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4 Salem, Oregon, Friday, May 13, 1949
An Alice in Wonderland World
A man standing; in line at the butcher's counter awaiting
service the other day was preceded by a woman who flash
ed a federal check in payment. "It's good. It's from
Uncle Sam paying my husband for not working," she said.
Another Salemite who owns a farm drained a winter
time pond on a low place by the simple expedient of dig
ging a ditch. He was surprised on receiving a check from
Uncle Sam for the expense incurred for "improving the
farm."
Other federal checks are dished out by Uncle Sam to
pay farmers for not producing wheat and other crops and
reducing their yields. They also got paid for not working,
or a subsidy for utilizing the land in other crops.
Farmers are receiving millions of dollars for surplus
potatoes from generous Uncle Sam as a price far above
market price and the spuds have to be given away or de
stroyed at taxpayers' expense to uphold the parity price
of potatoes. And the same price support Is extended to
other crops to insure the farmers a profit and keep the
eost of living up in spite of the law of supply and demand.
Now Secretary of Agriculture Branan proposes a two
price system, to give consumers "a real break on food
prices and farmers a stable, fair income," using the mech
nism of government price on income to farmers. Prices
would be allowed to move, freely under influences of sup
ply and demand, but the farmer would get government
money for his loss of profit, a political device to make both
producers and consumers happy at taxpayers' expense.
No wonder the president demands a f 4 billion increase in
taxes, first on the excuse of checking inflation, now to
stimulate it. Much more than the $4 billion additional
taxes will be needed if administration plans are carried
out, for "welfare needs," socialization of medicine and
other costly programs.
Truly we live in an Alice in Wonderland world, with not
only the ctock set ahead for an hour, but government itself
many years ahead of income.
Salem Continues Business Growth
The monthly report of the Federal Reserve bank, shows
that in a period when most cities have been experiencing
declines in statistics related to business volume, Salem
registered a gain of 10 percent in the value of bank debits
in April and an increase of 6 percent during the first four
months of the year as compared with like periods of 1948.
Bank debits consist of the volume of checks handled by
banks and are considered one of the best yardsticks of
business activity, revealing that Salem continues to grow
in business and industry.
Salem's bank debits were $68,464,000 for April as
against $61,954,000 for April, 1948, and $2.19,572,000 for
tho four months compared with $226,345,000 in the same
period last year.
Portland had debits of $539,503,000 for the month com
pared with $575,943,000 for the same month last year.
For the first four months of the year Portland's debits
were $2,094,829,000 as against $2,217,592,000 last year.
Portland's figures showed declines of 6 percent for both
the month and the four-month period.
Eugene bank debits totaled $49,628,000 for the month
ompared with $50,243,000 and $175,347,000 for the four
months as against $200,676,000.
Only two other Pacific Northwest cities covered in the
report showed gains in debits, according to the reserve
bank. Walla Walla's debits were up 16 percent for the
month and 6 percent for the four months. Boise had a
6 percent gain for the month and a 8 percent increase for
the four months.
A Masterpiece of Modern Art
The best commentary on modern art in a long time is
reported in an Associated Press dispatch from Loughboro,
England, where a daub by a six-year-old artist was ac
cepted as a masterpiece for hanging by sponsors at the
local art show. Critics praised it, said the Leicester Mail
as "a fine specimen of modernism by the Barrow-on-Soar
artist, Thomas Warbis." The dispatch says:
"Artist Thomas Warbis doesn's tflke a lot of trouble over his
paintinsf.
"He makes dozens of them wilh a holrl brush or his hare
lingers ... or an old stick wth a chewed end.
"He lets his cat, Jill, pad over the fresh paint, sit on it and
swish her tail over It. (
"And while turning out his masterpiece 'Figure 8: Skegness,'
he spitted a saucer of paint on it by accident, smudged it, tried
erasing, muttered, 'Oh shucks' and let it ride."
Tommy's father Alfred, a commercial artist, said he
found Tommy's venture in modern art while looking for
packing paper to send hia own pictures to the exhibit. "I
ent the picture as a joke and a test of people's knowledge
of art," he moaned. "And to think I've been trying for 40
years to get somewhere with art."
But the organizer of the art show was not feazed. He
aid: "Iff no worse than a lot of stuff which poses as
mo iy :! art " And probably told the truth. Tommy him
self elehrated the event by trying to stand on his head
In a corner at the exhibit hall.
