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Salem, Oregon, Friday, July 1, 1949
K Threat to Salem's Air Position
Salem was startled by word from Washington, D.C.,
that the Civil Aeronautics board was considering cutting
the city off from United Air Lines service. United Air
Lines was startled, too, for that matter. The CAB had
a proposal before it to substitute West Coast Airlines for
United.
The proposal contemplated a five-year extension in
operating authority for West Coast, which is a feeder line.
The air fate of Salem is involved in the extension question.
West Coast asked that present service to McMinnville be
iiscontinued. Service to Salem presumably would be sub
itituted, instead. Whether service to Everett, Anacortes
and Mt. Vernon in Washington should be discontinued
would be investigated, too. The board would consider
whether United Air Lines or West Coast Airlines should
serve Bellingham, where both now stop. The CAB be
lieves one air line service there Is enough.
The aeronautics board may seek, by this hearing, to cut
3own competition and thus save subsidy money to the air
lines for air mail. But in the case of the substitution of
West Coast, a feeder line, for United, a major line, there
Is no competition involved. West Coast has not been
established yet in Salem. So the city would be the loser
if United were told by the all-powerful CAB to pull up
stakes here and leave the state's capital and second city
to a feeder line for service.
Salem has an impressive standing on United Air Lines'
list of stations. And this is the case even though the city
has only a second-rate listing of flights, and has been
served only since 1941.
Business for United here has increased 15 percent dur
ing the first six months of this year over the same period
af last year. When the nation's economy is starting to
squeak a little now, that 15 percent increase is really some
thing. Of the 71 stations served by United Air Lines over the
nation, Salem stands 28th in the amount of air freight and
express. In baggage, the capital holds an even better
position.
In any appraisal of Salem's position in relation to air
line service, it would be foolish to lose sight of the future.
The Willamette valley is growing as fast percentage
wise as probably any other large section of the country.
So, to eliminate the second city in size in that valley from
transcontinental service (United) would be foolish and
harmful to Salem and the valley.
Also, only last year was the city's master airport plan
put into effect. This plan offers the basis for a field here
that will be the equal of any in a comparable size city in
the United States. A new administration building with
airline facilities is now on the drawing boards.
Not to be ignored either is the position that McNary
field assumed last year when Portland's Columbia airport
was flooded and knocked out of service. Both United and
Northwest Airlines moved operations here temporarily.
The runways at McNary field were the only ones in the
area suitable for the taking off and landing of the big
DC-6s flying for United.
Instead of cutting the capital from the list of stations
served by United Air Lines, the CAB could encourage even
better air schedules for Salem by United. If West Coast
also wants to come here, that is another matter, but one
not to be considered as a matter of choice; United or West
Coast.
The DuPonts Under Federal Fire
, Attorney General Clark has filed what is described as
the "most sweeping anti-trust suit in history, aimed at
breaking up the nation's largest single concentration of
industrial power in the nation" to force the great DuPont
industrial empire to sell its alleged controlling interest in
General Motors Corporation and the United States Rub
ber company.
The government suit, filed in the federal district court
at Chicago, said that for the year 1947, the thr.ee com
panies held combined assets of $4,259,000,000, made com
bined sales of $5,189,000,000, and had a combined net in
come, after taxes, of $429,000,000.
The government asked in a civil anti-trust suit that
the DuPont company be forced to sell all its stock in Gen
eral Motors and that members of the DuPont family be
required to sell all their stock in U.S. Rubber. It alleges
the DuPont company owns 23 percent of the General Mo
tors common stock, the rest being split up among 436,000
stockholders, and that the DuPont family (128 members),
own 17 percent of the U.S. Rubber stock, the rest being
split up among 14,000 stockholders. It alleges this division
of stock gives the DuPonts control over the two companies.
The suit charged that the E. I. DuPont De Nemours com
pany, General Motors and U.S. Rubber sell their products
to each other at preferential prices and in closed markets.
The defendants are charged with "combining and conspir
ing to violate the anti-trust laws."
