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Salem, Oregon, Monday, June 27, 1949
Out to Get McKay?
State Treasurer Walter Pearson, the only democrat who
was elected to top state offices at the November election,
told the senate public works committee at the hearing on
the proposed Columbia Valley Administration bill that
Governor McKay "represents the utility viewpoint" in
opposing the CVA along with all northwest governors,
and cannot speak for the people of Oregon.
Pearson said that he and State Senator Austin F. Flegel,
democrat, who opposed the CVA, "represent the forward
seeing people of our state and McKay will find it out at
the next election." McKay is a republican. His testimony
before the congressional hearings has been printed in full
in the Capital Journal.
The attitude of Mr. Pearson, which follows his other
official actions, forecasts stormy times ahead for the state
board of control. It was only a few weeks ago that Pear
son made a deal with Secretary of State Newbry whereby
two experienced and efficient members of the tax com
mission were fired and two inexperienced political hench
men appointed in their place.
Harmony has existed in the board of control since the
stormy regime of the late Governor Julius Meier, and
politics were ignored in the state affairs. But it is evident
that politics is now to play a leading role. The democrats
hope to get back in power by fomenting trouble and Pear
son is being groomed as their white haired boy for the
1950 campaign. Newbry is generally credited with guber
natorial aspirations and it is reported hopes to lead the
anti-McKay elements of the republicans at the primaries.
Pearson has appropriated the demagogic pose of "the
people's choice." Like the three tailors of Tooley street,
who called themselves, "We the people of London," he
speaks for the people of Oregon when he means "Me, Flegel
and Tompkins." The people of Oregon have never been
given a chance to vote on the CVA and express their sen
timents, but they elected McKay, whose opposition to
federal bureaucratic seizure of state and regional resources
has been voiced for years and his stand was one reason
for his election.
Norblad's Lone Vote
Vain Harry Vaughn, President Truman's military aide
with the rank of general, has caused no end of trouble
since he accepted a fancy medal from Dictator Peron of
Argentina. Vaughn wanted to keep the decoration. He
didn't seem to care if a lot of people had the idea that it
was in poor taste to accept a citation from the South Amer
ican dictator.
Vaughn's insistence raised a question of the advisability
of accepting foreign decorations of any sort. The consti
tution (article 1, section 9) states, in part, that "no person
holding any office of profit or trust . . . shall, without the
consent of the congress, accept of any present, emolument,
office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince,
or foreign state.'
So the matter was put up to congress. Last week the
house armed services subcommittee kowtowed, too, and
approved Vaughn's acceptance of the medal. There was
one vote in opposition, according to Commentator Drew
Pearson. And that, to the credit of the man and this con
gressional district, was the vote of Walter Norblad, who
keeps his office in Salem when not in the nation's capital.
The lone vote of protest of Norblad's was what could
be expected of the district's able congressman, but the
golid democratic vote in favor can be attributed only to
pressure from the White House.
It is a discouraging situation when the vanity of one
man so close to the president can swing a congressional
subcommittee into line and give the impression that the
offerings of Argentina's dictator are worth any recogni
tion other than a place in the trash heap.
A Winner Comes Home
The way Salem turned out Saturday afternoon to wel
come home the outstanding company of Oregon's national
guard was what the officers and men of Company B de
served. With only short notice, the Chamber of Commerce saw
to it that word got around enough to get hundreds of per
sons at the railroad station when Companies B and G came
back from summer camp. While both outfits are from the
city, Company B got the special recognition to which it
was entitled as winner of the efficiency trophy in the 41st
division.
The officers and men who brought home the trophy got
it for top efficiency in armory drill attendance, field train
ing attendance, federal inspection and field training.
Congratulations of the city go to the winners.
All That Is Free May Not Be
Hackleburg, Ala. WV- Polite were seeking the bandit who
measured windows for free and the Bank of llacklcburg for
$17,000.
Bank officials said the man, about 45, came in and said
he was a lumber company window salesman.