'Amos and Andy' Reunited
Newport, Ore., May IS (URi Amos and Andy, cub hear
rrothera, have been reunited and most of Newport's eitliens
ire feeling better.
Andy almost dlrd ( lonrsonieneaa during the three days
a was separated from his four-month-old twin brother.
Three months ago an Indian found the rubs alone, mother
less and miserable. In the wooda near Slleti. The Indian
lave them lo Walt Johnston, Newport, who put them on
lutplay In a eage at hia service atatlon.
lomeone. cut the wire of their cage and stole A mom
After three days, Amos waa returned by an Albany, Ore.,
boy.
When Amno maa returned to th eage, tha tubs greeted
larh ether with bugs.
Salesmen Have Odd Meeting
Brail, Ind. U. Two traveling salesmen, who live only
three Moras apart In SI. I, mils, met for the first time here
In a head-on collision. Neither James C Mark, who was
driving east, or George Black, who drove tha westbound ear,
svaa ajared aoftoaelir.
BY BECK
Parental Problems
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Sec. Brannan Most Unusual
Man on Truman's Cabinet
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Bald, bespectacled Charlie Brannan, author of
the much-debated farm program, is the most unusual member of
the cabinet. He is the only cabineteer who has offered to drop out
of official family it would help Oscar Chapman's chances of
become secretary of the interior. Both come from Denver, and
there s a semi-
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
att;.lT',N
precedent
against two cab
1 n e t members
coming from the
same town.
This gesture
was not grand
standing by
Bra n n a n. He
really works
doing unto oth-t
. u. ....... i.ifc
have them do
unto him. Meeting Brannan, you
would never know that he is
secretary of agriculture and head
of one ox the most far-flung agem
SIPS FOR SUPPER
True Love
By DON UPJOHN
During the night last night some discouraged soul dropped a
phonograph record and busted it almost to smithereens right at
the building entrance of our favorite paper. That is, it was all
smith ereened
except the mid
dle of the record
which bears the
title and this is
quite intriguing
reading, "1 Am
Biting My Fin
gernails and
Thinking of
You." Now it set
us wondering if
maybe some
Gervais girl
7 long and tedious flights of stairs.
ao mayoe it win an come in me
afternoon. But this won't make
much difference as under the
new plan it will be darned near
afternoon before they open for
business anyhow.
Mama Gets Mad
Philadelphia ) It is written
that "one good deed deserves an
other," Perhaps it's just that
hirritt enn't rpaH hut nmt nf
might have been by and dropped tnem sure can be ungrateful. A
white-necked crane laid an egg
on the bare ground at the zoo
the other day. It was so near a
With the county court's deci- fenc,e uthe k.eePe' ,cared me
sion to buck the daylight savings fmau boy might drop a rock on
same but we're a little too mod
est to really think it,
time fad and keep the county on
it. So, very carefully he built a
.i,j,h nm t ,t nesi, carnea ine egg lo u ana
another possible complication- Placed ' in h A
as to whether the boys and girls Wile later crane strolled over,
at the courthouse will be cut scowIcd the neat, kicked the
down to one delivery a day by egg and broke
such move As was pointed out
if the court clings to its idea Assault and battery damage
it will mean that as far as day- case in Clrcult court yesterday
light savings time is concerned 8,arled over some apples hang
the offices there won't open un- on branches extending over
til 9:30 which, however, on the Property division line. Let's
courthouse office time will still see wasn 1 11 an aPPIe that start
register 8.30. But we hear that fd a11 ,he troubles in the first
the post office is going to switch '"stance?
over to daylight savings time. In
that case the courthouse mail- Friday the 13th hadn't done
man will pass that structure any especial damage as far as
about an hour or a little less we could hear as the day ad-
before the offices open up and vanced today. But it's the only
there'll be no place to deposit one this year and maybe one
the mail or no elevator running should make the most of it while
to haul the mail carrier up the it still lingers.
Scanty Swim Suits Worry 'Doc'
Los Angeles, May 11 U.P.) Swim suits are getting so scanty that
doctors are hard pressed to put vaccinations where they won't
show.
"In another 10 years there probably will be no concealed areas
available," Dr. Milo Brooks told the California Medical association
convention yesterday. "Luckily, the scars are small with modern
techniques."
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Queer Quirks of Diplomacy
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
Porelin Affairs Anslyslt
Ynu would think that after following diplomacy's devious paths
for more than a generation, both at home and abroad, one would
become accustomed to diplomatic idiosyncrasies but your re
porter still en-
culture's shirts. This she does
herself. A maid tidies up tho
apartment twice a month, but
otherwise, the Brannans have no
servant other than the chauf
feur supplied by the govern
ment. The secretary of agriculture
also refuses to take his name
out of the phone book.