Past anti-trust trials showed that such proceedings usu
ally wear on for month after month and will take years
to bring the suit to trial and then years for the actual
trial and final decision. The civil anti-trust suit against
the optical manufacturers and opticians, filed in 1946,
hasn't come to trial yet. Neither has the suit filed against
the nation's big meat packers last year. The suit filed
against the Atlantic and Pacific grocery chain, started in
1942, was not formally decided until this year.
We hold no briefs for the DuPonts. They rank among
the most successful industrialists in the nation and are
amply able to defend themselves, but their record is a
good one. They placed their enormous plants at the dis
posal of the government and operated them without charge
during the war, free of profiteering.
But the DuPonts have accumulated a huge fortune hon
estly which seems to be a crime nowadays. They have
spent more money for chemical research and originated
more new products, now in universal use, and created
more new industries than any concern in the country.
Whatever they control is managed efficiently, intelligently
and economically without taint of scandal and at a profit
to investors. If the government was as well managed,
a Hoover report on reorganization would have been un
necessary.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Catholic Congressman
Differs with Cardinal
By DREW PEARSON
Washington One congressman who has vigorously defended
North Carolina's Graham Barden from the charge of "bigot"
hurled at him by Cardinal Spellman is Rep. Andrew Jacobs of
Indianapolis, himself a devout catholic.
Jacobs, a freshman who in six months has made an outstanding
record. serves "
who agreed tnere was no use in
Western Powers spreading their
forces too thin in case of war
with Russia.
Real Estate Lobby Advice
The real estate lobby is now
instructing builders how to beat
the law if investigated for hous
ing frauds. A set of legal moves
has been doped out by Herbert
Colton, lawyer for the Nation
al Association of Home Builders,
Drew reanoB and published in the associa-
h t. . ...( tion's monthly magazine.
catholics disaeree with Cardinal . His advice' if aU else fails, is
Spellman.
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
on the same, ed
ucation and la
bor committee
with Barden,
where the aid-to-education
bill
is now bottled
the
late Al Smith
on the separa
tion of church
and state, Jac-
to appeal over the head of the
SIPS FOR SUPPER
AT LEAST 5,000 ADULTS IN THE U.S.
HAVE LESS BRAIN POWER THAN AH APE.
WANT TO WORK
30 YEARS FOR THE SAME
EMPLOYER? ODDS ARE
II.IOOTOlAoAINSTYOU.
(FOR YOU, ROBERT MANOICH,
VeiRTON, W.VA.)
FRECKLES ? IT'S
I IN 3 YOU HAVE THEM
Everybody Happy
BY DON UPJOHN
It was a great parade today, fitting show for what promises to
be one of Salem's greatest festivals. The queen and her retinue
were at their best, the bands exuded inspiration every step of
their way, visit
or some such thing.
a large hole was burned in the
roof. Damage was estimated at
$200.
ing delegations
were numerous,',
Russ Bonesteele;
in his 1011 Stu-.
debaker, other
old cars and the
covered wagon
along with Alice
Shucking, first
of the cherry
queens and her
p r e d e c e ssors
took the story
Don Upjohn
The grapevine reports that
Ben (Harvey) Neufeld employed
at Firestone store is one of the
latest additions to our FT&BA
brigade and is now right at the
milk toast stage with expectancy
of the new ones pronto. His as
sociates say that Ben claims he
back not only to the start of the had 'em pulled but say that's
cherry festivals but with the :ust his story.
covered wagon to the start of
the town. And the people were We doubt lf any other court
not the only ones who could house in the land can have such
derive excitement and glory 3ust claims as to being a patriot
from the affair. What with mag- P'ace as our own Marion
nificant showing of horse flesh cunty structure. It boasts of
the sparrows got the bigges three gal employes who are real
break they've had since the liv- live daughters of their Uncle
ery stable days. Sam wno were born on tne
' Fourt of July and will celebrate
Explosive Mixture their birthdays next Monday.
