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4 Salem, Oregon, Friday, May 27, 1949
it View With Dismay
' A nationwide canvas of students, deans and place
ment directors on the campuses of more than 60 univer
sities and colleKes conducted by the magazine Fortune
reveals that only 2 percent of seniors graduating this June
have any intention of going into business themselves. The
desire of the graduates is for "security," which they hope
to find in jobs with big not little business.
"What the men of '49 don't want is risk," Fortune re
veals. "The class of '49 (most mature and responsible in
U.S. college history) wants to work for somebody else
preferably somebody big. No longer is small business the
promised land. From the huge metropolitan universities
to the small-town campuses the men of '49 everywhere
seem haunted by the fear of a recession. The principal
criterion of the job-seeking senior is now the question of
longevity. How well protected is the firm with a cash
reserve? Is its product depression-proof?
The survery reveals that only in the southwest did a
large number of seniors want to start their own enter
prises, go into business independently and little evidence
was found that any sizable number are joining big busi
ness with the idea of preparing themselves for a later
fling of their own. "The relationship is to be for keeps."
Big money ambitions too were limited to the southwest.
Speculations among the '49's as to how much money they
may make 20 or H0 years hence, rarely surpass $10,000
a year. Fortune adds :
"In terms of the Good Life, however, they are most articu
late. This life is, first of all, calm and ordered. Basically, the
senior wants a good wife; a comfortable home, about three chil
dren, one or two cars and later, perhaps, a summer cottage."
The "Good -Life" also means a "worthwhile" vocation, and this
in turn seems to mean "service to others." The seniors' desire
to serve may account in part for the phenomenal recent popu
larity of careers in personnel work. Neither the ministry nor
government service are attracting great numbers of college men."
This changed attitude on the part of college graduates
may be due to the era of depression in childhood, ferment
over economic security questions in their adolescence, and
the war, which conditioned them to regimentation. In
big business they spell security, a socialization by big
business instead of government, which is as much of a
mirage as the welfare state.
The results of this survey are most dismaying. It indi
cates that college youth have lost the spirit of the pioneer,
the enterprise, the initiative, the daring, the industry,
the vision, and self reliance that has made. America great.
Practically every one of the present great industries and
great fortunes had originally small beginnings and grew
because of the capacity and resource of the original
founder who knew how to use his brains and met emer
gencies courageously, fought regimentation and preferred
a dynamic economy to a static one.
The college graduates of today are supposed to be trained,
for tomorrow's leadership, but it seems probable that with
the "security first" complex, leadership will revert, as in
the "good old days," to those without benefit of. college,
men of natural force short on theory and ideology but
long on brains and common sense, and hence prevent a
national decadence that has. stalemated so many civiliza
tions in the past.
Army Engineer Changes
Oregon and the entire northwest will regret the depar
ture of Col. Theron D. Weaver, division engineer for the
army engineers since 1946 who has been reassigned over
seas in the Kurneaii command.
Col. Weaver has long been familiar with the develop
ment problems of the northwest and the Willamette Val
ley basin project. He served as district engineer of the
Bonneville district from 1937 to 19H9 during construc
tion of the dam.
During World War II he was deputy director, produc
tion division of the army service forces with the rank of
hrigadier general and in 1944 went overseas to direct
operation in the G-4 section of SHARK of production
of petrolium, oil and lubricants. At the end of hostilities
he was given the job of getting battered C.erman industries
back uto production.
CrS. ). K. Walsh, who has been selected to succeed
Weaver, has been in direct charge of the development
of the Willamette Valley project. He is well qualified to
take over the top position in the army engineer setup
for the northwest.
He served overseas during World War II in the South
west Pacific area and became district engineer for the
Portland district in January, l0-1fi.
The progress in the building of the dams in the Wil
lamette Valley project will not suffer in the hands of Col.
Walsh.
Pickle Champion Crowned
Chicago l"" Attractive, Persian-horn Martha Collins wore
the crown or Hit quern of plrklrs today as plrkle parkera from
all over the rnunlry kicked off the first national plrkle week.
Hill pirklri In kegi anil Jars adorned the banquet stage
here she was crowned last night. Mr. and Mrs. Dill I..