"If people want to call me
up," he told a friend, "I guess
I can answer the telephone."
To make matters worse,
Brannan's number is similar to
that of a busv aDartment house.
cies of government. He keeps and he is always getting wrong
ins nose on a level wiin oiner numbers.
men and lives down to earth. one of Brannan's secret sor
Riding to and from his office, rows is that he has no children,
he stops his government limou- But he takes a special interest
sine to give a lift to friends, and, in the three youngsters of his
unlike other Washington offi- close friend, Duane Wilson, a
cials. he seldom keeps his chauf- farm-machinery representative
feur waiting outside a party, but from Denver,
gives him the night off and Steady as a plow horse, Bran
catches a cab home. nan endeared himself to Presi-
dent Truman by stumping 'the
Courted by Washington socie- hinterlands and winning the
ty, Brannan is much more famil- farm vote for the democrats,
iar to the night watchmen at the Though a youngster In the cab
agriculture department. Almost inet, Brannan was rewarded
any evening, you can catch the with the Job of coordinating the
secretary of agriculture side- President's economic stabiliza
stepping water pails and scrub- tion program on Capitol Hill,
women on his way out of the of- This meant that other cabinet
fice. As part of this ritual, he officers had to submit their
stops at a scale near the en- speeches for Brannan's approv
trance, drops a penny in the slot, al and sit under him in commit
and checks on how much weight tee meetings. Anyone but this
he's gained Then he drops in a gentle, friendly fellow from
penny for his secretary, Miss Denver might have antagonized
Louise Nylander. (Brannan's those with more seniority, but
weight Is 195 pounds. Miss Ny- he didn't.
lander's is confidential.) Brannan's mellow manner.
The secretary and his wife however, hasn't kept him from
share a modest, one-bedroom clashing with other cabinet of
suUe at Washington's fashion- ficers over policy. He has bat
able Westchester Apartments, tied with Secretary of Corn
But it took him a long time to merce Sawyer over export con
get it. Even though secretary trols, with Secretary of Interior
of agriculture, he waited like Krug over jurisdiction, and with
anyone else, and his application ECA Administrator Hoffman
wasn't acted upon until a few about turning grain shipments
weeks after the election -s- over to private companies,
though he had been waiting Though belonging to an off
seven months. shoot of the Mormon church.
Shortly after they moved in- Brannan was reared in a Quak-
to the Westchester, Mrs. Bran- er family. After his early
nan startled the maids in the schooling, he attended Denver's
laundry room by going down Regis college and later the Uni-
to wash the secretary of agri- versity of Denver.
DENMARK HAS THE LOWEST TB DfATH yH. "
RATE IN THE WORLD. ODDSTHERL i C ' ! M
ARE 3,33) TO I IN I 'lirpiv'
rkCV'-JCV .TA are Russians listeners?
Sy JN Vi) 000S ARE 99 TO I AGAINST
w r' V A RUSSIAN FARM HAVIN6
J A RADIO. (BulLUMMt,
' yiti I W0 FEWER WOMEN
iw ARE DENTISTS AND TELEPHONE
S-va OPERATORS THIS YEAR THAN
XZr I? TEN YEARS AGO! MORE WOMEN SAILORS,
JO PAPER HANGERS AND VETERINARIANS. ,
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Public's Music Taste Alters
By HAL BOYLE
New York UP Write a hit song and there's $30,000 to $35,000
in it for you.
"And everybody in America today seems to be trying to write
a hit song ex
cept me," says
M a n i e Sacks,
the man behind
many a disc
jockey.
Manie knows
better than to
try. The odds
are too high.
As head of
artists and
repertoire for1
Columbia rec
ords, sacks selects the songs for
a firm which mints some 53,
000,000 phonograph records a
year.
Usl Boris
"They aren't interested in loud
music, jam sessions or any kind
of music that plays away from
the melody itself," he said.
"Be-bop hasn't a chance. It's
a fad. I can't understand it, and
I don't know anyone who can
explain it and make sense."
The record market is in a
slump and buyers are becoming
more selective.
"They don't just want a rec
ord anymore," Manie grinned.