He hung around, busily measuring windows until the bank
closed and all employes but Cashier D. W. Stanford had de
parted. The bandit then forced Stanford Into the bank's vault at
gun point, bound him with a belt and made off with $17,000.
It was 30 minutes before Stanford was able to free himself
and notify police.
No Alibi for Mistakes, Court Says
Ban Francisco (VP) Herbert A. Jones, Jr., a Portlander who
bought $65,533 worth of gears for $69.13, can keep them.
8o ruled the V. S. circuit court of appeals, In a suit brought
fcy the government to recover its loss. It was (he government
In the form of the war assets administration which sold
the gears.
The court ruled that the government made the mistake,
and must abide by It. What happened was that the WAA mis
lassified the marine universal gear Joints a costly article
as universal joints for ears. The latter are Inexpensive.
Jones bought them at a surplus salt In Portland.
THE THRILL OF BUYING AN t&iiVSmlWutin
OLD HOUSE THAT IS FAMOUS VISM fk w4.&&
HISTORICALLY QUICKLY WEARS 'frS.' tZJfk " A
OFF WHEN THE TOURIST CWY KA
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
. Anderson Insists Farm
Program OK by Him
By DREW PEARSON
Washington It isnt' often that two men who have held the
same cabinet job are summoned before the president to settle the
question of whether one is supporting the other. However, that
is what happened to ex-Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson
and his successor secretary, Charles Brannan.
Both
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
Drew FeftHOD
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Soft Pedal
BY DON UPJOHN
While it is the choicest of all plums available to Oregonians
who practice the legal profession, whatever campaign is going on,
or campaigns, if any for the vacant post on the Oregon supreme
court are being
1 vVlrwl
Dod Upjohn
Walter Norbla dwho disclaims
authorship)
"Father, must I go to work?"
"No, my darling son;
We're living on easy street
With funds from Washington.
"We're cared for now by Uncle
Sam
So don't get exercised;
We do not need to care a damn,
Because we're subsidized."
"But if he's going to treat us well
And give us milk and honey,
Please tell be, Father, where the
Hell
He's going to get the money!"
"Don't worry, child, there is no
hitch
. About this glorious plan.
He'll get the money from the rich
To help the common man."
"But Father, won't there come a
time
If we take all their cash.
And they are left without a dime,
When things will go to smash?"
"You need a lot of seasoning,
You nosey little brat;
You do too damn much reasoning
To be a Democrat."
Petticoat Problem
Vancouver, Wash. () Coun
ts of V.., nn Tn nant lJ r.nBineer oiepiicu unyue uc-
For while he may not be in line f'ded today f,'.nd out whether
for the supreme bench, it is the people who live on Petticoat
whispered there may be some- lane want " named Overcoat
body from this county in line avenu r something The coun-
forsame and in case he gets it, rad department kept putting
Joe may then be in line for that "p stref.t slgns on Pe"lcoat lane-
vacated post. So politics make reryt , P' t T'
strange bedfellows, if its no
waged ver
mildly and cag-
ily as befits the
dignity of one
who craves a
seat on the high
court. It seems
this isn't just
the sort of a job
which it is dig
nified and prop
er to seek with
bally hoo and
the clash of drums or the sound
of tinkling cymbals. But never
theless, things must be going on
down underneath for certainly
the governor isn't going to be
let down by just naming some
body to the post without a lot
of suggestions. Incidentally,
there's one little aside to the sit
uation. Our own Judge Joe Fel
ton of the district court, who
has been battling a cold with
modern remedies for some time,
has finally decided to give up
and try the old fashioned plan
of going home for a couple of
days and resting it off. This ii
faced
each other last
week in front of
Mr. Truman.
A n de r s on,
once a pillar in
the Truman
cabinet, now an
A-l senator
from New Mex
ico, slipped in
the side door of
the White
House unnotic
ed to newsmen.'
Truman promptly challenged
him regarding reports that .he
was blocking parts of the Bran
nan farm plan. Anderson vig
orously denied the charge; then,
to convince the doubting presi
dent, he asked that Brannan
himself be questioned.
