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4 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, June 29, 1949
The Council's Pressure Action
' Some members of Salem's city council weren't at all
optimistic about getting together with the Southern
Pacific company to "adjust" the girdle of tracks around
the city. So the council apparently decided to put some
pressure on the "Friendly Railroad."
' The result was the action Monday night when the coun
cil served notice on the company that after next year it
will not again extend the railroad's franchise on Union
street. Also limitations were put on the company's spur
franchises at Front and Division and Water and Court.
The question is also raised as to the status of the fran
chise on 12th street.
Perhaps from this obvious display of determination on
the city's part to get something done to break the rail
barrier, the company will become more talkative. How
ever, as the Capital Journal noted last week, in all fairness
to the railroad, the company did recognize the problem the
growing city faces. That, in itself, is something. After
all, for years the problem has been growing more acute.
To expect a settlement in one meeting or in two or three
meetings is to expect the impossible. This is especially
true when millions of dollars are at stake.
At the same time, the council deserves no censure for
the "pressure" action, although it appears a bit abrupt.
By this cancellation notice on the Union street franchise,
the council forces the Southern Pacific to take up immedi
ately the matter of what the railroad plans to do about its
girdle of steel around the city. The city wants to be co
operative, but it also wants to get something going to
correct the situation.
Salem is well aware it needs the railroad, just as the
railroad needs the city. But when a matter as vital as
this reaches the point it has, both sides ought to work
steadily and constructively toward some solution.
The city council has served notice on the Southern Pa
cific that Salem means business. The council's action
shouldn't be taken to mean anything else.
Putting Teeth in the Labor Law
President Truman received a stinging rebuke when the
senate approved by a vote of 50 to 40, a plan that he has
bitterly opposed for dealing with national emergency
strikes providing for both Taft-Hartley injunctions and
for plant seizure by the government. This provision was
written in as an amendment to the administration's new
labor law to replace the Taft-Hartley act which Mr. Tru
man campaigned for repeal.
The national emergency amendment was sponsored by
Senator Taft (R., Ohio), Senator Forrest C. Uonnell (R.,
Mo.), and Alexander H. Smith (R., N.J.). The senate ap
proved it after first batting down three other plans for
handling strikes imperiling the national health or safety.
The administration bill, as drafted, would have provided
neither injunctions nor seizure but would have established
a 30-day cooling-off period without specific penalties for
violation.
On the showdown vote, 33 republicans and 17 democrats
voted for injunctions and plant seizures ; 35 democrats and
5 republicans voted against it, among them Wayne Morse
of Oregon.
Morse, who has been very verbose in senate labor de
bates and opposed injunctions and wanted control of
strikes left to congress, said the amendments make the
bill "so unworkable and so anti-labor that the sooner we
get rid of it and take the whole issue to the polls ni 1950
the better."
However, without emergency court action and seizure
power, there would be no control possible of strikes endan
gering public welfare and the labor bosses would be free
to paralyze public welfare.
A Good Appointment
The appointment of Circuit Judge E. M. ("Bing") Page
to be associate justice of the supreme court to succeed the
late Percy R. Kelly by Governor McKny, was an excellent
one and merited by his judicial service and conduct on the
lower court bench. His decisions have been fair and im
partial and he has the judicial temperament and tradi
tional poise.
Judge Page is a native of Salem and will serve until the
next general election. He was graduated from Willamette
university law school in 1913 but had to wait a year until
his 21st birthday to be admitted to the state bar. He
joined the law firm founded by Federal Judge John H.
McNary and his brother, Senator Charles L. McNary, and
was still a member of the firm and its successor on his
appointment to the circuit bench in the new judicial dis
trict of Marion county created by the 1941 legislature.
Governor McKay still has to appoint a successor to Judge
Page as circuit judge. There is no dearth of good mate
rial or of candidates, for that matter. The judiciary, how
ever, Is non-partisan, thus the executive is not limited in
choice to job seeking politicians.
