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by BECK
What To Do!
Salem, Oregon, Saturday, June 25, 1949
Stewing in Their Own Poison Broth
At commencement exercises at Radcliff college, Cam
bridge, Mass., this week, Harold L. Ickes told his grand
daughter mid 210 other graduates: "My advice to you . . .
is that you be charry about taking any advice whatever
from people of my generation."
The former secretary of the interior explained his advice by
faying he doubs "whether there has been a generation on earth,
since the human race began to walk on two legs, that has made
such a mess of things as my generation. It is a human achieve
ment unparalleled in history to have brought the world to such
an appalling state of confusion in so short a time."
Mr. Ickes aught to know, for he contributed his full
share to the "mess of things" and "the appalling state of
confusion is so short of time." For over 12 years as one
of the highest officials of the nation, he was active in
promoting the visionary experiments of the New Deal
with first the nation and then the world as its guinea pigs,
and in the 1948 campaign supported Truman's domestic
"Fair Deal."
Perhaps the fact that Mr. Ickcs is now on the outside
looking in, instead of the inside looking out, gives the "Old
Curmudgeon" a clearer perspective, as he begins to stew
in the broth he helped cook.
A somewhat similar view is taken by another New Deal
cook, a much greater statesman, James F. Byrnes, of South
Carolina, representative in congress, 1911-25, United States
senator, 1931-43; former justice of the supreme court,
director of economic stabilization, director of war mobili
zation and secretary of state.
At Washington and Lee university, in accepting an hon
orary doctor of laws degree last week, Mr. Byrnes said :
"We are going down the road to stateism. Where we will
wind up no one can tell. But if some of the new programs seri
ously proposed should be adopted, there is danger that the in
, dividual whether farmer, worker, manufacturer, lawyer, or
doctor will soon be an economic slave pulling an oar in the
galley of the state."
The "brand new world," created by the New Deal and
Fair Deal politicians, only needed Mr. Ickes' confession of
failure to further increase morale destruction and discour
age college graduates. They have been inculcated with
the theory that security through paternalism is paramount
to individual industry, enterprise and thrift and the only
thing worth striving for in life.
There is nothing really to be discouraged about unless
the administration puts over in congress its domestic so
cialist program under the guise of rewarding special in
terests at the expense of the people and thus pave the way
of eventual totalitarianism. The foreign situation is bet
ter than in recent years since we have adopted a sane for
eign policy, that is unless congress upsets it to return to
an absolute isolationism in an atomic world.
The Horseburger Expose
The exposure of the horseburger ring, showing that the
people of Portland and in all probability other sections of
Oregon, have been eating horse meat sold as beef has cre
ated anger and resentment. The sordid traffic is illegiti
mate and a betrayal of trust by the sellers, not because
horsemeat is not healthy, but because it was not properly
labelled and sold under false pretenses, in other words, a
picking of the pockets of the consumer, a fraud in staple
.foodstuffs and therefore criminal.
There is nothing the matter with horsemeat, providing
It is properly inspected. It is just as healthy as hambur
ger, usually made from old bulls and cows. It is a favorite
food in many countries. But there exists in this country a
popular prejudice against it from association and senti
ment though the horse is a clean animal and particular
in its diet. And if you eat it as beef you don't know the
difference between a real hamburger and a horseburger.
Food habits are governed largely by unreasonable preju
dices and too lively imaginations. An example was dem
onstrated some 30 years ago when the National Editorial
association excursion, composed of small town journalists
Beveral hundred strong, visited Oregon aiid were enter
tained in the natural park then existing near the site of
the present Bonneville dam. Chambers of Commerce and
other greeter organizations planned a bear barbecue for
the group.
Unable to secure the promised bears, Game Warden Kd
Clanton substituted two fat "baby beefs" and barbecued
them in great pits. The visitors thought they were served
bear meat, many refused to eat, some gagged, others got
sick after a few mouthfuls, and only a comparatively small
portion of the meat was appreciated. That's what imag
ination does with food.