Firklr, Mr. and Mrs. Oltn pill, l.oult Harhiirger, Henry Frank
furter, and Mrs. and Mrs. John Mustard formed her court.
The plrkle packers nanird mil Plrkle, a 4 ynr nlrt Rolling
Fork, Miss., grnrrry clerk whn rata and sells plrklrs, as their
man of distinction. Last year they nanird him man of the year.
YOUR FIRST GAME OF THE
SEASON. AND YOU JOIN UP
WITH THREE VETERANS WHOVE
BEEN PLAYING ALL WINTER
DOWN SOUTH.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Post Office in Cow Pasture
Kept Open by Political Pull
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Lilypons. Md., a post office literally in a Mary
land cow pasture, from which the famous opera linger, Lily Pons,
mails her Christmas cards every year, has been kept open by
the post office department St a cost of about $5,000 a year
thanks to political pressure. - "
office should be discontinued,"
concludes the report, "inasmuch
as it would not work s hardship
on the two companies and it
would save the department
money." r
In other words, the goldfish
company not only got the bene
fit of a private post office, but
was paid $300 a year rent by
Uncle Sam and $960 a year for
truck hire, on top of which
George Liecester Thomas, Jr.,
one of the owners of the firm,
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
A wk
Drew Ptr
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Will the Commies Be Able
To Feed Shanghai People
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
i jtt Forelm Aftttrj Anaim.
The communist picture of the great international port of Shang
hai is a further demonstration of the power behind the Red
offensive which is sweeping southward in China, but it is a
which
victory
may prove to
be a mixed
blessing.
The question
immedia t e 1 y
irises as to how
the conquerors Ji
are going iu
feed the popu-ggr
lation in this
fourth largest
city of the
world.
It takes a lot of doing under
the best of circumstances to
provide for some 6.000.000
souls. And the circumstances
surrounding this vast metropol
is now are far from "best."
DcWIlt Mftckenili
Presumably the communists
will have to purchase supplies
in foreign countries from pri
vate sources and move mighty
fast in doing it. In that con
nection, while ECA Is barred
from trading with the commun
ists, there is nothing to prevent
the Reds buying from private
sources in the United States,
provided those sources want the
business.
Apropos of the continued
communist successes in China,
the United States is urging all
nations with direct interests in
the far east to agree on a com
mon policy toward the Chinese
Before the present crisis communist regime, and not to
Shanghai was fed under an ar- grant official recognition hast-
rangement with the American ily. Washington has taken this
economic cooperation adminis- matter up with more than a
tration. The administration pro- dozen nations, but the chief
vided half the food required, concern of U. S. leaders is for
and the Chinese nationalist gov- unity of action between Bri-
ernment undertook to get the tain and America,
other half, buying it from the There are indications that
Asiatic rice-growing countries Britain wishes to reach a modus
like Burma, and from the coun- vivendi for areas which the
tryside near Shanghai. Chinese communists now con-
trol. She is said to lean to a
The ECA has had a great re- policy of giving de facto recog-
sponsibility in the feeding of nition to the government which
Shanghai, and still has on hand actually is running the country,
close to $50,000,000 which con- such recognition of course
gress has authorized it to spend merely being acknowledgment
for China during the current of the fact without putting s
year. However, the ECA has stamp of approval on the gov-
worked under a basic policy ernment.
precluding the expenditure of HoWever. Britain appears to
this money to assist communist- be a(!reed tnat ,uch recogI)ition
held areas. Therefore, unless ,hould be madeon common
there is some change in this basi As malter of acti it
policy, ine supplies must now Jeems likel that lhe Unjted
Nations would enter into any
ECA has figured on .., rhinos ror-nonilinn All
maintaining a 30-day supply of in al, chin, is , member of the
food and fuel oil in Shanghai. bi five natjon, America, Rus
Nolhing has gone into the city sia Britairli Krance and china.
during the past week, owing to Therefore none of the powers
the Red seige, and so there may wou)d be expected to rush head
be about a three-week supply lonK lnt0 recognition of a com.
on hand. munist government.