So Truman picked up the
phone and asked Brannan to
hustle over to the White House.
A few minutes later, all three
sat down and ironed out their
differences.
The results of that talk will
probably be felt on every farm
in America.
Anderson denied that he
wanted to extend the present,
GOP-written laws, insitsed that
he saw eye-to-eye with Brannan
on the basic needs for new farm
legislation,
each passport a reminder as
the army did to GI's landing in
England during the war that
great good will can be accom
plished by the careful American
tourist, while great ill will can
be stirred up by the opposite
type.
The American Automobile as
sociation has now taken up this
idea and is reminding its mem
bers that every tourist can be a
diplomat.
The average man-in-the-street
in Europe never meets an Amer
ican ambassador. He gets his
ideas about the U.S.A. from a
confusing hodgepodge of propa
ganda some of it communist
or from the 400,000 Ameri
cans going abroad this summer.
The communists have been
waging an astute campaign to
sour world opinion on free
spending, loud-talking Ameri
cans. So the best way to coun
teract that propaganda is by im
proved behavior on the part of
those Americans.
Boiling down all advice into
one sentence, the AAA declares:
"When abroad, you are a guest;
act like one."
SECRET TV A REPORT
There's a secret report on the
Tennessee valley authority
TEACHERS ARE MOST NEUROTIC- BY d IT'S 1.000 TO I
ODDS 0F2 TO I OVER DENTISTS.3T0I JT. A5AINST'yOUR
OVER FARMERS (lominstm. VISITING PARIS
" Jf BE PREVENTED BY
V COMMON SENSE,
tofiLW11 JJ SAY 9 TO I
tf ty, m w. . c ""
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Guarded Words Should
Describe Big Four's Action
By DeWITT MocKfcrUIE
I (At ForeUD Affair Analwtl
Moscow's communist party organ Pravda reaches the general
conclusion that the Big Four foreign ministers' conference In
Paris has aided in "easing" the international atmosphere. 4
Except for a few technical which the private power lobby
points, Anderson showed that he once wanted made public. Now
was 99 per cent behind the it doesn't. Here's the reason.
Brannan plan. Brannan in turn jn order to block the Missouri
told the president that his old valley authority and other gov
friend and former boss was ernment power projects the big
helping, not hampering, the plan utility lobby quietly proposed
in the senate. an investigation of TV A. Sig
Anderson warned, however, nificantly, the man who fell for
that the program might be too tnis idea was Nevada's republi
costly to adopt all at once. can George Malone, who headed
Brannan agreed, said the best a mysterious research organ
approach would be to take one i2ati0n financed by private pow
commodity at a time. His plan er companies
DeWItt Mackentl
would call for "production pay
ments to the farmers to main
tain a minimum selling price.
Then, instead of having the gov-
This outfit the Industrial
West Foundation still has of
fices in downtown Washington
and, by interesting coincidence,
more than being home in bed
with a cold for a bedfellow.
Wrong Politics
(Contributed by Congressman
body tore it down again. In de
spair, Jayne finally got out a
circular letter to all the lane's
residents, asking if they wanted
the name Petticoat lane changed
to something else.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
One Track Minds-Old
Or Young Lose Wars
By HAL BOYLE
New York OT I know an old soldier, retired one world war
and three international riots ago, who spends his time refighting
his campaigns and keeping the mice away from his medals.
old boy Bwsrs
"Granted. Now what's the
third map show one of Clause
witz's campaigns?"
ernment ouy up tne smpius as this same office is now used by
it noes witn potatoes ana lei Malone's senatorial staff. His
them rot, Brannan would let the Capitol Hill offices, he explaias,
price drop and give the consum- are to0 crowded though Ma-
er the benefit. The "production lone represents the least popu-
payments" would make up the lated in the unj and
difference between what the th other senators find suf.
farmer gets and what the house- ficient room in their o(fices on
wife pays. , ... Capitol Hill.
Brannan agreed to try out this At any ratej whiIe the repub.
plan on two or three commodi- iicans controlled congress Ma
ties, and Anderson in return Ione headed a public works sub
promised to push the program in committee which he set to work
the senate. prying into TVA.
