n.rrent rfriv. acainst nublic the proper man. For your gen-
UfUitl Mifkrtula
TORIES IN LIFE
Youngsters Likt Teaching Job
Forest Grove. May I lT Second grade pupils of Central
IT. miliar school here are teaching a fellow pupil, nine-year-old
Jeaa Ch en, daughter of a Chlnax profeaaor at Paciric univer
sity. Jean entered the srhool several weeks a so. aha anetn't
speak, read or write English.
Mrs. Eileen Bauar touldn't devote lull Hmt to the new
nmer, so other second graders who have finished their lessons
tit down with their aew classmate and help.
"It's worked out fine," Mrs. Bauer reports. 'They've taught
her more than I ever oould. The rest of the elass looks with
nvy upon those who get to help her. It's considered juitt an
honor."
When the youngsters and Mrs. Bauer get stumped on ex
plaining something about the lesson, Jean takes home a nolo
from the teacher. Dr. thsng-Ye Ch en then translates for his
slaughter.
One-Time Orphon to Repay Debt
Chicago UR Morris J. Goldsteia bought a towa in Arisoaa
serause he wants to repay his debt to aeople everywhere.
Goldstein plana to change the town's present name of Bum
blebee to Chicago. He la going to ate the towa site as a low
east resort for needy fellow Chkagoans.
A onetime resident of aa orphan' home, he says he knows
what It la like to need a vacation while lacking Hit money to
tor one.
Ington in 1938
42.
The distin
guished Dr. Hu?
has just arrived
in New York
from his home
land on a tour
to study the
world situation,
and I had a chat
with him in hi;
apartment over
a cup of tea
which he himself brewed.
I asked him what he thought
of the testimony before the sen
ate armed services committee
by General Claire Chennault
who aaid America still could
save China (and Asia) from
rommtinist control by assistance
costing about $1,000,000 a day.
"I'm not a military expert,"
replied Dr. Hu, "and am not
qualified to pasa judgment on
that eetlmate. Of course, ma
terial aid is needed hut I don't
believe the exact amount of
help matter nearly so much
aa would the moral aunport
of America.
"That'a the great thing the
aamiranre that the t'niled
fttatra ia with us.
"I tan tell you now that the
collapse of the Nanking govern
ment resulted from the repoits
that the United States could do
nothing more for China.
"Such news spreads rapidly
in my country. You mustn't
forget that at least 50.000 of
our intellectuals were educated
In the United States. (Dr. Hu
himself Is a graduate of Cornell on the enthuaiaam nf manv who nr.mn'1 .Ifnrt In holt., tk. i
and has honorary degrees from would have come to the open- Ing conditions of mental pa
many American universities). in, there were some 1800 peo- tients.
The doctor emphasized all pi that visited the hospital dur-
this with never-ceasing gestures n( the two-day open house. We
of his very expressive hands, think this shows quite a healthy
I pointed to the very grave
military position of the nation
alist forces in face of the great
communist drive, and asked Dr.
Hu if he felt the nationalists
atill had a chance to w in.
He nodded, and said:
"As I see It. our position is
no worse today than it was
that of say France and Belgium
after they mere invaded by the
housing.
Germans in the late war. Both One of the lobby's most in
of these countries were over- genious schemes is being work
run by the enemy. Their posi- ed on California congressmen by
tions were as desperate as could an organization with the high
be. But the people didn't lose sounding name. "Committee for
their courage. Home Protection." Congress
"Why?" nien may not realize it, but this
"Because they knew the allied 's merely a front for the power
powers would stand by them, ful National Association of Home
And, in due course, the Germans Builders.
were evicted. Its general chairman, Freder-
"I believe the Nationalist Ick C. Dockweiler, also happens
cense isn't lost. We still can to be general counsel of the Los
win " Angeles Home Builders Insti-
Laugh Themselves Into Jail
Des Moines (A Two 18-year-old youths giggled them
selves right into 60-day jail terms here.
The pair had pleaded guilty to charges of drinking beer on
a srhool playground and dlstrublng the peace.
Municipal Judge Ralph Moore fined them 125 on each
charge.
A few minutes later, while a third youth was testifying In
the ease, they burst into laughter.
Judge Moore changed the sentence to seven days in jail on
earb charge.
Still later the pair began to chuckle again.
The judge then gave the maximum 30 days on each charge
and said: "Let's see yon laugh that off."
OPEN FORUM
Interest in State Hospital
To the Editor: I wish to express my appreciation to you for the
publicity you gave the hospital in announcing the opening of
our new treatment building.
ln spite of the rain, which
had quite a dampening effect Interest of the local citizenry in
map re
produced on the reverse side of
this sheet lists our Southern
California Delegation."
tCoprrttht ltlt)
FIV
and gel thtr
4 times
as fast, m
C. E. BATES, M D.
Superintendent
Oregon State Hospital.
An Honest Man for Diogenes
New Rruswlrh, N. J. i" Diogenes, the crusty old Greek
philosopher, searched all over the place for an honest man.
He should have gone to Rutgers university.
Yesterday a crisp dollar bill was pinned to a "Lost and
Found" notice on a campus bulletin board. The notice read:
"Found In telephone booth. Loser please take."
At laal report, the dollar bill was atill there.
and your bast dollar
buy 1$ whan you fly
SAM FRANCISCO
i'U hours
LOS ANGELES
6Vt hours
And "AU THI I AST"
Airport Tarminol
Coll Soltm 2-2455
Or, an tffctxnW frt
I
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(EUIflE?
X The dollars In the savings bank
Xgg,. Make tome folks feel tuite
wealthy
f But we ll lake lots of Mailer
M bread
And continue ta be healthy.