After that-what? Even if So ,ar " Ameri" ' concern
the ECA continued to function, ed. Secretary of State Acheson
the task of securing sufficient is quoted as stating to a con
food would be terrific, especial- gressional committee that the
ly in view of crippled communi- United States wouldn't recog
calions. Should Shanghai get nize any Chinese communist re
realy hungry, the situation gime so long as a nationalist
would be appalling. government continued to exist.
halt.
The
No private in
dividual person
gets his mail at
Lily pons. It
serves one gold
fish company
no one else.
Local citizens
have petitioned
the government
to have the post..
office closed j
Yet it is kept
open thanks to
the mysterious influence of served for a time as postmaster.
Maryland senators cnieiiy Mil- At first lhe Maryland senators
lard Tydings. made no objection to closing this
Reason for this waste is not post office in a cow pasture,
the famed opera singer who Then suddenly the Thomases,
mails her Christmas cards from owners of the goldfish company,
Lilypons. She has nothing to retained Francis Petrott, close
do with the case, probably friend of Senator O'Conor, and
doesn't even know about it. William Storm, close friend of
What happened was that the Senator Tydings. This was ap
two men who own the goldfish proximately nine months ago.
company hired two attorneys Since then the official recom
close to Senators Tydings and mendation of the post office de
O'Conor. Prior to that, the two partment, plus the protests of
senators seemed quite willing to many taxpayers in the vicinity
close the post office. But after have been ignored,
their bosom friends were re- Lilypons, Md., still remains
tamed, suddenly they didn t open,ometimes receiving only
though Senator O'Conor says he live piece, o( mail , day
merely attended a meeting in
Tydings' office and is not par
ticularly interested. A hot backstage row over
The story sounds fantastic but statehood for Alaska and Hawaii
illustrates certain points set has the house rules committee
forth by the Hoover commission ln a tizzy.
recently regarding post office Republican members, led by
waste and subsidies. The Lily- Ohio's Clarence Brown, have
pons post office appears to be served notice on Chairman
such a subsidy to the Three Adolph Sabath of Illinois, demo
Springs Fisheries company. crat, that they will block action
on statehood for Alaska, which
normally votes democratic, un-
What happened was that last less Sabath also agrees to act on
fall post office inspectors re- statehood for Hawaii, which is
ported that this post office in a controlled by the G.O.P.
Maryland cow pasture should be Republicans contend that if
closed. , Alaska is to have two democratic
"The Lilypons post office senators, then Hawaii is entitled
serves no patrons except the to two republican senators.
Three Springs Fisheries and the Statehood for both territories
Thomas Supply company," was promised in the democratic
states the official report. "Mail platform, but Sabath evinces lit
is not received for any other tie interest in Hawaii. In this
firms or persons. The employees he is privately supported by
of the companies number only Speaker Sam Rayburn. For the
ten, and the employees do not two democratic leaders haven't
live at Lilypons. forgotten how the republicans
"At this season of the year, rammed a Hawaiian statehood
incoming mail to the firms at bill through the house in the
Lilypons is small in amount, 80th congress with no thought
sometimes only five pieces are of Alaska. Later the bill died
received. During the peak sea- in the senate,
son about 100 pieces of mail are Meantime, rules committee
received daily. Mail dispatched dixiecrats, led by Georgia's
varies according to the season Gene Cox, are opposed to
of the year and the amount of Hawaii supposedly because of
advertising being done, but will communist influence in the
average about 75 pieces. islands. Ironically, the commu-
"Discontinuance of the post nists' chieI propaganda weapon
office at Lilvpons will not work is th refusal of congress to
any hardship on the Three rant promised statehood. And
Springs Fisheries or the Thomas the reason for dmecrat op
Supply company. It will, of P""n the fear that Hawaii
course, be necessary for them would !end Japanese-Americans
to receive and dispatch mail at K f..'.
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Planned Dazzling Wedding
Fades Into "B" Production 4
By HAL BOYLE
New York VP) There sounds the music of s thousand gongs.
It comes from an ancient temple, so worn by time that It ll
now slightly smaller than the Empire Slate building.