When Li'l Abner Almost Got
Married Yanks Kept in Suspense
Tokyo U.R) The allied occupation breathed a collective
igh of relief on learning Li'l Abner wriggled free of the
bonds of matrimony.
People in the United States surmounted this crisis in the
life of Al Capp's popular comic strip character several weeks
go. However, the army newspaper Stars and Stripes was
behind the times because the strip has to be mailed here.
"Probably the most significant event In the news if the
one that caused the most comment can be called the most
significant was the 'dlslegalizing' of Li'l Abner's marriage to
Daisy Mae Scragg," the paper said.
The paper said thousands In the occupation had eyed the
strip with "ever-growing anxiety" during the past week when
Li'l Abner seemed doomed.
Li'l Abner married Daisy Mae, but a legal technicality made
ihe marriage Invalid.
Escape Methods Get Jammed
Arvin, Calif. (U.R) Five prisoners, Jailed on a drunkenness
charge, pooled their knowledge of escape methods and began
working on their cell door lock.
Folic had to call a locksmith to get tin prisoners out.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Truman Talks Plans to
Fortify Nation's Economy
By DREW PEARSON
Washington President Truman discussed plans for fortifying
the nations' economy against depression in a recent off-the-record
talk with six democratic senators and congressmen.
Only a meager announcement leaked out to the press, but
here are the highlights of what happened. A program of "eco
nomic expansion" was proposed
that may affect the future of dent has been holding up ap-
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
every American,
President Tru
man greeted the
congressi o n a 1
group by say
ing: "I think I
am way ahead
of you on this."
Then he pull
ed several
charts out of his
top, right-hand
drawer showing
the latest na
tional statistics
on prices, wages,
pointments to punish southern
senators and congressmen who
have opposed his program. But
what the White House didn't
take into account is that John
ton happens to be chairman of
the senate post office commit
tee which must pass on all post
master appointments.
So the South Carolinian sidled
up to Senator Howard McGrath,
democratic national chairman,
and later to Senate Secretary
Les Biffle, the president's close
friend. Drawline sweetlv. John-
profits and ston let it be known that he was
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SIPS FOR SUPPER
More Moon
BY DON UPJOHN
A semi-anonymous customer labelling himself as
Charlie" before it grows into a crisis
offers the ripest suggestion yet as to ironing out the time situa
tion. Instead of turning the clock ahead to effect daylight savings
he urges it be
production up to the end of disturbed over not getting post
May, masters for South Carolina, and
He admitted that the first hinted that maybe he would just
symptoms of depression are be- block all appointments until
ginning to show and agreed that those for his own state came
the best plan is to attack any through.
"mild break" in the economy Johnston aUowed time for his
to stop it from spreading. remarks to pass on to the White
He stressed however, that he Hou then called for an
is not worried about depression pointment. when he was usher.
as long as each problem is met ed into the presidenfs office, he
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set two hours
behind to bring
about moon
light savings
"We are sure
that you," he
writes, "having
been under the
inf 1 u e n c e of
L o n g f e 1 low,
Tennyson and
Victor Herbert,
will appreciate
talked about other matters. Then
he mentioned casually: "I notice
a lot of postmasters have been
I w
Don Upjohn
four years of high school at Leb
anon' and earned a diploma this
month, complete with special
graduation exercises that includ
ed an address by the school prin
cipal, processional and reces
sional marches, took a well
earned rest. His punctuality dur
ing school was shattered during
his first month of vacation when
he "disappeared" last Tuesday,
the president were Senators appointed lately, but my state
james Murray or Montana, ii- hasn't gotten any. This is creat-
bert Thomas of Utah, John ing a little talk.'
Sparkman of Alabama, Hubert
Humphrey of Minnesota, Con
gressman Andy Biemiller of
Wouldn't the president, please.
he asked, look into the matter?
