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4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, June 28, 1949
Johnson Should Know by Now
Months ago the Capital Journal labeled as dangerous
and ill-advised the arguments of William Bradford Huie
in Reader's Digest. Huie would build the air force to the
detriment of the other armed forces. That would court
national distater. His arguments overlooked the obvious
need for, the foot soldiers to move into an area and the
navy to get those soldiers there atom age or not.
As expected, his writings forced navy and marine corps
supporters to come to the aid of the department of the
navy. Huie's preachings increased the fears of those sup
porters enough to force them into the open and thus harm
efforts being made to bring the services together. That's
why Huie's writings were ill-advised.
Latest to knock effectively the idea that the next war
will be won by air power alone is a flying admiral, D. V.
Gallery, U. S. N. He writes in the current issue of the
Saturday Evening Post :
"The British can testify, from experience, as to the futility of
terror bombing unless It is backed up by the ability to invade.
, . ." He warns that the "Instant and devastating retaliation"
plan is doubly dangerous because it has terrific appeal to the
popular Imagination. "It sweeps all the unpleasant facts of
war under the rug and promises easy victory without much
fighting, in case war does come. It offers us a sort of sugar
coated war in which the only horrors are experienced by the
enemy, and which we win at the expense of comparatively
few long-range bomber crews."
The idea of getting something for nothing, which the
Huie crowd peddles, avoids the ghastliness of war. As
Admiral Gallery notes, "even from the purely cold-blooded
military point of view of getting the shooting war over
with as soon as possible, blasting cities does not pay on.
He continues :
"Such bombing has much more effect on post surrender prob
lems than it does in bringing about surrender. It is a diversion
of effort and may, therefore, prolong, instead of shorten, the
war."
He cites figures to prove his statement. The United
States Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report sup
ports him this way:
"The Germans were far more concerned over attacks on one
or more of their basic industries and services their oil, chem
ical, or steel industries or their power or transportation net
works than they were over attacks on their armament indus
try or the city areas."
As long as Huie and other super air force advocates had
such a play with their earlier statements, the navy and
marine corps supporters can't be criticized for answering.
Secretary of Defense Johnson ought to be convinced by
now that only balanced armed services can he considered
for the security of the United States. And that balance
can be achieved only by cooperation on a top level among
the services.
Flaws In Our Educational System
Wilma Morrison, school editor of The Oregonian, has an
informative article in the Sunday Magazine section of the
paper on "Why College Freshmen Flunk?" She thus sum
marizes the existing situation:
Statistics and opinions of college professors suggest entirely
too many Oregon high school students are not adequately pre
pared for college work.
Ninety per cent of entering freshmen at University of Oregon
cannot take the course in mathematics that was considerd stan
dard 20 years ago.
Between one fourth and one third of freshmen from the state
of Oregon who enrolled at Oregon State In September got D
and F grades in English, mathematics and science in their first
quarter too low for graduation credit.
Of Portland's 336 entering freshmen at Oregon State college
last fall, 20 withdrew and 113 were in scholastic difficulties.
One of the reasons is that our schools do not concentrate
on the fundamentals the Three Rs being the most
neglected. Educational instruction is scattered over too
wide a field and frills replace essentials.
The average high school student of B0 years ago was
far better equipped for college than .those of today for
there were fewer courses, more work and less play. There
was no commercialization of sport to take the time and
efforts of the student body, no social swirl to absorb their
leisure. We are long on theory and short on realities and
discipline. And the students "don't know how to study."
Although we have palatial school buildings, playgrounds,
well paid teachers, they scatter their energies over a wider
field, and are not getting the results attained under a sim
pler system.
We refuse to recognize the fact that not all youth can
absorb a high school or college education and we waste
time and money in forcing them to try. In bygone times,
before the days of compulsion, those unfitted by nature
were permitted to quit and work out their own salvation.
Even the writer of the article quotes "the present broad
ening the enrollment base to include all levels of intelli
gence and accomplishment rather than the comparatively
selective student bodies of years ago," which complicates
the problem.
Stinky Has Kittens 'Rather Often'
Seattle VP) Stinky, a shaggy, black and very friendly eat,
has given birth to 288 kittens in the past 10 years.
' And If that isn't a record, the somewhat bewildered Paul
Mayovsky family says It doesn't eare to contemplate a record
holder.