Immediately after this con- He called a hearing and iis.
ference, word was passed to the tened to witnesses criticize the
house which then approved the giant power-navigation-f 1 o o d
Brannan plan for three com- control project. The criticisms
modifies to be selected, by the sounded so good that he even
secretary of agriculture. The ordeI.ed a triple-threat investi-
three have not been designated gation of TVA b Jhe federal
yet, but they will probably be power commission, army engin-
potatoes, hogs and wool. eers and general accounting of-
The senate is still dragging its f jce
'eeh-b"' "ot "irouSh .an But their report has never
i.u.. .u.-u:s.i:uUjr .ngii..Ui- 5een DubHshed. Senator Ma.
lone is still sitting on it. .
What happened, of course, is
that the report turned out to be
favorable to TVA.
inis column has obtained a
The old boy
knows his trade
well and loves
to work out
small problems
like the prob
able daily aver
age hay intake
o f Hannibal's
e 1 e p h ants in
crossing
Alps.
1 called on
him the other
day and found him fuming as
the W
ture Anderson, who is a mem
ber of the agriculture commit
tee.
The truth is that Senator El
mer Thomas of Oklahoma, chair-
hl, iriL'f c.Py ot the report, and it shows
the ranking republican, Ver-
"Haven't I ordered you never
to mention the name of that
Prussian illiterate in my head
quarters?" the colonel snorted.
"No, ' the third map illustrates
how he would stop the Russians
at the Rhine if we have an
other war by using the atom
bomb."
"But the atom bomb is a
usual over three big maps strategic weapon not a tactical
hung on his library walls. The one," I protested. "It's (for
mont's able Senator George Aik
en, is holding it up by asking
critical questions. He claims
the Brannan plan is nothing but favorabie
that Malone tried to steer the
investigators with a hint that
TVA bookkeepers might have
juggled figures so as to make
the electric power benefits more
a revamped version of his own
program, adopted by the 80th
congress, and he sees no reason
for substituting.
However, when the federal
power commission, the army
engineers, and the general ac
counting office finished their
survey, it showed that the high
est estimated annual cost of
TVA's navigation system is $8,-
mate of annual benefits is $9,-
maps were decorated with little
flags, squares and triangles
the hieroglyphics of the
tary.
And the old boy, wearing his ful glare.
knocking out enemy cities not
enemy armies. Evervbodv savs
mili- that."
The colonel gave me a scorn-
old-fashioncd high calvary boots,
was striding up and down be
fore them like Napoleon the day
before Waterloo.
"What's up now, colonel?" I
asked cheerfully. "Planning a
motor trip to Long Island?"
The colonel gave me his cus
tomary glare and chomped in
half a stray hair from his 1890
mustache.
"In the first map, I have cor-
"Sonny," he said pityingly.
"People at the time thought
gunpowder was just a nice thing
to make firecrackers with, too.
"The way to win a war with
a new weapon is to use that new
weapon in every way you can.
"Suppose the Soviet armies
attack. Everyone figures they'd
overrun Europe while our fly
boys were wiping out Russian
cities with atom bombs.
"But how lone would it take
reeled the errors made by Grant us then to get the Russian ar
at the siege of Vicksburg," he mies out of the rest of Europe?
400,000 AMBASSADORS
The live-wire American Au
tomobile association has launch-
eu u unique campaign xo eaucate 334 qoo
tourists on now to be For flood control tne hi h rf
good-will ambassadors. estimated annual cost is $7,295,-
Last week this column pub- 000, as compared with $8,963,-
retary of State James Webb that ed annual benefits.
the state department issue with icopyriitit 1949)
SALEM HOSPITAL FUND DRIVE
W. H. Crawford Family Finds
Reality of Hospital Bed Shortage
(Editor's note: In a few weeks the Salem hospital develop
ment program will be brought before the people of the Salem
area. So that questions being raised may be known by all,
along with the answers, the Capital Journal is co-operating by
printing them daily. Questions may be directed to the hos
pital program headquarters, 3J5 N. High St., or may be
phoned to 2-3851.)