.
Horse meat has been for years a favorite food in many
foreign lands where the horse is native, and is today in
Europe. It has been since long before recorded history.
The late Henry Fairfield Osborn in his "Men of the Old
Stone Age," says:
"Around the great Anrignacian enmp nt Solutre (France),
there accumulated the remains of a vast imm.ber of ho.-ais,
which are estimated at not less than 100,000; the bones are dis
tributed In a wide circle about the ancient camp, consisting of
broken or entire skeletons compacted into a veritable magma,
with which occurs also the remains of the reindeer, the urus,
and the mammoth, Interbcdded with nil types of Anrignacian
Implements.
"The majority of these horses belong to the stout-headed,
short-limbed forest on northern type nbout the size of the ex
isting pony. There Is no evidence that the men of the Aurig
nacian time either bred or reared the animals, they pursued
them only for food."
i The Aurignacians lived, Osborn estimates, at the begin
'ning of post-glacial times in the upper Palaeolithic, 25,000
B.C. That these horses were used for fond is shown hv
the fact that the remains were completely dismembered
;and the long bones split open for marrow.
i Some Cooks Are Touchy
; Bordeaux, France U.RRene Didlou called the second cook
of the "Our Pavllllons' restaurant to his table and asked for
a bowl of soup for his dog.
I The cook, who considers his work an art. whipped out a
knife and stabbed Didlou in the stomach.
; Didlou is in a hospital. The cook is under arrest.
ycmTTuSHT!!-"7 ! I'D LIKE TO GET
WELL GET UP AND GO MY HANDS ON THE GUY
I TO THE DOOR THEY'RE JbiSfc WHO INVENTED THAT LINE.
COMING W THROUGH MmfCtOSeO. PROCEED AT YOUR
COMING IN THROUGH M$&M 0WN RISK. ALL NIGHT ,
. nc mtfflmmmfk LONG I'M DRAGGED OUT
" wM0msma 660 TO explain it.1
I ' J$. t ffir TOMO,'RCW IM going
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Dr. Condon Writes Human
Masterpiece About Wife
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Dr. Edward U. Condon, head of the bureau of
standards, whose wife was smeared in an FBI report made public
in the Judith Coplon trial, has written J. Edgar Hoover a letter
which may rank as one of the great human documents of the year.
Dr. Condon had publicly demanded that Hoover apologize for
the wrong done his wife, but in -
his later letter to Hoover he Mrs. Condon and myself as a
withdrew the demand for an result of malicious and vindic-
gy GUILD
Wizard of Odds
apology, though
conti n u i n g to
press for a full
investigation of
the unchecked
gossip. ii
Dr. Condon's
letter, so far
unpubli shed,
states:
''Dear Mr.
Hoover:
"On Saturday
and Sunday
Ore Pearien
tively-motivated false alarms,
that not once has one of your
agents come around to see either
Mrs. Condon or myself, either to
interrogate us or to get straight
ened out on some point or oth
er? "And this is so in spite of the
fact that I have repeatedly of
fered to cooperate fully with
any fairly-conducted investiga
tion. I know, as a matter of fact,
that your files on Mrs. Condon
and myself are shot through
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Each College Graduate Has
Debts of Many Kinds to Pay Off
By REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Rctor. 81 Paul' Etnxcupal church
Thousands of college students have graduated this month and
have received their degrees.
An item of no small importance which should no be overlooked
is that they have left college
badly in debt. A small part of The state looks for an above
this debt they may owe to some the-average standard from its
bank or indivi-,
duals who
doubtless will
exact in duel
time their
pound of flesh.;
But the debt;
they owe the
state is enormous.
Public schools
and colleges,
for the most
part, are sup
ported at public expense. Tui
tion pays only a small part of
Bet. Ornrrr Swift
graduates. The state expects an
honest return on its investment
in terms of outstanding char
acter and outstanding service.