Stayton Kids, plus matches, They are Deputy Sheriff Alma
plus firecrackers added up to Johnson, Deputy County Clerk
a fire in the haymow of a barn Helen Mulkey and Deputy Coun
belonging to Mrs. Pauline Fery, ty Recorder Virginia Gritton.
on West Washington street, Happy birthdays girls with
Tuesday afternoon, calling out plenty of firecrackers and noise,
the Stayton fire department. The But we bet they all spend the
crackers ignited some straw and holiday at home cleaning house
Music Found to Have No Effect
In Cutting Down Accident Rate
Portland (U.R) Music may soothe the savage beast but it
won't keep you from sticking your finger in a saw.
That, in effect, was the conclusion drawn after a 12-week
experiment to determine whether Bach and boogie would cut
down the industrial accident rate.
Dr. Edmund E. Dudek, director of the bureau of testing
and an associate professor of psychology at the University
of Washington, reported on the music test at a "psychology"
session at the western safety conference.
Dudek said experiments were conducted in a plant employ
ing over a thousand workers. During a 12-week period, music
was played during working hours, varying the type of enter
tainment and the length of the periods during which it was
furnished.
"From the tests, experimenters were able to draw the con
clusion that music, on the average, had no significant influ
ence on the accident rate," Dudek said.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
This is a Crucial Stage
In the War of the Isms
By DeWITT MncKtlSZIE
(II Forolirn Affairs Analyst)
The world-wide ideological conflict between communism and
democracy, involving a life and death struggle between religion
and the Red ism, is intensifying. We have reached a crucial period.
warfare
tacks of the communist-led re
gime in Czechoslovakia on Arch
bishop Bcran as a violation of
the "rights of conscience and the
decencies of civilization."
The situation in Czechoslov
akia is similar to what happened
in Hungary, where Cardinal
Mindszenty was charged with
plotting against the republic.
He was tried and condemned to
life imprisonment.
Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizard
of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
N. Y. Is the United States
In One City, Hal Contends 4
By HAL BOYLE
New York VP) Oh, I tell you, New York is a wonderful town!
It must be fine or there wouldn't be so many people crowded
here together to enjoy it.
It's really a
"As long as we have the same 'ocai
right to send our children to airi "lorney also urges
public schools as anyone else, sending a committee of builders
we are not d i s c r i m i n a t e d ? .the D A- in advance of offer
against," Congressman Jacobs advlsry mce.
says in a special statement to Revolt Plans in Austria U.
catholics. "And, as catholics, s- diplomats in Vienna report
we do not have the rieht to a that the communists and former
separate, publicly supported nazis are combining to over- nuuncnoucD
school system, nor does any oth- throw the Austrian government HUUK MAN J rnlLUjUrntK
er group of people have such 3ust as soon as a peace treaty
right. is signed. That these two usu-
"Whatever can be constitu- ally bitter opponents nazis and
tionally done to aid a child will communists had made a se-
win my support. However, I cret deal to merge was the first
cannot and will not support any tipoff the United States had that
measure that grants public fi- Russia was now willing to write
nancial aid to prlVate or paro- a Peace treaty for Austria,
chial schools. What Vishinsky doesn't know,
"We have the right to build however, is that the U.S.A. will
and maintain our churches," send American arms and am-
continued the Indiana Demn- munition to Austria to make sure
crat, "but not to build or main- doesn't suffer the same fate terrible place to
tain them with public funds as Czechoslovakia. visit or die in,
Our parochial schools are an but a grand
adjunct of our religion, estab- NAVY LOBBY town to live in.
lirhed for educational use in- One top navy man has finally For here the
stead of using public schools, seen fit to take on the arrogant poor man has
solely for the sake of the child's navy league He is Undersec- courage, and
religious training. retary of the Navy Dan Kimball, fights for his
"The issue is clear. Either who has written a strong letter rights. He's as
you keep parochial schools and to Frank Hecht, the navy lea- good as a mil
maintain them or take public gue's president, urging him to 1 i o n a i r e any
funds and convert them into pipe down. doV and he'll
public schools, and they will Kimball pointed out that Sec- stay up all night
then no longer serve the reli- retary Johnson's actions in or- t tell Von whv.
gious purpose for which they dering two battleships converted v rirh nr Door vou're lust American. Because here people
were established." into flattops made a great deal another number here, and some- are really working toward the
of sense to the navy. For it will ,;, nioacant tn wnnder kind of democracy the rest of
Congressman Barden of North now have two more flattops in wnether you're 8 675 341 or the country reads about in high
irnlina luKnm f',)i4irtol C-tnll a v... i half ".l- V.nn . 1 1 i ; i i
acnuui civics uuuks.