Scratching a note on his pad,
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Paul Revere and Sheridan A
Had Nothing on Hal's Driver
By HAL BOYLE
New York (IP) To understand a Frenchman, all you have to do
is to take a ride with him in his motor car.
After five miles you will know the spirit of France better than
if you had read
Wisconsin and Congresswoman Truman replied: "Yes, we'll at-
Helen Uahagan Douglas ot call- tend to that right away."
fornia all democrats.
tht ,iihmit mnnnlieht romance master, joay ciouni, repun-
will dwindle and die, and un- ed. Friday morning, however
less something is done to that the educated canine returned
end where'll we be?" Charley home, tired and bedraggled, but
waxes eloquent by declaring considerably chastened,
that "some pusillanimous Port- ., 4 ..
land politicians yielding to the Let's hope that these showers
machinations of material mind- will shower themselves out by
ed money mad mongers have re- tomorrow when the neighbor
ccntly inaugurated moonlight hood officially becomes Cherry
wasting time which in turn has land. Summer has lingered long
been foisted on the state at large, enough in the lap of spring.
In this cloud covered land it is
moonlight not daylight that
should be saved in the clear sum
mer months or love will lose its
way."
That old duck back in Chica
go who is accused ol laKing
flock of women over the coun
try for a couple of million bucks
in his philanderings may be an
We feel quite inclined to agree errant Romeo but nevertheless
.., , a ,Li j 1UUI he had to have a lot of help
with Charley. All this daylight f rom the other si(Je of the fence
savings business is an impious We venture to guess that as he
delusion. However, as to his himself posed as a millionaire
idea that romance may dwindle the girls thought they were do-
at first blush we'd agree with
him. Except for the fact that
about the time daylight savings
went into effect the couples be
gan swarming in at the county
clerk's office, piling over the
ing a bit of
own behalf.
"taking" on their
More Ladders Needed
Pendleton (If) A
since 1932 fell off
democrat
ladder,
counters and jostling and push- smashcd two ribs, and changed
ing each other In a scramble to his polltics here last night. Joe
get licenses. Maybe they've all Bean lne victim, said he'd even
just been sun struck. pay for a portrait of Thomas E.
, ,, , , , Dewey. How come politics mix
Pedantic Pooch Plays Truant with rib brcaking? Bea waa
Lebanon "Freddie," the hanging a picture of President
punctual pooch who attended Truman.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Inside Story of Relations
With China May be Told
By DeWITT MacKkNZIE
tllft Porelsn Affair Analyst)
Secretary of State Acheson says the complete inside story of
American relations with China may be told soon. It should be a
best seller.
This state
ment was moreR
or less coinci
dent with two i
striking devel
opments in the
U.S. senate.
In one case
several senators
took the floor
to criticize the
American poli
cy toward Na-1
tionnlist China.
In the other, 21 senators (15 re-
Hewitt Mackrnila
en the general attitude that it
wouldn't recognize any commu
nist regime so long as a responsi
ble Nationalist government ex
isted. The U.S.A. wasn't going
to do anything to contribute to
the Nationalist collapse.
Well and good, but what con
stitutes a "responsible govern
ment?" What responsibilities
must it meet in order to clas
sify? How much of the country
must the Natonnlist control to
be "responsible"? At what
publicans and 6 democrats) sent stage of control would the corn-
President Truman a letter ask- munist become "responsible"?
ing for assurances that the Unit- Thcrli of course there arise,
ed States wouldn t recognize the the rc1.hot question of whether
communist regime but would the United stateSi in conflict
continue to support the nation- with communism the world over,
ahst government. , should recognize a Chinese com-
munist government at all.