Stinky joined the family In 1939 and they tried to get rid
ef her. Bnt the "tidal wave" set In first. Her last seven arrived
a week aro, with one dying.
Telling about the eat, 16-year-old Jerry Mayovsky, In a
masterpiece of understatement, commented:
"The strange thing about her is that she has kittens rather
often."
Who Has $20 Long Enuf to Count
Portland W) Have you been noticing too many chimneys
on yuur $20 bills lately?
Other people have, reported Frank J. Kenney, agent in
charge of the U. S. secret service here. He said the $20 bill
designed by the government last November has caused icores
of Inquiries from people who think It's counterfeit. Even
bankers have asker, he said.
The new bill shows the White House as It Is today: With
few ehlmiMjri and the balcony. The old biU had two chimneys.
BY BECK
A "-'-' I KNOW PA HAS A MOUNTED )
eJ,-II I FISH ,N HIS xt aurr IT WAS
M3ieJZFllZ&9, CfcEANEOAND 5TUFFED FIRST NO
&'MmmMzl WONDER YOUR clothes smelled paS'
1
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Cautious on Arms Aid
y DREW PEARSON
WashingtonThe state department's Dr. Philip Jessup, trail
ing homeward after the failure of the Big Four conference in
Paris, was reflecting on the high hopes which preceded that con
ference. , Jessup had been in on the discussions with Gromyko before the
conference.
BY GUILD
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Local Boy
t BY DON UPJOHN
Governor Douglas McKay's appointment of Circuit Judge E. M.
Page of Marion county to the supreme bench to succeed the late
Justice Percy M. Kelly will be bailed with pleasure by the thou
sands of friends
and
he remembered
May 3 particu
larly. That was
the day when
the final Rus
sian note was
delivered to
him in New
York, the day
all the world
wondered what
was in that note
Would the
Russians say yes or no?
The note reached Jessup's of
f ice, No. 2 Park Avenue, in the
Draw Ptsnaa
sentations I have ever heard,"
said the congressman. "No ques
tions are necessary."
The witness could not see the
congressman. She was blind.
She had come to urge govern
ment funds for research into
diseases causing blindness, which
is increasing every year, with
little being done to find out why.
Every year 20,000 are stricken
with polio, whereas 30,000 lose
their vision. '
Miss Wiesenfeld's story began
three years ago when she found
ed the National Council to Com-
mornintf. and he knew it was bat Blindness with a capital of
the fatal document that would eight dollars and no office. Now
tell whether the blockade of she is the "Joan of Arc" of the
Berlin was to be lifted. He blind end near-blind people all
knew it was the climax of his over the country.
BECOMING J
UN- V
AUTHOR V k
HAD 20 rt
ODDS FOR SUCCESS IN
ANY AUTOMOBILE BUSINESS
ARE A TRIFLE OVER EVEN THIS
YE AR-THAT'SSU6HTLY BETTER
THAN THE GENERAL BUSINESS
SUCCESS RATE. tBiSTOFIua.
johhmxksom, cvuam.cu.)
IF YOU BOUaHT FRUIT
TODAY. ODDS ARE I IN 5 IT
WAS BANANAS -I
CITRUS FRUITS
ARE MOST
POPULAR.
AGAINST A
BOOK
A'CIASSIC
LESS
HA'
YEARS WRITING EX-
PERIENCE, SAY EXPERTS.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
of both the men
as a good ap-
pointment. j
T. n i h
uuuijc xagc lias
made a splendid
record on the
circuit bench fs
and his consti
tuency has re
turned him to
the post with
o u t opposition
which is the
best evidence of what they think
of him as a jurist. That he is
a very human chap may be evi
denced by the fact that his ac
quaintances call him "Max," his
friends and associates still don't
hesitate to address him
7 Gvifl
) j
bers case back east the allega
tion has been made that some
years ago Mr. Hiss accepted a
rug from Mr. Chambers. The
case is beginning to look slight
ly rugged, as it were.
weeks of secret negotiation and
hidden meetings with Malik and
Gromyko.
But nobody in his office could
read Russian . . . frantic search
for a translator . . . an hour
passed . . . Jessup hid the sec
ret document under his desk
blotter . . . another hour passed
. . . headlines in the press: "No
reply from Moscow."