The temple fTO-ST! suddenly out of the darkness
stands in the , S Tk. Tt : m'nnn tminprf dnves. With
, . W ' Ht - - -- -
middle of
clearing In a
mysterious jun
gle. The time is
midnight. Great
s e a r c h 1 1 ghts
cross and re
cross the sky.
and their tre
mendous rays
rebuke the far
thest stars.
Hl Bt1
tender beaks they seize Misi
Hayworth's robes. In a soft tum
ult of winds they waft her to
Prince Aly's side on his jewel
studded throne atop the ele
phant. The gongs beat louder. Fronr
the temple's mouth emerges i
wizened high priest, 101 yean
old. Behind him trail 99 templi
virgins swinging censers, fronr
which rise the scents of rarcs'
Adamstown, 3.2 miles away, or
Meanwhile, Joseph Farring-
thrn.,w thi AHomc..,n ,..'.-,,1 ton, Hawaii's G.O.P. delegate to
carrier 1.2 miles awav, and the congress, points out that state
company will be deprived of hood wuld be ' vote of fon
rent and the mail messenger al- f'dence ' causing many workers
lowance; the former amounts to
$300 a year, and the latter to lca,d"' . . . , .
$960 a year, contract for which . NTE7"Jn,s,,dei L"?! ?, u
is held by Thomas Fisheries, inc. "tehood bills for both Alaska
It is necessary, however, for the and H.awali W'U d'f in the le
Three Springs Fisheries to dis- committee unless they are fore
patch truck or other vehicle Id out bv "''charge petition,
to Adamstown every dav for the Evn me of the strongest, lib
purpose of shipping their fish eral, champions of the Truman
by express platform are now saying that
. ."' . , , ., Alaska is "too small" to have
'The department is of the tw0 lenatorI,
opinion that the Lilypons post icopvthm m
. , i . i . i n ,,i
aduui me irmpic buismb incense,
crowd of 3.000.001 peasants clad The giant eiephant kneels. H.
in loin cloths and flowing sans. pu)s out nis trunk. Gently hi
Wild beasts prowl and cry in mts lhe old prjest (o ni, head
the jungle. Sweeping his long white bearc
There is the whish of a sud- aside with a majestic air, thi
den leap and the thud of paw wrinkled priest intones:
on flesh. "Dost thou, Prince Alv. taki
-Ee-e-e-e-e-ow-w-w-w-w-w!' Riu ,0 be thy wedded wife?"
screams the victim as the tiger lt j, thus that the potentate-to
drags its prey back into the jun- and his movie queen shouIe
gle. The crowd is now reduced be married. Only in this man
tc 3,000,000 but no one leaves. ner could they satisfy the wor
All eyes watch two six-lane ,hipful subjects of each,
roads that lead to the temple en- But what has happened t
trance. The roads are covered the mysterious East and Holly
with Persian carpets 18-inches wood, both hit by hard times'
thick. The scions of these two glamoi
Down one road comes a pro- belts arranged to be married
cession of 999 elephants in silk in a Franch City hall by a com
trappings. On the lead elephant, munist mayor wearing a new
which wears a 369-carat ruby blue suit. How bad can timei
driven into its forehead with s get?
silver hammer, rides a hand- There was a heartening report
some young man, clad in a cloth that after the ceremony a sub
of purest gold. marine would surface near th
It is Prince Aly Kahn, de- prince's 30-room Riviera villi
scendant of the prophet. It Is and a name band would craw
his wedding day and with both out and play "here comes thi
hands he casts out pearls and bride." There was also a re
diamonds to the multitude port that 50 turtles, each carry
Down the second road comes ing a lighted candle on Its back
999 dazzling white Rolls Royces. would paddle around the villa'i
On a raised mink-covered swimming pool. Both rumori
throne in the first car sits a were denied,
beautiful damsel in s robe of But the turtles would hav
damask. Atop her red hair' been only a shabby gesture al
sparkles a simple emerald, as best. There should have beer
large as a pre-war loaf of bread, at least 50 rented whales, not
It is Rita Hayworth, the bride, turtles, with men on their backi
attended by 998 cars full of A production is only as good
borrowed peacocks and press as its script, and the script foi
agents. this matrimonial wedding of th
The two processions meet. A East and West was strictly grada
shower of white wings comes "B."