No one can hope to liquidate
the debt incurred for his higher
education without paying at
tention to the spiritual factors.
It cannot be done through the
accumulation of knowledge
alone.
In order to really succeed,
faith must go along with knowl
edge. There must be faith in
oneself, faith in one's ability,
faith in those with whom one
the expense of education. The has to work, and above all faith
various states build and equip jn nod
their colleges and universities,
expecting to receive from the
graduates a return upon the investment.
The debt one owes to his fam
ily, to his church, to his com
munity, to his state and nation
should give him pause. Just be-
Apart from the small tuition cause a collector is not pound
charged, the slate does not ex- ing on the door for immediate
pect to collect from its gradu- payment, one should not over
ates the balance of the cost of look the importance of inlangi
their education in dollars and ble debts.
cents. But it does expect them "He left a material fortune,
to liquidate the debt they owe but never paid his debts to his
in terms of leadership in the so- home, to his college, to his
cial, intellectual, economic and church, or to his country"
political life of the state and should not be the epitaph of any
nation, college man.
SIPS FOR SUPPER
The Lure
BY DON UPJOHN
That the Cherryland festival is just ahead and next week will be
one of gaiety and pleasure in the old town became certain for sure
this morning when pretty girls in giddy gowns appeared on the
street corners
will be all cocked and primed
to make his annual prognostica
tion as to the state fair which
he always does on a bright and
sunny day when folks are feel
ing good. We hope he's able to
get in one before fair time.
with the fcsti-T
val buttons and V
who can resist
'cm? They arc
proof enough
that this locali
ty need never
worry about
having plenty of
m a t e r i al for
queens and
princesses for
anyone of them
Don Upjohn
Mr. Truman has asked con
gress for $45,uOR,uoo to combat
world poverty. That sounds like
spreading it pretty thin when
one considers the billions dump-
aneered and hurt bv the uniust with errors with regard to east
and unfair allusions to my wife ly ascertainable facts. We would
contained in an 'unevaluated' be glad to go over all of this
FBI report which was made material with your agents in or
public in connection with a der to get it straight,
court trial last week, I issued "Having never met you per
statements to the press in which sonally, I look forward to meet
I demanded an apology from ing you, if you wish, and to
yOU discussing these or other mat-
"I would like to assure you ters which may be of mutual or
that these statements grew sole- general interest,
ly out of the spontaneous anger "I would like to assure you
natural to any man on seeing that I am writing you in a
the name of his wife sullied in iriendly and cooperative way,
the press through official docu- and I would like to confess that
ments implying improper con- one of the reasons that I have
duct through their distortion of addressed you so frankly and
an innocent and normal act. I openly is the article entitled
believe that you can appreciate 'The Challenge,' which you
and sympathize with my reac- wrote for the Sunday magazine
tions, section called 'This Week.'
"When I read this fine piece,
"It is apparent, however, that beginning with the quotation
you could not reply to my state- irom the prophet Micah 'What
ments because the injury is ir- doth the Lord require of thee,
reparable by any apology, be- but to do justly, and to love
cause it would be impossible to mercy and to walk humbly with
remedy the sufferings that many thy God?' and ending with
have undergone, including my- your sentences 'These three
self, as a result of similar oper- simple phrases set up an inde
ations, and because there is the structible guidepost for human
possibility that any reply from conduct. In clear and simple
you might be pertinent to a words they establish the essen
court matter. In the light of tials of decency. All are of the
these, I regret any inconveni- spirit justice, mercy, humility"
ence that I may have caused when I read these, moved by
you. their profound truth and appli-
"The fact that the present un- cability in this troubled world, I
fortunate events did take place felt that you would not mind a
does emphasize, it seems to me, simple, frank and friendly let
the need for care and caution ter discussing matters that
in connection with ir.vestigatory weigh heavily on my heart, not
procedures. I h a v e repeatedly merely in personal terms,
pointed out the importance of though I am vulnerable enough
proper investigations and proper like all mankind to feel anger
security measures and, for ex- and sorrow over unjustified as
ample, I have held again and persons, but in terms of that
again that the president's loy- freedom and democracy which
alty program is a splendid and we cherish."
excellent thing. " .