"They want a production. Along
with the dance band music they
want singers or a choral group-
After a quarter century in the al Jeasl Bome exlra KmicK.
music industry, Manie, a small,
sensitive-featured man of 43, is Today any record that .sell,
convinced there is no formula to 250.000 customers is highly
for turning out a hit tune. successful. Only five or six rec-
' Anybody who tells you he ords a year make the real hit
can write a sure hit is as crazy class 1,000,000 or more. And
as a guy who says he knows they last only four to six months
how a horse race is going to at the top.
turn uuu
One of the reasons the indus
try is off is that too many aong
publishers, Manie and his assist- """" ""'"" uul "
int. lnnk .r inn , i .n . l'ke they were hosiery or cig-
Besides reviewing the grist
submitted by professional song
OPEN fORUM .
Favors Daylight Saving Time
To the Editor: Your comment on DST is probably the most
careless dismissal of a controversial issue I have ever seen on
your editorial page. It is of a piece with the usual arguments on
daylight saving all prejudice, ' '
no factual statements. their activities up to keep pace
My young son, who is ardent- with the sun. The principal dif
ly awaiting daylight saving so ference is they do it by changing
he can play ball after dinner, the time, not the clock. If you
will be glad to hear he can go ever lived on a farm, you know
to school an hour early if he the farmer who arises at six in
wishes thereby getting out an the winter will arise at five or
hour early. Likewise my boss earlier in the summer. Isn't
will be glad to know his em- this daylight saving? The trou
ployes can come to work early ble comes when we force him
if they wish, and get out early to change the clock, because
the same way. The fact that that throws him off balance,
office and school hours are set However, it does me no good
and rigid has nothing to do with to get up earlier since I cannot
it get through work until 5 o'clock
Why not recognize that day- regardless,
light saving is a way for people It is possible to present good
whose working hours are set by and reasonable cases for both
law or custom to enjoy the ad- sides of this problem. You are
vantages which farmers and entitled to take your stand
those whose hours are irregular either way. But with your
have always enjoyed? The op- stand, you are obligated to stay
position to daylight saving (and within the bounds of reason.
I sympathize with it) comes Sincerely,
from those who naturally move BILL GRANT.
arets on a mass production
basis," said Sacks.
"Men like Oscar Hammer
stein, Cole Porter or Irving Ber
lin don't work that way. It is
a matter of ego with them to
turn out really successful songs.
"So they work on them and
change them around until they
have them right.
"Berlin has 18 songs in his
counters diffi
culties.
Take, for in
stance, the case
of Spain, which
is under a total
itarian dictator
ship of the fas
c i s t brand,
headed by Gen
eralissimo Fran-
runs like this:
Two days ago Senator Tom
Connally, chairman of the sen
ate foreign relations committee,
told the senate he saw no rea
son why the United States
shouldn't send an ambassador
to Spain. He agreed with Sena
tor Brewster of Maine that
"pressure of other nations"
(Britain and France) has kept
the state department from recog
nizing the Franco regime. Sena
tor Connally said there is no in-
Just over two years ago the consistency in the opposition of
United Nations denounced this Britain and France to full recog
Spanish government and called nition, adding:
Too New Fangled
MirkfBiU
on members of the peace organ-
"They are being consistent
Ization to withdraw their dip- wth t h e Ir own objective of
lomatic heads from Madrid.
Some nations, Inrluding the
United States, Britain and
France, recalled their ambas
sadors. Others stood pat.
The other day the political
committee of the UN general
assembly adopted a resolution
to change the status of the black
list. Members would be given
full freedom as regards their
diplomatic relations with Ma
drid. This Is despite the fact
that there has been no change
in the form of Franco's re
gime. That brings us up to May
I when the U. 8. state depart-
huilding up their trade in
rope."
Eu-
Ypsterday Senator Vanden
berg, former chairman of the
committee, Joined Senator Con
nally in urging that Washington
clear the way to exchange am
bassadors with Spain.
This was followed by a state
ment from Secretary Acheson In
a news conference that Franco
Spain must go a long way to
ward restoring basic civil rights
before it can hope to be ad
mitted Into the family of free
European nations.
Many Americana of course
ment gave Spain permission to condemn the Spanish dictator-
negotiate directly with the ex- ship. Still we differentiate
port-import bank for an Amer- among these dictatorships,
lean loan. The next day Secre- Why? Are we to conclude
tary of State Acheson said this that it's matter of expediency
country had no political ohjec- rather than of principle? If ex
tions in an American govern- pedienry enters into It there
ment loan to Spain, but that are a lot of folk who recognize
the USA doesn't see how Spain that Spain not only needs to re
can qualify for such credits un- sume foreign trade relations but
til It makes fundamental eco- would be a vital military base
omit Nforma. asron at mother world war.