We may ac-;
cept that ap
praisal guard
edly as correct,
I believe, al-;
though we
reach the con
clusion by a
different route
than Pravda
Moreover,
this easement
would seem to
have been
chieved more because of what
the conference proceedings im
ply because of what they spe
cifically carry out.
The atmosphere of the con
ference was that of a truce
marking a forced halt to the
great offensive which the Mus
covites have waged since the end
of the World War to extend
communist domination west
wards towards the English Chan
nel. The counter drives by the
Western Democracies (the Mar
shall plan, the Atlantic pact, aid
to Greece and Turkey, and so
on) have been effective.
The dangers of another global
war have receded.
So the world does breathe
easier.
At the same time, It knows
or certainly should know that
this isn't the finish of the con
flict of the isms. That will con
tinue, perhaps long after your
time and mine.
But so far as the Western
World is concerned, the Red
drive is likely for at least the
immediate future to be confined
largely to fifth column activi
ties which are aimed at cripply
ing non - communist countries
economically and spreading the
Red ism.
And meanwhile, as Secretary
of State Acheson told the senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
Russia intends to hold on to the
gains she has made.
President Truman in his state
ment about the conference Tues
day found that "genuine pro
gress" was made toward the
conclusion of a treaty with Aus
tria. He pointed out that, dur
ing the four years since war's
end, Austria has been under a
regime of occupation, although
at the first Moscow conference
in 1943 it was solemnly declared
that she was to be regarded not
as an enemy country but as a
liberated country, the first vic
tim of Nazi aggression. Certain
Soviet claims placed obstacles in
the way of speedy conclusion
of a treaty.
. Mr. Truman said the Austrian
people "should be commended
for their attitude of patient un
derstanding throughout the pro
tracted negotiations."
I had a close-up of that atti
tude in March of '46 when I
visited Austria, which then was
suffering from the scourge of
privation and was hamstrung, by
the occupation,
I had a long talk with Dr.
Karl Renner, president of the
provisional government. Our
conversation dwelt largely on
world peace, and it is worthy to
note that he is among those
nominated for the 1949 Nobel
Peace Prize, which is yet to be
awarded.
I saw Dr. Renner just after
Winston Churchill's famous
"Iron Curtain" speech in Miss
ouri and Renner voluntarily
commented: '
"We have one main sorrow
just now aroused by the dispute
between Churchill and Stalin.
The unity of the world is our
life, and the end of unity would
be the end of Austria. I hope
that there will be agreement be
tween the Western Allies and
Russia. I hope that in the agree
ment Austria will not be for
gotten. "As soon as our international
status is fixed we want to be
a member of the U.N. and take
up friendly relations with all
nations. We are absolutely for
peace.
Well, President Truman says
"we have reason to hope that
before the end of the year the
treaty may be signed."
If and when that happy sign
ing takes place, Austria should
become a steadying influence
in Europe. She wants to be
friendly with both the Russian
bloc and the western nations,
though she has no leanings to
wards communism, since she is
highly religious. And religion
doesn't mix with communism.
LIFE LESS COMPLICATED THEN
Family Relations to Get Break in
Return of Wholesome Movies
By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON
Hollywood (U.R) Movie fans may be unhappy over Hollywood's
"re-issue craze," but a family relations expert is counting on those
"oldies" to help him handle frustrated housefraus and their de
linquent
snapped. "The second map Five years?
snows my plan for seizing New
York City, and ..."
"What do you want to take
Ten years?
But
why concede in advance they
can overrun Western Europe?
"Before they can hit the Eng-
BY LETTER, JUNE 20th: If you would like another recent
experience showing the need of more hospital beds in Salem,
here is ours.