There are only a few cities in
the world that are really cities
London for courage, Paris for
loveliness, Calcutta for misery,
Dal Boyle
You have to belong to it it
can never belong to you. This
is a man's town, and it's cut for
size. It has outgrown every
body who ever lived in it and
it's still growing.
And the people who live in
it are growing, too. The fat
voiced tourists come here and
look around and shake their
heads and leave again, saying,
"After all, New York City isn't
America."
But New York City is Amer
ica, and there is no town more
Carolina, whom Cardinal Spell- a year and a half rather than mavDe j 435 768
man hoc atfaolraH !o a nniat uait fnr .iinDi.nni.,iM. mliint. 1 J '
(Copyrlcht 1949)
man has attacked, is a quiet, wait for a supercarrier which
hard - working, middle-of-the- might take over five years,
roader who is viewed in con- Kimball has asked Hecht to
gress as anything but a bigot, apologize to Secretary Johnson
Actually, he agrees with Cardi- for his criticism. It will be in-
nal Spellman on many things, teresting to see if Hecht follows
especially on the point that the this advice.
the Federal Government should
not control education.
Barden is a man of deep,
fighting convictions, and one of
these is that we must raise our
public-school standards.
"I happen to be a Presbyter
ian," says Barden. "But I don't
believe it's the duty of the gov
ernment to provide money for
Presbyterian schools any more
Who cares?
There is one thing sure:
You can never be Mr. Num
ber One. Because nobody is big Shanghai for sin, Rome for heal-
enough to be really important '"8 ana nurt, Atnens lor Diue
on this $24 island.
skies, Cairo for gold and in
trigue, Naples for a merry heart
and a dirty face, Berlin, the
tomb and womb and anvil of
war, Moscow for mockery of
human rights, and Washington,
where every man who has been
elected twice can hope for a
marble monument.
And. of pourse. there arA
Washington, July 1 UP) President Truman owes his elevation jmaiiPr ritie with a hrpaHth nf
than for the private schools of to the Presidency to a "rather casual action" by the late President mind say Philadelphia, say St.
j.-mun..u uuxvk uu louis, say Baltimore, say xvew
velt's secretary for 17 years. - - 7" Orleans, say San Francisco, the
She said Mr. Roosevelt cas- you to re-type this letter and to .. .!. .,. '
ually agreed to switch Mr Tru- switch these names , so it will BostQn only 6pla6C6 j k'ow
CLOSE SHAVE TOLD BY SECRETARY
Truman's Listing in '44
By FDR Counted in Vote
Methodists, Catholics, Quakers,
Episcopalians or any other
faith."
Barden was a battler for bet
ter education long before he mans name ahead of that of "ad -Ha rry Truman or Bill where nobody hollers against
came to congress in 1934. As a
member of the North Carolina
supreme tourt justice wiiuam oumua tunnnura. . ...
O. Douglas for the 1944 vice- "The reason for the switch m.'
They are all old cities, each
esiaeniiai nomination. aj ,JBU"uo marker! hv an nntirtne hitfntrv
The current Ladies' Home man first it mplied that ; he was 1nJV J.
legislature he lert the fieht for presidential nomination. was obvious. By naming Tru
the improvement of both white
and colored schools. The fact
... i r ha ni.afaii.nW nhninA nf H& rr-
journal prints excerpts irom Ei.mni h an ir,Hi,M,,0i
that Noorn .hnnit.K.r. ore Miss Tullv's storv. shortly to Went Ihe convention took it ... .. .