"But the care and caution' NOTE It is not known out
which I mention are crucial if side the justice department, but
we are to attain the ends which it was eithcr an lronlc twist of
we seek and, indeed, if we are ate or a deliberate trick by
not to jeopardize that very some FBI subordinates that put
thing our free and democratic the Condon files into the Juditl
country which we value above Coplon case, They had no rele.
all else. vance whatsoever, and were not
In this connection, I do not in the filea wnicn tne attorney
believe that the welfare of our general had read in advance,
nation is served when slander- However, when the stack of
ous material about decent Ame- FBI reports turned up in court,
ricans becomes a part of offi- the Condon report was strange
cial documents. It does no good j inciuded among them. The
to say that these documents are FBI expianation given to' high
unevaluated' because they are, e s is that the Condon pa
in fact, used as offical reports, got stuck in a er clip
as they are in such matters as behind another t
federal employment and loyalty Insiders ca.t help but con.
cases where they are used as sider it strange that one of the
though the contents were truly most efficient bureaus in Wash
factual and evaluated . . . ingto would let s0 secret and
... ... highly important a document
Are you aware, with all the et mislaid in sucn a that
enormous amount of effort that lt would turn court.
has been spent on investigating icopyritht m
BRIPuE PLAYERS. THE CHANCES i Jtafl,BSr
ARE ONLY I IN 635 BULLION OF )) ) '
YOU HAVE A 6 TIMES BET
WITH GRADE SCHOOL EDUCATION PREFER FOLK MUSIC BY
tAr ODDS OF 7 TO I. mi MM r I
GOVERNOR SPEAKS IN WASHINGTON
McKay Makes Clear
His Position on a CVA
(Editor's Note: Below is the testimony Oregon's governor
Douglas McKay gave Friday on the proposed Columbia Val
ley Administration before the public works committee in con
gress. Feeling that the people of the state are Interested in
McKay's position on the CVA, the Capital Journal is present
ing his remarks as fully as possible. Space limitations prevent
complete presentation.)
Gov. Douglas McKay
v.f , T", , " ed in this country without win
10 nerscu ana inc lesuvm aim ,rt ..t r.. ,u
'E " vui nine
we bet there'll be a great looscn-
American dough lias wiped out
ing of purse strings today and ,he (y Qf ,he wor,d cse.
even from some purses where ,,,,. , ljj , lhlt, ,i,.
the moths will come out along
with the dollar bills. If the man
agement is as adroit in all of
its cherry festival functions as
It is in this one there should
be a record set up.
it will be here.
In fact, we note in our fa
vorite paper where 15 vagrants
were picked up in the hobo
jungles and evidently from this
Weather around here cutting development poverty hasn't al
up as usual. Ever since summer together been wiped out right
started. "which it dirt enr'r-r Hiis around these parts. Unless as
week as some folks will re- our office economist indicates
member, there riasn't been any maybe they just wanted to get
summer and all the summer we outside for the day and bask.
have had so far has been before
summer, if we can
selves clear.
make our-
We expect the first summer
The Salem Senators finally
bobbed up with their heads
pbove water and won a ball
game provided you can believe
day that comes along when and everything you read in the pa
if our old friend Leo Spiztbart pcrs.
News Does Travel Fast
to the Polo
grounds s'ainst
his outfit the
'nipht of July
26th. And, of
course, he's
fretting already
about the at
tendance. "Last year
we drew only
about 9,000," he
said Indignant
Hohart, Okla. (IT) Charlie Klein is going to learn to control
his enthusiasm when it conies to promoting civic projects.
In his column for the Hobart "Democratic-Chief," he in
nocently remarked that as part of clean-up week, he might go
so far as to help his landlady with some of the chores around
the house. '
When Klein got home, his landlady had a long list of things
for him to do around the house.