Flyer Has Luck
Just an Indian Giver
Ercles. Eng. tv Luck was with Fortune today.
Flier Geoffrey Fortune lost his wallet while flying upside
down over Lancashire. He landed and telephoned police, who
recovered the wallet in a garden within 15 minutes of the time
it fell.
The w-allet was returned with the eight pounds ($32) and
hard-to-get gasoline rations coupons still in it.
LADY IS 'PRIVATE EYE'
Woman Detective Doesn't Need
Gun or Badge in Her Work
By RAY WEBSTER, JR.
(I'mowl Prru Stall rorrrapondrno
St. Loiii. May 27 mm Mrs. Cloo Mueller, a lady 'private eye,w
said today that a Rood private detective doesn't have to pack a
Kiin, flash a badge or get beaten up every other day as described
In the whodunits.
Mrs. Mueller, 28. a pert brunette. Is one of the few lady
"private eve, ' in the U. S. She -verrarsbhilivher
i...'. .... ... k. her biggest thrills.
St. Louis. May 27 U.R A department store began giving away
several hundred dollars per week to charge account customers
today. But the firm was an Indian giver.
The customers were sent $1 each with a card asking them to
give lhe money to a store salesperson "the next time you are
impressed with real courtesy on the part of any Famous-Barr
Co. employe.
"When the employe shows the bill and the card to his superior,
the company will double the reward by presenting an additional
dollar bill to him," the card said.
A slore spokesman said it was the latest idea in courtesy
campaigns.
but stie never uses the badge or
carries a gun.
"I've never been threatened
Like the husband of a Kansas
City, Mo., school teacher whom
Mrs. Mueller trailed to a St.
Mercy Flight
either, because I've never been Lr.m, love nest. He went to her
disclosed as a detective while on o(fl(.. ,,f,er ,he fmlnd hirn and
a case," she said. "After a case boldlv boasted of his conquests,
is cleaned up and a subject He didn't know his wife was in
learns my identity, he usually nex, room listening to him.
takes it pretty well because All the women are nuts
Myrtle frerk, Ore. tiPMr. Portia tirhllti. wife nf the
Meekly .Myrtle t'reek Mall's editor. Hal W. jtrhilts. u re
covering from a rattlrsnake bile alter serum was flown from
Hood Kiver, Ore.
Srhllli said he was "surprised" there had been nn serum
In Portland and that the fllsht by Art Wllllamt, Myrtle Creek.
In Hnnd River had been necessary.
Srhllli told of trraling the wound and helping his wife
down a foiir-niilr fisherman's trail along the I'mpqua river
krfore he could drive her In the hospital.
"I was fishing In the river when I heard her rail tor help.
She apparently stepped In a nest of ratllrrs, earn about
four feet long.
"I rut lhe wound In her ankle with my knife and furred
(deeding. Then I supported her a we walked four miles hark
in lhe ear. I drove 1 miles to In hnspiial."
SrhlMr said he didn't know what brand of ralller did the
kiting. " didn i slop u look," k Mid.
we're right and he's wrong."
She said an attractive woman
makes a good "private eye" be
cause she usually can get sub
jects talking more easily In a
hunt for clues.
about me." he said.
"Is that so." said the wife. The
husband fainted. When revived,
he went meekly home with his
wife.
Mrs. Mueller, a divorce, start-
"It's not hard for me to got a ed as a detective about five
conversation started." she said years ago by answering an ad-
with a smile. verlisement for one. Domestic
Mrs. Mueller and her partner, relations cases and divorces
John Wilkerson, hit the front make up more than half her
pages when they appeared as cases. The rest include insur
witnesses In the Irial of Dr. Rob- ance rases, checking on expense
ert C. Rutledge. charged with accounts and repossession action,
murdrr In lhe slaying at Cedar "Only about one In ten of the
Rapids, la, of Byron C. Halt- domestic relations rases we
man. The state alleged that handle end In divorce," she said.
Rutledge avenged his wife's "I feel pretty good about it w hen
seduction. I think of all the reconciliations
But It I the eases the public w v arranged."
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