Observers figure that this sen- Those queries need official
atorial reaction may speed pub- answer, since anything short of
liration of the report. However, that is pure specualtion.
it's clear that any detailed dis-
cussion of the American govern- T .,
ment's feeling about China In the past the international
might be a decidedly delicate Practce frequently has been to
mttPr grant recognition to a govern-
After all, it will be passing ment whcn U,was 8 Kin8 con
strange if the state department fern really in control of the
hasn't some poignant criticisms territory it represented. Such
to make of Chinese Nationalist recognition didn t in itself mean
inefficiency. That wouldn't be an endorsement of the govern
of much comfort or aid to a nient or an expression of ap
government fighting for its life Proval- It merely meant that the
against communism. government was in fact a going
Naturally, t h e paramount concern, that is, it was a "de
questions involved are those tacto government,
raised in the senatorial letter Actually, in the past many
whether America shall con- governments have been given
tinue to support the Nationalist such recognition when they
government and whether she didn't meet with the full ap
shall refuse to recognize a com- proval of the granters.
munist government. Why then the recognition?
Satisfactory answers call for Because envoys couldn't be sent
much more detail than is im- to the new government with
plied in the general phrasing out recognition, and the country
of the questions. withholding recognition would
thus be handicapped in securing
Thus far Washington has tak- vital Information.
At the top of the five-point
"economic expansion" program
they urged on Truman was pro
motion of private investment
and production by offering
FHA-type loans to build plants.
Private ente r p r 1 s e , they
agreed, is the key to a healthy
economy.
The legislators also recom
mended: 1. A national advisory board,
combining the business, labor,
agriculture and consumer com
mittees that now exist separate
ly; 2. Measures to deal directly
with serious unemployment
wherever and whenever it de
velops: 3. Long-range planning for
public works and resource de
velopment; 4. Voluntary adjustments in
purchasing power.
Truman said he couldn't en
dorse the program without stu
dying the details, but remarked:
"You are my kind of folks."
Their kind of thinking, he
added, had always coincided
with his own.
It had been his belief and
policy to ease off inflation con
trols gradually and give the eco
nomy a chance to adjust Itself.
But the GOP-controlled 80th
congress scrapped all controls at
once, let prices and profits soar
unchecked: then, as a last straw,
passed a "rich man's" tax bill.
"That was no time for a rich
man's tax bill when profits
were at their highest," Truman
shook his head.
The Inevitable result was
"economic dislocation," the pre
sident declared. From such diz
zy heights, it would only be na
tural for prices, profits, wages
and production to come crash
ing down. Therefore, he said,
the government must throw
roadblocks in the way to prevent
stampeding the economy into
depression.
If the public doesn't get
panicky, Truman added, there
is no danger of depression.
DIXIECRAT POSTMASTERS
South Carolina's wily Senator
Olin Johnston reversed the ta
bles on President Truman the
other day and applied some sly
counter-pressure to get postmas
ters appointed in his state.
. It is no secret that the presi-
MERRY-GO-ROUND
A group of Iowa editors held
a private confab between meet
ings of the Des Moines democra
tic farm meeting. They agreed
Senator Hickenlooper is making
a bad impression among the
home folks, because of his reck
less attacks upon Atomic Ener
gy Chief David Lilienthal.
General Eisenhower's strange
opposition to federal aid to edu
cation is attributed to the influ
ence of Ike's good friend, Tom
Watson of International Business
Machines. Ike's opposition has
also convinced a lot of educators
that the general was right when
he once indicated that he knows
a lot more about war than the
peacetime needs of the nation.
Secretary of State Acheson
and Under-Secretary Webb are
shopping around for summer
cottages not far from the spot
where the Wright brothers flew
their first airplane at Kitty
Hawk, N.C.
Veterans of Foreign Wars
chiefs are going to be plenty
miffed at President Truman if
he doesn't attend their annual
convention in Miami in late Au
gust. Truman turned down an
invitation to last year's VFW
meeting on the ground he might
be criticized for making a poli
tical talk to the vets during the
campaign, but despite this he at
tended the American Legion
convention.
ACHESON REPORTS
One important point that did
n't leak out of Secretary Ache
son's hush-hush report to the
senate foreign relations commit
tee was regarding his smooth re
lations between the western
powers.