New York for, colonel restore lish Channel, son. thev have to
the five-cent subway fare?" I in- cross a big wide river called the
terruptcd. Rhine. To cross that river their
"I wouldn't take the place as army has to mass together. And
a gift on a pewter platter," whenever they mass, son, it's
sniffed the colonel. "It's just a my idea we can hit 'em hard
military exercise for me. I also with atom bombs. I don't care
have worked out plans to storm whether you drop the bomb on
Moscow, Minsk and Pinsk, en- 'cm or shoot it over with a biig
vclop the north and south poles gun.
and outflank Addis Ababa." "Either way you'll cost them
"Sounds like a busy after- about five square miles of an
noon. How big a force would army. And I can't think of a
you neet to capture New York?" better way to invest an atom
"After I threw three artillery bomb in wartime."
shells into Times Square," puf-
fed the colonel, pausing to pour It made sense to me.
himself three fingers of bour- "Colonel," I said, "I think I
bon, "I figure I could take it have been underestimating your
with a troop of spavined horse gray hairs."
calvary armed with sabers. The "What loses wars, son," he re
population already would have plied, "is a head with a one
trampled itself to death trying track mind, whether it's on old
to escapt to New Jersey." or young shoulders."
The William H. Crawford fam
ily, 972 Parrish street, Salem,
had this experience: Early last
February Mrs. Crawford passed
out in a diabetic coma at our
home. Neither of us dreamed
that diabetes was lurking in
our household. Our doctor re
sponded to a hurried call. On ar-
her back to the land of the liv
ing. Meanwhile, nurses and atten
dants did everything possible
to help. Next day Mrs. Craw
ford was placed in a six-bed
ward, where she spent twelve
days.
In spite of many obvious han-
of f-
spring.
Life was a lot
less complicat
ed, Dr. Paul
Popenoe says,
before Holly
wood discover
ed "uninhibited
love."
A few years
of that, he'll
tell you
h ousewives
started
comes into one', life unexpect-f
edly," he grumbled. "It's sup
posed to be 'beyond human con
trol.' We're supposed to receive
it and welcome it when it comes.
"A man, we are told, is justi
fied in giving up his wife for
love; a woman in leaving her
home and children, a king in re
nouncing his throne. And yet,
we are told, this extraordinary
and vininu HacFhenra thing may go as mysteriously
as it comes and there's noth-
jamming his Ameri- Ins we can Hn hm,t tht
can institute of family relations mhi. . n,
with woe-begone tales of hus- ,nt VyS D pPenoe-, s a
bands who won't pitch woo like 1 Lh " makfS T"")?,
Gregorv Peck and kidr-Jjhn for the movlc moBuls in lllm
malge like unior -grade gng- L08' mabe: But J atls0
6 B makes grass widows out of a
rival he summoned an ambu- 288,000, whereas the lowest esti-
lance.
A call to both hospitals devel
oped the fact that no rooms were
available at the time. Our doctor
then contacted Superintendent
dicaps, her treatment, to use
her own words, "was superb, de
serving of the greatest praise."
Only that fine spirit of coop
eration. Between doctors and
He's busier talking brides out
nf rlitrni-niiE Tt. n
"than a bus' conductor punching Zlf,1 to, ma"iage. And yet
transfers during the rush hour 1, moves f.?ed "? young Pe-
Thats why I'm delighted to a young wife she's missing out
Brown comedies " case" " C 8
ShuDdrders"Pwhee hTthinks 'or rtbluShej. at hC ld"
the plot, of some modern eZ T Z.
cpjcs ' ene says. Housewives didnf
"Thpv , , rush 'rom a Will Rogers movie
. They represent love as a Dr. Popenoe feels the same
mysterious visitation w h i c h way about cr?m f movie,
lot of young bride,.
"As a pattern," he went on,
McDonald at Salem General ask- hospital staff, makes it possible
ing that a bed be screened in on for Salem to get by with inad
a ground floor hallway and ev- equate facilities; without many
ery preparation made for a very improvements now long over
serious case. due.
Arrival at the hospital found Until emergency strikes, we
things in readiness. For many may take some things for grant
hours thereafter I stood by, wait- ed, but time has run out, tempt
ing while two doctors worked ing fate, as far as the Salem hos
over my wife in efforts to bring pital situation is concerned.