Helena, Ark. u.R) A Helena motorist narked his ear in
front or a parking meter and left nickel In a tobacco sack
tied to it with this note: "Here is my nickel for the parking
place. I do not know how to work this hear eontrapshun.
Will be back betour my time is up."
'Pop' Deflates Hollywood Ego
By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON
tunttrd PrtM Otsff Correspondent)
Hollywood (Pi Inflated egos hereabouts take a terrific wallopin"
every time "Pop" Backus drops in from Cleveland. Movie queent
can't impress him. He doesn't believe in 'em.
What's more, he doesn't be- pop., Jjxed m, eagl)! ye on
neve in nim,v.u, ""- u the monkey shines and then
too. And all this is a cause of gp,,,).
much frustration to his corned- Most' neHicicnt business lay-
ian son, Jim Backus, who makes out , fvn ,aw; No organilll.
a right nice living in the movies j give ,t thrM! month,."
and radio. j can't convince him I'm In
"Pop" (his friends know him the movies, either," Jim
better as R. G. Backus) has a groaned. "I've made five In the
business back home selling 10- past year but they're all un-
story sewage-disposal inits to released. Pop says where are
city governments for $850,000 they?
each. But he comes out periodi- "He says: 'Save all those lies
cally to check up on Jim. for your Mom. She'll believe
And. dutiful son that he is, m. Now. tell me . , . are you
Jim tries to show him a good in trouble' Do you need
time. He introduces him to all money?' "
the movie stars. All "Pop" aaya "Pop" can rattle off the names
Is: "Greer Garson? Who's she?" of every burlesque queen acrosa
"We took him to one of the the country. But Esther Wil-
swankiest restaurants In town." liams was just "pretty girl
Jim sighed. "It was loaded with who looks nice in a bathing suit"
celebrities. Mom was really to him.
livin' but Pop Just squinted at "He met her dozens of times,
Clark Gable Jimmy Stewart went to her house, had dinner
Spencer Tracy Joan Craw- with her," Jim shrugged. "We
ford . . . and says: 'Never heard told him who she was. But it
of 'em.' " never hit him."
Jim pulled a few strings and The only movie star "rop"
wangled the old gent a deluxe ever heard of was Lana Turner,
tour of the biggest studio In the But he even gets nixed up on
world. her. Calls her "Lena."
ants look over 100 to 150 songs
by amateurs each week.
"Only one or two a year by
unknown writers turn out to be
worth recording," he said,
A current example is "Riders
In the Sky," written by a west
ern forest ranger and popular
ized by Burl Ives, the folk sing
er. "The ranger ought to make
$30,000 from it," said Manie. next musical show, 'Miss Lib-
"Anyway, he can quit looking erty.' He did at least eight of
for fires." them five times over, lyrics as
Sacks has noted a distinct well as music. He never tries
change in the public's music to make quantity take the place
tastes since the war. of quality."
Time to Call Skunk a Skunk
Washington (U.R) It's high time fur coat makers be required to
call a rabbit a rabbit and a skunk a skunk, the federal trade
commission said today.
The commission's views on the fur labeling situation were pre
sented to a house interstate commerce subcommittee by Henry
Miller, director of the bureau of trade practice conferences.
Rabbit fur is sold under more than 50 names, none of which
call tt rabbit, Miller said. Among the names are Arctic Seal,
Beaverette, Marmetine, Hudseal, Chapchillas, Visonette and Musk
ratine. Skunk, he said, is called Just about everything but skunk. It's
referred to as dipped Martin, black Marten, Alaska Sable, and
sometimes even Civet cat.
Plain old muskrat is sold as Hudson Seal, Brook Mink, Water
Mink, River Sable, Hudsonia, and so forth.
The use of such names, he said, makes it easy to deceive the
consumer and places the reputable manufacturer and merchant
at a disadvantage in meeting competition of less scrupulous busi
less rivals.
The committee has before it bills introduced by Reps. Joseph
P. O Hara, (D., Minn.), and George G. Sadowski, (D., Mich.),
which would require fur processors to label and advertise their
products so that buyers will know what they are.
GREYHOUND fares
Roeeburg $!.$( Los Angeles $13.9t
Klamath Falls 4.5$ Coos Bay S.6t
San Francisco (.7$ Seattle 4.3$
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