SALEM HOSPITAL FUND DRIVE
Small Income Fellows Can Give
To Campaign Starting on July 12
QUESTION OVER THE TELEPHONE: Hello! I am just one of
the small income fellows and cannot give in the figures I see in
the papers, but I want to do my part. When will you get to peo
ple like me?
Answer: The larger gifts com- ef busy people like you.
... , ,,. .. .. It somebody docs not call on
mittcc is calling on a limited you by Augllst lst give the cam.
number of people in advance of paign office a call. Telephone
the general campaign. A group 2,-3851. We will see that a work-
of 300 workers will begin call- er comes with your card.. Or
ing July the 12th and continue drop in at the office, 335 N. High
until August 12th. But 300 Street and make your subscrip-
workers cannot call on every- tion. Every possible dollar will
body in that length of time. They be needed.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Disadvantage to Lose
An Arm? No, Says Amp
By HAL BOYLE
New York W) Capt. Bob Anderson isn't worried about his
own team.
But he is worried about the caliber of the enemy ball team
that will trot in-
Shepard, a former big leaguer,
is now player-manager with the
Waterbury, Conn., Timers in
the Colonial league. Several oth
er amputees are semi-pro play
ers. Like many another amputee
young Anderson is angry at
what he believes is senseless
job discrimination against men
who have lost arms or legs in
war or industrial accidents.
"It's harder for everybody to
ly. "What do they think we play get a job today and that does-
in wheel chairs? This year n't make it any easier for the
we're hoping for 30.000." amps," he said. "Employers
The grme is one of the most take an application from an amp
unusual sports events in New and say, 'We'll let you know.'
York. It'll be the 17th annual But usually they don't. When
baseball contest between ampu- they see he has a physical dis-
tce war veterans, sponsored by ability, they forget him quick."
the National Amputation Foun- It isn't a personal problem
dation. with Bob. When he was dis-
"We're trying to raise $100,- charged from the army, he want
000 for an amputee informa- ed to go into the trucking bus
tion and research center here," inuess. But because he had no ex
said Anderson. "But the main perience the banks refused to
thing is to get the public out so lend him the necessary capital,
we can show them an amputee Bob started a small retail egg
can do anything they can." route and saved enough to buy a
Bob, 25, lost his left arm to truck. Now he has four trucks,
a German artillery shell in four employees and a $12,000 a
France in 1945. He is shortstop year income,
and captain of the arm amputee "Most people think it a dis-
team. The rival team is made up advantage to lose an arm," he
of leg amputees. said. "I think it's an asset. It
"All the players on both teams teaches you to use your head in-
are vets from the second world stead of your brawn. And I
war. The first world war vets don't regret a minute in the ar-
are getting paunchy and slowing my. It made me grow up fast,
up. We want to keep the game "I can do as much work as
fast. And these leg amps are any man still load and unload
really fast. too. They say their 1,200 cases in a day. But little
pitcher, Bert Shepard. can still by little I'm geting away from
run a hundred yards in around the hard work. I'm getting to be
12 seconds." a whitt collar truckman."
By GOVERNOR DOUG. McKAY
"I am here as a citizen of the United States who holds a deep
and abiding faith in the American system of government by and
for the people. I have made this trip to the nation's capital to
discharge a responsibility, both
to myself and to the men and
women of the stale of Oregon,
who, by their free and popular
vote, elected me to the office
of governor.
"It is because of my firm be
lief in popular government that
I am so vigorously opposed to
placing the economic and poli
tical future of the state of Ore
gon, and of the entire Pacific
northwest, in the hands of an
autocratic federal corporation,
such as would be created by the
proposed Columbia Valley Ad
ministration bill.