Acheson reported that the
British and French were more
reasonable over the question of
German economic and political
rehabilitation than ever before.
Earlier the French had been
adamant against building up
Germany, but at Paris, both Bri
tain and France seemed more
worried about Germany as a
commercial competitor than as
a military force, Acheson report
ed. They were willing to go much
farther in rebuilding German
production, provided that tight
control over military develop
ment was guaranteed.
(Copyright 1948)
hundred his
tories. You
will never
again sell the
French short, or
believe they
are through as
a nation.
For the
Frenchman has!
not let the ma
chine age take
Hal Boyle
like a maddening waterbug.
Our drive- drove like a French
man making love or painting
a picture with lip, passion,
artistic frenzy.
We grazed the handlebars of
bicycles, and they peeled off to
the right. We skinned the paint
off motor cars coming at us, and
they sheered off to the left.
"Anybody got a can opener
let's bail out," someone
screamed.
romance out of
nis jue. nis moior car isn i jusi Then we got caught in a
an instrument to get him some- of traffic jamJ Elsewhere in
where efficiently. Its a four- ,ho W,H wll th.re . traf.
wheeled adventure a vehicle
fic jam, the vehicles come to a
that lets him play highway chess t,'u0it aW
, fin nn l.n.. 1 6 u ...,
at uu itiucs ait jivu..
Not on the road to Paris. The
I learned all I want to learn bieeer the lam the faster It
about the dauntless character of moves. Everybody gears up and
the French the other day in a hundreds of cars going in op-
rlde from Caen to Paris. posite directions thread through
My fellow passengers were each other in shifting, weaving
two ex-jeepmates from the war honking masses at 60 miles an
days George Hicks of the Na- hour,
tional Broadcasting company,
and Jack Thompson, the Chica- ..gtopi Halt! Slow down!" we
go Tribune's bearded military yelled The drlver turned grln.
expert. ned cjrcied a truck and picked
Our voiture was a new tiny Up speed. He wanted the Amer-
model Renault. In a Detroit leans to have a good time,
factory it might be stepped on After the tnird traffic jam j
as an oversized cockroach But found lf mumbiing a codi.
litlea"' whlh 'e11 or cil to my will. Hicks was mur
$800 to $900 and get 50 miles muring what j took to be a
to a gallon of gas, are popular prayr Thompson's beard was
wrae' , , turning a silent blue.
We three shoehorned in with By some miracle we reached
the driver but had some trouble Versailles, on the outskirts of
closing the door. It kept re- PariSi M suddenly as it had
bounding from Jacks beard. erupted in frenzy, traffic slow
Finally he managed to twist d down to gentle SO-mil.-an
his head. Someone outside hour crawl,
quickly slammed the door. And ' .. ,
we were off. " was then we discovered our
, , , driver was boiling mad. By
There has been no ride like esture nd Phrase u
it since Paul Revere rode to now why', seed
spread the alarm and Sheridan had ?weed, lnthia path
galloped to Winchester, 15 miles ""
" was angry because he hadn t
away.
It turned out our driver was
not iiist a chauffeur. He was Bar-
SALEM HOSPITAL FUND DRIVE
Reasons Why Hospitalization
Costs so Much for Patient
QUESTION: Why does hospitalization cost so much? It seems
that hospitals charge enough to do their own remodeling, re
equipping and construction. '
ANSWER: Hospital costs have the hospital is shorter, the aver
always been expensive when ase daily cost is much higher,
compared with the daily wage The new drugs and intraven
of a man who has some member ous feedings are of compara
of his family in the hospital. tively recent use and they are
The cost today compared with more expensive than the older
the cost ten years ago is ap- method of treatment. In many
proximately doubled. But 70 cases, however, the expense for
of the hospital budget is for the shorter stay of five days is
the payroll of the working staff no more than the former stay
and that has more than doubled of ten days.
in some departments. Indus-
mZ JL,V, Principle, non-profit hospitals
chinery to make up for shorter ' . . ,r ..
day's work, but it takes the "," ""' "i ' Tu ' " ". . 2 T.