Finally, after three hours a
translator. Jessup hurried to
Among the things she told
the congressmen: "There are
260,000 blind in this country . . .
Relief and Welfare for them
costs the government $30,000,
000 in a single year. Yet only
$400,000 is spent annually for
research into the reasons for
t0SlJlXSl Merriwell after he left Yale?
From 'Boola Boola' to
Plenty of Moola Moola
By HAL BOYLE '
New York VP) Ever wonder what happened to good old Frank
A Jump Ahead
"An eastern college professor i1, "Tt vTVt, , , a
..v .h.t m,tin. .,,m Via his desk- tok the fatal docu-
taught in school. He seems to
fading vision, the doctors must
sit helplessly by doing nothing.
"But I have never lost faith
in the heart of America," con
cluded Miss Wiesenfeld. "It is
too late to help me, but there's
still time to save the sight of
DOO (JaJaDB
of Old Eli's
sons have done
right well by
themselves.
ment from under the blotter, .tln t,-m t .., .i-v,. t Yes, sir, the
hv. nvorwwi 4h t,M and said: Here, translate this thousands of Americans who are lads who stayed
it is already an active course rcharactern?diovfl " gradually going blind' nV "P iU "'S' I
in our best coeducational character dlme novel! without knowing it." Quarter of a
".1S'''. WuldL". t.h.er'.,J.e LATE RECOMMENDATION CAPITAL NEWS CAPSm.FS staging "Boola,
ninny ui me piuicssurs suit I- , ,Z. ' t - - l n
ciently advanced in the art to The ioin chiefs ' "taff held THREE SENATORIAL . f .
teach the present day student one of tneir most significant SCALPS President Truman f'eeP Iale now
crop anything they don't know meetings last week with Sec- has ordered the Democratic Na- because they
already. But the professors relary 01 ueiense Liouis A John- tionai committee to get the " ' " .
sun. auuiuo ui uuee repuuiiuall sen- "
ti -i i. l:,.. atnrs ot th novt wtir.n t a The class of 1924 has done all
in his boyhood in Salem and Wo nnto that ih. nh.m.u. u. j . rnstl Taft of nMn n,,th- ct right for itself. In fact, I have
which has clung to him. Where fans nln in nail n h v, . m .... u. JSJ Taft - Hartw- TTir-kminnnor nf come to the conclusion,
and how he got it we don't sisters the holiday week-end. so, the heads of the army, navy Iowa for smearing the atomic studying some statistics corn
know, but it seems a natural The girls will probably be glad and air force told him that they energy commission, and Don- P"ed '0f the classes 25th re
form of address when he isn't to have- such a nice bunch of seriously question the advisabil- nel1 of Missouri because H.S.T. ".nlon hls yfar' a,t..on.e of ,the
tiunn.ru wiin uie ancuiy 01 me yisitors. itv of sending laree amounts of doesn't reiisn u.u.F. senators f's"0 y- " ""
hTl.h -II,,. 1, 11 J " " - 1 , , ,
" "ovc isuua arms to Europe under the North Irom nls me state
iuea me guvernur s selection ot "c wain iu weituuie iiiio our Atlantic pact.
a successor to judge rage win r 1 DA junior league f aui
He seems to have been lost in the crush of years, but a number
"Bing," the name he acquired might learn something.
be equally good. We happen to Harvey, Jr., editor of the Hul- cautiou, i makinff thiir .tat. conference convinced Secretary
v, .k.i.. -.in , v N.ur. Dni i. 1 -., .u tauuous in maKing tneir state- .!,.. , ,.
i j u ment, pointed out that they were
told by grapevine and he is a and .maybe. not the youngest making no recommendation,
deep student, a most meticulous nber but a right important that the final decision was up
practitioner ana a man of strong n went to tne dentist to the state department
MESSENGER - BOY VISHIN- university the year ualvin t-ool-
SKY The foreign minister's idge'was elected president
The class of 1924 produced
only one clergyman, one cor
oner, one librarian, one radio
broadcaster, one newspaperman
and one man willing to describe
himself as a philanthropist.