- ..... : 1 . . - ' - .. 4i i. j n. less ireeuum, tuu. as ail
white and appear in dook iorm, unaer tne ". ,t,
old
DfWIII MackenxU
The troubles of unhappy Hun-
The
is particularly
tense in cen
tral and west
ern Europe,
where Moscow
is striking fier
cely at anti
Red elements in
an effort to con
solidate the So
viet gains.
However, the
tempo also is
swelling rapidly in the West
Democracies, which finally have gary continue.
admitted that communism isn't Her Rcd ieadcr Matvas Rak-
susccptible to compromise. osii few davs ag0 stated in
The Orient is torn with strife Prague that 200,000 Hungarian
n which communism is heavily communjst party members have
involved. ( becn cxpclled in a purge of
"spies and provacateurs." Rak-
The tensest drama is being si added that he is waging a
staged in Czechoslovakia. "campaign of destruction with
There the communist govern- an iron hand" against dissidents
ment, charging the Catholic still in the party.
church with subversive activi- Other satellite countries are
ties, is striking hard. Catholic having their religious troubles,
informants say the government including Romania, Bulgaria
has seized virtually all church and Poland. That's not strange
consistories in the country, in view of Moscow's edict that
Many priests reportedly have there shall be no interference
been arrested. Archbishop Jo- with the campaign of anti-reli-
scf Beran is virtually a prisoner gious propaganda. Yugoslavia,
In his palace in Prague. of course, has been placed on
ti.. ...kkt.k.r. k j Russia's black list for failure to
The archbishop has managed , .
to get a message to Czechoslov- while ii hi. u ,i. i
a nnn nnn r-oikii ... While all this is going on in
akia s , 9,000,000 Catholics say- , .,;, -,,(Ji.. . ,.
inn k4 tk k.,. ., the satellite countries, a less
ing that the hour of trial may , u
be at hand and that if necessary f?"sa ' f"tr'vpeH hs
they "must be prepared to fol- 8 Camed n by
tiT tmCart,vrsd"Path ' " CoSSTh.. lost ground
nan martyrs. ,n elcclions in Italyi rrance tne
The country s protestant min- Netherlands and Belgium. And
onty is reported preparing to recently Britain's ruling Social
support its traditional antagon- jst party ordered its member
lst the Roman Catholic church snip 0f more than 5,000,000 to
in the letter's fight for sur- purg ltselI of any fellow travel-v'va'-
ing with communists. Fourteen
U.S. Secretary of State Dean communist or communist front
Acheson has denounced tht at- groups wer blacklisted.
nnw nairl the came ae
that mnnev io HivirieH imnnrti. title "Stories and Anecdotes mated.
ally between Negro and white About F.D.R My Boss." "By that narrow margin and
school buildings and transporta- rather casual action did one
tion is due in part to Barden's Miss Tully, who s now sec- man rather than another, per-
untiring efforts. retary of the Roosevelt Memor- haps one policy rather than an-
"I am wrone about as often ial Foundation, savs Mr. Roose- other, eventually arrive at the
as the next fellow," says the velt wanted Henry Wallace as head of the American govern- mf.n us s . , tremendous
North Carolina congressman, a running mate again in 1944 ment in April of 1945." . vlU?E' .AenJas lon8 dream
"But I trv to he alwavt sincere. hLrH hL cL Pushed lnto a few square miles
My constitutents don't blame me times. But he was told by Rob- This is one of many anecdotes
if I make a mistake once in ert Hannegan and others that Miss Tully relates. Here are a
awhile. However, if they ever the convention would not take few others:
find me wrong and insincere at the then vice president. Of the men who once opposed
tne same time, i expect tnem Mr. Roosevelt suggested Doug- F.D.R. for public office. Thomas
Wrap them all together and
you'll almost have New York
but not quite.