As a. matter of policy and
. TJ .jjiVi. cover the actual cost of opera
w X h. Vtll tion. It is a 24-hour service of
have to be paid to make up. for ,i, i. j k-u
4, .jj;,inn.i !T ... three shifts with meals and bath
done'by'red ST ' b ?"d ' "
ens, often several changes,
The ambulatory method of watchful care, special diets, rub
treating patients today gets them bing backs, carrying bed pans,
out of the hospital in shorter administering medicines and
time The first two or three giving treatments, keeping rec
days have always been the ex- ords and waiting on the public,
pensive days. Those are the There is no money left for
days for surgery, deliveries, capital account. That must be
heavy laboratory work, X-Rays, furnished out of the earnings of
and drugs. Since the stay In those able to work.
tients . more than enough tj
crashed head on into the truck
to punish it.
nev Olrifield and Sir Malcolm A Frenchman would rather
Campbell. He was D'Artagnan Set into an accident if justice is
carrying a message for the on his side than to avoid an ac-
queen. He was Roland, blowing cident and feel he had not in-
his horn at Roncesvalles. And s'sted upon his rights," he said
when huge trucks bore down on wlth dignity,
us, he was "Papa" Joffre, the That is all anyone needs to
Rock of the Marne. know about the French spirit.
Down the road our little car He'll hold on to it even if it
sped at 100 kilometers an hour lands him in a ditch,
MIGRANTS FROM SIBERIA
First American Lived in
Calif. 40,000 Years Ago?
By PAUL F. ELLIS
New York (U.R) An anthropologist has offered evidence that
the first American man lived 40,000 or more years ago in Call- A
fornia. ' '
Furthermore, according to Dr. "suggests that man, possessing
George F. Carter, of Johns Hop- the mano and by inference us
kins university, Baltimore, the ing the metate to grind wild
early American probably was a seeds, eating shell fish, and pos
descendant of a cultured tribe sessed, so far as is now known,
of migrants who came to North of only simple stone flakes, lived
America from Siberia during an at La Jolla something like 40,-inter-glacial
period. 000 years ago.
Dr. Carter based his conclu- "If the hearths found in deep
sions on a study of soil deposits er strata are indeed evidence of
near La Jolla, Cal., where he man, then human occupancy of
already had found a mano, a this area extends back through
stone believed used to grind the Wisconsin period." The so
grain. He also told of the dis- called Wisconsin period is an in-
co very of hearths, shells from ter-glacial time in the pelisto
seafoods and stone flakes pro- cene age.
duced by man.
Reporting in the transactions Dr. Carter said that the evl
of the New York Academy of dence obtained so far does "not
Sciences, Dr. Carter said it suggest a people with any traces
could be estimated that soil of of a cultural suitable to glacial
an alluvian fan, similar to a Arctic climate survival," and
delta, off La Jolla was deposit- that "one might argue that the
ed during the pleistocene glacial La Jolla people are survivors of
age probably at a time when higher culture."
the ice had moved north of Cali- He said that early Califor
fornia. nians, however, might have
... crossed the Bering Strait "at a
Dr. Carter's observation time when the climate was
places man in what is now the markedly warmer than at pres
United States at a much earlier ent and when the great con
age than the folsom man, who tinental ice masses did not ex
is believed to have lived here 1st."
probably 15,000 to 20,000 years Therefore, he believes that
ago. man entered America during the
The only evidence of the fol- last inter-glacial period, which
som man was the discovery of is at variance with the ideas of
a crude arrow-head in the skele- many other anthropologists whofi
ton of a buffalo near Folsom, have insisted that man in Amer-y1
N.M. ica is a comparatively "new ar-
"The evidence so far," he said, rival" say 10,000 years or so.