But it turned out 16 bankers,
31 educators, 22 insurance men,
37 lawyers, 22 investment brok
ers, 22 physicians and 68 manu
facturers. Today 149 men own all or
part of their businesses, 54 own
no part. Six are board chair
men, 34 are company presidents,
44 are vice presidents, 36 are
after Parners and at least 30 are full
uwneis, jive men jibvv aureauy
retired. ,
A total of only 626 children
of both sexes was reported by
nin 1 u
!SJ8 haveoka
integrity, an opinion in which
we think everybody will coin
cide when the name is revealed,
expecting to lose a tooth and he
lost tour instead. It seems na
Nevertheless, from a military
its own graduates for its future
crop of freshmen. Only two
men had as manv a iv rhll-
Acheson of one thing: Molotov These highly secret figures dren. Forty-two had none.
is stm boss of Russia s foreign were smuggled to me by a n- Some 194 men thought the
policy, not Vishinsky. The Paris bald friend who sent them here, country was in for more infla
conference took twice as long as hidden in an old pumpkin, via tion, 90 thought prosperity
it should, because Vishirfsky an intermediarv The man trav- would continue. 37 foresaw r-
couldn't make even the most eled on a coach car of the New cession and 177 a degression. On
Note that in the Hiss-Cham- ing each other out.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Once Before Great Britain
Cut Value of Her Money
By DeWITT MaeKkNZIE
(UP) Foreign Affair Analyst)
It's not surprising that Britain's economic crisis should have
given rise to discussion on both sides of the Atlantic as to whether
devaluation of the pound sterling would ease the situation.
Under Eng-
insieau. n seems na- viewnolnt fhnv nnniH Tint inrfitv ' """ even me lumi eied on a coacn car or tne new cession and il l a depression, on
ture had been too bountiful with the exnense of ,rmL 2 Fn minor decision without sending York, New Haven and Hart- the other hand 161 thought the
him and the teeth were crowd- divisions Th!v , , to Moscow for instructions, ford railway to avoid detection, outlook of their own business
. j v: , -- vrnen iwoiotov was ioreign mm
pressed doubt as to what would ister he haQ much more author.
become of these arms in the
1 l - .,r . . 11V.
, TV" European . COMMUNIZING
" "ivaueu. tfflHUPnt ir,i Via loarr,orf
The statistics show that 25 was good, 125 believed It was
years after leaving Yale's ivory fair and only 10 poor. Yale
fniuai hA nje Iioua nn nimrotfa men are self -reliant. Thev be-
ASIA In- earned income of $17,210 and lieve in themselves.
an average income from all the last election 82.7 per
S 22.5i' ported they vod ?o
senators who heard about the Comintern agents to Siam to set
joint chiefs of staff recommend- up a base in Bangkok to win
ation was: "Why tell us so late? over southeast Asia. The Rus
Without arms the North At- sian aeents arrived with nrint.
Thomas E. Dewey, 6.7 per cent
backed Truman, 2 per cent Wal-
The boys have turned out to m,. ' cenl on,
single income was a tidy $400
000,
Z ,, p oecomes an empty mg presses, paper supplies, and e good, steady nusoanos. J.ney t the matter of hobbies 61
Shell. short-wavp radio Thpv swn rarrv an Dvcrniro nf In .,U Ihu. nvafiMW imII ifl i.u
Mr
to me and said:
"You ought to go down and
get an interview with Morgan
about the gold standard." (Mr,
land's managed
(cont rolled)
currency, the
pound now is
pegged at about
$4.03. It also,'
has a fixed val
ue in relation
to the curren
cies of other
countries.
The point in
lowering the
value of the pound would be to
encourage foreigners to increase
their, purchases in Britain.
It works like this: Say the
value of the pound in U.S.
money were reduced from $4.03
to $3.03. Then obviously the
American would save a dollar
on every pound transaction he
made, whether it be for a pair
of gloves or for food. That
would be a drawing card for mistic word from the sphinx of York
NOTE 2 While details were have their own air force pri- life insurance enough to cheer
not discussed at the above meet- vate planes for the use of the any prospective widow. Some
ing it's understood that the nub Russian diplomats. The Red 71 per cent have one or more
of the problem is tanks. The U.S. agents are concentrating their servants and only 7.1 per cent
army could send rifles, machine fire on the whole southeast Asia have wives who work outside
guns, some artillery with no loss, perimeter, all the way to Manila, the home.