For there is nothing as tre
mendous as this tremendous
of struggle and grope, where
pepole move like moles under
ground and hope in terms of
towers, i
Never a day dawns here but
to get after me plenty and las, but Hannegan, then national E. Dewey and Herbert Hoover my s.p t "els .taller on the
rightly so."
way to work from seeing the
Empire State building shoulder
the morning mist, comforting
thor- as a Ialry tale in an hour of
And never an evening sun
sinks down without my spirit
wearying from the sight of some
Democratic chairman, express- "were the only ones toward
ed doubt that Douglas could whom he expressed any per
BRITISH BUSINESS CRISIS command sufficient strength, sonal resentment. He often re-
Paul Hoffman, the Marshall and proposed his fellow Mis- ferred to Landon as a
plan administrator, held a se- sourian, then Senator Truman, oughly nice man,' while for
cret conference with top gov- The president finally agreed Wendell Willkie he came to have
ernment officials last week to to accept either of the two, and, a genuine affection."
report on the British financial at
crisis. . lofter tn that effert hilt naming much for rards. when he nlavor) Ugliness that dwells here, too,
Britain, according to Hoff- Douglas first just before the he preferred a complicated m men and buildings,
man. had bungled its way into convention met in Chicago. game with two decks called . oh' but they're growing bet-
a first-class recession that may . . "spider." ter the men and the buildings
lead all Europe into a depres- En route to the Pacific coat "Interestingly enough," she and the city they make "P-
sion and wreck the Marshall and Hawaii and Alaska, the prc-s- says, "the president favored the Here. if you have a prejudice,
Plan. ident stopped in Chicago and institution of a national lottery yu have to keep it silent. Be-
Hoffman was especially bitter Hannegan boarded the train and for charitable ends, and pointed cause if yu say u "t loud,
about Britain's trade deal with had a "lengthy palaver with the to the success of this practice the other fellow will haul you
iitM'iuiii, suu iv 19 lypiutti ul boss. in Ireland. mm cuuri, aim uie juage win
the way Britain has refused to M'jss Tuiiv savs Hanneiran The nresident was never mueh f'ne you and make you feel
practice what it preaches.
He intimated that if Britain
doesn't show more signs of co
operation he may cut off Mar
shall plan aid if congress
doesn't beat him to it.
Tom Finletter, head of the
ECA mission to Britain, was
present at this briefing, and
agreed that Britain would have
to take drastic action in a hurry
to keep from going bankrupt
and dragging all Europe under
with it.
This is something the Rus
sians have becn praying for ever
since the cold war started.
CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES
Defending the Pacific The
joint chiefs of staff have devel
came out of the president's sit- of a drinker, but he "made a ashamed.
ting room bearing the letter, ritual of the cocktail hour. His Some day there won't be even
came up to her and said: favorites were martinis and a silent prejudice left here, and
the sea winds will wash over a
clean city, all the way from
Staten Island to the Bronx.
New York is opportunity.
They put the Statue of Lib
erty in the right place, and
more and more the old girl feels
she belongs here. She still
holds her lamp before the gold
en door, and the door is New
"Grace, the president wants old-fashioneds."
BUILDING HOSPITAL FACILITIES IN CITY
Groups Can Make Subscriptions
To Salem Hospital Development
QUESTION: Can a social club, a fraternity, a garden club, a
labor organization, or other groups make a subscription to the York City, where all who en-
Salem Hospital Development program? ter find home and welcome
ANSWER: In this kind of a program, many subscriptions are and the equal chance that all
made by organizations which often designate the service de- men ask.
partment to which they want
their money applied. With
women's clubs the nurseries and
oped an important plan for the children's beds are most popular.
defense of the Pacific. They Jne lunaamemai principle must
are writing off large sections be kept in mind, however, in
of this vast area as impossible making a group subscription,
to defend and will concentrate The money pledged should be
on holding Japan, India, Burma, treasury money which the group
Java, the Hawaiian Islands and acquired for such purposes. It
the Philippines. is not supposed to take the place
The plan was approved after of personal subscriptions which
a number of meetings with top all good citizens will make to the
British and French military men program.
Never Mind Four Cents Change
Portland (IP) Mrs. Oscar Johnson, Seneca, told the hospital
her 16-month-oId son had swallowed a nickel. Several days
later hospital attendants said all they had been able to get out
of him was a penny.
Never mind the other four cents, Mrs. Johnson replied
Saturday as she took her son away. She guessed it was her
mistake, and the penny wai the only coin involved in the
first place.