"I have read the bill care
fully, as a layman, but I do not
profess to understand the maze
of legal implications its many
provisions contain. In fact, I
am sure it would take a first
class lawyer a long time to fig
ure out all the ramifications of
the bill.
racy such as was established in
"The over-all pattern, how- America more than a century
ever, does reveal itself clearly. and a nai ag0 under our consti- ,
It is a pattern of government by tution.
and through a huge federal cor- "But I want to say, with all
poration a federal corporation tne emphasis 1 can command,
which would be controlled and that there is no short and easy
dominated by three men. And method of self-government,
these three men, to obtain their "Every nation that has at
appointment, must subscribe to tempted to take short cuts away
the corporate philosophy of from the winding path of de
government which this CVA bill m0cracy has wound up with
represents. tate socialism and dictatorship.
"1 am unalterably opposed to "The short cut never leads
any such philosophy of govern- hack to the trail!
ment. Men can live happily "More than anything else, 1
without many things, but they want to urge the vital import
cannot live happily without ance c( protecting and preserv
freedom. jng our system of free govern-
"The question before us is not mnt. We have no greater re
one of having . a development source to conservel ...
program in the Pacific north- "i have great confidence in
west or not having it. The ques- our ability to make our present
tion is whether we want the de- system work, if we work!
velopment of our region to be "For example, we have in the
carried forward within the sue- Willamette valley of western
cessful pattern of representative Oregon an area of five million
government, or taken over by acres, drained by a major trib
a new device of government utary of the Columbia. We had
which is dangerously similar to in this valley a flood problem,
the devices of the totalitarian now well on the way to being
state. solved.
"The main argument advanc- "The people of Oregon did
ed for the creation of regional not ask for a federal corporation
authorities and the proposed to be set up over them to solve
CVA would be an authority in this problem and then remain
everything but name is the over them forever. Instead, they
claim that our present develop- set up their own Willamette
ment agencies overlap and are river basin commission to co-
inefficient. operate with the corps of engin-
eers in working out a plan of
"Proponents of a CVA. and river basin control, and then
especially those who are on the went to work to get the plan au
government payroll, are very thorized and carried out.
impatient with the processes of "Perhaps a Columbia valley
representative govern ment. administration, vested with the
They dislike having to come to broad powers proposed in the
the congress with their requests bill before us, could have done
for money. They don't like to the job a little more quickly,
have to explain and justify their Perhaps a CVA would have
operating budgets to congres- saved some of us 'the labor we
sional committees, which often put into the development of the
ask embarrasing questions. Willamette basin project. But
"If the CVA leaders were I, for one, am glad we were
simply interested in coordinat- able to do the job the way we
ing the functions of government, did, and I don't think any new
to eliminate overlapping, I federal corporation could do the
would expect to find them work- job any better or any cheap
ing actively for the Hoover re- er. .
organization program. It would "What if there is some rivalry
place the principal responsibili- between the corps of engineers
ties of a CVA within one govern- and the bureau of reclamation?
ment depariment. But that de- Is that entirely bad? I think
partment would still be subject not. . . .
to the normal and proper con- "The Bonneville power ad
trol by the congress, which is to ministration, we believe, is do
say, the people of the United ing a very successful job of mar
States, keting power from the federal
"That is why the CVA propa- dams in the region. The north
gandists quote only some of the west power pool of private 'and
findings of the Hoover commis- public systems is an outstanding
sion, and not its recommends- example of practical co-operations.
They don't want to be tion, voluntarily given, to meet
answerable to the congress, so the needs of a region,
they insist that coordination of "What, I ask, is there to stand
resource development can be in the way of our progress if we
accomplished only by an inde- but have the mind to work to
pendent federal corporation, gether? . . .
which they well know would be "What three men can take the
answerable to congress more in place of the hundreds of thou
theory than in fact. sands of free American citizens
whose efforts have gone into the
"I have no illusions about the development that is here "to
inherent weaknesses of a de- day? . . .
mocracy, whether a pure de- "To me the answer is very
mocracy of the town meeting clear. J
type or a representative democ- "I put my trust in the peopled