But it has no tanks to spare.
European military, especially
the French, point out that a
ing, 15 music, 15 hunting, 14
skiing, 13 photography, 12
bridge, and 2 find their relaxa
tion in Boy Scout work.
Wonder what Frank Merri
well's doing?
O.WIU Haoktnila
tourists ano jixeiy wouia in- tne nouse oi Morgan was
crease exports. credited with having much to do
However, this would cut two. with steading International re
ways for England. While she action.
would be selling more goods,
she would have to pay more for
necessary imports, say from
America, with her devalued
pound, Britain is such a heavy
Importer that her increased ex
penditure for imports might
more than offset her gam
sales.
So Britain thus far has turned
thumbs down on any idea of de
valuation. Back in 1931, during the great
depression, England faced an
other crisis which forced her in
effect to devalue the pound, and
she did it by the sensational
move of going off the gold
standard long her financial
Rock of Gibraltar.
That was on September 21,
Morgan was then in Lnnrinn modern armv without, tanks is
with headquarters in the Mor- like an army with pitchforks,
gan bank). It couldn't last a week against
Well, Morgan received me the Red army's Stalin tanks
like a long lost brother. He considered the most powerful in
played the perfect host, and we the world. Russia has eight tank
talked at length about the gold divisions between the Vistula
standard, . Oder Rivers alone.
I told him the situation was- NOTE 3 The Joint chiefs of
precarious and I , thought he staff include Army Chief Gen.
should make a statement. Fin- Omar Bradley, Navy Chief Adm.
ally he agreed. Louis Denfeld, and Air Chief
Morgan's statement, which Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg.
described the British govern-
ment's action as "a hopeful and BLIND JOAN OF ARC
not a discouraging" event swept "There will be no questions,"
into front pages throughout said Chairman Percy Priest of
America, and of course raced Tennessee when pretty, 28-year-around
the world. This opti- old Mildred Wiesenfeld of New
finished testimony last
nrHCffl
0BUY
week before a congressional sub
committee.
"You have made one of the
finest and best-documented pre-
W. THATS
bit red-faced
Question of Timing
Tarboro, N. C, (U.R) Attorney I. D. Thorpe,
was unnappy with the human clock today.
Thorpe was auestioninir Joe Bullock, a Nesro witness, con.
in cerning a traffic accident.
'How long was it after the bus passed you before you heard
the crash?" Thorpe asked.
"About half a minute," said Bullock.
"How are you so positive It was half a minute?"
"I just know,"
"Let me time you," suggested Thorpe slyly. "I'm going to hold
my watch and I want you to tell me when half a minute elapses."
"Now," said Bullock after exactly 30 seconds.
' "Hmmm," said Thorpe. "Let's do it again."
Bullock gazed blandly Into space for precisely 30 seconds and
said, "now."
That did it. Thorpe gave up, felling rather sheepish. He wish-
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the memorable day on which the ed he hadn'4 t,houKht " up.
whole financial world was
shaken.
Governments nnr big business
the globe around were In a cold
sweat, while they waited for
some sign vof the trend.
It was my fortune to be As
sociated Press chief of bureau
in London at time, and I decided
to consult the American ambas
sador General Charles G. (Hell
and Maria) Dawes, former vice
president and one of the world's
financial experts. I found him
in conference with the late
Thomas Cochran, a partner in
the banking firm of J. P. Mor
gan. The general Invited me "to
get in on this," and I did.
After bit, Cochran turned
Some time later, too late to do anything but blush, Thorpe
glanced toward the rear of the courtroom Facing the witness
stand was a large clock with a sweep second hand.
An Auto, Not a Kiss, for Grandma
Kansas City VP) The bandits had a kiss for grandmother.
But grandmother 59-year-old Mrs. Sadie Crosner would
rather have her automobile back.
Her story, as told to police, was that a young man stepped
into the ear as she stopped for a traffic light while driving
home late Saturday night.
He flourished a gun, forced her to drive to another Inter
section where another young man got into the car. She
was then ordered to drive oat into the country where the two
holdup men rifled her purse of betwen $1 and 118, forced
her to get out of the ear and then drove away with the auto
mobile. Before leaving, however, she said one of them "gave me a
motherly little kiss on the cheek and told me: 'You remind
me of my mother.' " ,
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